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

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DOIKIFILSTBR, Tr.II63DAY, JULY 96, 1864.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Scotland has at last managed to beat England
in the international shooting match at Wimblis-
fioo,l6o7l:37l*looo yards On le "it
occasion, in 1862, England won by 168 marks;
on this seoood, in 1E433 by 83 MIAS ; this year
Scotland has won by 25 marks.
Another of England's "little ware," which
cost so mach in men and mosey, seems to be
imminent. Sir Walter Currie has reported to
the Government at the Cape that, as he found
the difficulties on the frontier Increasing, he
believed war might result, and he recommended
the retention in the vicinity of the second batta-
lion of the 11th Regiment. The authorities at
Cape Town were also preparing for war.
American advice; still speak of the superiority
of the South over the North in the present
campaign. The Times Richmond correspondent
in describing the raid in Virginia, soaks of the
frightful slaughter of the Fairish at Spottryl-
mine on May 12th as this bloodiest battle in
civilisation :—" It has been a commas remark
that there is but one way to get sustained energy
of attack out of the Pedals* and that is to
throw them in swiftly succeeding lines, and
treading close upon each other's heels, upon their
enemy's gum Savage and callous as Eluwarrow,
Grant drove his victims, too often blinded by
whiskey, line after line upon the death-dealing
volleys of the foe, which smote them like • de-
stamyuig anpl The writer says he has lived lon
enough in the neighbourhood of General Lee
to share his unwillingness to guess at the loam
inflicted upon his foe, but the proofs are Unsui-
table that Chaneellonville, Murfreesboro', or
Gettysburg, was but as child's
.play compared
with the oernage of Spottsylvann. Almost for
the first time, the Confederates finVli behind
field works. The estimate of Genteel based
re upon the fullest turns, plums killed,
wounded,
his lea,
wounded, and missing in the battles of the
' Wilderdtes and Spottaylvania Court-house at
12,000 men, all told. The fury of the dorm
spent itself at Spottsylvania. Again Grant
' essayed his old denting policy, and Lee was
heard to exclaim, 'let him circle round where
he likes, he will in the end always find me before
him.' The writer says that in Grant's attack of
the 3rd of June there was about it little of the
fierce Klan which be had at first breathed into
his troops, and which they um:Wasted in the
battles at the commencement of May • and it is
added, and that beyond doubt, the callous
ferocity of the Federal general's disposition, his
reckless and lavish expenditure of life, his dis-
regard of the unburied dead and the agonised
wounded, have begun latterly to tell upon the
ardour of his men, and to estrange confidence
and affection from breasts in which three weeks
ago tey abounded to overflowing. On the
other hand, Lee has so handled a vastly inferior
army as to inflict, at • costa tees than 15,000
men, • lees upon the Fedoras of five or six times
that number."

The Bth of Augu.t has been appointed by
President Lincoln as • day of humiliation and
prayer, and the devotions of that day will be
strangely irreligious if tb• burden of their
prayers is not for peace. Fruitless, indeed,
mud be all their p of faith unless they
solemnly ask themselves why this hideous pro-
' lonet:aohilaughter. A short WWI ago they
age the smuiversery of their own release
from an alien yoke, end bow sea they now
st
ruggle to place • yoke on the neck of their own
But apart from these eonsideratiose,
and looked at even from the low ground of ex-
[eocLismey, their canes is hopeless. The Telegraph
natty retn. me
rks :—" An imnsity of agony has
crowded into • narrow time; the promises
and the hopes of eighty years have been belied
in three ; and after e&rhi unsurpassed in valour
and in energy the Unionists have failed—utterly
mid coospiettonaly failed. Their fair fame is
I tarnished, their credit is gone, their army of in.
reeks balled and foiled, is now being decimated
by theme, and the soldiers of the South—the
despised, heroic, indomitable soldiers of
the Boutb--are marching into the heart of the
land. mend. of wails. rolled back again,
and threatens to augulph the aggieinor.
An 'Aid* in the Paris Pop of Thryurraual
testifies great distrust on the pert of the
Government of the designs of the German
Powers in Denmark, and seems to bold out
threats of vengenoos at some future time. It
states that Ramie and Prance are both watching
the coarse of events, and that sooner or later
the iniquity of the Gentian Powers. will mood
upon their own heeds. There is some
attached to this declaration in Mart kel:lralbP:
I essumed to apish in • a..i.cial capacity.
The ps. by the Bombay essil bring • report
that Sr Nue, Gotten, on allow sweaty two

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first priasof 4211„ ow i mind "
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It the Nowa miaow of be Bath and Westin, inglend
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be Mims 11. br Dena mg"
rbete *bee ws, smut bob off the
less prise of by eel-Akin Tian Ebbe," and
in owe clew "Fossa Gold Cep,. at. his
woe Gealleal&d. obis 22. furgaLt
bribe in milk or in orif, we are plied so me
that C. Hansbee, Esi. of mums Meg, Blandford,
wee • stscoessful ll bwring sewed hit.awed tem of it that ober lo eihibiting
Mias r"lntla," whilst in clew 21, " Lina" a
beentifal Devoe cow, was highly oomtneudod. Mr.
W. Farthing, of bowey Court, Bridgwater, was •
most esoossefol exhibitor, Wring taken six prism
Is tiara 17, be Devoe bulls above three and sot
exceeding mix yews old, be took off the first prise of
£25. Is class 19, for balls above ow and not
exceed* two pais old, be ;hook off both the first
Std mood Prime' asesely, eV and £l6 and is clams
II lbs esoond prise of ElO. la elate £lO. 90 took 0,
lb. bet prise of sus, and in claw fit. for htifte
ear", the first prize of 110. In rips 18 Mr.
Farthiag was comeseeded. Mr. Hoary Fonllok of
Wbitobureb, Bleodford, was ace of the judges for
borne
CIIICZIT MATCH.—Tb• first innings of a mush
Wyse,' the members of the Morning sod }lnning ftew
Clubs was played Is Posodbory, on Wedneolay. The
latter treat to the wickw• first, but wris soon dis-
placed with a more of 2L The Morning bare then
haDdled the willow, and mads some good play. closing
their inninp with a more of 75. On Friday morning
play was spilt resumed by the Eveolog bar gentierneo,
who made =nob better play than cm tbo poiriose
oessidoo, running up • more of 58. In spite of this,
however, the, were enable to comprie with their
olMootottsk who with the loss of only ow wicket in the
sooond inaiap, woo the pros. Sobjoistod is the
Score:-

knortaa ens.
sba
Sawa. b 1114 • • • 0 b Mirth • • 6
:Wary, b Harris • • •0 aa oat - • 1
Man, • Taylor • • • 1 • mad b Huallaga 11
Sara. b Batelimp - - 4 nut at • • 7
Rata • - 1 b Harris - • 0
b liana • • • 0 rat ea • • 3
0:411a40. Taylor • . •0 b Rad - • 6
Jameson, a Read • - • 3ln Harris • - 2
Ltsok, In Harris • • - 7 In Bad • -10
Mar, sot eall • - • I nut oat • -14
lialabiap • • 0 ra‘cM • 2
2,abl • • • 3 Wi4a2.lbl -