The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-02 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA,

(Per the City of New York.)

NEW YORK, MAY 23.

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President Lincoln has changed Vallandigham's
sentence of imprisonment in Fort Warren to trans-
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tribunals ; and, as it cannot be supposed that the
administration desires to escape the demands of the
law, the Post expects that Vallandigham will be
handed over to the civil authorities."
Vallandigham's arrest still causes the greatest
excitement throughout the Union.
Various reports arc current that President Jeffer-
son Davis is preparing to invade Maryland and
Pennsylvania early in the summer, and that for
this purpose troops are being withdrawn from the
sea coast to reinforce General Lee. The Pennsyl-
vanian authorities are urged to organise militia to
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Missouri,
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be prepared for such contingency.
Ten Federal regiments are reported to have ad-
vanced on Cumberland to invade East Tennessee.
The Southern papers think the mountains will prove
an inssperable barrier to their advance.
At Suffolk two Federal regimentsd ddwflredddiunpgona
each other by . mistake, killing an
large number. Two companies of Federal mounted
rifles were surprised and badly cut up by the Con-
federates.
The New York Tribune call upon President
Lincoln to issue a retaliation proclamation to pro-
tect coloured troops.
The Confederate Colonel Parker, commanding in
Jackson county, Missouri, has informed General
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Admiral Farragut has burned his flagship the Hart-
'ord.

Thomas Francis Meagher's resignation has been
accepted. Only half a regiment remains of the
whole Irish brigade.
The New York Municipality has proposed to
raise a million dollars to pay the exemption fees of
drafted working men.
The steamer Eugenie has been captured off
Mobile with arms from Havanna. The British
schooner Linnet has been captured.

(Per the City of New York.)

NEW YORK, MAY 23.
The political condition of affairs wears a t breaten-
ing aspect, owing to repressive measures of Federal
military appointees. The exasperation of the peo-
ple throughout the Western States, and denuncia-
tions of administrative measures by the democracy
in large Northern cities, are becoming louder. It
is freely asserted that the Administration purposes
to make the profession of political opinions the test
of loyalty.

The New York World says :—" If free speech
and free elections can be guaranteed, it is our duty
to await the next Presidential election for the resto-
ration of violated liberties. But if political action
is to be made a penal offence, there is danger that
the aroused indignation of the people will not await
the election, which without free discussion would
be an insulting farce.

A democratic State mass meeting has been held
at Indianapolis amid considerable excitement.
Speeches were made denouncing Vallandigham's
arrest, and the war measures of the Administration.
A military guard was kept patrolling the city in
the vicinity where the meeting was held. Forty
or fifty arrests were made for carrying concealed
weapons and shouting for Jefferson Davis. The
excursionists in several trains which left Indiana-
polis at night fired upon the soldiers. The home
military authorities stopped the trains, made nu-
merous arrests, and took 500 revolvers from the
Passengers.

The newspapers in all the Western cities are now
under military supervision, and in Indiana free
press discussion is entirely suppressed by General
Rasesll. Arrests in Washington are becoming

More numerous.

General Butler is in Washington, and it is sup-
posed that he will immediately receive a command.
The City of New York takes out 158,500 dols.,
and £3,386 in specie.

NEW YORK, MAY 23,

The accounts from Jackson and Vicksburg are Fo
confused and conflicting that it is impossible to
Judge what the situation really is at those important
posts.

It is certain that General Grant occupied Jack-
son on the 14th, and after destroying nearly the
entire
city, evacuated it the following day.
General Johnston officially reports that a portion
of General Grant's army attacked General Pember-
ton on the 16th near Edwards' Depot, and that
after some hours'
fighting Pemberton was compelled
to fall back behind Big Black River. Mobile
papers estimate General
Pemberton's loss in this
battle at 3,000,
and the enemy's loss at three times
as much. Confederate General Tilgham was killed.
It is stated that General Grant after leaving J ack-
son would proceed to Haines Bluff and secure the
Confederateescapingup the Yazoo River. trAnsports, to prevent the Confederates
The latest Murfreesboro despatches state that the
Confederates have evacuated Vicksburg and Pem-
berton, and marched out to attack Grant in the rear,.
whilst Johnston pushed him from the direction of
Jackson.

Other reports
say that General Grant had taken
says Gin.
P°BBessi°n of the most important railroad bridge
across Big Black River, cutting off the Confederate
communication with Vicksburg. Still another re-
portand Port Gibson, and that Gen. Johnston has taken
W Grant has been driven from Jackson
possession of the Jackson and Vicksburg railway.
It is supposed that the Federals have occupied
arrenton
The Federal mortar fleet has again bombarded
Port Hudson from below without material result.
, and destroyed Greenville, Mississippi.
The New Orleans Northern correspondents think
that Port Hudson is by this time evacuated, as
General Banks was to attack it from above with
the land forces and Porter's fleet, while Farragut s
fleet, with the land forces from Baton Rouge, at-
tacked it from below.
General B
auks's movements in the Tech° country