AMERICA.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 61, 20 October 1864, Page 5

AMERICA.

j^ New Yoke, Aug. 12. ;jhe Federal General Grant has been completely beaten by General Lee, and compelled to abandon bis campaign. The federal fleet, under Admiral Farragut, consisting of thirty-two vesßels (231 guns), attacked a Confederate flotilla and Fort Morgan at the entrance of Mobile Bay. After a desperate resistance, the Confederates were defeated, and the Federals entered the Bay with a view to attack the city,. On the 7th mat., the Confederates evacuated the place, and blew, up Fort Powell. Fort Games was treacherously surrendered to the Federals by Colonel Anderson, of Alabama." The Tort was of great afrength, and was provisioned for lit mouths. Anderson had strict orders tg dflfs»d

General- Beauregard has been ordered -from Petersburg, to take the command of Mobile. The reported capture of Mobile is discredited. i The heavy bombardment of Fort Sumter and Ch&rleslown is still progressing. I A'fAridersenville," South Carolina, over 30,900Federals are prisoners. • 2,000 died during tha month of June. • - • The Confederates retired' from Maryland. General Averill "overtook ■ and defeated them at Mobrfield, Virginia; - , The Georgia, late a Confederate war steamer, but recently bought at public auction by a Liverpool merchant, has been seized by a Federal man--1 of-war, and sent to New York with her crew, i Important intercolonial questions will arise in consequence. ' > Federal agents have been trying to induce English soldiers to desert. The news from the Atlanta is conflicting. General Hood, who superseded General Johnstone, in one week lost 10,000 men in Ms attacks on the | | Federal forces. The latter also suffered severely. | ' The Federal General Stoneman and 1,500 men [ were captured in attempting to destroy the Macon I, and' Western Railway. General Sheridan is concentrating his men for a campaign against the Confederates in the famous valley of Shenandoah. There has been a Confederate raid into Maryi land, with the object, it is said, to cover Barley's operations in the Valley, and reinforce Atlanta and Mobile. A plot to capture and destroy Buffalo, ■ by Secessionists in Canada, has been discovered. A large force was organized for the purpose. The' intention was to destroy a large portion of 'the Erie Canal. The reported resignation of Mr. Secretary Stanton is contradicted. ' (An enthusiastic mass meeting of 100,000 persons has been held at New York, to nominate General M'Clellan for the Presidency. Resolutions were passed denouncing Lincoln's policy, and declaring ,0-eneral M'Clellan tlie only man capable of J suppressing the rebellion and restoring the Union. ! Southern agents at Niagara are concerting with Northern democratic leaders, to < end^the •: war.i shouldtheir candidate, her elected President. ■-, An armistice will be proclaimed, and a national con- ' Vention of- all the states of the old Union will be called to decide whether reunion is possible. '•This 'movement is considered in Englandtb be an attempt to excite a civil war in the North. : _ A court of inquiry ,-has : been , investigating the cause of the Federal repulse on the 30th ult. Generals Meade and Burnside severally cast the blame, on each. other. , , ' General Sherman is shelling Atalanta. _ . A' Confederate privateer has captured a pilot vessel, sixty miles south east of Sandy Hook. i Gold, 255. Exchange, 276. Cotton, 173 cents. Breadstuff's have improved. Provisions are firm. Sugars are advancing. Coffee is inactive.