The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

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FRANCE.—The Presae of the 30th ult. says :—The
departure of the French fleet for Greece has only been
delayed by reason of the underatailding between the
three protecting Powers, who have resolved to apply
the principle of non-intervention to Greece. The firm-
bore of the Provisional Government have given assur-
ances to the representatives of England, France, and
Russia that the rsvelutitin would be confined to
Greece," La Frans, states that the elections will take
place at Greece on the 10th of November. The under-
standing between the three Powers has deprived Grecian
affaint of their importance for Europe. It is believed
that Ragland, as well as France, and even Russia, wish
to respect the Treaty of 1856,"
ITALY.—It is satisfactory to be able to mention,
on the authority of Mr. Taylor, M.P., that a letter has
been received from Garibalth's secretary, dated the
23rd October, which gives a very encouraging account
of the condition of the illustrious patient. Garibaldi,
it is stated, can now move the wounded foot without
pain. 'Re belief is again entertained that the ball is
not in the wound, and confident hopes are cherished
of a speedy cure without the necessity of having re-
course to amputation.
At the consultation held on the 29th ult. at Speeds,
respecting the state of Garibuldi's wound 17 physicians
were present. The examinations made with the finger
and probe, although incomplete, caused suffering to the
patient. It was impossible to find the ball, but in the
opinion of thelphysiciana it was still in the wound. A
repetition of the examination will be requisite to
establish the exact position of the projectile, and allow '
of its extraction being proceeded with, if possible,
without serious injury to the patient. Ganbaldi's
general state of health is satisfactory, and it is believed ,
that no important surgical operation will be required.
Dr. Nelat in is said to have stated that the extraction of
the ball from Garibaldi's wound was not difficult, and
that a ctire was certain. There will only remain a
slight stiffness of the ankle joint.
GREECE.—The Greek Provisional Government,
formed at Athens has constituted a regular Ministry,
and convoked a 'Constituent Assembly. The list of
rutnoured candidates for the throne continues to in-
crease, In addition to the Duke de Leuchtenberg and
the Prince Amadeus of Savoy, some people talk of an
Orleans Prince, others suggest the name of our own
Print* Alfred, and a Paris paper gravely puts for-
ward the claims of the ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany.
AMERICA. —October 18.—Another division of
M'Clellan's army has crossed the Potomac at Shop-
berdstown ford, and advanced towards Smithfield,
discovering the enemy in heavy force, but meeting
with no resistance. The cavalry of this division
afterwards formed a junction with M'Clellan at
Charlestown. Skirmishing continues between
Buell's army and the rear of the Confederate army
in Kentucky. Buell is pressing forward, but no
serious fighting has occurred since the Perrysville
battle. The Confederates were in large force near
Nashville on the 11th, and demanded the surrender
of the city. This demand was refused. It was
stated that the Federal force was amply sufficient to
defend the city. An engagement has occurred at
Blackwater river, beyond Suffolk, in Virginia. The
result is unknown. l'he New York Herald says
the fact that tho Confederate crew steamer Alabama
has never been in American waters, but only in
British waters or on the high seas, may lead to a
declaration against England for acts committed by a
vessel having no other stamp of nationality than
British. The result of the Pennsylvanian election
is not decidedly known. The Confederate steamer
Blander has been chased ashore by Federal steamers
six miles westward of Havannab. The crew of the
Blander fired her cargo, which consisted of cotton.
Rumours were current at Havannah that fourteen
Confederate steamers were at Mobile. Fears were
entertained for the steamer Matanzas, which left
Havannah for New York at the beginning of Ode.
her with a large amount of specie, and baa not since
been heard of.

In Kentucky a successfnl dash has been made by
the Confederates under General Morgan. 1,500 of them
entered Lexington on the 18th, and took the town, and
100 prisoners. They then left and met the Federals
under General Dumont w near to Versailles, and
captured a train of eighty Federal wagons near Bards-
town. A Southern account of the battle of Perrysville
has been received, which claims it as a Confederate
vietorr. It asserts that 0,000 Federal prisoners were
taken. Several small engagements on the Mississippi
and elsewhere are reported. The Irish residents in
Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, resisted the draft. The
military were called out, and quelled the opposition,
after killing four or five men.

At a recent meeting of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, it was resolved that the destruction of the
ship Brilliant by the Confederate steamer Alabama is
a crime against humanity. The Chamber also declares
that it has not failed to notice the change in the
British sentiment allowing ships to go forth, and
armaments to follow them for the work of plundering
and destroying American ships, thus encouraging upon
the high seas an offence against neutral rights, on the
plea of which, in the case of the Trent, England
threatened to plunge the American Government into
war. The Chamber further hears with amazement
that other vessels are fitting rut in British ports to
continue the work of destruction begun by the Alabama.
Accordingly, the Chamber of Commerce has resolved
to warn the British merchants that a repetition of such
acts as burning the Brilliant by vessels fitted out in
England, and manned by British seamen, cannot fail to
produce wide-spread exasperation in America, and they
invoke the influence of all men who value peace and
good will among all nations to prevent the departure of
other vessels of the vane character frbm their ports,
and so avoid the calamity of war. The Chamber
declares that it is the desire and interest of America,
to cherish and maintain sentiments of amity with
England. The Alabama appears to be carrying on
the work of destruction with as high a band as the
Sumter did last year, but it is difficult to see how Vie
English government can interfere in the Matter.
The rebels have done some very gallant things during
the war, but none so daring, no effective, and se
startling as the last raid in Pennsylvania, When they
captured Chambersburg, and destroyed over a million
of dollars of property. New York city is convulsed
with laughter at the good-natured pictures of the
rebel soldiers, with 600 additional steeds captured
from our side, including the black stallion owned by a
'company," and worth 5000 dollars, loaded down with
United States uniforms, boots, woollen socks, &c. At
Chambersburg there were 60,000 new uniforms for our
troops. The rebels appropriated them all, and not only
that, but the imniodest rascals stripped in the streets,
and changed their old rebel threadbares for these new
"Sunday go to-meeting uniforms." Some of the rebels
bore off six suits on their persons. That was not all.
Besides the extempore 600 horses loaded with plunder,
each of the 3,000 rebels carried, piled up, to his neck
before and behind, uniforms and boots for his compan-
ions at home, They were loaded down with plunder;
and got off without a scratch, although hl'Clellan
telegraphed to the War Department, 'Not one of
these rebel Marauders will ever return alive to Virginia." I
It is not reported that no one was even hurt or scared.
What fun there will be in after years when rebels and
loyals talk the things over.— Manhatten.
According to a letter from New York the Federal
soldiers cannot get their pay and bounty money. The
writer says :—"Not only has the bounty inohnY due by
the Government not been paid in thousands, or, it may
be, tens of thousand's of cases, but the pay of more
than one-half of the army is in arrear. It is the rule
of the service, and the expectation of the soldiers, that
payment should not be delayed beyond two months ;
but there are many regiments in the field which have
not received a cent of pay for eight months. The
soldiers during all that time have been running up bills,
at enormous rates of overcharge, with the camp sutlers
and other leeches, who suck them to repletion. The
sight of a soldier begging in the street, though not fre-
quent, is not altogether Unknown in this city; and the
charge against some of the officers of new brigades in
process of formation of having rewivett the funds to pay
their men their bounties and having neglected to do so,
in order to have the use of the money in the meantime,
or to advance it to clamorous applicants at a heavy dis-
count, is Co frequently made as to justify the belief that
there must be fire somewhere to account for so much
smoke. A Washington paper states that there are
requisitions for 45,000,000 dollars (nine millions sterling)
lying unhonoured at this monielit in the Treasury
Department for want of funds to meet them ; and that
this large amount is not only due to contractors for
supplies, but to soldiers for pay, When soldiers fight
out of hatred, vengeance, or patriotism, as in the South,
the pay is a small matter; but when Irishmen and
Germans engage to fight for money, as in the North,
the pay is a matter which the Government is most un-
wise to neglect and which may cause mischief at a
critical period."

SOUTH AFRICA.—By the arrival of the Norman
we have news from the Cape of Good Hope to the 22nd
September. The prospects of the harvest were said to
be good. We have the mournful intelligence of the
death of the Rev. Robert Moffatt, one of the oldest of
the African missionaries. He died near Xuruman, on
August Bth. Information hi been received from the
Zambesi of the retreat of the Oxford and Cambridge
mission party through fear of being attacked by the
natives. A dispute is said to have arisen between Dr.
Livingstone and the Rev. Mr. Rowley as to who was
to blame for the recent fighting with the natives. The
Governor of the Cape had refused to adopt the resolu-
tion of the House of Assembly for introducing negroes.
The Ariel had returned from her cruise on the slave
coast, having captured twenty-six slave dhows and a
piratical vessel, the Persian Gulf.