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

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THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock 64
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LONDON, FRIDAY, ocr. 2, 1563.

Hastened onward probably by a knowledge
of the importance of the tidings of which

she was the bearer, the Cunard steamer
Scotia, due at Queenstown on this (Friday)

afternoon, arrived at her destination at cock

crow this morning, after a passage of eight days

and a half across the Atlantic. The intelligence
brought by the Scotia is certainly, when we come to
look into it, as remarkable, almost we had said as
startling, as any that has for a long while past come
to us from the American seat of war. There were
rumours, it will be remembered, brought to us
at the close of the last mail, to the effect

that General ROSENCRANz hod suffered some severe
discomfiture. But they were only rumours. No
reliable particulars were there accompanying that
statement encouraging any one to believe it. These
`vague reports, howuver, as to some serious disaster
having befallen the Federal force under General
ROSEN GRAN 2,are now,us it turns out,to the full Con-
firmed and justified. The defeat of General ROSEN-
CRANZ by the Confederate army under General
BRAGG is an event now quite unmistakeable. The
discomfitted Federals, having been engaged
vigorously by General BRAGG ox two suc-

cessive days, the 19th and 20th ultimo,
near Chickamauga Creek, were compelled, on
the following morning, that of the 21st, to beat

a retreat to Chattanooga. The results of the con-
flict, which appears, as usual, to have been very
severe, are these—that General BRAGG has captured
from his antagonist twenty guns and taken five
hundred prisoners, the Federals themselves owning
to a total loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners of
twelve thousand men! The numerical force col-
lected together by General BRAGG before the com-

mencement of this attack upon the position o
the Federals under General ROSENCRANZ cannot

as yet be estimated with anything like accuracy
It was variously reported at New York on the
morning of the 23d ult., before the departure of the
:Scotia on her eastward voyage, to have been an
army of from 70,000 to 90,000 men. It is tolerably
certain, however, already, that before BRAGG'S
lalovement, ho had been considerably reinforced by
troops despatched to him from all directions, by
'LEE, by JOHNSTONE, and by BEAUREGARD. The
IZtaning of the recent withdrawal of the
tic:lederate Commander-in-Chief upon the Rapi-
becomes in this way already compre-
hensible,
Every one who has watched
ittikt
"avr`l
utta
trY of that great master of war since the
''4arleetnent knew that there was, in
COMITIOA
"te 4i
came apparent 1,, something in it," when it be-
his antagonist
'lt, instead of advancing against
-\
drawing to ,;e4'''bE, he had resolved upon with-
his late headquartP4itiQu, slightly to the rear of
Rapidan,
One rea"' namely, to the line of the
ne blea`ling him to this modifi
cation of his plans, th
at Chickamanga cree,'lttl' of the 19th and 20th,
rendered already
apparent, That contest:amil
having been preceded by th:tril't" airvidy noted,
rein-
forcements from LEE'S main
armyan%naission of rein-
reinforcements coming up sin t.°laaco! Other
NSTONI: ftiadZsAlY and very
gutitEGAßD—
opportunely from Jon
enabling General BRAGG to seize 20
prisoners as trophies of his victory 0::r 7d 5"
CRANZ—ROSENCRANZ confirming the truth o't(lstE:
victory by his retreat upon Chattanooga, ift„
baid MANHATTAN in his very last letter, published
only yesterday, "if LEE should chance to take
Washington, we shall see gold at 200 !" The Con-

federate Commander-in-Chief has not (yet) taken

Washington, is still ((or the time being) at his
lest chosen quarters on the linidan. It is General
BRAGG (on!v) who has gained a victory over
RosuicßANz, not within sight of Washington, but at
Chick smanga Creek, thence driving the defeated Fe.
derKls back to Chattanooga—and Yet with the Capital