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

OF tue CElel OF Ol4I.Gs ll4Eu, Dy the queen OF
Spain.
Sir Roderick Murchisou and his geographical
friends have set on foot q movement 10 erect q mon
umeut to the late Capt. Spoke.
1t is said that the Princess Helena, the Queen Of
England's third laughter, i 10 be married to Prince
Elimar Of OlienbUrg.
There are five young kings, or heirs to Kingdoms,
in Europe, in want Of wives. viz Bavaria, Greece.
Orange, Sardinia AID Russia.
By improvements in the Neya. St. Petersburg is to
be made q seaport, and thus independent Of Cron-
stadt, except for purposes Of war.
Hamilton +. Towle, the passenger on the Great
Eastern steamship who invented a temporary steer
ing apparatus which saved The ship when disabled
by a storm, has recovered SIS, 900 as salvage.
Hotel and clearinghouse keepers at Richmond
have taken advantage Of the assembling Of the rebel
Congress to put up the prices Of board. The rates st
the hotels have been advanced to forty dollars per
day.
TINES CHASGEs-Fred. Douglas delivered 8 lee
tuTe IN Baltimore on the night Of the I'D ult, TO
the freed negroes. Not many years since he was n
slave in that State. This is one among the many
peculiar changes being wrought by Time.
TIE YIsIos.-This little brig, of one ton register.
which sailed from New York III June last. has prob
ably gone 10 the bottom, with her yenturesome COM
rnander-Ca2rnin Donovan-and his companion.
They bad but sixty days provisions, and expected TO
make the voyage IN about forty days.
ASoTHER MISSIONARY sHIP-To the missionary
vessels Morning Star and EreHiag Star. has been
NN'~ III Oft p''fS -"N 49, NN"4-- '-
dren Of Nova Scotia, Of Scotland, and OF Australia,
have united and built a beautiful brigantiue Of $50
tons, AZ a cost Of $4,000, as a missionary vessel tor
service among the South Sea Islands.
Capt. Howard, presump'iye heir to the Irish earl
dom Of Wicklow, died Of intemperance lately, and
his life having been insured FOR hal: a million Of
dollars, several Of the London Offices have been
heavily taxed. All OF the policies were in the hands
Of creditors Of the deceased for bona hde debts.
Prices IN MISUNDERSTANDING is the last prices
current from Charleston. South Carolina A pair of
boots, $50: Flour, p Dbl, $500; Common sugar,
= 10, So; Beef, do, SO 90; Potatoes, e bushel, SO;
Coffee, 2 ID, So; Tea, do, 500: Butter, do, SIS.
The DRAFr.-Secretary of War Stanton announces
that a call and draft for 500 600 men is 10 be issued
to fill deficiencies under former calls. California, il
properly credited, cannot be more than FIVE hundred
short.
The Richmond UHig is severe upon Sherman. 1t
says that his present movement is " an insolent dis
regard Of Ali the principles Of strategy, as explained
and practical by the masters of the military art"
That was precisely what the Austrian Marshal
Wurmser said Of Napoleon in his first Italian cam
paign.
HEADLEss HEy.-The town curiosity of Nevada is
n hen with her head cut of, which walks about as
natural as can be. In cutting off her head a portion
Of the skull and brain remained with tue neck.
Two or ;hree years ago a rooster with his head cut
off in like manner was on exhibition in San Francisco.
1t lived and moved for two weeks after being de-
capitatei.
Russia is said to be just now in a state OF social
IerueufgtlOu. Revolutionary societies ~ beluR II
gained in all directions, and the terribly numerous
acts of incendiarism that have recently been commit
ted are shown TO be manifestations OF the disafectiOn
of the people towards their masters. Whole towns
and villages have been burnt, and in one place bar
rels Of gunpow1er were placed by the conspirators
under all the public buildings in the town.
No MERCY To GUERRILLAs.-The Nevada Tran
script thinks that Guerrillas should be punished as
traitors. 1t says there is no modern history, but one,
parallel to Southern guerriIaing. and that is the
case Of the sepOys in the late East Indian rebellion,
and every one of these. British military authorizes
blew from the mouths of cannon Under no govern
ment but our own would paroled prisoners taken in
the enemy's army, be allowed to go unexecuted;
certainly in none but our own would guerri!las be
treated as prisoners Of war.
Great guns cost something \ 10 inch PARROT
gun costs a 500; n 15inch Rodman gun costs
So. 800; n 15inch KruPp's gun costs S29,4OO; a II
inch Blakely gun costs $4,000. The two latter are
made OF steel.
\ newly arrived London actress has enchanted the
New Workers. She made her debut at Mrs. Woods
theatre, dressed as n man, disclosing limbs OF such
marvellous symmetry, that her success was immediate.
In the character, she swore and smoked to perfection.
1t is estimated that there are about FIVE millions of
native Germans in the United States. The emigra-
ton to America from Germany this year alone has
been seventy thousand. Other governments have
made efforts, 5y Offering rich inducements, 20 divert
this tide to their own shores, but unsuccessfully.
These c%migraDts are generally persons OF intelligence
and culture.
HE W HOLE BIBLE EOR SiNPENCE-lt Il staten tnat
in England the Bible is now published and sold for
sixDence sterling, or twelve cents, the New Testa-
ment for four cents, and the Gospels for two cents.
What 4 change in a country in which a copy Of the
Holy Scriptures, when they were first published,
would cost y laboring man the fruits Of his labor for
nearly life time. Verify the word Of God in these
days Is not bounl
"DUNMY'' LoCoMoTIvEs-These contrivances are
to be introduced upon most Of the horse railroads
running out of this city, ana will work 4 great revo-
luton 10 this system of travelling. They are said to
Consume their own smoke and to be as easily stopped
or set in motion a. horses. | am told that these en-
gines can run ten 10 fifteen miles an hour, have seats
for tweuty-eight passengers, and can accomplish a
mile with eight pounds Of anthracite coal Each Is
competent 10 draw an additional car up u gradient Of
three hundred feet 70 the mile. They have gone mp
such activities with one hundred passengers. If
the experiment Of using these engines should be sue
cessful a great saving will be effected on the long
routes Of the company, as the cost of supporting 80
many horses is quite heavy-Sac. paper.
The Atlantic cable. which is to be laid next sum
mer between England and America. was recently
tested to try its strength and ductility. \ given
length was taken, suspended and gradually weighed
till 1t broke, the elongatiOns succeeding each addi-
tiOnai weighing being duly registered. The cable
selected bore the weight Of six AMI three-hfths tons.
The case, the spiral wires involving it, the insulating
body, the jute yarn, and each separate strand of the
cSble were similarly tested. Ii was found from those
experiments that the more the hbres OF wire we're
brought into tension, the greater became is strength,
and that as an insulator gutta percha, although not
so perfect rs India Rubber. is far more durable. and
that the cable As now manufactured will be able TO
bear "a strain four times its own weight when laid at
the bottom Of the Atlantic.
A STATUE OF HERCULES ExHUMED AT RoME-A
magnificent gilt bronze statue OF a youthful Hercules,
fourteen feet high, has been found thirty feet below
the surface of the earth near the Piazza Campo del
Fiori, and not far from the Farnese Palace. The
correspondent Of the London .ftheHcum says