The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-01 00:00:00

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

NEW YORK, AUG. 21.
(Per Arabia, by Telegraph to Halifax and via
Queenstown.)

The says Cincinnati Gazette says—" The long-
threatened invasion of Kentucky has commenced.
The rebels have entered the state at several points.
They have captured Somerset, are moving on Glas-
gow, and threaten Bowling-green. Gen. Kirby
Smith, with 15,000 men, 24 pieces of artillery, and
an adequate force of cavalry, is moving from East
Tennessee to cut off the Federal supplies at Cumber-
land Gap and compel its evacuation. Confederate
General Morgan is still in the vicinity of Gallatin.
Two hundred Confederate cavalry are at Monticello,
and are supposed to be the advance guard of the
enemy. The crisis is truly alarming, and the go-
vernor is putting forth all his energies to meet it.
Two Federal regiments have been sent from In-
dianopolis, and seven more are to leave. They will
go amply prepared in all but discipline for the
conflict."
Latest despatches state that General Smith has
captured London, in the rear of the Federals, and
doubtless will attack them in front and rear.
Federal General Buell is cut off, and it is feared he
is in a precarious position. Communication between
Kentucky and Nashville is interrupted.
Southern accounts of the battle of Baton Rouge
say :—" General Breckenridge's expedition did not
prove a complete success, owing to the Arkansas not
having co-operated. Had that vessel not met with
an accident the victor,' would have been complete.
The Confederate land force accomplished all that
was possible. They drove a largely superior Federal
force from a strong and well-chosen position two
miles through the city to the shelter of their gun
boats. They captured many prisoners and de-
stroyed 600,000 dols. worth of Federal property.
The confederate loss would net reach 300. General
Breckenridge ordered the recall of his troops,
after they had driven the Federals quite to the
river under the protection of their gunboats. The
Confederates are now encamped upon the Comite
River."

The Richmond Despatch announces that the
Confederate Congress would meet at Richmond on
the 18th inst., and says, " The most important
measure to be decided will be the Conscription Act.
The Federals have called for 600,000 men, and
unless the Confederate Congress acts with energy
the South will be taken at a disadvantage. The
South can put in the field as large a force as the
North, by calling out all conscripts between 35
and 45, and by extending the list to the ages of 16
and 55. Old men could be used to garrison the
towns, leaving the young men to take the field.
If these measures are rigidly followed out the
South can put in the field a force quite equal to
Lincoln's. We trust that Congress will not be
delayed by the dream of intervention. There is
now less cause to expect foreign intervention than
there ever has been from the beginning of the war.
England not only does not mean to interfere, but
has done, and will probably continue to do, every-
thing in her power to prevent France from inter-
vening. The English people are favourable to the
South, but thus far the English Government has
not sympathised with the South, and has pursued
a policy little less than openly hostile. England
has withheld France and opened the English ports
to the Federals for the purchase of arms and
munitions of war, while she knew the South could
not obtain them."
One brigadier general, one colonel, a major, ten
captains, and 24 lieutenants of General Pope's
army are at present in Richmond as prisoners.

General Halleck has issued order; that officers
and men will be held accountable for all property
taken from the enemy. Officers or men taking
private property without authority will be shot.
A new military department has been created,
composed of the states of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucky east of Tennessee
River, including Cumberland Gap, to be called
the department of Ohio, under the command of
General Wright.

A mass meeting has been held in Brooklyn. The
usual war speeches were delivered, and resolutions
were passed in favour of the war, and denouncing
mediation:

It is reported that General Butler will be relieved
from the command at New Orleans, and that
General John A. I)ix will be appointed in his
place. Mr. Reverdy Johnson will be appointed
provisional governor of Louisiana.

A semi-official Washington dispatch says that
Mr. Reverdy Johnson has made a report to the
Federal Government upon the points which he
lately went to New Orleans to examine, and that
President Lincoln has approved his conclusion. He
recommends the return to the Dutch Consul of the
800,000 dols. seized by General Butler, and the
payment to the French Consul of 716,000 dols., and
also that a large amount of sugar and other mer-
chandise should be relinquished to British, Greek,
and other foreign merchants in New Orleans.

Mr. Johnson declares that these seizures by
General Butler cannot be justified by civil or mili-
tary law.
Mr. Cassius M. Clay has been serenaded at Pitts-
burg, Pennsylvania, where he made another long
speech, devoted principally to denouncing England.
Mr. Horace Greely has published a letter, ad-
dressed by him to President Lincoln, which he
terms the prayer of 20,000,000 people. He says
the party which elected Mr. Lincoln is sorely dis-
appointed at his policy on the slavery question.
He considers Mr. Lincoln disastrously remiss in
discharging the emancipation provisions of the
Confiscation Act, and that he is unduly influenced
by the counsels, representations, and menaces of
the Border States members. He complains that
the Confiscation Act is habitually disregarded by
the " Federal generals, and that no word of rebuke
has yet reached the publie ear." wont
Generals Fremont
and Hunter's orders were, he says, promptly
annulled, while Gen. Halleck's order, forbidding
slaves to come within his lines, has never provoked
any remonstrance. A large proportion of the Fede-
ral regular army officers, and many volunteers
evince far more solicitude to uphold slavery than
put down the rebellion, Mr. Greely also complains
that negroes who at New Orleans endeavoured to
escape, strictly in accordance with the Confiscation ,
Act,
were maimed, killed, or returned to slavery,
and says, " All attempts to put down the rebellion
and uphold its inciting cause are futile. If the re-
bellion were crushed, and slavery left in full vigour,
it would immediately break out again. The army
officers who to this day remain
devoted to slavery
are only half way loyal men. appeal
to the testi-
mony of American ambassadors in Europe
whether
Mr. Lincoln's seeming subserviency to the
holding interest is not the perplexity and delay%
of statesmen of all parties. If it is impressed 411Ppon
the slaves that the Federal Government will sell
them to a bitter bondage in order to defray the war
expenses,-the Union will never be restored. Ten
millions of people united in a solid phalanx, and
powerfully aided by Northern and European sym-
pathisers, cannot be conquered. Unless negroes are
taken for scouts, guides, spies, cooks, teamsters, and
diggers, the Federals will be baffled and repelled."
Mr. Wendell Phillips defines his position as fol-
lows :—" From 1843 to 1861 I was a disunionist,
and sought to break the Union, convinced that dis-
union was the only righteous path for the white
man and black. Fort Sumpter changed the whole
question. After that, peace and justice both for-
bade disunion. I now believe three things—first,
that the destruction of slavery is inevitable,
whichever section conquers in the struggle ;
second, that there can never be peace or union
till slavery is destroyed; third, that there
never can be peace till one Government rules
from the Gulf to the Lakes, and having wronged the
negro for two centuries, America owes him the
Preservation of the Union to guard his transition
from slavery to freedom, and make it short, easy,
and Perfect. I cannot conscientiously support the
Union, which for 20 years has debarred him from its
highest Privileges by demanding an oath to a pro-
slavery constitution, neither can I support an ad-
ministration that clings to a policy which makes
every life lost and every dollar spent utter waste.
I have serious doubts if the administration will pilot
the people through their present trouble, but I am