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

of beef were selling at cts. pound, pork,
in the hog, at "a cts, and corn meal at 45c.
per hundred. A syrup made from the
Chinese sugar cane, raised in quantity in
the neghborhood, is preferred to New Or
leans molasses.
1t is proposed in some quarters that the
usual annual meeting of Baltimore Confer
ence M. E. Church, he omitted this year.
Burroughs have been very difficult to OBJ
tain of late, in the Confederate army on the
Potomac lines, owing to the expectation
every day Of battle.
Gen. Evans, Of South Carolina, lately in
command of the Confederate troops near
Leesburg, has gone to South Carolina to
command division there. lie took leave
of his troops at Leesburg in an eloquent
speech.
The British steam gunboat Rinaldo left
Provincetown, on the LIST, with Mason and
Slidell and their Secretaries on board. The
wind blew hurricane all night.
The Confederates continue the destruction
of the Baltimore and Oho Railroad and are
attempting to fill up two deep cuts through
which the road passes above Hancock, in
Maryland.
Gen. Mcclellan is getting better-but he
cannot as yet discharge cut of door duties.
Gen. Lockwood, U. S. A., has deemed it
necessary to station guards at all the creeks,
rivers and inlets on the Atlantic side of Ac-
comac and Northampton, on account Of nu-
merous vessels having lately run the block
ade, and giving aid to the Confederates, in
the shape of provisions, &c.
The personal property of Robert Tyler,
late Of Bucks and Philadelphia counties,
Pa, and now connected with the War De-
partment of the Confederate government
at Richmond, has been sold at Bristol by the
sheriff. The proceedings were Without re-
ference to the political status of Mr.. TYLER,
the property having been seized to satisfy
judgment.
Emery Lull, II years of age, son of Mr..
James Lull. of Pittsfeld came to his death
on Thursday night under the following sim
gular circumstances Tuesday night, after
he hal retired to bed with his grandfather,
he complained of being unwel. and after
being questioned, confessed that he had
swallowed ten stones, eight leaden bullets
and a metal button. After this confession
the grandfather got up and informed the
boys father Of what had been done, who be-
ing somewhat Of doctor, told his son, with
tears 10 his eyes. that the best he could do
was to prepare his mind for death; for if he
had done what he had said, no earthly power
could save him. 1t is not known how large
the stones were that he swallowed, but one
found in his jacket was as large as walnut.
The reason the boy gave for swallowing the
shoreman pretended to do at cattle fair. !.
g., eat stones.
The correspondent of one of the Cincin-
natl journals, writing from St. Louis, states
that Price has eluded the trap which was
set for him by retiring toward the Arkansas
line.
The source of the river Nile, which has
bafaed discovery for two or three thousand
years, will, it is thought, be found by parties
of explorers who are now engaged in the
service. Two French travellers have followed
the Nile from Egypt, and Messrs. Spoke and
Grant (Englishmen) have again set out, in
the same pursuit, for Lake Nyansa, from the
Indian Ocean. The opinion now is that the
river rises in Lake Nyanza, discovered by
Captain Spoke, and which is described as q
sheet of water larger than Lake Erie or On.
tariO, if not both.
The Italia Grande, of Genoa, publishes an
appeal to King Victor Emmanuel, stating
that the exile Mazzni is gravely i'll at Lon
don. In order not to die under the cloudy
sky of England, he requires one thing which
the royal prerogative can alone grant, an
amnesty, not simple pardon.
The New York Tribune agrees with the
Philadelphia Journal in the sentiment that
England may next demand the raising of the
Southern blockade. The Tribune now hates
England more than it ever loved that ,un-