The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-10-18 00:00:00

_foreign anti Colonial intelligence.

DENMARK.—Tna Dstro-GitaMaft Queirnos.—Thtie
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the Preemies' continue to come before our notice.
ITALY.—Tan FitAiCl-ITALIAN Qlll5TlOll.—At •
banquet Oven to the Marquis Pi poll at Milan on
Monday night, that statemen augured most favour. bly
of the melt, of the Cooventioo, and remark, d that
while the treaty a. toeked no port of the natioi al pr.,-
gramme, "it break, the last link which unites Frs•ice
to an enemies." The Pays of Monday pnrported to
publish • totter from Mamioi, condemning the Conyers-
tiou in the strongest terms. The letter, however, bears
Intrinsic evidence of forgery. The writ. ris marls to
&manes any iir Toed to tnuofer the Roman debt or
any part alit to the general kingdom; but Massini,
while tnumvir at Rome, far from shirking the liabilities
of the Papal Government, punctually provided for the
current dividends, and is not the sort of man that
would counsel dishonesty. The need/toting lournal of
the Roman National Committee, intonate", in it., last
number, that the movement for the evacuation of Rome
will probably give occasion for • pis-hien* to peonoimee
between the emitted government and Victor
Emmanuel. constitutiouel King of Italy, and it eshorta
all citizenn to be prep owed, if neoe-sary, to support their
vote by arms. The Turin oorrepondent of a cooties.
pormy marts positively, on the authority of General
Tort, who had jst been to Cairns, that Garibaldi is
not at all favourable to the Franco-Italian Treaty,
which be coesiders one of the usualtricks of the Fisch
luiperill policy.
GREECE.-- A letter from Athens mentions the
arrival I that city of the PriMIP de Joinville and dee
Duke d'Auutale. Their Royal Highnesses called on
King George. who immediately raureed their visit, and
gave on the folmering day a dinner im their honour. The
Princes before their departure received another vist,
whi.di most have been highly gratifying to them ; it la
thus described by the ourreporident of the indipendence
Beige The officer. of the French seenef-wer
stationed at the Panes, and Admiral d'Abowille bt
ems up to Athens to pay their regal" to them
Prince% generous son. of France, to the lustre of whim
flat( they have so frequently contributed. The emotion
was deep aescug these mikes, any of whom, no doubt,
bed attended the Princes as many an important ocos.
sloe" It Is no doubt owing to this paragrsph that the
fordepeederser has beam seined.
, grins primula in Condone
, Boo* on the sth of the peesent month. Interest had
I Moen to 14 per esset,ead even at that rate money sesame
obtainable.
AMERICA- —Tam SHaItAsDOAX VALLEY—Rich-
mood paper. of So ptember 96th contain the for °wine
items :—.on Saturday and yesterday homy firing wee
beard in the direction of Harriemburs General Fedi
reached Kees' Station M eleven o'elook yesteeday.,
Opinions are divided whether be will make • stead
there or hill further back. There is considerable ex.
eitement amonest the engem of Staunton, tied taitay
are laving. The sat aed wounded and the government(
stores have been removed to • placed moiety. Sheridaed
may take Staunton, but the capture will avail him
nothing. The valley sinoe the war began has been a
race ground. Sheridan bar reached the other end of
the course, and if be don't pull up of his owe
accord he will be pulled up.
AFFAIRS le 01011011.—Preaideat Davis arrived at
Macon, Georgia, on the 22nd ult., and made • epee&
there. He a going to Hood's army. No movements el
any soneiequnoe by the enemy are reported up to last
amount.. The expelsion of the eitients of Atlanta bee
been completed. It wee reported yesterday that Hood's
army was in Shermat's rear, between him and ChM-
tonooga. A Washington telegram of the 29th says :
After careful inquiry, it cannot be smertalned that any
importance is attached in officild Girlies to the rumoured
pease propositions from Georgia.
Soorrageg Ammar. or emn Beene mesa Wnr-
01111171111.—Aceoents of the battle near Winchester
from Confederate sources vary ooneiderebly from those
published in the Northern journals. The Richmond
&Mimi of the 23rd ult. mays :---As we get more light are
the subject of the late battle near Winchester, the more
favourable it appears for the Confederates. The earlier
Pert of the engagement was decidedly in our favour :
beta movement on our right flank by a heavy body of
cavalry made it neceseary for our forces to fall back,
which was done in perfect order. A gentlemen who.
left the army since the brittle, says our total km its
killed, wounded, and maxim, will not exceed SOW,
while that of the enemy was estimat d at from COW to
8.000. So severely were the enemy punished that they
could not molest our troops in their marsh to Straw-
burg, although it is known that their cavalry greatly
outnumbered ours, and is the best they have In the
service. General Early occupies a very strong position
on Fisher'shill, two mile. south of Strasburg, about
twenty miles south of Winchester. The valley is very
narrow at this point, not being more than three miles
from mountain to mountain. General Averill is re-
ported to have teen killed. There were no additiosal
particu'aro received as the War DePortnetat last
night. The same journal supplies the following
partiou'ars of the engagement, taken from the
Clutriatemille 01,011141:—Aboet daylight, the many
advanced by the Berryville-rood on Ramseur, who was
Polled at the Spout Spring, on the same road, some four
mile. east of Winchester. Gordon was at Banker-hill,
on the Martinsbursroad, on • recenaaismases ,• Rhodar
woe at Hopewell Church, near Whitehall, to tbe left of
the Martimbenproad. about *.bi miles below WI.-
chaster. About daylight, Gordon, and about "ems
o'clock am.. Rhode. commenced moving beck to the
point of attack. Wharton remained on the extreme
left, on the Martinsburg-rod, • abort distance below
Wincheeter. About ten or eleven o'clock a.m. all of
our troops were on the field, our hoe facing emit—the
enemy facing west. Ramseur stretched from Abraham
Cr... 100 the Berryeille Pike' Rhodes had taken pavilion
hawse's him and Gordon—Wharton, as we have stated,
hld n/ trio left. The battle now bore strongly tome&
our left. About half-past twelve o'clock General
Rhodes, who was placing a battery in the gap between
himself and Gordon, was streak by • ball jest behind
the ear, and bora' from the Geld Ins dying coalition.
He was attended at the time by only two court re
Tbe enemy tiontineed to push their line around our left,
and abut four cede& p.m., their cavalry on their ex-
treme right, lapped our lines some two miles. This
cavalry chanced our cavalry, and completely routed
and then wheeled into Winchester on our rear. This.
made it Dermeary for our infantry to fall book, which.
it did slowly, reaching Winchester about dark.
The whole army then retreated on that evening to New-
town, and the next morning to Fisher'ehill, • mile or
two from Straaburg, where it is now posted. This is
18 miles from Winchester, and • position of great
strength, haring the North Mountain on the loft and
Massanutten Mountain on its right. The battle is
described se • very severe one; the 1001 on both sides
very heavy—theirs is supposed to be greater than ours.
We took some 500 or 700 prisoner, more than we loot.
Avenll is reported killed; but this is not
authenticated. We kart three guns, and, of course,
left some of our wounded In the hands of the enemy.
The ambulances of the army, white were loaded with
wounded, came off gaiety. With this qualification we
brought off our wagons, artillery, Iva There as. am-
adorable 'tractile' cm our part. The casualties
embrace Major General Rhodes. taw_ &least-
Genera Goderis, of Portsmouth, Ve. killed 1140 -
General Mom& Leo, said to be slightly wounded;
Brigadierdlemeral Bork (eominanding Hay's sod
Stafford's Louisiana brigades) ono shoe off; Acting
Brigedier-Geoeral Themes H. Gorier (eanntanding
artillery), slightly wounded by shell in the back, and
five camel. 101110e1 DM remembered) killed. Bripdier-
General Battle, of North Carolina, is in oemonand of
Rhodes' divine:ea The Ofirosids's informant aides
that the form if the meow was very large—more thee
two-fold our numbers. Up is the time at our
flanked we were pushing them baek.—The
Ilsamiteer,et the 23rd tilt mays :--71se enemy, in heavy
form—may between 85,000 sad 30,000
us. A bloody beetle ammed, in which the enemy
infantry, mita desperate fighting, were being driven
back with great toes, when they turned our right Seek
with • force of between 6.000 and 10,000 cavalry. Alt
our attempts to drive back this cavalry force, which is
known to be the egg 7 Sower of the whole
Yankee army proving unsuenedul, we rare
forted to retire, which we did is good order,
with face to the foe, and °attending every inch of
ground The messy being evidently too mach cut
up to person us with advantage, followed our columns
ooly • Merl diem's, and drew off. Our tom in killed.
wounded_ and primers will °insist', not aueed 2,500'
own. Rhodes's dirisioa suffered most, our loss therein
being 1.000 men. We probably lost 500 prisoners In an:
The enemy's less is estimated at between 6,000 and
QOOO men kilL d and wounded, Oa Wedeaday the
Yankees. with the leg of trees at Tarim. elahmed that
they had captured 5,000 prisoners. Yesterday they had
moderated their pretensions so far as to claim but
twenty-Ins hundred. General Nally, with all his
trains, So., MOM, now holds an impregnable position
on Fisher's-bill, which Is 22 miles south of Winehestee
by the valley turapike,and by the mamas road 71 mita
north of Ellallll4oll. 001•Tal Lee's dispatch, libillellDo-
ing this battle, is as follows t--" Headquarters,Ariny of
No:there Virginia, Sept. 86—General Early reports
that on the morning of the 19th the enemy advanced em
Wineheseer, nem which pima be set die silage, which
we, resisted from early in the (ley till near night, when
he was dampened to retire. After n4ht be fell hack to
Newtown. and this morning to Plehmos-Ilsill. Our logs
is reported to he severe, Major-General Rhodos and
Brigadier-Gmeral Godwin were killed, nobly doing their
duty. Throe pangs of artillery, of King's battalion,were
last. The train" and supplies were brought off addle-
" To James A. SeddeinT" "8.. E. Lao.

Lthoutityr is llullol9l AND FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.
—lt is a curious ennoident fan tbet during the periods.
of the greatest Esropeen drought, Anatia hes been
&Angel by successive raise. nJaly the river Terra
bad swin into a good, which from its height, the
extent of *wintry subinerget, and damage it oomanoard in
ffiellmostroe. is re tad to bare been remit only to
the greet flood Deeember. This latter date also on-
reepoods with an antipodal period of uensual abmenoe of
'Unfelt It will be mummies to observe it our late
persistent raise shoeld minced' with an Australian
period of drought.
ANDITIOIL—An ambition which Dam ocoseienoe in it
will sleep be a laborious and faithful engineer, LOCI
will build the road, sod bridge the chasms between.
'Mall and eminent amens by the meet diligent, faithful,
and minute performoce of present duty. Men
are to rise epos their performances, not upon
their dismatent. He who will not do well in
his preemie place, because he thugs to go higher, is
neither It to be where he is, oar yet above it: he is
already too high, and should be put lower.— Beecher.
SPILLING NOT • TROT OP CAPACITT.—Whep in the
Home of Ominous, thews remarks were made on the
severity ef those ezmainations which the
se:ll7=7er the nail service has to pees through, it
was thought sufficing answer to reply that • tarp
poll lea GI the rejected were rejected on mount of their
spilling. If this wen the sole muse of their fairs
the wawur is set to us at ell mansfastory. It is •
mistake to suppose that immthulate soelhog is • nue
test of general education, or the want of it • mire sign
ef ptmetal ignorance. With such an orthography as es
' bans it is mere habit and • menhanimel traernery that
' Were good mpg ling. 11,ny anode are no constituted
that while gm can remember a train of thought, or •
fan WassintlYl IthwolloilP, they therset /Min • mere
thrum uf ROMS as 10:06.—Biethavogre Noveswee.