The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

the Confederates has been produced during the year,
and that luxuries only are deficient. lie adds that
the citizens of Charleston are fully determined to
destroy their city rather than surrender it, and that
everything is in readiness for the application of
the torch, in case it should be found necessary to
abandon it.

Letters from New Orleans of the 11th state that
a great tight had taken place between the 2d divi-
bion of the expedition under General Herron, and
a large Confederate force near Morganza, south of
the mouth of the Red River, in which it was be•
lieved that General Herron bad been defeated. The
third column, under General Washburne, met with
no better success, and had been unable to advance
into the interior, from the want of gunboats to pro-
tect his crossing of Berwick's Bay.
Deserters from the Army of the Potomac daily
suffer the penalty of death for their violation of
the Articles of War. Seven of these unfortunates
were shot on Friday last.

Considerable alarm is felt for the safety of General
Burnside, who, it is thought, will be intercepted in
his perilous march from Knoxville.
Of 1,127 men draughted in.the City of Hartford
only four have gone to the army, and of them two
are negroes. It begins to be admitted in Ministerial
circles in Washington that the Conscription Act is
a failure, and that more men and of a superior
class were obtained at less expense under the
Volunteer system.
A recent case under the Conscription Act excites
much interest. Mr. S. L. Crocker, of Boston, son
of an ex-member of Congress and brother-in-law of
Gen. Couch, having been draughted, presented a
substitute whom the Provost Marshal refused to
accept. Mr. Crocker appealed to the authorities at
Washington, but the decision of the Provost Marshal
was sustained, and Mr. Crocker received a second
notice to report for duty. Mr. Crocker, failing to
comply, was arrested, declared to be an able-bodied
man by the Examining Board, and ordered into the
service, the decision of the War Department having
deprived him of the privilege of paying the corn-
mutation fee or furnishing another subtitute.
The World of to-day says—" That the decisive
campaign of the army assembled in the West should
have been brought to this complexion is no light or
trivial matter. The causes which have led to such
a result demand, and Pre trust will receive, the most
searching investigation. The attempt which has
been made at Washington to throw the crushing
responsibility of this heavy blow and great discou-
ragement upon General Burnside, were it even
successful, would not liberate the masters and
managers of General Burnside from their just
public accountability. It was they, or the chief of
them, who planned the grand scheme of which
Rosecran z was tho inadequate performer, and
Burnside the constitutional Marplot.' "
The latest intelligence from Charleston is to the
19th inst., at which time the siege had been tem-
porarily suspended.
The Charleston Courier of the 16th states that
the Confederate steamer Sumter had been sunk be-
tween Forts Moultrie and Sumter ti few days pre-
viously, but does not mention from what cause.
The expedition to the Teche country, of which
the first division, under General Franklin, met with
such a disastrous repulse at Sabine City, was under-
taken without the consent of General Banks, the
orders for its despatch being issued from Wash-
ngton.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 22 (Evening).

The first news of Gen. Rosecranz's defeat received
on Monday last sent gold up to 401, and exchange
to 155. They yesterday, however, receded, under
the impression that Rosecranz's position was better
than the first accounts represented. The closing
quotations to• day are—Gold, 37Z- ; exchange, 1511;
stocks dull; New York Central, 1361; Illinois, 1231 ;
Erie, 10617 5 per Cent. United States Bonds, 95;
6 per Cent. do., 1061. Cotton very firm—Middling
upland, 74c. Flour advanced on Monday 30c., and
wheat and corn, 4c. to 7e., but declined yesterday;
flour losing 15c., and wheat and corn, ic. to 3c.
of the advance. The markets for these articles
are now dull. Provisions, good inquiry. Coffee
and molasses steady. Sugar advancing. Petroleum,
crude, steady, at 361 to 371 c. ; refined, good en-
quiry, at 58 to 59c.