The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-24
o. Dearest Movement. thou hast left Us.
And our loss we deeply feel.
That 1arued Senate has bersft Us
or another chance 70 steal"

OF another chance 20 steal.
AID with this pathetic tribute 10 the treaty
after its htful fever sleeps well.
In the California Legislature, proudly con-
VeneG at Sacramento, the Pilot Commission bill
has passed the Assembly and awaits In trem-
bling hope its shock OF war II the Senate where
q determined aud organized resistance II pre-
pared. This bill, one Of the most important
that has COM under the consideration of the
Legislature. has had q hard struggle to get a
hearing and has more than once disappeared
under al avalanche OF other bills, but 1t had q
res0Iute friend not 10 BE- wearied by manufactured
delay, who stood grimly At guard over its in
terssts. He heryIcaily dragged the Pilot bill
again and again from the depths, and when It
was made the special order :r some, no matter
how distant day, lis champion was always on
the ground 10 remind the House of the reference
and claim the fullfllment of the order. One Of
the Senator'S, who had opposed the bill at an
earlier stage Of the proceedings, finally an
nOunced his intention to favor it because,
although not radical enough, II was i bill in
tended TO relieve the port Of San Francisco of
some Of the odium attaching to ii. The bill
makes the following changes in the present
pilOtage laws:
SECTION l. Section 2465 of the Political Code
is hereby amended 50 as to read as follows
Section 24G5. The pilOtage inside the Heads
TO the anchorage opposite San Francisco and
about the harbOr of San Francisco and the ports
Of Mare Island, Vallejo or Benicia, must be at
such rates as agreed on between the parties, not
to exceed the sum Of 81 per foot draught.
SECTION ,. Section 24G6 Of the Political
Code is hereby amended so rs to read as follows:
Section 24GG. The following shall be the rates
Of pilOtage into or ont OF the harbor of San
Francisco. All vessels under five hundred tons,
81 per foot draught, and three cents per ton for
each and every ton registered measurement.
When a vessel Is spoken inward or Outw ard
bound, and the services of q pilot are declined,
Oue-hIlf Of the above rates shall be paid. In all
cases where inward bound vessels are not spoken
until inside OF the bar, the rates of %pilotase, aud
one-half PilOtase above provided shall be reduced
nifty per cent. Vessels engaged III the WI ling
or fishing trades shall be exempt from all pilot
age, except when II pilot is actually engaged.
Of course these reductions and exemptions
materially reduce the receipts of pilots, and as
these receipts are hulved with the tug-bOat
Monopoly, the Latter sees its perquisites also in
danger Of being c%urtailed, and it is the judi
ciously applied coin of this tug-boat Monopoly
that will cause the ultimate loss of the pilot bill
IN the Senate-if 1t be lost.
After politics, the consecrated subject for con-
is the prediction by Professor Virgins
Of a world-deVaStating storm. Virgins, the sci
entItic, the barometic, the prophetic, who keeps
his weathcr-eye peeled as conscientiouSly as a
very Jack Bunsby could desire, and announces
FROM his stronghold in Ottawa that a storm of
unprecedented violence is about to sweep over
the world. 1t Is to be felt first in the North Pa
on this day-Saturday, March l0-and will
strike this cont nent from the southwest in the
Of the same day. 1t will cross the
continent from east to west, south Il of parallel
40, aud being turned aside by the Rocky Noun
tains, will pass down the great lakes towards the
Sunday morning. The storm will then con-
tinuo in some part of the world for several days.
The professor speaks of the falling of heavy
neteors, owing to increased attraction, and the
play of Northern lights as Witnesses
Of atmospheric disturbance. An enormous tidal /
wave is to be confidently looked for in the Bay
90. Bengal, and increased tides in the Atlantic.
The Meteorological Bureaus in America and
.ndon laus b at what they call my nonsense
d predictions, tlainR2gg the poor prrotsSS6gLl but
sse are scientific dedHctious. The world is
with floods and Messieurs the
'teurOiOsistS cannot tell why" Virgins Is
d to have received threatening letters, aud =
futatIon of excited women waited upon him. e
where they could find q place OF safety {
ring the storm. He quieted them by saying
II Ottawa would onlT receive the tail end Of
shock. Abont Hts'., there is n genuine
ling OF fear of te p~r,i'ted storm. None OF y
fishermen Will leave for ,ie fishing grounds j
the dreaded period has passed. The fare
increased by the loss of life and property
ich occurred during a recent storm. when one
went down with all ha -ds and another q
wrecked, but without loss OF life. Another
amer, the Navarro, bound from Copenhagen
Lelth, foundered during a gale on the Sth;
y SIX OF the crew and ia passengers we're
ed out OF ei.hty-one persons on board.
Although many people speak slightingly of
prophecy 1t is no less true that a very genu-
storm scare prevails, SO sroat as to entail q '
5 OF Sl25,OOO upon those dependent on the
leries at Gloucester, Massachusetts There
oss to busine- : interests as well as to fisher &
n themselves. Over 300, 600 pounds of fish "a
5ht have been taken if the men had kept at d
rk. OF Hull, England, the fishing fleet has
fered severely by the gale. Eighty vessels of
fleet have arrived there in u damaged con-
Twelve of them lost members Of their 7
and three vessels foundered, one of them Il
h all hands. similar accounts were received
III the armouth fishing fleet.
N amusing report came from Kansas City \
. aH IL N-Hr,. --..L.-.4,-- vi. . Nv
dug a small cave on his premises, stored
with provisions, and, accompanied by his
went into the cave, closed it, and at
accounts Is still in his retreat awaiting de-
opmeutS. -
gale on the 9th of March also caused the
Of the Clyde river to fall extremely low, and
steamers We're ut one time aground.
N St. Paul, Minnesota, comes the report of
worst wind-storm of the season along the
Of the Northern Pacific Railway. Freight
mess was suspended, and passenger trains
with difficulty. Other cities report with a
ain triumph that the balminess of spring
ms IN thor atmosphere and no indications of
change TO anything more austere are visible. -
York and Boston admit in a spirit of cam
that their ~barometers are falling, but Wig
) storm, as we were led to believe in it, does
rs yet sweep over the continent,
he great Southerner, Alexander II. Stephens,
cad. He was Governor of Georgia whenhe
Had he lived his term would have ex-
ID in November Of 1884. He was 4 graduate
he University of Georgia, taught school once
his life, and was admitted to the bar and
ed in the lower house of the Georgia Legis-
re. In the Secession Convention of Georgia
opposed and voted against the ordinance of
zsslon, only giving his adherence to the doc
e, like so many balanced and Intellectual
Itherners, notably Robert Lee, when his
gment was overruled by its passage. He was
t to the Confederate Congress in 1861, and
chosen Vice President of the Provisional
ifederacy and in November of the same year
chosen Vice President Of the Confederate -
He was the head of the Commission on
part of the Confederates at the Hampton
Ids conference in 1865. He was elected a
to eight successive Congresses
IN he declined further reelection. In 1866
elected to the United States Senate. but
not allowed to take his seat. He afterward
Yed in five successive CONGRESSES. the last