The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-16
GENERAL NEWS.

On Monday lest Col. Hays, Of the Sixty
bhird Pennsylvania regiment. captured six
citizens of Virginia. They were taken in
the vicinity Of Pohick creek. Their names
are Henry Simpson, John Crawford, Mat
thew plaskett. Richard Bayless. Bushrod
Bayless and Thomas Craig, ~
Mr.. Garlic, of va. has Sffered in the U.
S. Senate, resolution, which was laid over,
that the Committee on Finance consider the
sxpediency Of providing by direct taxation
on all kinds Of property-for revenue of
two hundred millions Of dollars. and issuing
bonds for that amount; also for the issuing
bonds TO the amount of eight hundred mil
lions Of dollars, and to establish a fiscal
agency for New York, Sc. sae
The Boston Post says that Mr.. Sumner
finds it to be very difficult to be satisfied with
the officers who are fighting for the cause
be talks about. He visited Col. Cowdin's
camp and impertinently urged that officer to
resign. He was so displeased with Gen.
Halleck that be could hardly command pa
thence to speak to him, and General Stone he
cannot endure at all"
A Washington letter in the Boston Post
says that Massachusetts Colonel was at
tackled on Thursday night by fit Of imagi-
nary rattlesnakes in his boots and had his
sword taken from him on Friday"
MIR. Dawes, who made the vigorous attack
upon army expenditures, in the U. S. House
of Representatives on Monday, is Repub-
lican member from Massachusetts. His
speech, it is said, attracts much attention.
Among the subjects submitted for the con.
sideration Of the Maryland Senate is reso-l
luton offered by Mr.. Fiery, (Union,) re-
questing the President Of the U. s. to pro.
pose to the President of the G. S. an armis-
tice, with the view of effecting an amicable
adjustment of our national difficulties upon
the basis Of an entire restoI alton Of the
Union.
Col. Thomas Lloyd. well known as hav-
ing been engaged in the hotel business in
Washington and Baltimore, died in the lat
tor city on Monday, in the I'D year Of his
age. Col. Lloyd was naval officer Of the
pvrt of Baltimore during The administration
Of President Tyler. He had numerous
friends aud acquaintances in this city. s s.
IaIhe us. Senate, yesterday, q bill was
reported to ''confscate the property and free
the slaves of rebels."a The case Of the con-
tested senatorial seat from Kansas having
been resumed, long debate ensued, with
out coming tv q vote. In the House, the
principal feature Of the days proceedings
as the discussion of resolution from the
committee on ways and means declaring
that Congress should impose tax, which
with the tariff on imports, shall yield an an
nual revenue Of $3.50. 900, 900. Itwas final
~ adopted-yeas 1873, nays S. A bill was
also passed to prevent the coplie trade in
American vessels. z BIt 81 .#a's5
Contractors and spectators have for years
swindled the government out of immense
sums. The New York Tribune (rep.) de-
olares that the nation, even under its own
administration of ten months service, has
been plundered at least one hundred mil
lions 1t calls loudly for reform in Con-
gress, and points out where reform can- be
made there and elsewhere. l6af
The Northern press are alarmed at the
prospect Of large issue of paper currency,
and the proposition to make treasury notes
. legal tender the same as gold and silver.
A Louisville dispatch states the Confederate
General johnson has called upon the provi-
sional. government Of kentucky for thirty
thousand troops. ?. fbs2 ff
Adyices to the LIST Of January from Vera
Cruz has been received. The Spanish army
were in undisputed possession of the city
and neighboring country. Gen. Gasset had
cleared the roads Of the bands Of marau-
ders that infested them, and communication
With the country was established. The peo-
pie appeared to be perfectly satisfied with
rule of the Spaniards. 4S
Some of the mills az Manchester, n. H.,
have stopped for want Of cotton, and others
cannot run much longer.