The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-04-09

COMMERCIAL ITEHs.
Aa.oog the novelties Of trade is the receipt OF tobacco in the
N-s Orleans market from Connecticut
Tile masts Of a new French ironclad, lately launched near
T0a!oa. are Of a single piece each The timber was obtained in
CALIFORNIA sAwMLLs--The tota! number Of sawmiIs in the
state IS Is Us = s Shi aao . .11n gu. per 81 s s1sH Ill LII -, 500 feet Of lnn-
Cruz county. They average about 5000 feet Of lumber each
RE,PPEAEAScE OF AN ISLAND ~ THE MEDIERRASEAS--A
singular phenOmenOn has just manifested itself on the coast of
wears ago, is gradually coming to light again. being now but q
foot or two from the surface Of the sea. An English ship, hav-
ing a party Of scientific persons on board, has taken up its
station in the immediate neighbOrhoOd, in order to examine the
phenOmenon-
CALIFoESIA RrcE-A correspondent of the Bulletin says
that last fall wild rice was found extremely abundant in some
parts o. the Trlare country, and could have been gathered in
20 the old hunter, and also to the Indians who go out in bulrush
into n ir baskets with sticks. 1t is then well dried and the
chat separated by pounding In mOrtars and is used by them to
el-- tie Indians are immoderateiy fond Of, and they grow fat
on = Wild rice is found in the klamath lakes. In both dis
trcts sea, quantities of wild minet are found in company with
The rice.
YssseLs Sold.
Rars Peru. $50 tons, of Nantucket, lying at New Bedford
has been sold to Richard II. Chapel, Of New London on pi-
vats terms She is to be continued in the whaling business
froGa that port
ship Intrepid, l!o.5 tons, now on the stocks at Bath, has
ana owners have sold ships enough to Europeans, since the
esE,E mn IN p % q The e war, to amount to g 200 coo in gold or
The AZ bark Rose Pool, 2s5 tons, recently Of Edgartown, has
ben sold in New York. to go under the British flag, for
One-eighth of bark Scion, Of New Bedford, now at sea, was
soh at auction by Maj Bourne, as discharged from her last
voyage, with insurance for $1,000, to Chas L. Wood, for S265 80.
Also, one-sixteenth Of merchant ship Continent, Of same port,
as discharged at Hong Kong IN October, to Stephen G. DriscoIL,
fdr 500.
Ship Minerva Smyth. Of New Bedford. 335 tons, which was
Withdrawn from the whaling business last year, and has been
ying in port since April, 1852, is being fitted by her agents,
AIessrs. l. II. Bartlett & Sons, for the whaling, and Is IN sail
abOut the 10th OF March, for a cruise in the Atlantic Ocean,
urslsr command OF Capt. Obed Sherman, late Of ship Canton
Packet.
One-eighth Of ship Cornelius Rowland, Of New Bedford, now
at sea, was sold at auction 9th Feb by Major Bourne, as dis
Charged from her last voyage, to Otis Seabury for s2,l25.
Brig Oxford, Of FaiThaven, 100 tons. with her whaling inyen-
tory. was sold at auction at 9th Feb by A. D. Stodiard, to
Damon & Judd, Of that town, for 5000. She lis to be continued
in the whaling business, and Will be fitted for the Hudson's Bay.
Sch s. B. HOwes, Of Boston, Calling from HULL 102 tons,
has bean purchased by Williams & Haven, New London, TO be
employed in the whale fishery.
The o. s sloop-ofwar Falmouth was sold at Aspinwal to
Capt Wilson, formerly of the steamer Ariel, for $4,000. She
has arrived at New York, where she will be repaired. The
copper and iron in her hull will more than cover the sum paid
fer her. When the Government sells a vessel it obtains the
most contemplate price, but when il buys it pays the most
enormous Poor Uncle Sam is a loser in ali his moneyed
transactions