The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-22 00:00:00

Bethel in force, and another portion of the Confederate
army continued to foi tify Corinth tinder CieIICIIII
Beauregard. An iniportent Federal moyenieut was
expected to take !lace shortly in the neighbourhood
of Yorktown peninsula ; and it appears that the
Government of IWashington fancy to subdue the
rebellion, as tl:e war department hia given onlers for
all further recruiting of the army to eel's Ic 'renesse
the Confederate's are horning their cotton, nod it in
reported that preparation, ore bring mwle to burn
Memphis, in one of need. A battle on a most extentive
ccole was expected shortly totalce place between the
be! i,;erenta at Tenesse.

One of the most interesting items of intelligence
l'ireught by the last niad from A iseries is the escape of
the Nashville from the harbour of Beaufort. Verily
that vessel seems to bear • charmed life, or the Federal
navy is rely badly off for efficient ships and commanders.
The Nashville was never to be permitted to enter a
Southern port in safety after her exploit on this side of
the At I intic, but she >succeeded in passing the-blockail ing
ships in broad daylight, and entered Beaufort unhurt.
Of course having gone in she was to be kept in, and two
Federal vessels were commissioned to keep watch snit
ward ovir the three channels f outlet from the port.
The Nashville had been expected to make the attempt
to get out for several days, and the ships—regular slow
coached they turned out to be—which were to avenge
the Harvey Birch and do what the Tuscarora hie! been
unable to accomplish, were kept ready for sex and ready
for action. On the night of the 17th ult., about unit.
past seven o'clock, a'single rocket wee sent up from tlwa
deck of one of the blocksiling vessels, intimating to the
other that the expected prise win on her way to their
hands. The crew of the other ship was at once best to
platters, and the Chisislixik, the vessel tint signalled
the Nashvile at once commenced to tire at the latter.
The Cambridge, the other blockading ship, could see
nothing to fire at, but she commenced to fire toe, her
commander, no doubt, thinking lie >night strike some-
thing. The Nashville meantime, heedless of the harmless
noise and racket, steamed through the unguarded
channel, and was speedily oat of range. The captain
if the Gemsbok is positive that Ida idiot took effect,
but having failed to bring down or otherwise damage
his birth we are not bound to believe him. The New
York papers are savage, as well they may be, at this
escape...

A. CONFEDERATE PRIVATEER IN THE CIIIN'A SELS.
—A rather startling announcement) says a Bong Kong
letter of the Ist March) was made a few days ago by
the presence of a Confederate private( r iii tho China
Sean. She is reported to have been fallen in ith by
her Majesty's ship Pioneer, on the coast of Borneo. and
if there at all, must evidently havoteen on the look-out
for American chips outward bonnd, belt], just in their
track by the Palawan passage agsinst the north-western
monsoon. This rumour, so alarming to Ainericin
vessels, will, however, be speedily put to reit one way or
other; but it iii particularly unfortunate for them that
the Federal Government has not a single war vessel of
any description in these waters, except the Saginaw,
and she is rotten and useless.