The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-06-12
Foreign Summary .

Foreign Summary.
50 extensively in 1860, has again appeared in Mas
sachusetts.
The Slidells have taken n house for four years
residence in PIris-safest thing they could do. Per-
haps JED. Davis will want u board with them.
No less than "a citizens of Loudon county. Virgi-
MIA, were sent 10 Richmond in one day, aud confined
in prison on the charge Of being disloyal to the South.
There has been issued at New York. for gratuitous
circulation. a tabular statement % the public debt Of
the United States. The total Of both classes Of debt,
on the 18th March. Is S3O3, Oi9. 40, of which $751;
sSO.sll il in Treasury notes.
CHISE~E-1ne statistics show that 81 ,51S Chinese,
male and female, had arrived in California, up to
aud including April last, and that p ,55S had de-
paired. How many have died there, thereis no means
Of knowing.
\ perfect panic reigns ut Norfolk. The city has
been placed under martial law, and rs recruits are
scarce, the able-bodiei negroes are mustered for the
defence of the city.
Com. Mutt, now being exhibited by Barnum, in
New York. is small pecimen of humanity. Though
eighteen years Of age, he is only twenty nine inches
high, and weighs but tweuty-four and u half pounds.
Two eminent Presidents of Colleges. have recently
died, {. Z. FELTON,. President of the University at
Cambridge, Mass, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, Of
Rutgers College.
Patent MEDICINE men are very nervous about the
Federal tax bill. \ Committee representing that in
teIest has been in Washington some days. They
claim that the proposed stamp tax on proprietary
medicines will amount TO So, go, 900. The-more the
better.
Fort Macon surrendered on the 25th April, after a
bombardment of 10 II hours. The batteries were
planted behind a heavy sand bank, the preaching
batteries being only ] 900 feet distant. The garrison
was allowed the honors Of war. the officers retaining
their side arms. Seven men were killed and Is
wounded.
The friends of the two distinguished gentlemen
will be %ernri6ed to learn that Professor Bache, Su-
perintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and
Professor Pierce, of Harvard University, Cambridge,
have been elected associate members of the Uuiversi-
~ of Kew, IN Russia, and have received their Jiplo-
mas throu. h the kiudniss of VI. ElsI ard de Stoeckl,
Russian Minister to the United States-.Nationai.
The British Ambassador at Paris lives IN a magni-
fcent hotel. which is superbly furnished and decorated
ut the public expense, in order thar he may suitably
represent his nation. His salary is $50, 900 "a year,
besides an annual allowance OF 5000 fer warming
ani lighting the embassy. and n liberal allowance
for plate. servants and other extras.
St Thomas dates to the 81 state that a British
commander attempted to take n seamen from an
American vessel 10y force, but n Federal gunboat
projected the man. The Governor OF ST. Thomas had
notified the British that the guns of the Fort would
help the IrOgUOiS. The British Admiral nftcrward
arrived and reprimanded the Commander, who arOl-
Ogized to the American consul.
GES. Mcclellan DIREcrING WESTERN BATTLES
Gen. Mcclellan sat 10y the operator at Headquarters.
Sunday: Gen. BIell did the same AT Louisville, and
Gen. llalieck NJ ST. Louis; aud the circuit being
made complete between the three, they curversei
Uninterrupted for hours on the pending battle at
Fort DDnelsOn, and made all the dispositions of forces
TO perfect the victory and pursue the broken enemy.
The battle was fought. we may say. almust under
the eye Of Gen. Mcclellan. So remarkable an
achievement has seldom adorned SCIENCE Hash.
Correspondence.
Work upon another iron plated steamer AT Green
point is pushed with the utmost speed, day and
night. This vessel is much larger than the Monitor,
will carry eighteen guns Of the largest cnlibre, and
will he practically invulnerable. Ii is confidently
believed that she will be the fastest of this new spe-
cies of war vessels ever constructed.
DEPARTURE OF AMERICAN Contributions To THE
WORLDS FAIR The British screw steamship Stella
sailed lately from New York with the chief part of
the American Contributions to the Worlds Fair.
The Journal Of ConmeTce says:
There were about 800 parcels. weighing in the
aggregate nearly 100 tons. and comprising a great
variety Of our most ingeniou. and useful inventions.
Contributors who were too late TO ship articles by
the Stella can send them ON or before the llth OF
March and still be in time 10 enter them at the e1hi-
bi;ion. The contributions sent by the Stella. includ-
ing those known TO have gone by sailing vessels
weeks ago, will make a show OF which the United
States will not be ashamed. Mr.. Holmes, the general
agent and manager for the American exhibitors, will
soon leave to attend the delivery and arrangement Of
the articles. He will take along two large flags.
with which to designate the space in the fair allotted
TO the United States.
BARBgR's SUNDAY LAw-The Governors appro-
val of this bill WAS received in Assembly yesterday,
bearing date May 9th. Ii goes into operation fifteen
days thereafter; 80 on Sunday, the 18th. the Law will
be IN force. Oar readers are already advised of its
provisions, AMI we scarcely need to recnritulate that
it requires all bathing and hair dressing establish
menis to suspend business al l o'clock on Sunday,
under penalty of n fine of $50 The law was passed
in response TO n prayer Of these most interested, and
the only Inconvenience, it will work will be to those
lazy ones who sleep away the best hours Of the first
day of the week --4
OFFICIAL REPORT About MANAssAs-The Joint
Committee OH the Conduct of the War has made a
long report regarding the Rebels ut Manassas, and
Of the remains Of the lion officers aud soldiers
killed. They say ttrit facts are disclosed of a pain
ful and repulsiveiy shocking character. That the
have crowned their rebellion by perpetrating
deeds scarcely known even TO savage indians. Be-
the COMMITTEE were men occupying high position
IN military and civil life, differing in political opin-
ion. Their Judgment * that the rebel crimes exceed
ell the excesscs of the Scpoys in India. Our soldiers
were buried face downwarlS, or worse, left to decay
openly. Their bones were carried eff as trophies,
sometimes as testimony bones. to be used as personal
aiornment. One witness deliberately avows that the
head of one of our most gallant officer was cut off
by a Secessionist, TO brain, the skull TO be used as n
cup on the occasion at his marriage.