The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

Jortign onto Colonial intclligence.

FRANCE.—The Petrie says t—The Prince Jerome,
haviog on hoard French troops for Mexico, caught lire
In the roads of Gibraltar. for 'row is saved, but the
ship is lost. The Pleuras, likewise conveying troops to
Mexico, ran foul of another French erase!, and was
obliged to put in at Gibraltar to reptir damages. The
Wagnam will soon quit Toulon to take on board the
passengers of the Prinee Jerome. Prince Napoleon
leaves on the 15th inst. for Berrie.

TURICBT.—The Turks and Servians have oorne into
collision at Ongitsa, the former having been defeated.
Through the intervention of the Foreign Consuls an
•rnistice had been concluded between the parties
which is not hkely to bo lasting. 'fhe Turks. it is said,
are entirely surrounded in the fortress of Belgrade,
and their countrymen residing in the town were
unable to leave their houses. One hundred and seventy
wood !Muses and one hundred and thirty houses in
the 3ervian quarter of Belgrade have been set on
Pe by the Turks, and it is said that the town was
nosily destroyed,

ITALY.—Qaribaldi's wound is of a very serious
character. The Psris correspondent of the Globe says
that it bOW quite certain that some lone months must
clapsa before the hero can be rumored.

TAB AFFAIR OF AsPoottottrn- —The following stile-
moot written by General Garibuldi on board the Duke
of Genoa, relating to the unhappy conflict at Aspro-
moat% will be read with Interest i—" They thirsted for
blood, and I wished to spare it. Not the poor soldier
cote obeyed, but the men of the clique who cannot
totgivo the revolution for being the revolution —it is
that which disturbs their Conservative digestion—and
for having contributed to the ro-establishment of our
Italian family. Yes, they thirsted for blood; I per-
ceived with sorrow, awl I endeavoured in onnsequeuce
to the utmost to prevent that of our assailants from
4ming shed. I rem to the front of our line, crying out
to them not to fire, and from the centre to the left,
where my voice and those of asy aides-de-camp could
be heard, none trigger was pulled. It wag not thus on
the:attacking aide. Having arrived at • distance of 200
meters, they began • tremendous fire, and the party of
licreagliert, who were in front of me -directing their
shots against /MO, struck me with two balls, one in the
left thigh, not serious, the other in the ankle of the
right foot, making a serious wound. As all this
happened at the opening of the conflict, and I was
tarried to the skirt of the wood after being wounded, I
torrid see nothing more, a thick crowd having formed
*rotted me while my wound was being dressed. I feel
certaht, however, that up to the ead of the line which
*as at my litter, and to that of my aides-tie-camp, not
a single mosket wan fired. As there was no firing on
our side, it was easy for the 'troops to approach and
-mingle with ours, and, when I was told that they
wished to disarm as, I replied that the men might
'disarm themselves. The intentions of my companions
were, however, so little hostile that I only by this
-disarmed In the crowd "some officers and regular soldiers.
It was not soon our right. The Picciotti, attacked by
the regular troorle, replied by a fire upon the whole line,
and, altheutethe trumpett sounded to cease firing,
there was at that spot • smart fusillade, which lasted
not more than a quarter of an hour. My wounds led
to some confusion in onr line. Our soldiers, not seeing
me, began to retreat into the wood, so that little by
little the crowd round me broke up, and the most
faithful alone remained. At this moment I learned
that ay Mal and Colonel Paulen°, who commanded
the regular troop!, were negotiating upon the following
considevations : 'First, that I should be free with
my Staff to withdraw where! pleased, (I replied, 'On
hoard an lluglish vessel'); second, that, having arrived
at the siashone, the reed of my companions should be
net at liberty." ColonerPallavicino conducted himself
ens a colorant and intelligent chief in all his military
elevate's**, and he has not been wanting in respect or
-courtesy towards me and my people. He showed his
grief in having to shed Italian blood, but he had received
peremptory radon and had ,to obey them. My
arrangement* bad been purely defensive, and I had
hoped to avoid Oconflict, seeing the very strong position
that 1 °coupled, and entertaining the hope that the
regular troops had received orders lets sangainary. If
I had not been wounded at the outset, and if my people
had not received tho order under all churnstances to
avoid any collision whatsoever with the regular troops,
the contest between men of the same race would have
been terrible. However, far better omit is. Whatever
may be the result of my wounds, whatever fate the
Government prepares form& I have the Consciousness
ef having done my duty; and the sacrifice of my life
in a very little thing if it has (*Umlauted to save that
of a greet number of my fellow conntrymen. In the
bazardossuterprimi in which I rind my companions had
thrown ourselves, with heads bent. I hoped nothing
good fres the Government of Ratani. But why
should teat have hoped for less vigour on the part of
the Xis* having altered in nothing the old programme,
'and having decided not to alter it at any price What
affiets me most is this fatal distrust which contributes
not a little to the Incompletion of national unity.
However it may be, I mien again present to Italy a
serene front assured of having 'done my duty. Once
mere, my unimportant life and the more precious ones
of so many lyceum; men have been offered as •
holm:west to the. %It of unses—pare from all vile
and punnet imbued% —G- Galtratilll."
AMAILICA,Ati FRDIRAUS SHORT OF AMER.—Ito
appears that the Federal Government are defieiont in
arms as wall as men, and that inxionsequence many of
the troops tVri! reach Washington can get nothing to
light With. e Mayor of New York had ordered the
elating of the store* in that city at three o'clock in the
afternoon front August 29th till the 15th inst., in order
to facilitate colatitudes andlfdrafting. It is now made
portal for any person to advertise that he will procure
stabstitntes for those who have no tuts for military
glory, and wirers' persons have been arrested for this
crime. ' Beton Rouge, we are told, has been exacuated,
but not dostreyed by the Federal% I The condition of
Kentucky is said to have, been still (withal, and the
position at the Federate at Cumberland Gap precarious.
Jefferson- Davis bad issued orders that Federal officers
wile bed-armed *laves against their matters shall be
hangerP, if captured.
THE:MILL Or WAR. —The urresmondent of the
New Yorf Tribune, after a ride between 15 and 29 miles
In the neighbourhood of Newport News, and calling to
mind the once thrifty and prosperous condition of the
-district, drawithefollowing sad picture :—What is to
,be seen now? For miles and miles as we rode along
there wes not 1 bonne or baste in sight. Piles of
brick. ' heaps of plaster, charred timbers, and rubbish
scattered, over the lamind, were all that remained nf
once hippy bonus and firesides,.around which children
had cferstiared. Among the reinstall weeds of rook
growth-are growing,fand the walks and door-yards are
overrun With, MHS6 greases. The Cribs, ond barns,
once bursting with grain ; the drying-houses, once
crammed full of tobaseo ; the little whitewashed negroe
tables :on Ire gone—not even a stick of wood remain-
ing to mark the spot whore they stood. Where the
army 44 lessitd along, alike 01 the fence have digap-
peered in We flames and smoke of bivouac fires, and
there the country lies one vast, desolated tract, as far
as the eye can reach. Thir it Ars /forth, who bare ,
eviettanited your mire toward the national expenses, or ,
tent out your yolang melt to fight the battles, have no
idea of the grim realities of war. If you want to know
'what they are, tense tri the South when the struggle is
over, and' sue what those see Who follow the' arm
Here and Sere, by accident or design, a house may be
seen still ellismdlng, ant, more rarely 'still, one which is
inhabited and untouched: One Would think, would he
not? that ipolitary families, seeing snob misery,
each idtlele .xploillion about them, would return
trFlll4
to their Toy tj inclitray for peace on any terms. But
it is not to. . They Speak of the rebel cense as their
own, and prophesy Hi success. If they have tears and
grief for their dead,' they do not show them to us, but
cling to their she With a surprising constancy."
A NOT elnt ORHAt SATTLIL-11000 PRDZRALB KILLID.
General Halleek reports from Grove Down, near Gains-
silk, Annie 30, that a' tortifle battle had been fought
at 801 l Ron on lbw previous day, which lasted with
continuous fury from daylight till after dark, by which
time the Confederates were beaten. The Federal loss
is computed at 2000, and aosording to Northern accounts,
the Corifederagez lost two to their one. The battle
was fought In the identical battle-field the former Bull
Rua battle was fought. Th. Federal troops were much
exhauster. By, latest accounts the Confederates were
retreating over the moontains. The position of the
Federal troopanfilefiatherland Gap was oonaidored Ten'
Precancel& • Afrllmatilorfflo; two Federal regiments bad
been capiared. ' .

A private telegram received via Quebec, by the first
commercial men at Liverpool, says that "Stonewall"
Jackson Ins =weeded in reaching the rear of Pope's
army and defeated it, and that the Confederate troops
are within four miles of Auhington. The Sim newillmPer
believes that the Confederate army hat pained • great
victory. Tile Federal army, greatly ontrnamliered that
of the Confedettdiril.. lithe Federal report of the batch,
is to be pottontldhoe cd.upon, that the Federal lees wee 8000'
end the loin twice that number, making
'24,000, 29th August was indeed a. terrible day in
the annals of Arberlea.

Tax Lan BOLL Eon Fm059.--Maathatten, the
Herald's American correspondent, writing front New
York on the 30th August, says :—There was inters.
anxiety in this city last night. It was quite late when
the impatient lint saddening. news reached this city
that the rebels had made good their stand at Manus" Junction, eel were marching Upon Witabiagtou.
This, yea will reeollert, is what I informed you in •
Previous letter that yew might expect at any moment.
Crowds patrolled the lower part of the town, and very
few alept noon the new.. This morning we have an
official amount of General Pope up to ten o'alock of the
25th. He had become aware that the rebein were all
about Mm, in front,. rear, and on both sides. He had
been sutprised, and fled it narrow esoepe from total
annihilaiden, and he Nei ordere4. his division this way
and that way. li'Llowall was ordered to stop the rebels
on their mania one way, and Hooker another. The
latter killed :and wounded 900 rebel* captured 1000,
and routed the rest. Jackson retreated to the west of
Centreville, where fight we. going on, according to
Poi*, whose reportindicates that be was very much in
the state of an old hen with her head cut off, and
flopping around gelerally. What .adds to the terror
in this ity is the report that General M'Ciellan had
accepted-the command of the army of 'Virginia, God
has certainly (briskets us. The!, last' news will go
through tie North; and prodeos the most direful fore-
b There i. no use in disguising the that that
army thousands regard M'Ciellan not only as au i igno-
rant vain fool; but a. a traitor, who will yet destroy
the Northern mum, and deliver the hundreds of thou-
sands of brave men into the hands of the rebels. Helm
destroyed tens of thousands of human beings, carried
misery into thousands of families, and we have reason
to believe that if in command of the new 600,000, he
will succeed in rendering their power useless, and place
the rebels in power North. It is impossible to read
our doom under thiscomininwier. ?be rebels evidently
intended to ociptare Washfigtoi • Ba/timore would
follow. The. inneemie force at Leesburg is evidently
intended to penetrate through Maryland into Penn-
"l"nis' °inlet's enough, thew is • amend Ball Ran
battle, and the rebels retain :posmasion of the field.
They were muted to take the fortifications that aim"
mind the city of 'Washington. They penetrated to
Rank's Station.; abbot twelve miles from the capital.
()no matter is very mist's/kir,. the rebebi will whip,
or be whiPt. They evidently do not intend to let
M'Clellan fool away another year, 'indices 200,000 men
" "ufnido, itad bag, 44 plauy oath&rri, by mato etch-
Dens.

TEN FEIBRAL ARMY AT SIEND AND S6,76NS.—We
do not understand what the position is of our com-
manders. M'Clellan was at Washington taking supper
with Hallock th;,evening of the day that the rebel
cavalry made their famous dash at the Manassas Junc-
tion. Whether he is under tppe. or Pope under him,
or who commands the army, IS not yet known. -Soule
say that General Hillock will command ft, and that
M'Clellen and Pope will be merely division generals. I
think there is a plan still better than any that has yet
been tried. It is this. As iamb as The military reach
Washineon let the President ordei 'every officer, from
the highest generel down to the lowest sergeant, to be
locked up, and then lame the following address
Boys of the army, I wish you to go to Richmond,
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and to every other place
of importance in the South ; capture the cities, and
every rebel on the route." It would be done, and the
war would ho soon ended. The soldiers would do their
duty. They would go as ordered, and every man
would do his own duty. But with such horrible pig.
heads for generals as we have, men who will take an
army of 220.000, and kill all but 80,000 in six months,
arc a come to a people, and their names can only be
heard to be execrated, Congress should pass a law
changing the name of M'Clellan to Smith, so that he '
can get on in the world without his name being loathed.
I have stood for my man Pope, so that it could not be
said that I opposed all of our great generals, but lam
afraid I shall have to give him up. He will fight, but
unfortunately other qualities than those of * bull
i -
terrier are required n a general. He has retreated
from the Rappahannock. All this is nothing. Pope
may be made to perform grand retreats, or fight
battles; but neither he nor any other man can stand
op under the overwhelming ridicule that the lose of
his baggage has called forth. It is reported that he
sent on • special messenger to this city to replace hie
paper eollara, duplicate set of false teeth, hair and
tooth brushes, and Miller's halr-oil.—Manhatiess.

Tug Itoothts HAVE QUITTED NEW -FOR/C.—Our
police chuckle over the accounts of murders, robberies,
fire., that reach us from London. We know what it
means here. The prospect of • draft frightened all our
thieves away, and they have escaped over to London.
This is the reason why we are free from the usual
quantity of professional crime this year. If the
600,000 ordered out is not enough, there will be another
draft made early next year, and the thieves now abroad
are so well assured of this fact that they will remain
away until the rebellion is subdued. It was proposed
not long ago that all the thieves and criminals in our
various state prisons should be released on condition
that they would go and fight, but the government
would not listen to ft.—Manhunt*.