The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-05-20

to lie a most charming day. and consequently no
body could complain y feature Of the process
was Barnum, the great Snowman, in person. with
several truck loads Of his stuffed curiosities, such a !.
elephants and girafes. By the way, know vbara
a stuffed giraffe can be bought m~akepoHo loa. and
would it not be q good spec 10 send the same %
Honolulu. to be kept in some storekeeper's back
yard, and to be shown only 10 his customers 4.
the natives have never seen q camcleopard. me,biDLs
that the enterprisiug w. would pay a handsome ad-
vance on the cost and charges OF such a shipment
Whaleship Owners.
| hear that there is much growing anorv ,ho
owners Of the New Bedford whaleships which re-
cruited ut San Francisco last fall. So great f,cili
ties exist there for desertions, and so many pet,ifoe-
glng lawyers abound, that no end Of trouble and ex-
pense IS caused, and It don't pay. So that. after oil
the dissatisfaction so often expressed. the owners of
whsleships are forced TO acknowledge that the sand
wich Islands present in every particular the creates,
Inducements for the cheap and expeditions recruiting
of their vessels.
Mcclellan.
A careful perusal Of the Adrertiser is always attended with
much information 1 read about everything here, but unit!
capital little story where Seward says that no man can IA =.
President of the United States who spells the word nepro III, =
two gs. Speaking Of Mcclellan, I notice that his aTrivsl IN IN
London and Paris was hardly Doticed by the leading journal,
OF those cities, and II seems that he is permitted to sink into
his proper inslgniheanee and obscurity. My own opinion is
tnat ne was always a seeessionist at heart and that at the
oeginnlng OF the war he would have gone on the other side
had not General Scott made so much Of him and elevated hin,
capa6I. Of saving The soa amrvE t after . i a Battle n sh "s Pmiy mar man
George Wilkes the talented editor OF the SPIRIT Of The Tins,
his contemplated movement, CertainTv th"v .nIrn,sence n
just what he was going to do. In the matter Of the arair o,
Munson's Hill, young Scott, the nephew Of the General vas
made the scape goat when it was found that the secret, held
position the night before McClelan's advance WAS to be made.
Certainly Mcclellan always Tough; the rebels " with gloves
on and frequently declined TO order an advance when he
R "a them IN a position so they could have been %annihilated.
The rebels were all his friends and when he was deposed from
command they mourned bitterly, saying " now you hare gone
lar how many warm friends Mcclellan preserves notwi,hs,nnd.
ing all these untavorable circumstances, though certainly they
DID not consider him as good a man for President AS Z" Honest
wanting"
Divorce Case.
The strong divorce case is exciting a great amount OF atten-
ton among the elite of New York. The parties are what has
lady treasurer of the Great Sanitary Fair last year and gave
her check in paying over the proceeds FOR a cool million at one
of tough swearing and dreadful accusations n both sides,
but the witnesses are Of an inferior grade, for no really res
pectable parties care to testify on such matters even # they
are aware of important facts.
New Tax Law.
have alluded to the new tax law and will now give some OF
Islands. BY the tax of ten per cent on the circulation of all
lions which must necessarily crowd them out Of existence as
s9eh, and force them to give up business or to change into
paper currency from Maine to Texas, and the business OF
percentages in changing the currency of distant banks.
All animal oils 6 per cent; fish oils, exempt; on all bank
deposits, LA of one per cent per month; on all bank circu-
iation, liz of one per cent per month"; on all bank capital,
per annum; on all savings bank deposits, /. per cent per annum:
ships or vessels = per cent per annum on value; on all ships
VI eSsfls earnings, - per cent per annun; books, b per cent,
brandy, soc gall; beer, 81 per Dbl Of 81 gall~s; breadstuGs,
eNempti foreign exchange, acceptor or payor To anix stamps;
snuff and tobacco, 40 cent per 10; bricks 3 3 8 per cent; coal
crude, 81 per Dbl; coal oil, manufactured l5c per gallon;
sheet copper, g per cents raw cotton, &c per ID; manufactured
cotton, 8 per cent; furs, 6 per cent; gold watches, value 800.
tax 81. value $500 or over, tax 81; iron manufactures, 5 per
ivory, 9 per cent; mOlasses, 6 per cent; each passport IS:
passage tickets, 2 per cent on amount; cigars, $40 per 1000;
blocks, per cent; shocks, exempt; umbrellas and parasols, 6
per cent; hides and skins, o per cent; spirits turpentine, 2c
per gaiioni raw sugars, . 2-5c per H.; sugar tanks, S per cent;
white lead, 42c per 100 lbs; wool, 8 per cent; on all dividends
up to $4,000, 5 per cent: $4,000 to $4,000, u per cent; over
10000, 10 per cent; and citizens residing abroad pay 2 per
rent In addition to above. FosCo.