The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-14
GENERAL NEWS.

oo"o Aoou VI sodAou anu pressed nay on he
starboard side, and several email steamer
were along with her.. She passed the bate
ries before day, when there was heavy foe
The Confederate batteries opened fire upo
her, but without effect and no ball struc
her. She did not return the fire of the bat
teries at all.
Several U. S. government steamers, anon,
them two of the steamers which accompanied
q the Pensacola below the Potomac batteries
and various trading vessels, have passed thu
batteries and come up the river since Sun
day, without being fred at.
The Louisville Journal discredits the sto
~, received by telegraph, and said to have
been confirmed by dispatches, of the disban.
ding of the Confederate troops in Kentucky
under Humphrey Marshall. <
Gen. Rosecrans has left New York for
Wheeling, Va, having received despatch
calling him there.
b Rarey is in Madrid. performing in white
kids, dress coat and beautiful apparel, before
Queen Isabella, and also challenging the
bull-hghters to tame bulls with him, he using
bis strap, they their ring weapons.
The drinking water at Chicago is said to
be SO full of fish that the efforts of the fire
department to put the fires out only add fuel
to the fames-the fish oil in the water makes
the confagration ten times worse.
AT the last levee at the White House, Mrs.
Lincoln wore lace shawl, presented to her
by A. I. Stewart, of New York, which cost
twenty-five hundred dollars.
The latest St. Petersburg Court Journal
gravely chronicles that the Gear went be-
hind the scenes of the French theatre to
compliment "the beautiful and talented Mile.
Deleveria" Ia young pretty Paris importa-
tion) upon the success of her acting.
The Boston Post says:-"A general in
high command says that the provisions was
ted by the army If the Potomac would sub
sist French army Of equal numbers"
Mr.. Ely, M. c., has been presented with a
horse. The Albany Argus thinks the gift
would have been more useful if presented,
previous to Bull Run. t4#
Gas and hot water apparatus have been
into Newsteaa Abbey, the Byron
ic homestead, by the new proprietor.
Statues to Prince Albert will soon be {
erected in London, Manchester and Birming- ]
JAIL. taE Ug43ee# s.I3 tt@ I
A picture in Punch isn't bad. It depicts
he joyful surprise of youth who just after
putting on his clean linen exclaims :-"Hur- q
'ah! BY Jove, there's button at the pack I
# my shirtv' a504o .4b gfa =
We think twill be generally admitted that
he weather to-day has been anything but IA G
'orable to Advances" pro or con-, or to e
military operations" II
A report was brought to Old Point, on 81
sunday, that large propeller was ashore q
Nv miles below Cape Henry. The Spald. S
ng was sent to her assistance, but could N
nd nothing, and returned. 81
Last Friday evening the brig Henry A. "
'idier was run into in Chesapeake Bay by u
ne of the ships belonging to Gen. Burn. %
de's expedition, completely wrecking the ~ !,
rigs rigging, breaking off her mainmast :. :.
bout fifteen feet above the deck, and carry ~
g away her jib boom, a portion of her az
remast, and all her spars. No one was )"
jured, and on Saturday evening the Grip. W
led brig was towed up to Baltimore, her ce
estimation. en-
The New York Herald says in its Satur- III
" morning report 1.-THE event of the
" is the collapse in gold, which fell to al
IT ct. this morning, and was hard of sale uF
the price. Some of the spectators who vi
ave been buying and boarding will lose en-
nartly." tn
The New York Express says 1.-TWO -
BAR Treasury Notes sell at about par. and "
can $50 per cts. are at trifing discount q
lily. Demand notes can be bought at CT oo
sr 500 discount, which hardly pavs the co
ouble Of handling them by brokers'"
The refusal of the Canadians tn take loi
merican notes makes a demand for Cano all