The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-12-10
Miscellaneous Items.

FoRfY MILEs AN HoUR AT SEA.-The liverpool
-usTcuTy observes that Mr.. James Steel, q working
joiner of that town, has invented 4 screw propeller,
and that he states from experience made on the
Princes Park Lake. that with this screw he can get
four times the speed OF the ordinary screw with the
same engine and the same pressure of steam. The
screws are worked reverse by means of two wheels mt
the centre boxes of the screws, and can be replaced
at sea at any time, and being only one-third in the
water, can be %unshipped without any difficulty.
There are six blades III one frame, the reversible one
catching the back water as the ordinary one, giving
thereby FIVE times the velocity, as proved the last
three to four years on Princes Park Lake. The
steam on his model is raised by Naptha. The Admi-
rally has been communicated with. and the Duke of
Somerset has ordered the tracings to be sent, which
was done on the LIST instant.
How TO HAVE PEACE-General Sherman, the hero
of Atlanta, is among the best peace men in the coun-
try, and he knows the only way we can secure peace.
Hear what he said to the people of Atlanta
I've must have peace, not only at Atlanta, but
IN all America. To secure this we must stop the war
that now desOlates our once happy and favored cOun-
try. To stop war we must defeat the rebel armies
that are arrayed against the laws aud Constitution
which all must respect and obey. To defeat these
armies We must prepare the way to reach them in
their reCesses, provided Withthe arms and Instruments
which enable US to accomplish our purpose. +
1 know | had no hand in making this war, and [
know | will make more sacrifices to-day than any of
you to secure peace. But you cannot have peace
and a division Of our country. Ii the United States
submits TO a division now. II will not stop, bat will
go on gntl we reap the fate of Mexico, which is
eteIuat war. Inc United states does ana must AS
sert its authority wherever 1t has power; if IT relaxes
one bit 10 pressure, it is gone. aud l know that such
is not the National feeling. The only way
the people Of Atlanta can hope once more 10 live in
peace and quiet at home is 10 stop this war, which
can alone be done by admitting that it began in error
and is perpetGated 10 pride. We don't want your
negroes or your horses, or your houses or your land.
or anything you have; but we do want and will have
q Just obedience to the laws of the United States.
That we will have, and if il involves the destruction
of your improvements, we canuOt help it. You have
heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers,
that live by falsehood and excitement and the quicker
! you Look for truth in other quarters the better for
you"
Retaliation is n harsh school, but savages will learn
in 10 other. Quautrell never sacked a second Law
renee. Forrest never repeated his Fort Pillow expert
ment. Recently the rebels sent a Union family into
our lines at Vicksburg as traitors TO the Confederate
cause, and confscated their property; whereupon,
General Dana sent Z rebel family into the rebel. lines,
coufscated their house and gave the use thereof to
the exiled Union family. The rebels ut Charleston
placed some Union officers, prisoners in their hands.
under fire of our guns; the Union General recipro.
Gated IN kind; and a week or two after the rebels
cried pGccdUi, removed the prisoners TO o place OF
personal safety. and so notified the commander of the
Government forces, who again followed their exam
pie. While digging the canal ut Dutch Gap, on
James river, lately, a rebel battery opened on the
workmen; a Union battery replied the rebels placed
Union prisoners arodnd their guns, exposed TO our
fire; General Butler followed suit and placed captured
rebels among the laborers on the canal, when the
rebels again cried enough and remanded the pri-
soners TO other quarters. The rebel papers talk much
about ''civilized warfare but the conduct of rebel
leaders shows that they are reckless or ignorant OF
its simplest requirements, and thus only can they be
taught the ABC's of civilization and humanity. By
and by they will realize that there is not a single
game at which loyalty cannot checkmate treason.
BRILLIANT ACHIEvEMENT.-NEw YORK. Nov. 8
\ hampton Heads correspondent gives the following
account OF the destruction of the rebel ram .fI6e-
marie " Along the dock where the -4i5emurle was
mOOred were 4 large number of soldiers, evidently
stationed there to guard against surprise by the
landing Of n force in front OF their lines. The blaze
Of a number OF campfres lighted up the rebel vessel
and the river. BY the aid of these, Lieutenant Cush-
ing discovered a piece Of the floating timbers which
surround the ram on accessible sides, TO guard against
the approach Of rams aud t~orpedOes, and'by the aid
Of the same light he plainly saw a large body of sol
diers thrOnging to the wharf and blazing away at
his boat To quiet these fellows ne brought the bow
Of his boat around n little and discharged a heavy
load Of canister into them from his twelve pound
hO1itzer mounted at the bow. Making a complete
circle under a s~co-chiug musketry fire, AT less than
thirty yards, he came around bow on, at - full head
of steam, and struck the sOating guard of timbers,
pressing them in toward the hull of the ram. The
boat soon lost Roadway and came TO n stand still, re-
fusiug TO back of or move ahead. The moment for
decisive action had arrived. By the FIRE Of muskets
and pistols almost in his face from the ports Of the
ram and from I hundred small arms on shore, severa
of his men were wounded. The case looked desper-
ate; but Lieutenant Gushing, cool and determined
seized the lanyard TO the torpedo and a line Of spsrs
and ~crowding the spars until he brought the TORPEDO