The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-05-01

dated from Honolulu, in some Of the San Francisco
journals, which in lying, pure and simple, and the
more elaborate art Of disiorting facts, are difficult to
be beaten even by men the most totally lost 10 shame
and the demands Of character.
The foreign correspondents OF first class journals
are generally meu Of character as well as ability.
They never sneak into print under an alias They
are known aud respected for honesty in their literary
dealings a.d candor in their descriptions, even when
the facts they reveal. or the opinions they utter, may
be unpleasant to the amour prOpre Of the people
among whom they are temporarily residing, and
about whom they are writing. The very fact that
they come thus known and accredited 10 a cOmmu-
nifty, invests them with q responsibility which they
are not prone TO forget, opens the way for them TO the
best circles and the best sources of Information in the
country where they stop, and is a guarantee TO their
foreign readers Of the reliability Of the facts they
narrate. If the San Francisco journals deem it worth
their while TO keep especial correspondents" in
Honolulu, TO inform them of current transactions
here more infinitely than the local papers give them,
let them employ respectable men Of known and rei-
able character, uncOnnecte1 with local politics or
local quarrels, and with a strict regard for truth and
the e~xigencies of common p~ropriety. II they do not,
if they admit every scurrilous communication that Is
dated from Honolulu, without some voucher for the
accuracy Of the facts and the credibility of the mar
ratOr, they will continue 10 be as grossly imposed
upon themselves, as the Bulletia and the Herald and
Mirror have been Of late.
We have thus, in a friendly manner, pointed out TO
our contemporaries across the pond what We conceive
to be n defect in their organization, in so far as 1t
touches US, hoping thar they will remedy 1t at the
earliest. We shall be- 10th to believe that truth and
courtesy are at n discount with the San Francisco
Press, especially towards a country and people with
which they have had none. and can have none, but
the most friendly and mutually advantageous rela-
tons.
Most heartily do We say -4meR TO the above para
graphs quoted from the PolyReSian. The remarks
seem to have been specially called out by a letter in
the Herald and Mirror of the 4th of April. written
by one Eddy, who is well known from his connection
with Capt. Gibson the Mormon, and which consists
of little else than low gossip and falsehoods, if not
of libels, written in q style which would do no credit
to a school boy. This is the same person whom the
Bulletin not long since published as an ~impostor,
and who gives every evidence that he is such. The
stories told by him concerning the Chinamen at
Hilo are both incorrect. A laborer was whipped on
one of the plantations, it is true, but the fine Of $500
imposed by the court tcdS paid. The other story OF
a laborer having had his fingers mashed to a jelly
by his employers, as a punishment for some oiense,
is entirely false and without any foundation.
y letter also appears in a late Monitor Catholic
paper,) of San Francisco, which endeavors to exhibit
our Sovereign in an odious light abroad, as well as
the American Commissioner, and which appears to
have been written by some malicious, evil-uisposed
person, whose only object is to vilify and abuse others,
under the mask of an anonymous correspondent.
Francisco papers wish to have special correspondents
here, they should take the pains TO secure respectable
men, and not pick up struggling beach combers,
whose only motive in writing is to crafty personal
malice, or abuse those whose hospitality they enjoy.