The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

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SERIOUS BATTLE.
DEFEAT OF THE YEDERALS.
TROUBLES WITH THE REGROW.

NEW YORK, lEAma 6, Emma.

A battle took place on the sth inst. between
the Confederates, under Van Dorn, and the Fede-
ral', under Coburn, at Springville, Tennessee, 13
miles south of Franklin. The fight lasted all
day, and resulted in the defeat of the Unionists.
The Federal forces consisted of three regiments
of infantry, 500 cavalry, and one battery of artil-
lery. Nearly all the Federal infantry were cut to
pieces or captured, but the cavalry and artillery
escaped. The Confederate forces consisted of in-
fantry with heavy artillery. General Gilbert is
severely censured for not sending reinforcements to
Coburn from Franklin.
Van Dorn is said to have 18,000 men.

The Federal fleet at Port Royal numbers 123
vowels, inoluding 3 frigates, 20 gunboats, and a
force of 30,000 men. _ _ _

A riot has occurred at Detroit, Michigan, caused
by an attempt of the mob to take from the autho-
ritiee and lynch a negro charged with assaulting a
white girl. The mob failed to capture the negro,
but attacked the coloured people miscellaneously.
Fifteen persona are said to be killed, and as many
houses burned.
The New York Legislature has appointed a com-
mittee to wait on the President in reference to the
prisoners from New York State, confined in Fort
M'Henry, who, it is alleged, have been cruelly
treated.

All the new senators have taken the loyal oath
passed in Congress in July last. Several Demo-
cratic senators denounced the oath as unconstitu-
tional.

A large meeting was held last night in New
York, presided over by the Mayor. Union resolu-
tions were adopted, and a committee appointed to
form a loyal Union league of New York citizens.
Resolutions ware also passed denouncing media-
tion as unfriendly.
Mr. John Van Buren urged the vigorous prose-
cution of the war until the rebellion was overthrown,
and approved the act of Congress giving the Pre-
sident the control over the finances and militia.

Several other Democrats spoke in favour of the
war.

The New York World thinks that the tendency of
the resolutions passed was to inculcate unquestion-
ing acquiescence in the acts of the administration,
and blind, abject confidence in the men holding tem-
porarily the Federal offices. The same paper de-
flounces the sentiments expressed in the resolutions
as unworthy of freemen.
The New York Times and Tribune approve the
resolutions as loyal.

NEW YORK, lELBca 7, EVENING.

It is rumoured that the Federal Commander at
Baton Rouge has refused to recognise the negro
regiments.

General Banks has issued orders that negro troops
are to be regarded as equals with the white troops.
The Charleston journals say that the privateer
Retribution has sunk a whaler is the Carribbean
seas The whaler previously showed fight, and
killed one man on board the Retribution.
The Federals attacked Fort Macelister, Savan-
nah, on the 3rd inst. The attack continued at last
accounts

The Glasgow and Borussia take out 6150,000
dollars in specie for Europe. The Damascws, sailing
to-day, also takes out 400,000 dole. in specie.

NEW YORK, MAlcs 6.

The Confederates under General Van Dorn have
advanced towards Franklin, Tennessee, but were
driven back by the Federal!. Fighting continues.
The skirmishing around Nashville is active.
The report of an attempt to assassinate General

Banks, at Orleans, is said to have been a canard.

A secession demonstration occurred at New
Orleans on the occasion of the departure of a large
number of Confederate prisoners for the South. A
large number of people assembled on the levee to
witness their departure, and made various secession

demonstrations. General Banks sent a regiment of
soldiers to disperse the assemblage, and no
disturbance occurred.

All the General Appropriations Bills were passed
by Congress before the close of the session, and
have been signed by the President. These, together
with other appropriations, amount to about one
thousand million dollars. The Miscellaneous
Appropriation Bill, originally introduced by the
committee of ways and means, appropriated only
one million two hundred thousand dollars, but be-
fore it passed through both houses the sum was
enlarged to twenty millions.
The bill to admit Colorado and Nevada as States
of the Union, which passed the Senate, failed to
pass in the House of Representatives, the latter
refusing to suspend their rules for its consideration.
Before the adjournment of the Senate, Mr.
Doolittle, Republican, of Wisconsin, urged that
the last moments of the Senate should be passed in
something betides recrimination. He stated that
all events went to show that America would crush
out the rebellion, and stand before the world
greater, more powerful, more glorious than ever,
and beyond what had ever entered into the mind of
man to conceive. He wished to show the traitors
at home, and the men who talked of intervention,
that America had just begun to fight, and would fight
it through. America bought Louisiana and Florida
in order to have that opening to the ocean, and he
would say, in the name of the North-West, that
before they would allow an independent empire at
the mouth of the Mississippi they would reduce
Louisiana to what it was before America purchased
it—a territory of swamps and crocodiles. He told the
nations who suggested the possibility of an independ-
ent empire at the South-West, that such talk was to
talk what the people of the United States, though
it should result in the upheaval of the whole of
North America, would never surrender. It was
his religious belief that the American republic was
that political power foretold by the prophets, and
for which good men of all ages looked and prayed,
and to whose success and duration Heaven with all
its omnipotence was pledged.
Speaker Grow, in his valedictory address to the
House of Representatives, declared that no matter
what changes were wrought in the social organism
of America, its territorial limits would continue
tho same. The war must be prosecuted until the
last armed rebel is subdued.

Speaker Grow received a unanimous vote of
thanks from the House, a oompliment which was
never paid to any Speaker but once before.
A large meeting has taken place at Trenton, New
Jersey, in response to a call to celebrate the death

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of the people. Scotches were made de-
(dories ,that the people were in a worse condition
than tits people of Austria, and hopes were expressed
that the State government would do its duty
to protect the citizens. Resolutions were also
pasted denouncing the unlimited control of the
wee and sword of the nation, and the unrestrained
poem over the persons of the citizens, given to the
President, and declaring that it was the duty of the
States to resist firmly all encroachments upon their
rights ; that the Conscription Bill was an aggres-
sion upon the sovereignty of New Jersey ; and
that the State authorities are called on to take
measures for the successful vindication of the rights
of the State. The employment of negro.s was de-
nounoed, and New Jersey was stated to be utterly
opposed to the prosecution of the war upon any
other than a constitutional basis.

Both houses of Congress passed the resolutions
concerning mediation, as reported from the Com-
mittee of Foreign Relations.
At a meeting of the Democratic Association Pre-
sident Lincoln's name was hissed.

The New York Tribune, referring to General I
Banks's arrangements with planters for negro labour,
says :—" The military authorities of the Gulf, who j
were charged to recognise and maintain the freedom
of the blacks, have gone into the business of slave-
driving on the largest possible scale, and officers
who went to suppress a slaveholders' rebellion are I
made overseers of plantations which government ,
stocks with re-enslaved blacks." The Tribune charges
General Banks with administering his department
entirely in the interest of the slave owners, and
denounces his course as an oppression of the negro.
An influential meeting has been held at New York
to forward the laying of the Atlantic cable. A
committee was appointed to act, and five gentle-
men have subscribed over 3,0001. to assist the
enterprise.
The New York Times says that 2,000 Mexican
troops had embarked at Mazatlan and Jaimars for
a southern port of Mexico, in order to operate
against the French.
It is considered probable that a conflict may have
taken place at Vicksburg, and not Impossible it
may have been evacuated by the Confederates.
General Joseph Johnston, who commands at
Vicksburg, is the general who evacuated Manassas
and Yorktown in such a wily manner, and at such
moments, as to seriously disconcert the Federal
plans, based upon his resistance at each point. He
may have repeated the same move at Vicksburg,
which is supplied by only one line of railway.
If he has, Port Hudson being strong enough
to hold in shack the Federal advance down the
Mississippi, Johnston may throw himself north-
ward upon Memphis, or to the north-east upon
Rosencrans, or even, by a rapid southward move-
ment in conjunction with the small but formidable
Confederate fleet, attempt to recapture New
Orleans. By adopting either of these plans he
would of course abandon for the time the Red
River country, which lies between Vicksburg and
Port Hudson, and through which the Confederates
receive immense supplies from Texas.
Much anxiety is felt in regard to Charleston.
The expedition against that place is most
formidable, and great efforts will be made to take
it, but General Beauregard has been allowed time
enough to complete all his fortifications, solid
and floating, and to concentrate a powerful force.
There are growing symptoms at the West of
popular dissatisfaction, and much is said of secret
associations organised both to support and oppose',
the government.
In New York a State judge has declared his in-
tention of executing his writ of habeas corpus
against a Federal colonel, who, however, remains
in his castle at Governor's Island.
In the Senate seventeen members took their seats
yesterday, nine of whom were returned for the first
time ; of these nine, six may be ranked as oppo-
sition members, two as extreme, and one, Mr.
Morgan, of New York, as moderate Republican.
The municipal elections in New York State indi-
cate great gains for the Democratic party.

NEW YORK, MAscit 6, ArrizarooN„

The reports concerning the condition of the
steamer Indianola, when captured, are conflicting.
Some say she is seriously damaged, and others that
she is in an effective condition, and that her sur-
render win unneceesary.

The Kentucky House of Representatives has
passed s resolution, calling a National Covention
and a convention of the Mississippi Valley States.
It is supposed the Senate would concur iu the re-
solution.

The steamer Northern Light has arrived here
from Aspinwall, with over one million dollars in
specie. She reports having been chased off the
Florida coast by a steamer flying a distress signal,
but supposed to be a privateer.