Tragedy Of The Seas.--A Horrible Affair

The following extract from a letter ■om Lahaina, gives an account of a most ornble occurrence which recently hapened at a nèighboring island, dated . larch 23: "You will have heard from Captain . 5-reen, of the Ontario, that three men , eserted from him last Friday night. - ?o-day two of them returned; they were rought to the United States Consulate iLgency, and made one of the most horri]e statements I ever heard. They, as they say, hired a boat of three tatives on Friday evening, and starled bv Hawaii. There were three in the , oat, namelyt Waker G; Pike, of New iVindsor, Orange County, N. Y.; Robert WcCarty, New York city; and Jacob on Cliff, belongingtoMiddletown Point, , !i. J. - the latter, a colored man. They ■ ulled all Friday night, Saturday, Sunlay, and were unable to pull any longer. On Tuesdoy, they drifted on the rocks it Lahaina, and having been without food r fresh water the whole time, and having Irank salt water, they were in a state of star vat ion. They were not able to get jp the pali, (precipice,) and agreed to :ast lots to see who should die for the aenefit of the other two. The lot feil on V"on Cliff, who was killed by blows on the tiead witha stone. They cut hisarm and throat and drank his blood, after which, they cut a piece from his right arm and ate it. After they became strengthened, they got up the pali, and met with some natives, who gave them lood, and brought them across the island, and to this place in canoes. The natives have been examined and confirm the statement made by them. The dead bod}' was found as they described, and buried by them. The Governor will send to Lahaina to-morrow for the wo'man they first saw after landing, and for the remains of the boat." Another letter states that these men were tried for murder, and acquitted, and subsequently tried for stealing the boat and fined $80 and costs. Having no means of paying the fine, they were working it out on the public roads. - N. Y. Evangelist. Cnffsc rs. Liquor. - The substitución in Grenl Briioin ofcuflee for beer and spirits, las increased iis consumption to such nn extent as to cali the aitention of government to the propriety of reducing the duties on the importation of it, as one of the most efficiënt means of producing moral reform among the people. The examination before a parliamentary committee, of several keepers of modern CofTee houes in London, gives n curiousand interesting view of ihe progress of the habit of coffee drinking as a substitute for dram drinking. It seems that there were not over ten or twelve of those coffee 6hops in London, twenty five years ago; now they number 1,700, and they are increasing :.t the rtte of 100 a year. The price per cup of coffee is from ld to 3d, and one of the keepers who charges per cuptesüfies thr.t hehas from 1500 to ltíOO persons daily at bis house. The consumption of ct-ff-je by the laboring classes in London, is shown by the exatninaiion of another witness - the proprietor of an extensive coffee house. The laboring man comes in the morningat 4 o'clock, and has a cup of coffee and a 6licc of bread and butter, for hich he pays 1 Jd; and then agnin at eight, for his break fast, he has a cup of coffee, a penny loaf, and n penny's worth of butter, which is 3J; at 1 o'clock he comes again and has his coffee, hit bread and meat; nt this hour of the day, thert are upwards of one hundied dining in one rooir at a time. These coffee houses are now general ly resorted to by all classes, and it has becom ashionable and customary to drink coffee anc ask a friend to do it with you, in place fo liquor, The duties on coffee in England are very high ihe duties on colonial coffee being abou 12J cents per 1b. and on foreign coffee al most 30 cents. Even at these high dutie i a cup of coffee is solí at 3 cents, and thi consumption is twenty-five millions of pound nnnunlly. It is supposed that with a moderat reduction of duties. the consumption would b , increased one hundred millions of pounds.Dentista in Africa.--The following is from the Liberia Herald: SatoboifcB. - Among the Africana every one ia hi own demist; and when annoyed hy a wayward grinder he thue operates. First, he twists a fine but strong cord of the fibres of the palm leaf. one end whereofhe fixes aroundthe refractory member, the other he attachee to a smill stone weighvng somewhere between eight and ten poundei then raising tho stone the full Iength of his armB, he Iets t fall, and the troublesonie tooth troubles him no more. A good story is relat ed by the Providence Gazette, of a certain colonel, who, once upon a time, was court martiallfd for refusing, on the tented field and duringr a militia muster, to obey the comroatids of his superior officer. The senience of the court was that the obstreperous colonel should be deprived of his noord one month. being asked by the presiding officers te deliver up the "wespon," in accordhuce with the sontence, the colonel arose, and in the most grave and tolemn manner, declared that he did'nt own one;. that he did'nt own one;' that the' sword he had been accHstomed lo wear did'nt belbng to him; hut he hadno-doubt Mr. Baker, the jeweller, of whom hc hircd it on the training days, would let it to the court for the required month on the most moderate terms' TbeNavy of theUnitedSthtes consists of ships of the' line, one fourteen frigates, twenty-one sloops of war, sixteen brigs and schooneis, three store ships, and eight steamers afloat. There are on the stocks in an unfinished state, four ships of the line, three frigates, one store shíp, an iron stedmer at Pïttsburgh, antf one at the Nkvy Yard at Washington tobe used as water-tank.How much of human hostility depends n that circumstance - distance! If the nost bitter enemies were to come in con act, how much their ideas of each other irould be chastened and corrected! They yould mutually amend their erroneous mpressions - see much to imitate in each ther; and half the animosity that sheds ts baneful influence on society, would ade avay and be forgotten.