The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-04-10
Foreign News.
kilograms from March SIS.

Sumner introduced in the Senate a bill for regu-
lating the carrying Of the foreign mails, when Latham
pitched into the Vanderbilt line. with terrible earn
estness. contendiug that Aspinwall steamers ought
not to be allowed 10 clelr at the Custom House. or
have the protection OF the American flag, if they
persisted in refusing to carry the mails.
Subsequently,, Nj. Latham introduced n bill to
repeal all Laws preventing foreign vessels carrying
mails 20 Pananis anil Aspinwail. The joint resolu-
ton rendering aid to certain States. in relation to
emancipation, was received from the House and
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The II use bill. providing n new article of war,
that no officer or soldier shall be employed in return
ing fugitive slaves, pass a the Senate by - against
9. The signature of the President is all that is re-
euire,l now for il TO become a law.
WAsHISGTOS, March 6-The Senate Finance
Committee have struck out Of the House appropriation
bill SIS, 00O, OJ0 for the construction of gunboars;
the Naval Committee urged it's restoration, which
has been done.
Information has been received by the Navy De-
partmenr of the capture of n rebel scho- ner from
Apalachicpla TO Havana, by the gunboat Hasco. She
had a cargo of 300 bales of cotton.
In the Senate to-day a joint resolution was adopted
rendering the thanks Of Congress 10 Com. GoldSbo-
rough and his officers aud seameu, for their gallant
conduct At Roanoke Island.
Amendments wee adopted to the bill relating to
the pay of members of Congress, making the mileage
Of members 20 cents per mile.
The work on the b fillmore and Ohio Railroad is
progressing rapidly. Every point IS strongly pro-
fected. from Cumberland TO Hsrper's Ferry. The
1 WORK has been done iD DeiteT FASHION man z N
first supposed. March 20. Is fixed as the time within
which the connection was thought TO be made.
A special Washington dispatch TO the New York
papers states that = squadron of the LIST Michigan
Cavalry had surprised a party Of rebels near Perrys-
vile, on the Winchester road, Va. routing them and
capturing n number of horses. The amount OF forage
AMI provisions that hal been captured Icy the right
wing since the advance into Virginia is estimated to
be worth S20.uO0 Leetown and LOveItsyille are
now held by the Union troops
AiSices from the Lower Potomac state that the
! rebels are concentrating n large free in that direc-
ton. opposite the pnsifich of Gen Hroker's division.
There is reason TO believe this, although the rebel
army on the Potomac has been greatly augmented
since the Union victories in the West.
Postal communication is entirely reopened to
AccOnac. Northampton county. Va. The Post Office
Department i. ready to establish. 50 soon as Congress
gives authority, free delivery in the city, and with
uniform rates of postage for local and general letters.
Lieut.. worden. commanding the Monitor, was
injured but not dan erously, il is Supposed.
During the action, all the rebel ~gunbOais and bat
teries in reach directed their he at the -hiaresofG.
doing her snme damage. aud killing four or FIVE Of
the crew. With the assistance of the steamer SpduId-
ing. the Minnesota eventually got of, and sas
towel under the guns of Fortress Monroe. The naval
authorities here are confident that the yheTrimGc
was disabled The Monitor proved herself impreg
nabIe to heavy shots At close quarters. Sne behaved
remarkIbl well on her passage from New York, AID
although the sea completely covered her decks at
times. her speed was not perceptibly diminished.
The Kansas Legislature has adopted. nearly unan-
imously, a resolution insfructing the Senators and
requesting their Representatives in Congress, TO aid
the passage Of the Pacific Railroad bill.
The speaker laid before the House n message from
President Lincoln. suggesting the passage Of a joint
I resolution providing for the Incorporation into any
bill concerning the abolition of slavery ny any State
a clause concerning pecuniary compensation. The
President proposes this as the initiative step, predi-
Gazing important practic NJ results therefrom. Referr-
ed 70 the Committee of the Whole.
A flag OF truce from Norfolk represents greac
excitement in that cIty. The hotels are swnrm'ng
with Ulcers from the Gulf States. The Virginia
troops have been sent away. The reople have decided
upon the destruction of the city in case of an attack.
A strong force is concentrating at Suffolk 10 check
Burnsides, who was reported to have reached Winton,
and was moving on Norfolk.
The rebels state the reason that Col. Corcoran was
not released. is that maps and drawings have been
.ound on his person.