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THE NEWS HERE. ALEXANDRIAMisfortunes, they say, never singly. Our neighbors of Alexandria are just now realizing the truthful force of this venerable adage, most essentially. A day or two since we mentioned some of the disabilities that secesson has already brought on them. Subsequently we learn that the Alexandria banking house of Burke & Herbert (as well as that of Corse & Bro.) have suspended, and that the State revenue (from the county) has fallen off one half from the declension of Alexandria merchants to renew their licenses; and still further, that nearly all the secessionists there who could manage to get their families away, have already abandoned their homes for the time being. Thus, with the current blockade of the mouth of the Potomac, rendered necessary by the attitude of Virginia towards the United States, these occurrences, the natural result of secession, have already destroyed Alexandria's business almost as completely as If the town had been burned to the ground for the time being. Three-fourtbs of its citizens are staunch Unionists at heart. By this time they must all realize that Virginia's secession was brought about by fraud and unauthorized and 11legal violence. By an usurpation as flagrant and palpable as ever marked the history of the progressive destruction of the liberties of any people under the sun.