The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-08-14
TWO DAYS LATER
From GgRe Seat Of War.

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The clipper ship Southern Cross. IIowes, arrived
on Saturday last, en- route Tor Hongkong, for which
port she sailed again the same day.
By her We have later news from Washington,
bringing our dates down to July %.
The rebel ram .frEIaSGS. which recently ran out
from the Yazoo River and passed down the Missis-
sippi through the entire fleet of Federal gunboats
unharmed, is reported as captured This is probably
so. as Com. Farrlgut had a fleet sufficiently large
to take her and = dozen like her.
From Northern Virginia, the accounts indicate
that Gen. PoFe's advance South viii be prompt, and
rapid. The plan Is TO move in three divisions of
about $4,000 men in each-oEe through the Shenan-
dOah valley,-one through Warrenton and the third
near Fredericksburg. This army will probably not
be two months nor even one in reaching the vicinity
Of Richmond, which is its destination. There is evil
IDENTIFY lively work ahead for both Federals and
Rebels.
y treaty has been entered into between the United
States and Denmark, under which negroes captured
from slaves or - contrabands' taken AT the South,
are to be colonized as free negroes in the island of St.
Croix, pronounced Santa CRUZ
Ex President Martin Van Buren, died at his resi-
dence in Undertook, July "a. lie was about 75
years Of age.
The canal intended to isolate the city of vicksburg,
has been completed, and the beseiging forces were
only awaiting a rise of the river to fill If. 1t
is possible the Mississippi may by this canal open n
new and permanent channel, which will locate gicks-
burg permanently on nm island.
The internal tax bill goes into force on the lst of
September. The new tariff went into force August
LIST.
The following interesting summary is from cur
latest papers
NEW CoNFIscATIoN ORDERs-The following orders
were issued Ivy the War Department., July -:
lst-Ihat Military Commanders within the States
of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas,
shall, in orderly manner, seize for the use of the
army, all property, real and personal, which may be
necessary or convenient for their several commands,
for supplies and oth-r military purposes; and while
proper for military objects, none shall be destroyed
wautouly.
u Military and Naval Commanders shall receive,
rs labor, within sail States, as many persons of
African descent as can be advantageeusly used for
military and naval purposes, giving them reasonable
pay for the labor. Accounts are to be kept, showing
from whom property aud laborers are taken, in order
that compensation ca1 be made to the proper parties.
WAsHrNGToN, July 23.-The following order has
just been published
Executive MANSION, July II.
1t j. ordered that All r. General Halleck toe assign
ed the command OF the whole land forces of the
United States, and shall he GenerlI-in- Chief, and
that he repair to the Capital so soon as he can with
safety to positions. Operations within the Depart
ment are now under his special charge.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THE Presidents VISIT TO M'CLEUAx-The cor
respondent Of the Times learns that on the arrival
Of the President nj lItrrison's Landing, Mcclellan
with several other Generals visited him on board,
after which the President ami the General held a
private conference Of half an hour and then proceed
Ell TO Summers headquarters, where he then took
horse and visited the entertainments. The President
briefly addressed the soldiers, and said he had come
10 know the situation Of affairs, and that he should
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had been whipped. but it was not so. and he knew
they would prove equal to the task before them, and
never give up without going TO Richmond. He had
been unable TO sleep, for anxiety; but after what he
had seen he would return to Washington satisfied
that all was right with the army Of the Potomac.
He declared his confidence in the army and its COM
mandcr alike. lie continued to ride until 9 o'clock
In the evening, having been III the saddle for seven
hours.
The U0rld gives n statement from n trustworthy
Union man, recently from AtIlauta, Ga, 10 the effect
that the spirit of the South is utterly broken; and
that had the battles before Richmond resulted in rebel
/ defeats. the rebellion would have been ended. He
also says that comparatively little cotton has been
destroyed. a. the planters do what they can TO save
It; also, that the wheat crop i an utter failure. If
South.
\ rebel dispatch says that the British steamer
-NodcrH Greece. in going into Wilmington. Y. c.,
on the 18th June. ran ashore. She had 200 tons
Of gunpowder, which was wet 10 prevent an explo-
sion 10y Federal shells. The blockading feet was
unable to reach her. in consequence Of the proximity
Of Fort Fisher.
From Corinth. July 9th, we learn that ten thou
sand rebel troops are reported at Mobile The in
habItants are sauguine the place cannot be taken.
/ Publications were commenced some months ago.
Bragg i also reported in command o: 1900 men t
TuPels. Breckenridge had left there with 10000
mcn-destination not known. The rebel troops were
short Of provisions and clothing.
The Fourth was appropriately celebrated At Mem
phls. Speeches. music and toasts; salu;es were also
fired morning. noon and sunset, from the batteries
and feet.
Lord Lyons has departed for Europe, and will per-
haps not return before September. His absence means
a vast deal politically. Ii means more than his cele-
brated dispatch in the Trent case. and the meaning
Is this that the relations with England are so entirely
amicable-So perfectly free from complications pre-
sent or possible, that the English Minister finds
nothing in American affairs TO demand his attention
or likely to require his service: and therefore he
SEXES the opportunity To leave his post for n holiday
summer in England. And as England and France
are one, in American affairs, his return home means
complete amity with France As well as with England.
The Richmond Dispatch of the Sth admits that
Mcclellan has secured the safety OF his army in q most
FDuG4o-'r r,onrar