The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-05-23

COLONEL FoRNEY ON GRANT AND THE AMERICAN
PEoPLE.-A New York dispatch of Jan. 18th
says that John W. Forney, in q lecture last
night, on "Public Life, - said of Grant "He
takes his own course and follows his own counsel,
and he seems to think that, having been called to
the Presidency as a reward for his great military
services, he can do precisely as he pleases, and no
one doubts that he is doing it. Applause and
laughter. The main questions of the day have
nearly all been settled. Both parties are uniting
quietly on the same general platform, and we are
beginning to realize that there is such a thing as
n great people prospering without the Govern
ment. The whole plan of adjustment, whether
we consider the war itself, the subsequent dis
bandment of the armies of both sections, the
emancipation Of the slave, the suffrage of the
colored men, the success Of our paper currency,
the settlement of our difficulties with England,
the manner in which we have survived the panic
all these are unquestionably the product of the
G GaHh Fh3 fe Y4fk II sh Hf GafHaffdtsfna a Hffte' sagacity.7
The Grey" ]. S. KALLocH.-From the sub
joined extract one would suppose that the hide
pendent deems politics and religion entirely in
compatible. 1t says: The notorious 90 Hon.
and "Rey." l. S. Kalloch, formerly pastor of
the fremont Temple, in Boston, has gone out of
politics, and proposes to. return to the ministry.
Ills first sermon was preached to n crowded
audience on the first Sunday evening Of the new
year, in the Baptist church of Lawrence, Kansas,
on the text But as for me, my feet were al
most gone; my steps had we'll nigh slipped"
HIS sermon was a vivid portraiture of the copdi-
ton of one who had high lost his religious faith
and had fallen into evil ways, We are by no
means unwilling to believe that a man as bad as
kalloch may repent and reform but it strikes
us that the genuineness Of his reformation ought
to be attested by years of sober and devoted
Christian living before he returns to the ministry.
ARRIVAL OF CHINESE Consolidating to the
Chinese idols on board the delayed steamship
China, which met with an accident to her ma
chinery and came into port working only one
wheel, the San francisco bulletin of the 18th
says Much hilarity prevailed in the Chinese
quarters that the gods had been delivered from
the dangers OF a passage across the seas, in a
barbarian ship, and the walls of apprehension
that filled the temple for the past ten days We're
changed to peans of triumph. Arrangements
are in progress for the solemn ceremonies of in
stallation Of the gods rs soon as the customs
officers have performed the duty of inspection. to
see that no contraband articles are secreted in
their ugly c~arcasses. The hideous images will
be set up in time to preside over the delightGRl
festivities Of the Chinese New Year, now near at
hand
TIE TRICHINA AssocIATIoN.-The reported ap-
pearance of the dreaded trichina spiralis among
the western hogs has created quite n sensation
among the pork dealers of Brooklyn. One firm
which sells 80, 900 hogs per year, state that they
have not come across a single diseased hog for
years. They buy from the western dealers, prin-
cipally from Illinois and Iowa. Another extens-
i've dealer in western pork, handles &c, 200 hogs
every year, and has never had occasion to return
more than two hogs in aSyear, and those were
diseased by reason of having had the measles.
~ Pork - said this dealer, % is just now higher
than it has been for three years. One year ago
we paid 64c. for it, now we are giving STE. l
paid SIC. for what l got this morning. Iremem-
Der the last excitement about trichina. 1t was,
l am informed, got up by dealers who thereby
succeeded in bring the price of pork down con-
siderably. l wouldn't mind m~yselfif it did come
down." The Board of Health has instructed the
inspectors to pay particular attention to the sub
Jet of trichina spiralis, and the meat inspectors
will examine all fresh arrivals of pork from the
vest.