The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-02-04
miscellaneous News.

A VERY SENSIBLE LADY-Queen Victory has for
hidden the use Of tobacco in Windsor Caste-eyen
i'll the Prince OF Wales's apartment. Z
The Mississippi squadron comprises Sc vessels,
over ] 500 officers and 10000 men, in 8 divisions,
each commanded by a U. Z. Navy Lieutenant Com
mander. The vessels building will raise the number
to l0l.
WHAT GENERAL GRANT HAS Done 1t is said that
General Grant has captured, since his campaign in
the west commenced, no less than four hundred and
seventy-two cannon and ninety thousand prisoners
from the enemy.
The Supreme Tribunal Of Madrid has just given
final judgment in a suit which had been under lti-
Cation two hundred and forty years, and which in
volved the succession to the inheritance OF Francisco
Pizarro, the famous invader and coGqueror of Peru
III 1882
The amount of travel through Chicago during the
past summer and autumn was unprecedented. The
Times says Chicago's ninety four hotels are now,
and have been for some months. crowded 10 the brim,
and every train running in and out of the city is
filled with passengers.
The Merchant 3 Magazine for November has a COM
piete Alphabetical list of the vessels which have been
captured by the rebel privateers since the rebellion
broke out. 1t comprises a list Of us vessels, OF
0,S99 tuns.
The French never succeed we'll in colonization;
they become untitled for such a condition by their
love of and devotion to war. Madame Louise VAL
Tory, III "A recent work on Algeria, says that - run
away conscripts, swindlers, iOrettes and cheraiiers
d'indusfrie, form the bulk or the cOlOnists."
lHE PRESIDENT AND his fROCLAMATiOS.-N nile
/ am III my present position l shall not retract> or
modify the emancipation proclamation nor shall l
return to slavery any person who Is free by the terms
OF that proclamation, or by any of The Acts of Con-
gress.'' These are noble words, and, though no one
should have ever believed that there was any danger
that Abraham Lincoln would retracf any part Of the
proclamation of emancipation, all honest men feel
relieved TO have once more an affirmation Of the Pres
sident's arm adherence to his former proclamation
of liberty.
n REBEL FINANCE PROJECT II Congress will, at
its next session, pass q law, that after the LIST day of
May, 1864, all notes issued prior TO January
1864, shall cease TO be currency, and shall not
be received in payment Of public dues, but be regard
ed as promises TO pay g six months after a treaty of
peace"-permitiing the notes to be funded between
the lst of January and the 1st OF May in bonds of
such interest as the notes called for when first issued
the whole difficulty of withdrawing the currency
will be met, and the evil removed, without any more
hardship or annoyance than will attend any scheme
that may be Observation-Disclosures Enquirer
FREE SEATS IN CHCRcH.-The Archbishop of York
has recently consecraIed three churches in which all
the seats are flee. He highly approves the plan, and
remarks that " while there were social distinctions
which no one wished to remove, and which were
quite right in ordinary life, these ought to be left
behind at the door of the church. folded up like UNI
brellas, and all should appear before their Lord and
God us perfectly equal. as sinners seeking his mercy"
FLED In DIsGRACE-The ex-Controller of State,
G. K Warren, has proved n defaulter in the sum of
ST., 900, and has fed the State. He lett on the Pam
ANA steamer of Jan. Sd. Although a single man,
ii seems that his habits were SO ex,ravagant and ex-
pensive that he could not live on "A salary of 50 200
a year, and to raise money TO crafty his appetires he
deliberately ~disgraced the State, the party which Sc
lected him, and sacrificed his ow reputation for life.
He has been tried and found wanting IN the essential
poIIt Of honesty. He has lived fast, and probably
gambled in feet with the money OF the State, and
when the time for reckoning came found himself un-
able TO restore it.-Sac. Union.
WHAT JEFF. HoLDs-The New York Herald of
December 9Th has the following encouraging survey
of jeff dominious
By LOngstreet's failure We see the rebellion COM
PEELED TO r%elinquish its final hold upon the last grand
outpost by which it may have retained control over
the interior and held the upper country that forms
so grand q part of the Southern States. Now it is
restricted to the belt that follows the line of the
Atlantic from Richmond TO Mobile. shut up between
the mountains and the sea, 6anked on the one hand
by the Allegheny and Cumberland Mountains. that
biistle with Northern bayonets, on the other by the
ocean, that teens with Northern guuboats. It's pre-
sent territory is represented by the three points of
Richmond, Charleston and Mobile. Such a country
is weak at every point, and while il hardly possesses
n sufficient depth for natural cohesion. it will doubt
less soon be demonstrated that it possesses but little
lower of resistance.
MEADE's LAST CAMPAIGN.-The recent campaign
Of General Meade is a very prominent topic of con-
versation in Congressional circles, and | find that
there is a very general dissatisfaction with General
Meade. 1t Is ascertaIned beyond the shadow of a
doubt that he has an army which outnumbers that
under Lee by at least thirty FIVE thousand, and there
can he no reasonable expectation that the Army eff
the Potomac will be relatively stron ger in the Spring.
troops, it should not be forgotten that the rebel Gov
eminent is enforcing its CONSUMPTION laws reuorsely,
and the Richmond Congress is expected to amend
them this Winter so as TO include all persons under
the age of Gfty.-.N Y. Erening Post.
Poor AND AGED CLERGYMEN.-A London paper
says 10 900 clergymen in the Church of England do
not receive more than 5000 each per year, and there
as no fund for their support when they fail, as many
of them musr. to ut a. good lVjnvS" 4 mOyamapt
is now on foot to raise such a fund. Many of these
men are now employed as assistants to the rectors.
and have no security for their paltry salary when
they are old.
PERSONAL HABITS OF PRESIDENT LINCoLN-Wash-
ington correspondence of the Boston Journal says:
Mr.. Lincoln is an early riser, and he thus is able
10 devote two or three hours every morning to his
voluminous private correspondence, besides glancing
at n morning paper. At nine he breakfasts, then
walks over to the War Office to read such war tele-
grams as they give him, occasionally some are with
heidi and TO have a chat with General Halleck on
the military situation, in which he takes great inter-
est. Returning TO the White House, he goes through
with bis mornings mail, in company with a private
secretary. Some letters are endorsed and sent TO the
Observation-Disclosures are entrusted to the Secretary,
who makes a minute of the reply which he is TO
make-and others the President retains, that he may
answer them himself. Every letter receives attention.
matter how they are Worded, or how inelegant the
may be.
ESCAPE OF THE GUERILLA MoRGAS--John Nor
gan, the celebrated Guerilla chief, who made such a
notable raid into Indiana and Ohio, and was captur-
red with all his men, escaped from the Ohio Peniten-
tiary at Columbus. Ohio, one night with six Of his
Bennett, Taylor, Sheldon, Hines,
Hockersmith, and Magee, and reached Canada. By
patient labor for nearly four weeks. with email
pocket knives, they dug through the floors of their
cells, composed OF about one foot Of stone and brick.
down into a four-feet sewer. Two weeks ago one of
the escaped prisoners asked the guard for q few