The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-11
Mi-ceIinHconS.


General Sherman has ohiaiurd permission To-
visit the holy Land thIs summer.
The receipts OF tlc Internal RerrnRc Bureau
have already been S223.uoO.0O0, aud will reach
SIS. O0.09O by the cud of tle fiscal year.
y meeting was held March 3oIh to devise means
10 rebuild the Lindcll Hotel, in 81. I.ouis. which
was destroyed. Loss. Sl.G0O, 600.
Thad. Stevens has written IA letter 10 Secretary
Seward warmly approving the iaiidcation of tho
Russian treaty. and congraMla;ing the Secretary
upon tbe vote received in the Senate.
1t i the opinion of some ct the uhlrst lawyers
lawyers THAI the Senate should not adjourn ,ill all
vacancies are allied. Ia some eases as many ~
three nominations have been rejected. The Presi-
dent sent IN a large number al nominations to-day.
Mccullough says il Congress will let him alone
h. will bring gold down To fifteen or twenty 10y
next December. without making a stringent money
market. II is believed specie payment will be re
summed within two years without trouble 10 bust
ness.
Numerous breaks have occurred in tie MissiS-
sippi lcVecS. The richest portions OF Southwestern
Louisiana are devastated.
Henry Ward Beechcr and party viii go to
Gibraiter, MarScilles. Genoa, Naples. Constantine
pie and the Crimea. and omcward by way of
Alexandria.
Fifteen hundred freedmen have applied to the
Colonization Society 10 be seat 10 Africa within
eight months. of whom COO have embarked.
The Indications are that the Fortieth Congress
will adopt the principle that Congress has the pow
cr to regulate the suffrage question in the United
States 80 tar as relates to Congressional and PreSi-
DENTAL elections.
SuutheIners intend To test the constitu:ionality
OF the Military Reconstruction law. aud 10 ask an
injunction upon General Pope and Andrew John
son. President. to Restrain them from enforcing the
Act. Reverdy Johnson is OF opinion that the case
must come up in Il lower tribunal before the SUI
preme Court can take rccognizance of il. 1t viii,
probably come up through the District Court Of
Alexandria. Seven Southern Governors will con-
sent To any proceedings 10 test the coustitutionality
Of the Act (fnyprDDr Batfpu of tlnhama n.ciin.a
to favor the execution of the law.
WASHINGTON, April l5.-The Supreme Court rem
dered "A decision refusing 10 entertain the bill OF
complaint fled in behalf of the State of Mississippi.
asking for an INJUNCTION to President from inforcing
the Reconstruction Act. They. however. allow the
filing of the bill on the part OF the State of Georgia.
NEW YORK. April l6-Rev. DR.. Dudley Field.
far~ Of Cyrus ". Field, is dead.
Chicago, April Ilth.-The Wisconsin Legislature
adjourned yesterday. Among the measures passed
was a resolution 10 amend the Constitution. giving
women the right.
The Solicitor OF the Treasury has decided, that
under the Tenure of Office bill where a vacancy
occurred previous to the passage of the law, il
should be filed under the old law that when q
vacancy occurs after the passage of the law, but
when the Senate fails to confirm n nomination, the
Secretary of the Treasury can appoint Deputy Col
lectors or Assessors temporarily: that such officers
are removable at the pleasure of the Secretary of
the Treasury until the office shall be regularly
filed.
Secretary McCulloch has received congratula-
tons from the New York bankers on the fact that
he had reduced the public debt during the year
two hundred millions.
SAVANNAH (Ga.,) April lst.-A mass meeting Of
white and colored citizens was held here to-day.
White and colored speakers addressed the assem-
blage. Strong reconstruction resolutions were
adopted. They request the military commander
to order a general election at the earliest moment
Cor a State Convention.
AMERICAN PoLLTICs.-In the East, at the date of
our latest advices by mail. political questions were
less attention and discussion than for some
time previous. The good effects of the Recon
Act were generally admitted, and the
belief confidently expressed that il would result in
the speedy regeneration of the South. The New
York Herald takes this view, and says:
We expect before next March TO announce TO the
world the complete rc-establishment of the Union
on the new basis of universal liberty and civil
with the restoration of every rebel State
to Congress. The President has manifested in his
appointment of his five district military command
Sickles, Thomas, Ord and Sheridan
his purpose to execute these laws of Congress
and from the Southern civil experience
good services of each of these officers we are
satisfied that they will carry out these laws as quiz
city and kindly as possible to the people of the
several States concerned. Whether, therefore, the
ten excluded States shall or shall not have a voice
in this Congr IS and in the election of the next.
our next President. will depend upon the
course of the ruling white class of each of the
States directly concerned and that class, though
to some extent DISTINGUISHED in this work of recon
structiOn, we are gratiied 10 believe, is rapidly
coming round to the wise policy a PROMPT and
compliance with the terms of Congress.
The prospect, therefore, of Southern restoration
is good and the encouraging indication we are
daily receiving from Virginia and all the way
through to Texas, warrant the belief of immense
to all those States in the way of North
ern capital and enterprise in view of large crops,
even this year, of corn, tobacco, cotton. rice and
sugar. Cheerful submission to manifest destiny
will surely bring to the South, in advance of South
ern restoration. those great essentials Of financial
confidence in the development of Southern indus
wealth and prosperity.