The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-10 00:00:00

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 8.

The Royal Mail steamer Asia, from Boston on
the 20th and Halifax on the 31st of October, ar-
rived here at 10 a.m. She brings 61 passengers
and 145,210 dols. in specie. She landed all the
.mails and five passengers, and proceeded at 10.15
a.m. All well.

NEW YORK, OCT. 27, EVENING.
The Confederate General Wise is advancing to
attack Yorktown with 20,000 men.
The Confederates have evacuated Galveston,
Texas. The Federals have since occupied the city.
The Federals have also occupied Sabine Pass,
Texas.

The Confederates occupy the Tennessee shore
opposite Island Number Ten.
General Beauregard officially reports that Aboli-
tionists had attacked Pocataligo and Yoosawatchie,
on the Charleston Railroad, but were repulsed and
driven to their gunboats. They came in 13 gun-
boats and transports.
General Pleasanton's cavalry and Burnside's
corps have crossed the Potomac, and are moving
on Leesburg.

The Federal troops on Bolivar Heights will move
forward on Monday.
Active movements are making on the Upper
Potomac.

The Democrats have carried the elections in
Pennsylvania by 3,500 majority.
11.1 Ohio the Democratic State ticket has been
elected by 8,000 majority.

OCT. 28.

The New York Herald of the 28th gives the fol-
lowing as the situation of affairs at that date :—The
rumour of an advance of our army into Virginia,
which created some excitement yesterday, has re-
ceived confirmation by later despatches from vari-
ous points. Gen. M'Clellan moved his headquarters
yesterday to the Virginia side of the Potomac. At
daylight General. Pleasanton's cavalry crossed the
river at Berlin., and pushed on to Lovettsville in the
direction of Leesburg, which point he was supposed
to have o ecupied immediately. Gen. Burnside fol-
lowed with his corps, and took up a position near
Love.ttsville. No battle appears to have occurred.
Up to last evening everything was quiet. Gen.
Pleasanton was said to be within a few hours'
/march of the rebel Gen. Longstreet's forces.
The recent rains, which ceased at ten o'clock yes-
terday, have not materially interfered with the
fords at either Shepherdstown or Williamsport. At
Harper's Ferry the water rose two inches, and the
Shenandoah was increased four inches at the same
point. The rebel cavalry in considerable numbers
continue to show themselves between Martinsburg
and Cherry Run, and a regiment was seen and fired
at opposite Sharpsburg on Monday, but the main
body of the enemy seem to have fallen back beyond
Winchester. It is thought that Gen. Lee is making
as fast as possible for Gordonsville.
The news from Arkansas of another great battle
and victory in the vicinity of Pea Ridge imparts
some life and interest to the news of the day. The
immediate location of the late conflict was at
Maysville, near 50 miles from Pea Ridge. The in-
telligence is conveyed in an official despatch from
General C artis to General Halleck, recounting, in
brief, tte fact that General Schofield, finding that
the eliemy, under the rebel General Hindman, had
encamped at Pea Ridge, sent General Blunt with
the Ist division westward, and moved towards
Huntsville with the rest of his forces. General
Blunt, after a hard night's march, reached and at-
tacked the rebel force, from 5,000 to 7,000 strong,
at Maysville, at seven o'clock on the morning of
the 22d inst. The engagement lasted about an
hour, and resulted in the total rout of the enemy,
with the loss of all his artillery—a battery of six-
pounders, a large number of horses, and a portion
of their transportation and garrison equipments.
The Union cavalry and light howitzers were still
in pursuit of the enemy at last accounts. General
Schofield pursued General Hindman beyond Hunts-
ville, coming close upon him, when his forces pre-
cipitately fled beyond the Boston mountain. Our
loss in the affair was very small.
Despatches from Cairo, Illinois, tell of a despe-
rate fight which took place at Waverley, in Ten-1
nessee, on Thursday last. It appears that a rebel
force, 800 strong, attacked a party of 200 Union
troops at that place, which is located about twenty
miles southwest of Fort Donelson. After a severe
fight our men, though greatly inferior in numbers,
completely routed the enemy, killing 24 and cap-
turing 25 of them. Rumours were rife in Cairo
yesterday of a fight going on at Bolivar, and other
statements would seem to confirm it, for it was re-
ported at Corinth that the rebel General Price was
within four miles of that place on Sunday, with a
very large force. General Rosencranz has arrived
at Cairo en route to join his new command. Great
activity was observed among the rebels in the neigh-
bourhood of Helena, Vicksburg,i, and Holly Springs.
It was said that 70,000 men were at the latter place
under Generals Lovell and Van Dorn. A report
was prevalent in Memphis on Sunday that a force
of 1,000 rebel cavalry have stationed themselves
nine miles from here, on the Memphis and Charles-
ton road, and have taken possession of the 'line,
with their head-quarters in the vicinity of Non-
conat, and is supposed to be the advance of a
large rebel force, who have designs upon the city.
Morgan's rebel guerillas in Kentucky have met
with some sad reverses of late. Colonel Edward
M'Cook, with 300 cavalry, left Crab Orchard on
Thursday morning, and encountered several bands
of them and Scott's rebel cavalry at Point Liek and
Big Hill, killing four or five and capturing their
telegraph operator, with his apparatus ; also 33
Waggons, partly loaded. The remainder of the
rebels went towards Mount Vernon.

The city of Galveston, Texas, has been evacuated
by the rebels, and was occupied by our troops on
the sth instant.
Our news from the Southern papers to-day is
very important. The Richmond Dispatch has an
official report from General Beauregard, announcing
an attack by the Union troops on the Charleston
and Savannah Railroad at Yoosawatchie and Poco-
taligo, on Thursday, and were "gallantly repulsed"
by the rebel forces.
The enemy, he saye, had come in 13 transports
and gunboats. The Charleston Railroad is unin-
jured. The "Abolitionists" left their dead and
wounded on the field.

General Bragg has furnished an official report
of the battle at Perrysville, Kentucky, in which he
claims a great victory, which, he says, only for the
approach of night, would have been completed by
driving our troops from their position. The Dis-
patch of the 2lth says that Bragg's army has
retired to a safe position, which it would be im-
Prudent to state. General Bragg, it says, has
secured 4,700 waggons loaded with provisions,
hich have been brought away in safety,
with his army. He lost 2,500 barrels of pork
nieh
was left at Lexington, and fell into the
beau a„
felt
_moin the Yankees. Great dissatisfaction was
int the officers of Bragg's army at the fall-
the order and
many
of them literally wept when
The co
Was given,
in our poss, .1:1: to be drawn from all the news
hassegsion, eiL,eontinues the Dispatch, are that
Bragg
mets such an overwhelming force
of the enemy end
with large stores ofnpereesßlllY retreated before it,
too timid and made forced marches, or that he has been
omorches, and fought and
wearied his troops for Et/ei
which he had not
daring enough to accomplish
North Carolina,
Governor Vance, of
generosity of the p
pathetic appeal to the makes aeople to
et
the winter
assist in clothing:the rebel soldiersb
sets in. He describes them as alread°yre
slifi
want of socks, shoes, and blankets. lie i
uing for
the farm p
ers who are tanning hides to suppr
the mothers of North Carolina to knit the hoes,
Pocks, and the wealthy to give their parlour carpets
for blankets.
NEW YORK, °cT• 28, EVENING.
has established his head.
General M'Clellan
quarters in Virginia.
The Confederates are reported to have evacuated
Winchester, and to be moving in t.he direction
ing
of
Staunton, Virginia. General Burnsid e
to Winchester.
A body of Confederates visited Manassas Junc-
tion on Friday last,

The Confederate General Bragg, in his official
I report of the battle at Perrysville, claims to have
driven the Federals two miles and captured eight
pieces of artillery. The pursuit was .topped by
night. General Bragg carried from Kentucky
4,000 waggons of provisions.

Confederate Generals Price and Pillow are re-
ported on the Hatchie river, marching on Bolivar,
with 70,000 men.
A small Confederate force has been defeated at
Waverled, Tennessee.

A thousand Confederate cavalry have taken pos-
session of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad,
nine miles from Memphis. They are supposed to
be the advanced guard of the Confederates, who
are going to attack Memphis.
It is seaii-officially announced that the Federal
debt, up to the present time, is under 660,000,000
dols., and that the outstanding claims on the Go-
vernment do not exceed 20,000,000 dols.
The Southern journals assert that the Federals
have refused to permit aliens to leave the South on
board flag-of-truce boats.
NEW YORK, OCT. 30.

The Washington Star says :—lt is believed that
General Lee has divided his army into two large
corps—one under Jackson, the other under Long-
street—and is leaving the region in which he has
1 been posted since recrossing the river into Virginia.
It is thought that portions of Jackson's advance have
crossed the Blue Ridge by the gap at Front Royal,
while there is evidence that a force of 8,000 rebels,
under Walker, known to have been for two days
past at Upperville, are the advanced guard of Long-
street's corps. The rebel Generals expected pro-
bably to make a successful dash at General Siegel's
corps, at and around Centreville, on their retreat
towards Gordonsville ; hence the appearance there
of the troops at the points indicated above. The
army of the Potomac is promptly in motion to meet
these rebel movements, and Generals Burnside and
Fitzjohn Porter are already so close on the heels of
Longstreet's army, that he will probably retrace
his steps towards Winchester, and seek to retreat
down the valley rather than advance further in this
direction. It will not, therefore, be surprising to
hear of a considerable battle in that quarter at any
moment. The whole Federal army, with the ex-
ception of General Sumner's corps, which remains on
Bolivar Heights, may be said to be in motion.
General Burnside's movement into Virginia has
been followed by the corps of Fitzjohn Porter
which is now in a position to operate, if necessary,
in the same direction. Gen. M'Clellan's head-quar-
ters are at Berlin, immediately on the Potomac.
The rebel pickets have again appeared opposite
Sharpsburg, and in front of Charlestown, their artil-
lery and cavalry being visible from Bolivar Heights.
The impression increases, however, that the main
body of the rebel army has already retreated, and
that no rebels will be found at Winchester. It is
pretty well known that a considerable force of
rebels has already crossed the mountains through
the gap at Front Royal, and it is believed that a
still larger force is passing southward on the other
side of the mountains. The forces which have been
found in the vicinity of Snicker's Gap and Upper-
vine are probably watching against an attack on
the flank of the main army as it stretched towards
Gordonsville. Unless Lee's retreat is much further
advanced than is probable or possible, it would seem
that Gen. M'Clellan has the power by a vigorous
forward movement, aidedby a similar advance from
Washington, to force Lee to stop and fight before
he gains Gordonsville.
The New York Times correspondent with M'Clel-
lan's army still continues to assert that the generals
1 surrounding M'Clellan consider an advance on the
rebels at Gordonsville and Richmond is full of peril,
and believe that an approach by the south side of
the James River is the only and true route to Rich-
mond, and that if the matter was left to M'Clellan's
own judgment he would ship the whole army back
to the peninsula.
Federal Gen. Grant officially reports further suc-
cesses against the guerillas in different parts of
Missouri.

Gen. Sherman has issued stringent orders for the
government of Memphis.
A military commission sits daily to try offenders
under the laws of war. Vagrants and other disre-
putable characters are organised into gangs, and
iset to work in the trenches or on the streets.

Citizens are to keep indoors between tattoo and
reveille, unless attending church, places of amuse-
ments, or necessary business.

After midnight, all persons except guards must
be in their houses.

Assemblages of negroes are forbidden except by
permission of the Provost Marshals.
Gen. Buell has ordered that all persons who have
actively aided rebellion in Kentucky within the
last three months shall be arrested and sent out of
Kentucky, and forbidden to return.
The writ of habeas corpus, in the case of Mr. W.
H. Winder, who is confined in Fort Warren, issued
by Judge Clifford, of the Iluited States Circuit
Court, has not been served, because Col. Dimmick,
Commander of Fort Warren, has refused a pass to
the fort.

A large naval and military expedition is being
fitted out for Texas. The expedition is to be com-
manded by Gen. Banks.
The Republican and Democratic parties are mak-
ing most vigorous efforts throughout the State of
New York to carry the elections. Both parties
are nightly holding meetings throughout the
county. The contest is very bitter on both sides,
and it is supposed the result of the election will be
very close.
President Lincoln is busily engaged on his mes-
sage to Congress.

A commission has been ordered to assemble at
Washington to report upon the plan of the present
forts around Washington, and upon the sufficiency
of the present defences of the capital.
The Federals have destroyed the extensive steam
salt works erected by the Confederates at St.
Joseph's Bay, Florida. Georgia and Florida relied
upon these works for the supply of salt for the
winter's provisions for their troops.
No European advices have been received in New
York later than those brought by the Australasian
last week, and considerable curiosity and suspense
exist to hear further of the different intervention
projects on foot in Europe.
The British steamer Wachuta has been captured
by the Federal gunboat Memphis. She was cap-
tured, after a full day's chase, off the coast of North
Carolina. She threw overboard the greater part of
her cargo, and so strained her engines as to be un-
able to make steam.
The Richmond Despatch says :—" The tight at
Pocataligo resulted in a complete victory. Our loss
is 15 killed and 40 wounded. The enemy's total
loss is not less than 200 killed and wounded. The
enemies force consisted of six regiments, with one
field battery and two boat howitzers.
Her Majesty's steamers, Cadmus and Racer, sailed
from Fortress Monroe on the 28th inst., to be
absent two weeks on a cruise.
The steamer Vanderbilt has received her arma-
ment, and will leave New York in a few days.
Dates from British Columbia are to the 20th ult.,
according to which the copper mines of Queen
Charlotte's Island promise well.
The Victoria Colonist alludes to the flourishing
condition of the city, attested by its rapid growth,
continued improvements, and the increasing value
of the real estate, and says " the mining intelligence
is favourable from all parts of British Columbia, and
the prospects of Sticken and Queen Charlotte mines
are very bright."
NEW YORK, OCT. 30 (Evening).
The whole army of the Potomac is in motion
towards Virginia.
The accounts of the position of the Confederate
army in Virginia are conflicting. Nothing posi-
tively definite appears to be known.
Theattaet:o:tnrsrespondents of the Northern journals re-
Port that the Federal forces were landed from 15
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then reinforced from Charles-
The Federal 1(38E3s
composed of
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