The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-10-15

MEssRs. TURNER AND WooD.-By reference to
another column it will be seen that the difficulty Gre
atedby the anonymous letter sent to Mr.. Wood has
been settled. The authorship having been owned by
Mr.. Turner, the letter was burnt up at the confer
ence alluded to, and the affair amicably adjusted
The least that can be said of the act of sending the
letter is that it betrayed a great want of Judgment in
its author. We are glad for the sake of truth and
religion that the matter has been settled, before
breeding any greater i'll feeling. Religion should
disdain the use of such covert weapons. As We said
last week, we hope never to see anonymous letters re-
sorted to in attacks on personal character.
NAvAL.-H. l. NJ. frigate Persereranfe, Admiral
Suzeol, arrived yesterday, % days from Tahiti, via
Hilo. She is a new first class frigate, carrying go
guns, and owing to her size win probably be unable
to enter the harbor. We hear that she will sail for
San Francisco about Saturday next.
SHIPwRIGHrs.-The old and well-known firm of
Emmes s. johnson have dissolved, and AIr. johnson
having associated himself with Mr.. Daniel Foster. an
experienced and thorough shipbuilder, recently from
the United States, the new firm will continue bust
ness at the old stand. (See advertisement
REMovALs.-Davld, whom not to know argues one,
self unknown, has taken 8" Time by the frelock,i
and now rates c-hronometers at the corner of Qu]n
and K~aahumanu streets, Makee's Block. His COM Cal
clocks and quizzical self are worth a call, at any Fate
DIR. Ford also has removed his drug store to the stand
recently occupied by DIR. Lathrop, on Qus@ street,
where Langherne will 6 compound . fQEall the ills
that flesh is heir to. We know an eEance of his
having compounded for a felon, II never for a
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AMBRoTYpE GALLERY.-No MOI Inappropriate pres
ent can be sent home to one Friends than a good
likeness. How relatives and friends viii crowd
around the envied possesseH, to get a glimpse of the
well-remembered featuryG and, with Cowper, when
gazing on his mother'S Picture, exclaim:
The art thafbafaesT Times tyranhic claim
Mr.: ". F. Hovland, over the Commercial Office,
invariably makes good pictures. and his charges arc
reasonable.
Mr. StangenSald, too, has returned from Kauai,
and is ready to execute any orders. In his adver-
tisement to-day we notice that he has an improve
ment in pictures, which is worth examining.
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LARGH BoNE.-We have seen some slabs of whale
bone, taken by Capt. Lopez, of the Sarah Sheaf, in
Bristol Bay, during the past season, from q IS bow
head: which in the opinion of old whalemen arc
extraordinary. One slab taken promiscuously from
q pile on deck, measured IA feet in length, and
weighed liz pounds. This, calculated at the price
paid for bone in New York on the 18th of August
wou., d be worth $14 95. Capt. Lopez estimates thu
amount of bone taken from the said "bowhead y al
5000 pounds, although he made only 100 bbls. of oil
TruN the whales are coming up to the requirement.
ofNS times, doing their quota towards furnishing
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SHARp PRAcTIoE-A lot of Manila cigars was re.
ceived here the other day from China, ria San Fran
cis9 and on opening one of the cases in which they
weik packed-supposed to contain 10000 cigars
"tIggarly array of empty boxes was discovered
en- losing in the center of the case a collection of old
ra1s and sticks of teak and other wood, but not q
solitary cigar. From the presence of the teak wood
aid the fact of the case being carefully 9 got up .
"a the outside, it is supposed to be the work of John
flhinaman. -
III HAWAIIAN AND ENGLISH TEsrAMENTs.-The Rev.
JEtr. Damon, Seamen's Chaplain, has received from
.T4e American Bible Society, per Fortuna, a large
/ sariety of Bibles, among which is a very neat edition
of the New Testament in Hawaiian and English, par
'allel columns, with marginal references. This is a
stff-n 49,. A,-- --~el. neoavu mere, and will
y ionbtless meet with a ready sale. They may be
bund at the Book and Tract Depository in the Sail
5ors' Home, and at the Bookstore of H. M. Whit
ney, Post-0fice Building. At the Depository is
a great variety of religious works for sale, besides
Bibles in English, French, Spanish, German, Danish,
q Welsh, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian, Roratongan
land Chinese-in fact, a perfect Babel of languages.
What with the clean, orderly and comfortable rooms
# the Home, its noble library of Intellectual treas
uNes, and the constant attendance of Mr.. and Mrs
ThIdm, the Chaplain, and his assistant, Mr.. Biclr
nelly we believe that a sailor can be as well provided
fore Honolulu as in any seaport in the world.
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CoNA&LAR RATEs.-The. following are the estab-
lished ran lat which crews are paid off at the Ameri-
can Consuhee. Honolulu Whale oil, 40 cents per
gallon whaSssne, As cents per pound ; sperm oil,
80 cents per gallon
two hundred and forty tons. of stone ballast is being
dumped on the " New Esplanade,'' from the Hound.
1t is the friable stone from Telegraph Hill, San Fran
cisco, and makes an excellent road, hard and free
from dust. A greatdeal more of the same sort would
be very acceptable. 1t was once accounted a very
unlikely thing that 9 Birnam Wood should come to
Dunsinane,'' and that man would have been thought
a vain dreamer who, ten years ago, should have
ltpnSoiO thue ehS IVY Va AStSSAdlA I'LL WOutlt
come to Honolulu.
A New BELL--The Fortuna brought out a new
bell for the tower of the Fort Street Church. 1t is
of a very fine sonorous tone, weighs $50 pounds, and
cost $400-$200 of which was subscribed by Boston
merchants. 1t is from the foundry of Henry Cooper,
of Boston. We learn that it is not quite paid for, a
balance of about 500 remaining to be made up.
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A GHOST SroRY.-No little excitement has been
caused among the natives living in the upper part
of Nuuanu Valley, during the last week, by an
appariton which they declare has been seen. 1t first
made its appearance to a native woman, whose hus-
band has BEEN some months deceased, and she AYERS
it is his ghost. The natives were all terribly fright
ened, and fled like deer on the second visit of the
ghost, all but the woman, who says she was deprived
of all power of motion. After a considerable time