The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-23

MinnesoIa......... 10000 Oregon. 400
wisconsin.......::::. 1900 DelaWSre..:::-:. ISo.
South Csrohna........ 1900 Nebraska ............ l,oA
Alabams. ............ 6y00Ol
The majorities in these 20 States aggregate abou
81 900. Then louisiana and Tennessee may have
to be added 10 the list. Greeley's maiorIties 10
Kentucky, Maryland, Georgia aud Florida, and in
Missouri, Louisiana and Tennessee, should he
prove to have carried them, will not be enough to
reduce Grants net popular majority 10 600, 600. II
will be left at least double the majority he re
ceived in 1868. His electoral vote, from the 2s
States in our table, will be 26l, whereas he only
needs lS4 10 elect.
AS predicted by us some time since. tue whalers
find they have made a mistake in going to San
Francisco. From private letters it is reported that
the ships MarengO, Midas, James Allen, Progress,
and Europa, are ordered to Honolulu. We clip
the following from the Bulletin OF the 9th
During the past few days the following whalers
have been lying off aud on just outside the Heads,
awaiting orders, the captains having come ashore
to telegraph for Instructions from the owners at the
East: AIaS6G. Jireh Perry, Josephine, NOrthera
Light and Trident. The Northern Liqht aud Jose
Phine have sailed, and the Jireh Perry and Trident
will sail to-day or tomorrow. They go To Panama
to reship Oil and Bone. 1t is probable that the
cargOes of the others will be consolidated and sent
home by one or two of the whalers now In port.
The Webb steamship line which has been run
ming for the past year between San Francisco. Ho-
nOlulu, Auckland and Sydney, has recently been
organized under the laws of New York, with four
Directors i'll New York and three in San Francisco.
The names are as follows: W. II. Webb (Presi-
dent), Theodore Z. Wood, George p. Lowpry and
Parker Handy, New York Lloyd Tevis, d. O. Mills
and ). +. Butterworth, San Francisco. The Com
pany now have the Ajd1, Nevada and Nebraska and
will soon have the Dakota aud Santiago de Cuba on
the route between San Francisco and Auckland.
Melbourne, Australia, is now in Geographic COM
municatiOn with London by way of Batavia, Bombay,
etc.
1t is reported on British authority that from 3d.
600 200 TO SO, 800, 900 bushels of wheat will be re-
quired by the English market, over and above the
home production, this year.
From China there is news of a great food. At Yo-
kohama, Otto Wormuth, an American, has been fined
800 by the United States Consul for being impli-
Gated in the cOolie trade.
Miss Agnes Livingstone, daughter of DIR. Living
stone. publishes a letter received from her father
through Stanley, complimentary to the Herald and
the Americans and most generous to Stanley.
The indications seem favorable to the adoption by
the French National Assembly of constitutional
amendments making Theirs President for life, Gre
ating an upper chamber or extra House of Congress
and the office of Vice-President, and establishing a
restricted suffrage.
By n vote of 145 to Is the House of Mobiles of
Prussia has defeated the Government measure for
municipal reform. This in the face of a threat from
the Minister of the Interior that a defeat of the
measure would be a signal for o dissolution of the
Diet. The Emperor therefore, dissolved the Diet
Nov. /, and will appeal to the country in a new
election. The new Diet is TO meet on the 18th of Nov.
Russell, British Minister at Berlin, has set afoat
an intrigue to induce the Emperor William not to
approve the De Haro Channel as the boundary
between the United States and Vancouver Island.
Bancroft writes the State Department from Berlin
that the Emperor William has decided in favor of the
Strait De Haro as the true boundary line. This is a
f'sappointmer~ "a nasi "a asar~
LONDON, Nov. THE Presidential election in
the United States is the principal topic in the
morning papers. The prevailing sentiment is
favorable to the administration. The chief subject
OF complimentary notice is the orderly manner in
which the elections were conducted. Much sur
prise is expressed at the completeness of the Re-
publican triumph.
CITY OF MEXICO, Nov. l. via HAVANA. Nov. T.
The election for President of Mexico resulted in
the almost unanimous choice of Lerdo de Tejada.
The programme OF the course the President pro-
poses for himself has been made public, and may
be condensed into this phrase" Little politics,
much administration" Since a few DAYS ago.
the newly-elected President has ceased to exercise
of the extraordinary powers with which he is
PARIS, Nov. There is great enthusiasm in
Rheims over the evacuation of the city by the
Germans. The buildings were decorated yesterday
the French colors and with flowers. At night
here was a general illumination. The theatre
opened last evening for the first time since the
OF the city.
LONDON. Nov. 6-The Daily Telegraph, referring
10 the reelection of Grant, says no one deserves
better from his country or is worthier of a place
among the illustrious men who have twice held the
Office. England has had cause to
of many things, but President Grants
policy toward her has never been wilfully petulant
)r hostile.
The telegraph hopes that the United States will
low take care of Mexico and Cuba. 1t believes
hat the West and not the East demand their atten-
ion.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3O-Mrs. Horace Greeley died
his morning at the residence OF Alvin johnson.
sha haH fun nhlllz lnInn tho Irh nnl ynn1al
peacefully away. Her funeral will take place at
loon on Friday from Rev. DR.. Chapin's church.
The trial of Mayor Hall under an indictment for
o~nspiracy 10 defraud the city of New York was
egun yesterday in the Court OF Oyer and Terminer.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6.-Gen. George G. Meade
led at his residence this evening of pneumonia.
Smallpox has taken the form Of a frightful
pidemic in st. Louis.
a Washington special says, in speaking of spec
lations with regard to Cabinet changes, that rep
sentative colored men headed by Frederick
douglas and John NJ Langston, the colored lawyer,
re bringing pressure TO bear to secure a cabinet =
ppointment for one of their race. The Washing
N Star last evening says, a movement is already
n foot to have Langston appointed Attorney q
eneral. .
NEW YORK, Nov. ga Washington special reports
lie following as President Grants views on his re-
ection His first election be considers as an honor
aid for his military services; his second, the Ma
approval of his political administration and
lie popular vindication of his personal characters m
before the Philadelphia Convention, he foresaw
s success by the nomination by the coalitionists AMI
gratifed him inasmuch as it narrowed the contest
two candidates, besides the character of the oppo-
parties gave complete assurance of the result.
e was surprised at the alright received by some :
epublicans at the Baltimore nomination, and he was !
GREATER urged by political friends to make various
Ianges in his cabinet. Many of his friends had =
ordered at his indifference, but one helping cause n
that indifference, which was known to but few, =
Is his knowledge of the fact that during the cam
ign the Republican National Committee had a 4
in every Greeley camp of any consequence bu
om one end of the country to the other, and knew
y by day every phase of the coalition and the sit
ton, as well as the coalition managers themselves.
Card from GreeIey-The Future of the c
"Tribune.'
New YORK, Nov. 6.-The Tribune tomorrow