The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-31

memorandum, to be addressed to Europe.
which treats # the question Of secc s>ion, de-
ciares that the war undertaken by the North
ern States will not lead to any result, AID
that The separation is already cpmp'eted.-
With u view. however, to put an eud to a
great ms iortunes, the memorandum, it Is
sad, will propose an amcable separation on
blses to be decided Ia C mmon the S nth
eTn States being ready to agree to any ar
rangement compatible with the dignity OF
all parties. This appeal to Europe is short
ly to be published" Ii is not known on what
a horlty the Paris Presse makes this state
men,, or whether here is any toundatitn for
il.
The Washington CORE spondent of the N
Herald thinks that Messrs. Mason and
S,idell Will take their departure in the pack
ct for England on the Sh Of January, and
be writer add>:-"If after their olfic de.
liverance from Warren they venture upon
the U, 5. SOIL they will subject themselves
to immediate arrest by the U. S. Marshall
The after dinner speech Of Mr.. Williams,
the English mail agent on board the Trent,
to the men bers Of the Yacht Club, in which
he gives his version Of the occurrences which
| touk place at the time OF the arrest Of Ma
son and Slidel is an amusing production.
The N. Y. World says that unless 'te
U. 5. Congress apply the only remedy,
prompt and vigorous taxation, the nation
will lose, In hard dollars, by this suspension
system more money than the whole cost Of
! the war"
Mr.. Tburlow Weed has written reply to
! the accusations Of the LoGdon Times against
Mr., Seward, defending the latter from the
| charge of wishing to inaugurate a war poi-
cy against England. The Times is very
caustic in its rejoinder to Mr.. Weed.
! Rev. Mr.. Sunderland, in his prayer at the
! opening of the u. S. Senate yesterday,
'besousht che favor of the Deity in these
days Of blows at the national heart and Of
foreign arrogance toward The nation, to
4 which it had to defer under the forms ot
SIT niplomacy-and in the course Of his in
vocation quoted from Bvron's poem of Ma
zeppa, where reference is made to Time al
last setting all things even" the lines:
THE patient search and vigil long,
! OF him who treasures up wrong"
This is the first time, we expect, that By
ron was ever quoted IN prayer!
The Mason and Sldell difficulty is settled
but the settlement appears to have been un
accompanied on this side Of the Atlantic
at the North, with any feelings Of content.
meat or satisfaction except as TO the stav.
ing off of war. There appears to be, judg
Ing from the newspapers, greater bitterness
springng up, than was experienced before
A quarrel took place on one of the New
York ferry boats on Monday, between an
Englishman and some Americans, in refer.
ence to the Trent affair." in which the Eng
lshman was stabbed and very dangerously
wounded.
Two ladders and sympathisers with the
secessionists," one from Kentucky and the
other from Illinois, were brought to New
York on Monday and Immediately Dent to
Fortress Lafayette.
The Washington letter of the Baltimore
Sun says:-"Itis now certain that the banks
cannot further aid the government by loans,
and that individual apitaists will not. The
treasury project will not afford relief: but ii
is thought that it would, if carried out
force nearly all the local banks into liquida
ton, and greatly increase the public distress
But the government has resource in heavy
taxation, and in the issue of treasury notes
receivable in payment of all public Dues
4 Moreover, it is believed that these treasury
notes will be made a legal tender"
According to the official report of the
sinking of the "stone vessels" at the mouth
Of Charleston harbor every effort was made
TO place the vessels in such positions as to
render effectual and permanent the dcstruc
tion Of the entrance of the harbor,