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Richmond democrat., 1882-01-26

GUITEAu addressed the jury, Jan. n,
reading from manuscript, with an attempt
al every conceivable form OF oraiorleal and
dramatic effect. At times the intensity OF
his utterance seemed TO reflect upon him
self, but the effect was trAnsltory, and, with
the exception OF one instance, there was no
indication OF breaking down. Leaning to-
ward the jury, be solemnly said; 81 tell
you, gentlemen. as sure as there l. God
in heaven, IL you harm hair OF my head
this nation VIII 20 down 10 blood. You can
put my body In the grave, but there win be
a day OF reckoning" Mr.. Porter began bis
closing argument on the 23d. After sketch
ing the circumstances leading up 10 the
crime, and pointing out with fervid Ian
glage the damning wickedness OF It's execu-
ton, With an irresistible torrent Of denun-
cla,ion and inyeetiye he analyzea the pris-
oner's character, pointed out the glariny
defects In the insanity or Inspiration theory
Of defense, and declared The crime the re-
suit Of diabclisIn on the part Of cow
ardly rufiian thirsting for notorlety.
Richmond democrat., 1882-01-26

The most extensive conflagration
known in Atlantis, Ca, since the burning OF
the city during the war occurred January
2ist. IL IS said to have originated In Franz
Blocks bakery, corner of Alabama and
Pryor streets. A strong wind was blowing,
aud for three hours the Ere ragged with the
greatest fury and threatened TO destroy the
entire business portion Of South Atlanta.
The total loss IL estimated at $500, 900. John
o. Wickham, Of Richmond, Va, was
burned TO death in his room at the Windsor
Hotel
Richmond democrat., 1882-01-26

The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision Of the Baltimore (Md.) Court in the
case wherein Col. Bonaparte is executor Of
the estate Of the late Eliza Patterson,
amounting TO s4S5, 900. mostly In stocks and
bonds. The bonds and stocks were issued
by the States Of Ohio, New York and Penn
syiyania, and the executor claimed that they
were not taxable in the State ln which they
were held, but all taxes that could be at
taehed to them were paid in the State where
Issued. The Supreme Court decided the
property taxable in the State where held.
Richmond democrat., 1882-01-26

THE bill 10 establish uniform paper
currency introduced by Mr.. Hazeltine, Of
Missouri, provides that all paper currency
now in circulation, or that shall hereafter be
issued, within the United States shall be
made lawful money and full legal tender at
its face value for all taxes, revenues and
debts, public and private, and shall be i,-
ened directly by the Government: that all
gold and silver certificates and certificates
Of deposit shall be retired aud Cancelled on
presentation, aud be redeemed as provided
by law or IN legal-tender currency. II re-.
auires the Secretary Of the Treasury TO IS.
sue nOn-interest bearing notes In denomlna-
nations Of 81, 2, s., $40, $40. $50 and 100, in
lieu Of and for the redemption OF legal ten
der notes now In circulation, and such ad.
dltional amount ~ may be necessary in ad-
diiion 10 revenues, In sufficient quantity 10
pay the interest-bearing debt OF the United
states now due or which Is payable at the
option OF the Government. and also eli coin
certificates when holders shall prefer legal.
tenders therefor.
Richmond democrat., 1882-01-26

AVERY important measure introduced
10 the House by Mr.. Beltzhooyer, OF Penn
sylyania, provides that Il shah be lawful for
any citizen OF the United States to present
TO The Supreme Court a petition setting
forth, under oath, bis reasons for believing
that, from sickness or any other cause, the
President OF the United States Is unable 10
discharge the duties OF his once, and to ask
that the President show cause why such du-
ties should not deyolye upon the yiee.Pres-
ident. The court shall then rule that the
President shall reply 10 the said petition,
and upon such reply being fled the court
shall decide; that. II in said proceedings,
the supreme Court shall determine that the
President Is unable 10 discharge his duties,
this decision shall be 20 rendered, and the
yice-PresIdent shah thereupon act as Presi.
deii until, for sufficient cause, The Supreme
Court may decide that the disability ha.
ceased 20 exist. when the President shall
again assume the duties OF the Presidential
Office.
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PASSENGERS

,o PIER N StmF A Tra ! E t frGms San FFanciseo' Oct Mrs 3
J SiArsden. Miss willfong. Sisters Margaret. Juanita,
Feiree. Hiss Annie Armstrong. Miss Adele Adams, Miss
Hattie PIERCE, Miss Sarah 4 Peirce, NJ ID, Alexandra
and son, Miss Kate Lewis. Miss Msbie, A w Bush. s
Roth. Louis Almark. Frank b Ryan. A GreP. J Malberg.
Per stmr LikeIike, from Maui and Hawaii. oct l.
Mcintyre, Geo Meciesn, j Il Holiday. II Rogers W
Y~arndiey. a Paleksluhi, l. Aseu. KinO Pake, Rev E
T ChiIingworth, G J Theobald. Bev Gulstone. Z +
Coleman. { a Bailey. + " Hsteh. W F tombstone. Ako,
wife, and 3 children.
J 5 H4nchette.
For circuit Of Kauai, per c II Bishop. oct Pr smith.
d maIIock. 5 A Bile. A Unna, Miss Mary Hardy. A
MeBryde. W A Coulter. g c Chairman. Mrs newett. and
about 46 deck.
For Molokai and Maui. per Lehua, Oct 2-Captaip
Jackson. d A smith, DIR. Fitch, W Gust. J MeColgan. d
M~cCOmston, $ Harrison, aqd shout 80 deck.
Prom Maui and Hawaii. per Iyaiaui, Oct 3-Miss
Kapuhu. and 30 deck.
For KshuIui. per Kilauea Hou, o.t ga NeaIsoR. 4
and W Lawson. Z Oakley Miss Campbell
Gd aGr Mani e ana Farn na%aiii PER 2 Ft Lbsllne; @ + frksy : 81 + :
ChillingwOrrh. Miss A Armstrong, r NJ West ana wife,
Z Bond. George McLain, W Brede. Chas \ Arnold and
wife, Miss Kelly W R Lawrence, Robt Hall, Miss ILall:
seho0IeI, Chas A Bailey. + tombstone. c L Wight,
dren. F p hastings. Chas Casper, W II Ricksrd. j Mars
den, Lee 10y Miss e Rose. J Mons srratt. Jas Lewis.
For ian Francisco per schr Anna, Oct Mrs C Petty.
kias. L d d Gould
FOR Maui aud Hawaii, per IwaIsui. Oct captain T II
HoboTn and wife. Rev J REuhAne. wife, aud ) children.
II Hamilton. Joe Howie. W Ebling. " J LoWrie. and
45 deck.
From san Francisco, per ID L Murray. Oct 5-George
Lucas aud wife. Albert Lucas. Col Sand Norris. Chss
Carson. Henry Meyerterke. A Harris. Thos HAyselden
and wife, c " Flowers. x 6erke. John & Foster, Mrs
Th1s Eergan. + p Marshall, Thos Ryan
From :lDlOkai and Maui. per Lehua, Oct6-H Rsmythe.
DR. Fitch J. : smith. NJ q Correa and wife. Miss Mary
Liza. and y BannisteF. and &c deck.
From kshuIui, Maui. per Kilsuea Kou. Oct. IL IL
Burnett. W ID Baniber. II Cornwell. Geo Putnam, Mrs
Bachelor, Mrs g II Alexander and about 20 deck
From Kauai. per = K Bishop. oct. Tt v Wilcox. Rev
Wainwright, W l. IL DsSerilI, e. Irvine, l. Kaltofen and
wife, d ID Baldwin. Mr. Coulter, AR Sdhmidt. Mr. Solomon,
q Titenmb and wife. Coy = y KapOs, y 4 Mountains, Mr.
Harris. AITs VI HAnaike, Mrs J ksuha0 and 60 deck
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immensely TO the Treaty, but it would have
been useless had not the natural advantages,
of which we have spoken, enabled Us TO
turn it to profit. We may be deprived of
the commercial advantages we derive from
the Treaty, but these things will remain.
This treaty may be absolutely perpetuated
but it will still be these things that give to
it its value. They therefore are worthy of
our utmost attention and should be the
source of all our hope. Whilst strenuous
and increasing attention should be paid to
the perpetuation of the Treaty, the develop
ment of the resources of the country is the
higher subject, and should have the first
place I'm our regard. And there is every
encouragement TO do so. The wonderful
progress of the past few years has shown
what genius, skill, and enterprise can do in
the favorable circumstances provided for us
here by the kindly hand of nature.
Others take a more sanguine view of our
affairs than many among ourselves profess
to do. Investment in our plantation enter
prises by non-residents is no new thing, but
of late the disposition towards it has mani
testify increased. 1t has been said by an
eminent gentleman w~ell-known both here
and in California, that the people of San
francisco manifest at the present time Il
great Willingness to purchase Hawaiian
plantation stocks, and that whatever in
this line may be put upon that market will
find buyers so long as proper assurances are
o~btaiDable that such stocks &" have "A reason
able business foundation - and is it not nat
ural that it should be so ? The admirable
position, the rich soil, the excellent social
and political institutions that We possess :;
the perfect harmony that reigns among the
races of which our cosmopolitan population
is made up-to what country can the in
weston turn for safer enterprise ?
As regards the management of the popu-
%lation, government is easy work here.
Police administration seems lax, but il is
because of this manageability of the people.
Whatever too may be said by opposing
parties, the fact is too patent not to be cas-
lily understood abroad as we'll as here that
we have no unreasonably expensive gov
m establishment, that our taxation
is light, and that no ventures or measures
are proposed that are calculated to promote
its increase. A state of good order like
this and the opportunities of sound invest
ment which the country offers are calcu-
lated to invite people of means. We nave
no doubt another decade will bring with it
a still larger development of the natural
wealth of the country than even the pros
porous period through which we lave
passed. For not only are there these do
nestle reasons on which TO ground the eX-
pectation of such progress. but there are
outside causes working in the same direc-
ton. The construction of the ship canal
through the isthmus of Panama, the prob
ability of electric cables being laid connect
ing the continent with the islands and of
converging lines of steamships, meeting in
our port, serve to fix attention on this coun-
try which, though small, has u large politi-
cal and commercial hope.
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BY a telegram. dated London 22nd September
VIC learn that the Exhibition building al SIDNEY.
\. ; W. was on that day totally DESTROYED bv fire
This building contained the several museum col
lectlons OF the Department Of Mines. the Linnoan
society OF New South Wales. and the Fisheries De
p2rtnent' also the exceedingly valuable Techno.
logical Collection and the Ethnological Depart.
nient OF the sydney Museum, forming together one
OF the finest collections in the southern Hemis,
phere. Many things thus DESTROYED cannot be re-
placed, especially a large part of the Ethnological
Museum. and most valuable specimens in the
Museum of the Department Of Mines. The Lin
mean Society has also lost a valuable library. the
accumulation of years. The loss is stimated al
S2,5O0, 600.
A little rain has brought prominently under the
notice Of everybody the wretched condition of the
streets Of this city. The other morning the carts
belonging to the Board of Health Department
were employed removing the dirt which had been
previously swept mp in parts of Beretania, Fort
and Nuuanu streets. The Improvement was most
marked. Why cannot we have have all the thor
oughfsres Of the city which are most in use prop.
erly swept every day or every second dav. as they
are In other cities? There is ALWAYS prison labor
available for such work and the result would be
much less dust in dry weather. and much less
mud when 1t rains. But a more radical change
than mere street sweeping Is wanted. No one will
believe that our roadways are properly constructed
when they look to-day at the condition OF those
portions of them which have bee. re-made within
the last II or Is monthS-at Hotel street between
Fort and Alakea for instance.
There are two spots of extraordinary magnitude
now visible on the suns disc. They are visible
with a common opera-glass properly screened. and
there seems TO be some coincidence between the
two phenomena.
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Octoger az. 1ss2.

October 7ut- 1882.
TIE closing commercial quarter Of the year
opens with a fair prospect of a busy season. There
are fair stocks Of goods on hand aud by arrivals ex-
peeted this month from Bremen, Liverpool, Glas-
gov, New York and San Francisco, importers and
dealers will receive full lines of goods.
The plantations generally are preparing for tine
fall grinding, and most of them will start with i'm
proved machinery for taking off the crop, and
making sugar. From all quarters we learn that
the prospects for a large yield of sugar is very
good, and the rice plantations promise to make
large returns than ever before.
The receipts Of domestic produce at this port
have been light during the past week. footing mp as
follows sUGAR 1925 pckgs. RICE, $40 pckgs.
PADDY. $40 pckgs. MOLASSES, IA pckgs.
The shipments during the same time have been
SUGAR, 623, f79 fbs. PADDY, 47,613 Ms. MO-
LAssES, 1920 gals, all to San Francisco; and
5000 rs Of Rice to Sydney.
. The lumber market is quite lively, stock by late
arrirsls having been disposed of rapidly. The
A.aetia from Port Townsend has arrived, with a
full cargo.
The Schooner Claus S~preckeIs for Coquimbo,
with a full cargo Of lumber put in here III distress
on the 5th, having encountered a cyclone of the
coast Of South America. She lost a portion of her
deck load, and will discharge the balance Of heI
cargo to admit Of a survey being made Of tie hull.
The following is Messrs. Williams. Dimond aud
Co.'S last circular -
SAN Francisco, Sept. %, 1892.
Our last advices were dated 18th August, per
CITY of sydney
SUGAR.=RenE{ng prices remain without change
with a fair demand Cuba sugars in New York are
In better demand, and the price has advanced to
Sd csnts for pop whilst the Manila market Is un-
changed.
The excess Of the European beet crop over last
wear Is now estimated at % 1000 tons. The Louisiana
crop is also considerably in excess.
R1cE.-The new crop is now coming on the
eastern market, which shows a decline OF cent
this. together with the large supply expected from
the Islands for the remainder Of the year, Is dis
eouraging, as far as any improvement Il con
cerned-
MoLAssEs-SaIes have been made at17 TO q
cents.
F~LoUH.-Golden Gate extra S5.25.
OATs-S1-57k and S1.65 for feed
BEN-SIS. BARLEY-S1.32lS for best food
HAY-COmpressed bales Sl7-
WoOL--Eastern markets are reported a. quite
firm. Here there is a fair demand, and We quats
Southern and San Joaquin at IL and % cents.
Northern % and "a cents
CHARrERs-Sinee our last rates have still fur
Their declined under dull aud lower advices from con-
aiming markets, and an accumulation OF tonnage
here. We quote iron i3s-. Cork, I. NJ wooden
4Os- Cd. Cork, L. n, and Continent
ExcHASGE--6O days on London 49@Ed and i9isd'
New York. sight Is cents premium
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inflated with he idea that he was looked to
20 save the country His career here was
a conspicuous failure, and even his inOr-
dinate vanity did not save him from be-
coming so far conscious of the fact that he
is anxious for revenge upon something or
somebody. We learn that Mr.. Armstrong
is recognized at Washington as an agent of
the planters of this country, an idea which
he evidently takes advantage of, and finds
il suit his purpose not TO deny. The
halo which this assumed agency throws
about him Is 10 doubt soothing to
his YeXed spirit, but 1T unfortunately
gives a weight to his vaporings and misrep-
reservations, which may render them
damaging to his country, and especially to
that planting interests which he lets it be
supposed that he represents. He has Teen
making a ~busybody of himself at Washing
ton lately, and yin things which, If
they are believed, will do much to prejudice
the minds of American politicians against
a renewal of the treaty. To demonstrate
that, in saying this, we speak with know
ledge We present TO our readers the following
a. by of a letter written by a very eminent
1 Iember of the United States Congress a
lnan we'll known by his reputation to
hundreds here, a good friend of Hawaii,
but at the same time one who, if he should
come to believe all that has been insid-
iously poured into his ear, would assuredly
become a potent enemy to our cause in
respect of the renewal of the treaty =
Yesterday 1 had a call from Mr.. Arm
strong, recently OF the HAWAIIAN Ministry,
and more recently from the Islands. From
his statement IT appears that Mr.. Glib
son il not onty Premier but is su-
preme in all affairs. His policy is
thus represented by Armstrong /. To
establish native rule and discard for
eign influence whether English, French, or
American. >. To Introduce MOngOlian Ia
borerS and t0 encourage immigration from
.Asiatic countries. 3. 70 suspend the en-
ployment of portuguese (and orders have
already been issued to cancel the existing
arrangements fOr the emigration of lahOrers
from the Azores. 4. To break the treaty
with the United States, upon the idea as |
gather it, that whent the present planters,
chiefly foreigners, are rnined, the business
of sugar growing can be resumed and made
profitable with Chinese laborers.
Chow much of this is reality, I can not
say, but [ think you ought to know what
Mr.. Armstrong; budget is"
What shall we say of the man who thus
writes? We have evidence how he is
appreciated by the eminent man
who wrote the above letter in the
way in which his vaporings have been
treated. II, as seems to be the general
opinion, this gentleman is subsidized by
certain parties here to represent their views
in America, we would advise these people,
whoever they may be, (every one knows it
is not the Labor and Supply Company, to
send instructions to their emissary to
muZZle his own mouth. The information
now before them is a confirmation of all
that has been said about the mans viru-
lence and misrepresentation.
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OCCASIONALLY we hear IA remark from
visitors to these Islands about the fish sup
ply here. Such remark are never of a
tiattering character, or southing to the
vanity of residents here. "Mu1let, mullet,
is there nothing to be had but mullet?" is a
query not confined to visitors only. Other
fish are certainly to be had, in limited
quantities in the Fish Market by those who
like to get mp early and buy them and
nave cooks of their own to prepare the =.
for the table. But sometimes even at the
Market there is little else than mullet to be
seen, whilst it is a fact that the seas around
US, if not the most prolific in the world, are
still full of good and p~alatable fish which
no one takes the trouble to procure for us.
This is the ~rule-there are occasional eX-
ceptions to it-but it is a tact that as our
population increases, as the demand IN
creases, the supply has actually fallen off
except in the single article OF mullet. Now,
the mullet is a good fish, not by any means
to be despised, but he is not so eXcellently
good beyond compare that any one viii
Voluntarily settle down to him as an article
of diet for every day in the week: 1t IS
told of the laboring men III the Highlands
of Scotland that I'm engaging Cor service
they are particular to stipulate that salmon
shall not be served out to them more than
twice a week. Now, the salmon Is the King
of fishes. Here, everybody, whether laboring
man or millionaire, must needs eat mullet
daily or go without fish .nine days out of
ten. In Heraldry n mullet Is the dIstIn-
gushing mark for a third SON, anu II we
were asked to classify fishes as to their
eligibility for the table, we should rank
mullet not a bit higher than the third
class, even of the fish which might be had
here if any one would catch them for us.
If Scotch shepherds lind salmon, salmon"
too much for their stomachs as an every
day meal, q fortiori ''mullet, muliet," must
be expected to be obnoxious to the Ha-
waiian epicure. Is it not possible to arouse
anybody up to give us some something
else?
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PORT OF HONOLULU. H..
ARRIVAL

coAsTwIsE-
s.,t aa-S.hr Uffama. from OiOwalu. Maui
Na-Schr Marion. from HauIBkua, Hawaii
sO-Stur a. n Bishop. Berry from circuit VI kauai
3O-Sehr Ka Moi, from LAupAhoehOe- Hawaii
SO-Shmr WaimsnAlO, Nelson. from Wsimanalo
so-Schr Luks, from EohAla. iawaii
Oct 1-Stmr Lfkelike, kim. from JaHt and Hawaii
1-Sehr Psushi. from OOkAla. Hawaii. with 9O7 bags
sugar
I-schr Emma. from wAiaIua and waianse, with 200
bags sugar
I-schr Manuokawai. from Nashville. Kauai
3-SfmF Iwalani, Bates, from Maui and Hawaii
4-Stmr WsimanalO. Nelson. from Nainanaio, hoo
Tau, with $50 bags sugar
@Schr cAteriRa. from Hanalei, hAHai, with SO bags
paddy
5-sehr Waimalu. from KeOkes, Hawaii, with II
bills molAsses
SSehr Nee Foo, from kooliu. with 10 bags rice
5-Schr Prince. for Koioa, Kauai
5-Schr Kaufkeaouli. from HOLOkEn, Hawaii. with
1927 bags paddy
s-Sehr Jenny. from kclOa, huusi
6-~chr LfhOlihc, Kolo@. Kauai
6-Stnir LebuA. LOrZenssn. from Maui aud M0i0kai
-Stmr RGkoiii, McGregOr. from Circuit OF Oahu
7-Stmr e Il Bishop, Berry. I'm Circuit of Kauai. with
go bags paddy
T-Stmr KiIaueG HOu, Fears, I'm kahului, Maui, with
as bags sugar
T-schr Kekauiuohf. frou Haaalei, Kauai, with 55
bags paddy and rice
FoEEIGS.
I-stmr Australia, TuIlUch, ; days 20 hours from San
francisco
G-Am schr Claus sprvckel-. Cousins. il distress
Am bk u 4 Murray. Jerks. Is days from : +
@Amb ktue Amelia, Newhsll, 2@ days from fort
Townsend
Am tern Dakota, wendt, a. days from Newcastle,
y Wales.
s-Ger Ok Psi-HO. Lanekrn. 60 days from Honskong
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THE PACIFIC


ALL the signs of the times speak of a
present prosperity and a hopeful future for
this Kingdom. The foundation of both lies
in the iutrinsiS capabilities and condition
Of the country in a fertile soil; IA fortunate
proximity To IA great market; good laws; a
liberal constitutions; and an industrious,
orderly and ~law-abiding population. There
is a disposition in some quarters to look
upon our prosperity as ephemeral, depend
ent wholly on the Fictitious advantage
gained from the Reciprocity Treaty, and to
believe that there is no future for the coun-
try except such as is dependent OH the pro-
Iongation of these privileges. We owe
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NOT long since we had occasion to accuse
Mr.. w. y. Armstrong of inspiring certain
articles written in d-isparagement of this
country, its people and its Government,
which appeared in the A~rgOndut of San
Francisco. Certain persons discredited our
statements, but what they had to say,
backed though it was by some equivocal
assertions made by Mr.. Armstrong in a
private letter which 49, published here, did
not carry conviction to many minds. Those
who hal perused even the amended copy of
his letter TO the BerlineT Zeitung and the
extracts from his private correspondence
which were published in his brothers
paper the Southern Workman, estimated
the probabilities of the case justly, and,
whether sy~mpathizing with Mr.. Arm
strong's views or not We're obliged to adj
init that the sound of his voice ai'd the
echo of his sentimen 5 were plainly to be
found in those strange and foolish state
ment and denunciatiOns which the Argo-
Tadua published. Gould Mr.. Armstrong
have learnt discretion from the results of
indiscretiOn, and decided to hold lis too
slippery tongue and attend to his al
fairs, we should not have again referred to
this affair. But he is in a malicious ami
vindictive humor, When he was sent for
by His Majesty's command to take a place
in the Ministry he seems to have become