The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-01-27

of the Custom House Tables inserted this week.
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Correspondents of the Pacific Commercial AdvertiserJ
Letter from Boston.
BosroN, December 1, 1858.
Ny DEAR COMMERCIAL Winter is upon US and
mother earth has fallen. q passive victim to his chill
caress. sHe never told his love, but let CONCEAL
ment like q worm in the mud, feed on his damaged
cheek, For which quotation overhaul your spill
grim's Progress and when found &c.,-and cold,
and white, and stiff, she lies clasped in his icy arms.
He comes in state. not stealing upon us unawares as
is sometimes his won't, but with old Boreas, the
leader of his band (of wind instruments) blowing his
loudest trumpet, and frost, and ice, and snow, in full
uniform as his staff. To one who has 30 long made
his home in regions tabooed to his approach, where
the naked SUBMITS of Mauna Loa and Haleakala are
the only spots on which his feet are permitted to rest
as he strides over the globe, and where the hot breath
of the fiery Goddess Pele withers him if he oversteps
the sacred circle, the presence of the ice god and his
train is a novel and awe-inspiring sight, strongly
suggestive of flannel waistcoats and wooden stockings.
1 venture into his precincts with dread. and his
elassy stare sometimes SO confuses me, that l hardly
know whether I am on my head or my heels. and
sometimes suddenly and involuntarily find my position
in this respect reversed.
Ye fortunate denizens of Hawaii, where slavery and
cold weather are prohibited by the constitution,
thank your stars and the king that you are permitted
to live in a cline where these two great evils cannot
be brought upon you even by the negotiators OF a
ss French Treaty. Yet winter has its charms to
those accustomed to its annual visits, and to see the
beaming and eager countenances of the Juveniles, as
they " do hope it is going to snow" and "do wish it
would Freeze and get out their skates and sleds in
anticipafion of the haDDy event one Would supDOSe
that this to them was the most joyous season of the
year. Children of a larger growth too, look forward
with eagerness to the aunsements of winter, espe-
cially that of skating, which has now become so
fashionable with the young ladies' One firm alone
in this city last season, sold over ten thousand skates,
at prices from fifty cents to twenty-five dollars per
pair. The city Fathers have decided to build en-
bankments and food a portion of Boston Common for
a skating ground, and the extensive enclosure of the
Agricultural Society, also, has been leased for
that purpose, and great races of skaters are expected
to come off on the mile t~rotting track on these
grounds, or, as it may then be more properly called,
ices.
The trial of the mutineers of the whaling bark
Junior has resulted in a verdict against Plumer, the
ringleader, for murder, and against the others for
manslaughter. The trial excited much interest, and
an array of eminent legal talent was employed in the
defence of the mutineers. The trial of some o: the
crew of the whaleship CorteS, for setting her on fire,
is now progressing.
The news of the negotiation of the Treaty with
France is received here with universal regret by
those interested in the welfare of Hawaii. The old
adage in this case holds good, that the lockers on
always see more than the players" and the strong
public sentiment against it shown by the Honolulu
community is fully sustained by the opinions Of the
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upon it as a deplorablef inging alcay of the Nation IS
independence. 1t is indeed a sad and humiliating
result, that this nation after all the struggles to
maintain its existence during its infancy, and the
obstacles and perils through which it successfully
fought its way to manhood. and achieved an honor
able position among the Independent Powers of the
earth, should thus be voluntarily emasculated by its
own Ministers and forced down, not by outward
pressure, but by the stupidity, or weakness, or
t~reachery, of its advisers to a subordinate position,
from which it will be almost impossible again to raise
it. How can we account for the fact, that the
Hawaiian Nation in the prime of a vigorous man
hood, with a patriotic and educated sovereign of dis
tinguished talent and ability, has now tamely sub
mitted TO Entertainments on its liberties, which were
so often vainly attempted in its feebler state, under
the rule of his less gifted predecessor Had the king
not been deprived of the wise counsels of the late
Chief Justice Lee, this unfortunate result would
never have been consummated. That great and
good man on his return from his mission to the
United States taxed his dying energies in battling
against this nefarious Treaty, which had been drawn
up during his absence. Had his life been prolonged.
there is little doubt but that it would have been re-
jected by the king. and the people have been spared
from this incubus. which, like the old man of the sea,
will deprive them of their volition, and exhaust their
energies in supplying its voracious demands. But
enough of the Treaty.
The Commercial advertiser is always a welcome
and entertaining visitor. and its matter and typo
graphical appearance is often the theme of praise with
those who see it on my table, and who are surprised
to find so business-like a sheet issued from such a
distant quarter of the globe. At our last advices
from there, you were rejoicing over the birth Of the
Atlantic Telegraph, and had fred a salute of 80
guns in honor of the event. What would Capt.
Cook say to that! 1t was indeed a wonderful
achievement, but we have done Dragging about il
here. The child hasn't learned to talk vet. and
seems to be tongue-tied. Some of its medical attendants
fear it is going to be deaf and dumb. Its hair has
been in demand for Brooches and Rings, and even
parts of its body have been taken for this purpose.
and perhaps the young one feels so much "cut up''
by this treatment, that it has taken the : sulks'' and
won't .speak'-opinions differ in relation to the
complaint and the result, and nobody but Time can
decide "where Doctors disagree" But my hands
are freezing, as you may have surmised from the
stiffness of my style. Let me thaw them out before
the fingers get snapped of, like those of the Plaster of
Paris images. If your subscribers don't stop YOUR
paper on reading this tedious yarn, you may hear
again from MoA.
SrRoSG's ISLANDS, May %, 1853.
Mr. n. NJ WHrTSEr-DEAR Sir I'm your I'D