The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-26
ALEXANDRIA. VA.
GENERAL NEWS.

more steam turtles" iron plated, are, it
Is said, to be built in New Orleans.
The Easton (Md.) Gazette ststes that the
Hon. H. Il. Goldsborough has been indicted
ny the grand jury of that county for giving
information to the United States troops of
the breaking up of the Chapel Union meet.
ing, which led to the arrest of the narties
Anthony Burns, the escaped slave, whose
case mas excited so much interest, has lately
oeen settled as pastor of the colored Baptist
church at st. Catharine's, Canada West
Inc bark ProvideHcia. and the brig Delta
prizes OF the blockading squadrons. arrived
at New York yesterday.
The furniture of the late Senator Douglas
drought about two-thirds of its cost. A pal
,efy containing about fifty pictures. with
ousts OF himself, Gen. Jackson and the En-.
press Josephine, has been preserved.
The New York World (Union) saws the
political drift of Colonel John Cocbrane,s
speech "imparts to it consequence 70
which, considered merely as a military
improperly or as an example Of had
'ls'e' 1t could not have aspired. It
PAGES the speaker in the attitude of lav;ns
oo"n the law to the Administration and The
Commander-in.C Chief"
The Irish citizens of New Yorl .uo :. J,
mold a meeting this week, for the purnose If
urging upon the government the necess,tu re
an exchange of prisoners.
:. There are now about seventh of6cars IF H. n
regular army on duty at the military posts 4
Ia New York Harbor, Governors Tsland q
bedloe's Island, Fort Lafayette and Fort +
Hamilton. =
The Dublin Freeman of the oh of NJ
'enoer reports that at meeting Of tobacco -,
manufacturers, held that day, it was agreed :, ~
10 ADVANCE the price Of manufactured tobac- -,
20 TWO pence per pound from that date. in
consequence of the great rise in the nrce of
the leaf GA
Four more Maryland secessonists. recent. "
y arrested IN St. Mary's county, Md, reach. ..s
"a W Washington under cavalry guard vss.
erday. THETA names are L. II. Jone Wn,
1. Abel, e. W. Sissell aud B. l.. Havdan w.
lhey were charged with being spies for the -
'onfederates in Virginia. They were taken d'fi
0 Fort McHenry. the
Inc news from Ireland in relation to the cha
estructon OF the potato crop, by rot. con fleS
nues to be of very gloomy character. and iar
ne niost serious apprehensions seem to be 1
ntertalned that the want and distress which on
'afked the period Of the famine of 1a47 nov
ill again ensue. Vir
Joshua r. Giddings, Consul General IF tbo c
fltish North American Provinces, has &C. 4th
the object of his visit to Wash. SON
gton, namely, the removal of the ;noonuo at
ences attending passports to British sub the
cts taking passage for Europe at Portland L.
aine. cloth
uen. Blenker, commanding division of O,
army in Virginia, it is said, has rendered Yves
- .es 'a''o,,. Deps
Persons well informed say the Cabinet fede,
nds four to three against freeing the slaves pick,
putting arms in their hands-Cameron claim
ase and Wells favoring it, and Seward. III
tes' Blair and Smith opposing it. tran
~, * tidue
The steamer Keystone State, for Milwau. Railr
: Is believed to have gone down with NIL IT.
board. She was last seen in the gale. an RIP,
emily disabled, and pieces of a wreck
'posed to belong to her, have since been "A
red nm IN Ioko u,,,o '' ''en to his
,. He 81
'"ouoano troops are Pres
'resent encamped at Annapolis, AWAITING snons
arrival OF transports to convey them to Tinco
tress Monroe, or some point on the South =,
coast. About seven hundred cavalry and D..
amber Of infantry have already been sent 0''' ,
ortress Monroe. oAauo
. enterE
} of j. N. P. Shannon was broken into '"
robbed by some twenty OF thirty men ':po'
ldiers' dress and armed with revolvers oo''s'
sabres. The windows and show cases 'on''''
completely demolished. Some S. 900 arc g.
of goods were carried off. The
veral drinking saloons in Kansas C;tv 'a'''he
been demolished bv order of tho pro '''0io d