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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-12-24
a TelegramS.

NEW YORK, November 23.-An Army Of the Poto-
mac letter says an order has been issued Immediately
to shoot all guerrillas as soon as captured.
The Navy Department has advices from the pand-
erbiit. She was at Mauritius at the last accounts.
The alabama was reported in the Bay of Bengal.
A Morris Island letter of the 18th says: 10 shells
were fired into Charleston on the 18th, falling into
the most populous portion of the city. On Sunday
night a heavy rebel fire continuously poured into our
batteries from the rebel works. Nothing new from
the fleet.
Gen. Scho6eld's order to recruit slaves, just the
same as white men, is out.
The President yesterday, in the course of a CONVEX
satiou, remarked that the next two weeks would be
the most momentous period OF the rebellion.
The Times special dispatch says that an officer of
Gen. Banks's staff, writing to a friend, says a large
quantity of cotton was captured near Brownsville,
and an expedition had been sent up the river to get
all they could find. The men of Brownsville, who
hailed with delight the capture of the place by our
forces, were forming themselves INTO defensive organ
izstions, and rendering valuable service as scouts;
and their services will be shown by the amount of
cotton thrown into market from our occupation of
Texas. 1t is estimated to reach 250.000 bales. as the
amount stored on the Rio Grande line is immense.
MOBILE. November IA letter received from q
member of Gen. Green's staff announces the defeat of
two Yankee columns in Louisiana. Gen. Franklin's
division encountered a portion of Gen. Dick Taylor's
army under Gen. Green, near Alexandria, on the 9Th,
and after n stubborn fight the Yankees were routed,
with the loss of their stores and 5000 prisoners.
Gen. Heitzel's division is reported to have been
routed by Gen. Dick Taylor, near Cloushee. The
expedition is said to be abandoned. A portion of the
troops have returned to Port Hudson and Baton
Rouge.
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MISCELLANY.

The President has ordered that all able-bodied
colored men, whether slaves or free, who may VOL
unteer for the army, shall be accepted and enlisted
The Chattanooga Rebel announces the arrival of
JEFF. Davis in Bragg's army to settle all household
quarrels-
Loyal papers are now published in Vicksburg.
Rock, Ark.
The rebel prisoners at Camp Chase (Ohio) held a
regular and orderly election on the 18th instant, and
voted Tor Governor, with the following result. which
Is published as the official returns: Vallandigham,
1,0Sl; Brough, :.
Mr.. George Peabody has presented Yale College,
with a geographical cabinet worth Sl25,000.
GaiignGRi says that a Paris book binder lately
found tweniy-six bank notes of 1000 francs each,
between the leaves of a book left with him for repairs.
three sous. did not know of the treasure.
1t is said that Miss Chase's bridal trousseau is to
cost n magical sum. Well, a.man who can make
naturally be expected to give his daughter a rich
1t Is we'll under stood that the expenses of the lovely
Kate Chase's bridal trousseau are paid by the treble
millionaire who has had the rare fortune TO win her
kind and gentle Journal.
The dignitaries of the Church of England, having
decided that Bishop Colenso must be tried for his
heresies in the diocese to which he belongs, a formal
notice has just been served upon him to appear for
trial at the Cathedral Church, in Cape Town, on the
18th OF November next. The prosecuted Doctor will
barely have time to reach the place of trial on the
day designated, but the long voyage back to South
Africa will give him leisure enough TO prepare his
defence.
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Correspondence OF the Pacific Commercial Advertiser

KoNA, Hawaii, Nov. 30th, 1868.
Mr.. EDITOR "A little after 8 O'Clock on the morn
ing Of the 26th inst, we had the heaviest shock of
an Earthquake that has been felt here for many years.
1t walked up all hands, and the children too. 1t
shook the houses, broke some window glass, ratified
the dishes, and broke the chimney of our kerosene
lamp. while standing on the table. 1t being the
morning of Thanksgiving day, We we're reused to a
sense Of our duty.
The weather has been very dry in Kona for the
last two months. Our drinking water has to be
brought from the mountains. In this respect, how
ever, we are only on a par with the citizens of the
metropolis, with this distinction, ours is brought in
buckets, yours in iron pipes. Planters on the other
islands say it is no use to try to raise anything in
Rona, as there is no water there; and L have heard
some of them laugh at the idea Of growing sugar
cane here. among the dry hills and rocks. But,
Mr.. Editor, though Kauai and East Maui may IL. nh,
We will mock when their fear cometh. 4 few of the
residents are giving cane q fair trial, and as L have
visited all the sugar plantations on Kauai within the
last few months, including that of Princeville, |
ought to know what good cane is when L see it. L
have also seen some of the plantations on Maui, but
l have seen no cane on any of these plantations that
excels that now growing in Kona. One gentleman,
a neighbor of mine, who has planted a few acres
to give it a trial, took me into his field the other
day to show me some cane planted only five months,
of as handsome. large and thick growth as | ever
saw-solid sticks of cane from three to four feet long,
and full screen inches in circumference. This cane,
remember, has been planted only five months, during
which the weather has been unusually dry. If East
Maui, Lahaina, Koloa, Lihue, or even the Prince
vile estate, can do better, | have yet to see it. About
cane growing, we have been very quiet so far in
Kona; but we will soon be prepared to show what
car be done, and | promise, you will hear further
from me on this subject. koNA. y
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From Japan.

In he Chinese papers we find the following from
Japa-
Th Prince of Nagath had issued orders that
JOSEF Heco "a japanese formerly of San Francisco)
and ie japanese pilots who conducted the Wyoming
to Shnonoseki, should both be killed. One of these
pilotTas murdered soon afterwards.
Tb Chief Minister, Ogasawara Dzoo-sho. no kani,
and rec other members of the Cabinet, have been
dism'ed. They were all in favor of peace with
Chrilan nations. 1t is said that their heads are in
dang. The Tycoon, according to rumor. now in
clineo the hostile policy urged by the Mikado.
ThsuthGrities have ordered all foreigners to leave
Nagaki. The foreigners refuse to leave, and the
JapsSe Governor has resigned. and nobody else
will eept the position. 1t is considered a danger
Gus pee.
ThMikado has issued an order that no Daimio
shallurchase any foreign vessel.
Arge British feet has gone to pay its compli-
men to Prince Satsums, who, it is said, is now
~veryeble and willing to pay indemnity.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-12-24

THE MONSTER WAR SHIPs.-The entire maritime
interests Of the country will hear with pleasure that
when Secretary Welles came to revise the plans of the
$500 ton war ships under proposition in the Navy
Department, he determined fully to test the casemate
as compared with the turret, and to that end rejected
the plans of those vessels submitted to him, and COM
municsted to the construction bureau his plan OF
three ships, monstrous in size, impregnable in plat
ing. and as fast as steam power can be made to urge
iron through the water. The question Of their size
will be allowed to follow wholly the question of the
capacity of their engines. They will be five thousand
tons at least, and may be six or seven thousand tons.
They are to be big enough to hold the machinery to
make the fastest war vessels that have yet been built.
The plates for the classmates will be from fifteen to
twenty feet long, from five and n half to six inches
thick. and fully three feet wide. 1t is Secretary
welles' purpose TO put these three national bulwarks
in hand and get them out in eighteen months
Washington Correspondence New York Times.
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The Sanitary Fund.


There has been another excitement on this question
and San Francisco the past fortnight has raised
$4,000 for that noble purpose. There was an en-
thusiastic meeting in Platt's Hall, and some good
speeches, when the first action was taken in the mat
ter.
The Rebel Fleet.
Here is something for ardent admirers Of the
"Sunny south' to digest
The Washin gton correspondent Of the New York
Post says our Government intends to make England
pay for the losses incurred by our merchant ships
from pirate gunboats fitted out in English ports. The
State Department is recording the exact money lost
through this agency Of the English pirate ships. Not
a merchant vessel is destroyed but the fact is record
ed, and. so far as is possible, the value of property
destroyed IS ascertained and written down.
"Ex fumo, dare lucem."
You are interested in the "ile question at the
islands, and here are some statistics 1 met with the
other day in reading the papers, q thing 1 rarely do
The economy Of light is a subject Of vast import
ance. In years past, adsmantine candles were all
the rage in California. and miners thought they could
never use anything else in the tunnels, where their
consumption Of candles was and is now enormously
great. or late, however, kerosene is making rapid
inroads upon candles, giving both a better and pleas
anter light At much less cost. Although we have no
standard Of the comparative value of candles, yet E..
n. Kent, Of the U. S. Assay Office, tells US in the
CARDS cost Of oleaginous substances for light:
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osr OF OILS FOR LIGHT COMPARED.

And the oil kerosene is made from petroleum. 1t
is said TO be a fact well established that petroleum has
a beneficial effect upon the health. 1t has been re-
marked that no case Of sickness has been known to
originate from the use of or a proximity to the pro-
duct. notwithstanding its offensive odor. No district
of country can he found where the children are SO
uniformly rudy faced and healthy looking as they
are in the Pennsylvania oil region; nor can a class of
people be found who enjoy more physical vigOr and
good health than those who are constantly exposed to
the noisome smell of the compound. So says an East
ern paper. l have nothing to add to it, except that
1 am somewhat interested in petroleum, and am glad,
in the words of Billy Birch, it is such a healthy
ghost"
William Sturgis.
The death Of this highly respected and worthy
merchant partner of the old Northwest trading
firm of Bryant & Sturgis, and well known to all the
older merchants of Honolulu and California. is thus
noticed in an Eastern paper
THE BosToN MILLIoNAIRE, WILLIAM STURGIs.-
The estate of the Hon. William Sturgis, who recently
died In Boston, is estimated at nearly S2,OOO,O 00.
With the exception of a few small legacies to some
intimate friends. including the Rev. MIR. Gannett of
Boston, and the Rev. Mr.. Morrison of Milton, the
whole of the deceased's estate is willed to his rela-
tives, mainly of the Sturgis. Bigelow, Hooper, Tap
pan aud Robert G. Shaw families. In his will, as
originally drawn, Mr.. Sturgis had given $4,000 TO
the Cambridge Observatory, but this was revoked in
u COuiCii, ne SSHS ulhStii IdIu OfcT tHut sum.
With Mr.. Sturgis passed away the last, we believe,
of that class of millionaires who, commencing their
mercantile career during the war of 1872, and prose-
cutting it with the most eminent sagacity throughout
all the period in which Boston stood foremost in the
lucrative trade to the East Indies, were enabled to
accumulate those immense fortunes to which they
owed their titles of " merchant princes"
Personal.
By the Princess, 1 notice that w. L. Green, Esq,
Of your place, is passenger. This gentleman had
been longer absent than myself from San Francisco,
and was not quite prepared to see the many and vast
changes which had so rapidly taken place here in the
last II years. L had the pleasure Of meeting him
yesterday, and was glad to see that he had SO much
enjoyed his trip to Victoria and this port. While
Honolulu possesses such an energetic and public
spirited a merchant as Mr.. Green, she need not fear
comparison with any commercial emporium on that
score. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. F.. Snow also take passage
on this vessel. Capt. Reuben Thomas recommends
to your hospitalities Capt. Crowell, and l have no
doubt the master of so fine a ship as the Princess
will meet with due attention from so generous and
free hearted a set of men as are the occupants of the
stores en- Queen Street, by the waters side. Nuf
ced,' or JAM SATIs.
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COmmerci1
Letter from San Francisco.

% rraox OUR own CORRESPONDENCE
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O THE LATE NJ

IHNc HAS A FEW CHOICE
Il rtraits of His Late Majesty kAMEHAMEHA ".
takeDm a recent and correct likeness, now in the possession
OF Hdajesty the Queen 1t gives the KING in his military
dress Commander-in-Chief and is thought by good Judges
to be most perfect likeness of him now extant. A few
copiaitable for framing, or for sending to foreign countries,
can lad at the store of the undersigned. Price $3.50
eac
ii. VI. WHITNEY.
Daher 10, 1867. 39llm
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

HAD HAND IN 1r.-In one of our public schools party of boys smeared one of the balustrades from the top to the bottom with mud, and when the master came in, he very naturally laid his hand on it when he mounted the stairs. He was soon aware of the mishap but said nothing about it until the scholars had been called in, and taken their seats, when he acquainted them of the fact, and said he would give any one five dollars to tell him who had hand in it. Up jumped little red haired ur- chin, who said:
 ''Thir, you seth you'll give any one five dol larth whol Il tell you who had hand in it."
 "Yes."
 "Now, thir, you'll not whip me, will yous"
 "No."
 "Thsn, thir, you-now you won't whiR7" +"You young scamp, I'll whip you if you don't tell pretty soon.''
 "Thir, you-oh, don't like to-"
 "Go on, or I'll skin you alive"
 "Well, thir, you had c band in t."
 The master was compelled to acknowledge that the lad had the best of it but the boy didn't get the five dollars, although he received several thrashings before he left the school ErcASnge.
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soAr.-T'his is an ungratefal world. MarA

soAr.-1hs is an ungrateful world. Msrh how we gorify the lesser achievements of the race, and neglect the greater. The inventors of printing, and gunpowder, and laughinggas, and thousand other unimportant items, ws embalm for perpetual remembrance; but the inventor of soap sleeps in nameless grave, 4 he had the honor of grave at all Sosp-h is the worlds great civilizer, the invention an- terior to and father of all other inventions. It strikes us that mans first step from savagism was attained by the aid of soap. The happy fellow who discovered it suddenly found his eyes opened, as Adam and Eve did when they set up in the apron business; having secured and washed himself like white rnaA, he set up for the first aristocrat. This was one step and tue first, toward civilization; the rest came easily enough. And, moved by these re. factions, we land we beg our readers to do tho same,) send back an aspiration of heartfelt homage to that namsless benefactor of man. kind who fist invented soap.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

ed us that for him suffering was forever past. He died then, forEthough the heavy breaths still tore their way up for a little longer, they were but the waves of an ebbing tide that beat unfelt against the wreck, which an immortal voyager had deaerted with smile. He never spoke again, but to the end held my hand close, 30 close that when he was asleep at last, I could not ldraw it away; Dau helped me, warning ne as he did so, that...it was unsafe for dead and living flesh to lie SO long togeth- CT, but though my hand was strangely cold and stiff, and four white marks remained across its back even when warmth and color Ihad return ed elsewhere, I could not but be glad, that, through its touch, the presence of human sym- pathy perhaps had lightened that hard hour.
 When they had made him ready for his grave, John lay in state for half an hour, a thing which seldom happened in that busy place, but a universal sentiment of reverence and affection seemed to fill the hearts of all who had known or heard of him; and when the rumor of his death went through the house always early astir, many came to see him, and I felt tender sort of pride in my lost patient, for he looked most heroic figure lyirg there stately and still as the statue of some young knight .asleep upon his tomb. "" The lovely ex. pression which so..often beauti6es dead faces' soon replaced the marks of pain, and longed for those who loved him best to see him when half an hours acquaintance with death had made them friends. As we stood looking at him, the ward master handed me letter, say ing it had been forgotten the night before. It was Johns letter, come just an hour too late to gladden. the eyes that had looked and longed for it so eagerly-yet he hads it :; for after l had cut some brown locks for his mother, and taken off the ring to send her, telling how well the talisman had done it's work, kissed this good son for her sake, and laid the letter in his hand still folded as when drew my own away-feeling that it's place was there, and making myself happy with the thought that even in his solitary grave in the government lot,' he would not be without some token of the lose which makes life beautiful and out lives death. Then left him, glad to have known so genuine man, gand carry with me an enduring memory of the brave Virginia blacksmith as he lay sersnely waiting for the dawn of that long day which knows no night. Commonwealth.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
[ From the Journal and Courier.]

From the Journal and Courier.1
 COnscriptiOn. Conscription, dear boy, is marvellous thing, For plain reasons which sooa can be stated, It shows up the kinks of the genus homo. As is shown up in some who were fated. Some always so ready to hold up their views, Demanding the Wars prosecution, Declaring, if drafted, they wave their adieus, And at right shoulder shift, in Uncle sam's shoes,l
 March forth to inaict retribution. But when 'mong the Victims, their names were enrolled, And their services in acquisition, Then sad to relate, their bodily state, We found in dreadful condition. Complaints, which till now were unknown te
 exist,
 Were conjured up in hurry, With terrible names, which would frighten a
 Dane,
 Or horrify good Lindley Murray. One had fallen down stairs. when bi. of .
 lad,
 Which had caused spinal affection, Yet Barrel of Flour he could tote round an
 hour,
 Or get up his back on election. One was "deaf as an adder," "for sure in his Was blathering rumbliRg existing" Yet he always could hear, ,"ould boy have some beer,"
 Though he never could hear of enlisting. Common Drunkards, we know, by the law are exempt,
 So some rollicking Sports have attempted, By keeping just right, by which is meant,
 tigAt.
 To make sure of getting exempted. The profigate son of widow poor. Dependent on her for subsistence, Gets cut his exemption, by making the plea, "WhY, I'm her main stay of existence" But qualities rich, unselfsh and rare. Have also been shown in Conscriptiop, Clearly proving that shirking cannot be tho
 rule,
 But, per contra, it is the exception.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
DENTAL NOTICE.

TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($25) QfYyvVA Cash, will, for the next six monts, ,s pay for full Set of Upper Teeth. eM ie Carat Gold, and warranted to fit, and mace better than any made for the same price n Hartford, as don't as yet, for the want of b0siness. whip the Cat to get work.
 will be found at the old Stand whese have been for the past five years, over the Post Of. Ace. South Street. Litchfeld
 Thankful for the liberal patronage have oceived for years past, hope, by closest an. u1ication to my own business, to merit and re. seive a continuance of the same
 E. CRossMAN. Litch6eld, Jan. 1862. tf-s7
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

The true end of freedom is to develop man: hood and womanhood, not to make authors mechanics and statesmen.
 Of one thing we may all be certain, thai friends departed, whenever we listen to them speak in deeper, richer tones, than when they were with us. The new American Bird-Two Hundred Pound Parrot.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
1I)oetrp.
Drilling.

Sweet Amy asked, with pleading eyes,
 "Dear Charley, teach me, will you, The words I've heard your captain says should SO like to drill you" .'What little one, you take commandi
 Well, Amy, Tn quite willing; In such 6 company as yours, 4caR't have too much drilling. s'stand over there, and sing out clear,
 Like this-'ssuad, stand at eass,'" 70, Charles, you'll wake papa up stairs,
 Don't shout like that, dear, please" "I stand at ease, like this, yog see!
 And then, need scarce mention, The next command you have to give
 Is this one, eSquad-Attention.' "Now, Amy, smartly after me,
 (You're sure, dear, it don't bore you?) Forward-Quick March-Halt- t-Front-Right
 Dress,
 There, now, Pm close before you. "Present Arms-well, it does like odd,
 You don believe I'd trlhe: We hold our arms out just like this,
 In drill without the rife. "Now say, Salute your ofieer.'"
 go, Charles, for shame, how can you? thought that you were at some trick,
 You horrid, cheating man, you." Charles, "ordered arms" without command, She smoothed her rumpled hair, And pouted, frowned, and blushed. and then Said softly-"As you were."
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
WM COTHKEN.

A TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, Notary A Public, Commissioner for tAeStates of New Fork, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana. Illinois, and Wisconsin-and Licensed Pension, Bounty and Extent Claim Agent. All business entrusted to me, will be promptly and faithfully attended to U. s. Tax Stamps for sale, as fast as issued by Government.
 Woodbury, Nov. 27, 1862. 32-y1
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
J. F. WALKER .

Over the Post Office, South-st., Litchfeld, Ct.,
 Manufacturer and dealer in Saddles, Harness, Brides, Halers, Whips, Lashes, Sockets, Surcingles, O,na-
 menus, Trimmings, d;c.
 Rossman's Oil Backing For preserving, softening, and renewing the appearance of Harness, Carriage tops, &c. Made to order all kinds of double and sin. gle Harness of superior style and workman shin, and of the best material. 3m9
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

Many of the lions ofsociety, like their name- sakes of the forest, are unable to iooS rue man in the eye.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
IlARNESS.MAKING.

WVHE above Business will be carried on by M the Subscriber, over A. c. Smith St. where large stock of
 HARNESSES, BRIDLES, HAMPERS, and other material belonging to the Business, vill be found on hand, or made to order JOHN WILLIAMSON
 FREDERICK BROWN, Agent.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

The poet says, "full many flower IS born to blush unseen"-and so is many . maiden so far as our observation extends.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10

stand by the Draft. ~~ AAlA SHAVED Chesnut SHIN I9 BISHOP & sEDGWICK's.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
Bishop & SedgWick,
David q. Buckley,
FREDERICK B. SWIFT,

ATTORNEY AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC, Commissioner cf Deeds for EOery State ana Territory;
 200 Broadway, New York, ts10 First FlooR-Rear.
Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-10
CHARLES KIRCHBERGER, Root and Shoe Maker.

UROOTS & SHOES made in the best manner ID and a the shortest notice.
 Mems, Women and Children's Boots, Shoes Slippers, Caters and Brogans.
 fSr Give him a call, and try them on. TO Litchiield, July 20th. 1861. t1-Io