The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-10 00:00:00

jolt.gtt nub Colontat Intelligencr.

A MENICA.—One of the New York pep...
From Corinih we have the f. Mowing int,ll.gence, ti
IlaN 22:--" Desertero fiom the fetal CAIN/ & Corii.t
g ‘eeek no have *vivid, and report thee B.aureger.
bad 130 OW men, 30,000 of them being held IN a reserv,
under Breckiiiridge. The rvlb-14 are suffering greath
from sickness, so arernge of 600 daily being sent out 0'
cam'. over the Memphis and Charleatoo Itailro.d. All
the houses along the railroad were used as hospital..
Beanregara is COlliillll.ll, atnong his troops, tusking
them speeches, urging and making every effort to en-
courage them. His troiips ere subsisting or. half rations
Salt be,f of a miserable quality is issued once a week.
Nide Os around Corinth command all the approaches
to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and are 13 mile.
long. The rebels are making extraordinary efforts to
obtain heavy gnu., of which they acknowledge to have
but a poor slimly. There was lousioerable skirmishing
along our whole line yesterday. In every ems the
enemy was driven heck. Our loss is about 40 killed
and wounded. The enemy's- toss is shout the Wane.
Prete. rt mottoes to come deAly la *loads, meetly front
the 13th Louisiana daminieut."
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We caC readily belie-ire that there is no great superabundane of food, equipments, and comforts in the
armies of the Confekterate States, but the pictures of
utter destitution, wretchedness, disorder, and deutorali-
patios which have recently been painted! by the were-
spondents of the Federarjournals, and said to be true
expositions of the Confederate armies are utt rly un•
worthy of credt. T.krams ere flashed over the length
and bo with of the land. descriptive of the condition
both of the militiry and civilian populstion of the
South. whieh hear noon the very face of them the
stroneent evidence of the;r being pure fabrications. We
are told, for exaniple, that deserter. from Beauregard'.
camp at Corinth bad reported the strength of the army
Ito-re at 130,000 n0en,30,000 of wliom are a reserve force
under General Breckenridge. Along with tide informa-
tion, whreh meet be true or false, we are informed that
the nick rate in the Confederate anny amounts to shout
six hundred daily. If the intelligence was believed
which the Federal authorities are at so much pains to
publiali it is somewhat singular that Gen. Ream* does
attack a force so ly off for rations, and so sadly dis-
pirited by starvation end siekness. Beeureganl, it is
,aid, is coistantly among hi. men, making speeches to
them, urging and making every effort to encourage
them ; buteloquence thereat] an excellent thing in its
way, it not beef, and an army on the brink of the grave
from inanition would be • comparatively easy prey to
one well fed, even although-ft-had jest partaken oft
long speech. Why don't the Federal. have at their
etmeneuts at Corinth, and put au end at once to the
rebellion in that quarter? The statements from Rich.
mood are to the effect that the condition of affairs
there and in the surrounding Country is of the moot
deplordale character. The sufferings of the Dapple were
attune beyond endurance, and the pcarcity of provie Dna
waste great that everything had been eeiwe by the arm.
suit even these bad bees placed on half reboot. A
great portion of the army is represented as demoralised
and dispirited to such a. ettent that it wee only held
teCct-vr by the moat vigorous applieneen of reilitery
I.w. riet the suflerings et the poop:e of the South are
groat is nnlv what might be expected, cumiderieg the
circumstances in which the South is 11accd. but the
fact Pe.t tie resistance to the North is continued, ited
that the recent reverses the South bail sustained las
oily made it more determined in its opposition to lb
North. shows the value of those assertions with refer-
ence to the broken apirit of the ermy and the people.
The intelligent New York ourromondeint of the Times
dci not, redit the report brought to this country. by
the recent mails, vie.. that the of Commodore
Farragut hal ascen •1 the Missiesippi from New
Orleans to Vick.hurg, because nothing has been said of
the eq.tere of Fort Adam., • place held by the Con-
federates a'mut 100 miles about Vicksburg, whieh
must have been taken before tbe latter piece (mull
have been reached. It Is more prubalile. be thiuks,
that Davis, who pueceeded Commodore Foote in the
command of the deeeen !ing flotilla after the capture
of Weed Ne. 10, had made an nnsuccessful attack
upon Rort Pillow, minetiones called Fort Wright, and
that the Confedetates have strongly fortified Fort
Randolph, a more formidable position. 12 miles lower.
Tie object of the two Federal commodorea, the
ascending and deecending one he thinks, is to effect
a junction at Memphis. The seine 001Te6PODdent
conftrins` the intengence previously n3,eieed with
respect to the inadequacy uf the Federal forces for the
double work of eonquering the South and keeping it
after it bee been subdued. An order has been issued
for volunteers to make up the effective 700 000 men,
and as the bounty is liberal, the pay scoot, and all
ordinery industry at a discount it is supposed there will
be no lack of volunteers. With regard to the question
of European intervention the writer is of opinion that,
xoterithstandine the amonnt of affected indignation at
the klea of Tram* mid EngLuirl, jointly or aspeestely,
interfering in any way in the quarrel, unless they inter-
fere to p..nntade the 'South to lay down its arms, inter-
vention on the part of France is not regarde 1 with
disfavour by a large portion ed the more rational of the
A merit:an people. If the ides were started by England
aloe lie declares that tin whole Loid would go wild with
indisnation at her audacity, but France may do what in
the present temper of the American people England
could not even hint at. The truth of this statement is
confirmed by every Ameritanjournal that reached but
Eoglind tenet likily teinterfere with our touchy re-
lations ii. any way. Still in spite of this feeling the
T•mrsoorrevondent says "even now, at the eleventh
h..nr. were the Federal arms to sueLdn a referee at

Corinth or at Richmond, the intervention of France,
supported by that of England, to end the struggle bye
compromise which would. ammo the independence of
the South and the settlement of a boundary line, to in-
clude Virginia, North Carolina, and the other Border
States within the Northern Republie, would be hailed
with tweet satisfaction by the most clear-sighted and
prudentmeniu the Country, and by none more so than
by two, or it may he three members of the cabinet.

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ITALY—The Ratszsi Ministry is eridemly on it
defense. The gonsewhat servde deferenee it sea paid to
Femme, wed the manner in which it has treated the
pirtyasf action, hot mdititted against its popularity, and
iii policy is Wog embjeoted to a keen criticism in the
Chamber of Deputies,. In the Thurslay's sitting of the
latter Mingbetti approved of the deelcration which had
been made on the pat el the Ministry with ropeot to
their loyalty to Italian interests and the efforts they
bad made to advance these. , He acid he considered that
if Cionetinnent were strong and the country well
organised Italy 'might speak loudly, and Europe would
liden., On the other hand Signora Lineo, Bertain, and
Mascara getersetod the motion f..r 10qUill into the
recent events'. via., the alleged revolutionary proceed-
ings of the Iliribaldians, and denied that the Minist7
bad the confidence of the nation, which, we think, is
yery likely t be the case.
BOMB:. A despatch from Rome states that two
wagon& Woe with arms for Albans, escorted by Ponti-
fical vimes. had been eaptured by French troops.
Thtfe wiermana were, no doubt, intended for the Pope's
friends", the brigands. those worthy supporters of the
tempiwa/power and Bourbon legitimacy.
4OINITIRIAOOO.—The Tarks, ander Abell Paella,
obtained a complete vlsi oryo'er from 8,000 to 10.000
Monteneention theist instant. The loss of the victors
is UM t., hsae been comparatively

MF.XICO.—The Paris correspondent of the Morning
Herald &dares that the French intemotion in Mexitw
will not be confined to a march to the Mesican capital
au 1 balk agafm " The &Vile ides Oh billidCllll.ll4olllll
to imptwite Trench lane permanently in Mexico.
in the amine, tritteetorate. Thera will be Frenah
high connsissien mots French army, whilst. Mexican
Parliament will be allowed' to anmas itself by nuthiti
members end pointed bt reviably- sinistioeed by the