The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

AMERICA.

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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
(Per the Canada.)
NEW YORK, March 15 (Evening).

General Halleck has been relieved from his duty
as General-in-Chief, and has been appointed Chief
of the Staff in Washington.
Lieut.-General Grant has been appointed to the
command of the armies of the United States, with
his head-quarters at Washington or in the field.
General Shermln hss been appointed to command
the departments of Cumberland, Ohio, Tcnnessee,
and Arkansas.

General Sherman's plan of campaign contem-
plated the capture of Selma, but the failure of
Smith's cavalry to co-operate prevented him from
proceeding beyond Meridian.
Bishop Poll: has issued an order declaring Gen.
Sherman's campaign to Inve terminated inglori-
ously, and stating that he was forced to leave the
&id with the loss of men, arms, and artillery.
General Sherman has arrived at New Orleans to
consult with General Banks.

Expeditions are preparing at Vicksburg, New
Orleans, and Little Rock for a co-operative move-
ment against Shreveport, Louisiana, and the Trans-
Mississippi region.
General Longstreet has mounted (P) his forces,
and it is reported that he will proceed to North
Carolina.

The Free State Government has been publicly
inaugurated at New Orleans with imposing cere-
monies. The wife of General Beauregard has died
in that city. At the funeral a peat public demon-
stration of sympathy was made.
In Kentucky the Governor has protested against
the enlistment of slaves, declaring that he will carry
out the State laws against per.sons taking slaves
without the consent of their owners.

The steamer Mary Ann has been captured off
Wilmington.
On the 29th ult. the steamers Fanny and Syren
arrived at Nassau from Wilmington.

The ship Star of the West, which has arrived
here, reports meeting an Italian frigate in a
sinking condition on the 7th inst. The Star of the
'Nest consented to lay by her all night. After 11
o'clock the frigate ceased replying to the signals,
and in the morning she had disappeared. She is
supposed to have been the Re Galantuomo.

The Jura and the Hansa have arrived out.

Money easier. Gold, 601 per cent. premium.
Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 175 ; on Paris,
3 171; Stocks very firm ; New York Centrals,
136 k; Iliinois Centrals, 137 ; Erie, 1231; Six per
Cent. United States Bonds, 112. Petroleum, crude,
32c. to 33c.; refined, 51c. to .52e.

NEW YORK, March IS (Morning).

President Lincoln has cAlled for 200,000 more
men to be raised by April 15, when the draft for
the deficiency will be made.

Colonel Kilpatrick asserts that Dahlgren's in-
structions were to capture President Davis and kill
him if he attempted to escape. Public property
only was to be destroyed in Richmond.
(By Telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, March 17 (Afternoon).
It is reported that the Confederates have cap-
tured throe Federal regiments at Yazoo City.
General Johnston has advanced his artillery from
Dalton to Ringgold.
The Governor of Kentucky has urged the people
to take legal measures for the redress of grievances.
The Arabia and Edinburgh have arrived out.
NEW YORK, March 17 (Evening).

Both Houses of Coogress have passed the bill
authorising Secretary Chase to sell the surplus of
gold in the Treasury with the amendment that the
obligation to create a sinking fund according to the
Act of February, 1862, shall not be impaired.
Admiral Farragut has withdrawn the fleet from
before Mobile.

The army of General Banks is moving, but its
destination is not„known.

A large Federal fleet, with 30 transports, is at

.he mouth of the Red River.

Money easy. Gold has fluctuated during the
week between 60 and 63, and is now quoted 611
per cent. prem. The price has not been materially
affected by the passage of the Gold Bill. Exchange
on London—binkers' bills, 176 ; on Paris, 3 15.
Stocks firm and advancing ; New York Centrals,
137 ; Illinois Centrals, 1371; Erie, 1234 ; Six per
Cent. United States Bonds, 1111. Cotton dull—
middling upland, 74c. Flour heavy. Wheat de-
clining. Corn nominal. Provisions quiet. Coffee
steady. Sugar and molasses quiet. Petroleum
dull—crude, 30c. to 311-,c.; refined, 48c. to 491 c.

MEXICO.
(Per the CAnada.)

NEW YORK, March 15 (Evening).
Advices from Mexico by way of Havana are to
the Ist inst.
The French had occupied Zaccateas.
Juarez had refused to resign.
Yucatan had declared for the French, and
Vinurri had pronounced against Juarez.
The French had capturA a Mexican steamer
with despatches for Juarez.

The Royal Mail Steamship Canada, from Boston
on the 16th and Halifax on the 18th, arrived at
Queenstown on Sunday, March 27, at 5 p.m. She
brings 52 passengers, and 225 dollars in specie.
She landed 169 sacks mails, telegrams, &c., and
proceeded for Liverpool at 5.20 p.m. All well.
The Canada expe.rienced easterly winds through-
out her passage.

QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 28.

The screw steamer Saint Andrew, from Portland,
on the 27th March, arrived here at 5.30 a,m, to-day.
She landed the mails and 18 passengers, and pro
ceeded for Livenpool at 6 a.m.
Her news has been anticipated.

THE REF RESENTATION OF CHA THABL—The
Chatham News announces that when Sir Frederick Smith
retires from the representation of, that borough, Colonel R.
Clement Moody, R E., lately Lieutenant-Governor of
British Columbia, and who has lately succeeded General
Twiss as Commanding Royal Engineer for the district,
will enter the field as a Liberal Conservative. Mr. Otway,
the Liberal candidate, is about to take up his residence at

New Brompton,
DETECTION OF A BAND OF A HUNDRED ROBBERS
AND MURDERERS IN THE MORMON TERRITORY.—
The Great Salt Lake City correspondent of the _Yew York
Herald, writing on Feb. 7, says :—" The last express from •
Bannock City has just arrived, and set our mining popula-
tion in a ferment with the startling intelligence that an orga-
nised band of 100 robbers and murderers had been discovered
in the eastern portion of Idaho, and that some of them had
been arrested and had confessed to the murder of about 100
persons between this city and Bannock during the last
few months. The mining districts—Bannock, Virginia,
and Stinking Water—were aroused, and had initiated the
day of retribution by the hanging of 14 of the miscreants
within a few days. and the Vigilance Committee were in
pursuit of all others, and would never stop the good work till
they had hung all the othersor driven them from the country.
The murderers were headed by one Henry Plummer, the
sheriff of Bannock and Virginia—a polished villain that no
ono suspected of being engaged in a work which the com-
munity expected him to be the first to suppress. His deputy,
George Lane, was charged with being his lieutenant in
the business, and entitled to the same consideration
from the Vigilante. The night preceding the day of
execution men were picketed around the city, and no
one could leave after dusk. In the morning the word
was passed up and down the mining gulches that work
was on hand ; the shot guns and revolvers were, picked
up, and in an hour or so there wero enough of ministers
of justice to seo the work put through. Parties were
sent in search of the doomed, and they were soon
" gathered " or " caroled," and brought to the most
convenient place for execution, At Bannock City, five
empty dry goods boxes were placed under the beam of an
unfinished house, and on these the murderers were assisted
to mount, the rope was placed round their necks, and
when everything was ready another cord drew the empty
box from under them, and there they dangled mid floor
and roof to the entertainment of the outraged populace.
Sheriff Plummer wanted five minutes to pray; but the
Vigilante were busy, and as they possibly thought
he might find time after, and as they were busy
just then, put him through' sans aroma°. Ono of the
murderers, a Spaniard, took refuge in a cabin, and when
they attempted to arrest him he killed ono man and badly
wounded another. A howitzer was brought out, and tie
cabin roof was tumbled about his ears. The populace were
terribly mad, and as he appeared he was perfectly riddled
with balls. Life not being extinct, they rushed him off to
the scaffold, hung hi:-a up hh littia, N ta,r, cat him down
and threw him on to the blazing canto, vylf.-;re ha was con-
sumed,"