The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-08-07
Foreign Summary.

The debt Of Mexico 70 the alliel powers Is stated
IN round numbers a. follows q" To England, So
900, 900; TO Spain, so, DOC, 900; TO France, $500
OO0."
The Richmond Dispatch announces the deaths Of
Generals StOuew4Il jackson and Blruwell Rhett;
Gen. Lougstreot was wounded.
The rebel Congress j. tauntel By It's own organs
wiki having adjourned for the sole purpose Of enab-
ling its members 10 secure their personal safety by
flight.
The Richmond DipHci complains that rebel sol
diers have been hurled in that city before they were
dead. We don't know that there was anything very
wrong in It.
The islands Of the East Indies have been troubled
throughout the spring by heavy earthquakes Ia
the island Of Sumo. All Of the houses were destroyed,
AMI 500, out Of l 100 inhabitants, killed.
At the commencement Of a late term OF the Su-
preme Court in Boston. there were on the docket no
less than one hundred and fifty cases Of divorce.
Many OF them had their origin IN spirItunAsm.
The steam frigate R0an0he has had her spar deck
removed, and will be cut down still lower; her out
side planking will be backed by , inches Of white
oak TO five feet below the line OF fotatiou, and Will
be plated with iron Il inches thick.
The Southern editors complain that they can't get
paper. We suppose It's all ON account Of the paper
blockade they talk 50 much about.
Some one was telling an Iri=hman that a fellow
had eaten ten sIucers Of lee cream; whereupon Pat
shook his head. $50 you don't believe it :" With
"a mol Pat answered, Il believe in the crane but
not in the saucers."
\ plant called the drOSsra has just come to notice.
1t kills instantly all flies that settle on it, and is so
exceedingly sensitive that the hairs, with which it is
furnished, will converge on the application Of one
six-thOu-andth OF Il grain OF ammonia, while a single
hair Is effected by one s~ixty-icur tuousanith.
A MEDAL FOR EHICSSoN.-The people of Sweden,
with "A proper sense Of the great services to civilizl-
ton rendered 10y their Distinguished countryman,
Ericsson, are having a medal struck in his honor, in
reference to the .Noaii0r affair.
LARGE YIELD OF Mink AND Butter Milton Dale,
Of Knights Landing, lolo county. Cal, has a Dur
ham COW that gives at two mikiHgs eight gallons a
day, and from 1t makes two and Il half pounds butter
per day.
The late Governor General Of Canada, Sir Edmund
Head, has Reused the Goyerrorship of Bombay, ut
El2, 800 sterling per uuuun, in consequence of the
climate not beng likely to agree with Lady Head.
Isn't he Il consiIerate husband
The papers say that General Mcclellan, though
struck hy a piece Of a shell at Williamsburg, escaped
uniniured. We are not surprised n il. An officer,
who could stand Is many attacks from politicians as
he has done, mast be bomb proof.
Captain Boggs stated N the .Astor House in New
York, that the rebel melody beginning
- Picayun- Butler has come to town.
has almost ceased to be sung by the secessiOnists of
New Orleans. Oar men. however. have caught it
up; the camps Of the Federal army are alive with it,
and it can be heard of a moonlight evening on the
vessels ascending the Mississippi.