INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 56, 8 October 1864, Page 3

INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GREAT EXCITEMENT. DESTRUCTION OF PETERSBURG. PROPOSALS FOR PEACE. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUB BLUFF AGENCY.) Southland Times Ofpice, Gth October, 11-20 a.m. We are enabled to lay before our readers later and important intelligence from America. It will be seen that the former report of negotiations for peace has been confirmed ; and it also appears that they were without success. THE BLUFF, 6th Oct., 9-55. The following appeared in a Second Edition of the Aye, containing news, via Sydney, 26th September : — By the Othello from California we have news from the seat of war in America to the 2nd of August. According to latest accounts the capture of Atalanta was not confirmed. General Hood succeeded in relieving General Johnston. General Sherman attacked and defeated the united forces of Hood and Johnston. The Confederates retreated i within the fortifications of Atalanta, where Bragg was reported to be in command. Sherman despatched twenty thousand troops, under the command of General Rosseaux, who destroyed 30 miles of railway, which was supplying the rebels. The Confederates who invaded Maryland, when retreating, were beaten by General Crook, who recaptured 300 waggons of plunder. Ewell, the Confederate General, was defeated easily. The Confederates were reinforced by 40,000 men, and drove back the Federals, and threatened Harper's Ferry. Lee is reported to be commanding M'Causeland's division. He invaded Pennsylvania, and captured and burned Chambersburg. Lincoln considered guerilla force and militia sufficient to expel the invaders. The excitement in the North is intense. The operations of Forster's force on the north side of Richmond had caused the withdrawal of the main body of Confederates from Petersburg. , A telegram of the 2nd of August, says that the attempt to flank Butler failed. Burnside had captured works supposed to be the key of the position. j There had been severe fighting along James River. Grant's feint of sending empty trains of waggons across the River, caused a movement of; Confederate troops. He then sprung a mine under the principal fortification of Petersburg, and destroyed it, General Sherman's cavalry harassing the. Confederate rear. It was reported that the Federal Government intended to demand the rendition of Captain Semmes. General Smith, after a contest of three days, defeated General Forrest, who lost two thousand men. The negroes fought "bi-a-vely- -fchjrou.glioivfc -the wKole affair. The bombardment of Fort Sumter and Charleston, from Morris Island, still continues. . n .-...-...'-■■■ The Confederates attacked Johnstonsville, repulsed Federals, and despatched an expedition against Savannah. Gold, 253. --■".'-' 4J 4JJ , ; Messrs Clay, Halcouft, and ;Sand.erß, the Confederates'. „ .Commissiohers,* J. met Greely and Hay,, the Federal representa- 7 tives, on the Canadianfrontiers, 1 and oflered peace-on condition that slaves now free be emancipatedj~and~-that-slaves still' held shall' continue .'* soi- *T?he "United States were to pay aU war rdebts, and re-"" cognise State rights 7 in the Union. Lincoln that: he required a psmplejte;; abandonment of.slavery throughout the Beceding-^'Stafes, and against furtllSE^ar... -. Tfoe»Confederates'; B&id^tiiejf: woiilcl::~<&mmumcsts 'witbrßicMOTidr ' *

' A iUamsviiie telegram says does i-iio't intend An expeditiou^is starting from New Orleans j supposed to bje for the purpose of attacking Mobile. ' - ; "~ -