The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-06-30

whom he was divorced in California q few months
ago.
Carpenter. the artist. is about to publish his per-
soual recollections of President Lincoln. under the
title, /" Six months at the White House.
Miss Adah Heenan Isaacs Nenken Boy" is play
ing Mazeppa" ut the Broadway Theatre. The
critics generally regard the play from an anatomical
point Of view.
The foolish stories about the advantages of arsenic
to the complexion have occasioned the death of "a
girl in New York. who tried the experiment.
The pilot who brought the steamer England into
Halifax has since died, with two members Of his
family. He said before his death that be did not
board the vessel. but merely towed In her wake,
whence he gave the necessary directions.
New YORK. May l6.-The Scotia sailed AZ noon,
taking $4,000, 900 in specie. The Kangaroo also
sailed. taking S875. 900 in specie.
The House Committee on the F~reedmen's Bureau
have agreed TO report a resolution for the appoint
meut of a Joint Committee of Congress, investigate
the working Of the Freedmen's Bureau system 10
travel through the Southern States. and take testi-
mony, and report the same 10 Congress.
NEW York. May 2l-The amount Of bullion
shipped to Europe on Saturday, was SIS, 768. 2Ah.
The .fri-ona brought 81 ,2J0.OO0. The Conner
cidFs money articles say the Government sales OF
gold will call in Treasury notes amounting to nearly
Sl3 ,00O, 900, and the demand on the banks for this
large amount causes a slight furry in the money
market. Stocks generally are lower. except Govern
ment. Bat the Bulls show confidence in - future
reaction by buying freely on the Is and so days
options.
The Times editorial says gold was parted with at
going rate of the market, with no stinted or %grudging
hands, and should later news be construed 10
require double or fve-fold, we have reason to believe
it will not be withheld.
Washington special dispatches to the evening
papers say that the Presidents message to-day
enclosing General Grants letter, asks for the imne-
date passage of a bill 10 increase the Regular Army,
the Lieutenant General assigning as a reason for this
request, the fact that more troops are needed on the
frontier at the South. He also expresses his opinion
that troops cannot be Withdrawn from the South with
safety for some time TO come.
1t is reported that short diplomatic notes have
recently passed between MIR. Secretary Seward and
the French Minister, in regard to the French and
Austrian troops lately landed at Vera Cruz. MIR.
Seward insists that no more French troops must be
sent to Mexico, even TO take the places of thOse killed
or disabled. or whose terms have expired. The
French Minister says the landing Of these or subse-
qnent reinforcement Will not delay the evacuation as
heretofore specified.
SwEARING.-Trus not to the promise of a common
swesrer, says Francis Quarles, for he that dare sin
against his God for neither profit nor pleasure. will
trespass against thee for his own advantage. lie
that dare break the precepts of his father will easily
be persuaded to violate the promise unto his brother.
Gen. Mcclellan is still in Europe. He proposed
to return to America last fall, but the impossible
mud prevented his moving. As soon as the mud
was frozen he would have started, but he thought it
better not to attempt a winter campaign. lie went
into winter quarters at Dresden.
Charles f. Brown (Artemus Ward) has begun
legal proceedings for the purpose of putting an in
junction upon the sale of a work recently issued in
New York, under the title of . Betsy Jane Ward
The book in question. he asserts, endeavors to con-
vey the impression that Artemus Ward is it's author,
but the great Snowman Indignantly denies having
anything to do with il.
The Prince of Wales, while out on a hunt with
the South Oxfordshire hounds, fell from his horse.
just as any ordinary mortal who could not keep his
seat might have done. We are happy to learn, how
ever, that the youth received no injury from his
fuu,bla Gaya parhanS n lnGa of 6iOnifu in thu aya
of his companions, who must certainly have expe-
rienced quite a shock when they beheld their future
sovereign sitting on the bare ground, engaged in the
ridiculous occupation of extracting dirt from his
eyes and ears.
There is now a pretty little steamer on the Thames
which runs ten miles an hour without paddle wheel
or screw. She takes in water well forward. and ex-
pels it aft under each quarter, and can steer without
her rudder, and can stop in less than her length
when going at full speed.
The English language, it is said, has been officially
adopted by the Government of the japanese Empire.
and permission has been given to have il taught
publicly. Prince Satsuma is now turning his atten-
ton to commerce.. and is largely engaged in the silk
trade.
The ladies of Raleigh, North Carolina. recently
proposed to organize an Association, of which the
oldest member should be President and the youngest
Secretary. But the dear creatures soon met with an
unexpected and nsurmountable difficulty, and the
project has been abandoned, it having been found
impossible to obtain a President, and every one Of
az NAsCS S'%'HhH6 e~ o. ~ ~ SNSs%Nt'
Cosrs OF A BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT The bill
of costs charged up against the plaintiff and in favor
of the defendant, in the suit of Ann Caragher vs..
William Daniels, says the Bulletin, amounts to
ST $40, for which amount the judgment operates as
a lien on the plaintiffs property. Well, what il
81 $40 in comparison with 500, 600? 1t was n
good operation - even 10 lose'' at such odds. She
risked s $40 to win 100000, and lost a risk hat
plenty of people would be willing to take, but per-
haps not under the same circumstances.
CUNNING OF RATs-It is astonishing how cum
ningly and quickly rats will run along the hawser
of d ship attached to another ship, in order TO search
for more food than they could procure in the ship
they have just left. This is generally done ia the
night, but the migration has been witnessed in the
daytime. When rats have dev0ured all the food in
q barn, they will migrate in considerable numbers to
another. 4 clergyman once witnessed one of these
migrations, and saw an old blind rat holding n short
bit of stick in his mouth, and another rat holding
the other end; in this way the blind rat was con-
Quoted safely along. The contrivances Of rats to
procure food are sometimes extraordinary. They
have been known to insert their tails into an OIL
flask, and then lick off the adhering oil, till the flask
was emptied, or at least till their tails would reach
the oil no longer. 1t has also been ascertained that
they have made deposits Of eggs in some concealed
place, as a future stock of food. They were con-
veyed without breaking them, although il is difficult
to guess in what way.
An EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.-EngIish pa
pers contain the following:
Capt. Morse, of the ship Syren, OF Bos-
ton, u. S., which recently arrived at Birken-
head, states that on the 18th of November.
1865, at six o'clock, A.. NJ, in latitude "a
S., longitude 173 80 W., while on his pas
sage from Bakers Island to the port Of Liv-
erpool, he experienced what he supposed to
be a shock of earthquake. At first was
heard a heavy, deep, rumbling sound,