The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-05-10 00:00:00

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DENMARK —The soothe of the Prus•ians toward.
D.-mark becomes every day more iusoleet and
aggressive. Beefing Wien complete :newsrion of
iloicisin and Schleswig ; h..ving he...herded bonderburg
end destroyed liyhhol. they have advanced UpOU
Frederic* and imposed upon Jutland • contribution or
t 72,041, to be peid within 48 bourn. This htie been
refused, and acconlingly Field-Mamba Weasel hse
seised upon eleven citurii.a aed despatched ikons to
Pretsia .5 hostages. 'ln. Minas h•ve evacuated Fate.
nes, taking w;th them the most ratable materiel of
war, and spiking the guns that were left behind. Bet,
though defeated the Danes are not dismayed. They
will retire to the tut foot of their territory rather than
subunit to foes as insolent as implacable In tbs mean-
while, the ;Acting. of the Conference are impended. So
far as imo be gathered, the prenatal of England for as
armistice has met with little favour front either of the
eontending parties. The Danes allege that • truce
which leaves the enemy in pomesstom of their soil, to
lies at free quarters, levying eostritietion• os the
country, is as bad as actual air. whilst the Praises
contended that to them an armistice is worm than ea
less unless the blockade of their ports by the Danish;
Beet I. reed. Moreover, there appears to be no earlier.
cooperation between France and England. The French;
Emperor, elitist professing to deeire the inter:2.4)Ni
Denmark. intereloigee compliments with tier in
end congratulates ?reason the snow. of the attack cm
Dalai Hosea and Sweden both hold aloof, cod unless
England in teepee., the .1. 01 Poland promise to be that
of D- nark. Greatly averse to w.e se are the majority
of all parties in &glared, yet our patience may be Over.
borne. Ws cannot sit still sad see Denmark fain
-
ruched. Tune the conduct of that kingdom in relaties
to the Duthie' lia• not been all that weld be wished,
hut ohs has been more than sualcienfly punished.
Moreover, it is not the intermit of Reglad that the
minor States abouhl be borne down by the great
military powers. Some such considerations as thee
would appear to actuate our Government. The Mama
Fleet Mu been ordered to the Down., and is ready to
soft at 24 boors' notice. The combined Davies of
Premed! and Mate" would not eend • chance against
our irousidea, end the complete bl thade of all the
German ports would speedily aseibilete the commerce
of Prima. Nor hi lii. the only or the moat formidable
risk that her headstrong Zing seed entierets Minister
would have to encounter. The limperot of the Fresels
maintains a dubious and indeseleive attitude, wow pro-
fessing to act with England and eonsnineraies
Denmark, now coquetting with and tsarist ?mein.
But let war break out between England ad Germany,
and it requires little foresight to predict that out of the,
quarrel the French -Mauch would find • way to ta-
rtan...ion of his long-cberisbed desire—the extensiese
of the Frew% frontier to the Rhine.
The Afoudese of Monday aerie that the Atistrisa,
Government having teetered that it ban no intention
to send a Seel to the Baltic, the British Cabinet hiss re-
nounced its Intention of doing the same. We do not
credit this inteliiprees. lithe allied armies persist in
pressing farther on tea Jutland, the English first will
have to go to the spot to counteract tie presence of the
Prussian and Austrian forces. The same official paper
states that Austria and Prussia insist upon the cessation
of the blockade as ono of the conditions of the armistice,
but Denmark Is not likely to yield the point. The
blockade affords her the onie mesa of 'feriae', and
whilst the enemy is rasteieg her inland territory she
cannot be expected to di set front retaliating.
PRUSSIA.—Our Prince Alfred has been le71•11 a
brief visit to Berlin. It is net apored to have any
political object, but to be merely • pseallit •Ps•
his
• r. the Crown Princess.
RUSSlA—Advises from Vilma Wan eir a •
coming interview at Kheengeo, between the
and Empress of Russia and the Emperor sod 1t5.1"61,
of Austria. Those who profess to see further inde :••
political milestone tan others, draw dreadful aserwie.'
from this ominous conjaneturn Another unbar
alliance is to be formed between Russia, Austria tail
Prussia. The first is to abstain from all interferes**
with the Invasion of Denmark, and all three are to sost
In conceit, In washing the Poles, the Elonarens and
Italians.
GREECL—There has been a change of Ministry lam
Greece. The new Cabinet, it is said, are inclined to-
w-operate with England in the smoothing away of dill-
cattle*. Matters look more namable than they did,.
and the destruction of the fortifications at Corfu pa.
reeds without interruption.
ROM 11.—Tbe Pope has put forth a spirited protest
against the cruelties perpetrated by Russia on the Poles.
He amuses the Csar of' endeavouring to 'aerate the
Roman Catholic religion under pretext of auppresieg
the rebellion—transporting whole populaces into •
frosen countries, exiling bishop. and &privies them of
their functions. We are afraid the aisseeseme of his
Holiness will not have mach weight with the Autocrat
of all the Rua's. but this expontalation is creditable
to his humanity sod werage. Pity is it that the sym-
pathise ot the Pope are limited to the Poles, and that
be ham so aline' for the Italians who suffer from the
misrule of his own Government, and the overuses of the
Bourbon brigands whom be fosters and supporta
AMBRlCA.—Draserimus DINIAT or TIM rOPILIALS
rumpra GgsaPJ.L Bats es—The Fedoras in their wessaso
on Shreveport. on tie Red River. met with a me,
serious repulse on the Bth April. The Mato Jame,.
in a despatch dated Gnuid Score. April 10th, aye:
" Our cavalry had been driving the enemy fir two.
days, but in the forenoon of the Bth. sent are word-
f•-r infantry supports Gamest Ranson, in command'
of the led and 4th divisious of the 13th corps, was
ordered to send forest I a brigade, and he did so. At
noon he followed with the 4th division After &deem-
ing about Sys miles from where the third diviam of
hi' command, and the 19th corps were encamped, the
rebels made a et nd, and our lino, emanating of only
2 400 infantry, formed in a belt of woods with as opea
field in front, an I the enemy in the woods on the other
side. General litoots, chi- fof General Bank's staff,
was on the field, and took direction of the mammoth
General Ranson was in favour of adeanciag only in
force be his wish was disregarded. After • skirmish
across this open fi Id for about an hour, the enemy ad.
vaned upon us in overwhelming numbs., estimated at
about 10 000 strong General Ranson got all the
ay.ilable troopm to the front a ned on them. The
rummy lost heavily. but advaneel steadily. Soon all
the cavalry gave way, and the infastry fell back. In a
few moments the enemy pressed up etreay. The peaks
of the cavalry so demoralised the army Mot the retest
esorme • rout. The gamed did all in Ivis power to
rally the men, but finding it impossible ertisoOt
reinforcements made every effort to save the artillery.
While endeavouring to get the Chicago Mereantile
battery off safely, General gassClU was sanely
wended in the leg. Captain Cyrus E. Dickey, his
adjutant. was instantly killed. Our Ices wee
probably 2,000. The Mercantile battery lost all its
guns. Captain White is • prisoner. Lindeman.
nue+ and Minnie are killed. The la of the
=in killed and captured is 31: 110 of tit.=
to camp after the darer. While the 41h;
division was falling bask in disorder the 3rd division,
numbering only 1,800 men, ane up and were im-
inediately routed. Finally, the 19th army corps, eith
7,000 nee. came up, and formed in line. They
tacked the enemy and bold them until we got all the
trans eff exe-pt that of the cavalry. The whale army
I. (snag bask here, where it mast wait to reorganise,
before preeseding farther la.& Shreveport. A
Mobile damn& says: "Minds ippi River advice* frets
d threat points report great bottles between Kirby
Sot th and B•nks, near Shreveport, in which Basks was
defeated, with the less of 14,000 men kill d, erelmild
and catAsirsd. 13.11::= and other hospitals ere
full of the Yankee
Further details of the affair on Red River had been
received linsiof Cairo. The battle on the Bth of
April we f t at &bine Cross Roads. The rebel*
were emu l by Generals Magruder. Games. and
Taylor. ender the chief soeunand of Kirby Smith
The fight on the second day was as Pleasant
~where=
General Andrew Smith led the rams fovea General
Banks being in chief command The loss of the
enemy on the first day was about 1,500. On the woad
dey they lost heavily—two to our one. Among their
killed were three generals. Morton, Parsons, sad
Greene. The nest advanced up the river to within 80
milbs of ithrevepoit, when General Banks, finding his
rations running short, ordered it beck. On its way
down, it was attained be the enemy on both sides of
the ricer. A brisk fight ensued, which ended in
the defeat of the rebels, with a bar a nearly
Se killed and a large number wounded. It was is
this wadi that General Greene was killed, ide bead
having been blown off by a shell.
The New Orleans Nmgrese of the 16th of April,
mays :—"Our forme on Many led were szesinped he
and around Grand Boors The rebels were quiet, end
showed no signs of attn. About 700 wounded cam
to the city yesterday ; among them Brigadier-Geared
Ranson. Our lees in artillery wee sixteen or eighties
g=l they are reported to hat been re-takes.
Ranson, when wounded, was directing the
fire of the Otago letter,. and had seareidy been res
moved area the rebels were in possession of the spot.
on which he fell
Tao 0011/NDINATS RAN AND ?NI FLDNiaI. GUN-
Warn—A Baltimore despetek of the 23rd gives thes
latest deals of the position of affairs in North
Casella :—Os Sunday last the rebels senalled oar
works at Plymouth, North Caroline, sad were twee re
puled On Monday, at one a.m, the mania" Bomb-
shell ran op the Rasa. River to look out fee the irons
end ram reported seams doss. Sam after passim
our works this Bombshell was fired into by a rebel
battery and wank. Sala thee nth the rebel rat
wine does and roe past our batteries, ad thee nth
into the gumboot Southlield and soak her. The gin'
boat Miami, a very strong vessel, lay clime to the rant.
and Captain Flamer cleared her &•olm for wan, ash
Ira a mak shell, which rebounded from bet ode, as-
rioded. sad killed Captain Flamer. The Miami wee
thee immediately run down the river oet of danger.
The rebel ram, so far as head freed bad Doe Seeds
shot, and now has possession of the river aloe
Plymath. Our sarrison at Breath is ad off from
all semmunicatimi. The poet, however, Is well
rerriOnett, and has plenty of praisers', ammenitien,
and arms. Oeseral Beta Is eon Slides that it etll
withstand say tartar assault the rebels say make.
Adeices from Nowhere way that Little Washington is
also threstaved by the rebels. General Haase has
eat an army of traboats to the wend, to open cues.
munioatton with nymonth, and aid the other eseele le
destroy the rebel raws. Admiral Lee has sat • isa-
boat to replace the Smithfield.
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