The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-02-04
Four Days Later
FOREIGN news!

By the arrival, on Tuesday. of the clipper ship
Derby. IL days from San Francisco, we have
received mails and San Francisco dates to Jan. 16.
Gold was quoted in New York, at 1888, Jan. 13.
Gen. Meade was absent from his army on a visit to
Philadelphia. All quiet on the Rapidan.
The recent rebsl raid into the Shenandoah Valley
has proved a failure. The rebels have been moving
uneasily about Cumberland, Maryland, and Peters
burg. Western Virginia, but without result or appar-
eDt object. ImbodeD has been attacked at Winches-
ter and driven back. 1t was showing heavily in
Virginia. Snow also covered the ground at Chatta-
nOOga, and cold weather is spoken of from all quar-
tiers. At Little Rock, Arkansas, the thermometer
had been fifteen degrees below zero for several days.
Rebel prisoners state that LoDgstreet had been
reinforced, and had been ordered to take Knoxville
at all hazards. Lougstreet has $1,000 men. Foster
is at Knoxville, and Gen. Peck commands in The
field.
The condition of Charleston at the present moment
must be deplorable. Ii is thus described by the
TriJuRe's Morris Island correspondent
The rebels have in Charleston harbor two iron-clad
steamers, close limitations Of the .fe1 Honsides and
DuRderberg.
Charleston takes fire and burns apace from the
effect of the bombardmeDt. The fires always spread
and burn for hours. At one time, last Sunday, they
burned eight hours in one mass.
The distractions hauled away from the beach of
blOTTlS isIauQ are sixteen oars OF iron rall2, the
Instructions having been removed by natural causes.
Nothing now prevents the taking Of Charleston when
the Admiral wills it.
BosToS, January 13.-Letters received in this city,
from a clergyman who established himself at Charles
ton with his family a short time before the rebellion,
give touching details of the anguish and suffering of
the inhabitants of that place, many of whom hope
and pray for redemption, even at the hands of the
Yankees. In his opinion the time is rapidly ap-
preaching when it will be found necessary to give up
the city TO save the people from absolute starvation.
OF course, all who can will leave the place, but many
have not the means, neither have theJ any place Of
refuge.
Richmond is evidently not quite so safe a place as
it once was. 1t is rumored that the rebel authorities
are quietly moving their military factories. etc.,
located at Richmond, to some point in South Caro-
lima. This is the result of Longstreet's failure in
his expedition against Knoxville. as our continued
occupation Of East Tennessee is entirely incompati-
bic with the security of the rebel occupation of Rich
mond rs a chief military depot.
A Washington letter to the Tribune says that it
has been decided to remove the rebel capital to Column
bia, South Carolina. The writer is a Union man,
lately from the South, where he had been a clerk in
the rebel War Department. He also says that the
gunbOats and ironclads at Richmond are, with one
exception, ready fer service. IN the 18th ulr., they
were ordered 10 make Il demonstration on Hampton
Roads. but after proceeding a few miles below Drury's
Bluffs, the order was countermanded.
Dispatches from Gen. Kelly's Department Of West
Virginia says accounts report Gen. Early falling
back up the Shenandoah, and all fears from him are
at an end
This refers to the recent raid into Maryland,
alluded TO below.
CHICAGO, January 13.-Georgia letters to Dec.
25d. represent the rebel army as quietly encamp-
ed near Dalton and Tunnel Hill. recovering from their
last defeat. Deserters report that JOhl:;'n is very
active collecting s~tragglers and deserter., and re or
ganizing his army. His cavalry are securing the
mountains and valleys in search of deserters, very
few of whom are recovered. They are daily making
their way to our lines. Among the poorer classes of
Georgia:-s there exists n fearful state of destitution.
DenunciatiOns Of the rebellion and the rebel Govers-
ment are loud and emphatic, especially where there
are no military over them. An intelligent refugee
from the interior of the State says that fully two
thirds of the population, if allowed a fair expression
of opinion, would elect Union men. Thousands 70
Union men are serving against their will in the
desert their sinking ship, and swell the ranks of the
Federal army.