Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-09-28


longer allow Kentucky to occupy a neutral po-
sitoD.
The Confederate Congress is reported to have
received dispatches by telegraph, stating that the
English Government has sent orders to Admiral
Milne of the Gulf Squadron, to see that British
merchant vessels be adequately protected in their
ingress and egress to and from ports of the South
The French Consul at Richmond has received
dispatches announcing the arrival of several
French war frigates at Norfolk.
ST. JOSEPH, Aug. 27.-9 AM
In consequence of the Presidents Proclamation,
Adams L Co. have issued orders to all their Offices
to Immediately cease receiving letters from the
Confederate States.
Several women have been arrested at WASH
ington and other places, for giving aid and comfort
to the rebels. Private dispatches received here
announce Mrs. Senator Gwin as being under
arrest, and that important papers were found in
her possessiOn.-EDs. ALTA.
The State Department had issued an explanatory
note In relation to passports. 1t was principally
intended to check communication of disloyal per-
sons with Europe. Passports are not required by
ordinary travellers on the lines of railroads of the
United States entering the British possessions,
unless in any special case suspected. Persons so
objected 70, by agents of the Government on the
border, the agent will such person to be de-
tanned until communication can be had with this
Department in regard to the case. (Signed W.
II. Seward.)
The Government has reliable information that
quarrel has broken out among the leading traitors
in the COnfederacy, which promises disastrous re-
suits. The belligerents are ToOmbs and Vrginians
and North Carolinians on the side, and Davis,
WIgiall and the extremists of South Carolina on
the other The complaint among the disaffeeted is
that Davis is taking fast to the legitimate results
of treason-the abrogation of State and individual
rights.
The PRESIDENTS Observation-Disclosures i'm
portant proclamation has been issued by the Presi
dent in consequence of the failure of the insur-
gents in the rebelous States to disperse, in ac-
cOrdance with the requirements of his proclama-
tion issued on the 18th of April last. The Pres-
dent now declares the inhabitants of Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennes-
see, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and
Florida, to be in state of nsurrecton against the
United States and that all commercial intercourse
between the rebellious States and the inhabitants
thereof and the citizens of other States and other
parts of the United States is unlawful and will
main unlawful until such insurrectiOn shall cease,
shall have been suppressed. Everything, there
FORE coming from those States into other parts of
sthe United States, without the special permission
of the President through the Secretary Of the
Treasury, or proceeding to any of those States by
land or water, will be forfeited to the United
States, together with the vessel or vehicle convey
ing the same.
The proclamation also declares the forfeiture Of
all ships and vessels belonging, in whole in part,
to any citizen inhabtant of the rebelous States,
whether found at sea or in any part of the United
States. All grievances occurring under the opera
tion of this law to be referred to the Secretary
of the Treasury. OF course, Western Virginia.
Eastern Tennessee and such other portions of the
rebelous States as are true TO the Union, are ex-
empted
The st. Louis correspondent of the Alta writes
under date Of Aug. 20.
The PosITIoN OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.-Papers
in the rebel interest still keep up the cry that the
Southern Confederacy is on the point OF being ae-
knOwledged by these two powers. Nothing can
be more absurd than to suppose that either En-
q and France will depart in this case from their
sual practice in regard to the recognition of new
States. Their rule of action is clear and fixed
They recognize as independent every State which
has actually proved its ability to maintain its inde
pendenee. They do not enter upon the question Of
right, nor can they permit their sympathies to gov
ern their action. The question is simply one OF
fact.
But in taking such action they compelled
from the nature OF the case to await the issue.
They cannot act in advance of the fact on which
their action is to be based. The trial for the
fOuthern Confederacy has not yet been had. Thus
lar they have maintained their independence-but
ID has scarcely been assaied. Less than six months
have elapsed since it was declared. and instead of
cOnceding it, the Government Of the United States
is but Just getting ready for the trial. So long
our National Government maintains its present at
titude there is very little chance of recognition of
the independence of the Southern Confederacy.
Our FOREIGN RELATIONS the
majority of the corrupt British press daily tax
ing more hostile position towards this Govern
ment, there is every reason to hope that England.
remembering her two former blunders in regard to
this country will now keep aloof, and not embrOil
herself in present difficulties. If some of her
papers may be believed, however, Britaiu's inten-
tions are anything but of a pacific nature. The
London Herald, of July 29th, Lord Derbys organ,
declares that " the blockade is thoroughly inefh-
cient and contemplate" and that " not a single
prize can be condemned - and even if the block
ade were efficient, the American Government can
not blockade its own ports, according to the doc
trine which it successfully asserted in the case of
one of its ships at Naples in the late Italian
war. Finally, the writer concludes in these EN-
phatic words " With the stoppage of the Ameri-
can supply of cotton, Manchester, from sheer
cessity, must fall to pieces.
And cessation of the or the Intervention OF
other Powers seems ut this moment our only pros
pect of escape from serious social and commercial
trials"
The language of the London Shipping Gazette.
the influential organ OF British ship owners, and
formerly very friendly to this country is still more
menacing. 1t announces that England, France
and Spain will now take decided course of action
in American affairs, 3" and at every hazard, main
tain, with all their power. the freedom of the seas
and cast the responsibility of any collision that
NAV occur on those who wantonly provoke it by
disregard of those obligations which the code of
international law imposes on all maritime States"
This is plain talk, which cannot be mistaken, and
there can be no doubt that the Government Of
Great Britain will walk over US if we permit it.
As sample of how battles are reported by the
American journals, give the following three ac-