The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-13

SOlOler, IN w aSnln8GOn mas ooeu drrcoC
for drawing pistol upon citizen, and
,reatening to kill him.
Cheever, in his recent lecture in Washing.
On, is reported in the Washington Star as :
aging that the whole class of shareholders
q the South ought to be exterminated, and
Their such sentiments. He berated the mill
airy authorities for not advancing, aud said
hat if the President refuses to issue pro-
;lamation for emancipation Congress should
10 1t.
1t appears that three of the soldiers who
we're in the boat which was run down by the
tug on Wednesday night, in Annapolis har-
Dor, and who were supposed to be drowned
with four others, who were with them, are
alive, having managed to make their way to
shore some distance below the harbor.
The assertion that Gen. Fremont has been
called before the Joint Committee on the
Conduct of the War ia unfounded. He will
probably not be examined until the investi-
CATION of the battle of Bull Run is con-
cluded.
The Rev. DR.. Butler, lately of Washing.
ton, has accepted call to the Church of the
Advent in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Cheever delivered yesterday, in the
Capitol, at Washington, an abolition sermon,
81 eaking of the delay being occasioned "by
the acceptance in high places of such mullsh
conservatives as James and Jambus, who
poisoned the ear of Pharaoh"
The police in Washington have "come
down" upon the hackmen in Washington
make them conform to city regulations.
Anxiety is beginning to be expressed for
the safety Of the British steamer Rinaldo.
having on board the Confederate ambassa-
doris, Messrs: Mason and Slidell, and their
secretaries. The Boston Journal ays:-"lt
was understood by the pilot who accompa-
nied the Rinaldo from New York to Prov
incetown, that she was only to proceed to
Halifax with her passengers. but so much
time has now elapsed since she left. that, if
safe, she must have gone to England" There
she has probably gone.
The St. Louis Republican reviews General
Hunters course since he has taken command
in Kansas with much severity, charging him
with having sanctioned the outrages perpe.
trated by Col. Jennison in jackson and Cass
counties, where seventy farm houses, some o.
them the homes of Union men, have been de-
stroyed.
The U. s. State Department is in receip
of despatch from Count Rachberg touching
the seizure of Mason and Slidell. Austri'
declares the proceedings not in accordance
with international law. No other Oontinen
tai Power, except France, has yet spoken
but similar dispatches from Prussia and Rus
sis are looked for by an early steamer.
The Washington correspondent Of the N
Y. Herald says =" On Thursday night, be
tween eight and nine o'clock, while the army
of the Potomac was enveloped ina dense
fog, a mysterious occurrence took place. l
was ascertained that the halters of many o
the horses in the First New York cavalry re
, pimeut, in Gen. Franklin's division; of tn
Eighth Illinois cavalry regiment, in Genera
Sumner division, and of the batteries wer
embossed, the horses running all over tn
encampments. Upon examination it wa
found that the halrers had been severed witt
sharp knives, and that several individual
must have been engaged in the business
; The First New York cavalry had nearly tw
hundred horses turned loose, five or six o
which have been lost" Some persons Twin
t in the neighborhcod have been arrested.
It is said that dispatches have been r.
ceived at Washington confirming the repor
mentioned elsewhere, Of the total disbandin
Of Humphrey Marshall's Confederate trool
in Kentucky, upon the approach of the Fee
, eral troops.
!, Rumors prevail that the Federal trool
I have taken two steamers, proceeding up Il
: Cumberland river with munitions of wa
clothing and provisions for Gen. Zollicofer
, forces. The locality Of the seizure is n
/ stated. aaf i as
Gen. Meagher is now in the camp Of Il
Irish brigade, U. 8. A., near Washington.
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