The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-02


fish Admiralty directed q vessel of war to
pursue and watch the American steamer;
and that the pursuit was only abandoned
when the Adger was found to have other
Objects
Shanties are being erected on the grounds
east of the Capitol, in Washington, for the
use of several regiments, going into winter
quarters there.
Dispatches from General Rosecrans, re-
ceived at the War Department. do not report
any material change in his command. Gen.
Benham had been placed under arrest, it
was said, for permitting the escape of Gen.
Floyd and his forces.
The Fifty.seventh and Sixty-frst Regi-
ments of New York, the latter commanded
by Col. Cone, made reconnaissance from
Springfield, which is nine miles from Alex
andria, on Thursday, and went three miles
and half beyond the Federal pickets to-
wards Manassas, when discovering Con-
federate force numbering, it is supposed,
:, 900 men, they returned to their starting
point.
The Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared instructions for those who are to act
IS Governments agents, in gathering and
shipping Sea Island cotton on the coasts of
South Carolina and Georgia.
The U. S. steamer Santee, blockading Gal
weston, after a sharp fight has captured the
Confederate privateer Royal Yacht.
1t is supposed that Mr.. Crittenden and
Mr.. Guthrie will be chosen Senators from
Kentucky by the Legislature. But Senator
Powell is now in Washington, and will take
ais seat. Senator Green, of Missouri, is
also in Washington, and will doubtless take
his seat. 1t is said, he denies being seces-
,ionist
The Union Hotel in Georgetown, D. G., is
low used for government hospital. .
A newspaper in the neighborhood of the
lyperborian region of Lake Superior, de-
firing to give an overwhelming idea Of the
abundance of from are existing there, express
les an apprehension that the earth might
ose it's balance, in case the iron were all re.
moved.
Col. John G. .Watmough died in Phila-
lelphla on Thursday last. As military
nan he gained distinction among the heroes
# the war of 1912. He was once member
f Congress.
A new style of swindling has been discover
d in New York. A well dressed man calls
Ipon undertakes who have buried wealthy
Individuals, pretends to be the afflicted fam
ly's agent, gets the bill for coffin, burial,
&C., presents it to the lawyer settling the
state, FORCES undertaker's receipt and de-
amps with the money. The net profits of
recent imposition Of this nature were
225.
Good judgment was shown by the robbers
the Winsted Bank, Conn.,, in the selec-
on of their plumber. All the gold and
liver coin, and all the bills on other banks
ere taken but only about one-fourth of the
ills of the Winsted bank, in order not to
epreciate their value.
A voter in Sierra county, CAL, was chal-
nged and about to swear his vote in, when
lie election judge angrly called out-"Take
your hat; haven't you got no respect for
e nor God Almighty"
In Mr.. RusselPs last letter to the London
ines he asserts that President Lincoln ard
S Cabinet are not indisposed to peaceful
of the quarrel between the North
I'd the South, and were, it was surmised,
the propriety OF asking for the
tervention of the European Powers.
The Confederate Congress is still in ses-
on in Richmond, Va. A message from
resident Davis was sent in on Thursday
st, having reference to the secession of
issouri. On Wednesday the Congress
'ssed law admitting Missouri into the
onfederacy.
The latest intelligence from tn Q Confede-
tie privateer Sumter is that on the 18th of
,tober she was anchored at an island some
irty miles from Curacao, and that her sea. {
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