The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

NEW YORK, March 6 (per Jura).

The Confederates, under Gen. V n Dorn, have
advanced towards Franklin, Tennessee, but were
driver, back by the Federals. Fighting continues.
The skirmishing around Nashville is active.
The report of an attempt to assassinate General
Banks at Orleans is said to have been a canard.
A Secession demonstration occurred at New Or-
lelns, on the occasion of the departure of a large
number of Confederate prisoners for the South.
A large number of people assembled on the levee
to witness their departure, and made various Seces-
sion demonstrations. Gen. Banks sent a regiment
of soldiers to disperse the assemblage, and no dis-
turbance occurred.

All the General Appropriations Bills were passed
by Congress before the close of the seesien, and have
been signed by the President. Tbese, together with
other appropriations, amount to about one billion
dots. The Miscellantous Appropriation Bill, origi-
nally introduced by the Committee of Ways and
Means, appropriated 1,200,000 dots., but before it
passed through both houses the sum was enlarged to
20,000,000 dollars. The bill to admit Coloraco and
Nevada as States of the Union, which passed the
Senate, failed to pass in the House of Representa-
tives, the latter refusing to suspend the rules for its
consideration.

Before the adjournment of the Senate, Mr. Doo-
little, Republican, of Wisconsin, urged that the last
moments of the Senate should be passed in some-
thing besides recrimination. Ho stated that all
events went to show that America would crush out
the rebellion, and stand before the world greater,
more powertul, more glorious than ever, and be-
yond what had ever entered into thz, mind of man
to conceive. He wished to show the traitors at
home, and the men who talked of intervention, that
America had just begun to fight, and would fight
it through. America bought Louisiana and Florida,
in order to have that opening to the ocean ; and he
would say, in the name of the north-west, that be-
fore they would allow an independent empire at the
mouth of the Mississippi, they would reduce
Louisiana to what it was before America pur-
chased it—a territory of swamps and crocodiles.
He told the nations who suggested the possibility
of an independent empire at the south-west, that
such talk et to talk what the people of the United
States, though it should result in the upheaval of
the whole of North America, would never sur-
render. It was his religious belief that the American
Republic was that political Power foretold by the
prophets, and for which good men of all ages looked
and prayed, and to whose success and duration
Heaven, with all its omnipotence, was pledged.
Speaker Grow, in his valedictory address to the
House of Representatives, declared that, no matter
what changes were wrought in the social organism
of America, its territorial limits would continue the
same, The war must be prosecuted until the last
armed rebel is subdued.

Speaker Grow received a unanimous vote of
thanks from the House, a compliment which was
never paid to any speaker but once before.
A large meeting has taken place at Trenton, New
Jersey, in response to a call to celebrate the death
of a Congress which had trampled upon the liber
ties of the people. Speeches were made declaring
that the people were in a worse condition than the
people of Austria, and hopes were expressed that
the State Government would do its duty to protect
the citizens. Resolutions were also passed denouncing
the unlimited control of the purse and sword o, the
nation, and the urrestroined power over the persons
of the citizens given to the President, and declaring
that it was the duty of the States to resist firmly an
encroachments upon their rights; that the Con-
scription Bill was an aggression up n the sovereignty
of New Jersey, and that the State authori►ies art
called on to take measures for the successful vine!,
cation of the rights of the State. The employ men,
of negroes was denounced, and New Jersey was
stated to be utterly opposed to the prosecution of
the war upon any other than a constitutional basis.
Both Houses of Congress passed the resolutions
concerning mediation, as reported from the Com-
mittee of Foreign Relations.
At a meeting of the Democratic Association, Pre-
sident Lincoln's name was hissed.

The New Yolk, Tribune, referring to General
Banks's arrangements with planters for negro
labour, says—" The military authorities of the
Gulf who were charged to recognise and maintain
the freedom of the blacks, have gone into the busi-
ness of slave-driving on the largest possible scale,
and officers who went to suppress a slaveholders'
rebellion, are made overseers of plantations whit!.
Government stocks with re-enslaved blacks." The
2ribune charges General Bunks with administering
his department entirely in the interest of the slave.
owners, and denounces his course as an oppression
of the negro. _ _

An influential meeting has been held at New
York to forward the laying of the Atlantic cable.
A committee was appointed to aet, and five gentle-
men have subscribed over £3,000 to assist the en-
terprise.
The New York 2imes says that 2,000 Mexican
troops had embarked at Mazatlan and Jamiarz tcr
a southern port of Mexico in order to operate
against the French.
It is considered probable that a conflict may have
taken place at Vicksburg, and not impossible it may
have been evacuated by the Confederates.
General Joseph Johnston, who commands at
Vicksburg, is the General who evacuated Manassas
and Yorktown in such a wily manner, and at such
mon- ents as to seriously disconcert the Federal
plans, based upon his resistance at each point. H.
may have repeated the same move ut VicksbirT.
which is supplic d by only one line of railway. ii
he has, Port Hudson being strong enough to hole
in check the Federal advance down the Mississippi,
Johnston may throw himself northward upoi:
Memphis, or to the north-east upon Rmecrans
or even by a rapid southward movement, in
conjunction with the small but formidabl•
Confederate fleet, attempt to recapture Nem
Orleans. By adopting either of these plans ht
would of course abandon for the time the Rtd Rive,
country, which lies between Vicksburg and Por
Hudson, and through wt.ich the Confederates I.E.
ceive immense supplies from Texas.
Much anxiety is felt in regard to Charleston
The expedition against that place is most formidable,
and groat efforts will be made to take it, but Gene-
ral Beauregard has been allowed time enough to
complete all his fottifications, solid and floating,
and to concentrate a powerful force.

There are growing symptoms at the Weep of
popular dissatisfaction, and much is said of secret
associations, organised both to support and oppose
the Government.

In this city a State judge has declared his inten
tion of executing his writ of habeas corpus against
a Federal colonel who, however, remains in his
castle at Governor's Isla)d.

In the Senate 17 members took their seats yes-
terday, nine of whom were returned for the first
time; of these nine, six may be ranked as Opposi
tion members, two as extreme, and one (Mr. Mor-
gan, of New York) as a moderate Republican.
The municipal elections in New Yurk State indi-
cate great gains for the Democratic party.
NEW YORK, March 6 (Afternoon),
The reports concerning the condition of the
steamer Indianola, when captured,
andare
othersconflicting.icttihnagt.
Some say she is seriously damaged,
she is in an effective condition, and that her sur-
render was unneeeesary,
The Kentucky House of Representatives has
passed a resolution calling a national convention
and a convention of the Mississippi Valley States.
It is supposed the Senate would concur in the re-
solution.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, MARCH 6 (Evening).

The excitement in the gold market continues,
and the tendency is still downward. A measure
will be introduced in the New York Legislature
check Epccuhtion in gold. Gold is quoted at 521.
Exchange on London blnkers' bills 169, Stockb