The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-11

through tho rosf is narrow, and, with certain winds
dangerous
THE cLIMATE
Is tropical and healthy the extreme heat being tenn.
pered by the trade winds; but from November 10 May
hurricanes are not unfrequent and always severe
APiA
At present Apla Upou, Is the principal settlement
OF the group and consists OF three towns separated by
small streas and rejoicing both in English and native
names
THE ooSsuIs OF THREE NATIONS
Maauta, the chief native settlement is tho Americas
town, Apia proper the English and Matafela the Ger
man. and hore, In their respective districts the consus
of those three nations lord il with dignied sway and
manoria and seignorial privileges 70 boot, and, as .
rule, are always at loggerheads after the manner Oh
pStty consulA with each other
The bulk OF tho trade the hands Of the Germans
the house Of GOdefroy Brothers, Of Hamburg possessing
an extensive establishment al Maaiela whore business
ct and good fellowship go hand in hand They export
nearly all the cobra or dried eocoanut, in which tina
main traffic consists, have nearly fifty ships, Of aH
sizes, IN the trade, and their enterprise is
tended and their energy so untirng that it will
quire serious effort 10 dispossess them OF a tthe
of their business with the groups for hundreds Of
miles TO wndward and TO leeward What other
trade there Is in the group Is purely local What
well directed efforts may do II is difficult TO predicti but
there Is In tho hand and capabilities Of production
that would repay not fa6goasy but WITH the sams
the same sothermal and Isolated nature
STATE or SOCIETY
The natives are physically splendid specimenS
strongly MaayAn in their characteristics and like the
Hawaiians Tongans Tahtians and Marquesans entirely
nee from rapuan blood Instincts They are loose in
Tor tracts and hymn books and are fond Of fighting
where nobody is hurt Notwithstanding their appar-
exerton duo to tho fact that they food wholly ON fish
and vegetables and seriously lazy that they live for
years after ordinary races die They Clearly good
natured and polite but not so brave and generous as
their windward neighbors the Tahtans nor as inte-
gent or skful as their Toward neghbors the Fians
DRKss FASHIONS
They wenr no clothes TO speak OF but rejoice In a
beautiful intricate tattoo, which they smhngy call I'M
English Samoan breeches
MUSIC HATH CHARMS
They are passionately fond Of music and their "a
vorite airs are sShertnan's March Through Georgia
brought there by the Kearsarge 1862 and ''Shoo-
Fly, TO which the officers Of the Resaca plead guyi
stelnberger has probably introduced by this time ths
the last sibanty chaDted BY himself and his friends Of
the Colonization Company
THE WORK or THE MISSIONARIES
Various schemes have from time TO time been set
ahoat TO improve these islands, generally under the
guise of Chadbandism-of pious efforts TO redeem the
benighted heather from tho mre of idoatry; bntr
backed some have been by missionary influence and
by jealous and dogmatic Mrs Jelybys at home, they
have failed Men have come less pious civihzers,.
and their motives have been patriotism, pure and
undefled-an Unsuitable longing to spread the
influence OF their native lands TO behold
the banners Of their homes floating in smiling unimG
ps and to hear the shibboleths Of their ring out
with unceasing clamor But these good and patriotic
pioneers like the equally good and truly pious evange
fzers have succumbed until at last Phoenix like they
rise from the ashes, and, flying the wings of new
and holy effort startle the waiting world All are
merged in one Piety, prudery, patriotism beam from
the sublimated smile Of Stenberger and the roars OF
American guns proclaim MN
PERPETUAL MINISTER,
with a capital letter TO every word That this last IL
shameless fraud, money making land grabbing
scheme, there can be doubt, and almost the last
words that tho eloquent Colonel uttered before leaving
OF the nature of promise TO gallant and dis
tinguished naval officer beseeching him to with
him, ''there lots of money into it. - Thus tho
gallant Colonel declared upon certain and unimpcach-
able evidence.
HOW PAINTED
In his Grafton before the assembled kings-they
all kings there--he pictured new Utopia, golden
age returned and with his hands clenching the Presi
dents letter and his embracing the and tear
dmmed flag Of his country he compared Hawaii and ts
place IN the scale of civilization and pictured to the
filled and naked monarchs the glores that the future
held for them II is q wonder that Tua Atua, who is
clever as Samoans go did not ask him why Tahiti with
every advantage had not attained the position as
Hawaii why FIJI and Tongatabou still so back
ward He may have asked him this but history is silent
and declares it not.
Samoa can mover amount TO more than coalng sta
tion-something better than ST. Vincent in the Cape do
Verdes something less than Sandy Point in the Straits
of Magellan-and the people of this country are
solemny warned avoid all delusive schemes Of coon
cation many planned for the benefit Of Stein
berger and the companies that havc defrauded the
natives of their lands and seek to repay themselves
for the and munitions of war they supplied to
carry the internecne that have ragged for the
past four years.