The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-03-31
Geographic News via Sydney.

LONDON, March 5.-General IgnatieR, Russian
Ambassador at COnstantinople, is now at Berlin
on a special mission. lie will visit Vienna, and
then Paris, where he will meet Count ScbOuvalof.
President Hayes. in his address to the people Of
the United States, urged the union Of parties, the
restoration Of order in the South, and the speedy
return to specie payments.
LaNDoE, March THE Porte objects 10 the de-
mands Of Montenegro for the cession Of territory
and a seaport.
her circular. She has issued a ukase ordering The
organization Of nine army corps.
The Porte maintains the same confident attitude
il assumed when the Conference was sitting, and
is prepared TO accept war in preference 10 pro-
longed suspense. On the other hand, Russia re-
jects the suggestion OF a years grace.
Russia has Withdrawn from the Treaty Of 1856
unless the other Powers cooperate TO obtain the
acceptance by the Porte of the original program
me of the Conference.
In the Turkish Budget the estimate Of expendi-
ture for the present year of the army is set down
at ETA 500, 900: for the navy, at EIO, $50. 600.
President Hayes has nominated w. Maxwell
Evarts as Secretary of State, and Senator Sherman
Secretary of the Treasury.
LaNpoS, March Il-Diseharged French soldiers
ordered TO leave Alsace and Lorraine, unless they
consent TO denationalise themselves.
HAVANA. Feb. 24-The voz de Cuba, referring to
President Grant's message and bis statement that
Cuba is the only land in which slavery on a large
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gradual abolition will result in ending slavery ia
Cuba earlier than in Brazil If q foreign govern
ment Insists that slavery be abolished in Brazil while
it exists in Cuba, then let the Spanish law be en-
changed for the Brazilian law, thus making away
with the fault-fndiDg and pretexts Of other nations,
compelling them to blame Brazil when blaming
Cuba. Whether under Spanish or BRAZILIAN lay
we shall have to pass through 3 transformation Of
the grayest Importance. Nobody ignores this, yet
nobody takes provisory steps. We cannot under
stand this Indifference. on the solution of which the
future Of the island largely depends. There is no
other country where individual efforts are so strong
and where collective efforts are unknown. Let the
initiative for collective effort come from some promi.
nent planter acting in preliminaries in concert with
others and the authorities. and adopt 10 lime the
proper means looking towards tis Transformation Of
labor. Nothing outside Of war is Of equal impor-
lance to the future Of the island as this labor ques-
tion now exists.
During the year 1876, 26I67s barrels Of lager
beer was sold IN San Francisco.
Mr.. Sankey, the Evangelist, has a son Harry.
who, although only about twelve years old, is en-
gagged in evangelical work in Chicago. among
~boys-work said 70 be 4 very successful"
The total coinage OF all the U. S. minis in 1876
was of gold. $40, $50, 45O; silver. S24.245 ,256;
total. $40. s2s, 7O6. There were 6,lSz, $50 trade
dollars coined, and $3.50 worth OF twenty-cent
pieces; the latter having been all coined at Pbila-
delphia and Carson.