The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-02

The cotton crop of 1869, it is asserted, is 30 tar
advanced that it may be safely estimated at
1000 600 bales-half q million more than last
year. On the supposition that this crop yieius
the planters 25 cents per pound. ut VII! DrinS
them in legal-tenders $500, 900 600, which Is
more than they received for the largest crop ever
grown.
The iron steamer Let Her B, which was cap
tured during the war in an attempt to supply the
Rebels with munitions of war, and subsequently
condemned and sold as n lawful prize, was pur-
chased by n Canadian company, who had cut her
in two, and then passed the parts through the
Welland Canal, after which she was rented, ana
became one Of the swiftest and commodlous
steamers on the lakes. She is now named en-
cora. and runs weekly from Collingwood, Ontario,
touching at Saul and at Marquette, Michigan
thence proceeding across Lake superior to Fort
William, Canada, and is said to run at the rate
of 20 miles an hour.
A QUESTION OF Court ErIoUErTE.-A question
of precedence in Court ceremonials has been de-
cided by Queen Victoria, to whom was referred
the dispute between the daughters OF Musurus, the
Turkish Ambassador. and the wife OF Baron
Bulow, the Minister from Denmark. AS to the
two gentlemen there was no doubt that hiusur!s
had the precedence, but could he extend his
privilege to his daughters Queen Victoria,
after grave consideration, has decided that the
wife of the Danish Minister is superior In rank
to the daughters of the Turkish Ambassador. No
reasons have been given for the decision, but the
OuI Jun Eof ltC1ha
8 : age before beauty ~ governs the point OF dispute.
Questions like this, in old times, exhausted the
strength and ingenuity of diplomatists, and 1T is
even asserted that SO modern a statesman as
Guizot would have filled reams OF paper with the
arguments pro and con. To add to the difficulty
of the situation, Queen Victoria had to settle a
dispute between a number of excited ladies, and 1t
is suggested that many a sovereign would have
preferred to enter into q conference like those at
Tilsit or Villa-Franca.
HENRY KEEP.-A remarkable career has just
been closed in the death of the late President OF
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Its lesson
is one that will long live i'm the annals OF our
great railway fnanciers. The poor founding of
of a rural poor-house in Central New York, with
the secret of his birth never solved then a bound
boy under q hinty-hearted farmer and, then
through such an unpromising rift, and opening
upon life too obscure and worthless to be followed
by those all too willing to get rid OF him, the
forlorn little scarecrowr rushed into lifealone. Could
anything be more unpromising? Put your W
petted bright-eyed, well clad boy beside him in
this picture, and say which shall surest mount
the shining sleeps that are known as success in
life. The poor little astray began life for himself
by leading, or riding horses on the Erie Canal.
He helped drovers in odd jobs of herding and
driving cattle. He was always busy and keen for
u mere youth in buying Canada scrip and con-
verting it. His hands and feet once on the ladder
he climbed strongly and rapidly into his place as
a broker, banker, fnancier until he came to con-
troll millions and to be mighty in stock circles.
Dying at the head Of one of the greatest Ameri-
can railway corporations, he has shown by his
life a remarkable instance OF triumph over OBJ
stacles of birth and early surroundings.-Chicago
Republican.