The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-23

, the suHragan Archbishop OF warsaw to bt
transported to Siberia for ten years. FIT
: teen medical students of the University
Jews and Christians-were condemned to
., serve as common soldiers in the army.
The Confederate batteries on the Lower
Potomac continue firing on the vessels pass.
ing up and down the river. During Satur.
day and the day before the whole line OF
batteries kept up continuous fire upon the
propellers and schooners bound up and
down the river. .gs, ssI
Col. Mich'l Thompson, lawyer in WASH
lington, and native Of South Carolina, has
been arrested in Washington on charge Of
sending letters to persons in the Confederate
States. 4 .r.af ani a'a.asnta
The most exciting scene which has been
witnessed in the Tower of London for many
years took place on the late occasion Of the
packing and forwarding of the huge sup
plies of war material ordered for immediate
shipment ct the naval ports.
The official report of General Phelps of
his landing in ae Mississippi Sound, states
that on the 7th inst. (the latest date,
of his report,) the New London and De Soto
were engaging the Confederate vessels in
the direction Ut New Orleans.
A Captain Of vessel reports having seen
| q new comet, when at sea, on the 18th inst
The first service of the conference of the
Independent Methodist Churches in the
United States" was held in the ST. Johns
Methodist Church in New York Wednesday
and Thursday last.
A writer in the Maryland News says that
Gen. LOckwood's concliatory course on the
Eastern Shore Of Virginia, his punishment
of robbers, and the discipline he enforces,
his Address to his soldiers in Western Vir-
ginia, calls for "magnanimity and forbear-
ance towards the unarmed and defenceless."
The U. s government is strongly urged
| by the New York Herald, 60 make "a speedy
settlement Of the Trent affair. upon the
basis of England's reclsmations."
The Chicago Tribune in speaking of Gen.
Phelps Proclamation, says he is an unfortu-
nate victim to CAB, which is a prevailing
epidemic.
A letter from COL Coreoran, now as
Charleston. confined as hostage for the
safety Of the privatsersmen captured by the
{. S. vessels, is published, in which he ccm-
plains of the situation of himself and his
colleagues-though he writes without fear
Of any fate that may come to himself per-
soaally. The tone of his letter is courage.
Gus.
Gen. Rosecrans' address to his troops in
Western Virginia, upon the close of the
campaign, beatows upon them high praise
and his language is very bitter towards Gen.
Floyd and his troops.
The steamboat George Weems has been
again searched at Baltimore, and one of her
passengers, an Englishman named Wilson,
and another were arrested, morphine and
quinine having been found in their posses
sion, and some letters for the South.
Several of the French papers say that in
a quarrel between England and the United
States, France will be neutral Others af.
firm that England and France understand
each other, and will act for each others in
terest.
The trial Of Jefferds, in New York, for
the murder Of Matthews, is still going on.
The prisoner, it seems, has been in the
clutches of a paid detective" for months
past, who wormed all his secrets from him.
Mr. Anderson, the brother of Gen. Ander-
son, Of Sumter memory, is in New York
ecturing, lately escaped from Texas.
The body of Rooget de Lisle, the author
of the celebrated "Marseillaise, has been
recently exhumed near Paris, and placed
in stone coffin with suitable inscription.
The Troy Black Horse Cavalry of which
there has been much said in the ne wspapers.
has been ordered back from Washin gton to
Elmira, in New York