The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

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DIRIIHMTER. TUWMA Y. ArtirNT 23. 184.

NOTPS OF THE WEEK.

The American advieee like the nowhere of ti
aerial story, often break off at a &Weal aud
absorbing point. When the interest has been
excited to the highest pitch, the relation abrupt-
ly dam, and we have patiently to await the
further incidents—" to he continued In one
next." The news brought by the Caledonia
some eigl.t or ten days ago loft the Confederate
force at Petersburg in a terrible predicament
General Grant had blown tll • ColiNdtirstte tort,
and destroyed along kith It 11 whole regiment
which formed its garrison. He then assaulted
and tarried a line of Confederate entrench- ,
ments, and the battle was still programing"
when the account was dispatched. The news '
by the Europa. which arrived on Monday,
took up the elcilln4 tale at this Inneditre, and
the additional information quits a Wild the coas-
t:lzof affairs, and then learned that
of bee and his army tieing annihilated
salle dire Of Six thoussnd reclinel troops—some
mammal say ten thousand—were placed hoer flt
wean& Numerically, the Federal Oily had
suffered much greater revertes in killed, wounded
and prisoners sines the present campaign had
commenced ; hut the complete and wholesale
alatigh ;sr that took place on th. 30th tilt. Is
without a parallel in the history of the war. At
half-past four in the morning the ttalit was
lighted which was to blow ep the milts that had
been made in the b-iltre of the outer entrench-
meets of the Confederates, but the fuse had
been spliced half way in the tunnel, and clamed
to burn. An officer then bravely entered the
tunnel and re-sit the fuse. A few tniinitei of
suspense intervened 1 there *AS 5 splicer and a
trembling of the gi-ound. and, slowly the d.
tached tone Of earth nee into the air. and then
descended in a shower of rubbish sand. dust,
fragments of beams and mangled bodirs. It
left • gap in the outer earthwork some 40 fowl
in length, and through this, after some hesita-
tion caused by a momentary belirf that..odii
the Federal forts had been bloerti do. the Federal
troops adi awn& It seamed as If the Confed-
erate troops had been caught napping, for, fur
mem time, the Federal advance, covered by. a
heavy discharge of artillery, met with no resist-
ance, and appeared to be rushing onward to the
Inner defences without chick or hindnunei of
any kind. suddenly MO Clondidetate guns
opened lire. !sestet and faster flashed t'oi gnus
rad( there *as a continuous roar, and an un-
broken sheet of flame. "A friend standing
near me," says one of the narrators, "eompared
it to the contest of two giants belabouring each
other with billnwe of sheet Iron." A Federal
correspondent will not undertake tpt& that the
men became panicatricken, bnt "they heetated,
and the line of battle wimple At length,
after the lapse of sense five or ten minutes,
the brigade of 001. Marshall, of the first division,
hounded en by their officers, charged with • wild
sheer, and, together with Loathes whets division,
went through the breath. Set now came what
the South aould call a heavy and just nitrite
tins upon President Lincoln's manner of dealing
with the Meeks. The coloured division had been
formed in the rear of the mein column of attack.
While the first division held the genus, rith the
seciond and third on each dank, the coloured
troops Iffifil sent forward to charge upon the
second and interior line of the Confederates, and
actually took two flags; hut the Confederates
were infuriated at the sight, and 'fought like
divile," and, reinforcements coming to their aid,
' the tide of battle suddenly turned. The coloured
troops gave way, broke into utter sonfusion
before the Confederate charge, fled, and sought
refuge behind the whits troops. Then cams
down the white divisioia The Confederates
swept down upon them, and the shock was fear-
ful. The crater dug up by the explosion was
packed by Federal troops and speedily became
Eeriest slmitoir—so fearful was the carnage.
The cry now bosuns anseser pent, and the
Touts
lou was *omelets.- It is that President
.Ifrifros4a Misuse to institute aa iogra47 ea ts
4111196 of the Federal Moat. That the defeat

was complete there can be no dinibt, intl the
Confederates may well inscribe the victory do
their banners. lb rally the panio-strucit troops ,
of the North was Our of the question even before
the Confederates had won back the first line
of their entrenchments. We me told that out
of five staff officer. belonging to the nine corps
who sent to rally their men, throe were killed
and two wounded . and a gentleman with
General Ledlie's staff during the whole engage-
meut declared that the ground in front of the
Federal line was literally covered with their
dead and wounded, to say nothing of the
holocaust that lay where the etplodeal fort stood.
The Pinta correspondent's letter, or *hie!' we
Sire an extract iii another colinnti, is mil or in-
terest. Ills descriptl in of the deftentoot erliLh
followed the false niulonr of victory which was
received in New York on the Sunday following
the blowing up of the mine, is m3st vivid ;and the
subsequent reedit or the reaction produced by the
arrilral of the news aging the truthful details of
the Fedeiel tepuise. is most graphic. Amending
ta all appearaucies Grant stands little chance
for the Presidency; Lincoln still lees, so far as
his re-election is concerned ; and considering the
other candidates, there is little 'halms utofisring
an opinion, of their allude* inasmuch as • mw is
anticipated during the elections, which will re-
quire more troops at Washington than at Rich-
mond or Atlanta, or else all signs and portents
are deceptive.

The future position of the Duthie, teen front
Denmirk is a1..-ead7 gi•ring • vast amount of
satiety to tlennany. The occupation of Linen.
bon( by the Federal troops is only one indication
of the feeling which prevails among the minor
Gummi States at the ambitions designs imparted
to Prussia. It is semi-officially announced that
Saxouy amen Is calling upon the Gernivi Diet to
demand an explanation front Austria and Prussia.
for ae• opting from tee Danish King a cession of
rights over the Nettiee to which King Chriitian
himself had no title. Thie intended proposal the
Berliners are prepared to resent as an insult.
If, as it is said, Austriais not prepared to follow
the had of Prussia is its disregard of tederal
rights, impleaaant results may soon folio* to the
original wrong-doers.
The sale by anetdett of the Great %Worn
steam Ship was the subject of an action at the
Liverpool Assizes on Tuesday. Mr. John Kite,
a merchant., attended the sale on the 17th of
February. and claimed to be the highest bidder
at £23.000. the amount at which the leviathan
vessel was knocked down. He sited time
auctioneers, Messrs. Collard, Wllgtin, &
for breash of omitted in not accepting his bid,
and for refusing to declare hint the purChasert,
Late ln the everting lEe jury retiirped • Verdict
which they Cotisrued is be in fallour of the
plaintiff, add they went so far as to weer the
damages at 40s. A portion of the "finding" by
the jury east, that &boa-indigoes of the Stile were
read. This, the learned judge, included a clads,
making it the bidder's ditty it pa meth for the
dep.itht tkb MAI. He, therefore, ordered the
fertilet to he entered for the defendants, at the
same time giving the plaintiff permission to move
the Court above on the question.
A great fire broke one at Hdll I ho* ditia
since, resultiog 111 a hiatry loss to Messrs.
ritilkber and Co., the well-known carriers and
c•numission agents, on whose premises the con-
flagration commenced. The warehouses, which
were totally destroyed. were stored with cotton,
wool, hemp, and other combustible materials.
The loss is variously estimated at from £9O 000
to £lOOOOO. The origin of all this mischief is
said to be • spark from an after-diquer pipe.
The inhabitant. of Butte. on Monday, paid
their annual visit to the Forest of Arden. to
become the guests for the day of their represen-
tative, the Right Hon. F. Peel, M.P., and his
lady. The bon. gentleman's country seat
is in the heart of Shakespeare's land. These
excursions of some hundreds of miles, by a con-
stituency to visit • representative, are a some-
what unique reversal of the general order Of
things • add, before the days of railways would
have been thought as nnlikely as the Scottish
thane believed the prediction to be that " Biruent
wood should colitis to Dansinane." The
" outing," to up a common Ohne*, is irery en-
joyable ; and Mr. and Mrs. Peel have always a
cordial and hountifitl welcome fot their visitors,
who never fail to make up with the voice of
revelry and amusemeut the wonted quiet of the
rural retreat.

Lord Stanley. M. P., presided at the annual
meeting of the Ormskirk and Southport Ajiri-
clitoral Show on Wednesdat hut. In the amnia
of the atter-dinner speeches his lordship adverted
to the oonstitutional manlier in which lier
Majesty bad riled stove she ascended the throne,
and referred to the numerous judicious measures
and legislative ituprovementa which had has,.
carried out during her reign. Some admirable
remarks followed on our national defences, in
which all branches of the several services cams
In for a high share of praise and a Most admire:
ble spbech of practical nature In reference to
agriettl titre, which deserves to be studied alike by
landlords and tenants, as well as by every class
of politicians in England. While regretting that
farming in Lancashire was not so far advanced
as it might be, he dwelt on the necessity. as one
remedy, of the .tenants having leases, which Ate
saiti was the rslo on Lord Derby's oiliata. His
lordship remarked
"I ha.. said it before, and Ise, it spin, although I ma
sfreid it lean old gtory—l think the& every good Mutat
who I. exposed to sun, perstaaautly on tie tam he
hnhts La entitled to stk ler • 1.,,. or for the oder of a
Wee. (Ores! applit,e). It Is ver• simple ellernatift.
If a pith is notable te at-y on an estate,,eithoat a
lour he got At\to stsy With • lieu,—)!llo cans
be It-Meted wi ent les-e, be secs.% be
tnierted hid' the eters (Hear, beer.) &sours ,ass
feel, that there is is nor IdoN nether pla.sing in His idea
of that 00l Ohm whit oziono betlionn Senate at will
and • koala is ski It the parties are bound DM
• meg ly by low but by a fort id lioseureba mid ref...A-
in* that rusts. (Hear.) I heirs mothlog to nay spinet
that, and ober. perfect reliants can be eeeal dims
that undarstanding Ido not dotibt Pilt.it Sall trot.
Bet I .4 is *list I am segiog I am rather, in
.4 sln mlari, addrmeing landlor.a then temente—l say
if • toes•nt is to he exp.:toil to ley one mental o•i hoe
farm, it implies no dietniet of the biadonl : it is .intply
an ordinary and proper tandems rramaties,, that be
should insist upon harms lia * c thav A pgliewie.l I may
-say that awl thst_pdate ci *hid! know ameet—spon
•4•?••i•of WM Derhy—no good tenant to. been or
Sill be refused . la., exeept under .ine peculiar
cirenmetances, where the steempenstile roads are
only tersporaey. and where thew oh isms In
thoes arrangement. 14 aonlemplated. IA pplsome )
Now, the,* Is another lristter, if I ma pod
Siting your pa tepee, 1 *mold Ilk. a
qui?, %jib. tb..d shs,latti(ierd. +hew Istirset ih the Mal
is r ran •east, shool I secure himself spinet ill-assae
ot alh.aritha of the lend by ooe -hoes odsras m.y to
wily temporary. Trirre can he nothing •eid &pivot
that. (N.) Bat that maw in comeral be done by . fee
• imi Is) provhilems, and I chi not he-bate to a., ski
leases, as they ars fionsd tiger ii. slteater pert .4141
cOstly,.ll. In teeny e- gltrlnpa in 011.14-011-111.
COnolli no vile* are name-. wily
6 •utplicesteel nail amerce isarily restricted. It may
be ...id with privet truth that More. resitirthes
are sett illy •mforced. Perfewly trash But then
the *sower is plain. If
_you do not went to sofoo•
them what is the ums id lseine team I (Hear.) I
b herr that tlierei v. thilmte—ihe ono tasking the
giving of La-es ilia timed rsles ms other barlog
Isis.. disen nip o• • Yule they
•te st bel eve that aam t•o waters
wool,' go eery bd. ho Made, that ingestion .4 lead-
ownsreltie of whisk we have beard adusetholg of late."
Lord Stanley expressed his dissent from the
opinion that the land of England was passing
into the hands of • few colossal proprietors. II
r.ither Doomed to him that It wai pulsing in
modenttssiiei *Bulk IMo the NuA of men,
*rho, having made their 10 or 12 per cent. In
trade, were willing to accept 2 or 3 per cent.
only from the returns of land. Tbis, he thought,
was a healthy symptom, and not at all to he de-
plortd, adding :

"t dose not tullott beanie I moo is is collnectinn
with the soil ha II or Ito settee .at independence hOt ly
boom., by is not th's owner of the freehold. t
awn thesterd- and v*6 of thott-w,d. .4 twotak at
will, tab. feel titularies', to be. mid are ,just se email*
in their poition m the landlords soder *iota tin hoid.
do not dwell noon that. I .41 by eli shales whet yon
om lad tossale trim hare la altii.ry 0.4. l nod
skill, make thlnd is&pentlent ; by 4 means n00n?...
Skieliwilt renews which proles. in the aslerhbour•
hood of great t woe tilve to every Ishourisg man at a
um tent, rate • fres cottage. awl there are grewly
increased facilities for Ach ealuties OM/. it yeti do
that, if you Melt • claw al tessala twins/ • thorough
Inds • Allot idlikinierk filmy Of 00,11 the
writers of their owt [reglad I h0n.,., at say rote free to
wife thh r abate elmwhers. with the knowledge that it
111 trawis.ati its fir ash. Ile the la.rittrt-11, you haw*
Ihrwe things. I do aot think there is say f.st in Oda
oounkre UtM emiens complaint will arise beau., we
be., not, am they hay* in some sootteestal notians, our
Oil divided into totatee of wilier it would take •
hundred to maks • gesamtwa Mioi• I b••• deftiaia
700 Mittatt. ;south already ; het oh • ther yea agree with
me Or PIS I V....05t1 you would ?mint bear matter, of
hparest now dimmed in this roots time that I should
offer own complimeate to re

The Rev. Dr. Manning. Or II he i,lights to
call himself, the Rev. Monsignor Maaui"4-6w
hi must needs go to Rome for his mune as be hu
gone to Rome for his religion—has brought bank
to the memory of hi. gook the late dreadful
eltaatrophe of t'snti.n, with a view to induct,
them to helloes that tl5 blaspheme and
rail against the virgin mother of mist The
amnion was the aklisatiouot e greed new sitar
to "Onr Lady lascsawalsoe" as "a ralmasti" for the biaspheleare.ellared -to ism aad d 4.
us oossaqsens• of the terrible estastropias whisk