The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-29

out sufficient cause.
The Russian army in the Caucasus has
lately been defeated with great loss, by the
Cilcassians. .5..
The New York Herald says that "the Con
federates at their batteries on the Potomac
are capricious in their attentions to passing
vessels. Sometimes they will letseveral pass
without shot, but open fire on the last 1t
would appear from this that when they open
on an unarmed vessel it is merely for target
practice Last night and to-day several
schooners passed unmolested.
With all'the other crop disasters, the crop
of chestnuts has failed in France. In France
chestnuts take the place of potatoes with the
poorer classes, who consider them a most i'm
portant part of their diet.
Florence Nightingale, in letter which
has found its way into print, appears to en-
terrain little hope of her own recovery.
A letter from the Cincinnati Enquirer,
written from Washington, says that dissatis-
faction is expressed in the West at the
enormous patronage bestowed by the Gov
eminent on the Eastern States. "It is as
serted that while the people of the East are
reaping golden harvests, the Valley of the
is solitude-hundreds of steam
ers are rotting at the different landings,
while the large number of men. and the vast
amount of capital employed in inland trade
are idle"
The Pawners' Bank, in Boston, is doing
good business. Two-thirds of its loans are
under eleven dollars, and in thirty-sx out
Of every one hundred loans the whole inter-
est paid on the loan is less than twenty-one
cents.
Hon. William l. Yancey and Clement G.
Clay have been elected to the Confederate
Senate from the State Of Alabama.
Ex-senator Bragg Of North Carolina, hos
been appointed Attorney General of the
Confederate States, vice Mr.. Benjamin,
some time since, to the War De-
oartment ata
The Ironton Register states that Henry
Clay Pate, we'll known as the author of
work on John Browns doings in Kansas,
company of the Confederates
at the skirmlsh at Guyandotte.
The Wheeling Press states that last week
! party Of Contederates went to the resi-
lences of Robert and Isaac Carskadon and
a Mr.. Bailey, all Union men, in Hampshire
and arrested and took them off. =
Gen. Kelly arrested joshua
and James II. Johnston, Elijah Rhinehart
and Samuel Davis, and sent them to Wheel
ing, to be held as hostages for the return of
Messrs. Clarskadon and Bailey.
The Lincoln Cavalry have changed their
name, and are now known as the First New
York Cavalry. They are commanded by
Col. McReynoids, and number about 400
men.
Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, and
now the Confederate capital, is handsome
Nd hJurshlng CITY. Ii is situated On the
Gum berland river, two hundred miles from
It's mouth. Besides the numerous lines of
steam packets on the river, it has a network
IF railroad connections with the country
north and SOUTH east and west of it. A
very important line is in course of construc.
ton direct to the Mississippi river, at point
called Hickman. The population of Nash
vile is about30,000.
From careful investiga OF the condition
IF the U. S. army during the past month, the
Sanitary Commission have arrived at the
general facts: That the sickness
and mortality of the army in the West is
greater, proportionately, than in the East;
that the mortality is 50 far less than in the
Mexican war, is less than in the average of
European wars and that it is not much
greater than in civil life. 1t is expected,
however, that on the approach of cold wealth
err, unless very good arrangements are made
for winter quarters, both sickness aud NOR
tality will increase.
A very interesting trial, involving the
right of Victor Emanuel to take the naval
of Naples, has just been closed in
France The Kinu of Italv was defeated