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

We lay before readers, says the -4lt1 Of the
18th, the most gratifying news that hss reached
since the commenced. Burnsde's expedition
has only captured Roanoke Island but Elizabeth
City on the main land, and nt last dates advanc-
ing to Elenton. Norfolk is fanked- The rebels all
NIT of severe defeat The news does not come
this time exclusively throlgh Government channels
most Of the particulars derived from the rebels
themselves Their whole army at the point where
the fight took place has been captured together with
their whole fleet.
The question arises what we are going to do with
our prisoners. In this fight we have taken 800.
IL only few weeks ago that We received news of
the capture OF over thousand more in Missouri IL
matters go on at this rate much longer We will have
the whole rebel army quartered In Jails and
Psnitentsries before the summer sets in
Turning 10 the other ed ge Of the great ampt .ea-
tire OF the ind that the troops have captured
Fort Henry. the Tennessee River-that Fort Do
MADISON was surrounded. and that gunboats have
made Reconnaissance far down Florence in the
State OF Alabama, and everywhere met with de-
vance now f., There are advances going al around,
and shall he in possession Of New Orleans
itself Bulls Run and Balls Bluff have long since
been avenged ~ : ---+
Nor is the foreign less cheering than the
domestic. Napoleon, contrary all expectation has
pronounced in favor OF nOn-interterence. and has
therefore completely knocked the party in Eng
land-a nation, by the way, which now-a a-days never
enters upon any enterprise without the approval Of
the Emperor Of the French. Il would be difficult
determine at this epoch, whether Queen Victoria
Napoleon rules Britannia
There is trouble too among the Allies in Mexico.
We expect soon TO hear Of general burst up in that
quarter. When it does come Mexico will whip Spain.
She did IL once ard We are pursuaded Is perfectly
able TO do il again, Notwithstanding the spasmodic
efforts Of the latter to again rise to the position of
FIRST class power. None of them deserve any Jmpa-
thy from US in their troubles. b. and by We may
have something cay to them ourselves which may
not prove very palstable.
Now. by St. Paul. the work goes bravely on ~
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catch glimpse of the wisdom which restrained
the iupetuOsiy Of the Federal troops and planned
IN Goodness and deliberaton the business which has
been sptly consummated The battle Roanoke
Island, OF which have the official account by the
naval commander of the expedition, proves to have
been one Of the greatest victories of modern times
Net alone the rebels eutrenched with strength,
bur they contested the fight with energy and de-
termination worthy q better When the full
narrative Of the Of this contest is made public
il cannot fail shine forth with unprecedented bril-
hancy in the history Of the United States
Following this signal success Roanoke, the feet
pressed onward, and have seized upon important
points auxiliary TO the advance planned upon the
eneGy's flank The North Carolina battle-grodnds
BID fair take prominence in history. In the
West " Onwari'' - the cry. Springfield, Missouri,
is Fe leral city, and Price, this, has been
forcei to give battle or capitulate.
Our victorious army in Tennessee has advanced
from Fort Henry Fort Donaldson. and to morrow s
will bear u the result of their proves. Look
where may. " victory sits perched upon our BAN
ner," AMI as February has done well, what may
March do! The :" Ides Of March approach,
and they may prove fatal to the COufeierates
they did to Cesar. who neglected adnonition and
counsel as they have.
From Washington learn that n measure will be
introduced before Congress big with fate the rebel
Sta,es being nothing lees than when conquered they
be deprived Of their State rights, and resolved
into Territories, in which condition they to
main until they have easced by good deeds the ills
they have engendered The policy of this bill is
doubtless other than political purposes such
n n provision for the large army and navy this
country necessarily maintain for years to come.
even IN the event Of speedy victory and to pro-
vide work for the rebel prisoners. perhaps in the
erection OF and inland defenses calculated
render vast territory impregnable to n foreign
foe. Taking the news all together il is Of the most
hopeful character II will be conf
dence with the waverng, and stimulate the firm in
Federal Union.