New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-07
TIE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
lpRoA AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT


HONOLULU, Oct Alt is not often that have had
nm opportunity to send you notes of my ramblings
and observations rs / promised; but the sailing OF
the new steamer Montana, of Holidays subsidized
line between this port and San Francisco, gives me
chance to send you few items of news from the
dominions of Kamehameha.
The great crater of Kilauea is resting from its
recent labors. 10 no longer furnishes burning lava
10 n red-hot, burning river 40 miles long and half
mile wide, making thousands of acres of new do
minion in the sea for the Kanaka King; but the
great earth caudron is still fearful to look upon
10 look down into. Think of it! You stand on the
brink of pit, many miles WIDE, that would
swallow up your Park and looking down the lurid,
red-rbbed walls more than 200 feet, there is the
lake of eternal fire, whose smoke asCends forever.
What is feeble map when he stands oil such brink
when here is pit of GomOrrah, that could boil up
n nation of many millions of eyil-dOers
Though the great Volcano has been some time at
rest we have had, and have at this time smoke So
dense, shading our tropical sun so that We can look
upon him. as though ali the fires OF Kilauea, Mauna
Lea, and PhlcgcthOn were ablaze. III is genelaiiy
suppose d that We shall hear of some great volcanic
outbust ia midoeean and that there Is new lohu
We have had an Outburst of another character
--spiritSal and rebellious. You have no doubt got
the particulars OF an "msurrechon so called OF a
fanatic Kanaka called Kaona, POlyneslap Ascen-
sOnist whose followers stoned our onerlh Neville
to death. have seen him. and can give you some
views of OuretanS elized Hawaians. HE'S prophet,
of course-he is mOTe-he is a god. A follower told
me that KaOna was an ilHd. or god, whom the fires
of Pee. OF kilauea could not SINCE, His followers
offered pig as in the days Of Capt Cook ard placed
the chewed mOrsels into the mouth of the god They
pulled tobacco smoke into the nOsTls of the deity
He must not employ his powers Of suction so Wiley
as to smoke his own weed. And not tins man alone,
but have seen Others pointed out as deiied beings
The superstition of large portion OF the kanakas IL
as gross ever, rather will say their orthodoxy
and evangelism is not as universal and genuine rs
usually represented, and they are mostly thorough
aud practical POstiysts aud PantheiSts.
The kanakas are an intelligent, active, alnlabc,
and most interesting people. They arc brown-nay,
many are black; and yet how wisely and prudently
they lcgslate notwithstanding their black and
brown skims l saw a dark brown king open and
prOrogue a parliament. His speeches al his own,
were models for DisTae and Seward and his states
nIanshp is the heartfelt patriotism OF an Alfred or
Washington. What says His Majesty III his last
speech 10 his parliament and now come TO my
special item OF news for yOu and the readers OF
TUE TRIBUNE. He SAYS: My people decay long
ages Of isolation and interviewing have made our
Hawaiian race scrofu0us and barren. Let us intuse
fresh blood into the national veins. Let us bring
here kindred stocks from the old Malay lands, the
fathclland OF the Pacific. Let the viking Normans OF
Malaysia blend iii peace and not IN war WIN en-
feebled aborgines OF Hawai- ana we VIII nave q
new Polynesia as We have seen great Anglo
Norman England grow ont OF feeble old Rome
enslaved Britain. There the cross Of races was
not too vile--SaXOn, Norman, Dane. and BIlton
were akin SO KanakaS Of Hawaii and MaOrls OF
New Zealand are with Java Malays. But the Mon
g0ilaDs OF CHINA ana japan VIII give uS Only nyDIluS
portion of these nations, and OF al nations, are
welcome as labOrers and traders; but let us en-
courage the building up, the breeding Of new race
that shall be fruit ful, wise and strong, and that
shall realize every hope Of good and wise men IN q
tropical civilization.
Well, King Kamehamehas black and brown legis-
latOrs have backed up their ideas by appTOpIlatng
5000 this year for the immigration OF the desired
colonists and His Majesty has commissioned Capt.
Walter NJ Gibson old resident of the islands, as
Commercial Agent and Commissioner AT Singapore to
gather up subjects for Kamchameha 10 bring nOtmen
alone but women and madens, 10 I'LL the sweet val
loys of these everfaitbful lands with the gaddening
voices Of young Polynesia.
You know Capt. Gibson, or rather, M. Gibson, as
believe he dIskes the old unmeaning ute; All
the readers OF IHE TRBUNB in 1853, So 81. knew
him. How he fought the Dutch, and Marcy for his
lost ship and liberty In the Spice Islands, was much
spoken OF IN oil the chronicles of those days. Ar
Gibson sails to-day IN the Montana route for
Washington, 10 remain there awhile before proceed
ing TO the ground OF his special mission nj Singapore
lie sails In company with DIR. j. Mott Smith, the
newly-appointcd Charge dAiaires sent TO replace
the late Hawaiian EnyOy, Mr.. Harms Ii is the Doc
tors particular duty 10 urge upon the attention of
the American Senate the advantages TO be derived
from the ratification OF Reciprocity Treaty between
Islands recently negotiated by your Minister at these
Islands Gen. NcC0ok, and Mr.. Harris Mr.. Gibson |
is instructed TO assist the Charge in canyagsng the
merits of this Treaty at Washington.
need not discuss this treaty. You better fhan
can appreciate its merits or demerits 1t may be
more favorable to the islands at present than 10 the
States, but unquestonaby its entire effect must be
70 make this nominal kingdom, more than ever,
American territory. The foreigners who control the
business are all American. You SEQ how they vote
ia respect to American politics. The King and the
kaeskas read none bat American newspapers. and