The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-04-17
SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENCE.
PEI ..uAR MrHRAx.'-No. -.

FER ''EARE No -.
SAN FnAxcIsco, March, 1869.
Since the departure OF the Idaho, We have been ia
yoryd with frequent rains. the tota. amount that has
fallen in the city this season having been over sixteen
inches, while in the interior the quantity recorded Is
about twenty.-suficicut to insure abundant crops Of
grain.
Au iEtcrestiE. Trial
vas commenced Oh the .3I in one Of our couVtS-a
suit for libel against the BallstG news paper, by
Capt. v .usJr. OF the ship intrepid. Capt ". was
recently master Of the ship Iairspia, and the suit
brought by him Is for $4,000, for an alleged libel
Gus story, published in the Bull6iil, that a Captain
hal treated q sailor in . cruel manner. AMI then set
him aigiu At sea near Easter Island. W. H.. l..
Barnes. who visited Honolulu two or three years since,
appears a. counsel Tor the defendants, and Messrs.
Elisha Cook and Milton Andres for the prosecution.
lev French COnsnlS.
The Courier de san FTIEciscO announces, in a
letter from Europe, that by Imperial decree Of Febru-
airy 81. Mons. Brcuil, late Consul at Lisbon, Is
appointed Consul General Of France Tor san Francis
CO VI. Bailou, clerk in the Ministry Of Foreign
Affairs, is to replace NJ. Beranger at Honolulu vi
comte b. de Moutmorand, Consul General at Shang-
hal, Is appointed Consul General at New York and
Francis Dillon (son Of the late Patrice Dillon,
formerly French Consul in san Franciseo), late Vice
Consul at London, Is appointed Consul at Bangkok.
Honolulu Mails.
The Hawaiian Consul, who Is also postal agent
here, inserts q card in the Bulletin announcing that
mails ig the Hawaiian Islands are regularly made up
in the Postofice here, and forwarded by the Hawaiian
Postal Agent by every vessel the Postmaster also
forwarding mails By steamer. The mail Agent by
the steamer also receives letters ON board, postage
paid, up to the time Of sailing. This notice appears
to have been rendered necessary by the publication
in one of the papers that only letters left at the agents
Office would be forwarded.
Oranges and Blight.
Great efforts are being made in the southern
counties Of this State TO introduce the cultivation Of
sugar cane, fgs, oranges, and other tropical fruits.
Considerable success has attended these efforts, but
lately a disease similar TO that which attacks the or
ange and figs in the Hawaiian Islands, has made its
appearance there. \ recent correspondent Of the
.IHa says Of it:
ct i a fact that demands attention that the orange
groves Of LIS Angeles are suffering from a malady
That BODIES disaster. At this time every leaf Il cover
eli with q black incrustation that appears to come
from q small, nat, Hght-colorei aud wingless insect.
IL i no new disease. II has destroyed large plauta-
tions in tine Sandwich Islands ii has been destructive
in Florida. The same disease attacks the coffee tree.
We find the O.eaudey, a; tie Mission Of san Gabriel,
los angeles, completely destroyed by the same thing.
Tie insect, IL that be the cause Of the black rust,
docs not seem 90 feed on the leaf You can rub Oft
the black coating and helclf VIII be green and glossy
a. ever
The above disease would appear TO lie nothing else
than what i known with you as q the blight" which
i 50 destructive 20 tie oranges and coffee trees in
Koua.
The Snail Pov.
\ morning paper states that the health officer. DR..
Rowel. last evening, communicated the pleasing in
t~e.ligeuce that yesterday passed without any case Of
small poE having been reported, making the first day
in ten months il which no new case Of the epidemic
has occurred. In the progress Of the disease since last
spring, remarkable fluctuations have been noticed.
S.me;imes. when the decrease in the number Of leases
lei % tie belief t..at it, course had been permanently
arrested, it would suddenly swell again into almost
it, worse stage Of yiruIencc without any apparent
cause. ana would again as mys,eriously disappear.
The type Of the disease has also repeatedly changed
in an unaccouutable manner, sometimes yielding
easily % the usual treatment, and at others assuming
a malguaucy that baflsd the best physicians. Of
late il has been steadily abatiug, until yesterday it
seemed 10 have entirely ceased.
The last health report states that twenty-eight new
cases Of small PoK lad occurred during the week end
ing tire 2Jth inst, and there had been nine deaths
from tie same disease, cut Of "a total Of ~sixty-uiuc
deaths.
1 Native Camel.
4 male camel vas born recently in this city at
Wrarialri's Garden, supposed - be the first born
ON this c1a-'. 4 VIrgiria paper says that " there
are o. dozen or more 81 cnmcl- running At large on the
Ca--1u, near the Oh Overland route AMI many a
traveller and telm-tsr can bear testimony that their
numbers have been increased from year to year by
births"
Items.
From ten 10 twenty tons Of mails are said to be- on
the sny hither from Salt Lake City. This is good
news, for few letters have been received here from the
cast or from Europe fr q month past.
The flagship Pens1ooia, which has been lying in
ogr harbor for s.ac time past, has gone t., Mare
Island.
It's ruuorcl among naval officers that the sluvI-
rpnr Il the North and south Plori6r fleets orr 10 10