The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-09-17

Her Majesty and the youthful Drlde anu plioeSlo
will be present. The ball will take place on the oth
July.
ADVANCE WAGES TO SEAMEN.-The shlp-owners OF
PHILADELPHIA have resolved to unite with those OF New
York and Boston, in refusing to advance money 70
sean,en, after July 1st- Hereafter they Will furnish
one suit of warm clothing and give Q bounty OF III
uer cent. on the earned wages Of those OF the crew
who perform the voyaneS}Aa and in case OF the loss o.
the ship on an outward voyage, the seamen shall be
paid the wages earned to the time Of such loss, and
in no case less than one month on foreign, anu mr
two weeks on coastwise voyages
The bark Hougua, Capt. Cartwright, which sailed
hence on the 9th ult., for Hong Kong, we believe, IS
the first vessel that has 1nesOut from this port with
out paying the customary adFance wages. She took
out, all told. Is men, every Gle OF whom returning
in the ship will receive a bon i of 10 per cent. upon
the wages due him at the end of. the voyage. Com
Portable clothing, equal to a suit for each man, was
put on board. The men were all of a respectable
character, and all went sober and well proyided--
.Nsp York Express.
SLAVERY IN OREGoN.-The Charleston - 9eurp
publishes a letter which it claims to be me highest
authority. dated at Astoria, April 20, 1851, which
says 1--WE shall. have MIN times in this Territory
until we are admitted into the Union as a State. The
Slavery question will swallow up every other consid-
Grafton, and you need not be surprised if Oregon
knocks f. Admission with a Pro-Slavery Constitution.
The dzhcuity of obtaining laborers and family SER
vauG is working a great change la the feelings of
d3en Northern people settled here, throughout the
farming portions of the country, and the mining re-
: gions are almost unanimous for Slavery
SuGAR.-The English papers estimate that the high
cost of sugar has diminished the consumption one
half in that country. In the United States the con-
sumption has also been greatly checked, while the
stock is large. 1t is estimated that on the LIST instant
there was in the bonded warehouses of the u S. gov
eminent, not less than $50, 000, 900 worth Of sugar
and molasses, and it is quite probable the holders,
before through with it, viii be compelled to submit
to an average decline of 20 per cent.-equal to a loss
of $4,000 900.
splendid SPECIMEN OF MEANNEss-There is a rich
man in this liberal community who can boast of being
the most splendid specimen of meanness yet known.
He employs a little boy as house servant, who acci-
IDENTIFY broke a side door-light in washing it. The
light was of common window glass, but the liberal,
high-minded, and would-be-aristocrat ordered agla-
zier to put in a plate-glass, and made the poor b0n
PAY for at! The cost of the glass was equal to a
week and a halfs wages, and the glass originally
broke cost juss one-quarter that of the new. How
many souls of that size could dance on the point Of a
cambria needle .-Bol0n Ledger.
FREE MAsoNs IN THE CABINET.-The Free Masons'
Magazine says { 1t Is probably known to most of
our readers that Gen. Cass is q Past Grand Master of
the Grand Lodge of Michigan, and is, therefore, well
qualified to speak OF the character and tendencies of
the institution and its principles. President Bucha-
nan is also a Past Master of a Lodge at Lancaster
city, Pennsylvania The Vice President, Hon. Mr..
Breckenridge, is a member of Webb Encampment of
Knight Templars, at LexingtqApK and the
Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. Howell Cobb, is a
member of the Order in Georgia. We are not in
formed, in this particular, as to the other members of
the Cabinet"
Governor Marcy leaves a widow, a daughter and
two sons. Mrs Marcy was ut her sisters, in
Rochester, and the daughter was on a visit to Troy,
when the Governor died. One of the sons is in the
Navy; the other resides in California. Mr.. Marcy's
only surviving brother lvesS2 tbsaIl homestead at
Southbridge Like most
in early life. When he left home to engage in the
study of law, his father gave him thirteen dollars as
an outfit. When he had travelled about twenty miles,
ten doM.rs of his money proved counterfeit. BY
stopping to work he cleared the expenses of his
journey, and by teaching carried himself to the Bar.
The YACHT AMERICA--Porter's Spirit Of the Times
says: "The inquiries which have recently been
made to US of the whereabouts and condition of the
celebrated yacht America, with which we so glorious
" distanced the combined yacht squadron of Great
Britain, in the summer of 1851, are fully answered
by the following extract of a recent article in a Lon
don journ,l on the steam frigate Niagara. The Lon
don Journal says: while the monster American
frigate is riding so proudly at Tilbury fort, there lies,
almost within musket shot of her pennant, in a ship
builders ard. and we deeply regret to say, COM
pletely destroyed with rot, the beautiful yacht
America, that so delighted cur yachtsmen In the
Solent.' Alas that we should 50 soon be called upon
to record such a destiny for the skinner of the
seas"
New METHOD OF FREIGHTING On--Messrs. Da-
vid Pierce q c., of this city, have prepared 10
casks of sperm oil for the United States Lighthouses
on our Pacific coast, under the direction of the De-
partment- They were sent yesterday by the propeller
Wdmsutta to New York, for shipment to San Fran
cisco. A novel method Of preserving the oil, for such
a long voyage, is resorted to. Barrels containing 81
gallons are placed in strong casks of 40 gallons
capacity, and the vacant space between is filed with
water The usual method of sending the oil was in
provision barrels, which could be easily handled;
but it unfortunately happened, in many cases, SHAT
on reaching port the oil had leaked out and disap-
peared without affording any light. The new ar
rangement will preserve every drop. About 5000
.-a A-rA 1900 H. a
in the same way last April. Cost of this oil delivered
in San Francisco, So per galon-.E. B. Standard.
The London illustrated .S.ics, June 18th, has the
following III regard to Miss Itr Miss Dix (of Bos-
ton. United States) who h'as -aken SO admirable a
part Ia forcing the state OF 70 Scotch lunatics upon
public notice, appears to be a person of extraordinary
devotion to her sense of duty. 20 feeble in body that
she can hardly walk half a mile, she has travelled
over the whole OF the United States, and induced
nineteen Of the local legislatures to erect and endoW
State lunatic asylurns. She has also extended her
influence to the erection of lighthouses and the
establishment of hfe-bvats on many parts of the
American coast. When convinced of the horrible
treatment of the mad in Scotland, and furnished with
letters to the Duke of Argyle and one or two others
of the Ministry, she started from London, drove direct
from the railway station to their residences, and
gained their promises the commission of inquiry
before she secured a lodging or changed her dress.
LARGEsz MAN IN THE WORLD The funeral SER
mon of Mr.. Miles iiarden, who died at his I S2ence
IN Henderson county, will be preached ON the Nh
Sunday in this month, five miles southwest from
Lexington, Tenn. The Masonic fraternity will be in
attendance, in full regalia, on the occasion.
The deceased was, beyond all question, the largest
man in the world. His height was seven feet six
inches-two inches higher than Porter, the celebrated
Kentucky giant. His weight was q fraction over.
one thousand pounds 1t required seventeen men to
put him in his coffin. He measured around the waist
six feet four inches.
After the funeral services, a friend in Henderson
county, who has long known Mr.. Darden, has I,romis-
ed to give us q brief sketch of his life opabodviu0
some interesting facts.
The American Board Of Connmis.fOners for
Foreign Missions.
One Of the largest receiving and disbursing cor
porations of the country is to be found in the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, located
at Boston. 1t was chartered by the State of Massa-