The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-16
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. JANUARY lo

The news from the East, brought by the
SpeedoeHs mail, is exceedingly meager, and real,
ly amounts to nothing, if we except the Presi,
dents Message, which is contained in full in the
San Francisco weeklies of the eth. The tele-
graph, although it conveyed the message through
to San Francisco, appears to give poor satisfac-
ton to the California public, and so far as gene
raj news is concerned, is immensely behind the
Pony Express. Now, we find bits of telegraphic
news reported under flaming headings. the latter
generally exceeding in space the former. So
short and so curtailed is the news sent by tele-
graph, that it is next to impossible to make head
or tail of it, even when the explanatory notes
and comments of the editors are inserted. Again,
many of the kilograms now published are un-
founded, and are frequently contradicted in fol-
lowing dispatches. Time may correct these ire
gularities, but for the present we can only pub
lsh them, with the remark that our readers may
believe just SO much of the telegraph reports as
they choose. The pony brought reliable and
very interesting advices, indeed, it was all that
the public cared for-news published in San
Francisco ten days from Washington and two
weeks ahead of the mails. The San Francisco
papers do not possess half the value or interest
which they did under the pony system.
The Presidents Message is a plainly written,
clear state document, and throughout assumes
that the strength of the rebellion is virtually
broken and the Union guaranteed. This is the
only position which the Chief Magistrate could
take, for the power and existence of the Confcd-
crate Government as only ava name, not in
reality. What the President says regarding
emancipation, will arrest the attention of all who
desire the freedom of the slaves. Lasting and
firm peace can only be gained by some adjust
ment OF the slavery question, which has for it's
ultimate issue the emancipation of the slaves.
to its only true issue, the QUESTION in
volved in the present struggle is the supremacy
of Slavery or the destruction of the Union-one
or the other will triumph. Some plan of eman-
cipatiOn with adequate compensation would be n
blessing both to the South and the NortL-
emancipation without it will be a curse to
both sections.
From Europe we have no news, the mails hay-
ing failed to connect, and the telegraph reports
furnishing little or nothing besides the rates of
consols and exchange, which are of but little i'm
here.
The irregularity of the mails has now become
y~exatious and almost unsupportable.
is a rumOr that the Panama steamers are
to be employed again for carrying the mails after
January LIST, and also that they are to run week
ly, instead of tri-monthly. These changes may
take place, and it will certainly be a public
blessing if they do. When the SpeedireH left San
Francisco, several hundred mail bags from the
East had arrived at Placerville, but could not be
on to San Francisco, owing to the
floods in the interior, which had broken up all
communication between the cities.
I'VE are compelled to defer the remarks pre-
pared for this issue on the subject taken up last
change of Ministers and ministerial pol
order to give place to the following very
interesting correspondence from abroad.