The Sun. — 1863-09-29 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Sunday an attempt at suicide was made by a woman named Caroline Murray, living at No, 3, Woodin-street, Cornwall-road. It appears she had taken the best part of a bottle of a compound mixture used for French polishing. She was taken to Guy's Hospital, where the stomach-pump was used by the house surgeon, but she remains in an insensible conion.  [AnvEnTrsrmrgr].—lTolloway's Ointment and rills.— Fear Not.—Though surrounded by circumstances disadvantageous to health, these remedies, properly applied, will cut short fevers, influenza, inflammation, diptheria, and a host of other complaints, always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, or unwary. - The superiority of Hollcway's medicines over others for subduing disease has been so widely and fully proved, that it is only necessary to ask the afflicted to give them a trial, and if the instructions folded round them be followed no disappointment will ever ensue, nor dangerous consequences result. Tn hoarseness and ulcerated sore throat the Ointment should frequently be rubbed on the neck, and top of the chest ; it will arrest the increasing intlAmraltion, alley disquietude, and gr 01utili7  The whole of General Meade's army is moving forward, and a general engagement is expected un the Rapidan. No positive information has been received as to the strength of General Lee's army, but it is supposed to have been depleted by the despatch of troops to Tennessee and other parts. It is stated at Fort Monroe that Lee is evacuating Virginia, but this amounts to little more than surmise.  The Mobile Register says:—‘, General Joe Johnson has assumed the command of the army of Virginia, and a Philadelphia telegram asserts that General Lee has proceeded southward for some purpose." Unreliable rumours received from Memphis state that Generals Bragg and Johnston have driven Rosecranz back, and that their cavalry have destroyed his communications. Sixteen thousand Confederates attacked General Negley's division, 5,000 strong, at Bird's Gap, and drove him back three miles and a half. On the following day, however, General Negley recovered his ground with the loss of 35 men. General Bragg has massed his army at Lafayette, and holds the gaps of Pigeon Mountain directly in front of Federal Gen. Thomas's column. The lines of the opposing armies are representedto be a crescent shaped by Pigeon Mountain, which extends like the arc of a circle round Lafayette. The Confederates hold the interior and the Federals the exterior lines. Both armies are within a few miles of each other, but separated by a range of mountains. The latest reports state that the Confederates were moving through Pigeon Mountain Gap, and forming in line as if for attack. Gen. Rosecranz has assumed a strong defensive position on Checkamanga Creek, covering Chattanooga. Gen. Bragg is reported to have a larger force than he had at Murfreesboro'. General Longstreet is reported to have passed through Resaca, with 20,000 men. His advance is positively stated to have reached Lafayette. The Confederate troops were hurrying to Atlanta from all directions.  According to advices from Charleston of the 15th inst., General Gilmore was shelling Fort Moultrie from Fort Gregg. The Confederates had strengthened Fort Moultrie. A Federal reconnoitring party has been captured on the Savannah Railroad. The Confederates have increased their force in front of the Federal lines in North Carolina. The Confederates in Western Virginia, 8,000 strong, are preparing for a raid. Martial law is to be rigidly enforced throughout Missouri. _ _  The Federals from New Orleans are moving in Texas in three columns ; one by way of the Gulf to Sabine Pass, another by way of Red River to Opelousas, and another along the Teche. Two gunboats of the expedition arrived at Sabine Pass, which was found to be well fortified. One of the gunboats was destroyed by the Confederate batteries, and the other was captured by two Confederate gunboats which came out for that purpose. The remainder of the expedition retired.  The judge of the New York District Court has decided that President Lincoln's proclamation prevented Writs of habeas corpus being granted in all cases occurring before or after its issue. A fearful state of affairs is reported to exist on the Kansas-Missouri borders.