The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-11-15
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign News.

ucrrissey has become \ peace man lie says he Is
at going TO fight any more, unless somebody hits
hrI
INHALER CHARGED WITH CRUELIY-A warrant
80 been issued by q. :. Commissioner Williams for
y ,rre-t Of Reuben Thomas, master OF the whaleship
rT;-1 Aims, charging him with beating, uuueces-
IL anil cruelty. Charles \. Vocire and others Of
-. crew. Capt. Thomas has been arrested, and will
- sxamined on Tnursday-S. +. Paper
ucr.1 .cHEs.-The elitOr Of the London -UedicaI
rs-,x i hard upon the mJust1ches OF the students.
n, assures a correspondent that &" nOustacIes have
.tsir uses; ard, among the most important. they are
~son.iIereI to point out the idest, the vaiuest, and
most self-conceiteI, IL not, probably, the most disso-
Int IN the clas<. They are beaeons 70 warn others
Tue SsEEP BUsISEss-Nr. HOLSTER Of Monterey,
Calf5rnfa. commenced sheep raising in 1855. with a
az Of 500 animals which constituted all his wealth.
~ Il nov the owner Of 10000 acres Of land and H.
6o sheep, all Of which have been the legitimate pro-
Ju,t of the original band Of 500 that he started with.
Mr. HOLSTER says that he never has failed TO secure
an increase Of 100 per cent every year.
GtErBALDI WILL SOON BIZ IN RONE--Afier Carl
baldf finishes the King OF Maple, ne will in all pro-
liability make an attack on Rome, and at once put an
snI to the temporal power Of the Pope. Symptoms
ofthe impending storm are now 80 manifest in Rome,
that the diguitarieS Of the church are gradually pre-
paring the public mind for an event Of this character.
A DraBoLrcAL JoEE-The people o: a certain
ksality in Georgia have been iudulging in the Chris
tian amusement Of burning = negro az the stake. The
"boy" hal killed a white man. Twelve men took
hun from the sherif's custody, and with a grim IA
ceti8u-uess gave bonds for his delivery, after which
they burned him ut the stake, and to fulfil their
bonds, retaraed his ashes 10 Hs officer This was a
PIKE worthy Of NephistOpheles himself!
SLAVE RrsISGs IN THE SoUTH.-The people Of the
South continue % manifest extreme nervousness al out
insurrectiOnary plots among their slaves. An excite
ment Of this kind now prevails in Lake county, Mis-
sisippi. Five white men and forty negroes were ar
res,e,i there last week and thrown into Jail, excepting
one Of the white men, who escaped on the way. The
Sheriff Of the county was met IN the neighbOrhOOd Of
ywIaInvr in ur-uf Of hz gN-UrTGDupr These
alarms are confined to Texas and the SOuthernmOst
States, and are unheari-Of ia Missouri, Tennessee,
Kentucky and Ntrytaud-Staie which, frCsn their
proximity To- the North. are in greater danger of ser
vile Instructions, were such things seriously meant
at the present day
DEGnADIyG THE GovEESOR or DAMAsCUs-The
Governor Of Damascus was publicly degraded at
Constantinople on the 9Th August, by order Of tine
Sultan. 4 letter to the New York WOTIf says:
The ceremony was quite imposing He was one Of
the eighty-hve great P1shas Of the Empire. He WAS
taken 20 the great square in front Of che war depart
msnt, where some thousands Of troops were assem-
bIeI in the form OF n hollow square, with many high
officers, military and civil. The Pasha was led into
the centre 81 the square. The imperial order was
then read, after which his brass feZ button, his sword,
etc, were roughly torn of from him, and il was loud
" proclaimed that Ahmet. late P1sha, Governor
General of the province of Damascus, and commander
in-ehief of the army Of Arabisan, was now degraded,
stripped Of all rank and offices, and reduced to the
rank Of n common soldier. He was then ignOmini-
ously marched off to prison by two or three cavasses,
whence he was sent to BeyrOOt to be tried for his life.
GAMBLING AT SaRATOGA.-The Troy Times gives
currency to the rumor that John Morrissey is a loser
&C fr ut Saratoga, of the snug sun Of 10000 which
he has ".buciIed against the tiger" Other Trojlns
are considerably a. out" The fortunate winners are
two Boston chaps. One of them Is n man nearly six
ty years of age, who formerly kept 4 hotel at Albany.
and falling in the business, in n moment of despera-
ton, at the age of forty, took up the profession Of Il
gambler. Fortune seemed to attend him from the
first and he is now esteemed TO be worth 500 600
all Of which he gained ut hazard. He has his SER
wants in livery ut tie Springs, his fast horses and car
riages, and to one unacquainted with his profession,
be appears n wealthy man of the world, polished and
rehnedi il his manners, and a gentleman of abundant
means, who has come to recruit his health by a
morning draught 1T the Congress or a drive upon the
avenue. He is reckOned to be the smartest and most
lucky gambler Ii. the country.
TIE Monster GUS.-A correspondent Of the
Times writing from Old Point Comfort. under date
OF Aug. 18th, says: The curiosity Of the artillery
officers. and of the glests at Old Point, was gratifed
yesterday by the first firing of the great Floyd"
gun. The first she'll, weighing 500 pounds, was
thrown fifteen hundred and forty yards at an angle
Of Eve degrees-aud striking the sand, bounded
seven hundred and fifty yards further. The charge
Of powder was twenty pounds The second shell,
Weighing 32S pounds, was thrown something upwards
offur miles ON the water, at an angle Of forty degrees,
and with q charge OF twenty-five pounds of powder.
The powder with which this gun is fred is in grains Of
about one inch cube. The report is not so loud as
that made by the ten inch guns on the r~amparts,
bat the whistling Of the shell through the air is
terrific. The shell thrown upon the water was forty
two seconds in the air before striking. The - Floyd
gun IS pronounced n success, aad there seem 20 be
no doubt it will reach n range Of six or eight miles.
1t weighs 1909 lbs, and cost in its casting $4,000
WALKERS EsD-As soon as Walker entered the
prison, he was heavily ironel. and aske1 if he want
ed anything. He only askei for water lie then
sent for the chaplain Of tine port and protesting his
aith rs { Roman Catholic, he was seen thereafter
almost constantly kneeIins at the feet of the priest in
front Of a small altar. on which, by the dim light OF
tapers, the image OF Jesus was distinguished A
nOng other things, he once said TO the chaplain 81
an resigned to die my political career is concluded"
On the 1Ith September at I o'clock L. NJ, Wal
ker was notified of his sentence to death. and to this
startling message the only reply he made was to ask
At what hour it would be executed, and whether he
had tine 10 write.
On the 18th at 8 O'Clock A. W, the culprit marched
10 the place of execution. He walked with a cruciiE
in his hands, upon which he bent all his regards,
looking neither 70 the right hand nor to the left, but
listening piously 20 the psalms which the priest re-
cited in his ear. lie entered the hollow square formed
by the s0Idiery ut the place Of execution, and there,
full Of Resignation he pronounced the following words:
81 am n Roman Cathoiic. The war which | made
upon Honduras, in accordance with the suggestions
Of some Rnatauoes. was unjust. Those who accom-
panied me are not to blame. | alone am guilty. |
ask pardon of the people. / receive my death with
resignatiou-would that it may be for the good Of So
ciety.p
Walker died with remarkable fortituie- His re-
mains were received into the tomb, and rest IN peace
for a perpetual example.
Late European News
THE RAPTURE BETWEEN CAvoUR AND GARIBALDI.-
a letter from Turin. iu the Paris DebGts, says that
the principal ground for the dislike felt by GIribaldi
towards Count Cavcur, - the unpariOnable sin of ced-
ing Nice To France. Count CayOur, moreover, per-
sonIhes diplomacy, the particular object OF GarIbal-
dis hatred. a letter from Turin, dated the 18th
September, says
As I announced, the official Gazette Of this evening
publishes the royal decree cOnvoking Parliament Tor
the u Of October. The session will be 4 very short
one It IS even probable that it will not exceed ten
days The policy OF the Government, as it Is actual
y represented by the Cavour Ministry, will he sub
mltted to the Chambers in juxtaposition with the
policy of Garibaldi and his partisans, and the repre-