The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-05-02
LATE NEWS.
Late California Items

Late California Items.
The Pacific Mail Company will hereafter run four
steamers mon,hly-on the lst, 9th. 10th and oath
from New York. The Opposition are also expected
to increase the number of their trips.
The SUNDAY LAw.-Thef failure of the bill repeal
ing the Sunday law in the California Assembly, and
the refusal of the Senate to take up an Assembly
amendatory Act opening the theatres, makes 1t GER
tain that for two years longer there will be no
change in the statute concerning the secular obSer-
vance of Sunday. This result viii be satisfactory
to a great majority of the people. and it in1icts no
hardship or Inconvenience on anyiclass. E
The PROGRESS OF THE SEAwALI--For seven
months the contractors for the length of seawall be-
tween Vallejo and Union streets, San Francisco,
have been working steadily away. The embank-
ment has nUw reached its full length, and is 600
feet by as feet wide. The main job was finished on
Thursday week last, but some few loads were add
ed on Monday last. 1t still, however, wants many
thousand loads to raise it to the Front street grade.
THE BUBBLE URST.-Homestead lots or outside
property in San Francisco has fallen one-half with
in a month. Real estate there was Inflated beyond
all reasonable bounds, and the consequence was
that poor men could not obtain a place for a home.
and the speculation went to swell the pockets OF
spectators. Now Il mechanic NAV And a chance to
procure a small piece of sand hill for a sum within
his means; whereas before it was out of the ques-
ton. F :
New ISTHMUs STEAMSHIP
Pacific Mail Steamship Company announce that at
ter the 9Th of April they will increase their service
between this port and New York by way OF Pana-
ma, to four trips a month. instead of three. This
arrangement was expected as IA result OF the great
increase of business. especially in the line of
freight. The late report of President McLane
showed that the freight business had increased from
a tonnage of 1914 in 1861, to 60.l34 in 1867;
while the passenger traffic bad Increased In the
same period from ~, SOC to 1887. the figures for
1867 being exclusive of the traffic on the China
line. The gross receipts of the Company advanced
from S2,792.4S9 in 1861 to $7,l5l,352 in 1867.
There is every reason to expect a continued growth
of buSineSS For some time mast freight has fire.
quently been kept standing over, and there are ev-
licences of Il heavy passenger traffic from the East
ern side. Thus. 1T is necessary to increase the
trips. aud the announcement OF such an intention
will he gratifying to the business community.
While the new arrangement will afford greater IA
cilities for the Isthmus trade, it must also have the
effect to abolish the burdensOme custom of Observ-
ing every steamer day as a day of settlement. A
great deal of time is lost and much trouble caused
by having three settlement days in a month, and an
additional one is not to be thought OF. The steam
er day settlements originated when there was no
telegraphic and land mail communication with the
East, and when there was only one steamer depart
ure a month. Business men will probably find it
to their advantage now to return To the once-a-
month rule. With the Opposition steamers. San
Francisco will henceforth have at least six steam
ers a month running to and from the isthmus. One
advantage of the increased frequency of the old
line trips will be the reader connection with the
China steamers. The steamer traffic of the port is
steadily gaining.-BaNetin
Late Foreign Items.
CHICAGO. March 25.-The Tri5tnse's special says
negotiations concerning the rights of naturalized
citizens have been In active progress with England
for some months past. Steps have recently been
taken to expedite framing Il treaty. The State De
partment believes that IA treaty quite as favorable
as that with Prussia Will receive the assent OF the
English authorities.
1t is said when the impeachment is over the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs will report in favor
of the appropriation for the ~pnschase Of Alaska.
1t is understood the Committee of Ways and
NIa.a- l,-A arr,r.a nf thA atnc that thu full
amount of revenue required for carrying on the
Government can be raised in the following manner:
Distilled spirits. $4,000 ,000; incomes, $50. 000-
900; tobacco, $50. 900, 900; stamp duties, % 900. 1000.
This is about 81, 0O0, 900 in excess of the amount
required.
The prospect of the passage of the Alaska appro-
priation is favorable.
RICHMOND. March 29.-The United States Grand
Jury has found a new Indictment against JEFF. Davis.
1t details all his offences prior to the commence
ment of the rebellion. and covers 80 pages.
Specials from Havana state that three strong
shocks of earthquake were recently felt at ST. Thomas.
Awful shocks of earthquake We're felt at Porto
Rico, and the inhabitants were fleeing the place for
safety.
Astronomers in Europe are making preparations
to observe the eclipse of the sun in 1868. which is
expected to be of especial interest a station has
been selected by the English Swans in the IIimala-
va mountains at an elevation of 1000 feet. where. it
is hoped, they will be above the interference of
clouds.
The wages of fou- prominent Europeans are as
follows: Louis Napoleon. Sl3.24O a day Queen
Victoria, S6,027; Francis Joseph, SO, $50; and the
King OF Prussia, SS,2l0.
THF EXCISE LAW IN NEW YoRK.-This law pre-
vents saloons from being opened on a Sunday In
the New York Corporation Manual for 1867, Com
missioner Acton defends this law by statistical ia
bles of arrests made on Sundays and Tuesdays in
eleven months of last year. In November there
We're four Sundays and four Tuesdays the arrests
of these days respectively numbered lS6 40l, and
the case was the same throughout the year. In the
thirteen months during which the law has been in
operation the arrests on Tuesdays number 6.02l;
those made~on Sundays number 2.5l4. Before the
enactment of the law the Sunday arrests always ey-
ceeded those on Tuesday.
The v. Y. Tr7ne,e says: Impeachment is the
peaceful and lawful means provided by our CORsti-
tuition to remove from office Incompetent rulers.
despots and tyrantS who would defy the law and
override the Legislature. In absolute mouarchies
the power of the Executive is limited only by assas-
sinatinn and revolution. Take away from repub-
tic the power to irnpeach an intolerant ruler. and
we would be compelled either IN submit In his alb
solule despotiSm ar to remove him By the monarch