The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-08-08

North Carolina, S,uth Carolina, Georgia, Florida
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tex
-. - now wholly suspended Letters for Offices !
any Of these States will he sen; TO the dead leite
ofhce--N J. Papsr.
4 letter from che q the officers on board tn
frigate Habasi. which vessel sailed from NeV
York recently, and arrived of Fortress Monroe
states that the TT15Isi was then ordered 10 pro
coed Immediately 20 Charleston for blockade duty
By TINS .ime she has arrived, 20 that We nos
have At that point the Niagara, -MaHssOfa. anC
bdbgh, three q the best steamers IN the Unite.
States Navy, besides a number Of gun-boats. Tn.
blockade. therefore, Of Charleston harbor is complete
The WHrTwoEru GuS o. ExHIBITroy-One Of tn,
celebrated WhIt"orth guns, presented by Americans
IL Europe 90 the American government, and which
arrived IN the British steamship PsrsiG, was on ex.
hi5itiOn in New ! rk. The exhibition attracted q
large number Of citizens, who manifested much saus
faction AZ the arrival Of this serviceable piece VI ord
nance.
John Merriman. President Of the Maryland Agri.
cultural Society, has been arrested On q charge OF
burning the bridge At Cyckeysville. He admits the
charge. aud says he mas a written order from the
authorities directing the destruction Of the bridge.
He has been taken TO Fort McHenry.
General Cadwalader has been served by Judge
fancy, Of the United States Supreme Court, with q
writ Of habeas corpus in the case Of Merriman. ar
rested for treason in burning the Baltimore railway
bridges, bat refused to obey It until he could hear
from the Administration At Washington, whereapon
the Judge issued q writ for the arrest Of the General
A4h-eAf WHICH, u CSuT-t. WIS ueeles-
The government mas succeeded III securing all the
products Of all the arms manufactures and cannon
foundries in Great Britain, which are permitted to
make arms for foreign states, for three months TO
come. This decisive movement will at once strengthen
The government IN is efforts, and will also serve the
further purpose Of convincing the British government
that there i to be no half way work in the pending
war.
At n council Of war held in Washington on the
2Jth Of June, the plans Of the campaign were fully
devplOUei and discussed. hur all that hal fr4ugDirel
IN relation 20 them was, that the Union forces were
ready, and that "a blow would soon be struck. II Is
probable, however, that no important movement of
the Federal troops was intended until after the meet
ing Of Congress on the 4th Of July, when that body
will doubtless fully sanction the measures adopted by
the President.
EFFECTS or THE BLOCKADE on MIssOURI-The pro-
ducers, commission merchants, and grain and provi-
sion dealers Of Missouri generally will suffer very lit
tie in the long run from the blockade. as long as the
State continues loyal. The change will be one rather
IN the direction than ia the quantity or profit Of
Western commerce. That which has hitherto gone
down the Mississippi, will now 60 mainly by rail TO
the Atlantic seaboard. and to the great military de-
pots Of the United States.
Russell OF THE LOSDoS Times. "-Hsving got
through with his toaiying OF the Southern rebels,
and planted his feet once more upon free soil, Mr..
Russell Of the London Times, has now set himself 10
the task Of propitiating the wrath which he fears Of
the North for his neutrality-suspicious. letters to
his employers. Russell complains that his letters TO
the Tines were tempered with by his Southern
friends, intimating thereby that be has not been
writing so strongly in the interest Of the rebels as his
productions show upon their fsce. That dodge will
hardly do.
WORDS IN Use While there are nearly 100, 900
words IN the English language. scarcely any one
writer uses more than 10000, and few people use in
more than 1000. Shakespeare has not
more than $1,000 and Milton but 5000. The wants
IF the world require but few words for their express
sion. The Egyptians had but 800 hieroglyphicS, in
nLT.h FhaT- 49, -
\ typographical fighter has screwed his courage
up to the Sticking point, and enlisted in the Warren
Fall River, Mass, which leaves soon for
he seat of conflict. Armed with the shoot
md the :, he will press his way through the rebel
ious hosts TO Washington. unless the chiyalry unlock
lis form and knock him into . pr in which case ne
declares the bed of glory preferable TO Il sit"
rom his well known bravery, we doubt not ne will
the enemy an abundance Of ieadei matter.
A ~grumbling Southern editor writes: 1t is impossi-
lie TO collect anything, and, unless times get better
hOrtly, | fear We newspaper men will have 70 {" cave
The additional postage and tariff on the white
aper we use will kill off at least half the papers in
he Southern Confederacy. The Montgomery Con-
ention, instead of adopting some measures to stop
he circulation Of abolition papers and build up our
ONE papers, have adopted measures to build up
'Orthern aud break down Southern papers.
"DoEsTICKs" M,RRGED-Mr. Mortimer Thompson,
etter known ne "Doestcks." was married recently
Y the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, TO Miss Grace
ldredge, eldest daughter of Fanny Fern" The
took place at the residence Of James Par
IN, Esq, the celebrated biographer. The patriotic
lOther Of the bride had an elegant American
arranged as a caropy, beneath which the happy
1uple were united.
VIM. d. Gallagher, of Kentucky. lately confden-
al Clerk Of the Secretary of the Treasury, has been
DpOintei Collector of the Port of New Orleans, and
Washington for Cairo tomorrow. He will
company the United States troops on their progress
the Mississippi, and there can be no doubt that
IS appointment and departure for that point indi-
le an advance, at the earliest practicable moment,
pom Memphis. This will not be for some weeks,
1t will move Southwardly with the Flag, restoring
lie commercial relations of the Union, and sealing
p all lines of transportation for the rebels, as he
-oceeds. IL may not be generally known that the
District of New Orleans embraces the val
vs. of the Mississippi and Ohio, including their trib-
taries. and reaching as far east rs Pittsburg. The
called Collector Of Louisville, and other towns
thin the District are only Surveyors, agents of the
ew Orleans Collector.
PHRASES IN PRESENT Use IN ESoL,SD-such
egancies of language a. Let on" "Lather."
Larrup,' "Mizzle," sc. &c. are not in the least
'culiar to our kinsmen over the water. Let be-
n good old formula, common, We believe. to this
y in every county in England. "He ain't' and
he dOn't' are vile modern Anglicisms, which were
led no: very long ago by those who ought TO have
Town better. You should ha' went is good
Jckney English still: " seem does duty rs n prete-
ie for - saw" in rustic conversation everywhere;
for "stay," and " lay for 'lie,' you may
ar continually. not only from illiterate people, but
2m these who would be very angry indeed if they
ire considered so. "Your'n," "her'n" and
(and even shiS'H.) are rs good Berkshire as
w York, any day.-Bi GchIrOod's Magazine.
ORIGIN OF THE TERM WILD-GOosE CHAsE-Wild-
Ose chase was n term used to express a sort Of "a
lg on horseback. formerly practised, resembling
flying OF wild geese those birds generally go in
lin one after another, not in confused hOcks as /
her birds do. In this sort of race the two horses,
Ter running twelve score yards. had liberty, which I
rse sOever could get the lead, to take what ground 4
e jockey pleased, the hindermost horse being
und TO follow him within a certain distance agreed
By the articles, or else TO be whipped in by the
as and JUICES who rode by aud whichever horse
Ild distance the other won the race. This sort of
eng was not long in common use, for it was found -
human, and destructive Of good horses. when two =
ch we're matched together for in this case neither Il
S able % distance the other I'LL they were both