The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-19
From the Sandwich I,Isnd,.

We received by yesterdays northern mail, files o
newspapers from the Sandwich Islands, as well as from
Oregon. The first is the :" Sandwich Island News
published at Honolulu, the seat of government extend
ing from the 22d June to 3st August The last is "The
Oregon Spectator from the 23d March to the 18th July
published at Oregon City, and with the old manuscript
endorsement so familiar to the craft "Pease exchange
We shall enter them list and shall be happy t.
communicate all the news and ideas in power to th
distant citizens of extensive republic We have no
yet had an opportunity Of gancng our papers from
the Sandwich Islands, but content ourselves with laying
the following synopsis from the New York Sun befor
our readers:
| FROM THE SANDWICH IsLANps,By the arrival of til,
whale ship California, New Bedford, and the Soutl
America, at Providence files of the Poynesan and Sand
wch Island News the I'd September have been received
by the New Bedford Mercury, from which cite The
from the gold regions in California had produced
great excitement The brig Topic, from San Francisco
arrived at Honolulu, August H. in passage OF fourteen
days. with cargo of gold dust and lumber.
The News says
"The excitement which the accounts by this arrva
in our village very great and everybody is pack
ing mp for Cal9rnia The ship Rhone and brig Enphe
preparing to follow The companies associations
1 Tbsy sa well e mnns e
mens, provisions, &c"
Upwards of thousand pckaxes have been made in
covery of the gold mines there.
| The Polynesian of August rs SAYS.
During the week no less than three vessels have beer
| despatched from San Francisco"
large fleet Of whaers expected to visit Honolulu
last fall and it expected they would furnish large sup
plies to the Caornans of the gold region, though many
it thought would fear go California lest ,he
crews should desert. The discoveries in California had
created quite stir in the commercial world. Our trade
with California is rapidly Increasing During the month
of June, brigs and schoones sailed for Califo
naduring July, ship, briggs, and two schooners
saledsince August ls barque and brig have sail
ed and two brigs and two schoones shortly follow
making in all fifteen departures in two months.
1t is estimated that less than hundred foreigners
have left the Sandwich islands for the gold mines in Cali
fornia Others 1t is rumored will follow 1t
said that inemperance gambling and kindred vices
fsarluly rife in the gold regions, and attended with the
usual evils and mischief
/ The News and the Poynesian engaged in angry
controversy concerning the results of the missionary
prise at the Sandwich islands the former maintaining
that the morals honesty Incidence, etc. Of the natives
could have been lower ebb than present The
Polynesian, on the other hand says:
We hardly believe any candid man, all acquaint
ed with the condition of the natives of these islands,
cerey thinks their physical and moral
it previous the Introduction of Christianity Mos
OF those who have this side of the question
numbered among transient vsers who have had but few
opportunities for observation and who possess knowledge
OF the former condition of the people. On the hand
the friends of Christianity have in cases, overaed
the advances made; the other sweeping assertions
have been made which the least attention the subec
would have shown utterly sroundess While it may be
safely that nation people have
pro in civilization during the same period of time a
the Hawaiians during the last quarter Of century, it
be borne in mind that wide difference still exists between
the condition of this people and the inhabitants of those
countries which have enjoyed the benefits of civilization
and Christianity for centuries The proportion of
who read and write already exceeds that OF many
tries while the proportion Of practical business knowedg,
and enterprise falls far short"