The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-12-12
Foreign Summary.

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Of dollars
New Orleans is suffering terribly from the re-
beiiiOn. Trade and commerce are at a standsiiiI.
WESTERN VRGSIA.-Dispatches from Gen. ROsen-
cranz represents all rs well with his command. y
battle was expected soon.
MORE CAEELs.-The schooner Caroline T.. Foote,
Capt. Worth, arrived in port from the AMOR river,
with ten more Bactrian amels.-Buitet 18th.
CHURCHES II CTns-New York has 21i churches.
Philadelphia DAG, Baltimore 80, Boston q, Cincin-
natl 70, Chicago G7.
PATRIOT INDEED-Gen. Lyon left by will, all his
property, valued at $4,000, to the Government. lie
thus gave life and all, for the benefit of his country.
\ Rhode Island gentleman, says an exchange, not
long ago married n lady repute1 TO be rich, who not
only turned out TO be poor, but some : 700 in debt;
the debt was contracted for dry goods, which she
bought to c~aptivate him.
Dispatches from the Gulf Squadron state that the
whole line OF coast, from Galveston to the Florida
Reefs, il in n perfect state of blockade. and the gar
rison at Fort Pickeus is in a position to attack PEN
sOcoll and the adjoining forts Of McRea and Barrau-
cas-.
The total amount Of tolls received upon the canals
Of New York from the opening Of navigation TO and
2lO,09 against 1908, All ,92 in 1860. being an in
crease to lst October, 1861, Of S4Gl ,G9S,l7.
Mr.. J. Clark of Rochester, Vt, recently sold a six
year old Morgan Stallion. weighing 200 pounds, to
"A gentleman from Sheboygan, Wis. who came out
here on purpose to purchase him, for 81 200. 4 dol
lar n pound is n good price for horse meat
They are going into a new branch Of industry down
South-the hay business. The New Orleans Plea
yune says the heavy growth Of grass in some Of the
streets in that city, would pay the mower for his
trouble"
Mr. George Luf. a clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington, who cnuntersigns the treasury
notes, makes twenty-five signatures in a minute, and
yet the Department cannot supply the demand that
exists for them.
Mary Baldwin, of Oneida Depot. has recovered n
verdict Of $1,000 against a man named Stevens, for
breach of promise. The parties are respectable, and
the only defense attempted was that the engagement
was broken by mutual consent.
The new Sultan Of Turkey is a wonder for n Turk.
lie INDUCES in but one wife; is n rigid teetotaleer
and does not even smoke, while he is a good farmer,
angler, shot and pianist. Under his management
8 the sick man. ought to get well.
The Persian Government is about to build a tele-
graph line from Bagdai to reheran, which will place
that city in telegraphic communication with the other
cities of Europe.
George Raphael OF New York recommends the use
OF the camera obscura ut Washington for making OBJ
servations as to the position of the enemy. lie says,
that by eleyating the camera seventy i've feet, objects
no larger than n dog can be seen hfteen miles dis
lance. This process. Mr.. r, says, is much easier,
cheaper and certain than the balloon.
1t IS reported that Queen Victoria desires the re
lection Of crinOline, on account of the numerous
deaths by fire caused by its use. If she sets the ex-
ample of discarding hoops all the ladies' will have to
follow suit.
Four-stOry shirt collars are now all the rage in
New York. The Home Journal man says he saw one
the other day with n steeple To it. 1t is believed
that short-necked people, in order to keep pace with
the spirit of improvement, will have to get their ears
moved up a little higher
Mr.. Bright says there are a million of able
laborers who cultivate the soil OF England and Wales,
and their average wages (and it is much higher than
in Ireland.) is ten shillings sterling equal to $40
per week, or 40 cents a day, upon which to support
themselves aud their families.
y JEwING OPER lTIoS.-The Jew, Mordecai, a
Charleston. who gave ten thousand dollars to the
South Carolina Government, has just settled with his
Northern creditors by paying fifty cents on the dollar.
The ten thousand was thus a Northern donation to
secession.
The new government of Mexico is fighting a battle
with the church, the incubus which has so long
weighed down the energies of that unhappy land.
This church question is to Mexico what the slavery
question is to the United States both, INDUSTRIOUS evils
only to be got rid of by great commissions.
ACCEPTANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA TRooPs.-An
order has been issued by the War Department author
izing the commanding officers of the U. S. forces Mt
Hatteras Inlet to accept the services of such loyal
North CarGlinians, not to exceed one regiment, as in
his neighbOrhOOd may volunteer 10 take up arms for
the United States. and to designate a regular officer
to muster them into service.
The present civil war is having wonderful effect
upon the prosperity of the Pacific states. The roads
in that direction are swarming with caravans of emf
grants from Missouri. Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkan-
sas, Texas and all the other rebel states. as men can
get away from them. Thousands are going who I'M
der other circumstances would never have thought of
moving.
SHOE PEGs-Among recent shipments from Bottom,
there were 3S3 barrels of shoe pegs for Liverpool. 1t
has been stated that shoe pegs were invented IN 1918,
by Joseph Walker, of HOPkinton, Massachusetts.
Large quantities of such pegs are nov sent to Germa-
ny, where they are much used in the manufacture Of
childreu's toys.
HIST To MEDICINE TAKERs.-If any persons who
are Obliged to take offensive medicine would first take
4 bit of alum into the mouth, They could then take
the medicine with as much ease as though it were as
much sugar.
The Constitutional and other French papers say
that the mission OF the French authorities in the
Papal States is to make the integrity Of the Holy See
respected, and maintain its neutrality by barring
the frontier to the passage of any armei band. Gen.
Guyon has ordered that any invasion by the Pied
mODtese Of the localities occupied by the French shall
be Tepelef by force.
THE BLocKADE-Our naval forces have captured
eighty vessels while attempting TO run the blockade.
The British Consul at Charleston writes to friends in
Washington that the effect Of the blockade increases
in severity every week, and that the Southern people
bitterly lament their destitute condition.
Missouri has voted for the Union; is a Union State,
rs far As the popular will is concerned. She has
never, by any legislative enactment, nor even by the
voice of her fugitive Governor, nor IN any manner
that had the slightest color or pretense Of authority,
declared her wish TO 60 into the Southern COnfede-
racy.
A B.rcH OF DEsERTERs NABBED ,-OGcers Hor-
ton and Conway succeeded yesterday in arresiing
eight men who had deserted from the whaling ship
Dartmouth, Capt. 5. HOuEhton. They found six Of
them on board the Sea Serpent, in which vessel they
had shipped; and two in the Blue Anchor Hotel.
These last had already shipped on a coasting vessel.
Their names it is unnecessary TO give-CGi. Paper.
Mr.. Ten Broeck's American horse Starke, after
running second for the GOodwOod stakes on the 31st
/ Of August. succeeded on the following day in win
I ming the GOOdwoOd cup. The race was n fine one. as
Starke only beat Wizard by n head The American
horse Optimist was third, (three lengths behind
and Thormanby was fourth.
The King of Sweden has been paying n short visit
10 France and England. y correspondent says that
50 his Swedish Majesty looked quite the fAbled knight
of some Northern heroic ballad" lie appears ex-
ceeiingly well on horseback, and his dark physiogno-
my, uniform, and sable charger bore a most peculiar
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