The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-01-28
Foreign Waits.


By the kindness of our old friend Captain E.
A. Swift. Of the clipper ship Arg0sy, formerly Of
the whaleship Brutus, in lS52-4,) who accident
ally touched at this port on Sunday, on his way
to India, we were favored with three or four late
California dailies Of January 5 to 10, giving tele-
graphic news to January 9. We said accident
ally for Captain Swift had no idea of touching
here when he left San Francisco, and on that ac-
count declined to bring our mail. He came across
from San Francisco with q strong southwest
wind. and when in latitude 500 N, longitude
l520 (nearly north of Hawaii, say 500 miles,
running past the group with a ten-knot breeze.
the wind suddenly shifted to the northwest, and
compelled him TO change his course, and steer d.
rect for Honolulu. arriving here eleven and a
half days on the passage. We were glad to see
and shake hands with the veteran sailor, now in
command of a clipper which any man might be
proud of. His previous ship, the Golden Fleece,
if we remember rightly, the pirate Semmes burned.
The news which Captain Swift brought was OF
the same cheering character as that lately received
from the war, giving hope Of better times ere long.
General Sherman had met with great success at
Savannah, the people at Il public meeting, headed
by the Mayor, signifying Il desire to accept the
amnesty offered by the President. in which there
is every probability they Will be joined by the peo-
pie Of the whole State of Georgia. There is no
doubt the United States Government and people
will be lenient and forgiving, perhaps even to
fault, and welcome back the 81 hayward sisters
with u love and rejoicing not surpassed by that
given to the ~prodigal SON Of old. :" Forgive
and forget" will be the motto, just as soon as the
people Of the South express the sincere desire 10
return 70 the status quo ante Gehuna. So far as
political relations are concerned that can be ef-
tected, but SlGrery must be sacrificed.
The cotton seized by General Sherman at Savan-
nah, it is stated, was claimed as belonging to par
ties in England. That is quite probable. and it
Will be found that all the cotton at the South,
or at least ali owned by the rebel government, has
been pledged or pawned to the holders of Confed-
crate bonds in Europe. This contraband claim
viii probably not be recognized by the American
Government, no more than any other claim based
on illegal traffic. The English Government eau
toned its people not to engage in it. and if they
suffer, it is the penalty or risk inseparable from
contraband trade.
Savannah, it is said. would be opened to for
eign trade, by order Of the Government. and in
this movement it viii doubtless be supported by
the city and State authorities. OF itself, this
viii be Il great in|ducement to return to the ma
tional allegiance. Tie Secretary of War, Mr..
and the New York Collector Of Customs, |
Mr.. Draper, had gone TO Savannah to arrange for
this, as we'll as to settle the question Of the own
Of the cotton seized.
Admiral Porter's fleet had encountered u severe
gale off Cape Fear, (Wilmington,D and had put
Beaufort, North Carolina, where it was at
the latest dates.
Nothing new is reported from Richmond. unless
it be the proposition to make Lee q Generalissino
in the rebel army, tantamount 10 COMMUNICATIVE
or Dictator, with the hope of arresting
and the waning prospects Of the Con-
rate cause, which is on the eve Of t~umbling
in. Neither Lee nor any other man can save it
now. 1t is doomed.
Gen. Hood has managed 10 escape from Ten
nessee, with a remnant of his army, into
discouraged, disheartened and ready
to give up.
The bark Whistler arrived Yesterday, II DAYS
passage, having left San Francisco on the 18th.
does not bring the regular mails and cx-
presses, which We're forwarded by the British
bark Light of The Age. that sailed one day
before the ". She has the New York mails of
December 18th, and ought 10 arrive to-day.
The news received yesterday is not much later,
LOT of much Importance. Amsng the items
We observe that Gen. Butler has been removed
IN account of the reported mismanagement
n the attack on Wilmington, North Carolina.
He has proved one of the best generals and the
strongest men that the administration has had.
But :. necessity knows no law and like Banks,
Gilmore, Rosecrans and others, ne will probably
be retired.
Nothing new or later from Sherman.
The nrncrntinn of Richmond Is rennrtei frr