The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-11-03

WncN T. BEGIS.-'Ih That yOu may Rad success"
said Rev. Charles Brooks, in sn address TO boys.
let me tell you how TO proceed. To night begin
your great plan OF life. You have bat ore life 90
live, and it Is inmeasurIb!y Important that you do
not make n mistake. To night begin carefully. Fix
your eye on the fortieth year OF your age, and then
say 20 yourself. Il will be 4 temperate man. an eco.
nomicai msn, a benevolent man. a vel, read man, "A
religious man, aud a useful man. | will be such an
one. I resolve and l will stand 20 it My young
friends. let this resVlGtion be firm as adamant ; let il
stand like the oak which cauno, be wind-shaken"
TINS TEouBtrs oF Sra hoEroN PEro-It appears
that Sir Morton Psto, whose visit TO the United States
sone months ago. was attended with a good deal Of
public and private slori6cation, has again come TO
griet Al a meeting OF the shareholders and bond.
holders Of the London. Chatham, and Dover Railroad
it was stated that there had been an over issue Of the
compsny's bonds TO the extent Of el3S, oo0, equal to
nearly one third Of the whole sum authorized. The
Directors all declared that they knew nothing about
1t, a1d called on their constructor, Sir VI. Peio, to
explain. Sir NJ. Pcto acknowledged that he had
been instrumental in thus disPosing Of documents
which were IN their nature really as fraudulent as
forgery ; but said that if he had net dCne so he snd
the company must have both stopped together
which both have done since. OF course the affair
excited great dissatisfaction, especially among the
holders of the worthless bonds
CIvIL WAE-The Danville 7fAaes, the Richmond
Hhig, the Richmond Enquirer. the Charleston
.NsIrs, the Macon ItiegrGtd. the Atlanta Iafeli-
gencs, the Augusta CoHdi nationalist, and other
Democratic newspapers in the late disatecied section,
have been suggesting for some months that the Presi.
dent should call together the Representatives elected
from that part of the country, who would be i.ined
by - Conservatives from the North, recognizing
them as the House. and defend himself ny force Of
arms. The Democratic Senator Garrett Davis, Of
Kentucky, suggested the same thing The Demo-
cratic ChIcargo Times urged him to clear out Con-
gress by military force \ Democratic Representa-
tive elected in Virginia, A. IL. IL. Stuart, in an
address before a college some weeks since. informed
his audience that g We were on the eve Of another
bloody revolution" 5. s Cox, formerly a Demo-
cratic Representative from Ohio, then a delegate 10
the Chicago Convention. where he said that in his
judgment = Lincoln and Davis ought TO be brought
TO the same block together aud now au eminent
Conservative " Of Tammany Hall, announced upon
the 4th of July that unless moderate and judicious
craftsmanship should intervene. by which he meant
unless Representatives from the late rebel States we're
promptly admitted. there will be civil war more ter
rible and atrocious than that just ended. The Dem
ocratic New York World, two or three weeks ago.
declared that If the votes of the late rebel States for
President in 1868 should be refused by the Congress
Of the United States, when. if admitted, they wonld
elect the Democratic candidate, his right would be
asserted by arms"
RESPECT FOR AMERIcA-The presence of the Amer.
lean iron. clad .MiGnionomoh in British waters. says
the Journal Of Commerce, elicits a frank aud unre-
served acknowledgment of respect for the skill Of our
mechanics. and the advance made by Americans in
periecting naval ornaments. The officers are feted
and saluted to their hearts content TO say nothing Of
an abundance Of newspaper compliments. Among
the visitors on board is n liberal s~prinkIipg of British
Admirals, accompanied by their suites. The London
Times says that though the name of this turre,ed
iron clad is ambiguous, "what che represents is
of very great importance indeed" So radical
are the differences between the English and Ameri-
can methods of construction, If one is right the other
must be wrong. Therefore it is regarded as an i'm
perative duty on the part of the British Admiralty
= TO investigate this subject without prejudice or de-
lay" Two leading ideas are especially deserving Of
attention. viz the protection of the ship by submer-
sion, aud the protection of the guns by iron turreis.
Though originally having no connection, the adoption
Of the first principle prepared the way il it did not
entail the necessity for the second. After these were
adopted. questions arose as to the advantages realized,
inasmuch as these new war ships were incompetent
for sea service, but the .MOnadRock having weatbered
Cape Horn, aud the .NidnfoaomOh having crossed
the Atlantic, Englishmea are prone to inquire whether
the Americans have not surmountedd ificnIfies which
British naval architects had pronounced insuperable.
Then the enormous guns introduced in these impreg-
nable ocean batteries present another theme fruitful
of comment. The guns ON board the monitor at
Spithead are represented to be shaped like soda
water bottles" made to throw enormous shot at n
slow velocity, with comparatively small charges Of
powder, whereupon the London Times remarks,
AZ We may possibly learn something from our neigh
bOrs in artillery as well as ship building" and adds
something about the . natural and cordial amity''
that ought to exist between the two nations. Thus
year by year Americans are gaining for themselves
the respect of foreign nations on account of skill in
the mechanic arts, as evinced in the construction Of
cotton machinery, steam printing presses, the manu-
facture of fire arms, &c., and finally for proves in
war and great achievements in military and naval
science. Under such circumstances, TO command
respect is to WELD power, and It behooves the people
of the United States, as they with steady and stately
tread take their position in the front rank of nations,
to see that the moral and physical strength they rep
resent is exercised in the interests of peace and an
enlightened civilization .-Ship List