The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-27 00:00:00

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ANIERICA.—AIIIIIVAL Or TISK ANGLO-SAXON.
DF-FEAT OF THE FKOKRALS AT VITRA.
nu K tteu AND WOUNDED,. —Seinen or
PRESIDF-NT DAVIS AT JACKSON, KINTUCKY.—
LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION, •ND CAPTURE OF GAL-
VEIATON BY THE ('o FEDER•TRA. —The A nglo-Sacon,
which arrived on Friday brings iiitelhgence of
another great and important victory to the Confede-
rates, in so far as it enables thiroa to retain their
hold of the Valley of the Mississippi. After a des-
perate attempt, prolonged over an entire week, with
nettles of the most ainguinary character, renewed
day after day, the Federal invaders of Vicksburg
were compelled to retreat to their trausporta, totally
incapable of renewing his contest. The Federal'
oight with the most dttermiued comer, and had
got to within two miles of the city, but were there
driven back by a suprzior form under General
Joseph Johnson. It is stated that whole regi-
ments and hngades !ought hand to hand, and tlial
batteries and fOrtitic dime were taken and retaken
several times. The stake for which the parties re•
sPl'utlvel,Y fought 'ate a great one, and the heroism
displayed by both'. aides teems to have been of the
loftiest order. 'the fortifications of Vicksburg, we
are told, exten dad eix miles in the rear of the city,
and thaw vas% asititarL works were defended by
silty thouaa
7 A‘s seen. The battle Was gained by the
NaPoleumu device of concentrating at the critical
moment, large body of men upon one point. The
Fedora( tees is reported to have exceeded five
theme att, including two generals, Morgan and Smith.
It i" /apposed that the Confederates succeeded in
ual,...arierg fifteen hundred Federal', who were sent
tr eke Gemmel Hovey to execute a special order
Jurieg the engagement No report is given
of the Confederate lows. Springfield, Missouri,
is threatened, and, according to one report
acteally taken, by the Confederates, and Trent
Union, Union City, and 'tombola, Minis-
aappi, have, it is sail, been captured by the South,
won 2.0(51 prisoners and two cannons, the railroad
from Jackson to Columbus having been At the urns
time destroyed. Genre! Burnside, it is again posi-
tively affirmed, had definitively resigned the com-
mand of the army of the Potomac, his successor
being General Hooker. The Mississippi Legislature
was addressed by President Davis on the 21;th ult.,
at Jackson. In referring to the war he said that
although he had predicted it would be a fierce one,
it had assumed proportions more gigantio than even
he bad anticipated. With regard to the restoration
of the Union, be protested in the most emphatic
manner that under no circumstances would he con-
sent to reunion with the most depraved, intolerant,
tyrannical, and hated people on the earth. Referring
to the attempt to transfer the theatre of the war to
the North, he admitted that it had failed, and
attributed the failure to its true cause, viz., want of
power. He declared that Fort Hudson and Vicki-
" Aug should be defended to the last, and that if the
people were true to themselves neither should fall
into the hands of the enemy. We have just seen
that the latter is once more unmolested. President
Davis, in concluding his speech, asserted that the
South had acquired a title to recognition, although
recognition had nut come, and his advice to the
people was not to trust in princes or foreign Powers.
—confederate General Bragg haa been censured
by the Richmond papers for the result of the
recent battle at Murfreesboro.' The Governor
of Kentucky, in his message to the Legislature, re-
enmmonded it to reject President Lincoln's pro.
eta/nation. He declared that it inflicts direct
blow upon Kentucky, and destroys all hope of re-
storing the Union. The most alarming aspect of
the proceedings, he thinks, is the fact that the
Presidest has usurped the powers of Parliament,
under the plea of military necessity. Ile urged the
Legislature to record their plea against the Lincoln
In the Nenate and in the House of Repre-
sentatives, at Washington, the discussion, on the
policy of the Government, and on the loyalty of
,the Itepublicau and the Democratic parties respec-
tively, seems to have been specially exhilarating.
A senator from Delaware denounced the whole
policy of Lincoln, urged the declaration of an
armistice, and the calling of a convention to settle
die dislocated condition of public affairs. Wall.
street has had another panic, and gold on the 10th
lust. reached 391 premium. Secretary Chme had
gone to New York, and it was supposed the object
of his visit was to attempt to raise a loan. The
House of Ropmentatives had passed a vote of
thanks to that pink of chivalry, General Butler.
The latter, however, it is said, had modesty enough
to decline a popular ovation that a number of his
admirers in New York intended to give him. The
City of Glasgow brings the report of another Con-
federate victory. Galveston, Texas, win cap-
tured on the lit instant. Five Confederate
steamers, armed with guns and protected by
cotton bales, attacked the Federal gunboats, and
captured the Harriet Lane, the officers and Crew of
which nearly all perished in the engagement. Two
guriboata escaped, and to prevent her falling into
the hands of the Confederates the Federate blew up :
their flagship, is which Commodore Kershaw acct•
dentally perished. The Harriet Lane, it was sup-
posed, would be "nit to cruise in the Gulf. The
capture of Springliald is not only contradicted, hut
it is officially announced that the Confederate" were
repulsed. (In the 12th gold at New York bad risen
to 42 premium ! The Richmond correspondent of
the Dimes, describing the field after the battle of
Fredericksburg, mys there, in every attitude of
death, lying so elan, to each other that you might
step from body to body, lay acres of the Federal
dead. It seemed that most of the faces which lay
nearest to Col. ‘Valton's artillery were of the well-
&nown Milesian type. In one small garden, not
more then half an acre in size, there were counted
130 corpse. He doubts whether in any battle-field
of modern time, the dead have ever lain so thick
arid close. By universal consent of those who have
seen all the great battles of this war, nothing like
it has ever been seen before. On visiting Fredericks-
burg, he says, in one yard a surgeon's block for ope•
rations was still standing, and, more appalling to
look at even than the [edits of the dead, piles of
arm and legs, amputated as soon as their owners
had been carried off the field, were heaped in a
corner. There were said to be houses literally
crammed with the dead, but into them, horrified at
what be saw, he could not look. The last rumour
with respect to the settle.nent of the American
quarrel finds currency in the columns of Le Nord,
in which it is stated that M. Drouyn do Lhays, the
the French Foreign Minister, has proposed to the
Government at Washington the convocation of an
American Congress for the settlement of the conflict.
THR R'AT IN WHICH New YORK Is GOVERNED.—It
is curiaes how our city is governed. A majority of both
hoards are Catholic Irishmen. The sheriff is • Catholic
trialleaan—Lynch ; the corporation attorney is • ditto—
vein; the coniptroller is a ditto—Brennan ; and
the nhainberlain is a ditto—Deylin. The two candidates
ler United States Senator are Wood and Peter R.
Sweeny, The latter is • Catholic Irishman. Mr. Sweeny
will he elected, unless lie gives way to Wood volun-
tarily. This city is ruled ly the trish.—Mambotara.
DEVOI:RIO Br RATS—The contrabands with which
'Cairo is overrun as soon at they arrive are sent to
•osarten, and (lime left to look out for themselves. One
•of these buildings became so full of rata that even the
themaelves were obliged to leave. An old
negro woman who recently arrived, and who probably
was unad•iiiel of the trse state of affairs, took up her
quarters in the deserted hovel, end this InOrning was
found crouched in • corner half eaten up. Whether
she sickened and died naturally, or whether she was
overwhelmed and eaten alive, God only knots., but
that she was dead and partially devoured is • fact that
affords • terrible illustration of negro life in Cairo.—
merieen Paper.
FRANC —The Paris correspondent of the Meriting
Here/d anticipates strong debates in the French Chan,-
kern, especially on the subject of the press. On the
mum authority we learn that no Italian papers had
been delivered for two days, a fact which inferred that
they had been wised. It is reported, but the report is
doubtless groundless, that Mazzinian intrigues bad been
debited in the Marches Romagta and Umbria : that in
Sicily matters are still worm ; and that in Naples the
Government is neither love nor feared. we aid no one
to
credit these rumours.

Cogs-len or FRANCS —The position of convicts in
France at present occupies the attention of the Govern-
'Teen!. According to the last official accounts there are
•7,690 convicts under sentence to bard labour. l/f they. ,
1,964 are sentenced to bard labour for life, 3,070 to from
b to 10 years ; 2,59 to frorn 11 to 30 yearn; 292 to
from 21 to 30 years ; 41 to from 31 to 40 yearn; and 9
1., from 51 years and upwards. 4,750 were convicted
of robbery, 1,027 of murder, 4.52 of attacks on women,
233 of ineendiariem, 164 of assassination, le/ of cutting
and maiining, 150 of forgery, 140 of coining. 24 of
fraudulent hankniptcy, and 26 of parricide. The half
of these convicta are formed- of men of from 20 to 40
years of age.
A decree of the French Emperor, opens • credit of
.5.000,000 francs to be expended on communal work.,
benevolent institutions, and the promotion of industral
works. This step is taken in fulfilment of the announce.
anent made in the Emperor'. speech that the Govern.
went would come to the Lid of the operatives whom
Lb. Ainerivan crisis has deprived of employment. The
sum mentioned, which is to be applied to those places ,
where the special distress exists, is all that the Ministers
of the Interior and of Commerce think necessary "at
the present moment," and they express • oonfident
hope that the intervention of the Government will not
check, but on the contrary encourage mad stimulate,
the operations of priest. benevolence.
SPAIN.—A satisfactory piece of intelligence comes
from Madrid. By • decree of the Government all slaves
who !Lev accompany their masters from Cuba to Spain,
or to any other country in which shivery does not exist,
are to be thereafter free. May we venture to hope
that this id only the first step of farther progress in the
liberation of Cuban slaves? A Madrid telegram of
yesterday nays that Marshal Serrano, the new Foreign
Minister is desirous of re-establishing good relations
between his Government and that of France.
PORTUGAL—The Duke of Saldanha has been
gspointed President of the Council in the Portuguese
inlitrY. and the Marquis of Louie succeeds him as
Minister at Rome. The Duke had only just repaired
to Rome as Portuguese AmbaaLulor—in fact, he only
presented his credentials to the Pope two or three days
beck.

SWEDEN.—A bill to introduce • rsdical reform Into
the Swedish representative system has just been pre-
vented to the four Orders. It proposes to substitute
two chambers, one of Peers and MO of Representatives,
for the old•fasttioned system of the four orders—nobles,
clergy, burgesses, and peasants.. Roth sheathers are to
be elective, mid the quAlidcation Is arranged upon a
liberal scale. One objectionable clause in the bill is its
religious illiberality—it still ',topcoats to esqlcde all
from Toting who do age pram tie Lolloorma liisb.

NAPLIES.—A Moralist conspiracy has jus t been dis-
covered in Naples. and several arrests have been made
among those who were found to belong to the secret
committee. Many papers were *Axed, seine of which
are described 11. possessing great importance. Among
them, it is said, is an autograph lett from Prince
Murat hisuself. This di/cement will indeed have much
importance if it directly omuneets the Prince with any
active oseasiares in the nature of a oonspiraoy. Of mere
autograph manifestoes, declarations professing kis null-
ness to ascend the throne wheoever the people of Naples
invite X.c., there have been plenty given to the
avorlil already. We much douht whether Prince Murat
did nut acquire a little too much caution during his read.
dence in the United States to COMMit himself to any
distinct acknowledgment of a share in a emuipiracy.
EGYIT.—A telegram frein Alexandria announces
that the new l'incroy of F.,iypt has delivered a speech,
which luau produced "a great effect." lie pledged him-
self to In a civil list, which he should' never exceed,
and intimated that be should devote all the resources of
the country to the development of agriculture. The
part of his speech whiidi produced the sensation re-
ferred to forced labour, whic% lie 'aid it was Isis in.
trillion to aboli.h. On hearing this the French Con-
sul put a Tie-eine to the Viceroy, who, in reply, nail
his remarks had go reference to the works of the Sues
Canal.

OlLEWE.—Letkra front Brussels state that the
Duke of Saxe-Cabers has hail two long minvereations
with Prince Leopold on the subject of the throne of
Greece, the Ritz strongly urging his nephew to
accept the succession to King Otho. in this ,it is
said, tho duke having no children, the succession to the
Greek thorns would fall to one of the sons of the
Prince Auguste of Coburg, the husband of the Princess
Clementine of Orleans.— At Athens, the election of the
Presidents of the Constituent Asseinbly was daily ex-
pected to take place. The two chief candidates were
Vaivi,whno pasaes for being very favourable to English
interests, and M. l'alamides, who is accredited with
French sy m
The Wienear Gazette announces the acceptance of the
throne of Greece by the Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg,
on condition that the Ileum of Bavaria renounces it..
rights, and that lie may, at the same time, retain the
Regency of the Duchy of Coburg Oothit—The Nef
Prt.ss.,c2As (tire.) Zeit..., of Jan. 23, says it is
&seared that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg protested
against the candidature of the Duke of Saxe Coburg,
on the ground that, as uncle to Prince Alfred. lie is
quite as nearly misted to the Royal Family of England
as the Duke_ol feunlitenberg is to that of Reside.

AUSTRIA.—Eni;hOOI &min ix VIENNA.—MR.
Bocce.--The Press of Vienna makes the following
strange statement .—Negotiations are still in proxies'
for founding a new bank on the model of the English
joint stock ones. At the head of the prnnoters of this
project are Lord Fermay and Mr. linetruck. This
scheme is connected with the plan of a new Transyl-
vanian railway. Mr. Roebuck has left for London. in
consequence of • despatch from Lord Palmerston over.
ing him • post in the Ministry.
11EXIC0.—More troops for Mexico! The Emperor
Ands that be was undertaken • task in that locality
which is not so easily accomplished as he at first es•
peeted. Besides the ith Regiment of the Line and
three battalions of the Foreign Legion, further rein-
forcements are under orders to depart. These fresh re.
inforeensents amount in all to ii,ooo. The Mexicans
have turned oat ' ugly customers," and it is very
likely that these are not the last additions to the French
invading army that we shall hear of.