The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-01-14

they are now estimated at upwards OF II, ,OO0, 600
lbs
so SO per ton.
Here is an item for you, in connection with
this market report. You are about to have a
rival in sugar producing, look out for your
laurels, o ye of Lahaina, Waikapu. Wailuku,
Makawao, Ulupalakua, Koloa and Princeville,
not forgetting Hawaii.
lsDusTRAL ESrEEPEIsE South schooner
Sarah, which cleared Friday Tahiti, is completely loaded
engage staples Tahiti
We learn that this company whose head Office in Paris has
southeast side Of of Tahiti from the French Govern
Of with For labor intended bring
force OF from 300 to GOO natives from Of the
islands which lie in the direction of New Caledonia Prior
the with the French in ls46 Tahiti had begun produce
considerable 200 having exported
one year The war however, destroyed the plantations which
could be worked from of labor From that the
for its consumption. The result of this effort if successful
will doubtless be the of making large increase the
Of Tahiti which only consists Of 6iche
pearl shell and Other articles OF ing importance
Gold Market.
There is a report fast obtaining foot-hold among
many here that there Is to be great endeavor
made n the Legislature, the present session, to
pass an act, whereby U. S. Legal Tenders shall
pass as currency here, as at the East Gov. Stan
ford recommended it in his valedictory speech,
and to-day see by the Legislative proceedings at
Sacramento, that Hittell introduced two bills
making greenbacks receivable and payable for
public dues. He stated that he does not favor
their passage, but wants the subject brought up
at as early day possible, that the people
who are most interested can have time to express
their opinions.
The price of Legal Tenders to-day at the first
Board, was 69c. bid, 701c. asked. The Bulletin
telegram reports gold in New York to-day ut $50
and a shade easier. The susceptibility of gold to
even the slightest impression report may be
seen by the following extract, taken from the
commercial column of the New York Journal of
Commerce of November l4th
The Gold Market has been somewhat exercised by the
certainty in regard to the movements Of Messr Belmont Co
about Of God which they have accumulated to
s1OOOOo $1,000 900 of this Gold have been drawn out Of
bank prspaTa."ry 70 Shipment IL was understood TOO thnt II was
The French Admiral applied under
could do order of the French Minister This
that the shipment will be made via Havana The transaction
Is perfectly legitimate itself; but eSces attention in
consequence Of political complications Mexico and the
unwingness which feel anything egiti
mate which aids the Mexican invasion 1t may turn out how
matter and that is merely round Of exchange growing out
Of the large in the Gulf European account
1 send you with this letter, synopsis of the
reports of the Secretaries of the Treasury and
Navy, by the former of which it will be seen that
no more Legal Tenders are to be Issued, and that
he asks for power to make loan of 800 millions
for the coming years expenses. - We are COM
ing, Uncle Abraham, 800 ,O0O, 600 mOre," Billy
Birch can sing no more.
goes the Islands by this opportunity. 1t de-
livered on the 10th () and telegraphed in 51 hours
to the -7ia read it in that paper at my breakfast
table the 11th, what do you say to that facts
make no comments upon II, as 1t is sound on the
goose you bet
Soldiers Relief Fund and New Church.
1 take the following items from a morning paper:
SOLDIERS having charge OF
the Sanitary Commissions interests in California remitted by
$4,000 The President Of the Commission the Rev H. W.
assured by the Chairman and Treasurer our Commee
Francisco furnish 100000 during year
100000 paid monthly insalments
The $50 sent Saturday months January
and February.
THE LARx1x STREET PHEsBrrERAs cHuRcH-The Trustees
rkn street near Pacific and have for the
house which is to be feet by and
dred persons substantially
constructed wooden church on this coast
The Comparative Prosperity Of the North.
While rejecting the starvation talk of Southern
editors, it is impossible to avoid comparing the
tbriftiness and prosperity Of the North in the midst
of the 1t quite that the North feels the
war. The thousands of her gallant who have
met untmely graves on the Southern soil, and the
ten thousand crippes, and disabled soldiers. in
the North do come home to the hearth stones of the
people High prices for everything inflated cur
Tency. and the absence of gold in commercial trans
actions, all remind us of the Yet the whole
co1ntry seems prosperous. In the Eastern States all
kinds of manufacturing establishments busy;
everybody who is able and willing can obtain en-
ployment, of both The cities lively as
ever and the Of New York never dressed
gayer, nor did Broadway finer than just
Rents high, and yet the complaint is
echoed from Portland 10 Philadelphia, and from
Philadelphia to St. Louis, that there is scarcity Of
dwellings. New buildings to supply this demand
going up in every city. All the hotels every
where doing we'll in spite of the high prices. In
the West, the draft the agriculurists for the
army, has created demand for farm hands greater
than the supply Hence, wages have advanced, and
mechanics have never been well paid
This advance has overcome the high prices and
equszed the prosperity of the whole country These
pregnant facts. and taken in connection with the
outpouring of money for $50 bonds, the spectacle
convince all intelligent Europeans that the
North is able TO continue the indefinitely without
serious trouble. The poor well taken care OF,
and benevolent enterprises nobly sustained.
Instead of starvation, there is abundance OF every
thing, and IL is the most common remark OF st.
Louisans travelling hence to New York. that nobody
could tell was in progress.-St. Louis Cor. Of
-7Ita.
Though the mills OF God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small.
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With eXacness CriDds he all.'
Rebuke to Copperheadism.
Some person has been sending the Hon. d. L.
Islands. and practicing law at Carson City i'll
Nevada Territory, number Of COpperhead papers
That gentleman defines his position the Union
question follows l do not know anything
be more fat footed.'' This, too, from of the
warmest partssns of former democratic admins
tratou. is worthy OF record
My political position always OF the Union
and all Of the administration
maintain it, there is proprety party
diversions and qusrres which may have even remote chance