The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-02-27
Miscellany.

THE KEoKuK.-Mr. Whitney, the builder of the
iron. clad Reokuk, has gone to Charleston. to assist
in the operations for raising that unfortunate crat.
1t is thought she will be got ahoat again.
Tbos. r. Agnew, merchant, has bought the church
n N Fifieth street, between Broadway and Eighth
avenue, New York (the Rev. DIR. S. b. Bell's) for the
purpose of presenting it as a New Years present 10
the congregation, free of all encumorance-
Some weeks ago, the residence, at Washington, OF
the famous DIR. Garnet, son -in-law of Wise, the man
who called upon thousands of Virginians to help in
the hanging of John Brown, was sold under the
Con6scation Act, for S3,eOO, ana Is no" rehlihe ior
81, 800 per annum.
The manner in which the promise made by JEFF.
Davis, on Mission Ridge. that Tennessee should be
cleared of Yankees before the winter season SET IN,
has been kept, is now obvious TO all reoeiuom' anu
the discomfort and dependency at the result are IN
expressible.
/ Bishop CoLEYso.-A London letter says:-''A Al
most seven feet high, slender, but we'll formed,
remarkably cree: and handsome, with clear-cut Tea
lures, and full of light. there walked the present
Banouo of the English Church-Bishop Colenso.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
HeraId saws Mr.. Riddell. elected Governor OF
Louisiana at the recent election held in that State,
was, as will be remembered. the postmaster d We"
Orleans at the time that State seeded from the
Union. He refused to pay over TO the rebel govern
ment the postage which accrued at that once previous
to the establishment of the rebel Postal system
THE MEXICAN QUESTION AND THE PRESIDENTS
Observation-Disclosures correspondence says that con-
siderable comment has been made in diplomatic cir
Giles upon the reticence Of the President IN his Mess
age respecting Mexican affairs. The Mexican Lega-
ton consider it n good omen. At the French Lega-
ton, on the other hand, this silence is accepted as an
unfriendly indication
Admiral Milne, Commander n-chief of the British
navy ON our eastern coast. in his reply to an address
: of the merchants OF Halifax recently, paid a high
tribute TO the naval commanders and authorities and
the Government of the United States. for their uni
form kindness and courtesy toward himself and his
officers. He also stated that the Government OF that
country acted honorably and promptly with regard to
eyery communication sent TO it by him. This reply
has been :. gall and wormwood' to the rebel sympa-
thizers in Halifax. and they would gladly suppress;
it. if they could.
Gov. A~SDREw.-Gov. Andrews proclamation ap
pointine Thursday. Nov. %, as the day of thanks
giving in Massachusetts,, contains this passage
Offending the temper of forgiveness with an unfinch
inc integrity Of purpose; weeping with the bereaved
who mourn the beauty of our Israel slain upon oul
high places; but catching the sublime spirit o
those who have sealed their testimony with then
blood, may we fail not to implore on this: our annua
festival. strength from above to exercise ourselves
slso in eyery heroic virtue for the vindicatIon o
right, and the overthrow of wrong"