The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-09-03
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

NAvAL.-The u. S. steamer Kearsarge, Commander
Thornton, arrived on the 1st inst, forty days from
Callao, Peru, en- route for San Francisco, for which
port she will leave on Monday next. 1t is hardly
necessary to remind our readers of the fact that this
American war vessel obtained the enviable name in
history of the destroyer of the pirate .AiG60ma, in
the last year of the war of the rebellion. Both ships
were lying in a French port, when Winslow, the
Commander of the KeGrSarge, (now Admiral of the
Pacific Station) challenged Semmes of the alabama
to go outside, beyond French jurisdiction, and fight.
The challenge was accepted, and Winslow preceded
his antagonist to sea. The battle which ensued was
one of the fairest % stand-up - fights to be found in
the annals of naval warfare, and requires the pen of
a Fennimore Cooper to do it justice. OF the officers
and men engaged in that fight. only Comm. Thornton
and one of his gunners remain on board of the
Kearsarge. During her short stay here she has been
an object of no little interest to our residents, and
frequently groups of natives might be seen on the
Esplanade listening intently while one of their num-
Der recounted the story of how ''ua pic ko alabama
n keld moku the alabama was extinguished by
that ship. The two identical 11-inch guns with
which she fought the Alabama, are still on board,
and of course objects of peculiar interest We are in
debted to Paymaster Meade for the following list of
officers
Commander-James 8. Thornton.
Lieut.. Com. and Er. Officer. Weidman.
Lieut.. Com. and NaUigatOr-C. '. Gridley.
Masters-C. 5. sperry, A. b. II. Lille, w 7. swinburne.
Paymaster-H.M Meade.
Surgeon-C. II. Burbank.
Lieatenant of Marines-F. II. Harrington.
Engineers-s. Albert ;@Asst. Eng. Phinippi, Gardner and
Purdie.
Boatsmain-Thomas Bennett,
Captains Clarke. ii. Wood.
Payn,asters Clerk. G Wilson.
On the Both of August, the Kearsarge spoke the
ship Eastern Star, from Mauzanilla, coast of Mexico,
bound to Honolulu. Had light and variable winds.
POLICE CoURT.-On Monday last q Chinaman was
fined $50 for ~distilling some kind of indescribable in
toxicating substance from sugar. On the same day,
VIM. Hughes, of the Bartlett Saloon, and S. HI.
Cooper, of the Royal Hotel, were arraigned, the first
on a charge of selling spirits on Sunday, contrary to
CHAPTER Al, Sections 9 and IL, of the revised Penal
Code. Both cases were postponed until the following
Wednesday, when that of Hughes came up. Messrs.
Davis and Stanley appeared as counsel for the de-
fendant, and after the testimony for the Crown had
been submitted, moved to dismiss the case, on the
ground that the complaint, under the statute, was
agsinst Hughes alone, whereas the license, as shown
by the prosecution, stood in the name of Hughes s.
Dunno. The Magistrate gave judgment pro formG
(for the sake of form) for the Crown on this question,
which he considered to be a delicate one, and which
should be argued before a higher tribunal Counsel
for defendant then moved for judgment for their
client on the merits, that the evidence did not sustain
the charge, it being contradictory in the extreme.
After argument by counsel, (Mr. f. II. Harris ap-
pearing for the Crown in the absence of the Attorney
GENERALLY the Court granted the motion and ordered
Judgment for the defendant.
The case brought against the Royal Hotel, for
selling spirits to natives, has, we understand, been
deferred until the coming week.
An EYE TO BUsINEss.-One of the honorable MEM
bers of the late Legislative Assembly, hailing from
a neighboring island, has a decided talent for mer-
camille pursuits. 1t will be remembered that the
members voted themselves full sets each Of the
statute laws, and postage stamps ad i6itum. The
member in question, wishing to turn his perquisites
to good account, and probably being so familiar with
the laws that the books were of no use to him, ON
returning home got up an impromptu auction and
sold them out to his constituents. Report says he
sold a thousand postage stamps, putting them up in
lots of one hundred, and getting as high as seventy
five cents a hundred. What's the use of being a
member of Parliament unless one can make some
thing out of it? -
The "DoNAU.'-By tie Rearsargs we learn of
the safe arrival at Callao of the Austrian frigate
Donau. after q passage of fifty days from Honolulu.
Her captain and officers expressed much satisfaction
with the work done on her here and it is certainly
q triumph for Honolulu shipwrights that a frst-class
frigste, 80 torn and wrenched as she was in a cyclone,
of Japan, was as well repaired here as the work
could have been done in a dry dock.