Polynesian., 1845-02-01
COM d.
FROM OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT
NUMBER Z.
PHILADELPHIA, Nav. 1884,

therefore ADDRESS you from this place. rs 7
learn that a vessel sails in a few DAYS from
Boston for Honolulu. ! presume bv this
time you are welding once more the quill
potential in the editorial chair. We are all
curious to learn what will be the final result
OF all the dolngs and undoings that have ia
ken place in your Lilliputian kingdom, and
its many friends will look for information
through your columns, which | know will
receive an extensive circulation in this
country. independently of the extensive
business intercourse between your islands
and this country, through the whalcrs and
others, there is a deep-felt sympathy for its
w%elfare; and Kauikeouli and his council
have warm friends this way, who will exert
themselves at all times when necessary to
sustain his infant monarchy. They view
his success as the solution of an interesting
moral problem. The plan of employing able
white officers in the various departments
which come more in contact with the foreign
population, is an excellent one, but will it
not excite the jealousy Of other powers,
should they be filled too exclusively by
Americans? The king must beware of that,
for it is important for him in his delicate
situation to be strictly impartial and to treat
all nations Justly and equitably. But l pre-
sumo he has good advice on that head. As
to home matters, business is exceedingly
prosperous and conducted on a more secure
basis than formerly-a reformed system of
credit and small profits. l have nothing
favorable to write you in regard to literature.
The cheap publications have swampcd the
old book system and have ended by swamp
ing themselves. Books are so cheap now-a-
days that people do not think them worth
buying. No doubt good will come of it
hereafter,--but just now, while the grass is
growing, the horses, (thnt is, the unhappy
literary hacks are starving. In politics,
too, there is great confusion. Mr.. Tyler,
with his Texas hobby, has broken the ranks
of both the regular parties,-and that with
no particular benefit to himself, so far as I
can see. The wings, however, arc the most
united, and rs | have never been able to
convert you to the sublime democratic faith,
(Which you call loco-focoism,) ! suppose
you will be glad to learn that Mr.. Clay is
generally thought to be a few inches nearer
to the presidential chair than any Of the
other competitors in the race. But what
will give you more particular pleasure, is,
land have it on very good authority, } that
whoever succeeds to the office, will make a
speedy reform in not a few of the appoint
ments which have done so little credit both
at home and abroad to Mr.. Tyler's admin
'%stration. But more on that subject here
after.
The big books OF the explorers advance
but slowly. DR.. Pickering still continues
IN Europe, the remainder are busy in their
several duties at home. Wilkes Narrative
IS nearly or quite concluded, and will make
its bow to the public as soon as it is
dressed to the commanders satisfaction.
We have had of late, a succession of Ia
mentable occurrences. First a very bad
duel at Washington, in which a brother of
Lieut.. May of the Navy, killed another
young man, a former friend of his. Then
the sad affair Of the Princeton. Next a col
l'ss'on of the cars Of the Wilmington rail-
way, killing and %wounding several ; and at