The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-05-16

BHERrvG STRAITS Posr OrgIcs-Capt Clark, Of the
whaleship ocean. sailed on Monday last, May Il,
for the Arctic. Being the last wAa.er for the North,
he took q great many letters, papers anu parcels for
the ships cruising thcrcahcuts, and proposed sending
them all ashore in 4 large chest, at Eas, Cape, 10 be
placed IN charge Of the Indian Chief residing there,
who j. reputeI 70 be a kind-heartei. clever old Inii-
an, who takes pride in his hospitality, feasting his
visitors on decr's meat, and valrus steaks fried in seal
blubber, with choice right whale oil rs a drink
rare dishes in those parts. We dispatched about
fifty packages, containing the latest -ffrsrtlssrs, New
York HsrgIfs. New Bedford Snip Lasts, &c, with
Lincoln's Inaugural, Capture Of Fort Sumter, and
other secession news The East Cape Post-offce may
yet become quite m institution. and hereaf;o- the
old saw may be changed e .NC~ibscarE the star Of
Empire takes its course, - and we may yet hear Of
some live Yankee PeFchei on the North Pole"
smoking his long nine,' or whistliug to the
tune Of - Dixie's Lane" The parcels ami letters
whalemen Is the sight of "a twO-hundred barrel bow
head, and help them 10 sing more merriiy Row,
boys, row. when chasing their whales.
TELEGRArHc-we did no, observe, till after our
last issue was printed, that the Fort Sumter news
was received here by the BiqcF HGtr5 in the shortest
time ever yet made. Our dates from Washington
and Charleston were 10 April IA, and 81. Louis April
10. The Black Ha5rt delivered her mail here on
the 18th Of May, the new having come through 10
Honolulu in twenty two days, The Washington ad-
vices brought by the Comet January L, came
through in twenty-five days, which was the best time
then made. The overland telegraph is being extend
ed every month, and before this year is ended, we
may have Washington news not over fifteen days old.
And next year, the telegraph having been completed,
cur Eastern news will only be as many days old as
the vessel will be on her passage down from San
Francisco. SIC tempora mutaatur.
LAY THE DUsr-Now that we have an abundance
of valley water, every store should be provided with
hose and pipe for watering the streets, which in a
short time viii become as hard as pavements. We
notice that there are already a good number of hose
apparatus throughout the town, but there is room for
more. There need be no fear of any scarcity of
water now that the kapena spring pours into the
reservoir, for it has been found from experiment
that the reservoir can be filed every ten hours. Its
capacity is 100000 gallons. At this rate the spring
furnishes about 600 GOO gallons every twenty-four
hours, while the estimated demand for the town is
less than $4,000 gallons per day. OF course the
large surplus runs off through the waste pipe at the
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The NEXT NEws-The American news by each
mail will be more and more important. The next adj
vices VIII pfOoioiE report an attack on Fort flckenS,
Harbor, the secessionists having met with
success at Fort Sumter, that they will endeavor
to clear the coast of all United States troops. The
result remains to be seen. The clipper ship Rapid,
probably bring the New York mail of April II,
md may be expected during all next week. The
Comet, with the mail of April Dist, ought to
arrive between the 25th aud Both inst.
- In our remarks on the new water-works a
week or two since, the credit of preparing the de-
'gns and plans used, should have been given to Mr..
Nehster- who We have SINCE learnad nrennrnA thnm