The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-03-06

for the past eight months, as its own papers can
didly admit, and q considerable force is there
ready to move inland wherever wanted. The
coast of Texas is also blockaded and the port of
Galveston held by the Federal forces.
Up the Mississippi River, a large army is
just entering Tennessee, all flushed with victory,
and probably before this, Nashville floats the
American standard in place Of the rebel. Fort
Henry where the recent battle and victory took
place, is on the Tennessee River, about ten miles
south of the Kentucky border, while Fort Donel-
sDn Is some eight or ten miles farther SOUTH, on
the same river. IL is 1T this latter point that a
battle was being fought, the result of which had
not transpired at the latest advices. The rebels
had about Is, 900 troops here, under command Of
Pillow and Buckner. These troops had been sur
rounded by the Federal forces, which had taken
two Of the outer forts, and there was every PROS
pect of the entire rebel army there being taken
or dispersed.
In Eastern Tennessee, the important position
OF Cumberland Gap-the only pass through the
Allegheny range, communicating with the Allan
tic Southern States-was in the hands of the
Union forces.
Turning to Missouri, at the latest advices,
Gen. Price with IA, 900 troops had been sur
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the State, and would probably be taken or routed.
Thus it will be seen that the Rebels are in
vested on every side. and with forces of such
magnitude, that even if the advance troops are
repulsed, there are hosts in the rear 10 support
them. We can see no hope for the rebels, and
but one alternative remaIns-for them to sue
cumb to the terrible power and consequences
trhich they alone hare brought upon themselves.
They must surrender and deliver up every weapon
of war and every rebel leader before terms of
peace can now be thought of. The position
which they will occupy after the struggle is
over, is not for them to dictate-it may be that
they will be readmitted US states, but more likely
only as territOries-a fitting punishment for their
inglorious treason.
As we look ut the game of war now being
played on the chess board of the Union, we can
not help a~dmiring the master spirit, MCCLELLAN,
who has cautiously planned it, despite the
bitter opposition which he has met in some
He recently appeared before a Com
mittee of Congress, some of the members of
which were hostile to him on account of the tar
diness of his plans and But when
they became acquainted with the plan of his
campaign, they all, without exception, admired
its skill, and became as loud in his praise as they
had before been in his condemnation. This fact
goes to prove that America has for once got the
right man in the right place.
From Europe, the news is equally suspicious.
The Emperor Napoleon, who is really the master
spirit of Europe, has spoken and said, Peace,
be still, :" and England dare not go to war with
America without at least the moral support
md approval of France. Russia, too, has
,ome out again in warm approval of the course
IF Secretary Seward in settling the Trent affair,
md demands that the rules laid down by America
become a part of international law. This is a
-ery important feature of the news, and is a
riumph for American diplomacy, for England
md France have both held out for years against
his rule of the inviolability of neutral flags.
The fat has gone forth, and the surrender of
he : two old rebels at the demand of England,
eally ends in a victory for America in the
yes of the whole world, inasmuch as every
Iation must hereafter respect her as having de-
anu ny ner OWN voice ana Will enforced
nd established a rule of public law, which no
ation will henceforth dare with IMMUNITY to
iolate.
There will be no war between England and
America, so long as Napoleon says there shall
OF be.