The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-17

says:-"lt behooves both England and
France to consider whether the time has not
arrived for recognizing the Southern Con-
federacy."
There are parties in washington at the
present time who are industriouslY engaged
10 circulating . counterfeit gold dollar, tbe
Imitation Of the g,nuine being good; but the
oo@bonens parts being pewter With some
other metal, and galvanized.
Ano oyster pungy ran the blockade in day.
flight on Tuesday. lTwsnty-six balls, xsrs
fred at her from the Confederate batteries,
but she escaped ,upharmed. Two or three
ether, oyster boats ran up yesterday but
were not fired at. n.. llit fia BOD i4g.e;.ris
I Senorita Isabel Cubas, the celebrated
Spanish danseuse, in Baltimore, attended
church, and so great was the desire to see
her, that the street in front of the church
was 90 blockaded with citizens that the DO
li:e had to interfere. at,p .ya4. sfs
The Richmond Examiner says that the
Confederate Congress is understood to have
made large appropriation out Of the Con.
federate Treasury to comply, in part, with
treaty stipulations made with the Indian
tribes. These treaties are as yet undivul
ged. They are understood to comprise the
Creeks, the Choctaws and Chickasaws, the
Seminoles, the Cherokees, the Osages, the
Quapaws, the Ssnecas and Shawnees. the
Camauche and the Reserve Indians. OF the
aggregate amount appropriated the sum of
$235, 927-being the while amount Of ar
rearages. annual payments and interest due
the several tribes as ON the 30th of Decem.
Der LASTS ordered to be paid in coin. The
act also makes an appropriation Of $50. 900
to purchase the coin"
The Emperor Of the French has lent the
British Government 1000 pairs of snow
boots for che use Of the troops which are
now crossing the Atlantic on their way to
which (says q Liverpool
paper) nothing could be more considerate or
friendly"
The cultivation Of cotton in the milder
portions Of the United States is beginning
10 attract general attention.
Six more prisoners were on Tuesday
brought within the lines of Gen. Heintzsl.
mans division. They were captured 90
Mason's Neck, mile and half from Co..
chester, which is on the Oscoquan, by the
sixty.third Pennsylvania regiment, Colonel
Hayes. These make a dozen Confederate
prisoners taken by the regiment within the
asst few days. Those arrested on Tuesday
we're Forrest Olden. John Haislef, his broth
n, his son, William Hicks, and A. g. Land
street.
There were on the 10Th inst, twenty-one
coats at the New Orleans levee, the largest
lumber at any time during the season.
Freights in molasses and sugar were repor-
ed brisk. Wheat was selling at 81 60; ~.
ar &C.,; molasses 25c.; cotton Sc.-the entire
otton receipts since August 3lss was 1880
ales; salt So so per sack; coffee was Toe.
TO-, and -four $50 so p bbl.; gold ut CSC.
remium.
The Florida Legislature has passed an act
the expectation from that State
f any beef cattle, dried or picked beef,
ogs, pork or bacon, corn or corn meal, or
alt, Or provisions Of any kind, whether salt
r fresh. The act also forbids any person
: corporation from buying these articles for
purposes of speculation.
Seven persons were killed BY the accident
a the Delaware Railroad, on Wednesday.
The Knoxville Register learns from Official
,urces that East Tennessee has already sent
Ito the Confederate service seventy compa-
les Of infantry, already organized into regi-
rents, and has several more companies in
recess Of formation, and twenty-six com
snies Of cavalry and two companies of ar
llery-in all SO companies.
The Philadelphia Ledger says: -sThe
leory that rowdies make the best soldiers
roves to be fallacy. The present war has t
ltirely destroyed the prestige of that class d
the community. Instead Of being more
outrageous, they have proved inefficient in b
,at nualitv Tn the rast nf tho corn rcrr;tv .