The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-01-28

The population demand that the Government
make changes-they want a fighting General in
stead Of Trochu.
Other papers are very revolutionary.
The Mobile officers and soldiers are deserving.
LONDON. Jan. I2.-The Berlin correspondent of
the London Times writes that the idea OF q general
occupation of France, by the German forces, has
been abandoned portions only OF the french ter
ritory will be held. The French Government, he
says, is no longer able to borrow money.
LONDON, Jan l3.-[HeraId Cablel-A Vienna
despatch OF the 18th says Austria will initiate
peace, and proposals for a Conference are well
coined by Bernstein. The preliminaries are that
France shall surrender twenty war ships. one thou
sand million thalers, and a strip Of land four miles
broad on the left bank OF the Rhine, and destroy
all the forts within twenty miles OF the Rhine.
Prussia is TO guarantee two million ratlons to Parls
daily.
BERLIN, Jan. 12.-TLe achievements now on
their way to join the German armies In France,
and those in readiness to go. number 2OO,OOO men,
thus raising the German force to l,OOO,OOO.
LONDON, Jan. 1880 P. MA telegram just
received from Versailles brings the important news
that the mines and countermines around Mont
Valerein are in such close proximity that a COLI
sion Is momentarily expected.
LONDON, Jan. 1850 P. I-Extraordinary
efforts are being made to place the entire British
navy in a seaworthy condition. The work upon
all ships now in course of construction or repair
at tie dockyards has been ordered pressed to COM
pletion by the Admiralty.
La Liberte reproduces, from the Arenir du Guer-
res. the following account. appendlng to 1t an edit
orial note. stating that the Prussian Government
has denied the circumstances in question, but that
the account Is so circumstantlal, and has gained so
much credence throughout France, that La Ll6erte
reproduces it, but with all reserve:
The King of Prussia. desiring sumptuously to
celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the
Princess of Wales. had given the day before the LIST
of December, at Versailles. some splendid fetes
and a gala banquet at the Prefecture. to which 50
persons had been invited. Public balls had taken
plaoa and military han1S had hppn MIA vInp until
ii O'Clock at night. The fountains played in the
presence of the whole court. including the King.
the Crown Prince and the Prince of Wurtemburg
9Sd Baden Baden. General Moltke. and twenty
other Generals with their full staff. The day after
these festivities the King was walking through the
picturesque scenery between LOuvesiennes and
Bougaval. surrounded by Il small escort. Sud
denly a defamation was heard, and a bullet whistled
past the ear OF the King, who became giddy. and
leaned on the arm of one OF the escorts. Meantime
the attendants ran in the direction from whence
the shot came. and made q strict search. and a few
minutes later brought to the Kings feet a Bavarian
soldier. with a cOuntenance still defiant. and hold
ing in his hand n gun still warm. The King looked
at him, and, without addressing him 4 single word,
made \ sign. Two minutes afterwards, and at a
few yards from the spot, the Bavarian was shot
through the head.
Eastern States.
The House Judiciary Committee Jan. 18th heard
the arguments of Victoria c.. Woodruff, Mrs. Bee
cher Hooker. Susan B. Anthony, and Mrs. Riddle,
claiming The right of suffrage for women. About
fifty other ladies were present. The Committee
listened attentiYely to the speakers, but took no
action.
Mr.. Loughridge, as promised. made a lengthy
report on the memorial Of Mrs. Victoria G. Wood
hull, accompanied by a resolution declaring that
women have the right of suffrage under the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The resolution
was voted down by the committee-Butler and
Loughridge being the only two voting in favor of
the resolution.
WASHINGTON. Jan. l3-The San Domingo Com
| mission will no nble IN sail from New York on
Monday or Tuesday of next week. There are nu-
merous applications from civilians and correspon-
dents of newspapers: but they are rejected. In
selecting the Commissioners, the President has not
sought to find men committed in advance to annex
alton. None Of those selected are committed.
WASHINGTON. Jan. General Pleasanton has
assumed his chair in the Revenue Bureau. He APP
pears to be q modest gentleman, and he has begun
by conciliatlng the disappointed aspirants for his
seat. y fdur pas was made on Friday by the over
anxious friends of Senator Williams, of Oregon, to
get him a place in the Cabinet. y delegation of
fifteen gentlemen, led by Ex- Governor Wood, OF
Oregon, and District Attorney Hillyer, of Nevada,
visited the White House. and made a speech to
President Grant. saying that as Cabinet changes
were talked of, the Pacific Slope requested a more
immediate recognition. The President interrupted
Governor Wood at the outset, and told him that
his Cabinet was a family concern, and that he
should resent any attempt made by politicians to
interfere with his choice. He said he would receive
The delegation on any other topic. but never on
that one. The Committee ventured to express the
hope that they had not prejudiced the President
! against Senator Williams, and assured him that
the Senator had not been aware of the precipitate
good will of his friends. The President said he
could well believe that Senator Williams had not
been consulted on a topic so delicate, and that 1t
was because he knew THAI the Oregon Senator was
not privy to the purpose of the delegation, that he
should dismiss the whole subject from his mind.
The affair makes much merrIment around the hotels
to-day.
CHICAGO, Jan. l4-3 p. None of the most fear
! fnl snow and SlpPt storms ever eXDerleQCed in this
section is now in progress. The street cars have
ceased running, and the streets are almost entirely
deserted. The telegraph lines to the East are en-
tirely PROSTATE. The afternoon papers are without
news from the East and Europe, and the CONNER
cial community have received no report up to this
hour.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-After four hours discus
sion this afternoon, the Senate took up the nomina-
ton of Vice-Admiral Porter to be Admiral, and
confirmed the nomination, by a vote of 30 to 10.
The Select Committee on the Decline of Ameri-
can Commerce was discharged from further con-
sideration of the bills for the increase of mail
steamship service between San Francisco and
China, and for an ocean mail steamship service be-
tween the United States and Mexico, and they were
referred to the Committee on
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE Senate Committee
on Post Office and Post Roads agreed at their
meeting to-day to report favOrably upon the bill
to establish a line of American steamers between
San Francisco and Australia, stopping at Honolulu
and one or two other ports, and to grant the line
an annual subsidy for twelve years of $500, 600,
with the consideration that thirteen trips be made
each year.
The mercantile failures continue and seem to be
spreading over the country. The failure of Sweet
ser, Church Co, dry goods merchants, Boston
and Kansas City, was announced to-day. This
afternoon the street is filed with rumors, including
a large dry goods firm.
Later from Australia and New Zealand.
By the arrival, on Tuesday night last, of the
steamship CfU of Melbourne. Cant. Granger. we