The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-09-17

| ally wounded. These two last were Lees favor
lite aids, and if killed, it will be a heavy loss to
the rebels. We think. however, that the tele-
graph has made some confusion OF naines' and
some of those reported killed are not. The num-
Der of generals killed is out of all proportion.
If the news last received is confirmed, 1t changes
Grants position very much in his favor, and
will necessitate the recall of the rebels ralding
in the Shenandoah Valley, and around the
Potomac.
From other quarters, no very important news
has come TO hand. The trouble with the tele-
graph is said to be caused by hostile attacks
from the Indians on the Nebraska plains, who
have also stopped the mail coaches ana all
overland emigration. With his hands iull in
fighting rebellion at the South, it should not be
wondered at If Uncle Sam is not at liberty TO
promptly punish the wild tribes that roam over
the prairie plains, and who know very we'll how
he is situated just now.
The new American Secretary of the Treasury,
wv. PITr FEssESDES. appears to have gained
the full confidence Of the country, and especially
of it's monied and commercial interests. Not
long ago, the bankers OF Amsterdam (Europe)
sent an offer to the American Government that
they would furnish her with one hundred mil
lions of gold, if she would pledge the customs
receipts in payment Of interest. The offer was
repealed with scorn, and the same parties, find
ing they must be placed on the same footing as
Americans, are hastily taking up the loans with
out any special guarantee. Money is power,
and the case with which the government obtains
it, it certainly a strong argument in support of
its strength and ability to put down the rebel
lion, even should it continue for years.
4 sensation item will be observed among the
European news important if true'-that
Louis Napoleon has replied to the Southern rebel
representatives that he will not acknowledge
their independence at present, and in no event
except the abolition of slavery is guaranteed.
Now it will be remembered that the South
ern peace delegates who met at Niagara Falls,
pulled the wool over Horace Greeley's eyes, and
were so efectually snubbed in ten short lines
from President Lincoln, addressed a to aOhOm AZ
may'concern, - demanded as one of the conditions
Of peace that slavery, or what remains of it,
be guaranteed to the slave holders. Putting
this and that together, it narrows down their
chances of European intervention to q pretty
small point. Napoleon has u far-seeiug eye,
and can read events ahead about as clearly as
any one LIVING. 1t Is not MS interest TO STIR
up q Trans Atlantic war at present, when the
sympathies of the French people are with the
slave and his freedom.
We hear nothing further of the reported peace
between Germany and Denmark. The details of
this, when received, will be interesting. How
long peace viii exist is d question which affords
politicians matter for frequent discussion.
The Comet ought to bring us the doings of the
Democratic Presidential Convention, which met
at Chicago August %. 1t is probable that a
war democrat will be nominated, or perhaps one
not committed 10 war or peace.