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184-1. 1 T 11 E P O I, V N E S 1 A N matters, great results are often obtained. But to the work before us. It is particular ly interesting to us Polynesians; because it treats of phenomena which come under our peculiar cognizance, and the hints therein, may be an inducement for others to prose cute the inquiries which the author has so well begun. Fully to understand them, the work itself should bo studied. We however shall trans fer portions of it to our own columns. As 'samples of his powers of description we give the following extracts. Speaking of Tahitian scenery, he says: "Iris on the plains at the termination of these ravines, that the villages of the natives are usually situated, and tho voyager who has coasted the shoies of Tahiti, can never forget the Eden beauty of some of these spots. The groves of orange, whose golden fruitage and snowy blossom gleam star-like from a miss of dirk verdure; the intermingling of the tall cocoa's graceful, plumclikc crest of drooping foli age; the lofty und wide spreading Vi, (Spviidiasdul cis,) ond li irringtoni i, (B. speciosa,) the rich hues of the bread fruit tree; the deep shining green of the broad, binnery leaves of the plain! ain ; tho Hibiscus, with its large, gay blossoms of orange and crimson; the coral tree, (Enjthrina coratlokndron,) one daz zling mass of scarlet flowers; with a little wilderness of limes, guavas, and other trees peculiar to the climes the picturesque cabins, peering out here and there from the dense vegetation the wild and gloomy ravines in the rear, lighted up in spots by sparkling waterfalls; and in the remote background, the fantastic pinnacles of the grandly broken moun tains, towering up in clear relief against the soft blue tropical sky all these combine to form a picture of such transcendant loveliness as can be scarcely equalled in any other part of the world. Referring to the coral reefs, he writes: " It is upon the lower terraces and margin of the upper one, that the corals are found in their greatest variety, and exhibit the richest hues, flusters of orange, violet, crimson, green of every shade, pur ple, blue and yellow, are intermingled in gay confu sion, and with a brilliance yet softness of coloration of which pen or pencil can give but a faint idea. When first passing over them, I could compare their appearance to nothing but a pavement thickly strewn with bouquets of beautiful flowers. "At a depth of three or four fathoms,' the forms were as manifold as their coloration, some branching like beautiful shrubbery, others spreading out like the most delicate mosses, and others again resem bling beds of salli on, or daisies and amaranths, while in and out of, above and between the thickets of these Neptunian gardens, sported thousands of splendidly colored lishes, from not more than an Inch to two or three feet in length. A large bright scar let Diacope (I). Tiea, Lesson) a Julius about a foot long, of a rich bluish green, marked with blood red bands crossing the back to the lateral line, and in tersected by others extending from the opercles to the tail, (J, fttadri color, Less.) Serrani, Scari, Gly phisodons, Chx-todons, Bilistes and Iloloeentii, all richly adorned, were some of the most conspicuous in the bright array. The water was so transparent that tho smallest object on the bottom could be seen as distinctly as if it. were not three feet from the sur face; and gazing down upon tho beautiful creatures that tenanted these coral groves, like Coleridge's " Ancient Maiinere," 44 I blessed them unawares" -although the next moment I could not avoid wish ing to coax thein into my net. As a drawback how ever, upon all th'n beauty, silently but swiftly, near the surface, glided in sho lis, the spectral and malig nant, " ravening salt sea shark," reminding one of Hitan's intrusion of his hateful presence amid tho bowers of Paradise. So fierce were these tigers of the deep, that they repeatedly seized hold of the oars as we pulled toward the reef; rendering the at tempt to reach by swimming (often the only chance) a coast thus sentinelled, rather a hazardous alfair." Mr. C. gives all his proper names with the accuracy of a native. But we must reserve for another number our further examination of his work. - CIIAGRES. Extract from a letter published in the New-York Tribune, dated Norfolk, Va., August 21, 1S43. Surely there was not a feeling of regret in our ship at leaving Chagres: Ilackluy's Mead or tho Zaharas could not be less inviting to reasoning or life-loving mortals than is this gateway of the two worlds. Poverty and dis ease are here in most odious forms, although they are much mitigated by a dullness of na tural feeling, and an invincible indolence. They aro too lazy to suffer thoso whohave arrived at maturity but the children have not acquired this happy insensibility. Tiero seem to bo no politics in Chagres no aristocracy no apparent relation of su perior and inferior. All mix together Whites and Blacks, Indians and Creoles, Mestizoes and Mulattoes indiscriminately; but I saw a degree of system in their mode of choosing mates, tho blackest negroes choos ing the whitest women, and the white men in variably selecting the darkest kind of ladies for their wives. Collateral with this fact I noticed others which I could mention with less propriety, but I will observe that the off spring of this intermixture are oltcn hand borne, having generally, however, a strange disproportion, amounting frequently to deformity. It is perhaps u benevolent disposition of JMaturo which prevents the increase ot Cha gres, in the presumed natural proportion; and I am told that of every ten children born nino die before the age of ten years; after that age, those who escape the leprosy do com paratively well, but the appearance of health in a man or white woman is a rarity. Young negresscs thrive better, and indeed are more frequently perfect pictures (well shaded) of health, and of beauty too Chagres, beauty ! . . . There is one collin in Chagres, a public one, kept in the poor old thatched church. In this coffin all the poor and in Chagres all except one man arc poor expect, and very reasonably too, to be buried, or, I ought to say, to be carried to the grave. Hundreds have used that old brown coffin, and I pre sume hundreds more will use it. Children stagger about the streets, covered with u lep rosy in its most loathsome form, only half hid den by plantain leaves plastered over their protruding joints, their little broiling forms destitute of clothing, holding out their poor, raw, suppurating hands for the alms of the passer-by. What sickening sights these are! Poor Utile desolate, destitute and hopeless wretches! they make the heart ache and it would ache worse if their appearance were less provocative of nausea! Our vessels trading there find matters bad enough. Compelled to wait a long time for their cargoes or passengers, their crews die, and new hands are not to be. procured. The death of the crew, however, is generally rath er a crime than a misfortune; and, indeed, facts arc such as morally, if not legally, to justify and sustain the charge of murder against parties to be found within a very nar row circle of underwriters, owners and cap tains concerned in the trade to this wretched place. They may perhaps divide the crime .i .. ..... among tnem, nut the atrocity is not diminish ed by any division of responsibility in the matter. I allude to the fact affirmed by dif ferent captains in reply to my expostulations, that to anchor their vessels outside ofthe bar would be a vitiation of their insurance, and so they bring them inside and lay them along a mud bank in a cloud of miasma not common tainted air, but a sensib le, risible, tangible poi son. Every particle of this is a deafh-secd, and it soon lives a root in every vesicle ofthe lungs of the poor sailor. He way reach home, but he only gets there to die. The captains do comparatively well enough, for they live on shore. Notwithstanding the insalubrity and disad vantages ofthe place, not a case of sickness, originating in any respect with the climate, occurred on board this ship, although we lay there near a month at a time. The- reasons were, that our ship was anchored outside of the bar, where all vessels that trade there ought to anchor, safe from the influence of the terrible malaria, and that a sensible cau tion was practised in eating the fruits of the country. For this happy result we are in debted to the precautions of our excellent commander. The U. S. Steamer Puixcetox. It was no Infer than day before yesterday, lliat, in crossing the Brooklyn ferry, we were startled by an apparition of a large vessel moving ra pidly towards us, without sail or steam-tug. We soon became aware that it was the magic ship; and I must say, that she presented a most beautiful sight to us. Our position was fortunate for a thorough and close (outside) view of her, and, as she swept by us, we look ed in vain for any appearance of steam or machinery; neither smoke nor pipe was visi ble a slight quivering amidships, like the heated air above a stove, was all that indicat ed her propelling principle; and, dropping close under her stern,' we saw neither ruffle nor rudder, but a heel as round and clean as that of u youthful belle. "Where's the screw?" asked a dozen voices. "How is she steered?" What a model! What a wonder! The enthusiasm of the crowd on board our ferry-boat could not be restrained, and " Three cheers for the Princeton!" re sounded far and wide. The ollicer on her quarter-deck raised his trumpet to his lips, and instantly a band of agile fellows sprang into tho rigging; at another signal they cheered together most energetically having the advantage of us in this department very decidedly; but we replied to them with "a good will" if not " all together," and our tu mult of hurrahs lasted till we had got well in to the slip. National Intelligencer. A Dutch preacher, who was warmly in clined in favor ofthe Tory party during the Revolutionary War, happened once to get into an American camp, on a Sunday, and was consequently called upon for a sermon and a prayer. He, from force of habit, com menced the latter with "God bless de king" whereupon there was considerable excite ment among the soldiers, when he perceiving it, with admirable presence of mind, continu ed "Yes mine hearers I zay, (iod bless te King bless him mit plenty of hard times bless him mit a whig parliament bless him mit defeats on lant and on te zca bless him mit all kindts of bad luck bless him mit shordt life unt, Lordt, may ice have no more of him r The French Mail Steam Shits. The Journal des Dcbats states that the French Transatlantic steamers will begin to ply in a few months. There are to be four grand lines and four secondary linc9. The first grand line is to be from Havre to New York; the second, from Bordeaux to Martinique, touching at Corunna and the Azores, in the outward voyage, and returning direct; the third, from Marseilles to Marti nique touching at Barcelona, Cadiz, and Ma deira, in the outward voyage, and returning direct; the fourth, from St. Nazaire to Rio Janerio, touching at Lisbon, Coree, Pernam buco, Bahia, on the outward voyage, and re turning direct. The first secondary line is to be from Mar tinique to the Havana, touching at St. Thom as, Porto Rico, Cape Hayticn, and San Jago de Cuba, both going and returning; the sec ond, from Havana to New Orleans, touching at Vera Cruz, Tampic, Galveston, and New Orleans, both going and returning; the third, from Martinique to Laguayra, touching at Chagres, Carthagena, and Santa Martha, on the outward voyage, and returning direct; the fourth is from Rio Janerio to the ports of La Plata, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. llnwniinn Exports. Per Ann, for Sydney; 80 tons Sugar. Pnssrngcrs. Per brig Ann, for Sydney Mr. Sncrkrop. Per ship Lausanne, for Manila, Messrs. LufT and Schermerhorn. Per ship Kama, for Monterey, Messrs. J. C. Jones, J. Thompson, E. Grimes, Mrs. J. Paly and two children. In the Ontario, Mr. R. Charlton. Birth. In this town, 10th ult., the lady of Win. Hooper, Esq., U. S. Consul of a daughter. ICJ To Correspondents. We have to thank the authors of4 Recollections of Oregon," and 44 Leaves from Memory's Note Book," for their valuable communications. They shall receive insertion as soon as space offers. Z. is very welcome, either in prose or poetry. shipping intelligence: fob the port of honolulu. 1811. ARRIVALS ISth Tilt., Am. whale ship Young Eagle, Lathrop, Nantucket 5 months; 100 sperm. 19lh ult., Am. whale ship Hannibal, Drown, New London, 7 months. 2.5th ult., Guatimala barque Conception, Russom, put back leaking badly. Since condemned. 30th ult., Am. biigs Lafayette, Winchester from Hilo and Luhaina; Ontario, Kellev, 40 days from Paita. SAILED. lflth ult., Am. whale ship Young Eagle, Lathrop; to criiise. 21st ult., Br. brig Ann, Rollier, for Sydney. 22d ult., Am. ship Lausanne, Spalding; for Manila. 27th ult., Am. whale ship Hannibal, Drown; N. M. coast. 2i)th ult., Am. ship Kama, Nye, for Monterey. PORT OF LA RAIN A MAUI. Jlrrind 2(ith ult., Am. whale barque Minerva Smith, Fisher; 140 days out 150 bbls. sperm. At Waimea, 20th ult., Am. whale ship Stonington, Hamley, New London; h 1-2 months out, .150 h. , 50 sperm. ADVERTISEMENTS. Copartnership Notice. THE undersigned would inform their friends and tho public, that they have this day entered into Copartnership us HOUSE CJl R P ENTER S o nd JOINERS, and keep constantly on hand, for sale, Sash Doors; Panelled do.; Venetian do.; Batten do.; Sashes, Panelled Shutters, &c. &c. &c. JoliLing done on the shortest notice. 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