The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-12-17
Respecting the strength of the forces in Ten

Respecting the strength of the forces in Ten
nessee. the following is probably correct
Excellent authority states that the army of
Chattanooga numbers 40, 900 men. Gen. Hooker has
command of the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps,
numbering % 900 effective men, and General Sher-
man is Fastening from the Mississippi with 10000
more. counting only effective men who can be drawn
up in line of battle. This would give "A total of So
600 electives, equivalent to an army of one hundred
and ten thousand men on paper. as usually esti-
mated. General Burnside has an effective force OF
% 1000 men in East Tennessee, of whom 5000 are
cavalry. The artillery accompanying these several
armies musters nearly 400 guns-an enormous pro-
portion, and requiring an enormous supply Of am
munition 10 serve them III battle.
In Texas.
Gen. Banks has taken possession of the south
west corner of the State. Brownsville, the village
which he has occupied. is 4 small port near the
mouth of the Rio Grande River, just opposite
Matamoras, which is now in the hands of the
French. The French and United States troops
are consequently very near n%eighbors, separated
by n narrow stream only, one harbor serving
for both. How long they will be able to get on
smoothly. remains to be seen; but when Gen.
Taylor occupied the same position in 1919 or b
that Banks now does, the Mexicans could not
endure the sight of the stars and stripes waving
within view of their tricolor, and managed to
open a contest that did not end till Gen. Scott
carried the same stars and stripes into the " halls
of the Montezumas.' Banks is the right man
for SO important Il place, and we trust no trouble
will arise.
An Invasion from Canada Qunshed.
\ singular piece of news-rather sensational
perhaps-comes, to the effect that a meditated
invasion by Southern sympathizers from Can
;,.o +Io N,r+bor, S-,-aS hos bacp discovered
and frustrated. From the brief kilograms and
comments thereon in the San Francisco papers,
it appears that there are at least $4,000
Southern refugees in Canada, who have long
been plotting schemes to aid their beleasured
brethren in the South. Their plan, so far as it
has TRANSFERRED, was TO seize the steamers running
across Lakes Ontario and Erie, and send them
with insurgents to burn Ogdensburg, Buffalo,
and Sandusky. At these points they were to
be joined by Copperhead accomplices, and stir
up Il revolution at the North. They most
undoubtedly would have succeeded in stirring
up one, which would have put them down
in double-quick time. The attempt to rescue
Morgan's gang at Camp Chase in Ohio, was a
part of their programme. The Canada invasion
was discovered by the Canadian authorities, and
by the Governor General communicated to the
President, who Immediately took steps to be
prepared for any demonstration from that quar-
ter, and has charged Gen. Dix with the work of
arming the weak points on the Northern frontier.
In European Politics
No great changes have occurred. Napoleon has
proposed a Congress of European Powers to
try and settle the Polish difficulty. If the
motive that inspires this measure is resentment
to Russia for her bluff answer to France and
there is no question that Russia will
answer the fifteen European Powers that have
been invited to the Congress, as she has answered
and England Mind your own business,
and | will take care of my domestic affairs
In other words, she will throw down the gaunt-
and let the fifteen powers pick it up if they
choose. The London Times was not far from
the truth when it said. on the receipt of
Russia's reply, that that reply meant 1car. The
following which we find among the latest tele-
grams, will be read with interest in this connec-
ton, and all may draw from it their own
differences
4. correspondent of the New York Times writes as
from ST. Petersburg, Russia, October 3Oth
' War preparations continue here upon a scale I'M
in the history of Russia. An immense
recruitment has been ordered throughout the Empire.
Very large earthwOrkS and stone forts have been
constructed at this, Cronstadt, Helingsford, Viborg,
other places. The old granite forts at Cronstadt
will be covered with twelve-inch rolled iron plates.
Fen or twelve Monitors and two or three iron-cIads
IF a different construction, have been ordered to he
for sea in May or June next. Large quanti-
les of cannon, shot and shell have been ordered from
England. and will come overland during the winter.
All the Government shops are being enlarged. Every
Hort is making to make Russia independent of all
,ther countries in war material, rs she already is in
God and clothing for her armies. On the nrSt
of the war cloud, the Russians dreaded ii
very much; although they were determined to do
heir utmost to sustain the Emperor if it came to
hat. Now, however, that feeling is entirely changed,
md they do not dread it. In fact, | think they
hey rather court it than otherwise. Alexanders
popularity is immense and increasing every day. lie
: now visiting the southern portion of the empire,
,ut he is expected to return to st. Petersburg in Il
ew days"
The wintering of the large Russian fleets in
American waters possesses a mysteriousness that
las set all Europe to guessing the cause thereof.
he reasons are evidently two lst-to create
he impression, which was limited some time ago,
f a secret treaty of alliance or some tacit under
lqndinQ between the American and Russian
Governments, that in case of forced Intervention
Y France or England in the American civil war,
.ussia would not remain u quiet spectator and
that in case of war between Russia and
rance, her fleets might be where she could use
lem, instead of being frozen up in the Baltic
nd Amoor. There probably has been no treaty,