The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-07

INK OF DdTHum 2 IMuEtUul, DWs Iron Sale Tell III Win
the floors. and had to remain there in the Ere q day
or two. When taken out, would you believe it'
everything covered with leather was destroyed
Everything covered with paper or linen was unin-
jured The money in a leather wallet was burned
up tha, in h paper envelope was safe. So With
deeds, bonds, and other valuable papers.
See how the thing works. South Carolina has a
population of 29l 900 whites, and 402 900 blacks.
Under the old representation she bad only four mem
bers Of Congress. She will now have six. all to be
elected by the voters in the white population Of
29l 900. which amount to about 5000. That is 10
say there will be one member Of Congress TO each
5000 voters. Now. the State Of Vermont has n
white population Of Slo. 900, OF "a 900 more than
South Carolina. and yet she has only three members
of Congress to South Carolins's sr. In Vermont
there lie one member of Congress 20 n 900 voters;
in South Carolina. one TO 5000. A whitewsshed
rebels vote in the latter State liz therefore equal to
two and one-hslf votes Of loyal men in the Northern
Ststes-for the same proportion holds true throughout
all the Northern States as IN Vermont. And tins
must remsin so rs long as the negro is denied the
right Of voting for the men who represent him in
Congress. Ii seems thar this is Q matter Of some
concern TO the Northern voter.
To EUROPE IN A WsEK.-It is stated that a compa.
ny Of the leading ship owners Of New York have
under consideration plans for building four magni-
hcent vessels Of eight thousand tons each, TO be pro-
PEELED by engines of two thousand five hundred horse
power. working two paddle wheels Of the usual kind.
and two screw propellers-so that in case Of derange-
ment of either set of machinery the other set should
continue working without material impairment TO
u Vi ~ NtSSc&S ac W bS
capable Of carrying $500 passengers ut the variable
fares of S25, $50 snd S76, according to amount Of
accommodation required, between that city and
Bristol, England. Meals are to be furnished on
board the same as at any restaurant, and passengers
can either eat or let it alone. as it may please them.
The passage to Europe, it is believed. at eighteen
miles an hour, will be made in seven days, while the
great length Of the vessels (nearly six hundred feet
each) will overreach or materially control the waves
and prevent that terrible pitching motion that is
more'or less the dread Of all ~ses-going travellers.
The German Princes are dreadfully troubled by q
new demand from the American Government, which
is said to be very strongly pressed. German emf
grants usually choose for their date OF departure.
the year before their turn comes to submit to con-
%scriptOn, but il they ever 60 back, the government
catch them, and make them try their chance again.
The Washington Government, which regards them
as naturalized citizens, considers this an oppression,
and requests the princes either to repeal the Law or
abstain from putting it into force. The princes. en-
barrassed by the extreme popularity Of the North in
Germany, would comply, but they say compliance
would enormously increase an emigration which
already alarms them; they will probably contrive to
is becoming an important element in European
politics. 1t keeps up q process Of evaporation %
rapid. that the reservoirs cannot remain full.
At the very moment the New York correspondent
Of the London Times was extolling to that journal,
the ability of Kirby Smith to prolong the war in
Texas for years, and perhaps carry a raid into New
England. this wonderful general, with his ability,
fer the first discovered by this veracious oorrespon-
aOhts was cOiut WituOut ~ II oimy y ""' $50
{" 160, 900 men," of whom the Times made such
parade. had absolutely dissolved, without waiting
for the action Of their general. leaving him literally
q alone in his glory" The London Spectator perth
nently inquiries, +" how much the statements OF this
correspondent had cost the London merchants and
operators ",who pin their faith on the statements OF
the Times and act under their influence? We
hope they have suffered roundly. 1t may cure them
Of their absurd confidence in " the leading organ"
TAKING THE OATH "A correspondent of the World
writing from Richmond relates an incident as fol-
lows:
Talking of oaths reminds me Of n local joke
which my pen cannot resist recording. A modest
young country girl, on applying for rations to one
Of our relief agents a few days ago. was asked IL she
had ever taken the oath. No. indeed, sir, was
the terrified reply, l never swore IN all my life
. But you must take the oath, my good girl said
the agent, or 1 cannot give you the rations.' No.
indeed, l can't, SIR said the girl : mother always
taught me never to swear The agent mildly per-
sisted. and the maiden as pertinaciously refused all
attempts at persuasion, until overcome at last by
the dreadful conflict between necessity and her high
sense of moral duty, she stammered out, with down.
cast lids, = Well, sir. if you toiU make me- do such
q horrid, wicked thing. d-n the Yankees -"
Before the war, one or two factories for the re6n-
ing of cotton-seed oil was started, and the article
found ready market-dealers being often deceived
by the resemblance to olive oil. The war closed the
supply OF seed and crude oil. but, as the markets are
now opened. We may expect this branch to receive
some attention The crude oil from cotton seed in
made for about twenty cents a gallon, and, for u
CuSdp pdiut-O IL duHW u SOoi u poScs "utNe t"W
refined costs but about Eve cents a gallon more, and
its uses are as numerous az olive oil. 1t may be
used for burning, for lubriosting, for wooden manu-
features, for soap-making, and for all the usee to
which olive oil is adapted this oil will answer. Ii
is AZ sweet and pure as the celebrated Butt Oil. for
which four dollars per gallon is paid The appara-
'tus for refining the oils is very simple aud cheap.
and the waste Of tons Of seed at the South can only
be explained by a~scribing it to the apathy bred by
slavery.
A new English astronomer, Mr.. r. Proctor. OF st.
Johns College. Cambridge. who has just published
an elaborate book on the planet Saturn, believes
Saturn's rings to he not continuous bodies. either
solid or fluid, but q multitude Of loose planets,
grouped like n bead necklace round his equatorial
regions, just as if we were furnished not with one
moon, but as many moons as would span the whole
earth. MIR. Proctor asserts that this hypothesis ex.
plains more completely the whole phenomena of the
case than any other. This supposition somehow
gives q larger idea Of the opulence Of the universe
in worlds than any other known fact. To hare such
a multitude Of little worlds strung close together
round one planet produces (illogically enough q
more vivid Impression on the mind than many times
the same number OF fixed stars distributed over the
inhnitude of space.
Now that slavery. is dead, il the negro be no: in-
dustrious, or accumulating, or inventive, then he
ought not to have, and certainly will not have, the
social respect he desires. any more than q similar
disqualified white man. He muet find his place for
himself, and, provided that the law protects him.
has no more right to complain OF the social disadvan-
tage Of color than of the social disadvantage OF
short stature. All he can ask. is 8 clear field and
no favor, and once obtained he must reach bis goal
for himself. But he must be protected by The Law,
and not be debarred, as he is by the new constitution
of Tennessee, from giving his testimony m courts OF
law against a white man. Juries will not be apt to
give undue weight to a black mans testimony. The
danger would all be the other way.
Some discussion is going on IN the United States
in regard to raising the poppy for opium. We have
lust talked with a former overseer Of an opium plant