The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

TURKEY AND THE EAST.

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The health of the Sultan has been restored.
The French Government bat Usti:Jested to the Porte
that it would support the Sues Canal undertakii.4
merely for commercial and industrial purposes.
Disturbances continue at Crete.
A Circassian deputation had arrived at Constanti-
nople and presented to the Ausbasodors of the several
Powen a declaration protesting against the invasion of
their country by Russia.
Disturbances have taken place in Gandhi. caused by
thu collection of certain tsar" from Cie Greek inliabi•
tants. Five of the tax-gatherers had been murdered.
In future a tax is to be levied on all foreigners carry.
lag on business in Smyrna.

AMERICA.
Ourtimms AMlKalcA.—What must WO say of the
United Mates as illustrated by the clubs of " Eubolts,"
" Ranters," and " Rip-raps," of cities like Baltimore?
Baltimore is not a backwoods village. The ways of its
people are known to the whole Uniou ; their monde
fairly represents that of large sections of the republic.
Aml what is this owed( as translated by the acts of a
Baltimore crowd? But the other illy a camp-meeting
began at a point near the city of Baltimore. Led by we
know not what instinct, the female population of the
11.nummtal City thronged the boats devoted to the
eamp-meeting service. Their husbands and friends were
with them, and the whole affair (whatever we may think
of its purely religious value) was conducted with the
utmost external propriety. This divleased the lively
clubs aforesaid, and their members forthwith began to
express their dissatisfaction. Nuinbers of them took
passage on one particular cauip-meeting steamer, and
very soon began to "chow their hand." They were
armed, of course, OA cowards always are, and fell at first
upon the weakest and least prepared portion of their-
fellow-passengers. They selected the "coloured pas-
sengers," accustomed Li these pour creatures are to
being cuffed and kickwl, and began to cuff and kick
them. The captain of the vessel was appealed to, but,
as he was probably a coward I ' self, ha declined to
interfere. "The lights were blowu out," and • scene of
horror, the partimlars of which it is, happily, unneceasay
for WO to inflict upon our readers, forthwith began.
The strong and forinidable were religiously avoided, but
the weak and timid poor labouring men and simple
women were subject to the most atrocious insults. Men
were stabbed and robbed openly. Others were horribly
beaten in the presence of their wives. All this time
the American flag floated from the stern of the steamer,
and human beings supposed to be American citizens,
were on board. Nobody had the courage to interfere.
At daybreak, after a night of Pandemonium, the vessel
neare I the shore. A sheriff WOO sent for, and • small
number of the offenders arrested. At first the sheriff's
authority WOO defied, but the valliant individuals who
had shrunk appalled into owners all night long reap.
peered at the sight of the official uniform, and actually
ventured to strengthen the handa of the poem. The
ringleaders of the rioters were arrested ; and if the
judges are not frightened from their propriety by the
outcries of the hellish crew to which these ruffians
belong some of them may be eventually punished. The
history is not very heroic, but it is • hiotory of our own
day and of our own country, and it demands our atteu.
tion. It is not an isolated history. we are sorry to say,
and it is identical in substance with many other signs of
the times. The infamous way in which petty mobs in
our country villages have recently taken the law into
their own hands ; the cowardly onsloughts of small
anuies of poltroons, disguised and blackend os to their
frees, upon obnoxious individuals with tar and feathers,
and all the paraphernalia of the vulgar inquisition, these
all drift in one direction. They indicate not merely the
rebisation of public justice, but the decay of private
fairness and courage. In this respect they are very
dark and disastrous incidents of our national experience,
and it becomes all concerned to make a vigorous effort
towards ending them for eves—New York rinitS.
SUBIaIII46 BOAT.—Yesterday afternoon an interest.
ing experiment took place at New Castle, Delaware.,
with a submarine mileage boat, invented by Er.
who descends to the bottom of the river without any
arrangement for receiving a supply of fresh air from
above, the boat being intended to supply itself with the
quantity of air needed while under water, enabling it to
reluain submerged fur any length of time required. As
singular as this may anon, the experiment yesterday
showed that it was perfectly practicable, for eight men
went down in the boat, and remained there an hour
and three-quarters without any communicition from
above. The mode of generating air to supply the boat
is as yet a secret, but it is believed to be hy some
(Mimics! arrangement. The boat is made of boiler
Iron, and is perfectly round, and shaped somewhat like
a fish. It is 3.5 feet long. 44 inches in diameter, and
propelled by a screw 3 feet in diameter. It has. two
rows of bull's eyes on the top, for the purpose a giving
light to the interior. On each side, near the bow or
head, are placed pieces of iron about le inches square.
which are inured like the fins of • fish, and are intended
to direct the boat up or down when under the water.—
Pailadefpaia Ledger, Aug. 23.