The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-05-14
miscellaneous News.

The Government has determined not TO grant let
tiers of marque, unless a foreign war should arise.
\ late Richmond Examiner says that the present
campagne will swell the confederate de0t to 81 ,000,-
600, 900.
WAsHIyGToN, April lex Representative Low
of California, will receive his commission as Collector
of Customs for the Port of San Francisco.
The Paymaster's safe AT the Brooklyn Navy Yard
was robbed last night of about $3.50, coo in legal
tenders.
The ship John 4. Park has been burned by the
alabama.
The ship Seth Thayer had arrived at Nantes from
Callao. She was captured by the Alabama, and
released after giving bonds for $4,000.
The dispatch from Wilmington n. c., is of the
10Th. ami says the steamer Flora Bell arrived that
morning from Nassau. with a cargo of coffee, salt,
CHICAGO, April 24-The President issued his
proclamation on the 10Th inst, admitting the State
of West Virginia into the Union.
The steamer from Havana of the 9th reports that
Admiral Wilkes was a paroled prisoner, and would
continue so until the affair of the PGHderbW firing
into Il Spanish coasting vessel was explained.
a dispatch dated London, March 1st. says: The
Paris correspondent of the Duly .NerS announces
that the French Government has received most en-
barrassiEg news from Mexico. Gen. Forey despairs
of taking Puebla without a much greater army, and
calls for large endorsements.
The New Bedford Mercury learns that the insur-
ance Offices of that city have decided to take no new
ISL hu a. uiiNl Ibi VIZ MHiltSIiPS bOuLAl
TO the Pacific which intend to cruise in the Atlantic.
Ericsson publishes a letter, saying the imperfec-
tons of the Monitors are not of a serious character,
and will be readily obviated. Everything worked
precisely As expected, and no change in the plans of
the vessels will be necessary. There is no class OF
vessels in the navy that obey the helm more readily
than the Monitors. In strong currents and shallow
water like Charleston harbor, no vessel can be so
readily maumuvred.
The NATIONAL FAST DAy.-A dispatch dated
Washington, 31st March, says; The President, in
in compliance with the request Of the Senate, has
designated Thursday, the 3Oth OF April, as a day of
national humiliation, fasting and prayer, and con-
cludes his proclamation as follows
Let US then rest humbly in the hope authorized by
the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the
nation will be heard on high. and answered with
blessings no less than the pardon of our national sins,
and the restoration of our now divided and suffering
country to its former happy condition of unity and
peace
MUrFREEsBoRo.-A corresrondent writing from
Tennessee to the ST. Louis Republican, says MUIR
freesboro is being strongly fortided-earrhworks and
forts going up, all about. and nearly completed. \
small force will then hold Il against all six-legged
army attacks. Rebel infantry will not be LETT here
10 attack II, and rebel cavalry will fare before It
about as they have recently Jared at Fort Donelson.
Their cavalry Is good for nothing except to annoy,
by raids on wagons and are
eating out their country. The expense of, and de-
struction by, cavalry Is enormous. The rehels are
terrifying extensively at TullahOma and As soon as
the roads are Eassable there may be quite a ~stoppage
there and hard lighting. II they pen themselves up
in tortidcations, they have to fear being Aanked and
surrounded, as they can be, at Tullahoma, and be
totally used up. their railroad connections IN their
rear seized, etc. Il Is rebel policy to stay IN Ten
nessee as long as possible-to retire beyond Is to leave
their granary and their conscript region.