The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-08-06
OF THE
MAIL C K COMET"
War Declared by France against
Prussia.
THE ARMIES MOVING TO THE
FRONTIER.

passage hlther of 13 days from San francisco, the
mails were delivered on Saturday morning last.
AS was generally anticipated, France has de-
clared war against Prussia, and at the latest advices
was marching her forces to the Rhine. We give
full details below:
San Francisco News.
The free postal delivery of San Francisco makes
the following showing for the three months ending
June 30th Mail letters delivered, 1S5, l26 drop
letters delivered, 27,2TS; newspapers delivered,
81 .464 letters collected, 1S6.347.
The Pacific Mail Company's steamship China,
arrived from China and Japan on the 18th of July,
with only 66l Chinese passengers. Recent reports
OF the Six Companies and merchants here to friends
in China. representing the labor market over
stocked, and much opposition among a portion of
the population of the United States to Chinese
immigration, have. had the effect to canse a sudden
cessation in the departure of Celestials for Cali
fornia. She brings over 16, 900 packages of tea. of
which 80 go to New York, in part overland also
80 packages of silk to go overland and 1870 pack
ages via Panama. She has IS cabin passengers, 67
United States sailors, and 81 Japanese.
The Government of China has addressed a cir
cular to foreign Powers, paying a tribute to the
memory of Burlingame. and awarded G.000 taels
to the widow for funeral expenses and 10000 to
herself as a private fund.
American News.
The President has nominated T. F. Freling-
huysen as Minister to England, Uice Motley, re-
called.
The Income tax is to be collected for two years
more at two and a half per cent, with 81, 900
exemption. and then cease forever.
WASHINGTON. July 12.-Rear Admiral Dahlgre1
died this morning of heart disease.
The Senate has authorized the President to
appoint "a Commission to make an exploration of
the Nicaragua and Tehuantepec routes for u ship
canal, and has appropriated $4,000 for that pur-
pose.
The War Department announces that the colored
cadet. Smith. is not badly treated at West Point, as
has been reported but a Court oil Inquiry is
ordered TO investigate the case.
At the Iron Moulders' Convention in Pbiladel-
phia. a resolution was adopted against forced
Chinese labor and against the importation of
coolies, and demanding the rigid enforcement of
the law of 1862 but they declared that voluntary
Chinese Immigrants should receive the protection
of the laws like other people.
Secretary Fish has consented to remain in the
Cabinet until the first of October. and he contem-
plates taking two months vacation after the ad-
journmen of Congress-.
Dorrance Atwater is nominated as Consul at
Tahiti Charles l.. Fisher. as Consular Marshal at
Nagasaki.
The Secretary of the Treasury will receive
sealed proposals until the 29th of July, for the
right to take furs upon the Islands of st. Paul and
st. George, in Alaska, for twenty years from July,
1870. The bids will be opened by the Secretary
of the Treasury in the presence of bidders or their
representatives.
The Orangemen celebrating the anniversary of
the battle of the Boyne. at Elm Park in New York,
July 18th, were attacked by a party OF 300 Irish
laborers, whose anger was reused by some express
sions of the Orangemen insulting to their nation
atty and faith. The assailants used stones and
implements with which they had been working.
The Orangemen defended themselves with pistols.
Thomas Grady was shot in the head and instantly
killed, as was also John Brady, IA years old also
one whose name is unknown. Four others. Patrick
Cairn, Thomas Murphy, Thomas Adams and
Smith, were fatally injured, and a large
number were seriously wounded.
The bill for a pension of $4,000 per annum to
Lincoln. passed.
The bill to encourage the building. of American
vessels and allowing registers to foreign built iron
ships, was discussed and tabled.
urOpean
The Ecumenical Council at Rome July 13, voted
in favor of Infallibility-ayes $50 noes, SO. So
that matter is settled.
MADRID, July 1.-THE Regency has returned its
declaration that the choice of Hobenzollern was
by no hostility to France.
The Impartial insists that the plan is to force
Prince Alfonzo upon the Spanish throne.
PARIS, July 12.-The informal reply of the King
of Prussia has been received. He consents to
from Prince Leopold his sanction to ac-
the Spanish throne but he claims to do this
as head of the family of Hohenzollern, and not as
King of Prussia. The French Cabinet intimates
accepted unless Leopold wlthdraws as a candidate
from the Throne of Spain. No peaceful solution is
now probable, unless France asks for a faithful
of the treaty OF Prague.
&HARIS, july IZ-lneJ JOURNALS PUBLISH the IOHOW-
ing details OF the Prussian movement received from
Ems The King of Prussia had several audiences
Baron Moltke. of the First Prussian Corps
i'Armee, who received orders to march to the for
tresses of the Rhine. The corps of Cassel, Hanover, !
and in the Elbe provinces are to be reinforced ina
nediately by 10000 troops, to be stationed on the
line of the Rhine.
BERLIN, July ia Paris correspondent of the
Cross Gazette says the Empress Eugenie is an inn
placable promoter of war to defeat the Hohenzol-
ern. She is as strong a partisan of Alfonzo as she
was OF the fatal undertaking of Macmillan in
Mexico.
New York, July IA special to the Herald
rom London says the French note to Prussia makes
Two demands-one for the disayowal of Prince
candidacy by Prussia the other for the
withdrawal of the Princes name in connection
with the Spanish Crown. Prussia's answer to
France is expected tomorrow.
The army at Paris has received orders to march
% the Moseile, and the transports at Toulon have
come up ready to sail for Algiers to bring back
sroops. The special guards are to constitute the