The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-03-19
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.


Foreign Miscellany.
General Grant, we learn from good authority, is of
the opinion that the whole Southern country will be
at the command Of the federal government by the
srst Of next July.
lion, with the abolition of slavery included. The
arst movement was made AT ST. Augustine, the oldest
: town in the States. united or disunited. as it was
founded in 1565-years before jamestown OF Ply
mouth were thought of.
The Texas Legislature refuses to make Confederate
notes a legal tender. AS the Richmond Eraminer
says, Confederate paper is only fit for wrapping par
GELS Ere long there will be nothing to wrap in it.
In spite of the guerillss there is a great trade on
the Mississippi. Commerce breaks down everything
that attempts to oppose it.
The new King of Greece has gained the favor of
his subjects. He goes to church regularly, frequents
the markets and bazaars, talks with common folks,
And seems inclined to be amiable and just.
a new Atlantic telegraph company is forming for
laying down \ telegraph commencing ct Cape Finis-
terre, touching at Lisbon, and crossing the Atlantic
20 the South American coast at the point where the
Atlantic Is narrowe5t. The telegraph will then run
up the American coast to the West India Islands and
then TO the United States.
HONORABLE CONDUCT OF THE Nova SCoTIAN AU-
TaoRITIEs The Provincial authorities deserve the
heartiest praise Of Americans, and of all who are
interested in the safety Of the seas, for their conduct
of the case of the Chesapeake. The pirates are to be
treated as pirates. and not as honorable men.
AMERICAN BoARD-The Rev. Albert Barnes has
re-considered his refusal of a seat in the Prudential
Committee of the American Board Of Commissioners
Tor Foreign Missions, to which ne was elected at the
Annual meeting in October, and has concluded 10
accept the position
The message Of the Governor of Ohio estimates the
Total cost of the Morgan raid in that State at $780,
coo. This includes the value Of the property carried
away or destroyed by the rebel rough riders, and the
cost Of catching and imprisoning them afterwards.
MosILE.-The suffering in Mobile is as great ms in
a.- nfha- -nrs,nn - 49, G--.Ix 4- IL
is particularly so. No employment, and consequently
no bread, must be productive of untold misery.
Everything edible or wearable is held at an enormous
figure. The cry raised elsewhere in the South about
extortioners and spectators is now little heard in
Mobile, for the simple fact that no one has anything
20 speculate upon. The dealers long ago exhausted
their stocks. and what they now depend upon are the
chance cargoes OF Notwithstanding steamers. These
we're not very abundant, as the blockade is pretty
efficiently maintained. Day by day the desire for the
capture OF the city by our forces grows stronger
snong the people. Many Of those who have been
and are still warm secessionists are praying for il
solely on the ground that il will free them from their
present condition of semi-starvation."
1t is a received opinion in the best Informed circles
IN England that Calcutta must be abandoned as the
seat Vt government for India, because il has n vitiated
atmosphere, emanatiug from innumerable human
and other earcassss- torn to ohFsds by vult"-Ae an"'
ing with every turn OK the tide under the draHlnS-
room windows of this city Of palaces-wbere every
green park is an open privy-wherec esspoois, grave
yards, and dung-heaps, foul drains and open sewers,
DOliute Uy peTcUlalluH III uIiDhiuS hattf- hbN NNh
taminaie by deleterious gases the pure air of heaven.
The PREsIpExT-The Washington Chronicle came
ont lately in a double loaded leader, understood TO be
by ]. W. Forney, advocating the re- denomination of
President Lincoln. The following are IFS most signI-
6cant sentences "The Republicans believe in him,
for he was their party choice. The loyal Democrats
believe in him, for he has been kind and considerable
10 them, and has always, IN the most inaghincent
manner, recognized their devotion to country. His
action in Missouri, wien he refused TO become u
partisan of the extrems Radicals. and his action IN
MARYLAND, where he refused to become u partisan OF
the slave aristocrats, htts united around him men OF
extreme differences Of ooIniop, and they will support
him as the leader of the Union party in the Presiden'
rial campaign
RyaEL WAR SIEAMEts IN CHINESE WATERs.-The
Tribune says Our L.ndon correspondence contains
-ome precise informatisi on a point of importance
which has as yet attra ed little or no attention Inc
news, in q nutshell, is Ihis At this moment there Is
a feet Of six rebel wa{ steamers IN Chinese waters:
These vessels were htttE cut in England by Sherod
Osborne, an English ~ val Captain. The crews were
recruited among the oScers and men OF her Britain
mic NIsiesty's NAVY. Shey were under contract to
the Chinese GovernLS mt, but when they reached
China a disagreement t,rose between Osborne and the
Chinese authorities. n ri the vessels were not denver
ed but thrown on the rarket and sold at auction
Osborne. officers, crew. guns and ALTO Jeff. Davis;
It is intiinated, not NATURALLY, that Osborne nNn
some slight expectatiy,. of reaching this result when
ne left England. Fu.4i.s for the purpose are said to
have been provided II part by the sale OF the reoei
ram in The CLYDE. There are now but rev American
ships in East Indian waters, and it is thought that
these, being thus thrown in company WITH reoei
pirates, may be destroyed previous to an attack Deing
made on San Francisco. In order 10 sho" their
respect for British neutrality. the British crews take
an oath Of naturalization as citizens OF the Coiied-
eracy when the flag changes II. therefore, San
Francisco should happen TO be burned anu PIunuef-
ed, John Bull washes his hands OF all responsioihty.
The LATEST BRITISH Iron CLAD-Tbe screw steam
frigate .HinOt1ur, which was launched a few weeks
ago in England, is u monster, beside when even the
celebrated Warrior shrinks into diminished proper
tions. Her capacity is 1912 tons.
The -Ni1otGur differs in some important respects
from the Wdrrior and other British ironclsds. She
Is sheathed from bow TO stern with iron plates hve
and one half inches in thickness, while the IpdTTioT
"a aruored only in the miiship section, and that
9th iron an inch thinner. The .uinOtaUT IS thirty
feet lSuger than the Warrior Her arnor will
weigh one thousand tons; her engines are to work to
thirteen hundred and fifty horse power; she is expect
ed 70 steam fourteen miles an hour. Her armor Is
fastened TO nine inches of tough Tennasserim teak
The ship is four hundred fee: long, sixty "lde' ana
draws twenty-five and a half feet-a very moderate
draft for so huge a vessel. Her armament VIII eOu'
sist Of so guns Of large cslibre, ana she has Deer
.stted for the reception. when necessary" = p0"H
ful ram at her stern.
The .uinotGur is TO have two sisters, now on III
esocks, the Agincourt aud N~orthumoerlanu
AMERICAN NAVAL AcHEvEMESTs.-The following
from the London Times Of January, 1917. Will o.
read with interest az the present time
1--WE witnessed the gloom which thst event TIN
capture Of the GUs5 riere) cast over high and honor
able minds; il ia noE merely that an English frigat
has been taken afte~ O brave resistance, but II ha
been by q new enemy. The mourning for this las