The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-16
Foreign Summary.

Dog owners in Massachusetts, paid to towns last
year. S23, 404 for licenses.
PoRKoPoLIs Cincinnati has lost its designation
and Chicago has fairly gained the tite-the latter
packing 10000 more hogs last year than the former.
SOUTHERN PRINTING PAPER.-The Richmond Sen
fiHei OF the I'D Is printed upon paper of an indie
scrloaoIe color. Ii is of heavy texture and a sort OF
dirty brown solferino-magenta color.
The Louisville Journal perpetrates the following
"a Mr.. Noble of Ohio says that any possible peac c
is better than this war" We don't know VIII at
Mobiles christian name is, but it ought to be Ig."
The brig Ocean Ranger is about to sail from
Hampton Roads for Hayti with $50 contrabands, who
Will there receive each eight dollars a month for five
years, and after that additional compensation.
Mrs. Semmes, wife of the captain OF the alabama,
who has been residing all winter in Cincinnati, has
been ordered. under the recent proclamation of Gen.
Burnside, to prepare TO cross the lines into Dixie.
Bufaloes have been lately shot within sixty miles
of ST. Paul, Minnesota. The Indian massacres have
rendered the region so uninhabited that bisons,
wolves, &c, roam freely where they have not before
been seen for years.
bids for the loan of $3.50, 900 amount to $500 900.
The premium offered, ON the bids accepted. varies
from IL to 144 per cent, SO that the State will real
ize about S3l 900 out of the premiums.
The REBEL SEAL-The Rebel House of Represen-
tatives have adopted the following device for the seal
OF the Confederate states An equestrian portrait of
Washington, with a wreath, composed of the chief
agricultural productions of the South. Motto-Deo
DuCe , tHGfMeHO. v OtluS our ie6ueEs NC VIII
conquer"
VALUE OF A CoMMA.-A New York paper, an
nouncing the wreck of a vessel, says. The only
passengers were I. b. Nathan, who owned three
tourths Of the cargo and the captains wife"
u. S. GOVERNMENT INCOME. Three million dollars
a day is Il very handsome income for any government
TO receive. Ii one half of the amount as borrowed,
it shows that the government has ability to borrow
money, even if it is less earnest than it should be in
prosecuting the war.
TuE ~ n,t,pco T.Sr In tho Il - n;S,,iof Coprt
in Boston, in the case of United States vs. Zeno
Kelly, the jury found defendant guilty upon the
seventh. count in the indictment, which charged him
with aiding and abetting in the fitting out of ship
IGhmarCO TO be employed in the slave trade.
CALIFORNIA WINE.-700, 900 gallons of wine were
made in California IN 1862. There are ten and a
halt millions of vines now planted in the State, which,
when in full bearing condition, will produce three
and "A half million gallons of wine, California. 1t is
believed. will soon produce more wine than all the
other States
Mr.. A. I. Stewart. the N. Y. merchant. has order
ed the brig Jesse Bdnfeid TO be chartered and loaded
with a full cargo Of corn and provisions for the relief
of the poor in Belfast. This munifcent donation for
the suffering poor of Ireland is at the sole expense of
Mr.. Stewart.
VIM. Mclean. Esq. of Henderson County, one of
the most extensive and successful planters in Ken
lucky, sold his crop of tobacco, embracing three hum
dred and eighty thousand pounds. together with his
crop of corn, tor the sum of 10000. The tobacco
alone brought sea, 900.
Prince NAPoLEoN's TOUR IN AMERICA.-Messrs.
Ticknor & Fields will publish in a few days, 60 Letters
on the United States,'' written home by the Princes
aide de-camp, Col. Pisani, who accompanies the party
in their travels in America. This volume calls names
in full, and is altogether about as brilliant q sum-
mary Of incidents of travel as has seen the light for
many a day. Some of she scenes in Washington are
described in a most piquant style. The President
and Mr.. Seward figure cOnspicuously throughout the
visit to the capital, and New York and Boston are
painted in full.
One OF THE MISSISSIPPI BENDS CUT-One of the
Mississippi bends has been successfully cut by Com
mander Thomas o. Selfridge. 1t is Alexander's
between the mouths of the White and Arkansas, half
N mile across and ten miles around. Within twenty
fours hours after the cut W as made he passed through
with his steamer, brought the mouths of the two
rivers ten miles nearer together.
Bayous, of which we have heard so much of late,
are merely the oifshots of large rivers in the South.
Many of them are as jagged and serpentine in their
course as the intestines themselves, and n good deal
longer III their measurement. Some of them for eX-
ample, will strike away from the parent waters and
make a long voyage of discovery through the I'M
known interior of the country; and after visiting the
most outlandish places, here and there, and every
where, bending and doubling, and curving them
selves into all kinds of fantastic shapes, return once
more to the bosom of their mother, often scores and
even hundreds of miles from the original starting
point of their wanderings.
PARTIES IN THE SoUTH-An intelligent gentleman,
a graduate of the University of Virginia, and a law
yer by profession, says that there were three parties
III the South. One party considerable party
to quote his own language-is in favor of the old
Union upon any terms. Another party is in favor
of the old Union, with a guaranty for what they con-
slider their rights in regard to slavery. The third,
and the most numerous and powerful, being sustained
by the Government and all its influence, is utterly
opposed to any union with the North, and will agree
to nothing less than absolute Southern independence.
REMAINS OF GIGANTIC ANIMALS DISCOVERED IN Ice.
biologists are making preparations to
promote the further discovery of CONCEALED remains
of mammoth animals in Siberia. 1t is stated that
during the last two centuries at least 1000 nam
moths, and probably twice and thrice that number,
have been washed out of the ice and soil in which
they were embedded by the action of spring foods.
The tusks only, have been preserved, from their COM
value as ivory. An effort is now to be made
for the discovery and preservation of one of these
as perfect and entire as possible, as it is
considered that a microscopic investigation of the
contents Of its stomach might throw a wonderful
on a host of geological and physiological
problems.
CURIOUS Confession OF A "KNrGHT OF THE GOLDEN
Cross. The Philadelphia Inquirer states that q
respectable man who lately died at B~illsburg. Pa,
before dying that he was a Knight of the
Golden Circle; that regular communication was car
on between the headquarters OF the " Knights"
and the cabinet of jeff. Davis. That he was cogui-
zant that the rebel War Department had arranged
the Knights to evacuate Richmond for the
purpose of drawing the Federal force that far South,
md while their attention was there engrossed the
rebel army, by a quick flank movement, would de-
cend in full force upon Washington, and, aided by
general uprising of the knights in Pennsylvania
md other Northern States, capture the city and seize
lpon the government by force.
The FIRST PRINTED BooK-It is a remarkable and
most interesting fact, that the very first use to which
he discovery of printing was applied, was the pro-
iGction of the Bible. This was accomplished at
'lentz, between the years Of 1850 and 1855. Gut
enberg was the inventor of the art, a goldsmith
the necessary funds. This Bible was in
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