The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-24 00:00:00

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RU3SlA.—Aceounts trout St. Peter.burg describe a
series of disaatrous fires which have token place
throughout the past week, and which are attributed to
revolutionary incendiaries. Os Monday last, the
quarter near which the Government Botk stsndv, and
which viii-isted of uisrkets and lona I shopv, was
entirely consumed. from Gardea•street to the Fontanks
Meer. Subsequently there hare been viiiiil.routtirtaks
in other &Arleta. ,nd, accordin4 to some evtineatw.,
nosilya third of the entire c,ty hiis been destroyed.
however, the part+ burnt are those of • poor
and itiferior, although crowdwl character. The harcl•
ware dealers are said to have Lust everything, and some
warehouse containing drugs hare been included in the
conflagration. The lois thus tar is roughly e‘tiniated
at from C 500,000 to £1.000,000. Business of all kinds
lnad been brought to a complete stand, but late tele-
grams affirm thst there had been no further Gres for
woos tinte, and that the people were beginning to
recover confidence. .

CHINA.. -Mr. Harvey, °ottani at Ningpo, concludes
• letter on the Teeping rule, to Mr. Bruce, our niinistei
at Pekin, in the following torus :—" I new, therefore,
take the liberty of declitring. onee for at (and for ten
years I have firmly adhered an and been nonaistent in thia
opinion.) that the Taeptng reballou is the greatest delu
tint, on s political or popular ratoensent, and the 'esepinn
+latrines the moat gigani ic and hl tsphemous impooitiost
set • creed, or ethics, that the wed I ever witnewieil. I
can find no a-allele in past hiatory to in doh the
spirituel doctrines, and certairly no at inderd of coin.
panel by which to measure the political aspect of the
rehellion. I look in vain in the darkest ape for a
similar faction mot upheaving of men ; hut there is
soothing in last records so dark or so bad—such
abominations committed under the name of rt Fujian,
such mock-heroic buffoonery, such horrors ecoompauied
by pantalsonerv. and so tench flimsy web worked in
the midst of blood mid highly tr.gical events. The
ravings of John of L. yden atil lois impious kilieeter
adventurers, in 1534-36, are left far behied in the race
of folly hy tha There rig mealtime, "Tun firm impresston
of a mumble and n-amotting Englishman on CU gin
contact with Taepingdom is one of horror, then of
&movement. with contempt and lii11)/USt fl owing tacit
other in A11,11,,51011. Teepingdoui is a huge masa of
' nothingness' (I ean find no other word to, :press my
meaning); there is nothing to lay hold of in it. It is a
friguntie hobble that collapses on being touched, but
leaves a suck of blood on the finger. In to Len yams'
rampant carousing what has it ever seam, lithe?
Nothieg. Has it nbtesned the least,reweect oe popular
sympet ,y, or eve% the apathetic toleration of tie
people! Who will presume to reply in the affirmative?
Is it • roma .r movemeut for the purpose of shaking otl
a hooey yoke, or is it abauguipary raid and an eaten tee
brigand age over the country. bandit& deatioying, and
kiflin everythieg that has If, in if? The answer,
nlast hi but too obvious. Does it rooter or even
encourage commerce, or are its declared princielea
inimical to trelin't in any shape! Let the published '
perienoes of the Rev. Mr. Roberts and of others upon
this point verve as A guide to merchants in England.
And, further, it mutt not be euppootel that th re is any
eeiculior gallon ry in the Toepingo ; they are decideely
cowards, and I wool I not have them 'whet unjustly the
sympethies of the people at home on the fated assump-
tion of bravery; for it is no prof of courage to etrke
11111 enemy when lie is down, to torture women anti
eloildren to death (such tortures!) and to burn al vs
poor creatures who refuse to stibinit, as I have myself
witneased. The Pm ings, I venture to affirm, hove
been known to fore • well-determined resistance,
either native or fooeign ; and I say go In epite of the
objection which inialt be made, as evidence I by the
bores that the rebel chiefs near Shanghai lately threw
upon on, those hordeo being compelled, 011 pain ef death,
so to advance. "To conclude, Taepiesdom is a
scourge; and if it has travelled unclieekad throush
province* owl districts, both pla.me and peetilence have
often done as mech. Not unl those dire vioitationa,
the Teepings traverse the country. They c 'me, and
the helpless iulabitanta creuch dowii lied subunit.
They go, and the people breathe egoin awl rejoice,
making gaol the havoc and losses caused by the visit of
this terrible enemy.
AMERIUA.—We had two American arrivals on
Thursday, but. ro addition.] American tuna's, and we
mutt wait a little longer for further particulars. If a
retort written by Gen. ral liolleck can be belteved the
army of Beanregerd was being rapidly broken up
into fragment. General Pone was preening bard upon
the Comederote chief with forty thousand men—a very
large force, certaiitly ; and it in said he had captured
ten thousand prisoners and deserters, and fifteen
thousand atonal of arum. Thousende of the enemy, it is
added, were throwing away their aruis—all which,
althongh it be sent down in au official deopetch' we do
not a-k our readers to believe. General Rollick states,
on the authority of a "farmer," that win n General
Beetwegard learned thot the redrew', had been cut on
his lineal( retreat by General Elliot he become frantic,
and teld his teen to save themselves the best way they
amid An already stated the Federal loss at the battle
before Richmond was much greater than wait originally
reported. It is now estimated at irons six to eight
thousand, and even that is Ike y to be within the mark.
The Confederote losa is assumed to have been much
greater, but the gronolds ttn which the assumption is
mole ore not Mated. The New Griming journals deny the
amertion of General Butler is halve to the desertion of
the poor by the rich. The Bee myo :—" We have only
to mil to Geiser .1 Iltitler's attention the fat that Sille•
the month of August there hae been in regnlor opera-
tion iu this city a 'free market.' supplied exclusively
from voluntary contributions, and which is Mill in
existence. Twice a week between .1700 and 1,900 per.
eons have bad their baskets filled with ineat,vegetablex,
stn.t other articles of food.' It is estimated that between
11,000 and 6,000 individuals are thus nurtured through
the liberality of the city and country." The Della
says "In addition to this the Bee might twee stated
that in the alwenee of a large adult populstion, ample
esrangemerthe bad been made by the fhty Council to
support the families of all enoli an were destitute. For
this purpose millions of dellars have been subscribed
ha our people during the last twelve months, and 2,400
°rotten child.• I are now supported in she Orphan
Asylum of this city. The indigent sick are also
*attainable tothe Charity Hospital, the moat extensive
g,aritatien of the kind in the United Stated. Tl.B
distress of our city is due to the blockade or nominter-
coarse with the conntry, anti the derangeno nt of our
currency by the United States oonnosodere." With
reference to the feeliers of the people of the Creweent
City undev General Butler',, government, to paper
Loa quoted says :—"lt is true there is not the slightest
intercourse between either ofileers or soldiers and our
citizens, except of an official choracter. Our m eople
aubmit to milittry rule, hut with not the slightest
sacrifice of their hoist cenvictioutt and with • unani-
mous Protest sogainet the political anthivity of the
United States within this city and State. They are of
one wilt, feeling,end determination on this point. They
offer no resistance to, throtirul Hitler's military *litho.
rity, but they say. calmly, resolutely, and earnestly, it
iv not of tho-ir will, dc-ire, or consent, but by their
atercion and mobilisation, abetaining from every effort
to insult, annoy, or harass the military occupation of
the city on the one hand, and on the other presenting
their independence, their conscience, and their right
to determine under which Government they prefer to
live."

Ti.. New York FieraGi is compelled to acknowledge
that General Butler was the parent of that atrocious
proclamation which the Herald previously attributed to
the malignity of General Beauregard, but Mr. Bennett
con.nleta falafel and excn,es Butler by means of an
"ezplmnation." In New On WIN it appears, there is a
law, and the /Jerold mays the law is this: that women
of the town plying their 'trade upon the streets are
liable to imprisonment in the calaboose. "The
matter," says the Herald, " amounts simply to this,
therefore—that if any woman in New Orleans shall so
far lowtr herself as to behave like a degraded courtesan
upon the public street, she shall be arrested and
imprisoned like any other woman of the town. Nit true
woman, then, need be alarmed by this order. for she
cannot be any chance he interfered with by it. How
General Butler treats • lady may bq seen from lj
action in regard to lira. General Wow-ward, who is
now storming at Kink Ir. bowie in New (Moms. As
soon as General Bat'er heard of ner presence he with.
dr w Vme gnarls about her house, and ordered rbat Pile
should be allosed the fullest liberty. General Bemire-
germ!, whose wife is thus eared for by our soldiers, did
not, it seems, concoct this order in regard to women,
but he has groasty misrepnesented it. He knowa time
customs of New Orleans unites:, well as Mayor Monroe,
and he waa swnre, from the first, of the 0 Trott inlet.
predation of General Butler's orderm His proclamation
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upon the &object, therefore. is of • piece with the other
devices he bat hewn ohliged to 'mil to inapire his
*llion with a feign sort of courage." The proclamation
is thus joatilied. but honour and right niahly feeling
have not left the North. The Waahingion Daily
',WIT/ewer, referriog to the same docuunnt, gays :
" We are mortified to learn that the diagriveful ermine-
tine was not forged, but was actually_pnbliehed in New
°Thane by order of the 214/014.1. Nothing certainly
Can he said in defence of • ladies' who enjoy the privi-
leges of their sex by insulting military strangers on the
street; hut if they tome, the obligations of proptiety
it is no reason why a Federal general should be equally
eblivioes of his dignity."