New-York tribune., 1873-01-09

,o.t beyond the reach of the pleDeians- Atter aHa
hat Is whiskyf
wsny wears ago the late King and bis brother Wis
"a California and some Sacramento folks thougn'
y would be fun to get them drunk So they gath
.r.d together the most responsible soakers In the
.ovn and began to ill up royalty and themselves
~s,h str.ng brandy punches AT the end of two or
hroe hours the citizens were all lying torpid under
a table and the two princes were sitting disconSo-
late and saying what lonely dry country 1t was
Tall il 10 you as 1t was told to me in Sacramento.
THE PARLIAMENT.
Tn. Hawaiian Parliament consists of half dozen
hiefs few whites and perhaps thirty or forty CON-
mon Kanskas The Kings ministers (half dozen
hites sit with them and ride all opposition to
,be Kings wishes. There are always two people
,reaking at bnee-the member and the public trans
IatOr The little legislature is proud OF itself as
Auy parliament could be, and puts on no end Oh ans.
The wisdom Of Kanaka legislature is rs profound
az that Of our ordinary of State legislatures OUT
no more so. Perhaps God makes all legislatures ,
alike in that respect. remember one kanaka olii
that struck me- it proposed to connect the Sanus Oh
oahu and Hawaii with a suspension bridge because
the sea voyage between these points was attehaeu
with 30 much sea-sickneSs that the natives were
vrestly disconnected by it. This suspension bridge
would have been $50 miles long!
FUNERAL FESTIVITIES.
lean imagine what is going on IN Honolulu now,
>nIpg this month Of mourning, forI was there when
.hslst Kings sister. Victoria died. David Kalak aua
"a chief. Commander-in-Chef of the Household
groors now is that for title p is no doubt stand
inc guard now over the closed entrances to the
apalaoe" grounds keeping outal whites but officers
Of State; and within, the Christianized heather
ara bowling and dancing and wailing and carrying
on IN the same old savage fashion that obtained
before Cook discovered the country. / lived three
blocks from the wooden two-story palace when Vic
toria was being lamented, and for thirty nights IN
succession the morning pow-wow defed sleep. All
that time the christianized but morally uncean
Princess Law in state in the palace got into the
srounds one night and saw some hundreds of half
naked savages of both sexes beating their dismal
som-toms, and wailing and caterwaullng In the
weird glare of innumeTable torches; and While
great band of women swayed and jiggered their
nliaut bodies through the intricate movements Of
lascivlous dance called the hula-hula, they chanted
an accompaniment in native words. asked the
son of a missionary what the words meant. He said
they celebrated certain admired gifts and physical
e1ceIlencies of the dead princess / inquired fur
tbsr but he said the words were too
foul for translation; that the bodily ercellen-
cies were uncomfortable; that the capabilities
so landed and so glorfed had better be left to the
imagination. He said the King was doubtless slt-
ting where he could hear these ghasty praises and
enjoy them. That Is the late King-the educated,
cultivated Kamehameha V. And mind you one OF
his titles was the Head Of the Church y for. al
though he was brought up in the religion OF the
missionaries and educated in their schools and col
leees. he early learned TO despse their plebelan
form Of worship, and had imported the English sys-
tenn and an English bishop, and bossed the
,aoipa a
that ia making the night hideous in the
palaoe grounds now, where His Majesty is lying
in state. -.
The late King was frequently on hand in the royal
new in the ROYAL Hawaiian Reformed Catholic
Church, on Sundays; but whenever he got into
trouble he did not fly to the cross for help-he flew
TO the heather gods Of his ancestors. Now this was
o man who would write you beautiful letter. IN a
faultess hand and word it in faultless English and
perhaps throw in few graceful classic illusions
and perhaps few happy references science, inter
national law. or the worlds political history or he
Would array himself in elegant evening dress and
entertain YOU at his board in princely style, and
converse like born Christian gentleman; and day
after day he would work like beaver IN affairs
.of State and on occasion exchange auto
graph letters with the kings and emperOrs
OF the old world. And the very next week,
business being over, he would retire
20 cluster of dismal little straw-thatched native
huts by the sea-shore and there for fortnight he
would turn himself INTO a heather whom you could
not tell from his savage grandfather. he would re-
Apce mis- dress TO breech-clout fill himself daily
full Of whisky, and sit with certain of his conou-
bines while Others danced the peculiar hula-hula.
And if oppressed by great responsibilities he would
eummop one of his familiars an ancient witch, and
ask her to tell him the opinion and the commands OF
the heather gods, and these commands be would
obey lie was so superstitious that he would not
step over line drawn road, but would walk
around it, These matters were common talk IN the
Islands I never saw this King but once, and then
be was not on his periodical debauch. He was in
evening dress attending the funeral of his sister,
and had yard OF Grape depending from his stove
pipe hat .---...-
GRANDEUR IN MINIATURE.
II vou will be so good as to remember that the
population of the islands is but little over $1,000
souls, and that over that little handful OF people
roOsts monarchy with its coat-tails fnnged with
as many mighty-titled dgnitaries as would suffice
to run the Russian Empire, you will wonder how,
the offices all being filed there can be anybody left to
govern And the truths that it is of the oldest
things in the world to stumble on man there who
has no title felt so lonesome as being about the
only unofficial person in Honolulu, that l had to
leave the country TO find company.
After all this exhibition of imperial grandeur, 1t
is humatng 10 have to say that the entire exports
of the kingdom are not much as $1,5OO,OOO the
imports in the neighborhoOd of that figure, and the
revenues say $4,000. And yet they pay the King
$4,000 year and the other officials from 5000 to
SsOOO-and heaven knows there are enough OF them.
The National Debt was Sl50,000 when was there
and there nothing in the country they were so
proud Of. They would MT have taken any money
for it, With what an air His Excellency the Minis
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