The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-03 00:00:00

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Pltt NCE.—The Paris correspondent of the Globe
announces that explain Bonaparte Patterson, the half-
brother of Prince Jerome, is among the French officers
in Mexico. As this gentleman is in high favour with
the Emperor, and • native American to the bargain, it
la suggested that he rney prove more aoceptable as a
ruler in Mexico than a Duke of the House of Hamburg.
If Napoleon IIL has made up his mind to act up •
throne in Mexico for some one, it would be • more
sensible set to place one of his own flesh and blood on
it than any one else, but the throne is not yet set up.
ROME—There seems to he a growing popularity of
the "Roman question." In the first place we learn
that the poor old Pope, while making • speech to the
bishops, shed tears. The "tear" is a "weapon of
weakness" of which his Holiness has of late made
frequent ere. He told the bishops that he was afraid
this would be the last occasion on which he would have
the consolation of seeing them assembled in that place.
Now, if the telegram stopped here, one would be justi-
fied in bailing it as good news. The Pope evidently
alluded to the probable break up of the temporal power,
and whe might to know so well as he whether that event
Is at hand But then the next paragraph states that
"the cardinals and prelates, being alarmed at the Pope's
words, asked for explanations from Cardinal Antonelli,
who assured them that nothing was changed in the
situation." This official answer, from such a quarter,
need not drive the friends of Daly to despair. Con-
jecture is useless. The Emperor seems still determined
net to show his game, and he has the means of ono
coaling it. Meanwhile the news from Italy is really
, alarming. The studied ambiguity of the Emperor's
conduct towards Italy is driving M. Ratazzi'a Govern-
ment to extremities against the party of action, which
seriously endanger Regally his popularity but his useful-
ness to Italy.
AMERICA,—The War in America is sweeping over
the land with the velocity and destructiveness of a
hurricane, and all the ordinary feelings and pnrsuits of
men are absorbed is its vortex. Bulletins from the
armies succeed each other with rapidity enough to satisfy
even the appetite of the New York public, sharpened as
it was with twelvemonths of famine. The scale of
operations is absolutely tremendous. The Federals
have 700,000 men in arms, and the Army Estimates
actually voted for the present year exceed £125,000,000
sterling. These forces are no longer stationary. In the
East, as well as the West, they are so actively engaged
that every mail brings us the intelligence of a battle, an
attack, an acivenee, or a conquest. President Lincoln
was right enough when in his homely language he
described this war as "iv big job." It is about the
biggest job of the kind ever seen ; no mere "90 days"
Moines,, or temporary distil rho nce. The "insurrection,"
which Mr. Seward believed to be" warning," at the close
of last year, now covers half a continent with desolation
and havoc, and we are warned that the battles known
to be imininect will exceed in severity any hitherto
fought. A Southern Arany is still no close to the
Federal capital that there is • talk of its throwing itself
upon Washington, and another Southern army holds its
one against as enormous force of Federal*. It cannot
be disguised, indeed, that when North and South have
met, the chances have recently been in favour of the
North- True it is that all reports are written by
Northern pens, and revised by Northern censors, nor
can it fail to have been noticed that the successive
victories of the Federals grow less and less like victories
as the facts struggle gradually into light. It is now
clear that the Northerners had little to boast of at
Williamsbursb, and we may safely infer that General
Pope lost • battle in the West. Still, the Federate do
advance, though slowly, and neither M'Clellan nor
Halleck has as yet suffered any decisive reverse. Since
the Northern armies took the field in earnest they have
received indeed some serious cheeks, but they have not
been actually beaten or effectually repulsed. On the
other hand, the naval expeditions of the Federate have
been victorious at every point of the coast. Even the
Merrimac has now been destroyed, and it is worth while
to observe once more, before that name is forgotten,
how important a part has been played in this mighty
war by • single iron-eased frizate. There is something
mysterious about her story. We cannot quite under-
stand why, after asserting her power so terrifically on a
first essay, she should have been inactive ever after-
wards. The mere accident of damage and repair is not
enough to amount for the fact, but it is plain from our
correspoudence that the simple existence of this vessel,
even when onseen and unfelt, inspired the camps and
councils of the Federals with unremitting alarm.
Before she was destroyed she was reputed equivalent to
an army of 00,000 men, and she detained in Hampton
Roads the most powerful division of the Federal navy.
The demolition of the "monster" has now been ranked at
New York with the advance of Welellem, and produced
as great a sensation in the city as the evacuation of
Yorktown or the capture of New Orleans. But, though
Yorktown, and perhaps Richmond, has been occupied,
and the Merrimac is blown up, neither one eveat nor
the other will bring the Federals nearer their end, unless
the South should choose to submit, and of this submission
we see as little prospect as ever. The very victories,
indeed, of the Northerners have but brought to light
the hopelessness of the case by revealing, in its true
character and proportions, the spirit of the South. One
gredt hope of the Unionists haa absolutely faded them.
They bays found no "Union sentiment "at any point
of their conquests, to aid them in replacing things on
their old footing. If the Southern people were not
originally all Seceders, they are Seceders now. War
has done its work in this as well so other matters, and •
Yankee is to a Southener what an Austrian is to •
Lombard or a RUMIIIn to • Pole. The whole story is a
mystery as well as • marvel. It is almost as hard to
believe what has occurred as to imagine what will
ultimately happen. Twelve months have changed an
untaxed republic into two military confederacies,
engaged
in desperate war with each other, and burdened
y with debteezeeeding in shame the national debt
of Britian. The number of men actually maintained in
arms for upwards of a year is something incredible.
From a population smaller than that of these islands
the Northerners have not only sent 700,000 volunteers
ioto the field, but have kept them there since last
summer. No wonder that "trade is paralysed" and
industry neglected. In fact, there is now but one trade
in America, and that is the trade of war. We know
that it is a traffic which can never end in gain, but the
Americana are embracing it, with 414 es costs and non-
eequeneekne the most erualitunialt4anit in the world.
No difficulties daunt one party, no defeats appal she
ether, and, while all Europe is perplexed at the
spectacle set before it, New York is enchanted with the
mitciToenr.anadmptrioze:itc.oft:hereiatecatitontii.tltmis at least,
ean
Power can be blamed for any incident of this dreadful
war.—Times.
By the arrival of the Etna on Wednesday, we learn
that General Beauregard's strength at Corinth was from
120,000 to 170,000 men, and great anxiety was felt at
Wethington respecting the safety of General Halleek.
The Federal General Hunter had issued a proclamation
declaring all slaves in the States of Georgia, Florida,
and South Carolina free for ever. This news, however,
it is said caused a split in the Lincoln cabinet, and it ,
was thought Lincoln would ignore the proclamation of
his officers. The Confederates, it is said, were strongly
fortifying Richmond, and a desperate resistance was
anticipated. The head-quarters of General M'Clellan
were on the Panmunky river, twenty-seven miles from
the Southern capital. The question of the admission of
Mr. Edwin James to the New York bar was being
warmly discussed on both sides.
On Thursday the Nova Sootiaz arrived t London-
derry. She brings us little intelligence additional to that
brought by the Etna. Lincoln, we learn, has resolved
on abolishing the sweeping proclamation of General
Hunter. This, of course, was to be expected. The
latter General, it is said, had given another practical
proof of his sympathies with the blacks by organising
a negro brigade at Port Royal, which was to be com-
manded by white volunteer officers. This elevation of
Sande, and Cesar to the dignity not only of free but
military citizens, had fairly disgusted the Federal
officers, many of whom, it is said, bad resigned in con-
sequence. Nor does Sambo seem to relish the honour
conferred upon him by the abolitionist General, for we
are told that many negroea had fled in older to escape
impressment. Freedem is one thing, and fighting is
something altogether different. The latest despatches I
are dated on the evening of the 20th inst., from these
we learn that Colonel Campbell had received permission
front General Waellan to report the repulse of the
Federal iron-clad gunboat fleet, consisting of the re-
doubtable Monitor, Galena, Naugatuck, Port. Royal,
and Aristock, by the Confederate batteries at Fort
Darling, seven miles below Richmond. This fort, we
learn, is on a high bluff, and the guns of the Monitor
and her sisters could not be elevated he reach the bat-
teries. The 100-pounder gun of the Nangatuck ex-
ploded at the first fire. In short the repulse was com-
plete, and the Federal loss amounted to upwards of
1,000. ?enamels has been evacuated by the Confede-
rates, after they bad destroyed the navy yard and forte.
All the public property, it is said, was insured. In the
proclamation issued by Lincoln, ignoring that issued by
General Hunter with reference to slavery, the Presi-
dent reserves to himself alone to decide whether be is
competent, as commander-in-chief of the army and
navy, to say if at any time, or in any case, slavery
shall be abolished. The commander of our old acquaint
ance the Tuscarora, has poured out a bitter complaint
agairist the British Government in the congenial
columns of the New York Herald.
AUSTRIA.—It is said that in replying to the Com-
mittee of Finance the Austrian Government has de-
clared that it is incessantly engaged in providing by
diplomatic means for the settlement of Italian affairs;
that it has reason to hope that its efforts will be
crowned with moons ; that all the questions have now
in reality reached • crisis ; and that in a short time it
will be easier to consider the danger of • war in
Italy as averted for a long period, and to realise in
that country a redaction of the army on a grand
PRUSSIA. —ln referring to Prussian affairs the Paris
correspondent of the Globe says "Physical force then-
riesseem to have lost much of their presumed efficacy in
the mind of the Prussian King, confronted as be now
stands with the tangible embodiment of the whole
country's opinion—acquiescence in his people's fixed
will begins to appear the more rational alternative.
The Hesse Elector has held up the mirror to his
Majesty; and he has discovered in that party microcosm
the Niko* Basitikl of the larger Roamers he would exhibit
at Berlin.. Itmas not, noticed at the time, but It is
now remembered incidentally, that none of the diplo-
matic representatives well, in attendance at the opening
of the session; one charge d'affaires was alone con-
spicuous, and that solitary personage was accredited
from the ex-royal occupant of lodgings on the
Quirinal.
MEXIOO.—The correspondent of an evening con-
temporary remarks that it is important to observe that
an article in the Allociteur de l'Amsee contemplates a
long stay of the French troops in Mexico, as
one of the conditions of the adhesion to their inter-
ference of the "Mexican pasty of order," and a most
necessary condition no doubt it is. The Emperor has
got himself into this dileinma--that be must either
*mug. away 400 n, and practically acknowledge that his
allies, with whom the Palrie and the Monitetir find
fault, were in the sight, or be must continue the war,
send out reinforeements after reinforcements, incur
vast expense, disgust his Ministers, his Parliament, and
even his army, and ultimately engage Fran's° in a war
with America.

Liverpool witnessed the endows* pbeamenon 01 aa
arrival of cotton on Thursday from Um American
&aim The Gladiator. a screw steamer. has reliebed
ette port with Lloobdas of Charleston cottow op bawd.
The meal is 4o* Fuggy