The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-25 00:00:00


noon assassinated by an unknown person near his
residence, six miles from Knoxville.'

" A Cairo telegram of the 12th in a, says :
Rebel authority reports that Brecl‘thiridge at-
tacked Baton Rouge on Tuesday morning last.
He was at first repulsed with heav . loss. Gene-
ral Clarke, of Mississippi, and U-lonel Thomas
Hunt, of Kentucky; were killed. The repulse is
laid to the A:lcansas, which failed to arrive in
time. On the afternoon of the same day
treckenridge is said to have telegraphed to the
Grenada Appeal that the Arkansas had arrived and
destroyed two of our gunboats, and driven off our
fleet, and that he had captured the entire Union
forces of that place.
" A telegraphic dispatch to the Richmond Exa-
miner, dated Mobile the Bth, says :—' A very rapid
steamer, well loaded with many desirable articles,
arrived safely at a Southern port on the 6th. The
vigilance of the blockading squadron was eluded
without trouble. A schooner from Havannah ran
the blockade yesterday morning. Her cargo con-
sists of powder, lead, caps, salt, coffee, cavalry,
sabres, and soap,'"
The New York Herald of the 13th says :
" Yesterday, as well as on Monday and Sunday
last, the excitement which had been caused at the
office of Mr. Archibald, the British consul, was con-
tinued without much intermission, and the anxiety
of the hundreds assembled to obtain passports was
very pressing.

" Monday and yesterday the office was scarcely
allo wed to be opened until it was filled to suffoca-
tion, and not less than from 700 to 800 persons were
present. Yesterday morning Mr. Archibald, British
consul, arrived in the Cunard mail steamship Scotia,
from England, and being informed of the position
of affairs for the previous two dtqs lost no time in
getting up to his office. On seeing how matters
stood the consul requested that some members of
the New York police force should be sent to the
consulate rooms, which was at once complied with.
"Although the vice. consul, Mr. Edwards, and the
clerks are doing their business as fairly as possible
within the bounds of their powers, yet the presence
of the members of the police has had a good effect.
Inside the two days there could not have been less
than from ten to twelve hundred attended at the
office. These are charged 2 dole. each; but where
the parties state their inability to pay the amount
they get them free.
" A great number of those who are seeking pass-
ports to evade being drafted, and not understanding
the real import of these documents, nor yet much
about drafting, it became necessary for Mr. Archi-
bald to issue the following orders, which are posted
lon both the outside and inside doors :--

" ' Consulate Office.

British subjects who have never been natura-
lised abroad are required by law to deposit the
proof of their nationality with the county clerk at the
City Hall. This will render them exempt from
military service. No certificate from the consul is
required by law.
" Yesterday the granting of passports was car-
ried on more rapidly, as better order and regularity
seemed to prevail. On making the necessary in-
quiries as to where all those who are claiming Eng-
lish protection from drafting are intending to pro-
ceed, we were told that the greater portion, so far,
were destined for Ireland and Germany; many were
going to California, and a goodly number to the
Canadas. Be this as it may, there can be no doubt
whatever but they will make a location somewhere
before they submit to take up arms in defence of
the Northern States, where they have lived so long,
and realised such advantages for themselvei, and
children, large numbers having gone far in making
an independence for a future day."
A San Francisco telegram of the 7th instant
says, that owing to the shelving beach and the
heavy surf, there was little probability of saving
the treasure from the wreck of the steamer Golden
Gate, Another despatch of the 9th says that the
steamer Active had been chartered to visit the
wreck, and to endeavour to recover the gold.
Dr. Charles Mackay writes as follows to the
New York Times :

" You state in your paper of Sunday that I have
denied being the writer of the New York correspon-
dence of the London Times. You have been misin-
formed. I never made any such denial to any per-
son, authorised or unauthorised, to ask the question.
Since my arrival in America, I have neither taken
pains to promulgate nor to conceal a fact that has
ceased for many months to be a secret on either side
of the Atlantic.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
" CHARLES MACKAY.

" New York Hotel, Tuesday, August 12."
A telegram from Toronto says that there was an
extraordinary number of Americans in that city to
escape being drafted. Advices from some of the
frontier towns in the United States mention that
large numbers had been intercepted in their in-
tended flight into Canada.
The British steamer Lodona, from Hull, with a
full cargo, arrived at Port Royal on the 7th inst.,
a prize to the United States steamer Unadilla. She
was from England direct, aLd was taken while at-
tempting to run into Ossabaw Sound.
Yellow fever had made its appearance at Key
West, and the Federal steamer San Jacinto, which
had arrived from that place at Boston, had thirty
cases of the disease among her crew.

THE BATTLE AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
The following account is published in the ,New
York Times

" On the Field, Cedar Run, eight miles
south of Culpepper, Saturday
August 9.

"'Phis has been an eventful day with the army of
Virginia. It had been known since yesterday
morning that the rebels were in force immediately
in our front. They had been driving back General
Bayard's cavalry for several hours before the force
under General Crawford was sent forward to give I
them battle, and no sooner were we here than our
outposts were fired upon by their pickets.
Skirmishing was kept up all the forenoon, and the
enemy held completely in check, but it was not until
three p.m. that the fight assumed the dignity of a
battle. At that hour the rebels opened their artil-
lery upon General Crawford from the wood to the
right of the road, about one mile. This was done
to ascertain the position of our batteries, and if pos-
sible bring out our force. General Crawford ordered
Knapp's Pennsylvania battery to reply, and at the
second shell the enemy's guns were silenced. Their
long line of cavalry had moved to a high hill on our
left towards the Rapidan ford. At once a strong
force of cavalry was thrown in that direction, and
"en after the enemy, finding he could do nothing
countermarched his cavalry to our right. Thus
matters stood, the large force of the enemy having
been held
in check
b yGeneral Crawford's single
brigade of
infantry,artillery and cavalry. The
e
cannonading _on
tinucd on both sides until four p.m.
when General Banks
, appeared upon the field with
General Auger's
division and the remainder of
General Williams's division, Roemer's New York
battery was now thrown to the .
right, with the ex-
ception of the artillery, for
the purpose of making
a movement upon the enemy,,,
sank--the
most im-
portantm3nt of the day.
move The 10th Maine
was then moved forward to the aupport of the
centre, and the rein aieder of the brigade formed on
the right with the
addition of the 3d Wisconsin,
and an effort was made to drive the enemy from
their cover in the wood.
" During all this time the firing on both sides was
terrific, and the men were falling by the score. The
line advanced steadily, with the exception of
the 3d Wisconsin, under a still galling fire, and
drove the rebels back. The Wisconsin regi-
ment fled at the first fire, and it was with great
difficulty, and at great personal risk, that the
general succeeded in getting them into line
again. They had hardly returned to their Fosition,
however, before they broke and ran again—in fact,
proved worse than toeless. The remainder of the
infantry charged upon the enemy's b i tteries, seve-
ral of which could not be seen until they entered
the wood, where they came suddenly upon a large
infantry force, that had lain concealed from the com-
mencement of the fight. This force opened fire
. upon our men with frightful
effect. The slaughter
at this point was very great. More than half the
• men of the 28th New York were killed and
- wounded. Colonel Donnelly, commanding, was