The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-19
Our Hilo Letter.
Huo. Sentember ODD. 1s7:

Hno, September Odd, 1872.
To the Editor Of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser 4:
DEAR SIR " IS HeloS prdyr Something like
a fortnight ago our steamer brought US the latest of
that commodity four days old from the capital, of
which even the advertisements are now worn out.
To-day a sail is seen crawling round the point, and
we know it to be the Annie of the Tortoise line,
due with the steamer so We are Indifferent about
her. We have nothing more to expect for weeks.
and thus our dull souls vegetate. How then can
poor Hilo give or receive news to or from the met
ropOlis! Such news L mean as is held to be news
in these days of steam expresses, ess-than-no-time
telegraphs and meteors from revolving Chaos, and
which must be damp from their events like q genu-
inc morning paper to be interesting? How can
editor and correspondent be cheerful with each
other. or give and take of each others sprightliness
and talent in the great art of penny-a-lining, whilst
a fortnights nap interludes each alternate kick of
the epistolary,-when by the time the compliment
airy smile reaches you, you have clean forgotten the
epigram which called for i'll Canton is nearer
! London than Hilo to Honolulu, and New York may
play q game of chess with Frisco ere we had TO con-
slider the second pawn. Yet this Sleepy Hollow Is
digni6ed with an army (or the prestige of one) to
secure its slumbers l presume. Tits one of the lido
syncracies of humanity (Which help to people the
| world that it will fix itself on the barrenness and
stick like a barnacle. Else why do so many supe-
rior people yourselves par example) come here.
having all the world before them where to choose
We'll might the conscientious poet COwper give
to the world that pathetic vail of his own sombre
imaginations conceived by a cheerful freside at a
/ social tea-table, as "Verses supposed TO be loritten by
Alexander Selkirk during his solitary abode on the
Island of Juan Fernandez" For lugubrious as the
strain is, no true Selkirk or Crusoe or other unlucky
waif of civilized sea drift, beach cOmber, castaway
or what not, could ever have put such meanings
into Verse under the circumstances. Gathering
cold clans for breakfast is not p~oetical. Gathering
| ideas in Hilo isn't, either. Still, there is q suficiency
of local gossip to be found at the corners. Barber's
shop we have none, though painted pole indicates
that Il professor of Wig blocks and head centre of
gossipry, once Icds. He fell into misanthropy pro-
| NOTED himSalf tn n COhhlar'S stall and now Drac-
tees trombone solos with hisdoor shut. Even the
last sensation of Cabinet mendings failed to excite.
Some things were said and somewhere not. Hilo's
average remark (aDd Hilo seldom r1pens any
thought to a piquant 1avor) was: 1--WE could have
better spared a better n,"-meaning @. e. quasi
:. Excellency, "-now-dR individual. Well! Re
uuiescat in pace" if he can. 1t is natural that he
should return to law, as it is that some animals
should return to their-rejections. In this late po-
litical episode one of its incidents irresistably re-
minded me of the indignant pittite at the theatre /:
= Ladies and Gents! / say! If that man in front
don't take of his hat, TH 90 Quit"
Next in Importance in the political world is the
Grant and Greeley fight, and what the latter knows
about 'E Ratting.' Parties are stirring here. Two
Greeley men are in arms, making furious passes.
They are trying to find n third, but he, being honor
ably ashamed of himself, they can't do it. From
my own point of view, which isn't American or
dangerous, it seems q clear case Of false identity.
Should this Greeley by any inconceiyable chance
(save for the fun of it, be allowed to don the purple
and sit out his fancy one term, in the first moment of
his release he'll call for a So pot of the smallest ale, !"
and subside back into himself. For 1 take him to be
no other than christopher Sly on a drunk, whilst
a certain party now fondling him is the mischievous
"Lord - of the play who intends q g pastime pass
ing excellent To say that this is Horace Greedy,
formerly of the New York Tribune, who went into
the falling sickness at Richmond Courthouse and
has been fading miserably away ever since, vanish
ing from sight like a dissOlving view in favor of
another picture, q wretched spectre of a thing which
now fills the canvas, whilst of the open hearted,
k,,o.f hoffp1 xunI hn1oua1 Horace mt n vaatina
remains, seems too incredible THIS must be Old
Sly's son of Burton heath, by his own confession the
'slyingest knave in Chrisendom.'' The Ides of
November will tell.
film of smoke may be seen occasionally and that is
all. So your Honolulu heroes were fortunate. and
the lady is q heroine.
Sugar boilers are about girding up their loins in
readiness for the coming seasons work. Canes never
looked better. Yet, men cannot live by cane alone,
and whatever the Gazette may say or think about
whalers, a few of them would be very welcome to the
Door tradesmen of Hilo, VINO are not fattening on
sugar 1t is pitiful TO observe the sad though patient
faces of our celestial shop-keepers as they drink behind
their counters from morn till night the sickly expe-
rience of . hope deferred" This laborious occupa-
ton of doing nothing tells upon them. "What will
become of US % they ask, and echo answers What
indeed - Yet, being Cinnamon, they liUe,-thev
are even bospitable, though few of them 1 fear will
ever fill their hearts, one desire and return some
future day in plentitude of sons and pockets, to the
howery land of their dreams. They will remain here
to miscegenate with Hawaiian stock and hybridize
the islands with other results beyond our ken.
Speaking of them, 1 lately witnessed a case of
something like red-tapestry very annoying to the
parties concerned at least. Under a new provision
Of the Masters and Servants Act, every contract
must be acknowledged before competent agents.
There was q manager whose time is precious come a
distance of ten miles over a detestable road to redeem
a coolie from prison and ship him. There wasn't a
single person in town competent 10 take the acknowl-
edgment,-hence the nuisance. But they must tinker
that Act each session
"Your correspondent - is not well, and thinking
his pen may show it, he viii be considerate and at
this point put it away. Yours very truly,
Miss S. E. Smiley, the celebrated Quakeress,
has formally renowned the tenets of that sect,
and been baptized in the Baptist Church.