The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-10


The following delegates to attend the Plan
ters Convention LIST district, VIM. Boul-
ware; I'd, Samuel Watts; Sd, James Lyons;
4thsA R. X, Meade; 5th. Max. Alexander,
Sr. 6ths ". 2. Goggin; 7th Thomas 81
18th, B, y. Barbopr; 9th, Gabriel
Jordan 10Th, Charles james Faulkner;
18th, A. H. H. Stuart; 18th, Gen. A. A.
Chapman; 18th, Fsyette McMullen; 18th,
Henry y. Fisher; 18th, Joseph johnson;
10th, Major j. H. Pendeton.
The Northern papers are making loud
complaints at the failure of the U. S. COP.
gress, thus far, to attend promptly to finan-
cial matters. They call for tax bill, for a
bankrupt law, &c. waeaf n1tt '5nsa's7h9 =
One hundred and ninety of the prisoners
recently released from Richmond, arrived at
Washington, yesterday. ,I s
The Treasury Note bill introduced into
the U. S. House of Representatives, on
Tuesday, by Mr.. Spalding, from the Com.
mittse of Ways and Means, authorizes the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue on the
credit Of the United States one hundred mil
lions of dollars Of them, bearing interest,
payable generally without specifying any
place or time Of payment, and of denomina.
tions not less than five dollars each, and
such notes and all other Treasury notes paw
able on demand and bearing interest, that
have been heretofore authorized to be issued,
shall be receivable for al debts and demands
due 70 the United States, and shall also be
lawful money and legal tender in pay ln,ent
of all debts, public and private. - 2'1''i'h
4 The My. journal of Commerce Of Wed.
nesday says $ "The stockmarket opened at
improved rates, but prices fell of toward
the close.l The decline was said 10 be owing
10 the rumor that Gen. Mcclellan was about
70 resign or to be superseded under the in-
auence Of the radical auti-slavsry sgitstors."
! The British man of.war which arrived at
Annapolis on Monday is the Inmortslite,
which has been cruising on the American
coast for several weeks. !, The postcaptain in
command. accompanied BY one or two off,
cess. were in Washington on Tuesday, on an
unofficial visit to the capital, ' ,ag,W adj
/, It is reported that the Confederate Colonel
Lemar. who escaped the search Of the Trent,
10 for the moment, the hero ofEParis.a 1T is
said that he has taken over, safely all tho
money furnished By tho Confederate govern
ment to it's commissioners. He is commits
cd By his government to buy ships and arms
wherever he can find them. a. s'i''' "
The cargo Of the vessel which recently
ran the blockade at Savannah, has been sold
ct that city, at high prices. Coffee at 66c.
per pound; sugars : 1lc.; letter paper 50
to 1850, per reana, &c. ''i' ''o'i s'i' '''3 g
y There was 10 cannonading on Christ
mas Eve, in Mobile bay, between The Con
fsderate gun boat Florida, and the Federal
cruiser New London. No damage done On
either side. stio3gla tsom sdj sseoq4pg
The English papers announce the death
Of Rev. William Cunningham. d. d., Prin-
Opal of the Free Church College, Edinburg
Many will remember his visit to the United
States. some eighteen years ago. baziipm9its
The line of telegraph now between the
Atlantic and the Pacific will be extended to
Portland, in Oregon, by the next summer. 20
Thence it will be prosecuted along the coast
to Silka, and by way of Behring straits, to
the mouth of the iAmoor. 81 Upon the whole
route there are but. forty miles Of marine
telegraph. Upon its completion all the tele-
graph lines in the world will be united. i
10 The Washington Star says:-The Ana
costa, in her bombardm ent Of Cockpit Point
battery. had only three shots fred at her in
return. OF these one struck the Yankee
and two fell harmless. 1t is thought the
batteries are reserving their strength for the
Pensacola, which took on board yesterday
another 8O-pounder rifed gun.8a gas nea
4 The steamship ~Australasian arrived at
Halifax on the 9th December, and sailed
again for St. John, N. B., where she arrived
last Friday, and from whence she sailed on
Tuesday for New York. Therefore the re-
port of her supposed loss is wholly errone
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