The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-10-01
NOTES OF THE WEEK.


A BRUTAL ArrACE.-Last evening, about dusk, as
the Custom House guard were marching past the
Royal Hotel, q person standing in the door called out
sseyes right when the Corporal, who as near as we
can learn, appears to have been half drunk, ordered
the soldiers to halt, face about, and charge with
bayonets on the bystanders. Mr.. Cooper, the keeper
of the hotel, received one blow on his hand and
another in his breast, neither Of them serious ones.
The bar-keeper, however, received a severe wound
across the back of one of his hands. In the assault,
the Corporal had a sword. and the soldiers their
mnuskets. The doors of the hotel were also slightly
damaged in the attack. The Corporal was immedi-
ately arrested and lodged in the Station House for
examination this morning. To say the least about
this affair, it is a brutal and unjustifable assault,
and we trust the offenders will he held to strict ac-
countability, whether they were drunk or not.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR INTOXICATING DRINK.-Profes-
sor Miller, in a lecture to the Scottish Clergy, gently
reminded his brethren of their great failing and sug-
gested a substitute. which answered every purpose
and was much less injurious to the health. The
North American Indians, he said, when they failed to
procure their supply of ~whiskey, were in the habit OF
standing for a time on the crown of their heads.
This produced o determination of blood to the brain,
with a giddy sensation, and consoled them for the
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.'to those fathers and brothers who were in the habit
of taking a tumbler of today occasionally to assist
them in inditing their sermons, if it would not be a
much better plan to adopt the idea of the North
American Indians, and stand for a quarter of an hour
or half an hour on the crown Of their heads before
they sit down to write"
The 10Th century is certainly the great epoch Of
invention. A Honolulu gentleman of peculiarly
practical genius, informs us that he has recently
invented q new and economical method of riding
horseback which he wishes to lay before the public
for the benefit of the world. He places one end OF a
rough joist upon the top of a fence and the other end
upon the shoulders of two Cinnamon. When mount
ing astride of the timber he orders them to shake it
up well. After the Cinnamon get used to the labor
they can give you a walk, trot, gallop, or tumble, as
you may direct. And half an hour he says is sufi-
Gent to make the rider as sore as can possibly be
desired. -
Miss OGDEN's ScHooL-A meeting Of gentlemen
was held in the Fort Street Church on Thursday
evening, for the purpose of discussing the best plan
of establishing the family school of-Miss Ogden, for
native girls. upon a permanent basis. MIR. s. N.
Castle was elected President, and Mr.. Fuller Secre-
tary of the meeting. By request of the Chairman,
Mr.. Fuller stated the object for which the meeting
had been called, and made a succinct explanation of
the character, condition and present necessities Of
the school, and after an interesting discussion it was
voted, on motion of Mr.. Waterhouse. that a COM
mittee of three, comprising Messrs. Fuller, Aldrich
and Goodale, be appointed, with directions to mves-
tigate the subject and report at q public meeting, to
be called in the Bethel at a future day. The object
for which this meeting was called is an excellent one.
Miss Ogden has under her charge some ten or twelve
young native girls, who she is training up to a know
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hold duties of civilized life. The remuneration re-
ceived for their education, together with a small in
come derived from other sources, is barely sufficient
to support the establishment, much less to warrant
it. enlargement. The field of labor is wide. Expert
ence has demonstrated the efficiency of such teach
ing. And it is to be hoped that the community viii
come nobly forward in support of an undertaking
which cannot but commend itself to the approval of
every one who has the welfare of his fellow creatures
ut heart. -
The AURORA BoREALIs AGAIN-The California
papers have been full of accounts of the magnificent
Aurora Borealis witnessed by the people of that
state several times during the last week of August.
On the evening of the 4th of September, q display OF
the same kind, but of a comparatively feeble charac-
ter, was witnessed in Honolulu. And We now learn
from Capt. Foss of the Kinooie, that on the evening
of Sc pit. 2, at about 101 o'clock. in Lat. IL deg. N,
Lon. III 10 W., he beheld a similar exhibition. The
log states that they "saw a very bright light to the
northward, reaching nearly to the zenith and extend
ing a round the horizon a distance of fifty degrees"
The light was too bright for a ship on fire, and it was
thought possible that it might be of volcanic origin.
The idea of such a display of the Aurora Borealis in
so southerly a latitude, never occurring to the Captain
until he was informed, after his return, of the unu-
sual exhibitions that occurred at nearly the same
date, in California and the Hawaiian Islands.
A MEMENro.-To those of our island readers who
were brought up in a less genial cline, we commend
the following paragraph, clipped from an exchange
paper. 1t is very easy to procure an acorn and what
could be a more beautiful or appropriate remem-
brance of a northern home!
elf an acorn be suspended by a piece Of thread
within half an inch of the surface of the water, con-
tanned in a hyacinth glass, and SO permitted to re-
main without being disturbed, it will, in a few
months, burst and throw a root down into the water,
and shoot upwards its straight and tapering stem,
with beautiful little green leaves. A young oak tree,
growing in this way on the mantle shelf of q room,
is a very elegant and interesting object"
PERSONAL His Majesty the King and suite
returned from Lahaina yesterday, in the schooner
Maria. By the same vessel Hon. D.. L. Gregg also
returned. -. Rev. Mr.. Armstrong, President OF
the Board of Education, returned from Kauai yes
terday in the Kaluna. He leaves again for the
windward in a few days. for the purpose Of looking
after the educational interests placed under his
charge. Rev. E. G. Beckwith, late President OF
Oahu College, leaves in the Yankee, and goes to
Sacramento to take charge of Rev. Mr.. Benton's
church. He carries with him the warmest wishes OF
many friends and pupils, who, during his residence
here, have become deeply attached to him.
WHALING PROSPECTS In New BEDFoRD.-The New
Bedford Standard says that there seems to be a pros.
pect of a revival in the whaling business at that port
In the early part Of July there were s~ixty-6ve vessels
in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Of which about thirty
were fitting. Four or Eve were nearly ready for sea.
Since the LIST of January, eighty whalers had arrived,
and twenty-six had sailed from the ports Of New
Bedford and Fairhaven.