The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-09-27
Foreign News.

The British bark Sea -NgmPh has been sold, at
Victoria, for $1,000
The total popular vote for President and Vice
President in 1856 was 1864 53, of which number
Mr. Buchanan received ,S3S, 232 votes, MIR. Fremont
I,Si1 ,514 votes, and Mr.. Fillmore S74, 7O7 votes.
The schooner United States, Of the Arctic expedi-
tiou. Captain Hayes, was spoken by fishing schooner
Of New London, on the 18th Of July, in lat. II 81,
south Of Cape Sable. All we'll and in fine spirits
Among the articles brought up from the wreck Of
the steamer Hungarian by the submarine operator,
was n card Of a young lady, on the back of which was
written in pencil, IN a firm hand, Lizzie dies to
night"
The four leading Western cities are now nearly Of
the same size, although ten years ago there was an
extraordinary disparity between them. Cincinnati
now numbers a population Of I65, 900, st. Louis
$1,000, Pittsburg 10000, Chicago 10000.
AcrIoS AGAINST THE GREAT EssrERx.-A suit has
been commenced against the Great Eastern, for an
infringement in the use Of an American patent, con-
sisting Of the paddle and screw combined, as motive
power. Damages laid at $4,000
\ SNAIL IxCREAsE.-The English revenue for the
year ending the 3Oth Of June last had increased about
ST 5000 a sum that would make a good annual
income for many powerful countries, but which Nr.
Bull looks upon rs mere small change
LETT. DrEHY-'' John Phoenix has got to be a
captain. Among the promotions made by the PresI-
dent. since the adjournment OF the Senate, We hnd
the following . First Lieutenant George Il. Derby,
to be Captain, LIT July, 1860, ne having served
fourteen years continuous service as Lieutenant
WATER GAs-There was a brilliant exhibition Of
water gas 1t the Girari House in Philadelphia on
Monday evening. under the auspices Of the Keystone
Gas Company. Thrce-fourths Of the hotels in Phila-
delphia It Is stated, are now lighted by this gas, at
an expense not excee ling dfty cents per 1000 foot.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS j. the most powerful agent
70 drive away mosouitoes. \ camphor bag hung up
in an open easement viii prove an efectual barrier
to their entrance CamphOratet spirit applied as
perfume to the face and hands will act as an etiectual
preventative; but when bitten by them, aromatic
vinegar Is the best antidote.
NV YORK Sux.-Moses :. Beach has sold the
New York sun Office and retired, and William &.
Church, for five years past publisher OF the CtToHt-
Gle weekly Baptist paper.) succeeds to the owner
shin and head Of the establishment. Mr.. Beach has
been connected with the Syn during twenty hye
years-ten years as employe, seven as part owner
and eight IS sole proprietor
POPULATION OF NEW YoEK-The census Of New
York i completed, but not announced, rs 1t will re-
duire a week longer TO arrange and classify the re-
turns. But the Marshal estimates the total pOpula-
ton At $50, 257. The population in 1890 was 5lo,0l',
showing an increase IN ten years OF 5i',IlO- Inc
value OF the real and personal property Is set down AT
500, OO,OCO.
Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, according to the New York
Times Washington dispatches. IS already arranged
for him. Mr.. Seward is TO be Secretary OF state, anu
Henry Winter Davis Is to be Attorney General thus
much has transpired; the other names are not yet
publicly known 1t is understood, however, to be
positively decided upon that Mr.. Greeley Is not TO
have 4 seat in the Cabinet, but that he IS TO have a
III AAA0lsAA
\ mechanic in Isiington, England, has recently
made 4 burning-glass, three feet in diameter, by
which steel, hint, and even platina, 1t Is said, have
been melted by concentrating the rays OF the sun
upon them. Owing 20 its great size, II has attracted
the notice ofseveral societies devoted TO science and art
WALKER IN HoxDURAs-NEw ORLEANS, Aug. 10Th
The schooner -4TGmiHtOH from Ruatan the Sn
inst, brings the crew Of the schooner CIvf0a, re-
Gently captured from Walker by the British Gene
raj Walker landed at TruxIllO on the 9th, ana zoos
possession Of the town -,
Only one gun was fired by the troops, by which
two Of Walkers men were wounded. Great excite
ment prevailed.
\ MYSTERIOUS BOx.-The treasurer of Amhers
College lately received from David Sears OF Boston
a heretofore liberal b~enefictOr of the college, a sinai
and carefully sealed box, with the instruction that /
Is not to be opened for one hundred years, on pam 0
q forfeiture of the gift which 1t contains opecuIauGi
is at fault rs to the contents and the reasons for IN
accompanying condition. The shrewdest guess !
that the box holds deeds Of real estate IN Boston, nov
under lease for 100 years, but then to be transferred
to the college. But let us be patient till 1860, ant
then we shall all know.