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

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Japes.
According to the letters 10 the Northern
papers, the Confederate batteries on the Po-
,omac, several times this week, have fired ct
the U. s. steam boats and steamtugs 40 they
went by, or came within range. No DAM
age is reported. -,s.. ~ @sst'v&Sa
Gen. Pillow, it is said. will not again re-
sumo any command in the. Confederate ar
my. His farewell address to his troops is
as an affecting scene.
As number of people were crowding on
the platform of ferry bridge at Brooklyn,
a day or two ago, waiting for the ferry boat.
the chains broke, and four men were killed
and many wounded. "a q
Col. Leo, of Massachusetts, prisoner of
war at Richmond, writes home that he was
never in better health while his fellow pri-
soners were well. Ex-Minister Faulkner
had been very kind to them, and an amelio-
ration of their condition Was anticipated.
Floyd's brigade from Virginia are going to
Scottsvitie, Ky. il -H
A sexton in the town of bingham, Massa-
chusetts. in an advertisement in the weekly
journal of that respectable locality, an
nounces to that portion of tho public which
expect to be buried by him that hereafter
his funeral fees must be paid in advance"
More than twenty British staff and field
officers were at Boston on Friday and Satur-
day last, en- route for Canada.
1t is stated, in the Washington letters to
the New York papers, that some time ago,
Gen. Hooker asked Gen. Mcclellan what he
should do with fifty or sixty fugitive slaves
who were within his lines at Budd's Ferry.
Gen. Mcclellan replied with an order direct
ing him to inquire in each case whether the
fugitive from bondage had or had not been
in the military service Of the Con-
federates. !, If he had been, Gen. H. should
employ him, if he had not, be should ex-
clude him from his lines, thus temporarily
liberating him and leaving the final DISPOSE
ton of the bondsman to the civil authorities.
1t is understood that similar rule will here.
after be applied in every case occurring
within the army of the Potomac. Further
than this. Gen. Mcclellan is believed to be
to go in the absence of other leg
islation than that Of the July session Of the
U. S. Congress. t..s
WI 1oo~ <hns x,o1-
upns Of Union troops were to move into
Kentucky yesterday. s, l.e.,-,. islu rpsl
The message Of Gov. Letchf5 70 the Legis-
lature of Virginia, referred to yesterday,
takes the shape Of Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, recites the acts of the Federal Gov
and paraphrasiug the original De-
of Independence by the united COL
onies, pursues the parallel in justification Of
the attitude assumed by the South.
Washington dispatch states that Secre-
tary Chase and the fnanciers of the North
ern cities have agreed upon a. plan of con-
Quoting the financial operations Of the gov.
as follows:- The general views Of
Secretary Chase are approved; the banks
will sustain the credit of the notes issued by
the government; the Secretary of the Treas
ury will, in addition to the daily current
of one million and half in US.
notes, pay twenty millions in the seven
and three-tenths bonds to such creditors of
the government as will receive them the is
sue of United States demand notes not to be
beyond the fifty millions already
authorized; but it is desired that Congress
will extend the premiums of the existing
loan acts law embracing the general pre-
miums suggested in the Secretary's reports
to Congress is recommended By such &C
ton as this it is expected that the demand
notes will be made q legal tender, and rem.
der their further increase beyond the fifty
millions now authorized unnecessary.
Iii the executive session of the,U. S. Sem
ate yesterday, the nomination of Hon. Ed
win M. Stanton, as Secretary Of War, was
confirmed by vote said to have almost ap-
preached unanimity... Is "I s.g
Mr.. .Rodman, chief clerk of the u. States
Treasury Department, died yesterday morn
ing, after few days illness. sss..
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