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

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ton, they have been sent 10 Morris Island. where
they will remain until mustered out Of service. Not
even an officer is to be allowed to leave the island.
In addition TO this the colors Of the regiment have
been taken away by order of Gen. Gilmore.
The Chicago Tribune observes that while it con-
tinues to be somebody's interest 10 keep alive an In
dian war. they will do so. and the parties do not
wear war paint nor Eve in wigwams. They know
ereenbacks when they see them. and it Is q part OF
their machinery against the public treasury TO get
up magnificent preparations for campaigns on the
border.
Barnum says that after the Museum was burned
ne asked the advice OF his personal friends about
continuing the business, telling them first that he
had enough 10 live upon comfortably. Among them
he asked Horace Greeley. Take the rest of your
life easy said Horace go eshing. I've been
wanting to GO fishing for thirty years, and haven't
had q chance yet"
lions, is admirably governed for about 100000 q
year. Paris, with a population Of q million and q
half, is kept in perfect order for about SlO.OOO,OOO
per snnum. But New York. which has population
ofonly eight hundred thousand. pays about ST., OOO,-
600 a year, and is miserably misgoverned and In
the yilest disorder. That's what the New York Her
aid says.
Information from good authority. now in Wash
ington, points out o steady colored movement to the
Southern States. All the Copperhead predictions
that the free cities would be overrun by the negroes
after emancipation and the close Of the war have
been falsihed by facts.
Out of sixteen hundred male clerks. messengers
and others employed at present in the Treasury De-
soldiers. The Eve hundred lady clerks are chiefly
Union refugees from the South. and relatives Of dis
abled and deceased soldiers.
The London HdeT has gone down to the grave of
the Confederacy. Its latest pOintings were as per-
verse as ever, but its skinny finger alarmed nobody.
Il might have been expected TO await the fate of
Jefferson Davis before suspending itself, but its
means were probably not equal to its devotion. Yet
what capital i, might have made out of the punish
ment of the ex President
The Earl of Winchilses and Nottingham was late
" guilty of smoking in a railway carriage of the
South Western Railway, and was summoned for the
offence, on the application Of a station master. before
a magistrate. The outraged nobleman demands OF
the chairman of the company the dismissal Of this
faithful official for a g piece OF impudence which in
wolves q breach of the privileges of the House Of
Lords This is a novel extension Of the rights Of
the peerage.
Mrs. Cobden's refusal to accept the pension Of
81, 500 which was rendered to her by Government,
has been the occasion Of a virtulent attack by the
Oari upon MIR. Bright. That gentleman, as the init
mate friend of the departed statesman, was assumed
to have i~nstigated his widow to an act intended to
be spiteful. The fact is shown to have been that
Mrs. Golden acted without consulting other than her
own good sense, and declined the bounty because she
did not need it.
1t is the practice in several English counties to
work children of both sexes in gangs, in the fields
and back yards. These children, from seven years
old to twenty, are hired Of their parents by the
CANCERS or drivers, and then let out in squads or
worked on jobs by their task masters. They live to-
gether. the older corrupting the younger, without
education or care, like tribes of savages. Virtue,
religion, decency, are unknown. Marriages are not
thought of, and infauticide seems to be rather the
rule than the exception, while promiscuIty Is en-
couraged to prevent its necessity.
The Duke of Wellington's letter to his tenantry is
q remarkable eDiSOde in English politics. the abuse
of power on the part of the landlords being %unhappi-
ly as regular as the return of the elections. He
writes to every man of his dependents:
DEAR SIR I think it right to explain clearly to
you my feelings regarding the exercise-of your vote.
1t is a trust imposed upon you for the advantage of
the country, and the responsibility for the proper
exercise of it rests on yourself alone. 1t is placed in
your hands, not in mine, and / leg you distinctly to
understand that no one has any authority for stating
that I wish to bias you in favor of any candidate.
/ am yours, etc.. WELLINGTON"
The great 9 servant gall question is dividing with
the general elections the attention of London society
The interest in it has become so intense that a lady
recently 90 read n paper on it" at st. Jamess Hall.
The English servants, il seems, are displaying all the
faults of the decentralization, independence, love
Of money, love of dress, and love Of &c company"
Why they should be expected to escape the weak
pesses OF their contemporaries in other walks Of life
we cannot we'll see; and We confess We do not hope
for Improvement either N their manners or morals
by means Of a g reform agitation" Their ways,
ike those OF new 1OTk IcTDen Will O9TuIY De
mended, except by the general progress of society -
JSaW York Paper.
The eminent French author Miohelet, is about to
offer to the public a new work called the " Bible oil
Mankind" His theory is that q" Mankind deposits
his soul in e common Bible, and every great nation
inscribes in il its verse" He views the received
Bible "a a narrow work of an ignorant. exclusive
and egotistical race, and to make his " Bible of Man
kind" gathers from the sacred and philosophical
books of all nations. Greek, Roman, Indian, Ger
--~ Ill. IL E.a 49, III ---
scented in this strange volume, which is. in the
opinion of its author. to supercede the Holy Bible.
They have succeeded in catching fish in France
by means Of an electric light. The light was pro
duced by q powerful electromagnetic machine. con.
structed by Monsieur Bazin, the well-knowu en-
gineer. The experiment was conducted by NJ. Ba-
gin on board the -fnddlouSe, in the presence Of fifteen
hundred persons. The light. in a lantern, was sub.
merged in the water, and the fish came TO it iu
shoals while the fishermen caught them in their nets
NJ. Balm is shortly to proceed to Bona, in Algeria,
and establish q coral fishery by the assistance Of his
electric light. He proposes in the meantime to de-
scend full four hundred feet into the sea, aud ex.
plore what he calls the " depths of the ocean, with
his submarine instruments.
The Forrest divorce case is about to be reproduced
before the courts. The plaintiff will endeavor to gel
it before the Supreme Court of the United States
He assumes that inasmuch as his marriage was
solemnized and in England. and that
as at the time q divorce was granted by Judge Oak.
lev neither he nor his wife was o legal resident Of
New York, her courts had not legal jurisdiction o.
the subject.
HARD WORKING YoUNa MAN-The Prince o.
Wales, says a late correspondent. is but badly off
and cannot afford to increase his family. He was
swindled in the purchase Of Sandingham. his coun-
try seat, by a relation of Lord Pslmerston, where he
found the laborers' cottages worse than pigsties, and
in a perfectly disgraceful condition. The young
man works hard, and ought to be we'll paid. He
makes speeches, lays corner stones, eats dull dinners
gets horribly bored at crowded receptions, knights
fat brewers and aldermen dances with the wives oil