The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-07
GENERAL NEWS.

Y. Times calls the place where female pris-
oners are detained in Washington, who are
charged with utilization with the Southern
Confederacy, the Hotel Greenhow." Mrs.
Greenhow is in close custody Mrs. Onder-
donk, of Louisiana, is along with Mrs. c.
Ms. Posey, of Charles county, Md, is also
prisoner, and she has for company her
daughter, a beautiful girl of fifteen, and her
| little son of five.
Mrs. Lincoln. wife of President Lincoln,
has gone on visit to New York.
The State election in Massachusetts has
resulted in the success of the Republican
ticket. Gov. Andrews is reelected Caleb
Cushing is elected to the Legislature.
Are not all the reports about the captain
of the privateer Sumter being in Liverpool
mere stories?
Adjutant General Thomas made speech
in New York on Monday evening, when
Secretary Cameron was serenaded, in which
he said that the United States had such an
army as was never marshalled before since
the foundation of the world, aud that it
would pour over the whole Southern country
like the sea-" Secretary Cameron, too, pre-
dicted the complete triumph Of the United
States.
The storm of Friday last was very severe
at Hatteras Inlet. The tide here made such
inroads that it was thought the Notifications
would become untenable. The steamer
Spauldng attempted to land clothing and
stores for the troops, but they were washed
away and lost, and she brought back to Old
Point most of the cargo. The loss of the
clothing will be much felt by the Indiana re-
giment.
On Monday FIVE small Confederate steam
ers came near Hatteras Inlet and fired at
the troops there, but soon retired. Two coal
schooners, with fuel, made the inlet during
the gale, in distress, bpr,eould not be reached
by the vessels inside.
The New York election has resulted in the
success Of the Peoples Union ticket by a
very large majority. The Legislature is said
to he " unanimous in support of the federal
GOVERN ent."
At the election in B Baltimore, Gen. Dix is
sued Instructions to the judges to allow no
man to vote who took part Or bore arms in
the April riot, or who refused, when chal-
ernment.
Parker III. French has been arrested at
Branford, Connecticut, by government de-
tectves. REASONABLE documents were found
upon hs person, it is said.
A new Confederate battery is reported at
Aqua Greek. The government steamer
Stepping Stone ran the blockade on Tuesday
night. 1t is again reported that Matthias
Point has been, or is about to be, fortified by
the Confederates.
A number of contrabands," principally
from about Cedar Point, and some from the
Rappahannock, have been brought up to
Washington in the steamer Stepping Stone.
j. O. Berry and Redmond Burke, Confed-
crate prisoners in Washington, have both es-
capped from the Capitol Hill prison.
The Washington Star says that horse
stealing is fiourishing just now about the city
of Washington.
There are 1914 prisoners at present in the
Washington city Jail.
One account says that it was the measles,
not the smallpox, that broke out on the Har-
riet Lane. Another that it was the small
pox carried on board by 'contrabands" from
Virginia.
A government agent recently purchased
in Cincinnati, from one of those contractors
whose patriotism always prompts them to
serve their country, one hundred tons of hay.
1t was taken to Petersburg, Va, and, on
being weighed, was found twenty tons short
Swindle, one hundred and ninety dollars.
There are parties of jayhawkers in differ
emit parts of Western Virginia whose prin-
cipal business just now seems to be to steal
horses.