The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-04-08
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Letter About
Boston.


Artemus thus writes u his . . dear Betsy con.
cerniny his late visit 70 the 8 Modern Atkins -
The winder Of my room q exIleratn
view Of Cops Hill, where Cotton Aather, the
father Of the RefOrmers and sich lies berried.
There j. men even now who worship Cotton, and
there j. women who wear him next their hearts.
But / do not weep for him. Hes bin dead too
\ lengthy. | amt going u be absurd, ike old Mr.
Skillius, in our nabCrhoOd, who Is nInety-six
yeas OI age, and gets drunk every lection day,
and weeps Bitturly because he haint got no pa
rents. He's q nice Orphan, he II.
Bunker Hill l. over yOnder IN ChariestOwn.
! In l77j = thrillin dramy was acted out over
there. in which the '' Warren Combination
played star parts.
0ld Mr.. Fanuel Is ded. but his Hall is still
into full blarst. This is the Cradle in which the
Goddess Of Liberty was rocked, my Dear. The
Goddess hasn't been very well durin the past few
years. and the nuIuris quack doctors she called
IN didn't help her any, but the old gals physi-
clans now are men who understand their blsness,
AaIOr-generally speakIn, and | think the day IS
near when she'll BE- able to take her three meals
"A day, and sleep nights as comftably as in the
old time.
The Common is here as ushill, and the low
cuss who called il a Vacant Lot, and wanted to
know why they didn't ornament il with some
Bildins, is a Unhappy outcast in Naponsit.
The State House l. filled with statesmen, but
some of IN wear queer hats. They buy 'em, l
take it, Of matters who carry on hat stores down
stairs in Dock square, and whose hats is either
ten years ahead Of the prevailin stile or ten years
behind it, just a. an Intellectual person sees fit
10 think about it. | had the pleasure Of talkin
with seyril members Of the legislator. | told
'em the Eye Of 1000 ages was onto we American
people of to-day. They seemed deeply impressed
by the remark, and wanted 70 know if | had
seen the Crate Origin.
Harvard College. This celebrated institooshin
Of laarnin' is pleasantly situated in the Bar Room
of Parker's, in School street, and has poopils
from all over the country.
l went over to Lexington yes'd'y. My Boo
sum hove with sollum emotions. ~ this, |
said to a man who was drivin' a yoke of oxen,
:. this is where our revolutionary forefathers as
serted their Independence and split their Blud.
Classic ground"
" Wall, - the man said, it's good for white
beans and potatoes, bat as regards raisin' wheat,
faint worth a dam. But hav' you seen the
Crate Orgin?''
l returned in the Hoss Cars, part way. \
pOOty girl in spectacles sot near me, and was tell
in a young man how much he reminded her Of
q man she used to know in Waltham. Poorly
soon the young man got out, and, smilin' in a
seduciv' manner, | said to the girl in spectacles,
" Don't | remind you Of somebody you used to
know ?'
Yes she said, ''you do remind me of one
man, but he was sent to the penitentiary for
stealin' Il Bari of mackerel-he died there, SO 1
conclood you amt him. | didn't pursoo the
conversation. l only heard her silvery voice once
more durin' the remainder Of the ierney. Turnin
to il respectable lookin' female of the advanced
summers, she asked her if she had seen the Crate
Origin.
We old chaps, my dear, are apt to forgit that
it Is some time since we was infants and ct lite
food. NOthin' of further int'rist took place on
the cars cxcep a colored gentleman, Il total
stranger to me, asked if I'd lend him my dia-
mond Brestpin to wear to a funeral in South
Boston, | told him | wOuldn't-not a puTpuSs.
Altho' fur from the prahayries, there is album
dants of wild game in Boston, such as quails,
snipcs, PLAYER and Props.
| ment to have alloOded to the Crate Origin in
this letter, but | heyen't seen it. Mr.. Reeveer
whose tavern 1 stop at, informs me thai it can be
distinctly heard through a smoked glass in his
nativ town in New Hampshire, any clear day.
But settin' the Crate Origin aside (and indeed I
don't think l heard it mentioned ali the time /
was there,) Boston is one of the grandest, sure
footedest, cIear-headedest, comfortublest cities on
the globe. Onlike ev'ry other large city | was
ever in, the most Of the hackmen don't seem to
hav bin s~peshully intended by natur for the Bur
glery perfession, and it's about the only large
city | know of where you don't enjoy a brilliant
opportunity of bein' swindled in sum way, from
the Risin eff the Sun to the goin down thereof.
There4 1 say, loud and continnered applaus' for
Boston