The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-17 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN WAR CRISIS.

The Etna arrival froin New York on WednesilsY. lots bruu.ght is I iiit..ll;,,,,tice Itf gri.st lilt, 11,1. The
latt•t s.lvires front Port ft sysl state th4t a 11l LlCiall,ll
Of FederAl nedisslai had Los 4,1 1101 T) Ic.. 14 tll who,
t1...y had cj owed to lortiiy. The l'..afetlorats.
aniik two veuseis ali 'or put of
b..t.v. nod Fort Pul L• !:i, 110
the 1.1.. 'I duet ifssi .in. tr.' lig 14. olli11114:1. A
email aao.iiier ILei h w.s se's: I, 1ie..11 I.
cotton at one of tiss 1;•1!•.11, :oel the
V. ,CI .1.4 to 11.il :desalt: hy r the Felt rsi 1.. v.
antlioriti, .i. ii.apst,dse; he the Ete:
frinu Lor.l so• st b,s itig lwen 'lets:Lied Its..
boars at Now York in order to reolve them. 'The
New York pope's were bilUISi with reference to the
atiaore oil bosr.i the Trent. Ti,.. Urrabl remark.. that
lehralltoge of the M. aieali pedit • to
keep • It, vi in the waters of tile I lull n Won't exciting
aospicion, and the 2'in.ra, in referenee to the warlike
preparations in Canada, soya that there Ens been
nothing in Ilse action or the langnaz.. if the red. :rah
Government ealeuhiteil to tone!' th.. eel ejojime. of
Englaisd, and that the real f ha, been shale
the newsp:.pers, more espeeielly by the viedent artieles
of the litrald.
SoUTHEILN srtnar.—.. Oar party at the little
liruke up on the arrival of • train, and we found
. seamling,rooin in a ear crowdeil with soldiers. Few
were in uniform, bid all were web artnel
. 00, not a had sample of the rest, hail it breech.
loading carbine slung over hie ship:alder. two revid. era
in Imo ink of Ida halt, and is howle-kuile in the °air.
; What it contrast Unlit men presenti,l tot the soldiers
we had hitherto seen I Deter" !! i!! allots and reekless
'hiring marked every feature and grature. 'Du you
think the Ysiikesoi are going to whip no, air?' inquired
our fnenol, halting like a walLiuw infenial machine.
'Well, they have a fine is, my. and will do their heat, I
think.' thsn't Care, sir; they can't du it. If they
beat us in the field take to the wools, ami shoot
them •lesan like ailuirrele.' ik. here, sir ; see what
they hove done to me. I sin a elsoem.,her by busk,
They tried to arrest Inc in Eliasheth Town : I wst away,
hut they took my wife ; to, Ire —, 111 take lie' .aint°
twenty Yankee >calm% or they shall have mine ! !'"—
IPtickieetel'a
11 .4 stated that the earnestness with which. Govern-
ineht are pushing forwatd troops awl munitions of war
Lu Csnada I. p.rtly prompted hy the character of the
despatches received front the British Legation at V. anti'
for the past.
A large fulbri;ged ship was r.beerveil on Tuesday
from St. Ives, Comer:3l, supposed by her MO% eanents to
be one of the American privateers. She is stat.l se
ha.esi.opped several Englialt merchant ships.
, EDWIN JAW% ..N TRIINT ArrAiu.—Mr. Edwin
. Jaime has publhlied a letter in the New Yotk papers
respecting the Trent aff dr. Ile saes the whele toes-
, tient in regent to Ilsi.on aul Sti,lell would rest
s ; on tl.e answers of the eal•taill of the Ttent to the hil-
t I lowing querions -Ist. Were you acipiiiiiited withithe
. I teinia of her Majesty's I.roclaniatioss commanding strict
t neutrality Oh the part of all subjects during the term
hostilities between the Northam and Southern States?
Did you rr-t know that the two gentlemen, when
they Ix canes prousengers, not refugees, on lavird your
, vessel, were employing *beim...lves or were employed
. in an enterprise of direet hostility to the comrstuted
Government of the United States? The answer to
thew two quest' in the affiraustives be maintains,
and consistently wills truth they could not be answered
others isc, would reduce tile question to vary narrow
: diviensimis; not ahould any doubt exist upon the
SYLIIIII.I proposition, the 'Message recently seot by Mt.
Jefferson Davis to his Parliament at Richmond would
facilitate its solution.

Ply 11,—or at all events the Western Yacht Club,
which has ita head.quarters in Plyniouth—haa feiated
C tptiiti W.lliams, who loid chord.. of the Mails on
board the Trent, right royally. The gallant captain
mate a thoroughly sailor like avocet on the 0C13341011,
refuting anentl statement.' made by. Lieutenant
Fairfax at the &piton denionatration. and allowing
th.tt the presence of the Sin Jacinto in the Striita of
lithium, when the Trcut was boarded, was not
acride.etal.

Another letter is published hy the Times from it.
Trial correomoolent at Wiialliiiigton. Dr. Riumell
t the Macon and filial II affhir seemed to be banished
from men's mind., but that the account of the reception
of the intelligcmo of their capture in England wee
anxiously waited for, all affecting to believe that it newt
hay, been received without irritati 111 l or eurvri:ie. The
n.rn.rti, with reference to Lord Lyons haring broken
the neutrality lowa are mid to be without foundation.
The *hike was bezinning totell upon the Frileral coin-
miaaariat. one toight'a rain having uperl difficillty in
getting the carte along to the camp. Dr. Russell is of
opinion that when the winter sete fairly in Isordallifw
similar to thime endured in the Criniea will he felt.
The mina oorrieironcletit dwells on the 'immobility of a
civil star .111A011:: the I riii ii nista on the quelition id alavery.
remarking that the Cigna of the times ard indeed
ominous.