The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-10-26
Miscellaneous News,

ahonS oho ia1o ieohlo Irou capan, IL IS
mentioned that servant of the embassy has
opened shop down in the Swamp" in the
vicinity of the ''Grand Kankaro," where he
sells roasted peas, beans, &C., and where he
exhibits the daguerreotype likenesses of
young ladies whom he saw in America. their
cards, signatures, &c. These licensees, it
is said, he obtained from Tommy, who brought
home great numbers of them. 1t would cause
certain young ladies Of Washington, Balti-
more Philadelphia and New York to blush
to see their cards and likenesses on exhibi-
ton at such place.
The beauties of spiritualism are shown in
the case of two young married men of the
town of Searsburg, VT, who left for Cali
fornia some years since and returned home
recently to find their wives REMARKED, who
having heard nothing from them since their
departure, applied to young lady spiritual.
ist, who was very exact in describing to
them the death and burial of their husbands,
the date of the funeral and the disease of
which they died. Their wives supposiog this
to be reliable, remarked, and there was q
funny time when the long absent husbands
returned.
The Prince Of Schwsrsburg Rud olstadt
will, in November next, abdicate his soyer.
eighty, for the purpose Of marrying a young
lady from the ranks Of the bourgeo;sie, =
Mademoiselle Schulz Of Konigsberg, who,
with her mother, has resided for several
years at Rudolstadt and other places Of sum-
mer resort in Thuringia. His Royal High
ness il sixty.eight years Of age; the lady.
twenty-five. -
M. Reuter-, the telegraphic monopolist of
Europe, has come under the severe censure
of q leading review, for supposed political
prejudices which are permitted to issue from
his Office. kilograms from America al
ways appear to have been drawn up by some
one with Southern sympathie.." "The tel
egraph is undoubtedly friend Of, the Sc
cessionists."
English admirers of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
are about to present him with beautiful
marble medallion of himself.
The Secretary Of the Millers' and Manu-.
facturers' Insurance Company of st. Louis.
is defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
The new Exhibition building in England
is described by reviewer as ..blank. vast,
solid, endless, featureless block of piled up
bricks"
The National Horse Show at Springfield,
Massachusetts, opens on Tuesday next.
The Kentucky tobacco crop this year, now ,
nearly all housed, is small, but the product
is better than usual.
The Pensacola Times in noticing the re-
cent engagement at Santa Rosa Island.
says i've must notice the aid of the Sis.
ters OF Charity at the Navy Yard. Their
labors have been incessant since the wound
ed arrived. Neither sleep nor rest has caused
them to forsake the bedside of the sick sol.
der. Such examples are worthy of emula-
t'on' and show the deep interest which the
ladies of the South feel for the sufferers.
The New York Herald comments ON the
arrival in this country, aud their STAY in the
South, of two members of the British Par.
Lament, and expresses the opinion that "thev !
came to America solely for political purposes |
and to make themselves as we'll acquainted
a. possible with the position of the coufede-
racy under JEFF. Davis, with view to it's re.
cognition by Great Britain"
The last accounts by telegraph from the
neighborhood Of Edwards Ferry, state that
the Federal pickets have crossed the river
and report that the Confederates were anna
rently mounting guns upon fort bevond
the Ferry, and from the camp fires visible
are supposed to have considerable force in
the vicinity.
The Democratic candidates on the New
York State ticket have issued proclamation
setting forth that they are in favor Of vic-
)rOuSlV SUSTAINING tho oovoro..