The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-23
Affairs in v. Carolina.


NEW YORK. June I2-The transport steamer III
6aay, from Newbern. N. c.. the 9Th, has arrived.
The concurrent testimony Of deserters iesvcs no
doubt that the long smouIdering fires of revolution
are breaking out in the interior OF North Carolina,
aud that the disaiectiOn has reached a point tar
beyond even the significant intimation Of the journals
of that State Several thousand armed refugees
from the cOn-crIptIOn have been for weeks entrenched
in the mountains, with artillery, successfully deiying
the Confederate authorities.
The Uni,nis,s In Eastern Tennessee and Western
North Carolina have org tnIzed a powerful ioTce' and
are joinei by thousands Of deserters and conscripts,
10 whom prGtection 10 guaranteed against the rebel
government. Rebel citizens have petitiOned Gov.
Vance for protection against this organization, and
Vance replied that he had not troops TO send and
they must protect themselves. 10000 insurgents
have openly offered to join the Union army as soon
a. a military post Is established.
NEwBEEy, Y. c., June 1st-Gen. Wilde, who
Game here recently, To organize an African brigade.
il meeting with very good success. Foster considers
this a splendid field for black troops to operate IN
The opposition papers of this State are very severe on
the hre-erters aud original secesh, who, according to
the utterances Of the Raleigh SiaHdaTd, special or
gan Of Gov. Vance, will never be allowed 10 hold any
oiEce Of honor or trust whatever in North Carolina.
From the same source 1t appears that Jef. Davis has
been given to understand by Gov. Vance that The
tate OF the rebellion must be decided in Virginia,
and that in 10 case will the Confederate army be
allowed to make u stand in North Carolina and
deIuge her fields with blood. but must, when they
leave Virginia, retire into the Cotton States, and end
the conflict where it began
Negro Soldiers.
HARRIsErRG, Penn, June 13-Gov. Curtin has
issued "a general order stating that cOlored troops
will be mustered into the service of the United
States. and forbidding colored zen from leaving the
State 10 join organizations IN other States
New YORK, June 1.-The EUeniHg Post says the
Committee of citizens who recently visited Washing
ton, to lay before the President the project of raising
a division OF 100, 900 cOlOTed soldiers, reported that
the President fully approves of the proposition, de-
ciarIng himself ready, as soon as a sufilcient number
could De raised, to make them a part OF a command
for Gen. Fremont. II il should be deemed e~xpedient
he would create "A department so as 10 enable him TO
carry out his combination Of white and black regI-
menjs. A series of public meetings in the rural
counties are to be held TO initiate the measure.
Stanton has given assurance within a day or
two of his purpose TO protect the negro soldiers in
the service of tue United States, at all hazards He
will hold white rebels as hostages for the safe deliv-
cry OF loyal negro soldiers, who may tall into the
hands of the enemy. If a negro soldier is hung by
Jetf Davis, a white rebel soldier will instantly be
executed. An announcement 10 that c ect will soon
be made. IL is said that Mr.. Stanton is slnguine of
raising a cOlored army 100000 strong, before the
year closes.
From Georgia.
From rebel sources we learn of the occupation and
subsequent destruction of the town OF Darien, GeOr-
gia, by our forces. This town is situated on the
Altanaka river, sixty miles southeast of Savannah.
We have also i report that ten iron clads appeared
at Brunswick, in the same place-that the rebel ram
FIHgaI has been captured. and that a large force
deblrkei. brunswick IL situated on the Turtle
river, eighty miles SSW. of Savannah.
The rebel iron steamer FTngdi was captured
In Warsaw Sound, near Savannah, June 10, by ;he
monitors POtdPScO and WeeharfeR.
From Charleston.
The Times special telegram says Admiral Dahl
gren today was ordered, by n vote taken at II Cabi-
net meeting, to Charleston TO take command. Gen.
M,lrOy, it is understood, has been relieved OF his
Command.
Boston. June 22i-A letter from the fleet block
aiding Charleston says On the evening OF the 18th
the rebel batteries on Morris Island opened a fire on
the troops on Folly Island. The ~gunboats PGCHee
and Governor UcDOHOugh steamed up TO within
good range Of the rebel batteries and opened a deadly
tre from their heavy guns The Federal battery on
Folly Island also opened It's FIRE, and for three hours
shot and she'll fell thick and fast. TIE rebel shot
fell short, while those from our batteries and gun
boats burst III the midst of the rebel batteries. The
fire lasted until sunset, but with what result is unas-
The rebels were seen carrying off the
dead and wounded during the engagement. The
rebel rams came from behind Fort Sumter and
down the hirbor two miles, but took no
part. The same night the whole roalstead and ship
ping were brilliantly illuminated by an extensive
conf IgratiOn in Charleston.
CHARLESTON, June 5Ih.-A letter from General
Hunter to Jet Davis has just been published. which
says =. the United States flag must protect all its de-
tenders, white or black. Several negroes in the en-
pIoy OF the Government, in the Western Department,
have been cruelty murdered by your authorities, and
eight others sold into slavery. Every outrage OF this
kind against the laws OF war aud humanity, which
may take place in this Department, shall be followed
by the immediate execution Of the reOel highest III
rank ia my possessIOn-mAn for man. These eXecu-
rIons will take place for every one murdered, OF sold
Into a slavery worse than death On your shoulders
rest the responsibility of inaugurating this bar
barOus policy; and you will be held responsible, IN
this world and the world To come, for all the blood
thus she'd
Rebel Raid into Indiana.
IxDrlxApoLIs, IxD, June 2O-Dispatches have
been received at the Governors office stating that
some two hundred rebel cavalry crossed the Ohio
river below Louisville endeavOring to destroy the
bridges OH the Louisville. New Albany and Chicago
railroad between Orleans and Salem, had a tight with
some guards in which three of the latter were wound
Ell and twenty captured. Forces have been ordered
down the river TO intercept the rebel retreat. Gov.
Morton has issued his proclamation calling out $4,000
six months men to march Immediately to protect the
Ohio river border.
INDIANAPOLIS. June 20th.-Dispatches have been
received announcing the capture of sixty guerrillas
Of the band now securing the southwestern counties.
Orders have been given for their confinement in the
PeuItentIary at Jacksonville, where they will be held
by the civil authorities as murierers. until it eau be
shown shat they were regularly mustered into the
service Of the Confederate Army. They murdered
the Sheriff Of Crawford County. Fifty guerriIlas
also captured yesterday at Blue River Island,
On the Ohio. Last night the Jacksonville down
train was fired into twenty eight miles from town by
guerrillas. but no damage was done.
CINCINNATI, June % The exact whereabouts of
~ rebels who crossed into Indiana Oh Sunday morn
Ig is not known.
The telegraph operator at Bloomington. Ind, re-
ports an e-ncampment Of 900 citizens, 5 miles from
that place, for the purpose Of resisting the enroll
ment.
Doings of Rebel Pirates.
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