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The Tama-Houre-Laune. In our most recent exchange, the Washington Quarterly, are copies of letters of Capt. Eliah Grimes of the brig Owhyhee written to Sprague & Marshall, Boston, merchants in the Pacific coast trade of a century ago. After mentioning much sickness and the death of several men, the captain names one man he had decided to send back to the islands, one who came out in the Tama-houre-laune, and also says, they have cold pains in breast and head, which I think is owing in great measure to the brig being so fully salted; she is damp from one end to the other. We do not find any reference to the brig Owhyee (former spelling of Hawaii) in the list of Medford-built vessels, and cannot be certain which brig was so fully salted, but we find the names of two brigs built in 1820 in Medford by Thatcher Magoun for Josiah Marshall. One was the Tama-houre-laune, 162.63 tons, the other the Jones, 163.36 tons, the seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth in the notable list. A