The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-11-06
Foreign Summary.


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The rebel ram at Savannah is said to have proved
q fai,ure-leaked badly and could not be steered.
Sir Allan Napier McNab, the we'll known Canadian
statesman, died lately at his residence near Hamil-
ton, in the 64th year Of his age.
Owing to the high price of cotton, salt grinders
in the U. ). are now putting up fine table salt in boxes
instead Of bags.
Ex-Governor Hicks, of Maryland, who declined a
Brigadier- Generalship rendered him by the President,
has joined a company as private, at Cambridge,
Dorchester county, Maryland.
Charleston harbor is as open az ever. The shifting
sands under the channel have washed out all the
hulks and their cargoes are sunk or driven out to
sea.
Postmaster Wakeman Of New York has provided
for the delivery Of mail matter at all hours of the
night thus enabling strangers and others to obtain
their letters without staying over night.
After all the talk about the unhealthy climate Of
the South it has not proved one quarter as danger
Gus to the soldiers as was feared. The rebels will
find that Northern lien can stand it as long as they
can.
The total number Of rebel prisoners in the hands
Of the U. S. Government at the present time is said
to be %, 500, an aggregate which vastly exceeds the
number of our men held by the Southern authorities.
Chicago must be a cheap place 20 live in. Butter
is quoted there from 7 TO 10c per 10 eggs extremely
dull at sc. per dozen live chickens 81 so to 81 10
per dozen, and no sale for turkeys.
\ woman in Boston had a remarkable fall the
other morning. She rolled out of bed and through a
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hard ground, yet strange TO say was not much hurt.
In New York, Archbishop Hughes delivered a most
important and patriotic sermon in favor of the Union,
and calls on the North to come out at once in favor
Of drafting.
Out in Illinois they have found the remains Of q
man under a coal bed, a fact which puzzles biologists.
As they contend that man was the later creation,
these bones are likely to become bones Of contention.
William ii. Webb has entered into a contract with
the United States Government to build an iron
steam-ram, TO be covered with six inch iron, to have
two revolving turrets like the Monitor, the bow to be
covered with twelve inch iron, and to have a solid
iron ram projecting therefrOm half the length Of the
vessel. The price is 81 ,25O,OO0.
The notorious George y. Sanders is the ' Con-
federate Envoy y who escaped Into Canada. and
thence sailed for Europe. The Montreal Gazette
says IL is rumored that the object of his mission is to
take an offer of the Confederate Government to
Britain and France of absolute free trade with the
Southern States, If they will pay the Confederate
war debt. If that bait don't catch the gudgeon,
George is prepared to promise gradual Emancipation
probably very gradual
There are sos church edifces in New York city.
as appears by the Directory lately published. OF
these, the Episcopalians have 90. including mission
chapels the Presbyterians of different connections
have 60 the Methodist Episcopal 81 the Baptists SO.
Some things look as If Brigham Young and his
subjects were intending 10 make trouble on account
OF the law recently passed against ~pOlygamy. 1t is
said that Young has been concerned in the destruc-
ton Of some of the United States mail stations, and
that he is getting his militia under arms. Mormon
trains are now stopped, by order Of the government,
at Fort Laramie.
The United States census for 1860 contains the
following, among other important items of intelli-
gence: 4 table showing the church accommodations
OF the various denominations puts the Methodist
Church at 4 .209, 383 the Baptist, 3, GHOSTS the
Presbyterian, 1922, 2O2; and the sum total Of all
denominations is set down at 13. S4s, S96.
\ PATRIoTIC PASIsT-Gottschalk, the pianist.
recently gave the sece sion sympathizers of Montreal
a good lesson. At one Of his concerts they made loud
calls for - Dixie when he after facing tho auHI-
enee in silence, with folded arms, for a few moments,
gave them Hail Columbia. "the Star Spangled
Banner and Yankee Doodle" as they never
heard them before. The audience was completely
shamed, and there were no more calls for 90 Dixie
GOttschalk is a native OF New Orleans. and for this
exhibition Of his patriotism should have full credit.
PANAMA HArs-The plating Of these hats occupies
the whole Of the Indian Colony OF Moyobamba, on
the banks Of the Amazon. TO the north Of Lower Peru.
In this village men and women, children and old
men, are equally busy. The Inhabitants are all seen
seated before their cottages plating hats, and smok-
ing cigarettes. The straw is plated on a thick piece
OF wood, which the workman holds between his knees.
The centre is begun first, and the work continued
outward to the rim. The time the most favorable for
this kind of work is the morning Of rainy days. when
the atmosphere Is saturated with moisture. At noon,
or when the weather is clear and dry, the straw is
apt TO break, and these breskings appear in the form
OF knots when the work is done. The leaves OF the
bombonaxa. to be fit TO be used. are gathered before
their complete development. They are STEPPED in
hot water until they become white. When this
Opcihtioh > tcImiuhteu. eAcn plant Is separately
dried IN a chamber where a high temperature is kept
up. The bOmbonaxa is then bleached for two or
three days-The straw thus prepared is despatched
to all the places where the inn abitants occupy them
selves with plating hats and the Indians of Peru
employ the straw not only for hats but also in making
those delicious little cigar cases.
Moyobama exports every year ten or eleven thou
sand hats. The Province Of Panama produces much
more than Peru. Ii is supposed that not less than
sixty or eighty thousand hats are annually exported
from the province of Panama If the average price Of
a hat is reckoned ut two piastres, these expectations
will represent a value of about e4O,OOO. The greater
part Of the hats are exported from Lima but Of late
years the expectation has likewise taken place by
way Of the Amazon.