The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

AMERICAN NOTES.

Fremont had been relieved of his command at Spring-
geld, and when the fact became Lumen to his army
sevcral compan'es tinter dean their ming. deelming
that they would tight under no one else. Tim greatest
excitement prevailed in the wimp re.peeting hie
mi,ml. Malty officers dm:lewd they would retigu or
maim Yee vont dietrtor of the South-WeNt, awl inde-
pendent ofhe Feneral ad • tration. The general
evivistubiieil with bin actinireie, and ihSUed a I:.reacll
aild-eva to the rimy. Fiewout in it:placed by General
,hunter._ . . .

Dlr. Edwin James has tams' up in the States, and
declared his intention to become an American citizen.
Application had hem Uldtle by him to the Supieme
Court for admitsiota to the New York bar. America is
just the field for such forensic talents an those possessed
by the late member for Mar) lebotte. The learned
gentlemen ean talk butikum hi the week.
It his letter to the Time, Dr. Hawn declares that
them is considerable anxiety, a ust distraction, in the
Cabinet Councils, respecting the attittide mistimed by
Foreign l'owers. The Northern *plait in favour of the
protecution of the war' however, id to thorough that it
is believed the men sod money of the States will be
e::pended to the last to resist intervention. But,
although this he the popular feeling, it is supposed
that neither the Pessidtut nor his Secretary is averse
to peace, and the fact of their looking around them for
some utediatot. to put a atop to the war is considered
highly probable.
A cut rift Tile Sorrn.—We are informed that a
lar-e steamer left the Thames on Sunday morning last
with pspets made out for Teneriffe ! ! but, in fact, it,
any port alit cut utahe in the Southern States. The
vessel is filled to her decks, as we are told, with
powder anti other munitions of war, the bulk of which
the took on board off Portleet.

The peeial comeammilent of the Time, in • letter
which appealed in that journal a few days since, ;totes
that the nutlet, of asking or accepting the Emperor of
Russia as an intercessor between the contending parties
in the United States is dying away. The ruineurs
with reference to this have been succeeded by others of
a deputat being about to be sent to Europe for the
purpose of agitating public, and chiefly English,
opinion respecting the troubles and the future of the
United States. Already, says Gr. Russell, there is a
talk of raising a foreign loan to wake up the difference
between the ruins authorised by Congress and the loans
of the hanks, plus the lreanury notes and an amount
of some seventy or eighty millions of dollars. Mr.
Russell suspects that, notwithstanding denials, • large
part of the army will go into winter quarters.
Tug Hotta NIS IC WILK.— The following description of
the Turtle, with which G .eysown llollios attempted to
destroy our fleet, has reached us by a circuitous route
from New Oilcans. The Turtle is a vesml of great
power of engine. She has a how of 9 feet long, of oak
planks, secured all round by timber 6 feet in thickness,
also covered in the emu. manner, aud made perfectly
tight and solid. besides being shielded wish iron plates
two inches in thickneas. The hull rises only 21 feet
shove the winter level. She is drained so run into the
Brooklyn, which lies down on the BalMe, and to sink
bee. She is provided wish • steam-borer or augur,
shout the size of a man's situ above the elbow, intended
to make a hole in the vissel. Twenty-five hose are
• kept to throw boiiieg water over the Brooklyn to keep
her hands from defending her. Already several trials
have been mole with liar, which, the rebels say, have
given complete satisfaction. Cannon balls have re.
Weeded when firs d upon her, producing no iujurious
effect, audit' fact it is very difficult to hit her, so email
a portion of her being above water.— Noe Feet
T..l4tior.
The Confederate war steamer Nealiville—of which we
have receutly liennith SO 10061 ill lac.(311:0 to the ship
having run the blockade at Charleston with the Coos-
federate Cumuli-6,mm to France and England on
board—hes turned up at Southampton. The veseel
arrived on Toursslay, end bier paasage across the Atlantic
has been attended by an incident which will raise •
" " sensation in the
_Federal b'ides. On

TuTgirTiy—t-helis-siiTill-e-caPr:w4the United States siiip
Harvey Birch. f • linen% in ballsst, in the Channel,
about 11;ty miLs olf Cape Clear. The esp.ors eloptied
the ship of her crew and valuables, and then burnt her,
an act which, although no doubt in accordance with the
ethics of war, looked like a piece of wanton and
gratuitous mischief. The Confederates put the crew of
the unfortunate Harvey Mich in irons with the
exception of the captain, the chief mate, and two others
not especially indicated, andentleavourcd unsuccessfully
to make them take an oath of allegiance to the Con.
federate States. The Southern Commissioners, of
whom there has been so much lall; and speculetion,
have not Cr, iced by the Nashville. There was. how-
ever, a Colonel Peyton and his !My, and as the Colonel
was to proceed to Loudon immediately, it was snup.ed
lie bad been intrusted wird' the execution of some com-
mission. Since runniog the blockade the Nashville
had esperienced very le•el weather, and she was
pn reil jog to go into duck fur .vpairs. Her crew consists
of English awl I rishu, who, after uhipurent. were com-
pelled to sign other uuiicico. The captain has comma-
ideated wish the Confederate represtotative at London,
Ir Yancy. The advent of the Nashville at South-
ampton created great excitement at Lloyd's, war risks
being advanced.

INcour. TAX.—At the appeal on the property fee
held at Kilmorth on November 15th, 1:461, the follow-
ing deeds lation was readoind received t' 6 saneelon of all
present :—" We, the tax-payers of the hundied of Gar.
tree. here E....enabled, feel hound to express our strong
united reprobation of the unacinpulons way in which
' her Msjesty's duties on property. Lc,' have been
levied this year. We complain that we bare been rated
at 5111114 which are esorbiemitly higli—that we have in
consequence been subjected to • large amount of need-
less inconveuience, trouble, and expense, as well as to
a great waste of time—and that even when our appeal
to the co.ninissioners Inv' been duly made and our ease
substamiated by facts, we have failed to obtain any
adequate redress. Whilst the income-tax remains en-
repealed, we aro willing to discharge our obligations by
paying the 611 411 that falls to our share of the national
expenditure ; but we submit that it is not only impolitic
but unjust that a tax which is sufficiently burthensome
of itself should be rendered quiie intolerable by the
extortionate and unreasonable manner in which it is
imposed. We believe that we are not tile only parties
who have reason to complain ; but that, in other
hundreds similar grievances have been suffered, and we
therefore make our sppexl from the officers of the law
to the u,ltc at large, mid we ask whether it is not he-
mming Lai 'Litt and necessary to iffiest that if this
°lino:jun, imu.ot ckiinut yet I, nholibl.A. it shall at
least be levied in a less Ai liitra,y and offeuaive manner
than it is at present 11011 C."

"F.tiii rams akt) T.. 16 TEA NEED NO ?Alta."—
Marx Pr.nyrk Nutwithalan ring those remarkable
people, the C' • I* have this common saying, OUR.
detuoiog the labiLiny, or gloariog OA or Tea, they du not
liesitme to colour that scot to Euglaod, /41 proved by
the publi.d.ed miaowi tat a behat; the l'srlianientary
.7ounuittee on Food Ada!, rations. Chinese *comma,
finding English Merchants will pay them more for their
Tea if all the years growth is made to look even in
coheir end alike, ilisguist the brown low priced autumn
am, by using the smut colouring powder on all the
various gatherings. Thus they not only get rid of
otherwise unicdtahlo stock, but also double their own
and the Iltrehauee profit. As all such powdered
minerals must eventually be imparted to the inflniOn.
Horuiumn I: Co.'s Pure Tess are imported without the
usual blueith or intensely blaelt 'facing' powder ; their
Green is not blueish, but of • sutural shirk olire hug
and is, with the Mack, pure, wholesome Led strong
limited in realists, and sold by authorised Agents only.