The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-11-19
Foreign Miscellany.


circulation in the United States.
A man was recently arrested in Detroit, he having
deserted from four wives and FIVE regiments.
The scarcity OF shoe leather has forced the ladie.
in the interior Of Virginia to wear shoes made oil
squirrel skins. 1t takes four pairs of skins to make
one pair OF shoes
1t is said that If you close the room and burn a
teaspOonful Of brown sugar on some live Goals, or
even shavings. the mosquitoes will become psralyzed
at oIce. Try it. by all means.
The Richmond Uhig announces briefly the death
OF the hero OF San Jacinto, as follows General
Sam Houston died at his residence in Huntersyille,
Texas, on the 25th of July. He was seventy years OF
age.
The contributions to the a. B. C. F. NJ. during
July, amount to S27. 7O5 "a From September lst,
1862, to August LIST. 1869, 1888 .455, IS. The total
to September 1st, 1863, is about $3.50. 500.
The police force of New York city now comprises
2,l50 men, viz l,793 patrolmen, l27 sergeanis, Go
dormen, and "a police captains, besides the Broad
way Squad, 40 the Sanitary Squad, 81 and 55
officers of various grades at the Central Office.
Some one has invented an invention - by which
ink is to be omitted from the process of printing. If
some other ingenious person would invent something
that should omit paper from the process, what a
saving publishers would make, The composition
might be done by that type setting machine "
which, like the good time, is always coming.
Cummings Point, the extreme westerly point of
Morris Island, which is now in possession of our
troops, Is within three miles and three quarters of
iHG 'N-' - II - bA6Aah III ulc
and q half from Fort Sumter and one mile and three
quarters from Fort johnson. the next important
defensive position of the rebels.
The recei pts into the Treasury from taxes on the
Sd of September, are the largest ever reported in one
day from the same sources. They were on account
Of the internal revenue. S297 ,549, 90, on account OF
the customs in United States notes. S5S, no, 40, and
in coin S35l .lC7.49, making in all S7O7 .462.9 %.
The rebel officials, in East Tennessee, deserve to be
hanged-every one Of them. They are said TO be
ncfuallv DOiUO fhrOnUh that afflicted connfry sfrip
ping white women while at work in the fields under
the pretence of ascertaining whether or not they were
men disguised in female garments to escape conscrip-
ton.
Some heavy guns are being mounted in New York
Harbor. Some of these guns are two hundred poun-
der PARROTS (rifed) and others carrying the four
hundred and sfty pound (ffteen inch) shot. No
vessel could enter the port without passing directly
In front of the muZzles of these guns and the
circumstances favor the supposition that no iron clads
which could make the voyage across the ocean could
successfully perform this feat.
A number Of American Christians, of different
denominations. have just organized the First Reform
ed Protestant Dutch Church in Japan. The move
ment originated with the u. S. Minister and Consul,
and by their influence most desirable sites have been
secured for n church edifce and for missionary
residences. Of the members, one is a Japanese-an
earnest, it is hoped, of a large ingathering hereafter
from among that heather land.
The bed of Og was twenty-seven feet long, and
seven feet broad. The height of Goliath was eleven
feet; his coat weighed one hundred and fifty, and his
spear nineteen pounds. The body of Orestes, son of
Agamennon, leader of the Grecian exped ton against
Troy, was eleven and a half feet high. Maximus, a
native of Spain, the Roman Emperor, was eight and
half feet high; his wife's br celets served for finger
rings. Mons. Bikin, the Belgian giant, is neacly
feet high.
PRAYING FOR THE ." President OF THE CONFED-
ERATE STATEs."-A chaplain in the Army of the
South west. writes as follows:
a minister of Winchester called upon one of our
aun ral afta- ha had rpachp1 fhat pluca with his
army, and told him that his superiors directed him
TO pray Sabbath morning, i'll church, for the - Presi-
dent of the Confederate States.'' and asked if he
might not do so. The General answered, with i'll
Indignation, /" If your conscience requires
il, do so, but as sure as you do, my conscience and
will require me TO hang you as a traitor within
an hour after the crime The minister's conscience
grew less exactiug.
SUMMERS SPEECH.-The demand for Senator Sum-
ler's recent speech on Our Foreign Relations is
almost universal. The President of the United States
las made a request that the first copy of the large
ype edition may be sent TO him. The Secretary of
has expressed the opinion that Sumner, by his
Peech, has . performed a great public service" and
las arranged for sending copies 10 the United States
Iiplomatic and commercial representatives abroad.
ne speech is ready for distribution, in two editions,
ne for sale at twenty five cents and the other mailed
parties who send their address and two postage
lamps. 1t will be a pamphlet of eighty pages.
The army telegraph has been greatly improved by
he necessity of adopting it for military uses. In
bo u III u itkuAhi CSS SfP 10 ohi6N
nj its cypher Is TO be seen on numerous wagons.
he old system Of stretching it on poles in glass in
Nations has been abandoned. Ii was two slow by
Ids. The wire now used is a very fine one, in
ulated completely by a thick coating of gutts per-
Ia. Ii is carried in wagons on rests. and paid out
nd set almost as rapidly as an ordinary march.
is stretched along fences and over bushes three or
Iur feet from the ground, in secl1ded places, or
on slender poles, (also carried in wagons)
here il would be an obstruction. In the late ad-
ance of Rosecrans' army. the wire was laid from
to Cowan, a distance of seven miles, i'll three
nd a half hours. An instrument has been intro
uced which any one who can spell can operate.
GOLD MINES IN CANADA-There is a great rush
D the gold mines in the county of Beauce, about
miles from Quebec. There are about a
thousand persons At the ''diggings, which are said
be exceedingly rich. The gold district extends
yer n distance of fifty miles, part of it running
trough the suburbs of Quebec. Some nuggets,
nearly an ounce of pure gold, have been
ouud, and it is stated that Jumps much larger in
ize have been washed out. This has been found on
ne Chaudiere. The Toronto Globe says there can be
10 doubt that gold exists in considerable quantities
n the region, but there is reason TO believe that, like
ne deposits of North Carolina, large capital will be
eeded to dig and crush the matrix in which il lies,
nd the returns will not be more ample than these of
rdinary industrial enter prises.
The CENTRAL PARK, NEw IoRK-Central Park
ontains eight hundred and forty three acres. which
ost nearly $500 an acre. or u total of So, 1855
he improvements to January LIST, 1868, cost SS, $685.
"A or n total cost Of : 1924 25. The assessed value
{ three wards surrounding the Park were, in 1856
efore it was commenced. S2f, 0O0, 900, and it is now
At $50. 000, 600. The average daily force
nployed on the Park during its preparation. was
thousand, aud on some days three thousand six
updred wOrkmen were engaged. The highest point
the Park is at Eighty-second street, where Ii IS
ne hundred and forty feet above tide water; the
west point is at One hundred and Seventh street,