The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-09-05
Foreign Summary.

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extraordinary -ensibility. II J. then rolled on a
= cylinder. and UHrpli-d. when ia tA- machine. hy
cIockwprS, - thlt each portion remains about Il
second opposite the NEGATIVE. The result j. said
: 20 IL that photographs which. 10y tie ordinary
! process. est ~ least l frame % c-n-imr- each
: can b. produced at tie rate of a sou each.
, CoTrox CovIvc-Nlr. Russell. Of -hr London
!. IiD.s. stated when h. was ia Washington that
- soon - the railroads leading mo the cotton
region Of tine East Indies could b- completed. the
supply Of cotton from that country would b. am
pie and thOs. roads would, be- said. certainly l-
finished within "a few months. = Southern plan
ter recently arrived from EIroIe. 81 iran ~. sand
M ami extensive information. -,vs
" Mr.--Iy- that England will not lend the
south a dollar. and France. cannot 81 sine would.
lie says We have No idea Di tine energy with which
England - prosecuting tine cultivation Of Cotton
III India and Australia la India twenty TX
millions VI acres ar. under cultivation for this
purpose ~ = planter, TIE felt interested in liz
yes;isating the subject. lie >iys that in much
less than ten years she Will need no cotton from
America. Why viii not the South see this -
DaIIfntDre iHercaH.
SUDDEN DEATm N \ BALL-ROoM.-Whiie a
party of young persons were Oh a recent Sa-ur-
day evening IN the club room Of the Railway Inn.
StatiDn-Street Birmingham. u Young woman of
nineteen, named Eliza Bird. fell hea: foremost u
tine ground, and never spoke afterwards. At an
inquest the surgeon ascribcd the death. first to
ugit-lacing and secondly, 70 the stomach being
iul OF food, she having Iartaken Of a very hear
ty meal. These causes. he believed. had COM
binei to produce a~pOplexy.
SIGNS OF EANE.-The relative rank Of officers
in the regular army is designated in the fatigue
uniform, worn i'll accordance with the army reg
ulatiOns, in the following manner A Major
General Is distinguished by two silver stars Oh
ms shoulder straps Il BrigIdier-Gcnera has but
one star Il Colonel has Il silver embroidered
spread-eagle a Lieutenant-Colune has Il silver
embroidered leaf, Il Captain Is known by two
gold embroidered bars IL First Lieutenant has
but one gold strap u Second Lieutenant none ut
all. The cloth Of the strap is rs follows Staff
Officers, dark blue Artillery, scarlet Infantry.
light (or sky blue Rifemen, medium Tor emcr-
ald) green Cavalry, orange colour.
1t is not generally known that the area of Hi
n0is Is larger than that of New York State. The
former contains within its limits 80 ,4Uj square
miles, the latter II 900. The population of New
York Is 3,S5l DOB, that of Illinois, l.G9l. 23S.
The number OF common schools in Illinois Is
9,lG2: scholars, 472,247 male teachers, 8 .223
females, 6.4Sj schOOl-hOuscs, S.22l scholars in
private schools, Is, 294.
MINISTER'S SONs.-The salaries Of the clergy
of the United States do not average five hundred
dollars a year, and yet, IA - class, they are the
best educated, the most influential, the most ac-
tive, refined, and elevated of the nation. With
less culture, with less character, with less mental
power, there are men, all over the land, who earn
from one to twenty-five thousand dollars Il year.
But look 1T the results. Taking them AZ they
come. the biographies of n hundred clergymen
who have families show that, of their sons one
hundred and ten became ministers, and of the
of the sons, by far the larger number
rose To emInence is professional men, merchants,
and scholars.
The GRRATEST NAvIGAELE STREAM OF THE OLD
WORLD.-Admiral Hope, of the British Navy.
has succeeded in ascending the great river of f
, nina. 1ank-tSe, to Il distance of go nautical l."
miles from its mouth. without any accident. and
it was stated that 1t was ~navigable for lj7 miles
further up, making in all 127 nautical. or about
81 statute miles from the sea. The Iang-tse.
therefore, although it be in point of navigation
neither the Mississippi nor the 81. Lawrence, far =
axcelS the Gaugcs. the Rhine and the Danube is
indeed the finest navigable river of the old world. q
The expedition saw the Iang-tse in the months of
February and March, when it was ut the lowest.
with the rain it rises from twenty TO twenty
i've feet higher. In the dry season the current ;,
most rapid. was ut the rate OF three and Il 4
nall knots an hour, but the average only two y
lnots. This current would, of course, be great
Y increased in rate when the river WAS swollen. :
,ut 1t seems Ut no time to be So rapid a. to he an
mPedIment To native navigation. and of course y
5 none 1T all TO steam.
WONDERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. - Photographers
taken : the sun himself" when in r~clipse; az
hey have caught AN impression of q shell whiz- Az
ing through the air, discharged from the mouth to
t 81 36-inch mortar; they have caught the wave 81,
N'@ 'A''A~H wiz 'NhA AN y
he drops falling from It's topping crest more,
hey have not failed in getting IL :. good impress
ION" of the head of a criminal executed by the
catching the severed head in mid air =
= IL fell into the basket below. Photographic !
and visiting cards are sold by the
while Photographic studs and waist
cat buttons, Urnamcnted with microscopic miniit-
lres. are now being daily produced in countless
ut the button manufactures in Prussia
OrtraitS of a popular person. Guribaldi for in
.ance, being ordered by the hundred thousand at &C
time On the authority of Il careful English
ritter, all this phOtoGruphing requires the use of !.
less than f'rclfy toRS of silver per annum. ~
GOVERNMENT FINAYcEs.-The Secretary of War Lat
Inmates the national expenditures for the fiscal I
commencing with the present month, at the
a!rly S32o.0 600 900. whereof he proposes To raise al
700 900 by taxation, leaving $40. 900 GOO :
be borrowed. OF this sum he proposes To Dor cor
w 800, 000, 900 upon Treasury notes. or tx @al
lequer bills, of $50, 800. $500. $1,000, and Act
5000. at an interest of : 3-l0ths per cent per m,
mum, 50 that the interest on every $50 shall be '
st one cent per day, and ON each $4,000 one rel
liar per day. This loan is 70 be offered in ali I'M
e cities and Chief towns of the loyal States. 80 I'D
at those who can take but so. 800, or 5000, -.
all stand on the same footing with the greatest IL
mixer or capitalist. and every one may compute
: own interest, and realize that lac wakes each
orning richer by the amount of that interest
an he was the day before. The Government is
reserve the privilege of redeemins these notes
ter three years from date.
The New FIELD TELEGEArm.-On Thursday. A
Engineer Rogers. of New York. put ~
operation on the other side of the river his ~;
WY invented Geographic cordage or insulated -,
e, for field operations. and it proved eminently -
;cessiul. giving entire satisfaction in the man 81
in which it operated. 1t Is run off reels upon ~
ground with great rapidity (as required for
tant use.) across streams. through woods. or
II any localities. Lines were Yesterday, in
-raOrdinary short time. thus laid between the
of Gen. Mcdowell and two or three IN
his most advanced camps. and were worked in
mediate connection with the telegraph station -