The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-07-30
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betWeen the q. States ana CentfaI AILef1C1n pOW6fS.-
This action is said to meet with the appreciation of
the British Minister, Lord Napier.
The Postmaster General has concluded n contract
with the Panama X. r. Co., to convey the mails
across the Isthmus until the expiration Of the present
contract with the steamship companies, ~TT
hence. The rate is $780, 900 per annum.
A singular decision, and a most unjust one, has
just been given in Cincinnati, if the papers are to be
credited. A gentleman fifteen years ago found an
infant on his doorstep. and left 1t at "A benevolent
institution. He has now, under a suit, been made to
pay $50 FER year for its support since that time.
a young lady of sixteen, of distinguished birth and
fortune, is about to marry the hero Of the Crmea,
Marshal Pelissier, who is illustriously sixty years u
age! 1t is said to be an affair Of the most romantic
sentiment On the pat of the youthful fancee.
A New CHURCH IN New YoRK--The Broadway
Tabernacle Society of New York city are about to
erect a new church on Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth
street. The land cost $4,000 and the building.
which will be of white marble, will be constructed at
an expense of about $4,000.
The simplest and best way of preserving woolens
through the summer from the destruction of the
moths, is to wrap them well up, after brushing them
and beating them, in cotton or linen cloths. The
moth can pass neither Two covers well wrapped
An old sheet will answer, and save an expense Of
champion, &c.
John L. Farrell, Ne man who swore before the
coroner's jury in the Burdell murder case that he sat
on the stoop at housE No. 81 Bond street, and whose
identification of Eckel as the man who came to the
door and ordered him off, caused such a sensation,
was arrested in New York on Wednesday, and convey
ed to Albany, to answer the charge Of illegal voting
in the Eighth ward of that city last fail.
PoIsoNEp-The New Bedford .Mercuru learns that
lady residing in that city was badly poisoned, o
few days since, by eating a few spoonfulls of preserved
whortleberries, which had been put in a tin case.
The liquid from the berries had formed yerdigris on
the surface of the metal. The article was procured
for the purpose of making pies. All preserves of this
description should be put up and kept in glass.
The new cent will be distributed to the public
about the end of Nav. A million are already n
pleted. and two millions more will be finished before
the mint ommences paying them out. Col. Snowden
declares that since the establishment of the mint the
large amount of eighteen hundred tons Of copper have
been used up in the manufacture of pennies, making
$50, 900, 900 of pieces. The quantity of Spanish coin
stil in the country is estimated at two and a half
millions of dollars; but the circulation has percepti-
bly, diminished.
TEHUANTEpEc MAIL RoUTE-This great enterprise
is now in q condition to be made Immediately
available for traffic and travel. Contracts have been
entered into with parties of acknowledged means and
reliability, under which the road is to be thoroughly
opened ON the LIST dag of October next. These con-
tracts comprise the building of all the requisite
bridges, the erection of good and substantial piers,
and the placing of suitable steamers on the Coatza-
coalcos river, so as to put the transit in complete
working operation within the period specified. The
company has already been advised that the contract
for stocking the road with stages, wagons, &C., has
been completed, and that the material is now ready
for shipment.
Louis Napoleon is doing a large business in the way
Of .sinteryention." Wherever two nations are at log
~gerheads, he makes a third. He is arbitrating
between Prussia and Neufchatel. He is mediating
between Sardinia and Austria. He is negotiating
between Mexico and Spain. He is conciliating in
behalf of King Bomba with the Neapolitans, and he
is STIMULATING in behalf of England with the Chinese.
CALIFORNIA MAIL-Proposals are to be received
at the Post Office Department, Washington, until the
LIST of June, for carrying the entire California mail
overland from the Mississippi, in FOUR horse coaches,
semi-monthly. weekly, and semi Eeekly. The ar
engagements for the construction ofthe wagon road
are nearly complete.
Hoops SAVED HER.-As the steamer Common
rccalth came alongside the wharf at New London, on
Friday night, March 9th, on the passage from
Norwich to New York, a lady walked overheard, and
would have been drowned but for the hoops in her
dress, which rendered the same somewhat balloonish,
and withal answered the purpose of a more cornpIi-
Gated life-preseryer. The night was very dark, and
it was nearly half an hour before she could be extri-
Gated from her perilous situation, during which time
the hoops were sufficiently strong to buoy her up and
prevent her from sinking.
HORSES AND OxEN.-ToM AND Pussy CATs.-A
Paris correspondent of the Boston Trareler says that
a bet was Rec made between two farmers about
! the speed of horses and oxen, with the same load the
n same distance; the distance Travelled was twenty-three
kilometers (about twelve miles,) n four horse team
was put into a wagon loaded with 1900 lbs of beet
root pulp. The oxen were two yoke, with the same
load. The horses beat them only seven minutes, and
would themselves have been beaten had they not
been the best in the country. Time 3h. GIN: 3h. 13m.
The same correspondent says an order has been
received by a firm in Paris for 5000 tom and pussy
cats, which are to be sent out to Australia; bagmen
are out in all directions, buying up all yoIng, sound
and healthy cats that are in market. A firm in
Lille has received an order for 800 grimalkins; it APP
pears that the cats of the north of France are in
repute at the antipodes, the prices ranging from
If. % to If 90.
ston was in the summer of 1854, in the House Of
Commons. 1t was a field day, and he had been run
ming a tilt against every Parliamentary knight that
dared break a lance with him in the encounter of
debate. His face was flushed his eve hripbt.
and, with the SHOWS of seventy winters on his head,
he appeared to me n perfect miracle of intellect.
There is age in his hair, his limbs and voice; but this
is a physical decay only-the intellect is unconscious
of decline the sword is not less sharp that it gradu-
ally cuts through the scabbard.
He has held Office nineteen years under the tories,
and about sixteen years under the wings. He was
the Secretary Of War who signed warrants for the
conveyance of Napoleon LIST to st. Helena-and he
was the Secretary of State who offended his sovereign
by recognizing that Napoleon Sd had commenced to
reign. As the English cricketers would say--''he
had the longest innings on record" His Offices, too,
appear to have been no sincures. He was Secretary
of War at war time; and his sixteen years of Foreign
Secretaryship were sixteen years of attempts to break
the peace. With the pressure of age, he has nothing
to doth daring and the Indifference of youth are
the salients of his character to this day-and from
the time when he, on behalf of Canning. undertooN
to crush .'thc Duke to that manifesto OF a lie"
years since, when, in answer to some Scos2t- clergy
man who petitioned him to advise her Majesty to NIX
u day for national fast on account Of the cholera, he
suggested sthey had better look after the town
drainage" he has always manifested the same energy
spirit and humor. And now. in 1857, in his seventy
fourth year. the veteran statesman is girding VI, ms
loins for one of the fercest popular struggles Enganu
has witnessed since the days Of the great helo"
agitation. -.
That he will be successful We have not the shgntess
doubt, from his popularity, and the wonderful ene;sI
he always manifests in a popular contest Inc nss
position Of Lord Palmerston in the House OF conn srst
is attributable, not only to the fact that he IS
rate intellect, leading the century, but to ms a~
emphatically practical character, polished m.o ss "s~
manship by the experience Of more than for'y ~"