The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-17 00:00:00

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

There is not one solitary ray of light in any quarter
that 'amitotice throtieh the dark massy tlond that over.
bangs our deatiny. The rebel, are no better if. All is
gloom. Day follows day, men meet in the street and
ask each other " When *ill this end r "Thee. are
drea tel times. what Is going to become of r All
business is prostrated. Tens of thousands that never
knew a want or • sorrow in our camat happy land, ma
nothing but *Serration or relief from the public charities
for thet, or their little ogee. Soldiers leave, but no
tome enthusiasm greets their departure. as it did of old.
All are bowed down and waiting for eons* calamity mi.
heard of in thin country. Even • b ittle won be the
North meat carry sorrow to many thowsuale of families,
whale coanections are North as well as South. lie .0
la my own house. There .ill be an end of this great
calamity The politick.m have brought it all about.
both North and South. The peopk —the millions who
suffer —have had nothing to do with bringing about such
as awful state of things. How hum will they suffer it?
Not • moment longer than they me some leader
with a clear vision and with powerr."7: army an only
produce Each • one now. WMre is lie? Is it General
Id Cullom? Now is his time. If he fails there is no
hope bet ma God. Ken are being educated for a military
testier —for a Military government. The sumo* are
stnpediel with sorrow aliJ with horror, at the &nor of
march, in the city.
Poor Lintels is nearly a maniac, overobelnied with
trouble. One moment be talks wildly, an I cries lilts •
child; him amithes lie goes into violent hysterics, and ham
to tdci sompaing sir meta of a powerful strength.
From all directions we bear of arrests of suspected
traitors, made by ooler of the Government; and the
seatelly an I suddenness with van di them apprehension*
are made demonstrate Mat the authorities are at but
working without deridoo. Several individuals lupe
been ambled in this city during the week. Two were
*genie .4 ...me Virginia' tobacco factors, and had in
their :sauession 9100.000. which it wad sail bad
collected in the print iota northern chi... Thy, ,ygye
about starting for holm when the polies seised nate
and their effect.. Then one or two individuals holding
conmiasions in the Southern ranks have beets a, pre-
leaded, and ;Alien, are under arrest, aluinged with
attesapting to permed* volunteers to d'art. But
perhami the most distinguished individual who has been
cosigned to Fort Ldayette—the general reudesvous of
these State prisoners —is the !favor of Washington city,
Berretc. The ostensible charge against Mut was a
refusal to take the oath of 4114404 am to the Govern.
bent. which he was required to take as a member of
the new Police Board jnat organised for Übe governinat
ef tie satiate' capital.
TM war news Li not favourable to Me United States
forces. General Lee is in Western Virginia with •
Imp army, and had news may be expected from that
quarter unless the United States have taken more than
their usual precautions. From Tiiimeesee news is Bull
worm. The Setwasion tinny of 95.000 WOO are mowing
down all al:petition, even in the Union part of the side.
In Missouri the litionalutbisa have nearly their own way,
except near Se. Louis. Mani Gesend Fryman illien4
So he hoWieg his owa, bat. like General Lyon, he will
be left to perish. Mr. Sew rd who doer not ea that
sal oldihiiiits gm passed away) yet dreads hint as • rival
candid ite for the praidency, as though any man living
now wool.l ever see an elected President gat. I Th.
latest news from Washington is ti at the guns of the
forces ender Bauregard am close to the Arlington
Heights, and, of course, only • mile from Washington
(across the Potomac). It is also said that lie would hare
taken Washington before this had not he lost his
Georgian troop*, by Magma of the action of Gt. natal
Brown, who ha ordered thau all home to superego
imarreetion.
A ditelsoe Itelnite By Tag ADVANCZ me BULL'S
Reg.—The Rev. J. K. Willey, the iedefatigahle chap-
lain of the 3rd Connecticut Itecriineut, relates the fol-
lowing curious incident While the troope were
resting at Centreville be concluded that, as they were
about to advance on Manaama, it was of pea import-
ance that they should be sheered awl encouraged in
their work. Expecting to remain at Centreville over
Sunday, he selected his teat and arranged the plan for
• sermon to he preached to his regiment ; but, alas
the easly march of Sunday morning defeated bin put.
pose, and although the text still remains, the anima
was never preached. It is sufficient to say that the
test selected by Hr. Willey was that in Battu ix. and
9th verse, ' And Illanairch is mine
Tug CoUßTFelke osr AMERICAN JoUIeALISTS.—The
Her T,a4r ra..• weites:—The general imerealou of
the public is, that the *dime of the Herald ia w.a.titn•
tionslly imaiable, of telling the truth. It may be so;
but •• should feel much better satisfied of the fasA if
be had ever made the attempt. But we may defy any
Man te point to a single incident in his whole life, or
a single *seance in tho files of the Herat. from the
day it was maned until now, which indicates the
faintest possible preference for tni It over falsehood.
Front the be:glowing to the end of his carver be has
been ate:ilia, and unwaveringly consistent, in never
selling ths truth when • lie would answer bis purpose
half as well. T is may he • etiostitation L' or it way
I. the ninth of calonlatiou ; but it is systematic;
he hes se Aiwa; to atomplish, he never
shows the alight...it amide as he the means of reaching
it; and as in nine owes oat of ten his objects are
purely mdignatit and devilish, naturally enough taw_
hood and calniony are She weapons which he wields."
A gentlemen who has josh arrived from Risbutond,
via Lonieeille, states that the rebel armyl, Virginia
now moonlit' to over 600,000.4 wt.,. lgo.oso are On
the @Oath bank of the INAmerio. Hy says that Manama.
!ma boon to* great serest sbaridirsed. Intl the main
foros of the army inciewl to the Upper Potomac. where
thieheired to make • wrawiny: Mks plaussision of Nary.
Lied. sad slam mwmend Wathinglen, and gee pcsaeroon
of all the arwy store+ and monitions lying there. He
represents that the enthusiasm of the South knows no
bounds oilier the battle of Bull's BIM, and that the
people there are ondident of victory, the reeonstreetion
of the United States under • Southern Praha,* and
the penuaneut enmity and extension of tbs institution
of slavery.
The &Anneal Atannater of the 96th Angled says the
Confederate Congress hiss determined to repeal the law
atahliehing ports of entry, and throw time whole
southern emet open to foreign eouimeree, provided that
Vessels which ran the blockade into shore inlets pay
the Coefoilerate duties at the port nearest their landing.
°leftist M'Cl.itts e's Imeterloes. —Kr. Russell,
I. hi. letter from Washington. aye :—''Although the
peation of the forces is such that an enortmon may
lake place oe the other side of the Potomac at say
abetment, General Irttlidlen has no desire hi prsaipitebs
an wet, see wUI mai an ofitanawit inner
le :MI helium got his soldierk Is hand, and foot
time he Matertede at his &moral iota an •nny.
alos,mentit outdo by the Gent.dsrates niay be intended
either 45 mirage thole Men or tr. mesinnottro the whole
raot;tatilkilights to the Chsin-litt
amfg bar sad sm. at thessalsiedienee•
fiem W reet pintaite.ll, '

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their force without the risk of bringing on an engage-
ment, which, if they proved very strong. might be nowt-
visable ;if they were found weak the reconnaimance
would orrtsit ly prove that they WWII busy in tome other
I porters. The countryisveryiblioult,cutupwitheours a
and covered with undnlating we tht, which are fast
yieldiug, however, to the vigorous • Forts of the Federal
•seinen, who, in reliefs of 1100 strong. are clearing tin
-
ground in front of their work., end leaving before them
vs 4 ahattia of great tree.' and branches interlaced to.
'ether and almost inipaseible for infants?. Now and
then • long range abet or ahell is sent from eitlief std.
at the pickets or meat ries (the American writers, by thc
way, gel verse!! nom the word ;ticket as meaning •
single imldier or rotary.) and there lase been a littlt
more of the sentry-stalking and shooting which is a-
useless and •angnitisrv, and is yet indicative a the
asthma' of the flouthernera towards the Yankees'?"

CA3NDITI.III 0? " Ne111101[11" IN THE "FINN STATINI
Attratea."—The North dove not wreak out man-
fully on the subject°, alavery. It palliates the thing it
ought to abhor ; it ostracises the free negro within it..
own houn.lartee—will not it upon a jury with him—
will not ire to thentre, or ball, or even to church or
ehancl with him, anti dreads to loot. the great queation
o Etuaneivation fairly in the face, awl measure it..
height and depth. Engthanonn we through a (Aar
pre nee POOner than n.o.t &pie, tli.y cftonros
sympathise with hyinvrimv. —From "American Vows
Vox the Grua Chi! War," in the "Lmadon Rerifte."