The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
(Arrival of the Jura.)

LONDONDERRY, Ang. 5 (Morning).

The Montreal Ocean steamship, Jura, from
Quebec on the 25th ult., arrived here at 1 a.m. to-
day. She brings 6,000 dole. in specie.

NEW YORK, July 24.

Washington despatches assert that Gen. Meade's
movements will prevent Lee getting back to Rich-
mond, or even as far as the upper end of the She-
nandoah Valley.

It is reported that Gen, Lee has been reinforced
by Gen. D. H. Hill with 10,000 men from Lower
Virginia.
The North Carolina Federal cavalry expedition
from Newbern has burned the railroad bridge over
the Tar River and 5,000 bales of cotton.

The Richmond Enquirer says there are mole than
100,000 men in the Confederacy who have hired
substitutes for military service, and if they are not
going to do more than this a levy en masse must be
made, and they must all be taken. The Enquirer
observes that immense crowds of foreigners tbrong
the provost marshal's office for passes to proceed
north. Their numbers would form a corps d'armee.
The .Enquirer urges the strengthening of the
military organisation, and the application of martial
law to the whole country, as in a state of siege
the abolition of substitution, exemption, and foreign:
protection; and a material enlargement of President
Davis's powers, to revise the election of officers, and
get rid of the incompetent.

Tne Enquirer says that the required stock for
,he Virginia Navy Company has been subscribed.

It approves of the scheme, as all captured goOds
can be brought into the Confederacy as well as
purchased goods, and there are other ways of dis-
posing of them, The company will send ships to
sea, which will wound the enemy in his vitals, with-
out loss of mac to the South. Though the great
Southern armies must be disintegrated, and the
South compelled to carry on a guerilla warfare—
which she is determined upon—if the worst comes
to the worst, so long as a spot can be held for the
Government to rest on, or even if it live as an
itinerant, a guerilla warfare on the ocean can be
waged, thus ensuring final triumph. The sea is
the best element for the South, as she has no com-
merce to harm, with the prospect of years of war.
Ships must be put to sea to the utmost of Southern
ability.

A meeting has been held at Montgomery, Ala-
bama, to organise the whole population for home
defence.

General Manry at Mobile has called all the able-
bodied men of the city and county to report for
duty in the defence against an attack from Grant's
army.

The mayor of Charleston has impressed all the
free and slave coloured population, between 18 and
60, to work on the defences at Morris island.

The people of Georgia are arming to resist Rosen
cranz, and Rome in being fortified.
. The citizens of Lynchburg, Virginia, are organic.
log for defence.

The Montgomery Advertiser says that Bragg's re-
treat from Tullahoma to Tennessee River is to be
regretted. It will cause much desertion, and
open the northern counties of Alabama and
Georgia to the incursions of the enemy. This
may not occur immediately, as Rosencranz may
intend to fight Bragg, but Bragg's position south
of Tennessee River will check Rosencranz's opera-
tions, and may hold him at bay for another six
months. Should Rosencranz's object be to avoid
a decisive engagement, he will certainly send his
cavalry to destroy the crops and create desola-
tion. Vicksburg having fallen, and Grant having
an army of 80,000 men, it will be impossible for
Johnston to oppose this army with any hope of suc-
cess, and as Johnston retires toward the Big Bee—
as it is supposed he will—Grant will close on John-
ston, and unite his forces with Rosencranz. There
will then be an army of 160,000 men on the soil of
Alabama. In face of these facts every man should
gird up his loins for fight, as it will be a struggle
for existence. All will be well if ♦igilance and
promptness are maintained, Alabama demands the
people's services, and they must rally and drive back
the invaders.
The Mobile Advertiser says that the fall of
Vicksburg has saved Johnston's army from being
cut to pieces, as during the night of the 4th
Johnston bivouacked on Big Black River, with
orders to move on Grant's entrenchments the
following morning. Before the morning news of
Pemberton's surrender was received. From what
has since been learned of Grant's position, it is now
known that if Johnstone's force had not been
doubled and trebled it could never have marched
through Grant's works. The country for miles was
covered with felled timber. Every gorge and
ravine was a fortified work bristling with cannon,
d would have been converted into a slaughter-
pen. It took the parolled officers at Vicksburg 15
hours to ride 15 miles through the felled timber and
around the excavations and embankments made by
the enemy. Johnstone was for unate in not attack-
ing, thus saving his army.
The Advertiser says that the Southern cause does
not look dark enough yet to justify those who are
ready to submit, and anxious for peace. The South
has made too many sacrifices for freedom to falter
in the last hour.
It is stated that coloured Corps d'Afrique, raised
in New Orleans, will garrison Port Hudson.
Admiral Farragut's squadron in the Mississippi
is preparing for an important expedition.
Previous to surrendering Port Hudson, General
Gardner issued an order, dated July Bth, to the
troops, telling them they had nobly performed their
duty of defence from May 21st to the time of sur-
render. Their cheerfulness, bravery, and zeal dur-
ing the hardships and sufferings of the long siege
never were surpassed, and every man could feel a
proud satisfaction that he had done his part in the
heroic defence of Port Hudson. The place is sur-
rendered at the last moment that it is proper to hold
it, and after a most gallant defence to several severe
attacks, in all of which the enemy had been signally
repulsed.
It is officially announced that the Federal debt
amounted, on the Ist July, to 197,000,000 dots.
It is rumoured that the major generalship vacant
in the United States army by the retirement of
Gen. Wood, will be tendered to Gen. Grant.
An extensive Federal expedition, which left
Newbern on the 18th, penetrated into North Caro-
lina, destroying bridges and railway communica-

tions.
Three hundred Confederates, who had planned
an attack upon a Federal fort six miles south of
Corinth, have been surprised and captured.
The United States District Court has confirmed
a decree of the Lower Court condemning the
steamer Ella Warley and cargo, and the brig Delta
and cargo ; the court has also confirmed the deci-
sion condemning the barque General Greene, and
restoring the cargo. The decision of the Lower
Court, condemning the barque Empress and cargo
has been reversed,

NEW YORK, July 24, Evening.

A spirited resistance to the draft is manifested
in Maryland. The barns of the enrolling officers
have been burned and their residences attacked.
The New York Herald still urges President
Lincoln to enlist the sympathy of all men Nortu
and South, by declaring an intention to drive the
English from Canada, and the French from
Mexico.
The ship George Griswold has been captured and
bonded by the Georgia for £lOO,OOO.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,
Money easy. Gold, 241- per cent. premium,
Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 139. Stocks
buoyant. New York and Centrals, 124 k. Illinois,
110-1. Erie, 100. Six per Cent. United States
Bonds, 1051.

NEW YORK, July 25 (Morning).

The New York World says :—" General Meade's
army has Cr'4l3ed the Potomac near Harper's Ferry,
and has moved down the last side of Blue Ridge,
upon the theory that Gen. Lee was rapidly retreat-
ing out of the Shenandoah Valley, on the west side
of the mountains. But Gen. Meade found Lee