The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-20

Il - AA1NAH i FAlt 70 % With a ~ tlIfHlAF
Of thc Confederate States He will show that i
was unconstitutional " iosupprcss The rebellion.
MUNIHcENr DoNAIux-James Baird. a noted
iron mongcr oi enormous wealth Ia Great Britain.
has lately donated two and a half millions Of dol
lars Tor educational purposes.
Madame. said General Butler 20 Mrs. Wood.
bull. " II You are going into politics the lust thing
you do is to lose your character. I destroyed miue
years ago. and have been perfectly happy ever
since
The other day at Long Branch President Grant
came near fitting over backward IN e chair, when
be- calculated Julius Caesar - This shows what
Is ou the Presidential mind, aud with the New
York Herald We fear Il bodes evil Co the libertics
OF tbe Republic.
The last installment ~ the British authors aud
publishers contribution e. the Chicago library has
arrived, and there are now about 5000 books ON
the shelves. Ourrn Victoria gave a copy Of The
Early Years of the Prince Consnrt." with her
autograph on The rs leaf.
The -. Louis Daaocgvt. alluding 10 General
Builrrs defence Of the salary-grab. says: We
do not know what they think OF Butler In the
~virtuous state OF Massachusetts, but out here. II W.
wanted 10 make anything appear exceedingly had
and improper. We should Immediately ask Benjamin
10 indorse and advocate IL. We hope he is not la
favor Of the Lords prayer
II Is a bold idea of the California capitalists to
convert the Colorado desert into a lake for the
purposes OF irrigation and navigation. Engineers
have been sent TO examine the region, aud report
on the feasibility of the project. Travellers say
that this desert has excellent soil. and would hr
productive IL IL were well watered. Experiments
in Arabia have proved that watering a desert g.
considerably more profitable than watering rail.
road stock in fact. the more \ desert il watered
the more productive 10 becomes, which is hardly
true OF railroad stock.
The Treasurer of the United States received
from an anonymous source recently n package OF
money marked S2i2.50. The package contained
two one hundred dollar United States bonds. seven
varlu N anil Z1E nt.pntfn e..
United States bonds S23i.50. coupons S2i.lT. cur
rency SIS total, s27S.67. The remittance was
accompanied by the following note This money
inclosed belongs TO the United States. have
done my duty before God in returning il 10 you.
May you do yours in giving the United States
credit for the same" The amount has been placed
90 the credit OF the Conscience Fund.
The Right Reverend Samuel wilbcrlorcc, Bishop
Of Winchester. who was killed by being thrown
from his horse lately, was the third son OF the
great philanthropist. William Wilbcrlorce. lie
was a man e lne presence and commanding talent.
being especially gifted with oratorical powers. As
a spiritual peer he took "A leading part in the
debates in the House of Lords. and was a M crate
supporter Of "A ritnalism in church controversies.
His reputation among the people Is said 20 have
been that of n smooth spoken man. and the
soubriquet OF "Soapy sam, y that ONE one gave
him when he was Bishop OF Oxford, clung TO him
TO the day of his death.
The New York Times has made an enumeration
of the religious newspapers in the United States.
and sets the number down at about four hundred.
Rowell's Newspaper Directory reports 500. In
Rowells list The Methodis,s lead with iorty-aeyen
papers the Catholics follow with f%oTty-one papers
then the Baptists with thirty-five. the Presbyterian
with twenty-nine, the Episcopalinns with twenty
one. the Lutherans and Reformed fourteen each.
the Jews with nine, and the Congregationalists
with eight. Four papers are classified as " unscc-
TARTAN and iorty-sevcn rs ." Evangelical The
last title. however, includes the organs OF two dis
tinct denominations, as well as the mass of an
denominations papers. These publications are
weekly, semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly.
Al the demonstration OF Bonapartists at Chisel-
hurst. several days since. the young Prince Napo-
leon made the following speech " thank you Ia
the name OF the Empress and my own. for having
Joined your prayers 10 ours, and ior having borne
in mind the way you piously travelled few months
ago. ! thank, also, the faithful friends who have
sent from afar the numerous testimonials of a1ec-
ton and devotion which we have received. As for
myself. being an exile, near the tomb Of the En-
peror. | mediate upon the precepts be left Tor my
guidance. | End Tor my pairimony the principle
Of national sovereignty and the flag that consecrnies
that principle, rs has been expressed by the
founder of our dynasty in words which shall ever
remain faithful To. namely All for the people
and by the people"
Queen Victoria al The slIah's reception had n
lunch Of beef sandwiches and brown stont. The
Golden Age takes this as a theme. and writes thus
1t may be that the Queens beef sandwich and
bottle Of brown stout have silently erected them
selves in the manly breasts of ten thousand sturdy
British coal miners and hod carriers as "A barricadc
against the forthcoming revolution. IL il pretty
hard for the working class 10 cry down "A bloated
aristocracy of sandwiches and brown stout. tits
rather difficult TO point 10 the riot and eXtfaya.
gance of IA sovereign whose public lunches cost
only a shilling apiece. II makes the task of Sir
Charles Dixie henceforth all the harder Tor him 90
pursue 10 a victory. IL sets the British lion
squarcly across the path Of Mr.. Bradlaagh. ready
TO roar back at him word for word.
The New York Herald always put things oracu-
larly. Following is the tail. piece Of one Of It's
latest political screeds
General Grant is master Of the political Geld.
With his enormous patronage, bis National Banks
and bonds and debt, and his four hundred millions
of Treasury collections and disbursements, be-
holds a positive power as the head of the Govern
Inent and the head OF the Republican party, com
pared with which the power of any preceding
President was but "A bagatelle. Considering, then.
the unity and strength Of the Republican party
and the weakness and divisions Of the opposition
elements, there will be no Presidential scrub race
in 1876, as in 1924. even should General Grant.
following the examples of Washington, Madison.
Monroe and Jackson, decline 10 be a candidate for
a third term.
From an article in the New York Times ON the
ecclesiastical controversy in Germany we get this
An address was presented the other day 10 the
Emperor OF Germany by The Catholics OF Silesia,
in which there was an O%utspoken condemnation oi
the UltramOntanes. and a general Endorsement of
the Legislation carried through by the Federal
Chancellor. This address seems 10 have been a
very bitter pill to the dominant party i'm the
ChufcH. me Duke OF GatlsDOn, VINO headed the
list OF signatures, had been for eight years Prcsi-
dent of the Silesian Committee of Knights of Malta.
The address had no sooner been published than be
was expelled from his post, and hftcen others who
were members OF the same committee shared the
same fate, as a penalty for having signed the OBJ
noxious address. The Government inspection Of
religious seminaries, provided for by the new
Church law. has been resisted by six Of the Prus-
sian bishops. The priests training schools in
these dioceses have, accordingly been deprived Of
the Government grant, and the students attending
them have been declared 10 be ineligible for hold
ing beneGces in Prussia.
Our Climate.
DR.. &. f. Nichols. of Boston, Mass, who spent
eighteen months on these islands, principally in