The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-06-04
Four Days Later TeIegraphic News.
EXCITING NEW -
Lee At ttackS Grant
Gen. Lee Falling back Toward
EeichmoHd.
Butler Cuts off Communication Be-
tween Beauregard and Lee.
Gems. SedgWick and WadS-
worth Killed.
Gen. Sherman Advancing into
Georgia.
Gold Failing - 1SS I-s.
Gold Falling lOS I-2.

We are under obligations to Captains Babcock
and Waterman for papers, from which we Gull
the following news
The San Francisco public give evidence of their
loyalty by shouts and cheers for the Union sue
eesses.
The Bulletin says 50 The joyous excitement
caused by the news of Grants and Buffers On
to Richmond movement, did not subside yester-
day, but rather increased after our paper had
been well circulated throughout the city. Dur
ing the early part of the night it was common
thing to hear cheers for Grant, Butler and the
Army of the Potomac, ut various public places,
one passed along.
News of May Srh.
WASHINGTON MAY S-The Star says that the
only official information from the Army of the
Potomac is derived from dispatch of the Aledi-
cal Director and Quartermaster to the respective
bureaux The wounded, numbering from 5000
to 1000. were sent from the battlefield TO Rap
pahannock Station, and thence Will be forwarded
20 Washington. y portion of them have arrived
at RappahannOck Station. Few casualties are
reported among them. General Says was killed.
Generals Hancock, Gregg, Getty, and Owens
were wounded. Two of Burnsidcs aids were
killed while carrying orders.
vt the last dates Banks at Alexandria.
Intimation having been given that he designed
leaving that position, positive orders from Gen.
Grant requires him to hold II. With the pro-
lection that the gunboats afford, his force Is
strong enough under competent commander,
TO bid defiance to any force the rebels can bring
against him. Arrangements for supplies VIII be
made with energy and celebrity by Cen Candy,
who has gone forward with special Instructions
New YoRK. Nav S-The Times correspondent
from James river. the 5th, speaking OF Cen But
ler's movement, says that the project I'm which
the Lieutenant General, after a careful examIna-
ton, fully acquieSced in, was an advance upon
Richmond by the James river, to get a tOothold
as near the city rs possible on the South bank OF
the stream. and intercept the communication
with the rebel Capital sOuthward, and eventually
compel the evacuation by Lee and his army OF
their strongly fortified position on the Rapid Ann
thus forcing the rebels to give Grant battle or
move rearward towards the Capital The first
steps towards organization was made some weeks
since by concentration at Yorktown from various
posts in North Carolina, thus bringing together
the great bulk of the Eighteenth Corps; and
with these nearly all the Tenth Army Corps,
under Gilmore, sent to Butler to participate
in the movement. That Yorktown and Glouces-
ter Point (both at the mouth of the York riyer)
should have been selected for the rendezvous OF
these troops, naturally led to the supposition that
an advance was to be made up the Peninsula
That the deception might be doubly sure, n
brigade of Union troops was dispatched by Gen.
Butler as late yesterday TO White House Land
inc, where ut sunset they were sedulOusly en-
gagged telling trees and constructing a military
wharf, as If preparing to facilitate the landing
of u large army All light draft-steamers were,
until the last moment, kept ut Fortress Monroe,
whence, early yesterday morning, they were dis
patched to York river, and the work of embark
ing troops, for which arrangements had been pre-
viously made, began. Gen. Buffers orders to
subordinates required them to repair to Hampton
Roads as quickly rs possible, where they were TO
anchor for the night. At daybreak the advance
of the troops moved up the James, conveyed by
army gunboats under Graham, and five Monitors
and eleven gunboats under Rear Admiral Lee
The cavalry branch of the expedition was com,
manded by Brig. Gen. Kautz, who, with several
thousand white troops. left Suffolk at daylight
yesterday morning. The point at which he aims
primarily is Hicksford, on the Petersburg, Rich
nond and Weldon road. Gen. Kautz received a
rowing commission and may penetrate as Tar as
smaller cavalry force set out at the same time
Their object was to create diversion in our favor
BY keeping the rebels excited and attacking out