The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1863,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

(Per City of New York.)
NEW YORK, MARCH 14.

The steamships City of New York and Kangaroo
arrived at New York early on the morning of
March 12. The Anglo-Saxon arrived at Portland
on the afternoon of March 12.

The following general summary is from the New
York Herald of March 14 :
THE SITUATION.

There are symptoms of a coming movement in Ge-
neral Hooker's army. The transportation resources
are being cut down, and officers have been notified
that all superfluous blggage must be sent home.
The officers of the line are to be allowed nothing in
shape of camp equipage, except shelter tents, which
they can carry on their backs. This means an ac-
tive, and probably arduous, campaign. The roads
have dried up in that vicinity considerably within
he past few days, and everything now looks favour-
able for a forward movement.

On the rebel side equally active preparations ap-
pear to be going on. Charleston is awaiting calmly
for an attack, and General Beauregard has revoked
all furloughs, and recalled all absentees to their
posts.

A despatch from Memphis reports a fight on the
Yazoo River, in which seven thousand prisoners
and eight transports are said to have been cap-
tured. It was known at Washington that such a
movement by our gunboats was in contemplation,
with the intention of cutting off the supplies of the
rebels, and therefore it is quite probable that a
battle has taken place, although the particulars
have not yet reached us.

There is nothing later from Vicksburg.
Rumours were rife in Cairo yesterday, and reached
this city by telegraph, that Fort Donelson and Fort
Henry had been captured by the rebels, but the re-
ports are not credited. A gentleman, who arrived
in Cincinnati on Thursday from Savannah, says
that immense armies are massed in Tennessee—one
to hold General Rosencranz in check, while the
other flanks him, enters Kentucky, and moves direct
on Louisville and Cincinnati. They are only wait-
ing for the rivers to fall and the roads to dry to
commence operations.

General Granger's force, who went in pursuit of
Van Dorn, returned to Franklin on Wednesday.
The rebels fled beyond Duck River, as we before re-
ported. There were several cavalry skirmishes,
and some 300 ragged fellows were picked up in the

pursuit.
Colonel Richardson and some 400 of his rebel
guerillas were surrounded and captured at Coving-
ton, Tenn,,by a body of Union troops onl%londay last.

Great excitement arose on the 12th at Cairo, on
account of the capture of Forts Henry and Donelsou.
A special despatch from Cincinnati, 13th March,
gives the following :
" The Commercial has a rumour, via Cairo, that
the rebels have repossessed Forts Donelson and
Henry, though it is not credited. Troops were
ordered there for an emergency.

" A gentleman who left Savannah on the 20th
ult., arrived at Cincinnati yesterday. He is a
planter and a member of the South Carolina legis-
lature. He reports that immense armies are massed
in Tennessee—one to hold Rosencranz in check,
while the other flanks him, enters Kentucky, and
moves direct on Louisville and Cincinnati. They
are only waiting for the rivers to fall and the roads
to dry. He says it is the general talk in Dixie,
that a fleet of ten iron-clads will be ready in foreign
ports this month, with which tho rebels propose to
clear the Mississippi, and co-operate with the move-
ment in Kentucky."
According to the same despatch the Union party
in Ohio has called a State Convention, to be held in
Columbus on the 17th June. Granger's force, sent
in pursuit of Van Dorn, returned to Franklin on
Wednesday. The rebels fled beyond Duck river.
There were several cavalry skirmishes, and some
300 ragged fellows were picked up in the pursuit.
Rebel advices show that the Northern Alabama
loyalists are giving the rebels a deal of trouble.
Surprises, skirmishes, and all the horrors incidental
to a neighbourhood of war are witnessed there.

The Memphis papers contain the statement that
Colonel Richardson, the noted guerilla chief, and
400 of his men were captured at Covington, Ten-
nessee, on the 9th March. The Unionists surrounded
them.

A despatch from Salt Lake City, dated March 10,
announces the arrest of Brigham Young, under the
Polygamy Act of Congress. United States Marshal
Gibbs served the writ issued on the 10th by Judge
Kimsey upon President Young. The writ was im-
mediately responded to, and the defendant, who
appeared personally in court, was admitted to bail
in the sum of 2,000 dols., which was promptly given.
The civil authority can bo maintained in Utah
without the aid of troops.

The following despatch of Col. Connor is pub-
lished by the Nc,w York papers :
" Salt Lake City, March 11.
"The despatch in the New York Herald of the
10th, published in the California papers this morn-
ing, so far as regards my acts and intentions, is
false.

(Signed) "P. EDWARD CoNNoR, Colonel,
Third Infantry, C.N."
The following is the despatch of which the Colonel
complains :

" Salt Lake City, March 9.

" A collision between the military and the citizens
is imminent. Governor Harding and Associate
Justices Waite and Drake, it is understood, have
called upon Col. Connor to arrest Brigham Young,
and Ccuncillors Kimball and Wells.

'Free jade of the district can serve any civil
Process; but the eit!zans are in arms, and deter-
mined to prevenL the cv.-rest of their leadue by
military force,
" Other Federal officers, and now Mormon citi-
zA3s, have telegraphed to Gen. Wright to restrain
Connor till an investigation can be had.
"A colonel of tin. United States army, who left
for Washington this morning, has been arrested by
Connor, and brought back. It is presumed his in-
tentions were unfavourable to Connor's military
interference."

The .Richmond Dispatch, in a leader, speaks dis-
couragingly of the prospects of food, and says im-
pressment of flour and grain by the Government
discourages production.
The Richmond Examiner contains the announce-
ment that General Beanregard has revoked all fur-
loughs, and recalled the absentees to their post.

The following is from the-Richmond Examintir:—
BOMBARDMENT OF FORT NPALLISTER,

" Up to last night nothir:giLter had been recj.ved
at the War Deprtment from Fort M'Allister. The
latest accounts
vie have say that a Yaukee fleet,
after a terrific bombardment, had retired, and it is
thought that the enemy has been again repulsed;
at least he has shown no further disposition to renew
the attack.

" The bombardment iy represented to have been
terrific. The fire of three iron-clads and three
mortar boats was concentrated on the fort at the
same time, and shell and solid shot literally rained
on the garrison. Tne fire commenced about 9 aan.,
and contineed up to a late hour in the evening and
through the night; but when morning came the
Yankee fleet had disappeared.
" This is the enemy's fourth attack en Fort

M'Allister, and he has failed. Strange to say, and
unequal as the contest was, the felt is said to have
sustained but little damage, and our loss to hive
been but two wounded and none killed.

" It shows that Yankee gunboats and mortars are
a humbug. In fact, we are told, that so accustomed
have become the people of Vicksburg to them, and
so little is the fear manifested at their shelling, that
when the fire commences the people go out to wit-
ness it as a kind of amusement."
THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG.

On the 27th of February Admiral Porter des-
patched what was called a paddy boat or dummy
Monitor, to view the Vicksburg batteries, in
order to ascertain their exact location. This con-
trivance was an old flat boat, with flour barrels for
smoke stacks, and a couple of large hogs-
heads to represent the Monitor turrets. It
ran the fortifications in a plant style,
and drew the fire of the rebel guns, but as far as
could be ascertained received no damage.
The paddy-boat, it seems, frightened the rebels,
who were at work trying to raise the Indianola
below Vicksburg, and caused them to skedaddle on
the double quick. When they got sate away from
what they supposed to be a turreted, or " a cheese-
box on a a aft," they reported the fact to their
friends, and stated that they had blown up the
Indianola to prevent her from again falling into the
hands of Yankees. This was the source from which
the story came that the captured gunboat had been
destroyed. In reference to this, the Jackson
Missusippian had the following :

" The destruction of the Indianola was a most
unnecessary and unfortunate affair. The turreted
monster proved to be a fiat-boat, with sundry fix-
tures to create deception. She passed Vicksburg
on Tuesday night, and the efficers, believing she
was really a turreted monster,blew up the Indianola,
but the guns fell into the hands of the enemy."
The statement of those who ran away from the
sunken prize at the approach of the paddy-boat was
subsequently ascertained to be false, and the
Indianola by this time has, no doubt, been raised.

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

FRIDAY, March 13, 6 p.m.

Money continues to be very abundant, and the
banks are embarrassed to find employment for their
means. On call the brokers pay 5 and 6 percent.;
but the demand for money on the Stock Exchange
is quite light. There is no change in debt certifi-
cates or mercantile paper. Gold was rather active
to-day, partly on the news from the West, and
partly on reports of legislation in Albany. It opened
at 161, rose to 1614, declined steadily to 1581,
rallied 160, sold at 159 and 160 in the afternoon,
and closed at 159 i bid. At Albany, this morning,
the bill to check speculation in gold (of which a
synopsis was given a day or two since in our Albany
correspondence) was reported, and unanimously
referred to the Committee of the wikole. We cannot
see that this bill will achieve the end desired, or
will put down the price of gold.

(PER HIBERNIAN.)

NEW YORK, MARCH 14, Eveniag.

It is currently reported in Wall-street that the
Secretary of the Treasury has received an offer
from Europe for 100,000,000 dols. Six per Cent.
Bonds at a higher figure than par.
Mr. Chase is endeavouring to negotiate a loan of
100,000,000 dole.; 50,000,000 dole. in 20 year bonds,
and the other 60,000,000 dole. in short bonds.
It is reported from Memphis that the Federal
expedition np the Yazoo has captured Yazoo city,
and all the Confederate transports above it.
An attack by the Federals upon Haines Bluff a
few miles above the month of the Yazoo river was
hourly expected. No official accounts of the affair
have yet been received.