The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-23

Gers and men under him for their distinguished gal
lantry in ~expellnng the rebel army from Maryland.
FoRrnEss MONROE, September 29.-The Charles
ton Mercury Of the 18th says that there are grounds
for believing that the enemy 1.-THE Federalsl are send
ing heavy reinfOrcements 10 Hilton Head and along
the shores Of Broad river. Pinckney Island is now
occupied by q large body of troops [rebels
The Richmond Examiner of the 26th says that
Bragg, with 10000 men, is at Glasgow Junction.
and that Rosseau Federal Generall has gone to meet
him.
The Nashville Union regards the defeat of Bragg
a. certain. and says that there are 200 700 Federal
troops between Nashville and Louisville
Surgeon-Genera Moore [rebell reports the num-
Der of sick and wounded rebels at the Richmond
Hospitals. since their organization, to be 1900. Of
this number $500 have been furloughed, and 1900
have died.
Dates of Oct. L. CCoHdensed)
Advices from Louisville, report Buell's army on
the move to meet the rebels, and had overtaken 4
portion Of the latter.
steamer NashriHe penued up in Ogeechee River with
no chance Of escape.
The report Of Gen. Sigel's resignation is contra
dicted and without any foundation.
Simon Draper of New York has been appointed
Provost Marshal General of the War Department.
Mobile is about TO be attacked by u heavy Union
fleet.
David u. Porter has been appointed to the COM
mand OF the naval forces on the Mississippi.
Gen. Butler has enrolled and in active service
three regiments of LOuisianians-' one white aud
two not so white"
Eli Thayer has been appointed Military Governor
Of Florida, with a view TO enable him to carry out q
military colonization OF that State.
News OF October 2d.
WASHINGTON. Oct. Gen. Sigel, within the last
day or two, has succeeded i'll capturing. near War
rentOn, BrislOw, and other railroad points, several
hundred prisoners, and a large quantity of under
wear material.
New YORK. Oct. AN army correspondent says
there must be fighting before many days in north
eastern Virginia. unless the rebels relinquish their
position at Winchester, without waiting for US to
throw down the gauntlet. Ii is impossible TO subsist
the army they claim TO have there, withou: possess
ing more facilities 10 obtain supplies. 1t is believed
that it may safely be surmised that they will not
stand about Winchester in force, because Of our
threatening attitude.
a telegram from Washington says the British
steamer LiOydS, that ran the blockade at Charleston
on the night of the 18th, arrived at Liverpool, with
l 800 bales of cotton. A Charleston letter of the 28th
says there was but one steamer Oft the harbOr at the
time Of her escape. Several sailing vessels were pres
ent, but were, Of course, useless in the chase. The
letter says she swept past our fleet at the rate Of l3i
knots Per hour.
Gen. Morgan, with his whole force, had evacuated
Cumberland Gap, and arrived on the Ohio river, OPP
posite Portsmouth.
Before evacuating Cumberland Gap, Gen. Morgan
fired the mine, and filled the mountain pass with
rock, &c, which completely blOckaded the pass,
thereby preventing pursuit. which is impossible.
All the stores. munitions of war, and artillery, which
he could not bring away, were destroyed.
October 3.
NEw YORK, Oct. "a dispatch from the head
quarters of the Army of the Potomac, the II saws
President Lincoln arrived at Harpers Ferry on a
special train from Washington yesterday afternoon,
and was escorted by Summers division to head-quar-
tiers. After a cordial interview with Mcclellan and
Sumner, n brilliant cavalcade, composed of the Divi-
sion and Brigade Generals, with the members of
their stalls reviewed Summers corps ON Bolivar
Heights. The troops greeted the President and Gen.
Mcclellan with enthusiasm.
This morning he visited Maryland Heights; at noon
rode over to McClellan's head quarters. and during
the afternoon he was conducted over the Antietam
battle field. The President manifested the greatest
interest in all matters concerning our recent victories.
In the evening he returned TO McClellan's head
quarters. Tomorrow he will review the other troops,
and return to Washington on saturday.
AWashington letter to tie Commercial .firerfiSer
records several rumors connected with the Presi-
dents visit 10 Mcclellan among others that he in
tends 10 detach one of the latter's officers for an i'm
portant duty-indicating Burnside as the person.
There is one thing which pleases everybody, espe-
cially in the Western States. Ii is the retirement
of Gen. Pope. When that officer was first appointed
to supercede Fremont in the Valley of Virginia,
nearly everybody in this section who knew anything
whatever of Pope's doings in the West, and his utter
unreliability as AN officer, predicted his failure. A
common remark was that the Eastern people did not
know their man, and that he '' went up like a rocket
and would come down like n stick" So it has liter
ally proven. Pope has a mOHOmdRia for exaggera-
ton. He cannot even state our losses without
doubling them. lie is utterly incompetent TO handle
large bodies Of troops well, but will make n good
division or brigade commander. If this war makes
graves underground FOR many generals. it likewise
makes graves above ground for such officers as Gen.
Pope.
The Eastern papers are full Of notices of the move
ment of new regiments TO the seat of War. The
troops are already pouring into Washington at the
rate of a good Brigade per day. They march up
Pennsylvania Avenue, and past the White House,
aryunangn nnlrnnn N NTH Cfanl and nntnn
- We are coming Father ABRAHAM-ihree hundred
thousand more"-and the hills of the Potomac are
whitening with the tents of a camp of instruction.,
where in a few weeks more than one hundred thou
sand men will be assembled, composing a magniti-
cent army of reserves. In the West there are similar
scenes. Fourteen thousand Indiana troops raised
under the new call have already crossed the Ohio,
Michigan and Illinois, will pour forth their legions.
Ii is a moderate estimate that there will be fifty
thousand fresh troops in Kentucky by the first of
September; and fifty thousand more in such a state
of forwardness that they will be Immediately available.
New Orleans dates to the 10th have been received.
The gunboat ESSer had arrived from up the river.
On her way down, she was fired into at Natchez,
for which the city was bombarded for two hours, at
the end of which time it surrendered, and the Stars
TO Bayou Sara, which town was also burned. While
passing Port Hudson q rebel battery of 81 guns
opened upon her, and a fierce battle Of not more
than 50 feet distance began and lasted an hour, re-
sulting in the Essen silencing of the battery, which
was composed of guns Of very heavy calibre. The
EsSer was not damaged except in her smoke pipes
and veutillators, being perforated in numerous places.
The New York correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Inquirer writes The Prize business in the city is