THE SAMOAN MUSS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 16, 19 January 1878, Page 3

THE SAMOAN MUSS.

Such is the heading wliieh tho " Weekly Alta California," of November 24, places over the following article; but, if they had put tho " Weekly Alta Californian Muss of Samoan News," it would have been more to the purpose : " Before the sailing of the schooner Isabel from Apia, Samoa, her Captain received a letter from four or five persons, claiming to have been Consuls, Vice('onsuls or Commercial Agents of the United States, advising him to sail from Apia without his papers, which it seems the Consul, Griffin, had declined to issue, while he, tho Captain, refused to receive [who, or what, our contemporary does not say, but wo will insert a Samoa native] as a Mail Agent under orders of the American Consul. These men thus interfere with and attempt to obstruct the action of the United States Consul, who is supposed to have reasons for his actions. They give as one reason for disregarding him and his authority, thatho was bankrupt in Louisville ; say that there is no law iu the United States requiring him to take a United States Mail agout on board his vessel, and that it would no derogatory to tho United States and insulting to him, tho Captain, to take iuto his cabin a tattooed savage. This " tattooed savage," it seems, is tho Prime Minister of tho Samoan Govornmont, is highly intelligent, speaks fluently' tho English languago; and tho object of Consul Griffin iu sending this man, a Representative of the Samoan Government and people, to Washington, was probably that the native side of the question might be, by him, represented to our Government. And right here is undoubtedly the point of objection of those onco-Represont«tivos of our Government) whom that Government has at various times seen fit to remove or supercede, The milk in the cocoanut is quite visible whim the nholl is broken.