The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-06
Foreign News.


airy expeditions. In Missouri and Kentucky
separate wars are pending almost irrespec-
lively Of the grand operations in Virginia,
and all but independently Of the chief gov
eminent.
The London Times thinks it not unlikely
that the moment drain Of specie common.
css, the financial community of America will
have its Bull Run, No people are more
likely to be acted upon by epidemit fears,
and if the passion for boarding should seize
them, it would be carried to an extent no less
remarkable than that of the blind confidence
in which they are at present reveling."
Accounts from Warsaw completely confirm
the Geographic statements respecting the pit
iless severity with which the Russian autho-
rites punished the persons who took part in
the Kcsciusko demonstration on the 18th ult.
The address to Garibaldi, begging him to
lead them to Rome, had already received
10000 signatures in the Neapolitan prov
inces.
Madame Goldschmidt Lind has made her
temperance in oratorio at Exeter Hall, with
immense success.
The London Herald. the organ of Earl
Derby, after silence of four weeks duration
on our affairs, is out in a very violent leader
on the subject of the condemnation of the
bark Hiawatha, and other British vessels,
by judges of the Union courts, for violating
the blockade. The Derbyites pretend that if
the decision of Judge Belts is not either re-
versed or disavowed, England will demand
reparation for her shipowners and traders
even to the length Of war with the United
States.
Three Spanish war ships had sailed from
Cadiz for the Gulf of Mexico. England has
stipulated, in the tripartite treaty, that, if q
monarchy should be restored in Mexico, no
member of the Bonaparte or Bourbon dynas-
ty shall be elevated, to the throne. Another
British war vessel (the Medea) had sailed
for the West Indies.
The steamer Persia has arrived with Liv
erpool dates to the Goth ult. Cotton firm
wheat and corn declining-teas looking up.
Captain Semmes, of the privateer Sumter, is
said to have sailed from New York as Brit
ish officer. 1t is said, in some quarters, that
the late defeat of the U. S. squadron at the
mouth Of the Mississippi, will render it i'm
possible to maintain the blockade. Eng and
France and Spain have a perfect understan-
ding as to Mexican affairs. Affairs in Poland
and Italy are unchanged. French financial
affairs more satisfactory
An account is given in the L ,udoun IVA
Mirror Of skirmish near Edw ards Ferry,
the day after the great battle there, in which
porary battery on the Virginia side were at
tackled, and met with some loss--said to be
40 or so. The Confederate loss was killed.
The next day, the Federal troops abandoned
their battery, and recrossed the river.
A large number of citizens Of Massachu-
sets and Pennsylvania have been at Ed
wards Ferry for a week past, searching for
missing relatives. In very many cases they
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have been unsuccessful, and many return
home without ascertaining the fate of those
whom they have sought to find.
Troubles continue in New Mexico, be-
tween the friends Of the Union and the ad.
vocates of Southern Confederacy-and
there are skirmishes and rencounters be.
tween the opposing forces. There is said to
be, also, divisions among the South Western
Indians in relation to joining in the presen,
war. ~
The Baltimore Sun says, "A gentleman
was in Baltimore yesterday, who stated that
he saw General Beauregard at Gordonsville,
Va, on Monday, en- route for Charleston.
There are one hundred wounded soldiers
at Poolesville. They are generally doing
we'll.
The annu Il meeting Of the stockholders o
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Com
pany is to be held at Charlottesville to-mor'
row.