The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-05-14
Foreign Summary

1t is reported in the London Rsq5er that C,,,,-r
Burton and NJ. Du Chailu have agreed to visit the
gor''a country IN company on "a sporting tour. VI.
gu Cn"'!'u would visit New York before starting
with captain Burton.
The newspapers have rakei up an old paragraph
ABOUT the Empress JOsephine's shawls. She had a
passion for them, and would pay 5000 or $1,000
y 4 handsome article. So would auy woman, il
sac could take the money from any pocket but her
The stone feet sunk of Charleston, on which so
many plunei themselves rs a success, and over
which England became 50 indignant at the time and
alter has actually improved the haGbor Of Charles
ton. IL Is now deeper than ever III the channel, and
reported much better generally.
Robert Bunch. H. B ~ Consul at Charleston, s.
Z, has been removed from that post and ordered TO
England, not 10 Havana, 10 avoid the danger of A
bombardmeEt, 1t was stated. He had been Consul At
Charleston FOR ten years, and was very popular with
its citizens.
MILITARY LoAFERs The Washington RepuBIican
says " BsiCeeH this city and philadelphia IRE hare
Il hundred thousand men and officers doing nothing,
and rendering the country no service, while Hooker
with a force tar interior TO the rebels, Is confronting
them IN their Intreuchments and his men falling by
the thousand before the murderous fire OF the enemy
The officers belonging to the L 5. steamer Souoma
say that that vessel, when OF the Bahamas on the lst
February, saw a steamer to windward, lying to, and
apparently waiting FOR her to come up. She proved
10 be the privateer FIorida, aud a soon as she made
out what the SOHOmd was, she Immediately got under
weigh anu started OF IN all possible haste. The lat
ter kept after her and chased her for 60 hours, but.
owing to the superior speed of the FYorida, she out
ran her.
General Hooker recently stated to a New Jersey
chaplain that he had unlinlite power, no restrictions
whatever embarrassing his operations. Il have
men enough he said TO the chaplain aforesaid, /" 10
whip the rebels in front, and to take care Of traitors
In the rear, and ! mean TO DO what the country ex-
poets at my hands, He also stated, in the same
conversation, that his army would not be removed
from its present position for some time.
LIBERAL. When San Francisco sent her first
100000 to the Sanitary Fund, and the interior be
gan I" move in the good work, California was set
down as good for half a million dollars. How cor
rect that estimate was may be judged by the fact
that DR.. Bellows acknowledges S4S5, 2l3 II from
the coast, and there is more on the way to him.
OF this sum Nevada Territory gave $50, 600 and
Oregon $40, 742 10, in all, S36, 742 10, leaving Cali
foruIa's donation thus far $44S,470 ~. 1t will
exceed the half million.
In connection with the statement in the Confeder-
ate papers that the CONSUMPTION IN the South takes
persons between forty and sixty years of age, it may
be said that in the discussions in our Eenate the best
authorities were cited TO show that there was great
fatality among so diers who were under twenty. or
over forty. 1t Is stated that the transcription in Vir-
ginia has been thoroughly carried out. Ii this be so,
and if like proceedings have been held in other rebel
States, then the number of men under arms must be
enormous.