The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-15
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,


mand consists Of one hundred and half
regiments Of infantry, nine regiments and
nine companies of cavalry, and nineteen
batteries OF artillery. OF this total force,
about seventy-fve thousand men are already
disciplined and organized, and are in the
field. The remainder are still kept in camps
Of instruction, Or are employed in post duty.
I, A letter from Port au Prince, Hayti. un-
der date Of December IL, says that the
threatened revolution had been suppressed.
in consequence of it's discovery before the
plan was we'll matured. Emigrants from
the United States, acquainted with the rice
and cotton culture, were warmly welcomed
in Hayti, and it was thought the cotton cul-
ture would eventually exercise a powerful
influence over the country. At Port au
Prince the deliveries of coffee were large.
the principal part Of which was shipped to
Europe.
A frightful accident occurred on the Phila-
delphia and Erie Railroad, Thursday morn.
ing. The train was speeding along at a
rapid rate when rail broke, and plunged
several cars down rocky bank about TWEEN.
ty feet high, leaving them a wreck on the
ice below. Six men were severely wounded.
Russells letter to the London Times of
the 9th December On the ''inactivity of the
U. s. Army" gives great dissatisfaction at
the North. He speakes in it of "the noble
army of suffers and contractors" who are
making fortunes-but of them, he does not
talk in half such severe terms as are uttered
by the Senators and Representatives in the
U. S. Congress. Russell is soon to leave for
England, it is said.
The subject of the claim of the Washing
ton Cooperation upon the Alexandria and
Washington R. R., is once again before the
Washington City Councils. What to do
with the claim, or, if the road be taken,
what to do with the road, are the questions.
1t lie now past mid-winter, and we have
weather corresponding to the traditional
idea OF the season-snow. ice, sleet. Bleak,
indeed, is the prospect on all sides. The
town itself and the adjacent country look
dreary enough, on such days as are now ex.
perienced. a
Some heavy firing was heard down the
river late yesterday afternoon.
The captain of the Pensacola says that
the balls fred at that vessel from the Con.
federate batteries, mostly were too high
pitched" None Of them struck the frigate.
Of the Mississippi expedition the N. Y.
Times says. "it is idle to speculate about the
plans and routes of the different columns. az
probably no one, except Gen. Mcclellan,
Halleck and Grant, has been let into tho
secret, the plans may and undoubtedly will
be changed ~ the campaign progresses; but
with the exception of short intervals, if the
rainy season now approaching does not make
it impossible to move troops, the Confede-
rates will be pursued until subdued, or the
Unionists beaten from the field; unlocked for
may force Gen. Halleck into
different attitude; but, unless something now
below the surface shall arise, the determine
ton is to make vigorous and short cam
paign." ~, e,tsa.8s 81
The following U. S. army changes, it is
rumored, will shortly be made Col. Bid
die Roberts to be Provost Marshal for Wash
ington, in place of Gen. Andrew Porter.
who will enter upon the field, and Gen. Seth
Williams, Adjutant General of the army of
the Potomac, to be Adjutant General of the
army Of the United States, in place of Adiu-
tant General Thomas.
The negro organ in New York recon-
mends grand council of negroes in New
York, ''to consider the status of the race in
this country as affected by the war;"
1t is said that prominent capitalist in
New York has lost or had stolen from him
one hundred thousand dollars of T.. S. gov.
eminent IS of 1881.
An English gunboat on the coast of Afri.
ca has captured SLAYER (American) with
825 negroes on board-another SLAYER made
her escape.
Dressed hogs are selling at Albany, N. Y,
at cts. per H., for the best.