The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-11-11

NEW YoRK, Oct. ia special dispatch {,
Post says the memorial from the South Caroline
vention for the pardon of Davis, Trenholm and y
rath has been presented TO the President. He ,
give q reply this 7. VI.
Marshal Goodloe, just from North Carolina, say
that two thirds of she reports Of cruelty to the col
ored people in that State are false.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4-The Hsrdll's Vera Cruz cor
respondence of September lst says n terrible state Of
affairs exists in Mexico. Disorder and violence reign
supreme. Guerr;llns increase in numbers. and their
depredations continue in all sections. Some 300
French troops lately arrived. and a number Of negro
troops are expected from Egypt. Ii is feared that
they will bring the cholera with them, and thus in
hict a new misery on the country.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 1S-The annual meeting of the
Grand Lodge. Independent Order of Ofd Fellows. OF
the United States. took place this morning, in the
hall on North Gay street, Grand Sire Isaac NJ Neitch-
presiding. Representatives from nearly all the States
in the Union, and several Of the British Provinces.
we're in attendance, and this is the first occasion
within the past Eve years when brethren from All
parts Of our widely extended country have mingled
together. Mutual congratulations were interchangei
AMI much friendly feeling evidenced.
NEw York. Oct. 9.-The Heraid's Raleigh cores
pendent says the people of North Caroliha, especially
those around Raleigh. are very decided in their ap-
prevail of the emphatic way in which the State Con-
vention disposed of the Secession Ordinance b. de-
claring it not only null and void. but to have been so
since its passage. The inhabitants are also repre-
scented as being extremely hostile to those men who
assisted in ~plunging the State into rebellion.
ANOTHER AMNESTY PRocLANATIoS-The New York
-NtIcS (Copperhead) publishes a dispatch from Wash
ington - have authority. in which | repose the
utmost confidence, for asserting that another amnesty
proclamation will soon be issued by President john
son. The manliness with which the Southern people
have submitted to the conditions imposed on them 10y
the fortunes of war. a. we'll as the condition of that
section. has decided the President on issuing another
amnesty proclamation. broad and generous in its
provisions. lie knows the people of the South, and
is satisfied that they will act in good faith with the
Federal Government. This is also rendered neces-
sary by the vast number OF petitions Tor pardon
which have accumulated TO that extent that il would
require years to examine them"
TUE WIRz 1RIAL-The trial of Captain wirz, the
Andersonvilla nilor, is slill progressing, aud will
occupy all the remaining part Of The hot season.
Nothing especially interesting. in addition TO what 1
stated in my former letter, has been ELECTED. The
witnesses since examined confirm oil their predeces-
sors said, and mere too. The mind cannot conceive
OF such terrible suffering as the Union prisoners en-
dured in that /" pen" Not only starvation is to be
charged to the authorities, but the wilul shooting of
men, and all manner of indignites. Wirz is repre-
sented as Boosting that he was doing more service for
the Confederates in his treatment of prisoners. than
Lee was doing ut Richmond; that he was giving the
damned Yankees what they deserve. and such like
expressions. And it was shown that General Wind
sor, who was the superintendent of Confederate
prisons. when complained to about the crowding of
thirty-ive thousand prisoners in a space which should
not have been occupied by one third the number,
said, by killing off one half they could take care of
the remainder. There was nothing but cruelty. with
the exception of n few kind acts, by stealth, Of mer-
ciful surgeons. 1t seems to be u foregone conclusion
although the Commission affords every opportunity
for q fair rial-tha Captain Wirz will pay the
penalty of his crimes with his life. 1t is n pity that
the more prominent tormentors cannot he reached.
A FENIAN CALCULATIoN.-A calculating Fenian
of this city is of the opinion that a halfdozen priva-
teers bearing the flag Of the Irish Republic, would
have n damaging effect on the people of England.
In 17d0 there were thirty thousand land owners in
Great Britain, and now there are only about three
thousand. The lesson here taught is that all, except
the three thousand, must earn their living by hired
labor. Cut of the foreign commerce Of England
and the kingdom would not exist two years-it would,
in fact, eat itself up. Were it put to the test, all the
craftsmanship in the country could not prevent the
masses in the manufacturing districts from making a
revolution of their own. Any change would be
thought better than a condition brought about by an
endangered and restricted commerce. One or two
privateers in the Indian ocean, two or three in the
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. two in the Pacific and
two in the Irish Channel. would soon make a repub-
lie of England At this time there are about twenty
millions of Irishmen scattered over the world; in
Ireland, 6.000, 900; in England, 1900, 900; in Scot
land, 100, 600; in the United States, 5000, 600; in
Canada. Australia and other British possessions.
1900. 900; in the East and West Indies and South
Africa. 900, 900; in France, Spain, Austria, and
South and Central America, 1000 900, including
those on the ocean. AS the population of England
and Ireland in the 18th century was nearly equal.
there is no reason to doubt that the numbers Of Irish
men at the present time are about equal TO the b.
600 ,000 of England and Wales.