AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 172, 29 April 1864, Page 4

AMERICA.

New York, 12th February. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation for the enrolment of 300,000 men to serve for a period of 3 years or until the end of the war. The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to confiscate the landed property of the Confederates on fee instead of for life after the inaction of both sides.

The war shows symptoms of revival, several skirmishes having taken place, in which the Confederates have invariable successful. General Longstreet, in order to recover, ground he lost during last champaign, drove the Federals into Knoxville, taken possession of the French Broad River Valley which contained ample supplies for his army. Subsequently he attacked Knoxville again in which he completely defeated the Federal troops. In another direction the Federals were compelled to abandon Tazewell and Cumberland Gap. On the Mississippi the Confederates seized an island, and took possession of Corinth and Fort Pillow. At several other places the Confederates have been also victorious, and on the James River they captured an expedition sent out by General Butler, who had formed a plan for taking Richmond by a coup de main. The Federals seem more hardly pressed for soldiers than their antagonists. The Confederates in advance of President Lincoln’s new levy will probably be before Washington ere the Federal recruits can be got ready for the field. General Meade resumes the command of the Army at Potomac. He has estimated the killed and wounded of the Potomac army since March 1861, at 100,000 men. The Conscription Bill, which has passed Congress, includes amongst its other provisions the compulsory drafting of slaves, for which compeusatian is to be given - to their owners. It is reported that the siege of Charleston has been suspended. Admiral Dahlgren refused the commander or tue onlisn guu-ooat * Petrel ’ permission to communicate with the British Consul at Savannah.