The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-08

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p and several houses adjacent we're con
sumed. 1t was supposed by the Fedora
tleet that the Confederates had determined
to evacuate the place, but the arrival of traine
OF cars at the station has since been obsery.
ed, and. it is now thought. the houses were
purposely destroyed, to get them out of the
way of the guns.
The Washington dispatches to the North
ern papers say that four Confederate cavalry
were captured on Sunday, by the pi:kets Of
the 18th N. Y. regiment; that a deserter
from the confederates near Occoquan has
come into Gen. HeintzIeman's lines and that
i've persons have deserted from the Confede.
rates and been received into the encamp-
ment of the I'd Michigan regiment This
last report is doubted.
Not single U. S. soldier now remains in
Utah, and the travel across the plains is
much diminished. There is no trouble
whatever between the Mormons and the citi.
zens of the State.
A number of Southern families are said
to be residing at this time, at the hotels, in
Montreal, Canada.
Two schooners loaded with coal for the
Federal steamers, arrived off Burmuda, but
were not permitted to enter that port.
Orders. it is said, will probably be issued
for restriction in the number of letters,
from the South, allowed to be brought to
Fortress Monroe, for the North, under in
spection.
The members Of the Washington City
Councils have taken, under an order of their
own, the oath of allegiance to the U. S. gov
ernment
There is slight decline in the Beef and
Cattle market, in the Northern cities.
A contested election case from Pennsylva-
MIA, comes up next week in the U. S. House
of Representatives.
The Provost Guard in Washington are
now overhauling all negroes appearing upon
the streets in military dress, in whole or in
part, as they are not supposed to be properly
in possession of or wearing this property of
The government.
The U. S. Senate has refused by a vote of
. to ID, to postpone indefinitely Mr.. Will
'on's bill relative to the rendition Of fugitive
laves by the U. S. army officers.
A resolution has been adopted in the U. |
}. Senate instructing the naval committee
o inquire whether purchases for the navy
ave been made through other than agents
ecognized by law, and directing them to
end for persons and papers in order to
borough examination.
Bills to abolish the ranking privilege, are
efore the U. S. Cong: ess. Also, bills in
citation to the appointment of suffers.
Mr.. Bradford, the new Governor of Mary.
md, is to be inaugurated to-day.
A vessel is to be chartered, it is expected.
carry contributions from the United States :
tho Worlds Fair in London. !.
Mr.. Raymond, editor of the New York
lines, has been elected speaker of the New
ork Assembly. ~
On the "a of August, Mrs. Timothy Brad-N
e, of Trumbull county, Ohio, gave birth
eight chldren-three boys and five girls. \
hey are all living, and are healthy, but 9
lite small. Mr.. BIS family is increasing \
st. He was married six years ago to Eu- o
ce Mowery, who weighed 273 pounds on
Q day of her marriage. She has given
nth to two pairs of twins, and now eight
ore, making twelve children in six years. =
The minis of the United States have coin
since they commence operations-a peri
of less than seventy years-the large n
Mount of eight hundred millions of dollars n
about one-tfth Of the whole metallic cur :"
ncy Of the world. Of this amount five a
inbred and twenty millions of dollars were
rived from the mines Of the United States. :
The N Y. Herald continues to assert that
ere is conspiracy among the ultra aboli- '
nists at the North, to supersede Mr.. Lin
IN. if not to overturn the government of i'
, United States.