The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-08-23
Correspondents 60 fta- Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Waits from the Bay State.

WAITS from the Bay State.
GEsrBoEo', June IS, 1860.
Twenty-Five days from Honolulu to Boston What
DO you think Of that, my dear Commercial Time
and space are teing annihil@ted, and "ye Athens Of
America" Is being brought within the very clutches
Of We cauuihals." Verify the Yankee IS u go-ahead
Individual, (and 80 j. our old friend Jim Smith, } and
what with the Tcukcc, the Comet, and the Pony
Express, the reeks once required for intelligence 70
reach Us. are now reduced to days! \ marvellous
change truly since l first visited the Islands, when, Il
year from the time l left Boston. my friends heard
the news Of my arrival, and that I had been a fort
night IN shore without having been eaten, or even
tasted Indeed, my greatest danger in this respect
had been from my own countrymen on the passage,
where, from the nigEardly supplies Of the owners,
starvation began to stare US in the face, and in the
possible alternative Of being reduced to Frjei DaSset-
gers, the ie1HeSt rejoiced. and the less lean. (there
were no fat ones under that regiment which made
the alternative 50 much more disagreeabie trembled in
view Of their respective conditions. wonder in what
terms Rev. 7. Starr King, who has shown up the
treatment Of passengers by Vauderbjr's line So vivid
". would have characterized that fearful passage.
Even his powers would have iailei him in view Of the
untold and UNRELIABLE horrors of that neyer-to-be for
gotten voyage. By the way, speaking Of Mr. King it
may interest some OF your readers to know that
America Hawaiiaus had some influence in inducing
tha5 talented mau to take up his residence on the
Pacific coast. On one at his Iecturing tours last win
ter, he was our guest, at a time when several Of cur
island friends were visiting Us, and he was the only
one Of the party If Scrsa. who had not lived at he
islands. Finding himself surrounded by ." ye canui-
balls" lie communicated to US the fact Of his having
received an invitation 10 settle in san Francisco,
which he =;ul had under consideration, though he
seemed disposed to decline il, knowing now much
C.l;f.rnia stood in need Of men Of his stamp. and how
fully his great abilities would toe apprecIited by the
hungry souls out there, We used all the arguments
aud e!oquence we could command, and availed our
selves Of all the Information We possessed to induce
him TO accept the invitation ; and meeting him some
weeks afterwari, he informed US that he had made
up his mind to 20, and that he received his . decid-
Ing impulse from his night among the Heathen''
at Brook Farm. He furthermore promised TO visit
Hawaii, and if you deuizeus Of that group desire a
rich Intellectual treat, you viii not tail to remind him
Of his pledge. He is an enthusiastic lover If noun
tain scenery; and you have doubtless read his
Ubuc Hihs. But you can show him mountain
g'ories aud volcanic wonders, WHICH viii throw into
the shade all he has yet witnessed, and his description
Of which will be a feast to which We lock forward
with in ra.icuce.
Spring, that most delightful season in Neg Eng
land, 80 far as nature, not climate i concernei) has
left rs, and summer. with MI its glories, is treading
close upo. irs heels. OF all the MANY cha rnirr %.
,.,,s Which r..r~e uo,rs :, I;.F,ru. -
or now. . on.b,,.+oo rs -, - -
s..
"a H. .,.,uo IL .l..unttuI un;.t ..
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= .''s - - w." 80 % ps''~'Ae7
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80 ''' 'o"ge"S1-
. nj ..e .''''','"s ','l''s' men sg''lS a'"hy'
~ va" u, '' "H''h l 0'i'' .N'"N o' without
u'' - " - C'"F eve" ~ soHe
" s'' '''" Ia '' "or'o@' "''s 1T ,rS'"19"J
- o"' 80 !o-"- ~ '"~ li"'I1
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n'g' anu" anu SUM 1'lli1Ie",S' | nave
sF'Ae' III Il p'e''''7 e''s'' "'o n'''s9 us sof'-
Gus spring Is A'"'s' eA'uEl % o'n'sa All FeElem-
-" o' '"'0'iE ~ H'e'S =I7el H-'S stances
ie''h a. Te7" a. though t"-e'S"'ei- / cannot but
often compare tue cnahsts III nature "hich aeioug 10
t--' cLma'e' win the "'.i St"encsS Of my native
country ana ! ma the balance oi enjoyment to be
against my t"l.ctt nome i'"'nN That mali the poetry
III the EnSAsh AoSaAgc' "HicA Is at all descriptive,
depends upon these varied phases OF nature In the
changing seasons, which thus become sources of the
most powerful as well as beautiful illustrations =
higher truth let there are thousands who would
be glad to 90 where the Frost King IS u myth, and
a misnrmer," Very true, friend Robert, and
when the Last winds ale chilling me to the very mar
r'F' as they often 10 IN tie snrns season. you may