The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-29 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

IR RITTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
(Per the Arabia via Roche Point.)
NEW YORK, FEB. 16 (Evening).
After a slight skirmishing, General Sherman
occupied Jackson, Mississippi, on the sth.

The Confederates were retreating across Peare
River. General Sherman has since advanced to
Brandon. Another portion of Sherman's forces
permanently occupied Yszoo City for foraging
purposes.

Ia conjunction with General Sherman's move-
ment a large cavalry force moved southward from
Corinth.

Oa the 15th an army corps advanced from Hunts-
ville, Alabama, crossing the Tennessee river at
Larkin's Ferry.

It is reported that General Grant's army is in
motion from Chattanooga towards Tunnell Hill
and Dalton.

Bishop Polk, commanding in Mississippi, is be-
lieved to have received reinforcements from Dalton.

General Longstreet holds the Tennessee Rail-
road to Strawberry Plains.
General Peck has arrived at Newbern, and has
made preparations for hie defence.

President Davis has issued an address to the
army, thanking the troops for their alacrity.
He said that the spring campaign opens under
auspices well calculated to sustain their hopes.
Assured success awaits their struggle for liberty
and independence.
President Davis has signed a bill prohibiting the
export of tobacco, rice, sugar, and molasses, except
by special permit ; also a bill prohibiting the im-
portation of luxuries after March next, and fixing
the maximum price at which articles of silk, wool,
flax, and cotton may be imported.

One hundred and ten Federal officers who had
escaped from Richmond prison have arrived at
Fort Monroe.

The House of Representatives has passed a re-
solution favouring an amendment to the constitu-
tion abolishing slavery by a majority of twenty-one.
The Supreme Court has decided against Mr.
Vallandigham's application to annul the sentence
passed upon him by the military court.
A committee of ways and means will report on
the bill authorising the Secretary of the Treasury
to sell gold, providing he retains a sufficient amount
to pay the interest oa the public debt.
The steamers Hatfield, Spunkie, Dee, Jenny,
Emily, and Fanny have been destroyed, and the
City of Petersburg captured, off Wilmington.
A brig, with 700 slaves on board, was captured
on the 9th, off North Side, Cuba.

The North American has arrived out.
(By Telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, FEB. 18 (Evening).
General Grant's forward movement has not been
confirmed.

The commander of Mobile has telegraphed that
he anticipates an early attack on the city.
Admiral Farragut's fleet has left New Orleans,
destination unknown.

It is anticipated that the Confederates will open
the spring campaign by a formidable raid into
Pennsylvania.

The New York Herald asserts that President
Lincoln will issue a proclamation of universal
emancipation, including the Border States, on the
211 inst.

General Banks has issued an order at New
Orleans, stating that it is the people's duty to assist
in restoring the civil government. Indifference
will be treated as a crime. Men refusing to
defend their country with the ballot box or cartridge
box have no claim to the benefits of liberty.

The New York journals consider this equivalent
to compulsory voting.
Several republican members of Congress have
denounced President Lincoln's policy of establishing
State Governments under the amnesty proclamation
as illegal.

Thesteamer Cumberland has been captured whilst
entering Mobile harbour.
The steamer Denbigh has been destroyed whilst
leaving Mobile.

NEW YORK, FEB. 19 (Noon).

The expectation that Congress will pass the bill
authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to sell
gold has caused a great decline.
It is reported that the Federal Government has
received information that Confederate vessels have
left Asia for the Pacific.
An attack on San Francisco is feared.
President Lincoln has declared Brownsville,
Texas, open to trade. The entry of spirits and
articles contraband of War are forbidden. American
Consuls will grant licenses to foreign vessels for
Brownsville.