The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-06 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, Captain Jud-
kins, which left New York on the 27th ult., arrived
inabe Mersey this afternoon.
A telegraphic summary of her advices has already
appeared.
A special despatch from Lexington, Kentucky,
says :

An order was issued on the 23rd to impress 1,200 slaves
to repair the railroad between here and Cumberland Gap.
Au impressment was made in Fayette and Madison counties,
and loyal owners were paid labourers wages for their SIAM+
while rebel owners were referred to the department at
Washington for the pay for their slaves. It was not neces-
sary to take the negroes of many loyalists. The rebels are in
great distress in consequence of the impressment, as many
of their negroes were taken while working in the hemp
fields. Other roads in different parts of the state are also to
be repaired by impressing negroes in other counties.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON THE EMANCI-
PATION QUESTION.

The President had forwarded the following letter
to the Hon. Mr. Greeley, in answer to an appeal by
the latter gentleman urging the emancipation of
the slaves:

Washiegtaa, August W.

Sir,—l have just read yours of the 19th, addressed to
myself through the New York Tribune. If there be in it
any statements or assumptions, I do rot now and here
controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I
may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here
argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an im-
patient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old
friend whom heart I have always supposed to be right.
As to the policy "I seem to be pur.uitg," as you
say, I h►ve not meant to leave anyone in doubt. I would
save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under
the constitution. The sooner the national authority can be
restored, the tearer the Union will be "the Union as it,
was." If there be those who would not save the Union
unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do
not agree with them. My p►ramount object in this
struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either
to save or destroy slavery. If I could save
the Union without freeing any slave, I would
do it ; sad if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I
would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and
leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about
slavery and the coloured race, I do because I believe it helps
to save this Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I
do not believe it would help to save the Union.
I shall do less whenever I shall believe what
I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more
whenever I shall believe doing more will help the muse. I
shall try to correct erten when shown to be errors ; and I
shall adept new views so fast as they shall appear to be true
views. I have here stated my purpose, according to my
view of official duty, and I Mimed no modification of my
oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could
be free.—Yours, A. Liseous.
In response to this letter Mr. Greeley publish;
another long appeal, in which he says :11

I never doubted, and have no friend who doubts that
you desire, before and above all else, to re-establish the
now derided authority and vindicate the territorial in-
tegrity of the republic. I intended to raise only this
question :—Do you propose to do this by recognising,
obeying, and enforcing the laws, or by ignoring, disre-
garding, and in effect defying them. I stand upon the law
of the land. The humblest his a dear right to invoke its
protection and support against even the highest. That law
—in strict accordance with the law of nations, of nature,
and of God—declares that every traitor now engaged

in the infernal work of destroying our country bas
forfeited thereby all claim or colour of right lawfully
to bold human beings in slavery. I salt of you
a clear and public recognition that this law is to be obeyed
wherever the national authority is respected. The rebellion
is strengthened. the National cause is imperilled, by
every boar's delay to strike treason this staggering
blow. V

The New York Herald advises the President to
put a summary atop to the sedition of Mr. Greeley
and his party.

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Secretary Seward, in a note to the British char
d'affaires, informs that gentleman:thatlaliens'. who
have declared their intentions are not subject to the
draft, none but actual citizens being subject to the
process.
A Washington telegram says :

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The President's colonisation scheme is actually moving
onward. Numbers of negroes have signified their willing.
nese to avail themselves of the opportunityito form a colony.
Senator Pomeroy Las /undertaken a mission of inveetiga.
tion to the designated region in South America, with a view
to ascertain the correctness of the representations made in
reference to it, and to protect the government and the
nolooista from any tricks by land speculators. Mr. Pomeroy,
in an address to the Degrees, states that the proposed settle'
meat will be at Chiriqui, New Granada. I :side
Serious mote had taken place at Cincinnati, be-
tween the Irish and the negrocs.
A great war demonstration was to take place at
New York, on the steamer's day of sailing.

GENERAL BUTLER AND THE FRENCH
CONSUL AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW YORK, Amuse 27.
The following is the text of the correspondence
between General Butler and the French consul at
New Orleans, in reference to the order requiring
the delivering up of arms :
French Consulate at New Orleans,
August 12.
Sir,--The new order of the day, which has been pub-
lished this morning, and by which you require that all and
whatever arms which may be in possession of the people of
this city must be delivered up, has caused the moot serious
alarm among the French subjects of New Orleans.
Foreigners, sir, and particularly Frenchmen, have. uotwith•
standing the accusations brought against them by certain
persons, sacrificed everything to maintain during the
actual conflict the neutrality imposed upon them.
When arms were delivered them by the municipal autho-
rities they only used them to maintain order and
defend personal propeity, and those arms have sines been
almost all returned. And it now appears, according to the

tenor of your order of to-day, that French subjects, as well
as citizens, are required to 'surrender their personal arms,
which could'only be used in self. defence. For some time pest
unmistakable signs have manifested themselves among the
servile population of the city and surrounding country of
their intention to break the bonds which bind them to
their masters, and many persons apprehend an actual re.
volt. It is by these signs, this prospect of finding ourselves
completely unarmed in the presence of a population from
which the greatest excesses are feared, that we are
above all things justly alarmed ; for the result of such a
state of things would fall on all alike who were left
without the means of self defence. It is not denied that
the protection of the United Staters government would be
extended to them in such an event, but that protection
could not be effected at all times and in all places, nor pro-
vide against those internal enemies whose unrestrained len-
guage and manners are constantly increasing, and who are
but partially kept in subjugation by the conviction that
their masters are armed.
I submit to you, sir, these observations, with the request
that you take them into consideration.
Please accept, air, the assurance of my high esteem.
The Consul of France,
Com. litiseg.

Lieutenant Weitzel, United States Engineers and
assistant military commandant of New Orions.
Headquarters, Department of the Gulf,
New Orleans, Animus 14, 1862.
Sir,—Your official note to Lieutenant Weitzel, Assistant
Military Commandant, has been forwarded to me.
I see no just cause of complaint against the order requir-
ing the arms of private 'citizens to be delivered up. It is
the usual course pursued in cities similarly situated to this,
even without any exterior force iu the neighbourhood.
You will observe that it will not do to trust to mere pro-
fessions of neutrality. I trust most of your countrymen are
in good faith neutral, but it is unfortunately true that some
of them are not. This cusses the good, of necessity, to suffer
for the acts of the bad.