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««ff»Uff»-*l WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6,1861. I _ M -_-sS_7_iS« , si---_
ALEXANDRIA. VA.
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Tha Provost Judge's Court—Civil Casts
Wa* Department, Oct. 26, 1861.
General: - Complaints have been made to
tbe President that the Provost Marshal at
Alexandria haa undertaken to establish a
oourt for civil purposes, and tbat by that
court, or in other ways, he has assumed au
thority over matters of civil justice, such as
the collection of debts and the seizure und
transfer of property, having reference to the
debts and contracts of private persons. If
this be so it ia a fault which ought at once
to be oorrected by proper orders from you,
so as to limit the Provost Marshal to the ex
ercise of powers properly belouging to hia
military character, aad necessary to the en
forcement of a safe police.
I am, General, very respectfully, your
obedient servant, Taos. S. Scott,
Assistant Secretary of War.
By direction of the Secretary of War.
Geo. B. McClellan, Maj. Gen. Comd'g.
On receipt of the order ol Gen. McClel
lan, Gen. Montgomery directed the following
order to Judge Freese :
Headquarters, Alexandria, )
Nov. 4,1861. j
Special Order No. 43.—Pursuant to in
structions from tbe War Department, dated
October 26, 1861, the Provost Judge of this
command will take no further cognixance of
civil cases, and will dismiss tbe cases now
under consideration.
W. R. Montgomery, Brig. Gen.
The Philadelphia Election Case —
Several gentlemen from Philadelphia are
here, and at the oamps near this oity, en
gaged in taking depositions relative to the
recent voting in the Federal camps for Phila
delphia city officers. The complexion of a
portion of the city government, will, it is
said, depend upou votes taken near this
place.
Body Found.—The body of the negro lad
Sam, who was drowned in Hunting Creek
during the late storm, haa been searched for
with much care. Tbe exertions for its re
covery have been successful, and on yester
day afternoon, the body was found a short
distance from the bridge, lt showed traces
of having laid in the water, but was proper
ly cared for, and decently interred.
Hunting Creek Bridge.—This structure
which was torn up soon after the U. S. forces
occupied this city, but which has lately been
reconstructed by Federal workmen, suffered
somewhat by the recent flood. A portion of
tbe causeway on each side of the wood work
is washed away, and it will require some
filling in to place the bridge in as good con
dition as it was before the storm. This
work, will, we presume, be done at once.
The following curious telegraphic dis- !
patch from Alexandria, appears in the New :
York Herald:—"The private correspondence
and memoranda of Col. Bi*uj. 11. Berry, of j
Virginia, at present an officer of the Confed
erate army, was discovered and seized at |
Alexandria on Sunday. Among tho articles
aeized is a full set of regalia of the Order of j
the Knights of the Golden Circle, of which !
Berry ia said to be a prominent officer.**'
Military Court.—The Military Court j
held no session this morning, owing to the :
absence of the Judge.
The Oourt is to be held this afternoon, at 3 i
o'clock.
False Report.—The rumor that, in Satur. j
day last a woman and child were swept from
Hunting Creek Bridge and dawned, had no
foundation.
Foot-Ball.—This game seems of late, to
have become universally popular in this city !
On all the streets, in market, on the wharf— ,
on the commons, every where—foot-ball— i
foot-ball. Men play it, boys play it, and i
just now it seems to be "the thing." Pipes !
and Foot-Balls are having their day. We
amreeat, however, that the game be discard- I
ed in all the business streets—so tbat pas
serp-by—especially ladies, be cot inoommod-;
ed by dashing balls and gangs of lads run-!
ning at full tilt.
The Federal batteries near Budd's Ferry j
are not far from the water's edge. One has
been completed. Sickles' brigade in Mary
land has been largely reinforced. Since the
storm we have heard nf no military opera,
tione on the lower Pitimac, either 1 y th
land or river forces of the belligerents.
Gen. Scott leaves for Europe on Saturday, j
papers contain extracts trom late »ou era |
papers, from which we cull tbe following
items:
A dispatch dated Savannah, November 12,
! says there was a fight below that city, origi
nating in consequence of the Federals at*
I tempting to burn a vessel aground on War'
saw beach. The attempt.failed, and the Fed"
eral frigate left.
The Richmond Enquirer announces tbat
it is extremely difficult to obtain a passport
to leave the Southern Confederacy, or to pass
through the lines on any pretence whatever.
The Enquirer haa raided the flag of Davis
and Stephens, whose re-election it favors.—
The election ie set for to day.
There is a great scarcity of printing paper
at Richmond, and the Enquirer, in conse
quence, has cut off all subscribers who are in
arrears.
Tbe Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance
Company has just declared a semi-annual
dividend of 10 per cent.
The Norfolk Day Book is printed on brown
wrapping paper. It is tbe only paper pub
lished in Norfolk, and says, as bad as the pa
per is, it has not enough of it to print more
than one-fourth of its edition on.
Over $50,000 worth of clothing has beeu
received at Richmond, voluntarily contribu
ted by citizens of the Confederate States for
the benefit of the soldiers.
On Saturday last there were 1,711 prison
ers of war in Richmond. In the last sixteen
days the prisoners there had eaten up $2,G00
worth of beef. Since the war commenced,
2,685 prisoners have been brought to Kich
mond.
The 15th of November has been designa
ted by the Hon. Jeff Davia as a day of fast
ing, humiliation and prayer in the Confede
rate States.
A dispatch from Charleston reports the
lata storm as exceedingly violent along the
whole Southern coast.
- The Louisville Courier, of the 29th ult.,
states that recruiting for the Union cause is
an entire failure in portions of Kentucky.
The Norfolk Day Bo.ik says: "Gen. Wise
is still confined to his room, but he is conva
lescent, and receives a large number of vis
itors. The Wise Legion will be withdrawn
from Western Virginia, and another sent to
replace it, but its future destination is un
known. Breckinridge wants to take it with
its fighting commander to Kentucky,but Wise
thinks the enemy have serious designs on
North Carolina, and prefers to go there."
The Vicksburg Whig exhorts the planters
of the South to prepare for the coming year
by raining pork, beef, mutton, &c, such
things as will Nell and enable planters to pay
tuxes.
Considerable discussion i* going on in the
Philadelphia papers, about alleged election
frauds in the Army vote, at tbe late election
for State officers of Pennsylvania. The re
turns from McLean's regiment are particu
larly commented on. The result of the
Philadelphia election depends upon the vote
that was taken in troops from that ci .y.
There seems to be much bad feeling on the
subject.
Six hundred aud fifty-seven prisoners cap
tured by the Confederates at tbe battle of
Edwards' Forry, have b-.en brought to Rich
mond—amongst them 24 commissioned offi
cers.
The Maryland Election is going on to-day.
The Union party express-entire confidence in
carrying the State for their ticket by a large
majority.
President Lincoln, from now until the
meeting of the Federal Congress, can only
receive visitors, each day, from 10 to 12
o'clock, A. M. _
Parker Pillsbury, the noted abolitionist, in
alluding to the future of the country, says:
"This is the biggest fog bank I ever tried to
look into."
We hear of loss and damage to vessels
and boats, caused by the late storm, in al
Rail the Tivers and harbora along the
tic coast. ________
,_J Long Bridge ia being repaired and
Foreign Hews.
The London Times of the 24th says, the
impracticable nature of tbe American con
test is shown in the incidents of the subsidi
ary expeditions. In Missouri and Kentucky
separate wars are pending almost irrespec
tively of the grand operationa in Virginia,
and all but independently of the chief gov
ernment.
->Tho London Times thinks it not unlikely
that the moment a drain of specie commen
ces, tbe financial community of America will
have its Bull Run, "No people are more
likely to be acted upon by epidemit fears,
and if tbe passion for hoarding should seize
them, it would be carried to an extent no less
remarkable than tbat of the blind confidence
in which they are at present reveling."
Accounts from Warsaw completely confirm
the telegraphic statements respecting the pit
iless severity with which the Russian autho
rities punished tbe persons who took part in
the Kosciusko demonstration on the 15th ult.
The address to Garibaldi, begging him to
lead tbem to Rome, had already received
20,000 signatures in the Neapolitan prov
inces.
Madame Goldschmidt Lind has made her
reappearance in oratorio at Exeter Hall, with
immense success.
The London Herald, the organ of Earl
Derby, after a silence of four weeks duration
on our affairs, is out in a very violent leader
on the subject of the condemnation of the
bark Hiawatha, and other British vessels,
by judges of the Union courts, for violating
the blockade. The Derbyites pretend tbat if
the decision of Judge Betts is not either re.
versed or disavowed, England will demand
reparation for her shipowners and traders'
even to the length of a war with the United
Statea.
Thiee Spanish war ships had sailed from
Cadiz for the Gulf of Mexico. England haa
(stipulated, in the tripartite treaty, that, if a
monarchy should be restored in Mexico, no
member of the Bonaparte or Bourbon dynas
ty shall be elevated* to the throne. Another
British war vessel (the Medea) had sailed
for the West Indies.
The steamer Persia has arrived with Liv
erpool dates to the 26th ult. Cotton firm—
wheat and corn declining—teas looking up.
Captain Semmes, of the privateer Sumter, is
said to have sailed from New York as a Brit,
ish officer. It is said, in some quarters, tbat
the late defeat of the U. S. squadron at tbe
mouth of the Mississippi, will render it im
possible to maintain the blockade. Eng and f
France and Spain have a perfect understan
ding as to Mexican affairs. Affairs in Poland
and Italy are unchanged. French financial
affairs more satisfactory
An account is given in the L tudoun (Va.)
Mirror of a skirmish near Edwards' Ferry,
the day after the great battle there, in which
the Federal troops who were making a tem
porary battery on the Virginia side were at
tacked, and met with some loss—said to be
40 or 50. The Confederate loss was 2 killed.
The next day, the Federal troops abandoned
their battery, and recrossed the river.
A large number of citizens of Massachu
setts and Pennsylvania have been at Ed
ward's Ferry for a week past, searching for
missing relatives. In very many cases they
have been unsuccessful, and many return
home without ascertaining the fate of those
whom they have sought to find.
Troubles continue in New Mexico, be
tween the friends of the Union and the ad
vocates of a Southern Confederacy—and
there are skirmishes and rencounters be
tween the opposing forces. There is said to
be, also, divisions among tbe South Western
Indians in relation to joining in the present
war.
The Baltimore Sun says, " A gentleman
was in Baltimore yesterday, who stated that
he saw General Beauregard at Gordonsville,
Va , on Monday, en route for Charleston.
There are one hundred wounded soldiers
at Poolesville. They are generally doing
well.
The annu il meeting of the stockholders of
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Com
pany iato be held at Charlottesville to-mor-
GENERAL NEWS.
The murdered body of Philip Augustus
Embury, son of Daniel Embury, esq., Presi
dent of the Atlantic Bank, Brooklyn, was
found on Sunday morning, near Meyers'
Hotel, at Fisbkill Landing/ He had been
stabbed and killed. His watch, breast pin,
and money were found on his person.
Oregon dates to tbe 29th ult., give glow
ing accounts from the mines. $400,000 in
gold had reached Victoria within ten days.
The steamer Mount Veroon has returned
from the flotilla down the Potomac, and re
ports the oondithff of affairs as unchanged.
Mrs. Marks, another of the women arres
ted n New York, on a charge of being con
cerned in the murder of the German Jew,
Mr. Fellner, attempted to commit suicide,
but waa detected before she could succeed.
Joel M. Gregory died at Newport, N. 11.,
on Thursday last, aged 100 years, 11 months
and 9 days. He was the last revolutionary
pensioner in New Hampshire.
On the 25th ult., the Cheat Mountain sum
mit, in Virginia, was covered with an inch
of snow, and the ground frozen hard.
Again there are reports in the newspap-~ r
of an immediate advance of the Federal A;~
my from lines of the Potomac.
It is asserted by the correspondent of the
New York Tribune, that the deserter from
the Naval Expedition, who had charge of,
or knew about tbe signal book, is a relative
of a member of the Cabinet. Gen. Wool
had been warned of him, and the flag officer
had hia attention awakened—but he said—
"let us wait and see." While he waited the
man went off. He could carry, however, but
little information.
The typhoid fever prevails to some extent
in some of the regiments of Gen. Banks'
division, though there is improving health.
There is no newa of army movements in
that division.
The Worcester (Mass.) Spy has intelli
gence from Poolesville, contradicting tbe sto
ries about cruelty on tha part of the Confed
erates to the wounded Federal soldiers at
Ball's Bluff.
Hon. R. H. Stanton, ex M. C, and several
other Kentuckians lately arrested in that
State, passed through Pittsburg on Sunday,
in charge of a guard of soldiers, supposed to
be en route for Fort Warren, Boston.
Robert Bunker, Esq., an ex-mayor of Mo
bile, Alabama, was arrested in Cincinnati on
Thursday last, by order of the mthorities at
Washington.
A magnificent horse, valued at $600, which
was to be presented to Col. Baker on the very
day on which he was killed, has been sold to
the Duke de Chartres, of Gen. McClellan's
staff.
The coal dealers of Washington are be
coming alarmed at the rumors of government
interference with their business.
Gen. Scott's health is snid to be declining
U.
DIED.
On the 24th of August, 1861, Mrs. MARY
j ANN, wife of Robert Jack-on.
If Death dear mother and me divide,
Thou dost not, Lord, my sorrow chide,
Or frown, my tears to see;
Restrained from passionate excess,
Thou bidd'st me mourn in calm distress
For them that rest in thee.
GROCERIES
JOHN T. COOKE, -
CHEAP FAMILY GROCER,
Corner of Prince and Pitt Street*,
(Old Post Okkick Corner.)
ALWAYS on hand a large and well selected
stock of FAMILY GROCERIES, which will
ke sold on terms to suit the times,
nov s—lm
NEW BUCKWHEAT, just reoeived, and for
sale in large and small packages, by
nov 6 JOHN T. COOKE.
NEW MACKEREL—Nos. 1, 2, and 3, oa
hand, and for sale by
nov 6 ■ JOHN T. COOKE.
JOB PRINTING, HANDBILLS, CARDS,
BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS, Ac, Ac,
i neatiy and expeditiously printed, on tbe lowest
{terms, at the Alexandria Gazette Office, near the
I corner of Prince and Fairfax streets,
nov 6— lw
| WOOD.
OAK WOOD.
I T WILL take orders for OAK WOOD, delivered
iJ. at $7.25 per cord. Apply at the office of Wise
A Co , on King, between Water and Union streets.
! nov s—6t* B. T. PLUMMER, Agent.
