The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-03-14
Foreign Miscellany.


TEIEGR.rmc FEAr.-Quite a telegraphic feat
was performed last evening. Galveston was ut
one time in communication with New Orleans,
New York, Chicago. Salt Lake CITY and Helena
in Montana Territory. The estimated length OF
the wire was f~ortv-fve hundred miles. CONVEX
sations were held with all these places ut one
time. In New York there was three feet of snow,
while in Galveston the weather was beautiful and
balmy. In Helena there was any quantity of
snow. In Salt Lake City there was a heavy
storm. Brigham Young had Just married his
seventv-third wife. and there was a big Jubilee
over the ~nuptials. Mr.. ID. :. RYAN was the oper-
ator ON this end of the string. This beats the
Atlantic telegraph.-G Cohesion Bulletin Dec. Il.
Be MASTER AND NOT BE MAsTERED.-It is not by
regretting what Is irreparable that true work is
10 be done, but by making the best of what we
are. IL i not by complaining that we have not
the right tools. but by using well the tools We
have. Where we are, and what we are. is Gods
providential arrangement; and the wise and man.
ly way l. To look our disadvantages in the face
and see what can be made OF them. Life, like
war, l. a series Of mistakes. and he is not the
best Christian nor the best general who makes the
fcyest false STEPS. Poor mediocrity may do that;
but he Is the best who wins the most splendid VIC
tories by the rctrieyal of mistakes. Forget mis-
takes; organise ricl0ry out Of miSfGkeS.-ChTlS-
GaR Treasury.
CUBA.-The Herald has n Havana dispatch TO the
effect that Spain has offered TO sell the islands of
Iuba ana Porto hicO TO the Jnltcl states Tor
$50 ,OOO, goo in gold. The terms of sale are rs
follows; $4,000, 900 in gold are to be paid
down in cash on the signing of the treaty, and the
formal delivery of the island TO the authorities of
the United States. a second $50, 900 900 in gold
TO be paid ess year thereafter. The third INSTALL
ment Of $50 600 900 in gold to be paid at the
end of six years.
With Cuba in the possession of the United
States, slavery and the slave trade will go by the
board. Cuba has long been ardently desired by
many of our people, but the present news of the
tender comes from rather a questionable source.
One of the most prominent and cautious of
London journals speaks of the tens of thou
sands of men and women starving in East London,
and in Liverpool and in Cornwall" and Its ac-
counts of the aggravated misery of these helpless
multitudes are horrible to humanity. In a large
number of manufacturing industries, and in many
lines of business, the condition of things lie eX-
ceedingly dull, and the prospects gloomy. In
same respects we are bad enough off in this coun-
try, but we have nothing like the starving myriads
of England.-N. Y. paper.
The bottom of the ocean will soon be as extern
sive n means of human intelligence as the top of
it. The Emperor Of France is about to have his
submarine cable to the Island of St. Pierre and
New-York; the Government of Queen Isabella is
also about laying down a cable to Cuba and Por-
to Rico by way of the Canaries; and now we
hear of another projected line 10 lie between
Brest and New-York. The latter is organized by
a Franco-American Company with n capital of a
million sterling-the stock and direction To be
divided between England, France and this coun-
try. The English share of the stock is said to be
already subscribed. This Company has received
valuable concessions from the French Government,
and the lire will be laid next Summer very pro-
baby.
PACIPIc Mail STEAMSHIP CoNPANY.-The report
of Louis McIane, President of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, shows the receipts from all
sources. for the year ending October 81, 1867, to
be 81 ,639, 707, and the disbursements s. ,546,-
l93-surplus 1913 ,574. The income was from
these sources - Passengers, So. 0S5 400 freights,
=, 73S, Hos; United States mails, 1902. 252, in
terest and premiums on gold, 1888 ,99i; dividends
ON investments, S53S,SlS; various credits to
profit and loss, $50, 100.
The first horse dinner in England las been
held. The beast was eighteen years old and thir-
teen hands high, and after being butchered was
served up TO a select company in n great variety
of modes of cooking. IL was pronounced excel
lent food. fine in texture, tender in quality and
unimpeachablc in flavor, with such n remarkable
resemblance To beef that it would be difficult 20
tell the difference between the two. Ii was fur
Their pronounced TO be thoroughly wholesome,
nutritious and satisfying-which If more than can
be said for some other sorts Of popular flesh. 1t
can also be procured al n cheap price, which is
another great advantage in England, the land of
dear meat. KS 10 the moral justice of eating
horse. one of the guests argued tina. if the horse
Is really the friend of man, eating him seemed the
most innocent way of living upon ones friend.
TIE BIBLE.-The bible is mainly of value to us
rs it reveals to Us n redeciner. That preaching is
the best that exhibits and recommends Christ
Jesus. Prayer is eiicacious in its highest degree
when it is a means of reaching Christ. The cup
that is used at the Congress Spring is only valua-
bic as an instrument for bringing the water 20 the
thirsty lips, no matter whether 1t be n rustic
gourd or a silver tankard but the cup alone and
is a hollow mockery. So is preaching or
an empty cup, unless it brings Jesus to
the needy soul. 1t is not the cup that saves, but
the water it contains. The superstitious ritualist
~worships the cup the fanatic who despises all
gospel ordinances filings it away; but the man
who would be saved must use the channel of mer-
cy-whether it be the bible, the sermon, or the
prayer-for the inhowing of Christ Jesus into his
soul.
The British have been greatly exercised of late
by the reflection that, in the event of war, all
their trans-continental telegraphic communication
with India might be interrupted and are casting
to remedy the evil. Two new telegraph
have already issued prospectuses to
capital for direct and independent lines from
England TO India; one OF these is seeking n gov
eminent guarantee on the required capital, and
probably obtain it. As it is now, the Brit
.sh Government has no control over the sending
IF it's dispatches 10 India, and they 20 like ordi-
nary business dispatches, subject to the same
In AsiatIc Turkey, more particularly,
the Geographic system is in such exceedingly poor
that Ali Pasha has been vigorously
to remedy it. But whichever of
the two great alternative lines-the Russian or
the Turkish-is adopted, it is clear that any
inc crossing Europe is liable to interruption
iuring war. \ sea line is now proposed from
Falmouth, ria Gibralter and Malta, and aiming
20 touch only English possessions in European
Taking everything into view, it seems
probable that some scheme of direct communica-
ion between England and India will be pushed
and it's completion will make an era in
he art of telegraphy.