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

specie.

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
Louisiana, many planters will probably leave their
plantations.
The military authorities
will, there.
fore, he says, destroy all cotton they cannot pre-
serve from the enemy. The cotton
will be de-
stroyed only
when there is imminent danger of i
the evening capturing it.

NEW YORK, AuG. 7.
The siege of Charleston was progressing on the

4th inst.
The Baltimore correspondent of the New York
Herald says that by the middle of August General
Lee's army will be reinforced to number 150,000
men
timethat
not advanced, Lee will assume the
offensive,
move from Fredericksburg direct on
Alexandria by
way of Banks Ford, Dumfries, and
Occcquan, or else by way of Manassas Junction,
iar y wMeade
it
h a3no d 0
has
pieces of artillery ; and if bCentreville, and Fairfax to
—Arlington Heights.
The
been Richmondreif
no papers state that General Meade
has re
ed by 15,000 Men
from Grant's'

army.
Presidenty has appealed (as will he seen
b o
ers and soldiers to return im-
a e) t o
o ffi°

is at Enterprize and Brandon,
mediately to camp.
Mississippi. General Johnston has visited and in-
spected the Mobile defences.
There
is said to be much suffering among the
Johnston's army
people of Middle Tennessee.
The Maine Democratic State Convention has
passed strong resolutions
denouncing the course of
the Lincoln Administration.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, AUG. 7, EVENING.
Money easy. Gold, 27 per cent. pm. Exchange
on London, bankers' bills, 1392.
Stocks depressed. New York Centrals, 129;
Illinois, 119 q; Erie, 1052; Five per Cent. United
States Bonds, 1061,
Cotton, good inquiry, Middling upland, 67c.
Flour dull. Wheat depressed. Corn tending
downyv ards. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar
advancing. Molasses steady. Crude petroleum in
good demand at 34 to 35.

CONGRESS AT FRANKFORT.
FRANKFUIIT-UN-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 or 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 think
we cannot display our gratitude to patriotically dis-
posed citizens in a more worthy manner than by
as Princes, that we are all united in
inlgoVe to our common Fatherland. We are
hearty
Yyther united in best wishes for this memorable 1
tall:el:2:m Tile ithotrious gusto will joyfully drink 1

NEW YORK, AUG. 7 (Torning).
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 Grande 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 "settlers' 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
he 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 sitni-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
C?nfederate army, is which he says—`" After two
years of warfare the enemy continues a struggle, in
which our final triumph must bs 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 burled 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
and your country; victory is within your
grasp, you need but stretch forth your
hands to grasp it. yourselves, your families,
All that is necessary is that all
grant a general nardon and amnesty to all officers
should promptly repair to military duty, and I now
11 without delay, return
without leave, and who Elba
and men within the Confederacy who may be absent
to their duty; but no excuse will be received for
Davis finally conjures
clatnation." President
all the women of the Confederacy to use their in-
any delay beyond twenty days after this pro_fluence
in aiding
this call, and to take care that
1
'n the field shall be sheltered
none who owe duty