The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-05
(TEox OUR own CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, Jan. Sd, Is

New YORK, Jan. Sd, 1870.
We have had no winter yet December was as
mild May; the infrequent Aurries of snow
which fell during the month rested but few
hours upon the ground apartments upon the
sunny side Of our streets have hardly needed fires
as yet; and the proprietors of skating ice
houses and the cOal-dealers are equally despond-
ent,-for the price Of eOal has barely advanced
beyond the summer figures and there has been
no skating and no storing of ice for next summer.
But the hundred thousand people in New York
who are seldom warm in winter have 30 far man
aged very comfortably.
The holiday season which properly closes to-
day, the Monday after New Years has been very
generally observed. Cars and steamboats, laden
to their fullest capacity are bringing back New
Workers from almost every State in the Union.
Stepping from the Norwich boat the other even
ing, | saw James Fisk, Jr.. the notorious railway
OperatOv,-a fat man, of the sanguine-lymphatic
temperament, gOrged with the dinners of the hoIi-
days, dressed in n suit of navy cloth and wearing
gold lace upon his cap like naval officer. Fisk
boxed az If he had stolen the livery of war to
serve Epicurus in. He bore his $50 pounds OF
too, too solid flesh - across the gangway, and
was soon arm-in-arm with General b. f. Butler,
another passenger by the same boat, also fair
e0mplexiOued nOtoriety Of the Saxon type. One
does not readily associate the light blondes with
the idea Of deep-dyed villainy; and was some
what shocked at Overhearing gentleman in the
crowd remark. somewhat profanely, to friend.
I" Buffers profile, to be sure, is wonderfully fine !;
but you have only to look at his front face to be
rad fhsE -. r Ill
without subscribing to this vivacious criticism,
must however confess that the General has re-
markaby sinister cast of features. and that it is
not difficult TO see how he earned from his enc
MES the hrevet title Of /" Beast Butler
iears calls were made with unfailing
- ~ SY'e OF the weather, which was afro
as II has been foT five or six years mast
|' uis' oi January. observed much less
'-14 U. drunkenness upon the day, though
80 % our daily papers profess to have learned
,"4' more ardent spirits were eonsun,s5 ON tho
Just past than ever before in America
I'm al equal space of time Certain IL ia tho,
sue Ngnt wines Of France and Gsrn,nr -.
auAeo~n ue,' upon the New Years table: poas;hIr
''e lAiIure OF the - teetotaI >. -.
country may lead to an ;Dc,o,a., o--0"' IL 'ni7
a,A
winch are now the favorires anu PortS
Judge Allen and Mrs. Allen, Of Honolulu .rur,
-e" u4yS IN New York shortly before tbs HI
s-; remaining scarcely long enough for their
friends to find them out. '''N
Win "fn the new year appear extracts from n. od-
T., - sneets of Mrs. Stoves 9. Virdi,o.:. ;,
h ny Byron and of herself She adbsra. - ,ba
ressr, :, tIe story as told her by Lady Byron and
makiDg ,Sa. .es own Judgment of the propriety of
given IN Ia Ia story public. No new facts are
original :. IT,. ~ooS' = which is mere dlutiOn of the
eipa,ion Alue Story" r; the charge of baIlu-
th tn'ioa on the part n Lady Byron i - n%
aue 'eSsh 'ay 9f nelisaI crts IN aep.a1 .9u "
Of T.drE ~hoie the queation as to the truth
dsc;,io-' - -, story seems to be no nearer
at D'r'On 'nAn Before. That decision cannot, in
P- human probability, be made before Iedv
So trustees or heir 1epresentati tives. shall
70 pooiish the Iqpers left by her with the