The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-10-26
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. OCTOBER &c.
News OF the vi orniI. e..

his yacht having been out three nights in Slually
and rough weather. lie landed at Kannakakai ON
Saturday Last, and was very well when the yacht left
The prospects Of the steamer KnAUEA are materi-
ally Frightening. \ conference was held yesterday
between the principal stockholders and the Cabinet,
at which the latter pledged the faith of the Govern
ment to recommend an annual subsidy of EIGHT
THOUSAND DOLLARS. This may be considered equiya-
lent to an appropriation, as the only opposition to 4
subsidy ut the hast session came from the Ministry.
The Representatives were generally in favor of it. IL
Is proposed to alter the schedule, and dispatch the
steamer to Hawaii on the LIST, 11th and 2lst Of each
month, which will allow the vessel to delay longer at
ports where freight offers, and perhaps extend her
trips further than Is now done. Another proposed
change Is TO have her dispatched once a month TO
Kauai (siy the last four days of each month, } for
the accommodation Of travellers TO and from that
island. These changes will be an Improvement. MIR.
Green having resigned the agency. it is as yet uncer-
tain who will act as such. The subsidy from the
Government will thus provide ample means to pay
stockholders the interest on their investment, and
thus restore the shares to their par value. The
steamer will resume her trips as early as the neeess-
airy arrangements can be completed.
BY the Nettie Merrill we hear of n murder at Ko-
lOa on Kauai, committed by a native woman, who
IS said to have poisoned her husband, "A Chinaman.
Another report is that the poison was put in the food
by three Cinnamon, who caused the woman to be ar
rested. She was brought mp u prisoner in the vessel.
As intimatel by our San Francisco correspondent
last week might be the case, the ship Franklin
touched here on the 231, and left a few papers, which
in the absence Of a regular mail are very welcome.
She had the long passage usual mt this season of
the yesr-l9 days
The Captain and Officers of the French frigate
PeaHs gave a ball on Tuesday evening last, which
was well attended. Among the guests were the Gov
ernor and his laiy, the Kings Ministers and other
officers Of the Government, Capt. Reynolds and his
lady and the officers Of the Laekal1anna, with nu-
merous Ladies and gentlemen. The Ysnus will sail
for Tahiti early next week, rs she now only awaits
the arrival Of the mail steamer.
The ship Franklin having sailei on the 18th. We
Of course have no news of the arrival ut San Fran
cisco Of the Ltah0, which would not be due there
before the 9Th or Sth. If she left again Us adyer-
tised, on the 10th inst. she will he due here early OH
Sunday morning. Her last trip hither was made in
eleven days aud eighteen hours, and if she makes
the same time on the present one, she will be off the
port 1T daylight, tomorrow morning.
The news from Maryland is calculated 10 ex..te
fears. We're there any good reason why the Governor
Of the State should enrol ten thousand paid militia,
and purchase artillery, it might attract no notice;
but as it is, it looks rs If it was u move to intimidate
Congress, and to initiate an armed resistance to that
body. IL the rebels or their sympathisers have not
yet had enough of civil war, one thing is sure, that
in the event of open resort to arms again, no mercy
will lie shown To the traitors. They will deserve
none, and will receive none.
We intirnsted last week that the arrest and impri-
sonment of Garibaldi were no trivial matter. Those
who LOOK upon him as Il mere alvcnturer and brig
and, know nothing OF the man. He is the embodi-
ment of italian progress, Of that progressive spirit
which is striving to throw off the tlraldom which for
centuries has made Italians no better than slaves,
and presented to the world the spectacle of n nation,
One-third Of whom only can read and write. Carl
balii embodies the spirit of liberty that i. shaking
Italy to its center, that has virtually revolutionized
Prussia, that is reforming England, and is destined
TO enfrinchise Europe. His arrest, therefore, is an
attempt to chain Italy-to arrest Italian progress,
and will never be submitted to by her people. King
Victor Emmanuel has done this act. through fear Of
France, hut it is a most perilous move for him, as his
army, and court, and people are in sympathy with
Garibaldi's spirit.
We may infer by the following from the Times,
that there are flowers backing up Garibaldi in his
efforts to free Italy from the Popedom
"The understanding which Is supposed to exist
between Prussia and the party Of action in Italy is
said 10 be an ascertained fact. The COurtier Frun-
cais states that one of the causes Of complaint against
France is the belief in Italy that an army of obserya-
ton of 10000 men has been assembled at Toulon."
II this be so, any interference on the part of France
will be the signal for war, in which Italy and Prussia
will measure swords with France, joined perhaps by
Austria; and the Prussian 90 needle guns" will have
one more chance to show their deadly power.
Another significant item in the foreign news is
Napoleon's advice to the Southern German States not
to join the Prussian Empire. Ii looks rs if France
was inclined to interfere in the domestic affairs of
Prussia, and prevent, if possible, the long expected
confederation.
The result of the last trial in England of the
= Rolman gum sent over from the United States
for the naval boards there TO experiment with, is also
n noteworthy item. This ffteen-inch gun has sent
its shot through AN eight-inch wrought-iron target,
backed with eighteen inches of teak ~planking. The
heaviest plated armor afioat in the British navy is
four and a half inches; so that a conclusion can be
easily drawn from this experiment. The Dunder6urg,
now owned by France, carries two ffteen-inch Rod
man guns.
The attention of the reader is called to the interest
ing letter Of l." La Paz " Oh our first page. The van
dal-like destruction of leagues of beautiful land by
herds of cattle and sheep, is well pictured by him.
His remarks about the proper way to invite ~immigra-
ton are also worth remembering, while his descrip-
ton of the charming scenery Of Waimea and Hama
kua will be admitted by all who have seen it as life
like.
On our last page will be found several articles of
more than usual interest Bishop Kip's pastoral
letter, appearing just after the election in California,
in which one of the avowed objects Of the successful
party was the abolition of all Sunday laws-is very
significant. The article relating 10 the Pelew Islands,