The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-09-17
Miscellaneous.

CIyCISSATI, Aug. 23.-Gov. Brough has issued q
proclamation to persons in Ohio, who are preparing
20 resist the draft. warning them to desist from such
purposes.
Ohio, last night, asserted that Pesce Men, on the
Peace Platform, would be nominated at Chicago, and
that that Convention would be harmonious.
Garibaldi has been elected Grand Master of Free
MIsons in Italy.
Oregon has II, 1854 men enrolled from which to
make q draft in case one is called for.
"A large Mcclellan meeting was held in New York
on the night of the 10th August. The number
present was estimated at $4,000. Great enthusiasm
was manifested.
Barnum's monstrously large ft woman died in
Drooklyn the other day. She was Mrs. Jane Pisbon,
formerly exhibited IS Miss. Jane Campbell. Her
exhibition weight was $50 pounds. Ten men we're
employed TO get her into her coffin, which was so
wide that the door Of the house had to be enlarged to
enable its removal. She was q. perfect mountain Of
flesh.
NEw ZEALAsD-Advices from New Zealand of
May 10Th. mention another repulse of the British in
an attack upOn the natives. One hundred British
were killed and wounded, including several promi-
nent officers. In another engagement the natives
were HOrsted.
Prices are higher By n hundred per cent. in India
than they we're ever before. The silver rupee, worth
about dtiy cents. will not buy as much as twenty-five
cents in England. Articles of ladies dress there cost
five times as much as they do at home. Ard yet
India is draining Europe of specie and keeps il all.
n H'GthOiA VI gnu hIROAES ~ Az q ocu "a . q EiSAnuId
OF paper.
4 pamphlet published in London this year, says
an exchange. containing q narrative of the cruise of
the -iia6am0. :" by one of her crew" gives q list of
men on board the alabama, their citizenship and
other particulars. II specifies forty-nine Englishmen
and eight Scotch and Irish. or Il total Of hty-seYeu
British subjects, of whom two drew English pensions
aud eighteen belonged TO the Royal Naval Reserve.
The LAST RESORT General Howell Cobb is max
ing speeches through Georgia. endeayoring to revive
the waning spirits OF the people, 20 whom he saws:
ShOnld all ether means fajl 20 win cur indepen-
deTce-shOuid the men refuse 10 fight longer our Dat
tles-l will, as Il last resort, assemble the women of
our land and march them forth for duty in the field"
RA1s1xG.-The New York city newspapers, on or
before the LIST of August, raised their prices from
two cent TO a I'VE cent standard. The ADVANCE would
would have taken place earlier but for the disiuclina-
ton of one establishment 10 venture upon the expert
ment. The increase and increasing cost of all mate
rails that enter into the manufacture of a newspaper
has made this step n positive necessity, and one which
can no longer be deferred.
Sir Matthew Hale says: Converse not with a
liar, a swearer, nor n man OF obscene or wanton Ian
guage; for either will corrupt you, or at least il will
hazard your reputation To be of the like making: and
il it doth neither, yet il will h!l your memory with
such discouTses that il will be troublesome TO you in
after time; and the returns of the remembrance of
the passs ges which you have long since heard of this
nature, will haunt you when your thoughts should
be better employed"
The LAST Mas, THE LAST DOLLAR AND The LAST LOAF
A soldier who has passed through the late raid south Of Rich
mond SAVE: The impression on my mind sbou, the rebellion
Il that the rebels are nOw usng their last man, last dollar and
last loaf OF bread. There is absolutely nothing in reserve. If
beaten nov, they go up suddenly and surely. We could see
this everywhere. TIE last card IS now being played, and If lost,
all Is lost for them. I do hope our people will bold out, no mat
ter what happens TO Grant or any body else. A little psrSerer-
ance is bound 20 win the day. Al rebels want 70 end the war
now. They prefer satjugation 20 another year of war;
TEE NEW CASADIAS NIylszRy-The new Canadian Minis
try - announced Hon. George Brown, editor Of the Toronto
Globe, IS 70 be President Of the Executive Council. IN place Of
Hon Isaac BlchanHan, resigned; Hon Oliver Mo~at TO be
Postmaster General, in place Of Hon NJ H. Foley resigned;
place Of Hon John Simpson. resigned. Msssrs. Brown, Movat
aud McDongall are At the same time sszetted as members Of the
Executive Council.
Eighty immense guns are about 70 b. manufactured at ".
EUUPpfs celebrated foundry in Prussia They are for the Rus
sian Government. and will he mounted at CTuHstaat- They will
carry = BAH Of two hundred pounds weight. which will perfOrate
a fOaT-jnch plate az the distance of three miles. Extraordinary
Preparations for their casting are in progress az an immense
building, which contains fifty steam engines. The hammer to
be used weighs 100000 pounds. and the anvil will be OF CORES
pondins weight.
TIE HANCOCK MASsIoS.-The members Of the Coal Exchange
4 house for General Hancock. The fund has already reached
the neghbOrhOod Of $4,000. 1t IA the purpose OF the donors
10 furnish the residence in "A magnificent style, and I'LL its lar
der- With all the necsssares required before presenting the
IL IL Intended
Mobile Bay. and having destroyed a large portion Of the rebel
gunhGats. Il j. quite probable that Commodore Farragut will
soon have the pn>sesslun Of the city itself The fact that rebel
gunbOa,s have been running up AMI down the bay shows that
none q c0ussqusnce can he placed now. The military force ut
Mobile, outside the forts now ia cur possession, must necessa-
ry oe small, 50 the Federal occupation of that city, which will
give . water communication TO the heart Of Alabama, may be
CONSIDERED q n1~d fact The captured fors arc shout twenty
I'VE q ises s0rth Of tbs city.