The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-02-19
Second Letter from New York.
[FEou An Occasional CoRREsroNDrSr. ]

[FEou AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
New YoRk. January 6. 1873.
was reading the GAzEsrE Of December 4th. 10
which you mark the as &c Straigbt-out Dimekyat, -
a thing entirely unknown in these parts-when
news came that your King is dead There was
the bare fact only. Why did you not make up
An EXTRA GAZETTE relating all the circumstances
Of this unexpected death; describing the funeral
saturnalia Of the natives the political confusion
OF the whites telling us whether there Is to be
peaceabe succession. ora revolution; with a sequel
containing history Of the Islands, killing Of
Capt. Cook. landing Of the missionaries. portrait
Of kaahumanu iu ! fan aud short skirt Kumeha-
meha l. IL a stove-pipe bat and malo, with pic
lures OF the Hawaiian Hotel and general vol
canic eruption accompanied by showers Of ripe
mangoes aud cocoauuts You have missed y9,,r
5esf adrsrtisiag oRPort.a,ity; for people have
actually asked me Who was this King! Where
are these Saudwicb Islands aud what Is the name
Of the capitaI?7 In this busy life they have
learned other things than your history. which is
evident by the ridiculous comments in cur papers
about this Hawaiian event
Every one myself excepted] who pretends to
know where the Sandwich Islands are. has
mounted his chair and addressed this Indifferent
world about you, through the newspapers. From
Washington speaks one McCook possibly mate
Of Capt. Cook when he was killed in that Bay Of
many Rs, Do you know anything about hun
l judge from what he says that he once did you
great service. But he says that you are not
worth anuexing Then Mark Twain gets up.
He says, this morning, that you are all drunk ex-
cept the missionaries and merchants that the
merchants wish the missionaries we're not there.
and the missionaries wish the merchants would
migrate. He says your sugar planters are very
rich, aud want TO be annexed to the L. ). He
requests everybody to address Capt. Nakee, Maui,
;. l., for farther particulars. Twain does not
know much He says you raise 100000 tons of
sugar.
The most we have learned about the Kings
death Is ia two excellent letters. of Dec. 18th.
from Honolulu-one to the y Y Tribune, and
one to the Minneapolis Mimi Tribune.
Oar daily papers are fast becoming a public
nuisance There is but oue-,he Ersuiag Post
which does not thrive on sensation" What
ever il published on Monday morning is positively
contradiUtei on Tuesday aud proved to be abso-
lutely false 90 Monday. There Is no such thing
now as journalistic influence on public opinion.
The newspaper Is business Of daily mer-
chandise; protests Zoe virtue. criticisms Of men
and things are worth from fifty cents to five dol
lars an editorial line according TO circumstances.
Your Kingdom eau be written up most piously.
or written down most abomiuably YOU paws
your money gentlemen. and You have your
choice Even our religions papers know God
aud mammon equally well sometimes. The many
most notorious Of these opponents Of civilization
ought to be destroyed, Ike the rags of a small
pox invalid
Our holiday season has been very cold. As the
papers express it-a great polar wave has swept
over the surface Of the earth not your surface
yoa are at sea, and your only polar wave is that
which brings IN those Arctic wilIers over whose
arrival you rejoice. They are your returned prodi-
gal sons Here the STOW has been very deep.
the thermometer very low the cause, thaws and
rains-freezing rains. covering the twigs Of our
leafess trees with ice; at which some simple
people say How beautiful | say-How horri-
bic Snow and ice are the curse Of our climate
and the geographers OF my school days knew
nothing Of that third part Of the world, which
basks under tropical sun. when they taught me
that these curses we're necessary to fertilize the
earth One need only to 90 to Honolulu to see
the profanity Of that teaching.
Our notable events are, the second trial and
unexpected conviction Of Stokes for the killing 4
Of Fix; the purchase Of the Neus York Tribune
at one and quarter million dollars by friends of
Horace Greeley the recovery. by the Erie Rail I
way Company, of nine million dollars stolen by /
Jay GoHij, and the suit Of that Company against I
Commodore Vanderbilt for four millions more
the disasters Of the Paei6c Mail Steamship Com
pany. which have compelled them to ask permis-
sion Of the Government to run English steamers
on their line-refused heavy and disastrous gales
on the Atlantic fogs and wrecks on our coast
and that 10 al our pulvenzsdH white sugar mar
ble dust Is mixed By the manufacturers To
which add the fact that have written you again
expecting my letter TO catch whaieshIp al San
Francisco. b.