Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-12-25

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The Sandwich Islands are twelve in mum
Der, with total area Of little over 6,OOt
square miles-about the size of Connecticut
and Rhode Island Two-thirds of this ares
belong to the Island of Hawaii, although
Oahu is better known generally from it
containing Honolulu, the capital city, which
has about II, 900 inhabitants. The popula'
ton of the whole group, in 1872, was So
S97. 1t will be seen, therefore, that the
islands are very sparsely inhabited, which is
necessarily the case, owing to their broken,
volcanic surface. Mountains rise to the
height of H. 900 feet above the sea level land
the soil is mainly composed of disintegrated
lava By the last census of the inhabitants
there were 1904 persons of the pure ma
tive race, 2,4S5 Of mixed origin, 1888
Chinese, $50 Americans, GIG English, and
the remainder from other European coun-
tries.
The group is in the same latitude as
Cuba, while the climate is said to be even
more favorable for the growth of sugar cane,
cotton and other tropical products Last
year the islands took from us goods to the
value of $1,000 600, and the year before
they sent Us 50. l2S 900 worth. Their ex-
port Of sugar is about 10000 tons Their
other exports are coffee, rice, tallow, hides,
beef, mutton and ship supplies. TIE gov
eminent i constitutional monarchy. King
Knlakaua Las regular cabinet, all of whose
members are Americans or Englishmen, and
a council Of sixteen members, one-half Of
whom are natives. The revenues in 1872
were S96f,956. There are hundreds of
schools, in v hch knowledge is taught, both
in the native and the English tongue; and a
half dozen newspapers, some in Hawaiian
and some in the English languages. The
native population l. steadily decreasing, and
was 50 before the advent Of white men.
The Trath about the Ycksburg Massacre.
The Cincinnati Commcrcial cannot be ac-
cusei Of any bias towards the side of the
blacks 1t is one Of the most conspicuous of
those so-callei independent" papers whose
principal occupation has been to find fault
with tie Republican party. Neither its As
sociatious nor inciinations give it any p-eiu-
diccs against tie white Taxpayers" Of
Yicksburg. and when it describes the recent
shooting ct some Fifty colorcd men at Vicks
burg, a. an unprovokel and cruel massacre,
it doubtless tells the simple truth. The pre-
tended justification for the outbreak, it will
be remembered, rested on the assertion that
the colored sheriff, Crosby, had not furnished
a good bond, and that the supervisors rc-
fused to require it. And Yet itaprears that
the Supervisors had been convokcd for the
very purpose Of exactiuc such a bond. when
the hot-heal, held an incendiary meeting
and resorted to violence without giving the
Supervisors chance The Commercial says
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