The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-10-04
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign News.

NeEark, ~. - II returns received. will
.bow a population of over $4,000 now. against 81, s9i
IL 1850.
The New York papers announce the approaching
,r,ffals Of Mayor Wood and Miss Georgianna Cream
s-.sr Of Mrs. James Gordon Bennett.
The Bible has been translated into 200 languages
al dialects. and is ready for 600. OOO, 900 Of the In
b4bitauts Of the earth; but only 100, OOO, 900 have as
yet received H.
NuLrSERs-Do the admirers If pretty miIIiners
know Why they are called So Not one in n million
The name comes from Milan, the city from which
yllan-ary goods were first imported into England.
REVIVAL or THE SLAVE TR.DE-The New York
Ergaing Post publishes the names Of eighfu-fre
sIavers. fitted out at New York during the three and
abalf years Of the administration Of James Buchanan.
WORTH TRYISG.-CoaI oil Is said to be n sure de-
s,royer Of bugs Apply beautifully with a small
brush or feather 70 the places where they most do
c~ougregate. The cure Is efectual and permanent.
The Great Eastern steamship has six masts;
three Of them are iron and hollow, perforated with
holes, Ike q flute, and are made steam pipes for the
sbip. They have their names plintei on them a.
follows -tri-sail mast, fore mast, main mast. aft
mast. mizxen mast and jigger mast.
PRISczT-Among the recent graduates from West
Point was n son Of Commodore Vanderbilt. II i
said. the father promised the youth 500, 900 if he
woui bring himself among the first five, or $500 900
If he completed the course with honor. The son was
not the winner Of the former but received a check for
the latter
ABOCT RIGHr-AbOut thirty notorious houses OF
iLhlme. dance houses. groggeries. sc, in the south
-ern part Of ST. Louis, were riddlei by a mob. and all
the furniture and effects burned in the street. The
loss by the destruction OF furniture is estimated at
S3O.OOOi 90 rioters were arrested, and fnei only 80
each b. the Recorder.
Very few people have an ilea Of the immense
quantity q burning Huid and c~amphene consumed in
the intel States annually. The amount Of the
frmer Is estimated by competent persons Mt "a .OOO,-
O0 gallons, Of the latter 1t 5000. 900 gallons. The
total value Of these amounts l. some SI3, 600, 900.
A PRISTER's RlsE-The Roman Catholic Bishop
Of Pennsylvania recently visited Portland, Maine,
and in noticing his visit, the Bangor Uhig says:
Thirty years ago, he was an apprentice in the
Argus Office. He entered a Catholic collegoin Ohio
soon after he became of age, and has now been 4
bishop for SIX years Printers can be made into any
thing"
A correspondent writing from Louisiana, says that
ne recently saw n fight between n large rattlesnake
AMI 4 hog, which was interesting. The latter kept
his brist!es 50 extended that the attempts Of the snake
to bite him were foilei; until, watching his chance,
be suddenly rushed upon the reptile, seized it by the
neck, and placing his ~forefeet on its body, tore it in
two, and then leisurely devoured it.
Cuba il advancing in population and all other
sources Of wealth IL is calculated that the present
population OF the island Is /, l6O. 900, of which nearly
$4,000 are white inhabitants, $50, 900 free colored,
400, 900 slaves, and 5000 Asiatics and Indians.
The sugar estates are immensely productive. Tween
ty-three Of the principal plantations, comprising about
one hundred thousand acres Of land and 1876
slaves. besides buildings, machinery, SC, are valued
at nearly l5,OOO.OoO
SYRA.-The New York Journal of Commerce is
anxious for foreign Intervention TO stop the Syrian
maSacres, and closes an article on the subject thus:
80, il Oliver Cromwell were Protector of England
1t this time, would there not be such n stir in Con-
stantinople a. that city has not seen for three GEN.
turtles An English fleet would have passed the
Darianelles and entered the Golden Horn before now.
And Abdel Mediid would soon see the walls of his
seragiio knocked to atoms by British cannon, if he
did not do better"
COOLIES IN PERU.-There are %, 900 Chinese slaves
now in Peru, and the demand continues. AclrgO of
these coolies was landed m May, and they scIl for
500 eacb-the term Of seryitude being eight years,
the wages four dollars a month, two suits Of clothes
in q year, and TWO pounds Of rice per day. 1t costs
the trader about S35 to land q Chinaman on the
Peruvian coast, and as he Is pretty certain of get
ting $500 or 500 for him, the profits are enormous,
although the deaths on the passage from China are
often large. The bark Napoleon lost by deaths, over
half of the number taken from China.
SHOES BY MAcHISERY.-The present method Of
Accommodating is rapidly becoming old fashion
ed. There is n steam shoe factory in Saxton's River,
Vermont. where all the hand labor used about a shoe
IS IN lasting on the uppers- The sOles are cut, rolled,
leveled and then shaped by machinery. They are
BACKED, polished and pegged by machinery. They
are also bound, stitched, punched and sandpapered
by machinery. The establishment contains room for
four hundred bands, none OF whom require any Of
the Cd familiar tools or the shoe bench.
NEW EINK IN WHALISG-The whale ship Ben
jamin Morgan, owned in New London by Mcssrs.
L0~rence * Co., last week took 4 load Mt New York
for Cape Town, at the Cape Of Good Hope, consisting
principally CT lumber, there being something like
5000 feet on board, with thirty tons of tobacco,
several cases Of agricultural implements. chairs, and
q large quantity Of sailed provisions. She IS going
out 90 bring home the oil secured by the ships OF her
owner at Hurds and DesoIatiOn islands, and instead
Of sending her out in ballast, they have freighted the
ship as far as the Cape, where she will discharge and
proceed to the islands, ship the oil, and then return
home. She has no try-wOrks built, and carries only
two boats, and will be sailed by only an ordinary
number Of men, instead Of the usual whaling crew.
Among the ships from which she will receive her
home freight. is the Isaac Hicks. and her tender, the
schooner Pacific, bark Dove, schooner Colgate, schoon-
er CornelIa, and the schooner Sawyer, tender 10 the
bark Alert, now on her way to Hurds island.
1losT SINGULAR CASE OF SNAKE CHARNING-The
Rochester Union relates the case Of 4 child two years
Of age, daughter Of Sir. Davis in that city, charmed
the arms Of the little girl. who WAS fondling It As she
would a kitten. The mother was naturally much
alarmed by the apparent peril in which she saw her
child. and seized a stick TO destroy the reptile. The
snake slowly retreItei. showed its tongue and Kissed
At the mother The child cried. and begged 50 hard
OF its parent to desist, that she allowed the snake TO
retreat to its hiding place. IL soon became apparent
that the little girl thought of little less but her COM
panion, the snake. and would return to the yard in
search Of IL rs often rs she was allowed to Do so.
Under the fascination Of this reptile, the child-a
very pretty little girl-has begun to decline, and
now weighs out eighteen pounds. Respectable ply
scIans were consulted, II Is said, and advised that no
violence should be used toward the snake, as it might
prove fatal TO the child. How many meetings the
snake and child had we are not positively informed;
but We infer that they have been frequent. When
they meet they rush to each other with all the appar-
et emotions Of friendship and attachment that can
exist between two living beings. Only yesterday,
MrI Davis came to this city with the little girl, and
when she returned, the party left in charge of the
house Informed her that the snake had been more bold
than usual, and had actually been upon the steps
leading to the door, awaiting the appearance of the
child.
\ BRILLIANT METEoR-The 20;h of July will long
be memorable for the splendid celestial phenO-
nenon which appeared in the heavens and was for n
few moments the observed Of all Observers over n
country at least Il thousand miles in extent. From
the interior Of Pennsylvania as far east as Boston, as
far north as Troy, New York. and as far west as Lake
Ire. IL ILLUMINATED the Xhnle sky and Il renresentel