The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-06-23

n;mitv prevailed. The meeting was organized in the
usual way. when the Chairman stated the object Of
the call, and invited all presens to give their views
a. to the best way Of attaining the object for which
the meeting was convened. After brief remarks by
some of the gentlemen present. it was unanimously
resolved to celebrate the occasion. by having q din
ner at the Merchants Exchange Hotel and to have
the Declaration of Independence read, &c. COMMITTEES
on invitations and toasts were then appointed, and
after the passage Of a resolution that the proceedings
Of the meeting be published in the advertiser and
Polynesian newspapers, and the singing of some patri-
otto songs, the meeting adjourned to convene again
on Saturday evening next, at "a o'clock.
ArrEAprED SuIcrDE.-On Sunday last, between 2
and 3 o'clock, P. NJ. Mr.. Joseph Lenley, storekeeper
in Nuuanu street, made several attempts to destroy
his life. He was first observed on the wharf by q
native policeman. who says Lemley threw into the
dock what appeared to be a bag of money, and then
jumped into the water himself. He was rescued by
MIR. Seger, but again plunged in and was again res
cued, Mr.. s. accompanying Lemley to his store. Here
he left him in charge Of Mr.. Kruger, and went to
give information at the Station House, as h. appeared
to be out of his right mind. During his absence.
Lemley rushed into his store and seized a Colts revol-
yer. and fired three shots only one taking effect, hit
ting and entering his forehead and fracturing the
skull. 1t, or a part of it, appears to be lodged N his
brain. While in his store, either before or after the
shooting, he also cut his throat through the ~windpipe,
with a razor. On hearing the pistol reports, the per-
sons outside entered his store and found him on the
floor with the above wounds. He was Immediately
taken to the Sailors Home, where he now is, and
Drs. Guillou and Judd called in to attend him.
Notwithstanding the severe wounds he has received,
he is still alive and perfectly sensible of his condition,
and apparently anxious to recover. Several reasons
have been assigned for the rash acts, but the most
plausible is insanity, as we learn that for the few
days previous to the affair his mind had been wander
ing. -
SEA BrRDs.-The question is often asked, where do
sea birds obtain fresh water to Stake their thirst, but
We have never seen it satisfactorily answered till a
few days ago. An old skipper, with whom we were
conversing on the subject, said that he had frequently
seen these birds at sea, far from any land that could
furnish them water, lowering around and under a
storm cloud. Gathering like ducks on a hot day at a
pond, and drinking in the drops of rain as they fall.
They will smell a rain-squall a hundred miles or even
further off, and scud for it with almost inconceivable
heetness. How long sea-birds can exist without
water is only a matter of conjecture, but probably
their powers of enduring thirst are increased by habit,
and possibly they go without it for many days if not
several weeks. -
HOSPITAL PHYsIcIAN.-We notice considerable RI
valry among our medical practitioners to get the sit
uation of physician to the Queens Hospital. We are
informed by a Trustee that an effort will be made to
make the service "a gratnitous one, and if that fails,
to make the pay dependent on the amount of service
performed. In either case, the office will be robbed
of the charm which now attaches to it. We have no
doubt that among our medical corps, some will be
found, who, during the first year, or until the hospi-
tai becomes fairly established, will volunteer their
gratuitous services, if not more than an hour a day
is required of them.
DOMESTIC LIoUon TRAFrIc.-On Saturday last,
Sheriff Brown seized about twenty gallons of Okole-
hao, (~native whiskey distilled from the root of the
fi) A man named Rowland was leading a horse
packed with several cans filled with the article, but
which were we'll covered up so as not to be noticeable.
lie says he came from Koolau where the liquor was
made. He will be tried at the next term of the
Supreme Court. The manufacture of spurious liquors
has been going on for a long time, and has increased
so of late that it must soon have an effect on the reve-
nue. unless checked.
The TWO GUANo CoMMoDoREs.-We learn that
Com. Pendeton, in the ship Iranhoe, sailed for
Maiden Island, S. lat. 40 Is, W. long. 155, which
he intended to take possession of. Capt. Brown in
the schooner .Manuokawai, sailed for the same ISL
and, and ought to have reached it a week or two be-
fore the Iranhoe. 1t is said that the island has one of
the richest and largest guano deposits in the central
Pacific. We have not heard from the island since
possession has been taken, or which party succeeded
in landing first. -
ANNIVERSARY OF BUNKER HILL-This day, memo
rable in the history of American independence, oc-
CURED on Friday last, the 18th. No great excite
ment, occurred. besides a salute from the brig Joseph
inc and an excursion to Pearl River in the Pele.
This little witch of the crater, however. run her bow
into the mud at Pearl River, before she got through
with the sport Of the day, and there stuck fast till
Sunday, when, true to her instinct. she lowed herself
out of the mud as neatly as she ever towed a 1900
ton ship into the harbor.
81 We intended to notice the uncourteous, not to
mean and bigoted manner in which our cotenpora-
ry allules to the editor OF the proposed native paper,
but a communication on the subject has been handed
in. which will be found in another column. We will
only add, that if we can Judge from what we have
seen. Mr.. Parker will prove himself quite as capable
of welding a ready pen. as any of the editorial staff
of the PoIynesian who show SO much fear of his en-
tering the newspaporial arena.
THE BUNGALow.-By reference to our advertising
columns, it will be seen that Mr.. ]. F. A. Pickering
has secured the Bungalow premises for a number of
No rooms in Honolulu are so well adopted
for the purposes of balls, picnics. or any kind of par
ties as these premises. Under the management of
Mr.. p, we doubt not those wishing to secure rooms
for the purposes advertised. cannot do better than to
him a call.
ARRIVED SArE.-we are grati6ed to hear from the
rsCon,r;x<ao !, Tho onr oofoapod fov-yrcr VI Il G
who took passage per Maria, the last trip, arrived
safely at Kalepolepo having suffered no inconvenience
from the passage, and at last accounts was well
and on his way to the district of Ulupalakua.
from whence we expect to hear from him shortly.