2 10 14 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/f8b8f3672a470670d8080d64d5598578.pdf fe805a3eba28cc598dc589d5576bb3b2 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, APRIL 1, 1850. Vol. 8. \o. 4 ... and a number of us in the house of his sister, Nuliicuaeu,B,. {4 25 -i—i..ii. j -11 j .j.:... .iii i .i.-mssszmet ings, some public places, well cultivated gardens. was because his own house was tit some 4|Br OF Till. Kill KM), Al'BlX I, 1861, The contrasts before our eyes could not tance that he received us here, und he c\id Page 15, 26 Vi.it of fraui ii -iii|i lloniK-, hut greatly interest us. This constant min- not wish to coiiipel us to lute a long w alfc tip,Wine and Bear Drinkers Hew re, 27 gling of civilization and barbarism, produced der a burning sup. This house, like a.,1 Here passed a chaise in those.of the country, contained liut a siogkl 27 a singular effect. lleatli id* Arch l.'raron .li'fTrcjs, r'nmgn leiellaisi.es, 2d which were a gentleman and lady, the com- room, the partitions having been reinovcfj.rrplexion ofthe latter giving evidence that she A large estrade of fine units occupied the f\jgr :D Hsilne " was born in the Sandwich Island*. Further ther end of the hull. The walls on the iiiftifVft llriii.il Si'uiiien, honored, 29 on, :i native, whose only covering was a tapa as well ss the ceiling or roof, were cuvereji AinerieMii .Viitirxatinii, Twilight Musings, 29 mantle fastened by a knot on his ri«ht should- with mnts, to which were appended greeg Daniel WrbHlir'. Farm, 30 er, was mounted, without saddle, upon a met- branches for the purpose ol atii .icting yhs (ifiicnil WK.hing'Oil'a Fiirm, 31 tlesome horse which he managed skillfully. flies and relieving the compnny from lh,«tf M In a court, a number of white Shipwreck and N lite., children dress- annoynnce. In front of (lie estiade, silting ed in the European manner, ornamented in hiiii-chairs, were the King, Kauiki (Villi, and calico pantaloons, were engaged and the three sisters and wives of KiliqrthO, Visit of the French sloop of war frocks at their sports; and near them was shining his brother and predecessor. A number of Bonite, to the in the sun the naked and brown skin of na- chairs to complete the circle, hud lieen p|ar Sandwich Islands, in 1836. tive children, whose only garment was the ced far us. Behind the King anil I'titicesBij|| Translated for the Friend, from the French oj indispensable maro. Here spacious stone were the principal chiefs, some of them houses presented to view the products of Eu- ing and some reclining upon the eotiadje.-rAdolphe Barrot. NO. IV. ropean industry; and at the gate, an Indian, The chiefs were in uniform. We were prflr Walk in Honolulu appearance of the natives clothed, and with a garland of banana leaves sented by the Governor of the Fori. His and town conirusls Seamen's Chapel around his head, slopped us in order to dis- Hawaiian Majesty wore a blue coat with mii>svaiice Chnrrh visit to the King the three pose of some land shells, lobsters or birds. ilury buttons, and large epauletls. He is sewidows of RJtoriho the King's visit on Sometimes we could dislingush, through the llout three or four and twenty )cars of agjpj board theBjuite reported apprehensions be- half opened blinds, the elegant scarfs and his countenance is expressive, although som,Bvisit and while on board the officers fair countenances of ladies who were watch- what marred by a broad flat nose and thiftk fore hisHostile invited to a feast at the Pali- ing the newly arrived as they passed in the lips. He is strongly made, nnd is about fiv/e the of French and Hawaiian horsemen JWiitami midst of a throng of islanders, who, with feet, three or four inches in height. He fsjr Valley magnificent view from the Pali- dishevelled hair and naked limbs, endeavor- reived us very cordially; but we imagine*) ed by fixing upon us their roguish eyes, to that we perceived in him u certain erubajrpreparations for dinner luau. rassment, which probably resulted from ((up A wharf, built of large timbers and filled provoke some mark ofattention. in with stone, rendered our landing easy, and There are three churches in Honolulu.— apprehension occasioned hy our arrival, ojr we found ourselves in the capital ofthe Sand- The most important of these is the Seamen's perhaps from his being little accusf mcd tfi wich Island*. VVi- were immediately sur- Chapel, where the aristocracy of the coun- formal presentations. This embarrassment, rounded by this idle population, for the em- try, the white population, worship on the Sab- however, gradually disappeared, and his ployment of which, civilization had as yet, hath. Under the same roof is a reading countenance assumed an expression of frank* found no means. They were, jjy on Hawaii, room, where arc found, often of remote date ness and good humor. Kittnu, widow ofEticovered with rags and Ihe itch; but it was a it is true, the principal newspapers of the horiho, and regent du'ittg the minority at eight to which we had become accustomed, civilized world. Adjoining the rending room Kauikenouli, was seated ut Ins right; nt hip sod it no longer surprised us. The popula- x the cabinet of natural history, all Ihe spe- left, was Kekauluohi, another widow of Rition of Honolulu had an appearance of nest- cimens of which are confined to some shells horiho, and at the right of Kinau, a tbifjj/ of the country and the roast of California, widow of Kilioi iho, called Liliha. aessmore general than the people of Hnwiii, and lo a dozen hows aad arrows from the Of the many sons of Knuichameha, tfvs but there was something in them more reIslands. The second church is that first king ofthe Sandwich Islands, lvihorirvQ pulsive. The men appeared more polite, but ofthe natives, nnd this, without dispute, has and Kauikeaouli are the only ones, concernst the same time, more deceitful, and vice seemed to have set a mark upon the faces of ihe most interest for an European. It was in ing whom we have any information. After church that I attended divine service; the death of Kumehuineha, Kilmiiho <KM tits women. 1 enter into these details, be- this ns ,hu,t had I have already spoken of a similar ser- called to the throne, under the regency o.| hits of a which people cause I am speaking on Hawaii, I will only say that here, Kaahuinanu, his mother. Rihoriho died l§ intercourse with Europoun nations scarcely vice sixty years. There ought to be some inter- the costumes were not so singular as at Kaa- England. Why he went lo that country if threj» •«ut in seeing the moral and physical changes Hitloa. The church itself, built of stone, not well known. He had five wives, which this people has experienced, and he re with its steeple, and its bell, its carved pews of whom were his own sisters, and ihe otper ijj •pens «w our observation u. vast and fertile nnd its seats alreadi p dished by ngc, could two, half sisters His favorite wife died not be compared »uh the church ol Kaawn- England a little before himself. A second si. Jd. Thrw The town of Honolulu does ii"t appear at- loa, with its walls and roof of thatch, its wife died at Maui nut long niter. ,\ taSjetive on close inspection. '1 hi' nouses a- timbers bnre and held together by cords, its widows of Rihoriho survive, ilu these werf rouud the landing place, ate merely cabins, mats nnd its modest desk. The native popu- the three women before us kauikeaouli were in their best attire, and in the succeeded Rihoriho, nnd at Kai tintonnit's built in the aucieut style of the country.»o- lation crowd we noticed numerous hats very comi- death, which occuned during the minorit)" of out croud of nigged n Vrom them came Leaving cally worn, and hoods shading coarse and Katiikenouli, the regency devolved iip«n K»siun nnd children to see us pass. ibt) fort on our «ght, the while wulls of which brown faces which needed n"l this ornament nau, who occupied the highest rank among order In be singular. There were scenes the surviving widows of Rihoriho. She rß■ere set oil' by the thatched roof* around, we in truly worthy the pencil of Hogarth. lained the power till Knrnki aouli beenmsj of lts.de o«r way into tlie town. The streets there The a but it would appear llint her intlurncß age; next »fter our we msde d»\y wide and straight.— i/rivs!, quite awire su/Jicienily to the He outlived her office, and that, being hersclt in dwellvisit due form received King. Ws saw a number of pretty European CollltTHlS — —— — — —— — — — — T^< — �THE FRIEND, APRIL 1, 1850. 26 completely under the authority of the Amer- self. Unfortunately, his education is very cursion. During our ride we had been conican Missionaries, she exercises an absolute defective, and the missionary Bingham, whose istantly ascending, almost insensibly at first, control over the young king. pupil he is, seems to have made it his busi- and then towards the extremity of tbe valley Tbe princesses were arrayed in silk, and ness to shut up his mind from those branches; we found outselves hi the midst of precipices by their size, reminded me of Mrs. Kuakini. ■of knowledge which would have been the! which the King ascended and descended with To see three women of such immense corpu- most necessary for him to learn in order to remarkable intrepedity. And now if the onlence seated together in a saloon, would cer- ■govern well. He is also, as I have already'ly object of our excursion hud been the magtainly be considered a monstrous thing in isaid, completely under the influence of his' nificent spectacle before as, we should have Europe. The smallest was at least five feet,sister-in-law, Kinau, who rules in his name. been more than paid for onr trouble. Rising BBven or eight inches in height, and they ]He possesses, nevertheless, intelligence and to a very great height above u», were the seemed to vie with each other in presenting imemory, and his questions, sometimes judi- threatening summits of the mountains, whose the largest circumference to the admiration cious, indicate an ardent desire of knowledge.; dry and naked peaks seemed ready lo fall on at the vulgar. Corpulence, as I have al-'The time will perhaps come, when he will,.our heads. Behind us. stretched the valley ready remarked, is a mark of distinction on seize the reins of empire and call Kinau to of Honolulu, and beyond, the sea and the the Sandwich Islands, and few women surely account for her administrarion, and the mis- ships in the harbor. At our feet, and at a could lay claim to greater eminence in this sionaries for their counsels. The King and depth of two or three thousand feet perpenrespect, than those before us. The King, his suite left the Bonite perfectly satisfied dicular, we saw the lops of the trees which although very athletic, cannot compare-with with their reception, and with what they had border the beautiful valley of Kanrxihe. This valley extends with a gentle inclination his sisters in plumpness, and as he is accus- seen. tomed to ride on horseback, to fence, and Some days after, the King proposed to make to the sea, which, on that side of the island, take other exercise, it is doubtful if he ever a feast for the officers of the Bonite, and he as well as the other, furnishes for the picture becomes a great man, according to the Ha- requested Mr. Charlton to give me an invi- a frame of breakers. It would be impossible tation. Upon this I congratulated myself, to sketch with the pencil, and much more so, waiian acceptation of the term. We were received very politely by the for the feast was to be in the country, two to describe with words, the varieties of scenewhole court. The King speaks English very leagues from Honolulu, and was to be, as ry so great and so picturesque, which makes well; but as the commander of the Bonite ithey told us, disencombered of all etiquette. from this point of view one of the most magwas not familiar with this language, and still jWe were to have a dinner in a grove, and nificent panoramas that nature can offer to less with the Hawaiian, the conversation, of then songs and ancient dances of the country the enthusiasm of her admirers. We were necessity, languished. During all this inter- —the singers and dancers were to be cloth- upon the wall of mountains, which divides the view, the King, as 1 imagined, before reply- ed in the ancient costume. I looked forward islam! into two equal parts. We were at the ing to a question, consulted Kinau. The ex- to the appointed day with impatience. It Pali. This is a place celebrated in the hispression of her countenance and the vivacity came at last. We met at the King's house. tory of the Sandwich Islands. It was here of ber glance, betokened an absolute char- We set out at ten o'clock, forming a caval- that His Majesty's father, Kamehameha, who acter. cade of thirty or forty persons. In front was subdued all the chiefs ofthe adjacent islands Mr. Charlton, the English consul, who had the King, mounted upon a beautiful white and who attained to absolute power, gained accompanied us, inquired of the King if it horse, and surely it would have been diffi- his last victory. This is the Thermopylae of would be agreeable to him to have his por- cult at the time, to find a better or more ele- Oahu. Here the king of Oahu, vanquished trait taken by some officers of the corvette gant horseman. We rode on, without order, and a fugitive, preferred a voluntary death who were present. He assented, after hav- and if the native horsemen excited our curi- to the cruel fate which the conqueror had deing exchanged glances with Kinau. The osity, we afforded them amusement also by signed for him. He precipitated himself, young gentlemen set about the work, and in our manner of riding. Some of our young they say, from this perpendicular wall, tohalt an hour, they had sketched with a good officers took their first lesson in horseman- gether with all his warriors who had escaped degree of accuracy, the portraits ofthe King ship on this day, and nt the end of half an the weapons of the enemy. It is said that and Princesses. On their examining the por- hour or more, their movements were no more Kamehameha stationed a guard behind his traits, each ofthe women appeared only half easy than at the moment of their starting.— troops, that all hope of escaping death by satisfied with her own portrait; but each On the contrary, all the natives who accom- flight being taken away, his soldiers might laughed heartily on viewing those of her sis- panied us, were excellent equestrians. The fight with greater courage. ters. The interview ended by a promise servants of the King, mounted on horses From the top of the Pali we saw the prefrom the King to visit the Bonite on the without saddles, brought up the rear. They l>arations for our dinner. The inhabitants of reminded me, by their steadiness and even the valley were scrambling up the foot path morrow. On the 11th, he came on board, accompa- by their graceful attitudes, of those Roman that winds along the side of the mountain, nied by Kinau and many officers. He was knights we have seen upon ancient engra- bearing on their heads the provisions which the King's attendants had demanded ofeach in full Windsor costume, with white plumes vings. Thus we proceeded six or seven miles in one; for, at the Sandwich Islands, the king in his hat. This suit of clothes was a present from George IV. It was not without fear, ithe midst of a green valley, shut in between is absolute master ofthe fortunes of his subas we were informed, that he came on board itwo mountains, which seem to have been jects. A roof covered with leaves, had been the French corvette. He also apprehended once joined together, so much analogy and raised during the night. Green ferns were at one time while on board, that some vio- resemblance was there between the opposite spread on the ground, then a cloth, and uplence would be inflicted on him in order to irregularities. On our right was a river, or on this cloth were arranged European botobtain reparation for the act which I have rather a torrent. Concealed for the most tles, plates, etc. All this show of civilizaalready mentioned. This information was part from our eyes, we occasionally saw its tion did not please me, I acknowledge; it probably false; at any rate, the distinguish-!silver cascades leaping from the black lava was too much like a dinner of our good citiEd reception which he received on board the rocks. We could judge of the fertility of zens of Paris upon the greensward of MontBonite, must needswave allayed his fears, it ithe valley, from the rich plantations of taro morency. I should have preferred the old indeed he had experienced any. He wished on all sides of us. This root, less farinace- Hawaiian manner. But it was necessary to to fee »ve>ry thing in detail and requested to ous than the potato, must be exceedingly pro- be satisfied with what we had. I noticed witness the cannon and musket exercise— ductive; for a little spot not more than five that the porcelain was of English manufacbut what amused him most, was the staff ex- rods square, us 1 was informed, would sus- ture, and the table cloth was American.— ercise, in which many of our sailors were tain the year round, a family or seven or eight These two nations, have in reality, invaded adepts. persons. On our right and left were scat- the whole commerce of America and India. tered cabins, from the doors of which peered Dinner was announced, and we all reclined what we could Kauikeaouli's tastes, from observe, are altogether martial. He is some- forth the brown faces of the owners. A dense upon the ferns. At the King's order the what acquainted with naval matters, snd herbage covered the uncultivated parts of luau was served up. A gastronomic feast is pointed out the difference between the rigging the valley, and the mountains seemed to be called luau at the Sandwich Islands. It takes ofthe corvette and that of other ships, which covered with the kukins, the silver foliage of its name from an indispensable dish of young he had seen. He often makes excursions to which contrasted finely with the dark rocks taro leaves boiled, or cooked in fat. In an instant, the cloth was covered with young the neighboring islands in his brig, the Hen- from the midst of which it sprung. rietta,' and he managed her, in part, him- At length we reached the end of our ex- pigs, fowls, fish, sweet potatoes, luau, etc.— , , , ,, ' — �27 THE FRIEND, APRIL 1, 1850. Jeffreys all these having been enveloped in leaves and ' Pray morning, noon and night to be strong Death of the Arch-deucon of Bombay. cooked in the earth by means ofred hot stones. against the temptation. We were all pleased with the excellent relish ' It is the system of 'Well, one glass more,' We regret to see announced the death of of what was spread before us. The fiah es- which breaks a man down. this distinguished advocate ofthe temperance pecially, cooked in taro leaves, was delicious, ' Beer or wine makes a man heavy, bilious, cause in India. He had spent over thirty and we were all constrained to acknowledge bod tempered, violent, and. next day, feeble. years in India, but at the time of his death that we had never eaten any thing so good. ' Remember the happy lightsoineness of a drinker. water by the cholera, was on a visit to England.— We hud One thing only seemed wanting. anticipated being regaled with the flesh of ' 1 fail because 1 am not firm to resist temp- He died at Exeter, Oct. 9. Only four days the dog, but we were disappointed. The mis- tation. Also, because I try myself and run previous to his death, he addressed a large sionaries probably, have forbidden the use of into danger. meeting in London, on the subject of tempethis viand. One of my neighbors, however; ' Let me not forget my dreadful feelings two or three rance. In portraying the destructive and inwhispered in my ear his suspicions that one (delirium tremens,) after taking water, and never'jurious influence ofthe drinking practices df of ale. only Drink pints ofthe pigs lying before us without n head beWhen longed to a nobler genus. It is said that the exceed of beer one pint or one glass. ■ Englishmen in India, he employs the followflesh of these dogs, which are exclusively fed I fail, it is by thoughtlessness and want of ing language: I on fish and poi, is exactly like that of pigs. firmness, also by an opinion that can bear Besides, the natives do not eat every species a good deal of beer. The health, temper and " For one really converted christian as a ofthe dog, one only having been set apart character of a beer drinker are undermined. fruit of the missionary labor, the drinking for this purpose, and this was the terrier spe- One should never exceed a pint of beer a day. practices ofthe English had made one thoucies, with a long nose, short hair and short lam better on water. I never was so happy sand drunkards ! This was a sad thought— as on water. Take plenty of exercise in the but it was the solemn truth. If the Engears. lish were driven out of India to-morrow, the The serving was performed with a good open air, and live on water. suf-. dreadful chief trace of their having been there would my have to remember I only waiters surof skill. crowd of A degree ' much the after so be the number of tbe drunkards they left betaking ferings mornings rounded us; some clad in pantaloons and vests, and others wealing the cool and com- beer or wine. Low suicidal feelings, des- hind." Although the evils of intemperance are so modious livery of the country. 1 noticed pondent and gloomy thoughts, pulse one hunthat always before serving up a dish, they dred to one hundred and twenty, head dizzy, wide spread, yet the advocates of total abstipains about the heart, flatopened the leaves which enveloped it, and limbs tremulous, eructations, and ulence incapacity for duty of nence principles, are frequently, denountaste it.— look a morsel with their fingers, to and overbearing, ced as narrow minded fanatics, and that by irritable I was informed that this was the practice at any kind, temper the King's table, and that nothing was served expensive habits, loss of time, forgetfulness some who even profess to be christians.— up there without having been tasted by the of engagements, every thing in disorder— How it is possible for any person professing and all for what ? Because I choose lo take servants. to have the least spark of christian principle two pints of ale or a bottle of wine .'" in his soul, not to be in the fullest and most Mr. Ereichsen, a surgeon, who examined sense a teetotaler, is beyond the head of the deceased, testified that the thorough-going Wine and Beer Drinkers Beware! arachnoid was in that morbid condition often our powers of reasoning ! We can readily Many in the community denounce the low found in persons of intemperate habits, and perceive why the pleasure and wine-loving and vulgar practices ofthe toper, and would which leads to irritability and despondency gentry, the low-minded and besotted frequeadespise the habits of the spirit drinker, yet of mind. He died in his bed, with an open ers ofthe dram-shop, and the lovers of mammaintain that wine and beer drinking are bible in his hand, which the servant testified mon, should adhere to the drinking practices harmless, and on no account should be ban- he was much in the habit of reading. The of society. But to repeat the idea, we canished from fashionable society. We earn- servants had noticed for a month the strange- not conceive it possible for a real christian to estly entreat such reasoners and all addicted ness ot his appearance, irritable temper, oc- be any thing else than a firm and decided to the practice of wine and beer drinking, to casional staggering, expensive habits, for- advocate of teetotalism. read and ponder the following statement of getfulness, low spirits, etc. "I Inherited the Appetite-I cannot facts respecting one of their number. Late If drunkenness was confined to the ignorefrain."—A few days Bince a most affectEnglish papers contain accounts ofthe death rant, debased and vulgar classes of society, ing instance of death by Delirium Tremens by suicide, of Dr. Thomas Morton, in Lon- it would be some alleviation to the sickening -1 was related in our hearing. The unhappy 1 don, on the Ist. of November last. He held picture of truth, but alas, intemperance en- man, belonged to one of the most wealthy ■ Colthe offices of Surgeon to the University ters the circles of fashion, learning, science, and respectable families in the State ofNew. lege Hospital and Surgeon to the Queen's literature, and even of professed piety. How York. Among the crowd rushing to CaliBeach Prison, and was widely known and melancholly a feeling of sadness doesthe an- fornia came , amply supplied with highly esteemed as a man of superior intel- nouncement excite in the minds of all true funds to enter upon business. Before leavlect, benevolence and honor. His home was lovers of poetry, that the gifted Americani ing home, he had made the most solemn graced with an estimable wife and child, his poet, Edgar A. Poe, (the author ol that re- pnomises that he would not drink intoxicating pecuniary circumstances were easy, and his markable poem The Raven,') should have liquors; but alas, the temptation proved to professional prospects all that he desired.— died of delirium' tietnens !" Almost every stiong. Friends remonstrated, and every " But the disclosures at the coroner's inquest ■rale wafts to our ears the tidings that some thing was done to induce him to refrain, bet left no room to doubt that he had become a if nature's most gifted sons have fallen vic- his reply was, " / inherited the appetikv-^l slave to private intemperance, and that the tims to intemperance. Reports, but too true, cannot." He then referred to several *jear mortification arising from the consciousness have already reached these far off Islands of relatives who had been carried off by the ofthis fact, had driven him to temporary mad- the Pacific, that some of the most talented Delirium Tremens. How wretched and misness and suicide. Among the documents sub- men in England and America are allowing erable an inheritance are those parents, ini mitted, was a kind of diary of rules and re- habits of intemperance to obscure the lustre dulging in the use of strong drink, in danger flections on this subject, which he had penned and splendor oftheir intellectual powers. Theiof leaving to their children! at various times during tbe last four or five world shudders at the murder ofDr.r*arltaiian, British vessels are now admitted to all months. The following are extracts: but the victims of rum-sellers are a hundred the | ports of Sweden dc ebe seme footing as to one more numerous than those consigned ' Shun wine, beer and spirits. arts. Swedish vessels. the murderer's by to the untimely grave To drink little or no beer or wine. ' FRIEND OF TEMPERANCE. ' '" ' i ■ 1 ' -1 ' �28 THE FRIEND, APRIL 1, 1850. THK FRIEND. ly. We have perhaps in New England never |r_j>- From ship Caroline, at Hilo, abhud a more horrid tragedy. Such scenes sconded, 2nd mate, Mr. Dow, his brothv-r HONOLULU, APRIL 1, 1850 are dark spots on our sun. John Dow, boal-steerer, carpenter, blackYours, truly. J. S. smith, and Francis Sawyer, seaman. They took a boat, provisions, quadrant, watch, &c. A New York correspondent writes as folThey are supposed to have left for ElDorado. MARINE lows, tinder date of BRBeromthaikgsb-lAEscape. While the whale ship, "Philip 1st," In the early part of the month of February, New York, Jan. 15, 1850. iCspt. Woodruff, was recruiting nt the MiitNews from Ihe West and East have made this vessel after completing n valuable cargo, [quesus Islands, a boat's crew left, taking a the last 48 hours lively enough. From Cali- at the Islands, sailed lor San Francisco. On boat. After the ship It-It, the unlives rubbed fornia, more than half a million of dol- the morning of Feb. 18, she was discovered them of their boat and clothing, leaving them lars in gold dust, the mines inexhnustable, to be on tire, in the hold. During fourteen destitute on the bench. The Msrquesan*, and more coming ! A Slste Government or- days the fire raged, but by the persevering have, doubtless, laid aside the mildness and ganized, and officers elected ! Her com- efforts of all hands, it was extinguished four innocence of their natures, since tbe visit of mercial influence and dc3liny already per- days before reaching port. Holes were cut Melville among the dwellers in the Types pieaing the civilized world ! What is she to in the deck, and water poured in, but the Valley. Be, Snd do socially, Commercially, politically, heat at limes was so great that it was imposThe English Missionary bark "Joha ißbrally, who can tell ? The Pacific whal- sible to think of going into the cabin, or of late in the autumn of '49, left Williams," going below, at all. During the period that ing fleet, never did better. for England. During the last two or three From Europe latest dates Dec. 29; Liver- the fire raged, the wind blew a gale, that she has been occupied in visiting all years pool, cotton risen one farthing per pound in alone threatened the destruction ofthe vessel. the stations in the Sooth English Missionary a few days. Corn and wheat improved in To add to the alarm, the powder was stowed under the of the "London Pacific, patronage jMfces. American securities firm ; money in some unknown place, and serious fears Society." M. pnMfty; business good ; commercial accounts were entertained that they might by suddenThe Royal Yacht "Wanderer," on ■TOn India cheering, and Ihe prospects of a ly blown up. It was finally discovered that .■»# year encouraging. her passnge from Tahiti, when upproaching fire approached within about two inches of Tire question of the severance of Canada the powder. The fire being extinguished, Hawaii, picked up twelve natives, who were rrtJm the mother country is gravel) discussed it was entirely destroyed and the vessel much drifting about at the merry of tha winds and Cabinet, the nnd the avowal is In distinctly injured. We copy the following remarks waves. In a short time they would all have Blade that England would be no looser, but from a narrative of ihe disaster published in perished, their means of sustaining life were utmost exhausted. Ut st-tusl gainer, were the Canadians to car- the Polynesian of March IG. their secession threats into execution. tf To much credit cannot be given to Capt The American bark "Maria," now Atsfria is in trouble from the civil rebel- Soule tor bis untiring watchfulness and vigi- lying in port, is 14 mouths old, and has made lance during tbe whole time of the disaster. the following sHMt of | SO,(MM, of her best troops. passages : Russia has also aristocratic troubles of her Also much praise is due to the crew for their From Baltimore to London, 10 days. and promptness in the discharge •was, and is sharpening her teeth for a bite faithfulness of their duty. to Cadez, 17 " London " Turkey. After baffling about four days, we finally Cadez to (Gibraltar, 12 hours. " arrived safely at Honolulu. As yet we have France is sunny or cloudy just as the sun Gibraltar to Cadez, 12 " " C.de not been able to discover the cause of the happens to rise. Verdto Rio Janeiro, lSdays. " tire. The Pope has not yet returned to Rome, The following is a list of the persons who •' R. J. lo New Orleans, 38 having fish to fry elsewhere ; and when he were on board the brig Brothers : " N.O. to Philadelphia, 14 dees come, if ever, be will find any thing Mitstet—Cornelius C. Soule. to San Francisco, 126 " " Phila. but a blind and stupid subserviency to his Mate—Richard Lloyd. S. F. lo Honolulu, 10 " Crew—Lemuel Burton, Arthur Bradlel, " spiritual despotism. 'William Taylor, William Bailey, Edwin Her passage from the coast to Honolulu, Vtsited Slates. —A commercial review nf Merrill, Thomas Thompsnn—George Evans, Is believed to be the quickest on record. the pant year shows a great gain in most of steward, and MM Hawniians. The Brig "Tuscar".—This vessel bound she industrial pursuits, and a very desirable Supercargo—David N. Hawley. to San Francisco, with a cargo of lumber, N. S. G. Passengers— Bailey, W. WheelatJMiility in most of the governmental and pri- er, J. R. Williams, and Mrs. G. Evans. was dismasted on the 22d of February, and •ele business operations. Congress and utter erecting jury-mast steered her course several Stale Legislatures are now in sesLess of the "S eculateur." for this port, where she arrived on the Mtfc sion. With many eddies and counter-cur- This schooner, of 40 tons, left Tahiti, for ult. The principal part of her cargo has Itnts, the great stream nf social and mora! California, August 13th, on the Bth day at been sold at auction. rsioroveiii. Nt it onward. In our headlong sea a gale threw her upon her beam " heate to get lioh, our principal danger is that ends." The wreck was abandoned—the The long louked for clipper bark we ahull neglect G»d, and fniget that then mats were lashed together, to which on outWin. H. Shalt i" arrived on the 30th of " is n'ltinrc.ltHiidi/.e better than tbe merchaudizi igger whs attached. After navigating (he March, having experienced a variety of dism silver. Cases ef daring crime iucreusi iiroad ocean for twcnly-six days, in this peri- asters. She was obliged to put into Montewith the great increase of our imputation ; «>us situation, they succeeded in reaching video for repairs. On her passage through tbe most pr niinont now before the public ih 'he Navigator Istonds 4il tsSfety. A son of >he Straits of Magellan, she picked up SheanVgi d murder of Dr. Pat kins n by Prof 'he Engiinti"MiBsiiiniiry Enrff, of Huahine, ihe crew, (ten in number)of the American Webster. Popular sentiment pronounces vas a passenger on board, and he publishes schooner "Andes," belongiig to New Lon his* guilty, in keen and awful tones. Very a detailed account of the disaster, in tin lon, Ct., and landed them at Valparaiso. soon a snter tribunal, a court nf justice, will -amonn Reporlt of November r, 1819. Ni Hie Wm. H. Shaler touched at Tahiti, oe speak, sad itstoues will vibrate most fearful- ures were lost. ■ter passage hither. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. « INTELLIGENCE. �THE FRIEND, APRIL 1, 1860. 29 "The Coffin to be Carried by Sailors." AmericanAnnexation of the sandwich t.to extend a cordial welcome. Why linger Islands—an old story. The above sentence, is a part of ihe dying iamid the fashionable circles that grace the While hearing and reading so much about! saloons of New York, or cling to the refined commands or directions of Her Majesty ihe late Q,ueen Dowager of England, who de- American annexation, we have been snnie- habits of the Athens of America ! No, emparted this life on the morning oT Ihe 2nd of what surprized to find that it is only the old bark for the Marquesaa Isles, where December, 1849, at Stnnmore Priory. We slory of thirty years' standing. In the very " with lavish kindness The gift* cjf tjtxl an- strewn " suppose her Majesty was pleased thus to hon- first communication sent by the American but where there are no Bibles, no Sabbaths, or British sailors, from the fact that her hus- Missionaries to their patrons in the United no Sanctuaries, nothing, to remind one band, His Majesty William IV, was connect- States, it is the topic of remark. Recently that Jesus Christ came to seek ahd to save ed with the Rovul Navy, ami rose from the our attention was arrested in glancing over that which was lost ! This is not quite true rank of Midshipiuiii to that ofthe Lord High an old volume of the Missionary Herald of —Capt. Woodruff, just from those islands, Admiral. From various accounts, we are led 1821, which contains the first reports of the informs us that one solitary Catholic priest to infer that Q.ueen Adelaide, was most high- missionaries. It appears that a part of the is there engaged in the duties of his calling. ly esteemed for her private virtues nnd duly missionaries desired to settle on Hawaii, and This man is indeed a reproof to the Proteschristian-like characteristics. She was the the remainder proceed to Oahu, or Honolulu. tant world, for missionaries of the London liberal patron of many benevolent and The following paragraph we quote from Missionary Society, and missionaries of ths charitable institutions. This is her dying page 118: American Board, have both attempted to plant avowal, I shall die in pence with the world, " The King said (to the missionaries,) you the standard of the Cross on those islands, to go to Woahoo, because provisions are full of gratitude for all tbe kindness that wa* wish so there; all the white, men wish to and have abandoned the enterprize. We ever shown to me, and in full reliance on the liveplenty Wnsjhoo—intimating in at the same time, are ready to ask the friends of Mission* why mercy of our Savior Jesus Christ, into whose that he feared the Americans intended to get that group should be thus abandoned ? Why hands, I commit my soul." She left direc- possession of the Island. It is said that some should the powers of darkness be there sufAmerican seamen—perhaps in fered tions that her funeral should take place, in as inconsiderate to hold universal sway ? Has not the the independent spirit nf patriotism which oftShe 1 says, manner as a possible. private " en breathes itself out in high sounding words mantle ofthe martyred Williams fallen upon particularly desire not to be Inid out in state, —have told this too credulous people that some noble headed lover of the perishing and the funeral to take place by day light ; America would take these islands, and it is heathen, who will ere long hasten to preach no procession ; the coffin to be carried by believed that some Euglish residents have in- the glad tidings of the Gospel among the cansinuated and maintained the same thing." sailors to the Chapel." nibals of Marquesas ? For the honor of out It is somewhat interesting and instructive common Christianity, and the credit of the California.—The rush, to that part of to read these old documents. What may lie modern missionary enterprize, we hope the the world, Hows in unabated. One hundred concealed in the undiscovered future,we know day is not far distant when a manly and powsnd eight vessels, are reported to have left not, but of this one truth we are fully confi- erful effort will be made to introduce the gosthe Atlantic Stales, for San Francisco, dur- dent, that had it not been for that very influthe aborigines of the Marquesaa pel among ing the month of December. We have re- ence, which thirty years ago, King Rihoriho Islands. Capt. Woodruff reports that Ihe king ceived San Francisco papers to the 2nd of seemed so much to dread, his brother, Kaui- of one ofthe Islands, expressed the March, but discover no special items of news. keaouli, would not at the present time, hold wish that a missionary might be sent earnest among Steamboats are rapidly increasing on the bay the sceptre and wear the crown of an indehis subjects. and its tributary rivers, the San Joaquin and pendent sovereign among the nations of the We would invite the reader's attenSacramento. The rage is for new cities. earth. tion to the successive articles which appear The mines continue to yield the usual amount Twilight Musings. on the first page of our paper, being faithful of gold, and no sign of being exhausted. There arc not a lew here and elsewhere The freshet and overflowings of the numer- who and elegant translations by the Rev, Mr. question whether Missionaries have done ous streams and rivers, are reported to in- any good by going to different parts of Poly- Dole. Our readers are doubtless familiar, crease tire amount of gold in the "diggings." nesia. It is not our purpose, at present, to perhaps wearied with the publications of English and American tourists and Voyagers The incipient steps have been taken for a reason these opinions out of Iheir minds. Coloma, to or in the Pacific, but it is seldom that the from Sacramento city raidroad Any attempt on our part would doubtless be Frenchman's "impressions about 40 miles. the Mills, tf scenes tthH vain, but we have an inquiry to make—Why scenery," find Iheir way before the English Oregon.—The Oregonians living on the do not our anti-missionary friends pass by M. Adolph Barrot appears to have reader. Willamette river, have experienced much in- those parts of Polynesia where missions are been a careful observer, and although his jury, by a high freshet, which occurred in established, and direct their course to the views and sentiments, in some points, may December. The water rose on the Willa- Eejecan or Marquesan groups ? We would somewhat differ from those usually dissemimette, aud tributaries so high as to sweep especially recommend their settlement, with nated through -the columns of this journal, away diiulsand mills. At Oregon city several their families, among the Marquesans—the still we are, by no means, disinclined lo read houses and stores were carried ofT or dam- true sons of nature—Melville's happy Typee- what he may have to offer. Many even, of ans ! We have lately met vo\ agers from the aged. our ulira-Missionsry readers, we are confiMarquesan group, who describe the present dent will sympathise with us in these sentiDecember 30th, the French vessel, condition of things as by no means tinctured ments. L'Albert was wrecked at Tulnti. The pilot with the sombre coloring of Protestant misMr. G. C. Miler, who has been for sionary influence. We would earnestly reand crew narrowly escaped. some time acting as Brtii-h Consul Mt Tahiti, commend the dashing Melville, who has The brig "Brothers" sold at auction, such laurels among the literati ofthe old and bus been coiniiiissiiiueil, as Consul, to ramie at that l-l mil. La Honolulu, March, for $3,575. new w old, to take a trip with his young bride CO" It is reported that the British Ministry the will propose to Parliament at its present sessioa, Three unsuccessful attempts have to scenes of earlier days—it may be, beach would stand the upon the reduction ofthe army. gentle Fayaway been made to sell the Chiliau brig Copiapo. " — won' �THE 30 FRIEnB* APRIL!, 1850. . — Law and Politics. description of its quiet retirement from the world's " noise,lties, American History, hours' I noticed all Ihe volumes of Parliamentary within two yet confusion," and and Mr. Webster's farm is somewhat lengthy, access of the great eastern mart of trade!,Debates, copy of the English Statutes fit yet we are confident our American readers and commerce—all this, with many other at-jl large, volumes of tbe English Annual Regwill peruse it with much interest. It cer- tractive beauties and advantages of improve-.iister from its commencement in 1759, all the Entainly is highly creditable to America's ment and location, render the farm and home English political writers ofin distinction, all languages, as a whole, the most tcyclopedias, Dictionaries Webster, of Daniel statesman, that he oratoc and greatest living desirable, delightful and valuable estate and '&c, i TheSec.mansion house, which I have said should be also one of her best farmers. residence in the country. The same was equally true of the immortal The first purchase of Mr. Webster made was a large and imposing structure, is paintWashington. America has rarely produced some twelve or fifteen years ago, consisted ted while, with a piuzza quite around it, and his iis finished and furnished tastefully and subpractical farmers to equal " the Father of of only two hundred acres, including and enlarged mansion house—since present istantially, combining great comfort and elehis country." improved. Subsequently, and from year to | gance. DANIEL WEBSTER'S FARM. he added to his acres by purchasing Another prominent object which belongs > year, Revere House, the adjoining farms, until his estate now ex-lto the mansion house, or rather villa, I have Boston, July 24, 1649. J ceeds fifteen hundred acres, including the iomitted to mention—it is a venerable and There is a portion of the Commonwealth lands and venerable residence of Governorimajestic elm about eighty years old, standof Massachusetts, which juts out into she Winslow, of colonial notoriety. The ex-i ing so near the house that some of its ocean, not unlike a boot in shape, as deline- tensive marshes or salt meadows, with theirIbranches rest upon the roof. Its sbope is ated on the maps. This poation of the "Old beautiful islands of shrubbery, resemble ]perfectly symmetrical, and its huge outBay State" has enduring historical associa- most strikingly in appearance and beauty, istretching branches (the extremities reachtions—a celebrity as broadcast as the uni- |the rolling prairies of the West, with their ing the ground) form a beautiful and circular versality of the Yankee nation; for it was; islands of timber. Upon the fuma also is a iarbor. The mojestic proportions of this elm, upon this spot that the puritanical seed was prominent elevation, from which an exten- iand the beauty and spaciousnesss of the ar, first sown, and although a dry and sandy sive view is had of the ocean, and the sur- Ibor, formed by the over hanging branchessoil, it took root, and produced, and is pro- 'rounding country, including Plymouth, Dux- imay be appreciated by stating that the diamducing an abundant harvest of hardy, ener- (bury, Marshfield, Btc. On this elevation, Mr. eter of this arbor is exactly ninety feet.— getic, enterprising Yankees. Here are Webster has erected a liberty pole, from Such are some of the prominent objects Barnstable, Plymouth, Duxbury, Marshfield, the top of which the stripes and stars can be iand things of interest in, and immediately Cape Cod, and Plymouth Rock —places and seen, proudly waving, from a great distance icontiguous to, the mansion house. I will mention a few things noticeable localities notable in American history, as at sea, and from several miles inland. the first landing-place of our Puritan proThe mansion house is a large, comfortable,elsewhere on the farm. I saw eight capagenitors, and as the dwelling places of those and imposing wooden structure—situated on|cious barns, tilled to repletion with the hay heroic men and women who planted, nur- an elevation as regards the lands towards the! and grain already harvested. A short distured and defended the American Liberty sea, but in a lovely semi-circular valley as tance from the mansion are the farm house Tree. regards the lands towards the west. A cir- 'for the workmen, and the barns, sheds, staWithin the limits of this "first settlement" cular avenue, lined with well trimmed hedg- bles, Stc, for the stock. There are stables for and within a few miles of Plymouth Rock, es and ornamental trees, leads to the house;' the oxen and stables for the cows—extensive in the midst of this " peculiar people," are in front is an extensive lawn, adorned with sheds to protect the young cattle from the the farm and home of Daniel Webster. flower beds, clusters of evergreens, shrubs' frosts of winter—hog houses and pig pens, As there is no American citizen now liv- and forest trees. In close proximity are two[with the most comfortable apartments, and ing, who has contributed more largely to the beautiful lakes or ponds, only a few rods every convenience and facility for preparing imperishable glory and distinction of our apart, the one fresh nnd the other salt water, 'the feed. The floors of the stables are country—no one whose intellectual superi- where may be seen useful and ornamental moveable plank, beneath which, every fall, ority is so universally acknowledged at waterfowls of all sorts and sizes. The gar-|is deposited large quantities of " muck " or home and abroad—whose name and fame den, consisting of several acres, is highly;[loam, which is removed in the spring, maare destined to be pre-eminent and enduring, and tastefully cultivated, producing every king the richest manure for dressing land. Mr. Webster has ihe best blooded cattle so long and wherever constitutional liberty variety of fruits and vegetables in abundexists —whose forensic, senatorial and popu- ance. in New England. His milch cows are mostly lar speeches and orations will be read and The carriage houses, stables, barns and of the Ayrshire breed, regarding them as a admired as long as and wherever the Eng- sheds appertaining to the mansion house, are: race of good milkers, healthy and hardy, lish language is read and spoken—l have substantially built und finished off with more enduring the New England winters, and livsupposed a brief description of the home of conveniences and appropriateness than any, ing nnd thriving on pastures none of the Daniel Webster would be acceptable to your buildings of the kind I have before seen.— best. He has theAlderney breed, often calreaders particularly, and to the public gen- The chickery is very large, filled with every led the cottage cow, in England, admirable erally. variety of domestic fowls, having " elegant.'for quantity and quality of milk, but are tenThe farm and dwelling-place of Mr. Web- apartments" suited to their habits and the'der and require great care and good living. ster, is situate in the south-east part of the climate. 'He thinks the Ayrshire and selections from town of Mnrshfield, bounded on the east by Attached to the mansion house, and com- native stock a good cross, of which I saw the ocean, and contains over fifteen hundred municating with it, is the library of singular beautiful specimens. He has a cow of the acres of land. A goodly portion of this fif- architectural beuuty, filled with statuary, mixed breed, which this year and the last, teen hundred, acres is " light poor land," paintings, and one of the most extensive co\- in the heighth of the season, gave fifty two 1 naturally, but made productive by frequentI lections of books that can be found in any' pounds of milk per day, equal to twenty six and expensive manuring; another goodly private library in Ihe Union. The office is:ijquarts—she is milked three times daily. • portion is marsh land, producing excellent in tbe garden, quite concealed amidst locust, His farm is principally cultivated by oxen, grass; another portion is woodland, native catalpa, chestnut, and willow trees and flow- and for this use he regards nothing equal to and pleated; and still another portion isi ering shrubs—here his splendid law library,! jthe Devonshire, or, what is much the same, very fine land, having a rich soil and pro- i■Congressional document*, &.c., me deposi-j■the New England breed. He says the finest ducing abundantly. As a whole, this farm, ted and awiiipinsticiilly arranged. In speok- ■ working oxen are the dark red, found in in location, variety of soil and surface, beau- ing of huWibrary, MP. Webster remarked. Worcester county, Massachusetts, and Conty of landscape, its superior condition in ag- "I only wonder how I found money to pur- necticut. ricultural improvements, buildings, fences, chase so many books." He has a large His hogs are ofthe best breed, and he has and general husbandry—its splendid pros- number of octuvo volumes of English Re- a male of the Mackay breed, nineteen years pects o'er sea and land"—its daily invigo- ports that cost twelve dollars a volume. Tbe old. This breed is close and square built, ■ rating "and rejuvenating ocean breezes—its i general character of his library is History, small beads and short noses, fatten well and cod-fishing, brook trouting, and game hunt- Classical Books, Standard books in poetry make excellent pork. Of this breed he furing—its tortuous, undulatidg foot and bridle- and prose, Miscellaneous Literature, Trea- nishes largely every year, to New York, paths, and extended grave) carriage roads— tises on Public Law, Collections of Trea- ■ Vermont and Massachusetts. I saw ten pigs |0» Although the following — i i ' • • • ' �THE FRIEND, APRIL 1, 1860ot this breed, and of the same litter, that with the home of Daniel Webster; but to be 31 consecrating services the ministers of the will now average 200 pounds each, and will appreciated in all their beauty and Worth, various denominations in the city participaaverage this fall, he says, not less than 400 they must be visited and seen. It is cer- ted. The sermon was by the pastor, Rev. tainly a matter of extreme gratification to T. Dwight Hunt—his subject—"The gloripounds each. He has large fields of corn, potatoes, tur- his friend* and admirers, ( and who does not ous gospel of the blessed God." And warmnips, beets, beans and grain; his corn and admire his pre-eminent abilities, and feel ly and eloquently did he advocate its claims, potatoe fields the finest, by far, 1 have seen grateful for his great nnd invaluable public not merely as the only way of salvation, but this year. He has a potatoe field of twelve services?) to find him surrounded with all as the great moral lever of civilization by acres, from which he expects to take 2000 the comforts and substantial elegancies so which only the nations of the earth are to be lifted from their deep degradation. Mr. bushels for market, that will realize to him litting his age, his position and his worth. two thousand dollars He has a field of Mr. Webster has but one child living— Hunt is an interesting speaker, and an elecorn of about twenty Rcres, manured en- Mr. Fletcher Webster—who has n very tine gant writer, and we anticipate for the First tirely with kelp, which is very stout nnd country residence, overlooking the sea, ad- Congregational Church under his charge, promising. Kelp is a sub-marine weed, joining his father's estate, and about one mile the fullest measure of success.—[Pacific which is thrown upon the sea beach in win- distant from the mansion house. A daugh- News. rows during the upheaving ol the ocean.— ter and son, Mrs. Appleton and Captain EdThis is gathered ami spread upon the land, ward Webster, died within the past year; Aristocracy and Democracy in Engmaking an excellent manure. Large quan- and I cannot refrain mentioning an affecting land. —The aristocracy of England is constantly receiving members from the people, tities of fish were also taken from the sea incident in this connexion nnd conclusion. and spread upon the land for manure. Having spent the day in riding and walk- and constantly sending down members to It is thus by continuous hard labor, and ing over the farm, we returned to dinner; mingle with the people. The yeoman is not the practical application of the most thor- and just as we were entering the house, Mr. inclined to murmur at dignities to which his ough knowledge of farming, that Mr. Web- Webster remarked that there was one thing own children may rise. The grandee is not ster has made his extensive estate produc- more he desired to show me. I followed on inclined to insult a class into which his own tive. His whole farm is in admirable con- the pinzza to the front of the house ; he children must descend. dition, fences durable, and in excellent re- there pointed to two beautiful trees, the earth Thus our democracy is the most aristopair—no weeds, bushes, briers nor thistles, around their roots yet fresh. " There," cratic, and our aristocracy the most demoanywhere visible—his gates, roads, barns, said he, " are two weeping elms—l call them cratic in the world; a peculiarity which has sheds, &c, in perfect order and repair—a Brother and Sister." The tears gushed from produced many important moral and political place for everything and everything in its his eyes, and without another word, he sud- effects.—[Macaulay. place—and all under the personal direction denly left me. I required no explanation, and supervision of Mr. Webster himself.— for 1 had known the brother and sister.—OtMissionaries to Foreign Ports.—Mr. J He is emphatically the farmer of Marshfield sego.—[Cor. of the Cm. Guz. C. Knafp, a recent graduate of the Princethe farmer of New England. ton Theological Seminary,was ordained a few That which Mr. Webster seemed to reGen. Washington's Farm.—The farm days since, by the New Brunswick Presbygard with the greatest pride and satisfaction, of Gen. Washington, on Mount Vernon, tery, as a Missionary of the American Prowas his planted forests. He has now grow- contained about fifteen square miles. It testant Union to Valparaiso. Ihe services ing over one hundred thousand forest trees, was divided into farms of convenient size, were conducted by Rev. Drs. Baird, D. Y. which he has raised himself, mostly from at the distance of two, three, and five miles McLean and A. Alexander.—Am. paper. the seed. A beautiful forest of many acres, from his mansion house. These farms he covering a gentle elevation, in view from his visited every day in pleasant weather, nnd The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Envoy Exhouse, is from his own planting; and another was constantly engaged in making experi- traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary wide belt of forest trees of various kinds, ments for the improvement of agriculture. from the United States, had an audience of extending half a mile, to protect his mansion Some idea of the extent of bis farming ope- her Majesty at Windsor Castle, on Saturday from the cold north-east winds, is also of his rations may be formed from the following the 29th of October, to deliverhis credentials. planting. There are oaks, pines, horse- facts: chestnuts, chestnuts, catalpas, locusts, elms, In 1787, he had 580 acres in grass; sowed New Bedford Oil Market, Jan. 7, 1850.— sassafras, and trees from the west and south- 600 bushels of oats; 600 acres with wheat, Sperm—The market continues very firm, with a west, such as white oak, buck-eye, Ameri- and as much more barley, corn, potatoes, demand fully equal to the supply,and prices have « can lime, red-bud, &c. His repeated efforts beans, peas, &.c, and one hundred and fifty further advanced. The sales since our last emof 1360 bids, understood to be upto raise live oaks, have entirely failed. with turnips. His stock consisted of one brace a cargo of 118 cts. per gallon, and yesterday a parMr. Webster's uniform habit is to rise at hundred and forty horses, one hundred and ward cel of 1200 bbls. at 119 cts. 4 o'clock in the morning—attend to his cor- twelve cows, two hundred and thirty six Whale—ls more quiet, and we have only to at 8 o'clock, working oxen, heifers and steers, and five report a sale of 300 bbls. handsome N.VV.Coast respondence, &c.—breakfast then ride and walk over his extensive farm, hundred sheep. He constantly employed at 48 cts. direct and superintend the work—dine at I two hundred and fifty hands, and kept twen- Whalebode—We hearof no transsctiom in New York sales were mads on o'clock, and then devote himself to the en- ty four ploughs going during the whole this market. In of 10,000 lbs. N.W.Coast tertainment of his family and friends until year, when the earth and the state of the New Bedford account at 35 cts. and 6000 lb*. Polar at 38, cash. at which and hour, about 10 o'clock, gene- weather would permit. In 1786, he slaughrally earlier, he retires. He is very fond of tered one hundred and fifty hogs, for the use Department of Foreign Relations, hunting and fishing, nnd has an abundant of his family, and provisions for his negroes, ) Honolulu, 20th March, 1850. supply of fast sailing barges, boats, cod-fish for whose comfort he has great regard. Be it knows to all whom it may concern that the Commission of Elisha H. Allen, Esq., lines, trout-rods and appurtenances, guns, dogs, &a; and in these manly and healthy Fifth House of Worship in San Fran- from the President or the United State*, bavin; been presented to this Department, and sports, he freely indulges. cisco.—We congratulate our Reverend found to be in due form, he the said Elisha H. Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, has Ai.len, Eae.., is hereby acknowledged by order New Hampshire, January 18, 1782, and is, Brother, Mr. Hunt, in the success which of His Majesty, as Consul ofthe United States, of a Conof course, now in the sixty eighth year of attended his efforts for the erection for the Hawaiian Islands; and all his official his age; yet he has the physical strength and gregntionnl Meeting House in San Francis- nets as such, are ordered to receive full faith and activity of most mm at the age of fifty. In- co. We copy the following from a late Cal- credit, by the Authorities of this Government. (siven under my hand, and the seal of tbe Fordeed, there is not, I believe, s man now liveign Office, at Honolulu, this twentieth day ing, who has done as much intellectual labor, ifornia paper: and if now capable of as much in a given The filth house of public worship in this of March, 1850. R. C. Wtlui.-^ (l. s.) time; and few men of his age, of any pro- city was opened for divine service last Sunsituated the corner The is on are day. building fession or calling, as physically vigorous or capable of enduring as much bodily ex- of Jackson and Virginia streets, plain and It has pleased His Majesty to approve of the unpretending in its structure, though ex- appointment of Henry A. Paterson, Esq., as ercise and labor. I have thus mentioned some of the promi- ceedingly neat, it is capable of comforta- Consular Agent of the United States, for the nent objects and things of interest connected bly seating three hundred persons. In the Island ef Maui. — — �32 . THE FRIEND, APRIL 1, 1850. Ilmwned July 16. 184s, Mr. A«aos J \\ IIItLk», b. »„ «p Thr> nhi|t hal seven feci »vnlcr in her hold, Ihoard ihe Aliirrican «hale ahi|i James All. it, vsliilr crulaiaf aa hut vtill |iriilii.lilv hold togpihfr nil her cargo can Hit- .V.iili RaUAWnglmishdtefar.gc, or \\ »l I oa-L T h e S 1850. lue got mil, vthicli ciinsisls, |iriiici|inllv, of lliinSiHldenlv alarch M, al Kntna. Kauai. Mr. Hsvav IffLt. A Published at " Tribune office," A". Y. Iwr, flour ami porter. A lur|>(> purl of her curgo native of Ireland, hut more rtrenll) fioui iNew York, via Baa Francisco, diiiniigeil we Krai.ctaeu. To the Post Master at San cnniliiion.—Polynesian. will be iii n tender our grateful .acknowledgements for PASSENGERS. MARRIED. late papers, and a copy of "the Whig AlmaPer American ship Fanny Forrester fr San FranIn llonoiiilu, VVednraila) Evtaiini Mr. W*. p. Sa-eauav as Miss s. h Bavin, b) lltv S. 0. Hamuli, at Mm n Ne«.coml>e, Mrs. and two cliila/ cisco, W. Now, Ncwcombe, all good Whig* though""! if nac." Ur. It A.a. Vtood. Uren, Mr. Fowler. the United States should have their heads as l'er American ship Duraleor:. fr San Francisco. Mafull of facts, statistics and literary informa- jor Lee, U. S. A., R. W. Blanchnrd, I). A. EKvell, C. Lahaina Chaplaincy. Haw.) tion as this Almanac, then surely Ihey would Tollman, Chuing, Tom, ( a Mr. Editor:—Will vou give this notice of the la) liaino Chapel, an insertion in your paper? prove n match for ou equal if not greater Outing trie last month there lias been cx|<endcd upon the Chapel at Lahuinn and the ground around it, lb* number of good Democrats. The articles sum of S392 00 for the fol.owing purpose*: PORTFHONOLULU. upon various leading topics are excellent, IFciicc uiound the Chapel yard, • $149 op the Arrived. jFor finishing a room under the Chapel, for viz: "Postal Reform," "Flogging in Mar. *—Br hrl} Tepic, l.ure, lads I'm San Franfiarn. a study for the Chaplain, 201 41 Navy," "Public Lands," "Finances," &.C, 4 Am bk AiUr'n, Iturrowo. f.n N. V* yin Valparaiso. For incidental expenses, ringing licit, ta4 Am aih Kcm\ Swnsey, 12 tls f n .-nil Francisco house, be cure of the king fixing roof, etc., Btc This is just the book that should 41 Ml 4 Ani alili lltranl, t'nir. 2< il>, Tin " 4 Ami wh hli,i Nile. Casa). fn Marr|uraaa, lTOOhhls wh. read by every American citizen abroad. 4 Brbs Marga ft. Mel.cn*!, 17 da r.n Han Franciaco. $392 00 4 Am-li|. Jvc Parkin*, Colliiia. Siiilavaa " During this time I have received, for the If figures speak the truth, one would sup5 Am lik RaaMur.lt, l.'iiili', Till Snn FranekeSS. purpose of defraying this expense, 346 U Hr he Ruler, n*i-. Lnverinir, 50 da I'm aUt kland. 6 be the Yankees content with might pose, that 5 Am nil-li!>l'ii|iia, Tailor, lin S'X. Is., 211 moa., a,2oti1 wh 100 sp. Present debt, 8,145 fp present area of the country, when their re6 Ait-wh »li|> Caroline, rlaskctt, fm N. Bed.. 100 wh This amount has been received chiefly from seaI5« ap. mains unsold 245,913,344 acres of public 6 Bre wh aha, J. Hsvilen. Guzman, fm Bremen. ICO ap. men,and leaves the Chapel, at this dare ( March 16th 7 Ani.ahp Norman, Ring. II da I'.iirimi I rnncisco. 1850 ) with a debt of S145 75 I wish this statement lends, on the Ist of January, 1849! 8 Ur lik Enduru. I.nurley , ?•) tla In lluharttnwn. 1, , MARINE JOURNAL. - . .. i, -- - .... _^__ published in your paper, 1st, That those who hai* 8 Am slip Liverpool. We.-I 28 MO*., 2,200 wh contributed may know how the'r donations have been 8 Am ahp Saratoga, Hardinge, 6 inns., 70 wh., 95 ap. Shipwreck.—The British bark Caroline, lAmile.. expended, and 2d, Thntseair.cn and others, visiting 8 A..i In: Brother*, l.nrrlia St Atnlrew, Barker, fm Hone Knnv. Lahaina, and the foreigners residing here, may know Cap*. Perry, wits wrecked on the renf opposite Mar II- Br Ambk vtana. San Francisco. VUltiaoii, li. rial fin it that there is a channel open for their benevolence. A tbe liiirlior nf Honolulu, on Monday Inst. 14 B hk l>. M ilcom. ..irh. 16 da u hint to the generous is suflicient. The Caroline was 140 ilav* from Adelaide, 14 B bk lur.hlinmii. Pierce. 15 ila Am be Tu-car. Wal.ei , itn!|i|resa fm Boaton T. E. TAYLOR. Very truly yours. and 109 from Htrluirt Town, oml had experienc- Mar. 1418—Brit, hk Her. Psall >, .2 da I'm Callan. Seamen's Chaplain, Lahaipa, ed it sufccusion of ailvcriai "rules during the en91 Am. wh sh Republic, Aii-lm. Tucker, fm Bnn Fran. tire pinMiige. She hail a Inrge number of pas- March 24—Am hk S icraoienlo. lilforUIHlion l\'anted. 24 Hr bca uebnrah, M tclianie. 7.1 da fit eiydnevseiners, including scvernl faniilics, anil with the Kcspccting William Woodland, a Seaman belqn|(-39 Br acli Coquette Elliott, 24 ila f.n San Fran. or craw, numbered 104 soul* on board. For 10 19 Hr hk Caroline, ferry. I 111 da fm lioharl Town, ing to West Cowcs, Isle of Wight, England. He left wrecked on ihe reef. March 25. 18 day* llwy were entirely destitute of water, England in I 842, n seaman, on board the Carysfort' ami ware obliged to subsist upon imrier, and frigate. He has siiosc(|uentlv been heard from as a Cleared. boat stccrer on board the American whaling vessel* provisions from the cargo, her stores having heen Mar. 2—Am ahp G. Waalijiigtou. lloldritfe *JT Manilla. Monmouth and Ilamlilcton. Should this notice atalso exhausted. She, however, touched lit Kn5 I'eruv hk Einprrna, White, ilnnir Kong. tract his attention, he is desired to report himself Hi 6 Am bk I'nuiiecticut, IVnlinllnw, fur Sun F. uui, a few iluys since, uuil procured a supply to M M.izrlhca, 5 Aai ach Crncliet. his friends, or should he visit Honolulu, to call at tta* sniible her to reach this port. " Kong. 6 Max ha* linn Carina. Guerrero, Hong Chaplain's study, where he will find a letter to his adOh Mniiilny inorniiiir, the 25th inst., she Sarins 5 Am hk Moiiinoinli, llalse> .N. Y. dress. 7 Am wh ahp Ciroline, Plasketl, cruiae. to anchor nil'the miuilh ofthe hnrlinr, the wind (i 8 Am wh ahp Copia. Taber then lilowiuit nn shore from ihe S. X., ami, as it 6 Am b*; t'aminicu-, Lyon, San F. Charts fbr Dale has since proved, jnstt ihe commencement nf a afar 9—Am ach Decatur. Morrill, for San F. old East India ship-master has left some new An ach San Wanderer, Boyd, for II Br F. about 36 tbe (ale of hour* continuance. During and old ( harts, at the Chaplain's study, to be disposed 11 Haw ach I urnline, Fn.li, for dan F. day on Monday, ihe wind continued to increase, 11 Am ach Harr, Tlbbey, " of for his benefit in sickness. The following; are 13 Am wh sh Nile. Cass;, I pii..ami towards iiioin ihe ship was pitching nt n among them: Charts of Canton river, East Coastal West, Liverpool, -18 wtl all Cruise. Am vena decmeil impostrsinendfiils rate ; ami ns it China, China Sea. Tae Strait of Suuiia, China 8*4) 13 Am ah Oxnar.l, Cole. Hong Kong. sible) fur her to hold on during tli« nighl, the 13 Am ah J I'erkiiia, Collins, Manilla No. II, Strait of Malacca. &c. &c. Abo 13 Br bk Will Waich Thompson, for Sydney. catties were slip|>ed, her jilrs hoisted, ami the hiAN EXCELLENT SEXTANT. 15 Br lig Teplr, Luce, for San F. lot, who was on hoard, ran her ashore in the April 1 tf 14 Am wh ah J. Allen, rtmith, Cruiae. best ptMition he could neciire. Soon nfter she Mar. 14—Am wh ah Jama* Allen, fmiih, Arctic Ocean. Hardinge. cruiae. 15 W. struck, her main and fore-musts went by the Scat* " Thim.Saratoga, I'erkii.e, Rogers, for Eaal md., in port 11. Am ah Will execute DACUEltKEOTYPE MINIAlionnl, which much relieved the ship, nnd she 16 Br bit Margaret. Mr.Leod, Manilla, in port. TUKES In every style with or without colors, at hi* flnnlly setiled down, and reiiinined from that 16 Span bg Clnvi eno, Sarria. Manilla •• 32—Br bk lnchiuiian. Pierce. Auckland. Daguerrcaii Rooms, opposite Mr. French'*. time roinpnrntively easy. When the maiii-iiiast March S3 Republic, ah Ansiiii, cruiae, wh Am want over the side, it took with it the mi/en copy what Nature has made— 33 lire wh ah J. llAMlen, Guxinaii, cruiae, " Let Nature 85 Br bk llavnl Malcolm, S null. Manilla. Provide �op-maiat, nnd n part of the cross-trees fell on the shadow ere the substance fade." Fanny Forreater, Hweetiin, Manilla. 28 ah Am left striking and the arm of the breaking dark, 39 Am bk Rilaarll, Ciald, l.nhaliiH ft San Fran. surgeon of tbe ship, who wn» holding nn by the 39 Am ah Norman. Ring. Calcutta. Illustrated Almanac for 18M. 'I'he roll the car39 Br bga Deborah. Machallle, San Fran. niisten rigging. next of vesxel FOR SALIC, at (be Polynesian office, the Book the ried away the fnre-inant, nnd n semnnii by store, and the Chaplain's Study, in Honolulu, at ta*> Shipping in Port. Am ah Fanny ForreaUT, nwueller, Study of Kev. T. E.Taylor, Lajiiiina; aud at the Barnaiim nf John Wilson, a Fin, wnsknocked overbg I'acifico, Ilogue, Mr. Coan's, llilo. board by n Mock uuil ilriivvtied. Hi« body was Haw A.n ah lleuculeou, Cole, found, and brought on shore on Tuesday. These Am Israf Copiapo, rloulhward. Lucu. are ihe only Hprious disaHiers to person*, nltend- Fr all Albatroa, ach Roe, Swaacy uig iliii unfortunate wreck. The women nnd Ambg Hr Fmtarpriac, Lovrrlnf. children were nil landed on Monday, without acUr bk Euiloia. Uourley. A Monthly Journal devoted to Tempercident ; hut nbiiut SO iiersniw it-ma iikil on bounl Am bg Brotliera. rVulc. Lnrcha, St Ai diew, Itarkar. Br ance, Seamen, Marine and G*n4r q} over Monday ni|»ht. Six bonis were move in, in Am bk Maria, Malllson. endeavoring |n take off* passengers. On Tues- Am bg 'I'nacar, Vv alder. Intelligence. day, lh«i wind was still hicrpusing, with n ire llr bk lice. Dnnlev rUCLI&UED AND EDITED Bi mentions sen, ami although ninny nll'-mpt* were SAMUEL C. 1).\.1I«>N. Seamen's ChmOAaS). DIED. made to board her with bonis from the shipping In thii town, y<-ntpnlav, Mr. Mahtih 9. Room,*, njrrd hlioui iv purl, none could a|i|uo.icb her. 37 jf»n». imiivt- nf Orange •'(» ,N. V., mtc! *• remit.it I'-r Uic TERMS. In c suiplinncs with n request from Consul Inst! twrlvu» yntr»,i.t ilii" Mff. One copy per annum M Mnlotat. Khim., in J intmrv laxt, John H. Ukosnk.hi, h General Miller, to render such **uwnr and aid, in CauiiiljHii itini Uhiaj rrfidrttt ul' t)it*.c t*lmnln. Two copies per annum, 3 iio saving ihe lives of tha* passenger)* nod crew, aa Ffb 2'i,Fri'iit'ltiiinii, nt Wnlliih. Kauai, Olivik Chapim, out of the CirFive copies per annum, 6,00 anight las iv hia power, the Governor manned cuit Jii'Vt-s ur fihf i*l'»i.4t Ten copies per annum. 10/*U ami despnlched the largest canins In lap found ; On trttan. lata Bienilti *.ilp Repul-ilr. Jnn. 10th, Mr. J. Mcc.l Hfiitl-hi|t. Alno nt Nuxttheiva, Jnn. rind but Ihtur, «Hi, were unable to hoard her, and the Dokald. By Pound volumes of Tub Fhjenp, fpr I, $,8.4 tllh J-vMKsiFiabiu.Kiawani nf lit? mmmb ship. Governor's own canoe was disabled nnd cnpsnd 63. Mr T. 5, 6 and 7 years, at the ( Ai Lilminn, Fvh. S, Wu.t iam Tayi.dk, 'Jiu/Muii/'s .Study A aOer a iJr Jied rralilenrt 4';Sii«lmiiiJ. »U'i.lriil> ajd, mil some of the p*opl« ware oblige to swim *h»» native tilt© Ultlitlt of iv or,> iltrin eifhtreii )«lti '"11l mui.lt «■• from the subscription price v.ill he niude to Seamen, aaliore. hour a* }• Lbtak aui, the duo of Man cuniaifc."— [Cow. land pautUaser* who desire woio tbaa a aiugia «oUm*b> « , ' r. THE FRIEND: . ..... ...... ..... • ,*** � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1850) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1850.04.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.04.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/aa57cda1469b2be8528e7232cb0b681b.pdf 5a811ddc9644f66996dea47b3cbc6a27 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, MARCH 1, 1850. Vol. 8. 17 No. S deaux, and more especially Muscat wine, tory would be enriched through the assiduiseemed perfectly to their taste, notwithstand- ty of Messrs. Eydoux and Gaudichand, by a ing the temperance laws established in the great number of interesting discoveries. As Page 17, 13 Visll of French ship Bonite, We also had a specimen of the in- the mows on the summit of MaunaLoa and country. 18 Dreadful auflVrinj at Sea, fluence exerted over this people by the Mis- its famous crater, said to be twenty-five 1* Plymouth in 1627, sionaries. Dining with us one day, in com- miles in circumference, had been for a long 20 Proposed Museum, pany with Mr. Forbes and Kapiolani, Kua- time the subject of our conversation and the 20 kini scarcely dared to pourthe least quantity object of our desires, we all lamented the Grot Ration and Flogging In U. S. N., *1 ot wine into his water ; but when Mr. Forbes necessity of the sacrifice. Prayers ai Sea. was not present, he carefully avoided having Nothing can be more picturesque than Chaplain's Report, 22, 23 any water put into his wine. Yet Kuakini, Hawaii, as it appears from the sea. Near Sabbath Wrecka, a Scottish Legend, broken and the soil 23 they say, is utterly opposed to the missiona- the shore it is very much Temperance Men Overboard, covered with richest and where appears every He reads understands English ries. 24 Statistics reapecting 11. 8 and accuses them of not having vegetation ; but the eastern and northern 24 very wall, Sir John Rosa'arrival, arc, translated the Bible faithfully. As to poor part of the Island is much more pleasant and Kapiolani, she never made the slightest ges- fertile than the part we visited, which is alVisit of the French sloop of war ture, without a glance at Mr. and Mrs. most entirely destitute of running water.*— The inhabitants of Kealakeakua are under Bonite, to the Forbes. Sandwich Islands, in 1836. population of Hawaii scarcely amounts the necessity of going five or six miles for 90,- their water, or else of drinking that which is Translated for the Friend, from the French oj to 29,000—when discovered it exceeded -000. The causes of this fearful diminution brackish in no slight degree. Water might Adolphe Barrot. we will investigate before closing this article. easily be conducted from the mountain to the NO. 111. The weather at the shore is very warm, Fah- sea by means of pipes ; the rspid descent of Kuakini visits the Bonite his appearance and renheit's thermometer ranging generally be- land being very favorable ; but a long time character his appetite andfondnessfor wine tween 86Q and 89°, (about 25*of Reaumur's) will pass before the inhabitants of this Island a specimen of Missionary influence pop- while at the upper village the air was fresh can be in a condition to perform such a work. ulation Hawaii—6urto/ places expedi- ', and pure, a sea breeze was felt, and the at- The eastern and northern parts of the Island tion to Mauna Loa given up, and consequent mosphere seemed entirely different. are well watered ; there are many streams disappointment the Volcano and the God- On my first going ashore, I had observed and many ponds of sweet wster which serve dess Pele located in the eastern part of the numerous holes in the precipice which over- ss reservoirs for the regular inundations of Island the writer visits Kailua the church looks the bay. These holes seemed to me the taro patches. The inhabitants ofthis part scene in the house of Kuakini the Fort to be the work of the natives, nor was I de- ofthe Island are much more numerous than arrival at Honolulu the Government alarm- ceived. They are sepulchres for their dead. where we visited, and the climate is also beted—visit from the King's secretary. The excavation is usually closed up with ter. It is in the eastern part that the famous sublime head During our stay at Kealakeakua we were wood worky There is at the present time in volcano, Mauna Kea, raises its the inits eruptions, keeps Forbes a and frequent resides, of Hawaii and the where by Mr. Kuakini, Governor village visited by of alarm. Here state who die a constant in in where those are buried habitants one of the principal chiefs of the Sandwich cemetery the Goddess Pele has her residence. The Islands. He resides at Kailua, and is (veil t the Presbyterian religion. the known by the name of " John Adams." He The principal object of our coming to Ke- traditions concerning this divinity of been related so in inwere have ; not we Sandwich Islands accomplished came in his double canoe-, managed by a alakeakua was Dumont d'Urville M. by of a manner teresting He is of six to our design exploring stout Indians. a man obliged relinquish of score Lon. From all the in- in his Voyage around the World," that I feet and three inches ; a blue vest, grey pan- the summit of Mannaobtain, it was evident should only impair the poetic picture of this taloons, shoes without stockings, and a straw formation we could circumstances, our intended ex- navigator by undertaking to repeat them. We had that our in his accoutrement. hat, constituted We were assuWe sailed Oct. 6th, and at noon we were fine was impracticable. pedition been previously informed concerning his red that it would take eight days at least, to off Kailua, the residence of Governor Kuauniform and his large epaulettes. who had come on before us. The corKuakini speaks very good English, and reach the summit of Mauna Loa, and nearly kini, vette lay represented, to, and we went on shore. As we a time to return. They has the reputation of being an intelligent, as long three or four hours, we but at the same time, an avaricious man.— with exaggeration I doubt not, the dangers could remain only of our time. We to the roost meet with our exmake in his and we should wished i however, of avarice obstacles There was no proof church, the which was uncould not first to visit last went consideration in his sale of provisions to the Bonite. We cursion. This of stone, and ia the work were informed, it is true, that these provi- ■ have the least influence on the determination finished. It is built It is one hundred and sions cost him nothing, except the trouble of'ofthe gentlemen who had planned the rara- of an Englishman.length, forty-eight feet in sending his people for them among the poor ble ; but time was wanting. The days of twenty-five feet inare about twenty-four feet islanders ; audi is the custom of the country our stay at Hawaii were numbered ; in two width, its walls of the steeple is one hunthe chiefs may lay claim to every thing.—■ months we were under the necessity of being high and the height the resi- dred and thirty feet. The interior ia finishKuakini received from the corvette a certainiat Manilla. We had to visit Oahu,chances of ed with a good degree of elegance. It is furquantity of iron in bars and some tools. He dence of the King. The ordinary with a broad gallery of carved wood, our much lonnamed. the sea render might voyage was accompanied by another chief 1 than we anticipated, and we were com- nished containing seats for a part of the congregaHekili, (thunder,) not surpassed by the Gov- ger our tion. The pulpit or desk of the missionary came to abandon Our project. young every stature. pelled ernor himself in They the is of koa, a wood slightly resembling maofficers, Gaudichand, especially M. and day on board the Bonite, the table and thei it exhogany. In fine, a person here might imwine of which, having, no doubt, strong at- botanist of the expedition, regretted was that tbe I Indeed, certain sgine himself in an European temple, and was ceedingly. intractions for them. Their appetite followed the most of our villages are fsr from having ofMauna Loa would be satiable, and in perfect keeping with their exploration tt» that of Kailua.— immense corpulency. The wine of Bor-■ with beneficial results, and that natural his- churches comparable Contents OF THE FRIEND, MARCH 1,1851, *' , t — of— — — — — — —— —— —' . :I i : ' - > ' ■ " �18 THE FRIEND, MARCH 1, 1850. Kuakini went with us to show us the ohurch, [two ringers into the paste, they give the hand right and left of the harbor are coral reefs, appearing very proud of what he called his a circular motion until a sufficient quantity over which the sea breaks with violence and enjoying our is collected, when it is conveyed to the mouth. which are almost entirely covered at high " raoeumeot,"Heaadthenevidently admiration. took us to his house, Daring the repast, their attendants observed water. Through these reefs is an opening which appeared very much like that of Ka- them with respectful silence. When the seventy or eighty fathoms wide, and this is piolani. Extended curtains of English cali- calabashes were emptied, a servant took the the entrance of the harbor. Natives were co concealed the secret apartments of the one Which contained the poi—then collecting advancing on these reefs even to the breakwomen from vulgar eyea. Upon the estrade with his fingers the morsels that had been ers, where some were bathing, some fishing, of honor, was lying at full length, a gigantic left adhering to the sides, he formed there- and others wen taking shell-fish. Our arrival, as we were afterwards informwoman, clad in a gown of azure satin. I with a ball so attractive that Kuakini swaled, occasioned the Government some alarm. never saw any thing more monstrous or more lowed it in a twinkling. hideous than this woman. It was Mrs. KuaWe were so much the more surprised at It was supposed that we had come to demand kini. Her height could not be less than five Mrs. Kuakini's appetite, as her husband had satisfaction for the arbitrary sending away feet and ten inches, and she was completely just informed us that she was dangerously ofthe French Catholic Missionaries. Scarceround. All the chiefs that I have seen ap- sick, and had requested Dr. Eydoux to see ly had we cast anchor, when the King's Sepear to belong to a gigantic race. To be her. Her illness appearing to be simply the cretary, accompanied by the American Consmall and lank is, with them, a mark of low result of excessive corpulence and unbroken sul and the Editor of the Oahu Gazette, came birth. M. Eydoux and myself passed among indolence, the Doctorrecommended exercise on board, in order, doubtless, to find out the the islanders for great personages, and we and attention to diet ; two prescriptions real object of our arrival ; for, as soon as he were much more respected by them than if which it would be difficult for her to put in was informed that our mission was of a we had been destitute of such a degree of practice, as Kuakini informed us. That she peaceful character entirely, his countenance, corpulence as never fails to incommode us in could not move without difficulty, was suffi- which betokened much solicitude when he this hot latitude. To attain to this so much ciently evident, and from the manner in which came on board, assumed a joyous expression. desired corpulence, nothing can be better a- she devoured her dinner, half an hour after Few canoes had put off from the shore to dapted than the manner of living in vogue the Doctor's prescription, we could judge visit us, and it was easy to perceive that the with the chiefs. They pass their lives, so to that she would not, voluntarily, impose any arrival of a large ship, and even of a ship of , war, was no new thing at Honolulu. We speak, reclining on their mats ; very seldom restraint upon her appetite. do they take a walk, and they eat from mornAfter their Excellencies had finished their could already perceive a great difference in dinner, we went to visit the Fort, in which the clothing and manners of the natives. ing till night. A numerous company surrounded the es- are about twenty pieces ofartillery of differ- The Secretary of the King wore a frock coat trade of honor. The young daughter ofKu- ent calibres, mounted on wooden carriages. and a military cap ; his watch-guard was a akini was squatting near her mother. A In the interior ofthe fort is the morai, or sa- black ribbon, and his shirt of figured camnumber of women were waving kahilis above cred house, where are deposited the remains brick was becoming. the princesses, in order to keep away the of Kamehameha, the founder of the present Honolulu has become the seat of Governflies, which, in revenge, came to devour us. dynasty. Wooden gods, with unseemly fea- ment ; it is the entrepot of the commerce of The principal inhabitants of Kailua were re- tures, are stationed as sentinels at the cor- the whole country. Of this we were conclining upon mats around the room. Kua- ners and seem to forbid approach. These vinced when, on our arrival, we saw at ankini seated himself upon a settee, and mo- are the last external vestiges of the old reli- chor many English and American ships distioned us to take some chairs placed near gion. charging their cargoes, or taking on board him. We were very thirsty, for the heat Tbe aspect of Kailua, although considered the products of the Islands. Yet it was the was excessive, and we had been two hours at the capital of Hawaii, did not give us a very season when the smallest number of vessels least, in the boat ; but Kuakini did not seem favorable idea of the civilization of the in- are found in port ; and we have since learnto think of our wants. He who had received habitants. A few huts, scattered here and ed that the whalers, who come here for rea thousand attentions every time he came on there, without order or symmetry ; a crowd freshments or repairs, generally arrive in board, and who seemed to regard as excel- of ragged men and women following us every November and February, and that somelent the wines which were always offered where and watching even our slightest mo- times there are thirty or forty ships in the him, thought not to provide the refreshments tions with fatiguing curiosity—this is what harbor. The American sloop of war Peawe so much needed. We were under the we found at Kailua, and what we w«re des- cock, bearing the broad pennant of Com. necessity of asking him for water, and this tined to find sgain at Honolulu, the capital Kennedy, was in port ; as also many Hadecided him to order us some Madeira. of the Sandwich Islands, for which place we waiian vessels, among which we noticed a Before leaving we enjoyed the pleasure of were about lo sail. brig of American construction. This was seeing the Governor and his family take their At daybreak, Oct. Bth, we were in sight of the King's yacht, and was called Harrietdinner ; but he was v«rj careful not to give Oahu, and at six o'clock we cast anchor out- ts," after his sister—much belter'*known by us an invitation. Ho perceived without side of the reef, which forms the harbor of her true name, Nahienaena. doubt, that wo should find difficulty in adapt- Honolulu. The appearance of Oahu is more ing ourselves to his manner of eating, and pleasant than that of Hawaii ; the land is Dreadful Suffering at Sea. truly, there is nothing more disgusting. A more broken, less striking perhaps, but more We have received a letter from Capt. Hosglance only at their food might suffice to varied, more verdant, and more picturesque. mer, late master of the whaling bark Janet, drive appetite away. It consisted of baked The town of Honolulu is situated on the sea- of Westport, furnishing an account of the pork, salted fish uncooked, and poi, which, shore, in the midst of a rich plain, five or six privations and sufferings of a boat's crew beamong the Islanders, is the staff of life miles long and two broad. We could per- longing to the Janet, comprising the captain without poi, they do not make a single meal. ceive back of the town and upon Ihe slopesiand five others, which is almost without parEach sort of food was contained in an enor- of the hills, numerous taro patches. The allel in the annals of the whale fishery. It mous calabash. Kuakini stretched himself town has a sort of European aspect. To theiis substantially as follows : at full length near his agreeable wife, and right of the harbor is a white-washed fort, ** On the coast of Peru, June 28, 1849, in then commenced a sort of contest to see who through the embrasures of which we saw latitude 3Q north, longitude 104° west, while should eat the most ravenously and with the thirty cannons of all sizes, whose muzzles, cruising for whales, a shoal of sperm whales furthest remove from neatness. Each, in painted red, seemed any thing but formida- appeared in sight from the Janet, and three turn, thrust bis fingers into the calabashes ble. In the midst of the scattered houses boats lowered in pursuit. Capt. Hosmer's for food. This surprised me, for at our ta- are seen a number of lookouts, steeples and i boat's crew consisted of himself, Francis ble Kuakini bad shown that he was far from cocoa-nut trees. We perceived at a dis- Hawkins,, third mate ; Edward H. Charlez, being unacquainted with the use of knives, tance, white fronts, green balconies androofs i Joseph Cortez, Daniel Thompson, and Jamea forks and spoons. One cannot imagine the built in tbe European manner ; while the Fairman, seamen, It blowing fresh at tbe of pork, of fish aad of poi, which green hills which overlooked tbe harbor, ex- time, the boats soon separated, each having auantity lis monstrous couple devoured. Were I to tended to the horizon. On ourright were two imade fast to a whale. After Capt. Hosmet attempt to give an idea of it, I should be craters, one of which is called the "Punch had succeeded in " turning up" bis whale afraid of being charged with exaggeration. Bowl ;" the summit of this is indented and and was towing him to the ship, from some All the calabashes were emptied in a trice. forms embrasures, whess) cannon of a very inadvertence on the part of the third mate in The manner of eating poi, is this—plunging large calibre have been stationed. On the putting about, the boat capsized with loss of . ., �THE FRIEiND, MARCH 1, 1850. 19 boat keg, lantern keg, boat bucket, compass, south. On the eleventh day, another of the PlyDAmeisocuroitnphnf 1827. paddles, etc. The crew succeeded in right- number died from exhaustion. It was found ing the boat, and lashed the oars to the necessary to pursue a more northerly course By Isaac dc Rasieres, Dutch Ambassador thwarts across the boat to prevent her from in the hope of rain, none having fallen duthe AW Netherlands to JVew Plyoverturning, she being filled with water, and ring the last four days. On they next day from mouth. A lately discovered document. they were favored with another shower, and the sea continually breaking over her. Plymouth lies on the slope of a hill was New "Two waifs, or flags, were immediately this benefaction followed by the remarkset as a signal of distress, the other two boats able circumstance of a dolphin leaping from stretching east towards the sea-coast, with a being in sight at a distance of about one and among its finny companions directly into the broad street about a cannon shot or 800 a half miles. Capt. Hosmer taw the other boat. Several birds also approached so near [yards] long, leading down the hill ; with a two boats take their whales alongside of the to the boat ss to fall a prey to the necessities [street | crossing in the middle, northwards bark, which was then kept off in the direc- of the crew, administering greatly to their to the rivulet, and southwards, to the land. tion for his boat, but when within about one relief. On the 13th of July, land was dis- The houses are constructed of hewn planks, mile of him, they kept off on another course covered in an easterly direction, which proved with gardens which are also enclosed beuntil sun-down. The crew of the captain's to be Cocus Island, (uninhabited,) lying in hind and at the sides with hewn planks, so that their* houses and court-yards are arboat then got on to the whale alongside and 5° 27 north and 87a 15 west. tried to bail the boat, but could not succeed. Capt. Hosmer and the other survivors suc- ranged in very good order, with a stockade They then cut the line attached to the whale, ceeded in reaching it, but in an almost help- against a sudden attack ; and at the ends and succeeded in setting some pieces of the less condition. They however, caught a pig of the slreets there arc three wooden gates. boat sail and steered towards the bark, then and drank its blood, which revived their ex- In the centre, on the cross street, stands the about three miles distant. During the night hausted strength, and also obtained a plenti- Governor's house, before which is a square they saw a light at intervals, and in the morn- ful supplyof birds and fresh water. After re- inclosure, upon which four patereros [steening the bark was about the same distance off. maining two days upon the island, they were stucked) are mounted, so as to flank along Every expedient was resorted to by making overjoyed by witnessing the approach of a the streets. Upon the hill they have a large signals to attract the attention of those on boat, which belonged to the ship Leonidas, square house, with a flat roof made of thick board the bark, but in vain. They saw them whaler, Capt. Swift, then lying at Chatham sawn plank, staged'with oak beams, upon " cutting in" the whales, and apparently in- Bay, for the purpose of procuring wood and the top of which they have six cannons, different to the fate of their comrades. In water, and were relieved from their dreadful which shoot iron balls offour or five pounds, this perilous condition the unfortunate boat's sufferings by being taken on board the ship and command the surrounding country. The crew made another attempt to bail the water and treated with every possible attention and lower part they use for their church, where they preach on Sundays and the usual holifrom the boat, but owing to their consterna- kindness. tion, they did not succeed. They then con"The names of those who perished on days. They assemble by beat of the drum, tinued on their course as before, hoping to board the boat, are Francis Hawkins, third each with his musket or firelock, in front of regain the bark, but soon found that she re- mate, of Augusta, Me ; James Fairman, of the Captain's door ; they had their cloaks ceded from them, and it was then determin- Ohio, Daniel Thompson of Philadelphia, Ed- on, and place themselves in order three ed to put about to the wind and remain, what- ward H. Charlez, place of residence un- abreast, and are led by a sergeant without beat of drum. ever the consequences might be. On the known, seamen. second morning, the weather being more faCapt. Hosmer renders his grateful ac- Behind comes the Governor, in a long vorable, all the whale craft was thrown over- knowledgments to Capt. Swift of the Leoni- robe ; beside him on the right hand, comes board, and another attempt was made to bail das, and also to Capt. Cleavelandof the bark the preacher, with his cloak on ; and, on the the boat, which resulted in Ihe loss of one Valparaiso, both of New Bedford, for their left hand, the Captain with bis side arms and man, and without accomplishing the purpose. prompt and generous efforts in administering cloak on, and a small cane in his hand,—and The effort was renewed again in the after- to the relief of himself and his companion. so they march in good order and each sets noon, the weather being yet more favorable, Capt. Hosmer arrived at Payta, August 21st, his arms down near him. Thus they are and they finally succeeded in freeing the boat from which place his letter to us is dated. constantly on their guard night and day. Their government is after the English from water, but with the loss of another of We have also been favored with an exher erew—all on board having been up to tract of a letter from James A. Crowell, late form. The Governor has his council, which their arms in water during the last forty-eight first mate of the Janet, to Henry Wilcox, is chosen every year by the entire commnhours. Two of the survivors were seized owners' agent, in Westport, dated at Payta, nily, by election or prolongation of term. with delerium ; all of them having been with- August Ist. Mr. Cowell, after mentioning In inheritance they place all the children in out a morsel of food or drink, and suffering the fact of the three boats putting off for one degree, only the eldest son has an acknowledgment for his seniority of birth.— painfully from thirst. Thus disabled, no one whales, as above stated, adds : on board being able to ply at the oars, and "At 3 p. m. I had my whale alongside, They have made stringent laws and ordiwith only a small fragment of the boat's sail and soon the ship came to me, and when I nances upon the subject of fornication and remaining, it was determined to make for got on board, there was but one boat in sight, adultery, which laws they maintain and enCocus Island, on the Peruvian coast, a dis- and that was five miles to leeward of the ship. force very strictly ; indeed, even among tance of about one thousand miles, as the I went down to it with the ship, and found the tribes which live amongst them. They nearest land. Accordingly, the piece ofthe that it was the second mate's boat. He had [tbe English] spesk very angrily when they sail was used to the best advantage, and the seen Capt. Hosmer two hours previously fast bear from tbe savages that we should live so these respects, and without ceiling ofthe boat was torn up and also em- to a whale, and went to the leeward of him barbarously inTheir farms are not so good punishment. steered last seen his they as a wind and when from boat. We proceedpropeller, ployed ours, ss because are more stony, and they direction. ed the direction Which the boat in in captain's Capt. Hosmer in a north-easterly writes nothing occurred worthy of remark had been seen, and lay to all night with all consequently not so suitable for the plough. until the seventh day, the crew having in the sails set, and with all our lights fixed. In They apportion their land according aa each meantime been without a particle offood and the morning we saw nothing ofthe boat. We has means to contribute to tbe Eighteen drink, and not a drop of rain having fallen. cruised three days, but unfortunately without Thousand Guilders which they have proIn this dreadful state of suffering, it was mu- any trace of her. In the meantime, four of mised to those who have them out ; whereby tually agreed to cast lots as to which of the our hands were sick from fatigue, and we they have their freedom without rendering number should be sacrificed to proloag the were under the necessity of making the best an account te any one ; only if tbe King lives of his companions, and the unfortunate of our way to this port, (Payta.) We had should choose to send a Governor General, victim upon whom the lot fell met his fate taken one hundred barrels ofoil for tbe last they would be obliged to acknowledge him with perfect resignation and willingness. At ten days previously, and lost two hundred as sovereign chief. The maize seed which the close ofthe day, a shower ofrain proved barrels, during the same time by losing lines. they do not require for tbeir own use, is dea very great additional relief. Being with- I expect the captain's boat was taken down livered to the Governor at three guilders the out compass or instruments of any kind, Capt. by a foul line, as he bad a new line in his bushel, who, in his turn, sends it in sloops skins tynong Hosmer was compelled to rely entirely upon boat coiled two days previous to the accident. to the North, for the trade inone of his judgment respecting the course, aided We saved one whale the day tbe accident the savages. They reckonbeaverbushel only by an occasional glimpse of the North happened, and lost another that night."— maize against one pound of made skin : in according the first place, a division is rolling swell of the sea from the Sailor's Magazine. -Dee. 1849. Star and the �20 THE FRIEND, MARCH 1, 1850. to what each has contributed, and they are prison, alms-house, and gallows? On the this description are calculated tosrouie pubcredited for the amount in the account of principle that the laborer should be proud of lic attention :—the frigate Independence duwhat each has to contribute yearly towards his work, Dr. Sewell's plates representing ring her late cruise in Ihe Pacific, was abthe reduotion of his obligation ; then, with the remainder they purchase what next they the effects of alcohol upon the human stom- sent nine hundred and ninety-six days, and require, and which the Governor takes care iach, should adorn the apartments of the ma- during that period forty-five thousand eight hundred and thirty lashes were inflicted, or to provide every year. They have better |ker and vender of ardent spirits. means of living than ourselves, because they If all those engaged in the manufacture more than two dozen, per diem. In view of have the fish so abundant before their doors. and sals of intoxicating liquors throughout this statement, Com. Stewart wrote a letter There are also many birds, such as geese, herons, and cranes, and other small-legged ithe world, were to combine and establish a declaring that if " our naval service could birds, which are in great abundance there splendid Museum for an exhibition of their not be maintained without such means, he in the winter. works and the fruit of their labors, what a thought the wisest course would be lo break collection of "subjects" and variety of it up altogether " The advocates for flogFRIEND, victims " might be easily gathered! Only ging and grog-rations assert that the former "think of it, reader; the British Museum is necessary to maintain good discipline, and HONOLULU, MARCH 1, IQSO. would no longer rank "No. I." Just im- the latter to keep sailors in the service! To Proposed Museum. agine all the drunkards, or rather their "em- this it is replied, if the present rate of wages AH classes of laborers and artizans may balmed remains," (preserved in alcohol) will not induce seamen of " good" character rightfully claim the reward and honor of the gathered in one spacious temple dedicated to to enlist, then raise the wages, and obtain work of their hands. The farmer tilling the Alcohol ! Imagine, then, distillers, whole- men that will do their duty without being soil and producing a fine crop of grain, is sale dealers, retailers, and the whole frater- " drugged or flogged." If it is proper to justly proud of his labor and industry. The nity of bottle-washers serving as door- flog a seaman for drunkenness, why not an " the numerous officer ?—thus argue the opposers of flogmechanic skilfully making a watch, a car- keepers "and cicerones, upon riage, an article of furniture, an house, or public invited to witness the exhibition of ging. We opine, if a law should be passed any instrument demanding mechanical skill, rum's doings !" by Congress that all commodores, post-cap" may justly feel a conscious pride, in being a Report says, that rumsellers in California, tains, commanders, lieutenants and midshipgood workman, and the community will |have things very much after their own way, men, proved guilty of intoxication, should be award him due praise. The man of science if so, then San Francisco might be consid- punished by " a dozen," the flogging system guards with a jealous eye any discoveries,ered the most advantageous spot for the pro- in the Navy would very soon go " by tbe which he may make in the field of scientific posed Museum ; yes, let it face on Ports- board." It is perhaps worse for Jack to get research. The author places his name, mouth Square ! The different halls or wings drunk titan for a captain to get " excited" ( with its titles ) upon the title-page of his of the establishment might be appropriately or for a marine to get intoxicated than for a books. Tbe orator, the statesman and the named, "European," "Asiatic," "Ameri- lieutenant to get " a little tight." philanthropist readily secure a tribute of,can," "Polynesian." The small apartments, The following is the letter of Com. Stewpraise from their fellow men. On the same or alcoves might be called after the great art referred to. It was addressed to Barnaprinciple, why should not the maker and |towns, or cities, for example, in European bas Bates, Esq. of Philadelphia. " vender of intoxicating liquors be equally Hall," and alcove "London"might be Philadelphia, July 28, 1849. found proud of their achievements? Why should placed for exhibition specimens of inebriates My dear Sir—l am in receipt of your favor of the 22d inst, with the enclosed slip not the miserable drunkard be paraded by forwarded by Mr. Redface, keeper of Gin containing a statement of the flogging on them, before the world, as an illustration of Palace, in street so and so. In " American board the United States ship Independence, their skill and labor in transforming the man Hall" and alcove her last cruise. The number of lashes "Boston," specimens on stated to have been inflicted, appears to me of intelligence, wealth and refinement, into forwarded by Mr. Break-the-pledge, keeper a companion for the inmates of the sty?—.of Brigham's Saloon. In "Asiatic Hall" to have been enormous—the amount (45--830,) certainly with it an amount of Why should not the rich distiller and the and alcove " Calcutta," specimens forward- depravity in the carries crew, or one of oppression wholesale dealer in London or Boston, when ed by several East India merchants. In and cruelty in the commander, wholly unhis drawing rooms and parlors are bril- Polynesian Hall " and alcove "Honolulu," warrantable. That there is tyranny and of" ficers of cruelty in the service, there can be liantly lighted, and the sideboards groan specimens forwarded by " " no doubt, and I think I have pointed out, in beneath the beautiful array of decanters, in- The plan, you will perceive, reader, is my letters on naval subjects, (to Secretary troduce amidst the gayeties of the scene, a very simple, and although involving consid- Upshur, some time since,) Ihe primary cause victim that the policeman is conducting from erable their existence in the Navy, and how they expense, it might be defrayed by the of have been fostered through the recruiting the gutter to the watch-house? On such an enormous profits of the traffic. Should it, or the existing system. The experioccasion, how appropriately the distiller or however, fail, we would propose as a substi- service ence of the naval service has demonstrated wholesale dealer might remark, " Gentle- tute, an exhibition of San Francisco Ceme- the necessity of some prompt and effective men and Ladies, Look at my fellow citizen itery ! mode of restraining insubordination in the men, and thereby about to find lodging at the public expense, the essential disLet "touch not, taste not, handle not," cipline ofthe navalpreserve service. and enjoy the hospitality of the city authori- jbe your motto, reader, for death is in the If this cannot be effected, the wisest policy ties. I am extensively engaged in making |bottle ! would be to break up the Navy, and save the such wrecks of humanity! I am this week millions drained from the Treasury for its shipping spirituous liquors to Africa, Asia, Abolition ofthe Grog-ration support, extinguish its cruelty and oppresand Flogging in the U. S. Navy. sion, and put an end to a service so wholly and the Sandwich Islands." and completely aristocratic, that it has not, Why should not the retailer secure the In several late political and religious pa- even under monarchs, its equal in existence. i services of a skillful painter, and have por- pers from the United States, we have read Some portion of blame for this exhibit of setrayed upon his sign-board a drunkard dy- Ithe reports of public meetings upon this sub- verity may be attached to the law governing ■ ing in all the horrors of "delirium tremens,";ject, which appears to be exciting more at- the naval service ; it leaves no discretion in the mode of punishing ; many slight irreguand in the back ground, have sketched a itention than at any former period. Facts of larities and offences might be punished with- ' ,', THE . ,, , , .,, : ,, , . �21 THE FRIEND, MAIwCH 1, 1860. 'necessary to appropriate out the lash, hut the law requires whipping' to the extent of, or not to exceed, twelve to lashes. The officers, therefore, by law, are confined to whipping, and cannot punish otherwise, as it would be unlawful, and they liable to prosecution. I hope the Congress, before they act in either the case of withholding the seamen's allowance of grog, or the lash, will consult with such of the officers on the subject in whom they have confidence, or cause a more' suitable code of rules and regulations for the naval service aa will govern it more efficiently, and render it more appropriate to the national object for which it is established and defray the incidental a sufficient amount expenies of the es- tablishment, including sexton's salary, lighting the Chapel, he. At this date, ( Feb. 20, 1850,) there is a debt for painting and incidental expenses, of $122 88. The Chaplain would here insert the following note suggested, by the announcement in the February No. of the Friend, that the Chapel debt was paid: Rosebank, 20th Feb., 1860. Mr Dear and Reverend Fbiend:—l have this moment read in the Friend of the supported. Ist inst., (hat the debt of $3,101 41, created I hope Congress the next session, will by the enlargement of the Bethel Chapel, is advance towards your object of cheap postnow all paid. Having attended the meetings age ; hitherto it lias been, fromits enormous which the enlargement was discussed, I at expense, highly oppressive to the business much admired the spirit with which several community. It is time we should be releasCaptains ofAmerican whalers, insisted upon ed from the whole support of the post estab-j preserving the Chapel, as one belonging by lishment ; they have already taken one good to seamen, and only open through right, step towards it. courtesy to Foreign Residents. Taking that 1 am very much pleased to hear from you, ground, which was a very just one, they virmy good friend, and hope you will forward tually pledged themselves to carry you me the copy of the dialogue. Acthrough with the enlargement, independent cept the assurances of my high respect and of the foreign community, and therefore I esteem, from your obliged friend. abstained from contributing any thing to the Charles Stewart. expenses of that enlargement, lest I should be understood as implying a doubt that the Prayers at Sea.—Our own observation is and respectable body of the Captpowerful precisely similar to that of " Observer" in ains of American whalers frequenting Honthe following communication. Having freolulu, would fully redeem their pledge. Front view of the Seamen's Chapel, Honolulu. quently passed from island to island of this I understand they have redeemed it, and I since they commenced the good work believe we cannot now rein vessels, native group Chaplain's Report. of so providing for the spiritual interests of collect the instance where prayeTs were not Below will be found a summary statement their crews, Providence has signally favored offered, either morning or evening, and some- of the expenditures and receipts relating to the exertions of these crews, in the adventimes on both occasions. The practice has the late alterations and repairs upon the Sea- turous fishery which they pursue in this ocean. If I remember right, some one, at always deeply impressed our mind, and led men's Chapel. us to regret that the practice was not more 'aid for altering and repairing Chapel, including erec- the meetings aforesaid, ventured to predict that it would be so. common among that portion of the sea-faring tion of Reading and Vestry Rooms, 2,944 41 But, as one of the Foreign Residents, who 100 00 through courtesy, have been permitted to sit community professing a far higher degree of 'aid for eight pairs of blinds, 57 00 in the Seamen's Chapel, and who have parenlightenment and civilization than the na- 'aid interest on loan, tives ofthe Sandwich Islands ! $3,101 41 ticipated in the religious instruction dispensEditor of the Friend.—l have on sev- teceived from Subscribers on board ninety one Amer- ed by you, as Chaplain, every Sunday, I beg now to be allowed to aend you $20, to be aperal occasions, voyaged among the Islands ican whale ships, 1,518 63 plied, at your discretion, to the incidental in native vessels, and have never been in one teceived from subscribers on board Amerexpenses of your very useful Chaplaincy. where either the native captain or some pious ican merchant vessels, 113 50 • Hoping that you may be spared many sailor did not, morning and night, offer up a deceived from subscribers in the United years, to labor in this community, preaching prayer to God, and commend the crew and States Navy, 141 00 and distributing religious tracts and books, passengers to His keeping, who holds the tccerved from subscribers in the United to the seamen of all nations, conferring with winds in His fists and the sea in the hollow Statas Revenue 30 00 and advising them and visiting them while Service, of His hand. teceived from subscribers on board Britsick, as assiduously as it is your custom to But how different the case on board the ish merchant and whaleships, 75 142 do, • • schooner Sophia, an account of whose loss from subscribers on board ships I remain my dear and Rev. friend, with the captain and several of her crew, teceived the English Navy, 00 in 21 Yours respectfully, the last was published in Polynesian. A teceived from subscribers on board GerR. C. WYLLIE. clergyman being a passenger on board, man vessels, 57 50 Rev. Samuel C. Damon, Seamen's Chapprayers were offered by him, but they elicit- teceived from subscribers on board lain, &c, &.c, etc. Chilied the mockery ofthe captain and his foreign • • • • an vessels, 11 00 associates. New Seamen's Chaplaincy.—Another from subscriber* on board BusNow mark the result. No sooner were his teceived has just been established by the Chaplaincy 4 50 American Seamen's passengers landed, than his vessel is driven sian vessels, Friends' Society, in the teceived from the American Seamen's from her anchors, and in a fierce tempest she! port of South America—Rio most important 497 13 do Janeiro. The number of arrivals of vesgoes down, taking with her those who bud Friend Society, impiously mocked the worshippers of Jeho- teceived from various sources, as acsels there from foreign countries in 1848, 567 41 was vah, and they 'vere thus unprepared ushered knowledged in the Friend, 1147 ; coastwise arrivals, 2402—making into His holy presence ! 3549 in a year. The Rev. J. Morris Pease, •3,101 13,101 41 Chaplain, is about sailing from this port to How sad the thought! For He has said I will laugh at your calamity, and mock In connection with the above statement, raise there the standard of the cross, and tell " your fear cometh 1 When your fear when the Chaplain would remark that during the its story to the thousands of ocean wanderers. cometh, and sudden destruction is upon period the meantime, the Rev. T. H. Newton, (of two years and three months ) In ypu !" Truly "the ungodly shall not live commissioned by the same Society, will ocout half their days !" Oh, that men were which he has been collecting funds for liqui- cupy the Chaplaincy at St. Thomas, in the wise! Observer. dating the debt upon the Chapel, it has been West Indieß.—JV. T. Observer. - .... .... ..... ... ... ..... - ..... ..... ... �22 . THE FRIEND, MARCH 1, 1850their power, and the conviction that they He rose to return thanks for their preservacarried with them; snd when ye think oftion, and he had given out the lines— ThSeab thWrecks. A LEGEND OF DUNBAR. those convictions and contrast them with When ia thy wrath rebuke me not, " Nor in thy hot rag* chasten me," II was a beautiful Sabbath morning in the your conduct this day, does not the word ; of a burn autumn 1577 few small clouds, tinged 1apostate in your heart? John Crawford, when the screams and the howling of women with red, sailed slowly through the blue some ofyour blood have embraced the stake and children, rushing wildly along the street, heavens ; the sun shone brightly, ss if con- for tbe sake ofthe truth, and will ye profane rendered his voice inaudible. The eongrescious of the glory ana goodness of its Ma- the Sabbath which they sanctified? The gregation rose, and hurrying one upon anker, diffusing around a holy stillness and Scotsman who openly glories in such a sin, other they rushed from the church. The extranquillity, characteristic ofthe day ofrest; forfeits his claim to the name of one, andI hortations of the preacher to depart calmly the majestic Frith flashed back the sun- publishes to the world that he has no part or were unheard and Unheeded. Every seat beams, while on its bosom slowly glided the communion with the land that gave him birth. was deserted, all rushed to the shore, snd winged graneries of commerce; there, too, John Crawford, hearken to my voice, to,the Agnes Crawford and her children ran, also, lay its islands glorying in their strength voice of your wife, and that of your bairns, in terror, with the multitude. the May, shrouded in light, appeared as a ( whose bringing up is a credit to their mothThe wrecks of nearly two hundred boats leviathan sunning in its rays—and the giant er,) and be not guilty of this gross sin."— were drifting among the rocks. The dead Bass, covered with sea-fowl, rose as a proud But the fisherman, while he regarded not were strewed along the beach, and among mountain of alabaster in the midst ofthe wa- the supplications of his wife, became sullen them wailing widows sought their husbands, ters. A thousand boats lay along the shores st the words of the preacher, and springing children their fathers, mothers their sons, of Dunbar. It was the herring season, and into the boat, seized an oar, and with hisI and all their kindred, and ever and anon an there were many boats from the south and comrades, began to pull from the shore. additional scream of grief arose as the lifefrom the north, and also from the coast of The thousand boats put to sea, and Mr. less body of one or other such relations was Holland. Simpson returned sorrowful from the beach found. A few of the lifeless bodies of the Now, tidings were brought to the fisher- to the kirk, while Agnes Crawford and her■ hardy crews were seen tossing to and fro, men that an immense shoal was upon the children followed him. That day he took for but the cry for help was hushed, and the yell coast; and, regardless of its being Sabbath his text, " Remember the Sabbath day to>of death was heard no more. It was, in truth, a fearful day; a day oflammorning, they began to prepare their thou- keep it holy;" and as he fearlessly and fersand boats, and to go out to set their nets.— vidly denounced the crime of Sabbath-break- entation, of warning, and of judgment. In ■ The Rev. Andrew Simpson, a man possessed ing, and alluded to the impious proceedings one hour, and within sight of the beach, an i of the piety and boldness of an apostle, was iof the day, his hearers trembled, but poor hundred and ninety boats and their crews the minister of Dunbar; and he went forth Agnes wept aloud, and her children clung; were whelmed in the mighty deep; and dwelto the kirk to preach to the people, he be- around her, and wept also, because she wept. ling on the shore between Spittal and North held the unhallowed preparations of the fish- But ere the service had concluded, the heav- Berwick, two hundred and eighty widows ermen on the beach, and he turned and went ens began to lower. Darkness fell over the wept their husbands lost. i among them, and reproved them sternly for congregation, and first came the murmur of The spectators were busy carrying the their great wickedness. But the men were the storm, which suddenly burst into the wild dead, as they were driven on shore, beyond obdurate—the prospect of great gain was i howl of the tempest. They gazed upon each 1the reach «*/]' tide-mark. They had continbefore'them, and they mocked the words of'other in silent terror, like guilty spiritsi ued their melancholy task for near an hour, the preacher. Yea, some of them said unto stricken in their first rebellion by the search- i when a voice exclaimed—"See! see! one him in the words of the children to the ing glance of the Omniscient. The loud still lives, and struggles to make the shore." I prophet, " Goup, thou bald head."He went voice of Psalms was abruptly hushed, and! All rushed to the spot from whence the boat from to to boat, counselling, entreating, its echo mingled with the dreadful music of'voice proceeded, and a young man was perexpostulating with them, and praying for the elements, like the ■bleating of a tender ceived, with more than mortal energy, yet them lamb, in the wind that sweepelh howling on labouring in the whirling waves. His counSurely," said he " the Lord of the Sab- ithe mountains. For a moment, their features, i tenance was black with despair. His henrt " hath will not hold ye guiltless for this pro- ■ convulsed and immoveable, were still distend- panting with suffocating pangs. His limbs fanation of his holy day." But at that peri- ed with the song of praise; hut every tongue■ buffeted the billows in the of strong agony i od, vital religion was but little felt or under- ■ wss silent, every eye was fixed. There was death, and he strained, with desperate eai stood upon the borders, and they regarded no voice, save heaven's. The church seem- gerness, towards the projecting point of a not his word. ed to rock to its foundations, but none fled— black rock. It was now within its grasp, He went to one boat which was the prop- none moved. Pale, powerless as marblet but, in its stead, he clutched the deceitful erty of members of his own congregation, statues, horror transfixed them in the housei wave that laughed at his deliverance. He and there he found Agnes Crawford, the of prayer. The steeple rocked in the blast, was whirled around it, dashed upon it with daughter of one of his elders, hanging upon iand as it bent, a knell, untolled by human violence, and again swept back by the rethe neck of her husband, and their three hands, pealed on the ears of the breathlessi lentless surge. He threw out his arms at children also clung around him, and they en- congregation. A crash followed. The spire irandom, and his deep groans and panting i treated him not to be guilty of breaking theithat glittered in tbe morning sun, lay scat- breath were heard through the sea's hoarse Sabbath for the sake of perishing gain. But tered in fragments, and tbe full voice of the■ voice. He again reached the rock—he he regarded not their voice; and he kissed jwhirlwind roared through the aisles. Thet grasped, he clung to its sides. A his wife and his children, while he laughed trees crouched, and were stripped leafless;i murmur moaned through tangled the multitude.— at their idle fears. Mr. Simpson beheld the and the sturdy oak, whose roots had cm- They gazed one upon i another. His glazed scene with emotion, and approaching thei braced the earth for centuries, torn from the eyes frowned darkly upon them. Supplicat group, "John Crawford," he exclaimed, deep darkness of its foundations, was uplifl- tion and scorn mingled in his look. His lips addressing the husband, you may profess ed on the wings of the tempest. Darkness t moved, but his tongue uttered no sound. He " the words of ai was spread over the earth. Lightnings gath- only gasped to speak—to implore assistance, to mock, to laugh to scorn feeble woman, but see that tbey return not ered together their terrors, and clothed in His strength gave way—the waters rushed like a consuming fire into your bosom when the fury of their fearful majesty, flashedi around the rock as a whirlpool. He Was hope has departed. Is not the Lord of tbe through the air. The fierce bail was poured I again uplifted upon tbewhite bosom of the i ! Sabbath, the Creator ofthe sea aa well as of down as clouds of ice. At the awful voice loam, and tossed withina few yards of the the dry land? Know ye not that ye are of the deep thunder, the whirlwind quailed,i wailing but unavailing crowd. braving the wrath of Him before whom theiiand the rage of the tempest seemed spent. "It is John Crawford," exclaimed those mighty ocean ia a drop, and all space but a Nothing was now heard save the rage of who were able to recognize his features. A span? Will ye then glory in insulting His i the troubled sea, which, lasbed into fury by loud shriek followed the mention ef his name ordinances, and delight in profaning the dayithe angry storm, still bellowed forth its white —a female rushed through the crowd, and of holiness ? Will ye draw down everlasting billows to the clouds, and shouted its defi- the next moment the delicate form of Agnes darkness on the Sabbath of your soul ? I ance loud as the war-cry of embattled Crawford was seen floating on the wild sea. I When ye were but a youth, ye listened to worlds. The congregation still sat mute, In an instant a hundred plunged to her resI the words of John Knox—tbe great apostle horrified, death-like, as if waiting for the cue; but before the scream of horror and of our country—ye have trembled beneath preacher to break the spell of the elements.i surprise, raised by tho spectators, when they i > — ' • • ' ' > • ' • ,• . • ' . ' �23 THE FRIEND, MARCH 1, 1850. beheld her devoted but desperate purpose,leaved? was I cast upon Ihe beach? There she brought ye within a few yards of the had subsided, she was beyond tbereach of all is a confused remembrance in my brain, as shore; a wave overwhelmed you both aad who feared death. Although no feminine though an angel grasped me when I was cast you upon the beach, with her arm—tha arm of your wife that saved yon—upon your amusement, Agnes had delighted in buffeting sinking, and held me. But my head is the waters from a child, and she felt at home fused, it is fearfully confused, and I remem- Ibosom!" upon* their bosom, and now the strength of ber naething but as a dream; save tbe burst- " Gracious heaven!" exclaimed the fishinspiration seemed to thrill through her ing awa' o' the dreadful storm, withe per- erman, pressing his wife to his bosom—" my frame. She was bidden from the gaze of the ishing o' bunders in an instant, and the aw- iam Agnes! was it yon? wash you? my wife marvelling spectators, and a deep groan fu' cry that rang frae boat to boat, " a judg-- —my saviour!" And be Wept aloud and hit crept along the shore. She again appeared, ment has come ower us!" And it was children wept also. " There is nae merit in and her fair hand grasped the shoulder ofthe judgment indeed! O Agnes! had I listened iwhat I've done," replied aba, "for wha drowning man. A shout of wild joy rang to your words, to the prayers o' my bits o' should have attempted to save ye, had I no! back on the deserted town. Her father, bairns, or the advice o* the minister, I would ye were everything to me, John, aad to our who was amongst the multitude, fell upon hae escaped the sin that I hae this day com- bairns." his knees. He clasped his hands together, mitted, and the horrors wi' which it hasbeen But the feelings of tbe wife and mother too strong for words. I will not dwell " Merciful heaven!" he exclaimed, " Thou visited. But tell me now, or in what manner were upon the joy and gratitude of tbe family to who stillest the tempest, and holdest the wa- I was saved." "John," said the aged elder, the father whom the husband and tha father had been ters in the hollow of thy hand, protect —proof Agnes, "ye was saved by the merciful restored as from the dead. It found a sortect my child!" The waters rioted with redoubled fury.— and sustaining power of that Providence rowful contrast in the voice of lamentation Her strength seemed failing, but a smile of which ye this morning set at naught. But I and of mourning, which echoed along the hope still lighted up her features, and her rejoice to find that your heart is not harden- coast like the peel of an alarm bell. The hand yet grasped her apparently lifeless bur- ed, and that the awful visitation—the judg- dead were lain in heaps along the beach, and den. Despair again brooded on the counte- ment as ye have well described it, which has on the following day, widows, orphans, panances of her friends. For a moment she this day filled our coast with widows and rents, and brothers, came from all the fishdisappeared amongst the waves, but the next, with orphans, has not fallen upon you in vain; ing towns along the coast, to seek their dead Agnes Crawford lay senseless on the beach, for ye acknowledge your guilt, and are among the drowned that had been gathered her arm resting on the bosom of him she grateful for your deliverance. Your being together; or, if they found them not, they had snatched from a watery grave—on the saved ia nothing short o' a miracle. We a' wandered along the shore to seek for them beheld how long and how desperately ye where the sea might have cast them forth.— bosom of her husband. They were borne to their own home, struggled withe raging waves when we Such is the tale of the Sabbath wrecks—of where in a few minutes, she recovered, but knew not who ye were, and when it was pa the lost drave of Dunbar. her husband manifested no sign of vitality.— in the power of any being on the shore to All the means within their power, and that render ye the slightest assistance. We saw FOR THE FRItND. they knew, were resorted to, in order to ef- how ye struggled to reach the black rock, feet his resuscitation. Long and# anxiously and how ye was swept round it; and when Temperance Men Overboard. she wept over him, rubbing his temples and ye at last reached it, we observed how ye Lost overboard, in a recent voyage, behis bosom, and at length, beneath her hand clang to it withe grasp o' death, until your longing to the ship Washingtonia, a number hia breagt first began to heave with the re- strength gave way, and the waves dashed of men. The facts in relation to this sad cayou from it. Then ye was driven towards tastrophe cannot be definitely gathered from turning pulsation of his heart. exclaimed, she the beach, and some o' the spectators recog- the conflicting reports. The Washingtonia He lives! he breathes!" " and she sank back in a state of unconscious- nized your face, and then cried out your has been near tbe country of gold ; hut it ness, and was carried from the room. The name. A scream burst upon my ear—a wo- does not appear that tbe miserable men, who preacher attended by the bedside, where the man rushed through the crowd—and theni were lost, deserted her with the intention of unconscious fisherman lay, directing and as- John—oh, then!"—but here the feelings of'swimming ashore that they might go to the sisting in the operations necessary for re- the old man overpowered him. He sobbed gold mines. It would rather seem that some aloud, and pausing for a few minutes, added fatal infatuation had seized them—some storing animation. Oh, tell me,"1charm, like that of the rattle-snake, which As John Crawford begsn to recover, the—"tell him some o'ye." film of death that had gathered over his eyes said the fisherman, "all that my father-in- ■ caused the billows to appear unto them aa a began to melt away, and he gazed around law has said, I kenned before. But how was pleasant terra firms, where they might forget all their sorrows. And like the gold fein bewilderment, but unconscious of where I saved—or by whom?" The preacher took up the tale. " Heark- ver, this strange infatuation seemed to be inhe was and he sank into a troubled sleep; and as'he so slept, and his strength return- en vi to me, John Crawford," said he, "ye fectious ; for hardly, in the first instance, ed be cast forth bis arms, in imagination have reason this day to sorrow, and to re- had the fearful cry, " A man overboard !" yet grappling with death. He dreamed, and joice, and to be grateful beyond measure.—■ ceased to resound through the ship, before in his dreamhe shouted for help. He prayed, In ihe morning ye mocked my counsel and another made the dreadful plunge ! And so and in the same breath he blasphemed, snd set at naught my reproof. True, it was not far had this frenzy proceeded, that there reviled the trembling spectators, that his the speaker, but the wordsof truth that were! were not men enough left to navigate tbe troubled fancy still pictured on the beach. spoken, that ye ought to have regarded—for ship ! In a few hours the fisherman awoke from they were not my words, and I was but the But these wretched men have not all sunk his troubled sleep, which many expected humble instrument to convey them to ye.— beneath the waves. would have been the sleep of death. He But ye despised them, and as ye sowed so have '■Apparent rati nantes in gurgiu vasto." raised himself in the bed—he looked around ye reaped. But as your father-in-law has1 • wistfully. Agnes, who had recovered and told ye, when your face was recognized from Occasionally one is seen struggling in the that some of these appear mentioned, a waves. It is said his bosom.— the and name woyour shore, returned to the room, fell upon My Agnes! my poor Agnes!" he cried ga- man screamed—she rushed through the mul- well nigh exhausted, and it is thought that zing wistfully in her face—"but where— titude—she plunged into the boiling sea, and they cannot hold out much longer. where am I and my bairnies, where are in an instant she was beyond the reach of It is with much pleasure we hear that efforts are about to be make to ship a craw for help!" they?" fisherman, the the good ship Washingtonia, and we sincerechildren, cried speak Speak, here," on," cried the Here, faither " stretching out their little arms to embrace eagerly, and he placed his hands on his heav- ly hope that volunteers may be found toman ing bosom, and gazed anxiously, now toward the life-boats for the purpose of finding and , him rethe preacher, and again toward Agnes, who saving the men overboard. And there is A around. anxiously Again he looked need of energy and basts—for tha meat are collection of the past, and a consciousness wept upon his shoulder, "The Providence that had till then sus- gone beyond hope ! of tbe present, fell upon hia mind. "Thank Ye Waabingtonians where are ye ?— God!" he exclaimed, and burst into tears; tamed you, while your fellow creatures per? and when his troubled soul and his agitated ished around you," added tbe clergyman, Who will volunteer to save the perishing bosom had found in them relief, he inquired " supported her. She reached you—ahe Up ! to the rescue !_ Tbe causa of humaniL. E. eagerly, "but, ob, tell me, how waa I grasped your arm. After long struggling, ty—tbe cause of God calls you ! i con-1 < at i ' i I " I> ' t_ " " , ! �24 . FRIENDM,ATCHE 1,1850] MARRIED. ReUSsptacisng.cStates. Arrival or Capt. Sib John C. Ros».— In Honolulu, Feb 37th, by the Rev. S. C. Damon, (»0M IllustratedChristian Almanac, for 1850.) Capt. J. C. Ross, and his vessels, the En- Mr. Rica'n Messbkgeb to Miss Mart Bkadfiki i. •» terprise and Investigator, have arrived in 68 91 83 85 79 80 78 68 54 England, from his search after Sir John DIED. Franklin. The gallant officer appeared ra- In this town on the 16th inst. Caboliwe Soj-his ther the worse tor his perilous voyage, but infant dapgbter of Henry and Ann Maria was animated with his characteristic energy. aged one year. 14, 28, 4, S3, 8, 4, 15, It is his confident opinion, that neither Sir John Fr.tnklin nor any of his brave companMARINE are eastward of in any point ions, navigable k PORT OF HONOLULU. the Arctic regions, and if there be any chance £Z 18 4 8 8 8 4 8 4 4 4 of their existence, it is in the supposition Arrived. 57 62 58 68 68 58 62 55 68 51 49 65 14 ds fm San Fran that he proceeded in a westerly direction— Feb. 6—Am. shin G. Washington Holdrige, ■? Jo 6 Am. bk M«7.«'|ipa, tjirillir, 17 iN and in such case we can only expect to hear 6 Alii, wh bk Monmouth, llalsey briftan Anne, Loon d« Aguirre, 27 ds do from the missing adventurers by the Maken- Feb. 79— Tahiiian Brii ach Petri., Turnbull, 31 da fin Tahiti zie detachment, or by Her Majesty's ship 13—Am wh ah Cherokee, Cleveland, fm N. Bedford. M „,(. odd Fell aw. Chapman, 17 da Kan Francisco. 14— Plover, Coin. Moore, by way of Russia. 15—Fr ah Albairoa, Luco, Valparaiso, 18 do " N. Z brig Kewl, J. McLean, 68 da fm Auckland, Capt. Ross traversed at least two hundred for 15—Br. Franclaco, wiiti 17 passenger-, and thirty miles on the ice. They penetra- Feb.Sin 16—Perbk Rmpresa, While, 21 da fm San Franclaco. 91—Am ah Consiantine, YV.ni.nr, 14 dt ted as far as the wreck of the Fury, where **" Sl—lUwbk Don Uuuote, Dudoit, 16ds he found the old tent standing, and every 21—Hex br Dnn Carloa, Guerrero. !6 da ftn Mauitlan. Br Royal Yacht Wanderer, llnj it, finjajhalna thing about it in a state of the best preservaah St Michael, fin San Francisco. "" Fr Span bg Cl-tvileno, 8t Juan, fin San Francisco. tion. At this point Capt. Ross deposited a M Am ah Humboldt, of and also the large quantity provisions, " Cleared. screw launch of the Enterprise. In the Feb. 2,—Am, ach S. Roberts, Falkenburger, for SanFranclaco whole course of his researches, it is said that 2—Am wti ah Tuacarora, Leek, cru.*e. 2—Haw ach Wilhelmine, King, for San Francisco. Capt. Ross never met with a single Esqui7—Fr wh »h Gen. Teste, Rowdier, to cruis«. 21 DM. STAES. : into Born, TOFHE ■ , .4,1896 179 4,182 1836 1831 1848 1845 1841 1849 JOURNAL. Dee. JulyJulyJune JulFey b. June April June .- 1177389 11779375 1187041S 1178501911871578;11872657 11872697,11873872 1187413 11874910 11874955 11374894 , Maschuet Maschuet KeaMne. fcr-—Virgnia VirgniaVrginaVirgnia [Ten se YNeorwkOhio VirgniaTen sLeouian Adams Buren Harison Polk Taylor. W a s h i n g t o KaNma.e r — Adams Jef rsoMnadisonMunroe Quincy JacksoVann Tyler George JohnThomas James Jatnea JohnAndrewMartin Wm. John James 12Zacb ry H- PRESIDNT Noo. 11 U Saury cut Ewtng, McArthur, coi-ml'g. sailed for 6 F maux. 8—Ho) Brothers. Swart, for Hong Kong. The intelligence which reached New York Feb. 9—U S.bkN.Three propeller H*taaHchusetlH. Knox, sailed flr Hilo Bishop, for San Franclaco. Friendship, sch 11—Am on the 20th Oct, by the bark M'Lellan from I*2—Am bhip Mariposa, Martin, for SaaFrancisco. ( Davis Straits, is confirmed by a communica12—Am schr Haieilecn, Cruchet, * 13— *- sch Lola, Jenkins, for Lahaina. tion from Kirkaldy, dated Nov. Ist.—JV. F. 13— u bk Drummoiut, Pierce, H. K. 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 9 10 11 Tribune. Expedition for the Relief of Sir John GOVERNMENT OP THE UNITED STATES. Salary $25,000 Franklin.—Lieut. Lynch, the commander Zaoharr Taylor, Lonkrlana. l'reaident, Millard Fillmore, N. York, Vice-President, 6,000 of the Dead Sea Expedition, has volunteered John M. Clayton. Delaware, Sec. of State, Penn., Sec of the Treaaury, Wm. at. Meredith, Geo. W. Crawford, Georgia, See. of War, Wm. B. Fraaton, Vir»lnia, Seo of the Nary, Thoa. Ewlng, Ohio Sec. of Home Department, Jacob Collamer, Vermont. Postmaster-General, Uarerdy Jotuuon, Maryland, Attorney-General, REVENUE "" " "" "" " — ■ BS*Sllt*. Total receipts, $31,757,070 ' the object.—Phil. Amer. $51,354,701 ■ Am bk Connecticut, Penballow. , Chilian sen Elltabeth, Aquetll. Southward. Br brig Mary Dure, Scarborough. Haw M-hr Mary Ann, Barrill. for sale or charter. Br loreha Sarah, Hardy. Am ship Ctfrolua, Dunbar. Haw schr Caroline, Fish. Br schr Louisa, Howard. Am. ah Gen Washington, Holdrlge. Am. bk Maieppa, Cinder. Am wh bk Monmouth, Halsey. Tah br Anne, Aguirre. Fr all Albatros, Luco. Br. ach Petrel, Turnbull. 3r br Kewl. M'Lean. the legality of paying the exper.ses of such 3,321,642 an expedition, he thinks he could raise suffi351,037 cient from private sources to charter, 21,256,700 1,701.251 strengthen and equip a steamer to carry out -- Am brig Cnptaao, and men (all volunteers,) and provisions— AND EXPENDITURES OF GOVERNMENT and in case there should be a question as to Prom Caatoma, Public l.anda, Mlaccllaneouaaourcea, Treaaury Notes and Loan, IaTraaauijr, July 1, 1847, -— Shipj>inp in Port, Feb. 15, 1850* 6.000 6,000 to head an expedition to start as early as 6,0 in 6,000 practicable next year, to relieve Sir John 6,000 Franklin. He proposes for the government 6,0no 4,000 to sanction the attempt, and afford officers FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1848. " 14 '• wh sh ('herokee. Cleveland, to cruise. Feb.lB—Fr wh sh Ville dc Rennet., Billot, to cruise. 20 —Am ach Decatur, Morrill, for Lahaina. * Illustrated Almanac for 1850. 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Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1850.03.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.03.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/60308c04aaf6ae2a266f1bbcae6c25d1.pdf b73f96cd084feb9635b8f7a8a46ee679 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. Vol. 8. Contents OF THE Kill KM >, FEB. 1,1860, Bell's Weekly Mcaaenter. Pane '> 9, 10 Vi»il of French Ship Bunitc, Ac., coiitinnecl, .Sir John Franklin, 1, 12, 15, 16 1'ealh of W. B. Tappan, the Poel, II Late New* from Arctic Ocean, 12 Examination of Mr. Puller'* School, 13 A Hint 10 Pursera ill the U. 8. Nary 12 Oregon, and California, 1-3 Loss of Four r: rrenland Whalera, 13 Facta Tor Scoflcra and Sceptic, 14 Commercial rtuuUlicfePr Haw. lalands, for 1619, 14, 15 Father Mallhew, 15 16 llcalha, Donnlions, Ac, m WBeelk'lsyMessenger. No. « only of the (own, and the honor of the capture brought away by the conquerors." The English might well congratulate themselves in being permitted to gratify their palates around a table spread for President Madison, and decorated with decanters, of choice wines ! " The champagne was in coolers—a fine desert set out on the sideboard, etc. So the British officers ordered in the supper, and Gen. Ross drank His Majesty's health at the head of the table with the President's wine !" While the English politician was smiling over these facetious remarks, it must have been far different with ship-owners in Liverpool and London,as they glanced overLloyd's list of British vessels captured by American privateers. The most interesting numbers of the Messenger are those of the 9th of July and 15th of August, 1815, immediately subsequent to the battle of Waterloo. The Homan, when his burning heart Was slaked with blood of Home, Threw down the dagger—dared depart, In savage grundeur, home. He dared depart, in utter scorn Of men that such a yoke had borne, Yet left him s«ch a ilretm! His only glory was that hour Of self upheld abandoned power. Hut thou—from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung— Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung ; All evil spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean. EDITOTR'S ABLE. 9 Tnere has recently fallen into our possesAnd earth hath spilt her blood for him, sion a file of Bell's Messenger for 1814, Who thus can hoard his own I with an occasional number for 1815. Those And Monarchs bow'd the trembling limb, | allied times. was England were xtiiring Visit ofthe French sloop of war And thank'd him for a throne 1 Bonite, to the with tbe nations ofcontinental Europe to put Fair Freedom ! we may hold thee dear, Islands, in down Napoleon. He was banished to Klba, Sandwich thus thy mightiest foes their fear but on a sudden re-appears upon the theatre', When Friend, le Translated from ihe French of for In humblest guise have shown. of action. Immense urmies are speedily orBarrot. Adolphe behind Oh ! necr may tyrant leave ganized, and meet at Waterloo. The histoNo. 11. A brighter, name to lure mankind! ry of that period is familiar to otir renders, The house of Mr. Forbes is in the midst of but the best history (ails to bring before tbe to have been somemind so vivid a picture as is presented in the It wns during the year 1814, that the Em- a garden, which seemed by a quicksurrounded Prussia, and the of what and King of Russia neglected, pages of a weekly newspaper, and that paper peror visited England, and were entertained in a set hedge of ki—the ki is a shrub with large edited with rare ability. has the taste As we are not favored with regular files of■style becoming royalty. In the columns of leaves, and its root when cookad or The natives forreport a full of their burnt sugar. we have of calomel newspapers fresh from the presses of Europe the Messenger from it, and the United States, it is certainly a good progress, and the splendid entertainments merly extracted a very strong liquor have the Missionaries prohibion account. at present their but file of more prepared papers substitute to meet with a i distillation than thirty years old. Buonaparte is the There were many sad accidents connected. ted, under severe penalties, the family of the of this root. royal the domestic affnirs the of Pwith in picture grand and prominent figure of England, which found their way into the Mr. Forbes received us very cordially, and that age. and venerable introduced us to his family, consisting ol hia In the paper for March 27th, 1814, the first public journals. The aged with insanity; the wife, a native like himself, ofthe UnitedStates is afflicted 111, of Lord George ofthe file, we have a despatch George IV, nnd two lovely children. Kapioluni joined us Prince subsequently Regent, lington, detailing a signal victory which the. bell called us to church. allied army had obtained over the French at['quarrels with his wife, and otherwise con- and very soon the is in.every rea forever Kaawaloa will manner that The church-of in ducts hrmself march Borupon Orthes, and then of a rapid ; it if a country with houses of the like the spect, the most dishonorable epithets deaux. Then follows a long list oT the ' kill- 'associate shed in the form of a lofty cone, or raIgreat and ',his memory. of name The thanks missing.' ed, wounded and the J At this period England was at war withjther, of a roof resting on the ground, Parliament. Marshall Soult's proclamation],'the held tc-t, a frame by an account supported being United jsidas States. In publishing to the French occupies a prominent placßaj the British 'gether by cords—for nails are not used in of Washington by the burning the •jof matters, Besides these important while it was jibe construction of houses. This forms a presents his readers with an ordinary supply'Ifirmy, the editor remarks, that the ar- sort of lattice work covered on the outside* the dock yards, of news, relating to deaths and disasters,,'proper to destroy " Washingat with the leaves of the pandanus, the cocoatreasury the affairs, -senilis, and public ll apbankruptcies and commercial In the houses of nut in too far army.went -ton," the yet destroying tree, or sugar cane. concealed pears that patent medicines, producing wonby mats is thmthatching President's the palace."—i chiefs, derful cures, were remarkably in vogue at,t|" the capitol and editor, "is a which line all the interior. The length of remarks the •'Washington," that period. ; church is about eighty feet, its width aOur narrow limits will not of course per-jcapital city, rising in the woods of America Ihe which Amerbout forty, and its greatest height aboutlrfty. mit us to make lengthy quotations, althoughi it is the temple, as it were, from is olof containing more than a thouis to be It It is capable produced. inlercsting ican civilization on every page the eyo falls upon travellers About six hundred Islanders were of interest to sand. banmost the only object articles. The fall of Napoleon and his and naked counor kneeling sitting upon coarse mats. A that new in for •'and strangers a fruitful theme tsbjnent to Elba, formed were of chairs had been placed for us near and number palace ; the President's I'try theme which capitol newspaper discussion. It was a It was interesting to and their the minister's pulpit. the destruction ( pride of Union, roused the poet Byron to touch his lyre. Inithe wound. To sny see This multjfcdc assembled to hear the word greater therefore, inflicts a to on Napoleon a beautiful Ode* addressed wodM have preferred that of Christ, where, scarcely fifty years before, his fall, and published in the Messenger r all in a word, we had been spared, and the spoil they offered bfrnan victims to abominable diI buildings Aptil 24th, we find these spirfc»d lines : llnese 1836. ■ I I : ' i Wel-J i ■ - i ■ t : i i I �10 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. vinitiea.. There are it is true, very fear real i slmtishness of Iheir clothing, diminished very- an adventure which seemed too interesting chriatiana among the natives, and almost all much the strength oftheir attractions. As the to be omitted here. retain in the interior of their villages and of men that we had seen up to that time, seem- \ The natives in their canoes frequently pass their houses, their absurd superstitions ; yet ed to have a preference for money and rlo- over the channels which separate the differit ia much to induce them to come occasion-,Ihi 112, so the women at Kealakeakua appear- ent Islands of the archipelago. < in- day, a ally to hear words too mystical, without ed to have preserved the. taste for toys no- native accompanied by his wife and two doubt, and of which fhey understand nothing, ticed by the first navigators. A string- of'small children, put off in a canoe from the but which contain lessons of christian moralsi glass bends, a copper ring with a colored northern point ofLanai with the design of so sublime, so simple and so well adapted toi stone, filled them with joy. landing on the southern putt of Molokai, a of seven or eight leagues. When disclose to them, by degrees, the means of Towards noon, the entire female popula- |distance civilization. The men were on one side and tion of Kealakeakua assembled to bathe in a lie Inul put to sea ihe weather was fine, but the women on the other. No individual was small bay surrounded hy lava rocks ; one!suddenly a dink cloud blackened Ihe sky, a admitted naked, but Mr. Forbes was obliged:I rock served the bathers for a screen, nnd gale commenced and the sea becntne very rough. For a long time the skill with which not to be too particular in respect to the lorm they plunged thence entirely naked, into the the islander guided his linil skill' in the midst the most the men garment. part, the For of waves which were breaking upon ihe shore ; were enveloped in large pieces of native cloth a plank, six or eight bet in length, ami of the waves preserved it from being in the manner of a cloalt. Many of the wo- pointed at one end, enabled Ihem to sustain!'wrecked; hut at length a sea broke the outjriggcr nnd the canoe capsized. The chilmen wore straw hats, and some were envelthemselves on the crest of the waves. It was dren were too young to be. able to swim. He oped from head to foot in unbecoming cloaks indeed, a singular picture—»a swarm ofyoungl M'l/i'il iln-ill at the moment when the sea was such as English females still wear in the women passing returning 1 about to lai out to sen, thenborne swallow them up, and placed them Individuals the congregation in country. with the swillness of an airow, upon had prayer books, printed at Honolulu and■ the foaming crest of the surges which break upon the canoe, which being made of light wood Hooted, although bottom up. Then he Lahaina in the Hawaiian language, and when with the noise of thunder on each side of the and his wife swimming at U&side, undertook according to the Presbyterian form, Mr. hay. to see them to urge it aletig to the nearest I expected every moment shore. They Forbes commenced singing the psalms of the dashed against tbe sharp points of the rocks, were then near the middle of the channel.— ritual, voices, hesitating at first, and then but they avoided the danger with surprising more confident, accompanied that of the mis- address ; indeed, danger seemed to delight After many hours of liitiguing exertion, and sionary. In fine, with the exception of some\ them, and they set it at defiance with a cour- when they bad almost reached the shore, they met a very strong current* which urged want of attention, occasioned no doubt by our which astonished me. The least move- them buck into the open sea. To struggle presence ; with the exception of some enti- age ent of their body gave to ihe plank which| against the force of the current would hflk cing glances from the women near us, all m them, the desired direction, and.been to expose themselves to certain dealn, s ustained off* —but it wrs to passed decently easy per- disappearing for a moment in the midst of they therefore decided to cieve notwithstanding, that the great majoridirect their canoe t he they very soon arose from the towards another part of the island. Yet the breakers, ty of the congregation were present by nef oam and returned at their ease run the to night came on and they began to feel cold. cessity. Kapiolani was arrayed in her best; same race again. I saw a mother, who hav- The woman was the first to coKtplain of faher dress was of black satin, and she wore her child, scarcely a year old, tigue, but the desire so natural to ing escape upon her head a cloak of native fabric as uponplaced a two feet long, pushed it before death, and the sight of her children whose plank ' She seemed to fol- her to a glosay almost as satin. and then great distance, abandoning low with attention the divine£ervice in the it to the fury of the waves, she followed, di- life depended upon the preservation of her own, gave her courage, and she continued book before her ; her countenance was no) recting only now and then the plank which to swim near her husband, pushing the canoe wanting in dignity, and a pair of batteredI it. before them. Soon the poor children became spectacles on her nose, gave to her an ap- ■ sustained which even in Hawaii, appeared to> I had expected to see this population such fatigued, for they could not long cling to the pearance us very singular. as ('apt. Cook found it, free and indepen- round and polished surface of the canoe withOn the morrow, I went to visit the villagel dent, and the contrast I avow, did not appear out a continued effort, and they were also with cold. Soon they relinquished ofKealakeakua, accompanied by M. Eydoux[ to me in favor of the present, whenl after- chilled their and fell one after the other, into hold, wards saw these women covered with dirty of the and To M. Hebert. corvette, surgeon the sea. Their parents seized them and pla■ land with dry feet was impossible, and we! rags. ced them again upon the canoe, striving at were obliged to swim in some manner in orThe difficulties we had experienced in land- the same time to encourage them. Alas! der to reach the shore. This failed not to ing, suggested the idea of returning on board excite the mirthfulness of the population a- 'the Bonite in a canoe. We had been able their strength was exhausted—their little round us. It is certain that the customs of'to appreciate during the day, the advantages hands could no lunger retain their grasp, and engulfed them for the third time. It the country were much better adapted to the'possessed by these light and easily worked the sea longer necessary to think ofpreseroccasion than our own. A crowd of boys 1canoes in a rough sea over our heavy boats. was no the canoe ; ihe parents therefore took and girls immediately surrounded us. Al- We entered a canoe of about fifteen feet in ving though scarcely two miles distant from Kaa- length and a foot or more in width. This the children upon their backs and swam towards die land which was scarcely visible in waloa, the population of Kealakeakua ap- ; canoe, like all those of the Pacific islands, tbe darkness. An hour later, the woman disto be far under influence less the of had an out-rigger made of a piece of light' peared the missionary. We could perceive this wood and fixed parallel to the canoe by means covered that the child which she was carrywithout difficulty in the clothing of the island- 1of two transverse bars four or five feet in ing was dead, and she broke forth into bitter ers and in their conduct towards us. Here length. Our Indians waited for what is csll-l lamentations. In vain did her husband perthe maro was the only article of clothing worn 11ed a calm, that is the moment when the waves', suade her to abandon the child and to take couruge, pointing out to her the shore which by the men, nnd scarcely were the women which usually succeed one another to the', better clad. But the manner in which the 1number of four or five, seem to cease for an',now seemed near. The unhappy mother women received us, proved beyond a doubt, instant, then they drew the canoe rapidly.,would not separate from her lifeless child, and she continued to carry her precious burthat their actions were not so immediately some distance from the when springingl until she felt her strength nearly exhaustunder the control of Mr. and Mrs. Forbes as'upon their seals and shore, den paftdling vigorouslyl( those of the inhabitants ofKaawaloa. They they were able before the next wave rolled in (ed, when she told her husband that she must die, for she could swim no further ; yet, notemployed every possible art to attract our;'to such a distance that we experienced withstanding her attention and to win our favor ; but it is true gain husband's earnest entreattwo three We or only strong undulations. ies, she would not relinquish her burden. that flle rings and necklaces distributed by 1reached the Bonite safe and sound. He then endeavored to sustain her with one these gentlemen to the prettiest, were not The next day I spoke to Mr. Forbes con- |hand and to swim with the other, but without influence upon their friendly disponature cerning the extraordinary dexterity in swim- icould not prolong the struggle, and she sitions. dishad observed ming ; which I on the preceding appeared beneath the waves. Tbje husband The itch seemed to be a prevailing malady day among the natives. " You can have no continued to swim on in sadness. The deamong them, almost all were more or less adequate idea of "they are isire to save his surviving child'alone sustainit," he i with it. affected This circumsflhee, joinedI more at their ease in th*replied, water than on the ied him. At length, after many hours of unto the copper color of their skis and to the[ land." To confirm this assertion, he related ispeakable hardship, and when almost dead, 1 , _.. ',' ' ' > ' , ' '' ' , > , , , . : , �THE FRIENI}, FEBRUARY 1. 1850. 11 he reached the shore. His first care was to which have been enlarged, continues thei has been proved to have been a bad one for embrnce the son he had saved, for he alone same that it was before (he discover* of thei making researches in those seas, which would remained to him of his beloved family. But island. As a general thing, the houses of"of course delay them; secondly, that Sir J. on taking him into his arms, he perceived: (lie natives ire sufficiently comfortable ; the Franklin, knowing that this would be the that he was dead, and he fell senseless upon floors are cninmoiily covered with mats ex- ■ last expedition that in all probability would the sand. He was discovered at day-break cellently lirnitled, upon which they spread a be sent out, would naturally endeavor to lying prostrate on the shore, by some fisher- hed of dry ferns. Formerly there was but make the most of it; and thirdly, that almen. He revived, but he died soon after in a single room in a house, nud that was used though he only carried out provisions for consequence of his sufferings, and perhaps fur a dining room, drawing room and bed!.three years, yet when seeing that he was also, from grief. He had been in the water chamber. The missionary >t are now per- likely to be longer detained he would lesson eighteen hours. suading the people to make divisions in their the quantity of victuals served out to the We were at Kealakeakua six days, visit- ■houses, and for this purpose they generally men, as one half the full quantity allowed it ing the natives at their houses and collecting employ large curtains of/apa or of Knglish sufficient to keep men in health, and theresuch information as seemed to possess any calico, These separations form the sleeping fore he was not likely to suffer on that acinterest. We were informed that Knpiolani iipni'tmenls. The lied is composed of a great count, saying nothing of the occasional together with Kaahumanu, wife of Kameha- number of mat* laid one upon another, ho as supply of seals, birds, &c, which abound in meha, was the first to embrace the christian to form Hiieslinde, the coarsest being placed those regions. The lecturer also showed religion, but her conversion was not very at the bottom. This place is tabu (prohibited) from a map Ihe different places where he sincere at first. " For twelve years or more,", to all ihe world. supposed they could quarter safely for the said Mr Forbes, " she was a very bad woNear Kapiolmii's house is the tomb of her winter. He thought, however, after all, that man. She was constantly drunk and she had husband—u lame stone edifice with a roof"if we received no intelligence from them befour or five husbands. Even after having of boards. This man was a powerful and fore the end of the autumn, the chances in received baptism, she retained two ; and it],very rich chief; but at his death, a son that their favor would be greatly lessened.—[Boswas only in consequence of our expostula- ,he bad by his first wife, took from Knpiolani ton Transcript. tions that she came to the conclusion to have almost all thai she held from him, and she is Death of W. B. Tappan.—This Christian but one." At present she is a virtuous wo- now comparatively poor. A few calabashes for pot, (fermented paste, poet, whose name is associated with some of man, and she has bceotne the firmest defender of the moral and religious innovations on made of lam,) one or Iwo Lahiles, sometimes,our most familiar hymns, has been called to Hawaii. Kapiolani has given many proofs a line and some paddles, constitute the entire that " peaceful rest" which was so often the of greHt energy. It once happened that a 'furniture of a Hawaiian house. Fish slight-, theme of his song. He died at Needhain, sailor belonging to an American ship, was ly salted and very often raw, and poi, com-,■ Mass., on Monday last, of cholera, after an arrested and put in prison, having been con- prise their principal fond. I took a notion to .illness of but eleven hours. victed of the offence for which persons were taste of poi, but it seemed detestable. It Mr. Tappan was truly a good man, humsentenced to labor on the roads of Hawaii. possesses the color and consistence of starch ble, affectionate, sincere, benevolent,devoted. The captain of the ship waited upon Knpio- -and an acid Insle is very perceptible. At He loved Christ, His people, and His cause. lani and threatened to fire the village unless Kealakeakua butcher's meat is never eaten. He was particularly interested in Sabbaththe sailor should be instantly released.— All (hat Europeans can find here to sustain schools, to which he consecrated, not his "Here is my law," said Knpiolani, "the animal life, are low Is, pigs, cocoa-nuts and a time Oily, but some of the choicest productions of his genius. At the time ofhia death sailor shall pay the fine of fifteen dollars or few kinds of fruits. he shall work four months on the roads—the The importation of intoxicating liquors are he was a General Agent of the A. S. S. Union same as his associate in guilt. Now if you prohibited ; we could however perceive that which office he had held for several years. have the force, fire the village; but while the islanders are not destitute of the fondness The impression which Mr. Tappan made Kapiolani lives, her law shall be executed in Tor ardent spirits, which has been observed, upon all who knew hitn, was that of quiet, her courtry." The captain was obliged to' exists among all nations. Even the women unassuming, but deep and fervent piety. Ha pay the fine, in order to obtain tlie release opened their mouths with avidity to receive breathed much of the spirit of Christ and of of the sailor. the brandy which we gave them. The heaven. Ia spite of all the zeal of Mr. and Mrs. islanders as a general thing, are restrained As a poet he did not hold the first rank even Forbes—and Ibe latter participates in all the from giving themselves up to their old prac- among the poets ofhis own country and time. labors of her husband—the number of real tices not by conviction of truth, but from fear His reputation had been belter if he had christians has scarcely increased in the dis- of punishment. Whenever occasion offers iwritten less. A ready faculty of improving Mr. Forbes being they hasten to throw off" the yoke which has incidents, hints, allusions and affections, betrict of Kealakeakua. alone in this district, and his school at K'au- been imposed upon them. Four or five trayed him into a passion for turning everywaloa demanding his uninterrupted attention, months before, Kauikeaouli, King of the thing into rhyme, so that instead of clothing he has not the leisure to make distant excur- Sandwich Islands, with a part of his court,'Jthe passing event, however trivial, with a' sions. Consequently his influence is scarce- made a visit to Hawaii, and he gave himself rich and shining garb of spiritual philosophy, ly felt at a short distance from Kaawaloa, up to excesses in which not only those who ihe sometimes gave only a jingling narration and the natives retain almost all the super- accompanied him took part, but the whole of the event itself. Yet he had in his heart stitions of their old religion. I should have population of Kealakeakua also. Neither, the well-spring of poetry, which ever and earnestly desired to visit those parts of ihe Kapiolani nor Mr. Forbes ventured to make anon bubbled up and sparkled in the sunisland where no missionaries reside, in order the least remonstrance—they waited impa- light, and poured forth life and sweetest melto see the natives in their nearest approaches tiently in their houses until the country should ody. Enough that his memory will be emto the primitive slate ; but my lot being found be deliveredfrom the presence of the wicked. balmed in the affections of the Church, when at the opening of public worship they sing closely connected with that of tho Bonite, even until my arrival at Manilla, it was neSir John Franklin.—An English paper '• Holy be this, as was the place cessary to be content with seeing only those states that the Rev. Dr. Scoresby delivered To him of Padan-arain known ;" parts where civilization has penetrated. a lecture last month in England, "On Ihe or, meditating on a Saviour's passion, find Kapiolani treated me with great kindness ; Hopes and Fears concerning the absent Arc- utterance in that pensive strain,' she made me a present of a magnificent kahile,' tic Expeditions." The lecturer, who has 'Tis midnight—and on Olive's brow, a sort of feather broom—among the chiefsi'cx|il<ired these regions himself, and whose The star is dimmed that lately shone ;". this is a token of authority. She invited me father made several impottant discoveries in to visit her house at the lower village, andI arctic navigation, first entered into an his- or, when assembled to pray for the coming also the one she was building nt the upper■torical account of the different discoveries of Christ's kingdom, tliey raise the triumphvillage. The latter lias the advantage of be- made in these parts, and then entered into ant anthem, ing near the missionary, and it has assumed I Ihe more immediate subject of the lecture. 'Wake! Isleaof the South, your redemption is near 1 a certain European aspect. There was build- •He (Dr. S.) is of opinion that the hopes of or, when in the midst of storms and trials, ing on the same let a stone house of twoi Sir John Franklin and his company ought yet they seize the lay of comfort and hope, storied. Her house in the lower village, withito outweigh the fears, for many reasons; There is an hourof hallowed peace," the exception of the doors and windows, first, because the first summer they were out ' I I . , " ' " �THE FRIEND, FBBRyARY 1, 1850. 12 < that place the Plover is wintering. The educational aspect of affairs in Honolulu.— Herald and the Nancy Dawson, left the,'.The average attendance has been about thirty Where purity with love appears, Sound on the 1st of Oct., just as the ice was Ifive, embracing pupils engaged in the vnri" And bliss without alloy ; beginning to make. Both vessels steered for'ous studies pursued in the best academics of And they who oft have sown in tears Shall reap agam in joy." Mazatlan, Mexico. From thence the HeraldIthe United Skates, and unless our memory JV. Y. Independent, July, 1819. iwent on a surveying cruise up the Gull ofIhas proved treacherous, the standing of the California, and the Nancy Dawson left forischolars would favorably compare with that England, under command of Mr. Hill, master 1of tbe scholars of the same age elsewhere.— 'of the Herald. At Mazatlan, died Capt.' In the department of sketching natural sceneHONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. Shedden, of the Nancy Dawson, which ves- ry nnd maps, great neatness and skill weie sel was owned and fitted out by him. She idisplayed. The interludes of singing gave from Arctic Ocean. Late News had been about two and a half years from ia gratifying variety to the performances.— Cruise of the ' JVancy Dawson' discovery of England, having visited all the ports of im- While referring thus to drawing nnd singing new Islands party start-overland for Baf- \portance between England and Bhering's we would nut have the inference drawn, that !the severer studies were slighted. When fin's Bay, and death of Capt. Shadden. Straits, via Cape of Good Hope. do add that no the young gentlemen were heard to declaim sincerely California, arrival from Most we to Mr. regret a late By Shannon arrived as passenger, who was re- i report is brought in any way relating to Sir in the language of Lord Chatham, Daniel Webster, and other orators, it made the cently chief-officer of the ' Nancy Dawson.','John Franklin. youthful blood again course through tbe He reports as follows— Sir John Franklin's Expedition.—In' The Nancy Dawson, the Royal Thames jveins of not a few of the spectators who had several late papers from the United Slates commander,,' owned her received their education in the schools of by Yatch Schooner, iwe notice articles relating to the probability manned England nnd the United States. One feature by twentyCapt. R. Shadden, and that Sir John Franklin and his fellow exploleft and of the school was apparent, that pupils of in April, seamen, China touchfour rers may yet return. Intelligence has been [Hawaiian extinction, fairly maintained an ed at Loo Choo Islands, where they saw Dr. received at the British Admiralty, through equality in point of scholarship with thooe Bettleheim. While there one of the seamen masterof an English whaler, that " two I Jthe jwho could boust that they were of Americofractured his arm on firing a salute on the! of the ships had been frozen up for four years' Anglo-Suxon descent. Queen's birth-day, which was amputated by on the west side of Prince Regent's Inlet, Viewing Ihe school wilh a pedagogue's Dr. Bettleheim. On the 4th of July, the' and that the other two had been frozen up on eye, we might perhaps discern ia>vtne defects vessel left the Russian settlement at Kamthe east side for one year ; that the two ships, that a little care would readily remove, but acthaka, and on the lHth entered the Arctic 1 which had been there the longest, had tried our columns are not the place to point them Ocean. On Ihe following day to get beyond Cape Rennell, but not being out. Most sincerely we desire to call the bue's Sound, where H. M. S. * Herald' and able, had come into Prince Regent's Inlet to.attention of parents and the friends of educa'Plover,' were at anchor. These vessels where the ice had not broken up,tion in Honolulu, to the importance of renimmediately got under weigh, and the Herald winter, since—and that the Indians had been on, dering Mr. Fuller a generous and cordial stood to the awestward, towards the Asiatic board all tho four ships in March last, and support. We moreover hope the day is not coast. Previously, however, a boat expedithey were then all sufe." far distant when some beautiful site in Honotion was fitted out from the vessels, composed This report is founded upon the statement lulu, or its environs, will be adorned with a of the Herald's launch, (the Owen,) thePloof certain Indians, who made their report, school edifice that shall prove a ver's pinnace, and two whale boats. This temple of expedition stood to the north, along the A- "without special questioning." This intelli- knowledge to the youth of our prosperous merican coast, in company with the Nancy gence is furnished by the owner of the whale itown. An institution, such ns we would have, at Hull, England, who writes would in an eminent degree exalt tbe tone of Dawson. They parted in tbe fog, to the'ship, residing the Secretary of Ihe Admiralty under date educution here, and reflect true glory upon north of Icy Cape. The Nancy Dawson of Oct. 4th. Until something more definite our community. Who will second the movewent aa far north as 72°, and experienced shall be heard, we may certainly cherish the ment ? heavy gales of wind, which drove the ice so pleasing hope that the long lost adventurers as almost to wedge up the passage, and at may yet return and report to the world the A Hint to Pursers in the U. S. Navy.— one time it was feared the vessel would not'I narrative of their trials. We can scarcely ; Some years since, a worthy sailor, native of escape. The Nancy Dawson at length' imagine an event which Englishmen would Finland, but serving on board a United States' rounded Point Barrow, and entered Elson's hail with greater joy and national enthusi- vessel of war, was left at the Hospital in HoBay, where she fell in with the boats. The asm ; and we are confident that Americans, nolulu. After recovering his health, another boats reached a point eighty miles east of and other nations, will cordially unite in a " States' vessel" took him away. On his arPoint Barrow. Lieut. Pullen of the Plover,! burst of generous and heart-fell rival home he was subject to unnecessary exjgeneral and Mr. Hooper, mate of the Plover, with a' pense in collecting his wages, which he al'delight. company ofabout fifteen men, and sixty days iludes to in the following language, copied provision, embarked in the two whale boats, 1 Examination of Mr. Fuller's School— a letter which we have just received to proceed as far as possible by water, andlit mny be a funcy of ours, but a School Ex- [from him, bearing date New York, Nov. [from then to get over land with all possible des- amination is among the most choice delights •21, 1848. ■ patch to Englana, ty way of Baffin's Bay. jthat sweeten our cup of human happiness.— "Leaving Valparaiso we touched at Rio, We now return to the Herald's cruise.—-{What more interesting than to witness the and arrived in Norfolk, Va. in the beginning She reached the 73° north, and on the 17thi improvement and development of the minds of March. The JOlh I went on shore. You day of August, in latitude 71 16, and wastI of children and youth ? At each successive are not aware that the Purser on board the charged on my account all the bills, alongitude 1M 45, discovered a group off examination you can mark their progress.— to near $300, relating to my extnounling Islands. All the vessels again made Kotse- ■The High School under Mr. Fuller's instruc- penses while in the Hospital. Coming on buc's Sound, the place of rendezvous. A tion, is among the pleasing features in the shore in the United Siates, I repaired to or rise exultingly towards the world of lowed peace," " hal- < THE FRIEND. — — , ' ,, , — �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. 13 Washington to claim my wages, and was de- restricted in his missionary labors. The [and immediately afterward the Lady Jane tained there a foil night, and after I was fi- common people were pdhibitcd from even was literally cut in two, the masta at the nally paid off*, I found I was about s.'iO short 'same time falling overboard, and in less than* of what I expected, for my case would not selling him articles in the market. If he at- [two hours not a vestige of the ship was seen tempted to hold intercourse with them the' in admit of any allowance for travelling expenso completely had the ice covered her.— ses. This I have mentioned, that if such a streets, they would run from him through From the time the Lady Jane was first struck case should come under your nolico, 1 know Ifear of the government, although it was his ito the lime she disappeared, the crew, conof no better wnv to avoid the difficulties, belief that the common people would " huve sisting of fifty souls, succeeded in securing than when asltetl In sign the accounts, refuse the seven boats belonging to the ship, tolit(il gladly." to do it. The'United States Government heard gether with some clothing and provisions. makes allowance lor the sick, and expects to the American vessel, although dreadAs support Religion in Cali- fully shattered, every purser to be acquainted with the rules Efforts to the crew, aided by those be* and regulations of the navy, so as to be able FOBN1A, —We quote as follows from private' longing to the Superior and Lady Jane, made to settle the bills of u sick man." letters of Ihe Rev.-Dr. Hunt, dated San an effort to keep her afloat. After remaining in the ice till the 1tit la, and finding all at$CZP That this sailor did not make an im- Francisco, Dec. '20lh. to save the vessel abortive, the protempts use of bis proper money when it catne into " A chinch is also being erected for my- visions were divided and the crews got the his hands, the render may learn by referring self, 25 by fill feet, on Jackson street above boats ready and launched them, and at 7 ■ Stockton. I have been raising subscriptions o'clock to " The Friend" for March, 1819—See |>.'21.; M., with the wind N. E., and clear P. both for the lot and the building, and have |weather, they sailed southward along the I hope to Oregon.—We have received intelligenceraised between; ii and $7,000. of the ice, sometimes having to encounthe church the first Sabbath in jedgc by idedicate from Oregon to 'J'id of Oct. We rejoice tor fields of ice, which caused them to large ter Ijauuary, 1850. The Rev. Mr. Mines (Epislearn that the interests ofeducation are sub-1copal,) has now a church edifice. Dr. Ver drag the boats over it to gain the open sea. Peterson's party made land on the stantially cared for by the prominent men of Mehr has one erecting—the Methodists have Captain 19th, though the weather was thick and fogone, another, the so that mine will Baptists the country. An act has passed the Legisgy, and after each boat's crew had obtained latin e incorporating the Klackatnus county complete the fifth. Five months since we refreshments, they set sail again and made had not one ! This rapid growth is in keepFemale Seminary, to be located in Oregon ]ing with the city and slate. The Presbyte- for the nearest Danish settlement, keeping the land in as they proceeded. Thus City. Tualatin Academy has also been in- |riant have a small church on the way from exposed to view the weather, sometimes rowing and like ourselves, have no ser- and sometimes corporated. A good Common School law, the 1 Slates, sailing, and contending with vice on the Sabbath at present." the an acti has also passed Legislature. By heavy falls of snow and gales of wind, they At Sacramento City there are four church succeeded in gaining Opernaw'ick. Leaving of the United States Congress Ihe sixteenth; viz. among the Methodists, two boats with their crews, Captain Pater{organizations, and thirty-sixth sections of every township'' and Episcopa- son proceeded with the other five boats, all Baptists, Congregationalists are appropriated to create a School fund. of which reached Lively, another settlement lians. of the Danes, 500 miles from Melville Bay, Write! the Rev. Mr. Atkinson— The estimated population of San Francis- June 29, where the/ were kindly received, have been from returning Our citizens " California, both by land and sea, almost co is from 20 to 30,01)0. Sacramento tjity and every hospitality shown them, as far as weekly since you left. Some have again gone Ifrom 8 to 10,000. Total of Ihe Territory the means in possession of the natives could afford. The unfortunate crews of the other to the mines, but the tendency is now to dwell over 100,000. vessels were, we are happy to say, equally at home and improve the lands. Many re-| According to recent intelligence from Cal- successful; not a life was lost, and they turn in poor health. Frequently we hear ofl much sickness prevails throughout eventually gained the latter-named settledeaths of Oregonians. But few emigrants]ifornia, 1 have come into this valley. Three hundredIthe country —the rains render the country ment in safety, whence they were forwarded soldiers are quartered in town. Rents are almost impassable. The tide of immigration to the Orkney Islands by the first vessel that very high. Little cabins command $30 per (flows in unabated. Sixty-seven vessels are touched the settlement. The Prince of Wales, whaler, was wrecked in another part month," etc. etc. reported in the Boston papers, as having left of the Davis' Straits, under precisely similar ~ , , ithe Atlantic States for San Francisco in the ~. circumstances. She was caught by the huge Murder of Missionaries. —The London month of October. masses of ice, cutting her up in a very short Church and State Gazette states that Dr. time, tbe crew barely having time to save Bcttleheini and his family have all been murLoss of Four Greenland Whalers.— dered at the capital of Loo Choo, where,This season has been one of Ihe most disas- their boats. They gained the Orkney Isthey were residing. Dr. Bettleheiin, who trous on record to the whaling vessels. In- lands in safety, and have, ere now, we trust, reached their respective homes. It is worthy went to Loo Choo under the auspices of the telligence has already been received of the of remark (hat one of the above vessels was Bishop of London, was a native of Hungary, .entire destruction of four; and rumor has it was originally of the Jewish persuasion, andl that others have shared a like fale. These'[the oldest whaler in the Greenland service— but; Lady Jane; she had been employed in for the profession, surgical was educated four are—the Superior, 400 tons be-|[the the fisheries nearly 70 years. The destrucafterwards joined the Church of England.— longing to Peterhead; the Ladyburden, Jane, He was a young man of much talent, and no tons, Captain Paterson, of Newcastle; the tion of the four ships is computed at a loos wife was inconsiderable experience. His a|.'Prince of Wales, 380 tons, of Hull; and a iof nearly .£50,000.—[ John O'Groat's Jour, nal. native of London, and it is said that they had :lnrge American ship, Mc Lellau, —Ihe whole two children. The disastrous fate which has to pieces by Ihe icebergs. The parT. S. Brown, Yankees in Russia.—Major fallen upon them is said to have visited the''|cruslied are thti3 described: "Onthel2th Chief of the N. Y. and Erie RailEngineer ticulars Roman missionaries also. hof June Inst, three of the above named ve»-, road, has made an engagement with the Czar We copy the above remarks from the N. sols were fishing in company with eight oth- of Russia, to take the place of the late Maj Y. Observer of Nov. IS, 1848. The state-ier vessels in Melvelle Bay, Davis's Straits. Whistler in the superintendence of the great Four days previous the gales hud been fre- railroad from St. Petersburgh to Moscow.— nient in regard to the murder of the missionquent and terrific, and the sen tempestuous,. Maj. Brown is to receive $12,000 a year, aries must be erroneous, for the U. S. ship in the extreme. About 11 o'clock in the! with some perquisites which will swell bis Preble visited Loo Choo in the spring of 1849 forenoon an alarm was raised of Ihe floating isalary to $15,000, and the engagement ia to and at that date Dr. Bettleheiin and family iice setting upon them. So suddenly did it be continued for five years. He will take were enjoying good health. The Loo CIum> bear down, and with such force and immense his departure on or about the first of next masses, that the Superior, the Lady Jane, month. The grading of the whole line*of Islands are under the Japanese Government, and the American ship McLellan of New irailroad (nearly 500 miles) is completed, but and the local authorities of the Islands are London, had not the slightest chance of es- only about 18 miles have been laid. All the extremely jealous of foreign influence, so caping it, and were speedily cut in pieces. necessary iron is on the road, and so art the much so, that Dr. Bettleheim is exceedingly The first vessel destroyed was the Superior, locomotives and cart. • , '' ' I ' < J , , ' . , ., , ', < �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 18.0. 14 FactSfsoeS arnd ceptics. COMERIAL STATISTICS. The old proverb runs, " one fact is worth thousand arguments." It would be folly Statement of Import!? Export Duties, fyc , at the Port of Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, for the year ending December SI, 1849. to think of arguing with scoffers and sceptics, of tin to comin adopt with any hope leading Gro*w invo.j Gross Value Return Nell I Nett Description of Goods. mon-sense and reasonable views upon reliVillus'. dulie*. Re-exported, lllllie*. coti-iinip'. dunes. gion, yet it often happens, that they will 70.222.0H 2,818.(8 5:13 181.04 27.355.3S stumble upon facts that shut their mouths Good* paying 5 pi. ct. duly, 6(13,40.3.04 30,174.00 and compel (hem to cease, lor a time, their Spirit*, Wine*, etc., Mis- 43,328.03191,944.13 -18,879.47 109,279.48 24,448.5o 82,005.45 hy Consul*, impudent railing against Christianity. We Imported sions, etc., free ol duly, 74,8r0.20 (he commend following to their consideration: Hy whale ships, under ihe 74,890.20 $200 8,117.57 provision—Free, 8,117.57; The Malay's Test of Honor.—A new England sea-captain, who visited " India beyond 222,118.99 89,103.07 I 12,098.16 640,137.37 110,020.83 the Ganges," was visited by a Malay Mer- Deduct spirits, wines, and 729,739.44 chant, a man of cosideruble property, and floods, etc., now III hoinl, asked if he had any Tracts he could port mid which will piohiihlv with. The American, at a loss how to acbe exported, estimated at 18,000.00 44,000.00 18,000.00 14,000.00 count for such a singular request from such 729,739.44 222,118.99 107,102.07 150,098.16 122.1 37 37 66,020.83 a man, inquired " Whut do you want of Tracts t—you cannot read a word of them." 17,403 His., nt G <•., 1,04-1.18 True, but I have a use for Ihem, never- IMPOiiTs/.r the year 1849, amounting, as per Tallow 20 r. en., 6,297.CO 31,488 theless. Whenever one ofyour countrymen, table, to $729,73:1.44— were I mfoktku from (sunt Skins " Irish I'nltiloiMi the folloicinv; countries, viz. : 858 lilds 2,574.00 or an Englishman, calls on me to trade, I United " $3 Stales of America $239,246.4> Swffl tin., SOti 459.00 his and " " $1,50 put a Tract in watch him. If California way, 131.505.89 Onions $1,246.25, Pumpkin*$200.50 he reads it soberly and with interest, I infer limit Britain 44,578.11 Limes $115.75, Lime .luii-e $153 that he will not cheat me ; if he throws it British Colonies 52,821.59 Pirkle* $2ijl), Oiniiges $704.50 2,680.00 95,787.27 aside with contempt nr a profane oath, I have China 994 His.,'• 37i c., Butter 872.75 87,556.05 Huy 35 Inns, " $50 1,750.00 no more lo do with him—l cannot trust him .'" Chile 23,455.78 CiihI 4ti4 basket* 25e., 116.00 Anecdote of Dr. Mason. —To a young in- France " 19,840.27 VVi.ixl SOeor.U " $10 SOO.OO fidel, who was sending at Christianity, be- Tahiti Columbia River 12,672.38 Wfusl 1,000 11m. 124 cts. 125.00 cause of the misconduct of its professors, Hamburg 9,723.58 CornI Stone 440.00 said the Doctor—" Did you ever know an Petmpiiiilovskoi 6,022.8$ Fiirniiurt) 1,520.56 uproar to be made because an infidel went M.i/.uil.oi, Manilla, Paniittin, BreMules 360.00 12, nt$30ench 6,629.27 Horses astray from the path of morality ?" The men Sea, &.C, &c. 400.00 4, $100 '« 150.00 Sheep 50, " $3 infidel admitted that he had not. "Then, •? $729,789.44 Tinkeys 375.00 500, " 75 c. " don't you see," said the Doctor, that by1,290.25 expecting tha professors of Christianity lo be Domestic Exportsfrom Honolulu,for the year Cloihing» Kim Shingles, Timber nml Bonnls, holy, you admit it to be a holy religion, and 1849 :— nml 8 House Friimes 10,809.90 that is the highest compliment in your Sugar, 653,820 His., at 5 e..-, $32,691.00 Ejiirs, Melons, Benns, Arrow Root, was The infidel silent Molasses power." 41,235 (pits., " 25 r., 10,308.75 Brooms, Put, Cunt, Mnstnril Seeil, ! Jl Hindoo's notion of the Sabbath. —Rev. Coffee Biieon, Drieil Beef, Sausages, 28,23111)*., " 10 c, 2,823.10 2,866 bbls., « $1 2,866.00 Yutiis, Sic, &c. Dr. Stenknpff relates that an English sailor Salt 1,257.65 1,813.00 9061 " " $2 in Calcutta had gone on shore one Sunday to Lime 158 1,896.00 " $12 perform some work. While he was engimed Beef $89,743.74 Hides 2,512 lbs., '■ $2 each 5,024.00 in it, a Hindoo observing him, said to him, and made, The cloth from which the was clothing frames, is call most of the timber of the house yourself a Christian ?" To "Do you which he replied that he did. Why" said foreign produce. the Hindoo, does your God require you to ■ work on the Sabbaih day ?" To which he Statement of Imports, Exports, Receipts, Sec., at the Custom House, Port of Honolulu, Oahu, did not attempt to make an answer ; but, on Haxoaiian Islands, for the years 1848-4-5-6-7-8-9. returning to the vessel, he found these quesKeturn Nett Kelt [Transit Harbor (Total nett (Gross value Gro. duties.i l{c-cxtions incessantly recur to his mind, till they Years.[of duties. amounts. duties. duties dues ported. mports. receipts. I 1 brought him on his knees to acknowledge his ; sin and 239.31 5,270.74 8,468.88 from that moment 1843,1222,383.38 6,701.84 66,618.17 1,670.41 156,565.21 ignorance nnd 1844,'350,357.12 10,326.13 60.054.06 1,50I.34! 289,!I69,77 8,970.13 411.60 4,881.33 14,263.56 he doted his conversion to God. Importance of Supporting Religious Wor- 1845, J546.941.72 21,563.94 67,010.93 2,098,82 471,319,78 19,465.12 734.01 4,890.83 25,189.96 21,667.02536,056.5031,780.76 20.56 4,705.32' 36,506.64 ship.—Last Sabbath evening, in the Taber- 1846, |598,382.24 53,447.78 62,325.74 101,512.25 55.208.07 56,991.171653,930.4544,521.08 184.93 4,095.24 48,801.25 nacle, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Thomson, said 1847,1710,133.52 1848, 605,613.73 142,357.73 38,551.55 90,148.27:572,067,18 52,209.46 264.52 3,094.96! 55,568 94 that some years since, the majority of the 1849, 729,739.44 222,118.99 198,102.07 156,098.16l622,637.37|66,020.H3 235.13 5,687.59 71,943.49 people in a village in Massachusetts declnred They would dispense with religious worship. Gross Receipts at the Custom Houses of Oahu, Maui, and Kauai, for the Property consequently declined in value, and Year ending December 81, 1849. and the habits character of the people speedily i Lahaiha, Mac I. degenerated. After lift disastrous experiHonolulu, Oahu. ment was satisfactorily tried, the observance Import duties 66,020.83 Import duties 1,101.22 of tha Sabbath and public worship of God Transit duties 235.13 Transit duties 30.16 5,687,53 Stamps were resumed, nnd the moral character and Harbor dues 724.50 2,726.88 Anchorage dues 600.00 prosperity of the place were again visible. Stamps 40.70 Light 76.32 A shrewd and energetic, but worldly man in Fines and Forfeitures 528.24 Canal 62.00 a manufacturing town gave sundry lots of Interest 836.50 2,124.44 Shipping and discharging Seamen land for the erection of churches. Three Storage things, he said, were requisite for such a $3,330.70 S77.363.75 place ; an abundance of water, good air and lln.o, Hanalei, and Kealakeakua— plenty of orthodox preaching. Some leading Ha&bor Mastkr, Honolulu— : 97.87 1,153.00 Stamps, &.<•., men in Lowell have remarked, that if every Shipping & discharging Seamen Amount at Honolulu (bro'l over) 79,802.75 1,286.00 church in that city should be destroyed, it Stumps would well repay the manufacturers to rel$79,802.75 083,231.32 build them, even at an expense of $100,000. « i | " — -.... .... - - - ..... - -... - .... " .... .... - - " - - - - " " " " .... " * ... - - - - - - -.- - - - . - ... .... ..... - - ...... . . .- - - - • �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1830. Whaleships entered at the Ports of Honolulu and Lahaina, during the year 1849. Lahaima. Imeriran 153 i'rench HoMOLULU. Lahaima. Bremen British 108 7 should not have approached nearer. If it is impracticable to proceed northward through Prince Regent's Inlet, and equally so to pro* ceed southward toward Melleville Island, with ihe hope of reaching Hudson's Straits HoNOLULI 1 15 4 I in their ships, the only alternative will be to take the shortest cut by land across CockI :•! burn's Island to some point on Baffin's Bay, Total 274 say at PiNl's Bay, where the northern whaling vessels slop. Here ns well as nt other Amount of Domestic Produce furnished as Supplies to Shipping. places, provisions should be placed, and stakes stuck lip at all prominent points indiHonolulu. Lahaiha. cating where the provisions are to be found. nnd estimated Produce Vessel*, $4,000 exported, (mostly Gov. Domestic Ships of War We have no means for knowing whether an 134 Merchant Vessels, say $80 each 10,720 Potatoes,) iihoiit $14,000 overland journey is practicable at the place each 3^,500 27,000 154 >V baler*, say $250 108 Whalers (inside) '• 250 " 1,120 mentioned, but as the distance from Prince 1 14 Merchant Vessel*, $80 each Inlet to Muffin's Bay does not ex|Kegent's 1 $41,720 $53,020 ceed *250 miles, it does not seem so unsurmountable when the lives of a hundred men Total Value of Domestic Produce exported to Foreign Markets; and furnished to Foreiirnj ■or more nre at stake. The expense of such $I!)0,0(H>' ihe Islands, 1849—Estimated, friiui thn Hawaiian f.»r year VeMseli un expedition would be trifling, and we have no doubt that competent officers can be found passed up it ill one of his explorations it) who SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. will gladly embark in so praiseworthy an The news of the probable safety of this search of a north west passage. It has been undertaking. Hundreds of daring seamen, celebrated polar navigator has been received passed by repeatedly, by ships, during two ton, would at once offer their services.— with great pleasure by all. In fact, we ques- centuries, hut being choked up with ice du[Providence Juurnal. Xj tion, whether in England itself, a stronger ring this period, navigators knew not ihe ex- I interest bus been felt for him than in the U. istence of such a sound or strait as opened Father Mathew at the Massachusetts States. Our millions of newspaper reuders itself to Captain Perry. The same igno- Blind Asylum.— By invitation of Dr. Howe, have been made familiar with his history, and rance existed with regard to other openings. Superintendent of the Perkins Asylum for wiili ihe object fur which he has exposed him- For a long period they would remain closed, .the Blind, Father Malhew visited the Instiself, his officers and crews to four rigorous and a mild season, attended by favorable tution on Thursday, in company with severwinters. During this long period he has winds would ulone open them. jal friends, and was highly delighted. There been shut out from all civilized society, and Our fears now are, that Prince Regent's are between 80 and 90 blind peisnns at this nearly so from all human beings; bis ships Inlet having been shut up for four successive excellent institution. Among the number enclosed with misery and starvation years, the probability of its opening again are two blind boys, twins about nine years becomes less every year. The fact that staring him in the face. old, with flaxen hair. They are from the In case the late accounts received by the dipt. Ross's ships, which were sent to re- State of Maine, and arrived at the Asylum whaling ships from the Esquimaux are true, lieve Sir John Faanklin, having been en- only a few days since. They were hardly that two large, ships have been for four years closed in the ice in the same Inlet for a year, tame, or easy, so long had they ran wild at frozen up in Regent's Inlet, and that these (according to the Esquimaux), seems to fa- home. Father Malhew was particularly inships are Sir John Franklin's, what means vor this view. They were described by the terested in Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb have they to escape? All who are familiar Ksquimaux as being on the opposite side of and blind girl, having never witnessed such with the polar regions, (we mean through the Inlet; but their situation is ns perilous a case before. On being informed that she books, as we presume few of our readers as that of the ships they went to rescue.— was shaking handa with Father Mathew, have had personal experience there), know The question now is, what can be done for Laura expressed great pleasure, by her anithattheir great straits and channels are some- these during but unfortunate men, to rescue mation. He presented her with a tempertimes closed with ice for years. That when i liiin fronvtheir situation. The present sea- ance medal and she wrote on paper in reply, from an unusual cold season this ice does not son is, ofcourse, too late, nor can we now " I thank you most sincerely for the medal; break up, the following wilder renders it expect Sir John nnd his crew can reach Eng- we are all very glad to see Father Mathew." more solid. This sometimes follows for sev- land, even if all the accounts we have re- He thanked her, and remarked, I shall " eral seasons, when a barrier of ice is formed ceived are true. We beg, therefore, to sub- keep the writing and put it in a frame, and the for the consideration following plan of such magnitude, that it remains for years mit take it home with me to Ireland." Eighteen impassable; in fact, great channels nnd in- !of our Government. of the scholars expressing a wish to take the lets are sometimes rendered so, and even the Early in the Spring of next year send a pledge, it was administered to them with with coal to the settlement Danish at great interest, and open coasts are unapproachable for a cen- vessel each received a medal tury. A few facts will sustain this assertion. Cope Farewell, on the southern coast of and certificate, with which they were much another to Disco on east-, Greenland, Island, and half the and ago, a About a century delighted.—[Boston Traveller. cm coast of Greenland was approachable; Ihe eastern shore ofBaffin's Bay, in the 70th it is laid down in all old maps, and was, im degree of latitude, or at some point on the New Line of Steamers.—The steamships doubt, visited by whaling ships alike with opposite shore. Reckoning Sydney as one Sarah Sands ami New Orleans have been purother parts of this inhospitable region. But station for coals, there would then be threeichased and despatched for the Pacific, by J. are thus establishing anin late times, or since the period named, the' ports from which a steamer could get her Howard & Sun, who other line between Pananin and San Francisco. immense barriers of ice, piled mountains supplies. As early, then, as practicable, |There will doubtless be business sufficient for high, have prevented all approach to the' send a steam propeller with a screw so con- two lines, though price* will probably full m that it he or the coasf structed might shipped unshipcoast. Captaii Scoresby explored consequence of (he opposition. We hear that from Cape Farewell as far North as 65 ,' ped as necessities might require. At Syd- Messrs. Everett & Co. are to be ihe agents at when he was obliged to leave it and pass | ney, in Nova Scotia, she might take her sup- San Francisco.—Polynesian. round to Ihe 70th deg. before he could again ply of coals to carry her to Greenland, she We have been informed that the Post approach it, when he found no difficulty in would wait till the season was sufficiently adShe might then proceed Master General in London, was about to order his further progress northward. Captain vanced that a scaled mail bag for the Hawaiian Islands, Graah, who was sent out by the Danish Gov- to Lancaster Sound and endeavor to reach iIh» made up there, every mouth, lo come by way ernment some 20 years since, expressly to Prince Regent's Inlet. In case this should of Panama and Sun Francisco. then Greentwo should prove parties coast eastern explore trace the and land in •earch of the ancient Danish colony, be formed to proceed on tbe ice on the eastAmerican Consul for the Post of Hokoknown as La* Greenland," made every ern and western shores of the Inlet in search LULu.—Elisha H. Allen, Esquire, of Wabe, effort wtth his ships and boats to reach the of the missing ships; and in case they are was appointed Consul, as aho*e, on the l&tlT of coast, but could not for the ice. Lancaster found, to conduct them to the steamer in October last, and we bear rai to bare left the Copt. Perry Barrow's Straits or Lancaster Sound, if she United States for these Islands in December. Sound was never entered 120 154 ... - - - - ! ° '' " uOl < �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. 16 Srhr Klifabdh, from San Francisro, J Danluiiu. and If Sir John Franklin should make'period, when ear column., are ffot so crowded, we in-ii In D Tnivel. Itcnd more full making report. a In lliiu Spcnrer, from San Francisco. S Mal*rly. C his appearance, the friends of Mesmerism' V Kuar, (i Town, J Wilkinson, Funds now received for Chaplaincy will be tic-<jßeaulesu, S H Lafrenz, will keep a Jubilee ! Kenny, D Lynch, and W Kowler. W G votcft to defrayiftp incidental expenses of the estab-; In Brig CoiMinicils, from San Francisco, W Harris, J * The Manchester Guardian contains a long liihini'iit, including the hill of $135 75 for painting. H Thorp, VV O Smith, N I. Birge, H Cole, R H Whit Account of the second interview between Mr. Chapel and Heading-room. more, 1* Verplnnk, W Ii Uu'len. R W Ogdeii, A Sweet, Haddock, a friend of *ir John Frapklin, and |T F A Read. I) T Raymond, VV Boweu, J Mnsitravp, I, S 0y The BEAMENS' to READING ROOM will jltulloek. X Hnblple, Mr Barrtow. M LJohnsKw, W l.athe Bolton clairvoyanto. She professed W L Plainer, J Smyth, W Pearson.Oß Norton, have had interviews with Sir John Franklin be found supplied by fresh papers from England nndilflainaM, iI)M Byrnni, T H Brown, J McGuire, J Kattenhury and and Sir James Ross, described their position tho Vnitcd States. I'True D ! In ShipMnzeppa, frnm S.in Francisco, T Morrio. in the ice, with sundry other minutiae. She In Bchr Samuel Rolens, from San Francisco, Mr Russaid she hnd had some refreshment with Sir H Truman. J Black, .Mr. Leadheier, 11 Fowler, E JOURNAL. -cl, John Franklin, who had his provisions in Richmond, C dishing, J 0 Pierce, Mr Granr, Mr I.cc, |IV il Winie, J P Ni.sh Mr b.pln, Mr Hall, Mr Sherthick tin boxes. He had also some hard PORT OF HONOLULU. wood, Ii I, Pond, Mr Haknis Hi urry, Mr Parks, 11 meat in a big tub. Sir John, she said, would Wehiler, B Taylor, X V Sarjrenl, W A Human*. S B be out of the ice in less than nine months.— Arrived. Tadner, C Mrdluiry, J F Rnl.iiisou, J Master, J FAlden ketch Prim-tin, Lane, 66 tiny* from Sydney. nnd S l> Reynolds. That it was ten minutes past eleven by Sir Jan 4—Br 5—Am » liJili- ship Tuvchi oi'h, l.rek. In Schr Josephine, frc in Snn Francisco, T Grevswell, bk.-Ve. unn, McKay, Tin Sun Francisco. John's time ; and a quarter past ten (a good jmi.)U.9 Am. Nnd 11 Carter. 'I'ltliiuiiu Kb. Mi liiJh. Silva, Im Tahiti. Sir Ross' lime. That Connecticut, from Sun Frnnciscn, J O Domiwhile after) by James 12. Am. Sell. Friendship, Bishop, from ISnii Franclsce I In Itnrk 15. Urn hnpan. cheerful, \\ iiliniiiN.tiii Tahiti. ni- C X Hitchcock. J M Billiard, VV B Hallet, P Davis, she went a good way further than Sir John 16. Am. cell. .»<«aitir, Morrell, I'm ban Frniiciaco. |T Cummin*, J Huston and A J Moreion. Ross, where it was very dark, and the stars M hi. Am. nth. Anonyms., Latham, In Ship Viclory. from Sydney, F Colliinn and lady. Jan. 15. UrnhW. Cow lilt, Wejntnii, fm London. went round and did not twinkle, but she was from Snn Francisro, H Doschen, J W 19. H' ii. Mh Aiiui/.i-ii. Hnherison, 26 da fm San Francisco. ! In Schr Mnry. sure it was quite ridiculous to attempt to rind 19. Am. brig i'anouiciis, l.voii, 19 di fm Snn Francisco. [Thompson. J H Ludlow, Wf node, G VV Bronson. J llaiSilva and .VI Jusc. Salker, M *■ r lone, Sjifiicer, g Robinson, 81. lini. hr 80 ds •• a road for ships over there. That she found 81.Hrn.»h vta£e|>pri, Morddunt, 8U ds In Schr Mary Ann, Irom San Francisco, O Spalding, •' " bk Connec-ilcut,Peiihallow, Am. Sir Johu in a house made of large blocks of 24. C W Tliursmn. J B Marshall, J McKrayer. W E John12 da " u Am, cell 8. Ruber.*, Falkenherger, 17 da son, II H Sawyer, J H Russell and J VV Swain. " ijfie, about nine yards from the ship. That « Fr. ah Me use, Ilsuvel, 16 ds In ship Carol**, Sf*. Whilne} ami Urs. I'arMins and sou. •' " u Chi ach bliutbeih, Ao,ueiil, 27 da •* John had been a over "Br great way .the ssaßßa**Sßajsaaßßaßasaßß .^—mm———^ " ItllW. >ill JoscjiilliM'. I llhloll, 2.1 tin " •* " country, but had returned to his ships. That Am. briga.it Planet, Friedenbur*., fm Lahalni. " Haw. 25The Friend, sent Abroad. ft h Mary, Tilth. \, 23 ds fm San Krinjcrt.ro. Sir John bad seen the natives, but not Sir 29. Am. ab. Carolnn, Uunh'ar, 127 da fm Boston. and that there Am. bk Druiumond, Pierce, 11 di fm t*tt\i Frnnciaco. James Ross ; were two ships Any person, paying the annual subscription price of the Friend ($2,00) in advance, can have the paper on their way home, which would bring good Cleared. sent to China, Sydney, Tahiti, San Francisco, or overbrig John Bull, Robinson, for llobartown. news. The statements of this girl have exci- JanAm4—Br land, via Panama, to the United States or England. whale alitp Warren, i vans, to cruise. ted great interest all over the country. Am whale ship Heroine, Wall, io cruise. According to the U. 8. Post Office laws, newspapers Am brig Henry, Kelt*ru, Astoria, Col. River. sent from the office of publication, the postage may Crinliim, £pence, 8> dncy. s—airship lie paid by the person to whom the paper is addressed, Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel.—The l'.r.iii ach Allien, Meereu, Manilla. 9—Am aliip Wuljmilu, Culler, Singapore, but otherwise the postage must be pre-paid. author of the admirable Essay on the UnBy If wc have been correctly iiifofrncd, there is Am ship I'harsalia, Allen, Chlciiiih. ion of Church and State," has united him- 10—Am whale ship Dover, Jeffries, to cruise. not that irregularity About letters and papers going to Am bk Ui to ii Bird, nil, for Poi tland, Oregon. self with the Baptists, been re-baptized, and Jan. the United States, that there is about their conveyance 15. Krit. brig Tepic Luce, for Snn Francinco. become the minister of a congregation in 15. Am. wh ship Monmouth, lialaey, to cruise, hence. tf 1 MARINE " . " lb Am wh bark Le Grange, fur Fair Haven, I S, bk Vernon, M'Kny, for Hong Kong. 19. Brit, ki ii li PrtaMHs Lane, Sun Fiaucisco. A CARD. M 19. *• lirigan lici'il-il, W ilnain**, The subscriber, having been left destitute in HonoShipping in Port. Jan. 19. lulu, and through misfortune been compelled to unPropeller Mns-jttrhiiaelts, 8 R Knox. dergo an amputation of hi* left leg, returns bis sinI.a. surv,.\ hit; cutler Swing,McArthur, Lieut. Com'g i ciro thanks to all those merchants and others who Am whale ship Tu&xarorn, Leek. havj so generously subscribed JffO.Sll dollars for bis Gray's Inn Road, London. Jan.H. Am. < DIED. Jn Honolulu, on Sunday morning, Jan 6, at the I' 8 Hospital, Mr. AaaAvT. Auaass, ol Bristol, Ct. where his family now resides. He came from Ban Francisco on board tlie Flavins, and died three days after his arrival. Iliaremslns were deposited in the Nuitanu Valley Cemetery. Merchant Vessels. 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">«J*nd •• � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1850) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1850.02.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.02.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b1d23d8671ba4bed82718ce3c34a9262.pdf 9993a44c0f397150d3fddcc3eee2e67b PDF Text Text �F THE RIEND. 1 Vol. "8. HONOLULU, JANUARY 4, 1850. Contents OF THE FIUEN'D. JAN. I, 1850, laliinl till* Til, Visit of French ship Bonllf Bee. John Hunynn, by T. ft. Mrtctujlay, Sandwich I-UimU. nnd rVnnexallna, English im-w -,;i;i|i. rin ihe l'ticilir, Sailors running hwhv from •hip*, Sound Legislation in Wisconsin, Hawaiian Thstitkitf .vliiy, Who could believe that England would lie still j "Willi sue li a gone forth, all hearts to thrill, Ciilise 1 1 3 3 " 4 " 4 Would rest unmoved, intent nlone to ply Her busy arts, regardless of that cry ? Twyuld seem as if c'en British seamen bold Forgot the kindling themes tiny loved of old, Save that amongst her friends—the faithful few Who round I'oinare pity's mantle threw, True British seamen were the first to feel, The last to leave her—warmer in their zeal Than kings or statesmen—prouder to defend. And there was one, a staunch and fearless friend, Who bore the trembling sufferer to his bark— Mid those rude billows safety's peaceful ark. And there she paced the deck from morn till night Stretching across the main her aching sight For help that came not—there from day to day She thought of one, her sister far away, England's yount; Queen ; but never failed her trust That help tmuid come; for was her cause not just? And he too trusted. Who like him would not? And gently soothed the royal exile's lot; Hut not by him the glittering sword was won, A monarch's gift, for gallant service done. No; hushed in silence sleeps that not noble deed, With all Tahiti's Wrongs—the hearts that bleed Along her silent shores, once echoing low The sound of prayer, wherebreathes no worship now. But clang of arms resounds along the vale, And soldier's laugh floats idly on the gale." Mo. 1. engaged in alike enterprise; danger seemed to impart new attractions to our scientific expedition, nnd our eyes sought to distinguish, through the clouds, the theatre of our approaching explorations; but n thick curtain of vapors concealed it all day from our view. " Yet this often happens; for the clouds, driven almost the whole year by the N. E. trade *' 45 winds, are obstructed in their passage by the "" 5 Meliitir.huUy occurrence, wall formed by this group of islands and rest 5 hoax? I- it a "" *j fcenet In the Porrnstle, the summits of the mountains. upon J»|iaiiei>e, \ iin'i M':in- him! "'* 78 The night came, and, about an hour beSeamen himl lnndKinen remlitijß; Friend. fore day, the noise of the breakers announced to us that we were near land. We tackEDITOR'S TABLE. ed about, and at day break, found ourselves ten or twelve leagues from the island of Ha"The Island Queen." waii. We saw Mauna Loa rising with an imperceptible ascent, and we were almost Poem" in IX This is the title of "A astonished,—we even regretted not to find it Books, by Mrs. Elms, author of " Women more elevated. It will soon appear that we of England" and other popular works.— the difficulties which awaited us. misjudged Pomitre, the Tuliitinn Queen, is the Heroine All day we were either becalmed, or the of the work, which appears, from various winds were so light that we were unable to allusions, to have been written during the the land; and it was not till the upproach period that Ihe French were at war with the next day, Oct. Ist, that we went on shore. reader familiar Islanders. the To Society Yet the 29th of September did not pass with the history of missions, generally, and without affording some satisfaction to our the characterics of the French aggression curiosity. When four or five leagues disat Tahiti, this is a work that abounds with tant from land, we saw a canoe approaching, interesting passages, by no means devoid of manned with four savages. The desire to poetic merit. The authoress takes the ground was see us must have been strong indeed to inin Government wrong that Ihe English duce them to venture so far in so frail a craft. not defending the rights of Queen Pomare, We perceived lhat they were naked, their at the mouth of Ihe cannon, or rather she If we have been correctly informed, Cnpt. heads wreathed wilh foliage. It was the first blames the British public, not excepting the Hunt's services were subsequently brought professedly religious portion, for its criminal to the notice of theBritish Government, and specimen of man in the savage slate, that the most of us had ever seen; and our disapathy. he was promoted on their account. appointment may be easily imagined when men, is the that shame, proud enlightened Ours "And we perceived that instead of altering our women too—nay even Christians—when course to approach them, we were passing That cry came o'er the deep with fearful swell, them as if scarcely worth our notice. I pittell Scarce lent a listening car, but turned to ied the poor creatures; the ship passed withVisit the of French Sloop of Their sordid gain*, ns if a breeze had passed, in a hundred fathoms of their canoe; they War to the Sandwich Bonite, fluttered the blast. in Or some frail leaf had seemed astonished; they stopped a moment, Islands, in 1836. lies the stain upon our country's fame ; wiping the sweat from their faces with the Here " Here too begin the first low steps of shame." ( Translated from the French of Adolphe Bar- back of their hands; then, as we receded a we could sec them making signs to us with rot, for the Friend). Iheir paddles: was il in token of friendship? In the IXth book we find a pnssage rethey intend to reproach us? At length Guayaquil, August 14th., 1836, or didturned ferring to Captain Hunt, who commanded weLeaving their canoe towards the shore, they came of the of in sight night Hawaii in Ihe British ketch Basilisk, on board which discerned, by the aid of our which we upon vessel Queen Pomare fled for protection. September 29th. From early morning we spy-glasses, a number of huts in the midst we looked wilh impatience, in the direction We are confident many of our readers will where we supposed Ihe island would appear. of a grove of cocoa-nut trees. rejoice to see his services, not inappropri- According to the accounts of navigators, we The next day, our disappointment was of ately celebrated in the poetical effusions ought, tit a great distance, to perceive Mauna more than made up. As we approached the one of his fair countrywomen Loa, the mysterious summit of which had land, an innumerable multitude of canoes "And must we then be still, nor feel, nor move, not, for a long time, been visited by any put off towards us, and in less than an hour, When these sad tidings reach us o'er the sea— European. It enlered into our plans to ex- the deck of the Bonite was covered with isBe still, nor weep—poor Island Queen—for thee I plore its almost inaccessible gorges, to cross landers. The first hesitated to come on Forbid it Eurth ! as thou forbid'st it Heaven I over the snows which crown it, and inscribe board, but soon it was necessary to station our names upon its most elevated peak: this, sentinels at the ladders, in order to avoid a Why was that deep, that noble impulse given, Which glows 40 warmly in a-generous breast. lor some days was the almost constant sub- complete invasion. Almost all were naked, And burns to aid the helpless and oppressed ; ject of our conversation. In vain the recital with the exception of a soil of girdle called ■of the numerous accidents to which we should nwiro: some, the aged principally, were tatIf we must sit and speak not of thy cause, expose ourselves; in vain did they tell us of tooed; the names of many appeared, in larga Nor of thy grief—poor, injured Queen—because Thy foe is powerful, and thy kingdom weak, |M. Douglas, an English naturalist, who had letters, on their arms or breasts. It was iperished under the horns of a wild bull while easy to perceive that they were beginning to And thy proud heart unpitied left to break. "" • • • • • THE FRIEND. • • • • • : — • �2 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 4, 1850. be accustomed to the sight of Europeans.''of Kapiolani, chief of this district, came to by the companions of Cook, after his death; From their bargains we were assured that inform us that his mistress was ready to re- they showed us cocoa-nut trees pierced by civilised men bad been here: tola tola (dol- ceive us. We readily accepted the inviin- Iballs, and rocks shivered by the artillery. lar) was what they most generally asked of tton of the noble lady, and we found her The next day, we found nt Kaawaloa the us. la exchange for sheik*, fowls, hoes he. Aseated outside of the enclosure which sur- |horses and guide, which Kapiolani bad promwhich they brought .us, they were willing to rounds her bouse, in the shade of a bread- jised. Horses were imported into (he Sandtake nothing but money, or clothing.— 'fruit tree. She was about fifty years of age, wich Islands from California, and they beAnd surely, to see the airs of importauce(of a colossal stature, five leet and eight or gan to be numerous. Some of the horses which he arrogated to himself among his ten inches at least, very corpulent and very sent for our use were furnished with Engcompanions, who found himself Ihe fortu- ugly. She received us politely. I hesitated lish saddles, and the others with clumsy Mexnate owner of a watchcoat, a shirt or any a moment whether, according to what 1 had j ,ttn/n saddles. The distance between Eower ;1 part of European apparel, easily convinced read in Cook's voyages, I should not salute*.ftaawaloa and Upper Kaawaloa is about us of the value which they attached to such..her in the ancient manner of Ihe country, \(y \ three miles. There is a very good road berubbing my nose against hers; I looked to ( tween the two plnces, leading up the side of articles. We were disappointed, for these were not see il some gesture would nol show that this tin- mountain. This rnnd is due to the misthe islanders of Cook, and although the in- was her desire; but, not observing anything,sionaries, who resorted lo a singular expefluence of the savage stale still bore sway in her attitude which betokened the necessi-,dient to accomplish the object. They caused in the physical and moral constitution of each ty of the Hawaiian salutation, I was satis- a law to be enacted, by which every person individual, it was no longer that of simple tied with taking the hand which she offered man or woman, convicted ol'adullery, should and guileless nature, which we were expec- me. Some seats, real European chairs, pay a fine of fifteen dollars (seventy-five ting to study. Yet, in the first part of our were brought us and we seated ourselves francs), or in case of non-payment, should intercourse with them we were the best able around Kapiolani. Behind us were five orjlabor on the roads four months. The plan of to discover the traces of what the Sandwich six women clad in immense sacks which the/,the missionaries has been so much encourIslands were, at the time of their discovery: called'robes, and in which they seemed very aged by the people, that this road was comlater, we found the villages more European; much embarrassed. All around us was the pleted in less than two years, and that anothand the people almost as vicious as those who population of Kaawaloa, lying Hat upon (he er road from Kaawaloa lo Knilua (Inrge have civilized them. rocks, supporting the chin with their hands town), a distance of about twenty-five miles, A Portugese, who had lived on the island and gazing upon us with fixed attention.— is almost finished: and so, thanks to the for a long time, and whom it would have Kapiolani was entirely dressed in the Euro- amorous propensities of the Hawaiian*, we been somewhat difficult to distinguish from a pean fashion; a gown of flowered English accomplished, yery easily, the three miles savage, served us as a pilot, and at noon we muslin, a sash of blue silk, and shoes, com- which we had to pass over. were anchored in the bay of Kealakeakua. posed her toilet. Two tortoise shell combs As we ascended, the appearance of the Mure than 200 canoes were around the Bo- secured her hair. On her fingers were three land changed. All these islands have evinite, yet we had not seen a single woman. or four silver rings. The people around us dently been formed by successive eruptions This surprised us; fur the accounts of di- formed as singular an assemblage as could.of sub-marine volcanoes; and as a proof of vers voyagers had informed us that no soon- any where be found. The only clothing of their origin, lava is everywhere found. It er was a vessel arrived than it was surroun- one was a watchcoat without buttons; of|.is seen near the shore such as it was, at Ihe ded by a crowd of women; veritable water- another, a shirt, and of a third, a pair of| moment when it became hard. The differIhe with pantaloons: naked, most were part nymphs, who dove and swam around, pointent strata, one above another, can be distining to the land and making known to the Ihe exception of the indispensable maro. guished; since, in proportion to ihe elevasailors, by their lascivious postures, the All the women, if not clothed, were at least' tion, the lava, owing to the alternate action pleasures to be enjoyed there; but the pilot covered. Some were clad like those men- of heat and moisture, is more and more desoon explained the mystery: "Ships," said tioned above; the others, by far the great- composed. On the table land where the he, are tabu to women; it is a law of the est number, were merely enveloped in a sort rains are abundant, the lava is found changed of shawl of Hawaiian cloth, (kapa). into fertile soil; and there missionaries." He gave us an account, at large grows in abunthe same time, of several measures taken by Our conversation with Kapiolani was not dance the kvkin (candle-nut tree), from the the missionaries for the promotion of morals long; the English sailor acted as interpreter. nut of which is extracted a very clear oil, and religion: but more of this hereafter. For the most part, a sort of grunt was the which is very good to burn. This oil has she made to the long compliments already become an article of exportation. The bay of Kealakeakua extends four or only reply five leagues from North to South; Ihe deep- which individuals of our party addressed her; The bread-fruit tree, the orange, the mulest part is a sort of cove formed by two yet there was upon her countenance a singu- |berry (imported from Manilla), the banana, points of low land projecting into the sea on lar expression of kindness and natural good-(the sugar cane, the taro (arum esculentum), the right and left. This cove is commanded ness, and when we mentioned a desire to go its root growing in the water and which conby a mountain, or wall of blackish lava, four to the upper village, on the morrow, to at-,stitutes the principal food of the islanders, or five hundred feet in perpendicular height. tend divine worship, the design appeared to,are also abundant. Through the crevices On the left is the village of Kaawaloa; to give her great pleasure, and she offered to,of the rocks escaped some dwarf shrubs, a the right, surrounded with cocoa-nut trees, furnish us with horses and a guide. species of the caper bush, the nai-hi, the we perceived the village of Kealakeakua, On leaving Kapiolani we went to see the root of which, as we were informed, serves which has given name to the bay, and be- place where Captain Cook had been assas- the natives for tea. There was also the tayond, towards the extremity of tbe point, sinated; it was where we landed. They pa, from which they make their clothes, and another village, tbe name of which I do not pointed out to us the rock on which he was the flower of which, of a saffron yellow, riremember. Upon the high lands, which standing, when he received the fatal thrust. vals in brilliancy the magnificent blue, white overlook the bay, we distinguished a num- Looking around, we saw ourselves surround- and red convolvulus which bordered the ber of houses, and among them, one which ed by tbe same people that had assassinated road. seemed built in the European style: " it is," him. About midway between the two villages said the pilot, "the house of the missionary The death of Cook was indeed a great is the monument erected, in 1825, by Lord Forbes; the village is called Upper Kaaiea- misfortune; but perhaps it ought to he at- Byron, commandant of the English frigate toa." tributed only to himself and to the violence Blonde, in memory of Cook. It is at the In the afternoon we went to Kaawaloa. of his character; at least it so appeared this place where had been inferred all that could We had some difficulty in landing; yet with day. There has not been, nor is there now be found of his scattered members: it is a the assistance of the Indians, many of whom anything sanguinary in the character of this post fixed in Ihe midst of lava rocks, which plunged into the water to bring us aid, and people; but they manifested an almost bound- have been piled up so as to form a sort of after some falls upon the rocks, we found less respect for those foreigners, whom Ihey tumulus. A copper plate, upon which is ourselves on terrafirma. The village of considered as gods. There was need of all engraved the name of Cook, is fastened to Kaawaloa seemed to be composed of only the horror, which the sacrilege committed by the top of the post. The epitaph, which acabout fifty houses. The bread-fruit and co- Cook, he seizing the king of the island, in- companies it, has become illegible. The coa-nut trees give to it a picturesque appear- spired, to urge them to this excess. We post is covered with the names of English ance A species ofEnglish sailor, steward could see traces of the vengeance inflicted sailors, who came to render homage to the I I , .., . . ,, , " .•, , �3 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 4, 1850. memory of the celebrated navigator. But Ihad committed blasphemy against the Holy build a meeting house for him. His influthis is a niggardly monument, and one is as- Ghost, that he had sold Christ, tbat he was ence among the common people was such astonished that the English government has iactually possessed by a demon. Sometimesi that the government would willingly have benot been able to acknowledge, in a more loud 1 voices from heaven cried out to warn stowed on him some municipal office ; but suitable manner, the immense services ren- him. Sometimes fiends whispered impious his vigorous understanding and his stout Engdered to navigation by Captain Cook. In isuggestions in his ear. He saw visions ol' lish heart were proof against all delusion and the vaults of Westminster Abbey repose'distant mountain lops, on which ihe sun shone nil temptation. He felt assured that the toleration was merely a bait intendashes, which have not so good a claim upon! brightly, but from which he was separated by 'proffered the gratitude of the people, as that which a waste of snow. He felt the devil behind ed to lure the Puritan party to destruction ; him pulling his clothes. He thought that the 'nor would he, by accepting a place for which lies forsaken under the lava of Hawaii. brand of Cain had been set upon hitn. He he was not legally qualified, recognise the feared lliat he was about to hurst asunder! validity of Ihe dispensing power. One of the JOHN BUNYAN. like Judas. His menial agony disordered last acts of his virtuous life was to decline CHANGE OF PUBLIC OPINION. bis health. One day he shook like a man in an interview to which he was invited by an Our readers are aware of the remarkable jthe palsy. On another day he felt a fire agent of the government." revolution which has and is now taking place within his breast. It is difficult to underThe Sandwich Islands.—The suggestion in the public mind in England and other parts stand how he survived sufferings so intense, [occurs in a New York paper, that it would At the clouds long 'and so continued. length of the world, with reference to the prominent broke. From the depth* of despair, the pen- lie well for Ihe United States to annex the characters who flourished in England during itent passed lo n state of serene felicity. An Sandwich Islands to the Union, giving the the seventeenth century. The character of irresistible impulse now urged him to impart whole group the name of the State of Haimportance of these Islands, in Cromwell, as delineated by the historians of toothers the blessing of which he was him- waii. The view of tho trade of the Pacific, being nearly He the and joined Baptists, self possessed. the reign of Charles 11, stands in striking became a preacher and writer. His educa- midway between Oregon and China, is promcontrast with the character of the Protector tion bad been that of a mechanic. He knew inently urged, nnd the fact, no doubt, will be as portrayed by Carlyle and Macaulay. In no language but the English, as it was spo- (generally admitted. The depopulation which for some cause or another, has been going regard to no individual, has public sentiment ken by ihe common people. He had studied on throughout the group since its discovery model of with the excomposition, no great so as the in been thoroughly revolutionized, by Capt. Cook, is also alluded to as indicaan undoubtedimportant exception case of the character and genius of John ception, tive of the inevitable result that the Islands Bible.— ly, of our noble translation of the Bunyan. Late in the eighteenth century, His spelling was bad. He frequently trans- must, sooner or later, come into the possesCowper even, did not venture to do more gressed the rules of grammar. Yet his na- sion of some civilized power. Thus we go —Annexation seems to be the word. ' Manthan allude to him as the author of the Pil- tive force of genius, and his experimental ifest destiny' is doubtless in the ascendant. ofall the from religious passions, knowledge grim's Progress, without mentioning his A great country this, when it shall be fenced Ihe despair to ecslacy, amply supplied in him name. want of learning. His rude oratory roused in.— Baltimore Jimer. O thou, whom, home on Fancy's eager wing and melted hearers who listened without inThis opinion does not seem to be popular Back to ihe season of life's happy spring, to the labored discourses of great lo- at present, even among those strong in their terest 1 pleased remember, and, while memory yet gicians and Hebraists. His works were American feelings. Uncle Sain—or some of Holds fast her office here, can ne'er forget ; widely circulated among Ihe humbler classes. his Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told (ale boys—seem to have got the idea that all Sweetfiction and sweet (ruth alike prevail; [style One of them, the Pilgrim's Progress, was, in Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple his own life-time, translated into several for- the world desires to become annexed to the May teach the gayest, make (he graves( smile ; eign languages. It was, however, scarcely great North American Republic. His famiWitty, nnd well employed, nnd, like (hy Lord, known (o the learned and polite, and had been ly, we think, is now quite too large, and to Speaking in parnliles his slighted word ; during near a century, the delight of pious add the State of Hawaii' to the rapidly in1 name (hee not, lest so despised a name ' cottagers and artisans before it was publicly Should move n sneer nt thy deserved fame ; sisterhood of States of the Union, creasing of emcommended man high literary any by Yet c'en in transitory life's late day, condescended At critics to seems rather length premature. Suppose His Mainence. That mingles all my brown with sober grny, Revere (he man, w hose pilgrim marks the rond, inquire where the secret of so wide and so jesty, Kamehameha, and His Majesty's loyAnd guides the/>rogres* of (he soul to God." durable a popularity lay. They were commultitude had al subjects, do not wish to be annexed—what The following sketch of Bunyan's charac- pelled to own that the ignorant judged more correctly than the learned, and then ? If the ' government organ' be the ter, drawn by the great reviewer and histo- that the despised little book was really a masexponent of their views, such is far from berian,Macaulay,is highly creditable to the wri- terpiece. Bunyan is indeed as decidedly the ing the case. To change the figure, if Broter, and is a most striking illustration of the first of allegorists, as Demosthenes is the first ther Jonathan really desires to form a family or Shakspeare the first of dramachange which is now going forward in public of orators, alliance in this quarter, it would be ciriJ, to lists. Other allegories have shown equal inopinion. In one century, an illustrious poet genuity ; but no other allegorist has ever use Ihe mildest term, for him to make a fair ventures not to introduce his name lest it been able to touch the heart, nnd to make .proposition, and then wait for an answer !— ' should move a sneer ;' in the following cen- abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of Perhaps this is the very way Brother Jonatury, the greatest historian of the age asserts love. whether any English than would pop the question.' He may not " It may be doubted —'Bunyan is indeed as decidedly the first of Dissenter suffered more severely under think it best upon the whole, for Mr. Secrehad allegorists, as Demosthenes is the first of or- the penal laws than John Bunyan. Of the of State to write His Majesty's Minister ators, or Shakspeare the first of dramatists.' twenty-seven years which had elapsed since tary Affairs upon so delicate a subject of Foreign To the names of Baxter and Howe must the Restoration, he had passed twelve in "added to have tho preliminaries hence prefers He and the name of a man far below them confinement. still persisted in preachbe in station and in ncquired knowledge, but in [ing ; but. that he might preach, he was un- 'arranged by we the editors. The Frjeßn bevirtue their equal, and in genius ther supe- •Jer the necessity of disguising himself like ing ratber disinclined to interfere in matters rior, John Bunyan. Bunyan had been bred a carter. He was often introduced into meet- of a political nature, would refer the affair a tinker, and had served as a private soldier ings through backdoors, with a smock frock his neighbors, the Polynesian and in the parliamentary army. Early in his life on his back and a whip in his hand. If he over to he had been fearfully tortured by remorse litid thought only of Ins own ease and safety Times. for his youthful sins, the worst of which seem he would have hailed the Indulgence wilh The women in England are asserting however, lo have been such as the world delight. He was now, at length, free to pray tbeir rights. They bave established a club in thinks venial. His keen sensibility and his and exhort in open day. His congregation Salisbury for cricket playing, and at the last adpowerful imagination made his internal con- rapidly increased ; thousands bung upon his vices, a match was about to be played between flicts singularly terrible. He fancied that he words ; and at Bedford, where he ordinarily iwo elevens, one consisting of married and the was under sentence of reprobation, that he resided, money was plentifully contributed to other of single women. < , " ' �4 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 4, 1860. THE FRIEND. The Oahu Fountain, published monthly Their word becomes of no value, and the at Honolulu, from Jan. to Oct. 1847, by tha contract, with their name affixed has no more Oahu Temperance Society. binding power over their consciences, than The Sandwich Island News, published a rope of sand to moor a ship. This ought not so to be. We have heard "the thousand weekly, at Honolulu, from 1847 to 1849. VOL. VIII OF THE FRIEND, Oregon Free Press, published and one," of sailor-excuses for running The OF ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY weekly, at Oregon City, from April to Dec. away, and are aware of the sailor's lot, yet, IN THE PACIFIC. of our 1848. to justify their running away would be far As we enter upon another volume EvangeliOregon of own The American and from our thoughts. Rarely, very rarely, history our paper, we are reminded at Unionist, this cal have we known a sailor to improve his conpublished semi-monthly, and that of other English newspapers in dition, our while not unfrequently his lotis worse 1848, world. When we Tualatui O. from June to spread Plains, T., part of the inscribed it before. Sailors, no, no, you are not another than was breeze, to the sheet June 1849. The Alta California, now published running fearful risks in leaving your vessels with English characters was anywhere to be seen along the whole extent of the western at San Francisco, may be considered as suc- until you have fulfilled your engagements. coast of North and South America, from ceeding the Californian, which was discon- An increase of $1, $5, or $100, per month, Cape Horn to Bhering's Straits, or in any tinued at the breaking out of the gold fever. is by no means a sufficient compensation for part of Polynesia. We can hardly realize For a short time the Californian and Star leaving a vessel, before your engagement is this fact, when we consider that more than a were united. up. Let masters und officers beware how dozen have since been undertaken. We The Placer Times, published weekly at theyybrce men to runaway, and let sailors shall first refer to those which were publish- Sacramento City, from April, 1849, to the beware how they runaway for slight and ed, but became extinct, before the establish- present time. trifling causes. ment of the Friend. The Pacific Nfws, published tri-weekly, Sandwich Island Gazette, published at San Francisco, from Sept. 1849, to pre- SOUND LEGISLATION IN WISCONSIN. " No person shall hereafter be allowed to weekly, at Honolulu, from 183(5 to 1839.— sent time. vendor retail spirituous liquorsuntil he shall, at S. D. Mackintosh, Editor. For about twelve Honolulu Times, published weekly, in addition to any other requirements of the Nov. time. Honolulu, 1849, from to present months the Sandwich Island Mirror appearlaw, have executed to the treasurer, or other About two years since, a semi-weekly pa- proper officers of the county, city, ed monthly in place of the Gazette, in contown, or per was started at Lima, in Peru, but wheth- village in which he may reside or carry on sequence of the want of printing paper. business, a bond in the penal sum of The Hawaiian Spectator, published er now published we are unable to state. such one thousand dollars, with three or more the of the of Mexico During city occupation quarterly, at Honolulu, from January 1833 sufficient sureties, who shall be residents of to Oct. 1839, conductedby " an Association by the American army, two daily papers were the place where such business is carried on, published there. We are are not aware as conditional to pay all damages the community of Gentlemen." The Polynesian, First Series, published any other English papers have ever been or individuals may sustain by reason of such traffic; to support all paupers, widows, and at Honolulu, from June 6, 1840 to Dec. 4, started in those regions which may be styled orphans; pay the expenses of all civil and Pacific. 1841. J, J. Jarvis, Editor. criminal prosecution made, growing out of, The Friend, published at Honolulu, from For many years papers in the Spanish lan- or justly attributable to, such traffic. Jan. 1843, to the present time. During '45, guage have been published in Peru and Chile. The fourth section is as follows:— 6 and 7, it was issued semi-monthly, but the A French lithographic paper was once pubIt shall be lawful for any married woman remainder of the period, monthly. lished at Tahiti, and for many years papers to institute and maintain in her own name, a The Polynesian, Second Series. Revi- have been published in the Hawaiian lan- suit on any such bond, for all damages susved in May, 1844, by J. J. Jarvis, who has guage. tained by herself or children on account of such traffic; and the money when collected been succeeded by the following gentlemen Sailors running away from ships.—It shall be paid over to her, for the use of heras Editors—C. E. Hitchcock, C. G. Hopmay seem like attempting " to dam up the self and children." kins, and E. O. Hall. waters ofthe Nile with bulrushes," for us to Well done, Legislators ofWisconsin! May The Hawaiian Cascade, published at make an effort to dissuade sailors from run- your example be followed by your brethren Honolulu, from Nov. 1844 to Aug. 1845, by ning away from ships. Because this practice in other Stales, and lands, cursed with the the Hawaiian Total Abstinence Union. become has so common here and in Califor- traffic in intoxicating drinks. Why should The Monitor, published monthly, at Honno means make it right for sail- not the vendors of strong drink support paunia, does, from to by olulu, Jan. Dec. 1845, Rev. D. Dole to do When sailors ship on board per-drunkards ? Why should they not pay ors so. Editor. The Samoan Reporter, published half- vessels it is upon certain conditions, now damages to that poverty stricken wife and yearly, at Navigator's Islands, from March, when they run away it is manifest that on children, whose husband and father they their part, they are unwilling to fulfill those have robbed of his property ? Why should 1845, to present time. Oregon Spectator, published at Oregon conditions—they deliberately violate their they be allowed lo fill the land with paupers, City, O. T., semi-monthly, from Feb. 1846 solemn engagements. Not only do they vio- drunkards, and criminals, then call upon the to Feb. 1849. late their word, but a contract to which they community at large to pay the necessary tax ? The Californian, published weekly, first have affixed their names. For men on land Most admirable is that feature of the act, at Monterey, A. C, in July, 1846, but sub- to trifle wilh their solemn engagements is making it lawful for the inebriate's wife to insequently removed to San Francisco. looked upon as disgraceful, and when men stitute a suit for damages! We hail this law The California Star, published weekly do not fulfill their contracts they are treated as a bright star in the west! May the lawat San Francisco, from 1846 to 1848. as out-casts, or out-laws. Among seamen, makers of other lands catch a glimpse of its The Neighbor, puhlished monthly, at a somewhat different code of laws and honor mild rays. We are glad to observe the law Valparaiso, Chile, from Jan. 1847, to the has obtained a footing. This is certainly to highly commended in the public journals.— present time. be deprecated. It tends to degrade them. Keep it before the people. HONOLULU, JANUARY 4, 1850. — . — " �5 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 4, 1850. 'sentiment he advanced was engraven upon .labor in vain, unless their communications HAWAIIAN THANKSGIVING. the into this Among many good imports the minds ofall Hawaiians. To this end we are accompanied by their names, although Kingdom, we rejoice that on the last day of hope a faithful translation will be made of his their communications may be published an1849 a National Thanksgiving made its ap- address, and copies sent to every grass hut onymously. Editors, most of all people, dread imposition. pearance. His Majesty, Knmehameha, could from Hawaii to Niihau. not have made un appointment that would The remarks of the U. S. Consul were conMELANCHOLLY OCCURRENCE. call up in the minds of Americans in his do- firmatory of those expressed by Mr. Wyllie, llakalm, Kauai. Nov. SO, 1840. minions, more pleasing and time hallowed as- besides containing a spice of teetotalism.— Rev. 8. C. Damon—My demr Sir-—Capt Johnson of the jbrig Kegia, in which vowel 1 came fro n Honolulu, requeatsociations. Thanksgiving is a season ns Those of the Rev. Mr. Bond, were well ,ed me to acquaint you with a circumstance that took place fondly cherished and observed by the descen- timed, and well calculated to impress the during our passage down. On Bunday, the 11th mat. at 3 o'clock, p. m, and about eight miles from theland offllarber'a dants of the Pilgrims, as Christmas is by the minds of the large assemblage of children Point, the steward, James Y Rogers, Jumped out of thecabin people of the ' old countries.' To be sure, present, that, if they were temperate and in- windows Into the aea. without any apparent cause whatever, Thanksgiving on the 31st of Dec, when dustrious, with the blessing of God, they It was blowing very hard at the time, and the vessel was running very nearly before the wind The Captain, who waa on that occurs on Monday, rather shocks our might expect to be successful in life. He deck, brought the vessel to the wind as soon a* Uie alarm was ideas of the festival, which we have always dwelt felicitously and forcibly upon the im- given, and stood for a short time on the starboard tack—he then put the vessel about and stood on the other tack, unti' been accustomed to celebrate on Thursday, portance of the young taking correct ground we judged we had passed over the spot where the man Jumpand that Thursday ordinarily the last of No- upon the temperance question. They must ed overboard, but without discovering any thing of him,--vember ; but not supposing it possible for not infer that because they were young nnd Unfortunately, Capt Johnson having lost both quarter boats in his passage to California, had nonetolower. Some ofthe the King to err, we would merely express the small, therefore they were destitute of in- men on board the vessel said that he was an excellent swimwish that his ministers will consult their al- fluence:— mer, and they had no doubthe would reach the shore ; but one man said that he had heard him say previous to hisslopmanac next year before making the appointWhat if the Utile rain should say " Bo small a drop as I, ping in the Regia, that he intended to destroy himself. He ment. This is however, ofminor importance was but a few days on board, and Capt Johnson, to whom I Cnn ne'er refresh these thirsty fields, am indebted for much kindness and attention duringthe pal—we come to matters of graver moment.— I'll tarry in Ihe sky, 11 dec, dec. sage down, thought that the man's friends, should he be Our design will now be briefly to record the Our limits will not allow that we enter more drowned, might obtain some knowledge as to his fata, through public proceedings on the First Hawaiian fully into a report of the exercises, but we your Instrumentality. 1 am, my dear sir. Your humble servant, G. RHODES. Thanksgiving in the capital of the kingdom. will add, that to us, they were interesting iHaIoatx?s-Huavinlgoipnnicvgeeanxpecting Under the general direction of the Rev. throughout, although for years we have been vessel oalled Smith Tuttle," from Newburyport, and com" Sylvester, we were not a little surprised on Mr. Armstrong, Minister of Public Instruc- accustomed to attend similar gatherings manded by Capt York Herald of July 7th tion, all the Protestants Schools in Honolulu .among the Hawaiians, hence we infer that reading the following In the Newabout the time specified, for know, sailed were assembled at ten o'clock at the stone'to the numerous strangers present the exer- Such a vessel we Oregon, via Sandwich Islands, and nothing has ever been Church. It was a pleasant spectacle, on a' cises were not devoid of interest. The sing- heard fromher, unless the following truly marvellous letter most charming Monday morning, to witness ing was good, and the declamations, excel- makesknown her fate. The following lettti, savs the Bridgcton. N. J. Chronicle, group after group of neatly dressed children lent, although more than one of Mr. Fuller's June 30th, was found on the shore of the Delaware Bay last week, at Jones'lsland, and brought to this office by Joslah wending their way to the place of gathering, pupils might have said :— Shephard,Esq, ot Hopewell. It was found enclosed in a by sealsmall vial, tightly corked and secured from dampness YouM scarce expert one of my age conducted by their respective teachers.— ing way being put on the cork. Whether His really what its " product or whether Is the of indicate, purport seems to It To speak in public on the stit^e." Soon after the audience was seated, His Masome •■«; who delight* in wonderments,' we arc unable to vouching any thing further than We give it without jesty, the Queen, the Premier, the Minister After the closing of the exercises, the sev- say, that it was found as described, The folks down East' will apt to know whether there is any reality In it or not. eral schools marched with banbe procession, others, and took their in Relations, of Foreign "The American brig Smith Tuttle, of and from Newburymorning, while leisurely progresseats upon the platform. The following or- ners unfurled and streamers flying, to the port, Nov. *9. 1846—-This singalong, and repairing the damages of a tremendous gale Rev. Mr. Smith's church, where a feast was which occurred on Nov. 16, and which waa very severe, we der of exercises was observed : discovered to the east of us a large ship bearing American She rapidly neared us, and when within about three by Native Choir. prepared ala Hawaiian. The tables were colors. Singing, a chaunt, miles, lowered the star spangled banner, and hoisted the piratical flag She still continued to near us very raRev. L. Smith. well supplied, although they did not " groan" bloodyand Prayer, in Hawaiian, when at a distance of about a mile, two men were His Majesty. as we have seen them, ere the Californians pidly, Speech, overboard, and thenshot, drought up from below and thrown be a Spanish ahlp of 900 tons burthen or more the Premier. made such heavy drafts upon our markets. She appears to Speech, ---as near as I can ascertain, there are about one hundred and torn, and also a Pupils of Mr. Fuller's School. The building was crowded to overflowing, twenty-five men on her. She carries a lornybesides Singing, numerous large gun forward, which is on a pivot, Address, in English, Mr. Wyllie, M. F. R. and all seemed we must be murderedIs certain, but ones. That all delighted with the idea of en- smaller Declamation, Six pupils Mr. Fuller's school. we are going to die like free men In defence of our lives.-of my men has already fallen from a shot from the long Native Choir.,joying so happy a thanksgiving. Among the One Temperance Song, torn. Generousstranger, who e'er thon art that flndest this, do thekindness to an unfortunate man to publish in tbe near Address, in English, Mr.Turrill, U.S. Consul. amusing things at the feast, we could not but eat Journal or newspaper, and you will oblige and confer a Mr. Fuller's Pupils. observe natives eating pot with a spoon, and favor fiYLVESTatT MCAFTE. Singing, on 10 o'clock 7 minutes, a. m. Rev. Mr. Bond. their pale faced neighbors Adiress, " accomplishing the Mr. Fuller's Pupils. Singing, There was received by the various lines same with their fingers! Rev. Claik. Mr. feat Prayer, of steam-ships of the West India and Oriental port of Southampton, duWe are unable to furnish translations of Thus, upon the whole, this teetotal, edu- Mail Company, at the ring the six months ending June SOth, 1849,the cational and festival mode of celebrating enormous amount of $17,409,000 in gold and silthose addresses made in the native language or even present in full those delivered in Eng- Thanksgiving being very agreeable, and we ver. Of this immense aggregate it is represented that $9,930,000 came from the mines of Mexlish. That of Mr. Wyllie was written and hope, useful, may His Majesty appoint anoth- ico, Peru, and other parrs of South America, snd delivered in English, but was translated by er similar day, before the year 1850 shall •950,000 in gold du»t was brought over tbe isthmus from California. The total amount of gold Mr. Armstrong. The general subject was end. and silver coin, bullion, and dost or grains from the importance of industry among the native Nortb or South America was §10,510,000. Of We have several anonymous com- the balance nearly 03,000,000 was received from population. In the course of his remarks, in the sbspe of remittances from the East we understood him to announce distinctly that munications on hand, and most sincerely re- India Company, about two and a half millions India the did furnish their gret contributors not the King was about to give lands, in fee simfrom Constantinople, and one and a half millions Portugal and Spain. If this entire amount ple, to all of his native subjects who would names. This ought in all cases to be done. from had been in silver, it would have weighed four Those who their time to spend same. His remarks were write for the plain, cultivate the hundred tons; if it bad consisted entirely of gold, practicable and sensible. Would that every columns of a newspaper, are very liable to it would have weighed thirty-five tons. ' " " ' - �6 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 4, 1850. died away. Death seemed to have'too ill to apply his mind long to any subject. seized upon the winds that they might not He would once in a while call in some one to hurry from his grasp the young victim soi read to him from the Bible, but he could selSCENES IN THE FORECASTLE. nearly his own. Our progress was so slow, dnm endure more than one chapter nt a time. January 6, 1846. At noon we saw St. He- that it was far into the night before we were I often read to him in this way, and the queslena1right ahead, and if the sight ofland ever well up with the island. The night was very tions which he asked showed that he took gladdened the hearts of any crew, it did the dark, and the captain was no! acquaintedI great interest in the exercise. As 1 sat by hearts of the crew of the ship H—,'at this with the entrance to Jamestown harbor, in- him and read portions of scripture, I would time. We had been out only sixty-three deed, he did not know exactly where thei have given all I possessed had I known how days from China, during which time we had entrance wns, nnd the night was so dark thai to converse with him about the concerns of seen land often, and once had communicated we could not distinguish many of Ihe land- his soul ; but he never asked any questions with the natives of an island, and from them marks laid down on the chart. As we float- upon Ibis topic, and at this time I was very had obtained fruits, vegetables, and live ed by, we saw lights, but so scattered, thai indifferent about myself, and very thoughtstock in abundance. We did not want pro- our captain tlid not suppose that they could be less, nnd consequently not the one lo direct visions nnd our supply of water was ample, the lights of a town, he therefore kept on bis in person's steps towards the path which I so that the sight of the island did not give us way, hoping lo seethe harbor when we shouldI cared not to tread. joy by promising to satisfy any gastronomic get beyond a point of land which loomed upi The mate was a pious man, and often praywants ; neither were our sailors so much ahead. But he was mistaken ; the sail,;ed in Ihe forecastle, and conversed with the seized with historic romance, nor were theyi[round Ihe point showed us no harbor, and re- ■ sick man, but no good results were apparent so much in love with a place made famous by vealed to us the light of no town. after the conversation, for the dying man witnessing the fulfillment of the destiny of a The captain wns at a loss, and he evinced seemed as indifferent as he had been through great man, that they would joyfully overhaul the perplexed state of his mind by his hur- life. and get in readiness the chain and ground ried step on the quarter deck, and by the raThus matters went on till we had crossed tackle of the ship, or cheerfully get out the pidity with which lie gave orders. the line and entered the latitude of uncertain anchor which for a time would hold them to While in this stale of uncertainty, we saw and boisterous weather, when one dark, rainy a place hallowed by such scenes ; neither did through the darkness, an object moving by, night I was ordered to go forward and watch they care enough about witnessing the va- and hearing tin- sound of oars, we concluded with Jack. I went forward and sat down by cant tomb of Napoleon, nor desire so much that it was a boat belonging to the island.— the side of his berth and took his hand in as to gaze upon the rocky hill from whose The captain hailed, and was answered. He mine that 1 might keep account of his feeble brow he had surveyed Ihe ocean, that (hey then inquired where Jamestown harbor was. pulse. The forecastle, although on deck, would joyfully and with alacrity go through The answer was returned, that we had pas- was very close and damp, and the water tbe disagreeable duty which is attendant up- sed it, that it was just round the point which which had found its way in through Ihe seams on bringing a ship to anchor in a deep har- we hnd left astern. This information was by on the weather side, and around the catbor. No, the gladness arose from a very no means pleasant to the captain or to us, heads, ran across the deck in a dirty stream different source. the crew. We feared that the captain might and hid itself behind the chests down to leeIn the forecastle of that ship, in a narrow not turn back, and then we saw nothing but ward. An old lamp which gave a dubious light, was suspended from a beam overhead, berth, lay a young man just twenty-one years certain death for poor Jack. of age, who was wasting away with a slow The result proved our fears to be correct. and by its faint flickerings the outline of the disease, which was like the consumption, on- The captain dove down into the cabin, appa- forecastle could be dimly seen with its double ly it was unattended by any cough. This di- rently in great rage ; and for a few minutes tier of berths in some of which could be dissease had defied the limited ukill of the mate we were in suspense. This suspense soon cerned the upturned faces of the watch bebacked up by a medicine chest, and three gave way to the worst certainty, for when he low. ponderous volumes from the ship's library, came on deck again, he gave the unwelcome The ship was going about one point free, by virtue of the reading of which, our chief order to keep the ship on her course, and to and as there was some sea on, she pitched officer had assumed the responsibility of pre- loose the fore and mizzen top-gallant sails badly and took in considerable water over the bows. Every wave that struck the ship scribing for any among the crew who were and the main royal. sick. St. Helena was the invalid's last hope, It was vexatious to be kept up as we had shook her from stem to stern, and as they and bis only chance for life lay in his leaving been all night, humbugging at the braces beat against the bows with trip-hammer force the ship at that island, for nothing on board and swinging the yards for every little breath they seemed as it were the furious knocking could avail him anything, and disease was of air that came offshore, and this vexation of the angel of death impatient for admittance. fast, very fast, wasting him away, seeming and weariness but poorly prepared our minds Jack seemed conscious that he was failing desirous of leaving as little as possible for for the absolute agony of disappointment, or fast, and once or twice asked how his pulse the grasp of death which was so near. for the melancholy duty of telling Jack that beat, but was unable to say much. All at When the island hove in sight, the sick his doom was sealed. When we told him once his pulse stopped, and I thought that he man was instantly put in possession of the that we had failed in making the port, but was dead, but it soon commenced again, and intelligence. The news seemed to give were now pointed for home with a fair wind, with more force than before. He then revilima new hold on life, for a time the pro- and when we bade him keep up his courage ved a little, and asked me to call the mate. gress of his disease appeared to be stayed, by thinking how soon he would be with his I ran aft and told the mate that Jack was dyand he rallied himself to make a few prepa- friends, he exclaimed with a voice choked by ing, and asked him to come forward. He rations for going on shore. bitter disappointment, I shall never see started and came forward with me. When It was the prospect of having our ship- home again—never !' we entered the forecastle, we found Jack mate restored to health, which caused joy in The ship kept on her course, and with us partially raised up and gazing about him in tbe hearts of the crew, at the sight of thai the routine of ship's duty went on as before. the wildest manner. His features, by reaisland. We desired to have something ef- We soon forgot our disappointment, or re- son of long sickness, had become sharp and fectual done for his recovery. We had long membered it only when thinking of the sick ghastly, and his eyes were lit up by the fire been pained by seeing him dying before our man. From him hope had fled. As we re- which was consuming him. The sight of him eyes, and the sight was indeed painful, for moved the anchors from the bows, the an- glaring out from his berth, combined with besides witnessing the hopeless condition of chor of hope seemed to be torn from his bo- the almost sepulchral appearance of the foreour shipmate, we were continually reminded som. Day after day he wasted away and castle, was a spectacle which never will be of the uncertainty of life. Feeling all the grew weaker, till he required the constant effaced from my mind. 1 never wish to see time that death was in our midst, a train of presence of a watcher. The best berth in Ihe like again. thought was started in our minds which we the forecastle was given up to him, and the As soon as the mate entered, Jack asked could not avoid, and which we cared not to most delicate and nourishing food was pre- him to pray for him. By this time some of pursue. This train of thought, was disagree- pared for him, and he received from all hands the watch below had been awakened and had able to us, and we hoped to remove it by the fore and aft, every attention which could be turned out, and some of the watch had come removal, and consequent recovery of our given. All were desirous of making his last in from off deck. The male kneeled among shipmate. them, and lifted up his heart to God in an elmoments as comfortable as possible. We neared tbe island slowly. The trades Until this time he had read a great deal, oquent and fervent prayer. During the praywhich had blown very fresh before, now al- but now he was too weak to hold a book and er Jack was silent, but at ihe close he made Seamen's Friend. , most . i'oyful ' �7 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 4, 1860. a great effort, and raising himself so as to be [native-teacher, who now conveys to other is- gins to form its clusters, and the fruit may seen by all present, he exclaimed, 'Oh, I 1lands the orange, the lime, the banana, sweet be gathered in less than a year. wish I could pray. I don't think now as 1 potato, pine, custard, and papaw apples, fkc, A spot of 1,076 square feet may contain, used to think. I once disbelieved in future iis no less worlhy of the thanks of our coun- at least, from thirty to forty plants, which, punishment, thinking that all the punishment Itry than the greatest of our navigators. It in the space of a year, at a very moderate that we were to have was given us here. Iiis interesting to observe, that, when these calculation, will yield more than 4,410 lbs. don't think so now ! lam lost ! lam lost ! worthy agents of our Missionary Society avoirdupois of nutricious substance. The I wish I could pray ! Oh, that I could pray !' Ibring on board the Mission Ship their little produce of the banana is to that of wheat as This effort was his last ; he sank back up- todds and ends of property, to embark on 133 : 1, and to that of potatoes fes 44 : 1." on his pillow, and in a short time he calmly Itheir mission of mercy to other islands, they WM. MILLS. and quietly breathed his last, and yielded up Ihave almost invariably a box of plants, or a AMERICANS AND JAPANESE. his spirit laden with the account of twenty- |parcel of roots and seeds. It must not be thought, that the islands of When Christianity was finally extirpated one years, to Him who gave it. The eyes of most of the crew who witnes- Ithe Pacific arc now the solitary abodes tliey throughout Japan, and the remnant of trade sed this scene, were filled with tears in spite once were. They are visited by hundreds of with Europe committed to the Dutch factory of their exertions to the contrary ; and there iwhalers and traders; and, consequently, it at Dezima, the resolute seclusion of the inis no doubt that the impression made upon iis of the gtealest benefit, in preserving the sular empire was long respected and left unthe minds of all present was fur good. their crews, to be able to gel fresh disturbed by other nations. The slight atIhealth of of It is not for us to judge this young man, or supplies vegetables and fruits. At the tempt made by tbe English under Charles II 1 to say that he was lost. The last words of atsame time, it confers a benefit on the na- which the Dutch foiled, by proclaiming the dying man aregenerally considered to be his ttives, by giving, in exchange for their pro- English Queen to be a Portuguese Princess truest words, but in this case, owing to some <duce, our hardware, cutlery, and cottons. can hardly be called an exception. This abstinence from any endeavor to circumstances, there is reason to hope that The benefit is even more extended in openso much of his speech as related to his being iing up markets for our home mantifactulies. transgress the prohibitory laws of Japan, allost was not true. But we do say, and from In after years, it will be interesting to lowed the strong' feeling in which they origithis case we see, that it is dangerous to put Iknow who first conveyed lo the several is- nated to die away, and towards the close of off the subject of religion till a future day, Ilands many of the finest tropical productions! the last century, the continuance of Ihe sysfor in so doing, we may leave to the mercies Even now, short ns the period is, it would, tem appears to have proceeded rather from 1 difficult of a death-bed hour, be to ascertuin who first introduced indifference to foreign trade and respect for I existing customs, than from hatred or fear. many of them. The vast concerns of an eternnl scene.' Whilst the public mind of Japan remained in Of all the which have been foreign plants The next morning at ten o'clock, with apthis easy state, although no trade, no unnepropriate ceremonies, we consigned the body introduced into Samoa, none have been more cessary intercourse was allowed, foreign of our shipmate to a sailor's grave. After'extensively propagated and valued than a ships were freely suffered to apdistress in banana, of unknown species previously in the burial the ship again turned towards * proach the coast, and their wants were cheertho Seas, South Samoa alone in upalthough away and*hurried from the as' home, place fully relieved. soldiers hurry from the grave of a departed wards of fifty different species of the Musa The first aggression upon the Japanese are found. From the of its fruit excellency comrades. code was made by the Americans prohibitory and its with great s the weight, together adapthe rest of the During passage home, Jack's and originated in the war between England tation of its lowness to resist gales, violent name was seldom mentioned, on account of' and Holland, when the latter nation was comthe dislike which sailors generally have of1it promises to take the precedence of every pelled to engage neutrals to carry on their c other Some novariety cultivated. usually referring to the subject of death. The sail- tice is therefore, of its of history, worthy trade with Japan. The first North American maker, who was both on board and on shore, ship thus hired was the Eliza of New York, Jack's most intimate friend, sometimes con- record. Stewart, in the year 1797 ; and her Capt. late Mr. When our lamented Missionary versed about him, and he generally ended at once aroused Japanese susappearance Williams returned from the England in his remarks something after this manner picion. A vessel bearing the Dutch flag, 'Jack was a whole-souled fellow—he would " Camden," in 1838, his Grace the Duke but of which (he crew spoke English, was an c Devonshire kindly supplied him with some share his last crust with a shipmate. I have of that struck the Nagasaki authorities anomaly cases one of which was one desof plants, in been with him through a great deal, and If with consternation. It cost the President of Chinese Banana —(most ignated proba" " deeply regret and repent that I have conn-' the Musa Cavendishii, the origin of the Factory (Doeff, a Dutchman,) some tenanced him and gone hand in hand with bly, ywhich is said to be the Isle of France). Mr. trouble to convince the Governor that these him in much that was evil. Had my iriMu- Williams not English were not real English, but ' English a of resisettled having place ence on him been better, my conscience of the second chop,' as the Americans are dence for time he the landed, c some after would now be more easy'—and many of his designated in China, living in a distant councases were left under care. Little vitalmy the same. companions could say try and governed by a different king. AH seemed to but, to anxious ity remain; preHow much better it would be, if instead of{ of them, I had them this however, was of no avail : the main chiming in with such remarks as the sail- 6serve, if possible, someinto carefully transplanted my garden. This, point was to prove that the Americans had makers, it could be said to young men when banana was the one which sur- 'nothing to do with the trade, being only emChinese only their companions are taken away, vived. In about twelve months, it produced ployed by the Dutch as carriers, on account And Oh, if'tis pain to remember how far, 'From bunch weighing nearly a hundred pounds. of the war.andThe governor became at length tli' pathway of light he was tempted toroam a * consented to consider the vesthis single plant have sprung the thou- satisfied, From Be it bliss to remember that thou wert tin- star, ■ 'flint arose nn his darkness ninl guided him hnnie. 8sands to be seen everywhere in Samoa; and sel as a Dutch ship. t Sailor's Magazine, March, 1849. they are fast spreading in other groups east Capt. Stewart met with accidents upon his nnd west. It is surprising to see, in the second voyage, which compelled him twice The subject of the following article short space of ten years, a plant bo ex- to put back for repairs. From his increased from the " Samoan Reporter," we should be tensively propagated. But, when we calcu- intercourse with the Japanese, it seems, he what a contemplated establishing a connexion indeglad to sec attracting the attention of the late, by geometrical progression,suckers a pendent of his employers, but in this howwhich will average but six plant, Government and foreigners on the Sandwich year, will eventually produce, the result is ever, he failed. The following year he again Islands. made his appearance, in a different vessel, amazing. IxTRODUCTio.v of Foreign Plants.—He The value of the banana in these seas can and under a different character—told a pitewho introduces but a single plant into a coun- scarcely be estimated. What Baron Hum- ous tale of shipwreck, of the loss of bis own try, says some writer, may be considered a boldt says of it in Mexico may be quoted,.all, as well as the Dutch vessel—that he bad public benefactor. We look with interest here, and applied to Samoa. He doubts been enabled by a friend at Manilla to buy on the magnificent orange and tamarind trees "whether there is any other plant on the and freight the brig, is which he had now which still stand at Point Venus, on Tahiti, globe which, in so small a space of ground come, for the purpose of discharging, by tbe planted by Bligh; and on the shaddock tree, can produce so great a mass of nutriment. sale of his cargo, his own property, his debts which till lately, stood at Huahine, planted Eight or nine months after the sucker has to them for tbe repairs of the Eliza. An enby the hand of Cook. But the most humble been inserted in the earth, tbe banana be- ergetic president bad, however, succeeded • • •• ' < ' ' .' ' ' : '' . ' * • * �8 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 4, 1850. this very inefficient one, who saw through what, during the past year, hast thou done tbe scheme, and caused Capt. Stewart's car- for God and for eternity ? Ido not ask how go to be sold in the usual manner, and his many plans for worldly aggrandizement you debts to be paid from the proceeds ; but he have laid and carried out, but what has thou procured no return cargo for the brig, and done to provide for the well being of thy soul ? Cleared. Dec. 27—.m »h Capitol, Bradbury, Tor Calcutta. _.*—Chilt-Mii hric J. R. A., Hrh.iu.h, for Valparaiso. a in i-lu,! I liwilit-ili Ellen, Truman, Honf Kong. Br hk lirini< I (<rnnt, Kilir, fur Sun Franciacn. Hawachr Knlhitih, Bent, Kn Frnnrittcn, -ni't-d fin I.ttlittinn. Umiikvi nun .clir Grtjitir, Ite.lop, for Valpatmiaui. Jan I—Am bjrßob't Bruce, l'"< "lieiiiJorf, San Frniici*>ro. sent tbe Captain in the Dutch ship of that Man of pleasure, what hast thou done the Am hiii: Hroilieia, Soule, for Han Francisco. year, to Batavia, to be tried for the loss of past year ? In all your plans to procure self 4—Am whale »liip Wnlga, Lure. gratification, hast thou thought of the pleastbe Eliza. Shipping in Port, Jan. 5. Pending the investigation, Cspt. Stewart ures which flow at God's right hand, and hast Propeller Mnasachuseit*, H R Knot. made his escape, and again appeared in 1803, thou done any thing to secure them ? How Merchant Vessels. Am. ahip Mariposa, Martin. in Nagasaki bay—this time more openly de- is it, dear friends, in these respects ! Ex- Haw. achr. Ukanee, Vnukoii. John Bull. Robinson. claring his purposes. He now presented amine well, I pray you, one and all. In what- I'r. briic ship Walpole, Culler. Mil. a ever of have failed the respect any during himself under the American flag, brought us Bremen arkr. Aih. n, Heweren. Hurftermeisicr Jauaen,Maiihiesen. cargo avowedly American property, from year past of discharging our duty to laud mid Ham. ah.pfliip L'(turner tie Taiti, liuiler. Bengal and Canton, and solicited permission our souls, let us ingenuously repent and Tnhiimn Am hk Victory, Ryan. Robert--, for Oregon. ; brig remission of our sins Mann* Am to trade, as also to supply himself with water earnestly seek the Am hrljr Coplmo Southward. and oil, the last request only was granted, and now that we have entered upon a new Am hk o. ntii Bird, Hall, for Oregon. Am ship I'lihimilim. Allen, and when his wants were supplied he was year, let us resolve that we will devote it to Hoi hk Three Hrnihen*, Swan, fur Hont| Koiif. Hon Pert*. Dv Peyrat. compelled to depart ; he now gave up his God, to the good of our fellow men, and to ¥r .thin I'"i'i[i>i'n, West, on ihe reef. brig Am interloping scheme, and returned no more. the great business of preparation for eterni Br hrijj .Mary Dure, Scarborough the Amicus. Abridged from Asiatic Journal for the ty. Whalers. jy. Y. Exp-ess. Am whale ships Heroine, Wall; WHrren.Evani: Dexter. — Lcttrange, Further from the Search for Sir John To Seamen and Landsmen who read the Friend Franklin.—Sir George Simpson returned DIED. on Monday last from his annual tour of inDear Friends: On the commencement of a At Ihe U 8 Hospital, 25ih Dec. Mr. W. 11. Par-hunt, bespection through the Hudson's Bay Territo- Iniii'iiiK He came from Calito Siiuiiiii. Sutir i>i'New Vi.rk. new year, allow me affectionately but faith- ries and North Western settlements of this fornia to Honolulu. fully, to address you a few words of expostu- Continent. We learn with regret from him, lation and entreaty. that no clue had been obtained to the whereThe Friend, sent Abroad. Whatever thy hand findeth to do," is the abouts, or the fate of Sir John Franklin and Any person, paying the annual subscription price exhortation of the wise man, "do with thy his companions. Sir John Richard- of the Friend ($2,00) in advance, can have the pufier might, for there is no work, nor device, nor son,gallant Sydney. Tahiti. San Francisco, or overis on his way back from the fro- sent to China, indeed, nor the whither land, via I'a 11:1111:1. to the United States or England. knowledge, grave wisdom, in zen regions, and may be expected in Mon- According to the U S. Post Office laws, newspapers thou goest." This consideration is a very treal early in September. His exploring sent from the office of publication, the postage may solemn one. It is addressed to all classes he paid by the person to whom the paper is addressed, and conditions of men. It is a consideration party will, however, continue their search, bnt otherwise the postage must be pre-paid. Rce, under the orders of of the Hudson's Dr. which should act constantly on Ihe minds o. K7~ If we have been correctly informed, there is Sir John's second comin Bay Company, not that irregularity about letters and papers going to men in all the circumstances of life, as a mand the summer. Although it the United States, that there is about their conveyance powerful motive to prepare for the day of ac- would throughout tf be almost criminal to abandon hope in hence. count. It points to the grave, which has such an enterprise, it is impossible to conclosed over many, who but a little while ago ceal CARD. A from oneself the unwelcome truth, that The subscriber, having been left destitute in Honowere with us engaged in the active, bustling the to successful issue become chances a and lulu, through misfortune been compelled to unscenes of life, and to the grave which will of time.— dergo an amputation of his left leg, returns his sinsoon open for each of us. Wh«re are the fearfully diminished by the lapse Cjra 1(1. thanks to all those merchants and others who August havj so generously subscribed $80,50 dollars for his tribes of men who once, both on the land and [Montreal Courier, on the bosom of the deep, were busied in the benefit. He desires especially to acknowledge Dr. I-aDonations. anil medical aid. scenes which now occupy our thoughts and -1 drop's gratuitous surgicalJOHN For Chapel. For Friend] GRACE. our hands ? Gone, gone, forever ! Each in Native of Pico, W. Islands. S6,00 his turn, closely following his predecessor, Estate of Mr. Rob't Hill, tf Honolulu, Jan. 1, 1850. 5,00 performed his brief pari, and made way for Mends in Honolulu. The Friend, Bound. 5,00 a?2,00 another, just as wave follows wave in quick 2apt, Ryan, Victory, Bound volumes of the Friead, for one, or moreyears, succession, and roars and dashes and dies on Waster,offie% and craw, I). Grant, 21,00 can be obtained at Rev. T. Coan's, Hilo; Rev. 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