The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-20
GENERAL NEWS.

ed in Richmond paper.
Resolutions bottomed upon Van Wyck'
Investigation, have been introduced by tina
Committee, in the U. S. House of Represen
tatives.
Gen. Scott is now, with his wife, in Paris
where Mrs Scott has resided for some years
past.
Selby Parker. accidentally fell down the
steps of his lodgings in Washington, yes err
day. and broke his neck.
The Federal troops still occupy Beaufort
5. o., and are collecting all the cotton tina,
they can, in that neighborhood
Mr.. Faulkner has been sent down to Rich.
mond' under a flag of truce. He expects to
be exchanged for Mr.. Ely
The famous Oaravajal has made an attack
upon the city OF Matamoras. where "a con-
siderable fight took place."
The U. S. government has received des-
patches from Mr.. Adams, minister to Fog.
land, weighing the Washington Star says,
over Que nunOred pounds.
Financial affairs are 50 unsettled by the
late increased complications of the national
difficulties that capitalists are more than
ever disposed 10 hold off and await develop.
ments. This state of things is evidenced in
none of the legitimate channels of business
80 strongly as in the stock market, where
capital is the base of operations.
The St. Louis Republican states that
among the twelve Confederate prisoners re-.
Gently brought in from North Missouri is
Mr.. John K. Lincoln. of Clinton county.
lie is highly respectable citizen of that
county, and cousin of President Lincoln.
Garrett Voorhees,, an Englishman, who
came to this country in 1871, and settled at
Fort Washington. now the city Of Cincinnati.
died near that city on Saturday last.
Gen. }. h. Lane, If Kansas. has been ten.
dered the position of Brig. Gen. by the
President. He will accept it as soon as he 4
can lay before tho Judiciary Committee of !
the Senate additional evidence vindicatine j
his right to seat in that body now contes.
ted. His command will embrace all the
troops in Kansas.
Col. Halstead, of New Jersey, was tried
'o-day before the Court Martial, on the ]
'harge Of malfeasance, which he denied. ?
In thirty minutes after the Eurona t,
ouched at Halifax the British sloop-of-war d
Rlhaldo got up steam and started off with Il
dispatches, most probably for the Admiral b
IT the North American squadron at Havana. a
The story told by the purser of the Trent n
egarding the frantic conduct of Miss Slidell. G.
md the undignitied exit Of her father .
trough the cabin window, is unqualifed)v y
ase, as also is the statement, current in ol
ome Of the English papers, that one of the OF
Ulcers was slapped in the face by the hand
a female secessionist. p,
I'll said that the British government. in in
e case OF Messrs. Slidell and Mason. de. Isl
ands reparation 10 general terms, but not sa
STA
One account says that Mr. Faulkner does pr
It expect to be exchanged for MIR. Ev. PEI
e does not think the Southern Contederacv Pr
IL consent to it. lie has agreed upon
fferent exchange with Secretary Seward. 90,
A letter from mercantile firm in Liver. Pr
OF, which has made large shipment of da
ms, states: that AL the arms have been C.
ken from the vessels. Sixty thousand that
IRE to be shipped have been retained. No
ore will be permitted to be shipped" M Nv
1t is reported that Lieutenant and fonr -:
'vates Of the 9Th Michigan regiment were 70.
Wednesday night, near Accosink. while d.,
picket duty. and that four regiments and hot
e battery have been ordered to that omar. wv
sud
A strange fatality seems to prevail among Wa,
Protestant Episcopal Clergy of Mary.
ID. Within the past week, death has en-.
ed the Altar, and removed three of irs '
ghtest lights to another world. Two W.
re stricken down whilst clothed in tho "o0
'es of their Office, and the third had hut " =.
t removed his robes, when he was sum- :,
ned to his last account. The third death :.
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