The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-07-05

lt1cL4ti AtlAAaltAs "a blouEhL - ALN' 'hN
State Treasury-,he remainder Of the deficit, all but
about $1,000, Is Ake!y TO be made up.
Mrs. John Howes. of Wethersfeld, Conn i a re-
m%arkable woman. She weighs only eighty pounds,
and recently presented her husband with three sons
az one birth. She is AZ we'll as can be-expected.
THE JAPANESE EuBAssY-NoRFoLE. Va, May "a
About y o'clock, last night, the steamer .4nGcosfl
arrived here, announcing that the Roanoke had ar
rived Ii th- Roads. and the Philadelphia il now
making preparations 10 repair thlther- II Is CONN.,
IDENTIFY expected that the visitors will arrive at
Washington tomorrow, (Nlay IA
NEW ORLEANS, May 12-Tbe L. :. steamer No
hGJrE, with the barque Uiitfre, captured Oft the
coast Of Cuba with five hundred slaves, has arrived
De, ", and i awaiting orders. The news CT the
HiEIfre's capture created great excitement at Ha-
vanl.
II IS said OF Julien the pianist, that, shortly before
his death, he entered his house armed with d large
knife. " Come here,'' said he 20 his adopted child,
q child about eighteen years old, " | am going to let
you hear the angels sing" He was going to cut her
throat. She had presence OF mind enough to reply:
- Willingly but before | 90 let me hear you play on
the hageOlet, that | may compare your music and
theirs Julien thought the idea excellent, and
went 70 get MS dtgeOlet; while he was gone the child
called the servants, the unhappy mailman was secur-
Ell and carried to the private mad-hOuse, where he
died a few days afterWard.
The Empress Of the French IL 10 give a grand
fancy ball on the 9th, when she will appear as the
goddess Diana, equipped FOR the chase, and her dress
Will be composed OF a short skirt OF Tulle, and Of a
body or flesh -colored silk, literally embroidered with
diamonds. \ large diamond crescent and two stars
10 match will spark e on the forehead Of the goddess,
the feathers Of her arrows will be beirUpped with
diamonds, as n thread of GOssamer with dew, and
the pretty little pink boots, that are TO give a finish
70 the costume, Will likewise De adorned with pre-
cIOus gems set in anklets OF gold.
OLD FrnN DIssoLvED.-Tn our columns to-day will
be found "a notice Of the dissolution Of one of the old
est and wellthiest firms in this city-that Of |. How
land, Jr. s. Co. This firm has been in existence up
wards Of half a century, and has thus witnessed most
Of the ufF- and downs Of business life IN this civ.
Its members have been persons Of great business en-
terprIse aud sagacity, OF which they have reaped the
usual reward. The breaking up o. the firm has been
caused by the removal Of Mr Edward VI. Robinson,
one Of the principal members, from the cIty.--Ntr
Bedford Standard.
Adyices from Naples say the royal troops attacked
the insurgents intrenched in the town OF Carini, on
the Sth. The fight was desperate, and continued
for the three following days, when the government
troops received achievements, and compelled the iu-
surgents to retire on P4rtinico, leaving 80 killed
behind. The royal troops had three hundred killed.
The town OF Cariui was pillaged and set hre TO. II
l. said that Il NeAp1litIn General had been captured
by the insurgents, that the seat Of Government Is
about 10 be transferred TO Alessina. and that the gar
risUn AZ Palermo, numbering 10000 men, are afraid
10 proceed TO the interior.
AFFAIRS ~ JAPAS.-A private letter from Kama
gawa, under date Of May 81, received in Sau Fran
cisco, says:
yesterday, between the Revolutionary party and the
Government. No particulars received. TIE captains
Of all the vessels in the harbOr were notified to be pre-
pared for an attack. Guns were run out and shot
ted, and things certainly look Squaily. Two hun
dreI and sixty soldiers arrived in town yesterday.
Some say they came 10 protect the place; others say
that they intend To wipe out ali the foreigners. We
have 20 many reports OF this kind, that We do not re-
gard them much. A iew days will tell the story"
STEAMSHIP ADRIATC-The steamship -4iriatic
which left New York 18th inst, was spoken at 6
O'Clock, morning Of the 10Th, in lat. 40 10, Ion. 90
80, by ship CuifirGfOr. Captain Russell Of the lat
Ter vessel, states that he never saw a uODler sight
than that presented by the .ftriatic, when passing
his vessel; she-the -43ri0tic-was under tOpsais
there was Il short %chopping sea on. which she seemed
to ride like ii thing OF life, passing his vessel So near,
as for him TO easily recognize Captain Comstock
staining on the bridge. In one hour all that was
di>cernable OF The -diriatic was a small speck on the
horizon, supposed about nineteen miles distant-ihe
Caifirator having run about five knots and the .1dri-
atic fourteen or fifteen.
BLACK TEA AND GREES-Sir John Bowring, at a
recent lecture in Glasgow, touched upon the tea trade,
and the withdrawal OF the monopoly-the trade being
much more than tripled-the quality, instead of be-
ing deterioraied, being much better than it was, and
the price, instead Of being higher, being very much
lower. Ii they were TO give a Chinaman green tea,
he would consider himself insuite1. Green tea! 1t
was the common black tea painted. Ii was painted
with Prussian blue, China ink, and gypsum. OF tea,
he found that forty-sevcn millions Of pounds went to
Great Britain, OF which thirty seven millions were
black tea, ard ten millions green; SO that the seusi-
bic people were in the ratio Of four to one. To the
United States there were sent twenty-thrce millions
OF pounds OF green tea, duu only Ohe anu u quarter
millions Of black.
OsAGE ORANGE HEDGEs-The Chicago Times con-
siders at length the various modes Of fencing adopted
on western prairie land, and concludes as follows
"Ihe English thorn, Virginia thorn, three thorn
e. icncil sweet briar, and even the poplar, have been
used with more or less effect. But none Of them meet
the requirements OF hedge plants, and endure the
climate at the same time. OF ell things yet tried,
the Usage orange has proved itself possessed ~ the
most desirable qualities for general purposes, par
ticularly south OF the latitude Of Peoria, and also
quite to the north, by good winter protection about
the roots, Although n native of a much milder
climate then our own, it SON becomes acclimated,
aud Is As hardy as our own native forest trees
MATHEMATICAL PRoDIGY-In New York, a young
man named Hu,chins il giving instruction in the art
Of instantaneous reckoning, 10y winch he proposes to
reyolutionize the ancient arithmetical processes. Here
i one u: his lightning achievements, which i authen-
ticated by safe witnesses The young man appears
with a wooden slate and n piece of chalk. On this
state an addition sum" Of five columns o: ten fig
ures was chaiked down, the columns being repleJe
with the Fights, mines, and seyeus, that 50 readily
puzzle the reckOner. Mr.. Hutchins was not allowed
to see the figures until they were all marked down.
lie then approached the slate, seized the chalk, and
with "A convulsve jerk, put down the correct sum
total at the bottom, doing il with a rapidity that
scarcely allowed him time to glance at tae figures,
much less 90 through the usual process of adding. Ii
was a. near being instantaneous IA anything could
be. Complicated and intricate examples IN the roots
and ! uyariou> combinations IF numbers were solved
with thu same marvellous rapidly
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