The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-23 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(Per Anglo-Saxon, by Telegraph to Father Poin
and from Londonderry.)

NEW YORK, OCT. 11, Evening.
General M'Clellan's headquarters are at Harper's
Ferry.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, surrendered to the
Confederates on the conditions that private property
should be respected, but that public property would
be removed or destroyed. The Confederates are
moving in the direction of Gettesburg to destroy
the bridge at that point and prevent the approach
of General 11I'Clellan's troops.
The Confederates destroyed the Chambersburg
railway station, and carried off 500 horses.
The report of a battle having been fought at
Perrysville on the 9th inst. was incorrect.
General Buell officially reports that an engage-
ment occurred at Perrysville on the Bth inst., last-
ing from 10 a.m. till dark. The enemy was re-
Pulsed, but not without some momentary advantage
on the left. The main body of the enemy fell back
in the direction of Harrodsburg. General Buell
adds,—" Our loss is probably pretty heavy, includ-
ing valuable officers."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 11, EVENING.
Money tighter. Exchange on London advancing.
Bankers' bills, 141 to 1411.
Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 1037, ; Illinois,
781 ; Erie, 541.
Cotton advancing—middling uplands, 54c. to 570.
Flour unchanged. Wheat declining. Corn and
provisions quiet. Coffee very firm. Sugar advanc-
ing. Molasses very firm.

DEATH FROM EXCESS OF JOY.—A melancholy
instance of the effects of excessive joy, which Mdme. de
Girardin so vividly pourtrayed in her drama La Joie fait
Pear, has just occurred at Gimbrede (Gers). M. Troye,
cure of Gimbrede, was last week visited by his mother, with
other relations, to attend public worship at his church.
Mdme. Gimbrede was almost beside herself with joy at the
thought of hearing her son celebrate mass and preach a
sermon, but she had scarcely heard the first words of his
discourse when she fell from her seat, and was carried in-
sensible into the sacristy. Her son, seeing what had hap-
pened, hastily descended the pulpit stairs, but from exces-
sive agitation fell into a fainting fit. M. Troye soon re-
covered, but it was found that his mother was beyond all
human aid.
Is A YEOMAN A VOLUNTEER .9—At the Edinburgh
Small Debt Court, on Friday, Mr. Bayne, a member of the
Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry, summoned the keeper of a
tollbar for return of certain tolls levied on him (1) for his
horse end (2) for his carriage, while proceeding to inspec-
tion and review in July last. Mr. Forsyth stated that
during the inspection week his client was daily in the
habit of despatching his horse and accoutrements, in
custody of his groom, to the exercise ground, at Porto-
bello. The pursuer himself drove down afterwards in a
private phaeton, and in full uniform. Toll dues were in-
ryw ere
in-
varibly exacted, as well for the horse as for the carriage.
He maintained that the yeomanry an
section 71 of totally t
h eexemptedMutiny
from these tolls, in respect of the 37th section of the
General Turnpike Act,
Act of 1860, both of which were applicable to
officers and soldiers ; and of the Ist section of the
statute of 1861 extending these exemptions to all volunteer
forces; and he submitted that und3r these various clauses
the exactions complained of were unauthorised and
illegal.—Sheriff Arkley, in giving judgment, sail the
Volunteer Act of 1861 did not, in his view, embrace
yeomanry corps at all, and he considered that these corps
twheerme entitled
nsimplyeral Turnpikelothe Statute.limited
exemptionH
e therefore conferred
held,on
in the present case, that as the pursuer had not himself
ridden his horse on the days
plained of were legally exigible,