The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-02-13
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Inc clipper Dark fQnhee, or the regular DISPATCH
Line, arrived on Friday morning last. Com. Patty
has made another of those quick passages, which
have given him and his bark q fame, having made
the run down in liz days. The Yankee brings the
mails. and a very interesting summary of foreign
advices. The papers received by her are-New
York, Dec. %, and San Francisco, Jan. "a. the lat
ter containing teIegraphic dispatches from Washing
ton to the 22d.
The Army of the Potomac.
The following tells in q few lines what Lees and
Meade's armies are ding
HEAD QUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoroMAC, January
distributing Of special Importance has TRANSFERRED
within our lines for several days. The enemy ap-
pears to enjoy a similar state of quies.
From Gen. Buffers Department..
|. General Butler has, during the short time that be
Z has been in command of the Department of Virginia
and North Carolina, enlisted between 5000 and
1000 colored soldiers. He took the responsibility of
Offering a bounty of ten dollars, which has had a
marked effect in stimulating e~nlistments. The War
Department has since ratified his action.
The Wilmington Journal says: The recent pres
ence of Gen. Butler in Newbern, and the concentra-
ton of troops at that point, as well as at Washington
and Beaufort, leave little room for doubt that an
advance of n most serious character is contemplated
and on the eve of execution by the enemy (Federals]
into the State Of North Carolina. The enemy may
advance in the direction of Kingston and Goldsboro.
no doubt they are increasing their forces at Wash
ington and Falmouth, and we expect an attack on
the railroad near Rocky Mount and Weldon.
Rumors are afoat in Washington OF a reorganiza-
ton or consolidation of the [Natiouall army into
three separate corps. 1t is also ruIncred that an in
dependent corps of 80, 900 men will be given to one
of our best Sighting Generals, who will be authorized
to take Richmond In his own way. IL Is also asserted
that a CO operative movement will be made on Rich
mond, ut the opening of the spring. by a column on
the Peninsula, or south of the James River, aided
by Buffers forces, and by the main column on the
direct line from Washington. Hancock will COM
mand one of the three corps into which the Army Of
the Potomac will be consolidated; Sedgwick another.
and a General-not of the Observation-Disclosures
From Richmond.
The construction of ironclads at Richmond has
been abandoned. The iron was sent to Charleston
and Savannah to complete the several vessels being
built there. A universal feeling of terror and despon-
dency pervades the South. 1t is with difficulty the
Government is able to stem the current of popular
feeling setting in against it.
The Richmond Enquirer, speaking Of the an
nouncement OF the re-eDlistment of so many Federal
troops for tine war. says The action of the enemy
in this matter is important to us. The preservation
of their organization shows that they intend to move
forward at the earliest practicable moment in spring.
We shall need every energy of national defence for
the spring campaign. Richmond will, in all prob
ability, be approached from the Rsppahannock. as
well rs from the Blackwater and northern Georgia.
The fate of Atlanta, and in North Carolina, that of
Wilmington-all must be decided in spring"
Progress of UniOnism in North Carolina.
North Carolina papers continue to demand peace.
The Raleigh Progress says: Peace alone can pre-
vent starvation. 1t is folly to talk about there being
enough supplies in the country. such Is in fact I'M
true, and those who adhere to such a mistake Will
find out their error when too late. Confederate
money Is bad enough, but a dearth of provisions IS
not caused by a want of confidence in the currency,
but because the producers have nothing to bring in.
We tell the people and authorities, that the present
condition of things cannot, and will not last. The
masses of honest, hard working people have been
deceived long enough, and will not suffer when they
can induce peace. They want peace and they'll have
lt-nOt uOOn such terms aS the leaders who have
betrayed them desire, but upon such terms as they
themselves shall prescribe. Rich men may have
meat and bread, but we tell them it will not remain
with them unless the poor are provided for. Peace,
such as statesmen and honest rulers might obtain,
would give abundance, and all creature comforts;
but a continuance of the war will rob US of all So
ci4l and political rights, and make the many the
slaves of the few. We believe that peace can be
made, and that such as the world will consider honor
able, and those who assume the rule ought to take
steps 10 make il, for enough has been said by the
enemy to satisfy all reasonable men that they would
gladly remove the quarrel from the sword and refer
il 10 the council chamber"
Another article says There is not another man
to spare from the agricultural and industrial pursuits
of the country. and another draft in this class will
be fraught with the most disastrous consequences.
Congress. we fear, Is disposed to run to extremes,
especially those members whose States are largely or
entirely in the hands of the enemy. Judging the
future by the past. We can not say we expect any
thing from it. Its members have neither patriotism
nor craftsmanship for the awful crisis with which
they have to deal.'
News from Newbern, says: The wholesale con-
%scriptiOn law IS creating great CONSERVATION and
excitement in tire western portion of the State. where
preparations are being made to resist it. Meetings
are held at which the SOc.hern Confederacy is openly
repudiated, and favoring a return to the Union.
The Raleigh IN. CO Standard editorially says
Ii civil law is 10 be trampled under foot by the sus-
pension of the writ of habeGS corpus, and any and
every able bodied man between the age of l6 and 90
is placed in the army, and the rights Of the State are
to be swept away, the people of North Carolina will
take their affairs INFO their own hands, and proceed,
in convention assembled, to vindicate their liberties
aud principles. They will not submit to military
despotism. They will not submit to the destruction
IF their personal and civil rights in this or any other
way. 4 vast majority OF our people are already
excited and restless at these threatened encroach-
ments on their liberties by the Congress at Richmond,
and We warn the members of that body not to kindle
n flame which no effort can extinguish. If Congress
pass these measures. the people will rise in their
might and assert their sovereignty; and woe to the
official who shall attempt to turn the arms of Con-
federate soldiers against the people of this State.
North Carolina will not be a slave of either the Con-
gress at Richmond or Washington. She is the key
stone of the Confederate arch. If that stone should
fall, the arch would crumble.
WASHINGTON. January u. late Richmond
Uhig says If Wilmington is taken, Charleston falls
by an attack in the rear.
BosToN, January 22i.-A correspondent of the
Trareier, writing from Newbern, says information
has reached him that a call has been issued at Raleigh
for a State Convention, for the purpose of seeding
from their allegiance TO the Southern Confederacy.
The writer says that Governor Vance, and nearly all
the leading men of North Carolina, desire a return
to the Union. He also says that an army of ten
thousand men, under Butler, could march to Raleigh,
take possession of the capital, and free the State
from the rule of traitors In q month. Such an army
would receive an enthusiastic welcome there and all
along the line of march. So say men who know.