The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1860-01-17 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

AMERICA.  Late news from America brings the startling intelligence of a negro insurrection in Missouri, which, however, had been suppressed. The Hareer's Ferry affair and the execution of John Brown have, no doubt, produced great excitement among the more intelligent portion of the slave population, and an outbreak or two is not the unnatural result.  By the new regulation of the American Postmaster. General, authorising postmasters to atop any publication which they may consider treasonable on their character, the Nrw York Tribune has fallen under the ban of these petty functionaries. A dead set has been made upon it by loins of the postmasters in Virginia, and Mr. Gm• Icy, the editor can do nothing but declare war against the Administration by whom this injustice has been originated. _ _  The Secretary of the Navy states that the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, are 11,2:4,845 dots. 6:ie.—that is to say for the navy proper, 9,977,115 &Is. 15e. : for the marine corps, 699,736 dole. sc. ; and for all other objects, 507,1034 dole. The navy has been increased during the present Administration by the addition of twenty steam-vessels, thirteen by construction and seven by purchase. He renews the recommendation to still further increase the navy, and, instead of perpetuating old vessels, or expending millions in constructing a few large ships, it is earnestly recommended to prosecute with vigour the line of policy which low been adopted by Congress, and add a much larger number of steamship*, which can be maintsined at • comparatively small cost. He says that it is a source of extreme regret and mortification that in some foreign countries American citiaens are imprisoned, plundered, and murdered because the Executive has not the means to protect them. He urges an increase in the marine, medical, and pursers' departments. The Secretary of War, in his annual report, states that the authorised strength of the army is 18,165 all told • but the actual force was only 17,4914, of which 11,00 were available for field service. He hopes to make such an alteration in the divpimition of the troops next season as will prevent any repetition of the outrages on the Southern and Mexican border. He recommends the enlistment of men for • mounted corps for &ix months, beginning in May. - - - -  The Legislature of South Carolina has voted 100,000 dollars for the military defence of the State in case o emergency ; and the Senate has also adopted • resoluf tion declaring that the safety and honour of the Slaveholding States demand a smedy separation from thFree-Soil States of the Confederacy, and urges tier Sister States of the South to originate the movement, in which she pledges herself promptly to unite.  . The President's Message was brought to the Senate on the 27th, and was read after • division. The House of Representatives adopted • resolution ordering it to be laid on the table until the House was organised, for no Speaker bad yet been eleJted. Severe snowstorms had interrupted mining operations at Ban Francisco, and much damage to property had been occasioned. The news from Fraser River is favourable.  Property of the value of a million dollars bad been destroyed by a tire in Breektuan-street and Fultou• street, New York.  Advice, from Guatemala report that Mr. Clark, the United States' Minister, has addressed to the Guatemalan Government a protest against its cession of territory under the treaty of last April with Great Britain, claiming that the provisions of that instrument were in violation of the letter and spirit of the Clayton-Buliver Treaty. Ho protest' also against the concealment of this action from the accredited representative of the United States, and against the confession of the Government of Guatemala to the title of Great Britain.