The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-09-02

Six out of eight of Queen victoria's grandchildren
are boys.
Landseer defined photographs to be Justice with
out mercy
DIR. J. G.. Holland, of Springfield. Massachusetts,.
is about to write a biography of President Lincoln.
The FIRST time Lord Palmerston put up for a seat
in Parliament was in 1906. at Horsham. He re-
ceived one vote!
At the British Museum about 1850 volumes are
used in the reading room daily; the number Of read
ers has heen about loo 900, or $50 per diem.
A rich Greek gentleman, Mr.. Bernardski. has
given two hundred thousand drschmas towards the
erection of an Archaeological Museum at Athens.
An Irish couple with twenty three children we're
among a party Of emigrants that arrived in New
London lately.
General Phillip kearney wac the only American
officer who Was ever decorated with the Legion Of
Honor BY the Emperor Louis Napoleon.
The English people have already contributed a
fund equal to 500 900 for the family Of the late
Richard Golden, consisting of his estimable lady and
five daughters
An official of the late rebel government has vol
unteered 10 raise the ~torpedoes which still remain in
the James River. The work is said to be in rapid
progress.
Intemperancea among the pesssntry is thought TO
have been Que Of the causes of the recent epidemic at
St. Petersburg, and it is proposed to restrict the sale
OF liquors.
The exodus from Germany to the United States
has revived. The German Lloyd's steamer .HmericG
lef; southampton for New York with upwards OF FIVE
hundred passengers from Bremen.
Five granite stores. FIVE stories in height, situated
on Long Wharf, Boston. are to be taken down, re-
moved, and re- erected in Cambridge, five miles or
more distant.
The Viennese are going to take up what has been
dropped in England, namely. the system Of street
railroads, having granted concessions for thirty
years TO bisect the streets in all directions.
General Fremont has purchased the elegant man
sim If General lanes Watson Webb. ON the DlaDk
road, three miles below Sing Sing. and intends to
make it his permanent residence.
The Richmond Whig says the war spirit in the
South has utterly died out, and the chivalry may
talk until their tongues fall out, but never can
again fire the Southern heart.
Mr.. Abraham Day died at Cornish, Me-, on the
18th June, at the extraordinary age of one hundred
and nine years and eight months He is reported
as having been the proprietor of the first iron foundry
ever established in America.
Dan Bryant, the we'll known American Comedian,
has made a great hit in Europe. The Dubliners were
crazy over his acting of Handy Andy, and declare
him TO be the best representation of Irish character
they have seen.
JEFF. Davis. Prentice says, is reported to pass his
time in prison in catching flies. The stronger are
ever making the weaker feel their power. The Fed
eral authorities caught JEFF. and JET. turns and
catches insects.
Professor Gasperis, the director Of the observatory
at Milan, having discovered a new planet, has de-
termined to make his report on the subject at the
anniversary of Dante's birthday, and that in honor
to the poet, he has christened the new planet Beatrice.
The Pope of Rome was seventy-three years old on
the 18th Of May, and on the 10th OF June reached
the nineteenth year OF his pontifcate. Out of the
long list of two hundred and 6fty-nine Popes only
eight have worn the tiara for q longer period than
Plus IN.
A soldier recently discharged from the army called
last week at the General Land Office, and in good
faith demanded his share of confscated lands in the
South. which he stated he always understood he was
fighting for.
1t seems that Miss SIidell has not married among
the chivalry after all. Erlanger. her husband (who
is said to be nearly bankrupt turns out to be the
son of a merchants clerk whose money making char
acter was most disreputable.
The q. s. Engineer Department has received orders
TO dismantle a majority of the Notifications around
Washington. Those that are to be preserved are to
be improved and strengthened. This will reclaim
for farming purposes a large quantity OF valuable
land.
the coast of Europe. The race will be from Ply
mouth to Gibraltar. and will be open to vessels Of all
royal yacht clubs-sweepstakes one hundred guineas
each. The time for the race is not yet definitely
fixed.
A terrific railway accident happened recently in
the south of France. \ young Count, after extrica-
ting himself from the ruins. calmly used his tooth
pick. as though he had just dined. A porter said to
him eve have just discovered your valet; be was
cut in two Indeed" was the reply, " take care
of the trowsers half, for the keys of my trunks are
in that"
The new Territory of Montana, which includes the
Rocky Mountains above n. lat. As and the valleys Of
the Yellow Stone. upper Missouri and Bow river on
the east side, is Estimated now to contain at least 5O.-
600 white Inhabitants, though it only began TO be
settled three years ago.
A man invested $500 in one of the benevolent in.
situations which distribute gold articlesand such
things at 81 each. He got watches aud jewelry
which purported to be worth $500, but on sending
his prizes TO the United States assay office TO be melt
ed, he found that there vas just SO 62 worth OF gold
and silver in the lot.
There is q young lady in Henry county. Missouri.
not ye: sweet sixteen. who is this year cultivating
fifteen acres OF corn. She does all the necessary
work, including blowing, and has undertaken this
piece of work to obtain money with which to educate
herself. There is true grit in that girl.
Prince Napoleon's sting is to be quickly shown.
He has announced that he has a volume on the stocks
of the history Of the Bonaparte family, in which he
will doubtless make some unpleasant disclosures, aud
demand Of the world to be looked upon as the real
representative of the family.
With the exception of small Enclosures of one or
two acres, here and there, there is scarcely a fence
worthy the name from the Rspidan to Bull Run; aud
the fields, once the pride Of the farmers hearts and
shut in by ten rails and a rider are now broad
commons with old landmarks obliterated, bitches
filled up, quarters, cornhouses aud barns in ruins.
A COOP HIr-The Louisville Journal gets Of the
following good hit at those nervous politicians of
Kentucky who pirate of negro equality as a conse-
quence Of the adoption of the Constitutional Amend
ment:
The nti-Amendment people seem terribly ap-
prehensive that, unless restrained by the Constitu-
ton, they will inevitably marry niggers. We have
all heard of the noisy fellow who, getting into q
quarrel. cried out to those around him. t" Hold me,
gentlemen, or l shall strike him" Zach anti
Amendment man seems calling aloud, in q similar
spirit, Hold me, dear Constitution, OF I shall
marry a niger. as sure as you are born" But We
propose that the Constitution stand OF aud see fair
play"