The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-23

\ girl soldier has been discovered in the camp OF
the 10th Ohio Cavalry at Cleveland. She gave her
name as Henrietta Spencer, said her home was in
Oberlln, and that she enlisted to avenge her father
and brother who fell at NJ urtreesboro.
CUFFEE ADVERTISING HIS MAsrER-The following
unique advertisement appears in the New Orleaus
Data -
Ran a,cay from the City Of .Ntc Orlsans-Frty
Cents RecdTG-Ran away from dis chile, and lef
him all alone to take care Of hisself, after l had don
Work twenty-six years faithfully for him, my massa,
Bill Duncan. Massa Bill is supposed to have don
gone on "Id de seceshers, for to hunt for his rights,
AMI l speck he don got lost. Any person 'turnin'
him TO me, so dat he can take care of meas he
alters said Niger couldn't take care of hisself -
will be much obliged 10 dis chile.
y. B-Persons huntin' him please look in all de
" last dttcheS,' a. | often heeri him sIeek Of goiu'
into lie diem business.
'Spectfully submitted. JIM.
CharIcston.
As the first news from America may announce the
loug-anticipatei attack on this city, the following
account, written by an officer Of one of the blocka-
ding ships, will convey some idea ofthe difficult task
in prospect in the capture OF this ''second Sebastopol:"
1t seems to be the general impression among those
who know nothing of the character or detenses of
Charleston, aud the immense force ut hand 10 garri-
son them, that II Is an easy task 10 capture the place.
There could be no more dangerous error to fall into.
The defenses of Charleston are in every way superior
and more formidable than those surrounding Rich
iluhL, AZ !lusl NIlcu our forces nave Deeu LED IN VAIN.
All that science and skill could suggest, and labor
and money lavishly expended could accomplish. have
been applied to the strengthening of the Qualifications
about Charleston. New and immensely strong works
have been erected, old ones remodeled and increased
in strength, and scientific skill has been exhausted
in making them complete against every assault.
Our Monitors must 60 into Charleston harbor alone
and through the channel. which is not perfectly
KNOWN channel which Is covered by u thousand
heavy guns. No pilot, whose experience was gained
before the war, would undertake to safely convey a
vessel up to the city unless he could feel his way in
with the lead. No buoyS mark the channel, and its
frequent shitiings have rendered useless all the marks
by which the pilot formerly kept the proper channel.
The Monitors have no leadsmen, no compass, and no
certain pilot. \ shIngle swung in the ~pllothouse
would be of as much value as the compass. and no
leldsman would be permitted to cast the lead n dozen
times before he could be swept from his unprotected
post by the enemy's shells. To suppose, under these
circumstances, that all the Monitors would escape
~theshOals and middle grounds that abound in Charl, $
ton harbor would be absurd. One might get ashore
and serve "a n buoy for the others, and so on, until
two or three, or indeed all, would be hard and fast,
from the entrance to the channel to the city, helpless
and worse than lost to US. We can afford TO lose
several Monitors, If they are sunk in action and safe
~ out of the rebel power; but we cannot afford to
leave a single one on the beach, where the rebels may
capture her, patch up her shOt-holes and send her
out against US. Two of them would he very apt to
terminate our possession of the soil of South Carolina.
The rebels with one or two Monitors would be nearly
as well off as We are; and who could tell when the
atalr would END NO Ii we are not entirely de-
mented, no attack will be made on Cha lesion with
less than six or eight Monitors. Certainly with not
less than six, and with as many more as can be sent
here. When we are sure of victory let us go ahead;
but let not affairs be FASTENED that we may come out
of n disastrous attack shorn of our peculiar strength.
We can afford to wait Il little for success.
Three Monitors can, it is thought, when safely past
Sunter and Aloultrie, capture thu city. To get three
through we must expect TO lose an equal number on
the way up. That is not too great an estimate, | am
Best les, we shall find work for them in
aiding each other when ashore, and in preventing
the unfortunate ones from falling into the enemy's
hands. | have but limited at some of the difficulties
to be overcome; but a moments consideration of these
will satisfy any one that it would be folly to attempt
the great work of capturing the strongest place in
America with a few Monitors. We must have six or
eight, l must repeat, when we make the attack, or
our success will not be so complete as we could wish.
Charleston is "A second Sebastopol. 1t is defended
by over one thousand guns, many OF them of improved
fabric. Every island, point, river, creek
md swamp in proximity 10 Charleston is commanded
oy hostile cannon. Fort Moultrie is iron cased on
the harbOr front, and the whole work is bomb proof.
rebels have two rams and one iron-cased battery,
he latter mounting eight 100 FOUNDER rifed cannon,
Tor the defense of the harbOr. The casemated tier of
at Fort Sumter is clothed in iron armOr. Paral-
Ell bars of railroad iron traverse this iron coating,
perpendicularly, from the base to the upper line.
The embrasures are protected by massive projections
# the same material, pre- enting acute angles at every
idle. The rebel batteries are fully garrisoned. The
army now in Charleston and the Notifications
hereof is about t~hirty-tive thousand strong, and this
IS being rapidly augmented. To capture
JharIestOn our military and naval commanders think
I will I; Ike "A large naval and land force, and Will
ccupy a period OF six weeks or two months. That it
an be captured they have no doubt, notwithstand-
lg Its seeming lmpregnabiity.