, 1874-05-23
money for contingent fund 40 ont to tbs anti


/ Of lIis rcn!nrl.atlo faut know that can ouly
half toll 1t, and moietiuH always mood m o1-
| E,nnation.
II WA not enough for tho Administration to
| that, thny HOW roaph out to tho Polyneninn
group. 4hnt group Ia noted "a having lad III It
tho botany Bay OF England aye, aud Within
1lochefort, escaped from one Of tho French
isiatlda ny swimming through one mile nf al'nikH:
This illustrates tho vigor Of democracy agninst
tho raTonous alloa' which lvos to destroy.
oun COMMISSIONER ETARTs.
stoii,borger was appointed in March, 1879
Special Agent to visit and report upon these
samoan 1n!nnds, The President was not M salts
Swiss Family, ROBINSON" nor With No!'fnson
Crusoo, with his dog, parrot, and man Fraday,
no interesting as clever story Tor youth, W
perHoeu!od Dasentor. Ho wus rot content !' With
from tho Friendly and othor adjacent islands.
Capt. Cook waH to him = myth, and the mon
! who nto othor men were no less myth.
under tho "contingont fund" Il eas from San
! Francisco in June, 1875 HIT Mas for such OK
| pedltions! Tho Sun Francisco press anticipates
| it, aud when our EnlbauHador reaches tho Band-
| huroy "Hls Majesty King Lunalilo TINT By isin
no wise nccrodited to his Government, and that
| newnyonders ii, this aB In mnny other cascs aro
! irresponsible agita!ors." Tho reporters gallery
In August. our Commissioner ronches tho
| enstorn island Of tho BAmoan group. Tho
iBlands nro cs1lod "Navagatorg because, ag o,,r,
CornmisSionor says nayigntors hayS 10y alwny
! called friendly bocause everybody was cat III
when they won't there. This group which wo
sook to annex consistg Of nine iBlant'u.
Al tho question bocO1n1R ONO Of economy Fin
an appropriation Of money, In order TO inr: caB
the House aEanat tho appropriation ;lave
thought Of using three rhetorical modos: j irat,
tho scientific; second, the pio!ihtc; and, bird,
tho simplicity OF my own Btyle or that OF y epo.
| BClENTlFtu VIEW OF THE IsLEB.
| In order to doyuop the scientific view, " pu1d
! say, irrespective Of what our Commissioner has
said, that, whilo thore are evidences Of CT atora
In those islands, thoro Gre found ancient VI Kacu-
lar lava and amygdaloida, tho Divine otsc dis
| fntegrated, aud mountains OF basaltio rock,
againAt which tho great swell Of tho ocean cea|ts
with deafonng roar. This will readily be r a,lor
| stood by tho House,
| Commissioner, would add thut there aro found
there. in the crcumaoont watorD round 'llases
Of nlnandrina nnd aBtrMa, contraated with. deli
oato loaf-liko and cup-shal'oa expansions tsf OK
! panarna, mud with al inAulto vnrIe 4y of
| branching lnadreroro and serlatoporc; Home
with moro flngor-ghapod projections otha ra with
large branching atcme, and otlioru again exhibit
iIs an elegant asaombage Of ntorlaqnI T1 twes
ors ara nlrivaetl, vivid green's contraati ag with
more sober browns and yollows, miuL cd with.
rich shades OF purple from pule pini. to deep
bluH bright red, yellow, and renet .colorod r s
mingled with beautiful. peary flakes of, osci,ara
and ratepora, the latter looking like lan-wor} iii
! ivory. In among tho branches OF til corals,
like birds among trees, tloat 1nany beau fll tla
rudinnt with metallic greens crimson 8, or fun
! tastically banded with bucK mud ycllo:" stripes
Patches OF clcnr ulito Band ate aeen here aud
| thoro for tho floor, with dark holowB and ro-
cesses beiloath oyerhangiug lnaseos md lcdgoa.
rfstrnu frO
lives. There are inany knln Of se:s-au.naals that
hayo holeH in the cornh, and take TIP their lodg-
| ings among them, while homo kinds Of 1iAh prey
upon them. 1proBume this 10 political 1nr"-'
! This will answer for tho phyaIcal description,
As resort for corn, these saands ace success.
But why did not Our Commissioner describe III
| scientific pl,.aao how tho sweet little Slmi0ns
grip of tho extended os 'coceys. swing from the
CdLophylh,m inophnlluna. in tile sunshine upon
the npPor slopou Of Uno!u as,d savaii This
would hnyo added to thotr euiou tiGc interest.
Commissioner given ,s tho yellow Artocarpus
or troad-fruit trce, aud the Coos 1'ucif ftrn or
oocoa-nnt which tho intelligent uonlcy drops
upon tho head OF the juvenile islantler:
sAIoASB AS CHRISTIANS.
The piotistic Interest connected With these
islands dates almost us early rs Chpt. Cooks
voyages. Tho llrst Sabbath spent 1t, this land
BY the missionaries is memorable .fcr sermon,
Lord, the God Of ali feBh: is there Anything too
hnrd for me?" (Jeremisl, xxi, .27,) Thc ma
tiyoa, who understood ttlo Of the language, be-
Lowing that all mankind wcre OF ont' esl, soi5od
cooked, and consumed tho missionaries. They
found them too hard for digestio u, and wore
shortly after converted.
IN handsome style. nnd ut our OK; oenHe. Col.
6toinberger rolates tho present plolla condition
of tho nativcs. On page Fl Of ha report ho
shows that iu 1865 when religious census was
taken, there ware So, ,l07 OF MI reigt'ns; 1nda-
pendonts. Presbyterians, Wcaleya,,s. aud Catho-
lies. This makes y majority Of 504 1nore relE-
iouH people in the iBnnd thar tlsere arc Popula-
ton It is therefore fair infof once that nvery-
body on tho island belongs to some Christian
persuasion. It ia safe to soy That there is not
single Samoan who llan not acct ,ptaa Christiani-
ty, though more dcyout Gnd zol lous III aomo diB-
trictD thun In othors
DAN AND JIMMY,
Asido from tho missionary c,lt 'rrHscs it might
be we'll to state, i'll tho language Of tho Commits
| sioncr, how tllla rena4AAblo &C: uisiton to the
| Chrstan religion took place. E(o says:
Wliams found, In 1880, TINT Tho ,tivss knev
! thing Of ChstHtinny, and readily ccopod It.. This
ncnee easnsy saor M %o navo s sos
q tho White men aaong them long l'efors h9 nrriso
%o o1 sSa ta ns s
.n burned the s ana lsdsd ai T. T. sny, as could
their supnrstitOn. Sucla another wna "Jtnny til u
sstine stories sss 1slata or sss ehsraolers by ~
| tivea.
1t may he necessary to recall The fact iaas
''Dan the Convict" wl,o was . pirato aad r aur-
| deror, aud "Jinauythe EsSeot" Gsely camo from
| st. Giles and the Old lIniley Their III ,de or
propagating the Clirigtnu.system M hist ha, been
peculiar. How did thoy ~ :odueo such u remark
abe effect pon those sin1 pie Sou u Ser. isla,,d-
era? Perhaps they rolatod how l'c tord dsnied thu
Lord, mud Induced MI thu Islanders to COPY
Peters example. Or rorhal ", foll.,wiag tho to.t
from Jerelnlah, they tnugh! them tho nccesaity
Of consuming tho missiot!an Oh without traoo, ii
| tho etory of Judas impronse, them. Evidently
| Jimmy tha Sweet" ind At Dau tho Convict =
left their impress upon thoBo. islands, which Our
Administration desires to nnn, X. Tluay pointed
well imagine what ncrinonH they could llavo
preached to these hcnthens. Did tiley tumcl
them to pray for thcr dailyLroaa with tho bread
fruit trae, AZ otr COMMISSIONER sayu. hanging
around their hot1seB? What B. nlea,aincL.srI