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

OH &c ell mi re- 10 the scd"'dIu. XVI Wis p"'-
,se be WAS relieved some weeks ago from
the command of the army. and Gen: John
ston Was appointed in his place.
The departure of Gen Scott for Europe on
Saturday appears to have been conducted
with as much privacy as the circumstances
would allow. He sailed on board the steam
err Arago for S 'u,hampton. accompanied by
his s,n.in law, Col. Scott and family, and
his valet.
Three prvaes Of the New York regiment
known as the Morgan Rifles" recently.
while on a drunken spree, whipped their
Colonel The men were tried in New York
last week. and on pleading guilty to the
charge were each fined 81 cents.
General Scutt, it is said, will spend the
winter in r me
Gen. Sickles brigade are deplr!ed a!oLg
the liver, fir, n, the her side of tie Eastern
Branch down nearly to Builds Ferry. where
they connect with Gen. Cowdin's brigade,
thus forming river guard Of fifty miles in
extent.
The exchange of prisoners is likely to be-
accon. plished N satisfactory conditi'ns. The
government Is how engaged in discussing the
! question.
! Colouel John c, chrane of New York, is to
| deliver all address before the men Of his re-
gment on the questions Of the day.
| The story that the Confederates have ereo
ted new battery on the Potomac, twelve
miles below Alexandria, is denied by the Of
fcers Of the Washington navy yard.
There was another brisk skirmish at Nor.
gantown, Kentucky, on Oct. 81. Colonel
MclIenry, in command at Owen sboro, learn
ed on that day that four or five hundred CON
federates had crossed the river with the i'll
tention of surprising him, ard at once ad
vanced The Contedelates were repulsc;,
with loss.
The Commodore Perry, one of the small
ferry BOATS heretofore repurted as separated
from the fleet has arrived at Old Point.
DeSauty, of Atlantic cable celebrity, is
chief electrician to the submarine telegraph,
now nearly com leted from Alexandria, in
Egypt, to Malta, south OF Sicily.
! D.. Hayes recently, at u public dinner
: given to him at Halifax, made speech, IN
g VIII ch he said it is his purpose to renew the
atteln pt next year to discover the North Pole,
y and expressed the Lelief that, with stearn'
r power, Il strong team of dogr, and "a we'll on
h gained sy stem Of advance depots. the North
/ Pole can lie reached l
e Cumberland Gap it situated about ten
miles from Cumberland Forge, in Tennessee,
and has been celebrated for century as a
- great depress on in the mountain ridge which
- trav erses the continent from New H"npshire
y to North Alabama. .
The case Of Nathaniel q rdon, master os
- the s ave blrk Erie, which has been on ras
. II for several days in the United States Circui'
o. Court of New York, terminated on Friday
n. with the conviction of the prisoner. $50
- The Lancaster Express states that quie q
commotion WIS caused IN Camp Cameron
-. lost week by the discovery of snakes about
PSI the tents 1t appears that the snakes during
-. the cold night attracted by the warmth"
= the camp fires, have crawled up To the"
'"' from the woods at night, and in day tim.
took refuge under the rough tent floors.
far =. considerable number of wild duck
= have been killed. near this place, on tn
ust river and creek, within the last two OF tire
days. Prices of wild fowl and game ar
-. high.
PSI The Light House on Jones' Point, is No.,
bly in charge of Richard Murray md Benjami
at Greenwool-Mr. Rowland lately appoinfe
n keeper having resigned.
The buildings at the Old Cotton Factor
q on Four Mile Run. have been taken dow,
AK There was a review near Washington, U
'rd- Saturday of Il large division of the Feder
. / Army. fr.#g s..# 81