The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-28 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Cunard Cunard steam-ship Scotia, from New York
on the 16th, has arrived at Liverpool.
The latest New York papers contain graphic ac-
counts of the great Union meeting which was held
in that_ city on the day prior to the Boatia'sdepar-
tdre. ft was a and patriotic desnonstration,
and was regarded as a grand success. Five stands
were erected in Union-square, and they were all
surrounded by great and enthusiastic crowds.
Speeches were made by Mr. Opdyke, mayor of New
York, General Fremont, and other distinguished
citizens. The New York Herald gives a great array
of characteristic headings to its account of the
event. Commencing with a picture of a spread
eagle and the motto "E pluribus unum," the fol-
lowing sentenoes are displayed in large type
"The Union—the Crisis ;" " Overwhelming out-
Pouring of the people • " "The enormous crowd at
Union-square yesterday ;" "The metropolis speak'
in thunder tones for the Union • " "Over fifty
thousand citizens in council on the affairs of the
nation ;" "No foreign intervention to be tole-
rated ;" "The crushing out of a white-flagman in
a flash ;" "One united voice from fifty thousand
throats for the Union, and one inseparable ;"
"No step backward ;" " Speeches, songs, odes,
and cheers:" "The sudden and refreshing shower
of rain ." " Thunders of applause from the people.
and *Lade: from Heaven for the great cause ;
" Terrible energy of the people for the suppression
of the rebellion ; " One union, one ctiuntry, one
destiny ;" " Tremendous enthusiasm for Little
Mac and our gallant army ;" "Millions of men and
millions of money for the preservation of our great
republic ;" " Oar count , 'tie for thee ;" etc.
The Richmond • of the Bth, gives the
following address of eff. via to his men :
To the Army in Eastern Virginia.-Boldien,—l
late you on Me series of brilliant victories which, nadir
favour of Divine Providence, you have lately won ; mei, se
the President of the Omilederate States, do heartily Waft
to you the thanks of the country, whose just came yea
have so skilfully and heroieally served. To. days age se
invading army, vastly meson to yea is, embers sad ii
the material of war, closely beleaguered your capital. sag
vauntingly proclaimed its measly conquest. You mamba
to attack the enemy io his noresehments ; wife well-
directed weeniest. and death-defying valour yon
upon him in his strong positions, drove him from said
field over a distance of more than 35 mike, sod, his
reinforoemeets, compelled him to seek shelter the
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cover of his gunboats, where he now lies, co ore
the army so lately derided and threatened with . sub-
juption.
The fortitude with which you have borne toll sad pries-
tint, the gallantry with which you have entered into each
successive battle, must have been witnessed to be folly
appreciated ; but a grateful people will sot fail to marlin
beand to bear you in loved remembrance. Well ma it
be said of you that you bare " done enough for glory ;" bat
duty to • suffering country and to the cams of ometitu.
Mead liberty Maims from you yet further effort. Let it be
your pride to relax in nothing which can promote your
future efficiency, your one grand object being to drive the
invader from your soil, and, tannin your standards
beyond the outer boundaries of the Confederacy, to wring
from' an unscrupulous foe the recognition of your birth.
right, community, independence.
(Sagned) JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The Herald's correspondent at New Orleans
writes as follows on the 30th ult. :
Lieutenant G. C. de Kay, who it will be remembered was
shot at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, about a month since, died
last Friday morning from his wooed*.
The funeral which took place on Saturday evening re-
sulted io a scene so shocking that it is difficult to believe
that it occurred in the nineteenth century among • people
who profess to be sot only civilised, but Chris-
tianised. As the cortege moved through the streets,
women, in the garb of ladies, flaunted Secession badges, and
mocked and jeered at the poor dead body of • brave boy,
who, in life, would have scorned to treat even his enemy
with dishonour. At Christ Church where the services
were held the front pews, the aisles, and the gallery were
filled with& rabble of negroes, rowdies, and raggedboys, the
1 women showing Secession badges freely. One of the women
who scoffed at the remains was the well-known Mrs. Phillip
Phillips, who, with Mrs. Greenhow, was arrested last
summit at Washington for treason, and who, it will be re-
-1 membered, caused her house to be illuminated from base-
ment to attic on learning of the Union defeat at Bull Run.
When the funeral procession passed her in Cherles-street,
she, with other females, eat on the balcony and laughed and
Mend at the sad display in an intentionally offensive man-
ner. On General Butler's return to this city from Baton
Rouge, learning of the disgraceful proceedings the day
before, he was greatly enraged, and declared that if he had
been here he would have bombarded the church with his
artillery. This morning he ordered Mn. Phillips to be ar-
rested and brought before him. Accompanied by her hus-
band she arrived about noon. General Butler asked her if
it was true that she bad behaved es above described' She
answered in the most flippant and contemptuous manner,
"I was in good spirits that day." That was enough for the
general, he at once issued the following order :
" Headquarters, Department of the Golf,
' New Orleans, June 30,1862.
"Mrs. Phillips, wife of Phillip Phillips, having boss
once imprisoned for her traitorous proclivities and acts at
Washiegtoo, and released by the clemency of the govern-
ment, and having been found training her children to spit
upon officers of the United States, for which act of one of
those children both her husband and herself apologised and
were again forgiven, is now found on the balcony of her
house, during the passage of the funeral procession of Lieut.
de Kay, laughing and mocking at his remains. and upon
being inquired of by the commanding general if this fact
were so, coutemptuously replies, ' I was in good spirits that
day.' It is therefore ordered that she be not regarded and
treated as • common woman of whom no officer or soldier
is bound to take notice, but as an uncommon, bad, and dan-
sll,olll woman, stirring up strife and inciting to riot, and
that therefore she he confined at Ship Island, in the state
of Mississippi, within proper limits there, till further
*-- and that she be allowed one female servant and no
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orders, .
more, if she no awes ; that one of the houses for hospital
purposes be assigned her as quarters, said a soldier's intim'
each day be semi out to her, with dr near of cooking
the rmo ; and that no verbal or written samossication be
allowed with her except through this slim, end that she be
kept in close confinement Instil removed to Mph/red.—By
orikr of htsjorGenezal Butler.
" F.. S. Divrs Captain and A.A.A. Oeoeral."
General Butler bad confiscated all the property in New
Orleans of the Confederate General Twins, and also that et
Colonel A. C. Piers, the son-in-law of General Twigga
The following menage from the President on the
subject of a slave emancipation bill was then laid
before the house:

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who went to Havannah two mouths ago, bad re- Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Represents-
turned to Vera Cruz, but Almonte refused to let tives,—Herewith is the draft of the bill to campmate any
them land. Several inhabitants of Vera Cruz, State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the pm
age of which, substantially as precasted, I respectfully
accused of Almonte's newly-created crime of " dia. and earnestly recommend. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
affection," had been expelled the country. The tab
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number of the Mexican forces around Orizaba in bled, that whenever the Praident of the United Stake
stated variously at from 14,000 to 25,000 men. .ball be satisfied that any State shall have lawfully Me-
The evening papers say that Tampico is to be Liehed.delaiaterieryy
or gradually,
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besieged, in order to prevent Juarez from receiving dent, assisted by the Secretary of the Treasury, to prepare
and deliver to each state an amount of 6 per cent. interest
arms from America through that port.. bearing beads of the United States equal to the aggregate
It is positively announoed that General Forey value at doles per head of all the slaves within such State
leaves Paris for Cher to-morrow morning, to as reported by the mune of 1860, the whole amount for
sail for Vera Cruz in the He, this day, asp one State to be delivered It ails, if
illite4,ll abolishment te.blo.
handed over his command of the Ist division of the
army of Paris to another general. ileele4l"..interest to beegineltraeonee Ilir bond% the timegOf deli- I
very, and sot War,. Led be i* further seaweed, that if
Both the Temps and the Prase are informed by any State having so received any each bads shall at any
their London correspondents that a solution of the time animas* by law refoOrrolooo or tolerate olororY
be within its Hahn, eseinu7 to the art ed SbOolillailat 111p011
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[TWOPENCE

mitten on the abolition of slavery in the Border
Slave States.

In the Senate, on the 16th, a bill was introduced
amending the articles of war, by providing that
army officers shall furnish protection to slaves en-
tering the Union lines ; and also that if loyal citi-
rens lose_ property by this order they shall be
compensated.
The bill relating to letters of marque, prizes, and
prize law was discussed and laid aside.
The bill relative to calling out the militia was
then taken up, and Mr. Sherman's amendment,
limiting emancipation to those who enter the mili-
tary service of the United States, and to the slaves
of rebels, was adopted by a vote of 18 agaiast 17.
Mr. Browning offered an amendment, which was
adopted, declaring that mother, wife, and children
of negroes entering the military service shall be
freed only when they belong to rebels. After some
debate the bill was passed by a vote of 28 against 9.
The Senate concurred in the house resolution
postponing the final adjournment of Congress till
Thursday in accordance with a wish of the Presi-
dent. Bills making appropriations for civil ex-
=imposing a tax of onecent per pound on
tic sugar, were passed. The bill providing
for the discharge of state prisoners was then dis-
cuaded till the adjourumest.
• Advises from Seas•Franaiseo,, by talepaph. am to
the 12th inst. The whole laminar portion of the
town of St. Louis, in Sierra county, was destroyed
by flee on the Bth instant. The steamer Orizaba,
for Panama, sailed on the 11th. carrying a million
and a half dollars in specie, on freight.
A steamer arrived at San Francisco on the 10th,
bringing 260,000 dole. in gold from Oregon.
Columbia accounts on the whole are encouraging
to the believer', in extensive mining regions. The
season was not sufficiently advanced to permit
much development of the Cariboo mines of British
Columbia.

A grand torchlight meeting'had been held in San
Francisco in honour of the passage of the Pacific
Railroad Bill through Congress. Many houses
were illuminated.

A Toronto Canada Wert telegram says :

The stakeeneM4 in the United State were that the Cam-
dies Sake were about to suspend some payment. are
without the least foundation. Theeenedian Banks were sever
stronger then at prows. The kat Maki stratiment=
that there were our sena WM= al geld on hand a
four millions at the same time last'yean The total amok.
are over sixty million, while the liabilities are thirkyoss
, =Mama.