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

Chunk. Pa. together with 81 acres Of land, the
whole for the endowment of a college near Bethlehem.
An ingenious clockmaker of Versailles has invent
ed q clock no larger than the ordinary instruments,
which will 60 for one year, or indeed for n much
longer time. The internal mechanism is not altered,
but the pendulum is replaced by q horizontal lever,
which acts on a twist Of elastic wire suspended verti-
cally.
81, 200, 900 capital has been started at New York,
and is likely TO be . success. The Atlantic steam
ship company has just declared an annual dividend
of 81. 100000 on a cash capital of $4,000, 900 and a
nominal capital of 81, 1000, 900.
NEw YORK, July 29-Advices from Hayti, re-
ceived by way Of Nassau, state that the revolutiona-
~ war in that republic is still going on. The rebels
profess themselves willing to be buried under the
ashes Of their towns, rather than be any longer
governed by President Gefrard.
NEw YORK, August Sth.-The Tri6une's Rich
mond correspondent says the evil spirits have been
let loose upon US since the recent justly deserved fate
Of the late election was pronounced. Young men.
citizens, wsylay and assault every colored man they
meet, while older heads universally adopt the plan of
lighting our soldiers, at the same time Kissing bitter
est denunciations on the negro. The most stringent
orders of General Terry are inadequate 10 cease the
growing abuse.
1t is stated that the parties who own the house in
Washington in which President, Lincoln died, have
put in n claim in the office of the Auditor of the
Treasury, for losses incurred by the damaging of
a. sheets, pillow cases and carpets" caused by the
eDoinS OF the llie-OIooQ or the great American mar
tyr. The bill amounts to 5000. The owners Kept
the house open for exhibition. at fifty cents a visitor,
for some time after the Presidents death.
The Unit ed States Telegraph Company, whose wires
already extend over II 900 or 20 900 miles in the
Atlantic States, have contracted with thoroughly
reliable parties TO build q two wire line of telegraph
from St Louis and Chicago to San Francisco. The
lines from the Eastern cities named to Denver City
and from San Francisco to Virginia City. are to be
finished this Autumn, and the whole line is TO be
completed in the Autumn following,
To illustrate the Yankee style of improving oppor-
tunities il is related Of u Northern merchant, who
was eating his dinner at the Battle House, at the
time of the recent explosion at Mobile, that although
badly cut by flying fragments of the windows, he
managed to rush to the telegraph office, and send a
dispatch to his partner to g ship nothing but putty
and glass" This duty done. he tainted, and has
been in a brain fever ever since.
Mrs. Thistlewaite, a lady preacher, is now the
sensation in London. A London paper says that she
speaks, dresses. and altogether demeans herself in
good taste. A black silk dress, with white collar
and cuffs, her hair neatly arranged, and an earnest.
Thoughtful countenance, combined with the evident
sincerity of her motives, forbid anything like levity,
on the part even of a large miscellaneous congrega-
ton. She speaks fuently and persuasively, without
any note, and with considerable force and elegance.
A plan for preventing the annual and troublesome
Spring floods at Albany and Troy is to sink a number
of %tcrpedOes in the river the day after navigation is
closed in the Fall. Those in each thousand yards
could be connected and fred by one fuse or electric
Current, Ill feauy 10 De eXpl0Seu Wnen tnere are In
dications of the breaking up of the ice. That would
send the ice down the river and leave free course of
the water to follow.
A great sensation has been recently produced in
musical circles at Paris by a Polish guitar player,
named Sokoloweki. This artist has introduced some
considerable improvements in the guitar, which he
has made an instrument capable of producing great
variety of musical effects, and remarkable for its
sonorousness and compass.
The Board Of Inspectors for the city Of Paris have
s,ak ooat - n ,na,t Al,n .~l a,~as. -.-a,t -
the Project of Seine in reference to the mortality of
the capital. The results announced are exceedingly
valuable acquisitions to statistics of this nature all
the world over. In 1910 the annual mortality was
one person in % in 1868 it was only one in 40 ;
and this amelioration, Notwithstanding an increase
of inhabitants, is ascribed to improved sanitary ar
engagements, the extension and widening of thorough
ares, the opening of parks. the planting of trees.
Paris, with a population of l 500. 141, possesses over
Ave thousand acres of open ground, planted with
more than one million trees.
Prof. Agassiz, with the scientific gentlemen accom-
panying him, arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the 22d
of April and was most kindly received. The En-
peror sent a boat alongside of the steamer to take
the party on shore, and in the evening had q long
interview with MIR. Agassiz. The Secretary of the
Treasury Of Brazil, gave orders to have the baggage
and instruments of the party passed unopened at
the Custom House, and every courtesy was extended
to the members OF the expedition by the officials Of
the Brazilian Government.
LII fSpiJ u u Tie u lAulSteE ia a
thanking him for having named his grandson Lin
coln." Garibaldi wrote The name of Lincoln,
like that of Christ, makes the beginning Of q glori-
Gus era in the history of humanity, and | am proud
to perpetuate in my family the name Of the great
emancipation. The journals and the men who have
opposed the cause of the great Republic are like the
ass of the fable that kicked the lion, thinking him
dead; but now they see her rise again in all her
majesty, they will change their language. The
American question is vital for the liberty Of the
world, and its approaching solution must rejoice the
hearts of honest men,"
THE MURDERED AT Clara
Barton, daughter of Judge Barton, OF Worcester,
Mass, who has obtained national repute by publish.
ing q list of missing soldiers, and by her heroic
deeds to the wounded in battles. and even under fire,
left Washington recently, on q Government vessel.
with a party for the purpose of enclosing the area OF
ground at Andersonville where so many Federal
prisoners persisted from want and exposure, and of
putting up head boards at their graves. She con-
ceives that she has q suitable list of the deceased,
and and has accordingly obtained seventeen thousand
head-bOards for the purpose. May she be rewarded
with perfect success.
Boston papers chronicle another valuable gift by
George Peabody to his native town, Danvers. The
gift consists of "a cases Of books, containing nearly
$500 volumes, and embracing works in all branches
OF literature. In his letter Mr.. Peabody says ga
very valuable part of the collection is the Times
newspaper. A set like this is very rarely to be met
with for sale, and I believe there are not more than
two or three sets in England"
Mrs. Sylvia Ann Rowland, who recently died in
New Bedford. leaving an estate valued at 50, 500 900,
bequeathed 800, 900 to the city of New Bedford for
the introduction of pure water, and a like sum to be
appropriated to the encouragement of education.
She also bequeashed So, 900 to the Orphans Home.
The three trustees of her estate, George Rowland,
ir., DR.. W. A. Gordon and Edward D. Mandeli, are
member in the sum Of $50 900 each, and DR..
Gordon in an extra sum Of $4,000 as O mark OF
personal esteem.-Correspondent s. +. Bulletin.
ANOTHER Coon PRESIDENTIAL TALK-We CON-
mend to the attention of our readers the telegraphio
| onooupt NJ tho intpryiaw hptween President .JohnsoD