LATER FROM AMERICA

Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1092, 29 April 1863, Page 5

LATER FROM AMERICA

Further American details have been received via Sydney, by the Mary Nicholson, from San Francisco. The following are the only items of interest which no mention was made in our own later files of Californian papers : General Butler is said to have resumed the command of New Orleans. (We are disposed to doubt the correctness of this, as there was nothing in the later advices to indicate that General Banks had been superseded). A proposition is said to have been made in the Confederate Congress, on the 19th January, to send commissioners to Washington for the purpose of setting forth terms on which the Southern States, would consent to peace ; and it was also further recommended that an order be issued, making President Lincoln responsible for any further carnage which might occur during the negotiations. The Bill which was introduced into the Legislature at Washington, legalising the enrolment of negro soldiers was negatived. Another formidable privateer, the Florida, has been launched by the Confederates; and the Federal gunboat Ilatteras, has been sunk by the Alabama. The United States mail steamer from Havannah, had been fired into by a Spanish frigate. Advices received at New York on the 30th January from Mexico, confirm the reported defeat of 4000 French under Gen. Berthier, by 800 Mexicans. The affair occurred in a fog. On the morning of December 18, the Mexican General Fresoda captured a convoy from Jalapa for Perote. Negrete, with a thousand men made a sortie from Peubla, and attacked a French division (4000), at Acagota, eight miles distant, and completely routed them. The French retreated to Orisaba. The French communications were cut off. Jalapa and Tampico have been abandoned by them. The small-pox was raging at Veru Cruz. Acapulco has been bombarded by a French squadron.—Daily Times, April 15.