1 10 14 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. TE. 2,50 the shore. And where are we ? Hastening I'wn KDglish Seamen, Taylor's, Lahnina; and the Chaplain's study, Hono5,00 lulu, to the same destination Time bears us on ktv Boudenot, U 8. 8. St. Mary's, tf ■ her rapid wings, nor will business, pleasure, " Marchand, 5,00 " Jonea, nor indifference impede her flight. 5,00 Books, for Sale at tbe Chaplain's Stud v. " " Borne thus swiftly along, dear friends, we Hr. Hassell, Honolulu, 5,00 D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation; Jarves' have just closed an old and entered upon the History of the Sandwich Islands. A few School Books, including Webster's Spelling Book," Union scenes of a new year. Here, for a moment, $25,00 Total, $39,50 " " Spelling Book," "Smith's Gramaaar" and "Smith's time seems to pause, that we may review the Arithmetic," &c, &c. past and resolve what we may do in future. ianschurch ofpOrdtold.he—ainer Kahuku, Inlandof Oahu. Dec. 21at, Rev. Jamea Kekela, ■ Standing by the newly covered grave of the at «radnmeof the Seminary, Lahninntuna, and for aeveral yeara a year, so to speak, let me ask you, what have beneficiary of Jnmea llunewell, Eaq., Charleaton, Maaa. fora merchant at theae ialanda. you done during the year to forward the great merly Reading of the Scripture" and introductory prayer by Rev. Jl Monthly Journal devoted to Temperby object of your existence ? Christian, what J 8. Rmeraoii. aermon by Rev. L. Smith; ordaining prayer ance, Seamen, Marine and General E. W Clark} change lo the pallor elect by Itev. J. 8. have you done for God, for your fellow-men Rev, Eniemon; right hand of tellnwahip by Rev. E W.Clark; Intelligence. and for your own future and eternal blessed- charge lo church and people by Rev. L. (smith; benediction by tbe Paalor. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY ness ? 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It—Am scar Joan Dunlap, Bache, fm San Francisco. 5, 6 and 7 years, at the Chaplain's Study. A reduction will carry you swiftly upward till you enter Dec. from the subscription price will be made to Seamen, Jaa B—Am ahlp Fiavius, Bayers, from San Fraoclaco. the heaven of rest ? Man of enterprise, 4-Ain mk bk Monmouth, tfalary, from Chri.luias island. and purchaser! who desire more than a single volume " ' . " THE FRIEND: MARINE JOURNAL. . � 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 - 1850.01.04 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.01.04 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. Also, ath, Mr. Smith, belongingto Oregon. benefit. He desires especially toarknowledgc Dr.LaAlso, 18th, at the L*. S Hospital, IHnmb Rich, a Fcanian, Am ship Mariposa, Martin. !drop's gratuitous surgical and medical aid. aad native of l'aJuivra, N. V., who belonged to the l'rcble. Ham. sh.'p Bin-germeister Mitiliie-cn. Jan«en, JOHN UKACE, ilk shipped on board the vessel at C'allao Am Prix Copiapo Southward. Also, 10th,Mr. Jors Bzattt, (tinman,)aged4>, belonging Mnl lik Three llrmhers, gw art, for Iluae Nutive of Pico. W. Islands. to thecttyof New York, lie had been for H years a resiHonolulu, Jan. I, 1*50. Br brig Mary Dare, (Scarborough tf dent on the Islands. At Lahaiiia, Dec. 16, at the hospital, of consumption, Mr. Alssst 8. llsaniKo, belonging to Newport, It. I. but had Tin* Friend, Bound. PASSENGERS. been a resident of Lahslr.e for two years. Also, Deo. 81, at the hospital, Ksekibl Cerrsi, from the In the Flavins, from San Francisco—L Reynolds,! 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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/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. FOR SALE, at toe Polynesian office, the Jiook store, and the Chaplain's Study, In Honolulu; at the Donations. of Rev. T. E.Taylor, Lahaina; and at the Rev. 335.935 For Chapel. For Friend. Study 5.246.215 Mr. Coan's, Hilo. £7,829,143 t. C. JrVyllie,Esq. Honolulu, 20 00 9.394.391 Na»J <lo., The Friend, seat Abroad. PublicDebt, 9,816,419 Hr. Fox, 8 50 Any person, paying the annual subscription price 10 00 of the Friend ($2,00) in advance, can have the paper Total expenditure, apart from loans, $58,241,167 Hr. G. E. Webster, sent to China, Sydney, Tahiti, San Francisco, or over10 00 Esq. Sea, I. land, via Panama, to the United States or .England. The House of Representatives is comin the Chapel, Sabbath morn- According to the U. S. Po6t Office laws, newspapers posed of representatives from each state, in,ing,Oy The Collection behalf of the Rev. Bond's SoE. 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Flumer. the subscription price will be made to Seamen, labor to deceive their friends in relation to the Hawaiian bark Don Quixote, Dudoit, fr California, from 1 purchasers and who desire mare than a single volume Andrew Ray, Ray, West, amount of liquor they consume. Gardner. West, I � 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 - 1850.03.01 - 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/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/78bcc023dd2952bd475aa7dfc972edba.pdf 6bf3dbbf8098134288e12faf32422f0a PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, MAY 1, 1850. fol. 8. Ihein, was a eulogy of the been suggested > king. love which They spoke at first of , Contents. OF THE FRIEND, MAY 1, 1860, Poetry, The HourGlftm and Childhood, Viilt of Bonlle, continued, Sabbath Whaling, Foreign Nvwt, Mo S 33 -- o p ar FrtVehnoicsflw t<i (lie his people had for him. " A flower," said they, grows upon the mountain height.— Translated for the Friend, from the French oj When"the stars hide themselves, and the sua "n 3.36 ■Adolphe Barrot. comes nut from the sea, it turns of itself and no. v. 36 Agricultural Mreliug, holds out its cup for the morning dew. We " 87 Drinking healths Foreign Fruit* and Vegetable*, Leleiohoku Kalanimoku climb to the mountain's summit and pluck the " *' 37 Wreck of the Mnrgnret, Songs and Dancing at the King's coun- flower that we may bear this health-giving 37 Domeaaic Newa, house the parly return to Honolulu dew to Kauikeaouli." try " Yaiiiij, Iriah Telotaler, '" 88 the French guests disappointed changesi Then lliey extolled his prowess in war.— H 89 Preaching In Congreas Arctic Expedition, by Missionary influence —JVinAie- |" His horse turns his head to look at him, Ueatka, Ship Newa, &c, " *> produced naena— Young mistakes of the Kiii'j;—ln- for he knows that he does not bear a common dian dance Honolulu society Mr. Charl- man. His lance is always red with the ton—.Marin*—anecdotes of Kamehamehal limit's blnod of his enemies, and his battleand Marini—Jtfortnt's opinion of Mission-l■ n\r bristles) with the teeth of warriors, who THE HOUR GLASS. have tallest under his blows. When be 1111/ influence. BY JOHN QUINCT ADAMS. Madeira and Bordeaux wines circulated I speaks, his voice is heard beyond the mounAlu ! how swift (he momenta Ay ! freely, and healths were drank in the English tains, and all the warriors of Oahu haste* to How flash the yeara along ! manner, and gaiety reigned dining the re- 'range themselves around him, for they know Scarce here, \«-t gouts already by. The burden of a song. past. We proposed the health of Knme- that under such a chief, their feet will speedSee childhood, youth and manhood paaa, hameha 111., and he returned the compliment, ily tread in blood." Andage with furrowed brow ; by proposing the health of His Majesty, Lou-\ It may be perceived that Hawaiian poets Time waa—Time shall be—drain the glass— is Philippe, King of the French. Our luati also indulge in some license, and that court But where is Time, li now ? was then, the place excepted, very much flatterers are everywhere the same. KauiTime it> the measure, but of change ; like a European dinner. About thirty of usi keaouli listened to it all with the greatest inNo present hour la found ; were at the table no ladies were present. difference. The past, the future. All the range. Among 1 the guests I noticed the two sons of a But what was admirable in this song, Of Time's unceasing round. frenchman, who has been established many which however had a compress of only two Where then is now ? hi realms above. With God's atoning Lamb, years at the Sandwich Islands as a sail- or three notes, was the perfect accordance In regions of eternal love. maker. The two young gentlemen spoke with which the five singers spoke and gesWhere aim, enthroned, I AM. English fluently, and one of them had the ticulated. They must have rehearsed many Then pilgrim, let thy joys and tears kindness, after dinner, to interpret for me times to attain to this degree of perfection. On Time no longer lean ; the songs of the natives. Opposite to me Each one of the Aye pronounced, at the But henceforth all thy hopes and fears was Leleiohoku, son of Kalanimoku. He is same time, the same note, the same word, From earth's affection wean : better known by the name of Pitt. He was made the same gesture, and moved his calaTo God lei votive accent" rise ; baptized in 1819 or 20 on board the French bash in the most perfect time, either to the With truth, with virtue live; bliss that denies lime So all the corvette Uranie, commanded by M. dc Frey-| right or to the left, or striking it against the Eternity shall give. cinet. Kalanimoku was generalissimo and ground he caused it to give forth sounds first minister of Kameharneha. Considering some what similar to those of a bass drum.— CHILDHOOD. the country and the period in which he lived, It might be said that they were all moves! by How little la the happinese he was a wonderful man. Leleiohoku is the same impulse of thought and will. SomeThat will content achild ; now one of the principal chiefs; he has mar- times the gestures varied and became inconA favorite dog, a suuny fruit, ceivably rapid, yet 1 was never able to -disried Nahienaena, sister of the King. A blonanm growing wild. cover a mistake. The voice, the bands, the After dinner we all mounted our horses A word will 1111 thelittle heart fingers, the calabashes, the bodies of the five started for the country and King's again With pleasure and with prfffc house, where we were to bear Hawaiian singers were always extended, moved, reguIt is a harsh, a cruel thing. That such shouldbe denied. songs and to see Hawaiian dancing. On lated by a spontaneous movement. our way to the Pali Wo had left this house These singers were succeeded by three And yet how many weary hours These joyous creatures know ; on the right. Every thing had been pre- others, who were clad like the former, Out How much of sorrow and restraint viously arranged: mats were spread in front garlands of leaves encircled their foreheads, l. c. l. They to their elders owe. of the cottage, and chairs were placed in a while strings of the yellow fruit of the pancircle, and first, five singers appeared and danus odorantiitimu* ornamented their necks "Donations" and "subscriptions" kneeled down. Each of them was armed and arms. All three were of admirable profor the support of the Friend are ever ac- with a large calabash, which was made thin portions, and of a beauty of countenance the middle ; this calabash, held in seldom seen on these islands. They sung of ceptable, but when an acknowledgment of towards left hand by a string, aided the expres- love and pleasure;—of love, Hawaiian, in the favors received is reciprocated in the shape sion of their gestures in a singular mariner. its characteristics, a little too material, perof a "terrapin," th#'donation" is fully ap- They were naked to the waist ; their arms haps, and which was expressed by gestures preciated. Capt. Whelden of the "James arid breast were tattooed, and loose folds of none too modest. Pleasure the most sensual of various colors covered the lower was indicated by lite looks, the gestures, the Maury" has our thanks for a specimen Ofjitapa of their bodies. Their songs were a words, and even the tones) of these young part the products of the Gallipagos Islands, which|'sort of recitative, or of modulated converse- men. At one time their countenances became dark, they waved with violence the he sent «s a few days since. See "notes ofj tion, animated or slow, as the subject feather fans which they held in the left hand, a Terrapin Hunt," in the Friend of May 15, quired. The theme they had chosen, or which had iand the base of which, formed of a small page 33 33 Botonite, the inIslSandwsi,ch 1836. " — POEC T'S ORNER. — — —— — — : > — — ' — . - . i re-< 1847. I �34 THE FRIEND, MAY 1, 1850. calabash filled with shells and struck by the ing and singers appeared to have preserved!I between these Islands and that coast was in right st regular intervals, performed the of- all the originality of ancient times. The; port, and had a score of those Indians on fice of castanets. Thus they sung the frenzy picturesqueness of the scene, however, ditl board. The consignee had the kindness to not dimiaish. Behind us, a cottage built in have them arrayed in the costume of their of jealousy. Their song, like that of the first singers, the aboriginal style of architecture; around country, and in the evening, by the light of was nothing more than an animated conver- us, a crowd of Indians, naked or clad in the kukui nut torches, (hey gave us a represensation. No.other sting, in fact, is known at most fantastic costumes; before us, the sing- tation of their warlike and religious dances. ers seated upon mats, with their character- This was certainly the most savage display the Sandwich Islands. The instrumental music of the islanders, istic countenances and their strange songs; Ithat we saw at the Sandwich Islands. Growith vermillion, feathwhich is still found at c distance from the the sea appearing in the horizon, and in the tesque figures painted (he lips and in the gristle of enamelled inserted in midst of of trees ers of which we obus a grove green some ports, and vestiges i served on Hawaii, consistsof tamtams and a with flowers. Jill this together formed a Ithe nose, the costumes, the yells, the posthe pencil itures, the gestures, nil combined to give us sort of flute with two holes. Instead of the charming picture, which exercised a vivid idea of a savage dance; hut these this instruof our artists in copying. used in blowing lips, the nose is ment,—a graceful way, forsooth. The notes Formerly the women were passionately .poor fellows, accustomed loan extraordinary of 50 and 55 given forth by this instrument are not more fond of these sports and these public dances, idegree af cold in the latitude (o suffer exceedingly of the to us degrees, appeared family females even royal had; of their vocal music. Many varied than those the heat, und we exerted ourselves in The dancing was, at length, announced. the reputation of being finished actresses; from behalf. Bat the time is past when the swarms of for this people once had plays, and the mem- Itheir J Honolulu already numbers four or five male and female dancers assembled on the bers only of distinguished families appeared foreign residents, while at Kealakegrass, and there, in their graceful on the stage. Now, '.his taste has yielded to hundred ancea accompanied by songs, recounted the the counsels of the missionaries. Perhaps iaknii there is only one or two. Almost all, glorious achievements of warriors. Singers also the fear of their reprobation alone pre- who possess any claim to respectability, are and dancers were the historiographers ofthe vents the women from giving themselves up Americans, and the commerce of the Sandcountry. In their memory the ancient tra- to their old practices; at any rate, we were wich Islands is almost exclusively in the ditions were preserved. The details of a completely excluded from the society of the hands of Americans. Rut the laborers an"3 mechanics are generally Englishmen. We wax formed the subject of a song, and from ladies of the King's family. in us, On the morrow the the received the most cordial weleverywhere king of the ancient Hawaiian bards gave the songs ■ hove navigators drawn material* for their city, a repetition of what we had seen the icome, and nil the world was eager to feast descriptions. It is then with regret that I day before; but the fascination of the coun- us. Hardly a day passed' during all the have seen these national songs prohibited, try and of novelty was lacking, and the itime ol our stay at Honolulu, without our under the pretext of their being profane. As soiree was dull enough. Still, justice re-I having been invited hy some one to a dancing well almost, might Homer and Virgil be pro- quires us to say that the king did his best to ior musical soiree ; hut the passengers anil hibited ! Dancing has also fallen into great render our stay at Honolulu agreeable.— iofficers of the corvette were almost the only disfavor in consequence of missionary influ- His urbanity was extreme, and his good hu- dancers and musicians. Much more than ence. The dance which we witnessed felt mor never failed for an instant. Every time Ithis, surely, ought to be expected in a city that we went to see him he gave us the most of the Suudu ich Islands. Among all those the effects of this disposition. Only one female dancer appeared. For- cordial welcome, and seemed delighted to persons, the recollection of whom we shall retain, I will mention the family of Mr. merly, graceful and easy, the upper part o. receive us. the body of these dancers was entirely I called one day with Mr. Charlton, on Chin It mi. the English consul, whose open naked. Pieces of cloth, suspended from the Nairn-nac na, the king's sister. When in- hospitality rendered my stay at Honolulu inhips, and hanging in graceful folds, imparted formed that she was only twenty years of finitely agreeable, and who furnished mc a sort of originality to their movements.— age, I was surprised; she seemed to me with imull interesting information. Nor I soon forget Don Francisco Marini, Necklaces composed of the fruit of the pan- much older. She was, however, hardly re-: shallarrived a sickness.— who at these islands 40 years ago.— wasting or of covered from and long danus, garlnnds of leaves feathers, bracelets of teeth either of the dog or whale She received us very graciously. Like all Having attached himself to the fortunes of encircling the arms and legs, and shaking in the distinguished women of the country, she kaineliaiiiclia, he accompanied him in the regular time, composed their apparel. The is very, large; and she must needs be very long wars which he was under the necessity one who presented herself before us, wore n fat in her ordinary stale of health. We ad- iof earning on, in prosecuting his conquests. us of the many wounds he had recalico shirt. Her dancing appeared monot- mired the smallness and elegant form of her He toldand of the great valor he had disonous. She sung at the same time, and a feet and hands. She was surrounded by ceived, singer behind her, lent the assistance of his women of honor, among whom we observed played in the diveiH battles, in which he had been engaged. We weie also informed conSeng- and marked the time, by striking a cal- a daughter of the Englishman Young, who abash against the ground. Only one thing had been taken by Knmehameha from an cerning some singular adventures which had appeared remarkable in this dance; and that English ship, on hoard of which he was befallen him. One day Knmrhameha fell dangerously is, that the dancer regulated the measure, boatswain. He attached himself to the furA Frenchman, by the name of Rives. and, from time to time, gave to the musician tunes of this conqueror, mid died at Hono- sick. was his physician. the of I know not whether the lulu seven or at eight years ago, ago The musician enof his song. the subject received some intimation simdeavored to make his time accord with the 95 years. He wns interred in the tomb of great movements of her feet, and he succeeded the kings, and his sons hold, nt the present ilar to that which furnished to Alexander the with remarkable precision. Yet, at the end time, a very distinguished rank in the occasion of such an admirable proof of the confidence he reposed in his physician, or of half an hour, the dance began to aeem country. Mr. Charlton accompanied me one ilayin whether he had a» great ItiitIs in the skill of long. The king perceived that we were behis Fsculapius. He this as it may, he ordeicoming weary, and, as it hud not been possi- a cull upon the favoiite mistress of Kuukeau- 'ed h in to prepare double potions of his remble to -procure other female dancers, we lis- ouli. The history of the amorous chief tened to a few more songs, after which we king with this woman is quite romantic. He edies, and then made Marini take one of the mounted our horses to return to Honolulu. was obliged to remove her, so powerful had potions, and not until he had seen the effect We had spent the day agreeably; yet we the influence of the missionaries already be- produced by the medicine upon the poor pahad been disappointed. This king of the come in this country, where twenty years tient, would he consent to swallow his part. Sandwich lafands, rlad in vest and panta- since the Christian name was hardly known. Hut Marini was far from having any confiloons, these chiefs apparelled in the Euro- Yet, in spile of their severo reprimands, he ■dence in the medical akjll of Dr. Rives, who. pean manner, this serving almost European, lives with her in concubinage, her birth be- as he well knew, was anything but a physithese common and "familiar manners had the ing too obscure to allow of his marrying her. ician. Of necessity, therefore, he Bad as arpower almost of snaking us belie w that we The evening preceding our departure, we dent a longing for the recovery of Kamchave just passed some hones in the society witnessed at the residence of Mr. Charlton, hamcha as kamehameha himself, and never. of one of the lower cresses of a civilized an exhibition .altogether foreign: this was an perhaps, did a courtier wish good health lo nation. Then, again, the dancing, so mean Indian dance. The performers were from Ihis king so sincerely as poor Marini. and monotonous, was tar from realizing the the N. W. coast of America. One of the Dut he met with another adventure much ideas we had formed of it. Only the sing- vessels engaged in the commerce carried on imore tragic. Kamebameha commanded him. ■ Jreen 1 < > ' �THE FRIEND, MAY 35 1, 1860 spiritual point of view, of which I have had day, to cut off a prisoner's head, and Sabbath Whaling. an opportunity of judging in a service of Marini was obliged to obey, using for this Seven Whales in six days and one Whale twenty-six years at sea. A sailor's condipurpose a carpenter's saw. Some one wishin seven. tion, bad as it is, is not so hopeless as some ed to know if this anecdote was true, and asked him about it; a shudder seemed to New London, Nov. 30th, 1819. may be led to imagine. FORECASTLES. pervade the body of the Spaniard. "Alas!" Dear Sir :—I herewith transmit to you a said he, " what could I do? If I had not cut.few facts in relation to my last whaling voyWhile on my last voyage I obtained a few off the prisoner's head he would have cut off age. The first Sabbath after sailing, the late copies of the Sailor's Magazine from an mine. It is better to cut the head of a wolf ship's company were mustered aft, and our Ioutward-bound ship. One No. contained an than to be eaten by him." to honor the day spoken of, and iarticle in which the writer speaking of the obligation was cruel. Yet Kamehameha not naturally my own determination to abstain from pur- accommodation of sailors, compares the foreIt was he who abolished the custom, handed suing our business on the-*Sal>l>ath, made icastle of a whaleship to the castle of down from time immemorial, of slaughtering known to all. At the same time, as no such';giant Despair "; ami goes " on to say " while (he the prisoners after battle. He also abol- arrangement had been made previous to sail-:we the man whose ungovernable restlesspity ished the horrid practice of putting those to ing, each one could decide for or against it ness, or insatiable love of gain, or of ambideath, who, through inadvertence or igno- as he chose. The assent to abstain was uni-Jlition of advance to favor and office, makes or sacred place. versal; and during the voyage I had no him at home and contented even for one voyrance, had entered a tabu Yet Marini had lived very happy at the cause to repent of the step then taken. A Iage in the forecastle of an ordinary whaloSandwich Islands. He has had 52 children ; lew on an occasion of peculiar temptation did liisnip, we would despair of elevating a man but he was not, I imagine, so much in favor wish to give chase on Sunday. We hod"I who could so servilely put his neck to the of monogamy as Goldsmith's good vicar. 1 worked hard from Monday morning until Sat-'i1 degradation us to feel no indignance at the ■'insult, or feel happy there." To the suggesinquired of him if he had any hope or idea urday night, but owing to the extreme shy-'i of returning to Europe: "God only knows," ness of the whales, without success. "it is just as well, they only go there I he replied. " I should like very much to On Sunday morning while lying at anchor, tion, to sleep," he replies, "No wonder, who I doubt all see my country again; but without a large whale was discovered very near.— would wish to do anything else there?" and my relatives are dead, and I should no more Excitement of course ensued, but no confu-■|goes on to say', " What wonder there is so find there a single friend. Moreover, since sion ; the majority remaining (inn to their little tasle for reading! Such a taste cannot I to this country, first purpose. There the whale remained for with comfort be indulged. Reading 1 have become accustomed that reI live here happy and ti ampul. As lam 05 four hours, so near that a boat could have quires but little reflection, or that is of an i late form habits. it is too to new years old, been rowed to him perhaps in three minutes.|i .astounding character, is all that the aseess\Vhcn I arrived here, this country was very Such a thing occurred more than once inodutions of foremast hands will ordinarily after-.i fine. That was a good time for Europeans. wards, but our boats were never lowered for!; of. Did they enjoy a light and roomy The manners were simple and unaffected, whales on the Sabbath, and our success was cabin, thoy might often be tempted there to i i and foreigners were respected. That time uniformly good. inform their minds, but storms and cold and lias passed. Savage men have become civ- I do not believe that success in ourtempo-ji'fatigue alone drive them there." He speaks savand civilized men have become ilized, ral affairs must necessarily follow the ob-ji-of the darkness and desolation of the place, ages. The missionaries have spoiled every servance of the Sabbath, but this, and our•with a single smoky lamp, scarcely flickerthing," added he, lowering his voice and own exertions combined, will, I feel sure, se- ing its doubtful light upon their cheerless looking to the right and left to see if any one cure the divine blessing. I have every berth; the whole being a comment upon the was within nearing; " Ihey have changed reason to feel assured that such was the case isufferings and privations of sailors in the the character of the population. They have with us. Most ships lose many whales after whaling service, and the inexcusable pernurioccasioned bigotry and hypocrisy, which was they are well fastened to many sink after iousness of the owners. I have spent the once unknown among us." Then, fearing being killed. Often ns many as one half are greater part of my life at sea, have been in perhaps lost he had said too much, he added, lost. We took 3000 barrels, and saved everyni1inearly all kinds of vessels, and with all sorts " But without doubt, their institutions are whale we struck, except three ; and these•■iof men, and moreover have visited many good. They believed that they were doing were " bad chances,"—either at too great'i strange ships while away from home, and for good." distance, and moving so last as not to be np- Ihumanity's sake I rejoice to say that I never I talked a long time with this honest man, proached, or at too great a depth to be effcc-i!'saw things like these here spoken of. I have for I was interested in his conversation. He tuiilly reached with the harpoon. This ofIbsen the inhabitant of more than one foreI at the of civilization the has seen origin 'lassette, and never was so miserable; never. course shows the good qualities of our offi-.i Sandwich Islands, and he has witnessed its cers and crew. Such a thing is seldom saw things so dark and gloomy; never coni development, every day, even to its present known. Our whales, too, were large and::isidered the case of myself and shipmates so time, He has lived here a free long state. fat, differing much from those generally takeni,utterly and disgraceful; and if the hopeless i and happy, without any other restraint than at the same place. 'author of the above remarks could have visthat imposed upon all men by natural law, Again, in the course of our voyage we ited a forecastle in which 1 was not long ago and by the instinct of good and evil. Some fell in with several ships which prosecutedl seated, he would have seen a ship's crew as disagreeable incidents have scarcely cast a their business on all days alike, and we wereI icomfortably enjoying themselves as pessible shade upon his life. At the present time, he always uppermost in "good luck." In one;away from home and friends. In that place "sees a religion, which is not'his own, in- instance while in company with a ship which'I was the prayer meeting, sailers joining their vading the country, ruling it, and subjecting whaled on the Sabbath, we took seven whalesi voices in singing praises, hearing the word i truth, and it to its own demands. He himself cannot teorking six, while they took htU one, working'of kneeling by their chests in leave the narrow circle which this religion seven days. and prayer to God. Lights and a praise j i has drawn around the population. He sighs The Rev. Mr. Coun has in his excellentE 1 good fire were always in abundance in that for the liberty of conscience and of worship tract on the Sailorla Sabbath " writteni forecastle; a good library also with a boun" which he has enjoyed for forty years.— much of very great mreiest to the whuling; Itiful supply from the American Tract Society. When he reflects upon the past, he thinks fleet, to every one, from the owner to the/ ■The crew were glad to go and spend their that he may justly complain of the present cabin boy. It would be well were it on'itune in other ways than in and at and dread the future. Nor is it astonishing board every ship, and its precepts attendedi other times than in storms andsleeping, when fatigued, i that he is discontented. It is said, however, | to ; for although the owners of ships have as they would all testify if called on. That that he is rich, and that, in consequence of done much for the benefit of the sailor, as aII forecastle, and many others, are not the rehis.strict economy, his fortune is daily in- general thing, while away upon the ocean hei]pulsive holes they sre so often represented i creasing. has not his Sabbath, there is still too muchito i be. It is well known that when a ship leaves California Gold.—The amount of GoldI truth in the assertion of Mr. Coan, " there is I the merchant for the whaling service, her dust received from California at the mints at[ no Sabbath for the sailor." Philadelphia ami New Orleans, during the year This I say in many instances is too true ;; iforecastle is always made much more spalast past if about #7,000,000. it cannot be denied, however, that the condi- icious and comfortable. To say nothing of tion of the sailor has in a few years past, ithe abundance of time allowed the crew in ; of iron the produced in Iron.—The value United States in 1848, was #42,000,000. vastly improved, both in a temporal andI addition to what is allowed in a merchant one . From the Sallur'a Magazine. ; '< i ' > i -- •' : ' : ' 1 1 ' Jadmit i ; '< : •' : < 1 I - i i , �THE FRIEND, MAY 1. 1850 36 BuStates. sinWUehanlin.g ship, the superiority and abundance of their idrunken Indian Pilot. She was fully freightThe Whalemen's of Jan. stores, tic, me, List, it seems to as it Shipping provisions, ed with lumber and Oregon produce, bound must to others, that the most necessary thing contains statistics of import8, interest and Another vessel had been lost; sew to be done for the sailor is to let him to California. ance to all connected with the whaling enjoy his Sabbath, give him that, and other on "Tongue Point." things needful will follow, and I believe if United States.—Late papers from the business. those who ought to be the friends of sailors United States are crowded with congressionDuring the year 1849, 71 ships and 1 brig would labor, as the friends of temperance al news. Great excitement prevailed in re- were withdrawn; leaving on the Ist of Janhave done, and as the friends of the aboliuary 1850, 510 ships, 20 brigs? and 13 tion of slavery have done, the work will be igard to the Slavery question. A New York schooners engaged in the business. and that the abundance writes under of soon date accomplished, icorrespondent thus During 1849, there were 197 arrivals of of the sea will be converted unto God. Feb. 7: Wishing you and all the friends of seamen Last night the Steamer Empire City," ships, brigs and schooners, bringing into the " great success in your labors, from Chagres, arrived, bringing passengers U. S. 100.954 barrels of sperm, and 348.492 I remain most truly yours, Jno. W. Brown. and the mail, and Two or Three Millions of of whnle oil; besides 2.281.100 lbs. of bone. We would earnestly recommend the Dollars in Gold Dust ! Only 36 days from During 1849 the average price of Sperm foregoing remarks of Capt. Brown (formerly San Francisco ! We can't stand such tardi- oil was $1.08; whale oil 39c; bone 31c. While 100.944 bbls. of Sp. oil were immaster of the "Hannibal," 1811-15) to his uess and such small remittances much lonbrother-ship-masters in the whaling business. ger ! We must have an iron horse—instar ported into the country, 93.875 bbls. were Here we have the testimony of a shipmaster montis—that shall leap from the Pacific to exported, principally to England. upon a most important moral question. O, ithe Atlantic on the parallel of about 40° At the last accounts oil was rising. NEW BEDFORD OIL MARKET. that all forecastles would justify his re- within six days, and drawing a car as capathe week ending January 7, 1850.] marks! It is only of the few whale ships that cious as the valley of the Mississippi, and [For Sperm—The market continues very firm, the remarks can be made, "Lights and a,then be not half as well satisfied as now. with a demand fully equal to the supply, and good fire were always in abundance," and Terrible Catastrophe.—A steam boiler prices have further advanced. The sales "a good library also." for driving the machinery of a shop in this embrace a cargo of 1360 bbls. understood to be at upwards of 118 cts. gallon, and city, has just exploded, laying a 6 or 7 story yesterday a parcel of 1200 per bbls. supposed building, with 70 or 100 human beings inside, !at 118 cts. in mass of ruins. 45 dead bodies have been Whale—ls more quiet, and we have only HONOLULU, MAY 1, 1850 recovered, and probably 30 more will be got'to report a sale of 200 bbls. handsome N. W. Foreign Items of News. Coast, at 48 cts. out to-day. Whalebone—We hear of no transactions Stdney.—A correspondent writes under Congress.—Henry Clay is in the midst jin this market. In New York sales were date of March 10: "There are no favorable of a brilliant speech, the object of which is |made on New Bedford account of 10,000lb. accounts from California, at present, but to put a permanent veto on the extension of.N. W. Coast at 35 cts., and 6000 lbs. Polar there are nearly twenty vessels from this Slavery in free territory and calm the angry at 38, cash. port and Hobart Town, " laid on " for Cal- waves of disunion. His stand against cerAgricultural Meeting.—On Monday ifornia. The bad accounts do not deter peo- tain Slaveholders is certainly noble, and evening, April 29th, agreeable to a notice ple from going." Throughout all the "rol- great good is predicted as the result. which had appeared in the Polynesian, a onies," there is a general movement to emWhaling Intelligence.—The whaling meeting for the promotion of agriculture was bark for California. news from the Pacific communicated through convened at the Vestry Room of Ike Chapel. Tahiti.—The French are reducing their the " Friend," has been received with great Judge Andrews was called to act as ChairMilitary and Navnl Forces. Comparatively interest by those engaged in the whaling man, and Mr. Bishop, as Secretary of the little business is transacted. Most of the business. Yours, &c, J. S. meeting. The object of the meeting was Foreign population has left for California.. Boston. —The Parkman tragedy is still then stated by Judge Lee, and remarks upon Marquesas.—The French have entirely the engrossing topic of conversation. The the importance of forming nn association for withdrawn their Military and Naval Forces Grand Jury have indicted the accused, and the promotion of agriculture, were offered by from this group—abandoned their dwellings what was somewhat unusual, the vote was Messrs. Marshall, Newcomb, Fuller, Reyunanimous as to his guilt. As to the counsel and fortifications, reported to have cost which Webster has secured, I think he has nolds, Armstrong and others. A committee 4.000.000 of francs. been fortunate in securing two such, able consisting of the following gentlemen, Judge California.—Repoits are unfavorable in men as Messrs. Mesick and Sohier. Mr. Lee, Mr. Marshall. Dr. Wood. Dr. Newregard to business. Markets overstocked Choate was applied to, and so -vas Mr. Web- comb, and Mr. Reynolds, were appointed to latter, informed, The lam was offered ster. with most kinds of goods, particularly lum$2,000, but declined the invitation. It is publish a circular, and call a general meetber. Real estate in San Francisco was fall- said that Mr. Choate, on being asked to ing in August. It is understood that efforts ing. Sacramento City at present increasing plead the cause of Webster, said that if he will he made to assemble planters, farmers the most rapidly. The mines continue to did it, it would be Sn the ground that Dr. and others, interested in this important subon entering Webster's room was yield the usual amount of gold. New mines Parkman taken with the fever and ague, and shook ject, and it is to be hoped that delegate* to of great richness have been discovered on so hard that the fragments of his body were the meeting will come from all parts of the found deposited in different places of the group. Hitherto the Trinity river. subject has been most Oregon.—At the last accounts miners building. neglected, but now a market has lamentably trial on the Ist of take place wore about starting for California. During The and will it will be unquestionably one been opened for every description of. Island March, the winter, rents had been enormously high of the most interesting and exciting crimi- produce, it is of immense importance that it in Oregon City. Many soldiers had deserted nal trials ever had in our country. The should" no longer be suffered to slumber. tho U. S. Army, and fears were entertained facts which will be divulged at that time, The following remarks upon and " Fruits that ell would leave. The "Josephine" will startle everybody, and the confessions Vegetables" were prepared for our last the arrested No., of Mr. Webster at time he was had been wrecked at the mouth of the Co- will convince the jury and the world that he before hearing of the project to establish an umbia River, through the carelessness of a is guilty.—[Corres. N. Y. Tribune, Jan. 23. Agricultural Association. * , , THE FRIEND. ' ' ' '< �37 THE FRIEND, MAY 1, 1850. ForeignFruV "Herald," and "Express;" also "Aha aitsnd egetables. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Legislature.—The California," "Pacific News," "Journal of It is much to be regretted that no systema"LegislaHawaiian were Commerce," "Oregon Spectator," "Adeintroduce of the Hawaiian nation ever been made to tive Chambers" tic effort has laide Register and Observer." This plention the 10th a from speech by ulto., and at the Sand.opened vegetables foreign plants ( wich Islands. When they were discovered, the King. The ceremony took place at the ful supply both enables us to glean items of there were but a very few fruits or vegeta- large Native Church. There was an un- intelligence for the "Friend," and furnish bles. From time to time, a few seeds or-1 usually large attendance of both foreigners the " Seamen's Reading Room" with a Foreign newspapers than slips have been brought, but as yet it is not and natives. All the Foieign Representa- greater variety of in years past, been able to do. have, we known what the Islands are capable of pro- tives and Consuls were present. ducing, if the proper pains should be taken. Report of the Minister of the InLate United States Consul.—Joel TurVancouver brought the first orange seeds, terior.—From this report we glean the fol- rill, Esq., latS'United States Consul, embarkand Mr. Charlton coffee, if we have been lowing statistical facts, relating to the Ha- ed with his family for the United States, via correctly informed. Shipmasters, visitors waiian Kingdom during 1849-50. Coasting California, on the 21st ulto. In a commuand residents have occasionally, and as if vessels licensed, 1850, 46—tonnage 1580. nication to H. H. M's Minister of Foreign merely by accident, introduced different fruits Registered vessels licensed, 1849, 27—ton- Relations, Mr. Turrill remarks. " During and vegetables. We would respectfully ask, nage 1458. the time that I held the office of Consul, whether the tune has not arrived for the Marriages, 1810 during 1849. more than twelve hundred American vessels Hawaiian Government to take the subject Whole number of Naturalized Foreigners entered the ports of these Islands, having on . ».• From the United States, board about 36,000 seamen." up, in good earnest, —employing some scienan Great Britain, 147 tific and practical gardners—cultivating " France, 18 The Watchman.—Americans in Califorextensive garden—offering premiums for the " 37 Portugal, nia, true to their love for newspapers, have best specimen of fruits and vegetables, and " 18 Germany, established presses at various places, out in employing agents abroad to send all kinds of " we the mean time would Other 111 Nations, San Francisco already three well conducted tropical seeds. In " our of visitors and foreign attention "dailies" make their appearance. Wo are call the 693 Total Should to this subject. friends glad to welcome a monthly, '* The Watchsea-faring to March Land that up and Sold.—lt appears his possession have seeds which may in size, tone and appearin man," any person the 31st, 1850, the Government had granted ance claim a fraternal relationship with "The them for of with desirous parting feel land sake of experxin*nting on the Islands, we fee-simple deeds, for 27,292 acres of Friend." It is published at the office of the Avails the de- "Daily Journal of Commerce," and conductsold for from $51,086,71. to would suggest that he forward the same partment of the Interior, paid into Govern- ed by the Rev. Albert Williams, pastor of different parts of the group. Frequent apment Treasury, for the year ending March the First seeds, for Presbyterian Church, in San Franplication has been made to us 1850, 31, $52,263,57. to have seeds cisco. should any person, therefore, dispose of, by donation, we shall most gladly From the report of the Minister of Sydney Bethel Union.—The ninth reput them in a way of cultivation. This is a Foreign Relations, we learn that the Haport of the Sydney Bethel Union has lately subject of the utmost practical importance, waiian Kingdom is represented in foreign nabeen received. We rejoice to learn that the and deserving of far more attention than it tions, by the following officers. In the Chaplaincy for seamen finds encouragement has hitherto received. Will not some lover United States, by Schuyler Livingston, Esq., from among christians of various demominaof the Botanical Science prepare for our as H. H. M's Consul General. In Great tions in Sydney. The present chaplain, the some Columns, or that of the Polynesian, Britain, by Archibald Barclay, Esq., as H. Rev. I;. E. Threlkeld, was formerly connect-* useful article upon this subject. H. M's Charge d'Aflaires. In Peru, by ed with the English Mission at the Society Thomas R. Eldridge, Esq., as Charge d'Af- Islands. Income of the society, for 1849, Wreck of the "Margaret."—The fairs Snn Francisco, by G. S. Oldficld, ; at American whale ship "Margaret," Captain jr., Esq., as Vice Consul ; in China, by JE247.3. Fales, was wrecked on the 25th of February, Joseph Donations. Jardine, Esq., as Consul General; at at Huahine, one of the Society Islands. The riein For Chapel. For]Frie Daniel a British Colony, by Hong Kong, vessel was going in, for slight repairs. A Jardine, Esq., as Consul; at Mrs. C. C. Armstrong, '$16 by Hamburg, native pilot was taken on board, who most 5 John Henry Gossler, Esq., Consul General; Children of Mr. Bush, unfortunately run the vessel,on the reef, the 10 W. Baker, jr., Esq., Wales, for Van Diemen's Land and S. N. sea being smooth', weatherpleasant and wind Thomas 5 W. Campbell has been appointed "Fanny Forrester," favorable. The "Margaret" had 2200 bar- Consul General; for the Island of New Zea- A Friend, 4 rels ofoil on board. It was sold at auction, land, John Watson Bey, Esq., has been ap- Capt. Klinkofstrom, 5 #5 5 Qapl. West, of the "Jeannet" was the pur- pointed Consul. Smalley, e chaser, at $2 30 per barrel. They succeedTaber, 6 Our Exchanges. ed in saving 2100 barrels of the oil. The Swasey, 3 vessel was almost a total wreck, being sold As cnmminunication is becomming more Roys, 8 for a small amount. Capt. West was the speedy and direct with other parts of the Joel Turrill, Esq., 30 to in the purchaser, who freighted his vessel and sail- world, we are glad reap the benefit ed for the United States. Capt. Fales and way of exchange newspapers. Hitherto A Card.—The subscriber desires to exnews- press his gratitude to those benevolent perfamily embarked on board the Jeannet. exchange " has been rather against at the late ar- sons in this community, who assisted him, in paper By Islands. publishers Mr. Spoonfor Tahiti. left Some of the crew been re- obtaining funds to pay his passage to Calirivals the have Jordan, officer, following papers and 2d Mr. officer, er, Ist "American Traveller," N. Y. fornia, en board the "W. H. Shaler." have arrived in Honolulu, passengers, per ceived : -an .■ TT 1 r~t. . a . " " " " " French vessel. "Tribune," "Independent," "Observer," Honolulu, April, 1860. A. Calvin. �38 FRIEND OF TEMPERANCE. THE FRIEND, MAY 1, 1860 perhaps, that I should become a " tee-to- respected by the gintry, and lock and kay is taller, " as that x enould be crowned king of never put upon anything that comes into my the ancient territory of the OTooles, over hands; and more than that, there's a purty which we were tramping, and to this day fe- colleen that thinks I'm a'most good enough TheGutidG oe lendalough, mains in ignorance that his simple story car- for her, and her father's been to see if the ried with it such conviction as to have led to cabin Would suit; and all this change, yer BY S. C. HALL, F. S. A. many blessings in his neophyte—improved' honor, glory be to God ! because 1 would'nt has to a visit to Ireland enabled us As recent test rile progress and good effects of Temper- health, augmented income, greater intellec- buy poison, or take it when 'twas handed ance in that country, we think a few anecdotes tual strength, infinitely higher motives for me ! gathered during our journey, may be welcome continuous labor, a surer foundation of do"And now," he added with emphasis, anil agreeable, as well ns encouraging to our mestic happiness, and a perpetual safeguard approaching solemnity, "I lave it to yer for better in from readers. The happy chinge ttie self-repiVph; the youth as little knew honor's self if you'll ask me to take the drop the Irish people, will be best shown by the inci- that the brief hour he spent with me was you carry." dents we shall relate ; but vvc cannot, at the outMy answer was at once, " Indeed, my set, omit to state, that although there have been productive of benefit not to me alone—that partial balk-sliding, the great mass of the people he was making me his instrument of good to good lad, God forbid that I should tempt ure not only true to The Pi.Kuor. (the "long others, adding to the cause of temperance!lyou: but I owe you a compliment, and will pledge," the only efficacious ami really valuable one member, who devoutedly hopes to be''pay it freely." I took the flask and flung pledge), but that conviction of its incalculable the means of largely increasing the number),it far over a rock into the waters of the lake benefits is now the principle that almost univer- of those who see in temperance religion's beneath. The scene is before me at this 1 sally prevents the breach of it tho act that had best auxiliary, and, next to religion, the' minute, as vividly as when it happened: the its origin in remorse, or wild enthusiasm, perof duty to God and man. youth literally danced for joy : capered haps In superstition, is now the result of reason safest teacher My anecdote is briefly told: I took the backward and forward on the mountain sumupheld by experience. We entreat our readers to give no credence to the evil reports of ene- youth somewhat suddenly as my guide from' mit, absolutely intoxicated by a pure draught mies; or the apprehension of timid or luke- a cottngc door, beside which he was stand- lof ■ pleasure; the compliment touched his warm friends—thnt Ireland is lapsing into intox- ing, and bade him at once mount the car warm Irish heart; it went so far beyond his it the is the very opposite ication: but is not so; upon which I was proceeding to visit the'- expectations; it was so practical a comment fact. The Irish never can be again a drunken marvels of the gloomy lake. The evening upon his story, so comprehensible a mark of people : drunkenness is now such a reproach I never saw pleasure examong all classes, that a gentleman intoxicated was cold and row, and I had in my pocket a its approval. would not dure to enter a drawing-room ; while flask of " mountain dew;" the poison, so pressed in a manner so impossible to be a ftrmer or peasant drunk, will sculk to his called in mockery of the delicious draughts mistaken. noise through bye-ways, ashamed or afraid to jwhich Nature sends each morning to the It is likely that the youth has long since have bis condition known to his neighbors.— bees and flowers. Having drank of it my-l•forgotten the transaction, but I have not forTbs usual fruits of sobriety are seen every-!I self, I offered it, as a matter of course, to gotten it, and never can forget it. That day whore I the old reproach of the traveller, thnt my compnnion; he declined it, to my sur-l was a white spot in my life. The moral of he never knew what the English beggars ditl "with their cast-off" clothes until he went to Ire- prise, for the temperance movement in Ire- this Simple anecdote is obvious: every temland," is now removetl forever; the cottages tire land was then new to me, and I hnd little''pernnce advocate, no matter how humble far more cleanly than they were ten years ago ; notion of the spread it had even at that timelImay be his position, weak his intellectual few are without whitewash ; the pig is seldom made; having little faith in a revolution so'jpowers, and apparently inefficient his means, inmate ;" the dung-heap rarely un-Irish, and being, moreover, anxious lot say what may be the amount of good " the parlor jcannot stagnates before the " hall door ;" faction-fights test its strength, 1 pressed the ho is when he tells to many, or to our, liquor doing, upon and that are relics of gone-by history ; now it him, and at length went so far as to offer Ithe blessings conferred by temperance on has pleased the Almighty to visit to hind with famine, Temperance will preserve the lives of him a crown if he would drink some of it. him. I date my conversion to Total Abstitens of thousands who would inevitably perish, "No," said he, " not for a thousand crowns, nence from that evening. My teacher was if, when hunger forced tbeni to seek fond, it nor for all o. Lord Wicklow's lands, if they a rude lad, whocould neither write not read; drove ihein also through the gate* of distilleries were offered me: and," he added, after a but I, and with me those who have been inand the doors of public-houses. pause, " if your honor knew as much about fluenced by my counsels and example, owe Heroes, they say, look back with pleasure me as I know about myself, I do not thinkIa deep debt of gratitude to that youth—my to the first triumph that procured fame ; and you would be after asking me to do so bad a humble Guide to Glendalough. lovers, we know, call to mind with deep joy thing." A very little persuasion led to his their earliest tokens of affection ; no satis- telling me his simple story:— Toleration at Rome.—The correspondfaction can to an author ever equal that he " 1 have been a guide to the Seven of the London felt at first seeing himself "in print;" the Churches," he said, "almost ever since I Rome on the 20th Daily News writes from Dec: sweetest moment in an artist's life is that could strcel the distance; and inany's the! which gave the idea of a great picture; and half-crown and more I got for my day's "An American Protestant minister had the man of science reverts with rapture to walk; I earned a dale in the week—and twelve of his countrymen joining him in the mere thought, out of which grew a dis- spin! it. When I'd get my day's hire, though 1 worship at his own house last Sunday, in the covery to enlighten and benefit mankind.— the gentry I'd be with would give me drink Via S. Bastianello. The police were acFor my own part, few incidents of a busy enough, it's for more drink I'd go with the quainted with the circumstance before night, and somewhat varied lite, afford matter for money. You would'nt give three ha'pence |and the American Charge d'Affaires, Mr. more true enjoyment than my first lesson in for the dirty rags I carried. I neveriiCass, was apprized that if the offence was temperance—a lesson which led immediately stretch'd on a decent bed, but mostly in a repeated, the minister would bo sent away to reflection, subsequently to consideration, neighbor's outhouse, and oftener in a gap of from Rome immediately." and ultimately to the adoption of a principle, a ditch. I had the fever once, and 1 lay We wonder if the good people of Rome which I have ever since continued to regard, there like a dog to die. My old grandmother!have in their possession a copy of Paul's as a blessing, second only to that of Chris-i was begging about *c country at the same' to I'.pistle Romans, the dated about the year tianity in its influence on mv mind and heart. time. Augh ! yer honor, I was drunki That lesson, which by Divine mercy has| morning, noon, and night, and the bastes I A D. 00. Among other sentiments inculcabeen made to produce fruit for my own great, used to be amongst had more sinse than I. ted was this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor " ; 0. benefit, and I humbly hope for the benefit of Well, how is it now ?" he added, and he as thyself;" xiii others, was given me by a poor boy, ft guide, drew himself up with honest and truly digwho accompanied me about four years ago, nified pride. " Yer honor took me of a The sum collected in New York as a fcpm the village of Enniskerry to the fur- sudden, or it is'nt in this coat I'd have been testimonial to the Captain of tho vessel which famed Sevan Churches in savage Glenda- with ye; for 1 have two better, and a top- saved the passengers of the Caleb Grimshaw, coat besides; and I've as nate a cabin as amounts to $8,000, It is to be lough, appropriated Whiajr «l»nrr,Taho™. you'd wish to see'; and my grandmother thus : To Captain " B*l Urk ui'Ycr wnmina n',r " $5,000 ; to the keeps in it, spinding her old days in pace ; first mate, $700 ; lo Cook, the second mate, $400; The youth was perfectly unconscious of the a«d I've live pounds ten in the savings bank, to the carpenter, $350; to each seaman, train he was laying—of the seed ho had in case of the sickness : nnd in the place of $125 ; to each ordinary seaman and boy. planted for the hereafter; he as little fancied,!(being a blackguard nobody would trust, I'm $100. OR, YOUNGTEETOTALER. IRISH : . _ ent • _ �THE FRIEND, MAY 1, 1860. 39 Practice and Preaching both. —A cler- $1000, quickly $1100 followed, $1900, Preaching in Congress. Late papers contain full reports of Con- gyman in the Mediterranean tar five years, '$1300, $1400, and so on antil the sum of $2900 was named, snd the document was gressional proceedings. The political sky related the following interesting anecdote, knocked down to the Rev. Dr. Boardmnn— seems overcast with dark clouds, and storms *Br*h occurred during that time In a few moments Mr. Thomas said that he The commodore was a frank and gene- was authorised and pleased to state that the are apparently gathering, but it is hoped that " man, who treated me with marked at- document would not go to Washington, I). rous so as the a brighter day will dawn, long and I used to preach in all the ships C, as it had been purchased by Mr. Boardmembers of Congress are willing to assem- tention, This but one. was a small frigate, and its man for a gentleman who resides some disble on the Sahbnth and listen to "a plain, captain was an irreligious and profane man. tance from that place, as well as from Philaold fashioned Presbyterian sermon." A cor- He used to say he wanted no Methodist par-.delphia. The announcement that the paper respondent of the New York Tribune writes son for a pilot, and he embraced every op- was not to go to Washington was received of annoying me. Being a person of with considerable applause. The gentleman as follows on the first Sabbath in February :' portunity violent he took offence and insulted for whom it was purchased, resides, so we temper, a old fashionpreached plain, Mr. Gurley who meant to send him have been credibly informed, in the State of commodore, the ed Presbyterian sermon before Congress toWhen I heard of his intention, I Virginia. The portrait of Washington was day, at the capitol ; and alter observing his home. manner and listening attentively to his argu- waited on the commodore,' and said I had also purchased by Rev. Dr. Boardman for favor of him. the sum of $150. A letter of recommendament, I felt satisfied that the choice made of come to ask a particular "That shall be granted. I am always tion of a French General from Gen. Washa Chaplain was a discreet one. The object happy to oblige you. What is it." ington, to Gen. Mifflin, President of the Conof his discourse was to inculcate the propri"That you will overlook the conduct of tinental Congress, was sold for the sum of ety or necessity of throwing aside expedien." $20 —Mr. John Wilson purchaser. A volcy in matters of clearly revealed duty, and CaptainS You can't be serious. Is "Nay, nay. ume of the American Advertiser, containing which is come what will. of doing that right, His text was appropriately taken from Dan- he not your greatest enemy? and I believe a copy of the farewell address set up from the only man in the fleet who docs not wish the original manuscript, was sold for the sum iel, relative to the three Hebrews who would to see you on board his ship?" of $12—Mr. Joseph A. Mickley purchaser fathers, whethonly worship the God of their That's the very reason why I ask the fa- —[Phil. Sun. er they were thrown into the fiery furnace or " not. They had implicit faith in God that he vor, commodore; I must practice as well as The Arctic Expedition.—The Entercould preserve them whatever the danger : preach." Well, whim; 'tis an odd but well, if, and Investigator, vessels commissioned prise they) be it known to thee, " " But if not (said reflection withon a searching expedition to BheI your request on can to grant proceed we nor Gods, not serve w thy 0 Kj'ig, lb.»< will be out of the hands ofthe service, Straits, out to His I will Majesty's ring's prejudice worship the golden image which thou hast doit." at Woolwich dockyard on the shipwrights set up." day I renewed my petition." 28th ins't., and will almost immediately proReturned recently from Africa, where he " The nextsaid he, "if Captain S will ceed in the first instance to the Sandwich Is"Well," linn been aiding the Colonization systeni, by I will overlook his lands. Bills have been issued saying that able which he intended to raise the most Vwbar- make a public apology, conduct." seamen are wanted lor both vessels, and that ous people on the globe in the social scale, into boat and rowed to the. double pay will be insured to the crews on I a instantly got Mr. GinIcy contrasted their wretched condi'rounding Capo Horn. Lady Franklin is in tion with that of the citizens of these United frigate. The Captain met me with n frown hut when I told him my 'town every day, and is still unceasing in her Stales, and rightly ascribed to the benign in- tin his countenance, saw a tear in his eye, and faking efforts to insure a further search for her galbusiness, 1 fluence of Christianity, the ennobling, eleva, I re- lant husband, Captain Sir John Franklin, me by the hand, he said : "Mr. ting influence of our free institutions, and to don't tinilei stand your religion, but 1 do and the officers and crews of the Erebus and ally the want of religion, the depressed condition It is gratifying to know that seveof the unhappy Africans. To the influences understand your conduct, and I thank you." [Terror. officers of the Royal Navy The affair blew and he mc !ral pressed over, | distinguished asunhesitatingly he of Bible Christianity and it is expected The first in preach in his ship. I ladyship, time went are Her aiding unrivalled cribed American liberty and our officers the rank of the whole crew "were dressed that two holding in holiday gallant jil.ere prosperity. Captain at my right hand.— commanders, will proceed curly in the spring clothes, and the House for he thanked the As Chaplain, I could hardly utter a word, my mind was so to the Arctic regions, one in one of the Hull the honor it hud conferred upon him, adding much mid so were the whole crew.—' whalers, and the other in n whaler belosging that when the feor nnd love of God had uni- There moved, seemed a more than ordinary solem- to Peterhead. Those officers will not take • and Republic, of the ted the Representatives nity among as. any command in the whalers, but simply lend the principle set forth in the text had been That night the ship disappeared, and their aid and advice when they reach Davis' very the permaaction, rule of as the adopted not a soul survived to tell the tale. None: Straits, Lancaster Sound, or any other place nence ef the Union would be thereby se- 'ever knew how it happened, but we supposed in the Arctic regions where there is any cured. If he ventured to suggest a remedy as there had been a gale of wind, she had probability of meeting with any of the parlaying it would be the dissensions, their for foundered and went down in deep water. ties of the missing expedition. It must be sside their pas-»i«nis, so that all who turned How cheering the that the men to the public to know that such thought satisfactory their eyes to these Halls might be able to thus suddenly summoned had great exertions arc ahout to be imrle in the into eternity, a it is for thing bow good say, " ftShads' listened to the blessed message of the gospel ensuing season, and it is hoped the result biethren to dwell together in unity." (hat too, under circumstances which, w ill realize the most sanguine expectations and The Hall ofthe House of Representatives, the blessing of God, were so pecu- of the friends of the' absent voyagers.— through wns filled an by inognificent one, and it is a liarly to prepare their minds to wel- fliondon Watch., Dec. 20. adapted strife of attentive congregation, and the come and receive it! for exchanged happily •veek-days on opinions I Commissioner to the Sandwich Isharmony and concord. lands. —Charles Bunker, Esq., of NantuckWashington's Sale of Farewell AdThe Chaplain is a Moat, former-looking! et, has been appointed Commissioner- to the mhn, probably about 40 years old, his Imir press, and other valuable relics.—The Sandwich Islands. His acquaintance with Rotunda of the and manner are! Merchant's was Exchange voice is gutting gray, his the wants of our whalemen fits him peculiarwinning and persuasive, without the least, crowded to overflowing last evening, on the ly for the situation, and will enable him to be tincture of servility or affectation, lie seems occasion of the sale of the original manu- of great service to the whaling interests.— kind, benevolent, anxious to promote peace script of Washington's farewell address, and [Am. paper. and good will—unassuming, unnmbitious. — other valuable relics. The sale commenced He is said to have suffered many and very at seven o'clock, and the address was put up There is no way to fly from God's severe privations, while in Africa ; is poor ; by Mr. Thomas, auctioneer, and Mr. Rich- judgment, but to fly tojjis meWy by repenthas o large family ; appears to he far more ard Willing offered as the starting bid $500. ance. earnest about the next world than this ; and He did not appear willing to advance, and Over 3,000 tierces of American beef neither in prayer nor sermon did he makothe others entered into competition with considhave been sold to the contractors for the slightest allusion to party politics. 1- feel erable spirit. $550 was next bid, then $600,.(British ships of war dsrmg the post year. quite at home while listening to Mr. Gurley. then $650, and then a jump was made to : '" �40 THE FRIEND, MAY I, 1850. for San Franrtaco- ah Triton, Marahall, Ifaw Bedford; came as passengers on board the " Caroline," Charlca CoMMsacc at Sandwich Islands.—Dur-I mily Pradrrlca, Barnaa, Nrw "iillurd IHOO aperm, cruire wrecked off Hoosl ulu. , and home ; Daniel Webater, Veder, Nantucket, 250 aperni, ing 1849,the gross amount of imports, $780,In Honolulu, April, Mary Lovelock, infant daugh- bound IS Arctic Ocean, bark I'laiina, Gilford, Wealprrt, null were also psJßJD- aperm. Touched at Tairntiiiano prtvloua lo ihe above date, George of who Lovelock, Mr. nett at the ter and dutiesreceived Cus-739,44, bark Waiter Joyce, 86 da fm Providence, lor Sa* Franciaco | gers in the Caroline Mary and Marian, 95 dalroni Nantucket, forSo. Ship Jamea tom House, $71,943,49. At San Francisco, January, 1850,Capt. W. EOK, Cornell of New 11t.11,m1, left T. rih. 10ala lor Honolulu. Feb. 98, ofTCallao, apnkearh L'urlew,Treailwa>, forSan Franrlaeo. formerly master of a whale snip in the Pacific. |C7» Contribution at the Bethel, Sabbafh In Honolulu, at the U. 8. Hospital, April 16. Geo. Shipping at Marquesas —Frniii afrMra Lawaon .1 Johii.on, we have received a Shipping l.i-i lor 1849. al the harlior i.f England, a of Isle of Brading, Wight, native Ule.pie-ha), ITahuga, I.Und t>f Mari|ueaaa A. ritual of Iheac morning, April 14, $50 17, forbuilding native Ward, where it is supposed his parents, family and friends veaaeU have been reported in our column., .aid hat of 16 veachurch at Waimea. To this amount there now reside. The licensed was left nt the Hospital by aela la omillrit. Tlieae v, >.tl» look away 755 linnel. of p01a1. 41,0 lioiin; .'i.SHi COCoal.nillß| 20)10 !«.,.. .r. boal londn of w liumpklua; I'OO bunches of plantain., bread trait, 4tc. The Inflowing vtaaela liuve luuclieil Ihertj alllCfl .lanuary I, I o Time Sp. Wh. has been added a donation of $25 from Dr. the U. S. S. Preble, a few months since. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Wood, for the same purpone. Total, $75 17. 17 1710 Gr. Tort In Duke of Rossoro' from San F.—Jas. Ramsey, -"< !.'> Nile, Chaae, VSIm llr.-iiM-n Reiiuhtir, Aualln, 12 T. Fitzpatrick, T. Griffith. 11 " 2lIt) V ll'.l Liverpool, Weal, 22 MaMoore, Id Sarah Ann, from San Fran.—Mrs. 111". Gr. Port " Philip-Ural, Woodruff, li No charge for water, except the run to the na- thias, Y. Onflrey. 2.') 900 N. MM Alexander, It win. " Italy, 6 Clean, Gr. Hurt WrlJ, Hollister, Wm. tives the Captain may entrap;, to till the rusks. from S. Per Kahuna, 8. F.—R. " 1 Malicheater, 7 SO I'harles, N. Il'il MiKu.i lloi -i. Pbicks. J. children, Mrs. Jones and 2 Hughes, John Smith, 2S l-i.ii Ri.w-.k-, Mil Ii-»-, do Taro SI pcrhrl, Potatoes 91 per brl, " B. Brown, J. Lewis, Wm. Morrison. 6 Ariel, Clean, N Londou Yams " ttarch, 1 1 1-2 H><> Orange* Zephyr, F.—G. Gilmtn. 29 Bedford Sherman, D N Per Rob't from S. Bruce, " ' tOu Newport l'iue apples 1 " l)n Webster, Chesnnts 75c " Lemons Arrivals at San Franrueo from tht H. /.—Mar. 5, TJ S. l'apoa " 75c " 1 " McArlhiir, d.; 24 Haw brig Wilhelmlne, Id, twlug, aur. achr $1 cocoa Green cocoa nuts do Old nuts 10 20 King.SSda Apr. 2, Ainachr Saua'l Y. Ruben., J/hulken. 26 Dried Imnana lnliundlcs $1 Burtnnas.l hunrliva S1 da fm Maul, Am achr Dernlui, Morrill, 12 il. fm do.| 6. brig Fowls 4 $8 100 SI 1-2 Pumpkins Teplc, Luce, 2ti da, arhr Jtweplniie, Cliuton, 34 il.; Apr 2, bark PORT OF HONOLULU. Connecticut, each Small 76c Peuhallow. 22 ila. Turkeys 1 Chartd for H. Islands.— Apr. 6, Br hk Margaret Brock, Mr> Ducks Small 75c 1 Mcrkan, brig Nueva Magellaiiea, rlullluglon, k'ishing net 95c per fathom Arrived. Hogs 6c per Hi 1 Tin- Am. bk Cliaae .poke, Jan. 20, In Ist. 28 8 Am. wh. March30—Am bk Drummond, Pierre, fm I.aha.na. Iron wood $4 per bout Other wood &'• per boat clean. 21, .poke wh. ah. W H Shaller, Fruits, fm Boalon via Tahiti. ■hi|, Herculee, 'A mo. fm N. Bedford, 30 bk Am Java, Sampaon, N B. clean. 25, Ontario, of Naut. 40 niunlha Native cloth SI 3 fathoms Yellow do SI a piece April I—Haw ach Starling. Hegone, fm run r'ran. brie out. ap. 1400 Bonnets SI each Huts 25c to SI each 1 Am »h MarJpoaa. Mnrtin, fni Lahatna The alenmer Senator apoke, Jan. 15, wh. ah. Catharine, N. ] Rut bk BchelikoiT, KlinkolTetroiit. 2* <l« fm §*■ Fran. Mats 50c a fathom Double width 1 tlulu a do London, full and boundhome. 16, ah America, Adam., 11 ma. 1 I'll bg Caalwr Labbe, 24 dn lm Hun Fran. Iron poles 10 SI 1300 brla wh. 1 Am bk Eurotaa, Bray, 86 C/-Ship Hampton, Davia, wna to leave San F. 27th April, Rkoclations. " fm Tahiti. " 4 Ilr mli John Hull, RotHtmmi, for Calcutta via Honolulu} al.o up for Honolulu, ahlp Canada, trade An) arrange Jeiiniuga, Hong Kong. Bales Man is to all bk 55 da Auckland, I. The appointed 4 lm lleauvuia; alao, bark Lndelle, Keen, Clh April. 5 Am ach Mary Ann, Barrlll, (.ahnifia. with the Captain, and the Captain to pay him his fee; ach off llonoliihl Man-Hera, Cruchet, April 9—Am in doth or cash as lie may agree on. 11 Am wh bk Bayard, firahmn, 7 MM oM, from Gretn11. Should the Captain wish to engage natives to Notice. port, 40 bbla wh, cleared lor Amir Ocean. take nil supplies to the boat; $1 a day is the charge IS Am ah Uut-rii Victoria, Chase, 20 da from danu Fran. Tin' hegs ah da Manilla, fm i«■ -1 «.• -1 fn 111 to inform the 12 Am 24 for each man. t'oinmantlvrs of whale ships, that he is prepared to bk John Parker. Dorr, 22 * 111. No boat or canoe from shore shall be allowed AprilAm13—Fr " by Mannelila,I .am »»h., 21 da fm Ban Fran. Buppgjatbcmmostwith frcnh provisions, vegetable, wood, to take off trade to ships, to he sold on board. Boats 15 Am tig FmtiiHiit. Hiwiy. 2n da fm San Hiego. ri'iiMiiiiiMe terms. Oil or bone taken &<-., olWhc 15 Am ah Shanuiiga, Fallen, 2fi J* lm Han Fian. may be engaged to take off supplies bought on shore. 17 Am ah Prince dc Jniiivitlc, \dama, 18 ila fm Han F. in exchange, nt the highest market price. Charge, 35 the first day and 93 each day after. N. Pilgrim, bk Franc.* The harbor of Mangohui lies in the S. E. part B. 22dayafrom Han Fran. 20—Br. IV7 No boat or canoe from Bhore shall be allowed April 22 Ilr. ketch Primus, Draper. 23 do. of Doubtless or Lewixton Bay, in the lat of 35 6 S; long to go off to ships when making the land, except the do. 22 Am ah Argonaut, Not!, 15 173 38 E A ship rounding the west head of Doubt one appointed by the authorities. S3 Br. achr F.benezer, Dickenson, 21 do. less Bay. at 3 or 4 miles distance and steering S. E.hy do, 23 Br. brigan. Sarah Ann, Riiksell, 18 Y. It is requested that no Captain secretly engage, S., will head into the harbor. But there is always a 23 Br. hark Duke of Rnxborn', t'ollard. 20 do. or take away on board his vessel, any natives from the 23 Am. bngan. Roh't Bruce, Itorkendorf, 1,1 Jo. person on the spot to pilot a stranger in. shore. Any Captain wishing to engage natives for a 34 Haw. brign. WiHvJiiihie, McGregor, 18 do. WILLIAM BUTLER. cruise, are requested to make arrangements, before 24 Fr ah L'Orixa, Poirler, 91 days from Huahine. 5-tf 25 Am. brut Mary Wilder. Cleveland, 20 dn from Ban F. Mangohui, Doubtless Bay, New Zealand. proper witnesses on shore, with any willing to go. A liiijih X ultima, Hun, 14 25 Haw. do. cofltrary procedure will be reported to the nearest 26 Haw. brig Paclfico, Rogue, off*Honolulu In di»tresa. Consul, ot the nation to which the ship belongs. Information anted. Cleared. VI. It is requested, that on the desertion of a man March 30— Am »h Petiraleoii,Cole. Sydney. Respecting William Woodland, a Seaman belongfront A vessel, the Captain give immediate information April 2—Am ach Roe, Suaaev. S«n Fran. ing to West Cowcs, Isle of Wight, England. He left 2 Brbk Eudura. (.ourley, to the Chiefs of the Station, and that the vessel do not " England in I 842, a seaman, on board the Carysfort' 1 Am bk Sacramento, Tucker. leave the Island until the deseiter be apprehended. frigate. He has subsequently been heard from as a 2 Am bk Druninioiol. Fierce San Fran via I.ahama. That for every deserter delivered by the natives to the t Am ah Mariposa. Mirtin, boat steerer on board the American whaling vessels u " Captain two pieces of rloth to be paid, one to the 4 Haw hg Paciftro. Boiiur. Monmouth and llnmhleton. Should this notice niChief of the station, and another to the parties who 5 Am bk AdarJo, Burroughs., ract his attention, he is desired to report himself to " Si. Andrew, 5— lorcha for San Fran. Marker, Br secured his apprehension. his friends, or should he visit Honolulu, to call at the 6 Am bk Maria, Maiilnon, VII. That in case the deserter he not found until 9 Am hk Enrotan, Bray, Manilla, ** Chaplain's study, where he will find a letter to his adafter the vessel has left the island, when apprehended, April 12—CD bg Cantor, l.abbe, Valparaiso. dress. he shall become a prisoner and be employed in public 15 Am hk VV ll Shailer, Frana, San Fran. 15 Ilr hg Enterprise, Lovering, Tahiti. work, until he leave the island. 18 Haw ach Starling, Degour, San Frttn. Charts for sale. VIII That, in any cue considered necessary for a 1R Rna hk Hchelikoff. Klinkoltatrom, Snka. tain to leave a man on shore, the sum of 930 be 19—Am bk John Parker. Dorr, Manilla. An oldEast India ship-master has left some new tf and old Charts, at the Chaplain's study, to be disposed I for each individual so left Shipping in Port. of for his benefit in sickness. The following are Brbk Bee, Dim ley. among them: Charts of Canton river, East Coaat of DIED. Atnbrlg Coptapo. Southward. China, China Sea, The Strait of Sunda, China S«a In this place on Sunday last, 7th inst. Mart, wife Am hg Broihera, Sold. No. 11, Strait of Malacca, &<■., &c. Also of Mr. A. H. Fayerweather, daughter of the late Capt. Br ach Coquette. Elliott. Jennings. Auckland, Am hk AN EXCELLENT SEXTANT. Geo. Berkley, aged 29 years. Am Bch Naseilcca, Inn tut la this town, on the ISih In.lant, Mr I'hiili. BanT, a n«April 1 tf «h Manilla, RTeHMghuloaatieurknsRarotonga. Paticensd, " — MARINE JOURNAL. , * • « ' " a tlva at Boalnn, Maa.., aged about S3 yeara, and a realdenl of thaao lalai da tat thelast IS yeara. la San Fraactaoo, Man h <, at the realdenre of her aon-ln. law, Capt. Tlbbey, Mr. Paaacca Htaoo of Somrtaetahire, acad 77. Given, Am American brig Foriunto, Haaty. American ahlp Shanunga, Palien. THE FRIEND: Ea*jaa/, On A Monthly Journal devoted to TemperPORTF LAHAINA. board Hawaiian schooner Kalama, on the 15th ance, Seamen, Marine and General April, at sea, five days from California, Mr. J. Bartow Arrived. Brown, belonging to Lowell, Mass. He came to San April 4—Am achKami. M Fox, llattf. 18 ila I'm Han Fran. Intelligence. Ftancisco, passenger on board the "Leanorc" which brows** oat the U N, E. and California Mining Co." Hi* friends reside In Palermo, Me. A fellow passenger, Mr. McKean, of Charleston, Mass., on board the Kalama, has taken charge of hia trunk and property and will see them returned. On board tha'Kalama,'' April 24, Mr. John Smith 6 Am wh ah C*>rtra, Cromwell, nr New Bedford, 8 moe PUBLISHED AND EDITED BT out, lOtihla whale, 80 b'a sperm. 11 Am wh ah Zephyr, Sherman, 89 nine out, 800 sperm. SAMUEL C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaptais. April IS—Wh. ah. Orntinibo, Itanleii, N. B IS raos., 1M ap., SfiOO wh lor Arctic Ocean. 16 Wh ah Bnlerprlae, Swill. N. 8.. 6 moe. el*, A. O. IS Am. brie Jane, Pierre, 88 days from r)an Fran. 52,00 One copy per annum IS Wh ah. Majealic, llalleii, N. U. 1? inn... SO ap., 1000 Two copies per annum, 3,00 whale, for Arctic Ocean. belonging to Oregon Cttf. His remains were deposit6,00 tt Am. sh. Ambaaaadnr, Ile.'lev. IS da lin 8 P. fr F. I. Five copies per annum, ed in Nuuanu Valley Cematry. 83 Wh. ah. James Maury, Whrklon, N. B 17 moe.. 76 Ten copies per annum. KOO for Arctic OceaD. wh., ap., April S7, on board American ship Argonaut, in 83 Wh. ah. Charles Drew, Carey, N. 8., 5 mos. 10 ap. Honolulu harbor, Mr. George Foster, belonging, to fr?" Bound volumes of Tbs Fkiend, for 1,1. 3. 4, Wareham, Mast. % 5, V and 7 years, at the Chaplain's Study. A reduction IMemorandn. In Honolulu, April, Catherine Clark, aged 7 years The Am whellnf hark Ksyanl rrporia Ihe followlns yewaela from the subscription price will be made to Seamen, sod month., daughter of Mr Wn. Clark. The fa- at Talrahnano. Feb. 12lh An sh Mary Ann, of Skf Harbor, and purchasers who desire more than a single volume , , TERMS. ..... , » : MJSO � 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 - 1850.05.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.05.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/f4bef7fb4d19cab163051269ca0ca061.pdf 07e7b1ef2678135ece5794c5ba706a12 PDF Text Text T. HE RIEND. F HONOLULU, JUNE l, 1850. Vol. 8. 41 No. 6 fine and''vantage from the lessons of exercise which velvet car- they had received. In front of the palace Viait of the Bonite, etc 41 pet; around us, everything was silent; no- gate were stationed the royal guards, conA True Story, 42 heard except the chirping of some sisting of eleven men, dressed uniformly in iyile Intelligence, 4*lrthing was as flew over our heads. We re- 'pantaloons and white calico vests with scarbirds, they 41 O'Brieo and O'Dc nohne, 44.mained there until night came to conceaf let facings. Each man was armed with a Eillnguifhtng Fire* on b.itmJ i>r Slips, Were my''musket and bayonet. This was without disNew Map of California, ...---- 44,'from us this ravishing spectacle. National Ere, 44 residence in Honolulu, I should often come pute, the elite of the army of Oahu. They 44 to New Hooka relating to Ihe Sandwich Inlands, seemed to hold the soldiers of the line and 1 meditate in the valley of Manoa. Agricultural Association, --.---- 46 has to luxury begun Although European i the militia in the most profound contempt; Mutiny In the Pacific, 4S .appear 11 in Honolulu, yet very few carriages: while from their proudly erect attitude and Dr. Dick 4 [are [ to be seen. The King has u carriage from their military bearing, it could be easiLong, low, black schooner," 46: • which he never uses. A few of the Europe- ly perceived that they were wonderfully im"Donations, Deaths, Marine News, etc. • • 4>l an and American residents bnvc chaises and pressed with the idea of their superiority. coaches. The rich chiefs, and especially The beating of the drum announced that their wives, who, on account of their corpu- the exercise was about to commence. An lence seem unable to walk, are seen riding officer read a long discourse, not one word of the French Sloop-of-war Visit about in hand-carts drawn by men. I recol- of which could I understand. I was informBonite, lect having met in the streets of Honolulu, ed afterwards, that many men having been to the Sandwich Islands in 1836. the Governor of Maui and his wife making absent from the last parade, the adjutant was Translated for the Friend, from Ihe French of their visits. They were lying flat, side by exercising his eloquence on this subject.— side, supporting their chins with both hands, The exercise at length began, and surely, ■Adolphe Barrot. NO. VI. and their immense bodies tossed about by without excepting even the royal guards, the Prospect from the hill overlooking Manoa val- the motion of the vehicle, reminded me of'Hawaiian soldiers appeared to me somewhat, ley—meet the Governor of Maui and his certain carts which come to us from Sceaux deficient in expertness. But this however, in a strange manner review of\lor from Poissy. A throng of servants pre- is a science which they will learn soon enough. wife riding ihe soldi rs Kim's house library char-\ ceded and followed them; one carrying a There are many things much more useful than acter bogxin and fencing does not trouble parasol, another a fly-brush, and a third, the military exercise which they could and should himself with the affairs of Government Mis-\[heir of this noble family. The menon whoa have been taught a long time ago, and of sionaries govern in the name of Kinau drew this inleresting couple, moved at which they have not yet acquired the least King's feeling towards the Missionaries —j brisk trot, the team being composed of at idea. The orders were given in English.— tacit compact manner of spending his eve-\(least eight or ten robust fellows, who from The lust orders were, "Kneel—ground arms—to prayers!" The adjutant then read nings incident inwhichhis antipathy against time to time were relieved by others. The Governor of Maui stopped to talk a prayer of some length, and the command the Missionaries appears notice of the Island's capabilities. with me, and, thanks to Mr. Charlton with was given to break up the ranks. During my stay at Honolulu, I made a whom I happened to be at the time, he made After the review, the King invited me to number of excursions in the vicinity. The me understand that there would be on the walk into his house. It is a large cabin, valley, in the midst of which Honolulu is morrow a grand review of the troops and of having in the interior a certain appearance situated, is truly magnificent, and it could toilthe militia in Iront of the King's house, and of neatness and even of luxury. It consistmade to produce our colonial supplies in he invited me to be present. ed of a large saloon and three chambers— Unwilling to lose so fine an opportunity of calico curtains composing the partitions. The abundance. The hills around might be cultivated, and they would produce excellent seeing the military forces of his Hawaiian frame, made of a black hard wood, was held coffee and cotton of superior quality. One Majesty, I was punctual to the appointment. together by braided cords of differentcolors. day I took a delightful ride with Mr. Grimes,'Three hundred men, composing the entire Very fine mats covered the floor. At each an American merchant. About a mile from army of the line, were drawn up in three end and in the side were large doors with the town, we left the road which extends lines. Each man was armed with a musket glass windows inserted. The wall was oralong the shore, and directed our course to-' of English or American manufacture, with- namented by a number of paintings, among wards the hills. We ascended by a very|' a bayonet. I shall not undertake to des- which I observed the portrait of King Leotheir costumes, for I should never pold, then Duke of Saxe Coburg; the portolerable path. On reaching the summit of scribe l a hill, Mr. Grimes stopped his horse to enjoy j;iget through. I could have wished that one trait of Canning, and those of Rinoriho and my admiration. And surely it is difficult to iof our inspectors general of infantry had his wife, painted in England. A number ol imagine a prospect more picturesque audibeen present. Of some, the only article ol chandeliers were suspended from the beams. more enchanting. Behind us, trW sun was.i(clothing was the maro about the loins; others Chairs, tables, and two or three sofas, comdisappearing in the ocean. Before us, shut in|wore upon their shoulders large pieces of pleted the furniture. Kauikeaouli invited between two high mountains, the fantastic'cloth falling ostentatiously infolds, in the me to enter the interior apartments—one of shapes of which were figured in profile on the Roman fashion; and others Iflfcthe bead and them contained a magnificent cstradejJiAMfc ade azure of the sky, stretched a cool and ver-|lbody partly covered with leaWfl of the cocoa feet long and eight or ten wide. or bed, raised two feet from the floor, wbf dant valley divided by a stream, which was iarid banana formed into festoons. hastening on through plantations of taro and Opposite the army of the line, and drawn composed of mats spread one upon aaotner, sugar cane. In the middle of the valley were up also in three ranks, was the militia of in the manner already described. At the about fifty cabins, shaded by kukui and bread Honolulu. To distinguish the regular troops other end of the room was a bureau, upon fruit trees; beasts were giving in the mead- from these would have been difficult; for which were some loose papers and a small ows-; the shade o/ the msftntams extending there was no difference in their clothing.— book-case containing some religious books, over the whole valley; and the air was fresh! Few of the militia had muskets, and from which probably,' are not often read by the and fragrant. The hill from which we en-.lthe manner of using these, it was easy to King, and a history of France presented him joyed this prospect, rose on our left by an |perceive that tbey had not derived much ad. some days before by an officer of the Boaite, CONTENTS. - imperceptible slope, and I(almost 'gilded herbage covered it like a ...... - - - ... ....... - - u —-| - - - - THE FRIEND. — — — — —— — — — —. — ' ' out . i 1 I I ' �42 THE FRIEND, JUNE f, 1850. sad which he will n«t read oftener than his 'playing and drinking with the first one that' coffee in abundunce, which can safely chalother books, although he expressed to us a comes; and yet,only a jjood occasion is need- lenge a comparison with the most commendStrong desire to learn the French I iiguage. ed, I believe, to elicit from this diamond, un- ed of similar articles. I have seen speciThis house hi situated at the extremity of polished though it be, some rays of light. mens ofOahu cotton which seemed to me to extensive court, surrounded, as are all We were able to perceive something ol have very fine and very long sillf. Indigo houses ofthis country, by a wall of bricks the antipathy which the King has conceived grows spontaneously, and the high moundried in the sun. In this enclosure are near- against the missionaries, at the time of our tains offer the precious sandal-wood for exly fifty huts, which serve for kitchens, store- feast at the Pali. A missionary and his wife, portation. All the farinaceous plants, the houses, lodgings for the King's servants, and on their way from another part of lb" Island potatoe, sweet potatoe and taro, are produbarracks for the soldiers. to Honolulu, n-iH lied the Pali at Ihe moment ced easily and in abundance.! Almost all Kauikcaou'.i improves surprisingly upon when we were about to tHke our places at the Islands in the group present the same acquaintance. He is naturally timid, but if able. He barely saluted them, and (hen conditions of prosperity; all are watered he discovers kindness and indulgence in the turned his buck. At (lie same time it was more or less abundantly, and wherever naperson with whom he enters into conversa- remarked that the King appeared somewhat ture does not perform this work, industry can tion, he becomes confiding, and then can be embarrassed; for a luitu had always been, find the means of irrigating. The heat at perceived in him the germ of an understand- up to that time, a scene of debauch ry; and the Sandwich Islands varies from 60 to 84 ing which needs only to be developed. He that which was given in honor of us, was degrees of Fahrenheit. The climate is very asks many questions, and sometimes the ans- perhaps the first at which a majority of the salubrious, and epidemic diseases are as yet wers call forth from him vry judicious re- guests did not btcnme completely intoxicated. unknown. Rains are abundant on the coast flections. He appears to have a vivid per- When Ihe missionary went on his way and during the months of February, March, Auception of his own ignorance, although his disappeared behind the first angle of the gust ami September; in the mountains it character is naturally fickle and inconstant. mountain, the King seemed relieved of a rains almost incessantly—the clouds with But these defects result, without doubt, from great burden and his natural gaity returned. which their summits are continually crowned the education he has received, and his ideas, are dissolved in abundant rains, which form constantly directed to frivolous occupations, The Sandwich Islands are eleven in num- streams, and these flow on to enrich the have little to do with serious subjects. The ber; five of which are Inrge, namely: Ha- plains, so that nature, after having in her society also in which he mingles, tends not waii, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, and Kauai— convulsions produced this land, labors cona little to confirm the habits of dissipation three are small, Kahoolawe, Lanai, and N'u- stantly to render it fertile. which he contracted in his childhood, and he lian; and three are islets or rocks. They A True Story. delivers himself up, with deplorable readi- are situated between the 19th and 23d deness, to the influence of evil examples. He grees of north latitude, and between the A sea Capluin's thirty years' absence—claimreceived one day, while on board a whaling 157th and 159th degrees of west longitude. ing his daughter, etc. AARON HI Kit's GREAT PLEA. ■hip, a decided taste for pugilistic combats, A hasty glance at these Islands, shows that aad for a long time the recreation of the they have not figured long upon the surface Many years ago, I happened to be one King and of the young people of his court, of the earth. The volcanic eruptions which of the referees in a case that excited unusual consisted in boxing; and this pastime was in have produced them, are yet recent, and ma- interest in our courts, from the singular narogue on our arrival. Thou we were call- ny promontories, upon which villages are ture of the claim, and the strange story which ed upon to furnish amusement. In his visits now seen, have been formed within the me- it disclosed. The plaintiff, who was the capaboard the Bonite, he had occasion to see mory of man. On going into the interior of tain of n merchant vessel trading principally our men go through the exercise of fencing, the Islands, the truth of this assertion be- with the West Indies,had married quite early, and no persuasion was needed to turn his comes evident. We con follow, step by step, with every prospect of happiness. His wife thoughts to this new distraction. During the the march of creation, and take her, so to is said to have been extremely beautiful, and whole lime of our stay he was constantly speak, in the very act. It is easy to distin- no less lovely in character. fencing, either with then en, whom at his guish, as one ascends, the modifications After living with her in uninterrupted harrequest the commandant sent to him, or with through which the lava must have passed in mony for five years, during which time two those of our sailors who passed near his order to be decomposed and become vegeta- daughters were added to the family, he sudhouse. He stopped them, brought then in, ble earth. Thus the lava which formed the denly resolved to resume his occupation. aad then laying aside the royal dignity to- lower points with which Ihe shore is, as it which he had relinquished on his marriage; gattwMMth his coat, he feared no loss of re- were indented, is still almost evevy where and when his youngest child was but three crossing swords with them du- such as the volcanothrew it out; yet the na- weeks old, sailed for the West Indies. His mgaarna hours. tural and artificial irrigations and the heat of wife, who was devotedly attached to him, sorThus giving himself up entirely to his ca- the climate, have already in some valleys rowed deeply at his absence, and found her pricious passions, he relinquishes the care near the shore, and especially on Oahu, de- only comfort in the society of her children of government to his sister-in-law, Kinau composed the lava on the surface, and have and the hopes of his return. But month aftShe, as I have already remarked, is com- rendered it capable of producing certain er month passed away, and he came not; nor pletely under the influence of the missiona- plants with short roots, without being able to did any letters, those insufficient but welcome ries, and they govern in her name. The nourish vigorous trees; and no sooner do substitutes, arrive to cheer her solitude.— missionaries, however, are not certain of the the roots penetrate to the lava, than the plant Months lengthened into years, yet no tidings duration of their domination, and the oppo- dries up and dies. I remarked in our ex- were received from the absent husband; and sition which is excited against them among cursion to the Pali, that all the trees which after hoping against hope, the unhappy wife the foreigners fails not to trouble them. Tne had reached the height often or twelve feet, was compelled to believe that he had found King and his court are in open enmity with were dead, while the bushes beneath tln in a grave beneath the weltering ocean. them. It is with reluctance that the King formed a thicket so dense that a man could Her sorrow was deep and heart-felt, but submits outwardly to their religious and po- not penetrate it. At a certain elevation the the evils of poverty were now added to her lice regulations, and often does ho shake off conditions necessary to the decomposition of aftlicfion, £d the widow found herself oblithis yoke; but his desires for independence the lava arc found united with greater power ged to resort to some employment in order reach not to the determination ofseeing clear- than in the lower lands; the work has ad- ,to support her children. Her needle was ly into the affairs of state, and it is his per- vanced more Eiujidly and the trees are much, the only resource, and for ten years she lasona! conduct only that he strives to with- more vigoiouaH bored early and late for the miserable pitdraw from the investigation and the censure Oahu, justly called the garden of the tance which is ever grudgingly bestowed on of Ihe missionaries. Thus there exists at Sandwich Islands, on account of the numer- an humble seamstress. present, a sort of tacit compact between the ous streams which water it, ie capable of reA merchant in New York, in moderate yet missionaries and himself; an agreement, so compensing the labors of agriculture with all prosperous circumstances, accidentally beto speak, has been entered into between the products of those of our colonies which came acquainted with her, and pleased with them, that he will not interfere with the gov- are the most favored by nature. The plains her gentle irianneMpo less than her extreme ernment, on condition that no evangelical of the interior and those near the shore, are beauty, endeavoredto improve their acquaincensure shall ever cross the ibreshold"of his exceedingly well adapted to the cultivation tance with friendship. After some months palace. In consequence, Kauikeanuli spends of sugar cane, which grows here to an as- he offered his hand and v. as accepted. As ail hi* evenings in a public billiard room, tonishing size. The hills'produce cotton and the wife of a successful merchant she soon Si• • " ffsJMesMrafcom — �THE FRIEND, JUNE 1, 1850. 43 found herself in the enjoyment of comforts Burr whispered a few words, apparently en-jiaccustomed to sew by the light of chips which and luxuries such as she had never possess- couraging her to advance, and then grare- she kindled to warm her famishing children, ed. Her children became his children, and fully raising her veil disclosed to us a face of Ibecause she could not purchase a candle received from him every advantage which proud surpassing beauty. I recollect, as well without depriving us of our morning meal.— wealth could procure. Fifteen as if it hud happened yesterday, how simul- '.Such was our poverty when my mother conyears passed away; the daughters married; tnneously the murmur of admiration burst Itracted a second marriage, and the change and by their step-father were furnished with from the lips of all present. Turning to the Ito us was like a sudden entrance into Paraevery comfort requisite to their new vocation plaintiff, Burr asked in a cold, quiet tone, idise. We found a home and a father."— She paused. of housekeepers. But they had hardly quit" Do you know this lady ?" ted his roof, when their mother was taken ill. " I do," he replied. " Would you excite my child against me?" She died, and from that time until the period " Will you swear to that ?" continued Burr, icried the plaintil)', as he impatiently waved of which I speak, the widower resided with " I will ;" he answered, " to the best ofIhis hand for her to be silent. my knowledge and belief, she is my daughter.' The eyes of the witness flashed fire a* he the youngest daughter. Now comes the strangest part of the story. " Can you swear to her identity?" spoke. After an absence of thirty years, during "lean." " You are not my father!" she exclaimed vehemently. " What! call you my father? which time no tidings had been received from " What is her age'" him, the first husband returned, as suddenly " She was thirty years old on the 20th day You! who basely left your wife to toil, and your children to beggary? Never! never! as he had departed. He had changed his of April." Behold there my father!" pointing to the agiship, adopted another name, and spent the " When did you last see her ?" whole of that long period on the ocean, with " At her own house, about a fortnight tated defendant—"There is the man who watched over my infancy—who was the sharer only transient visits on shore, while taking since. did you last see her previous to of my sports, and the guardian of my inexin or discharging cargoes; having been care" When perienced youth. There is he who claims ful never to come nearer home than New that meeting?" The plaintiff hesitated—a long pause en-' mv uffeclion, and shares my home—there is Orleans. Why he had acted in this unpardonable manner towards his family, no one sued—the question was repeated, and the an- my father ! For yonder selfish wretch—l know him not! The best years of his life could tell, and he obstinately refused all ex- swer at length was, have been spent in lawless freedom from soplanation. " On the 14th day of May, 17—." "When she was just three weeks old!" cial ties; let him seek elsewhere the comThere were strange rumors of slave-trading and piracy afloat, but they were only added Burr. " Gentlemen," continued ho, panion of his decrepitude, nor dare insult the conjecture rather than the truth. Whatever turning to us, " J have brought this lady ashes of my mother by claiming the duties of might have been his motives for his conduct, here as an important witness, and such 1 kindred from her deserted children !" he was ceitainly anything but indifferent to think she is. The plaintiff's counsel has She drew her veil hastily around her as his family concerns when he returned. He pleaded eloquently in behalfof the bereaved she spoke, and moved as il to withdraw. raved like a madman when informed of his husband, who escaped the perils of the sea, "Gentlemen," said Burr, "I have no wife's second marriage and subsequent death, and returned to find his home desolate. But more to say. The words of the law are exvowing vengeance upon his successor, and who will picture to you the lovely wife, bend- pressed in the book before you; the words of terrifying his daughters with the most awful ing over her daily toil, devoting her best truth you have just heard from woman's pure threats, in case they refused to acknowledge years to the drudgery of sordid poverty, sup- lips; it is for you to decide according to the his claims. He had returned wealthy; and ported only by the hope of her husband's re- reqnisit ion of nature and the decreeof justice.! one of the mean reptiles of the law, who are turn? Who will paint the slew progress of I need not say, that our decision was in always to be found crawling about the halls heart sickening, the wasting anguish of hope favor of the defendant, and that the plaintiff ofjustice, advised him to bring a suit against deferred, and finally the overwhelming ago- went forth, followed by the contempt of evethe second husband; assuring him that he ny which came as her last hope was extin- ry honorable man who was present at the could recover heavy damages. The absurd- guished, and she was compelled to believe trial. ity of instituting a claim for a wife whom herself a widow? Who can depict all this death had already released from the jurisdic- without awakening in your hearts the warmSir John Franklin.—The expedition in tion of earthly laws, was so manifest, it was est sympathy for the deserted wife, and the search ol Sir John Franklin, says the New at length agreed by all parties, to leave the utterest scorn for the mean, pitiful wretch, York Tribune of March, will sail from this who could thus trample on the heart of her port in May, and will consist of two schoonmatter to referees. It'was on a blight and beautiful afternoon[whom he had sworn to love and cherish?— ers suitable for the navigation of the Arctio in spring, when we met to hear this singular Whether it was love of gain, or licentious- Seas, of seventy and ninety tons burden.— case. The sun-light streamed through the ness, or self-indifference, it matters not; he The command of the expedition has been dusty court room, and shed a halo around the is too vile a thing to be judged by such laws tendered to Lieut. Dc Haven, who was atgrey locks of the defendant; while the plaint- as govern men. Let us ask the witness, she tached to the Exploring Expedition, who has iff's harsh features were ever thrown in still who now stands before us with the frank, accepted the trust. Passed Midshipman bolder relief, by the same beam which soft- tearless brow of a true hearted woman—let Griffin will be second in command. A party ened the placid countenance of his adversary. us ask which of these two has been to her a has gone East to select the vessels for tht The plaintiff's lawyer made a most elo- father?" expedition. quent appeal for his client, and had we not Turning to the lady, in a tone whose sweetbeen informed about the matter, our hearts ness was in strong contrast with the scornIn Tuscany, the Romish priests hare comwould have been melted by his touching des- ful accent which had just characterized his menced persecutions against two printers of cription of the return of the desolate hus- words, he besought her to relate briefly the Florence, for having under the government recollections of her life. flush A early slight with which he now beband, and the agony of the Republic, printed a translation of Ihe held his household gods removed to conse- passed over her proud and beautiful face as New Testament in Italian, on the express crate a stranger's hearth. Thacelebrated she replied: ground of " their having published the gosAaron Burr was counsel for fiwdefendant, " My first recollections are of a small, ill- pel in the vulgar tongue, so that every one and wo anticipated from him a splendid dis- furnished apartment, which my sister and may be enabled to read it.'' play of oratory. He merely opened a book myself shared with my mother. She used to of statutes, and pointing with his thin finger carry out every Saturday enjping the work A Russian ship of war lately arrived at to one of the pages, desired the referees to which hnd occupied her during the week, Portsmouth, England, has excited a good one. following for a moment to and back work for the bring while he retired rend it, and admiratioaJafrom the and of attention had that to her deal employers, journey Saving bring in the principal witness. We scarcely finished the section, which fully de- her regular attendance at church, she never beauty of its model. It is caUJHp chef d'incided the matter in our minds, when Burr left the house. She often spoke of my father cevre ofnaval architecture. T|js"vessel, returned with a tall and elegant female lean- and of his anticipated return, but at length stead of being of Russian build, as supposed the Kaming on his arm. She waAutired in a simple she used to weep more frequently than ever. by the English connoisseurs, la Americans schatka, were built New York—by in then she because we I thought wept a of leaves enivy white dress, with wreath onr on- and of American materiaJi. for his Majesty circling her large straw bonnet, and a lace poor, for it sometimes happened thatshe was{the Czar. j'-.dtto ) ■« -\-\ia Irn veil completely concealing her countenance. ly support was a bit of bread, and i 1, �44 THE FRIEND, JUNE 1, 1850. THE FRIEND, HONOLULU, JUNE 1, 1850. The following is from a Hobart-town |C7* We are glad to have added to our list ofexchange papers, the " National Era," paper: We regret exceedingly to learn from an the well conducted and talented anti-Slavery ' authentic source, that Mr. O'Brien is sufferin the city of Washington ing severely, both mentally and personally, paper published from his banishment to Maria Island. Next Mr. Bailey, the responsible editor, wields a LATE INTELLIGENCE. By a recent arrival from California we have week we will refer to his particular case more vigorous pen, and conducts the paper in a mtelllgence in less than fifty days from New fully; it would be unmanly and unjust not to manner to command the respect of eminent York. The ' Alta Californian' of May Bth, do so under all circumstances. .members of Congress, as we have observed has fallen under our inspection. From its As for Mr. O'Donohoo, he availed himself in reading the speeches lately delivered upon columns we learn that Hon. John C. Cal- of the Government indulgence, and is em- tho Slavery question. The Quaker poet, neVw died at the capital in Washington, on ploying his time and talents in editing a pa- Whiltier, is the corresponding editor. The the 31st of March. During the long period per entitled the " Irish Exile." Era is a paper that a true American is glad of forty-two years he has boen actively en- The following letter to the London Timesito meet in n foreign land. Americans wangaged on the theatre of political life, occupy- contains information, which will he of great; tiering in foreign lands, feel proud of their ing stations of distinguished importance. He interest to captains of vessels and to others country, but they blush that her fair name whs born March 15, 1782, and had just en'Sir—The owners of the Caleb Grimshaw should be associated with the foul blot of tered upon his 69th year. Only twelve days demand a means for extinguishing lire in the'slavery; hence when they meet a paper like before his death he spoke in the Senate up- hold of a ship. The material required are the Eru, calmly, boldly, manfully, yet in a nothing more than a cask of common chalk on the Slavery question. in the bottom of the hold connected with the .dignified manner, discussing the subject, it We also learn that the trial of Professor deck by a-small pipe, and a two gallon bot- .'serves to showthat mighty efforts are making Webster had taken place. It lasted eleven tle of sulphuric acid—which, on the alarm of[lor the abolition of the enormous evil; and days. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. fire, being poured down the pipe, will gener- ( that to, under the very shadow of the capitol. When it was announced, the convicted crim- ate a sufficient quantity of dense smoke (gus There may be din" rences of opinion among in which flame cannot exist,) to extinguish inal fell back in his chair with his hands any fire, however large. I enclose my card the non-slavc-holdiiig portions of the Ameriresting upon the railing, and remained for in accordance with your rule, but any chem- can community, respecting the best method some moments in an insensible state. When ist knows flame cannot exist in carbonic acid of doing away with this colonial bequest of is generated by the action of sul- the he recovered, he remarked to the officer who gas, which on mother country, but we rejoice to learn acid the chalk. I beg to subscribe phuric had charge of him, ' Why are you keeping myself, your obedient servant. that there is a growing conviction among the me here to be gazed at?' He would receive northern people that it is an evil which should his sentence in a few days. In our next Map of the Mining District of Cali- 'be confined to its present limits; hence the files of United States papers we may expect fornia by Wm. A.Jackson. —We would ac- tug of war' in Congress respecting the adknowledge our indebtedness to Wm. Ladd, mission of free California. foil reports of the trial. A steam propeller, the ' Carolina,' had Esq. for a copy of this Map, which is neatly New Books Relating to the Sandwich arrived at San Francisco from New York. lithographed. It is by fur the best and most Islands. She had made a remarkable quick passage accurate map of Alto California which has Solomon was justified in saying, If ICJ* from New York to Panama, in seventy-six ever fallen under our inspection. It shows of making books there is no end," many " days. The quickest on record, thus out run- that in reality, more wns learned respecting with how much more emphasis may such a the of the the geography country during year ning the steamer 'Sarah Sands,' (which had remark be now uttered. By late arrivals the 1819, than was ever communicated to just arrived,) twenty-six days. several new hooks have been brought, some There has been a great fire in San Frnn- world before. To the curious in matters of of which relate to scenes in the Pacific,' and oisco. Several blocks were entirely consu- this description, it is really amusing to com- at these Islands. Lieut. Wise, of the-United med. The loss is estimated from one to two pare this map with maps of the country pub- States Navy, who visited the Sandwich millions of dollars. The gambling establish- lished five, ten, or more years since. Until Islands, while attached to the United States the discovery of the mines, the geography ments suffered severely. ship Independence, has published a narraof a later arrival, papers have California was as unknown to the world, tive of his rambles, under the title of "Los Pottcript. —By been received to April Ist. We learn that as the geography of the center of Africa or Gringos." Dr. Wood, late Fleet Surgeon Professor Webster had received his sen- New Holland. of the United States Squadron, in the Patence—to be hanged! It is announced that twelve sisters of cific, has published " Wandering Sketches, charity are about to embark at Brest, to of People and Things, in South America, O'Brien and O'Donohoe.—Inlatepapers found an establishment at Honolulu, the cap- Polynesia, California, and other places." from Van Dieman's Land, we notice frequent ital of the Sandwich Islands, by invitation Another similar work, we observe, anallusions to these distinguished Irish Revolu- from King Kamchameba 111. ! ? ! ! ? nounced as Jiublished in London, written by tionists who have been'transported to that Penal Colony. O'Brien had the offer of in- Nearly four thousand copies of Webster's an EnglisrWjuvnl officer, by the name of dulgences, but he scornfully refused them, quarto dictionary have been sold in Boston, Walpole, who visited the Islands, we believe, preferring to wear the uniform of a convict. in a little more than two years. Thirty mil- attached to H. B. M's ship Collingwood. In Is the Launcsater Chronicle, we notice the lions copies InWe been sold of Webster's the "Biblical Repository for July, 1849," spelling book—about six millions since the there is a lengthy, and carefully written arfollowing: of the author, in 1843, or one million ticle, upon the Sandwich or Hawaiian Isl' Mr. S»» O'Brien is to be removed to death Pott whore he is to be accommoda- per annum. ands ; their history and relations to the rest ted in the stable attached to the former resi- We are glad to welcome the Eliza War- of the world," by Rev. H. T. Cheever, who dence ef Commissioner Lempriere, which is wick' from Boston, so soon after the arrival visited the Islands,*aeveral years since, and to be prepared for the purpose, and his inmonths, two travelled over In ofthe'Charles.' less than of the group. every.part tercourse is to be restricted to the visiting magistrate, the superintendent, ihe officer we may expect the 'Ohilo,' which sailed from Bcp- In Dr. Wood's work, so far as relates and serjesnt of the guard.' Boston March 2d, for Honolulu. to the Sandwich Islands, we are gratified in ' : • — . '' �THE FRIEND, JUNE 1. 1860- 45 of country. The observing a spirit of candor and good sense. common among both natives and foreigners. fined to a very limited extent root, a native of tbe same recultivation of this In judging of Missionary influence and suc- All acts ofreligious worship, when properly gion as the potato, has hitherto proved unsuccess, he does not appear inclined to carp, performed are acceptable lo God, but in cessful in Europe, more from ignorance of rs* treatment, than from any other en use. or to observe—merely to express—in-, that of family devotion, there is something requisite Tbe climnte of these Islands seems lo be well discriminate commendation, but rather to we believe peculiarly acceptable. We envy adapted to the aracacha, as also to t number of have observed the "golden mean," endcuvor- not the feelings of those who, denounce and other useful plants, ot which a lons list might be BERTHOLD SEEMAN, ciied. ing to keep his mind free from strong preju- decry Missionary influence, when it tends, Naturalist of H. B. M. ship Herald. dices on either side. We shall here make a as we know it does, to lead a once heathen To Rev. S. C. Damon. May 14, 1850. single extract from his work,-relating to some people to worship their Maker, while kneel- Honolulu, the Picific.—We gave curMutiny in scenes which chanced to fall under his ob- ing around the Family Altar. our last, says the New Bedford Merin rency servation during a visit to the volcano on Mrs. Newman's School.—This lady has cury, to the report from an Edgartown corHawaii : N. Y. Com. Advertiser, a school for instructing Hawaiian respondent of the opened that Capt. Hussey of the ship Planter In addition to the wondcrlul scenes of stating nature which this expedition had afforded us! children and youth in the English language. of Nantucket, had deliberately and without an opportunity of beholding, it made us ac-, She proposes, upon reasonable terms, to any just cause, shot one of his crew. The quainted with some traits of the native char- lodge, board and instruct a few pupils. Her following facts in relation to the affair, have acter, and presented a wonderful illustration residence is near the Rev. L. Smith's meet- since come to our knowledge from a reliable source: of the good effects of even n low degree of civilization. Early in the morning on which ing-house. In June last, while cruising in the vicinity we left Kilauua, hearing the monotonous References —Rev. L. Smith and Seamen's of the King's Mill group of islands, the crew loncsofn human voice under the window of Chaplain. of the Planter, led on by a few desperate fellows, refused duty, alleging as a cause, that the hut, near which I had been sleeping, upThAgericultaAssociation. on looking out I saw Kianuhi, our native the ship had cruised long enough, and should captain, upon his knees, earnestly engaged Remarks respecting its formation in the go into port. Capt. Hussey refused to comHawaiian islands. in prayer, his countenance wearing the exply with the demands of the crew, whereupthe physical and moral improvement on they armed themselves withknives, handpression of fervent devotion. During the ofWhile becoming tlaily ihe is more conHawaiian* etc. and threatened last night of our stay at the school-house, spicuous, arts aivl sciences begin lo flourish.— spikes, boarding-knives, whilst we were lying about the floor, the only Agriculture, in which the aborigines even at the the lives of the captain and officers unless light of the apartment being a candle in a time of the discovery, had attained some skill, their demand was immediately complied with. hatchet, sticking in one of the posts, the nil- |has not kept puce with the advance civilization Capt. Hussey endeavered to reason with lives wanting some occupation, produced has made throughout thegroup. Though indif- them, Bna" u P on going forward to do so, was several books from the desk, printed in their ferent parts extensive plantations have been es- met at the try-works and forced back. Aftnil oilier of useful plants have own language. er several ineffectual attempts to induce the They were hymn-books, jtitlilished, mill a yet the former stand ns isolated introduced, with the notes of the appropriate music ; and been to return to their duty, and finding that crew undertakings, while most of the latter owe their several of the Indians gathering about the nutuiitlizuiioii lo accident, not design. Those they had determined to force the captain to candle favored us with the hymn in their na- who visit these Islands and become acquainted return to port or take possession of the ship. tive language, but with one of our familiar with their lovely climate, are particularly struck Capt. Hussey ordered the ship's muskets to with ihe small variety of cultivated plants and be brought on deck, and loaded with ball tunes. On the following morning, having arisen vegetables. No attention has ns yet been paid cartridges. He then addressed the crew, Itis there- stating his determination to maintain his auearlier than my companions, I directed one Ilo a subject of so much importance. great satisfaction that the friends of thority on board, if need be at cost of life, of file Indians to make up the fire, and in the fore, withobserve the, present movement in favor and gave them half an hour to consider the mean time I strolled off to walk among some progress of an Agricultural Association—for nothing shows of the neighboring huts. From one of them mere the advance of a community, than the for- matter and make up their minds whether they I heard the continued utterance of monoto- mation of societies pursuing 11 useltil and general would return to duty. nous sounds ; and upon looking in nt the door object. At the expiration of the time, he again ad-' I saw a man, I presume the head of the fa- An Agricultural Society, such nn one as these dressed them, and finding they still persisted Islands need, ought to be more than a mere se- in their mutinous intentions, he very coolly mily, kneeling on a mat in the corner, pray- ries of meetings which are discussed informed them, that he had ing aloud, whilst the various members of the and the results ofnt practicaltheories experiments report- and resolutely knelt a row near the course for him to purin old and determined upon young, j family, ed. In order to rentier it really useful, it ought him. The only words which I could under- (to go a step further. It requires a few acres of sue—that he was a good shot, and that the stand were "Ehovah," and "Luna," the for- »ronnd. where new fruits, vegetables, esculent first man, who on being commanded by him, mer word, of course, given them from our roots anil herbs, useful as fotlder fur cattle mid should refuse to obey, would be shot dead on purposes, are cultivated. At the the spot. He then took up and tried a muslanguage, and the latter from their own, sig- other domestic head of that establishment it wants a person, who ket, and calling one of the ringleaders by nifying above. What a scene ! and what possessing both practical experience and sciential to come aft, the only anwords from the hut of n native, on the wild j l> now ledge, diffuses the newly acquired plants name, ordered him fie of a volcanic mountains Huwaii ! among peo- hy distributing them among the members of the swer to which was a defiance. Capt. Husple the last born of civilized discovery, many society and giving directions for their successful sey then leveled his gun and fired. The ball of whom, Christians of no more than adult cultivation. He might also keep up communi- entered the temple of themutineer with similar establishments, ami thus ex- ed out the opposite sidflk thu head; sera he years, bear on their persons the marks of,cations one production for the other. same course was barbarian customs. As a careless member ichange fell dead upon deck. would have a fine pursued with another ofthe ringleaders, who of a community to which Christianity was n A society thus organized, before it—ihe best stimulus to exertion, anil the remainder of the crew, preferred birthright trust, I felt rebuked. Never, in field undoubtedly obtain great results within n few with the "dim religious light," and amid Un- years. Plants from nearly every part of the globe returning to their duty to being shot at—and solemn paraphernalia of Art's sacred temph-s, Imight be acclimated and successfully grown.— the ship continued on her cruise. did I feel such an impulse to devotion, and The Hawaiian Islands not having a strictly, tro- The peril to which the vessel and crew involuntarily my own spirit of adoration was pical climate, the society would principally have were exposed by the conduct of the mutineers will doubtless furnish to the minds of all, a borne along with that of those humble wor- 10 turn its attention and to look for acquisitions to ihe cooler parts of the world, and to those dis- sufficient justification for the extreme measshipers." tricts of the equinoxial regions where the gracethe captain was compelled to We have made the above extract, not be- ful forms of the tropics are harmoniously blended ures to which afford to him ample vindication resort, and the of At an vegetation tempernte into the zone. cause there is anything very remarkable elevation of n few thousand feet the highlands of by the lews ofhis country. about the observance offamily worship-among the East Indies, of Mexico, New Grnnadn, Eu Thirty thousand landlords own Engvariety of the Hnwaiians, but because we know that it cador and Peru, produce a prodigious nominally three thousand ewe Scotland; six land; of are useful plants, most which but is a very common practice among them, so known to more civilized nations. The itracaohn thousand own Ireland; leaving more than inMissionary come under for instance,pro- 25,000,000 inhabitants of those countries far as they have of Peru, (conicum maculatuiii,) is con- without a foot of God's creation. bably vegetables, more the finest ofall esculent that was practice Would this fluence. " ' , ', i , �THE FRIEND, JUNE 1, 1860. 46 Dr. Dick. 'the siie of two volumes. For the "Philoso- Slate, I received £80 and a ven-J|phy of a Future 1) Forthe of "Mental The "Long, Low, Black Schooner." The sppended letter, written by the BY TIM TALFELLOW, ESQ. It had been n " dirty mylit," blowing and , of'few cdpies. copy-right erable author, Thomas Dick, L. L. Scotland, was received by a gentleman of Illumination," £130. For the "Practical, raining terrifically in squalls, and dark as this town, in acknowledgement of the receipt! Astronomer," 50 guineas and 50copies, &.c. Tartarus; and the morning veiled in a canoof a bill lor £6, the contribution of a gentle-'tic. These and the other sums have been py of heavy rolling clouds, was little better. 'spread over a period of more than twenty The wind hnd I'ullen, but a huge sea tossed man of this vicinity, as a slight to the high moral worth of Dr. Dick, and five years. I .received from the booksellers us mercilessly, and a thick mist circumscriin America on two or three different occa- bed our vision to within a few yards around the value of his literary works. sions, forth several sums for sending corrected our ship. As the day advanced, the clouds which the|i The circumstances called contribution for this excellent and venerablei sheets across the Atlantic before the works were dissipated, until at lust, as is often the case in the transitions of weather al sea, the man, who is now over eighty years of age, alluded to were published in Britain. misty which surrounded us rose sudWe from the letter. may be readily inferred Notwithstanding our small income, and in- denly,curtain as if at the fiat of elemental power. letter,cumbrances, we endenvored, by dint of the may awaken, in other places, a disposition to most rigid economy, to move onward, though The cry of " suil ho!" wus almost immeforecastle deck,, and make Dr. Dick some partial returns for the without some of the comfoits we could have diately heard from Iheaway?" from the offidebt of gratitude due him for the healthful wished, and never had the least idea of lay- tt, the cull of '* where moral and religious influence of his literary ing open our circumstances to Ihe public.— cer of the deck, which ulways follows such was answered in the works, and such as will assist him in the dis- But about three years ago it was suggested an announcement, it same hoarse voice, " four points on the lee charge of the manifold obligations which an by some respectable gentlemen in Dundee, bow, sir;" and turning our e>es in that diall-wise Providence has seen fit to impose.,that 1 should present a memorial to Lord John rection, we discovered a vessel already upon him in his declining life.—[Washington Russell for a small pension from the fund alnnd seemingly not far off. The Union. authors, &x. This memorial, ac- "hull up," lotted distance have been a couple of miles; ) might Scotland, neat-Dundee, Broughty Ferry, companied with the warm recommendations near enough, if in clear weather, to have S 30th Jan., 1860. of Lord Duncan, Lord Kennard, George Mr Dear Sir :—I have much pleasure in Duncan, M. P. for Dundee, and about a doz- easily distinguished in every particular by the aid of glasses; but seen as she was, acknowledging the receipt of your very kind en other official gentlemen, was presented to through the half melting haze, not so readily letter of the Bth current, enclosing n Bill of|Lord John Russell through the medium of reduced to shape, form and exactitude of Co., &. for on Messrs. Harnden ; tbe historian but no answer Mr. Macaulay, Exchange At first she looked huge and £6. |was ever returned to it, and by this time it character. kind, I return to you, dear sir, and your ihas likely been quite forgotten. About three clumsy, looming in the partial light like the of the 'Flying Dutchman;' friends, my most grateful acknowledgements iinonths ago, a benevolent gentleman from wandering ghost and trim; then small and hye-nud-bye, still your and disinter"-! friendly remembrance for [England, formerly unknown tome, happened esfed liberality ; and I pray God you may all, to call, and in the course of conversation, al- more diminutive and quite plainly a schooner. have such a portion of the good things ol lusion happened to be made tolhis memorial. The sight of a sail is one of the most excithis life, as may promote your true enjoy- Ho requested that a copy of it might be sent ting objects of a sea life; a companion in ment, and be conducive to your progress in[to him, which was done n week or two after- darkness, a lelluw traveller upon tlie desert, is not more welcome; not all the wonders of the divine life, and above all, that you may wards, and in a very short time a paragraph the deep have half its thrilling interest!— be enriched with those spiritual and heaven- appeared in the Athenaeum nnd the Literary Gazette, expressed in rather too strong Conjectures ore rife; her what and whatly blessings which shalj enduro forever. a new subject, with all the adPerhaps it is due to your disinterested terms. I had no hand whatever in the inser- ahout being vantage of a chance matter, which at all kindness and generosity, that I should state ( tion of these or any other paragraphs which limes enhances the gratification of a pleasure. some circumstances in relation to my family |have lately been going the round of the can she be from?" "Where "Where affairs. About seven years newspapers. These statements are the inand my temporal were the questions immediately ago, my daughter and her husband, both in ferences which my kind friends have hecn bound?" the prime of life, died within thirteen days of pleased to deduce from what wus stated in asked. each other, leaving five children, two boys the memorial. At the stunt- time, should the " I can't imagine," said our captain. " I don't see how a craft like that could get here and three girls, tho oldest about ten and the public think that my writings have been in —what the mischief can she be about?" youngest about two years of age, almost, the least beneficial to society, and should It be a small vessel," observed anmay had I for their " support. without anything they choose on this ground to present a testherefore to bear the greater part of the bur- timonial, as you have so liberally done, } other, "hound to Algoa Bay, or into the Channel." den of their maintenance and education. As certainly will not refuse it. It would tend to Mozambique "Impossible—our latitude to dny will be we had previously kept no regular servant, procure us some comforts we have not hithwe were under the necessity of getting one erto enjoyed, and enable us to promote the over forty-two—more than seven degrees to into the family, and for several years we education of my female orphan grand chil- the southward efLa Ghullas!" "Perhaps an express packet from Engwere under the necessity of submitting to dren. Last spring I was subjected to a danto India?" this additional expense. About three years gerous disorder, which for some time baffled land "Even then," again rejoined the captain, into John of the were admitted girls Jfee efforts of all my medical attendants, but ago, two Watson's Institution, Edinburgh, where through the blessing of God 1 gradually re- with a skiff like that, one might fancy the they are maintained and educated gratis, but covered during the summer and autumn. fellow would work round close in with the at tan.age of thirteen or fourteen years, But about two or three months ago I was sub- land in smooth water." Every suggestion was maturely discussed, at home. The jected to a severe surgical operation on my they9P*t be againjfljteivcd but none seemed entirely satisfactory. There goirflrprofessions. Besides,' have now from tumor boys breast, which a large was exstill a something wanting to confirm the was sister, once a in tracted ; but everything went favorably on, I have an aged and infirm At one time, so small did she reputable and prosperous condition, now, the wound is healed, and I enjoy at the pre- argument. look, that we suddenly fancied she might lie affairs, of mercantile the of uncertainty sent moment, a tolerable share through good the launch of some large vessel that had left without almost any resources. Her hus- health. band, and Utterly, all her family, grown up Mrs. Dick joins me in kind wishes and foundered in this tempestuous part of the to men and women, have died, and for more grateful acknowledgements to you and your ocean, and might contain Ihe remnant other than seven years she has been an inmate in friends. May you enjoy every desirable crew, who had thus saved themselves!—and immediately we pictured a scene of distress our family, chiefly depending on us for supcomfort through life, hope in death, and at and suffering that might naturally have been port. length an abundant entrance into the ever- the consequence of such an event—of weepThe profits which have arisen from the lasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior, is ing, and wailing, and nakedness, and fear; publication of my works in this country have the earnest desire of, ofexhaustion from exposure; madness from the entire small. For comparatively been Sir, My thirst; of starvation itself, and all the hagDear copy-Tight of the "Chrrstian Philosopher," 1 Your much obliged, gard horrors which the combinations of such received at first £120, and a few years ago, and most obedient Servant, a spectacle must have presented. There a few pounds more, when very large addiTHOMAS DICK. might be women aboard too! for in the mass tions were made to it, so ts to increase it to trust that the simple statements of the , , , , 1 — " �47 THE FRIEND. JUNE 1. 1850- of migration' from England to her colonies, visions now before us, it was then all glee.!|and our position became immedistely tbe particularly on this route " beyond the The chattering petrels about us were not subject of cool dscussion. She wss prowas Cape," whore lie India, ihe jewel of her more gladsome. If we had before been de- nounced suspicious; snd the conclusion crown, and the colonies of Australia—the lighted by the mere sight of a way-farer like ss soon fallen upon that whatsoever she might giant progeny of an ever teeming mother— ourselves upon the waste' of waters, ihe be, if hostile, it was now too late to attempt the number who embark upon the ocean for pleasure was now ten-fold in the expectation escape by running. It would be difficult to other dwelling places, would astonish our of greeting him. The idea too, of intelli- board us in so heavy a sea; perchance we own home-keeping and home-loving country gence from the living nnd breathing world, might run her down—the risk to ourselves in women who dreamof the north and the south, iiom which we had been so long excluded, such a case was but a choice of evils.'* It the cast nnd the west, as of a day's journey, had in it something very cheering—a feeling was determined that our only chance lay in and of the sea as a far-off and fearlul road!' which none can appreciate who have never an air of the most unflinching determination, Scarce a ship from England pnsscsthe Cope: endured the heavy incarceration of the seas. and to this end we stood on. She was now Our friend wus still at some distance, and about half-a-mile off, but heading directly without them —daughters returning to parents alter an education " at home," as Eng- over a heavy head sea with the wind ex- for us, and her sails settling very low, it was land is fondly termed hy them, though born tremely light, we approached but slowly. impossible to see any thing upon her deck. upon the soil of its most distant dependency; As we came nearer however, there seemed Men were running up and down her rigging, wives to husbands, after a visit for the resto- to be a change in our feelings, an indefina- as if for observation. We were evidently an ration of impaired health; friends rejoining ble though very perceptible something over object of solicitude with them; and reversing friends, and relations to be united; and not the spirit of them, like the mutation of a the matter, 1 must own, they were equally so unfrequently, the betrothed going forth in gently proceeding dream. We were less with us. Anxiety had now become suspense. the palpitating expectancy of a consumma- gay, talked less, laughed less. It was evi- Our little armory was open within the poop; tion of her plighted faith with one whose for- dent something new occupied our thoughts pistols lay disposed upon the table, and mustunes havo unitctl him with a distfnW region. Each with his glass—some three or four kets and cutlasses were in ample reediness Such thoughts as these, carried the picture was earnestly watching the little vessel, around. Our men stood scattered, or moved which our imaginations had drawn lo the while those who were without these aids to silently from place to place with a fidgety air, highest pitch. But on looking again and their physical vision, were passing from one gazing intently on the little stranger, oranon more narrowly, we discovered that our little to the other of the observers, inquiring what glancing aft with a feeling natural to the igschooner was well and sufficiently rigged; they saw. Our attention was first arrested norant, as if to read in the countenances of her sails were well fitted and well set; no- by the enormous size of her sails; every those to whom higher station had perhaps thing in her appearance indicated haste or thing 100, was set, while our reefs were yet given quicker perceptions, that which they emergency, nor had she any of the usuul sig- in, the weather still looking threatening.— could not themselves discover; the blood The captain was the first to break in upon a coming and going in more faces than one.— nals tif distress flying. ciicd the first observe silence that had now been some time pro- I never saw a ship so still! We talked end be," It cannot to " were silent—laughed, and were more silent these distinctions; there can be no jury- longed. rig about that craft!—twig her gaff-topsail " He out-carries us," he observed, speak- than before! We remembered our dreams ing as if casually, and throwing his eyes with of fresh butter nnd new laid eggs, and called and flying jib." "You arc right," answered the captain, a seeming carelessness aloft—doubtful, per- it a capital joke; but it would not take the truck to heel!" haps, of exciting unpleasant feelings by a complexion of a jest. " she's a dandy from We approached. And with these unanswerable arguments more serious nir. " Mr. M—," he continuwe wore fain to give pity to the winds for ed, addressing the officer, " call all hands" He is near enough," cried one, " to give shake the reel's out of our topsails—set the us a shot," and we started as though we had lack of substance. Another conjecture was now started—al- inain-lop-gullaiit sail, and loose the mainsail seen the flash! At that moment he gave a ' yaw,' paying and jib." together new. off; our glasses flew instantly lo our ; an aud broad Aye, reply sir," cried the with wasthe you," quick captain, aye, tell " " I'll arch curl upon his lip, the expression of a the alacrity with which the order was obey- eyes; we could see his deck—see all—six, sell cnmplucuncy which ulways announced the ed, showed that there was some uncommon seven men were on his quarter deck—two forward—a dozenpr more jackets and trows ert*. conception ola thought thai he fancied par- interest felt in the work. ticularly cunning; "I'll tell you now what From much chattering we now became in Ihe fore rigging were hung ouMf dry, and she is—a little fellow out of Capetown, bound strangely silent. Our eyes were kept stead- the great gun amid-ships, huge as imagined round to the Mauritius, with wine, fruit, ily on the schooner; glasses were wiped and thunder, resolved itself intoa long black whale positions changed und re-changed, as if by boat, bottom up! "mm, and such like notions." And there seemed to be something so ex- every imaginable effort to see as much and A few minutes later found us with the captremely probable in this, from the known as distinctly as possible. The number ofher tain of a little sealer out of London for a commercial relations of Ihe two places, that men had evidently increased. Four—five— guest; a hardy weather-beaten son of the the idea was immediately adopted as a mat- six were aft; four were in the waist; as ma- ocean, commanding a vessel of eighty tons ny forward; and a score were in her fore and eleven men, formerly the yacht of my ter ofentire certainty. "Fruit—butter—fresh eggs!" muttered rigging. Each observer of these testimony■prd somebody, I forget who, bound toes near one, us he walked slowly down the quarter nls to her real character spoke hurriedly?Rie south pole as ice and cold weather would without removing the glass from his eye, and allow him to go, and begging us to take letdeck. "Butler nnd fresh eggs, did you say ?" was answered only by the short confirmatory ters for him, though by the way of India, es bewhisperedanother, " softly, my sweet fellow, ejaculation of another. New objects devel- it would probably be his last opportunity fore returning to the world again. It was softly." And by a microscopic vision there oped themselves. of s belligemight have been seen in both, at the usual "There is something amidships," cried odd how entirely every evidenceto one, and covered with rent had succumned the better propensity black, the and long, round, of between mouth articulation " point feelings of our nature—the meal of the lean the well turncd-up whisker, what Charles cunvnss." Lamb, in his sweet essay on roost-pig, calls "I see it," answered another, quickly, kino' was nothing to it! Tbe muskets, cut' an involuntary moistening of tho nether lip.' " over the msin-hatch—long, round, black." lasses and pistols, had quietly taken themUpon a long voyage, men grow imagina- At this point, mere silent sensibility had selves off, and though the last were indubitive in the gratification of their palates.— attained its utmost. As if by a common vo- tably loaded to tbe very muzzle, yet not ens Amid the sorry realities of musty biscuit, salt lition, the glasses fell from our eyes as though could be found to remember lhat he bad any beef and pork, and such halting, half-star- it were little worth our while to look longer hand in the work! ved semblances of ducks and chickens ns or for more; and gazing round, each seemed i"I thought," said our friend, "yon were have lived through hard weather and confine- to await that from another which he daredie man-of-war, when you bore up; for-every thiug had run away from me!" ment long enough for the sacrificial knife, not utter himself. "Yes," we replied, "we took a little " 1 do not like her," said the captain.— the sense becomes a sort of spirituality, subdo and we reckon we might make s you rakish, faro.— She has the look of a of better knave—what sisting on the recollections " pretty good fight." The iden of freshness, even in a head of gar- think of her?" lic, comes upon it like gurgling water upon Our misgivings once broached, the weight A fine breeze had sprung up before he left the thirsty traveller; and with the delectable of an Alias seemed removed from our bosoms, us, and both filling away on the same coarse, — — " ' ' ' �48 THE FRIEND, JUNE I, 1860. . 8 Am ak Canada, B>a<*»*ia. 848 Mas, flda fr B Fraa. Market House Pbicbs. 8 Tahmaa ach Will Waacn, Maa*. Hi lona, H*» Potatoes Taro SI perbrl, II per brl, TahKt. Yams 1 l-I 1 aVn ah F—Tla, Jaahoia. M8io». I« *» fr FrMOars. Orange* Chtsnuts Pine apples 1 I Am ah Charlee. Andrewa, 41* lons, 155 da fr Boauiu. 75c " Kiwi, ■ Br brag Mcl-ean 8« lona, 28 da fr 8 Franclaco. Lemons Papoa 7.V 1 10 TekUlaa ach AirWkla. Byard, 41 ion., 21 da fr8 Fran. Old cocoa nuts New Floating Bethell, Whampoa, 10 91 Green cocoa nuts 20 do 10 Am brig afcta-Blch, 206 loan. It da fr X Franclaco. Dried banana 10bundles SI —We rejoice from various sources to learn May ll—Chlleau bg Jnt. 8., Scbuilill, 194 lona, 48 dayafrom Bananas 3 banehes f1 Fowls 4 II Valparaiao. Pumpkins S3 1-2 100 18. Br ah ll.irmony, Pnppe, 629 lona, 84 da fm Sydney. Turkeys that this establishment finds such generous each Small 75e 1 If Aai ach JultuaPrtngfo, Buchanan,B7 loiia, 16 da from i Small 75c Ducks 1 San Fraucueo. patronage and encouragement among seaFishing net 25c per fathom 15 Am ah Conatcllation, Flluier, frnm New York—aid Hogs 6c per lb fur San Franel,co. men and merchants at Canton. In the OcIron wood $4 per boat Other wood S3 per boat 17 Br bk Braul Packet, fm New Zealaod. Native cloth SI 3 fathoms Yellow do SI a piece tober number of the Sailor's Magszine, we 17 Br origan Velocity, Sydney. Hats 25c to SI each May la—Br ach Velocity, M'Velgh, I*B lona, 67da f«i Bydaey, ■Bonnets SI each notice four subscriptions by mercantilehouses aalled for San Frau. Mats 50c a fathom Double width 1 dala a do bk BrazilPacket, 99 da New Main, X Br 199 lona Iron poles 10 SI I'm of $400 dollars each, and several other subZealand. Regulations. 90 Am ach Honolulu, Morton, 158 lona, 17 da fin Ban I. The appointed Bales Man is to arrange all (rata DM**). scriptions varying from 5 to $300. 20 Br ach Pera, with the Captain, and the Captain to pay him his fee; IHB tona, 22 da fin Kan Fran. SO Am ah|i llantplon. lla.ia 448 lona, 23de Tin San Frnn. jin cloth or cash as he may agree on. Some of our Island readers will re21 Br bk Jane Uiion, wnii will, S2S tona, 22 da fm San 11. Should the Captain wish to engage natives tc Franclaco. collect Mr. Hill, the English traveller, who 21 Br bk Ducheaa of Clarence, Cole, 279 tona, 19 da fin take his supplies to the boat; SI a day is the charge San Fraackns. Ifor each man visited our shores about a year or more since. II Br bk Fair Taemaniao. Ellla, 155 tona. 19 da fm San 111. Mo boat or ranoe from shore shall be allowed Francisco. In a late paper we notice his embarkation at 22 Am ahp RobertPulaford, Cooke, 406 Maa, 16 da I'm to take off trade to ships, to lie sold on board. Boats may be engaged to take off supplies bought on shore. SanFranclado. Vera Cruz for Havana, en route for Eng22 Br b( Swan, Ayrea, 149 lona, Van Dleman'a Land. Charge, $5 the first day and $3 each day after. 23 Am bk Nahunekeag, Champlut 266 loua, 15 da fm IV. NoAaoit or conor from shore shall be allowed land. A correspondent of the New York SanFranclaco. 13 Aai bk Alice Tarlton, Hale, 310 tore, 20 da fm San to go offlMhips when making the land, except the Tribune, thus refers to him: Franclaco < one appointed by the authorities. 23 Hr ach Joaephine, Clinton, 25 lona, 19 da fm San Fr. Y. It is requested that no Captain secretly engage, 'Mr. Hill, ao English traveller, bound 23 Bronx* wh ahp Alex. Barclay, Ilein, 450 toaa, fm or take away on board his vessel, any natives from the homeward via Havana, Cadiz and the PyreLahaina. shore. Any Captain wishing to engage natives for a nees, after three years spent in Russia, SiCleared. cruise, arc requested to make arrangements, before April 99—Haw, by Paciflco, Bogue,for San Franclaco. beria the Polynesian Islands, and the.inte- Fr. proper witnesses on shore, with any willing to go. A bk Winn rlna, Laacaaaa, Manilla. rior of South America. His 10-Hr bk Pilgrim, Francla, Hoof Kony. contrary procedure will be reported to the nearest 1t,.1)t. Brucr, Dm kendnrf, for IConsul, of the nation to which the ship belongs. have been of remarkable interest, and will, May 4 Orator, Tayt, for a Franciaoo. VI. It is requested, that on the desertion of a man Primua, Draper, for Tahiti. I hope, soon be made public. from a vessel, the Captain give immediate information iioio, Ha*i>, for Lahaina and San Franclaco. Fori to the Chiefs of the Station, and that the vessel do not 6—Ebeneaer, lilckhiaon, for Tallin. The New Bedford Mercury states that 7—Coquette, I Hint, for Tahiti. 1leave the Island until the deserter be apprehended. ', Cnllard, Air Sydney. 9—Duke of Roxhon That for every deserter delivered by the natives to the Capt. Timothy Colby in that city, has a bed May 11.—Am bk Clyde. Kempton, Hon* Kong. Captain two pieces of cloth to be paid, one to the cost made of whales' sinews,which has been 14 Br ach Shamrock, Gray, Auckland. of the station, and another to the parties who 14 Br ach Sir J. Franklin, Paleraon, San Fran. IChief in the family since 1640—two hundred 15 Am bk Lunette. Keen, Valparaiao secured his apprehension. ao« nine years—and has been used by Capt. May 18.—Am byMeta, Rich, for San Fran. Tia Lahaina. VII. That in case the deserter he not found until 18 Br bg Tepic. l.uce, lions Kong. after the vessel has left the island, when apprehended, Colby forty-one years, and is now as good as 18 Am abp Carthage. Rope*, Manilla. 24 H BMB Herald. KrlleM, vailed for Kotzebue Sound. Ihe shall become a prisoner and be employed m public a dozen new hemp bed-cords. It has never 21 Am xlip Fliivio. Jenkllia, Hons Kong. Iwork, until he leave the island. been broken. VIII That, in any case considered necessary for a PORT OF LAHAINA. Captain to leave a man on shore, the sum of S3O be The Propeller 'Carolina,' just arrived in San Frantf paid for each individual so left. cisco from N. V., is lo ran between San Francisco ana Arrived, 24—Sch Naeva Mtxnllane., Hofflngton, 19 ds fm S F. Oregon, under the command of Capt. David Wood, who April Strangers.—The To Seamen and Seamen's Hrlg Juno, Smnli, 18 tin fm San Fran. formerly commanded Ihe Propeller Massachusetts 25—Bark Montgomery, Meyer*, 13 dayi from San Franclaco Chapel is open for Public Worship every Sabbath, April 28—Br hg Fanny, Twohey. fm Auckland. |at 11 a. in., and T 1-2 p. m. Seats Free. May S.—Am ahp (Jolumbua, Crowell, Fatrkaven, 6 moa out. The Seamen's Concert for Prayer is held at the DONATIONS. 60 bbla aperm. ? An. ahp Triton, Sanda, New Bedford, 5 1-2 mos out, Room the 3d Monday evening in each month. For Chaplaincy. For Friend. 100 bbla aperm. Seamen belonging to vessel* (of all nation*) via. 2 00 10 Am >>.' Forfunic, limit y, fm San Fran. ■n Jotioaon, king (hi* port are invited to call at the Chaplain's 5 00 A Friend. IIMggV 16 Am rich Honolulu, Morton.fm San Fran. Study, where they will be gratuitously supplied with rather »rul ad^/m. 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Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1850.06.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.06.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/39a14235475e1266283dd90aca9e3590.pdf 603b2a8d888baf85b51814935daa0366 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, JULY 1, 1850. Vol. 8. 49 Hfe. * The incidents herein narrated ship, we stood off again until the next mornmust have formed a pleasing episode in a ing, when the captain gave orders for two 49 The Whale and his Captors boats. Leiter from the French Protestant Missionary Society 61 long passage to the United States. One of our sailors by the name of John52 Dr. Webster's Trial 62 Tropic Island of Rimatara Letter from the son, that had lived on Tahiti, and could talk 11. 11. M. ahip Enterprise and brig Swift 68 Britishand Foreign ltible Society Natives Landing through the Surf Char- a little of their tongue, had told the nativesa The See Boy's Farewell 68 acteristics of the People King Temaeva the day belore that there was on board from Tyfoona losing their Terror 58 Walk into the Interior lsland Metropolis missionary, or a missionary's friend, 64 Effects of change in the Narigation Laws sent off accordingly Hawaii, Native was Hosand there Foot-prints of ChristianityHswalian Bible Society—Treasurer's Report 64 pitality—Regretful Good-by Contrast be- through him, on a slip of paper, very legibly Currentsof the O. can 66 The Ship i« Sinklug 66 tween a people with the Bible and without written by a native teacher, a Rimatara letter, Marine Intelligence, etc. ----.. 66 A Cut-off and a Recovery A Ship-wreck of which the following is a literal translation: and a Rescue Reasoning of a South-Sea Friend and Father I The Whale and his Captors: Islander Tahitian Theology. " Dear May you be asved by tbe true God. This ia oar eommu Adventures, and Whale's have of the The first view we Commodore uicsilon to you. Come thou bltbsr upon the shore, that we Or, The Whaleman's Biography, as gathered on the homeward Preble, is as she is lying oil" and on the lone may see you in respect to sll the words ef God which srs right cruise ofthe "Commodore Preble" by Rev. Islnnd of Rimatara, in quest of the fresh sup- vviiu you. It is our desire that you come to-day. Henry T.Cheever, with engravings. Har- plies which whalemen covet in order to keep From Tiutimo and hts Brethren." per & Brothers, publishers, NewYork, 1850. ol buy the scurvy. This is one of those fasof a peoSouth-Sea Islands, which, on their Eager to know some thing more We have frequently seen letters in Ameri- cinating and aloha, an whom so cordial from came tirst discovery by Europeans in the latter part ple can papers signed " H. T. C." dated at the of the last century, quite turned the heads of Hy very heart athlrst Sandwich Islands, and on board the " Com- many, and at once started so much speculative To look on nature In her robe of green, modore Preble," on her homeward cruise, nonsense and sentimentality about primeval in the Pacific. I made ready to go ashore; the breakers were but we were not expecting to see a volume innocence and bliss embosomed not formidable enough, though beating with in addition written during the passage, of our A coral rock, by gentle nature made violence, to make me forego the novfearful through tropic Verdant snd besuttful, sun, old friend and visitor to the United States.— elty of setting foot on a coral South Pacific And fertilizing rain, and grateful shade ; Ever since we saw the volume announced as Plsced far amid the melancholy main. Island, and the pleasure of a stroll among the trees after seven weeks at sea. Taking having been published, we have felt a strong It is al> >ut seven miles long, one and a half therefore, a life-preserver, I ventured into desire to glance over its pages. We frankor two wide, mid lies in 15- west longitude one of the little canoes that came along-side ly confess that we Are favorably disappointed. ;iiid '22 45 south latitude; about south-west the boat, and was paddled and handed by a Much has been written about the " rare old from Tahiti. It is properly perhaps, one of narrow cleft, through roaring breakers and whale" and the " adventurous whaleman," the Society Island group, being a mere pile ragged rocks that threatened instant desand during the last few years we have heard of corallite and wave-washed coral sand.— truction, among which a common boat could We came in sight of it on Tuesday afternoon, live a moment. Those frail canoea many " a yarn" about chasing, harpooning, a blue hummock on the bosom of the ocean, hardly however, only nine and eleven feet long, lancing, towing, cutting-in, trying-out, and and ran on until we discovered, to our great carried safely through, one by one, all that stowing-down, sperm whales, right whales, delight, what could not be mistaken for a ventured ashore. and a white flag flying on a and polar whales; still we have found this meeting-house, near by, to indicate the friendliness of Immediately on our landing, the natives post work to be not only readable, but quite in- the natives, and induce us to stop for trade. gathered around and formed a ring, naturally savages every where, to notice structive. The style is lively and well adaptThe sea broke so high upon the north-east curious, like and I not leas so to observe their thing, every ed to the nature of the book. From the and south-west points of the Island, and inown eager attitudes, expressive gestures and did not shore, deed all that the captain along plentiful sprinkling of poetical extracts scathave an uncommondeem it prudent to attempt landing that night. fine looks. The women clear skin, countenance, tered through the work, the reader would in- We of aspect pleasing ly therefore, stood off until twelve o'clock, fer that whaling must be a very literary em- mid-night, and then tacking, were up with it but a shade or two darker than a dark bruand eye-browa, and a ployment! Literary men are surely quite again by ten o'clock next morning, on the nette, black eyes, hair form, of and bashful turncaptivating beauty dependent upon the whaleman for the oil that leeward side. away when looked at, that is not a little ing The Island a beautiful presented appearsupplies bis " mid-night lamp," for it is not ance, being thickly wooded to the water's attractive. Their nostrils are not so negrothick as these of the to be supposed that literary personages, even edge, and elevated in some parts into gentle like, nor their lips so in America, would presume to read, study, hills, crowned with all the various and luxu- [Hawaiians, but still they bear to them a close resemblance. Many of the little girls and or write by the light of a Cincinnati candle! riant growth of the tropics. Canoes soon maidens were truly beautiful, and would be surf, and launched out the boisterous through Only imagine a poet, penning the effusions deemed paragons, even in tbe artificial state three us, of two or having ciime along-side of his fancy by the light of a lard or tallow lads and men in each, much fairer skinned where beauty is not left so much to it«ajK, but candle —tbe very idea is the most unportical and better looking that the majority of Ha-. has to be busked, bustled, and corset*. b> omnipotent fashion. imaginable. jwsiians. off the I soon made ma, way to tbe island king. The boat anchored reef captain's readers for may judge That our themselves the natives brought their articles ofjTemaeva, who sat apart from othera upon a while in regard to this work, we quote entire'the trade in their pigmy canoes. By four in the block of coral, and leaning on a staff, bis onsecond chapter, althlsagh no pa* of the book afternoon he bad procured a boat-load of pigs ly dress being a shirt and kihei (mantle.) He in reality, relates less to the " whale and his and cocoa-nuts, with which returning to the''was a benevolent looking, well made pan, captors." CONTENTS. -- ------— ■ — — — — — —— — — — — — — J < �THE FRIEND, JULY 1, 1850. 50 having tbe pert and presence of a king, and *that were all, With InoSenalve oust snd meathea, From aaany s berry and from sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams nor them to hold Wants bar St veasela pare: then strews ihe ground Willi rose and odors from the shrub unfumed. -, WMb Attaassaa ahoukdera fit to bear Ths weight sf mightiest monarchies This entertainment over, we repaired to Ha offered me his hand with much appa- tbe teacher's, where again was served up the rent cordiality, and immediately led the way same, with the addition of banaua made into to his house in tbe interior. The path was a poi, of which the king ate freely. I was at first rugged as the volcanic clinkers of Ha- here presented with a couple of rolls of white waii, over heaps and swells of broken and kapa by the good woman of the house. After roots of with huge coral, over-grown sharp surveying the premises, getting a specimen ihe itamani and koa trees, in the borrowed of the king and teacher's hand-writing, and terms of Wordsworth, giving them a card to certify any other chance A growth ship of their hospitality, I returned to the Of Intertwisted aavres serpenllDe. thnt now smile upon us we never see again. Who can help sighing as he ihinksof it, and wishing to leave, wherever he gees, some durable evidence that an immortal spirit has passed that way! Oh, at what time ..never thou (Unknown lo me,) Ihe heavens wiltbow, Anil, wiih hy angels in the »mi, Descend in judge poor circle** man. Gram thai I may not like jiuddle lie, Jn a corrupt security, Where, If a irnv, ).-r water crave, He finds it dead, and in a grave ; But as the clear running spring All day and nighi doth flow and alng ; And though here born, yel Is acquainted Elsewhere, and, flowing, keeps untainted— So let me nil my buoy age In Ihy Tree service engage. And though (while here) of force I must Have commerce sometimes wiih poor dust, Yet let my course, my aim, my love, And chief acquaintance he above ; Bo whett that day and hour shall coma In which tin self will be the sun, Thnu'lt find me dressed and on my way, Watching tbe break of Ihy great day. shore by another path, through a dense wood, coming out of it on the windward side of the island, by the old church and grave there was a subsibarrier passed, This where Tameava pointed out the tomb dence and inclining of the island inward, and yard, the path vent through a meadow of rushes, of a former wife, having the dtue of her death cut in a coral slab. in lime of r»in flooded. The soil was a rich rudely The cocoa-nuts passed were numberless, beds wet kalo of black loam. Next came shedding their fruit by thousands; also lofty (artunesculentuin,) very luxuriant and large, and straight pandanuses, kukuis and inilo beyond which weie the houses of the king trees. Following round the shore to the and native missionary teachers, the chapel, we had struck off into the How different now our reception here by school house and principal settlement. These point atwewhich found the enptain there busy tra- Islanders that had been blessed with the biware prettily made buildings ofkamanu posts, woods, wattled between, lined on both sides with a ding. I pleased myself a while with looking at ble, from that which a whaling ship had good coat ofwhite washed plaster, and thatch- those mixed and motley groups, and trying to while sailing along in this same Pacific in the ed on the roof with grass. Being clustered communicate withthe harmless Arimatarians, year 1835, from barbarians that had never went off to the boat through the out- received the gospel. A large number of natastefully together, they made a very pleas- and thensurf, rageous inly wishing I could leave with tives came oil", as to us, for the purposes of ing appearance outside. them some substantial and enduring testimo- trade. No treachery was suspected, and all and house of the were king The ebapel for a while went on amicably. But, upon a furnished with flooring and settees. In the ny of good will. former was a round pulpit, very much like The king and his wife, together with the signal from a chief, the natives sprang for those seen in popish cathedrals, wherever is captain, came one by one, soon after, and the harpoons, whale-spades, and other, deadseen at all what popery is by no means fondIwe all pulled ofT to the ship, where the king ly weapons at hand, and a desperate contest of—ihe pulpit. They had been built eleven seemed highly gratified with his entertain- immediately ensued. The capt in was killed years, it being more than twenty, we wereI ment and presents. He is manifestly king by a single stroke of a whale-spade; the first told, since the island was first christianizedI but in name, having to promise a recompense mate also, soon after. The second mate by native missionaries from Tahiti. They even to the men that brought hurt off to the jumped over-board and was killed in the wawarts all surrounded by a low paling of posts! boat in their canoe. The gospel has abol- ter, and four of the seamen lost their lives. driven slightly into the ground, merely to ished all tyranny, and as the sailor interpret- A part ofihe crew rnn up the rigging for sekeep out hogs; while cocoa-nut trees andled it, all there are for themselves, and wilh- curity, and the rest into the forecastle. giant bananas were dropping their fruits allI out distinctions. There nre four hundred nil Among these last was a young man, the around. The whole scene, in every feature, told, and live according lo their own telling, third mate, by the name of Jones, the only was most pleasingly corroborative of the re- \in much peace, being visited two or three surviving officer. By his cool intrepidity and presentations quoted by Harris in " Thej times a year by whaling ships for recruits, judgment, after a dreadful encounter, the Ureal Commission," to show the temporalI whose trade just keeps them (the adults,)! jship was cleared of the savages, the chief and many of his companions, both of utility of the missionary exertions in the with a single cloth garment or kihei, a piece. A roughly made schooner, of kumanu those on boaid nnd those who came alongSouth-Seas. wood, much like our mahogany, was on the side to aid in securing the ship. f last aad of their littk,e_aumntiblehata*lougihe*sea.beach,! slocks, for which they were very anxious lo Jones now became the captain, buried the there will he seen a aaal settlement, with a large chapel lo the get tar, oakum, and a compass. No white]'dead, dressed the wounded, pat the ship in center, cspsble of containing one or two Ihouasnd people} a missionary, we were told, has ever and made sail for the christianized residedj jorder, astvasl house M Ihe one side, aad a chief's or tbe missionary.'upon the island, but all their imperfect chris- Sandwich Islands with tbe surviving crew. hawse oa the other j and a range of while collages a mile or tutilization and acquaintance with the arts' With a skill and self-possession worthy of the two Isng, peeping al yoa from under the splendid banana trees, or thS bread frail groves. So thst their comfort la lucreased| have been effected by native teachers from man that could accomplish such a rescue, aad theircharacter elevated." Tahiti. White tnen have stopped on the is—j[and with a favoring Providence, he navigaland occasionally, but they say they do not the bereaved whuler to Oahu, where the Boon after reaching this little metropolis want them, unless they know the language, survivors were hospitably entertained. The of the island, the king had baked pig and]and have some trade. ship however, had to be sent home, Ihe roydelicious kalo placed upon a massive rude I could not leave this secluded and lovely!jage being completely broken tip. and thoutable, and plates of English crockery, with island,though but the stopping-place ol'n day,lsands of dollars lost to owners and underknives and lorks. A blessing was asked by and ere long 1 hope, to mingle with humani- writers. the native teacher, and 1 was invited to eat. ty in a wider and more populous field, with1 remember once to have listened to the k waa, in their view, an important piece of out a feeling of sadness, I hardly know why. narrative of a captain who was wrecked in courtesy, which a recent breakfast rather un- But so it is in the voyage of life, especially the l'ueilic on a sunken rock, and four1 fitted «• for; yet I ate, with compliments, in that of a traveler, sailing down the stream teen days and nights, himself and for twencrew, of the mealy kalo, and tasted of the pig, of time, we hail a friendly bark, or touchi ty-two in were exposed in their i boats, andnumber, while the king waa taking huge morsels thst here and there nt a pleasant had quite given up hope of ever landing-place would almost sink a common man. upon its banks, pluck a few fruits and flow- again reaching the land. But on the morn.wine of this feast waa the delicious ers, exchange good wishes and kind words ing of ihe fifteenth day after their milk of young cocoa-nuts just from tbe tree; with the friends of a day, truly love and are i ship, they found their boats tbe loss of nearing an unand I will venture lo say that Hebe never loved by some congenial hearts, both drop known island. They were almost and "iy*)- Bitch nectar into the goblets of the and lake some seeds of good and evil, to saw the shore, which was guarded spent, reef, a by like that gods. It was more which Eve made spring up when we are is our graves, and lined with cannibals or ready o~e« in Eden, as tbe poet tells, where then we are away; the places that now know christianizednatives, whether they could Qot tell. with to entertaia their argel guest: us know iimm more for aver, and the faces While their lives were in doubt, and they llp-coillng, and Inveleralely convelved. ., , ! lJkilled, i i ited i i • * ' i �THE FRIEND, JULY 1, 1860. 51 were questioning whether a worse death by fit each other exactly. lam sure then, that Ed as a servant the family of President savage violence did not await them than if the bible which tells me of these things, was Wheelock, of Dartmouth College, and lived they had perished at sea, one of the natives made by him who made the hinges to my in his family and that of his daughter, Maria came out toward them through the surf, hold- body. I believe the bible to be the word of Malleville Allen, tbe wife of President Allen, of Bowdoin College, forty years. Fa* ing in his hsnd a book, and cried, with a loud God. voice, " Missionary! missionary!" An anThe men on the other side of the great the last eighteen years, she has lived alono swering shout of recognition and beckoning isea used their skill and their bodies to make in her house, and she died alone aad suddenfrom the poor mariners immediately brought iships and to print bibles. They came in ships ly. In the same night, and probably at th* the natives, through the waves, to their aid, iand brought iron hoops, knives, nails, hatch- same hour, died her friend, the wife of Rev. by whom they were carried on shore in theiriets, cloth and needles, which are very good. Dr. Adams. arms, supplied with food, and generously They also brought rum and whiskey, which This circumstance added peculiar interest entertained with more than human, with iare very evil. They moved the hinges of and pathos to his discourse. He said that if christian kindness. Ithe jaws, and told lies and curses, which sre his beloved companion ( then lying dead, to It so happened, according to the captain's abominable. At last some ctme and brought be buried the next day) could have been per* statement, that this was an island whose in- the bible. They used the hinges of their milled to choose an attendant spirit, as she habitants had been first brought lo a knowl- bodies to turn over its leaves and to explain passed through the dark valley, and in her edge of Christianity by the brother of this God's blessed word. That was belter than upward flight to the paradise of God, doubtcaptain, who had been some yenrs before ironware and stuff for clothing. They were less she would have chosen Phebe. "Black cast away on this very island, and with one the servants of the living God, and my heart Phebe !" he exclaimed, "she haa sometimes other of the ship's company, was saved.— opened to their words as if it had hinges too, been called ; but her soul ia whiter and puThey were taken by the natives to be offer- like as my mouth opens to take food when 1 rer than the light, and her heavenly gared up as a sacrifice to their gods. But while am hungry. And my heart feels satisfied ments are more resplendent than tbe sun shion their way to the place where human vic- now. It washungry, God nourished it; it was ning in his brightness." tims used to be sacrificed, they remembered thirsty, God has refreshed it. Blessed be It is to be hoped that the eloquent preachthe tradition that a god should come to them God, who gave his word, and sent it across er, who was her minister for twenty years, the sea to bring me light and salvation!" will feel it his duly to prepare, for the benefrom the sea. Over-ruled doubtless, by. a divine impulse, Now we say that this unsophisticated na- fit of the world, a memoir of Phebe Anna they now entertained the white man as a god, tive thinker, working thus nil by himself at Jacobs. and he instructed them concerning the only the great theological argument from evidentrue God and Saviour. They invited the mis- ces of design, could hardly have done better Societe des Missions Evangeliques. Paris, Fab. VI, 1860. sionary from another island, and in heaven's had he been going to school to Calvin or blessing upon his instructions, was read the Chalmers all his days. He might have writ- To the native Churches, Missionaries, and secret of all their afier-kindness to the white ten in his Polynesian bible the lines which other individuals, at tbe Sandwich Islands, men who visited or were cast upon their are said to have been found on a blank leaf who have contributed to the raising of shores. All whalemen may see in this con- ofa copy of the scriptures belonging to a great funds in behalf of the Paris Evangelical trast, as we have to our joy in the Commo- English poet. And, ah! how much better Missionary Society : dore Preble, what a difference there is be- had it been for the world, if Byron had loved Dearly Beloved Brethren—Our hearts tween islands that have, and that have not, his bible as there is reason to believe the un- have been filled with joy in theLord and with gratitude toward you, by the affecting proof the "book." known Tahitian did his. of love and sympathy we have received from It is the book which has brought it to pass Wilhin this awful volume lias you. At the amazing distance which sepathat the adventurous, weary whaleman '-an The mystery nf mysteries ; rates you from us, at some eighteen thousand now traverse the entire Pacific, and land And bleas'd, foreverbleas'd are Ihey miles from the metropolis of France, you with impunity at most of its lovely islands, Who read 10 hope, andread to pray. have heard the cry of distress, which we utand be supplied on terms of equity with all Hut better bsd he ne'er been born, tered in our distress, and you have answered he needs. Let then, those that owe to it the Whoreads to doubt, or reads to scorn. it. An unexpected revolution, and the finanmost, be loudest in their praises, and warmest in their love, and most careful in their An Honored Negress.—On Sunday, the cial crisis brought on by it, had placed ua in 3d of Mnrch, says the New York Observer, the greatest embarrassment. We were obedience to the book of books. It was the reasoning of one of this great there was buried at Brunswick, Maine, a obliged to shut the Seminary where Missionremarkable character ; aries used to be prepared for the service of family of theSouth-Sea Islanders (with whom black.hewoman of a honored was highly at her death.— the Lord, and we even doubted whether we our ship has just had such pleasant inter- and Course,) soon after he came into possession Her pall-bearers were Governor Robert should be able to support the prosperous misDunlnp, Dr. Lincoln, Professor Packard, sion which we have lounded in South Africa of the bible: When I look at myself, I find that I have and Joseph McKeen Esq., Treasurer of among the Bechuanee tribes. But the Lord hinges all over my body. I have got hinges Bowdoin College, &.c; and the principal has had mercy and been better than all our to my legs, my jaws, my feet, my hands. If mourners were Rev. President Allen, with fears. He has stretched out his merciful his daughters, of Northampton, arm in our behalf, by prompting his children I want to lay hold of any thing, there are two ofwho Mass., had come two hundred and fifty to lend us their assistance. Our appeal has to ray hands, and even fingers, to binges my to do it with. If my heart thinks, and I want miles to attend the funeral. She was buried been heard in Germany, in England, in to make others think with me, I use the hinges by the side of her friends, Mrs. Allen and America,in Bengal. And you, beloved brethto my jaws, and they help me to talk. I could her daughter. The funeral proceeded from ren, who not very long ago, did not even neither walk nor sit doves if I had not hinges Ihe church near the College, after an affect- know the name of our native country, you to my legs and feet. All this is wonderful. ing discourse by the Rev. Dr. Adams, which have also assisted us. Twice have we reNene of the strange things that white men was listened to with deep interest by an as- ceived through the hands of Mr. H. Hill, the have brought in their big ships, are at all to sembly which completely filled that spacious treasurer of the Boston Missionary Society, be compared to my body. He who made my edifice. And why were these honors paid the gifts of your love ; the first, amounting woman ? The following letter to $200 or fr. 1,045, and the second to $319 body, has made all those clever people, who this humble Boston Traveller, from which psper 83 or fr. 1,679 10. made the strange things which they bring in to the the ships; and he is God, whom I worship. we derive these facts, answers the question. Be blessed for it ! May the Lord reward But I should not know much more about It was because of her rare attainments ss you according to the richness of his mercy, have him than as a great binge-maker, if men in a Christian. It was because she hadofbeen for the good we have received. You Ihe rejoiced our hearts, strengthened our weak their ships has not brought the book which for thirty years a worthy member of Brunswick, and was regarded by hands, and prevented the ruin of the work they call the bible. That tells me of God, Church oujl Rewho makes tbe skill end tbe heart of man her follow christians as superior to them- we have undertaken for the glory of likewise. And when I hear how the bible selves in the strength of her faith, and in a deemer and the salvation of souls. You will be gratified lo hear that, thanks tells ofthe old heart with its corruption, snd spirit of devotion. the new heart and a right spirit, which God She was born a slave on the famous Be- to your timely assistance and that of other beve disappeared, our alone can create and give; I feel that his verwvck estate, in Hanover, Morris County, brethren, our fears ceased, and the Socielife she enterhave Jigwsrk, early heart near J. embarrassments N. In my and work in his work in my body ' ' " " " �52 THE FRIEND, JULY" 1, 1860. ty will cheerfully resume its labors with the It was then that our worthy foreman, 'put, twelve hands arose immediately. Seme assistance of God. Rejoice, dear brethren,' '(whom we all most highly respect, and whom little discussion then took place, when the at that happy change which you have in the!'we shall ever remember with pleasure) pro- second question was tested—and twelve measure of your means,'contributed to bring posed thst they should have religious servi- .hands at once arose. Third—the most imces every evening. The proposition was portant question ofall—waa next to be tried. about. We have never seen, nor is it probable most cheerfully responded to, and ever alter (Quite a pause ensued. One juror in his that we ever shall see your facea in this that time, the voice of praise and prayer as- sympathies of kindness for the prisoner, world, but we trust we shall meet in the day cended, as we trust from sincere hearts, to ( who was his personal acquaintance or of Christ and join our voices to praise our the throne of infinite wisdom and mercy. I .friend) and his afflicted family—shrunk from need not say that the burden of every pruyer the fiery ordeal. " Can't we stop here ?— beloved Saviour and Master. It is in him that we thank you again, and waa for wisdom to guide and direct into a can't the law be vindicated and justice satwish you every blessing that can flow from right d cision, and for blessings most rich isfied, if we pause here ? Must we take the the inexhaustible treasure of his mercy and and precious to descend upon the prisoner life of the unhappy prisoner ?" Some disand his afflicted family. cussion ensued—the mind of (he juror seemlove. I now come to the closing part of this mo- ed more calm—and lie expressed his readiFor the Committee, GRAND PIERRE, D. D. Director. mentous trial. When the witnesses for the ness to vote on the final question, which was defence had given in their testimony, and the put, and twelve hands arose. The die was counsel for the prisoner announced the evi- cast ! —and John W. Websler was pronoundence on their part closed, a feeling of pain ced Guilty of Murder. and anguish must have come over the mind Thus ended the closing scene in the jury HONOLULU, JULY 1, 1850. of every juror—" What ! can no more be room. What afterwards transpired in the said—no more be done in behalf of the un- court room is already known to the public. Dr. Webster's Trial. happy prisoner ! Is that the evidence—the When our foreman then pronounced the awThe laat mail from ihe United States only evidence on which we are to base our ful word—Guilty ! the jury, as well as the brought papers containing a full report of verdict of " not guilty." prisoner, trembled and grew faint. And what this important trial, which lasted eleven days. At that very time, with the light which the a relief it was when we were again allowed The result of this trial was announced in our able charge of the Chief Justice alierwarda. to go free, and join our families and friends gave us on several points tf "the law and..after so long and painful a separation ; and last. The interest excited by the trial ex- the evidence," 1 think I speak the sentiments there was not a juror's heart but would have tended far beyond the city of Boston. Some of nearly if not quite all the jury, when I leaped for joy could the prisoner have been ofthe New York papers, in reporting the pro- say that they were as ful y prepared for their,justly allowed the same unspeakable blesOne of the Jury. ceedings, take occasion to make rather se- verdict as they were when they retired to the sing. after the able room, Boston, to most 1860. jury listening April 3, vere comments upon the justice of the decis- and eloquent pleas of the prisoner's senior ion and the manner in which the trial was counsel and the Attorney General: so strongH. B. M. ship "Enterprise," Capt. conducted. It is not for us to comment up- ly, so fully had the evidence pointed to the Richard Collinson, C. B. arrived at this port on so grave matters, but we could wish that prisoner as the guilty man—and to no one on the morning on the 26th. The Enterprise else. After the jury had gone to their room criminals in New York and elsewhere might —with thb various evidences of guilt spread left England on the 20th January last, and never be subjected to a more unjust trial than on the table before them, and the door lock- passed Cope Pillar on ihe 20th April. She that which has resulted in pronouncing Dr. ed upon them ; shut out as it were entirely is on her passage loßhering Straits, in search Webster guilty. We shall wait with some from the world, with nothing bul the eye of|of the under the command missing expedition the Omniscient God them—so painful upon anxiety to learn whether the Governor of was the sense of responsibility, so unwilling of Sir John Franklin. Massachusetts extends towards the condem- were they to cone to the result which all The following is a list of her officers: ned, an executive pardon. The following felt they must come to, that thirty or forty Captain—Richard Collinson, C. B. narrative of proceedings in the jury room, minutes were spent ere any thing was dune Lieutenant—G. A. Phaqre, —when at last the voice of the foreman was We we have read with much interest. J. T. Jago, heard them to order and reminding calling J. J. Barnard. copy the letter from the American Traveller: them of duty, however painful ; and when Mate—R. T. Legg, To the Editors or the Traveller— they had all taken their seats around the taM. T. Parks. Gentlemen: —Having read in several papers ble—then it was that one of th" jurors rose Anderson. Surgeon—R. what purported to be a relation of the scenes snd said: " Mr. Foreman, before entering Surgeon—E. Adams. and events which transpired in the jury room upon the further consideration and decision Assistant Second Master—F. Skead. on the trial of Dr. John W. Webster, I ofthis most important matter, I would purpose Clerk in charge—E. Whitehead. have felt desirous (now that the subject has that we seek for divine wisdom and guidbeen brought before the public mind) that a ance." The proposition met with a cordial The " Enterprise" parted company with plain statement of the most important mat- response, and the foreman called upon a ju- the "Investigator" of! ( ape Pillar, on the ters connected with the jury room should he ror to offer prayer. This was done most 20th April—all well.—Polynesian. made, as it might prove interesting, if not feelingly and sincerely. We then proceedinstructive to the community. The jury was ed to the most trying and painful part of our The following is a list of officers of composed of twelve men, from as many dif- arduous duty. The various articles which ferent branches of the mechanical and mer- were put into the case were examined hy the H. B. M. sloop " Swift," now in our harbor, cantile professions ; they were from four jury, and particularly those things which and late from Mazatlan. The Swift carries different religious denominations, and their seemed to hear most strongly against the six guns, and has a complement of sixtyages varied from 23 to 68 years. They were prisoner. The final decision of the ques- en persons. men whom I should designate as possessing tion was resolved into three parts. good sound common sense—men capable of First. Are the remains of a human body Com.—William Cornwallis Aldbam. judging—tf discerning—of appreciating ev- found in the Medical College on the 30th of Lieut.—James E. Bickford. idence and estimating its importance. The Nov., 1849, those of the late Dr. George Purser—Arthur A. Speed. jurors, after they had become acquainted Parkmsn ? with each other, and as the evidence began' Second. Did Dr. George Parkman come Master—Edwin Rowe. Mate—Richard Onslow. to beer with crushing weight upon the pris- to his death by the hands of Dr. John W. oner* and the net work of complicated Webstor, in the Medical College, on the Midshipman—Charles E. Brest, ctrcupistances seemed to oncircle him, fed 23d, of Nov., 1849 t William Moriarty, strongly the need of that wisdom which Third. Is Dr. John W. Webster guilty, ■ Philip Patrickson. cometh from above," to guide and direct as set forth in the indictment, of the wilful Master Assistant—Eff'ro. Kellow their minds aright in their moat momentous of Dr. George Parkman ? ■ed responsible situation. When the vote on the first question was Clerk—Edward I. Giles. THE FRIEND. " " 1 i "" " Imurder I " �53 THE FRIEND, JULY 1, 18of>. Sslerted fur the Frtead. IC7- We would direct thereader's attenBritish and Foreign Bible Society. Lines supposed to have been written by a tion to the communication, in another porIn connection with the report of the HaSailor on his separation from home: tion of our columns, dated " Paris, Feb. 37, waiian Bible Society, published in another THE SEA BOY'S FAREWELL. 1850." At the very period that French vespart of our columns, it affords us pleasure to Walt, wilt ye wind.,, till I repeat sels of war were threatening to fire upon acknowledge a grant of one hundred Bibles A partiag signal to the fleet Honolulu, efforts were making among the and one hundred Testaments, from the BritWhoac slut ton la at home; Then waft the aea boy's ilmple prayer, ish and Foreign Bible Society. The grant native Protestant Churches throughout the And let It oft be whispere I there. islands, to aid a Missionary Society in Paris, was made to Rear Admiral Thomas for the While In fair clime* I roam. Sandwich Islands, as we learn from a comwhich was embarrassed through want of Furewell to Father ! reverend hulk ! munication addressed to R. C. Wyllie, Esq., funds. In aptte of meta), spite of bulk, Soon may hfa cable slip ; by Mr. Henry Knolleke, Assistant Foreign Yet while the parting tear It molat, Tyfoons Loosing their Terror. Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible The ting of gratitude I'll hoist, For ages Tyfoons have been the terror of In duty lo ibe ahip. Society. Mr. Wyllie has placed these volall in the India and China seas. navigators umes at our disposal, and we are most hapFarewell to Mother ! flrat claaa" ahe ! Recent discoveries have well nigh establish" shelves with Who launched me on Hfe'a stormy aea, py to place them on tbe same ed the point, that if navigators will observe And rigged me fore end aft ! of the American Bible Sothe publications May Providence her timber* spare, certain rules in regard to the management And keep he. hull In good repair, ciety. The grand design of both these noof their vessels in Tyfoons, the damage is To tow the atnaller craft. ble institutions is precisely the same, while not only very much diminished, but in most Farewell to aliter > lovely yacht! with giant strength they are publishing the Bui whether she'll be manned' 1 or not, cases entirely avoided. A most interesting word of God, wi hout note or comment, in " 1 cannot new foresee and important work upon this subject, has May tome good ahip a tender prove, more than one hundred different languages, been Well found of truth and love published by Henry Piddington, Presiin stores t and scattering them broadcast over the sea And takeher under lee. the Marine Court of Inquiry, at Caldent of and land. In 1848* the receipts of the British George ! the jolly boat! Farewell cutta. He does not profess to have made to and Foreign Bible Society were £117,440, And all the little craft afloat new any discoveries, but to have compiled a and the Society issued 1,419,283 copies ot In home'a delightful bay. When work which embodies the discoveries of they vailing age, arrive at while the total issue since the word of God, May wisdom give the weather-gage, others. this In work, he proposes "to ex19,741,770 amounts to its commencement, And guide them on theirway. plain to the seaman,in such language that the copies. During the same year, 4848, the Farewell to all on life* rude main ! man who can work a day's work can underwere Society of Bible the American receipts Perhape we ne'er ahall meet again, stand it—the Theory and the Practical use Through atrea* of stormy weather $254,337, and the Society issued 655,066 summoned by the Board above, But of the Law of Storms for all parts of the copies of the Bible, while the total issue since We'll harbor In the port of love, amounts world." 5,780,095 to A copy of this work has been exits commencement And all be moored together hibited us by Capt. Lovett, of the brig copies. Fund. ASitrcadnkges' »Cj» The box of Bibles and Testaments " Ragle," who has been long filing in those We are to receive that parts iutimation glad wus hither on board H. brought referred to, of the world visited by Tyfoons. He B. M. ship, the Enterprise, Captain Col- there are some who hold themselves ready to considers the book of inestimable value to contribute for the aid of the sick and desti- the linson. navigator in those regions, and which tute stranger. Judging from applications ship-masters should make their study. Spontaneous Combustion. .which have been made in months past, we inWe recommend the following account of fer that in time to come the benevolent will For years we have been accustomed to see spontaneous combustion,'lo the serious con- not want fur suitable opportunities whereby ollosious to the discoveries and theories of sideration of all our spirit drinking readers. they can dispose of their charities. Should Redfield and others in regard to circular" , Let tliem be careful how they appronch too .any persons be disposed to place funds in our storms, but until this work of Piddingtonfell near a lighted candle or a burning lamp! We hands to aid the sick and destitute, we shall under our observation, we were not aware that the " law of storms" was so far underhave read similar well attested accounts. be ready to take charge, and report in restood that the skillful ship-roaster might avoid "The following extraordinary occurrence gard to the manner of disposing ofthe same. Tribunaux the Gazette dcs storms, or safely manage in them, or profit ia related by A lew days ago, in a tavern, near the BarEclipse in August. by them! n. re dc l'Er»il«', n journeyman painter, na-| It has been announced that the French Vague hints have for more than a centumod Xavier C—, w»-11 known for his intern-! Tahiti nad sent gentlemen authorities at been thrown out by scientific men respectcom-, ry with some perate hsSils, while drinking One Capt. rudes, laid a wager that he would eat a light- hither to make observation on the eclipse to ing the circular motions o&storms. Landford, 1098, West hurriin called Indie scarcely taken, and candle. bet was ed His lake place the coining August. In the Ilhad he introduced the Gaming candle into his)lustrated Almanac we find the following re- canes "whirl-winds." Don Juan dc Ulloa, in 1743, describes rotary" storms in tbe mouth, when he uttered a slight cry, and fell the : phenomenon marks respecting Pacific coast of South America. In 1801, bluish flame was the ground. A powerless to Sun Eclipsed August 7 at the time of Now one Col. Caffer, in describing the storms in seen to flicker about his lips, and on an atThus tempt being made to ofiVrhim assistance, the Moon in the afternoon ; visible in the United the southern Indian ocean, remarks, or it that these hurricanes tempests find that he the south western and appears in only part, to States bystanders were horror-struck whirl-winds." Notwas binning internally. At the end of half.the western territories. It will be visible at are tornadoes or local these hints which were from withstanding limb: of his and on the southern part cities, the upper following hour, his head and the an wss chest, were reduced to charcoal. Two med- Natchez, New Orleans, Austin, Texas, City itime to time advanced, no general law and made known, until William ical meu wer* called in, and recognized that of Mexico, lat. 19 north, long. 100 west. discovered Recliield ofNew York, published in 1891, an Xavier had fallen a victim to spontaneous This Eclipse will make its principal display article in the ' American Journal of Science,' huIt be and will of the the Pacific Ocean. central in combustion. Thi* conflagration in which he demonstrates " not only that the man frame is frightfully rapid in its progress total on Ihe meridian in longitude 141 ° 60, coast were whirl—bones, skin and muscle, are all devoured, west from Greenwich, and latitude 17° 60* storms of the American but moreover that will they were progreswinds, darkness conashes. hsndAt total A north. this point consumed, and reduced to whirlwinds, moving forward on carved ful of dust on the spot where the victim fell, tinue full six minutes, «ith the sun in the sive meantime within two degrees of tbe aeoitli. tracts at a considerable rate." These priais all that remains. , , • " — " " ° ° �54 1 TUT* I Rli FRIFNn r rilJL.l'l U, JTTIV JUL! I, Iftfif) IOOKJ. ~ JpM have been applied to the Tyfoons of It thus appears, that the effect of the new JoteiuucU Keport. On l.nn.l Receded On hin.l Soldsad June l,'lb\ dnrhi|\9- 0. Jung],'CO. dmritMled the China seas, and found to explain in a regulation has thus far, been injurious to the of all countries other than Great Bibles, most remarkable manner, these hitherto mys- navigation 322 452 332 442 Britain. Tho Knglish papers attempt to ac- English ""12 0 9 3 Danish, tecsous winds or storms. That Mr. Redfield count for this, in some degree, by the diver- German, 48 50 61 36 " to K is acknowledged have made important dis- sion of American vessels into the California French, 50 36 13 1 20 29 Spanish, " 32 coveries in regard to the law of storms, is trade. 32 0 0 1 Welsh, "1 clear from the following language of Sir "21 Swedish 0 12 8 H. B. S. Treasurer's Report. "9 0 2 Dutch, 7 David Brewster, 'The theory of rotary 388 HAWAIIAN BIBLE SOCIETY, Portuguese," 0 347 41 storms was first suggested by Col. Cafier, in account with Amos S. Cook, Treasurer. Total 445 960 627 778 Dr. but we must claim for Mr. Redfield the greatTestaments. 849. er honor of having fully investigated the sub- Jet. 20. For S. N 8 English, 459 281 186 Castle's draft on ""2 I Danish, 0 1 ject, and apparently established the theory H.Hill. Treasurer A. B. 25 German, " 27 35 17 C. F M. Boston, in fuvor upon an impregnable basis.' French, 25 8 IT of William Whitlock, jr. " 0 Spanish, " 71 28 120 163 Treas Am.Bible Society Very important service has been rendered Swedish, "15 0 15 0 New York, for cash paid to this subject by Lieut. Col. Reid, of the ISO 310 83 Portuguese," 243 $.104 00 Capt. Fales, per cent advance on the Royal Engineers, in a work published in " 20above, Total 376 458 779 687 72 80—436 80 1838, entitled the ' Law of Storms.' In this 850. Total cost of Bibles and Testaments re*375 26 ceived from the American Bible Society, work be most successfully applies the views lune 24. Balance to new account, $1,120 38 during the period specified, of Mr. Redfield to the West India hurricanes *812 05 To meet this ont-lny, the Hawaiian Bible lost Society forwarded year, 436 80 and those of the southern Indian ocean; and Cash now on hand, 375 25—812 05 he also proves what Redfield had theoretical- 1849. April 20. Balance due the Society as per acHence there is at present, a deficit of $308 33 ly announced, viz. that in the southern hem(.164 00 count this day, By 20. the it table, will examining foregoing* appear, percent Oct. 20 advance on the storms revolve a dithe in contrary above, isphere 72 80 that no less than 347 bibles and 83 testaments in the paid by Capt Fales, rection to these in the northern. May 1. Mr. and Mrs. A Bishop, subscript. 2 00 Portuguese language, have l«en sold and gratuitously Seminary,Wailoku, avails Fee the foregoing brief historical notices " Female distributed; also 29 bibles and 163 testaments in the of girls'sewing, 1 12 in regard to this subject, we acknowledge Spanish language. 30. Rev. A Thurston, to constitute his " son Thomas a life member, our indebtedness to the Sailor's Horn Book 10 00 The Law of Storms. Nov. I. AFriend, do. Rov.T E.Taylor, do. 10 00 for the Law of Storms,' by Piddington. do. Mrs. P.T.Taylor, do. 10 00 The following is a brief aummary of the " " do. MissL.T.TayIor,do. 10 00 law of Storms, as we find it laid " down by Effects of Change in the Navigation 1850." E.I) Rice, do. Jan. do. Miss 7. 00 Piddingtonr: Laws. " do. Miss M.M.Smith, do. 10 10 00 I."The words, Law of The important change which has taken April 7. Mrs."E. Johnson, subscription', Storms, then, 1 50 place in the navigation laws of the United June 24. Contributions from Lahaina, thro' signify, first, that it nss now been proved Rev. S. C. Damon, 26 00 by the examination and careful States and Great Britain, is destined to exanalysis of Collection at Seamen's Chapel,* 62 75 " ert a most important influence upon the comJ. B. F. Marshall, Esq. to constimore than one thousand logs and of perhaps " tute Mrs. M. T. Marshall a life merce of tbe two countries. Thus far the member, 10 00 some hundreds of storms, that the wind in A. B. Bates, do. Mrs. Bates, do. 10 00 hurricanes, and frequently in severe storms change has operated most beneficially for P.Judd, do. 1000 " I*G.PJndd'sfm.do.G England. Had not the change taken place, Andrews, do.Mrs. Andrews, 1000 in the higher latitudes on both sides of the " it must have imposed a heavy check upon do. Mrs. II. Dimond, 1000 Equator, has two motions. Il turns or blows Dimond, " B C.Wood, do.MissE.A.Abcll, 10 00 " J. Fuller, British shipping interests in the northern Pado himself. 10 00 round a focus or centre in a more or less cir" Mrs.M.P.Chamberlain, do. herself, 1000 cular form, and at the same time has a cific. This is a point which has attracted the ■ W Goodale, do. Miss I.Cham herlain, 10 00 attention of merchants in England, as we obK.C.Damon's family,do E.C.Damon, 10 00 straight or curved motion forward, so that, ■ Mrs.Armstrong.do.MissCP.Arm'ng, 10 00 like a great whirlwind, it is both turning serve in a late London paper. The other 8 Cook, do. Mr. J. P. Cook, 10 00 " A. point wherein the change has operated beneBibles and Testament- sold by round, and as it were, rolling forward at the " Rev. S. C. Damon, as per his ficially for England, relates to the trade besame time." account, 101 88 tween England and the United States, as will 11. Next, it is proved that it turns, on the Mil 05 N. side of the Equator from the E. by the N. appear from the following statistics' taken from a late American paper: Balance $375 25 towards tho W., or contrary to.the hands of from old account, " "The shipping returns for the month end- Nots. The total amount of the collection wss a watch, and on the other side of the Equaing the sth of February, show a very great $162 75, including ten life memberships. toa, that its motion is with the handy of a falling off in American tonnage, under tbe correct—the balance of $375 25 watch. operation of the repeal of the navigalion laws, Audited andthefound Treasurer's hands, for remittance to remaining in These two laws constitute the rule orX.se> and the effect of the reciprocity system. the parent Society. These returns show the tonnage which enof Storms, so far as the investigations have SAMUEL. H. CABTLE, tered inwards during that period, as comparAuditor Hawaiian Bible Society. now been made. We regret that our limits will not allow us to go more fully into this ed with the aame period of the two preceding or publish lengthy extracts from the years, to have been as follows: Sale and Gratuitous Distribution of Bibles and Testaments. subject, work of Piddiogton. It is a subject which, 1848 1849 1850 British veesels, 148,290 269,969 234,122 In connection with the publication of the Treasu- we are confident, merits from all classes of United States, 25,828 75,180 51,456 rer's report of the Hawaiian Bible Society, we would navigators, the most careful investigation.— Other countries, 24,783 51,037 42,468 make a few remarks relative to the sphere of the So- Although a quaint old writer, Thomas Fuller, ciety's operations, and number of Bibles disposed of might say that the winds are not only wild 298,901 396,186 328,046 during the last two yean. No report of this kind was in a storm, but even stark mad in a hurriThe clearances outward, were: made last year, in consequence of oar absence from cane," yet the discoveries of modern science British vessels, 191,449 471,402 203,975 Honolulu. It is the design of the Society to set as reveal the laws by which the navigator may 26,498 62,219 44,376 auxiliary to the American Bible Society. This latter escape tbe fuiy of the mad winds." It United States, Other countries, 02,190 67.433 57,637 Society for many years mads most generous grants of may still be true thst "the wind bloweth Bibles snd Testaments in various languages, to be where it listetb," yet the wind is not quite so 980,137 lawless as wasformerly imagined. 601,054 305, 305.888 ■vre, 137 601.064 vwt|wvs vww wuv| gja. deposit in Honolulu. t ~,.# ~., ' " " " " " " iv< �55 THE FRIEND, JULY 1, 1850. Punahou School Examination. of any liquid upon the surface of a revolving health wowid be restored to him. Bet daya We neglected in our last number to notice body; the liquid always seeking the highest and nights came arid went, ac he ley in his Ihe examination of this school, which holds place, or the place of the greatest speed. It cheerless berth counting the dreary hoars, is necessary always to settle whether our and often weeping in the remembranceof his on the even tenor of its course. We congra- premises be true, before we place much con- lost hbme. All on btprd the ship were toe * tulate the teachers en bringing-the school so fidence in our deduction's. For instance, we busy to give the sick man any but the most successfully to the close of another academ- should be slow to admit that the Pacific is casual attentions. the Bay of Mexico, when we have Thus several months of weariness and woe ical year. The subjoined lines were sung higher than reasons some good to believe that the Bay of passed away. Each week he was growing with much animation by the pupils as the Mexico from natural causes must be the high- more wan and wasted, arid as the ship rolled closing exercise: est; or, that the waters of the 'Atlantic are upon the billows of the Pacific, he had no not of the same color as those of the Pacific, strength to shield himselffrom being violentAway user mountain, swsy over sea, until we have some good evidence of so im- ly tossed to and fro in his hard berth. All atudlea we're Tree, from our come., Vacation tins portant a fact. I have seen a great deal of hopes of recovery seemed now at an end, Wheresisters are 'ailing and brothers are tray, blue water, hut I have never been in the Pa- and the captain meeting a ship which was To the pleasure, we sl|b for, awiiy, buys, sway ! cific, and I should almost suspect the person about to return to the United States, decided Awsy o'er the ocean erelong we shall ride, who should assert that the Atlantic or even to transfer the sick man from his own ship, And our vessel's dull motion linpallenl we'll chide, the Mediterranean, did not contain it in any which was to continue for two years longer, For affection is urging us sway o'er ibe foam, abundance, of being a fresh water sailor. perhaps, its adventurous voyage. It was With Ihe swiftness of iho't to our own " .west home." Great things arc learned from little ones; possible that the young man might survive Away from the task, and ihe triala of school, Newton from the falling of an apple evolved until he reached home. It was possible that The rising and working and playing by rulethe of gravitation.' Let any one a mother's care might yet restore him. Mute principle and while fosm, their crested Away o'er the waves make a miniature ;;liibe nnd miniature conti- and exhausted under the dreadful discipline ToIhe endearments of lore and Ihe pleasures of home. nents upon it, and put his globe in proper of months of despair, he was passively borne And life iaa school, but vacation will come motion; and if he makes no Bay of Mexico, to a berth in the home-ward bound ship. A To crown all our hopes in s holier borne, I am much mistaken if the friction of his li- voyage of five months was yet before him.— Where parents and brothers and sialera will meet, quid will not form one for him. The ques- He was to be tossed upon tbe tempest, lashTo enjoy heavenly union aurpaaaiugly sweet. tion will naturally suggest itself, what be- ed waves of ihe Cape. The coarse fare of nutriment which could We have not altogether forgotten the comes ofall this water, flowing in around the the sailor was all two southern and off be furnished for his enfeebled frame, and no Capes, passing through of the inmates a bounding joy with which the Gulf Stream, into the north Atlantic?— nursing could be afforded him, but aeeh as vacation," school hail the boarding This is readily answered by asking another could be offered by the busy hands of a crew " long and tbrn their backs upon the abode where question, viz: From whence comes all the collected from all nations. snow deposited upon the northern portions of The months dragged slowly along and life " The i ising and working and playing by rule," the two continents, and supplying all the still lingered, to the surprise of all. At last law. the fixed and immutable was great lakes and rivers? It used to be reason- ihe hills ofhis native land wore in sight, aad ed, that there must be some subterranean the ship dropped anchor in tho harbor from The Currents of the Ocean. to discharge the waters so constant- which, nearly two years before, buoyant with passage, some in since, observed periodI long Not 'iy from the Atlantic, and the great youth md hope, the young man had departflowing of New the retnnrks York, ical published in some gentleman on the cause of the Florida rivers into the Mediterranean; more recent- ed. He could not raise himself in his berth. stream, suggesting, that probably it was oc- ly it is learned, that the supply does not more Even his sunken and faded eye could .not with animation, as he heard that his casioned by the waters of the Pacific, pass- than equal the demand of atmospheric ab- beam and sister stood by his side. He had ing under the Isthmus of Darien, and de- sorption, for the watering supply of Africa, motherhome sea; and other countries on the come penniless to die. Even the lanIslbordering near the Torlugas themselves bouching and it is said that the of affection could find* no utterance guage even of Carthage, bay and naming ands, and the Bay of Mexico; from his lips, as in mute despair, he turned as his reasons for such an opinion, that the in which large ships used to moor, will now float a ship's long-boat. his eyes to the still mare despairing looks of watersof the Pacific were some ten feet high- scarcely Tho course of currents and counter-curthose he loved. and that the er than those of the Atlantic, is clear and natural. Little It was two days, I think, after he had been Gulf Stream, like the Pacific, was blue, rents, in general, boys may demonstrate them, as I have often removed to his mother's room, whed I was while the Atlantic wa#-grcen. One scarcely done in my youth, by making puddle holes standing by his bedside. It was as bright or amuknows whether to be most surprised in the sand, and admitting the flowing tide and beautiful an afternoon as ever smiled upfar who so go ideas of et the gentlemen sed, to seek out causes and principles, which lie by a narrow strait; and applying to them the on this lost world. He was lying on bis bed as if he were dead. within the most common observation. For only qualifying circumstances which I know as silent and motionless her head leaning on her instance: let pne pour water upon a grind- of, viz: another current let in through an- His mother with other channel, or a strong wind.—Sailor's hand, in equal silence, sat by his side. Hjs stone, and turn it round, he will soon discovsister, like a statue, congealed by grief, sat er that the liquid on the surface will not as- Magazine. the window looking out into those clear, by the solid; of the and is Ship if Sinking. the full motion The sume depths of infinity, into which her agoblue a to the wawas called to visit Scveralyears ago I stone is revoking from west eus:, nized spirit doubtless wished Jh soar and find ter will have nn apparent motion from east to young man who was on his dying bed, under was uttered as I entered west. One has ouly to apply this, principle circumstances peculiarly calculated to touch rest. Not a word the room. gentle pressure of the hand A earth's surone's He was the son of his only feelings. to the subtle elements upon the was the of my expressions only recognition face, and he has at once the cause of trade mother, aad she a widow. The father, a stood in silence, looking of As I sympathy. Let exof a whale had him ship, leaving died, currents. captain winds and equatorial which grief bed traced tend his view then a little beyond the Bay of his widow, a son, and a daughter in very fee- upon tile deep lines that brow, tbe young man lanyouthful Mexico, and he will find the volume of water ble health, utterly.destitute. All the hopes upon raised his snd without tie moveguidly eyes, this western of the mother and the were centershores of daughter he forced against the ment of a limb, feebly and slowly articulated continent from this cause,so great, that he will ed in this young man. !" and bis eye wss be at a loss to know hovAt finds its way out He was about eighteen years of age, and " The—ship—is—sinking dead. be was fixed—and as embarked as a sailor on a whaling crooked, and so voyage of a channel so narrow My pen can trace this scene of domestic the channel of Florida. Instead of finding round Cape Horn. The mother and daughit necessary to go into the Pacific for a sup- ter, sustained by hope, endeavored, by means anguish no faithcr. " Why," perhaps some from the At- of the needle, during hie absence, to obtain one ussy ask, *' do you trace it so far ? Why ply, he will be seeking for a vent lantic, for the surplus waters which are con- an humble subsistence. When'about a year relate so sad a story i" When I have murstantly flowing into it around Cape Horn andI nut, he was taken sick ; but stimulated by mured, at some little trial; when I bare beof Cape of Good HofJe, and which, according the vast responsibilities resting upon him, he come dejected, and have rejMMd in view often to every navigntor*s«experience, flow north- persevered in remaining on duty till be was some trifling disappointment!* 1 bare ward towasds the equatoaa#nd very naturally hardly able to lift his band. He then, withi thought of this grief, snd felt rebuksA It too, as will be demonstrated by the moving a saddened heart, gave ap, still hoping that •is well for us to lean c lesson of contentment -- : ' ; ' �56 -— contemplating -those sor- THE FRIEND, JULY 1, 1860. =s= ga?J= The Market House Regulations nnd Prices, Rnrotonga. No charge for water, except the rEX to the n»88 Hr hk O'licht-aa nt Clarence, Cole, Hobartown. 29 Br bk Fair Tumtotin, Ellia. tires Uu- Captain may engage, to till the casks. 99 Am ahlp Rnti't PuUfurd, Cook, Hon* Kong Market House Prices. Franclsco29 Br hit* River Thief, Matthews Ban Slpcrbrl, Potatoes $1 per brl, T«ro -87 Br bk Petrel Carifen. Mubartuwn. Yams 1 i 1-2 85 Tahlilanarhr Will Watch rAahnon, Ban Francisco. Oranges MARRIED. Pine apples 1 84 Br bk Margaret Brock, Mirken .Hobartown. Chesnuts 75c In Ihla town, on Ihe 4lh instant, hy Rev. Ft. Armstrong, June I—Am bk ISahumkeag, Chaiiip.ln, Manilla. l.rniiius 75c 1 Papoa OM.Bi.ua S. Blsaor, Esquire, Cnlleclor General of Custom.. 3 Brl.gKr'wi. M'l.t-Kti, New Zealand. Old cocoa nuts 10 S 1 Green cocoa nuts 20 do 3 Vm bg J. R. 8 Kcbraidt, flatt Fran. to Mj.» Bbbbicb l .i ahi, all of this place. Dried banana 10 bundles SI Bananas 3 bunches tl 3 Br bg Swan, Ayreß, do Fowls 4 SI 4 Am bit Auckland. Jennfnga. Petrnpalovakl. I'umpkins $3 1-2 100 ahp 5 Calcutta. Ware, Naaon, 'Am Small 75c DIED. •*!»> 1 each Turkeys 6 Am bk Science, Howland, Shanghae. Ducks Small 75c 1 Jane for ship Pap pa, TofU-Br flan Francisco Harrmmv, Mr. inatanl, Sabbath the 2nd Chablm la this town on Fishing net 2Sc per fatlioni 10 Am achr Roe, ftwaaey, Lahalna. Hogs 6c per lb ut, ased (abnul) 33 years, of North Kair Haven, Connecticut 8 Br bk Jane l>ix<»n. Whltwil). Manilla. Other wood ?•" per bout the Iron wood $4 per boat Mr. T. waa formerly a realdenl of iheae lalanda, hut forCall 10 Am ahlp Wnt. Sprague Choae, Manilla. Native rloth $1 3 fathoms Yellow do SI a piece >ast three or four year, has been reaidu.f In China and 11 Am ahlp Hampton, Davis, Calcutta. ornla. Bonnets Si each Hats 25c to $1 each 11 Am brig Ragle. I.i.Teti, Hong Kong. In this town, on the IStlvtai Mr. Samuel. H. Evesett, of Mats 50c a fathom Double width 1 dala a do 11 Br brigan Hen Gull, Gordon, Labaina. New York, aged 35 yesra. ]0 brig Auckland. Fanny, 1 wohey, Br Iron poles 10 $1 Mr. Everett landed on our shores a few days alnce, Irnm and gratitude, by rows which are desolating our globe, and from which we have been mercifully protected.—An*. Messenger. Cleared. May S6 Br bk Louise, Malller, Sydney. >8 Am Kb Julltia. Prlnglc, Buchanan, for Lahalna. " " " , J " ' " " " , J 14 Tab ach Mary Arna. Johnaton, for Tahiti the bark Was. H. Sfealer, In the laat stagee of California dysentery, of which disease he died. Mr. K. was a brother of A. P. June 18—Am bk J 8 Jew.raii, Sole, Lahalna, 15 Am ahp Charlea, Andrews, Hong Kong. Everett, of the Arm of Everett St Co. of this place anil Cali15 Am ach Honolulu, Horton, Lahalna. fornia. Am ach Anglona, C.M.kr, Lahatna 80 Drowned at sea on the 3d mat., Mr. O. Home Jcihsbtoki, 81 Amih Hamilton, Peterson, Calcutta.* passenger per Eudors from San Francisco to this port, a native bg Kaperam c, Klrkpatrick, Manilla. 19 Br of Scotland. Frieada at a distsnee will please accept of ihisintlmniinn. Regulations. . I. The appointed Sales Mas is to arrange all trade with the Captain, and the Captain to pay him his fee in clothor cash as he may agree on. 11. Should the Captain wish to engage natives to take his supplies to the boat; SI a day is the charge for each man PORT OF LAHAINA. 111. No boat or canoe from shore shall be allowed PASSENGERS. to takt< off trade to ships, to be sold on lioard. Boats may be engaged to take off supplies bought on Bhorc Ship Ellsa Warwick, fm Buston, T A Manhall, Samuel HubArrived. bard, W F Allen. Charge, 85 the first day and $3 each day after. Am bg Mary Wildrn, Cleveland, fin Honolulu. Brig Swan, fm Van Dieman's Land, Henry Hills, Abraham May 18 Honolulu. Rlc'i, 19 Am bg Mela. IV. Xo boat or canoe from shore shall be allowed Bolatsr. ds Am 19 sh San Biitelow, ID fin Frnn. Jspsn, lo go off to ships when making the land, except the SebnnnerRon, fm Has Francisco, O Mowrey, J W Mai well, HO 25 Am In in Klfza tun, Clnugh. da fm do. one appointed by the authorities. J W Mercer, U M Robertson. 15 Stoddard, 26 scb da do. Gazelle, Am fm Ship Huntress, fm San Francisco, J Upton, E Lord, E S May Y. It is requested that no Captain secretly engage, 29— Am bg Hrolhers, Walilen, fm Honolulu. Camp, C Tobey, M Desmond. 31 Br bk Pilgrim left Honolulu for Manilla 30 ds since; or take away on board his vessel, any natives from the Sclioouer Mary Auna, fm I'aprftl, Castan, Uncsl, Antonia t-dande distress. In put back to the shore. Any Captain wishing to engage unlives for a SI Am bg J 8 Jesuran. Snule, 13 ds fin San Franciaco. cruise, arc requested to make arrangements, before Bark fatrnl, fm Hobart Town, M Lleresley. do do schr Maria, llobaou, Bark JaneUUon, fm San Francisco, Win Kelley, J E Barn- June s—Am proper witnesses on shore, with any willing to go. A do € Dan sh Creole, Slallhieaon, do W ard. Philip, N8 W, 6 Br bg Raven, Bell, fm Port contrary procedure will be reported to the nearest Bark Nshum Keag, fm SanFranclaco, J H Stearna, J Gardfc Am ach Two Brothers, Newcomb, Mils tin San F. Consul, of the nation to which the ship belongs. ner, B Bean, H Llncher. 11—Am seh Emeliue Howaid, lSds fm San Frrncisco. Ass hg Bagle.fm San Francisco, J Oalick. W Oreen, E Bur June 14 VI. It is requested, that on the desertion of a man Am ach Anonyma. Latham, !3 da fm giss, C Weston, Mrs l.nveli. " from a vessel, the Captain give immediate information 11 Am bg Pawn, Hradhnrv, 14 ach Sea Gull, fm Han Francisco, Mrs Gordon and child, " 15 Am ach Odd Fellow, Reed,.l4 " to the Chiefs ofthe Station, ami that the vessel do not " aches. T Jerreit, T X CreSwell. Honolulu Gordon, fin 16 Br achSea Gull, leave the Island until the deseiter be apprehended. Br ahp Harmony, fin New South Wales, John Dot-rain, John 16 Am iAI Curlew, Treadway, II ds fin San Fran. Ooedter, WIS* and four children, William Thomas Reilly, That for every deserter delivered by the natives to the 17 Brsch Josephine, Clinton ,fm Honolulu. Catherine Reilly, William Benson, Maria Benaon, John Hour Captain two pieces of cloth to be paid, one to the 17 Am bg Almii ii. Coild, 12 ds Im San Fran. igsu, wile and two children, James Steward wile and twochilChief of the station, nnd another to the parties who dren, Thomas Keegan, wife and one child, Jeremiah O'Neil Cleared. wile and four children, Lawrence Nuiau wileand four children, May 12 wh sh Caravan, Dlmao, to crolae. secured his apprehension. William Ifalley, John ThomasStoker, John Prosper, I'airi- k Nil. That in case the deserter be not found until 17 Am ach Honolulu,In Honolulu. Kelly, William Walah. John Nail, John McNiceoi, Jane MrFrancisco. aftcrfhc vessel has left the island, when apprehended, 17 Am bg Jane,Pierre. San Niceol, aud three children, William Thtmiaa Galliott, AlexanHonolulu. Alex Barclay, Mrynes. ah 17 Br wh he shall become fl prisoner and be employed in public der Sterling, John Bauer wife and child, William Anderson 17 Am achr SM Fox. Siaigg. San Fran. work, until he leave the island. and wife, tieorge Blakers, William II inner ami wife, Robert May 25—Haw Honolulu. Caroline, Cole, schr for Power wile aiuj two children, Mrs Pappa wife of the Captain VIII. That, in any case considered necessary for a SO Am lik Eliia Ann, Clnugh, Manilla. and twoctijldrta PierceBuiler, Dennis Hayes, Daniel Sulli31 Am bg J S Jesurnn, Boule, Honolulu. Captain to leave a man on shore, the sum of S3O be van, Garret Donollef, Matthew Colman, James Davis. San Frnnclaco. Union, Havens June s—Haw hg tf paid for each individual so left. 6 Am bg Mary Wilder, Cleaveland, San Francisco. " 3r MARINE JOURNAL. June fl—Br b« Raven, Bell, for San Fran. 10 Brbk Pilgrim, Frnncie, for Hong Kong. 14 Dan ahp Creole, Mallhierson, 15 Am bg Fortunlo, llarti, for San Fran 17 Am ach Curlew, Treadway, for Honolulu. To Sr.AMSN and Strangers.—The Seamen's Chapel is open for Public Worship every Sabbath, at II a. in., nnd 7 1-2 p. in. Seats Free. PORT OF HONOLULU. The Seamen's Concert for Prayer ia held at the I Arrived. Room the 3d Monday evening in each month. May 87—Am ship Hsnry W'sre, Nason, 53* tons, 16 day fm Seamen belonging to vessels (of all nations) visA Caret. San Francisco. In behalf of the " Bethel Choir.'' I would most iting this port are inviied lo call at the Chaplain's n Br bark Louisa, Malller, 306 tone, 16 da fm do. 27 Am bark Science, Howland, 388 tone, 15 da fm do. gratefully acknowledge the very acceptable donation Study, where they will be gratuitously supplied with M Hsw ach Geslne, Hsesloop, 120 ions, 53 ds fm Val- of one tioien copies of the National Psalmist," by copies of the Friend and other rending matter. It " Webb This dona- will be most convenient for the Chaplain to receive palraso. George James IS Tshiiisnach Mary Anna, Johnaion, 41 tens, 32 da fm Lowell Mason and tion is made hy Mr. Daniel G. Mason, of the firm of calls from Seamen between 2 and 4 p. m Papeta. Public services at the Native Churches, on the M ABB. ahlp Huntress, Smith, 546 toss, 18 ds tig Ssn Tappan, Whittemore & Mason, Boston, through the Francl.co. Sabbalh, commence at 9 1-2 a.m. and 2 1-2p. ro. kindness of Mr. John Ladd. 50 Am ach Roe, Swa.ey, 161 tons, 13 ds fm do, The Seamen's Reading Room is open at all hours S. C. DAMON, Seaman's Chaplain. 51 Am brig Bsgla, Levele. 328 lona, 10 ds liv do. of the day. Strangers arriving and having late foSI Am ship Elits Warwick, Whiting, 530 tons, 130 da Honolulu. June 25, ISM). -i fan Boetoareign papers, are respectfully invitedfco aid in keepJ Bas I—Ant bk JesnstJL Sole. 203 tons, 12 dsfm San Francisco. said room supplied with useful reading matter. ing do New Book. M 36 ions, do 1 BrschMsryfl"Tallowsy, Donationa are respectfully solicited for the supdc 12 > Am shp Wm Sprague, Chase. 716 lons, For sole at the POLYNESIAN OFFICE. So I Br bga Ses Gull Gordon, 62 tons, 14 ds fm and at the CHAPLAIN'S STUDY. port of the Chaplaincy, and the publication of the 6 Haw be Union, Barnes, fm I.attains Friend. An annual report of all donations is made WHALE AND HIS CAPTORS, to B THE Oldham, bg Msxallan Swift, H M fin the Am. Seamen's Friend Society in New York. 7 Br bk Augustus, Cooks. *5 4a fm Hobartlnws. By Rev. H. T. Cheever—Price SI 3*. Any person contributing $50 is entitled to become a 7 Sslglss sh Oceanic, Radoil; 34 days from Auckland Jas* W—An schr Penelope, Irving, 177 tons, 13 days from Lite Director of the Society, and $20 to become an Baa Francisco. AGRICULTURAL MEETING. Honorary Life Member. 14 Amhk Jennell, Ward, 196 tons, 10ds fm Ssn Franco. of the twelfth Au|C7» NOTICE—MONDAP, SAIt'L C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. 14 AaaJkh Arglona, Cook, 83 lons, 14 ds is the the Committee next, day appointed by gust 14 Br Wig Warlock, Lean, 178 ions. 15 da •> " da of interested 11 slier, tons, AmbkW. Sh 243 chosen at a those Gardiner, 14 H preliminary meeting * Jens 15—Amsk Hamlhoa, Peterson, 398 ions, IS days tin "San in the subject, for a general meeting of delegates Francisco. Journal devoted to Temper Monthly A others from all of the for tho Islands, parts and 17 abb sh Cygset, Holmes, 496 lons, 14 days from San Francisco. organizing of an Agricultural Association. It is ance, Seamen, Marine and General 17 Brbk Eudors, Qourlsy, 208 tons, 14 days from Ssn earnestly desired «gk*t all the Islands may be reIntelligence. Pssncieeo. and that as many individuals as arc in 17 Br schr Adventure, Webster, 102 tons, 15 da fm Ssn presented, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BT Francisco. circumstance* to do so, bring with them such ot th* IS Aai schr Csrlew, Treadway, 99 lons, 14 dsya fin Ssn productions of the Islands a* they may be abl*. SAMUKL C. DAMON, Seamen's ( hapla.o. Francisco. 8. REYNOLDS, IS Br brg Espersnce, Klrkpatrlck, SSS tone, II dc from W. NEWCOMB, Mbbbblbb TERMS. It- Am hrff Ds§lt Menshaw, Newel), 183 tons, II da fin J. F. B. MARSHALL, One copy per annum |J,OO Baa Fibs lam. '*" W. WOOD, R. Two -. copies per annum, S,OO SI am brg Cssonlcas, Dewing, 215 toas, 15 ds fm Ssn -* LEE, W. L. Five copies per nnnasß, Committee! 6,00 rraaclseo. tf June 1860. 8, 4 Honoluls, Ten SO|iisn per annum. 10,00 II %■ akp RainSeev, 19 ds fm Ssn Frsaelseo. —_—^— . " . « 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 - 1850.07.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.07.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/1775c8de4d702b0edc036430a44b3b6a.pdf d6026b7555e77871f7dc271ae6fc07fd PDF Text Text Vol. ,t t*. ■ . _ __ FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, AUGUST 1, 1850. No. 8 57 months continuance would be sufficient, ini In 1832, another Japanese junk arrived many localilies, to cause a famine; but then- on the southern side of Oahu. It tvßOjynaviOF TIIR PRIGND, AUGUST I, 1850. •Visit of French is no account of such a calamity, and the gated by lour men, whp were dyjai/ with 57 Ship, A c., • Fats Sandwich Islands are so situated as to ban- hunger, and who had been obliged To take ..." Altalver.ary nf \B. P. Society, 58 all fear in this respifll. In like manner, every precaution to sustain life. They sta59 ish Anniversary of A. Temperance Union, " the harvests are not exposed to the ravages i ted that it was about ten moons since they TheSeamen'a lleitirl at Whampoa, *• 69 * made by rats, birds, and noxious animals, left Japan, at which time their ship's compa--"60 The Moravians. -which are so troublesome in our colonies. ny consisted ol* tnirty-six »en; that shortly 10 These are presents which civilization has not after sailing they experienced a violent gale New Mi-siim in Contemplation, " Anniversary of the ReatiTallon, .."61 yet made to this country; although in hasi from the west, which drove them from their "61 already introduced musketoes, centipedes, course, they knew not where; that at length American Arctic Kipedllinn, 61 scorpions, etc. Previous to 1822, musketoesi the csld became very severe, .and that they Look out for the Eclipse, ""68 were unknown at the Sandwich Islands —it came in sight of land whicjjwsl covered, with Historical Sketch tif IrVo Moraviana, time many rdj their companDeaths, Marriages, Ac , ..r " 64 would seem that they were brought from Cal- | snow, at whichcold; that for a long time the ifornia. The same is true of centipedes and ions died with scorpions, the first ofwhich appeared in 1829. wind drove them along the coast of this inAt present these vexatious creatures, espe- hospitable land; that'at length the wind war onite, FrenoVcthisfeSlop-B cially the musketoes, are exceedingly multi- .changed and they lost, sight of land; and the weather having unidthe French oj \plied, and the Sandwich Islands yield not ini after maity.moons, Translated for the Friend, from becumajtswarmer, they came in« uall) to where the countries' respect, they Adolphe Barrot. Ithis at grnß distance, oCJand, towards though originated. NO. Til. i the wind was urging tnTm; and that irrtgafioii— abundant %>t«|M absence ofrats Different kinds of domestic animals havei which this in way they reached the Sandwich Isletc introductts% of musketoes, cenlipeds ami inot yet had time to multiply at these Islands. ands. They slated that for a long time they few since Perhaps plants to be Mait is but a centuries i supposed Hawaiian* scorpions of in began 1 had to drink but rain wsterwhich the crevinothing wordr to thrust their roots across lay origin'—Japan junks-—Ma/ay I rocks. For a long time the they caught in their sails, and that when the of the ce., of lava sea water. Hawaiian* disposition change in charac- !Sandwich Islands may nave been only an as- this failed them they drank as «jbey lava, doubted, of craters torrents of cannot be voraitSJg These facts fer—-amtueineni* religion-—-Pele, {god of isemblage Oahu) delivers the sun from imprisonment — which cooled in the sea and thus enlarged have been confirmed to me by the testimony priests KamehamjAa arrival of missions- Ithe base of the volcano. Then, When thisiof twenty different individuals. But what was formed, when it had become habit- causes these persons to believe that the Hartes -not favored by Kamehameha. Iland able and fertile, Nature took care to cause waiian people owe their origin to the Malays Isjnnds have The natives of the SandSich to spring-up, to people it rather than to the Japanese, is jjjcertaiii nutritious understood lor a long time the art of irriga- with birds, plants naand to send inhabitants. But she analogy in the physiognomy of tion. The early navigators admired their of was doubtless before she the number great tions, had and interrupted .-specially been no there has SjSjf ingenious system, tusk; for lanonly**a her Cook found words the Hawaiian completed in found Malay change in it since. Taro, which constitutes few quadrupeds, very few insects, and some guage. Mr. Reynolds, United the principal food of the inhabitants, requires (at the present lime there are only ten at Honolulu, assures me that the Hawaiian birds, limes, for to certain at certain intervals and or twelve species.) The population language- contained more than two lutt.dred bare its roots covered with water, and this long under the necessity of subsistingwere on Malay words. There is then a probability great must be a number repealed operation fruit and fish, as the dog, the only quadru- that one or more Malay vessels d/ivea from of timesbefore the plant reaches saaturity TakiuAdtaiitage of the slbpe ol the land, ped j on the islands, was reserved exclusively their course Jay a strong southeast wind, eacPßndholdtj* forms his own portion into forthe chiefs, being eaten by them only on would'nave been borne on towards Ihe northgreat occasions. west coast'of America; there, meeting with terraces, separated by embankments ofearth J /Many theories have been advanced as to westerly winds, they would have bean.conabout two feet high and covered with grass manner in which the Sandwich and other dSJted to a certainlosjfittide, and thence to' Thfjayater, led fVtfm the strettrn by a canal, the islands of tbe Pacific were peopled, and esxh one of the Pacific islands. Whet hss hapterrace, the and upper is introduced into haS*been supposed by arguments pened twice in fifteen years, mustgfr at least having nTrWed Into that as long as nsces3ar>,'theory or lesa weighty. I make no pretrn- may have happened in former ajr/frs. more (tie all. next, and so of EacK it passes oSJto sioas to have srrlvfld a problem which ha b The Hawaiians are of a copper complexj paten in turn, isflesigned tb sustain a fainwy ,baffled perhaps the i i-saSrches of many who ion; the men are generally large and well for a longer or shorter rSse. Thus thesame ajar belter sithstsmii ih«m myself to formed, with long black hair, which seldom water irrigates different patches, which are Iwere in truth* I yef BiscoverWie have heen full induced curls. TheVomen are smaller', and far from the ono isrin patch taro in so planned that the opinion t>f European resi- being so well formed us»tlie men; yet th#y maturity when the products of the one hnrneJ'to embrace dents, n class by MTrijeaiis well it possess a good degree of gracefulness. As diately above it ace exhausted. instructed* true, is but serious ™ey observers. bo-i however, Sandwich a general thing, the men wear no beard.— Islands Water at the jlieve tbaf alj the islands of thifkn'cean he-;Some are seen with iialkjd hair, either coloras in all other countries which produce by is the"occasion-of many quarrels tween the tropics, %ere first people by Ma-,ed with lime, as is ollt fl the case, or perwere driven upon these shores by ]haps natural, resulting from a union of raand sometimes of fatal accidents. It is not lays, who necessary to state that the lands of the King the winds, and they supporMfeir Opinion by ces. The chiefs seem to form a distinct class, j;bn account of their size and stature. But and of the Chiefs share the streams Ihe most the following facts: abundantly;' but as there is generally a full In 1822 or 3, a JapanesejdJbjr vvas cast this differenceSSjan Only &V> attributed, I besupply of water, there is enough for each oae. iupon the shores of Maui. There were sev- lieve, 1 to the life which they lead. I observed The harvest never fails—the cultivator is al- «enteen men on board, and they had been Ithe befuty of their teeth and the smsltafssof all the chiefs and old men ways sure-rfreceiving the reward of his la- <eleven months at sea and had lost many of.l|i.their feet. Almost 'appeared to me lo hart) cotrfoi mcd to the atfborr* It fjalrlin that a drought of a few Itheir companions. CONTENTS. -- - . - - ----- - - - - - - - -- - -- - . —: , -■ toin1836. ISsaltndhnwdicseh — — — — — — — —— < < '' '' '— ' '' . ''' '' , < # �58 THE FRIEffB, AUGUST 1, 1850. cient custom which required mtflßnd women the facility with which the missionaries have cavern, he seized the sun and hurled him into knock out one or two of the front teeth on brought this people to support"fJheir influence, to (he air with incredible force. "When he thedeath of a father, a mother, a friend, or a although at times a little tyrannical, proves [was at a certain distance from the Bhore, he chief. I saw bat very few cases of deformi- how easy it is to govern them, and how few raised a shout, which awoke the king of Taty; this however, has been remarked of all efforts would he necessary to lend tnem to hiti nnd his warriors; they ran to the cavern, savage nations. Free in their -conduct aud the end which they have doubtless proposed. but their ,-istonishnif »t was great when they in their dress, they are not exposed to those All the navigators who have visited the perceived that the sun had been rescued.— accidents which sometimes in civilized nations Sandwfeh Islands, have given some account The god of Oahu had hurled him to so great are followed with such fearful consequences of the religion of the islanders; it would be a height that they were never able to take for infants. useless to repeat what they have said. Be- him again. Since that time, the sun has alIn disposition the natives are mild, timid, sides, my object being simply to mnke known ways slicme at Oahu. cheerful, acute, and observing, They are this people such ns they are at the present Each of the godjt had his priests* whose generally much given to laughter. When time, and the changes brought about by the wants were abundantly supplied from Ihe alwe ware lying at anchor at Kealakeakua, the contact of civilized nations, I shitll content,tar; their influence was very great, and they noise which they made around the ship re- myself by sketching the principal features of;'.often held, it is said, the destinies of chief*, ininded me of the tumults which I have often their ancient religion. Every thing which and kings in their hands. Knniehaineha took heard in the South American forests when all inspired them with tour, the islanders iiiiagin- upon himself the whole spiritual authority, the trees were covered with a host of macawsi ed to be a god; these were monstrous divin- being at the same time both conqueror and and parrots; yet they seemed more grave ities, to whom they sacrificed human victims'sovereign pontiff. -He wellknew the influand less loquacious when 4 visited them on tin certain occasions, either to render them ence which this union of power gave him, propitious when commencing a campaign, or, and never could the efforts of missionaries, shore. I remarked that a happy change has been 'when chiefs were sick, to exorcise the god of.■who arSved from the United States a short wrought in the character of this people.— death. It was often the case also, that nu-[[time before his death, obtain permission from Cook represents them as very adroit thieves, melons victims accompanied the chiefs to the' him to aim a single blow at the religious beand he speaksaof the many precautions, al- tomb, and these were selected from their most lief of the country. " Your religion," said he, when the subject was introduced, "is most always useless, which- he was obliged to intimate servants. On Hawaii, Pele, the godess of volcanos, perhaps very £ood for your nation; hut the take in order toTprotect from their covetousness the articles which might be stolen. We while she constantly threatened the life and: gods of Hawaii are indispensable to the Hawere informed, and our own experience con- property of the natives, received many sacri-jwaiian nation. They gave me strength s>> firmed tbe truth of the information, that no fices from them. When there was an earth- conquer; they gave.me power to reign. I traces of this thievish disposition aemain.— quake, when large pillars ofsmoke rose above know not your god; why sho.uld I forsake Not an article of ours was stolen, "a nil yet the the clouds, when at night columns of flame mine?" For a savage, Kamehameha was a natives had a thousand opporSStities of steal- darting from the sides of the mountain, paint- shrewd politician. He well .understood how ing. At the whe of our excursion at Keala- ed the sky with a blood red color, they then much influence religion must have over the keakua, .we got wet in landing, and spread sent victims to Pele, to mitigate her anger; people which he governed. This power was our soaked garments upon the Band. When but, alas! the goddess was inexorable. She [in his own hands, and he kmw that it would we gathered them up, not an article was mis- accomplished by means of her ravages, the''pass into the rands of the men 4.who should new godSjwhose priests sing ; yet a hundred natives, men and women, work of .creation, which a god more power-,'give to the were around us, and there were many things ful than herself had-imposed on her. She they themselves wwild be; yet he mitigated calculated to tempt them. I happened to drop added a new stratum of lava to those of which some of the rigors ofthe tabu. a snSer buckle in the-sand, without perceiv- this land is formeorT ing it, and an Indian who had found it came The god of Oahu had also the reputation American Seamen's Friend Society. on a run to bring it to me. of being very powerful; he was moreover, This Institution held its Twenty-second Kach family lives in its own house and cul- a very great eater. The richest offerings of Annual Meeting o,n Monday evening, May 6, tivates its own fiSJId of taro; the women share tarS and sweet potatos scarcely satisfied him, in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, the carspof agriculture with the men, pre- and always, by means of his priests, his ap-. pare the food of the family, and make cloth petjte demanded numerous contributions from P. Perit, Esq, theTPresidenl, in the Chair. for its garments. The men spend the most the harvests of the faithful. This-god was An abstract of the«jjAnnual Report was of their time' in fishing and in procuring shells.also of colossal stature, and much benefit iread by J. Spaulding, one of the Secretaries, •vhich (hey dispose of to ships. The people did he derive from it. It once happened that ifrom which it appears (hat the receipts of (ho are called out on certain days, to cultivate ithe sun did not appear at Oahu. The men I■Society for the year ending the Ist inst, were the lands of the king and chiefs; on those were sad; many of them became fools, and!#23,407; andtheexpenditures $23,200; exdayg tjie canoes are tabu, and on the previ- terrible diseases decimated the population. ceeding the receipts of the preceding year ous evening they are drawn ashore, and the Numerous victims were sacrificed to the god,!$4,915, and not including a considerable bay is deserted. These employments how- and during two moons, the whole island lay iamount raised by the Secretaries, andexever, are far from occupying all their time, prostrate, before his altars. The king of a pended in the places where faised ana for especially in those islands where civilization great country towards the south, (Tahiti local objects. has nof created Whenever wej without doubt,) had taken the sun prisoner, The operations of the Society are bofli forwent ashore, a crowtTnt men and women fal- .thrust him into a very deep cavern, and clo- eign and domestic; extending its and Sailor lowed us in our excursions, during entire: sed up the entrance with immense blocks of'Qpa'plains min1 days. TSa, women, as we observed, sptnd latta. Nor did his precautions end here ; he istrations of the Gospel to seamenjltind offithree or four nours a day in playing in the had placed nt the entrance as sentinel a bird ces tothe sick, and the last riteslvj the dead, waves. This is almost the only amusement which uttered a piarcing cry whenever he iin the Islands of the Pacific, China, Brazil' in which I have Them engage. Former- heard tbe least noise-; and at the head of his Chile, France,€wemn lafnd the West Indies; ly the song and the dance caused the hours intrepid warriors ne •was*«lway» Teody to i besides acting Ih concert with numerous auxof leisure to pass njeasantly; but now that rush upon those who should dare attempt the iliary and local Societies in sustaining Sailthese pleasures are forbidden, I know not release of the prisoner. #But all this did noters' Homes, Bethels, etc. in this country. Society's Home in.«New York has had how this people employ themselves when they intimidate the powerful god of Oahu, whoI.The 1 have nothing to do I imagine that in a civ- had been sawed by the' groans of his wor- within the last year 2,421, and in eight years ilized country, one.Tnay rigorously abstain shipers. He was a veriaagreatgod. When' 27,975 sailor boarders. Some of the results from the dance and the song, for visits, con- he went from one island to another, the tva- of these labors are seen, in the following parversations, shows, and a thousand subjectsi ter reached onbx to his ankles; and it came ticulars, viz:' that thousands of seamen Jiavr of distraction, cause time to pass rapidly •„ up only to Ins"savees. when he went to the signed and kept the temperance pledge; that but what would one/have thaHjavpoor savagesi country, of the south. It was night when he | entire crews go to sea and return home sado, for savages they still are, if those pleas- ■ arrived at Tahiti. He advanced so softly ber men; that intoxicating liquors are not urea to which they are habituated are to beI that the bird did not hear him, and he furnished among the stores of the merchant, prohibited them, before they are fait irjsa con- ■strangled him before he could utter a cry; whaling and fishing vessels as formerly; that dition to invent £or themselves others more-then removing with his powerful hands the comparative order and quiet nejajorcvail in ratioaal and perhaps less innocent' Besides, blocks which closed up the entrance of the the Sailors' Homes, in on the I • ; > - :i < < I < seen < : thestreetlntnd �59 FRIEND, AUGUST 1, 1850. ,, wharves; that their chests are well replen- religious denominations are earnestly enga- The Seams/!'i Bethel at Wiusro* was dedished ; that giuiilietls of thousands of dollais ged in it. Filiy ministers of the Free church icated to thsrpublic" worship of God on the I9tb, March, tbe dedicatory services being attended have been deposited by them in small sums have headed the temperance movement. The by about eighty persons, among whom we noin Savings Hanks; that they are Manifestly King and Queen of Sweden are still patrons fticed H.-E. Mr. Davis, the American Commisthriving, rising in their profession, and he- of temperance in their kingdom. Tbe Sand- sioner, Mr. Forbes the American Vice Consul, of the inerchaiits of Canton. Tbe coming in many instances owners in the craft wich Islands.have suffered from French eg- and 1 many ships at Whampoa at tbe time was they navigate, as the mechanic owns his gressions and the' California excitement, but number 1very few,ofand only u portion of tbem bad Eurotools; that the discipline of the sea is great- itemperance is there still predominant. Li- I crews, which uccounts in a measure for ly improved, the men being governed less by beria is a perfect temperance Republic. In Ipeanabsence of sailors from the audience. Tbe brute force and more by moral influence; Canada and Nova Scotia, in several of the the services were opened by reading the scriptures, that numbers of masters, officers, and sail- West India Islands, at Madras and Bombay, and singing the following hymn composed by Dr. ors have been made wise and happy in a much progress is reported. More united ac- BoWring for the occasion. hearty reception, and a faithful profession of ition, more contributions of money, a vastly Hear, O Thou benignant Father ! Praise for mercies—prayers forgrace '. a spiritual religion; and that having tasted increased circulation of temperance tracts, V\ bile with grateful hearla we gather, Sanctity the gathering place ■ the good word themselves, they nre creating is needed to ensure success. Many a tliouaaini league* divide aa ga, and supplying a demand for it on foreign The meeting wus ably addressed by Rev. From the lands and hornet we love t But Thy gospel la beside us, Dr. Dowling, W. H. Burleigh, Esq, W. E. shores. a Heaven around,and Tiiou above. Tho meeting was addressed by Mr. Trum- Dodge, Esq, T. B. Segur, Esq, and KahgeHumbly here an altar building bull of Valparaiso, Chile, Rev. Waller Col-1gngahbnwh, or George Copway, of the OjibTo Thy glory—may Thy raya ton, and Rev. Messrs. Rogers and Widets. wny nation. The Indian Family likewise Beam upon it, gladdening, guildlug, Aa In lararl's bonur'd daya. sang several of their songs. ' American Temperance When their deaerl paih benighted, Saw the flaming pillar reared Union. : 80 may our dark way be lighted. The Fourteenth Anniversary of thtfAmeriBy Thy Spirit bleta'd and cheered !. White Jacket: or The World in a Man-ofcan Temperance Union, was held on ThursWar. By Herman Melville. New York, In the deep we see Thy wonders, And before these wondersbow | day evening, May 8, at the Broadway TabHarper & Brothers. Prom the cluuJa we hear Thy thai dera: voluirSjrveshnve reality not romance. ernacle, New York, Chancellor Walworth, In this Speak, O Lord ! in mercy now : When the darkest alorm It low'rlng, In ninety-three brief chapters, the author v*A the President, in the Chair. Whenihe fiercest whirlwinds rsge, O'er ihem let the Croat be low'rlng, paints as many distinct scenes oflife on board Brighter still from age lo age. The Annual Report, read by Rev. John a niiiti-til-wiii-. There is plenty of incident, j it is made subservient to the very laudaMarch, Corresponding Secretary, represent- hut Father ! if Thou deign lo bleat us. All our labora will be blest, ed the cause as in a sound and prosperous ble purpose of exhibiting the condition of our Naught shall daunt ua—naught dlalreaa us ; condition, notwithstanding the apparent dc- navy, its discipline, the treatment of the Thou our righteousness—our rest! SjtAil musajMeld where Thou presides! ; fection the last year, in the delusive cholera sailors, etc. Thou who ruleat sea and lanehe. preventative. The Churches and Ministry Facts concerning the use of rum and the All mual follow when Thou gSaajßt; Lord > stretch out Thine helping hand have given to it more of their time and in-(cat-n'-nine-tails are detailed, which must ardedicatory prayer was offered by Rev. P. of soTbe and upheavings flueiice. The ratings rest the attention of the nation. The book M. D., and the sermon pieachejjjjy the ciely to throw off the burdens and oppres- should be placed in the hands of every mem- Parker, Rev. Dr. Leg ire of Hong Kong. His SRourse xions of a legalized trafb,c_ have been more |ber of Congress. It gives a clearer insight was based on Murk vi. 84: "And Jesus, when jinto the abuses prevalent in our navy, and a he came out, saw much people, and was moved and more successful. , Maine holds firm to her prohibitory statute |better conception of the ajcessary remedies, Iwith compassion toward them, because they and fs blessed in it. Vermont has rejected (that! any other work witmri our knowledge. were as sheep not having a shepherd : and he the license system by a popular vote of 20,- It entitles its author to the warmest thanks of begun to leach them many things." From this -000 to 12,000. Massachusetts gives no li- every American interested in the improve- text, he deduced tbe Christian obligation ofcompussionating ignorant of our race, and as a cense in any of her counties. Rhode Island ment of the condition and elevation of the consequence the the need and propriety of providing York, New towns, hi no character of our sailors.—National Era. none but in four means anil facilities of instructing thatm. Tbe * legislative action has been heft, but a report services were concluded by Rev. MeaSClelantl of a committee of the legislature has been •It appears that Melville, author of Typee (jiving the benediction. submitted which muaUiiltimately create some nnd Omoo, has published another work.— The flouting Bethel which lias now been opendefinite action. ThSTSunday traffic isgrent- That he was not altogether unqualified to jed for public worship at Wbampoa is s coinmoin -1 tlious structure, one hundred and twenty feet ly suppressed in New Jersey and Maryland. tflirty four feet beam, with a walk The Wisconsin law stands firm, nnd is found speak of " the world in a man-of-war," may length, and four feet wide extending around it. Tbe interito operate to the terror and check of all may be inferred from the fact that after hav- or is divided by across passage-way six feet is drinks. It considseveral whalers, wide, into two parts, the chapel and the chap ing taken ' french leave' of venders of intoxicating sidered a model law for all the Stales. in the Pacific, he finally shipped as a sailor lain's apartments. 'I'he former is fifty feet long, and thirteen feet high, lighted by six fsthic winFather Mathew's visit has been well re- on board the United States frigate ' United ]dows on each side, nnd tins accommodations for ceived, and has awakened some interest in three hundred auditors. It is a spacious the cause at the South. Temperance organ- States,' at Honolulu, in 1843, and proceed- seating and elegant room. The other and smaller end izations are numerous, and in many places ed to the United States. of.the Bethel is dividedSbr n passage lengthwise, of order of the Sons Tempereffective. The and contains six rooms, one of which ia a readance are about 31)0,000. Temperance lectuWhalinp Business. The town of Pro- ■ ing-room, soon to be provided with a library and rers are tShiinishiii",, but tbe labors ofMessrs. vincetown, inJßarnslable county, Mass, has 1periodicals, a subscription having already been ol Gougb, KeHoggt, Jewett, White, and others, (now livcnly-jive vessels employed in the whale1 opened for this purpose. Tbe entireexpensenot and cable, will ha\e been well appreciated, and very sue,,fisheries, and we have been informed by some the Bethel, including anchors I six thousand dollars, all of which cessful. The issues of Journals, Youths (of the most enterprising men in that place, vary far from foreigners in Chins, collected has been Tracts, etc. Books, (that whaling is now considered the most im- about balf olasit fromfrom Advocate, AlmanaaaV ibe residents, and tbe reaifrom the office of the Union, have been some- port;tnt branch of business (here, having out-■ due from ihe shipping. what increased. They have been sent to Home grown the cod-fishing interests in a great deThe chaplain of the American Seamen's and Foreign Missionaries, to California, to gree. If the businessfresults as successful- Friend Society, Rev. George Looinis, having the North of Europe, and to many destitute jly hereafter as it has for a few years past, it'drawn up a plan in relation to tbe Bethel, began collect subscriptions iiaS)eceiiiber, 1848, and a portions of our own country. will add greatly to the wealth of the City to meeting of subscribers was called in Canton, in The spirit ration is continued in the Navy, jin the Sand."—Barnstable Patriot. May 81b, 1849,at which it was resolved to vest but the seamen of merchant ships, whalers, the management of the funds collected for tbe as temvery class, are a now, and coasters, Temperance.—The city of Quinry, I tit— erection of a Betbel in the hands of trustees.— perate. P.S. Forbes, aSSjIS was chosen chairman, and by electitas, that no li- John Dent, H. �JPLamaon, Joseph Jardine, R. Good progress is making in England. In- nois, has determined shall be jP. Dana, and T. W. L Macdeau, Esqs., with llueutiul men are more and more impressed cense to keep a liquor or beer shop in that city. About one-half of the ihe SeS>en'aChaplain, members of ihe'Board | with the importance oSathe cause, as a relief"granted Esq. was appointfor the povgrt v and sufferings of the working votes were polled—six hundred—of, which ]ttof Trustees.*toW. O. Bokee, snd N. dc St. Croix Board, were favor of the license. ed the in Secretary forty-five only three principal' the classes. •JSB'Scotland, J t . f ,' ,'' i I > ,'' " • i '< , �. 60 THE FRIEND, AUGUST 1, 1860.* i Esq. requested toco-operate with ejMr. Looinis Captain Jackson. See the February nutn- produces in Ihe people a hard and unfeeling in carrying out the details. The keel was laid' Id iaposit inn. Those tribes, tno.gaiiiong whom of our paper for 1849. " in August 1849, snd the vessel floated out of ber 'a partial intermixture of the Melunesian race dock February 7th, 1850. We congratulate the The following carefully written paragraphs itself in tbe features and complexion, foreign community in Cnntnn.nn the completion from a work which has not yet reached this shows will also be found to partake, more or less of of this praise-wtirlhy undertaking, and in notito that race." cing it, we cannot close without mentioning tbe part of the world, may not be. uninteresting the lerority natural # untiring exertions of Mr. Loomia anil Captain to our readers. The six previous volumes of St. Croix in daily overseeing ihe thorough exe- the exploring are also, like the Polynesians, a expedition have long been be- socialThey cution of the work, and collecting funds from and enterprising people. A constant the community and shipping for its completion. fore the public. We are indebted to the communication is kept up among the various •• —Chinese Repository. • • • politeness of Rev. Mr. Clark for these ex- groups and islands. They are excellent navigators, governing their courses by the stars with great accuracy." Horatio Hale's acMr. from # count of the Micronesians, in volume 7th of "It will be seen that the character here the United States Exploring Expedition, on <>iven is little more than a catalogue of good HONOLULU, AUGUST 1, 1860. Ethnography and Philology. qualities. •Such ns it is, however, it is an "The Micronesians, as a people, do not exact statement of the impressions derived differ greatly in complexion from their neigh- from personal TheMoravians. observation, as well us from of Polynesia. Their color varies from the lu-courts of others. There can be no Our interest has recently been renewed in' bors in some of the groups, par- doubt that these natives are a finely endowregard to this interesting denomination of n light yellow, jtit-.iilarlv the western, la a reddish brown, ed iiit:j, iii whom the moral feelings and the Christians, from the circumstance of having'[ whi' h we find more common in the eiisl and intellect generally predominate over the met one of their clergymen, the Rev. John'south-east. The features are usually high more i violent passions. That there are occabold. —the nose or Hie straight aquiline, Augustus Mierlsebing, of Hernhut, Germa- .'and sional exceptions, has been before remarked, cheek-bones projecting, Qi«- chin rounded and some ol iliiin will be hereafter noticed." ny. This gentleman was attached tn H. B. and prominent. The nflseTaft commonly wi# M. S. Investigator, bound to ihe Arctic dened vi the lower part, ns in die Polynesian •' Ocean, in search after Sir John Franklin.—■ rare, bill ibis is not a universal trull. The " flßsting of the Polynesians, we have had occasion to remark ihat they had probaHis appointment was thai of " Interpreter." hair, which is black, is in some straight, in bly attained, before their discovery, to as <ilbers Tbe beard is Usually scanty, curly. He baa for several years been attached lo high a grade of civilization as the circumthough among the darker tribes it is more the Moravian Mission, anions the EtMjjuiiiiux ■ abundant, mid Ihese have nlicn whiskers nntl stances in which lliey were placed would permit. The sunie remark may be made IBdians on lb* const of Labrador, his iniistachoes. In stature, the natives nunc concerning the unlives of Micronesia, but knowledge oTthe Esquimaux language andI oficn lull In I if, lliaii exceed the middle with ibis difference, that while ihe former apand Ihey me mituiallv slender. Thai pear tn have arisen character, it Was reasonably inferred thai lieiuhl, from it,lower conditionto >i Inch especially characterizes this people is po'aSJgsy he might communicate intelligibly the great elevation of the forehead, and iv- their present stale, the latter seem, on the with the Indiana urotjnd Bin-ring's Si raits ■ deed ol the wh le head, as compared with contrary, to havedeKceiided li*m a higher grade, which attained in some more During his brief sojourn among us u was ex- its hi-ciiilih. This was general in those favorable situation.'* we saw, igSj is'nppureni ill nearly all t » ceedingly pleasunt to leat n from him, re- whom «' the portraits ol imtives which have beeifgiv"The of the Microoesiaos carries religion specting the efforts now making by the Mo- en by different voyagers." us at once lo eastern Asia. ■ It is the worravians to carry forward their missionary » » ship of the spirits of their ancestors. They Micronesians, In character, the at leasi operations in Greenland, South Africa, West " are culled at «Vh» Lndrones, aniti, at the IndiesjSfcnd oilier parts of the world. The tlTose of them adio belong to ihe lighteajco- |Kinosinills, asVi, at the Mulgraves, anit and lored tribes, will compare advania«>eou,slv (aunis, at Bana'ie, hani or ant, at Falalou, Moravians are the pioneers of modern Pro- with any othet people, whether savage nrinans, &c. the yaris, of Lord Probabbt testant missionaries. Their number as a civilized. Their most pleasing, and al the North's j Island, signwying divinity, is the denomination are quite small, but (be success same time their most striking I rah, is a cer-;same word, ns the change of n to r is uniof their missionaries.has been'very great.— tain natural kindliness and goodness of heart. versal in these dialects. The have neither to which all their visiters, of every country (temples, images, nor sacrifices. Their worTheL " Church " of the United Brethren and character, bear the same testimony.— consists only in, praying and performing numbers only sixty eight congregations, and Wilson at the Pelew Islands, Kotzebue at (ship certain ceremonies—among others the offerseventeen thousand communicants, but they Rndack, Duperrey and D'Uville, at Ualau, jing of a'portion of their food tn the spirits. are supporting sixty mission stations, where I.uike and Martens at all the western islands, It does not appear that a real tabu system exare gathered eighteen thousand six hundred O'Connell and every other visiter at Banabe, ists on any of the groups. Voyagers have Paulding at the Mulgrave group, and our and twenty two communicants, according to expedition at Makin, have had occasion to found words signifying sacred, or forbidden, which they have assimilated with the Polynethe last statistical reports at our disposal.— remark the sweetness of temper and the ah- sian tabu, but they give us no hint of-a code On a following page will be found an in- sence of sny hursh and violent feelings* of laws and social regulations detsjving their which characterize the inhabitants. This is validity from a religious sanction. There is • tereating historical sketch of the Moravians. especially deserving of note; inasmuch as 1certainly nothing of the kind in the Kiagsthere is no quality more rare, or about lMa>-1 mill group." New Mission in Contemplation. existence of which skepticism is more justiof real benevolence among Sir John Franklin.—A new brig, named Late advices from the oflic4*of the Amer- fiable, than that savages. In tnis case, however, the strong jthe Lady Franklin, built at Aberdeen, has ican Boaid of Commissioners for Foreign and decided testimony of so many witnesses been purchased by the British government to i Missions, in Boston, intimate that the Board I can leave no the natives of theigo in search of Franklin. Mr. Green the contemplate estahjishing a new mission, at Caroline Islands are, for the most part, ai aeronaut, has sent nine balloons, with an apparatus for generating gas, and a place for some advantageous position on tbe Kings- kind, amiable, and gentle race." » » the distribution of slips of printed paper and or mill, Caroline group of Islands. Strong's 1 There are, however, as before' remark- silk from the balloons while in the air. A Island is thought by some to be a convenient; ed," some exceptions to be made in any gen- trial was made lately, and the balloon drifted central position. We hfftfc in former'vol- eral description of this people. The kind-■ first to Chichester, and then turned across umes of tbe " Friend " published severalI ness of heart is less apparent in the nativesi the channel, and one of the slips of paper of those small isolated coral islands, wherei has been sent back from St. Dennis, jnpaace. coimiiunications from visitors at SSJmg's Is- the supply of food is scanty, and where the The clairvoyants are still very busy with the land. The last communication was from frequent pressure of actual want sometimes case of Franklin, and all favorably i i THE FRIEND, • tracts : Brief extracts . • • * • > .' ffom > — • * , ,, 1 .' • • • : • �THE FRIEND, AUGUST 1, 1860. ana —. « 61 ■ ■ JOL¥ Thirtt-First. —The seventh anniAmerica*. Arctic Exredition. —This exDeath of the Rev. E. Mudge. In our list of deaths will be found that of versary of the Restoration of the Hawaiian |pedition in search of Sir John Franklin, is one who was extensively known among Flag by Rear Admiral Thomas, took place reported in the New York Tribune, to have American whalemen, sailing out of the port on the 31st ulto. The day was observed as isailed on the 22d day of May. It is comof New Bedford. As a Chaplain he was a National Holiday. The Public offices and |posed of tbe "Advance," 144 tons, and tbs most indefatigable in his labors for the wel- stores were closed in Honolulu. In addition "Rescue," of 90. Both vessels wire put ia fare of seamen, who always referred to him'to the usual salutes, and other pyrotechnical complete order, principally, by H. Grinnell, in the most respectful manner as Father manifestations of public joy, we understand 1Esq., of New York, at an expense of Mudge." For many years he kept for ref- that M. Paki, a High Chief, gave a sumptu- $30,000. erence, the name of every sailor leaving ous dinner at hi* new and beautiful residence, " The staunch vessels and their noble New Bedford, and carried on an extensive and also that a" Levee, in the evening, was'crews leave with the hearty good wishes of letters to vacorrespondence with their friends, in differ- given at the Palace ; which was qurfb- nu- all. Lieut. Dc Haven bears Arctic Seas, in the rious British officers of the country. It was through merously attended. We regret to learn that | ent parts among them one from Lady Franklin to her age and infirmity that he retired from the His Majesty, was unable to attend through husband. The number of men on the two chaplaincy, and during the last few years every serious indisposition. The most inter- vessels is 36. The officers are : S. Dc Haven Commanding. has been residing upon a small farm in Lynn,i .•sting incident*V>nnected with the day we Lt. Edwin Passed Midshipman S. I*. (irittin, Acting Matter. of the Mass. the turning have yet to record, viz : Wm. H. Murdaugh, " "■ T. W. Broadhead, The Sandwich Islands. King's Spring in Nuuanu, into the new Re- ■ " R. lt. Carter, " Passed Assistant Surgeon E. K. Kane. Rev. Dr. Cheever, on Sunday evening, servoir. Assistant Surgeon, Benj. Vreeland. Tabernacle, New at the Broadway May sth, S. Lovell. Bowring, referred to in the ar- Midshipman, W. Dr. York, read an " interesting letter from Rev. ticle, "The SeanWi's Bethel at Whampoa", Boatswain, H. Brooks. E. Bond, a Missionary stationed at Kohala, us the author of the "Dedication Hymn." is Lieut. Dc Haven commands on board the Midshipman Griffin on Island of Hawaii, whose church and all the the author ulso of the oft sung hymn com- Advance, and Passed Kane will pay particular Dr. the Rescue. were buildings connected with his mission attention to matters of Science, Natural Hismencing, blown down by a hurricane not long since." tory, Temperature, &c, but these invesligaus of the night, &c." WBtchman tell " He advocated the collection of a sum suffitions are not to interfere in any way with the Dr. B. is now H. B. M.'s Consul, at Can- legitimate purpose of the expedition. Unless restore tire church. cient to ton. they are spoken off the Grand Banks, it is On Sunday evening, 12th, Dr. Cheever probable that nothing will be heard from them delivered a discnurse on the position am! im- Subscription for Professor Webster's for several months, the only means portance of the Sandwich Islands as a Mis- Family.—lt is staled that the recent.calam- munication (by sea) being throush English Should opportusionary stutahi. ity that has occurred to this interesting fam- or Danish whaling ships. sent nity offer, letters will be overland by friends Boston to in has their old ily, incited Although it may spoil a good story, of the Hudson Bay Co. traders yet weatnust correct an error at the close of'raise for them a handsome donation, as a the article translated from theFrench, in oni testimonial of continued friendship. The Royal Swindling.—King Ferdinand of present number. It. is there asserted thot widow of the late Dr. Parkman heads the list Naples, with the royal view of replenishing the missionaries from the United States ar- with $600, which has already reached above his exhausted Exchequer, issaed a prjxclamation declaring Messina a free port.Pjfhose rived a short time before the death of Kaine- $20,000. ■ who were simple enough to believe the word arrived a few hameha I. The truth is, they Look out for the Eclipse.—M. Adams, of a king, entered the port and stored their months after, his death. Kamehameha I. commodities; but when they attempted to ngent of the French authorities at Tahiti, sell or export them, they were politely indied May Bth, 1819. The American missent hither to make observations upon the formed that his august majesty had changed 30th, March 1820. arrived sionaries eclipse of August 7th, has addressed a his royal mind, and would tax every cent's We would acknowledge our indebt- communication to H. H. M.'s Minister of worth of foreign produce in the port. The edness to the New York Tribune for the re- Foreign Relations, from which we make the merchants remonstrated, but in vain; they even ashed permission to withdrawther goods port of the American Seamen's Friend Soci- following quotations and depart as they had entered, but this was ety, and the American Temperance Union. '-On the 7th of August next, a total Eclipse of the also denied. His majesty would not allow Sun, will be visible, at Honolulu, and the Hawaiian any thing that has entered Messina agreeaThis paper is among the very best for gene- Islands, in general, of which tbe principal phases, at the bly to his proclamation to be either withral and political intelligence, published in Honolulu will be: a. tt. drawn or sold, without first paying an enorb. is. s. correspondence lis foreign United States. Commencing at 8 54 19 mous duty of over one hundred per cent on " Total Ellipse, is valuablejJjnd extensive. 10 13 8J "" its value. Among those who have been thus End of Total Eclipse at 10 IS 15| and swindled, are several merentrapped 45 End of the 52 11 Eclipse, Kamehameha, elder broThe Prince "eclipse, the chants of this city, some of whom have paid the till From the total commencement, ther; and Prince Liholibo, the heir presump- light of the Son will diminish gradually. At 10 the duties under protest. We understand tive, Sandwich Isl»utaW altenTjed bj Mr. hours, 13 minutes, 8 1-3 seconds, when the last portheir case to our Judd, Plenipotentiary'^were presented to-1 tion of tlm Solar Disk, will have disappeared, the dark- that they havass-bpresented and claim its against Government, protection ness become Will very deep, and will continue for 6 Prince Albert at an audience at Buckingham i seconds, after which the Sun's Disk the outrageous proceedings of this royal robPalace, by Viscount Palmerston, Her Maj- minutes and 7 and the light will return by degrees, un- ber.—Boston Alia*. willreappear, esty's principal Secretary of State for For- til the end of the Eclipse. si eign Affairs. Tbe Princes were afierwajjds 1 It is difficult to predict what jt/illbe the degree of conducted through the Palace, end throughI darkness, but every tiling conducts to the belief that There is at present residing at Souththe darknsss will be greater than in a night of fall ampton, England, an old man named Wade, the royal stables, by Lieutenant Colonel F. moon. iwtst probal ly all the bright stars, will 11. Seymour, the Equerry in waiting on seen. The planets Venus, Mars, ana Jupiter, happen-be the last survivor of Captain Cook's comHe Prince Albert.—Late paper. to be ing very close together, during the Eclipse, will panions in his voyages rdund the world. nine of and is the in years seen to the of the is age, Sun, ninety be East towards the horizon. According to later intelligence, Mr. JuddI The total eclipse, spoken of, is one of the strongest of all his faculties. He was prepossession andJ|Bavoun<; princes had arrived safely inlof the present age. Generally, in thesame place, one sent at Captain Cook's death, and himself s not seen oftener than in a century ; and sometimes, thefl P., and were visiting in Boston. They ieven several centnries pass over, before a total eclipse received a spear wound frosa ana ef the ismonths out two n *» is reproduced. i 1 " ' '< < -1 1 1 • , " '' ofaAom- • _ '' ' .' ' . :— �62 THE FRIEND, AUGUST 1, 1850. nnd performed their church service in the many persons of similar religious views from HISTORICAL SKETCH. different parts of Bohemia and Moravia.— A short chronological statement of some vulgar tongue. remarkable occurrences and 'facts, connect- The unwearied efforts of the popish emis- ■ Here, though pursued by the bitter storm of ed ith the History of the Church of the Uni-1saries began, at length, to relax the zeal of'persecution, often hunted, driven from their ted Brethren, may not be uninteresting to tthe Bohemians for purity of doctrine andI dwellings, and cast out into the wilderness, those who are but- partially acquainted with iworship ; but, in tbe year 1146, at a most they were anxious to maintain not only the tha antiquity of its constitution ; the severi-1seasonable period, the Waldenses came into pure doctrines of Ihe gospel but likewise tj of its successful struggles to maintain, Bohemia, and by theirfearless testimony, the apostolic practice and discipline. In the year 1660, John Amos Cotr.enius, amidst the most cruel persecutions, the puri-■Ifaithful worshippers were encouraged to rety of its faith and worship ; the friendly com- jject the tradition of men, and to adhere firm- ■ one of the greatest scholars of the age, conmunication it has maintsined for centuries, I ly to the truth which they had received fromi sidering himself their Inst bishop, transmit with the Church of England ; and the coun-1their godly forefathers. It was not till the led to Charles 11. of England, a History of tenance given to it by the government ofthisi year 1361, that the EmperorCharles IV., at the Church, with an affecting account of its country, as an ancient Protestant EpiscopalIIthe instigation of the Roman Pontiff, com-,■siffferings, and a dedication (which he called niniided the cup of the euchorist to be deniedI his last will and testament), bequeathing. Church. The Church of the United Brethren orig-■ ito the laity, and introduced all the corrup- ■ these memorials of-his people to the Church inally descended from the Sclavonian branchiitions and abuses of the Western Church. ■of England. This dedication contained tin of the Greek or Eastern Church, which'i To these innovations however, a large body following affectionate appeal : "We then commend to you, friends, ourl probably received the gospel through the im-■ of the Bohemian christians apposed a resomediate agency of the Apostles ahd their co- lute resistance, and many upright aministers i well-beloved mother, our Church ; takeyou temporaries. St. Paul mentions his having dispensed the ordinances, according to the! now the care of her in our room, whatever it presched in Illyricum (Romans xv. 19), andI will of God, in private dwellings. For theseI shall please God to do unto her, whether to that Titus had proceeded for the same, pur- ■ heresies, ns ihey were deemed, they were restore her amongst us, or whethershe isdepose into Dalmatia (2 Timothy iv. 10), andI persecuted without mercy, and almost with- ■ ceased at home, to raise her to life elseboth of these were Sclavonian provinces. out intermission ; many jtere punished with where." Tbe light of truth thus kindled, was not ideath, more with the spiffing of their goods, The history of this hidden church during permitted, as in Asiatic Churches, to bei and multitudes with imprisonment and exile. the following hiilfYc iitury is soon told. The At the end of the fourteenth century, John godly remnant left in Bohemia and Moravit quenched in darkness. In the fourth century, Jerome, a native of Strido, an Illyriani Huss, professor, and afterwards rector of the carefully sought in secret, to maintain the city, in order to promote the spread el' thei university of Prague, began to inveigh bold pure nnd evangelical doctrine of their christian faith in his native land, translatedI ly against the errors ofthe Church of Rome. Church, and to persevere to read the Bible the Bible into his mother tongue. By the! His views of divine truth were enlarged, and 'and ninny edifying books. These, however, seventh ceaani-y, the Sclavonian church hadI his spirit was revived, by the writings of"they were obliged to dbnceal, sometime* { increased considerably, and rendered herselff Wickliff, the English Reformer, parts ofjeven from their nearest relatives. Many are remarkable, in the year 6SO, by refusing toi which he translated into the Bohemian,.the affecting accounts still extant, of those appjjar at the sixth synod of Constantinople, tongue. In 1412, Pope John XXIII, pro- ■ who were brought out of the house of bondbecause her members abjured image wor- ■ claimed pardon of sins to all who would as- age to the enjoyment of Christian liberty.— sist him in his wars against the two aiili- ■ They held by* night, in cclship. Soon after this period, God was pleased toi popes and the King of Naples. John Huss i lars and liiddetajptaccs, surrounded by danopen tho door for the gospel in nearly the strenuously opposed this scandalous tnea- gers and snares, and thus strengthened each whole of the Sclavonian provinces. The sure, and the Bohemians publicly burnt the..other in the faith of the gospel. Many were Bulgarians were the next who embraced theI bulls of the Pontiffand the letters of hispre- the persecutions and tortures they endured, faith, which, through the Divine blessing oni lates. and marvelous were .the deliverances they In consequence of this, Huss was cited, often experienced. Thus it is evident thaw the laborious efforts of Cyriilus and MethodiuigMHro Greek bishops, spread likewise! in 1414, to appear before the Council of'the Lord always preserved in Bohemia and among the neighboring nations. In 861, Constance, by which he was condemned to Moravia a seed of the genuine confessors of they entered Moravia, where Suatopluk, the ithe flames, as an incorrigible arch heretic. the truth. These were a grain of wheal reigning monarch was converted ; and a'i On the road to the stake, he sung psalms i which lay long hidden in the ground appashort time afterwards, Borziwog, Duke of:'and hymns with such cheerfulness, that hisirently dead, hut by the restoration of the Bohemia, being on a visit to King Suatopluk, enemies confessed that he went to death as if,'.Bsethren's Church, ut last sprung up and heard and received the truth, and was bap- he were going to a wedding feast. Thus!ilbore much fruit. tized ; and an his return home (accompaniedI this faithful confessor of the gospel finished 1 It was in the year 1722, that, fleeing from by the pious Bishop Methodius), his Queen, his course in the flames, July 6th, 1416,and a renewed persecution in Moravia, a godly Ludomilla, was won over to the .true faith, isealed his testimony by martyrdom, in the {remnant of this ancient Church found refuge his people cast away their idol, Korsma, andI forty second year of his age. The death of'in the estates of Count Zinzendorf, in Lusathe gospel spread nearly through the wholeI Huss was immediately followed by unpaial-1tin, where they built an humble village, i of Bohemia. Shortly after his death, ai leled sufferings of his followers ; they were i Hermhut, which is now the principle settledreadful persecution from the pagan authori-1■ excommunicated, robbed, imprisoned ; many ment of the Brethren's Church. Hither, ties—again brought into power—desolatedI were thrown into the deep shafts ofthe minesi leaving all earthly possessions behind, they the infant Bohemian Church. This seasoni of Kuttenberg ; and many, like their leader, .brought the hymns, the ritual, the statutet, of trial, was, however, short, and the gospelI were burnt alive. At length, the oppressed,! the spirit, the blessing, and the promises of light again shone brightly in Bohemia andI Hussites, in direct opposition to the spirit of their ancient church ; and thus I'oriitew, not Moravia. From those countries the beamsiithe gospel, resolved to defend their faithi only in the men who emigrated, but in tbe of sabred truth shone upon Poland, and eveniisword in hand. A bloody "war ensued, mark- ■ sacred derSsits thej_had preserved, tbe link SS ed hv great cruelties on both sides, but ef- between the AftaPnt and the Renewed upon Muscovy. But now new trials, much more pregnant! feeling nothing for the cause of truth, as Ihe Brethren's Church. By the continual acceswith danger, appeared, and lasted for many warlike Hussites at length succombed to ihe ision of numbers from their own country and" centuries. The bishops of Rome, jealous ofF force and cunning of"their popish adversa- from various parts of the continent, they tha spreading influence of the Eastern ries. The genuine followers of John ilgradualiy increased, though not to a large Church, uaed every means to alienate theseii were conndenSthat God would support HusaJ Hislextent, and congregations and societies ware nations from the Greek Church, and bring; own cause without carnal weapons and about Iafterwards formed in England, Denmark them aader their yoke. In 94a, the Empe- ■ the year 1450, the Church of trie Unitas !Sweden, Russia, Holland and North Amen ror Otho subdued, the Bohemians, and sooni Fratrum, or United Brethren, under its pre-ica. ■* after commanded their princes to introducei sent name, was formed by those who chose Count Zinzendorf, for a time, vsed all his the Roman liturgy in the Latin tongue.—■ rather to 'suffer as witnesses of the truth, efforts to induce the Moravian eintfcants to The Bohemian Church nobly resisted this in-■ithan take up worldly weapons for its defense, unite themselves to the Lutherasjfl Btercb novation, and though the princes (from the By permission of Podiebrad, reigning mon- but finding that tbe Moravian Bret] BUould year 968) adhered to the Roman commun- ■i arch of Bohemia, they obtained a retreat ini rather leave their new asylum tbalTTorsake ion, the clergy resolutely retained the Bible, ithe Barony of I -it itz, and were joined by their oucicnt rule and devoted >< > 1 > >> • ; : - : • — : • • ,> > > ,• ,,' ■ ~ 1 < - , '> > < • ■ ; �- 63 THE FRIEND, AUGUST 1. 1850.<- .- himself wholly to their service, procured for vice and under {he direction of Bohler, andI To this day the Brethren's Church, widely them the continuation of their episcopal con- four years nl'te-wthose members of the soci- ■ scattered over the face of the earth, yet stitution from the only surviving bishops ofety who felt tmmselves called to enter into closely bound together in unity of spirit, ritthe Polish brunch of the Brethren's Unity, 'closer lellowship with the Moravian Church, ual and discipline, is numerically small and Jablonsky and Sitkovius ; and resigning nil were formed into a regular congregation, by inconsiderable. On the continent of Europe bis worldly honors, wns himself consecrated Bishop A. G. Spartenberg. This event look she has eighteen congregations ; in Great place on the 10th of November 1742, and it Britain and Ireland, twenty eight ; and in n Bishop of the Uuitus Frutrum in 1737. On this occasion the Archbishop of Cunter-| was followed by the establishment of similar North America, twenty two. The number bury (Dr. Potter) addressed him a letter of'congregations in various parts of Great Brit- of members, in these sixty eight congregacongratulation, of which the following ts an ain and Ireland. The settlement of many tions, is about 17,000. ifamilies of the Brethren in the British ColoTo this small church is committed a large extract: nies of North America, soon after their em- and (to the Lord be the praise) flourishing of should be entirely unworthy 1 that; " high station in which Divine Providence has igration from Moravia, led to several appli- missionary work among the Grejanlandajs, placed me, insufficient as I am, were I not cations tn Parliament for protection, and for Indians, Esquimaux, Hottentots, and Neto show myself ever ready to use every ex- j relief from laws and services contrary to groes, occupying, amongst these varied ertion in my power for the assistance of the their religious scruples. In 1740, an Act tribes in these different climes, sixty stations, universal Church of God, but especially to( 'was passed, with the unanimous consent of which are served in the gospel by two hunlove and embracesyour Church, which isi Ihe Episcopal Bench (22 George 11. cap. 30) dred and sixty missionaries of both sexes, united to us in the closest bonds : inasmuch 'conceding to the Brethren in England, as i who have sixty one thousand converts under as, neither intimidated by dangers, nor se- well as America, the privileges they sought, their constant spiritual charge, of whom duced by the manifold temptations of Satan, nnd fully acknowledging them as an Ancient eighteen thousand six hundred and twenty s.you have hitherto, as we have been inform-'Protestant Episcopal Church, which bad two are communicants. Thus the number of, among the heathen exed, invariably maintained, together with the been countenanced and relieved by the kingsi communicants from of ceeds the number the church at home the also of his Majesty's predecessors."— discipline faith, and England, primitive pure the debate even the children ot the members.) in upWorcester, The of (including in bishop return, church. I request, SJf the primitive the support of your prayers, and that you on the hill, described them as an " Ancient "This is the Lord's doing, and marvelous in will salute in my name your brother bishops, Episcopal Church which preserved itself'our eyes/ us well as the whole christian flock over Ifrom theSrrors.of popery in the most hazRats.—Rev. Walter Colton, in his agreewhich God has made, you overseer. Fare- iardous times, and had on that account underfor the last four centu- able diary of a voyage to California in a mangone great sufferings well." I relates The genuine possession of the love of ries." He<tfurther observed, "that of all of-war, entitled " Deck following capital rat story*. Christ," which had.enabled the Brethren toiProtestants, they came nearest to the Estab- the"I have always felt some regard for a rat leave all for His sake, was soon manifested lished Church of this kingdom in their docsince my cruise in the Constellation. Ws ; and constitution and the enethough the salvation of the trine in their desire to promote I were fitting for sea at Norfolk, and taking in most benighted nations of the heathen world, my had persecuted them from several quar,Vi»r which they were ready to undergo the ters, the soundnes-woftheir faith, and the pu- water and provisions; a plank was resting on the sill of one of the ports which communicaseverest privatjpns and hardships, and to rity of their mWals, had defended them ted with the wharf. On a bright moonlight re- ifrom any imputation of popery and immoralsacrifice life itself. When we discovered two rats on the plank evening, amounted neither of which had ever been to ity, to six laid scarcely at fugees Herrnhut into the ship. The foremost was leadcoming their inveterate by persehad but their most just charge they hundredSJJersons—when ing the other by a Btraw, one end ofwhich found rest from suffering themselves, and icutors." Already, in the year 1741, the Brethren's each held in his mouth. We managed to were beginning to build a church and habitdesire lo Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, capture them both, and found to our surprise, ations, so powerful was this the one led by the other was blind.fjtlis reunicate the blessings of the gospel to the was founded in London—a distinct feature of faithful friend was trying to get him on board, Moravian that it exists being, nine had the Church years they or heathen, that in eight I where he would have comfortable quarters his to the Indibut to serve the and blood proclaim Lord, sent missionaries to Greenland, a three year's cruise. We felt no ans in North.and South America, to many of'bought righteousness and atoning death,1during disposition to kill either, and landed them on the West India Islands, to Lapland, to Al- wherever He opens a door. And as long as the wharf. How many there are in this she of she is faithful to her calling, will not' Good Hope,, gietts, to Guinea, to the Cape world to whom the fidelity of that rat read,;ind to Ceylon ; and not long after, they com- cease to exist ; she may 'be poor—may be eth a lesson!" * ■siienced missions in Tartary , in the Nicobar idespised—may, like her mother church, be |persecuted ; but she will not be forsaken or Tunneling Islands in the Bay of Bengal, in Persia, and the Alps.—The project of in Egyp*- Such was their devotedness to the destroyed, but remain a witness church, till a railroad tunnel through the Alps, for digging the shall have been a preached they the first mission undergospel work, that in between in France and Susa in Chamberry witness to all the shall nations, and Lord took, among the negroes of St. Thomas, one Sardinia, has been talked offor several years. the -Wist India Islands, upon hearing icome again to His church on earth. it would seem, the great undertaking .that no opportunity would be afforded them In the yea)- 1814, the Christian Guardian Now, is in a way to be realized. A commissioner intercourse with the slaves, unless their |gave a concise history of the Moravian the Piedmontese government has unani(messengers became such themselves, thefirst Church, in order to excite the sympathies of1of decided in favor of the project, and mously missions, sell himself as Christians towards their English even to missionary determined an application is about to be made by Parliaa slavtsKat hs might be able to teach the then in difficulties through the severe losses i for the means of carrying it into execupooriflncans the way of deliverance from sustained in their settlements on the conti- ment tion. The tunnel will be about seven miles sacnnent of the war. their In Europe, during This Uhe captivity of sin and satan. high, and twenty-five the editors observe, " We are hap- in length, preface, required. not Wvever, was eajßtually | fice, feet in width—admitting of a double track. the of British been a recording liberality ] in py remark| of their laborshas The suconss towards those patient servants of'The estimated cost is about three millions of a&le ; thajwiistory of their missionary opera- |public, whose work offaith and laborof love, dollars. Mount Genevre, which it is thus lions is, however, too extensive, if not too (Christ, proposed to penetrate, rises to an elevation not be forgotten by their Master.*' (well known, to admit of a det.visaia notice in will v an AssociaUao was form- 1of about 10,000 feet. Chevalier Henry Maus, 1817, the In year '.f '.this sketch. the author or this gigantic scheme, has as sat Brethren visited England ed by Christians, not in connecron with theIfive i' In 1735, some for funds for CtVarch, and the Moravian raising helpin America, to North I years of constant study upon the subject. ] on their way work, an them to on their ing carry formed missionary ''Vly part of 1738, Peter Bohler and ever since that Seamen's Home in New Orleans—This acquaintance with several clergy- now greatly extended ; showed Intimate Oxford, time, love, to its labor of the Itruly beneficent undertaking has met with and London ILord's name by ministering to histowards Tnen and students in ofi has cause, |great success. The grounds have been pur[whom JSjjSastimony of the free grace chased for $8,000; and additional subscripHiod isjfl P Jesus, was greatly blessed. been increasing ; so that for several years, aid of the Brethtions of about $12,000 have been made for Association, first the in society the London I 1738, May, On theS from ren's has collected for them missions, Chtlrch Ithe erection of tbe building. Tha whole t"hc Brethren's ilamount required ia $40,000. was estabßtrald in Fetter Lane, by the_ad- £4000 to £6000 per annum. 1 — > . • ' : i • a, andJ&rt," " i I I com-: ii • I ftff ' ' i I i i < " ''< i i i Kif linconneXtKwkh - ■- 'II < �64 THE FRIEND, AUGUST I, 1860. 26. Am th Reindeer, Lord, llong Sjnag. Edward Everett is reported to be en- June tS—Asa sch Penelope, Irving, rian Exanclaco. he France, on a of for which 90 history II Blf bh Enterprise, sailed SjS.rclic. gaged July I—Am shp Canton, Peckerd. has been many years collecting materials. 9 Am sbp Hannibal, VMIIi., I'alnilla For Ceoiaaaader of II B. M. skip Sarin, Oeft- Lmvta, of the Hampton, A Frlead, Ceal Mcaeasle, of the Sultnn, Chaplaincy. For Friend. 8< 86 00 8 80 8 80 S 00 , RFor ... 00 Seraphine. 84 50 6 00 ■ sovereign Capt. Devil, one year* in tbe Sandwich Islands, or the civil, religious, and political history of those Islands."— Br bk Bratil Patk.t.Maln, fr N Zealand. Third Edition, revised and corrected. Embelliaherl 3 Br b$ Portafla, Silatnvick, San Francisco, with engraving*. Price 92.60 and $2.00. It is a 9 Am shp Flavins, Rogers, sufficient recommendation of this work that it has 4 II B M bk luvaetlfaior, aalled for Arctic, 5 Am ahp Akbar, Worth, Ifong Kong. passed through three edilions of 2000 copies each, 9 Ant ach Roe Swasety, San Francisco. since its first publication in 1847. July s—Am bg Eagle, Davla, Lahainn. For sale at the counting room of this paper, and S Br eek Marve. Hell, Hen Frjuiclaro. ( Br bk Eliaebeth Archer, Cobb, Sydney also at the Chaplain's'study. jy26-11-3m 9 Am ahp Leonora, Chase, Sydney. 11 Am bk Lydia Anne. Smith, San Fran. Tbe Market House lirptilntions and 12 Am bk Sutton, Mackenzie, Sydney. Price*, Rarotoaga. July 13—Amah Ritharri Cobden, Barrel!, for Calcutta. 16 Ana ah Samuel Russell, Low, llong Kong. No charge for water, except the rtn to the naII Asa ah Alkmaar, Barry, Balavla. tives the Captain may engage, to fill the casks. 17 Brl>g Cameo. Slevena, Sydney. July 18—Brahp Balmoral. Pryde, Sydney. M wit House Pricks. 19 Dan sh Wodan. Hemliacen, Hong Kong. $1 pcrbrl, Potatoes Si per brl, Taro 19 Am ach Curlew, Treaiiway, l.aliaina. Yams l 1 1-2 Oranges " SO Fr ahp Cachalot, for San Francisco, without clearan. 1 Pineapples Sydney. Chesnuts 75c 90 Br bg Maid of Julpba, Roblnaam, Lemons 1 Papon " 75c Oreon cocoa nuts 20 do Old cocoa nuts 10 $1 * DONATIONS. MARRIED. Ia this town, June Mia, by Rev. Lowell Smith, Mi. Hsbst Quyos, lo Miss AHtisLiaaT., daug-litrr of Mr. John 0. Mitttn In Honolulu, July 1, by the Ber 8 U. Damon, Captain Parrsa L. Lais, of the Briilali brig Warlock, to Mats Minis Ksaaov la Honolulu, July 11, by Rev. L. Smith, Captain Jors Maaa.to KiLutrtroMANt. Oa board brls: Colorado, Feb. 96, oft Cape Horn, by Capt. P. 1. Baker, Mr. J llieay Guar, of Roibury, Mass to Mas. Jans Brl«trtxLD,of the asms my. Tbe ceremony waa performed during a sale of wlod i bat noiwiihstsndlna the noof Ibe elements, It la aald to have been a very appy occasion, In whichall on board participated. TUST RECEIVED—BINGHAM'S Sandwich 1-i.akdb—being "a residence of twenty -0 " . ' " " " PORT OF LAHAINA. Bananas 3 bunches SI Dried banana 10bundles $1 Fowls 4 SI Small 75c Small 75c Fishing net 25c per fathom tropltlouaneaai S3 Am ach Anglooa, Cook, fin per Iron wood S4 boat Other wood $.". per boat 88 Am eck Job* Allyne, Wilaon, 17 da fm Monterey. Native cloth Si 3 fathoms Yellow do SI a piece 29 Am ahp Rose, Coleman, 16 da fm San Franclaco. DIED. Bonnets St each Hats 25c to $1 each July 7—Haw bk lien Quixote, Weaf, fm Honolulu 0 jMats 50c a fathom Double width I dala a do 14 Am ach Aatorla, Chapman, IS da tm San Diego. In Honolulu, July 31, Captain Joaaru Caenta, keeper of the Manaion Houae, and for many yeara a reaident of the SandIron poles 10 Si Cleared. wichl.landa Rboolations. Dockendorff, SanMfranciecn. At a**, on the 13thof February laat, on board the fhip Mem- JJune28—Am bg Robert Hr'ire, I. The appointed Salbs Mar is to arrange all trade do 88 Am ach Oaielle, Stoddard, non, near the Cape of flood Hope, Kuw.au Sraiae, st. I), the Captain, and the Captain to pay him his fee do 84 Br ech Josephine, Clinton, iwith aged 41 year*, aou of Rev. flardlner Spring, D. 1)., of New jin cloth or cash as he may agree on. 87 Am ahp Hopewell. Joyce, Sydney. York, lie was on hla return paaaage from California via Canto*, whither he had gone lor the benefit of hla health. Hla JJuly I—Am ach Honolulu, Horton. San Francisco. 11. Should the Captain wish to engage natives to dew 1 Am bg Brothers, Walden, ialaad of Si. Helena body waa interred take his supplies to the boat; $1 a day is the charge do Latham, Arwaytna, ach 1 Am At Lynn. Maa*., on ih* 9th of afav, aoddenly, Rev. Enoch ; do ffor each man. 1 Am bk J A Jeauran,Soulr, Mono*, of the Methodlat E. Church, theBrat native Melhodiat do 8 Am ach Roe, Swaaey. 111. No boat or canoe from shore shall be allowed clergyman In Now England, and foraeveral yeara paator of the 3 Amacb do Mtrla,llobron, tto take off trade to ships, to be sold on board. Boats Seamea'a Church In New Bedford. 3 Bmellne, Howard, do may be engaged to take off supplies bought on shore. la Honolulu, ou the 18th of July, Ksaka, wire of Mr. John JJuly «—Am ach Two Brotuere, Newcomb, San Franclaco. Norrt*. 11 Br ach Sea Gull, Gordon, Baa Fran via Honolulu. (Charge, S5 the first day and S3 each day after. Oa board the ahip Cachalot, June 23d, on her voyage from 13 Am ach Odd Fellow. do from shore shall be IV. No boat or Panama l* Henolala, Mr. Ilanav Onto**, of Columbus, Oa (to go off to ships canoe 15 Am ach Mary and Emma, ■Prick, San Fran. when making Upland, except the aged 43 yeara, Hla dlaeaae waa the Panama fever. one appointed authorities. la One town, on the »Sd mat Faan* Mabia, infant daughPASSENGERS. ter as Mr. Heery L. Sbehtoa. Y. It is requesHß that no Captain secretly engage, Per achr Crlew fm San Franciaco, W 8 llolden, M Griffin, or take away on board his vessel, any natuu_-frotn the 8 II Robert*, II O Gorhim, shore. Any Captain wishing to engage natives for a Per ship Stamurl Uu-aHt Tin San Franclwco, A J Cariwrijln, are requested to make arrangements, bfllortW B Rice, G Harria, 1 C Steio, Mr Citrwln, Urn Corwio, W cruise, proper witnesses on shore, with any willing to go. A A Heeler, G Kuytnn, II Ifitlur, Mr. Miller 1 PORT OF HONOLULU. Sej San J bert. Franclnco, X contrary procedure will be reported to the nearest Per. brig Eagle fm Per ich Roee fm Suit Frnncinc<>, I, J Corwln. Consul, of the nation to which the ship belongs. Arrived. Mra BloMom. Kraiicieon, Per «hlp H C.ib<teii fm Hhii VI. It is requested, that on the desertion of a man JuaeSL Brkk. Elhta Archer, Cobb, 938 lona, 17 da fm Baa F. Per Carbelot t'm Panama, J 11 M Crnnke. Mra Crooka, Ciipl. from a vessel, the Captain give immediate information It Hequinc, l.a, W A N«w».iiii, Aln X C Karrla, Ten. Br bf Giraffe, Rubinaon, 260, 20 days do. I Per Woden Tin Ran FrnncUco, M Prichei 1to the Chiefs of the Station, and that the vessel do not An aa Afcbar, Worth, 642. IS do. • H.B.M. Plymouth Jul|ihar.ii Per Maid of San Frederick J Francitfco, Porter,]leave the Island until the deserter be apprehended. bk Enterprise, Collinaou. 460, fin Ogden. 9*7. Brbg Portenla, Mllatovlctl, 221, 53 ds fm Sydney. 1Fredertrfc Per Mary* Mra Lotlock, J Rider, Samuel Olarkaon. Henry That for every deserter delivered by the natives to the Am ah Leoiiere, chase, 370, 14 da fin San Franclaco. Jena 99—Am ahp Flavius, Rogers, 296 loat, 65 dslm llong K. Wright, Henlamln Wymark.OftniMh.C F 6tew art, J Jnbnaou. Captain two pieces of cloth to be paid, one to the ftianhi.ry Chief of the station, md another to the parties who 99 Frcorv Haynnnalst, Gravn-re, 24ge, S7dsfm Macao. JJ Macyet, M Rialey. O Mcßavy, J L)r F Mortngur, Mra Mem- secured his apprehension. Per Balmoral fm Bnn Franclaco, willedfbr Tahiti July 4. Henderaon. !5 IS ds J Parker*, (ague, 4 Is, An Moaterev. I July I—Am shp Canton, VII. That in case the deserter be not found unti* (Starling fm Ban Franclaco, Paul Clutflargrar, P. Champ, 1 H B M discovery barb Inveetigalor, McClure, 162 ds Per J. J Mfslealll, A llarrod, Thomaa. an African, Mra. M. Pom- Iafter the vessel has left the island, when apprehendet fhi Plymouth ]he shall become a prisoner and be employed in publi mard, M. Sehroeder, J. B. heFlennea. 1 An ahp Haaaibal, Willis, 644 la, 16 ds fm Ban Fran. I Br ach Marys, Hall, fm on" Honolulu work, until he leave the island. '< 1 Am ahp Samuel Husacll, Low, 976 Is 14 ds VIII. That, in any case considered necessary for a i Am ahp Alkmaar, Barry, 400 ta, 90 da fm IVew Book. Captain to leave a man on shore, the sum of S3O be 9 Ant bg Ragle, Uavla, 142 10, I6daftn For salt at the POLYNESIAN OFFICE. S Aniach Roe.Bwasev, 161 is,fm ljthaina tt paid for each individual so left and at the CHAPLAIN'S STUDY. 9 H SMaah Cockatrice, fm Msxatlas. Cacique, bk 91 dc SenFraa. HIS MePsrlane, BAPTORS, 4 Br 141 ta, In THE WHALK AND The Friend, sent Abroad. 4 Am ahpßcmnn, Meckeille, 3.r ,O ta, 14 ds Im By Rev. H. T. Cheever—Price $1 25. Any person, paying the annual subscription priat 5 Br ach Try Aga n, fr British Col. July 5—Br sch Boas, Corwin. 97 lona, 20darm Baa Francises. of the Friend (52.00) in advance, can hare the paper To Slamik and Stranqkb*.—The Seamen's sent to China, Sydney, Tahiti, San Francisco, or over AmbkCroton, Crocker,3ll, 14 (Chapel ia open for Public Worship every Sabbath, 4 Am sch Chile. Homer, 418. latds An Bnatoa. land, via Panama, to the United States , 11 a. in., and 7 1-2 p. tn. Seats Free. 8 Ch shp General Frlrre, Peterson, 950, 54 ds fin Valpan. at According to the U. S. Post Office laws, 8 Am ahp Richard Cobden, Barrell. 644, 18 da fm San F. Tbe Seamen's Concert for Prayer is held at the sent from the office of pnblication, the posiKe may t Am bg Cameo. Slephene, 894, 17 ds An If an Franclaco ]Room the Sd Monday evening in each month. 10 Brack Marya, Brown, 61, fm tea. be paid by the person .to whom the paper ts addressed, 10 Am bk l.ydla Am, Bralih, 900.44 ds fm Valparaiso. Seamen belonging to vessels (of all nations) vis- y otherwise the postage must be pre-paid, 11 Br hrg MAW of Jalpka, RiofaSjl da An Sen Fntneiaco. iting this port are invited to call at (be Chaplain's hut0y If we have bean correctly informed, "there 11 19 Am ahp Seaator, Coffin, laSSaTm San Fran. JoJy 19—Daaah Woden, Bendicen, 933 tana, 13 rla fm San Fr. !Study, where they will be gratuitously supplied with not that irregularity about letters and pMMs going t< t IS Hawaeh Mary Ann, Berrlll, ISS, 17 da fm San Fran. copies of the Friend and other rending matter. It tthe United States, that there is about UVaUpaveyanol da 14 Br ah Balmoral, Pryde, 956, 19 will be moat convenient for the Chaplain to receive hhence. tf M Fr eh Cachalot, Le Graad, Set, 41 da An Panama. 14 BraehChaa Wlleoa, Neml, 54, 49dafm Amoy. <call* froen Seamen between 2 and 4 p. m. 18 Am ah Aqaelael, Davis, 599, 16 da An Ban Fran. Public services at the Native Churches, on tha 89 aU bk Josephine.Smith ale Sabbath, csmhiic* at 9 1-2 a.m. and 2 1-2 p. m. M Br ach Aetvealarr, Webster, lot, fm Kasal Tbe Bean*Mn Reading Room ia open at all hours A Monthly Journal devoted to TemperJuly N—Br ha Joaephine.Smith, 810 revs. It da fan San Fran. ance, Seamen, Marine and Genera 19 Br aeh Laatf Leigh, White, 118. 14 of the day. Strangers arriving and JMving late fo99 Ran be. Frojs, Uranberg, 414, 17 ds fr Sitka. papers, are respectfully inviteato aid in keepIntelligence. M Br bk Whllhjr, Stewarl, 437, 90da fm SanFranclaco. ;reign ing said room supplied with useful reading matter. o>4» Haw ach Starlluc, Tallihut. 79. 17 PUBLISHED AKD EDITED BY supDonation* are solicited for the ,, IS ds respectfully 89 Am bk Nautilus, •' St _Baat kgl HeHme, 58 da ft Tatcahneao, with Iport of the Chaplaincy, ana tbe publication of the SAMUEL C. DAMON, Beamca'a Chapla.u. Floor le orator. Friend. An annual report of all donations is made Clearotl.' to the Am. Seamen's Friend Society in New York. One copy per annum Any person contributing $50 is entitled to become a m R $2,00 Jeaa SI, Am ack Aagloaa, Cook. I.ahtlna 91. Am aeh Hamilton. Petenoa, Cakatta. 3,00 ILife Director ol the Society, aad $20 to become *n Two copies per annum, JR a. Am bk JeenesKt, Ward, Heetj Kaaa 6,00 Fire copies par annum, Honorary Life Member. 99 Am bk W. H Shadier, OarwaVTMaartlss | SAM'L C. DAMON, Seansen'e Chaplain. rMaawt, Hwag Kmmj '. A. Pumpkins S3 1-2 100 Arrives. Turkeys 1 each Jane 80—Am abp Hopewell, Joyce, 14 da An Ban Franclaco. 1Ducks 1 ]Hogs 6c per lb " 20 Am ach Mary and Emma, Myrick, 14 da do Honolulu. , , ' _ ' - .. , , MARINE JOURNAL. < ' ' ' "" ' • . ' « " " * . . '■ ', , ', — ,,, ■. < ' , • ' I , ' • ' 'A \ * -- - - � 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 - 1850.08.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.08.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b1050429790d0342c084f5760a81cced.pdf 35890a7388d3bbdec363a9a05bb42419 PDF Text Text THEFRIEND. HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER'I, 18.50. No. 9 65 Vol. 8. Ed by the tabu; and then, another. In cer-|jthink, made acquainted with this affair,winch tain cases, the tabu forbade the lighting of ilt'iiiaiiili'il. |ii'rliii|)s, its intervention. Those 65 kukui-nut torches, the 'eating of fish and of meek and peaceful men were doubtless un6t> cocoa-nuts, lisliing, going out of the houses, willing to draw the severity ol' our governo7 was a-means of ap- ment upon this country-. They might also, 6" &.C. In other eases, it have believed that I'oly i>4-*-tn, 68 propriating to the exclusive use of the priests without sufficient reason, Agricultural Convention • 60 and chiefs an article which had become rare. after the revolution of July, two poor, perseShipwreck, 6a And often, the sole object ofit was to exhib- cuted missionaries would not be believed. II A new Era In India, 69 it the power of the priests to the minds of the such was their belief, they were in an error, >l Lin£i loDu Petit Thouar," f9 people, by making tlicm experience it, even and the protection of France would certainly Treaty between tl'c U, 8. mid Uawniiim l-lnmis, 70 own houses. The tabu then may be not have been withheld from them, if the MarineNewi, &c., \r 72 in their considered as a means,employed by 1 most! mutter had come to the knowledge of the powerful, to impose their wilj upon the most 'government; they will find evidence, of this feeble. From the chiefs it descended to thej The measures which will doubtless be takother classes;, the men hud made a thousand en tojirevent a recurrence of similar acts.* FrenVctohiseS f loop-of-war things tabu to the. women, among which The present is not a period of religious perTranslated for the Friend, from the French oj tilings were cocoa-nuts, certain kinds of fish, secutions. I have been assured fliat the orand bananas: neither were they permitted in der for the embarkation [of the two Catholic Adolphc linrrot. NO. VII i. stop in tne apartment where (he men took priests] and the arrangements which accomThe tabu tabu either permanent, or temporary their food. panied it were written entirety by the baud object of the tabu declared by the prieslsl Kiiinchaincha, as I have stated, diminished of u missionary known at Honolulu. I can Us operation on the people on the women, the severity of the penalty for breaking the hardly believe, notwithstanding, that in the penalty of breaking the tabu lessened by\ tabu; but it was not till the reign of Riho- nineteenth century, men belonging to a free Kamehamrha the system abolished in the riho, that the tabu was entirely abolished.— and enlightened nation could resolve to give reign of Rihoriho arrival of Catholic Mis- The women especially, and the people ex- such an example of persecution and intolersionaries—lheir success ill making pros- perienced the benefits of this religious re- ance. Messrs. Bax;hclot and Short are still elytes—sent to California measures liken form, which must be ascribed to the influ- in California, as I have been informed. by the French government to protect Catho-\ ence exerted by the American missionaries The alarm felt in Honolulu on the arrival lie missionaries Mr. Walch arrives or-\ upon the minds of tlie chiefs. Yet a cry ofj of the Bonitc was from the fear that she had dered to depart refuses to obey persecu-] horror arqiso in all the islands,when the high come to demand satisfaction fur this injustice tion of the Hawaiian Catholics reply of the priest proclaimed the tabu abolished: but Mr. Walch, an Irish Catholic missionary had King, whenspoken to on the subject spread, this people, so mild and so easily governed, arrived, a few days before and received a ; !>ut, in of the Presbyterian religion over the is lauds* very soon forgo! their wooden gods; they de- verbal order to.depart immediately conversion of the natives declared to be al-\ stroyed the idols to which they had so long iaccordance with the advice of the English most entirely nominal general meeting of\ sacrificed human victims, and, following the iconsul, he hud refused to obey unless he order the mission Lalutina printing offices example of the chiefs, they prostrated them-ishould receive a written order. weThis uilived; of to sent the that him day on it-! the altars the new was be Hawaiiaiibook's selves crowd* before chiejhj in newspapers, fig-tons subjects—reason for not publishing| religion. The regent, Kaiihumanu, was one but 1 the presence of the Bonite. doubtless* 6ooA-s of history mistake of the mission-] of Hie first to embrace Christianity, and she produced a change in the intentions ofKinau. aries the course which should hare been gave all her influence to the efforts put forth The order was noj sent, and sixteen t(ays afpursued. by the missionaries to establish and spread iter, at the time of our departure, Mr."Welch had not only not received it, but there had The iaou, which 1 have often mentioned, the Christian religion. believe, two Cathbeen 1 nothing more said to him about leaving later, u sometimes soine-i little 1827 religious, A in was prohibition, times civil, of the'use of certain things.—| olic missionaries, Messrs. Hachelot and As an English sloop-of-war, the Actoon, arThey were even forbidden to touch, or look Short, arrived at Honolulu; they established rived at Honolulu the day that we sailed, it at them. Tabu was eilher temporary, or themselves there at lirst without opposition, iis not probable that Mr, Walch will experi•permanent. Tlie permanent in" sacred tabu and, as all the inhabitants testify, their pub- ience any further molestation. But the proswas inherent in the thing declared tabu.— lie and private conduct was always exompla-1elytes niade by the two Catholic missionaries who would Thus-, the person ofthe king pud ofthe priests, ry. Mild, affable, humble, devoting them- were cruelly persecuted.faithAll were cast into the house of the king, the place where he selves without ambition and without selfish- inot abjure the Catholic and sentenced to the basest labors.— j bathed, the temples, the offerings made to the ness to their work of regeneration, they soon prison Some ofihem are still "loaning in dungeons were a number of Then: proselytes. always made" great gods, and the royal sepulchres tabu. By degrees tjie priests and chiefs ex- the Protestant missionaries begun to believe When mention was made to the king of the Catholic tended the tabu and made 11 speculation of it that the competition of the Catholic inissimi-ji the violence enacted against had Certain kinds of fiaathera and of fishes be- aries would become dangerous, and they took' missionaries, lie replied that this act came tabu to the people: only the king and measures to arrest it. One day in 1832, the itaken place under the'regoncy ofKaahumawith it, principal chiefs could war those feathers two missionaries were dragged from tlieir.inu, that he had nothing at all to do be held he could not that, consequently, Kaahumanu, The of the residence order of on and by put infraction and eat those fishes. i He furthermore added that he permanent tabu was. almost always punished board a Hawaiian vessel, mid,after a month's iresponsible.of the fact that almost all the wars with death: very severe corporal punishment voyage during which they suffered the great- iwas aware the states of Europe. had disquieted who violated the est were landed on the coast which privations, they was inflicted upon those ofCalifornia, forty miles from any habitation, temporal tabu. •cjincc accusal <■■ wHnao.tka French government The priests sometimes pronounced a gen- without food, without water, and without have mint t!i!» n frigate, to tin- Sandwich M»».le; Hie afinmaiulaui wholo somearms to defend themselves the wild country, oflliii aln.i liai taken evidence, upon the auot, of thu ecnudal against eral tabu upon the Hint ~vi iUiu-c of |.o»it, and lliere l« every rcnann lo believe nines on a village, and sometimes, upon a beasts. r„r lhr Inture. thecharacter ofFrench and of Catholic villi not single house Now one thing was interdict- The French government were never, Iibe a enuae nt opyrcaatos in tbtve Uloi J. CONTENTS. OK THE FRIEND, VlHitof the Boniie, Note by the Editor i • Cheap vi dear Spirit.., • An Editor in Trouble, - BEPTKMHER 1, ISM. - '- - - . . - - - • Jin Bonite, toin1836. ISsaltndhnwdicseh —— — — — — —— — — — — — —— — —, —— —— — — ' ' ' ', �66 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1850. were occasioned by the co-existence of two very great number of books printed in Ha- and to undervalue the benefits of civilization. rival religions. The Presbyterian religion waiian, very,few had reference to the pro- It was not requisite that they should hear the having first been taught on the Sandwich Is- gress of industry, or of science: all, with the mystic language of the Bible; their minds lands, another religion, he said, could not be exception of a.few elementary works of arith- were not sufficiently mature to comprehend adinittetl; and it was only in this way that metic and geography, were on religious sub- these sublime truths. It was enough lor them he could preserve tranquility among his peo- jects, such as commentaries on the Bible, to learn the fundamental doctrines of the ple: one religion was abundantly sufficientIcatechisms for the use of the natives, or Christian religion, those simple and puie for 10(1, or 150,0011 inhabitants. Kauikea- hymn books. I do not, by any means, deny doctrines which they could easily understand. ouli, in speaking thus,gave evidence of great ; the utility of these works, nor their indispen- It was necessary to put forth eflbrts for the wisdom; and moreover, of a knowledge ol sable necessity even; but Lean give no rea- physical well-being of the people, to enjoy history which 1 should not have suspected. |son why the missionai ies, always so zealous speedily the fruits of that civilization which I cordially approve of the principle advocat- land persevering in their religious duties, has been bi ought to tliein. The missionaries ed by the king; hut those who taught him so have altogether neglected to impart to the would have been able to use their unlimited fine a sentiment should have ndtled that in Islanders any notions of industry, of the me- influence in order to do away those despotic the United Stales there is a greater variety chanic arts, of manufactures, and of agri- institutions which give up the fortunes of the of religious opinions perhaps than in any culture; notions, without which, the natives natives to the caprice of a chief, and to reother country; that the Catholics are not can derive no advantage from civilization. I place them by wise and liberal laws. How persecuted there; and that the nation is not, {testified my surprise that I had not found could the citizens of a free people suffer such on account of religion, desolated with civil any knowledge of history amnny the chiefs, abuses to exist? Were they afraid of going war; that intolerence is the primary cause ,and the answer was made that in reading the( too far and of compromising their influence? of disorders; and that in violating the indi- history of other nations, the natives would jThey have, forsooth, managed this people as vidual liberty of the Catholic missionaries, only learn too soon to be corrupt and per- jlhey pleased. They have taken from them and in banishing them by an nrbitary act, verse; that it would be better, for civiliza- their costume, their habits and religion.— Kaahumanu perpetrated a deed of hateful tion to enter the country by n purermediuin, They have seen the high priest himself prointolerence. and that those who had charge of the mission claiming the weakness of the gods and, at At the present time, the Presbyterian re- would know when it would be a sui'ahle time their word, applying the torch to those temligion is spread overall the Sandwich Islands to make known to theinhabitants of the Sand- ples and idols by which he governed the peothat is, the natives, on the sabbath, attend wich Islands the history of the nations of the ple; and they have been afraid to meddle religious worship in the churches of therres- old world, taking care to prune off every with the absurd laws which were enacted in byteriun missionaries ; but unfortunately, thing having a tendency to awaken polluting times of despotism and barbarism-; in times, with very few exceptions, this conversion is ideas in the readers. In the mean time, however, when the caprice and cupidity of almost always entirely nominal. Indeed,the this people coming in daily conflict with the chiefs being necessarily limited, those natives are not yet in a condition to under- runaway sailors and with vagrants, and who laws were far less oppressive than at present! stand their new religion; moreover, it is sec, with but very few exceptions, only the Verily the system pursued in the Sandwich presented to them under an aspect too severe refuse of society, are becoming contaminated Islands cannot be too severely condemned, and mystical. In all places at a distance by this ruinous intercourse without being when the consequences are considered. from the residence of the missionaries, the able to oppose to the evil the natural defence In fine, although the property of the citiislanders have preserved, if not the barbar- which is found in the occupations of industry zen should be made inviolable; although ous customs of their old religion, at least and in a more enlarged and liberal educa- just bounds should be placed to the despotism their absurd superstitions. The work is then tion. of the chiefs, yet, at the same time, the'deonly commenced; but the force of circumThe best means of rendering the new re- velopment of commerce, of industry, and of stances, in spite, of the system pursued by ligion dear to this people would have been agriculture ought to be patronized in every the missionaries, will work out for this peo- to demonstrate to them that their present possible way; and to accomplish this foreignple those moral and physical improvements, condition could only be improved by the ers ought to be invited in and encouraged. which a belter management would have se- change: but they have experienced, even to To throw obstacle upon obstacle in Ihe way cured much sooner. this day only the privations and the sternness of their establishment in the country, as has The missionaries of tho different Islands of the religion which has been imposed upon been done, was not sound policy. assemble every year at Honolulu; a schoon- them. It has subjected them to a life to But, the objection will be made, it is forer which belongs to the mission goes for them which they were not accustomed ; it demands eigners that have corrupted the native populatheir different of This places to residence. a large part of the time which they ure able tion. I admit it, and that was the first effect is a sort of annual council where each one re- to devote to labor; it forbids their engaging that the contact of civilization ought to proportsthe results ofhis labors during the year, in the sports and amusements to which they duce. It was an inevitable evil; but the and where they concert measures lor the fu- were attached; and as an offset,it offers them only possible remedy should have been apture. All the Missionaries of the Sandwich nothing but purely metaphysical advantages plied, and in the very cause of the evil the Islands arc Amei icans, as all those of the which they can neither appreciate nor con- remedy was to be Ibund. You should either Society Islands are English. It is by a kind ceive of. have left this savage people as you found of tacit agreement thnt the clergy of these] Moreover, this people, which early navi- them and withdrawn from them; or else you two nations have divided the spiritual domi- gators represented as so happy in their na- should have drawn them away from the perto nation, and I am almost ready add, the kedness, seemed to us to be miserable under nicious influence of the only European socitemporal also, of the Islands of the Pacific. the rags with which civilization has covered ety known to them; and the settlement in the Lahaina on the Island of Maui may be them. What then has been gained by the country of industrious foreigners, merchants, considered as the capital of the mission. It change? When Cook discovered the Sand- agriculturists, &c, could only bring about is there that the missionaries have their prin-j wich Islands he found the inhabitants cheer- ibis result. Is it to be believed thnt savages cipal establishment and their high school, a ful and happy. Their enjoyment was mate- can lake examples in morals from the sailors sort of nursery where are trained the moni- rial, it is true; with mental pleasures they of whale ships? tors who are to assist the missionaries in were unacquainted. Living with scarcely Note ht the Editou."—Wo have heard their labors. the least reference to ihe future, they were There is a printing office at Lahaina and 1not even conscious of their dignity as men. the remark that '* notes, and corrections " two at Honolulu, one of which belongs to thel They have been deprived of their sensual should have accompanied these translations. mission ami the other, to the editor of a enjoyments, and mental pleasures have not It has not escaped our observation that M. newspaper published in English and called' been furnished forthem. I know that civiliThe Sandwich Island Gazette. The Gazette zation always commences in this way, and Adolph Rarrot evinces but a limited knowlis a weekly paper, edited by an American, 1that it must destroy barbarism in* order to edge of facts, in many of his statements, but and opposed to the missionaries. The Ke\ create upon Its ruins. But has all been so much having already been written upon k'umn (Ilainbeau, professor) a newspaper done that ought to be done? Has the path, published in Hawaiian by the missionaries, pointed But by reason, humanity, and even by the Sandwich Islands, we have preferred to contains nothing but the notices of the arri- the interests of religion, been pursued? leave our readers to consult the numerous val and sailing of vessels, and extracts from Surely not; and where it has not, the natives books and publications relating to the points religious works. I observed that among the will be found to regret their ancient customs treated upon in these successive articles — �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1850 the'; not care so much about them, besides wheni ly) and Observer, (weekly) 67 M. Barret takes occasion to censure appears to have American Missionaries upon one point in thisjspirits arc held at a high price; in consc- -.acquired great influence throughout the colnumber that we think might as well have quence of high duties, it holds out a great ony, and his papers to have a very extensive t been passed over, by one who omits no occa- ■temptation to smugglers. Our readers are circulation. "The from of his offending" sion wherein he may extol the Catholic Mis-''aware of the forcible attempts wbich were'!,toppears to be this—in the month of Fcbrua" mild, affable, humble, devoting made by the French, one year since, to com-]•jry Inst died in Adelaide, a prison who had themselves without ambition and without't pel the Hawaiian Government to diminish the!,acquired considerable iullueiice, and a large " "selfishness to their work of regeneration."!'duty on French Brandy. Had that attempt Ifortune, by his mercantile ami mining enterThe point we refer to is that of not print- been successful, it is our honest belief itl prizes. His funeral was attended t>v an iming more books in the Hawaiian language,! would have done immense injury to the nu- mcnse crowd of the people of Adelaide. In upon " the progress of industry or science,"merous seamen visiting this pott, preparing an obituary notice, the editor reand a less number upon " religious subjects i The following extract is taken from a pii- jfers in most laudatory language tv the supe" such as commentaries on the Bible, cate- vale letter which we have recently received rior" mercantile qualifications." " the sound the Rev. E. E. Adams, American Seaeducation," and other desirable traits of " chisms for die use of the natives, and' books." Whether the American)ijmen's Chaplain, at Havre, in France "hymn character possessed by the deceased, renilciMissionaries have been particularly ccnsu-i " I am safe in saving that a third of the■ ing him a favorite among the colonists. He ruble in this respect, we leave our readers to■ sailors now in port have been intoxicated this was comparatively a young man in the prime Wherever 1 go, I meet men King on infer by perusing the following sataloguc of•week. floors, in the streets, in the forecastles, per- of life, but had unquestionably fallen a viepublications issued from the American Mis- fectly helpless anil senseless ; but brandy is tim to intemperance. To which failing the sion Press previous to 1815 : so cheap and the temptations ure so abtin- editor thus alludes : Elementary Loifim dant, that although many make the most soFirst Tearh r for children. The large and sudden accumulation of Decaloyu* and Lnrd*« Prayer. Tract on A»troti<>n,y. lemn resolutions and take pledges, yet they " Map.* of tittered (.eugiaphy. Scripture Doctrine* property, however, proved a snare, and the Chief*. tin; Th< uiiiin-. of I lie Hivfcen Sermon.. go with the pledge in their pocket to Tracj of Lying. deceased unhappily fell into habits of intemSermon on ihc Mount. we dram The last month had four hunshop. llyifini-. tributesof God. At Hawaiian First bonk fur teaching Kin*. | dred sailors, and they were generally very perance, which beclouded the latter portion First book f«»r Children. Universal Geography. Mitral ifelriirc of his life, and underminingp a fine natural "steady, and my visits among them pro-j■I Key ti> tN.lbmn New Testament Fowle's Uln Id's Arithmetic Heavenly M.tiniH. so visible that the captains(Constitution, " brought down his strength in an effect jtluced Animal, of tlic earth 11 luna for children. Hawaiian History. land rons Til gave me united testimony of their;'ibis journey and shortened his days." It is Catechism on Genesis consolatory, however, to know, that in his Geometry i«»r children. Cnlbum** Algebra. gratitude and interest. Rut it is often up-hillIIlast A- atomy. Tra/1 «n Marrmee. moments he was able to express contriScripture 10-niw. Snored Geography work. swear at me—pluy cards in the! They and his sorrowing friends have hope in Mathematics. Geometry, Trhjtion, Geoeriii'liifHl queMionr. walk up and: onomelry. Meiom-ation, Bur midst of my evening meetings, Uihlccliiii honk. death." {his Navigation. hii.l veyiiig, Culbuni's arithmetic, down the room with their thumbs at their noTihi-i on Iniemperai cc. Iltatorf ofltraaia. ses, and saying, 'go preach to the captains.' For writing this paragraph, a portion of Hihle rla*ii hook, vol ii. Lama Hawaii, newspaper. »■»■ ■•!* " Hawaiian almanac. This does not last long, for I am sure to1the colonists have vowed vengeance. The " study globes. Keith's ft the Voc. bu.ary. preach them down, and then they are ashamCOmpead of Ancient History, Volume of Sermons. Sandwich Island* Laws. subject is exciting much interest in parts of i;i.ii«iqui-'i"iis. RngtWl and Hawaiian lessons ed and beg niv pardon." (•n,lnirt.**Scijnel. Public the prophecies. for children. Keith mi History of Beasts If the state of things is any better in Ho- the colony away from Adelaide. Dying le.tla.anj or christian* Hawaiian Teacher. called, and the meetingsjiave been ami InfMel*. Child*. Teacher, " peonolulu, I am confident we owe it, in part, at I'ailevV Algebra. Datly fond declare that the editor of the ple Register for school*. Remittta book " 'awaiian flrammar. least, to the high price of intoxicating drinks Mml-montnty Plrei rnulins bin k ftirchiMreo.Messenger, crushed, the venders although shall not be Eng. ti 1 in History Hafaliath. of the Tract on the and the heavy penalties imposed upon the Hawaiian Hihle. Maps of t Geography. they will no londrink declare tiiat strong of book the rhronnloijv i IV mi son!. hist. Clnl Scripture [.üblieans unless they keep within Ihe strict Ilyini.h revised uud ealargcd. Matural Theology. ger advertise in the columns of the Register Noaannna, nrwupnppr. Ilvinna with tone-. letter of the law, which is very explicit, in Arllc-M oCftulh and eaiNMM. Linear Drawing. or Observer. In our humble opinion, the Church History. Little Philosopher. regard to the sale of intoxicating liquors to Erg and Hawaiian Grammar. Morel Philosophy character of Mr. Stephens' papers would be natives, and the closing of their shops at I'llcrim** "ns-nee, Tract on Popery decidedly improved by this withdrawal of beside We regret our inability to place night. The simple truth is, unless King Alnotices." issued rum this catalogue the list of publications cohol is fettered and handcuffed by stringent " from the Catholic Press. We have never police regulations and wholesome laws, there While all due respect should be paid to met with but two or three small publications, is no peace in the community where His the feelings of surviving friends, in noticing printed at that Press, and they were nwst Rebel Majesty exerts an influence. Only the deaths of those who have unquestionably strictly confined to the peculiar tenets of the contemplate the hubbub that was recently shortened their lives in consequence of their Romish Church. produced in the town of Adelaide, Southi intemperate habits, yet we can well conceive We think if Ihe Hawaiian* had been left '{Australia, because an humble editor pre- that there may be instances where an editor to derive their knowledge of industry and isuined to inform his readers that a w.ealthy ought not to keep silence, but for the good "science," "history and the world," from'person had "unhappily fell into habits of in- .of the living, for the welfare of the young, the truth should be told. It seems strange, the publications ol the Catholic Press, it .tempernnce " and in consequence died. that editors, ministers, physician*, moralists, would have been far less than it is at present. and every body else, may talk, and write An Editor its Trouble. In glancing over a file of the daily "Southi about the causes of death, with this exceptAustralian Register," published at Adelaide, ion, if a person dies through intemperance, Cevharsp. pirits. DS a flourishing town in one of the British col- not a word must be said or written ! Ki\l a who with persons, meet -1 onies of New Holland, our attention hasI man with a knife, shoot him with a gun, We occasionally 1 been arrested by notices of a powerful com- strangle him with a hair, hang him with a the most cordial good claim for themselves die of hunger, poison, thirst, or wishes for public morals and temperance, bination of rum sellers, rum drinkers, and)rope, let him let j him kill himself, be killed by anothyet assert that it makes no difference wheth- other friends of Old Alcohol, to crush the cold, or die ? er, to the as a natural death, or fall by any of " Register," or make the Editor mum reer spirits are cheap or dear, in regard and ninety nine ills that nine hundred is, the effects of drinks. t he Mr. gards intoxicating amount of drunkenness. Their argument afflict it is proper to publish long mankind, the of the will (daiStevens, who drink publisher I Register, make spirits cheap, and those : i ; ,• •11from ' : : , • rt . ' , : FRIENDTOF EMPERANCE. . ■ " : ,- , . .. . �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1850. 68 and detailed accounts, but if the rum sellers' France has established a Botany Boy for the; press and has appeared in the Polynesian poisons despatch a fellow mortal, it is highly safe keeping of her criminals. The law fix-,.1 We availed onrsclves of the privilege «l improper to say a word, or write n sentence. es the Marquesas Islands as the place off attending most of the meetings of the Con:Oh, no, let brandy slay its thousands, and punishment,—providing that the punishment vent ion. Many of the discussions were able even its tens of thousands, not a word musl for political offences hitherto punished by and instructive. It was interesting to hear bo uttered, no pole of warning lie sounded. dentil, shall he the detention in a fortifiedI men speak upon agricultural prospects ot At such times, the rum-seller and Ins abet- enclosure sufficiently large for agriculturalI the Islands, who were not strangers to daily tors, aio remarkably tender of the feelings labor, though such as to subject the prison- manual labor. The planters and farmers of the Islands are laboring and practical men of the friends ol the deceasetl drunkard ! ers still to police regulation." Committees were appointed to report on vaPity tin v wore not equally sensitive while Tin Kveni.nc! Picayune.—This is the rious branches of Agriculture, Horticulture, pursuit)!; a tin(in. that lias filled the world sixth daily paper now issued in San Franand kindred topics, at the next annual meetwith lamentation, wrung (lie widow's heart cisco. Like the other dailies published ing,in .August 1851;—when we believe there with grief, ii'id left ihe orphan a beggar ! there, it presents a remarkably neat typowill he an exhibition that will do honor to the graphical page. It is a most striking fact Islands. 'I that in the shnit space of less than one yearj The following officers were chosen for the six daily papers should bo started and susensuing year:— HONOLULU, SKPTKtMBKi. I, 1850. tained in a city, where the streets are, as yet,l President, Win. L. Lee. unpaved, and the side-walks unlaid. The, Pice President, Benjamin Pitman,.G. S POLYNESIA. Picayune is published by Guihon & Co., and Kcnway, Hawaii; 1,. L. Torbert, Maui; S Strong's Island.—Capt.Calott, com maud-' edited by I'. A. Brinsmnde, Esq May suc'jG. Dwight, Molokai; Stephen Reynolds. ing "Hobeoricok," lii days from Stioug's cess crown the most sanguine expectations!"\Oahu; Godfrey Rhodes, Kauai. Island informs us lliat lie came nearly direct, of both publishers and editor. We can, ati Treasurer; S. N. Castle. and that (it) days would he about an average this remote distance, perceive but one draw-: Corresponding Secretary, K. P. Bond. passage form Iheni c to I [onolulu. 11" estiback upon the enterprise, which is that the Rewriting Secretary, R. M. ttowlin, Esq. mates the population at 1,500 natives, and publishers propose issuing "The Sunday Executive. Committee, ChairR. W. Wood, reports 1 foreigners living there, and thinks .Morning Review." To edit, pifblish, sell man; J. F. B. Marshall, Wesley Nowcomb, a Missionary would be well received anil pro- .and distribute a Sunday paper appears to be tected by the King. Fie thinks that tin pns- so flagrant a violation of the command, E. O. Hall, G. A. Lathrop. In a few weeks will be published tiie Ist sage hence, to Strong's Island would not ."Remember the Sabbath day to keep it hoReport of the Proceedings of the "Hoval exceed 15 days. The Island is fertile and' ly,'' that wo arc by no means inclined to''Hawaiian Agricultural Society." mountanous, and about (50 miles in circum- 1 wish the publishers and editor success in The first beneficial results of the Convenferencc. The population is now decreasing,'this part of their enterprise. Before ejnthrough the prevalence ot colds,consumption jbnrking funds in the publication of a Sunday tion, we would mention, is an effort about to be made by the planters to introduce laborers and other diseases. paper, even in a pecuniary point of view, from China. Ascension Island. Cant. Hull of the iwc think it would be well 'to count the cost.' Romulus, visited this Island, last Spring,and Thus saith the Lord, lake heed to yourselves, France.—Our Correspondent at Havre. ' reports, thai liom information Unit iiiiulit be that i/c bear no burden on the Sabbath dat/.' under date of April 29, writes as follows:— relied ttpof), a Missionary would he well reIf editing and publishing a newspaper on the "France is quiet, although, there are forceived and protected by the Chiefs. There Sabbath is not burdensome, it is vastly differ- bodings of some serious change. I do not are about !!>()_ foreigners residing opon the ent from the same description of labor on a apprehend Any thing. The country is com[stand. Ships can he well supplied with week day. i mitted to Republicanism, and in spite of a yams, hogs, and fowls, nt low prices. Asstrong monarchical feeling on the port of Agricultural Convention. cension island is about 5° to the Eastward merchants and such like, there is an extreme We most sincerely regret that the narrow of Strong's. tendency on the part of most litspace which our small sheet affords for top- democratic Catherine's Islam;.—The Pacific News ics erary men. The worst thing in France is of this nature will not allow us to make a the spirit of persecution. It is difficult to disreports "Theship William Melville arrived full report of the proceedings of the Convenlate, from Lancaster, Van Dicman's Land. tribute tracts and Bibles, legally, without beOn the voyage she touched at Catherine's'tion. The Sessions were held on four sucencountered by some ignorant major or ing Island, (one of Patterson's group) the 13th icessive days, at Maunakiliku. On the evebigotted priest. Yet the cnuse of true piety a for the of May, purpose obtaining supply'ning of tho first day, it large audience asadvances and there is a large demand for offresh vvater, and (lie natives decoyed the] crew tn the hush, and murdered two men,| sented at the Chapel, to listen to the open- Evangelical preaching, and France is blest passengers, Mr. Francis Lecny and Daniel ]ing address of Judge Lee. which was elo- with some of most eloquent prntestant the McQ,ueeny, of Lancaster. The other fouri<quently delivered, and prepared with care. poachers of the We will hopo that men who were ashore escaped by swimming]A copy was requested for the prcssjlhnd ap- she may become asday. offto the vessel, as the unlives h»d captured! enlightened and free as the boat and hauled u ashore. We shouldl peared in Ihe Polynesian of August l?th.— her position requires and her privileges deNo sooner had his tones ceased, amid maninot wonder if John Buil will yet give thesei mand." savages a severe chastisement for tnis out-i festations of decided applause,than 11. H. M. rage " Minister of Foreign Relations, Mr. Wyllie, Shipwreck and Loss of Life.—The brig Maro.uf.sas Islands.—lt wuii la'.ely re-!,commenced speaking upon the same general Frolic, of Boston, E. H. Faucon, master from China, the I6lh of June, was ported that the French Authorities had aban- i topic, to the manifest delight and instruction lost on a reef, about sixty miles nbovctotally Fort doned the group, and removed their inovea- of the audience. The speaker exhibited most Ross, on the night of the 2oth ult. Six ol ble property to Tahiti. Only an old Padre interesting results of his Antiquarian re- the crew were lost in the vessel. Ihe reremaining. According to more recent intel- isearches into the annals of the Hawaiian Na- mainder landed about 5 <jr 6 miles from the saving nothing but what they stood in ligence, we learn that "the Republic ofition His address was also requested for the reef, The cuptain and officers with three mer -: Till: FRIEND. ' ''' ' : , �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1850 69 reached Fort Ross in one of the boats, on the cannibals to Yengin, and who related the CORNER. .'list. The rest of the crew are travelling facts to Mr. Miller, who now takes up the 1 down by land, as one of the boats proved to narrative in person, and who writes finm Mr. For the Friend. 11NF.H rO UU PETIT THOllAll lie very leaky, and the men perlerred the Fitzgerald's beehe-le-mer establishment att RV AN BNULISHMAN. land routo. The reef on which the Frolic the north end of New Caledonia, the memMi tuil, Do Petit Tbouar ! Thy name struck appeared to extend WNW and FSF, bers of which had since been driven away or~ Htiuids foremost in the liottt some two miles in extent and the eastern end massacred. The French Mission establish(it chivalry's bright roll of fume of it a mile or two from the shore, which had ment at Yengin or Bnlade had shared the Thy country* pride nnd boast the appearance of" a light point with rocky same fate. True to thy knighthood's «tnmkv<i vow islets fronting it. Below the point the land Tboti the protector nrt,tended to the eastward. The Frolic struck A new Era in India.—Wo would ackMi proud and hipny dent in y ■ < the the reef stern on, in eight fathoms water, nowledge a file of Friend of India, and1 <il' gem It: wotinuiN heart, and filled immediately. At the time the reef from it are gratified to make the following Who hut the brave l>u Petit Thuuttr was first seen, the Frolic was steering ESE extract: What Ifi• 11*hut thine own r'rmice, and the reef bore N. The ivind very light For Tn*iti's hapless queen wouldcare, i The icii thi. Establishment A< ot from N to NNK. The Frolic was immediOr break lor her a lane*? ; ately hauled to SWW; but although she had [Liberty or Conscience, became the law of T he meteor ling of colors tnrci steerage way. with the wind on her quarter, the land on tlie litis of April IHSO, a dayr \\':ivt:n "(tily o'er thy licHtl which was very light, and the swell setting which will be memorable in the annals ol i-'-r Hruitt ion, an d to the SE.she was swept up by a strong tide, British India as the sth of December, 1829, W \\n it to xit«ry led. or current. Capt. F. reached this place when the rite of Suttee was abolished, and, Mauritius flrst beheld tt.y fame,' for the first time in twenty centuries "the yesterday. The Frolic was judged to he r >o I'hon pink «f chivalry ,— or <>0 miles from the nearest land at the lime Ganges flowed unblooded to the sea " Ittil jealous Uritain's merchant shii's Hade thee retreat (nil speedily the reef was discovered. The Frolic was Henceforward every man throughout India to hound to this port with a valuable cargo ol will be at liberty profess whalevi iced 11 Tahiti's inle next mw thy might. Chinese goods. The loss is estimated to be I lis conscience may incline him to without beAnd conscious- tit their "loom, to the instruing through reduced beggary about $150,000.—[Alta California, Aug. 4. Kcllgfqp, peace, and truth, and right, of of The the. Courts mentality injustice All wept to *cc thee ■ <•>' estimable value of this boon will be at once 1 This Case of Professor Wedster. In seen by a reference to the law of the land as'\j! lint wii.it to thceurc truth and right, Or wnmiiii'H falling lenr ? the Supreme Judicial Court, Chief Justice it previously stood, and which is thus exThy high career, thy glory bngfir, Shaw delivered the opinion of the Court in pounded by Sir William Mucnauglitcn: from these no check need l« ar. the case of the Commonwealth vs. John W- "Whatever properly the individual,previous- | Webster, overruling each and every point ly to his conversion, was possessed and seisThe Queen I'nmarc wept in vain, raised by defendant's counsel, in support of ed of, will devolve oil his nearest of kin who Alis ■ she conld no more A nil a new glury tfilds the nam* their motion for a writ of error in said case, profess the Hindoo religion." It was impossiOf famed Dv Petit Thouar. and deciding that all matters connected with ble that so monstrous a violation of (lie first: The dame* of Franco lor this high deed the trial of the prisoner, had been conducted principles ofreligious fiboity, could continue Then' smiles upon thee showerM, according to the prescribed forms of law, in to bo tolerated under theyenlightened governAnd, surely in sarcastic mood, relation to capital trials. [Eve. Picayune. Presented thte a Hword ! ment of Britain, in the middle of the Nineteenth century; the wonder is, not that it fit.l rest not here R'Jventurouff chief, New Caledonia Islands,S. Pacific.—A M urijin s.lll hnls arc fair, Jhas been abolished now, but that it was not March No. of the Adelaide Observer,reports abolished before. One of the effects of thisi And hc*lplesn arc their feeble tribe; lluhit: with itiy ti'inailron there. as follows: new law will bo to remove all penalties fromi " 1 mine and conquered M—thus may*1! Thou t have been lately com- tlie profession of Christanity, and it is possiMore atrocities " Thy brief deepstchae write mitted by the natives of New Caledonia and ble that when the prefession of that creed|i Like hi* ot old thy victories are, a it become more complace EfToo, At becomes also safe, may the neighbouring islands. Like bin thy glories bright. about two milesdistant from Bunkett, the fol- linon." lint not alone thy glorious namt, lowing men belonging to boats employed in Though iigk above compare; Whaling Intelligence.—The Evening collecting sandal-wood were killed, in DeFor ttruat bold, ant) D'Aubigny cember last: —Mr.William Jordan,first mate, Picayune reports, whale ship Lafayette. Thy well earned fanio must shim-. of Liv- Smith, of New Bedford, was lost on the Isof Berwick-on-Tweed; John Allen,London; Ooth dear alike to France and fame Gardener, of land'of rVlbamare, Gallipngos Islands, 36 erpool; Frederick Thesehonor'd name* we see, John Burrows, of Glasgow; and Edward months out, ti(M> bbls sperm oil; she went! One laurel twines them with thine own Bristol, seamen. the Ward, of ashore in the night; In bright triumvirc. captain was running "All the crew of the Mary cutter were kil- in to come to an anchor when she struck a llnapapc, and Harua too ; led in and near Balade harbor. On arrival rock and became a total loss. The whale Witucßs'il their fime in war And lighting on (heir dazzling swords, there from Sydney, Captain Robey, of the ship Golcondaof New Bedford took the capNew glories came from Pa sa Jtfaru sent a boat with Robert Hall, an Amer- tain and mate with part of the crew; two Rotumah, to procure boats crew had left the ship and nothing was Wh.it though victory scorned to crown ican, and a native of Their banners with success water. On getting up the river they were known of them; bark Dryade, Fish, of N. Heroes before have beaten been, attacked by natives and killed. After this, Bedford, from Tiilcuhuanu on a cruise,clean; Nor is their glory less two natives came on board the Mary, under ship Lafayette of Warren, R. I. 400 bbls .sperm oil on a cruise; ship Sharon of Fair Hail I honored three j in earth's wide bound*, pretence ofselling fish, the cook went down some yams to ex- Haven, 1000 bbls oil, on a cruise; Callao, Wher'er fair woman liven, in the hold to bring up names sji^M.n«i« the captain's atten- Susson, fish, and the Bedford, '2(H) bbls sperm oil 8] A halo your brightglory change for givecaThat deathless the fish the in to months out; bark John A. Robb, Wiinpcny, tion having been drawn in hi* high ical fot noe belonging to the natives they split his of Fair Haven, 4 months out, 100 bbls sperm • At the Mauritius^ thegnllnnt head with a tomahawk; they then killed the oil, at anchor at Charles Island; Oregon, the honor of France, was riding the high horse till hi* arrogant a sudden nnd effectual check In the spicook ns he was coming out of the hold. I he Wimpeny, of Fair Haven, 12 months out pretensions met with rited conduct of some Ilriosl. Earn Indiamcn,nnd he though. only man now left alive on board the Mary 400 bbls sperm oil. The steamer West it advisable to quit the harbor 10§*»« himself the disgrace would was a Rotumah man,whom the natives eyes Point sailed from San Carlos May '24 for beiiM driven out. ithis port via Panama not eat, because of a disease in h.is I M Vent, vidi, vici," wrote the illustrious Hornan which rendered him almost blind | liaapape, belterknown as Point Venus. Hurna or Mails.* na,and Fm» ; three places where the Invincible warriors o< "They cooked the bodies of the captain DONATIONS. which Prance met wild a severe repulse from the poor, undlsclplinci and crew a*hore, and ate them; afters For Chap?] Fit Krtcnii rahitians. These reverses, however, were more than counthey burned the vessel to Ihe water edge. GoM Dual b> ft Friend, terbalanced by the glories of ftfogadore Vld« Gov BruarV This is the statement of the Rotumah man, M'.Hit-r, officers bcj crew of the proclamation from the Romuln* 00 I $5*0 escape his who managed to make PORT'S . " — , — . — — ,, . , - — , — • . , - �70 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1850. backs, bounties, and allowances, whether ex- 1'whaleships of the United States shall enjoy TREATY. ported in ships of the one country or in ships in all respects whatsoever, all the rights, privHaKAMEHAMEHA 111., King of tho of the other ; and all goods and articles, of ileges'nnd immunities, which are enjoyed by, waiian Islands, tv all to whom these pre- whatever description, not being of the pro- or shall be granted to, the whulrships of the sents shall come, Uukkti.nu : duce or manufacture of the United States,''most favored foreign mil ion. The like priviKnow vk, that whereas a treaty of Friendcan be legally imported into the Sand- lege of frequenting the three ports of the ship, Commerce, ami Navigation, bejweon which shall, wich so imported in ves-| Sandwich Islands, above named in this artiour Kingdoui'iind the United States of North sels Islands,United when Stales, of the pay no other orlIcle, not being ports of entry for merchant ATherica, .vas concluded and signed hy our and their plenipotentiaries, in the city of higher duties, imposts or charges, than shall vessels, is also guaranteed to all the public be payable upon lie like goods, and articles, armed vessels of the United States. But Washington, on the riilth day of December, when in the vessels of the most fa- 'nothing in this article shiill he construed as 1849, which treaty is word for word as fol- vored imported foreign nation other than the nation of, any vessel of the United States, lows : which the said goods and articles are thei having on board any disease usually regardThe United State* of America and His produce or manufacture. ed as requiring quarantine, to enter, during _ the KiNf; of the Hawaiian IsArticle 4. No duties of tonnage, harbor, the continuance of such disease on board, eipiallv animated with the desire of light houses, pilotage, quarantine, or other any port of the Sandwich Islands, other than inaintuinlig tho relations of good under- similar duties, of whatever nature, or under Lahaina or Honolulu. standing which have hitherto so happily sub- whatever denomination, shall be imposed in Article 8. The contracting parties cnsisted between their respective stales, and either country upon the vessels of the o'her, guge, in regard to the personal privileges consolidating the commercial intercourse be- in respect of voyages between the United that the citizens of the United States ol tween them, have agreed-to enter into nego-J States ofAmerica and the Hawaiian Islands, America shall enjoy in the dominions of His nations for the conclusion of a treaty oil if laden, or in respect of any voyage, if in Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, for ballast, which shall not he equally imposed nnd the subjects of His said Majesty in-the which purpose they have appointed Plenipo- in the like cases mi national vessels. United Stales of America, that they shall tentiaries, that is to say : Article 5. It is hereby declared, that the have free and undoubted right to travel anil The President of the United Slates of stipulations of tho present treaty are not to to reside in the slates of the two high conAmerica, John M. t.'layton, Secretary of be understood as applying to the navigation i tracting parties, subject to the same precauState of the United Suites ; ami His Majes- and carrying trade between one port and an- tions of pidice which arc practiced towards ty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, .Inures other situated in the states of either con- the subjects or citizens of the most favored Jackson Jarves, accredited as His special tracting party, such navigation and trade be- nations. They shall he entitled to occupy commissioner to the (Joveriunent of the Uni- ing reserved exclusively to national vessels. dwellings nnd warehouses, and to dispose of 'ed Slates ; who, after having exchanged Article (i. Steam vessels of. the United their personal property ofevery kind and detheir full powers, found in good and due form, States which may be employed by the Gov- scription, by sale, gill, exchange, will, or in havo concluded ajjd signed the following; ar- ernment of the said states, in the carrying any other way whatever, without the smallticles : of their public mails across the Pacific est hindrance or obstacle ; and their heirs or Article 1 There shall he perpetual Ocean, or from one port in that ocean to an- representatives, being subjects or citizens of peace and amity between the United States other, shall have free access to the ports of the other contracting party, shall succeed to and the King of the Hawaiian Islands, His the Sandwich Islands, with the privilege oi their personal jjoods, whether by testament or heirs and His successors. stopping therein tii»rclit, to refresh, to land ah intestate; and may take possession thereof, Article -i There shall be reciprocal lib- passengers and their baggage, and foj the either by themselves, or by others for erty of commerce nnd navigation between transaction of any business pertaining to the them, and dispose of the same at acting will, paythe United States of America and the Hawa- public mail service of the United Slates, and ing to the profit of the respective governiian Islands. shall be subject in such ports to no duties of ments such dues only as the inhabitants of the * No duty of customs, or other impost, shall tonnage, harbor, light houses, quarantine, country wherein the said goods are, shall be he charged upon any goods, the produce or or other similar duties of whatever nature or subject to pay in like cases. And in case of manufacture of one (aountry, upon importa- under whatever denomination. the absence of the heirs and-representative, tion from such country into the other, oilier Article 7. The whaleships of the United such care shall be taken of Ihe said goods or higher than Ihe duty or impost charged States shall have access to the ports of Hilo, as would he taken of the goods of a native of upon goods of the same kind, the produce or Kealakckua and Ilanalei, in the Sandwich the same country in like case, until the lawmanufacture of, or imported from, any other Islands, for the purposes of refitment and i ful owner may take measures for country ; and the United Suites of America refreshment, as well as to the ports of Ho- them. And if a question should receiving arise among and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian nolulu and Lahaina, which only are ports of several claimants as to which of them said Islands do hereby engage, that the subjects entry for all merchant vessels, and in 911 the goods belong, the same shall be decided or citizens of any other slate shall no' enjoy above named ports, they shall be permitted finally by the laws and judges ofthe land I any favor, privilege, or immunity whatever, to trade or barter their supplies or goods, jwherein the said goods are. Where, on the in mailers of commerce and navigation, excepting spirituous liquors, to the amount,jdecease of any person real estate holding which shall not also, at ihe same time, lie ex- of two hundred dollars ad valorem for each within the territories of one party, such real tended to the subjects or citizens ol the other vessel, without paying any charge for ton-!estate would, by the laws ofthe land, decontracting parties gratuitously, if the con- nage or harbor dues of any description, "or' scend on a citizen or subject of the other, cession in favor ol Unit other state shall have any duties or imposts whatever upon the he not disqualified by alienage, such iwere been gratuitous, and in return for a compen- goods or articles so trailed or bartered.jcitizen or subject shall be allowed a reasonsation, as nearly as possible, of proportion- They shall also be permitted, with the like: time to sell the same, and to withdraw ate value and effect', to be adjusted by mu- exemption from all charges for tonnage and'able the proceeds without moleslation, and exempt tual agreement, if the concession shall have harbor dues, further to trade or barter, with jfrom all duties of delrattion on the part of been conditional. the same exemption as to spirituous liquors, jjthe government of the respective states. AiuieiK 3. *A\\ ai tides the produce and to the additional amount of oife* thousand!jThe citizens or subjects of the contracting manufacture of either country which can le- dollars, ad valorem, for each vessel, payingi parties shall not be obliged to' pay, under any gally be imported into cither country from upon the additional goods, and articles sol(pretence whatever, any taxes or impositions, the other, in ships of thnt other country, and traded and bartered, no other or higher du-i .other or greater than those which, are paid, hence coming, shall, when so imported, be ties, than are payable on like goods and ar- •or may hereafter be paid, by the subjects or Isubject to the same duties, nnd enjoy the ticles, when imported in the vessels and by [citizens j ofthe most favored nations in the resame privileges, whether imported in ships the citizens or subjects of the most favored! states of the high contracting parspective of the one country, or in ships of the other; foreign nation. They shall also be permitted!ities. They shall be exempt from all and in like manner, all goods which can le- to pass from port to port of the Sandwich Is-I[service, whether by land or by sea; military from forgally be exported or re-exported from either lands for the purpose of procuring refreshloans, and from every extraordinary conced other, to the in ships of that other ments but they shall not discharge their sea- tribution not general and by law established. country country * ahull, when so exported or re-ex- men or land their passengers in the said Is- jTheir dwellings, warehouses, and all premiported, be subject to the same duties, and lands, except at Lahaina and Honolulu, and,! appertaining thereto, destined for the Ue euliiled to the same privileges, draw- in all the ports named in this article, the sbaU purposes of commerce or Majesty lands, ' 1 ■ 1 ses residence. �- THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1850. 71 respected. No arbitrary search of, or■or send away such deserters from the statesi utterance of forged paper, committed within visit to their houses, and no arbitrary exam-' and dominions of the contracting parties, or the jurisdiction of cither, shall be found wit hmation or inspection whatever of the books,' give such security for their good conduct usim the territories of the other ; provided, papers or accounts of their trade, shall be''the law may require. But if not sent back; that this shall only be done upon such evimade ; but such measures shall be executed nor reclaimed within six months from the dence! of criminality as, according to Ihe "illy in confbimity wilh the legal sentence of day of their arrest, or if all the expenses laws of the place where the person so u competent tribunal ; end each of the two jof such imprisonment are not defrayed by charged shall be fonnd, would justify his apcontracting parlies engages thnt the citizens the party causing such arrest and imprison- prehension and commitment for trial if the nr subjects of the other residing in their iwmnent, they shall he set at liberty and shall crime had there been committed ; and the spective slates, sllall enjoy their property and,.not he again arrested for the same cause. respective judges and other magistrates of personal security, in as full and ample manner iHowever, if the deserters should be found to the two governments, shall have authority, as their own citizens or subjects, or the sub-|'have committed any crime or offence, their upon complaint made under oath, to issue a jects or citizens of the most favored nation, surrender may he delayed until the tribunal warrant for the apprehension of the person but subject always to the laws and statutes before which their case shall be depending, so charged, thnt he may be brought before of the two countries respectively. shall have pronounced its sentence, and such such judges or other magistrates respectively, Article 9. The citizens and subject* of'[sentence shall have been curried into efl'ect. to (he end that the evidence of criminality each of the two contracting parties shall he Article 11. It is agreed that perfect and may he heard and considered ; and if, on free in the states of the other to uiannge entire liberty of conscience shall be enjoyed such hearing, the evidence be deemed suffitheir own a Hairs themselves, or to commit by the citizens and subjects of both Ihe con- cient to sustain the charge, it shall be the those aHaiis to the management of any. per- tracting parties, in the countries of the one duty of the examining judge or magistrate to sons whom they may appoint as theirbroker, and the other, without their being liable to certify the same to trie proper executive aufactor or agent, nor shall the citizens and be disturbed or molested on account of their thority, that u warrant may issue for the sursubjects ofthe two contracting parties be re- religious belief. Rut nothing contained in render of such fugitive. The expense of strained in their choice of persons to act in this article shall be construed to interfere such apprehension and dejivery shall bo such capacities, nor shall they he called up- with the exclusive right of the Hawaiian borne and defrayed by the party who makea on to pay any salary or remuneration to any Government to regulate for itself the schools the requisition and receives the fugitive. person whom they shall not choose to employ. which it may establish or support within its Article 15 So soon as steam or other Absolute freedom shall be given in all cases! 'jurisdiction. mail packets under the flag of either of the to the buyer and seller to bargain together Article 12. If any ships of war or other contracting parties, shall have commenced and to fix the price of any goods or mer- vessels be wrecked on the coasts of the state*' running between their respective ports of enchandize imported into,or to be exported from or territories ofeither- ofthe contracting par- try, the contracting pnrlies agree to receive the stntes nnd dominions ofthe two contract- lies, such ships or vessels, or any parts at the post ollices of those ports all mailable ing parties ; save and except generally such thereof, nnd all furniture and appurtenances matter, and to forward it as directed, the decases wherein the laws and usages of Ihe belonging thereunto, and all goods and mer- stination being to some regular post office of country may require the intervention of any chandise which shall he saved therefrom, or either country ; charging thereupon the reg-pecial*Bgents in the states and dominions of the produce thereof if sold, shall be faith- ular postal rates as established by law in the the contracting parties. Hut nothing con- fully restored with the least possible delay to territories ofeither party receiving said mailtained in this or any other article of Ihe pre- the proprietors, upon being claimed by them, able matter, in addition to the original postsent treaty shall he construed to authorize or by their duly authorized factors; and if age of the office whence.the mail was sent. the sale of spirituous liquors to the unlives there are no such proprietors or factors on Mails for the United States, shall be made up of the Sandwich Islands farther than such the spot, then the said goods and merchan- at regular intervals at the Hawaiian post ofrale may be allowed by the Hawaiian laws. dise, or the proceeds thereof, as well as all fice, and despatched to ports of the United Article 10. Each of the two contracting the'papers found on board such wrecked States, the postmasters at which ports shall partjej may have, in the ports of the other, ships or vessels, shall he delivered to the open the same, and forward the enclosed consuls, vice consuls, and commercial agents, American or Hawaiian consul, or vice con- matter as directed, crediting the Hawaiian of their own appointment, who shall enjoy sul, in whose district the wreck may have Government with their postages as establishthe same privileges and powers with those of taken place ; and such consul, vice consul, ed by law and stamped upon each manuthe most fawned nation; but if any such [proprietors or factors, shall pay only the ex- script or printed sheet. consuls" shall exercise commerce, they shall penses incurred in the preservation of the All mailable matter destined for the Habe subject to the same laws and usuges property, together with the rate of salvage waiian Islands shall be received at the seve10 which tho private individuals of their na- ; nnd expenses of quarantine which would ral post offices in the United States and forlion are subject in the same place. The said have been payable in the like case of u warded to San Francisco or other ports on consuls, vice consuls, and commercial agents wreck of a national vessel; andthe goods and the Pacific coast of the United Stutes, are authorized to require the assistance ofimerchandise saved from the wreck shall not whence the postmasters shall despatch it by ihe local authorities for the search, arrest, Ibe subject to duties unless entered for con-1ths regular mail packets to Honolulu, the detention, and imprisonment of the deserters sumption ; it being understood that in case Hawaiian Government agreeing on their part from the ships of war and merchant vessels of of i any legal claim upon such wreck, goods Ito receive and collect for and credit the post iheir country. For this purpose, they shall up- or inciclmndise, the same shall be referred ioffice department.of the United States with ply to the competent tribunals, judges and of- .for | decision to the competent tribunals of the ihe United States rates charged thereupon. licers, and shall in writing demand the said .country. !It shall be optional to prepay postage on letArticle 13. The vessels of either of the Iters in either country, but postage on printed il serlers, proving, by the exhibition of registers ofthe vessels, the rolls ofthe crews, or by ttwo contracting parties which may be forced isheets and newspapers shall in all cases be other official documents, that such individu-Mby stress of weather or other cause into one |prepaid. The respective post office departnls formed part of the crews ; nnd this rc-jiofthe ports ofthe other, shall be exempt iments of the contracting parties shall, in ■ lauiation being thus substantiated, the sur-Ifrom all duties of port or navigation paid forttheir accounts, which are to be adjusted an"i:nder shall not be refused. Such deserters, tthe benefit of the state, if the motives which inually, be credited with all dead letters rewhen arrested shall be placed at the disposal led 1 to their seeking refuge be real and cVi- tturned. of the said consuls, vice consuls or commer-liIdcnt, and ifno cargo be discharged or taken Article IG. The present trcuty shall be cial agents, and may be confined in the pub-a.on board, save such as .may relate to the in force from the date of the exchange ofthe lie prisons afthe request and cost of those isubsistence of the crew, or be necessary for iratifications for the term of ten years, and who shall claim thorn, in order to be detain- Ithe repair of the vessels, and if they do not further, until the end of twelve months after Ad until the time when they shall be restored stay in port beyond the time necessary, keep- either of the contracting parties shall have ,to the vessel to which they belonged, or iing in viewthe cause which led to their seek- jgiven notice to t' c other of its intention to • sent back to their own country by a vessel ofi,ing reTuge. Iterminate the same, each of the said con(the same nation or any other vessel whatso-| Article 14. The contracting parties mv- tracting parties reserving to itself the right per. The agents, owners or masters ofitually agree to surrender, upon official requi- of giving such notice at ihe end of the said vessels on account of whom the desertcis isition, to the authorities of each, all persons tterm often years, or aVarfj? subsequent term. kave been apprehended, upon requisition a*V|W"ho, being charged with ibe crimes of murAny citizen or subject of"either party inthe local authorities shall be required to take ider, piracy, arson* robbery, foi'gery or the fringing the articles of this treaty shall be bo ~ ' . < * I i I < I < I �- 72 THE FRI-END, SEPTEMBER 1, 1850. . '* , , .:• . - — IJ- bit Cornwall, ITawion, 12 di fm Han I ran. F STIADNGER' UND. July 27 29 Atn ahp Dm Ru*h, Swan, R 1-2 mo*, 150 ..bin up - !" II)#11 50 31 Am sh|i Mariner, Collm. 12 ' do K0 do mony and good correspondence between the a Friend, 10 00 5 00 Aug 9—Uninulus, Hull, 22 111 0«, 10 hbla ftp, 320 J wl). 45,000 lb« bo l..dv, shall not interrupted two goverunients bone. 9 Am ahp France* Henrietta, CJougta, 23 raw, 4CO bbW thereby,' each parly engaging in no way to S26 50 ap, 2500 wb, 17,0.0 lb* bene. 17 CO protect.the offender or sanction such fiolu- Rinrntlrd, Cleared. July 20— 9 00 Am achr Anglona, Cook San Fran. tion. Ualance, 20 Julim. Trim/It, Hmhannai:, do. Article 17. The present treaty shall be- I .No ik—The Chaplain will be always j-cady .to exhibit Ihe 23 ••" ll*' John AHyiie, WHiami, ilu. bk Montgomery, M)cr«, do. 24 ratified by the President ofthe United States (.ainie of the fund, nod mode ot expenditure, or to receive aug25 " brig Mnta, Rich, dv. of America, by nnd with the advice and con-,Igcatlona, from donulb/eslieclillg the manner in win, I, tin;, 26 "H«wachr Carolina, Cole, Hwoliilu. 28— Haw »rh John, Bhiilox Wuapca, Ban Fran. donatio,ib July iipproprinled. sent of the Senate of the" said States, anil by inlay wish their Aug s—Am bk riiiloihcna, Jt-weti, for San Francisco. brig iSitlttllo, Smith, Manilla. His Majesty, the'King of the Hawaiian Is- :l hi- chiipUui would report as FROESCIPTS ERAPHINE. 6—Am follows in regard to the pur6—ltr bk AugUKtu*. Cooke, Sun Franciaco. lands, by and with the udvicc of His Privy li'i-t- of a new hi i nphjue fur ilic Chapel. 3—Am do Alnilra, Codd, Aug bp Uoal, S200 00 j Council of State, and the ratifications shall Received CO 00 fi-Qmatile if I tie old Sernphlne, 3 bk Cornwall, l>aw«on, lir Shanghai. * 47 B8 M I lni|.i I, • be exchanged at Honolulu within eighteen lv.illectic.il 7 Am sch Abioria, t'lmpniuu, Bun Fran. 9 50 A. kiitiwliHlEi'dlii Frli'inl, A us I dv 12 Am bg Engle, Pavitt, months from tho date of its signature, or j'IS.'«, Atit flip - i !1 sooncrif possible. - - .- jIt. W .... ■ - • .... -""?" ft. a - .... Wood, J. Lewla, In witness whereof, the respective pleni-j]J. -. U l)r Newromn, have the same in tripfi-'jCaptain Mauche, signed potenliaries cafe, and have thereto affixed their seals. Done at Washington, in the English lan-'Amouni lo be ralacd, guagc, Ihe twentieth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and for- - 2 £0 2 00 00 2 00 - Mariner, Coffin, <tul«e! 15. Fruucea Henrietta, dough) Honolulu mul horn** do 15 Koihiilii", Hull, 15 Hone, Coleman, Sun Fran. 12 133 SS Memoranda. I\_T Tli ■ IJ-*;'t \f i-y" ian bad i 5.i1.l nail registered und the Hawaiian Flair, and name changed to the 'Snnke." • Hy the Hlitji Tobacco Flam —On the 6lh of April, IBSO, the »hip Hercules, of Newhcdlord, 33 moa out, with 250 bbla ap; and ilie Br bk favorite, of London, 11 mo*, £0 bbla ; wefll on shore In a typhoon hi A polo, Prm Imrbor, total wrecks. Aim, ty nine. a missionary schooner lay high nuil dry on the reef. June 17th PORT OF HONOLULU. j Seal. )-JOHN M. CLAYTON. spoke the ship riurin v of Nantucket, 22 mos out, 35U bbls, m Arrived, 1 SOS. long. 169 43 VV. i IrttJune Seal] JAMES JACKSON JARVES. July 27—Haw schr 29, Ist W 0.8. lolig 176 E, apnke the schooner Ehenr III;', tons tin SimFran. Caroline, Cult, cxnminwhereas carefully We have of Sydney, from California, bound to Sydney. Ani> v 27 Brbri.an Blnck. Dog, Hill, Ml lulls, 15 days do. i?.er,The following 677 nitellltrenrc wkh furnished by the 2d mate ol Culls, ship Cooper, 30 C tlo. Am II thereof, the and articles and lons, points by ed all I—llr bk Brighlniin, Cowley, BH4 tolls, 70 <ls fm Sydney. I the lady Hnwden,: On the morning til the 22d tifJine, the Aug with Ihe advice of Our.Privy Council of State,'' sell Unn, Smart, 135 lous, 21 iLrrn Fori Victoria.. Ilintibh brig Lady Howdei., ol London, Cnpt. Chalk, from Cal 1 ifornbt for HytJney, went on n reel about 12 mllea lo ihe south 1 Fr-lnlr. Peppercorn, 30 tons, 56 ds-fin Auckland. We have confirmed and ratified the ward of Ongcth one of the l-'ejec Inlands, at a quarter |msf 3 a. 1 A in Ui: ShliilUi, Smith. 102 lulls, 14 lis I'm San Fran. Urignit Mary We do confirm and the ami lido. Ellen, Brown, 1 m. With great risk theboats were got out and 1 dragged o*<r ratify 183 ions, treaty, and nroral reef for upward* of a mile, in pimHlng the outer part of Br si In Ellen Coouey, 89 tuim, 14 tlo. t 1 same, in the most effectual manner, promis381 Cowlitz, Weynton, tons, 21 ds Foci Victoria which the cutler wait enpaized and every thing In her lout. Tin 1 l<k bk Pliilumtnn, long boat had b narrow escape. The natives jihiudered the ISO Aug days'from Our faith nnd word as for us s—Am. 170 Jewell', tons, King, on ing vi-mI of every thing they could Iny their hands on. l'orllnnd. and Our successors, to fulfil and observe it, 6—Am. ship llampdcp, Whiting, 646 tons, 16 days from Report of Ships in the Ochotsk Sea. Pan Frnnelaco. June 20. Indian Chief, Bailey, of" New London. § Uowfaithfully and scrupulously in all its clauses. 9—Nor l>g Nicolal Nicolaison, Fjefer, 167, 14 ds fin Bun |liends tins sermon, wanting 2 wh. to tilland curry on derk. In faith of which We have signed this ntiFrancisco. June 2d. Gen Williams, Forsyth, New London 35(00bblx sp ClimidlerPrice, Taber, 441 tons, fm Boa of Am Aug. 12— and-have affixed William C. Nye, Rose, New Loudon*. 10 Bowlitads thification with Our own hand, AllHilir, 3500 hbla wh, 220 sp. i aeaahn. thereto thegeat seal of Our Kingdom. 13 Am sp Nalchex, Dun«, 523 is. 11 ds fm Ban Fran. Hathawuy. y.'too bbls, 9 wh this Cabinet, of 13 Am bk Connecticut, Prithullow, 397 Is, 13 ds do , •teuton. Given nt Our palace of Honolulu, this 14 Am sp Tohaccu Plant, Browne, fin Fejee Islands. Clematis, Hollows, of New London. Wanting 4 wh. to fill, II llr sp Amazon, VlneelH, 390 uins, 6tt ds fm HonpK. nineteenth day of August, in the year of our June !4. 15 Am bk Sea Drecie, Newell,3l I Is, 12 ds fm San Iran June 20. J. E. Donald, Bennett, of New Bedford. 6 wh. Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, do 15 Frsp Albatross, l.uco, 360 tons. 16 i's (-00 bbls. 15 Am sp Sarlelle, I'iercei 416 la,' 17 ds do Isbhc How laud. Weft, ofNew Itedford. Boiling all the time and in the twenty-fifth of Our reign. Am sp Komuliis. Hull, 22 mos, 10 llbls sp, 3200 wh. Did not ascertain her oil KAMEHAMEHA. I 1.15000 lbs bone. [Seal.] 'Hellespont, Manwatiug, Mysiic. 5 wh. In the Japan tea. 15 Am sp Frances Henrietta, Clntlgh, 23 mos, 40%sp, |heard of her in the O* hi.tsk. Oil not statedKec/ni Ana. I 2900 wh 17,000 lbs bone. Vesselsheardl>om by theRomulus, during her cruise In By tho King and the 03*" ]Aug. 17.—Rus brig ltnikal, KNiikoffstroni, 190 ions, 24 days the Arctic and Japan Sea April 25, Isaac Illcka. Rice, of X from t'tsljak. R. C. VVYLLIE, Lsndon, Iwh HO bids. Benj. MorifHii, Chapel, N. Loudon, 1 Tilliugliast, duys bk Carlo Miiurun, 506 lons, 17 I 17.—Am.from San Francisco. wh lfObbls Flying Childefs of Hobarltown. Iwh this aeaMinister of Foreign Relations. Gwynil, of Mystic, 9 mos out, 2bobbls. Gen son. Aroimui, Shanghai. sch ds Dan, fm Fritter, 147 tons, 42 Am. I 21 Exchange or Ratifications. 21 —llr. bk Frances, Murr, 216 lorn, 22 da fin Han Fran, rtrdt. Harris, of N. London, nothing this season. Ban Attrign, 21.—8r. bk llnrries Francfsco. Arrivals at Sun Francisco from the Hawaiian Islands fm *" We, the undersigned, Rohert July 31—Ilk J A Jesuran, Am bg R liruce, Dockeiidoiff. 22.—11r. brig Corsair, II 'tliertson, 42 ds fm <ln slip Spring, 4—Slip Flnyius, lingers, llrbg Josephine, Clinton, Am 607 Ban Franc uig Sea, 21— Am fm Wyi.lie, Minister of Foreign Relations tons, 14 sco, iAug ■ sailed on (tic 2Hli, without clearance. srh Roe, Swasey, tfch Odd Fellow, Reed fin Lahaiha, Am His Majesty the Kiiuj of the Hawaiian Isl-| 21—Ur 313 tlcagrovr, I'enelopc, Irving. ds San Fran. seh Swallow, is. 20 I'm bk bk (ilettcoe, Sillwcll, 21415, 15 ds Tin tin 7—Br bg Pnrttmln, Mllntovlch. nnds, and Charli.s Bi nkfh, Consul of the;' M—Br 26—Am sell Spartacus, Harris,92 la, 14 on do lo- Hk Alice Turtton, Hale, srh Mar)' Emma] Myrlck, auUnited States, for Lahaina, having been 26—Am sell Pcdeinbulc, Stiles, 163, 14 do nch JuliusI'riugle, Buchanan. slip Strong's 650 bis Iltiliomock, Cnloil, Is, fin 11-Hr bg Sen Gull, Abbott. sp thorized.by our respective Governments to; 28—Am 27—Chi slip Ci n Frlere, Peterson, 2io Is 6 ds fm ten. |■ 12—Fr fthp Cachclot, Le Grand, Am sclt Angfona,Cook 28-llr bk Helen S Page; Church, 271 Is, 13 ds Sun Fran. exchange the Ratifications of-ihe Treaty of. slip Washington, Cole, 14 ds fm gun Francisco. and Navigation be- I 30—Am Friendship, 30—Haw l.k Don Utiitoir, West, fin l.atialna. PASSENGERS. tween His Hawaiian Majesty and the United, Cleared. Hai k Connecticut, from San Francisco. Mrs, I'cnhallon for San Fran. 'July Mnry 25—Haw schr J. X Alitchell, I'. Michel and llar'rell, Rubliiaoii, Ann I: nwl 2 W. Washing-,Children, and at States, concluded signed .|tservnut, C Jackson. I*. Jackson, Mr. Macey, 35 Am shipSenulor, Collin, for .Calcutta. \f. Ca»»pbell.' •s iip snri.lle fiora San Francisco. Cha* Bunker, Esq. V ton, on the twentieth d.iy of Heceniher, one 25 Br schr Adventure, Webster, Sanl'iini 26 Urship Aqiietmt, Davis, Sydney Ih Consul for Lahahla, C. Bunker, Jr A. Fgtabrook. thousand, eight bundled and forty-nine, cer-, 26 llr schr Lady I.cisli, White,llubart'Wn. 80 Br bk Caclqnr, M'Fftrliiii*. Bohnriimn. lily Br lirig Warlock, Lean, Hiui£ Konc That we have, this day, met for that pur- Aug 301 Br MARRIED. bark Whit by, Stuart, Hong Koik 2 Am britf Mnry Kllen, Brown, Hong Kong. j At Bn.i..fleU), N. C,~Junc 5, by the Rev. J. T. W>cher, IW pose, and after'comparing the said Ratifica* Aug 10.—Nor bg NlcolnlNicolaison, Fjefer, Hung Kong. Tri-mbiim,, Bt-amt'ii'K Chaplain, Vutparii*.., B. A, and iI'avii. tions each with'the other, and both with the 10 Br sch Ullcu. Cootie), Auckland. I.Miss J\*iK W. FlTCil of New IJhven, It. ! Cults, Cooper, 10 sh C'anlon. Chns New June ltucon, Am In Rev Haven, CI., iJO, by Rev. llr. of said Treaty, have effected the and Pki.ia Williams WooiJ, daughter of 14 Uracil Una, Slum l, Fori Victoria CiiKRTKn S. I.ywan 15 Am hk Nautilus, Poole, Hong Kong. exchange accordingly. it tin. Joseph Wood, nil of Jivyt Haven. _. I 17.—Am brig .1 unn, Byratn, forl.aliniiiu. In witness whereof, we have signed this'Aug. 19.—8r. bk Brjgbtuian, Cowley, Ban Francisco. 19.—Am. sh Hampden, Whiting, Calcutta/ certificate, nt Honolulu, this twenty-fourth DIED. 19.—Am. sh Tobacco Plant, Browne, San Finnclson. At Miikawaoon the Gtliir.st Mr?. Cooper, wife ofThorns* day of August, one thousand, eight hundred 211 —Hi. hk Josephine, Smilh., Bjilnej Cooper, on old resident at the I annuls. .She wax a Hawaiian 21.—\m. wh sh Chandler Price, Taber, N. Bedford. and fifty, and have thereunto affixed our reformerly from i*aliaii:a aged ai 3 oris. 21.—Chish Gctl. Frier*, Peterson, Valparaiso. I I native of Conni> In Honolulu, Aug*, 6, M Bjmon Chonin, a•» spective Seals slip Clough, 23—Am Frances for Bedford Henrietta, wh N Aug I '23—Am Ireland, l>ut a (iiir.cn ..(' the IHifted Stales, where ha Kerry, lik Connecticut,Pcnliallow. Ban Franeisciv [L. S] R. C. WYLLIE. had resided Jd yearn. lie arrived in California in June, 1849,. 23—Am bk Carlos alauran, Tillinghasl, China. hikl labored ait a blacßnrniili lor Ihe V, 8. Covrrmneiit, at 1W x [L S] CHARLES BUNKER. 26—Am shp Sarlelle, Pierce, Calcutta. ticrin, until obliged to leave for the Ifdanda, on account of ilif 26—Am slip Ntitcliez, Duiyec, Bliangltoe. Auckland. health. {I'apcra in Mass- ami N. V, please copy.] 27—Br bk '.Uncut, Sillwell, In Honolulu, Atig. 10, nn board H. H. M. schooner Cocku A Fmr. occurred in Montreal onllic22il June, 2B—Pr ah Albairns,l.uco, without clearance trice, Tiiomah Nonß.e,able ataman, 22 years "of tigt. *. 99—Dan bg llelcne, Mahneke, Valparaiso, by which two hundred nmi-MVen buildings were On board vvlialenhij) Hobomok, on Iter paaßage front Strong'" destroyed, some of-which had been recently Inland; about the 28(h of July, James Hlrrv, aj/rd t3, »caroau, PORT OF LAHAINA. belonging, (o IJoaton. lie had formerly been attached to <h« erected nnd were of a superior description, The Y. 8. brig, Boxer, on the coa»t of Africa. Arrived. loss of property is estimated nt $1,200,000, of July 18—Am bk Montgomery, Oir board fToboinocfc; Captain Jones, master of the vowel, Myers, 80 ds fm Hnaliine. which 095,000 worth wns insured. One woman in the early pan of June, nli..Mhe ship was cralstiig. Heb#23 ach Curlew, Trcadway,fm Honolulu. Ittnged to Falmouth, Mass. lost her life, and several children were burned 95 Hsw rch Caroline, Cole 14.1a fill Ssu Frail I I ' ' foregoing' ' ''' ,, " 1 ■ - Premier. , original ' I , ' . L - « * ' ' '' ' ' ! J . ''' . : ' .' • ~ Chiciito.nJ of! .Commerce * MARINJ E OURNAL. "'" , $66 12 < " , . , . — � 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 - 1850.09.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.09.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b1e023397fb756c9c8f3f347dfb6faff.pdf dbafedc780522fd76750b586c845b106 PDF Text Text F THE RIEND. HONOLULU, OCTOBER 1, 1850. Vol. 8. 73 Mo. 10 the mission 111 it-s have done much fur the always in the death of both mother and child. tribes oflhe ocean ; but they have imposed But whatever may be the causes which are OF THE [ IMF.NiI, OCTOBER 1. 1850. decimating the population of the Sandwich Vutt of French thlp Ilunltr, &c, 78 fur ton nurrow limits upon their mission, they are far from having done all the good which Islands, is it not lamentable and surprising luaih of I'rc.nii'hi Taylor, Two living Fncia, 76 they might have done. To what ought this that wherever civilization has come in conRemarkaon it communication, . -76 to be ascribed ? Perhaps to an excess of tact with the savage state, this contact has A Sallor'i Thought, 76 zeal ; perhaps nlso to the education not been fatal to the people it ought to regenWhale rthipi returning, .77 sufficiently liberal which they have received. erate? The effects are every where the same, An HawHjinn Ordination, • 77 • • causes may be different. FanatJapaneaeJunk, 77 ItnJuied with a religious slerness so remark- though the and in Mexico and Peru, of ical sanguinary able certain have lost sight in they sects, Who will aid the Friend > 77 7g New Book, the temporal good of this people in theft* encroaching in the United States, religious Shipping .Newa, Death* Ac, HO effort to make them participate in those and mystical in the Sandwich Islands ; into spiritual treasures which they esteem above whatever country civilization has penetrated, disappeared before all things. They have abolished barbarous there have I and revolting practises for the sake 6f hu- it. What haw become of the people that munity, and they have given the natives once covered the valleys of Spanish America? VoiFsretnS fch e loop-of-war some ideas of civilized society ; but having Civilization has destroyed them. At the Translated for the Friend, from the French oj reached the point when reform would pro- present time you will scarcely find any vesAdolphe Barrot. useful results, they stopped short. It tiges of them in the lowest classes of society. duce NO. IX. be said that they have been constantly What remains in the valleys oftke Ohio, the What the Missionaries have, done for the might under the influence ol interested considera- Missouri and the Mississippi, of the numerous Hawaiians depopulation of the Islands tions. Thus they have established schools, tribes that once roamed through the forests? causes of depopulation proper means to but they have proscribed the study of the The vicinity of the whites has caused thorn arrest its progress Government KamehaWhat could have been to disappear, and soon the inquiry will be English language. meha makes himself absolute sovereign afthe ? their this They evidently feared, made if these nations even existed. The object in group attaches foreigners to his service as 1 have already stated, that the influence population will melt away before civilized dies liihorihio ascends the throne puts of llm European residents would counter- man, either by this terrible mortality which down an insurrection on Kauai abolishes balance their own. But this was not the is consuming it, or because it v.-ill mingle the ancient worship ami the tabu dies in greatest obstacle to the progress of civiliza- and lose itself in the migrations from Europe England Kaahumanu regent her zealfor tion : antl is there not evidently an anomaly and America. And this intermingling should the new rtlt<rtoii —flies, and is succeeded in between the end proposed and the means be encouraged by all possible means ; and the regency by Kinau the King dependant employed ? Have the missionaries wished, to this end wise laws should be enacted, inupon Kinau, even after he became of age by rendering the intercourse between the dustry should be called in, agriculture enplan of removing him to Maui project for natives and foreigners more difficult to arrest couraged, and commerce patronized. These the conquest of JVtio Hebrides terminating the contagion of vice ? But all the world are the means by which these wretched peodisastrously Missionaries rule in Kinau's knows, and at the Sandwich Islands the fact ple can be saved from a state of decay which name absolute power of the King modified is more evident than elsewhere, that vice is psjsaklyzing its vital principles. Unless in only a very slight degree by missionary needs no order to have inter- haste is made, there will be none left at the. in language influence governors taxes laws penally course ; example alone, has been sufficient Sandwich Islands to civilize, unless it be the criminals escape, punishment by paying a lo corrupt this people, so artless and sus- civilizcrs themselves. sum of money judges taxation commerce The government of the Sandwich Islands ceptable. commercial houses at Honolulu amount Since the discovery of these islands is monarchical "and absolute ; but it has untheir of consumption at the Islands articles im- population have decreased in a fearful man- dergone important modifications since the ported articles furnished in exchange ner. It is already reduced to one fourth, at discovery of (he Islands. Formerly each commercial prospects whale ships sandal least, of what it was at tho time of Cook's island of the group was governed by a chief wood resources ofthe Islands yet lo be de- first voyage. This diminution is ascribed to who was independent of his neighbours. veloped—advantageous situation effect on different causes. Strong drink has been These sovereigns were engaged in war the their prosperity if a canal or railroad across here, as among all savage nations, a poison: most part of tho time. At length rtarahathe Isthmus of Panama. brought by Europeans. Diseases unknown meha, heir to the sovereignty of the island The missionaries found this people without in former times have infected the nation. of Hawaii, began that seriesof conquests that a character, with vices, which were only Licentiousness has been followed with con- rendered him absolute king of all the islands. superficial, with simple and artless manners, sequences no much the more terrible in this Kamehameha possessed superior talents and with astonishing readiness to receive country, as the contagion spread everywhere for observation, and his perseverance was new impressions. And what have they done without the least resistance, for it was an remarkable. He quickly perceived what for them' They believe they have corrected unknown evil, (hie cause of depopulation powerful assistance he might derive from their morals ; but demoralization is at Us as potent, at least, as licentiousness, still Europeans, who at that time began to visit height, demoralization by calculation, much exists in a disease mentioned by many Euro- these islands, and his first care was to atmore hateful than lliut over which they claim pean physicians, who have been established tach a large number of them to his service. the mekait to have triumphed. They believe for a long time at Honolulu. This disease, At his death, which took place in 1819, his son Rihoribo ascended the throne. Some they hnvc made Christians, but they have which was introduced about ten infilr hypocrites only. They believe they attacks women in childbed, and proves fatal manifestations of insurrection appeared on have ameliorated the physical condition of in three cases out of five. At first white Kauai, but iheywere immediately suppressed tho people ; but they have made them ac- pimples appear on the lips, and these extend by Ririorirmtsfio-with a single devoted comquainted with misery which they did not by degrees to the throat, the stomach, the panion croOflMpe sea to find his rival. He, bowels. It generally commences eight or filled with admiration for such a noble maniknow. Still it is an incontrovsjptable truth, that ten days before confinement, and ends almost festation of confidence acknowledged him as CONTENTS. ... .... ..... . ..... - . . . ... ... . ...... ■ ■ Bonite, theSain to Islnadndswich 1836. — — — — — — — — — — — — — —— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —— — — — — — �74 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 1, 1860. It was Rihoriho who abolished! Inf dependence in which his sister holds him; 'a fine of fifteen dollars. The man paj* his sovereign. ten to the anoient worship which Kamehameha, and while he delivers himself up to the dis- fifteen dollars, five to the judge, and of the woman. The woman either from conviction or political considera- sipation of a life entirely sensual, Kinau the husband pays fifteen dollars more, five to the judge, tions, wishedto remain unimpaired. Riho- governs or rather the missionaries in her and ten to Ihe .wife of her accomplice. It in riho likewise abolished the Tabu. At this name. civil actions. The judge reperiod the influence of the missionaries began But the machinery of the governmentandis the same in fourth orders ceives one of the value concerning The issues his very simple. king ascendant ascendancy to be in the This became unbounded on the death ofRihoriho, the nubjects obey. There is no necessity; which he decides. When a foreigner commits a crime he is who in 1824 went to die in England. Kaa- that the laws of the sovereign be accomthis tried by a jury cumpost-d of an equal number commentaries. At panied by present Kamehameha, and regent humanu, widow of a very of foreigners and natives. The judges have during the minority of Kauikeaouli, displayed absolute power is modified in only a zeal which approached even to fanaticism slight degree by the influence of (he mission- then only to enforce the law; but when it propa- civil action comes before them, they decide in the practise of her new religion, and she aries, who are more interested in the according to their own judgment, and from gave herself up entirely to the guidance of gation of their religion than in tho temporal their decision there is no appeal. Jt is unwelfare of the people. The regulations inthe missionaries. reliuious; derstood that foreigners never appeal to this troduced them are by exclusively Kaahumanu, Kinau, death of her On the All difficulties that arise among daughter succeeded her in the regency, ruled yet they have constantly opposed every mea- tribunal. by arbitrators. them are settled foreigners, sure, all which to by giving security same adopted ascendancy, blindly the by the measures which were dictated to her by CAuld induce them to form any considerable At the Sandwich Islands (he people hn\<the mission, and the authority of the mission- commercial and agricultural establishments no charter; nothing which limits the authority of the king or of the chiefs. The king is aries gave law to the country. To this sys- in this country. tem no change was made, as I have already Under the king, governors administer the absolute master of the soil, and of every stated, when Kauikeaouli became of age. affairs of the different islands. They are thing that it produces. It is only by his perAccustomed to yield to (he will ofhis sister he high and powerful lords, subject in name only mission that the inhabitants live upon the and use the fruits of ibe land. Hence has not to this day performed an act of au- to the authority of the sovereign, on whose land, thority. Yet his well known aversion to inno- account they collect the poll-lax; but only he has the light to dispose of everything that in him to a snn\Jl proportion of the value received ever pertains to them. Vet, for want of written vation, and some supposed independence, gave rise to a plan among the finds its way to Honolulu. It would be diffi- stipulations, fliere are certain established chiefs of the regent's party, of removing him cult perhaps to obtain correct returns. Kua- customs, and it is seldom that there is any to Maui, which was the mast devoted of all kini for example, is as potent throughout the departure from these. Thus, although upon the islands of the group, to (he new system. island of Hawaii as Kauikeaouli himself; yet the death of un occupant of a land, thai land Kauikeaouli was made acquainted with this the royal authority is everywhere recognized. by right reverts to the king, yet he almost project by the almost simultaneous departure Forty years ago the powerful Kamehainehii always permits the son of the deceased to of all his servants. In this crisis he applied put down all- ideas of independence thai inherit Ine hut and field of his lather; but, to the foreign residents of Honolulu, who could threaten the security of his crown; I repeat it, this is only a concession, and not promised to stand by him; and theirfirmness, anil now, the union of the missionaries, and a right. There is not at the Sandwich Islands u well known to the opposite party, caused the their co-operation in all the measures necesthe failure of the project. Kauikeaouli can sary to perpetuate this unity of power, (end well established system of taxation; but it is find out whenever he pleases, and shall know to the same result There is 111Ite proba- expected that among the natives, each man how to employ it, how great are the elements bility then, that any revolution will soontuke pays to the king a tax of one dollar, and that of power in the support which foreigners will place to change the. form of government, It each woman and each child that has attained lend him. This occurred in 1832. At this is however, easy to foresee the result of tin- to Ihe heighth of four feet, pay half a dollar. time there appeared two documents or pro- struggle now in progress between the mis- Children whose heigth is less than four feel clamations, one from Kinau, and the other sionaries and the European residents. Wli.it- are not subject to taxation. Besides this from Kauikeaouli, who then attained to his ever efforts the former may make to put off ihe king receives one-half of proceeds of majority. These two documents, published the time, the day will come, I doubt not, sale3made by the natives: for example if a in Hawaiian, professed to set forth their re- when the number ot foreigners increasing as fowl be sold lor fitly cents, one half of il, or spective rights, but on (he part of the king ihe resources, of (he country increase, will twenty-five cents must be paid to the king. paralyse all the mensures of the missionaries Then two days in each week are devoted to it was a vain form, and lie soon and open these islands to a more enlarged the cultivation of ihe lands belonging to the under the yoke ofhis sister. king, or (o the chiefs. Thus can the king Soon after Ihe idea was suggested to the and productive system of administration. king, by whom, is not known, of undertaking I will add a few words concerning the laws call everything among this people into requi. the conquest of the New Hebrides. It was of the Sandwich Islands, and the administra- silinn that suits his convenience. his design, if successful, to abandon the tion of justice. The Hawaiian code contains See what civilization has done for this Sandwich Islands with all his court, and to ten articles, It is a sort of commentary on people. Tho first care of the civilizers found a new kingdom in the conquered coun- the decalogue; or rather Ihe law of nature, should have been to modify such barbarous try. Two brigs were employed in this ex- amplified nnd disfigured by civilization. laws. and the command devolved upon Every crime is punished hy imprisonment The commerce of the Sandwich Islands is >oki,* one of the generals of Kamehameha, for a shorter or longer time, or by involun- mot yet of much importance. The producand Governor of Oahu; but never did enter- tary labour; but there is no one who cannottions of the country being of but trilling priz# terminate more unfortunately. The be bought off by a sum of money. Premed- 'value, as a matter of course the demand for brig, on board of which Boki embarked, was itated murder is the only crime that does not foreign goods must be unimportant. Comdriven off by a southerly gale—and was never admit of an equivalent in money, and is pun- merce is carried on almost exclusively by heard of after. The crew onhe other brig, ished with death; yet the premeditation can American or English ships, which come Harrietta, to the number of more thnn a be so easily set aside that the low becomes directly to Honolulu, or which touch at this hundred man, all perished of an epidemic a nullity. It demands two hundred dollars port eilher on Iheir passage from tlie repubbefore reaching their destination. It was for the life of a man, and every man who lics of ihe South Sea to China, or in going necessary to send a new crew from Honolulu, can command fifty dollars may commit a ilothe north-west coast of America and Calito take back the brig from Viti, or Feejee, rape. Hence it appears that morality is not jfornia. Some of these vessels dispose of where it bad been abandoned. fixed at a very high rale. In fine, the part their entire cargoes at Honolulu lo furnish At the present time affairs are almost in of the code with which civilization had todo, supplies for U.e wants for Ihe country; or they only store them, and wait for high prices the same condition as in 1832, Kauikeaouli is not the most moral. evidently seeks to shut his.eyes to the state 'Isafcire are three judges in Honolulu, and, in the markets of California in ordca»to one judge in each district. They live on transport them there. • •Bokl's expedition consisting of ihe brlas Kamehameha nnd A number ofAmerican Houses have been Becket, aalled Drn-uiber Soil, 16*9,jjssEßgbl 183*, as siaterl the perquisites of their office, and this is not above- Jl was Boki i expedition, ssSH ■)'■ ; the object a meager sum; for the fourth, and sometimes established some years in Honolulu. There wood, procure ssaalo Basils! not 10 Sovui a Dew kingdom. Thoilea objecleil in llokl's goinf ia perWsT, Cveii slier he had Ihe third of all the fines paid go to the judge. |nre four or five of them, and their business on board aail. Sandwich to fnna See Biafham'a Islands p..161, For example, if a married man commit adul-l is not extensive. There is only one English •Mi Jeeves' Ulster.v, p. 888 of the Orsi edition, p. 144of Ihe third—Te. tery with a married woman, each must pay''house, the business transactions of which are gedition, �75 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER* 1, 1850. of of little importance. French commerce hns remain exclusively in the hands of the na- and I know not what has become it. But the of a seems to me although opening the canal they acquire tives, but at before ages will pass appeared at the Sandwich Islands, more advantageous than (he construction long intervals. Chance only gave it this talent or the' courage to turn them to ac- far means of condirection, and no direct operation has been count. A people habituated to live fjoin of a railroad, yet this latter without an immense veyance would not be mouth, labour, since hand and almost without to undertaken in France with this country influence upon the conditionaof the Sandwich that which was entered upon in 1828, by a cannot be rendered industrious at once. Up nouse at Bordeaux, at the instigation oi to the present time agriculture has not ad- Islands; for lines of packets would doubtless Rives, Kainehameha's physician, who ac- vanced a step, and these fertile lands are be established forthwith, to ply between awaiting the industry which must make them Panama and ihe various ports of the Pacific. companied Rihoriho to England does Each native lives in his hut, productive. Islands Consumption at Ihe Sandwich Death of President Taylor. not amount to more than $100,001), the sum cultivates the quantity oftaro which he needs, total of importations, whether for consump- and contents himself wilh raising some fowls Late papers from the United States furnish 01)J. and hogs, which he sell to the ships which tion or storage, scarcely amounts to $201), full particulars of the last sickness and death The consumption consists of bleached and visit the islands; with the proceeds of these unbleached calicoes, prints, hardware, lum- sales lie pays his tax to the king, and pro- of the President of the United States. This ber, sugar, coffee, spirituous liquors, &x. cures for himself cloth and ardent spirits. melancholy event, causing a nation to mourn, The importation of articles of luxury is lim- But this resource belongs only to the aris- occurred July 9, at half-past 10 o'clock, p. m., ited to the consumption of five or six hundred tocracy, which has already become someafter a severe sickness of only five days. On Europeans or Americans living on the differ- what industrious. Beneath this class is the at the National monent Islands, and who are generally poor. great majority of the people, who still live July 4th he was present The Americans bring to the islands white as they lived before ihe discovery of the ument, and listened to an oration by senator and unbleached cottons, soap, ready-made islands, yet with much more wretchedness, Foote, but that evening was attacked with clothing, flour, rum, wines, and other French and wilh much higher rent to pay the chiefs. disease, which assumed the form of cholera It pertains then to the future to develope articles, &c. The English imports are comunited wisdom of eminent posed principally of calicoes, white cottons, the territorial and commercial resources oi morbus, which the not able to remove. During cordage, canvass, hardware, supplies for the Sandwich Islands. Situated in the cen- physicians was ocean, Lumber is from Now of the north Pacific are As brought great they &c. tre his illness he surrounded by his family ships, Zealand, and sugar from the Society Islands, a sort of resting place in the midst ofthis vast whose sorrow was great. sea, which separates India and China from or from Peru. The Vice President, Millard Fillmore, The Sandwich Islands furnish in exchange America. They will acquire importance in announced the President's death to officially relation the two between for these articles, provisions, sandal wood, n proportion as the small quantity of tuui-nut oil, which is of an continents shall be developed. Should the the Senate on Wednesday morning, July excellent quality for burning, perleclly clear isthmus of Panama be opened Ihe Sandwich 10th. and without smell, and money which they Islands would of necessity decoine one of the Fellow citizens of the Senate, and of receive of the ships that touch at the islands most interesting places on the globe, since the House of Representatives :—I have to for refreshment. But as soon as agricultural besides the resources which I have pointed perform the melancholy duty of announcing industry shall have developed the resources out, they would possess the advantage oi to you, thnt it has pleased Almighty God to of the islands, they will produce all colonial being sitnaled on the great route between remove from thin life Zachary Taylor, late commodities; and their commerce at present Europe and India; they would become the President of the United States who so limited, will increase in proportion to the naturaT entrepot, the station-point that com- last evening at the hour of half-past ten on this new route; increased productions of the islands. The merce will make for in the midst of his family, and suro'clock, most important commercial resource of the to this point will centre all the commerce oi rounded by affectionate friends, calmly, and islands at this time is the whale ships, which China, the Philippines, Chinese India, the in full possession of all his faculties. Among touch at Honolulu twice a year to repair north-west coast of America and California. his last words were these, which he uttered damage and procure supplies, which are Add to this advantageous situation, a fertile with emphatic distinctness: "1 have always cheap and very good. Fifty or sixty Amer- soil and salubrious climate, nnd there will be done my duty. I am ready to die. My ican whale ship's cUter the port of Honolulu no occasion to doubt that the Sandwich only regret is for the friends I leave behind annually, and twenty or twenty-five English Islands are destined to become a most im- me." whale ships. It is calculated that the ex- portant commercial station. Having announced to you, Fellow*citizens, pense of each whale ship for supplies, is not This future cannot be so far distant, as this most affecting bereavement, and assuring makbelieve. one might at first be disposed to less than $500 dollars each time; thus you that it has penetrated no heart with The idea of opening a canal across the isthing a sum total of 35 or $10,001). deeper grief than mine, it remains for me to Sandal wood has be*coino exceedingly mus of Panama is not new, and the pos- say, that I propose this day at 12 o'clock, in it is nehas been the hall of the House of Representatives, in scarce, so that in order to find any sibility of accomplishing the project cessary to go where the country is almost demonstrated more than once, whatever the presence of both houses of Congress, to impassable. During the first years of cutting knowing geologists may have said about it; take the oaths prescribed by the Constitusandal wood, the forests were cut down with- the supposed elevation of the Pacific above tion, to enable me to enter on the execution out any precaution. It was a treasure the the Atlantic,'which would endanger the of the office which this event has devolved value of which was unknown to the chiefs coasts of the other continent, is a chimera; upon me. Mili.abd Fillmore and abused by them when discovered. It is and if this fear were well founded, the diffiMR. WEBSTSR's EULOGY. now almost impossible to procure a fullcargo culty of restraining the water by means of On the morning of the 11th, the Hon. Danof this precious wood. If some order should dykes, could not be compared with the obbe observed in cutting the trees, it might in stacles to be overcome in opening the canal. iel Webster proHbunced the following eulogy a few years become a valuable article of Two years ago, the project of a canal pro- upon the late President. export; but this cannot be hoped for. The posed (o the government of New Granada, a Mr. Secretary; At the time when the great poverty of the chiefs, joined to the passions project well conceived, but unfortunately mass of our fellow citizens enjoy remarkable will them, in impracticable awakened for have been many which health and happiness throughout the whole aware that are with one of the was accontracting parties, prevent this, moreover they Divine Providence to the resource is about to fail them, and ihey cepted by that government. Immense ad- country, it has pleased the two houses of Congress, and espevisit accrued doubt 1 every vantages exhaust it to the contractor. possible in haste to make not that it would very cheerfully accede to cially this House, with repeated occasions » manner. and lamentation. Sine* the Rut the greatest riches of.these islands, as a proposition of the same kind, if it could for mourning commencement ofthe session we have folthe be of the of the in only stated, is concealed assured execution proalready have I to their last home, ject, by the morality and ability of the com- lowed two of earflf, and only the industry of Europeans we are in conjunction upon, and nasflilled comshould undertake the magnificent pany that and Americans can draw it forth for neh of the Legislature, and with the othß far from It is not possessenterprise. is since an American long for the population merce; in full syropanPHth the deep tone of afflicing the pc/severance and energy which are company proposed to construct a railroad Panama; on tion which I am sure is felt throughout all the large agricultural from Chagres to but the project necessary to carry, came with the lands of the athwart this If success. canal enterprise, ( Contimfd on page 78.) establishments " deceased - ... ' �76 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 1, 1850 to go "aloft" he must go ashore: but where? was ill-treated, curttd or ill used; never mir thr To "Little Greenwich," no, he is not an time there was not enough to eat on board, and HONOLULU, OCTOBER 1, 1850 Englishman, but a foreigner. He may work thut which wan good ami nutritious ($o long as for*the Englishman, but if sick and crippled, the ship could obtain it), nor have I ever been Two Living Facts. The world rings with praises upon the recent he must hobble and beg, like his Portuguese punished, nor have J ever seen any one punbrother. This too, is wrong !It is unjust ished without just cause." achievement of English and American Diplo! vesselj should not! We have met with many more, who, almatists, in negotiating the treaty securing the it is inhuman English bo allowed to ship foreign seamen under the. though unuhle to write in so full ami confident existing free navigation laws, between the British unless tlio law protect and pro- lungtiuge what Captain S. has written, yet flag, two great commercial nations. Great good vide for seamen when sick and crippled have felt injured that their characters should those will no doubt, thereby result to commerce, and numerous merchants become princely Reader, il vim chance to meet in the streets be brought under suspicion, and their moof Honolulu the poor Portuguese, hobbling tives misrepresented in consequence of the rich; but it is a sad pity, that common juson three legs, nr the poor Lascar hobbling on base and ill-tempered conduct of sonic tice cannot be meted out to the foreign seagive him a shilling, or a sovereign, drunken master who took delight in ahusini.four, men tailing under the respective flags of the which is inoro than the Amcricun or British Ins men, and through meanness put them two countries. Cannot British ministers, do upon short allowance of poor provisions Consular are allmrrd to Representatives law, some or and American statesmen frame in their official capacity. Wo hope to witness The general remark ofshipmasters upon tinnegotiate tome treaty, for the protection of thote seamen of other countries, who are still greater improvements in the Navigation subject is, " If there are such masters, mean. cruet, and tyrannical, publish their names, induced to ship on board English and Amer- Laws nl'the two countries. now referred to, let us know who they arc, and not reproach Cases similar to theso ican vessels. Not, however, to deal in genthe whole profession." They argue, let us eralities, for, according to Ihe old Saxon aie constantly occurring in this, and every be visited and Amcricun treated us landsmen are treated. Tins port by shipEnglish proverb, one fact is worth awhousand arguhave, and shall stil! aim to do. It is we n subject demanding speedy. ping. two be worth will ments, and, of couise, We should publish the communication humane, action, and at the just legislative twice that number. The First. This day, September (ilh, two hands of English and American law-makers. just received entire, had we not ulieiidv published a long Review " of the same articles crippled sailors have visited our sanctum, on IC/'Wc have received n long communicaand were not our columns so crowded, as errands similar to that, which near eighteen tion of twenty foolscap pages, from Captain are, at present. It is gratifying to set they hundred years ago, brought a certain cripple Sninllcy, master of the Minerva, giving his the with which our seafaring cordexterity to the gate of Solomon's temple, " which is thoughts most freely upon a series of articles a pen as well as handle wield respondents called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that .published in the columns of the Friend u harpoon. entered into the temple." Now for a brief in 1817, and entitled " Wants of Seamen." A Sailor's Thought. history of these two crippled, sons of Nop- These articles, but especially No. 3,•" Scutune. One is a Portuguese, native of the men need better (povcrnincnt," anil No. 3, We have received a communication from Western Islands. He was taken from his "Seamen need better Fare," have given a seaman on board the " Minerva, ' entitled home in the Atlantic, and brought into the "Thoughtsconcerning treatment of* Sailors.' great offence to many masters of whale-ship* The article contains some excellent thoughts Pacific, on condition of receiving about the in the Pacific. Having conversed with scores "2Qoth lay," on board an American whale of masters in regard to the unifies, having He seems to be of Ihe opinion that sailors are not quite so much aHksv*d at sou as they •hip. Ere long rick nnd lame, the captain published a Review of them !>) a master of puts him ashore in Honolulu, hiring an ir- a whale-ship, (sec Friend, December 1848), are represented to bo. This is quite remarkretponfiblo man for $30 to take caie of him and now having this lung communication he- able for one before Ihe mast. "It is very until he tccovered ! But why docs he not fore us, it is our desire to see justice done to easy, he remarks, " for man to see wrong where lie is not concerned; and in positions go to the U. S. Hospital, with Yankee sea- nil parties, Il the remarks ofthe anther of men ? Oh, he is u foreigner without an where lie is concerned he is apt to consider those articles, in regard to the government himself very near right. Most men ure very American protection ! Months pags away, of seinnen, their liontincnt and fare bo willing to represent Ihe sufferings of sailors he does not recover, but he docs suffer from taken as to all masters, and nil os referring hunger, and want of medical care. Erelong very great, but little do they think of makindiscriminately, n decidedly wrong ing a tew friends subscribe anil pay his board, ships, him happy on shore I think the crosses while recovering from the amputation of In impression would be given. The sins of a I experience at sea would be overlooked leg, which the surgeon cuts off gratis. He few should not be visited upon tin: many. very easily by me were 1 to meet a kind rehas no trade, and must live upon charity, but There aro scverul hundred American ship- ception while on shore." Toko a hint reader, would rejoice to return to hit native shores. masters in the Pacific, and not a lew of them and not give tho sailor a " cold shoulder," No United States officer, commodore or would be justly indignant nt being classed and then be heard to bewail poor Jack's misconsul has power to send him homo, or to a with the suppotrd tijranl described in No ii, fortunes and hardships when he is off soundport in the United States, or even to pay a Captain iunalley is one of them, and hence ings penny for hit support. This it wrong ! It has taken up his pen in good earnest to repel DONATIONS. it unjust ! It is inhuman ! American ves- the insinuation or imputation; and* well he I t„at Krlan R** Cai- N'. w< II, of inn Sua llree; $•• <« 00 sels ought not to be allowed to induce foreign may, being able to record respecting himself, ■In s ||, v. JAloerva 5 00 Login, •In Mclterann, seamen to ship under tl;o United States flag, " having during fourteen successive years of I'riri.d 111 K"lialti, Ilawsli. 1.(0 I r« A 1 00 unless the law protect and provide for them eueiieuce, passed through the necessary snllor of the Minerva, and when tick STRANGF IED'S UND. grades, necessary to qualify me to (ukc comdisabled^ O Beutrmbrr 1*1, •9 0(1 The other living fact it t the shape of a mand of a ship, namely, boat-stoercr, third, On Conltlbutetl by Rev. Mr. Otitic*, 10 00 J Oellck, Mr. 10 00 if Lascar minus his two lejE were lost second, and first officer's berth, and during •>t 00 while in the employ of an English shipowner. that period having sailed in many different eUpeesM, II (HI Being no longer useful on board, and unns.de ships, and many with different men, / never Oa kud, »a»lTHp>ejJsW •. IS 00 THE FRIEND, " " " • ,i Brno N •» �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 1. 1860. 77 sr- ■ m.. ™»- Whale Ships Keturning.—Although 30 bushels. They also obtained various at noon, the hove to off the Umqua River, comparatively few of the large whaling floet written documents, books, clothing and at jiaw a schooner at anchor inside, and shortly was boarded by a whale-boat from the river, about Bherings' Straits, have arrived, yet quantity of excellent cordage; the hawsers in which was Dr. Fisk, Messrs. Brinesmaid, are now in use on board Farrell, Eugenbroop and others, who rethe most favorable reports are brought re- were well specting the success of nearly all the vessels the Splendid. ported that the schooner inside wat the Samwh eh have been cruising in that region.— Capt. Pearson hat kindly given us a small uel Roberts, from San Franoitco, with a WinThose vessels which have arrived took most quantity of the Japanese beans, and should party under the auspices of Messrs. chester and Payne. A Mr. Scott from Co- of their oil this season in the Anadir Sea, 'any gardner or planter upon the islands de- lumbia River was also one of the party in among "tho tumbling mountains of ice." jsire to obtain any of them for seed, let him the boat. The above gentlemen informed Whalemen report that they never saw whales apply at tho Chaplain's study. Captain Knox that they had found 1% feet on the bar at low water, and 20 at high water. more lame and easily taken. This might be were surveying the river, intending to They inferred from the fact that as yet wo have proceed up the river as far as they could get a m o n g s u p o r t SWehwaioltdFhnfe riend! not heard of a single death, or accident, ocin the schooner. The S. R. had been into casioned by the upsetting of boats, and other In former years during the Fall shipping Rogue's River some time previout, and had mishaps which bo frequently occur, when (he season, seamen have been invited to con- lost two teamen by the overturning of a boat on the bar. The latitude of the mouth of the whales are timid and wild. One ship reports, tribute a small amount to support the Friend. river is 43, 41, 16N., longitude 134, 04 W that at one time ne.re than twenty ships were We ore under necessity of again calling for Captain Knox subsequently made a river just seen "boiling out;" another, (hat for many Hid; but in asking seamen to lend a helping north, and close to Capo Gregory. It apdays they hud ice around them nnd uetunlly hand, we have adopted a plan that in several peared to have a wide entrance, and well in contact with the vessol, yet experienced instances has been well received. We pro- sheltered from south and south-west winds— open to tho N and W. From appearances no essential inconvenience; another that, pose paying back in bound volumes of the Captain X would think there was good water ono day thirty ships were seen entering Bher- Friend theafull amount of a sailor's subscrip- on the bar. About eight miles NW b"y W, ings' Straits. We are not aware, thai up to tion. We have buck volumes on hand for 1, by compass, from the rock off Capo Mendothis dute (Sep. 'M) (here is the arrival of a 2, H, 4, and f> years. Any person subscrib- cino, there is a sunken ledge on which the vessel, which has cruised within the Straits. ing $1 50 receives a volume for one year; water breaks occasionally. Vessels passing tho Cape should give it a berth of about nine and $'l two volumes, and so on. Last week miles, although a vessel may pass inside of They may be expected this month. No reports, as yet, respecting exploring wo supplied the Splendid " with bound vol- it, and near the Cape, but the ground is very vessels, in search of Franklin. umes amounting to $35,00, and the "Logan" broken.—Ma California. to $19,00 worth. In this way we hope durI'ur ihe Kritnil. the season to raise an amount sufficient The Medal of Col. Fremont.—The ing Hawiian Ordination. An Mil KoiToa:—On (ho 25(h inst, the Rev. to pay our current expenses, printer's bill, National Intelligencer publishes the correspondence between Hon. Abbot Lawrence, Stephen Wuimulu was ordained pastor over tiiudei's bill, h.c, &c. At present, however, U.S. Minister at London, and Col. Fremont, tho church arfd people of Waianao. He has there is a debt of at least $300 upon the in which the former officially announces -the been preaching to them as a licentiuto for Friend. As we have never made an appeal honour conferred upon the latter in Ihe betwo or three years past; and they recently to our sen-faring readers, when we did not s(owment of a medal by the Royal Geographical Society of Britain, in tesgave him a cull to settle among them as their meet with a generous response, we hope not timony of thoir souse Great his eminent services of (o pastor, and have pledged Ihenibelvcs raise to be disappointed in the present instance, in in promoting the cause of geographical sciantiuully for his support, tho sum of 150 dol- in as much as every contributor, is entitled ence. Mr. Lawrence says in his letter : lars. Mr Waimalii is (he (bird na(ive, who to the value ofbis subscription in bound vol" I can assure you that I felt a proud satisfaction in having the opportunity of being at umes. We would respectfully invite mashas been ordained la preach tho gospel present at tho annual meeting of the society, ten months. ters (with full ships), to co-operate with us in and thnso Islnnds within the last receiving tnis complimentary testimonial The following Clergymen, each accompa- carrying out this plnn. Wo had of late some of merit ton citizen of the United States, nied by I delegate, were present, and took warm assurances from our sea-faring readers who has done so much not only in the cause part in the exercises on that interesting oc- that the Friend was ever a welcome visitor of science, but in every department of duty to which ho has been called to promote the church at on ship board. casion. Rev. A. Bishop, honour of his country. It is my fervent hope Ewa; Rev. E. W. Clark, from the Ist church It j "Donations and Subscriptions received that your life may be long spared to enjoy in Honolulu; Rev. L. Smith, from the ad for tho support of the Friend by the Rev. Mr. your well onrned fame in science, and that church in Honolulu; Rev. P. J. Gulick.fiom Taylor, at Lahnina, and Rev. Mr. Coan, at your success in your new and high position may be commensurate with the name and Wainlua; and Rev. James Kekcla, from the Hilo. fame acquired by arduous labour, in your church at Kahuku. Surveying cruise of the "Massachusetts" brief but brilliant career." Sermon hy Mr. ("lark, from I Cor. 4, 6. The U.S. Stcnin Propeller "Massachusetts," is"Thessrao"t—rJheimnweia xix.23 Consecrating prayer, by Mr. Gulick sailed from litis port on the tit h of April last, having on board n joint commission of army Charge to ihe Pastor, by Mr. Emith. A funeral sermon, with the above words nuvy officers, sent out by tho GovernRight hand of fellowship by Mr. Kekela. and ment to examine tho coast of, tho United for a text, we learn was preached Septembei Charge to the church by Mr. Bishop. Stales lyipg upon the Pacific Ocean. Dur- 15th at Lahainu, at the Bethel, by the Rev Concluding prayer, hy Mr. Waimalu. ing her absence she has visited the coast Mr. Taylor. The occasion was the death of Yours respectfully, lying between Sun Francisco and the straits two young men, why were drowned August Sept 30, 1850. L. SMITH. of Juan do Fuca and Puget's sound. From 30th, about one weok before their ship l thence she proceeded to Beaver harbor, on Return," reached Lahaina; their Japanese Junk.—The Am. whale ship the north coast of Vancouver's Island, where "Good she herself with coals mines names were Jota Briggs, aged 33, Dan fell with a from the supplied in last, JapaApril Splendid, in tho and on her in vicinity, return touched nt moulli, Mass., and John Brason, aged 90, nese Junk drifting at sea, rudderless and Cape Flattery, or Neat harbor, and Columbia Micro without any parson on board. On visiting River. She sailed from thence on the jst of belonging to Monroe, Monroe of was a full attendance eeamen rice beans. Of and the wreck they found August, examining in her course downward* 3 M the latter, (hey (oofc .way between V» and the coast and rivers. On the 6th of Augutt, in port — " . . • co., ■- �78 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 1, 1850. men, as good men for counselors as he country, to lake part in the solemnities of (het those who have a great extent of frontier to wise called whose funeral obsequies we now propose to funeral of the lata President of the Unites)*■defend with irregular troop; being and to celebrate. Slates. Truly, sir, was it said in the com-1suddenly into contact with savages, munication read to us, that a great man has istudy the habits of savage life and savage New Book. fallen amongst us. The late President of the iwar, in order to forsee and overcome their Dick and Port: or incidents to make these tend of a Cruise in All by things a soldier professtrategems. States, originally United the U. S. to California. Frigate Congress, a very a and character for short splenhardly military sion, having gone through long With sketches of Rio Janerio, Valparaiso, did career of military service, had at the close |period. ofthe late war with Mexico become so much Sir, I had a connection with the Executive Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco. By endeared to the people of the United States, i Government of this country, and all that time Rev. fValter Colton, U. S. JY., Author of and had inspired them with so much, and very perilous and einbarnssing circumstances "Ship and Shore," tec. JVeto York, 1860 with ao high a degree of regard and conn- iexisted between the United States and the The title of this book resembles an honest dence, that without solicitation or application, Indians on our borders, and the war was man's face, being a true index of the conwithout pursuing any devious paths of policy, actually raging between the United States tents within. The reader must not expect to or turning a hair's breadth to the right or and the Florida Tribes; and I very well releft from the path of duty, .a great and pow- imember that those who took counsel together be surprized by startling assertions or wonerful and generous people saw fit, by popular on that occasion officially, and who were derful discoveries, but he will not be disapvote and voice to confer upon him the highest i desirous of placing (he military command in pointed if his wishes are bounded by the circivil authority in the nation. We cannot ithe safest hands, came to the conclusion that cle of agreeable and entertaining reading.— forget that at in other inttances, so in this, the ithere was no man in tho service more fully public feeling was carried away in a degree, uniting the qualities of military ability and He will find himself sailing along at übout by the eclat of military renown. So it has | great personal prudence than Zachary Tay- seven knot per hour. Although a long voybeen always and so it will always be, because jlor; and he was of course appointed to the age may be tedious nnd monotonous, yet our high respect for noble feats in arms has been, command. author has succeeded most remarkably in not and always will be outpoured from the hearts Unfortunately his career at the head ofj transferring the dull monotony of the voyage of tho members of a popular government ; ithis government was short. For my part, in but if will be a great mistake £> suppose that all I have seen of him, I have'lofnd much to to tho pages of his book. He does not task the late President of the United States owed respect and nothing to condemn. The cir- the mental powers ofhis readers, neither albis advancement to the civil trust, or his great cumstances under which he conducted the low them an excuse for dozing, although acceptability with the people, to military government for the few months he was Btthe swinging in a Mexican hammock, after dinhead of it, have been such as not to give him talent or ability alone. with the that associated a very favourable, certainly not u long op- ner, with the thermometer at 100°. Some believe, sir, I highest admiration for those qualities posses- portunity of developing his principles and his may imagine it on easy matter to write a erfhy him, thero was spread throughout the policy, and to carry them out. 1 believe ho diary at sea, yet, the writer must possess some country a high degree of confidence and faith has left on the mind of the country a strong raro qualities to compose a diary worthy of in his integrity and uprightness as a roan. impression, first of his absolute honesty nnd Mr. Colton howI believe he was especially regarded both as integrity of character, and ol his good sense; being printed, nnd read. a firm and mild man, in the exercise of au- and lastly, of the mildness, kindness, and ever has succeeded in this difficult, but imthority and I have observed more than once friendliness of his temper towards all his agined easy style of writing. Many n reader in this and other popular governments, that countrymen. But he is gone, he is ours no of Addison's Spectator has imagined that ho tho' prevalent motive with the masses of man- more, except in the force of his example. because the Sir, 1 heard with infinite delight the senti- could write in Addisonian style, kind for conferring high power upon individwere the so perfect, periods so uals, is a confidence in their mildness, in ments expressed by my honorable friend from sentences has rejust Louisiana, whowriter's style so which are rounded and the regarded (Mr. Downs) smoothly their parental protection, at of a sure and a tafe character. The peo- sumed his seat, when he prayed that this transparent, yet the imitator has soon shown ple naturally feel safe when under the con- event might be used to soften the animosities, that it is one thing to admire the great Engtrol and protection of sober counsel —men of to allay party criminations, and restore felimpartial minds and a general parental su- lowship and good feeling among Ihe various lish essayist, hut another to write as Addison perintendence. I suppose, sir, no case ever sections of the Union. Mr. Secretary, great wrote. Hundreds of scribblers may fancy it happened in the very first dijys of the Roman as is our loss to day, if these inestimable and an easy matter to write the diary of a Cape Republic, where any man found himself inappreciable blessings shall have been se- Horn voyage, but not one in a thousand will clothed with the highest authority in the state, cured to us even by the death of Zachary the "Congress" has under circumstances more repelling all sus- Taylor, they have nol been purchased at too do what the Chaplain ol the all a and his from rewrite a if diary that wilkdelight a landsdone, suspicion high price, spirit picion of personal application, of pursuing any crooked paths in politics, or gion to which it has ascended could see these man. • of all suspicion of having been actuated by results—could see that he has entwined a over the pages of " Deck and In glancing he crown, case laurel a martyr's around sinister views and purposes, than in the soldier's of the worthy, and eminent, and distinguished would say exultingry—" Happy am 1 that by Port" we have been delighted to observe how aad good man whose death we now deplore. my death I have done more for that country numerous were the topics that may be graceHe has now left to the people of his country which I have loved and served, than I did or fully touched upon by the pen of a " ready a legacy in this; he hat left them a bright could do by all the devotion and all the efforts writer during a long voyage without des" example which addresses itself with peculiar that I could make in her behalf during the cending to the scandal and gossip of shipforce to the young and rising generation; short space of my earthly existence." for it tells them that there is a path to the Mr. Secretary, great as this calamity is, board. If disposed we might point out some highest renown, straight, onward, without we mourn, but not as those without hope. few paragraphs which, in our poor judgment, We have seen one eminent man and another might as well have remained in manuscript, change or deviation. Mr. Secretary—My friend from Louisiana, eminent mss,, and at lust a man in the most Mr. Downs, has detailed shortly the eventsi eminent station, fall away from the midst of closely shut in the Chaplain's portfolio; of in the military career of Gen. Taylor. Hiei us, but I doubt not there is a power above this he seems aware and prepares ihe readicrvices through his life were mostly on the us, exercising over us that parental care that er's mind by the following remark in the pre(rentier, and always a hard service, often in has marked our progress for so many years. face, "It undoubtedly contains company with the tribes of Indians, all along I have confidence still that the place of the a the frontiers for so many thousands ofmiles. departed-will be supplied, that the kind bene- which may seem light and irrelevant; but It has been justly remaaked by one of the ficial favor of Almighty God will still be with diary has privileges in thi-i respect, wltiteh most eloquent men whose.voice was ever os, and that we shall be borne along, up- are not extendedto compositions of a graver heard in these houses, that i is not in In- ward and onward, on the wings of sustaining character." dian wars that heroes are celebrated v but it providence. is there that they are formed. The hard serMay God grant that in the time there ia It will be recollected by tome of our readvice, the stern discipline, devolving upon i befere as, there may not be wanting to us ers, that on board <be "Congress," the U. , I i i i . i < ' �THE FRIEND, .OCTOBER i, 79 1860- S. Commissioner, Mr. Ten Eyck, and U. S. for one, 1 should not like to see a woman of their mind, and bringing them into captivity to Satan; and yet they are free to deat me with a frying-pan. Consul, Mr. Turrill with Iheir families came coming Our batteries, in their black paint, look nounce that captivity, and brand it as the Islands. as passengers to the Sandwich solid and uncompromising. Their threaten- source of nil their degradation and misery. To afford our readers an opportunity to ing strength reminds one of the terrific lines Their loathing spirits, touched with a divin"Who shall deliver ut judge of the character of the work, we shall, of Campbell, in the Battle of the Baltic:— er life, often exclaim, and "When each gun, from this of sin death. body the,book copy almost at random,) (opening ' Wo were to-day, at From lis adamantine lipe, Dec. Monday, 16. ihe author's diary for one week, during tho Spread a death-shaderound live sbiee 12 o'clock, in lat. 15° 46* long. 86° 48' w Lise ttut hurricane's eclipse passage from Norfolk to Rio: We have run within the last five days a or ibe sun." Thursday, Dec 11. A delicate question Saturday, Dec 13. A booby was seen thousand miles, nnd ore now within six hunof discipline occurred to-day. The master's''last evening, at dred snd sixty miles of Rio. Three or four sunset, circling around our mate of the gun-deck, finding the captain of, 'masts. He was looking where he should days more, nnd we shall probably be at rest the main-top behind the rest in lashing and light when it should become sufficiently dark. in one of the most magnificent bays in the stowing his hammock, ordered him to clean He lives on what he can'find in the sea, but world. Our ship is in prime condition for the bell, —n menial service, and intended as prefers a spar to a wave on which to roost. displaying her symmetry and strength. She a punishment. The captain of the main-top, He has sense enough to know that when is indebted for this to the experience and acknowing the order to be illegal and deroga- asleep, the fish may avenge upon him some tivity of our captain and first lieutenant.— tory to his position, declined compliance. of the wrongs which he inflicts. But he is, They are thorough in the details of ship duty, He was reported to the officer of the deck after all, a very stupid fellow. He secures and are sustained by efficient officers. To and confined. All I his had taken place with- his prey often at the expense of his life, and keep a man-of-war trig, taxes the profoundout the knowledge of the first lieutenant or that, too, when there is no necessity for it. patience and energy. It requires an eye the commander. When known to them, the If a little billow casts a dead fish on a rock, at sees svery thing, and a fidelity that nefacts were promptly inquired into. I felt he poises over it for a moment to be sure of glects nothing. .» some interest in seeing how Captain Dv Posit hit mark, and plunging down, head first, I taw this morning, at daybreak, an old would dispose of the question. dashes his ssVnorains out; very much like a tar standing alone on the forecastle. His The illegality of an order, though it may politician who rushes so hard upon an office stalwart form rose in bold reliefon the brightmitigate the offence, cannot for a moment that he destroys himself in its attainment.— ening sky. His dark locks flowed out from justify disobedience. Such a doctrine would The senate is, in this case, the rock on which under bis tarpaulin upon the wind. Hia large make every man a judge in his own case, and his little craft splits. deep eye was fastened on the sun as it came overthrow discipline. He must obey the or- We are now approaching the region of whirling up in splendor-out of tho sea. His der, and seek redress at its proper source.— dolphins, porpoises, sharks, and small whales. large sinewy arms were extended, as if to The offender saw his error, as exhibited to Our sailors are rigging Iheir honks and har- welcome some being that inspired reverence him by Captain Dv Pout, and said he should poons. It will he difficult for any thing that and love; when Milton's sublime apostrophe submit to any punishment which the govern- comes near us to escape (heir glittering steel. to light rolled in solemn emphasis from his ment of the ship required. Thot was enough; Their hostility falls mostly on the shark.— lips:— he was one of our best men, this his first of- They regard him as a grave robber. He "Hail,hob l.i«ht offspring of Heaven, Ant horn Or nl ihe eternalco-eternal heam ! fence, nnd Captain Dv Pont very properly can expect no mercy. The loudest note of May las press ibee anblanted I sine* Oodle lifkl, at once restored him to duly. Now what exultation 1 ever heard on board a man-ofAnd never but In iHiapurnacbett light. would hove been the moral effect of inflict- war, was when one of these fellows was Dwell iWim eternity, dwell then lv Ibee, some, on that a in brought on hoard. "There," said a rough man,'nt ing chastisement Bright affluence of bright essence Incrente." spirit of haste, might have done. It might sail, "you have been prowling about here to Tuesday, Dec 16. This is beautiful sailhuve broken bis ambition. It would certain- get n oab nl us, and have got nabbed your- ing; a soft, balmy atmosphere, smooth sea, ly have reduced him (o n ln»h-level with the self—you old blood-sucker! " There are and a breeze that carries us seven and eight hardened culprit. It would have relieved three beings that can expect no mercy in knots the hour. We have not taken in our punishment of some portion of tho shame misfortune, —n rot, a tyrant, nnd a shark.— sluddiug-sails for several days; while our which attaches to it. The bad always exull Of the three I would soonest spare the rat; I royals seemed to have entered into an agreewhen they see any portion of (heir disgrace .always associated something respectable with ment with our broad pennant to ttand or transferred (o the good; therefore never pun- his long tail. But let that pass. come down together. The day is not darkish a good faithful sailor for the first offence Sunday, Dec ened by clouds, nnd the night is filled with We have had the 14. nwninto which he may be betrayed, if there is the sort light of the moon. The stars come and have held divine service.— ing spread, any way of getting round it. Lei his virtues All joined in, nnd sung Old Hundred to the out from die blue vault of heaven, nndblaze with a distinctness nnd force that makes each " l'leatl fur liim like sn«els, trumpei-ltiiifueil." three hymn commencing with (he lines*— liatl, We have for one seem some central source ofexhaustless Dec. '•Otnl the awful sens, <if Friday, 13. lliinc voice Bids all Ihe roaring waves rrj<-lce." and unquenchable splendor. Of this high days, ihe regular trade-wind from the souththe way; to him the eye east, and have been running under royals The impressiveness of a service at sea is host Jupiter leads knots sailor as that of the Moslem to seven to ten to tho isolation lof the turns in owing, part, from of on and studding-sails, those that en the minaret of his at hoard. the crescent glows There is nothing around lo distract the hour. The thermometer has ranged 75, the sir has been balmy, and (he sky free ihe attention, or win a diverted thought.— prophet. ofclouds. What a contrast to (he weather Around rolls or rests the melancholy main— An officer to-day, after reprimanding « of the line,—where a cloud gathered before above stretches the blue heaven,and overall snilor for some alleged neglect of duty, told you could turn your eye, nnd where showers reigns that Supreme Intelligence, at whose him to go forward; that he was such a perfell like water from some vastj-eservoir.witb fiat resplendent worlds rolled from chaotic fect nondescript that he did not know what night. All is vast and awful, like that state to do with him. So forward Jack went,mutthe bottom suddenly knocked out! of being into which we are ushered at death. tering to himself nondescript—what doss that hard a dolphin, by pressed flying-fish, A He It is this thatfiiakes the sailor religious, and mean? "Here, Wilkins," said ha, "can deck of our on tho ship. took refuge sea, the for inspires him with respect for all the great you tell me what nondescript means? the might as well have remained in nondescript, he was instantly secured by oce of our sail- troths which throw their light through the officer of the deck called me a wtiat it means—someof the to know to a want passennight grave. him I lady and ors, and presented by for be was mighty anger, who, with too littl* feeling, fried and ole The errors and vices of'the sailor seldom thing bad; I suppose, Wilkins, "I don't know said ofberesult from No," had the" satisfaction never met with skepticism. gry." I is ell true'he " him. he can Shades, one who or what it call Tim perhaps premeans; which was denied doubted a the existence of ing eaten by lady, latter was a sort person a the Now God, a of the this dolphin.— by wickedness human heart, tall you." ferable to being swallowed perhaps as How many frantic lovers there are who would or the realities of a future state. They seem of ship's dictionary, nnd thoughmeaning for like to bo eaten up by their mistress! Be- to think a man's impulses may be wrong, ignorant as any on board, had a So it besides. to of while the main a renton in fin* thing, he is and dispose good. The spirit is every sides, it is in much better taste nondescript one's self in this way, than making a plunge willing, but tho flesh is weak. They have a Tim Shades came. "What does Our into the eea to feed a hungry shark. Still, law in their members warring against the law mean?" inquired the aggrieved aailor. — Mt • • ' �THE FRIEND/OCTOTOTT, 1850. 80 Ocean, tS moa oar, 3300 whale, 70 sperm. PASSENGERS. lexicographer teemed at first a litHe puzzelI)—Am wh sh.p Zephyr, Sherman, 360 tons, fm Lahallia, Par Breach Athen, Im California, Y'ienherg, W I Mrraburfta. ed; but toon settling hit features into oracu.'�moa out, 200 whale, fcOO sperm. Per Am acta Anonynin, fni ran Frauclacu, L E M»>uafd7 E 14—Am bg Furmnln, Hasty, 109 tons, 14 its fm San Fran L Pond. lar solemnity, replied:—"Nondescript means Sept 16—Am slip Flavins, Rotters, 896 is, 15 do dv Par Am hj Porlunlo, fin San Kranciaco, C W Cannon, fc V 16—Br ach Enigma, rttavers, 101 Is, 66 ds fm Hong Kong. Rnbtnann, one who gets into heaven without being regH Mnnilln 16—Br wh bk Ranger, Deberry, 23 mos, 780 bbls an. Per Am ahp Flavin*, fm San Pranrlsco, 8 Peck, J Maa*e. entered* on the "Is that all books." ularly 17—Am ahp Wisconsin, Muaifuld, 941 tons, 14 dsJTin SP. Per Br arh Ktitgma, I'm Hong Kong, S 0 llnrarley. shp Superior, 87 Sloan, 17—Am wh it means?" ejaculated the offended sailor; mos, 2600 wb,7osp. Per Am ahp J Q Adama, E A II Dale, S V Marah.cU 17—Am wh shp Logan, Nickers,,n, 34 m0a,900 wh ioOap Per Mai Don Carloa.fiu Onion. F Keikhlein, Aqual, F "well,.well, 1 shall be glad to get there any la—Am wh shp Fablua. Wing, 15 moa, 2750 wh, SO sp. Melchera. b| s shp 18—Am 36 2900 Neva, Case, wh ap. 50 moa, wh as*l am." Were there Par M'Farlnne, Sarah way, poor sinner fm Ban Franrinro. J llavue, E II 18—Am wh ahp Levant, Lowen, 35 moa, MVOwh. Tnwwaend, F WaleraillHi, l.ucwaav.n. more of the spirit of this sailor among secta19—Am ahp JO. Adams, Nickels, 661 la. 16. ds fm San F. 20—Am ach Penelope, Sherman, 15 dafm San Francisco, rians, there would be less altercation about MARRIED. consigned lo W A Aldrich. Sept 21—Mex bg Don Carina,Guerrero, 132 Is, 60 ds Im Canton In Honolulu, Sept. »6 by Rev. S C. Dsinon, Mr. T. Bust, the right road, and quite at much speed. 25—Am bga Sarah M'fnrlaud, Tslhot, H7 Is, 17 da from tv HimlUna Kala ai. Dec 17. Another hundred Ban Francisco. 26—Am sch Maria, ilobron, 93 ts, fin Lahalna. DIED. es of the distance that separated us from •56—Am wh shp D Webster, Meader, ftn Talcahuano ,27 Al Cincinnati, O, on the I*l July, I8"0. il m advance.! age mos out, 1000 wh. 350 ap. Rio has been left behind. Four hundred Jtsas B. Howi.ii lather nf R H. Howliii, Usq. ~f Ihia place 27—Am wh shp Mluerva, Smaltey, full,bound home. At SI. Loula.Mo, or cholera, Mra. Smith, wile of Mr. I". miles more remain to be traversed. The SO—Am wh shp Columbia, Sweeny, 9 whales, nearly full. Smith, former!* a resident aliheae Islands. On board ahip J. Q. Adams, on her passage fiom Han finabreeze is extremely light, directly aft, and Cleared. clwo, Mr. ANTHoa, from China, lute supercargo of die brig our studding-sails on both sides, below and Aug 80— Am ach Pedemonte, Stilus, for Manilla. Frolic, which was loai on her passage from China to CaliforHelen S. Page, Church. Auckland, NZ nia, aa furmedy reported aloft, are out. We are under a cloud of.Sept31—Brbk 2—Am wh sh Romulus, Hull, Hystlc. In Hie city of New York, Thomas O I.iukiv, Esq of San 3—Amah Washington, Cole. Calcutta. canvas, which hangs over our frigate like Francisco, formerly American Consul in California Mr. Sept s—Am Sch Betty Bliss, Rollins, for Tahiti. lilii ttu well known here, and waa an enlerprlalng man I.arthe brooding wingsof the cherubim over the 6—Am ach Dart, Porter, Fort Victoria. I'rraiilenl of the San Francisco and Pannma Steamship Co. and ' fVKDNESDAY, . . ' 6—Rue bg Baikal Kllnkofstrom, Sitka. In England, In June, the world-renowned Siamese twina. sanctuary of the atk. But here I fear the bk Frances,Marr, llnbnrltown. Upon a poai ninrletn examination it was found that ay t«i parallel must stop. We have the sacred.Sepl 9—Br 11—Br bg Corsair, Neal, Tahiti. connection existed between iliein through the connecting im«16—Antach Sparlncus. Harris, I.shsinn. gument, ai the result of the unique death proved. tables, it is true, and the commandments iff 18—Am bg Fortunio, Hasty, Nlihau. Oil board ship Bpl«nliil„nii tier paaaage from Guam to the scribed on them, bula»where is the soul-ab-1Sept 20—Brbk Auriga, Harries. Hong Kong. north, April gO, John, and 24, Jot, Sandwich Islanders. The* J 21—Am ahp u Calcutta Adams, Mttklce, shipped at Honolulu, onn yearago. sorbing reverence the) should inspire? 1 21—Am ahp Wisconsin. Mumford, HongKong. On board ship Bplendld, Joseph C»st«o, a native of Guam All hands are at work getting our ship 24—Am shp Huntress, Crocker, VafvpajAo. At sea, Mann 15, of dysentery, on hoard ahip Mazeppa on 25—Haw sch Btarliug, Bnurgoise, v her paaaage from Honolulu, to Valparaiso, Gum ok c Wibready for port. She is being scoured from 25—Am bk Sea flieeae, Newrll, Hong Kong. steh. a unlive of Salem, Mass, aged 22 years. stem to stern, outside and in. Every soil on A I Charles' Island, one of the fiallipagos group, on lllc Sd of *ugnal,Oa|il.Tno«. Wilson, master of the English whale PORT OF LAHAINA. her paint is obliged to yield to soap and clean ship Ranger. A Pill.lojl, Me , A prll 19.18 9, Mr weatherstain on her Arrived. water; and every rigl He waa the father of five sins,Gkrsiiom Cox. aged 84 years. whoare well known a» bg Juno, Byram, fm Honolulu. ship ging is removed. She will look neat as a A'lg 2-2—Am masters in the Paclllc.. One of the sons, Wm. 23—Am sch Montlcello, ChaiAeld, 17 ds fm Snn Fran. 11. Oox 24—Am bk Shepherdess, Benjsmin, 24 mos oul, 2300 bbls diedDecember 14, 1849.at San Francisco. Mr Cox was for bride approaching the nuptial altar. What about half a century a leading member of the Methodist dewhale, 2711J lbs bone, bound home. earth than a is there more beautiful on young 24—Am sh Wm C Nye, Rose, 26 mos out, 2960 bbls wh. nomination in the vicinity where he realded, and washlahh ci. teemed in the community. • 90 bhls sp, bound home. and guileless being thus timidly intrusting her ~ 25—Am sh Zephyr. Sherman. 36 mos out, 150 bhls wlm. BOOKS FOR SALE another, of AT —leaving to the hands HILoT destiny 31—Am sch Golden Rule, VanName, 13 da fin Snn Fran. I ■I following The books be obtained may Sept sch at the I—Am brothers and San Francisco. Rev Emetine, Howard, fin her home, her father, mother, B—Am schr Laura Beven, Fierce, 13 ds fm Francis Mr. Coan's: Jtirves'History of the Sandwich Islands sisters, for a hearth which another love has Sept 6—Am shp t lemalus, Bellows, 23 inns out, Snn The 90 ap 2300 w price *l 00. Whale and his Captors, price SI 00 lbs bone, bound home. Numeroos volumes published by the Am. Tract Soc lighted, and where other hopes are to* bud 7—Am16000 slip South Boston, Smile, 24 mos out, "00 sp2foo w The Friend, bound and unbound. and bloom? He who can betray Ihe confi10,1100 ]ba bone, bound liouie. H—Good Return, Cook, 33 mos out, 550 sp 2710 w 10.000) BIBLES in various languages. dence thus reposed in him, and break the lbs Imne, bound home K7" Seamen will be supplied with numerous volheart that has treasured its last trust in his, B—Am bk Cnroline, Dexter, 23 mos out, 256 ap 2500.w vme gTs*''- oi" nt reduced tf prices. lbs bound home. 15,000 bone, is callous alike to crime and shame. But 9—Am shp Montexuma, Benjamin, 24 mos out, 300 sp 3000> rVew Itook. (hit is digression. w 13,000 lbs bone, cruise home. 9—Am ahp New England, Wilcox, 26 mos out, 3280 w 8200 For sale at the POigYNESIAN OFFICE. nndat the CHAPLAIN'S STUDY. lbs bone, bound home import sch Jas L Day, Hempstead. 16 ds fin San Fran. THE WHALE AND HIS CAPTORS 11—Am 11— Am sch Gsxellr, Stoddard. 18 do do for the week ending July Ist, wii«, of S|i«'rn>, By Rev. H. T. Cheever—Price $l 00. 11—Am slip Severn. Gardner, 14 do do 2,160 hlils; of whale, 3,000; and oi'lkmic, 1 J,tx>o 14—Am sch Moria, Ilobron, 15 do do To Seamew akd Strangers—The Seamen's ll>s. Total, frniii January Ist to July 1.-tl, of Sept 18—Am slip Indian Chief, Bailey, 34 mos, 60 hbls sp, 3200 Chapel is open for Public Worship every Sabbath, wb, 18000 lbs bone S|>erin, 59,925; of whale, 172,730; unil of hone, 19— Am shp Gen Scqii, G C Harris, 26 mos, 2700 whale,,at 1 1 a. m., and 7 1-2 p. m. Seats Free. 20.000 lbs bone. •2,752,500 lb?. The Seamen's Concert for Prayer is held at the 19—Am sch Sparlncus, T A Harria,last fin Oahtt. New BEDfottn On. Market.—July 1. 1950. 19—Am shp Dartmouth, Pierce, 27 moa oul, 3000 whale Room the 3d Monday evening in each month. itml export active ileiiinml for Sperm continue* in Seaman belonging to vessels (of all nations) vis21,000 lbs bone. 19—Am shp Maria Theresa, Almy, 34 mos, 120 sp, 2776-5 iting Ibis port are invited speculation, nntl sales to ihe extent of 5!l5(l bbls to call at the Chaplain's wh, Uis bone. 17,1100 last. The liiinsitrtions have(wen made since our Study, where they will be gratuitously supplied with 19—Am sell Anglnna, Baria, 18 da fm Snn Franslscn. of about 1700 bhls here -embrace two cargoes 19—Am shp Minerva, Smalley, 2£»t ts. 2u mos not, «00 sp, copies of the Friend and other rending matter. It 1600 wh, ltl,ooolbs bone, cruise home will be moat convenient for the Chaplain to receive each nl Il9rts per giil(nii; 200 bbls Hi the snine 19—Am bk Columbia, Sweney, 210 is, 23 mos, full,home calls from on private tertit«». price, ami a cargo of i&0 bbls Seamen between 2 and 4 p. m. bbls Cleared. Public services at Ihe Native Churches, on the In Nantucket sales Intve been made of 2100 Aug ship Rush, Swan, Sabbath, 22—Am B cruise. commence at 9 1-2 a.m. and at ifrjcticts. In inniinfiii'lnretl we notice shies p. m. 4—Am bk Shepherdess. Benjamin, home. The Seamen's Reading Room is open2 at1-2all of-4000 gnls.uiiblsncheil Winter nl H7tt>; 4000 Seal 6—Am hours shp W C If ye. Hose, Home. of the day. Strangers arriving and having late fo9—Am sbp Japnn, Hlgelow,San Francisco gals tlo Spring hi 112 els; 1000 gals tiotln.it 113; are reign 10—Am schr Moticelln, ChatSrld, papers, respectfully invited to aid in keepdc anil 5000 gals bleached tlo, at 117 els per gallon. Sapt ll—Am shp Zephyr, Sherman, Cruise. ing said room supplied with useful reading matter. W.hale—We have no change 10 notice in the 13—Am bg Juno, Byram. Snn Francisco Donations are respectfully solicited for the sup17—Am sch Curlew, Griffin, do market .which remain* very <hill.—Tho only port of the shp Good and the Return, Cook, 47—Am IT S A Chaplaincy, publication of the irunsnctio'i which has come, to our knowledge is 18—Amahp Severn, Gardner, Calcutta 1" tiend. An annual report of all donations is made a parcel of 1000 bhls huntlsome N W Coast re18—SouthBoston, Soule, USA. lethe Am. Seamen's Friend Society in New York 19—Am shp Montezuma, Benjamin, hotnetroT'teti at 52 3-4 cts p»r gnllon. ISapt 19—Am Any person contributing $60 is entitied to become a shp New England, Wilcox, home WHAi.«BOHr.—Sales of 10,000 lb* Polar at 36 19—Am ach Laura Reran, Fierce, San Francisco Life Director of the Society, and 920 to become an Wh shp Clematis. Bellows, home. cts; and 24,000 Hie ids understood to be nt the Honorary Life Member. Sch Emetine Howard. San FrancjWn. sanw price. SAM'L C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. Bk Cavalier,Dexter, Home. ' > ' * Oilo.—TheSUftnidol tates , , < , ' MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. Arrived, Sept t—Am hk Auckland, Jennings, Jsl Is, Xiulovskl. sch Halt) Bliss, Rollins, J/ranclaco. m ' Sch Maria, Hobron, San Francisco PORTFHILO. Sept 7—Am wh ahp .Minerva, Smallev, ICOO wh. 900 sp. 14—Am wh ahp James Allen, Smith, £000 wh, ISO sp 34 ds fm Pelro17—Am wh ahp Abigail, Yoang, no oil this seaaoa. 172 tons, 10 ds I'm Ban 5—Bra sch Atbeu, lleeren, 115 Is, 15 da fin Ban Franco. Baal. S—Am sch Anon)inn, Latbam, 75 tons, 16 days fm San Francisco. -' »—Am brig Noble, ftnberlson, 807 tons, 18 lis fin 8 F. IV—Dan brlgan Ann Catharine, atatiea, 97 tons, 46 days fm Taieahuano. Is-Am ark ship Splendid, rhrrsan, 478 tasss, fm Arolk ' Shp Minsrvs, Smallev, cruise home Memoranda. Shipsreported by Captain Poaraon, of the Splendid: 18th July, James Allen, full, bound to Hilo; Levant, full, hound to Honolulu ; Parachute, wanting 500 bbls, taken 2000; Columbia, wanting 1 wh; Htialsville, 1300; Massachusetts 2200, bound through Bbering's Straits, to ihe ArcUc : Euphrates. wattling 3M bbls, having taken 2500 thie season All these ware spokes aboal the some date .THE Journal denoted to Jtyonthly * ance, Seamen, Marine and Ji FRIEND: iv, Intelligence. Temper- Genera • PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON, Seaaen's Chaplain „ <)ne TE RMS. copy per annum Two copies per annum. Five copies per annum, J en Comes tier annum c,200 s'oo fa i0t)0 � 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/. 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