The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-02
Foreign Summary.

The city council OF Macon, Ga, has fixed the license
to retail spirituous liquors in that city at 80 900.
Some curious genius states, as the result of an
estimate. that n million one dollar Treasury notes
would weigh over n ton, and make a pile as high as
the Washington monument. This will give some idea
of the labor of preparing the Treasury note issue.
SIGEL AND RED TAPE-Gen. Sigel. it seems. is not
an admirer of the red tape system. 1t is told of him
that, not long since. he procured n steamer load
Of soft bread for his troops and carried it to Belle
Plain. where the officers in charge of the landing
would not allow IL to be landed. The General imme-
diately marched n force to the wharf sufficient to
Overawe the hIrbor masters guard, and triumphantly
took the bread on shore.
END or THE wORLD-Prophecies are again cur
rent respecting the approaching end Of the world.
Oue reverend gentleman Of the Millerite persuasion
predicts universal dissolution in 1S67-6S. Another
seer names the l1th Of August, as the closing up Of
creation. aiding that n worlds convention will assem-
BILE ut Cincinnati 20 " settle up the business of the
past aud arrange matters for the future"
\ Specific FOR DRUNKARDs.-A physician ut one
Of the Paris hospitals has Ist curel a case of deiir-
Jun remeHs. brought on by excessive drinking. by
the singular remedy Of s~uhjecting the patient To- the
constant influence of the .apor of spirits. The plan
Is not new, having been long used in Sweden to radio
ally cure drunkenness The persons afticted TO
drink are shut up in a cell, and ali the food supplied
them Is impregnatei with brandy. At the end of
four or i've days they become completely Disguised
with the taste and smell, and they come out radically
cured. The slightest smell of spirits at last makes
them shIdIer.
EUtNCfPATIOS ~ MiRYLAxD-The Old War
Horse" ~ Ex-Governor Hicks il familiarity styled,
has got upon the right track at last. The war has
opened his eyes In the presence Of a number of
gentlemen he recently declared that 80 he was now
convinced there never would be any peace for the
country until Slavery was abolished throughout the
lind, and 20 this end he supported President Lincoln's
PROCLAMATION and plan of compensated emancipation
heart and hand"
Nav DISCOVERY IN GuSxERY.-Great importance
II attached IN tho iuyeurinn. nF AZ Ericsson which
has rendered practicable the discharge of 15-inch
guns within the turrets Of his Monitors. as was
demonstrated on the PdSSGic. This achievement, it
Is said, i destined To create n revolution quite as
wrle- spread rs Was the result Of the naval engage
ment between the Monitor and Merrimac- Capt
Ericsson says-"I have much satisfaction in assur-
ing you that our success is complete; not a single
dIhIculty remains to be overcome. We handle the
~ pound guns with as little discomfort, and with
more facility, than Hull and Perry handled their 40
Founders
PAPER SToCE FROM wooD-An old paper manu-
hcturer writes with great confidence and enthusiasm,
(says the Springfield Republican, Of n new process
Tor reducing wood to paper pulp, which has been dis
covered by Professor Chadbou rne of Williams and
BOviOin Colleges. Ii depends upon a combination
OF Chemical and mechanical principles, by which the
woody hbers are alike strengthened and separated
from each other. The process Is pronounced by
practical paper makers and patent examiners as
entirely unique, and quite certain IN results. Ii in
wolves no change Of machinery and no additional
expense, except for the pulp machine. which will cost
from nifty TO one hundred dollars. If no unforeseen
difficulty arises in working it on n large scale, il will
reduce the cost Of paper pulp to less than one half its
present value.
OCEAN HIGHwAYs-PersOns who do not nav a
special attention to nautical matters, are likely enough
10 suppose, that considering the large number of
vessels ut sea, the surface of the great ocean must be
dotted over, almost in every part, with the sails of
the countless fleet. This, however, is not the case;
"a ocean, like tie land, has its frequented highways
ahd Its vide regions Of loneliness. If an observer,
furnished With a forty Herschel telescope power of
's''n, could be eleysted to n height great enough to
NSe hun Z view OF the whole Atlantic, he would be
NlueK by behoding hundreds of vessels following
oe another upon certain lines along a very irregular
curse while over a very large portion of the surface
a' q saul would be visible In the extensive spaces
will be seen. ~