TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1770, 23 September 1862, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(From the " Times ") The following telegram was received last night at Mr. Keuter's office : [per scotta, vid boche's point.] The Confederates have disappeared from General M'Clellan's front. General Jackson is reported to be moving in the direction of Fredericksburg. Fort Darling has been strengthened with ironclad batteries. The Confederates are everywhere making preparations for a prolonged struggle. The Confederates are within fifteen miles of Nashville. An attack is hourly expected, and active preparations are making for resistance. Lexington in Kentucky has been placed under martial law. The Confederates under General Morgan are repotted to be advancing upon the town. i The Confederates are stated to be making mysterious movements in the neighbourhood of Corinth, The bombardment of Vicksburg continues without result. Some doubts are entertained of the truth of the Southern report of the capture of Baton Rouge. The citizens of Memphis have beenordered to take the oath of allegiance or to leave the city within fire days. The Confederate Governor Moore, of Louisiana, has issued a violent and determined proclamation, forbidding all intercourse of tbe inhabitants with New Orleans for any purpose, and declining that the faith of the people in final success is noways shaken. . The Confederate General Van Dorn, has issued a proclamation declaring his intention to protect the banks along the river Mississippi to the last extremity. The Federal General Pope has issued a stirring address to the army in Virginia, declaring his intention to lead them speedily against the euemy. President Lincoln has tiansmitted a bill to Congress compensating any State abolishing slavery. The Senate has passed a bill admitting Western Virginia as a. State, with a clause providing for gradual emancipation. It is reported that, to facilitate enlistment, volunteers will be received for one year's service. An additional tax of 1 per cent, per pound has been imposed on sugar. A lady in New Orleans, named Philips, has been sent to Ship Island, for laughing derisitely upon her balcony during the passage of the funeral of a Fedeial officer. The British gunboat 3 Landrail and Binaldo are at New Orleans. Tbe Congress has postponed adjournment for one day. Piesident Lincoln is expected to send a message to Congress refening to the Confiscation Bill. It is reported he will either veto the bill or return it with suggestions of modifications. The majority of the members for the Border Slates repudiate President Lincoln's emancipation scheme entirely, but the minority favour the plan. Their reply to the President will shortly be published. A mass meeting was held in Union>square yesterday. The meeting was not so numerously attended as that in April last year. Resolutions have been passed favouring persistent efforts to crush tbe rebellion, and declaring emphatically that foreign armed inter* vention would be resisted with all the strength of the country. Tbe majority of speakers favoured the era« ploymeut of negroes in the war. The Senate has passed the Militia Bill, with an amendment limiting the emancipation to the slaves of the rebels. The Confederate guerillas are becoming very active in the Border States, destroying property and burning the bridges. They bad captured two small towns in Mis* souri. The Persia has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. New Yobk, July 15 (Evening). [per scotia, vi& boche's point.] Money easy. Gold 17 premium. Silver 11 premium. Tbe scarcity of coin causes great distress among the population, and no remedy is as yet proposed. Exchange, 128£. Stocks hftavy: New York Central, 89| ; Illinois, 56| ; Erie, 33 £. Cotton buoyant. Middling Upland, 44c. Flour improving, aud 5c higher. Wheat and corn advancing, and ljc dearer. Provisions good inquiry. Sugar, coffee, aud molasses, market very firm. queenstown, July 25. The Royal Mail steamer Scotia, artived here at 220 p.m. She brings 249 passengers, 752,216 d015. in specie. She landed 84 sacks of mails. 36 passengers, and proceeded at 3 p.m. ; all well.