, 1859-02-25

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the present, that there il room for reduction il
| those salaries and in the expenses Of the city
I government
R<8olstd, That the persons this day nominated
and the Republican Aldermen placed in nonin
alton, are under an implied pledge to retrenct
consistently with the public service. That nc
I0cal Improvements should be 1aade except n
th q request Of majority OF those by whom such
i'm proVements are 10 be paid tor: and that all
wor ( done and contracts made for the city
shou ID 10 publicly let to the lowest bidder.
The announcement was then pade Of Ratid.
cation Meeting, to b. held this evening, as au-
nouncod elsewhere.
The oaTenton then adjourned sin4 dss, with
| nine cheer9 for the ticket.
The South Seas--mE. Melyilfe's Lee.
ture.
4 lecture from the author of "Typee" might
properly be set down ~ novelty, whether
sustsining the reputation achieved by that fas-
cinatin9 work, or otherwise. III. Aelville's
discourse On the @South Seas" last evening.
in the warm coloriug. the voluptuous odors and
romantic drapery with which he invested it,
was fully up to the standard Of public expecta-
tion. But it is due to those. Of the audience
| who sat at some distance from tho stage, to say
that, whether owing to defeets in the conssruo-
| ton tof the hall, which the speaker Was not
aware of, or to lack Of yooal powers On his
OWN part, they lost large share Of the sdmira-
BILE entertainment to which they had been in
yited.
Tle lecturer commenced by defining ibe South
EPn4 TbnV Ciur1u fho
of which Balboa FIRST tool possession in the name
OF his royal master the King of Castillo and Leon.
Comparatively nothing Was known Of ths South
Seas up to Cooks expedition, aud from that date
up 10 the gold discoveries Of California IN l848,
little progress lad been made in the knowledge
OF their buundseas extent and diversity. Califors
n!a first brought tile South Seas into general no.
tice.
1tia not easy, said the speaker, to decide what
topic to select from 10 vast storehouse, upon
which to expend the limited time Of 4 single leo.
tnre. We might dwell upon the dsh which peo.
pie those unmeasured depths-tha ''south Sea
shark" as populous in those waters ns the Chi
nese in Chius, the sword fish that Hector of the
ocena with bis daring tilis at great ships .nd
h1s duels with tbs whale, the devil tsh u
strange monster ns the seargerpeut Of Atlantic
navigators. We might speak particularly of
the birds-the pelican with his leather gamebag,
the pigeons, the war hawk black pirate otahe
feathered races, or the white winged albatroas
Of the "Anoient Mariner" Or again, the time
might bo given to tales Of the waters themselves,
the phosphorio depths whose color most near-
ly resemhled the face of a corpse the leagues Of
ocean inpregnated with bitumen Of inky blhck-
ness. Or tales might be told by the hour of the
adventures Of uhalenen in those uondrous lat-
jtudes.
No notion of the number of islands in the
south Sea. ean bs gathered from n o,ance at
the map. If NOT innumerable. thev ara cer-
tainIv unnumbered. The chief pronns are tb.
Sandwich. the Society. The 9eoroian. thu ph;li.
piau. the Ladrone. the Marouesas. the Caroline.
and the Friendly Isles. The man vho called !!
them Poiyn<.ia gave them a proper designation.
We are spt, in our imagininpa Of those distsut
shores. 10 picture enameled cara. and na.,,v
brooks. and yalIevs at svlvan sve.tn..s W
their distinctive fe.tnre. ara toftv b,ol.r
coasts, and deep and abrunt yal1eyn. 8nhl;mi. i
ty. rather than orseafnl heautv in THAR m.rk.d
natural chsrecteri,t;o-
Tbe natives of than ;e,an5, ora ,o+,,.,,, -
kindly and losnitab,e tenner !, Mt tbaro bos ,oor
imp1anted among then, an a1most 1ostnct;va h,ta
of the rhita race. The r.ncsarro ,o, ,,nt.o-
,,on,,v +,l., ~, ..h,,> ,.;,,,.., r-
iniorv or crime ;s ,en,a,n,,o,od fror, raas..:s s
ce,c,,+for and III. xo.or.r,o.,,
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