The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-12-17

10 turn the tables, aud q movement il now on foot to
send back a cargo Of the worst criminals to the
mother country, just 10 see how the Eng sh would
like the treatment she extends TO that colony.
The heceiver of Arkansas reports that he has re-
ceiyed. under the law conGscating Northern indebt-
ness. from merchants and others, due to the people
OF the United States, Sl,37O,OOO, and sold confscated
steamboats, for S5l2,3JG, and condscated real estate
for $500, 105.
An ingenious method for throwing q rope TO q ship
in distress has been imagined by VI. Bertiuelli, Of
Turin. Il Is well known that this il generally done
by means Of iron pTCJect!!es, which link below the
water If the rope they carry be too short. NJ. BERT
ne!li's prCject!!e j. made Of wood. which, though
heavy enough 10 be shot 10 . great distance, is sufb-
GENTLY light 10 float On the water, thus giving the
ere" IN danger an opportunity otreaching it by some
means or other If II should happen TO tall short.
RID SSOw.-ln the high regions Of the California
Alps the red snow known in the European Alps and
the Arctic zone i found. II Is not snow. but glO-
bules intensely red In color, either animal or yegeta-
bic, but which is not known. We presume, however,
they are vegetable, for animals cannot draw their
substances directly from minerals, but from moist
plants or other animals; and none such appear in the
red snow. These curious ~globules are found only in
perpetual snow and III places where the sur!ac &c
tha1s. They are 30 abundant as 20 freqCently give
a red tinge 10 a large mass or snow.
CAPTURE OF PLYMOUTH. n. C.-NEw YORK. Nov.
Richmond papers Of November 4th, have the
following concerning the sinking Of the .4ibermarie,
and the capture Of Plymouth
The Richmond Dispatch says The capture Of Ply
mouth, North Carolina, by the enemy, is explained
by later accounts. 4 lack OF sufficient watchfulness
on the part Of our troops seems TO have been the
prime cause Of the loss VI the town. 1t seems that
on Tuesday night a party Of eighteen men. belonging
10 the b.Ockading feet in Albermarle Sound, eight or
ten miles from Plymouth, took a small torpedo boat
and started for Plymouth. On the way they found
a small boat containing six Of our men, on the river,
anchored there as a picket guard. But all Of them
being asleep, they were taken prisoners; and then
proceeding TO Plymouth they found the .fibeTmGrfe
At her wharf. and running the torpedo boat under
her amidships, they blew her up, causing damage
from which she soon sunk. Infantry was stationed
on the wharf, who fired on the assailing party, and,
after the alternate sunk, captured the whole OF
them. There was no force or the enemy near Ply
mouth, with the exception Of FIVE or six gunboats in
the Sound. but the loss Of the .4iJerm0rie opened
the Roanoke 10 them, and hence the fall OF the town.
Captain Roberts. it is stated, commanded the .4I6er-
marie. 1t is understood that there we're no lives lost
on the ram. There were very few men on board at
the time Of the explosion Of the torpedo.
Where is AndersonviIle ?-Andersonville is in the
southwestern part Of the State of Georgia, and is
nearly direct south of Atlanta, from which it is dis
tant a little over one hundred miles. IL IS some ten
miles north Of Americas where the prison for our
captives was located for some time, and from which to
Andersonville some of them were removed. 1t is on
one of the borders of the Flint river, which is a
continent of the ApalachicOla, and is also on the line
of railroad running in n s~outherly direction from
Macon. 1t can be seen on any good map, under the de-
slguation of Andersonville. 1t is marked "Anderson'
on the map. General Sherman is moving n portion
OF his army 10 Fort Naley-tne junction OF the
western and southern Georgia railroads, where ne
will recapture our 80, 600 prisoners, We hope. before
they are dead from starvation.
The Atlantic cable, which is to be laid next sum-
mer between England and America. was recently
tested to try its is strength and ductility. A given
length was taken, suspended, and gradually weighted
until it broke, the elongatlon succeeding each adj
ditiOnal weighing being duly registered. The cable
selected bore the weight OF three fifth tons. The case,
the spiral wires involving It, the insulating body, the
info warn and each Spnarafp strand of the cable were
similarly tested. 1t WAS found froa those expert
ments that the more the fbres Of wire were brought
into n state of tension, the greater became its
strength, and that as an insulatOr gotta percha, al
though not so perfect as India rubber, is far more
durable, and that the cable as now manufactured
will be able to be bear a strain four times its own
weight when laid at the bottom of the Atlantic.
The London Times thinks Sherman has shown
generalship superior TO Grant IN this summers
campaign. 1t says:
Ii is by contrasting Sherman's operations with
those Of Grant that the generalship OF the former
commander will be shown to the greatest advantage
Grant ventured upon all the enterprises which Sher-
man circumspectly declined. lie threw himself
headlOng upon his aiversary's lines, and never at
tempted to turn u position until he had lost an army
in assaulting II. His first instinct was To fight It
was only as n last resource that he manouvred.
just At this moment he is trying an operation very
similar I'm aprearaace to that Of Sherman below At
lauta. lie has got below Richmond, and has seized
a portion of the railroad which runs into Richmond
through Petersburg.
The CoIroS MAEUFAcrUBE-In England it is cal
culatei that. when the cotton manufacture is thriv-
ing. there are thirty millions Of spindles constantly
employed in spinning lotion alone. so that if every
man woman and child in the three Kingdoms were TO
devote twelve hours n day to this occupation, they
could not effect AS much and II would require
another population Of nearly equal extent to prepare
the cotton for the spiudles, and a very large number
Of persons 70, supply the place of 800 200 power-looms
that are employed to weave il. aud to supplant ali
the mechanical appliances that finish it and fit IL for
the market. All this is required for cotton ; but
when we add TO this the amount Of power employed
in spinning and weaving fax and wool, and all the
different classes Of fbers which We have enlisted in
our service. the power employed in cotton alone sinks
10 q mere fraction.
LEES PRESENT MopE OF OBTAINING SUPPLIES A
correspondent of the New York Tribune learns
through = refugee from Richmond that the rebels, in
wagORiDg supplies for their army around the break
in the Weldon railroad, are compelled 10 use negroes
rs a substitute for horses, owing TO the great scarcity
OF the latter. Sixteen are assigned to each wagon,
and they draw a load equal to that drawn by four
horses. They are geared in the following manner
Two men, called guides, are placed on the wagon
tongue, near the end, 20 steer and TO act as brakes
men when descending a hill. To the butt of the
tongue Is attached a rope, running through n ring TO
the end, and extending about eight yards beyond it.
Strong bars of wood are fastened across the rope,
about a yard apart, and men in pairs are placed,
one on each side Of the rope, 10 push against the
bars. Each wagon is III charge of a conductor, who,
though white, is not allowed to ride. It is said the
negroes perform theiT work quite cheerfuily. They
are allowed about q pint Of corn whiskey per day,
and il IS said they will make about ten miles in
three hours. This ia probably an exaggerated esti.
mate, a. two miles an hour is good time for an army
wagon drawn by horses. This method Of obtaining
supplies can scarcely be adequate TO the necessities of
Lees army.
STEAMERS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO.
The subjoined IS a list Of the steamers built or