Glasgow Courier. — 1862-11-20 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

AMERICA.  Liverpool, Nov. 15.—The royal mail steamship Australasian, from New York on the sth, has arrived.  New York, Nov. 3.—The Confederate steamer Alabama has captured and burned the following American vessels ;---The ships Manchester and Lafayette, the barquea Laureatta and Lamplighter, the brig Dunkirk, and the schooner Brenshaw. She also captured the ship Tonnawanda and the brig Baron Castine, but released them on their giving bonds for 146,000, payable to Pre. sident Davis after the conclusion of peace. The Ocean Queen has arrived at New York from Aspinwall with upwards of one million dollars in specie. New York, Nov. 4.—General M'Clellan's army is still advancing. It has occupied TJpperville, four miles from Ashby Gap, which the Confederates are endeavouring to hold. A battle is expected to be fought shortly. No confirmation has been received of the reported capture of Mobile.  New York. Nov. s.—The Federals are still pushing forward to the heart of Virginia. They are now in possession of all the gaps of the Blue Ridge heretofore held by the Confederates. General IrClellan is fifty miles nearer to Richmond than the Confederates under General Lee, and a vigorous movement on the part of the former may at any time put him in possession of that place. A body of Federal infantry, 6000 strong, had driven the Confederates out of Speeker's Gap. The Confederates attempted to retake the position, but were again driven back. The Confederates under Generals Jackson and Hill were reported to be in strong force in the opposite valley. Reliable information from Richmond states there is no force on the western side of that city.  The people of the eastern portion of North Carolina are said to be alarmed for their safety, and it was said that they were moving their slaves to other places. The Federal Generals Mitchell and Richardson bad died, the former of yellow fever, the latter of wounds received at the battle of Antietam. A portion of General Sigel'm army has driven the Confederates out of Thoroughfare Gap,which is now occupied by the Federate.  The Federal army lately in Kentucky is reported to be moving on Nashville under Gen. Rosencranz. Some reports say that the Confederates under Bragg are marching to join Lee in Kentucky. Other reports state that Bragg and Price are making a combined movement with a heavy force to attack Nashville. The Federal expedition which went up the Mississippi from New Orleans to attack guerillas, has reached Donaldsonville.  'The people in the eastern part of North Carolina have commenced moving their slaves to the interior.  Horatio Seymour, the Democratic candidate, carried the election in New York city by over 30,000 majority. His majority in the whole State is estimated at from 8000 to 10,000, and he is elected Governor of the State. The full Congressional Democratic ticket was chosen in New York, Benjamin Wood and Fernando Wood being both elected to Congress. In New York State nineteen Democrats and twelve Republicans were elected to Congress. New Jersey had voted the Democratic ticket by a large n]ajority. Governor Andrew has been re-elected in Massachussetts. Michigan has elected the Republican ticket. The Federal steamers Vanderbilt, Dacotah, and Ins were ready to sail from New York in search of the Confederate steamer Alabama.  At Dalton, Caroline county, a negro, having outraged and murdered a little girl, he was hung, shot, his throat rut, the corpse dragged through the streets, then cut to pieces and burnt. Advices from New Orleans report the arrest of the Rev. Drs W. T. Leacock and Charles Goodrich, and Rev. John Fulton, for having persistently refused to read the prayer for the President of the United States.  Vta Havana we have advices from Vera Cruz to the 26th ult. The Mexicans had more than ever determined to make to the French invasion a desperate resistance. Their exasperation against the French residents was, of course, very great, and in the city of Mexico several Frenchmen—among them M. Jecker, whose fraudulent demands were among the pretexts of the war—had been imprisoned. The papers of the Liberal party demanded the expulsion from the country of all the Frenchmen.