The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-12-31

NrwspAPRR ENTERPRIsE-ouS
.-s;ars Of the peculiar spirit OF -
tFa.lens s : the New York daiy pfSlk
wnlo1 - sha recent decision of the Associnuon
o 81 maintain q .NSirs YGcht ~ Ne"'o
kapt the nnrpose Of boarding, Oh Cape ILL., ~
steamers from Liverpool. Southampton, ~
men, Glasgow, &c., with the ues,su, = IN ~
Nsw York and newfoundland Telegraph Aa1
70 Lent - admirable order. to spread tne -
I've = re- their readers in about SIX or eie-
frsm Il lime it leaves the English snole ~.,l
The ,ews yachts substantial weas
aoner of ,bout 100 tons-wil be STE u1
ss ds ant due south of Cape Race nght{Ie
carry \ red flag, with a black ball IN It's 80
NIGHT. the Yacht will display two bold hgne:s
sL3Is intervals will send up sky rockets. Sno9s
:, from any temporary cause, De remove
aeiess requested to throw over the news psros
near az 4 ksible at the point indicated. in the "a
that the Inc may be subsequently, picked up IN
son to make the intelligence valuable.
In Ireland they are having a sensation
Young and extraordinary female preacher:
drawing crowds of all seets to listen to her eioqf
Her hair, eyebrows and e~yelashes are almost
her face pale, and she is only twenty-five ye
are. She has many invitations to preach fr
parts of the country, and even from Scotiand
accepts no earthly fee or reward, and eay4
prompted to speak in obedience to answer
prayer q twelve month since.
AN EASTERN TYRANT-Women have no n
Cairo. They of course, have the names mt ho
no man knows the name of his neighbours
wives. A woman is spoken OF as the wife OF
person, or the sister of such q person, but nd
her own name.
present Viceroy, is the first lady in Egypt.
Her history is alEaost a romance. This IS
place to speak of the private incidents IN IT.
have long made her to be spoken of with c.
even by the Egyptians, the vilest race of men
But her husbands name is still a terror inCa11
men will hardly believe that he is dead.
The Defterdar, as he is always called, was.en
in-law Of Mehenet Ali, and the realization otaii
stories Of Turkish brutality and tyranny Hisn
Is in front of the Eebekish, but since his dea' fq
passed into other hands. "
He it was who heard the complaint of a posi-
that a man had drank milk from her mene 81 \
then refused to pay her. .o!
The man denied it entirely. HPr thd
"When was it 20 demanded the Defoc1 Littl
.Mell now. woman, listen-i will lip ,wpe\
open. If 1 find the milk in him, it is wS
shall be pa~i2ss will rip you opepik ,er
way" !owf
It was done instantly, on the floor of II 10.
his men, he and the woman looking on COR az
The milk was found in the mans stomach en-
Defterdar ordered the value of the ilk-tel,eutf
or about one cent-t0 be taken from the man1e Mt
and paid to the woman. Hy q
In another instance, a tax collector had lev h.
q poor mans COW, his sole possession, for one 1T 3
enormous taxes of Mehemet Ali. The COW was yn5
two hundred piastres. The tax was forty. Then
lector took the COW, and sent for a butcher, made hi
kill the COW, and cut it into ten pieces, and then sci
for ten men and forced them to take and pay for ii
pieces six piastres each. 1t was cheap meat, b.
they would never have touched it, except under fore
The man complained to the Defterdar that his CO,
worth two hundred piastres, had been in this mann
sold for sixty, and by the oppression of the collecto
he was left destitute. The Defterdar sent a boat
the village. and brought all the parties and witness
to his palace.
1t was a clear case of oppression.
Glow dare you kill that mans COW % said he
the butcher.
"Do then, what I tell you. Kill that man, Il
collector, and cut him into ten pieces"
1t was done on the spot, and every man who
the beef at six piastres. was made to buy a piecd
the collector at twenty, and so the poor man had
value of his COW.
These instances are both on the side of Justice
others, countless stories of his c~ruelties are I'd
which are perfectly reliable.
His horse was badly shod so that a nail pricked n
foot-not an uncommon occurrence with the best
b~lacksmiths. But he went to the shop, and had
hot shoe nailed on the foot of the smith. These an
other similar accounts may be relied upon. Ever
one in Cairo knew a hundred such.
SPORTING INrELLIGENcE.-The Baltic brings yer
important intelligence in the sporting world. and tn
Persia additional news of some Importance. I'll
triumph of the American horses in England, so log
delayed, has come at last, bringing with it n vey
heavy pecuniary gain. Mr.. Ten Broeck's Priores
won the great C~eSafOWltcn handicap, ut Newmarktl
beating thirty-four horses. The first heat was a dei
one between the mare, Ell Hakim and Queen Bes
On the second heat she won easily. The rate of bet
ting had been very heavy against her-reaching at
last 100 to l.. Mr.. Ten Brock had bet heavily, and
it is supposed must have won from $300,000 to S5Dl-
600. A second victory had been won at Newmarke,
by Belle, an English horse belonging to Mr.. Ta
Brock. The character of Prioress had gone up 80
rapidly since her victory, tbRt she was named at Il
to l as the winner of the ca hbridgeshire stakes On
&bo D-tl % Ootokor M ~ proa,l- 1a1 tmn
elected a member of the New Rooms, Newmarke
Lecompte died from an attack of cholic. and Pryor
had been withdrawn from all his engagements for the
season.
A REMARKABLE SHIPwREcK.-We have read s
good many thrilling accounts of terrible disasters st
sea, and loss of life by shipwreck, but have never
heard or read of anything which equals the brief a-
count given by the Russian Admiral of the loss ofts
line-of-battle-ship LIE Fort. which foundered in ts
Baltic on the Odd of September last. Admiral NOri'
mans letter is as cool as an iceberg; according obs
own statement, he saw the "A, which was but four
cables length from his own ship, capsize and sinh.
and yet did not make the least effort TO rescue one q
the 800 perdDhs on board of her; yet it was broal
daylight, the ship went down within FIVE miles o.
the shore, and the wind was so light that he had top
gallant sails on his own ship. Not a soul was sa'el
of the entire ships crew to tell the story of the dsas
ter. Two other men-of-war besides the Admrh'
ship, were close by, yet it does not appear that eIthe
of them put out a boat, or made any attempt to save
any OF the people on board the founderlng shiP.
could hardly happen under any circumstances thai
an English, French. or American ship could Sc
another founder within four cables length, and max
no effort to save the drowning crew. Yet, for aug"
that appears in the Russian Admiral's letter, he saw
500 men go down in one of the ships of his fleet. ana
never made an effort to save a soul of thep--.N ]
Times.
A SAD cAsE-The New-York Courier says |
"The suspension of Harper Brothers is one OF tnes
events to which those who knew them best, were ~
prepared, even in these times. With bonds ana
mortgages on productive real estate in this cry m =. |
more than four times the amount asked for, ana Due
receivable for ten times the amount, and only asAns
to have their line of discount restored within sooD
Of what it should be-and with the solemn assurance l
that without the aid asked, they must suspend anu
discharge between six and eight hundred persons y
their employ-they we're coldly permitted to go
the board, and thus be compelled to bring want !.
distress among several thousand persons VINO s'
directly dependant upon them for employment!
AN INCIDENTAL the ~six-penny savings bank,
little ~newsboy, without a jacket, and only one SUI
pender, (and that a string,) confronted the tener ~
Monday, and demanded to know whether "ones s
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