The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-02
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
= GENERAL NEWS.

The Boston Transcript says that Lieut..
Fairfax, when be arrested Messrs. Slidell
and Mason, was grossly insulted by the fe-
males Of Mr.. SlidelPs family.
A Mr.. Alfred Chamberlain, of Newport,
r. l., has recently succeeded, after years of
patient study and experiment, in perfecting
aplan for growing fruits and flowers in
small wire baskets, filed with moss, and has
obtained a patent for it.
There is much complaint in some of the
Pennsylvania regiments in regard to the Col
onels demanding one-half of the profits of
the Suffers. This matter is not confined to
the Pennsylvania regiments alone. The
poor volunteers are the sufferers.
The Hagerstown Mail learns that body
of Confederate troops are in the neighbor.
hood of Sir Johns Run, five miles west of
Hancock; that the waterstation and plat
form at that point on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad have been burned; that firing
has taken place between them and Federal
troops on this side the river, and that rein.
fOrcements have been sent to the latter from
Williamsport.
Senator Wilson has determined to intro
duce bill Immediately on the opening of
Congress to abolish the Office of Sutler in the
army. He has been impelled to this by rea.
son of the extortions and abuses practised
upon the soldiers gg
The Wheeling Press of Thursday last
says:-"As confirming what we published
on Tuesday morning relative to the reopen
ing of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. we
would state that Mr.. Perkins, the master
machinist, has ordered all the machinery On
this road to Cumberland put in good order.
On the 18th ult., three schooners were
sunk in the channel at Ocracoke, no vessels
have gone in or out since that time.
The London Times attributes the mac
tivity in the demand for cotton in India to
lingering hesitation as to the American sup
ply, but says that other circumstances have
also operated forcibly to such result. The
real cause of the present stagnation is not
scarcity of cotton, but the absence Of de-
mand for calico.
Capt. Bell, of Col. Averilps Sd Pennsyl-
vania will be made the subject of an imme-
date court of inquiry, we take it for gran
ted, on account of permitting his scouting
command to fall into an ambuscade last
week, by which he lost % men.
1000 leaves of bread were distributed to
the poor on Thanksgiving day, by the Union
Central Committee of Baltimore.
The latest invention of which we have
heard is chewing machine-in other words,
a little mill intended for toothless people and
those who cannot properly masticate their
food. Such an article is advertised in the
London Lancet 1t is fastened to the dinner
table, goes with a crank, and is said to mince
the food very nicely.
A telegram from Louisville, Nov. 28tb'
states that the delegates assembled in con.
vention at Russellville, had passed an Ordi-
nance of Secession. Brigadier-General, Geo.
B. Crittenden, of the Confederate army, a
son of Senator Crittenden, has been promo ,
ted to Major-G eneralship.
DR.. w. j. Alexander, Assistant Surgeon
to Col. Bayard's lst Pennsylvania Cavalry ,
regiment, who was wounded at Dranesville,
on Wednesday, died in Washington, on
Friday.
Savannah is nearly depopulated, and the
trains 60 loaded with household and every
description of goods, including negroes.
A communication from Alexandria. sign :.
"One of the Men," is published in the
Washington Star, complaining that the pay
for carpenters work for the United States s
has been reduced, and asking, "ars loyal
men here to be deprived Of living because
they are true to the Union ?"
Gen. j. w. Webb, the U. S. Minister to
Brazil, has notified all concerned, that if any
American vessel arrived in Brazil, shall
hoist the Confederate flag, he will remove I
he master and send the vessel home. {
Among the prisoners at Fortress Warren t
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