AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 4, 10 July 1865, Page 3

AMERICA.

(EECTEIt’S TELEGEA3I.) Queenstown, Tuesday Evening, March 28. The Inman steamship City of Baltimore, from New York on the 18th instant, arrived here at H'4o p.m. to-day, with 197 passengers, and 31,000 dollars and £1,500 in specie. She landed eighteen passengers, and proceeded at ITSO p.m. All well. (Via Crookhaven.) New York, March 18, Morning. President Davis has addressed a message to the Confederate Congress, dated the 15th, which says:—“Events have so materially affected the state of the country as to evince the necessity of further and more energetic legislation than that of November last. The country is environed with perils which it is our duty to calmly contemplate, and thus alone can the measures necessary to avert the threatened calamity be wisely devised and efficiently enforced. Richmond is nowjthreatened, and in greater danger that heretofore during the war. Though the country is in danger calamities will be averted, and triumph secured by fortitude, courage, constancy, and endurance.” The President urges the necessity of legislation to modify the militia law, and recommends the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act as almost indispensable to the successful conduct of the war. “ With the prompt adoption of the measures recommended, and with the cooperation of the Congress and people in the execution of, the laws and the defence of the country the South may enter upon the coming camgaign with cheerful confidence in the result. Lincoln will accept only abject and unconditional submission.” President Davis proceeds to state that at the peace conference at Portress Monroe, the Confederate commissioners proposed to avoid Lincoln’s objection to treat with the Confederate Government, by a military convention of the commanding generals of both armies. President Lincoln not accepting'the suggestion was afterwards requested to reconsider his conclusion upon the subject of the suspension of hostilities, which he agreed to do, but said after mature deliberation he had determined it could not bo done. Subsequently, General Ord, commanding the arniy of the James, requested An interview with General Longstreet. General Ord informed General Longstrcet of the possibility of arriving at a satisfactory adjustment of the difficulties by means of a military convention. Leo would be granted an interview on the subject if he had authority to act. Lee in consequence wrote to Grant on March 2nd, proposing a conference on the subject, stating that he was vested with the requisite authority. General Grant replied that he had no authority to accede to the proposal for a conference, his power being only military. General Ord meant that an interview would not be refused on any subject on which General Grant could act. “No choice remains, then,” continued the President, “but to continue the contest to its final issue. The people of the Confederacy can have but little love for him who supposes it possible they would ever consent to purchase, at the cost of degradation and slavery, permission to live in a country garrisoned by, their own negroes, and governed by officers sent by the conquerors to rule over them.”

The President’s message announces that the commissioners and officers report that with 2,000, •J'tOO in coin the armies of Virginia and North Carolina can be suplied for the remainder of the year. The measures adopted to raise the revenue, though liberal, being clearly inadequate to meet the arrears of debt and current expenditure, some degree of embarrassment in tbe management of the finances must continue to be felt. Men and supplies are needed to carry on the war success. Sacrifices are still needed in prompt and resolute devotion, and men and money, for the achieve* ment of independence. President Davis urges the promptest legislation for the replenishment of the treasury, and the modification of the impressment law necessary for the purchase of supplies. He recommends Congress to devise measures for mating coin within the Confederacy, available for supplying the army. The Herald asserts that Sherman will move from Fayetteville on Goldborough. Sherman’s recent casualties are estimated at 1,000 killed, wounded, and missing, and those of the Con* fedtrates at 1,200 men. Sherman has 3,000 prisoner and 4,000 white refugees, is reported to be moving on White House. Sherman has completely desolated the eastern portion of South Carolina, burning everything before him. Vast quantities of ammunition ana artillery have been discovered at Charleston,

Sheridan reports on the 15th, from the bridge of the Richmond and Fredricksburg railway, that he crossed the South Anna after destroying the James river canal as far east as Grockland, and marched up the Virginia Central Bailroad at Talleville destroying fifteen miles as far as Beaver Dam station. He also destroyed a bridge over the South Anna river. The enemy lost three guns during an unsuccessful attempt to prevent him crossing the Central Bailroad bridge over the South Anna.