The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-28 00:00:00

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
The royal mail steamship Europa, from Boston
On the 15th, and Halifax on the morning of the
17th, arrived in this port at 1 o'clock to-day.
The Europa was intercepted off Cape Race by the
liewe boats of the Associated Press, and telegrams
from New York to the night of the 17th were placed
on board, and have already been published in our
columns.
The New York Herald of the 13th gives the fol-
lowing as the situation of affairs at that date :
" Another brilliant victory is reported to-day.
Gen. Buell is evidently following up his advantage
like a skilful general. Private despatches received
from Lebanon state that there was a great battle
fought on Saturday, between Harrodsburg and
Danville, heavier and more severe than that of
Wednesday last at Perrysville. Col. Woodford, of
the Kentucky Union Cavalry, captured 160 wag-
gons and 1,000 prisoners. The rebels at last ac-
counts were retreating to Camp Dick Robinson.
[A later despatch ma Halifax contradicts the
above, and says that no fighting had taken place in
Kentucky since the 9th.]
" Some of Gen. Dumont's men, under Col. Miller,
captured two pieces of artillery and 150 rebels at
Versailles on Saturday, and drove the rest of them
from that place to Nicholasville. Humphrey Mar-
shall was in command of the rebels.

"From all accounts which reach us from Fre-
derick it is evident that the rebel invaders of Penn-
sylvania have retired into Virginia again. They
moved from the direction of Gettysburg towards

Frederick, but the military governor, Col. Allen,
had prepared to receive them with a large force. It
was stated that a large portion of the rebel cavalry
passed through Thornton's Gap towards Warrenton
on Saturday. They passed through Woodsboro and
Liberty on their way to Newmarket, and from
thence to Monrovia and Urbanna, in the direction
of the river, near Poolesville. It is reported that
they captured some sutlers' waggons, destroyed a
portion of the railroad track, and cut the telegraph
lines on their route.
" General Pleasanton, with three regiments of
cavalry, passed through Frederick yesterday morn-
ing at daylight, and followed in pursuit of General
Stuart's forces. At eleven a.m. yesterday heavy

cannonading was heard in the direction of Nolan's
Ferry, at the mouth of the Monocracy River,
where it was supposed Stuart would attempt to
cross the Potomac. The reports place the conflict
at Edward's Ferry. Some captured prisoners state
that the rebels crossed in three divisions, under
Generals Stuart, Cobb, and Hampton ; that the
men were strictly ordered not to disturb private
property, and that it was respected during their
whole trip. It was thought that Cobb and Hamp-
ton, with their divisions, re-crossed at a ford above
the North Mountain.

" Reports from Harrisburg and Harper's Ferry
confirm these statements. General Banks received
a despatch from General Stoneman yesterday,
dated Poolesville, apprising him of the appearance
of Stuart's and Hampton's force, with six pieces of
artillery, at daybreak, pursued by General Plea-
santon's cavalry. When they arrived in sight of
the river they broke up into small bodies, and made
for several fords. The troops sent to intercept them
were of course also obliged to divide and engage

the enemy at a number of points. The rebels finally
crossed between Cont.ad's Ferry and Point of Rocks.
The stolen blue uniform which Stuart's men wore
made it difficult to distinguish them from our own
men.

" It is beyond doubt that the rebels have made
good their retreat to Virginia after marching round
our grand army of the Potomac. The cavalry of
General Pleasanton, which was in pursuit, arrived
at the crossing just as the enemy had completed
their passage over the river. General Pleasanton
marched 78 miles in a day, but was only up in time
to engage the artillery of the rebels as they covered
the rear of Stuart's forces.

" The news from Corinth confirms the report of a
splendid victory. We captured 2,000 prisoners, in-
cluding 100 officers. The rebels lost 1,000 killed
and a large number wounded. Our loss was only
350 killed and 1,300 wounded. The rebels aban-
doned and spiked eleven inns, destroyed three cais-
sons, and lost most of their ammunition and trains.
General Rosencranz, after pursuing the enemy until
the 9th inst., returned to Corinth at the command

of General Grant. He reports the rebel army

dispersed, demoralised, and incapable of further
mischief. He would gladly have followed them up
under the conviction that this is the acceptable time
to destroy them utterly, but for the orders of his
superior to return.

" Dispatches from Cairo, dated the Bth, say that
there are movements at Helena, Arkansas, betoken-
ing 3n immediate advance in some direction, but
whethor on Vicksburg or Little Rock is not per-
mitted to transpire. It is intimated, however, that
an important movement was about to take place at
once, from the fact that all civilians were forbidden
to travel in that vicinity."
_ _

'The following Confederate account of the battle
of Corinth is furnished by the Richmond Dis-

patch :
"It was a most bloody fight. Our forces gained
repeated successes on Friday and Saturday, occupy-
ing a portion of the enemy's breastworks. They
also gained the town ; but the enemy held it stub-
bornly on the left until reinforcements arrived,
'when on Sunday they fell upon Gen. Van Dorn in
overwhelming numbers, forcing us to relinquish our
position and to retreat. The fight continued almost
unintek"ruptedly during Friday, Saturday, and Sun-
day. Tile slaughter on both sides is described as
unparalleled. One of our generals writes that
Maury's division of three brigades will not muster
more than one brigade. Cabell's has not more than
450 men left. Gen. Martin, of the 4th brigade,
chiefly Mississippians, was killed ; also Rogers,
of Texas, and Col. Wiert Adams, of Mississippi.
Gen. Moore is reported killed. Gen. Cabell was
injured by a fall from his horse. Ten thousand
fresh Federal troops harassed Maury's division,
which was in advance in the retrogade movement.
The army is understood to be in the vicinity of
Ripley, and perfectly safe. It is rumoured that but
one general was sanguine of success before the at-)

,s-ack."
The Dispatch then gives the details of the various
niovOments' and concludes as follows :
‘, oar loss in all the engagements is estimated at
5,000, and the enemy's is much heavier. The loss at
Pocahontas was equal to that at Corinth. Oar loss
may be over-estimated, as the stragglers were num-
bered by thousancio, and the retreat was not very
'3.rd.rfy. We lost four pieces of artillery. We cap-
tured 350 prisoners at Corinth, who were brought
.The enemy made no attempt to follow us from
Corinth, nor the Bolivar force after their defeat at
-Davis',-,
Bridge. Van Dorn was conspicuous for
dorlug,
Price as usual felt at home. Both
esciwedinAtut.
Price's command was the first in
the enemy, emu,
nehments. Murray's division suf-
fered the
heaviest loss. General Cabell sustained
severe loss, and acted
most gallantly.
L 0 The enemy fou
manoeuvred BPlellgifiti most determinedly, and were
Rosencranz commanded
in person. Our army
perfectly safe, and no fears
are entertained of its being
followed by the crippled
quickly organised, and ready
for another combat.
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" The killing of Colonels ROg and
Adams and
nieeet. cleneral. Moore is contradicted el;
ye rrington is among the killed, Samuel E.
con:Cirittenden,
of the battle, nobly discharging the heat
The Federal generals, Prentiss
in
and Crittenden, A
captured at Shiloh, together with 214
officers taken at the same time, were on ttahiefioned
to the North, and about 1,200 Federal soldier.
were were expected at the same time for exchange.
The plague at Wilmington, North Carolina, is
increasing in violence.
_Brigadier Gen. W. 11 Smith died at Charleston,
Sailth Carolina.
The state elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In-
diana, and lowa, took place on the 14th instant,
and generally passed off quietly. The latest returns
suc-
indicate that the Republicans were probably
cessful in Pennsylvania And lowa, and the Demo-
crats in Ohio and Indiana.
A. large, enthusiastic, Democratic Aatißgati°ll

meeting was held at the Cooper Institute, in New
York, on the evening of Oct. 13. Horatio S moor,
the Democratic candidate for the govern ►ship of
New York, and other leading democrats, ddressed
the meeting.

Mr. John Van Buren, in a lengthy speech, cast
some ridicule on the administration, and drew a dis-
heartening picture of the difficulties of war in which
the nation is engaged, amused his audience by ridi-
culous sketches of Dickenson, Fremont, Greeley,
and the Republican leaders, and paid a high com-
pliment to Gen. M'Clellan, which drew down en-
thusiastic applause. He informed the Republican
enemies of Gen. M'Clellan that if they would keep
on they would make him President of the United
States. He denounced Mr. Wadsworth as bitterly
hostile to Gen. M'Clellan and as a disunionist ; and
he declared the purpose of the Democracy to be to
stand by President Lincoln as long as he would let
them and stand by Gen. M'Clellan whether he would
let them or not. The most contemptible government
on the face of the earth he declared to be the Repub-
lican government of the Northern States, and after
making that declaration he cried, " And now, ho !
for Fort Lafayette." He had been dieting himself
for the last ten months, and thought he could
stand Fort Lafayette for two months. It could
not hold more than 600, who would not be missed
out of the Democratic majority, and then the fort
would be better garrisoned than it was before. His
plan was that M'Clellan should move on to Rich-
mond, that then a convention should be called,
and their Southern brethren invited to it. The
constitution might then be altered and the provi-
sions made more distinct, so that they should here-
after live in peace; and, if the South would not
stay he would say to them, in the language of
General Scott, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."
He professed his conviction of the triumph of
the Democracy at the coming election, and said
that what at first was wanted was that New York
should see to it that her votes were deposited in
the ballot boxes. They should not lose their time
in talking, and, if the people did call them traitors,
they must not stop to talk, but go to the poll.
They had been told that the Southern folks would
not live, and in his judgment they ought not to
live, under abolition sway, and he would not live
with them if they would.
The following letter from General Scott to Mr.
Seward was read by Mr. John Van Buren during
his speech :

"Washington, March 2, 1861.

,
... ,
" Dear Sir,—Hoping that in a day or two the
new President will have happily passed through all
personal dangers, and find himself installed an
honoured successor of the great Washington, with
you as the chief of his Cabinet, I beg to repeat in
writing what I have before said to you orally—
this supplement to my printed ' Views' (dated in
October last) on the highly disordered condition of
our (so late) happy and glorious Union. To meet
the extraordinary exigencies of the time it seems to
me that I am guilty of no arrogance in limiting the
President's field of selection to one of the four
plans of procedure subjoined :

" 1. Throw off the old and assume a new desig-
nation—the Union Party. Adopt the conciliatory
measures proposed by Mr. Crittenden or the Peace
Convention, and my life upon it we shall have no
new case of secession, but on the contrary an early
return of many, if not all, of the states which have
broken off from the Union. Without some equally
benign measure the remaining slaveholding states
will probably join the Montgomery Confederacy in
less than 60 days, when this city being included in
a foreign country would require a permanent garri-
son of at least 35,000 to protect the government
within it.

" 2. Collect the duties on foreign goods outside
the ports of which the government has lost the com-
mand, or close such ports by act of Congress, and
blockade them.

"3. Conquer the seceded states by invading
armies. No doubt this might be done in two or
three years by a young and able general—a Wolfe,
a Desaix, or a Hoche—with 300,000 disciplined
men, estimating a third for garrisons and the loss
of the greater number by skirmishes, sieges, battles,
and Southern fevers. The destruction of life and
property on the other side would be frightful, how-
ever perfect the moral discipline of the invader.
" The conquest, completed at that enormous
waste of human life to the North and North-West,
with at least 250,000,000 dollars added thereto,
and cui Bono 4 Fifteen devastated provinces, not to
be brought into harmony with their conquerors,
but to be held for generations by heavy garisons, at
an expense quadruple the net duties or taxes which
it would be possible to extort from them, followed
by a protector or an emperor.
"4. Say to the seceded states, Wayward sisters,
depart in peace !
"In haste, I remain very truly yours,

" WINFIELD SCOTT.

" Hon. W. H. Seward, &c."

The following resolutions were passed :
" Resolved—That, as we desire a vigorous prose-
cution of war, the conservative citizens of this city
will continue cheerfully the support given to it
by contributions of men and treasure ; but we will
at the same time insist on the fulfilment by the pre-
sent administration of the solemn pledge, almost
unanimously given, of the Congress of the United
States,' That this war is not waged on their part
in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights and
established institutions of the States, but to defend
and maintain the supremacy of the constitution, and
to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality,
and rights of the several States unimpaired, and
that as soon as these objects are accomplished the
ought to cease.'

"Resolved—That the investigations by Congress
and the state legislatures have disclosed the exist-
ence of fearful and unexampled corruption and
extravagauce—that unless these enormous frauds
be checked the 'hole country must be involved in
bankruptcy and dishonour ; that we would be
faithless to the principles of honesty and economy
in the administration of public affairs if we did not
expose and denounce these wrongs on the industry
people ; and that, in the
and great masses of the
language of our friends of New Jersey, we solemnly
protest
against such reckless extravagance and
infamous peculation.
"
,—That we highly approve and cheer-
fullythe truthinl arguments against whole-
saleßeensdool vrseed
emancipation presented by President Lincoln
in his interview with the Chicago delegation' in
the month of September last, satisfied as we are, in
the language of the President himself, that the
measure must be necessarily inoperative and inex-
pedient,' and that no possible good can result from
the issuing such a proclamation.'
" Resolved,—That, in the language of the re-
visers of the statutes of this State, the writ of
habeas corpus is the great bulwark of personal li-
berty to the citizen.' (Applause.) That if in Eng-
land it points out to the humblest individual in the
realm effectual means as well to release himself
though committed by the King in Council, as
to punish those who unconstitutionally misuse
him, then in this republican country it should at
least be as effective to protect an American citi-
zen from arrest upon mere suspicion or inuendo
of disloyal practices even by the highest officers
in the land. We hold that the privilege of the writ
of habeas corpus can only be suspended by act of
Congress, and that the question of the power of the
President to suspend it must be decided by the
Supreme Court, a decision to which both the Presi-
dent and ourselves must yield. (Great applause.)

_ .
" Resolved,—That, faithful to our own record,
we renew our vows of loyalty to the Union and the
constitution, and stand now and ever supporting the
strong arm of the Government as the only break-
overwhelming
break-
water between the constitutional rights of the
"Revolved people of the United States and the rising flood of
and Wadsworth by h
State, the line is
be-
tween those
and the Union
I who seek to establish force and lawlessness.
Wien and a new Union!
, " Resolved,—That
—That in the nomination of Seymour
. t e respective parties of the
whodistinctly and clearly drawn
asit believe in the constitution as it is
of this State the ticket nominated at
ground we :eaeoppralausnea)—and the men
their stead a new consti-
to the electors
that its election Will tend Albany, on the
to cheek etr