The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-01-21
Foreign Miscellany.

States debt. amounts to sixteen hundred millions, and
that Of the rebels, next July will be eighteen hundred
millions, according to the calculations Of their own
journals.
The Tribune has private advices from Havana,
which state that the Secessionists there have given
over the rebel cause as hopeless. One who had near
ly 100000 OF Confederate funds in his hands, has
realized on it aud fed TO parts unknown. 1t is un-
derstood there that q breakup Of the concern is near
at hand.
Among the passengers in the .7sia from England
IL Henry Ward Beecher. On the day before his de-
parture, Mr. Beecher was entertained at q farewell
breakfast by the Liverpool Emancipation Society.
complimentary addresses were addressed TO Mr..
Beecher, who made a speech Of warm friendship for
England.
Private advices received from Richmond, say that
the present session of the Confederate Congress will
be q stormy one. The question of reconstruction will
be fearlessly presented to the people by conservative
members from North Carolina. A great many mem
bers elected on the Last Ditch platform are said to
be secretly in favor Of the policy advocated by North
Carolina A conservative joint resolution will soon
be introduced, taking strong grounds in favor Of re-
construction.
By the arrival Of the steamer Fulton, from Port
Royal, We learn or the loss of the monitor Weehqlr-
ken, which sunk at anchor inside OF Charleston bar,
OF Sunday last 4 engineers and 20 Of the crew were
drowned. A furious gale prevailed at the time. The
other vessels sustained no damage. The situation
before Charleston remains unchanged. The Zee
haUheH lies in five fatboms Of water. but is expected
to be raised. She was lost from neglect and bad
management
u a tmeN SptCih ulSp1tCn says lnat LOvelgYs
bill for the punishment of shareholders. of which he
gave notice the first day Of the session, provides that
all slaves freed by the Emancipation proclamation Of
January lst, or by any Act of Congress, shall be
declared to be citizens, and competent witnesses in
all United States Courts and any one attempting TO
reduce any one so freed again TO slavery, shall be
declared guilty Of a misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine of not less than -. 900 nor more than SO, 900,
aud be imprisoned not less than one nor more than
ten years.
The WAY TO CHARLESTON OPESED-HELP FROM
ABovE-As If impatient at the slow advance of Jill
liBore and Dahlgren upon Charleston. Storm and
High Tides have come TO the aid of the Union forces,
and swept down from Charleston such RATS of heavy
timber that the way now seems clear of Instructions
from where our ironclads swing at anchor up to the
very water front of the city. Dahlgren's delay was
charged always to the torpedoes in the river. He
has help from above. The drift that the storm sent
down and landed along Morris Island could not have
made the trip without brushing these all away. Now
then, whether the HeTaLd'S story is true or not that
the great floating battery on which the reoels relied
IS part of the wreck. we may expect the Eavy to come
in for its share of the long postponed glory Of reduc-
ing Charleston.
CURE For CoNsUMPTIoN.-M. Montigny, French
consul in China, in reference to the use of arsenic by
the Northern Chinese. says they mingle it with their
smoking tobacco. According 10 missionaries who
have lived n long time there, tobacco free from arse
mic is not sold. The same witnesses assured the con-
sui that the arsenic smokers were stout fellows, with
g lungs like n blacksmith's bellows, and as rosy as
cherubs." The publication Of NJ. Montigny's state
ment has called out n letter from DIR. Londe, who
announces that some years ago, in the course of a
discussion. at the Academy of Medicine, on the agents
TO be employed to cure tuberculsr consumption, lie
told the assembled doctors that he had found but one
successful means Of cambating this dreadful disease;
that means was the smoking of arsenic. The doctor
re afirms his commendation of this remedy.
The Congress of the United States is getting more
radical than ever. MIR. Loveioy has introduced into
the House n bill TO abolish slavery in all the States
and Territories of the United States, and Mr.. Wilson
has done the same in the Senate. This is a direct
blow ut the Border States, which were, for their low
atty, exempted from the operation OF the proclamation
Of the LIST Of January. Slavery, indeed, has not been
inaptly designated the ''sum of all villanies.' It's,
and il Ought TO be, abolished ; but sudden and vio-
lent changes may operate as disastrously for the col
ored people as Tor the whites. The propositions of
Messrs Lovejoy and Wilson are not calculated to de-
velop the Union sentiment, which there is now such
strong evidence is beginning to show n bold front in
the Rebel States.
EFFECT OF TIE PREsIDENTs's AMNESTY ON REBEL
SoLDIERs-The HeraLd's special telegram from Gull
pepper Court house, the 18th, says: Deserters from
the Rebel lines state that a large number of soldiers
will take advantage of the amnesty offeied IN the
Presidents Proclamation as soon as they can become
acquainted with its conditions, and also say that the
soldiers would have come over TO us in bodies long
since. if they could have been satisfied they would
not at once have been impressed into the Union SER
vice. They have been assured by their officers that
such would be the fate of every deserter. No doubt
n large majority of North Carolina and the Border
States troops are heartily sick of the war. and desir-
Gus OF returning to their allegiance.
New YORK. December Sth.-The Richmond Uhie
OF the Sd calls for n reconstruction of the rebel cabi-
net, aud says We have n Department of State that
has not been able, for nearly three years, to establish
any relations with any other country; a Treasury
Department that has failed 10 keep its finances from
ruin; a War Department in the hands Of a chief
whose previous course Of life has been purely and
peculiarly civil; a Navy Department without n navy;
q POsiOfhce Department with q very shocking system
of mails. The Uhig adds We are getting into
deep water, and n feeling of dread is shaking the
souls Of the people. There is nothing that the Presi-
dent can do that will so reanimate their hearts as
calling TO his cabinet the Iisest and most experienced
men in the country. The time is propitious-the
occasion urgent-the people anxiously expectant, and
for his own continuing capacity for usefulne ss and
future fame, as well as on account of the sorely ne
cessitOus condition of the country, We earnestly press
the recommendation.
SANTA Cruz PETRoLEuN-The Santa Cruz Cali
Petroleum OIL Works Company, have worked wonders
in the last two weeks. 4 road has been constructed
TO the Petroleum Hills, one building designed as
quarters for wOrkmen is already finished, another,
two stories high and of larger dimensions, is almost
completed. The brick. for boiler and engine, and
for retort and still foundations, are already Oh the
ground. If the rains do not very much interfere
with the work. we shall illuminate Santa Cruz with
oil from our own hills before Spring.
The supply of petroleum and rock oil is giving out
in the East. Many OF the re6neries in Pennsylvania
and Canada have stopped work for want of the raw
material to work upon. Crude oil has advanced in
price from 81 so to $500 per barrel.
There seems. in many places, TO be a sudden ex-
however, the springs are intermittent, and sometimes
resume their flow after 4 short cessation.
The Santa Cruz Petroleum Oil Works Co.. will not
be annoyed by an intermission or exhaustion of their
supply Of raw material. The petroleum is all above
ground and in quantity sufficient to last a century.
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