The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-11-06
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the ship Royal Charter, from Melbourne, Australia.
1t is stated in q late English paper that pssssboarsa
js extensively manufactured from beet roet
During the last sever yrafs fourteen haadred nzar-
| ders, It is SAID, haze peen LeTpetsated iD and aboct.
San Francisco. and the city has been buraed down
seven Zines.
A mock Of an earthquake was iAt last week 81
Solaure, Switzerland.
There had been numerous rios in Lisbon and else
where throughout Portugal, OH The plea Of the dear:
ness Of bread. .31ss
Gen. Todleben is visiting the principai mrtresses
in Germany, whence he proceeds to Frszee.
The national debt of England is the element that
holds the Queen and aristocracy together.
JAMES Buchanan WAS born In Franklin county,
Pa, the 18th of april, 1871.
On one of the railroads in France, excellent beds
are furnished to passengers at the extra charge OF
two cents only.
Peaches are poor and scarce this year in the {. s.
! The crop is understood to be q comparative failure.
The New York carfGen have devised o portable
awning, which is SUSPENDED over their horses. as a
protection from the heat of the sun.
The appropriations for California during the frst
sessioa Of the present Congress. amounted to about
81 $40, 900.
There are 68I sewers connpleted in New~York city
&c the PRESENT tins. .heir aggregate 18th being
TGs total population Of Paris has lately been ascsr-
y&aed TO be 100000.
Recept advices from Me lice stste that q new arti-
Gle has been added to the constitution, guarantee
iEg religious liberation and q free press.
We see It stated that Hugh Miller the distinguished
Edinburgh Geologist and author. is about coming 60
the United States on q lecturing tour.
An Ingenious FrenchInan has secured q patent for
making q parasol thai can be folded into the FORM Of
| q fan, instead of folding in the common manner.
Col. Benton is gathering materials for q new worEs
an s. AbEidgnent of the Debates in CongressS' from
the commencement to the present time.
Martin Earquha2 Topper has written q poem call
I'd. "The Opium Trade SO true to its purposes
hat PINCH, lille reading three verses fell FIST aszep.
Among the requests of the late DIR. 1FeauWells or
81 len, Mas, is a farm of severity acres GO se Essex
Agricultural Society, for an experimental far4a.
Taxes in Albany this year will probably amount to
$50 per $780,. This is somewhat worse than the
state of things u New York as badly burdaned as that
city is.
A very large water spout is said to have beea seoa
off Hyannis. Cape Cod, on Monday of last week il
was about . mile from shore, and in shape resemoied
an inverted cone about sixty feet In height.
An American gentleman is on his return to the
United States from the East, with a male and female
dromedary, and four thoroughbred Arabian horses.
which he is bringing home as o breeding stock %
say the papers.
We have intelligence from Kansas to the effect
that on the 18th ult. Gov. Shannon issued o prselams-
ton declaring the Territory In q state OF lnsnrressaon.
and calling on all good citizens to aid IN preserving
the peace. Parties of Gen. Lanes supporters were
busily engaged in receiving supplies through Iowa.
and MAKING arrangements for q speedy and safe re-
treat, should il become necessary.
Orders have been issued from the Ordinance De-
partment for the resumption of work IL the armories
and arsenals where it was suspended.
Sr. LOUIS, Sept. 9Th, 1856.
Adyices from Kansas state that q battle was fought
on the morning of the Both Ilt., at ossaWatomle, be-
tween three hundred pro-slayery troops, under capt.
Reed and Capt. Brown. The battle lasted an hour.
when the free-scilers were routed, with the loss os
twenty killed, and several wounded. Brown and hs
son are both reported killed. FIVE OF the pro7sHVery
men were wounded.
A RR11IIASr DIspLAY.-The fountains at the Crys-
tai Palace near London having keen completed, were
recently exhibited before the Queen and 2f.ooO visi-
tors. They include two jets OF 2eO feet hign-the
height of Trinity church spire, New York-and H.
7S8 lets play at the same time. They are mainly
supplied from two tanks, upon towers 2!9 feet high.
each containing 2 200 tons of water, and are con-
Quoted through q network of ten miles OF iron pipes,
through the smallest of which a person could easily
crawl. When all are in operation. l20,OOO gallors
of water pass q minute.
NICARAGUA TRANSIT Co.-Hon. Cornelius K. Gar
rison was arrested yesterday at the suit of the Mica
ragua Transit Company, charged with committing
extensive frauds upon that Company while acting as
their agent in San Francisco. The Company allege
that by false charges and vouchers they have BEEN
swindled out of nearly q half million OF dollars. Mr.
Garrison was held to bail in the sum of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars: The charges against him
are based mainly on afidaYits OF one Walter M.
Chrysler. l
New STEAM IagE.--A new line of screw steamers Is
about to be started between Liverpool and Aspinwaii,
which it is to be hoped viii be in successful opera
ton nex& month.
MopERN Discoveries CONFIRMING ScRIrTUaE.-At
q recent meeting held in London for the purpose of
establishing q museum for the illustration of the holy
Scriptures, Sir Henry Rawlinson, distinguished for
his researches at Ninevah, said that he had been ena-
bled to trace Oriental records by means of the noun
mental inscription now in the British Musem, from
the time of Abraham's departure from Ur of the
Chaldees, down to that of Alexander the Great, a Pc
riod of two thousand years and that whenever tho
course of the history came into contact with that OF
the Jewish people, there was an absolute coincidence
between these records and the details of Scripture
the same names, the same succession Of kings, the
same facts.
MUMMY OF NEBUCHADNEzzAR.-I Is. stated that
Colonel Rawlinson, who is prosecuting the discoveries
commenced by Layard and Botta, and exhuming
from the mounds Of the long lost rival cities, Nineyah
and Babylon, the instructive remains of this once g-
gantie power, has lately discovered, in a state af per-
feet preservation, what is believed to be the mumiay
of Northumberland. The face of the rebellious mott
arch of Babylon, covered by one of those gold masks
usually found i'll Assyrian tombs, is decided as very
handsome-the forehead high and commanding, the
features marked and regular. This interesting relic
of remote antiquity is for the present preserved In
the museum of the East India Company. or all
mighty empires which have left a lasting impression
on the memory, none has so completely persisted as
that of Assyria. More than two thousand years have
gone by since the two "great9ates,' celebrated for
their luxury and their magni6cence, have crumbled
into dust, leaving no visible trace Of their existence,
their very sites forgotten.
A Two-HEADED CHnD-Theb birth of a child with