The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

[Stamped, ld. Additional.)

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(REirrn's.rszsaiuma.)
AMERICA.

(Per Rty of Bsllimove.)
NEW YORK, MAT Al, MORNING.
A prisoner at the Old Capitol Prison, Washing-
ton, has been shot dead while looking out of

window by the guard on duty. This prisoner was
charged with having furnished military appliances
to the Confederates at Richmond. He is said to
have bees a British subject.

It is officially stated that the length of coast
blockaded by the Federal squadrons from Alex-
andria, Virginia, to the Rio Grande, is 3,500 miles.

There are 189 openings in this line of coast.
General Grant's army attacking Vicksburg is

said to number 60,000 11/811.
Great dissatisfaction is expressed by the South•

ern generals with Pemberton's military operations
against Grant, and the Richmond Whig says it is
rumoured that General Johnston has taken his
sword from Pemberton, and placed him under

The Petersburg Express, of the 23rd, considers the
situation at Vicksburg extremely critical, and says
the destruction of the bridge across the Big Black
River not only isolates Vicksburg from communica-
tion with all other parts of the Confederacy, but
opens to the enemy the rich and much-desired
Yazoo country. The Express fears that Pemberton.
with scarcely any field artillery, and his
army greatly reduced, cannot long hold out, unless
Johnston speedily concentrates his forces and
relieves the beleagured city.
The Richmond Examiner says that an attack on
Vicksburg can nowhere be made with a force equal
to the garrison. On no side can more than 8,000
men be deployed in line for an assault. The
character of the ground renders approaches
aiffiCult, while heat and the country malaria
during six months of the year would
make its siege at present one of the most mur-
derous on record. Only treachery or cowardice
could explain the capture of Vicksburg by sudden
assault, and its fall by any other means seems daily
less probable.
The Richmond Sentinel says that Johnston, who
is outside Vicksburg, is preparing to fall on Grant's
flank or rear, and thus raise the siege by a battle,
For this grand struggle both sides seem reinforcing.
The Sentinel looks hopefully upon the situation.
Colonel Jones, with the Bth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment, has made an expedition from Newbern, and
attacked the Confederates in their entrenchments at
Gum Swamp, capturing their artillery, 200 pri-
soners, and destroying their works. The Confede-
rates, however, rallied, and, following up the
Federal rear, harassed the Union troops consider-
ably until they gained their own Linea The
Confederate fire then became very severe, and
Colonel Jones was killed behind his breastworks.
The schooner Sea-bird, of Philadelphia, whilst
aground at the mouth of Neuse River (North
Carolina), was captured and burnt by the Confe-
derates. They put off in small boats from the
shore, and took prisoners the captain and crew of
the schooner.

It has been ascertained at Beaufort that nearly a
million dollars' worth of supplies have reached the
Confederates through the sutlers of the Federalarmy,
who opened wholesale houses at points where the
Federals had no military jurisdiction, and to which
the Confederates obtained free access.

The Federal& have made an expedition from West
Point, Virginia, into the neighbouring counties,
sacking the grain warehouses and burning the mills,
and capturing horses, cattle, and sheep. They
took from the farmers everything that could be of
use to the Federal army, and destroyed their agri-
cultural implements.
The Richmond Examiner thinks the present
moment most propitious for the Southern army to
gain a victory which shall signify something more
than repulsing the enemy, for defensive operations
will never secure the acknowledgement of their in-'
dependence, or end the war. The Northerners will
fight 40 years, so long as war means despatching
men and money to a distance, and as long as they
fail to see the columns of an invading army blacken-
ing their fields, lit by the flames of their houses
and towns. From the first the only reasonable
hope of the Confederacy has been the transfer of
hostilities to the enemy's country. If that cannot
be done, the progress of invasion, however slow,
must after a time overwhelm the South. No treaty
of peace is possible unless signed on Northern
soil, and if the Southern armies can ever go there at
all, the time is now at hand.
The New York Herald thinks the treatment of
Generals Siegel and Francis Meagher by the War
Department, in refusing to give them active com-
mands, is shameful, and attributes Know-nothing
proclivities to the Secretary for War. It is stated
that General Meagher is about to visit Europe.
The Free South, a Northern journal, printed at
Port Royal, says that General Paxton has ordered
rations for negroes to be altogether discontinued,
except in cases where to do so would be inhuman.
The distribution of rations fostered the idea enter-
tained by the negroes, that the government
was bound to support them. The transition from
slavery to freedom appeared to them only
a change of masters, the difference being
that the new master was more easily imposed upon
than the old one. The Free South hopes that when
the negroes have had an opportunity of raising
their own subsistence, and run short through
laziness or neglect, they will be taught by the pangs
of hunger a lesson that will not be lost. Their
former condition as slaves gives them no claim on
the United States. On the contrary, they owe
the Northern government a debt of gra-
titude for favours conferred, and the sooner
the idea of philanthropists, that it is
the duty of the government to give them free sup-
port, is abandoned, the better it will be for both
whites and blacks in the Southern department.
The Commercial Adrertiser says :—" The pri-
soners taken in the battles of the Rappahannock
have been exchanged, and it appears that the
number captured by us is just half that cap-
tured by the enemy. The South claims to present
a list in excess of 8,000, while ours is little more
thou 4,500. This is understood to be the con-
dition of the exchange, arranged between the
Northern and Southern commissioners. The rebel
papers boast of the fact, and the rebel authorities
intimate that they should now dict►te some terms
regarding the exchange of prisoners in future,
which would lead to bloody retaliation if not com-
. plied with."
The New York Times says that Governor Sey-

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mour's letter to the Vallandigham meeting is
posted in all parts of New York. After violently
denouncing the letter, the Times says :

" There are thousands ignorant or base enough
to be influenced by it ; but if the patriotic feeling
of millions in New York State is raised, the New
York rebels will be swept like chaff be-
fore the wind. The Governor may do much mischief,
but he must stop very far short of the revolutionary
violence be has intimated in his letter, or he will
confront a public spirit it will be hardly safe to
grapple with. The human soul never bad a more
inflexible purpose than that now held by the people
of New York State to sustain the war until the
rebellion is crushed. Any man attempting to
divert that determination by pretext or device will
be ground to powder."
The Commercial Advertiaer, noting the changes of
population ceased by the invasion of the Northers
armies throughout the South, says that similar
changes are taking place in the Northern States.
Strangers are arriving in unprecedented members.
So many emigrant& never landed at New York in
one day as on Monday last (the 25th), the aggregate
being over 1,500. During the-usassa probably
50,000 emigrants have sought lb, American shores,
four-fifths of them having landed at New York.
The City of Baltimore takes out 101,088 dols. in
specie.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
CRACOW, Juix 9.

Advocate Trzetrzawinski has been arrested at
Warsaw. .

The Russians have shot the Abbe Loofa, at
Engagements terminating favourably for the in-
surgents have taken place at Wyszogrod and Bal-
wierzynski, in the kingdom of Poland, ►nd at the
Hooke, in Lithuania.
Koziello, the leader of a band of insurgents, fell
at Wladyki, on the 28th ult.

THE PONTIFICAL STATES.
ROUE, Jugs 9.

The Osservatore of to-day denies the statement
made in the English parliament relative to the
sermon preached by Father Cuoci at Rome, and
says :—" Several personages who were present at
the sermon have signed, before a notary, a decla-
ration denying the statement in question, and will
send this declaration to Sir George Bowyer."