The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-12-31
Foreign Miscellany.

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been built by a New Hampshire hrm.
The number Of young in the shell in an oyster AZ
spawning time is 500, 900. Delnar, the mathe-
maticisn, counted EN-.
A new farce by the author Of Boz and Cor is in
rehearsal. and will shortly be produced at the Hay
market, London.
The yellow fever has broken out afresh at Bermuda.
The panic was 50 great that some Of the parishes left
their dead unburied.
Ohio has given q number OF distinguished Gener-
ais TO the army. Grant. Sherman, Sheridan, Rose
Grams and Gilmore are natives Of that State.
Since Gen. Sheridan took command in the Valley,
he has taken from the enemy fifty niue pieces Of
erti!lery-almost 5fteen full batteries, more than
they took from him.
The manner Of advertising for a husband in Java
is placing an empty flower pot on the portico roof,
which Is as much as to FAY A young lady IN the
house; a husband wanted
An old lady lately died in Connecticut, aged nine
ty years. Her descendants, vino gathered around
her during her last illness, numbered two hundred
and nineteen people, OF all ages.
The Oxford Democrat tells Of an old lady in
Lowell, Me, widow Hannah Andrews, who has reared
Thirteen children and has two hundred anu thirty
five descendants. Verify, she has done what she
could.
A celebrated diver reports that the floor Of the
ocean is in some places a. smooth as marble; in
others it is studded with coral columns from ten to
one hundred feet in height and from one 10 eight feet
in diameter.
Il SJAAA-A AiA'0 1AN4N ~ 'N't
few Copperheads in the army. | never saw but one,
aud he was a Coward. The fact ia. u soldier cannot
be q Copperheai. II is only another name for trail
tor, and it is not ia the nature Of n soldier TO be
either.
DnAwISG HIM Ox.-The Richmond papers argue
that Sherman has been allowed 10 penetrate Georgia
thus far for the purpose of drawing him on to
his own destruction. II appears however, that he
is spreading destruction in that State, and has already
traversei over one hundred miles of it southeast of
Atlanta. II the rebels draw him on much farther,
it IS but little he will leave Of Georgia.
CoxPIscATIox.-T The New York Tribune says that
the selfish and unprincipled London journals in the
interest Of the rebels characterize coniscatIon as
cruel and without precedent. Why, there Is not an
old barouial property in England that does not bear
the clutchiugs OF Commissioners OF Confscation as
distinctly rs the Ohio limes:0nes show the grooves
OF the travelling bouliers. Precedent After wip-
ing the blood Of civil war of their swords. Mary
c0nh>cated, Elizabeth cCnhscated, the Stuarts conhs-
Gated, james IL. CoIhscatcd, William III. cOuhscIted.
And il the American people dc not conhscate the
estates of the traitors and rebels against their au-
tEorIty. il will lie both because their education IN
history, which is philosophy teaching by example,
has been thrown away, and because the instinct Of
self preservation was left out OF them when they
were made up.
New VESSEL OF The Pirate SEMMEs.-The U. S.
Consul at Liverpool, Thomas II. Dudley. writes on
The 18th of October to the Department at Washing
ton, as follows:
The English screw steamer Sea King, built at
Glasgow in 1868, cleared for Bombay, ami sailed from
LOndon on the Sth instant, with n large quantity OF
coal. so tons Of metal and a crew of AZ men, in COM
m.nd of Capt. Cobbett Sisco. U. S Consular Agent
at Dover. 50 Us he has reliable information that Capt.
Semmes is to have this vessel. From what is known
At this Office about the Sea King, independent of the
Information OF Sisco, | have not the least doubt she
is the vessel the steamer Laurel is 10 meet, aud that
Capt. Semmes. with the officers, men and guns taken
out in the Laurel, will be transferred TO her. Their
place Of meeting is not known TO me. The Sea htng
il a very fast, strongly-built and fneloohlng screw
steamer; built of wood, with iron frame, and copper
Ell; about / 900 tons burtben, and ID feet long; one
funnel, three bright masts, ship rugged, heavily
SPARED, machinery aba(t the nainmast. No doubt
her name will be changed.
PIRATTCAL Plot Broken P-Our renders will
recollect that the steamer from Panama ten days ago
reported the discovery Of a plot to capture the Pacific
mail steamers. The steamer that arrived yesterday
brings full PARTICULARS. Some twenty-five men had
banded together at Havana, under one Hogg, alias
Erson, a Lieutenant in the rebel navy. for the pur-
bose. Their Plan was TO go on board the steamer
S~alUad0r. at Panama, as passengers. and to take the
vessel after she had proceeded to sea. The party
went aboard, but were known, and surrounded in
the cabin by n force of marines from the Lancaster.
After the Salvador had proceeded out OF the juris-
dicti0n Of the authorities the pirates we're transferred
to the Ian caster, and thence sent TO New York.
Arms, ammunition, h~audcufs, and opium for drug.
ging the officers Of the S~airGdOr, were found III the
possession Of the pirates. together with instructions
for capturing vessels, from the rebel secretary Of the
Navy, but no commissions were found S f. Paper.
TRIAL OF HE 900 POUND CANSoN.-Since our
las: mention OF the 20-inch gun, the carriage has
been completed aui the gun mounted, AMI on " eI-
/ neslay, October 18th, this gun was loaded and fired,
with the largest charge Of powder and the heaviest
shot that has ever yet been discharged from any piece
OF ordnance. The Armstrong gun has been fired
with 90 pounds of powder and a missile variousiy
stated Mt from $50 to 500 pounds. The 20iuch gun
was fired on the 25fh ult., with 100 pounds Of pow
der and n solid ball Of csst-iron wei Ching $50
pounds.
The gun was firs. fred with a blank cartridge of
100 pounds. l. was then loaded with 30 pounds of
powder and n solid shor, and fired point blank, The
shot struck the water, throwing up showers Of spray
as large "a Il ship.
For the last trial a charge Of 100 pounds Of pow
der was placed below a solid shot of ! $50 pounds,
and the gun was elevated At an angle Of p degrees.
At the report the ponderous globe rushed up through
the air with a hoarse roar. and sweeping its long
ellipse fell a great distance-estimated three and a
half miles-away into the sea.
The report Of the gun was not perceptib'y louder
than that Of moderately large ordnance, and the con-
cussiOu produced no extraordinary trembling of the
earth. There Is no doubt, however, that the half ton
Of cast-iron which this gun hurts forth would have
more effect in crushing in the sides or deck Of an
iron clad ship than any other missile that has ever
been welded by human skill.
We are in possession Of facts, and shall soon give
10 the public full particulars Of the trial Of wrought
iron gun Of smaller calibre. for which we recently
solicited a patent for n well known engineer in this
city. The result, will probably far surpass those OF
any ether sun yet brought before the pu0lic.-ScieH-
the american.
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