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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-07

The expenditures on account OF the famine to
the end Of February last estimated at 900.
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Additional Papers Sent to the House of
Representa- ives-Tardine OF the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury in Furnishing
Evidence to United States District At
torney Tenney-A Deal OF Corresponds
ence and Miles OF Red Tape.
WASHINGTON, March 6, 1874.
Additional papers in the Sanborn case were laid
before the House of Representatives to-day, in
GLIDING the following letter OF the Secretary Of the
treasury
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For the Baby, Novelty Carriage.-The
only carriage child recline in comfortably takel
that protects the from the sun can be used as era.
die; Perambulators s. Send for circular to L. p.
TIBBALS 5l2 Broadway. opposite St Nicholas Hotel
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I N D I A..
Three Millions of Famine-Stricken
People Oh the Relief Lists.
The Prospect Still Gloomy and the
Cost Enormous.
TELEGRAM TO TIE NEW YORK ReaalD.
LONDON, March 8, 1874.

LONDON, March 8, 1874.
Lord Northbrook, viceroy and Governor General
OF India, telegraphs to the Indian ONCE that 1t Is
expected the government Will be obliged to main
tain 100000 persons for three months.
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CEILING LIKE BREAD.
4 new edition OF saunders charming Book,
~ .WOMAN, LOVE AND MAkRIAGE,"
one interesting books on the most Interesting
OF SUBJECTS. .,s,~ rr,,1,>- ~.r ,rxrrr
Husbands wives bachelors, maids-an should read It.
Price, in ornamental covers 10 cents.
g. W. CARLETON l. co,
Publisher, New York.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
/. THE STORY OF SUMMER; Or JOURNAL
LEAVES FROM CHAPPAQUA: An exquisite little vol
about life at the home of Horace Greeley. BY hd
niece, Cecilia Cleveland *.sPrlcc 81 50.
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For the Pacific Commercial Adyertiser.l
To Write Legibly a Moral Duty.

Books with fair, clear type, are always praised,
and a beautiful handwriting always gains admira-
ton. But printers and others are often at their
wits end to decipher the hieroglyphics of their cor
respondents; and besides the waste of time, there is
often much irritation and bad feeling.
"Time is money says the old proverb. "Time
is the most precious of all things" writes the old
philosopher Seneca. The printer is paid according to
the number of ms he sets up If then he loses an
hour in a day in consequence of inegible copy, is not
the writer guilty of robbing him of one-tenth of his
wages for the day? But the writer excuses himself
by saying that he cannot spend time to write a fair
hand. He should think that the time of the printer,
or of his correspondent is worth as much as his own.
L have known individuals to spend a quarter of an
hour in finding out the meaning Of a single sentence;
and that loss Of time must be laid to the account of
the writer. Others think that it does not pay to
spend time in this way, and they pass over such
sentences. If one loves his neighbor as himself, and
places a just estimate upon his own time, he will not
occasion a loss of his neighbours time by his iIlegible
writing. Press of business does not excuse him for
scribbling off what causes wearisome effort to de-
cipher; for some of the most rapid writers are, at the
same time, the most legible. 1t is carelessness, q
lack of taste, that covers the sheet with p%ot-hooks.
1t is a thoughtless disregard of the rights of others
that inficts upon q correspondent a loss of time, and
of patience.
He who wishes his thoughts to be read, will take
pains to give form and comeliness to his lettersA The
late Mr.. Wyllie was o voluminous writer; as his Sec
rotary informed me, he left cords and cords of paper
covered with his scrawls. But who is the wiser for
them? If he had written q fair hand, some doubtless
would consult his writings with interest, for the sake
of the curious information contained in them. But
who ever thinks of looking into them? They might
almost as well have been written in Chinese, or
Arabic.
And photography should be united with calligraphy.
BY the absence of either of these plumbers and losses
are frequently occasioned. \ merchant in England
sent an order to his agent at the West Indies for two
monkeys to amuse his children; but unfortunately he
was not skilled in spelling, and he wrote for too
monkeys. And as his handwriting was not very
fair, his agent read it 100 monkeys. Accordingly,
he procured fifty monkeys, and sent them by the
first opportunity; and wrote that he would send the
remaining fifty very soon. That merchant received
a fitting penalty for his carelessness and ignorance.
Could illegible writer's be made to do penancei in some
such way, much vexation would be avoided, and
much time would be saved. ALIoUIs.
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The -InternationaIs.

Perhaps no social disturbance Of modern days ever
occasioned so much alarm at the time among the gov
ernments and crowned heads Of Europe, as that which
was aroused by the uprising of the Internationals,
some three years since. For a few months it was the
theme of newspaper discourse in all parts of the
world, and the proguostications as to the aim and ul-
timatum Of the mysterious society were in many
cases as amusing as they were absurd-the sensa-
tiOnal class Of newspapers being especially great with
the cares Of nations in this matter. Gradually
however, this species Of Communism has died out.
The members assembled in general Congress could
not agree upon vital points Of policy, and the House
thus divided against itself gradually tumblei to
pieces, and now the end has come.
At their sixth Congress, held on the Ist September,
only one of the original leaders was present, Jacques
Guillaume, the remainder being dead, changed in
their opinions, or become TOO prosperous to care
about InternatiOnalism Like the St. Simonians,''
says q contemporary, " the Internatioualists seem to
have a faculty for getting on in the world; and when
they do, they acquire new ideas as TO the value Of
property, or think, like Albert Richard, that an In
peror could do no more than q committee just the
conviction Of the Roman plebS after their long strug-
gle with the patricians, and Of the Danish proletariat
after their contest with the MOBILES" Karl Marx is
still trying to organize q central despotsm over labor,
but does not Succeeu, anu the new leaders at Geneva,
so far from approving the Commune, are not willing
to organize . general strike, for which it is said the
working ~-classes on the Continent have q hankering,
but for which they have not the means. The Spanish
representative revealed the curious fact that there are
still only 1000 Internationalists throughout Spain,
and the entire organization had to congratulate itself
on only a few local strikes. Germany was not repre-
scented; Mr.. Hales, from England, reported no pro
gress, and NJ. Costa, from Italy, denounced Carl
baldians and Mazzinists as people who knew nothing,
and understood nothing except fighting. The Amer
leans sent no delegate. but wrote that the Council
should have no powers, but all duties; and the Dutch
men point to the rising wages Of their tobaccOnists.
Altogether, VIC should say this bug-bear Of mankind,
which three years ago nearly launched the Govern
ments of the world into acrusade, is to-day a respect
able council of persons inclined TO chat in French
upon the best way of raising wages. There is no
particular harm or good in that. The English opera
tives have effected that for themselves, without talk
ing about the matter at all. HOdmen, We are told,
now receive mason's wages, and nobody has even
heard of a Hodmen's League, while their only decla-
ration of principles has been that they won't take
less.
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From the sydney Morning Herald we clip the

From the sydney Morning Herald we clip the
following:
The departure of the steamship Mrcgre9or from
this port inaugurates a new mail service for New
South Wales. We have before had a service via
san Francisco. but Of the most temporary char
aeter. and quite subsidiary to the general colonial
service via Gale. Since then it has been found
that the interests of this colony demanded a dis
tinct line Of its own, and as the route via san
Francisco promised more beneficial results in a
point Of view. as well as 4 more rapid
course of post than either via Torres Straits Or
Gale. it has been selected. There is a general
wish on the part Of our felIow-colOnists that the
new line receive support commensurate to what
NAV be considered 4 national undertaking. and in
future our usual monthly summary will be pub
lished for transmission by it. instead Of by the 7.
and q. steamers.
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Mr. EDITOR Amongst the work which is to be
done by the coming Legislature, 1 think an amend
ment to the bankrupt law ought to have a place
such an amendment as is now before the United
States, Congress introduced by the Hon. Mr.. TIemaine
Of New York, one of the first lawyers in the United
States. Section 1st repeats the present law with all
its amendments and the second provides that where
there are bankruptcy proceedings pending, a majority
in value of the creditors whose claims had been
proven, may determine in what manner and on what
terms and conditions the estate of the bankrupts
shall be administered, and such administration shall
be Immediately confirmed by the Court.
This seems TO me to be eminently just, and no cred
itor for q small amount ought to have it in his power
to force a bankruptcy to the injury Of the great body
of creditors or the majority in interest.
In the great failure here in 1866, the liabilities
were 5000, 600, and the business of winding up was
in process, under a committee chosen by the creditors
with a prospect Of paying Fifty per cent. or more,
when q creditor for 81, 200, one five hundredth
part Of the liabilities, puts the house into bankruptcy,
and only twenty to twenty-five per cent. of the debts
were ultimately paid. hope that some of the mem
bers will try to secure such an amendment as will be
just to all and prevent such losses, too often by the
caprice or i'll will Of some minor creditor. / can
think of nothing more essentially just than the
offered by the great New York lawyer
Tremaine
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Mr.. EDITOR II am informed that a large proper
ton of the printing required for the Supreme and
other Courts-blank processes, &c.-is executed in
San Francisco, and comes down here, as the saying
is, "by the cart-load.' This strikes me as very
questionable economy, and is certainly an unjust
and illiberal policy towards our own people. In the
ADVERTISER printing Office, as daily observation
shows, there are some fourteen or sixteen native
printers employed, and in the GG>eHe say half as
many. Many Of these have families to support.
The sending out of the country Of any work that
can be as well done here, and in ali respects as
cheaply and advantageously to all concerned, is do
ing q direct injury to our own industries. Is this
Court work sent away from Hawaiians by the order
Of Judge Hartwell, the head of the bench, or is the
chief clerk, Mr.. Seal, the responsible party?
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IN LOOKING over our exchanges we came across an
account Of a new process for cleaning wool, recently
discovered and patented in England, which, as it will
be Of interest to those Of our readers interested in
sheep-farming, We here insert. Whether it be on the
sleeps back, or after the clip, the way in which wool
is cleaned is Of vital Importance to all any way con-
cerned with this great staple Of textile industry.
Any improved method whereby wool, however clogged
with dirt or grease, can be purified cheaply, thor
oughly, and quickly without trouble, and so as not
to iDjure in any way the fibre of the wool, is neces-
sarily welcome as an economic discovery, and claims
the closest attention Of all industrially or commercially
interested in wool. Such q discovery seems to have
been made by the Bank Wool Cleansing Company,
the patentees Gone of the gentlemen connected with
it being himself q retired s~quatter) and exclusive
manufacturers of a neutral soap, which, as a deter
gent, possesses several remarkable and valuable
properties. Guaranteed to be destitute of alkali OF
acid, the chemical effects of which on wool are well
known to be so destructive, the soap in question does
not in any case damage the wool, which it actually
whitens. The patentees also claim for it ain improv-
ing and preserving quality. The wool has simply to
be soaked previously in hot or cold water in order to
remove loose dirt; after this the neutral soap to be
added in the proportion of one gallon to thirty to
either hot or cold water ready to wash the wool or
the sheep before shearing, the usual manipulation,
results in the wool being rendered perfectly pure, of
q dazzling whiteness, and that with an unknown
fibre. Cold water will answer, but hot effscts an
economy in material, time, and labor. In the wash
ing of sheep the value of this new and powerful de-
tergent is enhanced very greatly by the fact that
should the animal happen to swallow the liquid no
harm will result; another great advantage is that it
is free from taste or smell. Potent as the prepara-
ton is for removing dirt and extracting grease, it &C
tually sOftens the skin of the hand of those using it,
or even the sensitive lip, without injury to the skin.
Those who have seen the efficacy of the neutral soap
tested on some very dirty and greasy wool, report
that the action was virtually instanteous, on the wool
on being taken from the liquid and dried becoming
at once clear, white, and quite clean, while the fibre
was decidedly perfect. The neutral soap acts with
equal efficacy on cotton waste, which is, as some of
our readers know, intensely foul at times, and no
doubt the scope Of this new, innocent, and most eco
nOmic detergent can be widely extended. For wool
producers and consumers, however, the invention
promises to be of the greatest moment and value.
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"DTr-OWiNL," i the term now in general use
70 designate the perpetual thirst! for s;imulant
which aflicts the habitual drunkard. Tie word
IS compounded from the Greek, and signifies a
crazy thirst Very properly, as we think, dipso-
mania is now regarded as a disease, AMI not a
crime. In the early days Of his downward course,
the man who indulgcnces excessively in drink IS
undoubtedly criminal, but when that stage Is
passed and tie passion for drink has become g
disease, We fail 70 sec the justice Of Furnishing
him a. we would a thief. Under our statute, any
conviction for drunkenness after the first, renders
the person liable 10 Imprisonment at hard labor
for a term not to exceed three months. In our
prison, the inmates are not classified, 50 that the
pitiabIe victim Of d~ipsomauia. who as a last re-
sort Is imprisoned to prevent his committing
suicide, Is sent 70 work on the roads OF his health
will allow Of it, in company with criminals Of the
lowest stamp. We think it Will be conceded, in
tins age of enlightenment, that such a mode of
treatment of this class Of cases is radically wrong.
We have our hospitals for those suffering from
any disease, no matter what or how caused, with
the exception Of the mania for drink. If a man
is mad upon any other point than that of insatia-
bic thirst, our laws make provision for his safe
custody.
In the United States, in England and in the
colonies Of Australia, habitual drunkenness is
treated as a disease; asylums and " Homes of the
Inebriate - have been established with remarka-
bic success. In Melbourne, as we learn from re-
cent papers, an asylum for the reception and cure
Of dipsomaniacs has been established for some
time, and has been found to answer admirably
the purpose it was intended to subserve. 1t has
not only redeemed the drunkard, who but for such
n valuable institution would have met n horrible
death from delirium or suicide, but it has caused
many n man TO be returned to his family at least
temporarily reformed, If not permanently so; and
there is the institution to receive back the erring
mortal should he find the craving for drink COM
ing on him which may cause a relapse to his
former terrible vice. Many Of these institutions
have been nearly selfsuppOrting, because, as it
unfortunately happens, there are many members
of the well-of and comfortably situated classes
who require the restraining powers conferred on
these asylums, and whose friends or relatives are
both able and willing to pay for their admission
and retention.
In making these statements, we are not about
to urge the ~propriety of building an asylum for
dipsomaniacs in this country; but we desire to
exhibit the view taken of the subject in other
countries as a contrast and a reproof to our own
mode of dealing with the disease, with the hope
that some action may be taken towards amending
the law in this particular.
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oMMERCIAL

FRIDAT. JGTU4RT 80, 1874
VS. uAvE 90 nstc the hpse of au0,hsr week Huh no Foreign
arrivals or departures
san Francisro-
The schooner q. NJ. Ward salts t5mers1T Ertir su-H7 ia-
anIs-
Tie basE Hsen ~. Alny about EaIeI ani viii saI 10
Monday Gr sydaey.
The bark n. q. Murray IT, absent g days today
The steamship MIsai5. % the A.. 4. Im.. will D. aur
from the south ou N1rd1y-
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'WHES ~ DOUBT ON any question of public i'm
S~rtance, there is nothing 30 reassuring to the
irpIcxed statesman rs q sound opinion, clearly
qpressed through the press Thus in the GaSene
Wednesday last, we have san opinion rs isan
Union on the question "as to when the func-
1ns Of a representative holding a seat in the
rgislature ends" We are thus sententiOusly
I'd that ga representatives term Of Office COM
ssnces from the date Of his taking the oath of
ice ~ 6Ul that hom the dat when he gets his
: 'tifeate Of election he becomes the represent
We elect, " and that these newly chosen rep
entatiyes are the only lawful ones for any ser
e that may be required Of them, even should n
y tcial Session of the Legislature be called i'm
ydiately after the election" This acrobacc
lie of ratiocinatiOn reminds us of Z story we
e read concerning an experiment in gunnery
1ertaken by some theorists, where q loaded
,, xitzer was dashed to the back Of n mule. After
had been duly primed and pointed and the
!. teh ignited, the peryerse mule suddenly slowed
but and brought the muzzle to bear upon the
: ounded sayants. We leave the application
h our readers.
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II Has BEEN the custom here to give the next
Zee Of honor after the Sovereign to the head of
! Judiciary Department, and from this fact ap-
..ently some have entertained the opinion that
officer has n power, resembling that Of an
Ierican Vice President, to take the head of
irs in the Kingdom during an interregndm-
opinion which, so far as we can see, has the
E ,hority Of neither constitutional provision nor
.utory enactment for It's foundation. Notwith-
,lding Appearances, it was not so during the
interreguum. The Chancellor of the King
"A" was doubtless much consulted, mainly as
z a high official, and moreover because he was
= 5ably considered to be a prudent and expert
= ID political adviser; but more particularly be-
;. ,e by his very Office he could not exercise exc
=. We powers, and was beyond the fear or hope
,.hange. Under these circumstances, he could
- imposed to advise only for the honor and safety
! ne Kingdom, quite uninaueneed by considera-
! 3 growing out of political Vaccinations or
lie. But it was really the Cabinet of His
Majesty who acted for and as the Government
a,aterim. They convened the Legislature, and
all executive authority, till the election of
pew Sovereign required its surrender.
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PoaT OF HONOLULU. II. I.
ARRIVALS.

Z4-Schr Rob Roy, Adams. from kooAu-
1i-Schr Iuka. Eaai, from k0na, Hawai-
2f-Schr Ken Ana. ! DudOit, from kooau-
2s-schr Juanlta. & Dudclt, from "aialua.
gG-schr Nile Morris, Lima, from Lahalns, Maui
23-SI0op Live Yankee, Clark, from Hama, Maui
Zs-Schr Warwick. EalaWnia, from Pukoo- Mol1saf
29-schr Pauahi. Hopu, from HiO. Hawai-
5O-sshr M0i Keiki. Patey, from kahuiui, Maui
10-schr Mary Ellen Jim, from kahuiul, Maui
a9-Echr Rob Roy. Adams, from KOoIau.
8I-Schr Active. PuashtEa, from HlO, Hawai-
3I-Echr Annie, K0i0una, from HIO, Hawaii
5I-Stmr Kilauea, Taylor, from HaEaii and Maui
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In THE PREsENcEOf an impending public emer-
.ency, it becomes necessary not only to cogitate
ourselves as to the proper plans to pursue
q the near future, but it Is the part of wisdom
D take such preliminary steps in advance as may
Indicate the course marked out. Public cxi-
'encies by their gravity override what might
nder other circumstances be rightly deemed con-
ideratiOns of d~eiieacy or nice perceptions of
roprietys
We deem the situation of the country to-day
) be one of such emergency that, in the absence
{ amy regularly appointed and proclaimed sue
essor to the Throne, the well understood will Of
&c people in this important regard, should be
carly and emphatically made known through
re public press. The first choice Of the Hawai-
N people for a successor to His present Majesty
whom God preserye) is unquestiOnably the High
hieF Dawn KALAKAUA. His claims are in every
spect paramount to those of any other person
&c that can be named Any attempt to thwart
e well-known will Of the people in this matter,
to be profoundly deprecated, for the sake of
e peace and future prosperity of the country.
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THE PACIFIC
Commercial 9Nberttser,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 81.

January 3Ist, 1874. {
Since our last Bulletin was issued, on Wednes-
lay, the King has been getting weaker every day.
Yesterday he was not able to take much nourish-
nent. lie is quiet, free from pain, but his state
3 alarming.
By the attending physicians,
G.. TRoUssEAU,
r. OLIVER.
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PASSENGERS.

FOE WTSBwAaD PoHTs-Per KHauea, Jan. 25th-Nlaj9
Rutherford,W T. Davis, Chas Williams, A + Jones, J Z Greene
J & BIasden, q Williams, and about IS deck
,FoR Saw FRAScIscO-PeT Comet, Jan. 30th-J Fleming,
Geo Hempstead, W A Cooke, Jas Horton, Mr. saekett.
] FoR GuANO IsLksDs-Pcr &. NJ. Ward, Jan. 3Oth-w II
Terrier, A J Kinney, q " StiuveI, l. Mccall
FRON WrNDwAED PORTs-Per Kiiauea, Jan. 31st-Hon &
a. Harris, + Hughes. W Q Parke, James Boyd, Mr. Kenyon,
Ills Ex Gov p Naha0leIua, w @ Needham and son, Mr. Along,
Miss Lucy Peabody, Mrs KenEsy and daughter, Mrs Luck
slng and child, r MetcaI and SO deck.
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DEPARTIRES

2t-sehr Moi Eeiki. Patsy, hr Kahuiui, Maui.
Zg-stmr KiIauea, Taylor, FOR Maui and HAWAII.
28-Schr Eeoul Ana, J Dudoit, fr ROoiau.
2G-Schr Rob Roy, Adams, for Ko0au-
21-Schr Jaauita, & DBlOIt, for WaiaIua.
ZT-Echr Nette Nerri, Crane, Br Lahaina- Mani
-T-Schr Mile Morris, Lima, for M0iokaL
Z7-schr OLD Fellow, Nika, for NawlfW 10. Kauai.
Zz-Schr Jenny, BaIlster, for KOl0a, Kauai.
2s-schr Iuka, Eaai, for HiiO, Hawaii
23-5chr Warwick, kalawata, Er KalaupaPa, MolDkl
aO-GIOop Live Yankee. Clark, fr Hama. Maui.
3O-schr PauahI, Hopu, Tor HlO, Hawaii