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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-04-29

A Division OF sons Of Temperance was orga-
nized on Monday eysulns last, in Red Mems Hall
In this placed. &. Wright Lecturer aud Organizer
Of the g. ID. OF S, Of I. Of Ia, with 81 charter
members, as Sudbury Division No. 257.
The following officers were elected and Install
cd lorShe present term.
W, +. r., Geo. u, Bueher, W. r., James Farrai
w, A. r., Jacob sIlyls Il, s., Charles II. Fanst :
A X. 8. ]. Packer Haas =. ), Frank NJ, Farrai
T., Jacob o. Beck C., solomon Stroh A. c.,
Thomas @. Nett o. s., jacob D. Miller I. $,
Solomon Manszi Chap. Rev. @, w, lIempery
Thls order was In exis.eaee some years ago,
and We are happy 10 see II revive gFea, deal Of
Of good will no doubt result from u. We
hope that II may flourish aud sueeeed ia accom-
pllshlng tie good object IL has Ia view. "a
Miss fIzAnEtm pISKLEnPRGER, daughter OF
solomon punkiebcTser, of LltIle Mattrty Twp,
met with fTlghgIal aecLlsgl, on Saturday lasl,
iu klnallng dge with coal oil, Il appean she
WAS pouring The oil from a can eOntain ing about
three pinls, and that the blaze communicating
shh the oh Ia the can, Il eEploied, scattering
the eonisnI' oSer her persou aud clothing. 1hs
nesh oa hes aFgs aud pog.loas ef hsT body was
hnFasd aiuiosI o. ersp, and u ls Ihought sAe
cannot TveoVsr
hines The aboge was Ia lyps ss lsaTa nat shs
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-04-29

BAcuER will have Buck Beer on tap nhht arst
Of May.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
A Good Appointment.

The Board of Health has recognized the need
of making special efforts to clean up the town, by
appointing Mr.. w. B. Barnes as its agent. A
better appointment or one more calculated to ac-
cOmplish the purpose could not have been made,
for Mr.. Barnes is well known for his untiring en-
ergy and perseverance in whatever he undertakes.
We anticipate that there will be some agonizing
among the Chinese restaurant keepers when they
find themselves under the scrutinizing gaze of the
agent, and that there will be a good deal of COM
pulsory carting off of rubbish, abatement of nui-
sances and dissipation of foul odors throughout
the city.
We alluded, several weeks ago, to the necessity
of attending to these things in time, and spoke of
the recent terrible epidemic that devastated the
city of Buenos Ayres as an illustration of the con-
sequences of neglect. The natural advantages of
that city-like those of Honolulu-as to site and
climate, are very great; but, by a reckless and
obstinate disregard of the commonest rules of
hygiene, soil and water have become so poisoned
that it is considered doubtful whether there is an
~efectual remedy less sweeping than to remove the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
The Amende Honorable.

Our article of last week over the head OF
90 Charity begins Abroad" has had the effect OF
producing from our contemporary nearly a col
umn of generalities, amounting in the whole to
the truism, that people will always buy where
they can get the cheapest-provlding always, IL
is the best. The intention of doing our own me
chanics an injury by gratuitously and prominently
advertising the apparently cheaper rates at which
foreign mechanics would work, is dlsowned, but
by publishing the rates of the rival workman,
says the Organ, {" We thought we were doing
them (the ~planters) a favor, without doing any
one an injury The favor was in reality no
favor at all, for the prices given were quite in
definite and altogether unsatisfactory. No one
could believe, for instance, that So per hundred
weight would buy decent castings in Sydney,
while in Glasgow itself castings range in price
from "a to Sl4 per hundred weight. And even
if the iron work for a plantation should be a
little lower priced in Sydney than it could be
manufactured here, the cash must be sent, COM
missions, freight, insurance and duties added,
and the risk run of not getting after all, ex-
actly what was ordered. So that the attempt at
doing our planters a favor, as pretended by the
Organ, is no favor at all. Indeed. that it is not
considered as a favor, is apparent from the ex-
pressed opinion of many in Misrepresentation of the
gratuitous advertising of the Sydney Iron Works.
and of the increased orders for home made work
that have lately been given. Thus, the pretended
object of helping the planters is not apparent.
but the real intent, which has SO signaliy been
The organ does tardy justice to our own
people in the following words, which we fully
indorse
"From those who have procured their machinery
here we have heard no complaints whatever. The
skillful and honorable mechanics who have performed
the work, have done it in the most thorough and
manner and have not in any instance,
because their customers were obliged to apply to them
in cases of emergency, oppressed them by unfair
charges for their labor, or by unfaithful work. By
this upright and honorable course they have earned
and maintained the confidence of the public and
secured the assurance of the patronage of the plant
ers as far, as we believe, as can reasonably be
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Cheap Labor.

The fact that cheap labor is a necessity to the
success of a sugar plantation, has by this time
been pretty well impressed on the public. The
where and the how to obtain that desideratum,
has been the problem which has exercised the
minds of those more particularly interested, in
no small degree. In the Kuokoa, (native news
paper of this city, of the 9th inst, we find a
paragraph, a translation Of which reads as
follows
"Ten of the children of the Reformatory School at Keone-
ua have gone to the sugar plantation of Kaneohe, to be en-
ployed as laborers in place Of the Mauihiki people who have
gone home Is that the Reformatory School which the courts
intended when they committed boys TO Keoneula ,"
Such a surprising statement as that led US at
once to make careful inquiries as to its truth,
and we are glad to be able to say, that it is in
correct as to the main. The children have not
been removed from the school, though we regret
to know that it was the intention to do so, and to
place them on the plantation above mentioned.
His Excellency, c. G. Harris, Minister of Foreign
Relations and of War, Practitioner at the Bar,
Member of the Board of Public instruction, the
Ruling Genius of the Cabinet, &C., &C., etc.,
etc., who is also the reputed owner of the Kane
obe Plantation, -personally selected ten of the
boys in the R~eformatory School, doubtless they
were ten of the strongest and "likeliest y with
the declared purpose of taking them on his plan
tation. Now were these boys to be g educated"
at Kaneohe so as to become highly skilled in the
art and mystery of making sugar, it might per-
haps result prOftably to themselves, to the sugar
interests and to the nation at large but were
they simply to learn how to hoe and strip cane
for their poi and odoriferous salmon together
with lodging, it is difficult to see how anybody,
beyond the owner of the plantation, would be
benefited. But doubtless the Minister acted
from a charitable desire to relieve the school of
the care and bother Of a few surplus boys-na-
tives, you know,-who thus taken while young,
would be manageable" Fortunately for the
boys, however, the Board of Public instruction
has by law their guardianship, and they cannot
be taken from the school to be apprenticed or
otherwise employed in such manner as will
tend to the future benefit and advancement of
such children, F" without the consent of the Board.
All honor to the members Of the Board who in
the face of rank, wealth, and INSCRIPTIONS
power, firmly refused that consent. The friend
less wards of the nation sent to be 90 educated
and reformed by delving on a sugar plantation!
What enOrmity is to follow?
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M
Fp,DAy sEpTEMRER Is, 1871.

FRIDAY 10, lsIl-
FsoM reliable data IL appears that during a year JUST
passeI. something over a quarter Of a million m CON mas oeen
sent out Of the islands. such . sum would appear smai IN
~ financial concerns Of some countries, but with Us, Al these
;-,.pd. where the amount Of coin in circulation was estimated
n year ago. by competent judges. to be about half a million OF
dollars. il d a large figure. The larger part, if not the whole,
Of this expectation was in gold coin, and the consequence is
apuareut in the present abundance Of silver in circulation,
and. as a convenience, the appearance Of the suspicious
silver certificates" Besides the export Of coin, We learn
that the exchange market has been stripped TO furnish a vehi-
Gle for the transfer Of about two hundred Thousand dollars 10
the United States and Europe Three hundred and twenty
thousand dollars of the working capital of the Kingdom sent
abroad within a year. Why is it. Do we not export domes-
tic products enough TO meet our liabilities abroad? Or is this
surplus capital. that cannot find employment bere9
Sugar is our chief staple, and il seems reasonable that il it
can be produced and sold at a rate that will pay, even nine per
kets where it returns but from four to six per cent.
II we are not raising produce enough to pay our debts If it
costs more to raise our staple than we get for it,-as minated
by a recent correspondent in this paper,-it is time for US to
count the cost. Reflection teaches US that when money, that
most sensitive Of indicators, seeks a foreign marEet for invest
meni, there must be something very rotten whence it makes
its exodus, and just what that something is. it behoOves Us all
10 ferret out and purify.
The foreign arrivals since our last have been-September
18th, British toPsaiI schooner Southern Cross, from Newcas-
tIe, n. s. W, with Goals, to c. Brewer q Co. 18th, American
bark Frances, from Hongkong. with merchandise TO BOnes &
Co; 18th, American bark Rainier, from Port Townsend, with
lumber to II. Hackfed a. Co. The departures have been
IIth, a. p. Jordan, for San Francisco; 18th, Royal SaroH,
for Cork
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Civil GrowI.

Mr. EDTToR;-In your last weeks leader, you demon
strated as clear as mud the "paternaI" character Of the
Hawaiian Government in its attempt to farm out a Job abroad,
which could be done here. With your leave, I will give an
other Illustration of the same benedcent disposition, although
on 4 different scale Last Tuesday, as previously announced,
H~oohliamanu bridge was closed By this, the large
amount of.fayel from the PaIama, Eva, WaiaIua and o;ner
districts, must find Spe other mode Of esl--,i.s own. The
only other way near town, is 10 rGsn "a TO the len a little be-
yond the bridge now being renewed, passing mauka Of Mr..
Moanaulrs house to arrive at Smiths bridge; and here comes
not the rub, but the slough into which / sank on Wednesday
afternoon over my horses knees, on the way home TO PaIama.
The bad place cannot be much over thirty yards in extent.
and TO an in with sand, earth and coral broken mp would be a
small job for OR powers thar be. The constant travel is
causing il daily TO grow worse As / was laundering through
in my muddy mot elephantine gambos) three Or four native
gents were similarly engaged, ahording all round the benefit Of
a spatter as black as ink AS / began by hard pulls TO emerge,
two sportsmen arrived on the opposite bank. preparatory 70
q plunge; seeing nv soied plight one Of them exclaimed.
Oh. mysI responded not so gently 1 have already heard
OF Ooe loaded wagon getting stuck and having. TO get four
horses TO pull il out-the grief Of certain butchers wagons.
and The public Inconvenience generally. II have heard since
that the carriage Of Her Majesty Queen Emma also got into
this slough Of Despond'D i thought in my simplicity,
riding home in my well muddied nethers. how ali this would
have been better, If some high public functionary only lived
out Palama way-And then how nice the "patemal" would
have come in, &c, because as to thoe who pay road taxes
and draw no salaries.-why, they are not OF much account.
The next morning. 1 rode round to where the work was going
on, 70 ascertain how long IL would be before the new bridge
would be complete The courteous official whom i addressed
sail Il would he three or four weeks, may be longer. I SAID
something about the hole up yonder being very deep by that
tme-yes, he replied. but IL couldn't be helped,-there was a
DR.. Judds- i asked him, il one could not ger round 10 Pala-
ma also by riding round through Koolau and up from Waia-
1ual be thought IL could be done. Thanking him for the
valuable information, / left
Now, 10 talk Of anything the high mightinesses might do
foE the convenience Of the tax-paying public, is considered as
coming from n sury GRowLER-
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population altogether to another site lower down
the river. During threescore years a progressive
ly increasing population has done its work. There
is absolutely no drainage. In the courtyard Oh
every house a cesspool is dug as this Is filed, a
second is dug. and a third, and so on. The soil
is light End sandy, and SO readily allows percoia-
ton Thus have successive generations contrlVeo
tor6tterly poison the soil, water, and air OF tnelr
town. This picture of Buenos Ayres, aside from
the amount of population, might well pass tor
Honolulu. If not in our time, sooner or later
like causes must produce like effects.
We doubt not that our citizens will afford every
facility to the Health Officer in his endeavors to
remove from our midst whatever may tend to los
ter or create the germs of disease.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
The H~oteronce MoreA

Seriously, now that satire and ridicuN have
been heard, has not this Hotel scheme assumed
such proportions as call for grave and thoughtful
consideration at the hands of the public? When
the enterprise was first inaugurated, the subscrib-
ers to the bonds chose a Committee of three to
represent them in devising plans and carrying
out the details, consisting of Messrs. Torbert and
Levers, and the Minister of the Interior. Shortly
after the election Of that Committee, the first
named gentleman resignSA but his successor has
never been appointed. Rumor, and apparently
well founded rumor, has it, that the Minister of
the Interior declined ONE time since to act on
the Committee, and washes his hands of the
Hotel scheme altogether. Now what becomes of
the Committee? Who are the leading, directing
spirits, by whose fat the walls of this grand
structure have arisen in their present form and
shape? Would it not have been in simple defer
entail courtesy to the subscribers whose money
was being expended, (if not their rightful due)
that a meeting had been called, and their wishes
and opinions should have received a semblance of
respect by their being invited to fill the vacancies
on the Committee? Or, indeed, was the Com
mittee never intended to be anything but a thing
of straw? The dissatisfaction that is known to
exist among the subscribers to the bonds, is,
under these circumstances, we'll founded, and it
is not a matter for surprise when we are told that
some who have paid one or two i~nstallments, are
unwilling to go farther unless all the subscriptions
are similarly collected, and that others have even
declined to pay one dollar of their subscriptions.
And to expect a different feeling to exist among
those directly interested in this costly enterprise,
is to give them credit for less than ordinary pru-
dence and sagacity. Are the subscribers to the
bonds, we ask, content to permit the money adj
selfconstituted agents?
But the building is advancing rapidly towards
completion, in all is grand details of lavish cost
illness. From whence comes the large amount of
ready cash required ?Ifor the subscriptions must,
ere this, be expended. And this is Il question
that directly interests the community at large
the tax payers,-from Hawaii to Niihau. The
terial-men, Ia very excellent thing for them, we
grant, must and doubtless will, all be paid but
the bulk of the money comes out of the national
Consequently, the next Legislature
will be called upon to sanction this great expen-
diture of the peoples money LIMITED means,
squandered by Ministers upon an insane project.
patronage H a powerful engine al
ternate wheedling and Threatening may go a great
way with a Hawaiian Legislature but we opine
that it will require an extra energetic use of all
the aids that cunning forced by bald necessity can
bring to bear, to induce the next Assembly to
swallow the bitter pill of the new Hotel.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
Information for the Hawaiian)
People.

MR- EDITOR In the Gazette Of this week ] read the de-
ciscn Of Associate Justice BartweIl in the case Of the Heirs
Of Captain Akoni against Major Moehonua, and rejoice that
our Supreme Court still remains a bulwark against the aggres-
sions Of the strong upon the weak Now il seems 70 me that
the Government should give these decisions place in the
columns Of its native paper, for by 50 doing the Hawaiian
would De apprzed 0i his rights j do not consider the de-
PENDANT in this case has done more than others Of his class or
even than those of a class still higher in rank. From time 20
time rumor has IL that some native has been deprived Of his
kuleana- by practices which, If even handed justice was dealt
out, would eousgn the Preparation to a prison. A native is
called upon, BY those whom he stands in awe a. 10 surrender
his Royal Patent, upon some pretenee, and II is retained and
some are simple minded enough TO believe that their Title is
surrendered and meekly bow TO the superior u mind while
some are handed = deed and ordered " sign it for a considera-
ton which the buyer considers an equivalent. Let these de-
cisions be pubIished BY all means. e.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
DEPARTURES .

Sept. s-Sehr Moi Keiki, Green, for Maui.
9-Schr Hattie, KaIe. for Kauai.
Z 9-Schr Annie, Nika, for Kauai.
II-Schr Jenny, Burns, for Kauai
1I-Schr Mary Ellen. HOpu. for Kauai.
II-Schr Warwick, John Bull, for MolOkai.
u-Schr Nettie Merrill, Crane, for Maui.
I1-Schr Active. MeIlsh, for iIawaiI.
II-Stmr KiIauea, McGregOr, for Maui and Hawaii.
liam 3-masIed schr A p Jordan, Perry, for San
Francisco.
I2-Schr Ka Moi, Davis, for Maui
I2-Schr Fairy Queen, Kaaina, for Kauai.
13-Schr Kate Lee, West, for Hawaii.
13-Sehr Odd Fellow, Makahi, for Hawaii.
I3-Schr MannSkawai, Thompson, for Maui
Is -Schr Isabella, Peter, for Maui and Hawaii.
I4-Schr Keoni Ana, AlaPai, for Maui.
l4--schr kinau- wahie, for Molokai and He"ai-
14-Schr Mary. Kaluna, for Kauai.
I5-Brit ship Royal saxon, ROchfOrt. for Cork.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
An Impertinent Inquiry.

Mr. EDITOR Can you tell me, why the proper authority
could not have made some provision for the large public traveI
coming up from Eva way, when they announced that on such
a day such a bridge would be closedl I'll tell We, because
they didn't care a darn whether school keeps or not-and
they tell you 50 TO your face If you complain, and add 10 il
what a distinguished minister in the former reign said in the
House Of Nobles-if you don't like the country, YOU can leave
pay your road taxes, mind your own business, and find a
road where you can get up TO your neck in mud, If YOU like ;
nice TO think on, amt l.? YAHK.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
VESSELS IN PORT.

ii r Ms 3 clipper IzOumroud, Coumany.
HaW bk r W Wood, Weeks, up for Portland, o.
Am bk Comet, Fuller, for San Francisco, Sept 10Th.
Brit ship Lady Bowen, Tucker, discharging-
An brig Francisco, --, awaiting orders
Brit topsail schr Sea Breeze, Austen.
Am schr Sovereign, Chambers repairing.
Brit tOpsaiI schr Southern Cross, G Kenny.
Am blk Frances, II II Field, dischargiug.
Am bk Rainier, Seth Hall, discharging-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
MEMORANDA.

REPORT Of American bark Frances, Captain II. II. Field,
65 days from Hongkong, II Chinese l European passengers, 80
tons cargo. Bound to HoEland's Island 26th July spoke
Peruvian ship America. IL days from Macao, bound to CanaO,
with coolies, all well. The Frances experienced Light battling
easterIy winds the entire passage
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-16
IMPORTS.

From NEWCASTLE, " s. W-Per Southern Cross, Sept.
Ilth $50 tons Coal TO C Brewer 81 Co.
From HOsGKOSG-Per Frances. Sept. 18th lis pkgs
Mdse, % pkgs Shrimps to FOng Chuck Kee; 40 rolls Mat
ting, 7 cs Lac Ware, s cs Cigars, 4 bxs Opium to Along &
Achuck; ~ pkgs Mdse, 0 cs Cigars, 3 cs Shoes, 1 box Medi-
cines to Order
From PORT TowNsEVD-Per Rainier. Sept 18th $4,000
n Rough Lumber, 125,OO0 II Dressed Lumber, 100000 Shin
giles, $4,000 Laths, 5000 Pickefs, 2 Spars to III Hackfed d Co.
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FOR RENT.

IA TWO DWELLING IN HO-
60 NoLULU, both conveniently situated. with four rooms
IGAx each. Kitchen, bath house and out houses, will be
leased at moderate prices by the month or year.
jy1 Apply to w. Z. JONES.
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IA FURNISHED COTTAGE tt LET AT
"a wAIKIKI.-The Cottage recently occupied by w. L.
- Green, at The Beach, Waikiki. Rent, $40 per month
or by the year at $35 per month.
o29 If Apply to W. L. GREEN.
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TIE PACIFIC
Commercial 906ertiser,
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER l6.

Our columns are open 10 all contributors, writing on matters
OF general interest, and avoiding personalities but we do not,
by admitting correspondence, endorse the views expressed.
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TO LET.
TO LET !

- THE HOUSE LATELY BY
80 II. A. Widemann, on Judd Street. Apply to
M. az J. I. RICHARDSON.
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PARMA, PARMA.

VHSHE NEW CROP OF THE ROLOA FA
IL Ma MANCFACT0RY is now coming in and Er saIe In
quantities TO suit purchasers at
sim IA. sCHAERER Il co.'s.
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ESTATE FOR A L

x@4 THAT DESIRABLE BUILDING LOT
on the MAUKA side Of Beretania street, Honolulu,
adjoining the premises of Mr. b. r. Davidson at present
occupied by Mr.. Henry May. The above lot has a frontage on
Beretania street Of I423 feet, extends back from the street 424
feet, and is completely enclosed by asubstantial picket fence.
Title perfect FOR further particulars and terms apply to
SO I'm w. JAS. SMITH.
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NOTICE.
STEEL-WORK.

q MARKING Letters, Figures
and Names Sciew-Taps and Dies; Springs Pts
80 toll Cocks, and other work IN Steel, and Copper
Branding Irons, made 10 order.
Orders may be left at Mr.. Hopper's shop, King Street. or
sent bv mail 10 Honolulu p. o. box No. IL. 81 2m
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49, FOR SALE.-THE COTTAGE ON THE
Id: Beach at Waikiki, formerly occupied Ly Miss Mout-
I'LL gomery. Apply to
o29 II w. L. GREEN.
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O. A VERY DESIRABLE NEW Mrm
kVH. C0TTAGE, containing an elegant parIouE, tS8
AAlx. three or four bedrooms, dining room, kitchen -
md pantry, bath house, servants house, &c. The House Is
by garden and pasture grounds, and is pleasantly
located in one OF the most healthy parts OF the city.
myI3 Apply to HUGO STANGENWAL Id, NJ. ID.