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

command in what is now called "a great
Southwestern expedition" is to consist Of
$4,000 men--including 1000 'contrabands"
to be employed as Transfers and laborers.-
The field of operations assigned the expedi-
ton by the President is Southwestern Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, and
rs much further South as he chooses to ven
ture.
Some negroes captured in front of the
lines Of tho Potomac and sent on to Rich.
mond, are charged with having been guilty
Of reasonable correspondence" They were
examined BY the Commissioners, who report
ed that they deserved to be hung" The
case was referred to the Committee onCourts
Of Justice. "a
Senator Sherman. from the U. s. Senate
committee to examine and report as to COM
pensation Of all officers Of the government.
&c.. has reported . bill in relation to the
government printing, which completely abol.
ishss the Congressional Globe, and transfers
it to the Superintendent Of Public Printing.
who il created not only printer. but station
q and Newspaper publishsr general for
the whole governments, #
It 10 said that General Fremont h prepar-
ing an elaborate statement in reference
toths charges made against his admins
tration Of tho Department Of. the West,
which il to be presented to the Congressional
COMMITTEE on the Conduct Of the War.
There is . great food in the Ohio river
Both at Cincinnati and Louisville the w.ter
yesterday WAS rising rapidly, and over
flowing the lower parts Of those cities.
At Sacramento, California there is anoth-
or food, portions of the city having been
under water from two to eleven feet deep.
Accounts from New Orleans state that the
oitiseus there are expecting an attack upon
the place and that the city 10 not sufficient
" defended BY Notifications.
John B. Henderson has been appointed q
Senator of the United States from the State
Of Missouri, in the place Of Mr.. Polk. He
was Douglas Democrat and Union man.
A protracted discussion took place in the
U. s. Senate, yesterday. on tho proposed ex-
pulsion from the Senate, of Mr.. Bright, of
Indiana. ~
There have been twenty deaths of soldiers
in she hospitals and camps in and near
Washington since tho last report, few days
ago, of which two were in Berdan's sharp
shooters at camp, and nine in the Pennsylva-
mia regiment, and three at the Eruptive hos
pital.
4 large number Of British vessels loaded
with grain have been reported lost within
the past six weeks, from, it is said, being
loaded by means Of elevators, which renders
it impossible for the grain to bscome settled
aud compact.
Gen. SCOTS goodman, whose capture by
the Confederates after the battle Of Bull
Run was believed to have been with his own
consent, has returned among the exchanged
prisoners.
Tie report that General Wool has sent q
notification to Norfolk to move the women
and children out Of that city is not confirmed
BY official intelligence.
A writer proposes through the Atlanta
(Ga.) Intelligencer to raise subscription by
individuals for the relief Of Ireland, portions
Of which are in great distress from the fail
ure Of the potato crop. The writer starts
the subscription with two bales Of cotton.
The New York journals now furnish al
most every day copous extracts from the
Southern papers---so that, though We never
see q Richmond, or Charleston, or New Or.
leans journal, we know what they say, from
the re publications at the North.
Since the general circulation of the small
bills of various Northern Banks, many coun-
,erfeits are ahoat. So look out.
Dyptheria is said to prevail in and about
Leesburg, Va.
The schooner John Forsyth, from Wash.
ington for New York, arrived at Baltimore
yesterday. On Monday night last, while
running the Potomac blockade, her foremost
wa. struck by a thirty-two-pounderb ball from