LATEST NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 290, 24 November 1862, Page 5

LATEST NEWS.

New York, Sept. 12, Evening. The Confederates under Jackson have occupied Hagerstown, Maryland,: and. are entering Penusyl : vania. Their advanced guard ia at Green Castie, Pennsylvania. Immense excitement prevails throughout Pennsylvania, and great preparations are making at Harrisburgv The Governor has called for 50,000 men to resist invasion, and has telegraphed to the Mayor of Philadelphia to raise and forward 20,000 men without delay. The farmers are arming, and sending the women and children away. The Confederates are recruiting in Maryland. ' General Lee has issued a proclamation to the people of Maryland, announcing that the Confederate, army lias come to liberate them from Federal rule, and stating that it is fox them to decide their destiny without restraint. " The Southern people," says the proclamation, " will rejoice to welcome the people of Maryland, but will pnJy welcome them when they come of their own free will." General M'Ciellan has arrived at Damascus, Maryland, thirty-four miles from Washington.' Burnside opeifttea ia another directiop,

The Federals occupy Sugar loaf Mountain) nine miles south of Frederick; and eight miles north of Poolesville. " '

A battle near Cin"innati is momentarily expected, the Federal pickets beyond Covington having been driven in. .

Cincinnati ia reported to be sufficiently strong to repel any attack.

Twelve hundred Confederates at'acked-Washington, North Carolina, on the Gth, butwere repulsed and pursued several miles. The Federal gunboats assisted in during them off. One gunboat blew up, killing the captain and nineteen men.

General M'Doweil has demanded a court of inquiry into the charges of treason made against him. The Cuban authorities have ordered tLe Confederate steamer Oreto away from Havannah. • New York, Sept. 13, Morning. (Per City of New York, via Roche's Point.) General Leo is reported to be at Leesburg with a large force.

The Federals are -reported to have occupied Frederick, Maryland, which the Confederates have evacuated.

General Stuart's. Confederate cavalry, with artillery, entered Westminster, Maryland, on the 11th last., received several recruits, aud after making purchases, retired towards Hagerstown. Very heavy rains have fallen, in consequence of which the Potomac is much swollen, c™ *»; .Philadelphia city council has appropriated 500,000 clol. for the defence of the city and state. A Federal reconnaissance, made twelve miles from Oincinna'i, discovered the Confederates falling back m the direction of Lexington. Some reports say this is raeielv a feint.

The Confederates surprised the Federals at Williaui3i;urg on the 9th iust. An engagement ensued which lfisted thirty minutes. The Confederate loss « reported to have been more severe than that of the Federals, who remained in possession of the city. General Fremont has accepted the oJFer of the NewYork War Committee to raise 50,000 men, but the Secretary of War has refused to grant penni sion to the War Committee to raise troops for Fremont. Two hundred men have been drafted ia Hartford, Connecticut.

liisturbances have occurred at Newtown, Conwecticiit, arising from ths enforcement of the draft. General Bcauregard has been appointed to command the department of South Carolina. The New York Times thinks there are symptoms that the Confederates, in invading the Northern States, propose, instead of establishing their independence, to overthrow President Lincoln's Administration, and obt lin the control of the Federal Government.

The Times ia of opinion that Lincoln's Government, by its _ weakness and incapacity, ofters itself a, prey to the first strung hand venturing-to seize it. The Times thinks that the danger can only be met by President Lincoln giving the country a responsible Cabinet, made up of the strongest and best men.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald has information that the object of the Confederate invasion of Maryland was to overthrowPresident Lincoln's Administration, and restore the Union and Constitution.