The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-11-11

come an established institution, and ever
bment seems to have no other mode Of live
he case of Mr.. Escandon exempli6es this II
bic degree. He was imprisoned because b,
lend the Government . sum Of money OF
u hand given by the priests His liberia
fected by his friends paying the amount
Is consent, and then the official journals
for his great enterprise and public spirit
seem, from the tenor of our letters from
/. that an early change is expected there
ast of the general prostration, three or four
plotting to seine pom power, but there
be no chance for their success. Looking
movements from an outside point of view.
seem tina if Viduarri, now at San Luis
build effect a junction with Degollado, who
in the West, and the two should really
efforts, they will soon lead their forces to
r Mexico. At present, Viduarri seems to
lest chance Of winning.
Atlantic Side.
u,yrIc TELEGRAPH.-The papers contain
little information about the Telegraph
a great deal of confidence was entertained,
ssor Hughes would be able to surmount
Effculties. The following paragraphs tend
our already expressed views on this inter-
L;ect. Mr.. Field writes to the New York
Sder date of September 9Th. as follows:
v,I from New F0undland a dispatch informing
rugh the insulation Of the ocean cable remains per
~ has come over il for several days
Iearaph dispatch that I received from England was
September J.
b H. cause Of the cessation I do not know. but I
bat il Is the change Of the shore end at Valentia,
inarmed was about to be made
!, September s, 1s5s- CrKrs !" YIELD
bur Boston exchanges. the following para
bars:
- =. f-nrn Iora1ou NV the Xandprbflf
- Professor Hughes would have his machines In
vork the cable on OF about the Sth inst, on which
antic Company expected TO dispatch a special
L;Ditv Raw with one Of Professor Hughes's assistants
: NAV therefore hope to see the cable in complete
bout the 18th inst Professor Hughes after such
a. have been afforded his instruments, unhesitat-
thai he can transmit intelligence through the cable
continuously, at the rate Of from three to SIX words
re letter from London, states that the
rinting Telegraph machines were placed
line of the Electric Telegraph Company
London IND Liverpool, and had greatly
the telegraph managers, operators, &C.,
bonderful performances, working With the
ct regularity at the rate of thirty-hve to
Ter minute. between the two cities, not
NJ a heavy rain which had lasted for two
disabling all other instruments. The first
xer the Atlantic cable from Trinity Bay was
Rough to London by the Hughes machines
s about three hundred per cent. greater
English machines, which do not record the
transmitted, whilst the Hughes machines
word in plain, clear, capital letters We
ratifed 10 learn from the same source that
hs have been opened by the Atlantic Com
king to n purchase Of the patent of the
f%vention, with the view to the immediate
E machines upon the Atlantic cable-the
Professor Hughes being willing TO guaranty
machines viii transmit intelligence two
Ter cent. faster, and with more accuracy
be done by any other system In fact,
Hughes confidently expects to be able to
uyh the cable at the rate of from five to ten
minute. Professor Whitehouse, who is
e cable, claims to be able to work at the
bout one word per minute, but the great
pf controlling his peculiarly constructed
@ecasions the loss of a great portion Of each
diusting." The Hughes machine viii pro-
Sut upon the cable line in September.