imthra.—The intelligence of the week from America is of little
importance, and consists chiefly of a series of rumours. The Southern troops are said to be retiring from Harper's Ferry, and the whole strength of the rebels is concentrated towards the Manassas junction, the point through which troops from Washington on their way to the centre of Virginia must march. A large force, estimated at ten thousand men, under General Beauregard, is said to be in march for Cairo, the most important point in the States, commanding, as it does, the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri. All these state- ments, however, must be taken for what they are worth. Mr. Russell, writing from New Orleans, notices that the poorer whites do not appear to be in the army, reports that powder is exceedingly scarce, and believes that intelligence from the North is very inaccurate. He adds the following story illustrative of Southern manners and character: "In the evening, as I was sitting in the house of a gentleman in the city, it was related as a topic of conversation that a very respect. able citizen, named Bibb, had had a difficulty with three gentlemen, who insisted on his reading out for them from his paper as lie went to market in the early morning. Mr. Bibb had a revolver casually' in his pocket, and he shot one citizen dead on the spot, and wounded the other two severely, if not mortally. ' Great sym- pathy,' I am. told, is felt for Mr..Bibb. There has been a skirmish somewhere on the Potomac, but Bibb has done more business ' on his own hook' than any of the belligerents up to this date; and, though I can scarcely say I sympathize with him, far be it from me to say that I do not respect him." Mr. Davis lies called in the Red Indians, and representatives from the Five Nations are on their way to Montgomery to settle the terms upon which they will lend the aid of twenty thousand warriors to the Confederacy. The Southern Congress has replied to the blockade of New Orleans, which is now complete, by a law, prohibiting any export of cotton overland except through _Mexico. Tampico is not so far to the south that it might not serve as a port for the export of cotton. The following telegram contains the latest intelligence from the North :
"The Confederate troops are reported to be advancing on Cairo. "The officers of the United States frigate Susquehanna!' resigned their commissions on arrival at Boston.
" England's policy in the present crisis is the general topic of dis- cussion.
"The impression prevails that Southern privateers will be able to sell their prizes in English ports. This causes a hostile feeling to- wards England in the Northern States."
This mistake will be speedily rectified when the order in Council forbidding the sale of prizes in British ports has been received. The Evening Post states that the Confederate Government will send'an agent to Brazil to try and form an alliance. • Bahia,—The latest news of Mr. Laing announces that lie has sailed for Singapore ill with acute dysentery—a dangerous disease when the thermometer is 98 deg. in the shade.
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