The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-23

better work COuIO Dc zone tO-Vay Vnou viz
publication of q small pamphlet which II
hould show what articles of food are cheap Il
st and most wholesome; what modes OF
,ooking are most economical; and wherein
savings can be made in clothing, warming
lighting and house rents.
Senator Robertson, Of the N. Y. Legisla-
lure, introduced bill to dispense with the
pretty waiter girls" at the free concert sa'
looms in that State. az
Sixty-four thousand four hundred of the
present population Of Canada are natives OF
the United States.
A correspondent Of the New York Journal
Of Commerce says that the reported fall OF
rain in the course Of q year, in other parts
Of tho world, is, a. compared with the an
nual quantity of about so inches in our At
lsntio cities almost incredible. s
Awrit of hsbeas corpus has been issued
against the convent known Is the House OF
tho Good Shepherd, in Chicago, to release q
Young girl named Mary Kelly. and her
child, who. it is alleged are now held there
without authority Of law.
On Friday the propeller E. Chamberlain,
Of Philadelphia. loaded with hay, ran the
batteries of the Potomac. Fire was opened
upon her without damage.
Since Senator Wilson first agitated the
suffer question the profits Of that fraternity
have, it is said, fallen OF ut least one-half.
Their latest device 10 embodied in circular.
which they have printed and distributed
through the camps, and which denounces
the proposed law, and seeks to make the
soldier, dissatisfied with any alteration Of
the present system.
There 10 a farmer ir Putnam county,
New York, who has mile of children. his
name 10 Furlong, and he has eight boys ana
girls. Eight furlvngs one mile!
The U. s. War Department is to tho
roughly reorganized under the new Secre'
tary-no further appointments to be made
to any rank in the army until the lst Of
March: all the nominations now pending OF
army officers to be suspended until the Isl
Of March; officer, to be prevented from Ieav-
ing their camps and stopped from coming
into the cities unless under orders; particu-
lar DAYS to be set apart at the department
for particular kinds of business, &C., &c.
The presents received by the U. S. & 'vern.
ment. mentioned in q paragraph 10 yester'
davis Local News, we're from the King Of
Siam. not the Emperor Of Japan. 81
Small pox continues to prevail in Wash
ington city. ~ ~ a'4'
The Washington correspondent of the N
Y. Herald afirms that an attempt wac made
a few days ago, by high officials to draw
!, something from President Lincoln in oppo
. stion to his own line Of policy on the con
traband question, and failing in the effort
!: they "caused statement Of the converse
ton to be written out, rs they wished
have it appear. and caused it to b. offered
the press for publication. The correspon
dent of the Herald was urged to, forward
. for publication. but doubling the truth
"
certain declarations it put into the mouth
i Mr.. Lincoln, he took the manuscript, b
= declined to forward it. Next day ne sal
" m;tted it to the President, who at ONT
branded the portion purporting TO represel
= what he said as untrue, and also asserts
:. that the whole thing was total nlsrepr
~ sentation of the conversation had bet@e'
y him and the party in question: "aii'iGi
e It is stated that Ex. President John lyle
died in Richmond, On Friday last. 7d -
/. Felix X. Zollicoffer was born in Now
-, county, Tennessee, May 1882. He ssl
:. eli in printing Office, and in ls2s took =
on himself the management of newspal
At PARIS. Tennessee. 10 1884 he was edi
g. and publisher Of the Columbian otserv
90 in the same State; in 1885 he was cleo
ost State Prioter, aud re-elected in 1881;
1912 he removed to Nashville, and edl
S. the Banner; in l843 he was elected Co'
ons troller Of the State Treasury, aud was
Pc. elected in l845 and l847; in lS49 he
8 of elected to the State Senate; in 1900 he
the a contractor for building the saspeni
ma. h.;d,a ut Nashville: in 1851 and 1852