LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1988, 26 November 1863, Page 4

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Home News Office, Sep 26.

AMEBICA". Intelligence to September 17 was received this morning per the Africa.

Confederate accounts of the 14th and 15th state that the Federals were perfecting arrangements for the peimanent occupation of Morrjs Island, and were erecting a telegraph line along the coast from Tybee Island to Cummings Point.

General Pleasanton was still unable to effect a crossing of the Bapidan on September 16. Various statements are made of the intentions of General Lee, who has fallen back from the line of the Bappahannock towards Gordonsviile. It is asserted by some that his retreat is merely a ruse by which he designs to draw General Meade across the Bapidau, aud then, by rapid flank movements, himself to recross both the Bapidan and Bappahannock, interpose his forces between General Meade and Washington, and march directly upon that city. On tbe other band, it is positively averred that the bulk of his army, with the exception of 40,000 men left in Virginia for the defence of Richmond, has been sent to Tennessee to co-operate with Generals Bragg and Johnston against Generals Rosecrans and Burnside.

The President issued a proclamation suspending tbe habeas corpus throughout tbe United States on tbe 15th September. Great indignation against the edict is manifested by the Democratic journals,

It seems that an expedition fitted out by the Federals of the North has recently left New Orleans for the Texan coast. It comprises at least .30,000 men of all arms ; and General Franklin? who was recently relieved of the command of a corps in the army of the Potomac, and was-* ordered to New Orleans, has chief command. Galveston will be the first point arrived at, and after its capture, the forces under General Franklin's command will be so distributed as to cover all the points which it is supposed the French troops now operating in Mexico might desire to occupy if the French emperor should throw off the mask and become the open, as he is now believed to be the seciet ally of the Confederacy. This expedition is the one which it was supposed was to operate against Mobile.

Correspondence from New Orleans, under date of the 3rd Sept., states that 10,000 troops of the Bio Grande expedition had already gone forward by sea, and that another division had seat off overland via the Tvche country.