The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-04-07 00:00:00

foreign ano Colonial Intilligrnct.

AMERICA. —Tx %XXI ll.tittsc. —The nmea of TOM-
day bed e letter from tile lowdeeed city of Vick-berg,
dated Feb. 6. The inforiextion it contains is ,*'.her dd.
but the subjoined extract is interesting. The writer
says :—"l had almost forgotten to mention an instance
of Yankee enterpriee which is refreshing at a moment
when acts of energy sod daring al• mach out of fashion
elation' their troop. Two days ago a little river beet,
adapted in peaceable times to the carriage of settee, and
m it here believed. the Conestoga, ran boldly
pest the batteries and got lately down the river, though
heavily Amid at along the whole of the eve miles of water
frost which are included withie the defences of Vickie-
burg. The Conestoga was prepared for her hazardous
venture by protective armour, coexisting of cotton balm
strapped tightly round her exterior with iron bands.
She pimiento' the additional &demoting* of being one of
the swiftest boats on the river. But, although well
adapted to run the gauntlet, there is a general feeling
of shame and annoyance among the defenders of Via.-
burg that she should have &seeped that annhilatioe
which but for se &oxidant, would prolmbly have been her
fats. It happened that a Confederate steamhoitt, named
the Yiesksberg, was lying at a wharf in the centre of the
town, and alongside this boat the Conestoga stopped far
• minute or two, and ensatmesefully endeavoured to eat
her on Ire by throwing a blazing bale of cotton steeped
In turpentine apes the dere. Not thy yards from
the spot deed • Confederate gun—a 10-isob Colembiari
—of whisk the Ire would have *reed, at that short
distance, ten times the thiamin of the armour with
which the Conestoga was girt Unfortasately, this gun
which had flied two shots at the Conestoga ea she
descended the stream, had upon its mooed shot got so
far out of gear as to be unavailahle at the inseamt when
it was sorely needed. The Coessbage was severely
struck mama times, hut pained uninjured down the
river, and has distinguished herself by eistnntitting
havoc moose the Oudedsrate bargee between Vicksburg,
and Port Hodson, and inspirit* an alarm whisk far
transcends the auseeat of damage she has already dens.
Croat threats are fulminated against her as sbe returns
op the stream, said there are rumours of mysteries@
boats about to descend the Red River, and repast
, General Magruder', meat exploit against the Harriet
Lane.
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Cettratitarn Loarr.—On lb. asenewbafteemestoos
question of the loan to the Ooefederate Stales, the
TIMM says in its ay article —" The Ossfederate loan
(stragilarned on one band by the preesedias of
Admiral Wilkes, and on the other by the news ef fresh
Confederate sueessese at the period of la year when,
through the da4 of the river and the isileasees of the
climate, the 'MAU* opportanitiel are predated to the
Federal.) leas been Ina at li to 2 prem. The abaft
of rational au of Inane. among the Astoria people
mons to leave bees farther illustrated by the at of
'offload mediae bag gives at New York to a
stateaut that an oiler of • loan of 830,000.000 sterile(
In gold has been made to the Washingtou GOVITORINOI
by 'European capitalists to cease a reduation of 3 per
oink lathe premium on that metal." Apropos of thria
subject the story that was reeently eirealated, tothe
effect that the Confederate' were about to hese pro.
poasb for another £20,000,000, on the maturity of neap,
Is denounced ma lying statement. enooosted for Ike
purpose of dainagisig the Ores million loan. It Madded
that the Conlederate Gomansent will contract no fresh
lean in Barone Shim year, and probably not until the
ternainatioa of the war.
The Brewing Hersid, of Saturday, stated that are
had been 1111111001,6 la oily oaks to the effort that the
Washable; Goverment aostaplates lay's( an
abate on British property aed shipping as • measure
of retshlatton for the deprodatiowe of the Alabama
The enlarge would net be amonapasied by a deelarstien
of war, and the respossibility of that step would devolve
upon England. Mr. Beard, it is alleged, will quote as
Bailie& prescient is support of the step, Lord Pat.
maga having, in MS, blockaded the Deka eat,
Layton as abeam on Bea shioping, without a
deciaratioa of war. We do not think the Washipagtos
Covernmeet will take each • seep.
Manhattan notices the revival of the war feelisg, and
profaner. to anemia that the Fedoras have adopted •
sew military policy. They seempol the Oath be keep
hive armies, but give than no shames el Aghtisg, sad
Shim is doing more amps to the rebel sense than tiny
Oohed bear.
ALITILIAZT AND 11171KITST.--Goooral Romersos 12
his report of the battle of Merfremboro', estimates that
out of 20,000 sums shot+ Bred by thr Fedora, 728
bit the enemy ; and that, out of 2.900,000 minket shots,
13.832 Tbs remelt of the valuation is that it re-
quired 27 oasis 'bola, or lA6 musket balls, to hit ime
man. Ka ball weighing on. mean ounee, like, of
metal mould be used to kill a teas with unisketre ; and
with artillery 2281 ha of metal, or cue and • half times
the weight of • man, woad be required for the same
purpose; the deaths being in the proportion of 1 to 4
realm* to the wounded. 35ta. of halls, or 9001 h of lice,
would be employed in tilling on. man.
A steamer arrived at Port Royal from Fernandina,
Florida, reports that the forte of 1.000 riegra which
amended St. Mary's River on the 9th March, has at
with a most severe reveres, and probably born seared.
71iit negro foree carried with it several tbasad
muskets to supply all slaves who amid be incited So in-
surrection. If the report of their captors proves tree,
111. supposed that Colonel Haggles= wad all the white
officers who toomesielded Oman have been shot in ae-
eardaece with Jailers= Davis'. prosismation.

ARRIVAL Or TROOPS AT CILiaLIWTOS, ABANDON -
MUTT Or V1C1151014. intelllgeose brought by the
City et Baltimore, from New York, although it
ef no great battles having been fought or won. is both
i= and importeat Al the various silent!!!
t by tbe Federate there is little or no esepe
reported in the enflame of the belligerents. 85.
Helena, tweetylve mils. is the resr of Port Had•
son, amording to Sooners report., wee atteaked in the
9th ult., and on the 13th homy finag was heard there.
The result, if the attack has actually been made, is
not stated With regard to Charleston, it is mid by
the Mobile kernels that the eke, Is immagstahle, sad
that nothing eon pase the batteries unharmed. The
Masa whenever it I. made, will if the etabenee•M
made by the South be cornet throw additional light
upon this quake of iron-clads wrens batteries. The
South appears Sob. gradually meanies' a respectable
lest. The Harriet Lau, the chid of the Galveston
spoils, is beam moverki into an houselad. and Ave o-
boists, lii. mid, were being sonstruted for the
rates at Bekaa, on the Alabeina river, .11 .1 whisk were
to be reedy by the Iss insteat. At Savannah, too, if the
reports of deserters can be credited, there were flee
irosolad flutist batteries —two wespleted, and the
others seedy so. In short, the South semis to be
striving with ebanseteristie merry and sums* to
strengthen Suit in the arm in which it is
Salicient The peace resolutions pawed by
by the &Me Legislature of New Jersey are virtually
, a repudiation of the policy of the Washington Govere-
Went from Stet to last. A Federal military
expedition had been sent into one if the mutton of Okis
to wrest deserters, and, as an organised resistance wee
expected on the part of the isbabitants, bloodshed was
aistscautsd. The Astaire of Melia) by the French is
mgerded as not improbable.
Dune or OLVIZAL 130/1111T2 The Anglo-Saxon
brings intelligence of the death of Federal Gourd
Sumner His loss will be felt by the North, as be was
owe of the most experienced of the Northern generals.
General Swum entered the army in 1819, and has
seen, perhaps, more agave earns, than any other
Modena raw sow in the held. He pined the kraut
of lieutesaist-oolosel in the Mexican war, was military
peerage of New Mexico from 1861 to 113; in 1851 was I
appointed Consmesder of the Department of the West,
and .sth. outbreak of the war Was Hai to California
So supersede General A. S. Johnson, slain killed at the '
battle of Shiloh, who wan nunested else inteastite to
band over the State to the Coefederates. After wed*
allairs in that department General Sulam was aphis
ordered to the lbsek, sad has eines takes an waive pert
In all the prominent batiks In Virginia. As he was
Majar-Oenmel Hooker's maim is rank, he revealed to
be relieved*: his sommand when that °Meer was planed
at the head of the army of the Potomac, and was
ordered to St. Luis to Gamed Curtis in
command el the depertmssk of the West. He was on
his way thither when he us seised with the illness
which bee unhappily peeved kW. The pawl* of Rig
County, Wiens, It appears, have been ebonite their ,
segerneas for a vigorous peousstios of Mao war, by
reaming from the military authorities a somber of
deserters whom the estimating had enesseded in
beading. Troops were met from the medal app.,-
Stsbe, sued the deserters were re-ceptered ; but, the
armies of the North sea only be kept intent by the us
of Ilse bayonet against eivillass who eonsive at and aid
desertions, the South is not likely to be subjugated by
physical force.
DEFENCES or chum...nos. —ln rekring to the
defames of Charleston a Mobile pew says :--It is
possible that say hooting thing ma brood san•
homed the emeesetrated gem of beery metal from the
gang of Senator, Moultrie, and Battery Bee, the three
works eommandisg the throat of the harbour.
rorra the pan of reuses 00Is terrible gauntlet be
diminished by an attempt to peso ander cover of the
darkness, as has bees the cue at Vicksburg and New
Caws. So tortuous sad Wrists is the abuse' lead-
ing to the forts that de meet experienced pilots of the
harbour would DOS VOLUM.. bring hi a mewl by night,
ender the 000ditees which the enemy maul allalfe,
via, without lips or leadmerk to guide the way, lees
when the Malteds rushee vessele leave the barber it
I. always necessary to aid their exit by previotady
arranged lights (shaded) and signals, ao that it is reason,
ably certain that the attacking ironclad. must either
seta, in open day, or Meer the hipskind hazard o/
getting aground sun one of the MOSS iTeateeTOWllars
on the Souders meat, which seldom yields a vessel
when mos it has grasped the keel. Bet if, perehanes,
despite of mazy channel, multiplied torpedoes, and the
°ambled batteries of the frets, some of the nine
Meentses Mudd SIMKO to gat into port, they would
still have to amounts' a concentrated Ike of other
batteries, whittle, as the 'Yankee papere have kernel
from oontrabs, "line the shores of the interior of
the harbour." And then win some the "tog of war*
whisk will determine the ponmeles of the beesured old
sky.

iiiBTRIA.—Wo bear fres Vienna that at • wa•
formai between Coast &weber, sad the rsslb aad
laglieb antbsiesdoeu, It bag bees agreed to Wass an
identical sent to lite ROWS* 00•191r110111111, rewarmed-
fag tie weedy betradeolloa isto Poland at eseseliable
reforms
/TALL —A carioca inoideat mewed hi the
at the Delia Cbantiten at Depth's ea tie 37th .111 V
Formed barks wade a rework to tbe and that Yagoda
sad lielferiao were Free& wistarias. sad sot Itslien,
X. Teseltio, kw Freakiest of th• Citaisber„and row
mid smalmsg they were Miss, beciame atkiertstalt
wee owta to General Full that the battle Ina
sad at Marine tho Froaelt a.. 14 bays been
by the A sabians bad not the Pladiewanwe boa
at Sea Itattasao. This &Amnias was re-
wind with load epylsaio by lb. Obainber I
apAlli.—Letlan haw kadrid speak of.. handout
whine bee sineed wane agitation is the 'kiw, eiagT of
egaabb aloft! :—" The Daiwa' Is Perna- ern
fuelled, with tie avant of kw Wean, to bell
abisb abo is afloat to give, Mdse. de ,at
present ire* al the Opera at Madrid. sad Ititimitre
pes6 Went ans kie wait of improssaable
1160 hopper. us* &ANNAN, Womb
um, twisbl. 41111 Walraist tind=
trlyistallave IllidiriToiWisettlai sot allow
UM; SO be la maw mawU 114 s. dlag.s.g•
Thin tai. moor re% for WI. Pn"lt.

Garzcs.—lt seems all but ditinitieely settled that
the young Prime WiDiem of Denmark will he the
future Km' of Greco*. England, Ramis, and
France stonier* of hit candidature, and the assent
of the King of Deum.rk has probably by this
time hven made known. There only re:nsina the
estuarial of the On.eks. and that they will be bat
into hie" to eepept sn promiaing • prince, recommended
by the Great Powers, mono& he doubted.
POLXND. —The Sole'e Pays : —Tao desp•tches re-
iteived front the theatre of war in Poland prove that the
insurrection is gaining ground every day. This i. •
mamma which will noon vee it new strength. The
woods, Wiriest becime green and bushy, will sane ter
myluoss and oaten' citadels. The insurgents will prait
by the. for the war seems In as deethbed for • long
time yet to le • geerilla war. To carry an. war upon •
grand Peale, to stake the fortune of Poland on • regular
battle, in • temptation which must be meted. It would
also be great imprudence to provoke in the towns in-
surrections which could have no other moult than that
of causing them to be burnt by the forte which eorn•
mend them. . . .

INDI A.— A letter from Coanmandor Strode, of tha
troop-sbip Vulcan, communieates the Ines of the Alio
mimed hi carrying between MI) aad
700 Ilalsoinedana from Sinimporo to Jedda, on their nay
to the shrift of Metes. Tho skip want ashore in Um
Malacca Straits, and but for the opportune appears/lee
of Use Vulcan Ills probable that the whole 31 this mass
of humanity, vith the ship's Grew, woad Imre come to
a iniaarabla end.