The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-03-12
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The Herdld's special dispatch says it is under
stood that, on the 22d of February, President Lincoln
will issue a proclamation Of universal emancipation,
including the border States. Later kilograms con-
tradict this report.1
The Times Hilton Head letter states that the rebel
blockade runner sunk off Charleston had a cargo of
iron plates and other material for the construction of
iron-clads. She carries four guns. The rebels have
been unable to remov any of the cargo in conse-
quence of the heavy fire of our guns.
\ correspondent of the Herald, writing from off
Charleston, describes the destruction of the blockade
runner as follows Early this morning some dar-
ing Englishmen made a bold attempt during a fog to
run the blockade. They succeeded in getting as far
as the mouth of the harbor, when they ran ashore
trying to avoid the shot from our batteries, which
were flying in every direction. The fog soon cleared.
Wagner aud Gregg, aided by two Monitors, immedi-
ately commenced Smelling her. She was a complete
wreck. n 200 FOUNDER Parrot shot from Wagner cut
her nearly in two. Besides this Smelling. Charleston,
James Island and Forts Johnson and Moultrie have
received a tremendous cannonading."
The Memphis Bulletin Of Feb. 18th says: At last
accounts. General Sherman had captured Meridian
Miss with but little opposition. The rebel General
Polk was, until lately, at Meridian, but hearing Of
Sherman's advance he got out of the way.
LoUIsIASA.-We have Memphis dates Of the 18th.
Deserters from the rebel army IN Louisiana are com.
ing in daily, and report the country in a state of ter
rible Reorganization. The rebels are impressing all
the males under sixty and over fifteen years of age,
besides robbing the poor of what necessaries they
have. Nothing is plenty hut pork and corn bread,
and even these command fabulous prices. The Union
sentiment prevails, and in some quarters delegations
of influential men are coming in and begging arms
and assistance to organize a home guard for the
maintenance Of their rights, and the restoration of
the State to the Union.
NEW YORK. February 1Sth.-The army at Chatta-
nooga is preparing for immediate operations. Chatta-
nooga is well stored with the munitions of war. The
roads are gradually improving. The writer thinks
General Logan, with the Fifteenth Army Corps,
which moved from Huntsville Gala. } would start for
Rome lGs.,) to operate on Johnston's flank. Assum-
ing that to be Logan's destination, Grant will march
against Johnston with so 1000 men. Chattanooga
dispatches say the information from Johnston's army
is contradictory. One report says that the entire
army is around Dalton; another, that a large portion,
including artillery from kinston, has gone to rein
force Longstreet. John Morgan is said 70 be in the
vicinity of Dalton with o cavalry force, preparing
for a raid.
The Raleigh On. c. Progress contains q strong
article against the new Confederate Enrolment Act,
and says if Congress don't unfasten the military
despotism from the people they must submit quietly
or resist the tyranny; that resistance to tyrants is
obedience TO God, and that the people of North Caro-
lima will not hesitate as to which course they should
pursue. The passage of the tyrannical bill is recon-
mended by the Military Committee, and the collision
so long talked Of between North Carolina and the
Confederate States is upon us.
A Washington special dispatch says Summers
amendment 10 the Constitution, proposed in the
Senate yesterday, reads as follows Everywhere
within the limits If the United States, and each State