The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-05-24

'N MiihD4tAil- generally, ana MANY Il4ug for flaf
relief were talked Of and canyaseI. They foa,ed som.
fourteen miles, when one end Of the ice f,r,un,tsi,
grounded on Squaw Point. They made n ru-b r.
ire shore. after first getting off their horses an.
s'elShs- The Ice was much broken, and thev had Z,
travel some distance over separate cakes 10 reach In,
shore.-BIy CITY piper.
The ToTAL EcLIPsE or The SrS-The total ecIirs.
Of the 18th Of next July will be 4 very important on,
20 the scientific world The director Il the Dorust
Observatory was the first 20 remark that at the NO.
ment q Obscuration four Of the principal planes
Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and S4turu-wW srua,r in
TIE vicinity Of the eclip~el sun ~ "A kind u rhomboi.
Dial figure: a DheuOmeut Of such extraordinary rarity
that many centuries viii tlap-e before it, repetition.
Darkness viii commence and terminate On the land.
the localities being California AMI the shores Of the
rel SEA Between these extreme points the eclir-.
Will be visible IN North America, from whence the
moons shallow viii pass across the Atlantic. and
traverse Spain; tCtl! darkness including the follow
ing important towns in that country Ovieie, -.
Vincent. Slntander, BilbOl, Victoria, Burges, PAM
peluua, Saragossa and Valencia The liueo OF t5talitv
will cross the Mediterranean and enter Africa, pass
ing through Algers. Beam, Tozer, Sockna. S-bba.
GodlOnI and NOurzuk. Thus. although this remark
able eclipse VIII not be total in any part Of the United
Kingdom, 1t viii be 50 in Large portion Of Spain and
accessible portions vi Africa.
\ steam hammer, intended 70 be employed in the
forging Of the Armstrong guns. has lately been con
structet in England, and j. Of immense power. The
hammer bar and face weigh { tons, and the cylinder
IN which this bar works, with it, glands, within "a
few Cwt. Of 8 tons The cylinder Is supported on two
frames, each Of . tons, and each Of these again rests
't'
on "A bed-plate Of the same weight. Through these
be1-plates projects the anvil, which j. a mass Of
wrought iron. faced with steel, and imbeidel in an
immense block Of iron, weighing upwards Of y tons.
The casting Of this block, which was, Of course. one
Of the heaviest operations in connection with the an
paTItus. was pronounced by those who were present
20 be the most successful ever witnessed. The i'm
meHse block thus formed measures at the base q feet
: inches by 9 feet ? inches, and Is 1 feet 10 inches in
hight The anvil proper IS let into the top, and,
when placed TO the base. will rest on two LAYERS Of
heavy LOGS. about IL feet Euuar@ In The ruauaua-
meut Of the hammer, again, great perfection has been
attained. The most remarkable thing about IL Is the
perfect command in which it is held, 80 that it can be
male TO pound with prCdigIOus force a mass OF glow
ing iron, or 20 crack a nut in the gentlest manner.
The stroke can be given with a force exactly CORES
pOnIing with the weight Of the hammer; while on
the one hand this force can sediminishel at pleasure,
or, on the other, greatly increased by the application
Of the prOpelliug steam above or below the piston.
In regard To speed OF working, also, it possesses capl-
JiIities WHICH seem to adapt it to almost every vari-
ETY. ii work, for 1t can either be made to descend ike
the heavy sleige, " with measured beat and Slow
or to deliver from 300 to 300 strokes 4 minute.
PREMATURE FUNERAL-THE COFFIN Is SMASHED.
AND THE CORPSE CONES To LIFE.-A singular affair
occurred yesterday at the negro settlement known as
Hog Neck, near the Rocky River plank road, some
SIX miles from the city. An old negro named Jacob
Sanders, who was familiarity known as Oh Jakey,
dIei apparently late on Sunday night, and yester-
day afternoon his body was put in a rough pine coffin,
which was placed in a wagon. and the procession
an unusually large One-mOyed towards the grave.
W nile on the way t1e morse attached to the wagon
containing the coffin took fright and broke into a mad
run, upsetting the wagon and throwing the coffin
out. IL rolled down a small hill, being badly smash
ell on it, way. The mourners rushed 10 the spot and
were vastly amazed to see Old Jakey rising from
among the ruins of Of his coffin and staring stupidity
around. His inky-black face, snow-white wool and
white shroud formed a startling picture, turning the
amazement Of the cOlOrei mOurners into fright, and
they all took wildly to their heels. Those who have
seen Mr. /. D. Rice, as the Virginia mummy, can
form "a faint idea Of the seriO-cOmic tlbleau. As soon
Ill IL. -.-a- -. L-La.4 L. L..
down upon the ground and yelled Justify for the
mOuTners TO ONE back They came At length, eau
tiOusIy-Oue by One--aud the old fellow was carried
home. He Was very well this morning. He had
been ailing for several days. and on Sunday night
he apparently stopped breathing. His limbs became
stig, and his body cold. His under jaw fell and his
eyes sank far into his head. lie ly so all night and
through the next day, mp TO tine time, III fact, when
the wagon upset, and his friends had good reason 70
suppose he was a dead man. The shock Of the upset
evidently resuscitated hun, and had it not occurred
poor old Jakey would now doubtless be under the
sod He i nearly seventy years old, and was for
merly a slave IN Tennesscc.-CiereiGHd PI1iHfeGicT.
THE italian ELECIoSs-Louis Napoleon has set
all Europe IN a ferment, by giving to the people Of
the Italian provinces the right 10 vote upon the ques-
ton whether they will c united 20 Piedmont, or
remain a separate kingdom. The election has been
held, and the result u thar in Tuscany the whole
vote was $50, iIG; Of which 366, j1l were for auuexa-
ton, and IA .y2j only for separate kingdom. In the
R0magna. the vote for annexation was 2J2,Gi9 to
224. In MJienl, 1852; in Parma, s5,5ll, with
bat few votes III opposition. Inc Sandman govern
meut, (Which Is the government Of Piedmont, } decla-
rel in advance It's acceptance % the result Of the yOt-
ing and consequently Is preparing to sustain its
authority in those provinces with military force, If
required. Austria made peace ON condition that its
Representatives should be restored 10 their places in
Tuscany, &c; but By this arrangement. they are
p~reciudei from restoration. In the mean time, Louis
Napoleon = preparing 20 extend his government over
the states OF Savoy and Nice, which have been cedel
to him by Sardinia, and which carries the boundary
Of France up 20 the Alps While these things are
going on under the immediate inspiration cf Louis
Napoleon, the Pope Is threatening the King OF Sardinia
with expulsion from the Roman church If he don't
let alone his temporal possessions IN Italy; and Louis
Napoleon Is at home tickling the volatile Frenchmen
with immense expenditures in opening long and wide
streets in Paris, and lining them with splendid
buildings, and in other ways clarifying and beautify-
ing his gay city of Paris; riding about everywhere
in public, and attending the theaters, and dining ut
the cofFee-houses, as though he were n gay young
man Of the town, instead Of the emperor Of France.
How he Is to stand hereafter with the Pope, is a
problem 10 be solved by the unfolding of these Italian
Observation-Disclosures
BARyUM HIYsELF AG,GS.-We take pleasure in
recording the fact, that p. T. Blrnum has resumed
the sole proprietorship Of the American Museum, and
that heucetorth its affairs will be under his exclusive
personal direction. On Saturday evening, March
between the acts Of the play, Mr. b. came for
ward and announced this fact. and proceeded to give
an account Of the causes which interrupted his con-
nectiOn with the Museum for n time, and OF the ef-
forts. trials, and tribulatiOns by which ne has re-
gained the position he once maintained After men
tioning the manner in which he had become mex
trfcably involved by the &" clock notes which he had
iniorsed for n company in Bridgeport, Conn, he
sail " At the forced sIe Of my Connecticut real
estate there was a purchaser behind the screen Of
whom the world had but little knowledge. In the
day Of nv prosperity | made over to my wife much
valuable properly, including the lease Of this Museum
building lease then having about twenty-five
years TO run, and enhanced in value 10 more than
double its original worth. I sold the Museum col
lection to Messrs. Greenwood and Butler, subject to
wife's separate interest IN the lease. and she has
received more than $4,000 over and above the
sums paid to the owners Of the building. Instead of
selfshly applying this amount to private purposes,
my family lived with a due regard to economy and