The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-04-04
FOREIGN NEWS.
American
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negotiate for a volcano.
Harpers Ba.ar has in six weeks achieved a cir
culation OF 100000.
Juarez's salary has been fixed at thirty thousand
dollars
The Brahmins regulate their appetite by a girdle
of a single straw. When il bursts they cease eating.
Mr.. BigeIow. the late Minister to France. is said
TO be preparing for the press a new edition OF Frank
Inns autobiography from the long lost manuscript,
which be is said TO have found in Paris.
The parties who backed the Quaker Cfy excur-
sion enterprise lost $4,000 by the scheme. Capt
Duncan was not pecuniarily interested.
The official vote Of New York at the recent cleo
ton has been published.-lt gives Mexican. Re-
publican. for Secretary of State. 325. 699 Nelson,
Democrat. 37S.O29 Nelson's Majority. 1880.
1t is said that Colonel Hoe. the lightning press
inventor. is fitting up u press to print on both sides
of a sheet AZ the same time. He will next invent a
press that will be run by electricity.
Upwards of a hundred thousand letters were sent
from the New York Post Office to Europe last week.
The number received from Europe during the same
time was siNty-tye thousand.
INCREASING WoRK-The American Board of For
eign Missions has appropriated FIVE hundred aud
twenty-five thousand dollars for the work in 1868.
The Board makes a call for sixty more missionaries.
and they talk OF needing one hundred. and fifty soon.
Within twelve DAYS from the time that the United
States flag was hoisted at Sitka, seventy Americans
had arrived there. who opened stores, drinking sa-
looms. &c. spirit OF speculation was developed
furs and provisions rose To San Francisco prices,
and the standard OF all business transactions were
AmeTicaniZed ut once.
The oldest Odd Fellow in the United States is
still living in Providence II. I,-Past Grand Benja-
min Dowling-at the age ofeight-three. He Joined
the Duke of York Lodge No. /, 1T Harwich, Eng
land, in 1907.
NEw PULPIT IN PLYMOUTH CHURcH.-A new pulpit
Church has been prepared for Beeeher's Plymouth
and Is TO be nsed soon. Ii is made of wood from
the Mount OF Olives. brought home by the late Dun
can expedition. aud consists of n standard on which
rests only 4 straight board. all carved and orna-
mented. and bearing a Hebrew Inscription and the
words. % Mount of Olives"
UP To DECEMBER 2. 1867, the actual progress in
tunneling the Hoosac mountain was 1.09S feet.
The distance through the mountain is 2 .O3l feet
(about a miles), and there consequently remains
IL .923 feet to- accomplish. The length of Mount
Gems tunnel through tine Alps will be 1891 feet
(more than 4 ] mi.es), ofwnieh 9.552 feet are already
bored.
BIG PAY.-It is said that Arson Burlingame,
American Minister to China. who resigned q little
while since to accept of Il Chinese embassy to the
civilized and Christian powers. is to have SIS. 200
per annum IS salary, with u large suite. and all eX-
pe1ses paid-and he can go whittier he will
The following terrific headlines surmount a call
in the Mobile Adrertiser, 10th inst. for a meeting
in 1.-The hall of Engine Co. No, T." in that city
Rally to Defeat the Internal Constitution of the
Montgomery Menagere."-"T the Field and Take
your Politics in your own Observation-Disclosures
must Rule Alabama, and not Negroes and Import
ed Adventures"
MXED-One item in the agreement between
Holiday and the Mexican Government is that he
agrees to furnish Mexico. within sixty days. a steam
er. in perfect condition for sea. armed with twelve
guns and supplied with proper qualities OF muskets
and small arms. This steamer is To do revenue
duty on the Pacific coaS- at present, but Is calculat-
ed for naval service in case of war. 1t is under
stood that the steamer Panama will be altered to
suit the requirements of the above contract.
The KING AND THE BARoNs-The struggle be-
tween President johnson and congress has not a
few features similar to those between the barons
and King John of England some $50 years ago
with this great difference, however. that while the
barons thought only of their own rights aud privi-
l-ges and cared not Il hg for those of the people,
Congress asks nothing Tor itself but all for the peo-
pie.
Many eolonists in British Columbia are anxious
for annexation To the United States. They are
agiiaiing the subject through the press and other
wise. and appear to be getting mp n popular feel
ing in its favor. Ii they come voluntariiy-if they
insist on coming-we had better take them, but We
should not do anything to coax them. We will get
them in any case time enough. They can't go any
where else and they will not hang by the skirts of
the mother country for ever-Cdl paper
THE UNIoN Pacific RAT.RoAD-Tbe Government
Commissioners for the Union Pacific Railroad have
reported to the Secretary of the Interior. that they
find the 10th section OF 80 miles of said road. com
mencing at the 5lOth mile-post and terminating at
the 54Oth mile-post west from the Omaha. well con-
structed and ready for immediate service, and
therefore recommended the acceptance OF the Sec
ton. The president of the United States has ac-
cepted the section, aud ordered the patents and
bond accruing by law To be issued to the Company.
The 54Uth mile post. where this section ends, is
Z .525 feet above tide-water.
Secretary McCulloch has written a letter TO a
Boston bank president. In which he says, that it is
rather doubtful what the financial policy of the
country will be. He says that although the inifa-
tionisis seemed to he in a majority at first. the
views Of Congress are now more moderate. md he
hopes that no action will be taken opposed to his
policy.
Grants nomination has acquired so great a
degree of fxedness in the public mind that its dis
cnssion is quiet: though paper alter paper, and
meeting after meeting. are giving II an endorsement.
more prominent subject III debate Is in regard
To the Vice President. a number of States has
offered n name. and New York has two. FrntOn and
Morgan. The former has so far the best chance,
not only at home but abroad. Several papers in
various parts of the West. hoist his name under
that of the I" Hero of the AppOInatiox Apple Tree"
Washington specials say Thurman, Senator elect
from Ohio, made a speech to a large party. He
the representative body in the National Legis-
lature were but a fraction of the American people.
and contended that until all the States were repre-
sented in Congress no republican form oi Cover
nent could exist.
TALIAHASsEE. Feb. The Alabama Convention
passed to-day to second reading the Constitution,
which was accepted as a whole. Forty members
signed the Constitution. Five refused. An ordin-
lnce passed Withholding pay from the members VINO
refused TO sign. !,
The Constitutional Convention has adjourned.
md the Constitution was adopted. 1t appears to
be satisfactory to all classes, and the best Of feeling
prevails among the delegates and citizens.
The Republican Convention made the follow
Iny nominations: For Governor, Harrison Reid
Lieutenant Governor. Vim. ii. Gleason Member of
C. NJ. Hamilton. Six delegates were APP
pointed To the Chicago National Convention, and
Presidential Electors were nominated. !
CHICAGO. March 2-Washington specials say the
has began To prepare for trial. His
friends announced that lac has decided upon retain
ny Charles OConor, David Dudley Field. Caleb 5
Vim. Ticknor Curtis. and Vim. VI. Evarts.
~ counsel. 1t Is i~ntimated that Mr.. Evarts was re- {
aimed because he controls a very large Republican
influence in New York which can be brought TO {
on leading Republicans and bring them in- I
Iirectly 10 snnnort the President. Ii is also given