The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-01-27

SINGULAR ADVERTISEMENT The following adver-
tisement appears IN q late Richmond paper:
w ANTED-A situation as a son-in-lsw in q respectable
W family. Blood and breeding no object, being already
surPHei capital essential N objection to going a short
Address F. =. Y, Exchange Hotel.
4 man at Providence, r l., recently deposited
$1,000 for safe-keeping III an unused stove. He was
called out Of town unexpectedly, and the cold snap
coming On. a FIRE was kindled in the stove, and the
hard earnings Of years were reduced TO ashes in a
single moment.
The new bridge about to be suspended over the
Ohio River, at Cincinnati. will be the longest struct-
ure Of the kind in the world, being more than two
thousand feet longer than that over the Niagara
River, ard five hundred and forty feet longer than
the Menal Bridge, England.
AN OLD RELIc-The skeleton of n great grandson
of St. louis has been discovered in leveling the site
of the ancient abbey of Val Dieu at Longry, France,
the said great grandson of Louis IN, having been
no less a parsonage than Peter II, Duke Of Alencon,
surnamed 8 The Loyal" Near his tomb was found
the bones Of his daughter, Jane Of ValoiS, who died
IN l4Ol, three years previous to her father.
the recent Church Congress at Norwich, Eng
land, DR.. Pussy advocated the claims of the Open
Church Association, - as it is called, which has for
its object to give free pews in the churches to rich and
poor alike. This movement is attracting much at
tentiCn in England.
" Artemus Ward" has at last found something
even more remunerative than WAX fggers" or
Mormon lectures. \ rich old uncle has lately died
in LOndon-as in the fifth act of an old comedy
and has left the popular Snowman q fortune of forty
thousand pounds sterling. \ letter has just been
received from England, it is said, announcing the
intelligence.
The LATE PREsIDENr-Mrs Lincoln has ordered.
in Zwickau, Germany, a monument for the grave of
her husband, the lamented President. 1t is cut out
of serpeutine stone, of an obscure green color, in the
form al "A large die, and bears the simple inscription,
- Abraham Lincoln" In the middle Of October it
was to be forwarded by rail to Bremen. where it will
be shipped to this country. The quarries Of Zwickau
are celebrated for their stones.
WATERpAIJS Tho NaU Work DHcorrcr DphlSbeS
a letter, written more than thirty years ago by the
Rev. DR.. Judson, on the vanity of the heather
women, i'll which he cites, rs one proof Of their hear
flemish customs, that the Karen women wore anci-
reconstructed bags, enclosing the hair and sus-
pended from the back part of the head. The origin
of " waterfalls" is now explained.
How do you like the character of St. Paul -
asked a person of his landlady one day. he
was a good, clever old soul, | know; for he once
said, you know, that we must eat what is set before
US, and ask no questions for conscience sake. | al
ways thought l should like him for q boarder.''
y London tradesman told a youth in his shop to
write III large letters on n sheet of paper. Wanted,
n stout lad as light porter The next day he was
astonished to see the legend displayed WANTED,
Il stout lad us likes porter He had many applica-
tiOns.
The editor of the Memphis Granada JacksOn-At-
lInta-NIontgomery Appeal, who once more prints
his paper in Memphis, gives a good natured account
of his wanderings to and fro in the South. He says
he had great trouble in avoiding our armies, and
thinks General Spencer is ga gentleman of a very
restless temperament" Luckily for the .4ppedl, he
adds, the war ended, and the appeal being per-
fectly iron-clad with paroles, amnestes and pardons,
it is on its feet again In robust and vigorous life"
The Richmond Times opens On Mr.. Wendell Phil
lips after this manner: "Mr. Wendell Phillips, that
exceedingly clever lunatic and radical, who has more
oratory and less common sense than any man in New
England, is again on the rampage. He is n sort of
Puritanjcal Malay, who, without the excuse of opium,
runs n muck every six months, cutting, stabbing
and ~slashing the reputation of every great man with
in reach of that double-edged dagger, his untram-
meHed tongue
The editor Of the Montgomery (Ala) Ledger,
who has been 4 large stakeholder, publishes in his
paper an estimate of the production of his plantation
under free labor. He has made a bargain with
thirty negroes, who are to cultivate his land. They
pay half of the expense for rent, and take half of the
crop. His calculations show that on five hundred
acres be will make $l3 600, which is more than
could he made on the old plan.
We see il stated that the prolific English author,
Wikie Collins, has taken to eating opium, and that
the style of some portions of his novel, Armadale,
corrOborates the impression. Judge by that stand
ard, we should suppose that nearly the whole tribe
of modern writer's of fiction were in the habit OF
eating ~hasheesh, or something else calculated to de-
prive a man of his senses.
information had been received at the Freedmen's
Bureau, from Alabama, that small pox is raging all
through that State. Although every precaution had
been taken to prevent its spreading, new cases were
appearing daily.
Over sixty nine millions Of dollars were raised in
the United States during the four years of the
great war, by voluntary contributions, for benevO-
lent purposes on its account. 1t is n huge sum, and
while the greater part of it was given by men, the
women Of the country gathered the whole of it by
their personal efforts. their influence, their persist
ence, and their public spirit.
SIR Morton Peto made a speech at an entertain
ment in New York lately, in which he said q
made q visit to the large printing establishment Of
Charles Wilson. in Chicago, and [ assure you | never
felt so truly the manner in which Americans had
gone into the war before. In walking through
the Office, Mr.. Wilson pointed out some thirty or
forty compositors who had been four years away to
the war. One had been n captain, another a major,
others lieutenants, sergeants and prlvates Yet
there they were setting type as quietly as though a
war had never been. | saw afterwards farmers
sons, in uniform, peacefully feeling Il threshing
machine. They went into the struggle to save the
Union, and having done it, now 60 back to the ways
of peace and industry"
Nor WORTH MUCH-Odd stories of the war are
constantly coming to light. 1t is stated that when
General Bragg was in command at Augusta, Georgia,
last winter, JEFF. Davis photographed to him to hold
the State at all hazards, stop up the roads, destroy
the supplies, and crush Sherman" At the close Of
the dispatch the rebel President inquired, "What is
your available force for this purpose ?" General
Bragg promptly replied" Five proclamations and
one brigade"
SINGULAR POWDER ExPLosroN.-An explosion took
place in a stove in which a fire had been newly
kindled, in q house belonging to Mr.. Criger and
family, near Timber Swamp, Warren County. The
explosion broke the windows and doors, tore down
the ceiling and did other mischief. 1t seems that
! some powder had been placed in the stove for safe
keeping by one Of the family, and had been forgot
ten. At the time Of the catastrophe, ten persons
were in the room. but strange to say no one was
much injured.
The papers are circulating a proposed amendment
to the United States Constitution, which contem-
plates the constant succession of the Vice President
-I- D. D.. - W V.l j..