The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-20
PRINTED AT THE
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE OFFICE.

The New YORK Herald, In It's usual Jeer-
ing way, says, that though the Van Wyck
investigating Committee have discovered
that ''the U. S. government in the Cases ex-
amined, has been t1eeced out of TWO or three
hundred thou sand dollars, that is a mere flea
bite. when il 81 considered what the expen-
ditures have been" and the amount of
money handled; besides which, it saucly
says all this is nothing to be compared with
'iha pickincs and stealings" under previous !
administrations. While Van Buren was 10
power it aids, the fraud, ''did not amount
t, less than ten m HONS of dollars, Of which
Swartwont ald Bill Prce pocketed million
and "a half Under Buchanan the country
was bbed If from fifteen to twenty mill
lions, # which a large proportion went into
tha pockets of the members of his Cabinet"
The resolutions Of the n ew York Bankers
against SUI pension Is vaclou-ly received.
In the as New York Herald money arri-
cia. jr is sad: The resolutions passed at the
bank meeting yeste'day, failed To improve
matters to-l lay. Public confidence seemed
even weaker than yesterday; iorelgn ex.
oh snge r. sc per CT, and large amounts
could not be obtained even at the advance.
The money market, winch has been gradual
ly growing easier for some months, took Il
suddec turn the other way, and call loans
could not be obtained at seven per cent. 1t
seems that the banks have called in all their
al J.ho
sent lmbroglio is brought to a close. The
news from England had, Of course, some
thing to do with the increased dlstrust But
it is due to truth to say that many of the
BANKERS themselves make no secret of their
dissatisfaction at the passage of the resolu-
tions, and recall, with modification, the pas
sage Of very similar solutions just before
the suspension 10 1857"
Sacramento is now mostly out of water
Influential parties Of that city have advoca-
ted that the money already appropriated to
pay the interest on the city debt be used for
meeting the expenses of building an en-
bankmaDt to prevent another inuLdation.-
The proposition was defeated through the
action of public meeting, when the leading
citizens Subscribed $4,000 The January
interest on the Sacramento bonds will be
paid. The people of San Francisco will
send $4,000 towards relieving the Sacra-
mento sufferers
The United States national debt will
amount to about Thousand millions on the
lst July, 1868. This will be equivalent to
two thousand millions of British funded
debt, inasmuch as the rate of interest allow
: ed is double that of the British debt
: Late dispatches from Port Royal have
nothing whatever to warrant the rumor that
the Contederates have evacuated Pulaski.
There was a review of the United State.
a troops at ANNAPOLIS, yesterday, hy the GOV
: ernor and Legislature of Maryland
The Washington corresponding If the N
Y. Tribune says chat the Administration i
- still uncommitted on the Trent business
the subject was not mentioned in the Press
dents Message: and the language of Secre
RETRY Welles, in bis report ADD his letter t.
y Capt Wilkes, are rather professional an
'e personal than diplomatic, and in no degre
x bind tie State Department"
J.mes X. McLanahan, of Chambersbure
Pa, former member Of Congress from thi
State, died suddenly in New York on MOI
day night last.
George Nokes, a painter, employed at tt
:. Washington Navy Yard, was shot in IL
20 thigh on Wednesday night, by John
Shun a carpenter, also engaged in the var
Shinn was taken to the station house to u
70 dergo an examination. The wounded mi
u is not considered as dangerously hurt.
-. A frightful catastrophe is reported to ha
occurred near Sarahsvile Ohio few nigh
- since. The dwelling house of Gill Moo
took Gre in the night and burned to Il
" ground, with Mrs. Moore and four chldr,
inside in bed asleep.