The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-08
GENERAL NEWS.

cd informs the editor. Oh entering fashion
able drinking saloon in me Confederate Cap |
ital, he saw this placard posted over the |
Drinks fifteen cents each. No bills
changed except at heavy discount. Gentle
mea will please refrain from eating lie ice
III their tumb}ers AFTER driahing.'"
From the Richmond Examiner, Of Nov. 4,
we learn that the work On the Merrimac is
still uncompleted, aad that there are great
plants Of slown6ss aud impertecuon III
the iron work as furnished by the toundres
there, and adds that it Is certainly high time
that the Merrimac was completed if there
had been proper regard tor river defences
The harbor at Beaufort or Port Royal is
the best in the Stare of South Carolina, and
is about equi,distant from Charleston and
Savannah. It is but little frequented, but
has good draught of water, and is large
enough to receive the entire expedition.
Major Doubleday, u s. A., of Fort Sum-
ter fame, is now an assistant of Brig. Gen.
Barry, Chief of Artillery Of the Army Of
the Potomac, and is in charge oil the artille-
ry (heavy) Of the Notifications on the Mary
land side of the river.
The steamer Mount Vernon will hereafter
be known as the Mount Washington, and
the Powhatan as the King Philip. there be-
ing already Mount Vernon and a Powhatan
among the steamers on the southern coast.
From a statement furnished the govern
ment by GOV. Dennison, it appears that Ohio
has now enlisted, in the field and camp, for
three years service, GO, $50 soldiers, to which
number q, 900 will be added on December l.
A second crop of tobacco is growing at
Enfield, Connecticut, crop that has shot
up from the oldsIalks, cut more than month
ago. 1t is fully foot and half high, and
will be cut early next week and sent to mar
ket.
Capt. R. F. Morley, general manager ct
government railroads, has been compelled,
on account of ill health, to ask leave of alb
sence for few days, during which time.
Thos. H. Garfield, assistant manager, will
act as general manager.
Within two or three days, telegraph COM
munication will be established with Gen.
Hooker, on the Lower Potomac. Thirty OF
the thirty-fve miles are already completed
The line will probably be- extended to PORT
Tobacco, where the lower Aotilla can be
reached.
It is apparent, from the military move.
ments and the activity displayed in Wash
ington, that battle is about to be fought
It would not surprise us if there should be
one in IA very few days.
Colonel Ashby, with his cavalry, was in
Martinsburg, November l. The Conteder
ates have been moving grain to Winchester
for the past week:
Romney has been deserted by all except
the females and one hundred negroes, leav
ing the federal forces in undisturbed posses
sion.
| Secretary Seward has written letter stat
ing in substance that jewish haoDle cahIo
act as chaplains in the United States Army
Over one hundred additional designations
are reported in the army.
Ia Ohio the hog crop is SO large that swine
are selling for three dollars per hundred
gross; and, what is better. the pork IS o
a superior quality.
| The gale Of Wednesday night was very
severe ia Baltimore, the wind having beer
higher than on the night Of the severe gale
a week ago. On the Chesapeake bay it wal
so severe that the steamer Georgiana, Capt
Pierson, was obliged to anchor and walt un
til the wind abated.
| The Northern papers continue to speculate
on the probable destination Of the naval e1
petition. The World announces ION the bes
authority" that the landing place OF the dee
will be in the vicinity Of Port Royal, South
Carolina.
Senator johnson, who is one OF the seiec'
committee Of the Senate to make investiRa
tions touching the cause Of the disasters &C
the federal arms, has not yet arrived. FOL