The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-28
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

1~ "a iAN way III filNt NAlfAr it'A
Of the whlleship Nassau, was trapped by the pr
rate, which serves 10 verify the old adage that all
Is not gold that glitrers. Several OF the whaling
fleet were cruising. one fine morning in June. near
Behring Straits. patiently waiting for the ice to
clear away, 50 that they might pass through them
into the Arctic Ocean, or were looking for what
would be still better, the spouting of large bow
head whales, when Capt. Green spied smoke on
the horizon. twenty or thirty miles of. where several
ships were known TO be cruising. Watching in
tently. he observed another and still another col
umn of dense. oily smoke rising. and exclaimed,
by Jove, there's them ships, half a dozen of EN-.
all a-boiling, and Ue have Mt seen a whale for a
week. Instantly the order was given to bout
ship" and never did gallant tara more cheerily
" round in the weather braces and square away
than when the N0sSnt'S prov was pointed to join
her companions in the luck they were supposed to
have met. All hands flew around lively, and every
boat was put in trim. with lines. bombs and har-
poons, while every man counted on his share OF
the expected prize. On the good ship sped, dash
ing the water before her, as if she was bound on a
long cruise. and nearer and higher the dark col
umns of smoke curled up to the sky, increasing
now 10 six or eight vessels " boiling down"
" Good luck for once" shouts an eager boatsteerer:
=. the sea is all alive with bowheads, only waiting
lOf us anu never was lncTe Il joiner SET IIiil inc
crew of the Inflated Nassau when she was bound
for that " boiling-in'' scrape, for not the slightest
suspicion had arisen that the smoke seen was 4
pirates work, until they approached within q few
miles of the scene. and saw the hated craft with
her privateer signal. 1t was then too late to es-
cape for the Shenandoah, with full steam on,
headed straight for the stranger craft, and in 4 few
moments had her a prize within range of her guns.
The rest is briefly told. y boats crew from the
pirate was sent on board, the officers and seamen
were ordered off to n bonded ship, a few articles
were taken from the vessel. and the torch applied
to her hold. In a few moments the Nassau was
added TO the fleet Of whalers boiling down.
making the ninth vessel destroyed on the 28th of
June by the pirate ship Shenandoah. The result
showed that instead of the NdSSau'S boiling down
two or three whales that day, the pirate Waddell
boiled her down. to the waters edge. "
THE CmCus.-Messrs. Cooke, Zoyara and VIII
sons Circus arrived from San Francisco in the
schooner Alice, on Saturday last, and commenced
performances on Tuesday evening, in a large tent
erected on the Esplanade in rear of the Custom
House. This troupe enjoys the reputation of hav-
ing the best company of equestrian and acrobatlc
performers in the world. 1t is not often that our
citizens are favored with so celebrated a company
or so choice an entertainment as is afforded by
this. Some Of the fcats-such as the crystal pyra-
mid, the pole balancing and the acrobatic peg
formances in The air,-are really wonderful. Mr..
Cooke is The same person who walked the tight
rope at the Cliff House in san francisco. In addi-
ton to the usual equestrian performances, the com
pany exhibits the trick horse Othello, the learned
mules. and the trained dogs, all Of which certainly
possess little short OF human understanding. and
chow whag dumb animals are capable of being
taught. Madamoiselie Ella Zoyara ia a living Won
der, who has excited the admiration Of Europe and
America, FOR beauty, graceiulness and unriFaied
ioraemansLip. isn't that a pretty girl?2 IS the
first exclamation Of the initiated admirers Of Ella S
rosy checks and black curls. The arrangements
Tor ladies and children are excellent, and the
courtesy and attention which visitors receive from
the managers and attendants are spoken of by
many. This afternoon n performance will be given
for ladies and children. On Monday evening, there
will be no performance on account Of Mr.. Wyllie's
funeral but it will resume on Tuesday.
TIE MAGAzINEs-
HQrperS'.-The last mail brought us the maya
zines for September. As usual this is filed with
choice articles on various subjects. The contents
and writer's are these:
september-Poetry by George Arnold
a trip to Bodie Bluff and the Western Dead Sea, by J. Ross
Browne.
Love in a Hospital. Anonymous.
Miss Pink,s First Season, tIgstTatsd, Anonymous
Sketches Of Social Lie in China, QllustTated) by Justus Doo-
little, d. d.
4 4na pan5 pio ny N 5v + :. W ". W RarsST,
Mtfor;, by John L. Headley.
Armadale, by Wikie Collins.
The Helmsman. by n. G. Shepherd.
Street Education, by Julia F. Snow.
Margaret Bronson: by Elizabeth 5. Phelps
Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens.
Recolections Of an Old Fogy, by chss; Holmes
Monthly Record, Editors CHAR III Drawer.
The sketches of our Western Dead Sea are full
of life and spirit. 1" Miss Pink's First Season is a
veritable experience, paralleled in ten thousand
lives. The illustrations are magnificent, and the
letter-press history is capital. The Chinese. arti-
Gle relates mainly to betrothal and domestic life,
and is based upon a work now in the press of the
Harpers.
THE ATLAHTIC-The contents and authors of the
September number are these:
Coupon Bonds. ny ]. T. T~rowbridge.
Wilhelm Meisters Apprentice, by D. A. Msssou.
Needle and Garden, Anonymous.
DR.. Johns, by Donald G. Mitchell TX Marvei)
Up the St. Johns River. by t. W. IlGginson-
The Luck Of Abel stedman, by the author Of Life in the Iron
sonnet. at Bay Bridge, by 7. B. Aldrch.
Ths Capture Of JET. Davis, by one Of the b CsP,ors,
Visit TO the EIgeworths, by Mrs. Farrar.
on a pair Of old shoes, by Chas. J. Sprsgue.
Comuemoration Ode. by J. X Lowell.
our Militia System. by the Editor. Reviews, &c.
Several of the articles are continued from previ-
ous numbers. and all possess merit as original
American literature. Among the reviews of late
publications is a caustic notice of DR.. Baxley's
new book. in which he deals very roughly with
the Hawaiian Islands. and especially with American
Missionaries.
Hours at H0me.-The fifth number of this new
aspirant for popular favor IS before US, and shows
IN imDrovemant over lis predecessors. The arti