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quarters, Hawaii 10 Niihau. These petitions
embrace every subject and everything. some good,
some bad, and some Indifferent, and seem TO have
occupied the petitioners the best part of their
time for the rast three or four months. They
appear to be possessed with the idea that the
legislature, OF rather the Representatives. have
in their power to = cure all the ills that flesh is
heir to- that they are elected for that purpose.
and failing TO do it, are unworthy of future sup
port or even of the small salary they enjoy. The
house usually bears the infection of these petit
tions with grace, referring them in items to its
various Committees, to report in favor of or
against. After the first thirty days of the ses-
sion, the reception of petitions is restricted to
Mondays.
The Committees appointed in the House, will
be found in the record of proceedings for Friday.
They have a decidedly ministerial caste. For
instance that of Finance, is placed in charge of a
government officer the two foreign members on
1t are also strong supporters of the Ministry,
while the gentleman who has, for the last two or
three sessions, been the Chairman of the Budget
Committee, is excluded from it entirely.
The Committee on Military-perhaps the next
in importance of the standing COMMITTEES of the
House-is composed of a majority in favor of
carrying out the War Secretary's ideas. The
formation of Committees, however, does not neces-
sarily involve the passage of everything reported
by them, without a free and full ventilation of
every subject brought up before the House.
And here we may say that all new laws or
important changes in existing laws, ought to be
laid fully before both Houses, in such a form
that each member may examine and study them
at his leisure. This can only be done by having
the draft of the proposed law printed and fur
nished to each member. This mode is followed
in other countries and should be here. We have
had in former years too much hasty hgisloion-
laws are framed hastily, and as carelessly enacted,
without perhaps one-half of the members know
ing what they are voting for. This can be RENE
died, at least in part, by the mode suggested.
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lCOmmnu
Political Duties OF Ministers.

mo man has a right TO withdraw from citizens
duties in a land where laws, politics. and morality
itself depend largely upon the popular vote. There
will never be danger from ministers so long as they
act as citizens. Ii is when they Withdraw from their
fellow cirizens-regard themselves as a separate
class, without common civil esponsibilities-the be-
come dangerous TO the State. Then they are a hier.
archy. They form an unconscious order in the State.
Ii is an unrecognized but influential aristocracy. Rv
regarding ministers (as We do lawyers, doctors.
artists, architects) as, first, CITIZENS, AM. next, PRO-
fessional men, we distribute them, destroy undue
sympathy with their own class. by bringing then
under a stronger sympathy with the whole commu-
nifty. Those who rail At ministers who take part in
public affairs are blindly aiming to establish a minis
terial aristOcracy. The State has a right 10 the ser
vices of every one Of her citizens, and 10 man is too
good to do his part in politics. An. Paper.
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The Governments Organ Again.

IT is extremely disagreeable to US to be
compelled to devote so much of our space to
correcting the misstatements and falsehoods of the
Government Organ. Indeed 50 little confidence
have we in its assertions and figures, that we
never expect them on examination to prove cor
rect. Yet justice forbids that all it's errors should
be allowed to pass by unnoticed. In the last
issue of the PolyReSian, in some remarks on the
post-ofice service, it has the following:
During the incumbency Of the present Postmaster General
the Government has been out Of pocket exactly S6O4 % per
aunum for the maintenance of the Post Office. while during the
incumhency OF the publisher OF the IdUerfiScF that expense
amounted to over $1,000 per annum.
Now this statement, so far as it pertains to the
publisher of this paper, is a direct falsehood.
The following figures, gathered from the Minis
terial Reports, will show in separate columns
what sums were paid out from the public
treasury, what were paid back into it, and the
actual cost to the government, during the first
five years, or to December 81, 1865. The post
office was established December, 1850.
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MY 5, 1852.

We present above a table Of the whaling feet at these Islands
this Spring. II shows a marked falling on frOsl the exhibits Of
previous Seasons Last year, from February - % April II, in
Gliding Lahainz and HHo, there were ~ arrivals Of ~halers Of
these, ~ were foreign, and 3 Hawaiian vesses--0 came INFO
port, and the remainder lay oc and on THIS year, from NaTeh
IS 10 this date We have Is arrivals, Of which 2 are foreign and .
are na~aHan-II came into port. g foreizn) Three schooners
engaged In the coast whaling service, have gone into tile coast
ing trade again, and one bark Uhe HaTmOnyD has been con-
demned, and 8 being broken up. OF the arrivals this Spring.
IL are bound North. u which 2 are Hawaiian. The bark Zoe
has also been dispatched for a trading and whaling voyage for
about eighteen months, and has been fully fitted out for the
severe Arctic winter.
The bark Kathleen has been chartered by Messrs- Aidrich,
Walker 4 Co.. and will be dispatched for san Francisco about
the middle Of this month, in command OF Capt Narchsnt. late Of
the EskauIHohi- The statementm made ia the last POiyHesiGn
that she had been sold is ~holy incorrect, but aJout as near the
truth as that journal usually gets
Tue JoseDhtne, having been orierel by her owners to pro-
coed to san francisco, win be Dispatched today. she Is n
stzunch vessel, Admiralty adapted tor a steamer, and one Of the
fcetest vessels In this ocran- IL Is probable that she will be
offered for sale On her arrival At San Francisco.
The bark Comet viii be dispatched early next week Tor the
same port
Since the arrival Of the steamer Columbia on the lst inst, We
have 10 further foreign alyices- Both the John It. fright and
Yankee are fully due, and BY one or both % thsa We shall
receive later news.
Local news IL extremely meager, and business % all kinds
ru1
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EXECUTION OF GoRDoS.-Captain Nathaniel Gor-
don. late commander of the slave-ship Ere, was
hung in the Tombs in New York, Feb. Il, his exc
cution being the FIRST that has taken place under the
laws enacted more than forty years ago, punlshing
the slave trade as piracy.
Gordon was born in Portland, Maine, about the
year 1924. and was consequently thIrty-eight years
Of age. His father, a highly respectable sea captain.
was for many years a resident OF Portland, III good
circumstances. He died several years ago. HIS
widow, the mother Of the slaVer-csptaln, Is yet
living. He leaves a widow and a child, who mas
almost constantly attended him during MS inlprlSoh-
ment. At the 6nal parting on Thursday evening, the
grief of Mrs. Gordon was Of the most acute descrip-
ton, but he did not entirely loose his seif-possessloH.
Early Friday morning after being searched, he was
found in commissions, and a physician pronounced It
the effects of poison. He confessed that he took a
powder furnished him which ne had concealed IN a
crack under his bench. He continued in commissions
until about 10 o'clock, when the effects of the poison
seemed to subside.
Gordon was of slender build. about five feet six
inches in height, of dark coLplexion, dark Whiskers
aud penetrating eyes. From his youth up he has
been a sailor, in various capacities, beginning as a
cabin boz and working himself up 10 the position OF
captain. He made four voyages TO the coast Of
Africa, for negroes 10 be sold as slaves. Two OF
these voyages were successful, the negroes having
been landed on the Island of Cuba. a third voyage
was only partially successful, the negroes having
been landed at a Brazilian port His fourth voyage
as n SLAYER was on board the ship Erie. with which
he, his two mates and crew., were captured on the
African coast, off the Congo river, by the United
States sloop- of-war .nOhicGH, of the African squad
ron. When the Erie was boarded, the United
States officers found a cargo of 967 negroes, consist
ing Of men, women and children.
1t is stated Gordon was worth $4,000 when
arrested, but every cent has been expended in legal
proceedings. His wife was so destitute that she was
obliged to beg for money to get TO Washington.
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The House of ncprescntatives.

The Representatives convened. on Thurday last,
as directed by the Kings Proclamation. There
are twenty-seven members, nine of whom are
foreigners and eighteen Hawaiians. VIM. Web
ster, Esq, was chosen Speaker. 1t requires in
this officer a knowledge of both the English and
Hawaiian, and though this is the first time this
gentleman has occupied the position Of Speaker,
ard is not as yet a complete master of the YER
nacular, he will undoubtedly prove himself equal
TO it's duties.
In looking over the list, we notice among the
MEMBERS. quite a number (about one-third) of
raw recruits in the art of law making. With
these the first two or three weeks are taken up
mainly in acquiring a knowledge of the rules
and tactics of the house-how and when to rise
how to make n bow and address the Speaker,
how and when to make 4 motion,-how long
after IL o'clock they can 60 without a lunch, &c.
According to The report of proceedings, a very
pious turn came over some of the members on
the first days session, who thought they could
do their own praying instead of employing a
Chaplain, rs has been the custom here and else
where, TO open the sessions. This might, per-
haps, do but if, as q member of the Ohio Legis-
lature recommended to that body, each member
were required 70 perform the duty in his turn,
there might be some hard praying, which would
stand in the way of smooth legislation. The
sober sense of the majori,y, however, settled the
question by choosing a Chaplain as usual, though
cutting off his pay. Now seeing that the honor
able house is b becoming so very economical in its
views that it cannot afford to pay its Chaplain,
it will consent to reduce the salary of
to the same figure, a 0. There would
be a large saving, no doubt. and no injustice
done to any one. But not so with the servants
of the House. the laborer is worthy of this
As usual, a food of petitions poured into
the House Immediately on its opening, from all
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4,Ool U D
This shows the cost of the post-ofice to the
public treasury for the first fire years, while
under the charge of the publisher of this paper,
as having been 81, OBJ ,65, or $500 ,33 per an
mum, instead of - over 81 600 per annum,' as
stated by the Polyaesian. What earthly motive
the Government Organ can have for uttering
snch an unfounded fllsehood, when it has the
data at its command, to enable it to be correct,
we have yet to learn. Unless it be that it has
become SO confirmed in its untruthful course,
that it has now become impossible for it to tell
the truth. Indeed the public have come to
place SO little reliance on it, that when they see
any figures in it, an llowance of about one
half is made for errors.
The expenses of the Post Office department to
the Public Treasury, from April, 1856, (Mr.
jackson took charge of it in June or July of
that year, to April /, 1862, ia term of six
years,) have been as follows:
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Total for six slO.6n So
Showing that the pnst-ofice department has
cost the public treasury, during the last six years,
n total of Sl0,6ll.55 over and above all its pay
ments into the treasury, or an average of S1,76S
80 per annum. Mr.. jackson filled the office
three years, and Mr.. Clark has filled it also near
~ three years. What the exact expense has
been during the latter term. does not appear but
this We know that neither Mr.. jackson nor the
publisher of this paper had the very important
aid of inter-isldnd postage to reduce the general
expenses Of the department.
What can be thought of n paper that thus
grossly misrepresents facts, and which says that
during the Incumbency of theApresent Postmas-
er-General, the Government has been out of
pocket exactly S6O4,73 per annum." when the
ministerial reports show the annual cost at
nearly three times that amount. Is it inten-
tional classifying, or is it the most inexcusable
stupidity, or both?
So much for the Polynesidn'S errors. We
may add here some facts regarding salaries which,
just at this moment, may be interesting to the pub
lie. and of US to the Legislature. During the
five years referred to above, GS50 to 1862 du-
ring which the publisher of this paper had
charge of the post-Ufice, his entire compensation
was 1857 80, or an average of S735 so per an
mum for the five years. During til last six years
the Government has paid the incumbents of the
same office, (that of 2. NJ. General the sum of
SD, 900 or thereabouts, to say nothing of the
''box rents" amounting to six or eight hundred
per annum besides, which, for two or three years
after the publisher of this paper resigned the Office,
were pocketed by the P. VI, G., but which the
former was not shrewd enough to consider as be-
longing to him.
Whether the labors of the post-offce are so
largely increased now over what they were in
1855, as to require the enormous expenditure in
salaries noticed above, the Poiynesan can per-
haps explain. The general belief is that the Ia
Dor is considerably less, and that the pOst-ofice
ought not IL costth .g~orernment treasury anything.
FNoTE.-We do not find any acknowledgement in the minis
teriaI reports Of money received from the post-ofiee for these
years, and probably no payment was made.
These data are from the report of the Minister Of Finance
and Postmaster. for this year.
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PORT OF HONOLULU. II. I.
ARRIVALS

Nay 1-BntSh steamer Columbia ShEtt'e~orth- Is days I'm
San Francisco. en- route for shanghse-csme into
port for a fresh supply Of coal
Sch Noisahine. kuh-sna- from koloa and NauiiSili.
with ll keys and l9 mats sugar. 5 bri. tanOw,
20 tres ualasses. . barrels pork. II hides. 2 bales
fungus, 6+S bullock horns. g. bdis POI, 10 bags
wool, ! horse. } pigs, 5 cords so0d-1 cabin and
u deck passengers
2-Sch Emma Rookie, Wilbur, from Makes Landing and
Lahaina, With IL mules and - brls molasses.
Sch Kalama, NetheTbee. from kaNaihae anil Kotaia.
with 13 bris potatoes 20 bags coffee. IS hides, 10
bags fungus, etc--1cabin and - deck passengers.
Sch Odd Fellow, Morse, from LanaIei. with I25 kegs
and $50 mats sgar, 8. bris molaSses. : kegs and
IL bris syrup. sU1 oags COTE. horse. ; cords wool.
Sch Jeannette, Green. I'm Malikn, with 80 kegs sugar
and 90 bhs molasses.
Sch Kamoi. Shepherd, from KshulGi and Lahaina.r With
~ pkgs sugar, 20 bags corn Heai.2 hides, II pkgs
raise-2 cabin and 20 deck passengers
sch Kamehaneha ", johnson. from kalePolspo, with
IL cords wool, 90 mamsni posts. 20 bdls poi
s-R1ss. bark Triton. LIndstroTn, I+3 lays from South
smptou, en- route for Amocr, anchored outside.
Sch Noikeiki. Sspela- from NalikO and Lahaina, with
so kegs sugar. 20 brs mola-srs, and . passengers
Am brigr. Mary Capen- Savory, - days from san
francisco, bound to Shanghai Si;h 4 cargo OF iun-
Der. Put In here leaky.
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NEW BEDFORD OIL MARKET.

The oil market continues very quiet, but we understand
there Is n little inquiry for both sperm and whale OIL for h1fne
use. In sperm the transactions Of the week have been the sales
Of s2O bris, In PARCELS, for manufacture, al 81 30 per gallon
and Us do. do at 81 81.
In whale oil ws learn Of the sale Of 100 brs. on New York
account, at 81 cents pr gallon and 900 do, California grry-
a. Nzftzpoisct, 1t so CENTS do do
In whaI-boue, IL OOo fbs south Sea have been sold on private
terms There have been sal ; In New for< az recent quota
tous-N. q. STANDARD, Feb 70
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DEPARTURES.

I-Ha~ xh brig Victoria DauelsberS, for the Arctic
Brit s,eane~ Columbia. shuttieworth, for Shanghai.
2-Sch Noizahine, Kuheana, for Hanalei, Nashisil-
E1loa aad Waimea-
5-An wh bar: Zoe, simmonds, for the Arctic.
5--An bark " hat Cheer. Raymond for Shanghai. Win
100 casks ale and ] Seq whisky, from this place
Ssh Odd Fellow. Morse, for Koos-
sch EaLrr,a. wetherhee, for KohaIa and Rawaihae-
6-sch Emma Rooke, Wilbur, for Lahaina and hahuiui-
5-Odenburx rh brig Comet, Wilhelm, for the Ochoisk.
Sch Esmoi, Shepherd, for Lahaina aud kahnlui-
T<t Krkzuj-nht- Henry, fr Rors and Kan
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MURDER on Ia foul murder was
committed about the 2Sd of April at Waipouli. near
Wailua, the victim being a boy about IA years old.
The perpetrators are unknown, and if known, nine
chances out Of ten, would be cleared by a native
jury. The Sheriff of Kauai left this city on Friday
last, to examine into the case.
- On the 30th of April another case occurred near
Hanalei, Kauai, which, though it did not result in
murder, shows that the natives are rapidly progress
ing in all the attendant arts of civilization. \
colored man of Wainiha, named VIM. Hodges, and o
married man, while Ling asleep in his bed. had a
lasso put around his neck by his g better half"
The end of the rope was then passed through the
thatch of the house, and her attendants hauling on it,
very nearly strangled the man. Fortunately for him
he managed to get free from the moose. What follow
ed we have not learned.
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Il renovates' purihes and strengthens the system. and aids m.
stomach in the performance OF its functions. 1t is a soverrirn
specific for impsrting strength, vigor and tone 20 the system.
and possessing the curative powers for all diseases arising from,
a disordered stomach. In the most severe cases of cramps
diarhoea and weakness in the stomach. the " Rtters have te.n
risidly tested, and always with the greatest success. sold by
Ill druggists ana dealers everywhere. 3OSlm
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q Al +. A. Nils PRoGREs Dis LfOcEANGE Loncp
wv No.l2i, under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Coun.
w eli Of the Grand Central Lodge of France, working in
the ancient Scotch Rite, holds its regular meetings on the We'd
nesday nearest the full moon of each month, at the old Lodge
Room, in King street. Visiting brethren respectfully invited
to attend.
Augustus. lSo7-3ml p. c. JONES Secretary.
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Spttial SlOtitrs.


PLATES.-The under-igned \.
now prepared to I'LL all orders for Firm Plates. Plantation Plate.
Case or Bale Places on short notice. All orders len AZ A n
Cartwrights Grocery and Feed Store, will receive PROMPT aueo.
ton. SOs-Sm TUos. q. TuRrN
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PASSENG

From LGHAfSA-per Emma Rookie, April 2-DrS Long, wife
and child, II Dickinson, and Il natives on deck.
From HASALEI-p~r Old FELLOW. April 3-Mrs johnson, c.
Tiieomb and son, James Yr-eland, Jos Ellis, Chas Arms, and
10 natives on deck.
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= The steamer Corte- passed in sight of koloa,
Kauai, on Sunday. April ~, bound to China. She
passed Honolulu during Saturday night, and did no,
stop OF any Of the islands.
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The AMERICAN MAILs.-Mr. Sullivan writes us
from San Francisco, under date of April IA, that
Postmaster Parker of that city had assured him that
the newspaper mails between New York and Califor-
mia were hereafter to be sent and received by steamer
as formerly, that the contract had already been
signed, and the steamers would commence the mail
service during April. This will be good new. to
those who have been compelled to wait until their
papers are from four to six months old before read
ing them. The pressure on Vanderbilt has evidently
been so great that, to prevent special legislation
against him AMI perhaps to forestall the new opposi-
ton Panama steamship line, he has deemed it best TO
make some Arrangement for carrying the mails again
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ID THE DIRECTION OF II. r. II.
PRINCE Lor kANEHAMEHA, Minister of the Interior Department
Of the Hawaiian Government, 1, THOMAS BRowN, Registrar Of
Conveyances, do hereby appoint JOHN d. H~AVERoST, Of
waluku, Island Of Maui, Agent for the taking and certifying
the acknowledgement Of Deeds for the Islard Of Maui aforesaid.
THOMAS BROWN,
Register Office. Registrar OF Conveyance.
Honolulu, April Sd, 1862.
Iapprove Of the above appointment:
l.. KAMEHAMEHA.
Honolulu, April 5, 1862 3ll-lt
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MORE NEws.-The bark Yankee is now looked for
hourly. She sailed from San Francisco on the 9th
of April probably, and ought to bring US Eastern
Geographic news to April 24th, or ten days later
than we have now. She ought to bring the New
York mails, expresses and papers of April l. The
news will probably be the most stirring of any that
has been received for some time. Mcclellan near
Yorktown was ready for a hard battle, which was
probably fought before the 10Th of April. In Ten
nessee, Generals Buell. and Beauregard. with immense
armies, were only twenty miles apart. and probably
tried their strength again during April.
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II Steamer Columbia, shuttlcworth-Le Left san Francisco
April II had light easterIy breezes all the way. Came down
under sail and low steam. Arrived outside on the night Of
"Wednesday, the 3Oth, At 10 O'Clock, and came INTO port next
morning for a fresh supply Of coal. Reports the steamer Cortes
As having left on the 18th for Shanghae.
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For THE EAsT.-The brig Josephine. Capt. Stone,
will sail to-day for San Francisco, and take a mail
for Europe and the United States. Files OF the Com
mercidi since the sailing of the Speed,ceH, (thIee
dates can be had at the counter.
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VESSELS IN PORT-MAY s.

Am bark Arctic. Hammond, eOOn for Boston.
Am bark Comet, Smith. soon for san Francisco.
Brit bark Kathleen, Marchant. soon for san Francisco.
Am brigt Josephine, Stone. for San Francisco,
HaS sch Narnda, CopelanG.
WHALERS-
Am ship Ocean, Clark.
IAz brig kOhola, BrummerhOp.
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April l, 1850, to Mar. 81, 1858. s5,l42 IS - s5.l42 IS
fAp1 l, 1860, to Mar. 81, 1862. 9,sl5 81 1915 IL 1885, So