The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-08-27


The ladies still continue 10 wear those charming
straw hats with very gay feathers aud flowers.
The fashionable style this season is a sort OF
mauVee eolored straw and in shape round topped.
The i.vorito style of gentlomcn's summer hats is
Hat brimmed. pearl oolorcd and round top.
The out-and-out swells knock the crown in lit
tlo seemingly rs if by accident. but in reality
this is the prevailing mode. 10 walk Broadway
with the round contour ot your hat undistnrbcd,
is % DC without the pale of fashion.
\ friend OF mine, quite n wag i'll his ways.
| who says he belongs 10 the Anti knock in-your-
I hat Society. amused himself u whole day by
stepping up 70 these bucks and politely telling
them that their hats were out of shape just MS
one would tell u gentleman that he had flour or
dirt ON his coat. lie had no end Of fun with
i;.em, aud hugely delighted with the indig-
nant remonStranccS of the disguStcd swclls.
gentlemen wear their boots and shoes excess
siVely square tocd. y late style Of shoe is low
cut fastened with one or two old fashioned silver
buckles 1T the sides. \ favoritc style of summer
dress is 20 have the entire suit, including hat and
CATERS. made of species of light grey summer
cloth. Coats and vests are worn with very broad
laPpels, pants very baggy and quito small ut the
bottom where they come over the boot. Cravats
and ties very gay colors, such bright. red,
blue and yellow. The old fashioned black hat of
the stoye-pipe description still continues To be
much worn, and no doubt will be popular so long
rs hatters exist.
| often think how apathetic we have grown
here 1T home about the war When | lived Mt
the Islands, | used TO be far more interested in
war matters than am here. 1t may be because
1t has become old affair, or because it is SO
close TO me, and on the principle that prophet
Is not without honor except in his own country"
At the breakfast table one reads rs matter of
especial comment that Grant had fight the
day before and eight thousand killed and wound
ed on each side. For my part have never yet
seen Monitor. / occasional regiments go,
and occasional regiments come, and negro regi-
ments, and lots of cripples, and zouaves and
bands of music. l also see end of extrava-
gance In the way OF equipages, and jewels, and
splendid dresses and magnificent houses. ! see
theatres full, and money made and spent like
water everywhere. | see gold two hundred and
twenty-five, pork forty-ive dollars barrel. and
no end of five-twenty bonds and greenbacks, and
fortunes made in day. When and where this
is going to end l cannot imagine. By-and-by
the fiddler will have to be paid, and then the
poor man who has not the money to pay his
ormOus taxes lCiH have vote, and a change of
administration and tactics will follow. Of course
there will be a great crash, many, perhaps all,
will 90 by the board, but the real prosperity of
the country will be here, and then after few
years Of economy will commence again, and
this gigantic and undiUided Republic will 60
ahead with a speed onward and upward which
will astonish the world.
Meanwhile, we rapidly approach the precipice,
every day prices of provisions and clothing adj
vance. Not long since l had occasion to buy a
pair of gloves, but dropped them quickly on
ascertaning that they would cost me two dollars
and half. To-day | would have to pay three
dollars for the article, and next New Years
day five dollars may be the price.
Some months ago an enterprising New York
stationer, got up gold chart showing the up
ward course Of gold since the war commenced.
1t was 50 arranged that it could be marked off
day after day, and in numbers from one to
70 Per cent premium. \ month ago Mr.. Sta
toner issued another running as high as two
hundred and ten (or 10 premium y since that
gold has been high as 235, aud if he is smart
he will not stop short of 500 in his next issue.
I cannot see how the Honolulu merchants pos
sibly do business safely at so great a distance
except upon a gold basis. Let all drafts be
drawn PAYABLE GOLD, unless some excessively
loyal American merchant has such great faith in
affairs that he is willing TO fix rate for curren-
cy drafts. | see by your paper that currency
drafts were quoted at 65 the Goth March.
Those drafts have just about now arrived here
and gold is readily saleable at 900, or nearly
double the premium they were taken at. My
idea is that If the war were to be ended
tomorrow, gold would not go below 200, for
some time to come, and that only temporarily.
However this is only individual opinion and I
donf pretend to DE particularly smart. Certain
IL IL that we have all been Mt with our poti-
cal economy curing this entire war.
] notice that quite n number Of distinguished
Islanders here. Judge Allen and his
charming vile have lately returned from Wash
ington, where | understand hs has laid tho
corner stone of treaty. which if completed
cannot fail to add immensely 10 .he prosperity Of
Hawaii and 10 carry quantities Of talent, capi-
tai and enterprise 10 your shores.
Mr.. md Mrs Jas +. u. Marshall nre also
here. having lately returned from active duty
the Sanitary corps. They were engaged with
the army of tho Potomac NIL along from the |
Wilderness to Petersburg, where Mrs. Mnrshal's |
health finally gave way under the heat. hard |
ships md fatigue Of their sslf-imposed duties. |
God will certainly bless them for their exertions
in this holy labor Of love and mercy just |
think of delicate lady engaged in cooking for !