The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-27
Kamehamehas Kingdom,
Pckings from Polynesan Papers, Transcribed for the New
York Trhun

York Tribune
Three vessels cleared from Honolulu for Calfor-
MIA the week ending Aug. 26, and one man started
In a whaleboat.
H. B. NJ surveying bark Plover arrived Aug %,
from Callao, and would forthwith clear for kotze-
bue's Sound n. w. Coast, in search Of Sir John
Franklin.
On the 3lst July, the 9Th anniversary of the Res
toration (of the native GovernmenD was celebrated
with much pomp. The foreign Consuls, Com. Gel
singer, U. s. NJ, Capt Glynn of the Prebe, with
many other officers, and the principal foreigners,
attended the tee. Com. Geisinger was honored with
special thanks in official note for his courtesy.
The Tahitians fired 100 guns for the new French
Republic, and promptly silenced few grumbers
thereat. At Honolulu there was the same joy
among the French residents, and an address was
forwarded to Lamartine
They have Wallack doing GO Jerry Sneak at
the Hawaiian Theater; and the bloody PLAY of
" The VAMPIRE met with decided success, both
native and foreign.
The Valparaiso Neighbor records forty severe
shocks of earthquake within a period of sixteen
months.
The Oregonians voted, at their legislative cleo
ton, by small majority, to refuse licenses to sell
intoxicating liquors.
The pleasures of Editors in that region are set
forth by the man of The Neps, in the following
doubt:
nv, 10 PRINT or not to print that's the question:
Mhetner t IS nobler IN the mind TO suffer
10 gain an honest Livelihood Or quit the business
And go to the Mines
And to justify, the Editor relates the last case of
absence OF mind, that of citizen deeply in debt
who went aboard a ship to see friend, embarked
and forgot to come ashore.
Thomas Brown, planter of the island Kauai.
gives bad character of the native laborers, who,
he says, are deceptive and require close watching
nothing is done except under the eye of master
" Generally speaking, they are neither stupid nor
nnskilliul. Their morals fearfully corrupt
Their wages nearly shilling STERLING proba-
bly, per day, with food gratis''
A fire at Lahaina had destroyed several of the
most valuable houses in the place. Alana & Co..
Cinnamon, were the greatest losers.
The Gold stories from San Francisco told in
Honolulu are quite as extravagant, perhaps more
SO, than here mountain of pure Gold somewhere
IN the Sierra Nevada Is said exist from which all
yet discovered are mere washings. s.Some five
young men, who left Honolulu six months 20 with
out a dollar IN their possession, are now worth
$50 600"
The NeUs complains that its files of the N, Y
Tribune do not arrive regularly, and laws the blame
to the carelessness of the missionaries throupb
whose hands they pass.
One OF the natives, one day. '' did, the Crispins
OF pair OF shoes follows: Going into shoe shop
ne ordered the loan of one shoe to try on his wife
loot promising to buy the pair if it fitted Then go
ing to another shop he borrowed another shoe on the
same terms since which he has not been SEEM
At Monalau, Messrs. Sea and Sumner gave His
Majesty grand dinner, after which the Western
sport OF target-sho0tlng was the order of the day.
The Governor of Oahu blew off one of his fingers
with one of the Colt pistols. whereupon the scene
was changed and riding wild horses eked out the
afternoons play.