The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-02-13

kept up lively Smelling all day. Since Tuesday at 8
o'clock. four hundred and sevensy-one shells have
been thrown into the city, causing some damage, but
no casualty. The enemy have unmssked two or
three more PARROTS at Gregg. The Smelling is still
heavy this evening.
Private Information from rebel sources states that
Charleston is being gradually destroyed by fire by
our batteries. On the 26th ecember two blocks of
buildings on King street, belonging TO the estate of
The late Senator Butler, were destroyed. Several
large warehouses, occupied by the rebel Government,
filed with army supplies, were destroyed. At the
same Time the city was almost deserted except by
military. The poorer classes have erected temporary
recommendation out of range of our fire. Great
destitutlOn prevails among them.
NEW YORK. Jan. ia Hilton Head correspond
ent OF the 10th states that a few vessels of the new
expedition are moving cut Of the harbor.
The siege of Charleston is temporarily suspended
except by the fire of our guns from Morris Island.
where a sufficient force is left for defence and TO work
the guns, and where more batteries are being erected
for the purpose of reducing the city 10 ashes. A
large negro force accompanied the expedition, the
War department having authorized Gen. Gilmore to
recruit all the negroes in his Department as troops.
under white officers.
From East Tennessee.
All quiet at Chattanooga.
From Knoxville, we learn that a special Cincinnati
telegram says: "LOngs,reet's army are in winter
quarters thirty two miles from Knoxville, having a
front of twenty miles. They are said to number
81 900. Gordon Granger commands the Federals,
u oe!leVeS nlulse luIly aoIe u utIeul nlulSel
against Longstreet. General Foster is ill at
Knoxville"
Rumor says that Longstreet has recently made a
tender Of an important character to the General Gov
eminent, involving no less than the surrender of his
force. An official was detailed. rumor says. to hold
an interview with him and agree upon the terms.
Such terms were offered to him that he declared that,
rather than accept them, he and the people would
fight to the last. We cannot say how much truth
there is in the story.
Union Meeting in West Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, January 22d--A meeting of over two
thousand persons was held at the Capitol to- night, to
consult on the restoration of the civil government to
the State. Resolutions were passed recognizing the
authority OF the Federal Government to secure Re-
publican government in rebellious States, by appoint
ing Military Governors; denouncing slavery as an
evil in itself, and the cause of the rebellion; advising
the reorganization of the State Government, by a
Constitutional Convention, composed of delegates
pledged to immediate and universal emancipation.
The resolutions commend the integrity and fidelity
of Governor Johnson, and request him to call such
convention. A Committee was appointed to select
delegates to the Southern Free State Convention to
be held mt Louisville. Governor Johnson favored a
State Convention, and said slavery had been the dis.
turbing element which had tried to put down the
Government, and the Government should put it down
Immediately, and forever. He wanted free whites
and a white mau's Government, but his platform
was broad enough for freedom to all, white and black.
We must restore the State Government on a righteous
principles; strike the letters off the States, and let the
oppressed go free. Gradual emancipation is prepos-
ferrous. for it proposed to fit o State for freedom by
prolonging slavery.
From RebeldOm.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2O.-From late Southern papers
we condense the following
The Atlanta CoDfederacy of the fifth says Our
cavalry at Beams Station are continually having
heavy skirmishes with the enemy. Four days ago a
squad of our men captured n lot of Yankee clothing,
and were in the act of draping themselves in Yankee
property. when they were captured by the Yankees;
who finding them in Yankee clothing, led them out
and shot them down. A few days afterwards. the
Fourth Alabama captured fifteen or twenty Yankees,
and shot them in retaliation"
In reference to the exchange of prisoners the
Richmond Enquirer of the 18th says: Butler is an
outcast and can never be recognized as entitled to
the privileges accorded to a foe taken in lawful war
fare; yet il may become a question whether the Gov
eminent should not consult the feelings of the
Confederate soldiers now lingering in Northern
dungeons, and take the earliest practicable opportu-
nifty Of releasing them. Treating with Butler should
not relieve the pitiful wretch from the ban of outlawry
pronounced against him.
A bill was under consideration before the Confed-
crate House, designed to allow the egress from the
Confederacy, of all foreigners who, after a certain
time, shall elect to leave the country
An editorial in the Montgomery Mail says: "The
debates and proceedings of Congress furnish much
occasion for painful solicitude. They evince n panic,
rather than cool, grave deliberations becoming such
a body in its anxiety to restore the currency and
fill the army. Danger is imminent that Congress will
bankrupt the country and overthrow the very frame
work of society.
Beef of the most inferior quality, is two dollars per
pound in Richmond, and almost unobtsinable at that
price, and -four is only one hundred and seventy-fve
dollars a barrel.
Substitutes get $1,000 and $1lOO in Richmond.
but then it is rebel money, worth six cents on the
dollar.
The Richmond Wing, of the 18th says " Some
Southern papers are apprehensive of an attack on
Savannah, as part Of the enemy's programme on the
coast during the winter. This is inferred from GER
tain recent movements at Hilton Head, which seem
to indicate a concentration Of forces for that purpose.
Another reason for the belief is, that it would con-
stitute a base of operations against Charleston"