The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-02-19
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\ California correspondent Il the New York Journal 81
Commerce, gives the allowing a. one 81 the results Of the
opening Of the Pacific Railroad On the trade and business Of
that State
The Pacific Railroad, from which % murh was expected
n p, bsf I h7 now T D. ~ sue tsslGltoP-i - Che
IlJ.r-NI- ~ msrrbs,,H h. Wt},. Pm md Sait Lake. Hi
u0ts farmers furnish San Franci-cD markets with dairy pro
ducts Eastern mechanics SEMI their nranutaeiures by rli-
aud drive frm the field enterprises heretofore reinUneraiiye-
We pay To- much for labor and FOR money 10 compete Win ue
Fast, now that We have greater heihtles % S~. .sn = IN
The consequences - that money : scarce and trSie i dun
Speculation IN real estate = at a staHl-siaL Immigration h&s
may D. that California va better Oh IN her ISOLATION. Inc
. - tH+t VIZ a ~ - L-.n. q, lon. a~-J
tN-s o. an eflnihIum % piSes- 800 a--i5,.a, -
tor hhor. that the descent 10 Eaten rates - not easy A
sum tbtt vogLI l.. eoasflrr,d liberal in InEiois- Men are
Pieaty, bat urey ash moe for f'eir work than employers ean
AFFORD o. pay"
More sugar franls have bern dererteI ia New York, some q
the Custom-hause officials being charged a aeeoinphces in
the fraud. which have been carried on fT soirc Time past IL
will be seen from tae Glowing that e i substantially the same
dodge - Ihat resJrtei % here by some Of our hr"t Merchants
90 enter suzar, al haT a cent . pound less dEty-but with 4
different result a. the New York merchants have been made
% pay dear tr their tsmcTiiy
Il was ryrad that frauds Iud ben committed both in the
weighing .d samging Of sugars. thus enabling merchants to
iruislsn'iy save hrss sIn7 = n'cnty IN n SAP" y uS
instance D~rusy Special Agent Brush discovered that one ear
20 - sugar alone, brought here by The steamer Er'HiHg SfHT,
s,-,r UTv5nt vs. urf. rE-i.teI g. such an extent - To- nut
5000 IN tn pockets q thu conslEnces, instead Of the Treas
ury, whore il EgimatrIy beIoused. There i good reason for
suprosn= that several hundred Thousand dollars have been Iost
IL Ia. I0v-ruueuf iH the manner mentioned. Of which there j.
have been lost Wilt b. slvzi - the Government By the present
a. !. oa ,. vart,Is gals Of SUGAR. as regulated by Dutch
sa,nrI1rI which Is as E,Iows. Under No. II. three cents per
pound duty above No Il and under No. Is, three and one
half cents over No. Is and under No 20. fur cents refined,
granuLafel sugar, etc, five cents pr pound It will be seen
by his that a sampler saInptns sugar IA an INFERIOR grade
porter. At present. there are about 10000 hnssheads Of sugar
in tLE ety, all of which viii BE- resanpked and revalued-
LOCAL COMMERCIAL.
We regret % ANNOUNCE the Eiidre Of thu commission house
q Charles " Spencer a Co, Of this city, who made an as
Segment of thei, effects, on Monday last, 20 Messrs II. A 4.
Carter AMI Then- H. Davis. a meeting Of the creditors was
held on Wednesday, al which IN Informal statement Of the la
biHti=s and assets was made The liabilities are said TO be
about S35 900 and the apparent assets about $4,000 The firm
has been engaged largely in The ruIu trade, and the low price
thai this staple has ruled at for the past two years, has prob
ably been one cause Of the disaster.
Th- only foreisu arrival the present week To report is that Of
the schooner AiaskG, % days from Portland. Oregon, With
Iumber, &c Her cargo will be 6uBI specified below.
The Cambridge and d.. e. Murray are IoaIing for Portland
and san Francisco, ami promise TO sail the coming week
The whaling brig Comet sailed on the 14th To cruise for
Few weeks around this group, until the arrival Of her captain,
expected shortly from the United States
Our latest foreign dates are TO the 2I uIto. The clipper
y e. Reed may be booked for daily, and the bark Comet early
in March
The Hawaiian bark Ia Moi is booked 6r soon from Bremen.
Her cargo will BE- found advertised in today's issue
The ship SyTen, frm Boston, will be due in about four weeks
coMmERcI1L ITEMS.
Cincinnati Is now the largest tobacco market in the United
States. sT.OOO,OOO woth we're sold there last year.
Boston has vot.d Co widen, extend and straighten her prin-
eipaI streets at a cost Of s2,3OoIcOo, proposing to proceed with
the work ~ once
The Brazilian. a steamer 400 FEET long, which sailed from
Liverpool % inaugurate u line 10 inhiI, via the suez canal,
was Obliged To discharge half her cargo TO get through.
4 .hiP canal across Care Cod is n " seriously contenl-
Il is said that s20o.OoJ a year Wouhi be saved by it III pre-
venting wrecks
\ machine for manufacturing cigars has been invented and
j. in use in New York \ girl viii manufacture 1000 Perday,
and they VIII al be uniiorIn- Two hundred i the average
number that can b. made by hand Ii promises to WORK a
revolution in the business
Gloucester i the port having the largest fishing fleet in the
thu fsheTirs we're SJ,DO2-5OO- There were 5O vessels en-
ployed, anil the aggregate number % the crews was 6l2O-
There T. no good reason Why New LONDON should not have as
large a heet. Ia has a better harbOr than Gloucester, and is
nhore central
December I4th says. "The steamer City Of Brussels, Capt. .
Kennedy, of The IHman Line, keeps up her character as one of
Queenstown, even exceIled her previous excellent passages
~ let here on the 4h Of December, and arrived out on the
I.Ih. The hour IS not given, but the agents report the time
TSf - r SSryI ua 4 \ ~ 49, 49, 10y VI y. mr. n,inutgs.
two ports But. II the allowance has been made in the CITY Of
BrtsssE' trip for difference i'm time, her trip was slightly f.
h-atrn by the CunarI steamer Russia. which made the same
minutes. Bot in view Of the different seasons in which the
r5usfi. red tbe br.t- th0urh mol The shortest and n, fruv eGnaI
the celebrated trip Of the steamer PsTsiTe last October"
LOSSES nv FIEEs-Itis reported by telegraph that the total
losses by fire in the United States Tor 1853, reached the enor-
nous sum Of s~4O,5Si,O0O. This is about one per cent. of the
entire product Of the year, and one-sixth Of one per cent. Of the
value % all the property OF the country, real and per-
sonaL IL SEEMS incredible that We should allow one dollar out
les people and probable waste ten times that amount on in
efficient mOies of production Or harvesting. Outside Of New
of Germany, France, Wales. etc might probably CLEAN the
waste ofthe south aud the West, with as much advantages as
the Chinese have CLEANED the deserted places Of this State.
Were We not wastefuI and unrhrty, we should not he 50