The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-04-27
American Miscellany.

Inc - lEteitlEutiai Mansion. JGu- DslAl~ : AtlS
=, residence, in Richmond, is offered Tor sale. Price
$4,000.
An exchange saws that it is Just as sensible 4
move TO undertake TO get married without court
ing. as u attempt any business without advertis-
ing; both often prove abortiye.
The celebrated trotter. Ethan Allen. now ut
Boston. has been sold TO L. L. Simmons. Of New
York, for 10000
\ bashful printer refused a situation in a print
Ing office where females are employed. saying that
he never " set up" with u girl in his life
Nearly all the post Offices in Texas are in charge
Of females. 1t works 80 Well that the males DJw
arrive and depart every hour in the day.
BoScoN RETURNING To PRIMITIVE CUsTos-An
innovation has recently been initiated - Boston
people which are announced on the CARTS - COM
mencing at three O'Clock p. II. and terminating at
eight o'clock p. ". There l. certainly more sense
exhibited in this selection 81 hours than when tie
entire night Is devoted t. dancing.
CONSUMPTION OF ARDENT SPIRrrs.-Therc are
said u be annually consumed in the United States,
i~oTtv-tEo million gallons OF distilled spirits, one
hundred and cighty-six million gallons of tcrmcn-
Ted liquors. ten million gallons Of imported Ii
qugrs the estimated cost Of which Is $500 600
oo0- Much liquor beside this i s~muEgied into
the country. and an immense quantity Is secretly
distilled.
Great Indignation at Galveston, Texas. because
they were not allowed to bury the rebel Gen.
Johnston with all the hOnors Of war. Gen.
Sheridan said-No. he coUldn't permit Il Conted-
crate demonstration over the remains Of one who
attempted to destroy the Government.
! few years ago. some Indians. who saw several
women baptized by immersion in the river at St.
Joseph, Mo, a hole being cut in the ice for that
purpose. imagined that the ceremony, which they
could not understand, was 70 make them good.
atter'vard brought their squaws. cut another hole
in the Ice near by. and gave them 4 duckinS, IN
spite Of their circumstances.
The time required for a signal 10 pass through
the cable has been discovered with still greater
precision TO be thirty-one hundredths ola second:
which il probably not in error by one hundredth
of a second. This Is equivalent 10 a velocity of
six thousand and twenty miles a second, and is
notably less than the velocity of the electric fluid
upon land lines, which numerous observations has
shown 10 average sixteen thousand miles in a
second.
NEGRO TESTIMONY IN SoUTH CARoLINA.-Judge
Bryan, in his charge to the Grand Jury of Charles
ton, a few days ago, said : From the character
of one of the witnesses to be brought before YOU.
you viii realize the great change in our laws.
Tie black man is now Il competent witness. both
by the laws of the United States and the le-isla-
ton of our own State. You will accept his tes-
timony and give that credit 10 it TO which the
Intelligence and character of the party entitle it.
As far as color i concerned, there Is no distinction
as To tie competency of testimony
1t is said that :. T. Stewart, of New York,
who is believed to be the richest man in America,
is about to retire from active business, and de-
vote himself to taking care of his property.
lie who improves the dwelling of a people, in
relation to their comforts, habits and morals,
makes a benignant and lasting reform at the very
foundation OF society.
They are about cutting a canal in California
that will irrignte over Il million acres OF waste
land in several of the counties of that State. The
canal viii not only furnish a supply of water fox
the land, but will serve also as a highway for car
rying the products Of the land to the San Fran
cisco market.
WAsHISGToN. March Brooks. in his speech
in the House yesterday characterized the proceed
iugs as revolutionary, and read n protest signed
hy all the Democratic members. in substance as
follows: Whereas, the record shows that seven
teen Statcs-New Hampshire. Rhode Island, Con
necticut. Virginia. North Carolina. South Caro-
lima. Georgia, Florida, Mississippi. Louisiana,
Texas. Tennessee, Kentucky, California, Arkansas
and Ncbraska-represcnting eighty Congressional
districts, are not represented ON the 1oor of this
House whereas, of these unrepresented States,
seven are of the original thirteen, which in 1887
created the Constitution of the United States,
therefore We members elect of the 10th Congress
now enter our most solemn protest against any
and every action tending to the reorganization of
this House until the absent States be fully repre-
scented.
DANcISG PRoHIBIrED-The Marysville Appeal Of
March 10th. saws:
ON Wednesday night the Missionary Priest.
Rev. Father Haneberg. who Is now giving religious
instructions at st JUsephs Church. took occasion
to condemn in strong language the practice of
dancing. and informed the members of the Hibcr-
MAN Society that their contemplated bali, on the
18th OF March. would not be tolerated. and if they
should disregard his injunction, and 90 on and
inaUgVTate their usual frivolties i'll the way of
dancing. they would be denied dissolution. In
view OF this state of things a Committee waited on
Bishop OCOHnell yesterday afternoon TO obtain
permission for the Society to partake OF their usual
of =. Patricks Day. but he was ineXo-
rable. and would not yield an iota. terrifying his
position by producing the edict of the late Balti-
more Council. as well as many Pa>tOrdls of the
Catholic Bishops in the United States. Therefore.
We are Informed the Society has reluctantly aban-
dontd the idea Of giving the ball heretofore an
We are also informed that the Bishop
has written to Timbuctoo to veto the ball which
20 come of in Dittmer's Theutcr this evening.
in aid OF the Catholic School at SmartSyiile.
Proclamation by the Pre-ident.
WASHINGTON, d. C.. Feb. 1.-The President
issued his proclamation. dated Jan. p. After
recltIng the laws OF 1876, concerning dlscrimln-
lting duties Of tonnage and inpOsts, lac concludes
n follows
Whereas, Satisfactory evidence has lately been
received by me from his Majesty the King OF the
Hawaiian Islands. through an official cDmmunica-
of his Maje>ty's Minister of Foreign Re!a-
ions, under date OF the l0th Of December, 1866, i
no other or higher duties of tonnage and
are imposed or levied III ports of the {
hawaiian Islands. upon vessels wholly belonging &
% citizens of the United States, and upon the
produce and manufactures or merchandise i'm
pUrtcd in the same from the United States. and
rom any foreign country whatever, than are levied
IN Hawaiian shiIs and their cargoes in the same :
Jorts. under like circumstances. :
Now. therefore. |. Andrew johnson. President :
# the United States of America, do hereby de !
lare and proclaim that 80 much Of the several !
imposing discriminating duties of tonnage /
nj imports within the United States. are and q
hall he SUSPENDED and Discontinued ~ FIR n {
c-pects the vessels of the Hawaiian Islands, and =
heir produce, manufacture. and merchandise .
imported into the United States i the same from !
lac douinions of the Hawaiian Islands and from q