The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-31
GENERAL NEWS.


sauls" which came before the Recorders
Court. Gentleman slit ng beside u lady at
a lecture. Lady feels gentleman's arm touch
Ing her wsisr, and-being u stranger to gen.
tleman-don't like it. Gentleman says it
was "involuntary (which means, we sup.
pose, that he couldn't help it. Lady COM
plains, nevertheless, to Recorder. Jury EN-.
pannelled try the case, and-disagree
The present sensation" in the amuse-
ment line at New York is the grand Shaks
perian combination at Niblo's Garden. 1t
consists of the following gentlemen aud la.
dies: Mr.. Hackett, E. l.. Davenport, Mr..
Wheatley, J.W. Wallack, Mark Smith, Mrs.
Barrow, Mrs. Warlack, Mrs. Grattan, &C.
The house has been entirely re6tted at an
expense of $4,000, aud is crowded nightly
from pit to dome. saae
In the U. S. Senate, yesterday, Mr.. Will
son, of Mass, offered resolution directing
the Committee on Military Affairs to in
quire into the condition and management of
the army hospital in Alexandria, Va, and
to report such recommendations for its i'm
provement as may be necessary for the cor
rection of abuses in it, &c. This resolution,
was debated by Messrs. Wilson, Grimes,
Hale and Garlic. In the course of his re-
marks, Mr.. Wilson said that he had seen
certificates of soldiers in that hospital that
they had to resort to 'swill tubs to obtain
food necessary to keep them from starvation.
Having been amended so as to apply to all
army and navy hospitals, the said resolution
was agreed to-. $50 ~ bHHs. f'
The U. S. Secretary Of State has written
to the Marshal Of the District Of Columbia,
directing him to discontinue hereafter the
practice with reference to the use Of the
Washington Jail for the custody Of slaves
on the request or order Of their owners, &c.
These instructions forbid him to receive
slaves for safe keeping except committed by
some officer Of the law for offences against
the law, or unless taken up and 50 commit
ted lawfully as fugitives from labor, in which
case he is hereafter to comply literally with
the provision Of q late law, requiring their
discharge from custody at the end Of thirty
days unless previously lawfully reclaimed BY
their owners. 4 aa5
In the U. S. Senate yesterday resolution
was offered to instruct the Committee on
Commerce to inquire into the propriety Of
requiring all American merchant captains
sailing to foreign ports to take the oath Of
allegiance. e.F ds % a,
Yesterday, in the U. S. House Of Repre-
sentasves, the bin authorizing the Secreta.
~ Of the Treasury to settle with the States
for supplies furnished for their troops was
laid on the table, and the bill passed making
appropriations tor the support Of the army.
Caste, Frenchman, has succeeded in
Transporting TO Havre from Baltimore and
other places in North America, and aeclima-
ting two new species of oyster, OF a very
delicious kind. The same aGtempt is to be
made in other parts of France.
The London Times says that mercantile
letters from New York represent the cry for
promoting insurrection among the slaves as
gaining force, and looking at the threatened
horrors, whispers were at length heard Of q
wish that for the sake of humanity European
intervention might be found practicable. %
As no new military department west or
south Of Kansas has been created, there 10
nothing to show that Gen. Lane is to have .
command in that district independent Of Gen.
Hunter -Re 2H '@ ~
Robt. Hull, in Baltimore, of the firm of
Hopkins, Hull, & Atkinson, was arrested
yesterday on charge OF treason, and sent
to Fortress McHenry. 4g Il -e5s 6t.s
The number Of INDECENT poor in Paris, is
said to be lamentably increasing.
Efforts are making in London and Liver
pool to prevent anything like an ovation to
Messrs. Mason and Slde!l upon their arrival
in England. The London Times is very de-
cided upon the subject. 81 Sel
The damage done by the late eruption Of
Mount Vesuvius, to tle towns and country
surrounding it, has been immense.
Thomas Paine's birthday was celebrated