The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-11-05
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.


NIAGARA As A MANUFACTURING SnE-Many a
calculation has been made of the motive power which
might be furnished by the Falls of Niagara and it
would seem that the time is about coming when this
most powerful cataract on the globe will no longer
waste its strength in vain. Two or three years ago
. canal, 80 feet in width by 10 in depth, extending
from a point on this side the river, about 100 yards
above the rapids, through the rear Of the present
village. to a bank a mile below the falls, was COM
menced and Is now completed. The Canal Company
own about 20 acres of land by the lower terminus,
on which it Is proposed to erect tiers Of factories as in
Paterson, only On a much larger scale The canal
can be enlarged to any extent considered necessary.
The situation Of Niagara is certainly a remarkable
one, connected as it is by lake, river, railroad and
canal with every part Of the continent On the
shores Of the great Lakes are found minerals Of every
description, such as iron, copper, coal, &C., and in
almost fabulous quantities The tide of business
through the neck separating Lakes Erie and Ontario
must ever be immense, and the water power being
added a large city must spring up ON the spot within
. few years.
We learn from Utah, that on the arrival of a six
,months's mail from the United States, Brigham
Young requested two men to read what they call
the whole SIX months batch" of newspaper scandals
against themselves. Nearly four hours were occu-
pied in the reading, and a large company appear to
have been present to listen to these documents, yet
probably half the infamy of that p~olygamous people
has not been told The great temple of the Mormons
Is going on rapidly. The saints are demonstrating
loudly against the United States officers, claim the
right to elect their own rulers, and unanimously
and Of right wish and respectfully petition that his
Excellency Brigham Young be continued as their
Governor"
The New Orleans Delta estimates the number of
slaves at the south at over three-and-a-half millions,
and their aggregate value, at present prices, at fully
sixteen hundred millions of dollars. The cotton plan
tatious in the South it estimates at about eighty thou
sand, and the aggregate value of their annual prodnct,
at the present prices Of cotton, is fully one hundred
and twenty-five millions Of dollars. There are over
fifteen thousand tobacco plantations, and their annual
products may be valued at fourteen millions of dol
lars There are two thousand six hundred sugar
plantations, the products of which average annually
more than twelve millions. There are FIVE hundred and
fffy-one rice plantations, which yield an annual
revenue Of four millions of dollars.
Nix. SPuRGEoS.-As an illustration of the style of
sermonising which characteristics Nr. Spurgeon, the
following viii answer pretty well, both in respect to
matter and manner 50 Now we quote from one of
his recent sermons, elf wish to test you all, and
might ask you only one question, I would ask you
this What is righteousness, Now come along in
single file What is your righteousness o, am
as good as my neighbor. Go along with you you
are not my cornrade. What is your righteousness!
Well, l am rather better than my neighbors, for / go
to chapel regularly. of with you, sir, you do not
know the watchword- And you. next, you, lrhat is
your Righteousness / have been baptised and am a
member Of the church. Yes, and so you may and
II that is your hope, you are in the gall of bitterness.
Now you, next, what is your hope? O., I do all 1
can, and Christ makes mp the rest You are a
Babylonian you are no Israelite Christ is no make
weight away with you Here comes the last.
What Is. your righteousness My righteousness is
filthy rags except one Righteousness which l have,
which Christ wrought out for me on Calvary. imput-
ed to him by God himself. which makes me pure and
spotless as an angel. All, brother, you and | are
fellow soldiers. I have found you out this is the
patchwork your Righteousness of me, saith the
Lord"
The COMET FRIGHT IN MaLrA.-Letters from
Malta mention that, on the nights of the 18th and
18th June, prayers were offered up in many of the
Roman Catholic churches that the SHINING population
might be saved from the consequences of the stunning
crash which some Of the Continental astronomers
looked upon as possible, from the close proximity to
the earth Of the passing comet, which no one seems
TO have discovered, Notwithstanding a diligent look
out had been kept by the possessors even of the most
diminutive Dolland. Something Of an unusual nature
was, however, seen in the heavens about ten minutes
past five on the afternoon Of Sunday the 18th. A
bright luminous band Of variegated col0rs shot across
from east 70 west, lasting only a few minutes, the
wind blowing OF the time very fresh from the W.N.W.,
the sky serene, thermometer standing at 20, barome-
ter lat the level Of the sea) 1881, sea rather troubled;
unusually cool weather for the season prevailed, and
the nights were rather cold. The same meteor
was seen at Ago P. NJ, westward of Malta, from
on board the steamer Demetrius. Many timid old
women had not had a wink of sleep for several nights
preceding the 18th, being unwilling to be caught
mapping during the anticipated crash.
Mas CuxSixGHAM-The Surrogate of New York
has decided against this lady, and DIR. Burdell's es-
tate remains in the hands of the Public administrators
She has not yet been admitted to bail.