The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-09

aI L oIC hoyal. FROM several gentlemen who
have recently returned from that port, we
learn facts which are to be relied on as true
The negroes have come to the fort to sell pro-
visions, poultry, &c., and their supplies have
been bought. Others have come from curl.
oslty' going away again when they pleased.
About $50 remain in the fort, having been
employed to work, receiving rations and So
per month. The total number that have
come In on any and every pretext does not
exceed three hundred and fifty. No indica-
ton has been given of any desire to accept
liberty as permanency. Their attachment
to their masters and the families to whic h
they belong, does not seem to be diminished
and there are large umbers probably thou.
sands of them in the ghborhood, who have
not come into the fort at ALL No reliance is
placed on any information they give"
The New York Tribune says: GA prison.
er recently captured at Port Royal stated
that the ship Fingal, from Glasgow, with 70
rifed cannon, and a large cargo of small arms
and ammunition, went up the Savannah riv-
er, under cover of a fog since the Federals
captured the forts and batteries at Hilton
Head. Lie also says that there are 5000
troops at Savannah.
The Fall River Daily News publishes a
letter from Kansas which gives terrible pic
ture OF the outrages perpetrated by the Jay
Hawkers and other partisan bands upon the
people of Missouri.
A plucky little British MILDLY recently
slapped the august ears of his royal high
cess Prince Alfred, who thereupon indig-
nantly reported to the officer in command
Investigation showed that the indignity
was the result ofprinceiy impertinence, and
all the satisfaction which his highness got
therefore, was piece of advice to the effect
than in future he had better keep civil
tongue in his head.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has
adopted three important memorials to Con-
gress-one praying that coinage powers may
be conferred on the New York Assay Office,
one asking for postal facilities by steam to
China and Japan, and one showing the ne
cessity and advantages of direct and unin.
terrupted railroad line between New York
and Washington, so as to bring the two cities
within six hours Of each other, without de-
ention on the way.
Parker Pillsbury, abolition orator in Mas.
'achusetts, endeavored to address the citi-
'ens OF Rockport in their church on Sunday
evening, but the meeting was broken up and
he building materially injured. 1t appears ,
bat such delicate little missiles az fire. balls
md bomb-shells were thrown through the ]
windows BY outsiders. 9
Little Maggie Mitchell, the popular actress /
7as Kissed down by some Pittsburehers. g
LIST week, while playing at the Theatre in .
nat smutty city, because it was reported 9
re hsd sung secession songs, "down South" b
fling the chivalry Ito arms" An expla. &
alton was subsequently made, and Maggie t.
as allowed to proceed. r.
John Kendall, only remaining son of Amos
endall, died in Washington, last week. IL
The health of the Federal troops at Hill d
n Head, S. c., is said not to be so good, N
phoid and congestive fevers prevailing.
The Dublin Freeman Journal, of the Goth .
November, reports the object of Arch -
shop Hughes visit to Eupope thus: "The p'
ost Rev. DR.. Hughes, Archbishop of New
'rk was among the passengers on board tr
. Africa, which arrived at Queenstown On W
'nday. His Grace will stay a short while 81
this country, in order to obtain sufficient pl
mber of Catholic clergymen to afford a pr
'plain to each of the Union regiments re- ce
iring one tn
Fhe New York Herald says that the re- a -,
It of the evacuation of Tybee Island, by ~,
Federal troops, is pronounced to be un- '"
e by the military and naval authorities
The Port Royal correspondent of the New &C.
TX Tribune says that the negroes on the ~ '
st OF South Carolina, do not wish to 90 re
nth. They dread the cold, and want to NC
at home and ''be Free" ~
IN Friday night the through train from NJ;
York came In collision with a train NJ