The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-08-13
The Eastern News

armies were making progress in all quarters.
They were garnering the rich fruits of those
great victories which ushered in the month of
July, and the results Of which time alone can
unfold.
The riot in New York city, by our latest dis
patches, seems to have been efectually quelled.
1t is with qualification that we read that : : the
conduct of the rioters has in the opinion of the
Government rendered it imperatively necessary
that the draft be enforced To fail to enforce
it in New York city now, would be a greater dis
aster 10 the government than TO lose q pitched
battle in the field.
The victorious Copperheads of the Common
Council of New York, had passed an appropria-
ton of -, 500 600 . to pay the exemption for
every conscript drafted from that city" The
sum mentioned would exempt 1888 conscripts.
1t is probably n bid for the votes of the mob by
the demagogues in the Common Council, who
thus proposed TO tax the loyal for their benefit
but, passed rs it was, while the parties for
whose benefit it WAS intended were burning and
p~illaging the city, it will serve as n premium for
crime. and a precedent OF the most dangerous
kind. This disgraceful affair is the more CALLING
for the loyal citizens of New York and Brooklyn,
as they had just before sent II 900 volunteers to
the wal in Pennsylvania, in one week. One
Andrew. L ringleader of the mob, had been
arrested and sent TO Fort Lafayette, but the
other leaders and instigators of the riot are still
at large unwhipped of Justice" 1t is not
likely that with Gen. Dix in command, support
ed by $4,000 troops, and Fitzpatrick at the head
of the mounted patrol, there will be any farther
resistance TO the draft. We do not hear of any
resistance to it in Philadelphia and but little
elsewhere. Prompt, decisive action in New
York. will settle the question for the whole
country.
Turning to the South, we find that Gen. Lees
headquarters were near Winchester on the 18th
ult., while his rear We're pushing straight down
the Shenandoah Valley. The Federal cavalry
were constantly harassing him and had taken
thousands of stragglcrs. Gen. Meade's army,
after resting Il day or two near Berlin, had all
crossed the Potomac. No further information
is given Of his movements, but it is probable
that he is repeating the march of Mcclellan
last November, along the eastern base of the
Blue Ridge, seizing the passes as he advances,
SO as to keep his army constantly between Lee
and Richmond. Should Lee succeed as last fall,
in reaching the neighborhood of Richmond with
out being forced to fight a battle. it certainly
will be disgrlceful to the Federal arms.
The details in the Eastern papers, present a
vivid picture of the panic in Pennsylvania dur
ing the first days of Lees INVASION, of Milroy's
disgraceful rout at Winchester, the capture of
the iron-clad Atlanta, (the ineficiency of the
War Dept. ? and the splendid display of patri-
otism by the Middle States, who though taken
by surprise, in a few days sent 10000 troops,
armed and equipped, to defend the Capital of
Pennsylvania. Several discharged regiments i'm
mediately volunteered again and fastened to the
rescue, and the Empire State even outstripped
the Key Stone State in the contest of loyalty.
The next mail will contain details of the memoir
able days of July, and will no doubt give
of that swelling tide of patriotic enthu-
siasm, which is overwhelming the Copperheads,
and which will carry the administration tri-
over the obstacles which insidious
of the New York WORTH stamp have
been placing in its way.
In the West, John MOrgan's attempt to
carry the war into the free States has, ms
we expected, failed, even more ANONYMOUSLY
than that Of Lee in Pennsylvania. With his
army cut to pieces and captured, he was at last
accounts a hunted vagabond in Eastern Ohio,
with but a handful of followers, and with very
poor prospects of escape. His miserable failure
a striking contrast with the performances
of such masters in the art "a Grierson and Kill
One division of the army of the Mississippi
under Sherman, had hemmed in Gen. Johnston
jackson on the 18th, and shelled that place
until the night of the 10th, when the rebel army
esca ped by swimming the Pearl River. Sher-
headquarters We're still at Jackson,
though part of his army had returned to Vicks-
Another division under Gen. Ransom,
occupied Natchez and made important cap
Gen. Heron had retaken Yazoo City, and
another expedition had gone up Red River. We
10 not suppose however that the immense force
under Gen. Grant will long remain in that un-
healthy region. Common sense would suggest
that the powerful army liberated by the capture
Of Vicksburg be sent to operate along the line Of
the Tennessee River, in conjunction with Rose
chattanooga, (f they have not already aban-
ioned that point,) or at Atlanta, would be as
sailed by Rosecrans in front and by Grants
army on their flank. Such a combined move
nent, carried out with vigor, would soon end the
in this quarter as on the Mississippi.
The presence of Il Union army to support the
oval citizens in East Tennessee and the Western
part of North Carolina, is all that is needed to
render them as much Union Territory as Ken
lucky and Missouri.
At Charleston, the operations against Fort