The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-27

The war fever is still on the increase in
Canada. Ordnance has been sent to- the
cities in the west, and more will follow soon
Thomas 'Arcy McGee is melting the Irish
men to take up arms and fight for Canada.
The Kentucky House Of Delegates has
unanimously adopted q resolution to the eff
feet that oil statements in the public prints
that Kentucky contemplates the emancips-
tion of her slaves are without truth. Ken
lucky is attached to the institution of slave
ry, and can and will maintain it,"
Gen. Summers injuries are more serious
than WAS at first supposed. His spine sui
fered 90 severe shock from bis fall, that il
is thought doubtful whether be will ever b.
again able to mount his horse.
+ PEARSON Brownlow is still noder arrest a
Knoxville, Tenn. His steam engine for bi,
press is used IN Confederate srmory for
turning machinery.
BY the arrival Of the steamer Marion q
New York, We have late advices from Port
Royal and Tybee Island. The Marion trans.
ported the Seventh Connecticut regiment
from Port Royal to Tybee. The cannona
ding heard in that direction was from For.
Pulaski, which threw number Of shells at
the Marion while she was discharging her
cargo. 1t is expected that Gen. Wright will
have command Of Tybee. Gen, Stevens, now
in command at Beaufort, whose brigade has
recently been reinforced by two regiments.
is expected soon to make an advance on the
mainland of South Carolina for the purpose
of occupying point on the railroad between
Charleston and Savannah.
The New York Herald says: "Our Wash
ington correspondents inform Us that the
soldiers OF the Potomac army are beginning
to suffer considerably from the cold weather."
The National Inteligencer thinks it possi-
BILE that Louis Napoleon may consider the
danger of war so imminent as to Justify his
making an informal proffer through General
Scott, to which the latter attaches so much
Importance as to think he will serve his coun-
try by submitting it in person to the govern
ment."
The Hudson river. is blocked up with ice
from Hudson to Albany.
The Santa Fe mail. with dates to the 9th
inst, arrived at Kansas city on the 24th inst.
The Territorial Legislature Of New Mexico
was convened on the I'd. and on the 4th Gov.
Connolly read his annual message The Gov
ernor recommends all the Indian tribes to bs
placed on reservations, under very strictreg-
ulations as the only way to prevent the con-
slant recurrence of troubles with them. Tho
message expresses strong Union sentimental.
The New York World says:-"It is GER
tainly remarkable that, with war raging
along the whole Southern border, not sim
gle outbreak, so far as we can learn, has oc-
CURED among the blacks. Should this fact
continue during the war, it will serve to
modify many theories respecting the blacks
which have been widely disseminated by tho
negrophilists of the Tribune and its disci-
ples."
The New York Herald says:-"If the
abolitionists should succeed in their endea-
vors to make the present war ono of eman.
cipation, the people in certain localities who
are now fighting harder and risking and
suffering more in the cause of the Union
than those of any other section would be un-
,onstitutionaly and unjustly robbed of over
i've hundred and ninety thousand slaves,
valued at the lowest estimate at upwards of
wo hundred and ninety-fve millions of dol.
ars"