The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-12-23

The following Southern States have held elections


III the other Southern states should De represented
as in the last Congress, they would stand 81 Demo-
Gratis to II Know Nothings. 1t viii be seen, there
fore, that in no event can the Republicans obtain
command of the House. while, should the Democrats
in the elections yet to take place, make a gain OF nine
members. which is not at all improbable, considering
the state of parties in the South, they viii yet have 4
majority
4 suGAR-LoAF MoDEL--The new steamship con-
structed by Messrs- Winans of Baltimore for Atlantic
navigation, might apparently be mistaken for a dou-
HE coffin. being 100 feet long and 16 broad, and looks
like a couple of sugar loaves tied together. 1t has
neither masts, sails or decks, and will carry 20 pas
senrerS. The motive power is an oscillating engine,
that carries a wheel in the center of the vessel. Should
this extraordinary phenomenon be encountered by a
whale, the latter will doubtless believe it to be an i'm
proved model of himself. The Messrs. Winans are
hard to beat, and they will run old sugar-loaf across
the brine ahead of the old bread-baskets now COM
mon
DEATH OF HENRY L. BULLIoSs-The grave has
claimed another victim. At his fathers house in
this city yesterday morning DIR. Henry L. Bulions, a
young man Of brilliant talents, and with apparently
n bright career before him, died at the early age of
&c years. DIR. Billions was a son of Rev. Peter
Billions, d.. D., an eminent divine and scholar of
this city. He graduated with honor at Union College
and commenced the study OF medicine in the office of
Dy. Blatchford Of this city. He took his degree at
the Albany Medical College in 1853, and was after
wards House Surgeon at the Troy Hospital, where he
enjoyed the confidence and respect of all connected
with that institution Always of a delicate constitu-
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the year 1855. to benefit his health and practiced his
profession at Honolulu. He returned to this country
in about a twelve month and opened an office in Troy;
but this treacherous climate proved too much for
him, and in 1857 he sailed again for Honolulu, where
ne remained until the spring of the present year.
For the second time he returned to his home-but it
was only 10 die. The fell destroyer consumption had
seized upon him. and it was with difficulty, and only
by the aid of kind friends that he was enabled to
reach the United States. Since his return DIR. Bull
lions has been gradually sinking; but it was a conso-
Iation that he died in the midst of his family and
friends, and that the ministering angels who cluster
around the ire-side were with him in his last moments.
In the death of Henry L. Billions our city has lost
n young man of true goodness of heart and nobility of
soul. Possessed of an engaging person, affable man.
ners and n cultivated mind, few young men were
more universally esteemed. Had he lived, he would
have achieved n high name in the noble profession he
espouscd, and in the cause of science and humanity.
-Troy. On " Paper.
MANIFESTO AGAINST FTLITrsTERs-The Nicaraguan
Minister to this country has issued a manifesto
against Walkers proposed emigration scheme, and
stating the regulations upon which e~migrants will
alone he permitted to enter the country.
Circumstances tend very strong to make Mr..
Douglas the favorite candidate of the South for the
next Presidency.
Nj. Seward is regarded as the Republican leader.
but he may be deposed before the election.
From Havana, we learn that the bark Venus,
formerly under the Mexican fag.) with $50 negroes
on board, was captured off the Moro by a Spanish
war steamer. The ownership Of the vessel Spanish
the flag Spanish-and the punishment will be dealt
by the Spaniard- They viii be emancipados in
name, but slaves for life.
An English officer direct from Paraguay reports
that Lopez is preparing effective modes of resistance
and defense. by building Notifications and obstruct-
ing the navigation of the river. He has placed chains
and booms across, and proposes sinking light vessels
in the channel, in which event our expedition could
not ascend. Several Belgian and Hungarian officers
are engaged in directing operations.
MExIco.-The most important piece of intelligence
by this mail, is the announcement that Spain had Mt
last carried out her threat, and invaded Mexico. The
Tehusntepec correspondent Of the Alta California,
asserts that fve Spanish war vessels had arrived at
Tampico, and that 1000 troops had been landed. If
this report proves correct, it may be regarded as the
most important event that has t~ranspired on the
American continent in a long period.
A correspondent OF the New Orleans Picayune
writing from the capital of Mexico says that unless
some change for the better should speedily take place,
the Republic must become q mass Of ruins. The real
condition Of affairs is thu summed up:
The desolation and abandonment of twenty or thirty
towns.
The Punishment from their homes Of at least 200,-
900 persons.
The abandonment of hundreds of hacierdas.
The complete stagnation Of all branches of trade
and industry.
The insult Of many females by the rsbble soldiery.
The useless employment of $4,000 persons in keep
~ ~ w - - Z SofAoSitNhs -
tion.
The sacrifice of 800, 0OO, 900 in money, animals.
food, clothing, grain, &C., taken by force for the
maintenance Of the civil war, and in the property a-
tually destroyed in consequence Of these feuds.
These are already the proceeds Of seven months
strife, and still the fires of civil discord burn, and the
indications are that the flames are but in a state of
infancy. The struggle that has 20 long been sus-
tanned on nominal political principles is now rapidly
changing into a demoniac war Of castles. to carry with
1t the enactment Of those atrocities which characterize
the savage. and set aside all the rules of civilized and
half civilized people.
There can be no mistake in saying that all the
worst passions OF the native Indians are now being
worked upon to incite them to make q relentless war
upon those who have become their masters, and con-
vert into fruiuess fields their old hunting grounds. I |
have seen lately several most proclama- !
tons circulated amongst their pue5las, urging the |
natives, =" the rightfal owners of the soil, as they |
are pleased to call themselves, to rise en- mosse and
exfirpate from their land their unprincipied plumber |
cr4 and hearfIeax fasE arkor