The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-13

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the Confederate works erected for the de-
fence of Norfolk.
The Italians in this country intend to
send succour to their fellow countrymen Of
the town of Tore del Greco, lately destroy
ed by an eruption from Mount Vesuvius.
By this disaster some $4,000 people are rem
dered houseless.
A private letter dated Minneapolis, Min
nesota, Sd inst, says:--'We have every
thing to eat in abundance. Flour from 49,
so to 81 per barrel; chickens, fifteen for 50;
pork q cts. per pound, and other things in
proportion"
Mr.. Beecher, (Rev. Henry Ward it is
said, does not find editing newspaper the
nice, easy job he thought it was, and SO, in
order to have some respite from the arduous
labors imposed upon him by ''getting out"
the Independent every week, he has con-
Guided to turn over the Sunday morning
service at Plymouth Church to the Rev. Mr..
Hatfield. Hereafter Mr.. B. will only preach
in the evenings.
There was speculative movement in for
eign fruits in New York, on Saturday, re-
sulting in material advance in the prices
of almonds. raisins, dates, &c The dealers
in olive oils, sardines and fire. crackers even,
were likewise holding out for higher rates,
in anticipation of enhanced duties, to be i'm
posed by Congress-in short, everything is
"going up like rocket"
Lieut.. Fairfax authorizes an emphatic de-
NAL Of the assertion of British commander
Williams, that Miss Slidell used her ''little
knuckles" on his face. He adds that she
'.did not strike Lieut.. Fairfax" but, on the
contrary. behaved, as did all the ladies on
the Trent becomingly. and with great
moderation.
Rev. DR.. Williams, one of the writer's of
the now famous ESSAYS and reviews" is
being tried for heresy, in England. The in
dictment specified 'that the defendant had
advisedly maintained and affirmed that in
the books of, the Old Testament, with the
exception of one or two doubtful passages,
there was no evidence of its being inspired,
and no evidence of the prognosticatlon Of fu-
ture persons and events" and that he dis
puted the doctrines of justification by bap-
tism, and of atonement and Precipitation by
the Saviour. The case attracts much at
tention:
The fashionable growth of the beard and
has affected the trade of the bar.
bers to degree which is hardly credible,
were it not for statistics upon the subject
In Philadelphia alone the number of barber
shops has become reduced from over two
hundred to less than one hundred; the shaw
ing brushes manufactured have declined one
sixth, and the importation of razors has de-
c'ined in a corresponding ratio. t
Charles Astor Brsted says, in Wilkes
Spirit of the Times, that in 1852. in Paris
he bet another American gentleman $1,000
that Louis Napoleon would not be living ON
the ninth anniversary of the coup a. etat--
The party betting in the: Affirmative insuredd
Napoleon's life imam American Company for
the amount by paying q per cent. premium.
On the I'd Of last December the insurer won
his bet. se . 90 - vrs tia
A New York letter, dated Thursday, says:
Gan earnest effort is making to send from
this port cargo,of breadstufs and provi-
sions to Ireland, for the relief of the suffer
ers from famine there, and in order to give
effect to it bill was introduced into the State
Assembly this morning, appropriating $780,
900, and constituting the Governor, Comp
troller and the Secretary of State commits
sion to see that it is properly expended"
A fire occurred on the Sd inst, at the hos
pital, at Yorktown, Va., which destroyed a
quantity of bed clothing, pillow cases, &c.
Mr.. T. Butler King. Confederate States,
Agent, in London, has written letter to
Earl Russell, offering the most liberal terms
Of trade with those States.
The Norfolk Day Book, of the 9th, says:
Information reached the city last evening to
the effect that Federal feet had made its
appearance in Pamlico Sound. The feet