The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-16 00:00:00

DEFEAT OF THE FEDERALS BY

STONEWALL JACKSON.

(From the Correspondent of the hints.)

[Per Persia, via Roche's Point, May 16, 3.55 a.m
NEW YORK, MAY 3.

The news from General Hooker's army is up to
six o'clock on Sunday evening. On the after-
noon of Saturday General Stonewall Jackson, by
a flank movement, made a vigorous attack upon
the right wing of the Federals near Chancellorsville.
General Schurz's division, composed principally
of Germans, was the first to feel the shock, and
immediately gave way. No efforts of the officers to
rally their men were of any avail, and the retreat
became a rout ; Ni hole regiments threw down their
arms and fled towards head-quarters. The panic
soon extended to General Deven's division, which
also broke and ran. Two brigades of General How-
ard's division alone retired in order, to the support
of whom General Hooker sent his own division,
commanded by General Berry. The united and
desperate exertions of these troops, after a most
sanguinary struggle, succeeded in checking the

Confederate advance, and prevented General Jack-
son from completing his victory.
At daybreak on Sunday the Confederates again
advanced, this time being met upon the extreme
right by General Berry. The battle raged for
three hours and a half, during which General
Berry was killed. The Federals then fell back, the
enemy pursuing. The fighting continued four hours
longer, when, the Federale having succeeded
in getting the Confederates in their front, the con-
flict wa3 suspended. The carnage on both sides is
described as being awful, but no numbers are given.
It was expected that the battle would be renewed
on Monday; but, if it were, the Federal Govern-
ment his not, up to this hour (6 o'clock), allowed
the fact to be made public.

All sorts of rumours are in circulation—some to
the effect that Hooker's entire force has been cut to
pieces; others, that it has entered into Richmond
without a struggle.
Great dissatisfaction is everywhere expressed
against the authorities at Washington for with-
holding the information, good or bad, which the
public has a right to expect.
The Confederate force which recently occupied
Morgantown, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
captured four companies of Militia belonging to the
town ; it then proceeded to Fairmount, and en-
gaged the Federals under Colonel Mulligan, who
were defending the railroad-bridge which si ans the
Monongahela near that place. After a short con-
flict the Federals were beaten, and the bridge, the
finest on the road, was totally destroyed.
The Confederates took 250 of Colonel Mulligan's
men prisoners, but the loss in killed and wounded
on either side is not known.

Parkersburg and Wheeling are believed to be the
next points threatened.

It is reported, via Memphis on the 30th, that a
body of Confederate cavalry had made a raid into
Central Mississippi
.and destroyed 20 miles of the
Mississippi Central Railroad and a large quantity
of arms and stores.

On the 21st ult. General Banks occupied Opelousas
and Washington, in Louisiana. General Banks's
intention is to proceed northward, to form a junc-
tion with the forces under Admirals Farragut and
Porter and General Grant, designing thereby the
complete severance of the Confederate line of com-
munication for supplies from Texas to Port Hudson.
The Jackson Mississippi Appeal of the 24th ult.
states that the Confederate force in Arkansas under
Generals Stirling Price and Kirby Smith is rapidly
augmenting in numbers, and will soon resume opera-
tions in Missouri.

Despatches from Cairo of today (the sth) deny
the report that the Federals had occupied Grand
Guif, and state that, on the contrary, they were
signally repulsed.

Gencral Marttaduke has returned to Arkansas
from his late successful raid into Missouri.

The ship Punjaub, from Boston, is reported to
have been captured by the Alabama, and subse-
quently released upon giving bonds, The date and
locality of the capture are not stated.

The Hon. C. L. Vallandigham was arrested by a
military force at his residence at Dayton, Ohio,
this morning, by the order of General Burnside,
and carried to Cincinnati. An attempt made by his
friends in Dayton to rescue him from the soldiers
was unsuccessful.

In the case of the Peterhoff on Saturday a motio❑
made on behalf of the owners of the vessel to admit
the testimony of Captain Jarman was opposed by
the diitrict attorney and the counsel for the captors.
Upon this motion the Court took the papers, and
reserved its decision. An order to allow Mr. Red-
gate, one of the owners of the cargo, to testify in his
own behalf was then applied for. Mr. Redgate's
counsel stated that his client was born a British
subject ; that he was an enemy of the Confederate
Government; that his portion of the cargo had been
legitimately consigned to his partner at Mata-
moras, and that he desired to be and remain a
citizen of the United States, provided he could
thereby receive the restitution of his property and
damages for unlawful capture and detention; but, if
he were to be treated as an alien enemy, he de-
manded that he be regarded as 2. British subject,
and as such he should claim protection from the
British Government.

The Court decided that, as Mr. Bedgate was a
resident of a rebellious State, he was to be conbi-
&red an alien enemy,