The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-09-25
Foreign Summary.

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sword which Congress presented to Twiggs.
A laboring man in Auburn, N. y, has inherited q
fortune in Ireland, of $3.50 900.
1t will cost about four millions of dollars TO collect
the taxes.
Gov. Andrew Johnson, of Tenn, said in his Fourth
Of July speech at Nashville, Give me my govern
ment and let the negroes 20 ="
Congress has passed n law comforting the full
rights of citizenship on foreign born residents after
one years honorable service in the army.
a nautical fete, representing the Monitor and
.MeTrimdc fight, was announced in Paris TO be given
on the pond they call n lake at Versailles.
A blue dye, the color perfectly fast, has been dis.
covered by n chemist of Elboeuf. 1t has not n parti-
bic of Indigo in its composition, and effects a saving
of fifty per cent.
Up to the present time this year S21, $50. 900 in
specie has left the United States for Europe. During
the same time there has arrived at the port of New
York from California 81, 900. 07u.
Gen. Scott has received intelligence of the death of
his wife at Rome. Mrs. Scott, formerly Miss Mayo,)
was attended in her last illness by her daughter and
son-in-law. Her age was - years. Mrs Scott in
in her day was one of the great bellies Of Virginia,
and one of the most brilliant women of the era of her
youth. Al first, il is said, she rejected Gen. Scott,
but told him she would marry him when he won n
position in the world worthy of her, and it was this
ambition to win her, it is said, which stimulated him
to those heroic deeds in the army, which have i'm
mortalised his name.
A PLEA FOR NEwsPAPERs-Rev Henry Ward
Beecher, in the course of his sermon at the Plymouth
Church, Sunday night, made an eloquent plea for
newspapers. speaking of them as one of the most pO-
tent elements of our civilization. "Theye is" said
ne, " a common vulgar objection about newspapers
that they lie SO they don't lie any more than you
do. Man is naturally n lying creature. Truth is n
gift from Heaven, and very few of US possess it be-
fore they get there. The newspaper gives both facts
and rumors, and they would be blamed if they did
not do so. 1t is for the reader to Judge of these ru-
mOrs. The last economy should be in regard to news
papers. 1t is better to deprive the body of some
rfhlOu or level N II garment than To 1pnriyP the
mind Of its sustenance."
PRoDUCTTvESEss OF FowLs.-Experiments to ascer-
tain the comparative productiveness of the different
breeds of poultry, have been made this spring in the
Geological Gardens of the Bots de Bologne. The num-
Der OF eggs laid by the fowls in that establishment has
been immense. 1t appears that the Asiatic breeds of
Nankin and BrabmapOOtra are the best layers the
French CrereGeurS come next the HOudans third {;
the La Fleche fourth and after them the Dorkings
and n Dutch breed. The Nankins and Bramapoot-
ras are also remarkably precocious and according
to some breeders, they begin laying in February, and
keep on almost 10 the end of the year.
The GREAT SHIP CANAL-The Steele publishes a
long letter from a private correspondent giving a
glowing account Of she progress Of the works in the
Isthmus of Suez, which he has recently visited
throughout their whole extent. in company with NJ.
de Lessops and a party Of twelve gentlemen and four
ladies. The writer says "I can now assure you,
from personal experience. that sizty-seven kilometers
OF the Suez Canal are already navigable that the
waters OF the Nile are conveyed into the middle of
the desert that 20,000 men are now employed and
that their number will be increased to &C, 1000 next
month, so that in less than three months the cutting
through the threshold will be completed. If any
person now doubts the feasibility of the undertaking
let them visit it as l have, and all their doubts will
vanish.
The CoMET.-Elements of the orbit of the new
comet, calculated by Messrs. Hall and futile of the
Cambridge Observatory, exhibit the following partic-
ulars The comet was nearest the sun on June %,
and was then distant from that iuminary ninety-four
millions Of miles. Ii was nearest the earth between
the 3rd and 4th of July, and was then distant from
US only nine million four hundred thousand miles.
Its diameter is nearly eleven thousand miles. When
first seen it was near the star Kappa Cephai, and
has moved through the consultations Ursa MINORS,
Draco, BOotes. aud will this evening be in the vicini-
ty Of epsilon Virgins, having passed over ninety de-
grees of n great circle since the Sd inst.
FIGHTING WITH 'TACKAssEs.-It is related that
during the campaign on the Shenandoah, one of
General Eremont's batteries Of eight PARROT guns,
supported by q squadron of horse, was in a sharp
conflict with n battery of the enemy near at hand,
and shells and shot were flying thick and fast. when
the commander Of the battery, a German one of Free
monts stall, rode suddenly up TO the cavalry, ex-
claiming, in loud aud excited tones, "Pring I'D de
Shac6GSSeS, DriEg mp de ShdckGSSeS; for Cot sake
hurry up de ShGckdsSeS i'm -me-di-Gte-iy." The ne
cessity Of this order will be obvious when it is known
that the 80 shackasses'' were mules CARRYING noun
tain hOwitzerS, which IRE fired from the backs of
that much abused and valuable animal, and the
immediate occasion for the " shackasses," was that
two regiments of infantry were at that moment dis
covered descending a hill Immediately behind our
batteries. The 'shackasses,'' with the howitzers
loaded with grape and canister, were soon on the
ground. The mules squared themselves, as they
well knew how, for the shock. \ terrific volley was
poured into the advancing column, which immedi-
ateiy broke and retreated. Two hundred and seven
ty-eght dead bodies were found ia the ravine next