The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1867.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(Per the City of New York.)
QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 18

The Inman steamer, City
of New York, which
arrived here this morning, brings 454,172 dole. in

specie.

NEW YORK, AUG. 7 (Morning)

It is reported from New Orleans that a French
steamer had arrived on the Bth, at Vera Cruz, with
an English schooner in tow. The schooner was
captured at Rio Greade with a cargo of arms. She
had cleared from Liverpool for Matamoras.

NEW YORK, AUG. 8 (Morning),

Gilmore's heavy batteries are expected to open
file from Morris Island on Fort Sumter in a few
days. The steamer Ironsides is within 500 yards
of Fort Sumter.

General Meade's pickets extend two miles and a
half beyond the south bank of the Rappahannock.
The railroad bridge across the river at Rappahan-
nock station has been rebuilt.

In consequence of guerillas, the -suttlers' wag-
gons from Washington to General Meade's army
are accompanied by armed escorts.
News has been received from New Orleans to the
31st ult. The Union Association had passed a
resolution opposing the organisation of a State Go-
vernment under the constitution in force prior to
secession, and opposing any new constitution recog-
nising slavery. The New York Herald says that
the Association is formed principally of office-
seekers.

Yazoo city has been stripped in consequence of
the hostile attitude of the people. Quantities of
merchandise and furniture and numbers of negroes
have been carried away.
No cotton has arrived at New Orleans since the
fall of Port Hudson.

It is simi-officially announced that the article
published lately in the Washington Republican, re-
presenting war with England as imminent, was not
authorised by the Government, nor made up with
any knowledge of its views.
President Davis has issued an address to the
Confederate army, in which he says—" After two
years of warfare the enemy continues a struggle, in
which our final triumph must be inevitable.
Unduly elated with recent success, he imagines that
temporary reverses can quell your spirit or shake
your determination, and now gathers heavy masses
together for a general invasion, vainly hoping that
by desperate efforts success may be reached. You
know what the enemy means by success.
His malignant rage aims at nothing less
than the extermination of yourselves, your
wives, and children, to destroy what he cannot
plunder, to partition our homes as the spoils of
victory, to incite servile insurrection, 'and to de-
bauch an inferior race hitherto contented, by pro-
mising the indulgence of the vilest passions as the
price of treachery, conscious of their inability to
prevail by legitimate means, and not bearing to
make peace lest they should be hurled from power,
the men now ruling
in Washington refuse even to
confer on the subject of ending
outrages disgracing
the age, or listen to any suggestion for conducting
the war according to civilised usages. No alterna-
tive is left you but victory or subjugation
and the utter ruin of yourselves, your families,
and your country; victory is within your
grasp, you need but stretch forth your
hands to grasp it. All that is necessary is that all
should promptly repair to military duty, and I now
without leave,
a
grant a general pardon and amnesty to all officers
men within the Confederacy who may be absent
and who shall, without delay, return
to their duty; but no excuse will be received for
any delay beyond twenty days after this pro-
ululation." President Davis finally conjures
all the women of the Confederacy to use their in•
fluence in aiding this call, and to take care that
none who owe duty in the field shall be sheltered

at home.
The Confederate Secretary of the Treasury has
written a letter stating that, as the fall of Port
Hudson and Vicksburg exposes to the enemy the
Government cotton purchased in Mississippi and
plantations. The
T
any planters will probably leave their
he
military authorities
will, there-
fore, he says, destroy all cotton they cannot
pre-
servestroyedfroomnly when there is imminent danger of
the
enemy. The cotton will be de-
the evening capturing it.

NEW YORK, AUG. 7.

_ --
Charleston was progressing on the
The siege of

4th inst.

The Herald Baltimore
says
y swt i
hll b a
t bye
correspondent of the New York
the middle of August General
Lee's army
reinforced to number 150,000
men with 300
pieces of artillery; and if by that
time Meade has
not advanced, Lee will assume the
offensive, and
move from Fredericksburg direct on
s
Alexandria by way of Banks' Ford, Dumfries, and
Occoquan, or else by way of Manassas Junction,
Centreville, and Fairfax to Harlington Heights.
The Richmond papers state that General Meade
has been reinforced by 15,000 Merl from Grant's

army.
President Davis has appealed (as will he seen
above) to absent officers
and soldiers to return im-
mediately to camp.

johnston'a army is at Enterprize and Brandon,
Mississippi. General Johnston has visited and in-
spected the Mobile defences.

T said to be much suffering among the
people of is
Middle Tennessee.of

The Maine Democratic State Convention has
p
resolutions denouncing the course of
the Lincoln strong resolutions

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, AUG. 7, EVENING.
Money easy. Gold, 27 per cent. pm. Exchange
on London, bankers' bills, 1391.
Stocks depressed. New York Centrals, 129;
States Bonds, 106-}.
Illinois, 1191, ; Erie, 1051; Five per Cent. United
Cotton, good inquiry. Middling upland, 67c.
Flour dull. Wheat depressed. Corn tending
downwards. Previsions dull. Coffee quiet. Sager
advancing. Molasses steady. Crude petroleum in
good demand at 34 to 35.

CONGRESS AT FRANKFORT•
FRANKFORT-ON-MAINE, AUG. 18.
At the banquet to the German Princes yesterday
evening the Burgomaster of Frankfort proposed as
a toast tho Princes and Free Towns of Germany.
The Emperor of Austria replied in the following
terms :

" I take this opportunity of thanking the Senate
and citizens, in the name of the Princes assembled,
for the hospitable reception extended to us. I tkink
we cannot display
our gratitude to patriotically dis-
posed citizens in a more worthy manner than by
testifying, as
Princee, that we are all united in
hearty love to our common Fatherland. We are
all further united in best wishes for this memorable
town. The illustrious guests will joyfully drink