The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-22
GENERAL NEWS.

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A letter in the N. Y. Herald gives q
graphic account Of the passage OF the U. ..
frigate Pensacola down the Potomac. 1t
save, that 1.-THE safety of the Pensacola is due
to the precautions taken to conceal her hull,
TO the sound Judgment and GOODNESS of the
officers who guided her through the passage,
and to the simple but na6tical skill in which
she was handled. A single CLEAN of light
or puff from the steam pipes Of the tugs
would have dawn upon her beautiful hull
the unerring she'll of the enemy" The let
ter adds 1.-THE firing of the batteries was
certainly magnificent. The last shell hred
was an eighty-pounder, rife. and came direct
astern, passing between the misen mast ana
the topmast rigging, barely clearing the
main and fore 10 a direct line, and struck
the water just ships length ahead"
President Lincoln aud Gen. Mcclellan are
said to have had another interview on Satur-
DAY, and the N. Y. Herald says. "sre both
satisfied with the condition Of military and
naval affairs
The Richmond Examiner charges that
there have been recent frauds in the Coined
rate Treasury Department. particularly IN
the abstraction therefrom of whole sheets OF
signed Treasury Notes. 1t is, also, down
upon the spectators and exSor'ionists, aud
tho license and favor extended towards them.
The Post Office Committee of the .. 5.
House Of Representatives have under con-
sideration the introduction of money order
system for the transmission through post
Office orders Of sums under thirty dollars at
the average rate Of about one.half Of oEe
,er ct. It is doubted whether this oystem
oao be made to work we'll in this country
It pays expenses and yields net revenue OF
about one hundred thousand dollars per
snnum in England, but it has failed to pay
in either Ireland Or Canada.
Among the Brigadier Generals nj yet re-
ported to the U. S. Senate, but to whose con-
hrmation objections have been raised, caus-
ing in some instances sharp debate are
Messrs. Shields, Meagher, Frank Patterson,
Stoneman, Barry, Sickles, McKinstry, Cor
man and G. F. Smith. There is little doubt
that eneral Shields will be reported back
isvyrably to the Senate by the Committee
It is also believed tnst the allegations
AGAINST General SLOVENIAN, Chief Of Caval
~. and General Barry, Chief of Artillery Of
the army of the Potomac, will be removed
and that they will be faverably reported up
on. General Stone was confirmed at th'
July session. '
According to the last accounts from Eu
rope, public opinion was settling down int
a convection that the Trent affair would b
peaceably settled-but exit aordinary exe'
tions were making, in various quarters, pal
.iculariy by the Cotton manufacturers,
have the blockade Of the Southern port
opened. MIR. Ysncey has sent document
tho British ministry, affirming that in thru
months the blockade was broken SIG time
The London Economist, organ, brokers, maj
utacturers', railroads, &C., is urgent tor q
raising Of the bio, xade, and the Londt
Herald, derby organ) takes the San
ground. s.
The question Of city passenger railroa
for Washington and Georgetown has be
piven more practical turn through Col
munication sent to the Washington Cou
ellis by the mayor than it has heretofore b.
The mayor shows that the Baltimore y
Ohio Railroad Company has the author
for laying tracks on the streets In Washil
ton. IN certain conditions controllable by
corporation. a.I IS 80 Ia29o
On the 18th instant fire occurred at T
kersburg. Va, which consumed seven
eight frame houses ON Market and kanav
streets.
Il ia stated that Farnsworth's Illinois r
ment, in Gen. Summers division, has
men sick with typhoid fever. 1t is the
afflicted regiment in the army.
Mr.. Clark's bilp introduced in the U
Senate on Monday proposes that per
owning real estate on either side Of the
temac, within the present or former In
the District of Columbia, and within