The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-10-28
EXANDRIA, VA.
GENERAL NEWS.

before that port. Lord Lyons now demand
OF the Secretary of State that these vessel
be allowed to leave Charleston uumolested
OF the ground that at the time Of their goin
IN there the blockade was not effective.
What answer the Secretary will return W
do not know.
VI the Boston Boot and Shoe market tn
reporter says:-Trade continues as notices
last week, with but little variation. Their,
are few or no buyers in the market. the hu
slness at present being with the Provinces
New England and from the West, Tb
market Is fairly supplied with most kinds
goods ana these are generally held at firm
rates.
Ihe Prince de Joinvlle goes daily to the
ou'posts' with reconnoiter ng parties, and is
almost as well known to. the.troops as their
own general.
Ihey have evening auction sales of books
IN New York, at which volumes published
to be sold for two dollars each. sell for two
cents.
Captain Poore, who was the commander
OF the steamer Brooklyn, off Charleston har-
DOR at the time the Sumter escaped from that
port having asked a court of inquiry. his
request was granted, and the court is now in
session.
Colonel Marshall, Of the Seventh Maine
oied at Baltimore last Friday, of typhoid
fever. His regiment started for WASHING.
ton next morning.
The Cambridge is at Old Po'pt from the
Blockade OFT Beaufort The Albatross lost
two men drowned in fruitless attempt TO
land Few men south OF Beaufort.
Assistant Secretary Fox, from Fortress
Monroe, reports that there are no guns what
ever in battery at Matthias Point. Those
that were recently there were evidently field
pieces, in transitu.
Ihe Secretary of War has directed the
promotion of twenty sergeants for meritori
Gus services. to the positions of second lien.
tenants Among them was VIM. Griffin. a
sergeant, who served twenty years under
Gen. Lyon.
The President has app inted commission
consisting of Hon. David Davis, ILL.,; Hon {
Joseph Holt, Ky; and Hugh Campbell St. t
LOUIS, to investigate all claims against the |
= n'ted States government in the Department r
Df the West prior to the appointment of Gen !
Fremont.
The recruiting Office at Bridgeport, Conn. o
having been open month without enI;st;no /,
me recruit, has been closed, and the nartv a
las returned to Governors Island. but will IL
cave again shortly for some other place.
John Z. Rives, who has published the Con. h
resslonal Globe for many years, has paid b.
he family Of each soldier from his district &C
IN dollars for each month, and intends to k
ontinue his gifts. CT
We hear that Joseph Segar, ESQ.,, has been VI
ected to the United States Congress from
hampton, Va.
during the past week lake freights have H
ivanced at Chicago ten cents per bushei on r.,
ain, and railroad freights ten cents per trf
arfeI on nOur. u,
There was a slight fall of snow at Trov ter
ew York, on the 23d inst. A
The Geographic cable across the Ohio river chs
Evansville, Ind, has been broken. Coz
Rev. W. Bacon Stevens, of St. Andrews Jus
urch, has been elected Assistant Bisbon If wa
nnsylvania, by the Episcopal Convention c
Philadelphia. KEEL
The supply of forage now in store in Wash. feds
ton for government use is quite limited. and
government is paying 500 per ton for suce
7. There has been no arrivals for several thei
70. Cargoes are being landed at Locust ner:
Mt Baltimore, and at Annapolis to be loss
Sarded to Washington by railroad. A
appears from official data that the State g. -
pennsylvania has seventy thousand men Seao
he field, and that thirty additional regi- two
Its are organizing. 40
'formation from Camp Wildcat saws that Unto
: Aoll'coffer has retreated beyond Loudon,
Is supposed to be falling back to Cum fu
and. ties