The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-01-21

/ just what are wanted to spread the proper knowl-
! edge of the Hawaiian Islands among our mer-
chants.
RICE-The demand is exceedingly limited.
| The only sale of any Importance from private
hands worthy of note is 25 900 lbs. Sandwich
Island Table at SC y ID at auction, $50 mats No.
/ China, 4ic Parties receiving rice here COM
! plain that it comes 10 hand badly cleaned Tad
much broken. The rice raised and shipped by
/ DIR. Ford runs evenest in quality, and would
! readily command now S1c to SIC. q don't charge
| the Doctor anything for this puf.)
PULU.-The shipment per Young Hector went
the market at full rates. j. w. Shafer thinks
! he sells than 10 600 lbs per month. 1t was
only an estimate on my part, but as you have
Schneider down at 400, 900 lbs per month instead
of 10000, the average is better than good. (Look
out, Jim T--son, how you set up my mo-
del market reports.)
LUMBER.-Owing to diminished receipts, hold
ers OF Redwood have succeeded in making cargo
sales at $50 per NJ for rough $50 for clear. Shin
giles and Laths still rule at old prices. The burn
ing Of Godeffroy, Sillem & Co.'S mills at Mendo-
cino. is the cause of the Redwood rise. Loss
estimated at fully 800, 600 of which you receiv-
ed an account some time since.
BAD WEATHER HoLIDAYs-A dirtier day yes
We have been praying for months for this rain but
we had got along long without we respectfully suggest that
longer say until Jan. I'd,
swim must stay at home and be content
This item is from the Via of this morning.
But the weather is clearing up, and | hope the
sagacons weather-wise will be for once a false
prophet. There are great doings, and send you
elsewhere accounts of the immense cattle which
have perambulated our streets all dressed up with
fancy ribbons for the past week, and were slaugh
tered yesterday and to-day. One of them is said
to be the largest steer killed San Francisco.
1t weighed 2440 lbs. What do You think of
that, Cornwell? DanI Vida says that a 1475
FOUNDER the largest ever killed in Honolulu,
and he's authority. 1he streets are filled with
Christmas trees, and '' there is good time com
ing you bet Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year. to all friends, say L.
Earthquake.
We have had a smart shock of an Earthquake since
the smiling Of the EIdriige The quidnuncs say that
it is the heaviest shock since 1865 Here's what the
Bulletin says:
At Is minutes TO to ocec on the 2l It, one Of the heaviest
The pipes in our Office trembled for some
building coming
dog in the hall that had been very uneasy SILENCE
by telegraph that the earthquake felt with violence
Santa Clara San jose Had you any shock the
islands this date?
Artemus Wards Movements.
alr. Kingston, the :" Showman's'' Agent, passed
through Sacramento route TO Washoe where T.
rangemen,s will be made for the last of his Pacific
side lectures. week from to-day, Artemus will
:" speak piece in Virginia City, and afterwards in
Carson City, Silver City and Reese River. He then
goes the plains across stopping to talk Brig
ham and his wives at Salt Lake City, Denver City,
and arriving in New York in six weeks.
4. Ward has lectured twenty nights in California.
His receipts at the irs lecture amounted to S1,100,
and at the second $500 The total of the proceeds
of his pieces" reached the of So 900 in gold,
for which he will probably get $4,000 in green
backs OH his arrival in Gotham. Artemus has GER
tainly reaped rich harvest about quickly if he
had struck the richest vein in Gould aud Curry.
SeIGh
j. Ross Browne is bound for Arizona, on a gold
aI md IN 10 Looks
The Opera.
Bianchi was all ready to leave, when some of the
arstes struck note of discord backed out and for
the present the musical amateurs must be patient.
That is Banchs advice given TO me the other day,
L repeat it for what it is worth.
Pleasant to Contemplate.
The report Of the rebel Secretary of the Treasury
places the entire debt of the Conederacy 81 0OO
O0O.000 $500 900 600 of which treasury
500 .000, 900 of these in circulation. The Sec
retary says that the amount needed TO carry the
Confederacy until the Both June 1864 is S475 000,
coo, and extending the estimates include the
entire year, will reach 81 $4,000 900, which Con.
grrss is formally called on 10 provide. If the Con-
ederacy lasts until the end of 1864 the debt will
be -, SOC. .000, 600
ir. Erlanger, vino engineered the Rebel loan, is
going to marry Miss Rosine Slide the second
daughter of the Confederate agent Paris. When
he engineers another loan he had better marry Old
Slidell himself, and then put proposition between
the two syllables of the old mans name and act
Here's something to please the church folks. 1
should prefer . to experience religion under
different circumstances:
GREEK FIRE AND GnMORE's SHELLS PRODUCING Rr1Ieous
REVIVAL AMONG CHARLESTON REBELS London
CORRESPONDENT writes as follows from Charleston:
upon the characr the inhabitants aud defenders Of the be-
Ieguered likely be and worthy of
been observed that Battery Wagner
powerful effect in the Of promoting religion
who, when relieved (Which happened
days in the habit Of fockng numbers
nearest camp revival friend who has been watching
the siege for the last month"; writes in explanation
this circumstance in the following The sharp
cracking the Monitor I
English
miles but conceive its effect upon the
when is heard from distance Of only few hundred yards
the explosion 15inch shell
within several smaller shells which banging and
cracking and swapping about and perhaps
hail prjectes frequently maintained day and
together, keeping the garrison always the
strain and promoting irritable fevershness aud
susceptibility which can be readily conceived than de-
scribed"
Consular Matters.
The following article may be read with attention
by our whaleship 1t is from the S F. BuI-
Iefia Of "a Dec and has undoubtedly been furnished
the editors of that paper by persons in authori
ty Consul Caldwell probably has need OF its
teachings.
NEED Or soME CusroxHoUsE Guide FOR L. CoxsrLs AND
long time back the Collector and
experienced
execution Of their duties through the ignorance
many unwttinEy regulations.
their invoices and Certificate from foreign The law
Of foreign goods or at the port OF shipment,
the same 10 be done before a United Consul.
has law library which contains all the
COnsus foreign
official that their papers when seized
by proper form. This reliance often
man this (and probably