The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
(Per the Africa, via Ruche's Point.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 19 (Evening).
Souther❑ journals announce that the Federals
are landing at Morehead City, North Carolina.
General Grant reports from Tennessee that the
Confederate General Vance had made a raid towards
Termille, capturing 23 waggons. Vance was, how.
ever, pursued, the waggons recaptured, and himself
taken prisoner. The report(d raid, by Stuart, on
Leesburg, was unfounded.

Advices from Charleston to the 15th inst. state
that the shelling of the city had been continued,
causing some slight damage, but no casualties.

The Federal fleet were preparing to resist the an-
ticipated attack by the Confederate rams. The
Confederates had erected defences inside Fort
Sumter. General Gilmore had temporarily sus-
pended siege operations, and removed his head
quarters to Hilton Head, where an extensive expe-
dition, including several negro regiments, was fit-
ting out for embarkation for some point not made
public. Various rumours attributed the destina-
tion of the expedition to be the Savannah River, or
to attack the railroad between Charleston and
Savannah, with the view of afterwards operating
in the rear of Charleston. The Confederates anti-
cipated an attack on 'Wilmington.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times asserts that a campaign against Richmond
will be opened in the spring by two large armies,
each equal to cope with Lee's army. One of these
armies will advance by the Rappahannock, and the
other by way of the Peninsula,
A largo body of Confederates are reported to have
concentrated at Point Pelee, Canada, to attack
Johnstone's Island, Lake Erie, where the Confe-
derate prisoners are confined.
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General Grant has arrived at Louisville from
Knoxville, having made the journey by way of
Cumberland Gap and Lexington, for the purpose of
judging of the capabilities of this route for supply-
ing Knoxville. He was enthusiastically received
in Lexington, but refused to make a speech.
Numerous regiments of the Federal army con-
tinue to re-enlist.

General Butler's rule in Norfolk is represented
to be extremely extringent. The city is guarded
by negro troops.

The Richmond Enquirer urges negotiations with
General Butler for an exchange of prisohers, as this
would not relieve General Butler from the decree of
outlawry, and he would still, if captured, be hang.
A system of retaliation has commenced along the
North Carolina frontier. Several soldiers have been
hung in retaliation by the commanders of the op-
posing forces.

The Rich»lond Enquirer complains of the action
of the Confederate Congress, and says there is
danger that Congress in its desire to restore the
currency and fill up the army, will bankrupt the
country and overthrow the framework of §:ciety
and production.

A resolution has been offered in the House of
Representatives, that whenever any insurrectionary
State shall submit to the Federal authority, hostili-
ties against such State shall cease, and the people
be guaranteed conventional. The resolution was
defeated by a vote of 79 to 56.
A proposition to raise 100,000 men for 100 days
to drive the Confederates out of Virginia, and
rescue the Federal prisoners at Richmond, was also
defeated.

A resolution has heal introduced to reduce the
duty on paper.
The Confederate Congress have resolved that per-
sons who furnished substitutes will not be exempt
from military service.
It also passed a resolution, pledging the Con-
federates to perpetual resistance.

The Raleigh (North Carolina) journals continue
to urge a peaceful settlement with the North. The
Richmond Sentinel remarks that too much impor-
tance has been given to this fact, as the whole
North Carolina press, excepting the Raleigh jour-
nals, are patriotic and loyal.

It is generally conceded that Mr. Lincoln will be
the regular Republican nominee for the presidency.
The New York herald asserts that there is a move-
ment among the Republicans to secure Secretary
Stanton's removal from the Cabinet.

The New YorLTrzbune asserts that Mr. Adams's
diplomatic correspondence sent to Congress will
furnish abundant proof of the responsibility of the
British Government in the matter of the Confede-

rate privateers.
The Secretary of the Navy has sent orders to the
Provost Marshal of New York that the British
blockade violators will, when captured, not be re-
leased, but detained.
A military commission has been appointed to
try all persons confined in Forts Lafayette and
Warren.

The British ship Sylvanus has been captured off
Doboy Sound, Georgia.
The Columbia has arrived at St. John's.

(By telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, JAN 21 (Morning).
The Fedorals have occupied Madisonville on
Lake Pontchartrain.

General Banks has ordered a State election in
Lousiana. He is confident that more than a tenth
of the population desire restoration to the Union.
He declares void the State laws regartling slavery,
and appoints a convention for the revision of the
constitution. Arrangements are being made to
elect members to Congress.
Two companies of Canadian rifles have been sent
to Windsor, Canada, it is said, in consequence of
the Confederate movements against Johnston Island•