The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-24 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. Additional.)

AMERICA.

The news from Missouri indicates a strict enforce-
ment of martial law in St. Louis. The provost
guard is to be respected by OffiCalf and soldiers as
well as by civilians. From Rolla are received
reports of two skirmishes, one on Bengal's Prairie,
Gasconade county, and the other at Cuba. In
the former case two rebels were killed and eight
taken prisoners, and in the latter 10 rebels were
killed and 34 horses captured.
No engagement is known to have taken place
between General Rains, rebel, and Colonel Mont-
gomery up to Friday last, by which it may be con-
cluded that Fort Scott was still safe. General Price
was reported within fifteen miles of that place,
marching onward to join General Rains, when the
united forces would number about 7,000. Ex-
Governor Jackson Muhl to have left Springfield to
join the State forces. General Ben M'Culloch was
last heard of at Fort Smith, ea route for Fort
Walker, Arkansas, but it is expected that his
troops would hover about the frontier so as to be
in readiness to advance and act in concert with the
Missourians, should his services be needed.

A serious revolt had taken place among the New
York Rifles, at Willett's Point, on the9th. An entire
company, as far as it had been made up, attempted to
desert ea muse at the instigation of Captain Cristo
their commander, in order to join another regiouswi
in New Tort. They, were stopped by a special
patrol ea route, and ordered to return to camp, and
'on refusing they were fired upon by the patroL
Two men were killed on the spot, and fire were
severely wounded. Captain Cristo and several of
the men had been arrested, and the affair was being
investigated by the coroner.
A Washington telegram says :
Is order to correct misapprehension, inquiry has been
made at the state department, where it was ascertained that
vigilant public agents are stationed at every point where
persons outer or leave the United States going to or
exam from Csnada, with full authority in the matter of
Pusjeutirtenl Butler bad a long interview with the
Secretary of War, General Scott, and Secretary
Chase, on the 10th. It is reported it was in order
to receive instructions for a new expedition.
Governor Magoffin's message to the legislature of
Kentucky is given entire in the New York papers.
After discussing the national difficulties, he Rays :
Kentucky has meant to wait the exhausting of all civil
remedies before she will reconsider the question of assuming
new external relations. I have never understood that the
people of Kentucky will tamely submit to the unconstitu-
tional aggressions of the North ; that they renounce their
sympathy with their aggrieved sister States, nor that they
will approve of war to subjugate the South. Still I cannot
coostrue any of their votes as meaning they will prosecute a
coercive war against their Southern brethren. They meant
only that they have still hopes of a restoration and perpe-
tuation of the Union, and until that hope is blasted they
will not alter their existing regulatioes. Their final decision
will be lawful, and 1 will execute every constitutional act
of their representatives as vigilantly and faithfully as if ori-
ginated with myself.

He protests against the further prosecution of
the war, and against Kentucky being made the
camping ground or pathway for government, or for
the forces of either of the belligerents, and recom-
mends the Assembly to pass resolutions requiring
both belligerents to keep off our soil and respect
Kentucky's neutrality.
My respect for state rights and state sovereignty will
make ma bow with respectful submission to the majority of
herpes*, so long as I ern a citizen of Kentucky.
The following despatch is from Cairo, Illinois :
General Grant this morning telegraphed to the Kentucky
legislature that the rebels is ooniuderable munban had in-
vaded Kentucky, and were occupying sod fortifying strong
positions at Hickman and Chalk Bluffs. He received a
reply this afternoon, that his menage, together with one
from Governor Harris, of Tennessee, to Governor Megoffin,
had been referred to a special committee. Harris says that
the rebels that landed at Hickman did so without his know-
ledge or consent, and is confident, also, aithout the consent
of Jeffenwoo Davis. Hs has telei,raphed to Jefferson, re-
questing their immediate withdrawal. Accounts from the
rebels in southeast Missouri ere conflicting. Their numbers
are variously estimated at from nine to thirty thousand.
General Anderson bad arrived at Louisville,
where he will take command of the Kentucky loyal
troops. The state is reported to be in a very dis-
turbed condition.
Mail facilities had been restored to Paducah,
Kentucky, that town being in possession of the
Uninu forces.
_ _

Thomas S. Berrill, who was arrested a few weeks
back on suspicion of active sympathy with the
Secessionists, bad been released under bonds, the
testimony against him having been deemed in-
sufficient.

The return of the New York City banks, u com-
pared with the previous week, is as follows :
Decrease in loans, 1,923,244 dollars. Decrease in
specie, 3,210,883 dollars. Increase in circulation,
450,426 dollars. Decrease in deposits, 5,409,596
dollars.

At New York, on the 11th, the money market
remained in substantially the same condition, and
there wea comparatively little doing. There was
an evident scarcity of prime commercial paper.
The rates were without noticeable change, but the
market generally was firmer. Losuis on call, stock
securities, 6 per omit. per annum ; ditto, bond and
nwegage, 6to 7 per cent. per annum ; prime en-
dorsed bills, 60 to 70 days, 6 to 7 per cont. per
annum ; ditto, four to six months, 8 to 9 per cent.
per annum ; tint clans signature*, 7 per cent. per
annum.

The stock market was buoyant, and nearly all
securities were quoted at 2 per oeut. higher, the
market clueing quiet, but firm. The Treasury note
market was firm. The Six per Cents. were selling
at 981 to 99, being the highest point yet touched.
The business in sterling exchange had been mode-
rate, and prices closed firm. Bills on London, 107
to 108 ; Paris, 532 i to 637 j.
The schooner Mary WRea, which arrived at
New York on the Bth from Liverpool with a general
cargo, was seized on the fullowiug day by the United
States surveyor.
Some little activity was reported to have taken
place in the cotton mills in the New England
States, several having recommenced operations, ,
but generally only to run short time.
A soldier declared guilty by court-martial of
having been found asleep on his post, and sen-
tenced to death, had been pardoned by General
M'Clellan, on the intercession of the President.
By a telegraphic error in the advice' by the
Africa, intercepted off Caps Race, the announce-
ment that the British Government intended to
forward 2,500 troops as a reinforcement to Canada
during the month, was printed in the New York
papers as 22,500.
General Mtilellan has issued a special order for
the observance of the Sabbath among the military
forces at and around Washington, and requesting
that no unnecessary movement& should be made on
that day.
Several additional arrests have taken place in
Baltimore and New York ; one state prisoner
escaped from Fort M`Henry, Baltimore, since
which General Dix, commanding at Baltimore, has
forbidden all communication with the prisoners.
The United States revenue cutter Harriet Lane
has arrived at Philadelphia to repair damages from
having grounded off Cape Hatteras. The United
States gunboat Keystone State left Barbadoes on
the 16th August in search of the privateer Sumter.
A large Union war meeting was held at Boston
on Sept. 9.
!h. schooner Mary M'Rea arrived at Now York
from Liverpool, and said to be partly owned in
North Carolina, has been taken possession of by the
United States authorities.
The crew of the United States revenue cutter
Jackson have refused to take the oath of allegiance
to the United States government, and have been
arrested.
It is asserted that resolutions, called neutrality
resolutions, have been introduced into the Ken-
tucky legislature, asserting that the people declared
at the polls to maintain a neutral position, and
that Kentucky will neither fight for nor against
either belligerent, that the South cannot be sub-

[T W OPENCE

dued by force of arms, and that the war should be
BtAPPed, also denouncing General Fremont's pro-
clamation.

Agents have been appointed throughout all the
Federal States to open subscriptions to the new
government loan.
The United States Marshal of New York has
directed Messrs. Duncan, Sherman, and Co., the
transfer agents of the New York Central Railroad
Company in that city, to transfer no more stock
standing in the names of Southern citizens, nor to
pay any dividends to such holders.

The appeal of Secretary Chase (says the Phila-
delphia Bulletin) to the people of the United States
ou the subject of the great national loan for carry-
ing on the war for the Union should be read by
every citizen. It sets forth the advantages of the
loan in a correct light, and does not exaggerate
them in the least. For a permanent investment of
any sum of mosey, from 50 dollars upwards,
there is nothing better than this. Money
boarded in places of deposit, in old stockings
and teapots, is very insecure, besides being
unproductive ' • but invested in Treasury notes
bearing 7 3 lOthe per cent interest, it may
be easily guarded, and will yield a better re-
turn than can be got in any other way. The bolder
of a 50 dollar Treasury note will get 1 cent interest
a day, and so on upwards—the holder of 5,,000
dollars getting 1 dollar a day. The government of
the United States is responsible for the payment of
the interest as well as the principal. This lows is
eagerly sought for, and we do not doubt that it will
be the must popular government loan ever offered
in this country. It affords women and others an
opportunity of aiding the government, and it gives
them and the whole people an individual interest im
the success of the Union cause.

A general order from the headquarters of the
army at Washington, dated Sept. 3, announces
that—

The Treasury Department, to meet future payments to
the troops, is about to supply, besides coin, as heretofore.
Treasury notes in fives, tens, and twenties, as good as fold
at all blinks and government offices throughout the United
States, and most convenient for transmission by mail from
officers and men to their &mime at home. Good husbands,
fathers, sons, and brothers, serving under the Stars and
Stripes, will thus soon have the ready and safe means of
relieving an immense amount of suffering which could not
be reached with coin.