The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-05-05 00:00:00

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AIgER/CA.-41111W Tenn, Aron 111:—Tbe Ricismord
papers of the 18th state that all is quiet at Cbatiestoft.
rho Federal forces, protected by gentrata, were aleepr
ins Coins litiewsb and firribrooka Islandr. General
Heaurestoi, in an addreas to the troops oft the 101 h,
congratulates thetti on Vie sewer n repining
Federal attack. Two Wefts' Illeiboafte erg sines
tran.porto have been destroyed on Onallkielard River,
by Wheeler's Confederate carulry. bOWlsllloegps
desperbes ppd. that • Plea taw with mishear to
for Fader at Wiehjigtod. North Carolina, hod sasseeded
in paring the Coufedefete batteries. IL is reported '
that the Federal. ander Generel lotielleell hod mowed
the Reppabannork above Belly's ork_and have taken
P""°° at Culpepper and Gordonsville Tht admiral
Lee. 0111cial reports mate that the attemili Goreysi
Louvers.' to areas the Naeemooii River hoar
forth. pawnor of cutting off the Federal scarsunioatinft
with Norfolk, was unsise3sesf al. It is stated that 14
reseeh laden with motto. from Seashore porta arrived
at Neiman between the 16th March and 10th An
Stocks were bootee% good prises levatliing.
fluctuated between i 53 and 164, and eloped at 163.
Eschange Ann at 166. Aloft, easier, at 11 per sent.
Freights : engagements lingtdd at sae-hand quote-

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New Yong, April 18.—Dise1atebee 'ended frgs
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Washington. North Carolina, op to ibe 1 inelin4
one* that General Foster his plenty of isep,
can hold out for three gawk'. Cho the eliber bond, lb.
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MIII6OOOII Journal of the 9th says Uwe we.
actually in the hands of Ilse Goefederate Grata? Will'
on the day prey-emu—During the 13th sad 144 h loellent
heavy *blemishing took place on the Blackwater. near
Segall, Is which the Federal form under General Phelt,
eogaged the etteeking form of the Geoledetales ytigh
tome necesa—lataft deepatehes from Suffolk Mate
hat the Confederates retiess to invest the phew. —The
Richard Sentinel Faye that the Federal iron Mad fleet
left Oherletted flethour for the South cia Sudsy, the
12th inet.— The *lens of the defeat of the Coafetlende
General Van Dons, at Freeklin,e anemia, has been
fully confirmed. The Confederate cm ig Rto ated hint
been very great, and they were obliged to retreat after
six hours severe fighting.
New Tom, April 17. Morning.—lnformetioe has
reached Fortress Monroe that • steamer with one rrgl
meat and oupplies had rneceeded in reachieg General
Foster at Washington, North Carolina, ea the 1411
Inst. The Confederates under Looping, to the re-
ported number of 30,000, continue to invest tinflolk.
whet* the riders's ate fortifying themselves. Heavy
akinnishing daRY rants. The Confed,retee have at'
tempted to eet nand Suffolk, end out off the Federal
communication with Norfolk. It is roomed ilia tit
cam of the capture of Snffolk by the Coufederstes, the
Federate would burn Norfolk. Southern dispatches
from Vicksburg to the 10th inst. 'tan that two more
Federal transports filled with troops had gone up the
Mimiseippi, and others were paring to follow. Three
Federal gunboats have proeed up tic. Goldwater
River. A Federal iron-clad waa abandoned rad des-
troyed at the month of the Amite River. Refugee.
from Vicksburg Aide that there an sufficient 'yeah.. I
there to lest the garrison for two yours. Vies-
burg is fortified by 225 cannon. At presort then ere
not erre then 3000 troops in the town. hut in ame of a•
attack, rtififoreereents cat be had. The Confederates,
are constructiog three gunboats up the Red Rivea
At Jackson, Mississippi, the Cordederates are laid to
Mee an extensive foundry and ponder manufactory.
There are represented to be 800.000 bales of erne I.
and around Jackson; soon bales are hid away le
matins and woods. The Federals have closed the
Memphis lines for 80 days; neither contrabands new
cotton would be mooed. Thirty Federal hoots end
twelve gunboats had left ifetephts, to operate on the
Cumberland River. The Richard Whip says A
fight took plow at Williamsburg on the 4th fqy. 14th.)
The Confederates, under Clenerel Wise, drove In the
Federal piaci., and occupied the toe a. The Federal'
returned to Tort Magruda, Dom whisk point they
shelled Williamelotre General Wise has entrenched
One side of Williamatiorg, and is going to attack Fert
Magnets." the adders of President Davis, delivered
on the 10th lost, end previously noticed, states thasibs
rations are now redder sometimes M enehalf the
usual quantity in some of the Southern armies. The
Confederate Secretary of War has ptepered • Or by
which people will purchase bacon, *ore, port, and beef,
known to exist it large quantities in different parts el
the C,oufederacy. The oddest* coons-lodes as follows :
" There I. little doubt that if the people unite in date,
their duty the sovereignty and indepeedenee of the Cion.
federate States will be maintained." The Governs
of Ne• York has sent • natrage to the Leginte-
tare recommending it to peas an amendment to the
Constitution giving the Legtelature power to pats • law
to enable absent soldiers to Vote. He notions, with
regret, the attempts of morn. officers oh the Federal
Government to interfere with the free employment of
political °Melon by persons in the army. The New
Turk prose generally, with the exception of the World,
are aasuming a highly belligerent tone towards Enghiod.
The /few York Times says—" It is physically certain
Americo will exact atonement Int British outrage.- The
only docertain thing is the question a time. It met
be nett month, of next year, or ten years hare. The
Federal Government are treed to make no further re-
monetranee, but let the British rulers teke their course.
and America will take her tinut. The same journal
says that 70.000 Federala would march theomfb Creeds
without impediment, and England could not break the
blockade, at it would be protected by ironclad', of
which America has five to one of England." The
World ridicules the ri.a article and rya the
defences of Canada are superior to anything the Federals
have met with at the South ; and backed by the greatest
naval power- on earth. The conquest of Canada would
not he such child's play as the Tinges suppasen—The
litchnuond Rzanintr mini—" It it out cotton alone,
hut well grounded confidence of the gaily of the
South to maintain the independence which hie salve the
standing to the Confederate loan in Europe."—The
French frigate Cluerriere arrived at Fort Monroe on the
14th.
Now YOlll, April 18 (Evening).—Stoneman'e fort%
comprising cavalry, infentry, sod aril:len, is roirli
to hove crowed the Rappahannock, and finished csa te
Culpepper and Gordonsville, which they now ocentrY.
This movement is said to bin& the line of the Virginia
Central Railroad, and turn the (Mak of the Confederates
at Fred.ricksburg.—General Beauregard has leased •
congratuletory address to the troops on the result of
the engepment of the 7th. The Charleston Mercury
soya that Fort Sumter, •Ithonoll soineelaat pitted, ix aS
strong as ever.—Considerable excitement prevails at
Suffolk enneerning the shooting of Col. Kimball by
General Corcoran. It is said that CoL Kimball, while
on picket duty, attemptejl to prevent General Corcoran
rasing, and the general chat him dead.—A. steamer
from Bermnda arrived at Cii•rleaton on the 14th.—The
steamer Eagle, from Wilmington, and the steamer
Margaret and Jessie, from Charleston OD the Bth. have
arrived at NIIIISSII.—Money abundant. Gold, 53 per
cent prem. Exchange on London, 166.
New YORK, April 17,—The correspondent of the
World reports from Waabington that Mr. Si-ward's
last despatch to Mr. Adams submitted to the British
Government the alternative of preventiee from leaving
port the vessels alleged to be beading in England for the
Confederate service, or the rupture of diplomatic riche
tions between the two countries. Ills amerted that the
army of the Promos is in motion ; great mystery is
niainteined on the subject by the government, and no
direct information from General Hooker'shead quarters
be. been allowed to he published for three days. It is
also asserted that General Lee ia moving upon Harper%
Ferry to invade Maryland. Both these reports find
believer., though it is imorsible to asoutain the teeth
of either. A division of 20,000 Confederates are stated
in letters from Louisville to have crossed the Cumber-
land River. near Lebanon, Tennessee, preparatory to a
raid into Kentucky. The Richmond &Wind publi-lies
a despatch, dated Charleston, 1241. Ai ril, to the effect
that the whole fleet of Federal iron.el.da departed
for the South at four o'clock in the afternoon of that

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day.
rim violation of the maib on beard the Peterboff by
the Federal ;wise court at Washington has been laid be-
fore the law officeru of the Crowe, and on their opinion
our Government is prepared to act. It is clear Mr.
Seward most have known that he was acting wumgly
in ordering the bee to be opened, end the seals of the
letters broken. His own instructions had r. nil. red
these proceedings unlawful. Yet it was only on the
strong representations made by Lord Lyons as to the
winner in whieli each a course would be viewed bi=
British Government that Mr. Lincoln's Foreign e
tary could be got to forbid the second outrage. The
first liss been wonicitted, and will be the subject of much
negotiation. Mr. fieward's conduct hitherto shows that
he alwaya holds out as long as he can, end gives in only
on, compulsion. This cosine has the undesirable ell. et
of increasing irritation in the United States, and of
lowering the respect for that country felt in England,
whore the law in holder, in int& high estimation,.
Intelligence has been received in this country from
Her Majesty's screw gonmemel Nlnet, 4, that while
cruising in the Old Bahamas Channel, during Use
first work in Munch. • blank and then • chatted gun
were fired across her bow by two United States shipasif-
war. The Commander of the Cygnet instantly went on
board one of the American Teruel/ and demanded an
ars•lnity. which was given.
The Federal authorities at San Francriaco have seised
a small refuel at that port, which won said to be fitted
out a.. Confederate prisaneer, and intended for, cruise
between Franc.. and California, her object being to
seise the geld ships. It is stated that an immense
quantity of arms was found concealed on board.
Tim seeress of the Confederate WW2 has brought a
Federal event to Europe to negotiate a loan for the
North. This agent so direct from Waabington, and it
in said that he has full powers to negotiate a sterling
loan for C 50,000,000 on Label( of the Federal Govern-
ment. The stock is to best? per cent. interest, payable
lialfiearly in sterling in Loudon. Pamibly, as a blither
inducement and security to British capitalists. the con-
' fiecated ootton plantations and other property of the
Southern rebels F.Aty be hypothecated to the Irian one-
tractors. The Herald says : "Mr. Walker has
proceeded to Manchester, where his proposals sis more
likely to be entertained than in Leinbaol-street."
Ixatag 1.111 IS ILICHNOMD.—The Murfreesboro'
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial forwards •
letter to that journal, purporting to be written bluttbz
wife of Mr. Foote, se ex.osember of the United States
Conernme. and now a member of the Confederate
Congeals, containing some very curious information in
relation in life it, Riehmood. The following are eztenets
from the communication, which is dated Februory 6 :
"My little boy is nemedMalverne. His papa called
him after the battle ground of Malvern 11111, where our
braves fought so nobly. He begins to play and tries to
talk. He spits at the Yankee pictures, ant makes MY
hoes at old Abe's picture. . • • We tan
boarding at lira Johnson's, on Governor-street, just
oPOlntite Governor Letcher'e mansion. • • •
We have to wok almost everything we eat
In
our own room. In our larder the eteek on hand is •
boiled bacon hem, which we gave ODIY etyma
dollars for; three pounds of ours B. wilco, we
gave four dollars per pound for; and one pound of green
tea, at roentgen dollars per pound; two pounds of
brown sugar. at two dollars and aeventy.five con. per
pound; one bushel of One apples, about the size of •
good oommon meihie, which were presented to me by
a member of Congress from Missouri; one tehod of
batter, about six months old, at two dollars per pallid
end six sweet potatoes at fifty dente We have to OW
dollar for a small slam of pound cake at the sods.
bowies. I forso• to say I had • present of • Ins
ci piddles sod • piece of Airs from • iambi/ aim
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