The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-10-04 00:00:00

Jorttgrt anD Colonial Inttlitour.

oratmerry. - SAIL CLA ROIDON'S MISSION.—Th.
Neoe Prat Prase of Wednesday say "Earl
Clersados has explained to Count Rsisobberg the
necessity for isringiag the peso. negociationa to a speedy
Lem He also arivosted the early ismiguratioe of the
rule of the Duke of Augustenburs, who would he
recorniiied by England. Earl Clarendon further
explitinel that tie Italian question urgently required •
*elation, and that should As.tria front • Northern
alliance to oppose the latest movement of the Franco-
Italian policy, England would not co-operate with her,
el.horigh the latter sra ready to ;port Austria about I
she lean towards the policy of the Western Porten. To
these overtures the Auatrian Government removed
reply."
Tee Piaci, NeisociAnoaa.-1126 Ober Pettemee
Stirring et Wednesday publishes • telegram stating
that, at the fifth sittiog of the Conference, held on
Friday, at the Ministry of War, the plenipotentiaries
approved the proposals of the committee for the mias-
mic% of the frontier. Denmark is preparing proposals
fee the settlement of the question of the Duchies
baying • it... in the state property of lb. kit=
DENMARK—The Proreasial
peados: of Wednesday siqe :—.* The delay In the
seam associations, which haa been entirely the fault of
the Danes, has compelled the sillies to adopt every
ruereas to mum Denmark to hasten the work of patellae-
tioa, esneeially by substituting more severe action for
the forbearing rammer in which the ionditions of the
armistice ham bees carried out The commander in
Jutland has already taken some measures to arouse
Denutark to a conesiousness of the country being
occupied by an enemy. It is to be boped that these
measures will sullies, and that the victors will not be
compelled to stake more serious application of the regu-
lations of the armistice with the view of obtaining real

CiiiN A.—By the overland mail we have particulars
of the capture of Nankin, by the Imperialist., and the
termination of the Teeming rebellion. The &nearer of
AD* rebels destroyed himself by swallowing gold leaf, •
few days previous to the fall of his capita With the
end of the rebellion ceases the necessity of any further
interference on the part of Ragland, and it is to be
hoped WO shall DOW canine ourselves to the legitimate
Operations of coonnerse.
JAPAN—Affairs in Japan are in a critical state.
The English, it is said, are about to attach the forts in
the inked Baas, mins the Priem comenta to destiny
thew, of his owe word. The Fieglib have • large
fleet in the Japanese waters. besides • lend fee.° of
4,000 soldiers, be., an army moire than capable of over.
e*:".A.:117 resistance the Japanese can offer. An
A Monaco had been fired aeon by noe of the
behind forte, and returned the compliment, setting the
adjacent town or villemea are. Next &enemata will be
einxime_sly lashed for.
AMERICA.—Tes ARNIRI 07 GRANT AID Liz.
The following are the latest despatches from Grant's
anny :
HEAD-90•ITIMS. ARNT Or TR! POTOSIAO, September
13th.—Pialnetaad artillery firing has been kept
_lop miry
beisitly mime Saturday, the rigour of the rebate not
seeming to have cooled yet. Yee= a berzrimortar
timer a number of ebtM Into P
'sport that Lee announced on Saturday Zest be would
give the Yankees fourteen days to gee away. They re-
present that they have been liviog on abort »times el
poor quality.
The New York Werld's maul aerrespondent, datim
from Grant's headquarters on the 154, says :—There is
Ereams to believe that the »AM have in metals-
mi, and are alreanakeynresselag tor the evacuation of
»burg, mg wigs &dr armies within the
defenses et Itialumed. This may amount for the pro-
Wasted quiet in our front sines their failure to repia
the pesilden of the Weldon railroad, messily captured
by es. There bas bem considerable Iring aloe, • par-
Ron of the line Melay, but without molts of any
moment on either Me. The weather is uneonslortably
cleci. There is a large number of age* and fever
patients la lie hospitals, but the dimes yields readily ,
to medical treatment
POW" Somme, 15th rice Bstrtgone
mime from the front Is that our batteries opened oe
the *slimy on Wednesday, and there has been hairy '
Arley all day to silence the Sr. of the rebels, who have
been for some days annoying oar lime, particularly on
the heft General Grant arrived bare yesterday, ea
roe» for Washington.
The New York Herald's oorreepoodeet with Grant's
army says :—A party of our men stole cut • few nights
WINO and set firs to the signal attic. captured from as
recently, and it was burnt to the ground. It waa not
worth fightieg for, and it is now out of the way of con-
tention. The divisions of the Sib dorm have bees re-
membered. The Itni, commanded by General Wilcox,
Is now the 14; the 2nd, commanded by General
Potter, retains its number; the 4th, composed entirely
of coloured troops, and commanded by General Pore, I
will in future be known as the 3rd.
ADNIR•L PAILLAOUT.II NOTININTII.—The Washing-
ton correspondent of the New York Commercial Ad-
vertmer tel.-graphs as follows, on the 16th September:—
No army news hag been received by the government to-
day, and rumours to the rentrary are false. The @thee-
meet that Farregut's fleet has approached Mobile in
line of battle is sot bell-red at the navy department.
He dose not intend to att.th Mobile. Secretary Welles
does not approve of the policy of capturing Mobile for
the present the forms being needed elsewhere.
Tea Aitszu IR Onosina.—The Richmond Somata
of the 12th has the following September 9.
The prisiesers captured yesterday my that Sherman will
reinforce Greet before it iiihmood,aad finish the rebellion.
They state that pert of his army will go out of melee
this mostii. Tbe enemy are closely massed about
AtLints. There is not the slighter* prospect of an early
resumption of hostilities—The Sentinel, of the same
date, has an article on Sherman's depopulation of
Atlanta,ealling BM event unparalleled in the American
smelted without an example in modern Boma. Sherman,
It aims, leas given the war a new feature. Stern as it
hasbeem,it Is henceforth to be more stern. Horrible as it
has been, it is henceforth to be more so. The
are reedy; if the President wants us let him call Mt,
no matter &boot age. Now, if this be the kind of war-
fare we are to mist we will strip to fight better for
halting am or lisping innocence to die in defame of their
homes, than be driven out in herds to languish
in esile. The last man and last boy onocg as must
take his musket, sooner than endure sate outrages
as at Atlanta. General Foster bad ordered • draft of all
able-bodied coloured Gideon In his department la
North Carolina. The Louisville Journal has a long
I correspondence from Lamle of the 10th September. It
contains a congratulatory order from General Sherman
remounting the victories, also as &grommet between
Generals !Silberman and Hood for a ten days' trues at
Rough and Reedy, on the Macon »Promd and country
around it, enclosed by a Gird* of two miles radius, from
September 12th, to enable the people of Atlanta to re
move to points south. —Flood WTIT4O to General Sher-
man on the 9th, saying: "Permit me to may the
unpmeedented measure you propose transcends he studied
and iniquitous cruelty all ACM ever before broeght to
my attention is this dark history of the "WM IN the
name of God and humanity I prates*, believing you are
expellee( from homes sad firesides wives an 1 children
of heave -people." Hood, le • letter to Calhoun, mayor
of Atlanta, says: "I shall do all in sny power to neitigthe
the terrible hardships and misery that mast be brought
upon you» people by the order of the Federal soeummther."
A letter from General Sherman to Hoed was sot
obtainable, bat the following items froes • mike lamed
2 .:Le
n' mayor of Atlanta, by permisolon of Oemeral
will give an idea theme :—All eitimas are
required to leave Atlanta, sad proceed either north or
meth. The government will tarnish transportation
south as far NI Rough and Ready, and north as far as
Chaelanoome. All Miami may take moveable property
with them; transportations will be furnished for all
moveables. Negroes who wish may go with their
matters; the other male mgroes will be pot in the
employ of the United States government. Negro wooing
and children will he seat oat of the lines
The SOW* from New York, beings intelligences to
Slat September. Some details were even of the Dews
brought by the previous mall of the battle on the 19th
between Sheridan and Early in the Simandosh Valley.
The Federal mineral, Sheridan, reports the engagement
to have lasted during the entire day, and the defeat of
Belly to have been somplerte. His own lees be esti-
mates at 3,000, and that of the Confederates at 5,000.
Up to the 21th Sheridan had not deemed it advisable to
pursue Early. It wet nunoured that Lee was attempt-
log to torn Grant's left. The threatened split in the
Democratic reeks had been avoided, sad the whole
party will support ll`Clellam Two stems» have been
implored on Lake Erie by Confederate paciesegers on
board, and it wee espeseed that am attempt would be
made to release the prieon.es coallesd in Jobiesoe
Island. Advisee from Mexiso report an attack ea Cor-
tina.. by the Frau& at Ratamores ; and it is merted
that Colonel For* with the Confederates oe the Rio
Grande, assisted the Fritsch troops, takiai pare I. the
enmeshment. Cortesee sebeemseetly armed Into Tuna,
and hoisted the Federal leg at Brownsville, declaring
himself as Amnion& Massa. Gold was quoted 2231

.701101 would very mush like to know if 000 king by gas
may he celled the triumph of ses-trosiomy.
Tem Vicwour. Canon—Wan-orrice, September 22.
—(From the Garotte of Friday).—The ()seen hes been
'misty pleased to bar intentiou to cooler the
of the Vietmk Cron as the sedennentioned :
asistaat-Ourpos Willisms Temple said Lent. Arthur
Frederick Placard, Royal Artillery, for gallant casket
during the marsh on the esenn's positlos at Rusin,
in Now Zeeland, as the 20da of November WE, in
expoeiug their lives to inimineut danger is oraning the
entrains of the Maori keep, at • poist upon white the
seemly bad eessestrated thur Ire, with • view to
nadir assietanee to Um wounded, and more espesielly
to the late Oneteiii Mercer, of the Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant Pickard, it is Meted, crossed mid re-srassed
the parseet, to process wets: for the wassded, when
nose at the inon could be Waned to perform this
service, the epees 0110, which be traversed being exposed
to • ones. fire ; mid testamosy is borne to the sambas
cla.gisysd by him and Assienstlitugeos Temple under
the trying assindeness in whist' they were pissed. It
'lll interest many of our DoeuMehtre readers to know
that Liiialeseat Amber Frederick Pickard so
hesoershlL luelnished above, ia the third son of a'. W.
piekard, neg., of litursainster Marshall, formerly of
the Royal Horse Artillery. Mr. Piekerd had also the
bosour of reesising his first ensuniesios lath. Royal
Artillery through tinkled interfensee of her late Malady
&Charkitte, who mearispenied by George the
rear, sad mein other menahen of Um royal family.
who& at Winans* was frectuestly the distinguished
visitor of the Rev. Hemp Piokar4 at the restory, at
Warm/ell Lieutesaat Pickard is a gallant sad
Imeourable rsg,ssastativs of the Piekards s Wennwell
sad Slain ollk. Treseherde of Pezwell BOOM,
Wolveton, end Lybehett, sad also at the thnibridge* of
Westminster Room., in the *empty of illoseester, sod
of Twiekashane- Middlemes.
The Mired's:dos of emaroodithe theloossmand • large
sale from thdit distinetive advantages beteg valued hy
tbs puha* frequently Mends • host of Imitators. To
endaserrea to peas a/ Werke ertieles some
the trwle-weelf, libels, psalm* p,... ig 4.18411=
was, the well-kaown original Importers of tie Pure
Tea ; dwellers purelawre should not fail to mites that
ajas signsters—" Mannino& sad Co., Learkse—is on
.sshge.alise gasket. Their les, from its reliable good
guilty, has far • nose* of • sentery been lutist
favour throoghout
tes iMePlovl4l6 that all shires
nan Mow. ,• pod mid Meths, quality to sere
tre
ineste snaher about
orsearamora.
two tbooesed lbws In Hais Lira* are advaeland Is
ear itaarm.