The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.

The Federal troops at Port Royal are pre-
pairing for an occupation of the islands
skrting the bay. They have not moved in
land, but were expected to occupy Beaufort
at the close of last week.
Secretary Chase's negotiations with the
New York banks, concerning the third fifty
millions of the government loan, have been
successful.
A despatch from Cincinnati says that the
first report of the battle of Piketon, ky-
turns out to be hoax.
Gen. Dix has issued proclamation to the
people of Accomac and Northampton, in
Virginia, announcing the sending of mill
| tary force to those counties, and exhorting
them to remain peaceable and quiet, not to
enco, rage or countenance rebellion, and as
surfing them that especial directions have
been given not interfere with the condition
of any person held to domestic service"
The Richmond Dispatch claims to have in
formation that the authorities of South
Carolina have communicated with the gov
eminent upon the subject of hosting the
black flag. to which allusion has been made
since the attack upon the coast of that State.
1t il believed that Gnn Lee has received Or
ders from the Southern War Department
that those canturei must be regarded as
prisoners of war
On Friday last the two important bridges
at The North Branch of the Potomac and at
Patersons Greek, east of Cumberland, on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which
were burned by the Confederates in June
last, were entirely completed and ready for
use again. This, with the repair of the
iron bridge at the South Branch, fourteen
niles east of Cumberland, opens at once
and restores to use the road as far east as
Little Cucapun, twenty miles from Cumber-
land.
The Eleventh and fourteenth regiments
of The United States Infantry are to be hut
ted during the winter at Perryvlle, Md
Sixteen hundred troops will thus be quar-
tered and form camp of instruction. Eight
hundred are there already.
The London News says: Every branch
of bus ness With America is severely affec
ted. The apprehended distress in Ian
cashire consequent upon the stoppage of the
American trade, is beginning to be realized
= at S5ockp port the increase of pau perism il
characterized as alarming"
, The presence of American political spie
e in England is made by the London Herald
Q the subject of protest. 1t calls the atten
ton of Earl Russell to the Washington ant
New York detectives in plain clothes, infest
;. ing the Liverpool Exchange and the dining
rooms. bar-rooms and counting rooms of tina
city.
Some fifteen or sixteen houses were burn
ed at Guyandotte; the majority of the build
:. ings in the town were not buried. Tn
< burnt district, however, comprises tho mos
valuable business houses and dwellings.
There are contradictory accounts of tn
negroes on the coast of South Carolins
some asserting that they are pillaging, an
q running away to the Federal troops-other
that they are attending to and saving pre-
!. perty and remaining at their homes. Coy
" Pickens, of South Carolina, in his messag
to the Legislature speaks Of the free negroe
l. in that State as having conducted themselve
& in peaceful manner, and being deservin
of protection.
le The captain of the British steamer Tre'
H. is said to have given up Mason and Slidel
"under protest"
IL Salt appears to be a very scarce article
the SJnth, and to be daily increasing
ID price Salt works have recently been esta'
ID lished on the coast of South Carolina
Snow has recently fallen at several place
50 ar the North Cold weather seems to !
10 Ginning upon US. s.if'~ -'H4a
IL il stated by the correspondents of II
j Philalelphia Press that the U. S. govern
ne ment is determined to raise the blockade
- the Potomac, and. to destroy the Cor fedora
) batteries on. the r,verss
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