The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-24

g WY o"iA VIC uhgraclOuS manner"
= winch the Washington Cabinet proceeded
t others accord credit for the act and tn
! graceful manner with which the settlemen
! was conducted.
Inc recently issued regulations of the u. S
, war Department facilitates the transact;o,
OF business, which is taken up and dispose,
OF IN the order in which it is presented.
The whole amount received from all sonr
ces at Charleston for the relief of the suffer
ers oy the fire. we learn from late Southern
papers, is $4,000.
The New York Herald says, the Confede
rates have large powder mill at Raleigh.
NC.
Senator Fessenden has presented to the
new Secretary of War petition, signed by
many, asking that fish be made an armv "a.
ton. The Secretary has turned the matter
over to the Commissary General, from whom
reply as to the fitness of the food will he
ELECTED. This may be new form of 6shino
bounty.
on tuesday morning the tent of DR.. Black.
Surgeon OF the Fourth Michigan regiment
caught IRE and burned to the ground. The
Doctor made good his escape, but received
pretty severe capillary sngeing in his subse.
4uent attempt to recover his books and ma.
pers, in which he was successful. Dr. Black /
s brother Of Grace Greenwood.
Sixteen clerks in the Third Auditors OF.
Ice, and sixteen in the Sixth Auditors. and
many in the Patent and in the Land Office.
'ere removed yesterday on what is termed
be rotation principle.
Scarcely Gay passes without numerou.
publications. being made to the War Depart.
TENT Tor permission to take vessels in to Port
,oyal' laden with assorted cargoes of shoes. !,
lankets, coffee, salt, needles, pins, ouinine. (,
c., &c. But the government is obdurate. I
40 refuses to break it's own blockade. At ;
asst forty applications for leave to take goods !;
to Port Royal have been refused in the :
LIST ten days. In two cases cargoes IF ice >
ere allowed to be taken in, on the ground
at 1t might prove useful to sick soldiers in ::
'spital, or to wounded men in case of a hat. =
The Washington Star says -" Yesterday !,
9 PRESIDENT nominated the Hon. Noah H :
; owayne, of Ohio, to be an Associate Judge v;
the Y. 5. Supreme Court Mr.. Swayne O,
a native of Culpeper county, Va aud en- OF
lated to Ohio Immediately after finishing II
Law course under the instruction of the a,
distinguished Robert l. Taylor, in Alex. 70
ar'a' Ills age now is perhaps fifty ears ii,
has grown as "a public man with the =.
'wth OF Ohio having played perhaps the "a
st important part in building up for that a.,
''e It's material eminence. AS jurist he tn
VIGOROUSLY without superior in the "a,
'st, and as the conductor of the St,,o,s r.
sest financial operations. his fame is equal wa
lis reputation as lawyer. In politics he tat
Republican, with strong conservative the
clivities." '"e
rep
IT, George P. Buell. either jumped or fell tee
'Doard from boat, at a wharf in Gin. of
'ati, on Friday morning last and wa, bill
sned. He is q native of Wasbinpton tary
'ty, Ohio, where his parents reside and was
cousin of Gen. Buell., now in command itse
he army in Kentucky, and is nearly con. Olir
ed with Gen. Lane, of Kansas. He was app
ally educated. the
here is considerable freshet in the TN. r
Potomac.
'e U. ). steamer Harriet Lane from the hair
r Potomac, passed up to Washington ora,
lays ago. gray
g, - how
ere Soule, of Louisiana, it is said takes con,
art in the present war. sb;n
SOUTHERN NEWS. The.
e funeral of Ex-President John Tvler ry:
place at Richmond on the 2lst and was army
ded by all the Southern officials ~ but }
lature, &c. A monument ;s 70 bo o,o. eye,
'er his grave in Hollywood Cemetery. latter
9 report that some Of Tho u,,.o, ly by
SIDE expedition have been driven ashore "''''
confirmed "'"o'e' you y
little
report that the Pensacola was iniured o.o..
passage down the river by a shell ,h;.