The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-04-28 00:00:00

AMERICA.

THZ MIONDLIDNZIT Of OSABLZ.IOII.
The North Osrineu Lloyd's steamship Beam, front
New York on the 11th Met., arrived at Bouthempton on
Thursday. On Tuesday, the 7th inst. the long-ex-
pected attack on Ch.rleatoo commenced. In the early
part of the day only four of the Federal iron-clads were
engaged, mid, according to the amounts reosised
widen, It may b. stated, are nearly .11 from Southern
sources—the firing trion both parties WU very heavy.
Durio4 the action the iron-clad honeides rounded, bet
got off and dropped out of range. About two o'clock in
the allgrooon seven Monitor lotteries. the Keokuk, and
1 runsiffia again reoe wed the adroit at about nee
nide and three-quarters distant, and for three hours
the firing was rapid and heavy. Fort Sumter
oleos to have been the object and aim of
the operetiona at that tiro.. At four o'clock the
Inmaidee and Keokuk withdrew, leaving the ether
vowels to matinee the work for an beer longer.
Tto Rostra was badly injured. and afterwards wank
off Morris Island. Ti. imuesslties in Fort Seater
were one killed and Ilse badly wounded. No report.
had been riowised from the other batteries at the Mese
of sending the disepatch to Riebniond. On Wedweedsy
there rented to have been no signs of the renewal of
the attack. Twenty-two Federal ',easels werlll reported
of
the bar. These coopriee the wooden gun-
boats, the ordamses yawls and storeships. We
subjoin the despatehm and latest information re-
ceived in Washinroo where, on the 10th inst. the
anxiety tobear further newel,. Charleston was intense,
not one word from any sours.: Wiwi; reached that day
April B.—A vale letter, dated off
Charleston. lot inst., says : 'lt is reported that
Chatleetos has been evacuated by all the women and
children. Font of our iron-cleds have been in Edisto
River, twenty miles south of here torn week. Admiral
Dupont will he here to-day, whoa it is said the bombard-
ment will core off. It is reported that the witty will
reunin at Port Morel until alter the boinbaidinent. I
think this report probable, as the rebels have bad time
and opportunity to fortify the lend approaches no as to
Make thorn almost impregnable. We have been engaged
for the lest two days in banging (Mains to the sides of
our vessels so as to protect their machinery."
WaittIINOTOX, April ft.—Private lettere jest received
from °lacers attached to the Charleston expedition.
written on the eve of the rkitiorture of the fleet to attack
it,. city, express themselves confident of =coma, sad
they say such is the rostra feeling among both officers
and men.
, WARHIROTOII, April 8, 1 p.m.—Up to this hour the
130veroloest has not received any utforniatioo regarding
events at Charleston. Despat&es front the army say
that not one word about Charleston could be lied out
of rebel pickets to-day, who were often hailed for in-
. foriuetion on the .hject.
The Riehasoisil Whip of April 8 has the following in
reference to the situation at 4:harlestoe :—All thoughts
. are now centred upon Charleston. OMnial intelligence
' was made nubile early yesterday morning that the
enemy's iron-clad fleet bad attetopted to cross the bar
and failed, bet later in the day it was announced that
the gonboate and transports had toosteeded in crossing,
. and were at anchor. Our irou-olsois lay between the
forts quietly awaiting the attack. Farther intelligence
is looked for with eager anxiety. The Fealties have
mad* no secret of their vast preparations for an attack
Upon Charleston, and we may well anticipate a desperate
medic&

Lane, April 9.—A Charleston telegram of the 28th,
to th, Mad. Tritente, asystbs enemy landei last night
as Cole's Wand 1,300 men, the Nippon:4 object being s
reemiestranse to determine the best place for opera-
tions W land and MS sanest Charleston. The troops
for the defame of that city are said to be in a really
excellent entelition.

The /4C41160.14 Whig of April 9, bas the following
highly-exciting ietaliieuce :—Charleston, April 7. Tbe
attack on Charleston comasenced to-day. Four iron.
Mad. out of seven in the Yankee fleet are engaged. The
firing frog, the Meet and from Forte Sumter and
Moultrie and Morris Island wu vet 7 Leavy. The hou-
nds:a was hit and she run ashore, but subuquently got
off and Inas taken out of range. At two o'clock in the
of nine Monitors and the Ironsidee opened • Ire
at • distance of 3,000 yards. At bidf-past two o'clock
the firing on both aides become incesaant, and was kept
up until five o'clock, ellen it gradually diminished. The
fire of the Out wax concentrated on Fort Sumter. The
Iroosides and the Keokuk withdrew from the engage-
m-nt at fuer o'clock, apjesently disabled. lotemie
citenieut prevails in this city. Oar Monitors have just
gone out to take part in the fight. Our casualties are
Gee boy killed and firs men badly wounded in Fort
Sumter. Reports from the other batteries have not yet
0013141 to band.

cluaLarros, April 8.-Beren turreted iron•oleds and
the Ironenies are inside the bar. Twenty•two bleak.
*ding arras are off the bar. The Keokuk is sank on
the beach off linrris laland. There is no di-position on
the lei% of t.lie Feller as to renew the conflict
. . .

It; a epecial despatch to the New York Tribune we
hays the following summary M news from Southern
journals.—Washington, Friday, Ajoril 10. Richmond
pipers of to-day have found their way within our lines.
They contain despatches from Charleston, dated nine
o'clock yesterday morning, saying in substance "All
is quiet. The iron-clads are still within the bar. The
contrivance called the devil has also drifted ashore.*
The news thus far is considered in Government circles
at all dispiriting. Little was expected from the
Koekuk, Which is • small vessel, built as an experiment
on a new model, differing essentially from the Monitors.
The fact that the rebel despatches say nothing about
the effect of the are of our irowelads upon their forts
and batteries raises the
,presumption that they have
suffered seriously. It is thought that the •' three
thousands yards*. named in the Charleston tele-
grams am the distance at which the iron-clads
opened Are is a mistake or mia-telegram for
" three hundred yore,' the dirtence from Sumpter to
Moultrie being considerably less than three thousand
yards. —ln the Charleston Memory of April 6th, which
ho fallen into our hand; we And the following editorhel
article, which shoes the spirit with which the Confede-
rates went into the flaht :—" The long delayed hour
seems at last to have arrived. The attack on oar city,
cl.reatened for more than a year, is now imminent.
Whatever careful preparation, unlimited recourses, all
the iiistruinenta and agents of modern warfare, undis-
guised hate, and bitterest feeling. of revenge can euggest,
have been arrayed against the richt of the Rebellion.
for the sensed purports of whining out the insult to
their flag, which the fall of Fort Sumter, on the 11b of
April. 1861, nearly two yell ago, lOnicifti "a the
Yankee nation. Charleston ie the heart, as she was the
head and front of the offence. Through her closely
blockaded port 100 vowels are bearing to the bends of
our young Confederacy the means arid material of war.
To effect the aliments destruction, therefore, of this
port coin emporium of trAds, and at the same time to
glut tbeie fiendish malice on the metropolis of the pesti-
lent State of Smith Carolina, is the dearest wish of our
inhume. fee. With God's aid, their cherished deeire
shall not be gratified. With the loftiest hops, the
otereem courage, and the unconquerable resolve never
to submit or yield, we go forth to tee otruggle comeious
of, and we trust equcl to, the great duties which lie
before on, aid, by the nave, our hearts are in the trim:"
Th.- Mercury also contains the f olio ing:—Head-q miners
Dept. S. Carolina end Florida, Charleston, April 6,
1863. Special Orders No. 77.-1. la ease of • bom-
bardment of the city of tfiarleaton, should any hospital
become uetenable, medicel officers in charge, anl those
attached to memento, melees otherwise specially ordered,
will repair forthwith to the temporary hospital esta-
blished four miles from this city, next adjoining the
building known as the Four.caile House, where they
will convey all hospital property that caa be removed,
and with them attendants and norms will report to the
moven in charge for duty.-2. Wounds will be
demised and operations will be performed as far as
Possible on the field, and patients will be made
as comfortable as eircustanoes will admit for

transportation to hcsamtals is the interim-3.
Medical inspectors are charged with the glioeral
seresreieton of the removal of the wounded by railroad
to the hospitals at Somerville and Columbia.—By Qom.
mend, Gen. Hunnicutt!).
General order No. 58 of Gen. Seauregard, dated
Charleaton, April 5, 1863, is in subatance as follow. :
Field and company officers are specially enjoieed to
instruct 'hell men to Are at the feet of the enemy, to
hold their men in hand, and require each to single out
hie mark, fire by Ale to be avoided in the beginning of
battle, and rn ii kept in the ranks. &there not to be
allowed to quit the ranks, even for the purpose of IS.
moving our own dead, until the action ban sab+ided, Lod
then only by permission. The sand way to protect our
wounded is to drive the enemy from the field. The
most pulsing, highest duty is to.win the victory. gnu,
semesters to make all necessary arrangements for ims
mediate transimrtstion or wounded from the Aeld, and

establish •uibuLtnite depots is the rear. Before an:i
medistely aft,r battle, the roll of each tionipany win be
call• 4 •4•41 bowantao. A •• rietly .naboaol (Or their
absence from the rinks. Any one quitting the ranks will
h.- shot on the spot. Infirmary detachments will he de-
tailed. These men ton. t Dot loiter about the ambulance
depots, but return promptly to the field is soon as
weenie.
The Paeranry (Virginia) Exp.?", of the Bth April
says —Snot &twiny afternoon lest the city has
ahoundt,l in rumours of an attack on Cbarkatoo. These
rumours wire as diversified as numerous, but, as they
could not be traced to any source bearing even the
semiasnee of plausibility, they were not credited. Yes-
terday • tidy more rumours eciannecced to circulate, end
as the day most on they gained amsideralile
credence. During the afternoon it was stated that
• private Western bed been received by an officer
of high position, stating that the attack on Charles-
ton mentnenced yesterday forenoon, by the lip.
y=ohtheof tfeadenemy's fleet, and
erot.. had blown upthaonet up to !Luiz
• torpedo, and sunk three others with our shore
batteries This, we have good reasons foe stating, is
wholly without foundation. We hear, however, from •
source entitled to the fulled credit, that three of t 4
enemy's vessels—the Ironatles, the Montauk, sell
another Monitor-built, iron-cled, name unknown—did
attempt an amenit upon Port Sumter yesterday after-
note. The bombardment commenced at three o'clock,
and up to five o'clock not a shot had struck the fort or
fallen anywhere near it. As Fort Sumter comprises
four acres M ground, and issarreandal by walls fifty or
sixty feet high., we mud conclude that the Yankee
=efts either tookpositien eta peat dintenes off, or else
that they are supplied with very inexperienced gunners.
It is not stated that the feel replied. We pregame,
' "Inner, that the affair is only is attempt to rt the
range el the gusts of the fort end shore batteries, or
else • mere feint to divert the attention of our forme,
while the real point of stack will be elsewhere.
The lona of the Coefeditrates at Charleston is thus
Meted: Charismata bee hi it. barkeep two Iris-clad gun-
boats or rants—Tia Palmetto State and the Chicon.
The Palmate Bate is the larger of than, mounting five
heavy two ie iaN broadside and one at the bow.
The hare it mesh mailer, and °eV carries three
guns—one in each broadaide and 0011 at the bow. These
two verels ere the ono whisk made a ma I oc our
blockading feet off Chariest= on the filet of Jima ,ry,
°Applies the Heyanee Sate and Mareedite ; lint on that
cuicaricso neither of them showed any irrtnordinar7
Own as • rain. They resemble lb* Merrimac, nhich
some to hare been the paean vend of the Confede-
rate envy. The annesseels of them vessels are Ira-
class and of heavy ailibre, het it is net unarmed on the
pert of the easel Navy Department that they should
attack our vsessia, bat aid in the defense tithe berbomr.
Their light draught will enable them to rs over &boa
frets and lake pp edvanisseess peeitions, mem Seesaw
Der weeks TIMM et the ,*se. al is, sesesiv• firm.
Wm. It las bow said tW %ivy are slaplY pps
looting lam, moral with Ws some, bet w. 4, woe

diseredit say &hitless with* raw be dm I. a mewl
hawing the name of imeedada but we are segfideet
that they ere leo meta for our Mese= batteries.
From Itiohounel patron of the 9th we have the
following concerning the stabs of affairs it Viekeliwg
—The tam, are withdrawing troops from the
peninsula. Yesterday MI the teats were Wrack. Peer
Mege transports have gone up the Titer, loaded with
troops. The enemy have eat the levee end tamed the
water late their oil campieg_groued. F.naget, with
three resets, is above Port Haddon. He eralad the
lower fleet, bet nom ham gone doers the aver yet.
Vicksburg will be attacked this week. The Fedirrels
Mee contracted their lines at Ifireiplate—Tle Reread
loaded at Hamm Sara this morning, and gisetinyed tha
government stores. The lower fleet has opened fire,
lying out of reach of our bettered.
.111. Peterthere (Virginia) eCryeress of the fla
rys :—A Viebiburg correspondent. writing under este
of Rush 28, *KIM to think that Farregut's two vessels,
rue betimes Port Hudson and Vickdrurg, on the Missile
lipid, wend a eery good Mamma of falling into our hands.
God grant that they may. This correspoudent =doe
—or. of Mew days •• eye-omeer will be reeled to
Commodore Faeroese . two mewls below. liana is
keowsi, end him mid, shoat tartan preieratioes swag
so which will shortly dewlaps to the area, dieing of
the Yankees, and somebody steeds in great dimmer cif
gettiag hart The lose same. ant append roomette
front danger of the Hartford and Aline-we below will an
be explained in the come el time, and I have reams to
believe that it will be greatly to our *Amager. The
gunboat which got Wow on Wednesday morning la •
sinking oondition, and which has sines beeseerted es
sunk, ie still to be seen, and is, no doubt, y ander,
but bas not yet settled in deep waist. win be.
total logs, and some arrangement ought to be made by
our °Moen to prevent the enemy from getting her
armament off, which will ne doubt be attempted, and
may pomibly be accomplished by the Altimeters team
we plant a batery opposite within range WM* wreck.
Commodore Ferrara ahem Me lower butteries, and
08.111101 cools up to the mouth of tura!, and the
boats cannot venters down; consul y the mosey
are not able to crewcut, the work.
The news (rein North Caroline represent, General
Foster in • very critical condition near Wash=
where he was pretty closely hemmed in by the c
rate.. Rainforceinente were sent to him us vessels from
Nowhere, but had not been able to reach blur. Forces
by lend were also puilling along to his seseteace, he;
at last advice. had not a need at Wardilugton. The
}Meet despatches are as follows : —Com wander Rliarre,
bas arrived here front the navel fleet off Washington,
N.C. He says the rebels have isomphately bemused la
General Foster's force, but that the latter is abundantly
able to bold out until relief reaches him. One iroo-cled
would plot:ably do the work of passing tbe emigars
batteries. The Feb ice, from Beaufort, N.C., arrived ;
hers yesterday. She brings news that Gametal
Fetter woo still hemmed in wee Washington,
being opposed on the land side by 10,000 ime.
under General Hill. On Monday afternorm it
was rumoured in Newborn that be had surrendwed,
but the report was not *reedited. It was believed that
reinforcements would woo reseb him from Suffolk, Va.
He is iatrenebed in rillepits and ditches.
The Richasoad Despatch of the oth April states:—
We have sews from Weehington, N.C.' as lois as
Sudsy. Our troops have captured the 111101111 ill
batteries at Hill's, situated on the books of Ter '
erten mike below the tows, which petition gives us
an open field and • fair fight with the Yankee shipping. '
Two gunboats, followed by several large tr./reports
loaded with trooic from Nee/tern to reinforce Weahhee.
tau, attempted to run our blockade at Hill's Foist on
Friday, whea they were fired upon by our betteriee,
and no badly damaged m to be forced to put bask.
They could not pees our goes, and at last accounts the
enemy were landing troops below our works at HOPs
Point—ln the attempt to go by the *teenier Lontelaus
was sunk by our guns. There are about two thousand
magmas in Washington, when the enemy tried=
out, but failed. —The eamay have refused to nu
or silo. the women and children to leave that place,
so General Hill, it is presumed, will shtn the
We learn from Nashville that the Confederate
guerillas me destroying the railreed Weiss in iCaaWslq
and Tommie. to • fearful *Meek running them off
the track and murdering the train rinds. Tee forme
of General Granger were attacked by Van Dorn at
Franklin on the 9th, and after • severe fight the
the Confederates were reported to have been drives
busk. Subjoined is the late•t despatch received :
Nuhville, Tenn., April 10.— Van Darn's whole force
attacked General Granger to-day, at Franklin. After
severe fighting for two hours the rebels retreated,
leaving their dead on the field. The casualties on
either side are not yet known. Near Lavergne, to-dap,
• passenger train on the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad was attacked by a rebel force not less than
200 strong. Twelve or fifteen of the train guard were
killed end wounded. The train was destroyed and the
' track torn ue. It is reported that a rebel (ores also
attacked • tram on the Louisville-road, and run them
off the track. Two hundred and twenty-fiee rebel
prisoners left here for Louisville this morning.
The moth, in toe Confederate Goners.s to change ch.
seat of the Government was rejected.
Two Federal qt.-amen, the Loeell, and the Sammie,
were captured arid burst on the Cumberland Hirer, near
Talkadiall, by the Confederate., on the
Brii inst.

_
The Federal genbost, Diane, with • detachment of
Federal soldier* on board, wits captured at Brasheiir
city, Louisiana, on the 2Ath ult. 25 Federate ware
killed and wounded, and lilt taken prisoners.
The New Yen & Erewilig Pool goys it is rumoured ta
Washington that Mr. Seward has sent despatches oft.'
tabbing strong remonatrances to the British Govern-
ment concerning the war vesasels fittlng out for the
South in &stand, and that biota edt soon be thrown
out a reprisals •nd tion•interomirse If the Federal
agents nos an Englind do not succeed in purchasing the
vessels fitting out for the Rooth, end these vessels are
, permittud to leave England. trouble between England
and Anierict is anticipated.
The New York Herald is of opinion that there see
strong probabilities of • speedy rupture between
England and Aunt-ice. growing out of the atlas& of
England on the privateer question.
The Washington correspondent of the World writes,
on the 10th inst. :—Notwithatseding seneational des-
patches in to-lay's journals to the contrary regarding
the tone of the despatches sent to England by the Go- ,
vernment by the Isat steamer, it is authoritetively
known that they were entirely of a pacificatory charac-
ter, and int not threaten foreign war ao the only alter-
native if rebel vssaels were allowed to sail from English
porta. Secretary Seward, it is understood, puts the
Issue very plainly, though in • friendly spirit, and be- ,
Laves that the action of the British Government will he
such as to even prevent the hesitance of letterset marque
and reprisal.
Four persons lavaboes arrested in heading. Pennsyl-
vania, charged with being connected with the secret or-
ganisation knows at Knights of the Golden Circle. whom
designs are asserted to he the establishment of • North-
Western Confederacy, the saultstrion of President Lin-
coln, and forcible resiatanoe to the Conscription Ant.
These arrests have created W. is act tetzp-nt ami ill•feeling
throughout Pennsylvania. Tie New York Hem-mild thee
alludes to the •ffair :—The last sensation story comes
from • •ensittion journal in Philadelphia. It relates to
• mare's nest discovered by an astute United States
detective in a barn near Beading. Berk. county, Pena.,
who, according to his own testimony, 'piped" for
information concerning some grand plot to abduct—or
" abdicate," as his notes bad it—the President, to resist
the Conscription Act, and bting the war to • moody
termination. The detective hid away under the straw
Is • certain barn, and heard • cooveraation tending to
. .

the above purpose.. Oaths were administered, he mays,
but he could not see the Bible upon which they wore
sworn. On crowi-examinatioa, he admitted that an
obligation to support the oonatitution of the United
States was taken by the "conspir.tors." Three of the
parties wore arrested upon this information and
carried to Philadelphia, were, after an examination
by the United States Commissioner, they were
admitted to baiL S,orie, were previlmst that an
organised mob was proceeding from Reeding to moos
the prisoners, who are set down to be Knight* of the
Golden Circle ' • but we have not beard of any distur-
bance so for. The truth of the story probably is, that
some fooli.b copperheads held • meeting in • barn, and
that an oflcinus detectire was very &DIlOll.l to exhibit
hic seal and capacity for "piping' on the OCCa•11114 It
appear. that the conspirators made mistral i
prods with • haxfork anions the xtraw whe're7erre-
traria was concealed, but they did not hit is the right
place, or else this interesting and alarming story would
never have seen the light.

ARRIST OF *X Kin:WWI AUTHOR IT TIC FIDE,
RAUL —A Washington telegram of the 9th says :
"George B. Lawrence, anther of the well-known
romance, Guy Livingstone, was arrested • mile ma a
half beyond oar picket lines last night, while tusk*
his way to Richmond. Lawrence arrival in this weary
two or three weeks since from England, and has sam-
pled bis tins. ainoe with prominent Seeessionista In this
city and in Baltimore. He was taken before Judger
Advocate Turner to day, end by biin cominithed inclose
sonfirminent in the old capitaL Lureace dined with
Lord Lyons whoa in Washington, and seemed to enjoy
friendly relations with all the British Legatioa."