AMERICA.

North Otago Times, Volume I, Issue 10, 28 April 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

AMERICA.

New York, Feb. 13. President Lincoln has issued a pi-ocla-mation for 800,000 men to seive three years, or until the end of the Avar. The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to confiscate the landed property of the Confederates in fee instead of for life. After inaction on both sides, the war shows symptons of ie\ival Several skirmishes have occurcd, the Confederates alwavs being successful. General Longstreet, to recover the ground lost in last campaign, drove the Federals into Knoxsville, taking possession of the French Broad River Valley containing; ample supplios for bis army. Subsequently he attacked Knoxsville again, brilliantly defeating the Federals. In another direction, the Federals had to abandon Tazewell and Cumbeiland Gap. On the Mississippi, the Confederates seized an island, and took possession of Corinth and Fort Pillow. 7^.t several other places the Confederates have also been victorious, and on James River they captured an expedition sent out by General Butler, who had formed a plan for taking Richmond by a coup-de-main. The Federals seem more hardly driven for soldiers than their antagonists. The Confederates, in advance of Lincoln's new levy, will probably be before

Washington before the Federal raw recruits are ready for the field. Meade re&umes the command of the army of the Potomac. He estimates tho killed and wounded of the Potomac arm/ since March, 18(51, at 100,000 men. The Conscription Bill parsed by the Congress includes the eompul.-ory drafting of slaves, with compensation to their owners. It is reported that the siege of Charleston is suspended. Adiniial Duhlgren lefused the commander of the British gunboat Petrel permission to communicate with the British consul at Savannah. The Confederate loan stood at 58, but icceded to 52