The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-11

Col, Pegram, the Confederate commander
who was taken prisoner in Western Virginia
last summer, is in Washington on parole. He
is endeavoring to get himself exchanged for
some Federal prisoner Of equal rank now
held at Richmond.
The Louisville Journal says that the prin-
cipal outlets for traffic and communication
along the Ohio river, now held by the Con-
federates in Southern Kentucky, are between
Henderson and Smithland. Quite brisk
trade is kept up, and a plan was recently
laid to seize the U. s. government mail boat,
On the Missouri shore no boats are allowed
to land from Cape Girardeau to Cairo except
those in the service of the U. s. government
In the U. S. House of Representatives. yes-
terday, q communication was presented from
the Secretary of War in response to the
House resolution calling for information rel
alive to the Balls Bluff affair, stating that
an Investigation into the affair is in progress,
but that publication of the facts at the
present time would prove incompatible with
the public interest. ,
|, When the body of the late Prince Albert
was carried to the vault, where it is to re.
main, a Queens messenger brought from o..
borne to Windsor three little wreaths and o
bouquet.r The wreaths were simple chaplets
! OF moss and violets, wreathed by the three
elder Princesses-the bouquet of violets,
with white camelia in the centre, was sent
by the widowed Queen. Between the heral.
die insignia these last tributes from his
widow and orphan daughters were laid upon
the cofia--mementoes Of domestic love and
worth above all heraldry that ever was en-
blazoned.
The entire division of Gen. Hooker is still
guarding the position at Liverpool Point, on
the Potomac, opposite to which the Confede-
rates have erected large batteries, which
nightly open upon the various vessels. that
attempt to run the blockade. Probably the
most important point on the Potomac is
Budd's Ferry, where lie. stationed the New
York artillery, under charge of Lieut.. Scott.
Gen. D. e. Sickles left New York yester-
day to resume the command of his brigade
on the Lower Potomac. During his visit he
devoted his time to auditing the accounts Of
the creditors Of the Excelsior Brigade. The
sum total for recruiting and equipping this
force of Eve Thousand men was about $780,
600, without receiving any aid from the
Union Committee or Governor Morgan.
The Louisville Journal, the leading Union
paper in the West, comes out in strong 'con-
domination Of any new confscation laws by
the U. s. government" on the ground that
they would mot only be unjust, but every
way impolitic."
The Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis
had become divided in consequence of trou-
BILE existing between the Union and Seces-
sion members. The former retired yesterday
and formed new corporation, - Union
Chamber of Commerce. entirely independ-
emit of the old body.
The newspapers in the whole State Of Mis-
souri, have been. BY order of the provost mar
shal, placed under military inspection, sad
newspaper publishers not sending copy Of
each issue to the provost marshsl's head
quarters, at st. Louis, will render their jour-
nails liable to suppression. The city papers
of St. Louis do not como under the restric-
tive order.
It is reported from Galveston, Texas, thst
cotton has been transported through the ex
trsme Southern States to Brownsville, in
that State, and from thence shipped to MIST
amoras, in Mexico. 1t 10 further stated that
the said Mexican port has been made IN
English military and naval station.
! Mr.. Smithson, lately arrested in Washing
ton, has been carried to some fertilization
North, and it is said will b tried by Court
neutrality-suspicious. with prominent
men in the South, giving information, hav-
ing, it il said, been detected.
An imposter, representing himself to be
q Colonel-and very rich at that-hss been
detected in Washington. and had to escape
from the city, to prevent an arrest.
=, The Hutchinson Family are giving sboli.
ton concerts in Georgetown.