The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-04
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
GENERAL NEW S.


there landed, and after marching thirteen
miles into the country, surprised camp Of
Confederate cavalry, killing thirty, capturing
twen.y prisoners, and taking fifty horses, &c.
without the loss of a man.
The government is collecting another large
force at Annapolis, two regiments having
already arrived there and others being on
the way. They reach Annapolis from the
North via Perryville, On the Susquehana,
and thence by steamb boats down the Bay.
General Charles T. Havelock, late of the
British army, and brother of the Gen. Have
lock whose name is associated with the East
Indian rebellion, arrived in the Arago at
that he intends Offering his services to tie
federal government in the present crisis.
From Fortress Monroe we learn that the
steam tug Ethan Allen, Of the great expedi-
ton, had returned and reported rough wealth
err on the coast. A party Of twenty released
Confederate prisoners had been sent to Nor
folk under flag Of truce.
By the retiring of Gen. Scott, Gen. Wool
becomes the senior Major General in the ar
my. Gen. Scott entered the army as a cap
tain Of light artillery May 3, 1903; General
Wool entered as captain in the 18th infantry
April a. 1872,
Twelve thousand four hundred tons of
provisions were shipped from New York for
the army at Washington during the months
Of August, September and October.
In Baltimore, the discount on Western
Virginia money is 4(y5 per cent. discount
and on Eastern Virginia, North Carolina,
and all other Southern banks 1920 per
cent.
One of the features Of the First Tennes-
Sc Regiment is in the person of a young lady
of but eighteen summers, of prepossessng
appearance named Sarah Taylor, of East
Tennessee who is the step daughter of Capt.
Dowden of the First Tennessee Regiment.
Concerning the naval expedition the Rich.
mond Examiner is puzzled to know what OBJ
ject it can possibly accomplish. 1t express
es the opinion that if it is designed to effect
any consider able conquest it will certainly
fail 1t thinks that it is destined for some
point on the coast of South Carolina or the
coast of Florida-both Of which con lectures
coincide with the revelations made in Mr..
Russell's letter to the London Times and the
commentary thereon in the New York
World.
The Cincinnati Commercial, in view OF
the immense loss to the government by the
premature death of horses - amounting tc
hundreds of thousands of dollars-suggests
that at the approaching session Of Congreas
provision should be made 70: creating new
grade of Office in the army--that of vetinary
surgeons.
zen. Hardee has been commissioned as a
Major General In the Confederate army.
The rumors of the death of General Sam
Houston, of Texas, received by the way of
Nashville, Tenu., come in rather an indefi-
mite shape. The advanced age and many
ntirmities of the Texan patriarch make such
an event probable.
The government boats are frequently fired
into by struggling scouts FROM the opposite
bank of the Kanawha river. but no loss of
lie has yet occurred. From the mountains
across New Creek the picket fires of the Con.
federates may be seen from headquarters,
aud there is some picket firing between the
advanced pickets Of General Schenck $ camp
and hose Of the enemy, from which two or
three deaths have occurred on The federal
side.
The Wheeling Intenigencer learns from,
Grafton that on Sunday night, at half past
eleven o'clock, twenty armed Confederates
attacked train of twelve wagons at Jack
sonvilie, Lewis county, Virginia, fifteen miles
from Weston. They fired at the drivers
Wonnding iour-One or two severely but
killed none. They captured the wagons and
all the horses but three. The federal troops
had started IN pursuit.
The storm on Friday night and Saturday
was very severe in Baltimore, and did con
siderable damage there.