The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-04-20
Late Foreign stcIiis.

NV ! UEE. March IL Michael % BrIen. an
American citizen suspected of being q Feuian wil-
arrested aud brutaily treated in Liverpool. He
acquitted on trial The case bas been laid be-
fore the American Consul. O'Brien claiming com
pensatIOn FOR false imprisonment The matter was
referred Minister Adams. vino returned the pa
pers. intimIting that the Home Government had
better be- consulted before the demand made.
The remaining, portion Of Table Rock. Niagara
Falls fell this day Fortunately. being at this
season, was hurt
The President has approved the bill abolishfng
the Office Of Public Printer and providing for the
election Of a congressional Printer by the Senate.
Nineteen steamships sailed from New York. Sat
urlIy March ri, FOR Europe. the Vest Indies.
Central America and eoastwiSe ports, carrying
1000 passengers and 5G7O.U0O in currency The
NIearagIan steamer took 100 United States troops.
The Internal Revenue Bureau to-day issued in
stTUcOns for the immediate assessments for income
tax ~ required BY the law passed last Saturday.
The time Of assessment Is changed from MAY to
March. and a uniform rate of five per cent fixed on
all incomes. with one thousand dollars exempt
Assessors required TO work at once.
NEw YOEK March I2.-Goy Jenkins fcIegraphs
that the destitute IN Georgia numbers G0.OOO whites
and 5000 blacks, which Is largely in excess Of
Cen HJwdrds former estimate. II is believed
thai the real destitutDn iii south Carolina Is even
larger than III Georgia The Government have
given the Relief Committee free use of a steamer,
and she will be loaded this week with a cargo Of
cJru- Her capacity i about p. 900 bushels.
TEssiBi.E EIJT.-At Permaubuco. recently. n
terrible riot occurred bctwren the Brazilians and
the Portuguese Eighty Portuguese were killed.
when the Portuguese. c0mbindiug with the Eng
itsh. killed one hundred O the Brazlians.
Gen. sheridan says: % II !, strange that over Il
white man killed by Indians extensive from
tier the greatest excitement will take place. but
the killing Of many freedmen in the settle
mruts nothing l. done. / cannot help but this.
aui cannot hripsbut tell it To sUpcriors.
how unpleasant 1t may b" 10 the authorities Of
Texas"
Governor BrownIow has signed the bill estab-
I-tiut~ in
uTr about thirty thousand yOt,s added 10 the
strength oi the loyal party in that State. the CON
uuucl rule Of UnipniSm is assured and free princi
pies have gained q strategic position IN the South
hardly second in importance To that previously
won in Missouri Thi- suffrage law will literally
and politically change tie complexion of certain
Congressional districts in Tennessee. tcpre-
-cHtcd by conservatives
\ prominent Senator received positive informa-
lion from three southern States that they Will i'm
mrtiltrly proceed TO organic State Governments
under the Military bill. and it is now confidently
asserted that all the southern states Will br rcOr-
gInized under it, provisions and be admitted to
their former relations by the lst of January.
Accounts from Alabama and Georgia represent
the drstitution greater than heretofore stated.
Deaths from starvation are reported in Alabama.
while leading paper in Georgia estimates the total
number OF starving 1t 1000
NEly ORLEANS AGtTx.-Thcre was another fine
chance for a riot in New Orleans An election was
To have been held there March Sth and under the
Reconstruction bill Governor Wells said the
grDes had right Ia vote. Mayor Monroe and Chief
of Police Adams said they had not such right aud
would not be- allowed to vote, so General SheTlt ar
postponed the election by proclamation. he Z
General. however. i well prepared To enforce the
laws. and ii the rebels get into fight with him- he
viii follow them as he did in the Shenandoah Val
ley. If ne has % ride for it. The Legislature of
Louisiana talk Of iInpeaching Governor Wells be
caT~r he recognizes IA" Reconstruction bill as the I
law Of the land. Surely these people need recon i
structin-.
\ CHECE-Thc new tenure. of Office bill l. a firm .
briIe rrin upon the President. It declares that !
officers appointed BY and with the advice and con
sent Of the Senate shall hold until their successors
" have been in like manner appointed and duly .
Qualified" But during recess of the Senate the
President mIy remove any officer who shall have
been shown 70 be guilty Of misconduct in office. or
who for any reason becomes incapable or diSqualI-
h-d and designate some suitable person To perform
temporarily the duties OF such Office until the next
meeting II the Senate and until the shall have
been acted upon by the Senate. After the meet
ing Of the Senate the President shall within 20 days
report To il all removals. and If the Senate refuse
70 concur with the President. the officer removed
sna'l De- re-in-ttted.
. AEXiCO.-Adyices received from OriZlba. Mex
leo February ! Ith announce the final and com
P"tt evacuation Of the capital ny the French forces
% February 9th The whole eNpcditionary corps
y on tlr rold tp Vera Cruz Marquee. at the head
:" 1000 of NIy's Mexican troops has been III
li'.'' eith t.. d-,.s.-e 0r the city or Mexico The
ia1perisI-j- claimed that they bad army of 30
oVJ uIrn. well armed