The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-03-04

The PASSPORT SYsrE M.-The following vas Off
cially promulgated on the 18th of December
Department Of State, HGShiEgion, Dec. II.
The President directs that, except immigrant pas
sengers, directly entering an American port. by sea-.
no traveller shall hereafter be allowed To enter the
United States from IL foreign country without a pass
port. If "a citizen, the passport must be from this
Department. or from some United States Minister or
Consul abroad and, if an alien. from the compe-
tent authority of his own country, the passport to be
countersixned By a diplomatic agent or Consul of
the United States.
This regulation is intended to apply especially to
persons proposing 10 come TO the United States from
the ueighburing British provinces. Its observance
will he strictly enforced Oy all Officers, civil, mill
tary and naval, in the service Of the United States
ami the State aud municipal authorities are request
Ell 10 aid in its execution. Its expected here that
no immigrant passenger coming by sea, in the man
ner aforesaid, will be Instructed, or any other per
son who may set out on their way nither before in
telligence Of this regulation could reasonably he ex-
pected TO reach the country from which they may
have started. WILLIAM IL. SEWARD,
Secretary Of State.
RE.rLrs OF TIE Wharf.-The New York Herald.
under the head Of = Blessings in Disguise" has the
following on the results of the war
- In 4 great war Ike this, the individual Is lost in
the grandeur OF the results. Private Jones falls aud
is carried to a grave or n hospital, but the Union
triumphs in the fight. Merchant Brown, whose Gus
toners are in the South. makes a very bad failure,
but the war sets thousands Of other merchants upon
their feet. See what this war has already done for
the country. 1t has developed resources Of which we
were previously ignorant. Iron. coal, copper and
saltpeter mines have been discovered in the South in
great numbers. and in localities uudreamed Of before
the war. Canals have been built like those upon the
Mississippi and at Dutch Gap. which we're simply
impossible 10 private enterprise, and which will
greatly facilitate navigation. IIarbors hitherto I'M
known are now crowded with our shipping.
Wherever new railroads are needed they are laid
down At the unprecedented rate of q mile Il day.
The telegraph follows our armies wherever they 60.
Soldiers turn editors and start newspapers in the
enemy's country, and our generals take the stump as
soon a. they have taken a city, and proceed to in
struct the people they have conquered. The slavery
question, which was our only source Of disturbance,
has been cut by the sword, like the GOriian knot,
and now seems in a fair way 10 settle itself through
the desperate measures Of the rebel leaders. The
whole South, hitherto reserved for negro plantations,
Is being thrown open 10 foreign immigration. This
same Immigration constantly recuperstes the North,
and is rather increased than diminished by the war.
Domestic manufactures are wonderfully encouraged.
inventions multiply upon US. We have created an
iron clad navy, such as it Is. On sea or on land,
with sailors or with soldiers, We are now more than
s. match for any other nation upon the face Of ;he
earth.
These are some Of the benefits which We, rs o peo-
pie, have already derived from this war, and We
might enumerate many more we're our space equal to
the requirements Of the subject. But any one who
can appreciate the full scope of the benefits We have
recited, will need no further argument TO convince
him that the war is really a blessing to the country.
When il shall end in the complete restoration of the
Union, its blessings Will be even more apparent. The
anger, prejudices, the jealouses which it has created
will soon pass away; but the telegraphs, the rail-
roads, the canals, the harbors. and the various i'm
: proyemeuls which i has aiso created will then re-