The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-14

vessels calling st the island is due 10 the great diver
sion of the Eastern trade from the oil route 90 the
new one. via the SueE Canal.
1t Is announced that the regimental baud OF
the Emperor Francis Grenadicrs (German), which
played at Boston, has realized sufficient returns
% allow each man an allotment of 81 600 after
payment of all travelling expenses. Another
statement II that the band Is having n row in
Berlin upon the division of the money made in
this country. Herr Saro. the leader, claims 80
large a portion ~ his share that the matter and
the money are now in the hands Of the author;-
ties, with some prospect that the latter may
appropriate the whole amount for the benefit of
the public service.
HoosAc TrNNEL.-Fhis great work, which was
undertaken many years ago, is in q fair way of
being completed within n year: or, at least, n hole
viii be made through the mountain, rs n consid-
cradle portion of one section Of the tunnel is but
little more than half the size il must be made. A
recent official inspection or the part of the Massa-
chusetts authorities shows that the enterprise is
progressing as fast as is practicable. the contract
ors pushing the work forward at the eastern and
western ends with as full force as can well te EN-
pioyed. About S75 feet of rock remains to be
pierced. and If there are no great hindrances this
project, which has So exercised the politicians and
people OF the Bay State, will be contaminated in
the present day and generation.
The resolution adopted nv the Council General
Of the Department Of the Seine in favor oG COM
puls0ry secular education. shows the progress
which the civil ideas Of modern times are making
in a country like France. which has followed for
centuries the doctrine of the Church on thu sub
lect OF education. The civil power ~ everywhere
now asserting its just rights and performs duties
which truly belong TO it. instead OF shifting them.
As heretofore, on another power of an entirely dit
terent nature. Can civil authority br blamed for
this? Can il be charged with the physical welfare
Of subjects. and the encouragement and spread OF
art and science necessary to society without con
ATFTnu non 4 thu RfvhfG 10 MIA A~a n4ar.
educational laws and To appoint suitable teachers
The universal enlightenment OF the age is due ia
popular education. Ii would be a suicidal policy
to cut off the source whence so many blessings
have flowed TO the human race.
4 gossiping correspondent of the New York
Herald gives the following account Of the mar
riage of a noted politician; lone of the old cit
liens narrates that many years ago, when our hero
fell in love, he found some opposition to his mar
riage, and lie repaired TO old Geo. D.. Prentice,
the editor of the Louisville Journal, to help him
out. He went off to the plains, and the report
came back that he had been killed by the Indians.
Prentice at once rushed in, and wrote a whole
column upon the virtues, graces and promise of
this martyr TO his invincible disposition. and there
was a good deal of sympathy made in the State.
and some regretted that our hero's suit had not
been encouraged. Suddenly he came back again,
resumed his suit under cover Of the sympathy that
had been reused for him, and was married with
out opposition
Justice is administered in the rural districts of
GallciI (Austria) with entire regard for the court
as well as the comparatively unimportant other
parties interested. Recently a man complained
that his wife was painfully familiar with II strange
gentleman, and the unhappy woman was imme-
diately ordered TO receive eleven blows and to
furnish the court with two gallons of schnapps.
The strange gentleman was not punished, for the
reason, probably, that he could not be caught.
The husband answered very well, however, as n
substitute. He was ordered to receive six blows
for not watching his wife and preventing her der
election, and then made to pay the costs of the
suit. Justice is "a splendid arrangement; but
there are times when it is unpleasantly burthen-
some.
James Crittenden, son Of the unfortunate gen
tleman who fell in love with Laura Fair, has been
following that person about the streets Of San
Francisco, with a revolver in his pocket, mani
Testing a curiosity TO know where she lives, and
expressing an unsolicited opinion that she would
find it sanitary to leave the city. Mr.. Crittenden
had better be cautious. IL he means business,
and should succeed in shooting her, the public
would not be impressed with the heroism Of the
affair, and it is barely possible that nm American
jury would hang HIM for the shooting Of Laura
Fair, though an American jury acquitted Laura
Fair for shooting Crittenden peTe. Mr.. Crittenden
is undoubtedly, quite. as insane az Laura Fair;
but the American jury is peculiar. If, however,
he don't mean business, and only means a little
uiibbl ClicdtiOI VIC nOhIu cuSRtFL AlIdb dhB
Fair is n dangerous woman to fool around. She
take it into her head to bag another Crit
tenden. with a better excuse for it than that of
having caught him in the act Of kissing his wife.
Caleb Cushing, Que OF the members of the late
Geneva tribunal, has arrived home, and cOnversa-
with n New York HeToM reporter, expressed
himself freely with regard to the Alabama claims
arbitration. He said that the settlement had
been a great success, and one Of which we should
IL -r4-I r. - - I-lE IL
sum, but it is not SO much the money value Of
the award as the points settled by the controversy
gave us so great n triumph. He had not
been to England, bat through France, where he
travelled, the general opinion expressed waA
that the United States had achieved a signal vic
tory and one which she deserved. The British
now under consideration by the mixed COM
mission, made by English subjects, will altogether
but little exceed 81 900 900, leaving us "A very
margin. There was no debating OF ar
yument during the sessions of the board. Every
hing was written and presented to the board in
he printed form makingin all twenty five volumes.
A pleasant, social feeling prevailed among the
members, but Mr.. Gushing said he never engaged
u dryer work.
Under the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Articles of the Treaty Of Washington, the settle
nent of the San Juan boundary dispute was
provided for by the appointment of the Emperor
If Germany as arbitrator, who has given his de-
,lsion, in explicit terms, in favor of the claims Of
he United States. This San Juan boundary
hinged upon a pivotal point as to
whether the channel which separates the extreme
part Of our continent from Van
ouver's Island takes in certain islands Of value
md Importance, or shuts them out. The inter-
,~retation of the boundary line laid down in the
treaty Of 1886 was supposed to be perfectly OBJ
'ious until Great Britain discovered a way TO
hift the location Of the middle line of the chan
lel itself. At no time has there been a doubt en-
ertained in this country that the Haro canal
the natural and accepted middle of the
hannel that separates the continent from Van
ouver's Island. The point now gained in our
avor is one of inestimable value, and will be
with fresh satisfaction, IN view of the
ecent decision at Geneva in another and more
eriOus DISPUTE between the United States and