The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-23
GENERAL NEWS.

A letter in the N. Y. Herald gives
graphic account of the passage of the U. S.
frigate Pensacola down the Potomac. 1t
saye, that "the safety Of the Pensacola is due
to the precautions taken to conceal her hull,
TO the sound judgment and GOODNESS OF the
officers who guided her through the passage,
aud to the simple but nadtioal skill in which |
she was handled. A single CLEAN of light
or q puff from the steam pipes Of the tugs
would have dawn upon her beautiful hull
tho unerring she'll Of the enemy" The let |
ter adds 1.-THE firing of the batteries was
certainly magnificent. The last shell hred
was an eighty-pounder. rife, and came direct
astern, passing between the mi.en mast and
the topmast rigging, barely clearing the
main and fore 10 q direct line, and struck
the water just ships length ahead"
President Lincoln aud Gen. Mcclellan are
said to have had another interview on Satur-
day, and the N. Y. Herald says, "are both
satisfied with the condition Of military and
naval adairs"
The Richmond Examiner charges that
there have been recent frauds in the Co"ted'
rate Treasury Department. particularly IN
tho abstraction therefrom of whole sheets OF
signed Treasury Notes. 1t is, also. down
upon the spectators and extorsionista, and
tho license and favor extended towards them.
The Post Office Committee of the .. s.
House Of Representatives have under con-
alteration the introduction Of money order
system for the transmission through post
Office orders of sums under thirty dollars at
the average rate Of about one.half OF ore
>er ct. 1t is doubted whether this System
cau be made to work we'll in this country
It pays expenses and yields net revenue OF
about one hundred thousand dollars per
snnum in England, but it has failed to pay
in either Ireland or Canada.
Among the Brigadier Generals MT yet re-
ported to the U. S. Senate, but to whose con-
frmat;on objections have been raised, caus-
ing in some Instances sharp debate are
Messrs. Shields, Meagher, Frank Patterson,
Stoneman, Barry, Sickles, McKinstry, Cor
man and G. F. Smith. There is little doubt
that eneral Shields will be reported back
iavorably to the Senate by the Committee
It is also believed that the allegations
against General SLOVENIAN, Chief of Cavas.
~. and General Barry, Chief of Artillery Of
the army Of the Potomac, will be removed
and that they will be faverably reported up
on. General Stone was confirmed at the
July session. aa
According to the last accounts from Eu
rope, public opinion was settling down int
a conviction that the Trent affair would b.
psaceably settled-but exit aordinary exez
tiops we're making, in various quarters, pal
aculariy BY the Cotton manufacturers :
have the blockade Of the Southern port
opened. MIR. Ysncey has sent document
the British ministry, affirming that in thre
months the blockade was broken 5l9 time
The London Economist, organ, brokers, maj
utActurers', railroads, &C., is urgent tor e.
raising Of the bio, lade, and the Londo
Herald, DERBY organ) takes the sam
ground ~ 81 a
The question Of city passenger railroad
for Washington and Georgetown has BET
given more practical turn through COZ
munication sent to the Washington Cou
ellis by the mayor than it has heretofore hs
The mayor shows that the Baltimore VI
Ohio Railroad Company has the authori
for laying tracks on the streets In Washir
ton, 10 certain conditions controllable' by t
corporation. I5s3a
On the 18th instant fire occurred at r
kersburg. Va, which consumed seven
eight frame houses on Market and Kanaw
streets.
It is stated that Farnsworth's Illinois r.
ment. in Gen. Summers division, has
men sick with typhoid fever. It's the n
afflicted regiment in the army.
Mr.. Clark's bill' introduced in the U
Senate on Monday proposes that peri
owning real estate on either side OF the
temac, within the present or former line
the District of Columbia, and within
.hcn he