Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-03-23
Arrival of the Bark f" Zoe p

By the arrival Sunday last of the bark Zoe, Capt
Bush in 16 days from San Francisco we received pa
pers from that city to Feb 28 The steamer with the
Eastern mail had not yet arrived, but by Pony Express
information from the Eastern States reached to Feb
II. and from Europe to Jan. 20.
The Comet was leave in three or four days after
the Zoe.
marine insurance company had been formed in
San Francisco with twenty shareholders and capital
of $500, 900 in shares of $1,000 each.
The Company is organized under the personal liability
law. The members were all acquainted with each other
before the formation of the Company and the basis of
the organization confidence in the wealth of every
member. No stock can be sold or bypothecated, and
member admitted without the consent of every
member Of the association The name The Califor
MIA Mutual Marine Insurance Company" Ii will
conne itself strictly to marine insurance 1t will
mence business in about twenty days. The following
are the officers: President, Doctor Samuel Merritt
Vice President, A. j. Pope Directors, W. C. Talbot,
Wm. Norris, D. c. McRuer, Josiah Beden, J. G. Clark,
Michael Reese, and c. W. Hathaway.
g. B. Post, Esq, died on the 26th February, in San
Francisco, after prOtracted Illness.
Mr. Post was the last surviving member of the IA
nous firm of G. b. Post & Co., which stood among
earliest times up to within few years back when its
failure took the city by surprise The other members
of the firm Joseph A. Post who committed sui
eide several months ago, and George b. Upham, who
died of sOftening of the brain, years snce in the
Atlantic States For q long time q. B. Post & Com
pany took the lead in all the public movements of COM
mercial men. Their names headed contributions for
charitable purposes the full tide of success flowed in
upon them and they OutdOne by none in their
good deeds, public spirit and abOunding generosity.
But the day of reverses came and, after struggling al
most hOpeeSsy against fate, after another of the
house have dropped away, until now not of its
members remains Such is too often the sad history of
adventure and business in California.
The Mineur, French journal edited by DIR. Frick
had stopped publication. The Alta notices that the
Doctor would deliver lecture on I" Humbug." The
Doctors erudton and knowledge of the ways of the
world would certainly render such lecture interesting
San Francisco $780, 499. That of the entire State
of California is stated to be S14S. 1873 $40
From the Atlantic and Gulf States of the Uui1n the
secession news are of paramount Importance. From
the Aha of the 9th we condense the following
WASHINGTON, Feb s.
The President, in message transmitted to both
Houses to-day, gives the correspondence between him.
self and Col Haynes. Much Of it has already been pub
lished.
The following is the substance Of the concluding part
of Col Haynes letter of Jan. 3lst After stating that
the refusal surrender Fort Sumter occasion
for war; and stating the question to be of mere
property he says If the evils of to be
tered especially the calamities Of civil war, elevated
craftsmanship would to require it should be
cepted as the unavoidable alternative of something still
more disastrous such national dishOnOr, measures
materially affecting the safety permanent interests
of the people, and should be deliberately made and
tered upon, and for purposes but that war should
be the incident, accident, attendant policy pro-
fessedly peaceful and required to effect which is
avowed the end intended only be excused where
no warning has been given As to consequences, South
Carolina cannot, by her silence, appear to aequesce in
the impuatiOn that she is guilty of act Of unproyok
ed aggression in firing the Star of the West; though
an unarmed vessel, she filled with armed men,
tering her territories against her Governors instruc
tons. Gov Pickens instructions to him accompany
Haynes letter.
Secretary Holt replied on the sth, acknowledging
the Presidents receipt of Haynes letter. lie first gives
a summary of Haynes instructions, which to the
effect do not come a military man. TO demand the
surrender of fortress, but as legal officer OF State
its Attorney General-to claim for the State the
ercise of its undOubted right Of eminent domain. and
to pledge the State to make good all injury TO the rights
of property which may arise from the exercise OF the
claim. The proposition is therefore, to buy Fort Sum
ter sustain by the declaration in effect that if South
Carolina is not permitted to make the purchase, she
will seize the fort by force of arms
As invitation for the transfer OF property between
friendly Governments this proposal mpesses the Pres
dent as having assumed most unusual form. He has.
however, investigated the claim upon which it processes
10 be based apart from the declaration which sccompa
nies it. The title of the United States to the fort u
complete and ncontestibe, its interest in the
properly In the ordinary acceptaton of the term,
might probably be subjected to the exercise Of the act
of eminent domain but il has political relations TO
of a much higher and more imposing character than
those of mere property. 1t has absolute jurisdiction
over the fort and the soil on which it stands which IS
clearly incompatible with the claims Of eminent domain
This authority is derived from the peaceabe secession
Of South Carolina herself Under provision of the
Constitution Of the United States South Carolina can
no more assert her rights Of eminent domain over Sum
ter than MARYLAND can over the district of Columbia
The President is however, relieved from the further
necessity of pursuing this inquiry, by the fact that ne
has the Constitutional power to eede or surrender
it. The question Of reinforcing Fort Sumpter was go
fully disposed of in my letter Of January I'D toSenator
Slide COPY Of which accompanies this, that It's dis
cussion need not be renewed. then said at the pre-
sent moment il is not deemed Lecessary to reinforce
Major Anderson, because he makes no such request
Should his safety however, require renorcements, ev
cry effort will be made to supply them. L can add
nothing to the expictness Of this language, when
still applies to existing States.
In the letter of Gen. Davis and others, to yourself
they say il is especially due from South Carolina to
other States to say nothing other savehodng States
that she should as far is consistent with her honor
avoid initiating hostlties between her and the United
States any other power, and you now give the fres
ident the gratifying assurance that South Carolina mas
every desire to preserve the public peace and nce ne
is sincerely animated by the DESIRE 1t would seem
this common and patriotic object must be OF certain at
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