The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-01-05
Foreign Summary.

Twenty miles at sea, a dog was lately thrown over
board from a steamer, near Galway, and next day
reached home alive!
Joseph Jackson, the Postmaster General of the
sandwich Islands, who died at Honolulu, August
18th, was the only son of Mrs. Lyman Beecher by her
first husband.-Ohio Paper.
La Mountain is going to try another balloon ascen-
sion. He is not satisfied. and probably will not be
until he dashes his brains out.
Some of the members of Rev. DR.. Chapin's church,
in New York, have presented him with a $4,000
house. on Thirty-ffth street.
The Hon. f. p. Blair, of Missouri, lately emarci-
pated five slaves, consisting of one man, and q mother
and three daughters, at the circuit court in St. Louis
One of the Polar bears in the Geological gardens 81
Brussels was found dead in the basin Of their inclo-
sure a few days since, having been Rugged TO death
by his more powerful companion, in revenge for his
having ventnred to swallow a cake which the other
considered his property.
MARRIAGE OF A MLLIoNAIRE.-The Cuban million
aire, Don Esteban Santa Cruz de Oyiedo, sas mar
ried to Miss Bartlette, a New York belle, in st.
Patrick's Cathedral in Mott street, New York, Arch
bishop Hughes officiating. The dress of the bride
cost S5,O00-besides the Senior gave her 80 dresses,
four of which cost So 900 each.
Mr.. Parton, whose life of Burr was so well receiy-
ed, is closely at work on the life of General jackson,
which will be in three volumes, 8 vo.--ehe frs. to be
issued in November. The author has collected o
great amount of valuable material, and will make an
attractive book.
N "hts~@ha 9 ffffCf " AttN W6C
on the railway at that place on Friday evening. The
Planter was CT the old-fashioned model, of $40 tors
burden. She was one Of the fastest saiiers in the
Nantucket feet, and has been a very successful ship.
She was valued at $4,000, and was insured at the
Quincy office, Boston, fer $4,000. The fire Is the
work of an incendiary.
Capt. Daniel ii. Taber fell overheard from propeller
Wdmsutta, when off Seaconnct Point, and sank in
about three minutes, although every effort vas made
to save him. Capt. Taber was an experienced whsi-
ing master, having made several very successful yoy-
ages-.N. B. Paper.
4 method has been devised of regulating the press
ure of gas in its transmission to gas-burners by the
introduction of a regulator in the main pipes through
which the gas passes, by which a steady and nearly
uniform pressure is maintained at the burners,
whatever may be The pressure at the source of sup
ply. This regulator consists of a chamber filled with
a fbrous material. SO that the gas in its passage
must pass through or among the fbres.
The Vatican at Rome, the palace of the Popeis
a pile of buildings covering a space 1000 feet in
length, and 1000 in breadth, on one cf the seven
hills of Rome. The site was once the garden OF the
Emperor Nero. Early in the sixth century the
Bishop of Rome erected there a humble Dwelling,
and this has been added to from time to time by the
POpes until it is now one of the most spacious ana
magnificent palaces; stocked with paintings, statues:
books, and antiquities of the rarest kind.
GROWTH OF PHILADELPHIA.-A census Of Philadei-
phia just taken, shows a population of 61O,pD, an
increase of 271 ,238 since 1850. This great growth
shows the foreign commerce is not a necessary eae-
ment in that growth even of a city which may DC
well situated for prosecuting it, bat that manuiac-
turing, railroad facilities, and the coasting trade are
quite sufficient
A series of experiments have been going on at for's-
mouth with a view to test the resistance offered by ron
and steel plates in reference to the coating of the iron
steam ram now under construction. The result OF
the experiments has demonstrated that no iron VI
steel plate yet made, can withstand the shot OF q 80
gun at a short range. A steel clad ship woua
he more Vulnerable than our iron clothed vessels, y
the shattering of the fragments would cause depioIa-
BILE injury to life. 4 wooden vessel may therefore DC
the safest and most effective vessel OF war;
SO far as these trials are concerned.
ELoPED.-Letters from Geneva. Switzerland, am
nounce the arrival in that city of one of the faVorie
Sultanas of Abdul Medjib, and a musician, win
she eloped. The Sultana has the odd name %
She is a young and beautiful Circassisu,
lately was in the harem Of the Sultana- oe
much priced, and was covered with presents
As she mad s charming voice, she took singing Lessons
from a director of the music of the palace. an itanaa
named Guateili. One day, when out driving, ss
entered a house leading to the Bosphorus- and dis.p
pesred with the musician, not forgetting the o~