The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

LOYAL FIDELITY LODGE, M.U.

The menibtrs of :he above lodge, held their mini-
verses., supper on '.'hursclsy evening, at the Ne If Inn, '
Esst..treet. The dab% OD the proposition of Mr.
Meader, wss very sbk filled by Mr. B. Maiden. end the
vice-chair by Mr. lisrtin, and a goodly party of brothers
and friends set down at the festive board. Of the
sapper we may Bair say it was a most sumptuous
rkpast, and ydected the highest credit on the.worthy
host and hostess ; indeed, we can fatly indorse the
Chairman's opinion by pronouncing it one of the best
we have ever seen ftroislied, and in this opinion every
one present most esrdially acquiesced. Full justice
having been ehmc tothe good sheer provided, and the
cloth removed,
'Ph. CHAIRMAN gi • e "The Health of the Quetta";
whose name, he marked, was peopected in alt lands,
end who was especielly beloved by those Am was called
to govern. The lost was always the first given at all
convivial ineetings.and it was right it should be as, as
every Englishman's heart responded to it. (Drank
with much enthusiem.)
Comic gong by Mr. Hunt.
In proposing "Tie Health' of the Prince and Princess
Wales," the Cattlimag said the nation had every


ROYAL COLLIOR OF PUTEICIAIIB. —The enancit have
giern notice tli4 the next primary or eh ''..S 44. x.wi.
outi,b for she Ineuileer of do
.18.in:c.0., of Englas.il will take plae, 04 5e.10447,
16th of January.
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By • telegron rio Sacs dated Bombay, lh testier
14, wo learn Omit dear tao been lei tote fitting on
tie northern (remake. We regret to lean. that Central
Cime,nbothmin had been obliged to resign hie command,
owing to the serious nature of the .01111 d he rowived
the late encounter with the bill tribes.
EVIDeNca "beroltr. Cos aITTEs."— It is roach harder
to ob'ain information than sumo people may ihisk ; the
...set don't know anything. soil those who do don't
eay whst thy know. Ilm re is a real epimsle from the
history el an inquire, 'Oda' took plate four or tee
year, ago, imdo the desirability 'f making • rew line of
r•ilway min the Border. A *lines., was giving wh.4 is
called " traffic evidence." in jmntifloation of the •Ileged
mme. 4 of the railway, IVA Ili. if "Olaf Ofti rrrrr I :
Brown (the erormessmining cimuimel for the oimponenme
of the new line); 110 you mean to tell the committee
that you ever ea n iehabited house in them vallm y
yes, id.. me. Drown: Did you ever a. us
eie there
Brownwhichl:edVi n all y
teot y
nothingg or life?
.mrn I d
particular; were
put,
witness, a Scotehman, was lesaing the hoc, the 'seemed
gridleuiau pot one 1110 M quemonmn : Q. I ant instructed
to &lc you if the vehicle you saw was not the hearse of
the last iul. ILi tent ! viewer : It was. CorafoU
ifoorigiee fir January.
Tts C telt or THSFATraI go TO SHoOT A SfAcla-
TR aTE.—On Monel•y, at the Townliall, leomimmeter,
befgre 'l'. C. Yild, H.q.. mayor, and Mr. damns
Bedford, the other man ceneerned in the attack upon
Captain Stevenson was brought up in custody. charged
with threatening to shoot that gentleman. The plme,
of the prisoner is &name! John.. a/ins Peter Pritchard.
alias Peter Davis. Captain Stewerison steted 'bates
the 15,11 of December he was told that some men were
shooting in the cover at Mill Pits. He therefore meet
in that direetion, and saw two men, one of whom was
the prisoner, and acted them their Mini's, and what
they were doing there. He proceeded :—Tbe prisoner
bad a gun, capped and cocked, he presented at me. I
raid, "You don't mean to say you would shoot. Tenn r
Prisoner said, " Stand off." His gun was pointed
towards me, and hid attitude was of a threatening
character. I then stepped • few steps on one side. I
said, " You would not be such • coward as to shoot •
men unarmed?, I told him he would be hung if be
shot me. He said lie did not care about that; what did
he rare almett being bung ? He kept tellmogtne "to be
off." I told him I should not leave my own ground.
Prisoner and his companion then got on the other side
of the fence. Prisoner again pointed the gun at me,
and told me he would shoot iii. if I came over the
fence. In the meantime his companion ran away. I
then told him I abould come over the fence liken got
over, and got within five yards of the primmer, when
lie ran at, the bank, and again pointed his gun at me.
I felt to sure that be intended shooting me this time
that I turned up time collar of my coat round my neck,
and ran into the field. The prisoner then left the
ground, and I saw no more of him till he wauin custody.
Sumerintendent Alexander stated that he caused the
1 prisoner to ba apprehended at Ebbw Yale, Monmouth-
I shire. When charged with the offence, the prisoner
raid the gun was bin own, and that he made the captain
! run up the field. He was fully committed to take Lie
! tri•l at the next quarter semi•mns at Hereford.
SNoW SToIIN IN THE NoRTH•— The Ban AA ire Journal
says:—" We are in the midst of • keen ghost storm.
A 'flattering Friday' was followed successively by
drizzling rain, sleety winds, and biting frost On
Monday the trod was followed by snow, which fell
thick and fast in • boisterous wind, realising what ie
expressively designated 'bun' drift' The snow storm
has been very severe in some parts of the country, anti,
from the drifting, there i. mum] to believe that SOT,
of the public road, will, if the dorm continues any
time, very speedily get blacked up and impassable. In-
deed, front the severity of the storm. we fear some of
them have already got into that unweleknime state
The railways also will, of course, stand a elmece of
some interruption. For the present there seems every
prospect of an early opportunity of testing the through
Highland line, of which so much has been said and
written as to its probable efficiency in the heavy snow
storms of a severe winter. We arc getting into a cycle
of years when we are bidden to expect very severe
winters, as a periodical recurrence in the course of
, nature ; and we perceive that the farmers have sonic
time Shr.in been looking forward .with prophetic eye to
just n fllofcht
them,
in,:eta;re.en, t
ha:vet
laid ianreanneox; receiving.ruc, M
Istock Christmas turnips, in some cases sufficient to
serve far six weeks."
HoRSIIBLE OeCCRIS.CE IN THS POLICE-OUP:Of,
BrLFAST.—On Monday morning, • lunatic clove in the
ekell of • soon about seventy years old. named M'Grath,
in the policemilloe, with • large iron instrument. The
details are briefly these :—Abont e'even o'clock on Sun-
day night. William M'Oarngle, an emaciated young
man, • labourer, aged about twenty years, was brought
to the policemourt, ch•rged with having assaulted his
brother, at their house, Ewart's•row, Crumliroroad,and
with bring a dangerous lunatic. The seemed was
handcuffed and put into • cell. About twelve o'clock
he either took ill or feigned inners, and complained
that he was dying with hunger. He was apparently
very weak, and was &whited to the guard-bed—a large
wooden frame—where the handcuffs were taken off
him, and • piece of bread was given him. He then lay
down on the bed. About this time the old man
Iflliath, wax found wandering about May'mm Fields. HZ
was somewhat tinder the infloence of drink, and was
shrewd paralyeed with the cold. He was not absolutely
drink, no that a charge against him ws. not entered,
and he was to sit at the fire, which is euly
foot or two f tom the wooden bed, end is gnarled with
iron grating. He wan dozing about half•past ono
O'clock. In the meantime M'Gerrigle had revived, and
was talking quietly to ermine of the constables. At the
time jest mentioned lie stepped over to the nil man,
Ides mi him spparestly with passionate fondness,
and threw his arms about him. A constable Brune-

diately made him resnme his place. M'Gamgle quiet!?
yielded, but in a moment he rose again, took a sticks
told went playfully across the raised tiles that cover the
fire to a constable who sat drinking a cup of tea, within
two or three feet of where the old man was. When
suspicion was thus completely die/instal. the lunatic,
with almost inconceivable rapidity, polled out the
damper—• fiat piece of iron about ten pounds weight—
from the chimney, and, raising it above Ms heed,
struck NGret.l, who was apparently asleep, a terrifio'
blow across the head. He was about repeating it when
a constabl- caught his arm. The old man without •
groan, fyll forward on the iron barn, receiving two other
wounds. The blow caused a wound between three and
four inaliesi broad. The sharp iron instrument cleanly
cot the skull. and penetrated Inc beneath it. Dr. Aiekin
was instantly in attendance. Ile drowsed the wounds,
and had the unfortunate man moved to the General
11.y.pitol. The injury indicted by the dreadful blew
will, there can scarcely be a doubt, result fatally.
ll'Grath recently kept a hay-store nearly opposite the
grain market, latterly he has been very poorly of.
lie was • very quiet, industrious old creature. At foei
o'clock he still survived the murderous attack.—Neissi
Letter.

A Mae WITHOUT A COUNTRT.— A enrions articl,
has been published in the Atlasslie Monthly, giving
dates, nitrites of officials, and vessels of war, m
intended to be taken as litertl fact. It is a history of
Philip Nolan, who It dmeribed as haviag been, in 1805.
• lieutenant in the United Status army, and wbo
became implicated with Burr in tome of hit wheaten of
" treason." Nolan was tried by court-martial, found
guilty, and when asked whether he had anything to say
why he had not. been faithful to the United Stutes, be
replied, " the United States! I with I may never
bear of the United States again." The oeurt-martitl, it
is said, took him at his word, and seutenced him to be
henoeforth • man without a oonntry. The authorities
at Waxhington approved the sentence, and immediately
after Nolan .1111 illkllllPOrtell to a Government vessel
bound on • long cruise. From that Nine up MOe hour
of Fit death • period of nearly 60 Yo•r*--
the Marti States became to him as if they sever had
existed. Whenever the vesrel span which he was
embarked approached tbie country he was transferred
to one outward bound. The name of the United States

was never mentioned in his hearing. All books and
papers, before going to him. were carefully examined,
and every alluaion to this coentry completely removed.
H. vs. no surrounded that under no circumstance was
anything relating to the IJnited States mentioned in his
hearing. During hie late sickness, and • few hours
before his death, his physician, in obedience to his
argent entreatie., gave him a seminary of the changes
which occurred from 1807 down to May, 1863, during
all which thee not one syllable relative to hti country
had iv. r reached him. Ile is stated to have died oo
the United Stat a' corvette Levant on the 11th of May
~f the past year. "I tell you," says the doctor, "it
wee • herd thing to condones the history of half a
century into that talk with a sick man. And Ido not
now know whet I told him—of emigration and the
means of it) steamboats and railroad, and telegraph.;
of inventions., and books, and literature ; of the
MI, gel and West Point, •nd the Naval School ; but
with the queerest interruptions that ever you heard.
You see it was Robamon Cream asking all the aecurna-
lak.l questions of 66 years. I told him everything I
could think of that would show him the grandeur of his
country and its prosperity ; but I could Dot make up
my mouth to tell him a word shout this infernal
rebellion. And he drank it in and enjoyed it as I cannot
tell you. He grew more and more silent, yet I Dever
thought he was tired or faint. I gave him • (la" Of
water, but he jest wetted his lips, and told use not to
go sway. Then he asked me to bring the Presbyterian
:BiztikleotfhPautblitic
„Pored:roc wnhaiethtty
rithirea,paleadmsei.
.d.artiithw
it dial. There was his double red muck down the pass,
and I knelt down and real, and he repeated with sue—
'For ourselves and our country, 0 gracious God, "'•
thank Thee that, noteithstaading our manifold trans-
gressions of Thy holy laws, Thou hut continued to
so
Thy marvellous kindness.' and no to the end if that
thenkaiiving. Then he turned to the end of the same
hook. and I read the words more familiar to me, 'Unit
heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favour to behold
and bless Thy servant, the President of the United
States, and all others in authority,' and the rest of the
Episcopal coolleet. 'Danforth,' said be 'I have repeated
thaw prayers night and morning; it is now 55 year'.
And then he said he wouktgo to sleep. Hs boot me
down over him and kissed me. I thought be was i'redi
and would sleep. I knew he was happy, and I ere.l.l
him to be alone.' Batt in an hour, when the doctor
went in gently. be found Nolan had breathed his life
away. We looked in his Bible, and there was a trip t
oal.or. written, 'Bury me in the sea—it has been my
home, and I love it, But will not some one wet up a
stone for my memory at Fort Adam; or at Orleans,
that my disgrace may not be more than I ought to bear r
Say on it—'ln memory of Philip Nolen, lieutenant
the army of the United States. He loved his country
as no other man has loved her ; and no man deserved
!ma at her heeds.' "

• •
ToWNLIT THE MOnDrilitil--We have authority to
state that while the judge before whom Merge View
Townley was tried coecurred in the verdie, be salved
• further inquiry, is order to aserrtain whetter the
prisoner was or not mow 'new& This tsqsity Imo ta
eonsequence undertaken, at the request of We
a State, by the Leasers Commissimaas. Theis ref°rt.
together with a eertficate of the prisoner's iessaity.
signed by three justice of the pesos, sod two atediesi
s.atieseen, has made it eseseesry to order his Wow
diste removal to • bindle asylum, sad under awe sir
eunetances the execution of his sesteses bee bees
'respited during Her Majesty's piessare.