The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-18

Mayor Wood, of New York, says that city
is all but impregnable to sea attack
but it's vulnerable point is from the Long Is
land side. He calls for due consideration
of the defences of New York.
The Washington correspondent OF. the NJ
Y. World says that ''it is pretty we'll under
stood that the U. s. government is awaiting
the complete formation and departure OF
Gen. Burnside's expedition from Annapolis
and Fortress Monroe, and that this move
ment, instead of being destined against some
extreme southern point, is to cooperate with,
and become portion Of, Gen. McClelian's
campaign with the main army.
The Washington letter writer's correspon-
dents. and Northern papers say that simui-
taneous attacks are to be commenced upon
the Confederate batteries on the Potomac and
tho Confederate troops on the Potomac line,
and that there will be battles WITHIN zen
days.
A leading bank in New York on Monday,
ceased to pay specie, except in small SUMS
l and then only TO- its regular customers.
Mr.. Grimes's bill revolutionising the U.
s. NAVY would retire all officers after forty
: wears of public service. This would put out
i Wilkes. Footc, Dupont and Goldsborough.
, An inquiry has been ordered by the u. 5"
J. Senate, as the authority under which por-
t;on of the Capitol at Washington, has been
CONVEX ted into bakery.
Tn the last news received at New York
a from Port Roy.l, there is no mention MADE
:. Of the reported evacuation Of Pulaski by the
re- Confederates.
ir The bank committee, representing the
n. hanks Of New York, Philadelphia and Bos-
ton, held a meeting yesterday at the New
York Bank of Commerce, and, contrary to
u nublic expectation, decided not to suspend
AN specie payments.
or The Norfolk Day Book Of the 18th instant
states that five hundred federal prisoners have
-, taken the oath of allegiance to the Confede-
yas rate States.
elk, The Mexican Extraordinary newspaper
Mr.. of the 18th publishes quite an elaborate ar
AO~ w 49,
~ nresent disturbed condition of affairs between
nan Mexico and the allied powers. The condi
nee ton of the country is represented as deplor
and able. Robbers exist on the highways and
bvwavs-even in the principal streets o
ture Mexico. The feeling in the interior aga'ns
tain foreigners is growing more and more bitter
Is to James Redpath, formerly the Kansas Col
respondent of the Tribune, anda man know
Mr.. as belonging to the most progressive schoe
ling of abolitlon-a man "no n"' wv. ,s 49,
oats AZ almost any other to foment discord-no'
oea, comes out in public acknowledgement
mast errors, repudiating the mischievous do
tripes disseminated in former days, and al
49, -,ea nounces his retirement as political edit'
- until such time as he shall have attained
= clearer and more human and Christian vie
-. of the duties of the freeman to the enslaved
Alter The U. S. Congress Investigating Comm
com. tee have recently had their attention call
TO the case of Pennsylvania who contr'
we'll ted to furnish the trans Potomac camps vi
has 6rewood at four dollars cord. 1t is said
.lents procures the whole supply from trees alrea
# the felled by government, which he pays III
RIM of cents cord for cutting.
Mr.. Vallandigham, in the U. S. House
arday Representatives, yesterday, pred'cted
AGENT, Mason and Slidell would be returned
city, three months. Mr.. Colfax, OF lnd' tnou
welve that the United States were on the eve
rse, war with England.
r. $50, Some dissatisfaction is expressed in E
$l2O. land at the admission of member of
esome bar in that country who had been depri
only of his privileges, to practice IN the
It they York courts.
(. and o.a1on ~ TIM ours.prAKE AND ONO CANAL CO
earthly MaSh mn ths D reomrement Of
| Commissioners Of Public Works OF the ota
L. harahu given that q ge