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ALEXANDRIA. VA. T_a Grsat Storm—Gals of Wind—Boy Drown ed in Hunting Creek--Buildings Damaged— High Tide, ftc The storm of last week was of short dura tion, but has seldom been exceeded in vio- i lence. We bave already noticed its com mencement, and a portion of its effects. It increased in violence towards its close, and j finally lulled on Saturday : ght. On Saturday afternoon, about 3> o'clock, and during the height of the storip, a sad accident occurred on Hunting Creek. A son of Mr. Thomas Clowes, of this city, with two negro boys, one "Horace," belonging to C. C. Bradley, and the other "Sam," belong-1 ing to Lorenzo Lewis, of Fairfax, and now employed by Mr. Henderson—started to cross Hunting Creek Bridge in a spring wa gon, drawn by a single horse. The flood at the time covered the bridge, but it was be lieved it could bo easily forded. They had, however, proceeded but a short distance upon the causeway when the violence of the storm caused the horse to leave the causeway and carry the wagon and its load into the Creek. Mr. Clowes swam to the shore, the man I IL race, also, escaped—but "Sam" was drowned. The horse and some live hogs I which formed a portion of the wagon load, J were also drowned, and the wagon carried ! off a considerable distance. It was secured I and brought to shore yesterday—but the) body of the negro has not yet been recovered! ' The Pntomao River rose on Saturday j evening to a height nine inches above the ' freshet of last Spring, and about as high as has been ever known to the oldest inhabitant. I The entire river front ol the town was sub merged. Union street was navigable for boats for a considerable distance—large boats ascended King street nearly to Kell's Tin Store, and when the tide retired it left a large barge high aud dry on the sidewalx in front of R. R. Snyder'.-. The foots of all the streets running towards the river, were ■ inundated, and the water invaded them to a considerable distance. The flood entered nearly all the stores whose floors are not unusually high, but worked little or no damage. The tide had on the previous evening given evidence of a coming flood, and enabled dealers to place their goods beyond its reach. Messrs. Vto lett and Fowle lose some salt. There is, too, a very small amount of goods on private ac- ' count now in the stores—the stores and ware houses occupied by the United States are generally above the reach nf a freshet, j Some of the warehouses were lifted by the tide and otherwise injured. The low grounds near the city were all in undated, and considerable timber floated off. The causeway between the ainland and Alexander's Island, near the Long Bridge | was ako overflowed, Jackson City alone re- « maining above the water. In this neighbor- ' hood, a hack belonging to Mr. Chatham be- j came stalled, the carriage pole broke, and I the driver was forced to unlose the traces of his horses, and leave the carriage behind, i It will, however, be recovered. j The gale was quite damaging. Portions of the mots of toe stores of J. N. Harper, McVeigh & Co., aud Caaenove & Co., were j blown off, and these root's will require con siderable repairs. The Friendship Steeple < was slightly damaged—a fence belonging to Capt. S. H. Devaughn. on Pitt street, blown I down, and other damage done in various por- I tions of the city. A Washington dispatch published in the j Philadelphia Journal (Adm.) says : "A con spiracy on the part of eertaiu officers and i speculators in Philadelphia and New York, i against Governors Curtin and Morgan, has I been partially revealed here within the last j few days. The idea is to force liloM gentle- ' men into compliance with a request for the j erection of fortifications in Philadelphia and New York cities." We do not know what is I the meaning of this. General McClellan remarks, in reply to a Philadelphia committee, "the warcannot be long, though it may be desperate." Other authorities think it will be " long protract ed." Mr. Robert J. Walker thinks it will be terminated this winter. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4,1861. I Military Court.—The Military Court, Judge Freese presiding, held its usual ses sion, this rooming. | In the case of Witmer & Bro., new claims were presented from Jeffray & Co., of New York, and Cullom & Co., of Philadelphia, amounting to about $7,000. The resident partner having been notified, the Court or dered tbat he have five days to make reply, and in the meanwhile the goods in the pos session ot the Court be held subject to these I claims ia common with those heretofore pre sented to tbe Court. After considerable discussion as to the priority of claim upon the effects—relations oi copartnership, &c, in which Messrs. An drew Wylie, S. Ferguson Beach, I. L. Kin zer and Crowell, participated, the further consideration of the case was postponed un til to-morrow. Mr, J. A. English appeared in Court and | stated that no notices had been served upon the city officials as suggested by the Court on Thursday last, when that case was under consideration. The Court said that as no notices had been served, those officials could not he called to answer, aud that for the present, it would make no order upon the subject. The Court then took up the cifte of Sar geant Coglan, of the 'Lincoln Cavalry," Charged with shooting at Mr. J.-hn Kerr. Messrs. Quinsby, John L. Smith, John I Kerr, and A. J. Walker were examined us I witnesses in the case. It appeared in evidence thut tho accused was in the Shoe Store of John L. Smith, , „ Saturday night last, somewhat intoxicau-.J; that after ordering a pair of boots, he ap proached Mr. John Kerr, who was sitting :u the store, and asked 'Are there many seces sionists in this town ?" to which Kerr re plied that "he believed there were a few," when the accused took out his pistol, aud ! further asked 'Are you a secessionist?" to I which Kerr replied that "he was an old man and did not take part." The accused thou turned to Walker who had just come in, and i inquired "What are you?" Walker an swered "lam a Shoemaker?" As the ac-' oused turned to Walker, Kerr started to pass ! •nto the residence ot Mr. Smith by a back ! door. The accused seeing Kerr move, cock- J ed his pistol, and called to him to halt. Kerr ' did not halt, and as he passed the door, the j accused fired his pistol, the ball passing through the partition above Kerr's head.— I A guard was then called, and the accused ar rested. The accused soldier said he had been drinking, and was unconscious of the action, that he had never been in Alexandria before,' but he supposed that while in delirium, pro' duced by drink, he had been thinking of in juries done him whilst a resident of Georgia and of the talk of the soldiers in regard to Alexandria being a secession place, and this led him, unconsciously to commit the deed. I The Court said that no man, soldier or oth. j erwise, had a right to ask anybody their sen- I timents, and that it intended to protect all peaceable people in carrying on their busi ness, but as it was evident there was no per. sonal malice in this case, he would postpone its further consideration until to-morrow, to give time for the accused to present witness- Fas to his character. Other military cases were then taken up, d the Court adjourned. Sunday.—The weather "yesterday was 1 quite pleasant, but the walking was bad Nevertheless the Baptist, Methodist, and Catholic Churches, which were the only ones open, were well attended at all the services- The morning service at the Baptist Church was especially well attended, numbers bein_r unable to get seats, and the discourse of the pastor, Rev. Mr Bitting, was one of great ibility arii' produced , decided ~_. X upon the lartre auditory. Rev. G. A Smith assisted at the exercises th , In the afternoon, the Cameron Lieht Guard paraded, and were reviewed by a oinnoittee from the city of Philadelphia who had come to Washington to present a word to Gen. McClellan. P Col. Lewis T. Wig'fall, late~Senator from Texas, has been promoted to the rank of | Brigadier-General of the Confederate army I Extracts from Richmond papers to the 29th ult., are given in the Northern papers. They |do not contain much news. Accounts are given of the battle of Edward's Ferry, and of tbe arrival at Richmond of numerous prisoners taken in that battle. The names of twenty-two commissioned officers are giv en, among which are those of Colonels Lee and Cogswell, and the two Reveres. Two letters from Dumfries, on the Lower Poto tmac, are given, from which it would appear that active operations have been g6ing on in that quarter, aud that the batteries below I Aquia Creek are defended by a strong sup. porting force. Contributions to the fund for furnishing supplies to the Maryland regi ment appear to have been made to a liberal extent. The New Orleans Crescent says . " There have been large remittances from Tennessee io treasury notes withiu the past few days to be invested in sugar and molasses. The de mand for Bugar and molasses for Alabama and Tennessee is extending, and heavy transactions are expected the present month.'- Gen. A. S. Johnston has been placed in command of all the Confederate forces in Mis souri, and has issued a proclamation forbid* lany property leaving the State. Ie special Washington correspondent of Jew York Tribune, under date of Friday :, telegraphs as follows ." It j 8 under that the naval expedition is not dircct nied at cities on or near the Southern . The troops will land at, thinly settled s, with spacious harbors, and will at open cotton ports and establish a basis eration for additional forces now nius .." Beaufort, N. C, Fernandina, Fia., ther places are named in other papers,' as places for debarkation. At Edwards' and Conrad's Ferries on Sun day all remained quiet. A day or two ago' a large encampment of Confederates was pnched near the villa of Hon. Thos. Swnnn. formerly Mayor of Baltimore, but on the fol lowing morning it had disappeared. Mr. Swarm's residence is near Leesburg, and in full view of Edward's Ferry, and from its tower can be observed every strategic point for many miles. It is not unlikely that it has long been u&d by the Confederates as an ob- The Baltimore correspondent of the New York Herald gives the following estimate of the Confederate forces now in the field: Department of tho Potomac... i_ o 000 Department of Chesapeake and rest of Vir' ' ginia QQ Department of Kentucky and Tm'SJ i 7 ,'000 Department of Missouri..'. 60 nnn On the line of the Mississippi ....'.'. M 000 At Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and Gui'- ' Teßton 40,000 I Total force in the fiehL The New York Herald of yesterday says- We learn from St. Louis, on the authority ofa loyal citizen just returned from the camp of General Price, at Neosho, Newtown coun ty, that the latter general and Ben McCul loch had united their forees-30,000 strong —at that place. Large quantities of clothes medicine and other supplies had reached and he expected a number of rifled cannon to arrive, in charge rf Gen. George B Clark. It was said that Price intended to give Fremont battle at Neosho, where be hoped to defeat him, and then march on St Louis and make his winter quarters in Cen tral Missouri." A distinguished physician7who died some years since in Paris, declared: "I believe that uuring the twenty-six years I have prac tised my profession in this city, 20 000 ch : l dren have been carried to the cemeteries 'a sacrifice to the absurd custom of exposing their arms and necks." James Leslie, chiefThTrk of the War De partment, has resigned, and been appointed Consul to Nice. A hospital has been* established in Dum fries V a., by Dr. Garnett, formerly U 8 naval surgeon. The arrival of Col. J. E. Scruggs, of Fau quier, at Richmond, is announced in the xvicnmond papers. Capt. R. J T.Scott, of Fauquier, is said to have headed a charge at the battle of Ed wards' Ferry. Beporti from the Naval Expedition. When the steamer Georgeanna left Old Point on Saturday evening, it was reported (?) that one of the government steamers, having on board upwards ef eight hundred soldiers, had been wrecked some thirty miles south of Hatteras, and that only one hundred and fifty men were saved. Another vessel, loaded with cattle, had been blown on shore, and the few cattle that were not drowned escaped into the interior. The Government steamer George Peabody, which had made a fckrbor in Hampton Roads, dragged her anchors during the gale, aud was on shure at Hamp ton Bar. Several steamers were engaged during Saturday indeavoring to get her off, but without success. The weather in the lower part of the bay and on the coast is re ported to have been equally as severe as any experienced for a number of years. A steamer wilh a flag of truce, which left Old Point for Norfolk on Friday, was compelled jto make a harbor at Sewall's Point, and had ; not returned up to Saturday night. We shall doubtless be shortly compelled to re cord much loss and suffering from vessels on \ the coast. The New York Herald of yesterday says : 1 "By the arrival of a vessel at Baltimore yes. terday afternoon, we learn that the fleet '•was off Cape Hatteras on Wednesday even ing, at which time the weather was remark ably fair, and the squ idron was moving along finely. The captain of this vessel re ports that the gale commenced north of Cape Hatteras, and gives it as his opinion that the fleet did not encounter it at all, as the ships had pas-ad south ot that point before it com menced." The Baltimore American of to-day says . "We learn from passengers by the .Vorf.ilk boat that the rumor on the streets Saturday morning that three of the ferry-boats con nected with the expedition had returned dis abled, is altogether unfounded. None of the vessels hal returned except the two Kll tugs which arrived at Old Point on rsday, unable to stand the weather on the coast." The Wheeling Intelligencer says:—"We learn from Dr. Griswold, United States Sau itary Inspector, who has just returned from a tour of inspection up the Kanawha, that the Federal army under Gen. Rosecrans is at present in a state of rest, and measurably recovered from the terrible exposure at Se- Wttll Mountain to the severe rains and coid that fell upun them with fearful effect."— There is much sickness in Gen. Rosecrans The steamer City of New York has arrived with Liverpool dates to the 24th ult.' Cotton is advancing. Breadstuffs are easier. The L ,ndon Times says the blockade at the South must be more efficient, or it will not answer —but it is evidently against "recognition" for the present. The Shipping Gazette con tinues to denounce the blockade, and calls for interp isitiou. The reports of the failure of the crops in France have been exaggera ted. Cotton from India is promised in an other year. Affairs of the Bank of France excite some uneasiness. SGen. Scott, after his retirement from the rmy, went on to New York, in company ith the Secretaries of the Treasury and of far and other friends, in a special car pro ded for him, and was received along his mte with demonstrations of respect and at tention, wherever he was known or expected. He stopped for a day or two at his home in Kliz ibeth City, New Jersey. " Personne," the Charleston Courier's cor respondent, writing from Fairfax Court House, Va., on the sth ins ~ says: " I learn that Gen. Beauregard has lately received a present from a young lady in Alexandria. It was simply three elegant shirt studs, with the words,' Let—us—out' respectively enamel ton each." Barons de Sayne and de Schonen, descen ts of Rochambeau and Laiayette, have volunteered to join the U. S. army as officers, and been accepted. | The late gale commenced in New York on | Saturday morning. Considerable damage ' was done to the shipping.