The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

MONMOUTH RACES—THuRsDAy.

The County Members' Plate (Handicap) of 30 suvs, added
to a sweepstakes of 5 sous each, &c. One mile. 12
subs.

Marquis of 11a.tings's 03ine, 3 yrs, Sat 21b (Judd) 1
Mr. Barnett's Zingari, 6 yrs. Sat 81b (Langston) 2
Mr. J. Adams's Northam, 5 yrs, Sit Sib (J. Ilolraan) 3

Betting-2 to lon Odine.

Won by six lengths ; two lengths between second and
third.

Thm Beaufort Cup (Handicap), of 10 sous each, 5 ft, with a
piece of plate added by the Duke of Beaufort. One mile
and a quarter. 20 subs, 7 declared.

Mr. Morris's Balham, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (Judd) 1
Mr. Brayley's Golden Dust, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Cannon) 2
Mr. F. Rowlands' Doncaster, 6 yrs, Bst .. (A. Edwards) 3
Ripon and Trumps also ran.
Betting-2 to lon Balham, 3to 1 agst Golden Dust.
Won by two lengths ; a length between second and
third.

The Kymin Stakes of 5 sots each, 2ft to the fund, for 2-
yr-olds, with 50 added. 6 furlongs. 14 subs.
Lord Uxbridge's Vabalathus, Bst 51b .... (A. Edwards) 1
Duke of Beaufort's Esperance, Bst 71b (Judd) 2
Mr. Redliff's Cranbury, Bst 101 b
Betting-6 to 4on Cranbury, 7to 4 agst Vabalathus, sto
2 agst Esperance.
Won by two lengths ; a length between second and
third.

The Monnow Stakes of 3 soya each, with 20 added ; weight
for age ; selling and other allowances. 6 furlongs.
Mr. Morgan's Cosette, 2 yrs, sst 121 b
Lord Uxbridge's Lady Constance filly, 2 yrs, sst 12ib
(G. Sopp) 2
Mr. Knight's Nathalie, 2 yrs, Est 121 b (Deacon) 3

Merry Widow also ran.
Betting-6 to son Nathalie, 2to 1 agst Lady Constance
filly, 5 to 2 agst Cosette.
Won by two lengths ; half a length between second and
third. The winner was bought in for 110 guineas.
The Chippenham Stakes of 10 sovs each, sft, and 2 if
declared, with 50 added; winners extra. 6 furlongs.
20 subs.

Mr. F. Jacob's Lufra, 3 yrs, Sst 91b .... (Maidment) 1
Mr. J. Powney's Lady Williams, 2 yrs. 7st 21b (Deacon) 2
Mr. Brayley's Golden Dust, 3 yrs, Bst 91b .... (Cowley) 3
Mr. F. Rowlands's Doncaster, 6 yrs, 9at 1110
(A. Edwards) 0
Betting—Even on Lufra, 6 to 2 agst Lady Williams.
Won by a head ; a neck between second and third.
The Troy Plate (Handicap) of 2:5 soya, added to a sweep-
stakes of 5 .sovs each, 2 ft to the fund ; certain penalties
and allowances. 1 mile and a half. 10 subs.

Mr. Adam's Wortham, 5 yrs, lOst (Mr. Williams) 1
Mr. Brayley's Tonio, 5 yrs, lOst 121 b
Mr. E. Herbert's Whitehall, 3 yrs, 9st 71b (J. Holman) 3
Betting-2 to lon Wortham.
Won by three lengthf ; two lengths between second and
third.

WALSALL RACES-ThURSDAY.

The Hurdle Race Handicap of 3 sous each, with 20 added;

winners extra. Two miles.

Mr. Hunt's Jacob, 6 yrs, 12st (including 71b extra) 1
Captain Moss's Portland, 6 yrs, lOst 2
Mr. E. Jacobs' Nereus, aged, lOst 21b
The Nursery handicap of 3 sous each, with 30 added

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

CANTERBURY RAC ES—This DAY.

CITY PLATE,

Fletton
Flying Spur ............... 2
Physician ............... 3
EAST KENT II A NDICAP.

Little Dick
Michel Grove . 1
Spitfire Kitty
3

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THE CONFEDERATE STATES.

(Front. J.-the Special Correspondent of the Titnes.)

RICHMOND, Aug. 29.

The r.lecr:ching enervating heats of such an August
as has be ,n unsurpassed in caloric for 20 years, the
natural fatigue and reaction which follow excess of
effort suelh as on both sides was lavished during the
three days of battle of Gettysburg, the dispersion in
the emst of General Grant's victorious unit of an
army along 1,000 miles of river and in 20 different
posts which he has no choice but to garrison, the
rene wed assumption by the. Confederate armies in
ever y quarter of a generally defensive policy, the
abs orbing interest with which in both sections the
op, orations against Charleston are watched, have
conspired for the last seven weeks to impose upon
the, hosts which for 1,500 miles face each other in
ha We array the necessity for maintaining what has
men on both sides regarded as a masterly inactivity.
ilut there are not wanting signs that the next few
-weeks will witness a change of attitude. In Vir-
ginia, where it is always more than usually
hazardous to try and read the future, there do not
seem to be indications that General Lee, who is
more than ever lord of the ascendant, contemplates
an immediate advance, Nothing material would
apparently be gained by his driving the Federals
pell-mell into their works at Washington, and it is
doubtful whether a fight other than from behind the
Washington breastworks could be got out of General
Meade, unless General Lee again crossed the Poto-
mac and entered Maryland. In the west there is
promise of an early battle between the forces which
near Chattreuooga and Knoxville obey Generals
Bragg and. Buckner, and those which are marshalled
against them under Generals Itosecrans and
33urnsid.e. The other Western Confederate army is
at Morton, patiently undergoing reorganization at
the hands of General Hardee, and has suffered par-
tial eclipse by reason of its recent reverse at Vicks-
burg, and of the interest which attaches at this
moment to a Court of Inquiry now engaged at
Atlanta in investigating the causes which led to
the fall of Vicksburg, and likely, as it seems, to
elicit some curious disclosures. In order to attend
this court, Generals Johnstone, Pemberton, Loring,
and others are for the moment detached from their
several commands, and at present unconnected with
the operations in the field of the western armies. As
for the trans-Mississippi troops, the occasional re-
velations of their movements furnished by the mis-
tiest of telegrams resemble the transparent haze at
sea through which the mariner sees false icebergs
and imaginary headlands, and which is more dan-
gerous and misguiding than profoundest darkness
itself. Little more is known than that Generals
Kirby Smith and Price are active and enterprising;
but such is the ignorance of Washington and Rich-
mond in regard to the true condition of affairs in
Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, and 'Western Louisiana
that the dim chronicles of Northern and Southern
writers who profess to give information about these
xeinote regions must be received with as many grains
of salt as Niebuhr sprinkles over the funeral eulo-
gies and family narratives which are our principal
guides to much of the history of the first few cen-
turies of Rome.
CDA.IILESTON AND EASTERN TENNESSEE.

The principal points of interest for the moment
are Charleston and Eastern Tennessee. In the
latter district the Federals have two large armies
in the field—the first under General Rosecrans,
who for eight months has shunned any renewal of
the terrible engagement which at Murfreesborough
inaugurated a celebration of Christmas sadly at
variance with the doctrines of peace and good-
will inculcated by that festive season ; the second,
under General Burnside, who, at the head, as is re-
ported, of 30,000 men, is descending from Southern
Kentucky and threateniog General Buckner and
the slender force with which he holds Knoxville and
Tennessee. Modest and unassuming, as are all
the best cfficers of the Confederacy, calm and
sagacious, and well instructed in his trade of
si-llcier and military engineer, much beloved and
admired in his native State of Kentucky, tenacious
and enduring, General Buckner will greatly dis-
appoint his many friends in the Confederacy if
he does not prove himsolf fully equal to his oppor-
tunity, which sec MS at hand, and maintain the high
reputation which he gained at Fort ;nelson, by
ntholing to his pest and being taken prisoner whert
associate Generals Raved themselves by a night
retreat. It may be mentioned en passant that the
statements with which Federal journals, especially
in the West, have lately teemed, to the cffect that
M.-figg's army is very weak, its morale bad, and its
numbers thinned by desertion, are just the reverse
of the truth. Officers of character and position who
are fresh from the scene of action speak enthusias-
tically of the temper and condition of Gen. Bragg's
army. -With some considerable experience of the
Northern press and its antics during the progress
of this war, I have never observed it more reckless
and unscrupulous in its statements than during the
last six weeks. Honourable exceptions are of course
to be found among the multitudinous journals of
this continent, and conspicuous among them is the
New Yolk TVorld, which has secured respect even
in the South by reason of its superior regard for
veracity. But the assumption by most of the organs
of Northern opinion, that the rebellion is staggering
on its last legs, and that hope has bid farewell to
the breasts of men like President Davis and Gen.
Lee (both of whom I have never seen in better
spirits than during the present week), is a contri-
bution to history such as at the end of the last great
war between England and France was furnished by
a French publication entitled Tables du Temple de
la Gloire, which consisted of a catalogue raisonne
of all Frenchmen who thought they had distin-
guished themselves in the course of that war. It
was obvious that in many instances the articles
were contrib•ated by the persons who were the heroes
of them, aid it is no less obvious that the corres-
Pondenta of divers Northern journals, especially in
the West, take their inspiration and gain their facts
from the Generals with whom they are living, and
of Whose hospitality they are perhaps permitted to
Partake. If at the beginning of the last century
fir Robert Walpole's famous apophthegm about the
leeessary falseness of history could not be repressed,
what would he have said in the present day, when
the materials for his history are such as I have de-
scribed.

The troth,
as seen by those who reside in the
heart of the
Confederacy,t is, in reality, as follows.
Never, from b
moment when the fall of Fort
Sumter inaugurated, in April, 1861, this colossal
civil war up tott
present hour were the spirit and
temper of Southern
this rti
.s resistance more keen and ex-
asperated than
moment. There have been
times during the protess of the struggle when, for
; appl
various reason :ion has weighed heavily
upon the minds of the h
ianttrebelliou's pilots. No
one is DOWignorant, ignorant, for
first six or eight mouths et talie m, that during the
conflict there was
not enough gunpowder at app of
to have supplied the demands ore Southern ports
for three 4hours. At Present vi:f.a.single battery
the case ?
Without entering into minute particulars
enough to state that there are threears, it will be
dermills
actively at work in the Confederacy, eP,I7
that the
daily supply of powder exacted for the Confederate
armies in the field and for the seaports, which are
defensively occupied, is fully furnished by two
of
these mills whereas the third and 'Largest has been
for m '
many months past engaged in manufacturing
d
SUPeriltioUS po
vg er, which has now grown into a
large reserved stock, and is being daily and rapidly
increased. Take another item. There have been mo-
ments when the supply of small arms has been much
less than the demand,-I supply
the consequent inconveni-
ence has been greatreaders that in the
first h
It will be remembered by your
at Vicksburg, Port uudtsilf of July prisoners of war
:ti to ' and Gettysburg, were
captured by the Federal
the extent of nearly
50,000 men. It is true that at a
as many Federals were capturedt Gettysburg at least
by the Confederates
as Confederates by the Federals ;
but, so far as the
present argument is concerned, this fact is nihil ad
rem. Trier° were lost to the Confederates in the
first half of July no less than 50,000 muskets.
reader will be surprised to learn that fully this
The
amount of muskets has during the last
seven weeks
been successfully introduced through the blockade,
to say nothing of cannon and multitudinous
other
supplies of all kinds. It may be conceived what are
are
the chances of subduing a rebellion in a country
which not only possesses all the resources of the

Confederacy but also sucks in supplies to any ex-
tent from beyond sea. Nor does the possibility of
the fall of Charleston (which, though little believed
in at this moment at Richmond, is still a possibility)
affect the question. In the first place, Wilmington,
Mobile, Savannah, and Galveston, have still to be
reduced ; and it is believed that two out of these
four places will defy the utmost malice of the Fe-
deral& Secondly, along the whole southern coast,
from the capes of the Chesapeake to the Rio Grande,
there are altogether 189 ports and inlets, of which
only an infinitesimal proportion has fallen into the
hands of the Federals. What chance is there of
such a oountry being effectually and altogether cut
off from receiving the slender supplies which she
requires to keep her alive, and supply all that is
requisite for her resistance ? Let those who have
misgivings about the future, in case Wilmington
and Charleston should fall, attend one of the large
auction sales of blockade goods which take place
every morning in this city, and examine how much
weaker for resistance the Confederate States
would be if the supply of such goods were perma-
nently cut off. It is not for a moment denied that
some communication with the exterior world is
vitally necessary for the Confederacy ; but such
communication need only be slender and infrequent,
and from such communication it is impossible that
Secession can be cut off.