The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-04-03
PU BLISBED AND EDITED BY
HENRY VI. WHITNEY.


time is now mostly given 10 his duties editor
Of the North American Review, Professor in liar-
ward College AMI occasional contributor to the At
lautic Magazine. OF late he has not been very
fertile in poetic production. His recent volume
- Under the Willows l. not mostly new.
Lowell has become a regular - home body y
since his second marriage, which took place two
years or more ago. lie delights to nestle in an
arm chair in his Cambridge study. with hi- books
and his pipe. Ills second marriage was quite
romantic, and has proved congenial and happy.
should ike 10 tell it. story. but it would bc
printed in New York and Boston papers, and
would be regarded by the extremely correct, eJn-
sidcratc. and purctilious American public n
tresrassing on the sanctitics of private life
No such criticism, however, will attach to the
observations that made Of Horace Greeley. last
Sunday. at Dr. Chapin's church in Fifth Avenue
He was there in his iriform,-a suit so ragged,
dirty, and altogether disrcputablc that plough
man might have hcsitated to 60 to the field in
It. GrecIcy's famous =. white coat - is no myth,
but actual and sIovcnIy reality. 1t is ample
and scciy. lie seldom manages to get the whole
Of its collar turned down; part of it waves
airilv about one of his ears. | have seen hIm at
evening PARTIES NTtr-tu III Il bldCh clilf
with the collar in the same condition. In what
other country than America could such an absurd
cccentricity be seen? IL is 4 curious sight %
this scarccrow philosopher, with his massive
head, his innocent expression Of cOuntcnancc.
and mis- marvellous attire. seated among the ee-
gantly clothed flshi5nablcs Of DR.. Chapin's or
DR.. BELOW congregation. lie regularly attends
the former, and occasionally the latter church.
lie always sleeps through the sermon, his great
white head nOdding bcnignly, with drowsy en-
phasis. Mt the close of each period. lie looks
like Brlhmin woIshiper, absorbed in the beatific
contemplation Of his navel Yet Horace Greeley
asleep will hear more Of u sermon than other men
will hear with both ears open.
In the church Of the Ascension. on the Fifth
Avenue, L often see another singular character
n veteran Of the wars Of the first Napoleon. 1t
Is the venerable Captain l., who celebrated
his lO3d birthday few weeks ago, and who Yet
walks hears. and talks well, and retains his in
tcrest in life. Every Sunday morning you may
see the old whitc-haircl soldier in a pew, and
hear his shrili loud, and peculiar voice above all
the rest in the respoHse-.-d voice that i no
longer masculine in it, quality, but has nu cpiccnc
iutOnatiOn n If nature would not trouble herself
t. keep up all her fine distinctions for more than
n century in the same person. The Captain l. n
regular as CloekwOTk III his habits,-the most
singular one Of which i TO take SiTty grains of
opium every day, regularly at seven O'Clock in the
evening, when he goes 70 bed. He has had the
opium habit for half \ century or more, and
thinks that IL has lcngthcuci his life. lie always
dimes at l =. NJ. and rises in the middle Of the
night to read or walk an hour. AproIos Of
Captain l., / heard a witty rctort the I
other evening. \ prominent EVi5coIaliln clergy
man Of my acquaintance talking with lady
from the West, herself brilliant talker, and a
strong SJuthcrner and scccssiDnist in politics.
The Reverend Doctor, Not aware Of the latter
fact, was telling her about the old Captain, his
adventures, his habits, his devotion To the church,
etc., ETC. BY way of a climax nc completed his
eulogy thus
:. Would You believe, my dear Madame, that
this venerable man walked 10 the polls, last
November, to cast his vote for Grant and CoIiax" "
.WeII,'' said the fair COppcrhead.' 1 should
have thought he was old enough TO know better
The Doctor laughed heartily, and rarloned the
Iady's politics for the sake Of her wit.
This first Of February is a dJlcful day with
house-rcntcrs in New York. The agents Of all
the landlords arc upon their rounds, making the
usual annual demand for an increase Of rent from
the first Of May. One cannot now rent house
that Is at all fashionable in New York, for less
than S3 900 per year and the increase Of cost is
likely to go on until the next financial crisis
arrives after which it is to be hoped that we
may live cheaPly for a while. CAI-lNrs.