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THE PACIFIC CABLE.

Senior Moreno's bill to encourage the laying
of an ocean telegraph cable between Asia and
America has passed the Senate and gone TO the
House for concurrence. In this connection the
). f. Bulletin says
The Australian Colonies and the Pacific Coast OF
the United States are developing q trade with the
numerous groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Apy Pacific cable would naturally follow to some
extent the route of the mail steamships, and take IN
the Sandwich and FIJI groups of islands. A cable
between California and Australia, touching at these
POINTS would insure no small amount Of mercantile
busiaess. With two lines running in different direc-
tions. there need be no fear Of the Colonies being cut
of at any time from telegraphic communication.
been made, and We are glad to find that New South
wales has taken hold of the project in such earnest
ness
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Mt the disposition Of the Ministry. Fifty thou
sand for the encouragement OF agriculture and
immigration twenty-five thousand for the IN
crease Of water supply for the city of Honolulu
S976, 3O3.8 ST as the full amount to be expended
during two years. Meanwhile during those two
years the press and people offered plans and sug-
gestions to the helmsmen whereby they might
Hoat the drifting iceberg into safer seas. Agri-
culture, immigration. repopulation, education,
augmented water-supply sor. Honolulu, forest
preservation and replanting, economy, the aboli-
ton of some Offices and the merging of others,
etc, etc, were fully discussed and proposed as
plans. a wise action upon which vas hoped for;
plans and suggestions that unhappily have fallen
upon the stolId ears of q frozen Ministry.
The plea for economy has been answered by a
budget asking an increase Of more than three
hundred thousand dollars, increasing the public
debt to the proportions of that of a second rate
power, without hope Of its ever being redeemed.
The proposed plan of abolishing Offices not abso-
lutely necessary, is followed out by retaining all
and by increasing salaries that already swallow
up eighty per cent. of the revenue. The S25 900
voted for an increase Of the water-supply for
Honolulu, have been used for other purposes,
and Sc 900 have been expended for laying water
pipes TO be filed from a stream that in a very few
years will be a dry ravine for from FIVE to seven
months in the year; while a less sum would have
sufhced to respond to the oft repeated wishes of
the public by replanting the valley with trees,
and by this means providing an ample and en-
during increase of water-supply for the city,
which at present is exposed TO the danger of
calamities by fire that at any moment may sweep
away almost the entire property of the nation.
The encouragement of agriculture, authorized
by the appropriation of $4,000, has consisted in
building stone walls to enclose places into which
agriculture never looked in selling large tracts
of land for a song to large landholders to specu-
late upon and by a costly ball to celebrate the
glory of the administration. The encouragement
of immigration is the importation of several
hundred male Chinese, a few of whom have en-
gagged for a year or less to work on plantations,
while the many encroach upon the occupations
of the best and most valuable citizens, eventually
to drive them from the land of their adoption.
Thus have the hopes of the people been fulfilled
and their expectations realized. The budget asks
for 81 ,223 ,979.79 Does the ice begin to crack
under the nation feet? Let Minister and crew
scramble for the remaining stores, crying, Saure
gu pent-saVe himself who can.
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FRIDAY. Z L 8. $50

FRIDAY. JULY -, 1870.
We have 10 reysrt a continuance q the staznatioa which
mas prevailed 50 long in business circles, resulting froaa the
universal attitude Of waiting for The treaty which reprs-
-en's the condition Of all kinds o. business.
The action Of the legislative Assembly Ia rejecting the mo-
Ton to authorize the Treasury 10 call IN Deprecated coin. va.
unexpected and certainly unvise, but the government. al
though the authors of the motion, made no EFFORT 20 correct the
misaPprehsnsions or eHHEhtsn the Ignorance q members. and
% ~ t.'isd- We understand that some thousands Of The coin
IN question were received By the steamer from san Francisco.
which viii be returned by the nnt opportunity. a = they eoud
only be used here ct a loss. Elsewhere In to-day's paper viii
be found the Official corrected statement Of the rates at which
certain gold and silver coins viii BE- received az the Treasury.
Our dates from San francisco are to the 18Th inst. In iL-
and produce we may say IN bri-f. that we note no changes
from p-evio1s advlces.
The arrivals for the week past have beeu-2esh, Am zh bk
Ella, from. Niearaguan bk Wellington, from Burrard's Inlet;
2'th' 50 AEstraha, from San Francisco. The departure has
been-2sth, Australia, for Sydney.
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IMPORTS.

FRoN BuRRARD's INLET Per Wellington. July 26th;-7o-
$50 Il tongue and groove lumber, 355,e42 do rough lumber,
400 bids shingles
Pnow SAN FRANcIsCo-Per Australia, July 2Sth:-4Sc s
hardware, 100 bags potatoes, $50 SKIS -four, 32 pigs mdse, As
10 tobacco, I csc hats, 1 do effects, 2 do photograph goods, .
do cartridges, 2 do machinery, 30 DO canned goods, 2 do sew
ing machines, SIS kegs nails, 8 es sheathing metal, 10 do lamp
goods. 1854 pkEs provisions, 1 csc glassware, 1 thermometer,
10 ca tin, I5 stoves and kettles, 2 Pkgs sheepskins, 2 cs sta
tionerg. 2 do books, "a pkgs shocks, IS do rope and copper, 2
= .dIery, 81 do clothes, 1 do drugs, 145 do crackers, IS do IL
.tuors, / csc cosks, 9 pkgs paint and turpentine, Csc hams;
Is SKIS onions. 10 cs boots and fancy goods, so pigs doors snd
windows. ! cs inks, 1 do woodenWare, so pkgs sugar, do sy-
nun. 422 syrup bbls, shocks and slaves, "a pkgs cotton goods
S ca fruit, 1 do vegetables, 81 pigs iron. IL CO oysters, 1 box
coin, PSI pkgs naval stores
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EXPORTS.
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Fon W.xug ARD PoRrs-Per Kilauea, July 2i:-His ExJ
q Dominis, Or G x Mofhtt, w Shipman,S b Dole, Miss Alex
ander, A Pratt, A Unna, Miss L Robinson, Miss Z Inompson'
A w Richardson. Rev s ii Davis and wife, Mrs Hitchcock'
MIS- ] w Gay, Hen H Kuihelani, II A Widemann and dangh-
Sr Miss GIenuie. C Macarlane, W Cummings, w Nj Gibson,
Miss Lucy Adams, c Meinecke, W A Swan, Father Clement
And about lis deck.
,;ne Vie > children and nurse, ID w Tuttle, Chung Lung, w
KfSour- 4 E bishop, NJ Dickson, G s Gay, A Montana, w
foSier. + A Schmidt, Hon Mrs Hare, infant and servant, Mrs
r NacfsrIane. Mrs c o J0hnstone, Mrs A = tombstone Mrs .
n Wilbur, II P Lang kilde. ] sehulpp, ~ iSaacs' > Co"An'
III KeIlner, J Haupiiu, g Nef, Il Dunn, Miss Claus
FoR sYDNEy-Per AL1tralia. July 2Oth;-F Sinclair Root
nLHn =
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PORT OF HONOLULU, II. L.
ARRIVALS.

22-SchI KamaiIe, Kibling. from Waimea 4 Koloa.
2z-Schr Annie, Kalauao, from Wailua, Kauai.
2S-KInau- Ahuihais, from Moloaa, Kauai.
2f-Schr Marion, Lambert, from Roloa and Waimea.
26-Schr Netiie Merrill. Crane. from Lahaina, Maui.
26-Schr Warsiek, Jno Bull. from KaIaapapa, MolokAi
26-sehr Mile Morris, Kealohanui, from KaunakakaI.
26-Niearsguan b. Wellington, Foster, 81 dys from Bdr-
TaTd Inlet.
2c-Am wh bk Eliza, DimOnd, from a cruise, with $50
bbls sperm.
2B-SchT Uiama, Mana, from Kohala, Hawaii.
Z-Schr Mary Ellen. Peni. from Kohala, Hawaii
27-R VI IS Australia, Cargll, - days from San Fran.
2I-Schr Fairy Queen, Kaaina, from Hanalei, Kauai.
2S-Schr Ka Moi, Reynolds, from Kahului, Maui.
23-schT Pauahi, Hopu, from Hfl0, Hawaii.
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MEMORANDA.

Report OF NIoAHAsUAS Blk WELLISSTos, J w FOSTER,
MAsrER-Len Burrard's Inlet July 1st. Passed out Of the
straits o. Fuca July 5thj light winds and fine weather the
entire passage; arrived OF this port july 25th, at 10 p m.
Report OF r VI SO AUSTRALIA, CARGILL, COMMANDER.
Left San Francisco July 10Th, at IS a m. Passed through
Gokfsn Gate at IL. s.; discharged pilot at Ills, steering course
for Honolulu; light westerly breeze and smooth water; 21st and
22nd moderate weather and Nm westerly wind; 25th NE
winds with smooth sea; Sighted land on the 9th atT-SO, blow
ing ssE; noon, Coco Head, sw by W ! VI took pilot at go
n
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THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOertiser.
SATURDAY. T. %.
THE TREATY.

Pretty much the whole community was disap-
pointed on the arrival Of the steamer on Thursday
evening, to learn that the long delayed treaty re-
mains pretty much in statN qt0. We were told
however that the message from San Francisco
was: Tell the island folks not to be dis
couraged the treaty is all right, and will be put
through as soon as Sargent gets we'll" (He had
been absent some ten days from illness.) We
arc irresistibly reminded of Pope's line
Man never Is, bGt 70 be, blessed
Washington kilograms of the 18th state that
our champion in the Senate, Mr.. Sargent, was in
his place on that day. Mr.. Morrill,, the princi-
pal opponent of the treaty in that body, has been
appointed Secretary of the Treasury. The fol-
lowing are the only illusions to the subject that
we find in the papers
WASHINGTON, June 30th.-Senator Cameron, from
the COmmitte on Foreign Relations. reported favor
ably on the House bill 20 carry into effect the Ha-
waiian treaty.
Morrill, of Vermont said this bill was a financial
question, and he moved it be referred to the Com
mittee on Finance. After discussion the motion was
agreed to, and the bill was referred.
WASHINGTON, July 1st.-The referring Of the Ha-
Waiian Treaty bill to the Finance Committee yester-
day, Immediately after it was reported back to the
Senate fayOrably from the Committee on Foreign
Relations, was accomplished by n motion quietly
made by one Of its enemies in the Senate, with the
purpose Of unfairly and unnecessarily delaying, and
perhaps defeating the measure by consuming va
luable time. Sargent discovered the trick in season
to enter a motion to reconsider the reference, and
when this privileged motion is called up the bill can
be directly brought before the Senate for action.
Thus the mau0uyre against the bill has resulted to
its advantage.
1t was believed on the 10Th that Congress
would adjourn within a fortnight. The next ar
riyal-the L. S. S. Jamestown to leave on the
26th-will probably tell us one of two things,
either that the treaty bill has passed, or that it
goes over until December.
\ correspondent at the East writes under date
of July 9th
Il hope that you will hear the news by telegraph
to San Francisco that the treaty has got out of the
dead &" backwat p" OF summer and presidential
election business, and has tided through. Doing
business is not in order in this Congress. Whether
any push " could have pushed it through earlier,
L cannot say. 1t is a difficult thing to drive such a
body as the House and the Senate with an i'm
parchment trial on hand. The Senate committee
has reported favorably. If it were not for that
newly organized opposition from Southern States,
d~reading the Eruption Of our rice and sugar across
the Rocky Mountains (think of it! trains loaded
with Hawaiian rice and sugar, beyond what all
California and Oregon could consume, coming
5000 miles by rail to ruin the unprotected Caro-
lima and Texas planters)-were it not for that op-
position our business might go through in some
quiet morning hour"
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DEPARTURES.

22-Schr Prince, Beck. for KOna and Kau, Hawaii.
z2-Schr Ka Moi, Reynolds, for Kahului, Maui.
z2-Schr Jaunita. DudOit, for Kaunakakai, Moloksi.
23-Sehr Kanaile, Kibling, for KolOa and Waimea.
24-Stmr Kilauea, MaTchant, for Maui and Hawaii.
25-Schr Annie, Kalauao, for Anahola, Kauai.
25-Schr Kinau, Ahuihaia. for MolOaa, Kauai.
Z7-Schr Warwick, John Bull, for Kalaupapa, MolOkai-
27-Schr Mile Morris, KalaTaia. for Kaunakakai-
2s-R 81 s. Australia, CargilI, for Sydney.
2s-schr Manuokawai, Kimo, for NawiliwiIi, Kauai
23-Schr Ulama, Mana, for Kohala, Hawaii.
2s-sehr Nettie Merrill, Crane, for Lahaina, Maui.
2s-Schr Mary Ellen, Mana, for Kohala, Hawaii.
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been hitherto passed in silence, rather from the
smAllness OF the amount levied. than from any con-
viesion Of the equity Of the tax itself; and it i is cur
opinion that the increase Of the tax
by the Minister would be found 10 be most inequi-
table and burdensOme in operation.
We are o: opinion tha, no additional tax should be
imposed ca real or personal property until other and
more equitable means Of taxation shall hAve been
exhausted.
The term revision Of Licenses Is not sufficiently
definite to enable the COMMITTEES to express an cpin-
ion thereon, but we should see with regret any
attempt to impose 9 special tax on either sugar or
rice production; inasnuch as We should regard such
g tax IS opposed to the spirit. If not even to the
letter Of the negotiations recently concluded with the
United States.
The Committee can not report in favor Of the pro-
posed change in the tariff. There are several articles
named that would properly bear additional duties.
but the product Of any practicable addition to the
duties on those articles would not, perhaps, be CON-
mensurate with the inconvenience Of making the
alteration, and would scarcely demand special notice
in this report which Is intended TO deal with the
principles on which the revenue is 10 be raised.
1t is the opinion Of the Committee that any in
crease Of revenue should be sought in the direction
Of an income tax so levied as to redress any present
irregularities, and to constitute q basis for future
equitable distribution Of taxation.
We have already stated that there is to us no ap-
parent necessity for any increase of taxation, but at
the same time we think it would be of great public
advantage if. without otherwise disturbing the pres
eut system, a fractional income tax could be levied
so as to test the practicability of the tax, and to de-
eide how far future budgets might prudently trust to
An income tax TO eoualize the burdens on the various
classes of persons who have to support these budgets,
aud to provide in a simple and effective manner the
revenue necessary for the proper and liberal dis
charge Of the expenses of the nation.
We have the honor to be Sir, your obedient servants,
THEo. II. DAVIES,
H.. A. p. CARTER,
J. {. GLADE,
JOHN II. Patty,
HENRY MAY.
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VESSELS IN PORT.

nAyAL.
q \ 3 ~LaekRWanna, Captain Greer.
II y VI 8 MyrmidOn, Commander Hare.
MERCHANTMEN.
Am biz Cyane, Perriman, loading.
Am bk ii w Amy, Freeman.
Ha1 blk LunaIilo, Marston.
Am bk w II Besse, Frost.
Am bk Alden Besse, Noyes.
Am sehr G NJ Ward, Quincy.
Am bktn Jane A Falkinburg, Hubbard, loading.
Nicaraguan bk Wellington, Foster, discharging.
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The Currency.

The following notice relative to coins appeared
in the " Government Gazette of Wednesday last
Notice Il, hereby given, that by Resolution Of His Msjesty
The King in PrVy Council, after this date, the values OF the
following coins are fixed and determined at the rate set
opposite 10 them respectively, viz:
-, S.. ao,hIa Eavie gold. at 20 IT. s. half dollars.
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An oLp sErTrkA-A native woman recently died
at Ksu. Hawaii, who remembered the arrival Of
Capt Cook. That event occurred 81 years ago. 80
tha; she must have been upwards Of one hundred
years old.
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A Comparison.

The following comparative table OF the principal
items in the Appropriation Bill for the year 1864
and those proposed for 1876, will prove suggestive
reading
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For the OF our readers, We reprin
herewith the Act of 1872, above referred to.

49,
An ACT TO REGULATE THE CUnRENcY-Be a. Enacted
bU re King aud the LeGsfGfiGe assembly Of the
Balgaiia1 Islands an the Legislature Of the Kingdom
assembled.
SECTION i. The currency Of this Kingdom shall consist
Of The dollar Of the value of one hundred cents United states
Coinage: the half dollar Of the value Of fifty Se7ts; the
auarier dollar Of the value Of twenty i've cents, and the dune
md hall dime Of the value Of ten cents and dve cents
Tesnecuyeiy Of the said coinage and the half dollar or fifty
csnrs silver coin Of the United States of America shall be
taken as the standard and be a legal tender at the value OF a
half dollar in all payments to be made IN THIS hlngdom.
Gold coins and silver coins other than those above named
barring the legaIzed impress of any Sovereign State shall
also be receivable in payment Of Government dues, duties
and taxes, at the Exchequer, and In tender or payment OF
debts contracted by private individuals and payable in tis
Kingdom. At theIr value as fixed by the King in Priyy Council,
and published by the Minister of Finance in the Government
Gazette. In ease any Of The said coins established as legal
tender as above provided be refused, the payer having
rendered the same, may bring them into Court, and plead
such tender and refusal in bar OF costs
SECTION 2. Coins Of she value OF twenty-five cents or
less shall be legal tender Only as follows:
In all payments not exceeding ten dollars ana IN all
payments exceeding ten dollars, and not exceeding one
hundred dollars in the proportion of fifteen dollars for every
haaared and in all payments exceeding one hundred, and
not exceeding one thousand dollars, in the proportion OF ten
dollars for every hundred and in the proportion Of five
dollars for every hundred in all payments exceeding one
thousand dollars.
sEcTIos 9. All Acts and parts Of Acts inconsistent with
or contrary 70 the provisions Of this Act are hereby repealed.
Approved this 3sth day Of July, q. d. 1871.
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In accordance with the provisions Of an Act to regulate the
currency. approved July 18th, 1872, the above coins shall be
recsivable AZ the values thus established in payment Of
government dues, duties and taxes at the exchsquer, and IN
fender or payment Of debts contracted by private individuals
and payable IN this kingdom, with the Limitations by the SAID
Act provided. JSo. s. WALKER, Minister OF Finance
Finance Department, July goth. lsI6.
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TO LET.


ON ACCOUNT OF INrEN- "
IHM ton 10 leave the kingdom, the undersigned VU#
w. offers for sale bic premises AZ lilo. together
k..x{8A with a STOCK OF Drugs &c.
Terms reasonable. A. y. NiChOA.
Hilo, Hawaii, March 2Tth, 1870. api
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NOTICE.

Turing MY ABSENCE FROM THIS
~ Kingdom, Mrs. ,. II. HAck holds a poser % aitofney %
transact any business on my account.
Feb. 4th, ls16. ues) a.H BLACK,
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SELECT SCHOOL,


MRS. WALLACE HEREBY fNFOM Ms
IVN the LADIES OF HONOLULU, that she Il noe able q
90 out DREsSMAkINC by the Week, thoss WISHING
National Republican., 1876-10-21

claim fever that will ensue under the Til
den rule, should the frauds in New York
secure his election. We cannot believe 1t
possible that the honest yeomanry of the
rural districts will permit the contemplated
outrage to be perpetrated. The majorities
that they are capable of rolling up in the
western, northern and interior cou 1ties
should render the result in the State en-
tirely safe for the Republicans. A full
vote in New York is always Republican
victory. The preponderance OF the Re
publican vote over the Democratic In that
State, under full and fair canvass, is more
than fifty thousand. This cannot be over
come, except through fraud or inertness,
and we are assured that the Republicans
are alive and exceedingly active throughout
all the western and interior counties OF
New York. In that is our hope of triumph,
if the legal authorities will vigilantly guard
the ballot-box from repeating, stufing and
such other frauds as lie along the pathway
of Samuel ]. Tilden and his henchmen in
New York and Kings counties.
Unless law has lost its power and right,
its savior in government, the cities of New
York and Brooklyn will be watched and
guarded with that vigilance which is the
recognized price of liberty. The purity of
the elective franchise will be preserved,
and then all danger to the Republic will
fee away. IT. however, the old game OF
Tilden and Tweed is to be reinaugurated,
and the returns from those cities are to be
held back until the result in the remainder
of the State is substantially known, and
the will of the people is subverted by fraud
as heretofore, the event will bring dire dis
aster in its train.
National Republican., 1876-10-21

SINCE 1865 there have been at least two
hundred negroes killed in Edgefeld county,
s. c. In 1868, when the reconstruction
acts were put IN force, the whites of that
county became noisy in their denunciations
of the Government, and armIng them
selves with their old rebel guns they made
an onslaught upon the negroes, killing
thirty of them in one day. Since that
time a desultory firing has been kept up,
shooting negro here and there, when, on
such occasions as the Ned Tenant diff
Guilty in 1874, a dozen or more were killed.
1t was Edgefeld men who went down to
Hamburg on the 4th of last July and cap
tured and massacred six unarmed negroes.
1t is quite natural that comparatively
ignorant and prosecuted negroes should
attempt to retaliate upon the men who
have thus terroriZed over them.
National Republican., 1876-10-21

THE CAMPAIGN in North Carolina pro-
ceeds with more than ordinary vigor.
The joint canvass between Judge Settle
and Governor Vance is most thorough.
At the same time meetings are being held
for joint discussion between opposing can
didates in every section of the State. For
example, barbecue is appointed for Ashe-
vile, on the 26th instant at which arrange
ments will be made for the accommodation
of Is, 900 people. This kind of a campaign
cannot fail to bring out the full vote of the
State, and the natural consequence will be
the election of Judge Settle to be Governor
and ten electoral votes for Hayes and
Wheeler
National Republican., 1876-10-21

A PHYSICAL fmpossIbility for Republican
paper to tell the truth, ,"-Demoerdtic Paper.
A moral impossibllity for Democratic
paper to do anything but sin against the
truth. Democracy has been living lie
from its inception till now. Its name is
lie; its platforms are lies; its promises of
reforms and economy are lies; its dreams
are lies; its speeches are lies, and its works
are lies, and after November it will lie in
Al,
National Republican., 1876-10-21
The Democratic Party To-day for Secession.
tFrom the New York Evening MALL

lFrom the New York Evening MaiI.I
Yesterday we showed that Mr.. Tilden, in
the event of his election, must consent to the
secession of South Carolina, If she should de-
sire to secede. We will now show that the
Democratic party is equally pledged to allow
peaceable secession, and has never at any
time, before. or since the war, repudiated the
right. We do not question that a considerable
portion of the members of the Democratic
party Of the North would be found In the