The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-31


ing for the body Of General Zollicofer.
Donald Mckay, of Boston, has ready for
to France and England sixteen
hundred tons of white oak tim Der, for which
he is to receive sixty dollars ton. One.haf
of it is in Boston and the other half in Del
aware.
The Wisconsin Assembly, by an almost
unanimous vote, have expunged the joint
resolutions, which were called the secession
or State rights resolutions, passed by the re-
publican Legislature in 1859.
The London papers assert that the Empe-
ror Napolean approved of Englands policy,
all through the Trent affair, without quali6
cation.
The New York Herald, day after day.
calls for the arrest and incarceration of Gree
ley, Beecher, Brownson and other prominent
Northern abolitionists, on the ground that
they are "the worst kind of traitors, and
engaged in conspiracy against the Union"
The small pox is said to be spreading in
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Georgetown, D. G.
The correspondent Of the Philadelphia
News says that some dissatisfaction about
appointments prevails in the Sd Pennsylva-
MIA Cavalry-and that number of volun-
teer officers are resigning, fearing the ordeal
of the Board of Examiners.
t. :oLc
quirer, from gentleman who has lately re-
turned to Virginia, from Europe, he says
that the general expec ations entertained by
the Southern people when he left the South
last summer, that the mar ufacturing inter.
ests of Engla d and France would force
them to speedy recognition Of the Southern
Confederacy, has turned out to be an error.
He was the bearer Of messages from com.
mercial men in the South to English mer.
chants ip reference to opening q trade with
the South regardless Of the Federal block
ade. When be told. the latter of one hun.
dred per ct. profits they said :-"Give US ten
per Ct, or even FIVE, Nth no risk, and we
are your men," s
On Thursday ':contraband" named Par
ker came within the lines of Gen. Summers
division. He came directly from Centre
vile, which he had left two days before
This contraband was owned by widow Davis,
Of L,udoun county, Va. He says the sol
diers are comfortably quartered in log huts
80 ontrnvillo h,,k thot n I'm, hovn nc h.r
have died from the effects of the cold"
A Washington letter says Col. Cass on
Thursday received by express one of the
newly patented bullet proof vests-a presen,
from his wife. Externally it has the ap.
pearance of an ordinary army vest; but
there is lining Of double wire net work,
that not only seems impervious. but upon
actual experience proved to be SO to shots
from revolver at ten PAGES. The vest
weighs three and a half pounds.
} What difference there is in the strength
tfspeople. There. is man in Troy who
lifts lso they say 1000 lbs. Winship can
lift nearly twice that weight. Neither are
very large men; yet We know fellow Of
gigantic size, we'll built, and in good health,
who can't lift one Of his own notes.
The intimation that change has taken
place in the management of the U. s. Ord
nance Department. is not true, although i,
may occur ere long. 81. o4ae gse vgnaear.f q
A negro man belonging to gentleman
near Marlboro, Nd. absconded some time
last summer add made bis way to Massachu'
sets. Some weeks ago he caused y letter to
be written to his master, requesting him q
send him money enough to pay his way
back TO his old homo. This having been
denied, he finally worked his way to Mary
land and reached there last week, wiser
if not . better negro. sMoe.f4e9sdS 8h6
Brig Solferino, from Bahia, via St. Thorn.
as, arrived in Hampton Roads, on Wednes.
day, reports the arrival of Mason and Sill
dell, on board the British ship of-wal
Rinaldo, Al, St. Thomas, on the l4th inst
They were to take the La Platte tor Svuth
ampton on the 18th inst, .e.4.e voa
I A New York letter, dated the Goth, says
1.-The private revelations mot for the public
eye, as YETI which accompany the newspa
per corrasnnndence from tho Rurnaida a. pe