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'i&y-r.Sr } Saturday evening-, November 9, lsei. \ A-,-„_-SSra&i l ?--.c-. ALEXANDRIA. VA. I — - em eh c* * ■ The Military Court.—The Military Court held its usual session at the Court House yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, Judge Freese presiding. There was no busiuess of general interest before the Court, its attention being entirely occupied with cases of drunkenness, &c. The Fuel Market.—The price of fuel has risen considerable since our last report, tbe receipts being quite small, and an active demand. We quote as follows, retail prices: Wood—Oak, $6 50@8, according to qual ity ; pine, $6. Coal—No Anthracite in market; Cumber land, run of mine, $6 per ton. No lump in market. ______________________ The Citt Markei\—The market this morning waa well filled, both buyers and sel lers appearing in abundance. The supply waa tolerable, and trade brisk, considerable quantitiee of provisions going off during mar ket hours. Tbe ruling rates were much higher than tbe quotations of last Saturday. Poultry was scarce, and extremely high. Apples at > 40@60 cents per peck, which is exorbitant. The Weather.—This morning clouds over, spread the heavens, and at noon a smart rain began. The rain was still falling when we went to press. _ The Churches.—The Baptist, Catholic and Methodist churches will be open to-mor row for Divine service at the usual hours, the pastors of tho several churches officiating.— We hear of nothing to take place beyond the ordinary routine. The River.—There has been no move ments upon the river for the past twenty-four hours. The only vessels in the stream are the U. S. steamer Pensacola and brig Perry. A heavy tide has made to-day, whicb is said to be an indication of a blow outside the ca P** l, __ We wish we were at liberty to meution some individual instances of generosity, in behalf of the Relief Association, for the care and sustenance of the poor of this place duj ring the coming winter. The donors to whom we refer do not expect, nnd would not wish their charily to be farther referred to. It is suthcieiu to them to give a liberal portion n;' thrir means tv the cause uf humanity. We may add that our citizens generally, even those whose circumstances do not enable tbem, at this time, to do much more than scantily live themselves, willingly and nobly come forward to do all tbey can iv behalf v the destitute. God will reward tbem. - m Tho report which went the rounds of the papers some time ago, relative to the resig nation of U. W. Yandegrift, et-q , as Super intendent of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in Virginia, &c, it is now said is entirely im om<;i~-that gentleman being still in his former position, and residing on the line of the road. The report originated from the leaving of Virginia by another per son named Yandegrift. Brig. Gen. Mitchell has resigned his posi tion in the Army, on account of unsatisfac tory relations with Gen. Sherman, who com mauds in Kentucky. — — The Kentucky papers give accounts d various unimportant skirmishes, at differen points, in that Sra»e. between the Secession and Union men. There seem* to be much bitterness of feeling displayed on both sides. Civil war is experienced in all its horror there and in Mis ouri. Jleneral McClellan heartily approves th -position for an exchange of prisoners.— lis has been his sentiment from the start There have been about thirty-four bodies in all of soldiers who met their death at the battle of Ball's Bluff * icked up in the Puto mac between the Chain Bridge, three miles west of Georgetown, and Fort Washington. The N. Y. Eveuing Post has an article * compla ning of the depredations and miscon duct of some of the Federal soldiers on the Virginia side of the Potomac. GENERAL NEWS. The New Yqrjf Timed reports that tha Confederates wer6 in a critical position at Port Royal, and about to surrender when last heard from. The Tribune has a des patch that Commodore Tattnall had a small vessel Under his command, and was attempt ing the capture of tbe Federal gunboat which waa ashore. "Occasional," (Mr. John W. Forney,) in a letter to tbe Philadelphia Press, expresses the opinion that a forward movement of tbe National forces at Washington may be an ticipated about the 10th of November. It ia tbe impression among the troops in the different campa in tbe left wing on the Potomac that the army will go into winter quarters. Matthew J. Maury, of New Orleans, waa arrested at Cleveland, on the 6th, by tbe United Statea Marshal. Hia trunk contains a large number of letters to parties in tbe Confederate Statea. Gen. Scott received a deputation of the New York Chamber ot Commerce yester day, and spoke hopefully of the war and in terms of commendation of Generals McClel j lan and Halleck. The Louisville Journal reports that in the J counties south of Green River, Buckner's I men, within the last four or five days, have seized from six to eight hundred wagons. President Lincoln has invested $8,300 of his unsuspended salary in Treasury 7.30 j notes. j A large and in linen tial meeting was held jin New York, on Thursday night, at tbe \ Cooper Institute, "to take into consideration , and afford relief to the loyal citizens of \ North Carolina." Several prominent men | addressed the audience. John C. Tucker, who has been chosen a j member of the Massachusetts Senate, in the j city of Boston, is the first Irishman ever I elected to that body. j Gen. Kelly's forces- at Romney have been i increased so that tbey now number nearly i 4,000. Capt. Tay, of the Arctic, from Na-sau, N , ( S., arrived at Boston, reports that the Prince Albert, which arrived at Nassau from New York, siuted that when t.fl' Charleston, she was chased and brought to by tne privateer Sallie, of and from Charleston, who abused the crew of the schooner, and took lrom her a coil of rope and tow-line. They alno stab- j bed oueuf tho caiile on board. The follow ing day the liritifh sohr. Arctic, from New , York, reported that the Sallie had captured the brig Laura, ot Philadelphia, irom Cuba. ] Thurlow Weed states that he goes to Eu- ! rope on private business solely, and not as an agent of the Government. | It ia said that the estate of the late Colo nel John A. Washington has been placed in I i charge uf Commander Lee, U. S. N., and W. j IA. Taylor, esq., of Alexandria. The New York Tribune, sneaking of the | Confederate butteries on the Potomac says : "Some burprise has been manifested at the acquiescence of the government in the block' j ade of the Potomac, aud it is very frequently j aeked why the batteries are not taken. The j reason is because the shore could not be ' held, as it is commanded by bills iv the i rear. The batteries could be taken, but to be compelled to retreat afterwards would not look weil. Until one wing of the Federal army crosses the Occoquan, there will be no attempt to take the Confederate batteries." There are said to be batteries on live is lands commanding the entrance to Beaufort, \ which will have to be reduced before the fleet can operate against the more formidable de fences which di fend the town, which is 111 miles further up Bioad river lrom Port I B >yal. It is reported that the Confederate steamer j Page towed their prize schooner Fairfax out of Quanticn Creek on Thursday eve-ing. The Savannah and Charleston Railroad j passes within eleven miles ot the head of Port I Royal Sound, and thus troops may be easily l thrown from Georgia and the Oarolinas upon bat point. A gentleman who has lived nv..ny years in the South has arrived at Cincinnati, anfl the Gazette gives his " statement " as follows : He left Savannah, Georgia, one week ago. — The French Consul granted eight clearances to vessels, which met with no opoosition in leaving the harbor. No United States ves sel was seen during the three days. Every body was expecting the big ship Finland from England. Gen. Stone is to issue an order cautioning officers of his command against expressing censure of their superiors. Gen. Sickles has joined his brigade at Budd's Ferry, and will take a position near the river. At the latest accounts from Hatteras Inlet the only thing that could be seen above the water waa tbe forts. It is understood at Old Point tbat Hatteras Inlet is a place of too much importance to be abandoned. Should the Twentieth Indiana regiment return to Old Point, its place will be immediately supplied by a larger force. Devastating fires have recently occur v ed on the prairies in some of the countir:- in Kansas. ■ Gov. Morgan and others have written to Gen. Wool, asking him not to resign his po sition in the army. It ia said now, in the telegraphic dispatch ea, that tho late advices from tbe different governments in Europe received at the U. S. State Department, are entirely satisfactory to that department—and that the Emperor lof tho French has unreservedly expressed himself in opposition to a Southern Confed eracy. Colonel John F. Carter, James B. Smith and Charles W. Boteler bave contracted to furnish the government with eight thousand cords of wood per month. They are to fur nish the wood at $7 per cord, while citizens are charged $10 and $11 per cord. The Long Bridge is being almost entirely reconstructed, under tbe auspices of tbe War Department, with the view of rendering it secure for the winter, as the chief available route of transport to and fnm the army on the Virginia side. The business at Locust Point has been very heavy for the past week, and the trans portation of army stores and supplies over tbe raiiroad to Washington exceeds by seve ral hundred tons the transportation of last week. j Gen. Pbelrs states that tlie Confederates ore bolder and more numerous than ever near , Newport News. j Bishop Mcllwaine and Edward Everett are to follow Archbishop Hughes and Thur ; low Wood in a voyage to Europe. | The Washington correspondent of the j Baltimore Sun says:—" To-day quite a num ber of Federal soldiers were brought into ; town under a strong guard. I have not been j able to learn the nature of their offenses." j Letters are published stating that Capt. j Semmes, of the privuteer Sumter, did sail from New York for England and that he goes over to buy war vessels. The stories, however, still look doubtful. The Washington Star says that the Con j federates are removing the bulk of their I troops from around the Potomac bateries for the purpose of sending them South. The special Washington dispatch to the New York World says :—" It is oot impossi ble that the Federal army may soon make an advance movement upofl Centreville, and when it does the country will of course be filled with rumors of a great battle at hand. 1 But that does not follow by any moans. The I army may march to Centreville as the Con -1 1111 rob to Arlington, and yet this fall may see no decisive battle. It is not im possible, however, that Gen. McClellan may place his guns in position and set to work, a la Sevastopol, to make regular approaches on the enemy. Jn that case it may bean artillery fight of months in duration." Dispatches published in the Northern pa pers say " that the agents of English houses are bu-ily employed all over the Snub in buying cotton and tobacco, for which g .Id or | Bank of England notes are given. These I people take the risks, and if they succeed in getting their cotton abroad, tln-y will make a splendid profit." WAR NEWS. News has, at last been received from the I great naval expedition, via Norfolk, per tele graph, that two vessels of the fleet—one of them the steamer Union, and the other sup posed to be the transport Ocean Expre- — had been wrecked off the ooast of rtor'h Carolina. These vessels carried troops, munitions of war, horses, etc. Seventy men succeeded in reaching the shore, and they were made prisoners by the Confederate?♦ who took them to Raleigh, N. C. It is sup posed that a number of the small vessels of the fleet were lost. The main body ol the fleet had reached Port Royal, the entranet to Beaufort, S. O, and had made an attack upon that point. Atrlast accounts the bom bardment of Port Royal continued, and tbe assailants had met with a warm reception* Com. Tattnall commanded the Confederates, We have accounts from Cairo, 111., which state that an attack was made by the Fede ral troop's uuder Gens. Grant and McCler nand upon the Confederates who are posted at Belmont, Missouri—a town which ia sit, uated about three miles above Columbus- Kentucky, but on tbe opposite side of tbe river. The attack, from the statement re ceived, appears at first to have been success ful, the Confederates being driven across the river with great loss, their camp burned and their stores destroyed: subsequently, how' ever, they were reinforced lrom Columbus, and the Federal troops were compelled to abandon their conquest and retreat to their steamers. The battle, wnich is said to have lasted from noon until near sunset, must have been hotly contested, as the Federal loss is reported to have been from tnree to five hundred, and the Confederate loss t m aiderabie. On Wednesday, a party of sixty Coufed< rate cavalry made their appearance at Burk> Station, on the Orauge and Alexandria Hai' • road, fourteen miles from Alexandria. A reconnoisauce in force from Gen. Smith's division, was yesterday made iv the neig.li borhood of Vienna. Two miles beyond ilia* place the Confederate picket guard were lor ty strong, behind which they had regimen is iv reserve. The wife of Doctor lluiuer, win, was taken prisoner near Vienna on Wednev day, came within the iiues of Gen. Suiim'-i division, and ootuiued a pass to Washington. Two privates belonging to a Pennsylvania regiment, and attached to Gen. lieiutzu man's division, were shot in mistake on Wednesday night, aud were mortally vtouno ed by their own comrades while ou piok<■• duty near Pohick Creek. The Confederates, it is believed, have erec ted a battery ou the Potomac, betweeu P. hick Creek aud llalloway Point, where lh< channel runs near the Virginia abate* Tbi» is about twelve mile.- below Alexandria. An armed Confederate steamer brought intu Charleston the brig Betsy Ann Well*., of Maine, Michael, Tennessee, and six other vessels as prizes. The privateer Sumter is said to have been* captured on tne leeward ot Barbadocs. It is stated iv Richmond that five huudre-f and sixteen vessels have run the blockade since the loth of May. The New York Poßu says:—"During the seven mouths ending October 31, 30,000 men were shipped for the navy at the various rendezvous in thj United States, and 12,000 recruits were enlisted for the regular army. Although naval recruiting continues very brisk, 232 uieu being shipped in this city 1 at week, army recruiting is extremely dull, New York does not average four men p<-» week." DR. MoOONNivLL, D___Nl'__Sl, FROM WASH I Nil ToN, I). C, WILL visit Alexandria on Wednesdays and Sa turdays, profes-,i0..a11y, each week. ;V>__. OFFlCfc*—Corner ol Kiug and weaaiag ton liraata, next do .r to the office of JudgeC Neiile, lately occupied by Douglas F. Forrest. nov9—it* PORTLAND KEROSENE. _j AA GALLON- ot the above, which is univer %V/U sally ti.kn'iwlcdjred tw be equal, if Dot su perior, tv any otuer, received and lor sale Hta re duced pries. HENRY COOK A CO., nov9 Sarepta Hall, King street. OIL! OIL!! OIL!! ! T ARD OIL, Machine Oil, Liosecl. both r.iw an J JL_ boiled, iitlioieal Oil, pure Noatsloottfoal Oil, I Tr_in and Tanners' Oil, received and for sale by nov9 Hl-.NRY COOK * CO., Sarepta Hall.