The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-08-27
TEE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
sFOreign Selections.

American Ship, and one hundred and forty four
American barques, are employed m the East India
trIie. not including California on Australia ships.
OF these shiU- Boston owns two hsudred and forty
four. or nearly Oue-half.
PRIZE SALES IN New YoRK-Ye called attention
come time since. TO the enormous disparity between
the expenses ia prize cases in New York AMI Boston.
IL SEEM, by recent Inve-lgafIOns made IN me former
city, the parties Interested in the proceeds OF the
prizes have been grossly swindled. The government
and the capJors have been cheated by the officials
with an audacity perfectly amazing. The investiga-
ton disclO-es that these GfIcials have Deposited in
the Treasury what they saw az, and absorbed the
balance; mat in one case S2o.OO0 worth of the cargo
Of a captured vessel was not accounted Tor; and IN
.ome instances, the expenses exceeded the entire value
Of the cargoes. bringing the captDrs in debt 10 the
government. We hope that these harpies may be
forced 20 give up n PORTION ut least of their plumber.
But the best course for the government to adopt, to
protect itself and the interests of the officers and men
Of our navy, is 20 order every prize to be taken into
some other city than New York.
INTERESTING Discovery AT NspLEs-A Naples
letter has the following - very interesting dis
cosery has been made by Mr. Fiorelli. the inspector
Of the excavations at Pompeii. While digging At a
deJth Of frOm eight to ten feet, the pickaxe struck
into n little mass of coins and jeeels. VI. Fiorelli
then continued the excavation with the greatest care,
removing the earth grain by grain, and after some
hours labor. was rewarded by the discovery In the
hardened ashes of the perfect mould of a man in a
lying posture, the skin of which lad dried up. but
The skeleton remained intact. VI FiOrelli caused
plaster OF Paris 20 be poured into the form of the
POmpeiian, and the casting succeeded perfectly, with
the exception Of two fragments of an arm and II leg
where the mould was Incomplete. The cast of the
man is Of the greatest precision; the moustache, the
hnir. the folds of the dress. and the sandals are
admirably defined. The famous question of the The
sdLTum of Gronovious ard GTevius is now decided;
the Roman dill wear drawers. Also archeologists
will be delighted at discovering the manner in which
the Incients fastened their sandals, and at seeing the
heel Of a shoe completely protected with iron.''-
GaiigHaRi.
OR~DER-HEAvEN's FIRST LAw.-Here is a golden
rule to promote comfort in the household
Never leave things lying about shawl here, n
pair of slippers there, and n bonnet somewhere else
trusting TO a servant TO set things TO rights. No
matter how many servants you have, IL is a misera-
bic habit, aud If its source is not u the intellectual
and moral character, il will inevitably terminate
there. II you have used the dipper. towel, %tumbler,
etc. put them back in their places and you will know
where TO find them when you want =hem again. Or,
If you set the example of carelessnrss, do not blame
your servants for following il. Children should be
taught to put their things back in their places as
soon as they are old enough TO use them; and if each
member of the family were TO observe this simple
rule, the house would never get Ot of order, aud a
large Mt Of vexation and useless labor would be
avoided.
American NoTHERs-The duty and dignity of a
mother require that she should Lever subordinate
herself to hr children. When she does so. she does
IL TO their manifest injury and her own. Of course,
If illness or accident demand unusual care. she does
well To grow thin and pale in bestowing unusual
care. But when Il mother, in the ordinary routine
Of ile. RIOWs tUlu hbi pa 4 up i's'bSB iSht
ing, and the AN Isements and occupations of life
there Is q wrong sOmewhere, and her children shall
reap rhe fruits of it. The father ard mother are the
head Of the family, the most cOmely and the most
honorable part. They can not benefit the children
by descending from their heaveu-appointed places,
and becoming perpetual and exclusive feet and hands.
This is the great fault of Americas mothers. They
swamp themselves in n slough of self sacrifice. They
are s~mothere,i in their own sweetness They dash
into domesticity with an impetus and abandonment
that aunihiiltt themselves. They sink into their
families like n light IN Il pOIsuLOuS we'll, and are
extins Monthly.
BETTER TnAs A GOLD MINE-Tae Oil City Reg
lister, speaking OF the production ct Rex Oil, says
thai those who are lucky enough 70 strike a flowing
well. At comparatively a small cost, have u very
comfortable income. The man whOfowns a 90 barrel
well, nj the present price OF only - per brl. AT The
we'll. has = daily receipt OF slOO. This, too. with
but little labor, "a the liquid wealth flows Into his
tanks a. water from the ground. The Harrisburg
Patriot and Union says one of TIE most valuable
veins o: petroleum yet discovered, sas lately struck
on the Farrell farm, on Oil Greek. Venango county,
Pennsylvania After the well vas opened the oil
spourei up TO a height of fifty feet, Tith a roar like a
hurricane, and escaped at the rate of 200 bbls. per
day. 4 5tOpcOck was got on after iSacn trouble, and
the flow can now be regulated to Suit the demand.
Another flowing we'll in the vicinity was so affected
By the opening of the new well t.at its yield de-
creased over 800 barrels per day. Che Farrell we'll,
which is about $50 feet deep, wa at last accounts
flowing steadily at the rate of twelys hundred barrels
n day. This. even at the mOd-rate prices now
ruling at the wells, would yield the owner $1,000
Y uhN@aAibOSI az ulaO - a GO'Sih :
contract.
POLISH WONES-Aiany of the Polish women are
very like our English women of the slender, delicate
type, but with paler complexions, end brighter, and
generally darker eyes. L thought it was impossil lie
to see finer aul more variei expression than their
faces exhibited; for | saw them at "A time when their
enthusiasm, their iudiguatiUn, Their sorrow, aud all
their religious feeling, were awakened. | had read
in some book that they were frivolous and chHngea-
bic: but they have been constant enough to Poland,
and dull persons will always mistake animation,
quickness of perception. and a light manner for
treating light subjects, for frivOlity In every civil
izei country, women give the tone to society; and
this Is particularly the case in Poland, where social
gatherings are more frequent than with US, and
where there are no entertainments, no pleasure par
ties Of any kind. at which the women are not present.
II, however, the Polish ladies cared only tor pleasure,
insteai of placing patriotism above all other consid-
Grafton; if the balls and brides offered tO them and
10 their husbands could make them forget their
suffering country; then the Russians would certainly
by this time have made some progress IN the way OF +
gaining adherents among the Polish families OF the
kingdom, whereas, as II Is. they have not advanced q
step. The Polish mothers bring uE the young Poles
As patriots. and the Polish wives exclude from society
all whose patriotism i even doubtful. \ year and
q half ago, the women of Poland mAde a tacit agree
ment not To dance. and they have Eept their word.
painful As the trial must have be.l-for the Poles
are essentially a dancing people. ari it was only be-
cause a great calamity had befllle; them that they
gave up their smusemenis and stjrendeTel them
selves TO mOurning-Ths Polls: Captivity, by
Sutherland EdLcardS.
MEERSCHAUM-This famou. substance, of which
so many tobacco smoking pieces are made. IS hydrat-
ed silicate Of magnesia- When purs. II - white, but
when il contains silicate of iron, i, is yellow Good
meerschaum can be Iudented wirhith thumb nail,