The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-01-20
Foreign Miscellany.

daughters, who are very poor.
\ white man has been fined $500 for shooting a
negro's eye out in Nashville.
Brigham Young ~confesses to having fifty children
living, two boys and eight girls having died.
Paper weddings, celebrated when the couple have
been married two years, is among the latest improve
ments in Massachusetts.
The whole amount Of naval prize claims already
adjudicated Is 81 O.OOO,0 900 in round numbers, Of
which $4,000, 600 have already been paid.
If clothes make the man, a young lady nowadays
is equal TO half a dozen men.
When New York voted upon the question of allow
ing negroes to vote, it gave a majority of ninety
thousand against it.
a parson once preaced q sermon with, My
friends, let US say 4 few words before We begin"
This is about equal TO the man who took = short nap
before he went 10 sleep.
John Mitchell was only released, not pardoned.
He took the oath Of allegiance preparatory to his de-
parture for Europe, as a necessary preliminary 10
obtaining a passport.
A. II Francis. colored. has been elected n member
of the City Council Of Victoria, VancOuver's Island.
Francis was formerly n merchant in Portland, and
is n fine, intelligent mulatto, for whom misguided
Southerners would have paid about $4,000 five
years ago.
The Pope's Allocution against the Free Masons
has not been without effect. 1t is said that within n
day after it was published, the two secret lodges in
Rome received tweuty-eight new members.
ORIGIN OF FENIANIsM--The founders of Fenian-
ism were two of the Irish exies of AS, Col. John
O'MAhoney and Michael Doheny. They started it in
Tipperary, where full $4,000 joined the Order.
From ireland to France, thence to New York city,
these two. aided by Col. Corcoran, organized the
Fenian Brotherhood in America.
A peculiarly forcible kind of whisky has lately
come in vogue in London, branded LII, and q cock
ney says, 9 Come and ave a drop of double hell
When the war ended, in April last, the United
States Government owned and used for military pur-
poses $50 locomotives, 1000 cars and 10000 tons of
iron. All the locomotives have now been sold but
% and thprn orc ahODt | 600 cars vet on hand
some have been sold for cash at auction, and some
on six months and two years time to Southern rail
roads.
NINErEEv HUNDRED INDICTMENTS FOR TREASON
The United States District Court began its session Mt
Knoxville, Tennessee. The streets and hotels we're
crowded with citizens. The Grand Jury have found
indictments numbering over nineteen hundred for
treason and giving aid and comfort TO the enemy.
Observation-Disclosures received at Marseil!es
states that Horas persisted in requiring the French
Commandant to give up the treaty concluded with
NJ. Lambert. to be destroyed, and that France should
renouuce all her rights in the country. The French
Commandont had. therefore, left the Island, declin-
ing TO accept the indemnity offered upon these con-
ditions.
Lamartine, the French author, has published a
disquisition. magnifying into undue Importance the
monarchical enterprise of Macmillan in Mexico, de-
claring that the American continent rightly belongs
to Europe. and speaking of us in contemptuous and
il-ndtured terms.
On the test vote, in Washington. on the Degro
/ suffrage, the vote StOOi aUOuL & % III liFUTs tui tsOVO
against. The friends of the suffrage abstained from
taking part in the election, but prefer petitioning
Congress.
General Van Valkenberg has been nominated Min
lister to. Japan.
SPAIN AND THE SLAVE TRADE.-The Spanish Min
lister at Washington, on the 30th of November, acting
under instructions from his Government, read to the
Secretary of State q despatch concerning the Slave
Trade. This communication was replete with the
most emphatic expressions. The traffic is called by
such explosives as an 'inhuman curse "oppro-
brious' and 'reprobated.'' &" outrageous piracy
The Spanish Government pledges its earnest efforts
for its extirpation, and viii have all convicted of
participation summarily executed. when apprehend-
ed in any of the ports of Spain and all ports of the
Spanish possessions.
4 letter from Fortress Monroe says: A large por-
ton of the rebel ram Merrimac was successfully
raised on December 9th, and towed to the Portsmouth
Navy Yard.
The French inhabitants of Canada are adding to
the ~dsquet which reigns there on account of the
Feniau Disturbances. The French organs, and mem
bers Of French associations known as "Sons of
Liberty have become very bold in their denuncia-
tons of the Confederation schemes.
The workmen engaged in digging sand from a pit
in New Albany, Indiana, recently struck with their
shovels and picks an immense tusk of the purest
ivory, seven feet three inches in length, and at the
thickest part eight and one quarter inches in diam
eter. 1t weighed nearly one hundred pounds. The
tusk is supposed to be that of n mastodon. In taking
it out of the ground it was broken into several
pieces, the ivory having become very much sottened.
How THE BRITIsH GOVERNMENT DEALS WITH REB-
ELs-The telegraph announces that MI. Lubey, pro-
prietor Of the Irish People, has been sentenced to
twenty years transportation in penal servitude.
While our sympathies are with the sufferer, we may
contrast the decision of the British Government with
the hesitancy of our own in furnishing rebellion. If
jeff Davis and his tribe had had to deal with the
British Government, they would have been food for
worms long since and perhaps when ours has be-
come as old and experienced as that of Great Britain,
American rebels will be disposed Of with like expedi-
ton.
FEMALE CLERKs.-The experiment Of employing
women as clerks in the Government Departments at
Washington does not appear to meet with as much
success as it deserves. In the Interior Department
the force is being rapidly reduced, and il the Treas
ury, where the greatest number is employed, a SINH
lar movement is threatened. One of these ladies at
dress, and she says. with great good sense, that it
will not do to turn a public Office into a drawing
room, or to work at a clerks desk in a b~all-1ress.
CoTToN PLANTING.-Petroleum is played out as q
fancy speculation here, and cotton planting is all the
rage. High Government officials are acting as Pres
idents and as Vice Presidents, and as Treasurers of
organized Companies, while there are scores Of unin-
corporated Associations, which have sent some one
down into Dixie, with n few thousand dollars, more
or less, to cultivate the focculent fibre. The pro-
grammes promise profitable proceeds, but it is to be
feared that many Of those who are investing will re-
gret that they ever desired to have d" planting in
terest.'' The laborers Of the South cannot but be in
be only successfully cultivated by experienced plant
ers, having q steady supply Of regular labor at their
commaud.-Vashington paper.
IMMENSE SIZE OF TIE PYRAMIDs.-A United States
Naval Chaplain, who has recently visited the great
pyramid Of Cheops, in Egypt, gives the following
graphic idea Of the immense size of these wonderful
remains of antiquity. He says: Take a hundred of
-. -, VII. b,rob e Tho Crlfporu width oDl