The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-16
FOREIGN NEWS!

The Boston Herald says that Gov. Seymour, of
New York, is to be the Democratic candidate for
President in 1864.
The working of the internal revenue law is most
satisfactory, yielding weekly receipts of more than
81. 800, 900.
The noted guerrilla chief. Richardson, with 400
men, has been captured near Covington, Tennessee.
The Feierals surrounded and surprised them.
\ regular commission issued 10y Gen. Stuart of the
rebel army, has been found on the person Of Miss
Ford, who is charged with having betrayed Gen.
Stoughton into the hands of the enemy.
The GOLDEN CITY.-This is the name of the new
and magnificent steamer lately launched and now
being fitted at New York for the Pacific passenger
trade between San Francisco and Panama. She is
$40 feet long, As feet breadth of beam, and her ton
mage Is $500 tons
GoLD-GoI is quoted in Richmond at three hum
dred. Ii advanced forty per cent in one day. In
New York it is one hundred and fifty, and on the
decline. If the money market be an indication of
the condition Of military affairs, the rebels must be
in n bad condition.
The Mississippi river is high. The recent opera
tions In the vicinity of Lake Providence and the
bavous Tensas and Mason, have inundated Louisiana
for one hundred miles aud washed the guerrillas
from many places. Even the Fe1erals under Nc
Clernand were obliged to move sixteen miles up the
river or 10 MiIiken's Bend. This inundation was
predicted by a late Memphis correspondent.
REBEL NEGRO SOLDIERs.-The pickets of the rebels
along portions of the line on the opposite side of the
RappahannOck are half negroes and half whites.
The negroes are armed and uniformed. The fact
appears beyond question-only from one hundred to
a hundred and fifty yards Intervening between our
pickets and the enemy's. They are plainly to be
distinguished.
The Richmond Dispatch, in its leader, speaks dis
couragingly Of the prospect for food, and says the
impression of -four and grain by the Government
discOurages production. The Examiner contains
an announcement that Beauregard had revoked all
furIOughs and called all absentees back.
LARGE CANNoN.-It is an error to suppose the
manufacture Of large cannon n perfectly modern
accomplishment The 22-inch gun of Constantine
pie. and the 2S-inch guns of the Dardanelles, were
made many years ago. The great gun of the krem-
lin, in Moscow, is reputed to be the largest in the
world. It is sc inches in calibre, Is feet long, and
weighs 81, 800 lbs. The inscription shows it to have
been made in 1856.
CHrLE-A civil engineer in Chile, offers to con-
struct Geographic communication from Valparaiso
TO Panama. He has been agitating the matter in
Santiago, and shares are being taken in that city.
He will proceed to New Granada to advocate this
scheme. Railways in Chile rapidly progress and
we will shortly be able to report that trains are
running uninterruptedly between Valparaiso and
Santiago.
CENSUS OF New ZEALAND-The results Of the CEN
sus which was taken on the 10Th of December, have
been published. The persons Of European descent
numbered $685., showing an absolute increase OF
39 1861 since 1858, or an increase of nearly 81 per
cent. in three years.