The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-09-19
MryIsTERs TO LEADING FoRFIGN COTkTs

AMERICAN MINISTERS To LEADING FOREIGN CorkTs.
Charles 3. Adams---------Mass --------Engand-
William L Da5t0o-----S.J ----Irauee-
James Z. Halgey....-...s. C....-...Partueal
Jya- BIZ Mn. S-tbeTsDd.
Brads.rI n. Wct---:"-S' -. DrnmarE.
Jacob :. and Norway.
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6drard S'y IGrssyi
Geors, p Nar.h....--.....yer ......-ssriinia-
TSa@as .cnia. ...--..MeSseo
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J..ab NJ p.I,a.T '" Pa srg-ntir. co,s-d
Thomas II. Nelson-.-------Ohio. ------.CLiIe.
Charts. washburns...-..-CaL ---..-.Paasuay.
HenIy r low:-----.-Mo ------Ienezgela
Christopher gObinson..-----R- L-----..Peu-
LATE EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY.-A letter from
Citta della Pieve, of the lIth ult, gives the follow
ing / send you some details Of the earthquake
which has nearly destroyed our town. The
shocks continue, and are throwing down some
buildings which were previously shaken. No
habitatiou has been completely spared. The
houses of the poor people are absolutely and lit
orally uninhabitable; those Of the rich are more
or less damaged, and none of them will be habit
able In future without extensive repairs. The
church of Saint Antonio, where there is a fine
fresco by Perugino, has been destroyed, FORUM
ately without injuring the fresco. The other
churches have been much damaged. Many houses
have been entirely levelled with the ground, and
the magnificent Villa Musignano is in great part
destroyed. The population are unable To return,
partly because there are no places to lodge them
and partly because they are afraid of the repeat
ed shocks. liz is impossible TO calculate as yet
the amount OF the damage. Ii is certain, at any
rate, that the population is in great distress.
They would have no change of clothes, nor any
food, If the neighbours had not come to their as
sistance."
ESGLASD.-The position of England with re-
spect to our national affairs is one of exceeding
difficulty Lacking those vast and varied internal
resources which would enable the United States to
exist, If need were, entirely independent of and
secluded from all other nations, in the SAME man
ne- as japan for centuries existed, in great pros
perity, England depends for the subsistence Of a
large proportion of her population upon her
manufactures. And these branches of her in
dustry mutually depend upon each other. 4
chief source of England's income has been her
export of cotton fabrics to all parts of the world.
The raw material for these fabrics she has drawn
mainly from the now Seeded States of the Union;
the supply from that source has been cut of by
tine blockade OF the Southern ports efforts TO
procure an immediate supply Of cotton, or even
20 ensure u future supply, from other sources,
have To n great extent failed-the recent report
of the Cotton Supply Association, We are told,
was Z" discouraging - the stock on hand Is al
ready running short, and the prices have adyanc-
ed so much that 8 many small factories have been
obliged to close, thus throwing thousands Of
working men out of employment"
The FEDERAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF.-Gencral
George Il. Mcclellan is the youngest of the Ma
joI-Generals of the Federal army, being only 30,
and ranks next to Gen. Scott. Ills father was of
Connecticut birth, n graduate of Yale College.
and an eminent physician in Philadelphia. The
son graduated at West Point in 1916, at the age
of 20, and came out of the Mexican war four
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corps, and afterwards in the cavalry, and rose to
the rank of major by 1855. Then he went to
Europe and visited the Crimea, by order of the
government, and prepared ON his return a valu-
able report on the European war of that time,
the Crimean campaign, and the organization of
foreign armies. Life in the army was too dull
for his active, ambitious mind, and he resigned
IN 1857, and became vice president and active
manager of the Illinois central railroad, residing
at Chicago. Last summer he resigned il TO ac-
cept the presidency and general superintendency
of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad.
The CoxET.-Lieutenant Giles, of the United
States Naval Observatory at Washington, says
the comet was first noticed at the Observatory at
halfpast ten o'clock on the evening of June 80,
when it was regarded as an auroral beam. Pro-
fessor Bond, Director of the Observatory at Cam
bridge, says:-'The magnificent comet which
has suddenly come in view, has taken astronO-
mers, with the rest Of the world, entirely by sur
prise. it is not the expected comet of 1864 and
1906, or any other whose return has been antici-
pated. The train extends over an arc of one
hundred and six degrees (I06) from the head of
Ursa Major to n point ten degrees beyond Alpha
OphiEchi- Beside this long narrow ray, project
ed almost in a straight line from the nucleus, a
mass of diffuscd light sweeps family toward the
stars in the tail of Ursa Major. This is inter
sected by two or three faint straight rays not dis
cernible to the naked eye. The vicinity of the
nucleus resembles in it's aspect. through the tele-
acOna tho nous enuna e 1879 Ghrtrfn, tho,
or four misty envelopes.
\ ZoUAvE IN THE ESExY's CAMP.-When the
Fire Zouayes stOrmed the masked batteries at
Bulls Run. and were forced to fall back by the
grapeshot and cavalry charge, one of them was
stunned by n blow from u sabre, and fell almost
under one of the enemy's guns. The Secession
lists swarIned around him like bees, but feigninr
death, in the excitement ne was unnOficed, and
when n sally was made, managed to crawl hack
into the thicket inside the enemy's lines. Here
he waited some time for an opportunity to es-
cape, but finding none, concluded he would make
the best of a bad bargain, and if he was lost,
would have a little revenge beforehand. Hastily
stripping the body OF a Confederate near by, ne
donned his uniform, and seizing his rifle, made
his way to the entr~enchments, where he Joined
the Secessionists, and, watching his opportunities,
succeeded In picking of several of their most pro-
minent officers whenever they advanced out upon
the troops. Here he remained some time. until,
thinking il best TO leave before his disguise should
be discovered, he joined a party who were about
TO charge upon our forces, and was, to his graft
fcation, again captured, but this time by his
own men.
4 DESPERATE E.SD-To-HAxD CoSIESr-On
Saturday night, before the battle of Bulls Run,
two of the Minnesota boys took il into their
heads TO forage q little, for amusement as well as
eatables. Striking out from their e~ncampment
into the forest, they followed a narrow road some
distance, until, turning n bend. FIVE Secession
pickets appeared, not fifty yards distant. The
parties discovered each other simultaneously. and
az onca Ievelad their rifles and fired Two az tho