The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-20 00:00:00

CHIEF.

" Generals Ord and Hurlbut came upon the
enemy yesterday, and General Hurlbut having dri-
ven in small bodies of the rebels the day before after
seven 'lours' hard fighting, drove the enemy five
miles back, across the Hatchie towards Corinth,
capturing two batteries, about 300 prisoners, and
many small arms.

46 i immediately apprised General Rosencranz of
these facts, and directed him to urge on the good
work.

" the following dispatch has just been received
from him:—

" ' Chevalla, Oct. 6, 1862.
To Major General Grant.

The enemy are totally routed, th ry
-
thint away. We are following trjrpolywi
Hurlbutneßvael : -neer
" W. S. ROSENCRANZ
, elea i
lead
also followi.V.
Under previous instructions General
General MTherson is
in th
of General Raencranz's column.
" The rebel General, Martin, is said to be killed.
" U. S. GRANT, Major General Commanding."
A Cairo dispatch. dated the 7th, says :
" As yet we can only istats the general results of
the fighting at Corinth. Skirmishing commenced
or less
on Sunday last, and there has been more
fighting every day since. The rebel loss is about
800 killed and from 1,500 to 1,800 wounded. We
have 1,500 prisoners at Corinth, and 300 on the
Batchie River, and more constantly coming in. We
e taken several thousand stand of arras thrown
away by the rebels in Nar. flight. They are mostly

Inew, and of English make. Our loss, it is believed,
will be 300 killed and 1,000 wounded. Many houses
in the town were badly shattered by shot and shell.
On Sunday General Ord drove the enem , five miles
over hills and through woods and valley,•-, the rebels
taking advantage of every wood for t , it infantry
and every hill for their artillery. The fight lasted
seven hours. The rebel general, Rogers, was killed.
General Ogleby has died of his wounds. General
Ord is slightly wounded. Prisoners taken say their
effective force in the vicinity is 65,000 men. This
is, probably, an over estimate, but it is certain that
they have outnumbered us two to one."
A St. Louis despatch of Oct. 7, says :--
"Despatches received at head-quarters bring in-
telligence to the effect that on Saturday morning
General Schofield advanced upon the rebels at New-
tonia, a small town about 54 miles south of Spring-
field, and after a two hours' engagement the rebels
broke and fled in all directions. The force of the
enemy is estimated at 15,000 men. Our loss is
trifling. Despatches intercepted after the fight
acquainted General Schofield of the intention of
the enemy to concentrate their whole force at a
point twelve miles distant from Newtonia, to which
point he was pushing rapidly, with the expectation
of renewing the battle on Sunday. No further
particulars have been received."

The following general order relative to the
emancipation proclamation has been issued by
General M'Clellan to the army of the Potomac :
" Head- quarters, Army of the Potomac,

Camp, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, Oct. '7, 1862.
"The attention of the officers and soldiers of the
army of the Potomac is called to General Orders,
No. 139, War Department, Sept 24, 1862, pub-
lishing to the army the President's proclamation
of Sept. 22. A proclamation of such grave mo-
ment to the nation, officially communicated to
the army, affords to the General commanding
an opportunity of defining specifically to the offi-
cers and soldiers under his command the relation
borne by all persons in the military service of the
United States towards the civil authorities of the
Government. The constitution confides to the civil
authorities, legislative, judicial, and executive, the
power and duty of making, expounding, and exe-
cuting the Federal laws. Armed forces are raised
and supported simply to sustain the civil authori-
ties, and are to be held in strict subordination
thereto in all respects. This fundamental rule of
our political system is essential to the security of
our republican institutions, and should be tho-
roughly understood and observed by every soldier.
The principle upon which, and the objects for
which, armies shall be employed in suppressing
the rebellion, must be determined and declared
by the civil authorities, and the chief executive,
who is charged with the administration of national
affairs, is the proper and the only source through
which the views and orders of the Government can
be made known to the armies of the nation.

"Discussion by officers and soldiers concerning
measures determined upon and declared by the Go-
vernment, when carried at all beyond the ordinary
temperate and respectful expression of opinion,
tends greatly to impair and destroy the discipline
and efficiency of troops, by substituting the spirit
of political faction for that firm, steady, and earnest
support of the authority of the Government which
is the highest duty of the American soldier. The
remedy for political errors, if they are committed,
is to be found only in the action of the people at
the poll.

"In thus calling the attention of this army to
the true relation between the soldier and the Go-
vernment the general commanding merely adverts
to an evil against which it has been thought
advisable during our whole history to guard
the armies of the republic, and in so
doing he will not be considered by any
right-minded person as casting any reflec-
tion upon that loyalty and good conduct which has
been so fully illustrated upon so many battle-fields.
In carrying out all measures of public policy this
army will, of course, be guided by the same rules
of mercy and Christianity that have ever controlled
its conduct towards the defenceless.

" By command of
"Major-General M'CLELLAN.
" James A. Hurdle, Lieut. Col., Aide de Camp
and Acting Assistant Adjutant General."

THE MARCH OF GENERAL MORGAN
FROM CUMBERLAND GAP.

CINCINNATI, OCT. 4.

M. C. Garber, quartermaster in General Morgans
division, telegraphs the following to the Madison's
(Ind.) Courier:—

" The advance brigade of Gen. G. W. Morgan's
command from Cumberland Gap arrived at Greens-
burg, Ky., on the 3d inst., after an exhausting
march of 16 days, having roads to make in many
places.
" The men are shoeless, hatless, and naked, and
for days were without rations. They had to gather
subsistence from the corn standing in the fields,
which they grated to made bread after the fatigues
of the day-

"The men bore their hardships and privations
and the fatigues of the march with the greatest for-
titude. They marched 24 hours a day, skirmishing
in the woods on each side of the road, and repelling
the attempts of the rebel cavalry in their front and
rear to capture them.

" The enemy blockaded the way all along the
march, and at every suitable plaee harassed our
column as much as possible.

" Our force is 10,000 strong, with a magnificent
park of artillery, consisting of 28 pieces, six of them
being 20-pounders.

" We had 400 waggons, all of which were brought
off safely. The works at Cumberland Cap were
left in ruins."

In the Confederate Senate on the Ist inst., Mr.
Semmes, of Louisiana, from the judiciary commit-
tee, to whom was referred the resolutions relative
to Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, stated that
a majority of the committee favoured the following
bill :

is Whereas these states, exercising a right conse-
crated by the blood of our revolutionary forefathers,
and recognised as fundamental in the American
system of government, which is based on the con-
sent of the governed, dissolved the compact which
united them to the Northern states end withdrew
from the Union created by the Federal constitu-
tion ; and whereas the government of the United
States repudiates the principles on which its foun-
ders, in their solemn appeal to the civilised world,
justified the American revolution, commenced the
present war to subjugate and enslave these states
under the pretext of repressing rebellion and re-
storing the Union ; and whereas, in the prosecution
of the war for the past 17 months, the rights ac-
corded to belligerents by the usages of civilised na-
tions have been studiously denied to the citizens of
these states, except in cases where the same have
been extorted by the apprehension of retaliation or
by the adverse fortune of the war; and whereas
from the commencement of this unholy invasion to
the present moment the invaders have inflicted in-
human miseries on the people of these states, ex-
acting of them treasonable oaths, subjecting un-
armed citizens, women and children, to confisca-
tion, banishment, imprisonment ; burning their
dwelling-houses, ravaging the land, plundering pri-
vate property, murdering men for pretended offen-
ces, organising the abduction of slaves by govern-
ment officials and at government expense, pro-
moting servile insurrection by tampering with
slaves, and protecting them in resisting their mas-
ters; stealing works of art, and destroying public
libraries; encouraging and inviting a brutal sol-
diery to commit outrages on women by the unre-
bulled orders of military commanders, and attempt-
ing to ruin cities by filling up the entrances to their
harbours with stone ; and whereas, in the seine
spirituoite
do f
barbarous States
enacted
wt the Government
entitled
,A n ofao thet to
suppress insurrection, to prevent treason and rebel-
lainond,
ftoor
her purposes,' seize
eoitze
anpd confiscate the p
uroapnenrotynoefe
dby rebels,a
proclamation, issued
thatpoiBebn y st;hand has
Abraham Lincoln, the Pre-
sident thereof,epupresrusoannsce
hoof]. sdaiada, on the
let of January, 1863, all
within any State, or desia e„ gnated part of St t 'th
people whereof shah be in rebeir e
United States, shall be theneefor iwar on against the
d and for ever
t free, and has thereby made . manifest that this

conflict has ceased to be a war as recognised among
civilised nations, but on the part of the enemy has
become an invasion of an organised horde of mur-
derers and plunderers, breathing hatred and revenge
for the numerous defeats sustained on legitimate
battle-fields, and determined, if possible, to exter-
minate the loyal population of those States, to trans-
fer their property to their enemies, and to emanci-
pate their slaves with the atrocious design of
adding servile insurrection and the massacre of
families to the calamities of war; and whereas jus-
tice and humanity require this Government to
endeavour to repress the lawless practices and de-
signs of the enemy by inflicting severe retribution,
therefore the Confederate States of America do
enact—

" 1. That on and after the let of January, 1863,
all commissioned and non-commissioned officers of
the enemy, except as hereinafter mentioned, when
captured, shall be imprisoned at hard labour, or
otherwise put at hard labour, until the termination
of the war, or until the repeal of the act of the Con-
-1 gress of the United States hereinbefore recited, or
until otherwise determined by the President.
" 2. Every white person who shall act as a com-
missioned or non-commissioned officer, commanding
negroes or mulattoes against the Confederate States,
or who shall arm, organise, train, or prepare ne-
groes or mulattoes for military service, or aid them
in any military enterprise against the Confederate
States, shall, if captured, suffer death.
"3. Every commissioned or non-commissioned
officer of the enemy who shall incite slaves to rebel-
lion, or pretend to give them freedom, under the
aforementioned act of Congress and proclamation,
by abducting, or causing thcm to be abducted, or
inducing them to abscond, shall, if captured, suffer
death.

" 4. That every person charged with an offence
under this act shall be tried by such military courts
as the President shall direct; and, after conviction,
the President may commute the punishment, or
pardon unconditionally, or on such terms as he may
see fit.

"6. That the President is hereby authorised to
resort to such other retaliatory measures as in his
judgment may be best calculated to repress the
atrocities of the enemy."

Mr. Phelan, of Mississippi, submitted a minority
report from the same committee, in the form of a
lengthy preamble and the following resolution :
" Be it resolved, &c., that from this day forth all
rules of civilised warfare shall be discarded in the
future defence of our country, our liberties, and our
lives, against the fell design now openly avowed by
the Government of the United States to annihilate
or enslave us ; and that a war of extermination sha:l
henceforth be waged against every invader whose
hostile foot shall cross the boundaries of these Con-
federate States."

Other resolutions were also offered, suggesting
that all prisoners taken shall be treated and tried as
criminals, and on conviction should suffer death.

The resolutions were ordered to be printed, and-
to be made the order of the day for the 2d inst.
In the Confederate House of Representatives Mr.
Lyons introduced a Aeries of resolutions proclaiming
the infamous character of Lincoln's late proclama-
tion, exhorting the people of the Confederacy to
kill every officer, soldier, and sailor of the enemy
found within their borders, unless a regular prisoner
of war, declaring that after the Ist of January, 1863,
no officer of the enemy ought to be captured alive,
or if recaptured, should be immediately hung, and
offering a bounty of 20 dollars and an annuity of
20 dollars for life to every slave and free negro who
shall after the Ist of January 1863, kill one of the
enemy.

Referred to committee on foreign affairs.
Mr. Foote reported resolutions, which were re-
ferred to committee on foreign affairs, to appoint a
joint committee to address the people of California,
Oregon, and the various territories beyond the
Rocky Mountains, on the expediency of hereafter
establishing a league, offensive and defensive, be-
tween such states and the territories of the Con-
federate States.

A Washington telegram says:—
" It is ascertained that large supplies of cotton for
different parts of Europe are obtained on the Rio
Grande. Mexican vessels are engaged in supply-
ing foreign ships. It is suspected that the Texan
planters convey their cotton to Brownsville, Texas
whence the article is clandestinely conveyed to the
Mexican borders. On the Bth of September there
were twenty vessels there waiting for cargoes, in-
cluding an English steamer, which had sixty
thousand pounds sterling, with which to purchase
cotton."

The Count de Paris has addressed the following
letter to General Sickles :
" Claremont, Sept. 11, 1862.

"My dear General,—l have just read the letter
you wrote to the New York Times in answer to the
misrepresentations circulated about a departure from
America, and I hasten to thank you for having
taken up the pen under these circumstances.
" Although we are accustomed to calumny, and
despise it, nevertheless it is very gratifying to see
the facts put in their true light, and our situation
so well understood and so clearly explained, espe-
cially by a member of the army with whose desti-
nies we were associated during nearly a year. We
shall always remember that campaign with the
army of the Potomac as one of the best and most
interesting epochs of our youth. It is with regret
that we left our companions in arms, and nothing
can be more valuable to us than such testimonies of
remembrance and esteem. I need not add that our
hearty wishes still accompany them; that the dis-
tance has only strengthened the interest we take in
the success of the great cause for which we fought
together.

"Depend upon it, however ignorant and prejudi-
cial my be the public at large, there are still on this
side of the Atlantic some hearts who follow with
emotion the struggle of a great and free nation for
her institutions, and who cannot believe in the ulti-
mate success of the efforts of a deluded minority to
establish a new community, whose corner-stone
shall be so odious, so dangerous, and precarious an
institution as that of slavery.

" Before ending this letter (for the bad English of
which I must apologise), let me still tell you, my
dear general, how glad I should be to shake hands
again with you, and to talk once with you of your
winter quarters in that wild corner of Maryland,
or of the summer days when your tent was pitched
on the field of battle of Fair Oaks.'

" I beg you,my dear general, to believe me always
very truly yours,

" LOUIS PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS, Count de Paris.*

LATEST.

As the Scotia did not leave New York till late
in the day we receive by her New York journals
of the evening of the Bth, from which we make
the following extracts :
A telegram of the Bth, from Louisville, says—
" The enemy are said to be endeavouring to reach
Cumberland Gap. One portion of their army is
still at Lisington. Our troops are close upon both
of their commands. Skirmishing is constantly
going on. No particulars have reached here to-day
which can be transmitted, though military men
hint at important movements soon to occur. They
seem very busy this evening."

The New York Commercial Advertiser says—
" Ever since the day when the order of conscrip-
tion was issued there has been a class of individuals
in this city who have puzz'ed themselves not a little
in trying to invent some ruse or another by which
to escape the draft. Some of them have undoubtedly
left for parts unknown, while others, though re-
maining here, have almost lost their identity with
the people, as they appear to have neither local
habitations nor names ; they float about from one
lodging-house to another, believing that that would
be an excellent dodge' for them to play on the en-
rolling officer.
"But these would-be evaders and skedaddlers
discover, if the draft is enforced, that their names
have been enrolled ; that in spite of their ingenious
efforts to give the enrolling officers the ' slip,' Gen.
Anthon has had his eye upon all their movements.
" At the General Enrolment Office, at 82, Broad-
way, there is a list of names, which, after the re-
bellion shall have been effectually crushed, should
be found on exhibition at Barnum's. This list
comprises over 2,000 names, and there are those of