The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-10-04
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lCommuncatedl
Mr.. EDIToR-I would most seriously draw the at
tention of the proper authorities to the folly of plac-
ing signals or other signs at the top of that danger
Ious piece of road known as the Pail. The present
sign, the use of which is very questionable, is COM
I posed of 4 barrel mounted on a staff, the wind play
ing round which produces 4 whistling sound alike
| startling to man and beast. Some two weeks ago,
Two ladies whilst riding up to the summit of the
Pail were terribly alarmed. The horse of one of
them SHE'D at the barrel, and rearing at the same
time, placed his forelegs on the iron railing, but
providentially happening at this critical moment to
draw his shoe, to this circumstance may be attributed
the escape of the rider from q terrible death. The
bent railing will testify to passers by the great
danger incurred, and will act as a warning TO future
travellers to avoid a like danger. TRAVELLER.
Mr.. EDIToR-No matter what my nationality, al
though [ will reveal it at the end of this letter, l
write in reply to an article signed Americans - in
the 7. C. A. of Sept. 9th.
The gentleman says want to say a few words
" in defense of the reputation of my own country
which I think has been upjustly and unnecessarily
assailed in this discussion, and no one has appeared
Sin its defense" Alas poor country, which has
been so wantonly attacked, and whose sons are SO
recreant that not one is to be found to do battle for
her good name, until, at the last moment, just as she
is about to die with shame, a veritable Don QuixOte
gracefully canters into the lists determined to do
mortal battle with the q slanderer of the government
{ and people of the United States" But where is
his enemy? Vanished or transformed into the dense,
binding, impenetrable cloud of dust and dirt raised
by his own Rosinante and his squire's dOnkey-it
must be so, for no other enemy is to be seen.
Mr.. Editor, have read the four articles or addresses
on the subject of the cession of Pearl River to the
United States, but have failed to discover the SLAM
derer. Tt is not Mr.. Castle, for he is all suavity and
sweetness, overlooking with the milk of human
kindness and as buoyant with hope as young Ph9bus
when in hot pursuit of fair and flying Daphne. Mr..
Phillips perhaps trenches a little too closely to the
mark when he says" But the United States could
snot maintain exclusive jurisdiction over so small g.
territory separated by artificial lines from the rest
81 of q populous island without constant alteration
"aoih her neigh6ors. = 4 = Nothing can rec
&c ommend it to the United States, but the expectation
that when the ~discomforts of a divided jurisdiction
have become unbearable, the islands will clamor for
e annexation in despair But then Mr.. Phillips is
an American, consequently an honest man utterly in
capable of assailing the good name of his native
country WI. CtuuOL " lLC CuIlIlif vi nC
told the people in his little address-''D Do not imag-
Zine that in saying this 1 am indirectly impeaching
50 the honor or integrity of the Government of the
" United States. On the contrary | am persuaded
: that everything would be that possibly could be done
{ by that power to protect you in your new and I'M
''happy state; the evils you would suffer would not
6 be inflicted by the Government of the United States,
9 but would follow as q natural consequence the CON-
mission of u fatal mistake" Mr.. Henry Carter de-
livered a fowery address ON the expediency of the
Pearl River cession, but | can find nothing in it to
make me believe that he is the slanderer alluded to.
Who then can he be?
At last q ray of light dawns upon my soul-the
dusty cloud clears of, and the miscreant stands re-
vealed. Our doughty Don has stumbled over an
article in the Government Organ of July 23d, headed
g The Modocs Of San Francisco" It is that that has
stirred up his wrath, and no wonder, for it is scan
dalous.
My dear Chivalrous Don, / have pointed out your
foe, let us see what you can make of him, go in and
win-do not falter, being in the right you are sure to
prosper.
AMI id be he who first cries hold, enough"
HAWAIIAN.
2. S. | ask you as a favor, Mr.. Editor, not to
publish this in your native paper, because I do not
want my countrymen to know that | am a fomenter
of discord between their true friends, 4" Americans "
and the Editor of the Government Organ.
While in Congress Hall, Commodore Vanderbilt
stepped to the cigar stand and directed the young
man in attendance to hand him a fifty cent cigar,
after which he directed that cigars costing twenty
cents each be given TO others in his party, adding