The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-28
GENERAL NEWS.

il OuICARO, II lew udys dSo, o"iu sua1 UoioI q
he left Washington. president Lincoln said
to him Lane, how many black men do you
want to have to take care Of your army?'
l told him as my army would number a.
600, i proposed to have thirty-four thousand
contrabands in addition to my teamsters and
wagon-masters. l consider every enc of my
soldiers engaged in this glorious crusade OF
freedom knight Grant, and entitled to his
squire to prepare his food, black his boots,
load his gun and take off his drudeery.-
Vanity and pride are necessary adjuncts of
the soldier, and do not propose to lower
him by mental Offices, nor compel him to per-
form the duties of the slave. So, while I
shall elevate. the slavs by giving him his
freedom and making man of him, shall
q also elevate the soldier and leave him no
work to do but fighting" A voice in the
crowd--"What. are you going to do with the
niggers?"). .'The General, singing out the
owner Of the voice, and pointing his long
finger at him, replied, 'Ah, my friend, you
are lust the man have been looking for--I
will tell you what am going to do with
them. am going to plant them on the soil
Of the Gulf coast, after we have got through
this war; let them stay there and cultivate
the land; have government extend q protec-
zion to them. as it does,to the Indians, and
o send superintendent and governors among
. them and pay them wages for their labor
There could be no competition between
black and white labor" He believed,
whether the rebels liked the idea or not,
that the blacks at no distant day would have
possession of that Gulf country, to which
they were acclimated and physically condi-
toned. He proposed to establish free State
governments as he went along, and he could
promise his hearers that either he or the re-
bells would be cleaned out"
. s. Army officers, Directing to Sher-
mans bill reducing salaries, are requesting
Congress to tax them to the full amount Of
tho reduction, and more too, but beg that
the laws regulating their pay be not again
disturbed.
The Military Committee Of the U. S. Sc
nate reported unanimously in favor of the
nomination of Daniel E. Sickles to Briga.
der Generalship. This removes all doubt
of his confirmation by the Senate.
The Richmond Dispatch says the Southern
defeat at Somerset, in Kentucky was even
more decisive than Northern accounts led it
to believe"
tits said now that the report Of the los,
of five Of Burnside's feet, and the burning
of q steamer, first came from Baltimore.
A letter from Charleston says that five
atone vessels were sunk in Mathis Channel
on the 22d.
The Savannah Republican says that the
Federal vessels have not gone up Broad
river.
The Richmond Dispatch says that the late
Confederate defeat in Kentucky "has excl.
ted the liveliest apprehension for the safety
Of the connection with the southwest through
tho Virginia and Tennessee and East Ten
nessee and Virginia Railroads; and the pos.
sible interruption of intercourse South via
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad by Burn
side expedition, directs attention to the vital
importance Of completing the connection
between the Richmond and Danville and
North Carolina Railroads"
NJ. II. limbaugh, newspaper dealer OF
Baltimore, and connected with the Field and
Fireside newspaper, has been arrested at
Milestone Point on the Potomac, charged
with an attempt to join the Confedsrates in
Virginia.
Mr., Samuel Engler, who has been ordered
out Of Missouri by Gen. Halleck, was a
strong Secessionist. He was q merchant,
doing a large wholesale business in St. Louis.
Advices from the City Of Mexico, from
distinguished sources, confirm the published
accounts of the union generally Of parties
heretofore opposed to each other, making
common cause against the European inva-
In the debate in the U. S. House Of Rep
resentatives, yesterday, Mr.. Riddle, Of Ohio,
said that slavery is in, over and through ev-
erything. Slavery is over. He said there
was ample provision in the constitution for
the personal status OF the disposition of the
slaves. Mr. Wickliffe, Of Kentucky, desired
IN know is the gentleman said that the gov