The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-10-29
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
GENERAL NEWS.


before that port. Lord Lyons now demands
of the Secretary of State that these vessels
be allowed to leave Charleston upmolested,
OF the ground that at the time Of their going
in there the blockade was not effective
What answer the Secretary will return we
do not know.
OF the Boston Boot and Shoe market the
Reporter says:-Trade continues as noticed
last week, with but little variation. There
are few or no buyers in the market, the bu-
slness at present being with the Provinces,
New England and from the West> The
market is fairly supplied with most kinds of
goods and these are generally held at firm
rates.
The Prince de Joinville goes daily to the
outposts, with reconnoiter ng parties, and is
almost as well known to. the. troops as their
own general.
They have evening auction sales of books
in New York, at which volumes published
to be sold for two dollars each, sell for two
cents.
Captain Poore, who was the commander
of the steamer Brooklyn, off Charleston har-
Dor at the time the. Sumter escaped from that
port, having asked a court of inquiry, his
request was granted, and the court is now in
session. s#a
Colonel Marshall, of the Seventh Maine.
died at Baltimore last Friday, of typhoid
fever. His regiment started for Washing
ton next morning. >
The Cambridge is at Old Popt from the
blockade off Beaufort The Albatross lost
two men drowned in fruitless attempt to
land Few men south OF Beaufort.
Assistant Secretary Fox, from Fortress
Monroe, reports that there are no guns what
ever in battery at Matthias Point. Those
, that were recently there were evidently field
pieces, in transitu.
The Secretary of War has directed the
promotion Of twenty sergeants for meritori
Gus services, to the positions Of second lieu
tenants Among them was VIM. Griffin.
sergeant, who served twenty years under
Gen. Lyon. gig
The President has appt inted a commission
consisting Of Hon. David Davis, ILL.,; Hon.
Joseph Holt. KY; and High Campbell, ST.
Louis, to investigate all claims against the
United States government in the Department
of the West prior to the appointment of Gen.
Fremont.
The recruiting Office at Bridgeport. Conn.
having been open month without enlisting
one recruit, has been closed, and the party
has 1returned to Governors Island, but will
leave again shortly for some other place.
John G. Rives, who has published the Con.
gressional Globe for many years, has paid
the family Of each soldier from his district
ten dollars for each month, and intends to
continue his gifts.
We hear that Joseph Segar. esq.,. has, been
elected to the United States Congress from
Hampton, Va.
During the past week lake freights have
advanced at Chicago ten cents per bushei on
grain, and railroad freights ten cents per
barrel on -four.
There was slight fall of snow at Troy,
New York, on the 23d inst.
The telegraphic cable across the Ohio river
It Evansville, Ind, has been broken. \
Rev. w. Bacon Stevens, of st. Andrews '.
hurch, has, been elected Assistant Bishop of
pennsylvania, by the Episcopal Convention
t Philadelphia.
The supply Of forage now in store in Wash f
ngton for government use is QUITE limited. a
he government is paying 500 per ton for s
ay. There has been no arrivals for several Il
ays. Cargoes are being landed at Locust n
POINT, Baltimore, and at Annapolis, to be Il
'Rwarded to Washington by railroad.
1t appears from official data that the State s
Pennsylvania has seventy thousand men S
, the field, and that thirty additional regi- ty
rents are organizing a,
Information from Camp Wildcat says that U
en-. Zollicoffer has retreated beyond Loudon,
I'd is supposed to be falling back to Cum
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