The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-21 00:00:00


fforeign anb Calcine intelligence.

AMEETCA.—The steamer Americo left New York
on the 31st December, and arrived at Queenstown on
Tuesday. Public excitement on the Trent affair bad
greatly subsided, Messrs. Mason and Slidell were ex-
pected to embark on the Niagara, which was to leaVe
Bogen on the Bth January, Almost all the leading
banks have suspended emelt payments. Senator
Stevens, it is sald, has obtained leave to introduce a bill
teethe abolition Of Southern ports as ports of entry,
and the same gentleman in his speech to Congress
characterised the conduct of France in the Trent affair
U impertinent, remarking that that Power was not
invited to interfere when American domestic troubles
were being settled. Americans, he said, must look to
the holy alliance between Franco and England, and ses
how far they shall be permitted to lentrol American
affairs.

ROBBERY AND JOBBERY IN TEE STATE/S.—The New
York Tribune, in a smart article on the robbery and
jobbery attendant on the present state of things in
America, meals to one's mind some of the bad features
of oar Crimean war. The Tribiwte says :—Bmve men
grasp their muskets and rush to the field of danger ind
of duty; mean men sneak after them, intent on making
money by fair rmane or foul. Horses must be had in •
hurry; the jobber is eager to aid his country by
furnishing them, and makes the urgency of the demand
serve him in palming off the vensmble racks of indiffe-
rent crowhait for metaled charges at 100 to 150 dollars
each! Bison must be had at once for the soldiers; so
he bribes • commissary, and palms off • thousand tons
of what was once the article required, but now crawls
with vermin, and reveals to the most heedless nose the
corruption whereby it was foisted upon • swindled
people. Clothing and uniforme, shoes and knapsacks,
are needed by millions' worth; so the jobber conspires
with some ecoundrel Who gives out the contract, makes
out the specifications, or inspects and accepts the goods,
cud steals • new block of stores by substituting thoody
for wool . and pasteboard for leather. A trundred.
thousand soldiers suffer; their quickly worn-out
garments fail to protect or comfort theta; they can
neither march nor fight as they would if they were
properly provided; the Treasury is bankrupted by con-
tinued demand for refits; but the jobber has made his
pile, and what does As oars? If contracts were properly
advertised, specifications carefully drawn, ample security
for faithful performance rigidly exacted, the lowest re-
sponsible bid uniformly accepted, and no article received
tWi Irma not just what it ought to be, the jobber would
still lie kitinvve, batwonldolueve up chance to Nkomo a
thief. Official incompetence, laxity, and villanous corn-
. elicit, from the manure-bap in which this moat hateful
and destructive of vermin is quickly and multitudinously
generated. The Provost-Marshal of each division should
shoot the detected peculator, but hang his official
accomplices on • gallows so high that the spectacle would
be edifying to fifty brigades, end admonitory to five
thousand contractors. We have not time now to do
justice to that intense patriotism which pante to serve
our distressed, imperilled country, but will only consent
to do so if arrayed in • general's, or at least a colonel's
uniform, and beneficed with corresponding emoluments
and allowances. It would take a separate article to do
justice to this fruitful theme. So the ghoul-like rapacity
which, in this hour of national trial and sore need,
sneaks into the White House and prowls about the
departments, intent on boring somebody into the
bestowal ef a consulate, paymastership, office, job, or
sinecure of some kind, wherefrom an easy living may be
extracted from our bankrupt treasury, our all but dying
country—can language do justice to the loathsome
selfishness, the soulless cowardice, the ineffable baseness,
of such • retort at such • time as this? ()for another
Christ, with a whip of (not very) small cords, to scourge
with Divine wrath the money-changers out of the
Temple of Liberty, which they profane and pollute r'
We learn that orders have been given by the Federal
Government for the release of the two American
gentlemen taken from an board the English schooner
Eugenic Smith.
ENFIELD RII,LICE IN THE SOUTHERN STATEN.—In the
course of a lecture delivered by him last week in the
parish church of Girvan, Scotland, Sir James Fer-
gusson, M.P., is reported to have stated that within
the last two or three days he had received information
that no less than 100,000 Enfield rifles had been run into
the South since the commencement of the blockade.
The general tone of the speech icons of warm sympathy
with the South.

ITALY.—The Bourbon efneute which took place at
Orateßeware, in Sicily, last week, was quickly sup
pressed, chiefly by the inhabitants. A captain of the
National Guard was killed. Five individuals found
plundering are ordered to be shot. On Saturday Baron
-F.lcasoli assured the Chamber of Deputies that thechiefs
et the movement —it does not deserve the name of an
ineurrection,—had been arrested, and 'no further distur-
lances were apprehended. Meanwhile there are serious
rumours in Northern Italy that Victor Emmanuel will
be requested by " • power behind the Throne greeter
than the Throne itself" to dismiss his. Parliament, and
govern the Italian kingdom autocratically; as it is
, understood that free political discusaion is very displeas-
ing to his principal pstron.
The Italia publishes some particulars respecting the
Neapolitan brigandage. It states that the brigands
have been vigorously pursued and hemmed in the
Capitanata, had sought refuge in the mountains of
Gargano whence they made willies, keeping the country
in a state of alarm. The Government, however, has
taken measures by which it is hoped tranquillity will
soon be restored. The official Gazette, alluding to the
opening of the Rifle Association, says :—"Garibaldi
much regretted that he was unable to be present on the
occasion,"
ROME—Letters from Rome state that the Pope is
•si to inaugurate in person the opening of the railway
' ;to the Neapolitan frontier. The mention
;4 and 016 Neapolitan Lootlei not unnaturally
• reference to the Neapolitan brigands, and
may serve to introduce the fact vouched for in several
letters, that the brother of the notonous Chiavone, like
the latter a captain of brigands, has laid down his arms
and surrendered to the Italisn soldiers.

SICILY.—'A letter from Messina' says the Independ-
ance of Itruvists, " affirms that the Bourbonist com-
mittee at Malta has at last decided on making an
attempt in Sicily. Two bands are to be landed in the
island—one in the environs of Gitgenti, the other near
Patti, in the direction of Cefalu. _Each band, it is said,
will consist of about 200 men. The. expedition does
not cause the least uneasineu in Sicily, as it can only
prove fatal to thoee who join it. When all the efforts
made in the Neapolitan provinces have proved fruitless,
it as absolute madness to make any attempt in Sicily,
where the Bourbon Government has always been held in
abhorrence."
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RtlSSlA.—Russia has consented to the re-establish-
ment of a Papal Nuncio at St. Petersburg, an office
suppressed for the lasteight years. The Pope announced
the fact to the Cardinals on Tuesday, and at the same
time expressed a hope that this concession might be the
preoursor of other eonoessions on the part of the
Emperor of Russia to the unfortunate people of Poland.
The Pope also stated that he had addressed a personal
request to the Emperor of Russia for the liberation of
the priests confined in the citadel of Warsaw, and the
restoration of those who have been exiled to Siberia. To
see the Pope thus endeavouring to interpose his influence
between the despotic power and the oppressed recalls to
mind some *entente of the brightest and best days of
the Papacy.