The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-30 00:00:00

THE WAR IN MARYLAND.

The latest official report we have received from
the field of action is the I.sth September, when
General M'Clellan was able to announce that
after the action of the preceding day, the Con-
federates had disappeared during the night, and
that he was advancing in pursuit of them, but
"did not know where they would next be
found." M'Clellan's uncertainty as to the
whereabouts of the Confederates, however, was
not of prolonged duration as on the very day
his despatch WAS written the Confederates
attacked him near Sharpsburg, about 12 miles
distant from Middletown, and by that distance
nearer the Potomac than where the engagement
between the Federal and Confederate forces first
began. The object of General Lee was, no doubt,
to form &junction with the force of "Stonewall"
Jackson, who, on the 14th, the day of the fight
beyond Middleton, had been more successfully
engaged in capturing Harper's Ferry and its
Federal garrison of 6,000 men, under Colonel
Miles. Harper's Ferry is only about 9 miles
from Sharpsburg, and General Jackeon, when he
heard qf the Confederate check under General
Lee, put his Fedend prisoners on their parole
and pushed forward to support the Confederate;
against Bl'Clellan. lathe aotions fought on the

15th and 16th, the Philadelphia journals report,
"Lee was flanked" by the Federate, and his
troops "severely punished." Whether this be
correct we have not yet the means of judging,
but it is quite evident, according to Northern
reports, that on the 17th the Southern-
ers renewed the battle as the assailants. This
engagement forms the most important
part of the telegrams brought by the
Asia on Saturday tut. The battle is described
as having continued with great slaughter till
the afternoon of the 17th, when the Confederates
retreated, leaving General Longstreet and a large
number of his division prisoners. The number
of prisoners said to have been taken by the
rederals in Maryland is 15,000, a number so
, large that a more exact account than mere
rumour is required to make the statement quite
credible. The number is described as the result
of four days' fighting, but even if such be the
case there must have been the surrender not
only of whole regiments but also of brigades.
That the loss of life was heavy, and the "carnage
great" on both sides, is quite consistent with the
accounts we have received of former battles.
That the Confederates have been worsted in
Maryland there is every reason to believe, but
how much of the Northern ground they have
lost the telegrams do not state. They still seem
to hold their invasion, and another battle is
impending. Nothing, we may expect, but a
decided Federal victory, will compel the Con-
federates to retire into Virginia. Even should
this occur, they will have lost no territory,
although the prestige of success which accom-
panied them up to the lines before Washington
*ill have suffered some abatement.

DORZHESTER. Prrrinen Coax MARKET,
Saturday, September 27.—There was a large atten-
dance of both buyers and sellers, and with • plenti-
ful show of samples the wheat trade was exteredingly
dull, at a decline of is. per quarter. Barley and
oat. were saleable at later rates. Winter tares 6d.
dearer than last market. 'Wheat £ll to .613 per
load; barley 30s. to 37e. per quarter; and tares
75. 611 to 9s. per busheL
DORCHESTER POUNDBURY SHEEP FAIR, Saturday,
September 27.—The number of sheep was exceed-
ingly small, and trade very brisk. Dealers from
all parts were in attendance, and ewes sold at an
advance of ss. per bead on August fair. Withers were
soon caught up, and Down lambs made 325. per
head.

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RIMMING BARRISTER'S COI7RT. At the Court
for revising the list of voters, held at the County
Rail on Thursday, a gentleman named John Bans-
ford was refused hie claim. It appeared that Mr,
Wallace Fyfe, who, from his high pretensions, ought
to knew everything, omitted this gentleman's name
from the list of Parliamentary voters. Of course
the omission was accidental, and Mr. Ransford
therefore sent in his claim. Mr. Fyfe could not I
tell whether it was right or wrong, and unfor-
tunately for the claimant it happened to be wrong.
as he did not specify whether the property claimed
for was freehold, copyhold, or leasehold. The claim
was therefore diviallowed.
New Beewitas Immix Mmes.—The new
duties of excise to brewers will take effect on and
after the Ilth of October. For every license to be
taken out by any person who shall first become a
brewer of beer for sale, the duty to be £l2 6d., and
all licenses are to expire on the 10th of October. If
1 the quantity of beer brewed within the year does
not exceed 29 barrels, the duty to be 2s. 6d.' but if
the quantity exceeds 20 barrels and does not exceed
50 barrels, the duty to be £1 7e. 6d. • exceeding 60
barrels, £2; and if the quantity exceeds 100 barrels
and under 1000, then for wary 60 barrels over the first
100 an additional duty of 15s. ; above 1000 barrels and
not exceeding 50,000, then for every 50 barrels over
and above 1900 the further duty of lee. ; over
50,000 barrels, then for every 50 barrels beyond a
further duty of 12. a. 6d. A brewer of beer for sale
before obtaining a license is to make a declaration of
the quantity of malt and sugar brewed during the
previous year. When the quantity of beer brewed
is less than the quantity for which the license was
taken out the duty is to be returned, and if more, to
be surcharged. The duty on '4hlack beer," or
spruce' is to continue the same as Under the former
Act of Parliament.

COMMITTED TO THE DORCHESTER GAOL.
BeOMO/38 : Charles Pointing, uttering base coin at
Sherborne ; William Brown, obtaining three pair of
boots by false pretences at Weymouth. —Hard
Labour: Thomas Price, misbehaviour at Cerne Union,
1 calendar month; John Waygood and Abel Court-
ney, stealing apples at Cerne Abbas 14 days ;
Charles Bragg, leaving family chargeable at Bradford
Abbas, 3 calendar months; William Gillingham,
assault on polioe at Weymouth, 1 calendar month.
—lmprisonment : John Bodging, vagrancy at Bland-
ford, 14 days. •
ORDINATION.—At an ordination held at the Cathe-
dral Church of Salisbury, on Sunday, September
21st, the Lord Bishop of Salisbury admitted the
following gentlemen into Holy Orders :—Deacons:
—Harbert Oldfield Francis, RA. of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, licensed to*the curacy of
Canford Magna. Christopher George Wheat B A
of St. Mary Hall, Oxon, licensed to the curacy of
Gillingham. Priests :—John Sikes Watson, clerk,
B.A. of University College, Oxford, and curate of
Buckland Newton-cum Plush. Alfred Charles
Calpin, clerk, • M.A., of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, and Assistant Master, King's School, Sher-
borne. John Thomas Vaudrey, clerk, B. A. of
Christ's College, Cambridge, and curate of St. John's,
Weymouth. Henry John Wale, clerk, RA., of
Magdalen College, Cambridge, and curate of holy
Trinity. Weymouth. Hobert James Cromwell,
clerk, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, and curate of
Steeple-with-Ty neham.
PASTORAL Lrrrau.—The following pastoral letter
has been issued by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese
to his clergy in the Arehdeaconry of Dorset

"Palace, Salisbury, September 22nd, 1862.
"My Dear Brethren,—The Chairman of the Dor-
chester Hospital has informed me that that excellent
Institution is in special want of support this year, and
has requested me to assist him and the committee in
their difficulty by issuing • Pastoral Letter.
"I do not think it right to refuse their request in
behalf of such an object, and I am sure that you will
approve my decision.
" I therefore ask you to preach a sermon, and to
make a collection, beforeilie 3rd of Nevember, for the
Dorchester Hospital, or 'any other similar institution
to which your poor brethren go for relief for their
bodily ills, and to forward the alms to the treasurer of
the institution which you consider has the strongest
claims upon your parishioners, and to send me •
return of the amount of the collection.
"I need hardly remind you that God's great good-
ness in having given us such seasonable weather for
gathering our corn into our garners has made such an
appeal to your people the more easy.
"My letter is addressed only to the clergy of the
Archdeaconry of Dorset, because I heard last week
from the chairman and committee of our hospital at
Salisbury that the donations received last year (1841
—1862) had enabled them to meet their liabilities.
"I have one more thing to add* this tatter: It is
not from any want of deep feeling for our brethren
in the manufacturing districts that! have not yet urged
upon my clergy our duty to do all we tan to help them
in this their season of dire necessity.
"My silence has arisen from the belief that much
will be done at once everywhere, as we are doing at
Salisbury, by public meetings and stbseriptions, to give
our brethren an earnest that our hearts are not insensi-
ble to the claims which.both their sufferings and their
noble bearing are making-upon us; and that a special
appeal to you from your Bishop for regular periodical
collections will be more effectual at • later period of
the year. At any rate I can MOM you that lam
ready to listen to any well considered suggestions on
this subject, and am most anxious to employ any
power which my office gives me, to stimulate-and
direst the charity of sjhe members of my diocese in
behalf of our brethren in, the manufacturing districts ;
and further, that I am persuaded that you would, with
use, spurn the idea of meeting these new demands
upon our alms at the cost of those who have the
first claim upon us, our own poor and afflicted
brethren.
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