The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-18

bill to abolish the franking privilege was
reported with an amendment, but not dis
posed of. The resolution from the House in
favor of laying tax for the current year
sufficient to produce a revenue Of $3.50. OOO,-
900 has also been adopted by the Senate.
U. S. Senate has rejected the nomina.
tions of G. IL. F'ster as Marshal of North
Carolina, and of Mr.. Watts as lieutenant
In the army. 1t is about time for this Mr.
Foster, to "ary up"
Maj. Doubleday Of N. Y has been appoint.
ed Brigadier General Of the N. York vol.
unteers.
The mortar fleet now being built in New
York, under the supervision of Capt. D. d.
Porter, U. S. n, is rapidly approaching
compIetlon-but two or three weeks may
elapse before it will be ready to take its de-
phrture. The mortars, which are to be
placed amidships, in each vessel, weigh
about 1000 pounds and they are bored for
IL inch proecriles.
| IL is understood that the contracts let out
! by Secretary Cameron for over million
! Springfield muskets, and over quarter of
million rifles and carbnes, will be ordered
to be-annulled
Captain Palmer Of The Iroquois, from
whom the Sumter has several times ESCAPED,
has been ordered home
The story that Mrs Eunice Brady, resid-
ing in TrumbuIl County, Ohio, had recently
been blessed with eight children at "A birth
turns cut TO be untrue. The Albany Argus
says it was a literary man that Invented
the hoax, and not a literary woman that
gave birth to the brood
The Prince Of Wales will next year enter
into the enjoyment Of $3.50, 900 year, aud
two and half millions of dollars in ready
moaey from the revenues Of tho duchy of
Cornwall
1t is said that Gen. Mcclellan has satisfied
the Congressional Investigating Committees
that "al those who have been complaining
OF his action are completely in the wrong,
and that he has been, and is now ding ex-
actly what is right and that they will hot
again annoy him.
1t is said that on the morning of the day
of his retirement from the War Office Mr.
Cameron did not entertain the remotest sus-
piclon that he would be booked for St. Pc
tersburg before shutdown; that he was
'blandly" told by Mr. Seward that change
IN the War Department. was determined ON:
and that he accepted the mission to Russia,
Without an if or an and.
The New York Herald says that "tremen-
lous events" are soon to ensue, in military
operations, and in the prosecution of the
present war. {
Louisa Brown, only child of Mayor Wal
ach, of Washington, died on Thursday.
The crowd who witnessed the late Greek.
ire bomb shell explosion, in Washington, {
re said to have been much disappointment.
he inventors say that not enough of the s
Greek-6re" had been brought on, to make .
a grand display"
Much anxiety is expressed in relation to
he Spring Fisheries on the Potomac 1t is :
cared that most of these valuable fisheries !.
I'LL not be worked at all, this year. SINE !
the most valuable of rhem, however. on
ne Virginia side. are under the guns of the
confederate batteries. 1t is from these g
fisheries that the people Of all this section
country have heretofore been accustomed
procure their annual supplies OF shad and
large quantity shipped :"
the North and South.
Mr.. Cameron's friends express great dis. Il
leasure at the vigorous opposition that was q
ade to his nomination as Minister to Rus ~
a. by Mr.. Trumbull and others. The
ashington correspondent of the New York T
erald says that ''the objections made to +
e confirmation of this appointment were II
lefty on the ground of alleged mismanage- III
emf Of the War Department, and favorit-
n in the appointment of military officers
d the award of contracts for War supplies,
means of which il il CHARGED that vast | LIZ