The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-03-05

H. Archdukc Ferdinand, Lord High Admiral, to de-
ute two of its most eminent sauanS, furnished with
ne necessary instruments, who are to ACCOMPANY the
kpedition. 1t will set out about the beginning of
his year.
u The Paris .Moniteur officially announces that the
congress of Paris would Immediately reassemble.
the same Plenlpetentiaries as before. Russia
And England had respectively declared that they
q ould abide by the decision of the majority. France
nj Prussia are in favor of Russia. England and
ustria lean to Turkey. Sardinia passes between
3 Oth-but is supposed to be influenced by Palmerston.
s. Ouis Napoleon's coronation will take place in May
ext The Pope is expected to oficiate.
q FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.-One of the most beauti-
Ill specimens of art, is a large line engraving, from
design by j. b. Wandesforde, representing Florence
ichtingale ut Scutari, which is in course of prenaro-
Jon for a New Years gift to the subscribers of the
lbioR. The artist has wisely avoided depicting his
inject engaged in the discharge of her selfassumed
nd rather repulsive duties at the Hospital Of Scutari,
ut has selected an occasion when she NAV be sup
osed to have betaken herself to some retired SPOT for
b e~laxation.
S PoWDER.-Ihe utter carelessness some persons ex-
81 bit when using or handling gunpowder is Incredible.
maker of fireworks at Rashclife, England, one
Shaw, was sitting in u back room with his wife, son,
srandniece, and daughter, all engaged in making up
hulos, and crackers, etc. A heap of some twenty
Ounds OF loose powder was on the table, and two
&dlow candles were placed close by, with a basin of
ater at Shaw's hand to drop in the snuff Of
Durse an explosion occurred it would have been q
iracie II one had not. The whole of the persons
Fere severely burnt, and the poor little grandniece
a led from her injuries the same night. At the ordi-
airy inquiry a verdict of Accidental Death was re-
urned.
CoTToN.-The most reliable authorities estimate
that the crop of 1867 cannot exceed 3 200, 900 bales,
Spr by a very small amount, if any, while it cannot
probably fall much, if any, below 2 900, 900 bales.
The total supply of 1S54-55 was 3,527 ,S45 bales,
about 100000 of which it was supposed belonged to
the growth of 1853-'54, but was kept back by low
stages of water in the Southern rivers, and hence
appeared IN the shipments of Notwithstanding the
hctual growth of that year, as stated, at about 3,227,-
b45 bales. Hence q crop a 1856-'57 of 200, 900
bales, would be a decrease of 527 ,S45 bales on the
crop of last year, and far below any other crop since
. 650-'51. 1t would fall below the supply of last year
by 827, $40 bales. Such d falling off, if once made
apparent, would probably send up prices in Liverpool
70 a point they have not attained before IN thirty or
forty years.
81 THE SLAVE INsURRECTIoN.-Louisville, KY, dec.
80. A great excitement exists at Nashville, In refer
Nence to a rumored rising among the negro slaves.
The corporation met and passed an ordinance requir-
ny the military to hold themselves in readiness for
any emergency, and appointed Il large number of
additional watchmen.
AUGUSTA, GA, Dec. 28.-We find the following
intelligence in the alabama .4dUertiSer and Gazette
I'm York district, S. c., to-day, the slave excitement
Zcontinues. Powder and muskets have been found in
possession of the slaves.
III A despatch from Columbia says that Is negroes
III have been killed by their owners in Perry. Escapes
II of slaves are numerous. The whites in all directions
are arming themselves.
A POCKET TNrELLEcT.-Here is something new: a
III calculating machine to be carried in the pocket, and
III set in operation in q moment.
sThe attention of the learned world is now en-
crossed, - says the independence Beige, "by a new
III invention, which promises to be of universal useful
n ness. Mr.. Thomas, of Colmar, after thirty years Of
81 hard study and assiduous labor, has at last solved the
problem of calculation by mechanism. His machine.
which he has called Arithmometre,' is applicable to
the mechanical solution OF all arlthmetlcal operations
4 from the simplest to the most complicated ones. This
instrument solves, with infalible correctness, not only
the four rules-addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division, but also a~scertains the powers of guam
titles, extracts the roots of numbers, resolves triangles
reduces ordinary and decimal fractions, and defines
4 the rules of proportion, etc. Its rapidityDf execution
1 Is such as to defy the ablest calculators. A multiple
cation of eight numbers with eight numbers, is
/ executed In eighteen seconds; n division OF slxteer
cyphers through eight cyphers, In twenty-four sec
onds. The machinery is so simple that, after thu
expiration of five minutes of instruction., the mos
/ ignorant head knows enough at calculation to defy
1 with its help all calculators, in rapidity and correct
/ ness. The sArithmometre' is placed in a small, lgh
1 box, which can be easily carried in a pocket, and i
4 so constructed that its mechanism can scarcely eve
! be d~eranged. 1t is already in operation in seyera
/ great commercial houses, the house of ROthschild
s and in the Mint of France, and it will soon be a
5 common as letter presses"
WONDERFUL PENMANsH1P.-We learn from the pa
] pers that a Polish gentleman in New York has tran
q scribed the Holy Bible on a surface of about the slz
of a mantle pier-glass, presenting at first view tn
appearance of a beautiful temple, but on a clos
examination every part of the elevation, each window
and doorway, and every thing about the picture, i
8 found to be a distinct and regular hand writing, no
one word of the Bible being omitted, no sentence
transposed, ana the chapters following each other IL
4 proper order. The work required two years and sever
months constant labor. When he commenced he wa
entirely ignorant of the English language-CGtyor
MIA ChroRicIe.
AT the recent Connecticut State Fair, Mr.. Donald
G. Mitchell ok. MarveD took the premium for skill
in ploscing! Nothing like Dream Life" in that.
The .Tehuantepec road is promised by those il
charge to be opened by the 1st of February. This
win bring New York about n week nearer US.
The trial of Huntington has ben terminated by hi
conviction and sentence to the State Prison for hv'
i years. The court subsequently changed the term tt
i four years and ten months, in consideration OF a law
which forbids the discharge of prisoners from incar
ceration during certain of the winter months.
Judge Capron charged the jury that the form Of
insanity predicated of the prisoner was one not known
to our laws, and that they must judge for themselves
whether or not he was responsible for his conduct.
While the jury were out the prisoner was joking,
q laughing and smoking acith has friends, anticipating
3 a speedy %acquittal.
Thus has terminated one of the most extraordinary
8 trials of the age. 1t is a great triumph of Justice and
q law over one of the boldest schemes to set a villain at
4 liberty that has ever been attempted. We have
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