The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-05-21 00:00:00

jorsign anb eolonial intstlignue.

AMERICA.

The following are the despatches received from
New York date of May 4th.
lutelligence from Washington last night was to
the stfeet that the war will be vigorously opened in
a few days by demonstrations upon Alexandria and
Norfolk. A movement upon Havre de Grace was
ebio ordered to take place yesterday from Perryville.
Three or four companies of Colonel Dare's command
will ones the Susquehanna, with • battery of
artillery, and occupy Havre de Grace. Troops will
then be sent forward ten miles, to Bush river. The
last movement may not be made till Sunday. On
INlon.lay a strong force of carpenters and builders
will be sent forward V) Bush river with timber and
tools, and the bridge there will be rebuilt. The
bridges over the Big and Little Gunpowder rivers
will be rebuilt as soon as • sufficient military force is
sent forward to protect the workmen. The three
bridges will be completed by Thursday next, and
this road to Baltimore will then be open. Troops
will be sent :forward from Philadelphia to reinforce
those at Perryville.
The President has Wood a proclamation calling
for 41,000 volunteers-23,000 regulars, and 18,000
seamen.

The position of the New York troops in and about
Washington yesterday was as follows :.—The Seventh
were in tents at Meridian Hill, Georgetown; Colonel
coreorm, with • detechment of the Sixty-ninth,
arrived in Washington at 2 o'clock in the morning,
and were quartered in the rear of the Kirkwood
House ; the Eighth were still at Annapolis, and the
Fifth ((,,erman regiment) were occupying the Naval
Academy.
Affairs remain quiet in Baltimore. Fort Maidaon,
an earthwork fortification commanding the city and
harbour, is in possession of government troops. The
i,tcainer Maryland lauded a force of the Maseachneeetts
troops from Annapolis and large quantities of stores
at Fort M'Henry yesterd4y, and afterwards steamed
up to the city is ith the slats and stripes flying.
The Intelllninee from 'Richmond is important.
Considerable 'alarm ie said to exist there in conse-
quence cif the activity Of Ate United States govern-
ment, sod the unexpected unity of the North in
supporting the 6:mou/ion and the flag dishonoured
at Fort Sumter. Iteris believed in Richmond that
Mr. Davis has just notified the governors of the
the border States now acting in hostilityl to the
government to "10001111111 at MentgooserY, there to
confer with the rebel government upon the
momentous issues before them. The conservative
portioo of the people in Richmond are in favour of
an &nineties, in order that some peaceful settlement
of the difficulty may be arrived at, and several
leading men from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky,
and Tommie, it is said, are actively exerting them.
selves to bring it about. The Virginia Legislature
adjourned on the Ist inst., until the 12th of June,
by which time it was expected that the returns of
the popular vote on the ordinance of secession
would be received. The govenuneut, meantime, is
authorised to call the legislature together at any time
during the mem
It was stated upon reliable authority in Wash-
iugton yesterday that there are only 1,500 Virginians
at Harper's Ferry, and that they are not half armed,
and very abort of provisions.
A deputation of Kentucky gentlemen waited on
the President yesterday, offering two volunteer
regimeuta to the government from the western part
of that state, in despite of Governor Mag's
refusal to furnish any troops. Some gentlemen
from Baltimore are also in Washington, for the
purpose of tendering the service of one regiment
from thei city to the United States government.
General Harney has prepared an addrem to the
people of Missouri, urging them to remain in the
union, and pointing out to them that to join the
secession movement would be to bring distraction
upon their state.
It has been decided by the war department that
no more tr except volunteer regimen* aro to
be coneenti.i•A at Washinn for tha present.
The block,. • c of the files-n ports is to be enforced
immediately. Fifty vessels with steam transports
and 20,000 men are ready. The North Carolina
Legislature has bt. i convened. The State is virtu-
ally out of union, a.,1 is equipping for war. Mary.
laud and Western Virginia are true to the Union.
Kentucky will maintain a neutral position. No
attack has yet been made on Fort Pickens. An in-
aurrection kas broken out at Yampatan. Fifteen
British officers were killed. A regiment has left
Roots' for the sowed action.
It may almost be stated with certainty that
martial law will be proclaimed in the district of
Columbia in a few days. It is also elated on very
good authority that President Lincoln had informed
the governor of Virginia that in ease of any move-
went of Southern troops north of Richmond to-
wards Washington, an immediate aggressive attack
would be made by the Federal government on Nor-
folk and Richmond.
At India Villa, Texas, 460 Federal troops, under
Major Sibley, have surrendered to 800 Teirs
under Colonel Vomdorn, after having erstattempW,
earepeln tea .U.. •eents. They were over-
taken bylitesmers. The men will be owed either
to join the Confederate army, or take oath not to
serve against the Confederation. The Bohemian has
arrived mit.