The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-12-27
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign News.

u~t.binrton Irviug's works have been sold in the past
Ial-e wm. Hancock. Of Mississippi. has had the
.lnHness to decline 4 duel, challenged by George
Ifrs,onb, Esq.
r. some Of the Western rivers having rapid cur
-1fs. . screw propeller has teen fixed in the water,
ssI employed in driving mills
suI5u1ue, the ex- Emperor Of Hayti, lives in the
CIV of Kingston, Jamaica, IN a style Of mean and
Stretched poverty, AMI spends most Of his time in
,rmbrng with a few low HaytioI reuegades.
Gas N VICroEL,--ft seems probable that Veto
=, Will shortly be resplenient with ~gas-light. \ bill
Z before the Assembly, asking for a monopoly Of five
-s,rs. fr the above purrose-thc price Of the article
- =, exceed eight dollars ger thousand feet. The
HI apparently j. looked upon with favor. and proba-
BIZ, With 4 more Hmited period Of monopoly, will be-
come laE-
GaribaIii is said TO have remarked TO an English
gentIeman At Naples ~DiplOmatists doubt me. | shall
- I0ysi TO Victor Emanuel / love him rs nv life
have served him without an oath. 1 shall do All in
nv power to procure annexation to the King Of Pied
mont. But these things | must do in my own man.
ner.
CAPITAL ELEcToEs.-Tn Rhode Island the Demo-
erurs dominated fOur Wings for Presidential Electors.
vic, it il said, represent a capital Of twenty million
dollars, Their names are Alexander Duncan, Amasa
sprague, Edward +. Ne1ton, and Samuel ROdman.
Mr. Yancey, the eloquent Southern orator. Of Ala
lama, i a steP-sCu Of Rev y. :. Beman. ID. D.. of
troy, New York, vino, when a young man. was
tsaching in that State, and married Mr. Yancey's
mother, a young widow, with two or three small
children Dr. Beman settled in Troy, bringing Mr..
Tancey with him, when he was fitted 10 enter
W~iliamstOSu college.
4 prize Of E20 for the best essay on the effects Of
Sunday cab-driying has been won by John Cockrauu,
aL0ndOu cab-drIver- 1T the meeting at which the
prize was awarded, COckraun told his audience that
the essay consisted Of - 1000 words, and was all writ
ten IN the open air, on the top Of his cab.
POLYGLOT.-At the conclusion Of the interesting
festival in Boston, last week. the Rev. Dr. Anderson
s.vsfeI 20 HE L.uaa fir S.. .sa-.luu.... - II
attended, the sessions OF the Board While at his
house the missionaries repeated the first sentence Of
the Lords Prayer in twenty different languages.
LAZY Franklin Is spending Der tine very unosten-
trI0usly NJ the house Of Henry Grinnell, in New
York. prior to her departure for California. She has
VISITED the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Society Lii
brary, &c-, expressing herself much pleased with
what she sees and hears of this part Of the New
World She was to-leave for California in Novem-
Der, 10 remain there some time.
\ new Sct respecting the Prince of Wales has come
to light He fires a gun by pulling the trigger with
his little finger The New York Times is to be credi-
ted with this discovery.
Results or CHEAP LITER ATuRE-The NIessrs.
Chambers Of Edinburgh having made a careful inves-
ngation into the changes effected in the British book
trade by the Introduction Of q cheap literature, state
that II has driven into Obscarity the sale Of books of
9 grossly demoralizing tendency.
Capt. J. c. Adams, the Grizzly Bear Tamer.-more
hmiliarly known as ' Old Adams, died at Nepon-
set Village, Massachusetts lie had long been suffer-
ing from injuries received years ago IN a tight with q
formidable grizzly bear in California.
Mr.. Richardson communicates to the London Lam
Get, 4 new mode which he has discovered for extract
ing teeth without pain 1t consists in immersing
the affected part in ehlOroform, which is done by
filing q little cup half full of cotton wool, saturated
with chloroform, and placing it over the tooth. 1t
takes from seven to fifteen minutes to produce the eff
feet.
Reggie. lately taken by GaribaIdi, IS said to he the
ancient Rhegium where St. Paul once spent a dav.
uai.f1r for the aourh mind IN E1ow "a i.r.zZ
"And landing at Syracuse we tarried there three
days; and from there we fetched n compass and came
TO ~Rhegium, and after one day the south wind blew"
80 Garibaldi was not the first apostle who landed at
Reggie.
TELEGRAPH OPERATORs.-In England the business
Of operating the telegraph has been, to n very great
extent, placed IN the hands of young ladies, who fni
ii very agreeable employment. The inland depart
row employs one hundred young ladies'
ROTATION IN OFFICE Teller sogers," said n
newly elected lieutenant Of militia, elm ALFRED
obliged to you for this shove up in the ranks you
have given me. FeIIer sogers, I'm not going to for
get your kindness, soon-nOt by a dlrned sight; and
IN tell you what il is, III stick to my post like pitch
ua pine board, 50 long As there's peace, but as I 60
IN for rotation IN Office, and We should come TO blows
with anybody. darn'd if / don't resign right of, and
give every feller n fair shake for glory, and oil that
ere"
Victor Emanuel is reaping the reward Of his wis
dom and sagacity. \ year ago Italy was divided
into seven Kingdoms, SIX Of them ruled by foreign
bayOnets. Before the close Of this year it will pro-
baby all be unitel into one kingdom under n king Of
its own choice. Tuscany, Lombardy. MOdena, Par
ma, and Naples have successfully yielded to revOlu-
ton. Unless there i Intervention by some foreign
power, there Is little doubt that the States Of the
Church will follow. Venetia Will then be the sole
exception to Italian Independence.
The new steam FIRE department Of Boston Is now
fully organized and not n single hand engine Is in use
throughout the limits Of the city. Under the old sys-
ten between five and six hundred men were employ
ed, under the new about two hundred and fifty. 1t
Is estimated that the annual expense will be decreased
from about sos, 900 TO $4,000.
RuLwNYs IL FKAScE-There are 6760 miles of
railroaI in operation III France, and $3.50 more in
process Of construction. The total sum expended and
% be expended IN their construction IS -l,l16,UOO,-
900, Of which Sis, 900, 600 had been expended up 70
December Of last yeur. The French railways cos.,
on an average. about 100000 a mile. Since rail-
ways we're introduced into France only one passen-
ger IN every two millions has been killed, and only
one in half n million wounded.
Curiosity ENCITED-Nr. David Sears Of Boston
not long since sent TO the treasurer Of Amherst college,
q; which he has beea n liberal donor, n small and
carefully sealed box, with the instruction that 1t IS
not TO be opened for one hundred years, on pain Of a
ErSeiture of the gift it contains. Good guessers i'm
agne that the box holds deeds Of real estate in BOs-
'tou, now under lease for a hundred years, but then
70 Re transferred to the college
Az INTERESTING ANSIvERsARY.-Ihe forty-seventh
anniversary Of the battle Of Lake Erie was celebrated
At Cleveland. September 10, with great enthusiasm,
II being estimated that between 10000 and IUO,OOO
strangers were in tine city. \ beautiful marble mon
Cnent, upon which was a .ife-like statue of Commo-
dore y. II. Perry, the hero of the battle, had been
erected in the public square, AMI was inaugurated
by appropriate ceremonies, after which there was a
great naval mock battle upon the lake, which was
said to be 4 successful imitation Of the famous battle
Of ISL.
AyOrHER TRANSATLANTIC CABLE-A company has
been formed in France which engages to lay down
within three years a submarine telegraph between
the coast Of France and the United States, with a
station at Newfoundland and another IN one OF the
Azores, if thought desirable, receiving a guaranty
from the government Of n n minimum revenue OF l,OJO,-
Vp francs for fifty years, to begin from the day
on which the telegraph shall be in regular operation
TIL then the undertaking IS a private speculation,