The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-01-29
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Items.

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There will be majority of members in favor
OF emancipation on joint ballot in the new legisa-
ture Of Missouri.
Gov johnson has issued proclamation providing
for the election Of representatives the 9Th and IOt6
Congressional districts, Tennessee.
Appleton Oaksmith. the SLAYER convict who broks
Jail IN Massachusetts, short time SINCE has escaped
and arrived safely ut Havana
Northern editor predicts that weoI'' will be
king Prentice wants TO know whether he means
wool on the back Of a sheep, the head Of
darkey.
physician at Of the Paris hospitals has lust
cured case OF delIrium tremens, brought on by ex
cessive drinking. by the singular remedy Of subject
ing the patient to the influence of the vapor
Of spirits
The erection of colossal triumphaI arch in Paris
IN honor Of the wars in the Crimea and Italy has
been resolved upon. 1t is be grand as the Arc
de PEtOiIe, and its site will be the Place du Trone.
Letters from Egypt represent the cotton crop in
estimated at $4,000 600 Turkey will also produce
for the England market GO, ,OGO bales.
The Baltimore american, while regarding the
issuance OF the proclamation as extraconstitutional.
replies that proclamation proclamation the war
Will put an end to slavery in Maryland.
Kentuckians who are in Washington say that that
State is undergoing revolution the emancipation
question, and that before long it will take position
by the side of Missouri in favor of eomnensateJ
emancipation.
Cassius NJ. Clay said in his speech at Brooklyn
not long since, that the Emperor Alexander had
again and again said to him. '' Be sure that you will
tad me true to the United States of America.
ESTERPRIsIxG.- Wilcox, Esq, will next
month begin building medium clipper ship of about
500 tons, on his account The models are
already made and the stock contracted for She
Will De FIRST rate vessel, mostly Of oak the beams
knees and ceiling of hackmatack-N. b. Standard. !
The New Bedford Standard estimates the aggregate
loss on the whalers destroyed by the .4Ia6ama, at
sl5OOO1 exclusive of their cargoes. The insurance
IN New Bedford offices amounts to S32 900.
Ofp
Indian corn IS becoming extensive in Austria. The
paper Is said TO be tougher than any ordinary paper
made from rags, while it is almost wholly free from
sihea. which makes paper produced from straw
brittle
An Irish lawyer lately addressed the court as
gentlemen instead of g your honOrs.'' A brother
of the bar reminded him Of his error He imnedi-
ately arose to apologize thus: May it please the
court in the heat of debate called yer honors gentle
men made "a mistake, yer honors''
The Louisv lille Journal pertinentIy asks If -four !
be had for less than S42 per barrel in Georgia
ana S52 IN Mississippi, HOU, Just after the wheat
harvest, what will be the condition of things in !
those States and other Southern States during the
next twelve months, suppOsing the rebellion to
continues.
At the baptism of the rebel ram at Charleston. Mr.
HeadOn made n hours speech, after which he
performed the baptsmal ceremony, saying With
all solemnity and reverence and invoking on thee
the blessing of Almighty God, noble boat. Palmetto
State, baPtize thee IN the of the patriotic
ladies' of South Carolina. Amen ,
A smart person named Fitch lately advertised Q
very extensively in ali the New York papers that
lny person who would enclose him a dollar should
receive IN reply the most positive information to
low he could avoid the draft lie received over 600
etters IN a week. enclosing the dollar and anxious
demanding the " guaranteed information To
Ill he replied follows: Enlist without delav in
he nearest Volunteer Regiment-A. Fitch
Extract from private letter from an officer in the
.rmy OF the West: " think from what have seen
hat more damage has been already done the rebels Ii
y the Proclamation than by all the battles we have
ought. y DarOeI have iuar
lot hesitate to say that every negro in the South
nows the very words Of the proclamation c
The bereavements of the war-so far as the single
ity Of New Orleans is concerned-have an exempt -
cation in the appalling fact admitted by the Delta Ii
hat there fewer than thirty-four hundred ! p
rphau children IN the several asylums that city.
In Great Britain candidates for diplomatic service
ndergo course Of training. In the progress Of it
ney are subjected to an examination in p variety of
adIes, before commissioners appointed for the pur-
ose' and the textbooks used in two branches Of
arning. maritime and international law are Amer
an, namely. the works OF Kent and Wheaton I'm
cotton DUck-At the present price for cotton
nek, suit of sails for ship Of 900 tons would
'st not less than $1,000, not including bolt-rope
anufacture, &C., reckoning : 800 yards for the
nc ut an average price of rs per yard For a
mp of l 600 tons No duck is used. which weighs
lie pound to the yard fact that will give some ade- II
Ilte idea Of the amount Of cotton used as we'll /
the weight of n suit of sails
Albert G. Horn, of the chief slave traders of
eW york. has been convicted for fitting cut the
aamer Ctty Of Norfolk. which some time ago
nded cargo Of slaves in Cuba. Horns punish -
eat will be imprisonment for from three to seven cH
-ars, and fine Of from : 900 to So 600
There has been a tremendous gale at AspinvaT Bar
hch lasted days, during which the British brig -
otiUdT. and the steamer -fro1 were wrecked No O''
res were lost. The U. $. brig BaiaBrifge was
'andoned by her officers and crew, after throwing -
erboard her guns and stores. All communication VII
t"een Panama and Aspinwall was interrupted the
res broken down, and the railroad under water,
y 1t was expected TO be in running order by the
th' as the water was subsiding Oe1
Ihe negroes IN the English West India island Of
vincent, rose IN lnsurrectOn in the second week /
october against the white land owners on the
ouhd mat TIER wages were TO be cut down which
SAM TO be false There were no trogps ON the Con
anu but the whites assembled and after killing Oh
ven and impTisOuing hundred and fftv ouie,aj
outbreak The negroes had burned anI robbeJ
number OF houses, maltreated various persons and
lied one overseer.
EACHASGE-A correspondent OF the New York -
ITHa4 9 Commerce says that in looking over an
number OF the Eiinburg Review he finds the fol-
sIhg statement, which ought TO stop some Of the -
- n'.Sn s press respecting national currency:
-he notes OF the Bank OF England were in 1912
an average discount Of 20 "a in 1873 Of 23 and
= ~ OF 20 per cent. IL is estimated, also that
P,Nate banking companies became wholly bank
p uurins tic years 1916 and 1916"