The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-15
A Concert In the Pacific---Queer Cur.
rency--.ResultsO of a Single Concert.

A Concert In the Pacific---Queer Cur
rency---ResuIts of a Single Concert.
The "Alleghanians" are giving concerts
In the Pacific. A printed letter from VAL
pariso describes concert at Rarotonga, one
Of the Hervey Islands, on the 10Th of Janu-
airy. We make few extracts:
After having obtained the "royal COM
mand" to give concert, and Mr.. Gill IA
missionary promising US the use of the school
house, which is very large one story build.
ing, we presented to their "royal highDess"
complimentary card of admission and
then taking our hats and backing ourselves
to the door, bowling and scraping in the
most respectful and approved courty style,
during this retrogade movement, we quilted
the ''royal presence"
Our agent Immediately got up large
"poster," announcing that
BY ROYAL Is COMMAND
KIN G M II r X E. Il T.,
and the
RARoToNGA NOBILITY,
THE ALLEGHA NIANS
will give
GRAND CONCERT,
at the
SCHOOL HOUSE,
THIS AFTERNOON AT O'CLOCK,
Jan. 10th, 1860.
PRICES OF ADMISSION Tickets to admit one,
hog, or 2 p gs; or turkey; or chickens; or
Is cocoanuts; or 20 pineapples; or punches
bananas; or large pumpkins; or baskets
oranges. Children half-price.
By two o'clock our arrangements were so
far completed that we commenced the sale
of tickets. The place selected for this pur>
pose was under large matched root The
crowd around this spot had been gradually
increasing for an hour previous, and by this
time the excitement had become intense;
what, with the squealing of hogs and pigs,
gobbling of turkeys, growing of ROSTERS
and cackling of hens, rafting of cocoanuts,
spilling and squashing of oranges and lines,
the rolling of pumpkins under feet, taken all
together in Babel-like jargon of the natives
formed the most laughable public excite
ment ever witnessed.
While itrequired twelve of the ships crew
to receive the currency, placing each kind
on its respective pile, that is, putting the
hogs, tied by the legs, in one place, the
poultry, tied eight or ten together, in another,
and the cocoanuts, pine apples, bananas,
pumpkins, oranges, &C., piled each kind by
ITSELF it required four or five other persons
to distribute tickets. The ticket distributors
had busy time of it, though their labors
did not require any very great exertion.
By four o'clock, 1861 tickets had been
disposed of, and everything that had been
offered in the way of pay had been received.
The doors were now open and the squeezing,
tugging, pulling and pushing commenced
in an instant it seemed:as if every one in that
great throng was suddenly impressed with
the idea that he or she must be the first one
to enter the door, in order to get. the best
place just the same as similar number of
individuals, collecting together for similar
purpose, in our more civilized and enlIgh-
tened "down east" community; the crowd
of savages having, however, one great
advantage over the enlightened crowd, that
is, they are in no danger of getting hats
smashed, clothing torn from their backs. or
losing pocket books, as they possess none of
these little frivolities of fashion. In costume
they still cling to "the good old days of
Adam and Eve"