The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-02-06
Late Foreign Summary.


CAPTUEs-Thus far IO3 vessels have been cap
tured by the United States vessels, and "a by the
rebel priSateers-
The soldiers Of Gen. Banks division in September
and October sent by mail from headquarters $1,000
letters
contains l2.o72 bales Of ginned cotton, Of 400 lbs.
PER bale.
\ movement is on foot to raise a Scotch brigade in
illinois. and 20 give ia command TO Sir William
HayelCck, who has offered his services 10 the National
Government.
Baron Ricasoli states that the national flag Of Italy
floats over $4,000 tons of shipping. manned by lOO,-
200 sailors
creation Of mobiles on a large scale is at this
moment one Of the chief prescriptions Of the ruler
Of France. 1t has long been thought Of
yoItaire defined a physician to be An unfortunate
gentleman, expected every day to perform a miracle;
namely to reconcile health with intemperance-"
Henry Ward Beecher writes n letter attempting to
justify himself in taking 500 for n charity lecture,
when the total receipts we're only SlO6. Qui s'ercuse
s'dccuse.
DIR. Robert j. Breckenridge. uncle Of the rebel
Senator, Is publishing n series Of articles 20 prove
that il IL the imperative duty Of the nation to sup
press rebellion and maintain the Constitution at any
cost Of life and treasure.
y The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's new steamer
Constitution, arrived at Boston from New York.
She is chartered as a transport to take troops South,
in Gen. Banks expedition.
II "dcuiuRNOu EtAf 6t1hco tb1e 6oDAhJ ON'N'~ N~
retirement, Gen. Scott obtained positive information
that his entire estate, all of which is situated in Vir-
ginia, had been seized and sequestered for the benefit
OF the so-called Confederate Government.
A young lady in Medina, Ohio. recently logged a
young man within an inch of his life, as he was leav-
ing a ball room, because after inviting her, he went
and took anothe. girl. Very dangerous to take liber-
ties of any kind with Western crinOline.
A MoSsTRosrTY.-O. W.. Childs, Of Los Angeles,
has been growing a crop OF large sweet potatoes.
n,a ~ than uaiUha ojVHfepu TOn1HS 2 That must
have come from the vine that the grasshopper sat on.
The Coolest DAY IS Four YEARs--Early this
morning. (San Francisco, Jan. y Mr.. Tennents
self registering thermometer stood at 70 deg, or o
deg. below freezing point, which is the lowest point
reached within the past A years. Even at 8 O'Clock,
A. NJ, it stood at 80 deg.
Decentralization, the Kanaka arrested some
time since in San Francisco, on a charge Of stealing
from the Post Office n lie ter containing a check for
$3.50 on Wells, Fargo & Co, and drawing the money
on it. was discharged by order of the Police Court,
for want of testimony.
The entire expenses of the Revolutionary war were
stated in the report by Alexander Hamilton. Secre-
tary of the Treasury in 1890, to be Sl35, OOO,O 600.
The debt which was left for posterity to pay was
SIS, 900, 900.
II is found that John Slidell. the rebel commits
sioner, is the proprietor of some $4,000 acres OF land
in Minnesota. The property will probably be conhs-
Gated by the Government.
Theodore TiIton. of the New York independent,
has raised enough cotton in his back yard at Brook
lyn, this year. to make him n shirt. He planted the
seeds in a hot-bed. removing the glass as the shoots
broke ground. The hollis ripened and are Of good
quality
General Mcclellan peremptorily declined to accept
musical welcome TO his wife, by n combination of the
military bands for that purpose. on her arrival IN
Washington. He wants no demonstrations or nom
sense of that sort until he has earned them. That Is
the sort of man the people need
The report of Mr.. Cameron, Secretary of the Navy,
states that the Government has now six hundred
thousand troops in a state Of organization and disci-
pline.
Capt. ID. d. Porter is fitting out a mortar feet of a
dozen schooners for operations on the Southern coast.
There is also being fitted out another large fleet Of
stone laden ships, and a third naval expedition - un-
der weigh at Port Royal.
Benjamin Lindsey. Esq. has been appointed U. s
Consul At st. GATHERINGS, Brazil, and left New Bed
ford Nov. l, for Baltimore, 10 take passage in the
bark .nondamin, bound for Rio Janeiro. He was
formerly editor of the n. b. Mercury.
The repeal of the paper duty in England has not
only been followed by a reduction in the price OF
newspapers and periodicals., but during last month
several of the leading stationery firms in London
announced their intention of giving their customers
the full benefit of the extent of the duty RENTED.
A man in ST. Louis, out Of love to the ~benighted
men Of the South. takes all the Northern papers he
can get, puts them into bottles with n little flag in
the cork. and sends them do yn the river, TO be pick
ed up and read by the Rebels below. The seceshers
would rather have the bottles filled with whisky.
AAoat IN y" YIN -
the steamer Nashville, of the Confederate Govern
ment, in Southampton ut last accounts, should. on
reception of the seizure of Slidell and Mason, stop
the -4rago, and take Gen. Scott prisoner.
We are beginning TO realize says the Boston Bull
fefin, a return for the kindness shown to that eminent
nobleman the Duke of Newcastle; his recent speech
has proved like oil cast upon the troubled waters;
and his remarks have the more force. from the fact
that he speaks of wba, he kROlrS, which is something
all EDglishmen cannot be credited with.
We are requested by the agent of the Royal Mail
Company at Aspinwall to state that the report pub
lished in this journal on the 10Th instant, that the
Company had instructed their agents at the different
islands TO refuse coal in future to the United States
vessels Of war, is incorrect end without foundation
Panama Star.
Eli Whitney of New Haven, son of the inventor of
the cotton gin, has been appointed by the President
rs one Of the commissioners to the Worlds Fair IN
London, 1862. Mr.. Whitney continues the manu-
facture of fire arms at Whitneyville. two miles from
New Haven, where his father began in lSUO, and Is
now making 10, 900 rifed muskets for the U. S. navy.
MARINE RAILWAY AT FIcToU, n. S-Mr. Horace
T. Craudall, of this city, the inventor OF n new by
draulic marine railway, mentioned by us some time
since, has built one of these railway at Pictou, N. >,
which is pronounced a perfect success. 1t has been
in operation about two months, during which time a
large number of vessels have been taken upon it and
repaired. The work is said to surpass anything of
the kind in North America
IL is rumored that Gen. Mcclellan had planned n
grand flank movement a few days ago, but an ascen-
I sion by Lowe in his balloon revealed the fact that the
rebels had anticipated the flank mcvement-probabl
through the treachery of some one connected with
the army. II is also said that Gen. Mcclellan asserts
that tbs treachery must be astonishing in some quar-
ter, FIR every one of his designs or proposed move
mems are very soon discovered by the enemy.
EyREsH HAWAIIAN corn EAL.
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