The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

A kIEII.IL:A.
NEGRO INSUIUUCCTION.
Rim YORK, Oct. 17.

The Ariel, City of Washington, Africa, North
Briton, and Star of the West have arrived.
The Aspinwall arrived yesterday with nearly two
millions of dollars.
A fearfol insurrection is reported to-day HuPeel
Ferry. The negroes have seised the United States'
arsenal, and were mending cartloads of muskets into
Maryland and elsewhere. The express train was
stopped last night one extployi was shot dead, and the
conductor threatened, and forced to hold back until to-
day. Utah troop', Virginia, are ordered out. and also
the government troops from several points. The object
of the outbreak is unknown, and details very confined.
All telegraph wires leading to Harpers Ferry have been
out. Later dated despatches say :—" All railway trains
stopped. The insurrectionists number Irma 500 to 700.
Great excitement prevails."
Several companies of marines leave Washington this
evening for the scene of the conflict.
Advice, from Hayti represent Port an Prince as still
being in a state of siege, but the excitement has some-
what subsided. The leader in the latest insurrection
hail escaped from Hayti, but large numbers imprisoned
will probably be shot or banished.
A despatch from Washington dates that General
Floyd, secretary of war, crlll silooood MZ. Mai/1012 SS
ambassador at Faris. .

Cotton chill, and unchanged. Breadstuffs tending
upwards. Sterling exchanged firm and active. The
steamer of Saturday took out upwards of • million of
dollars.

It is reported that Lord Lyons has received a despatch
peremptorily requiring him to demand explanation from
the Government of the United States as to the San Juan
affair. Although no hostilities hr.ve fortunately takeu
place, the Americana seem to be making arrangements
for a permanent occupation of the Wand, altogether re-
gardless of any conclusion which may be arrived at RI to
the Justice of their doing no. We can scarcely suppose
that General Harney wonld act in this way unless be
were well usifred of the support of President Bu-
chanan. . . .

Another question has sprung up between the two Go-
veniments. It is in ieference to the Reciprocity Treaty
concluded between Canada and the United States in
1664. The commercial reader need not be told that this
treaty has not worked an well vs expected, and has, in
the estimation of the Candians, given greater advan-
tages to the United States' traders than to themselves.
Accordingly, protective duties have been imposed by the
Canadian Legislature upon sonio articles of commerce
exported from the American side, and this has evidently
been done in violation of the treaty. But the Canadian
Legislature says that it has done go in self•defence, and
in order to protect Canadian interests from a depression
from which there was no other remedy. The Govern-
ment of Washington has, in consequence, appointed
a commissioner to cannons into the operation of the
treaty.
It is understood at Washington that Mr. Dallas has
been exerting himself so as to induce our Government to
recognise the present Liberal and Revolutionary Govern-
ment of Mexico.

An official journal of New York casts doubt upon the
statement that the Government of the United States dis-
approves of the conduct of their agents at the mouth of
the Peiho.

A despatch from Washington in a New York paper
states that, with the acquiescence of President Buchanan
the British squadron will land a force at Nicaragua, to
revent an invasion of Filibusters. Colonel Frank
Anderson and Captains Maury, Scott, and Faysoux of
Walker's last Filibuster party had been held to bail at
New Orleans in 3,000 dollars each. They allege that
they were on a fishing excursion when arrested. The
rank and file of the party were placed in the barracks
below Now Orleans, but as there was no guard to detain
them they decamped.
In the alsience of any very stirring political topics, we
may hero notice that ballo.ining is the latest rage in these
Intandes, and it ha, excited • good deal of attention,
owing to the promulgation of a theory by one of the pro-
feeiors of the art recently, that there is a steady cur-
rent of air in the upper strata of On atmosphere froui
vest to east, caused by the earth's motion ou its axis,
"or vomething," as a young lady would say. To verify
it, the professor in question, who rejoices in the stupen-
dous cognomen of La Mounttin, with two friends, as-
*ended in a monster balloon at St. Louis, and getting
into the very upper regions did really light upon an
eastward current, and was carried towards the Atlantic
for twenty-four hours, at an enormous speed, and
finally, after traversing Lake Erie on the surface of the
water, in a violent hurricane, and at the imminent risk
of both being drowned, and smashed by passing steam-
boats, they alighted on the following morning at Troy,
in this State. The professor has ever since rather
plumed himself upon at least a partial verification of
his theory. He ascended again with renewed confidence
from the neighbourhood of New York the other day,
and for a week nothing was heard of him, and he was ,
given up for lost, when a telegram was received from I
him Monday morning anouncing his safe decent in the
Canadian wilds, 200 miles from civilization, with the
loss of balloon and everything else, end his having fallen ,
in with soma Indiana, who guided him to the frontier,
after having been four dia}i without food. He had tra-
velled northward, it appears, live Mum, at the rate of •
mile • minute, and ten hour, more of such sailing would
have brought him to the Polar regions, and into the
very neighbourhood in which Sir John Franklin is sup-
posed to have been loot. This untoward result seems
rtWlier damaging for the eastward current theory, and
MA. certainly very Deer bong damaging for its origi-
nator. lint such adventures have nevertheless a ten-
dency to throw • halo around ballooning, which the
tamer exploits of "the veteran Green" could never
give it. A monster aerial machine has just been con-
structed by another sanguine inventor, and is now nearly
ready for ascension in New York, by which he confidently
expects to be able to cross the Atlantic. The oar is an
enclosed enugly furnished apartment, with a trap door
in the floor by which a descent may be effected by •
rope-ladder into a boat, impended beneath, and armed
will a screw or paddles, worked by an Ericsson caloric
engine. How the machine is to he steered does not
clearly appers, but it is on a monster scale, and attracts
a gaud deal of attention.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning.
The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail packet
Norman, Commander J. Boxer, from Table Bay Septem•
bee 20th, St. Helena 30th, and Ascension October 4th,
arrived in Plymouth Sound on Wednesday morning.
She brings one package of specie, 253 casks of wine,
2,000 horns. six cases of ostrich feathers, 100 eases of
arrowroot, 1:1 bales of wool, 180 bales of skins, 1,000
wet hides, 44 tuns of copper ore, and 10 packages of
sundries.

Parliament is prorogued till the 16th of November.
The Agricultural Society's annual exhibition was held
at Cape Town on the day the mail left. Imported cattle
end sheep valued at £l,OOO were exhibited, and imple-
ments worth £4,000, and 42 varieties of ploughs—all
American. The judges expreved their surprise that
the English manufacturers were an bully represented.
The cash balances in the Cape banks are very low; on
the frontier discount is 8 per cent.
The Government called for £llO,OOO debentures by the
30th of September.
The Customs' duties for August were neary £24,000.
Trade is quiet.
Forage is high. Potatoes, 375. per 100 lb.; ox hides,
wheat, iier muid, 335.
The severe drought has ceased.
Various corps of volunteers are forming with great
alacrity.
The Brat loaomotive engine was landed on the 14th of
September.
The Spectacle Mining Company intend to continue
operations.
Great depredations are committed by discharged
Cadre servants. . . .

The smallpox prevails among the coloured population
at Port Elizabeth, and the chief of the Dutch Reformed
Church at Hope Town does not administer the sacra
went, fearing that the infection may be disseminated as
the cup passes from mouth to month.
Her Majesty'a ship Boscawen and the Seringepatam
were in Simun's Bay.

INtsiA.

The Overland Mail how Bombay (dated the 27th of
September) was delivered on Saturday week. The Bom-
bay Samford sap :—The chief topic throughout India
shoos the departure of our last mail bag been the new
Bill for Licensing Trades and Professions. Upon the
whole, our attitude here is that of expectation, based
upon the approaching arrival of Mr. Wilson, and the
possible departure of Lord Canning—two events that
are very greatly desired. His Lordship's movements
are now tolerably settled. He has obtained leave of
the Legislative Council, and is expected to reach Caen-
pore by the 12th inst. He will be joined there by Lord
Clyde, the two magnates then making • right Royal
programs to Lucknow. Lord Clyde then, it as said, re-
turns to England, Lord Canning spending the cold
season in a tour through the North-West and the Pun-
jaub, retiring to Simla in April. It has long beau de-
cided that Sir Hugh Rose is to be the new Commander-
in-Chid. Lords Canning and Clyde will, doubtless,
hate much to settle as to the future of Dude, which is
now affirmed to be amalgamated with the other North-
west Provinces. It is said, also, that there is to be •
grand distribution of presents to the loyal Oudeans.
An expedition into Nepaul, it is to be hoped, will be
arranged during the conference of the two chiefs. There
is some talk about it.
The Bengal army is finally disposed of --disbanded
or rearmed. There is to be no more native artillery.
The order has given general satisfaction, as a just and
temperate windup of this (to us) unfortunate body.
The Licensing Bill has passed a second reeding. Trades
and professions are to pay 3 percent., as nearly as can
be ascertained, on their annual profits, unless such pro-
fits are lee than 66re. Salaries are to lay at the WIN
rate, unless the annual income be lees than 10Drs. Sir
Jaws. Outrun pleaded for the exemption of the Army,
and ID. Harrington and Mr. Forbes fought for the
Civil Service, but to no purpose. Sir B. Peacock's
amendment was adopted, -including all daises. Tbe
landholder and landholder are exempted from the opera-
ilea of the Bill. It is an income-tax simply, not an
income and property tax. The machinery for carrying
out the measure is very offensive. An 'indignation
meeting' hss been held in Calcutta, and petitions to
Parliament adopted. Nothing has been does in Bom-
bay, nor is there anything definite in prospect.
.The
' public' in this Presidency is singularly animpressitile.
The Disarmament Bill, applying alike to natives
and Europeans, educed a vigorous protest from Sir
Ozarks Jackson. who could 'barely !enrols his indigna-
tion at the cent of equality in India between the men
of Britain and the moss of Hindostan. One dam
leg
fact wee that we could Dot treat them; not even
arms wherewith to defend themselves and their families.
Its ISMS repast that it was • miserable sham to talk of
trottice Europeans and natives all alike.' The Judges
l'aveiclalY been • very outspoken opposition element in
the Council.

No further information has transpired reef ecting the
stir among the tlohatuniedans. We are trapping the
rebel leaders in %ietail. Last wail it was Heera ilugli;
this time it is leo ie&as iluksh. Telookdar of ikoon lertb,
libera, .he capture id whose .tanee we reported in our
last. A boy who had heeo in the service or one of aciu's
wives, mil WAS discharged piceless, gave inforniatioo,
%filled was acne ! %lion by Captain Orr, Jeputy Counois-
sumer. The actual captors were .no (Immunise, who
thns made a lucky had, as 10,1A10 rupees hrd been
oGered for the rebel. Le was rzsiding iu. village on
the outskirts a Semmes, the house being st.rrounded
a high wall, bo. °pea to .he Ganes. :le kep. two
ine,) constantly on the watch, be. the Owe was sur-
rounded at night, and when he came forth in the moil-
ing to bathe he was winced upon. His horse was tied
to liii charpoy (hvisteall), to he ready at • 'moment's
nctice. He will be tried for the murder of the few
survivors of the Cawnpore massacre who toe: refuge in
the temple. Chatter Sal has • come in.' Heera Lal
lifiseer, who encountered Havelock on his march from
Ooonacin to the Ganges, and again vainly attacked that
General on his way to the relief Li: Lucknow, is now in
that city, having availed himself of the amnesty.
The Bombay aezelle says that Her Hajeaty's 97th
Regiment is under orders for China, and %/ill be followed
by the 9(lth, in which the vacancies caused by the num-
ber cf soldiers that have Laken their discharge are likely
to be gilled before i. starts. About As) men have volun-
teered from one militia oomi for this regiment. The
Locksow Herald understands that Lord Clyde, on his
arrival a. Cawnpore, will await the result of a reference
made to England in regard to the recent disasters in
China. "It is, we believe, Lord C.anning's intention to
place the army intended for operations in China under
the personal COOlutand of his Excellency the Commander-
in-Chief. This force has already been detailed at head-
quarters, and will comprise shout 10,00 J troops of all
arms. The reply from England may be expected shoe:
the middle of October." The statement relative to Lord
Clyde is questioned by the Bombay papers.