The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-03


opposite shore in the Delaware. The ''por-
poises" turned out to be cakes of ice, black
ened with mud at the ends!
Levi Short, Of Buffalo, has invented a new
engine of destruction, in the shape of a
bombshell or rocket, charged with com busti-
BILE matter instead of with missiles.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Charleston Couriers complaines of the scenes
Ct rowdyism at the Theatre in Richmond
Theatres, concerts, &C., seem to be very much
out of place, any where in times like the
present.
No New York papers to-day. The Balti-
more Maryland News Sheet comes regularly
through the U. S. mail, but its transmission
here, for sale outside of the mail, has been
stopped.
The Marlboro IND Gazette calls the res
olutions recently passed by the Maryland LIE.
gslature on the Mason and Sidell affair,
" another Aasty plate of soup"
The resolutions passed by the Maryland
Legislature, protesting against any interior
ence with slavery by the General Govern
ment, were presented yesterday in the u S.
Senate by Mr.. Kennedy.
The recruiting officer at Rochester, N. Y,
detected a young female adventurer last week,
who applied to him, dressed in bifurcated
anna rol f,,r a situat;n, 90 drn,,poar kny
Her favorite masculine alias was Charley
NJ Her, and she had been hack driver, a
circus rider, a bar tender, whip pedlar's
clerk, and a drummer boy in the 18th New
York and 46'h Pennsylvania regiments.
On Christmas day, couple were married
in the Jail at Cleveland, Ohio, by clergy.
man who is also under arrest there.
Both Houses Of the U. S. Congress have
adjourned over until Monday next.
Mr.. Wilson, of Mass, has introduced q
bill into the U. S. Senate for the future reg.
ulation of suffers in the U. S. Army.
On Saturday last, Gen. Segel left Rolla,
Mo-, with a large force, to attach, it is said
Gen. Price, in Springfield.
The new Confederate battery on the Po-
tomac is ON Postum Nose Point.
The U. S. steamer Stepping Stones was
fired at from the shore at Quantico, not long
since, and had several bullets put through
her sides.
The U. S. steamer Anacostia has some
heavy guns on beard, and, it is said, will
"endeavor to get some flank fires at the Con-
federate battery at Postum Nose.
The Canada papers appear to think that
the Mason and Siidell difficulty is but one of
several matters between England and the
United States that will have to be ''settled. /"
The "stone blockade" is denounced in
most of the English papers in the severest
manner. The London Times 10 most severe
in its language on the subject.
A number of Federal officers arrived at
Fortress Monroe, on Wednesday, from Rich
mond, being the first of the two hundred
and fifty prisoners to be released in exchange
for the Confederate prisoners sent South last
week. The remainder we're expected to ar
rive under flag of truce yesterday.
The Court of Inquiry on the charges
against Gen. H. W. Benham. preferred BY
Gen. Rosecrans, assembled yesterday, and
SO soon as the charges were read be was re-
leased from arrest and ordered to duty at
once.
At the first board in New York, Yesterday,
Virginia 6's advanced l, and North Carroll
mas ] per cent. The Railroad securities
were heavy, and N. Y. Central declined II,
Erie I, and Reading !.
The attention of the U. S. Congress will
be Immediately fixed upon measures for aug
menting the revenue. Increased duties on
iron, spices and salt are to be proposed
An excise duty on distilled and fermented
spirits, tobacco, and many articles of luxury
is to be resorted to. A revenue Of at leas
one hundred and fifty millions is thus to be
secured as the basis of government credit.
The project offered by Mr. Stevens, chair
man of the U. S. House of Representatives
Committee on Ways and Means, for closing