The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-13 00:00:00

ARRWAL OF THE PERUVIAN.

The steamship Peruvian, belonging to the Cana-
dian Mail line, reached Liverpool this evening (Mon-
day). She left. Quebec on the 3d inst., and she con-
sequently made the shortest run on rccord. Bf
this arrival we receive New York papers to tho
and Canadian of the 3d inst.

We extract the following late telegrams from the
Quebec journals :
The Navy Department at Washington had re-
ceived the following from Admiral Farragut
Flagship Hartford, Mobile Bay, Aug. 25.

Sir,—l had the honour in my despatch, No. 31, to state
to the department that Fort Morgan had surrendered on the
23d inst. to the army and navy, though at the time the de-
spatch was written and mailed, the ceremony of surrender
had not actually taken place.
The correspondence preliminary to that event is here-
with forwarded, and the department will perceive the terms
of capitulation were the same as in the case of Fort Gaines,
Gen. Page endeavoured to obtain more favourable terms,
but without success.

I regret to state that after the assembling of the reth.l
officers at the appointed hour (2 p.m.), for surrender out-
side the fort, it was discovered, on an examination of the
interior, that most of the guns were spiked, many of the
gun-carriages wantonly injured, and there was every rea-
son to believe that this had been done after the white fl.ig
had bees raised. It was also discovered that Gen. Page
and several of his officers had no swords to deliver up, and
further, that some of those which were surrendered had
been broken. The whole conduct of the offisers of forts
Gaines and Morgan presents a striking contrast in a moral
principle, that I cannot fail to remark upon it.
Col. Anderson, who commanded the former, finding him-
self in a perfectly untenable position, and encumbered with
a supelfluous number of conscripts, many of whom were
mere boys, determined to surrender a fort which he could
not defend, and in this determination was supported by all
his officers save one. But from the moment ho hoisted the
white flag he scrupulously kept everything intact in that
condition and delivered it over, whilst Page and his officers,
with a childish spite. destroyed guns which they said they
would defend to the last, but which they never defended at
all, and threw away and broke these weapons which they
had not the manliness to use against their enemies,
Fort Morgan never fired a gun after the commencement
of the bombardment, and the advance piquets of our army
were actually on its glade.

As before stated, the ceremony of surrender took place
at 2 p.m„ and that same afternoon all the garrison were
sent to New Orleans in the United States steamers Ten-
nessee and Revielle, where they arrived safely.

Very respectfully your obedient servant,
D. G. FARRAGUT, Rear Admiral.
Fort Morgan, Aug. 23.
To Rear-Admiral D. G. Farragut, U.S.N., and Major-
General G. Granger, U.S,A., Commander, &c.
Gentlemen,—The further sacifice of life being unneces-
sary, the sick and wounded sufferering and exposed
humanity demands protection, I aek for terms of capitu-
lation.—Very respectfully,
Ii L, 14.G8, Brigadier-General C.S.A.
"Headquarters, U. S. Forces, Mobile Bay, Aug. 23.
" Gentlemen,—l have notified Admiral Farragut of your
desire to capitulate, and until his arrival hostilities will be
suspended, when your proposal will be duly considered
Very respectfully,

"G. GRANGER, Maj.-Gen. U.S.A.
" To Brig. .Gen. R. L, Page, commanding Fort Morgan.'
The New York Evening Post's correspondent
writes as follows, from New Orleans, Aug. 24 :
" The heavy bombardment of Fort Morgan, which
began early on Monday morning, Aug. 23, was per-
haps the most severe firing which has yet been
directed against the rebel fortifications, except
Sumter. The range was obtained previous to open-
ing of the cannonade on that day, so on the morning
of that day Farragut's fleet, including the flagship
and other large vessels, the Monitors, the rebel ram
Qumessee, and some blockading vessels took part
in the bombardment in connection with land forces.
These were stationed on Mobile point, in the rear of
the fort, and heavy mortar batteries were planted
within. It is reported by an eye witness 500 or 600
yards from the fort, that the vessels were stationed
at either side of Mobile Point, and the fort was
therefore invested on three sides. The firing from
early dawn until 6 o'clock was regular and effective,
but shortly after that hour it became rapid and ex-
tremely heavy. The rebel ram Nashville was blown
up by the Matacomel just below Mobile. The gun.
boat Oneda fished up six torpedoes in the Channel
below the fort."
The New York herald's Mobile correspondent
says—" That on the morning of the 23d August,
Capt. Taylor, bearing a white flag, accompanied by
four men, marched out of Fort Morgan, carrying a
small sail boat, with the intention of going to the
flagship, three or four miles distant, with a note
from Gen. Page proposing to surrender. A check
was put upon this by Gen. Bailey, who said the
army and navy were one, and as his artillery com-
manded Fort Morgan, and his infantry every part
of Mobile Point outside the fort, he would not per-
mit a boat's crow to pass off from shore on any pre-
tence whatever. Soon after Gen. Granger arrived,
and the note to Admiral Farregut was taken by
him, saying he would communicate its contents to
the admiral. In a short time a demand for an nn.
conditional surrender was made and granted. The
results of the victory at I!obilo may be wound up
thus: commanded the evacuation of Fort Powell;
the surrender of Fort Gaines ; almost destroyed and
compelled surrender of Fort Morgan, heretofore
considered the strongest fortification in the United
states. We have taken 1,500 prisoners, 100 pieces
of cannon, and a vast quantity of small arms and
munitions of war; also provisions enough to feed
the garrisons we shall place there for six months.
We have captured and have ready for use the raw
Qumessee, the strongest vessel afloat.; also several
other war vessels, and have penned up at least two

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English blockade runners. All this has cost the
army 1 man killed and 6 wounded, and the navy
the loss of the Qeunnseh and a pill of her crew,
and very few casualties on other ships."
A Washington telcgrim of the 30:11 ult. says :-
6' Tho news from the army of the Potomac indicates
that the contending forces are marshalling for a
desperate conflict somewhere on the line of the
Weldon Railroad. Lee is determined to regain
possession if he eln, and Grant is Equally deter-
mined to ho:d it. EArly's brecs, it is believed,
have returned to Richmond?'

it was stated that a largo number of recruits
were daily being sent.
The latest news from the Potomac Army is to the
Ist inst. The wholo of that day passed without
any changes in the relative positions of the opposing
armies. The canal at Dutch Gap would shortly b 3
in readiness for use. The Confederates were erect-
ing batteries to command the Federal poaition at
Dutch Gap.

The monster 15-inch mortar gun, mounted on a
railroad car, had been run up the road opposite
Petersburg, and a few shells were thrown into the
city. The object was to deter the Confederates
firing upon the Federal pickets.
The Dramatic Convention at Chicago adjourned
on the 31st ult., but not finally, as a resolution was
adopted that the members should be subject to
assemble again, at any time and place, at the c4l
of theohairman of the National Committeci.
The Confederate privateer Tallahassee has made
her appearance off New Inlet, N.C., on the night of
the 25th ult., and was attacked by the U.S. gunboat
Monticello with grape, shell, &c. The fire was re-
turned by the privateer, but in the midst of the
conflict she is reported to have suddenly disap.
peared ; but when day dawned she was found lying
serenely under the guns of Fort Fisher, fully pro-
tected. Sh 3 was saluted by the fort, and returned
the compliment, in sight of the Union fleet, which
seemed to be incompetent to prevent her escape.
Another rebel privateer has entered the fort of Wil-
mington, and was saluted by a feu de joie by the
batteries at Fort Caswell. She carried the rebel
colours at her foremast and the English ensign at
her stem.

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a smaller tumulus, abouf, 16:t diMTG.4.II2I or 2ft•
high. The altitude had been doubtless r freed . some

time by the plough, but no previous opening of the ".hone"
had occurred. The work on the first day yielded a large
amount of charcoal and some burnt bones, but the burial
was not fully traced till Friday afternoon, when it was found
that the whole of the tumulus had been exposed to an im-
mense fire, which had baked a clayey covering—umbrella-
shaped—over the interment as hard as stone itself. At
length, about 2ft. deep, the interment was found, placed in.
a slight hollow in the ground, a thick layer of charcoal
having been spread entirely over the burnt bones, under-
lying the clay. Tho interment had taken place without any
cinerary urn, and did not even possess the invariable flint
' accompaniment. The burial, indeed, was of the rudest pcs-
sibie description, cremation only having been practised, and
the fragments after the burning gathered with the ashes
into the hollow, The layer of clay, rendered hard by the
burning, had had the tlfect of let ping out the water, and
the interment was dry and dusty in the extreme. A pie
blow during the txamination of this and tho after most ioi.ed
grave, scattering tl,e aches of the (3‘ ceased Britons in clouds
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On two days the united .exertions of neatly the Whole
party were given to the. ep.-niug of another' very large
tumulus, about 36 yards in diameter, and having an alti-
tude of about Bfr. This grave,. which had never previously
been disturbed, occupied a prominent position ripen a natu-
ral swell of the ground, forming a striking of j:2ct in the
landscape. The excavation was commenced on the north
side, and was driven, about 9ft in width, completely thr6ugh
to the south. This barrow proved easy enough to work,
being composed of little else than fine silver sand, which
the gale carried off in clouds as soon as the heather
clothing was removed. The working among this fine
sand was blinding and uncomfortable in the extreme. The
evidences of fire increased towards the centre until twelve
distinct sections of charcoal layers, interspersed with
others of burnt earth and stones, but with very few bones,
were discernible. About the centre burnt stones and a few
bones were found as a distinct deposit, about 3ft deep, and
here the workmen were surprised to find a layer of concrete
looking material increase so rapidly in thickness that it
presented all the appearances of a concrete floor, hard as a
flag—indeed the construction of the tumulus was very re-
markable and altogether unusual. In the centre of this
large concrete floor or platform a magnificent scalloped or
pectinated urn was found, but there were no bones along
with it. From beneath the urn indeed, attached by clay to
the bottom, a splendid flint implement was taken, having a
dentate edge, yet sharp as a saw, which it resembled. 'r ho
large area and magnitude of the burning, of which the evi-
dences were profuse, seemed to account for the almost entiro
consuming of the body, of which hardly a vestige was dis- •
coverable. But a rabbit burrow also passed right through

the barrow and just over the urn, and in this way bones
may have been removed from their intended resting place.
The platform or floor upon which the burial had been made
appeared to have been constructed with great ewe. Upon
a perfectly level surface of about 4ft in height a thick layer
of clay (thickest in the centre) and another of gravel on the
top of it, had been pretty evenly spread, and the mass thus

formed fused or baked together, until one large sheet of
concrete, very bard and obdurate, was formed, fully 15ft in
diameter, Upon the centre of this prepared bed the urn
had been placed, and covered with the charcoal ashes. The
urn was not of the usual form of the cinerary vessel, but
had three external rims, ornamented very irregularly in four
horizontal rows of sharply angular indentations, The
structure of the urn was novel, and the composition ono
admitting of being rendered very hardin the baking. Falling
earth, doubtless from the rabbit burrow, had crushed it,but
the whole of it was there, and will rebuild splendidly. Oa
the inside the rim was finely herringboned, and altogether
the urn is a rich sample of a British burial vessel, The infe-
rence deducible is that, as the above was the sole interment
discoverable in this large houe, and one for which so much
preparation had been requisite, the grave was that of come
important personage among the ancient Britons, whose
ashes some sacreligious rabbit had long disinterred. In
progressing to the southern base a portion of pottery and

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a flint were found, but thew were plainly there by sOll.lO
accident, and bore no reference to any outer burial. Many
antiquaries hold the opinion that a vicinal way passed
from Melton to Isurium (Aldborough) or llovinghatu
(traces remaining near Easthorpe) through this valley of
the graves.

Another large tumulus of a similar size was tried and

showed signs of previous disturbance. As Mr Greenwell
was obliged to leave on Saturday the full examination of
this and the other tumuli in the valley remains over till the
spring of next year.