The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-10-23

any familiar names-glances at the arrivals-and
tries, perhaps to wade through tedious article Oh
the war always appropriates newspaper
quietly he does coat-there is just as little
doubt of its being manufactured expressly for him
and with the wisdom of haifa-dozen owls expressed
in his face he settles himself to his intellectual
past'
HYMNs.-No other composition is like an expert
mental hymn. 1t is not mere poetic impulse. 1t
is not thought, fancy, feeling threaded upon
words. 1t is the voice of experience speaking from
TIE soul few words that condense and often repre-
sent whole life. 1t is the life, too, not Of the Eatu
raj feelings growing wild but of regenerated feeling
inspired by God to heavenly destiny, and making
its way through troubles and hindrance, through joys
and victories, dark light sad serene. yet always
struggling forward. Forty years the heart may have
been In BATTLE and one shall express the Iruit
of the whole. One great hope may come to fruit only
at the end of many years, and as the ripening of
hundred experiences
TIE GREATEST YoNDEa 7. Calvin Edison, and
ali the fat women, dwarfs and giants eclpsed by
a on exhinitlo,- = Ha"ana, who was born
without either legs rms, but who having tena-
ciously set himself to work to conquer the nconven
fences naturally consequent upon such deprivation,
has made himself wonder by the variety of his feats
Among other things, he that he is able to
spin top with such perfection that 1t will hit any
spot named, to spin dollar over table, to throw
sling, to take sixpence from table and put it IN his
left ear and take it out again, to make knot with
halter, to thread a needle, to ascend and descend
ladder, to uncOrk bottle with cork screw, to load
fowlng piece and kill anything designated, put
out candle with simple wad-quite wonders
enough for man without either legs or arms.
The lawyers, by setting up the plea of insanity,
saved Fyler, who murdered his wife in the interior
of New York, from the gallows and when they sue
him for the $4,000 which he agreed to pay them, he
resists, and pleads insanity. Fyler is rather too
smart for the children of Beelzebub.
THE Cars CORONATION read in the Berlin
(July 24) correspondence of the London Times:
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are to accompany the coronation in Moscow, has al
ready received the sanction of the Emperor in the
form in which it has been drawn up by the Director
of the Imperial Theatres, Guedeano In addition to
other provision for the entertainment of those
bled in the old Russian capital there will be compa-
nies of Russian, German and French actors, and Ita
ian opera singers. Among the numerous crowd of
applicants for Government concessions, the French
in all branches of enterprise the most favored.
A French company, for instance, has received the
permission to erect large bazaar for articles of art,
luxury, and general trade of the largest open
spaces in the town of Moscow the building is to be
somewhat of the shape of tent with glass sides and
glass roof, and is to communicate with an establish
ment for refreshments and coffee house.
With reference to the approaching coronation,
the Emperor has selected 27 pages from out of the
highest Russian, German, FINNISH and even Oren-
tai families the number of horses from the Imperial
studs which now in Of being forwarded to
Moscow for the purposes of the pageant amounts to
200.
During the present year, astronomers to be on
the alert, to decide an important question that has
lately arisen with respect to the rings of Saturn.
Compared with drawings made two hundred years
ago, considerable difference is perceived, as
though the rings gradually falling in upon the
body of the planet.
nell, the hero of the late Spanish coup d'etat has
been before the public for many years. but the follow
ing incident in his life, furnished by the London
Leader, will be new to our readers:
In fha G11fO of MpycO hnfIU Tho
tropics and the equator, is large and highly popu
lous island, with very numerous negro population.
few years ago the governor of that island had not
long been appointed he had discovered, from some
sources which to this day remains totally unknown
and unconfrned, that the negroes were the verge
of universal insurrection- Military parties were
sent the whole island in order to take
against the revolt The officer of any of the mill
tary parties thus distributed would come upon the
estate of planter, and inform him of the contempla
ted insurrection
A single case will show the object of this strange
precautionary measure. The planter receives his Of
fetal visitor with surprise he has heard of insur-
rection amongst his slaves in fact he does not be-
lieve the story, and he his disbelief Now
surely the planter ought, at least, to know more of
his than a lieutenant Of infantry from
distance particularly the lieutenant does not think
fit to disclose single fact in proof of the asserted re-
volt sudden light breaks upon the planter he is
confident of his slaves that he offers to be bail for
the whole body of them and q step to make
things pleasant, he offers kind of free-wi Offering
say of three thousand dollars. The lieutenant sees
that the planter understands matters he has still
further to go in the course of his visitation and he
will call as he comes back. During the absence of
the lieutenant with his men, the planter bethinks
him that three thousand dollars is more than he is
obliged to pay and when the lieutenant returns the
planter is avOwedly more convinced than ever that
the slaves thought of nothing less than revolt so
he proposes to make things pleasant less expensive
terms-to give, say only one thousand five hundred
dollars
| Remember, says the lieutenant, that did not
ask for any money at all; but since you have men,
TONED sum, cannot, Of course, take less;' and he
goes away empty-handed. Soon AFTER however he
returns again. retaining his original conviction that
the negroes intended revolt; and to punish them
number of them are fogged The hogging is so
/ severe that many of them are permanently injured
and some of them are killed. The planter estimates
the injury to his property at the sum of $4,000
other proprletors had not been guilty to the same
backsliding but equally perceivng the proper way to
make things pleasant, they had preserved, and had
secured immunity for their estates 1t has been said
that during the suppression of that apocryphal
as many as 10000 negros were killed. They were
| the property, of course, of the planters who had
viewed the subject after what may call our friend
second manner. No negroes were flogged to death
the estates of the planters that had made things
pleasant The Governor resided in the island not
very great number of years. He entered as notori
ously poor man-indeed it was his poverty Joined
with the favor of his sovereign which caused him to
receive the appointment; he left the island in the
possession Of large fortune That island was Cuba
the Governor Gnnaral 0sDoSnaII