The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-04-28
Arrival ofthe Mail.
EASTERN DATES TO MARCH FIFTH


Inc clipper ship Argo. Capt C. Ballard, arrived
= mus port on Thursday morning. the 2lst inst. in
.oorseen days and six hours from San Francisco.
of'ne'ng three passengers and the United States
maais. ~ this arrival We have received dates from
gan francisco to April 6. Panama to March Is, New
lork TO March z. and Liverpool to February %.
IN the supplement Of to-days paper will be found . full
summary OF the European news. by which it will be
seen that the war feeling, though kept under and
denied was far from extinct. The London Times,
winch ought to be well posted in European affairs,
taiks very gravely Of the crisis which is approaching.
FROM California we learn that the assembly had
oy q majority Of nine given its assent to the dismem-
oerment Of California out Of the counties South Of
monterey, Buena Vista and Tulare. This was re-
garded by many as q move in the direction of found
ing a slave state on the Pacific.
The hrst submarine cable for the Pacific coast had
been received at San Francisco, and had been laid by
the Alta Telegraph Company across the straits of
Carquinez at Benicia.
FROM Fraser River we note nothing new of interest
Inc River was SO low as to expose the bars in many
places, but to the disappointment of the miners, these
were not so rich as the banks.
A late account says ssThe Sickels tragedy nj
washington is still the absorbing theme Of converse.
ton among all classes in our community, as we'll as
cS otspiS WI iuuCu VI II eu1tCIl8l remarks In orr
daily and weekly journals. Public opinion here. as
well as elsewhere, is at decided Jariance as to wbeth-
er Mr.. Sickles is j~usti6able or no. in taking, as he did.
the law into his own hands, and ~inficting so terrible
a punishment upon Key. Our newspapers, also,
have taken sides in this matter; and two of them
the Times and Erening Pos, have had quite q
fierce controversy over 1.-THE former Journal tacit-
ly, If not openly, j~ustifying the act of the injured
husband, while the latter very decidedly condemns
it, on the ground mainly that, great as was the inju-
ry inflicted upon him. the wrong done Mr.. Sickles
were not OF a character which should entitle lin to
become his own avenger.
When considered in the light of calm philosophy,
or under the stern behests Of the law, the theory of
the Post is undoubtedly right. But philosophy and
law are not constituents Of the original nature of
man. We are all more or less the creatures of i'm
pulse; and it will, l think, be difficult to convince a
jury of his countrymen that Mr.. Sickles-provoked
as he had been, and goaded to madness as he was at
the moment by seeing the destroyer of his household
Haunting in his face the seducer's signal to his wife
COMMITTED, in killing that seducer, a deliberate
murder. There is nothing that l can soc in the act
of MIR. Sickles that should raise it above the offence,
if offence it be. of justifable homicide. And such, I
think, will be the general verdict of the public when
the excitement which now exists has subsidized, what
ever may be the result of the Grand Jury's action in
the matter"
MIR. Hale, an American merchant, well known in
South America, offered the Government of the United
States to settle all the matters in dispute between them
and Paraguay, to the satisfaction of both parties, for
$40, 900.
HENRY L. ELIswoRrH's WI.L-The will Of Hon.
l.. Ellsworth was proved to-day. 1t is estimated that
Mr.. Ellsworth was worth $S00,OO0 at the time of his
death. His immense land speculatious at the West,
now in cultivated farms, proved immensely profitable
to him. The remarkable part of his will is, that it
gives to Yale College seven-eighths of his great estate
The provisions of his will are
i. $25, 900 in trust to his son, Henry W. Ellis
worth.
III. $685. 900 TO his daughter, wife of Roswell Smith,
Esq.
III. $4,000 to the heirs his son Edward.
". 81, 800 annually to his wife.
The remainder of his property, amounting to about
500, 900, he gives to Yale College and this sum
amounts to more, probably, than the present entire
worth of that corporation.-Hartord Times,
NATIVE AMERICAN SEAMEN.-The Boston CONNER
ciai Bulletin has the following upon this subject
We have fifteen thousand fisherman, and these
could man thirty first class frigafes; and after a years
training, we have no doubt they would compare ia
vorably with any men afoat. We have in New Eng
land alone, native seamen enough to man any navy
that the resources Of the county could produce in
FIVE years. Our magnificent whaling feet has in it n
class of men, Injured to war,@men, whose familiarity
with danger quickens all their hcultles,-men accus-
toned to selfreliance and who can vie with the smart
est naval sailors in the handling of ships. When W,
say they are Injured to war-wem mean war with the
monsters of the deep, who requires more skill and ac-
tivity than ~sponging, loading, Turning out, pointing,
and firing a gun, or in using small arms. These,
with our fisherman, two classes of which our naval
authorities know little and appear to care less, COM
prise the men who, in any naval warfare, must sus-
tain the honor of our flag afaat. They are native
American seamen
HIST RECEIVEn PER MEJITA,