The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-08-18 00:00:00

'snip anti frolontal Inttlligrnre.

FR *NCR —All anticipations of an immediate war
with Rimed are happily supposed, even in Paris, to be
at an end; but the sympathisers with oppressed na-
tionalities still talk of SU alliance offensive and defensive
between Franoe and Austria, although they appear to
have no surer ground to rest upon than their own
wishes. The doubt whether the Archduke Maximilian
will accept the Mexican Crown gains fresh strength
daily, notwithstanding the assertions of Le France in
the affirmative ; and the Vienna official organ declares
that the matter is one in which the Austrian Govern-
ment takes no pert whatever, and that the decision lies
solely with the archduke him-elf. What that decision
is likely to be may be shrewdly guessed from the remark
of the same journal that his Imperial Highness is too
experienced • man to adept the offer of the Mexicans
before their country has entirely submitted, and "en-
pressed itself through the medium of freely elected
representatives." Spain, it is reported, approved of the
new situation that has arisen in Mexico, and the Council
of Ministers ha. determined to send an envoy to Paris
charged with a special ruisaion on the subject. From
San Francisco we learn that the French authorities are
exercising all the rights of conquerors in Mexico, and
that • force of 10,000 men were expected to arrive at
Ampule*, whence they were to be dispatched to garrison
the several Mexican ports in the Pacific.
MEXICO —The Paris correspondent of a London
morning eoetemporary is assured that the Archduke
Maximilian has accepted the throne of MO4OO.
POLAND.—The Peet says—We learn that Count
Fdward Czapski. one of the principal landowners in
Lithuania, has been condemned to death by Mouradeff.
The count has not taken an active part in the insurrec-
tion. All that can be said of the Polish insurrection is
that the fighting continues, the balance of victory being
on the side of the Poles.
AMERICA—By the mails which arrived in the early
part of last week, up to the let inst., we learn that
Confederate General Johnstone has been largely re-in-
forced by General Brave and that he was PlePariele for
the defence of Mobile, the holding of which is a matter
of great importance to the Gmfederacy. The invasion
of Kentucky seems to have had no other result than the
frightening of the Federal State authorities, and General
Burnside has issued a characteristic address, declaring
martial law as the only expedient to keep the people
loyal. At the forthcoming September elections uni-
versal suffrage Is to be in Kentucky, and dices
only who are supposed to be loyal to the Federal
Government are to be permitted to record their votee
On the 31st ult, it was reported that General Lee was
massing his troops at Culpepper, and that the general
belief among the officers of Meade's army was that the
Confederate general was preparing for • freak battle.
The object of Meade, it is said, was to prevent Lee get-
ting possession of his late position behind Fredericks-
burg, and it is even reported that be had snoceeded in
occupying the heights from which Lee indicted seek
punishment on Berne& and Hooker. This report,
however, requires confirmation. The siege of Charleston
was programing, but ith no result upon either.
side. Gilmore had made earnest application for re-in'
foreements, and every available transport at Fortress
Monroe had been put into requisition to forward these.
Fresh batteries had been erected by the Federal, and •
°easel, as fire was being directed at the Charleston forte.
The Confederates had refused to exchange the mpg
prisoners captured. With respect to the employment
of negroes by the North, letters from Richmond state
that if the Federals persist in arming the blacks the
South must do the same, in the event of which they
could create a fresh army of 750,000 men Frauds to
the amount of 1,000,000 dollars have been discovered by
the Federal Government in the contracts for clothing,
subsistence, supplies, and horses in the late military
operations in Pennsylvania ! The authorities at Wash-
ington have resolved to enforce the draft at New York,
and if the people will not submit quietly they are to be
shot and be into submission.
A DRAY? BULL —A laughable circumstance took
in the Fourteenth Ward, Philadelphia, duringthe drat-
lug last week. Everything was going on quietly, and
good humour appeared to be depicted upon every coun-
tenance. A mong the many hundreds that were there
was • pile faced son of the Emerald Isle, gaging en the
wheel, and at every revolution gasping for breath. Of
• sudden, losing all control of himself, he buret out.
"Whenl it round! when it round! rouse it will ye!"
"What's the matter with you r said the Provost Mar.
shaL "Oh, he jabbers, to. n it round • dozen limed,
for that lean you drawed last is my next door neighbour."
At this point the universal laugh came in.—New York
Tribree

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A telegram to Father Point, dated We. York, on the
evening of the lit inst., states that the idea of taking
Fort Wagner haa been abandoned, in consequence of
the little impression which is made on the fortifications
by the guns of the aasailants From the Name source
we learn that the United states District Court ham con-
demned the cargoes of several Teasels, and amongst them
that of the Peterhof!. _

The naps' New York correspondent, writing July
31st, confirms the report that the conscription is to be
enforced in the city and state of New York, and martial
law is talked of. The enrolment of negro regiments has
proved a greater failure than most people anticipated.
Mr. Spence, of Liverpool, writes to the TiWKS that
the accounts now arriving confirm the Assertion that
the late reverses of the South, however serious in reality,
were, as usual, greatly eraggerateAL
The Doifg New.' New It ork correspondent believes
Meade will be reinforced by 50,000 men from the army
of the West, and his regiments will be filled up to their
full complement by the conectiption. This is a feat
now be ng done very rapidly, and will put him in
an of a tome of about 200,0 on 00 m,
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I" snit in possession or a veteran army, winch
meet with nothing to opp,se its march on the great
centre of railway communication, or OD Mobile, and
leaving Rosencrans with About 60,000 men to push into
Eastern Tennessee. If these operations were success-
ful, we should have Lee enclosed by October between
three large emnies, with the fate of the Confederacy in
the hands of the remnant of him army.