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

full days all bright and beautiful from the sweet and
potent Influences Of peace appears thrice the period
it really is. How often have those sufferers by the
dreadful conflict groaned forth the inquiry, how much
longer will the war continue; Lifting their burdened
hearts TO heaven, they exclaim, " How long, . Lord (!
how long ," When will the wrath of God cease to
burn with a fierce fIme' Will the terrible contest
90 on till the manhood of Southland has persisted
from the land Till every wife is widowed, every
child is orphaned. and taere is a corpse in every
house:
This is the wall Of lamen,a,ion sent up by the
Charleston Courier. Ii is q very different strain
from that indulged by the delighted Jeg. Davis. who,
upon the fall of Sumter, sent greeting to Gen. Scott
with nOrter. Paixhan and petard,
We send to you our Beauregard."
The echo now comes back to the Charlest0uians in
q howl
The soul whose guilt r~ursuades it to to rebel,
Shall feel the tortures Of proiOundest he'll,
The heir apparent Of Russia. the future master of
a realm Of more thar seven millions of square miles
an empire comprising one-seyenth OF the territorial
part Of the globe, and about one twenty-sixth part Of
its EN- p;re surface is in want Of n wife. and cannot
find one. Grand Duke Nicholas, heir apparent Of
all the Russias, twenty-one years old, tall, good look
ing, in splendid uniform, speaking FIVE languages,
and with all the accomplishments is willing TO wed,
yet cannot get a wife. Only five candidates have
presented themselves, and of these he doesn't Ike
three Of them, and his father doesn't like the other
two. So here he is, poor fellow, aud can't get a wife;
and cold weather is coming.
FOREIGNERS DRIVER INTO THE REBEL ARMY An
interesting case Is now before a Confederate court at
Richmond. r. D. Ogden, an English actor, was
seized as a conscrip a few months ago and sent TO
camp, although he had his consular certificate, show
ing that he was q British subject. He seeks to he
released. MI. y. II. Aylett, in behalf of the War
Department, made a very long argument. maintain
ing that all domiciled foreigners are really on the
same footing IN respect 10 military service as the res
ideut inhabitants. q: course, If that opinion is
maintained by the court, the foreigners in the South
r in "a very interesting Might Ard AVlett II his
argument mentioned one fact respecting the foreign
ers in the Southern army. to which We wish to direct
special attention. He said that if Ogden was released,
ttrenty Thousand men who had been swept into the
army by the conscript law, would also have 10 be re-
leased. That number Of men who believe they have
a right, as foreigners, 10 exemption. are to-day hght-
ing for them. The British Government may be inter
ested in Mr.. Aylett's statement.
A Boy CARRIED To SEA By a CUTIE FISH A late
letter from Cuba contains an account OF the carrying
of Of a boy, eight years old, by q cutie fish, which
is about rs hOrrid al affair AZ we have read of for
some time. 1t seems that several children were play
ing near the shore, and coming upon the cutie fish.
a few rods from the water, began to throw sticks and
stones At it. The hsh At once retreated towards the
water, the children following in great glee, and rain
ing missiles up the creature, the like of which they
had never before seen. As soon as the cutie fish
had got to the waters edge IL threw one OF its long
arms upon the arm of the boy nearest to it, aud to
his and his playfellow's horror, began to drag him
into the sea. The poor child struggled TO get loose,
aud screamed agonizingly, and some OF the larger
boys rushed to his aid, but too late. His body was
almost instantly dragged out of sight beneath the
foam and from the well known yoIacity Of the fish
it was OF course understood that the wretched child
was speedily devoured.
MILITARY RANK-The following is the order in
which military rank runs: Ensign or Cornet. Lieu
tenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Briga-
der General, NajOr- General, LieuteBant-General
General, Field Marshal or Marshal, and Captain
General. A Generalissimo is the commander in chief,
the highest officer of all. Alexander was Generals
simo Of the Greeks in their final contest with Persia.
Napoleon was Generalissimo of the forces that he
took into Russia. in 1872; and he also commanded
all the other French forces then in the field, as in
Spain, Italy, and other countries. If President Lin
coin were to take the field and take command of the
American forces, he would be our Generalissimo.
As it is, we have no higher officer in active service
than Lieutenant General. A Captain-General is
commander-in.ch as Governor Andrew is Captain
General of the militia of Massachusetts. Field-Mar-
shall is a German title, and is used in all European
countries but France, the French title being Marshal
or .Nar6chGL.
4 new invention, calculated
to supplant the barometer, is called the aelloscope.
Aelloscopy is that branch of meteorology which is
with storms, and might be called storm
or storm prognosticology, and this instru
ment is called an aelloscope, because it is so con-
structed that it never fails TO give timely warning OF
the approach Of Il storm.
The harp is soon to be introduced into the Church
of England choirs. This most historical of instru-
ments is finding many advocates, and the Court Jour
nal says "Several prelates of authority have
considered the point involved most flvorably, and
musicians ore as one az TO the solemn and beautiful
effect il will have in occasional compartment"
MErEoRIc DIspLAYs.-Professor Silliman has the
published in the San Francisco papers:
Astronomers anticipate a recurrence this year
Of the November meteoric shower of 1888 the morn
ings from the l1th to the 18th are all likely to show
an unusual number of meteors, specially the 18th
the l4th. The best time of observation Is from
half pas, one O'Clock, A. VI, onward. The radiant
point is the constellation Leo. Observers in Califor-
MIA, Nevada. aud the Pacific coast generally. are
TO report their observations to Professor
Jr., San Francisco, for the American Jour.
nal of Science, where they will be published for the
good ef science"
There are many. no doubt, who still remember the
meteoric displays on the 18th November. 1888,
such can appreciate the magnifcence Of these
heavenly wonders. Though occurring generally once
in tbirty-two years, or thereabouts, history fails 10
record any disaster occasiOned by these phenomena.
The settled conviction Of scientific writers IS that
they are quite as harmless as the wind that blows.
These periodic showers have been remarked for the
last nine hundred and sixty years, viz in October,
9O2 October 10, 1902 October 81, 1906, %. s.
Within the last hundred years these showers OF
90 falling stars have occurred generally between
the 10Th and 10Th of November. On the night of
1918, 1881. -, and '83, these exbibi-
tons were noticed. But that of the latter date was
the most remarkable for the brilliancy OF the display,
the length Of time during which it lasted-from
midnight until daylight-and for the countless num-
bers of small and large bodies, which came and went
streaming through space. flashing and glowing along
from the point g2mma OF the constellation Leonis
NIaioris. This constellation is in the vicinity of the
Great Bear. "Ursa Major" or as known by many,
the - dipper.' near the North or Pole Star. 1t WAS
estimated that the point at which these meteors were
FIRST visible must have been more than two thousand
miles from the earth. Since then their appearance
has been noticed nearly year, which has convinced
astronomers that a body Of nebulous matter revolyes