The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-04-03
From the san Fran-iscp BuIletin-I
Pu-hing on In Z. VI rnsphi-.' down the Mi.-i.-
sspDa.

The Mississippi River ~ ours. from Ctiro to New
MSirii in the southeast corner Of Missouri. nearly
Opposite where the Kentucky aud Tennessee line
STRIKES the river. After tine rebels evlsuireI CUlun-
bus, anI our Jrces occupied that position which,
until it, aInk ~a- turue,i, was deemed impregnable,
the enemy rstrs4tel towards Memphis; but everybody
suppo-ei they you'll still, with their batteries. CON-
test the passage Ut our gunbOIts down the stream.
Where their hrsf stand wOu!d he. none could CUES.
Dispatches dated March 18th. p~ubli-hrd in this even
tux's BaliGtfa. say that Commodore HJiltns was with
his guubvat- ~ &. Island No. TO-" which lies in the
c-nctve % the Ns~ NUiriI bend. near the Kentucky
shore. and mat SrIgg--ud'leniy OnnipIeseut BrlgE,
today AT Norfolk. last week ~ Pen-lcolt-Was. with
1000 men. at View VI drill; his soldiers busy driving
in negroes from all the regions round, 10 build forth
nc ttIous there. On the heel OF this news Comes the
announcement, dated March 18th, that Nev Madrid
/. evaeua,ei. and on the 18th, filings that " Island
No. TO-" instead ct being populated with satellites Of
the clustering HuIIiBs. manifests TO our arriving
TROOPS a . +. strong Union sentiment"
How our ITOups got there does net yet appear,
whethsr by gunbOats or overland. but probably in
both ways. An expedition consisting of eight gun
b,at-, light mortar boa p. with towbOars leading
crafts Tor the conveyance Of OrlnIncr. baggage and
stores, lett Cairo at seven O'Clock las Friday MORN
Ing AT fur O'Clock that afternoon they were at
Hickman, Ky, with nobody to dispute their pas-
sage. and no rebels to dIslOdge where they expected
TO find them most plenty.
Geo. Pope. a early as the 11th, mad got a part OF
his coiumn stationed at Point Pleasant, ten miles be-
los New adriI, meaning TO prevent the rebel trans
pors from going up the river to reinforce the myth
AENA ARAAA11 dbi 1Nt@- III HaNE1t N1 1899
while a storm was raging. Pore drew his lines close
under the works at New Madrid, the enemy firing
furi0u-iy sixty pieces or artillery in their faces But
by next morning New Madrid was evacuated The
enemy ran in the night, but not so fast but that
many were taken prisoners. Gen Pope At once
moved his army into the abandoned fortihcitions.
He was surprised at he wealth of arms. stores and
ammunition that The frightened fugitives LETT behind
them In his Ofi;ial report TO Gen Halleck, he says
the value OF the property that We thus obtsin is not
les than ( .U9O 900. There were % pieces OF artil-
iery, Two ne i bate les. small arms by the thousand,
300 Hoises and mules, aud tents for $1,000 men.
They teft all, AMI thus Miss .uri was ri Of the last
rebel 4 ~ that indicaiei an enemy on its soil.
While Columbus was in reb, hands, IL was under
~-o~I that there was nothing worthy of notice below
New Nt'irid on the way to Memphis, until you come
20 FORTS Wright aud Randolph on the FIr-t ard Sec
oud Cniekt-tw Biuf-- Bet~een these bluffs the
II ltCh5e river eHpties into the mississippi Fort
Wright IS SOME 81 miles abOve Memphis In Decem-
ter Il Was said to have ten guns mounted AMI two
Tennessee artillery companies stationed there. or
It's condition since then no reports have reached US.
Fort Rlndolph. 81 miles above Memphis, il Mt first
-izhi = more serious At air The ledges Of the bIuf
have three tiers Of works. on which were mounted all
toll - guns, Of which 4 were 62-pJunders, and 8
- plumbers. II will be the chief encouragement OF
oar ssortar-buars IN tackling Fort Randolph that the
Arch blum Ierer PIlOw constructed its deieDses. They
sill De quite lis ippointei II IL does not prove an ex-
eeerIuxy dangerous place TO thOse who are shut up
beaiaI it, etrtbwOrks- just below Fort Rindrlph,
a chain vas stretched across the river The next
fort dcalion below was Fort Harris, 10 miles anOve
Ne nphis. But tortihcttious, the men Of Memphis
hoII, cannot stop the progress OF the cOnquering
Uaioa feet aud army The most reliable accounts
says tina; their hsnls are ptlsiel, their hearts faint
Nothing they think can save them. They alternate
be- seen the Determination TO return to their allegi-
ance and 10 burn their doomed city aud flee To the
South. As the South itself Is getting too hot for
them, IL j. hoped that they will hang cut the white
Gag in time and ~elcome the rapidly approaching
rrcu rs Of the North ~ friends. - all events II will
ne bus briefly before their fate ~ settled