The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-09

Or Wednesday morning the telegraph announced
the bark Yankee of this port, and before she had
entered harbOr the clipper ship UHd Hunter also
arrived The bark had a passage of II days, the
clipper was "a days.
b. these vessels, we have San Francisco dates to
the 4t, and Washington kilograms to the Goth.
The Eastern news is remarkably meager, consist
ing Mostly of rumOrs and contradictions, which in
man7 instances appear ridiculous.
w copy a few Of the principle items:
TIE N. Y. Express, of this city. states that Sec
retaT Chase to day was offered one hundred millions
in god by European parties, which, at current rates
of exchange, would be equivalent to par here.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Government is in
receipt of a dispatch, from Rosecrans, announcing
the evacuation of Vicksburg, according to informa-
ton received at his headquarters. This creates
mucl excitement, and is generally credited in Off
cal drcles.
Te Navy Department has been in possession of
information for some days, from the Mississippi flo
tilla, leading to the belief that the enemy had been
moving stores, guns, ETC., from Vicksburg to the
interor, and otherwise giving signs of evacuating.
Alter a short Executive session o-day, the United
State Senate adjourned sine die, at two o'clock.
The working of the Internal Revenue Laws begins
to bemost satisfactory. and with weekly receipts of
Overa million and Il half the interest of the public
debts safe.
Tie War Department is closely arranging the
machinery for the coming CONSUMPTION.
Lite boats from Memphis bring papers of the
18th Two Kentuckians, late from Texas, give a
gloomy account of the state of affairs there. They
met two thousand of Hindman's nen on their way
bach to Texas, who swore they would die before they
would return to him. They consider the Confedera-
cy on its last legs. There is great restitution and
suffering everywhere, aud the fare ut the first class
hotes in Atlanta is beef, without salt, roasted sweet
potatoes, coffee made of burned molasses, and for
whi'h they were charged $25 per day. Well-to-do
farmers have substitutes i'll the army, and women
wer, orly supported who were poor people, and they
desire peace on any terms.
NEw YORK, March ia special to the Herald
says, information has been received that Secretary
Chase has been very successful in making arrange
meats in New York, for extensive loans, which will
realize the wants of the Government to such an e-
tens as to preclude the probability of an additional
issIe OF legal tenders.
L is understood that all nominations left uncon-
frned by the Senate, and not absolutely rejected
by that body, will be reviewed by the President, and
the vacancies occasioned by a rejection will be i'm
meliately filled.
The belief in the evacuation of Vicksburg is very
stDng to-day in all circles. 1t is based on the
crumbs that the Federals forced the evacuation by
cutting oil the supplies and nearly surrounding that
Gig, and also that Port Hudson will be left to hold
thu Mississippi, if possible, while the rebel troops at
VGksburg tall back to the interior and eventually
reinforce the rebels in East Tennessee.
NEw YORK, March IA Washington special dis
pach to the Herald, states that n draft of five hun
ord thousand men will soon be ordered, and ar
fragments will be made to enforce the CONSUMPTION
Law without difficulty.
charleston and Mobile papers of the 4th March
haze been received. There were seven blockaders
Oft the latter port on the 81. The pirate Florida,
says the Mobile Tribune, LETT when nine blockaders
were in front of Mobile. She was chased for 10
houE and finally ran out of view, and on her way
Destroyed a new Yankee brig on her first voyage.
a Mobile dispatch of the 9TH says the Yankees
have gone up the Tennessee river to Florence, Ala
baTa, with n feet Of gunboats, and 500 cavalry
landd and were destroying all on their route through
FraIklin, Lawrence and Marion counties towards
Abedeen, Miss.
NV YORK, March lO.-A special dispatch to the
Henli from Salt Lake City of the 9th, says that n
colliIon between the military and the citizens was
imminent. Gov. Harding and Associate Justices
Wal and Drake, it is understood, have called upon
Col. Conner to arrest Brigham Young and Counsel
lors kimblll and Wells. The Judge of the District
arm and determined to protect their leaders by
military force. Other Federal officers, and now
Mormon citizens, have elegraphed to Gen. Wright to
restnin Col. Conner till an investigation can be had.
A coonel who left for Washington that morning had
beenarrested by Col. Conner and brought back. 1t
is pnsumed that his intentions were unfavorable to
Corners military interference.
NV YORK, March 10.-Nassau correspondence of
the Herald states. under date of February 10Th, that
the ebel schooner RetributiOR arrived there on the
night of the 25th. Her officers met at the Royal
Vicoria Hotel, in the evening, discoursing loudly of
theil piratical exploits. Last evening, three fast
steamers entered this port, within an hour of each
othe-, viz No l, the GeOrgidnd, brig rugged, IRON
proreller No. ,. the Britannia, Goddess of .Neu-
faity, side wheel, iron, brig rugged, very fast; No.
8, ipn screw steamer Gertrude, brig-rigged, also
very fast. This fine fleet of steamers will prove a
valuable addition to the rebel piratical feet, aud
nnlsss we can send a Baltic or a Vanderbilt on their
track, their capture will be next to impossible.
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