The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

_foreign ant) Colontal intelligmct.

FRANCE. —Setedi Or IL. De PRISIORT. Se. I
ETIRMIIK, Wednesday Evening.—k banquet took place !
here thin evening in enusequenee of the assembly of the
Couneil-General for the Department de la Loire. The •
Duke de Persigny, who presided, proposed the health ef
Napoleon 111., 'the founder of liberty in France." •
The dake's speech was • complete review of the theory
of the Imperird Constitution. He ehowed the form of
liberty to vary with every free people. "The produt I
physiognomy of liberty, properly so Gallery' said M.
de Persigny. "may be recognised by the sinking signs
of the solidity and duration of the Governimota which •
it founds, sad by the pasaien it inspires for great ,
things." M. de Pereigny then demonstrated that the
political institutions of England were not adapted for
Franc.; "It not being possible," he continued, "for
authority and liberty to remain in the hen& of one
olds as in England. Instead of subordinating one
eleall to another, it was natural to render them inde-
pendent, and this is the fandamental principal of our
institutions." The speaker further sod :—" In order
that the liberty of the prod may be a benefit, It In
neoeddy in • country newly constituted that a new,
' vigorous, and independent polithal generation should
and to replace the minds enervated by revelutiona."
THE DUCHIES.— Kid., Thursday. Yesterday
the Duke of Angnatenborg desretehed to Frankfort •
a memorial establishing the validity of his claims to the
Dix hies.
AMERICA.-15011101011 Of • FORT AT YOWLS.—
TRIRCIURT OT • CONFIDRIATI Oericia.—Nde YORK,
Amust 12th, ovening.—Official Confederate despatches
from Mobile, dated I I th mat., state —"It: is painfully
humilitating to announce the shameful surrender of
Fort Claims by Col. Anderson. Colonel Anderson Goa-
Inundated with the enemy by • flag of truce without
the consent of General Page, who inquired by signal
what his purpose was, but received no answer. General
Page telegraphed, 'Hold your fort,' and immediately
visited Fort Gude, when he found that Colonel
Anderson was on board the Federal fleet arranging a
capitulation. The General left order" for Col. Anderson
on returning not to surrender the fort, and relieved him
of his command. Fort Morgan signalled this morning,
hut received no answer except the hoisting of the
Federal flag over the ramparts of Fort Geier'. Colonel
Anderson's conduet is pronounced inexplicable sad
sheniefuL The Confederates evacuated and blew up
Fort Powell on the 7th of Augu.t. The whole Con-
federate fleet, except one vessel, is monk, beached, or
captured." General Sheritian'e forces are moving up
the Shenandoah Valley against the Confederatea,
General Averill's success at kloorfield, Virginia, is con-
firmed. The Federal loan during Stoneman's raid is
reported to be IWO men. Mr. Stanton has net reigned,
as was dated by the New York World and New York
Times. The Governor of Pennsylvania has recommended
the *hiders to make an appropriation to equip
15,000 mlitia for the special defence of the State. An
enormous mass meeting has been held at New York to
nominate McClellan for the I.mideney. The New York
Herold estimates that 100,000 per-ons were prevent.
Resolutions were passed denouncing Mr. Lincoln's
policy, awl recommending McClellan's nomination on a
constitutional platform. A Confederate privateer is
reported 60 mild south east of fiandybook. She has
captured a pilot boat. Gedd, 259.
The World's Washington cornspendent says there is
reason to believe that • battle has been fought nest
Winchester, between General Sheridan's forces and the
• main body of Confederates under Ceueral Early. Very
• heavy cannonading was heard in that direction at
• Harper's Feny on the II th August. The ste -siii p Even •
I lug Star, from New Orleans on the 6th of August, has
I arrived. General Banks iseued an order on the 2nd of
I August, enrollinx all the able•bodi.d coloured msn in
I the depsdineti between the Agee of IS arid 40. to be
- put into existing coloured regiments. Gold elated
I at 2.52 g.

THe FIDZILALS DAFSATILD CT HALF ISM i
NUMISIIB.—Under this heeding the Baltimore Ames.
pendent of the New York World write. on the 7th
August :—The figures in my letter of Kook 231 find,on
verification, to be more nearly correct than any that
have since been published. That give" 275,000 men as
the whole available military strength of the rebels for
the campaigns of 1864, and that is positively all the
men they have had in the field. Whatever leases they
have sustained .ince that date is no many men sub- )
denoted from those filmes. And whatever defeats or
reverses we have sustained Hee* the beginning of the
spline campaign has been inflietel by this comparatively ,
little force. Our brave inoldiers and subordinste
generals and colonels may well feel chagrined at this, for
they know that they outnumb.r the rebels more thee
two to one. But the fault is not with them. The fault
lies with those who waste the blood of the nation in
foolish attempts to accomplish r °laical ends
by use of military means. Srautore OF
G . Lolls Amer. The present strength
of the rebels in Virginia is as follows :—Six
divisions infantry under General Lee, recently at
Petersburg, 18,000 ; Beauregard's three divisions at
Petersburg, 25,000; cavalry, all en route for the North,
10(8)0 ; three hundred pieces field artillery,
6,000; forces of Early and Breckinridge on
the line of the Potomse, 15,000; total, 101,000.
During the whole war, extending now over • period of
three years and three montha, the military strength of
the rebebi had been carefully husbanded. They have
had the inestimable advantage of having their military
affairs guided by men who were sensible enough to di •
cent from the outset that the wee for their independence
(sia they c.ll it) wan to be a desperate and protracting
struggle, and that years must elapse before the North
will be willing to abandon the attempt to coerce and
subjugate them. Fortunately for them, too, the rebel
leaders have been men who, from the first, recognised
the foots, and have ever since acted upon them that
war is • science sedan art, and that te be successful,
the war on their part must be conducted in strict
accordance with the rules of modern warfare, as laid
down by the great masters of the art. This has been
their galling principle. All their campaigns have been
shaped in accordance with it. The rebel leaders have,
from the outset of the war, carefully husbanded their
strength, and have never had in the field, at any one
time, more than enough men to aceomplish the object'
of the pending campaign. Instead of having armies on
foot like ours, of 500,003, 700.000, and even • million
of men at a time, their armies have never exceeded
200.0110 or 300,000 men at once. In this way, by the
judicious recruiting system described in a former letter,
and by making real soldiers of their men, they have
been able to snake discipline and generalship supply the
plane of numbers. But, let it be remembered, and this,
after all, is the grand secret of their tutees', they have
always aimei to concentrate their troops so as to be
superior in numbers and in weight of artillery on
detrsive Gelds.
THE WOLIFOID across PS7EIIBIOIIO. Saturday
morning our army met with a bad defeat through the
blundering of our °Moen. It was not the fault of one
men, for men never fought harder. . . . Sunday
morning, in company with Mr. Wanner, one of our
agents. 1 rods out to the front. We celled on the
colonel who had the first brigade in the fight. After
talking for some time he took up his glass and asked us
if we would not like to go out to the works, and see
where the fight took plain; he told us thst we would
have to take off our linen coats, ac they would make too
good a mark for the rebel sharpshooters. We pulled
them off, and he gave us two blue ones to put on. We
went al mg the traverses or trenches until we came to
the first battery. The first notion we had of the rebel.'
presentee was the wl Wing of a shell over our bead.. It
burst • short distance from us, but did no berm. From
the battery everything was in view. A few yards in
front of us was our advance line if work., and leas than
100 yards froin these works stood what was left of the
once famous fort, now nothing but a heap of dirt. To
the right and left of this ran the rebel lines. From our
position on the bill we could see the rebels busy throwing
up other works. Between the works lay needy 1500 of our
deed and wounded. Just imagine ! nearly 800 men dead
and wounded within a space of 200 feet, lonia with
tleir legs shot off pulling themselves along towards
our lined. The colonel bad • powerful glass, and when
I ..11111 to look through that the sight was awful. You
could see every movement. One poor fellow, who we"
badly wounded in both logs and in one hand, worked
himself along on his elbows for nearly ten feet. When
he came to a dead man he would reach out for the owl-
tern, take it up and eheke it, to Pee if it contained eny
water. no first three that he lifted up evieently hod
nothing in them, but in the fourth he found bis re-
ward. After lie bed taken up the first and found
nothing in it, he turned hi. (see toward our Boas, and.
with a look I never shall or can furg•t, raised himself
up. stretched out his hind and moved it backward and
forward, as if beckoning for some otie to imam out and
help him, and then fell beck completely exhausted. He
' remained quiet for some time, and then, as if it we. his
last chance of Ids, edited himself, and continued on until
, he had passed over three dead men; As he reached Out
1 for the canteen of the fourth man • look of despair
, spread over hie face, but as he shook it • boom of joy so
, changed his looks that you would hardly have known
. hint. He raised it to his lips, and after taking • little
he passed it over to one of the others who well Dear
1 him. Was there ever such • macrillos?—arresposteleni
I of tAt New York TIMLI.

News /RON TIER PALACI.—The Royal invents IWO
ININ using &Thins' Diamond Black Laid. Thia fact
mast prove to all that it is better than REF other kind,
for, of centre, they use the beet of everything.

An old mar named Butler, the keeper if the Heft
lock, near Orobersley, Worcestershire, know in
.i
on the charged murdering his home-keeper, agleils:
Their neighdours bad board them quartette( use night
about a week ago, after which the dammed vii sever
men alive On inquiries being made, the primmer sail
elm would "retire in • day or two," bet sospirins
being excited, the river was dragged, and the body a
deceased was found near the lack, with marks el
violence upon it,
In St. James'-park, on Sunday week, there w5e...2
that a child had falko into the water. Alth
there were hundreda of persons looking at the drowsing
boy, no one seemed inclined to gave him when the
Doke of Bedford approached, and, after bolting about
for • few momenta, evidently to me if any oaiz
inclined to jump in, suddenly jusamd in and
the boy safely to land. amidst the Mout, and bingeing
of the multitude for his gallnut imam&
FOI•11 Cowan.- Some few mouths since, baptism-
log to be in Wilma, my attention was directed to the,
to me, unwonted spectacle of one of these female
colliers returning homewards from her daily labour. It
was di Moult to believe that the un womanly leekiag behs. g
who passed before me was actually a female, yet ma
was the cage Clad in coarse, greasy, and patched Budss
unmentionables and jacket, thick mews shirt, peel
bob-nailed boots, but features completely begrisod with
coal dust, berlhard and horny bands carrying Me spode,
pick, drinking its, sieve, and other paraphoreelia of her
occupation, her not irregular features s
defiant expression, and with nothing abed
her except two or three latent evidences of famish*
weakness, in the shape of • ootal necklace, • pair eff
rhttering ear-rings, and a bonnet which, as regards
shape. aise, and colour, strongly resembled the fasten
hat of a London emiheaver ; the proceeded unabashed
through the crowded streets, noon. appearing to regard
the degradme spectacle se being anything enuosaL—
Oxer Wert.
The Poor Law Board have lamed their peer-iota
return for the year eadiag at Ledy-day, 1866,
the receipt and expeaditure in seek Woo In
and Wales. The rate pet heed en population unosaledi
to Bs. 44.; but this includes the musty Me end Mbar
charges, and the portion exploded in relief animated te
6a. 844. per head, an incomes of 4.44. over the provisos
year. The ma @speeded in relief of the pew WY
£6.077.922 in the year 1861-2, sad/18,1617,01111 In as
year 1802-83. The persons in receipt of relief es Jar
lit. Ragland and Wales were 5 per emit. me its SI ell
the population aa etiounorated at the mom is UAL
The femme in numbers over the previous year wee 71
pm cont., but the iasrease of adult mite-bodied paupers
wee 141 per east.
Twa l'itiatalta FaatillT.—Loon, August 63.—The
pilohard drift boats had this morning from 5,000 to
10,000 per boat., which sold at La. 54. per 110.—PiSst
Isaac. August 23.—The boats brought is this morsing
from 5,000 to 12,000 per Let, whisk were sold at la
per 120.
The new Roman Catholic University of Deleted Is ist-
tended to be erected on the leads of Cleans neer
Dublin, from the design of Mr. J. J. llTerthy, LILL.
The Monism Star has undertaken • subseriptios lee
Miss Looprorth,—or, as they persist in oldie{ her,
lira Yelverton.
A cat exhibition having been mooted is aeries*
entertained. Doubtless there are some odd end sow.
beautiful specimens in the puny way.
A London pedestrian, known m the "Barmy
Novice," has performed the astounding teat of welkin
100 miles in 22 hours 37 minutes.
Among the sportanen in the Highlands at prosist Is
Captain Lee, • brother of the Coefederate General la
command of the army in front of Richmond.
The Sheffield disaster probed the sympathy of the
public, and found it not canting; indeed, it inundate(
as inundated, and there is abeelutely • below of
£3,200 too mush in bend, which is to be nevoid with
Weeks.
Mr. John Lloyd, of Brave" proprietor of the
Towyn Brick and Tibial Works, lias offered to giee
100,000 bricks towards the erection of • %Diversity for
Wales, prodded it is built at Towyn.
Workmen employed in preparing • plot of ground far
building purposes at Hausamead, war Plymouth. have
found in a hole at the foot of a hedge about 180 mins,
representing shillings. dated 1817. They have bees
banded to the police authorities.
The High-Sheriff of the County of Dahlia not having
been in attendance during any part of the Comatose's,
and not having sent an apology force explanatlem el his
absence, the Judges fined him in the min of £5O, with
liberty to explain before neat Commiesios.

_ ,
Kr. William Sharman, of Holloway Obearvabowy,
makes the following prediltioa soneernieg the wester:
—" Heavy rain from the 21st to the 26•11. to be followed
by another week of drought. September 10 to 30,
heavy rein; frequent thunder storms. Oetober will, I
apprehend, from the 10th be very dry."
_

• • _
An English lady was drowned ia Latham
on Saturday weak last. She was Mir Groves
daughter of the eminent member of the English
bar of that name, who, with her mother sal
some other members of the tip, had some a short
time ago from the tooth to • few weeks in the
Highland.. Mies Grove ins years of age, sad woe
about to be married.

Dimon IN 783 UNIT= STATIC—TIN 81111018
women in Philadelphia and New Teak are in peat
distress, am their musty earninp are insufficient to
support them. For eol iere pants they pt only from
G to 8 cent. in paper money; and for shirts one dollar
per dozen, including button-holes and all complete.
For tents with 16 button-h.les, they get 15 mole per
tent. These women bare held large meetinp both in
New York and Philadelphia, bat a deaf ear has bow
paid to their rrnionstrancies

AFFRAY BITWLIN VoLOWITELIL—It appears that an
ill-feeling has for sown time past existed between the
2nd sad 3rd companies of the Montgomery and Cutthroat
Volunteers, and on Friday an open affray took plass
between the partied on their return front battalion drill
St Abtrystwith. Several of the men threw down Untie
and fell to lietiotteng mob other, sad wore way
separated with greet dillLuliy by tboir °Meets. After
great exertion. Captain Jon*. suceorded in gettiog hie
men into line, when he proceeded to address them OW
the Impropriety of their conduct. During this hersageo
the fight recimmenced, and the worthy oMaar hiessoM
received & wound over the eye, from whieh the blood
flowed. This disturbance was at length quelled, sad,
to the great relief of the inhabitants, the rioters took
their departure from Aberystwith ley train.

HALL. TIN Glut Ceuta
Corormrt FOR 1100—On Wednesday evening an extra-
ordinary and almost unprecedeuted meted took Meath
Weston's Music Hall, Holborn, between two wade
singers of considerable metropolitan reputation—Mr. 1.
Taylor, who deeenbes birthed as the "funny little
man," and who barns regular engagement at Weston's,
and Ur. J. Blanchard, of the Middlesex Mario Hall.
Both are well-known as comici singers, and the contest
was occasioned by • challenge lathed by the "fanny
little man" offering to sing .ix songs against say week)
.inger in the United Kingdom •' each competitor to sing
the same or his own song., and the judges (to be selected
from our MC comedians) to decide U" to which is the
most original, truest to nature, and the moat annicaL"
Mr. Blanchard at once responded to this baritones, sad
an agreement was come to between the parties to sing
six soap each for the sum of £5O per side. Mesh party
named two judges, and with power to appoint a referee
whose decision was to be final. The mosey was duly
posted, and the contest attracted • very large oosteselle
of persons to Weston's Mune Hall on Wednesday night.
The hell was unpleasantly crowded Mowery part,and the
' friends of both competitors mustered in large numbers.
The ordinary programme was proceeded with until
about holiness nine, without exciting mesh attention.
but at this hour the contest was announced to
sommence, and the large hall became inconveniently
thronged. Mr. Taylor was then called upon to sing the
first song, and was immediately succeeded by Mr.
Blanchard. Five songs wen then alternately Perm by
sea performer, some in than.., some out, and • most
impartial bearing was accorded to their efforts
by the audience, who loudly applauded the goateed-
ing parties at the conclusion of their amp. Blandiud
has • splendid voice, !Dings well, is • capital actor, and Me
deportment is gentlemanly geed pleasing. Taylor,
on the other hand, is capable of presenting strong mai
trade, but lacks the corm and vocal powers of his rival,
though he impersonces • certain these of cheraistess,
mixture of idithey and impatiens', with great seethes.
At the conclusion of the contort the judges and referee.
stated to be Mr. Ledger, of the Pm Mr. L. Mancha*
Mr. Nemo and another gentleman. whose name did bet
tramifire, 'retired to consider their declaims, and • seise
of wild excitement which we have eameely ever seen
spelled occurred In the MIL The anifirthe mounted
the seats and tale,, and relied lustily for Balms, the
clown, and Unsworth, the stump orator, who were
ththent, sod who were compelled no bow dear acknow-
ledgments. Shortly after Mr. Weston, Mr. P. Cont.
the conductor, and the two rival singers amended on
the stage. Mr. Weston then briedy announced that he
bad been oomusiesithed by the judges to hand Mr.
Taylor • cheque for £lOO as the winner of the contest.
This announcement was hailed with enthusiastic
cheering, and Mr. Blanchard retired from the stage, but
subrequently reappeared and thanked the audience for
the kind reception 0.. him. His reeeptioa was most
enthusiastia,and • benellt for him having been sathested
by Mr. Weston,- be assured the audience when it came
off he would do his hest to merit their approval.
MUTH r Bob Tea POISONING Or • WOUND Olt TRW
Forum —On Ttheday, the 23rd August, a butcher
thmed Collins, baring extensive &Wings at the
Islington Cattle Market, died from the effects of a
poison d hand. It appears that the week before last
deoeseed was at his post in the market inspecting some
foreign cattle, arid it is innjectured that in handling the
beasts he must hare poisoned • cut upon his Anger.
The wound commenced to inflame and swell, and the
medical gentleman called in anon diecovered that pothole
had found its way into the blood. Notheritlesteadiag
the adoption of every possible remedy death ensued in
the course of Tuesday afternoon.
A new Oil, called the Centime Olt, was brought
into public notice in 1862. lb great brilliancy. freedom
from disagreeable odour, and period t gaiety, has
ensured its extensive nee In the masons of the rich;
while its moderate price alike men.. its use is the
cottages of the poor. Casella' Lamps is various styles
have also been introduced, The Oil will alio burn la
any Pusan or Hydro-Carbon Insp. A patent has
been bath nut for the manisfacitece of this Oil, and
Mews. Cthisszt. damn, and Oa, London, are supply.
Mg the Oil Wholesale to Dealers throughout the sing.
dom. Ucrs should be careful to ask for Cantina Oil,
as much inferior on is in the market.
Tug " Ogrnau Sax" at 60 loot with complacency
on whitened teems, but to youth it Is • calamity; re-
atissble, however, by Herring's Magnetic Brushes,
.
ho., of which Dr. Hblian rePOll4, regthe then as
the most perfect brushes hitherto made, as resemae
their mechanical construction, and their ungestieth
bettor." They are THZ remedy for Grey Hair,
Neuralgia, Rheumatism, he.
N.B. —Counterfeits the being made.
Oftloes, 32, Baringliallatreet, London,
llos,-ouste 01.T11 IX? can PILL& —Comer, Ingram.
The caning properties of time, medicament. reader them well
worthy of trial In all disease of the MO ratory orgaea In
commas colds and lotus no, the bib take interns/Iy, sad the
Ointment rubbed over the bleb and thrtal,see=lZ
eilhecieus. as ben Inhumes is epidemic. this t
easiest, Week and surest, lioll=1.1111:.2 the •••'''.
remom all obstacle. to its tree ci the kw%
reline the omr-gorged braulies, and maw mpleseks tron.
without
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norms. or
reducing the strewth.
=reining the apirlia Sash are Zie=
ming when saysse allielod web eery. :maws
Woreehltb, and other client camphilids ler wahLsidea. Waal
Pereme an extesely sad pmmeemlll Woi
sonnerks