The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00


Jorrign intelligtncr.

LSTTIIIII from Paris represent that the relations
between Franoe and Primat& have taken a favturable
turn.

THE Austrian war (tints Novara, which has the
remeins of the late Emperor Maximilian on board,
arrived off Corfu on Toeeday.
PBOSPEHTS Or THO ABYSSINIAN EXPIDITION.-A
telegram from the Times correepoodent with the
Ahyuariian expedition is re-assuring. The natives Cr.
eta') wed-disposed to us, and are furnishing the army
with supplies. The troops ore in exoellent health.
Theodore's position is still one of embarrassment. The
King of Shoe and Wegehum Gobegyi are in the neigh-
b tarlemil ri Magdals. and will effectually bar his
From.. In that direction. Letters had been received
from the captives at Magdala,datai the lltb of Nevem-
r, and at that time they worsen well.

PILING UP Tile SanNIVI.— We have seldom seen
"agony piled up higher" thin in the wad of a telegram
publlehed in the New Y...ra Herald, the paper that
some six weeks since published a telegram announcing
an impending outbreak at Christmas in Jamalo• This
hot sensationalisni of the New York Herald amount:tee
that • General Leon Monte, has been murdered in
prison at Cape llaytien ; end its sender, regardless of
exeetme, telegraphs the following details to the editor. I
General Leon was first starved for four days—jest as
Christians treat • button pig before they kill it ; then '
he was poiooned ; then he was "smothered to the I
extent to which available strength could am User Lim ;"
finally, his head wss split open repeatedly with • abi•el.
And then his brother less chained to the bloody couch
on which the starved, poisoned, amothered, and chiselled
mortise lay. "Wh it lesson dues this teach us"
szoltims the New York Herald. "That this is a
sample of negro civtisntion; teat thls is the way
the negro conducts himorolf when admitted to the
privileges of freedom ; that this is the sort of treatment
our Southern fellow countrymen may expect from negro I
supremacy in the South."
Ton Revenue op VFIStIVIOII.—A correspondent of
the Daily Tele!reapla gives the following description of
a visit to Mount Veonviue :—" Our onward way had
brought into our field of el-ion the first stream of low-
ing lava, and the effect of its startling apparition was
simply magical. The walking now became more pain.
ful at every step, and the red hot •tones, thrown out
some 2.50 feet above the cone, came tuinbling down in
romewhat &minnow. proximity. Hut all thought of
discomfott was overlooked in the intense •nxiety to
get as near as porisible to the scene of action. And
when we romel el that stream of lova that effectually
barred our further arlynnee, the prospect was grand
beyond all prooible description. From the summit of
the nieuntain and from three separate cietlete, fire
continunue torrent+ of molten rock, glowing with a
brilliance the like of which I bad never b•held, were
"weeping down. These rivers of fire lighted up the ice-
crewel rocks to our left with a lund glare that was
almwt terrible to look at, while the whole atmoaphere
wan impregnated with the hot sulphurous fumes that I
were given off in clouds of thick white vapour.
Showers of atones, some as lig as a man's heal, were
shot out of the crater tit an inns nse height, at intervals
of a few seconds, but they fell as ligirtly to all welsh&
as though they were mere sparks of fire. Tee mono& u
groarieil with Om bonnie wailing of e long Atlantic
wave that deahs• on • broken shone while the very
ground beneath our feet shook in sneerer to the roar.
We seemed to be encompassed by every conceivable
earthly horror, and yet the terror of it IMO all so
tempered ey the beauty of the clear ntor4it Ay that
apre.il °verb... I, that there was no rime in the mind
CT any feeling hut that of intense wonder and delight.
When we hsd become somewhat familiarised with the
features of the acene, we began to porcine that the stream
of lava at our feet wao gradually hot surely widening
towards us, and we were thus driven beak inch by inch.
Lows. as I have nail, cools very quicaly, and it thus
from, of itself • strong impediment to its own progress.
The stre.m we examine I wag about ,in feet high, and,
at far as we could see, Ithoit nine feet broad. Con-
tinually fed from the crater, it is constantly advanotng
and eol,s,antly widening. The otnarn, in fact, may be
sail to be always boiling over. but the ((rid et:LA. s"
quickly that, as it rises above the tethers! mane, It
einge de and tumblea over the idles of the bank in large
pie,. that look like lire coals, so that, as long as you
ctn bear the intent., heat, it is !juke porerible to stand
without any danger, within an such oft,, stream. It
is only necessary to draw hack as the hank swells and
the pieces of 1••.. tomble over. Nay, our snide, who
seemed to be so fire-prof an a Salaniander, actually ran
op the burning bank with no greotor injury than the
total destruction of his hoots. He was frightfully ugly
and repuloire in appearance, and lookird the very image
of a stage demon, as he ran his dangerous course.
Indeed the entire scene was intensely theatrics'."