The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-25

The Louisville Journal compares thos e
who believe every account they hear from
one side, however improbable, and disbe-
lieve every account from the other side, how
ever authenticated, merely because their
wishes are the contrary way, to some
towns in Europe, Inaccessible in one
quarter, and open and unguarded on the
other"
Ellis, Britton & Eaton, of the /Novelling
Works, Springfield, Vermont, propose to
the U. s. government ''to takes7a lease of
twenty thousand acres Of cottesf lands near
Hilton Head, something less than township
of six miles square, and pay an annual rent
Of one hundred thousand dollars, taking all
risks upon themselves. and asking no other
protection than such as is given by the ma.
tional troops, now actually in possession at
Port Royal" Their proposal is advocated
in the Washington Republican. They pro-
pose to employ negroes to work.
Gen. Phelps, according to a correspondent
OF the New York Times, Is still off the coast
Of Mississippi. ln regard TO his Quixotic
Proclamation, he, Phelps, is reported to
have declared That his principles were
Anti-Slavery, and he desired the coutry to
know it," Y ~
The well-known Utah CRlef, peteetnees,
as reported, died at Or reaf Fort Urit,enden,
Cedar Valley. On orsaDout che. 23d uls. No
horses were Killed on the occasioh as is gen.
orally the case when an lndiaNor dlssincrivn
dies, but novel and brutal ceremony, by
his express order, Was lnstituted instead,
and that was the killing OF MS wife, who
was dispatched by beating OUT her Drains
with an axe, squaw being The exevunoner.
letter from Shanghai, China, dated No.
vember l. contains the Intelligence OF the
death Of Rev.. Dr. Bndgman, missionary, on
the 9th Of the preceding month. DR.. b.
has labored IN the cause Of missions tor the
long period Of thirty-two years.
| The Boston Commercial Bulletins list Of
failures last week gives three IN New York.
one in Boston, Que in Providence, twn 10 st.
LOUIS anu thirteen III other places--a total
OF twenty for the week.
| The band Of vocalists known as che Old
Folks" have been giving concerts III Phla-
deiphia during the present week, and On
Thursday 1t was announced that, among eth
er attractions at the concert III the evening.
two Of The troupe, Mr.. Henry Z. Holloway
and Miss Hattie A. AunabIe, known respec-
lively as cousin Reuben" and "Grauuv
Slocum," were actually to be married upon
the stage by the Rev. Charles Wadsworth
d. D., OF the Presby terian Church. The
marriage ceremony was performed on the
stage, in the presence Of a crowded audience.
The Bermuda Royal Gazette says that, at.
ter the landing OF Messrs. Mason and S,i.
dell there. On their way to England, Mr..
Mason expressed with great determination
the impossibility Of peaceful termination
OF the struggle now pending 10 the States,
and declared that the South would not re.en.
ter the Union if the demand heretoIore made
by 1t should be conceded as the price of her
return"
On Thursday, the advanced Federal pick
cts at Barrett's hill saw eleven mounted Con.
tederates at distance Of about two miles on
the Alexandria and Leesburg turnpike. Thew
came within mile of the Federal picket
line, and then turned up dirt road in the
direction OF Fairfax Court House. Subse.
quently Lieutenant Seymour, of General
Morrell's staff, went out with detachment
of dragons in quest Of the accommodating
party, but without obtaining any glimpse of
them.
The plan Of action concluded upon Ly the
U. S. Secretary of he Treasury and the rep
resentatives from the Boards of Trade and
Banks of New York, Boston and PhiIadel.
phia, 50 far as it contemplated the free. re.
ceipt and payment Of United States notes. is
considered a. defeated by the refusal of the
banks Of Boston and some of the New York
banks to carry it out. The Secretary, there
fore, feels himself obliged, by the neccss.
ties of the public creditors, to concur in the
plan for issuing and funding of an addition.
one hundred millions of dollars in United
States notes, and making them till funded
legal tender.