The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-03-12

rranted gruQglngly, IL granted at ali. We have not
TToom to sketch the debate upon this bill. No decisive
aetion was taken on the bill.
Mr.. Comins presented o memorial of the ssBoston
Board of Trade on the conveyance of the United
States mail between Panama and Valparaiso, touching
At intermediate ports. The memorial represents that
the number of Boston vessels annually employed on
the Pacific coast is upwards of three hundred, equiv
alent to a capital of FIVE millions of dollars. That
the ships engaged in the whaling business in the
Pacific Ocean represent a capital of several millions
more-and that a speedy and safe transmission of
the United States mails on the west coast of South
America is essential.-Bost. Jour.
HUNTINGTON IN PR1soN-The New York Tribune
has the following in regard to Huntington's entrance
4 upon prison life
This person, who has SO lately occupied the pub
lie attention in a criminal way, reached the prison on
Friday evening last. The Warden at first designed to
place him in the hat-shop to work; but Huntington
being q cabinet maker by trade was placed in the
cabinet-shop. He preferred it to the hat-shop. On
Monday he was busy mailing together bedstead Stats,
and packing finished bedsteads for removal. lie
maintains his fortitude and works cheerfully. The
Overseer of the shop in which he works, desiring to
inure him gradually to hardship, which is the prac-
tlce with new arrivals for the sake of health, told him
that he might work with his coat ON for a few days of
this cold weather; but Huntington took off his coat
and worked as actively and cheerfully as though he
had all along been working at the bench instead of
engaging In feats of financial ground and lofty tum-
bling in Wall street.
at was Huntington's luck to march into the hall
next to, and be seated at the side of a large sized
- ptOhliCh VI tC IINCd race. Ibis Was new TO MIN,
and OF course not very agreeable. This sudden
transition from luxury to prison fare, from spacious,
richly furnished and beautiful apartments to a mar
row, gloomy, meanly-furniShed cell. cold and dark.
is a change which must produce most painful sensa-
tons in his mind. He has expressed his desire to the
keeper to be made acquainted with the rules of the
prison, so that he may strictly observe them, and he
will make the best of it."
Summary.
The New Orleans Picayune says that a bargain was
closed in that city on the 18th instant, for &C, 900 GAL
Ions of molasses in plantation, at go cents per gallon.
for the Ohio river.
The London Lancet recommends ipecac to those
who are breaking off habits of intemperance in drink.l
1t possesses stimulating qualities, but is not at al
dangerous.
Postage on single letters to Panama has been re-
duced to ten cents instead of twenty cents, from New
York and all places within l55 miles OF that city.
The New York Tribune has a dispatch from Wash
ingtOn, which says that the agent and manager Of the
enterprise for a. renewal of the Woodwork Planning
Machine patent, has given up the struggle and gone
home.
DEATH OF THE CANCEL Communications Sayers
Orr, well known to the people of this country under
the assumed cognomen of the 'Angel Gabriel, , died
at the penal settlement of Demarara, in November
last.
An article on education in France, published in the
Constitutional, states that IN the year 1855 more
than 400, 900 young boys, and 450, 900 young girls
$50, 900 children, from six to thirteen years of age,
received no kind of instruction whatever.
Iheannual renting OF peWS IN the plymouth Cnurcn:
Rev. II. w. Beecher's Brooklyn, n. Y, took place Oh
T Tuesday Jan. 6. The 2O2 pewS rented brought 6
premium of $4,000 over the appraised value of $1O,-
900. The whole amount of rent last year was $1O,-
900.
DEATH OF A New BEDFORD SHIPMAsTER.-Inte1Ii
gence has been received from Pernambuco, announ-
cling the death of Capt. Aaron G. Cushman, of the
ship Lancer, OF New Bedford, which occurred Nov.
I'D, five days previous to the arrival of the Lancer
at Pernambuco. The Standard says Capt. Cushmar
was one of the most esteemed citizens of New Bedford
He was about 46 years Of age.
DIR. MORT, the celebrated surgeon of New York
lately performed the difficult operation of tying thu
carotid artery for the fortyJourh time. He did i
without the aid of spectacles, which he does not use
though seyenty-one years of age. He is I talked of fol
President of the Academy of Medicine, an Office ht
has once already filled.
In New York, a little boy amused himself by placing
his mouth at the nose of a kettle of boiling water anc
inhaling the steam. He will never do it again for
coroner's jury has sat upon him, and has censurec
his parents for carelessness.
The COLLINS LINE.-It is stated that it is the pur
pose of the proprietors of this line to make application
to Congress to terminate their contract with the gov
crnment, as they find it impossible, at the reduced
rate of their compensation, to continue their line anC
keep up their usual speed.
Mr.. Buchanan, the gossips tell us, will write his
inaugural with an eagle quill, not plucked by man
from the wing, but the free gift of our national bird
It appears that Senator Brown of Mississippi was
prOclaiming the certain election of Mr.. Buchanan
when q feather dropped at his feet, from the wing O.
an eagle that was flying over. The gentleman pre-"
served the quill and had it forwarded to Mr.. Buchar
nan.
New SrEAMsHIps.-Stephen G. Bogert is building
at New York two new steamships, for Charles Morgan
& Son, to be employed in the California trade, one or
the Atlantic and the other on the Pacific coast. The
one intended for the Pacific, will be the largest steam
ship that has ever foated upon the waters of thai
ocean. She will register about 5000 tuns, and viii
be ready for sea in June next.
DEATH OF HUGH MILLER, THE GEoLoGIsT.-By the
steamer .fsia, at New York, from Liverpool, we have
the mournful intelligence of the death of Hugh Miller
the celebrated Scotch g~eologist, who was found shot
dead in his house. 1t is supposed that the sad event
was accidental. Mr.. Miller has achieved q world
wide reputation as a g~eologist, and as a man of great
powers of research and scholarship. His death will
be universally deplored as q great loss to the world Of
science.
A FUEL FAMLNE-Many towns and cities on the
Ohio river are suffering from q scarcity of fuel. They
obtain their chief supplies of coal by fiat boats from
Pittsburg; but during the past summer and autumn
the river was so low that very little could be taken
down, and now the river is frozen up, SC that none
can be conveyed by that route. The railroads are,
unfortunately, not prepared with the proper cars and
other arrangements necessary for coal transportation
and, besides, the freight ON coal over the Ohio roads
is so high that it would raise coal to a ruinous price
for Door people. At Cincinnati, the City Council has
made an appropriation for bringing a large quantity
of coal to the city by railroad, in order to relieve the
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