The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-05-07
Foreign News.

4 BIG CoUNTRY.-The distance between San Fran
Cisco aud New York, overland, is stated to be $500
miles.
a darkey's instructions for putting on a coat were,
''Fus de right arm, den de lef, and den gin one
general cOnwulshun."
ENGLISH MANIFESTATIONS nine thousand pounds
of these nuts were raised in Los Angeles county,
California, in 1862. They are OF better flavor than
the imported article.
\ Dublin dentist has left a surgeon $50 to cut his
head OF before i%nterment, SO as TO ease his mind
about being buried alive.
QUEER TITLE "A farce. recently produced in Ber-
lin. bears the title of - 800, 900 Devils" They must
have extraordinary facilities for raising the article in
Mr.. Seward dismissed the United States Consul at
Vienna. for his oficious and unauthorized request to
General Garibaldi TO enter the military service Of
this country.
e. LARGE ORDER-M. Chcrmar, Il Continental photo
~graphist, has received an order from an English
house for $4,000 copies of the photograph of the
Princess Alexandra OF Denmark.
INSECT CAKE-A recent letter from DR.. Living
stone. in Africa. tells of i thick atmosphere like
smoke, composed OF insects, which the natives collect
and make into a kind of cake, tasting like roasted
lCcusts, but hshy.
At the celebration of Forefathers' Day in New
York, the mayor Of that city, in responding to t.
toast com plimeutary to that great city. said she had
already given 5000 men and $4,000 900 for the
war, but they were a free will Offering, for which she
claimed no merit.
Jacob A. Westervelt, the New York ship builder,
has sold the chins made in his ship yard TO a con-
tractor. but that worthy finds it an unpleasant ioo 10
collect them, as the workmeu consider the chips their
perquisite, and the sale of them has created almost
a mutiny. The men make the yard a hot place Tor
the chip merchant.
Taylor, our Charge at st. Petersburg, thus describes
the daily press. - The daily press il a political da-
guerrotype. 1t SEXES the existing profile of affairs,
fixes it stifiy aud darkly upon the plate, nd at the
yarv iuSrau - Sratfers IFS immersion broadcast tbrpuph-
out the world"
NEGRO SoLDIERs--A bill has passed providing for
The reorganization of the Engineer Corps and for
other purposes, which is said TO embrace in one Of its
sections all the material provisions Of Thadleus Sic
veus's bill. which passed the House and was reported
adversely to by the Senate, for the enlistment, equip
Inent and payment OF African soldiers, without the
prohibition Of recruiting stations in the Border States.
\ NEw As-Pefroleum gas has been Introduce
into the s.. Nicholas Hotel, New York. With crude
petroleum at fifty cents per gallon. the uroprietors
estimate that they will make a saving OF Sl6, 900
per annum in their gas bills. The Manhattan COM
pany charged them nearly $4,000 a year.
V1CIssITUDEs-Sir Bernard Burke, in his book on
the vicissitudes Of families, mentions that the present
Sir Frederick Echliu, Bart, can neither read nor
write. and lives on charity. The widow of the late
SIR Samuel Norwich, Bart. "a sawyer.) Is q washer
woman at ketteriug.
WAsH1xGroy, March 25-Congressman Casey Of
Kentucky, who arrived today. expresses the opinion
that the rebels really mediate an invasion of that
state IN fuTCe- lnelE SyNtiJhlLsI>e expect lhein- ana
loudly boast that they will occupy the whole Of ken
lucky. The invasion Is a necessity with them, in
Casey's opinion. now that they have virtually lost
the Mississippi river.
The celebrated yacht America has been put in
commission at the BROOKLYN Navy Yard. She has /
been completely metamorphosed, the old rotten masts
and spars having been replaced by new ones. After
winning the famous yacht race at Cowes, this little
craft was purchased by q British nohleman, who Ill
timately disposed of her 10 blockade runners. She
was fitted out in England, and loaded with supplies,
with which she managed 10 run the blockade. The
rebels subsequently, sunk her, but she was raised by
our cruisers and brought home.
THE GuNBoAT MEBCEDITA-The gunboat .nerci-
9ifr has arrived ut Philadelphia from Port Royal.
damage which she received in her collision with
the Confederate ram Palmetto state before Charles
ton, was severe. Seven plauks and two timbers were
stove in, making q hole five feet vertically and three
feet horizontally. a hundred pound shell passed
through the ship, killing one Ames, and, passing into
the steam chamber, it exploded, scalding and killing
many, and SCATTERING the vessel badly.