The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-07

New Bedford is lifting out a whaler with an up
right five horse power engine, which n 10 be used
In cntting up whales. dischargi0g cargo, and. "
need be, in hosting topsails. $3.50 EnHHai
Five hundred coolies. with $4,000 OF their own
savings, have returned from the West Indies 10
their homes in China. s0 etiL
a Troy mechanic has invented a s-team.waeon
for road driving that can show 2:2s TO harness
without n skip or break.
Oliver D~alrymple, whose little farm is near 81.
Paul, Mimi, has this season harvested IS, 600 bush
els OF wheat, AID banked SAL $50 for L..
TTE NEGoTIABLE YAIUE or THE GosrEf.--Minis
terial remuneration in the early days Of the Great
West was on the worldly basis OF all other mat
ters. As an illustration, there Is the case az Rev.
Jacob Patch. years ago OF Northern Indiana. No
purer, sim~plerIminded man than he. Thoroughly
educated in literary and theological colleges nn-
der New England influences, he soon adapted him
self TO his new work of aiding In Christianizing
the West. After a few years residence In the land
of prairie aud forest, he began the building Of n
house for himself. His view Of paving for shin
giles might be new to Beecher, but was too true
with our pioneer clergy. The good people near
the Hog Greek school-honse Ga true name), having
a s~hingle-machine, and using its products for their
legal currency, aud desiring the services OF Mr..
F.. contracted with him to have him deliver them
a certain number of sermons, at the price of n
bunch O0O) shingles for a sermon. The preach
ing and shingles were respectively furnished, 10
the mutual satisfaction of the high contracting
parties. In completing tho house. half a punch
extra was required. In delivering his farewell
sermon. after relating the good that had been
done, and speaking OF their pleasant relations as
pastor and people. be alluded 10 their contract.
and gave an account which showed the balance OF
one half bunch in their favor. unpaid for. And
now, my dear brothers and sisters.D said he. IL
am not owing You for enough shingles TO come 10
a sermon, but. Providence permitting. 1 will come
over to You at an early day and hold n prayer
meeting" And he did. The currency for change
was satisfactory.
THE COFFEE TRADE.-A correspondent of the New
York journal Of Commerce combets the opinion
generally held among dealers and distributors OF
coffee, that present PriCes are uuwarTnnIed and
brought about by spectators. Consumers having
been promised by politicians q cheap breakfast
table--the duty of three cents. gold, per pound
having been abolshed-and finding prices actually
higher now than when the duty was levied, arc dis
appointed. and cannot understand why coffee should
not be much cheaper. Several journals have re-
Gently published long articles TO convince the pub
lie that coffee must decline materially as soon rs the
new Brazil crop comes to market, terrifying their
prophecy by an array of figures entirely at random.
The law of supply and demand il the regulator of
every commodity, and il il known that the con-
sumption OF coffee has been steadily on the To-
crease, while 1t appears beyond doubt that pro-
duction has not kept pace with ID. The figures of
the trade, this correspondent seems To think, indi-
cate that in America prices have not as yet reached
a point where the consumer will deprive himself of
his coffee. II we take our population at forty mil
lions and our consumption OF coffee at l4O, 900 tons,
it is equal to "a pounds a head. At the retail price
of say 20 cents currency per pound, II will be an
expenditure of about 81 IS per annnm. or, for O
family OF five persons, equal to about n cents per
day. Excepting Holland. where III lbs, and Bel
GUM. where 81 lbs. is consumed, the Americans are
the largest cofiee-coRsuming people. and will likely
be the last TO give up or decrease It's use. Assum-
ing the estimate TO be true, that we shall require
IN the Atlantic States for the remainder of the year
$4,000 tons, of all descriptions. and taking as a
proposition that the stock on December 3lst will
be reduced to 1900. we still require $4,000 tons.
an amount compared with the probable supply that
will maintain prices.-CdLfornid paper.