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

! Before entering upon public life, Secretary
/ Harlan was a Methodist preacher.
y monument to John Brown is talked Of in
F.! IOrrlngtOn, Conn, where he was born.
The old frigate Congress has at last been raised,
and towed TO the Portsmouth Nayy-yard.
! Colts pistol factory at Hartford, Ct. finds it
necessary to run 20 hours per day to fill its orders.
! The Union papers in Wisconsin are nearly
unanimous for negro suffrage there and at the
! South
! Mr. Robert Lincoln, son of the late President.
is shortly TO be married to daughter Of Secretary
/ Harlan.
The total number of National Banks now in
! operation is ,524, with authorized capital of
| 1897 ,S30,24l.
| Miss Flutter, who teased her father at an in
| oppOrtune moment for It - waterfall, ;" received
| two dams instead
The first locomotive for the Atchison and Pixies
! Peak Railroad has been received in Lawrence
( City, Kansas.
/ Ex-senator Preston King has been appointed
/ collector OF the port of New York, in place OF
/ Simeon Draper
! The Canadian debt Is $4,000 ,OOO-an enor-
nous burthen for the Provinces. Politics are
also considerably out of joint.
The westward emigration this year is unpre-
cedeated. Over five thousand trains have passed
Fort Laramie during the season.
Brigham Young is more married than any
other man in America, and has money IN
the Bank of England than any other depositor.
Mrs Golden has presented a bust Of her late
great husband to Napoleon, and the Emperor
says thank you, in an autograph note.
It is said that the culture of beets in France
! furnishes more than hundred million pounds Of
sugar, for human consumption.
During General Grants recent journey through
Maine, one enthusiastic old man presented him
with real Havana cigar, Il foot long
\ ten-year old of Lira Elliott, of Lincoln,
VT, has been i'll year, and recently he vomited
up striped snake Is inches long. He is getting
better.
The New York Post says Brown thinks that
the paragraph about SO many miles Of the Allan
tic cable paid out is IL misprint for SO many miles
played OUT
An Irisllman. in Burlington, VT, attempted to
hang himself recently, in 4 drunken fit, but
when the rope began to choke him. he yelled
''murther'' and was rescued.
\ Raleigh editor has seen hale old fellow
named Cheeseman. who declares that he is the
father OF forty-two living children ! and not one
Of them went into the Rebel service.
Nearly S4OO O0O,O 600 have passed through the
Internal Revenue Bureau its organization,
and far it has sustained the loss of single
dollar by misconduct of any Of Its officers.
Seventy tons of mail matter are daily handled
and looked over by the clerks in the New York
Post Office. The receipts in the first six months
of the present year, it is said, Were 1855 929 81
an Great Britain last year, by the burning Of
crinOline worn by ladies. 1t is estimated that in
fifteen years, 40 900 lives have been thus lost.
Miss Hester Robinson. late of New Bedford,
but now of New York, is probably the richest
in the land. She foots up six millions!
and Is L modest, unassumng, marriageabe young
lady.
The Providence Or. ~ JOunal mentions Il
squash vine in that city already sixty feet long
and growing ut the rate of eighteen inches n day
DIR. Charles NJ Winship the celebrated
strong man. and prominent physician Of
Roxbury, Mass, died, after n brief illness, of
diptheria. The of life, it would seem, is not
always u the strong.
The Chicago Republican calls for trial of
General Lee. If convicted, he can be pardoned.
But he ought not to be allowed to 90 ut large,
and boast of his treason with impunity.
Wool growing is fast becoming one of the
leading sources of wealth in Missouri. 1t is be-
ing fully demonstrated that this State furnishes
finer field for its production than any other local
ity in the W est.
Colorado is likely to make application soon for
admission into the Union. The constitutional
convention in session at Denver has voted
almost unanimously that it is expedient TO form
State government.
1t is stated that 2OO, 900 feet of two and three
inch plank is about TO he shipped from East
Saginaw, Michigan, to Marseilles, France. 1t
goes 10 New York via the Erie Canal, whence II
will be shipped TO its destination
The foundation stone of an institution for the
n fe accommodation and reformation of females
in n respectable position in society addicted TO
habits ofdrunkenness, - was laid ct Edenborough,
Scotland. recently.
y new sort of - stand up drinks has been in
troduced in Springfield. Mass. bar-room Is
now open where nothing is sold but pure iced
milk By the glass. The business has proved very
profitable TO the proprietor, and might be intro
duced elsewhere.
Harry Leslie crossed his rope At Niagara last
week hut not 50 successfully as before. In car
rving two pals Of water, he slipped, caught
himself almost by n miracle, and -eached the
shore much exhausted, amid intense excitement
on the partof the crowd.
For man with one million annual income 70
get himself uto difficulties argues talent. Prince
Esterhazv one of the FIVE great landlords of
Europe. is under Il financial cloud. with debts
amounting u ten million dollars and executions
u that amount on his estates.
Sir Henry Lytton Buwer, now a half blind
invalid IN France has grown thin and wan,
nervous and fighty; there is hardly anything
left Of him but his prodigious nose. Without
sympathy for woman anywhere, he Is
only connected with humanity by his brain
Statistics of the War Department show that
during the rebellion our armies captured over
300 GOO prisoners Of war, besides VarOling about
one hundred and sixty thousand more at the
final surrender of the different rebel armies.
These records undergoing Il complete
compilation, and the facts developed thereby are