The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-10-08

IMPERIAL vs. REPUBLICAN, MExICo.-If accounts
from Mexico are to be relied on, the new autocrat.
MAMMALIAN, is getting on famously with his mon
archicai enterprise. The empire is every day grow
ing IN popularity with the natives; and the Emperor
is doing more to consolidate his power and disarm
opposition, by his personal virtues, graces and mod
GRAFTON. than by force of arms.
Instead Of wrapping himself in the traditional garb
OF majesty and mystery, he is ever accessible to his
loving subjects. mingles with the common people
freely and familiarity. hears and redresses grievances,
visits churches, converts and prisons, rises at FIVE in
the morning and personally supervises all bushes of
State; in short, conducts himself contrary to ali royal
precedent, and as BELTS a truly democratic potentate
having the interests OF the people at heart. The En-
press is said to be as amiable as she is accomplished
and beautiful, dresses with charming simplicity-as
most ladies do in that tropic climate-and Is, of
course, the envy Of the women and the admiration of
the men.
The ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.-It was announced
two or three weeks since that the Great Eastern
was preparing to take on board the new cable for
the Atlantic Telegraph at the place of manufacture,
and that all the arrangements have been completed
for laying the cable during the next season. By a
despatch from st. Johns, Newfoundland, recently
we learned that Cyrus w. Field, ESQ.,, of this city, left
that day for Placentia Bay, having already visited
Trinity Bay, looking for the most favorable place for
western terminus or landing point of the great ocean
cable. We may therefore anticipate with much con-
fdence the completion of this great enterprise and the
opening of instantaneous communication between the
New aud the Old World. 1t will probably not awak-
en- the same degree of enthusiasm that was excited
by the brief success of the former attempt; but if ac-
complished it will surely electrify the two continents,
and until it is actually achieved millions of hearts
Will be looking forward to the time with an interest
far removed from anything of a sordid nature.
IF this enterprise shonld be successful, We shall
doubtless soon have three separate wires uniting the
two continents,-one by the way of Bhering's Straits,
under the patronage of the Russian Government,
now in an advanced stage. and a more southern At
lantio Telegraph from the coast of France. under the
patronage of the French. The undertaking of the
latter will depend in a measure upon the success of
the Atlantic cable, soon to be re-laid.
The National Republican says: We are authorized
and requested to announce. that Notwithstanding all
that has been said on the subject, neither Mr.. Gill
more nor Col. Jacques, on the one hand, nor Horace
Greedy, on the other, ever have been or are now au-
thoriZed to express any desire, views or opinions of
the President, either in Canada or Richmond, on
the subject of negotiations for peace, beyond what he
has plainly and carefully written over his own sigma
ture. The mission to Richmond, was instigated and
executed by Gilmore and Jacques, on their own pri-
vate account, and they had no authority whatever to
speak directly or indirectly for the President of the
United States, officially or unoficially, or for Abra-
ham Lincoln, unotficially or privately. If Mr.. Ben.
jannin's reports of the sayings of Gilmore and Jacques
while in Richmond, be correct, they assumed a re-
sponsibility not given them, and made statements
wholly untrue. The President, after repeated soici.
tations. consented to give Gilmore and Jacques a pass
through the lines. he did not request Gen. Grant
to open any correspondence with Gen. Lee to give
them safe conduct to Richmond and return. Gen.
Otaut oft tbht Oh MS " fOoPOhSAOiihys CIV
Lincoln requested Gen. Grant to pass them through
his military lines. nothing more.
A GREAT ENTERPRISE The great Tunnel which
the city of Chicago is excavating under Lake Michi-
gan. is intended to supply the city with fresh water.
1t was u bold conception, but it was undertaken and
is carried forward with the spirit of enterprise char
acteristic of this young city of the West. A shaft is
first sunk perpendicularly seventy eight feet below
the surface. and from the bottom of this shaft the
tunnel is to be carried out q mile or two under the
bed Of the Lake, where it will communicate with
pure water, which will be brought throu gh the tun-
mel to the city.
FEARFUL FALL OF A SoMNAMBULIsT-The Wash
ington Chronicle says: A few weeks ago, n lad in
his fourteenth year, Johnny Rives, son Of the late
John c. Rives, Esq. arose from his bed in the still
hours of the night, and, passing out of his chamber
window, fell thirty feet to the ground, without sus-
tanning serious injury. In his descent. he is some
manner struck and broke a window Of the chamber
below his own. The family were thus alarmed, and
when some of them descended to him, he was upon
his hands and knees, endeavoring to rise, which he
Immediately did with slight assistance, and then
walked up to his chamber again.