The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-16

been repulsed by rebel batteries 1t st. Johns,
Florida
LOUISVILLE, Sept 24-The appearance of the city
is quite martial. Stores are closed, and military
detachments are seizing all the unenrolled persons
to labor on the entertainments. The rebel General
johnson Is at HopkinsSille, enforcing the Confederate
consumption and leyying contributions on the Union
men. 1t is reported that Humphrey Marshall's
advance reached Shelbyyille last night.
WAsHISGToN, Sept. 3d-The Post Office Depart
ment has ordered the continuance of the Pacific Mail
on the Overland Route, reliable information having
been received that no danger is 10 be apprehended
from the Indians, Ii is asserted that since the re-
moval Of the Cherokee tribe there has never been
any necessity for the discOntinuance of the mail on
that route.
C. II. Bell has been made an Acting Rear Admiral,
and assigned the command Of the Pacific squadron.
Twenty-seven stands Of colors were taken during
the battle Of Antietam, and have been received at
headquarters seven more are in the hands of the
different regiments which captured them.
In the hasty retreat. the rebels left LOO or 200
wounded, between Sharpsburg and the Potomac
river, who have been paroled.
A Key West letter reports that forty six cases Of
yellow fever were on board the frigate 81. Laurence,
ON the 18th. There had previously been 70 deaths.
The alleged treason of Gen. Miles in the surren-
dering of Harper's Ferry, is still talked of in official
circles. There are good reasons for asserting that if
it had not been for the surrender, the rebels would
undoubtedly have received their death blow.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 23d.-Gen. Wright has rescind-
ed the order requiring the suspension Of business
daily after 4 O'Clock on every Saturday however,
between the hours of = and 5, business is to be sus,
pended by the citizens of Newport, Covington, and
CINCINNATI, who are 10 meet for drill.
NASHVILLE, Sept. 23.-Gen. White is here under
arrest. to await an investigation of the circumstances
attending the surrender Of Harper's Ferry.
New YoRK, Sept 24.-The Tribune regards the
emancipation proclamation as the beginning of the
end of the rebellion as the beginning of a new life
TO the nation.
III U.-.JJ nns;l. a., l. ,moSt -, -,
ment since the adoption Of the Federal Constitution,
and says with gravity: This proclamation will
strike every one. 1t has been forced upon the nation
by the Abolitionists of the North and Secessionists of
the South. Ii inaugurates an overwhelming revolu-
ton in the system of labor, the Importance of which
is not confined To the South, but will be felt in the
North and West.
1t adds, = 1t is at this time. with victory in our
hands, and enormous preparations for crushing the
rebellion, that the President issues his manifesto,
giving the people of the South an opportunity of
deciding whether or not they are prepared, for the
sake OF n few miserable leaders, to submit TO this
overwhelming revolution in their social system"
The Tim 5 says . the wisdom Of the scheme is un-
questionable. and its necessity Indispensable. Its
adoption now Is not n confession that the military
means of suppressing the great rebeli ion have proven
failures. but simply that there is n point at which
any other legitimate appliances that can be called in
shall be awaited OF"
WASHINGTON, Sept. PA dispatch from head
of the army of the Potomac, dated yester-
10Y SOY AhiCA ohhhiOh q III
came in yesterday, shows their loss in General officers
in the late battles TO have been greater than ours.
The rebels admit their loss at the battle of Antietam
10 have been &c, 900 and since the invasion of Mary
and. $4,000. An Alabama brigade, commanded by
Colonel Coming, has not been able since the battle 10
muster over 80 men.
Dates of September go.
NEW YORK, September ga special Washington
dispatch to the Tribune says: Eli Thayer's scheme
If colonization by armei men in the Southern States,
which meets the favor of the President and Secretary,
has been discussed at several Cabinet meetings, and
will probably receive formal official sanction. The
project cOntemplates an expedition of 0,O00 colon
SITS, enlisted for six months, who will be supplied
transportation, subsistence, arms and a General,
~ Government. Their business shall be TO possess
md occupy the public lands in Florida belonging to
he rebels, and seized under the law of last session Of
for nOn-payment of the direct tax. Thayer
promises, if allowed, to carry out the plan in its en-
irety, and to bring Florida back into the Union as n
rec State by February next. Texas and Virginia
Ire talked of as States subject to the same process.
WASHINGTON, September 26. - Surgeon General
hammond has returned from the battle field of
.ntietam. He reports as fruits of our victory 2O,-
100 or 10000 small arms. mostly left by the enemy
long their line of retreat.
The N. Y. Illness Washington special says: The
ebels left 1000 wounded at the battle Of Antietam
Sithin our lines, for whom they begged medical at
The greater number were wounded in the
over limbs. Their total loss cannot be less tfan
900 killed and Is, 600 wounded. They removed all
who were wounded in the upper extremities.
The Tfmes'S Washington special dispatch says
rebel prisoners captured by Sigel's scouts
brought in to-day. They corroborated the re-
Orted loss of the rebels at $4,000 while in Mary
and. The rebels have concentrated a force at Win
hester. which place they were terrifying. They re-
ard the capture of Harper's Ferry from the Federals
5 an offset for the battle of Antietam, and say their
etreat was in good order. They also corrOborate the
tatement that the loss Of rebel officers in the late
attles was very great. There are now no rebel
rOOps between Washington and Centreville.
Some refugees from Richmond. just arrived, report
o rebel pickets between Hanover Court house and
he Potomac. Great apprehensionso of famine prevail
mong the lower classes at Richmond-the prices of
rovisions already being so high as almost to place
iem beyond their reach. Around Richmond there
re only from 5000 to 10000 troops.
\ Sharpsburg letter to the Philadelphia Enquirer
Iys that it has been semi-oficially stated that our
ss in the battle of Antietam was 1920 killed,
rounded and missing.
CHICAGO, September 26.-The Acting Commits
oner Of Indian Affairs has issued n card, announce
~ that, from in formation received and deemed reli-
he considers it his duty TO warn people contem-
lating crossing the Plains this fall to Utah and the
acihc Coast, that there is good reason to apprehend
ostilities on the part OF the Indians upon the Plains,
nd along the Platte river.
Rear Admiral Dupont reports 10 the Navy Depart
under date the 18th, the capture of schooner
defiance Of Nassau in Labello Sound, while attempt
u 10 run the blockade. Her cargo was salt and
erosine.
Gov. Stanley having transacted his official bust
will return TO North Carolina Immediately. 1t
understood that the relations between himself and
lie Government are strictly harmonious
The Governors OF Massachusetts,. Pennsylvania,
hio, Virginia, Illinois. Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan,
ew Hampshire and Indiana, arrived this morning