The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-12-21

The Republicans this year pOlled 1867 less
than their highest civilian vote. The Democrats
polled q 1915 more votes than ever before In Ohio.
The tin toys used in America are chiefly manu-
featured at Meriden. CT, in geeat part from the
scraps of tin left by the manufacture of household
utensils. BY the use of steam machinery. the IAN
kee manufactures have driven their German rivals
from the American market.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon believed
recently. said that more public men of eminence
had started from the business of type-setting than
probably from any other occupation. He was right.
Broad street, Philadelphia. is eleven miles and a
half long. in one straight line, and one hundred and
fifteen feet wide. extending from League Island. on
the Delaware River, to the Northern boundary of
the present city limits AT its present rate of i'm
provement, it will require only a few years to make
it the most magnificent thOrOnghfare in the world.
Among the patents granted last week was one to
O Jerseyman for improved composition for san
sages." We have heard of a mixture OF dog, red
flannel and turnips as a composition tor sausage,
but it is not likely that it was ever patented. What
the improvement may be We are at a loss to una
gime.
The Iowa Voter tells the following religious anec-
dote: AT a prayer meeting recently, a Brother
Hoskins in his prayer petitioned the Lord to Bless
Brother N.'-the pastor-and make him q better
man. "Amen! and Brother Hoskins too re-
%sponded the pastor with JUNCTION.
The largest railway contract ever made by a sin
gle person, in the United States. is said to have
been made recently by the Hon. Cakes Ames, OF
Massachusetts,. 1t is reported that he has contract
ed to build the mountain section of the Pacific
Railway, some six hundred miles in length. for SIT,
000, 900.
An American medical gentleman. in an article in
in the Boston Medical and Surgical journal. on
Foreign Bodies in the Ear, says that in his expe-
rience be has taken from the ear beans, cotton,
slate pencils. peas. maggots. cockroaches, beads,
glass, ~crockery, shells, paper. pins, ivory, teeth of
combs, stones. and seeds.
The coast range of mountains in California is
rapidly being stripped of its forests OF redwood
trees, and, in consequence, the country Is drylGg
up and becoming barren. The crops this Season
have proved a failure where the wood has been
cut away, Notwithstanding the heavy rains of last
winter.
A rumor of 100000 defalcation in one of the
Bowery banks was started by the NJ. Express.
Postmaster General Randall advises persons to
vote for no candidate that is in favor of impeach-
ing the President. He says there Is neither sense
nor reason in the clamor against Mr. johnson. who
is only following out the restoration policy of Mr.
Lincoln, who was in favor of filling up the vacant
Southern seats in Congress as soon as possible.
He adds that the Republican Party OF Wisconsin
TO-DAY does not favor a single principle upon which
the Government carried on the war.
CnICKEx-NAS-There is a man in New
has n chicken-stal nj one of the m" -ork WIZ
now reported to be worth 5000 -'SetS lie l
a large brownstone paiac" Sooo. lie lives ii
the furniture for which ua psooAthh fiighis
to the sale of his eIs' Sl<ooVN ~ auend'
! breakfast at y " ne'e1 AIM n'
rOnrnlnr ''tA
= between 1 and ). O'Clock He can be seer
eE.y day, standing behind a marble counter. with
4 white apron on. In the afternoon be drives out
VITA his wife and family, or a few friends. in ar
elegant caFTirSe.
In a recent speech at Columbus. Ohio. Xr. Val
landigham saw in happy vision the Democracy a.
gam restored to power, and himself Secretary Of
War. On this intimation. the New York CONNER
cidI Thus fills up the picture:
President. Horatio Seymour: Vice President.
Jesse d. Bright: Secretary of State. Fernando Mood:
Secretary of War, Clement l.. Vallandigham: Sc
cretary of the Navy Admiral Semmes; Secretary
Of the Interior, Hester Clymer; Postmaster Grner-
al. Thomas Florence; Attorney General. Jerry
Black; Commissioner of Indian Affairs. John Nor
rissey; editor of the organ, Brick" Poueroy.
The above named gentlemen are representative
Democrats. \ better selection could not be made
from the Democratic party.
European.
The Senate Of Hamburg has passed a vote in
favor of maintaining that port a free one
Owing to the increasing number Of rohberiee
and depredations in Paris, the police force is to be
augmented.
TIE number of deaths by cholera in Cologne has
reached thirty a day in a population of 10000.
No case of cattle plague in any part of Great
Britain Is reported for the week ending Sept rs.
Paris Is to have a crop of mounted police to
repreSS the garroters by whom it is infested.
Jesu'ts are rapidly gaining both in numbers and
Influence in France.
Hippophagy Is growing rapidly into popularity
IN Paris All the old hacks are cut up into roasts
and steaks. ~
NJ. Renan. the famous French anthor. is a stout.
heavy man, with a rather dull appearance. until he
begins IN talk, when his features light mn with a
wonderful intellectual brilliancv. and his whole
hearing and aspect manifest the scholar and indie
pcndcut teacher,