The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-13


tary surveillance.
From Boston we have the intelligence that
the troops of Gen. Buffers expedition that
were embarked on the Constitution have been
ordered on shore again, but no reason for the
movement has been assigned, beyond that
given by Boston paper that existing COM
plications call for temporary delay in sending
expeditions to Southern States.
Mrs. Gaines, whose celebrated lawsuits
against the city of New Orleans was decided
in the Supreme Court just before the seces-
sion of Louisiana, has received permission
to cross the lines to New Orleans, via For
tress Monroe and Norfolk.
Gen. Lane has not rendered his resgna-
ton to the Governor of. Kansas, nor has he
accepted of the Brigadier Generalship lately
rendered to him by the President and con-
frmed by the Senate, nor does he intend to
accept it, as he recently declared ip that bo-
dy, until he has resigned his seat.
British steamer (gunboat) Medea, from
Bermuda, six days, arrived at New York on
Saturday. TheMedea mounts six guns, and
has crew of 100 men.
Capt. Allen of the schooner j. P. Roles,
arrived at N. Y. on Saturday from Nevis.
reports that the privateer steamer Sumter
was off Antigua, Dec. 6, but that the Cover
nor would not allow her to enter the harbor.
Antigua is one of the British, w. l., posses
sions.
President FELTON, presented each employee
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more railroad with turkey on Saturday last
to five hundred in all. The
turkey of one Of the hands weighed eighteen
pounds. zt4't
A man died in Lowell, Mass, on Monday
from cause termed by physicians heredi-
tary hemorrhage. On Friday, 9th nlt., the
deceased commenced bleeding from his gums,
and the application Of appropriate remedies
at one part seemed only to force the blood
from other parts, and also from thesroof Of
the mouth, which caused his death. tt = F.
A new banging establishment is to be
opened in Washington on Seventh street.
of which Mr., Hugh B. Sweeny,' late of the
Bank of Sweeney, Rittenhouse & Co., will
belprincipal.
g The defeat of a party of Confederates at
Blue Gap is confirmed by a despatch from
General Kelley. Blue Gap is fifteen miles
from Romney, in the direction of Winches-
ter.
Secretary Seward has telegraphed permits
sion to permit British troops to be landed
at Portland, Maine, and pass across U. S.
territory to Canada a.
Yesterday the steamship S. R Spaulding,
Captain Howes left Old Point for the pur-
pose Of relieving large vessel, which, by
some means, get aground near the Virginia
shore.
Late English papers state that the priva
teer Nashville was still at Southampton, but
the British Government had forbid her to
arm.
1t is said, in the Washington National Re-
publican that the general principle, that "a
heavy taxation must be resorted to, is agreed
to on ali sides in the U. S. Congress-"
The rumor that the village of Bath. Va,
has been burnt are untrue. The Confede-
rate troops under Gen. jackson are in and
around Bath. rJ t..ait. ra
1t is said that U. s. staam frigate Pensa-
cola did not return the fire of the Potomac
batteries as she steamed by them yesterday
morning. fa .-1 4qr
Reports are mentioned in the Northern pa
pers of the continued i'll health of General
McC lellan, and of the command of the u. s.
army on the Potomac being given to Gen.
Mcdowell. Of course no one knows as to
the truth Of the reports. eu lUi
Toasted wheat is being substituted, in
some places, for coffee. FU.f5aI.
The Northern bankers and Mr.. Chase are
still negotiating on financial matters. The
bankers want treasury bureau in N. York,
aud do not approve of some of the measures
10 the U. S. Congress.