The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-03-03

Commercial Advertiser.


Chiekens were SOLD m the market at Cincinnati
twenty-five cents each.
The Government Of Holland have decreed that the
ports IN the islands Of Java. Sumatra, Borneo, Sc,
snail De open to the trade Of the world from the Is,
day Of May, 1859.
Ihe, appropriation of $50. 900 made by the Missis
slppi Senate, tn build q monument in honor of Gen,
ouitman, has b en- rejected in the House.
AMI. Cole. of Quebec, is said to have invented a
machine BY which one man alone can raise q weight
ofs thousand pounds
In the Auburn State Prison, the ID Dec, a colored
convict was shewered TO death. TIE convicts became
greaty excited, and . general rebellion was feared.
Col Fremont's Maripoes mine yields from 81 500
70 so,VO0 every week. The quartz mill is worked by
A man named Mace sued a citizen of Dayton, Ohio.
ior having some years ago caused his conviction and
imprisonment in the Penifentiary for burglary. He
lays his damages at 5000.
Gerrit Smith figures that, taking in the expense of
travelling, establishing newspapers, feeding paupers.
&c, his votes for Governor at the late election, cost
him just four dollars each.
The TRrTH OuTsPoKEx-The Mobile Reeisfer
with more frankness than wisdom saws: "Let the
democratic party become, in its organization, as ii
nor IS IN hs essential organisation, o Southern sec
tional party"
The London JNers has undoubted authority for
saying that although her Majesty finds it impossible
Tor her and the Prince Consort to pay q visit to
Canada, q short interval only will elapee before one
Of the young Princes will 60 there.
The wounded members of the Gouldy family are
now considered out Of danger, and, with the exception
OF Mr. Gouldy. are able to be about the house. Mr..
Gouldy is gaining rapidly, and his complete recovery
is confidently looked for.
An Australian, from the number of murders COM
mItted In that auriferous region, thinks that Mel
bourne must be the place Shakespeare speaks of when
he says, "that bourne from which no traveller re-
turns"
1t is reported that NJ. de Rothscbild has sent,
through the representative of his house in the Ponti-
fcal States, the sum of 5000 francs to NJ. Morfara,
to enable him to continue his efforts for the restitu-
ton of his child, without sacrificing the interests of
his family.
The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill prohibit
ing, after the first Of January next, the circulation
in the State, of all bank notes of the denomination of
twenty dollars and under. 1t also passed q bill
granting divorce to all parties who may have been
separated from bed and board three years, without
effecting reconciliation.
The total value of steamers afoat on the Mississippi
and Its tributaries IS more than S60,OO0,oOO, and
number as many as fifteen hundred-more than twice
the steamboats, Of England, and equal to that of all
the other parts Of the world.
American agents were said to be persuading Den
mark to sell ST. Thomas and Johns Islands to the
United States.
The British Board of Trade returns for the month
of October show a falling off Of ETC., 1872 in the value
of exports, as compared with the same month last
year. The shipment Of cotton, manufactured, how
ever, exhibited a large increase.
VIM. Lemon Oliver, the London stock-broker, who
was found guilty of forgery. and applying to his own
use securities and property intrusted to his care. had
been sentenced to twenty years penal servitude.
II is stated that advices from Salt Lake, show that
the Mormons still entertain an idea of emigrating,
and have made n contract for lands in the Mosquito
country.
Advices received from the japan squadron, give
assurance that it will return to the United States
some time in May. and that an ambassador frcm ia
pan will accompany it.
A letter from Buenos Ayres, in the Havre Journal,
states that the bishop of that place has e~xcommuni-
Gated all Freemasons, and declared their doctrines
incompatible with those of the Catholic Church. In
consequence of this, the clergy have exhorted from
the pulpit the wives and children Of Freemasons to
quit them, and servants to denounce them.
A LUCKY OLD MAN-John Brobst, an old man,
living in Cumberland county, Maryland, had just
been discovered TO be the rightful owner of q large
tract of mineral land in the heart of the richest re-
gion Of Pennsylvania, worth 90. COG, 900. He has
sold out all his right and title for 81. SOC. OO0-
The EPIDEMIC OF 1853 AT NEW ORLEANs-The
Yellow Fever has about ceased its ravages at New
Orleans, after prevailing with more or less severity
since July. During the period extending from June
20 TO Nov. II, the official reports of interments show
that the deaths in the city amounted to 8296, of
which 1850 we're of Yellow Fever, and S446 Of other
diseases
so far as regards the capital, an accomplished fact.'
The suburb Of Ochta, Of which both the land and the
inhabitants were formerly the property Of the Admit
rally, has now been fully enfranchised, and at the
late municipal elections for that district upwards of
5000 who had formerly been held in bondage came
forward to claim their privileges as freemen.
A Government oil contract, for 10000 gallons
winter sperm, at 81 PIG, has been taken by an Ed
CARTON (Mass-) house.
The sailor Austin, one of the parties charged with
firing the whaleship Corfe<, has tanned a mouse in
his cell in the Boston Jail The Journal says, the
little animal occasionally emerges from the pocket o:
-----s Il. IL L. :. - h C<rrS 800 &-l--
q run over his head and shoulders, takes a look at
the Court and c~unsel, and apparently satisfied that
all is right, retires to his retreat.
Bonner keeps up his Ledger advertising, by the
half column, column, newspaper and page, spend
ing not less than $3.50 900 a year on his newspaper.
Nothing could better illustrate the advantages of
advertising. Stephen Gerard once said,-''I have
always considered advertising-liberally and long
TO be the great medium Of success in business. and
the prelude Of wealth. And I have made it the rule,
too, to advertise in the duIlest times, a long expert
ence having taught me that money thus spent is well
laid out-as by keeping my business continually be-
fore the public, it has secured me many sales that l
would otherwise have lost"
SENATOR DoUGLAs-One of the principal topics of
speculation at Washington now, is, how Senator
Douglas will bear the affront put on him by the
administration, in assigning him the second place on
the Committee on Territories. 1t is fully apparent
that there can be no truce between Douglas and
Buchanan. One or the other must succumb at last,
and it seems pretty evident that whoever will, Dou-
glas uonf. The bitterness Of this warfare will not
be confined to Washington; letter-writers assert that
every effort is making to ensure his defeat in the
Legislature Of Illinois; and it looks as if Douglas
would have one more hard fight, at least. before his
next Senatorial election is secured.
The CASE OF CAPT. KIBLISG.-The case of Capt.
KILLING, who was held to answer in a suit for embez-
element brought by the owners of bark ". s. Perkins, |
Of which he was lately master, Wednesday underwent
a series OF transformations At Q o'clock in the MORN
ing, Capt K, who had previously made an assign
ment of all his property and effects for the benefit of
all his creditors, took the poor debtors oath in due
form, with a view to obtaining an immediate release
view Of the proceedings, was however given by the
counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit, and he was
held in custody to await the result Of a second bearing
in the matter. to be had within fifteen days from the