The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.

menus lOr indemnify TOT damages sustained
by the war, &c. The former at Richmond,
and the latter at Fairfax Court House.
Exchange on New York in Richmond was
selling at 6@64 per cent. premium; silver at
Is, and gold at 20 per cent; Confederate
states bonds ISIS, 1000 issue) 98@9S3
par, being Confederate money. No sale for
Orange and Alexandria Railroad 6 and 8
per cent. bonds.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, for Eastern Vir-
giuia, convened at Norfolk on the Goth inst
Several hundred passports were granted in
Richmond to attend it.
A Confederate Quartermaster advertises
for three hundred able. bodied negro slaves
to labor on military roads in the army of the
Potomac, Offering $40 per month and one
ration.
Com. Edward B. Boutwell,, u S. NJ, who
has for some time been in Jail in Richmond,
has been Internationally discharged.
The Richmond Christian Advocate has
suspended from inability to procure printing
paper.
Preference is given on all the Virginia
Railroads to military and other government
freight.
A soldier recently discharged from Gull
pepper Court House hospital, praises their
management, which he attributes as much
to the care of the ladies, who do the nursing
there, and provide the sick and wounded
with little comforts and luxuries out of their
own private means, as to the constant super
vision of the surgeon-general at that point,
DR.. Green, late of the U. S. Navy.
Prices of provisions in Richmond are rul-
ing high. There is no coffee in the market.
Flour went up one dollar per barrel one day
last week. r
Savannah is being surrounded with en-.
trenched works.
Large numbers of troops continue to ar
rive at Richmond, and were being. sent to
Manassas. The Confederates were daily
expecting an advance of the Grand Army.
Gen. Beauregard has authorized a denial
of the allegation that he ever applied for an
order to advance" and was refused; and
it is now added that be, Davis, and johnson,
all agree as to the plan of existing army
operations. The Richmond Examiner seems
inclined to criticise Beauregard's course.
The committee appointed by "a meeting of
the citizens of Ly ..chburg to take into con-
sideration the exorbtaut price Of salt, re-
port that their labors have closed, and that
salt will hereafter be sold to consumers by
Messrs. Mcdaniel & Irby at So SO per sack,
and that the supply, it is supposed, will be
ample. 4.8
At St. Louis the Congressional committee
for the investigation of contracts have APP
proved claims against this Department to
over $6,O00OOO Their labors will not be
concluded for some weeks. ets
The Washington Republican says: A day
OF two since an individual whose allegiance
to the Union is said to be VIGOROUSLY less
than doubtful, was caught in the act of spi-
king one Of the guns Of Grifin's battery ON
the other side of the river.
The anniversary of the evacuation of New
York by the British, was celebrated with
enthusiasm by the citizens of that city.
The Milwaukee Sentinel of the 18th, says:
"The shipments of wheat from that port,
for the "a hours ending P. NJ, yesterday,
reached the enormous aggregate of two hun
dred and fifty thousand bushels. This is the
largest amount we have ever shipped in one
day.
Sampson Jones ''agent" urges the farmers
of Virginia to make butter for the South,
now that the Northern supply is cut off
At Philadelphia, Nov. &C. St. Paul's Ro-
man Catholic church, corner of Tenth and
Christian streets, was destroyed by fire. On
ly the bare walls releft standing. The loss
is estimated at $780, 900, exclusive of the cost
of the new organ, which is $1,000 more.
Hon. r. j. Walker has addressed letter
to the editor of the National Republican, in
favor of Congress Immediately making an
for rho ral;of IF TralooI in