The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-23
GENERAL NEW 5.

GENERAL NEWS.
The Richmond Enquirer says, that 1.-The
amount of voluntary contributions OF cloth
ing, &C., for the Confederate army, registers
ed at the passport Office between the 3D. of
October and the 10th of November, is over
one million of dollars, reaching the sum OF
$l,0O2,537. No account account was made
of parcels of less than 500 in value, nor of
contributions that did not pass through Rich
mond to the army of the Potomac, Western
Virginia, or the Peninsula. Contributions
to the army at Norfolk, in Tennessee, in
Kentucky, in Missouri and in Arkansas,
have not been registered, and would proba-
bly, within the period referred to, amount to
half million more"
The friends and opponents OF Gen Beau
regard are carrying on a newspaper contro'
versy at Richmond. Beauregard publishes
card in the Wing requesting his friends
not to notice the attacks of his enemies, dis.
claiming any ambitious aspirations, aad an
nouncing his intention to retire to private
life at the end of the war. The trouble arose
| from certain general orders and reports Of
Beauregard, which implied reflections upon
the defensive policy of the Confederate gov
eminent.
The Memphis Appeal says, A journey
from Richmond to Memphis now occupies
four days, owing to the destruction OF the
bridges il East Tennessee. Two of these
bridges were costly, and cannot be speedily
rebuilt The railroad managers are using
every effort to keep up the communication
between them by ferries and temporary
/ bridges"
The United States steamer San Jacinto is
at Newport where she has put in on accou mt
of breezy weather and heavy cross sea.
The department has established post
Office at Port Royal, to be called by that
name, and has sent out blank commission
to General Sherman, to be filled with the
name of suitable person as p'stmas er who
will give the required bond
The repairs ON the Oh asapeake and Oaio
Canal are expected to be completed in few
days. There is no coal now arriving. Cum.
berland lump, in Washington and ,ltm re,
sells at present at 81, retail
The New York correspondent Of the Phi.
ladeiphia Ledger writes on Wednesday,
"Wall street is on the rampant again to-day,
! and the STOCK market, under a fresh outbreak
Of vague and foolish presentment lit is
; nothing more) of a war with England, Is
down from one to one and a half rer cent. on
, the prices Of yesterday"
The Governor of Maryland has commits
stoned Hon. Richard l.. Bowie as Chief Jus
tice of the Court of Appeals of Maryiand
Judge Bowie was chosen at the late election
as an Associate Judge, and is the successor
of Judge Tuck
The steamer Persia sailed from New York
on Wednesday for Liverpool, with ninety
passengers, among whom are Bishop Melt
, vaine and two daughters, and Mr.. Bod'sco
of Washington city.
The Oxford miss in,clligepcer s'ys: II
is highly probable that the Legislature vii
in few days pass law touching the heart
less spectators in salt throughout tina
State"
On Wednesday last, says letter in thu
Norfolk Day Book, two parties OF troops me
Oh the peninsula, and mistook each other tol
enemies. Brisk firing at once commenced
aad a number on each side were killed anO
wounded ere the mistake was found out
Among the killed was Major Bailey Of Mo.
bile, whose body has been taken to hit
friends.
The bark Theresa reports speaking, on
on the 18th inst, the schooner Winthrop,
from Wiimingt N. c., for Nassau, having
run the blockade with another schooner, four
days previously.