The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-11-17

by : Of an inch vide, and are stamped on both sides
with japanese characters. The Eng1nh treaty with
the Japanese differed with that of the United states:
in the respect that the ratio OF coin exchange snouiu
be weight for weight and value for value. The re-
fusal of the American residents to recognize the new
coin had very little effect upon the japanese autnori-
ties; but the Russian steamer America, with the
news. had been dispatched to ka~nagavha, where tue
American Consul General, MIR. Harris, the maker or
the treaty, was supposed to be at that time.
The same writer says in regard to commerce
and the vista of whalers
" The American whaling business. in all p~robabili-
ty, will not hereafter center at Hakodadi The adj
vantages of the location as q recruiting port are
greatly counterbalanced by the severe weather at that
place during the winter. Such IS the opinion OF most
American whalers. There is q general disposition to
60 southwark, to Nangasaki or Kanagawha, which
ports, together with Hakodadi, were thrown open to
American trade by the treaty. Our informant, who
has closely studied the Japanese manners and the OPP
portunities for trade which exist, is Of the opinion
that a great or profitable tale cannot spring up De-
tween Japan and the United States, at least for many
years, when social and political changes may have
effected results which cannot now De foreseen. one
Of the great articles upon which a foreign commerce
might be founded is rice. By the existing treaty only
one hundred piculs of rice can be had at a time.
which amounts to n prohibition from exporting II.
ca picul is 1873 lbs.) The demand for their lacquer
ed wares is limited, and will soon cease to be q
novelty.
Several English and American mercantile
houses are established there-one representing the
China house of Messrs. Russell & Co, another house
of Capt., Fletcher & Co. DR.. George Martin
Bates is the resident American physician at Hakodadi;
he is the eldest son of Asher B.. Bates, Esq, at Homo
lulu, Attorney General of the Hawaiian Islands. DIR.
Bates is abundantlya able to supply mariners WITH an
needed supplies for the replenishing of their medicine
chess.
In conclusion, we would say, that the lauded
advantages of Hakodadi as a recruiting port Tor
whalers, thus far turn out to be entirely ground
less. A few recruits can be had there but the
potatoes, for which principally whalers go there,
are represented as being small (' about the size
of a bullet, y and unfit to eat. But one or two
vessels, that we are aware of, have gone there to
spend the coming winter, and we have not heard
of a ship wintering at Hakodadi the second sea-
son. These facts will have their weight.
The opinion almost unanimously expressed by
whalemen is that the Sandwich Islands cannot
be excelled as a recruiting depot by any place in
this ocean, and that Japan will hereafter hardly
be visited by them, except by such as wish to OBJ
tain curiosities.
What an old whaling shipmaster said to us a
day or two since is found to be the testimony of
nearly every one 50 We have tried Talcahuano
and Tahiti we have tried Hongkong and Hako-
dadi we have tried San Francisco and every
other place in the Pacific, but have no where
found one half the inducements to recruit cheap
ly and expeditiously that are offered at the Sand
Islands"