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....M.4‘ o'clock, where he remains during the nivit. But
very little Union feeling was shown by tbe people
of Charlestown upon its occupation by our troops."
eir);4n+ inregard to the draft in Pennsylvania, a Phila-
delphia telegram says:—
" The commissioner on drafting still finds it im-
possible to adjust and settle the credit to which this
city is entitled on her quota, and hence the time for
drafting is postponed."
A dispatch of the 14th from Fortress Monroe
says :

PRICE..... —..44*
STAMPED ....sd.

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE JURA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

-The Canadian mail steamer Jura, Captain Aston,
which touched oft Londqnderry last night, arrived
here this afternoon. By her we receive Quebec
journals of the 18th inst. ; Portland, 17th ; Boston
(evening) and New York (morning) of the 16th
inst.
The Jura was intercepted at Cape Race by the
news boat of the Associated Press, and has brought
telegraphic advices. from New York to the evening
of the 20th inst.
The draft in Boston was proceeded with on the
15th and 16th inst. The number to be drafted
was 2,109. The names of the non-exempt were
placed in a large wheel, and publicly drawn forth
by a person who was blindfolded. Faneuil Hall was
crowded during the proceedings, and good order
was maintained. The number of names drawn
down to the close of the proceedings on the 16th
was 900.

The draft for Baltimore was made on the 15th,
but only 64 were required for the quota of the
city. No trouble arose. Many prominent men
were drawn in Boston and Baltimore.

A Washington telegram of the 15th says:—

"Reports prevailed en the southern side of the
Potomac yesterday evening that the enemy had ad-
vareed, Ind were fighting our troops at Centreville.
Prompt arrangements were made along our line to
meet emergencies, but, as no firing was heard in
that direction, the alarm soon subsided."
. The City of Vicksburg is said to have sent in a
bill of damages against the Confederate Govern-
ment of 90,000 dollars for allowing it to be bom-
barded.

It was rumoured in Memphis that Gen. Price's
adjutant had shot Gen. Van Dorn two or three days
after the fight at Corinth.

The Mobile Tribune says that place will certainly
be attacked by Farragut's fleet as soon as he gets
ready for action, which may be looked for at any

The New lark. Times' Washington despatch
says :

" There is no truth in the statement recently
published that the Secretary of the Treasury has
decided to ask a new loan for the Government."

We learn from Sharpsburg that a gentleman
who arrived there on Saturday from Richmond,
reports that there are at least 200,000 rebel
soldiers between Gordonsville and Winchester.
The railroad bridges between Staunton and Win-
chester are not rebuilt, and much embarrassment
results to the rebels in transportation of artillery
and supplies. He states that the journalists and
aristocrats of Richmond are bitterly opposed to all
overtures of peace, while the middle and lower
classes favour such a policy, but are intimidated
into silence.

The Richmond Enquirer of the 11th says :
" There are prospects of an early peace, which
conclusion is founded on the results of the battles
in Virginia and Maryland and the campaign now
progressing. The battle of Antietam was to the
Federals the most terrible defeat of the war."

Speaking of the President's emancipation procla-
mation, the Enquirer says, it is from an anticipa-
tion of the immediate interference of other nations,
to afford the Federal Government an apology for
terminating the war. It calls for the immediate re-
moval of the slaves from the borders by the military
force, as a measure of precaution of necessity, and
immediate provisions for their employment in the
interior by the Government, with fair wages to the
owners, in such labour and production as may meet
the exigencies of the country. The governor of Vir-
ginia issued a proclamation on the 10th inst., pro-
hibiting all railroads, canals, and other internal im-
provement companies in the State from undertaking
to transport salt beyond the limits of the state, un-
less made unds2r some contract already existing with
the Confederate States. It also places restrictions
on the owners of salt works as to the amount they
shall manufacture.

"The English frigate Racer came up the roads
last evening, and cast anchor above the fortress, and
left, passing down the roads at seven o'clock this
morning. About the same time anoti:Er English
man of war, the Petrel, came in and anchored
abreast of the fortress."
In regard to nffairs in Kentucky, the rumours
are conflicting and unreliable, but we give the ful-
lowing telegrams :

"Louisville, Oct. 15,

"There was skirmishing yesterday along the limes
from Iflrrousburg to Stanford. The rebels a:•e
trying to get out of the state. It is thought that
Bragg hurried outward because on the day of the
Perrysville battle he heard that Price and Van
Dorn had been beaten at Corinth, and that he could
not get reinforcements from that quarter.
" Large numbers of dead are still lying unburied
at Perrysville. A rebel detachment came to the
field under a flag of truee, saw their dead, and left
them without any attention. The guns which the
rebels took from us, and which we recovered, were
spiked with telegraph wire, which we easily re-
moved." _

" Louisville, Oct. 16.

The Washington correspondent of the Philadel-
phia North American says :
" Nothing has transpired to warrant the assertion
that an early forward movement of our army on the
Potomac is contemplated, the appearances being
directly the reverse ; nor is it probable that an at-
tack will be made until the hard frost has rendered
the roads in a suitable condition of the under-
taking. At present the roads in Virginia are wholly
unfit for an aggressive movement on either side, and
it is not likely that one at present will be made."
The New York herald says it is rumoured that
the Hon, Leonard Swett, of Illinois, has been called
to Washington, to assume a responsible position
near the President.

A New York telegram of the 16th says :
" The banks here refuse to lend money on gold,
the object being to put a stop to the speculation
therein. They have also raised the margin on stock
securities 25 per cent.
" Prince Polignac, reported to be a bearer of de-
spatches from Slidell to Jeff. Davis, was seen in this
city yesterday."
A later despatch on the same subject says :
" the rumoured action of the banks on the sub-
ject of gold and stocks is at least premature. No
meeting has yet been held, and no such action taken,
though there is much talk on the subject, particu-
larly as regards gold. At the Stock Exchange to-
day a motion was made to expunge gold from the
list. The matter was referred to a committee, who
will probably report to-morrow."
A Washington despatch on the coming difficulty
says :--
" The depreciation of paper money
is incon-
veniently felt by the Government in its transactions,
including the difference in exchange, to pay the
navy and civil expenses distant from po.i ts
From
be
n where
United States notes can be made available.
a similar cause many contractors will involved
in heavy losses, if not bankruptcy, owirig to largely-
increased prices of articles which they have
they obli-
gated themselves to furnish. Already it . said
will apply to Congress for relief."
A telegram from the head-quarters of the Poto-
mac, dated Oct. 16, says :
"An important reconnaissance P
e was made to-day
otomac, in the
by a portion of the army ef b
division of General
direction of Winchester. The , left Harper's
Hancock, late General Richardson
fhsforenoon. On the road
Ferry at an early hour , Bolivar, they came
to Charlestown, three.
ter pickets, who retired as our
upon the enemy's rnile.s.from
ntuil within half a mile of Charles-
troops advanced,
formed
a line of battle with dis-
town, when they
mounted skirmishers thrown to the front. Having
ecovered the approaches to Charles-
no infantry'
pieces of artillery on their left and
town
three upon by
tv.the- right of the turnpike, with a view of
disputing
our°ccupation of the town. A battery
s soon brought into position an— opened with
wae" and shot, which was promptly replied to by
sh in The the five rebel pieces already position.
en-
gagement, which was carried on entirely by artil-
lery, lasted two hours, when the rebels fell back to
the hills beyond the town. Our loss was one killed
and eight wounded. Captain Hill, of the Richmond
Artillery, and eight men, were wounded and taken
prisoners, which is the only loss they are known to
have sustained. The troops under General Hancock
entered Charlestown about twelve o'clock and occu-
pied it, the enemy leaving in our hands over 100
who were wounded at the battle of Antietam. At
four o'clock the infantry formed in line of battle on
the right and leading to Bunker Hill, when they
advanced, driving the enemy from the hills, and at
dark occupying a position two miles beyond the
town.

" Innumerable unauthenticated rumours are
afloat this evening. Among them that Humphrey
Marshal, with his whole force, is retreating toward
Irvin county, with General A. G. Smith after him.
Quite a number of rebels, without arms, arrived at
Richmond last night, reporting that their forces
had been thoroughly whipped. They say Kirby
Smith's force, on the morning of the 15th, was
drawn up in line of battle at Bee Hill, eighteen
miles south-east of Richmond.

"At Lexington heavy firing was heard all day,
indicating the retreat of the rebels and the sharp
pursuit by our forces.

" General Buell's main army passed through Crab
Orchard at 11 yesterday morning, and if unimpeded
by skirmishers must be near Rock Castle River,
while Bragg's main force is supposed to be near
London. At headquarters, as far as advised, it is
thought Buell is pressing the enemy's rear sharply,
and that the foregoing reports relate to skirmishes
along the enemy's rear. Buell will force them to
fight or capture their whole army. S. D. Bruce,
colonel commanding at Bowling-green, says we have
thrashed the rebels at Springfield and Keysburg,
breaking up their camps.
"Thomas Can, sheriff of Fayette, brings a report
to Lexington of a heavy fight yesterday from 6 in
the forenoon till 11 at night between Lexington and
Richmond, in which the rebels were utterly re-
pulsed, they throwing away arms and accoutre-
ments by thousands. We captured a large number
of arms and quite a number of prisoners."
The Confederates were actively at work on the
Ohio River. They had captured and destroyed one
Federal mail steamer, and also sundry smaller craft.
Gen. Fremont expects soon to be in Washington,
preliminary to his assignment to an important com-
-1 wand in the south-west.

It is stated that Jefferson Davis has issued a pro-
clamation that all Union officers captured and held,
shall be put to hard labour if Lincoln's proclama-
tion is carried out.

Owing to resistance to the draft by the Irish. in
Lanzerna county, Pennsylvania, the military were
called out in the town of Blakley, and fired upon
the people, four of whom were killed.
By order of Gen. Foster an export duty of 10 per
cent. on all cotton and hides shipped from Ne-wbein
is levied.

The returns of the elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and lowa, are still imperfect. The
voting appears to have been close in some of the
States, and the result is doubtful. The Democrats
in Ohio and Indiana claim a victory.

General C. F. James, the inventor of the James
projectile, had died from a wound received from the
explosion of one of his shells.
General Stuart's successful raid into Pennsyl-
vania continues to provoke comment. Governor
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is very indignant at the
neglect of those who might have prevented it, or
at least stopped the retreat. In a letter on the
subject he says he has been informed, on good
authority, that the general in command of the troops
at Hagerstown knew that the rebels had crossed the
border at ten o'clock on Friday morning. Twenty
miles by rail from Chambersburg were in Federal
possession, and a like distance by good roads, and
the rebels did not leave Chambersburg until nine
o'clock on Saturday morning, so that the whole
force could have been captured and the people of
Pennsylvania saved from the disgrace castupon them.
The Governor desires a thorough investigation, but
the military authorities had already ordered one to
be made. In the meantime Governor Curtin is taking
active measures to protect the border from further
rebel raids.

NEW YORK, OCT. 18, Evening.

The Saxonia and the City of Washington, which
sailed to-day for Europe, took 1,370,000 doll. in
specie.
Money easy. Gold declining ; present price 291
premium.

Exchange tending downwards. Bankers' bills,
1431 144.

Stocks heavy. New York Central, 1061 ; Illi-
nois, 80f ; Erie, 59i.

Cotton dull; middling, 60c. to 601 c. Flour
heavy, and 10e. lower. Wheat dull, and 3c. lower.
Corn inactive, and 2s. lower. Provisions dull;
sugar advancing; coffee and molasses very firm.
(Via CAPE RACE.)

OCT. 20, Evening.
Money easy. Gold and exchange declining. The
former is now quoted 271, and bankers' bills, 141.
Stocks dull. New York Central, 10%; Illinois,
79,1,-; Erie, 581.
Cotton quiet ; middling upland, 59c. Flour
heavy, and 15s. lower. Wheat dull, and lc. lower.
Corn declined 2c. Provisions declining ; sugar
steady ; coffee and molasses very firm.

premium.
OCT. 21, Evening.
g hGt d
firmer. 3
Bankers'
Exchange
easy. ys
bills, 1411,
143.

Stocks advancing. Erie, 64.
Cotton quiet ; middling upland, 59c. Flour dull.
Corn slightly firmer.

THE INTF.RIVA7IONAL EXHIBITION.

The attendance yesterday was something better
than that of the previous day, although nothing
approaching to the "mob" which was expected,
so near the closing of the Exhibition. All hope of
a hundred thousand muster seems now to be given
up, unless a rumour which has got into circulation
respecting the arrangements of the commissioners
should receive confirmation. Wo do not place much
reliance on it ourselves, but have heard it from so
ninny quarters that we feel justified in mentioning
it. It is, that there is some idea of keeping the
Exhibition open for another week at a charge of
sixpence each person, for the purpose of giving
even the poorest of our fellow-citizens a sight of
the Exhibition. Our only fear is that the news is
too good to be true, as there is no doubt but that
such an arrangement would he hailod with delight
by thousands whose means will not afford even the
present minimum. Besides as the attendance would
probably reach 100,000 a day, that supplementary
week would go far to work off the deficiency which
is at present considered probable.
The number of visitors at the Exhibition yester-
day was-
-52;905172
5,397
By season tickets . .
Byß
By ditto
paymentfor .
on. e. .
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" Information obtained to-day shows that the
main body of the rebel army occupy a position ex-
tending from Bunker Hill to the Shenandoah.
General M'Clellan arrived at Charlestown at two

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Total 69,366