The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-26

tons arc kept always ia debt 10 their employers.
WAsHINGroS. April li.-The Secretary of the
Navy states. la view OF the threatened dangers at
Sitka. that tue ALaska will remain there until Te-
lieved BY the JlmeSt9tcn, which will be ordered to
be made ready at the Mare Island Yard The
Jamestown will remai8 permanently IN Alaskan
waters, and will be Gitcd with two steam launches
aud Calling guns for operations in shoIl waters.
4 surveying party will also go with her, equipped
for work, and will make complete Charts OF the
whole coast.
NEW YORK. April lI-At a meeting Of cOloTed
men held here last night on the subject OF the
hegira from the South, Nc. Downing made q
speech, in which be said be had received commu-
nications from ex-senator Patterson, OF south Car
DINA, who said that on the railroads in Arizona
there was opportunity for the employment OF / 900
colored men as laborers- The same was true OF
many parts of California and New Mexico. There
was a belt Of territory on the coast OF California IN
which homes and employment could be found for
thousands of colored men. He thoroughly believed
in the exodus.
The Herads Leavenworth, Kansas, correspon-
dent saws About !. 900 have already arrived from
Louisiana and Mississippi. and il is the opinion of
citizens that il is not safe nor prudent for those
people 10 tarry long. Many of them have no
money nor a single change of clothing. Many have
died, and scores more are sick OF pneumonia or
other diseases contracted on the journey.
LONDON. April I3-The Observer understands
that official circles both in London and Paris con-
slider that recourse should not be had to the Sui
tan's authority 10 solve the Egyptian difficulty,
except after very careful deliberation. No step
will therefore be taken in reference to the Sultan;s
proposition until France and England have full
opportunity of concerning a common course.
\ dispatch from Cairo states that business is
completely suspended and is likely to remain so
till the decision Of England and France is known.
The Government is collecting money throughout
the provinces, using every means OF compulslon.
An Immediate levy of 10000 soldiers has been
ordered.
A special envoy has been sent by the Khedive to
Constantiuople. He took with him a large sum of
money for the Sultan.
The Pope has written an autograph letter to
Queen Victoria. welcoming her to Italy and eX-
pressing good wishes for her welfare.
ST. PETERSBURG. April l3.-The Emperor, at his
reception OF the ambassadors to-day, said that all
was going on very well. 1t is inferred from this
that the project for q conference of the Powers is
being favorabiy received.
The corpse of a student was found recently near
the Kasan Cathedral, labeled /" Sentenced as a
traitor by the Socialists Revolutionary Commit
tee
New YORK, April ll.-Advices from Panama of
the Sd INST. say The Star and Herald has a letter
from Lima, March 18th, which states that Antonio
Savalle, Special Envoy OF Peru to Chile, has been
received by the latter Government. 1t is not be-
lieved that be can stop hostilities by mediation.
Peru is actively preparing for any emergency.
President Daza Of Bolivia has issued a decree ex-
Polling all Chileans from the national territory,
giving them ten days in which to remove personal
property. Their landed estates will be placed in
the hands OF the public officials. Chile is reintorc-
ing hersoldiers in Antofogasta and Caraeoles. 1t
is reported that a Chilean advance-guard was
roughly handled by Bolivian gHerrillas near the
river Loa.
ST. PETERSBURG, April IA Kieff correspond
ent of the st. Petersburg Journal, gives the follow
ing account of the outbreak among political prison.
es last month: The persons under arrest in the Kieff
prison resolved some time ago to tunnel under the
walls and escape. The scheme was betrayed by one
of the conspirators. The authorities allowed the
prisoners to continue the excavation. When the
tunnel was completed and the prisoners had entered
it, one after the other, intending to come up through
the opening beyond the prison precincts, soldiers
previously posted at the opening shot the escaping
prisoners as they came up. When the bulk Of pris-
oners, terrified by the noise of firing, stopped and
remained in the tunnel, soldiers were sent in from
behind, and the unfortunate wretches, caught be-
tween two fires, were all shot down. The proceed
ing seemed TO give the officials much amusement,
and the Director of the prison was then praised and
decorated For having acted with such cleverness and
decision.
Quite in keeping with this is the statement pub
lished by a Russian chaplain in the central prison
at Charkof, in the Eparchiai Wedomosti diocesan
IntelligeDce). lie declares that of FIVE hundred
prisoners detained at that prison, two hundred died
within four months. One of the heaviest charges
made by the Nihilists against the Russian official
administration was brutal treatment of prisoners, in
consequence of which the health Of most of them has
broken down, many dying, and some being driven
mad.
BERLIN, April 12.-An apparently semi-oficial
communication, referring TO the dispatch Of an
iInerlcau On-cld 10 samoa, points out tlat the
German ships .4riadne and .Hibatross are there and
fully suffice for the protection of foreigners.
ROME, April 13.-General Garibaldi was taken in
a carriage to the Quirinal to-day, and the King con-
versed with him privately in the carriage for half an
hour.
1t is possible that Cardinal Hohenlohe will 90 to
Berlin On a confidential mission.
Queen Victoria will probably visit the King and
Queen of Italy, at Mona.
LONDON, April ia dispatch from Rangoon
states that the King of Burmah has lost all influence
and his Ministers are again supreme. A dispatch
from Tyetyo says that three steamers are in readi-
ness here to carry troops beyond the frontier should
the King of Burmah suddenly declare war, as it is
generally believed he intends to do.
LONDON, April IA correspondent at Lahore
says that Major Cavagnari will probably go to Cabul
with q small escort to endeavor to convince Yakoob
Khan Of the futility of resistance. Major Cavagnari
is hopeful of success. He is a good authority, but
perhaps over-saDguine. 1t is certain that Yakoob is
melting the frontier tribes against the British.
LONDON, April IA dispatch from Berlin states
that Germany, though entertaining no idea of an
nexing the Samoan Islands, intends TO protect Ger
man interests and prevent Americans from estab-
fishing themselves there 10 the detriment of other
nations.
vienna, April IA shell, buried in the road,
exploded near Prince Milan, while he was walking
at Nisch, on Tuesday. His aid-de-camp was wound
ed. 1t is not known whether or not the explosion
was the result of q plot to assassinate the Prince.
NEW YORK, April IA Herald Washington
special says that q report is published by the travel
ing companion of General Grant that he will not be
a candidate for the Presidency under any circum-
stances, which attracts much attention in Washing
ton. Most of Grants most intimate friends say that
he had not indicated in his letters the slightest de-
sire to return to political life. Mr.. Nordhoff thinks
that the real friends of Grant are reluctant to see
him dragged into the political arena again, and that
the attempt to bring him forward is made by design
ing politicians for their own Interior purposes.
NEW YORK. April l4ih.-A Herald Leavenwortb,
Kansas. special says: \ committee Is actively al
work to get the refugees into the country. The
probability OF disease breaking out among them
causes a good deal of uncasiness among the people
of this vicinity.
TIE newspapers of Missouri, near the State line,
close TO where these people are encamped, express
much alarm. and demand that Kansas assume the
people OF the State feel that the burden should be
borne by the whole country. and ask that the citi-