The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-12-19

The BoU Htt Ga-sat SAYS: One more Christian
sect las arisen within the Russian dofEinons. viz !:
at Sarapnl. It's adher-nts woHld seem Ia Dr.
ncists pure aud simple. They acknowledge a
Divine Being. but have abolished every other
dogma and every token and sign of religious belief
Whatsoever, such as prayer, church. saints, etc,
The local authorities found the slsclycs Obliged tai
inprison the heads of this ncw zcot wIercnpou
the whole community begged 10 he imprisoned
likewise 4 desire with which the Government
complied a. long as there was any rocsrf left i'm the
prisons of the place. The superior authorities them
took the matter IN hand and. having failed in ALI
their endeayors To bring these fanatics of albr-
lict back into the fold Of the church. they fried
other and more forcible means IL reEiains
doubtful Of what nature these were but az any
ratc they proved very successful about fifty of the
spiritual heads OF the heresy are still in prison.
however. stcadfistly refusing to enter into any
conversation in regard 20 their creed"
INTENSE HEAr IN INDtA-Ye stcrlay was the hot
test of the season, thus far-l05 degrees in the
shade. 100 degrees in the sun-weathsr likely to-
last through the month. In such an atmosphere
there Is n great shriveling of all things capable III
shrinking. Wood work of houses, furniture. car
riages, everything exposed To the sun-contraets
maryelously. The coachmen and carriers wind the
spokes of their wheels with straw. which they wet
from time TO time-watering their carriages as we'll
as their borses. My hat, which was large enough,
in the morning, was two sizes too small at night.
and had / not soaked it with water before leaving
the train would have been compelled TO ride mp TOT
the hotel bareEeaded. The wind which swceps
over the plain is like the hot breath OF a blast fur
a"St IA st Nun itttilti II DhtiS Dftcttfr itiEnN
in time the whitest skin To bronze. An English
gentleman, who sits upon the other side Of The Ia
BILE as | write-a civil engincer-who has been ex-
posed to the sun for nine years. has lost all his
English complexIon-the horid has disappeared
not a trace of old England left, so far as color il
concerned he might be set down. if we judged
from color alone, as a halt-blooded Hindoo.-" Car
tetOn," IN Boston JOtosad.
AN EXCITING OCEAN RAcE-We have before us
an abstract of the log OF ship y. Il. Palmer, Capt.
Charles i. Low. n well-kGown and respected resi-
dent of Brooklyn. This vessel is one of the sw 1T.
est and surest in the Chinese tea service of A. A.
in its way an interesting document. The report
states that the ship had an unusual arnoHni of rough
weather and battling winds. The time of this feat
Is set forth as follows:
Passage from New York to the line. &c days.
Passage from line to the Cape, 20 days.
Passage from Cape to Java Head, 20 days.
Passage from Java Head to Pilot Ground, IL
days.
Total, 90 days.
What renders this passage yet more remarkable
Is the fact of a stern ocean race which Is carried on
Tor many days with two similar and similarly
bound vessels. On the log for the fifteenth day we
Ind the entry. At noon made n ship ahead"
The next day, " Gnaecock two miles ahead"
Next day, " Gd1necOck two miles astern.n Next.
GdnecOck four miles astern.r The next. =. Game
cock close to us" 1t drops again four miles astern
the following day. And for the twenty-six days
the entry is " Gdmecock out of sight astern."
Again. toward the end of the long stretch the name
Of the GdhRecOcE reappeaTs on the log. 1t is need
TO describe the similar episode between the
Palmer and the Golden State. Both of these COM
peting vesseles had about four days the start of the
Palmer from New York, and the latter passed
Anglers thirteen hours after the Golden State and
Tour hours of the Gdmecock; or. according to the
before us. "a Gdnec0ck beaten four
days from New York to Hongkong Golden State,
three days and twelve hours to Anglers
TINS race Is OF interest not so much for the abso-
lutte time achieved as for the c.oseness, the length
md the excitement of the contest-Brookiy. Union.
October l2h.