The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-08-05 00:00:00

LATEST AMERICAN NEWS.

APPOINTMENT OF HALLECK AS COM-
MANDER-IN-CHM.
DESPONDENCY OF PUBLIC FKELING IN
INEW YORK.
FEDERAL VICTORY IN VERGINIA.
CAPTURE OF GREENVILLE MISSOURI, BY
THE CONFEDERATES.
STREET RIOTS IN NEW ORLEAN&
PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

The Europa, which arrived on Saturday evening,
brings us intelligence from New York up to the
evening of the 25th nit. There is no war news of
any importance, if we except a report of a cavalry
attack upon the Confederates at Beaver Dam, on the
Virginian Central Railroad, reported by that some-
what unreliable reporter General Po. The attack,
it is said, was completely sueaM, the relined
and telegraphic lines were destroyed for several
miles, and the Confederate depot, containing 40,000,
rounds of ammunition, 600 barrels of flour, and other
valuable property was burnt. By this movement,
according to General Pope, the whole of the district
around the place where the movement was made was
thrown into a state of confusion.
The President, the damn of State, and the
leading generals had been consulting what was to be
done with Halleck on his arrival at Washiugton.
No alteration was to be made in the war department,
but the unanimous decision seems to have been that
Halleck should be appointed Commander-in:Chief of
the United States army. With the public the
appointment was popular. M'Clellan having been
unfortunate, the people, as a matter of course have
got weary of him, and they naturally expect that
any change will turn out a change for the better.
A new man at the head of affairs may woo fortune
once more over to the Federal cause. Everything
was reported quiet onJamas's River, and according
to the latest accounts the Confederates had retreated
ten miles in the direction of Richmond. The
rumoured attack upon and capture of Gordonsville
by the Federal' is once more contradicted, and the
intelligence brought by the Hibernia, to the effect
that the governor of Ohio had called out Volunteers
for thirty or forty days, to aunt incursions from
I Kentucky, is confirmed. Enlistment still lags in
I the Federal States, altholigk additional Inducements
are held out by the governor. Beyond a repetition
of the report brought by the Kangaroo, that the
Confederates were within five miles of the city, and
that great excitement prevailed in oonsequesos, we
have no intelligence from Nashville. It is indeed
stated that the Confederates had retired from before
the city, and that expectation of an immediate
attack ass no longer entertained, but the report re-
quires oonfirmation.
The statement that a Confederate ram had arrived
at Vicksburg, and had succeeded in getting under
cover of the batteries of the city, turn oat to have
been quite correct. We are now told that an un-
successful attempt had been made by the Yodeled
fleet to destroy the vessel. General Bader, at the
request of the British Government, it is said, had
officially recognised Acting-Consul Copal. Federal
military governors have been appointed for
Arkansas and Louisiana. A street not had occurred
in consequence of the arreet of a lady for having
morn a secession badge. The President, we are in
formed, has issued an order forbidding military I
commanders to exact the oath of allegiance from
foreigners. An order of far greater importance has
been issued by the same authority, an order autho-
rising military commanders to seise and use for the
purposes of the Federal army all property, real and
personal, in the Southern States which may be
necessary for military purposes, and for these pur-
poses property may also be destroyed. Lincoln can,
no doubt, quote precedents for this proclamation,
but they are preoedenfa of a most barbarous ohs.
rooter. Military and naval commanders are also
authorised to employ negroes as labourers for mili-
tary and naval purposes, and pay them wages, but
accounts must be kept so that compensation can be
made in eases where valid grounds for compensation
may be established. This proclamation will be but
another spur to Southern valour and determination,
and will augment the horrors of a war which in
already horrible enough.
It is mid that the Confederates, under Morgan, in
Kentucky, have retreated before the Federal', and
have passed through Cumberland Gap into Ten.
name. After a severe fight Greenville, Missouri,
had been captured by the Confederates, and the
Federal governor of the State had issued orders for
the organisation of the entire militia to resist guerilla
, Incursions. The latest intelligence from New York
speaks of a great deal of public despondency, and of
the entertainment of more gloomy apprehension
respecting the position of affairs than ineibeenaislisr.
Mined at any period since the commencement algae
atruggle. Coins of every description it is said, had
almost disappeared asa circulating medium, and
postage stamps of all denominations were generally
employed for small change, the public having nothing
else except these as currency. Many articles of
common use, we are told, had advanced greatly in
price. In short, privation end disinter of-all kinds
are staring the American points in the face, and
all because they will not be oonvinoed that it is
madness to prolong the present context. Negotia-
tions, we observe, have been concluded providing
for a general Interchange of prisoner.; we should
be delighted to hem of negotiations for an armistice,
to be employed by both parties in arranging for
separation without further bloodshed. To this
complexion must the draggle come at last, and why
should not the inevitable end be anticipated now,
before further mischief be done?
It is now reported that Morgan's force in Ken-
tucky has not been dispersed, which means, we sob.
pose, that they have not paned through Cumber-
land Gap end gone into Tennessee. It is also said
that the Mississippi had fallen to low that the Federal
flotilla at Fieksburg would not act. The Confede-
rates have demanded the surrender of the notorious
Butler for the alleged murder of Mumford at New
Orleans. If the demand is refused they threaten to
hang,General M'Call In reprisal.

THE WATERLOO MORDIII.—The conduct ef the
murderer, Gipsy Lee, who murdered his wife at Water-
loo on the 214 of June, and who at the recent
assizes was proved to be insane, has, sines be was
brought up, been more violent than ever. It is stated
that two persons axe constantly with him, and that
great restraint is exercised upon him of necessity.
ATTEMPT AT MOROSE ET TWO MIETHTB POLICEMEN.
—On Sunday one of the two policemen who attempted
to murder Polioe-Mergeant Thomas, of the Glamorgan-
shire County Constabulary, was apprehended in Bristol.
A brief account of the outrage has come to hand. It
would seem that there is • dangerous part of Merthyr,
on which the active superintendent, Mr. Wrenn, deems
It his duty to double the beat, and oonsequently P.C.
Stuart and PC. William Rowland were placed upon it.
Amongst the rules governing the force is one which for-
bids polioemen from drinking whilst on duty, and as upon
going his first round of inspection P.B. Wm. Thomas
discovered Rowland partaking of liquors in a beerhouse,
he reprimanded him, and, as was his duty, made • report
of his misconduct to the superintendent. This matter, it
would seem, gave greatumbrage to Rowland, who must
have contrived to excite an equal amount of anger
M the breast of his comrade Stuart, for upon the ser
pant making, at the proper interval, a second round of
inspection, • very desT *rate and unmistakable attempt
to murder him was made by the two men. In the
sour+. of the beat there is a metal, which is aroused bY
abridge, and on nearing it the seroant oborved that
both constables were standing at the bridge, waiting, as
, he 'apposed, foe his visitatice. Asb• approeshod Mims

Rowland stepped towards him, as if to make some reporfr
but was no sooner within reach than he aimed a heavy
blow at the sergeant, which at once felled him to the
teeth. Stuart them came up, and both men com-
menced beating and kicking him until he wae com-
pletely prostrate, and reduced, as they doubt-
less supposed, to • state of insensibility. They then
took him up and threw him over the bridge into the
canal, the fall to the water being folly ten feet. The
effect of the immersion revived the sergeant a little, and
there being a current passing through the bridge, he WAS
carried by its force mom to the opposite std. of the
bridge. This was observed by the villeins, who mind I.
the spot towards which he eas drifting, and attested
him with stones, one of which stunned him for • time.
The poor follow's groans and cries, coupled with the noire
of the struggle, caused some of the anal boatmen to
hasten to the place, and by their assistance he Was go*
but in • state of great exhaustion and suffering_
The ruffianly policemen, upon finding assistance at hand,.
immediately decamped, and upon being sought for they,
were nowhere to be found. Ills certain that they must
-
here premeditated the attack, and provided themselves,
for their escape, for their police uniforms were found by,
the roadside, they hoeing evidently changed them for prf-
vats* pparel. On the outrage beingrewirted to Soperintan -
dent Wrenn he at once sent eonatiMles in pursuit, and'
one of them,Poliee-Constable Wright,suceeeded in arres-
ting Stuart at a distance of thirteen miles from Merthyr.
Rowland could not be found, but information
was at once conveyed through the cesnitry of tb•
outrage, together with a description of the miming
man. On Sunday P.C. 234, of the Clifton division,
having a knowledge chum. apprehended hi. in
Old Market-street, and conveyed him to the Otailla
Station, where he was detained for the night.
Supt. Wrenn was at once apprised of the wive by,
telegram. Stuart, who had joined the eonstahularr
somewhat recently, brought with him three =
character from Her Majesty's ship Donettal, on
of which he had served. Rowland had lees in limp
fore, for a period of eighteen months.

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