The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-02
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Summary.

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be completed IN 1866, and will cost sixty millions Of
dollars :
The d" No Cards. mania is extending. We notice
that the Canada papers attach ." No cards issued TO
their funeral notices
Communipsw. London correspondent of the Boston
Post. says that there are now over sixty journals IN
England upon the side of the north.
German art has just sustained a heavy loss Hen
~ de Hess, the famous battle painter, died recently
nj Munich, aged 65. He was for many years diIec-
tor Of the royal museum
The Chicago Journal says that the farmers Of
southern and central Illinois are going into the cotton
raising business in earnest. Six Car loads of seeds
were sent from Cairo last week TO different points on
the Illinois Central
The longest steamboat in the world was launched
in New York. Her Dimensions are as follows length,
4O7 feet; breadth Of beam, SO feet; depth Of hold,
lOl feet. She Is called the Dictator, and is to run
between New York and Albany.
The Richmond Enquirer says" Our tables, our
clothes, our very liberties, must be put on a war
footing in all things" Another turn Of the slave
holders screw upon the poor people Of the South.
There is a brigade of mounted infantry in Rose
Grams army which IS armed with a novel weapon.
Instead Of the sabre they carry n hatchet, and are so
well driHeI that they can throw 1t n distance of fifty
yards and not miss the mark
DEATH OF 4 REBEL GENERAL--Brigadier General
Daniel y DODelsOn, commanding the Department Of
East Tennessee. died near Knoxville in April. He
was n nephew OF General Andrew jackson, was born
near the Hermitage, and his education was acquired
partially under the supervision of the old hero. He
entered the service in 1861, and was conspicuous for
his bravery at PerryviIIe and Murfreesboro.
Won't Bend THE KSEE.-Some amusement was
occasionet in the Canadian Assembly the other day
by IA decision of the Speaker to the effect that he
would not kneel before the representative of Her
Majesty, IN presenting the address. The authority
OF Lord Esersley, late speaker Of the British House
of Commons, was cited in proof of that mode of pro-
ceedIng; but the Speaker declared that sooner than
see II introduced into the Legislative Assembly, he
would resign.
SEVERE ARMY ORDER RESPECTING SECESSION SYM
PATHIzERs. General Burnside has issued IN order
pronOHncing the penalty of death on all persons
found guilty of aiding the rebels. Persons sympa-
thizing with the rebels will be arrested and tried, or
sent beyond the lines. The order says IL must
be distinctly understood that treason expressed or
implied will not be tolerated in this Department
SURGEONS COLLEGE.-Mr. Spurgeon has under
his supervision n College, containing some fifty stu
dents They are set to preaching as soon as they
enter the Institution, on the principle that the tongue
power, so far as a preacher is concerned, is above
any other power. a Baptist is the theological tutor.
AMERICAN BIBLE SocIETY-The financial year Of
the American Bible Society closed on the 31st of
March. IL has been q year Of great prosperity,
although the condition of the country has been of
great trial. The friends Of the Bible have been con-
WINGED that unusual exertions were wanted, and they
have not been disappointed. The receipts of the
year were S422,5SS- The whole issues of the year
were l,2j7 .2f3 volumes Of Bibles, Testaments, and
parts OF the Bible.
Living is cheap in Japan. You can buy a first
class house for thirty dollars; hire n servant for so
cents n month, and live comfortably for two cents n
day. or fourteen cents a week. What a country for
young married people to set up housekeeping in
But then every people have their little peculiarities,
and that of the japanese is obliging a man to rip
himself open on very slight provOcation. On the
whole 70 Will hardly pay TO emIgrate to japan.
SPIRrTUALIsN IN CHISA--It appears by an article
in the last number OF BIacbLcoof that those Celes-
tials who invented printing and gunpower while the
outside world was yet in barbarous darkness, have
been practising the modern art of Spiritualism for
ages They have their mediums. who. like ours, are
dark, and that the spectators shall attend lin n
proper frame Of mind" But in one respect they
have greatly the advantage of Western necromancers,
Inasmuch a the messages are written down through
the agency of persons ignorant Of the art Of lcrit-
ing. This is indeed an advance on the ingenuity Of
the " outside barbariIns"
The Nashville Union. of the 18th instant, says
'FOrty-swO Union families Of East Tennessee were
sent beyond the rebel lines by Gen. Bragg n few days
ago Every species of outrage and insult was offered
by the rebel rufhaus to these loyal martyrs. whose
wrongs will certainly be most terribly avenged by
the strong arm of n powerful people"
And yet when Gen. Burnside orders that rebels,
men and women, who are within our lines, and re-
naming here TO give Information to the enemy,
shall, within reasonable time, and in all safety aud
comfort, be sent to the side To which they render
their allegiance, coPPerhead newspapers denOunce it
rs cruelty and oppression, and argues - ~timidity'' in
the General.
The BAYOU TEcHE REGIoN.-This section in which
Banks recent successes took place, is distant, some
seventy-hve miles we { from New Orleans. Ii is the
country traverse1 by the Atchafalaya water system
of blyous. the name of that river signifying Lost
Water, the AtchafIlaya being the old deserted chan
mel Of the Re- river, and now a grass widow of n
stream keeping up old family connections and through
Berwick's Bay, opening TO the rebels 4 port on the
Gulf which has been busy with cOntraband trade
until now Brashear City, Centreville, Patterson
vile and Grand Lake. all points recently mentioned
IN our dispatches, have been hitherto held by rebel
forces. This important communication with the out
side world is now fully strangled and lost to the
rebels.
Some of the rich men of Boston are David
Sears. taxed on 81 ,O65 900; Moses Williams, $685.
S6I3.O0O; John Bryant, SS63 900; John C. Gray,
S6OI 900; Au,ustus Hemmenway, 81 600, 900; II.
II. Huunewell. 1886, 900; William Phillips, $780,
900; Josiah Quincy, S556, 600; John Simmons.
S5S4, 900. There are three hundred and thirty in
dividuals, firms and corporations taxed for S10O,0 900
each and less than $780, 900, besides numerous
estates held in trust, and varying in value from one
to three or four hundred thousand dollars each, and
two OF three which reach the large sum of one mil
lion dollars each
Mas. PARTISGToS on WEDDINGS" It is n solemn
thing, Is matrimOny-a very solemn ~thing-where
the minister comes into the chancery with his sur
them man and wife. 1t ought TO be husband and
wife, for il isn't every husband that turns out to be
n man. [ declare | never shall forget when Paul put
the nup;ial ring on M finger, aud said, with my
gAIs 1 thee eniow.' He used to keep a dry goods
store then, and I thought he was going to give me-
the whole there was in il. | was young and simple,
and didn't know till afterwards that 1t only meant
one calico gown a year. Ii Is a lovely sight to see
young people '~plighting the trough as the song
says, and coming up TO consume their vows
SLIDELL GIVES UP THE CONFEDERATE CAUsE-A
OF 81 Il DNaf