The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-11-13
N NEWS.
Late American News.

Wall street paDlc Is the aliegeu idct 'pas 0"he'
Fiske, Jr., made millions by the operation.
Archbishop Alemany refused the Romish Church
rites of burial to the remains OF the late consul
Godoy of Mexico. to the great indignation OF the
| Mexican population of San Francisco. n frotest-
ant minister oficiated at the funeral.
1t is supposed that 10000 persons visited the
Louisville Commercial Convention.
THE HOTEL TRAIN FOR New YoRK.-Arrange-
mcnts have been made for a regular hotel train of
Pollman cars, to leave Alameda, daily. for New
York. They will 60 through from ocean to ocean
in Sd days, and will reach Promontory in thirty
three hours. The first train OF this character lett
yesterday.
Universal amnesty and universal suffrage, free
schools. free press and free speech, with the re-
moval of the disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth
Amendment and the ratification OF the Fifteenth
| Amendment, are the principal planks Ill the Repuo-
licaD platform of Mississippi.
Steadily and surely an honest and energetic
administration is reducing the public debt. Mr..
! Boutwelrs report for September shows a diminu-
ton during the month of S7.461 1889, and since
March /, 1863, of S56, 96s, 1890. The amount of
coin in the Treasury is about one hundred and
nine millions.
1t is said that a leading Senator will next winter
introduce q bill Furnishing with heavy fines any
person who shall engage in buying and selling
gold and not deliver the actual coin tor each trans
action. The recent Wall street disgrace will I'M
doubtedly lead to early Legislation on gold gam
bling.
Passengers on the Chilean and Panama steamer,
who came upon her last voyage, report that when
OH CallaO. there occurred an earthquake Ol SUCH
violence as to throw down a high hill in sight.
On the goth. 2lst and 24th of August there were
heavy shocks at Callao. Araqnipa and Lima
Mrs. Beecher Stowe gives notice that she is about
TO resume the Byron affair, and will shortly pub
lish a review of the whole matter. bracIng up the
original charge and leaving M doubt OF the perfect
sanity of Lady Byron at the time she furnished
the damaging statements against the poet and his
sister.
There were 3sI SEQ bathers in the Boston public
baths in August, an increase of 10l ,93l over the
same month last year. OF this number $500
were women and girls.
Judge Orr is gaining credit for an able, upright,
and industrious discharge OF his Judicial duties in
South Carolina.
Ida Lewis is Frustrated by continual visitations
from Newport, and the doctor forbldS her seeing
strangers for the present.
Thomas Ii. Selby, Mayor elect, at San Francisco,
was once in the employ of A. L. Stewart.
In a conversation had with President Grant
recently, he assured Governor Geary that at the
end of the first year of his Administration the
public debt would show a decrease of $l25, O00. 1000.
In San Francisco, October 4th, Frances Mayer
disappeared from home. leaving a letter behind
her, stating that they need not look for her as she
had determined to enter q convent. She was
raised to the Jewish faith. was twenty-five years
old, and her action has created a sensation amongst
we'll known and greatly respected. The police are
endeavOring to obtain some clue to her where
abouts. zas -= Far-
A heavy storm and tidal wave in the Bay of
Il uiuS uQ itiihCiSC udfudkC W pfOPCity Ia tHut
section of British America. 1t appears to have
been the point of elimination of the late frightfnl
rain storms which swept over the United States
from Maine to Virginia, and from the Atlantic to
the head of the Mississippi. Eastport (Me) is
reported as nearly altogether in ruins.
Joseph w. Briggs. Government Agent for the
free-letter-delivery system, has arrived in San
Francisco, for the purpose of putting the system in
operation in that city.
Virginia has ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, Mississippi and Texas must also rat
ify-making twenty-five States certain. But six
more States will then be wanting to make the
Fifteenth Amendment a part of the Constitution.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors refused
to allow the report of Chief Engineer Whitney to
be read at their last meeting. The Board regard
the report as insulting, inasmuch as Whitney
charged the members with having passed fraidn-
lent accounts and purchased worthless horses.
The Postmaster of New York. having several
applications for the use of the fence around the
City Hall Park, while the Postofice is building.
for bids. There were over a dozen
offers, ranging all the way from three hundred
dollars for the privilege of posting bills on the
fence for two years, to fifteen thousand dollars for
the right. The highest bid was accepted, and the
lessees will lay ont the fence into lots and arrange
a graduated scale of prices, according to location.
THE IsTHMus CANAL PRoJEcr-By the last mail
from New York reliable information was received
here to the effect that negotiations had again been
opened. this time at Washington. between the Gov
OF Colombia and that of the United States,
Tor the construction of an inter-oceanic ship canal
across the Isthmus. 1t is said that the treaty was
on the eve of being signed, that in some respects
is not so favorable to Colombia as that proposed
by Mr.. Gushing q year ago. but in others it is
better adapted to meet the views of the two gov
ernments, and it is believed it will be accepted by
both Republics.-Sdr.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAILROA IDS. all ac-
counts. work will shortly be commenced OH the
Diego and Gila Railroad. The Company have
sold largely of its bonds in Europe, and have
about 81 900. 1000 on hand with which to commence
operations. 1t Is expected that within a year the
will be running from San Diego to Fort
Yuma, a distance of l4O miles. The Memphis and
Paso Company, which has sixty miles of road
and ready for the iron, and forty more
under way, will connect at Fort Yuma with the
San Diego road. When these roads are completed.
may lock for a continuation of the Gilroy road
10 san Diego, making a continuous line along the
coast and across the continent.
MESSAGE OF Gov. SENTER.-Nashville October ~,
doV. Senter submitted a message to the Legisla-
lure to-day. 1t was an admirable and temperate
In favor OF his positions. and created n
impression, especially the portions dis
,ussing the Fifteenth Amendment and the public
iebt. The Governor declares that the time has
come for the removal of all inequality of privileges;
ne regards the acknowledgment of the colored peo-
pie a fixed fact in Tennessee. The right of suffrage
having already been conferred upon them. it is not
20 De supposed that 1t will be taken from them by
hose now in power. The Governor proceeds to
make a strong and elaborate argument in favor of
he adoption of the Fifteenth Amendments. declar-
ng that negroes are entitled to a voice in the cleo
ion OF those who make the laws they must equally
,bey. He says much may depend on the action Of
tennessee with regard to the time and conditions of
he restoration of other Southern States. On the
nbject of finances, Gov. Senter expresses gratitude
or the entire unanimity which the Legislature
displays in favor of an honest and complete pay
nent OF the public debt. He speaks hopefully of
he financial future of Tennessee recommend
to promote immigration ; approves the
Common school, system ommend the State chart
able institutions to the attention of the Legislature.
he message has produced an excellent effect. and
ffords no cause for schism between the Governor
nd the Legislature.
Loss OF THE AMERICAN SHIP DREADNouGHr-Tbe
aiparalso MercuriO, of September Sd, publishes
be following particulars of the loss of the Amer;-
an ship Dreadnought on the 4th July last. bound
rom Liverpool to San Francisco =:
The steamer Bio Bio has brought to this port
,aptaln FL n. Mayhem and part of the officers of
ne American ship Dreddnouqhd. Of San Erancisco.