The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-02-19
Foreign Miscellany.

New London, Conn, has been selected by the
Commissioners as the best port for the new Navy
Yard.
DIR. Holmes ~playfully limits the necessities CT life
in these war times to " bread and the newspaper"
Paper collars have advanced from % cents to 40
cents a dozen.
Il Is positively rumored that Gen Dissatisfaction
is about TO be removed from command Of the Union
forces.
Macaulsy's prophecy OF n university at TimbuctoO
has been really realized by the establishment Of q
college at MOnrovia, Africa.
The Missouri SESATE.-The emancipationists have
elected twenty-five members Of the Senate Of Mis-
souri,, and the pro-slavery party eleven.
Longfellow. the author of " Hiawatha' has re-
ceiyed another tribute to his genius as a poet. in the
translation into Latin Of that poem. Ii is a London
publication.
The United States Signal corps in Virginia have
just been provided with the most powerful spy glasses
known TO the service, and can discern the movements
Of forces nearly fifty miles.
There is a belt of country stretching through the
entire length OF Northern Arkansas. so completely
eaten out that no army can occupy il until I e grass
Of another season shall afford forage for draught
animals.
The news Of Seymour's election as Governor of
New York was first communicated to our forces at
Port Royal by the rebel pickets. The result was
celebrated at Charleston AMI Savannah By bonfres
and general jubIlation.
Chicory, the most common adulteration of coffee,
has gone up to seven and n half cents per pound. II
is the root Of an English dandelion, claimed to be
''equal to the best Java"
Four ladies were robbed in n y. Y. omnibus. The
thief was q woman who wears false arms which hang
innOcently in her lap, while her real pickers and
stealers' are at work under the ladies' dresses.
The Richmond Examiner says that unless some
plan Is devised 90 increase the supply OF coal there
must he an unusual amount Of suffering in Richmond
this winter. Coal is not dear. but so scarce that
money will not buy it.
The Norfolk Union AYERS that the rebel govern
ment is about to close the whole of the newspaper
Offices in the COME leracy. II needs all the paper
that can be had to make Confederate scrip.
A new dish is all the rage at the refreshment de-
partment OF the London exhibition, and various
recipes for its construction have been published. Ii
IS called " maizena,, " and is nothing more than cur
well known Yankee hasty pudding.
\ countryman. while passing through one of the
streets Of Boston q few days since saw an elegant
e~quiPpage passing, and after gazing in wild amaze
ment, first on the handsome driver, and then on the
gentleman with folded arms and white cravat, he
asked. q" Which owns the team 80
The East Boston sugar house company, financially
embarrassed some three years ago, has since that
time paid off n debt Of $780, 900, aud in addition
has declared n dividend of five per cent. Not BAD for
war times. Even the stockholders were astOnished.
Gen. Mcneil, who ordered the execution of ten
Confederate prisoners ut Palmyra, Mo some time
since, and whose surrender is now demanded by jeff.
Davis, Is responsible for his action to the Missouri
State authorities, under whom he holds his commits
sion.
and for the following States, the votes Of soldiers
legally entitled to vote under the laws Of their respec-
tive states. have been taken and officially declared,
with the following results