The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-15

Corporal Jones, Pennsylvania Both Regi' !
ment, was killed on election day. at Noting
ham, in Maryland, by an orderly sergeant
for disobeying orders.
The Providence Journal thinks the war
has done more to develope the ingenuity and
cultivate the industry of Southcrners than
years Of peace.
The excavations which are being made tor
the canal for the isthmus of Suez have led
to the discovery at Glzeh Of a religious edl-
fee ~ vast as the Louvre, and which Is be-
lieved to have been constructed more than
five thousand years ago.
There are now seven first-class theatres in
successful operation in New York city.
The wags say there will be three great
losses on Fremont's staff caused by his re-
moval: lst-The adlatus. 2d-The Musi-
cal Director, Captain of Engineers, from the
St. Louis Theatrical Orderlies.) 3d-The
Photographic Secretary.
Trouble in the Luzerne (Pa.) regiment
continues-the dispute being about the colo
mel.
Mr.. Etberidge, Clerk Of the U. S. House
of Representatives, has been making several
removals and appointments in his Office.
The St. Louis Republican states that be-
fore .e removal of General Fremont nego-
tisy ms were opened between the command
ers Of the opposing armies in Missouri for
the paciscation Of the State by combining
hostilities to the armies in the field-no more
political arrests were to be made, and no cit
izen engaged in the peaceful prosecution OF
bis home labors to be molested.
/ The arrival of Gen. Fremont at St. Louis
appears to have been made the occasion OF
what is called IAN imposing and enthusiastic
demonstration" The lowest estimate Of the
number of persons that turned out to honor
him, places it at twenty thousand.
None of the troop transports connected
with the land forces of the naval expedition
were lost, though the Winfield Scott had to
sacrifice her whole cargo, and the Roanoke
a portion of her cargo, to save the lives OF
the regiments on board-the former will be
enabled again to put to sea.
A Memphis milliner advertises in one
the local papers that she lis now prepared
to present to the ladies Of Memphis and vi
cinity the Southern styles, gotten up express
" for Southern wear.
| It il not many years since the Shah Of
Persia asked Sir John Malcolm whether the
people of the New World, that were so much
talked about, lived on the outside Of the
earth or the inside. j..
The Louisville Journal has the following
appeal to the users of tobacco in Kentucky
"Buckner and his men have got possession
of q considerable portion Of the tohacco'
growing region of our State. II they are
permitted to retain it, our supply Of tobacco
will be short. Rouse up, oh ye tobacc'
chewers and smokers, every mothers son .
you, and avert such ii catastrophe by driving
the invaders away"
In western suburb of London, few per
sons have been admitted to witness a worl
of art in the coffin way. An artist.uphos
terer having furnished an opera-box mucl
to the satisfaction Of the lady who gave tn
Eorder, she further commissioned him to pro
vide her with ''fourteenth-century coffin.
A very superb article has been produced &C
cordiDgly.
Chicago papers Of Saturday describe tn
f reception in thai city Of COL Mulligan. Tn
+ pressure Of the crowd was so great on hi
arrival ut St. Louis that the brave Office
was constrained to say Lexington wa
8 bad enough, but he was never so besieged a
on that occasion" ..s fa.
r > General Nelson, who recently achieved tn
J. victory at Piketon, KY, is a native OF an
: was appointed from Kentucky, lieutenar
lin the navy, which commission he still holds
his military Command being permis-ive b
y the government. He was, during the pre-:
ent year, employed in the ordnance depar
ment at the Washington navy yard.
An aged b0atman, named Lynch, wa
= knocked down and rubbed of $50, Lear tn
q Centre market, Washington, last night. b
lparties unknown.