The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Liverpool, Now York, and Philadelphia Com-
pany's screw steamer Edinburgh, Captain Brooks.,
which left New York on the 9th inst., arrived in
the Mcroey on Thursday. The stmnislii? Prince
Albert, from Galway, arrived at St. John s, New-
loundLand, on the morning of the 9th inst.
The New York Herald says :—According to our
Washington despatches, the reinforcement of Forts
Sumter and Pickens has been decided on by the
administration of President Lincoln, and the arrange-
menta for carrying out that object are now in active
progress. General Scott and the cabinet secretaries
are said to be busy with the plans. We are informed
by one of our Washington correspondents of very
important movements in the army and navy ordered
by the government. All the naval vessels in the
Pacific and the Mediterranean are ordered home, to
return to northern ports, and the troop' lately under
the command of General Twiggs, in Texas, number.
jag 2,500, and those in Mexico, are called to the
north. From Texas we have nothing of a positive
nature later than what was published on Friday
morning ; but by way of New Orleans there is a
rumour to the effect that Fort Brown, in command
of Captain Hill, of the United States army, bad been
surrendered to the Texans.

Intelligence has been received in Washington to
the effect that, after a full and careful ennvass in the
Virginia Convention it had been found that the
1111:ClAaionists in that ;Jody were in a minority, not-
withstanding the fact that they have received ac•
cessions since the delivery of President Lincoln's
inaugural. The secession onlinanee will consequently
be voted down in the Convention. The first pub-
lic reception at the White-house, under the new
regime took place on the evening of the hth inst.,
and attracted a very numerous and brilliant company.
A despatch from New orleans states that the
opinion was rapidly settling down in commercial
and political circles there that Mr. Lincoln's inaugu-
ral meant war. The legislature hail passed a reso-
lution approving of the conduct of General Twiggs
in surrendering the Federal property in Texas to the
authorities of that state. The latest advicta stated
that Lieut. Skinnier was engaged in raising a sand
battery about a quatter of a mile eastward of Fort
Pickens, and that the work in the land batteries on
the beach opposite Warrington was being continued.
The -Wu, York Ilerahl says that the commis-
sioners (coin the Southern Confederacy would not
be recognised. They would report at Montgomery,
when it was believed l'resident Davis would order
General licregard to demand of .Nla4jor Anderson
the surrender of Fort Sumter. The Lnionista had
carried North Carolina on the question of holding a
convention. The state had gone against a couven-
tion by a majority of 1,000. The army bill pro-
viding for raising A 41,900 men passed the Southern
Congress on the Nth inst. It was said that the
requisite number would soon be ready to take the
field. In the Virginia State Convention on the bth
inst. Mr. NVysou uttered an ordinance dissolving the
union of Virginia with the United States, which was
referred. In the Missouri State Convention, on the
Stn inst., the resolution declaring that President
Lincoln's inaugural tends towards peace was tabled,
in order to await the action of the Committee on
Foreign Relations. The committee, it was said,
would report taking strong ground against secession
and coercion, and declaring emphatically for the
Union.