The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-17
ONE WEEK
LATER 4l1eoM SAN FRANCISCO.
Two weeks Later from U. $. and Europ.

The fine bark Fanny Major, Capt. Lawtop
arrived at this port ON Tuesday morning, Is day
from San Francisco, bringing with her the u. S
mail of June 5th, and London dates to May 18th
and San Francisco dates to July 1st.
Capt. Lawton and also Capt. Thos. Spence
will please accept the warmest thanks of tb
publisher of this journal for their kind atteu
tions during the accident which happened to hin
while boarding the vessel.
The Fanny Major we notice brings but yer,
few passengers, and is but partially loaded
Trade at the coast is exceedingly dull, owing in
a great measure to the continued excitement
which distracts the attention of the business
community.
Affairs remained very much as they did at our
previous dates. Judge Terry still remained in
close confinement Capt. Hopkins who was stab
bed by him was still living, but in a very critic
al condition.
The Frances Palmer arrived over ON the 9th
June, in 90 days passage, and was to sail again
for this port on the 9th inst. She will not bring
a U. S. mail, unless she waits till the 18th.
From the Cal. Chronicle of July L.
The news by the steamer of yesterday is ola
gloomy and portentous character. The time
seems rapidly approaching when sectional issues
alone are to decide, not the question merely of
the Presidency. but of the Union. Never before
to us have seemed SO dark the political horizon,
SO threatening the clouds that lower over the
nation. The whole people of the thirty States
are in arms in their hearts, in arms against each
other. The nation seems embarked on an ocean
of excitement, and there is no jackson at the
helm, no Washington to steer the ship OF State,
no Clay to pour oil upon the waters. Pigmies
instead of giants or men, are on the quarter deck.
and the crew are in mutiny. Where is our haven.
who shall come on board as a pilot, where shall
we cast anchor?
It is not the chance of a war with England
alone that promises a dangerous voyage and fatal
laundering. It is not alone the civil war now ex-
isting In Kansas, not the conflicting party issues.
contests and ambition alone. But outrage, per-
sonal violence ofmen in high position and in pa-
ces hitherto held sacred, the law of clubs and
bloodshed are being added TO lash into fury still
more dreadful the seething and angry elements.
In the Senate Chamber of the nation, in the room
which the presence of Calhoun, Webster and
Clay consecrated to argument and the decencns
OF debate, a senator, a statesman, a scholar, 4
gentleman, has been outraged, beaten, almost
murdered, in his seat, without warning, and with
a fGerocity that finds no parallel.
This brutal onslaught upon Mr.. Summer is the
most disgraceful outrage ever inflicted upon the
nation. 1t is not merely a wrong done the Snt
nation. 1t is a blow at liberty of speech, an at
tempt to strangle all freedom of debate, all inde.
pendence of thought. And in spirit it is nUts
whit better tEh the act of a murderer who /;
.slaughters his victim without warning and cause. I
But even worse and more execrable than the deed =
itself is the despicable spirit of appreciation with
which by many the act has been approved. en-
dorsed, praised and rewarded. No more sicken.
ing expression of degraded sentiment could pos
sibly be exhibited. {
Ali these things, these chickering's and brutal. :
springing from sectional feelings and institu. s
lions, feeding upon themselves, and growing =
while they feed, are melancholy presages of what n
the future may produce. The union has wealth. il
many a storm. Whether it will that which r
now fairly setting in, who can tell? Disas- III
rous in a commercial point of consideration as "
would be a war with England, It almost seems as til
f that alone could save us from the too probable %
atal results of the present threatening elements, -
or the public mind seems fast reaching. lift hare =.
lot already passed, that point of mental excite sa
nent, when reason ceases, and impulse, passion, no
nd a spirit of vengeance seize the soul of a peo- ul
'lesand hurry them they know not whittier. pr
CONDITION OF Mr.. HopKINs-Mr. Hopkins cond- p p,
ion is much the same as it was yesterday. We are A.
By one OF his attending physicians that the
he hgature; that until that takes place he is not et -.
+ danger, but that every day increases his chants IN
f recovery. Upon the whole, he may safely be con. =
idered better than he was yesterday.-Ibid. -
- the
The ID ism ssaI of the British M;,.. =. wit
The long suspense is over. Mr.. CHAMPION received "n'
his passport on the 28th ult., in a short formal .oz
stter OF dismissal from the Secretary of State and 1 or:
n the same day the exequators of the Consuls at New 40
DIRK, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, were revoked.
1t was expected by some that Mr.. Champion would ~