The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-10-27
FOREIGN Miscellany.

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eleven wives, and forty-seyen children 10 mourn
his death"
S~arms Of squirrels are passing through Mich
igln. eJuthward bound. stripping the country OF
whatever serves them for food. Cold weather ~
coming.
Kate Josephine Bateman's property i es,irnat-
cl 10 b. worth $50, OUO-a good return Tor " ten
years Of the life Of an actress
Pay TIE WnALENEx. The United States
Treasury Department has received from England
tLe sum 81 sixty thousand do!lar-. being the pro-
ceeLs ct the sale 81 the rebel pirate NheuaH6"0h.
TsD"rs FoE WAsnINcroS.-The arrival OF
trDpIs at Washington has gwen us 70 exaE-era-
ted rumOr- of an intended concentration Of 1000
Or 90. 600 troops around the National Capital.
The fact is,Lhe number Of trp"Is here has. for
spne months. averaged only 1000 or 3.GO0. and
that the whole number. when all the arrivals are
completed, will not exceed 1000.
SALT LAKE.-Icligious matters are growing
warm at Salt Lake. On a late : ,hia'h a Il oman
Catholic priest, boy the name of Kelly, preached
and announced tina, hc lad come L. establish "a
church there. On the same evening Jus-ph
Smith and his collensrs attacked poiysamy and
brigham Young with great severity. The hail
was crowded t. excess.
MR. GEORGE PE,BODY.-Mr George Peabody
continues u dispense his bpunti-s in America.
lie has presented BustOn with 81 GOO. 600 10 pro-
vide homes for the poor he has bestowed $50
INV 7 piece III IliIhIII. -AullltIsL anu " lliii
Colleges, in the State of Massachusetts and has
given $50, 900 u each Of his four n%ephews, one
of whom IL the local reporter on 4 newspaper in
the town Of ZinesviIle, Ohio.
\ FAST STEAuER.-A New York engineer has
planned and is about building 4 river steamer,
constructed entirely of Btssemer steel. the length
To be 450 feet. the breadth -, and tine d~iSplace-
ment 700 tons. BY constructing the steamer
upon Il peculiar model which he has planned, the
engineer claims that with 10000 (indicated)
horse power ngines he can secure 4 speed OF ut
least thirty statute miles an hour. The boat will
accommodate 600 passengers and is To- run, il
successfully built, between New York and Albany.
making the trip in five hours.
Tins RADICAL CoNGREss.'-Ho Hamilton
Ward lately made a speech in Maryland, in
which lie said :. Who are against this radical
Congress? JET. Davis is against it. Robert +.
Lee il against it. The same Iner that burnt down
your dwellings at night, and made war hideous
along your borders are against it. The sneaking,
kissing, Northern Copperhead is against it. say
to You, no is for it? Every mother that has
lost a son ; every wife that has given her husbann :;
and every one who visits the sacred graves that are
s~prinkled ali over the land, in tears and in sor-
row every lover of this country, North and
South, is in favor of it,"
\ SYuPToM.-The New York Herald whose
buasIful prophecies about the Maine election are
well known, thus chronicles their failure The
ltEhAN vi INV -ibiAAC NASNaACh ih~ 1911 - III i'EN
even To the Radicals themselves, who, in their
most sanguine moments did not expect SO COM
pletc a victory. The majority Was an increase
upon previous ones. IL Is undoubtedly true that
II number of Democratic IrSh cast their votes
with the Radicals"
ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN HAYTL-By way OF
jamaica we have news nt another revolution in
Hayti, which took place on the Dist of August.
Our information is to the effect that nearly the
whole of Iayti Is in Il state of revolutiOn-that
fires are Of frequent, almost daily occurrence in
Prince-that Gonaives is laid in ashes
and deserted by the inhabitants. and that at St.
Marc "A number of the revolutiOnists have been
arrested by Government and are under sentence
of death. There has been an almost total sus-
pension of business. and money exchange is rs
high as 23 and "a Haytian dollars To the piastrc.
The Government had met this state of Things by
very active measures. and tranquility was soon
restored. These unhappy events are generally
attributed TO the i%ntrigucs of the Sa!nave party.
TIE PoPE.-The Pail Mall Gasette gives the
following statemen of the Papal difficulties ::
- " bile preparing for the eventuality of flight.
the Pope is also contemplating the possibility of
his being detained captive at Rome, and as Il
precautiOn has drawn up Il secret bull dclcgating
his full powers to a Cardinal, whom certain rea-
SONS prevents my naming at present. AS soon AZ
the Holy Father is taken captive or deprived of
his apostolic liberty, this Cardinal will repair to
Vienna or London, and there publish the bull
which is now in his possession. In this docu-
ment Plus lX. names him as his alter ego dd
fcnpuS, Vicar of the Universal Church-that Is
Pope ad interim. All Catholic Bishops. all
priests, and all the faithful are, during the cap
tivity of the sovereign pontiff, To address them
selves To this organ OF the Pope reduced tn silence,
and who will be the interpreter Of Peter in
bonds"
THE MoxAnCn OF TIE SRA ship left Liver
pool for New York on the 18th of March last, as sta
fol no The Now York Herald nlfhouyh the mpfnO
randum published below says the 10Th. All that
has ever been definitely learned of her movements OF
her fate is contained in the following lines found in a
bottle picked up in mid ocean on the 30th of July.
Monarch OF the Sea-Lefi Liverpool on the 10Th
of March. 81 May. no wind, short of provisions.
and no water-dismasted in a gale, 81 April, % 20
N, longitude AZ s W
WILLIAM JOHNSON, Passenger"
The Monarch had 72S souls on board, of whom
coo were adult passengers. Al were children. "a
infants, and the officers and crew numbered 81. The
names Of the lost-fOr lost no doubt they are-hil a
solid column, in small type, in the New York papers,
and form an appalling record. Various surmises as
TO her fate have been made; but the terrible words in
that brief memorandum-'' disma>!ed; short of pro-
risoAs; No WAFER suggest probable suffering
beyond any yet conjectured, and picture horrors that
Cause humanity to shudder.-Sac. Bee.
RETURN or AGAssIz Professor Agassiz has re-
turned TO Boston from his explorations in Brazil.
He has been absent 4 little more than a year, and
during that time made many Important discoveries
in geology and natural history, finding abundant
evidence TO establish his favoriie theory OF glacial
action, aud adding to the Classification of the animal
kingdom several hundred specimens hitherto I'M
known or undescribed. He will at once begin the
preparation of n scientific memoir embOdying The re-
suits Of his Investigations, and a work of popular
character from his pen entitled travels in Brazil, ;"
is already announced by Ticknor & Field for publ
cation in the Fall.
Wendell Phillips having been nominated for Con
gress, declines and says al feel that in accepting
office | should, paradoxical as it may sound, incur
responsibility TO far greater extent than | should
gain power. | d. not wish for q place of RESPONSE
bIiity without all the power which should accompany
it. II seems to me l eau serve our cause better out
Of Congress than in it,"
EuREka RESTAuRAHII