The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-27
GENERAL NEWS.

Luz AouuOu correspondents OF Cne boston
Commercial Bulletin, writing under date of
November 10Th, says:-"America, Ameri-
can stock, and Americans, are just now q
long way below par in this market, and
those that are engaged in business with the
United States are in great CONSERVATION"
The retiring board of the U. S. marine
corps has completed its labors. Col. Harris
remains in command of the corps. Major
Dulsney becomes lieutenant-colonel, and
Major Marston senior major of the corps.
In the official returns of the late State
election in New York, just now undergoing
the process OF publication, it appears that
- upwards of one hundred votes were cast in
the interior for Jefferson Davis for Secreta-
ry of State" s,.sw5g
At the State Department at Washington
may be seen petticoat taken from the per-
son OF lady attempting to pass the lines of
the Federal army of the Potomac. The ar
rest was made by one of the State Depart
meat detectives. 80
Skating ponds are now to be established
In the Northern cities, for public amuse-
ment. They are getting ready for them in
BOSTON, New York, Detroit, Chicago, and
other places.
sF The steamship Pacific brings Oregon dates
to the 18th, and advces from Victoria to the
9TH inst; also, $3.50 1000 in gold. The recent
sfreshets'wer terribly destructive to proper
ty in the'valleys bordering ON the rivers of
Oregon: Nearly all the Touring mills of
the State and large quantities of grain were
destroyed: Most OF the frame warehouses
in Oregon City were washed away and the
town flooded, the water being four feet
deep. But two houses were left standing at
Linn City.
A pretended English nobleman one self
styled Sir James Burdett Nurse, married
respectable girl 10 Skaneateles, N. Y, last
week, lived with her short time, and then
suddenly decamped, leaving her and her pa.
rents to'discover that he was swindler, an
impostor, robber and forger.
A melancholy story is related of young
lady Of Belfast, Me-, who, last week, sent to
boarding school by her highly respectable
parents, preferred rather to run away to
Milwaukee, made an improper acquaintance
in the cars, and is now an inmate of a
brothel in Springfield. She is only sixteen
years OF age, and speaks French, German,
and English, too.
The Macon (ia.) Telegraph says the
house of Harris d Ross, Of that city, have {
commenced suit against Gov. Brown for s
damages on account of their salt, which the t
Governor has seized. He requires them to
sell the salt at IS so per sack. 7
Senator Doolittle's bill, introduced in the {
u 5. Senate last week, for the collection of
direct taxes in the nsurrectonary districts, {
provides that when it is known that the civil G
authority Of the Federal Government is OBJ ]
structed IN any district, SO that the direct /
taxes cannot be levied, the amount due shall
be charged upon its real estate, and in !.
amounts fixed by the valuation of last cen. ;,
sus. BY the 22d of February the President
Is to declare by proclamation in what dis :.
trlcts lnsurrection exist, whereupon every :,
lot OF lane, therein becomes liable for it's
oudi0 VI CIAdtiOu. IL TIC owners thereof
pay the commissioners the amount within -
sixty days, the claim shall be discharged; .
otherwise the property passes into the hands
OF the United States and their assigns for. o
eOer." But provision is made for loyal =
citizens, who may redeem their property at
any time within two years, by paying the 81
tax and ten per cent. interest thereon Us
private despatch, received at Richmond oe
on Sunday, says that the Confederate steam u
er Gordon BIAS run the blockade into one Of ~.
the Southern ports, with cargo reported to -
consist of coffee, salt and West Iodia fruits ID
1t is said that the u S. Secretary of me -
Treasury has ordered the devices Of the na. =,
tional coin to be changed as to signify 49,
the religious faith of the nation, and its ~
trust In Supreme Being. 8.
Further particulars are given of the Ere q =
at Charleston. 1t is now certain that the ~.
cause was wholly accidental Much regret M,
IS expressed at the loss of the fine old fl mi. -