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

that 1t would he by pure accident alone that = wooden
vessel could hope TO cope with her. She would, how
ever, stand a bad chance in ala encounter with our
monitors, armed with 10 inch guns, and sending
prCiectIleS which even the 4-lnch plates OF the SiOHc-
rail could not resist.
The armament of the St0Recaii is IA three hundred
FOUNDER Armstrong gun and two one hundred
FOUNDERS. When prepared for action she can steam
10 knots per hour, and being able TO turn rapidly.
she could. doubtless, with her enormous prov and
great momentum sink any wooden vessel aAoat.
Her coating of 4-inch iron plates extended three
feet below the water line, Her ram projects 70 feet
she is brig rugged, aud has two p~rOpellors aud TWO
rudiers.
Recently. Harry Leslie. the flnambulist, performed
q number of blood ycurdling exploits in connection
with a balloon ascension OF Prof. Lowe. from Contra!
Park, New York. When the balloon was over a
thousand feet high, two ropes were dropped out, and
Leslie threw himself from the car, catching enc Of
the ropes in his fall. His first feat was hanging by
one hand, when he changed his position and hung
by his feet for some time. Scrambljng up the rope.
he next placed the loop under the back OF his neck.
and there swaying backwards and forwards, he
remained Tor some time. His next feat was suspend
ing himself by the chin. and At this time, lac could
not have been less than half a mile high. In this
position he dangled in the air, till finally, when in
the neighborhood of High Bridge, he struck an
attitude, placing his head in one loop aud his feet IN
the other, to be toyed with by the winds. AZ this
point, and in this horizontal position lowering him
self. Lowe insisted upon his returning TO the ear. and
he did SO. Those who have seen the feats of GODDARD,
tue famous FrSucn EytnnaSt, say tAit Isl . pSf
formauces were more ~!oolhardy and startling.
The Times Washington special says it has been
ascertained that during the entire war the Navy has
lost only 1,406 men killed, and 1858 wounded, out
Of 10000 sailors and marines on the roll, inclusive
of all losses in the grand battles on the Mississippi,
at Charleston, Mobile, Fort Fisher and elsewhere.
In a word, the splendid victories Of Farragut and
Porter have been achieved with less loss Of life than
that which has been suffered in n single battle by a
single division of troops. This is due to the fact
that the enormous range of our navy guns kept men
out of musket range. The whole expense Of the
Navy since the beginning of the war. including con-
struction and equipment Of all its vessels and their
maintenance, has been less than $3.50, 000, 900, or
only about seven and a half per cent, Of the national
debt. Moreover, We have, at the close OF the war,
ships enough to show for money spent, to constitute
what is probably a better navy than that of either OF
the European powers. We have constructed since
1861 two hundred and ten vessels Of war, all Of
which are of the most improved models, and contain
all of the appliances of n I'm offensive and deien-
sive warfare.
MANLY PLEA FROM THE SoUrH-Let us not for
get that the South is again, and was before, a part
and parcel of the United States-peopled by the
same, people inspired by the same spirit, breathing
with the same breath-aud that any attempt to dis
grace one part, disgraces the whole.
We speak frankly and boldly-the war Is over
peace has again united us in the same bonds OF
friendship. leaving only those slight differences which
different ciimes stamp on different races.
We have acknowledged our physical inferiority as
a mass, but not as individuals.
The courage of the SOutherner was proverbially
known all the world over. and why should it be now
denied because numbers were against it? As Cato
said " the Gods, not Caesar, conquered u.s. We
submitted, and the olive branch has been generously
rendered and cheerfully accepted. Why should VIC
quarrel again over the past-to forgive is human,
but to forget is divine. Come on, friends of u res
tored Union-come on as brothers-come on "a
CO. laborers in the same field of love, friendship and
truth Let the past bury the past-let by-gones be
~by-gones.
The South has not lost its pride, though it may
have lost its power-but when the gulf of revolution
is closed, why seek to reopen its yawning depths to
swallow new victims ?-Mobiie Times.
TIE SHENANDoAn-Wha harm has the ship
Shenandoah done to our commerce., or IN what
manner has she become amenable to the law OF
nations? How are the wrongs which have been in
hicted upon US to be atoned by the surrender of n
mass of inert matter
The Shenandoah was nothing without her captain
and crew. They navigated the ship. They bounced
upon and destroyed the vessels of our mercantile
marine. The cruiser was only a weapon employed
by them. Yet the British authorities turn over to
our representatives the worthless hulk, and let tho
men-the freebooters, the criminals against whom
all the charges LEGO at large. Ii IS az II n MUIR
derer should be set at liberty, while the pistol with
which he did the deed was condemned and sold for
the benefit of his victims heirs.
If the crew of the Shenandoah were not pirates
where did the British Government obtain Il right to
accept her surrender and make disposition OF her !
If they were freebooters and corsalrs, now can their
enlargement be accounted for and justified ? For
piracy is not a crime against the United States. or
against any other isolated nation, but against the
world. Ii is triable by the laws OF all nations. Jul
risdiction resides everywhere, and all authorities are
competent to administer penalties.
The British Government, 10y accepting the surren-
der of the ship, virtually decided that she was a
pirate. 1t also settled the question of jurisdiction
by voluntarily pronouncing upon one count of the
indictment. Having done this, in liberating the
captain and crew it acted against it's own decision,
against the law of nations, against every principle OF
opo;ru onl 0nnl naiUhh1rhpO1 with tho United
States.
We hope the rumor is true, which reaches US from
Washington, that our Government will not accept
the transfer Of the vessel.-.4i6aRy Journal.