The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

N, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, '1363,

(REUTER'S TRLEGRAI4IS.)

AMERICA.

them efficient and faithful, and to replace them by
better men—that no military officer was empowered

to suppress the circulation of any paper printed at
any distance from the seat of war, and that any
editor who committed or abetted treason was amen-
able to the civil laws alone.

President Davis has revoked the exequatur of
Mr. George Moore, the British Consul at Rich-
mond, for disregarding the authority of the Con-
federate Government, in assuming to act as consul
for a place other than the city of Richmond, and a
State other than the State of Virginia.
Blair's division of General Grant's army has made
a reconnaissance of 45 miles to the northward, but
without finding any enemy. The country was very
rich and fertile, and the Federals destroyed quanti-
ties of cotton and stores.

Memphis telegrams assert that all negroes in
Federal uniforms captured by the Confederates are
hung.

The Governor of Georgia, in view of the immi-
nence of an early invasion of that State, has called
upon the people to organise for defence.
Since his assault of the 27th, General Banks has
made no fresh assault on Port Hudson, but has
commenced mining and siege operations. The Con-
federates fought with unusual fierceness against the
negro troops, and Come accounts state that no
wounded negroes were taken prisoners, all were
slaughtered.

The Confederates have reoccupied the Bayou
Teche country.
The negro expedition from Port Royal has made
a raid up the Combrabee river, capturing a number
of negroes and destroyirg property. They also
burnt Bluffton.

The Federal expedition from Yorktown Cestroyed
he Confederate foundry and stores on the Matta.

pony river.

General Welellan has reviewed two returned
regiments from the balcony of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. Tremendous enthusiasm was displayed for
him by the soldiers and people.
The nomination of Mr. Vallandigham as a candi-
date for the governorship of Ohio by the Demo-
cracy of that State is considered certain.

A democratic meeting has been called in Brook.
Eyn to denounce the usurpation of the Administra
ion.

In the case of the Dolphin it has been de-
cided that a vessel bound to Nassau with
the intention of sailing from there to a
blockaded port was equally liable to capture, as if
she was bound direct to a blockaded port. Sixty-
six cases of rifles and swords were found
on board the Dolphin, entered on the freight list
as hardware. A letter from the owner was also
found, requesting the agents not to discharge the
cargo at Nassau, but to obtain additional freight
from there.

In the case of the steamer Pearl time was allowed
.0 the claimants to produce further testimony, but

it was decided that vessels bound to convenient
ports, with the intention of making voyages from
there to blockaded ports, are subject ,to capture
before their arrival at the ports from which they
intend to sail for blockaded ports.
Eight schooners are reported to have been cap-
tured in the Gulf.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JUNE 9 (Evening.)
Money easy. Gold 421 per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London bankers' bills 156 k.
Stocks lower. New York Centrals, 1178; Illi-
nois, 1021; Erie, 92:: ; 6 per Cent. United States
Bonds, 1041,

NEW YORK, JUNE 11 (Morning).
(By Telegragh to Halifax.)

General Banks officially reports that the conduct
of the negro troops has been heroic, and that there
is no longer any doubt that the Government will
find in the negroes effectual supporters.
General Banks' loss from the 23d to the 30th
ult. was 1,000 men, including many of his ablest
officers.

General Sherman has died at New Orleans.

Admiral Porter officially reports that ho sent
another expedition up the Yazoo, which destroyed
nine Confederate transports. Admiral Porter adds
that, with the exception of a few steamers beyond
Fort Pemberton, the
port nothing on the Yazoo.
Confederates can now trans-

It is reported] that Mr. Vallandigham has been
mprisoned by the Confederates.

The Philidelphia
Enquirer says that the 2d South
Carolina negro regiment defeated the Confederates
on the 3d inec, at Focotoglio, and was holding the

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(PER THE ASIA.)
NEW YORK, JUNE 8 (Evening).
The report received on Saturday last, that Gene-
ral Lee had evacuated Fredericksburg and that
Hooker had occupied the city, was untrue. It ap-
pears that in consequence of the withdrawal of a
Confederate Brigade from Fredericksburg, General
Hooker, on Friday afternoon, sent a division across
the Rapphannock at Deep Run to reconnoitre.
This division crossed in the face of a heavy fire
from the Confederate rifle pits on the opposite
shore, and after capturing one hundred Confede-
rates in the rifle pits, and ascertaining that Long-
street was there in force, they crossed the river
with the loss of forty men.
It is supposed that General Lee maintains his
position at Fredericksburg, and that his late move.
ments were made to place his army in a more

healthy situation.
General Stuart received from 12,000 to 15,000
Confederate cavalry at Culpepper on Saturday last.
Advices from Vicksburg are to the 3d inst. The
siege operations continued. One division of
General Grant's army was on the west side of
Black River bridge, watching Gen. Johnstone,
who appeared there on the let and 2d inst. with
5,000 troops, but afterwards retired. General
Johnstone is reported to have altogether 18,000
men, but no artillery. Communication between
Generals Grant and Banks is kept up along the
Louisiana shore.

Southern journals assert that General Kirby
Smith has defeated General Banks at Port Hudson.
The steamers America and Hammonia have

arrived out.
Richmond papers of the 6th publish the follow-
ing speech of General Pemberton to his army,
denying the imputations of treason and incompe-
tency recently made against him :-
1 " You have heard that I was incompetent, a traitor, and
that it was Loy intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and
you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg, when
the last pound of beef, bacon, and flour, the last grain of
corn, the last cow and hog, and horse and dog, shall have
been consumed, and the last man shall have perished in
the trenches. Then, and only then, will I sell Vicksburg."
At the Convention of New York editors, held
yesterday, the organs of all the different political
parties were represented. It was unanimously re-
soled that every journalist had the right to criti-

cise, censure, or condemn the acts of those officials
entrusted with power, with the view to render