The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-07
GENERAL NEWS.


treaty-but suggest notifications.
Quartermaster Meigs, U. s. A., has issued
Circul lar to the officers In his department.
in relation to the cost and charges of trans
pertation, and the purchase of supplies.
A. 5. Wilmington, esq, senior editor and
proprietor of the Charleston Courier, aged
"a, died in Charleston, on the ID inst. He
was one of the few editors in America, we
believe, who was wealthy man.
Messrs. Fish and Ames, the Federal Com
m'ssloners in relation to prisoners, have ar
rived at Fortress Monroe.
. 1t is stated that Adjutant General Thomas
has sent an order to Gen. D.x. directing him
to muster out of service and discharge about
q hundred Massachusetts, men, who were in.
duced to come to Baltimore and enlist in
company falsely represented as engineers"
We have accounts of several scouting
parties from the Federal lines recently. One
previously reported-as far as Fairfax
Court House-another along the o. & A. r.
r. to Burke's Station, and from Their to the
Court House. A young man, nephew of the
widow Taylor, was arrested and sent to
Washington. The Confederate forces were
g near that the drums in their canfps could
: be heard. Other accounts say that the Con-
federate pickets have Of late come closer
this way.
A soldier in New York regiment, was
suffocated to death, few nights ago, from
sleeping in closet closed tent, where pan
Of live Goals had been brought.
There were parades of the Illinois Caval.
fy, and the Eighty Eighth Pennsylvania re-
giment, in this place on Tuesday.
Mr.. Russell, the correspondent Of the
London Times is expected in Washington
shortly.
One of the Orleans princes has returned
to the Naval Academy, and another is on
his way back to Washington.
9 The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia. News says:-"The Seventy
ninth Pennsylvania Regiment is now with
out any field officers, they having all resign
cd. There has been trouble ia this regi.
mentever since it arrived here. The pre- |
sent officers, it is believed, resigned because
they feared they would be 'slaigh,ered' by
the Examiuiug Board"
A correspondents Of the New York Herald.
writing from Somerset, stafes that che ideal
Of moving the vctoridas columns of S ,hoeot
add Thomas into Easu Tennessee, if it was
ever entertained. has d .ub.less been exblo-,
ded. Irrespective of the state Of roads. it
has been ascertained that an army could NOT
be subsisted ia East Tennessee, tbs .iahabl.
tants, poor az all times, Geing now hardly
able to subsist themselves.
The dry goods trade in New York is re-
ported to be very dull &c present. Exporta.
tions are falling off
The London Times, on it's new tack den
recates English interference in ..merfcan
affairs, for the present, bat says that with
little patience the'event will wyrk itself out"
In the mean time, it says, ''let France later
fere if she pleases." {
U- s. Treasury notes we're selling in Wash
ingion, yesterday, at discount Of 81 fer +.
gold.
large meeting has been held in B .ston. {
at which resolutions were p;,ssed asking Pre- j
sldent Lincoln to take Immediate step. 70 ef r
feet the liberation of Col Corooran and his g.
follow prisoners The general tenor of The
speeches delivered, was that the U. S. GOV.
'rnment would not be rscogniz ing the Con. +
ederates by performing an act OF charity. !;
President Lincoln has approved the bill i,
authorizing the Secretary of the Interior t..
trike from the pension rolls the names Of
IL such persons as have or may hereafter :,
AXE up arms against the government Of the
United States, or wa have in any manner
ncouraged the Confoderatea or manifested
ympathy with their cause :,
1t is said that the U. s. Consul at the 9,
andwich Islands reports that efforts are be- W
og made to transfer the control Of those
stands to the British government. r.