The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-23
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WAR NEWS.

sion, on the Potomac lines, went ont on
Thursday as far Ms Flint Hill. and collected
a quantity of hay. A detachment of the
Confederate forces was seen at distance be-
tween Fairfax Court House and Centreviile.
The Confederates have made an artillery
road from Flint Hill to Germantown: in Fair
fax.
The steamers Wyandank and E. B. Hall
ran the Potomac blockade on Thursday night,
and arrived in Washington. Wood and oys-
ter vessels continue TO come up occasionally.
Advances in considerable force, as recon-
noissances, were made on Thursday and yes
terday from the neghborhood of this place,
and there is said to have been some fighting.
By the last advces from Port Royal. we
learn that the Federal troops there were bus
lily employed in strengthening their position.
The U. s. government are directir < opera
tions towards choking up the inlets on the
North Carolina coast, by sinking in them old
vessels filled with stones.
Gen. Floyd has made good his retreat from
Gauley's Bridge, and it is thought will go
into Tennessee.
The campaign in Western Virginia seems
to be about closing for the season, and win
ter quarters are talked of on both Sides
The U. S. sloop-of.war Dale captured, on
the 18th ult, the schooner Mabel off the
coast of Florida, while attempting to run the
blockade. The Mabel was loaded with sup
plies, &c. for the Southern States, blankets,
muskets, &c.
1t il said that the Confederates are putting
up new battery on the Potomac, at Possuln
Nose
A correspondent CT the Cincinnati Conn
mercial (Union) writing from B urbon
journal lin condemning Secretary Came
rons late speech on the slavery matter, and
says it will do mischief to the Union cause
in Kentucky"
Attempts are constantly made to iriure
the character and credit of Gen. Meiss, but
the government has confidence in both, and
will retain him in the quartermaster's de-
par'ment.
MIR. Potter. in his Address to the Cotton
Spinners at Carlisle, (Eogland) said :--"In-
dian cotton would not kept us at work a day
and Il halt a week; and there is no proba-
bility that we can have cotton from any 9TH
err source to keep as at work, unless we get
the American war at an end. 1t is ques
ton Of life and death to us; it Is vital
question for ALL and we shall have to meet it
III some way or other"
Accounts from Warsaw, in Poland, give a
sad account OF the situation of affairs, and
the condition OF the people there.
The New York Journal of Commerce saya:
" We learn from surgeon recently returned
from Richmond, that the Fapprehensons of
the people in regard to the i'll treatment Of
Col. Cogswell and other uficers selected by
lot to meet the fate awarded to privateers, il
not realized. The field officers have been re-
moved to large room well ventilated, and
are comfortably taken care of, while the i'm
ferlor officers are also confined in one room,
but not to their personal discomfort
At the Circuit Court of st. Mary's county,
Md, Judge Grain presiding, on Wednesday,
Ilillery Curtis, free negro, indicted for at
to raise an lnsurrection among the
negroes, was convicted.
The Buffalo Commercial says that a gen.
tleman who arrived from Toronto Tuesday
evening, where he had resided since Nav.
states that out of the thousand English SOL
diers recently stationed at that place, nearly
six hundred have deserted.
The Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher lectured in
Boston last week for the benefit of the fami-
lies OF soldiers absent at the seat of war
The receipts amounted to $lO6, of which the
reverend gentlemen received 500, and the
poor women &c.
Mr.. Edward Everett expresses the opinion
hat the arrest of Mason and Slidell was not
n contravention of public law, and THAT
he question is free from reasonable doubt"