The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-01

busies himself as an ordinary tourist. He has
avoided public notice, living quietly at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel like any one else who is able TO
pay So per day for that ennobhng privilege
He dresses in the fashion, discarding the UNIFORM
of his order, the barefooted Carmelites. Friends
of mine who met him, the other day, as he was
visiting Stewards great uptown shop, said that
he resembled II. w. Beecher in his type of
PHYSIQUE l have not yet CHANGED across this
illustrious ecclesiastic in his peregrinations but
the Broadway photographs and the ine picture
in a late number of Harper's Weekly show that
Father Hyaeinthe, like most other superior men,
has a superior physique on which to base his
spiritual and mental accomplishments. lie is a
grand pattern of man has a large frame and
a generous head, we'll based and well domed; he
is of the bilious-sanguine temperament; and ne
holds the grandest opportunity of the day. 1t is
vet entirely uncertain what use he will make Of
it. He went to hear Beecher Sunday before last,
and last Sunday to DR.. Thompson's church.
America can hardly fail to exercise upon him the
influence Of emancipation; but as yet Father
Hyacnthe declines interviews with strangers Tin
spite of the asseverations of each daily paper of
this city that its own reporters had enjoyed that
privilege to the exclusion of all other interview
ers) and announces himself still to be Catholic.
The excitement attendant upon the Byron dis
cusslon is gradually diminishing, the increas-
ing testimony makes it more and more evident
that Mrs. Stoves scandalous Sc true story is
false story, rather utterly hasty and mis-
taken one. Lady Byrons just-published letters
to Mrs. Leigh in the British Quarterly Reuiep,
seem to close the case against Mrs. Stowe, but
the latter lady appears in all the newspapers with
a second card calling attention to her '' forth
coming book" upon the subject, and asking the
public to suspend it's judgment until the appear
ance of that volume. Mrs. Stowe viii need to
hasten it's appearance if she would find either
readers or sympathy /; and she will be obliged to
adopt another tone from that of her magazine
article, the fons et OrigO maids; for whereas she
began by attacking Byron's reputation, she will
be hard put to it to come off with successful
defence Of her own. Not that she had any pur
pose to deceive in the matter but the faulty Of
her attack seems almost incredible.
Some of the minor comments upon this IN
lucky affair are amusing. Tho Mobile Tribune,
in phrase of cannibal grotesqueness, accuses
Mrs. Stowe of 60 beating the DEVILS tattoo with
the shin-bones of dead poet.'' And John Cam
den Hotten, a London publisher, in his defence
of Byron, parallels the Stowe attack with the
following inimitable bit of Thackerays drollery,
a dialogue which occurred during the authors
visit to this country:
"Mr. Thackerey,' said an American lady,
g is it true, this dreadful story which we hear
about you and Miss Bronte?''
" Madam - responded the burly novelist, " it
is, grieye to say, too true. Six children were
the fruit of that uDhallowed intimacy, and
killed them all with my own hand''
think that response absolutely perfect. Humor
could no farther 60. CALANus.