The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-05-14
Late Telegraphic Items.

Late Telegraphic Items.
Odds are offered that Prince Arthur will bc
King of Canada.
Advices from San Domingo state that the priest
hood are the chief opponents of annexation.
An excursion of clergymen to San Francisco is
being arranged for the summer. embracing al
who desire to go at ha~lf-rates. They will proba
bly, leave Chicago some time in June.
On taking up the Tariff bill in Congress McCar.
thy spoke in favor of the tariff, but desired Il re-
duction in the duties on tea, coffee and sugar
Much argument was devoted to the question in
favor of protection to home articles.
The Committee on Foreign Relations held a
special meeting lately to consider the San Domingo
treaty. Gen. Babcock explained the provisions
and circumstances attending the negotiation of the
treaty.
Who now is safe? a Pennsylvania felon has re.
ceived the unprecedented sentence of q months
imprisonment for stealing an umbrella.
Intelligence has been received of the death OF
Mrs. Nellie Parmlee, wife of Rev. NJ. L. P3rmlee, a
missionary of the American Board, ats1rzroom
Turkey.
The first edition of Dickens new novel is to
consist of 10000 copies.
E. S. Davenport is playing a very successful en-
gagemcn at Pittsburgh.
The Empress of the French smokes often ten
cigarettes IN the course of the day.
Victor Hugo derives every year a copyright OF
neaIly $l0, 900 from the sale of his old novels in
France.
The Bowdoin Bank robbers are still negotiating
for their deliveTance from the Maine State Prison
at Thomaston. They have offered to restore Slh
The subscriptions for the family of Secretary
Stanton now amount to $50, 600. OF this sum
$50, geo is contributed by New York, 1855, 900 by
SIS. 900 by persons in Washington. Various
methods of investing it, paying from 4 to 6 pei
cent are proposed.
The Boston Commonwealth says: "John Bright
intended to visit our country soon after the surren,
der of Gen. Lee, and had resolved to come. Wise
friends persuaded him 10 defer his visit. He &C
coded to their request. as they were Americans
and his personal friends. But if he lives Ions
enough to shape the Government of England, anC
retain a moderate share of health, John Bright il
certain to tread the sanctifed soil of our redeemed
Republic"
An old lady in Alabama, not long ago, agreed
to dispose of her estate to a young man, at heI
death. for $4,000, and the young man Immediately
insured her lille for his benefit for that amount
She died in a short time, whereupon he collected
the policy and paid for the property.
A Western journal tells how a drunkard was
found lying in the street among hacks and drays
&" with a small innocent lad feeling ia his vest
pocket to find a few pennies to keep his poor father
from starving to death"
In Great Britain, soldiers join the army, when
they first enlist. for a period of ten wears. AT the
end of that time they are allowed, if they please,
to re-engage themselves for another term Of eleven
years, and when this is completed they become en-
titled to a pension.
Fitch. of Nevada, has delivered an able and
eloquent speech on the Cuban question, and made
a mastery %argumen and an earnest appeal in be-
half of the recognition of Cuban belligerent rights,
if not of Cuban MISUNDERSTANDING to the
minds Of many that such action on our part would
be fully justified by New World historical prece-
dents, by instructive sympathy and by policy, if
not by the absence of international law precedents.
The law of nations has never proved q barrier to
European nations when adverse to their interests.
The Monroe doctrine Is good enough. but IL is time
another be enunciated and it is only a step fur.
ther-a logical step-to say that the United States
will not permit any European Government to deny
republican Institutions to any people on this con-
tinent. or the contiguous islands, who may desire
their establishment AS to the alabama claims,
we should withdraw them. and. taking advantage
of the precedent, cripple England's commerce
when she wars with another nation. and repair orr
own by the same methods she used to destroy ours.
AS to Spain, we owe her no obligations. but have
suffered at her hands a list of indignities which
should insure not our friendship but our enmity.
WINE AND ELECTMCITY.-Lsst year a wine-cellar
in Europe was struck by lightning, and some casks
of very poor wine were found to be very much
better for the electrical visitation. NJ. Scoutetten
was thus led to investigate the action of electricity
upon wines, and he gives the results of his re-
searches In a late number Of Complies Rendus.
His experiments were made on a large scale, and
with various sources of electricity, and the conclu-
sion to which he comes is, that electricity. under
whatever form applied, (whetber as a regular cur
rent, or a succession of discharges accompanied
by sparks). improves wine, rendering it mellow
and mature.
An EMIGRATION SCHEME.-The Northern Pacific
Railroad has a vast emigration scheme on foot.
They have a land grant equivalent TO a strip of
land twenty miles wide from the head of Lake
Superior to the Pacific Ocean. To stimulate emf
grafton to these lands, and TO secure labor to build
their road. the company have organized the grand
est scheme of emigration ever devised, and they
propose to send Senator Schurz, ex-Secretary
McCulloch. and Ex-Governor Marshall to Europe
to stimulate the desired emigration. They propose
to offer the emigrant abundant employment in
building the road for the first year or two after his
arrival. Then when he has finished his work for
the company be is to have a farm of 40, so. or 100
acres, with a neat frame dwelling house ready
erected thereon. and a lot of reasonable size fenced
in. all at the expense of the company. The terms
of payment are so long. and on 80 low interest.
that they cannot prove a burden to the poorest.
1t is expected that the surplus wages received for
constructing the road will stock the farm and pro-
vide the tools, so that every person employed in
the construction of the road may, as soon as it is
finished, go to raising the crops, which II will
bring to market. The company will manufacture
the houses, by the thousand. exactly alike.
BY the plan thus devised. labor for the road is
secured and a population on the line of the road to
furnish it business. The idea is novel and signl-
cant, and if eHectuaily carried out will bring
wealth and development to an immense portion o.
the Northwest.
The Boston Advertiser states that private letters
from San Domingo are filled with warnings against
the proposed purchase of that republic, and repre-