The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-09-08

TWO WEEKS LATER.
Arrival Of the Bark Comet"
HIGHLY INTERESTING NEWS.

The fayori;e bark COnlct, Commodore j.. Patty.
arrived at this port early Sunday m~crning-l3I
days from San Francisco, bringing the New York
mails of July llth and Dist.
The CONT and SnyAiofe both arrived at san
Francisco Ola the 18Th, having entered the harbOr
almost together-2i DAYS passage from Honolulu.
The Sn,yrHiOte was 10 slii again on the 23d to
the 9th. and will be due this week.
/ The bark Bernie arrived over on the 18th Of
AugGst-22 days from Honolulu, and would sail
again August Both.
The bark CdHiJTiGge arrived over on the 18th
is days from Honolulu.
The ship Georges. Heustis. arrived at New
York July 25th-I29 days from Honolulu.
The market for Hawaiian sugar in San Fran
cisco had improved materially. ana sales OF
5000 kegs were made ON the 10th OF August at
from IS to so 524 per 100 pounds.
Queen Emma.
Her Majesty Queen Emma left England for
Honolulu June 18th. arrived at Boston July sth.
visited Washington July 18th, and was at New
York about the end of July.
The China Steamers.
1t is now said that the China steamers will
make Honolulu Il coaling d,pot, both On the out
ward and return passages.
Cholera.
This plague is very rapidly extending all over
Europe and America, and carrying oil Its victims
by thousands.
The Philadelphia Convention.
This long talked of assemblage met on the 18th
Of August, sat three days, and dispersed on the
10th, without doing much. 1t issued . - plat
form - and address.
The platform, or declaration of principles
adopted by the Convention, thanks God for the
return of peace and says the war maintained the
authority Of the Constitution and preserved the
equilibrium OF the States that the right of rep
TesentutiOn III Congress and the h ectoraf Col
lege cannot be denied by Congress, nor Tany de-
partment of the General Government; calls
upon the people to elect ~ Congress men only
who will admit these rights; declares that Ger
tain powers are reserved to the States. and among
them that of prescribing the qualifications for
the elective franchise declares that no State can
Withdraw from the Union, nor can any be ex-
cluded that all the States have an equal voice
in ratifying constitutional amendments that
slavery is abolished, and that the enfranchised
slaves should receive protection in person and
property repudiates the rebel war debt, and de-
clares sacred the debt of the Union says it is
the duty Of the Government TO meet the Just
claims of its soldiers and sailors and care for the
survivors and widows and orphans recognizes
in Andrew johnson 4 chief worthy of the nation,
and tenders him cordial and sincere support.
The resolutions were adopted unanimously.
The Great Ovation.
The American Embassy to st. Petersburg to
which reference has before been made, arrived at
Cronstadt. twenty miles from It. Petersburg, on
Wednesday or Thursday Aug Q. When the news
reached the capital that the strange fleet was ut
Helsingfors, a hundred and fifty miles distant. a
Russian fleet-as we learn by a telegram dated
on the 9TH insIant-was sent 10 welcome and
escort them. The Car went to CrOnstadt on
Thursday or Friday, and visited the leet. On
Saturday, the American officers went to the
capital, where they were received with music
and the cheers of fifty thousand people, while
handkerchiefs waved from the windows and
American flags tloated on the housc-tops. At
night the public buildings were illuminated, and
n grand ball closed the honors shown to the
guests for that day.
The New Orleans Riot.
New ORLEANS, August 10.-R. King Cutler
and other Cunventionists have made affidavits
before Acting United States Commissioner lIus-
ted, charging Mayor Munroe and Sheriff Hays
with being principals or accessories to the hOmi-
cides of the 30th ult. The military authorities,
to-day, informed Mayor Munroe that he must
make no more appointments or perform any other
official acts without their approval
CHICAGO, August Ex-Governor Wells of Louis
lana publishes a long letter, addressed to the
President, ON the subject of the Convention and
the late riot. lie declares the riot was long
since planned by Mayor Munroc. and had its
motive in the same rebcllious feeling which
plunged the country into civil war, and which
flame is not yet eXtinguished i'll the breasts of the
. former SlaVe-hOllinO M istocracy-