The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-09-04
LATE TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

NEW YORK, August 9.-Burnside's army in camp
at F Fredericksburg, is ready for a movement.
Mcclellan has been instructed to use all the ne
groes coming within his lines without reference to
their status.
The British steamer Memphis ran the Charleston
blockade outward, and was captured at sea, with
1915 bales Of cotton on board.
The British steamer Tu6ak Cain, with a cargo of
general merchandise and a few cases Of arms, has
also been captured by the Federals.
The English schooner Orion, for Jamaica, to Sa-
bine Pass, with salt, drugs, etc. was also captured.
Lieutenant Worden, of Monitor fame, is in Chica-
go. He is likely to recover the use of his eyes, and
hopes to return to duty in a few weeks.
The President has nominated and the Senate has
confirmed Generals Heintzelman. Sumner, Reyes,
Fitz John Porter and Franklin to be brevet briga-
dier-generals in the regular army and major-generals
of volunteers for gallant conduct i'll the field.
Advices from Gen. Curtis army in Arkansas,
state that our forces now shoot or hang every guer-
rIlla caught, and take every negro they can find and
put him to work, and subsist the army on the enemy
as far as possible. They conhscate all rebel horses
and cattle wherever found.
Late Richmond papers contain the proceedings of
the court-martial which tried Com. Tatnall, on n
charge of the ~culpable destruction of the -Merrimac.
He was awarded an honorable %acquittal.
The Times Washington dispatch has the follow
ing: You may rely upon it that a vigor never before
known in the conduct Of the war, is henceforth to
mark the policy of the Government. The organiza-
ton is perfect. and the mateTieL abundant. Soldiers
are being pushed rapidly TO their places in the field.
a rebel mail for Carthage, Tenn. has been cap
tured. The letters contained valuable information.
Beauregard has resigned, and gone 10 the Springs in
Alabama. Bragg is at Vicksburg with 1900 men,
but there is a scarcity Of horses. The rebel letters
seized were from Lupela, Miss. fifty miles south of
Corinth. The writers are anticipating the early oc-
cupatiOn Of Tennessee by the rebel forces.
The Missouri State authorities have Information
that the enrolment Of the militia has been unexpect-
eddy active in the interior. Returns have been re-
ceiyed showing that about Is 900 had been enrolled.
This Is q larger number than Will probably be reOulr-
ell or can at present be armed.
SALES OF PRIZE ToBACCo, ETC.-There have been
during the present week some very large sales in New
York of prize goods, consisting mainly of cotton and
tobacco. Two cargoes of cotton realized upward of
$500, 0OO-som OF the Sea Island lots fetching 6S ~
70 cents per pound. The tobacco sale was the cargo
OF ths eark hIa~amG. very mgr prices were 90
OGO.
SWARM OF BEES on A MANS HEAp.-A most sim
gular incident occurred in Bridgewater. Mass, n few
days since, illustrating the peculiar habits of bees.
Mr.. \. Z. Benson, noticing an unusual stir among
his hives, proceeded TO examine into the cause,
whereupon an entire swarm withdrew from their old
hive and settled upon his head and shoulders. MIR.
B., without any serious Inconvenience. succeeded in
transferring the swarm safely to a new hive.
The Frenchmen of New York are making prepara-
tions-to the extent OF appointing u committee and
obtaining an interchange of views-for holding a
mass meeting to express their decided, but respectful,
disapprOval of Intervention in any form by the En-
~ ~ IAduOO III II SAfh dloN Va lul5
country. An address will be adopted at.the meeting,
signed by all Frenchman in the city, so far as it is
possible TO obtain their concurrence, and sent to the
Emperor.
The Sultan of Turkey has shown himself a better
friend of the United States than any other monarch
in Europe. He has issued an order prohibiting Con-
federate priyateers, or the privateers of any govern
ment hostile to the United States, from entering any
of the ports of the Turkish Empire. That monarch
will renovate his government, and place it again on
a progressive footing.
The .he0 HOHsides, an iron clad frigate now
finished in Philadelphia, is to be commissioned and
dispatched to sea under sealed orders Aug. 10. All
her officers have been ordered to report at once.
Henceforth no unnaturalized citizen is to be employed
in any Navy Yard in the Union.
The steamer .natan=as, from New Orleans July
25th, has arrived at New York. Gen. Butler had
issued orders that all negroes ordered by their mas
ters to leave, and who join the Federals, be regarded
As enancipated. The masters had endea yored, in
many cases, to reclaim slaves, after the use of such
expressions. Gen. Butler, in a note to Hon. Reyerdy
Johnson, says that no merchandise. whether cotton
or sugar, will in any event be seized or couhscated
by the U. :. authorities.
The opinion of Gen. Scott upon the recent action of
Gen. Mcclellan in front Of Richmond are highly
favorable to the latter. Upon hearing the rrmors
industriOusly circulated in New York that Gen.
Mcclellan had suffered n defeat he Immediately de-
clared that 1t was not so, and added that if it were
true that his right wing was turned it
was a movement in his favor. Tie expressed himself
to the effect that Gen. McClellan's plans were perfect,
and that ne Is not gong 10 De defeated In their accom-
plishment.
THE WILL OF CAPT. MACoNDRAY.-The will of the
late +. W. Macondray has been filled in the Probate
Court in San Francisco. 1t bequeaths all the real
estate Of deceased TO his relict Lavinia Smith Macon
dray, and after the payment of debts, &c, all his
personal property to be divided equally among his
three daughters, Lucy II. Otis, Lavinia and Martha
L.. Mscondray. To his sons William \. aud Freder-
lex W. MacOndray. he leaves nothing, inasmuch as
he has already given them certain sums OF money 10
enable them TO commence business on their own ac-
counts, which they are to consider as their due
shares. The two sons and James Otis are appointed
executOrs-BuUetiH.
The HeTaIf's Washington dispatch says it is stated
on good authority that when the news OF the depar-
ture of the French feet reached Washington,
Secretary Seward wrote Immediately TO the French
government and made strong remonstrance against
the presence in this vicinity of such a formidable
feet. MIR. Seward gave as a reason for the protest,
that the Mexican expedition being OF too little conse-
quence fer sending such a tremendous armament in
American waters, the American Government could
not help thinking that II was destined to act against
the United States, and consequently asked an ex-
PLANTATION
The President has commissioned the following
Captains TO be Rear-Admirals, on the retired list,
under the recent Act of Congress to establish and
equalize the grade of line officers in the Navy, to wit:
Charles Stewart, George c. Reed, William Il. Shu-
brick, James Sweet, George w. Storer, Francis
III. Gregory, Ellie A. f. Lavallete, 5. II. Stringham
and Hiram Paulding. The following Captains are to
be Rear-Admirals on the active list, 10 wit Farragut,
GoldsbOroUgh, Dupont and FoOte.
Advices from Schenck's and Milroy's Divisions,