The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-04-13

the agricultural interests receive any considerable
check this year, prospects, not the most cheer
ing at the best, vii be gloomy indeed. No very
rapid advance in material way eaI Be expected In
a country whose native popnhtiou = dying 81 as
rapidly as that OF these Islands, and into wheh ma
tives Of civilized lands eannot come with auy
taiaty Of lettering their eondltion-whOse hope Of
increase Of population Is founded upon emigration
from heather or semieivzed lands.
The election Of yesterday passed of very quietly
ana The result FOR the dis,reVc Honolulu is quite
satisfactory TO the free labor party
f. s NJ KamAlau. Catholic ticket, elected
E H. Boyd, Government ticket. elected.
S. P. Kalama Government ticket elected.
Henry Thompson, independent ticket, elected.
The election Of Henry Thompson is matter upon
which the independent voters may DC congratulated
Mr. Thompson is lawyer Of marked ability and
thoroughly alive To the issues of The day. and was
one of the speakers at the recent labor meetings,
taking stand squarcly for the repeal of all laws and
euactments by which the forced labor system is
tanned. Messrs Kamekau and KalamA are also be-
lieved to stand with Mr.. Thompson on the labor
question. Mr.. Boyd is old legislator and stands
well with ali classes, but what his views the
labor question it is hard to say. A T. Judd, who
was on the ticket with Mr.. Thompson, was badly
defeated not from anything that could be said
against him personally, hnt simply because he was
held responsible for the political hereses of mem
bers of his family. He stood manfnlly with the
speakers against the forced labor system, and was
generally sound upon all the planks in the indepen
dent platform. The fact that his brotherin-law
was sent as commissioner to China to procure
coolies; that his father and brother were known to
be in favor of eooe importation, and supporters of
the government policy generally, were sufficient TO
destroy all his chances. Mr. Thompson doubtless
owed his election to the disanection among the
''househod troops" company of this force was
sent TO the polls with officer, each man of them
having been supplied with government ballot in an
envelope. To their credit let it be said that each
and all of them while ON the march cunningly sub
stituted an independent ballot for the government
and the substitution was not detected until too
late 10 change the result. The substitution de-
tected by the refusal to allow soldier TO vote for
non-eonformanee with the election law. The officer
in command received the rejected envelope and
discovered that the soldier had been voting the
independent ticket The dismay of the government
officials may be imagined.
Godfrey Rhodes, old legislator, defeated,
although the Catholic and government ticket.
His defeat was received with lively demonstrations
Of joy. His blind subseryieney 10 the Ministry dur
ing the last two sessions of the Legislature DISCUS
ted even his Catholic friends and led to the election
of Mr.. Kamakau in his stead. The protective tariff
ticket stood no chance from the beginning to the
end.
A SUNDAY school teacher in New York gave a
meerschaum pipe to of his scholars a reward
of merit.
The Missouri Legislature has voted to allow wo-
men to vote on matters connected with schools