The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-02 00:00:00

lALTAIT INVIIIIGENCE.

AMERICA.

(izuTsi's Tnagzum.)
(Per the Oity of New York.)

NEW YORK, MAT 23.

President Lincoln has changed Vallandigham's
sentence of imprisonment in Fort Warren to
transportation beyond the Federal lines.
The New York Evening Post says :—" The ad-
ministration is legally bound by congressional en-
actment to hand Vallandigham over to the civil
tribunals, and, as it cannot be supposed that the
administration desires to escape the demands of
the law, the Post expects that Vallandigham will
be handed over to the civil authorities."

Vallandigham's arrest still causes the greatest
excitement throughout the Union.
Various reports are current that President Jeffer-
son Davis is preparing to invade Maryland and
Pennsylvania early in the summer, and that for
this purpose troops are being withdrawn from the
sea coast to reinforce General Lee. The Pennsyl-
vania authorities are urged to organise a militia to
be prepared for such contingency.
Ten Federal regiments are reported to have ad-
vanced on Cumberland to invade East Tennessee.
The Southern papers think the mountains will
prove an insuperable barrier to their advance.
At Suffolk two Federal regiments fired upon each
other by mistake, killing and wounding a large
number. Two companies of Federal mounted
rifles were surprised and badly cut up by the Con-
federates.

The new coloured regiment organised in Massa-
chusetts has been ordered to Port Royal.
The New York Tribune calls upon President Lin-
coln to issue a retaliation proclamation to protect
coloured troops.
The Confederate Colonel Parker, commanding in
Jackson County, Missouri, has informed General
Blunt that if another Confederate citizen or
soldier was executed without process of law, he
should execute five Federals. General Blunt re-
plied that all rebels or their sympathisers, includ-
ing females, aiding directly or indirectly the rebels
in the counties bordering Missouri, would be des-
troyed or expelled his district. All persons found
iu arms in the Kansas district would be summarily
executed when captured.
The Bic/mond Sentinel says it is reported that
two Federal of bad been detained, with a view
to retaliation for General Burnside hanging two
Confederate officers.

The Confederates have captured the despatch boats
Emma and Arrow, used to carry despatches from
Newborn to the North by way of Albemarle and
Chesapeake Canal. This capture cuts off the
Northern internal communication with Newborn.

The Southern journals contain a rumour that
Admiral Farragut has burned his flagship, the
Hartford.

Thomas Francis Meagher's resignation has been
accepted. Only half a regiment remains of the
whole Irish Brigade.
The New York municipality has proposed to raise
a million dollars to pay the exemption fees of
drafted working men.
The steamer Eugenie has been captured off Mo-
bile with arms from Havana. The British schooner
Linnet has been captured.
The political condition of affairs wears a threat-
ening aspect, owing to the repressive measures of
Federal military appointees. The exasperation of
the people throughout the western states is in-
creasing, and denunciations of administration
measures by the democracy in large northern cities
are becoming louder. It is freely asserted that the
administration purposes to nuke the profession of
political opinions the test of loyalty.
The New York World says :—" If free speech
and free elections can be guaranteed, it is our duty
to await the next presidential election for the re-
storation of violated liberties. Bus if political
action is to be made a penal offence, there is the
danger that the aroused indignation of the people
will not await the election which, without free
discussion, would be an insulting farce."
A democratic state mass meeting has been held
at Indianopolis amid considerable excitement.
Speeches were made denouncing Vallandigham's
arrest and the war measures of the administration.
A military guard was kept patrolling the city in the
vicinity where the meeting was held. Forty or fifty
arrests were made for carrying concealed weapons
and shouting for Jefferson Davis. The excursion-
ists in several trains which left Indianopolis at
night fired upon the soldiers. The home military
authorities stopped the trains, made numerous
arrests, and took 500 revolvers from the passengers.
The newspapers in all the western cities are now
under military supervision, and in Indiana free-
press discussion is entirely suppressed by General
Haman. Arrests in Washington are becoming
more numerous.

General Butler is in Washington, and it is sup-
posed he will immediately receive a command.
The City of New York takes out 158,600 dollars
and 3,3861. in specie.

LATEST.

NEW YORK, MAT 23.

The accounts from Jackson and Vicksburg are
so confused and conflicting that it is impossible
to judge what the situation really is at those im-
portant posts.

It is certain that General Grant occupied Jack-
son on the 14th, and, after destroying nearly the
entire city, evacuated it the following day.
General Johnston officially reports that a portion
of General Grant's army attacked General Pem-
berton on the 16th, near Edward's Depot, and
that after nine hours' fighting, Pemberton was
,compelled to fall back behind Big Black River.
Mobile papers estimate General Pemberton's
loss in this battle at 3,000 and the enemy's loss
at three times as much. Confederate General
Tilghman was killed. It is stated that General
Grant, after leaving Jackson, would proceed to
Haines Bluff, and secure the Confederate trans-
ports to prevent the Confederates escaping up the
Yasoo River.

The latest Murfreesboro' despatches state that
the Confederates have evacuated Vicksburg and
Pemberton, and marched out to attack Grant in
the rear whilst Johnston pushed him from the
direction of Jackson. Other reports say that
General Grant had taken possession of the
most important railroad bridge across the
Big Black River, cutting off the Confe-
derate communication with Vicksburg. Still
another report says that General Grant hu been
driven from Jackson and Port Gibson, and that
Johnston betaken possession of the Jackson and
Vicksburg Railroad. It is reported that the Fede-
rah have occupied Warreutown and destroyed
Greenville, Mississippi.
The Federal mortar fleet has again bombarded
Port Hudson from below without material result.
New Orleans Northern correspondents think that
Port Hudson is by this time evacuated, as General
Banks was to attack it from above with the land
forces and Porter's fleet, whilst Fermat's fleet