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

Col Green has dangerously wounded Maj
McNett. at CORTLAND, N. Y, while the lat
ter was endeavoring to escape from guard
house.
The Circuit Court for Charles county, Md,
met on Monday last There was not sim
&c case for the Grand Jury. The jailor,
fortunately had no prisoners or hand, and
we'll for it, as in fact he had no Jail in which
to confne them
On the 9th inst, Capt. Geo. W. Salton-
shall, of the fagship Minnesota, was knock.
ed overheard by the falling of block,
which struck him on the head Mr.. Salton
shall fell thirty feet upon propellng shaft,
and was seriously, if not fatally, wounded.
Gen. Patterson has called for court of in-
quiry into his conduct in the campaign OF
last spring and summer.
Quar'ermaster c. w Tallee has issued a
circular to the quartermasters of General
Franklin's division, to the effect that he has
''made arrangements for the use If 40 teams"
1t is designed that the extra teams shall be
used, first and principally, to collect materi-
ais for the erection OF shelters for public an
imals and afterward (shouid he be able to
obtain possession Of the same). to haul logs
for the huts Of the men. and for ,niscellane.
Gus labor. This looks much like going into
Water quarters.
The S r. Spaulding. frnm Hatteras Inlet,
brings intelligence of an engagement be-
tween the s, gun-boats, Stars and Stripes,
Underwrifer Putnam and Ceres, aud two
Confederate gun boats Between twenty
and thirty shot and she'll wero fred on each
side without doing any damage. Several
shots came close to the Spauldiug from the
boats, to which Captain Howes replied from
his guns. s#r
Unusual activity is reported at Hampton
Roads and Fortress Monroe and several ex.
petitions are fitting outfor the South. Flags
of truce were of daily occurrence, and open
letters were passed to and from Old Point
and Norfolk. -as.t a7.Has 4.
Itappears from the documents relating to
foreign affairs, that the proposed adhesion
of the United States to the declaration of the
Paris Conference concerning privateering,
ETC., was rejected by the leading powers of
Europe, and that it is abandoned by the
government.
On Saturday there passed through Balti-
more about thirty Confederate prisoners, en-
route for Fortress Monroe, from which place
they will be sent to Norfolk under flag of
truce. These prisoners were in charge of an
officer; who accompanies them from Wash.
ington to the Fortress. They were captured
at various times along the line of the army
of the Potomac.
No further caucusses have been held of
the radical anti-slavery members of Congress,
but their plans are forming with quiet de-
termination.
VIM. T. Glassell, of Virginia, Alexander
M. De Brae, of Virginia, Julian Myers, of
Maryland, and Dulaney A. Forrest, of Mary.
land, all navy lieutenants, from the East In.
dia squadron, have been consigned to War
rem on charge Of disloyalty.
The policy of colonizing the negroes of
Confederates who may be confscated and
emancipated during the war, has had tho
rough discussion in the Cabinet. Mr.. Sew
ard lends to the measure his cordial and un-
qualified support. 1t will doubtless be adop-
ted as an administration measure
It is the intention of General Mcclellan to
consolidate the different companies of each
regiment of the regular army. The exigen-
cies of the service hitherto have made it ne
cessary to scatter this force, so that there is
hardly anywhere a whole regiment of the
old army together.
The New York Journal of Commerce gives
in it's adhesion to the doctrine "of confsca-
ting the slaves of rebels"