The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

foreign fittelligtnce.

THS FATS OT DS. LITISOSTOWT4 -WWI reseived
from on board her Majesty's ship Highly'''. now
etationed near Zanzibar, slate that the Sheik of Kithira
bad informed the offieers that Dr. Livingotone wet still
alive, although many of his followers bad been killed in
a fight with the natives.

THE Port's star Fsizwp.—lt is quite seriously mid
that the Pope's best friend in Some at this moment is
the cholera. Garibaldi finds that so many of the men
upon whom he had counted on for • rising ere, from re-
ligious feelings, afraid to offend the Pope at the present
moment, when they believe his blessing to be • pre-
servative against the epidemic, that he has deferred
the execution of his project till a more convenient
ealkion.

Tlll RAILWAY 111100011 MONT CITIOL—A telegram
was received on Tuesday at the Boned el Trade front
Captain Tyler, one of the inspecting Amos of that
department, dated dusk August TA, stating that be had
on that day crossed the Mont Cents, from Saint Iliehel
to Bass, • distance of 48 miles, at an elevation of 6700
feet above the level of the sea, with the Ind engine and
train that bad travelled over that route. The Duke of
Vet'Ambrose, Ye. Fell, Mr. Brogden, Mr. Bromism, and
others were present. The company propose to open
the railway for trait) in Ootober neat.
Teo Motteurro tg New Yoag.—The New York
Times of Aug. 11 says :—" one readers who lase'
availed themselves of the streets, alley., highways and
car routes of city during the pass sin days will
understand no when we remark that moaquitos, as so h,
have been unpleasantly numerous and tremendously
satire. Car drivers, conductors, stags drivers, apple
women and other unhappy people who were compelled
by the public ehattoter of their avocations to be much
out of doors, .ought refuge in handkerchiefs muffled
about their seeks and and little bottles of very strong
hartshoru, with which they &anointed the itching palm,
or other parts, as bites might demand. Its of
scienoe were seen to cock their heads knowingly to
one side, and idler • Mai scratching were hostel to
remark that the mosquitoes evidently came from the
ma. Perhaps they did, and if the men of science
will kindly tell when they'll go beak to the sea,
Is the name of a bitten public we will heartily thank
them."

FITTING END Or A TILIETOI.—Lopes, the double
traitor, who first betrayed his country, and then de-
liberately sold his adopted muter for. handful of gold,
Ii reported to have been usaminated al Puebla.
Abhorring the dastardly crime, we eannot fail to see
something of poetical justice in that termination of an
Infamous corer. Tbe Rmperor Maximilian had the
misfortune to fall, from the outset, into the hands of
'mandrels. It Is recorded of this very Lopez that one
day, when fleeing from the foe and in danger of imme-
diate capture, he wee raved by a mossiest soldier, who
gave him a seat on his bores. Hard pressed by the
enemy, Lopez, seeing them draw nearer and nearer,
stabbed his preserver in the back, and throwing hint
from the saddle rode off—an act of villsny almost sub-
lime in its detestable meanness. Marques, another
trusted Imperial sorrier, is credited with the commie.
Won of every cruelty. Yet lever waa enrolled in the
Legion of Honour and, we believe, Marques is alio
adorned with the red ribbon. How could any ruler
expect to nomad with each nutriments? How an •
land which breeds such men and gives them • career
hope for regeneration and peace?

FRAUD ON THE AIIIIICAN Govimriterr BF AN
OFFICIAL—A. New York paper has puhliohed, on the
authority of a person who signs himoolf S. & Dunbar,
"an satonnding exposure of the Treaoury Department
at Washington" involving serious charges spinet
Secretary Collect). Dunker was formerly the president
of a bank note engraving oompany, and proftwere to
have had in this and other way close badness relations
with the Secretary of the Treaoury for some four years,
during which period be alleges he has repeatedly eatW
attention to the fronds practised against the Govern.
ment. The charges, in brief, are that vast sumo of
money bare disappeared from the Treasury depart-
ment, of which no satisfactory account has been
rendered, the deficiency being set down at fifty million
dollars, and that iMONOINI over-issues of pepr curreney
In excess of the amount authorised, and which do not
appear in the °Seel statements. have been permitted.
The immediate effort of the story was to canes a slight
decline in Government bond; but as it found few
believers, priors were not affected for any length of
time. It mey have been the veldt of an arrangement
to advent* the interests of speculates*, but anyhow the
publication of such a statement suggests very an.
comfortable refieetions as to the financial position of
the Union.

Perreaerwee Tog Wee WITS ABYSSINIA: —The
Government have decided on preparing a military
expedition for Abyssinia. The Admiralty have issued
invitations for tenders for troopships. The r {MU says
that orders have been received at Woolwich to hold in
readiness • supply of mountain servies guns &Ad equip-
ment C r disposal in the event of an expedition
being resolved on by the Government, who we
persurse are awaiting the arrival of the next mall,
which may bring intelligence of the release of
the captives, before ordering the despatch of the
troops. Tb• Daily Newt is of opinion that should
the Admiralty obtain suitable vesoels, Bombay (from
whence the fonts would sail) could be reached in fifty
days. About 18,000 tons of staam.ehipping will be re-
quired for the eon 00000 ce of 10,000 troops from India
to the Abyssinian coast,; for the war and commissariat
etalfriel for such a peosliar terries will of counts be
unusually bulky. The announcement has bad • most
remarkably effect on the shipping trade. Freighta have
advanced oonsiderably, and as the vessels will be required
at least • year, the profitable engorgement of so mach
tonnage will give new life to the long.deprossad steam.
ship trade of the kingdom. The command will be
lueunred by Sir William C. &Napier, who was divisional
general in the last China war. It is reported that the
Viceroy of Egypt has been requested to provide Ave
hundred camels for the transport of the troops, and
Government is also taking measures for the eollection of
mules suitable for the service of the expedition. Should
the Abyssinian monarch hear of these preparations be
may be brought to think that discretion is the better
pert of valour, and liberate the English captives. But
it seems more probable, from our pest experience of this
besotted ruler, that be will be hardened in his obstinacy.

DZOLISI OF TSB looonsAmr IDOL FISTIVAL.—i.
• Calcutta paper of July 18 we read that thee@
idolatrous festivals seem to be losing their hold on tbe
umees—partly under the influence of greater proeperity
and enlightenment. partly from our indirect dig-
touragement of thins for sanitary and moral masons.
Take the Juggernaut Poojab at Berampore. In 1964
you recorded hOW One Of the oars MO over nix worship-
poe, killing four. Thil year the crowds were much
1.., than usual, and consisted chiefly of women and
children One of the two cars was not dragged at first,
because the people would not assist in an act generally
considered as giving salvation, and the priest actually
addressed a petition to the magistrate, of which the
following is • translation —"On: amount of the heavy
rain and the small gathering of the people on the first
day of the Ruth (ear) festival the oar could not be
moved. To- morrow will be Sande), and there will be
• Ids° OWIAOUW4 of people. Masse your Honour
looks with favour it will be difficult to move the oar.
So I pray that the cost may be received hem jee, and
that orders may be given by beat of dram, and the
Polio° may b° dot."'" to lb* spot to have the car
mewed." Of ooures, the magistrate gave no &existence,
and finally the evil omen was averted and the Prieet's
poskets filled when the ear was dragged a little dietaries
dim heavy expenditure. It Is a ponderous erection on
ten pelts of wheels. each made of one summons Plea*
of wood. The panted block which does duty for
Juggernaut, is in a tower on the top, and the ether
turrets are filled with Riede, who °keg °embalm,
strike bella, beat drams, blow eonebsbells, and nihilists
or &mums the people with °teem* exhortations In •
truly devilish fashion. And all this in the midst of
• fair on the main road to Celentta, at the sigmas
I to the Christian vWag. founded by Oen?, Marebotaa,

and Ward, from which native evangelists go fort
preaching to the crowds. I was struck with the amount
a idol literature sold, the lives and pictures a gods,
especially the favourite Shib, Ram, and Krishna.
probated with datails of revolting llRhine" and sold
at prices which even English publishers for the mastees,
with their steam presses and appliances, have Immc
reached. The fair is every year becoming Anglicised.

EXTIAORDINAIT Aunts Acainger.—Mr. A. G.
Girdlestone, of Magdalen college, Oxford, writing from
Grimed, on the 22nd inst., saps:—" Mr. C. J.
Tramen, of Oakwell, and myself, Wt the Stein
Alp yesterday at 1.90 kin., moaning to acne to this
plass by the Steinlimnir and the Taft Glacier 'loch—
two glacier pmess-without guides. On reaching the
bus of the Thalistook Rooks, which have to be mounted
In order to avoid the upper fall of the Trift Gleam
es found that our best route was to mem a long bridge
of frozen snow and ice connecting the Glacier with the
rooks. We had to cut steps along it, and while I was
cutting the last close to the rozka the whole bridge
soddenly gave way. I was instantaneously thrown
backwards by the tilting up of the extremity of the
bridge, and thrown headlong more than 20f 1. through
the air, down into the charm between the rocks and the
glacier, bumping as 1 fell 'against felling masses of M.
When all was still I found myself unable to move. under
blocks of &brio lying head downwards, while Kr.
by • little higher up in a similiar position.
After resting • little I was able to gel to my knife and
free myself from my haversack, the stray of which was
cutting my ohm,. I next slipped off the rope which
was coiled round me; bet my cost was held firmly
down under an immense block of ice by the elbow, and
the right elbow must have been crushed, and we must
have lain there and died. Slowly and by degrees I
slipped out of my coat and got on to my feet. I found
that we were under the glacier, and but • narrow band
of sky was visible. Mr. Trsaman was lying in pals,
his right knee and calf under a very heavy, Immovable
block. Recovering my axs, I cut away sufficient ios
to freebie leg and allow Lim to slide down into my
former position, but here his knapsack jammed him
against the block of ice, and is was not Until I had
unfastened it that be c-itild slide out and get OD to his
legs, when we found that, beyond bruises and abrasions,
we had rutained no serious Injury, and bad not lees
anything except a knife, via. book, and • portion of
my Goat, whiA I had to cut off in cider to carry off the
rest. Our flist thought and words, after ascertaining
that we were both alive, were to thank God for is
narrow an escape."
EXPEDITION AGATES? CHINZINI PIIIETEJL—W4 read
in the Overland Mina Mail of July 12: Al 5 p.m. on
June 25, her Majesty's genboate Bouncer and Haves
proceeded to Kowloon bay, for a mandarin to
moompany an expedition for the suppression of
piracy, in order that the captures might be lawful.
While Proceeding out of the boy towards the Lyesmasts
pass, the pollee °Hoer in charge of the station Is that
vicinity came alongside with two Chinamen belonging
to • junk which had been captured in the pas at Ipso.
Both these unfortunate creatures were severely wounded
from the effects of stink.pcts having been thrown no
board of their junk, which carried • cargo of one
hundred pigs, and some picnic of rice. They reported
that their junk, cargo, and crew had been metered.
On this information the gunbosta proceeded to marsh
the mast, and at 4 p.m. on the 25th. moeseded In find-
ing both vessels snugly anchored in Starling Inlet. The
boats of the gas boats were immediately got ready for
service, and proceeded under the eommitad of Captains
Mainwaring • .11 O'Keefe, to Meek the piratical sessile
which were very soon destroyed, and the trading junk
restored to Halal/fel owners, On boarding the Lana
sad scene presented its-U: one man was found in the
fore hold burnt to death, and three more in the after
part in a dying eonditioo, also from the effects of stink-
pots. The captain's sirMr•in.law, being a pretty young
lady of about two and twenty, had been carried away
by one of the few pirates who masted the deadly Are of
the gunboats, and from information received was
suppoed to be bidden in • village close to. The blue
jackets and marines of both vessels were immediately
landed, but no tidings of the missing fair one could be
obtained, so of course the head men of the village were
made responsible and taken as hostages. This dosed
the first act. The stuntmen; then proceeded about ISO
miles further along the coast, and at 4.20 p.m. on 26tb,
again fell in with a fleet of pirates, which, like the first,
were also attacked, captured, tind destroyed, with one
exception, which it was deemed necessary to bring into
Dort. Captain Mainwaring acordingly lauded over the
charge of her to the centaur of the Havoc, who towed
her safely into Hong Kong on 29th instant.

CADIZ •11010 A mgalCart PllRACThilten.—" Crime
among the clergy" would be a very appropriate standing
heading for use by our newspapers. The subject ix by
no means • pleasant one; but it is impossible longer to
remain blind to the increase of something worse than
loose morality among preaehers of tbe various mete
that have existence in these states. And the
mimes committed by these black shepherds are the
most infamous known to men—crimes that is next to
impossible to describe. Not long since one Tereno
Howe, • congregational preacher. • state school orfficer„
and a member of the Massachusetts legislature, was driven
from the village in which he had been engaged in
ranting, and expelled from the legislature for the com-
mission of an unmentionable crime—the victims of
which are children f-om eight to fifteen years of age.
Howe was the acierintendent of • Sunday school, and
hence had lull opportunity to perfect his diabolical
purposes. The public attention was diverted from
Howe by the discovery of similar performances OD the
part of a preacher in Vermont. Last week one Wenat,
• Lutheran preacher, was arrested in Rochester, charged
with violating the persons of seven girl', inmees of an
°rotten ...Onto, of which the criminal was superinten-
dent. Wenat has confessed his guilt. The case of S.
Merrill, a methodist preacher, is (meta lees importance,
as his crimes are lees atrocious and diagusting--embram
log only adults ry. peculation, and swindling. A few
weeks since Merril published an "appeal," in which,
with innumerable "ohs" and "she,' he attributed his
downfall to the miserable pay received by hien for his
labours LI a preacher. Is appears, however, that at the
times of the worst of Merrill's exploit. the preacher WY
receiving an annual salary of 1,200 dole., beside. donee
twos amounting annually to about 300 doll , or in all,
perhaps. Ed a week. It is nevertheless' true, how-
ever. that the Yankees, as a rale, stem their spirituel
instructors. An estimate, with 18 states for • basis,
shows that the average salary of preachers is 907 dollars,
the smallest sum paid being 200 dots., the largest 5,00'
do's. (The salaries of s-nsational preachers like Bomber
and Bellows are not included In the estimate. Mr.
Bseeher's annual income, derived wholly from the sale
of pews in Plymouth church and the contributions of
friends, is probably not less than 30,000 dolls.) In
Mselaohusetts there are hundreds upon bun 'reds of
preachers, none of whom receive, more than 900 dols, a
year, or say M. The ordinary If assachneetts meeker
is @roosted to support himself and family (the family
being inevitable), and maintain a certain sort of social
superiority, besides relieving the poor and contributing
to missions," upon something lees than El at week.
However, this fact does not emu* evil doing on the
part of the half-starved pastors. There ere !saber
occupations OPOO to them, by which they may °bleb •
decent living. I eta point to one town in Mayeachussets
where the preacher receives less for a week's labour
than the mechanic to whom he talks obtains for the
labour of a single day. --New York Correspondent.
"Mt g•CLES" Plll/01111ED IT • 1,111108 Sounita.—
For the last fortnight the Paris papers have mobbed
daily amount, of nriraculous ewes performed by •
private soldier of the &WM* named Jacob. The
public is asked to believe that this man by merely
looking at • patient for • moment knows Ii aloe what
I is the matter with him, and se instantaneously cures
I him by no other action than the force of his will. For
a long time the public naturally would not believe this,
and classed the paragraphs on the subject with thee*
malt form advertisement, of charlatans which, when
they promise absolute miracles capable of being sub-
mitted to a test, constitute only a nine days' wonder.
The fame of Jacob, however, got an enormous &nip
from a letter published by a certain Count de Chateau-
villard, about whom I should like to know something
mono. He lives, not in • flat as most Parisians do, bet
in an "hotel" all to himself in the Rae St. Lame.
His name and address are in the Directory. This want
certidm that, being paralysed sad exceedingly ill, he
went to DO6 Jacob at No. 80, Rue deli Roquette ; that
he was lifted out of his carriage by his valet and a
strong working man, and by them carried up • long
dirty court to a room in • warehouse where Jacob was,
surrounded by a crowd of poor people, halt, blind,
palsied, and to all appearance dying; that Jacob told I
him to "arise and walk," and he did so at once without
difficulty, returning nameisted to the carriage from
which a few minutes before be had been lifted, and
passing along a court so badly paved that • young sad
active man could have been very likely to have sprained
his ankle in it. His wife, who was with him, and who
had been long extremely ill (he does not say what her
malady was) also came out well. He further certifies
that all the poor people through whom he with
difficulty made his way to the healer Jacob were then
and there cured of their divers diseases. Mere is no
answer to evidence of this kind unless it be in the
seeptisal words of Hume: "It is contrary to orneriest*
that miracle* should be tree but not contrary to
experience that testimony should be false." Jacob,
who it is said is believed in by his own mistook has
obtained a months leave of absence to practise his ours.
in Paris. He tags no money and se be administers no
drum can scarcely be liable to prosecution for the
"illegal peactise of medicine." The last story of him
is that he has cured Marshal Forge of • hewagrieffier
which had compelled him to resign his command. On
Saturday the approaches to the house in the Rae de is
Roquette presented OD extraordinary scene. There was
almost as great • crowd of carriages and foot people as
may be seen in the same neighbour-hood when • criminal
is to be guillotined. As many as 20 sergena-de-sille
were on duty to keep order. As the "cured" 'am, out
they were greeted with frantic cheers from the
spectators, many of whom climbed up to the tops of
houses to get • near view. Count de Chateauvilliard
has offered Jacob a part of his house in mei he duds his
protest premises toosmall to receive his patient& There
is very perfect machinery in operation for preventing the
inquisitive scrutiny of witnesses wanting in faith. I
would go myself to we the cures, bat should be told
that none but the sick could be admitted; or if I
alleged myself to be sick, which, in this unhealthy
season, almost anybody might do with • safe rionseienee,
I should get number two-thousand-mid-something for
my tarn for an audience, end Gould not make use of the
ticket without losing several daya—Forie Corteges-
dote.