The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-02-11

The Louisville Journal says the election was per-
fectly free in that city; the soldiers behaved admira-
bly,, and no citizen was prevented from voting by
bayonets-and such was the case IN all other cities
in the voting States
PUBIC LIBRARIEs-There are 1O4 public libraries
in the country, which number not less than 10 600
bound volumes each. The aggregate Of the whole is
2.4U3,4I7. Of these libraries only :. with an aggre-
gate of I52, 900 volumes, are in territory now under
rebel control. The largest public library in the
country is that OF Harvard University, with lac, 1000
volumes. The Astor Library has 10, 900. The Bos-
ton public library, the youngest on the list, ranks
third, having ITO, 5C3 volumes. Yale College has A.
600. Brown University Zone of the choicest libraries
in the country 81 900. Dartmouth College 1858.
The Portsmouth Ataeneum. established in 1917,
closes the list with 10000 volumes. Massachusetts,
has 20 libraries, or nearly oue-hfth Of the entire list,
and 614,4l5 volumes-tour times as many as the
whole Southern Coufederacy. New York has Is Il
braries with ASS, S5o volumes. California, Michigan,
Tennessee, Georgia aud Vermont rank below New
Hampshire. According to the latest returns, Great
Britain has only AZ libraries which exceed 10000
volumes, and France only IS. 1t is estimated that
all the public and educational libraries Of the United
States contain l $50, 900 volumes.
ACCIDENT AT MoSr BLASC.-A fatal accident has
lately occurred at Mont Blanc, being the first since
DR.. Hamelis accident in 1920. Two Austrian gen.
tlemen had made a successful ascent OF the noun
tain, and were descending TO the grand plateau. \
young porter, Ambrose Couttel, was some distance
in front, not attached 10 the rope. He took q direc-
ton too near the edge of the plateau, and just as the
sulGe II the party SnUuteu % warn MIN OF MS u9H-
ger he was engulped in a crevasse before the eyes of
the others. The crevasse was ninety feet of sheer
depth, and the rope was not long enough TO reach
the bottom. The guides approached the edge OF the
crevasse and leaned over. They saw the traces OF
the mans fall, and called, but received no answer.
The cold on the plateau was intense, and feeling con-
WINGED that the man was dead they continued their
route. The game eFening a party of guides left
Cha-uOUni to recover the body. Two Of them,
Michael Payot and Simon Pierre benoit. descended
ninety feet 70 the turn of the creyasse, but could get
10 further, from the badness of the air. They low
cred 3 hottie one hundred feet more, which came
up covered with hair. The head guide Of the party
IL blamed for not having enforced the use of the rope
on all members Of the party. There have never
been a. many ascents Of Mont Blanc made in one
season as this year; and the feat is no longer one
which imparts even a temporary notOriety. Ii only
hos the merit of being expensive and %fatiguing.
EXCITING SCENE IN a MENAGERIE.-The Council
Bluffs Bugie says that recently while a Il enagerie
Sas on exhibition in the city, a violent storm sprang
up, which blew down the pavilion, which immediate
ly took fire and was nearly all consumed. The
accident took place in the midst Of the exhibition,
and there were from one to two thousand people in
the pavilion. 1t is impossible to describe the confu-
sion which took place. Men, women and children
were buried under the canvas but, fortunately, the
center pole and braces fell with one end upon the
cages OF the wild beasts, so as TO allow a large portion
of The audience to escape. The canvas of the north
side was lifted up bodily and carried over the heads
Of the audience into the center Of the ring, while the
top canvas falling upon the kerosene lamps, immedi-
ately took fire, and ut one time there was great dam
ger of many being consumed by the fast spreading
lanes but fortunately all escaped, and not a man,
woman or child was seriously hurt. Such confusion
was never before witnessed. Men calling for their
wives wives, for their husbands, mothers for children,
and children for their mothers-all was confusion.
Just at this time two cages which had been placed
together for the purpose of forming the den of wild
beasts, which Professor Sears enters during the ex-
hibition, became separated, and the back door being
open, out leaped a huge iioness. Then arose the cry,
- 4 lion out" Then there was confusion worse con
founded, and a stampede took place equaled only by
the stampede Of the congressman from Bull Run.
The keeper of the lion caught it around the neck,
another man belonging to the concern jumped into
the cage and threw the leopard (Which, being in the
same cage with the lion, was about TO escape) down
in a corner and held it while the bystanders closed
the cage. The lion was put back into the cage and
all was quiet. Nobody hurt.