The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-21

ey TOT rallrOaO from W ashlngCon Guy W
,onnect with the Northern Central Railroad
beyond the limits of Baltimore has been I'M
lertaken or directed by that Department.
w. H. Russell. the London Times CORES
pondent, is still in New York, at the New
York Hotel. -. 49,
The Potter Committee. appointed to in
vestigate the fidelity of clerks and other en-
ployees of the Government about Washing
ton, have suspended their labors, and are
their report. The Committee have
come to the conclusion that at least five hun
dred persons employed in the Departments
are disloyal to the Government.
The Mexicans are making great prepare.
tons to resist the allies.
The sutlsr of . U. s. regiment in Virgin
10 has been expelled by the Colonel for shaw
ing Treasury notes.
Several clerks in the Office Of the Auditor
for the Treasury Department. in Washing
ton, were removed from Office, yesterday.
At tho last accounts the subject Of tho
Railroads in the Eastern portion was under
discussion in the Virginia Legislature At
The Committee on Elections in tho U. S.
House of Representatives, have reported
against the right Of Mr.. Joseph Segar. Of
Virgins, to seat.
Gen. Sumner, U. S. A., has recovered,
and will soon resume command.
In the U. s. House of Representatives,
"Mr. Allen, Of Ohio, offered
resolution declaring that no part Of the ap-
preparations now made or hereafter to be
msde. or of the taxes now or hereafter to be
raised by act of Congress, shall be used or
applied to the prosecution Of war for the
purpose Of emancipating slaves in the slave
holding States. Laid on tho table-yess 81.
nays 81"
The Boston Advertiser states that Com.
Dupont has written q private letter, to the
affect that an attack upon either Charleston
Or Savannah was NO part Of the programme
Of the expedition to Port Royal.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad bill
has been defeated in the Provisional Legis-
lature of Virginia, now in session at Wheel
ing.
In Executive session of the U. s. Senate,
while on Cameron's nomination, Adjutant
General Thomas came in for ecathing re-
REV on the part of numbers in the body.
The New York Post of Friday says -
"A letter received in thi. city to-day from
Charleston, dated January 5,h. safes that
only one Of the banks Of that city was
burned; the Mills House, before reported
burned, was saved.
The New Bedford Mercury, Republican
Journal, is publishing extracts from private
letters from responsible sources at Hatteras,
giving an insight into the tricks resorted to
by salary hunters hailing from North Caro-
lima. These letters declare that those at the
North, who have been sending provisions to
the people near Hatteras, have been "sold"
and that the now famous Mr.. Foster is not
The only bogus" parsonage i'll that neigh
borhOOd.
In relation to late Geographic dispatches
from Cairo reporting an advance of large
bodies Of Federal troops, the correspondents
Of the New York journals who hastened
there to accompany the advance, state with
out exception that the public has been vlcti-
mized by hoax which had its origin with
The authorities at Cairo
The newly appointed U. S. Senator from
Missouri, Mr.. Wilson, has had his 'antece
tents" investigated, and is said to have
oeen, but few months ago, Southern
1t is stated in the New York Post that
AN expedition from Post Royal against Sa.
Vannah is in progress"
In the U. S. House of Representatives,
yesterday, Mr.. Steele, of New York, when
the legislative appropriation bill was under
discussion, made speech setting forth the
constitutional rights of Southern slavehold-
ers, and denouncing fanaticism and abol-
tiOnism."
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