The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

DEAD.
The seasons weave their ancient dance,
The restless ocean ebbs and Bows,
The world rolls on through day and dark,
Regardless of our joys or woes!
Still up the breezy weetern slopes
The reaper girls, like apples brown,
Beni singing to Emir gleeful toil,
And sweep the golden harvest down.
Still where the slanting gaslight gilds
The boles ef cedar and of pine
Chants the lone b.ackbird from the brake,
With melancholy voice Divines
Still all about the u_pesy track'
Dams st_leis deux,l4e. wood-nerd his;
Stilt fitfully the corn-crake's wife
Conies to me from the upland lea.
Still round the forest bower she loved
The woodbine trails its rich festoons;
The slumbrous poppies burst and fall
Beneath the silent autumn moons,
• •
Nor here, within, one touch of change I
The footstool—the embroidered chair—
The books—the arras on the wall—
The harp—the music—all are there.
No touch of change! I close my eyes—
It cannot be she comes no morel
I hear the rustling of het dress,
I hear her footstep on the Bur;
I feel her breath upon my brew,
I feel her kiss upon may cheek.
Down, phantoms of the buried put!
Down or my heavy heart mast break.
. .

—From Poems 611 a Poi;tter.

WONDIERS IN Tan AIII.-23r4 January, 1642 [16431
was published 'A great Wender in Beaten, shewing,
—• thin brochure now etcetedingly rare. Its state-
ment was to the effect, on Saturday in the bye-gone
Christmas time, there had occurred at Kenitun, in
Northamptonshire, the apparition and noise of a battle
in the air, • ghostly repetition of the conflict which two
months before had taken place on the adjacent fields -of
Edgehill, between the forces of the King and Parlia-
ment, it was between twelve and one o'clock
in the morning that there was "heard by
some shepherds and other conntrymen and ttivellers,
first the sound of drums afar eff, and the noise of
soldiers, as it were, giving out their last groans; at
which they were mush amazed, and amazed stood still,
till it seemed by the nearness of the noise to approach
them ; at which, toe much affrighted they sought to
withdraw as fast as possible they could ; but then on a
sudden, while they were in these cogitations, appeared '
in the air the same incorporeal soldiers that made those
clatnours, and immediately with ensigns displayed,
drums beating, muskets g of, sinuous dischirged,
horses neighiag, *herb a to these hien were visible,
the alartun or entrance tothis game of death was struck
up; one army which gave the first charge, having the
king's colours, sad the other tha Parliament, in their
head or front of the battles, and so to it; pell-mell they
went ; the battle that appeared to be the king's forces,
seeing at first to have the best, but afterwards to be put
into apparent rout. Buttiil two or three in the morning
in equal scale continued this dreadful light, the clat-
tering of arms noise of cannons, cries of soldiers, so
anwaaina sod terrifying the poor men that they could
believe they were mortal, or give credit to their ears
and eyes. Rua away they dant opt, for fear of being
made • prey to these infernal soldiers • and so they,
with much fear and affright, stayed to behold the suc-
cess of the business. After some three hours' fight,
that army which carried the king's colours withdrew, or
rather appeared to fly ; the others remaining, as it were,
masters of the field, stayed a good pace trinmphing, and
expressing all the signs of joy and conquest, and then,
with all their crimes, trumpets, ordnance, ithd soldiers,
vanished. The poor men, glad they were gone, made
with all haste to Keniton ; and there knocking up Mr.
Wood, a justice of the peace, who celled up his neigh;
hour, Mr. Marshall, the minister, they gave them an
ammuut of the whole passage, and averred it upon their
oaths to be true." What follows is most remarkable of
all. The gentlemen thus apprised of what had taken
all. The gentleman thus apprised of whent had taken
place, "suspending their judgment until the next night
about the mune town, they, with the same men, and all
the substantial men of that and aeighboueing perishes,
drew thither ; where about half an hour after their
arrival, en Sunday, being Christmas night, appeared in
the same tumultuous warlike manner, the same two
adverse armies, fighting with as ninon spite and spleen
as formerly . . . . . The next night they
appeared not, nor all that week
en the ensuing Saturday night, in the same place, and
at the lame hour, they were again seen with far greater
tusualt, fighting in the manner above mentioned, for
four hours, or very near, and then vanished, appearing
again on Sunday night, and performing the same actions
of hostility and bloodshed Successively
the next Saturday and Sunday the same tumults and
prodigious sights and actions were put in the same state
and condition they were formerly. The rnmour
whereof coming to his Majesty at Oxford, be imme-
diately dispatched thither Col Lewis Kirke, Cap.
Dudley, Cap. Waithmao, and three other gentlemen of
credit, to take full view and notice of the said Lusiness ;
who, first hearing the relation of Mr. Marshall and
others, stayed there till Saturday night following,
wherein then saw and heard the forementioned pro-
digies, and so on Sunday, distinctly knowing divers of
the apparitions by their (aces, RS that Of Sir Edmund
Verney, and ethers that were there slain • of which,
Rom ecrath, the?,
Book of
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antiquities, including anecdote biography and Llptoul.ray,
curiosities of literature, and oddities of human life and
character.

_ _—
When first introduced into England, pure wholesome
Tea was alone imported, Dr. Samuel Johnson liked
such, and the frequenters of " Ourways" in the time of
Charles the Second obtained each, and recent events
have fully proved, that • large portion of the public
will have such now, in preference to the usual
'artificially faced aorta; to meet tins demand, Messrs.
Horniman were the /fret to import pure uncoloured
green tea direct from China, per ships ' Cherokee' and
'Cornball? ; a large sale has ever since been experienced ;
the stock in the London Docks last month, was by the
printed returns upward* of one million pounds; since
then two ships have arrived with entire cargoes of
pure retclottreel. Horniman's teas possess extraorditary
strength, the Black is not intensely dark, the Green Is of
• natural dell olive hue,--not tinted 14445 h, lib that
nekettly sold. kgeate as advertised.

Sri:imp anti qrolontal intrtligcncr.

i A MERRJA.—Mr. See aid is likely to receive what is
• tallied in cinka keg digiethal tl sit tIIOAO (of diplemacy
rap 0010 the knuctl g,'' for his not: to the Frenc'i
Government on the alli, d int( r,eeO,i iii Mexico. It
will be cement bet (A that Mr. Seeard took upon himself
to intim:de to Europe at I .rge that his Gia urn meet was
peel ared to rove it aity niterposit in fume the Statra of
the Old W. rld, not merely iti the oftaii s of the A tit! rieen
republic, but it, any portion of the neitheru contaiteni"
of America. It was loudly to be ex pent e I that the
French Government would be my taleritot of sue!, a
rebuke, or disposed to Ise ',Mut-, if by the ministar of a
nation that cannot even praeerve its non unity oit hoot
resorting to a gigantic war, maintained by a :tille'ess
expendithre. Acceriliegly a reply is being framed, le
at Inch Mr. Seward will be informed that his interference
is regarded as uncalled for, and even impertinent, which,
indeed, ia not far from the truth. It appears tb t the
Spanish Government has no tell. implicit faith in the
trustworthiness of that of Mexico, for its treeps will not
leave until the material ;satisfaction claimed from that
country hits been obtained in ful.
THE GREAT 13 VTII.P. AT PITTSBORGH.—The Jura,
mailboat, which left New York on April 11, brought
details of the great battle between the contooling parties
in America, at Pittsburgh, and from these it is evident
that it has been the moat determined encounter that
has taken place during the war. With that talent for
exaggeration which distitiguinhes the Americans, the
New Y. rk t!rest, in reporting the battle, net down the
Federal las of 16,000 killed, woutilled, end iniesing,
and the Coufe !irate less at from thirty five to forty
thousand. The latter ao-ouote brougi t by the Mon-
treal, which arrived atleendotalei ry (.11 Thursday, give the
lom to the Fedi ode at 6,00, a hich is no It alit a ilearer
approximation to the la nth. There were, it is said,
about 70,000 troops engaged on each aide, end,
although the Confederatea liafl to retire at the close of
the second day's fighting, it is quite obvious that the
North is not entitled to chtini a great victory. The
battle seeing to have been a drawn ',tie, for, although
the Federal generals recovered the grimed that
had been taken fro in them, the Con federatt s
retired no farther than the position they
occupied at the commencement of the fight and
they had the lion's share of the prisonere. SlPClellan
is likely to meet with a incest formidable resistance at
Yorktown. Tile Cutiferlerate force them in mid to
amount to about 60,000 nteii, a it which was
oeing daily increased, and it was euppomed that in (ou-
euquence of the meata of support hey had at their
command the force woul I Igo' ra sled to 100,C00 by the
time M'Clellai was in is eonatlon to make an effective
advance. A glance at the 'nap will show the immense
arength of the Confederate posith.n. As Yorktown
the breadth of the istlunue between St. James and
York Rivers does not greatly exceed eig miles, and the
Confederate eetrenchinents extend across its entire
breadth. They are said to liars five hundred guns i•
these works, some of them of the heaviest ealihre, so
that M'Clellan will have a tough piece of work before
he can reach Richmond. Skirmishing had commenced
between the opposing hosts. The intelligence
of the capture of Inland No. 10 is confirmed ; 6,000 !
prisoners have been taken in the neighbourhood of the
bland, and large quantities of war noverial hare fallen
into the halide of the captors. The Merritnac am! a
few of her sisters have captured three small Federal.
craft at Newport New. and Sewelra Point. The Nanga-
tuck and the Monitor fired upon the vessel, but no
harm appears to have been dem to leer. The great
battle between these two iretealad foes was expected
toeome off soon, and French end 'English men-of-war
were in Hampton Roads, waitingto oitness the duel.
A bill has been passed hy the lJnion Senate removing
all disabilities from coloured persons to carry the nails;
the District of Columbia Slivery Abolition Bill lies
passed the liouse of Represeutetiees by 93 to 39 ; said
President Lincoln has signed the billaffording pecuniary
aid to States for the abolition of slavery. The Southern
Congress have pa.ssed resolutions' opening the Southern ,
porta to the free entry of 'ooodie of every nation, with
the exception of the United States.
The long expected battle has come off between the
Federate and the Confederates, in the neighbourhood of
Corinth. The engagement was evidently a !serious one,
for the Federal reports admit a besot 2000 on Hint r side,
and confess thet the Confederates, under Beauregard,
and Johnston, who commenced the attack, had de-
cidedly the advantage at first, though they retreated
after the Federals had been reinforced. They reported
Botoregard wounded and Johnston killed. The
Southern press givea a different account, stating that
eight Federal batteries and a large number of men were
captured. McClellan, at the head of front 100,000 to
150,000 men, arrived on the Mb, before the Confederate
works at York Town, defended by heavy guns, hut only
301:10 men. A cannonading took place, the Federal'
commencing, and it WU expected that York Town
mold not hold out against an overwhelining a force.
No. 10 Island is reported as liaising surrendered, 6000
prisoners and 100 guns being captured. The accounts;
of the battle of Corinth will need ampler details and
confirmation before it can safely be accepted as a
decided triumph for the Federal cause. The Chairman
of the Committee of Ways and Means estimates; the
national debt, accruing almost entirely through the
war, at 1,200,000.000 (twelve hundred million) dollars,
even supposing the conflict to terminate within the
present year.
RUNNING THE BLOCK ADE.—A CONFEDERATE VESSEL
CAPTURED AND R.ECAPTURED.—LiverpooI, Monday.—
The Ship Emily St Pierre, from Calcutta, in attempting
to tun the blockade at Charleston, wee captured by a
Federal ctuiser, and a prize crew put on board. Whilst
being taken to another port the prize crew was over-
powered and put in irons, and the ship, tbus recaptured, ,
arrived in the Mersy about ;Devoe this morning.
PERSIA.—Fresh disturbancqa are darkening the
leeriest's in the Fatst. It Mappartad as authentic diet
5000 Persian troopr with 100 guns era on their way to
Hermit, and that the Shah lied ordered 16,000 troopers
and infantry to ad lance in the direction of C Wuhan ,

FRANCL--Thirty-six bishops, nearly one•lislf of the
total number in France, have notified to the Minister of
Public Worship their intention of repairing to Rome in
compliance with the summons of the Pope. No impedi-
ments, it is said, will be offered to them by the French
Government.

ITALY.—A corps of Genoese volunteers offered their
services to act against the bands of brigands in Southern
Italy. The Turin journals now state that M. Menotti
Garibaldi, the eldest son of the general, is fixed on to
command this corps the other officers of which will be
chosen by the volunteers themselves.
The Prince of Ca pfu, brother of the late Ferdinard 11.
of Naples, and husband of the Irish Lily. Penelope
Smith, died on Monday night in Turin. His death was
expected, and had, indeed, been hailed by anticipation in
the columns of en ultramontane print as a judgment for
the Prinee's hawing done homage to 'Victor Boitnenpeh
and acknowledged allegianbe lb the kingdoiti of Italy.
A petition, signed by 35,000 Italians, has been pre-
sented to Sir James Hndson by two Italian deputies.
The petition is addressed to the British Parliament, and
requests that the influence of our Legislature may be
employed to obtain the withdrawal of the French troops
from Rome.

King Victor Emmanuel left Turin on Tuesday on his
journey to Naples. He was accompanied by the
Minister of Marine and the Minister of the Interior.
The Italia of Turin announces that a French squadron
had received orders to repair to Genoa to escort the
King to Naples. It is also stated that an English
squadron had received similar orders. General Geyon
had been directed by the French Government to proceed
to Naples, in order to wait upon the King, when his
Majesty arrives in the city. This selection of repre-
sentatives to convey the oomplinients of the French
Government seems somewhat peculiar. As the com-
mander of the force which keepe the King of Italy out
of his capital, General Goyon will nOce Pl strange figure
In the tottiot Which accompanies Victor Emmanuel's
Terthrough his Neapolitan imbjects.
i:IA.—Two highly-important propositions have
been approved of by the Council of Ministers at St.
Petersburg, the first for accelerating the emancipation
of the serfs, the seoond, mirubik diet u providing for
the introduction of a Parlianientary representation of
the country. These measures will be discussed Mime-
, diately after the Easter holidays, and it will he a cutious
and instructive occupation for the student of history to
watch in the nineteenth century the c.ommenceinent of
I the political vitality and growth of a nation sixty
, millions strong, but at least three centuries behind
, ourselves.