The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-03-01
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\ powerful Armstrong battery has been ordered
10 be packet 10 for transmission e. China.
M1ciulay has two volume. more a. h History OF
England nearly really for tu- pres. Dur Do j. believed
that they ~ii net re published jhi- season. The
great ease which the author b--iow- GA tie work
necessitates some delay.
II Is stated that Mr.. Lever has made liberal offers
to the pfOprictors Of the Great E4sterH. The terms
are said 20 be 100000 for one year, with the right
Of the present. C0mPauy's capital.
" SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Hon Judge Mason. Of
Iowa, who made himself 90 popular with the iuyen-
tors Of the country while he held the Office Of Com
missioner Of Patents, has, We learn, associated him
self with Mum * CO. at the Scientific american
Office, New York.
The new cents are being issued in the L. S. in
such Quantities as TO completely glut the market
indeed, it would seem that nothing else shall be ac-
knOwlelged a. money except these mulattO coins.
Over three million pieces were struck of last month
at the Washington Mint alone, ''and still they come
At the annual renting ofpews in Plymouth Church
(the Rev. II W. Beecher'sj, in january last. the en-
tire amount Of rents paid, including premiums, was
S3O,627 20.
Large as this sum is, it Is not larger in proportion
than many Of the churches, at least not larger than
that Of the Fort Street Church in this city. The
Plymouth Church will seat about 1000 persons.
The delays attendant upon the organization Of the
House are having ;heir effect on the pockets Of the
members, who cannot draw from the public Treasury
until the election Of a Speaker. The Sergeant-at-
Arms for the last House has raised fifty thousand
dollars, which has been loaned to members on their
Individual credit.
The stones on the corners Of the Merchants Ex-
change in Boston are larger than any single stone in
Cleopatra's Needle and those now in erection on
the u. :. Treasury Building, Washington, are much
heavier than any stones Of POmpey's Pillar or the
Pyramids Of Egypt.
VICToRIA.-A very good anecdote IS told Of Queen
Victoria \ short time ago a coal digger, residing at
Hettonle-hole, England, who was an earnest student
Of astronomy, and greatly in want of n good tele-
scope, made q direct application TO the Queen for an
instrument. His hope was not disappointed, as after
the lapse of a short time, a very beautifully finished
brass instrument was received by the petitioner.
ITALY.-The statement that His Holiness would be
represented ut the Congress by Cardinal Antonelli,
is contradicted. According to the London Post,
crowds Of Jesuits are seeking refuge in Sardinia,
since their order was suppressed in the ROmagua.
The illustrious infant Mortara has also been brought
to Piedmont. Ii is not likely that the Pope will
seek 10 reclaim him under the Fugitive Slave Act :
ERICCsOS.-The calOric engine Is increasing in
favor as ii becomes known. The New York Central
Railroad, after using two % them for the past year,
find then so economical for pumping at the water
stations and TO answer the purpose so well, that they
have recently ordered a large number, some fifteen
or sixteen. Two which were in use last year, saved
their cost in twelve months, as compared with the
former mode of pumping.
SUNDAY LGws.-A Sunday law has passed the
Missouri Legislature, providing that any one crying
goods for sale on the Sabbath shall be fined not less
than ten nor more than fifty dollars keepers of
saloons who have open shop, not less than twenty
nor more than one hundred dollars !; whoever shall
engage in the presentation of any dramatic or the
atrical exhibition, not less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars: and any person
concerned in horse-racing, not less than fifty nor
more than one hundred dollars.
INDIA-The Rajah Jeylull Singh was executed by
hanging on the 1st of October, in CawnpOre, India.
The Rajlh was one Of the most prominent among
those engaged in the massacre Of the Christians
during the late rebellion, and on the very spot where
the gallows was erected, stood formerly an outer
gateway Of the kaisee Bagh, upon which he had
stationed himself and caused the cold blooded muir
der Of upward OF twenty Vi TINS. He was "A middle
sized man, well built, rather above the middle age,
of a dark complexion, with a countenance which was
far from being a true index of the yillainous nature
of the man.
EGYPTIAN PEAs.-At q meeting of the n. Y. Hor-
ticuItural Society, the President exhibited some
sweet peas which were taken from the breast of an
Egg ptian mummy, and are consequently about 5000
years old. The seeds were presented 10 the President
by Prof. ). F. Il. Morse, from whom the above fact
concerning them, together with the additional fact
that some of those so obtained have been planted and
had vegetated, was received.
SEcEssIox.-About 200 Southern medical students
ia attendance on lectures in Philadelphia, under the
Of the day, have left that city and gone
to Richmond, Va, to pursue their studies. They
were received there with every demonstration of
kindness. The Southern medical students in New
York city held a meeting, and after an animated dis
cussion, only fourteen out Of 500 were in favor Of
going away.
The CIGAR STEAMER.-The Winans steamer, at
Baltimore, Is to be heightened l2D feet. The points
TO be taken off and 90 feet appended to each end.
4 change will also be made in the augle of the
blades, and other improvements introduced, the ex-
pedency Of which have been demonstrated by the
trips Of the steamer. These have successfully
proven that a greater length insures a corresponding
increase Of speed.
FRiycE.-From France the news is unimportant.
Prince Jerome was still seriously i'll. The port of
AdOOl, in the Red Sea, has been ce1el to France,
a ship Of war has gone to take possession. CThis
IS probably an offset to Perem.) 1t is said that the
Emperor refused permission TO Marshal Mc1lahon TO
accept the sword which was got up for him in Ire
and. On the 18th Napoleon received the Papal
NunciO, who presented a letter from the Pope.
JEws.-The IsraeIite population in the United
States is estimated at about one hundred thousand
souls, who have established one hundred and seventy
OF these, forty thousand dwell in the {
of New York, and alone @outuumber the entire
Hebrew population resident in the British Isles. OF I
his aggregate about three-fOurths are derived from .
The immigration of the preceding twenty-years.
REyoLvING NUsKET-It is announced in Porfer's 4
Spirit Of the Times that Col. Colt has invented a re- "
7olving shot gun. 1t says that upon a late trial of
his valuable gun at a distance of thirty yards, it put ;
40 pellets IN n circle OF II inches diameter, pene- -,
rating 10 sheets of ordinary brown paper the shot
being No. 6 shot, ! ! ounces and two drachms of
powder tc each charge. The gun is 4 five shooter, q,
md Is finished IN fine style. The cartridges are :
TO suit the gun, and are impervious to y:
he effects Of water or dampness. !
GEESE PICKED BY MACHINERY.-The Scientific I
announces a machine for picking geese, ,
ne result Of n number Of years labor, and one of =
he most ingenious pieces Of mechanism ever seen. I
{ not only plucks the feathers, but separates the :
Ong ones from the short ones, while passing through +
he machine. 1t will pick f~orty-fve geese an hour. :
Is highly important news Immediately before !
he holidays and II our ncighbOr would only an I
lOunce another for procuring the geese, the triumph
T genius would be complete. n. i. Gamblers or :
turkeys will do in a pinch. Y
RUN IN NEW YoRK.-The Tribune gives the fol- I
owing facts The official reports inform Us that 3d. !
100 out Of the 1922 persons arrested for crime a
Turing the last year, were - incorporate - They a
ell US that So per cent. of the sick paupers were O
or less incorporate, and that 81 per cent. were Q
,ahituol druuEardS They tell M that the total Of -