The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-09

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Shanghai, the name of one Of the principal ports
in China. Is compounded Of two Chinese characters,
translated shdnS aud hdi, and correspond in mean
ing With the English words ADORE and dcater. The
native population IS one and a half millions, and
there are about ten thousand foreigners.
Harpsr's Magazine has been q good institution
for authors and engravers. The proprietors have up
10 this time issued over eight thousand illustrations
IN its pages, produced at a cost Of two hundred and
nifty thousand dollars, and the entire sum disbursed
to authors, artists, mechanics and manufacturers
has been fully tcO millions Of dollars.
A London paper says, at present 10 mails pass
through the pneumatic dispatch tube from the sta
ton to the district post Office during the day, and
not only letters, but trucks of iron of the weight OF
five tons have passed, and adventurous visitors now
and then perform the journey 10 their great delight.
The three squadrons of British war vessels now in
North American waters, South America and on the
coast Of California amount TO q total of ~sfty-four
ships, with a tonnage of $3.50 tons, and carrying
95l guns and IL ,657 men. This was the force near
the close of last year, and it has been considerably
augmented since that time. These vessels are all
well found and supplied.
CHICAGO, May 15-The Springfield, H., Journal
states that Ross, Steel & Co. had contracted to build
three hundred and fifty miles of the railroad to the
Pacific. The division lies between the boundary of
Kansas, beyond which the Union Pacific Railroad
will properly commence. Ii Is intended to have
forty miles opened the present year. In addition to
the land grants by Congress, it is said the company
a. Oy BhlCnA-t IIOlu blliI v = NAH a
million acres Of valuable lands on the route. The
whole line through Kansas is to be completed within
four years from date. The contracts for rails, spikes
&c, are ALREADY made, and the work will be pushed
on vigorously, without cessation.
HARD UP-Jef Davis, melted thereto by the re-
cent bread riots, has issued a proclamation calling
upon the southern people to plant corn and other
food for ma n and beast, instead Of cotton and tobacco.
He cOnfesses that the rebel army is on half rations,
and that the supplies for animals are in q worse con-
dition than those for the men. He actually boasts
that several important POINTS have only been saved
from capture by the cOncealment Of the fact that
there was no ammunition with which to defend them.
The rebels have played a game of brag all through
the war, but il is "A game that is about played out now.
SKILLFUL SURGERY.-The surgeons at Washington
lately performed an operation on Gen. Tower, by
which a hattened fragment of a bullet was extracted
from his leg. The main portion of the ball was ex-
tracted from his leg. The main portion of the ball
was extracted after the second Bull Run battle, but
his wound refusing to heal, his physician concluded
that some portion of il was left. Surgeon Clymer
applied the probe invented by the French surgeon,
NelatOn, to meet Garibaldi's case, and found Il piece
of lead an inch long. and half an inch wide, the
ragged and irregular edges fattened against the bone.
The end Of the probe is armed with a knob of bisque
or glazed porcelain, which is constantly marked
when brought in contact with lead. By the aid of
this instrument surgeon Clymer ascertained the To-
cation of the fragment and extracted it successfully.
The head gunner on the pirate alabama is one of
the most accomplished artillerists that was ever in
the British Navy. lie was paid OF and got his dis
charge n few weeks before the sfIG6GHd sailed, and,
instead OF enlisting in Her Majesty's Navy took a
commission on the pirate at the very round sum of
two hundred pounds sterling a month, in gold, which
ar the present price of Confederate paper is the mod
crate salary OF %forty-two thousand dollars a year.
We see the following quoted from the Southern
Literary Messenger for January 1868. This is
plain talk
That benign institution of Slavery, which it is
now the pride and glory of the South to ascribe to
divinity, aud which has proven to be next to the
devoted patriotism and undaunted resolution of her
sons, the great element of power in the Confederacy,
will prove in preventing too heavy influx from
foreign shores. of that class of population devoted to
mental pursuits. another bulwark against those ten
denotes to Democracy, which have been the PandOra's
box of disintegratiOn and ruin to all republics"
THE Cn,nE-r RrrELLIoN.-The TAPPING movement
still evinces signs of vitality-the progress of affairs
tending in favor of the insurgents. There is certain
ly IL large Imperial army in the field intended ex-
pressly for operating against Marking. This force
would have acted in concert with the disciplined
Chinese known as Wards men, had not tire circum-
stances which resulted in the suspension OF Burge-
vine, Wards successor, occurred. The Taipings are
known TO be in great force at Marking, and being
well armed and provided, can only be dislOdged by
artillery Ii was for this purpose that the co-opera-
ton OF the force of disciplined Chinese under Burge-
vine was required-aDd hence il was that the undue
urging Of Burgevine to start upon the expedition,
caused the misunderstanding between him and the
Manrains, which resulted in the catastrophe that led
to his suspension.
THE CAMPHoR TREE-It is something more than
n wonder that n tree, IN ITSELF so valuable, IN lis
productions a neces ity so absolute, and so entirely
susceptible of successful cultivation in the U. States,
should 90 long be totally neglected by our agricultur-
lists. As the camphor tree Is quite as hardy as any
Of our apple trees, there IS, perhaps, no good reason
why IL should not succeed well where ever the apple
tree will grow. 1t is indigenous to all parts Of China.
Japan, FOrmOsa, BurmIh. Chinese Tartary, and
f0uTishes even rs far north As the AmoOr country
but it is found in the greatest abundance along the
eastern coast of China, between Annoy and Shanghai.
In the districts OF kwang-tung and Fu-chein il grows
in dense forests, the trunks attaining a size equall-
ing that OF any of our North American forest trees.
The principal market for campnOr lumber is Annoy,
camphOr gum OF commerce does not in any case
exude from the tree, AS has been so generally sup
posed. but Is obtained from the leaves, twigs and
smaller roots, by distilation.
Coop WORDs.-At the great meeting held in Man
chester to protest against the laxity of the British
government in the case of the Alabama, Professor
Newman and Goodwin Smith, Reg US Professor of
History at Oxford, both men of high academic and
literary repute, took the ground that the government
was responsible To American citizens for every iOta
of damage done by Confederate war vessels escaping
the ports through its own want of vigilance. NO
man" said Professor. Newman, should be elected
10 Parliament who Is not in favor of paying an in
demnity TO the Americans for the losses inflicted by
the Alabama" mo nation, - said Goodwin Smith, |
arguing the same point, - ever inflicted upon another
a more fragrant or a more maddening wrong. No
nation with English blood in its veins had ever borne
such a wrong without resentment. The case of the
Alabama bore no analogy TO the case of sale of NUM-
tons of war. She was nos like munitions of war
exported to the territory of the purchaser. She did
not gO-she was never meant TO GO into a Confed-
crate port up 20 this moment she had never entered
n port in the Confederate territory. Built and
equipped in n British port, manned by British sea-
men. with The English flag nyipD. she went forth TO