The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-02-20
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Items.

sE lhHtE ~ WIS UEeI dIpIOdGltl WIKI
tine modest offer Of S25. 900. which was Of course
promptly declined. The anxious buyers, think
ing perhaps their bid had been below Prentice's
estimate of las honor, Increased their otter. and
through an old political friend, since quarlcrcd
at Font Lafayette. he was informed that fifty
thousand dollars was in q Louisville hank. sub
jet to the draft of George d.. Prentice. provided
the Journal were hencefOr;h conducted according
10 certain terms An Increased severity upon the
disunionists IN the columns Of the Journal was
the response to this proposal. Next came a rail
road man from the far West. who eschewed all
politics, and wanted an influential payer to sup
port the Pacific Railroad enterprise lie would
give Prentice 800 600 for the Journal. This
bid was too low, and George ID. Prentice remains
nnbought, and unpurchaseable.
"THE THoUsASD-FoLD DEATH BoME."-Mr.
Thomas Henry Spencer, of Cincinnati. has in
vented a fearful death-dealing bomb. IL Consists
oil one Large she'll, including any number of
smaller shells, these latter again containing ex-
Plosive bullets, &c. The shells are separate, not
concentric. The fuse will burst under water, and
Mr.. Spencer believes that he can blow up the
Great Eastern whenever she needs it, though he
has great respect for that ship, and hopes ne will
not be called on to make that experiment. We
have talked with those who have seen the outer
shell explode, followed by eleven shells within it,
and Mr. Spencer guarantees that none Of them
can tail to explode. Out of three hundred expe-
riments not one failed. The inner shells. as we
limited, may each contain an explosive bullet
In fact the seven wives going to St. Ives, each
with seven sacks, &c, were like this terrible
death-dealer, except in purpose. The fuse he
asserts To be entirely new, and the only one that
can be depended on being a new chemical COM
pound or Mr.. Spencer's invention. He has long
been a chemist and pyrotechnist, and has devoted
much attention to this subject for Ia years.
GENERAL HALLEcK.-General Henry Wager
Halieck IS one of the four Major Generals of the
United States Army. He was born in New York,
and entered the Military Academy as a West
Point cadet in 1885. lie stood third in the class
and was breveted Second Lieutenant of Engineers,
July, 1889 He was acting Assistant Professor
OF Engineering ut the Military Academy from
july 1889, to June, 1910. In 1871 was the
Uses," &c. Appointed First Lieutenant in Janu-
airy, ls45- In 1916 he wrote the work published
by Appleton & Co.. Of this city, entitled the
" Elements OF Military Art and Science" In
is41. was breveted Captain for gallant conduct
IN Affairs with the enemy on the 18th and Goth
days OF November, 1917, and for meritorious
service in California. Was Secretary of State of
the psoyinee of California in the military govern
ments OF Generals Kearney, Mason and Riley,
from lSiT 20 the end of lS4g. lie was Chief of
the Staff to Commodore Shubrick in naval and
military operations on the Pacific coast in 1877
and lS4S, and was a member of the Convention
IN lo45 TO form, and Of the committee to draft,
the constitution of the State. of California. In
July, 1893, he was appointed Captain of En-
gineers, and resigned on August /, 1854. He
now appears as a Major General, his commission
bearing date August 10, 1861.
Posr OFFICE REGrLarIoNs.-A circular from
the Office OF the Special Mail Agent for the Pa
cihc coast has been received, from which we copy
the following sections of an Act of Congress of
July 2, 1896.
Section l2S. Be IL further enacted. That
III any person employed IN any department Of the
Post Office shall improperly detain, delay, cmbez-
gle OF destroy any newspaper, or shall permit any
other person to do the like, or shall open or Der.
init any other to open any mail or packet of news
papers, not directed to the Office where he is en-
ployed, such offender shall on conviction thereof,
forfeit a sum not exceeding fdry dollars for every
such ofense. And if any other person shall open
any mailor packet OF newspapers or shall en-
b<13e or destroy the nIae, not being directed to
such person, or not being authorized TO receive or
open the same, such offender shall, on conviction
thereof, pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars
for every such ofense.
Section 1S2. And Be i fursker enacted. That if
any Postmaster shall unlawfully detain in his
ofhceiany letter, package, pamphlet, or newspa-
per, with intent. to present the arrival and de-
livery of the same to the person or persons to
whom such letter, package, pamphlet, or news
paper may be addressed or erected in the usual
course OF the transportation of the mail along the
route or ii any Postmaster shall, with intent as :
give u preference to any letter, rack
age, pamphlet. or newspaper, over another which
may pass through his office, by forwarding the .
Dne and retaining the other, he shall, on conyic-
ton thereof, be fined in n sum not exceeding five
uOliars, ana imprisoned Tor n term not
exceeding six months, and shall, moreover, be
forever thereafter incapable of holding The Office
IF Postmaster of the United States.
"JrKE DIvISo."-It seems that the doctrine
of t6e df~,ne right Of Kings is stiil h-Id-fartieu-
arly by Kings On the day before the recent CO. :
'onaiion OF the new King OF Prussia, he. called
the Prussian Diet, and smoke In their
. little speech worthy Of the middle ages.
Here 1t Is, from beginning to end
81 desired to summon tho representatives of
he Otambers to my presence even before the co.
and | thank you for having complied
With my wishes. The rulers Of Prussia receiee
hyr rrorrn from God Tomorrow, therefore,
hall take ns erou,s from The Lords faWe and
'lse n ON 8y head :: this IS tic Specification of
he erpressioa, = kiag By The grace Of GOd,' and
heress hes Ne sdHefity IF The crorn, trhieh IS in
ioLa51e. 1 know that you win understand the
meaning OF ths scs which. / have sumsoned YOU :
witness. The crown bias been SURROUNDED by
Dew institutions. by which you are destined TO ,
Ford 10 the benefit of your counsel. You will j
dsise me, and shall listen to your advice"
The Eiebeenth sof October was the day. and
tie place Of the coronation. The
CEREMONY was held in the church of tire castle.
liter putting the crown upon his head, he low :
red his seep.re three times TO the people. who in
sturn raised their voices three times in cheers.
hose cheers we're the Kings jtre drino; for
- accession II popular with the masses but
zen his royal speech did not make good his
laim 20 iole by any other divine right. His
own - a hundred End sixty years old. May he
OF tarnisb it as it grows Older
! LIGHTNING CALIGRAPHr.-One of the most
odern ard z.os. remarkable achievements of
isthus referred toiin Once a Week:
% Another great element of our present civil
stion is beginning to make signs Of its existence =
the SosfhsKensDgton Museum. vi allude 2
the electric Telegraph. ABakewelfs copying :
achun n one Of the moet interesting Of fhis
as. as it brings before the public eye the means :
ne can De employed to write with a pen thou
nds of miles in length If the Atlantic cable
,re in vorkiu~ ordo~ e.. -z b