The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-02-04
Foreign Summary.

No sooner had General Sherman entered Savannah
than he stated a Union newspaper.
The crops OF Iceland are good. No danger Of q
famine this yer.
Great Britain spends : 15, 600 90 for the support
of her armies yearly.
About 500, 600 have been paid in as the receipts
taken during the holding Of the Boston Sailors FAIR.
Alexander Smith. the poet, is Secretary ofthe Eiiu-
burgh University, and Is described as a busy, modest,
sensible man OF about thirty-hve.
The planters in the lower counties of Maryland
have agreed to pay their former slaves annual wages,
varying from sixty 10 one hundred dollars.
The GREAT WEST In 1860. the Western States
gave IN aggregate popular majority against Lincoln.
IN 1854, they gave him pc, 1000 majority.
The Germans Of the twenty nine loyal States are
all nnti-slavery but those of New Jersey and Ken
lucky.
VIM. L. Dayton, American Minister, died at Paris.
December -, of a~poplexy. The quii nuncs name
several men as his successor.
The cot of the Louisiana State Convention, aside
from the pay of members. was sic, 900, OF which
the modest little sum Of S942l was for liquors and
cigars!
John W. Forney will probably be Secretary of the
Interior, in room of Judge Usher. His claims are
strongly advocated by the leading Union papers Of
Pennsylvania.
Alexander Dumas. the French romancier, the dark
muiatiO nearly sixty years of age, let called the
handsomest man IN Europe. lett Paris last month for
New York.
Nh. Felt, of Salem, proposes to run bis type set
ting machine by steam. 1t somebody will only in
vent a machine editor, we'll all retire, printers and
editors together.
Everywhere in reheldom our soldiers End the slaves
their friends. Hundreds OF our prisoners have es-
capped froui the hands Of the rebels who could not
have done SO without the assistance OF the slaves.
The highest ascension ever made in a balloon, was
that accomplished by Messrs. COXwell and Glaisher,
from London, Sept. b, 1864. The altitude reached
was SIX miles.
They make "gunboat cars" for defense, in the
Western Military Experimentation clad filed with
soldiers, and placed in the middle Of a train.
\ lad of seventeen lately purchased a quantity of
Limerick tobacco in Liverpool, chewei il, swallowed
the juice, and died from the effects with congestion
Of the stomach.
The Emperor of China, after the restoration of
Nankiu to the Imperialists by capture, ordered that
the Chung Wang aud kang-Wang should be 'cut
in q thousand pieces near the ruins Of their
palaces; and the sentence has been carried into exc
cution. That is the way they serve rebels in China.
Every day more or less government clerks AT Wash
iDgton resign their places, on the ground that the
increase in their salaries by 10 means keeps pace
with the increasing cost of nj! articles Of living. For
every vacancy thus created, there are ten applicants,
on the principle, doubtless, that some men live where
others weuld starve.
The San Francisco Baptist Association embraces
jhirty-seven churches. eighteen pastors, 1870 mem-
bers a gain al siXty-ei2ht. The whole number Of
Baptist churches in the Stale j. hify, ard members
1870.
Considerable opposition is manifested in some of
the British North American Provinces 10 the proposed
Colonial Confederation. Ia Prince Edwards Island
cllimei that une teuths of the inhabitants there are
opposed to the scheme. In Nova Scotia numerously
attended and enthusiastic meetings of Influential
citizens are hell TO protest against it.
The Tri6une's London letter SAYS the proceeds of
the Liverpool Fair Will be given to the rebels abroad.
who are greatly in need OF il. a, the principal
hotels in Paris over fOEr thousand trunks have been
pawned by Southern gentlemen a. security for their
bills. The sane letter says that the rebel agents
had recently bought the steamship RatieSrake, q
sister 10 the TGNahaSsce, AMI evidently design dtting
her out as q pirate.
SECRETARY SEWARD WRITES \ LETTER OF ExPLA-
NATION TO BRAzIL-W"sh ington, Jan. 3-The report
that the Brazilian representative had accepted Sec
rotary Seward's letter ia relation 10 the seizure OF
the Florida, as satisfactory. is not true, To- the rea-
son that the Charge IL .IfGireS was not authorized
10 20 determine. The letter has, however, been
transmitted to the Brazilian Government, and in
Que time an answer will be forwarded through the
proper channel, which II Is not doubted will be Of q
friendly character. The Brazilian Charge u
.ffuircs, accom- panied by the other foreign represen-
tauves. paidt their respects to he PresiIen, yesterday,
and afterwards called upon the Secretary OF State 1T
his residence.
TIE PEACE Mo,gNEy7, New York, Jan. 9-Reso-
lutious have been In,roduced IN the North Carolina
Legislature opposing the suspension of the hG6eaS
corpus, impressment and CONSUMPTION. the surrender
of State officers, and in support OF State negotiations
fer peace Mr.. Carter. in e marked speech on the
suspension Of the habedS corpus said that il the gen
tlemen in that Legislature, aud in Congress, could
not protest against another lliega! suspension Of this
privilege, the time had come when, by the laws of
nature. he would be justified in starting n new rev.
olu,ion. 4 majority Of the cmmitte OF the North
Carolina legislature on the resolutions TO initiate
negotiations for an honorable peace, report that while
every effort il being made to strengthen our armies.
they should be accompanied by some manifestation
of an effort to secure an honorable peace. Commits.
sioners having heretofore been refused by the United
States. on the ground that Il would be a recognition
OF the Coniederacy, this objection is sought to be
removed in the resolutions By appointing Commits
sioners On the part Of the States whose civil existence
and authority have never been denied. These Com
uissioners are not to have powers from the States,
but only to be rendered by the President Cor 8 pescs