The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-23 00:00:00

FEDERAL VANDALISM.

Jacksonville is in ruins. That beautiful city, which hag
been for so many years the favourite resort for invalids from
the North, has to day (March 28) been burnt to the ground,
and, what is sad to record, by the soldiers of the national
army. Scarcely a mansion, a cottage, a negro hut, or a
warehouse remains. The long lines of magnificent oaks,
green and beautiful, with the thickest foliage, the orange
groves perfuming the air with their blossoms, the syca-
mores, the old century plants adorning every garden, the
palmetto and bayonet trees, ever tropical in verdure, the
rose and the jessamine—all that at this season, indeed, I
might say through all seasons, has made Jacksonville a
little Eden, has been burned, and scorched, and crisped, If
not entirely consumed to ashes, by the devouring flames.
I am now writing on the deck of the fine transport ship the
Boston. Three gunboats—the Paul Jones, the Norwich,
and the John Adams—are lying out in the river, with guns
shotted, ready to fire the moment a rebel appears in sight.
The transport vessels—the Boston, the Delavan, the Gen.
Meigs, the Tillie, and the Cossack—are at the wharfs filled
with troops. All are on board, except about 200 of the
6th Connecticut, who are on picket duty. Three blank
shots from the Paul Jones have just been fired, as a signal
for them to come in. From this upper deck the scene pre•
sented to the spectator is one of the most fearful magnifi-
cence. On every side, from every quarter of the city, dense
clouds of black smoke and flame are bursting through the
mansions and warehouses. A fine south wind is bloW•
ing immense blazing cinders right into the heart of the city.
The beautiful Spanish moss, drooping so gracefully from
the long avenues of splendid old oaks, has caught fire, and
as far as the eye can reach through these once pleasant
streets nothing but sheets of flame can be seen, running up
with the rapidity of lightning to the tops of the trees and
then darting off to the smallest branches. The whole city,
mansions, warehouses, trees, shrubbery and orange groves
—all that refined taste and art through many years have
made beautiful and attractive—are being lapped up and de.-
voured by this howling fiery blast. One solitary woman, a
horse tied to a fence between two fires, and a lean, half-
starved dog, are the only living inhabitants to be seen in
the streets. Fifty families, most of them professing Union
sentiments, have been taken on board the transports, and
provided with such accommodation as the tuba will afford.
I send a list herewith. Some of them have been able to
save a bed and a few chairs, but most of them have nothing
in the world but the clothes upon their backs. Is not this
war, vindictive, unrelenting war ? Have we not gotten up to
the European standard ? Yesterday, the beautiful little cot-
tage used as the Catholic parsonage, together with the
church, was fired by the soldiers, and in a short time burnt
to the ground. Before the flames had fairly reached the
church the soldiers burst open the doors, and commenced
sacking it of everything of value. The organ was in a ref).
meat torn to strips, and almost every soldier who came out
seemed to be celebrating the occasion by blowing through
an organ pipe. To-day the same spectacle has been re-
peated, only upon a much grander scale. There must have
been some understanding among the incendiaries with re'
gard to the conflagration. At 8 o'clock the flames burst from
several buildings in different parts of the city, and at a later
hour still more were fired. The wind then rose to a stiff
gale, and the torch of the incendiary became unnecessary
to increase the fire. The only mansions of any value left
standing as we move down the river are the elegant maw
sions of Colonel Sanderson and Judge Burritt, both rebels
and scoundrels of the deepest dye. Why so much property
known to belong to Union men should have been destroyed
and the mansions of those notorious rebels left standing it
is hard to understand. It gives me pleasure to report that
the negro troops took no part whatever in the perpetration
of this vandalism. They had nothing whatever to do with
it, and were simply silent spectators of the splendid but
sad spectacle. The 6th Connecticut charge it upon the Bth
Maine, and the Bth Maine hurl it back upon the 6th Con'
necticut.—.Yew York Tribune.

COUNTRY MARKETS.


NEWARK—WEDNESDAY.
Wheat in moderate demand to -day, at about previollo
prices. Barley scarce. Beans and oats as before.
White wheat new, 45s to 54s Barley, grinding..2Bs to 319
Red do. 44s to 48s Oats, old, .. 3os to -"II
Old white —s to —s New do
Red do. --s to —s 1 Beans..
Barley, malting.... 37s to 43s 1 Beans, new
Peas, .... 33s to 38s, 342
533
sss
too
000
342
866
0:

HULL—TUESDAY.
A small supply of English wheat to-day, which wal)
taken off by local millers at prices generally the same 90
last week. Foreign was quite neglected. Barley of choiq
quality supports last week's currency, but seconds decline('
Is per qr. Beans and peas a slow sale. Oats steady.
„,
Wheat.... Old white per qr. ... 48s Od to 60$ u`,l
Old red
»
New white .. „
New red .... „
Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 38s .
Grinding
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 2223 7881
0060
cddl
tttt
0000
318232
989 as
0001
Grinding
Oats English, old
13a
Archangel and Riga, per st
Friesland and Dutch osl3d to osl3
lb
Swedish and Danish OBl2O to Os ~,i
Beans ....English, old, per qr. 2o6:lo2ddtoto2Bs_ Oda.
45s Od to 46$ '1;
New pigeon
New tick.
Egyptian 434 032 sss Od to ttt
to 34s
14 14 sss fed!
36s Od tv 3i6 „°,l
Peas Foreign boilers ..
Grinding —B Od tc 3bs u.
Od Tares ....Spring
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 56s °„,i
crushing • 4os Od to 52s 06
Linseed cake Hr'

_es (Mill) £9 15 0 to-ilO 0 0
Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 o
Rape cakes 6 5 oto 61" 0
Bones

LYNN-.

An average show of wheat
all fresh samples, at fully late
dearer. Barley and oats unal
White ..50s to 52s
R,d
Beans .3Bs to 42s
New 368 to 38s

L'ITESDAy.
to-day, with a ready sale for
rates. Beans is per quarter
Itered.
I Barley. 37s to 421
`Grinding ...... 34s to
Oats
Peas .22s
Peas
ttoo

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. --ivr aY 19,4
via Marseilles May '
Brasil and Cape Verds, by British packet. May '
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 31
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 'ff,
via Marseilles Apr. T.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... , Apr. 1)
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton. May
India (Bomb
via Marseilles Apr' 26,
Bombs via Southampton .. Apr.
via Marseilles May 0.
Portugal....
May ''6,
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Apr. ,
Newfoundland via Marseilles Apr. 29'
Apr.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... API' 29,
by U.S. packet.... 24.
by Canadian packet.APr. io,
W.C. of Africa, M-
adeira, and Teneritle .. MO./
Bahamas, via New York May YS'
Mexico..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Apr. 7•,
47.
California, and British Columbia.

Importing Tea without colour on the leaf POl
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the uses
kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, allll4
good alike. Sold in packets by 2.280 agents.

Births.
igle
BURN.—On the 20th inst., at 20, Queen's-gardens, h- Trdi
park, the wife of Major-General H. P. Burn, °
daughter.
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JACKSON —On the 21st inst., at Dedham•grove, 0
the wife of Commander W. T. Forbes Jackson, R.l"
a son.
PRINSEP.—On the 21st inst., at 36, St. George's'lo4.l
Eccleston-square, the wife of C. Campbell PrinsePt
of a son.

Marriages.
se"
ANDREws—Bucx..—On the 22d inst , at St. Bartholarae iroseh
Sydenham, by the Rev. C. English, Mr. Joseph And
of BE.II-green, Sydenham, to Mary Ann, daughter °
John Buck, of Homerton.
v
GRYLLS—BTLLEL—On the 21st inst.. at St. ivla,.-114;
bot's, Kensington, Shmlwell Morley Grylls, MaJ°rsi P'
Artillery, to Isabella Ellen, eldest daughter ofr
Buller, M P

Deaths.
1s Sit
BATESON.—On the 21st inst., at Belvoir-park, Be-
Robert Bateson, Bart , agd 83. t SC4
.
CRAFT.—On the 21st inst ,at Hastings, John, e'-ia es
Craft, Philpot-lane, city, aged 36. gr „ee,l
CRIPPS. -On the 19th inst at his residence, Fortis-g
affed
Finchley, William Cripps, Esq., late of Bristol,
84.
Ciea
CROOK.—On the 21st inst., at 83, Mornington-ret4
Crook, Esq., aged 76.
Canada %est'
II DERBISTRE.—On the 27th ult., in Quebec, Cana 63'
Stewart Derbishire, Esq., late of the Temple/ eg"
FAGAN.—On the 16th inst., at St. Servan's, near St' sr-
France, Colonel James Fagan, late Bengal Aral,
75.
MARTIN.—At Evershot, Dorset, John Martin, Es 4,
84.

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London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANi)zlo. /Id
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Oine,,,
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Strand, in the Precinct of, the Savoy, in the "
Middlesex.—Thursday, April 23, 1863.