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-
lunteer organisation, and ordered them to return
their 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 Wagner. 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 ebo*e City Poi Lt.

General Meade's army has crossed the Potomac
in pursuit of General Lee, who is retreating by
Strasburg and Staunton.

Gen. 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
Gen. Johnston.

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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 11, inder 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

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.

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, 1381. Stocks
very firm. New York Centrals, 1221; Illinois,
1091; Etie, 991 ; 6 per cent. United States Bonds,
1054. 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.

The following is from the Richmond _Enquirer of
July 18:

ig 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.
There Three gunboats and mortar boats kept up an almost
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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—infan try also fighting.
Several Yankees made two assaults upon Battery
Wagner, but were repulsed. Our casualties are
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that the attack will be renewed to-morrow.

"July 15.
"There was little change in the condition of
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-
vine, but of this we have no confirmation up to the
time of our going to press. Four new vessels,
supposed to be mortarbeats, 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," approved. 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 for 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.
" New, 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 en-
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 in 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, July 17, to the War Department as follows:
' The enemy's cava'ry was sharply punished 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, flushed 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
and the mission of you brave men to chastise and
expel from the soil of the Mississippi. The com-
manding general confidently relies on you to sustain
his pledge, which he makes in advance, and he Will
be with you in the good work even unto the end.
The vice of straggling he begs you to shun and frown
on. If n eeds be, it will be checked by the most sum-

mary 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 bopes,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 crisis of its destiny
that every man will do his duty."
General Johnstone orders all pillagers to be shot.
The guard will shoot them Wierever 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,
mart' 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.