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70 ready the ladies are seen marching up in their best dresses, each with a portion of food in her hand, held between clean leaves. As they enter the malac, each wife or daughter wheels olVtoward the place where her husband or father is sitting. When about two or three yards from him, she pciitly and irraeefully inclines her body forward in a sort of half bow, and remains in that posture ! receive his orders as to the party or chief to whom she shall serve the food. The order is inven and execu ted with the utmost regularity and meth od. , Makino Siru.Missio.N. If a village or district has committed a just cause of of fence .against another, and the offenders are willing to make submission, or beg pardon, they are expected to go loaded with stones, green bows and fire wood, and to bow down very abjectly in the presence of the oH'ended chief. As the articles thus carried are used in making their native ovens, probably they signify that the parties are deserving to become the servants oven-makers of the chief. Unless, indeed, the meaning be, (as some say,) that they themselves de serve to be baked. Whatever was its origin, the custom is sul'iciently degrading. THE POLYNESIAN. OcTonrn, there w not n douhtwi my mind, lint the ili.Ieronre in owim? to the misuse ol'tl e toil in the production ol'the grape, and the fiuu w.o of wine by all eludes." In the above case the wine and brandy is not a total pecuniary loss to the nation for so much ns is c.xpoiteil is returned in value in something else which goes to feed and clothe the producers. To the consumers how ever this sum is a total loss. And what is consumed by the producers, the loss of time an.i neglect oi business h a iouu joss 10 mo ' French nation. This will account Tor the inhabitants of the winegrowing districts of I France being worse fed and cloliied and more !;oor and wretched limn those of other parts ; which possess u better soil. Did the wine land brandy producers consume none them selves and lose no time or neglect any bu siness in consequence, then there would be 10 loss to me nation as me returns i r me portions. 1 he bpaninnl answered with out hesitation, "Sire, he thinks the siege will be long, and he is afraid the ice may be exhausted." When the mes senger was going, the duke de Charrost, captain of the guards, called out, "Tell lbouai not to follow the example of the irovernor of Douai, who yielded like ;t rascal." The king turned round, laugh iutr, and said, ''Charrost, you are mnd !" "How, ir!" answered he: "I'rouai is my cousin." In the Mcmoircs de (Iiamnioiit, you will find similar examples of the amuse mr:nts of war. Vou remember that when Philip of Macedon vanquished the Athe nians, in a pitched battle, they sent next morning to demand their baggage; the whole export would probably bo sutlicient king laughed, and ordered it to be re turned, saymg, '1 do believe the Athe nians think we do not fiht in earnest." Mrt. Editor: I atnto show in the second place that the amount expended tor alcoholic drinks as a beverage is a loss to the com munity. If my first position bo true this follows of course provided the same amount could be more beneficially expended Alcohol begets an appetite in him who uses it which will render all his powers sub servient to its gratification. The intemperate man will take from his suffering wile and children the bread neces sary to sustain life, will dispossess himself and them of every comfort rather than give up the intoxicating draught. Could the sums thus expended to degrade the man be turned to better account ? Let us see. There is a principle iti every man which seeks the accumulation of comforts around him. The drunkard is not an ex ception, but in him the love for intoxicating drink has got the ascendency of every thing else and must be indulged if by any possibili ty the means can bo procured, but take from him this apnetito or the power of its indul gence and he becomes a sober man. One prime cause of disease is removed and he is not unfitted for business. That which he before expended to allay his insatiable thirst lor the brutalizing cup is now honorably paid for the support of his family and the accumulation around him of necessaries and comforts of permanent value. I lis increased ability to buy increases the demand in the market for such articles as he wishes to purchase and of course the de mand for that labor which is necessary to produce them. A channel is thus opened tor that labor which l.as been hitherto ap plied to the production of spirits and the merchant exchanges the traffic in and pro fits on intoxicating drinks tor the traffic smd profits of better irtielos for w hich a demand has been created equal to the whole amount once expended in the former, added to the value of the time lost, and loss frori neglect of business in consequence oi that expendi ture. The producer of spirits is no loser the merchant is no loser, they only exchange the profits on one thing for the profits on others, and the buyer instead of purchasing that which does him no good but injury, and is an actual loss, purchases necessaries for the support of his family and other things of permanent value, thus increasing his ow n wealth and that of the nation of which he is a constituent part. If this be true, then what is expended for intoxicating drinks as a beverage is a total loss. This is partially illustrated on a general scalo by the follow ing remarks of Mr. Delavan. "On my route from Venire to thi city, I have been much impressed with one fact, which t'iQa.;ly cor roborated the remark made to me by the Duke of Orleans, relative to the poverty of the people, in wiuo districts ( have observed 'i very marked diilei'.nce in the condition of the pooplo in those d strict s where the Srapo is not cultivated, and w here it it. In LoinlMr y and the Northern parts of France, thero are but few vineyards comparatively and there the peasantry look thrifty and happy, nnd for hundreds of mile.' we were but little molested by beware ; whilo in the wine districts, the moment you halt, you are beset on all iden by the most miserable objects imaginable, and to supply their w ants equally with other parts of the county. Then the whole loss would fall upon thq buyers, but it is now divided between the buyers and sellers. The nation that sells and those w hich buy. ,The consu mers are the individual losers and the nations of which those individuals are constituent parts have their aggregate of wealth diminish- ted bv individual loss. The following iilus- trations are also applicable to this subject. "Somo ypiM back a scarcity of provi.-!oin wns ipprclieiulod in Ireland ;oul a law was i.is.ed pro Lbi in:; the appropriation of corn 1o the purposes of distillation. And what, was the cons, ipience ? Ircl u.d exported corn that year and they purchased double' the quantity of blankets in Kiil.uiii that jear that they had ever done befoie " ' "A journeyman mechanic, who six years fern, was rddictcd to drinking intoxicating liquors lately pur chased a house for which lie paid no ir twche hundred dollars saved from the earnings of his labour. This man six years a no was a drunkard, his family not more than Inlf provided for, himself unhappy and in dbt. Ily the inP.ncn'co and example of his emplo cr, he re formed and joined u temperance society. The picture soon changed. Ily sav ing the money spent, for io,r, he was enabled to nay his dohfs, clotbo and pro' ide amply for the comfort othis family, and in six years buy himself a hoiuo. Tiiw he de.ioiuinutcs his "Urog ?Ionej uune." In the former case the labor which would have been expended in producing spirits was expended in the production of grain and this with what, would otherwise have been distil led furnished abundant food and enabled them to purchase things of real value, there by adding to the wealth of the nation and di minishing iis wretchedness. In the latter wo have an individual case which is but the counterpart of inany others that have occur red since the commencement of the temper ance reformation. Put the amount expended forms but a part of the pecuniary loss. Loss of time, neglect of business, the sums ex pended in jails, prisons, alms and poor houses lunatic asylums, expenses for overseers nnd attendants and the administration of criminal justice, a considerable proportion of which is either directly or indirectly chargeable to intemperance as well as many losses by land and sea, form no inconsiderable item in the account. Yours kc, A Friend of Temperance. r.XTRACTri. Kf.tout ContTF.ors. One of those tin pedlars with which New Kngland is so much infested, called recently at a certain house, and made the usual inquiry, whe ther any tin ware was wanted ? A young l.uly humorously replied, 'Yes I should like a tin side saddle ! The polite young travel ling merchant very courteously replied, I have not any on hand, ma'am, but I run make you one.' Then untying a rope from his cart, he added, 'I will take your measure, if you please !' . A Ci'x.MNfi KonuF.. A cabin-bov on board of a man-of-war was called up to be flogged for some misdemeanor. Little Jack went trembling and crying, confes sed his faults, and then said " Won't you wait till I say my prayers before you whip me?" "Yes," was' the reply. "Well, then," replied Jack, looking up and smiling triumphantly, ''I'll never say 'urn!" A.Ml'SF.MF.NTS OF W.R When Lotl'lS XIV7., besieged Lille, the Count do IJrou sii, governor of the place was so polite as to send a supply of ice every morning for the king's desert. Louis said one day to the gentleman who brought it, "I am much obliged to M. do Prouai for his ice, but I wish he would send it in larger Remorse at . Neglected Studies 'If it should ever fall to the lot of youth to peruse these; pages,' says Sir Walter Scott, in his autobiography, 'let such a reader remember that 1 recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neg lected in tnv vouth; -that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinch ed and hampered by my own ignorance: ami that I would at this moment give half tlie reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire, if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation of learning science.' after. "And now hear inc, ye vagabond cheat," said he, "when ye go to stand (r trial, and find ycrself among the goats, (for sheep ye are not,) to get ycr sentence there'll be two witnesses ngainst yc thero'l' be Kitty Mahony, that ye robb'd, nml tie pig that ye ate; and what will ye do then ye vagabond?" "Och', plazc ycr rimrnce and is it .true what ye say, that Kitty 3a bony h erst If will be there.'" "She" will." "And the pig I ate; will the pig be to tin fore?" "lie will." "Och, thin, plac (r rivercnec, if Kitty Mahony will ! there end the pig will be there, what'll hinder n'K from saying, Kitty Mahony, bad luck to wr soul, tliere.i ycr pig; sure won't that be rij. tilnlion r " fcitglisk paper. THE POLYNESIAN. S A T U 11 DA Y7 OCT. l(),isioT ' 'Wha' you stop goin' to school for Hill?' O Sain, you know l's in do Mulberry speculashun.' 'You gut Mulberry tree, whar you get him?' Just pick off another tree.' 'Dntall?' So, you ignoras nigger, 1 plant de sprout. bomby he'll grow, den I'll buy a Silk Worm, and raise de silk.'. 'Dat's wha' you stop goin'to school for; to sec1 de sprout grow?' 'Sn i tin, he must be tended to.' 'Cosh, lill! I'll get de sprout nnd silk worm, and hah a Mulberry speculashun too! Don't git dis nigger in de school agin, no how!' Upon this, the young darkies started olPj evidently elated with the idea of being en gaged in the 31ulbcrry speculation! Vir ginia paper. nuii nuMoit. Imagine, for a moment, a rosy-cheeked .Minister mau; paving rather leisurely the highway in Cheapside, and, quite Uncons cious of the Knglish dignity of a shopkeeper, blocking up a tradesman's door with a heap of stones. "Take those stones away," quoth the tradesman, in a fluster. "Is it the stones?" asks the Irishman; "is it the stones? Why, thin, where would you have me take'em to?" "Take them to h ," rep lies the very angry citizen. "I'll take 'em to IJeaven, your honor, they'll be more out tf your way there," was Paddy's reply. Now fancy bis under glance of self-satisfaction, the fellow's ottvert civility, and covert satire, bis silent chuckle, intimated only by the least twirl of his mobile mouth, the whole finished by the never-neglected shoulder twist, as he stoops to resume bis labor, and you have at once a picture ofvcntable Irish humor. We will only give one more anecdote to illustrate the ready-w ittedness of Paddy, whose humor did not forsake him even in the presence of his priest, or beneath the shadow of the confessional. Darby Kelly went to confession, nnd hav ing detailed his. several sins of omission' and commission, to which various small penalties were attached, at last came, w ith a groan, to the awful fact thathe had stolen his neighbor Kitty Mahony 's pig; a crime so heinous in the sight of lather Tobin that his reverence could by "no manner of means give him abso lution for the same. Darby begged, and prayed, and promised, but to no effect; no penance could make atonement no repen tance could produce effect; nothing, in short, but restitution; that is to say, to give back her own to Kitty Mahony. ' IJut a difficulty arose, inasmuch as Darby and Darby's chil dren had eaten up the pig, Upon which the priest waxed wroth, and threatened the rogue with evil here and a terrible destiny hcre- TO TIIK PUBLIC. . At the request, and by the aid of a few public spirited individuals of this place, we undertook the editorship of the Polynesian trusting that it might meet their wishes and become a useful journal. The principles upon which it was started, were fully ex plained in the first numbcr, and it is need less, to repeat them here. It has been our aim, strictly to conform to them, and by sc. curing the assistance of able contribu tors, on all subjects which affect the inter ests, or will add to the knowledge of the community, to secure for it a deserved cir culation and influence. We entered upon our duties, which all will acknowledge ore trying, amid so heterogenous a population, with its inyny conflicting opinions and inter ests, entirely inexperienced, but trusting that time, and the cordial cooperation of its pa trons, would enable us' satisfactorily to fulfil them. U ow much influence the former nmv have had, can only be judged by our friends, but to the latter our unqualified thanks arc due, for the many valuable communications with which we have been favored, and the zeal which they have manifested in the suc cess of the journal. While we hav e thrown open our columns to all parties, we have equally endeavored to maintain an independ ent position, and candidly and fearlessly to discharge our responsibilities. The paper has now been issued upwards of four months, and its pages a fiord the best developcnicnt of its design and character. Hitherto subscriptions have been received only for six months, it being the design to discontinue it, should it not receive a suffi cient patronage. That time is now drawing to a close, and it is now necessary to know w hether we shall be supported in making ar rangements for its continuance. Editors cannot long subsist on gratuitous labor, any more than tiny other class of the community. Such has been the case with us thus far, the subscription list being far from sufficient to cover the printer's bill. If such a paper i needed here, we have not a doubt but that it w ill eventually meet with' ample support, but if otherwise, if its tone and views arc at va rience with those for whom it is intended, let it at once perish, rather than drag out a feeble existence, and finally be "damned with faint praise." Subscription lists for the year, will lc is sued with this number, and those who wish either to continue or discontinue their subscriptions arc requested to give u seasonable notice, also those who intend to become subscribers. . isr.w spechs or tomato. The botanists of the Exploring Squadron discovered at the Eijis a new species of the Tomato. Its flavor is said to be much superior to that growing here, being very palatable when eaten raw mwl it nromiscs to become a valuable addition to our list 'of vegetables. It will be introduced here. His Hawaiian Majesty and suite sailed on Friday morning for Lahaina, in tl'e Schooners Paalua and Kinau.