The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN ITEMS.

THE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT—The official figures show
the aggregate vote, as aotually returned, to have been
3,957,702—5ay, 4,000,000, including such as were ex-
cluded by being too late. The respective candidates
had :—Abraham Lincoln, 2,182,502 ; tleorge Brinton
Id'Clellan, 1.776,200; majority for Lincoln, 407,302.
A brim Yoax Caoserna —A T. Stewart, the New
York dry goods man, lately paid an income tax of
250,000 dols. upon a net income of 5,000,000 dole. Fie
does a business of 30,000,000 dole, a-year, hss 14,000,000
dole, invested in real estate, and is one of the richest
men in the world—indeed, it is doubtful if anybody is
richer than be—Portland Advertiser.

Mr. R. S. Osboo, naval reporter, No. 2, Bey-street,
New York, and correspondent of the English Army and
Navy Gazette, has been arrested by order of the Presi-
dent, and ordered to be put on trial for furnishing to
the public press and requesting the publication of the
details of the Wilmington expedition, thereby causing
the enemy to reinforce the works at Federal Point.
Mr. Osbon is now in the Old Capitol Prison.—New
York Times.
NOTHING LIKE LEATHER. A letter from General
Sherman is in Washington, which treats incidentally of
our administration of the war, and the prospects of the
rebellion, and which closes 88 follows :—" My idea is
that every young and middle-aged man ought to be
proud of the chance to fight for the integrity of his
country. I would like to see all trade and oommerce
absolutely cease until this conflict is over; and all who
can fight and won't fight ought to be killed or banished;
and those who won't support those who do fight should
be denationalized."—New York Times.
By the arrival of the Saxonia we have intelligence
from New York to the 7th inst. On the 26th December
General Hood was at Corinth, having recrossed the
Tennessee without material loss. The Federals are
reported to be crossing the Savannah into South
Carolina, Branchville being believed to be the destina-
tion at which Sherman aims. According to Confederate
accounts the Federals lost at Wilmington five vessels,
all their horses, besides having 15 ships disabled by the
gale. The Federal expedition against Fort Branch has
retired to Jamesville, with the loss of six gunboats and
1,000 men. Another oombined attack upon Wilmington
is reported to be in contemplation.

SANDRINGHAM BALL.--ORe of the chief improve.
'vents, in • small way, at Sandringham Hall, has been
the adoption of SECHITTIf DIAMOND BLACK LEAD, for
polishing the stoves no doubt it has added a lustre to
even the brilliant fireside of the Prince and Princess of
Wales.
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN TIM MANUFACTURE OF
PAINT.— A patent has just been taken for the =mutt°.
facture of a carbon paint, which promises to be of the
greatest general utility. The paint is produced in any
colour, and is adapted for all outdoor work, agricultural
implements, copper sheeting for ships, chips' bottoms,
iron roofing, railings, &c.; and for which purpose the
black, brown, and red are almost indestructible, being
solely carbonaceous bodies. This patent carbon paint,
unlike other cheap paints, is free from offensive smell,
and it possesses immense body, covering nearly four
I times the extent of ordinary oil paint, and dries in a
quarter of an hour after application. For ship-builders
I it is invaluable, for it is not acted upon by trulphureted
hydrogen. For terms, tco., apply to Cessoll, Smith, and
Co., 80, Fonohurvh-otreot, London.