The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-02
GENERAL NEW S.

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.ake No progress, as the officers refuse to
information without orders
nd these orders will not be given.
1t is urged. in the Washington Star, that
rompt steps should be taken for the arrest
nd imprisonment of those concerned in con-
ucting the n. Y. Tribune, on the ground
hat they are as much enemies to the U. S.
government, as those in arms against that |
The Queen of Great Britain it is said, bore
Ter recent bereavement with exemplary re.
gnation-aud, although she suffers the
deepest grief, she does not forget what's due
% her children and her kingdom.
The steamers Adriatic and Persia have
arrived at Halifax with British troops.
The Cleopatra and Parana are to bring
more.
A great crowd attended President Lin
coins levee on New Years Day. 'Lord
Lyons and all the foreign ministers" paid
their respects.
A letter from Stanton, Va, published in
the Baltimore American, dated Dec. II,
says that FIRE broke out there in the Con-
federate stables on that night, by which six
ty horses were burned to death.
'Serenading" is pronounced perfect
nuisance in Washington. The police have
Joop IF tho hnnoa
from the residence of Gen. Mcclellan, who
was made sick with the noise.
Slave laborers on the railroads in North
Carolina are hired this year at $50.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the
pulpit of Christ Church, in Alexandria, is
filled every Sunday by some one of the U.
s. Army chaplains, and that the officers pro-
vide the music.
VIM. Peacock, of Peacock Hill, Fairfax
county, Va, has been arrested by the Feds-
raj troops and sent to Washington.
Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the Confede-
rate ambassadors, with their secretaries,
were released from Fort Warren yesterday.
and taken to Pr6vincetown, town on the
extreme point of Cape Cod, where they are
to embark for England ON board the British
steamer Rinaldo.
Schooner j. F. Crouch, of New Jersey,
from Alexandria, Va, to Dighton, Mass,
with coal, went ashore on Friday night, in
the Chesapeake Bay, off the Pleasure House.
Her captain, Timvthy Henderson, of New
Jersey, and crew, were brought up to Nor
folk. The vessel and cargo are total loss.
Col. Miles, U. S. A., has been honorably
acquitted of the charge of being intoxicated
at the battle of Bull Run. 1t is said that
another officer was mistaken for Col. M.
A duel took pla;e last week. below Rich
mond, between D. Forward, sutler, and
Lieut.. Jones, both of Louisiana regiment.
Both were killed at the first fire.
The U. S. Treasury is paying off its own
notes, furnishing only small amounts OF
specie for change.
John Hill, of the firm Of Hughes, Fuller
& Co., of Philadelphia. has secured a con-
tract for furnishing the government with one
million bushels of corn at - cts per bushel
and seven hundred and fifty thousand tons
of hay at 800 SO per ton
Among the crowd at the Presidents man
sion, and Of marked prominence. was Major
w +. M Amy. successor of Kit Carson, U
S. Indian agent in New Mexico. He wore q
full suit of hucllskin, made in Mexican style
and embroidered with silk and Leads. IL,
privately presented to Mrs Lincoln IA splen
did blanket us New Year Offering.
During the year 1861 there were lost n
sea steamers, &c ships, SO banks, So brig
and 1875 schooners.
Several conferences Of the U. S. Senate ant
House Finance Committees have been hclt
in reference TO Immediate legislation ON re
converting Congress, to relieve the pecuniar,
emberrassments Of the government, and ul
timately enable the banks to resume speci
payments.
The n. Y. Herald says: sIt is now yer,
evident from what has already taken place
that the government cannot conduct the wa
by buying gold as it has done heretofore
COme form Of name money ia reouired TIL