The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-30
FOREIGN NEWS
Telegraphic and Other.

The Hutchinson family are on a singing tour in
Florida.
George Law. the New York Rnancier and steam
boater, is seriously i'll.
A Louisiana planter delighted his hands the
other day by paying them in silver quarters. One
old negro exclaimed "FedeTit money come and
done gone. and greenbacks is played out. but dis
is the stuff that rats can't chaw. De old time is
come agin. boo-rayi" Aud then he went away
and buried his money.
A monument in the grounds of the Naval Acade-
my at Annapolis. to the memory of the heroic Capt.
Williams of the Oneida, is suggested.
In Nantucket there used to be a military com
pany called the Nantucket Guards. the FIRST article
in the constitution of which was " In case of war
this company shall Immediately disband."
WASHINGTON. April 1.-The public debt statement
is as follows
Total debt and interest, So. 65O.6 77. $40.
Amount in Treasury coin, SlO5,4l3,745 currency
Sinking fund bonds and accrued interest. $780,
O47, CAB. Special fund bonds and accrued interest.
$75.I8I. Sos. Total. S2l5.I5 5 1872.
Debt, less amount in Treasury. ,l27.
Decrease during the month. {, 766. $40.
Decrease since March, 1869, SS8,O7 1913.
The Supreme Court has decided to reopen the
argument in the Legal Tender case on the second
Monday of April.
NASHVILLE. March 26.-Tbe election ratification
of the new Constitution occurred to-day every
thing passed off quietly a heavy vote was polled.
Dispatches to the Banner indicate the ratification
ny d SCA1C hihiOIlb ~ Dit lItIic ODDOSlIlOn was
made ont Of East Tennessee, and the conservatives
claim in Tennessee the credit of being the first
State to adopt Universal Suffrage, Incorporating it
into the organic law.
CHICAGO. March pa Washington special 10
the Tribune intimates that the Supreme Court will
probably reverse its recentlegal tender decision in
other cases about to be heard, involving the same
points and says the Court, as now constituted.
stands five to four against the previous action.
Theo. Manava. G~uatamalian Consul, has again
been placed under surveillance, charged with using
his official position to defraud the Government of a
number of packages containing lace of great value.
The matter was discovered by a detective.
The Didrio de la Marina, a Havana newspaper.
says that the insurgents of Camaguay have under
control more than 2, 900 leagues square of territory,
and that there are in the island only 1884 maritime
leagues square SO there remain in S Spanish possess
sion only 1904 leagues from which, if the country
held by the rebels between Villas and the Eastern
Department be deducted, the remainder would show
that the Cubans hold actually more than two-thirds
of the whole territory.
New YORK, March 24.-The regular steamer from
San Domingo, which arrived here yesterday MORN
Jag. brings a bearer of dispatches to the authorities
at Washington. with further details of the election
in the island. Among the passengers by the steamer
are Hart Mount. who went out last trip for the mr.
pose of making a tender to I~xRsident Baez Of a
$4,000 loan. negotiated through him with Law
son d Co., London. He reports the positive refua.
al OF Baez 10 accept the money, because of his OBJ
legation to this Government pending the treaty for
annexation. The Worlds San Domingo correspon-
dent writes that the vote in favor of annexation
was large, but the Government has apparently
facilitated 5allotbox stuGing by its agents and
that there is a strong feeling against Baez and an