The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-07 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, AUGUPT 24.
The steamship Canada arrived at Boston early
on the morning of the 23rd August. No intelli-
gence has jet been received in New York of the
steamship Etna.
A lady of some literary notoriety, Miss Windle,
has been arrested at Alexandria, as a Confederate
spy, and has been conveyed to Washington.
The United States Marshal of Philadelphia has
commenced the seizure of all copies of the New
York Daily News in transit to the South and West.
It is also stated that a committee is established at
Nashville, Tennessee, who examine all bundles of
Northern papers to prevent the circulation of those
journals unfavourable to the Southern cause.
The Governor of the State of New York has
issued a proclamation calling upon the people to
respond to the present critical necessity by sending
more men for the defence of the national capital.
The actual loss of the Federal troupe at the lute
battle near Springfield, Missouri, is stated to be
223 killed, 721 wounded, and 291 missing.
Numerous arrests of alleged Secessionists con-
tinue to take place in New York.
The following is an extract from a letter said to
have been found upon Mr. Muir, a political pri-
soner at Fort Lafayette, New York :
The object of my visit to Richmond was to attend a con-
vention of all the banks in the Confederate States,
to see how they amid aid the new government)
with their credit in this emergency. It was agreed
that all the banks should reoeive on deposit, and
in payment of debts, the treasury notes which the
governmeut are about to issue, say to the amount of one
hundred millions, and pay out those notes to their cus-
tomers. This will give them universal currency throughout
the Confederate States, and as our ports are blockaded we
must of necessity do without foreign importations. We can
we the government credit among us so len se the war
lasts, and when the war is over those notes will have to be
funded into a permanent debt.
The planters are everywhere subscribing the half of their
crop■ to the government loan, and it is proposed, though not
yet determined upon, that the government aid the planters
to the extent of the whole crop, either by its hoods or by
treasury notes, the larger denoinioations of which are to
bear an interest of over 7 per cent., which would holuce
many persons to hold them as an investment. To an Eng-
lish financier such a plan might seem very ruinous, but we
have made up our minds that the government must be sop
in the war at all bawds and at any cost ; arid shouldLertesed etreasury notes depreciate or become worthless, we
had better suffer than return to such a government as now
rules at Washicgton.

The letter goes on to say that there are prospects
throughout the South of a most abundant yield
of cotton for the owning crop.
The correspondent of the Nem York Times states
that Mrs. Edwin James has bad the misfortune to
be robbed of her jewellery, valued at 1,4001., at au
hotel at Long Branch, ,a fashionable watering place
in the neighbourhood of New York, where Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin James have been sojourning since
their arrival in America.

The New York Herold suggests that all corre-
',oedemas of English journals should be expelled
from the United States during the present war.
The New York Herald states that during the
pet week alarge quantity of cotton lisa arrived in
New York from Providence for shipment to Eu-
rope, and scribes the reason for this to the fact
that most of the factories in Lowell are closed, and
the price of cotton is 16c. to 18c. per pound, and
the stores in Providence are said to be fill.

Jefferson Davie iut;eigneci---/UiaCttOiend two
more commiasioner► to Europe.

The Americans are negotiating for re opening the
Nimmemten route from the Atlantic to the Pacific._

The people of San Fraucisoo have refused to
obey the law, just passed, which requires all places of amuse-
ment where liquor is sold to be closed on Sundays.
A correspondent of a San Francisco paper gives
as account of the Geyser springs in California. lie says
that_ whore these springs are situated the earth teems with
corkscrew jets of steamy vapour, having a sulphurous smell.
Is cavities boiling water is found, possessing great variety of
sober ►nd taste, and different cavities are impregnated with
glum, iron, soda, magnesia, Epsom salts, ammonia, and marls
guspectively. The earth also is of different colours. The
ground trembles, and if • person stamps on it a hollow
sound is produced. The water is so hot in some of the
cavities that the thermometer bursts in it. If a walking
stick is thrust into the ground • jet of boiling steam ceases
out. Bay and elder trees and boulders are plentiful in the
neighbourhood, and the herbage is very luxuriant. Satan's
Soup Tureens, Devil's Peak, l'lutoo Creek, Pinto's Pulse
Glass, Witches' Cauldrou, are some of the names given tx
certain localities at the spriest.