The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

had made a movement from the right to the left of
Bragg's, panther), with the view of making • diversion
in onler to attack Look-out bliountain,or to send troops
to Burnside. If the latter was the object the movemem
would in oil probability be too late, for General long.
street. after four days' skirmishing, had driven
Burnside's army into Knoxville., ant not only com-
pletely invested the city, but bad denture." one of the
positions in front of it, the Federal' falling back to
their defences. General Banks is reported to hare
occupied Rio Grande, the Confederates falling beck
bethee hint, and bunting Fort Brown and the greater
part of Brownsville General Lee's army wee in
position between the Rapidan and Orange Court Home.
General Measles cavalry had advanced to the Rapidan,
and it was thought he would attempt the passage of
the river, the fords of which Lee had strongly fortified.
The Federal' still keep up the bombardment of Fort
Sumter. Gold had advanced to 524 prem. at New
York on the 20th.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—It appears from the
Board of Trade returns that on the Great Western
Railway there was not a simile passenger killed or
injured in 1862, out of more than eight millions and a
half of passengers.
Duet( OF HALER, viii NORPOLE Ghter.—Robert
Hales, known as the Norfolk giant, died of consume.
tion at Great Yarmouth on Sunday, the 22nd, at the
age of 43. He stood 7ft. 6in.. and weighed 4251 b..,
and when in his prime was 64 inches round the Amt., 62
round the waist, 36 across tin shoulders, and 21 mend
the calf of the leg. He had several brothers and sashes
of giant-like proportions. His lathe., • farmer, was 6ft_
Gum, and his mother, 6ft. in height. An ancestor of
his mother stood Wt. 4in.
The rumour of Earl Russell's resignation Ina reached!
Paris, and is discussed with much interest. There mar.
impremion there that the noble earl's objection to the
proposed Congress is the immediate came of his retire-
ment, and that his successor, Lord Clarendon, believes
in and is favourable to that of the Emperor for
the cure of European ma ies.
Throughout the whole of Germamy • strong determi-
nation is exhibited to support the claims of the Prince
Frederick of Augistenburg to the Duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein, in opposition to those of the King of
Denmark. In the Prussian Chamber notice has been
given of • motion that all the German states are bound
to support the Prince's right/. At Gleckstadt the
officials of the superior court of Holstein in that eity
have resolved to refuse the oath of allegiance to the nem
King.
At the sitting of the wart-martial on Colonel Crawley -
on Monday, the crose-examination of witnesses, whish.
had occupied the whole of the three previous days,.
ammo) to an end, and the prosecution was allowed to
make sense further progress in the charge. Several
commissioned and noncommissioned officers testified to
being present when Colonel Crawley gave the order
that the sentry should not lose sight of Lilley
night or day, and in reply to remarks that the primoer
was married, and that his wife was sick, said he did not
care, married or single, his orders must be carried out.
One of the 'entries, however, "tided that the orders
were that the sentries should not go in Mrs. Lilley's
bed-room.
The argument in the ease of the Alexandra was con.
eluded on Monday. The Court was addressed by the
Queen's Advocate, Mr. Locke. Q.C., and Mr. T. Jones,
Is support of the ease for tbe Crown; but the argument
was exhausted by Lb. Atierney General. The Court
reserved ita judgment.
Several rumours being in digitisation relative to the
antecedents of Lieut. Fitzsinion, of the 6th Dragoons,
we think it only just to mention that he is a member
of an old county family, his uncle, the late I.
Fitsaimon, of Glanoullen, county Dublin, having
represented the Irish metropolitan country for many-
years in parliament. Lieutenant Fitzsinton was
educated at the Royal Military Academy in Vienna,
and served for some years with distinction in the
Austrian service. In June, 1857, when two Irish
cavalry regiments, the 6th and 18th Lancers, were in.
prooses of formation, Mr. Pltzsimon raised 100 volunteers
and joined the former as cornet. About a month subse-
quent he exchanged into the 6th Dragoons, then varying
in India. It isa curious coincidence that Lieut. Fitssimon
was born and lived for many years within • few miles
af Colonel Crawley's planet. King's County.
A HumaJeg Isrrrrunotr.—The New York and
Boston Express Mail Line Railroad, via Hartford and
Springfield, have placed upon their road • set of cars
for soldiers' use only. The car contains ten cots,
samended by rubber bands, for those having broken
limbs, !cc., also zest room for thirty, with handsomely
-
cushioned seats, several easy chairs, a . full set of
igetaPliancheesestWor protect fractured
*Popper urn and apparatus for making coffee, • wash.
..,fracilunredo.i4mor brolinkt,enklrabe;paleconzai
room, water-cloast, Imams, ;in fact, everything
hlsneeddedisposalby a.
sicksoter wwardounatdd mine":4lereceiclunhPenerey peeelledelaat,
whose duties are to minister to the wants of every soldier.
One of these cars will leave New York and Boston
daily.—Bosims paper.
MAIGIACTURESI OF TFIR SOITTIT.—A r....10ff0n from
Richmond, a Northern is oallenmphrner, intelli-
genee that at Manchester, near Richmond, ea 4.,Teinee
River, • gunboat, clad with three thicknesses al a
inch iron, is within six weeks of completion ; that at
itocketts, at the foot of Main-street, two other loon-
clads are on the stocks; that a sense of security is ne
c onplete that large iron works, private property, are in
process of construction by • man named Bradley, in
Manchester, and the machine-shops at the Central
R.ilroad depot have been greatly enlarged. Two cotton-
mills have been erected in Manchester, and permanent
improrementa have been made in the Tredegar works
and the bridges over the rivers. Two woollen mills in
Manchester torn out 1.480 yards of army cloth, which
~sold to the Government for 35 dollars • yard—New
York Times.
THE GREAT BELL OF Witsvninwrsa PALACZ.—" Big
Ben;' though as cracked as before, is once more on
duty, telling the hours nearly as well an ever he did-
His sound, though sot quite soune, and rather more
gongy that it was, is so far even improved, inasmuch as
heretofore his excessive vibration, after two or three
strokes, interfered with the stroke which followed in
such a way as partially to smother, as it were, every
third or fourth toll; whereas now, on the contrary,
there is no such interference, and every stroke takes
due effect, so that his tones aee all alike distinct. The
creek, it is said, has been found to be not so serious as
was supp-sed ; not passing quite through the metal.
Though a little eccentric, therefore, crazy " Ben" may
long send his long tongue booming over the metropolis.
.
DYING 11 BR A GHORT.—The Owk Oaretle report*
that Mr. Morrison, the head gardener of the Wingfield-
park, recently observing one of his men in • eoinewhat
comatose date while making believe to be at work,
roamed him with • shove, which caused him to stagger
sod fall on all fours. On the following morning Mr.
Morrison was informed that the man had died during
the night. On inquiry it was ascertained that he had
taken a large dose of arsenic, and that the motive for
the suicide was the belief that Mr. Morrison would ever
after he haunteol by the ghost of the man whose dignity
lie had offended by a heady shove.
manna Coxruer. Apropos of what 1 have
said about slavery and the Irish being our political
plague-mote, an Irishman in my father's service ewe
said to him : " Ah, yer honor, this wad be an iHinani
oonnthry intinsly, ev it wasn't for the naygura" And
• companion speech was made to one of my friends, by
• high-class pompous negro, who had been brought up
as a house-servant at the South, and who was asked
how he liked his new home. " Masse, I like de Noel,
and de gemmen of the Norf, de real genameri.
Norf great country ay it wasn't fur dam low Irish."
The Celt and the Ethiopian hate each other cordially.
.4 Yankee, in Spectator.
A MATTER OF TANTI.—We must say the pretty
peripatetic' of Broadway present • dazzling spectacle.
Bright yellow cloaks with scarlet hoods, scarlet cloaks
with yellow hoods, blue cloaks with white hoods, purple
cloaks with orange hoods, and striped and checkered
cloaks with crimson hoods, moving continually in
prismatic procession through that great exhibition
thoroughfare, threaten with '' colour blindness" the man
of weak vision who ventures into the flare. The saffron,
bright red, green, azure, and white and cream.oolotired
feathers wherewith the ladies in conflagration decorate
their ritmadtere hats, planting the flaming tufts like
torches in the forefront. of the same, add much to their
incendiary and auro da fe-ish aspect, and deepen the
unpleasant impression produced upon feeble retinas by
the blaze of their garments. It really seems as if New
York beauty and fashion had determined to substitute
for the fancy balls that were so much in vogue last
winter • general street masquerade. One would never
surmise that a tremendous war was sweeping of by
thousands and tens of thousands the very flower of sus
population—Nest York Times.
EXTRAORDINARY TROTTING MATCH.—A few days ago
one of the most remarkable matches ever known was
ran in the north. The conditions were to trot hem
Newcastle to Theis& and back, 120 miles for Eel The
ponies are the property of a Mr. Coleman, of Gateshead,
and Mr. Pinkney, of Newcastle, and are both renowned
settee trotting performers. The mateh was made bet we.en
the two owners, to start, yoked to the light carts they
usually run about town, from the High Level Bridge
in Newcastle to Thrisk, and return the following day.
A start was made at seven a.m. Coleman's pony
rushed Durham • few minutes in advance, and after
• brief rest the race was reamed. Coleman's pony
reached Darlingtou 10 minutes before the other, and
Thrisk at LW p,m., 20 minutes before Pinkney's posay
appeared. The average pace had thus been about nine.
miles an hour, and it is said neither pony was at all
distressed. On the following morning at 7 o'clock the
race Was resumed. Pinkney's pony was allowed • con-
siderable start, but was overtaken and beat into Darling-
ton by several minutes. Again Coleman allowed his ad-
versary agood start, but reached Durhamoonsiderably in
advance, whence he had the road to hinseelLtaking it easy
to Newcastle, nothing the bridge at 4 pan. Here the
police examined the pony, but found him not suffering
from any exhaustion from this extraordinary feat.
Pinkney's pony being beat before getting to Durham,
gave up the contest, and did not ranch Newcastle for
several hours.

NORTHERN LN D SOL'THEIN RELATIONS TO ENGLAND.
The bullying of England never has come from the
Southern, but from the Northern statermen, as our
past history shows. When in 1841 war was threatened
in the famous (kaoline ease, it was Governor Seward,
of New York, now Secretary of State, who blustered,
and encouraged secret organisationa to Mrs deikinade, and
the Southern President, John Tyler, of VillP(114 sup-
ported by Southern statesmen, had to stop it by procla-
mation. In tbe Maine boundary and Oregon disputes, the
bullies were the Northern, the peace-making the
Southern men. The great Southern leader, as potential
in his section as Lord Palmerston is in England, raised
his powerful voice for peso, with England on both these
occonons—in 1812 and in 1846—in speeches of great
force and fervour; ably seconded on the last
omission in the HOOO9 of Representatives by William
L. Yancey, late Commissioner to England, and Jefferson
Davis, then a new msmber, sand. almost
maiden speech on the same side. Leading the war party
n the opposition was the venerable father of our present
Minister, Mr. Adams, who in 1846 went so far as to
threaten England with the loss of Ireland. The lest
aiMmilty between the two countries, before the late
revolution, on the Seim Juan question, was raised by the
Northern politicians, and settled by a Southern Ad-
ministration. —A Familiar Eptotie to B. J. Walker,
formerly of Pennsylvania, ay., From an Old An-
guillan:me.

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WHITBREAD MILLARD, of Dorchester, Prises*. lit t"
OEMs of The Donee Carney Express, Chunda-strest,
Dorchester, Tuesday, Desember 1, 1813.

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