The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-28 00:00:00

Iboundaries of the Confederacy, to wring from an
unscrupulous foe the recognition of your birthright,
community, independence.
(Signed) JEFFERS 'N DAVIS.
The Federal fleet in .Tames River comprises an
immense number of vessels. There re nearly 600
transports and war steamers between Newport
News and Harrison's Bar, besides almost innume-
rable small craft, among which are 100 to 200
canal boats. Including the armed vessels recently
arrived, the gunboat fleet numbers 20 to 25 vessels.
A St. Louis telegram of the 15th says :
Information from Corinth to Thursday says that
General Halleck was there, and the various divi-
sions of his army in excellent condition and eager
for active operations. Bragg has about 40,000
troops at Tussell's, and some 35,000 more are at
Holly Springs and other places. Their movements
are said to indicate offensive operations. Gen. Curtis
had reached Helena, Arkansas, with his army, after
fighting his way and defeating the rebels on the
route.

A Cairo despatch of the same date says :
Water has been let into the canal at Vicksburg,
but the anticipations that it would soon cut a chan-
nel through are not yet realised. The work of deep-
ening it three feet has commenced. The guerillas
near Memphis are becoming very bold, burning
cotton almost in sight of the city. Disguising them-
selves as cotton buyers, they find where it is sec-
reted, and tllen come in force and burn it.
Vicksburg accounts of the Bth inst. say the firing
was quite rapid on that evening. The enemy re-
plied with rifled guns. No great damage was done
on either side.
The Grenada Evening Appeal, of the Bth, says
the Vicksburg canal is progressing, with 5,000
negroes working upon it.
On the 13th the Confederates, numbering between
3,000 and 4,000, attacked the 9th Michigan and
3d Minnesota Regiments in Murfreesboro. The
fighting was desperate, but during the afternoon the
9th Michigan Regiment was turronnded and sur-
rendered. The Federal Generals T. T. Crittenden,
of Indiana, and Duffield were taken prisoners.
The Unionists lost 30,000 dollars' worth of army
stores. The loss of life was considerable on both
sides. There was great excitement at Nashville,
and an attack upon the city was expected.
A Memphis telegram of the 12th says ;
General Grant has issued an order requiring the
families of all persons connected with the rebel
army or government to leave the city within the
five days, or take an oath that they have not and
will not furnish information to the enemy. This
sweeping order is in consequence of constant com-
munication between persons in the rebel army and
friends here. This order causes considerable excite-
ment.

The Herald's correspondent at New Orleans
writes as follows on the 30th ult. :
Lieutenant G. C. de Kay, who, it will be remem-
bered was shot at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, about a
month since, died last Friday morning from his
wounds.
The funeral which took place on Saturday even-
ing resulted in a scene so shocking that it is diffi-
cult to believe that it occurred in the 19th century
among a people who profess to be not only civilised
but Christianised. As the cortege moved through
the streets, women, in the garb of ladies, flaunted
Secession badges, and mocked and jeered at the
poor dead body of a brave boy, who, in life, would
have scorned to treat even his enemy with dis-
honour. At Christ Church where the services were
held the front pews, the aisles, and the gallery
were filled with a rabble of negroes, rowdies, and
ragged boys, the women showing Secession badges
freely. One of the women who scoffed at the re-
mains was the well-known Mrs. Phillip Phillips,
who, with Mrs. Greenhow, was arrested last sum-
mer at Washington for treason, and who, it will be
remembered, caused her house to be illuminated
from basement to attic on learning of the Union
defeat at Bull Run.

When the funeral procession passed her in
Charles-street, she, with other females, sat on the
balcony and laughed and jeered at the sad display
in an intentionally offensive manner. On General
Butler's return to this city from Baton Rouge,
learning of the disgraceful proceedings the day
before, he was greatly enraged, and declared that if
he had been here he would have bombarded the
church with his artillery. This morning he ordered
Mrs. Phillips to be arrested and brought before
him. Accompanied by her husband she arrived
about noon. General Butler asked her if it was
true that she had behaved as above described ? She
answered in the most flippant and contemptuous
manner, " I was in good spirits that day." That
was enough for the general, he at once issued the
the following order :
" Head-quarters, Department of the Gulf.
" New Orleans, June 30, 1862.
" Mrs. Phillips, wife of Phillip Phillips, having
been once imprisoned for her traitorous proclivities
and acts at Washington, and released by the cle-
mency of the Government, and having been found
training her children to spit upon officers of the
United States, for which act of one of those chil-
dren both her husband and herself apologised and
were again forgiven, is now found on the balcony
of her house, during the passage of the funeral pro-
cession of Lieut. de Kay, laughing and mocking at
his remains, and on being inquired of by the com-
manding general if the fact were so, contemptu-
ously replies, I was in good spirits that day.' It
is therefore ordered that she be not regarded and
treated as a common woman of whom no officer or
soldier is bound to take notice, but as an uncom-
mon, bad, and dangerous woman, stirring up strife
and inciting to riot, and that therefore she be con-
fined at Ship Island, in the state of Mississippi,
within proper limits there, till further orders, and
that she be allowed one female servant and no more,
if she so choose ; that one of the houses for hosipital
purposes be assigned her as quarters, and a sol-
dier's ration each day be served out to her, with the
means of cooking the same; and that no verbal or I

written communication be allowed with her except
through this office, and that she be kept in close

confinement until removed to Ship Island.---By
order of Major-General Butler.
" R. S. DAVIS, Captain and A.A.A. General."
General Butler had confiscated all the property
in New Orleans of the Confederate General Twiggs,
and also that of Colonel A. C. Myers, the son-in-
law of General Twiggs.

In the House of Representatives at Washington,
OD the 12th, the final Appropriation Bill for mis-
cellanPous objects was reported from the Committee
of Ways and Means. It includes an item of half a

million dollars on account of the emancipation of
the slaves in the district of Columbia, and those to
be made free under the Confiscation Bill.

In the Senate, on the 14th, the bill for the ad-
mission of Western Virginia as a State was taken
°P, debated at considerable length, and passed.
The bill as
passed provides that all slaves from
within the limits of the State after July 4, 1863,
shall be free.
Mr. -Wilson called up the bill amending the
Militia Act of 1.75, and offered a substitute for it.
The Senate then adjonrned.

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hopeless contest with the South' manifest no or
forego the
greater readiness to offer these' e
8 thawvoiethey did
at the date of my last writinmlV
g, The
recruiting officer seems to have lost its clatter: the
the youthful mind. The prospect of a three Sears'
—or a2O years'—war is not inviting. Knowing
that 111`Clellan has been driven from the swamps of
the Chickahominy, five miles from Richmond, to
Harrison's Landing, 30 miles further from the
Jerusalem of the crusade—a position said to be the
very hottest in all Virginia at any time, much more
in the hottest days of the hottest month of the year

—patriotism takes time to consider how it shall act;

and there is evidently less
patriotism in the country
than there was in the cool season, when there was
still a reasonable hope that Richmond might be cap-
tured. During the last twelvemonth the flower of
the country's manhood has gone to the war. One-
fourth of its numbers have left their bones on

Southern soil ; another fourth has come home again,
sick, maimed, and disabled, and fit for war no more.