Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-04-27
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Arrival Of the Bark Yankee!
FOREIGN NEWS !

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By the arrival of the clipper bark Yankee, COmmo-
dore Patty, in eleven days from San Francisco, east
ern dates obtained till April from San Fran
CISCO and March 25th from St. Louis, Mo-, per Pony
Express.
The Yankee left San Francisco on the 9th, and
ried on the evening of the Goth inst, making the
ro'ld trip in 81 days.
lie ship Mary Whitridge, for Hongkong, cleared
tromSan Francisco on April 9th, and touched here.
Amng the passengers by the Yankee were Lady
FranklA and niece.
The appointments by President Lincoln for Com
missiOneland Consuls to this country are Thos.
J. Dryer, ESQ, of Oregon, formerly editor of the
OTegOniaH Is Commissioner of the United States at
the Court OF the Hawaiian Islands James A. Dix,
Esq, assistant editor of the Boston Journal Consul
at Honolulu ;and S. Long, Esq, of Illinois, Con-
sui at Lahaina
ST. LOUs, via FORT KEARNY, March 18th.
The Pony Express of March eth passed Fort
Kearney at l1:45 A. NJ, March 18th, twenty -four
hours ahead of tine.
The President yesterday nominated to the Senate,
Chas. Francis Adams, of Massachusetts,, Minister to
England; George Z. Marsh, of Vermont, Minister
to Sardinia James Watson Webb, of New York,
Minister to Turkey; W. L. Dayton of New Jersey,
Minister to France
ed dispatches from Major Anderson, endorsed by
all the officers of Fort SUMTER saying the fort cannot
be reinforced without 10000 men.
The Charleston Courier of yesterday learns, from
dispatch received by a mercantile house there that
the proper officers at the Custom House at Havre
have notified merchants that ships from seeded
States will be admitted the same footing as those
carrying the Federal flag.
ST. LOUIS, March Goth.
The immediate secession ordinance in the Arkan-
Convention was defeated yesterday, by vote of
35 to 80.
A dispatch from Savannah says that the New York
ships seized there have been released in consequence
of the surrender of seized by the New York
police.
ST. LOUIS, March Goth, P NJ
A dispatch from Washington this morning states
that orders have been sent to Major Anderson to
evacuate Fort Sumter
An armstice of ten days is agreed upon between
the Southern Commissioners and the Admnistra-
ton.
Schuyler Colfax and John Sherman contemplate
an overland tour to California Oh the first coach
under the mail contract over the Central route 1t
is expected to start on the 18th of June.
ST. LOUIS, March 2I--A. NJ
Yesterday the Arkansas Convention adjourned,
after passing Secession ordinance and cooperation
resolutions for submission to the popular VOTE A
concatory spirit is manifested by both parties. 1t
appears from the dispatches that the above action
was the result of a compromise, by which the peo-
ple shall vote on the first Monday in August for
delegates to the Border State Convention, the State
Convention to re-assemble on the third Monday in
August.
The HeydlFs correspondent says the Southern
Commissioners have received assurances from the
Government at Washington that no reinforcements
will be sent the Southern forts, and that the
isting status will not be changed for the present
dispatch from Washington of yesterdays date
saws the Commissioners of the Confederate States
will wait lesurelY for the action of the Government.
Great efforts are being made by distinguished gen.
tlenen to effect peaceful solution of the Southern
complication.
The Indians are at present in large numbers on
the Western frontiers.
ST. LOUIS, March 22d-A. NJ
The regular dispatches from Washington last
night state as q rumor, that the failure to evacu-
ate Fort Sumter on the day previous, was owing to
a technical reason, and it is said that it will
take place Immediately.
The Senate will probably not adjourn till the mid
die of next week. Messrs. Mason, Hunter and Lane
have left for home.
Mr.. Douglas intends to reply to Mr.. Breckinridges
speech.
A special despatch to the New York Commercial
of Yesterday saws that the National Eatelgencer of
that morning has an editorial Of six and half col
umns in length, entitled The Past, the Present and
the Future" which is causing sensation in political
circles at Washington 1t reviews the action of the
seeding States, severally and jointly, and takes
postiye grounds against coercion the employment
of force in any way to restore the Federal authority
The Inteioenoers opinion is that the existing diff
GUILTY can only be settled by the interposition of
General Convention of the States, and that the rea
ton of the seeding States to the Federal Govern
ment can be changed only by their voluntary return
to the Union. Failing in that, the editor sees no
way omen but to acknowledge their independence
out of the Union. 1t is said that many Republican
leaders have expressed similar opinions-but it is
equally true that they determinedly opposed by
others.
In the Louisiana Convention, the 2lst, after a
lively debate the permanent Constitution of the
Confederate States adopted by ayes, l0l; noes
The leading northern papers are already cIamoring
or an extra session of Congress- to relieve the COM
nercial public and the country generally, from the
,ffects of what they denominate "Simmons Wood
screw Tariff 1t is already estimated that this
revenue law will not produce $4,000, 600, IN the
ace of free trade the smaller tariff OF the South,
md when SI0O,OOO,O0O will be needed for public
purposes.
The Neo York Commercial says:
After the first of May, the difference in the scale
If duties levied at Northern and Southern ports will
lvert trade largely such Of the latter as cannot
,e actually blockaded. The goods thus landed will
,e sent straightway into the interior by river and
abroad Within three days bale of merchandise
an be conveyed from Charleston, Savannah, Mobile,
" New Orleans into the whole tier of Border States.
We have no to call in question the loyalty Of