The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-15
GENERAL NEWS.

gnia, to the Congress of the Confederate
States viz: I'd DISTRICT. r. Chambliss;
3d-Jnhn Tyl'r; 4th-Roger A. Pryor; 9Th
II. S. Bocock; 6th--John Goode, Jr.; 7th
j. P. Holcombe; 8th-D. G. Dejarnette; 9Th
William Smith, llth-John B. Baldwin;
l2,h-Fayette McMulIen; 14th-A. g. Jen-
kins; l5th-Robert johnson; 16th-C. W.
Russell; in the 10th district, doubtful be-
tween Hunter and B teller; in the 18th, no
returns; in the 18th, the candidates are Gar
net and Critcher-no returns.
Gen. Mcclellan has discharged from the
service Of the United States. all the officers
on Gen. Fremont's staff selected from civil
life and all officers, with the exception of
regimental aud company officers appointed
to Office by Gen Fremont, and whose ap-
pointments have not been sanctioned by the
President.
The number of Confederate persons taken
by Gen. Nelson, near Prestonburg, KY, is
said to be more than 1000.
The trophies, guns, flags, &C., sent on
from Port Royal s. c.. have been received
at the Navy Department in Washington.
1t is said that Gen. johnson has collected
near Il 900 men at Winchester, to make an
attack on Gen. Kelley at Rsmney.
Gen. Sherman's command in South Caro-
lima is to be Immediately reinforced.
Great excitement prevails in Tennessee in
consequence of the recent burning Of the
bridges tnere. Zollicofer's safety is put in
jeopardy.
The expedition to Matthias Point found
there small masked battery and few rife
pits. They killed two Confederate pickets.
The Confederate troops are about nine miles
inland. At Boyd's Hole there is battery
of six guns, it is said.
Mr.. George Dent, of Maryland, said to bs
prominent secessionist, was captured by
the recent expedition to Matthias Point; and
much forage destroyed.
Robert ricketts,, clerk in the Pension Office,
has resigned.
Small vessels continue to pass uninjured
the Potomac batteries.
1t is eaid that Secretary Cameron endorsed
the recent speech of COL Cochrane, of New
York. to his regiment.
There are 1872 patients in the Military
Hospitals 10 Alexandria.
The Charleston Mercury thinks good
deal Of cotton is likely to fall into the hands
of the federal troops who have landed in
South Carolina.
None Of the federal feet at Port Royal
were severely injured during the recent bonn
bardment. When the Confederates retreated
from their batteries. they attempted to blow
up the works, but failed.
The government has chartered the steamer
Constitution, of the Pacific Mail Company,
to carry the main body Of General Buffers
troops from Boston to their destination.
A letter from ProvostJudge Freese, of
Alexandria, appears in the Newark Adver-
tiser, in which he says if the government viii
allow him to follow out his course, he will
undertake to collect one-third of the $780,
100000 due from the South without doing
injustice in q single instance.
:. A contract has beer made with Mr.. Mer-
, rick, one Of the Directors of the Camden
and Amboy Railroad, and a resident of
Camden, to put a powerful steam ferry-boat
r On the Potomac at Georgetown within four
!. days. 1t will take the place of the old-fash-
Toned rope ferry-boat.
The Southern papers have accounts of the
landing Of the Federal troops in the harbol
: Of Port Royal, the, capture of the Confede
|, rate batteries and the retreat Of the Confede
a rate troops, their loss in guns and arms, the
taking Of Beaufort. &c. The news causes
i, much excitement. r
q A Federal forcs has been sent to Accomat
t and Northampton counties, Va, to look after
p a collection of Confederate troops there. sad
to amount to l 500.
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