The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-08-07
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Massachusetts Legislature have refused further
aid to the project for tunneling Hoosie Mountain.
There are 1000 acres of land near Cincinnati de-
voted to the cultivation of Catawba wine, of which
one-half are in full bearing.
The official correspondence in relation to the British
negotiations with Japan has been published. The
success of these Negotiations is mentioned as being
very satisfactory.
4 monument is to be erected to Alexander Wilson,
the most able writer upon North American ornithol-
ogy, In his native place Of Paisley, Scotland, during
the present summer.
The emigration to Iowa is very great. From twelve
to fifteen hundred persons landed at Keokuk during
four DAYS. The multitude cannot find houses enough
to live in.
One man in Philadelphia holds . million of dollars
of the Texas bonds soon to be paid, which he bought
from the U. S.. Bank at the rate of fifteen cents to thes
dollar.
The ice in the Neva at st. Petersburg broke up on
the last day Of April. It was still fast on the 1st at
Cronstadt.
More than 1900 arrests have been made in Paris
within a month, but none of the public journals are
allowed to allude to the fact.
CAPTAIN Brown, of Glasgow, has applied for and
obtained q patent for the manufacture of paper from
the fern known throughout the Highlands generally
as the brekan.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria has offered to head a
subscription list for the rebuilding of Covent Garden
Theatre with q contribution of $1,000.
Adviccs by the Arabia state that the dreadful fam
inc existing in some districts of Silesia has been con-
ccaled as long as possible. The German journals (not
Prussian) are at last speaking of it. Child murder
has become common from sheer starvation.
That unriyalled literary firm, the Messrs. Harpers,
of New York, are about to start o Pictorial Weekly
Newspaper.
Mr.. Bennett of the Herald, arrived in N. York on
Wednesday from Havre, justin the nick oftime, there
being twelve libel suits just coming on IN Court
against him.
The "Angel Gabriel" has been found guilty of sedi-
ton in the riots at Dominica. He will now have an
opportunity for q little reflection in the stone jug.
A yacht steamer of 1900 tons is building at Boston,
for the Pacha of Egypt. A propeller Is feet dame
ter and weighing ten tons is now building in that
city.
The Sultan's ratification of the Treaty OF Paris is
received from Constantinople. Underneath his titles,
written in gold, q long ribbon of green and gold is at
tached to each sheet of parchment, and is fastened in
a gilt box, in the form OF q large medal, containing
the seal of the Ottoman Empire in wax, bearing the
arms of the Empire.
The London Times lately addressed itself to the
French ministry of War, to obtain the biographies of
some of the principal French generals, the history of
the campaigns of some of the African regiments, and
some general information about the principal military
institutions in France, with a view to a reform of the
military system of Great Britain. This application
was, it is said, supported by the English cabinet
Santa Anna, the ex-Dictator of Mexico, is living in
great style at Tabaco, four miles from Carthagena,
in New Grenada, S. America. He is said to be worth
$4,000,000
TheNiaryland Senate has ordered a painting, to
represent the incident which occurred in the senate
chamber or. he 23d of December, 1888, when George
Washington delivered his farewell address and took
his final leave of public life.
Some gold hunters in North California have dis
covered a mountain which appears to be hollow.
One man, when about four feet below the surface,
struck his crow-bar down, and it fell through, bring
ing his face down to the earth. On further search,
they found an immense cavern.
A project has been started In England Of establish
ing under the patronage of the government a gallery
OF original portraits, to consist, as far as possible. OF
those persons who are most honorably
in British history as warriors or as statesmen, or in
arts, IN literature and in science.
The sittings of the Crimean Board of Inquiry in
London were within a day or two Of their termination.
The Times correspondent sets down the Russian losses
in and around Sebastopol at $4,000, While 100000
persisted from fatigue and disease. He says they could
not have been able to sustain themselves many days
longer, had not peace been declared.
Emile Girardin, editor of the Paris Pfesse, is going
to be married to Miss Sheppard, daughter of a rich
English widow. The belle Sheppard used to firt with
the Emperor before his marriage with Eugene. Gil
rardin' s first wife (who was much more brilliant than
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of francs, and is about forty years of age. Miss Shep-
pard is about twenty-five years old. and very pretty.
A gentleman named Grimes, now lecturing about
spiritualism In Buffalo. offers a thousand dollars foi
a sipgle rap. The rap is to be produced under cir
cuIastances which shall admit no possibility of fraud
As yet the spirits have not evinced any rapacity fol
Grimes money.
An old woman lately arrived in Chicago, on th'
way to Urbano, Illinois, with a bed, a box, three
dogs, a cat, a black hen, a basket containing FIVE kit
tens. and a pup with its eyes not open.
1t is estimated that the cost of the past two year!
war IN the East, to the three principal powers enga
ged therein, is eighteen hundred millions of dollars
This is more than twice the whole value ofthe estate
real and personal, of the city of New-York.
DIR. Kane sums up the benefits of his expedition, a
being the survey of Greenland, the survey of the gla
cier, the survey of the North American coast, the dis
covery of the open Polar sen, and the cocroboratiol
of the Investigations of the best British expeditions
A body found at Hunters Island recently, ha
been identified as that of Captain Palmer of tn
t schooner EudorG Tmoeene. and n coroner's iur-