Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1860-09-08
Ghe polpnesian.
Arrival of the Frances Palmer !

LA ER FOREIGN N EW WS.
By the arrival of the clipper bark Frances Palm
sr, Capt. Patty, in IL days from San Francisco, the
regular Eastern and Atlantic mails to July q have
come to hand. New York dates (papers) to July
81; St. Louis, PONY Express) July 81; Liver
pool, till July l9. We quote:
United States.
The political news is unimportant. Mr.. Douglas
continues his tour throughout the Eastern States
He has been invited South. Mass meetings of the
various parties are being held nightly in all the
principal cities of the Union. The friends of Mr.
Douglas in the very best of spirits, and sanguine
of victory. The friends of Lincoln and Hamlin are
equally confident; while the Breckenridge Demo-
Gratis are betting largely on the success of their
candidate for the Presidency.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times refers to rumOrs of an organized government
in several of the Southern States for dissolution
of the Union Keitt's plan, and of AGENTS having
gone to Europe to ascertain what would be the
course of England and France on the establishment
of Southern Coniederaey.
% Keitt's plan - above alluded to is partially
outlined in a letter written by Lawrence NJ Keitt,
member of Congress from South Carolina, and pub
lished in the Charleston Mercury of July Goth. In
that letter Mr.. Keitt says:
60 But should the Black Republican party obtain
power and the South remain passive-what then
While L invoke cc-OperatiOn-while l appeal to
the States around us to be true to their honor
yet, if these fail, | will counsel the State alone,
necessary, and at all hazard, to secede from the
Union. Any fate is better than degradation and
slow consuming tyranny. The Federal Govern
ment might be abolished tomorrow, and the South
would only know it through the removal of bur-
dens and the withdrawal of oppression. Every
volume of the Federal Statutes might be burnt,
and the South would never know that an injury
hal been done to her. Her protection comes from
her State Governments, and under these alone, if
the Union were in ruins she could achieve her
safety and prosperity She will meet the future
with organized governments, and not in a confused
and chaotic condition
The line of steamers between Rioand New York,
it is expected, will commence running neZ t De-
cember.
The bill of the Messrs. Willard, for entertain
ing the Japanese in Washington for % days, is
said to be $4,000
The Great Eastern will probably not 90 to An
napolis. The City Council of Baltimore have had
meeting to discuss the subject and have resolved
not to pay the bonus lin coal necessary to secure
the presence of the great ship in Chesapeake Bay
The coal, 25 900 tons, understand, must come, to
secure visit, from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company, the Directors Cf which have not
yet had final meeting on the subject They had
previously offered to supply a certain proportion
if the Baltimore Council would give the balance,
but as the latter has declined to do its part, the
Railroad Company will probably not press the sub
ject further. 1t is also reported hat proposition
was made by residents of Norfolk to have the Great
Eastern open a regular packet ira between that
port and Liverpool. Her officers replied she could
not do so without guarantee equal to the interest
on the ships cost and her running expenses-the
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this, doubtless, the Norfolk people cannot salts
factorily reply. Another proposition mooted in
that city is also likely to fail of success, and that
is to provide her. if she will visit the harbor with
a return cargo of 10000 bales of cotton, at a little
more than dollar per bale. 1t is now said that
the Great Eastern will 60 to Portland direct from
New York. by way of repaying the citizens of that
place for the heavy expense they incurred in pre-
pairing to receive her. when it first designed to
send her across the Atlantic. At the latest dates
from New York, she was preparing for excur-
sion to Cape May at so ticket, and tickets for
the trip were selling rapidly. The number is lin
tied to 1000. The state-rooms, about 900 in
numblf, were reserved exclusively for ladies, and
the masculine excursionists were to be provided
with beds on the saloon floors.
Erin GO BRAGH "A member of the St. Patrick's
Society of New York is engaged writing a
pamphlet, in which he undertakes prove that the
hari kdrah, or - happy despatch of the japanese,
is Of Irish origin. According to this investigator
an Irish gentleman, of the name Of Henry Carew,
visited Japan about nine centuries ago. was detan-
ed there by the natives, and eventually committed
suicide at Jeddo, by falling on fire shovel. The
thing took with the Japanese, who are very imita-
tive, and they called it Harry Carew after the in
ventor, spelling the name in their own fashion,
however. We record this as the latest and most
important discovery of the present year.
Europe.
The manufacture of the Armstrong breach load
ing guns was progressing rapidly. Ten 40-pound-
ers arrived weekly at WOolwich. The first proof
of the lOO-pounder guns had taken place at the
Royal Arsenal Butt, and it was stated that by the
end of the year there would be upwards of 400 of
that class of guns ready to be shipped for naval
service The largest brass gun made in En-
gland and intended to be bored as an 80-pounder,
has been cast at Woolwich. This piece of ord
nance was to be rifed as muzzIe loading gun, for
che purpose of being tested with guns made of cast
and wrought iron and steel
The volunteer movement in England was assum-
ing immense proportions. Reviews, dinners and
speeches were the order of the day. Several mil
lions of pounds sterling had been voted to render
London impregnable, and stay the ribs of John
Bull, when the entente cOrdiae should progress
from kissing to hugging. On the other side of
the channel Johns attidues are admired. but the
French critics ask one another, with finger nose,
'' Who struck Billy Patterson, 90
The correspondents of the San Francisco BuLe-
fin write:
The Condifion Of Italy Question.
The condition of affairs in Italy may be stated in
n few words GaribaIdi was impregnahle in Sicily.