The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-09

"a will resist the pretentions of Congress to control
- right, so far as slavery or any other matter OF
p ~ n0licy is concerned.
%EI ~ will see that the peace is preserved, and that
oeople of the territories are protected in their
" mi of selfgovernment from all interferences from
III, will maintain the rights and honor Of the Re
.bic abroad, on the old Jacksonian doctrine of
Ting nothing that is not right, and submitting to
8 thing that is wrong.
He will introduce greater economy and efficiency
4 ,o the administration Of the government, SO as to
n.Iuce the cOrrupting influence of its patronage, by
I Ling into the public Offices men of honest character
and emineut abilities.
He will recognise and give q wide direction to that
ratural impulse of the democracy which sees in the
rZtension of our territory the true clements of our
POWER and the safety and perpetuity of the Union.
With these leading principles and objects to guide
him, we predict for James Buchanan an admlnlstra-
which shall revive the glories Of Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian eras, and that, when his term Of office
shall close, he Will return to the shades Of Wheatland
with as much of the veneration, love, honor and re-
spect of the people as have ever followed any of the
patriots of our Republic into the digni6ed retreat of
private life.-Lancaster (Pa.) IatelIigencer.
THE New CALCULATING MACHINE.-The French
JMoniteur gives some interesting particulars Of new
calculating machine-frOm which We extract the fol-
lowing passages c N. Thomas, of Colmar, has lately
made the finishing improvements in the calculating
machine, called the arithmometer, at which he has
been working for upwards of thirty years. Pascal
and Leibnitz, in the seventeenth century, and DiderOt
ut n later period, endeavored to construct q machine
which might serve as q substitute for human intelli-
cence in the combination of figures; but their efforts
failed. n. ThOmas's arithmometer may be used with
out the least trouble or possibility of error, not only
for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division,
but also for much more complex operations, such as
the extraction OF the square root, invOlutlon, the
resolution of triangleS, etc. 4 multiplication of eight
Ssures by eight others is made in eighteen seconds; a
division of sixteen figures by eight figures, in twenty
four seconds; and in one minute and q quarter one
can extract the square root of sixteen figures, and
also prove the accuracy Of the calculation. The
arithmOmeter adapts itself to every sort of combina-
ton. As an instance of the wonderful extent of its
powers, we may state that it can furnish in q few
seconds products amounting to 800, 099, 999, 999 1893
4 999, 999, 999, 999, 500. A marvellous number, COM
parable to the infinite multitude of stars which stud
the armament or the particles of dust which float IN
the atmosphere. The working of this instrument IS,
however, most simple. To raise or lower Il nut-screW,
to turn a winch a few times, and, by means of a but
ton, to side off n metal plate from left to right, or
from right to left, is the whole secret. Instead OF
simply reproducing the operations of mans intelli-
gence, the arithmometer relieves that intelligence
from the necessity of making the operations. Instead
of repeating responses dictated to it, this instrument
simultaneously dictates the proper answer to the
man who asks it a question. 1t Is not matter pro
ducing material effects, but matter which thinks,
reflects, reasons, calculates, and executes all the most
3 difficult and complicated arithmetical operations with
a rapidity and infallibility which defies all the calcu-
lators in the world. The arithmometer is, moreover.
q simple instrument, of very little volume, and easily
portable. 1t is already used In many great hnanclaI
: establishments, where considerable economy Is realized
by its employment. 1t will soon be considered as
4 indispensable, and be as generally used as a clock
which was formerly only to be seen in palaces, is nov
in cottage"
The monument to the Russians slain at Sebastopo
8 is to consist of a vast funeral chapel, which Will b
constructed at the end of the cemetery. The names 0
the officers killed, and those of the corps ana req
ments who took part i'll the struggle, will be inscrlbe'
on tablets of black marble. The chapel VIII. D
dedicated to st. George, and served by priests iron
the monastery of that name. The bodies OF the Ifus
e .I,o q oorz oro 70 no oyhumpH and all buried IN III
cemetery of st. Nicholas.
A correspondent of the Paris Academy OF Science
states that the poisonous properties OF lead paint al
due to the turpentine which they are mixed With
not to the lead. This opinion is antagonlstlc to IL
commonly received one. 1t may be correct, nov
ever, in this way the turpentine is volatile henc
it may lift some of the lead when cooperating, an
thus the metal be inhaled by the painter, IN u
form of mineral gas. He asserts that If turpentlI
were not used, paint-poison would be unknown.
By means of a machine invented by a French ar
isan, lines are engraved so minute as to be un4i
tinguishable and almost imperceptlble to the make
eve. 1t is designed for the production OF prlNa
marks in bank-not IS, and it is capable OF producll
two hundred thousand different combinations
minute Kaleidoscope line figures, only to be seen
aid of q powerful microscope, yet perfectly regui
and distinct, and insusceptible OF being initiated
every turn of the tiny wheels which work 1t, t
machine produces four entirely new designs eAcee
ingly complicated and quite different from o.
another.
The New Orleans Crescent contends that the NJ
Donough bequest has been anything but beneficial
that city. 1t adds: "McDonongh was a niSiI
mare upon our prosperity while he lived, and
estate has been n nightmare ever since. The soon
we get rid of it, the better. For our part, we sh0u
rejoice if it were declared insolvent tomorrow, ana
sale ordered to be made by the sheriff to the h!igh'
bidder. Until this is done, the finest property III
city will remain unimproved and unproductIVe-
unsightly spectacle of decay and dllapldatlon IN I
midst of thrift, sightliness, and advancement.
The Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Pics
une, in describing a new toy, which is making
fortune of its inventor, says g 1t consists III Il d
loon, which appears to be made of a bladder, colo
red, and inflated with hydrogen gas, made OF Gu
percha or India rubber. The public gardens pres
a singular appearance, with hundreds of these b
looms in the hands of children, floating, with sW;
like grace, a yard above their heads Al q IL
distance, the string becomes invisible, and they Sc
to follow the children, by u sort of magnetic attr
ton. Now and then, a negligent child lets the str
slip out of his hand, the balloon rises maJestlcal
despite the tears of the child, the screams and les
of the nurse, and the agitation of the crowd, un
1t is lost to the sight.''
NEW ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.