The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-24
GENERAL NEWS.

J""n'a regiment, banks's division, is to b,
hanged for the murder of Major Lewis o
the same regiment.
The railroad has been torn mn in Ker
lucky between Green River and Bowlip.
Green.
Anti-slavery petitions and anti.slaver,
bills continue to be presented in the U. S
Congress.
The U. S. Senate went early into execu
tive session yesterday.
den. Scotts friends say he has fastened
back to the United States to assist, if posi-.
oie' by information and advice, in presery.
ing peace between the United States and
Great Britain.
Cassius M. Clay is expected to resign bis
post as Minister to Russia.
The naval retiring law lately enacted nv
the U. 5. Congress, retires all officers over
sixty years of age.
1t is said that Indiana has $1,000 men in
the U. S. Army.
The Long Bridge over the Potomac is in
order again for travel. The new military
orldge across the Potomac at the Alexan-
drla Aqueduct will be finished in a week or
two
The ''serenading" of the "big men, con-
slnues almost nightly in Washington. The
army officers are laughing at much of it.
Great complaint is made by some of the
military in the u S. army, at the manner in
which the army horses are often treated.
both as to food and stabling.
The speed of the U. S. steam frieate Pen.
sacola, on her recent trial trip, it is said
was nine knots an hour.
The Chicago Times reads the New York
tribune severe rebuke fer the latter's ner.
slstent farming the slaves" cry. but can.
ciudes that if the Fremont Belgian guns are !:
put into the negroes hands, the evil will not
amount to much after all.
A Connecticut soldier writes homo rho. u
the commssary at Annapolis has give, the +
boys SO much mule meat that the ears of the
"hole regiment have grown three>and one. u
haif inches since their arrival at the Mary.
and capital.
Oea. Iom Thumb, during his recent So 10
ourn IN Canada West, was called upon one tt
lay to preside at wedding, in which the
BRIDE and bridegroom were only few inches d
aller than. himself. 10
Cotton is so dear in Providence, 4. l.. pl
says the journal, that some of the waggish
rockers quote the price per ounce. It has ye
'een selling at two.and-a-half cents an bi
unce. se
correspondent on board the U. S. shin fir,
avannah, blockading the mouth of the har. In
or of Savannah, sends the Boston Travelor fee
account of the arrival of the stone fleet 10.
that place, and the total loss of five Of So
he vessels by going ashore. ses
Business will ha oonoroyn the
rs place to morrow-at least among the
residents DO,
Theatres, Concerts, Balls, &C., are adver- sou
ed IN the Washington papers, as going on sou
that city. wel
Prices OF poultry, vegetables, butter. EGGS
:, keep up at "unconsciably" high rates ION
the Alexandria market. the
Upon the reception of the news of tba 90
ent affair in Europe, the funds declined on
cry Exchange, and at Vienna and 81. Pc. WI
sburg the excitement and the decline o"s'
re nearly as great as at Paris and London y
Mr.. Cummings formerly of Philadelpbia mn,
OF New York, implicated in some mat. ~
$ concerning the purchase of governments
'plies, and governments contracts is poino WI
Europe, lin consequence of i'll health. :" =,
Miss Harriet Lane has just sent to Mr. NOV
1midl' the artist who is charged with the ser;,
Grafton OF the Capitol, in Washington. a Pr
sndid present of jowelry, made by TiFa- r
q Co., of New York. 1t consists of =.
We buttons and breast-pin with sixty to -
nonds forming the letter B. :
III the trains leaving Washington are INN
Tded with passengers, many of whom cove
on their way northward to spend Christ. r
with their families
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