The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-09
Foreign Summary.

In North Carolina tenpenny nails are passing cur
rent ut FIVE cents each.
Gen Siegel has been recalled to Washington, and
has been assigned n very important command.
The Richmond Enquirer admits that the rebel
confederacy has arrived at the verge of n precipice.
Weii--0rward march I. says Prentice.
The hotels in New York are filed to overlooking,
and it is necessary to telegraph or write a day or
two in advance, to obtain accommodations.
Ten thousand cows are required TO supply Boston
with milk. The quantity of milk annually consumed
IS $4,000, gallons at n cost to the consumers of
8 .O5i 200.
Al English naval officer friendly to the North,
reports that Commodore Maury has organized a
scheme fr capturing the United States squadron IN
the Mediterranean, with some new rebel irOn-clads
now nearly ready for use.
The amount Of money expended for the schools in
ChArlestowu, Mass. during the past year has been
S37 II. On the LIST of January there were 81
schools with 81 teachers and 4 1874 scholars The
salaries Of the teachers have ranged from Sl,4OO to
1925.
Down in Mississippi pins command two dollars a
paper. At this rite it is no trifing matter TO keep
the Southern ladies in pin-mOney.
tall chimney at the iron works in Worcester,
was removed lately a distance of 100 feet, without
disloeating a brick.
The Richmond HHig says the rebel soldiers every
where exceed the Yankees in plundering. This is
probably one Of the excelling qualities of the
superior race"
Quite a number of ladies in New York and a few
IN Boston, have veutured to appear without crino-
line We hope the ladies will tot take in sail at once;
let them grow small By degrees and beautifully
less
Four bas-reliefs of colossal dimensions have been
brought TO light IN the course OF the excavations in
the ruins of Babylon, carried on under the auspices
Of the French consul a; Bagdad. They contain
alegoristl figures. and long well preserved cuneitorm
inscriptions Several smaller sculptures represent
scenes Of Assyrian life.
The debt Of the Confederate Government is $780,
100000, ana the Charleston Mercury estimates the
yearly current expenses OF the Government in the
future ut sol ,OOU, UOO, or about "a a year to each
man, woman and child, white and black, in the
1900, 600 of population, eight or nine times as
much as any tax ever levied in South Carolina.
The exact complexion of the next House of Rep
preseLtatives i not yet definitely settled. There are
already elected So Republicans and "a Democrats.
The following are TO be elected vermont, 8 :;
West Virginia. 3 : Maryland. . California, 8 ; Mis-
souri, (vaeancy), l Kentucky 8. Total "a.
The new organ which has just been imported for
Music Hall, Boston, is described rs a splendid affair.
Its cost when finished will be upwards Of 500 900.
The directors OF the hall exp II that IL will of itself
be n considerable source of income. and claim it to
be Incomparably superior TO any instrument of IFS
kind in the country. and not surpassed in the world.
Steamboat regulations in California are quite diff
ferent from those in the Eastern States. There are
no berths free-ail must be paid for. Each article
Of baggage given into the pOrter's hands and checked,
is charged twenty-five cents, otherwise they are not
responsible, according to their own regulations.
ARTIFICIAL SIAMEsE TwISs.-An experiment was
lately made at Strasbourg to effect a flesh union be-
tween two animals. Two white rats were chosen,
and a wound being made in the side of each, they
were bound together. Union by the first intention
was found to have taken place on the sixth day.
After being released from the b~andages. the animals
walked side by side. An injection thrown into the
Jugular vein Of one was found to have entered the
suPerhclal femoral veins of the other.
MT francis P Knight has been appointed Consul
at N~"-Cnaung, China. He is i" Boston boy
the son OF Manasseh Knight, q well-known merchant
OF Boston, and has been engaged as n COMMISSION
ga shipping merchant for several years in China
and Japan. -Chaung is one of the Northern
ports lately opened under the French treaty. and
Mr. knight was the first American who established
himself there.
HE ADAMS EXPRESS RoDBERY.-The efforts tn re-
cover the S91 900 IN Government securities which
were stolen from the safe of Adams Express Compa-
ny near baltimore in April have been most successful.
All the parties (nIne in number) concerned in the
Ioopery nave been arrested. and are now confined in
fort AicHsnry. All but $1,000 OF the securities
were recovered, either from the persons of the thieves
CT from places where they had concealed them.