The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The American Mail Packet Bavaria has arrived
briogiog the most "sensational," not to say startling,
news of the whole war,
•In the first place Lee has judged
it prudent to put the Polon* between himself and *
enemy, and succeeded in wifely conveying his army foie
Virginia, with the loss of 2,000 prisoners, and General
Pettigrew killed. The fall of Port Hudson has followed
that of Viekaburg. The fortress containing 18,000 men
aurrendered unconditionally on the nth inst. Imme-
diately after the surrender of Vicksburg, General
Sherman marched against General Johnson, and is wid
to have defeated him after • very sanguine."' engage.
went, the latter losing 2,000 as prisoners. General
Boaencranx was still pressing onwards, and Getter.'
Bragg's army it said to have retreated from Chattanooga
to Atlanta, with the loes of 4,050 killed and taken
prisocers. The Confederate General Moron wee con.
tinuing his raid in Indiana and Ohio. me Fedenito
hail recommenced their attack on Charlestoe. After
some loss they obtruded possession of the whole of Morris
Is/and, except Fort Wagner. the siege of which they
were pushing with the aid of firs Monitors. Against
these advantages over their foes the Federal' have to
place a serious domestic calamity. The drafting owe.
messed in New York on Saturday. the 11th, when the
names of some 9,000 men were drawn. On its being
resumed on the Monday following something more Wit
• mob—it was, in fact an organised reaidanoe to the
Government by 15,000, headed by MO leaders, who
aaseuibled in front of the Provost threlial's °flee, into
which they forced their way, seised the rispersa
perse the enrolling Alperin and fired the building.
A large force was called out to quell the riot. bet
was assailed and overpowered by MN riorm, who it..
proceeded to further acts of outrage. Many booms
were burnt down. The work of destruction began with
the Provost Marshal's office, whisk ereis burnt,
and the flames extended to sit entire black of
houses, all of which were destroyed, as the dm-
men refused to asidst. But the mob woo required at
appetite fur something more stimulating than the mitre
destruction of property, and it is probable that a large
portion of the " dangerous °lase joined in the tweed
towards nightfall. Pedestrians were attacked in Broad.
wey, every negro in the streets were assailed, and it is
estimated that at least fifty were killed, one of them
being hanged indborned simultaneously. The Provost's
guard used their firearms, but were overpowered, and
mereiles-ly handled. The Armoury and • number of
houses were burnt, and the New Fort Tribune oars
was sacked and set Ire to, and a Colonel O'Brien was
summarily bulged to • lamp-post, after the proems of
the disciples of blank and Robespierre. In fact, for •
certain period • large portion of the city was in the
hands of the rioters, and the disturbances extended to
Brooklyn and Staten Island. It is stated that on the
15th the city was anew more in the hands of the Gover-
nor but all the telegraph lines have been cut, and
business of every kind was suspended. It is stated in
the New York Herald that the conscription has been
'suspended, and if so it is not easy to see how the War Is
1 to be carried on. It is awkward for the FedernlGovern-
went that this outbreak should have come jest Ad
Fortune was beginning te smile on itsarms in the South.
The great hope for the South now is the greet spasm the
Northern armies will have to traverse, and the badsl
loans active operations during the next two summer
months in the field must entail on them. The South
is now entering on • new sphere of trial and suffering,
patriotism and devotion ; but it is certain that the
struggle is no nearer the end by theme reveries, so far
as its continuance depends on the rewire of the Con-
federscy to maintain its devotion.
CONTINUATION or THE RIOTING IN NEW YORE.—
COLLISION BETWEEN TIES MILITARY AND rag Mo.;
100 Nutmeat KILLED.—AOCOrdiIEjto the news brought
.
by the Hibernia everything was quiet" in New York
on the 17th ; but on the previous day the riots were
going on with great fury, many being killed, both among
the military and the insurgents. There was • down.
right battle between the representatives of Dictator
Lincoln and those of his Majesty King Mob, when 64 of
the Letter were put hors de conbat, in one way sad
another, and 15 soldiers were pelted to death with stones
and brickbata. Archbishop Hughes invited the rioters
to lodes to an address in front of his residence. poo=
that they should not be disturbed. At Staten l
the rioters burned the depot and water stations, at-
tacked the negro shanties and burned them, killing 100
negroes ! It is horrible to read of such butcheries, and
terrible to think of the state of demoralisittice which
, must have been reached by • people before they could
have been guilty of the deeds which have stained
, New York so deeply with blood. Beyond the feet
' that the attack on Charleston was being matinee&
the Hibernia brings no more war Dews of any interest.
The Government at Washington, after yielding to
mob violence, and suspending the driift, ham now
broken faith with Seymour and those who sided to calm
the populace in some degree, by giving orders for
the enforcement of the draft by pouring troops
into the city. The symptoms are no longer IlidEdly
insurrectionary, but revolutionary, and a ter
mendous collision was expected every hour. A
conflict seemed to be impending between the
military °Mows sent from Washington and the
civil functionaries of New York. and the animosity
I between Democrats and Abolitionists is described as
intensely embittered. General Lee is said to have pushed
on towards Richmond as hastily as possible, and, with
the proverbial ingratitude of republics, peoplearebegin.
ming to talk of dismissing Mandator not annihilating Lee's
army; before tho battle of Gettysburg the cowardly
bounds were ready to make him a deity if he could only
succeed in saving Washington from capture and the
"army of the Potomac" from destruction. He is the
only officer that has encountered Lee with success, and
yet the people who could trust the drunken and in-
capable Hooker are dissatisfied already with the man
who has literally "saved the Republic According to
Renter's telegram, the Government at Washington is
determined to enforce the draft at New York.
Charleston is not captured, but preparations were being
made on a large scale for an attack on Fort Sumter.
Morgan has seised Jackson, Ohio, but wassail to be mu-
rounded by Federal troops. Arehbialion Hughes, in his
speech to the populace, abused England in a style that
would suggest ideas of "small still" whiskey at or after
the pontifical repasts. It was remarked that he said
not • word of reprobation against the dEOWSGS
esm-
nutted against the inoffensive and unfortunate negroes.
The Archbishop ii also embroiling himself in news-
paper oontroversy, so thst he is not exactly the meek
apostle of peace that we have been led to believe.