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THE WAR IN AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. The royal mail steamer Africa, which sailed from Bos- ton on the 25th, and from Halifax on the 27th of June, has arrived. She brings 188 passengers. NEW YORK, June 24, Evening.-A severe battle took place on the 16th, near Charleston. The loss on both sides is said to be exceedingly heavy. The Confederates are reported to have been victorious, but no Northern accounts have been received. The Federal mortar fleet has left New Orleans for Vicksburg. # The judgment against the Circassian is that the papers found on board give the clearest proof of a deliberate in- tention to run the blockade. There is no material change in New Orleans. Great excitement prevailed on the Isthmus of Panama, in consequence of a body of M osqueras troops having landed at Aspinwall. The citizens were ordered by the Government of Panama to arm themselves, but even- tually permitted the troops to go to Panama. The Federal War Department has offered 2 dols. pre- mium and one month's advance for all recruits. General Butler still continues to hold controversies with the foreign consuls at New Orleans, He has also condemned an alderman and the chairman of the ladies' relief committee to hard labour in Fort Jackson, with a ball and chain on their legs. General Butler, replying to a request from the acting British Consul Coppell for information with regard to the oath to be ad- "ministered to foreign residents, said he would give no answer until Mr. Coppell's pretensions and credentials were recognised by the British and Federal governments. All attempts by Mr. Coppell at official action must cease in consequent or his not producing his testimonials. SITUATION OF AFFAIRS. The following summary of "the situation" is given by the New York Herald of the 24th ult" From des- patches received at the War Department yesterday afternoon, from General M'Clellan's head-quarters, no- thing of importance occurred in the army of the Potomac yesterday. General Halleck sends the same information from his command on the Mississippi. Our pickets re- turning to camp represent that indications of some im- portant movement of the rebels in Richmond were ob- served. The heavy rumbling of trains and wag- gons was heard late at night, and the sound of martial music receding from the city. From xebel sources exclusively—that is to say, the papers of itichmond and Charleston-we have accounts of a ter- rible battle fought near Charleston, on James Island, •within four miles of that city, on Monday last, in which a body of Union troops and some gunboats were engaged. Judging from the statements of these journals, we think there can be little doubt that the battle at James Island was a great Union victory, which will result in the capture of Charleston before long. It is true that the Charleston Mercury, in recounting the story of this battle, represents it as an utter defeat of the Union troops, but such account hardly tallies with the lachry- mose articles from the same paper relative to the hour of irist: nor with its avowed determination in view of the final fall of the city of Charleston, to remove its printing apparatus to Columbia, South Carolina. Cur news from the South is interesting. The city authorities of Memphis have been compelled to take the oath of allegiance. General Mansfield Lovell has retired -with his staff to Meridian. Information comes from Mississippi, that the negroes in Oktibbeha country were arming themselves, and were about to make an attack on the white population. In our news from Tennessee to-day we give the details and official account of the late expedition of our goln. boats up the White River. A body of our troops, under command of Colonel Fitoh, comprising the Forty-sixth Indiana Regiment, were landed, and advanced to the rebel fort which they stormed in the most gallant manner, and carried at the point of the bayonet, driving the enemy out. The object of the expedition was to remove the ob- structions placed in the river by the rebels eighty-five miles above its mouth, at the town of St. Charles. While the troops were landing, the gunboats Lexington, St. Louis, Conestoga, and Mound City, kept up a brisk can- nonade upon the rebel battery, which lasted for an hour and a half. Unfortunately, during the engagement a ball entered the boiler of the Mound City, causing an ex- plosion which resulted in killing and wounding one hun- dred and twenty-five of her crew, out of one hundred and Beventy-five. The Richmond papers of Saturday publish a despatch from Montgomery, Alabama, dated the 17th instant, stating that General Beauregard and his Staff had arrived there, on his way to Richmond, and that a large portion of the army of the Mississippi was to follow him, leaving a considerable force behind under General Bragg. General Schofield has taken stringent measures to repress the guerillas in Missouri, as we learn from a des- patch from St. Louis. He has issued an order holding property ami "ptfhisors in that state responsible in their marauding parties. He citizens by be exacted for every Union soldier or loyal citizen^iiecl and from 1,000 to 5,000 dols. for every one of either class wounded by any guerilla party. The full value of all the property destroyed will be assessed and collected from the Secessionists residing in the locality where the outrage may be committed." A Washington telegram or tiie ztztx uit says:—•• ues- patohes received at the War Department indicate quiet *n all directions. The telegraph works well to all im- portant pointa." THE BATTLE NEAR CHARLESTON. The Southern journals publish long accounts of the late fight near Charleston. A Charleston telegram of the 16th ult. says A severe battle took place this morning on James Island, el four mileii from the city. Five regiments of Federals, with artillery, attacked our batteries at Secessionville. Colonel Lamar commanded the Confederates, and with a few hundred troops repulsed the enemy three times, with great slaughter. The enemy fought bravely, but were defeated. Our victory was complete. The enemy's loss is supposed to be about four hundred, including thirty prisoners. Our loss is estimated at from fifty to one hundred. Colonel Lamar was wounded. Captains Reed and King aed Lieutenant Edwards were killed. The attack will soon be renewed. The Confederates are muoh .exhausted by the previous shelling of the enemy, day And night, for a week." Another despatch of the 17th ult. says :—" The battle of yesterday is pronounced by our Generals to have been most desperate. Our loss is heavier than at first re- ported, including several valuable company officers. A portion of the enemy's force fought gallantly. The 47th jSTew York (Highlanders) assaulted our battery with .empty muskets, fought gallantly and retired, leaving tifty dead in the ditch. They succeeded in carrying off their wounded. The enemy's gun boats and land bat- teries co-operated in the attack. It is expected that the attack will soon be renewed. General Evans compli- mented Colonel Lamar on the field. The Charleston Mercury says Our total loss, as nearly as we can ascertain, was about 40 killod and 100 1 wounded. The enemy's was far heavier. We buried yesterday, 140 dead yankees left upon the field. We say Yankees, using the designation as one common to the whole army of invaders. But in truth the men who did the fighting against us yesterday were nearly all Euro- peans, and in the lineaments of the dead the Scottish type was markedly predominant. We captured 70 prisoners. As for the number of the enemy wounded, no .correct estimate can be made. Glad to get rid of the unwelcome task of caring for maimed Vandals, our mep suffered the enemy's ambulances to approach within point-blank range of their guns, and to carry off the wounded, who must have numbered 300 at least." MISCELLANEOUS. A despatch from New York, dated the 24th ult., says • —" It is stated by persons well informed that President Lincoln, accompanied by General Pope, arrived from Washington last night, and took a special train, which had been kept in readiness, and went to West Point, where General Scott met them by appointment by tele- graph. Speculations, in which the movements of the War Department are mixed up, are afloat relative to the President's hasty visit of consultation with General Scott, but nothing of a satisfactory or probable nature can be ascertained." The following despatch from General Halleck was re- ceived at Washington on the 24th ult. CoitlNTH, June 23, Evening.—Unofficial information has been recived that White River has been opened for 170 miles, and that Governor Regan and the rebel govern- ment have fled from Little Rock on a flatboat for Fort Smith. (Signed) H. W. HALLECK." The Tax Bill finally passed both Houses of Congress on the 23rd ult. In the House, the vote stood 106 yeas to 7 nays. The bill now only requires the approval of the President to become law. In the Senate, on the 23rd ult., petitions in favour o. the passage of a bill confiscating the property of rebels, and asking Congress to extend the protection of the go- vernment over ø,llloyal people in the rebel States, with- out regard to colour, were presented and referred. The Committee on Territories reported a bill for the admission of the state of Western Virginia into Union.—After a I discussion on the House Confiscation Bill, the Senate I adjourned. In the House of Representatives, a resolution tender- ing the thanks of Congress to Captain Davis and his offi- cers and men, for their gallantry on the Mississippi, was referred to the Naval Committee. The resolution declar- ing Charles Henry Foster not entitled to a seat, as repre- sentative of North Carolina, was adopted. The House then went into Committee of the whole, and resumed the consideration of the Treasury Note Bill. An amendment to the first section, providing for the issue of 150,000,000 dollars of United States notes not bearing interest, pay- able to bearer, 100,000,000 dollars ef which may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be of a lower denomination than five dollars, was adopted by a vote of fifty-seven against forty-five. The Committee then rose, and Mr. Stevens presented to the House the report of the Conference Committee on the Tax Bill, and the report was agreed to, and the House adjourned. NEW YORJ £ JUNE 26, EVENING.—Exchange closed to-day at 119!, and unsettled at 120 to 120I. General M'Clellan officially reports that his pickets to the left had been considerably advanced, under a sharp resistance from the Confederates. The picket lines of Generals Heiotzelmen and Hooker were where he wished them to be. The affair was over, and he had gained his point with little loss. Notwithstanding a strong oppo- sition, the Confederates were driven out of their camp in front. The ground gained is a swamp, with thick ntiderbush, boyond whioh is an opet) couutry. The posi- ts gaiped ÍIt

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