The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-08-27
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 81.
FOREIGN NEWS!
BY THE
YANKEE 4 NMlRNlOTE.
Operations against Mobile.

Nv YoaK, August "a special dispatch to the
Her4iI hOm New Orleans. says Information vas
received iVoR headquarters VI the Department Ot the
Gulf. Gu Thursday, that Admiral Fsrragut had pass
Ell Forts MoI gan aud Gaines. which are supposed to
command the entrance 10 Mobile Bay. and Is BON
harding the upper dcieases- Ii this Information -
correct, toe forts must speedily saIrendeF- he
ADMIRAL has uoE Elk iTOnoiads Ot Mobile, anu Two
more len this city today The oombirdment has
been continued three days. aud t = expected thAt
tue ot.y sEll surrender before the close OF Tue next
week. Gen. Granger ~ill command The land ioTce=,
which suI Scougy Mobile aud garrison the forts, II
perfect success crowns the movement
The TFBuas's correspondent doubts the reported
capture u the forts ia Mobile Bay.
The Rebel raid Into Maryland.
2 special dispatch TO the Horid from Washington.
Aag 9th SAYS Reports iTOm the upper Potomac are
very contradictory. II any crossing has been effected
by The rebels iG MAS probably a large cavalry force
under ImbOden. The movements Of tEe main column
under Early are q mystery. At last accounts he Was
IN camp between winShesier aud Mirtinsburg.
There IS evidence here tna; the rebels are resolved
upon a general Invasion
Foraey's Press has a Harrisburg dispatch from an
official source. ~ follows: Ai'ices from Allegheny
county. MA q the ~ state that heavy hring was
heard ia tue neighborhOOi Of Cumberland ali day.
A deserter says the rebel cavalry under Generals
johnson. McCausland aud jackson. were advancing
or Cumberland at this date, aud that they will be
joined oy Elrly and Imboden. the whole force to cen
ire At Cumberland sni march on PittsbaTg aud
Wheeling. Their whole strength is .bOut % 900 10
us.i and cross into Kentucky.
The Febels have burned all the bridges on the
Cumberland turnpike, and telled trees across the
rVsL
Richmond papers say that Joe Johnston has been
ass gned to the command Of the rebel Army Of North
cru Virginia. now Invading the North
~"Importgnt, IL True"
CurcAOO. August "a City Point letter Of the
ist. says Grant went 70 Fortress Monroe yesterday
20 meet the President and Cabinet Army move
neufS r iruDgrtnut bur cOntrablud
CHICAGO. August 6-Vague reports are in cireula-
ton to-day Ia regard to the movement OF the Army
Of the Potomac. \ letter dated New York the Sd,
Published here to-day. has the following Grant and
Lincoln. l sm advised from headquarters. had an
Army u the Potomac, must be Withdrawn 10 the
soG;h side OF Washington to reOrgauize aud recuper-
ate Nr another campaign. | DO net vOueh tor the
truth OF this. but there IS possibly something in IL
From Atlanta
Nsw YORK, August 6.-The HsrGld's Nashville
special Dispatch Of the 9th says, the missing Of Me-
Cooks expedition do Dot now exceed 500. Sherman
alludss 20 this rad as successful. All IS quiet 1t the
front.
A gentleman who left Mobile July 3lsr. says Hood
had been reinforced oy two divisions from Beaure-
CARDS corps from Richmond. and two brigades from
Mobile. Charleston and Wilmington are said 10 be
nearly Invested CT troops, and the garrison ~ Mobile
consists OF only two brigades Of regulars and the
Mobile militia 30 great were the fears that Mobile
thar, sc the urgent solicitation OF the Governor and
Mayor, the troops which had been sent to reinforce
Forrest were recalled
LOUISVILLE. August "a letter dated one mile
from Atlanta, July STst, from a prominent Oficer,
says the ires bGruing now IL Atlanta indicate that
Hood i destroying = large amount OF property, but
whether With a view to evacuation or not Is unknown.