The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-06-09
KING MAKEA ",
and the
BAROToNGA NOBILITY,
THE ALLEGHANIANS
will give a
GRAND CONCERT
at the ~
SCHOOL-HOUSE
THIS AFTERNOON, AT 4 O'Clock,

Jan. 10Th, 1860.
Prices of admission Ticket to admit one, l
hog; or 9 pigs; or turkey; or chickens; or
25 cocoa-nuts; or 90 pine-apples; or 2 lunches
bananas; or large pumpkins; or 2 baskets of
oranges children, half price.
BY two o'clock cur arrangements were SO far
completed that we commenced the sale of tick.
cts. The place selected for this purpose was un
der large matched roof. 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 squeang of
hogs and pigs, gobbling of turkeys. growing of
roosters and cackling of hens rafting of cocoa
nuts, spiIling and squashng Of oranges aud lines,
the rolling of pumpkins under feet, taken alto
gether with the Babel-like jargon Of the natives.
formed the most laughable public excitement
ever witnessed. The confusion was so great, the
swine and poultry having evidently entered into
the excitement with rs much spirit and earnest
ness as the human population, all apparently vie-
ing with each other in irving to make the most
noise, that we found it would he impossible to
stick to our Irregular prices" for tickets; so we
concluded to take everything that was brought
with which to purchase tickets, and furnish every
one with ticket.
While it required 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 cocoa nuts, pine
apples, bananas, pumpkins, oranges, &C., piled
each kind by itself, it required four or five per.
sons to distribute the tickets.
THE AUDIENCE AND THEIR COSTUME.
BY four O'Clock, nineteen hundred and sixty
one tickets had been disposed Of and everything
that had been offered in the way ofpay mad been
received. The doors were now opened, and the
squeezing, tngging, pulling and pushing COM
menced-in an instant it seemed as ifcvery 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
collected together for similar purpose, in our
more civilized and enlightened ''down east COM
munity;-the crowd of savagcs 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 los
ing pocket-books, as they possess none Of these
little frivolties Of fashion. In costume they still
cling to the fashions Of "thc good old days of
Adam and Eve"
HOW THEY MANIFESTED THEIR PLEASURE.
As soon swe had concluded our performance,
one of the native teachers arose and told us how
pleased and delighted they were, and how CRATE
| full were their feelings toward us for visit to
| their island, ard he hoped we would remain with
| them forever. He also promised that, before we
parted with them, they should sing us one song.
| Some one Immediately commenced, and the whole
congregation quickly joined in singing the good
old piece Of sacred music, entitled:
| .'Sound the loud timbrri ser Eeypt's dark sea,
| Jehovah hath triunphed, his people arefree!"
They all sang three or four hymn tunes, which
had been taught in their school-two of them
were popular tunes, composed by my old music
teacher, Lowell Mason. This il the fifth island
| We have visited in the Pacific, and on every one
Of which have heard sung by the natives the
same good old familiar home tunes Of Lowell Ma.
! son.
| THE SINGERS COUNT Up rnK RECEIPTS.
Soon after the concert was over took walk
down to the market to examine the receipts II
occupied twenty-four men one day and half
With four large whale boats to get them on board
| ship, distant one mile from the SHORE
| In order 10 get at the amount OF the receipts
| in dollars and cents have valued everything at
about New York retail prices:
20 hogs, at % each. ch....... a $50 OO
HS turkeys at III each. ......... 9S OO
ll6 chickens ht 80 cts each. ...... a OG
| 1000 cocoa-nuts at II cts each. -. l,69O OO
800 pneapples at IL cts cach.... 6Ss OO
4l6 bunches bananas, averaging % 70
the bunch, making 81 $50 bananas,
at ctseach. .................. l,lsl oo
800 pumpkins at ID eta each. 90 O0
2,70O oranges at eta. each. ... 81 OO
LINES, mats, fans, &c., about. :. 49,. Is on
| {@ s at%s 81
Total............. -. e4,slO Oe
AltOGothoP w0 think thia Pacific Hn,,r u.n.A ~