The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-08-10

, earesr ~ a rep.rter IL the TrIiuA5 AZ =. a week;
got a better situation ca the C0uTisr and EVCUtrer,
but left Il 20 Start the TfasS. He = 10 years q age,
and remarkably courteous II manner.
lnether Franeo-PrHSian Question.
No sooner l. the L~uxemburg question disposed
Of than the Rastadt question Is ready 10 take its
place. Rastadt IS 4 strong fortress of Baden.
within a few miles Of the Rhine. which there
forms the French border. and we read in our
exchanges that Napoleon Is said TO have asked
Prussia to pledge herself that Its garrison shall
never he increased, which pledge Prussia declines
10 give. Another check.
The Pope.
John W. Forney, jr., writes from Rome 10 the
Philadelphia Press:
The popular song tells Us thar the Pope leads a
Jolly life" I regret 10 say that the song conveys a
false impression. From what l have seen Of his
Holiness, | should say that a man more borel 10
death does not exist. They 10 say that the Tycoon
Of Japan - has II pretty bad in the way Of being
afflicted in going through the motions-but all l can
say i that | DO not see how any one can 90 beyond
the Pope in being shown up-and Iirc. But the
Pope, although he completely distances the early
martyrs in the aftiiction line, Is a kind man, and re
ce;ves visitors kindly. Gentlemen are received every
week day, but ladies, 80 IL Is understood, only on sun
days There i some mistake about that, however,
a. | have myself known numbers Of the dear crea-
lures TO visit his Holiness on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Permission Is required, but II i easily procured for
rentlemen-Wlth a little more difficulty Tor ladies'.
This rever>es the ordinary Christian rules, You Will
observe. The Pope VIII talk 10 you (f you know
how) in French, Spanish, or Italian, he don't care
which. He won't speak Englsh-not because he
can't, of course, for he is supposed 10 know every
hing-but for Estate reasons" He likes TO bless
People-it's a way he has-Protestants and Catholics
alike. He Will also bless any beads, trinkets. or
flowers You may have with you. Everything in your
pocket goes away blessed. To speak more seriously
Of q serious thing, the Pope Is however politically in
danger. and the days of a Papal Government are
numbered. There is dissatisfaction among the pop
ulace and signs are seen in the heavens; gloomy
murmuring and rumors Of deposing Plus N. are
heard on every side.
Womsnhood Suffrage.
Greeley. in the y. Y. Tribune. thus speaks of
the agitation for securing 10 woman the right of
suffrage:
Womanhood suffrage is now a progressive cause
beyond fear of cavil. 1t has won a fair field where
once il was looked upon as an airy nothing, and it
has gained champions and converts without number.
The young State Of Kansas i fifty the vanguard Of
this cause, and the signs Of agitation therein hardly
allow q doubt that the citizenship of women viii be
ere long thoroughly recognized in the law of the
State. Fourteen out Of twenty Of the newspapers of
Kansas are in favor Of making woman a voter. tx
Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, the Senatorial rival and
professional assailant of jefferson Davis, makes the
most remarkable of recent contributions TO this
cause. He holds that universal suffrage. containing
the principle of Woman's Rights, Is necessary to
virtuous politics. Monstrous half notions of a
"Ng"he age vi barDarlsfn, writes thls enlightened
ex-rebe, yet sternly and unanimously deny the
right Of suffrage" and he proceeds TO argue that
the women Of the land, are al least as reasonably
and morally qualified TO elect cur Government as
8 those who now 50 often elevate to the highest places
of civil rule the drunken, the corrupt, the ilnbecile,
and the profiigate."
An English lady thinks that in case the fran
chise is given TO woman only those should be
permitted to vote who have nursed their own
children. Certainly q good mother ought to vote
if any woman had.