The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-16
LATER news !

By the clipper ship Skylark, Capt. Bursley. which
arrived on Saturday last, Is days from San FraI,cis-
CO, we have received daily papers from that place to
the 22d ult., two days later than our last previous
dates.
Very little worth chronicling. had t~ranspireG in
the interim.
The work of unlading the sunken ship .4quila
was progressing rapidly, 900 out of the 1900 tons
on board having been got out. She was mostly
laden with the iron-clad Camanche.
The Pacific mail steamers have been armed with
long range guns. Each vessel has two Dahlgrens
and one 100 ID. riAed Parrot, capable Of carrying
shot four miles.
A new pump has been made for pumping out the
.4quiIla. The fila refers to it in the following:
A POWERFUL wREcKIvG PuMp.-We saw at the
San Francisco Machine Works of Devoe, Dinsmore
s. Co, yesterday. n new steam wrecking pump. of
the capacity of $500 gallons per minute, which has
been finished to order of Capt. Harrison. The pump is
rugged upon wheels so as to be unshipped and set
fiat upon the deck of u vessel in q minutes time,
has an arrangement for hosting it on board by a
derrick or otherwise, and is altogether one of the
most powerful and complete mschines of the ciiarac-
ter which we have ever seen.
The following embrace the principal Eastern
Atlantic items:
A dispatch from Meridian. Mississippi, says that
Sherman had gone down the Mississippi with troops,
evidently destined for the Red River.
Breckenridge takes command of Southwestern
Virginia.
Gen. Price has issued an order, dated Longwood,
Arkansas, the Sd, resuming command of the rebel
Department of Arkansas.
IL is ascertained from official sources that the
effective army of the United States now in the field
exceeds by two hundred thousand the entire force a
year ago. 1t is stated By authority, that General
Grant will take command of the Army of the Potomac
in person.
New YORK, March ia Washington special
dispatch says the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, it is said. will shortly report n series of res
olutions in reference TO the Mexican question, taking
strong ground in favor of the Monroe doctrine.
4 Culpepper dispatch says that the signal officers
on Cedar Mountain reported yesterday that the
rebels who have been in camp across the Rapidan all
winter had broken up their encampment. set fire to
their huts, and are marching in the direction OF
the Shenandoah Valley.
WAsHiYGToN, March lS.-Clement c. Burley Of
Philadelphia, arrived here to-day, bearing a rumor
that the rebels intend another invasion Of Maryland.
His statement is entitled to some credence from the
fact that he made the earliest announcement Of Lees
intended invasion into Maryland last June. There
are some facts in partial corroboration OF this report.
IL is believed that the enemy are burning to avenge
the foray of Fitzpatrick, and that while Ger. Grant
is preparing for the capture of Richmond, Lee Will
execute one of his bold man9uvres, abandon his
communication with the rebel capital, and make q
bold dash for Washington or for the army OF the
Potomac. Two of our soldiers were captured yester-
day, near Munson's, showing that the rebel scouts
are within our lines.
The active preparations for the defence OF the
forts around Washington indicate that the military
authorities are appreheusive of a foray at least, If
not for n movement of the main body Of Lees army,
toward the national capital.
WAsH1yGToN, March 19.-Parties in from the
front report that the rebel advance being anticipated
yesterday marching orders were issued to nearly all
our commands. After all was in readiness TO move
the order was cou~ntermanded, and things settled
down in the usual order. Firing was heard in the
dtraction of Dumfries this morning. Ii Is thought
that some skirmishing was going on there.
Gen. Gilmsre's Chief-of-Staf states that the lower
pnrt of Charleston is nearly destroyed. and only the
upper part is now occupied by troops. The rebels are
STATED 70 have a large force in North Carolina. dis
,ribnted along the railroad from Petersburg to New
Wilmington. Longstreet. it is said will be appointed
! TO the command of Southern Virginia, Kirby Smith
20 take his place in East Tennessee