The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-02-08
Foreign N isceIlany.

GEN. GRAST.-The testimony of General Grant
before the j Judiciary Committee has been published
Gram Is satisfied that Johnson's policy in creating
Provisional Governments for the Southern States
Il identical with thc policy decided on by Presi-
dent Lincoln before his murder; but this Lincoln
understood to be only temporary, to lasi al the
meeting Of Congress Grant Was anxious Tor
some form of civil Government to be adopted
lie thought Jolmson's plan gOOdenough for tempo
nary oyeHtiOn, but never recommended universal
amnesty; Rad recommended the pardon of Lee,
johnson, LOngstreet, and other rebel Generals
The President wanted to arrest the rebel Generals
for treason, but Grant insisted that their parole
protected them from all mOlesiation till they yio-
lated the terms OF parole. This don't apply 10
Davis, who did not give his parole.
CrnA.-After the denial Ofthe report that Spain
had offered % sell US Cuba and Port Rico. IL Is now
stated that our Minister nj Madrid is negotiating
for them. with n fair prospect OF success. This IL
about the way rumurs ran in regard 10 the sale of
~. Thomas, any thought of which was only a few
months ago authoritatiycly denied. We have
little doubt that If "A treaty has not been already
negotiated for the purchase Of the Spanish Wet
Iniies, that one shortly will be, unless Congress
should in the meantime decisiyely announce lite
determination not 10 indOrse such n purchase.
\ woman in st. Louis, named Meyers disgusted
with lie On account of ill-treatment from her hus-
band, determined to commit suicide by shooting
herself with n cannon ball, which had been around
the house for some time, n relic from |icksburg.
Not exactly understanding the science of gunnery,
sbc got n ualf dollars worth of powder, placed IL
On a plate ON the floor, piled the ball upon the
powder, Eat down upon it, and touched n match to
tl'e explosive, fondly expected instant death from
the fatal ball. IL did not go OF, however,
although tire powder did; and she j. suffering from
painful and dangerous burns.
RErUnLIcAx PAPERS SorTH.-The Washington
republican has tie annexed:
Seven years ago there was not n thorough Re-
publican paper south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Now there are in the unrcconstruc;ed States alone
over one hundred such newspapers, dailics and
weekhes- They are edited by gifted and thorough
radicals, several of them being conducted by col
ored men, Every one of these organs is devoted to
popular education and To the Development Of the
inexhnustihlc resources of n region heretofore
almost entirely given up To the cultivation of two
or three staples, the profits of which were used tn
increase the political influence of n few and tn add
To the political degradation OF the many. hen
IL IT, rccollected that the must of these newspapers
have been established since the passage Of the
Acts of reconstruction, We have not only an addi-
tiOnal argument in favor of that wholesome legis-
!auOn, but an additional argument against the
tyranny which seeks To Obstruct and destroy 1t.
Tue Social Evm-"-TheN New York Lndepen-
DENT, treating of what it calls =. The Blackness of
Darkness, . declares =. The true remedy for the
social evil. is not in Il license system, nor in tho
Bard Of Health, nor in the excise law, nor in
anything under heaven except in n multiplication
of hOI orable and profitable employment for dcpen-
dent women If the thousands of prostitutes of
this city had originally had n fair chance of earn
ing a livelihood 10y n decent trade, not five
hundred of the whole number would have set their
feet ia the path OF shame. Awful. horrible, tragic
Is the responsibility which justly rests ON those
respectable men and wOmcn-clergymen and
church members ,-who create and maintain Il
public opinion that denies 20 women nearly aMl the
opportunities which; it accords to men for earning
ones daly bread"