The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
(Per City of Washington.)
• NEW YORK, OCT. 3.
Nothing new has occurred at Chattanooga.
There are various rumours afloat of disasters to
Rosencranz, but the latest reliable accounts re-
present his army to be still undisturbed in their
strong defensive position. General Meigs, re-
cently returned from Chattanooga to Washington,
gives positive assurance that Rosencranz has
nothing to fear from any attack that can be made
upon him, and that his communications are com-
plete, and not seriously threatened. Confederate

accounts represent General Bragg to be

complete master of the situation, and that
Rosencranz will soon be compelled to come out
and give battle, when they are confident of his an-
nihilation. It is generally admitted that no rein -
forcements can reach Rosencranz from General
Grant.

Contradictory reports continue to come in con-
cerning the whereabouts and condition of General
Burnside's army. A despatch from Bristol, Ten-
nessee, dated 29th ult., states that Burnside was
retreating from Jonesboro', pursued by Confederate
cavalry. This is flatly contradicted in Washington.
Everything in General Meade's army remains
unchanged. A reconnoitring party had returned
and reported the entire corps of General D. H. Hill
to be in strong position on the south side of the
Rapidan. A large Confederate force was said to be
in motion towards the Blue Ridge, and a movement
down the valley of the Shenandoah was anticipated.
The Confederates were reported 10,000 strong at
Mount Jackson.

A despatch to the Richmond Examiner states
that General Weitzel had been defeated and killed
at Napoleon, Li., by the rebels under General Dick
Taylor. This report is not generally believed, al-
though General Weitzel, on his return from the
Sabine Pass expedition, had gone on another expe-
dition with his division, and had not since been
heard of.

Affairs at Charleston remained unchanged on the
26th. Gen. Gillmore was erecting seige guns and
making preparations for a general attack. Con-
federacy journals express every confidence that the
city will not be taken.
A terrible state of anarchy existed in the border
counties of Missouri, the Kansas Abolitionists, at
latest accounts, were desolating the whose country,
under command of Gen. Jim Lane and Col. Jennison.
Thousands of the inhabitants had sought refuge in
the forests, their houses being destroyed. A delega-
tion from Kansas waited recently on President Lin-
coln, and demanded the removal of Gen. Schofield
from the command of that department, and re-
quested that General Butler be placed in command.
It is thought the President will accede to their
demands.

Several persons were arrested a fews days since
in St. Louis, and placed in irons, charged with
being engaged in a conspiracy to burn all steamers
in the Western waters that are of service to the
Government. A cypher letter was found which,
on being deciphered, disclosed a well organised
plot to effect the object of the conspirators. The
matter is being thoroughly investigated.
A grand municipal reception was given on
Thursday to the officers of the Russian fleet.

Three brigades of troops paraded. In replying to
the addresses of Maycr Opdyko and the aldermen,
Admiral Lisoffski confined his remarks to the

occasion entirely.

A great Republication Ratification meeting was
held on Wednesday evening at the Cooper Insti-
tute, Resolutions were passed endorsing the Ewan-

cipation and Confiscation Acts, and the entire
course of the Adininistration, including the suspen-
sion of the habeas corpus. Governor Seymour and
the peace party were severely denounced, and
charged with being the cause of the late Federal

reverses. Vice-President Hamlin, in a speech 01
some length, indulged in severe vituperation o
Democrats and peace men.