The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-20

WOfKmoD dt tuc I HiiduclPu'" N"vy A""'
the steamer Rhode Island, which arrived at
that yard for repairs on Thursday. has been
ordered to Boston. If the strike continues
all the government vessels will be ordered
from Philadelphia elsewhere.
General Mcclellan has issued perempto-
nv order to commandments of divisions and
brigades, enjoining the absolute necessity OF
keeping every officer and soldier at his post
at this critical juncture. Nothing but medi-
cal certificates of i'll health and other urgent
reasons shall entitle any officer to furlough
or leave Of absence.
Governor Dawson left Salt Lake City De-
cember 3lst on account of a personal difficult
ty He was pursued, whipped and robbed,
twelve miles east. Seven desperadoes, who
committed the assault, were arrested. and
three of them in endeavoring to escape from
the officers, were killed. affaaa
The steamship Kangaroo. which sailed
from New York on Saturday for Liverpool,
carried out $3.50, 200 in specie. s,
Two of the Federal prisoners in Rich
mond escaped on Monday last. . One Of them
was captured again. at
Rev. VIM. H. Wilmer, of Va, has accept
ed the situation to which he had been chosen
of Bishop Of the P. E. Church in Alabama.
Mr.. Cameron, according to the stou
Traveller, Ito feed an ancient grudge" he
bore to Gen. Hitchcock, has been the means
of keeping that officer out Of the U. s. army
to which he has wished to return.
The N. Y. World argues that the U. S
must make a "short war;" because "recent
events have shown on how precarious foot
ing matters are with Great Britain"
The N. Y. Post in order to show and de-
nounce, the inimical feeling in England to
, wards the U s. quotes letter from an Eng
lish gentleman asserting that when the
: Guards'-the choicest English regiments
embarked from S,uthamton for Canada, they
gave three cheers for JEFF Davis and three
for .Dixie's Land The Confederate flag
flying from the Nashville, only fifty yards
distant, having given rise to their enthusi
asm."
Y The U. S. Senate will this week act up"r
. all military appointments made since thu
}. publication of General Orders" No. 6S, o
t August 81, 1861.
s Letters we're received during the pas
t week from Lieut.. James II. Rigby. com
J. handing the Second Battery Of the Gist Ar
t tillery, now on the Eastern Shore of Virgin
n ia. Lieut.. Rigby communicates the fact
the capture Of Louis Warrington, son o
Mr.. Thomas J. Warrington, Of East Balti
= more, near Drummondtown, Accomsc coun
:, ty. and who is now confined at that place t
= await the orders of Gen. Dix. Young War
- rington left during the latter part of las
:, spring with view Of joining the Confede
:, rate army, but it seems had not got an
= further than the Eastern Shore Of Virgins
where he acted with the Confederates VIII
- were dispersed by the force under Heners
Lockwood. Matters are represented as b'
q ing still quiet.
a Robert S Oakley, President of the NJ
b. tional Bank-note Company, and Treasure
'e of the Greenwich Savings Bauk, died SUI
Is denly at his residence, Brooklyn, N. Y, q
as Thursday last.
10 Advices from Port Royal announce th'
n an expedition is fitting out there, which,
is supposed, is intended tn operate again
n Savannah. Remembering parties and corr
IN have been already sent forward for the pu
ts. pose of removing the distractions whi(
M have been placed in the creeks south of Il
;, Savannah river Warsaw inlet is said to
n the first destination of the expedition WHIT
vp it starts. Tybee Island has been occupied
m Federal troops, who are encamped beyor
in the range of the guns of Fort Pulaski.
tie Mr.. G. j. Faulkner is said to be once mo
at at his home, in Martinsburg, Va.
= There are 459 sick and wounded sold'e
to Of the U. S. army in she General Hospl'
in Alexandria.
be They are having the real " Italian Oper
in Washington.