The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-09-30
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER so.
TWO DAYS LATER!
Arrival of the bark Whistler"

plspalCu Line, rive on SUNDAY morning last,
with San Francisco papers of the 7th September,
containing Geographic news to the 9th September.
The SmyrniOte, of the Hawaiian Packet Line.
hence on the 18th August, had not arrived up to the
afternoon of the 9TH inst.
The ships Oracle. Bengal and Componia Mara
TINA del Peru No. 2 formerly the Henry Brig
ham, } were up for ports in China, to touch at Homo
lulu.
Our thanks are due TO Com. Patty, Messrs. j. c.
Merrill * Co. and c. W. Brooks s Co., for supplies
of papers.
A Washington special dispatch says il is consistently
predicted that the President will soon issue a pro-
clamation restoring the writ of hGbeas corpus in the
loyal States.
New YoRK, September 4.-The Worlds special
gays the President will generally commute to impri-
sonment for q term of years all pending sentences of
death in the case OF soldiers convicted Of desertion.
Three soldiers under sentence Of death have been
sent to Fort Delaware for FIVE years each. A Wash
ington dispatch says mono Of the prominent ex- rebel
generals have yet applied for permission to leave the
country under the provision Of the late Presidential
proclamation. Lee has no thought of thus applying,
though he has been offered O handsome mansion 10
London.
New YoaK. September 4-The Tribune says G.
Fl. Emerson, Bsiliff of the Wirtz Military Commits
sion, has Just returned from the South, where he was
sent by the Government to summon witnesses for the
defence. The names Of about 60 rebel officers and
men were furnished by Writ. Considerable diff
Guilty was experienced by Emerson in finding wit
nesses, as they were scattered over the States Of
North and South Carolina, Alabama, Florida and
Georgia. a number have gone to Texas and Mexico.
Out OF q list of 60, but SO were found, all of whom
are now on their way to this city. The list of the
subpenas embraces the names of officers of all grades
from the rank Of Colonel down. Also, a number of
private soldiers. Most Of those named served with
Wirtz while in command at Andersonville prison.
Contracts for postal service in the South are now
being made with railroads and steamboats,. They
are taken at an average of 80 per cent. lower than
before the war. In one case only $27 300 is now
paid for service for which the Government gave
$15S,0O0 five years ago.
The amount of national currency issued by the
Treasury Department for the week ending September
I'd was $2,2Sl $50. The grand total issued up 10
date is SIT ,487 ,220. The total amount of certia-
Gates of Indebtedness redeemed at the bureau of re-
demption in the Treasury Department for the week
ending September I'd was SO, 9S7, $50, and the amount
of mutilated currency destroyed for the same period
was 81, 206 ,575.
The Worlds special says the recommendation of
the late mass meeting at Richmond that similar
meetings be held throughout the State being carried,
they have been called in several counties. One was
held on Friday at Halifax Court House, which passed
resolutions accepting the abolition of slavery as an
accomplished fact. pledged its efforts for a full restor-
alton of the Union, and endorsed the reconstruction
policy of President Johnson.
NEw YORK, September pastoral manifestoes to
their HOOKS i t1elQOulSt bishops o i the
Church South, and from the Episcopal Bishop of
Alabama, are published. They recognize the unmis-
taxable fact Of the failure to destroy the political
unity of the country. urge on their people q cheerful
submission to the powers that be, acquiescence in all
the results of the war, and a return to good citizen
ship under the National Government. But they are
more uncharitable On the subject of Church re- union
with their Northern brethren, claiming that the lat
ter have repulsed previous advances made with this
object, and insist that further proposals must come
thence.
Mr.. Wilmer, Episcopal Bishop of Alabama, in.
structs his clergymen that it will not be necessary to
resume their prayers for the President of the United
States until the civil authority is fully restored in the
State.
At a Convention of Georgia Episcopalians it was
! resolved to resume their connection with the Church
North whenever the Bishops should consider such a
course consistent with the good faith pledged to their
brethren of other portions OF the late Confederate
States.
Of the LIST says it is stated that the decision has been
arrived at that only those will be entitled to vote at
the approaching election for the State Convention who
we're virtually legal voters in 1860. If the report be
correct, it DISTINGUISHES all who may have attained
full age, or who may have become otherwise qualified
since that time, and conflicts with the intent and
spirit of Gov. Perry's proclamation, based on the adj
justment made by President Johnson, that the laws
in relation to suffrage in force prior to secession should
alone be valid. A movement is on foot to invite
President johnson to extend his contemplated visit
to Richmond so far as Charleston and Macon.
New YORK, Sept. 4-Tbe ageLts for the rebeI
bondholiers in London have issued the following
Call for a meeting of bondholders, 20 be held OIL
: Monday, September 4th next, to consider their
altered position, now that the Government of the
United States has become de facto the Government Of
the Confederate States. Ii deemed expedient, the
Convention is 10 appoint q committee to collect the
rates and interest. and generally TO take such steps
as may be thought advisable. Communication
from bona fde bondholders may, in the meantime,
be made to the undersigned. (Signed) Terrell,
Chamberlain and Blake, Solicitors for bondholders.'
Commenting on this, the London Star, of the 23d,
says: There is not in international law one shade
Of authority to support the idea that the rightfu
Government is bound to assume debts contracted t
aid in its own destruction. The doctrine is 80 man
ifestly absurd that il only requires to be stated to be-
known. In confirmation, the Confederate bond.
holders are not debtors TO the late Southern Gov
ernment. If they we're, they might, perhaps, FIND
some theory of law which would absolve them from
the disagreeable duty Of paying. They are. unfor
tunately, creditors. Their debtor has disappeared
leaving no effects which are not claimed by th'
creditor having the prefereuce-the United State
Government. They claim all the cotton, ships
money and stores of the Confederates in neutra
countries az well as in the South. The StoneGai
has already been given up to them by Spain, anC
the Shenandoah will be given up by any country il
whose harbors she seeks refuge. They claim all th'
cotton and funds of the Confederate GoverDmen
now in this country. If such questions come betor
the Courts Of law in England, the Judges canno
look favorably on the claims Of the bondholders il
connection with a loan entered into in oontraven
ton Of the Queens Proclamation"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4-The receipts of interna
revenue to-day reached four millions two hundre,
thousand dollars. being one million seven hundre,
and sixty-eight thousand dollars greater than th
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