The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1863,

AMERICA.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

QUEENSTOWF, AUG, 1.

The royal mail steam-ship Asia, from Boston on
the 22d, and Halifax on the 24th ult., arrived here
at 9.30 p.m. She brings 130 passengers and
219,351 dols. The Asia landed 140 sacks of mails
and 7 passengers, and proceeded at ten o'clock for
Liverpool. All well.

NEW YORK, JULY 20 (Evening).

New York is quiet,
Governor Seymour has disbanded the citizen vo-
unteer organisation, and ordered them to return

,heir arms.

Confederate official reports from Charleston to
the 16th inst. announce that the Federals have been
driven from James Island to their gunboats in the
Stone River.

The Federals are massing troops upon Morris
Island for another attack on Fort Wegner. Three
monitors and mortar-boats kept up a constant fire
on Fort Wagner, but did little damage. The
Charleston papers assert that the city will be
defended street by street.
The Southern papers report severe fighting to
have taken place at Jackson from the 10th to the
16th inst. Jackson is much damaged by the Fede-
ral shells, which were continually thrown into the

town.
The Federal loss in killed amounts to 400 men,
including General Osterhaus.
Preparations are being made to attack Fort Dar-
ling, upon the James River. The Federal fleet has
passed above City Point.
General Meade's army has crossed the Potomac
in pursuit of General Lee, who is retreating by
Strasburg and Staunton.
Geo. Gregg has encountered Gen. Stuart's cavalry,
10,000 strong, between Shepherdstown and Martins.
burg. An obstinate fight ensued, Gen. Gregg hold-
ing his ground, but suffering heavy losses.
Gen. Blunt is reported to have captured Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Gen. Banks is marching upon Brashear City.
The advance under Gen. Rosecrans is stated to
have reached Rome, Georgia.
Gen. Bragg is marching to effect a junction with
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President Davis has issued a proclamation order-
ing all men between the ages of 18 and 45 to repair
to the conscript camps.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Capt. Winder have been
imprisoned in the casemates of Fort Monroe.
Notice has been given to the Confederate Govern-
ment that if the two Federal officers selected in
Richmond are executed, Lee and Winder will be
executed in retaliation.
The New York Herald asserts that the conscrip-
tion will be enforced, not to put down the rebellion,
but to meet the threats of England, and the Govern-
ment is determined no longer to suffer privateers to
be fitted out in that country.
At the request of the French Consul the collec-
tor at San Francisco has refused to permit blasting
power to be shipped to Acapulco.
The steamer Kate has been destroyed off Wil-
mington.
The Hansa, City of London, and Africa have
arrived out.
NEW YORK, JULY 21 (Evening).
General Shackleford officially reports that he
chased General Morgan over 50 miles, bringing
him to a stand, when a fight ensued, lasting an
hour. At the expiration of that time the rebels
fled, taking refuge upon a high bluff.. General
Shackleford demanded the immediate and uncon •
ditional surrender of Morgan and his forces. The
rebels surrendered, with the exception of Morgan,
who deserted his command, taking with him a
small squadron. General Shackleford captured
1,500 to 2,000 prisoners.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, July 21 (Evening).
Money easy. Gold 26 per cent. premium. Stocks
inactive. New York Centrals 120, Illinois 1074,
Erie 988, 6 per Cent. United states Bonds 105-1.
(By Telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, July 22 (Morning).
The battle has been renewed at Charleston by
the land and naval forces, and was progressing on
the 17th.
General Janman (?) has been removed for making
a premature attack on Jackson, in which he was re-
pulsed with the loss of 300 men.
General Sherman continues to besiege Jackson,
which Johnston defends with 30,000 men.
The Federals at Milliken's Bend and Lake Pro-
vidence are suffering from sickness.
The Federals occupied Yazoo City on the 13th,
capturing 250 prisoners. The Confederates have
burned numerous steamers up the Yazoo. A fleet of
Federal transports has ascended the Red River.
It is officially announced that if the evidence of
aliens claiming exemption is not satisfactory to the
draught commissioners, they will refer the case to
the State Department for decision, and will suspend
action until it decides the question:
(Latest by telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, July 23 (Evening).
The New York Herald urges the Government to
grant the Confederates all their rights under the
constitution, and at once proclaim war against
France and England,
General Grant reports from Vicksburg on the
18th that Johnston evacuated Jackson on the night
of the 16th. He retreated eastward.
Gen. Sherman says that most of Johnston's army
must perish from heat, lack of water, and general
discouragement. He continues—" The army paroled
have, to a great extent, deserted, and are scattered
over the country. I sent General Heron to Yazoo
city. Five guns, many stores, and 300 prisoners
were captured. Gen. Ransom was sent to Natchez
to stop the crossing of cattle for the eastern army.
Ransom captured a number of prisoners and 5,000
Texan cattle. In Louisiana more prisoners and a
number of teams loaded with ammunition were
taken. Over two million rounds of ammunition
were brought back with the captured teams to
Natchez."
Unofficial accounts state that a portion of Gen.
Sherman's army has occupied Jackson, and the re-
mainder has returned to V. k b s urg.
Gen' Lee, Who held a position between Martins-
burg and Winchester, moved rapidly this morning
in the direction of
Winchester. Gen. Ewell, who
had moved in the •
direction of Cumberland, also fell
back and followed Lee.
The correspondent of the New York Tribune says
that Gen. Lee no longer presents the aspect of pre-
cipitate retreat, but assumes a bold and even threat-
ening attitude.
There is an increased bodyof
Confederate cavalry
near Harper's Ferry, supported
by two regiments
of infantry.
Gen. Meade'e army is 35 miles south of Berlin ;
the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge between
Lee's and Meade's armies.
General Kelly, who was superintending ' the
con•
struction of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was
driven back by the Confederates 15 miles from
North Mountain to Hancock. The encounter of
Gregg's cavalry with the Confederates is said to
have been a Federal disaster.
It is reported from Washington that the object
of gunboats ascending James River was not to at.
taek Fort Darling.
Gen. Morgan, with 500 men, was endeavouring
to cross the Ohio River into Virginia.
It is supposed the draft in New York will recom-
mence next week. Coloured men will not be
accepted as substitutes for white drafted men.
The Mayor of New York has offered a reward of
500 dole. for the apprehension of any person who
committed murder or arson during the late riots.
A subscription has been opened for the relief of
coloured people.
The New York municipality has resolved upon

passing an appropriation for drafted men in oppo-
sition to the mayor's veto.

The Brooklyn municipality has proposed an ap-
propriation for drafted men.

The Hon. W. Whiting proceeds to Europe by
the Asia as the accredited agent of the Federal
Government to the European Courts, and as legal
adviser to the Federal Ministers in England and
France in reference to important matters. His
mission is said to have direct reference to the
fitting out of privateers.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, July 23 (Evening).
Money easy. Gold, 254 per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London ; banker's bills, 1384-. Stocks
very firm. New York Centrals, 1229; Illinois,
10947 Elie, 999; 6 per cent. United States Bonds,
1051. Cotton improving ; middling upland, 64c.
Flour quiet ; wheat and corn good inquiry. Pro-
visions dull; coffee quiet ; sugar and molasses very
firm. Crude petroleum firm and advancing.

MEXICO.
(Per the Asia.)
NEW YORK, July 22 (Morning).

The New York papers publish news from the city
of Mexico, via San Francisco, to the Ist inst., stat-
ing that the Mexican army was hovering around
Mexico in detachments.

wary remedies. The telegraph has announced a
glorious victory over the foe, won by your noble com-
rades of the Virginian army on Federal soil; may he
not with redoubled hopes,count on you,while defend-
ing your firesides and household gods, to emulate the
proud example of your brothers in the east ? The
country expects in this the great erisis of its destiny
that every man will do his duty."
General Johnstone orders all pillagers to be shot.
The guard will shoot them w‘lerever found.
" Jackson, July 12.

" The conduct of Cobb's (Kentucky) battery and
the Washington Artillery is spoken of highly by
the commanding-general in the affair this morning,
also Stovall's Florida brigade. The banners cap-
tured are those of the 28th, 41st, and 53d Illinois
Regiments. General Breckinridge sent an infir•
mary corps to bring off the enemy's wounded ; their
sharpshooters fired on them. Breckenridge ordered
the corps to the rear. Their wounded and dead are
still lying in front of our works. The enemy's loss
in the charge of Sunday was fully 1,000.

" July 13.

"It rained hard last night. It is cloudy this
morning, and there has been but little firing on
either side. The enemy has six batteries in posi-

tion, plainly visible from the State-house. Our
troops are much elated since the success of yester-
day. Nothing of importance has transpired to-day.
The status is unchanged, The Vicksburg prisoners
will be at Brandon to-morrow.

" July 14 (via Mobile, July 15).

" General Johnstone sent a flag of truce to-day to
General Grant, asking permission to bury the
Yankee dead in front of our works. Grant asked
permission to send assistance, in order to recognise
the dead, which was refused.

MR, VALLANDIGHAM'S ADDRESS.

The following address from Mr. Vallandigham to
the people of Ohio was received by the last mail
"NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA WEST, July 15.
" Arrested and confined for three weeks in the United
States, a prisoner of State ; banished thence to the Confede-
rate States, and there held as an alien enemy and prisoner
of war, though on parole; fairly and honourably dealt with
and given leave to depart, an act possible only by running
the blockade at the hazard of being fired upon by ships fly-
ing the flag of my own country, I found myself first a free-
man when on British soil. And to-day, under protection
of the British flag, I am here to enjoy and in part to exercise
the privileges and rights which usurpers insolently deny me
at home. The shallow contrivance of the weak despots at
Washington and their advisers has been defeated. Nay, it
has been turned against them ; and I, who for two years
was maligned as in secret league with the Confederates,
having refused when in their midst, under circumstances
the most favourable, either to identify myself with their
cause or even so much as to remain, preferring rather exile in
a foreign land, return now with allegiance to my own State
and Government, unbroken in word, thought, or deed, and
with every declaration and pledge to you while at home, and
before I was stolen away, made good in spirit and to the
very letter. Six weeks ago, when just going into banish-
ment, because an audacious but most cowardly despotism
caused it, I addressed you as a fellow-citizen. To-day, and
from the very place then selected by me, but after wearisome
and most perilous journeyings for more than 4,000 miles by
land and upon the sea, still in exile, though almost in sight
of my native State, I greet you as your representative.
Grateful certainly I am for the confidence in my integrity
and patriotism implied by the unanimous nomination as
candidate for Governor of Ohio which you gave me while I
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iwttioasnshs yailenitntienimveterhsbelike these. I ask no personal sympathy for
the personal wrong. No ; it is the cause of constitutional
liberty and private right, cruelly outraged beyond example
in a free country, by the President and his servants, which
gives public significancy to the action of your convention.
Yours was, indeed, an act of justice to a citizen who for
his devotion to the rights of the States and the liberties of
the people had been marked for destruction by the hand of
arbitrary power. But it was much more. It was an example
of courage worthy of the heroic ages of the world ; and it was
a spectacle and a rebuke to the usurping tyrants who, having
broken up the Union, would now strike down the Constitu-
tion, subvert your present Government and establish a for-
mal and proclaimed despotism in its stead. You are the
restorers and defenders of constitutional liberty, and by that
proud title history will salute you. I congratulate you upon
your nominations. They whom you have placed upon the
ticket with me are gentlemen of character, ability, integrity,
and tried fidelity to the Constitution, the Union, and to
Liberty. Their moral and political courage—a quality
always rare, and now the most valuable of public virtues—
is beyond question. Every way all these were nominations
fit to be made. And even jealousy, lam sure, will now be
hushed, if I especially rejoice with you in the nomination
of Mr. Pugh as your candidate for lieutenant-governor
and President of the Senate. A scholar and a gentleman, a
soldier in a foreign war, and always a patriot ; eminent as a
lawyer, and distinguished as an orator and a statesman, I hail
his acceptance as an omen of the return of the better and
more virtuous days of the Republic. I endorse your noble
platform—elegant in style—admirable in sentiment. You
present the true issue, and commit yourself to the great
mission just now of the Democratic party—to restore and
make sure first the rights and liberties declared yours by
your Constitutions. It is vain to invite the States and
people of the South to return to a Union without a Consti-
tution, and dishonoured and polluted by repeated and most
aggravated exactions of tyrannic power. It is base in your-
selves and treasonable to your posterity to surrender these
liberties and rights to the creatures whom your own breath
created and can destroy. Shall there be free speech, a free
press, peaceable assemblages of the people, and a free ballot
any longer in Ohio ? Shall the people hereafter, as hitherto,
have the right to discuss and condemn the principles and
policy of the party—the Ministry—the men who for the time
conduct the Government—to demand of their public servants
a reckoning of their stewardship, and to place other men and
another party in power at their supreme will and pleasure ?
Shall order 38 or the Constitution be the supreme law of
the land ? And shall the citizen any more be arrested by an
armed soldiery at midnight, dragged from wife and child
and home to a military prison; thence to a mock military
trial; thence condemned, and then banished as a felon for
the exercise of his rights ? This is the issue, and nobly you
have met it. It is the very question of free, popular go-
vernment itself. It is the whole question—upon the one
side liberty, on the other despotism. The President, as the
recognised head of his party, accepts the issue. Whatever
he wills, that is law. Constitutions, State and Federal, are
nothing ; acts of legislation nothing, the judiciary less than
nothing. In time of war there is but one will supreme—his
will but one law, military necessity, and he the sole judge.
Military orders superesde the Constitution, and military
commissions usurp the place of the ordinary courts of justice
in the land. Nor are these mere idle claims. For two years
and more, by arms, they have been enforced. It was the
mission of the weak but presumptuous Burnside—a name
infamous for ever in the ears of all lovers of constitutional
liberty—to try the experiment in Ohio, aided by a Judge
whom I name not, because he has brought foul dishonour
upon the judiciary of my country. In your hands now, men
of Ohio, is the final issue of the experiment. The party of
the Administration have accepted it. By pledging support
to the President, they have justified nis outrages upon
liberty and the Constitution; and whoever gives his vote
to the candidates of that party commits himself to every
act of violence and wrong on the part of the Administration
which he upholds ; and thus, by the law of retaliation,
which is the law of might, would forfeit his own right to
liberty, personal and political, whensoever other men and
another party shall hold the power. Much more do the
candidates themselves. Suffer them not, I entreat you, to
evade the issue ; and by the judgment of the people:we will
abide. And now, finally, let me ask, what is the pretext forh
all the monstrous acts and claims of arbitrary power which
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you have so nobly denounced ? ' Military necessity.'
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then, believe me,
perpetual. For if this civil war is to
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live to see the end of
arms, the infant of to-day will not.the
brought to a close.
your liberties are
it. No, in another way only candt
more, through nearly
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and sojourning for a
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to the pressure of arm ,
and must be the varying fortune
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of the war, in all which .
pointing vialperish rather than yield
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med any one, whatever his opinions or his station, poli-
tical or private, who did not declare his readiness, when the
war shall have ceased and ingading armies been withdrawn,
to consider and discuss the question of reunion. And who
shall doubt the issue of the argument ? I return, there-
' visibly toratehetruultthi
there-
fore, with my opinions and convictions as to war or peace,
and my faith as to the final results from sound policy d
wise statesmanship, not only unchanged, but confirmed and
strengthened. And may the God of heaven and earth so