The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-08-09
Three Weeks Latter

London, June 10.
The news is OF varied and unusual interest. In
California, very little had transpirei during the
three weeks since our last previous dates.
Euicrn.
Tls Den.-r-.s NJ mating Convention met g,
Baltimore IL rae 1sfh June. and nominated
S'eghe" A D.ugla-, for President.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick for Vice President.
Fitzpatrick had declined the honor, and Johnson
Of Mississippi hal accepted it.
The " seeding convention Of Southern - bolters,' -
met on the I'D, at Baltimore and nominated
J. c. Breckenridge, for President.
Joe Lane, Of Oregon, Vice President.
Both Of whom had accepted. II would thus ap-
pear that the Democratic party il to be divided
during the campaign. Greedy makes the following
prediction
!. We predict that Lincoln and HamIin will have
the highest electoral vote, and that Breckenridge and
Lane will have the next highest.
2. We predict that Bell and Everett will have more
electoral votes than Douglas and johnson.
g. We predict that breckenridge and Lane will
have twice as many electoral votes as Douglas and
Johnson.
4. We predict that Lincoln and Hamlin will have
four times a. many electoral votes as either Bell and
Everett or Douglas and Johnson.
The steamship Great Eastern, arrived at Sandy
Hook, 1890 a. NJ, 18th. having left England June
IIh- The average run was 254 10 23S miles per
day. There were ~iOTty-twO passengers, and several
directors Of the company. She steamed all the way,
and crossed the bar without difficulty. No small
craft were able TO keep up with her. She had been
visited by over $500 persons, at one dollar a head
fee.
POLITIcAL-The rupture in the Democratic party
is widening daily. The Southern press. and people
generally, side with Breckenridge; the Northern
With Douglas, some Northern journals are out for
breckenridge Both parties have appointed National
Executive Committees.
After organizing. the Committee waited on the
| President who IacI,ra1 ba au.ira onyrova1 % ,I,a
nominations OF Breckenridge and Lane, and of the
platform.
Efforts are being made in New York and Pennsyl-
wanna to bring about arrangements by which the
Democracy will run only one ticket. Each State ap-
pOrtioning electoral votes according to the number Of
tickets voted for each.
European.
The Asia. with news from Europe, to June 10Th,
fully confirms the success Of Garibaldi in Sicily. He
has organized a provisional government by the ap-
pointmenr of n ministry. Gen. LAMA has returned
10 Naples. and all the rOyalist troops were ordered 10
concentrate at Messiua-
AUSTRIA PREPARING FOR WAR.-Vienna advices
announce the Austrian Government as making pre-
paratiOns for war. Enormous quantities of ammuni-
ton are daily passing through Trieste. Four corps
d'armee are already cOmplete1-hfth shortly expec-
ted. Seventy thousand troops are entrenched in
camp at Peschiera-iorty thousand in position on the
frontier Of R0magna.
Ii i reported that General Gayou, Commander Of
the French troops at Rome, had demanded reinforce
ments to make preparations for active operations.
Jerome B~onaparte is dead.
The Prince Of Wales will sail for Canada on the
11th July.
The French army on the China frontier had been
withdrawn.
Gladstone had determined to resign his position in
the British Ministry.
The King Of Naples is said to have accepted the
proposition by 4 ,ote OF his Council, for a Constitu-
ton on a liberal basis, and an alliance with Piedmont
on certain conditions.
OVERLAND TELEGEAPm-The Secretary of Trea-
snry has Issuei proposals till the 10Th OF September,
for the use o.. = telegraph line between Missouri river
and San F'i"cscO-ihe lowest guaranteed offer to lie
taken.
VI-IT ur THs PRINcE or wALFs-The Prince of
Wat- vii VISIT President BIchluIu-Nlr. Is. having
written an Invitation to tine Queen. expressing per-
sonal desire to receive the Prince. He has also ac-
ceptei AN invitation from the city of New York.
PROTECTION FOR The PoSY ExPREss-Orders have
been issued by the War Department to commanders
Of Western departments, to furnish all aid in their
power 70 the Pony Express, between Missouri and
Camp Floyd, TO insure speed and certainty.
The MAILs-It is a matter for generalization that
the Postmaster-Genera has succeeded in making a
temporary arrangement for the transmission Of the
ocean mails Vanderbilt agrees 10 carry them until
the 9Th Of March for the postage, and the President
agrees to recommend a further appropriation At the
next session of Congress
Owls IL = Row WITH THE PREsIDENr-Before
settlement Gwin had a grand blow up with the
President and Postmaster General. Holt refused to
carry out his promise relative To overland and ocean
mails. Ggin appealed 10 the President To know II he
sustained Holt. Ii Is said that DR.. Gwiu left and told
the President that he deserved TO have no friends.
He would never darken the doors OF the White House
while he hilei il. II j. not known whether the diff
Guilty y yet recOnciled.
FRoN SYDSEY.-By the arrival Of the ship Bsaja-
min H0lc1ri, from Sydney, We learn ola narrow es-
cape from laundering. The ship Flying Dragon,
Capt Horace II. Watson. Jr, bound from Bakers
Island for Hampton Roads. with guano, while in
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the 10Th Of February, making sixty inches per hour,
and was to bear away for Sydney, but finding the
leak gaining 50 rapidly, the ship having ten feet Of
water IN her hold, she ran into the port Of Tonga
taboo (Friendly Islands, on the 4;h Of March, after
having jeitisOned from 400 TO 500 tons Of gulno. The
sailors tried TO force Capt. Watson to abandon his
ship, but he determined q" save her At all hazards if
possible When the men came ait 70 take posse sion
of the boats, Capt. ". stool with an axe in one hand,
ready to stave the boats If the crews d~isobeyel orders,
and a revolver IN the other, and thus forced his men
into subOrdination and saved his vessel. On getting
the ship into Nukunlofu Bay, the crew were COM
pletely exhausted, and the native Governor ut once
sent of natives 10 remain at the pumps, which were
kept going necessarily. the ship then making sixty
inches per hour. 4 full survey was at once held,
and SIX hundred tons more of cargo were landed,
when several leaks were discovered on the port bow.
All the repairs which could possibly be afforded
were here furnished, which resulted in reducing the
leak to thirry-six inches per hour, in which state she
sailed for Sydney on the 9th of March, where she
arrived and was locked at once. Great credit is due
to Captain Watson and his officers, for their courage,
perseverance and patient exertiOns. The Mission
aries rendered important service in getting the ship
repaired at Tonga-taboo, and hospitality entertained
Mrs II. and child during their soiourn there. This
should be appreciated in n commercial point Of view,
advantages derived from the introduction Of Christi
anity, and thereby perhaps saving much valuable
property which might, during heather times have
been sacrificed for want of assistance and a knowledge,
of their duty TO their felow-men. The ship Black
Sea and BOJriiich were both at Sydney in distress,
repairs az a heavy expense --fitr Cal.
FROM JAPAS.-We have another instalment of ia
panese news. 4 gentleman who arrived as n passen-
ger in tine bark OHlr4rf, gives US a number of inter-
esting items. published elsewhere. The japanese
seem TO he delighted with the news about the manner
in which the representatives Of their Government