The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-08-20
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
AUGUST 20.

An editor &c out west is said to have resorted,
in the absence of all other material, when no
mail arrived for several weeks, to filling his sheet
with the contents of old almanacs kept ready for
such occasions. Though somewhat isolated, we
are not left to so much distress for copy but, in
order to present a variety of foreign news, as well
as to satisfy our correspondents, whose patience
we are not disposed to test, We lay aside other
| matter prepared for this issue. to give place to
them.
The Fanny Majors mails, three in number,
being the New York dates of June 5th and Goth
and July 9th, were landed on Sabbath evening,
leaving us about six weeks without any mail from
foreign parts. The most stirring news by this ar
rival is the account of the serious riots in New
York city on the 4th and 5th of July. With the
aid of the military, the riots had been quelled,
and at the sailing of the steamer there appeared
no apprehension of a fresh outbreak.
In San Francisco everything is quiet. Private
advices, however, state that the " Vigilance Com
mittee'' stood ready to take a public stand again
should circumstances require it. Ned MCGOWAN,
who was under their ban, is making money, it
seems, out of the published account of his trial.
On the arrival of the mail steamer from Panama,
the wharf was guarded by a delegation of the
Vigilance Committee ON HORSEBACK and on foot, to
arrest such banished persons as were supposed
to be on board.
Gen. Walker, the returned piratical invaderof
Nicaragua, had been making a tour of the United
States. At the South considerable demonstration
was shown wherever he went but at the North
he was very coldly received. 1t is thought he
will leave for California soon, to fit out an expe-
dition to Northern Mexico to avenge the death of
Col. Crabbe.
In Boston, the Inauguration of a statue to
Gen. Jos. Warren, on the 18th of June, was wit
messed by hundreds of thousands. The world
renowned orator, Edward Everett, delivered a
brilliant Grafton on the occasion, which will be
found in the Boston Trareler of June 20. "The
statue thus inaugurated is seven feet in height
it is composed of the purest Italian marble, and
is poised upon a pedestal four feet high, so that
the distance from the ground to the Top of the
statue is eleven feet. 1t is cut from a block of
marble weighing originally seven tons. Three
years have been occupied by the artist in shaping
it, and the cost is $4,000. Warren is costumed
in citizens dress, having a sword in his right
hand, and his left ham open, as if in earnest ex-
postulation. The statue is highly creditable to
the artist who made it, HENRY DEXTER, of Boston.
1t is to be permanently placed in a small building
erected for it on BunKer's Hill, near the monu-
ment."
In England public attention was becoming
more and more directed to the two great expert
ments which were to take place in August-that
of laying the Atlantic cable and the launch of
the mammoth steamer Great Eastern. Both are
considered as " experiments, " the success of
which is as yet a problem but every aid which
science and art can bring in to render them sue
cessful is being done. We shall probably not
hear of the result attending either experiment
till the arrival here of the mail of September
5th. In regard to the telegraph, the following is
the latest news:
"It is officially announced that the Niagara
would not leave England until the 18th August.
Whenever the two steam-frigates meet at Cork,
the two cables are to be joined, to talk through
the whole line and see if there be a flaw. IF all
be right, the cable will again be divided and both
vessels go to sea. Each vessel will run about six
miles an hour, and as each will have to drop nine
hundred miles of cable, each will take fifteen
days to reach The shore. The s~oundings taken,
along the telegraph plateau, byLieut. Bergman,
of the United States surveying steamer Arctic.
have been confirmed as correct, in all material
particulars, by Lieut.. Dayman, of the British
navy, who was sent out by the English Govern
ment to take soundings, from IL. B. NJ. steamer
CycLops, on behalf of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company"
In China papers to May Is, we find but little
of interest. No new engagements had taken
place, and the English forces were slowly concen-
trating. Active hostilities would probably not
be renewed till after the news of the English cleo
ton returns and the government orders based on
it, had reached Hong Kong. But a long and
hard struggle is no doubt in the future.