The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-04-01
Miscellaneous Items.

London has iU,UUO niiIIner5.
The u. s. Government has sent 800 blankets 10
the Federal prisoners III Richmond.
Howell Cobb's pacing mare, captured by Sherman.
cost $4,000.
The President had a hard days work on New
Years Day-he had to shake hands with 1000
visitors.
The leading merchants of Savannah have already
commenced paying their northern debts.
4 steamship sailed from New York, with provi-
sions for the relief of the citizens of Savannah. She
went of in gay colors, with cheers and salutes from
all sides.
Gen. Sherman, in q private letter, says that if he
had only possessed facilities for feeding them, he
could have brought one hundred thousand negroes
with hun from his raid through Georgia.
Gen. Dana's raid on the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
was quite successful Twenty-Five bridges were
burned; four thOusand ~carbines, a large amount of
ammunition, and three hundred army wagons were
captured. Many officers and men were taken pri-
soners, and thirty rail cars were destroyed.
Water has done for Dutch Gap Canal what powder
couldn't. 1t has been opened by q freshet on the
James, and a stream Of water ten feet wide and seve-
raj feet deep now flows through it.
DEATH OF BISHOP BROwNELL-The Right Rev.
Thomas c. Brownell, Bishop of the diocese of Con-
necticut, died ct his residence ut Hartford on the 18th
inst. in the S6th year of his age. He was the senior
nnd presiding Bishop Of the Episcopal Church in the
United States.
The certain death Of Forrest. the hero Of the Fort
Pillow massacre, is announced. He found his
GlEhjS, WI ItDyO ltiOEG "A HIS ICDet llOHtIc hI
Murfreesboro.
The President has signed the bill levying a tax Of
81 per gallon on all distilled spirits. 1t will here
after be expensive 10 = smile
Gen. Sherman is doing everything to conciliate the
people of Savannah. Excellent order is preserved,
and the people are astonishei and grateful that they
are more secure in their houses and property than
they were under Confederate rule.
SIGNIFICANr-When the diplomatic appropriation
bill came up in the I. S. Senate, Senator Wade moved
to amend the clause making appropriations Sc for di-
plomatic and consular expenses in Mexico by in
serting before the word &" Mexico the words a. the
republic Of" lie said that there were two govern
nents in Mexico, and he could recognize none bat
the /" Republic" We had nothing to do with the
Empire" The amendment Of Mr.. Wade was
adopted. The consular appropriation bill was then
passed.
The UOrid makes q suggestion 10 the Anglo-rebel
chamber of commerce at Nassau, that as John Bulls
extensive feet of swift blockade runners are thrown
out of business by the shutting up of Wilmington,
- there is 3 fine opportunity offered them as priva-
teers of the Mexican republic, under the authority
of General Juarez. About their only chance now Of
getting rebel cotton will be from French vessels COM
ing from the mouth Of the Rio Grande; but, as Mexi-
can privateers in the Gulf, these late Wilmington
blockade runners might pick up a good many valu-
able cargoes."
The fine steamship ~.fri2ond, built for the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, was launched recently
from the yard Of Mr.. Henry Steers, Greenpoint, after
several unsuccessful attempts. She is Of beautiful
model, S25 feet long. 45 feet breadth of beam, q
feet 8 inches depth Of hold, and will cost the Com
pany when completed about 100000. The ship
will be taken TO the Novelty Works to receive her
machinery, but will have to go on the dry-dock for
repairs first, her keel having been somewhat injured
during the launch.
The SAVANNAH Corrosive learn that the gov
eminent at Washington has opened policies of insur-
ance with the Marine underwriters in this city 10
cover cotton from S savannah, to be Immediately ship
ped by the Collector of the port OF New York, now at
Savannah, to his own address as Special agent Of the
government. The cotton will be inventoried at Sa-
yannah for whom it may concern, and then shipped
TO this market TO be promptly sold, either to domestic
or export buyers. The probability is that nearly the
whole 5000 or 1900 will CONT by steam-trans-
ports, and if taken up on arrival for export and the
transhipments FOR Liverpool should also be made by
steam, the cotton will be laid down in England in
three weeks from the date Of lis movement from
Savannah.-.F. 7. Times.
place among the Free States. The ordinance Of COM
plete and unconditional emancipation passed the
convention by u vote of 60 to 4. This was on the
1lth Of January. On the 14th the convention OF
three hundred delegates in Tennessee unanimously
action vas to be submitted to the people Of that State
on the 22d inst, and was undoubtedly endorsed
triumphaEtly. The Constitutional Amendment abol-
ishiug slavery in the U. States, has passed Congress-,
and has already been ratified by several Northern
and Western States. Little Delaware refused TO rat
ify it. But it will not be long before she changes
her mind. For changes of mind on the subject Of
slavery are the order Of the day.