The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-07-29 00:00:00

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN KENTUCKY. .

The Anglo-Saxon arrived at Londonderry on
Tuesday, with dates from New York to the evening
of July 14th. The labourers employed in loading
the grain ships had struck, causing the almost total
suspension of the exportation of uread-stuffs. An
uneasy feeling prevailed generally respecting_ both
the military and political prospects of the North.
Two reasons are given for the existence of this
feeling. On the one hand Lincoln's emancipation
scheme—one of the last trump cards he held in his
hand, is likely to turn up no trump at all so far as
the North ia concerned. The border States hate it.
The members of those States have been discussing
it, and, according to the New York Evening Post,
will decline to accept the proposal. It is said the
border States will go over to the Confederates if
emancipation is insisted on. With such a proapect
before them the Northern mind may well be per-
turbed. With the political news come various
important war telegrams. Murfreesborough, a town
not far from Nashville, Tenessee, has been captured
by the Confederates, and Nashville itself was
threatened. In the fight-at the first named place a
whole regiment of Fedemla have been taken pris-
oners. Of still greater importance, as showing that
the Confederates have an eye on New Orleans, a
mobile despatch of the 9th inst., states that Baton
Rouge had once more fallen into the hands of the
Confederates, its rightful owners, under the command
of Van Doris, and 1,590 Federal soldiers taken pri-
soners. From Kentucky it is reported that the
Confederates were in force near Frankfort, and that
in consequence of this there was great excitement in
Louisville, a town on the Indian border of the
State,. It would thus appear that the Southern
soldiers are ineonyeniently nay the Northern
borders. President Lincoln had paid a visit to
what remained of the army of the Potomac. In
addressing the men he said he had come to see for
himself, and that he should go back satisfied. It
was said that they had been whipped, but it
was not so, and would never be. Ile knew
the men around him would prove equal
to the task before them, and that they would
never give op without going to Richmond.
After the beating they got, the men will fall all the
easier, perhaps, (rein the lubrication, with Presi-
dential butter, to which they have been subjected.
The President and General M'Clellan held half an
hour's private conversation together, and the next
morning Lincoln started on his return. The rein-
forcements under General Burnside have passed up
the James River. The New York Evening Post
publishes a special dispatch, stating that the forth-
coming address of the Republican membeni of Congress
to the people, will be in favour of a most energetic
action in prosecution of the war, and using all means
in their power against the rebellion, and foreign
intervention especially. The Paris correspondent of
the Morning Herald has received information
to the effect that before long the recognition
of the Confederate States will simultaneously
be announced by France and Russia. lie says
"France and England are not alone in wishing to
interpose their good offices between the belligerent
parties in America. The Emperor of Russia has
proposed to make, as a preliminary to any con-
certed action, a personal appeal to President Lincoln,
in order to induce him to accept in principle the
negotiation of a compromise between the North and
the South. It this negotiation were accepted it
would have the effect of suspending any mediating
I action whatever, and intervention or mediation
would only be undertaken in cage the North should
positively refine to come to an understanding
directly with the South. The proposition of the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg was communicated to the
Foreign Office by M. Brunow during the stay which
our Minister of Foreign Affairs made in London."

The details furnished by the American papers of the
series of great battles before Richmond are ample
enough to satisfy the most exorbitant demands for
intelligence respecting the American war. The long
and exciting narrative given of the Mx days fighting
by the correepondent of the New York Tribune, and
the comprehensive review of the "masterly," (the New
York Herald calls it magnificent,") retrograde move-
ment of General M'Clellan and his army brought down
to the evening of the 4th inst., show that, if M'Clellan
had not &Mussily wanted to negotiate terms of surrender
with the Confederates, as was stated by that startling
telegram which prodeced such a sensation in this
country on Friday last, the condition of his army was
criticalin the extreme. The very last sentence from
the Tribune Sc a sentence. of apprehension for the
safety of the army of the Potomac. If that frequently
beaten force could only get twenty-four hours' rest
and breathing-time or if it could be reinforced, it
might manage to bold its own. But no rest would
be given to it. The enemy wAs watchful, resolute,
numerous, and brave, and, would force the fighting.
Such was the tone in which a Federal, and apparently
an honest Federal, wrote respecting the events he had
witnecased, and the tone is decidedly more despairing
than hopeful. The latest intelligence by telegraph to
Halifax is up to the loth inst., and it was then thought
another battle was close at hand. The nett mail nuly
bring us news of this fight, and unless M'Clellan has
been largely reinforced in the interval between the sth
and the 10th, another, and perhaps greater, Federal
disaster may have to be reported. The position into
which M'Clellan had been drawn is said to be exceed- i
ingly unhealthy. City Point, says a Baltimore
authority, is one of the worst places In the world
for teems, consequently his daily loss from disease
at this season of the year most be something
frightful. The correspondent of the Tribune,
it will be seen pays • high compliment to the bravery
of the Confederates. They marched upon the batteries
with joy, their charges were equal to those of the French
and British infantry, and so forth. The correspondent
of another journal says, "The rebel.' are madly in
-earnest. They mean to win. Human life is to them
eo much smite] stock, to be sunk, if need be, to ensure °
mimes& They fought through the six days with des.
peration. batteries cut great gashes in their
ranks, bat, maddened by whisky, heedless of life, they
imbed on, heedless of their fallen comrades and of the
pure death awaiting them. The slaughter on both sides
was fearfuL Not lees than 30,000 men were put hors
de combat. _ I have the authority of • general for
saying that that is an under estimate." Maddened by
whisky! What a delightful inference. The Yankee
ecribe mulct not understand why men should fight so
noblyfor their independence, and he solves the difficulty
by declaring they were drunk! The New York Times
admit* the Federal lost to have been 25,000, and says,
on the authority of General Porter, that the Confede-
rate lose amounts to 75000, both of which statements
are likely to be untrue. As usual the Herald brags,
Iles, and prophecies, "as with the organs of an ass."
The latest prophecy we have seen was issued on the
6th, and it was to the effect that in a few days Rich-
mond would be in the bands of the Federalists, The
Herald is the most unfortunate of seers, and we should
suppose that the pertinacious refusal on the part of
events to verifyits predictions must be tellingsomewhat
unpleasantly on its circulation. The false prophet,how-
over, if he prophesies pheasant things, as the Herald
always does, is more frequently believed than the true
one. Among the minor items of news published is •
statement that the President had gone to pay a visit to
M'Ciallan's army. Confederate Stock in Richmond had
risen trona 93 to 27, a the result of the late battles.
General Burnside, it Is said, had joined ll'Clellan at
Harrison's Landing. European intervention was still
being discussed by the New York press, and the
Herald says that "If America is forcibly broken up by
foreign interference the loss of American bonds, amount-
ing to six or eight million dollars, due to English
capitalists, is inevitable. If the Republic is divided it
is no longer the United States; and the question is
which half of it will be responsible to foreign countries
for the common debt." Perhaps the difficulty might
he got over by each half paying its share. This at
least would be the honest ray. The question of arming
the slaves splint their misters was being seriously
debated in Congress. Mr. Sherman said he would
organise an essay of negroess and desolate every
Southern State, rather than that the Union should be
destroyed. Another senator urged the employment of
negro°s in the war as perfectly legitimate and advan-
tageous; and Mr. Rice, remarking that tho time was
come when the Southern Confederacy must be recog-
nised, or the rebellion speedily put down, said he would
not hesitate to use all means, armed negrose among the
number. Mr. Wilson, of Massnehusetts, wanted the
war fought to • successful issue, but first of all he
wanted the people to be told the trial). Ile declared,
that it would seem as if an organised system of lying I
had been established. One man only, in the course of
the debate—Mr. Davis, of Kentucky—protested against
the arming of slaves, and Mr. Rice told him that
strangers would think him an emissary defending the'
rebel Government. Two items of intelligence, received'
by telegraph on Monday night, are Worthy of notice.
The first is that a Washington letter of the 4th July
states that large reinforcements were being sent to
M'Clellan, detached from the armies of lialleek.
Burnside, and Hunter. General Korey, the chief of
M'Clellan's staff, it is said, had arrived at Washington,
and public, feeling in the capital, it was affirmed, was
very depressed. The second item is from the New York
correspondent of the Herald, who, writing on the Bth,
says the report of the eapture of 1,000 "rebels" in the
victory on the 4th— the skirmish, namely, in which the
Confederates were totally defeated—was "got up" for
exportation to Europe be the steamer Arabi*. If those
prisoners exist merely on paper the victory we have
eard so much about is not likely to lass) any more
reliable foundation.

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The Times of Monday, in its eity article, says :--It
is seen that the scanty intelligence from America con-
tained In the telegrams by the Arabia to-day does not
absolutely contradict any of the material features of
the doubtful and extraordinary news previously
brought by the Glasgow. Nothing is shown as to the
pxotion of General hrelsllan's army that escaped
destruotion, and, as there can be no question that the
present meagre despatches embody everything that
could be concocted to throw a gleam of cheerfulness
on the Federal cause, this absence of assertion is ex-
tremely significant, while the penis in the money
market which has carried gold up to 16 per cent. pre-
mium, together with the mendaeious c' against
"threatened" foreign intervention, ig considered to in-
' dioate a general eonscionsness that a crisis of defeat
has arrived, when, according to international prece-
dents, foreign Powers would, if they thought fit to
do so, be entitled to interfere. The general feeling
however, among the commercial body in London is
that until ulterior plans can be matured the Peden&
are extremely anxious to use foreign intervention as a
pretext, and that It would as yet be very inexpedient
to gratify the hope of it.
After ten days' bombardment, the city having been
several times on fire. Viliwineri bad not fallen. Two
thougand contrabands Iwo,* work upon the canal
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move Vicksburg three miles from the river. It was
doubted, however, whether the work would be suc-
cessful. The excitement in Waltercet, it is said, *till
continued, an effect which must have some cause
greater than is reported by. the present mail. The City
of Baltimore brought upwards of two million dollars in
specie with her.

The priori of flour at New Orleans had, it was said,
risen to twenty-four dollars per barrel, and General
Butler had haired a ukase fixing the price of bread.
For bakers who asked for more the penalty was arrest-
meet. The House of Representatives had paused the
new Tariff and Confiscation Bills, and a new Natioual
Currency Bill, had been introduced in Congress which
makes provision for the formation of baiikiug with the
United States Stocks as a basis. This is a desperate
shift to raise the wind. A large band of Confederate
guerillas was reported at Glasgow, Kectueky.
GENERAL BUTLER IN New OULEANR.—An order of
General Buller enjoins that all persons claiming any
privileges of American citizens (except protection from
INSTEODRI violence) should take the oath of allegiance.
General Shepley, military emomandant at New Orleans,
addresses an order to the bakers:—" Head-quarters,
Military Commandant, New Orleans, City-holl, June
I.—The price of flour being this day 24 doL per barrel,
bakers are requested to give, during the ensuing week,
commencing on Monday, 23rd inst., as follows, until
further notice: 24 ounces of bread for 200, 12 ounces
for 10c. six ounces for Sc. Purchasers of bread from
whom a higher price is exacted will report their names,
the name of the baker, and leave a loaf of the bread
purchased and a statement of the priors paid, at any
police station, or with any assistant provost-marshal."
The report, per Glasgow. which agitated the public,
on Friday last, of the offer of M'Clellan's army to sur-
render, is not confirmed, and it has not been substan-
tially contradicted. It did not surrender we may learn
from the latest Federal reports, but it does not follow
the offer was not Merle. We are now better informed
of the extent of the disaster that hefel the army of the
Petoinac than we were list week. The view we thee took
that the Federal were rooted on the 27th of June, and
pursued by the victors until the 2nd of July, is
fully confirmed by subsequent intelligence. It is true
that flight was marked by tremendous battles, for the
Federals fought for position after position, but found
themselves powerless to resist the unrelentless on-
slaught of the foe until they were under the protection
of their gun boats. Even then they deemed it necessary,
though exhausted by a week's fighting, to throw up
entrenchments, and under such circumstances it is not
without the range of possibility that there was an offer
of conditional surrender; and it certainly is but regime-
able that the Confederates, flushed with victory, should
have refused any compronlise. Even the New York
papers are obliged to admit that the army has sustained
a severe defest,—lndes.

The Scotia touche I yesterday at Quoenstown with
intelligence from New York to the 16th inst. The
army of General M'Clellan had not attempted to move
from its position on the James River. The Con-
federates, however, had left its front. General Jackson
was said to be moving in the direction of Fredericks-
burg, and Fort Darling was being strengthened with
iron-clad batteries. The Confederates were everywhere
making preparations for a prolonged struggle. They
were marching on Nashville, in Tennessee, and on Lex-
ington, in Kentucky. The Confederate Cieneral Von
Dorn had declared his intention to protect the banks
along the Mississippi to the last extremity. Vicksburg
still held out against the bombardment by the Federala.
Some doubts are said to be entertained of the recapture
by the. Southerners of Raton Rouge.