The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-09
GENERAL NEW S.

vice of Sevres china, which Is now on its
way to this country, as present to the Sc
cretary of State, in acknowledgment of the
attentions which the Prince received here.
Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds has been ap-
pointed resident agent at Port Royal, under
the recent general regulations of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury relative to securing
and disposing of the property found or
brought within the territory now occupied
by the United States forces in the Confede-
rate States.
The President of Guatemala is very anx-
ious for a colony of free blacks to settle on
the haciendas, where cotton can be easily
raised in large quantities.
Senator Smmons's South Carolina trading
project has been prohibited by the Govern
ment, and the vessels, all ready to start from
Fortress Monroe, have been taken to Balti-
more, and their carsoes sold.
A small steamer named the volunteer"
which was originally built for use in the
shallow waters of the Delaware river, above
Philadelphia, has been purchased by the U.
5. Government, for service in the waters of
the Upper Potomac. She is stern-wheel
boat, and draws only eighteen inches of wa
ter.
A letter in the Philadelphia Inquirer
says 1.-THE pickets of Gen. Smiths divi-
sion were fired upon last night at Lewins-
vile, but no injury was DONE 1t was said
to have been by Tobias Adams and Orlando
Gunnell, of the Confederate army, who fire.
quently come home. Their fathers are far
mers OF the neighborhood, and are now i'm
prisoned for completely with the Confede-
rates and persecution of Union men,
Gunnell is very wealthy. One of his ne
groes is in Gen. Smiths camp and thirty
others were carried to work on the fortified.
tions at Manassas"
Gov. Stewards letter to Gen. Mcclellan.
attracts much comment, not only from the
fact that the channel of the War Depart
ment was not used to convey the direction
concerning the arrests Of alleged contra.
bands by the civil authorities, but from the
more important view which is taken by the
ultra Republicans. e., that the carrying
out OF the instructions in question will eman.
cipate hundreds of thousands.
The Philadelphia Ledger says :-"Last
evening four Of the Lieutenants of the Uni.
tod States steamer Hartford, were arrested.
and will be taken to Warren. The officers
arrested refused, we understand, to take the
oath of allegiance to the United States.
Three of them are natives Of Virgins, and
the fourth is native of Georgia"
The New York Herald publishes what
purports to be "a full record of the Confede
rate army" in which the strength of the
entire Confederate forces in the field on the
Let of November last is set down at four I
hundred and ninety-six thousand men, q
Other accounts, however, make the spere. 9
gate less by from forty to eighty thousand Z
men. y
Gen. Mcclellan has urged upon Gen. Rip
ey the necessity Of having additional light K
rtillery of bronze, iron field pieces being
90 heavy for rapid transportation over the tt
Dads of Virginia, which are very muddy at t,
his season of the year.
The schooner Emeiine, from Port Roysl. Of
Martinique, reports leaving there the priva. b
Ger Sumter. She would commence coaling NJ
n the Oath of November. She had taken Y
vo prizes. IL
The charges against Col. Kerrigan, of the M
9Th New York regiment, who is now under in
rrest in Washington, are understood to be n,
conduct to his superior officer ch
nd neglect of his own regiment, thereby qr
nding to produce INSTRUMENTATION.
Under Gen. McCle llan's orders that Masses nc
lould be issued to persons of distinction T., tn
oss the liver, the Marshal decided that tr,
embers of Congress came within the de-
ription, but not their wives. ",
Com. Poor, tried for allowing the Sumter CO.
escape from New Orleans, when he was N,
command Of the Brooklyn, blockading st;
at port, was acquitted by the court.
A letter from Port Royal, S. c., says:- N,