New-York tribune., 1873-01-06

ma are f0n0er OF tnooogY Onan lney are OF PIE :
fhey win sweat out as long as the Declara-
zion of Independence; the duller it is the more it
lnfatuates them; they would sit there and stew and
Sew in a trance of enjoyment till they foated away
In their own grease il the ministers would stand
watch -and,watch, and see them through Sunday
schools are a favorite dissipation with them, and
they never get enough. If there was physical as
well as mental ntoxicaton in this limb Of the ser
vice. they would never draw a sober breath. Re-
Hgion is drink and meat TO the native. He read
his neatly printed Bible in the native tOngue-every
SOLITARY man. woman, and little child in the islands
can and he reads it and again. And he reads
\ awhoe world of moral tales, built on the good old
smday-school book pattern exaggerated, and he
worships their herOes-heroes who walk the world
with their months full Of butter and who are simply
impOss bly, ehuckle-headed and pious. And he knows
al the hymns you ever heard in your me- and ne
sings them in SOFT pleasant voice, to native words
that make ION Jordans stormy banks stand
sound as grotesquey and sweetly foreign to you as
IL il were a dictionary grinding wrong end first
throu.l a sugar-min. Now you see how these ma
tives GREAT and small old and young, saturated
with reigOn-at least the poetry and the music of
it. Bu as to the practice of il. they vary Some Of
the nobler precepts of Christianity they have al
ways practioed naturally, and they always viii.
Some of the minor precepts they naturally do not
practice and as naturally they never viii. The
white man has taught them 20 lie and they take to
it pleasantly and without sin-for there cannot be
much sin in a thing which they cannot be made to
comprehend is sin. Adultery they look upon as
pOetIcally wrong but practically proper
These people are sentimentally religious-perhaps
that describes it, They pray and sing and moralize
fn fair weather but when they get into trouble that
is business and then they are tolerably apt to
drop poetry aud call on the Great Shark God of their
fathers to give them lift. Their ancient superst
sions are in their blood and bones, and they keep
cropping out now and then in the most natural and
pardoaable way.
The natives make excellent seamen. and the
whalers would rather have theu than any other
race They are so tractabe, docile and willing and
witha 50 faithful that they rank hlst in the sugar
plantels esteem as laboreTs Do not these facts
speak wcll for poor, brown Sunday-school chill
drea oi the far islands
There a small property tax, and any native who
has a. income of $50 year can vote.
THE WHITES AND SUGAR.
The 5000 whites in the islands handle all the
money and carry on all the commerce and agricul-
ture-lnd superntend the religion. Americans are
large, in the majority. These whites are sugar
planters. merchants, whale-ship officers, and mis-
siOna es The missionaries sorry the most OF the
other whites there and these latter are sorry the
missionaries don't migrate. The most Of the belt of
The bases of the mountains is rich and fertile There
are only 20OOO acres of this productive SOIL but only
think of Us capabilities In Louisiana, 100000 acres
of sur,r land would only yield $4,000 tuns of sugar
per auuum. and possibly not so much; but in the
Sandwich Islands you could get at least 10000 tuns
out OF IT, This good, strong statement, but it is
true nevertheless Two and half tuns to the acre is
D common yield in the islands, three and a half
tuns is by no means unusual five tuns is frequent
and IAN name the man who took fifty tuns of sugar
from seven acres of ground. one season. This cane
was on the mountain-side, $500 feet above sea
level and it took it three years to mature.
Addrcss your inquiries TO Capt Mckee
Island Of Mani, s. J. Few plantations
stuck ND in the air like that, and 50 twelve
months is ample time for the maturing Of cane down
shere And l would like to call attention to two OF
fhree exceedingly noteworthy facts. For instance,
there you do hurry mp and cut your cane when 1t
blossoms but you just let 1t alone and cut 1t when
you choOse-no harm viii come Oft. And you do
not have to keep an army Of hands to plant in the
plantrng season, grind in the grinding season, and
fusb in frantically and cut down the crop when
frost threatens Not at al. There is no hurry. You
run large plantation with but few hands, because
you plant pretty much when you please and you cut
your cane and grind it when it suits your
convenience. There is frost and the longer
Che cane stands the better II grows. Sometimes
pften, IN fact-part OF your gang are painting he4u
another part are cutting the crop from an adjoining
feld. and the rest are grinding at the mill You
pnly plant once in three years, and you take
pf two ratoon crops without replanting. You may
keep on taking off ratoon crops about as long as you
please indeed; every year the bulk of the cane will
be smaller but the juice viii grow regularly denser
and richer and so you are ali right. know OF one
law man who took off sixteen TatOOn crops without
replanting!
What fortunes those planters made during our war
when sugar went up into the twentesl 1t had cost
them about ten eleven cents pound, delivered IN
San Francisco, and all charges paid Now II any
pne desires to know why these planters would prob
nbly Ike TO be under our flag, the answer IS simple
We make them pay us duty of four cents pound
m refined sugars at present; brokerage, Telghts
and handling two or three times, costs three
cents more; rearing the cane, and making
fhe sugar. is an item of FIVE cents more-to-
tai. u cents a pound, OF within cent OF it, any
how. And to-day refined sugar is only worth
about 12I cents fwholesale in our markets
pro6t-none worth mentioning. But if we were TO
annex the islands and do away with that crushing
duty of four cents a pound. some Of those heavy
planters who can hardly keep their heads above
water now, would clear $4,000 year and upward.
Two such years would pay for their plantations and
all their stock and machinery. 1t is so long since
was in the islands that feel doubtful about swear
{ng that the United States duties on their sugars
was four cents pound, but can swear II was not
under three.
THE TRUE PRINCE.
I would like to say a word about the late King
Kamehameha v. and the system of government but
4 will wait day. Also would like TO know why
your correspondents calmly ignore the true heir
to tba Sandwich Islands throne as if he had eX-