The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-02

CHANGE IN PUBLIC OPISIoS-We have before us
letter from army officer Of experience native
of Massachusetts, and we'll known among his present
friends for his conservative views upon the subject Of
slavery He has been for several months past in the
heart Of secessia and has the spirit which ami
mates the rebels acted out perfection, and the
result OF his experience he writes these words: Sa-
very goes under with this The only ends
when slavery throughout these United States"
He says that he has seen sights since he held his
present position which have opened his eyes the
origin of this rebellion. After giving an ac-
Count Of some case Of rebel outrages, says 80 We
have given these rebels time enough TO reflect. If
they do come instantly into the traces am ready
20 give the government the benefit of my services and
experience to make this end OF slavery.
Ills time We have delayed postponed and tarnished
all our successes by the spirtess sympathy for the
SOutherner. Ii We cannot stop this system of guer-
rla warfare by the usual means. l say arm and
and equip the slaves, and in sixty days will clear
the state of Mississippi of the rebels BOsOn Jour.
The FIRST WHALEMES.-In article on Whales
and Whslemen in Chambers Journal, the question
Is put, to - Who the first Whalemen:' 40 In
this it is stated, the ruling Briton
not the hardy Dane-not the steadily enduring,
amphibious Dutchman-nOt the bold Norwegian,
child OF the seI-kings- No. The Spainards-Bis-
cayans and Basques-6rst dared attack Leyiathan on
the high seas, early 1915 True, some have
tried to prove the Norwegians first in the field
but they have made out clear case. Ii
probably the nOrwhal, gramphus, and other small
versions Of the great whale they hunted The old
ninth-century navigator, Olithere, the Norwegian,
whose wonderful adventures were taken down from
his own lips by no less person than own King
Alfred, speaks of having slain sixty whales in two
days Fla;ly impossible, if right whales had been in
question Thus much is certain the first whale
bone which ever found its way into England was
picked from the wreck Of n Bscayan ship in 1894
and when at the close of the sixteenth century, the
English frst began to fit out whaleships, they
first obliged call in Bscayans how to direct them
in their preparations. and TO I'LL the important
Offices in the ship.
THE BARBAEIANs-M Honyeau, a Belgian savant
who escaped from Texas Mexico writes to the In
dependence Beige saying that in several places when
the planters heard New Orleans was taken they
called their slaves into the workshops locked the
doors, and set the houses fire, standing guard
around so that If any one crawled of the flames
they would shoot him her. This is scarcely be-
levable, and yet the Memphis correspondent Of the
-7ItG tells the following:
a. What but this traffic in human flesh could so
harden the hearts Of civilized beings, bearing the
image Of a humane and merciful Maker, TO induce
the perpetraton of such dark aud damning acts
within the last week have been performed in Misss
sppi and Texas, and within hundred miles of the
place from which l send you this letter.
Several negroes, II appears, had been detected in
Mississippi, in furnishing intelligence to the Union
army, and evidence had not been wanting to show
that general uprising OF the colored population
was intended at very distant day, soon as
the Fsderals near enough 10 afford protection
to them.
The riug-leaders Of the affair caught, smong
the rest my narraors son. and driven into q of
enclosure Dry wood, twigs, and combustibes were
Piled up nigh about them, and, by Gen. Braggs own
orders, the torch applied and the negroes burned
to death before the eyes Of their fellows and in the
presence OF the assembled confederate soldiery The
heart sickens at the bare contemplation of the
horrible scene"