The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

(Per the Columbia, via Galway.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 28 (Evening).
Nashville despatches report that the Confederate
cavalry under Forrest crossed the Tennessee river on
the 25th inst., and attacked Athens, Alabama, but
they were defeated, and endeavoured to return.
Another Confederate force simultaneously at-
tacked Florence, Alabama, and was also repulsed.
Chattanooga despatches report that Johnston had
fallen back from Dalton. The Confederate pickets
are at Kingston, 40 miles south of Dalton, to cover
the retreat.
There are no Confederates to be found within 45
miles of Chattanooga.
Longstreet's cavalry was skirmishing with the
Federals at Knoxville on the 23d. It is confidently
believed that the Federals could hold Knoxville.
Washington despatches still assert that a mutiny
had occurred in Lee's army. Two regiments en-
deavoured to desert, but failed.
A convention to form a new State Constitution
wilt assemble at New Orleans on the 22d Feb,
The Kedar, Germania, Australian, and Etna
have arrived out.
NEW YORK, JAN 29, Evening,
Direct advices from Knoxville on the 20th inst.
report that considerable anxiety, amounting to a
panic, existed in that city.
Southern despatches report that Longstreet's
cavalry are within four miles of Knoxville.
Advices from the South state that the Mis-
sissippi is blockaded at Granville and Millikens
Bend by Confederate batteries. Very few trans-
ports go down.
It is reported that Morgan with seven regiments
will make a raid into Kentucky through the Gaps
in the eastern part of the State.
Trade restrictions have been removed inKentucky
and Nissour:,

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORI, Jan. 27, Evening.
Money tight. Gold 57. Exchange on London
1714 ; On Paris, 3.20.
Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1371
Illinois, 127 ; Erie, 107 k.
Crude petroleum, 29 to 291 ; refined, 46 to 47.

FIGHTING NEAR TENNESSEE.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 11.
Further advices received here from New York to
the 30th ulc„ per the Columbia, state that Long-
street had been reinforced, and that fighting had
commenced near Tennessee.
The shelling of Charleston W 513 Still progressing.
Gold, 57
quotations unchanged..
premium. Illinois shares, 126. Other

THE NANA.Another "Nana" has turned up
in Mey war. The best
the two, for the only ay, perhaps, to stop this
would be to hang
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pretenders on the strength of their own
assertions. There can be little doubt that the real scoun-
drel is either dead or in the hands of Jung Bahadoor. 'I he
former of these suppositions is by far the more probable of
have for keeping
-im would be the intention of playing
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him as a trump card should opportunity offer, and he knows
that the man never had the slightest personal influence,
James Harris, reason the Nepaulese Ilinister could
and as a winning Gard always was, and will be, not worth
playing.—Calcutta Englishman.
STOKER KILLED.—On Tuesday afternoon, while
North British Railway, FIS engaged in coupling some
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trucks at a aiding near Niddry station h© was struck by
the stoker of a, goods train on the
some rails which were projecting over the end of ono of the
trucks, and his head was frightfully crushed between the
rails and a truck. The unfortunate man was speedily re-
moved to Edinburgh for surgical treatment, bat ho was
dead before the train in which he was brought reached
town. The deceased was a native of Castle Douglas, was
unmarried, and had only been in the service of the com-
pany fora short time,—Scotsman.