The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-21
FOREIGN news!
Arrival Of the Smyrniote and
Oracle,

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By the arrival of the Smyrniote, on Saturday
days from San Francisco. we have news from New
York to the Dist September. snd from San Francisco
to the 9th September.
There are no items Of particular interest.
We are under obligations to Captains Lovett and
Wood, and 10 Messrs. c. W. Brooks s. Co., and j. c.
Merrill s. Co., of San Francisco, for full sles of
papers.
The brig Kentucky hence on the 22d September.
arrived in San Francisco on the Goth September.
New YoRK, September 13.-The Fenisns are loom
ing up as o source of diplomatic trouble for Secretary
Seward. The English embassy has carefully noted
the Fenian demonstration, lin the United States,l
and facts and statistics have been sent to the Home
Government, which it is understood have become. the
subject of communication and demands that may
soon be invested with national interest.
The Chinese trouble has been unduly magniied.
1t is not expected that the State Department will sus-
tain the demand Of our Minister for the surrender Of
Gen. Burgevine, he having virtually denationslized
himself by becoming 3 Chinese citizen.
Private dispatches quote Gold in New York on the
the 18th instant at l40; and Sterling Exchange 1904.
NEw YORK, September 1S.-The United States
Consul at Constantinople, in q letter to the State
Department, dated August l4th, says that it is es-
timated that the victims of the cholera already num-
Der twenty thousand; the number of deaths in q sin
gle day having reached one thousand.
The lr0n-CiaQ JH0RdQHoch, the steamer PdnQeT-
biLt, and the screw steamer Iuscarora, will leave on
the LIST of October for the Pacific. They are TO be
attached to the squadron on that coast. These YES
sells will be accompanied to their destination by Com
modore John Rodgers.
Official information has been received here that,
the Brazilian Government has accepted, as entirely
satisfactory, the explanations and the reparation of
the U. s. Government, for the Unauthorized seizure
Of the COME lera;e privateer Florida, in a Brazilian
port.
NJ, Cop- Qonk OF GO 000 00O = - n noupn
lated in the Treasury up to date. This is the hrst
time since the outbreak of the rebellion that there
has been such an increase OF funds.
Fort SMITH, Sept. 2l.-A treaty was signed to-
day between the Commissioners and Choctaws and
Cbickasaws. providing for peace and friendship be-
tween the United States. Said tribes agree that they
will exert all their influence in compelling the Indians
of the Plains to maintain peaceful relations with
each other, with the Indians OF the territories, and
with the United States; that slavery shall be abolish
ed forever; that the freedmen shall be suitably pro
vided for; that lands shall be issued to the Indians
of Kansas and elsewhere; and the right of way shall
be granted tor railroads.. and that q consolidation of
the Indian tribes, with a territorial! form OF govern
ment, shall be recommended to- their respective couu-
els.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 2O.-The Montgomery, Ala.
Convention today adopted u resolution requesting
the Provisional Governor TO call out the militia in
each country to suppress the lawlessness which exists
in many counties.
The population of the State of New York amounts.
by the appearance OF the present returns. 10 4,oOO,-
900. This is about the population of England in
the time Of Elizabeth; is nearly the present popula-
ton of Bavaria, and zoo, 900 more than that Of the
Kingdom of Holland.
The plan of the Kentucky rebels and conserva-
tives, so lately developed, is to elect a majority Of
the legislature, repeal the expatriation law. form a
State guard, to be filled up by returned rebel sol.
diers, and with this force re-enslaye the freed ne
groes.
Blackwood's Magazine says Of England emo
so,,1,,cl ro h,-a n,th nnnnnn for nnr ~
ships-of-war. nor fre-arms in the hands of our
troops capable of contending on equal terms with
those of other nations.'' 1t is obviously getting to
be fy-time with Mr.. Bull.
West Indian paper processes to know of a SOW
ereign remedy for diphtheria. Here is the recipe
Take a common tobacco pipe, place q live coal in
the bowl, drop a little tar upon the coal, draw the
smoke into the mouth and discharge it through the
nostrils."
CoNsIsrENcY.-The same court and jury which de-
clared Miss Harris not guilty of the murder Of Bur
roughs. one week condemned Horatio Maloney to
eight years. Imprisonment for stabbing a faithless
mistress na med Florence Wilson the next. A Wash
ington letter says: If he had killed her it is I'M
derstood the jury would have acquitted him."
1t is reported that Beauregard will soon arrive in
New York on his way to Europe, having received
permission to go on condition that he will never again
take up arms against this country. The rumor also
states that it is supposed he will enter the French
service. We give the story for what it is worth.
1t is said that eighty plantations in Louisiana have
recently been confscated. These embrace many Of
the finest sugar estates of the Southern country. Mr..
Conway, the United States government agent, is
making arrangements to divide up these estates into
forty acre lots for freedmen and poor whites.
Some speculator has secured the ashes resulting
from the burning of tobacco ut the evacuation OF
Richmond, and shipped it North to be used as a fer
tilizer, for which it Is equal to guano. One vessel
took away 5.400 bushels.
a New Orleans paper says the property of John
Slidell, comprising eight hundred and %forty-two lots
and squares Of ground, with stores, dwelling houses,
and a banking-house, were sold for SlOO,4lO. Be-
fore the war it was estimated at $500, 600.
The colored schools in Louisiana established by
General Banks, embrace, it is reported, 126 schools,
go teachers, Is. ZOO children in day-schools, and
5000 adults in night and Sunday Schools; in all,
2 0,000 persons under instruction.
The New Bedford Standard understands that a
leading member of the bar in that city refused a re-
tainer from the party seeking to break down Miss
Howland's will. He declared that there was no
ground for the case to stand on, and that he con-
sidered it wicked to attempt to Illustrate the provi.
sions of an instrument which confers such benefits
on so many deserving individuals and on the commu-
nifty at large.
A telegram dated st. Petersburg, July %. says
| that the plan for a telegraphic line between Russia
and America has been approved and signed by the
Gar. The Russian government undertake to COM
plete the line as far as Nicolajewsk, the remaining
! portion, from Nicolajewsk to San Francisco, being at
the charge of the American company.
The London Times, which proclaimed the United
States hopelessly bankrupt before the close of the
first year of the war, sings now to this tune owe
do not suppose that the debt of the United States,
great az it is, will crush the energies OF the American
people. They have overcome greater difficulties, and
are not likely TO be deferred by the less"
The Epochn of Madrid complains of the recent
emigration from Cuba to the United States, and is
alarmed at the proportion which it assumes. II
states that during the last six months fifteen millions
of reals, nearly two millions of dollars. have left the
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