The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA

RETREAT OF GENERAL

I\PCLELLAN.

ARRIVAL OF THE BOHEMIA.

NEW YORK;AvG. 16 plorniag.)

(Per Bohemia via Quebec and Londonderry.)
General APClellan's army is supposed to have
retired from Harrison's Landing down the penin-
sula—one portion by land, via Williamsburg, and
another portion on transports down the James
River. Both routes of retreat were liable to an
attack from the Confederates, but it is reported that
the movement has been successfully performed. It
is not definitely known when General 111'Clellan
will operate.

General Jackson has safely crossed the Rapidan,
and is south-west of Gordonsville, with 60,000 men.
The high waters of the Rapidan have delayed the
Federal forces, but they are reported to be steadily
advancing.

General Pope's official report of the battle at
Cedar Mountain states that the loss of the Federals
waa 1,500 killed, wounded, and missing, 300 of
whom were taken prisoners. General Prince was
captured by the Confederates. Confederate General
Winder was killed.

The Southern journals claim the victory at Cedar
Mountain, and state that 30 commissioned officers of
Gen. Pope's army have arrived at Richmond, where
they would be imprisoned, and finally punished as
felons, until the Federal Government should cease
the war policy inaugurated by General Pope.
General Pope has issued an order, stating that
his proclamation directing the army to subsist on
the country has been abused by officers and men,
and forbidding all to molest or disturb the pro-
perty of citizens. Acts of pillage and outrage will
be punished.

Confederate General Lee has addressed a letter
to General HaHeck, threatening retaliatory mea-
sures for Gen. Pope's order.

General Halleci answered that as the letter was
couched in a tone insulting to the Federal Govern-
ment, he should not reply.

General Fremont has again been appointed to
command the first army under General Pope.
It is reported from Memphis that a battle occurred
on the 7th inst. at Tazewell, near Cumberland Gap,
in which 3,000 Federals surrendered; that the Con-
federates were again in possession of East Tennes-
see, and that Generals Beauregard and Bragg were
at Chattanoga with 70,000 men.
A semi-official Washington despatch declares the
report to be totally untrue, and says that no fight
took place at Tazewell, except on the 9th, when the
Confederates were repulsed with loss.
The Memphis report is discredited.
It is again reported from the South that the Con-
federates have captured Baton Rouge with four
Federal regiments, and have sunk two Federal
gunboats.

Official orders have been issued for formally com-
mencing the draft of 300,000 on the Ist Sept., and
also the additional special draft to fill up all the old
regiments not filled by that date.
Recruiting has much improved, but the drafting
excitement continues. Foreigners who have de-
clared their intention to become citizens are not
allowed to leave the country. Numerous emigrants
enlist on landing.

The Governor of Massachusetts has ordered the
enrolment of coloured citizens among those subject
to the draft.

The municipality of New York has appropriated
1,000,000 dole. for the defence of the harbour by
gunboats and rams.

Three hundred houses in Memphis have been
seized under the Confiscation Act.
General Butler has ordered a forced contribution
of 330,000 dols. from the banks, cotton brokers, and
merchants of New Orleans for the support of
the poor. The assessments are made in propor-
tion to the sum subscribed by the merchants
for the defence of New Orleans against the Federal
Government. The forced cuutributions from each
firm varies from 85,000 dole, to 6 dole. ; nearly 200
firms are assessed.

A collission has occurred on the Potamic between
two transports. Eighty sick soldiers were drowned.
Mr. Cassius M. Clay has made a speech at Wash-
ington d(Noted to abuse of the English Parliament,
press, and people, and laudatory of France and
Russia.

England, he said, is the most unfriendly nation
upon the earth. Her conduct on the slavery
question was hellishly damnable hypocrisy. She
was looking for America's downfall, but France
protected America. He would not desist
speaking against England. When England
threatened the national existence, Napoleon
was the firm and fixed friend of America.
Therefore let America appeal to France not to
stand by and let the American Republic be de-
stroyed by England. Russia was a strong ally of
America. He was surprised and struck with ad-
miration at the condition of the Russian people, for
England had misrepresented them. The Russian
royal family is the most lively, intelligent, and vir-
tuous family that ever occupied a throne.
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POINT.)

NEW YORK, August 16 (Evening.)

Gen. Burnside's force has arrived at Culpepper.
The Governor of Kentucky, in his message to
the Legislature, recommends the adoption of the
Crittenden resolutions as a standing proposition for
peace and the settlement of the war.

The Anglo-Saxon was intercepted off Cape Race

to-day.
The City of Manchester, sailing to-day, takes
out 200,000 dols. in specie.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

NEW YoRK, Aug. 16 (Evening).
Money abundant. Gold advancing, 151 per cent.
premium. Exchange quiet. Bankers' bills, 127
Stocks dull. New York Central, 92i Illinois, 62.
Erie, 372-. Cotton declining. Middling Upland, 470.

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Auo. 28.

The Royal Mail steamer Shannon, with the above
mails, has arrived. She brings 121 passengers
1,308,108 dols, specie, rinti
1,178 packages of cargo.
She left St. Thomas on the 13th inst. On the 22d
she spoke the British ship Cora, and on the 27th
the ship Manchester_

was totally lost on the 11th ult. on a reef of rocks
The Pacific Navigation Company's steamer Lima
off the Lagarto 'god, south of Cobija. The mails,
passengers, and treasure were:saved and removed
to a small island about one mile from the wreck,
from which all were taken four days after by the
American ship Moonlight.
The Peruvian Congress assembled on the 27th.
De ospio was chosen President.
public attention, was much occupied in preparing
for the celebration of the national independence.
Exchange at Lima, 40 to 41.
In the South Pacific the demand for copper ore
and regulus was active ; considerable sales had been
effected ; prices for ores, 16s. 6d. to 17e.
The guano market was quiet, without change in
prices.
At Valparaiso, exchange on London, 45 to 451 ;
on Paris, 4.75 ; bar silver, 10.44 dols.
At Demerara the weather was fine, but business
dull. The British Guinea Bank had declared a divi-
dend of 4 per cent. for the half-year.
At Barbadoes the weather was fine, and the crops
were thriving. The import market was heavy, and
prices unaltered. Provisions dull. Exchange on
London, 90 days, 48.7! dols.
At Hayti everything was quiet, and busineso
improving.
At Jamaica the cotton-growing movement was
progressing. Prices of breadstufls high. The new
crop of coffee was appearing at the market, and
sales were effected at 50s to Ms. Freights, no de-
mand. Pimento held at 2d. Sugar ranges from
16s to 20s. Exchange, 90 days, 1 per cent. prem.

CAPTURE OF A SHARK AT CANIPBELTOWS*°I/
Monday morning Mr. James Rae, residing at the Pans,
Machrahanish Bay, about six miles from
caught a large shark in one of his salmon campbeltown
nets. The shark
measured 8 feet in length by 5 feet in girth, and its weight
was supposed to be about 5 cwt. The next was very much,
damaged by the
shore by the aid Of four 1nez...6144M Herald.
monster, which was ultimately brought oti