Visit of Edwin Forrest to Alexandria.
--A Washington dispatch, dated May 23, says:‘ Edwin Forrest, of Philadelphia, and Simon H. Mix, of New York, set out together for Virginia to-day, to make reconnaissance, and witness the election proceedings in Alexandria. They took a carriage early in the morning, and proceeded direct by Long Bridge, returning late in the afternoon. No molestation was met with, but they were suspiciously scrutinized by secession troops on their journey. They passed through most of the streets of the city in search of the polls, but no places of voting were discovered. Going down on the wharf opposite which the United States steamer Pawnee is anchored, overlooking the town, which they found guarded by a Virginia militia man with a fowling piece, Mix inquired of the chivalric son of Mars, ‘"Can you give me the name of that vessel in the steam, yonder?"’ ‘"Sir,"’ replied the man with the fowling piece.--‘"What wharf is this we are on?"’ gruffly responded the great tragedian. ‘"I do not know,"’ was the answer; ‘"but I will ask the sergeant."’ Off went the man with the fowling piece, who in a moment returned, and gave the required information. ‘"All right,"’ responded the tragedian, when he and his friend moved off up the town.
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