The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-16
Foreign Summary.

At PhiIadelphia Eve hundred rebel prisoners con-
fined at Fort Delaware took the oath Of allegiance.
The Louisiana gers especially the most anxious
70 take the oath.
The editorial Office q n Kenosha paper is located
Immediately n recruiting office. and the editor
says the fdng and drumming drives everything out
OF hrs head What n scampering there must be
down over his shirt collar
The salt famine in the Southern Confederacy is
dreadful. Lots wife would bring 10 a pound
there Her little finger or little toe would be deemed
reasonable prize.
The large iroH-clad English steamer T'u6al Cain
recently captured cd Charleston, while attempt
ing to run the blockade She heavily ladened
with arms and ammunition.
The Nashua IN H. Iron Company has just finished
for the Government a test plate fifteen feet long
forty inches wide, four and half inches thick, and
weighing ten thousand pounds. This plate is IL
sidered ball proof and will put TO test some of the
new prCjectiles which have recently been invented
Letters received from Rome that the bishops
who have reached that city have handed to the
Pope a sum of ive hundred thousand Roman crowns
collected Is Peters pence.
Mr. John Cassell. the great publisher of London,
prints the outside OF sixty English country
papers. These are all ike, except title They
then sent to the country printers, who print
the inside their editorials and local news and send
them TO subscribers.
BsAzL-The Government Of Brazil has decided
that after years the Amazon aud its tributaries
email be OpeD the Commerce OF all nations IL
proposed and IL being acted upon in the National
Legislature, encourage the establishment of a line
Of American Steamers between Rio JaneirO, touching
ut intermediate ports, ~ aPPrOpriating subsidy Of
$500, 900.
PaOGREss OF THE RUsso-AMERIcAx TELEGRAPH-
The following paragraph touching the telegraph be-
tween Russia and America Is taken from our latest
received English journals
According TO intelligence from st. Petersburg Of
the 18th inst, the great work of connecting Europe
with America RIA Siberia, Is fast approaching its
completion Tue first telegram from Tumen, dated
July 9th. addressed the Secretary Of the Sub
marine Telegraph Company ia London and ran thus
% Compliments through the Siberian telegraph a
distance Of $500 kilometres (4,O39 miIes-) Roma
how Col R3mahow, the head OF the Telegraphic
Department in Eastern Siberia. fully expects com
piete the line NikolIefski. the Pacific, by the
cad Of 1862.
NEw GRADES N THE NAvY.-Congress during its
late session passed law establishing the following
grales in the Navy, nine in number, namely
Rear -Admirals, COmmodOres, Captains, Commanders,
Lieutenant Commanders Lieutenants, Masters. En-
signs and Midshipmen. The relative rank between
officers of the navy and army Is fixed follows
Rear -Admrals rank with Maior-Geuerals COmmo-
dores with Brigalier Generals, Captains with Colo
nels Lieutenant Commanders with Majors, Lieuten-
with Captains, Masters with First Lieutenants,
and EusZns with Second Lieutenants. or the two
grades, there are TO be nine R-ar-Admirals and
eighteen COmmodores- The first only, are TO be
selected nomination by the President; the second
by board Of officers
PLESTY-In the midst Of the gloom of our national
troubles n kind Providence has vouchsafed TO us an
abundance Of all the necessaries of life From the
loyal States comes Of the most abundant crops
The wheat crop has BEEN safely harvested, and
never better, take the country through. Corn is
promising finely; and of fruits there bet
ter prospect Prices are Teasonabe-not too low for
the producer nor too high for the consumer. What
great reason have FOR thsnkfulness in all this
While those who brought this Upon the country
for the purpose Of ove.throwDg and destroying the
Government compelled to pay the exorbi-
tant prices for the necessaries OF life, and in many
suffering from the OF food while their
country Is desoated and the business of their
and cities destroyed, who laboring and sght
ing for the maintenance of our Government,
blessed with the greatest abundance Of everything
our fields are richly laden with bounteous crops and
the business of and cities scarcely feels
yet, any inconvenience from the war.