The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-16
Correspondent of the Pacific Com. Advertise,
V~ALPARAIsO. CHI1r

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January Is, 1857
DEAR SrR,-Enclosed L send you a Valn.
Price Current to give you some idea Of wba.
cles are escaso, redibie, a5uadaate or moroso ~
everything is morose here) and also that !, ha1
maratime statistics made up to the 1st Of ,Janno-~
the present year. "Three whaIers with oil ,,
great contrast to your Island arrivals Of these fish
men. American commerce don't predominant IN =.
part of the world, and, at present, as you NAV s.
there is very little American shipping in mort and
HaUaiian.
The g. S. S. John adams arrived from Hono,r,. /
ria Tahiti about five weeks since, and with the st.
ship Fredonia, is the only L.. S. ship in port. n,
reason of her being here so much before her time
on account of the illness of Capt. Boutwell,, who h,
hardly been enabled to command the ship since ss
eft Honolulu. The authorities here, knowing that h
came in here quite sick, and hearing minute guns fri
on board the day after her arrival, (fred by order.
the department on account of the death Of Comm,
dores Mckeeyer and Conner) concluded that he "a,
make, and thus announced 1t in the steamer paDe,a
pheasant that) of the 10th December last. Capt p
being condemned here by a medical survey, as uDs,
for further sen service at present, took his way
Washington per steamer Of 1st inst. At present II.
John adams is waiting orders from Comnodas
Mervine of Guano Island notoriety, who at present
at Panama.
The English man-ofwar Alarm and screw steane,
Brisk arrived the one on the \. NJ. OF the 9th, AMI
the other on the evening of the same day-the former
66 days from Honolulu, the latter so days from San
Francisco. The Harm, Capt. Curry, will probable
remain here some time. The Brisk having been in
the Pacific some four years will leave on the 21st inst
for England ria the Falkland Islands.
By the Alarm from Honolulu, L vas glad TO be
enabled to 50 get a sight at a file of your valuable
Com merciaL, also numbers of the Friend deposited
in the Bolsa Commercial, the Exchange and Read
ing Room of this place, a very good institution which
YOU should have introduced into Honolulu.
The one here, to a stranger, is most desirable, asst
has many of the foreign papers, periodicals and other
literature, to enable one TO pass away the time both
pleasing and proftably; and TO the resident Locale
gives the arrivals and departures, and commercial
maratime news generally, with a booked accuracy,
with the aid of telegraphs, reporters, &C., &C.
[ intended writing you from Tahiti, regarding the
advantages that you might derive at your port, from
a marine telegraph, but as | see by the Commercial
that such advice has been forestalled, [ need not 90
into detail. Both here and at Papitee its advantages
are great, and at your place I0okOutS would be almCS:
dispensed with, as the building up of your port grad
ually advances (many already built are useless in a
great degree) and anything that saves "an effort
In your tropical climate, should be hailed with a glee.
&c Hail smiling morn, for instance.)
The ST. .nary'S officers and crew have been re-
lieyed via the Isthmus. This is a very good idea
of Uncle Sans, and will serve to keep u more efficient
naval force in the Pacific.
If l can find anything that will be acceptable to
you or your Journal, | will endeavor to post you up
from time to time. Very truly, your obt. sevt.,
[. II. VI.
P. S. We were to have gone to the Feejees, and
would probably have given them fits again, but
Capt. Boutwell's illness broke up the cruise.
The propellers Polynesian and Peytona are both
laying idle in port.