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The Polynesian., 1841-10-09
PORT OF HONOLULU.
ARRIVED.

ARRIVED.
Oct. 9, Am Sch Pilot, Spunyarn, Kauai.
" Haw Sch Hawaii, Hawaii and In.
g Haw Sch Kckauluohi, Wailua.
6, II. B. Nj. Corvette, Curacao. o.
guns, Captain Jones, from Valparai.
so July lO-touched at CalIao. PIT
cairns Island, Tahiti, Eimeo. and
last from Hawaii.
7, Haw Sch Clarion, Maui.
8, Am Whaleship South Carolina. Bal
ley, from Maui
Snip William Grey, Brewer, New
York April l.-VaIparaiso and Ia
hiti.
" U. S. Corvette Yorktown, Is guns,
Captain Aulick, 10 days from Tahiti.
News by these last vessels too late for
insertion in our present number.
SAILED
Oct. 2, Br Whaleship Eleanor, Barnet. to
cruise.
4" Am Brig Lama, Jones, Central A.
merica.
s, Am Sch Pilot, spunyarn, Kauai.
Br Brig Clementine, Molteno, N w
Coast.
6, Haw Sch Hawaii, Lahaina and Hilo.
7, Haw Sch Kekauuohi, Eva.
Am Ship Copia, Macomber, to cruise.
PASSENGERS.
In the VIM Grey,, Mrs Brewer, and Mrs
Moore.
LAHA'NA, Maui-Arr Sept 9, Ship Phil
lip Tabb, Jenny, Warren, ID mos ESQ bbls
whale. 25th, Vineyard, Croker, Edgar
ton, mos $50 sperm. Goth, Mt Wallos-
ton, Rose, Salem IS mos 1000 whale. 3Oth.
Mercury, Gray, Stonington, 10 mos 2lO0
whale. 30th, James Lopez, Cathcart, Nam
tucket, 80 mos 100 sperm. Oct 5, South
Carolina, Bailey, Dartmouth "a mos 1900,
600 sp $50 wh.) 9th, Cortes, Gardiner,
,2lOO sperm.
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09
THE POLYNESIAN.
Honolulu, Saturday, Oct. Q, lS41.

The attention of the learned and antigua
an world has Of late been directed with
fuch zeal towards the vast piles of ruins
|hIch lie hid deep in the recesses of the al-
| lost mpenetrable forests of Southern Mex
20, GautimaIa, and Yucatan. The difficult
IN reaching them is so great, that few
ave had the resolution to undertake, and
lose that did, have brought back reports OF
4ned magniicence, and relics of former
'aNdeur and civilization which have startled
puzzled the curious of all countries
IKE mystery of any nature, Imagination
deeply colored the picture, half drawn
F'm the mind, and half from the stories OF
0se to whose researches we refer. until
|*se masses of stone and sculpture have as
'"ed the shape and figure of cities, the ru-
'oi which cast those Of Thebes and Pal
''a far into the shade. Indeed some have
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09

The Curacao is the first English man Of
war that has visited these islands for upwards
of two years. She draws too much water to
enter the harbor. Soon after coming to an
Choir, she exchanged sautes with the batte-
ries on shore, From this place she goes to
Monterey, and Mexico.
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09
NOTICE.

The Annual Examination Of native schools
in Honolulu and its vicinity will commence
on Monday, the ! It'll inst at 9 o'clock. and
be continued until Friday, when the exercis-
es are expected to close with feast in Ha-
waiian style. The examination will be con-
Quoted in the two Protestant meeting houses.
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09

be people who had thus executed them:
and the latter executed with such regard
the due proportions Of figure as actual
|, to astonish the travellers, who had not
he mos, remote expectation TO find any
tanch Of the fine arts in forward state.
What added to their establishment was the
Fact that all these monuments were found
IN the deepest rccesscs Of forests ofgigan-
lie and closely planted trees; proof of
heir antiquity altogethet irrefragble, as
must have required centuries to bring
slch trees to their maturity and enormous
rowth, and it must have been after those
titles were ruined and gone to desolation
hat the forest was permitted to take root
their precincts at all. These consid-
rations, unaidcd by any other, must car
y the mind back to period of the world
altogether startling to think of.
An erroneous notion has got abroad, that
these antiquities in the colossal magnitude
their parts, throw those ofThebes, Luxor,
! md other Egyptian monuments into the
knade, and that the latter may now "hide
heir diminished heads;" it is believed also
hat in architectural elegance as in extent
hese American remains lar exceed those of
fabec, Palmyra, or even ancient Babylon
tset These surmises receive no counte-
lance from the accounts given by Messrs
(tevens and Catherwood The extent of
e American monuments has rather regard
them as one mass promiscuously and al
most every where spread within a circum-
|rence of three thousand miles, than to the
xcnt or magnitude of any one specimen or
|et of ruins; and nothing but either COM
etc misunderstanding of the true details,
r an intense love of the marvellous can
ave brought about those false comparisons.
But the most important point to be ascer-
|ained is that of referring these monuments
|ruly to any Of those in the old world. At Il
frst glance at some of the more colossal fig
pres, their costumes and their grouping,
here was for the moment a similarity to
hose of ancient Egypt, but the practsed
Ives OF our travellers soon corrected the mo-
fentary error of their thoughts. There was
pot one of those monstrous heads which so
|ssentially belong to Egyptian mythology,
leligious rites, and occult writings; the pro-
|ortions of the figures were in every respect
eer in those before them, and no where
I'D they find that inherent regard for great
|pagnitude or peculiar position in the statu-
by and sculpture. The hieroglyphics too,
|nough literally scattered and everywhere
|omogeneous, were altogether different from
bose upon the Egyptian monuments. From
be intricacy of their designs and from many
rotesque subjects of their sculpture, these
fonuments might be referred to a more ORR
ma source than that Of Egypt; and the
|milarity seems to increase the farther they
re referred to the eastward. China and
apan present many ofthe images and groups
'hich are found on these American monu-
ents, and, although with much that is gro
sque in the latter, there is much that is
Faithfully and symmetricalIy correct, while
China and Japan, particularly the latter,
Ne monstrous prevails in an exorbitant de-
rec, there is really much that is common to
be East of Asia and to the west Of America.
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09


qua'nted with written language, preserv-
ed not, except through the uncertain me-
dunn OF oral tradition, faint glimmerings
OF which have reached us, the history of
these changes.
Here, as elsewhere. revolution may
have succeeded revolution, and the bar
barous hordes from the mighty Store
house of the human race poured them
selves with irresistible fury upon Ameri-
ca-changing government, language, and
religion, as they have done upon Europe.
The latter recovered from these assaults
to make still greater advances in civiliza-
ton whilst the former, unaided by the
light of Christianity, and crushed under
ignorance and superstition, was sunk into
barbarism, with but few and faint traces
OF better state. At her discovery--if
we may Judge from the then rapidly pro-
crossing empires Of Mexico and Peru,
which were in some of the arts far before
certain parts of Eprope-she too might
have been casting aside the darkness
which shrouded her; and, emerging from
the mighty cloud with renewed bright
ness, might have taken her seat high
among the powerful states and lawgivers
of the earth. AS every succeeding year
brings to light some long-buried memorial
of an ancient race, the public curiosity
becomes aroused, and many are the ques-
tons asked and theories formed with re-
gard to it. In the present state of our
knowledge, little or no certainty can en-
est; but time and laborious investigation
may lead us to such results rs will prove
gratifying, and even satisfactory, to our
minds, if no higher object is to be gained.
10 effect this we should preserve with sa-
cred care, all relics Of the past, and note,
with careful and discriminating hand, each
new discovery. Let the philologist, with
critical acumen, examine the structure of
the various languages the Psychologist,
the crania and mummies so often dsin-
tered, and compare them with those of
existing races-and let all be slow, but
sure, in arriving at conclusions and from
materials thus carefully prepared, let the
strong-minded, sagacious philosophergath-
er truths to instruct and amuse mankind.
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09

LETTER BAGS FOR UNITED STATES.
Ship William Thompson, to sail Oct. 10.
Ship Nautilus, to sail Oct. 90.
Ship Gloucester, to sail Nov. I,
AT the Office Of the Am. Consul.
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09

The Curacao brings the distressing intel
ligence that the Don Quixote carried the
Small Pox to Tahiti, and that it is now pre-
vaing there to very fatal extent. While
the Curacao laid there, she allowed no COM
munication with the shore, and by the pre-
cautions Of the commander the crew were
preserved from the contagion. 1t had also
spread to Eimeo, and without doubt would
prevail through the whole southern groups,
adding fearful item to the already full cat
alogue of diseases which were depopulating
those groups. 1t is to be hoped that all the
residents will unite with the government
here, in taking every precaution to prevent
its reaching these shores. The quarantine
laws should be enforced with the utmost
strictness. A little precaution in season
would save great amount of misery and
death, both among natives and foreigners.
The danger Of its introduction would be
greatest at ports on the other islands, where
ships are in the habit of recruiting These
should be closely watched, and the vessels
coming from the infected groups, allowed no
communication until it is clearly proved that
there is no contagion on board The u. S.
Corvette Yorktown not being here, it is sup
posed that she has the disease on board, and
has gone to some island to cleanse ship, and
will there remain until she is free from it.
The physician who reported the Don
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09

primal seat Of civilization, and the abod,
from which man went forth to till the soil
and people the earth. That such coniec
lures have no other foundation than that o
an over-zealous fancy, the report which
the travellers, Messrs Stevens and Gather
wood, which we give in another column suf
flclently shows. From them we shall doubt
less have an account faithful to nature. ant
Invested of the marvellous, which clings Sc
tenaciously to the unknown. Enough is al
ready made clear to the world to excite {
deep interest in these remains. Ancien
they are, beyond all our present means o
ascertaining their structure. Magnificent
too, and grand, sufficient to show, that 9TH
err heads than those which peopled America
at It's discovery by Columbus, must have
planned, and other hands executed. The
finely sculptured hieroglyphics, which are
now dead letter, may eventually be decy.
phered, and those silent stones be read and
known of all men. What a history thew
might reveal! A nation as populous and as
civilized as that of Ninevah, or Babylon, O,
the early Persian, now passed away from
earth's surface, and nothing left but the pal
aces of the living to become the tell tale
tombstones of the dead A nations fears,
hopes, and power lie buried amid the deep
silence of those forests; memento, it may
be, of the wrath of an offended Deity; to all
valuable moral on the fate of men and en-
pires.
Connected with these ruins is the question
so frequently mooted, "whence the popuIa-
ton of this country;" This is also of spe-
cial interest to the inhabitant of Polynesia,
for granting that Asia was the birthplace Of
mankind, the same sources that peopled
America, probably filled these islands, and
the investigation of the question, will be Of
interest to the dwelers of both lands.
To the Romans, Jews, WEIGH, Mon
gols, and almost every other known ma
ton, has the people of American been at
tributed but passing over these varying
surmises, it might be we'll to inquire why
so little can be learned with certainty
with regard to its early history. Who, up
on examining the magnificent ruins lately
discovered in and about Palanque and
Militia, the immense city of Otolana
(Which, as illustrating the domestic life
and manners Of people long since de-
parted, and whose name even defes anti.
quarian research, may with propriety be
styled the Pompeii Of the New World
and the account of like remains existing ir
various parts of South America-will mol
come to the conclusion that America wa.
once the seat of arts and sciences buried
in oblivion? How little should we have
known at this day concerning the ancient
Egyptians, had it not been for the litera
ture of other nations and the late brilIia n
discoveries Of Champollion! Destroy all
the records Of the Jewish race, then visit
Palestine, and gather, if possible, from
hoarv tradition and the bIackened monu
ments of ancient art, the his tory of the
chosen people. The empire of the Assy
riap. and the mighty capital, whose tow
The Polynesian., 1841-10-09

Quixotc healthy, at Tahiti, by whose repre-
sentation she was allowed to enter, was BAN
ished from the Island.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
PGRLIC SCHOnLS.

D0YS SGItOOl..-The XI. Emanuel s;l,e.d Eng AD lish and Classical Srhool, next donr to the Episcopal Church, will be opened for the recrptior oi Pupils, on Monday November 1st.
 Tuition per month, 1, 5, 6 and $7.
 oct27 O4c E. T. WOOD.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

NOTlCE.-Tbe undersigned, Executor of the last ' will aud testanent of JOSEPH RABY, deceased, hereby gives notice that be qualified executor of said estate, and letters testamentary granted him by the Orphans Court of Mobile county, on lhe l7th of September, ls41 All persons hay ing claims against said ertate, ~il be required present them duly authenticated within the time prescribed by law and those indebted, will please make immediate pay inent ToctI3-5S+c1 JOSEPH KREBS
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
In Chancery-State of Alabama-Mobe County
 Spring Term, 4, D., lSli. The President, Directors and Company ot the Bank of Norfolk, compainanls


 The President Directors and Company ot the Bank
 of Norfolk, complainants.
 Charles Brown and Lucy c. Brown his wife, dets. PURSUANT to decree rendered in thIs cause at tbe Spring Term A. D. I84l, of the court of chance rv pr inc first district of the southern chancery dl- vision of said state at Mobile, shall proceed To sell (n the order prescribed in said deeree on the nrst Monday ia December next in front oi the court house of Mobile county and between the usual hours of sheriff sales all the enterest of Charles Brown and wife in 60 much of the property described as follows, in q certain deed of mortgage made and executed Dy said defendants to said compliments and bearing date the 29th day of May, A. D. lS2s as may be nscessa- " satefy said decree to wli;CSundry parcels or re.i .sate situated in the city of Mobile in the state of Alabama. bounded and described as follows, VIZ: one lot of land bounded northwardy on St. Francis street iwO hundred and fiy-iwo fee westwardly on land of Whte ninety eight feet. sonihwardly onia of F. &W. Armstrong aoesttwo haaared % ama ,"ay ,s hundred and two feet and half One lot of land bounded northwardy on St. Francis street two hun drel and twenty feet; westwardly on Water street one hundred and three feet southwarJly on land oi H. Hitchcock, about two hundred ana twenty iee'i eastwardly on Commerce street one hundred and SIX fest. Also certain wharf or water lot with the flock and flats thereto adjoining and belonging bouHd- ed sn Commerce stre | about one hundred and SIX feet; n0rthwardy on the dock about two hundred and eighty-h feet eastwardiy on the chanhei or Meble river about one hundred and six feet; south ,wsrdly by another dock or flats two hundred and sjshty-ye feet-together with all the buildings on ssd several lots of land and also all the rights. priv ileges and appurtenances to the same in any way belonging, meaning and hereby intending t0 convey l the real estate whatsoever of me the said Brown, within said city of Mobile whether particularly de- .acribed or not Terms of sale cash
 Witness, Malcolm J. McRae, Register of said cour,
 of chaneery, this the lst day of November. A D.
 l64i. Attest
 nov2 66ttds M. J. McRAE, Register. E0 bbls White Beans, landing and for sale by eDU oct2O J. REA.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

STATE OF ALAbAMA-, LARkE COUNTY
 ORPHANS COURT, Sept. Term, lSI1. NNllIS DAY came FRANcis bETTis, Executor of H the last will and testament of Mathew Bettis. deceased, and suggests to the court that he has duly administered the Estate of said Mathew Bettis, and pra>s the court for an order of final settlements Whereupon it is ordered that Saturday, the 30ih day of October next, al the court house of Clarke count, be appointed for the selemen, of the of said executsr, and that publication of his order be made once week for forty days in the Mobile Com merca Register and Patriot, newspaper printed in the city of Mobile, that all persons interested may attend and hear the settlement of said accounts. true copy from the minutes.
 Attest, TERRELL POWERS,
 ori25 63t40ls Clerk.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
THE STATE OF ALABAMA.

ETyH Chaneuy Distriet of 4e Southern CAant0y Di- vision ef said Stafs--at Rsies Oct 25th. 1S4l. IN CHANcERT AT MoERoEYLLE, | The President and Directors of tine Branch of lhe
 Bank of the State of Alabama at Mobile, compl'is. Alexsnder P. Puryear, Cornelius D. Tnhin, The | Merchants and Planters Bank of Mobile. Henry
 Sampson, Felix B. Grunty and Frederick J. Co., [ nani, Defendants.
 'TENHE BILL in this rause sets forth, that on the thirtiesh day of September, 1889, the sand Cor A b. TUiia executed certain deed oI trust 10 n%el'uS % v B. PmteHr. whereby certain property Aexande .oned, both real and personal was lhefe,n me, ! said Pursear. trustee for the pnr- Seyed in trust |, LaymenI of ceItaIn debts in said pose of securing tL If sIl the claims mentioned in ueeu . ,'en'oned-and 'us 0C ihe cnmplainanis, in sad deed ot trust, the ella. aaid. Tle bill fmther ths cause were fist IO be m of said deed of sets forth, thai since the exeeut Vested the said trust. and by the authority therein ion for cash A. B. PuryeaT has sold at public auc. conye, ed all oi ue property both real and personaI If said by sad deed oi trnst-and that the proceeds :, 'us sale are amply sufficient to pay and satisfy the cIs Oi the cOupainants, intended be secured by saId deed of trust The bill further sets forth that a- though the said complainants have demanded pay ment from the said A. B. Puryear, trustee for their claims mentioned in said deed of trust, the said trustee has absolutely refused. and still refuses to pay to the said complainants their claims aforesaid as he was bouHd to do, although the cOmplainants have offered ndeinn, and save harmless ibe said trustee, in paying sad claims And the bIli prays that the said Alexander B. Puryear, may be directed 10 pay tO the c0mplanants the amount of their claims intended be secured by said deed of trust And 1t appearing to the satisfaction of the Regis- Ter from aa affidavit hle, that the defendants Cornelius D. Tobin, Frederick J. Conant and Felix B Gnndy. reside beyond the limits of the state of Alabama h Is ordered that the said defendants appear at the next term of the of chancery, be holden at Monroevile, the first af.er the fourth Monday m November next. fer the first chancery district of the southern disisios of the state of Alabama, and answer demur to the compainan,s' b,ll of enn,- pint. It is further ordered that this order be pu- lished snce week for four weeks in the Mobile Commercial Register and Patrot,a spaper print ed in the city of Mobile. and that copy of the be posted the house door of Mouroe county.
 Witness Thomss s. Roach, Register in our said
 court of Chancery st the office in Monroeville,
 the 25th day of October, A. D. l84I.
 THOMAS s. ROACH, Register,
 oct29 6btE By JAnEs McCoLL bep'iy,
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

STATE OF ALABAMA-1LARkE COUNTY.
 ORPHANS CouRT, Sept Term, ls4l. TUNHlS DAY came WILLiAh F. JoNEs, former A administrator the estate sf David Taylor, de ceased and made application for final settcmen, of the estate of said decsdent in his hands, It is there fore ordered by the court. that Saturday, the Both day of October ssxt, at tbe c"urt house in Clarke county, be set the time and place of said settle men, and that foi,y days notice thereof be given by publication iR the Mobile Commercial Register and Patriot. true copy from the minutes.
 Attest, TERRELL POWERS,
 oct25 69u Clerk
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04
JOIIN FKESNALL, Adm,,s ct25 63+c TRYON PRESNALL, Au" fs'

A DMINiSrRArIOA NOTICE.-Letters of "A Administration upon Ihe estate of Thos. PoinCy having been granted to the undersigned by the Judge of the County Court of Mobile county, on the 4th day of October, 1S4l, all persons indebted to said estate are hereby notified to make payment, and those hav- ing claims, to present them duly authenticated with n the time prescribed by law they will be barred.
 nct6 55tC JNO. R. HOGAN, Admr.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

WHARF NOTICE-Whereas, much nconyen- w fence and great loss is experienced by the pro- prietors of the whar,es. from the present mode ot shipping upward freight, notice is hereby given hnt from and after the first day of November Rext, dray will be permitted to enter uprn any of the wharyes with merchandise for shipment, without the drHynan first delivering to the wharfinger-who will from responsible shipper, resident in the city, of liability for the wharfage. payment of the same made in cash
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

A DMINISTRATOR' NOTiCE.--Whereas "A letters of Administration were granted on the 1ith day of October, 1911 by the honorable the judge of the County Court of Mobile county, me, the dersigucd, upon the estate of RICHARD TASKERs- LFY deceased, late o said county: This is, there iDe, notify all persons indebted to the said estate to make payment tn me, and all others having claims against the same, file the same duly atiested within lhe tune prescribed by law they will Inc barred.
 nrtI5 b4r+ F A TANKERSIEY
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

A DMINlSi RArOR'S NOTICE.-Letters of "A Administration on the estate of Geo. w. Greag- son, deceased, late of Mobile county, having been granted the undersigned by the honorable County Court ul Mobile county, on the 23d inst All persons having caias against said estate, will please present them within he time prescribed by law, and all those indebted to said estate, requested to make im- | mediate payment. VIM. MAGEE,
 oct25 63tC Adm'r.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

NVrICE.-1las undersigned having associates. l ' themselves for the purpose of continuing the Facsorase and Commission Business, under the firm of A. E. LEDYARD < co, respectfully solicit s share of the public patronage. A. E. LEDYARD-
 june 23 10tc cmo A. .H.LEDYARD.
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

In Chancery State of Aabama--Mobile County. Spring Term, 4. D. lS4l. Isaac II. Erwin, admir- of Henry Hitchcock, dec'd complainant,
Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-04

The Mobile Steam Cotton Press and Building Co.,, Charles CuIum, Edward Harding. President, D- rectors and Co. of the Bank of Msble the Planters and Merchants Bank of Mobile, Reuben Barnes,