The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-01-18
TEE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY Y. JANUARY Is.

The IDAHO arrived promptly on Tuesday the 18th,
after q handsome run Of ten days and twenty hours,
bringing 4 Large letter mail, but unfortunately few
papers. We learn that NR- HOLIDAY arrived from
New York in the steamer Of January Sd, and will
probably visit Honolulu in the next trip Of the IDAHO,
TO perfect arrangements for increasing the efficiency
Of the line II Is stated that the company are ready
to put on n second boat, the MONTANA, if u sufficient
subsidy Is secured, or if the Hawaiian Government
will aid in the enterprise. We have already urged
n grant Of s25,OOO a year. and think it but just
that this Government should DO as much to help this
pioneer steam enterprise, 50 long rs il may require
help.
We insert on our fourth page what appears to be
an abstract Of the report Of the Chamber of Commerce
in San Francisco on the Reciprocity Treaty. That
body, rs viii be seen by the news received by the
IDAHp,d decided to recommend to Congress the pas
sage Of the treaty. This viii help the measure prob
ably more than any action that could be taken by
any other body. The report is an ably prepared
document and in the main correct, though contain
ing some slight verbal inaccuracies The minority
report of str. J. C. King. which We shall insert next
week, contains about all that can be said against the
treaty.
So far as We can learn, no action had been taken
in the Senate ON the Reciprocity Treaty up TO the
VI eCthDr WIFI u W SIN ptiOf II tphl-
mittee Of Foreign Affairs, and would be reported to
the Senate some time in January. Although strenu-
Gus efforts were being made against it by interested
parties, yet the measure meets generally with popular
favor. The fact that the President, his Cabinet aud the
most influential men At Washington favor its adoP-
ton and passage, affords strong grounds for hoping
that il may pass.
IL Is rarely that We present our readers with n
more interesting paper than this weeks. "LAPAz,"
in his usual graphic style, gives US on the first page
m account Of n rambIe to Eva and the Kaals Mount
aims. Not one in n hundred who have ridden over
this road would find so much Of interest in the excur-
sion The truth is, we have plenty Of fields for oh
IL tourists will only find competent CON-
panions and keep their eyes open on their tramps-
We hardly need call attention to the letter Of Capt.
LoSG on the third page. lie is an old navigator in
the Pacific and Arctic Oceans. a well-read and thor
Ough student in everything pertaining to his service.
His arguments in favor OF the scheme Of reaching
and exploring the Polar Sea from this ocean arc 50
stated and so strongly supported, that it must
convince scientific men in Europe that this is the
proper route to take
Passengers from Hawaii report that the mountains
on that island are capped with snow, which in some
places comes One-fourth Of the distance down. Mts.
and Loa are in their glory now, and at sea
present q beautiful sight
TIE bark COMET, which went to sen yesterday,
no mails, as the IDAHO will probably arrive over
before her. However, the COMET has made the run
in ten, twelve and fourteen days, and may DO it
again. At all events, Capt Abbott promises to give
the steamer a close race, and get in before her if pos
sible.
The bark CELEsrI,, which is supposed to have the
expresses (put on board by some m~istake),
had not sailed from San Francisco when the IDAHO
left, having been detained by the Storm she is due
and will probably bring New York papers to
December 18th.
The steamer IDAHO viii leave for San Francisco on
afternoon at 4 O'Clock. Letters by her mail
will probably reach New York by February 10Th,
and Liverpool March lst.