LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 37, 1 February 1864, Page 6

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA. Intelligence from New York down to Norcmber 14 lms been received this morning. Nothing beyond unimportant skirmishing is reported from Virginia. Ono day's lafer news from Charleston is received by tho arrival of the Federal steamer Massachusetts ufc Fortress Monroe. The bombardment of Fort Sumter is still kept up. Tlie Confederate flag was shot away every day, but immediately replaced. The whole number of shots fired at the fort during (he presout att«ck is 9,340, of which 7,700 have taken eftbet. No casualties are reported. All is quiet at Chattanooga. The government has impressed all the steam boats and railways at Cincinnati for the transportation of troops to General Grant, who is to be immediately reinforced by upwards of 30,000 men. Tlie defeat of the Confederates in Western Tirginia and the occupation of Clarksburg by Gtmerals Averillan.t Dufliohavc been officially confirmed. The Federals captured 100 prisoners and a large quantity of war material. The Confederate Generals — Rhoddy, Ferguson, Chalmers, and Richardson, are in Northern Mississippi, co-operating against General Sherman's line of communications. In Tennessc General Forrest, with a large body of cavalry, has been detached to harass General Grant's transportation of supplies. Letters from >>ew Orleans to tho 4th of November state that no news of General Banks's expeditiou had yet been received. Speculation pointed at Point Isabel, Texas, sis its real destination. j The further progress of General Franklin's army had been found impossible, owing to the "impassable state of the roads, and it was believed that the expedition would be abandoned. On the 11th, General Foster turned over tlie command of the departments of Virginia d North Carolina to General Uutler. snGcneral Canby has been replaced in the command of the troops in and around the harbor of New York by Brigadier-General Stannard. A military force, which it was found neces- I Gary to send Into Pennsylvania coal regions, has restored order and the exercise of authority. The provost-marshals are collecting the conscripts. Lord Lyons has officially notified the government at Wasliington of his receipt, of information from the governor-general of Canada of a plot among the Confederate refugees in Canada to seize certain st earners on Lake Erie, liberate tlie Confederate prisoners at Johnson's Island, in Sandusky Bay. and attack the principal Lake cities. Secretary Stanton has warned the authorities of tho^e cities, and advised the arrest of all suspicious vessels in tlie different Sorts. An extra regiment of soldiers "has been espatehed to the island, and an armed steamer is reconnoitring tlie north shore of the lake. Mr. Stanton has ordered General Dix to proceed to Buffalo and adopt such measures as he may deem necessary for the protection of tlie frontier. It is reported from Washington that on board the Confederate steamer Robert E. Lee, ' captured a few days since, were Mr C E. Stewart, Belgian consul, H. H. Webber, and H. W. Sooke, of the British army. Important despatches from the Confederate agents in i Europe were found hi the vessel, or picked j up in the water. These latter are said to j express an entire hopelessness of any assistance j for the Confederacy from either England or j France. Chief Justices Lowrie, Woodward, ancf Thompson — the first two Democrats and the j last a Republican, together constituting a j majority of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania — hare declared (he Conscription Act to be unconstitutional. ] Marshal Forey had sailed for Fnir.ce in the \ French gunboat Panama. j