The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-29
ALEX ANDRIA, VA.
GENERAL NEWS.


The Boston Post strongly dissents from the
expression of o preacher in a pulpit in that
city, few days ago, to the effect that che
desired to see Charleston laid in ashes, her
ground plowed up and sowed with salt, that
no green thing may ever grow there, and the
State Of South Carolina lowed into the mid
IDLE of the Atlantic Ocean and sunk"
The prisoners from Worcester Co., Mass,
write to the Mayor Of Worcester city, from
Richmond. that they have been 'kindly
tseated and furnished with enough to eat and
that of good quality"
The principal seats of manufacture in the
North are now quite busy and prosperous as
compared with New York and other cities
more purely commercial Cotton manufac-
tories are being changed into wooden mills,
and at the South also varied manufactur-
ing element is developing itself.
The New York World has severe article
upon the Medical Bureau of the army, at
at Washington, and undertakes to declare
'its incompetency and obstructiveness. 1t
seems to have particular "spite" at theman-
agement of sanitary measures, and concludes
by saying-"The half is not told. A gene
raj engagement on the Potomac may be
near at hand. There would then be no
concealing the yet more terrible truths which
for the present we hold in reserve"
Fort Pickens and its surroundings are de-
Tended by sixty guns and LOO troops, cx-
elusive of those on the blockading fleet.
The harbor of Pensacola. is one of the
finest in the world. It is completely land
locked, and capable of affording shelter du-
ring violent weather to squadron upon squad.
ron. of large draught vessels. The bay has
two upper arms, receiving the waters Of the
Blackwater. the Middle and the Escambia
rivers. On the shores Of the first named are
some Of the largest sawmils in the world.
Mr.. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal
says "that the time has unquestionably arriv-
ed when Mr. Cameron should be compelled
to retire from the Cabinet" because he en-
dorses Col Cochrane's sentiments. The
Washington Republican says, "If Mr.. Cam
eron entertained Mr.. Prentice's sentiments,
the people and the army would demand his
expulsion.
The Washington Republican says that Mr.
Segar's letter on the slavery question, men,
toned yesterday is not entitled to any con-
sideration, that he had "better get his arms
ready"-and that "aa overwhelming major
ity of the Union men Of the South are ready
for emancipation to-day, if that step is ne
eessary to put down rebellion"
The New York Times says: 1--WE learn,
from a perfectly authentic source, that bill
has already been prepared, and will soon be
introduced into the Legislatureof Kentucky,
confiscating the property of Kentucky Con.
federates: and that it will undoubtedly be-
come a law"
Geo. Havemeyer, son Of Ex-Mayor Have
meyer, of New York, was crushed to death,
in the sugar refinery Of Messrs Havemeyer,
Townsend & Co., New York.
The New York Herald's Washington cor
respondent says: 1.-The President and Cabi.
net were startled on Saturday afternoon last
by the arrival of a distinguished military
officer of the United States Army from For
tress Monroe, with papers that had been
seized (where, or by whom, I cannot say. !
. These papers were spread before the Presi-
dent and his ministerial advisers for exami-
nation, and, to their astonishment proved to
be communications from Confederates in the
South, forwarded by British Consular agents
ia the principal cities of the South to Lord
Lyons, who, in his official capacity, it appear
ed, had forwarded the documents ON their
way to England"
The Calcutta Englishman censures the
Manchester manufacturers for doing notb;no
to further extend the growth of cotton in
India.
Gen. Cass not only justi6es the arrest of
Mason and Slidell, but contends that it was
in strict accordance with the position of the
government upon the right of search ques-
ton as maintained in the correspondence