The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-10

radical abolitionists of Boston with one of
his Characteristic speeches on slavery. His
abuse of the Federal government and its pol
icy was unstinted. d
The joint committee of the q. s. Congress
appointed on the 10th, of December to exam
Inc into the conduct of the war have assidu-
ously applied themselves to that duty. They
have been in session nearly ever since.
The U. S. Senate Committee on the judi
ciary have come to the conclusion, by q vote
CT slx to one, to report against the expulsion
sion of Senator Jesse D. Bright, Of Indians.
1t is stated that Mr.. Russell, Of the Lon
don Times, will return to England about
the first Of next month. He complains Of
| i'll health and bad treatment. "'h
The U. S. Army Medical Board report that
the prevalence Of typhoid fever in some of
the camps is owing to malaria, from exposed
situations, and the disease does not exist Is
an epidemic.
Mr.. Robenson, of Manchester, N. H., who
has number of contrsbands employed at
Beaufort, s. c., in getting out cotton, writes.
that they require too much watching and
won't work if they can help it. He signiA-
cantly adds.-"certain aucipatienists ought
to travel among negroes south Of Washing
ton, to know what negroes are" ggot :,
Lamartine is now 70 years old-and goes
to England next spring mot, we hope, on
contribution" tour. aIa
D.U. Martin, the wherry and berry man,
is now mining in California, and subsists al
most entirely on grapes and apples. The
same fruits formed his diet on his sea-voyaxe
to the Isthmus, and bananas and oranges on
the Pacific side. Mr.. M. is of opinion that
it is not the eating Of tropical fruits that
produces fatal effects in warm climates, but
the drinking of poisonous liquors. "a
The obsequies of the late Gen. ED. Ia.
ker took place in San Francisco on theollth
ult. The ceremonies were very imposing.
Every class Of society was represented in
the procession.
M. Thouvenel's despatch to the French
Minister at Washington had been carefully
considered by the English press, and gave
great apparent satisfaction to the govern
ment of Great Britain. The London Times
asks, with England and France united, what
third Power would dare differ with their de.
cisions!
We have no important intelligence from
the fotilla, on the Lower Potomac. The
navigation of the river below is still unob-
structed by ice.
The immense increase of the duties of the
s. War Department has required the &c.
'retsry to ask Congress for an increase of
clerks, ,laborers, and messengers in tho vari-
BUS bureaus of the department.
The New York Herald is great upon CON-
'pirscies. 1t says that the "Wall street
banks have entered into a conspiracy against
he Secretary Of the Treasury, so as to de-
eat his plans of finance, and deprive the
of the means of carrying on
he war" a3 @
Mr.. Powell, Of Kentucky, presented in
be q. s. Senate, on Wednesday, the resolu.
ions of the Legislature of Kentucky, pro
ssting against Congressional interference
nth slavery.
The Washington letter of the Philadel-
hia News says THE ''squatter mer-
hants" complain of the dpllness of trade.
he soldiers as general thing are very sen.
IDLY beginning to realize the fact that tho
Government rations are moro conducive to
heir health than the Injuries provided by
'utlers' stores, and the consequence is that
heir families will reap the advantage"
The Charleston Mercury estimates the loss
q real estate by the late FIRE at about s., 500
100, on which was On insurance for about
], 100000. The chief has been borne by
peal companies.
The New York correspondent of tho Phil
delphia Ledger says there is great complaint
, New York at the delay in settling claims
gainst the U. s. government