The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-07-22

Letters from Rome again insist that the pope
is approaching has end.
Anybody can soil the reputation of any iudi-
yidnal, however pure and ehasts, ~ altering =
suspicion that his enemies will believe and his
friends never hear of. A puff of the idle wind
can take q million of the seeds of a thistle and do
a work of mischief which the husbandman must
labor long To undo, the floating PARTICLES being
too fine 10 be seen and too light TO be stopped.
Such are the seeds of Islander, 50 early sown, 50
difficult to be gathered up, and yet SO pernicions
in their fruits. The slanderer knows that many
a wind will catch up the plague and become
poisoned by his Insinuatious, without ever seek
ing the antidote. No reputation can refnte a
sneer, nor any human skill prevent mischief.
The moral effect of preparation for the pun
ishnent of Offenders is already strikIngly exem-
pllfied in the case Of the Kuklux. Since the
proclamation of the President, not a single out
break has occurred calling for military interior
enee, and it now looks us If the existence of the
act in the statutes would alone accomplish the
entire purpose. Unrepentant rebels have lost all
appetite for bayonets, and rather than meet them
viii even forego the pleasure of burning school
houses, whipping negroes, or shooting down loyal
white men. The prIvation is no doubt great,
and the suffering intolerable, but as long as they
refrain they are safe. No one desires them harm.
The purpose is to keep them from harming others.
The latest report is that DIR. Dollinger has de-
termlned to submit TO the sentence of excom-
munieation-that is, he will neither celebrate
nor receive the saeraments publicly or privately,
nor even attend public worship. This report Is
hardly credible but if it be true it Is likely that
the aroused feelings Of his countrymen will lead
him To reconsider this determination. DIR. Fried
rich, who was communicated the day after DIR.
Dollinger, has declared his intention of ignoring
the accommodation altogether. DIR. Friedrich
Is a professor of theology In the university vi
Munich and was fhaolODfau IN cardinal H0hap-
lobe at the Vatican council. He has published
within the last three weeks, a volume of doeu-
mentS bearing on the Vatican council, which has
given great ofense at Rome.
There is serious trouble in store for some one
of the States in Europe. Bismarck complains Of
has health, rails at the ingratitude Of the German
Parliament, and ntimates his desire OF retiring
from che public service as soon as the Emperor
appoints a responsible minister IN his stead
Whenever the Prussian Chancellor diseourses in
this sad strain there is mischief brewing In his
mind some fresh plan OF strengthening the
Empire he has created has dawned upon him,
and be requires time and retirement To prepare
the course Of action which is TO secure success To
the new scheme. Belgium and Holland would
do well to closely watch the weak and disap-
pointed Prince in his retirement, as an invalid
worn by the cares of state aud OF soul because Of
the lngratitude OF recalcItrant deputies.
There has been an important decision in a
life insurance case in Kansas. The case was
heard before Justice Miller of the UUited States
Supreme Court, and was brought by the relatives
OF the mar who committed suicide, they taking
the ground that as the act was committed in a ft
of insanity the company was liable TO pay the
policy. Judge Miller charged that there was no
presumption IN law, prta0 tacie or otherwise.
chat self-destruction was evidence Of INSANITY.
The acc of suicide must be shown To be the result
of insanity. The party muss have been moved
TO the act by an impulse that he could NOT resist.
If such q state of mInd existed, the company
muse be held liable, but If the party, in the
exercise of his ordinary faculties, had become
angry, excited or distressed, 50 chat he preferred
death To lie, the act of suicide was his own. and
the company could not be held liable. The jury
rendered a verdict against the company.