The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-02-05
SECTOR.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The packet Frances Palmer, Capt. j. M. Green,
arrived about 3 o'clock, P. NJ, Jan. 80, after q long
passage of twenty-five days. During q gale from
the south, on the 10Th ult carried away head rails,
guys, &C., and on the Goth carried away mainmast,
just below the trestle-trees. The mainmast appears
on examination to be very much decayed. When it
broke, the wind was only blowing moderately.
The Palmer arrived at San Francisco on the 22d
December, making the passage in fourteen days. On
her return she sailed from San Francisco January 4,
with nineteen passengers. She brings no important
news either from the United States or Europe.
Dates are as follows: San Francisco, Jan. 2; New
York, Dec. 5; and London, Nov. 16.
Among her passengers we notice a number of our
old residents.
CALIFORNIA CoIN-The bankers announce that on
and after the I'd day of January, the ten dollar pieces
of California coinage will be received only by weight,
at the rate of eighteen dollars and twenty cents per
ounce. This will probably cause private coinage to
be at q discount in. San Francisco, but at what rate
we are unable to say.
United States.
From the 8. F. Bulletin.
Very little news of Importance has transpired since
the mailing of my last. Congress met on Monday,
the 1st., The Presidents message was communicated
to both houses on Tuesday, but has not yet been read
in the House of Representatives, owing to the ex-
tended contest over the motion to admit Whitfield as
Delegate from Kansas. Appearances indicate that
that contest will be decided in favor of Whitfield.
The message itself is but an ordinary document o
considerable portion being devoted to the history Of
the anti-slavery agitation, attributing the defiance of
the South to the aggressions of the North. This dis
QUESTION embraces a period from the cession of
Louisiana to the acquisition of Mexican territory.
He considers the geographical line annulled by the
acquisition of California, and essays the vindication
of the Kansas Act, attributing the origin of the revo-
lutionary disorders in that territory to projects of in
tervention, deliberately arranged by certain members
of that Congress which enacted the law for the organ
iZation Of the territory.
Financially the country is well of. The receipts
from all sources during the fiscal year was $73, 91S,-
al, and the expenditures, including over twelve
millions paid on the redemption of the public debt,
was $72, 948, 1872.
The President urges q reduction of the revenue
from the customs, so as not to exceed forty-eight or
fifty millions per annum. Foreign affairs are briefly
touched upon-last of all Nicaraguan.
The Postmaste Generals report is out against the
extortionate demands of the Panama Railroad Co.,
and recommends a limitation to $4,000. He advo-
Gates the abolition of the franking privilege. The
revenue of the Department is set at Sc, 920,821 sc !;
expenditures, $10,658,67S deficiency estimated at
5000, 1888.
1t is rumored on Change to-day that Jacob Little,
the extensive stock operator, has failed to meet his
liabilities to an immense amount.
The search of the steamer Marion for the passen-
gers of the wrecked steamer LyonnaiS has terminated
unsuceessfully.
Adviees from England announce the defalcation of
Leopold Redpath, the transfer clerk of the Great
Northern Railway in England, by which that Com