The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
( Via Crookhaven.)

NEW YORK, OCT. 13 (Evening).
The fighting before Richmond has not been re

newed.

Sheridan retreated to Strasburg after the defeat
of Early's pursuing cavalry. Price continues to
operate in Missouri.
The republican ticket has been elected in Indiana
and Ohio by a large majority.
Southern journals report that the Confederates
have recaptured Rome, Gcorgia.
The democratic party have gained largely in
Pennsylvania. The soldiers' vote is awaited to
decide the result of the election. The toting in
Maryland shows the probable adcption of an anti-
slavery Constitution.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
(Arrival of the ABia, via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 13 (Evening).

Money easy. Gold, 109 per cent. premium.
Stocks slightly firmer. New York Centrals, 120-1 ;
Illinois, 1201 ; and 5-20 U.S. Bonds, 1071. Cotton
dull. Middling Upland, 105. Flour, wheat, and
corn slightly firmer. Provisions good enquiry.
Coffee dull. Sugar slightly firmer. Molasses
steady. Crude petroleum dull; refined do., 63i.

NEW YORK, OCT. 11 (Evening).
General Grant, after visiting Washington, has
returned to Petersburg.
General Lee's report of Friday's engagement on
the north of the James river, states that he attacked
the Feder&le on the Charles City Road, and drove
them from two entrenched lines, capturing 10 guns,
Finding the enemy further strongly entrenched, he
did not press them. General Gregg was killed.
Southern journals claim that the engagement was
a signal victory, the Federals being driven five miles
from the city.

General Grant reports that his loss oa Friday
amounted to 400 men, the Confederate loss being
1,100.

General Sheridan reports that on the 9th he re-
treated to Strasburg. During his retreat he deso-
lated the whole country, waking it untenable for
the Confederate army► In retaliation for the gue-
rillas killing engineer Meige, he burned all the
houses for a distance of five miles. Ile attacked
Rosser's cavalry, who pursued him, near Strasburg,
routing them and capturing 11 guns and 300 pri-
soners.

Gen. Longstreet has superseded Gon. Early.
Gen. Sherman is at lienesaw, repairing the rail-
road between Atlanta and Allatoona. His army is
well supplied and secure in Atlanta.

The Confederate defeat at Allatoona is confirmed.
Forrest is escaping across the Tennessee River.
Hood has retreated to Dallas.
The Richmond papers have favourable news from
the north of Georgia, but decline publishing it.
Price made a demonstration before Jefferson City
to cover the passage of his main army across the
Osage River. During the night his army, 20,000
strong, with 20 cannon, passed westward. Plea-
santon, with 8,000 cavalry, pursued him and en-
gaged his rear at Jefferson, while Curtis, coming
from Kansas, engaged Price in front.
Price had proclaimed his intention to remain in
Missouri.

Burbridge reports that he drove the rebels to
their works at Saltville, Western Virginia, and
withdrew for want of ammunition, leaving behind
the wounded.

General Beauregard's new department includes
East Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, and
Georgia.
President Davis has returned to Richmond.
The Democratic National Committee has issued
a threatening protest against the action of Admi-
nistration for suppressing the Baltimore Evening
Post, and requiring the Presidential voters of
Tennessee to take Governor Johnson's test oath.
These actions the Committee say reveal President
Lincoln's revolutionary purpose, and to attempt to
control, by these means, is to plan crime against
liberty and the Republic.

The Committee believe that the people, armed
with the constitutional laws, will meet these user.
pations with the spirit and determination of their
fathers, nor will they suffer executive ambition so
far to corrupt the constitutional remedies of exe-
cutive wrong-doing as to condemn the people in
the immediate future to a condition and remedies
of the subject population of the Old World.
The 117 etc fork TVorld publishes a statement
showing that the public debt, including the appro-
priation to be made by the next Congress, amounts
to 4,000,000,000 dollars.

The steamer Constance has been sunk o£l
Charleston. The Hansa and Jura have arrived out,
The Europa has been intercepted at Cape R ice.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
Gold, 103 a premium. Stocks slightly firmer.
New York Central, 116,1 ; Illinois, 116; ; Erie,
94/ ; 5-20 Bonds, 107 i.

(FROM TUE CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES.)
(Per the Asia, via Halifax and Crookhayen,
Oat. 2G.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 13.

Mr. Stanton announces that despatches from
Gen. Grants since his return to headquarters from
Washington, on Saturday last, report no further
movement.

Sheridan has retreated to Strasburg. He re-
ports that on the 9;1 inst. he repulsed E
cavalry, who followed him to that point, captur-
ing 330 prisoners and 11 cannon. He declares
that he had devastated the whole country between
the Blue Ridge and North Mountains, destroying
2,000 barns and 70 mills, which were fiilled with
hay, farming imprements, meat, and flour. In
retaliation for the shooting of a subordinate officer

he burnt a:11 the dwellings within five miles'
radius of the spot where he fell.
Sherman reports on the 9th inst. that Hood's
forces, operating in his rear, had occupied Dalton,
and that he feared an attack by them on Kingston
and Rome. He adds that seven miles of their way
to Chattanooga are destroyed, but that, having
plenty of provisions in Atlanta, he feels secure so
far as his main army is concerned.

Dapatches from Augusta, Georgia, of the Sib
inst., to the _Richmond TVh y, report the recapture
of Rome by the Confederates, with over 3,000

prisoners.

A Federal force of infantry and artillery from
General Washburn's department, under Colonel
[lodge, proceeding up the Tennessee on transports,
convoyed by gunboats, was attacked and driven
back at East Point, on the 10th inst,, by General
Forrest. The Federals admit the loss of two
transports, all their artillery, and 50 men killed and
wounded.

General Burbtidge, who, with a large Federal
force, was recently sent from Mount Stirling, Ken.
tucky, to destroy the saltworks in South• Eastern
Virginia, has returned to Kentucky unsuccessful.
lie attacked 6,4ltyille ou the 3a ilia., and was re-