The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-09-16

1t is designed to make Philadelphia a grand depot
for warlike stores, both military and naval. and the
iron clads will be ordered there to be in ordinary, on
account of fresh water, abundance of iron, and cheap
ness Of labor. in case repairs are needed.
AT a meeting of Roman Catholics in London, I'M
der the Presidency of DIR. Manning, it was decided
to take measures for the erection Of a Metropolitan
Cathedral, as a memorial of the late Cardinal Wise
man. 1t is stated that nearly $65 900 had already
been subscribed.
MIR. Richardson, ON English chemist, says that
iodine placed in a small box, with q perforated lid,
destroys organic poisons in rooms. During the con-
tinuance of an epidemic small pox in London, he
saw the method used with benefit.
The New York Commercial advertiser inquiries for
DeBow, the great census man, and says "a new
volume of statistics from DeBow, on Dixie in War
Tine,' would be entertaining reading just now"
New York is a picnic-y place. Every summer two
hundred picnics are given by water transportation;
about SIX thousand by land. Eight hundred thou
sand dollars are invested in picnic capital-grounds,
buildings, barges, etc. Ten thousand persons, dur
ing the SUMNER, live by the patronage of picnic-ers.
Who but a demagogue or a fool would call a man
an abolitionist for acknow Lodging the unquestionable
fact that slavery is actually extinct. Why not as
well denounce q person as a murderer tor confessing
that n man is dead?
Edwin Booth is engaged to a young lady in Phila-
delphia. 1t is not yet decided whether or not he will
return to the stage. He has a little daughter OF Eve
years, who is a born actress, but he does not want
her to 60 upon the stage, and may renounce it him
sGli " that ooO
The distance between Bombay and Suez is 2,716
miles, and the mail packets average fourteen days in
making the passage. The distance between Liverpool
and New York is SOP miles. and the mail packets
often make the distance in nine days. The Red and
Arabian seas, between Bombay and Suez, are nearly
as smooth as a mill pound. The Atlantic, between
Liverpool and New York, is a tempestuOus ocean.
SEcURE.-The President has changed the place of
confinement of DR.. Mudd, Spangler, Arnold, and
O,Laughlin, conspirators in the President's murder,
from tho AIbauv Pepitentiarv fo the Dry TOrtugas n
secure prison on a barren reef a few miles beyond
Key West. No visitor can reach their place Of con-
fnement except by speciGl permission of the Govern
ment, and there is absolutely no chance for escape.
a contemporary says that Charles Dickens is be-
coming savagely stern & he grows old, probably be-
cause the world will not grow better in spite Of all
his efforts to improve it. Wilkie Collins is not go
stern as his friend. perhsps for the reason that he is
much the younger man. Years may improve wine,
bnt the milk OF human kindness they turn sour
indeed.
The accounts from the sugar districts of Louisiana,
as far az heard from, are more favorable than was
anticipated, and estimates are now being formed of a
crop this season of not less than thirty thousand
hogsheads, against only eleven thousand two hundred
last year. The largest sugar crop ever raised in the
State reached 444 900 hogsheads.
At the recent dedication of a temple at Cincinnati
the rabbi defined a true lsraelite to be one " who
trusts in God and believes in the divine truth Of the
Bible, needs no king to govern, no Messiah to re-
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religion"
a dentist in Bath, Me-, has recently extracted a
couple of aching teeth, one of which resembles a
mans hand, and the other q foot and leg. On the
latter the ankle bones, heel and hollow of the foot
are finely deiineated, and also the nail Of the great
toe. They will be sent to the Dental College in Bal
timore.
The Philadelphia Sketch Club has decided to offer
| q prize Of two thousand dollars for the finest work of
| art, illustrative Of the great American rebellion.
Contributors must be residents of the United States,
and must send in their contributions by the fret Of
of December, 1866. Pictures and statuary will be
eligible to the prize.
The Superintendent of the Mount Vernon estate
complains Of the outrages committed by relic hunters
who visit the tomb Of Washington. One of these
yandals recently cut a piece from the bedstead on
which Washington died. Only q few weeks ago an
other fellow of this class defaced the beautiful mar
BILE mantel in the dining hall by breaking off and
stealing one Of the carved ornaments
Charles Lamb, sitting next some woman at dinner,
observing he didn't attend to her, " You don't seem. -
said the lady, 9 to be at all the better for what L am
saying to you - mo, ma'am,'' be answered,
9 : but this gentleman on the side Of me must. for it