The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-02-14
Foreign sum mary.

Foreign sam mary.
L Is estimated that at least thirty thousand tourists
have visited Niagara Falls during the past season.
Pacific TELEGEAPH-A bill to incorporate the
Missouri and Pacific Telegraph Companies, had been
introduced, and vii. probably become 4 law.
Wizhtman. Democrat and Unionite, has been elect
ed Mayor Of Boston by 2.OS7 majority. y large
majority Of Unionites eIecte'i to the City Council.
IL j. understood that Kansas will be admitted rs a
State before Jan l. Democrats are not designing or
desiring to interfere with the Republicans.
The nomination Of George W. Heard. as Secretary
litigation in China, has been sent to the Senate,
together with = long list Of nOminatiOns-made dur
ig the recess Of Congress
An earnest effort i making to secure Mr.. Cameron,
Of Pennsylvania, the position Of Secretary Of the
Treasury in Lincoln's Cabinet. Mr.. Bates Of Mis-
s5uri. has BEEN designated as n member Of the new
Cabinet, probably as Minister Of the Interior.
Canal navigation IN the Erie Canal in New York
is over for 'he season The income of the season from
tolls has been So, 100000 an increase over last year
# 81 10000.
Packages and letters have been received At the Post
Office in Alexandra, Va. directed TO - Alexandria,
Virginia, Southern Confederacy.'
The President issued n proclamation recommending
the observance Of the 4th Of January as n day for
humiliation. fasting and prayer. He says hope seems
% hzve deserted the minds Of men, and Gods arm
SIne can save Us from the awful effects of our crimes
= q follies.
\ FAST SHIP.-lDe Clippef snip -1HHTsU JIchSDHs
With a full cargo, recently made the passage from
Liverpool to New York in fifteen days She also
made the passage to Liverpool (grain laden in fifteen
days, and on the voyage cut and home has been only
thirty days at sea Including two days calm)- She
saied over $500 miles, thus averaging 30 miles q
DAY througEOut-a rate Of speed probably never
eqgalei, continuously, in a sailing vessel before.
Dr. Livingstone, the African traveller, has been
heard Of He was safe and well up 20 last May, and
reported that the natives OF Africa evince less hos
ulity To travellers, than formerly.
4 Powerful LIGHT-The New York Central
Railroad Company has adopted the Smith Light
for general use upon the locomotives of their road
by the aid of this light says the above paper,
Z" the print Of q newspaper can be read 2,4UO feet
distant" Nearly half Il mile
Secession would seem 70 have been preached and
partly Practicei for some time IN the Sandwich Is
hnis. One Of the acts passed by the Legislature Of
1860 is entitled " An act 10 prevent married persons
from deserving one another.'-CtR. Ca
The Red Sea and most Of the Mediterranean tel
egraph cables have completely given out There Is
now 10 long line of submarine telegraph IN opera
ton in the world The short lines, however, between
England and tine continent continue perfect.
Rev. Mr. Gilbert sailed recently from New York
br CaIIap. where be il to labor rs a missionary
among seamen- under the direction of the American
Bo1rf Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and
the Seamen's Friend Society
GERMANS N New YOHE.-It i estimated, says
the Er1mizgr, that there are in the city II New
York about - 100 Germans. Of whom about 2o,pUO
are Roman Catholics. 700 Jews. 5000 attendants on
Protestant worship. and the remaining $1,000 are
Indifferent 20 religion
The latest Southern dispatches show signs q re-
turnin- cool sense 10 the Cotton States Gov. Ak
en-. the heaviest slave holder IN South Carolina, has
c1me ont against Secession. Mr. Stevens, Of Geor-
ga, has made a powerful aud telling speech against
the dre-elters. Other Indications prove that the IN
SINE fIIJr j. aSIting-
The PtcfFrc Mail STEAMSHIP CoNPNSY-The
oil swing. % IL T. an III wind that blows nobody
g5Gi. j. re1.izei in The instance Of this Company,
whose receipts have been vastly increased by the
troubles IN the East. Their income ! NJ the rate 81
So 10000 rsr anuum, and the stock - cup" The
Company = euruiug, Il u estimated, over forty per
cent. on It. capital
NlD1soy oS acknowledging no man has ever
better expressed the truth concerning secession than
james Madison, vino thus wrote
" An inference from the doctrine that a single
State has I right to sece,le at Will from the rest. -
thar the rest would have an equal right 10 -eceie
from Il in other words. 20 turn II, against It, Will,
out Of IT, union with them
srxcrt,E ISsTNSCE or MrRAGE-At Usher, in
Iceland. there we're lately seen several vessels IN the
ar. in a line q several miles ia length Some Of
them appeared 70 be at anchor near a fortress built
on o rock. The atmosphere was so clear, aud the
vessels appeared 70 be 50 close, that the sailors could
te seen occupied in the rigging
In the Patent Office NJ Washington there Is the
model OF a steamer furnished with air chambers Tor
the uurpo-a Of rendering the vessel 30 buJyaut that
IL NAV uass over bars or through shallow water with
cut discha rying its cargo This contrIvance - the
invention Of Hon. Abraham Lincoln. President elect
He received a patent for II on the 22i Of May le4J.
Perhaps he may apply II 10 the ship OF state
which NAV ueei Il when he takes the helm
The PAyIC-The money crisis in the United states
caused immediate shipments Of gold from England to
America. The Europa brought S6OO,pCp Large
shipments are expected by the -4fTirttc 10 leave
England on the 9th Dec-Ihere are 20,uUu people out
Cf EMPLOYMENT in New York and roaming the streets
daily. some Of the most disconnected among them
are loud in their excavations Of Henry Ward Beecher
and Horace Greeley. whom they are taught t. believe
are the main agents in producing their mIsfortunes'
and there are some, who express q willingness to moo
the Tribune Office
LrxcoES's CABINET. Springfield correspondent
Of the Bulletin, says:
an able to state. positively, that Mr. Lincoln has
yet made no proposition 70 any one IN connection wiz
seats in his Cabinet, but that such Will be maie
within the next fortnight. OF the seven memGers'
two viii be taken from the Western States one rom
PeuusyIvania, one from New England, and three
from the Southern States. Mark the prediction
The distribution Is fixed. but the persons are not YET
agreed upon.