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

The estimates Of Secretary Welles for the Navy
Department for the ensuing year amount to only
S23, O00, 900.
Thirteen c~lergymen are elected to the Massachu-
sets House of Representatives and two to the Senate.
Four hundrea and thirty {" shooting stars were
counted by the New Haven professors, in the space
oftwo hours, on some morning recently.
The Fenian Head Centre of Quebec has left for
parts unknown, carrying with him the money OBJ
tanned from the dupes in that city.
The Methodists, in Committee, at New York. have
decided to establish q Mission among the Chinese on
the Pacific Coast.
Of the four Members Of Congress elected in South
Carolina. two were members of the rebel Congress
and two were officers in jeff Davis army.
The census of Massachusetts shows q population of
! ,257, 800 this year, an increase of Sc ,263 since 1860.
The present number OF voters Is 2l6, O37.
The captain aud driver of the canal boat Alice
CLARK were brutally murdered recently near Bradt's
Tavern or Basin, on the Erie Canal. The captains
body was ritled OF between $500 and $500. Both
bodies were thrown into the canal.
Another surprising frog story is going the rounds.
1t is stated that q live frog was found IN the centre
Of a hard burned brick at n ~brickyard in Gardiner,
Me. \ tough story, that.
Tom Brown says a woman may learn one useful
lesson from the game of backgammon, which is not
to take up her man until she is sure of him.
4 youngster four years old being asked by his
parents if he had said his prayers every night during
his absence from home, replied, No, but counted
a hundred
After all the noise in California about purchasing
a homestead for Mrs. John Brown, but S426 have
been raised for the purpose.
\ Colonel Yarmouth WAS elected by 16 900 or
more colored votes in Louisiana during the last cleo
ton TO represent their interests at Washington dur
ing the coming Congress.
General Burnside is building q railroad in the oil
regions, ten miles and a half long, which is to be
completed in ninety days. Seven hundred men are
employed in the construction.
Governor Brownlow, Of Tennessee. recently said
that within two weeks he had received twenty-one
letters from parties in the North, asking information
about East Tennessee, where they proposed to settle.
Some Of them represented neighborhoods who wished
to. go there in 4 body.
\ Canadian paper says that the Company which
owns the steamer st. John, Of New York, acted most
generously in the case of the late Councillor Archam-
bault, of Montreal. II betrayed all the funeral ex-
penses. and settled 81 900 on the little daughter Of
deceased.
At an auction sale Of two estates in Staunton, in
the Valley OF the Shenandoah, n short time ago, the
white population were Mortified to find that the high
est bidder was n cOlorei man, who thus entered into
the ranks of the landed aristocracy of Virginia.
The attorneys of the South are reaping abundant
pecuniary harvests by their charges in drawing up
petitions in behalf of Southern applicants for pardon.
One attorney of South Carolina has forwarded up
wards of one thousand petitions to the Attorney
Generals office, Washington, for each Of which he
received the zee Of SO.