The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-07-24

twelve thousand dollars to replace the buildings as
they were before. Messrs. Pogue and Alexander are
doing everything 10 get the boys of the school places
to sleep, rs there are a large number now attending
the school,
The Lahainaluna Seminary was built in the year
1881, at a cost of Sl2, 500, including the dwellings,
and has ever since been in active operation as a high
school for natives, a~fording to them the highest and
best education to be had at the islands. 1t COM
menced with % scholars, but during the past few
years has had nearly 100 each year, which is as many
as it could accommodate. About 1850, it was trans
ferred to the Hawaiian Government by the Ameri-
eau Board, with the provision that the government
was to sustain it. The rebuilding of the seminary
though no decision has yet been made respecting it,
will probably be ordered. As lumber and materials
now are, a building, ~atfording the necessary space
and accommodations, ought not to cost over six to
eight thousand dollars, if the lumber required for it
is ordered directly from the mills.
EASTERN Mail MATTERs-It is extremely annoy
ing to have to submit to the mail (American) irregu-
larities which have continued for the past year. by
which letters and papers have not only been delayed
many months in their passage, but large quantities
are lost altogether. Nearly all the newspaper mail
matter which left the Eastern States during Febru-
airy, March and April is still missing and will never
come to hand if there is any truth in the following
extracts from the overland correspondence of the
Alta:
We understand, but not from any official source, that immense
route from Fort Laramie to Salt Lake City. At Fort Laramie
there is a large corrar full Of locked mail bags, which have been
stored there since the first interruption on the overland route.
At Julesburg. or Overland City as it is called, a small ware
house i packed fun Of letter mail, and at every station stable
between that and Sweet Water bridge, there is a greater or less
accumulation Of mail matter, while between ;he latter place and
Fort iiTiiser' nearly all the mails have been drstToyed; At
seven sacks of Wells. Fargo X Co.'S Express matter, on the
these bags were dug up, cut open, and the station was knee
dep with loose and opened letters.
The above is certainly not n very pleasant picture to
look Mt in this the nineteenth century, and under the
administration of the most civilized nation in the
world. We trust the ex qericnce of the past year will
put a full stop TO the overland mail experiment.,
when so prompt and efficient an alternative, as the
steamers afford, is open.
Some weeks ago we were infor med that orders
had been issued on the part Of somebody, that all
letters and newspapers destined for these islands,
with the American postage on them unpaid, were to
be detained at San Francisco until the postage
due was paid. This regulation was so opposite to
the practice which has always held, that We doubted
its correctness, and addressed a line to Postmaster
Parker OF San Francisco, inquiring whether any
mail matter addressed to US, (0f which We have great
quantities still missing,) was detained in his Office,
and whether any such new regulation had been put
in force. BY the Storm King. W. received the follow
ing reply
Posi- OFFICE, san FRANCISCO, CRY AND CoryTr OF
DEAR SIR Your note Of june 18th is just received. In
answer, allow me to say that all Of your papers arriving here
van much printed matter has been lost on the overland route.
no trouble hereafter. Your Postmaster has notified me that
he viii no; pay postage ON printed OF other matter as formerly
on way b,is, 50 that l shall not forward the unpaid matter as
;. ii. PARKER, I. NJ.
u = ~. ;. I.r-,. -,,... e --..r.r ,u. ST.,
which ! do not forward, becan-e your Postmaster refuses to pay
'1 s. l, p
Mr.. Clark says that no such instructions have been
given by him, but there is evidently a screw loose
somewhere. Mr.. Parker would not refuse to forward
all our mail matter, as formerly, unless he had been
refused payment, or received some instructions to DO
so. Whether simply a misunderstanding or a new
rule, it shows some mismanagement, which needs to
be explained. 1t is not enough that the overland
mails should be six months in getting their precious
freight through to San Francisco, but on reaching
that point, our mail matter must be stopped by some
new order, of which no public notice has been gireH.
No matter who the letters or papers may be for
His Majesty, or His AIajesty's Ministers. or any of
our business mcn-all are served alike, if their cor
respondcnce or papers chance TO be uapaiL. The
rule heretofore has been, 20 forurlrd all mail matter
for The jSlands, pail or unpaid, and the department
Will run the risk Of collecting the postage. 1t is true
that all the postage cannot be collected here, from n
transient population, but it : So in every part of the
world, and the Post Office must run the risk Of not
being able to collect every cent. All our people
should not be made to suffer because the postage on
a few letters or papers Is lost. Ii this state of things
IS to be continued, every man in business here must
have his agent TO look after his correspondence at the
coast, and our Ctice may as well be shut up. We
recommeul that u purse be raised to send over aud
the mail matter that Is now detained at san
Francisco, that it may reach its destination.
y BY a letter in the s. T. Bulletin from Coli
Mexico, dated June %, We see it stated that
one of the British war vessels stationed there had
sailed FOR Honolulu. She ought to arrive erelong.
- The London illustrated .Nt,cs Of July "a
contains a beautiful coIored view of the Interna-
Art Union Building and a full map of London.
This number consists of tour sheets.
y Harper's UeebIy, Of May Il and 81, contain
MAPS of the vicinity Of Richmond, which should be
referred to in reading the account Of the battle.
~ 1t is stated that Mr.. Thomas G. Harding,
Road Supervisor for this island. died recent
y in London, England. We have received 10 par
,icu,ars Of the occurrence.
~ Capt. Marchant will accept our thanks for a