The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-09
William H. Seward.

In our younger days, when hard cider and LOG
cabins were the stirring w~atchwords OF New York
politicians, we well remember seeing this distin-
guished gentleman, then Governor of New York,
mounted on a spirited charger and reviewing sew
eral regiments of State troops at Rochester. Since
that time, nearly thirty years ago, the now veneer
able Ex-Governor, Senator and Secretary has been
in Office nearly all the time, and taken part in the
great changes which have occurred.
As most of our readers are aware, Mr.. Seward
has recently been on a visit to Alaska. in the
purchase of which territory he had probably more
to do than any other person. On his return, he
visited Victoria, Puget Sound, Portland, and at
the latest advices had gone to San Diego and
other parts of Southern California. On the 30th
of September he intended to start for Mexico, via
Mapzanillo, where the Panama steamer was to
land him. He is accompanied by his son and sew
eral distinguished politicians, including ex-Mayor
McCoppin of San Francisco. OF his proposed
route through Mexico, we find the following de-
tails in u late letter from Mexico
Before the Hon. William II. Seward left his home
for n summer trip through the valley of the Missis-
sippi, across the Rocky Mountains, and up the
Northern Pacific coasts, word was sent to President
Juarez that himself and party contemplated returning
from the west side OF the continent across the Repub-
lie of Mexico. President Juarez replied by sending
a most urgent invitation, which, by Gen. Rosencrans's
advice, was sent To Sin Francisco. The invitation,
which was signed by Don Benito and his Cabinet,
several Generals of the army and Judges of the Su-
preme Court, requested the Hon. Secretary TO disem-
bark Mt Manzanillo, State of Colima, and six days
sail from San Francisco. From there to the city of
Colima is 80 leagues or about 80 miles. From Colima,
Secretary Seward will be escorted To Guadalaiara,
the second city Of the Republic. From thence he will
20 TO Chapala, embark on a small steamer recently
arr,ra from Gan Eraucia.a MI hav I'm intapl r.la
over one of the most silvery lakes in the world To
Salamanca, in Guanajuato. From there his Mexican
escort will conduct him to the silver fields of Guana-
juato. From Guanajuato, where the Spaniards sur
rounded and burned 1000 Mexicans in 1910, Mr..
Seward will come TO Queretaro, and unless the pres
et difficulties there are settled, he will have an op-
rortunity of seeing a regular Mexican revolution.
There, too, he can see where Macmillan laid down
his life. From Quaretaro the party will come into
the valley and City Of Mexico, where the governing
powers and the rabble-the low classes-will follow
his ~triumphal march, shouting, " VIra .Merico,
Yira los yMericanos, Plea los hombres del .Norfe.',
And Mr.. Seward will be feted. The class that viii
do him grateful homage constitutes fveeighths Of the
people. The Secretary will see grander mountains
with eternal crowns OF snow, more beautiful fields of
flowers, silvery streams, fruit orchards of orange,
guayaba and lines, than he will ever have an oppor-
tunity Of seeing again. The Halls of the Montezumas
are second to no city of our continent, and from
Grand Cathedral, Plaza de Armas, painted palace Of
mud, Castle at Chepultepec, our distinguished states
man may view despoiled church and convent, and the
apologies for canals, and the mythical hanging gar
dens of which Prescott writes, but which, Of course,
never existed save in the fertile, imaginative brains
of the untutored Indians"
The Bulletin has the following:
son the 30th Mr.. Seward and party will take pas
sage on the Pacific Mail steamship Golden City for
Manzanillo, whence they will proceed by special con-
veyance to the Mexican capital, where they will be
the guests Of President Juarez. They will remain
there perhaps a week, visiting various places and OBJ
jects of interest in the vicinity. The subsequent
movements of the party will be somewhat determined
by circumstances. Mr.. Seward has a strong desire
to visit the States of Central and South America,
from the governments of several of which he has re-
ceived pressing invitations. Last evening he received
an invitation from the authorities of Salvador to visit
the capital of that Aourishing State-an invitation he
is strongly temnted to ACCENT