The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-25
Commercial Advertiser.
American, Summary.


lost two Consals, a paymaster and Il United State,
Engineer at Panama.
The phrase - The Dutch have taken Holland -
- expected soon to give way to :. The Irish have
taken Ireland
The Raleigh SeafiHeI estimates the white vote
81 North Carolina, under tine Reconstruction Bill
ut SO,ubU- and the cOlOred vote ut 81 .OGO
The New England (CongregationaD Church in
Chicago. Rev. j. J.. Guiliver, recently dedicated
is in gothic style, and cost SlGO,OOO.
The Mississippi river, opposite Memphis. dur
ines the recent Hood, forty miles widc and at
Cairo the water was only three inches below the
top of tIe leyce-
IN Act is pending in the Rhode Island Icgi.-
ature to punish any person who gets up a public
masked ball by fine of $500 for tine first GfIinse
and years imprisonment for the secOnd
The cOIored citizens of Washington and George
town are forming joint stock company 10 cstab-
lIsh newspaper in their interest at the Capital
Already $1,000 or more have been subscribed
Dr. Jayne, Of =. Expcctorsnt - notoricty. who
recently died. left two millions of dollars worth
Df PROPERTY His widow IL said to be about Inar-
ryins wealthy young man of New Jersey.
Eosa BOnheur's Horse Fair, which was sold a
few years ago for SIO, 900, was sold a few months
rince for 80 900, and now is offered hy auction
in New York, with private bid pending Of only
900.
The Missionary Herald for March states that
tine total expenditure Of the American Beard since
it, formation, fifty years ago, is SIl ,22g,Ol3.
The EPtscOPaiiGH, alluding to the season of
Lent now pest, SAYS We never met with fam
ily which made any real difference i'm regard To
the quantity or quality of food consumed in Lent
The New Orleans Bee estimates the present
population of New Orleans at 1000 souls. In
accounting for this large increase the Bee SAYS
that the war has driven vast numbers Of both
white and cOlored persons into the city.
The New York W0rid says: :. Even the aboli
ton of II by M tlp IL ri,acL -
might at first seem :; and gives other consolation
t. It's Southern brethren, which the W ihningtOn
Journal feels better for reading.
Mail SERvIcE.-The Post Office Department
has advertised in san Francisco for proposals for
mail steamship service between the United States
AMI the Hawaiian Islands Bids will be received
until July 10, 1867.
NiUCH MoNEY.-On the first day of February
last there were SIS 900 900 III the various banks
savings institutions and loan societies of San
Francisco about One-third Of which
ployed-
The Tribune says that W. S Carpenter, of
New York, has transmitted the Paris Expos-
tIDn one hundred and fifteen varieties of Indian
corn, each of which has name The most re-
markable in this collection contains 200
grains, arranged in twenty-five rows, and is
known the Western Gourd seed
i man with n turn for mathematics has figured
up the weight of the snow which fell in the three
heaviest storms of the winter III the United States
The result is 3,5I0, oct, coo tons. The resources
OF ideness are many
y circus rider, Il wager, rode of the
circus horses from the bottom 10 the ton of the
circular stairs leading to the dome the Court
House, at Chicago. The dome il one hundred
feet from the landing. The stairs are not more
than four feet wide, and the balustcrs not more
than three feet high. The daring performance
attracted large crowd
TIIE MARRIAGE OF BLOOD RELATIoxs.-The Com
mI-sigucrs of the kCutucEy Institution he
education and training of feeble-mintcd children
mt Frankfort. in their annual report to the Lcgis-
at1re, enter vigorous and convincing protest
against the iutcrmarriagc of persons nearly re-
lated It l. stated that the lIaritablc institutions
of the State filed with the offspring Of those
marriages, and that every interest of humanity
and religion demands the legal prevention of mar
TIges between blood relations.
The eight-hour law passed by tine late Illinois
legislature - likely To- create trouble among tine
workineIHcu- IL s,Dcs into operation ON the first
Of June. Employers generally agree that they
will nos IHy full wages for eight hours work.
Tia woTkinGmen are holding meetings. resolving
that they viii insist ON the same wages for eight
hours - for ten. The prospect is that business
viii BE- very dull.
The following Is the amount of the annual pay
and allowance Of Unitc,l States army officers a
peace Footing Cen Grant, SlS.l2O, Lieut. Gen.
sherman. $t4 ,Sl4; Major Gen IIaleck, -<77l7:
MAJOR t.,.n. Meade, S77l7 Major Gen. Sheridan.
S11I7 MaDr Gen. Thomas. Sill; Brig. zen.
Mcdowell. ssJji7 Brig. Gen. Ro-ecy-ius, ssjjI7;
CIlrucl- ~;45DO: Licut. COlDncls, $500 Majors
S37GJ Captains. sS5OiJ; First LicutcnantS,
81 II /; anil Scc,nd LisItcnants, S2G53-
We observe n statement in New York paper
that the Fcuilus dill not Join in the procession
-. PItrick's Day, bccluse they did not care {"
participate in . celebration which was entirely
Roman Catholic in it, character. If this bc true.
it j. y significant fict, showing the extent of
the division between =. Church and State The
opposition Of the Roman Catholic Clergy To- the
movement j. well known. but We hardly supposed
that thr III feeling would have been carried. on
the -i,lc Of the Brotherhood, far this by
the di-inter,ted spectator tins division of opinion
must be regarded great element of weakness
in the cause.
OCE,S FARE-The new California. Oregon and
Mexican Steamship Company have fixed the fol-
lowing rates Of fare for the present To Nazatian,
cabin passage $40, stccragc SO. and freight per
ton $40; t. Guayma-, cabin $40, steeraSc $40,
freight SI2. % Crescent City cabin so steer
agr SIS, freight SO; 70 Gardner City, cabin
so, stccrasc $50, freight $40; to Portland
(OEcSon), cabin So, stecragc S2u, up freight 80
. 81 down freight 50 to - To Victoria, cabin
$I0. stccr;@c go, up freight s., down freight
-: - Sitkl. cabin $lGO, stcergge $50. freight
.>2D: To- Honolulu, cabin 500, sJeeragc $50,
freight $40.
TuE RrsslAS TREiTy.-The New York Times,
Speaking Of the Russian ccssiOn, says BY this
accc--ion the United States control the entire
Pacific Coast for forty degrees Of latitude. except
the i've degrees still held by Great Britain Our
coast line on the side Of the continent l.
nearly twice that we hold the eastern The
main Importance Of this acquisition grows out OF
its bearing upon future trade with Japan,
china and tire other countries of Eastern ASA
Inc time must. come. and that ere long. when
this country Will control and carry ON the great
body Of that enormous traffic which has never yet
laed to enrich the nations which enjoy IT. Many
now living will see the day when the Pacific
pc-Iu viii viii be as thickly studded with ports