The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-09 00:00:00

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AMERICA.—CIOirm GREAT LINGTHS.—II requires
4,000,000 dols. per day to carry on our expenses. Four
million dollar bills placed lengthwise will extend 431
miles. In 54 days they would extend round the globe.
In one year they would form a belt of dollar bilk about
20 inches wide which would extend round the entire
globe of 24,000 miles. It would require a railroad train
to run 12 hours per day, and at a rate of 36 miles per
hour, to keep up with the line of I dol. bills issued
daily to meet the expenses of the war.—New York
World. _ _

FRDICRA L COMPLAININGS. —The New York World
oomplains that: "The public are not surprised to hear
almost daily of the perfectness of the rebel spy system,
and of the stupid, blundering one in force by our autho-
rities. But the rapidity with which the enemy
obtained information of General Burrutide's recent
movement is somewhat surprising, to say the lewd.
It is now quite generally believed that one week flout
Thursday last Generals Halleck and Burnside resolved
on the change of the army which has just occurred.
On Friday, the succeeding day, General Lee telegraphed
front Gordonsville to Fredericksburg, yid Richmond,
that the Federal army would reach Fredericksburg
about Sunday roost; and citizens of that place ex-
pressed surprise to the officers of our advanced guard
that they did not reach there tin Monday noon, for
they had been anticipating them for 12 hours ! The
intelligenoe of the change was communicated to Lee
from Warrenton by the hundreds of rebel emissaries
there who heard oar officers discussing the change. It
is proper to add that but a single Northern newspaper
publialied the same news four days after Lee's tele-
gram, and one day after the army had reached Frede-
ricksburg.
THE ARMY OF THC POTOMAC.—The New York
Herald of the 28th ultimo has the following :—"The
rebels were still in possession of Fredericksburg,
although its surrender was formally demanded by 1
General Summer yesterday in a summons conveyed to
the Mayor of the place ender a nag of truce. General
Summer in this communication complained that the
troops under his command bad been fired upon from
the city—that the mills and the factories were supply-
ing aid to the rebels, and that the railways running
from the city were forwarding provisions to the rebels.
He declared that this must terminate, demanded the
surrender of the city, and gave 16 hours for the women,
children, and the siok to be removed. The civic autho-
rities, in their interview with General Patrick, offered
to remedy the evil as far as firing upon the troops and
the furnishing supplies to the rebel army was con-
cerned, but they refused to surrender the city, and
complained of the short time allowed for the removal
of the sick and the women and children. Up to 11
o'clock last evening the question of giving longer time
before assaulting the city was under consideration and
yet undecided.
Tug EMANCIPATION POLICY OF THE FEDERAL GO.
veltemeirr. —Whoever supposes that the President will
be intimidated or cajoled into a change of the policy
announced in the proclamation of freedom, strangely
mistakes the character of Abraham Lincoln, and will be
grievously disappointed. Direct evidence that this is so
Is not wanting. The President, in the course of a
general conversation yesterday with several intimate
friends, said distinctly, as we are informed by one of the
gentlemen present, that hie views on this important
question had in no wine been modified by the result of
the resent elections; that he bad issued the proclama-
tion of September after long and thoughtful delibera-
tion, and that he should stand by it up to and on the
lot of January. Mr. Lincoln introduced the subject
himself, and spoke with a positiveness that was unmis.
takable.
SECISSIONISTS AND FRDIRA IA AT FREDICRICESBORG.—
The correspondent of the New York Tribune tells the
following story :—The robe/ pickets) on the Fredericks-
burg side are posted down to ths bank of the river,
which, until swollen, by this rain, was not more than a
hundred yards wide; they keep a sharp look-out bet
do not fire ; our men ride down to water their hors
and converse freely with them. Yesterday I beard
this dialogue :—"Hallo, Seoesh 1" " Hallo, Yank l"
"What was the matter with your battery, Teesday
night?" "You made it too hot. Your shots drove
the cannoniere away, and they hav'nt stopped running
yet. We infantry men had to come out and withdraw
the guns." "You infantry men will run, too, one of
these fine morning.." "When are you coming over,
blue coat?' "When we get ready, butternut."
"What do you want?' Want Fredericksburg."
"Don't you wish you may get it ? Here an officer came
up and ordered our men away.