The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-23
PUBLISHED AND EDITED By
HENRY VI. WHIT NEE.

graphical outposts Of the world, farthest from
the great natural centres Of population and of
wealth.
The decadence Of England as q political power,
already far advanced, Is therefore likely to be
followed by the decay of her commercial power.
The greatest developments Of trade are hereafter
almost certainly to take place in the natural
centres of the world, in the regions which first
developed man into his highest attainments as
reasoning, feeling. active being Florence, Rome,
Athens, ConstantinoPle, Smyrna, Cairo. Mecca,
even the valleys of the Tgrs and Of the Euphrates
now replaced in the very current ana focus of
civilization. The process of reviving their dead
industrial life will doubtless be slow, perhaps
secular but the same great forces Of which the
withdrawal has broken down the domination Of
these regions, are turned upon them for
their rehabilitation. Some of the cities just
mentioned to become the commercial centres
of the future. 1t is not an improbable supposi-
tiOn that COnstantinOple may again become what
she was in the fourth and fifth centuries, the
capital OF the world. She is far more fayorably
placed for distancing other capitals in the race
than any American city.
But though the construction of the Darien
such great results as those which the Suez Canal
will develop, yet it will foster commercial
tivity second only to that which have indicated.
IL will profoundly effect England, America, and
the Pacific. The Darien Canal will create
commerce, first, between the nations of Western
Europe and those Of Western America, both
North and South second, between those of
Eastern and Western America herself: third; be-
tween those of Eastern America and the Pacific
Colonies; and fourth, between the nations of
Eastern America and Japan and China. In the last
case, some competition of routes may be expected
from the Suez Canal. One of the most impOr-
tant results Of these new developments will be to
unite Great Britain in stronger ties Of business
interest than even before with the United States,
and TO favor that unifcation of the Anglo-SaxOn
races which, according 10 my friend Mr.. \. II.
Louis of the English bar, is to be the next phase
of consolidation among the empires of the world.
The Hawaiian Islands, too, cannot fail to be
gamers by the construction of this canal.
Such is brief outline Of the probable changes
which the Sucz and Darien Canals are TO create
in the world. The work of the suez Canal is to
rejuviRate the Old World; that of the Darien
Canal, to unity the Anglo-Saxon races and to de-
velop the antipodes-
But it is less the business of your correspond
ent to treat of the future than of the present
condition of things. very pleasant anniversary
was celebrated recently by party, of which the
writer one, at the parlors of the " Woman's
Bureau - in Twenty-Third street. 1t was Miss
Susan Anthony's fiftieth birthday; the maiden
reformer was not ashamed to acknowledge the
half-centUry; and the occasion somewhat
notable for the gathering of wOmen-agitators
that it brought together. Mrs. Stanton not
there, having been quite worn out by the fatigues
of recent lecturing-tOur in the vast plains of
the West. She made So 600 in two months.
" 1t is a novel Sensaton,' said Miss Anthony to
me, IS to find that any of us can make money"
But eminent guests were not wanting. Among
them / noticed Mrs. DIR. LOzier, who makes
100000 per year In the practice of medicine;
Mrs. Theodore TiluOn, with her dolls face and
curls Mrs. Lille DeVereux Blake, with flower
star in her dark hair, darting keen gances out Of
her restless eyes; Mrs. Ames, the scuptress;
Mrs. l. Beecher Hooker, one of the loveiest of
strong-minded women; and Miss Phoebe Cary,
the poetess, who brought with her the contribu-
tion of a humorous birthday poem. There were
readings of congratulatory letters and poems,
Miss Anthony. and ice-cream was absorbed; the
affair had all the air of family party, but for
the presence of two reporters who strolled around
pencil in hand, noting down the happy thoughts
of the evening and describing the ladies dresses
was greatly impressed with the superior physique
of those good women. There was hardly an
undersized figure among them and could hardly
realize, in spite of the familiar language and the
familiar faces, that it was an American company
To be strong-minded is, as a rule, to be strong
bodied also.
Apropos of women's rights, the lady students
at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in this
city have lately been subjected to frequent insults
from the male students To prevent such
daIous conduct in future, the Warden of the
hospital has ordered the arrest of any student
who shall in future annoy the lady students in
the lecture rooms.
St. Valentines day signalzed among US by
the transmission of 20 900 valentines through the
city Post-office. The number of these tender
missives last year was but Is ,OOO,-an indication
that the festival of sentiment is gaining rather
than losing prestige. But its celebration is
fined almost entirely to our foreign population.
The PatlandeFs are the chief devotees at the
shrine of this saint.
In art we have Just had the sale of the great
Thompson collection of paintings to interest as
5000 bad pictures sold for quite much they
were worth. The second exhibition of the
80 'Watereolor Society at the Academy of Design
is open, and redeems in part the inferior quality
of the oil-paintings already displayed upon the
came walls. CALANUS.