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

! the South has arrived at Cincinnati, ana the
Gazette gives his " statement as follows:
He left Savannah, Georgia, one week ago
The French Consul granted eight clearanccs
to vessels, which met with no opposition in
leaving the harbor. No United States ves-
sci was seen during the three days. Every
body was expecting the big ship Finland
from England.
Gen. Stone is to issue an order cautioning
| officers of his command against expressing
censure of their superiors.
Gen. Sickles has joined his brigade at
Budd's Ferry, and will take a position near
the river.
| At the latest accounts from Hatteras Inlet
the only thing that could be seen above the
water was the forts.
tbs understood at Old Point that Hatteras
Inlet is place of too much importance to be
abandoned. Should the Twentieth Indiana
regiment return to Old Point, it's place will
be Immediately supplied by larger force.
Devastating fires have recently occurred
on the prairies in some of the counties in
Kansas. $
Gov. Morgan and others have written to
Gen. Wool, asking him not to resign his po-
sition in the army.
1t is said now, in the Geographic dispatch.
es, that the late advices from the different
governments in Europe received at the u S.
State Department, are entirely satisfactory
to that department-and that the Emperor
Of the French has unreservedly expressed
himself in opposition to Southern Confed-
eracy.
Colonel John F. Carter, james B. Smith
and Charles W. Boteler have COO tracted to
furnish the government with eight thousand
cords of wood per month. They are to fur
nish the wood at 81 per cord, while citizens
are charged $40 and $ll per cord.
The Long Bridge is being almost entirely
reconstructed, under the auspices of the War
Department, with the view of rendering it
secure for the winter, as the chief available
route of transport to and from the army on
the Virginia side.
The business at Locust Point has been
very heavy for the past week, and the trans
portation of army stores and supplies over
the railroad to Washington exceeds by seve.
raj hundred tons the transportation of last
week.
Gen. Pbelrs states that the Confederates
are holder and more numerous than ever near
Newport News.
Bishop McIlwaine and Edward Everett
are to follow Archbishop Hughes and Thur
low Wood in a voyage to Europe
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says: =" To-day quite num-
Der Of Federal soldiers were brought into
town under strong guard have not been
able to learn the nature of their offenses."
Letters are published stating that Capt.
Semmes, of the privateer Sumter, did sail
from New York for England and that he
goes over to buy war vessels. The stories,
however, still look doubtful.
The Washington Star says that the Con-
federates are removing the bulk of their
troops from around the Potomac batteries for
the purpose of sending them South.
The special Washington dispatch to the
New York World says -" 1t is not impossi-
BILE that the Federal army may soon make an
advance movement upon Centreville, and
when it does the country will of course be
filled with rumors of great battle at hand
But that does not follow by any means. The
army may march to Centreville as the Con.
federates march to Arlington, and yet this
fall may see no decisive battle. 1t is not i'm
possible, however, that Gen. Mcclellan NAV
place his guns in position and set to work, a
la Sebastopo), to make regular approaches
on the enemy. In that case it may be an
artillery fight Of months in Duration"
Dispatches published in the Northero pa
pers say :" that the agents of English houses
are busily employed all over the South in
buying cotton and tobacco, for which gold'0r
Bank of England notes are given. These
people take the risks, and if they succeed in
getting their cotton abroad, they will make
splendid profit