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


vicksburg is strongly fortified tha. it is
believed 1t couldn't De taken even by Gen. Grant.
New York Is crowded with visitors There are one
hundred thousand strangers in the metropolis, and
the New Workers take 'em all in.
The coffin Of the King of Denmark weighed 2, 900
pounds: Ii took thirty men an hour and a quarter
get il down the grand staircase. There were 90
600 or $4,000 men in the funeral procession
JEFF Davis's plantation is turned into a contraband
camp His property is abOlitionzed, If he is not
All his slaves are now free, though he took the
greatest pains to preserve to them and to himself all
the blessings Of slavery.
The annual renting Of pews in Fl. w. Beecher's
church, amounts this year TO Ssl 900, which is the
largest sum received by any church in the United
States.
The American feet Of iron clads is. says the Lon.
don Times, IN point OF numbers, incomparably the
strongest in the world. being more numerous than
the squadrons Of all other countries put together
Well, what next 2" said Mrs. Partngton, as she
interrupted Ike. who reading the news.
The pickets driven in FIVE miles Bless nv poor
SOUL but that Will be n strong fence L s'pose they
bad TO drive em deep, to keep the sessonaders from
digging under them
The doctors recommending whiskey, both as
cure and preventive Of diptheria The remedy is
popular and the immense strides that medical science
is making IN the art Of preserving life, very
generally admired.
The Prince Imperial Of France made his debut at
Compiegne amateur performer. He was dress
ed q la Vatican, and the lords and ladies danced
round maypole while verses were sung in honor of
the Empress
The Empress Of France has given practical testi-
mouy the advantages Of life assurance by taking
out policies her life to the amount of q million
dollars. The London -Nel1s states that :" the pro-
posa is made with the immediate sanction il the
Immediate suggestion Of the Emperor, who guarau-
tees the payment of q consde rable portion of the
premiums"
IL Is proposed by a company construct sewers
and supply conduits in the city of Jerusalem.
There still evidences remaining that water was
had there in great abundance. The great
voir beneath the Temple 736 feet in circuit and AZ
in Depth held 900 900 of gallons-and there
upward of 30 smaller reservoirs connected with it.
The Fool OF Bethesda now dry contained Il S14,742
gallons and the Pools of Solomon about miles
distant from the city. held 5O.1sO.S2O
The trustees Of George Peabody's munifcent gift
% eI5O 900 the poor Of London have decided to
appropriate the fund. the larger part it. the
erection of buildings in suitable localities furnish
lodgings for the poor One of the proposed buildings
has already been finished. and the lodgings about
to be let. Ii is four stories high covering of
10000 square feet. 1t contains, besides stores upon
the street. less than 81 " Dwellings, of one two
three each. Besides this first building sites
have been purchased for FIVE others, and there are
funds in hand for four more
DANISH DIFFICULTY EXPLAINED PrNCH''-
Punch observes Young persons who dine out, and
wish be considered well Informed young dners-out
must desire be able to answer, in q few simple
words, the question frequently put the real
value of the difficulty about the King of Denmark s
succession the Schleswig- Holstein duchies. Mr..
Punch will explain the matter in a moment. The
is this King Christian, being agnate, is the
collateral heir male OF the German Diet and. conse
quently, the Ducby OF Hostein being mediatized,
could only have asceDded to the Landgravine of
Hesse in def.ult of consanguinity in the younger
branch of the Sonderburg Glucksburgs and there
fore Scheswg by the Surrender of the Duke of Sake
Coburg Gotha, acquired as fef in remainder
Of the inorganic marriage of Frederick VII. This is
clear enough, of course.
The difficulty however, arises from the fact that
while the Danish protocol of 1852, which drawn
up by Lord Palmerston, but signed by Lord Malmes-
bury, repudated post tacto the claims of Princess
Mary Of Anhaut, as remainder woman to the Electo-
Of AuRusenburg, II only operated as ufi posi-
dstes in reference the interests of Prince Christian
of Schleswig Hostein- Sonderburg- Glucksburg. while
Baron Bunsen's protest against Catholicism, under
the terms Of the edct of Nantes. Of course barred
the whole of the lineal ancestry of the Grand Duke
from claiming by virtue of the Silic clause of the
Pragmatic Sanction. The question :s therefore,
hausrively reduced TO very narrow compass. and
the dispute simply is, whether agnate who is not
consangunOus can. a Lutheran, hold n fef which
is clothed by n meiatizaton with the character of a
neutral beligerent This is really all that issue.
and those who seek To complicate the case by intro
ducug the extraneous statement, true, doubt, in
ITSELF that the Princess of Wales. who is the dau gh-
ter Of the present King of Denmark. made public
Remuneration Of either of the duchies the ivory
hair brushes. when she dned with Lord Mayor Rose,
are simply endeavoring to throw dust in the eyes of
Europe.
An Essa TIE NULE.-The mule is q haf boss
and haf lickass, and then comes TO n full stop.
tur discovering her mistake 1hI weigh more akord-
ing TO their heft than emmy other kreetur except
crowbar- Tha kant hear emmy quicker, nor further,
than the hoss yet their big enough for snow
shoes You trust them with emmy whose
life Amt worth more than the mules. The only wa
10 keep them into n paster, is to them into a
medder pDeiD, and let them jump out Tha are red
dy for use just tha will du to abuse. Tha
hahn r0f nIl rb1a Ckosa,
Jew. and will live huckleberry brush. with oc
kasionsl chase at kausda thstles Tha a modern
invenshun; don't think the Bible deludes to them
at all Tina sell for more money than ennv other
domestic animals. You tell their age by Joking
into their mouth, emmy more than you could Mex-
can cannon's. Tba never had no disease that good
club wont heel. IL they ever die. they must come
right to life again, for never heard nobody 'ded
mule" Tha like sum men, very korrupt at
hart; i've known them be good for six months just
70 get a chance TO kick sumbody. never owned one
nor never to- unless there is United States law
passed requirin 1t. The only reason why they are
pashunt, Is because they ashamed ov themsefs.
nave seen eddIkated mules in a cirkus-tha could
KICK and bite tremenjis. l would not say what am
forced TO sa ag the mule, If his birth out
rage, and he haint to blame for it. Emmy man who
Is wiling TO drive mule ought to be exempt by law
from runnn for the legisatur Tina the strongest
kreetuEs earth, and heaviest ackorn their size
l herd tell who fell oph from the tow-path on
the kanawl, an sunk as soon as he touched bottom,
put ne kept rite town the boat the next sta
shun, breathin through his ears, which ov
water about feet inches. didn't this, but
an auctioneer told it, and never knew
auctioneer to lie unless he could make something
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