The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-06-22

NEWS
Arrival of the Bark ID. {. Murray"

The flvorite bark d.. {. Murray arrived yester-
day afternoon-I2 days from San Francisco. bring
ing the New York mail of May 18th and San Fran
cisco dates to the 9th of June.
General McCook, American Minister Resident,
and his wife are among the passengers.
Bark Comet, Captain John Patty, arrived at
San Francisco on the 9th of June, having had a
flying trip of only Is days. She will leave on her
return about the 10th.
She Bengal sailed with the Murray, and will
probably arrive to-day.
His Elk. c. C. Harris and Consul Wilson left San
Francisco for New York in the steamer of June l.
The Eastern news is quite unimportant, no tele-
grams later than June l having been received.
Gold was quoted 1877 at that date.
The news from Europe indicates that the war
fever has not passed off. France was still arning,
and had purchased two American iron-clads.
Prussia had also sent to purchase two iron-clads
from the American Government.
The reform bill in England appears not to have
been finally settled. a liberal proposii ion TO re-
strict one representative to rs. 600 inhabitants in
boroughs had passed by l27 majority over minis
terial opposition.
Macmillan is reported to have been shot, with
all his officers over the grade of lieutenant. The
report, however, was not generally believed.
Inc Legislature OF massachusetts mas TeJectcu
the eight hour bill. That of Ohio has done the
same.
Ristori played a farewell engagement of about a
week in New York early in May. Her American
profits are about 100000.
A cargo of wheat, originally shipped from San
Francisco to France and brought thence to New
York, was lately week sent to Chicago.
The African slave trade still fourishes. Over
six thousand have been landed in Cuba within a
few months.
The Times correspondence says the war against
Chile and Peru will soon be renewed with vIgor.
The Spanish squadron which left Santiago will be
joined at MOntevideo by the irou-clad Numdncid
and other war vessels.
1t is said the ladies of Alabama use coacoa nut
shells for waterfalls, and that properly put on they
are beautiful. improvements are every where.
The population of thirty-sevenS States last NOvem-
Der. according to returns from the revenue districts
made to the L. 5. Census Bureau. was 81, 100, 255
including the Territories, 34,5o5,SS2.
Horace Greeley in an editorial over his own sig
nature. denies having influenced Judge Underwood
to bail JEFF. Davis. He says he went to Richmond
and signed the bond because the leading counsel
for the prisoner deemed it important that he should
do so.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has ordered the en-
forcement of the Liquor law passed by the Legisla-
ture prohibiting the sale of liquor between mid
night and sunrise, and also on Sunday.
Hon. Geo. Bancroft has notified the State Depart
ment that he accepts the mission to Prussia.
Last evening Il party of pennsylvania capitalists
numbering about twenty arrived at Richmond on u
prospecting tour through the State. 1t is said that
they represent forty millions of capital. and that
the resources of Virginia in the shape of coal and
tobacco, will receive new impetus from their visit.
1t has been fully proven before the Judiciary
Committee that pardons were transmitted South ;
adams Express marked e,JAR W0p6YsE ,,t ,2s
Rvsldent was not directly implicated.
Charles B., youngest son of Frederick Douglass.
has been appointed @ clerk of the Freedmen's
Bureau.
\ s~hipyard at Baltimore. owned and managed
entirely by colored men, cleare" 1000 last year,
or 20 per cent.
Grau the manager Of Ristori. is the man who is
going to bring Dickens out to America.
a GREAT CITY.-The expenditures of the NUM-
cipal corporation known as the city of New York
for 1866 amounted to over S2l 600, 900 and its in
come was about the same. The city debt is about
equal to a years income.
In illustration of the perfect condition to which the
working of the Atlantic cable has been brought it
is mentioned that recently, in the business of three
entire days, during which messages were transmit
ted containing 24,440 letters Cor 1880 letters
when doubled for repetitiOn.) the repetitions
showed a mistake of only one letter, consisting in
the substitution of Pattieson for Patteson.
In Singapore. the "man-eating" tigers are so
numerous that the natives and Chinese are said to
be carried off at the rate of a man a day. So used
have they become to such accidents, that when q
Chinese cody sees a tiger tr0tting after him, with
an evident view to dining. he quietly sits down.
and resigns himself to his fate.
LONDON. May Oth.-The city of London having
voted $500 toward the erection Of a statue Of Geo.
the Queen to-day laid the corner stone
in the presence of a vast assemblage. The cere-
monies were magnificent and impressive, and the
of the p%Opulace very great.
TIE FATE OF DR.. Observation-Disclosures had
reached the British Admiralty, which dispels the
faint hope Of the fate of DR.. Livingstone. The
Times Of India publishes additional evidence that
ha 4raar =. 1anI -
Intelligence which leaves hardly any room for hope.
the man IS to be believed. he saw Livingstone
receive his death blow.
NAMED--The new ship built at the yard Of Chas. Mallory
& sons. IN New London last autumn, has just been rugged, and
has been named Ee Twilight She left that port Thursday
alorring for New York, where she is to Iaad for San Francisco,
and will hereafter run between those ports in Coleman,s line of
resht vessels. Capt P. L. Rowland, of this place is her