Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1860-03-31
No. 4S.
Ghe polpnesim.
Foreign Items.


argues that the Post-Ofice Department should be
self-sustaining. This is nonsense. The Secretary
nf the Navy might well argue that the Navy
Department should sustain itself by fishing and
whaling, and transporting coal, as Mr.. Holt that
the mail service should pay all Its own cost.
The New York Express reports that one hundred
and three persons were murdered in the city of
New York during the past year, either by their
own hands the hands of others. The police
arrested $500 persons for offences against the
laws, and of this great number only 1854 were
brought to trial in the criminal court, and only
1913 were convicted and punished.
countryman, in the United States, not long
since, received lot of greasy bills in payment for
produce lie attempted to clean them by using o
solution of potash which extracted the signatures
To make them as good as new, he re-wrote the
names, and in attempting to pass them arrest
ed for cOunterfeiting. After considerable explain
alton of the circumstances, to his great relief, he
set at liberty.
Mr.. Ten Brock, the American sporting man. is
travelling in Italy with his carriage and horses.
His winnings on the English turf last year were
about $l25 600
A short time since, citizen of IIaverhill. Mass,
In good circumstances, was committed to Jail for
refusing to pay his taxes.
- notorious rufian, known in southwestern
Arkansas Jack Cade, was recently killed BY a
woman whose husband he had shot, The widow
challenged him to fight duel, and the ruffan
declined she attacked him with revolver and lodg
ed three balls in his body, one of which passed
through his heart.
The Troy papers chronicle the marriage of Frank
B. Converse, of the Campbell Minstrels, with q
young widow, Mrs. Hattie A. Clark, youngest
daughter Of Thomas Maxwell, Esq. of Emira
The lady in question accepted the offer of wealthy
/ New York gentleman about three years since, and
/ lived In the enjoyment of unalloyed c0nnubial hap
/ piness until some three months ago, when her
/ husband died, leaving her sole heiress to the snug
little of Slj0,000 and mary responsibility.
The widow returned home to her parents and soon
thither hied the wandering minstrel, and sought
an interview, the effect Of which was magical.
Divining the object Of his visits, the family and
friends of the widow forbade him their houses and
what interviews they subsequently obtained were
secret and stolen, but the less sweet OF roman
/ tic In fact, from opposition the lovers became
! desperate, and an elOpement by the practice of
little stratagem was determined upon, although the
- vidder" declared she was her own mistress, even
it her majority were not yet attained, her parents
/ having once given her away in marriage. nowev-
er, " to keep peace in the family" a stratagem
was resnrted to, which was successful in enabling
the lady to meet her lover at Tory, and cOnsummate
: the marriage.
SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE The Boston Trdreier
tells the story of the marriage of dentist of that
city with lady medium, his wonderful matrimO-
NAL experience, and the ultimate dissolution of
| that affinity after eighteen months. The dentist
introduced some two years ago to q lady whose
/ husband had deserted her and gone to Kansas,
since which she had taken up the profession of
spiritual mediumship. She fair and attractive,
and admiration of her spiritual gifts combined
with her charms 20 captivate the bachelors heart.
/ Besides, the spirits told them they were made for
each other, and they were willingly ohedient to
the heavenly vision. They were married, but the
honeymoon had hardly begun when the wife be-
came subject to strange frances, during which she
! would pull her husbands hair, scratch him. and
otherwise violently belabOr him, most cOmmonly
| when he in bed and exposed and defenceless.
| When she aroused from the trance she was
full ef regets at what had transpired.
1T the biddiHs of the spirits he took her with
! him to Texas, where she proclaimed him an Aboli-
| zionist, and he narrowly escaped violence at the
hands of the mob. When they got back, the spir-
! itual prosecutions continuing, and the poor hus-
! band finding that his sUferings of mind, body and
estate greater than he could bear, suggested
separation. and obtained it by paying handsomely.
After the separation the woman confessed that she
had imposed upon him throughout. that her tran
| ces were feigned, that she beat and scratched him
because she wanted to- and that all the spiritual
messages he had received were of her own manu.
| facture. The dentist has had an experience hard
enough to make him wise, hut he still believes in
| spiritualism, only he thinks the devil must be
| in it.
New CALEDONIA.-The news received at Port de
France by the Brilliant Of the flight Of Capt. Pad
| don in a whJleboat, had caused good deal Of as,
tOnishment 1t is supposed that some designing
/ parties must have frightened hun by the most abb
surd reports, bis life and his property were as
safe at Port de France as they could have been in
! Sydney. His departure has been much regretted
by his friends, while it has furnished his enemies
! with an argument against him. The greatest har-
! nd 70 roisr D,,rt
de France between the French and English pOpula-
| tiOn. All the southern part of New Caledonia,
from st. Vincent and Kanala down 10 the Isle Of
Pines, can be explored by any one, unarmed and
in perfect security. The French, German, and
English settlers busy in every direction. clear
ing and cultivating their lands, and New Caledonia
promises to export, n very short time, maize,
! sugar, coffee, cotton, &c. The cattle, horses and
| sheep which have been lately imported from sgd
ney are IN thriving condition, and increase rap
| idly. Since the return of the Governor from the
northeast coast, Port de France is all hustle and
activity, Government works and private buildings
are progressing fast the want Of labour hich
is seriously fel, will allow them To do. The rail-
| way brought from Sydney by the Thisbe has been
| laid down, and about fifty natives employed
upon 1t, filling up the swamp in the middle Of the
town and making the streets while on the other
side of the bay the artillery barracks. several pri
yate dwellings,, and the new civil and military hos
piEal will, Tor some time to come, absorb all the
European labor which can be procured. On the
beach handsomesquare has been laid out. having
| ON one side the p0st-Offce and the engineers
department. A regular mail service. once a week,
has been establiSlse6 via Port ST. Vincent over
land to Kamala, which opens direct eommuhica-
tiOn with the n,Rth-east coast, where the natives
are still hostile to the Europeans. On the 18th
! October, Frenchman, called Capron, ventured
| On defiance 90 the strict orders to the contrary
| which had been issued by the Governor) to aT-
proaeh in a whale oat the coast of Yenghen. His