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

The following is from the .Richmond Enquirer of
July 18:

61 Charleston, July 16.

"We attacked part of the enemy's forces on
James Island this morning, and drove them to the
protection of their gunboats in the Stono, with a
small loss on both sides. The enemy is massing his
troops on Morris Island, evidently for another at-
tack on Battery Wagner to-night or tomorrow.
Three gunboats and mortar boats kept up an almost
constant fire all day on that work, with little damage
to it and few casualties. There has been heavy
skirmishing at Jackson, Mississippi, but nothing
important.
" To General S. Cooper."
The Charleston papers contain the following ac-
counts of the attack :

" Charleston, July 10.
" Firing on both sides at half-past six o'clock.
The principal fighting has been with battery
Wagner. Wagner, on Morris Island, had four
"Monitors" engaged from 5 till 2, when they with-
drew. A tugboat supplied them with ammunition
and they renewed at 3—infantry also fighting.

Several Yankees made two assaults upon hattery
Wagner, but were repulsed. Our casualties are
about 150 killed, wounded, and missing, includ-
ing three officers killed, to wit :—Captains Haskell
and Cheves, and Lieutenant Bell. It is supposed
that the attack will be renewed to-morrow.
"July 15.
" There was little change in the condition of

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affairs yesterday. Three of the enemy's wooden
gunboats kept up a slow shelling of Battery Wag-
ner all the afternoon, which was slowly replied to
by our guns at the battery and also at Fort Sumter.
It was reported in the city last evening that the
Yankees had been shelled from their position on
Black's Island by a battery of ours near Secession-
ville, but of this we have no confirmation up to the
time of our going to press. Four new vessels,
supposed to be mortarboats, had joined the enemy's
fleet yesterday. Governor Bonham has called for
3,000 negro labourers to work on the forifications."
President Davis had issued the following pro-
clamation "
Whereas, it is provided by an Act of Congress,
entitled " An Act to further provide for the Public
Defence," approvea the 16th day of April 1862,
and by another Act of Congress, approved the 27th
of September, 1862, entitled ' An Act to amend an
act to provide further tor the Public Defence,'
approved 16th of April, 1862, that the Presi-
dent be authorised to call out and place in the
military service of the Confederate States for three
years, unless the war should have been sooner
ended, all white men who are residents of the Con-
federate States between the ages of 18 and 45 years
at the time the call may be made, and who are not
at such time legally exempted from military ser-
vice, or such part thereof as in his judgment may
be necessary to the public defence.
"And whereas, in my judgment, the necessities
of the public defence require that every man capa.
ble of bearing arms between the ages aforesaid
should now be called out to do his duty in the de-
fence of his country, and in driving back the inva-
ders now within the limits of the Confederacy.
" Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President
of the Confederate States of America, do, by virtue
of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, call out
and place in the military service of the Confe-
derate States all white men residents of said States
between the ages of 18 and 45 years not legally
exempted from military service ; and I do hereby
order and direct that all persons subject to this call
and not now in the military service do, upon being
enrolled, forthwith repair to the conscript camps
established in the respective States of which they
may be residents, under pain of being held and
punished as deserters in the event of their failure to
obey this call, as provided in said laws.
"And I do further order and direct that the eh-
rolling officers of the several States proceed at once
to enrol all persons embraced within the terms of
this proclamation, and not heretofore enrolled.
"And I do further order that it shall be lawful
for any person embraced within this call to volun-
teer for service before enrolment, and that persons
so volunteering be allowed to select the arm of ser-
vice and the company which they desire to join,
provided such company
be deficient iu the full num-
ber of men allowed by law for its organisation.
" Given under my hand and the seal of the Confe-
derate States of America, at the city of Richmond,
this 15th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1863.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
"By the President.—J. P. BENJAMIN,
" Secretary of State."
From Tennessee we have the following :
" Memphis, Tennessee, July 17.
" Gen, Hurlbut's scouts arrived at Corinth to-day
from Decatur and Jacksonville. They report that
Bragg was retreating precipitately into Georgia,
followed by Rosencran's forces. Rosencran's ad-
vance was reported to be at Rome, Georgia. The
scouts report that Bragg was endeavouring to
make a junction with Johnstone, and that deser-
tions from his army were numerous."
The Confederates under Morgan were reported to
have been defeated in an attempt to cross the Ohio
on the 17th. He was last reported to be moving on
Gallipolis.
From the Mississippi Department we have the
following intelligence :
"Major-General Hurlbut telegraphs from Mem-
phis,
Thehis, July
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—at
Jackson, Tennessee, by Col. Hatch, on the 13th.
Their loss was 200 in killed, wounded, and priso-
ners, 400 conscripts released, and 250 horses taken,
with more than that number of arms."
JACKSON, July 10,
Gen. Johnstone this morning issued to the troops
the following battle order, which was read along the
line amid deafening shouts from the soldiery :
" Headquarters on the field, July 9.
" Fellow Soldiers—An insolent foe, flashed with
the hope by his recent success at Vicksburg, con-
fronts you, threatening the people, whose homes
and liberty you are here to protect, with plunder
and conquest. Their guns may even now be heard
as they advance. The enemy it is at once the duty
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