The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-05 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Queen has signed a decree granting an am-
nesty to those persons who were condemned to
imprisonment for complicity in the insurrection at
Loja, and also to 100 emigres.

THE MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS.
VIENNA, SEPT. 5.

A telegram received here from Alexandria con-
firms the news of the massacre of 70 Armenians at
Marash, and that prompt measures had been taken,
with the co-operation of the English Consul, to
punish the offenders.
The Shah of Persia is concentrating a large
military force on the frontier.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN,Strr. 5.

The Royal Mail steamer Scotia, from New York
on the 27th nit., arrived here at midnight She
brings 105 passengers and 000,775 dols. in specie.

She landed 65 sacks of mails and 12 passen-
gers, and proceeded at 12.30 am. All well.
She made the passage from New York in eight
and a half days.
(Per Boot* vii Roche'm Point)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 27, almanac.

The Huntsville correspondent of the New York
Herald says Confederate General Magruder is in-
vading Kentucky with 15,000 men.
Federal General Morgan has repulsed a Confede-
rate force near Cumberland Gap. His position is
reported to be safe.
The Confederate ram which was building at
Savannah is reported to be a failure.
Mr. Thurlow Weed leaves for Europe on the
30th.

The Chippewa Indians have revolted in Minne-
sota. More troubles are expected.
The Richmond Whig estimates the quantity of
cotton destroyed since the commencement of the
struggle at from four to six hundred thousand
bales. _ _

Active skirmishing and fighting, with varied suc-
cess to both sides, continues in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Arkansas, and Missouri.
Confederate General Morgan has defeated 800
Federal troops, under General Johnson, near
Gallatin, capturing 300 prisoners, including John-
son himself. The remainder of the Federals re-
treated to Nashville.
Federal General Rosencranz has proceeded with
30,000 men towards Juntown, Missouri, to attack
15,000 Confederates under General Armstrong.
General Price is expected to make a junction with
Armstrong, when it is believed an engagement with
Rosencranz will take place.
The progress of recruiting in the North is favour-
able. The enlistments still increase.

Mr. Charles Ingersall, a prominent Pennsylva-
nian democrat, has been arrested for making a
speech at a democratic meeting in Philadelphia,
in which he declared that the North was no more
advanced in the conquest of the South than at the
beginning of the war, and denouncing President
Lincoln's administration as the moat corrupt that
ever came into power.
President Lincoln has replied to Mr. Horace
Greely's letter to him. He rays that he is empha-
tically for Union, and that he would retain or de-
stroy slavery, wholly or in part, if Union could be
obtained by either means.
Another war meeting has been called in New
York for to-morrow.

The first colonisation party of negroes will leave
for Central America, under government auspices, in
October next. ,

The Ariel, from Aspinwall, with over one million
dollars in specie, has arrived at New York.
The Sonora, with 1,500,000 dols. in specie, sailed
from San Francisco on the 21st.

The prize steamers Emily and Ladona have been
condemned in Philadelphia.
The steamer Ironeides has made a succeadul
trial trip.

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