The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

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IT A LY.—G AI la AWL-4:4:i b•ld i returned to Capron
on litond.y,.lll in nlibaddeject.ti in npirits.

DENMARK- EPOOUNTII; 07 PIitTSAIAIt AND
Flursaah Tripura—The Nord-DetatacAe Zeitweg of .
Wednesday, says, in ft. udaborg, on Monday and Tues.
day last, the Hanoverian troops attaoked the Prussian
outpoas and soldiers, many of whom were wounded. 1
In the streets, tumultuous assemblage* even gathered
before the hospitals where some severely wounded
Pruseians were 1r jog. The Prussian troops were com-
pelled to remain under arms during the night he
coinitiander-in-chiel of the Federal troops had certainly
taken measures for the prevention of a renewal of
almilar excesses, but these froth symptoms of onions
animosity will engage the most earnest attention of the
King's governll3.l2t.
THB DANO.OIIIUIAII W•ll.—The Palo published an
article signed by its editorial secretary, opposing the
pretensions of the German Powers to incorporate that
portion of ficaleewig inhabited by Danes. The writer
says :—" Before violating equity, the German Powers,
who are about to abandon the old right without adopt-
ing the new, should think twice. Tuey should not
forget that the law of rataliation existe. It the
German Confederation be justly eggrandised, it exposes
itilelf to reprisals. If•••••
it now aets tbe exainple °fit
•pinir •••••, ••••• 1.
Ito detriment r Advice' roeived in Perim from Rends-
burg oat, that the Danish Ceptain Von Hammer hes
n taken pneoner in a creek off the Hand of Faeroe.
after having sank seven boats. The iminmandersiim
chief of the Federal trrops in Holstein, says that he had
received orders to make hiinaelf miritir of Rendeburg.
General Hake replied that, having only four corps at
hi. disposal, he must yield to superior force, but that
be declined to assume the responsibility for thi step.—
In Thursday's bitting of the Federal Diet, the Aintree
Prinsaan motion, ihat the bit should call upon the
Prince of augustenburg to subatantiate his skims to
the V tone of Selilcseig-liolatein, was adopted by a
, large majority.
AFRICA—WARLIKE P AAAAAA TIONB AT TSB Cora
or Gout, Hors.—The Faxon, which left tibia Bay on
20th of June, brings intelligence that warlike prepara-
tions ere b-ing made at the Cape. No active hostilities
had yet taken place on the frontier ; but Sir Walter
Currie, in a dispatch to the Government, had reported
that as be bad found the difficulties in the Franskel
inert...in& and believed war to be imminent, he recoup
mended that the second battalion of the 111 h Regiment
should be retained on the frontier. Every preparation
was aro being made for w.r by the rape authorities.
The frit Fusiliers are leftin readiness at Fait London.

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A II ERICA. —LATIMT Videll RICHMOND. An Enelish
ft:natio/Waifs wwhodayksit preciouslyltihondvirterilb;elle4 deg juarl!.4
who, passing uninterruptedly into the Federal tarri•
tor,, accompli•hed the Journey between Richmond and
Q,,..natown in the remarkably short time of 16 days,
give, the 101 l owing partkulare of the military situation
on se around the Confederate (*.otos! :—The troops de-
c.ched by way of tlw Sherwin loali Valley towards Mary-
land roirsiateol rof the whole of Ewall's corn* (late Stone-
wall Jackson's) under the personal command of that
general, and numbered 25.000 men. R %al believed
that another smaller dot& 'hewn', with heavy artillery,
would be or had already been directed towards Acquit'
Creek, with a view of creating powerful batteries on
the Potomac, blockading that river, and thee interrupt-
ing the water communication with Weshington, at the
same ohne thet Eirrell's corps would destroy the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, and thus cut the main line of
oommonication with the capital. Ewell'. force was
oonsidered amply atreng enough to cope with any troops
which the North in iu presert denuded condition could
oppose to it. end it was believed that as soon as the
offensive movement of the Confederates beaux e d evelopell
Is its true proportions, the Federal Government would
recall Grant's whole Briny. No corps of observation
which Grant might butte behind on embarking could
hold its ground against a combined land and naval
attack from Richmond. Nearly 3000 prisoners had been
brought in from Wilson's cona, no that hi. entire loin
could not be love than between 4000 and 5 100. He had
lost all hi, artillery trains and store., in fact, only just
escaped total destruction. About 20 miles of the track
of the Danville Railroad Teat dmtroyed by him, but as
there are no important bridges on that portion of the
track the "Corp. of Constreetione—a corps of rail-
way engineers and labourer' ipecially formed for such
purposes—would be able to repair the damage in leas
than two weeks. The balance of prisoners in favour
of the Confederates during the Virginia campaign
alone less estimated at no less than 10,000 A great
portion of the priaoners are stragglers, whi volantaniy
came into the Confederate line., and surrendered them-
mlves. They report that in Grant's army so frequent
had become the practice of self mutilation, generally by
shooting or cutting off • finger. that an order has been
tuned, severely punialling the men as soon as their self-
mutilation, generally by shooting or cutting off a Gager,
: that an order haa been issued severely peel-klieg the
man as sooe is their self-made wounds are healed, and
than sending them as !showers wader guard into the
trenches. Besides malarioue fevers very malignant
hosed complaints, caused by the bad water and the
pulvertned sand with which the atmosphere is surcharged
I had appeared, and threatened to become epidemic in
the Federal army. Grant was leisurely shilling Peters-
burg et a distance of about two mlles, but doing little
demega Communications between that arty and
Richmond were perfect, and not in the least disturbed.
No scarcity was apprehended of provisions. The army
I was healthy and in excellent spirits. At no time bad
, the flonfederatts been more sanguine. It wag generally
, considered that General Lee wee indisputably master of
tlie situation, and that the war Gould not he prolonged
much beyond the present sempeign. Previoes to ite
sijournment on the 14th ult., the Confederate Congress
bad, in view of the contemplated offensive movement.,
issued a truing...to, chiefly, though not in express terms,
addremed to the people of the North. In this the earnest
desire of the Confederate States for peace I. aet forth
in eloquent language; the wee is desolated to be one only
of eellopreservalun, and all inteetions of conquest, or
of ithitredlne the losProinees and development of the
Northern States, is molt distinctly dietlalmed.

The following is an extract from the Second Edition
(morn 188) of the Translation of the Pharmaeoprois of
The Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. G.
F. Collier, poislished by Longman and :—" It is no
small defect in this compilation (raking of tin'
Pharmacopoeia) that we hare no purgative mass but
what contains aloes ; yet we know that ittemorrboidsl
persons cannot bear aloes, naming it he in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiedr consists of aloes,
scammooy, and eolneynth, whit* I think are fonned '
into • sorted compound extract, tile acridity of which
is °belated, I suspect, by an alkalis* proems, sod by a
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an itropastie tonic
nature. I think no better and no worse of It for its
being a patient medicine. I look at it as an article of
esetmeres mid domestic eseseeien.cie, and do not hesi-
tate to say it is the best sonde pill is the hiagdom ; •
muscular purge, • lammem MM. and • hpilmmogne
porn combined, sad their armee pooP•olY loutedled 113
• dhigent and oorrthent. That it does not commonly
produce bosmorrholds, like most "Jostle pills, I attribute
to le being thoroughly soluble, co that no ungigewieg
perlieles adbare to the ruinous im•mbrane.