The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-08-27

Foreign
There were 27oo failures in the United States last
year. Their debts are estimated to have been more
than $50, 900, 900 and the loss to creditors more than
$40, 900, 900.
The National Era, Washington city, is advertised
to be sold, to pay the bail-bond Of VIM. 8. Chaplin,
charged with running off with several OF Senator
Toombs' negroes, . few years since.
A slave woman is advertised to be sold ct auction
at st. Louis. She is said to be % beautiful that
$4,000 has been offered for her and refused at private
sale. She is said to be . perfect copy of the = dreek
slave"
Mr.. Stowe has returned to Paris from Rome, and
is about karting for England, from whence she will
sail for the United States by the steamer Of june 9.
She leaves in Paris, at school, her two twin daughters,
young ladies grown
It is stated that prior to 1850, the number Of Amer
leans that INDUCED in q Sc tour of Europe did not
exceed 1900 in any one year. Now, the number who
cross the water, annually, for an airing, has swelled
to So 1000.
The hog cholera is everywhere in New Ena1ond as
at the West, in the country and On the sea shore, on
the mountains and through the valleys. Like the
potato rot, or the Tyler grip. it is having an uni
versal run, knowing no distinction of age or sex, sec
ton or climate. A. man in Yarmouth has recently
lost q large portion of q drove which he purchased in
the West.
Respectable houses are rented in Montreal from
1926 to 1925. In Quebec, dwellings of the same
kind rent for $50 to $12O. IRKeokuk. Iowa, Chi
houses" rent for from $500 to $500 a year. A
dwelling of six rooms in Cincinnati, out Of the center
Of business, will command from $50 to $500 q
year.
Mrs. Pdtten, the woman who so heroicany navi-
gated q ship to California, after her husband lost his
mind, is now dangerously i'll with typhoid fever. con-
sequent upon the fatigues and exposure incident to
the voyage, and ner untiring devotion to her husband.
Capt. Patten, we regret to add, has lost both his sight
and hearing.
Some workmen employed in digging a drain behind
York Castle the other day turned up the remains of
about twenty human bodies, the skulls of three or
four of which were wanting. The conclusion formed
respecting them, is that they are the remains Of
twenty-one Scottish rebels, ten of whom were executed
on Saturday, the LIST of Sept. 1746, and the remain
der on the Saturday following. They were hanged,
drawn, and quartered, and a local paper which was
in existence at the time states that "the whole was
conducted with the utmost decency and good ORDER
The heads of two of the culprits were exposed on the
Micklegate bar, in York; the head of another was
sent to Carlisle in a box for a similar exhibition; and
the bodies of the whole of them we're buried behind
the castle in which they had been confined.
SALE OF THE GREEK SLAVE Powers statue of
the 's Greek Slave, one of two copies Of the original,
was sold at auction in New York On Tuesday, for
5000, to the Cosmopolitan Art Association of Gin
cinnati. That Society owned it two years ago, and it
was drawn as a prize by a lady IL pennsylvania, who
now sold it, and it returns to be drawn agaip, AZ
perhaps again sold. The bidding Was spirited, COM
mencing at ST. 900, and running up rapidly to
Sc 1000, the whole time occupied being not over five
minutes. A. I. Stewart, the merchant, was one of
the principal competitors at the sale, bidding as high
as SIS, 500 for the statue. Mr.. Corcoran, of Washing
ton, has the only other copy in this country. The
original is in the possession of Lord Ellesmere.
TRAGIC DEArH.-During the height of the storm
on Sunday evening, a scene occurred at a house in
Green street of a character to rendaS n ipdelihle npop-
the mind of q spectator. The moral it t.
fearful. A family was seated around a table engaged
in ordinary conversation, when a dispute among
some of the children and young people took place.
Words grew high, and the mother attempted to quell
the disturbance. In turn she was ma lie the object of
their anger, and while the heated blood was finding
vent in word, the parent arose from her seat, and
once more interposed. 1t was of no avail, and the
parties nearly came to blows. At that moment,
while from her own children Goals Of mental FIRE were
being heaped upon the mother, she suddenly sunk
down DEAD, and her last breath was drowned by
the angry voice of her offspring. The feelings of
those present no words can adequately describe, but
Fon their minds for years to come we should imagine
that an impress would remain of the angry words,
the little group and the dying mother reviled by her
own children-PhH. Epe. Jour.
The Utah, Governorship has at last been settled by
the appointment of Col. Cumming of Georgia, a sec
ond time to the post, and his definite acceptance.
He is expected to receive his commission, and his
final instructions from the President. 1t is UNDER
stood that the latter will be stringent, and that the
only terms upon which the new Governor would
accept the Office, were that they should be 80. At
the same time the well-known mild and humane dis
position Of the Governor, who was long Indian Agent
in the northwest, gives assurance that no undue
measures will be taken. Col. Cumming accepts at
much personal inconvenience and sacrifice, the salary
being but small and the personal labor heavy. Even
if the Office of Superintendent of Indian Affairs is
again connected with the Office, as formerly, the
salary win be but 81, 600 per year. Researches into
the act establishing the Territory of Utah in 1910,
show that the right was reserved by Congress to
abolish it at its own pleasure, and that q provision
was also attached to divide it at any time, or attach it
or any part of it to any other Territory. As a very
large proportion of the Mormons Of Utah are not
citizens of the United States, and as the act was
passed on assurances that polygamy was not to be-
come one of the State institutions-it is thought pro-
bable that some of the reserved rights indicated win
be fallen back upon, and the great question of
"eWhat is to be done with Utah 20 settled in q man.
ner more summary than pleasant to the leaders Of
the Mormon interest.
RE-oPEN1Na OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE-The
Charleston Mercury breaches the following notable
scheme to evade the laws against the slave trade.
For unmitigated rascality this scheme bears away the
palm:
"The laws of Congress carrying out the power
given to Congress by the Constitution, prohibits the
African Stare Trade, and makes that trade piracy.
But if importing negroes as e~migrants from Africa is
not the Stare Tf1la then the laws of Congress do
not apply to it. Wey nose emigrants from Africa
may J1st as legltlmately be UrOoGht into the United
States as e~migrants from Germany or ireland. Nor
will the circumstance of an agreement bein nrevi-
ously made for employment and wages, at ali
the legality fthe Importation. Hundreds, thousands
are being imported daily from Europe, under the
agreements wUh the manufacturers of New England,
to carry on their factories. If the Government of the
United States shall, therefore, determine that the
Importation Of negroes from the African coast, by
England and France, as emigrants into the West
India Islands, is not the African Slare Trade, then
the whole cradc of bringing negroes from Africa in
also open 10 the Southern States. What becomes of
the negroes sitter they are imported into a State will