The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-12-09
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Miscellany.

ting the prize
Virz ays hi5 conscience : clear. Same Of his
b!JZrtphers sly that he J. clear OF conscience
The freedmen on the government farms IL
North Carolina are making tulI crops
5lJ1ting negroes seems - d. now the iavOrltc
la=iilne u the Planters down south
In tn oil rcg.,us there Is a class u men called
o. cL -u.Iler+" vino fer SO Indicate the place
for boring This IS rosscy rJand - some
EIrI7s--
Que Of th= lady GRADUATES from O0erlin this
vet1 waz b1ru a lave n Washington, hired her
TINE. bought her freedom, and prepared Tor col
l.g- Al Providence, 4. !.
We shan see an Atlantic Gable laid this year,
bur the company have resolved 70 lay I new cable
and pick up the old one next June.
Superstition skill finds its deyotees in Europe.
An exhibition Of :. the holy robe OF our Saviour"
i announced u take place at lreves, in August.
1866.
One Of the latest publications i styled L" The
RJgUes and ROgUeries Of New York IL Is only
a little book, strange 70 say-but then the writer
makes no attempt 10 exhaust the subject.
~ \ spirituIlist meeting in New York, a
o.. lady uedium'' said she had witnessed the
q bi3od-red writing on a fellow mediums arm
% rss up like the frOth on IA barrel OF beer"
The Editor IF = French paper, in speaking Of
tie drdicutiJu Vi a new cemetery near Lyons,
slys that VI. GascJigne had the pleasure of
bring the FIRST individual who was buried IA this
delightful retreat"
Benjamin, the ez-Ecbsl Secretary Of State, it Is
said - b. ON his way - Australia, with u view
Of practiciug there at the bar. He will find
there 4 great many other sc1undrels sent thither
By his friends in England. but none greater than
himself.
New YORK HorELs-During the last twelve
months the Fifth Avenue Hotel, - New York,
has cleared $17j 900. the Metropolitan $40 900,
the St Nicholas $50, 900, and the Aston House
1925 coo.
IS tournaments seem 70 Je quite in vogue.
They are To have 4 " cooking tournament in
Illinois soon. Husbands will be put up as prizes
10 be awarded to the young ladies who may excel
in the culinary art.
II Is stated on the best authority that, on
German railroads, which have been in operation
for thirty years, not a life has been lost through
careless management Of its officials
The South Carolina Convention has repealed
TIE ordinance of secession formerly adopted by
that State. Only three votes in the negative.
\ GEvIUs.-Therc i a Clergyman in Tulare
county who breaches without compensation from
u sense of duty. practicing medicine for his sup
port, and who has made q Thymed version Of the
entire Bible, which he means TO ask the British
sovereign to publish for the good of mankind.
Thirteen brothers and sisters-the oldest not
twenty years Of agc-nOw lie side by side III a
graveyard near WalkeTsyille. Md, all of whom
died Of diphtheria. Eight of them have deceased
within four weeks.
The richest, and of course the ~prettiest, woman
in the United States Is Miss Hester Robinson. a
Young girl lately of New Bedford, but now .
resident of New York City. Her father died
recently, leaving her one million outright, and
a., income daring hcr life o! about four millions
more
An orator in New York recently said, that the
enterprise now preparing for the liberation Of
Ireland, Will Lave enlisted IN IL q million vi men,
Ted b. officers who have had experience III the
greatest battles OF the world. Look out for
something worse than ~hy-t,me, Mr.. Bull
y Florida letter writer says " The negro will
work, if paid FOR his labor" In this ne IL far
Emperor t. some white men in this latitude. In
one town, the writer counted III tie Court square
fifty white oilers, and only fifteen blacks.
TIE iIoosAc TU,sSEL.-We hear that the work
men engaged ia boring the Hoosac mountain have
struck something worse than rock Of the most
hinty description. and that is-gacksGHd. We
trust Counsellor Bird, who takes an interest in
tl- tuEuel as connected with tie State treasury,
VIII see that the latter IS not ~swGmped-
There il az interesting movement being made
IN England for the more thorough survey and
exploration Of Palrstin. Ages Of civilization lie
buried beneath = the holy CITY, which no pro-
per effort has get been made To excavate and the
same may he said Of a large portion Of the land
east OF the river Jordan.
The late GOV. BrOugh, of Ohio, said To- his
physician the day before his death that though
he had never made n profession of religion he had
never gone % bed ut night for twenty years with
out first praying TO God for forgiveness and pro-
lection, and that in performing the duties of
Government he had acted with the strictest con-
scIentiOusne>s ard with p%rayeriul regard TO his
responsibility, not only t. the country bat to
God.
Since Caesars famous = = M, rid. rici," Q
came, ] saw, | Conquered many military COM
manders have rendered their dispatches mem
orable FOR Vith and c1nciscness bat Sydney
Smith bears the palm for both wit and brevity,
IN his announcement of the capture of Scinde-
- PeccGrI'-U have sinued. General Have
locks We are in Lucknow has already be-
come i matter of history.
NOTulSG New UNDER TIE SCN.-Wc have al
WAYS regarded the :. WATERFALL as IL heathenish
invention, but we were not aware until recently
that il was = mOnstrOsitv of classic birth. Our
shows us i coin Of Hero |. Tyrant of Syracuse,
who reigned from 44S TO 466 before the Chris
tan era, on the diverse side Of which Is the head
of the goddess Diana, with an excTeScence pre-
Ci<eiy like that now worn by our ladies under
the dubious name Of - waterfall. "-ABaHy
Journal.
VALrAELE DIsCovERIEs.-TwO French discoy-
cries Of merit have been recorded lately. One.
which IS authentic. enables coppe-Smelters TO
utilize their pestiferUus smoke So perfectly, that
Mr. Vivian, head of the greatest firm IN Swan
sea, saws he shall be able TO turn out LOCO
pounds of suiphuric acid per week. restoring in
cidentIllv many thousand acres of land TO Guilt
walton. The other, which is less authentic, Is 4
new mode OF tanning in tuTpentInc, said - he
~ rapid that twelve hours will tan d skin at
half she former cost
ANTIErAM.-T.n acres of the Antietam battle
field have been purchased, near the bridge where