The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-06-03
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Summary.

IL savannah, IOr Ere-WOOd.
Tin God We Trust is to be the motto on all
future coins OF the United States.
new L, S. so cent postal currency bears on its
face a very good likeness Of Hon. WI. z. Fessenden.
Cardinal Wisenan's dying words were "Well,
here [ am at last. like a child from school. going
home for the holidays
Free schools, for white and colored children. are
in successful operation in Charleston, s. C..
The Emperor Macmillan is sp,ly described as
a the German emigrant who struts under the pilferei
crown Of Mexico"
The richest black man in the United States is Clip
rian RisauI. lie is worth a million.
Mrs. Abner Bartlett, of Milford. Mass. 81 years
Of age, has knit 800 pairs of socks for the soldiers.
since the beginning Of the war.
The eldest son Of Earl Russell. yiscaunt Auberly.
is about to begin his public career. He is announced
as one Of the speakers at the Leeds Working Mems
Reform Association.
The managers Of the New York Inebriate Asylum
have concluded, after trial, that they can't cure
drunkards in less than q year.
The rebel debt grew TO be so large that q Rich
mond editor thought it ought TO be repudiated on
the ground of its bewildering magnitude.
Queer, isn't it. how things work in the world.
John Browns daughter is now keeping a school for
negro children in the old mansion of Henry A. Wise,
in Virginia.
Partisan society has been saddened by the death
of q young lady of rank and fashion who killed
herself by tight lacrng. Her stays had forced three
VI Z IIOS luAC utl lNS
The Davenports, it is said, have Melted about
SO 600 by above Two hundred seaaces given in
England.
An organ, to cost twenty thousand dollars. is
about to be built in Boston. for Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's church, Brooklyn.
At the Prince Napoleou's ball, lately held, the
principal gastronomic novelty Of the evening was a
salad of iced asparagus and fresh sliced trufes.
Sir Frederick Bruce, the newly appointed British
Minister to Washington. is hfty-one years old and q
bachelor. Chance for American beauties.
1t is said that one manufacturing establishment
in Patterson, y. J., has received orders for $500, 900
worth of oil boring machines. 1t could not fill the
orders.
The Chamber of Deputies Of the kingdom of Wur-
temburg has just pronounced in favor of the abolition
Of capital punishment by nifty six votes against
twenty-seven.
Carlyle is reported to have said, Let America
succeed, and England goes TO democracy by express
train
In the harbor Of New London, Connecticut. there
has been 10 ice this winter, while every other harbor
on the coast has been closed rs far south as Cape
Fear river.
There are forty-four periodicals published in San
Francisco--ten dailies, twenty-five weeklies, eight
monthlies, one semi weekly, one tri-weekly and two
ANNALS. Three are German, three Spanish and two
French.
II is asserted that q photographer, who has been
employed by the Dutch government to take views of
the most beautiful points on the island of Java, has
discovered the ruins of an entire city buried beneath
the lava Of q volcano close by, which has been ex-
tinct for several centuries.
The London Times speaks of The German crav-
ing for American securities. The Germans are a
sensible people. They know that American credit is
founded upon q rock, and the bonds, for the redemp-
ton of which the faith of the nation 10 pledged, are
the best in the world.
Ii is asserted in Paris that n military force of
5000 men will be raised for service in Madagascar,
in the event of an unfsvorabie reply from the Queen
of that island to the ultimatum of France.
The number of cod fish taken in 1864 by French
hips was less than in 1868, the weight in 1863
beng , .240, 900 kilogrammes. On the other hund,
the take of fiat fish was double in 1864 to that of
1868.
The site Of the town of Taunton. Mass, was once
bought by Elizabeth Pool (Squaw Betty for a peck
of beans. A section of the town bears her Indian
name corrupted to Squawbetty TO this day.
A new arrow has been invented in England. which
by an arrangement of the feather after the fashion
OF the Archimedean screw, has a rotary motion that
gives it new velocity and directness, as though it
were rifed.
One thing at least the war has done. 1t has
forced the south to acknowledge the manhood of the
negro. Gen. Lee says he will make a good soldier,
and that the South can't gain its independence with
out his aid. Rather a humilitating confession, that.
a physician, occupying 4 high official position in
Massachusetts,, says that since the beginning of the
war there has been n remarkable decrease in cases
of insanity among women, attributed TO the various
charitable and benevolent operations occasioned by
the war, which have excited the sympathies and
received the support of women.
Parson Brownlow. Governor elect Of Tennessee.
has been awarded S25 900, in q suit. for damages
inflicted by imprisonment and persecution at the
hands Of certain prominent rebels of Knoxville,
which is to be assessed upon said rebels, who, having
danced, must now pay the violinist.
The LAST outrage 1T is stated that the Charles
ton Mercury is TO be revived. with James Red ath,
of John Brown memory, as editor. How The chival-
ry will rage.
A statement comes from Naples to the effect that
on the 10Th Of March an English tourist (name not
given) was killed on the cone of Vesuvius in his
effort to avoid an enormous rock shot up from the
crater. He rolled down the steep declivity, and was
picked up at the spot called Pellegrini, his ribs
fractured and back bone broken.
The newest system Of robbery announced in Lon
don consists in following the butchers man to a
house, and then going Immediately after with q tray
containing meat, and telling the servant that
g master has sent the wrong joint and begging
that it may be instantly returned to be exchanged
for the right one. The right one never comes.
Sir Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, the new
British Minister at Washington, is the third son of
the Earl of Elgin and kincardine, who was a special
object of Byron's satire, and ls chiefly famous as
b ving, when Ambassador to Turkey, collected the
fine Greek sculptures from the Acropolis of Athens,
which he subsequently sold to the British Govern
ment-the Elgin marbles now in the British Museum.
An old resident of Philadelphia has a family horse
which has done cool service for twenty years. For
some time past the horse has evinced n tendency to
stumble, and to strain his sight at objects close by.
The kind hearted owner judged the animal by his
own case, and ordered of an optician a pair Of equine
spectacles. y pair of pebble glasses. about the size
of the object glasses of a large-sized lunette. were
set in q frame over the horses eyes. He appreciates
the convenience wonderfully, and has never stumbled
since he donned bis spectacles.
The THUSDERER CHASGED.-The London Times
has entirely dropped its old insolent tone Of comment
upon American affairs, and now speaks Of the .. S.