The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-09
GENERAL NEWS.


The Philadelphia News, referring to the
attemptto induce, in these times, er,ortionists
to desist from expressing the poor and needy
and asking high prices for food and fuel, by
quoting to them the words of the Bible, that
extortionists shall not enter the kingdom of
God" seems to that think the reminder is su-
perfuous. Extortionists do not set great
value upon property SO much above tide
water. If you could convince them that
specializing upon the wants Of poor people
would cut them off from the possession of all
real estate, as we'll as personal and mixed
property, they might be deferred from the
exhibition of their avaricious propensities
but any prospective inheritance which is at
SO great an altitude as to have no market
value, will have very little influence upon
them. He SOS -#f'
The correspondent of the N. Y. Herald,
thus writes concerning the Confederate Bat
teries on the Potomac River SO The bat
teries, as far as they are known to exist, and
ed, now begin at Opossum's Nose, that line
extending four miles, to Chapawmisic creek.
Below this there is a gap of eight miles TO
Aqua creek, where, as is we'll known,
another line of batteries begins, extending
to Potomac creek, distance of ak and three
quarter miles. From Potomac creek to Ma
thas Point is distance of fifteen miles, in
straight line, or, following the curve of the
shore. seventeen miles. From the former
place, nearly to the latter is a chain Of earth
works, but no guns are believed to be noun
ted. These distances were pricked off with
the dividers on Phelps chart this morning.
and have not been guessed at. With regard
to the batteries, repeat, have seen them,
and more than once came near feeling them
to some purpose" Hitt
The Wheeling ordinance for dividing the
old Commonwealth of Virginia, and erecting
new State of the counties west of the Al
leghany mountains, has been adopted by
majority of nearly, if not quite, one hundred
to one, and new Convention, the members
of which have just been chosen, will Assem-.
BILE at Wheeling on the Goth inst to ratify
the action. The new State will be called
Kanawha, and will contain population of
two hundred and eighty-two thousand, in
Guiding about eight thousand slaves.
The Catholic Mirror for this week says:
"We understand that Archbishop Hughes
sailed from New York, for Europe, on We'd
nesday last. A letter was received from him
in this city, in which it is said he stated that
his errand was neither one of health pleasure,
private or ecclesiastical business. The only
inference left is that his mission is of politi-
cal character"
The MOnrovia correspondence of the Lon
don Times, under date of September IA,
gives an account Of the visit Of Spanish
war steamer to Monrova, and her attack
upon the Liberian war vessel the Quail. The
Spaniard attacked the Quail without word
of warning, but was vigorously fired upon
by the latter vessel and the Fort Norris bat
terry, when she turned about and sped away
to sea.
d. E. Somes is out in letter to the Presi-
dent, asking him to recommend to Congress
the division of all the remaining public lands
among the soldiers at the close of the war.
The places where the two steamers were
recently lost with horses, munitions of war,
&C., on the coast of North Carolina are call
ed Kill Devil Shoal and Rogue's beach.
The bagging factory of John Bull, in St.
Louis, was destroyed by fire on the 7th inst,
Loss 500, 900.
Of. Payne, (Union) has been elected State
Senator in Prince Georges County, Md.
steam transport was burned at Chicago
on the It'll. Loss $4,000 Twenty persons
were killed
An explosion took place at the Watervliet
Arsenal, n Y on Wednesday, and four men
were fatally injured.
A dispatch IN the N Y. Tribune from
Beaufort, South Carolina, says that as far as
heard from, in the bonn bardment, one of the
Federal gun boats was disabled by the can.