The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-06-18

amount expended on her up 10 the present time Is
ohou+ % 600 600; and an additional sum OF $75O.-
GOO will probably be required to complete her.
The new iron steamer, CircGsSian, q model vessel,
rb;cb was to have sailed from Liverpool 7th o fMarch,
had not arrived at the latest dates. 1t was expected
that this vessel would cross the Atlantic In time to
telegraph her news in seven days from the date OF
her departure from Liverpool. If she sailed on the
day for which she was advertised, she has dlsaP-
pointed the expectations of her owners, and Will
scarcely be ranked as a model.
The veteran Gen. Wool had been received IN Troy
N. Y. with distinguished honors. He was met on nus
arrival by five or six thousand OF the mnaplIan'e'
and was by them enthusiastically cheered IL" -
corted to his residence, attended by o oand OF music
Here, after he had exchanged c0ngratulaOons VII
coined to his home in behalf Of the citizens. The
General replied in a brief speech. The affair seems
0 have passed off to the qualification OF all
FRozEN-The Washington Union says that one Of
the gold fish, in the capitol reservoir caught near the
surface of the water at the commencement of the cold
weather, was frozen in the ice, and remained in a
torpid state until the warm weather in February
released it from its icy prison, when after lying on
the surface upon Its side for a while a slight motion
commenced in its side fins, which continued to increase,
until it slowly moved off to join more comfortable
fellows below the reach Of frost.
FAST TRAvELING.-The New York Central Rail-
road Company are said to be making arrangements
to run an express train during the summer, in con-
nection with the Hudson River Railroad, from New
York to Buffalo In thirteen hours. The distance is
40 miles, ana Cne train must run ABOUT forty miles
an hour, exclusive of stoppages.
IMPROVEMENT IN New YORK CITY.-The city OF
New York has contracted with the drivers of the
street-sweeping machines to have the streets cleaned
at night, by machinery, the most convenient time
and means for such work. On Monday night, when
the machines were put in operation, a mob drove
them off, and would not let them perform the labour.
NEVADA TERRITORIAL late California paper men,
tons information having been received from Wash
ingtOn, D.. c., to the effect that n bill was in prepara-
ton by Senator Douglas for the formation of a new
territory on the eastern boundary of California, to
consist of all Western Utah and Northeastern New
Mexico, from the Oregon line to the Colorado river.
The name intended for it is Nevada. taken from the
great Sierra which lies on its western boundary.
The bill did not, however, see the light, as the pressure
of business in congress prevented action on the forma-
ton of new territories. The next congress will pro-
baby pass bills for the organization of this as well as
several other new territories at the West.-BoSton
Post.
CANAR1Es.-It is calculated that fully 5000
canary and other singing birds are annually sold in
New York. This trade is almost entirely in the hands
of Germans. The importers make their purchases In
Europe about the first of August, from the peasants
in the vicinity of the HartZ mountains, who raise, as
a pastime, their stock of canaries, linnets, fnches,
black birds, thrushes, and other song birds. Males
are sold in the mountains for 81 to 81 70 each.
The importers have recently returned with q portion
of their stocks, and it is estimated that $4,000 birds
are now in that city for sale.
The RICHEST COMMUNITY IN THE WORLD.-The
Washington Star recently mentioned that the result
of the late sale of the Delaware Qndian) trust lands
was $40, 900. The same paper adds that the lands
sold were only those comprised in the eastern division
of this great reservation. The western division is
now advertised to be sold. That contains some $780,
900 acres, and will undOubtly bring an aggregate at
least of $500, 900. The tribe are also the owners of
a home reservation almost Immediately adjoining
Leavenworth city, forty miles long by ten broad,
that would sell tomorrow readily for $40 per acre;
or an aggregate of S 1000, 900. Thus their total
wealth, independent of personal property-and some
of them are men of considerable individual means-is
about $4,O7O, 600. They number in all some nine
hundred souls; and from the real estate described
above are worth on an average of $4,44O per soul; or
$50, 200 to each family of five persons among them.
END OF THE WORLD AT HAND Paris is very
much excited by an astronomical controversy at
which all do not laugh The two most eminent
astronomers, the one of France, the other of Germany,
ore arguing whether the world is to come to an end
on the thirteenth Of June nert!-An the scientific
world, it appears, have long been uneasy at the ap-
proach of the Comet to our earth; and though it is
conceded by the disbelievers that the contact must
take place in June next, they argue Cor Mons. Babi-
net, the French Astronomer for them0 that, as
Comets are but atmospheric affairs, it will not
materially affect US. The German, on the contrary,
say that it will not merely be the passing of a ''gen-
tleman who Smokes but that its center is solid fire,
and that the surface of the earth will be turned into
a sea of fiery lava, by this formidable cigar The
Millennium, Of course, is to turn out a fiction, and
Mr.. Barnum will barely have time to get well of his
bilious fever. We beg new subscribers to keep send
ing in their subscriptions in
reminding them that the less paper they have about
them, the later they will be, of course to catch fire.
Home Journal.
The ONE HUNDRED MILE RACE~-The greatest
race on record, probably, and the most brutal aad
cruel, took place on Wednesday last. The course the
Turnpike from Albany to Whitesboro, in New York
States a distance of 100 miles. The purse was
81 $50 q side. The match was made by Mr.. Dalton
of Springfeld, Mass, who named his horse Boxer,
with Mr.. Taylor, who selected the New York horse
Doctor. The horses were driven in light sulkies by
Dalton and Taylor. They left the Exchange, Albany,
at 5 O'Clock A. NJ, arrived at Fonda, a miles at
9I5 A. NJ: at Fort Plain, SO miles at 1885 A. NJ; at
Little Falls, "a miles 12.17 P. NJ; the Albany horse
Boxer. 2 minutes ahead. Passed lion, 50 miles at
Ito p. NJ, the Albany horse 5 rods ahead. Between
Frankfort and Schuyler, Dalton stopped and Taylor
passed, and then lay by 2 hours; he again started
feeding his horse as he walked, with hay. Dalton
again started, and at Utica the Taylor horse was only
4 minutes ahead. Taylor teached Whitssboro, 1OO
miles. $50 p. NJ. in r. 80 from Albany. Dalton only
reached Yorkville. OF course Doctor won and Boxer
lost. Both horses were jaded out, but ate, drank
and could stand up.-Otsego Republic.
LAKE ONTARIO IN THE TINE OF NoAH-Mr. Fl.
Skeel sends us a communication from South Butler,
Wayne County, n. Y, in which he makes a very Gu
rions and interesting statement. Promising the ac-
count of his IS discovery with the generally received
sunnosi+ion that the surface level of Lake Ontario
was aces ago. several hundred feet higher than it's
present position, and of course that its waters sub
merged many miles of the country now surrounding
i, ood which is now covered with cities and villages,