The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-09-23

the Duke OF W ellington should have written TO ms
tenants to vote as they please.
The publishers of an English encyclopedia recently
struck out the words g our SAVIOR and substituted
- the SAVIOR SO as not to give ofense TO any sect.
The Prince Imperial is now allowed to walk about
Paris with his tutor. He recently astonished an in
teresting group OF gGmiHS, by kissing one OF the dir
test and smallest OF them.
a meeting in Baltimore has decided upon raising
one hundred thousand dollars or more with which to
purchase farm tools and supplies for the farmers in
the Valley OF Virginia, at cost. the recipients TO be
given two years or more to pay.
There is 3 great hubbub among the English Order
of st. Benedict, at Norwich, England. Brother Ig-
natius has been suspended on charges Of tyranny
and undue severity to the monks. The services of
the police have been required.
The Pioneer Boy" which describes the early
life of Mr.. Lincoln. has been published in modern
Greek, at Athens, as the first of a series designed to
illustrate and explain our Republican institutions to
the inhabitants of Greece. The original work is
having q large sale.
King George of Greece is engaged to Princess
Olga, the daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Of
Russia. The Princess is only fourteen, and the nup-
tials will not take place for two or three years. The
alliance will have much political significance, and
important results in increasing the influence of
Russia.
The bridge recently constructed for the North
western railway across the Mississippi river at
Clinton, Iowa, is over three-sfths of a mile long.
The draw part is SUI feet IN length, is built of iron,
and weighs about SIS tons. 1t turns on a pivot in
the center, and when open leaves two clear passage
ways for steamboats,. each 42S feet in width.
Victor Hugo writes "The thunderbolt which has
broken on Washington has startled the world. Dark.
nesses OF this kind occur in history. After the dawn
the night. But the American people is a colossus of
bronze. Traitors can stratch it, but they know not
how to destroy it. If liberty should fall in America,
there would be a shipwreck in humanity. Frightful
deluge."
Professor Nahan. of West Point, denies. in an
article of some length. that West Point has been q
disloysl institution, and shows that when the war
broke out $50 graduates were living, Of whom only
1877 joined the rebels. There were 1873 graduates
from the South who remained loyal and 10 Northern
graduates were disloyal.
Charles A. Dana, one of the most brilliant and
iudicious editors in the country, and formerly of the
New York Tribune, is to be the head Governor Of
Yates new paper, the Chicago Republican, at a
yearly salary of $40, 600. The new paper starts
with a capital of two hundred thousand dollars.
A Connecticut farmer says the vegetation of small
seeds may be FASTENED by mixing the seeds with
sand and = punk" or rotten wood, pulverized, sifted,
and wet with ~arm water, and kept in q warm
place. AS soon as the seed cracks and shows a white
germ. it must be sown, sand, punk and seeds
altogether.
In Sheldon, Vermont, recently. the pastor natural
ly preached on the death of President Lincoln, and
su aged copperhead, after listening as long as he could
to the scathing denunciation of traitors aud assassins,
got up and left the church. Just as he got to the
door, the minister called out to him, " Don't stop,
brother, till you get to Canada which was respond
ed to by a hearty amen from the whole congregation.
1t is stated in the Sunderland Scotland Herald.
that the toad lately found by some quarryman at
HartepUol, and announced to be six thousand years
old is not a myth. The Rev. Robert Taylor, of st.
Hilda's Parsonage, states that the toad is still alive,
that it has no mouth, that it was found in the center
of a block of magnetism limestone, twenty-five feet
below the surface of the earth, and that it differs in
many respects from all ordinary toads.
The late confagration in Richmond developed a
curious incident apd fact. which may be valuable, if
remem bered. Some week or ten days after the fire,
the iron safe of the Enquirer Office was opened, when
Immediately on the admission of the air, the books
and papers were ignited and consumed. And such
was the case of all other safes which were not in brick
vaults. In these the contents were uninjured. The
Enquirer safe, at the time it was reopened, was cold
externally to the touch.
SchamyI, who expected that the Russians would
put him to death on his surrender, is now comfort
ably settled at KalOuga, with a pension of $4,000
roubles a year from the Russian Government, his
wives and family having soon after followed him from
the Caucasus.
address at the Burnett House, Cincinnati, Ohio, one
evening, Gen. Sherman, said
alt was here in this city, in this very hotel,
through which I passed to reach this spot, that Gen.
Grant and myself met over a year since; and in that
very room we laid down the maps and studied out the
campaigns which ended this war. / had been away
down in Mississippi attending to a little matter there,
and when Gen. Grant and myself ended our confer
SuSS hSiSs 81 '" "N
to Atlanta, and the result has been just as we plan
ned it here in 1864"
Southern planters propose to let out their planta-
tons in small lots to anybody, black or white, taking
o percentage of the crops for rent.
While the crowd were pressing forward to shake
hands with General Sheridan at a railroad depot on
q recent occasion, the General observed O small boy
making tremendous exertions to reach him. The
crowd was 80 dense that the little fellow did not
make much progress, so the General stepped off the
car into the crowd, and making his way to the boy,
held out his hand, saying with a smile, " come on,
Young America The boy ~grappled the hand he
sought for, and seemed to culver with delight at the
fact of Sheridan's comforting upon him such q
marked distinction.
An American gentleman having seated himself in
a London omnibus, saw and heard what a little
amused him. A man. bearing no peculiar marks of
authority, looked in at the door, took q professional
view of the passengers, and called out to the driver.
without any pretense at modest concealment of his
thoughts, I" You can't 60 on, there's two Of the swell
pursy, we'll looking old man, rose and stepped out,
saving, as he did so. 1--we too much money to ride
with pickpockets." In a moment more a spruce
Young person said as he ~decamped, "1'll follow that
old mans lead.' "Go on now,'' said the detective
policeman, s'the swells have got out and all's right"
1.-THE TRUE METAL-In his Grafton at Marysville.
Cal, on the Fourth of July last, Rev. HoratiO Steb-
bins said
1.-The man who does not stand up fairly under the
protection of a common government, and say to all
men, live and let live; do the best with your own
powers, and ally yourselves by all intelligence and
virtue to the interest of human society, and the COM
mon destiny; the man who does not say that, and
pronounce it in the wide open sky Of a tolerant ma
ture, is guilty of treason and secession from man.
kind. He is guilty of the same crime against human
nature that the State Rights men have committed
against the country"
The following impressive thought is taken from one
of the recent utterances of Rev. DR.. Bushnell, OF
Hartford, Connecticut. He is speaking of the majesty
and strength of the United States Government: