The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-16

The rent of Gen. Halleck's headquarters,
commissary rooms. &c., at St. Louis, is ST..
ESQ per annum. The rent for the same pur.
poses under Fremont was only $l4,5oo.
1t is reported that the last British Yves,
India mail steamer from Vera Cruz refused
to bring to Havana dispatches from the
American Minister in Mexico, because of the
overhauling of the Trent. 1t is also said tina,
the British steamer Clyde would take on
board at Havana two Confederate commits.
sioners to Europe, in place Of Slidell and
Mason-to sail on the 7th.
The London News of the 9th ult. saws :
Yesterday much astonishment was created
on the Liverpool Exchange, in consequence
OF the following announcement being posted
in the news-room The Bermuda has arrived
at Havre with l,78O bales of cotton. This is
the same vessel which ran the Savannah
blockade some months ago, with a cargo of
supplies for the Confederates from Liverpool
The arrivals of the Nashville and the Der
muda show clearly that the b ockade is any
thing but efficient off Savan nah, and it wa.
confidently stated yesterday that the Bermu-
da is not the only vessel which has run the
blockade within the last month";"
The Cincinnati Commercial saws that a
winter campaign will 60 on, and that :. for
ward movements will be made By the Fed.
eral armies. 1t says that Gen. BuePs forces
IN Kentucky are now moving on, and that
sit is understood Gen. McClellan's project is
that simultaneous advance shall take place
ON the Mississippi, against Columbus, Ky;
in Central Kentucky, upon Bowling Green;
from Romney, upon Winchester from the
Potomac, into Eastern Virginia; from For.
tress Monroe, upon Yorktown or Norfolk
and that Buffers, Burnside's and Sherman's
coast expeditions shall make demonstrations
at the same time"
John Brown, Jr., son of old Ossawattomie
Brown, who was hung in Charlestown, Va,
commands company of Union Jay hawkers,
now stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas.
The man-ofwar Pensacola is still lying at
Alexandria. Her armament is complete, ex-
'ept one gun. She has now, it is said, twen-
y-two 68 Founders, and will take on $50
bound gun in few days. When ready for
ervice, she can throw seventeen hundred
POUNDS Of shot and shell every discharge,
md in one hour can fire twenty tons, at q
distance of from two to three miles.
Horn r. Kueass, we'll known member Of
ne Philadelphia bar, died on Thursday last.
If. Kneass was an active politician, and &C.
% with the Democratic party. The deceas-
was prominent member of the Indepen.
ent Order Of Odd Fellows, having at one
me held the Office Of Grand Master of the j
rider in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Kneass was ,,
lso Grand Sire Of the Order throughout tho
|nion.
Lieut.. John P. Worden, of the U. S. Ma
?. the first prisoner taken by the Confede- ?
ties after the outbreak of the war, has been
LEASED, and is now in New York. :
An exchange broker, in New York, nam 7
Bernard Levy, was found On Saturday j
orning, in his Office, dead with his throat 1
lshed from ear to ear. Tho matter ia en- :
Hoped in mystery, so far, and "a woman is
id to be in the case" N
Windship, the ''strong man." while at ]
mpting to lecture in Boston, last week, CT
II from exhaustion.