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

l. SliOI Is OtIuR idU ny II hzh Nh"AN P"hE y
in England, under the leadership of the Bishop of
Oxford, to have a new translation of the Bible,
made by authority of the crown. Lord SALISBURY,
President of the British and Foreign Bible Society,
has written a letter against the proposed revision,
on the ground of the difficulties of the undertaking,
and the renervation and affection with which the
present version is regarded by all classes.
The Scientific american predicts that, in less than
20 years. illustrations will be as common a feature
of daily newspapers, as market reports now are.
The engraving art is being carried to such perlec-
ton, and engravings are now executed with such
despatch that it will be no difficult undertaking to
illustrate any great event or accident the day after
its occurrence. Some genius, possessed OF the
requisite capital and talent, and thIrstlng TOR fame,
will ere long undertake the novel enterprise, and
furnish 10 the million a two-cent illustrated daily.
Gilmore, of Jubilee fame. intends soon to perform
another deed of dreadful note. He is going to get
up at the - Hub " OF the Universe a second monster
concert which in all particulars shall be still more
monstrOus than the former one. Already he has
promised that the artillery and the anvils and the
red shirted men of muscle shall be there. but be-
yOnd ali this he has Il grand force in reserve with
which to ast0nish humanity on the occasion of the
next mammoth jubilee. Exactly what it is Mr..
Gilmore does not say. but it is limited that it may
be an earthquake accompanied by appropriate
thunder and lightning. Preparatory to this grand
undertaking, he is enlisting all the noted singers
and musical societies in New England in his
scheme. Twenty-Five thousand dollars (the sam he
earned from the jubilee) does not satisfy Giimore's
ambitiOn-prObabiy not less than one hundred
thousand will. -
They are building in New York. from the Battery
to Thirty-Grst street, what they call an - elevated
railway" running on posts over the sidewalk. But
tho ,,oC+ -. alavataJ rail ray - II tho yvnrld ic that
which runs from Arequipa to Cusco. in Peru. Its
highest point is 1906 feet. or about 3 miles,
above the level of the sea. At this altitude, the
air is only half as dense as at the sea level. the av-
erage height of the BarOmeter being only II inches.
According to Mr.. W. II. Brigham. formerly Of Oahu
College, Gin Old and NeHo for March), the highest
pass on the great Pacific Railroad is l2,400 feet
high. -
The whale oil business as we'll as the petroleum
business are both on the decline. and some croak-
es are predicting that the world may yet be left in
darkness when these supplies are exhausted. But
every year some new article is discovered to take
the place of coal and fish oils. In New Orleans they
are burning candles manufactured from the wax
yielded by Il tree which grows in Mexico and is
called the CerH PegetuI. The wax Is of a pea-green
color. and when properly worked up into candles,
s~said IT. sRiRG a"8eIEr So Pari3F J7"alitpr et,G"ht
tail, and it is fair to suppose Americans could put
it upon the market for quarter the money. With a
fair supply of pea-grren. we can let the kerosene
explode. -
American papers oppose the annexation of San
Domingo quite vigorously. The Chicago AdrGnce
says: 1--WE sincerely hope the President will be
defeated in the matter of annexing San Domingo.
We have no more use for the island than we have
for Alaska. We have already leased one of its
bays for a naval station at a cost of $50. 900 per
year. let us not throw two or three million dollars
----. - Al LIP c. --,s-- l"r noun
two " presidents" two armies, two governments
both about equally strong aud both about equally
authorized to negotiate with and sell the island to
foreign nations. Each faction is blOod-thirsty,
cruel, treacherous little quarter is shown on either
side, and there is no prospect of peace. The faction
led by Baez is said to have voted in favor of an
nexation. but the hostile party as unanimously
oppose the transfer. Do we want this hornets
nest, this powder magazine. this suffering volcano?
Have we not already a debt large enough, a terri
tory vast enough. a people heterogeneous enough =?
Have we not already within our borders enough
elements of discord, corruption and danger? Ii the
Dominicans desire to share our civilization and
help govern us had they not better come among us
by emigration as other uncomfortable foreigners
dos" This is sound argument, and will tell against
the treaty. =
While abiding to this subject. we will add that
a New York paper says, that " if the treaty fails,
then it is contemplated to c@ne the Texas game,
and annex the island by q joint resolution of the
two houses. This is more in accordance with the
wishes of the lower house of Congress. That body
is extremely jealous of the prerogatlves of the Sen
ate. and it is asserted. and not without some degree
of plausibility. that if the Senate ratified the pur-
chase the House will refuse to make the apprOpria-
ton to carry it out"
SUMMERS VIEWS IN GENERAL-One of the New
York Reraid's woman correspondents has been in
terviewing Senator Sumner in his sanctum ; and this
is the result of it. He opposes recognition of the
belligerent rights of the Cubans, because he thinks
they have none to set up beyond the claims of Osceola
and his Seminoles in the Florida war, or the rowing
bands of Circassians who sometimes annoy Russia,
and whom no nation would pretend to treat as
beligerents. He thinks that if the United States
recognized Cuba, Spain would fight, and that she
could destroy $500, 600, 900 worth of commerce. He
thinks the South will send other colored men besides
Revels to Congress that Canada is ultimately to be
annexed to the United States, and that it is ~prefera-
BILE to Mexico, because its people are more like the
Americans than the Mexicans and his opinion Is
that the United States will get Mexico quite as soon
as it ought to desire it. When asked what he
thought about woman suffrage and the possibility Of
his some day occupying a seat IN the Senate by the
side of Mrs Stanton, he treated the queries with a
8 mile of derision.
SHARP SHooT1SG.-Mark Twain tells the public
that a gentleman of Buffalo has engaged to perform
the following. We hardly know whether to take it
as a Joke or lot. But if it has been done. It is pretty
sharp shooting:
CA cork will be loosely placed on the neck of an
ordinary bottle, and on the top of a cork a bullet be
rested. The gentleman will then undertake. at a
distance of II PAGES, to fire a pistol so that four
times in ten trials he shall shoot away the cork and
drop the bullet into the bottle.''
Postal Matters in South KOna, Hawaii.
Ma. EDITOR Allow me to call the attention of
the people to what is considered a want of Ito say the
least) respect, to the wishes of tax payers, residents
and citizens in these Islands.