The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-11-18
Foreign EtelRas.

Governor Letcher, of Virginia, who is now study
ing the United States laws, is so utterly stripped o
his property by the rebellion that his family have
had TO rely altogether upon kind friends for theil
support.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgcon declares that Romanism is
gaining immensely in England, and that London il
now covered with a net work of monks. and priests,
and Sisters Of Mercy, and the conversions made are
not by ones or twos, but by scores, till England is
being regarded as the most hopeful spot for Romish
missionary enterprise in the world.
\ polite young man gave up his seat at the Paris
opera TO a wealthy old party, who soon died and re-
membered the courtesy to the amount Of 100. 900
francs. Poiiteness is often its own reward, particu-
larly in the horse cars, when you give up your seat
to a queenly young women, who accepts it as a RICH
which you have been too slow to concede.
The thieves of Brooklyn have adopted n new mode
of robbiug stores at night. Covering a pane of glass
in the window with q paper saturated with mucil-
age, they await the passage of some noisy vehicle
and then, by a quick blow, the pane is shiyered, but
no glass falls, as II adheres to the paper, which also
deadens the sound of the blow. The rogues then cut
the pane out and take what they can get.
MURDER on BOARD a WHALEsHIP.-The bark
CGHao. Capt. Rowland, which has arrived at this
port, brought home Thomas L. Franklin, the cook,
In irons, for the murder of one of the seamen, a Por-
tuguese, named Thomas GOnsaives, the particulars
Of which are as follows: On the morning of August
23d. on the passage home, Franklin had some words
with Gsnsalves, the latter complaining about his
breakfast, when Franklin seized a stick of wood and
struck Gonsalyes n blow about one inch above his
right ear, fracturing his scull badly. and killing
him almost instantly. Franklin was Immediately
seized. ironed. and placed in close confinement. with
a guard over him. On Thursday morning he was
brought ashore and delivered into the custody Of
United States Deputy Marshal Cobb. and taken TO
Boston for trial before the United States District
Court Franklin is a colored man, and halls from
Providence. X. |. Gonsalves was u native of one Of
the Western Islands ~ B. Shipping list.
THE WEBSTER FAMILY.-A late Eastern paper
says:
Daniel Webster, the grandson aud namesake of the
great Statesman and orator. and son OF Col. Fletcher
Webster, died IT Marshfeld on the 2i inst, aged %
years. But one of the family is now left 10 perpetu-
ate the name-Ashburion, the brother Of the de, .
ceased and the inheritor of the Marshdeld estate az
soon as he comes OF age, n very promising Young
man. now in the navy. Fletcher Webster left these
two sons and a daughter, the last still living. Ed
ward Webster, the Major. who died in Mexico, left
no children. There are four other grandchildren
by his much-lOved Julia, bearing the name of Annie
ton. This is all of the family of Daniel Webster.
The stay Of the House, or of its name. is Ashhurton
Whether he. with his limited resources, will be able
TO keep the Marshheld estate in a condition worthy
the fame Of the grandfather is doubtful That
remains much as the great statesman left it. The
library contains 1000 volumes, and is full of Eng
lish history and literature, cyclopedias. dictionaries |
and all reference books and miscellaneous works.
The parlors abound in curiosities that were presented
to Mr.. Webster. The house is a spacious one of wood.
painted white, with green blinds. 1t is in the STYLE
49, H'AN > HOlutJ mas lnat mag
nihcent elm beside it which shaded the immortal
Pacific RAILBoAD.-In this connection it is proner
Tor us to say, that the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, report to us that they have now nearly 5000
workmen, (chiefy Chinese.) busily engaged in the
Of this great and important work across
the continent. The Sacramento Bee, of the 18th inst.
OF this enterprise
The company have one thousand men ut work be.
ween Dutch Flat and the Trukee River, a large
PORTION OF whom are opening tunnels at the summit
the S;erras, and that in January next the Central
'acihc Railroad will be open to Dutch Flat, and next
eason It will reach the Big Bend of the Truckee.
TINS the Company is enabled to promise by the recent
OF n more favorable route for a shor, dis
ance, and also from the fact Of finding much Of the
OF Q less formidable character than was at first
stinsted. The Truckee reached-the Sierras sur
most dreaded impediment TO a railroad
D the Missouri will have been overcome and passed.
nd u may be considered not over-sanguine TO ure-
ict the completion OF the Atlantic and Bacihc Rail
Dad from the latter River to the Sacramento re e,rlv
5 Ammo Domino 1870.
TX Governor Stanford. one of the leading mon
nSlged IN this enterprise. states that, probably. in
o other country could as much work be accom-
Iished during six or eight months Of the year as in
re dry season OF California. There i no loss of
By wet or rainy weather. every day counts
sides the Chinese are found 10 be more steadv and 4
liable than any other class Of itborers-.3ET. Ga=