The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

Ti. AZNT.--TIIII risme sorrespondent says t—Trame
are peering iota the mighboarhood of the eapital.
Although General Scott is priestly trammil, sad is
quite metaled the Coalelentos can make no 'vs
movesocat without signal obastiesment sad defeat.
General ll'Olellan is most uneasy and approbation, of
defter. and le urgent in demanding mom men. II. is
very short in • proper oompletement of cavalry sod
field artMery. His troopa are es raw as ran be ; the
oaken not • whit better as yet than the Bull's Rae
Wiser, le hot, his anny is not • lighting maim as
• whole, ear de I think the Oenfederatee are meek
below in any way, swept in eistralry. What teen, after
• MU another battle elect? Sees if the result at
If be reversed, it is not likely that more can be
done than Moreseleg the &Piing of bitterness between
the Battreesime, *ad • freak lees of 111., lot th• Federal.
ists would be as little able te improve • vietery ea the
Confederates ware,sed even the possession at Mellowed
or of Washington, would Sot enable the victon to
diets** nem* It is all very well to talk of an army of
1509,000 men. Ills • largo force; but if it he. Atomise
I. din larger this its &Mime, A rapid developement of
the fathead system las left parts of America rowbiob
this war muse be waged deetalate of ordinary roads. and
Me dill:inky of removing inswieions and imehfriel is
enormoes in 011111411i/DO with any part of &trope. Snob
reads se mite as. generally ant deep in the sail, with
high bank.; the hied is covered with fora*. and the
cleared fields are tiled with dumps fatal to horse or
wagon. This there are great riven and uiountain pewee
foodless and demist*. An tinny of 500,000 men
/11,161011111.16 r the Southern frontier repreeent • feeble
than, wlldeh wield he broke. at my pleas. If it forms
be shoes farm, the difirelty of transportation of food
and esaiirief mime. It is greeter than is. would
who has sot ..in bow widely scattered is the
popeletien. The State of Georgia, for *maple, whisk
Is as large as all Reiland. has lees than • million of
people. The farther these corps advance the greater
mu* bestows their dlelcaltyi They must diverge as
they adisnee, awl the enemy will get in between them,
sad Is their titm, eed on the oommunications
witli=beees. The people of tie South declare they
are reedy for a pariahs war, and the remarks I have
made mewappres Mme is no lenge mount of Union
kWh* in say of the seaswied SMUG while would
relive and biome active on the appearing* of a friendly
army.

&Au or yes COL MM.—Mid how ths pest people
sulk,! Ws do sot snow -bit Was pleas In lb.
Seeth, bet the cries of tlikkoss is the colistry =Vino
tlis Trdsral troops,sni bawl sad Issawanablia.
lose orders, but t,U troops do WA mita *est. Houses
raromarr as es
d. property is pissad. Eves is Mass, far
hots the ransom' of hostilities, tbs wob has
vssently bsesdat=iil:s 10,111114 for freedom of *sloe
by netseltias ars, end deierev-
inn sod bonds( ail they=alfirerrair bee& os. Is
Maryland lb. swiss of a:m.omM is bed wad
Meso**lnt 4 olstiss sad selsebniest to tio"lbssurLoo
avail bet hello Ose *Saw is seeassand at Aleasiedris,
pl.
within • lit of lb* Whit..-bosse,isublintsitowswowswfd
the to fir the stars and stripe an all their
Invert sad over aft astir bowies, and Moo be pro-
mises, that doss sot do, to make strict biouiries Into
all arse of outrage.
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PaMinn= Lireottee Psoce.ssAvioa.— President
Lira* lamed a sew proolamationa on the lath August,
In whirl, after referring to the lesearmotion M **loin
Seethe= Bras, he goes on to say therafore, I,
Abraham Liars?" Preabler of the united *at* in
promos of ses AM of (engran, pearl July 13, 1161.
do *nab, declare that the inbehitanie el the Mid
!kW" of Grew* Bark Carries. VIII**, North
Carolina. Tommese, Alabama. Lorna*, Tea*
Arkansas, Miesiseppi and Florida (except the inhabi-
ters of that part of le State sf Virginia Ivo( west of
the Alleglusny Branotales. and of each other pars of
then Siete, and ths other Sates bereinbefore named. as
may isolate** loyal *belies to the Mike and the
sotsalise, or may be frees Sinn to time eacerod and
sosteried by the forme engaged Ii lb. disperios of
said regaggeats) ere in • dowel ismarreglien spier the
llsited Mates. end that ell essassereial intenseness
betas* the same air the isilsobirate thereof. with the
'sawn*/ nomad, and the cities* of other States
and other pares of the trailed States, is unlawful, and
will remain unlawful until ears ioserreation shall ores
or hes been repprred that all goods air chattel!,
wares and menthendise, worse from any of the saki
Stair, with the esespeloas aforesaid, into ether parts of
Um United States, wit** the special llamas end per-
mission of the President, through the Bereetery of the
Treasury. or proceeding to asy el the rid Stsise, with
the enseptions %forager, by land or water. torathor
with lb. *rel or vehicle ecaveriog the same, or sos-
?eying persona to and from said Stark with said sump-
lionse, win he forfeiied to tag United Star.; and that
fawn bed alter Sham days from the Wain, at this
predemelime ships and saw& brearag in whole
• ge par to any citron or inhibit** of say of said
Sores, with raid easeptiose, found ad am or a env port
of the Ihiled States, will be forwarded to the United
States. And I hereby enjois upon all Diarist Mar.
ars, Marshals. and Alms of UN rentene. and of the
eallihny and naval tome of the Caned altatea, to be
',What is the ese* of the said act, end in Um
saforoeuesat If the penalise sad forfeit** imposed or
desisted by 11, leaving any party who MIT tbrnk
sod aggriesed thereby to hie appllo.son *the Secretary
O 1
the Treasury for the im.tsuU .lroy reality, sr
for forfeiture. which the said &smeary is authorised by
law to great, if. in his Inkier* th=
Magas of my my shall moire smith
V./.48,1;2=11 PRIMI—Tho paid jurl the
Cow Court, In this city, lamas* man Ito-
Parent paw, and promolad it to Jedge airs*,
undowieren of the liwisosabli 'soar of the following
Papers; J 11811.011141 of (7m , the Daily and Weekly
New, die D. /Mot, Wm Joormal, and tbe
Doge Bark of Brooklyn, whisk espies tansualre
("Poe* to whet Omer gal 'lb. pressed *holy war,"
Olsd fee the **ranee of languags win*. it *lnwood
tOongw arnuirietkmest. ir°Tisualigraadl" jury am saircilarthaerips‘thes *Sb.
thug of these disloyal papers is abhorred by all loyal
mon, sad hope that it is mblesei le iodic*** and On
Pabishimat of the "our.

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Wishigtogi. Thu, bowovor, boo boos quilled toy the
loogoot maw of Gomel Welolbo, who irnowalotav
wiltool Dolma Pansy to sorotood tie missal wide
for" a 40'8317. lalootry, owl arlastay. Tito MINIM
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Amster OW A BCCESSIOI7ST WT £40,000 IS NIS
Poefar.—Last Tuesday afternoon. August 11th, math.
Fermis was coining up the Bay, ene of the pasasagers In.
formed the Port Surveyor, wle, had jest mine oa board.
that another pa gee named Thomas a. Serra!, a cotton
merchant of New Orleans, was a Secessionist, and ha I
stated that he was returning from Europe with £40.000,
the proceeds of a loan which he had negotiated there
for the Southern Coufedersey. On arriving at the dock
the °Moen made a thorough search of his person gad
baggage, and soevespied in finding Cie money and a
number of letters addressed to penmen in the Sonth,
the whole of which were taken to the Surveyor's office.
A warrant was subsequently taken out for his erred.
and yesterday afternoon, when he celled by appoint-
ment on the Surveyor, he was intreflueol to • deputy of
the United States' Karelia!, end taken into madody On •
charge of gliding and abetting treason.
A Setuatatoever's Vl'Wog OF ma B tTTLI A?
Seatearigt.D.—“The victory is ours. The bottle lasted
ail hours and a half. Our loss is groat. General Lyng
is among the dead. We toek see eileose of artillery from
General Siegel, destroyed his command, and took many
prisoners and small arms, Confederate loss from two
to four hundered killed and wounded. General Siegel's
forme were pursued to Springfield, where it was thought
we would attack him. A captain naught General
Siegel. but he was rescued. He was shot at, sad is
believed to be wounded. rolonel Sweeney, of the
Federal army, was killed. The enemy's loss was from I
2,300 I. 3.0c0."

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ANOTIIFII CONFISDRATC VICTORT.—A dispatch from
Richmond, Virginia. dated Aug. 16th, min
reported battle nsar Lanham gradually assumes an air
of plausibility. It appears that 700 Union men had
forded the river near or opposite I.eeshurg, but during
the night the river roes and the rebel forces surrounded
them. The Union men lost, in killed and wounded,
about 500, and 1,400 were taken prisonen. The rekel
bee was smell. Several passengers from Manassas, tt is
afternoon, report this news current there. It is
generally atedited. Some my that large numbers of
waggons have been sent up to convey down the property
captured."
Tin Mouton RETOLT.—The venal correspondent of
the Morning Chrowicie says :—The Mormons, under the
dictatorship of Brigham Young, have also thrown off
their allegiance to the United States, and declared
themselves a free and independent people.
Taff FICDZIALOITS AOCOOSIT OF Till FIGHT AT
Sreisorimh.—The Fedetelista date that 5.600 of their
body. miler General Lyon and Colonel Siegel, attacked
20,000 Oonlederates, and succeeded in routing them
after 8 hours' hard lighting. The loss on the anion side
was shoat 200 killed, among whom was General Lyon.
and 000 to 700 wounded. The Confederates captured
Ore guns aim • coosidershle number of prisoners. The
Federalists notwithstanding this loss, claim the
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as theirs, but withdrew from thecontadfroin prudien.rT
tia
motives I