The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-08-20
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Summary.

The Chicago lake tunnel is progressing rapidly
London papers pronounce the Mexican loan c
failure and the Russian loan n success.
The ladies at the London opera crowned Carl
baldi With flowers torn from their bouquets.
India-rubber type have been invented. Truth
.ili nOw be stretched, if never before
An oil farm in Pennsylvania has just been so!d
for upwards Of half a million OF dollars
4 The importation Of foreign printing paper IS
rss,Iyed upon by SINE Of the New York pub
!i.hers.
Frozs are recommended Sc Q delicious and nu-
;-itious ood-the hind legs only.
SSro Quarters The Danish Monarchy Is
now reduced T., Z so islands of the -ea, frozen up
ak months in he year
The Springfield republican says the best dress
d woman in that city does not wear q single
article not made in America.
Belle Boyd. the noted female spy, has arrived
IN Boston, having been captured or board Z
blockade runner.
The Spauiards have committed 4 big robbery
IN seizing the Chincha Islands. the revenue from
the guano being about Slo, 900 600 per annum.
Garibaldi speaks fourteen different languages.
Being ssEed 70 write something for q little boys
crap book, ne instantly composed some verses III
Greek.
In ali the chief towns Of Italy meetings have
been held 20 thank rhe English people tor their
cordial reception OF GarIbaldi. At Genoa the
DUria theatre was illuminated in honor Of the
event.
According 90 q parliamentary return il appears
that the militia establishment in England and
Wales for the year 1869 consisted of 3 ,e53 officers,
1924 -nGn-commissioned officers and SO AGO phi
Yates.
Gen. Banks commands IN louisiana, but under
Gen. Candy, who commands the whole trans
Mississippi department, in which are Included
Louisiana. Arkansas, and Missouri. Banks rules
- nn1iuro Steele in ArEona.a RpEnoraD - AZ
Missouri, and Candy is over the whole Of them.
4 couple Of French sayans have been explOr-
ing In Palestine They examined the inner wall
IF the Solomonic Temple, and unearthed an un-
Known King Of Jerusalem. The royal corpse
rrumbled the moment it came into contact with
The outer cir.
Great TELEGRAPHIc TEAT.-A dispatch over
the Siberian telegraphic line, from Irkutsk, Sibe-
ris, was recently received at Queenstown, Ire
land, g distance Of $500 miles, in two hours
This line is To be extended across Bhering's
Straits, and we shall yet receive kilograms from
England. Via Bhefing Straits.
The Rev. Samuel Crowther. an African mission
arg, hes been appointed, and is to be consecrated
ny the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the course
II a few weeks, Bishop of the native churches in
parts of Western Africa beyond the dominions
~ the British crown. The Bishop nominated,
Nho il q black man. was once q slave boy, and
being rescued by a British minister, became =
missionary teacher in Sierra Leone.
How MUcH IT FAILED.-The proposition 10
amend the Constitution os the United States 20
rs TO abolish slavery. rs our readers have been in
formed, passed the L.. $. Senate by the constitu-
sioual two-tbirds. 1t failed in the House, lack
ing ii votes of the required two-thirds of those
fotiDg. The total number OF votes cast was
I57, of which "a were for the amendment, and
6S against. Two-thirds of the whole number is
los.
The opera Of " Merry Wives of Windsor" is
noH the leading attraction in London. 1t was
6rst produced IN Germany in 1849. The COM
poser, Nicolai, unlike Meyerbeer, made no
money by his compositions, and died in 1919,
comparatively poor.
a "CIGAR' STEAsER.-A so-called " cigar
steamship is being built on the Thames for Mr..
Winans, and will he launched, with her steam
up and ready for sea, by about the middle of
August. Her length over all is ESQ, and her
engines will be Gu powerful that it is estimated
chat she will steam at the rate Of 20 knots, or
nearly 80 miles an hour.
LAUNCH OF A JAPANESE FRIGATE.-Jacob 4.
Westervelt Il Son lately launched the clipper
built propeller Fusiyama, the first frigate ever
built in this country for the Government of
Japan. The Fusiyana was launched with her
rigging standing. She is 2O71 feet in length,
"a feet of beam. 10 feet of hold, measures l ,040
tons, and is pierced for thirty guns of heavy
caliber. She is expected to make ten knots
under easy ~steaming.
WHAT CONSTITUTES AN UNMARRIED MANA
ease was recently tried before the English llouse
of Lords in which the question in dispute was
che Specification 10 be given to the word - I'M
married." the appellants cUntending that it
meant ..vithout having been married ut al, and
che respondents that il signIEed without having
A husband or wife living 1T the time OF death"
The Court below decided in favor of the respOn-
dents, when the present appeal was brought.
Their Lordships being equally divided, tie deci-
sion Of the Court was affirmed, and the appeal
dismissed with costs.
FLORA TEHPLE.-It is announced, on what is
believed TO be reliable authority, that Mcdonald,
che owner of the brilliant little - Queen of the
Trotting Turf has made up his mind, despite
he most earnest solicitation, TO retire her en-
:irely from the turf as a contestant, and retain
her entirely for breeding purposes. We are
glad TO hear this, for, delighted as all racing
men would have been TO have seen .. the bay
beauty" cnce more on the track, her brilliant
deeds have entitled her to repose in her old age,
and every one would have been grieved 10 have
seen her untarnished name on the scroll Of fame
sullied by defeat, could such an event have been
sithin the range of pOssibility.-N. y. Times.
REIALIATISG.-A correspondent of an Eastern
paper says that about the middle of Nav, oppo
site Natchez, Mississippi, a force OF Union black
troops was sent out to disperse 4 similar force Of
rebels. The latter were badly whipped and
routed. The blacks went into battle with the
raIlying cry OF Remember Fort Pillow
Eleven men were captured but were Immediately
pug I'd the sword on the spO; where they surren-
derei- One rebel dropped on his knees before a
black soldier and begged for his life. The soldier
turned 20 his Captain and said, " Captain. what
shall | do with this man p Do with him as
ne would do with You il he was in yOur place,