The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-26
LII LOCAL NEWS

Trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Raj
road now run to Green Springs, thirteen
7 miles east of Cumberland. The nassenoe,
? trains only 80 to Cumberland, but all fre;pb,
destined for Romney goes to Green Springs
Paymaster Patterson is on his way to nav
: the Federal troops in Western Virginia,
bearing with him the sum of $55O,OOO.
The steamship Nashville Was at Bermuda,
and was to sail for England on the 18th inst.
"A number of prisoners, from Maryland.
have been released from confinement at
Fortress Warren. Also, several prisoners
at Fortress Lafayette were DISCHARGED on
Monday.
BY the frs in Washington, on Monday.
which destroyed Petitioners bindery fity-
two thousand copies of the mechanical nor.
ton of the Patent Office report ordered BY
Congress for distribution. were DESTROYED.
Messrs. Mason and Sidell were placed in
Fortress Warren on Sunday. A dispatch in
the New York Herald says that thew are to
DC put In close confinement be treated
as the Contederates treat Col. Corcoran--
and that the government will hang all per-
sons convicted of "piracy," and will retail
late if any injury is done to Federal priso-
ners held at the South.
Inc particulars Of the capture of the brig
betsey Ames by Confederate priVateer.
and her safe arrival in Charleston harhor
are given by the Boston Traveller. It
charges that 'the statement proves conclu.
siveiy the neglect of the blockadine yes.
sells" and further int!mates that 1.-THE EASY
violations of the blockade may be by oollu-
'loh with the commanding officers"
General Wool refuses to recognize anv
onger the passes given to Southern women ,
y General Scott before he left Washington. t
General Woo! based his refusal on the ground q
nat General Scott was a private citizen of
he United States, and that passes written =
etore be resigned his official position we've IL
low vaueless.
ureat preparations were making at Boston
esterday to give Commander Wilkes q dis. -
nsulshed reception. Himself and his off, tie
efs are to be welcomed at the wharf bv a g
coy OF citizens with music, and escorted to =
ahUeii Hall, where they are to be formally =
AN examination Of some of the post Off
- IN st. A~ary's county, Maryland, has
i'"'l correspondence between persons in T
Irglnia and their friends in MARYLAND l.
'me arrests have been the consequences u m,
Mrs. Onderdonk, of Chicago, recently a Gil
ate prisoner in Washington, has been re- "
ased and sent to her home.
There are various rumors of recent sk;r-
shes on the Potomac river. but we Lno,, III
It as to their truth. ne,
"A rumor prevails in commercial circles '''
at the Secretary OF the Treasury will re. =
nmend In his report at the opening of Con.
'ss considerable increase of the rate If |
lies upon various articles, aud especalIv Ira
gar NJ
The Wheeling Intelligencer makes the
cement thas the troops of General Rev.
Us command are being divsoned for ac. c
service in other quarters of the country
adv'ces from Cheat Mountain are tina,
'fal OF the Ohio regiments are ordered A
are now on their way to Kentucky be
ers' 1t is reported, will take up the line of no
en- IN few days for General Kellev's ~
'quarters at Romney, and in connection ~
the force already there, commence a for =
l movement, in concert with an exnected
ement OF the grand army of the Potomac.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
controversy is nendinr :, c . II