1 10 12 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/9cd31178cb26f4597984d696db030460.pdf 0b0fc2d3883140e9fcd194a23665b65d PDF Text Text F THE RIEND. New THE KttIEND, OF Hon. Franklin JANUARY I, After the American ' Fierce, 2 2 For'Mftl and Aft, > > 3 6 ' > 7 umphant Destroying Bailed Liquors, his native State. to show that he - - " - abundant are Affairs in California, Kecleaiatical ... 5 - aj* " Hampshire of New lature a was fearless, and chivalrous officer. a with sword, a Poetry, The England, - - - Notices, fee. Marriages, Deatha, Marine Journal, he has been active fkdiw. tue among as Legishim presented JANUARY HONOLULU, Hon. readers, are we terested in a He is the quite son born in was He at Amherst law office in 1833 he was in the elected of the U. S. As until 1842. stood honor, as ring the he life an five to Repre- a orator to the come no the in he acquitted himself with and talented following years to his Du- man. offered Mr. Pierce to '47, When profession. the office of he for discussion. We wish to breaking igadier General. all may howev- have, the curtain of the future see rise, for alas, account the a fear- its treatment of the for May African ! successfully country our fear our country has give to and dent elect we guide the helm, the and more and " Vols. 3 The and has Macaulay land of the home free. 4 of formation William, personage s of his relating in it is asserted, figures was appoint- a subsequently grand reception ex-minister grand banquet will be turn oat to to are to to the Relu- Match. making Bostou the Hon. AbbotLaw- England, upon his return. A given him, and the military receive him. Loud the speaker, they made ed; only permitted the A noble at as one, he con- he ease, was that rests content- longs after, but would which spite of striped and his bronzed gleaming the physical from The an triangular-shaped all appeared its was and out atmosphere in tar were who had dark, by con- murky apart of and bedding bilge-water, of perfect if he as inmate of that and mess-chests, looked sphere, incut; of brightly and perfection, one higher a man, figure, personification of bodi- fined, and The expression and determined was the cotton knit strongly cheeks, huge whiskers, eyes ly strength, spirit and muscular pleas- embodiment an shfrt which formed his only attire. with his bright reflection of and innocence; in trowsers The boy with closed eye- over flitting—the canvas forcastle that to'canvas. reposed face, upturned were intelligence odor his presented, could they hopeful dreams—seemed nage, of slum sweet refreshing picture have been transferred of deep, manhood inmates have and its ant tones experiences. beautiful smiles the impression upon no the young and to that sleep seldom a body fatigued, of those one a lying mess-chest, were his mind clear and enjoying are his childhood, on as to who, age, in the Wrapped boy. science amidst place nautical reeking dun with the lamp-smoke. and with the surround- keeping ing objects; his bright red flannel shirt, his horny hands, his very attitude, showed hint one in of asleep. ladder, forecastle fast the chief The other the narrative—andthe greateststress rence, He served under will as min- five but years his back upon in having obtained some new inKing William the Third. Great preparations give England to laid on his conduct to of beatva devil-skin you these was delayed the publication of the third its History nor in a rough voice, powerfully built sailor, ten some chance become Macaulat's History.—Mr hearty! my a he descended the as a of the brave." and fourth volumes of his King with self-reliance. more wit nor that little hailing tall and a countenance, becoming prosper, Presi- up, for lively! spoke affairs ofMexico— lids and question—the Attorney tion.—Harper's Magazine for of the Mexican war, teered his services and difficulty— rouse has been coarse General of the U. S., which he declined. out The Cuba Kingdom consequence from '42 entered upon his office, Polk for the same Democratic nine years of his Con- able the wit—some, utes." territorial bounda- little Hawaiian up re- withoat Chapman. "Rouse up, a the Canada and be and surprising remain come. will yeaTs to stirring and marked very present U. S. four years he the applied himself X if the ries of the In Indian the Sen- to and markable four many be reasonable very next by It will events. represent ful Legislature. statesman President to the end at the characterized a er, He remained in the Senate prominent During gressional that And the quite ranks. opened the House of to and H., N. chosen State pursued were In 1827 he was College, Bowdoin sentatives, and in 1837 advanced ate Nov. 23d, his native town, but townsmen Franklin Hill. and Portsmouth, of the second year country commencing war, His law studies 1, April Hillsborough, graduated in 1824. will be party, it without hand and be and those ber of political principles wit some wealth. the his Knowing of his served his honorably battle of Bunker the died who ; revolutionary the mind. own Some, wealth triumphant, stretched satisfactory wealth—and wealth; boy very j deserving without honor; wit—some Thus to GOODMAN. she honor gives, without deserving some kind tone, doubtless he must suppose of the late Governor Pierce, Hampshire New the Baltimore at Some when he received the unanimous our confident, will be in- Northampton, Mass. his some, brought abaft, have been forward to candidate for the office of President as and his of Many brief sketch of his life. 1839, having at To was surprise A. Fortune, the great commandress of the world. Hath divers ways to enrich her followers; suc- it yet profound of His election has been the most decided, now President. as vote period and of the United States. Pierce will succeed Franklin Fillmore is question The important that the Hon. President of the U. States. Elect Me., Pierce, Franklin that Although prominent name should conspicuously so Since Politician, a party leaders, matter a that his him, 1853 1, as democratic Convention, 1804. mark of its appreciation lawyer. a doubtless Pierce a military services. of his 8 - cessful with ns BY S. brave, To other »Uncle Tom" in during Boy. Materials Duke of Wellington, of Captain's Son and the Sailor The ------ »Salutation, Death of Daniel Webster, Mr. —OR,— his office resigned to and returned tri- AFT: FOR'ARD AND re- fully became flag Mexico, he over which of Mexico. city I. 1 4 New Year Iteran, of the taking sulted in the 1853. bloody battles the Scott, during Contents VOL Old Series HONOLULU, JANUARY 1, 1853. 1. No. 11, Series, Vol. to whose ease only and home ding place—the Wearied verbal to awaken his abi- ocean. awaiting the unaccustomed, forecastle, the heaving with summons, comfort was tha seaman result of his reached down his companion with a shake; and �ha did, as beam of affection a lore, there is no instinct of his calling, resting place, as faculties been to I bad but thought "Just lark! bells I think that or be the sending a-stern had you sail, Tom, make the the cabin, so boatswain after will with you colt.* hear the to threat bis tof the cabin. assumed eye unusVial was feelings, ing I was Frank had referred, by the youth of devil-skin ing appellations and up that all blown watch. age of the semblance Not the boys. two re- existed however, similarity, or slightest between them in any other respect. The sailor boy with a try, grace was "Well, in and keeping with his well balanced, veloped, of profusion de- body—admirally and covered with a dark brown hair; his fore- rich, It to his full deep blue eyes, and, with evidence of vigorruddy cheeks, giving nished named the by to son son with undersized, black eyes, black added to a well weuld have spite of his been for and heir rendered as a be. and look. rather Sparkling him good that physique of the a suit of a was under no the the watch gold most in his obligations even resigning not rather blind voices, knowledged that the dclhbly impressed Ne costly to his to would The once him clad the did the captain's in his a tone style •Colt.—A rope with to was adding Yet any have ac- in- bore insigna of son see the as instrument nine-tails. of his face: knot in cruises he while he he effected the United a and with the give Captain A. captain, crew going up native—mid a Indies. his She wife, also the with to girl, two mates, cook, bound tvus servant and a city a Her cabin—a the most poop and ceptain, beautiful the could and tance the end. and taste do a punishment instead ofthe cat-'c- to the The two apartments of unequal been the of size, polished her the a was one of sliding rosewood and mahogany up as a raising desire to punish his moment a her she me is nose as- and son asked in tones, for noth- Charles. out relieved, son resumed go, she him be- bleeding down, just disposition shaking the caught hold of violently demanded in how he, the outcast, strike her child! unterrified, the sailor woman's face boy without replying. "Why don't wretch! or I'll lady, shake answer you you little me, you cub! you pirate!—speak!— speak!— to you incensed more death!" continued thfe than ever by the boy's 'I struck him because he called my mother a hussey, plied was if you will make Tom in bright sleeping a with was she? But you, you tell you; anger and insulted hussey! a you master good me quiet voice though "Your mother strike your The after cabin was fitted two in Unabashed and the dis- divided into feet, by the to bosom, blubbered fierce to between done. silence. transom was space thirty in of the experience had to fifty highly art main-mast, full room, with dared that superbly stained glass. Used shrill, and Love, however, and letting Charles and Tom, him, chest, you hurt?" one make it elegant, to from the cabin door feet. tiger sway: the up Everything and the comfortable Extending nearly fitted one—was style. upholsterer painter, aided by the of her af- tones— are all," his idol of boy. The mother's anxiety for her boatswain, steward at floor, over standing revenge—a her shriek floor, the mother for looked in the angry luxurious the skill of the ing to a the Tom knocked cause saw disposition a to npon the struggle and "I ain't hurt, only my Jose- belonged son, of consisting navy, and The freighted was which cargo, the Baltimore—of which to was in for himself. ship a entirely, by to sea him "Where disin- own sailor matter, a the on swelling paralized. tender by she rushed into she and son; was if there, eyes, fists, the was absorbipg object one only the had she commenced blood, sumed the mastery; most get- sight. loud, angry the Alarmed, antagonist—that obliged pressing compromise by blow, followed ear. the So strong was of out voice, apparently abusing emotions of love obliged and cabin, something heavy flashing as while hook; but then the mother's Hardly cabin, heart, was and his his commission with a in ot remark any were ascertain what to fection, her with convinced her after bulkhead the sound of a married, and his wife stood profession than he addressed him twenty, tha other that harmonized the bulkhead of sneering expression of officer an service, boy-of the forecastle, and command- gentleman long home, phine belonged who could have the roughest upon other, jacketless, at the feet, fourteen seamen, nobility. sooner apd support boy. the tailor for man cloth- broadcloth, upon pocket. to at purchasing differ valuable not was of his appearance. a heard their nature's did one boots bare-headed, gentility person, tons, her which cabin she looked of the to play fellow. the after between his better half'sdesire that he should in it habitual chain around his neck bare-footed, to lads The made, with gold owned Getting in the clination looking had discontented and than their dress. elegantly the take remain the East ed in and to to brow, him. The fifty Andrews—a was Barney fur- by apologize to making attracted the and the fall of scene was undisturbed; was craft had been clenched The Josephine. to regular features, relinquish complexion, malignant expression more our magnificently after she of her son's tones ere nature wrung fifteen minutes the stillness of was few minutes before. reached her a her perusal some between the hundred.and seven order, and prince objecting head and fine shaped sallow to slight was sickly a body a hair and peevish, a such just desire his the For his by impulse, permit without with you were, and now and new States navy. The captain's but them, listening, was severely , behind the he walked in fol- often not even ting about it of her actions. which As the boys entered the at but her fancies and guides error. not could board of which on a of Lewis for, atone liice covered was Ihip would pride proceeded wide difference between wealth been for many years might her or a master woman, heart, one, was they anything as they his was I her on the wife was mother of tion of deeds committed from the cabin and attention into come won't say beauty health, to kind of the old continued playing was difference there a the laid, built be the lo reclining hand, handsome a were pahgs of remorse, caused by the recollec- cabin Tom, The vessel, ed a the and apartment. permitted ever intellectual, lent additional of education and extensive fortune, who had assist her child, head, broad and ous hand a place morning which Tom had left was is symme- early maturity—his head an one was Charles, help- lending and poverty. promise of gave accustomed of the bolt ropes in out This and I play, What his years— large for was figure that his lowed by his companion. scaram- was so cush- deep side, door, and captain, fellings for the boy, and, fierce expres- a master and fore-sail in new was mid night, top-sails, There was but little difference in the apartment in which ouch. overspread but, suppressing in whom this time," said Charles, to very flatter- not it; to replied he reef to him let's her the On fabric the rocking-chairs, and the book in her a who had one her get up the inside the preventing stood the coming further, from rain flush the until mess-time." at was Standing just drizzling a ■arice, seconds few a whip to tone, " from with in of the do I'll you far it; and of the corners makt Charles.—She not father get bright a the sentence, the lad hurried up the ladder to sleep, for you know I and in lounge, in the cabin proud—so rich, was along Consequently, instant his of (he completion if time, another and she'll mamma, one Scarcely, waiting Why sleep never the face and neck of the sailor for she-commodore I But you had better be might scattered placed forward ealing-room. carpet, of whose a ottomans, lounges were Not night? at long so At this an ioned and magnificent so come I've this time in the afternoon! sleep four sion that only scaramouch young better up anchor and havn't had for it is take him in tow, to wants you pull sir. forecastle, up—and me sitting was The shore. on as a looms of Persia have thick, not you." were hard a You up. though, snooze, but bells; them heave to mnchofa seemed such woke used you did the floor " in the wealthy was I could. as Asleep wait me tell little my eye-lids your I peepers." my " you the if I had known you wanted asleep was the afternoon. Frank? peepers, your to began closed just closed battened down, it for yoa and exclaimed— already, but I quick as his with 1853. for you reason I would Charles, master kept you waiting if he had don't,you as What's the when I first called? Why, me; bawling stand here me the Frank Adams from his and him, sooner true to sprang about stranger, a eight it he wide awake, much as sleep "Is — no than the sailor boy touched, was beautifier. certain more made not come " JANUARY, good-for-nothing lazy fellow, So you have than for, handsome; really undisturbed by the noise, Though so and uncouthness the weather-beat- beoama en tar lent that, with all bis this half hour. much tenderness to his eye, roughness " softened the so has countenance, anal expression of a FRIEND, THE 2 for shall for re- eye pride. Well what else be how to the truth to taught speaking nothing " his vagabond. Run bedsteads and all and call your father," she continued, turnchambers of ing to Charles, 'and I'll have this tbe appurtenances found in the imperii- �rascal little nent until whipped can't he In .ailor-boy, a on but little better than as end had had the he he had thing a rough slow was and not, and came he the in which he appear- more angry the cap- passion, lowering the commencement of offered excuse the real not sir! "Asleep, Til* I|VIH| that it!—And lies quick below, Htrciini A nil ri.iws, and eatdstll vrith Accustomed to have his commands prompt- wrath the of waxed high and furious der the strict un- a seaman if you break Obey orders, it of his one by bearded were, tirely own and new, his on his to receiving functionary When his cabin, took now another son; course nnd the was object Relinquishing the " his hold Tom's on aft bring sir, Mr. entirely he a quick, the mate, when "You're wanted " Who "Captain the was from sounded, seemingly close up in the of the bunks is for you •vaiting are be in a As his on from Wilson imprinted chief to their attitudes, excess came dressed him no enraged skipper; captain of within in give eagle juncture, the their and ' the Mr. the surface; on crew wheel, was the was was boatswain of the first-rate and a and him; intending nimbly of it portion tigue.Like hearted duty was on of account unfamiliar to perform- danger or fa- many other simple-minded honest sons of Neptune, he troubled himself horred a despised liar, a appremeet for sev- he made himself saw passion. a the boatswain, became deadly Waiting husky voice, that thief, and perfectly he could bear tyrannical heeding it, it clench, made to see Ever since the there had been disposition to Josephine growing amongst prevent- their the on the punished, he had been, for than the wilfulness of the on caprice of the board liked No fancy, no other captain's captain's wife. rea- son, Not a the spoiled child of the either, had they for his you your- escaped the speak- and rope, he a came but Wilson ; the foot captain's down sprawling has Instantly regaining deck. deck of obtaining when l.c did he ; he feet, on calm, cocked a Tom in their pis- was mate been the wheel, the at the helm at that the only seaman forecastle great were to calculate to punish the Giving one the captain vanced, to who had the at cap- mate, the being fastened seamen. On The odds men. Andrews did chances—his not the were pause only thought was mutinous conduct of his crew, thinking of telling their fifteen Captain but ; the by galley his en- comrades, chief steward, and himself, the cook in his force the was were The second having joined disposable command tain's they conversation. earnest the ; midst, having the forecastle, where to bare found he quarter-deck in gaged the more • little crew, with up returned he much was Sever- pistols. hand he held in each although his before elapsed minutes a upon and if with rage, for rushed toward the cabin, wild never crew favorite—Tom, as cabin. helpless had left port, boy—from being imposed man blood his a the sailor son him- treatment con- his voice captain, snatching up an rushed at the boatswain, a maltreated. until and the few feet of him, he ad- that low of a Though tyrant. and his hand object in morals; but he ab- questions about worthy designed do it can knock him down to in catching retired from the convince the to you the words leaped aside, The sea- teach to before the belaying-pin, iron Joseph- thorough-bred did he shrink never go, for abruptly, changing tol. No part of his man. whatever it An- Captain me, self." something ithe purpose all under the influence of were Wilson, the was and in man- :— with "Blast my eyes ! Hardly had from think feeling unable to boy whipped, ier's lips, motive. same ine, manner, want in the boatswain's insubordination than al more was, that there and ' but error, tinue, he ended quar- ' which scene superior intended speech, a or and his civil broke down, in what he of his captain ' fly to not a betters—and—and—" here should be the*extraordinary the could to for how, as crisis a captain straight his become not be so " of cap- countenances, from in does the by to authority, tone, and with quiet a affairs Wilson looking have to messmates he thus addressed his drews, seaman every the man at in face, "It had been crew nothing, he either had ; his to This, and ; forty." ' him for issued last brought more the lee side of the on they took interest hint, boil, dickey's entertain elapsed before the spread a and cat this upon hurry," goodly quantity deck. soon as the of the excited speakers. twenty feet self, without the and he anger increased, pale on mate. hands of the at ship, except fond of' detested not hensions about the reception he would visible uutil deck, little had better the boatswain seemed eral minutes re- eyes. Andrews Notwithstanding at the quietly gathering any that reply one the quarter deck; and if you answered the scuttle, doing so ship's tornadoes, you he hunt Mr. Wilson!" deck, on the reached he me?" wan'.s as to "Hillow, below there!" delinquent. hailed, make boatswain, the tain and the shoulder, then transpiring, Wilson, the responded a triced up. seamen over commanding officer. order pledge boatswain "one this conversation betweenthe During the ay, and boy appeared Hart, of reply, yet striving 'my self-possession; him; then get your within heavy a started toward the forecastle scuttle up the that Strip the boatswain." "Ay, maintain his ex- die before he to quarter-deck of conscience. al- captain, Tom, was great control does whipped be avoiding no face a the boatswain. the you!" ejaculated beside himself at this in the voice: Mr. to was the sir?" continued the cat, bag,"replied razor "Curse the which he had first wished him. hailed his first officer in captain stern -with great, that he forgot so for there hut his anger Not a word had been spoken amongst them; evident from the determination his desire to hut it was visit the boatswain's contumacy penalty punish to was his striking of out came when he duty great disinclination a peremptory ner, "In the appear. captain first only thought for sailor-boy that causing or Not the resolved to He had call. cabin with Such captain, however, lesson of taught have been to Where's the boy. sir! the boatswain, captain's of the was he opinion, ship, had skulked the open rupture with his in a the lie boatswain felt captain. ter to the reply, any en- pride. boatswain Three times had he called for the without was something insulting most why in be messmate much less inflict the punishment himself, the mental excitement learn you ; their reason men perform. to though be- duty pledjed in would suffer Tom boatswain, evidently and I will have thus, insolent word, you be to quarter deck, own was men, owners,' and his impertinence, I will ought you most the doctrine he inculcated; as duty that have I the he, with unless come out break his more, or con- and rightly anticipated The the The last grand had solemnly presided the habit of obedience exercise — unpunish- man, doing much as None of your " word off" get captain. the as obedi- was ence. * and oftentimes a let their little to not was him pected twenty-five an charged Bob Wilson '■ not or rejoined under laboring that the first and taught of important duty most all to rouse of the United States discipline he had been service, the on Educated of his heart. passions the evil enough was seamen, fore, sir!" exciting insubordination this apparent of the part the dildtorinessof at Without any other the boatswain. cause, Andrews Captain sir, these now aver mie knowing, not and captain. sea to nnd no years, cease to rl.iw. ItVROS. ly obeyed, going awake remain not and punished, crew, when he heard I duty dereliction afterward own "Captain Andrews, hoy been ; be perhaps, may, you the to now perform—and to you about froze ever siirt'iire close till* of the of the best one of the man's cause Attend for your conduct shall I'iili only oVr This the seen ed," answered the CHAPTER II. for up delay. ex- emeute. an vamped one was al- wrong, she or part, into trouble. the boatswain rest glance (themselves Andrews, that the person than Captain vatit easier for your The deepest ice the spoke, the sailors Tom had been , which re- I the tone son's her sir, and ,sultation had been held in the forecastle,*1at forecastle, I heard Mr. Hart call," soon as But the a wish sailors' countenances, that of the at was his from the gather tain could hut pressions of his spite as came in Itime right because, ; took long delayed obeyjng |brought so plied Wilson. him.—Still he occasion, and called for captain tones, the son, ,mother a ways Mr. Wilson?" asleep was depth of out on making in his of Tom with in louder and again, rope's or strike have you Why the proves with— deck, and of his eye, the expression of his countenance, ,whipped again, less obser- , deserved it. That functionary, would at once have convinced a pushed him called for the boatswain. however, block a Taking hold he grasp ance; other any summons, "I look up- always to audacity furious. was his wife, that my incensed.as much as " entered, Andrews Captain moment a being and than more person's feeling, stand." 1839. JANUARY, FKIEIND, 3 THE the of his steward and his compel possibility of pistols to two to take Mr. Hart, and a capstan bar, assistants boldly ad- fifteen sailors to duty. (Continued failure. on page 6.) return to �THE 4 good and satisfactory |CJ"» Fer end but Argus; offer handled, roughly few remarks upon a following which Council petition. Seized Liquors. a may is that the have had the ing the It late. too much have would Sir :_Whereas, the has in Collector General of Cus- custody large quantity of seized a Royal Exchequer." the benefit of the And whereas, before petition it prevented, unfortunate act do hope we that will pour into will take immediate of their power, being sold, and, to measures, to cause them to be destroyed." resolution following was On this first passed to on the sub- Should you breeze, smooth ants, of a grant the prayer Gdd respective petitions this day presented to Privy Council that liquors now in the posses- of the sion of the Collector General of Customs legislature, as con- Council. the waves rebel of By order of the Privy Council, at adversity, God's not See tion of Him who December 13th, 1823. is history of the simply this: petition smuggled liquors Nov. the present meeting the 2fJth, bullet to question The quantity of the his subject discussion. peared feasible, which Council, through nance, either to sold. society fully to some- the sale of the of large proceeding to was added be and At its writes close, the Herald, venerated trians never of all these shall things your you cast or Then, come adversity, weal joy ship will outride however gales, have or formed It in following order llie and Pall anchor, both sure and James W. Seth Weston, Tildcn Ames, Daniel Phillip*. John J. and Paige, Joy, and other Relative*. the Farm. Workmen upon and officiating Committee of of the citizens of Marshfield. fifty and Governor President of Senate and for stedfast, Pierce and Rufus Everett, and Governments Council. of House. Speaker Government of Boston. General Edward Clergyman. ol Marshfield. Selectmen of Mayor Choate, George Seaver. Hon. Lawrence, Abbott Ashmun. Uoxbury, Charleslown, and Can- bridge. We would shall, one Specimen of Sugar. from Mr. acknowledge of the Delegations from the New Delegation from Mar- of Delegates proprietors of the Lihue Delegates from other cities and towns. General Kauai. on We of the prospects rejoice to learn for plantation Friends State Society. Commit!**, York and Citizens the York Historical New York Bar. Democratic New of the that the members appropriately drapad.) Domestics of the Mansion. City A Beautiful those Plantation prevent or The ap- :— Fletcher Webster and Sons. or toilhin the veil. Y. tomh lb* Bearers. Joseph P. Cushman, woe, furious, the lo escort hy two elegant black horses City an to composed wholly ol pedes- was Hewplt, Seth Peterson, the storms, and survive severe services of the N. correspondent tbe procession remains. and moved (drawn and God, in were Funeral Car, spake, man Webster, religious Asa kingdom you." unto prosperity sorrow, petition the Minister of Fi- the destroy liquors being righteousness, odious the most cannot arose, mode one ye first the industry.— hands of the Govern- in the now Only ment. in its traffic liquor "But seek as and ere it is conducted by the Rev. Mr. Alden. were it, reader, to And now, solemnities The highly appropriate. not, neither a hive Marslrfield !" at funeral the follow greened, yet seat of Mr. country follow the direc- happy, spake the At Her coronet. homage Taylor, and Calhoun, broken and undermined to which succession has of Ashland "Sir," jewels the grave. Attending Physician up for came thing be done to prevent Privy foreign- occurrences,in Honolulu, tended Recent light. among the at Temperance Society of virtue, honesty, sobriety, sod Marshfield, repine dealings. Adams, and Polk, and to address- Within how brief swift what was Dallas: from her upon each other. the final expres- a of funeral processions Clay, gone Ever- cherishyears, been forty close Providefice of called be you attend- forget voyage, overruling should propitious a as bright sad and tauglit and Mr. meeting the " end. and and the various sea, the of with favored be Would you be truly LORRIN ANDREWS, Secretary. The the dropping fast standing, Webster President remarked, are acquaintance years works. Ex-Vice by he none Mr. Webster selected his Philadelphia period—in Legislature solely ed edit his to In on Year"— continue begin, most readers, New happy "a 1853, year, editor wish his prosperous but ; the not should until period, America has, for be sold for the benefit of the that do not plant the seeds of future soryou Public Exchequr, is by the Constitution vow vested row and remorse, by forsaking the pathway and not in the Privy in the fixated pupil of green mountains next that during from the snowy the day of may acknowledge ject by the Privy Council. Resolved, Thatthe authority legislation most pupils, and perpetuated of his one which sion of confidence, New Year's Salutations. to prevent said liquors possible, if a was ing Happily body was for the abolition of the law. legally: the heartily does Thereforo the undersigned beg leave, through and shore, Yonr Excellency, to present our humble petition ship that that to His it Majesty's Privy Council, praying extent the to be done ers ett more munity, the It body. forty when Daniel more hon- Government, and honorable of petitions of Hawaii peaks praying believe it would be we Majesty's His to most as school in Boston, grammar a credit a such Their than ads- Everett of Boston in utter. more commencing act an much had been of New appropriate becoming speech, but Mr. E. could sor- meet- Boston, Hon. Ed. The tbe citizens felicitous and we in and Philadelphia, of Public departure. delivered. addressed was as performed honorable that most conduciveto the peace and prosperity of this comthat said liquors should be destroyed, if it the re- could fairly consider- reflected upon of Statute liquors, which, according to Supplement be sold at public auction " for Kauai, Laws, Sec. 22, are to The of and evil, only made rum-sellers of Goverment officers, and $ H. H. M. Mm. of Finance. from Their Privy Council have could regrets dresses one showe expression been convoked have ings upon them, York and heaped privilege of the merits They view of his row, in S. Union there has been heartfelt general and one Webster. from the U. intelligence Late and notwith- men; single a petition about were be King's not that signed they Daniel of the that in all parts of the ' To His Excelleecy, G. P. Jood, ) can who whether question we the 12th inst.,and received their action which on Honolulu, Nov. 26, 1852. orable ridicule standing Editor worthy law-abiding was PETITION. toms sober and were gret it. upon the assure Death of before The brought not was Council, until after the 6th ofDec! knew very well what foreigners and 182 natives,—2Bs in believe, presented formally to the Privy of 103 nature to copy, in Honolulu, and received the sig- circulated all, certain of which the following is petition, was venture we : Destroying A the Privy Polynesian of Dec. 18, having signed that petition. We copy from the the a princi- have been ples of the friends of temperance somewhat learn that the subject region We do the motives and as our Polynesian Argus that those the cross-firing of the raked by of the enter and sphere, out ramble out venture to seldom we accustomed reasons, 1853. JANUARY, FRIEND, THE Neighbors. generally. SEPULCHRE. . were Council, could not the 6th ter, after that aware act of Dec, tion was immediately, should be placed be acted upon some chosen and to as that the still wish the highly more and flattering, so. Most heartily of that, and proprietors all It had to plantations, The petisame success. favorably with of Koloa and Lihue the primitive method in the proper channel, Editor of were to of making Hence Kauai, as much drawn sugar where and Mr. by kanakas, cultivating Hooper yet cane held the only fifteen on among construct years should repose the It stands, ■ as the Argus, to have passed since that time. of Mr. cares tomb on his sion and its Webster's lstrer grounds, whereta own ashes of himself and his descendant*. have a before said, and grounds, and a of in the that is hour The tomb, which is From its country spires, distance spol, house, occu- of Marshfield. large exteul its two modest ocean, which al slumberingbabe." elevated on an mile northward from the eye taxes in little village seen " includ- ihe man- the bias calm as a lay merely separated old is rude and the farm, aud Mr. Webster had m metal a a cemetery, paling from the simple excavation, rising in a grassy mound, and descendIts interior is ait h lo the depth of three or four feet. years ing plough by ed with undressed the a the site of tbe old church summit the ing we quarter of pying the large plantations contrast been waters of tbe Council. by the Privy the prospectively we are year about An efficient circulate the see current New do when the members of the society surprised Privy in the mat- efficiently Constitution would take effect. committee the |six stone step* stones, collected conduct into it. about - �tended before his death, into the have removed to chre the ashes of his first wife and children, who interred ed in but he previous in obedience remains were Cahurch, and exhumed conveyed this to from ilie On interment. owu that im-ie ■vii- be that it should requr-strd his to day therefore, their He did nut live Boston. himself duty sepul- bid been pious perform- preceding " vault under St. Paul's a are The • |CJ» No the ply has yet arrived Rev. of the Mr. We would As specimen a which the by no works to of similar a respecting nature older than San executed in cities centuries died. Francisco. It appears that the Church ediwill contain 144 pews fice, when completed, Allowing six persons accommodate 60 floor, lower the on The -000. in the to a slip, the is estimated and gallery. house will It to the Pacific expecting Some weeks an edifice, of nearly the same A Congregationalists. writes Rev. follows as Joseph in and man menced his of eloquent an and success, Money gregation. weeks lips his produced the society wns many had heart according however, for another The won excel- him arc to building, contract, and to a have Hunt Seen at officiated h's San Francisco received Society, the port new eld style treated. It the informed, Corwin is Rev. now, Mr. built Panama." " fine a information American It at Branch." ly of San started newspaper an Paris, He has one their than has the of the of country no position as the serfs are with vivid and of lively and literature, and politics, when a to take The volume and instructive, sketches of French society, habits and customs, religion and schools Jarves wields As theatres. His style is a so we and apt If delight our to polished scenes that terse, excel. should than he describes occasionally guage forcible rather writers could vigorous pen.— a graphs relating police, buildings the to long copy and living para- churches, private, of Paris. excellent the Pacific el, Wheeler, former- one of the editors. conducted Id? Three well next religious news- January 6th, it is to be held proposed propriety of establishing Honolulu, with reference the progress of of the Hawaiian meeting religious Temperance Society, " proceed a at to the wind, of the ita Bedford Temperance. been that so and nearly shipelse- long the wind has full month. a once Sacra," the of the preached which an goeth far America, Europe, either into the " This the Hudson river; " the river off arm great forty degrees, and by West, or else " " sea South Pacific ocean, and the a near cut England South Sea, of the arm great first as we can as by entereth in Bay of Canada.' intothe the to in America is island, and and runneth up Northwest and out "The following England; being of quantity sea, make the sentence:—' So is Island. an Quarterly, preface [New England] the wri- we are surrossd we sermon ever following find it been ahead While late American quotation: —"In the not leave the harbor. New England Bibliotheca re- could strong from just the wrong point to a complain ships for Vessels in port. sea, as it blows printed no reason to Sea" means tbe means tbe Bay of Canadameans St. Lawrence. Mr. Barnum says, itor of the Musical the profits ceeded Jenny in $300,000 $50,000. book in his He in letter a the edi- by Lind's much concerts more that says, further, hand which is " than exone he has a give the whole to receipts, expenses, profits, &c, "with other curious and interesting facts connected with A Beth-! enterprise." Suggestion to If you would bearing upon It public to World, that hia share of Honolulu procure Housekeepers. beef, mutton, pork discuss the and sausages, clear and nice, The mer- can assure patronize Mr. Savings' Bank in Risely's establishment, opposite to More several command of their so to have they in for vessels the At the Sacra- weather, for ; limits would al- schools, public of to seem days and weeks, New Boston, in maining in lan- few would and We interest. from the main land in Republicans, of Russia. interesting the Southerly gales. change a written be true, is from the main of nation prevail, "long spell a spell they could leave port. political about prepared more a the thrilling half of what he has are appears, '51, furnished and we are at for waiting be the reins of govern- that event, upon Frenchmen low The Rev. Mr. a whale-ships twenty kind —From interest Jarves, it writer the hence chapter affairs of excellent presents, called is that 2d of Dec. the on Napoleon seized ment ; If Mr. reader. that and will lan* must had we succession of a of those book, topics would just will which believe the oldest resident" never before witnessed Principles, the deck of the Baptists, The Rev. Mr. Francisco, an " ting with we rates have been upon both winds and o' press San Jose. jC3» An association of weekly in was but seamen Taylor. on appearance. preaching mento, have with supplied rainy weather," but where, that the came to from the discharge high islands have Spectacles." which the in abounds Chaplain, has consequence of the Chapel ship Seamen's as being Chaplain, a who of the Not only owners French American Through writer Mr. honorable an in Mr. Corwin, For the present work. a new single copy has been and Sights ; the at guish. for and the funeral. ICT"* The Rev. a the : •'Parisian abounds clergyman." Mr. Rev. We The blow They severe. death sensation. His highly. and of mind deep friends and admirers. host of sont and wide a His as agriculture than and original, is title, unique The follows and in three Louis ! long such Islands, the from appearance seamen interest the editor of publish to of rate and others. planters an of mechanics and reached The title indicates the contents of the site a of reduce the with may report former Harpers," and The of symptoms in, set sealed were all esteemed him lancies appeared Typhoid Panama fever. and the a con- for rapidly made, were Then purchased. raised was large soon a since, about was made its as com- flattering prospects gathered edifice —contracts He Jarves, received. gentle- a was preacher. with labors Hartford, of He August. the clergyman, late Harrington, Ct., arrived there correspondent Their " : of the that cost as now ship, bound for Polynesian," and historian of It " dimensions and that islands, the Mr. in San Fran- Society erecting also are interests chant vessels have, for building. Unitarian SO* The cisco — $30,- " in this worship to :■ and the wharf receive it." spare it, measures a the and also so eight young Precious cargo; coast. sat- think of it— with their wives in the cabin of one fine be can the establishment of regulated Savings' Bank would promote to expected Just Oregon. Domines eight young is Pastor congregation, for are storms cost Dwight Hunt Rev. T. of the church 66 I '200 hearers. over 87,fect, and x and them We think it shown that well follows as Two others California. minds of all, who the social and industrial prosper- to of the Islands. isfactorily of this importance the islands, which would prove highly beneficial conflagration. shortly The impress must edifice Home Missionaries new for route church only clergymen We have six en the the late correspondent writes |CP Our the Benton's church, in Mr. was escaped new " inferior means Rev. Sacramento, speci- fine arts," it is " of the |Cf* The San Francisco. in Church Congregational beautiful a representing Lithography, of men acknowledge in California. subject ity sup- Mines, Episcopal clergyman, who recently Affairs Ecclesiastical to is invited. generally wish well The Pacific Banner." " successor place California Christian The " Pacific," in California.— published now Advocate," and expressed inclination, lsavatra*rat*t. to papers 1853. JANUARY, 5 FRIEND, THE is decidedly kind tkat has superior ever to any the Bethel. thing of the beea started in Hoaelata. �THE 6 CHAPTER tfaa rock wera mat, as They wave, And dashw lv fury to airi Tbay mat, war* At this>call, uti.uld ba mat by 111. brave, the lot as With hearts forth, cosflict, but not tor daipair. Whilst the most hazardous so think the men tbey five were the true, had to small band felt one physical but ; moral influence that they knew from was tbe upon, their ' due on than IT their numbers had been trebled side, their the I it strikes speaker, and, certain am Habit citing exercises ever unless ence, principle face of and ; authority, but from one have you by dacity ; so a of or, keen and sense poignant, their at to as custom's er, having often at the their ed " the nearly and then rebel, skulk warning, gladly The crew. who men, the end of the back to ■ showed that they were by suddenly presence sation—but of the aware of them he of a man saw and of quietness of his the re- sult of premeditation—a thing he had not be- he thought—and difficulties of his for his a sailor, deepest all that yielding in would, his he could rely discomfiture. " as crew Men, do with in hand isail that you are, that the punishment seas, is death ? every paused for ; and a a mutiny the on Do you know this ? of thought you for it ?" Here moment, voice if as from the the waiting high captain a re- the at the boldness of the his retaining captain continued re- presence of mind, visions ? Your Step out, ances. one not regular of you, You know I have plenty watches of pro- a tyrant, grievand I the as ed a the as in " an- fixed at in loosely anus name the ; officer to if as spectator. "there captain, I if you hie start." The boatswain remained motionless. —" escaped did, the the commander's sharp him sti uclt hat This was the by enough the that threw back his head motion, without intending it clenched and arm fire it tar- in entirely unexpected, so same his to as heavy blow a severe "Te and lips; of Wilson's edge captain involuntarily off the through went hand his it; the held in pistol flying-jib, the full twenty feet above Wilson's head. broken by the first was and tion, made they two men movement in check, toward rush toward the a ground Adams, and Frank ; ac- Cap- Bravely, though, supporters. stood their they sailor introduced with Tom in the fore- to and Captain the three as odds, their stiike that and when could however, the three bravery, ered, the a he hand- steward, fifteen great soon — spite of ; ovei nearly was pis- as much resist- against were contest by the as too temporary change a with by made mate men were, shoulder, worthy assisted Gallantly spike. of his fleshy part about was The al- the folded perfectly quiet, left, Wilson, with it one net ance in- evidently what heaving you you on Mrs. and never deck, knocked it Not pow- ended, made in favor was the appearance in the he boy ought ever to just sleep, furl- and he's whipped amusement of the whole of it. and won't ; time, for, in who gave back seamen, their allowed did They however, few a seconds, from whence source and it But again soon was no opponents not assistance matter return roared unable the captain per- longer word ! to say to with their every power, men were more ing anxious than they were to remain I've listened ? to to mastery. confine the Now, you, and mind resisted particularly the as bodily injury compelled to, in effect- their purpose. So absorbed which they all hands in the strife in were were engaged, weather side of the ment any had with increased dothem no to the understand- obtained the easy allow profit by to renewed the attack come, they them noticed the fact long by half, already word them much blows he laid about lusty the their feet. regain bedeviling vioor, as with instant, and all ing the ; orders, promise—" and an got respite regular watch cabin, for the another a ain't own from a hear, let alone your as skulks below when he's three officers and the steward, who in the sir !" insolence too sir, I have was give long enough, until you fectly furious, to but he stands about to want good as for don't We therefore, tone. of them aback. to on some Andrews boy's Silence, went his voice him, astonished though like you, if you is for you The Wilson ;" coocise and firm in its more royal, duty and himself, being manner, young master, and that's to rest content are choleric aloft going and then, when and his the and and then eyes nine!" said the. "Eight! the the quarters, men his anger and by mate little Tom, castle, received the ball from the mate's well same chief Captain, with his indifferent an shown was the second mate.—He, bent'to wind'ard during the against a fray of at the wheel, forwhole colloquy, had been Captain Andrews, without a ship's His sudden arrival, no more than you can reef a topgotten by both parties. keep Tom. but tol in the for the change we wants below ?— quiet. and state your am not were to mention of Tom's great We've stood :— What is it then that has induced you to Have you been malbravo this penalty ? Do you we come about restrain to anything agin " treated ? to that the everlastingly kept surprised but still without es, "We have!" ply, row's not ; the chaps, wanted group around the windlass answered— Rather and And I can't tell you, Have and for than if part, own enptain, without " ad- were do the at Intense faces of the can't sea, shore know us to commenced the tbe by cast of the weaker party pitching, to : you and it hurts ; hope tone. The charm that had held the are not I ; ten, it covered the boat- anxiety some face, threw up can to- ten, count you—as on his breast, stood ncross But sailors have feel- treated just not too his without he and seamen, they had the the effort low became was as I captain depicted Wilson, captain's he the of hall from which complain through clear audible a glances crew. the We have the Ihead of you, guilty of mutiny ? Do you know one ply in " before pistol until was and ; quick and in the least disturb- Who works him double-tides ?" "You the actual but result pistol to was which an His tone, therefore, and determined, dressed his that if it could strife commenced, be An- Wil- swered icompass. influence grub, Captain and don't ourselves, at men interrupted paulin with ? imost up not in counting by now, the boat- count shoot you, Wilson to move breast, those worked double-tides who tain and his Has he give with upon compel obedience—feeling if rations same could not, estimation, Moral degradation. to ; he Is iand wish not his Raising swain's lace. of duty. as it, all creasing of the aware He position. think of life, became is whilst 1 reach port I will." a how I'll as best,"continued shipped we see you ? and the ; do you than is but there, and nothing else." " was fore to short of conver- judgment and experience the calmness by for mistreated only moved. men, that their insubordination it skipper's interruption. work, our worse Captain Andrews, though quick tempered, was of plies ings, Captain Andrews, though they captain's their ceasing not a man by i in low tones, standing, talking together the !" plenty others can't take their sitting, some your ship shape my temper sir," proceed all do seaman's huddled around were windlass, in nor more equanimity the his mutinous ioften treated and confronted forecastle, me as and it may ; <our regular watches, the break of to to !" your country more and that of the his son ; ed invincible pow- seamen " We all get drews, make death pre- weather gangway Never mind " injustice duty, the captain unhesitatingly advanc- up the first seen what is no at- sir !" asked the cap- me, you not imposed steward, first forget say—" commenced to the captain, au- ferableto further submission. Aware of For hasty swain. a own and wrong of turn can and your temper what of. yarn-spinner, Captain a speech a what I have moment, and aban- a frightened I far seamen, the laws smoother ! they have always Iruffle actors and Andrews, as much of B|in't in the the ends of fly never causes—either in impulse conceived doned men but if excitement me complain so sense are run- grievously you all yourselves splice ex- yield implicit obedience, to two or powerful some which to been accustomed influ- controlling a by overcome 1 feel must you make to to " give I do start. me misguided of this ringleader icaptain, and, to without it. "I tain. clearly, paid it. to Do you hear " out your messmates have put wrong it is that you , great force— and understood it plainly, who tention I'll drive this ball Well, Wilson, captain's assuredly tbe confidence more all were boatswain, in their relative strength ' enough to understand the risk you actual difference The ning, and desire you to inform considerable as it appeared. was not so sailors, it is heed it. Walk aft to the quarter deck. you The boatswain though he heard the order : " course impending struggle. ;you forth as discrepancy be- ithat you are seemed so parties great, the 'movement. two the eyes of the Wilson, expected from him, stepped was the numerical Although tween they isaid when it in the they would adopt 1853. to act as Respectfully touching spokesman. I Ihis tarpaulin, he waited for the captain to Observing this the captain iquestion him. and resolu- upon the all, had determined iseeing a of tbe men seamen amongst common at the undertaking, with that promptness Josephine, tion for preparations brief the turned toward and steward mate, captain, their making were JANUARY, wish from yqu nothing more than you promised jo tl)e shipping articles !" III. the meats FRIEND, of the affray, ship her not one of was commence- the lee; seamen as that the vessel mendously, the at was now of the men—all observe that that what had been the they heeling lee-scuppers nor did were— over nearly tre- level �with the then witn rushing sound, a fell with In the into the splash instant locked alolt same first The cause. ef the Their action. for the ensign cheer- year, dis- now a escaped a going the to close- ship, had blowing, come before"them. In 1794, he upon His The entire. as career, allow not with the all and the fearful and royal, ship topgallant gathering was —their engaged each other, and the we to us officers sooner thoughts and birth and family in facts which just is than he from to his orders To the wheel! All hands his and the with men mate regret his life has been vice of his anxiously the controversy in which but the helm. son had been the awaiting ; of birth of that he Napoleon ship's busy confusion for of biographers and the May, hazardous that no and would take due to have they As the ation. attention paid and Mrs Andrews: alarmed all hands position, one they him and struck rail into the to to of the sea. born, and at hopeless laying him one: but who spanker captain's was sheet a gallant spirit son as that had overboard, was the sea to he sound. his christened went deck Una- from came into the windward, fearlessly sprang Tom was in- excellent swimmer, Charles' delicate form ty in supporting ship picked The to her hove up joy and taken when on great a at of County Castle, heart—the father felt feelings she and the restored grateful toward the delighted denomi- to honor to as their greatest It has seldom fallen orator. his and overture taken Cooley estate the in The Marquis of and destinies of the by one to not the France, the of among inferior prouder occupy loftier positions assigned these to great and not were their men and nations, but of millions of the most suffrage inhabitants of Europe them placed as the foremost men. greatest the was fourth have British Richard that Thos. was was Military 1851.—[See and, as The " ship to by F. receiving of on Brunswick, Hospital, Jan. in last pa- whale auction at the 2d inst., lor 85 Will purchase the last a in $1,095, auctioneer. 00 hound volume ofthe numbers published from number, Oct. 19,—and of the paper, The May be had pay Friend, Jan. for con- 1860, one sent to the United to year's States. Friend, Bound, at the Chaplain's Study, all the old series in years, of strong including seven years. fright- one Also, Volumes, including this in separate volume, from 1844, year, bound, up to the last number. estate previ- Eaton first, and School sold was W, Thompson, NOTICE. Andrew at of American of the hulk Honolulu harbor, or be the advertisement Heroine," an- At her husband's found at j the subscription of mothers, a woman Honolulu, Ar- fire. educated Napoleon ol the Anne, by Skoffield, Henry died in Me., from Mr. Hospital, shows', Irish Right Honorable the of the U. S. changed son obtained Information Ladd, keeper at of the brothers, the was at years They enlightened taining all the high principle. death the propetty then and the or old afterwards name wa-i of Mornington, was to this from might Wesley, and add that she may Arthur among and America per, Wesley, influence other instance, of the and to John, similarity that change the Arthur Wesley we wished Wellesley. earl to man advanced men. common free gentle- Dungan Southey moralizes succeeded had ! of of the Cowley, or if Charles Cooley as adopted Wellington. place at anni- same brother of rejected. upon empire own who Meath, descended Arthur Duke of his be or gifted two that the distant relationship, but 21st, instead He waa Richard length a lot of mortal the stations the himselt old Irish an account on son, names to he is anniversary Wesley, Wesley, the Charles adopt of story ously destroyed by having The former, par excel- Englishmen delighted cans as the Hon. founder of Methodism, and Garret named man, on and until fully encumbered and ultimately the The castle had been alienated. both board. of the mother the idol of her they were nate an- highly distinguished so Wellington and or to The Duke," whilethe latterall Ameri- '' honored Wesley, the was name tells Southey an sense and he found no difficul- the family that of the recog- that Char- the Duke duty the deaths of two time same much and so men painful our Dublin than those for many before 18th June—the as the Ist world, by that generous, eldest daughter endeared him to his thur Hill, Viscount Dungannon, assistance. round, His he floated clear of second mate cer- place place Duke The distance. the Tom into Wellesley tafferel be- at the nounce all the lence, Dungan, at that at day one come ol so and the is was kept register was have always kept close person the to expected. messmates, he shouted to the les monkeywas as rescue on to the stern; and actuated to the just uttering he could have least the nized the over child in the angry waves puny Atlantic, the case of Charles sailor-boy, the shriek, the boom It is seldom Daniel Webster. what too He copying. at the age of 83. some- 1769, the castle of April, 1769, to miles many was as deck, and, a rough a source him saw without swim, seemed a to terror-stricken, sunk and a swoon, ble Charles the His mother who the mizen mast, over; in laid on situ- exposed spanker jibed, had lime even tdb much were less a standing nearly amidships before he so of themselves—else care sought were Charles to Wellington the time say place baptismal a reported the upon think of us to ser- quite are doubtful. the 30th in result consequent distin- born was month, in what had hurried on of the battle of Waterloo, ed by the falling spars, they In the versary. were now on the poop. and deck, and of was down- in the civil His titles Sept. 14, 1852, died Times, so £100,000, Since that time mostly spent country. Statesman and The the forecastle; but alarm- on same him gen- so remarkable and in the year Ireland, their shows that he to his to the little a hia the Peninsular, Napoleon £200,000. it com- to ran wife and The Captain's the cabin, hurried alacrity stations, whilst the hurry be not in the Duke as be known; not tain words: but first is it place person a where in Mr. Hart'— of his were guished authority. the wheel! to ship!" wear that the date and loud and clear is as nothing had interrupted find him- assumed at once that remarks, After an copy regard may writer to Eng- to of Waterloo and and after the battle been permitted Andrews The sent thence 1806 world-wide celebrity, a some known. situation— should its once more Captain mand, and issued ' are of well forget changed were ship, were did liberty, at has but there a their feet. regain il at habits to in which they had the to and caused them men contest the fierce as way and statesman; preservation, erally self instincts with the combined both officers and self stern away; in House of Commons voted rate. The natural desire for No masts been carried had gear, ser- was returned the in career numerous fore and main he from 1802 he married was military chieftain a In English the and life, sketch of his columns will and Indies, 1797. fall of interesting our West and land, In the London Times there Journals. continental England return to individual distinguished largely commented same army, a lieutenant in (he the first saw On his the to in and the the British successful The death of this family bim the commission of an procured in of Bri- school severe Yankee Privateer. one the is sister of seventeen, his age 1787, he became eminence, from vice. to the at 75th regiment. step The Duke of Wellington. is, was narrowly so forgiv- dates his first officer, time At the India wind, and was now flat aback; that up in the that the wind instead of blowing against the sails from behind, he day were duty—and Tom, to naval whipping.— Left without a mate with astiffbreeze hauled, at vigorous indeed, danger. captain, of the and was, helmsman, by the second Assistance and, discover the prompt position with imminent fraught fully returned same enne. treated by influence was crew the of give conduct, and mutinous and upon the ladder that leads victors to son—the a attempt we convinced every glance necessity two as for their ven tinguished equally interested, were Captain the sea. both the danger, new vanquished one while the other destruction, loud a striking of which Tom 1893. not the results will describe, only to large, heavy this heroine action. three one their child—we will cannon, deliverer of as a the combatants, threatened all near with instant loud report,, first startled the combatants: air, fell from aloft, bodies, tbe deck the A water. in the high JANUARY, FRIEND, 7 THE Angier, in instruction at New Bailey, York, inheritance plying can native of Westchester county. receive information in from at Y. S. a hit relatian to father, lately deceased, by Consulate, HonOMla. * aa if- �THE 8 Sale to baan the When th. black clouds Whs* the In Hoaelulu, a** whan ligbtning'a war. wsa tbe lempee! red Saab th. billow oo hlfb, theeky, Is wrath through mailing 1853. JANUARY, Died. Sea. The I FRIEND, — Thos. The long known Spallnan, " u Torn 30, Guam Joee, a Spaniard. In N.w York Citj, Tueadar evenini Oct. John 13, L. Ste- dancing. disUnniUheil Traveller. Mli "Travels'* in th« vens, E»q., o'.r th. watar wsa flying, Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land and Central America, are well strong ahlp, unmanned, and stout hearts were known and have been Aad whsn bold hearts wars quailing, At the time of bis eiteneively read. Whs* iba death he dying. calm- t ha»e b»en to tbe aaa when its boeera wa» wllh balm, When tbe breeae thai swept o'er me wsa Isd.u And Hi. stars, as they looked from the deep azure aky, on alaeraed like angel* uf love in their dwelling" and Aad Its gazed on their beauty, »o pure, light, has Till tbelr calm, holy no Deaths a pall—was Which so gently, beneath tho of Heav'n John Devony, can bright glimp.e, bleesed Savior, of look up and a.., came John Evens, ahip the editor of the N. received from her, larity in England letter, Times, Y. thus Joliu Bellbrn, England. private Tom's are sitting saw Masters and parlor, and their in the kitchen. It is acted has mistresses servants written even the Uncle Tom Dec. 97— Dec. The the "Uncle Tom's The erature. Cabin," 17—Am book-sellers Edinburgh aver else, the trade ed in this others, that the for time having issues and others 112th its of the form this us some is slated total country millionof BROWN'S to a be to can half a but a copies; unknown most popular novelists. Glasgow assures us that pe- it must to even One bookseller his sales two different forms will to 20,000 copies; of the joint than 120,000. the and largest agents their sales have in in a reached that and do not they them to will lats R. Seminary, to in Nuuanu 10 Valley, About at the reaidence of Hon. T. E. if a few amount of the Friend Oct. 8th] de- thetr debt a $467 bill for oa 37. 30 Oo Jan.'53, 16 00 repairs, 3 to ... expenses; ree'd and debt reported fm Oct. to Jan., 341 'JO ' Chapel, en *175 t1 be " North Oahu, has they as are Directions for accompany the L. intercourse with them solicitude comfort has that the been cere he wishes has of his for his embarked my if return They courtesy which also take of his The the Gun the unscrew till scraper be must barrel the barrel 2d. has marked the as is or poon in a snug laid so it will small have the go easy tub, set into the J. E. Use one one and charge a half loaded,which will head, body or a the cut wad Guns, or of two carry oakum and filed powder may be Geo. P. fol- A. P. S. 18th, seamen Howe, Norton Makes, Standkfek, Otis, C. Deeren, Watkins. 1852. 15 har- THE FRIEND: directed; A Monthly Journal devoted to Seamen, Marine and Temperant* General and for ten fathoms, used properly not rammed then the PUBLISHED AND SAMUEL C. DAMON, very harpoon. EDITED BY Seamen. as ROBERT Chaplain. TERMS. either One copy per directed, Two copies" "-.--. 3.00 Five copies "... 5.00 skins, if loaded and fired Inttlti genet. with effect 15 to 18 fathoms. large wad, under Reynolds, Clifford, James H. and sharp. fire at nearest black flukes, th. order Makes, G. Pearl use to the if of Thompson, (). G. line to be coiled gun ; as speaking general good Castle, James hammer- to vise, in the bow of the boat harpoon ground 12 and has in the S. N. the Honolulu, Dec. tow-line, he Mas. Wm. To do then clean perfectly in the blacksmith's jammed 3d. clean. breech, which profession the conduct of the Whale-Guns, &c, perfectly has their sin- voyage upon the satisfaction his command. • Let the line be as Jas. M. from bright. in the officers and money sale, I add their every fatent BROWN, which ; —to Guns to has been to him and he duty, well Patentee. Brown's promote which duty passengers, a success as ur- marked all reasonable efforts to pro- use less than to evidence of the the passage. evinced pleasing discharge comfort pleasure no a the during which he litis lows : Ist. E. their perform- 1852. using of date to l'ranrisro chosen. directions, to ROBERT Honolulu, Jan. 1, by Uecrgc mote the hand BROWN. represented, ship being judge as ance. commanded minds Star," on Whale-Guns, with interest from returned, master of the will ship from San clipper ship Eitreka, Welch, Esq., take great board the fine commander owes, to Honolulu, where the purchase at CARD. passengers on his HAR- PATENT according them undersigned, BROWN. " annum .... - $54.00 (£/*■ Bound volumes of the Friend, for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 8 years, at the Chaplain's A Study. Those having Brown's Whaling Guns, &c, reduction from the subscription price will a* visiting Honolulu, can have them repaired and made to Seamen, and elde.ida'iglipurchaMis who desira mora cleaned, no charge mads except for extras. voluma. Taylor, Jacob Miaa Blisassth M. Asdiiwi, |see to Honolulu their Maria by Re.. oa hand pleasure in bearing this public testimony to banity and kindness which have uniformly detained and Lances. —To all those that have use three to four fathoms. •a Monday evening, Dec. 90lh, Maaav, Sao.. the to ol IslSSliSa Aeaira-ets, The and not over the distance stated, to fasten as well as luehman, dauahter Dibble, deceased, Missionary at the Sandwich hand harpoon. Also, near the boat under water, Aubarn Theological a/ lee. Shsldoa Valley, Brown's perform me To use the the sth in.t., by the Bar. Piermont, of Kochaeier, on and will hard, then I)., Present The ROBERT Harpoons for yet Married. �sT*s*ille, Donations Whale-duns, patent Harpoons and of his Use of Manila on 10 75 fm Oct. '52 to salary Incidental 25 »813 6t reported was Carpenter's home. owing cleared are late master of in Nuuanu Warranty' more philanthropist. At Clinton, Oneida County, Rev. James D. Paid their leaviug the harbor. Lances. days fact Vofr ,for «326 over, A the fathoms, perfectly dry, snugly spliced learn from cheering subscriber, nine more ed Edinburgh already Here is few a we ol Friend ... 1st of Oct. On the Chapel Sexton's sailed WHALE-GUNS, residing that, in amount ihe POONS AND LANCES ! ! ! extent we show that to altogether time's our book in Fran. Balance TO WHALEMEN !! as of 120,000 the amount will suffice something hearof extent Of may whole a fact single in idea—it million or be to the to thousand. circulation no over enor- in even One edition before copies. ranging something accustomed we are riodicals circulating si be must the larger balance would have been linquent subscribers had forwarded subscription money. fry- have of the veeaele in port which have will wail the first fair wind. Guns unparalleled, of the strong bead winda preventing The advertised are of the account balancing 5 Ot 20 00 cruise. 911 not floating are 6 00 I 00 1852, it stands thus Case, cruise. chip Mores, Keller, above vesaela JO" None both The total sale of these dif- preparation. ferent 7-0, to ami country, mous different editions, from tfd. price da from San 98—Am wh ah Tvbee, Barber, N Bedford. 38—Am eh Many to 6 00 Maury, A Arctic, Gellet, 97—Am ah Eureka, Welch for Hon* Kong, 97—Am bsrk Maria, Mattison, for New London. now less than twenty San Francisco. Bh Romulue, Baker, cruiee. Th'p, fur Pan Frnnciaco. 18—Am wh any- probably James Phillip I, unlike almost all work 35 09 Port Philip. 18—Am bg Orleans, Leelch, center- attractions equal Of the young. Paly, Kellum,3o Ini and ah Marls Thereas, Taylor, crulae wli 16 SO .... New Bedford. Emellne, Green, for 95—Am wh ah Neva, selling nothing* are book, which, one presents old and they 6 'ii • - Receipts, Expenditures, Dec. 93— Am for N. London. chip Eliza Mallory, Williams, Pinions, to cruiie. 94—Am wh ah history of lit- News says: - 99—Ur ach Laurlls Eng- surpassing as In rjr cruise before known in the ever S 00 - - lapt. Johnson, Orozimhn, lapt. G. E. Welsh, "Eureka," Belurned to 17—Am ach Eical, Corwin, Lahaina. port. 17—Am wh ah Hercnlea, Fiaher, crulae and home. of the sale of journals speak Baltimore, 16—Am origan 97—Am wh English 17 d- ah Mary Merrill, For FrisKt. 5 00 - !apt. Whelden, 17. 17—Am wli bk cruise. Bhepberdeas, 17—Am wh ah Montlcello, Folger, crulae. absurd alive into Am | Chapel ..... Kealakeakua' 99—Peruvian ah Josephins Elias, 3 da from time bring- Baker, Sea- Ocean. lorgan, Ir. HallofLahaina, 96. 10. Frost, land." when V., Not. Dec. 18—Am clipper ship Eureka, Welch, 19 tls fm San Frsn. ci.saiwiee. aa—Brii. «eh. Leurila, Hale Caiherii.e,) Thop, Hempstead, tin l.almiuu. SB—Amectl fi. L. 94—Haw brig thousand one Ships Bengal, Drnmo, Catherine, Carroll, Laik, Brooklyn, Benj. PORT OF HONOLULU. read it. it, to free] supported by Friend, lhas. Cleared. in some sequel a it. boy same all and theatres, it read at tf. Ship ROMULUS, lapt. XTor reading street and low, High at our ing (I believe) in July JOURNAL. MARINE in cir- are bilker's a his bread-cart in the won- reading copies ol My daughter on person is am ap- gratuitously among . just by "Uncle here Everybody Hundreds of thousands of the aware produced Cabin." culation. the William, the For of the speaks anil distributed are in the Pacific Arrived, "Of course, you in Dec. York, Chapel, (teats 6. 14. Aberdeen, Scotland, Dec. John Kentiale, New popuof Mrs. Stowe's admirable derful excitement thing on tch. Eugene, Oct. 30. book: it. gratuiluous copies of which says have we Honolulu. Consulate, Iflicers and crew, Cbas. Stutsman, New Yoik Co., N. a crranty. relation to in Subscription 35. Freuchman, ship Angelina, Nov. Portuguese, bark Ooeda, Nov. ?(>. M. a Mary Howitt, in <* up father, lately deceased, by his contributions; men from California Cook of •hip Lancaster, Oct Through Earth'a clouila, "Uncle Tom" in from For the Seamen's John Antone, Western Is., Aug. 13. Jim Crow, Society In., came on sh J. Wells, Sept. 6. When the ke.o eye of faith a .native of Westchester a receive information can atU. S. 18. Davis, rest, Thee. York, plying David A. Avery, April 4. John April 15. emblem would sear*, an linilcy, inheritance Jan. 37, 1853. la., Briatol, Maine, Feb. 18, Jacob Jeaneite, Western In., March 36. th. spirits thut beam, on Hospital Lahaina, daring Mc'Dowel. BU Louis, Missouri, March Henry beheet, Almighty's calmed their wild fury, bound, year, NOTICE. Andrew a many yeara of Western Nathaniel Gatnaae, eea. to for 1852. not toet, Heem to be If good, though they Uuireriog 8. septrat* REPORTED BY JOHN B. HALL, STEWARD. John Maihnw, of life. my apirit. wak. In their maddening itrife. on that turbulent Wildly tossed, like the foam aaiik in their beauty Aad wooesw*».e aa Of tbe dawning* Also, Volume.-', including this New baan ahsd o'er my breait. a typ. lo that Aad whan an at U. in volume, irom 1844, one the 38th mat., Jamb* ll.i on of Maine, but formerly reaident ofthii city. high, bleat, spread Like in Honolulu, in he last number. Preeident of the Panama rail-road. aged 50 years, rel, The dsik sesne, where Ui. Sag of the atorm wu unfurled. And Its folds abroad o'.r the shuddering world, When the dark paaaiona waa At nia residence Bound, Chaplain's Study, old series including seven years. as it. bosom was aad lb. white foam Ilka llfbt, Friend, at the all the or years, Dec In Honolulu, be had May tbe boatman." glancing, wsa Dec on than..ingle � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.01.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.01.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/a21c3a5d65bd90093dfb5537ff10e591.pdf 59a47a1f13ef5098c1601bcb56ab01d0 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. 1 « oiitents FEBRUARY Old Series VOL X. HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1853. Hew Series, Vol. 11, No. t. There is now exhibited every day, ciously and thoroughly educated will prefer B.s sentiments to one 9 a teacher of Mr. who from A. M. to 9P. M., in Nuuanu street, I, 18SX OF THE K.tIEND, 9 advocates Three Lecturea, "shuffling pasteboard," and Honolulu, a remarkable specimen of to* .--.--•""* 9 PreMidt-nl's Menage, bear-tribe of animals. It is called a rainbow 10 "tripping on the light fantastic toe." Liberia, »2 O. H. Po.i, E.g., fee, The third lecture which it is our privilege bear, and perhaps that is a good name to deI3 The Sabbath, colors are not bright, neither 13 to notice, was delivered by W. Bates, Esq., scribe it. The nurlinoof the While Fiahery in Australia, • 13, 14 late from San Francisco, upon the physical do they number seven, but still there aro Commercial Hiatimicn, 14 So.eieiun of the Set.," We " five distinct colors encircling the head neck »5 and social condition of South America. The Chitd'a Paper, 15 should rather style Mr. B.s effort, an oration, and body." The mouth and tongue of the Foot-print, of the Race, 16 rather Remarkable Triuaaph of Hcicnce, than a lecture. It occupied a full hour animal are also colored in a similarmanner. 16 Marine Journal,*r, in its delivery, and evinced a good command The animal is not large, but very gentle. It of language, and a thorough reading of his- was caught high up apon the Nevada irieuntory, both ancient and modern. While we tains. At the same place is also exhibited a have heard but one expression of opinion in California white bear, very much smaller, HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1853. regard to the literary execution of the lecture, than the large polar white bear. A beautiwe have heard many express a regret that ful leopard cat, a wild cat, and a lew quails, Three Lectures. the lecturer did not descend more into detail, make up the miniature menagerie. These The month of January afforded favorable which we doubt not he could easily have done were brought by the " Sovereign ofthe Seas" indications of an increased mental activity having travelled extensively over the conti- and are to be taken to New York, for exhiamong foreign residents in Honolulu. The nent. Perhaps at some future time he may bition in the forth-coming world's fair; as lecture, by the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, D. D., be induced, again to speak before the foreign specimens of California wild beasts.'lt would have been gratifying to have seen also, a 11. 11. M. Minister of Public Instruction, residents of Honolulu. of or popular education, In this connection we take the liberty of genuine old grizzly bear, of California, upon the subject common schools was an excellent and logical publishing the following report. weighing, say, 12 or 14 hundred pounds. thai conclusively most At a of residents HonWe hbpe every parent who takes his chilin meeting production; showing foreign held the close of the Rev. in Armolulu, of the alt classes at dren to see the bears, will not fail to repeat Mr. youth <>! the education (be community is at the foundation of intelli- strong's lecture, the subscribers were ap- to them the story of the " forty and two little The of statistics the services of who were torn in pieces, by two children," and' virtue. a committee to secure gence array pointed the condition of schools and such would be to debecause treated with irreverance in bears, as Europe gentlemen, willing they upon the U. S. evinced extensive research, while liver a course of popular free lectures, at and disrespect an old man. 2d Kings, 2,28 the grouping of the "facts and figures" such lime and place, as should be deemed 24. happily conduced to impress upon the hear- advisable. President's Message. er's mind the importance of vigorously susThey desire to announce that such encourA copy of the Alta California, has beea taining a public school in Honolulu. agement has crowned their efforts, that a received, containing President Fillmore's The lecture of Mr. Beck*ith before the lecture may be expected monthly and perhaps message. In addition*to the ordinary topics debating society of the Royal School, upon semi-monthly. presented in such documents, of a foreign Another lecture may be expected two and domestic the subject of amusements, merits 11 more nature, the Japan Expedition extended notice, than we shall be able to af- weeks from this evening, due notice of which is noticed and the designs of the government ford, considering our narrow limits. While will be given in the newspapers ofHonolulu. made known, which are of a pacific nature. The committee would respectfully express be would encourage manly sports,and healthWe are gratified to observe a notice thatths ful exercise, social intercourse and youthful the wish, that, inasmuch as gentlemen of expedition has actually sailed from Norfolk glee, play-ground gymnastics and mountain ability may be found willing to prepare them- Va., and will touch at Madeira. rambles, yet when duty sounded forth her selves to deliver free lectures, (he communiFrom the message, it appears that the ftclarion notes, amusement should modestly ty will always contribute its aid, by furnishnancial affairs of the country are in a highly retire. The lecture afforded pleasing indi- ing " full bouses," condition. On the Ist of July, prosperous cations, that the speaker was accustomed to All of which, is respectfully submitted. there was a surplus in the treasury of 1852, C DAMON. range abroad o'er the fields of literature, S. C.NEWCOMB. 2 Committee. $14,632,136. W. plucking poetic flowers, and picking up pro( T. E. TAYLOR. Imports during the year, (207,240,101 saic gems, which he could tastefully arrange. Honolulu, Jan. 26, 1862. 149,861,911 Exporta, Some might differ from him, in regard to cerThe Chaplain would acknowledge besides, $17,204,026, of foreign merchantain species of amusements, viz., card-play- books and papers for gratuitous distribution dise. ing and dancing, but we presume that pa- from Dr. Newcoinb'a and Capt. Penhallew's Government receipts, $49,728,386,, expan-' " -----... ------- ." TCHIi FIDE!©. ' , ' " rents who desire their children to be judi- families. sea $46,007,896. " �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 2 1853. ceasary to comfort, and the preservation of may be set down at Ihe average of $30 fur health. adults, and $15 for children under 2 years, In the establishment of the colony of free 2. Mechanical tools. Those emigrants who which, add d to the average cost of i-übsiscolored people at Liberia, the great question are mechanics ought to carry with them the lence during the first six months after their was to be settled whether they would be ca- tools of their trade. Indeed, all emigrants arrival—say $50 for adults, and $25 for chilought to have the common tools used in car- dren—makes $80 for, the former, and $40 pable of self-government. During a period penter's work, such as axe, hatchet, hand- for the- latter, or a general average of $60. haa been fair•f thirty years the experiment saw, augur, etc. The average of $50, as previously slated, forth before the 3. Agricultural implements. Every emi- has been found by experience to In- insuffily triad, and Liberia stands civilized world as a Republic, acknowledged grant, •vhether a mechanic or a farmer, ought cient to meet all ihe various expenses necesfree and independent government ity Eng- to be supplied with Ihe ordinary gardening sarily incurred. This average of $00, wo implements, such as hoes, spades, rakes, he expect to receive from those person- who are land, and other European powers. As ihe soil of Liberia is much more easily fully able to pay their own way. The SociAmong the tree colored people of the U. broken up for planiing than that of this coun- ety, however, will not refuse tosend any who States, there is a growing impression tha' try, the larger agricultural implements, as are unable to pay, in part or in whole, the Liberia it a desirable portion of the globe ploughs, harrows, &c, aro not absolutely necessary expense of transportation and supfor emigration. A number of the African necessary to farming operations, though they port, hut will give a free passage to all who are advantageous in carrying on these ope- are not able to pay for themselves, and will Repository has fallen into our hands, which rations on a large scale. aid thrill in mi porting themselves during the contains a most interesting summary of in- 4. Cooking utensils, and'table furniture. As first six months after their arrival, by furnishformation upon the subject of emigration, every family is expected to keep house, they ing them with provisions and medical attenshowing that it is a most practical affair.— ought to have a supply of necessary cooking dance when aateaaaiy, and providing them houses to live in; ttius taking care of them a At present emigration thither is principally utensils and table furniture. 5. Household furniture. In consequence of sufficient length of time to enable them to managed by the colonization Society the space occupied in the vessel by chairs make arrangements to take care ot themTime of sending Expedition*. tables, bedsteads, and other Urge articles of selves. Hereafter, it ia our intention to send a furniture, it is generally very inconvenient Fever.—On this point we quote from Dr. vessel from Baltimore regularly on the Ist of for such things to be taken. Consequently, Lugenbeel's Sketches of Liberia, in which May, and the Ist ofNovember, oi each year; though we are disposed to accommodate emi- may be found a full account of the diseases and from Savannah and New Orleans at such grants in every way in our power, we cannot of Liberia. "The physical system of every individual times as there are per.ons enough ready to encourage them to expect to take such artiemigrate to justify the necessary expenditure, cles. In view of the want of room in the who removes from a temperate to a tropical of which we will give timely notice. And if vessel to pack them securely, and conse- climate must undergo some change—must circumstances ahould require it we will fit quently of the risk of their been broken or experience some process of acclimation, out other expeditions from those cities, or damaged 1 during the voyage, ns well as the which may, or may not, be attended with from any of the northern ports, so as to ac- coat of transportation, and the greater com- much fever, according to circumstances—lo commodate, as far aa it is in our power, all fort ofthe emigrants on hoard, when the ves- the constitutional peculiarities of the indipersons who may wish to emigrate. We sel is not thus crowded, we would advise ap- vidual, his previous habits of life, the state of cannot, however, promise to send an expe- plicants for emigration, to dispose of such his mind with respect to calmness and padition at any particular time, (except the two articles of furniture previous to the time of tience, or irritability and disquietude; toga.from Baltimore,) unless we can have the as- sailing. In emigrating to a distant country, ther with other imaginable circumstances.— surance of a sufficient number of emigrants they must expect to put up with some incon- Some persons in passing through the proto justify ua in incurring the expense of char- venience at first—must not expect to com- cess of acclimation have very little, if any, tering and fitting out a vessel. It is impor- mence house-keeping in Liberia just where fever, and nre not at all interrupted in their tant, therefore, that applicants for emigration they left off in this country. All these arti- avocations by sickness, during the acclimatahould give ua early notice of their desire to cles can be purchased there in style and ing process. Others are not so|highly favorgo to Liberia, and of the time when they quality, not much inferior to the best in this ed, and some die during the first few months country, at the cost of nbout fifty percent., of their residence in Liberia—not always in will be ready. Length of voyage.—The length of the (frequently less.) advnnce on the price of consequence of the violence of the fever, but frequently in consequence of not exervoyage from Baltimore or Savannah is from similar articles in the U. States. thirty to forty days—the average is about 6. Additional articles. Those who can af- cising the necessary precautions in the prethirty-five daya. From New Orleans it is ford it, would do well to take with them a servation of health; such as proper attention ten to fifteen daya longer. keg or two of nails for shingling, &c; also to their habits, diet und clothing, to the exAccommodations.—Emigrant vessels are some cotton goods—bleached and brown tent of exposure to the bent of ihe day, as always fitted up expressly for the comforta- shirting, calico, handkerchiefs, (fancy pat- well as to the damp and chilling night-air, ble accommodation of the emigrants; and terns,) and various kinds of cheap stufffor and especially to the avoidance of all sources abundance of good provisions is always put pantaloons and coats or jackets, and other of mental inquietude. In some cases, the on board, of which the master of the vessel necessary articles of wearing apparrel; also physical system becomes sufficiently adapted haa the* charge, with instructions to furnish some money (gold or silver.) These will be to ths> climate to resist the surrounding delethe emigrants with everything necessary to useful to them in erecting their houses, and terious influences, in two or three months.— their health and comfort. paying for any labor they may need. All In other cases, a year or more elapses before Amount of baggage, &x.—Our rule is these articles can be purchased in Liberia; this desirable point is reached; the individnal to allow each adult emigrant, the bulk of two but as they generally cost more there than in in the mean time being subject to occasional barrels, or ten cubic feet in addition to the this country, and as the expense of transpor- attacks of chills, followed, of course, by more bed and bedding necessary for the voyage, tation is not much, it would be well for those or less fever." which latter, it is expected, of course, they who can afford it, to furnish themselves with Once safely through Ihe acclimating prowill furnish themselves. A proportional al- a small supply of such articles. To these cess, the individual may, by the exercise of lowance for children. It is expected that might be added a barrel or two of salted such prudence as coninv n sense would dicthose wno wish to take bulky articles of fur- provisions, in case, on inquiry at the place of tate, enjoy as good health as in most parts of niture, and boxes of goods, will pay freight embarkation, (where they can be purchased,) the United States. In reference to this, we on them, at the rate of $1 50 a barrel. it is fdund that they can be carried. Emi- again quote from Dr. Lugenbeel's Sketches. What emigrants should take. "The majority of colored emigrants, who grants should alwaya carry with them a va1. C/oiAmWt. Every emigrant ought to be riety of good garden seed; sealed up in vials have sufficient prudence to use such means well supplied with clothing, previous to leaf- or bottles, or wrapped in paper, and packed for the preservation of their health aa an ening home, both <br winter and summer, simi- in saw-dust, to prevent injury during the lightened judgment would dictate, usually enUrv.o what he sends in this country. Though voyage. joy as good health, after the first year of their there is ne winter is Liberia, yet during at ExriNsa.—The actual expense incurred in residence in Liberia as they formerly enjoyleast awSrhaU* the four, warm clothing is ne- the transportation of emigrants to Liberia ed in the United States. In some casea, i»- LIBERIA. — • ' �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1853. 3 nVed, the state of the health of the emigrants kind, and in any required number, may be jgeneral rule, however, it may be atated, that is decidedly improved by the change of resi- raised with much less trouble and expense isome rain falls during every month there is dence from America to Africa. The large than in this country—such as beeves or bul- Isome fine, clear, pleasant weather." Education.—By the aid of the Governmajority of cases of sickness that came un- locks, cows, sheep, goats, swine, geese, turder my observation, among those persons keys, ducks and chickens. Besides which tment of Liberia and several Benevolent Inwho had resided a year or more in Liberia, numerous kinds of wild game, including deer istitutions in this country, good free schools was in indolent, and consequently, indigent, of several varieties, are very plentiful; also Ihave been established in nearly all the settlepersons, whose prudence was commensurate a variety of excellent fish in the rivers. So tments; so that all parents can avail themwith their improvidence. Indeed, in view of1that, no industrious man need apprehend any 1selves of the facultiea thus afforded for the the heedlessness, carelessness, and indolence difficulty in getting enough animal as well as ieducation of their children. Efforts are now of some persons, who were scarcely ever vegetable food. i making in this country for the establishment To the industrious agriculturist, therefore, of a regular collegiate Institution in Liberia, sick, I was astonished at their continued exLiberia offers an inviting home—a home in which it is hoped will soon be put into opeemption from disease." We may here add, that emigrants are al- which all the necessaries, and many of the iration. And here we may state a fact very ways furnished with necessary medical at- luxuries of lite may be produced, with much iencouraging in view of the future prosperity of Liberia: as a general rule, the children tendance, by competent physicians in the less labor than in this country. We cannot 100 strongly urge the superla- Iborn there are as far advanced in education empl>y of ihe Society; and that it is important to pay strict attention to the advice and live importance of a regular, systematic, and ias children of the same age in moot commudirections of the attending physician. persevering course of agricultural industry inities in this country. The privilege of havLand —By the laws of Liberia, each emi- and frugality, hs the best and surest road to iing their children properly educated, and While to the merchant, or Ithus prepared for future usefulneaa and hapgrant on his arrival receives five acres of independence. good land, or if he prefers it, a town lot |f the commercial adventurer, Liberia presents ipiness, is one worthy of the consideration of he is the'head ef a family, the quantity of an inviting field for the exercise of his talents ithe free people of color in the United States. land is increased according to the number of and enterprise—a field rendered more invit(Political privileges.—The government his family, not exceeding ten acres. This ing or tempting by the consideration of the of the Republic of Liberia may, in every allowance may seem small, but in conse- success that has crowded the efforts of many essential particular, be regarded as a miniaquence of the great productiveness of the who devoted their time and energies to this ture representation of the Government of the soil, it is abundantly sufficient for the com- department of industry; and while the me- United States; and the citizens of that Refortable and independent subsistence of all chanic may take encouragement from the fact public enjoy equal privileges with the white who will properly cultivate it. Any person that in a growing country like that, the pro- citizens of this country. Colored emigrants who desires a greater quantity, can usually ductions of his skill will be required; yet, to are invested with the rights and privileges purchase it from the government of Liberia, the enterprising husbandman especially, Li- of citizenship immediately on their arrival; at from one to five dollars an acre, accord- beria offers inducements and encouragements but no white person is, under any circuming to the location. equal to any other country in the world.— stances, allowed to become a citizen; conseFace of the cocntrv, &c—Liberia does The ease with which the soil may be culti- quently, white residents cannot hold an office net consist, as some suppose, of arid plains vated, the excellence and abundance of its in the government, or have the privilege of and burning sands, but of hills and valleys, products—its coffee, not surpassed by any voting. Religious privileges.—Not the least covered with the verdure of perpetual spring, other in the world—its sugar-cane, cotton, presenting to the eye of the observer, as arrow-root, ginger, pepper of several varie- among the privileges enjoyed by the citizens viewed from the highest points of land in the ties, and other exportable articles—ita sweet of Liberia are those which pertain to the vicinity of the ocean, the appearance, of a potatoes and numerous -either vegetables, worship of the Almighty Ruler of the Unideep, unbroken forest, with hill-top rising growing freely and yielding abundantly dur- verse, whose providential superintendence above hill-top towards the vast interior. The ing every mouth in the year—-its great vari- has been so signally exhibited in the estabcountry is well watered by many beautiful ety of delicious fruits—together with the lishment and progress of that Republic— streams; the banks of some of which present facilities afforded for raising beeves, sheep, And perhaps in no other country in the world encouraging scenes of agricultural industry. goats, hogs, and various kinds of fowls, and are the ordinances of Christianity and the The soil of Liberia, like that .of other the frequent demand for vegetables and live ceremonies of divine worship observed with countries, varies in appenrance, quality, and stock of different kinds, by the officers and more strictness and regularity. Probably a produrtiveness. There is, however, no very crews of vessels visiting the country, as well larger proportion of the citizens of Liberia poor land in Liberia; and most of it is very as the constant demand in foreign markets are members of some Christian Church, rich, not surpassed perhaps by any other for the exportable articles; leave no room to than of any other people in the world. In doubt that ihe frugal and ii dustrious farmer every settlement, there is one place, or more, country in the world. Among the numerous agricultural products may, with no other means than those which of 'public worship, in which religious serof Liberia, we may specify as exportable ar- every individual can readily procure, live in v ices are regularly held. And several of ticles, rice, coffee, cotton, sugar, arrow-root, ease and comfort and independence. And, ■he pulpits are statedly filled by men brought ginger, pepper, and ground-nuts, all of which any man in Liberia, who enjoys a tolerable up and educated in Liberia, and exhibiting can be raised in quantity and quality not sur- degree of health, and who does not live com- talents and qualifications highly creditable to passed by similar products in any other part fortably and independently, may charge the themselves and to the institutions at which of the world. Of other vegetables that may deficiency to his own account. they were educated. Concluding remarks. —In conclusion we be abundantly raised, we may specify as the Climate. —In reference to the climate, principal, sweet-potatoes, lima or butter- we quote from sketches of Liberia as follows: would make a few general remarks. And beans, snap-beans, peas, cucumbers, melons "On the whole, I regard the climate of ifirst, in reference to the advantages of the of various kinds, beets, radishes and carrots, Liberia as decidedly pleasant. The extremes iemigration of the free people ol color from besides several articles peculiar to tropical of the thermometrical state of the atmos- ithis country to Liberia: these are of a threecountries, as cassadas, yams, Sic , Indian phere may be sent down at 66° and 90°.— fold character, having reference to themcorn, or maize, grows very well on some The average height of the mercury, during iselves, to their children, and to the native inlands; not so well, however, as in some parts the rainy season, is about 76°, and during Ihabitants of Africa. A comparison of the of the citizens of Liberia, with vat < of the U. States. the dry season about 84°. The mean tern- condition of c the free colored people in this country, A great variety of fruita grow plentifully; pernture for the year is about 80°." some of which are, the orange, lime, lemon, The only recognized division ofthe year cdrawn from actual observations, must conpine-apple, guava, mango, papaw, cocoanut, into seasons is the wet or rainy and the dry •vince every candid observer that the social, tamarind, sdtirsop, chiota, and okra; to whicb season, or, in common parlance, the " rains,' political, and religious condition of the -forj may be added the plantain and the banana, and the "dries;" the former of which an- rmer is greatly superior to that of the latter. the former of which is one of the moat lus- swors nearly to our summer and autumn, and 1The free man of color may, therefore, conficious and wholesome fruita in the vegetable the latter to our winter and spring. During <dently expect to better his own condition by to Liberia, where he can enjoy kingdom, easily cultivated, and affording an the half of the year commencing with May, removing i excellent end nutritious article of food. much more rain falls than during the other ■privileges, of which he is virtually deprived Domesticated animals of every necessary half commencing with November. Aa ■ iin every part of this country. Not only een ' << I " �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 4 he better his own condition by emigrating to 1 " G. B. Post Esq.- We are pleased to New Chaplain for Lahaina. Liberia, but if he is the father of'a family of' learn that a petition is in circulation for the We rejoice to welcome, The Rev. S. R. children, he cannot but desire that they should appointment of this gentleman to the post of Bishop as Chaplain for seamen st Lahaina receive the inestimable benefits of intellectu- Collector for this port, under the incom- The large number of seamen the in hospital, al training—benefits that are there freely ex- ing Democratic administration. Mr. Post is tended to all, but which' can be enjoyed by a gentleman of high standing, a merchant of and a fleet of moro than one hundred whalecolored children to a very limited extent in lonjr experience, and one well acquainted ships, which has visited that port during the the United States. A country in which our with commercial matters on the Pacific.- last season, have made it qnite apparent that children may be introduced into the temple of Besides, he is no rowdy, no duelist, no the services of a chaplain are highly desiraknowledge, and may compete with all other broken down political hack,' but a man aspirants, on the score of merit alone; and whom the whole community respect and ble. We are confident that foreign residents in .which they may enter the avenues ofcom- esteem. 'Tig true he is an independent at Lahaina will extend to him a most cordial mercial enterprise, of professional distinction minded man, and could not conscientiously welcome. and usefulness, or of political rivalry, with sustain some of the nominations of the late The Chaplain would acknowledge the privilege and prospect of being elevated Benician Convention. We suppose our to a position as high as any occupied by their neighbor of the Tunes and Transcript would valuable donations of books for gratuitous fellow-men in the same community; is cer- call him a bolter. Well neighbor, you distribution, from R. Carter, Esq., and M. tainly vastly preferable to one in which such bolted once yourself, if we remember right, W. Dodd, Esq , booksellers of New York. privileges cannot exist. But, not only in view in another city, and we honored you too for o( bettering their own condition, and afford- it, at the time. Don't let honor be set down They were received per " Eliza Mallory," and could not have been more opportune. ing their children facilities for acquiring an to a man's discredit." education, and thus becoming qualified to We copy the above remarks upon Mr. Honolulu, January 10, 1853. occupy positions of dignity, honor, and re- Post's nomination to the Collectorship of To the Editor of the Friend :— sponsibility among their fellow-citizens; Pacific." As a Dear Sir,—At the meeting held at the Bethel oa should Ihe free colored people of this coun- San Francisco, from " The I to to Liberia: we were aware emigrate try desire among merchant, that Mr. Post the 6th inst., I was much pleased that you were enother inducements, that of being instrumen- stood among the first, and it is highly grati- deavoring to establish a Savings' Bank. Although tal in elevating the benighted native inhabi- fying to see his merits so prominently set I am not a resident in Honolulu, but a sea-faring man, I have felt that a word from a stranger might tants of Africa, to the true position and dignity of men, deserves the serious considera- forth, as entitling him to hold so lucrative a not be amiss. tion of those to whom the finger of Divine public office. Our object in referring to this As for the establisment of a Savings' Bank, it is Providence clearly points as best calculated subject, is principally this, to encourage just such an institution as is wanted ; and so far a* to rescue that land from the thraldom of ig- young men to press forward under the most it was suggested that it would benefit the mechanic norance, and the debasing influences of sudiscouraging circumstances. Mr. P. we and scan an, I know that it would. If such an inperstition. stitution existed in this city, many seamen on being If colored men cannot understand and ap- know will pardon our allusion to the fact, discharged would then deposit their money, for 1 preciate such advantages as these, it is not I that at no very distant period he was dis- am knowing to such classes. worth their while to go to Liberia! Those, charged from an American whale ship, at As to its furthering the cause of temperance, * I on the contrary, 'who can and do appreciate would be just the thing. them, and who fully resolve to emigrate Honolulu, and became clerk in Mr. Grimes' know itYours C. C. truly, cheerfully and with a determination to try to store, and subsequently in that of Messrs. S. The Editor of the Friend, would be glad to W obstacle &. Co. Our overcome every thatmay be presen- 11. Williams intercourse among from more of the sea-faring community upon ted, may confidently expect to live more eas- seamen, but especially whalemen, has made hear ily, more comfortably, and more indepen- us acquainted with very many deserving the propriety of a Savings' Bank in Honolulu. In the N. Y. Seamen's Savings' Bank, over $5,000,000 dently, than they can in this country; and may enjoy the satisfaction of aiding in lay- young men, who for the time being are has been received on deposit, a considerable portion ing the foundation for a great nation, in ma- shipped before the mast, but as for being of which belongs to seamen. turing institutions and laws for the govern- sailors, they are not, never were, and never The Japanese Expedition. ment of a great people, and in redeeming an will be. They are only waiting for a good statement is said to exhibit the following The worst immense continent from the of Pagan to "do belter." Such persons, effective force of the squadron which is to sail this darkness and superstition—a work infinitely opportunity month tor Japan, under the command of Commomore sublime and glorious than can possibly frequently come to us for advice, and if in dore Perry : be performed by any of the colored people our power to advance their interest, it alThe Vermont, with !)6 guns and 800 men ; in this country, however favored may be their ways affords us the greatest pleasure. Not Mississippi, 375 men; Susquehanna, 350 men; position, enlarged their opportunities, and a few such persons are now occupying hon- Princeton, 190 men ; Alleghany, 190 men ; Saratoga, 22 guns and 190 men ; St. Miry's, 25 guns determined their energy an t perseverance! orable positions in society on the islands, and 190 men; Vincennes, 22 guns and 190 men ; and in California. Wo have reason to be- Macedonian, 22 guns and 450 men ; Porpoise, 10 For the Japan Expedition. guns and 120 men ; Southampton, 4 guns; lieve there are many more now connected ington, 4 guns; and Talbot, already sailed, 4 Lexgun* the articles to be taken out by 205 guns, and 3,045 men. The last three Japan Expedition, says the Scientific with the whaling fleet in the Pacific. Young Total, named vessels are storeships. are to be erican, will be a locomotive and ten miles men, be not discouraged, conduct honorably added to the ships' companies 700There marines, of railroad iron; a telegraphic apparatus, and labor faithfully in your present calling, with the compliment of the storeships, which, officers] with wire sufficient to lead from the Empe- ere and others attached to the expedilong you may be situated more in ac- scientific corps, an make effective tion, will ror's palace to one of the principal towns; cordance with your force of 4,000 men and views and desires. an apparatus for taking daguerreotypes; a 330 guns, mostly havy ordnance. The steamers a magnificent barge for the Emperor, apd some Will not some of our sea-faring friends are each to mount couple of Paixham shell-guns boxes of domestic goods of all descrip- regret, if they sail, without obtaining "The of largest calibre, and placed on revolving trucks so as to sweep the horizon. These trims are inFriend," bound. Volumes for last year now tended to be used for the discharge of shells of 90 and 120 pounds each, and long 42's making 23 ready. guns to each steamer. Each ship is provided beBohfAcaksnol.w—edIngfrmst eaAll seamen are invited to visit the two brsss 24 pound field pieces, to be usedwith man, the Chaplain would gratefully acknowledge a for or cannister shot." *»* donation of books and pamphlet*, for gratuitous dis- Chaplain's study for books and papers, but shells Commander Joshua R. Sands has been ordered tribution, from C. Bunker, Esq., U. 8. Consul, at Lahaina; also another donation from the Rev. Mr. 1 especially seamen belonging to those vessels to the command of the steamer Alleghany, which is to accompany the Japan expedition under ComWhittlesey, of Hana, east Maui. Favors of this des- an board of which subscriptions have been modore Perry, CapL Hiram Paulding is to comcription are particularly acceptable at the present taken Bethel and for the up, support of the have of late betn remand the ship of the line Vermont, now Btuareat time,in as much as no supplies 'Friend. at Boston for the same destination. -T" -' , \ 1853. t.mong fy .. ' �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 5 1853. Custom House Statistics--1852. The Sabbath. There is no land where—all religions obligations aside—the Sabbath is so necessary as in this coaatry. We should become barVALUE OF GOODS IMPORTED FROM— IForeign exports from barians without it. Already the lust of mon- The United $377,281 79" States, $348,608 29 Honolulu, 3,861 72 ey and peculiar institutions into the most ve- California, 62,819 14 Other ports, $381,14111 hement emulation, "wrinkles almost every Oregon, 7,688 34 Domestic exports 92,298 67 brow, and at which strangers gaze and won- Great Britain, $129,613 69 66,03303 As cargoes, der. Our very pleasures have this dash of China, 127,638 00 267,361 M British Colonies, 29,096 73 As supplies, and our and days impatience about them; British America, 8,836 82 Total exports, $638,39* M hours hurried on in the whirl of constant ex- Bremen, 39,413 96 ' 16,417 49 citement, lose their distinctness, and mingle Kamchatka, 646 43 in a misty mass in which the better reason- Sitka, 3,212 96 CUSTOM HOUSE RECEIPTS. ing faculty can distinguish little that accords France, Fanning's Island, 3.08274 natural of life. purposes with the Were Society Islands, I.ahai—, Honolulu, 2,443 21 223 44 Import duties, goods, 639 0* 32,679 09 this hurried way of life, this eager hunt of Peru, Chile and Panama, 2,067 60 10,660 64 Import duties, spirits, 49,914 98 gold and rank uninterrupted, it would soon Sea et. al. 24 69 99136 Free, 20,626 26 Transit duties, • sweep away before it all that elevates and By Whaleahipa. dutiable, 342 M 7,71190 • • 18,390,13 Harbor dues, do, purifies human nature, or gives grace and By 6,694 08 144 Storage, • 766 86 goodness of life. $716,296 27 Interest, HtM Fines and forfeitures, 21324 The Sabbath stays the severer pulse of Of the above, imported free by 112 00 Samples, $26,781 66 society, opens the low and dark clouds that Missions &c, 1,126 00 Coasting Licenses, 410 06 Diplomatic Agents, gather round the hearth, and lets in the light For 377 38 Registry, agricultural purposes, of better thoughts and loftier feelings. To Native Seamen's taxes, 708 M 1,610 10 1,003 00 stock, &c, lose this recruiting dispensation from the Returned cargoes, 960 00 467 M Shipping natives, 11,629 14 829 60 Blank stamps, 3,369 00 667 00 course of the iinpetunus life-struggle, would Hawaiian Whaler, 266 90 Canal, 1,20000 be to render our destiny that of the dun- Fire Engine remitted, slave. we While, therefore, regard geon 4*688,64 106,797 38 $41,097 94 the desecration of the Sabbath as primarily of- Imports at Custom House receipts, Free. Dutiable. Honolulu, 106,797 38 fensive, as a violation of the divine law, we Lahaina, 10,910 60 16,206 98 Lahaina, 6,688 64 8,614 98 6,361 42. condemn it as a wrong done to the heavy la- HUg, 997 47 Hilo, 666 85 184 76 Kealakeakua, den—as a step taken onwards to barbarism. 688 36 Kawoihac, 1,63»68 We see, with great regret, a constant ten- Kawaihae, 81 74 Kealakeakua, * o( Ihe Sabbath. This is 38 46 dency to the loss 26,477 81 19,096 46 44,673 27 Waimca.K. the greatest in those communities where the $769,86864!, Total C. H. receipts, $113,09193 Total import*, pulse of society is the most rapid and unintermittent, and where the worship of mammon, or of pleasure, is as perpetual as it is EXPORTS OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE. absorbing. This hostility to the Sabbath is Kauai k Niiham. Honolulu. Lahaina. Kawaihae. manifested in the success of the Sunday pa- Sugar, 7,123 lbs. 699,170 23,684 pers devoted to business and pleasure, and • 1,487 16,894 17,99i gallons. Syrup, 46,136 gallons. the devotion ofthe day to idle entertainments. Molasses, 200 108,610 1,600 ,000 They who invade the day of rest, do a Coffee, lbs. a barrels, 96 • 7,022 wrong to the race at large, and aid in weak- Salt, 330 barrels, 1,616 1,320 4,968 Irish Potatoes, ening a divine institution given in mercy, Sweet Potatoes, 660 barrels, 1,689 / 3,»M 120 776 and inseparable from the interests of civili- Beef, barrels. 20 84 lbs. zation.—North American. Tallow and Lard, 6,294 - - --- .- - ...- -- - - ..... - - ... - - - - .... ... . ---- - - ... - - --- - - -- ... - -- - -- -- - - - -- - -- - --- -- Hides, Decline of the Whale Fishery in Goat Skins, Arrow root, Australia. Our London Correspondent under date of Pulu, Oct. 2"2 dsends us the following extract of a Turkies, Fowls, letter dated Sydney, N. S. W. June 25th, Ducks, - - - - - 1,019 29,779 20,044 26,088 1,000 274 1.016 1,747 160 176 32 814 1,232 4 12,803 6,014 24,600 2,600 300 6,800 | 200 | 1,041 | 67 I », I I - lbs. lbs. 1,400 " 1,424 i [1,000 » 689 which it will be seen that the effect of the Swine, Cattle, threatens be Australia to gold discovery in feet. \ \ disastrous to the colonial whaling interest.— 600 1,600 The effect of a decline of the fishery in the 60 zoo 250 | 00 I | bunches. Australian colonies, which have heretofore Bnanas, I II 16 Oninna. bunches. ouncne.. » I I I bunches. I furnished so large a portion for the supply of unions 10 M. M the English market, will Ie sensibly felt here 42 i uoauf, •i in an increased demand for American oil. 400 r Cocoanuta, At present we have no foreign' whalers Mat bags, 600 lbs. lbs. 4.866 4,866 *"■• »im>o fungus, in port, and the catch of the last arrived Fnnmii pork, beef, I Colonial ships, which I subjoin, is not en- Dried lbs. 4,294 & fish, sausages,! [ couraging. Great difficulty is now experi- Cigars, M. 17* 17i | which with enced in getting crews for ships, 12,660 Limes &' lemons, 46 40 Hh^ n .68 68 | the greatly enhanced cost of fitting, will ex- Sheep, « «,«,, 1,700 i 3,700 I V ercise a most unfavorable influence on this Pineapples, 90,186 82 branch of business; and which, should no |VaL of funuture. J '67800 673 00 amelioration take place must decline in this I fr I I I #90.769,82 19,368,40 8,330,70 1,008,16 2,278,12i port. Last sales of Colonial caught sperm, k a, were made at £63. We have had no black HONOLULU—Domestic supplies to 177 merchant vessels, at an average of $160 each, oil or bone for sale for a long time.—A*. B. To 226 whalers, at an average of $220 each, by asr , " . 189 I 1,178 30 1,048 2 - • 10O " u ■ . Shipping lAst. Advices from St. Petersburghtoh2efd Oct, state that the whole Russian army had been ordered to wear mourning three days for the late Duke of Wellington. - - - To men-of-war, fcc, LAHAINA—To all vessels, HILO—To Other ports, so. ' I 77,878,*» - - - .- - - -: -. .-----.-.. $26,660 60 $ ICA SA aVO« 49,720 00 6,000 00 �6 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1853. a, ■" OH. AND BONE TBANSHnTED FREE OF DUTY DURING THE BPRING SEASON OF 1862, Ihend the wonderful progress of naval archiAND BOUND TO THE UNITED STATES. tecture. Whale oiL Whalebone. Sperm oil. Mr. McKay could not have selected a betAt Honolulu. 800 gallons. 88,710 gallons ter name lor his ship; iia historic! associaLahaina, 6,267 2,387 " tion is lull of instruction, and no <• Bile, M74 ship was •• 49,141 * "... ever more worthy of such a name. 12,341 90,238 Since the opening of the California trade, Daring the fall aeuon, bound to the U. States. lbs. has built five large clippers— Mr. Honolulu 1.002,210 •< 2,881,627 the McKay 82,180 " Hound, Stag Flying Cloud, Staffordshire, Lahaina, 28,708 " 196,492 Flying Fish, uud Sovereignfol the Seas, but 1,120,918 ■ 82,180 " 3,078,019 no two of them are alike in m»ili I. Daring ths fall season, bound to Bremen, Her leading dimensions are as follows:— Honolulu, 49,479 •■ 1,072 « 81,932 Length of keel 215 {feet, on deck, between perpendiculais 158, overall, fr»m ihe knightNATIONAL VESSELS AT HONOLULU DURING 1862. heads lo the taffrail, 265; ealieme breadth Haa*. | | flataai arrival | Natioa. Oommaader. | (una | From | date of«ail'j | Bound for of beam 44 feel, about 20 feci forward of May 7. Amphitrite, British Callao, 24 Hay 30, Port Clarence. the centre, breadth at the gunwale 42 feel; Frederick, Jans 20, U. 8. A.. B. Dulaney, 44 Callao, St. Lawrence, Nov. 20, Valparaiso. depth 23} feet, including 8 feet height of beJune 22, 8. k Norway, Eugenie, Virgin, 36 Gallspagos Is July 2, San Francisco, tween decks, dead rise 20 inches, swell or Aug. 26, do. do. S. Francisco, Aug. 26, Tahiti. do. do. rounding of sides I fool, sheer nearly 4 feet, and register 2421 ions. * MERCHANT VESSELS PORTS OF | WHALERS. AT THE As Mr. McKay built this ship on his own I.auaima. Hilo. Kealakkaxaa Kawaiuak. Hon.Lah.Hilo.Kesla.Kaw. Hostomh.u. he alone is responsible for her sucaccount, Inside Out. Tonnage cess bs a sea-boat. He designed that sh* no Torn (T. nnw... Out. Tons. No. Tons. No No [No INo. No. should be the swiftest sailing vessel in the Anwncin 71 12 !3,24S 6,362 20 4,908 602 260 6 848 202 180 K8 2 7 British 28 10 6,607 3,417 7 1,228 word, and what is apparent to all, has made 2 600 92 I 1 25 3 3,664 393 11 11,90 Hawaiian 6 698 her 1 strong enough lo carry shot in bulk.— lhouion 6 1,878 900 1 200 8 I 1 Considering the sharpness of her ends, she 3 1 613 948 0 11 1 1 has large stowage capacity for a clipper, Holland 3! 1.401 360 Russian great surface and length of floor, and will be 770 I 1 Hamburgh 268 very buoyant, and easy under canvass. 2 Chili Hanoverian 2 288 Her ornamental work was made by Messrs. Mexican 126 1 Raiatea Gleason &. Sons; Mr. T. J. Sheldon mad* 1 116 Danish her pumps and blocks, and Mr Mendum 134 173 N. Grenada 376 was her blacksmith. She was built at East 47o| 236 Peru Boston by Mr. Donald McKay, and is tha 141 36 38086 13236 38 6326 3 602 6 1,310 11 1,438 226 189 89 7 i embodiment of his idea of clipper perfection. So perfectly true are her LIQUORS PAYING A DUTY HIGHER THAN FIVE PER CENT, TAKEN OUT OF BOND FOR that, notwithstanding her vast proportions, size, there are CONSUMPTION, DURING THE YEAR 1862. many (freighting ships of half her register, that loom larger to the eye. Al four hundred yards' distance, she does not appear to 1 be larger than 7or 800 tons. She has been i a i .5 I 0 £ 5 3, » &I «I a ~. a I 1 inspected by nautical men from all parts of 1st 3 months, Honolulu, 1,881 1974 24 342 I 288| 84 I 231 2d 8 months, Honolulu, 283 the country, and we believe, has been the 981 338i 148j 3331 64 1 4J object of unqualified admiration. There are 2d 3 months, Lahaina, 6 doubtless many ships more tastefully orna3a i months, Honolulu, 1,266 196i 6 94 111 178 410 45J 23} 4, 7 mented with 3d 3 mouths, Kawaihae, 23 curving, gilding, and other ex4th 3 months, Honolulu, 3,946 6974 7 404 9 44 6691 7121 235 Ml 6 176 crescences; but for beauty and model, 4th 3 months, Lahaina, 392 6 24 I 31 strength of construction and completeness of Honolulu, 1862, 18,074 8,074 1,430 1141160 144 60 I 9 231 equipment aloft, she has no superior. It ia 1,2384 1,746 14284 164 Hi 4691 Lahaias, 23J 392 IS 10 21 24 31 but resonable to presume that, with a fair Kawaihae. " 28 I chance, she will make the quickest voyages 8>489 1,440 17 60 9 28 66 1,2691 1746 4281 144 234 164 4691 ever performed under canvass. We con[14,1604 Gallons. sider her not only an honor to her enterprising builder, but to Ihe country at large The Sovereign of the Seas. How strangely this uncouth hulk would Americans on distant seas may tefer to her The following facts respecting this beau- look along-side of her modern namesake. with national pride, and challenge a comparThe difference between one of our clipper ison from Ihe commercial navies tiful "Clipper," wo copy from the Boston of the and a Chinese junk would not be schooners Atlas, published about the time of her sail- more marked; world. She is well named—the Sovereign yet it is only by referring to •f the Seas, and is now in New York loading ing from Boston. the past that we can justly appreciate the for • California. More than two centuries have paased improvements of the present. away since this name was first applied to a the modern Sovereign of the Seas The Last of a Veteran ship. In 1637 that ship was built in Wool- theBehold Whaler. longest, sharpest, and most beautiful wich dockyard; her tonnage corresponded J. & Baylies Co., sold at auction on Satmerchant the ship in world, designed to sail urday the old ship with the year, she was the first ship with at least twenty miles an hour with a Phocion. She brought flush deckes," and the largest of any van-, whole- $190, and is to be broken p. She was built sel which had previously belonged to the,sail breeze. See her in the beauty of her in New York in 1807, is consequently English navy. Her keel measured 187 feet strength," the simplicity and neatness of her forty-five years old. and The old creature's and 9 inches, and she had three decks a rig, flying before the gale and laughing at model was as bad as possible, end a Dutch the and rising sea; then imagine her cum- galliot would beat a poop and topgallant forecastle, and '« bare her in the contest for five lanthorns, the biggest of which could brous ancestor, wallowing from side to side, beauty. We have only to say, peace to her up the ocean into whitened foam, and hold ten persons upright." She waapierced tearing ashes! and express the hope that a drilting of for 136 guns, but probably only mounted she was perhaps seven miles an hour; yet ships like her may soon follow her score into the the first ship of her day. Imagine hands of the ship breaker.—JV. B. Shippmg |an this, and even a landsman can compre-J .... ..... . . > .... •• .... 1 I | 5 - 1I 1 ■ " " i i i " . �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1863. 7 thought they had taken possession of for the lon fhe ocean, and he felt the need of that first "The Child's Paper." time since their creation, monuments to which an anchor hia would be " This is the name af a most beautiful month- hope provboth sure and steadfast; and that hope and ruins have been found Incontestlbly soul," ly paper, psibNshed by the American Tract he found in the atoning blood of hia Redeem- ing the presence, at a remote ago, of a race Of them, society. It is a perfect gem in the juvenile er. This gsve him peace and joy, and he far advanced in the arts of life. Most gladly we esteemed it a great privilege to unite himself'of their social life, their ware, end their final newspaper department. deatiny, history has no record, and even the .place *t upon our list of exchanges. The with the people of God. Not only had he voice of tradition is silent. At so remote a the believing heart, but the diligent hand; -following interesting sketch of sailor charac- he period did they exist that all memory of them was industrious and frugal. ter we copy from the number for November. and what of has departed for ever. Other races now have passed, Several years May it speak a word of encouragement to hint now? He is an American citizen, be- wonder over the ruins of their once stately forests of waving trees snd creeping the members of our Ladies' Stranger's loved and respected, though his German ac- cities, verdure have partially hidden them from the and he still betrays his foreign birth, Friend Society, who are frequently called cent loves and labors for hia adopted country. sight; and, as in some instances in Ihe South upon to assist »the sick and destitute sailor, Sabbath-schools, the missionary cauae, the Sea Islands, the subsidence of the earth haa to Honolulu. Tract Society, are all dear to him; and when buried them beneath the waves of the ocean. The German Sailor ox Ship on Pire. the sailor's home was burned down a few In the Ladrones, in the Chinese sees, Tinian, the Marquesas, Easter and Pltcalrn Several years ajro, a fine ship, on her voy- years since, he was himself able torebuild it, Java, Islands, colossal idols of stone, and ruins of and now owns it. from New York to encounage Liverpool, not the work of the present nacities, great those treatises read excellent When he tered a severe thunder-storm. The lightare the only monuments remaining to tions, Tract ning struck the ship, knocked down several upon systematic giving, published by the of these races. How of the crew, and run down into the hold, Society not long ago, he immediately said, tell us of the existence (he small a ef mankind does doinga of part atore, acwhich was filled with bales of cotton. There I too will weekly lay by of my disclose! was a smell of fire, and the dreadful discov- cording as the Lord prospers me;" and he history at Edery was soon made that the cotton was on began to put the earnings of one day in the The Vineyard Gazette, published a an account of visit Mass., gives garlown, aoon fire. What could be done? The hatches teeek into the Lord's treasury. Thia Tinian island, by were speedily closed if possible to keep the enabled him to say to the Tract Society, to one of these ruins, on Fisher, or the Nantucket fire under, while efforts were made to reach " Pick me out a pious German, to labor as a Capt. Alfred K. atreet the nearest port, which proved to be Ports- colporteur among my own countrymen in thisi whale ship America. The principal and all of lone, was miles the buildings The three him." will support land, New mouth, aad I Hampshire, not many leagues good finest raaof the color, stone a dark and of off. With what gratitude did the sailors Society did as he wished; and now, though i terial. the centre of tha street were Near in or i he is found behind his counter always the as descry land, it hove in sight; for, by fifty feet in the time the vessel reached the mouth of the his shop, he is preaching, through his col- twelve solid stone columns, nearat the base, and ten feet diameter in height, harbor, her decks were hot, and a suffocat- porteur, to numbers of his countrymen, that ofimmense weight. stone caps surmounted by which he esteems so and precious, gospel ing heat steamed up through every open avenue other streets diseam. distributing good books, full of the word of From the principalintervals and at riuht anAs she came up the harbor, word of their life, besides making generous offerings to verge at regular whole city were ruins of the The gles. "It is not hard to other cause. good perilous situation was sent on shore, and every ancient with trees of and giganovergrown preparations were made to scuttle her— give, when it is all laid by," he aays. the which means to bore holes in the sides and Does not this story give us a heart to wel- tic growth. The native inhabitants,'nor the island whose is possession in Spaniards, who come to our shores? bottom of a' vessel, in order to sink her as come the foreigners could give no account of the low as possible in the water. The fire-en- Let us tako them by the hand, sympathize at present, of the city. \ gines of the town were speedily brought with them, encourage and aid (hem, show founders The existence of these ruins, their reseradown to the wharf; as soon as the crew laud- Ihem our institutions, teach them our lanfound in Central America, ed, the hatches were opened, and the fire, guage, give them that Bible which is theti blance to thosewith other facts, have led some in connection of our and point greatness, long stifled, now fanned by the air, flamed corner-stone the conclusion (hat it waa by this route wildly up the masts; but the engines were them to "the Lamb of God, which takelhito came those tribes who first peopled our conh. c. k. on hand, and streams of water were poured away tho sin of the world." tinent. From the eastern shore of Asia to over the deck, down the hold, and among our western coast there is an almost continuFoot-prints of the Race. the rigging. of which might have served Among the sailors who were injured wasi The unity of the human race, its oneness ous line islands stones in crossing the great a German lad, who had one of his legsi of origin, necessitated widely flowing migra- aa stepping maratime tribes venture far oat The dreadfully shattered by the lightning. The tory movements for the peopling of the earth. ocean. si-a in their open boats, and the winds and poor fellow found himself helpless, suffering, Monuments of these migrations are found| to them in their eastin a foreign land, and hardly understanding scattered over widely separated countries, tides would at times favor cast them against course, w ard or perchance the English language; but a sailor's homei and in remole and unfrequented regions.— 'coast of California.— kept by a pious widow, opened its* friendly The foot of man has pressed many a soil| their will upon the is that there has been a supposition Another waa never travellers assume ■doors, and there he was carried. The doc- which later land in the] Pacific, and subsidence of | great tor was sent for, who said the limb must bei trodden before them. America, it ia well are but the fragcut off. What suffering days and sleeplessi established, had been oft times visited by that the existing islands .ii tnts of a vast continent. ' At all events of Conights did be endure; but every thing wasi Europeans before the re-discovery exist in California, to attest the done for his comfort: Christian friends were■ lumbus. The early Scandinaviana pushed| similar ruins race, in long past raised up in hir behalf; he was nursed, pro- ■ their discoveries along the coasts of Anseri- presence of a superior fact, in connection is a time. It curious The vided for, and at last the limb healed, andI ca, beyond the equator, to Brazil. he got well; but he could no longer followi brothers Zeni, Venetian navigators, visited | with the present Chin-ec immigration in Calischo'ars assert that the seas; he was a cripple, a poor stranger Newfoundland, aeventy yeara before the voy- fornia, that Chinese the name Fu-sang, was known of by America in a strange land. age of Columbus. The Northmen repeatin the great annals of the mentioned and coasts betweea ihe years he our Did grumble over hia hard lot? Oh, edly visited to the fifth century of no; he kept up a good heart, and soughtt 1000 and 1380. Leif, the son of Eric the Chinese empire, down era. it is not extravaperhaps, Thus, our work; and what was better, he began to in- Red, in the year 1000, first saw the land at out-looking point at which to that the say gant Scotia, then ia Nova Nantucket, about of that merciful God who hadI the island quire more across progress at laat arrived our we have in Thus the counspared his life in the storm, and given him ai and lastly in Newfoundland. from which our conquersafe anchorage through a long and tediousi try to which the Norwegians, under the lead the continent, and out upon the broad illness. He learned the English language, ,of their great musician, are now turning ing course seems toitsbenumerous islands, waa among Pacific and and diligently attended on the means off their steps [in search of a home, was first the earlier races, of to the entrance point ancestors, their own the blessing of God, he saw discovered by grace; and by this vast continent from its that his soul was beset by far greater perilsi So, in the islands of the Pacific, which ini who redeemed solitude.—Portland Ttassirff*. than those trass which he had just escapedI many Instances modern navigators have primeval ' — ** . " . ' • . .. • .., , ■ r i �8 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1853. ach Sierra Nevada, Woodlty, 18da fmr*sa Ft»s " —Am you get a smart breeze, make eastard. But —Am brig Lyra, Seymour, 24 dm fan San Francisco. "•■" —Haw. ach. Maniiku, Berri), 27 da fin San t-'raafiete if you have "horse latitude weather, make —Am brig Swiss Boy, Dexter, 28 di fm Ban Francis*"*, Sine* the arrival of the magnificent Sove- tthe best of your way due north until you 14 —Am ach Matthew Vanaar, Dodge. 91 da fm San fm*. —Haw. brig Wallace, Crowell, 19 d* fna San Fran. a good wind or fall into the variables, get { wig* of iht Stat, in-this harbor,(remarks the ** The clipper bark Caprice touched off this port on lbs*. editors ot the Aha Californian.) one of the ((westerly winds,) between 35 and 40 deg. 26th, (8 daya tmm San Franeieco, left n few papan and wnni on to Hong Kong. noat interesting circumstances has transpired then stick her away for port. Cleared. connected with her late passage, that has Captain McKay crossed the line" fourcruise. ever been recorded in the annals of voyages teen hours behind the time specified above. Dec.3l—Am ah Orozimbo, Johnson, bk Euphrosyne, Barras, Valparaiso 4k H. Leads* (o this ocean. The incident is fraught with ]Lieut. Maury's directions were fully ob- Jan. 31—Br 1-Amih Droino,Starr, cruise. I—Am ih Thoa. Nye, Almy, erulte. the deepest importance to the cause of sci- served and with what success it may be 3—Am sh Ohi", Norton, enuM and home. the particulars to and lay verified, and we haaten seen. His was fully prediction ence, 3—Am *h Alexander, Ryan, crniae. 3—Am »h Catherine, Hull,rru.ae. achieved American before the public. a for triumph glorious i :t-\m sh Mary Merrill, /Folium, It Tahiti. The Sovereign of the Seas left New York on science. 4—Am sh Bragnnza Devoll, cruise. 6_ \ m ah Canada, Went, cruise. the 3d day of August, and arrived in this i -Am ih Bengal, Phillips, cruise. her passage 7—Am bk Delta, Weeks, cruise. port oo the 16th of November, Visitors at the Seamen's Reading Room, 7—Am ah Chas Carroll, Chape), cruiae. occupying 103 days, two hours. A few will find a fresh supply of late papers. 7—Am bk Washington, Kdw.-trda. cruiae. her Haw bg Baltimore, Faty, for Manila. 7— capto her departure, weeks previous 8—Haw bg Msgdalenc, Tabor, for New London. tain, L. McKay, addressed a letter to Lieut. bg Moctezuma, Ffaunkuche, for Bataviav 10—Mex. examinaOur notice of the excellent sh Adeline, Cnrr, New Bedford. M. F, Maury, the well-known astronomer at tion of the Piiniihou school, we defer for 12—Am 19—Am *h Roht. Pulsford, Carey, cruiae. the Washington Observatory, requesting I 13—Am sh Con. Pike, Maker, cruiie and home. 13—Amah Columbia, Cash, cruiae. copies of the fourth edition of his " Sailing special reasons until our next number. French Corvette Bnllante, Ln->elin,2o guns. 13—Am ah Emily Taylor, Riddell, for New BedfWad. Directions," for use during the voyage.— IS—Am wh ah Columiius, Harris, cruise. Captain McKay received, shortly before sail- A CARD.-—The Chaplain would acknowledge 17—Am ah Geo. Law, Cooper, for Akyab. 16—Am wh sh Three brothers, Adtrna, cruise. the donatio* of $'20.00 from Consul General Miller, ing, the annexed letter in reply. 19—Am sch Excel, Cnrwin, for San Francisco. This letter furnishes one of the most re- I for attendance at Little Briton Hospital. 21—Am wh sh Northern Light, Stott, cruise* 18—Ham. bk Condor, Pett-nou, forNew Bedford. and markable instances ofscientific foresight 21—Am bk Aucklnnd,Woodfine, fm New Bedford. 21—Brit. ach. Rapid, Cresawell, for Sydney. knowledge that has overcome in our possesA CARD.--The Ladies' Stranger's Friend Soci24—Am wh sh George Clark, forNew lied ford. sion. The astronomer in his studio at ety with gratitude acknowledge the following dona24--Am »h Ellen Brook-, llavis, for do. 96—Am wh sh Hihernia, Jeffrey, to cruise. Washington predicts from the observance of|turns, since the commencement of the New Year. 96—Fr wh ah Pie IX, cruise. $10.76 certain sailing directions which he himself "ThcFriond," 98—Haw. brig Juno, Starr, for Han Fraacieee. the entire of the (being profits panet Emily Taylor, 99—Am sh for We»t, N. Bedford of a per for has resolved and laid down, a passage 1852.) vessel bound on a voyage of over 17,000 A. B. Bates, Esq., 20.09 10.00 miles in length and does not err, in his cal- His Excellency, R. C. Wylilc, WHiiaai. Cook, Mr. A. S. 5.00 culation of the time occupied, two hours! Chandlaur Am ah Win. Hamilton, ■•»■. 8. 2.00 Fr ahehPallaa, Reynolds, Esq., Heahury. NautiluH, Am ah BonJ. Morgan, Cbapol. Here is the letter: Am J. Fuller, Esq., 1000 .111 Janus, Cornell India, Miner. ilmnh ah ) National Observatory, Washington, Frances ah Cnlumbue, Narru. » Henrietta, i.Am 5.00 Dr. Smyth, Baker. Manuel Ortet, Cola. j Koinulua, S. S. NEWCOMB, Tresaurer, F. J July 28, 1852. II. M"ah laaac Howland, Woaa Am bk Harvest, Almy. Sir:—lf you have not the charts and old bk Prudent, Naah. Am wh »h Clmriut, Bumpna. Remarkable Triumph of Science. " , ,, ,, , ' " # ' i , .... .... - .... .... .... Vessels Port. in " Am all Isaac flicks, Skinner. Fr"ah Ferdinand, Martsn. sailing directions that accompany them, Married. M Heroine, Am .h Surah, Swift 19tli cfty, hy toil on the C C insi., In R«v. B. Mr. call on George Manning, Damon, please my agent, «' Maria Theresa, Taylor. Am Mi Jeanette,Writ G. St. Clair, to Mil* Aknii Moope, both or this city. bk Suomi, Haahainav, | ah Norrie. Kus. llrookllne, Am No. 142Pearl street, and he will furnish you Am all Black Warrior, Bartlett A.v ah WarreD, Smith. \m p-h Martha, Tnokrr, Am ah Helen Aujruata, Pajsn. with them. Am sh Navigator, risk. Am .li Vesper, l<o|.er. DIED, I am driving through the press the 4th ediAm bk W. T. Wheat'in, Groan Amah Mar. It Martin, Mif Stoninj-ton. it Hea, July Mth, Onboard bark I'nident of An bk Pi.in.c-, H 111n«w. bk Holt. Delaware, tion of Sailing Directions. I hope to have 1853, Levi stirbuck. a Saml«i.'h lilaniiir, bdonigini; to Am Am ah Navy, Norton. the chapter on the route to California out inI Molokai. HllrNiiiMra. Drowned, January 13th, 1852, by fallinp overboard from time for the Sovereign of the Seas. If so I hark iAm bk Mafdala ech William, I'rudent, William lliuxono, belonging to Silvar Creek, Hawbk Fillan. llerkihiro, .Hhw acli G Washington, llrit will send you them in the sheets, and yours1 N. Y. Pamliira, Molt. Am ab Kquator, Klwell. be that takes them. Taßfier, Hsteeuoa. be first vessel of the Heaa, will Am 'li Snv. remit the I Mil bk sh Onward, rotting. M'Koaclry. Vnrk, hli Un vm and have If you get them, stick to them, bg F.lizabeth Newell, illnl. JaxqilelinofcElise Itaaa Ilnw bg Richards. illan.ch<Jorinthiaua,Ricli»U.n average luck, I predict for you a passage of MARINE JOURNAL. \mhg/oe, Mooney. A.. ah Orptieue, I ■ot over ojje hundred and three days. No. of vessols in port, 55 PORT OF HONOLULU. Wishing you all the luck you can desire, Arrivals. lam, Very Truly, &.c, Subscriptions 3— Haw sell Geo. Washington, Derby, 29 da fm Pan Fran M. F. Maury. Jan. 6— Russian bk Muomi, lla»bagen, 13 ds fm tiilka 1500 v. h, For Ihe Seamen'!, Chapel, Neat, free] supporter! by Captain L. McKay, bone, 25000 sh Warren, Smith, ofTisbury, 17 days fin sen, In tTraltiilitnus conlrtlutioin j nnil the Friend, one ihonsnnd | Core of Messrs, Grinnell, Minturn & Co..] 7— Amdistreas. copies of which ar,- dislribuled gratuitously among Seain IlicPacific Oceun. 7—Am ah Helen Augusta, Fales, 34 mm., fm N.W. Coast New York. For Chapel (| For Frti 1000 wh,8000 bone. Names. P, S.—For fear the new directions should 119 da mdze Boston, fm to H B—Am eb Equator, Elwell, 6.00 5.00 Ship "FAVORITE," Snow and others. F. old not be out in time, do this: Follow the. 6.00 Tierce, 6—French 'Jorvette Brillante, Lapelin, 30 guns, 33 days. " 2.50 2.6V klr. Coffin, " Three Brothers," from Callao. (third edition) as they are for doubling Cape Equator. ds Bartlett, 17 fm 8-Am sh Black Warrior, 6.00 6.00 2apt. Cash, as much Hern.. After y>u get round,aremake ll—Am bark Tangier, rjweeuer, 171 d> fm N. York, with tfr. Luce, 3.00 3.00 short, as the cargo of mills. westing, where the degress Master and officers of ship 15—Am sih Eieel, Corwin, fm Lahaina. winds will conveniently allow, aiming to Francisco. Howland," 8.60 I.JO 15—Am »h Geo. Law, Onoper, Sti ds lin Han " Isaac 15—Am sh Sovereign of the Seas, M'Kay, 33 ds fm S. F. Japt 6.00 6.00 Stott, croi» the parallel of 40 south, between 100 ah York, M'Kendry, 33 da fm San Francisco. 15—Am U. S. Consul at ,'. Bunker, Esq., and 105, the parallel of 30, about 110.— 17—Brit, ach Rapid, Cresawell, 31 da fm San Francisco. Fran. 6.00 I.OS I-ahnina, 17—Haw bg Elizabeth Newell, Smith 88 ds fm elan Don't fight head winds to do this. Cross the 6.00 17—Am bg Zoe, Richards, 3> da fm Man Francisco. Hr. Greene, " Prudent," line near 120 dee. west, will do, 18—Holland brig Jacqueline and Eliae, Haas, lot) ds from rfr. Heron, to debt on Chapel 10.00 pay New York—cargo coals. considering you have a clipper under your 6.00 17—Amah Martha, Tooker, fm coaat California, 3350 wh. klr. Barnard, the 25th on or before of October. You 18—Am ah Navigator, Fish, fin cruise, 60 if, 3100 wh. feet, 3(l—Marv and Martha, Slocum, fm cruise,3oo wh. will hardly get the northeast trades south of 31—Am ah onward, Cotting, 19 ds fm San Francisco. Notice to Whalemen ! ! 23—Am bk Pioneer, Billings, 19 moe. out, 900 wh. 10 deg. north. Make a due north course By whaleships touching at Koloa, Kauai, geoa! 93—Am eh Emily Taylor, 13 ds from aea, in distress, through the " doldrums," and when you get 34—Am sh Orpheus,Mouney, fm Sydney via Navigator's supplies may be obtained at Mr. Gilmore't l'l«u»a»Islands. I-tio n, on reasonable terms. the northeast trades run along through them 37—Dan. 3 masted seh. Corinthians, Kichelsen, 35 ds fm of Wood—s6.oo per cord. full, sails course San Francisco. studding topmast with Fresh Beef—4 or 6 cts. per lb. SB—Am sh Navy, Norton, 16 mos. out, 70 ap, 1600 wh. C-Anbk Delaware, Holt, 6 mos. fm N. London, dean. Fresh Butter—6o cts. per lb. going no farther west than the winds, drive SB—Am sh Vesper. Lopof, 19moo. out, 650 sp. you, taking care not to cross the parallel of Sweet Potatoes—from $1.00 to $1.60 pax banal; 38—Anf bk Waa. T. Wheaton, Green, fm cruise. 20 deg. north, to the east 0f.125 deg. west. —Am brtg Judaon, Doring, 36 ds lm Ban Francisco. talso, fowls. " 31—Brit kirlf Corsair. WSite, 23 ds from Baa Francisco, f Reference, tt 8. RamouM, Esq., Hoaolasa. When you lose the northeast trades, if • •■ . men . ' - - - - - -- - - � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.02.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.02.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/757a27c75ea8d13d611ad3001aa97f54.pdf 27bbd580137ac99beda7f12b4d747d50 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, MARCn 1, 1853. New Series, Vol. 11, No. 3. 17 Old Series VOL I. While Savages. gladly pay '25 cents for the privilege of the U. S. thrusting his hnnd into the "grab box" with On entering an apartment of OK Till' FBIEND, MARCH 1, IH'A since, we short time Honolulu a in Hospital ,7 we saw rejoicno blanks ? One gentleman The Pair, over a tatter17 White Bavagea and Items, ing over a pair of shoes ! and such n pair ! observed an old sailor looking Schooner Caroline, He called our 2° Another drew what would entitle him to the ed and worn out newspaper. Wreck of tho ship Frances, 20 to the following remarks: Cnielties of Sandal wood Merchants, " Order of the Garter." Who would not attention The ship Tsrquin, It is an undoubted lact that when a |CF» ? letter, for a so unexpected very 25 cents " 21 pay Hospital Money, white man becomes an outcast, lives with 22 Mow incredible that the letters should be so O'Coahell'a Adventures, 2S savages, and adopts their manner of life, he Tides in the Pacinc Ocean, 20 " pat !" We saw only one man disappointed, soon sinks into such a state of barbarism that The John Williams," 23 that wasa gentleman " generous to a fault," he becomes the greater savage of the The "Clergyman's marching orders, a< Marriages and Deaths, two."«£3| 24 and yet his epistle charged him with avarice! � Marine Journal, notices, ace, he ad* He returned the letter, and doubtless it After we had read the paragraph, have been it; "That is know I truth—l finally fell into the hands of the proper ded, white New have aeen some Zealand; I in owner. But it behooves us to refer lo the refresh- men living there, and what they have done." ment table, where really every guest ob- He then gave an account of acts of barbariHonolulu, march i, ism. tained "quid pro quo" The tables were ty which would out do any deeds ofthe namost tastefully arranged and bountifully sup- tives of the Cannibal Islands! We refrain The Fair. included not only from publishing his statements in detail, beThe Ladies' Stranger's Friend Society plied. The bill of fare candies, but excellant coffee cause we fear our readers would think that rich and held a fair at the New Court House, on Ike with cakes of together with the Old Salt " had duped us, and yet we milk, an abundance birth " 22d ult., the evening of such as New England have heard enough, the truth of which we bread, brown good day. The weather was most unpropilious, housewives or their descendants alone know cannot doubt, to make us credit the toughest but both ladies and gentlemen of Honolulu yarn that any old sailor ever reeled off. To how to make. made special efforts to countenance the fair, The whole affair appears to have passed convince our readers that the days of white by their presence. This method of raising off remarkably well, creditable both to the savage barbarity have not entirely passed funds is new at the islands, and the experiladies and gentlemen. The object of the away, we refer our readers to statements ment took remarkably. The amount raised Society makes a strong appeal to every found in another part of our columns, reexceeded $1,900! This result far surpassed heart, and so long as the good specting dealers in sandal-wood, in the South the expectations of the most sanguine.— generous ladies of Honolulu will exert themselves in Pacific. After it was decided to hold the fair on that The editor of the Friend, would most behalf of the sick and destitute stranger, they evening, only a few days of preparation were will that the gentlemen acknowledge (received by mail,) rest assured respectfully allowed, but all went to work " With a will." may volumes of the U. S. Patent Office Refunds. two necessary furnish the Silk, satin, muslin and other materials were ports, forwarded by Hon. W. H. Seward, U. soon manufactured into numerous specimens We have been requested to insert the folS. Senator. One volume relates to Agriculof useful and ornamental needlework. There lowing: ture and the other to Mechanics. Here»fter A CARD. were articles of every description from a Friend Society we intend to notice their contents. of the Strangers' LADIES pin-cushion to a saddle-cloth, a lamp mat to return their sincere thanks to the residents of for their We would call the attention of the a carpet rug, and Lilliputian BOcks to a gen- Honolulu, and the strangers now in_P<wt, at the late Fair. They would al- citizens of Honolulu to Mr. Frick's Lecture, genorous patronage exhibtleman's dressing gown. The ladies so acknowlegc most gratefully the liberal donations the Society. noticed in another column. ited their good judgment in prizing the arti- of various persons not connected with thanks are likewise tendered to F. W. ThompTheir Clerical Association of Oahu.—The Mr. the time came for and cles low, so that when son, Esq., for his valuable services as auctioneer, this island are associain the so assisted kindly auctioneer, to mount who Protestant to the other gentlemen Thompson, the the room for the sale. preparing ted improvement and mania for for mutual together was perfect high rostrum, there By order of the Society, of interests of their respecnot time the N. Secretary. once, LEE, he could C. the keep promotion For prices. held their last meeting Two, five, tive parishes. They ten, bidders. the with numerous Small Pox. the of the Waialua, at at house so that it assembling were offered have been enrapidly dollars month serious fears twenty During the past meeting Emerson. The next will made him frantic with joy, and we doubt not tertained that this malady wu about to rage among Rev. Mr. but it is hoped that the strin- be held at Haula, on the south side of the the islands, upon O, that we had such us thought, he inwardly " It gent measures which have been taken, will prove island, about the Ist of September next times over the way!*' We arc most happy to learn that good house successful. meeting that native for is a expected poNumerous methods were devised matter can now be obtained. In several inat the same vaccine it will be dedicated at the time, and a full contribution, and soliciting litely stances has proved satisfactory, and the work of that he had and attendance is desired. Due notice will be vaccination is now going forward among natives time making the contributor feel of the day of meeting. given would forsignenebUined his "moneys worth." Who not Contents - ... '' - ----- TUE ' ' wmEMU. 11HR • �18 THE FRIEND, Communicated for the Friend. MARCH, 1853 they should meet the white men on the that their church measured about 40 feet by Schooner Caroline, 1852. island. They said that (hey were prepared 20, and afforded ample room for sealing all Leave Rono Kilta Harbor.—Steer for Wsl- to defend themselves if attacked, but they the inhabitants, who, including women and lington.—Passengers.—Previous History of would not use their arms unless obliged to. children, number about 120. The roof was the Island.—We Arrive.—Startling Intelli- They thought that the natives would take thatched with lav hala or pandanus leaves, gence.—Horrible Crime, Return to As- part with Mr. Biddle and allow no one to and the sides were lathed and plastered cension with Passengers. harm him. within and without. It was furnished wilh a September 29th.—Early in the morning Concerning the history of this island I had pulpit and desk and two rows of seats with we vreighed anchor, and spreading our sails learned several interesting facts previous to an aisle in (he centre. The backs of the to a gentle breath of air from the land, our sailing, and that alternoon when our seats, the pulpit, desk, &c., were painted moved slowly toward the narrow entrance of little vessel was driving on before a strong red. But Mr. Striker never had the pleasure the harbor; but the breeze died away, the wind, and Ascension was fast receding from of gathering the people into his little church, sails hung slack, and a minute after the our view, I repaired to the quarters of Mr. and preaching to them from its pulpit, for muddy water that rose from bereath, told us Biddle, and heard from him a correct ac- Providence ordered otherwise. that we were aground. A hawser was soon count of what had transpired on the island, Early in the morning of the Ist of Oct. he attached to the chain ofthe Kohinoor, and we since foreigners had resided there. It was was at work with his brush putting on the drew ourselves off. The land breeze which a short and trßgical history—and when I last strokes of paint, when the schooner had now freshened, carried us safely out of saw the muskets and revolvers, which they Vanguard came in sight, and he went off to the harbor, and we bore away for Welling- had been loading and putting in perfect her. He was probably expecting that the ton Island. order, I feared that the tragedy was not paint would soon dry, and on the coming Wellington or Duperrey Island is a coral ended. Sabbath he and his people would meet in reef about eight miles in circumference, with The first foreign residents on this island their church. But night came and Mr. three little islets bordering the lagoon on were James Striker and Francis Mason, Striker and those who were with him did not the north and east sides. It lies about who came from Ascension in 1847, with return—Sabbath came and went,but the peoeighty miles east of Ascension, in lat. 6 39 Capt. Hamlyn, of the whale ship Nile. They ple waited in vain for their teacher. They north, long. 159 49 east, and is occasionally were known on Ascension by the names of reached the schooner about nine o'clock, visited by vessels desirous of obtaining sup- Lorey and Frank. Mr. Striker kept a jour- and remained on board till four in the alterpliss of fowl, swine, green turtle, in which nal from the time they came to the island noon. The island was then about 15 miles the island abounds. It is also richer in till Oct. 1850, when he was lost. Mr. Bid- distant, and could be seen only from the vegetable products than many coral islands; dle had had possession of this journal when mast head. Capt. Richards tried to perfor the bread-fruit grows in abundance, and on the island and was able to give some suade them to give up returning in the boat, taro and bananas of superior quality are quotations from it. Frank had the reputa- and go with him to Ascension, but they were easily raised, while the cocanut which is tion of being a very quarrelsome fellow, on anxious to return to their friends, and taking common to all, furnishes its supplies. Ascension, and it appears from the journal, the bearing of the island as pointed out to In search of this little green grove in the that on Wellington Island, he and Mr. them from the mast head, they started homemidst of the ocean, we were now started; Striker were frequently at swords' points. ward. The King of the island, his two sons, and with us a Mr. Biddle, of Ascension, wh On one occasion Mr. Striker records— and two other natives were in the boat with had once lived several months on the island, " Had a fight with Mason to-day; beat him Mr. Striker. That night the wind blew and for more than a year had been seeking fairly at English play,"—under another fiercely, so ns even to endanger the schooner, an opportunity to return. He and his com- date—" Frank ran at me with a knife, and and (he unfortunate boat's company were panions had made several unsuccessful at- crossed my breast; I took it from him and undoubtedly buried in the waves. tempts to reach it in an open boat; and the told him to take care"—and again another Capt. Joseph Tolman, of the barque Hvlast time, after spending nine days in the page—" When at work I turned und saw daspe, touched there a day or two after, and fruitless search, returned almost exhausted Frank with his gun leveled at my head; I reported at Ascension on the 4th, (hat with hunger, thirst and continual labor with- asked him what he was doing, and he said, Striker and his company had not been seen out sleep. That they were not able to find looking at the barrel of his gun, to see if il since they went off to the Vanguard.— the island is not strange; for it is so small was straight, for he let it fall the other day." Charles Biddle, who had previously resided and so slightly elevated as to be seen only The last mention that he makes of Mason, is five years on the Marquesas Islands, and 10 or 15 miles, and while they were carried where he writes of having had a fight with had now been 10 months on Ascension, in various directions by the rapid currents, him, and says—" He thrust at me and I heard of it and resolved to go and fill the the only instruments they possessed for regu- thrust at him—he came off second best."— vacancy that had been occasioned by Mr. lating their course was a compass and quad- The natives say that Mason was killed at this Striker's death. The Hydaspe returned in rant. Baffled in all their attempts to reach time, and show the sword that Striker used. about ten days, and Mr. Biddle took passage it in their boat, they had determined lo wait They say that his body was thrown into the in her. When he landed he found the napatiently till they could obtain a passage in ocean beyond the reef. A little after this tives in deep mourning. The voice of some larger vessel, and were rejoiced when Capt. Barker, of the Elizabeth, touched al wailing was ascending from every part of they heard that we had determined to touch the island, and was told that Mason left in a the island, for they had lost not only their St the island and were willing to take them. trading vessel. But Mr. Striker makes no teacher and friend, but also their King and A few days previous to the time of our statement of this kind in his journal. his sons, who were their only chiefs. They sailing, their anxieties had been greatly in- From what he afterward records, it is had moreover returned to their idol gods and creased; for a certain Mr. Huntington, who probable, that when he had killed his com- were manufacturing new idols, for, as for was bitter in his feelings toward Mr. Biddle, panion and was left alone to reflection, the their Moses, they knew not what had behad a few weeks previous left Ascension loud voice of his conscience forced him to come of him. But when Biddle came clandestinely, with three comrades, and was think on his ways, and perhaps lead to true ihey desired him to be Mr. their ruler and now reported by Capt. Levien, of the Kohi- repentance and reformation. It was probably teacher. He accordingly appointed five of noor, to be on Wellington Island, rapidly April, 1850, when Mason was killed, and in their own number to act as magistrates the live stock, in which Mr. June or July of the same year, he records— under him, and disposing of many salutary Biddle claimed a share. Those who accom- "This morning I called the natives together, regulations. Mr.established Striker had already taught panied Mr. Biddle at this time were Jack and consulted with them about their religien, them to keep the Sabbath, and to number Simpson and Ned Owen, who had been with and proposed to them to worship the Lord the days and weeks as on they passed, him when attempting to reach the island by Jesus Christ in our manner and form."— strings of beads, to which they added one boat; also, a natire of Ascetvion, a native He states that they immediately consented, each day, placing a while one for the Sabof Wellington Island, his wife and the wife burned their idols, and commenced building bath. While Mr. Biddle was there they of his friend Jack Simpson, both Ascension a church. After this he mentions the pro- kept the women. It was evident from the number of gress of the work from time to time, —the careful to day with much strictness, being prepare their necessary food on their fire-arms, that they felt the necessity burning the lime—plastering the house the preceding day. of being prepared for any emergency, when fitting it with seats, Sec. Mr. Biddle say* Mr. Biddle said that he lived very happh , — — �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 19 1863. till he received on the island a man by the September 30th.—By obervation at noon, boat returned after sundown with Charles who confirmed name of Daniel Wilson, who was brought we found ourselves twenty miles south of Walker and Albert Immediately changing' our the statement that three had been sent away there by Capt. Smith, of the ship Falcon.— Wellington. Dan Wilson came from Ocean Island, where course and bearing north; we saw land at 2 by the natives. They joined in saying that he had been residing several years, and o'clock, about 12 miles distant. From 4 till if the men who came with us stopped on the brought with him his wife and child, and dark we were lying offand on near the west island, there would soon be bloodshed. Mr. several men who were natives of that island. side of the island. When we approached Snow did his best to induce them to comor promise, and agree to live peaceably on the They arrived in April, 1851, when Mr. Mr. Huntington came of in a boat with 7how till Capt. McKensie should come and Biddle had been on the island six months; 8 natives. We immediately asked and island settle their difficulties. But Mr. Huntington and on account of the Captain's representa- many whites there were on the island, that but declared that if they stopped on the island, tions, and the respectable appearance of the our blood ran cold when he told us of their he would remain in the vessel; for he knew passed since three man, they were kindly received by him.— eight days hadWilson, the what they came for,—to demand the island John, Dan Tom and >ws number, of sorr it the commencement But was of them, and it they did not give it up, to of Scotch had been bound the natives boy, by the with Mr. Biddle.forDan was regardless Sabbath and set at naught all the good regu- and turned adrift in a canoe to meet a dread- blow their brains out. After all this, when lations of the island. In less than a week ful lingering death, and that beside himself they were stepping into the boat, Mr. Huntington urged Mr. Biddle to go with them, after this Mr. Biddle was taken sick, and but two remained. The suspicion that Hunhorrid and to the solemnly promised that not a hair of his tington accessory Wilson, Dan himself was trust with to himself fearing took passage to Ascension in a ship that crime, was however forced upon our minds, head should be hurt. Mr. Biddle replied he would expect to be turned adrift as touched there. He was too sick to care not only by our previous knowledge of the that were, if he went with them. S*) the others sharp fact that there had been a quarrel and consequentfor his little much property, ly most of his things were left on the island. amongst the whites, and that Huntington they left us, and we were glad to steer away for it was dark, and if the Amongst the things left were his own journal and his fellows had put Dan in confinement; from the island, failed, also his and more wind had it would have left us id a but guilty appearance, by Striker. and the one kept by Mr. Mr. Biddle had with him a little bible that than all, by the rambling ai counts in which dangerous position. was left by Mr. Striker, and had several sen- he contradicted himself, and tried to justify Albert, whose sirname I have forgotten, tences penciled by him on the blank leaves. the crime. When asked what the others said that he was from Providence, R. 1., had On one page was written —"James C. had done to incense the natives, he first re- been in the Pacific nine or ten years, and they committed murder," and then had frequently stopped at the Sandwich Striker, born Feb. 28th, 1822, Poplar Mid- plied dlesex, London." On the next—" Welling- gave a long account of how they had irrita- Islands. He had also lived on Strong's ton Island, born on Nov. 10th, in the morn- ted the natives by continuing to fire at marks Island, but was so badly treated by the ing, about 4 o'clock, my child, John Striker, when they were desired to desist, and by chiefs and people that he left. We after1849." Mr. Biddle said that John Striker treating the women badly; and moreover wards heard of him on Strong's Island, ns a and his mother, who is a native of the island, how they had threatened to kill him. The lawless villian, whom with others King natives at last became exasperated, seized George had expelled from bis kingdom—or were living. Six months passed after Mr. Biddle left, them, bound them, and prepared to send at least by forbidding his subjects to furnish (hem away, and though Huntington used all them food, or harbor them in their houses, before he found an opportunity to return. this, he was able to had forced them to leave of their own free Capt. Wooden, ofthe trading barque Helen, his influence to prevent Walker, whom they will. one, save Charles only with the intention of setook back him then curing Dan Wilson and removing him to liberated, and to obtain for the others a If we may believe what Mr. Huntington the Raven Islands. Mr. Biddle spent one promise from the natives that when Ihey had says, he let Capt. Samson of the Glencoe them beyond the reef they would cut have seventy hogs and a large amount of night on shore arid was surrounded by 20 or takenbonds and give them each a paddle and other provisions, the returns for 30 natives, who staid by him to protect him their which (conco>-oanuts. some of Dan Wilson. But evil designs trary to the custom of the whites) he gave from any Capt. Wooden was unable to secure Dan, Mr. Biddle and the others who were ac- wholly to the natives, —undoubtedly for the and being' unwilling to leave Mr. Biddle in quainted with him, who had kept out of sight purpose of buying them over to his interests. such circumstances, he carried him back to while he was giving the foregoing account This, of course, excited the hostility ofDan Ascension, promising to come again in now came on deck and accosted him. He Wilson, who had resided long on the island, surprise— and claimed the sole right of disposing of its March and take more efficient measures.— turned and exclaimed with much Capt. Wooden did not come again us he had " Charles you here—Jack you here!" Mr. products, as agent for the natives. Mr. Biddle states that Dan Wilson had several hunpromised, and Mr. Biddle had heard through Biddle then asked how many whites there Capt. McKensie, of the Sea Nymph, that he were on the island, and whether things were dred dollars in cash, which may hare been that there were an was cast away and lost bis life on some in a quiet state. He replied additional inducement to turn him adrift. three whites on the island, and all was quiet. Mr. Huntington told Mr. Biddle that the island south of the line. Last Nov. a little after Mr. Biddle was When told that Cap. Levien heard from journals and other things that he left on the there, Capt. Almy, of the barque Harvest, him that he was the only white on the island island were all safe; but he told others that touched at the island, and left with Dan he seemed taken aback and declared that the journals, which he said were of no interWilson a sick Scotch boy, a native of Edin- we must be mistaken, for he never told est or value, had been destroyed, and the he also sent his boat church he had torn down and taken the maburgh, who was known by the name of John. Capt. Levien so; off the others that his word terial for his own dwelling house. ashore to Lucien debring mate Huntington, His second serted at the same time and remained on the might be verified. to consultation it was decided to return Mr. Biddle and says— andUpon island. Last March Mr. Huntington went He then turns his company on Mr. Biddle land what brought you here, Charles?"— Ascension; and the and over to Ascension, and remained there till Buttake next day at 5 P. M. we of island"—" Your my possession about the middle of August, when Capt. To have you on this were opposite Matalanim a few miles from lidinson, of the California schooner Glencoe, island ! What claim shoie. One of the pilots came off to us, None, except that I came here the us to be some other vessel desirgave him passage back to Wellington island ?"—" supposing have Biddle, said and fostered Mr. " Island. Bristol Tom as he was called on first," to anchor. He reported that the Naning and things so long"—" How Ascension, who was said to be a convict the people mariki, or king, of the Kitti tribe was dead, claim how have as to good ? ? I long long from Hobart Town, and a native Bristol, and said that it was rumored amongst the naisland as you. We'll see what the na- tives, that the medicine given and Charles Walker another Englishman, the say." Several other sentences passed Gulick, was the occasion of him by Dr. went with Huntington in the Glencoe. When tives his death. A between them before they were checked.— Capt. McKensie was at the island, ten days little before sundown Mr. Biddle and his comconversation, had a afterwards quiet They had in they our visit Dan Wilson the shore in their own boat, previous to Mr. Huntington told Mr. Biddle, that pany left for confinement. Two or three days after, and their little sail to the wind, while spreading were willing that Mr. B. we tacked ship and when Capt. Levieu was there, Huntington he and the natives bare away to the East. the island, but if the came off and reported that he was the only himself should stop on J. T. G. trouble. others remained it would make The man on the island. , " — " " white �THE FRIEND, 20 MARCH, 1853 When the natives first came on hoard one preaching 500 were gathered into a Christian >f them came to me and asked me if he church. In 1845 the Rev. George Gill was Honolulu, Feb. 17th, 1863. might have some turkeys and ducks that appointed to this island, and about one year you for publication were washing about the deck, and 1 told him send :—I Editor Mr. since the Rev. William Gill became his asthe following particulars of the loss of the to take them, and thought no more about Beford, them; island, under but on he folsociate. Capt. S. expresses his most unmy lenving the my ship Frances, of New command, which took place on the night of lowed me to the boat with them, nnd insisted qualified beliefrespecting the genuineness of 25th ofDee. last, on the island of Manguia; that they still belonged to mn, and that he (he christianization of the island. The oblying in lat. 29 57 south long. 159 00 west. had only taken care ol'tliem for me. 1 will also mention one more anecdote and servance of the Sabbath is very strict and I had landed on the afternoon of the 25th recruits, and on board returned leave it with the public, assuring them that family worship is generally practiced among to procure at 7P. M., the ship then being about two from these facts they may form a correct the islanders. miles distant from the reef, with a light idea of the natives in general. I touched at It is quite impossible to assert what would breezefrom N. N. W., stood off to the W. this island in March, 1851, and recruited have been the fate of the crew of the "Franwith all sail set. At BP. M. (being then my ship, and on going on board at night I about three miles off,) I perceived the ship found that I had more than my boat would ces" had she been wrecked there while the did not hold her own, but drew in towards carry off with safety, and not wishing to stay people were in their savage state. Would the reef, when I ordered the officer of the over night, I left three hogs on the beach. ihey not have been treated as bad, if not deck to send a boat ahead to tow off, but Immediately on my arrival last December, worse, than the first missionaries in 1823, finding her still approaching the reef, I the same three hogs were brought, and I who were "seized, pillaged, stripped and ordered all hands to be oalled and other was informed that they belonged to me, and extreme We hope those placed in peril." boats to be sent ahead which was immediate- that no charge would he made tor their who oppose or ridicule the civilization of ly done; but she still continued to draw in, keeping. and became unmanagable. She fell off, I could give many more instances of their Polynesians, will attentively reflect upon head to the land, and all our endeavors to honesty, but time and space will not admit of these facts. At 9, P. my writing any more. tow her around were of no avail. M. she struck, and immediately filled with The Trident, of New Bedford, Capt. Mangaia has no good harbor. The best water. My anchors were of no use, as no Taber, touched on the 29th of Dec. bound landing is offOncroa, on the W. N. W. part bottom was to be got with 90 fathoms of for Monganui and took off eight of my crew; of the island The island affords good supline, when only three times her length from the rest still remain on the island. On the plies for whale ships at reasonable prices.— the breakers. Bth of January the Bremen whale ship See advertisement in another column. I immediately sent a boat to Mr. George Hansa, Capt. Husing, touched, bound for Gill, the English missionary residing on the these islands, and kindly gave me a passage; island, for assistance, and as she thumped and I return him my sincere thanks for his Cruelties of Sandal Wood Merchants. We have long been aware that the navery heavily, I had the masts cut away kind and gentlemanly treatment. which greatly eased her, and finding tives of some parts of Polynesia, were SWAIN, Jr. WILLIAM that it would be impossible to save the ship, At the request ol Capt. Swain, we make treated in the most cruel and inhuman manI commenced getting up the provisions and some remarks additional to the above letter ner, by person* cruising about to codec other necessaries for our consumption. Mr. Gill came on board and remained a few published in the Polynesian of February 19. sandal wood. To show that our opinion is minutes, when he returned to the shore and According to his statements the English not unfounded, we publish the following exsent me twenty-two canoes to assist in taking Missionaries on the island of Mangaia have tract from the September No. of the Samothe things from the wreck, and which I found been most successful in their labors. The an Reporter, for 1852. These statements invaluable, as the boats could not approach island is small, not being over three or four are made over the signature of an English the ship with safety, and every article had miles in diameter, and ten or twelve in cir- Missionary, "A. W. Murray;" or rather to be put into the canoes and from thence to the boats which lay off outside the breakers, cumference. It belongs to the Hervey they are taken from an " abstract of the and in them carried to Mr. Gill's, distant one group, S. W. from Tahiti. In 1847, accord- Journal ofMessrs. Murray and Sunderland," mile. We continued to work all (hat night j two English Missionaries, who sailed on and the next day till five, P. M., when hav- ing to the report of the London Missionary there of board the "John Williams," during her Society, 3,500. wax a population ing got out all the provisions, clothing, caboose and some few other articles, we left The " Apostle of Polynesia," the Rev. John ninth missionary voyage to the New Heher; as from what I experienced in getting!Williams, visited this island in T823. At brides and New Caledonia groups r" the provisions ashore I did not think it would jthat time they were in the same condition Rescue or British Sailors. as pay to try to save the cargo, as it would] soon as we dropped anchor in port when first discovered As Mr. Cook. by Capt. and, bone would sell cost more than the oil for, I therefore noted my intentions to sell Williams endeavored to open a friendly com- Revolution, on the island of Tana, May 9th the wreck as she then lay, and on the follo-v- munication with the inhabitants, but it 1852, the natives crowded on board. They -ing morning she was sold at public auction. proved fruitless. Some native teachers sent informed us of the welfare of the teachers, and appeared greatly delighted at the return On landing we were received by Mr. and placed in of the vessel. They had a geat deal to say seized, there were pillaged " George Gill, and treated with the utmost kindness; my men were comfortably pro- extreme peril. Happily they were rescued lo us about a mournful occurrence which in the month of December, 1851. vided for, and my officers and myself were from the savages; but all further attempts look place was tho dsalh of Gaskin, a chief in the This into received his family and nothing was un- were, for the present, abandoned." (Sep neighborhood of the bay. He met with his done on his or Mrs. Gill's part, for our comfort, for whioh I can never sufficiently thank William's Life, page 181.) About 1830, death on board the brigantine " Deborah," Mr. Williams made another voyage thither, of Sydney. The manner of his death is inthem. I feel it my duty to here state a few par- and was far more successful. At this time volved in mystery. The fact itself, howevticulars with regard to the natives, as few he commanded the missionary schooner er, is not questioned, even by the parties most seriously implicated. It had well nigh such are found on any of the islands in the Pacific. The success of the mission on this "Messenger of Peace," which lie had built led to the most serious consequences to parsland may be judged from the following facts. and rigged almost entirely with his own ties altogether unconnected with it. This be the following extracts Vi.t an article was stolen from the wreck [hands. Native teachers from other islands will explained by and when they picked up what drifted on were then landed on Mangaia, where they from testimonies we found in the hands of the teachers; and, as these will interest the shore and were ordered to bring them back labored with success, for fifteenyears without friends of Missions, we give them a place a European Missionary. Under native here :— Frota the Polj-ne.iea Wreck of the ship Frances. —" �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1953 21 belonged to buck, James Bunker and James Guinn, each Eliza, of Hobart Town. viduals thus cruelly murderedwere related, owner of one-sixteenth of the ship, $2,864 the party. They Resolution, four of Christian " While lying in Port district, each. my crew were made prisoners by the natives however, to parties in the heathen and the sad reThe officers and crew are entitled to the on the south side, going in, nnd were in and who took up the matter; Ann," that took the following proportiona: Lucy was, believe sult they they " great danger of their lives. I would have been killed, but for the mission- cutter, in December of the same year, and James Bunker, Captain, 1-18 lay g'2,880 00 including Barzillia Luce, Ist Mate, 1-28 lay 2,496 00 aries, who used every means to save them. killed all hands, seven in number, vessel. Who has the Fred'k Swain, 2d " the master of the and I2lbs. 1-38 lay 1,838 00 I was obliged to pay nine muskets murder of Alex. Macy, Boatsteerer, 1-48 lay 1,451 00 of powder for their release. The cause of largest share of the guilt of the 1-48 lay 1,45100 their keeping my men was, one of their these seven men—the poor ignorant natives Wm. Hussey, " 1-55 lay 1,270 00 schoon- of Mare, or the fiend-like Englishmen who James Swain, chiefs was killed on board the " Seaman, the three John 1-80 lay 873 00 unoffending Whitney, wantonly murdered the same niuht. er, James Osborn, John S. Coffin, William ? " W. S. Mansbield, Master." natives Most sincerely we hope these statements Stewart, David Young, Lewis Dixon, sea" Dec. 9th, 1851." men, 1-85 lay, each $822; George ButterThe following was written on the fly-leaf will not pass unobserved by the British Ad- field, John Lucas, Thomas Wood, Robert and cover of an English Prayer-book:— miral, or Consul, who m»y have jurisdiction Cathcart, H. Duueow, Thos. Russell, seato the book is presented missiona- over those sens and islands. Such cruelties men, 1-90 lay, each $770; Chas. Barnard, " This ries by me, for their kindness to us while not to pass unpunished. Tho English Peter Greene, 1-95 lay, each $732: Reuben ought and on shore. Beleasara Opedia, prisoners Bowers, 1-120 lay, $582. missionaries on Tanner's Island (Tana), missionaries exposing these murderous deeds Most of the owners, and many of the offiwere the persons who saved the lives offour will doubtless call down the wrath of the cers and crew of this are dead, but the ship Hothe of barque Elizabeth, of the crew of whole fraternity of sandal-wood merchants, amount due them will come acceptable to bart Town, who were taken prisoners while many ol whom are not blessed , Sydney, and perhaps the author of " Typee and their heirsabundance on shore, as Capt. of writer dewith an of this world's goods. may Oinoo," or some kindred We were killed their king Gaskin We there will be no further delay, but condemned to death two separate times; but nounce them for meddling in affairs not ex- that hope the expectations of the many whose the missionaries done all that was in their actly missionary ! are now raised to so high a pitch may hopes power to save our lives," &.c. be most fully realized. This money should The Ship Tarquin. F. A. Carter, It will be remembered by some of our have been paid over many years ago, still it One of the relieved prisoners. that in the year 1816, the ship Tar- will come in good time now to most of the renders The next scene of barbarity to which we of this port, commanded by Capt. claimants.—Nunt. Enquirer. quin, would direct the reader's attention, occur- James Bunker, (late Town Clerk) while on red at Eramanga, where the Rev. Mr. Wil- a whaling voyage on the coast of Brazil fell Hospital Money. liams was murdered some years ago. in with a Brazilian Sloop-of-War in distress Mr. R. B. Forbes, of this city, (Boston,) and towed her into Santoes, on the coast of who in many years has shown an interest in Cruelties or White Men. Brazil. Capt. Bunker demanded an amount is making an effort to get rid of that Outrages continued to be committed by equal to the value of a cargo of oil for the seamen, the " hospital tax"—a tax gross imposition, on the sandal-wood trade parties engaged in services of his vessel and crew, and after that our affluent government wrings from the the Eramangai s. Only a few months ago, being detained at Santoes some time was at four were murdered at a place called length ordered to Rio Janeiro to get his earnings of the poor sailors, and of the exof which no proper account has " Fourteen Bay," by parties belonging to a money. After remaining at Rio, however, penditure schooner connected with the Aneiteum some nine months, the Tarquin returned ever yet been given. Let Mr. Forbes' petition to Congress be signed, and a strong sandal-wood establishment. At a still later home without receiving the full amount of appeal made to that body to do one just with period, a brother of the chief Naioan, the demand. Soon after the return of the whom we left the teachers, was shot dead by Tarquin the owners made a statement of the thing. Every man, woman and child is a debtor to the mariner, by whose hardihood, an Englishman from Sydney, also belonging facts to the U. S. Government, entered a as well as by capital and mercantile genius, to a small vessel from Aneiteum. The mur- protest, &.C, and the matter has rested until derer and the native got into a dispute about quite recently. This is the story in brief. commerce is kept at work as a civilizer; the price of a quantity of sandal-wood, the Our Government has quite recently re- and consequently all should feel it a duty to native wishing a shell for his sandal-wood, ceived a large amount of money from the see that the mariner receives fair treatment. which the other was unwilling to give. He Brazilian Government to indemnify claim- Is there such tax upon landsmen, and espeupon soldiers. It is poor business if. offered tobacco, which the native declined; ants of this kind. A letter from a gentle- cially and the dispute was terminated by the Eng- man at Washington who has the manage- with an enormous revenue he does so much lishman shooting the Eramangan. We are ment of the Tarquin claim, states that the to bring into the public treasury, the sailor in possession of the names of the parlies Commissioner for the settlement of this and must be made to pay for the comforts of a that the assessment in concerned, and other fuels connected with similar demands has awarded to the owners hospital—supposing is all the purpose which question devotedjto exethe above tragic deeds. May He who of the ship Tarquin the sum ef $69,868 24 cuteth justice and judgment for all that are What per cent, will be paid en this amount its name implies —by no means a certain oppressed speedily appear for cruelly wrong- it is impossible now to tell, out it is supposed supposition.— Christian Register. ed and oppressed Eramanga ! We hope Mr. R. B. Forbes, and his it will be full 60 per cent, not more than 40 We sailed from Eramanga on the 25th of per cent, being used up in expenses. The associates will also do one thing more, secure May. Commission will be extended to the first of for foreign seamen, sailing under the U. S. The following account relates to the island July next, because some of the claimants flag the full protection of foreign consulate have not yet obtained their evidence, and to of " Mare" :— close it now would exclude them entirely.— Hospitals. The present (J. S. laws, or the Rkvengc on the "Lucy Abn." The amount awarded to the Tarquin ia to be instructions of the Department are wrong, unThree natives were barbarously murder- divided between the owners and crew as the just and cruel. They are disgraceful to a ed in the Christian district by an English- cargo of oil was in the settlement of the great and commercial nation boasting of a tr an, the master of a sandal-wood vessel.— voyage on her return home. surplus «' Barque treasury. They swam off to his vessel to talk to him The following is the exact share of each about the disposal of some sandal-wood, and person interested, owners, officers and crew. Imrovement at Aspinw All.-Mr. Green, were murdered in cold blood on the deck of R. &.. C. Mitchell, owners in one quarter of Chief Kngineer of the Royal West India Mail his vessel. Two died on the spot; the third, the ship, $11,456; Jared Gardner, George Steamship Line, arrived at Aspinwall some time though wounded, was able to leap into the Barrett, John Swain, and Valentine Swain, since, with mechanics tud necessary materials, to sea. The wretches fired upon him from the each owner of one-eighth of the ship, $5, erect for the company a permanent iron wharf, vessel, and put an end to his life. The mdi 728 each; Robert Brayton, Tristram Star- which is already considerably advanced. �22 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1853. O'Connell's Adventures Again. Barkus was, as usual, drunk on the hen-coop conscious of her situation; she had talked In the "Friend" for Dec. 17th we gavei when the vessel struck. In the presence of'in her wanderings of her father, of her home, the master, the mates can assume with suc- and of the island to which she was destined an account of O'Connell's Adventures at cess no authority which it is his peculiar on an errand of mercy; the happy end of the Island of Ascension. Previously to his province to exercise; consequently, with a her pilgrimage was attained without the toil visiting that Island, it appears from his 1drunken stupid sot for a master, every one to which she had in her youth devoted hernarrative that be was on board the En- followed the promptings of his own experi- self to reach it. The mother was by suffering or inclination. The boats were lower- so far bereft of sensibility, that the death of glish whale ship "John Bull," bound to encebut the necessary preci- her child hardly moved her. She scarcely ed, "Strong's Island." He reports that on pitation notwithstanding with which we prepared to leave the appeared to understand us when we informed board said vessel, there was a Missionary vessel, the boat in which I escaped was fur- her of it; or, if she did, the announcement accompanied by his wife and daughter, nished with provisions and arms, and we was received with a sort of delirious joy.— forms of cividestined for Strong's Island. Having no in- were able, also, to take away some ammuni- With as much attention to the would situation tion and little the lized as our permit, portable society articles. boat In a formation respecting Missionary ever hnv.with myself wero five the wife 'we committed the body to the ocean. We been sent thither, previous to the landing of and daughter of the seamen, and missionary. He was in m first intended to wrap the corpse in our the Rev. Mr. Snow, except what is contained the boat with the captain. In the four boats sail; but the prudence of a portion of the in this volume, we make the following ex- the whole crew escaped from the vessel. For crew, who objected to exposing the living to the dead, prevailed. The tract. O'Connell does not give the name five or six hours we kept together, but when save a form forweak state, hardly uttered a the there her in mother, dawned was one of morning only of the Missionary, but as we cannot con- the other boats and that but comment, and in a few hours followed her discernible, ceive any motive which he could have had, faintly, a long distance astern, as we crested daughter. Her body was also consigned to for making, an erroneous statement, we a wave ! Even in a latitude which must the deep. Upon the next morning after these melanmast receive his account of the affair, as have been within fifteen degrees of the duties to the two martyrs to the holy a without equator, choly or night passed sleep correct, until opposing information can be an open boat, washed by the con- religion tl.ey professed, we made the land. in food, collected. Should this account chance to tinual breakings of the sea over it, chilled We had been in the boat three days and four fall under the observation of any of the old our whole frame; we were faint, cold, weak, nights, but rejoiced as we were to make the English Missionaries, in the South Pacific, jaded and dispirited. But the sufferings ot land, no immediate prospect of profiting by we should be glad to receive communications the ladies engrossed more of our care than it appeared, for it was circled with a coral it was past noon before we from them in regard to the subject. We our own situation. We had a sail in the reef, in which boat and kept her away before the wind, discovered an opening. Effecting a passage should also be glad to learn more about the both because of the comparative comfort of we entered a smooth basin of water, and saw loss of the whale ship "John Bull."— such a course, and our indifference as to hundreds of canoes launching and putting off Already different reports have reached us what point we stood for. As I sat steering to us. They would approach within a short at length relating to that vessel. It may be that some I folded the shivering, sobbing daughter to distance, then suddenly retreat, and with my left arm, while two of my commenced showering stones, arrows and body my of the Micronesian Missionaries will be able shipmates assisted in protecting her by other missiles upon us. We threw ourselves to clear up the subject to the perfect satis- placing themselves on each side. The in the bottom of the boat; and when they had faction ofall interested in the investigation. mother was similarly cared for by the other satisfied themselves that we could or would to While referring to O'Connell, we would seamen. We tendered them parts of our offer no resistance, they were emboldened make a rush upon the boat, which they towed add that a gentleman from Massachusetts clothing, but could not persuade or induce them to accept anything of the kind. Oh, to the beach. After we were landed they lately remarked to us, that some years since such a horrid night ! The women had much stripped us of our clothing, and took everyhe saw him, attached to a circus company, mere to endure than ourselves, for, beside thing out of the boat, whale irons, tubs, travelling through the country. At the time the natural weakness of their frames, and muskets, etc. The boat was then hauled and our company six in O'Connell was accustomed to act the part of the delicacy which is woman's suffering in upon the beach, her ornament in prosperity, number, were led to the canoe-house. In misfortune as a Savage tattooed Polynesian !" "In or they suffered acute pain from the excoriation the hope that this publication may be the about the year 1826, I shipped in ithey had received in descending to the boat means of conveying intelligence to their the barque John Bull, whaler, Capt. Barkus. by the davit tackles; the salt water render- friends, I shall here insert the names of my The common incidents of a whaling voyage, ing poignant the smarting pain of their comrades, and their birthplaces, so far as I which I have already declined recounting in wound But in all their affliction they bore remember them. George Keenan, an Irishanother place, it is unnecessary to repeal holy testimony to the efficacy of that religion man, belonging to Dublin; John Johnson, here. After we had been from Sydney whose messengers they were; their fortitude an Englishman; Edward Bradford, of Brisaboat four months, we put in at the Bay of might have put even some of their male as- tol; John Thompson, of Liverpool, and John Islands, New Zealand. Bishop Marsden, al sociates in misfortune to (he blush. If ever Williams, of London. Of the native places that time on a visit to New Zealand, from Itrue practice as well as profession ofreligion of the two last named persons I am not posihia residence at Paramatta, put on board of.existed, it was exemplified in this family. On tive. us a missionary who was appointed to Strongs shipboard, before our misfortune, the disIsland, one of the Caroline Archipelago, iicreet and feeling manner in which they strove The Tides in the Pacific Ocean. with his wife .and daughter. We were to to impress upon rude sailors the truths of In no part of the world, is the same devicruise among the islands towards Japan, had convinced all of their sincerity, ation to be observed in the phenomena of with the intention to reach the shores of Ja- religion, at least. In the boat we bad more affecting the tides as is seen in Tahiti, and the adjapan at a particular season, when whales proof. They prayed frequently and fervently, cent islands of that group; Ist, in respect were supposed to frequent the Sea of Japan. and there were none to scoff. to the very limited rise and fall, which is not At eight months out we had taken about Broiling heat succeeded the chills of night; more than from fifteen to eighteen inches.— eight hundred barrels of oil, and were en- the wind abated, at noon we were becalmed; In this it is quite unique, except in some deavoring to make Strong's Island to leave dying with heat and fatigue upon a sea whose inland seas. 2nd, In not being regulated our passengers. At nightfall we had made dead swell was so tranquil that its glassy, by the moon, except in a small degree—highno land, but knew from observation and the' slimy smoothness was not ruffled. Toward water seldom extending beyond an hour beship's log that we were within a day's sail of night we had a breeze again, through the fore and after noon. "This is so well estabour destination. We were bowling along night the wet chills, and the same heat and lished," says Mr. Ellis, "that the time of under easy sail, the wind on our quarter, calm upon the next day. After two days night is marked by the ebbing and flowing when, at about eight o'clock in the evening, and three nights exposure, the daughter died of the tide." This singularity is lo be obthe vessel struck on a concealed coral reef,i about ten o'clock on the third. For some served in no other part of the Pacific, nor which is not laid down on the charts. Capt. hours before she had been apparently un- any other sea, that I am aware of. , , , , �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 23 1853. This fact is not of recent discovery; it Tahitian group comprises the whole of the after. I write not with the expectation thai was known to the Missionaries soon after South Sea Islands to which his remarks ex- I can throw much light on the subject ofthe they settled there, more than fifty years ago. tend. In his observations on the tides, he tides, but with the hope that others may be It does not appear, however, that the anom- says, " Among the natural phenomena ofthe led to investigate it with the attention it deW. Mills. aly was known to any of the early naviga- South Sea Islands, the tide is one ofthe most serves. tors; at least, there is no mention made of singular, and presents as great an exception "The John Williams." it in the voyages of Wallis, Cook, or Bligh. to the theory ofSir Isaac Newton as is to be Capt. Cook, ii.deed, observed and recorded met with in any part of the world. The This noble vessel seems destined to acthe limited rise and fall at Point Venus, or, rising and falling of the waters of the ocean quire a reputation, by no means inferior to Matavui Bay, to be from ten to twelve appear, if influenced at all, to be bo in a that of the martyr Williams, of Eramanga, inches, (folio edt., p. 29); but does not small degree only, by the moon." When others have contented themselves after whom she was named. She has alseem to have taken notice of the unvarying snd flow a recent In time of the ebb num- in merely giving their observations, without ready made three voyages to the South Seas, ber of the JtnUienaum, (September, 1850, p. attempting to account for the diversity, I can from England, and nine voyages among 957), there is a notice, to the effect, that an hardly venture a single suggestion to solve "the groups." On her return from EngAmerican captain, who had just returned, the difficulty. had verified the fact, by getting the affidavits If Professor Whewell's Map of Co-tidal land, in 1852, says Mr. Law, "We left Sydney on the Ist of January, of two respectable residents. The captain L'nes be correct, the tide travels, on the might have known, as well as the editor of western coast of America, from north to 1852, and reached Tahiti early the followthe journal, that the fact was confirmed south, between Acapulco and the Straits of ing February. At Tahiti, we left the Rev. many years ago, by men of science, Eng- Magellan; while, from the former, it travels D. Darling and family, who had been to lish, French, and American, who had visited northward and westward. The first, most England to recruit his strength. We also likely, moves south, until it meets with the left, as a reinforcemeut to the Mission, the Tahiti. Singular as the thing is, and though made great tidal oscillation, which proceeds with Rev. W. A. Lind, with their wives. We a matter of observation by every scientific great rapidity, in a westerly direction, ronnd visited the different islands in succession, expedition visiting the group, yet it is re- Cape Horn. There is, then, no difficulty in and left at Mangaia, the Rev. W. W. Gill markable, that no attempt seems to have conceiving, that between these two great and his wife. At Rarotonga, we left the been made to explain the phenomena. A tidal waves, running in an ellipsis to the Rev. A. Buzacott who brought with him from departure from a general law surely deserves westward, the Society Islands are left in the England 5,000 copies of the Bible, which intervening space, or what a Scotchman he had carried through the press, in the lanto be investigated. show that deviation is, to this would call the strath," unaffected by eith- guage of the Hervey Islands. The ship My object has led many writers into mistakes respect- er of these waves, but still subject to the reached Samoa on the 22nd of March, 1852, ing the tides of the Pacific. Many have solar oscillation, which may form apart from all on board well. The praise of our prestaken it for granted, that the same prevails that of the lunar. The tide-wave on the ervation we ascribe to Him, who holdeth over every part of this ocean; whereas, north will be inclined to the south, according the winds in his fists, and the waters in the with the exception of Tahiti and the islands to the moon's excursions in declination, or hollow of his hands." 'Ti« brave to see a callaac ship. near to it, the tides in the South Seas are as southing; and this may account for the diWith saowy pinions, fly much regulated by the moon as in any other versity at times, as already observed, of highAcross the ocean, like a bird, the world. The author of water an hour before or afbeing frequently part of " A MilBeneath a pleasant sky. lion of Facts," in trying to establish a theo- ter noon, just as the base of the lunar wave 'Tie brave to think what prscioas thins. ry of his own, in opposition to that of Sir may advance more or less to the south, by Are heaped up in her bold, What goodly merchandize aba brings. Isaac Newton, boldly asserts, that (lie moon the moon's declination and parallax. And Jewelry and gold. has no attractive influence on this ocean; in Peculiarities of tides, though of a differtide is to be observed. ent are to be observed in many places. kind, sight I deem it is that no Even Vet braver short, And goodlier, when a sbip, in the able article on the " Tide-wave," in Professor Whewell mentions, that about the With Mercy's heralds, doth bar wiag the Penny Cyclopaedia, it is observed, that Ower Shoal, the wholerise of the tide occurs In yonder water, dip,— the height of the tides in the South Seas are in about three hours. In the Frith of Forth, A burden bearing, richer far small, not exceeding two feet. Now, this is it has been observed, at times, that, after the Than gold, or running gem,— far from being in accordance with reality. tide has begun to ebb, another rise takes Voa, wafting tldinga of the Star At this group, at the low islands to the place, though small in comparison with the That abiaea from Bethlehem ! north of this, near the equator ; the Hervey first; so that, in fact, there are two larger This vessel, (J. W.) let it be remembered, Islands, to the south; the Tonga, Fijii, New and two smaller tides in the twenty-four was originally purchased by the penny conHebrides, Loyalty, and other groups, the hours. It will be seen, that, instead of the tides tributions of the Sabbath School Children of average rise and fall is not less than four the feet six inches. In account of the in the Pacific forming an exception to the England. Friendly Islands in " Cook's Voyages," we Newtonian theories, they are quite in acfind the following note :—" At these islands, cordance with the principles laid down in the The Clergymen's "Marching the tides are more considerable than at any Principia," and by Sir John Herschel, in Orders." other of Capt. Cook's discoveries in this his Treatise on Astronomy," sect. 530, ocean, that are situated within either tropics. where the relative disturbing forces of the A young clergyman meeting the Duke ot it At Annamooka, it is high-water near six sun and moon are about two and five feet. Wellington, inquired if he did not think o'clock, on the full and change ofthe moon; This seems pretty near to what is observed almost useless and extravagant to preach the Duke immediand the tide rises and falls about six feet at Tahiti, in relation to other parts in the gospel to the Hindoos. The upon a perpendicular. In the harbor of Pacific; the tide at the Society Islands rang- ately rejoined "Look, sir, to your marching I'ongataboo, the tide rises and falls four feet ing from fifteen to eighteen inches, and at orders,—' Preach the gospel to e»ery crea nnd a half at the quadratures :" (Folio edt. other groups from four feet six inches to five ture."' This is capital. It hits the nail on the p. 479)- There may be a difference in the feet. co-tidal lines; but at all these islands which Before anything like correct information' head. We admire the Duke for this noble form points of observation, the tides are de- can be had on this interesting subject, a sentiment. It places the last cidedly governed by the united solar and series of observations must be made at vari- and christian right lunar forces. So at the Marquesas, although ous points, by men who have time to devote command of the Saviour in just the anal chrisnearer to the Society Islands than any of to, and instruments proper for carrying on, light. Anti-Miesionary ministers those mentioned; but there the rise and fall the investigation. Now, as this ocean is tians cannot dodge its catting reproof, with is supposed not to exceed two feet. It is likely to become, ere long, the highway be- any more hope of success, thnti the French surprising, that Mr. Ellis, in his "Polyne- tween the vast continent of America and the ef the DokVs seUiere sian Researches,*' should have fallen into British Colonies, every item of information did the cannonading Leek, Sir. to ymmr marchthe same mistake, unless be means, that the connected with navigation sboeU be sought at Waterloe. " " — " " " �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1853. 24 IS—Am'wfe sk Wm. Hamilton, Halm, .rui... Donations for Seamen's Chapel, Hilo. Had ministers of Christ ob19 Am wh ab Veaper, Loper. cruise. • C. O. Brewster, ship Phenix, $5.00 Noll, Capt. bg Jacqueline 19 and for Franci.eo. Ellse, Haaa, B. served these orders, long ere this, a world 19 Br ah William, M'Phee, for Sydney. 5.09 Capt. O. C. Harris, ship Venice, bg Etnma, Watson, for Sydney 19 Hr £.00 Capt. J. W. .Sands, ship Benjamin Tucker, would have been evangelized. Every pro91 Danish sen Corinthiaaa, Rlcbelsen, for Hawaii. 5.00 Capt. P. C. Edwards, ship Geo. Washington, 91 An wh bk Martha, Tooker, cruise. fessed christian, whether Churchman or Dis94 Am sch Matt. Vaasar, Dodge, Kauai and Ban Fran. 5.00 Capt. P. L. Sherman, ship Marcus. Fates, Auguata, 94 sh Helen cniiae. Am wh Seine, -:2.60 Capt. Landre, ship senter, Presbyterian or Independent, Bap95 Haw bg Wallace, Hull, for Ban Francisco. llillman, 5.00 Capt. C. Cooke, ship Memoranda. tist or Methodist, is also a professed soldier Latum Feb. 44, whale 5.00 ehipa Emerald, Jagger; Hunter, Capt. E. A. Chapel, ship Benj. Morgan, It is treason 5.00 Pierce, Kutusoff, ship Capt. A. Hull, and two briganlines fm California of the Prince of Peace. REPORT or .hip Newark, Dirkens, 1.1 mos. Nov. K'.th, 1«W Capt. W. Wall, ship Sarah Sheaf, s.00 the assuming for hhla person 45(1 wh, any Spoke bk 8. 11. Waterman, Hull, of Btomngton, against Heaven, 5.09 Capt. F. Skinner, ship Isaac Hicks, up, tape 960 Luck at Hi I 28, ah Marengo, Devoll, N. 11., 1400 5.00 at Cape St. Lucas j 29, «h Wm C. Nye, Adam., N. 11. 30n Capt. G. B. Brown, ship Ontario, christian name, end hoping for salvation wh, 17S .p; Dec. 1, bark Cavalier, Freeman, Stoningtnn, Tiki Capt. Almy, 5.00 through a crucified redeemer, to oppose any wh, wh,9oo«p. 5.00 Henjamin Pitman, 09.—failed thi. day, .hip Magnolia, Co*, cruise, honest effort to publish abroad the gospel of Hilo, Jan. Your"8 tralv, also brig K< lips,-. Law, having touched for .applies, 49 day. men what reawill ask, Christ. Perhaps " T. COAN. Rom San Francisco, fur Sydney »ilh fifty passengers. Hilo.Jan. 10, 1853. following shipa were spoken or heard from son have we that we shall succeed? " The off*Sroai*.—The Hope Island, by (he .hip Dover, of New Loadon. ItEV. C. M. CLARK'S SELECT Duke's reply should silence such doubting Dec.Island., 4th John Well., of New liedford, 9 mo«. from Sandwich 100 bill*, sperm oil. enquiries. BOARDING SCHOOL. leaving Honolulu. Dec. 13—Wm Tell, ol S. 11. nothing .iuce tng orders." - - -- - -- .... ... •• Dee. 13- Monongahrla, N. 8., nothing since leaving AT BENECIA, CALIFORNIA. Dec. lS»Caf, llowland, nothing since leaving Honolulu. Dec. 13—Bar. (iosnold, If, n., nothing »ince leaving Oahu. In this school thorough education in the English, leaving Oahu, sp, bbl" "inc. Dec 14—Montezuma, N. U, SO Freeman, languages, and mathematics, is Thoraaa M. Crockett, to Miss Dec. 14—Enterprise, ISantucket, nothing .ince leaving Oahu ancient and Modern Francises. afforded to a limited number of pupils, under the Dec. 13—Venice, N. 1.., SO bbl. «p, since leaving Oahu. Nov. 2!)—Milo, N. ■~ sperm whale off Jems Island. care of experienced Teachers. Died. Nov. 95— I.agoda, N.U., ult'Jrrvi. I.land,nothing since leav. The course of study is calculated to fit the scholar aged ing a native of tlodohl'ii. 33, Joseph Feb. Honolulu, 33d, Marshall, In for active business pursuits, and also to prepare such Frb. a— Canada, N. 8., off Hawaii, 1 .perm whale. rica, Western Islands. Co*.—Feb. 16th, 1853, .hip ;t« desire to enter college. la Honolulu, February 94th, Mr. Dewitt C. Luak, belonging KKI'OItT or ship Magnolia. Island, from California a Magnolia, Col, or New Bedford, from Slaver. Islnnd, via HiThe location at Bcnicia, has been chosen as reto Syracuse, N. Y. He came to the Hay, 95 bbls sp, this seev had reaided Caliand a short cruise off Kenlakekua lo, in weeks on board the and since, Maria, and accessible ; and the arrangetew son. Spoke, Feb. 5, shin Catherine, Hull, of New Ijindon, no- markably healthful lernia aince 1849, a portion of the period at Htockton. no- ments of the family are such that pupils will fhid In Honolulu, February 25th, at Y. K. hospitable, George thing this season; bk Washington, Edwarda, Sag Harbor, CansSprings, nothing Cold thing Allro, White, ; «h the comforts of home. Williams, alias White Lott, belonging to New Utricht, N. V., i aaw bk da, Now Iledfnrd, 36 bhls «p 13th, spoke eh Columbia, Cash, He has a brother residing in Brooklyn, N. Y. Music is taught by an experienced master. havLost overboard, from the English brig Eclipse, Capt. Law, Nantucket, ail well, 45 bhls .p. The Columbia reported New The Academic year begins with August Ist, and ia the offing at llilo, Jan. 18. James Sullivan, carpenter, of ing seen, three days previous, sh Chaa. Carroll, Chapel, of Light, boiling whale ah Northern Stutt, a sperm is divided into four quarters of eleven weeka each. London, Boston, on his way from California to Australia. It is supposed the deceased was about 25 years old, that he; Fair Haven, ".towing down." a cruise.— Terms per quarter, including all charges, $160, left a wilennd one child in Boston, and that bis money, about REPORT or ship Sophia Thornton; Young, from payable in advance. 150 dollars sunk with him. iFeb. 17,18">3—nothing since leaving Oahu. Nov. last, reports, Howes, REFER TO He left a chest of tools, and a trunk of clothing in the Jan. 11, lat. 4- 50' S., kin. 110- W., spoke sh Amethyst, New Bedford, 27 m0.., 1,300 bbls sp oil, had taken 650 bbls the Hon. L. Severance, Hon. Gov. J. Bigler, California. Eclipse. Taber, 9 In Honolulu,Feb. 4, ofdisease of the brain, Alfred Mitchell last 4 months. Capt. Howes reported sh Louisiana, lon. Col. J. C. Fremant, Elisha Allen, 11. Esq. 190" mo., previous 1,900 bbls sp oil; Jau. 31«l, on the line, aged one year, infant son of Harriettand John Mitchell. Key. T. D. Hunt San Fran. since leaving Capt. John l'aty, On board the bark Alice Fratier, of Mew Bedford, Jan. 6 W., spoke bk Rajah, Fisher, Westport, nothing Oahu same Ume Black Eagle, Ludlow, Sag Harbor, 50 bbls. Rev. Daniel Dole, Rev. A. Williams, ■' Jonathan Y. Boula, of Rochester, Mass., aged 17. sperm. Key. S. C. Damon, BaW. A. Barnes, Phila. REPORT of ships in Mnrgariia Bay, California, by Capt Key. Key. S. L. l'omeroy, Bo». E. Bond, Bennett, ship Massachusetts. Ship Meteor, Jeffreyof New Tendon, 309 whale oil and 5 Beniicia, January, 1, 1853. 1600 London, Lame, bay. the of New Clement, whales in PORT OF HONOLULU. whale, and 5 whales in Bay. North Star, Brown, New LonArrivals. ldon,4 whales in bay. James Moitry, Wheldon, of New BedIsland of Mangaia. Fab. I—Am bg Prince dc Joinville, Kittredge, 90 ds fm S. F ford, 14,000 whale I whale in bay. Omega, Fisher, Fairhaven Fran, bg Oriental. 9nn via Lahnina. 5 whales in bay. Orion, Heche,Fret eh, 9000 Nelson, whale, 7— Am fm 1200 The chiefs and people on this island, desire to give 7— Haw. sch. Caroline, Holdaworth, 91 ds fm San Fran. whaleand 8 whales in bay. Aquetenet, San Francisco, 4 whs. t—Am ship Dover, Babcock, fm cruise, 30 sp, 1000 wh. in bay. CherokeeSmith, left about 15th January, bound to notice to the commanders of vessels that supplies fin Roritonga, 150 sp, 850 wh. Payta, to recruit. 7—Am ah Lancaster, Almy, can be obtained at the following prices:— 7—Am bk Alice Brazier, Taber, fm Society Is., 400 wh. NOTICE. 7—Am ab N. P. Talmadge, Edwards, from Soc. Is, 800 wh MARKET HOUSE PRICES. 18 da San Andrew., fin clipper Dragon, bk Fran. S—Am The Indies of the Stranger's Friend Society, grate6—Am clipper bk Isabella Hyne, 15 d. fm Ban Franci.co 20 for (1 per 6bl. $1 Pumpkins, Potatoes, during 8—Am clipper sh K. 11. Forbes, Doane, 15 ds fm San F. fully acknowledge the following donations 4 2 Fowls, 1 Taro, 9—Am ah Bliza Warwick, Watson, 190 days tin Boston, the month of February, viz. 1 dollar each 1[Turkeys, Oranges, cargo mdze. Graham, $»0.00 George Mr. 9—Hm clipper ah Syren, Bilsbee, 29 ds fm San Francisco. 75 cents 2 Small, 10.00 Yams, 10—Am clipper sh Chas. Mallory, 16 da fill San Francisco, Mrs. L. Andrews, 1 dol. each lfi forfl Ducks, 20.00 Pine apples. in quarantine,having the small pox on board. "A Friend," 75 cents Small, 14—Brash Hanaa, llusing. 96 ds Im Tahiti, 1.900hhla wh. Capt. McKay of the "Sovereign of the Seas 10.00 Oldcocoanuts 20 dol. wood, 4 per boat Iron 14—Am sh S. Lunnan, Clarke, In ds fm San Francisco. Capt. Holm of the Wm. Hamilton, 10.00 (Ircen cocoanuts, 40 Br bg Kinina, Watson, 91 ds fm San Francisco, with 10.00 Bananas, 3 bunches, $1 Other wood, $3 per boat. Married. On hoard ship Orpheus, Jan. 3lat, by Rev. Mr. Mar»h, Mr. Catherine both of San 1 ; 1 ; " " " " " ; MARINE JOURNAL. " -1 .... ... " " ----- Capt. dotting of the Onward, for Sydney, -.---aw ach Anonyma, Taner, (late Kaluna.) F. F. Wade, Br ach W, 11. Brown, White, coastwise (latcWilliam) Chaa. Thompson, }5— 6—Br ah William, M'Pbre, 96 ds fm San Francisco With I). H. Lo Crane, passengers for B>di ST. 17—Am sh Huntress, Lambert, 11 da fm San Fraacisco to Gen. Linden, load with oil for New Bedford. Honalbv, 17—Am ah Magnolia, Cox, fm cruise off Hawaii, 95 sp. James Kev. Mr. Pogue, 910* wh. 18— Am sh Sophia Thornton, Young, fm cruise on line, « A Friend," 150bbls ep, 850 Wh. Consul Gen. Miller, Ill—Am sh Massachusetts, Bennett, fm coast California, Mr. Barnard, 100 sp, 1300 wh. (a rial »ach,) 18—Br sch Time, Chape, 55 ds fui Shanghae, with cargo Three gentlemen," ... fm Ran Francisco. 19—Am ab Oliver Crocker, Cash, fm Tahiti, 900 .p. 19—Am ah Herald, Bio urn, Im Tahiti, 150 sp, 1040 wh. 91—Amah Mlto, Roule, fia Hnnhine, 155 sp, llMwh. 93—Am ah Newark, Dickons, Irom Marquesas, 850 wh, 14000 bone. 94—Am bk Rajah, Fiaher, fm cruise on lihe. Feb. Cleared. Pr. ship Pallas, Chandlcur cruise. 1- rente ship Josenna BJalaa. Lewis, ' - - • " " 5.00 3.00 1-00 1-00 1-00 >'-00 6-00 20.00 o-00 37 I6S.S7 H. N. Nswcoßua, Treasurer, S. F. S. February, 28, 1853. Subscriptions [seats free] supported by lor Amoy. gratuituous contributions; anil the Friend, one thousand 4- Fr. ship Ferdinand, Martin for Havre. copies of which are distributed gratuitously among Sea4- -Am brig Zoe, for Han Prancieco. men iv llie Pacific Ocean. 5-Br bg Corsair, White, for Port Phillip. Sailed 7th. For Chapel | For Friend Name.. 5-Am ah Equator, dwell, for Manilla. Sailed 7th. $15 00 b— Am bk Tangier, Sweet-er, f. rCullao. Sailed Ion. I* Severance, loth. B—Am clipper sh Sovereign of UeSeaa, M'Kay, forNew lapt. Pcnhallow, 20 00 York. Baited 19th. 10 00 5 00 Hamilton, 9-Am clipper hk Dragos, Andrews, for Hong Kong. Slil :apt. Holm, Wm. llcbt upon Chapel, January 1st, 1*175 67 9—Bre bg Chas: Ferdinand, ll.itiuoyer, for do. Sailed. 9—Am wh bk Delaware, Holt, cruise. 110 92 Incidental expense* for Jan. & Feb. 6—Am wh sh Benj. Morgan, Chapel, cniiae. II —Haw bg Ells. Newell, Smith, lor Kanai. 286 59 14—Am wh bk Harvest, Attny, cruise. 154 25 14—Russian wb sh Buomf, Haahagea, cruise. Donations and Receipts, 14— Uaw sell Anonyma, Taner, fur I'orus'ruiHp. 15-Braril W B Brown, White, for Sydney. 132 34 15—Am wh ah Sarah, Swift, cruise. 17—Am sch Sierra Nevada, Weolley, San Fraacisco. 9 For the Seamen's Chapel, Dried banana,lo bundles 1 Avaiiua, 1849. CHEMISTRY.—D. Frick, LLD. DOMESTIC Member of the late Royal Society of Sciences, of Paris, has the honor of informing the public, that he intends giving a course of two lecture* on Domestic Chemistry. If this branch of the science is the most humble, it is also the most useful, and the Lecturer hopes to leave in the memory of his auditors a profitable chapter 01 domestic economy, and of the art of house keeping. The spacious and comfortable Hall of Bethel Chapel has been most kindly granted for the delivery ol these lectures of which the tirst will take place on the 3d of March at half past 7 I'. M. Attendance Tickets to be obtained at the Seaman's Library, tfcu Royal School, the Polynesian Ofhee, ami at the rcndeiiec of the Lecturer, Fort Street. Each ticket serving for both lectures, one dollar, and half price for persons under 15 years of age. The day of the second lecture will be announced at the close of the first lecture. Tickets already issued with an earlier date, for the first lecture will be received on the 3rd of March. fjy Round volumes of the Friehd, for 1, 2, 81 4, 5, 6, 9 and 8 years, at the Chaplain's Study. A reduction from the subscription price will be made to Seamen, and purchasers who desire more than a single volume. � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.03.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.03.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/5165f8487474e2bed3ef3d5de325f08a.pdf aa1e356c1245209ad00a0c3cc94144dc PDF Text Text THEFRIEND. New Scries, Vol. 11, No. 4. HONOLULU, APRIL 25 1, 1833. Old Series VOL I (lie importation of spirituous liquors. They vor to make us believe that drunkenness is keep posted up upon the progress of the more rife in Honolulu, and throughout the • - • '-5 1temperance reform and legislation upon the islands, because forsooth, the duly is high '. subject in other parts of the world.' They on spirits, and grog sellers are obliged to pay -' IB desire no rash, hasty and ill-digested legisla- a heavy license: If any persons fancy that 2b tion. Tlicy much prcler that existing laws they can make sober men the dupes of such SB should remain unamended, than th -, t a stepi[shallow and sophistical reasoning, they*nre - SbJiil should be taken, only to be retraced; but fully entitled to their fancy. We would *il it, would the deplore as sad ask the moral stale of ihey things is if among humbly 3u HI signs of the limes, if the Hawaiian Legisla- more elevated at Tahiti, Valparaiso, Callao, 3ture should cither allow the " monster "to San Francisco, Canton, than here in Honoluland without a heavy chain upon his neck, or lu? Bad as the state of things amongst us should loosen that chain when he was fairly may be, it might be far worse, and undoubton shore. Their united voire would be edly would be if the number of licensed don't unchain the tiger." If any altera- drunkard makers was increased, or liquors " HONOLULU, APRIL I, 1853. tion should be made, in existing laws upon were sold as cheap as elsewhere. this subject, they would rejoice to witness an Don't Unchain the Monster. onward movement—a leaning towards a If our Legislators make any change in the Ilaw, we trust, it will be in that direction inIf there is anything detrimental to the Maine Law. dicated in the petition which is now being general interests of Society and to the proIt is a most manifest truth that the life of Our firm belief is, that the ulticirculated. motion of good morals, it is rash, hasty and business, in Honolulu is identified with the mate success of the temperance reform, resuperabundant legislation. Laws enacted visits of whalcships. The natural course of quires wise and firm legislation in union for general application should be fvw, plain trade brings them hither. They must visit with moral suasion. It is alas a sad truth, and simple. These should not be frequently the islands for supplies, and Honolulu for that the moral sense of some men is so peraltered and amended, unless for reasons transhipping oil and bone, but there is no veiled, that it requires the strong arm of lereadily apparent to the people. When new denying the fact, that the worst evil accruing gislative enactments lo restrain tliein from laws are continually issuing from the law- to the crews of whalcships, is that arising scattering the seeds of sorrow, sadness and making powers of any land, those who are from I he sale of intoxicating liquors. The ruin, throughout society. expected to observe and obey them, will not evils are great to the shipping interests genThe following is a copy of the petition releel their force. When too many laws are eially. Why do vessels of war prefer visit- ferred lo: enacted, the natural effect is to destroy the ing Hilo to Honolulu, for allowing their men To HoNORABLf. THE HoBSF OF NOBLES AHO «JOl.tCllfB - -----. - - - -- - OF THE FRIEND AFUIL I, 1853. D>n*t unchain lie Monster, Tno lli.d ol I'rcy, eJoruiunuiu, A Mijfionary wanted for Marqucjai, A Toicc Iroui Attica, Jntercll in beliull of Micronesian Mission, Yho I.aliaina Oliaplainc., Plants Bleep, Editorial Corrcep ndeiuc Volyfrdmy am ng l.cAo uions, Pilcainrti l>lano Journal Ifcs2, Mutiny oil board brig Win. Tun, DealIn, Ship Newa, 4.C, * force of all law. The season is approaching for the assembling of the Hawaiian Legislature. As usual there will doubtless he many attempts, at law abolishing, law altering and law making. From certain indistinct and undefined rumors, we gather that an effort will be made to give a freei scope to the liquor license system, and to reduce the importation duly on spirituous liquors, perhaps even lo encourage the domestic manufacture. There aie doubtless some who would rejoice to witness the abolition ol all prohibitions upon die importation, snle and manufacture of intoxicating liquois To meet this state of things, keep pace with the progress of the age, and improve the existing laws, petitions will be circulated lor the purpose of showing the law-makers of this kingd im, that there are those visiting nnd residing in Honolulu, who are opposed lo (he traffic altogether. They see and deplore iv effects. They are perfectly aware of (hi treaty stipulations of this kingdom, touching . THK liberty,' The reason is too manifest to teREeKESFNTATIVKS OF THK HAWAIIAN ISL*HI>3 : quire a formal statement. With these facts so Your Memorialists, Residents of Honolulu, and to vessels glaringly apparent, it has always seemed Masters, Officers and Seamen belonging the port, impressed with a sense of tLe f requenting passing strange, that the representatives of immense evils attending the traffic in intoxicating all foreign powers residing near the Hawai- liquors, humbly pruy that you will beplened. to the ian Coutt, —English. French, American, First.—To reduce the number oflicenses lowest possible number, consistent with Treaty Chilean, Peruvian, Danish, and all others, stipulations. did not join hand to hand, and absolutely Second.—To require the number, when reduced, money, an amount equal to thst insist that bis Majesty's Government pass to pay as licensewhole. now paid by the the most prohibitory laws. Let them speak, Third.— To destroy and not sell all confiscated and the work is done. These high function- liquors for the benefit of the treasury of the nation ; and , aries represent nations whose shipping interFinally.—To enact such other laws as in your ests suffer materially, in consequence ol the wisdom you may rfeem best calculated to promote virtue and temperance of the community. sale of intoxicating liquors. O how low have theAnd as in duty bound, your memorialists will we seen American, Knglish and French sea- ever pray. men sink through the influence of this traffic! Honolulu, March 19th, 1853. Rum and btandy or other spirituous liquors, P. S. Already a goodly number of signainnenl most of the doubles among seamen, tures have been obtained, including those ol and create such an untold amount of evil residents, shipmasters, and seamen. There among residents. is every prospect that this petition willbe exBut we are met by the specious arguing, tensively signed. In no better manner caa> hat prohibition only fosters an inordinate ap- our legislators become acquainted with tfce petite for ntrong dmik. Some would endea- slate of public opinion. �THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1853. 26 up, hove to, and hoisted our colors. The Every hatchway had been battened down, schooner alao shortened fail, by brailing up the companion way was fast, and even the A Sea Story. her foresail and taking in her topgallant sail; sky-light naih-d, snlh.it the pirates could not BT THI aOTHOR or "THB LUCKY JUBir," ETC after which she fired a gun and ran up a net below without first forcing u passage, When sperm whaling was most profitable, black flag to her main peak. and this was n work <>f some lime. They the English had nearly eighty sail of vessels " Just what I supposed," said the captain, ranged fore and aft the deck, searching for employed in it. Of these, fiver fifty belong- " Now boys when that fellow rounds to, whe- a crow-bar or lever, mid some of them had ed to London, and were nearly all command- ther it be to leeward or windward, (but 1 actually commenced knocking down the bulk ed by Americans, principally by natives nt suppose it will be to leeward, lower the three head of the topgallant forecastle, when Capl. Nantucket. The subject of our story, the boats now ready, when I tell you, and pull Swain lei fly one of the »iin», which swept sWp Thetis, of London, was commanded by dead to windward, but when you see the pi- the larboard side of the deck fore and aft, Capt. Swain, who had performed three voy- rates on board of us, and hear our guns, put and brought down about a dozen pirates. We age! in her, and had always brought her about at once and board the pirate. "Ha!"shouted the pirate captain, who home full, within two years and a half. She must destroy him or he will destroy us. It was aft on the opposite side—"rally! boys, was a four boat ship, stowed twenty-eight is not enough to bent him off; for the rascal rally! and-charge upon the dog! Shoot him! hundred barrels, and was manned by thirty- would refit, and follow us to ihe ends of the —3tab him to the heart.!—follow me!" And, fire hands, including six apprentices. The earth. Eighteen of you in the bonis will placing himself nt their head, before the fourth roynge was to be the captain's last, leave seventeen of us aboard; enough to rid- smoke had time to clear aw .y, he dashed for he had already money enough lo keep him dle the rogues handsomely. Now steal nway forward on the opposite si ie. Nol a word conttorlably independent the rest of his days. one by one, under the forecastle, for I want was said under the forecastle, —the men He was about forty-fivo years of age, tall, lo be the only man in sight after the boats are were lying flat on the ground,—and, although raw-boned and powerful; of a dark com- down. Mind what I say to you, and don't be the pirates discharged their pistols as they plexion, rendered swarthy by long exposure flurried. advanced, no one was injured. to the tun in the southern sens, and possessall hands watched his lime with calmreplied will, sir," We " schooner was now closing rapidly.— Capt. Swainfrom ed ceurage that never quailed before difficulthe pirates, by the reness, The hidden ties; yet he was free and easy in his bearing, Two men were at her forelopmasl head, look- maining bulk and when near enough, head, a thorough, whole-souled sailor, wljo loved our decks and every other gave them the second gun, which was even down ing upon his ship as his life. The three mates and all we could distinctly hear some order- more destructive than the fust. The very the boatmen were young men, who had serv- minute in given from aloft, and see the con- splinters of the hulk-head dealt death to the Spanish and ed theirapprenticeship with him, regardmovement of the men about her foremot assailants. No woids can describe sequent ed him with as much respect and affection as She had a long torn amidships, and the yells, curses and groans of ihe dying if he had been their father. The utmost decks. carriage three guns on each side, with men and disabled, but still übove the uproar was harmony prevailed among the officers and them. As our captain supposed, heard the stern voice of the pirate captain, by standing crew; and a better crew never manned a vesshe stood close under our stern to leeward, c lling for more boarders, and ordering his sel of the snmo size. and hailed as she passed. men to rally and charge at once, before the We were bound to Copang, in the island He also ordered you been out?" hailed dog had time to reload. have long How of Timor, to recruit for the cruising season the pirate, in good English, with an affected some of his men to pass along the rail on on Japan, but as we had plenty of time, kept both sides, mount th« forecastle, and fire under easy sail, whaling as we went along.— Spanish accent. down through the deck; but before these orSix months." Off the east end of Java, and in the Straits " Good ; you have plenty of provisions and ders could be executed, and while ihe pirates of Sandalwood, we had been very lucky, stores, then, nnd we are much in want of were crowding the decks from the schooner, having caught thirty whales, which slowed ihem. Send two ofyour boats on board, and we let fly both the remaining guns, nnd in the dowh 700 barrels of oil. We had just cleanof your tricks, or I'll blow you smoke we sallied from |he forecastle, armed none mind, ed ship, after stowing down, and were edgof wnter." with lance*and blubber spades, and cut down out ing along the east end of Sandalwood, when The schooner was now less than fifty yards without mercy all who opposed us. Not a the mast head look out reported a sail standleeward, hove to, headed the same way man was left alive on our decks; but, as if ing out from the shore with the land breeze, lo ship. Fortunately the th-ee boats by a miracle, amid all this carnage, the pias apparently headed to forelay us. As we weretheto windward, with the ship between rale captain escaped to his vessel. He apnoared, she was reported lo be a large topwe're soon low- peared to have a charmed life, for even Capt. pirate. them and the They sail schooner. Tho captain went aloft, and and, agreeably to the captain's instruc- Swain, who was never known before lo miss scanned her with tho glass about five min- ered, tions dashed offto windward at the rale of six his mark, darted a lance at him, which was ties, when, turning to the mast head man, I an hour. turned from its aim by the bight of a rope miles remarked that hn did not like the looks of the only soul visible entangling the lance warp. " O! ho," shoutOur now was captain her; and, after taking another view of her, ed the pirnu;, as he waved his sword about went on deck and called all hands. He said on deck. or minutes and no ten his head, •'you have missed me, but I will After waiting eight lads, I guess that clipper is a thief: boats "nowMyyou their appearance, the pirate not miss you: this night you shall sup with making must do as I tell you, if you want looking fellow, his face Davy Jones." Then turning to his crew, to save your dust, for I have made up my captaii;, a ferocious hair, dashed his hat on who were still between twenty and thirty in almost covered with mind that all he gels, from this craft he'll deck, nnd roared through his speaking trum- number, he delivered his orders—" Cut the have to fight for, —you understand me?"— Send your boats on board at once, or vessels adrift forward: hoist the jib, and as '■ Yos, sir," was the response A dozen pet —" she pays off, stand by to cut the after lash." blow I'll you to of you then, with the second mate, take the ing; run the broadside guns out; and when flag black four guns, (we had six, but two of them Our Captain replied—"Your between wind and water, fire them were dismounted and stowed below,) run has frightened my crew, and they have all they bear hunler, and I'll give her blubber mile into the now over a boats, taken the nnd are to them under the topgallant forecastle out ol once." Seizing a match, he was lorn at dear life?" long sight, point them aft, chock them so they wont dead to windward, pulling for long torn, when he was to it to apply fetch away with the motion of the ship, and •I did not intend to kill them,rejoined the pi- about tremendous cheering, as our boats' by startled little, helm a and let your then load them to the muzzles with grape rate; ease your forward and aft; but firm him crews boarded and cannister. The rest of you nget upr the ship drop alongside; I'm in a hurry—be he fired and the ball passed his purpose, in small arms, pistols and cutlasses, and then quick!" vessel's bends, stove a few empIn a few minutes the two vessels were fast through our its clear away the three larboard boats ready casks in passage, but effected little crew, ty the fifty and over of pirate's These orders exetogether, for lowering. were soon damage. Drawing his sword he turnother cutlasses, and and headed cuted to his entire satisfaction. In the mean armed with pistols of the boarders, and ed tho foremost upon timo the schooner had approached within two by their captain, boarded the Thetis. cut him down, had not our capw ould have seretreated to the cabin and Swain Capt. miles of us, running with the wind free, tain, who bad also boarded from the ship, title we were close hauled with the larboard cured the companion door on the inside; theni seized him from behind ond disarmed him.— * tacke on board, carrying all sail. When passed along the between decks, and joinedI All who opposed were instantly cut down. (his men under the forecastle. topgallant about a mile distant we hauled our mainsail' The Bird of Prey. " " " j . �APRIL, 1863. 27 THE FRIEND, •Si?,' Bhouted Bearer, springing to hie and lbs rest driven below. The pirate was were divided among us at the end of the voyfeet: 'call me a thief and live!' ours. No time was lost in securing the pri- age. We proceeded from Singapore to Japan, 'Not another word sir; leave my ship,or I soners, twenty-three in number, and transferring them to our ship, where they were and that season filled our ship, and in less will kick you out of her. My associate* ere ironed and pi iced in ihe blubber room, un- than two years from the date of our sailing honest men, not such as you. Be gone.' This was said in a tone that admitted of ao der charge uf an armed sentinel. Besides arrived in London. these, we found below twelve me , whom Ihe Hardly had we been moored in the Lon- reply; so he bit his lip and left the veseel, pirates had rescued from Ihe Malays. They don docks, when a gentleman stepped on no doubt with the bitter conciouaoea* that, were the crew of an English brig, which had hoard and inquired for our captain. He was notwithstanding all his wealth, he was in fact been wrecked on Ihe IsUtnd of Sandalwood, in the cabin, and the visitor was requested but a thief. Capt. Swain neyer jtaw bus and had been rescued by the pirates when to step down. 'Captain Swain,' was his first again. Our owner was so well satisfied with our upon an inland foray in sear- h of provisions. salutation.—' You have guessed it,' he reThese with six men from the ship under com- plied, giving the last brush to his hat prepar- voyage, that he gave all hands a splendid entertainment ot his own house. More than mand of our male, were organized as the atory to going ashore. 'You don't know me. 1 fifty gentleman and ladies were also present, crew of the prize. and for their gratification gave a brief out'Can't say I do.' The prize was n beautiful Baltimore built line of our voyage. Capt. Swain i* atill clipper topsail schooner, of nearly 300 tons, 'And yet we have met before.' alive, and is a woithy member of a Methoand was named the Bird of prey. Around 'Very likely. What then?' 'I am, or rather I was, (he captain of the dist Church in good standing.—Boston CarIhe rim of her wheel in gilded letters, was us Bird of Prey.' pel Bag. the well known phrase—"ihe As already mentioned, she 'The Devil you were! How did you get a living." mounted six caniage guns and a long torn, clear al Singapore?' Mormon. which traversed upon a pivot amidships, and 'Don't yon know—did not the captain of in all her outfits wus a most perfect vessel. the English brig, whose crew 1 rescued, inMormon Doctrines.—The National InIn the engagement she sustained no damage, form you?' states that Orson Pratt, one of the telligencer 'No; say how?' Sit down.' but our bulwarks, decks and stern were badTwelve Apostles of the church of Latter ly shattered by our own grape nnd cannisI was smuggled out of jail, how I know Day Saiuts," is preaching three times on ' ter. These damages, however, and the shot not; conducted to a boat, and told to lie Sunday and once on Wednesday, every week hole through our bends, were soon repaired. down and not to look up until midnight, nnd at Hall, Washington, about When she ranged alongside of us, she had I was soon under the thwarts, wrapped up in twoTemperancepeople. The Editortoof hundred that a crew of about one hundred men, one third a sail. paper, describing a sermon on* one of these of whom were Spaniards and Portuguese, Overjoyed with the prospect of escape, 1 occasions, says: and the other! English, Americans and communed with my own thoughts, without It consisted chiefly in giving the history of Dutch. Our captain changed his purpose.of pnying much attention to what was going on the rise of Mormonisin, the discovery of the and orders for both gave to going Copang, outside. I soon felt, however, that the boat Mormon scriptures, and the hopes of the vessels to proceed to Singapore, the nearest was following rapidly in tow of some other; sect for the future, which are very high and British port. —Copang was a Dutch port, and being rather tired with thinking, I fell enthusiastic. In the expositions of Mormon remarked that it would take and our cuptain awoke the sun had almost ideas, doctrines, and practices, there appears I asleep.—When the ya lia's a year lo condemn the pirate and reached the and I found myself no disposition to deny the polygainistic prinmeridian, give a lej;al title to her as a prize; therefore more than twenty miles to the westward of ciples and habits that prevail amongst them. he preferred going to Singapore. drifting to sea. My boat was In reference to this, as to other points of We soon reached there, and landed the Singapore, well provided with water and provisions for Mormon doctrine, Elder Pratt refers to his brought who were the next to day prisoners, a month, and had also a quadrant and com- journal " the Seer," of which the first numtrial. on hoard. Six days afterwards I was ber has appeared. In ois he defends a plupass The pirate captain was first arraigned. In picked np by a homeward bound ludiaman rality of wives as a Divine institution, from he ns follows: reply, spoke nearly and carried to New York. Thence pro- argdinents founded on the practice of Ihreo"I am a pirate; but though I have nlun- ceeded to Baltimore, where I hadI both lourths of mankind now, the customs of the deied many vessels, I have never shed a friends nnd plenty money; purchased old Jewish patriarchs, and the alledged tacit drop of blood but in the heat of combat. I another schooner, andofwent and picked up allowance of Christ. He also claim* that have lived till this time to do these men, ihe ail the treasure I had secreted at different polygamy i* not proscribed by the Constitucrew, remnant of a once an meagre gallant my two years buccaneering; tion and lawsof the United States, but rather points during (hem act of justice. Not one of is a pirate then returned to Baltimore rich as a Jew, guarantied, when held under religiou* confrom choice—l seduced them all with ruin; and left the sea. 1 am now on my travels, viction, by that article of the amendments to (hem drunk, nnd false repI made thiougl) and having seen your ai rival at Gravcscnd the Constitution which affirm* that " Conresentations decoyed them on boaid.—Spare announced in the papers, I wanted to greet gress shall make no law respecting no estheir lives, (or they are not guilty, and you on your arrival here, that I might thank tablish:! cut of religion or prohibiting the free may do with me what you please. I have you for you your kindness to me while I was exercise thereof." This plurality of wive* nothing more to say." your prisoner.—My name is James Beaver, he style* the " celestial marriage," which, He would give no information where he at your service. This is my story." he asserts, is to be a union as well in eterniwas born, or how long he had been a rover; a* in time. There would seem now to be ty He about of was thirty-five years age, but some of the men stated that he belonged no further room for doubt about Mormon of had a sinister countenance— expression Baltimore, and to that during the previous sentiment* on this head; they are not only two years he had been a pirate and slaver in was above the medium height, but not tall— acknowledged but proclaimed and sought to turns. When sieving was dull he went free strongly built, and apparently capable of be universally spread. trading. The court mine to no decision the greuPendurance. He was rather foppishly first day, but the next morning the pirate dressed, and his bearing and gait were of captain was missing; he had escaped during the "devil may care" order. The Governor General of India alone When he finished his narrative, Captain cost* the East India Company more annualthe night. Taking into consideration the rescue of Swain looked him straight in the face, and ly than the expense of the whole missionary ths wrecked brig's crew, and the statement calmly and deliberately replied— agency in the Presidencies of Bengal and His salary is twenty four thousand "Mr. Beaver, I am happy that you have Agra. of the pirate, the court set the others at liberty, most of whom volunteered on board an changed your profession; but still in my es- pounds per annum, and his allowance for English frigate which was then in port. The timation you are only a successful robber— traveling is forty-five thousand pounds—sixtyBird of Prey was condemned a* a lawful therefore, whenever we meet here after, you nine thousand pounds; while the whole expenprize to the Thetis, and was purchased by will do me a favor not to know me. You. ditures of the one hundred andfifty-vim .misthe government for $30,000, which, in ac- are under no obligation to me, for I would; sionaries in the above Presidencies are sixtyheight thousand pounds. cordance with our lays or share* a* whalers, have banged you if I had had my way." . — " �THE 28 FRIEND, APRIL, 1853. Mfisowoannarrtyed arquesas. gence! AM I hope the islanders will then take ihe hearts of some of our people. Thus the such a course as shall tend to their elevation influence ofKekeln is felt in n religious comMissionary interest was excited in Engand improvement. I shall be glad to hear munity of New Knglaud. Who ran tell land, in behalf of the Marquesian islands, that the islands have become a territory of when n word spoken for good shall lose it* coeval with the mission, to the Taint inn the United States, a* I think it must come to power?"— Rev. N. W. W., Shrewsbury, group, more than half »?century ago, but ii that. Our residence, however, does not Mass. i* a singular fact that both English and Ambecome more pleasant by the arrival really erican Missionaries have attempted to evan- of white The Lahaina Chaplaincy. emigrants. They are all so much gelize the natives, and abandoned the enteropposed to any improvement on the part of It affords us pleasure to announce that the prize. At length the Catholics engaged in tho natives, because they then know their Rev. Mr. Bishop has entered upon Ihe suca similar undertaking, and they too, have do something to maintain them. cessful prosecution of DM duties as Seamen's and rights, well nigh followed the example of their preMany complain bitterly because they can- Chaplain at Lnhaina. Prom both residents decessors, for at the last accounts, only n not now get as good bargains of the natives and seamen we are glad to learn that he cisingle priest lingered upon tho Marquesian as formerly, or hiro Ihem as cheap. They joys (lnllering prospects of success. A resshore*. Catholic* ami Protestants, Shipof these improvements in the natives ident writes as follows; "He has been here speak masters and Sailor*, Merchants and visitors, faults, and blame the missionaries as the three salibalhs—it seems pleasant to us all as all unite in representing tho natives as a cause of it. At my station and home I have lo have'the Chapel opened again." From most fierce, warlike, bloodthirsty, and debuilt a good dwelling house and school another source we learn licit a generous based race. We arc not aware as but one house, and have also tho W9lls of a Chapel subscription has been started among the forcounter report has ever gone abroad, anil up, and a thatched roof on them, but the eigners in Lahain.i, who are ready lo that was raised by one Herman Melville, of building is not yet finished inside. I have a afford substantial encouragement in support of "Typee" memory. Ho represent* iho peo- garden, containing lemon nnd orange trees, the Chaplaincy—nearly $300 having been ple a* living in the most charming state of bananas and pine apples, all in bearing, and raised for that Most probably some purpose. natural society, quite happy, and certainly planted with my own hands, so you will infer havo been influenced to extend a helping to be corrupted, should missionaries go that wo arc feeling some attachment to the hand from Ihe fuel that Ihe want of a Chapas our homo." place among them. "English Bards and Scotch lain has operated to the serious disadvantage Reviewers," American editors and tho fra- Interest in behalf of the Micronesian of the shipping interests of Lnhaina. We ternity of the opposers of missions, cnught at Mission. arc glad to be able to copy a paragraph like Melville's Romance, and extolled it as an Of late we have received several letters the following, from n communication of tho unanswerable argument against all efforts to from tho United Slates, expressing n. deep Chaplain, " I feel encouraged by these preach the gospel among Polynesians. We interest in behalf of the mission to Micronethings, and by Ihe roidial reception which I knew one person so delighted with the spirit sia. One New England Pastor writes ns have met. The people evidently have left of the book, that he ordered fifty copies for follows: "The formation of that Micronesinn of the sound of the gospel, and are circulation, but to complete tho joke, his church, at the islands has been an incident the want to have a Chaplain." Long may Chapglad agent sent out the "2d" instead of the "Ist" of interest in all the churches at home.— lain and people, including landsmen a,nd seaedition, whieh„by tho way, was expurgated It seems more than ever that mis ions have men, cordially co-operate with each other in of nearly every paragraph that breathed an accomplished a good work, nnd that Ihe promoting the cause of good morals, kindly anti-missionary spirit. The books lay for n cause is moving on to new conquests." Bey. feeling and pure religion. long time unsold on the shelves of tho auc- E. I)., Sherburne Mass. tioneer's stoic! Another N. England Pastor writes ns folPlants Sleep. Bat we have wandered from our topic. lows, "In looking over ihe "Friend" I could Rome of our Honolulu readers wi'l recolC*pt. Shockley of the "Tamnrlane" informs not see but it was as 'Yankee' as any oilier lect n German Naturalist by the name of us that ho brought a native of Mngdalenn, paper lying upon my table, though it came Semann, who visited ihe Island* attached to an island of tho Marquesas group, to the from what but a short time ago, we regarded the English exploring vessel, the "Herald," Sandwich Islands, for the purpose of obtain- as a heathen land. The article in it which search of Sir J. Franklin. Mr. Semann in ing a Missionary to return with him nnd la- ni'st interested me, was the address (sec the has published a work on the "Botany of tho bor among his people. At the last accounts Friend for Aug. 185i) of" Mr. Kekela, as he voyage of H. M. Ship Herald." The followthis man was upon Maui, we sincerely hope was about leaving for the Micronesinn mising interesting fact relating to the Arctic that hi* most praiseworthy errand may at- sion. It interested me as expressing the vegetable world is stated in this work: tract the notice of the missionary body at the {feelings of one brought out of the darkness " A curious fact is slated respecting the coming general meeting. of heathenism, nnd going to make known the condition of the vegetable world during the of ihe Arctic summer. Although precious news of salvation .to those still long days Ihe sun never sets while it la-Is, plants mako A voice from Africa. -ili: ended in moral gloom. I would heartily mistake about the time when, if it be not Il was recently our privilege lo receive a join in your 'thrice welcome' to the 'Mission no night it ought lo be; but regularly, ns the leltcr from an American Missionary, thei Church of Micronesia.' Who that looked evening hours npproech, and when n midRev. A. Grout among tho Zulu* in South' upon the S. I. thirty years ago, thought of night sun is severul degrees above the horiAfrica. We were amused with the idea1 its being a spot from which would emigrate zon, droop iheir leaves, and sleep even as which the writer advances about annexation, i a Missionary Church! Last evening at our they do at sunset in more favored climes. 'Ifman' observes Mr. St iiinann, 'nhould ever We copy as follows: monthly concert for missions, I rend the ad- reach the Pole, and be undecided which wav " A residence at the islands must now he dress of k'ekela, and the letter of recommen- to lurn, when his compass has become slugpleasant, and increasingly so when steamers dation from King Knmehameha sent by your gish, his lime piece out of order, the plants which he happen to meet wi.l show him begin to'run between California and China, Imissionaries to the islands of Micronesia. I the way. may Their sleeping leaves will tell him calling at the islands. You will be on the [found the letter in the Missionary Herald that midnight is at hand, and at that time the world* high way and flooded with intelli- |They greatly interested and deeply affected sun is standing in ihe noith.' " — . — �APRIL, 1353. 29 THE FRIEND, Committee on Petition.—The following tlcman that he still continues to aid the Rev Correspondence. gentlemen were appointed a committee by HawKekela, and has selected another Mr. The following extract copied from a letter the Hawaiian Temperance Society, for the aiian for whoso education he contributes an- purpose of lately received, and written by a gentleman preparing the petition found in another part of our columns: formerly residing in Honolulu, will be per- nually. Capt. Hull, "Chaa. Mallory,"Capt. Cox, used wilh interest by some of the early mis'Magnolia," Cupt. Smith, "Fabius," and among the Mormons. Polygamy He was an sionaries and old residents. Messrs. Cuttle, Johnson and Deck with. Editorial officer on board ihe brig "Thnddcus," which There has been n question for some years brought the first missionaries to thcso islands unsettled, whether the Mormons practiced Terrible Disaster and Loss of Lives. in 1820, the year subsequent to tho death of polygamy, or viewed it as right for n man to Fisher of the Omega, direct from Capt. have more than one wife. The point is now Kamehameha 1:— the coast, inlnitns us more particularly in Bostov, November 13, 1852. settled beyond all dispute ihnt they not only regard to ihe loss of ihe Steamer IndepenRev. and Dear Sir.—You have my hearty believe but practice that doctrine We dence. On the 15ih of Feb. she struck u. off the thanks for your favor of* the l'Jlh July last, would refer our readers to a statement upon sunken rock near Margaiela Island, name, the same Lowar California. in by bay and for the " Friend " of the 7th of August this point found in another part of our col- Soon afier she struck, fire broke out, making containing all the doings in connection with umns. A similar statement wo lately read in feni'ful havoc among Ihe passengers. The the organization of the church and mission ihe San Francisco Herald, but thinking ihnt whole number lost, 132, including 100 men, to Micronesia. It must have been an intci- after nil it might be n mere report of those 16 ladies aud 10 children ! Most of those who survived left in the whnleship "Meteor" esting occasion lo you all. The account ol opposed to Ihe sect, circulated for the pur- for San Francisco. A few left for the islands it was very inteiesling to me, so much so, pose of.'neaping reproach upon those pro- three having already arrived. A* iur paper that it carried my mind back to the time I fessing to believe in Mormonism, we took is just going to press, we have no more room first heard that it was contemplated to send occasion recently to satisfy ourselves, in a for particulars. P. S. Account* have been received of the missionaries to the Sandwich islands; and manner, that left upon our mind not the shatotal loss of the steamer "Tennessee," near my first impulse was to wish that I could be dow of a doubt. Several Mormons recently San Francisco, but no lives lost. there to witness Ihe first reception by old arrived in Honolulu, two of whom called at Donations Kamehameha Ist, and the amiable Hevahc- our office, when we put to them the question For I lie Seamen's Chapel, f»eals free] fupported hr va, the high priest under the old dispensa- direct, "Do mormons believe nnd practice rrrnluiliiiim r-nnlrilnitinim unit th« Friend, one thmiianVl tion. Though not permitted to sec the old the doctrine that one man may rightfully i-outes of which are ilmrilmied gr iiunmiily amoog 5»» men in I lie Pacific Oiean. For Cbapsl | ForPrti King, as he with his idols had passed away, marry more than one wife?" They not only Nairn*. a 00 Mr. ltraddock Coquin, I was permitted to be bearer of the first tid- did not deny the point, but would feign hove Mr. 2 no Thos. Minor, 1 60 ings from the shore to the newly arrived convinced us that it was right and scriptural. A Friend on bonrd "S. Thornton," Alice Frazier, 6 00 5 00 missionaries that " Hawaii's idols were no In many points they claim not to differ from Capt. Tuber, 6 00 6 00 Miller, India, 6 00 0 00 more," and to witness their first reception christians generally, but this is a point of " Isaac 1 licks, " Skinner, 8 00 6 OH Washington, hy the people, chiefs and ex-high priest. fundamental difference, wherein they wage " Kdwards, 6 00 Habcock, Dover, 2 60 Those thrilling times can never be forgotten. war with every christian church nnd christian " Smith, Fabius, 2 60 " Boole, Sea, 6 00 I have from those days watched ihe light as nation. "•< Swift, Anadir, 6 00 5 00 it has developed itself and spread over that J. F. Daniels, a sailor, 1 60 60 group of islands, and with full confidence that Pitcairn's Island.—Wo would call the Chas. Fields, a Bailor, 60 A sailor, that light was not destined to be confined to reader's attention to the interesting journal P. S. When donations are received, and the obis our practice to divide the the group, hut would extend itself nnd its in- of passing events in Fitcnirn's island. We ject not specified, ittho benefit of the two objects amount equally, for fluence* to many oilier groups, and to the wwuld acknowledge our indebtedness to above mentioned. The monthly cost of the Friend half is paid shores of the surrounding continents. I am dipt. Prevosl.of tho "Virago" for the man- is between $(>0 and $70, and about one by gratuitous donations. The annual incidental exso exceedingly glad lo see il diffusing itself uscript copy of this journal. From all the penses of tho Chapel have for several years averaged extensively in my own tlay, ami should have various accounts we have ever obtained res- about $500. been very happy to have been with gou on the i>v<.i.;uui:om»i; pecting those islanders, we infer that the interesting occasion of fitting away the com- tone of virtue and moral purity is remarkably .11 I .V # .1 TURK S ! pany that left you in the Caroline, nnd much high. In connection with this fact it is inFor a short time only t t I more happy should I have been if 1 had been teresting lo observe the gradual increase of CjTKANORNWAI.D & OOODFETJ-OW, late of 55 California, on tlioir way to Australia, beg lewr qualified to take a humble part in that work the population, and the perfect numerical to inform the citizens of Honolulu and vicinity, that with you. There is only one gratification lo they havo established a DAGUEKIUAN GAIequality preserved between the sexes. I.KKY on Merchant street, corner of Fort street, in me in this connection and that is, if I can do While the Pilcairners will doubtless re- the house adjoining the Hriok Shoo Storo of J. 11. nothing else I can indirectly contribute a trifle member tho Virago's visit with interest, still Wood, where they will be happy to wait upon tho* who will please to favor them with a call. Having towards the ways and means, nnd rejoice it must ever be with a most melancholy inter- fitted up at considerable expense, a powkiipul Skywith you, when that trifle, added to much, est; for Capt. Prcvosl informed us that when I.ioiit. combined with strong side Lights, and being of all the la'.est improvements in tho art, from others, produces important results. I firing n salute on shore, as the steamer left possessed they feci confident of furnishing perfect and satisfacam particulaily gratified, and even happy, lo ihe Chief Magistrate, Matthew Mc'Coy, re- tory pictures. Miniatures put up in every stylo, and taken equally well in any weather, hear from all, the testimony to tho excellent ceived nn injury which proved fatal before clouds being sometimes preferable to a clear sky, excharacter and great usefulness of my young the final departure of tho vessel. On this cept for children. and correct friends Kekela and his worthy wife and true account Capt. P. detained his vessel several Paintings and Daguerreotypes copied, machinery, views of gentlemen's residences, vessels, helpmate Neomi, and beg of ycu to give my days for the purpose of rendering medical parts of the city, he.. &c. taken without rivikmnoand lower than over attempted affectionate regard* to them, and say to them aid. All the officer* of the "Virago" spoke Charges moderate, heretofore in Honolulu. Please call at the "T)athat I should write to them if I was better in the highest term* of their visit to the gnerrean Gallery," where the public are also invito.! to examine a handsome collection of view* taken on acquainted with the island language." island, and of tho kindness which they expe- the western coast of America and the Sandwich I* Honolulu, March 26, 1853-tMS N. B. It is highly creditable to this gen- rienced. : - - ...- • �30 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1853. PitcaIrsnl' d Journal—1852. Island. At 1 o'clock the Royal Standart mcc, the community were not a little mortiicd at his not coming on shore; accordingly a ship wa* re- wa* hoisted on board of the Frigate, and i day Jan. 28. At break of salute of lext morning all were anxiously waiting to 21 fired, the ladies reroyal guns who had ported close in with the shore. All at sundown much pleased with thci, .velcome him ashore again. At II AM. turned out of their bed* hastened to the edge turned Mr. I hi lon landed, biinging letters for the of the precipice to ascertain the truth of the visit. and for private individuals. By community Admiral to the inhabiMoresby proposed statement. Scarcely had they done so, when tants to take their teacher Hobbs to letters which Mr. Dillon brought we learn Mr. of its she color*, bearing the heraldic from England to be ordained a minister of the of the safe arrival of our teacher Mr. wa* by the teacher pronounced to be a manNobbs at Panama, on his way to England. of-war, the whale boat was immediately church of England, nnd to leave the Rev. Dillon remained with us a week, and Holman his stead until Mr. in Mr. Mr. Hobbs a course of few hours and the in manned, left us on the 25th of the mouth, bearing could return. shore with bringing them she returned on heartiest good wishes of the Capt. Wcllesley and other of the officers of August 10. To day the Admiral kindly with him the at Pitcairn's Island community his band of musicians ashore to brought the Sandwich IsDaedalus, from H. M. S. the Islanders, they landed at 9 A. M. SUMMARY 1852 land* via Tahiti, bound to Valparaiso. Capt. amuse Wellealey and his officers remained on shore and remained until 4 P. M. Number of births this year B—deaths 5— 11. Mr. Nobbs having concluded all night and returned on board the follow- to August of a the Admiral's offer took leave (one native of Tahiti.) Number of inhabing morning, when a fresh party landed from accept itants 108—females 84, male* 84. Number the community, nnd at 11 A. M. embark-: the chip. Capt. Wcllesley and his officers of of ships touched here 14—English 5, Amerwere pleased to express their approbation of cd with his daughter Jane on board the Port-; ican o—3 ships of war, and 2 merchantmen. for were accompanValparaiso, they what they saw upon the island, and have by land, andl This year is remarkable in the annals of the urbanity of their conduct during the ied on board by some of the Islanders, the island as being the first in which the crew after leave of the officers and of taking few hours they were with us, gained the good Sacrament of the Lord's Supper wa* Holy and their beloved the good ship Portland of will and esteem of all the inhabitants. administered to the inhabitants by a clergy31. At half-past seven this morning Capt. teacher, they returned on shore, 'and the jman of the church of England; only 34 roWellesley and his officers returned on board, Frigate pursued her course to Valparaiso,! ceived it the first time, but at the second all avid the Da'dnliis left here for Valparaiso, bearing with her the best wishes of every iwho were capable of receiving it did so.— of the community. That the endeavors of the Rev. W. H. hearing the good wishes of the Islanders. member I must here remark that the kindness' Holman for the Emily W. Christian, born, Jan. 30. spiritual welfare of the inshown the community by the officers and habitants of this place may have the blessing David R. B. Young, born, March 7. could, of Portland is such that crew the we David R. B. Young, died, March 14,aged of Almighty God, is the prayer of never repay; in fact it is beyond our powers adult member of the community. I every 7 day*. must the many Fletcher Christian, died after a lingering sufficiently to thank them.us Among also take this opportunity to say, that too a a articles left arc bull and they illness of many months duration, aged 40 ueeful much cannot be said or done in return for cow (calves) for which we have long wished. I the interest which the Rev. year*. Mr. Holman Scarcely had the Portland left us, when (Chaplain of H. M.'s ship Portland, As a member of the community, the conand duct of Fletcher Christian was ever worthy the influenza appeared among us. Several now residing among us,) has evinced ofimitation. Suffice it to say, that his many were attacked to day. both for the spiritual and temporal welfare August 13. Several fresh cases o{ Influ- of the community. amiable and agreeable qualities will cause hi* memory long to be cherished by those enza. Jan. 3, 1853.—-Matthew McCoy, elected August 20. Several in a convalescent state. Chief Magistrate; ho ha* left behind. Thomas Buflett and Maria Edith born. Mc Koy August 20. John J. Young, born, June 13. Edward Quintal, Councillors. August 28. Mayhew Young cut his foot 10.—Macy Quintal was seriously hurt by August 7. About 9A. M., a sail was descried bearing S. W. from the Island, un- severely while cutting wood for the Amerihis brother throwing a knife and wounding der a press of sail beating in for the Island. can whalcship Joseph Meigs. The wound; him on the right side; as the wound bled A few hours after, she was distinctly seen was dressed by the Rev. Mr. Holman and profusely considerable alarm was felt lest it from the settlement. She was in a few min- Capt. Allen of the whalcship. prove fatrl. Mary Christian affected with dropsy, and should ute* pronounced to be a man-of-war, for a 17.—The wounded boy suffering but little entertained of her but little hopes recovery. pain, and all fears for his safety ended. time all were in good spirits in expectation of born. 24.—At one o'clock P. M. the cry of sail hearing of and from absent friends. During Oct. 3 —Mary Emily Christian 10.—The Sacrament of the Holy Com- ha! resounded through the file afternoon the precipices were lined with village, and withanxious spectators silently gazing upon her, munion administered for the first time on the in 15 minutes after the vessel was prountil the shades of night hid her from our Island. nounced to be a ship of war; hearing this -25.—Mary Christian died after a linger- all of those within the village immediately view. August 8. This morning at early dawn we ing illness. Another of our number is re- flocked to a place where she could be diswore aroused by the report of a gun, we lost moved from among us, and we fervently tinctly seen. Mingled emotions ol grief and no time in manning the whale boat, and an hope she is gone to a happier nnd better pleasure filled fie hearts of all; grief at the hour after we had turned out of our beds, land. We deeply commiserate the grief of thought of the Rev. Mr. Holman leaving us ten of our number were on board H. M. her sorrowing family, but trust that that (for all seemed convinced that the vessel frigate Portland, bearing the flag of Rear good Providence which tempers the blast to was come for that purpose,) and pleasure at Admiral Fairfax Moresby of the Blue, 11 the shorn lamb will enable them to bcur up the thoughts of again seeing their u"bsent days from the Society Islands and bound to under the heavy blow they have sustained; former teacher Mr. Nobbs and his daughter and may we all recognize in this dire calam- Jane, both of whom left here in H. M.'s Valparaiso. At 9 A. M. the Admiral and his Secretary ity one of those visitations sent by that all- ship Porland, and Renter Nobbs who left landed in one of the Frigate's boats. At 12 wise being who chnsteneth those whom he the island in 1849, and has since been living our whale boat returned with Capt. Chads loveth. in Valparaiso. After eagerly looking at tho nnd a party of officers from the Frigate. It 31.—William Wilburn Quintal died, aged sail through a spy-glass she was distinctly being the Sabbath, the Rev. Mr. Holman 5 years und 0 months. His death was oc- made out to be a steamer, and as the inhabofficiated at evening service. He preached casioned by a thorn slightly wounding him itants are aware of H. M.'s sloop Virago from the 15th chop. Ist Epistle to the Cor- in the heel, producing lock-jaw. being upon this station they immediately inthians, 58th verse. After service some of Nov. 17.—At 5 P. M. a sail was discricd conjectured it was her, in a few minutes she the officers returned on board; the Admiral, to the N. E. of the island. In a few min- wus near enough for the boats to go off to Chaplain, Captuin, and Secretary remained utes we had the satisfaction to know she her; quite fortunately the only remaining during the night. was a vessel of war. A boat immediately whale boat that is at all repairable was reAugust 9. This morning at 9, a fresh par- put off to her and returned at 10 P. M.— paired this morning; she was immediately ty of the officers landed from the Frigate, The vessel proved to be H. B. M.'s ship launched and a number of natives, accompaand at 12, Captain Chads returned on board Cockatrice, William Dillon, Commanding nied by the Rev. Mr. Holman, put off" in her, accompanied by several of the ladies of the Master. As Mr. Dillon i* an old acquaint- a few stroke* soon brought the boat along- ' �31 THE FItIEND, APRIL, 1853, lives by- Uiieals; their leader, Harry called a parley with Mr. Nelson and said to him— to kill you; I hav.e killed all I PenCWtbM-hmoouiaulardpeIPnsy.fH.c ussey. " I don'tto,want and if you will give me fifteen wauled of We have received tho full intelligence musket* and u keg of powder, and let me the muiiny on board brig Win. Perm, to lake what provisions I want, 1 will leave Ike which we alluded iv yesterday's paper. It brig when I see land; but if you do not conis as follows: sent, 1 will set fire to her and burn you all The Wn\. Perm left Strong's Island on the up." Alter consultation, it was considered 23d July last for a whaling voyage, Isaac P. best to accede. Mr. Nelson and hi* men Hussey, Master; Christian Ne son Ist offi- then gunrded the forward cabin lo prevent cer, John Halsey, 2d do, and a crew of five any attempt to rush on them. The mutineer* white men and fifteen natives. Without the then helped themselves to what they required smallest grounds of apprehensirn for any and left the brig in two bouts about sunset of difficulty, Mr. Nelson Ist officer, was arous- ihe same day, though no land wa* in sight ed on tlie morning of November Oth by hear- After they left it was found that they had killHe ing the groans of some one on deck. ed Capt. Hussey, George C. Reed, cook, and lumped out of his berth nnd run up; but no badly wounded the steward, a Chinese named sooner had he reached the deck lhan he reArnoy, who only survived two day* after.— ceived a severe blow on the head from a per- Of those who remained only two were unwas son armed with a cutlass. His first idea harmed, two being *o badly burned a* to be that the natives from some of the neighborincapable of action, and Mr. Nelson and Mr. ing Islands had boarded the brig, and he ran Halsey suffering much from severe wound* Ibrward to call up lbs white portion of the in the head. Five day* afterward*, Capt. crew, who had the watch below at the lime; Gardiner of the whaler Atlantic reported that Ships' Name but was suddenly stopped in his course by he had picked up the mutineer* in an exa ship's jess like namin' a babe," ail of the native crew, who, armed with Inn- hausted condition. They reported to him " Namin' "lust pro- ces and whaling fpades, prevented hi* prosays old Scratchliack, of Salem, had run away from the brig at au priateness; next, or see'nly beauty. Call a cress. They did not, however, fur some rea- that theywhen the captain and mate were islund, she'll turn out scatler-wilgal Prudence, an' son undertake to injure him. The person male ted as u hvn turkey. Cull her Grace, an' who had first struck him proved lo be their ashore, thnt they had got the second left. Capt. Garstole the boat* and drunk, There was Staii'lust aint orkud. seif'she leader, a native nan ed Harry, who run after till alter Ihe/ Leach, always iho fust to run when we fit him and repented his blow. He is a native diner had no suspicion«»f ibem when he learned from one of hi* left, had the Marbleheaders. Beats all, the po-elical, of Oahu. Mr. Nelson then spoke lo him, withtheir ro-mantic, sentimental-like way folks have but Harry continued striking him, while Mr. crew, a native who was acquainted of arms had nnd amplenty leader, that "they got lately of namin' vessels Jupiter and Nelson backed out to the forecastle companboat*. Capt. Nelson ha* munition their in explodsech, and is all Washington, George ion way, warding the blows off. On arriving the new* lo all ed to nothin'. Clippers is in nnd gundnlnes there Mr. Nelson fell down; spears nnd tnken every mean* to spread vessel he met inf rming.every is out. There's ihe White Squawl an' Black spiides were darted at him, but fortunately the islands, by Hussey belonged in Squawl, nn' all kind o'colored squawls.— without doing him any injury. His fall on bis passage. Capt. George C. Reed to There's Ihe Greyhound, an' the Hellhound aroused the watch below, who, hearing the Nantucket, aged 43;and Arnoy was aged 84. an'the Honrhoiind. There's the Wings of scuffle, endeavored to reach the deck; but New York, aged 27, GrandfaAlia nnd the Tales of California. my the Mornin' were prevented by Ihe nntives, who fifteen in ther. There's the Westward Hoe and the number, guarded the companion way. A Whale in Paris. The Parisian BouleRake's Progress, all up for Calyforny, sharp They got possession of the cubin by break- vards were the*scene of great animation a slicked, and bound lo be as razors, heavy the forecastle bulkheud and few days ago. A large chariot, drawn by through ins lhar in seventy-five days—neck or nothin'.— crawling aft over the cargo. In the cabin twenlv horses, carrying the carcass of a Flyin'-Cloud, Flyin'-Fish, Flyin'-Brick, there were fifteen loaded muskets, but on ex- whale, was proceeding in the direction of Flyin'-Squirl and Fly in Ointment. Then amination they proved lo have been filled Jardin dcs Plante*. Strange to «ay, it was there's some names as long as the clippers— up with water. The mutineers then got the coast of Normandy, and is near caught to make reg'lar three-dicker-syllables, enough around nnd on the top of the house on the to have lost ila way from ils native the underwriters charge nn extra quarter quarter deck, and from the noise they made supposed Six republican guardsmen on horsewaters. per cent. Now there's thousands of papers convinced the whiles in ihe cabin that nearly back in front of it, to keep off the marched on and every ship, yel nil of them had congregated there. The is got to be made out sailor who harpooned it, was crowd. The folks keep the poor darks n spelhu' over and whites then determined lo blow the house up on the back or this huge upright standing of Queen Sens, of ihe the over the Sovereign with a keg of powder which wa* iv the cabin, with the harpoon in his hand. It was a the Seas, the Selectman of the Billows, the hoping thereby to put an end to most of the fish, novel sight and created quite a sensation. Water Commissioner, and others as long as natives. They got the powder ready, sedon't for I go in your a train of dirt cms. cured a loaded musket each and retreated Experiments on Marriage—A petition learin', slap-dash, figuree style of craft, and into the hold, ready to rush on deck and fin- has been started in Syracuse, N. V., asking don't want to see nary Bloomer afloat or ish the affair as soon as the powder should so much of a reashore. Always name your vessel after the explode. Fire wa* applied lo the powder, the Legislature lo repeal for the law as denounces penalties cent caplin'a wife, or out of scriptur, and then but it was so damp that instead of exploding seduction, and in lieu thereof enactcrime that nf and poetry. you're safe against presumption flashed, or rather blazed up, hkea ihe unmarried father of any child, (both pamerely it Tiller. port fire, the current of air carrying the flame rents being while,) shall, from (he naked fact G. H. into their place of relrent and nearly suffo- of such paternity, be deemed and taken in Island.—The Rev. so badobbs, Chaplain of I'itcairn's Island, was on cating them all, and burning Iwo men law to be the busbar d of the mother, and of no fuilher service.— render them the ly orders, admitted to priest's by thenceforth bound to regard and support her uesdity number lo lour his wife, just as though they had been Lord Bishop of London, in the parish church This disaster reducedofthewhom were badly as married with benefit of clergy. It is further of Fulham. Tho Rev. R. G. Baker, Vicar, available men, two and Ist officer, prayed that every child, whether born in or took part in this solemn and interesting ser- wounded, viz., Mr. Wilson who had receiv- out of wedlock, shall inherit in common with vice. The Rev T. B. Murray, M. A.pre- Mr. Halsey, second officer, side of hi* face, all other children, the property of both pathe sented ihe Rev. Candidate to the Bishop.— ed a severe dirk stab on use of one eye. They rent*, The vessels fur the holy communion, which depriving him of the being deemed their legal heirs. to hold were used for the first time, immediately af- then regained the cabin, determined up the *hip. Rev. Lyman Beecher, of Boston, received a life ter the ordination were placed by Mr. Baker out to ihe last rather than give possession of the annuity of |500, on the Ist Jan., as a New Year's retained having the church PitAfter in hand*, Nobb's for in Mr. cabin some time, trying lo frighten' the na gift from Dumber of hi* friend*. Island.- A". Y. Observer. side, when all who went were heartily welby comed on board H. M.'s sloop Virago, her gallant Captain and officers. The Virago was immediately brought to an anchor abreast of Bounty Bay, and after firing a salute of 0 guns and giving 3 hearty cheers for the Queen, and 3 more for the islanders, (which were as heartily returned by those remaining on shore,) Capt. Prcvost with a and reparty of his officers came on shore the islandthe evening all night. In mained ers and officers amused themselves in singing and listening to the bag-pipes, which were kindly brought on shore by the Commander to amuse the islanders. The Capt. gave a pressing invitation to all the inhabitants to go on board the Virago and take an excursion around the island under steam, it was thankfully received, and accordingly next morning at 9 A. M. they were all rcudy to embark. They were all safely landed at 3 P. M., delighted with their visit und the kindness of the officers and men. — Pitcairn's cairn'* as"to • �THE FRIEND, 32 APRIL, 1853. - M Am ah Minerva 2d. Reynold., 20 raoa. 14—Am ah Philip lie la Noye, Pierre. G moa, GOsp, ISOwk w nh Ali.« 14—Tamerlane,Minckler. B» etna 48 sp 1400 wh. th*. Neptune, ap. ib 00 Allen, line, fm S—AM ah Pallaa, Chanileleur Hi 1 '-> urns. 1000 wh. 14-Fr. 5—Fr »h Ceorgc l.u.ira, fan the line, 100 wh, 1000 bone. .Mar. lr Am sh Hoplna Tliomton, Vointg, 20 inns. Cat. 1500 HaiJavllle, Smith, 7 -Am hit fm coa-t. wh. IS •■ Northern Light. Hn.n, l(, mos, 120 sp, roo wk 7—Am ah Plwrnn, Hillowt, fm Maria la., 60,.p,2a0<) wh. Died. 19 •' bk Cherokee, fiuiili, 19 i, i.b, I-JOO wh, 8000 hone. 7— Am ah Ptuiidii, Writ, I'm Society If,, .10 ap, I.VJO wli. ah llolsey Willi.ins, I'endloli.n, I.i mos, COO wb. 19 lit. |T» •**«., 7—Am ah Aimson, Btrb r, 5J iiiuh Im Pair Haven, clean. On hoard .hin Oesal Return, Jan «lh, IMS,native Niger, Jcrnegan. 5 ions. 91 •* 8— \in ah China, Howes, HJ nms out, clean. ul II •lilu, Imj I4S» W W ., S\u. 11. Haas. He was a SI 11. Han Kranrii.ro, 170wh. *« ** Amazon, Harrier, 1 moa. Curry, of am tin r mli alilp Aquetnet, It" aged y li.tr of Scotia, ar«, Nova W (•«'/•', Ciduinbii, Cash, 2b nios, 4.'. sp, 35j wh. of 1900 21 r.ior. lb 88 <. int. H —rVrrm \\h. lIIH, Hualflf. Mat., \l elea, three davaoit Imm Sin Frini-I.ro, 91 «' •' Win. Hamilton, Holm, th* moa and lor Bottle llair S—Am *>. North Star, HroWB, lw Mirgariti Bay. toe eclMwecr I.aurita, Isle of the lialtiaiore, Crange, 17 (is In San Francisco, with 91 bk Jane, ■■ ■— Mr off MOO Dmino, Hawaii, 'J Am nh tIWN wh. ~a«t a captain nut of thla port. I. >o passengers for Fort Phillip, 9— llrcin nh Otabelta, Weitiiitf, cruUt, iis'M) wh. on beard whale skip Florida, ad of March, Daaiel li. ire. Pendicle.n, f9 moa, ll&ip, 1900 Lngland, clean 29 sh New ■I ir Villr tl" Id tin Am iiiifs, moa llellot, Havre, -h 4J afed 111 l i-ar.. wh. wh. V—Am bk Washington, Fad ward", In In Honolulu, Mari-h 1". Mr. Analo 11. Hinlih. 2d officer ol Jenks,23 sli Almira, moa, 30 ap, 1000 wh. 22 Am Tl.e deceased leaded 9— ah 00 Nile, cruiae, Conklin, I'm bark VVaabiiialun, aged 27 year» lii« death,niid was ovrrj Mat. 10 Am t'uravan, Tragg, olm a. Am clip, ah John Unpin, Doane, Im Han Francisco. £ " Draper, received (roni iheveaecl a few ilaye Ik-hot ((Hi. ,17 mos, 22.5 ap, 300 wh, 2000 b '.'•' Marougo, ap, and officer.-. ah a0 Devoll, Maui, .O.wli, HiII Am Im H attention durlnchi. aid nrtu Irion llir niaMer •ie m jauua, Cornell. 11lmoa. '.'., I HI l.H,|ir. liaeral was t-llendi-d on llie Hiornitlß ol ilic ITlli at the Uetbc-I 11—Am bk Martha, Tonker, fm cruise off Hawaii. and hii remain- were dc|io-iti d in tin- N. Y. I'riii try. v» Cleared. 15—Am ah Tamerlane, Shocklev, M«u;, 45 ap, 1400 wh. on board the hr'a /.oe, nl eva, Marrh 21-1, Sainurl 11. ard .Mar. I,'i-Aiii t-h Klertra, Flak, fm Bocitfy 1"., 40 am. —Am bg F.mily llourne. Iliittus, Kawaiha*. Ilea of the urui of Curtis, I'crrj' *fc Waul, ol Haa Franciaco, '8— llrcin ah llansa, l using, cruise. Id L* C. Kicliinond, Cochr.ui, t'ui liilo, XV) up, j.jed'3(lya:ir* The deceased waa on hi- passage In Hk- islands IU Are Im kV A Jones, FoLer, Hong Kong. 1 l.ii wh. lor hie health. Ilia remains were Intel red in the N. Y. Oeme90—Ainwh Uk Delawtie, Hull, cruise. IG Amah Cncas, James, fin coast California, 3<o ap, i:i..i ark 23— Am sell Sierra Nevada, Wisiloy, San Franciaeo. At Utile IMtiin Hospital, March 27, Tlinmaa O'trniae, njrrd 28-Ain wh sh Kiiierald, Jajgvr,cruise; Prrkint, Allen, fi rnoa Im N. I*, 30 ap, 10 Am bk M. 8.i:i( -N years, a native ol ,\uwr> County ol AriiMgn, Ireland. hhis Joseph | llarhoi 89th, Mniifhn, piiant. I apt. ■kr. I -An w h sh lliintsv.llo, Smith, cruise. 88 Ma In Honolulu, March 10 Am ah Cambria, bottle, fm llilo, 1730 »h. 3—Am wk sh Hunter. Holt, cruise. Mallei, lie waa an KiiElishmaii l-y hirth, bat had resided I.) :<— Am wh ih I'hu-nn, Bellow a, iruisc. Thou. Dtcktraoa, Tabtr,:» bkm., 800 up. Ijii aiion the island*. lli. lunenil t.Mik jdnre ou.ilit JJUi, at 4—Am tig Pilgrim, Hchnll/., ILivvaii. aihtrim Hull, fm llilo, clttß 21 < tsaaea by tin- Il'iwaiian (•iiunla and Cavalry. ** Alex Barclay, lleln.S mo?,<ienn. 4 Am li- Eliza Taylor, Kldrldge, ban Francisco. ai Bitah I —Am sh John, 'Fillon, crui-e. 21 Ir ■• Kapudon, iiouioiii lin \. 7. IM wh, 500 hour! 7 -Am sh Alexander, l!> an, critiae. Hillary, PASSENGERS. 800 Tmcuiiv, Tahiti, fm wh. 84 Am " 04 i« 4< j,,i,„ fr X I ward' Cathcnrt, Im coast Cata., HO 7— An sh India, Stranburg, cruise. IstWAKD.—Per Clias. Mallory,—Capt. O. T. Law, ap, 40hlkiMi. 8—Am sh Marengo, Ilovidl, Honolulu. I vi, Capt. Y. A. Newel., I''. 1.. Hank-, J. Puutusaik. Mar. I*, li.in sch ('(irinlhiniier, Iticlu Isen, Waimea. 11. < II \in sli t'.uiaila, V\ BOS, crui-e. C. u»d >Ie Donald. leurcd. Knimnt, I'. Hutubins, I*. 11—Am sli Tamerlane, Shucklry, Honolulu. Per Bremen Ship Jos. Haydn --Wm. Purine iter. Mar 3 Am hli Onward, Coning, Haw York. Batltd sth. IS Am sli Cleime, Sherman, cruise. Mar. Per Pathfinder.—Capt. J. Bri 1. 1,. ('. Ili, 1:1 (I, Cochran, Honolulu. 7 Ai.iach Kliz-.i la> lei, iorSni Fr.iuciscu. 13 »w Sophia Thoriilon, Yiiuiir,cruise. 7 Am »h fch Alice Fri/nr, Tabtr, lor Arctic. 111 Outward.—Per On****.—' ,)t. Y. A Ncwcll, crni»t. « 8 Am wh ah Chan. Carroll, LTia.itl, Mary aiul Sii-hii, llii.w n, cruise. 10 1 july arid rive children ; Capt. an. M. rem, Lady H Am wh kli Florida, West, to cruiou. 21 •' '■ F.quati-r, ll'sse], cillise. »ud two children ; Mrs. Kcllcy ai.d one child masPhilip dc la Noxe, Pierce, cruise. 9 Am wh all India, Miller, rruisr. 92 '* CciuiM' Ste\ en-, cruise. 9 Am wh bk Win. T. vVbaaloa, Cornatotk, cruiie. 9-1 lik ter Dcwitt CMtwriiiht, Mhis Caroline Turner, Eliza(ay ilier, Frcem in, i rinse. 10 Fr uli nh Qtorftt l-'ilirs, cruise. 22 •' beth Oravier, Mr. Wm.T. M .nni-*. M .-sw ill. i ruise. 10 Jildtoa Baa Francisco. Anadir, Am 22 ** " idy; Capt, Crock Mai. 11 Am »h H iphia Thor<.tou, Vminf, orultt. Per 23 all Ania/.oli. Berber, cruise. ad child; Mrs. 11 21 ektaud lady; Mr* ayfylaaac How land, vattt,cratta. Nurllicrn l.igiil, Sti.n, Honolulu. »* 93 11 Haw sch Caroline, Long, Aadnsioil l». ; Thomas Stead; Manning and child ; '. * llouijn, CuiuisKey, cruise. II Am >>h Milt* (.'t'likliti. cruise. OMc Atlis ; Wm. Mr. Grabriol; A. L. 1.1 " *' Battrj Willi.inn, I'nidlrton, cruino. ..ady.. t -lenient; AUcn J 15 Memoranda. '* Ama/'on. I.arher, CTIIUa. *< ProtUO, llrowiisou, ciuire. J5 Per Prig Judion.—Mr. nn. Hice, Lady and child ; We learn from privaie correspondence from Hottnt, naM Marengo, Hcvoll, Cflltate IS Doctor Wallace ; Jos. Carter. dcr date of Jan. 19th, that lite ahlp BsaaaMia Howard wa« m Kltcira, 15 Flak, enilat. tp for Honolulu, to iaM February lain. Coimidciabledelay u Jaii'*.-, Coraell, Per Philomela—(i. U. C. Ingiaham, John Itajc, I| cruise. * occurred in get 1 lag vtavtbi lor this port, on account of ii>o 18 " " Jimta Loptr, vVhippy, cruUt. lady and 2 children.. Ihl'li ntr> of frefghl i fined f. r Australia. Two tblpt had beea jg "1 mm Hicatt, Hkiauar, emlta. Per Laurita.—Wm. Fouler, 1. Scott, Mr. Sargeant ir<*tgaatad for the islands, but nn overbid for freight lo the ID Haw s h QtO. \\ a-liiii»inti, Derby, cruii*c. Julea Hutot. 501 I ill a* It fie Soot crn mivj I» rt hail chaagad their 18 Am s\\ Navy, Norton, ertllaa. J'■kttnrttion. We hive no reiisnii to doubt that the 11. It. will Tahiti.—Thos. C. Drown, 11. Per Neptune from 18 l •* I'ov.r, lf.thc.Kk, cr.iisu. be duitpatclied at nbo\ c. * u h lb) -Inn », Jeaka. Mar- IH Am Harrows, Chan. Pratt, U ltynn. lulhrign. 19 Lota ok pTaaaiai InuEFtNnEncr." Capt. Sherman, or Per American Prig /oe, Inward.—W. M. Mun* Plmraer, Vila*), h vi»f t n:iil.ilfrV.iiniuu'tVl. the •* fetarcua," iiireet fr. m iht coatt, report* lb*- los* of iht 10 11. 11. M.S. al Am wbah N. P. TilmKljjr, Kdwanlt. etaaiaai "ißdrptndeßW,'' ai Margarata island, off the bay of froy, Mr. Munfroy, Miss Isabella Muiitn.v, Mi.-s '■ '■ [hat nan.c. I he \r-srl was run aahcrfl and *oca caughi Bra. ai MiwaatbtMrru, UtuaatL Mary Munfroy, Kdward Munfroy, 11. W. Starr, 11. M al Hlto, Soule. \\v ret'iet not be.Bg ah <■ In Mate Ihe particular*, but are in ! formed K. Jones, (J. Pond, A. lloyed, IUA. Carter, Win. al Rajah, Fish. r. that many lives wire lust, that a wbttlaalifp had btafj •* J. Oliver. übk \\ ai«iiiii((ioii, IMwardtL (chartered to laka *< me ol iht paattngtrt lo San Frtacltco, and al are hound for tlie Maßd* 09 b aril w halclnp>. 81 " •* *h Tho*. HickiTson, Tabvr. few I a*i " "hk lleioilie, 11. iii|>-l< -ol ScunvT.-Capt C (heart of Hie 'John tV lldward," reports all I'nll.tTi t>, Hull. a at llarthcloiiiewV Ha), ! that aa tbt 981b. of Feb. be loueheil Howes. ■ " *• Chin.i, lower California, Ifld there found ihe Kitf-li-h I argue Baaatnr, Nepluiic, Allen. aa '• Ciipi. Watson. The ciew and patrtaftru were ail auk with PORT OF HONOLULU. * (i aa Aliny. tbt ■eurrv. roi 1 arttd riurlag pataaga ef tevtt and h hall '* '* Lancniter, M Jeanttte, We^u 1W Arrivals. n oi. fm Liverpo I, tQttcJrluf ai Falkland I w here io« aupplic* u b .ibiiia, Smith. 83 Vumt uftlit Ctt« had died, and threw pa*|(o.oi P.anciaro. ne0.1.0 lab H Am rllprior bk Pathfinder Macy, On San M.tliat-ic, l.'orey. A3 " *■ «L-aatra, hf re Hieir arrival. W hilt Capt Cath-art wa- ia Mar. 4 Am bg Judson. Ucrihg, Irnni rica. uylor. 88 .Maria Tlorei-a, *-*(i mate nnd an elderly lady. Capt. C. " iritd the i Ihev p da Fran-Sailed h rt, Mar. 13-Aill sell Hreuda, Smith, 18 lin San lltMilil, si. cum. U4 I'-riiish- d f.r the he ator tOd gala, of a at. r, tarwt wood, driod ** *''■ M.tn same day. lei Cole. Ortez, «4 admit hi raflag other apart to tlit ot, Francisco. arrowr. baaldai applat, I l-Br ach I, mrita, Bnkor, 21 Us fm San 85 company. He cIU-ied them a paat-tge lo •' '• Murj &, Martha, Moc.um. ! foinlort of theOnHl.ip's ll— 11. B. M. Slo.unir Virai(i>, I'raiost, *J Us I'm Ituiatei. Wtiaoaaaptafaadlljlt nckuowle .vinp, ('apt. .tlanddi. ihi It- llr brig Vane .uvur, K»i-I, 111 da fm Ft. Victoria. I (Ijj nents in 11 letter M Capl Cathcart. PORTF ll—Am birk I'lliliMula,Uiovnr, SV di fin Beaton, via LAHAINA. During of the "John mid Kdward," three of the May the Montevideo. crew deserted, including the coratf vi the ship. Mar. 03 Am brig '/.on, Kicliarda, 15 d« fin Sun Francisco A i rived. (In. «3 Knss. bk Kudiack, Faariiliam, -JO ds fin Feb. 1—Am hjr V.mWy Romne, Uiltn, SI d- fin X.in WHai.taa. INFORMATION WANTED Ili-Am hf lilyrim, Sthi.iu,*!! d. fin San Prancfaro. ]ii—Am ~% 8)ar« Aim Jutta*. l.ilgei, 17 di fm Han Draa. j lab *c Am ill Almira, Jcnka, fm Maui, HI ap, 1140 whale Respecting THOMAS B. SAVAUE, fcelonfnjip; to 17—Am nil hit llel.iw.iru, II .It, t./j ih.»s., clcuii. 11,000 buna. Amah li i/.rn, llaylry, of Nantucket, fnini Maria 19—Am wh ab Knier i.tl, Jafffar, is moa.. 83U8 wh. ISforw York. City. He visited Honolulu about two Honolulu. Isl s,;iX).|i, UJJ «h, I l,;'i ii lam.' 88 Am aeh Siena NeVolii, VVoolcy, Im vcniM aM, I'ioiu Ban l'Yaneisco, but hat not ainoa 100 li I Ant wh sh 11■!liter, Hull, lo mm., wh. I, 140 ap, MD all Mechanic, Corey, fm Califurn.a ( been board from. Several Lett-aft have been received 31) whale. i.V-Ain wh ah John, Tillon, !l mo 75 ap. in Honolulu making enquiries lor him, Two hava *> Am ali Win. C. Nyo, Adams, from Si. L'ica., -00 ap., B I- Am wli rih Hunt-iVille, Smith, It moa l.'iiK) w h. 88—An wli *li Hlrtaio, Ui-voll, 15 mar.., lvi wh, 80,808 been ■ilitwiatfifl to the (Jovernor of Otihu. It apIM whale, l-MII li -in', hone. \m si, Fain'ia, Biuiiii, lin Ki|i dor I'i'JO wh. pear* that u relation has died, bequeathing to him 9*-Am w h ah Alrtaiidi-r, Ryan, 2.) mot., t.s'l h. Am bk.lt.iibt. Murrisou, .Nurimi, Im St l.ncaa, 150 ap pertain property, and it would be greatly to his ad2ri Am wh id India, Mr .nlnirjf, 11 moa, I3QJ uli. lo'.l whale. vantage to return immediately home. \U oh A o wh nil Phronii, IlitloWK, lit moa, M) »fi, 2-JtK) wh. Mir 1 Am sh Ula<iiauir,Turner, f otu cruise. Am ah li ant itrliirn, Win;, fm riili.o, 'J iOep, 2100 wli Ur. 1— Am i>". J-yr i, B*ll ir, im Honolulu. Hreiu ah Jue'pu llay.lun, Oaoaaian, 6 uiue. Im hiime, -t Alll wh nil Cleoiit, Hherm in, til BMtf,Boo up. clean. 5—Am wh h,< av.ihi*r, Freeman, 19 mos., 100 ap, 70.) wh; 0.0.j0 hatit Am ah Ifetay William., Pendleton, tin Valpiraisn, A Mi n'hly Journal devoted to Temperanct, Ilk) 17lap, 7—Am hk \ nadir, Swift, 80 moa, ItiOO wh. wh k BMbuii Arrived in the olfl ig.— 7—Am nh Bayal'tr. Bai«tal,3| mna, 15ap, An Pat Fran. Scumen, Marine and General IntelliAjNtta la. t. Kn htiioiid, Cochran, ID mo*, ,i,tO tJ/B, 7— 4 Amah lluaisville,Smith fn cruise,4o sperm. I451) wh. 4 Am wh all titular, (1011, liv I ..li.iina. gence5 Am wh ah Hon. Morgan, Chapel fin hiln. �-Am -h Canada, Ward, 16 mna, 30 sp. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY 5 Am wh all Cnas. Car.oil, \ hupall, Hi sp, f,n er.iaa, '.' \iii hk go rgv. Sloven*, 17 unit, iW up, 6 0 wh. 5 Am wh ah Alice Mandril, Wins,, Im cr.ii c. HAMUKL C. DAMON, Seamen. I'lmplain. -Am ah Mary, naver, 7 m<*a, 35 ap 5 Am wb an N.-piune, Allen, 'Jap wlialue. 9—Am ah Cow-pur, Firmer, Im Tahiti, 1700 wb. 9—Am ah Man and Susan. Ur w. ,&J i,i.k,,,hj ;p 'JO) wl. F ja. it Am hit Lsyra, Beyoioer, fur Lihaina Ti>-\ui hkH. H. Wittraian, Hall, 10 aaa.i,MoaKBMart-. Am wli ah Black Warrior, Banlett cruise. 13—Amah Mar), (Bd.'arluwn.) Hoi lie-* ;• im**,, 13j ap 98 Am wli ah Fiances 11 -Driotta, Bw.ii. cruiar. $2.00 Onr cipy per annum, kirk, PaUiltnder, Mary for Hong Kcmr- Mar. to— Am bt, Oriental, Nttaon Iron Honolulu. Mir. I Am Clipper it)-Am ah Cambria, t\.erl«, 17 mna itHHi whila 8.00 I Am be rSiace dc Join till", for B. Fra». via Kauai. Two copie* per annum, lor San Fraus ilea. 660 Judaua, Delia*, It*.man, Cuiuukcv, a|ierm. 14 mot bar 11—Ait* Am i 5.10 Five copies per annum, ach. Curinthfaaar, Rrchtrl*rr, fu Honolulu. Am vi b im tiuofclvo Kelly fur llilo. Married. I* Honolulu, March », by Bishop Mahrrrt, John W. 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Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1853.04.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.04.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/81485fb3c1df65d968dd450e70fc84e7.pdf 692324778abc0a0323f5f7aa4815359b PDF Text Text FRIEND. THE Series, V«l. New No. 11, 5. Uoiitenirs OP 1..-i tnrss on THE rUIEND contains 23 tea nut do lo.our writ, .Mothara I - A ('all from Marquesas, - (iood Movement in 111. Hriliah Navy. A Mission Projoeted to Man|noan*, - Improvement in the l\ haling Service, P.tpulaionnf lire Jceuita from Equador, liM|K.naiii Information, of the lodepend.no, daya ever 38 sympathies 38 39 - - 40 ... SO News, lc, appeal an is by MAY 4, sufferers more 1:153. Physical Subject His " It aims" he strength and mmclus; part and aiini ment each, to so nies of " and of with art sufferers fur San to " of the up for- by Ihe this The names the of Ihe of subscri- had contrary t> gazing on the that the teach appreciated the voice and emphasis varied emotion felt Road lo in- imag- or Ipkce, at the if the In a body a it word, fit would habitation aim for making at the immortal mental an 10th. May Evening, 'adults, entire 25 and profits munity sold for 50 admission cents each for will be devoted It is to hoped Those generally. The the Honolu- object an to the so cure the tickets, apply may Polynesian Office; lo to the while must lock* my your home? ™i« her Whitney, Principal at lead in the of the after this writes, to ex- *■'O and my eye* grow the tomb, before me to friends when Pacific, an come, a* absent ion? over I " thousands even heart-broken and you case, you will you do and. they if welcome can the for grieved manner, en- One son*. sho son hundreds not letters of of you, write beg must be mother us ia the U. S. who grieve roving se- long will it continue so? enquiring have for year* pro- emphati- and I will pay the com- to friend* the are friend* with the grow grey, If such Are there I can to sorrow your your pa- "If you should receive do, how boy, and keep absent long you my dear dim, not mail brings of sorrow-stricken and wishing Mr. all " pense? all for children. will commend itself praiseworthy take House, Tuesday Tickets of cents lu Free School. will School, Royal Do not anxiety. respecting me? moth- rod,when would son* upon your your best intelligence, any good write absent from home. Some of you Almost every been not ers, ined. inflicting cally torturing verest Learning.—An to New Court will be issueo and It harmo-" are a not informed of your wan- duly mother writes thus, Royal Exhibition of the It | enjoy- derings quiry every motion. and friend* amount those cruelly when men, you who will Young of the sparing so small, son* were so aeamen estimation our Perhaps if father* and been not them treat rents land would be published, to '•flogging" among it is that class which will keenest agony. have left "Independence" Francisco. their $100, one, write yon not do in deserves, had ers requisite The full and all but distribution. advocate for are no whipping, the disposal of■ at why The their mothers. few of the subscriptions placed distributed, We is made. A refined may be appropriate flection, every health the beautiful. ear, was hut Independence made for study to your mothers? behalf of' which organ., bone* from would It D. been School.— ber., give to every picturesque, nature express derived cultivate the enjoyed. Rev. endurance to but soon iv commendation. Com. of S, F. S. Education." intimation (body's) power of be the grand, and its gracefulness may aims Physical educate tho eye, that to the Bethel I'uualmu remarked, to at April 15th, by " was and delivered of the Principal Dole, of done, $950 These Society. Chaplain's but if there ia any class of the Seamen, Education. lias Friday evening, be comparatively community, $50 " the worthy included the Ex on The showed that some- could Tract the at gratuitous Seamen, Fair of the Ladies' of about of amount, which was the the Honolulu, of generous response. at subscription list or A free Lecture a thing prniseworlliy late still F(p?0[I». on good people fresh a from Testaments, X Society, and of publication* American found and sale, raised amount will be the benevolent to Stranger's Friend Society, eign Lecture made of the it is answerd the HONOLULU, Chaplain has received of Bibles and when- 38 - Marriages, Deaths, Marine TME tCP-The parents, upon* the supply gratifying fact,'that a most 36 - to from the It - - - from New York, Passengers, M .'37 - hint* dwelling Series VOL. Old 33 American Bible S3 - - scholars, islands. . - - - - Hawaiian Statistics, 40 - and 1853. 4, 33 ------. 37 Japan Etpedition, llurninf - valuable many teachers MAY 4, 1853. Physical Education, .".■mm, VVhj HAY HONOLULU, moth- their sana who would write knew where letters Trustees of the would reach their absent sons? Young men, and all, be encourged to, write, but Town School, With viz:—Messrs. Wm. L. Lee, one thus a subject defined, copiously ashamed if you do not writs to your weeping C. Damon, S. ample scope was afforded lo range abroad S. Reyaolds, R. G. Davis, and mothers. If heart-sorrowing you are Royal School, soul." over the fields of historical and scientific search. Some of the from ancient It writers refreshing was are It thought. " that it a copy most we uaae, the he an that our privilege will not to Wo that true, hope there is it a for vvi)l, not aroused by my language, read the fol"Royal' lowing which a mother addresses to her ab- learning? whose store-houses la the of lecture, Lamp." by Mr. A* in read it. to th* The Chaplain schools, learning English, of for tliu press, listening to Armstrong. prove The would where that he has the notify Hawaiians are not reoturx You to surely become so have *ot schooled your heau hardened, and your memory so treacherous that you. have forgotten that, you once had a' home-*-a mother that ever love* " mother?" Examinations nation of on son. " a a perfbrra- sent good supply you.! I cannot think it Al times, possible! How ia my English Testaments, printed in large and conscience nuiH whisper, good type. Wyllie, island render*, who did fuil once Teachers of manner, of R. reminded of the objection requested and road" apt and beautiful. smelt of the Student's was illustrations I divine Plato rich no complimentary hope •ajoy such was were to charming Xenophon works speaker's re-, the to or the of Royal the 4th and Schools.—The School, will take exami- place sth, and that of Punahou ike sth and 6th of May. your offspring to. endure the have Every an O.y tb* you never fjir hour, thai me to. arrive*, cause* became yon areone married, hour misery,, which for aubjiectad car if came a O, no cauae may you year* yuu. this *u*pen**!.l atntter haw Ut pajig of disappoiitfriveri* not to greet your p.traril*4 �THE 34 frem Eitra Friend of April IMb. A To Call From diate in deserve*, Friend" will much too are not ded issue to with communication It is terest. what see tion for a missionary islanders of a be the may careful of course, proceed consideration, interested in the of of " centuries ago: law." 42, We at (here be be in to will May, and in good member of Lnhaina be earnest. done, will be the next would heeded, not christians the at with that pond whaleship, a the Let appli- messenger the not Sandwich of the Holy One who Jews, We hope this call corres- "limited islands. clamors of Let it ment to We that this call will creased zeal gospel itants shall be of the Wake Isles all inspire the proclaimed whole anything here for thought with best him, aioa as lead me to to It this was here, Makounui, came to ky name .rom o! medium of three ing good—we be as you from often Haiku- speak it, what teacher do you they thought first, and afterwards, " for war, war, We have noth- living here." are but nothing "that the wish The son-in-law the Sandwich Islands had." had them helped him when the not they and papists on they bin such yet, and with Nuhiwa, lias as them I acquaintance of Puu. " do to doing But, us. you a with mis- in the " could for this to under attended by his They handed 14th, that son-in-law) me a on " be me preached rest a letter Mr. Paris, of Kaawaloa, Where the is of I lately and nearer on the a from thought see to a it him in with which serious—never smiles; can and, He from prevailed. native Kill liis are tioning feeling, to us : ocean." boy must tbia is of in not not Whether, take the called a What having on the him, see, is came, middle of July, the first, hut sanc- us or a We ! wish not us we arc action. mission, found, in — in connec- perhaps, two to But hungry. business to God, on of salvation? of the good Fatuhiwa, expired, in chiefbecomes whether be perhaps, of sick immediate meeting are a men. is empty son-in-law, and he his five months always after it the It is, mercantile his felt sent go ahead left back to not them, of we little islands in is Board do some this last God the word point. ex- by sending to highest send him to and time Lahaina is vessel may he tion with possess five was his lands to year all the the bread of life May, he direction—that he is is to or the over through Last last year, It gospel the a and opposite an on It is this way, that doings, our seize Micronesia, will not—the Am. not all and call the minds of the churches ! call from deny Hawaii to gone family. now to inteicst in We was inuy brethren, missionary We The He is, therefore, afraid that if he perhaps deep call in not conclude that they a that Makounui was, if he in teacher. The a missionary; a call would share of tive teachers with wives, good 1 up for of — and make they would they interested meet- should they heathen islands, and its was him find get added, that months, his that I grew up. they of the council " given council dispute of sending and long all Ihe to gospel vanquished, declared and would they his son-in-law should go Tahiti, a that shore well if all whale- At this hot a were enemies, giving christian a that ocean. insisted, chiefs saying say, for which he teacher. the Rarotogna, on but pure morals nothing chiefs, common cause ol hap- text and of myself, to Pacific, the 300 who the begin- name must I all that object in The first this wide seems to me to of character, and getting up church, our singers, and, from our for him than lor all decision intent nt picking The learned He delighted. of This for natives of the Sand- ago have recommended the what the the Puu thought a Mangain, coming the over their to proposed had such from had exhibited ships and missionary. a Society islands, dressed. all fight- 101)0 opposed ended, he called was for chiefof (Hakaikis) 300 together, missionary, a wich and %eeds that lime, sev- the dialect other energy; seems less are gun pow- high he had were war sending I told idea, that I wish congregation, thinking choir of he teachers is much no more " so see often and is I sometimes do not but have seems ship that fbur'iters. for and people." sermon. &c, sermon of the temple. ing, of time—that be first conceived the wish long seven learn this to preacher, the There is heaven," among the of March a done for chiefs and Indeed fast. of the end to with buy wars chiefs war, Makounui has says, is inlerviws jnd school our to I which the first time he had ever been in friends, immediate- Tamerlane had been anchored he him—he seems fixed was ning they is the ten theie chiefs ten decision him Marquesian." intelligent, very bo done meetings, of or Hawaiian than is that of Nuhiwa. have noticed the some reasons all the these meeting, told has A.says, all —one house —is very tojudgr pened Marquesian above alluded to, door, is and sides, illustrate what may says, When ihe Alexander," who dead. He revived his quite him also event, but 1 eye from such see morning and Mr. times, have Mr. see Nuhiwa. on 1 lime, was a of attend that what could mean and go up errand Oahu, in six at must in connection sabbath Maivounui alfsnded some him. ten his missionaries see In the constantly case. the should we eral meet and that he them." must wars fight only invention of has In this and men; the Makounui which made not Makounui "that one—that the good ho call the attention of the brethren the I told re-1 IHawaiian because not ing the difference Fatubiwa protest ant*; on acquainted, seem who has been Fatuhiwa be able better are " communi- as papers, among ! 11th, 1553. a common I near under him. Doubtless Puu islands understand of the French doings had been had left—that papist missionaries, Puu and and wish Aitutake and so, Papists but neighboring island, will and will Makounui, Hakuhiwa, What have business Makounui answered tired of are (Pun) added, not which (Their viz. that heard, olten have destructive since the Fatuhiua, eight months, which that this so some- During about the both on They powder and me ended in of long too : on me state The last, wars. wounded. whaleships, we be guve has lived killed were muskets from came man." have we they fear, trouble, poverty. had done might hope and there my two he bloody—for, very ten he of the present year. be cannot only island he two the narrative eight months, beginning only that makes you wish heard, " promptly, war, continued should following what Pun told about and home, there have been belong- good a from like the woman, him no, of God?" word | the gospel form, first, sent on son- native wth "they white attend our weeks; ssfthe mission and other ly, the on " " said noi!'language, April the April Ist, arrival, left natives Hawaiian a seen or weeks, into imme- Your redemption is thereby we has Friend of his to and how much He said the as Islands would a mo- means Who arrival, especially with his errand for among the inhab- Marquesian chief, several his thought to of jargon period earth. of Ihe South ! the good lived I asked, perphaps, get a the hearts.with in- Brother Damon:—l have cated a church. "if They They had lived Lahaina, specting mis- true confidently anticipate hasten to the measure join? " 4. 78, amid cannot pecuniary this carry diate execution. and We that the suppose, wanting the heard be strife, party Mammon's votaries. be Psalms touch will His in the hearts of christians upon fall in love with popery. sionary spirit these of Israel." formida- a island, trim the three years crown man, young formed them or, between the quite his coun- days since, particularly anxiety. troubled hi* on few a more of his greatly was thing learn to anxiety interview, der.) asked 1 of did position Islands he settled a an source to If this call case. a was had that he so years, to a iiml not communication, being familiar with both lan- a is to I lukuliiwii,. you up the the take The least that send to ascertain the facts in the as the over whose mother is fulfill- earnest. cordial, as response cation appears can Lahaina, a might get once, a of uttered 25 Faluhiwa. at ran him in-law, I should add, is Nuhiwa?" not a the forehead absent ridge, n Hawaiian* as giving ear, to ble, war-like appearance in front. hiwa," Missionaries the all bushy ridge a ear to The isles shall wait for his wish?" meeting, subject from and chin, nose and fore At tenance. was his hair trimmed but theirs, the 4. hope general merits to there has been him and I endeavored to of those guages. part prophecy of Isaiah, a to frame, features somewhat things in projecting a and running ed applica- missions Is it aborigines of Polynesia. ment in- fore- to surely the on cause this the savage to but it Marquesas, confi- are result of this to muscular a sunk, admit of its of intense feelings impossible, with peruse known was here 01 have conclu- We make to bearer come Makounui ia rather below the middle size, No. "Polyne- readers will our who had the word of God. people sharp, to we "Extra." an of dent many week, teacher, a his until the Ist appear crowded insertion the present !jet imme- that the me Marquesian chief, a commu- regular the the columns of the May, and sian" following estimation, our As publication. " the of Rf.ader :—The the nication The letter informed Marquesas. 1853. MAY, FRIEND, to na- before i. c., before the if not, very soon that. I asked Makounui how many day* it was �FRIEND, THE since he left his his Indian of twine, piece for each he board, till they went on aii. Alier six knots, of their sight Fatuliiwa account, it Each of Fatuhiwa. harbor for good has It lies 8 people. more ships the on The 3000 or larger, and west islands has side. west Fatuhiwa. at hands island. These Some 2 miles the three called the are 300 or Marquesas N. W. people of aging bread fruit —there There also are and cane, sugar and hogs abound, they proper. are (which and mice, Makounui, hire he it, vessel. a he I thought this could subject minds of Ihe brethren and our lo you it is meeting, and, therefore, insert time before some press, 1 wish it sian. If the case vessel Ihe for San ihe be might and to goes Polyne- gather to go hog* up from regard*, kind Your friend and lo you us, maining have they us hog* they had they der. two on this good us procure unless lost, up the powhave myself con- possible—that churches this here, a ves- able are credit teachers, to sustain may be giv- enable them to to do the to when offer- refrain from of period been not person, whose navy, to gious reformation among that the of number the be them, and only not devil; as deporthighest Any they in the will pray fattier and the also in but who none the degraded of it destitute sailor, of duty uniting of our God, spiritu- to suggest humble and prayer- a character religious desire, therefore, the navy or to of cooperation value of United that the hands of be to in not) in Prayer; order afloat chiistian friends they have return; Armstrong can strengthened, and that increas- an prepare a for asked them what show plied, that that they these signal were they would son-in-law islands, they on were people would raise board. s< t a the white They flag at brought to a knowledge and to re- With a propoeed view that to on further this design, every that time wants as morning, Sunday and between the hours of 7 11, or the may be convenient, of the navy the throne of graoe by be brought all wba is as near spiritual before the feel the import- well as the evi- giving for all life that now in the that has made for at- the of the navy. in Particular. of Spirit sound of discharge That 2. they Justice, Wisdom, be mind" given to of their arduous and spiritual those 3. they " to whom That, by they the derogation of 4. vants That to wise, of Christ; of God's honor and the and be given diligent the F. Rowlev, Henry D. Trotter,' GeorgeBlake, John Monday, Francia Laiidet, Jobs Washington, faithful Spirit of bless their labors, of do Harcourt, do do do do do do do. Chap- to our and establishing Bdward Parry, Captain, Richard of and influence Manchestkh. Wm. the interests everything tending and that abundantly awakening sense good manners.'.' grace may be just regards placed. are example their a as temporal as may discountenance corruption may well as over may entertain responsibility, Frederick X Vemon it as unto service come." to already Officer* the Henry Fanshaw, of is in Jesus." company would sail. When Makounui and his leaving and something the profitable little a-b-c Alexander easily the kind before such about a that what- servants to who "do business in Francis W. Auaten, Admiral. ing number of those Edward Hawker, Vice-Admiral. God's blessing, be book printed here to be taken with them when great waters" may, by Rear Admiral. Henry Hope, of"the truth as it and Messrs. lo in our responsiblcduties. all lain who ol men;" and be blessing for the efforts the service of their high and appears the We seamen. our in improve to ful effort our gracious interposition behalf of the long in with is of which is God to That 1. taken them physical, sanctify That all hearts may be raised in thanks- For Recognizing, doubt. a in the upon "grow their country, spiritual improvement the aspect of navy, moral acquainted are the only not has change honoa an having promise "Love decided of late years, place may Makounui is anxious to knowledge contact; —thus and of that 5. as roaeMaf an)agree on earth, ahall be done for ttiem of my " may unto not "Godliness that things, is, to into come Navy. heaven." very a blessing a rest the heathen and other nations with whom they shall »*k, it which is iv That the Promotion Prayer for Majesty's and Lord, that do, they may do it heartily may lives' end;" their Tie persons may such the to of the also, Irom temptation, "Christ's faithful soldiers and with dence moral and reli- seamen, they or pre- bodily danger, but evil, that and daily, grace," temptation the them and deliver them from wholly;" be they strength. keep to sin besetting from con- towards of God may Spirit disobe- or of courtesy, that or perform- and protected the That idleness in the Every snares flesh impur- revengful feeling generally, in health and kept tended ol jiU ahall two thin" that th.y know the general meeting. the profane and or truth; zeal want inferiors; and may avoid to christian and served from all world, of and superiors; or for all may be duty; disrespect every infirmity; dewith impressed in Her be our of giving Union in iProposed interest in ot ance equals may and sol- servants angry disregard to naval concern Christ, grace kind; our our profession. all at thorough of importance cordial an expect God's of attention they serious a the lowest, language; sensuality every dience the to professing as by tempers: in men highest want soever acquainted reflected whose mind is whaleships engage the I menlong intervals. (whether belonging I shall take as the matter, and the honor upon 'heir christian necessaries from at of invaluable answer orders of of the Lord Jesus indecent ity Almighty God; for welfare of their fellow-men. That, enabled, to for the purpose, and ally Letters of some Imth 3. Men. et connected or entertain an in- may for entertain spiritual diers to, and for His Sabbaths. to 4. we cannot example, fact such seamen most reason- universal, British of the and this to the service, reverence That all led and become to lightful privilege will soon as 2d. prayer-hear- and seamen, it has among thai which touch there tion little while, following Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;" sent us spiritual throughout is in during that natives with wives should be Hawaiian by connection entertain the expense. en be Wo matter. sel should be chartered the re- naval Word, them think Fatuhiwa to a to use Mr. Alexander and ferred of the church 11l this hand, and the on would for it long enough war the it is great descend of Religion here, the is war powder some paid have lo that will BALDWIN. Makounui are persons concert. •'lf any chiefs 3d. As God expect prayers brother, and D. P. S.—While praying greatly multiplied. opportunity might offer. yours, encour- sea-furing companions. other some or if or, profitable market; through- is in the British promoting prayer-answering, to blessings California the some It are that christians nations. and ment in the desirous of Iremarking, could Friend; put lintl it Marquesas, Francisco Willi of all I would Friend known, is might owner to soon in tho (his cir- belonging be or world should unite in prayer for the before the officer* natives number" of He before the come goodly important labors wish time of It is me 100. pay that there welfare of their [the respectfully suggested. are from the of importance. all sideration once, in ed in get back, asked to would hogs said if 200 would do ask on cocoanuls. and cats of his haste many mostly dogs, are quite plenty. are speaking how there matter extensively Ist. learn, sincerely potatoes, bananas, te.ro, ing also eat,) never fowls a tobacco; the last of which able from Tahiti. Of animals, introduced was of plenty are sweet and published christian world. to object;—and service H. B. M.'s the The subject "Virago." the out islands, viz., these islands live in placed was by dipt. Prevost, of should be a Nuhiwa, Uapou and Uahuha. The document Puu of these Washington with the 2. culated the friends ofseamen among smaller navy a That creasing this document is of incalculable It Fahuala and South, more all the at known 1. Movement in the British following " is (Christiana; be be the 10 miles these ot Pilot been the is or soon the hope Navy. islands— have 2 We may His steamer may will flag this Aary Generally, botk Offieert them. to coining to seems of aiice has been, for many years, heads of prayer in the«te islands, but it For the islands of the Pacific. our (Dominica) Hiwaoa people; unknown There A Good to worth circumstance a 35 lost they Marquesian of the is that 1853. Missionary flag whs their reach- to This as Missionary the 14th. (Magdalena) eastern from their days more Haw- on islands. ol 23J days c., March ing Lahaina, most i. left noticing, knot Ihe a near was where was me a from the time came space group 13 Hawaii; near lias own 47 knots, were a That, he said, twine. showed night, each with fore-mast. pleased was when he which he had tied on and day, I home. simplicity, MAY, to many ser- God the souls. �ftfE" 36 H. M. Claade Robt. Buckle, F. Oambier, James C. Bichardaon, BY Jamei Anderson, Robt. B. O. do and do do Robert Coot, do Thomas J. John do Payne, u. Main, Lieutenant. Adamson, John < Bunbnry, Crawford A. 1). Mitchel Cha*. Wm. x at & Purser, Damon.—Day before yesterday received your Extra matter thought with of is well that to as I $50 to a the head. Lac. Forehead. Mata. Maka. Eye. Kuemaka. Eyebrow. donation Ihu. Ihu. Nose. Puka ihu. Puka ihu. Nostril. 1 the to gospel interest this as I re- as an a Fatu- you feel, ches will such of and mine with this myself this $50 he would rather neither money trust You I ask for me further I respecting Makounui. his arrival pressed with work and him have been short. about Iheircustoms idolatry must i-lands in the Skin. Kai. Ai. food Tamaoa. Keikikane. Hoy. Moi. Kaikamahinc. Girl. had no deified requested might too I me, one be printed bu*y, but, would day, write down word* and call the Fatuhiva nnd Mr. been we just Alexander looking and he me He they in I ancestors. wished come the in how out L, a lone throw it nui cannot They alphabet. is be N.—■ to noa 'Should enterprise the an A. B. but there interesting; purely from what my and have taken he door, a it was day, next they as morning, he cloth and I a lo and. figured punctually, work, said when he had ter service, aweat was I told our pouring 'a child. more people they But I do not to an ex- dollars.— the cordial appro- Di- Society the devise" lib- to Isaiah, Prophet and by libera! deviscth liberal things; be establish' or stopped a last and broad- on had on face and be discover, up a a* yet gospel an April, 1853. pleased, nrTY if it |dom«re. and and . be at to that our I is can I feeling assist have say. i», in with send sending neighbors, no go objection e»! ge to oat servant, in haste, J. T. in practicable, sure. Your ebd't in bun to island found may be needed,shall All prosperity but seeing your common cause, our dollars, the bread of life, 'and for tho Mar- appeal an chariot wheels, and interest in chief, nothing wherein is was Ihe best way profusely. puff him I 'herewith a the door, af- at man, could the uncomfortable jyou, he night, sabbath quesas, little with him, the would a people in 16th Honolulu, Mr. Damon.—ln reading the Friend extra been in battle, ever down his his book which would need but little modification next The to converse, without liberal things shall he stand, of shirt clothes in church afternoon, though we others Marquesas to a! came a Our wear. him. vest, we ( people such purchase appeared and ( interest in him from cd." dressed in than he had presume, good encourage meet saith as in speaks it will encourage the of the H. M. things," somethingi'"The When he firdt sailors contained the thinner suit, when came The deep was collection be to should expect in we heathen chief. pantaloons He made that seems the time of his arrival. to called eral because he is what would be not Fatuha- or thousand several public, of Ihe rectors I have become much interested in Mokou- nui, will carried through, be or small ele- a letter expedition An penditure val publish tc following publication fully the Directors will Marquesian of with reasona- now are The necessary arrange- book in the found do likewise. not obtaining the Ist of June, about The in at a of substantial encouragement, its hope out vessel a the expedition an yet been rhartered, practicable, dialect. vian show which is much, very ran- out vessels have been made It is really change or If Missionary difficulty some that month. mentary at the L would Fatuhiva Marquesian paper*, spoil him; for though had material* for audi an elementary yet in most thing*, he over eat ments not uniformly they letter L, the do Hawaiian. Probably the cast Ihe liquid in Hawaiian. hundred of (heir for, in the commenced the came to see most! Lahaina that 1 told him 1 one letters alphabet. had 1 think their language, at once. if he would to sit down and make other needfuls for to of their alphabet out an with take back with him. to relation heard much different from that of Gods, except C. book printed, exceedingly not he told lhat Makounui of them that wanting. Nui loa, (Haw.) interviews Pacific, mentioned, some dispatch to during down written were few outlay, occupied. or fitting all small as are taken meeting and vessel of the proper size and ble l>«v. La. I either $50. Thigh. 111. needed re- a Opu. since say that religion. differ much Leg. Baldwin Mr. Hawaiian a No vessel has communications them. I have or him He her been my Wawae. Kii. would the beautiful send will be must have here, I than and nor men and there may be Opu. day, amusing one teachers. give Arm. These words neighbor a remarked I year, good two .As sitting, were Marquesian, give back,without plied, this. as thither. Lima. Belly. But initiatory steps No. Knee. in faith and zeal for dom. lacking enterprise an rather be not for Tongue. Kuli. the brethren of the mission and native chur- held Aole. Uha. that A. omen, Society, set The We would remark that Directors of the have Mar- find month. this the Rev. Alelo. should Puha. time. a columns for our the to will readers deeply interesting. tho mission a new our letters from two Tooth. Niho. had I known Muo. of mouth. VVaha. Wawae. truly, yours. Most ever, Islands, forth in Chin. matter of his. west subject quesian Ear. Pepeiao. Aeo. nephew, a part of Hivaoa, Projected mission to Marquesas. The Cheek. had a ovtvr the hair. Lauobo. Fafa. Nuhiwa; and on for he rules island He is a relative of D. BALDWIN. Auoho. Papalina. I pas- a his questions respecting king the ready Oahu.— to provide shall we be must going for others also. As Auwae. I Moana, Kae. But it Aoe. already received send the understand and such Poo. all he as Oahu, where he will be able to perhaps the island Papaina. Makounuito get back short so that you have donation of hiva. Poo. of the brethren Jima. account sooner, home within I an extra. some peculiar anxiety of joice also, Sea. into Niho. enter you general meeting, to go Ocean. he may things, and asked not, returns, answer perhaps, Moana. Owae. on and zeal, though issuing you did, they hia that see much co your have written the to letter my interest their churches in the can now the containing Marquesian Chief; truly rejoiced before 1863. April 25th, soldier. Kai. Puena. 1851. lo house. a I other, other parts of the whether nic to see came or go, for him and Tai. Kuemata. do of the a woman Moana. do Elite, not Earth. do Bowden, Paymaster the an Honua. Surgeon. 11., Lahaina, was Luwahine. do lirownin, old Uwahine. he the time arrived When he sace Finua. do r. an. The. do Thompson, eubjecl a or ka. or Koa. December the He. Hale. M'Carthy, Captain, Brother when Toa. Paget Make, Arthur he should Fae. l'asco, but Woman. Ke Ka. He wished iisland, Man. do Frank H. Lambert, Colin A. or |wao. Wahine. do Symona, Dc Courcy A. Agnew, 11. Kanaka. do do Billingaly, Henry Enata. Ke do Wm. H. John God. if he as or he evipass, yet to came has the idea, that, in all dently Bngliah. Hawaiian. Ke Akua. somehow confidence in missionaries.— put unbounded He is now on a visit to Wailuku and Maka- the see know how it not do conse- entirely unassuming, pious people, our of them; and one scarcely more fine coat, than if he a He is with mingles He vanity. or that he i* of any all. none at was Hawaiian may Ke Akua. E. do Justice, 100. B. that you names, Wahine. do a. Oeorge Atkinson, (100. C. Grcenway, Robert Chaplain. a., m. had one with and few of the words I had writ- a Fatuhiva Bate, R. that labors there.— missionary pride know, the quence, becauae he has enter giving the corresponding English seems to similarity. Lenney Wm. off copy down, ten do do Ed. H. Wm. T. Twill do Fiahboume, similar many limilar words in »o into great facility this ?ny streaks of wa* at perfectly a with Hawaiian, would acquainted do Henry Downee, Hugh Ooold, half hour I such me 1853. MAY, Hawaiian and Fatuhiva language*, Medical Inspector. 0., The showed structure, and Yatee, Comaaander. George Hope R. work do Maude, Franci* for Fatuhiva. do Jams* Cockourn, Jobs do do do Coffin, FRIEND, WATERHOUSfc. �THE From Ih. Panama Improvement in the Whaling An fitted for being sea, Eugenia, tho Pacific Ocean, of spacious dimensions, an after and cabin is in his of family, consisting who will cabin The forward for the fitted is Below, crew. with berths from bies vessel Hern Guayaquil, bad with We Isthmus and mendable for the room for the boatstcercrs, and to police hero, They returned make to that ans.ver to the their day.— a had they than food of the out the side. which is day, next proposed which it is Captain, William surprised out ard's The Swift and Wharf, Sailor's Wood. if it should be the service. Messrs. Dec. plan due relative to toward the should is not ownrd by " I inspected.— the American from to look out who left , New lipecting her." He Honolulu, t c lieen Bright, Bedford on and is supp; sed in engaged a The Bible ship from for time a observation with his Chaplain, Valparaiso, in Mr. Trumbull of Valparaiso, just received S. jcoast in a let- May to 39. amounted to through shopkeeper the of. a Spanish Not $284 Scripture* days many '200 copies Io go the ornamented some of the to a the 11th of During October, that time, here, many copies have been since he sold port in Peru. first than Some of copies have been taken among the native had went they said had they "and will you know said it," " head and heart, he, read I reason; my all They it. "Read Italian," and, pointing in through once Bible, English an the library of had read not. all express- they the to asked them if a »aid he, Christian, I should A* taking up to it his " it remainedhere and heie be is with set where Ihe on war strict in fleet and is junks, ter will find soldiers than the at home. A with that the The of bay expected, and the there whole bay The much bet- • will not country, except all the members other have been left soon the the and it ia will be be In Ksquire, o'clock will at r. Chancellor fectual way of civilize of and and exalt public morals; precepts to to purify to the most humanize to the families for intelligence prove population."— B.S.Record. life." justice, and just fortitude; and tem- to im- all the relations of social and domestic hoped for or the in Floricul- reading ol Kxhibition, Cattle, Products, of the of member every the Society by Day the Annual John Montgomery, Bethel, commencing The ai. KiusT of the delivered be the day, public will be and it is 1-1 at 7 past invited respectfully are to to do and will etc., are particularly animals dairy cropi, be and pro- numerous, and invited to be'present at the in former years, to add to * liberal of the occasion, by aa pleasure of fruits and flowers. accommodations will be of the credit to the islands. exhibition; and, Good that field fruits, vegetables, of The ladies hibition opened on Wednesday, the hoped manufactures, as The man- municipal law; enforce tho observance of prudence, into perance, ef- general system give efficacy international and the arrangement The exhibition the Kent.—" The diffusion of the Bible is to interested attend. ducts, opened Judges of Juno, Society, planter.i, others will be devoted to the Eve.mno tuk Address at such force." general Day hclil be of preacnt. contribution of of the and islands, choosing and entry etc., samples • by First reports, interest Opinion Society will 7th, Bth and 9th days the thin the second they anticipate. had better trade and 1853; residents of Thk mil- hand. Japanese • presents Honolulu, on at Society! Agricultural meeting of annual at the case One night. at a mountains guns, while in the the Is- on kept prepared ready arc a received just Hawaiian Royal The subject of Agriculture, Horticulture, are earnestly requested to attend. cousl; and their fires ture burning to na- a is ready for then people Ihe over countless of kind; disposed more he surprise, were they from He exhibited he should appear expedition city from the 6th of a who people "But," Protestant." a a was Mussulman, real stamp. steamer, and this at a become to were or trip! is surrounded with innumerable forts. " office, says: The tales of Bibles and Testaments in this ter gentleman, a The of soldiers Tho A.—Rev. If I ed Honolulu. Chili, was tho adopted people, Europeanized, he told acquain- Jao-1 expected Emperor which order in the iJeddo, jare all already jsqadron lion expedition expedition. me, * the Seamen's r or board communicate lo Buffalo, in Honolulu. store i Ihis notice fall under his requested of discharged was night, Wanted. L. " he had his many of like half as from his of their Turk of Ihe old become of conversation he language, of Infidel, mistaken, and in French supposed views had become steamer fluently very gentle-1 of the feelings of his countrymen, one jwcre Lewis the that the Japan, letter, 1863. Information sort of the trip passenger* European science, and poli- course with the religious Turkish pa- a respecting Stairs: land of Ji'ddo. be on Van states following, a this country from a informed by was tive of Haz- ul now the United the her to adopted through- and is to China, the letter received from a over liquid is from just returned anese We where she may Magazine, man comes I'ne by on Eugenia Allen, of Post publise* Boston extract to adopt to The more thrown quietly credit of which the are good portion This will be remedied Eugenia, be a when the dinner hour remaining round have get and Italian, tance as Constantinople, the them that if they but if the Gov- law, but me, The Japan Expedition. Among provisions sailors liberally, very want, and they provisious. where ships, whaling served to with .In the the yawned; at to in the Argument.—Mr. recent a intelligently tics. re- no accommodate to proportion a pan our ernor land to order passed I at Smyrna, conversed from In cry. placidly to fact sha, who, in in- Model babies those. missionary interesting an he prisoners, is twenty persons would have to send off and tie them, or put the will take crew At this placed there. ihem under The latter was done, guard. their meals under the direction of the boatand they were landed at the northern gate, Ihe will two stewsteerers. Eugenia carry tinder a guard of soldiers and police who for the and one ards, one for the officers, then conducted them to the Gabildo or City, and the best order will be observed crew; where their appearance created some exwhile ihe crew are taking their meals. This, citement some of our At population. among is a new idea, is certainly very creditable to a later hour in ihe day, say at about two in the owners, and will have a tendency to inof one or two the afternoon, under charge as Ihe comfort crease the self-respect as well police officers, they were conducted to the of the sailor. Tho pecuniary advantage to College, where they received such attention will not be small. The custom the owners from the authorities as it was possible, unboard the now prevailing on ships of all nader the circumstances, to extend to them.— Each seaman furnishes tions is the old one. Yesterday morning the whole body started his own tin pot, pan and spoon. The "grub" for Cruces, under one official guide, but we is served upon the forecasile deck, or down saw no military or police force accompany" the forecastle in a kid," and is divided them. ing each one taking into his among the crew, table fit wished them com- ba- the face of on slightly gazed The Resistless arrival, during limited was never of ihem sign." no Lennep, but would be land, veilance sui which slay up sistance long a subjected the informed of- were One con- through On their they could they They creature* pinched several merely others with the Panama, speed. rumor, common that and this I made are they of the country with all out care globe. test crowd. who Gov- Equadorian that that he would put them ficially and large the told are the Govnrnor of to request says of 32 Jesuits, cargo expelled by been ernment. signed a the arrived here from now Dutch " that say phlegmatic, contented, most looking dependent national Equadorian the Carmen osa Europe, the are American, Babies!—An in traveling of Jesuits. Departure Tuesday last, — cabin is fitted spacious a one child, and of ihe four is sleeping a as alter voyage use which The forecastle, ■nates. airy, is The the on On finished the captain with wile and a him accompany being style. best ihe occupied by be lo deck, on divided into is cabin, forward mahogany in and ac- which crew, Her cabin is of notice. worthy An-ival in peculiari- arrangements for the commodationof her officer* and are cent lo voyage some presents her interior in ties year* ihree a Model Sib. Star, J.auary Ecquador! since long not 37 1853. of the Jesuits Expulsion Service. The baik MAY. FRIEND, stock, poultry, premiums of last provided for the ex- fee. year, consisting ot silver thonsan* books, etc., amounting to nearly one dollars in value will be distributed at the exhibition. ware, Those this persona ye»r, intending to should gtv* compete notioe to Ha* for premiums, Swsetarr, E. O. Hall, Esq.. without delay. Person, on other Islands vor on the would confer Society by eallinf bition. Honolulu, April 2», «tt**tlbn WM. L. 185S-41-M LEE, s great faexhi- to this President. �FRIEND, THE 38 Information. Important the courtesy of H. B. Through Miller, sul General been had permitted have.been we loss of Mill certain vessels rarely if visited ever (bat Naval, It is much and Exploring English visit all ed by islands. the be to hoped will The fail not questions, interests these of requires commerce relate which have been sels their those to known the on be lost to On the The McAskills. specting book, to Bull," which lee two natives confessed lhat that he states re- have we after lee the 11 years board the on at the time of her wreck. vessel, The Wavirlt"—This " and vessel murdered, crew sailor a in gaged vessel owned was Sandwich Messrs. and Co. in Ladd & the destroyed by in 1835. mation, determined On Harriet. of the was fitted part, to by out search for Capt. C, schooner tured Ihe natives of the by whether killed or tely ascertained. nnd sunk in but Island, not, has The Ihe the full white deeply were The whale " living ship belonging crew This island is E. The of Strong's that the She London. in the autumn Island regard communicated Cudlip, commanding Slrong's was the Johns. English The forsupplies detained by was The Capt. Cudlip'* off.' been Ihe to men far not existence, or the by by Capt whale ship visited in January. 1843, head winds narrative, two we in Island copy as well the Chiefs as act or Waverly or Island Strong's Tho on The east. who and advantage out the leaving real anything I,which of the a calm place 1843, morning, and was could perceive in uniformly kind their took there towed have with many doubts character of ibe natives, we we not as to from ple and inoffensive) ac- are over divided the port is the are s form- — 5 12 N. two ports. very there, scattered I the secure. not time 1 and leak communicate with strangers, but selves upon this island people and who have for must have have led them Lower a At received, were known. On between 4 rock on engine Ihe S. the guile from operation this £ She chore, — bnt to was add ap- near the and the of J to she and ineffectual efforts water. She reversed to sea, the bay a California. was out the out Island, off running been the be lo point all sinking began a to made were now headed the ciitical to forward in flames not and the the ex- reached a line Ihe had When she the wheel given was so attempting to A third boat requested lo vessel, and more at ladies and children. hand, scores into the sea, man some but the many reach improve boat returned the to that was their lives. to house shore, —after secured, rope. ladies on dis- flames tardily obeyed, was in the portunity for saving the evil them- Ihe Before she rapidity. of well drowned by was An order the order was vessel, she destination fearful boat, and take delay fire. on of with spread a the think indisposed to iv situation of were disposed cast February 4lh, 10th, struck Margareta have badly, bail several Chiefs well one was 400 passengers. February she During Ihe These peocountry. visited them, in 1834 and amicable by left San Juan definitely not of backed mile. number line th 6 disposition of deserters these on over do She passengers The shore The 2,500. in up passen- statements Independence," more of to struck more few at- inno- of cillier other of life is drawn of various nearly name, vessel lo affirm- were has the of the island. 1835, appeared to conduct, at extent and west eastern natives here the and Steamer loss Francisco, San number point pears of- Strong'- in situated long, the King's Sept. and Oct., burning, accounts " 5 o'clock, same cut out Mr. Dudoit, Honolulu: is VV. on respecting Strong by the one of frightful board morning and was 102 58 E. one whole March, at the the mid King, taking but covered remarks furnished were lat. and lived of in the Acapulco of Harriet. following — the 19th part French Consul erly the The months. he, of any The The for whalcship, 1848, by narrative of the loss of this the its wreck and on have must Capt. Cudlip, invariably to that 1842. island Vanderbilt Line. these land. Harriet way put American January, Burning steamer having the was inhabitants of the by of the our living adding men some at groups. board on were, the Mill King's reef a on of the passengers The mate- most the Harriet of whalcship, 1852, who survived and written gers trust acknowledged from 50 in not seamen who men crews murdered and the verbal ' from back, bill ships durinf) Thus it would appear, that cent the loss follows: "On King American 1852. an ofT, following steamer natives, del Sud, for suspicious in definite respecting the 19, and board before He would agreed time the at The two writes, vessel*, coming their Independence. ill-fated ican and uneasy infor- March, on of one cut they harbor, with that of the the inland and IG3 to in soon. confession vessel." of 1842.— cording Pacific weather harbor of the island over From so murder of six while " and His rial points ed, in Wreck in the lee himself on board any of our six English an very Ihe Amei an No long. January, Sydenham's Hav- this character of the design our returning Waverlv, was Lydia, murdered by the inhabitants Islands, from 1835 to were of St. cer- natives, situated in 55 20 N. Pacific, never of st get the King to appeared our my have in the affair. to particulars of the Harriet but he 31 and 1848. scuttled andI of N. Jackson, obtained group.—See Friend, en- and ascertain return fate of ships send boats two ever Triton," natives of consideredI obtained will shoot- vessel, then anchor of the unsuspicious burnt stay. was supposed among implicated Strong* Island, 2fl is cap- been defini- harbor Harriet"—This taken and of men, never particulars It was Piscadores, VVaverly lee been ascertained. tain and "Victoria," the found the Pearl and endeavored to the came to he knew of (be days were pigeon they " nearly was Mill llie them that ask, they will they 109 6E. Ontario," cross- tho vessel. They having definitely lost was island, tending Capt. Cudlip lat. See Friend Oct. watering—the Cap- which wish they circular range of islands, situated a wrecked in The on men absent masters crews.— anchor in the an possession of them. to This Capt. Dowsett, who sailed from Honolulu in in and everything what and be 1833, N. " The Pitt's ves- more, their 20 natives attacked valuable taken, was by the Government Islands, to about wooJing out two confession, came while or follows:—Three as ihe day following burnt the vessel. brig Strong's Island, of their was obtained more inhabitantsof the Surgeon being ing—the ing On Harriet harbor, in M'Conncll's tain and the Caroline Islands." was 441 reccommended destroyed with examination, took Ho harbor. in at crews, and advised their but Strong's Island, to obtain all give bo- some them all." ship.— information spoke the their fate. leaving, or "Elizabeth" of Port W., in shell, people by telling himself in the after day S. found that to sea barque "Pearl," One The substance Island. "A Residence of Holland and third 1827, sels had been year definite account, most secreted Tun more of the natives for one getting on the En- an upon the island of obtain, is found entitled, in New was about the was "John the been able it that, says shipped anything for the value them, King not their kill to war and uneasy very see do lo of one deserters make themselves They nnlives—they I hey In these seen tortoise these poor Our close write obtained of rum. the from Bunker, if London, they they us of ivns of Ascension vicinity report lost ship, the American or going "John Bull."—This whale glish 1 Mathema- have murder amongst pound one ties of mount- I voyages commit of arc log book, belong- them letting and cruise, another had ves- safety endangered. The in will occasion, present Our remarks made about my are of which boatsteerers. where to of the kind. the it. as things, cautious to of the one ship [following of case a of Harriet, ship to a of instruments, part ing vessels The which have taken place. come cesses not any viz:—a brass quadrant, a had some seen, possession, our 1853. denied Ihnt wrecked there. sextant, have tical Surveying vessels, and American, of King's any in now islands by the to seen except whale ships. both the among Some of these Islands. been relating rile of documents a peruse they knew we they as of the article* some to which possession, honestly by, M.'s Con- MAY, the lowered the op- Only one took away No other resource and hundreds cast themselves seizing whatever they could lay �THE their hands killed instantly carried and in ing away to The the vessel the loss of human life Some report nearly was lost, hundred 10!M) the which thirty.— boat ships left, the been lost it having know to ever in that perished many weighing and how witness who hours before all who two sur- all crossed distance of five The taken appalling outvied in features the The doubtless have awoke life, could they have One bodies of whom that us received never little two the she watched for hours the girls, informs land, lo came care. proper beach, as The in us were whale the to and Maury, supplying was of tho day in an schooner Upper started ships hospital- children Wives must of their with while husbands, kind no for the out friend alas, and wreck, Capt. boat C. in the deep, the remainder and buried side by side gathered were Upon tlic lone barren i.-lc tlu\v After and the ship the hull edge frpm saved which and women was fifteen some taken stoppage on the tleap tlieir burnt was washed provisions answered children small Ono as the island. shelter a during sail the The want means the Samp- A were but rocks water Most of the water ered every day By the a have the no signs wreck on of were spoonful empty days' Each an through quills of found reach average " thrown distillery, cask and furnished sufficient felt, and distill lo of coast crabs and whose was took him and gasping, spot upon per month. Europe, S. and U. Europe, the letters, received about warded about 800 Post the distressing kind monthly. the expenditures 1852. 'roteatant Schools in all Island; •i Catholic " Schools, '« Catholic " Amount ,1 " Scholars in Protestant for expended teachers' in her Government she a on and an on shore waiian Islands, own these the stranger, a her overpowered almost gave dear children mother birth cost 1852, during reposed escaped with and first the child, another to Marriages by been on ex- the Ha- $54,000. $1 — 65 in the 1852. Clergymen, " Catholic, " '* Mormon, 991 428 74 " Birth*, 1,860 " Heaths, 2,822 Clergymen, Protectant, 31 13 Catholic, " " " Mormon, 17 74 Foreigners Naturalized, " " of America, " of Great perished. must soon Items, Pros. " " of distress that of each scholar ia General 'Jo. " scenes have pended fellow little which survived while the father The to sunny performed infant child of 14 months, night supposed for educational purposes Public Schools. to a warm when the stricken heart private schools, which, (Lahaina luna) however, amount the watery grave! One 15 *are supported by supported by Government. " in there schools insensible but arms, him child of for the that her common own drowned was of one Gross almost lifeless While she thought crushing his 46 $16,427 Besides the In- how us of 88. Deparlment, $607 Schools Average the hills, offices has tells Master 1,000 monthly, and for- receipts exceeded the Post Office ■as countries, Of inter-island The (estimated,) countries, to letters office, giving his arrival in California. carried revived. soon lady mother awaiting On of all other have 29 14 Britain, 31 nations, small holes were gath- and children their quota. describe. water for had two was the Nature could Engi- and converted Hunger doubtless would ted for the sur- fire. those relief not Some not and ate must survived no out soon the could pen food nearly have held thirst who come, never nights — water the post all other " foreign 24,940 through of 2,770 all other '"orwarded read- our the loss of the survivor One boy lying little a of brackish occurred, Mr. Coffins water passed months iVom the U. S. and is relate. clothing feelings, water. around which night,men,women turn water find it and subsisting table a ingenuity an to three followed the minute, and in sipping neer, near the surviv- luggage severely was taken found about exuding into of party of muscles, Post Office 9 During schooner not furnish to account of all full to sea. island 20 miles, the a. was to three to story father the rocks, barrels of salt hold. overboard floated it. with water's She the to against upon their bodies, and all the all ers beach, laal sleep." reached the shore with but little ors 93 open- Gordon, The Bay. quite impossible It is the along sandy shore, " 38,117 30 hours, reach- assistance, but did our dependence. Over seventy bodies Cullen remarks: remained 14 Taxes, only a tear Dr. 08,699 72 go north for to Emory, Capt. them incidents connected with over 78 wages, lifeless some shed to 45 224,282 22,965 the vessel.— 255 souls crowded into the smallest compass. in perished looked anxiously remains died, have $234,109 Commerce, food, with us died away wave 1852- ending Dec. 31st, Revenue, Internal Our the wreck till the camp had been abandoned. upon the sand, The ship Meteor Capt. Jeffries, was be hoping that some momenlo at least might chartered to take the passengers to San vain. She thinks her seen, but she gazed in Francisco. She sailed Ihe 3d March with after wave of Majesty's Foreign Imports, all have barque Lane generous open Magdalena to nine months amount Disbursemnts, a by Capts. respectively assistance, and after rowing in Gross has Ist ed the the following statistics, the glean H. H. of Reports we and up, cordial and the most was started son Ministers, eye shore, we VVhelden and and shelter clothing an would hearted. more consciousness and to who had lost lady dying Many ashore. floating now bay commanded shown ly produced opposite where James Jeffries, reception the dead and the across Omega, Meteor, vessel and the Fisher, the land. to bodies of came possible, heart-rending Clement, and of tho burning escape shore, if on horrific its to struggle scene hard and the to over forgotten by the to miles, reached the shore. vived, finally that Scripture "desperately wicked." Hawaiian Statistics. From the for tho to came forthwith broken was camp lii'inls be to knowledge came to es- sufficient quite are the occasion. on The catastrophe.— fearful likely to Soon after the water the bodies of the however which have tablish the sentiments of heart of man is of the survivors some plunder to The facts to our boat a forthwith thanksgiving ready were attracted carried bay. fresh who Before their whalemen The cries of uproar not an the bringing camp, bon- by the inhuman conduct of refrain we of fact* respecting a statement the without stoppage sent was party of a men pounds, across took cannon whalers. thirty On land. men in off, the i.-lund and of the arrival, however, main of the discharges attention the day inserting narrative tbjs publishing from had dead. they miles party of a across cannon bay, the 2d that fifteen near evening sams fires and the south end of at stating vessels bay, Magdalena bread. bo difficult will several immense. whale hundred and one books of the vessel The It than less none few brief a was two as many as to save the island a brackish of In so day 2d Prospecters returned seen ship's the holes small the mountains across and the trunks themselves and their friends—in moments smoke of evening found from the in the sea; attempting while perished most now with floating amid drift- were was strangled be to swimmers, good scene suffocated half terrific—some baggage, rendered effi- those who rescuing sea. in water rendered assistance been no The SamP" the island. Capt. to sea. out of his officers some cient aid quitted had speedily. ves- burning from the fragments to were son other* and drowned, or doubtless vivors were prospector clinging sel Some upon. 39 .853. MAY, FRIEND, or three much have flood Lord Aberdeen.—He ia tasted minister who days. church longer. prostraand of has not England been since a the first 1 prime member of tbe the expulsion of James II from the throne and the restoration of Protestant 16S8. Hi* ascendancy lordship the his forefather*, and is byterian church by tbe revolution professes a tbe faith of member of tbe Pres- of Scotland. �THE 40 DFYork. fOoarNyntsmelw The 14 English clipper days from San " FRIEND, MARINE MAY, 1853. tbe charts 40 JOURNAL. arrived Franciaco, on PORT OF New York, quickest much ia the The steamer the third No lives ah Rambler, Willi.. April is paper our juat going to "Patent "Polar news. 9 all Star," We for he as pointed their crews, for three and absent four The sels Star everything a not years, The fine is ship whaleman could ask— Boy—outward—S. 1,. Swan, ro'y, ('. Mr. Mrs. F. Misa M. Brewer, Dexter, Per Starr, Jones, Mrs. Munfroy, Munfroy, H. A. H. W. Ritson, Moved, H. A. 11. M. St. Clair, «cli Bavley. 15—Am ah Tinqua, Agnes 11. I*Uad. |HJiza 18—Am brigan. for C'biua. T. S. of •■■" V *y • •"»'«• ln - uf> ****'* i>' i j Kieiiara •*■ < lre ",,• ; p eiiini, ah Eliza Warwick, \\ vm 27—Am wh eh Jan. Maury, at>, n, 29—Am wli eh Gtu. Ilowlniid, lor Wight, in men Ok C Am wh ah Polar star, 1' ■» «k xo •«, Port. J. C " on 19 lime, 600 ap, 75 , , wb. d '' VVhi ">. "bohaa B rIT 1.1 '«* Hi »u ■ . h ■- "iiioa, re- d K°A ,h, ,»V m• a, Washington, 50 Edwards 17 nioe, 14—Am bk »« at theae 14—Am eh 14—Am »h Fanny, Nye, l«», "ich.r. ulanda. a ..-.-' Hospital, Honolulu, April Sth Star, " Swift, Anadir, 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 7 6 5 Chapel, Time, 5 00 6 00 fi 132 for March and for March and 00 00 00 31 86 60 April, 218 llonations 00 5 March Ut, expenses, 50 00 5 00 o schooner Chape, 00 7 60 Soule, Milo, t> iuuh, 175 81 102 60 April, 2000 wh. ep, Present uioe, 20 ep. " 'h*- 1 ft—Am WM Hooks The written of «„i, k ah Paciic, Brigg, tor Ana ab Hero, McC leave, Honolalu. 11—Am ah Europa, Week a, Honolulu, 13—Am ah Copgreaui 9d, Hatbawny, cruiae. natural written The or commanded ap, waa Roaaax Put by Capt. wrecked r.b. ef the 8. W. end of A. J. Corey, ••The Am. v. hici w or give these a « b, and 75 Mtdtcaled uoa* been books blind; you or away, curiosities. about since J, you by which I have at are have years, been have iall. extract from liberty exchange I 2j books, Kirn them been af- and have unable to congregation." following are the Child Assisted}" " Tlie Awak,enod Sinner," Directed." an of them:—"l send them artificial wbale.ahif, Happy Choice;" 19 inontha, 1900 IS.at 3 o'clock A. M., within four mUea Ckrt»lma. laland, or is 300 of the books (with blindness) preach to MEMORANDA. iWeaca since I have 34 Sale. following accompanying them flicted 7— The 11. Eli*a Warwick, to sell cruise. N. letter " written cruise. Peate, Honolulu. 7—Am ah Geo. W aabington, Edwards, 7—Am eh Zone, Maraion, cruise. .. the lor Chaplain has received a supply and published by the Rev. Caleb Bath, the Honolulu. Cherukee, Smith, cruiac. Draper, Coffin, Honolulu. 7—Am ab Ca/nvau, . ll,.„ en 116 Debt, Cleared. 7—Am L. Holly, 40 ep, Debt upon April I—Am ah Eliza Adama, Smith, Honolulu. s—Am bk At 5 5 Polar America, Fisher, 22 moa, luOap, 1400 wh. Julian, Clea veland, 10 woe, 24) »u, 1800 wh. 4—Am cli Otympla, Rueaeil, HI. 10 00 Lurnian, llabcock, Dover, — recovery S. For Friend. 00 20 00 " " " I—'An ah Harrison, Hatha cruise. way, Aiii eh Rambler, Willie, Honolulu. I ,|r> for hia 10 •' " ap, 850 wh. I—Am brig Ida, Lovejoy, Kealakeaa.ua. P.n.i ihe Pacific Ocean. Robertson, Honolulu, Incidental 14—Am ah Hill.mm, Cook, 21 Bay, on the Mthof J.qn.rv, ****'«"" <"> "-""I U» whale ahip Ja. Indian. \J^ Gee. Pease, 2G thou'.aiid (in.- 350>ap. Narragaoaet e»q., nr.i Briti.b Ounaul Pacific, wn. 500 wh. n^i!1t? , c1..,"".h/.l, ' S2Efi" Maury naury. ah I, among Sea- Tierce, Kutusoff, 1900 wh. Mas, free] vupport.rl l>y l-'rn-n ami (he Pendleton, " 2—Am ab Natchez, Hall, 18 moe, 195 300 wb. ep, 9—Am ah /one, Mfirs ton, 29 mos, 15Vep. 4—Am ah Falcon, Gardner, 9 uiue, 50 ep. 4—Am bk 1050 wh. Oscar, Dexter, 17 moe, 300 ap, I"J—Am ah Arnolda, Hurtling, 9 moe, tt.e» yeare paat. .i,!ed^h!!E\ l! \ u<h, " of Mr J "n» »iledontheeel«landaovtrslyear». the 31st Cornell, Arrived. I—Am sh Barnstable, Coon, 22 in.t.,of rouaumption, raided for during iltsirihuled are Capt, Clark, ship Holly, April I—Am bk Clement, Lane* wlncli Ford, " 2—Am ah who had General, Hospital, Clwpel, [stats Spaulding, Mrs. PORT OF LAHAINA. by Rev. T. E. 1 —Am England, bu, Britain the- acknowledge Consul ForChappl. lir ach Launta, Baker, Died. *" Little would B. M.'s botak,. 1200 9tf on, Hmh.tway, nioa, 150 ep, I—Am eb Rambler, Willie, 0 hum, 90 ap. iHrh'i. Chaplain from H. $20, nl topics I—Am ab llarri »ft«.litii% Lady, 11. Masher. llabe, fratuitanu* cniilril.uimusj Wiiehlcn, Arctic. (i. M. 17th Inet.at the eloee of 10th Ingnlls, Winser & Donations. Wood. of l. •"Sunday, CP. For ihe Senmpn'* N. Bedford. lor '* 97—Am whah Omega, Fiaher, 99—Br bg Lli/.a Appleton, for Pott Phillip. D., Minuter of Public luetructioi. M »u Mrs. X Schofield, 20—vin bk Piiilmm-l.i, Glover, Callao. Principal the Royal School Armatroaa, clde~t daughter of the Rev. - liloomfiold, ending March , 'quarter Hillman, flcckwlth. ArnMranf, D. Vaughn, I. attendance'it Am wh sb G"lconda, Dougherty. Am wh .-h Cook. 'he New Court llou.e, (ircefield, T. Muffin. I " a- S. Caidwcl'. Stokes, CARD.—The Arctic. Ann, Dallinan, VeHseN in Sabbath the to return desire Arndt, Henry 95—Am ah Huntteaa, Lambert, New Bedford 95—Hum ah Caeaarewetacb, Gorgan, fur Kamacliuika, Star—inward—Manuel Spanalua. Honolulu,In.i supplied from via Maui. Married. la P. H. Dexter, E. liberally received Honolulu, they \V. G. .■<um 23—Am. ach E. L. Ft oat, ((.empilcad, for San Frano-co, Mrs. Saturday evening, April ICth, by Rev. S liiuma, Mr, Tbobum Welch to Mi.. Lydia Brooke. of aid J. dc Payta, for Port Phillip. Cottle, cruiae. 93—Am wh ib Mary J. Id Honolulu, nnd the Oriental, Nelson, for San Frauciaco. Luna 10—Am wh ah Cambria, 21—Am bk Magdaht, Taber, for Chri»tmas It*. Carter, For thanks. Miss, i'rancis Ada.ni*, Smith, for Arctic. being cast upon inhospitable island, they surrounded by those Honolulu, Tell, Mary board where other kind friend* H. W. Mrs. o» and Lancaster, Mrs. M. Chriatmas la. Hobron, Capt. and most generous Instead of 11. Douglass, L. P. Emma, Pinhorn, l'ort Phillip. a generously most and naked, home and passage islands, necessities. A. P. .Norton. Whitmorr, have 1 their sincere Gilt, Lahaina. at who the these hungry, acknowledge to kindness aid. waterless foreign residents Kodiak, Fu-iriiliam, Siika. 16—Br ach to the themselves in due fed the clothed especially to their are ships, Clement, comforts of the sick. found find their Catherine Brown,, Sydney. whale and Thanks having for (be thirsty, to the They come American assistance. unremitted barren, a < four seamen desire of his vessel have of the water to They i desire Maury, Meteor, Omega timely <conduct. lluinont. 15—Haw ach Maria, 90— —B. F. bringing undersigned having bean passen-fated steamer ** Independence" hearted Whelden'* Wing. Mandcll, Wiug.. 12—AmiCfl Gazelle, H. Moaher. Per Eliia A it-leton—outward bk destitute. crews their Igiven 12—Tahitian acb Martha, brown, M'Coughtry I'm Polar Icit to return They nearly acknowlodgment* to the Captain, offi- administered I sh 20-Cbil. bk Huntress—outward—Mrs. Welch and and 6 children, and Ed. Brown. tor 11—Am wh eh Warren, Smith. La- Moore, left goiicrous HalL 11—Am wh bk Uobt Morriaon. 11. M. Stone A. Martha, sincere , 11—Frah Villa dc Rennea, Uellot. 11—Am wh ah L. C. Richmond, Cochran. Misa J. Mun- Mr. J. Munfroy, j Cum. Oliver Crocker, Ca»h. 18*—Am. wh ah J. air. thrn made the ill viz:—Jamcx y—Am wb ah North Star, Brown. ves- Patent Hoffman, bonrd on gers were 9—Am wh ah New England, Pendleton. April Howe, , York, M'Keivlry, New Bedford. Am brig Zoe, Ricbarda, San I raccteco. B—Br Zoo—outward—Capt. Steele, Capt. Lawton, (apt Makee, S. Bed. their Gorman, 3tJ da fm 1 CaeaarewtthCh, 11. Waterman, Fr ah E*p,«loii, 7 be A. Cheever. Is- 2d mate, the porch iser, who has diipatthtd the Isla to off the effects. Mag bring was CARD.—The mue fin fm N. 8., 300 ip, u moa (cers and April 8— Am wh eh Citiaen, PASSENGERS. Per Wight, 4 Tamerlane, Shuck ley. 14—Kiism. bk Swiss Christmas rv hoard the rr bk Pacific-,, Luhama, 275 s—fir bk Galatea, Hnyea, Sydney. nearly " touclttd it on re MartiiN, they r the Kuglish Sydney, visit Honolulu Mafia, tad n<me. Aquetnet, *• 6—Am to to to Having public Mr. Fiich 5— Am ah Rambler. Willis April Per Geo. Uowlmul, Am ah Alice 5 all over." frence, fm to wreck, s—Am bk Hlark Eagla, Ludlow. the from their About this rime W. by They found Mr. Briglitman, 2d ufficer, and Mr. Foruian, the carpenter, All the and whatever toguard the property. oil, belonging the auction in Honolulu, wa-* *ud at Am all Good Return, 5 cabin and steerage of the Polar models. are pa- It is due ship*. off in miserable and uncomfortable sent li. Magnolia. Cox. >h " 5 improving hour-. cocoanutoil. ing " 4—Am ah to us learn that the to the wreck. to IS. Zea- "84,35.1. schnouer liv Chajie, patent blocks, are their officer* out ship—her steering, style and outfit of homes Fran. San hilluian, I'm.k, N. Am. Co. eh Am ih Am 4 ship* and 8. F Oriental, Nelaon, fin Labaina. eh 4—Am Phij and beautiful whale gratified are of whale owner* a'i 3o in u insane collecting to bit N.H. I'erkinn, Allen. 3—Br acb Time, San Francisco Over," said Mr. Man- pew excellence* of hi* apparatus &.r, ke. da fm 13 da fm Sau Kranri.ro. Valparaiso. no press, in landing Island, situated 160 miles N the Itoimd from San Fr.incisco Cleared. for items of many da On 21 I ino.ua, 150 wb, 1500 chester, Mate of the tent wh 25—Ruaa room No live* engaged fly da\s, and obtained the tchoon rod Ins arrangement* 25—Am wh ah Pol«r Star, Holly, 2 the wit 20—Am lost since steamer eastward. waa ep, 2000 Mil. 18—Am brigan 3 ship Mary Ann, Da 11man. land, 300 ep, 900 wb. were January. As 4-Am S. S. Lewi*" has been " tbe to anti took aw.ty ten of ihe R Ps crew, including Brislow, 2 boat-*teerersand 7 seamen Capt. Co April 12—Chi Ilean bk Luna dc Pwita, Ba**ett, 18 Id-Am making more 4—Am fur Fanniug's of five furelgoer- party ! turped Maury, Whelden. eh 15— Br bg Eliza Appletuu, San Francisco. :iaco. Eliza Adam*, Smith, 4—Am »h J as. 15—Am clipper eh near far to* days Hie crew seven sccomplished They ma Brown, fm 8m Fruit April 17—Am wli eh Golconda, Dougherty, N. U-, |CJ» The lost; ah 4—Am paper* information of political a April ft—Am ah New England, Pendleton, 4—Brack Catherine Brown, importance. wrecked Arrivals, Address of President Inaugural snd This made. ever passage contain the Pierce, March 22nd. to boat whale HONOLULU. W. Manday, May the 2nd, bringing 50 mil.-- or For When all that could be landed nil, boie, aaiU, rigging, Jcr. stored on shore, waa safely Vapt. Coiey and lour men left in a from new* lost. ware Noma," Clelland, The of View that, of books: flhriat;" — "The Holy Spirit Resisted;" "Tho and entire titles * A " The series, for Young Christian sale, price $l,i(j v � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.05.04 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.05.04 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/aa55904f2bad05ffe3fcf4d3d669432d.pdf cabed9e19d26e4280c69629f1e7279e0 PDF Text Text FTHE REIND. New Series, Vol. 11, No. 6. HONOLIILU, JUNE 2, 1858. 41 Molokai.—Rev. C. B. Andrews. Oahu.—Rev. E. W. Clark, Rev. L. Smith, Rev. D. Dole, Rev. B. W. Parker, Rev. A. Bishop, Rev. P. J. Gulick, Rev. J. Old Series VOL; X. found in another column. Mr. Cooke, the Treasurer, remarked that he was unable to 41 Anniversaries, present his report, in as much as the annual 42 Important Decision, Sharks, Shirks, collection had not been taken up. After Ihe 43 Cromwell, Napeleon arc Emerson, Castle, S. Mr. Mr. Cooke, Mr. choice of officers for the ensuing year, the 44 IVlnion of AmericanLadies, Mr. Rogers. Rice, meeting adjourned. 44 Bipsdition to Marquesas, The Annual Address before the Society, 45 Kauai. —Rev. Johnson. E. Loa, Eruption of Mauna 45,46 Rev. Dr. Gulick's letter, Missionary Socitty among the Children of was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Dole, Sab' 47 Where is the Proof, Missionaries. —The first Anniversary of this bath Evening, May 29th, at the Bethel, after Report of Sec H.B. Society. - 4848 Society took place Saturday Evening, which a collection was taken up, amounting Marine News, Deaths fee May 21st. The exercises were held at the to $120. Total amount of funds, for the year, it Mission School House. Receipts of the So325 ciety, $62930. B Hawaiian Missionary Society.—The AnniNews from Micronesia. versary of this Society took place at the Intelligence via China and San Francisco HONOLULU, JUNE 2, 1853. Bethel, Tuesday Evening, May 24th. The has been received from Strong's Island as exercises on the occasion were rendered exlate as December26th, and from Ascension, Anniversaries. ceedingly interesting, in consequence of the Dec. 30th. At those dates the Mission (amRemarks the editor of a Boston newspa- presence of the Marquesian chief, who has ities were all in health, and engaged in their per, " Honolulu is coming to have its Anni- come for a"Kumu" or Teacher. The Missionary work. TheRev. Mr. Snow writes versaries as well as London, New York and Rev. Mr. Alexander officiated as an inter- as follows, under date of Strong's Island, Boston." During the latter part of May, preter, who informed this Messenger from Dec. 30th. "We are getting along here and the early part of June, our various So- Marquesas, that the audience had assem- quite pleasantly, and are in good health. I cieties hold their anniversaries. The fol- bled to confer in regard to the sending of have had meetings with the natives in my iwing is a catalogue of the various Socie- Missionaries to his countrymen. With great house three Sabbaths, and they give good ies, arranged according to the date of the earnestness, the chief asked, "Have you attention. I have also begun a school which lound the teacher? " It was for a "teacher" rganization. promises quite fairly,for numbers, for inter1841 that he had come—that was his sole errand. est and improvement." Hawaiian Bible Society, 1841 That one idea has been ever present to his The King of Strong's Island has already Hawaiian Tract Society, 1850 mind, in public and in private. To one of proclaimed a law in favor of the Sabbath, Royal H. Agricultural Society, 1851 the Missionaries he remarked, that he came and has shown a disposition to promote the Hawaiian Missionary Society, objects of the Mission. Several whalers had Hawaiian Temperance Society, 1851 not to see the country, its fig trees, or its visited the port, and the Rev. Mr. Snow had other products, but for a " teacher." Missionary Society, among the preached on board every Sabbath while they Some' spirited remarks were made by were in port. 1852 Children of Missionaries, Intelligence from Ascension is also of an Ladies' Stranger's Friend Society, 1852 Messrs. Alexander, Judd, Lea and others; encouraging nature. The Rev. Dr. Gulick The Anniversary meetings of these vari- 'all tending to show that public sentiment made a tour of the island, an account of hnd ous Societies occur during the annual ses- was decidedly in favor of fitting out an expe- which, will, in part be found in the subjoined sions of the Hawaiian Parliament and the dition forthwith to the Marquesas. At the letter. In regard to the visit of whale ships he writes us as follows, general meeting of the American Missiona- close of the meeting, the officers for the and other vessels, 25th. "By the Shipping date of Dec. under ries. Both Houses, (the House of Nobles coming year were elected, and the initiatory send, you will notice that severList which'l charter the for and the House of Representatives') have steps taken for obtaining a al vessels have touched here. vßy the Capbeen several weeks in session, and will not Society* tains of them all, we have been treated with To enumerate,—Capt. adjourn until probaby the middle of this The "annual sermon was preached by the great kindness. month. Rev. T. E. Taylor, on Sabbath Evening, Woodin gave us tea, sugar, a pit saw, and several other little articles. Capt. Jones The General Meeting of the American May 23d, at the Court House, when a colgave me several dollars for Medical services, Missionaries opened May 16th, and is lection of $260; 00 was taken up. The re- Capt. Swain gave Mrs. Sturges a parrotand still in session, but will probably adjourn ceipts of the Society for the year are Ialso several hams. Capt. Barnes gave us a this week. The following Missionaries were $4,976.70. i number of mackerel. Capt. Royce gave ua Socibtt.—This Society unsolicited, a good whale boat, which has Bible Hawaiian this year:—from present been and will be of great service. You Hawaii.—Rev. D. B. Lyman, Rev. T. held its anniversary Wednesday Evening, 1may very well suppose that these gifts have the Bethel. Resolutions were Coan, Rev. A. Thurston and Rev. L. Ly- 25th May, at not been without intrinsic value to us; but Messrs. .Hardy aod Beckwith offered by they have also been sources of great satisons. Maui.— Rev. W. P. Alexander, Rev. E The Secretary of the Society, Rev T. E faction, as expressive of the good wjll of our Taylor, presentvd his report, which will be sea-faring brelhaen." + Whittlesey and Rev. J. D. Conde. Contents ----. •- - OF THE miEND JUNE 2, 1853. - - - .... ' ™iTutiiiißai© * - . , . . " , — ' �42 - THE FRIEND, JUNK, ? 1853. ers on the arrival of their vessels, and ac- that he had in his employ about twelve of cept ho orders without a strict investigation these runners lust summer, whose busiaass into their validity. Let the sailor feel that was to solicit trade. „-..,,. late decision by he has friends among us who will regard his SrRAGUE, Judge, delivered his opinion, ICun? Rll.l Judge Si-RAOUi'in the 17, S. District Court, interests and protect him in his rights. I in substance as follows: is one not only of great interest to the sea- fear the blood of many a poor sailor is upon I have not thought it necessary to look at this case as an ordinary transaction between men, but particularly- welcome to every the skirts of our garments. friend of that class .of people (these hardy A Friend op the Sailor. merchant and merchant, which is the aspect in which the learned counsel for the resons of Neptune as they are familiarly callFrom the Sailor's Magazine, Sept. 1852. ed,) to whom we are all so much indebted. spondent has presented it. It is a claim by Sharks! Sharks!! The'case in question is one of every day a seaman for compensation for marine sercharacter. A seaman by the name ofJames We earnestly invite the attention of sea- vice in the nature ol wages, and the admiDray, on his return from a voyage of two men and others to the following ralty deals with contracts respecting such service or compensation different from thut and a half years, was induced upon an inIMPORTANT DECISION. sufficient consideration in the way of cloth- '. We copy from the Boston Post the follow- in which a court of common law can treat ing, &c, to give an order for the amount of ing report of the recent trial in the U. S. ordinary transactions. his whole voyage upon the owners of the District Court, Dray vs. BorA; Rajah of this Seamen have been called the wards of the ship on the very day of his arrival, and port. The decision involves inportant prin- admiralty, and it habitually exercises a dewhich orderthe learned Judge has pronounc- ciples affecting the interest of a class of gree of guardianship over them for their ed invalid and commented upon in severe dealers concerned in the Whale Fishery:— protection. It scrutinizes all contracts re(terms. We hope that this will be a warning Libel by a Seaman for his Share or specting their services or wages, in order to to that class who prey upon the hard earn- Lay, in a Whaling Voyage. —Dray vs. bark see that no advantage has been taken oftheir ings of the poor sailor. Let every honest Rajah, Wilcox claimant. Before Judge necessities, ignorance, or thoughtless imcitizen and ship owner set his face against Sprague. In this case, the answer of Hen- providence. Thus, where contracts have this abominable system of defrauding the ry Wilcox, the claimant, admitted that a been made hv which seamen have agreed should teaman of his hard earned money. Well balance of $154.73 was found due libellant, not to take any wages unless the ship rrlay it be termed Sharking and a more des- but that on the 10th June, 1861, he drew his safely return to her home port, although picable mode of robbery could hardly be order for the same, which was accepted on freights should be earned on the outward dfJßed. As a native citizen of New Bed- on the 12th day of said month and entered on voyage, courts of admiralty have set them foro7 and in common with a large portion of the books on the day of its date, a copy as aside. This was the case in Peter's Admiour people, somewhat interested in the follows:— ralty Reports 215, and in the case of the Juwhale fishery, we have often been mortified liana, 2Dods 504, where the agreement was 10th, 1851.—For inserted in the shipping articles, and in 1 at this deplorable state of things. Most of " New Bedford, 6 mo. these people, Sharkers so called, are not a value received pay to Mead &. Co., or their Brown P. C. 137, where the contract was by (irr- a separate bond given to the master. So an fish of native produce, although we fear our order, the nett proceeds of my voyage own waters are not guiltless of this vora- cluding slush,) and their receipt shall be engagement by a seaman that the expenses cious spawn. Many important facts have mine in full. of curing in case of sickness incurred in the been brought before the public in course of Witness—G. W. Drew. service of the ship, should be deducted from James Dray. his wages, has been set aside. this trial, and we hope that they will not soon be forgotten. Too long already has it To the agent and owners of bark Rajah. Receipts or releases given by seamen, Entered. even with all the solemnity of sealed instrubeen a burning disgrace to New Bedford Accepted 6 mo, 12, 1851." That he was informed and believed that ments, will have no effect beyond tho actual that auch a system of robbery has been allowed to exist. We would suggest to the Mead &. Co. paid to the libellant a valuable considerationfairly paid. This is shown by philanthropic members of the Port Society, consideration for the order, and had agreed many cases, and particularly in Wan's Remany of whom understand and appreciate to advance him goods from their clothing ports, 496. J.idge Story, in Brown vs. Lull, the wants of the sailor, to renew their exer- store, as should fully equal the amount 2 Sumner, lias examined such contracts with tions and see to it, that this predatory war- which should ultimately be found due him; seamen, and declared they cannot be susfare upon the property of our seamen is sup- that believing himself bound at common law tained, unless it shall appear that they were pressed—every worthy citizen will co-oper- to pay the net proceeds of the libellant's fully explained and understood by the seaate with them and we doubt not but much ofP voyage to Mead &. Co., the exceptance so men, and a fair and adequate consideration the evil could be abated in a short time. Let made was a complete discharge from the lia- received for every right renounced, or oblithe minions engaged in it be stamped withi bility of the owners of the bark. , He holds the following gation assumed. disgrace, and every honest citizen treat themi To this the libellant replied that ftie order language:—" Seamen are it class of persons as they do other malefactors, and we vouchi was fraudulently obtained of him the first remarkable for their rashness, thoughtlessfor it not many months will pass before a day of his coming ashore from a long whal- ness and improvidence. They are generally reformation or scattering will be seen among ing voyage, and being an entire stranger in necessitous, ignorant of the nature and exthese land pirates. New Bedford, was enticed by a rumor of tent of their own rights and privileges, and The generosity and improvidence of sai- Mead & Co., and induced to purchase goods, for the most part incapable of duly apprecilors is proverbial, and after a long voyagei that he understood the order was only for ating their value." And again he says, their joy on getting on shore once more oft- the value of the goods he then received, and " Courts of admiralty on this account are en makes them a prey to evil minded people, i that the respondent withheld his wages as a accustomed to consider seamen as peculiarwho, under the pretence of kindness lurei means of obliging him to comply with the ly entitled to their protection, that they have them into their mares. Many a sailor hasi unreasonable demand of Mead & Co. been by a somewhat bold figure often said to made way with the whole proceeds of a long There was no evidence showing any par- be favorites of courts of admiralty. In a voyage within 24 hours after his arrival—■ ticular fraud on the part of Mead &. Co., be, just sense they are so, so far as the maintenand thus left, are unable to get home to yond what appeared to be the usual mode of ance oftheir rights and the protection of their their friends if residing at any distance, andI doing business with seamen in New Bedford. interest against the effects of the superior by the seductive means used, are soon ship- ■ It appears that there are about a dozen skill and shrewdness of masters and ownped off again for another long voyage. In i shops of this kind who employ runners to ers of ships are concerned. Courts of adthia way many a poor fellow has been kept t solicit trade, which class of persons are miralty ar not by their constitution and juin a kind of Slavery for year*. The histo- ■ known in New Bedford by the appellation of risdiction confined to the mere dry "and posry of the wrongs and sufferings of the sailorsi sharks," and that the business has ac itive rules of the common law; but they act thus duped, and the misery of friends and 1 quired the term "sharking." One of the upon the enlarged and liberal jurisprudence relatives therefrom, would unfold a tale off witnesses, who it appears kept a shop similar of courts of equity." And he subsequently woe and grief,rarely equalled. to Mead & Co., testified that that name was declares that, whenever a new stipulation With these facts before them, we hope9 fixed upon them so they could not shake it is found in the" shipping articles derogating or their agents willI off. The person who conducts the business from the general rights and privileges of that, every strictly prohibit the boarding of these Shark- of Mead &. Co. in New Bedford, testified seamen, courts of admiralty hold it void, b.».., i «*J or. -assess Safi ia. * Prom the New Bedford Mercury. Important Decision l .• -. - : • : ; • ; > " - — - . �i . things THE FRIEND, JUNE, ** first that the. naconcur; 43 1853. hat chosen to aid Mead says $17.25 ami tile other $20.50: This evcontroversy with the libel- idence is not controlled. It thus appears fairly explained to the seaman, and sec- lant, and for that purpose lent his name to that the charge waa from 50 to 70 per cent, ondly, that an additional compensation is them to carry on this suit, for their own ben- above the fair value, and the seaman had a the contract within a allowed, entirely adequate to the new re- efit. Mead & Co. are the real party re- right to rescind strictions and risks imposed upon them there- spondent, and the court is bound, therefore, able time. This he did. Some obje< by." "Nor is this doctrine confined to deal- to look into the transaction between them were made to the other items, but they were ings between seamen and the owners or and the libellant. It appears by the evi- waived, and the residue of Mead 8t Co'js, masters, but extends to contracts with other dence that Mead 8t Co., are what in New account, after deducting the watch and persons respecting their compensation, or Bedford are called fitters, that is, persons chain, amounting to 557 62, will be allowed wages; as .for example sales of shares or that furnish supplies to seamen on going or to them. This sum deducting from the whole" prize money, which Judge Story in the same returning from whaling voyages —that this amount of the libellant's voyage, will leave case adverts to in the following language: class of traders employ runners to solicit $97.11, for which a decree must be entered, "I know not indeed that this doctrine has trade—that on the arrival of a whale ship for the libellant, wilh costs. Adam Mackie, ever been broken in upon in courts of admi- from 25 to 100 of these runners come on of New Bedford, for libellant; Timothy G. ralty or in courts of equity. The latter board to solicit the seamen before thoy have Coffin, of New Bedford, for respondent. It is understood that an appeal has been courts are accustomed to apply it to classes opportunity to go on shore—that on the arriof cases far more extensive in their reach val of the bark Rajah, the libellant was in- claimed on the part of the respondent. and operation; to cases of young heirs sell- duced by a runner of Mead & Co. to go diing their expectancies; to cases of rever- rectly from the vessel to their store; there Cromwell. Napoleon and the sioners and remainder-men dealing with he was supplied with clothing to the amount Waldenses. their estates* and to cases of wards dealing of $23.37, watch and chain $30, and $2 in When, in Cromwell's time, the Vaudois* with their guardians; and above all, to ca- cash, which, with a charge of 60 cents for lost everything by the cruel persecution of ses of seamen dealing with the prize money boating in bringing him on shore, amounted their enemies, he called for a collection Jpr and their interests." These principles are to $60.87, and thereupon an order for the them in all the churches of the Puritans fIU sustained by a very able and elaborate opin- whole proceeds of his voyage expressed to Covenanters in Great Britain. So heartily ion of Lord Stowell, in the Juliana. 2Dod. be for the value received, was taken. And was this responded to, that a considerable 504. See also 1 Story on Equity, §331 to thus in one hour after landing from a wha- surplus was left after their necessities were §310; and Curtis' Rights and Duties of Sea- ling voyage of more than two and a half met, which surplus remained in the British years' duration he was induced to transfer Treasury, and was applied to the generalmen, p. 43. Let us now advert to the facts of the pres- to an entire stranger his whole remaining purposes of the kingdom for a considerable ■ ent case. The libellant Dray served on claim for his long and laborious services.— period. The fact having at length been board the whale ship Rajah, from the 23d The amount of that claim, as we have seen, brought to the knowledge of the government, Nov. 1848, to the 10th June, 1851, at the was $154.73. He had received from Mead it was agreed that the funds, being no ' lay of 1-140, and the balance due to him at &. Co., at most, $60.87. Why was an in- longer needed for their original purpose, the termination of his voyage amounted to strument taken from him operating as a should be set apart for the support of the $154.73, which he now claims. The owner transfer of the whole? Vaudois pastors. Accordingly, each one objects to paying that amount, or any part The reason given in the answer of the of them, sixteen in number, receives annuthereof, on the ground that the libellant has owner is that Mead &. Co. promised him to ally JE4O sterling Irom the bank of England. transferred his whole claim to Mead &. Co., pay him in clothing from their store for the The source of another part of their support by means of the order which has been pre- residue which they should receive over the is even more singular. When Napoleon sented and accepted. That order is not a amount then furnished. If this bo so, the li- conquered Italy, he confiscated certain pronegotiable instrument, and it is not contend- bellant had divested himselfof all control of perties belonging the church of Rome, and Ed that it can operate further than as an as- the proceeds of his voyage, and placed him- made them over to the Vaudois. By the signment ol the fund in the hands of the self so far in the power of Mead &. Co. that treaty of Vienna, after Napoleon's over-H owner, the whole amount of which he could claim nothing from them but a fur- throw, it was guarantied that this arrange-** he still retains, nothing having been ther supply of clothing, and this too when he ment should not be overturned; and, in con- •' paid on the order. Soon after the or- had received only two dollars in cash for the sequence of it, each of the Vaudois pastors der* was given, Dray gave notice to supply of all his other wants. It is true that receives £20 sterling a year. The JE6O Wilcox, the owner, not to pay it to Mead & aflerwardAn the 11th, Mead &. Co. let him sterling which is thus provided for them, it s» Co., and requesied payment to himself. The have money to the amount of $10, and on the estimated by the "Free Church Magazine,"»•• order bears date the lOth June, 1851, and 12th, $15 25 more; but if the answer is to taking into view the simplicity of their manhas written on it the words "entered," and be taken to be true, this was voluntary on ners and the circumstances of the county;** also the words "Accepted, 6 mo' 12th, their part, and not by virtue of any obliga- to be equivalent to one-half more than the 1851." Wilcox, the owner, in his answers to tion they were under, and the validity of the Ministers of theFree Church receive from** the interrogatories, say that he first saw the order is to be tested by the agreement under the sustnutation fund; that is to say, it is aorder on the 10th Jsne, then finding it at which it was given. No satisfactory reason ample support for them. What more won-sw his place of business, where it had been has been assigned why Mead &. Co. should derful in all history, than that Cromwell previously left; that he considered it accept- have taken an assignment of a cash fund to and Napoleon should be found united ia»s» ed from the time he saw it; that he cannot say an amount greater than the supplies furnish- producing such a result. " Kings shall basts on whatday the words " accepted 6 mo' 12th, ed at the time, and the court can perceive thy nursing fathers." -ann •fjsftjei 1851," were written: they were intended to no reason unless it was intended to tie up wm » SsVMt «n -—T I *-«il> represent the day when he considered it ac- the hands of the libellant, so that he could in Kennedy states that thirty Mr. Mead & Co. cepted and that such acceptance was before receive the residue only through 1792 to 1822—the annual average he saw Dray. An interrogatory was dis- and in such manner as they should see fit. from Great Britain and China was trade between in saying hesitation, therefore, have no tinctly put to Wilcox whether he wrote those I than yielding the'lV" $63,160,449— his not less words before Dray forbid his paying, and that neither the owner, who has lent for that period of $440,revenue Mead &. gregate Co., nominal nor party, answer, which seems have been name as a from the to fbllowitfg" years, carefully prepared, I cannot be satisfied that the real defendants, can withhold from the ! -253,422. In the thirty than has oeen says the Secretary—" from 182210*1885 amount greater written before notice libellant any were he received they the amount contributed to the! custom's" not to pay the order, but looking also at oth- actually and fairly paid to him. from thetrade in the The watch and England What is that amount. er circumstances, believe that they were has averaged yearly the su alone, their accouut at was $30 chain in charged written after. they a few but refused days, It appears by the answer of the owner returned within that the libellant demanded payment and of- to take it back. It was left on their coun- of $650,81 United SUtes with fered a' bond of indemnity which was de- ter. Two watch makers have been called to The trade oftothefrom $ 16,000,000 to retail China amount price, affordclined unless he would get the President of testify what would be the the United States as surety, that is, he ab&o- ing a good profit to the vender; one of them unless ture • two lutely rtfused, but antf'flp'Mftion of the clause is fully and & C0.,1n their > I • . ' • ' • teatrtJfJj I,«M>* !»<«■■* ' ' * "**".' , �44 a detire to . "'THE FRIEND, „, of the JUNE, 1853. —^——■— tute from merchant vessels and whale ships ef the United States, to enjoy the same Con- gion has made its appearance among us. It sular protection as native American seamen, is generally supposed that it was brought call the attention lO* We editors in the United States, and all others to whom this No. of tne* Friend maybe sent, tn the following Petition. It does not aptr that the laws of. the United States existltnH suitable protection to foreign seamen sailing under the U. S. Flag. If the laws or foreign seamen who have obtained papers hither in some boxes of clothing from Caliof naturalization. fornia. Every possible precaution, on the As in duty bound, Your Memorialists will part of the physicians and government, has ever pray. been taken to prevent the spread of the malare adequate, then certain Secretaries of the Missionary Expedition to Marquesas. ady; but still there are serious fears that it State Department, have sent forth a wrong We are happy to announce that the Di- will prevail. Out of seven cases, two are interpretation of existing laws, for the U. S. rectors of the H. M. Society have nearly reported as fatal. It is confined, as yet, to Consul in Honolulu, is so instructed that he completed their arrangements for the sailing ithe native population. The mildness and ••%o«S not feel himself authorized to aid sick of the English brigantine " Royalist," on or isalubrity of the climate will doubtless exert disabled seamen, unless native born before the 20th instant. It is expected that a modifying influence over the disease. The nericans, or naturalized citizens. Per- the Marquesian and his son-in-law,who came general health of the foreign and native poppa some will say that it the sailor's own for teachers, will return, accompanied by ulation is otherwise good. Our physicians fault, if he does not obtain papers of three ordained Sandwich Island Missiona- are now supplied with good vaccine matter, naturalization; but how are poor and igno- ries and their wives. One of these will be and have shown a most praiseworthy spirit Portuguese seamen to obtain such pa- the Rev. Mr. Kekela, who visited Microne- in gratuitously vaccinating the native popuwho are shipped by scores and hun- sia, and returned by the Caroline." The lation. on board American whale ships, after Directors of the Society have endeavored to The following American seamen were vessels have sailed from the U. States? secure the services of the best men. To in- brought hither by the Russian man-of-war 1 hard case for the poor sailor, and dis- sure the success of the expedition, the Rev. now in port: —James Bentley, Beldin Coon, ful for a great, rich,and commercial na- Mr. Parker, of Kaneohe, will also accompa- James Bradford and Francis B. McGloin. tion like the U. States, with an overflowing ny the expedition, but will return by the These men belonged to the whaling bark not to protect and provide for all "Royalist." In fitting out this expedition, " Shepherdess and were left in July '52, amen allowed to ship under its Flag. We the Directors of the Society, have had due somewhere upon the shores of the Ochotsk art ashamed of our country, when its Con- regard to necessary expense—still it must Sea. They went on shore bear hunting, and sul in Honolulu, feels himself compelled to involve an outlay of several thousand dol- got lost in the wood. Their vessel searched send sick and disabled seamen away from lars. It is gratifying to know that the Native in vain for them. They were taken to Pe''hit office and cast them upon the charities of Churches are taking a deep interest in this tropaulaski, in a Russian brig, where they 'the community. Thanks to thesLadies o. affair, and are contributing liberally to the spent the winter, and from thence were Honolulu for what they have done, and are funds of the Society. Should there beany brought to this port. doing for such persons—ten of whom have others who are desirous of aiding and forThe Royal Hawaiian Agricultubeen aided by the Stranger's Friend Society warding this enterprize, by their contribural Society, will hold its Annual Series of during the last year. Thanks also to gen- tions, we shall be most glad to forward the meetings, on the 7th, Bth and 9th of the curtlemen in Honolulu for generously furnish- -same. "Cast thy head upon the waters; rent month. ing the ladies with abundant means for car- ■ for thou shalt find it after many days." The annual address will be delivered at rying forward their philanthropic measures, the Bethel, on the Evening of June 7lh, by ' but no tbanks to Senators and Representa"Those who live in glass houses should J. Montgomery, Esq. tives at Washington, who will make a great not throw stones." So runs the old proverb flourish about the extended commerce of the which has been brought tn mirftT by the re- Two Americans murdered in Manila. ..United States, and allow seamen who aid in marks of the editor of the New Bedford On the 7th ofMarch 1853,Capt. Parsons, of the ship Amity took a ride out to the cordage extending that commerce, to starve and suf- ■ Shipping List upon the character of the ship Am. manufactory, (about 3 miles from the city,) to visit fer for want of Consular protection. Such chandlers and merchants of Honolulu.— an old friend, (Mr. Mumford,) and at shout 8 1-2 legislation, or such execution of the laws, is Our reason for publishing the refutation of o'clock P. M., while sitting very quietly in the of Mr. M., some thirty men rushed into the United States. We hope a the charges and insinuations of the editor of■ apartment the room, and literally cut them jn pieces. Mr. .-�reform will be speedily brought about. We the S. List, is because our paper as well as M. received 19 mortal wounds. Capt Parsons 'would briefly remark, that this petition has that, has an extensive circulation among was also much disfigured. The coachman escaped alarmed the neighbors, but too late to be of "•already been signed by fifty ladies, and more whalemen. Knowing the usually careful and. any service. The horses attached to the coac signatures might easily be obtained. and candid style of Mr. Lindsey's editorials, were also killed. They then robbed the honse o the money there was in it at the time, beini this vituperation seems the more surprising. all only about $130. To THE HotIORABLE, THE SENATE AND HoITSE The decision of Judge Sprague, found in an- It is supposed money was their object It is sail or Representatives or the United other the Governor will surely arrest the murderers ; bu column, indicates that things are not up to the present time, (March 22d) nothing ha Staetes: altogether as they should be in "the Queen been proved against any one, although 12 or 1. Your Memorialists, American Ladies, and city" of whalemen, where resides a certain have been arrested on stispiciqp. Mr. M. was su Members of a Benevolent Society, organized the Factory, and much esteemet who is reported to have written perintendant of for the purpose of providing for sick and ship-owner in Manila. a ofhis the in The murder has created much excitemen destitute strangers, having become prac- thus, to one commanding ship ticnlly acquainted with the protection extend- Pacific:—" I hope, thee, will get her full; if among all the foreigners, and among the autbori seamen sailing under the United States not, leave her high and dry for she is well in- ties in Manila.* Messrs. Russell, Sturgis & Co., were ready to and being convinced that a large num- sured!!" pay $1,000 for the apprehension of the murderers, ign seamen arf not suitably proproviding the Governor would permit it. States' ConMr. Edwards, (the Am. Consul) was very assidr o om, compelled want For of suls, humbly pray that you will be pleased uous in trying to bring the murderers to justice. to pass such laws'as will ertftfle all > foreign to leave out several important iteihir which Mr. Mumford nnd Capt. Parsons both left families in the United State.*. [Com. by Cupt. Paty. seamen, when discharged, sick and desti- have been communicated. 2d § .' , ' " «reasury, " ' —ma.. 1 ' _ ''^^Jrin^c'lrw . ' weare - — ma ■ ■ �—^— For the Friend. Eruption of Mauna Loa, February 20, 1852. Hark! hark! hark! While yet it ii dark, There's a deep rumbling found, Aa of apirita under ground, Rolling rocki for melting. Gathering ore for smelting. aN •BM lt.|bMW Like the roaring on high, When his chariots draw nigh— As the trump* direful blast, When time's cycles are past. - Old Vulcan blows, The furnace glows— Earth's ribs are rent, Hot fumes find vent. Fire! fire ! fire! Higher! higher! higher! The glaring columnsrise— A burning fiopd, Like HelPs hot blood— An angry cloud, With thunders loud. Rush upward to the skies! And now on high, 'Oamst flaming sky, Stand turreis—towers—minarets—spiresAll dazzling with devouring Area A pillar of light, Which scattered "old night"— — Rising—sinking— Expanding—shrinking— Standing—swaying— • Look ! look ! look ! A pyramid of glowing coals I From whose direQ£>vortex rolls Curling smoke of everylhue— Crimson, purple, sable, blue— Convolving clouds of vsried dye, Emblazon'd on the fretted sky, Sweeping like a comet's tail, Blazing like a meteor's trail— Like the track of fierce Mara On hi* burning wheel'd can— Like the bright, gleaming sword, In the band of the Lord ! Down—down the mountain's sides A fiery dragon glides! Old marble melts along his way— His eyes turn midnight into day— His flaming tail is wav'd on high, He aweeps night's watchmen from the sky. During the first few weeks of our res dence here, the Nanakin was in the vicinity and frequently called on us. He wat then or. * * * take pleasure in acknowledging. Thenall is still O'er dell and bill. The whirlwind'- sweep Is lulled to sleep— Hell's burning breath i%queiich'd in death. From murky cloud The thunder loud, Has censed to roar On mount and shore. Theawful blast llns hurried past, The flery flood Obeyed its God— 11 Thus fur! He -aid, " Andhere, be stayed !" A red molten fountain, On a dark heaving mountain. Hist! hist! hist! and a roar,' Like the wave on the shore— Like the crash of dread thunder, Rending ether asunder— Like the flatof tjod, Shaking eaith with his nod— Uke the breath of bis ire, the 18th of October. We know that the gradual development of time among us be interesting to yourself, to your Socich and to the Hawaiian Churches—and wi furnish topics of prayer to all. We have been quietly occupied in effort partially successful to gain the acquaintance and good will of our brethren neighbors and to learn their language. They have treated us very kindly. The energetic Nan akin of the tribe has so effectually exerciset his authority for us that only the most tr fling articles have been stolen. somewhat interested in his spellingSgeok and a number of times took informal, lessons from Mr. Sturges. He even built a house just above us on the hill, for the purpose, as he said, of having some place where he might invite Captains, and occasionally to live near us. For the last six weeks, howless ever, he has been at Warner, more with the excitements of so-called engrossed Ah Pele ! dread goddess of fire, war, and we have not seen him but once duWhy flash thine eyes with kindling ire ? ring that time. Why Ktir afresh thy ever glowing coals, This port has already been visited since White from thy throat this burning river rolls.' Why wreath thy mythic head in smoke and flame ? your departure by four American whalers And startle mortals with thy fearful name.9 and two Traders. There have been anW.iy rend thy boarv_locks and scatter thus thy silver hair? chored here at one time the two trading vesWhy sound thine awful trumpet forthupon the midnight air? sels of Capts. McKenzie & Lovien and two hu>li once more ! whalers. We ha>ve been treated with uniThe scene is o'er;— form kindness by them all, and are indebted For twice ten days The fountain plays ; to them for many material favors which we Gushing—playing— Thpre's a break ' Clouds gather, infold, gyrate, brighten— Thicken, darken, thunder, lighten— Winda aigh, moan, bowl, rave, Driving hot cinders o'er wild wood and wave. From morn till night Pale yellow light, Below—on high— Shrouds earth and skyDark forests blaze In the flames red rays— Then vanish from eight, Like a spectre of night— Upon the fiery tempest's breath, Desolation rolls on death. Hark ! hark ! hark again ! Still a rumbling now and then! Broad-swords clashing! Sabers gleaming— Red blood streaming! *. Rbv. E. W. Clark, Cor. Sec. Hawaiian Missionary Soy, »'»** sS Dear Sir, ttM at, ■' . It is now nearly two months since we had an opportunity of writing to you by CapHfe. Woodin, who left here for Hong Kong o See ! see ! see! Dread Typhosus' forge in sevenfold blast, And a lasting hill dissolving fast— The glowing furnace fiercer glows; The blood-red river hotter flows— Rocksrend, roar, melt and disappear, Mingling in wild and mad career. Huih ! hush ! hueh ! For a moment all ie atill, Ob 70a dark and distant hill— Nature standi all aw'd nnd silent, While stern Pluto lifts his trident. Seated on a sulphur throne, To us mortals all unknown, Id the dismal realms of wonder, Dm now forges bolts of thunder. Squadrons dashing— RonKitAseoc,ntiIs., From clouds abrall, Is scattered wide O'er mountain's side. Like the aound of thesurf— Like the hoof" on the turf— A shake and a shiver! A quake and a quiver! Hush ! hush ! hunh ! There's wush and a rattle, Like armies in battle ! -r—x Bang! bang! bang! Clung! Clang! Clang! Harxb ! heavy ! shrill! Over mountain, dell andbill, Heaven's high artillery rang— Flaming meteors dancearoundBurning whirlwinds sweep the ground— A fiery hail Muttering—aputtering— imjt 1 45 1&53. JUNE, , Smoke! fire! sulphur! niter! Glowing—brighterand still brighter— Hark ! bark ! hark ! While the night ie itill dark, In earth's deep hidden caves, There's a noiee aa of wavesSplashing—daubing .. - THE FRIEND, . mm Hilo, ~ ... , " PYROMETER. « w 96, 1853. May * • • * « * * Monday, the 29th of November, I started on a trip of five days to visit the windward tribes. By offering a large price, I induced a few natives of this tribe to take me by canoe to the Jekoits island. They returned immediately and left me alone among people I had never before seen. I could scarcely, however, been treated with more kindness and consideration. The Wadjai of the tribe supplied me with food and lodging, and gave me a seat by himself when drinking awa in his immense feast house which is the largest on the island. My carpet-bag which*>l left completely exposed for a whole night-in the The following list of officers on board of 1house where I first lodged, and whiqh conHi B. M.'s ship Amphitrite, has been kindly fur- tained a number of articles to them very nished by Mr. Barnard, Secretary to the British valuable, was not, that I am aware of, ever Consulate General. opened. This attention and protection is, Captain, Chas. Frederick, Commanding. what they would render to any rehowever, Lieutenants.—W. L. Staniforth, D Wulker, spectable traveler. A permanej%.qesident H. B Franklin. there would be treated with a little, less conMaster.—Mr. Crane. Pat-master and Purser,—Mr. Maddock. Lieut. R. Marines.—R. K. Wilson. Surgeon.—Dr Vaughn. Navai. Instructor.—J. T. Bourne. Assistant Suasion.—Mr. Nibill. 2d Master.—T. Jones. Mates.—Messrs. Graves and Browulow. Clerk.—Mr. W. S. Price. Midshipmen.—Messrs. Mcllardy, In(rlis,Overbury, Rnttny, Grey, Hanmen, Fairfax, Howard. Clerk; Simpson, Chilian Nsvy. ,„ «•»«,#! • ,hi assa-ia) *1 sideration. I wat, htwever,Jf4ydvby the only white man now liyjflg^nJ^jat^tribe—a resident of about tw,alvej^r*Smi]|)aJ,>aothing had ever been stolt I had several 4j|>Sja§Pversathem, tions with the chiefs, who Is quite familiar with Engliaju They were interested in the Ten Commandments: had iome of them acknowledged, been violated by then, I �wmmWJVrrw iars june, 1853. ilWnrrTr-r 46 if'Olgreater part of the Jekoits tribe is, in itsi suppose myself laboring for more atJUfltiid I"sins; our imore northern limits, and this is also true ofP population of this single island. " statenWßt than the whether their the Matalanim tribe; which makes the Then again, the fact that their language is but it is quite !delft were either full or correct. It mutt windward side of Ascension Is. much thei more nearly related to the Hawaiian than be our constant prayer,that their understand- most populous. any other of Micronesia, and that consetngs may be enlightened and their hearts inquently S. Islanders will probably, among # # Let me now refer to two subjects not to be them be most useful, will also give such as *. I an advantage from my acquainlance with Drinking spirituous liquors is one of,considered as news. the banes of Ascension Is. A number of In the first the Hawaiian tongue. Very many of the remember will you that place, the highest chiefs of all the tribes are slaves tho question of the sailors of our missionary reasons which we hope will make it afield of to it—not excepting, probably, the Nanakin schooner having liberty on the usefulness for Sandwich Is. missionaries will, Sabbath was| I of this tribe, who so effectually protects us. once or think, make it such for me who am also a twice broached our during exploring Hawaiian. But this evil is, I think, most rampant on the voyage; but that it seemed wife 100 is fast learning the a matter so the S. Is. tongue.My windward side of the island. In the Kittie hands of our Captain that nothing was in done. tribe, the common natives are prohibited from I earnestly hope that your Society will make Again, my acquaintance with the Hawaiian language will enable me to labor in conmaking it save when special- permission is such arrangements with whoever may be her nection with Sandwich Islanders. It is granted, which, as we are given to under- next captain, that the hands shall have all derstand, is only allowed to some natives of necessary liberty on other days than The not probable that you will have soon in this the King Mill Islands, living on' Nalap, the Lord's. They need port of Micronesia, much of S. Is. agency, little island at the entrance of the Rono Kit- and it is their due liberty for health's sake, and my S. Is. tongue will therefore be of less as to other servants— any tie Harbor. But there is no general restric- why than it might otherwise be. Notoblige them to take it on the Sabbath, service tion among any of the windard tribes. Nearand that when they are too rendy to improve withstanding the many difficulties which I ly all there do as they list, if able to the privilege—all, save our persecuted know will be involved in any superintending mand the use of an iron pot with which to of Hawaiian agents, still it will be to me distil the cocoanut sap. Of all the places, steward, Keawe, who twice refused his liber- very pleasant to be a laborer with my fellow ty lest his thoughts should be drawn off from however, on the whole island, Taback ex- the appropriate duties of the countrymen. My natural love for the land day! Would of my birth, and for my dark-colored fellow ceedjjfevery other, I think, in its reckless that rebukes Were always administered to us drunkenness. It is considered there, as islanders, I doubt not, seems to many which, | as christian a manner as were those of elsewhere on this island, an exhibition of.in Keawe! But again, independent of the in- very youthful and savoring of folly. I feel bravery to wound one's self with large terest justified in maintaining, and I only right and wrong, and of the general perfectly hope it will strengthen with my years;—and knives; but on Taback this is carried beyond aroma of the bad example in a missionary this leads me to love even the the practice of any other portion. Scarce any halting commay come a time when we young man I met there had less than four, schooner—there shall here be especially mortified by the panionship of my fellow Hawaiian missionaand many had eight or ten scars, two or openly meanly or shameful acts ol our sai- ries. three inches in length on their bare breasts And further, tho' it is true that this whole lors on the Sabbath. As owners of the vesand arms, making a most savage display.— sel, you have mission will be the child of the Hawaiian a right to stipulate These are inflicted during the drunken re- regarding thiscertainly with the Captain, even if her churches, yet, wherever Hawaiian agents veries. Capt. Lincoln, of the Wm. Perm, general interest shall be most sent, there will the peculiar be damaged thereby;—but who visited this island Feb. 1844, on Us first \ energies of the Sandwich* Island christians who believes they will? be most expended, and it wrll be to me espearrival, as I have been told, inquired whethThe second subject to which I referred, is cially pleasant to be engaged where er the natives had learned to make " dent they (cecoanut spirits,) and upon learning that an offer I wish to make regarding my future are most interested. I shall then feel mylife. You bear will me witness that faom the self most directly employed in developing they had, remarked that the island was then damned. And indeed, unless the Gospel first I spoke of interest in the Kings Mill those reflex influences which form one of the have the power to save, I readily believe Islands, and that I have spoken of the pos- very important hoped for results of this misthat the prospects of its present inhabitants |sibilities of a residence there. My location sionary project. I am glad that it is for here has not prevented me from thinking ofthe yourselves to judge whether this desire are blasted. is The young chief of Taback was so much probabilities of being yet stationed on that commendable, or improper, or wrong in liquor during most of my stay, that I had Igroup. There are several reasons why they whether reasonable, or ill advised, or totally no very favorable opportunity of introdu- are in themselves a very interesting and im- impolitic. It is, I know, proper for me to cinq religious topics. He however said he portant people, and why my sympathies are give all my reasons, and I as candidly speak wished very much to learn to read. After drawn towards them. my mind when I say, 1 shaw concerning this two days' absence I returned to Jekoits, The fact that they live on islands where unhesitatingly, acquiesce in whatever may and Dec. 18th, I reached our home there is very little i.atural to attract seems to be your wishes. at Rono Kittie, having during a whole week be their misfortune, and misfortune begets My wife is equally ready with myself. I been in the complete power of the natives, '■sympathy. Had a few hills been added to shall be prepared to take the step at the earand yet not being in a single instance treat- their scenery, we should not in the first in- liest period upon which you may decide, tho' ed with indignity, nor having lost a single stance have passed them by to continue their I have no definite idea as to the time upon ;gropings in darkness. Still, destitute as which you may fix for occupying another article. As to the query whether we could safely they are, I have little doubt but that such as point in Micronesia, not knowing how facts reside on the windward side of the island, myself and wife, who are young, of good may be developing themselves both in the I have no doubt the Jekoits or Warnega health, who are fast learning to make the Sadwich Islands and America. The possibiltribeS'Would be feasible places. As yet, of cocoanut our staple, who already ei(t poi, ity which I shall suppose to exist of my yet course, the principal thought they huve re- and are learning to eat mar, would readily being stationed on the Kingsmill Is, will be garding us is that they will, in some way, find there a comfortable home. The fact to me an additional stimulus for pursuing be increased in wealth, and that perhaps not that I am a physician ought also to better fit with ardor every physical and intellectual, in the most honorable or just modes. But I me for the necessities of such a life. and above all, religious attainment; —tho'l see in this no reason why we may not trust It is by no means probable that there is shall with equal ardor guard against omitourselves among them with only a limited another such a body of people in Micronesia, ting or relaxing from any missionary duty amount of such articles as they may covet.«so closely related both geographically and where I now am. Somejflttff*more explicit regarding their in- ethnologically. I presume it is your plan I send maps of Ualan & Bonabe, which I tentiommust transpire to deter myself from (that they shall be the next position for us to thought you would be pleased to receive. so soon as Providence other- occupy., in this ocean. Why search further The names on Uafpn are precisely those (or territory to the total or partial neglect of,given by Capt. Lutke--it is questionable As a result of my several .tours, my tsti- this fact that they are so numerous renders whether they will be found correct. His the mates of the protection of this island have idea of laboring among them more satis- names of Bonabe I have entirely omitted, iery much increased. I have little doubt Ifactory to me, thoogh I know that where I am Ithe popnlation is considerable, and that I may cited. I i • * * , . I ' com-. ' J ' " '''< ' 1 '— I •< '' « ■ movinJ*Uiere < < < ' I �THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1853. 47 , his chart was, in a number of particularss . The." Honolulu trader" or ship chandler, out." We have seen the account and are incorrect?*, ith confident the draft I sendi receives only his 2 1-2 per cent, commission1 thus able to inform the Editor that very much improved, tho' still susceptible off and the rest goes to the profit of the Ameri- sailed on her present voyage for $217*43. »a»«M.I can and English merchant—the ship own- That may be an insignificent sum for the correction. Please to give messages of affection to allI era themselves for all we knew—who hav- merchant Princet of New Bedford, "but is our friends, ing sent out large consignments of goods, considered a rather ' tall pile' for a ' HonoAnd believe me Yours, with sin'sl respect, are enabled, through their agents, to ad- lulu trader.' L. H. GULICK. vance the money here for which those draftsi The Editor's remedy for the ' fleecing are drawn. But even they do not make so and shaving system' is very funny and very Prom the Weekly Argue. large profits as represented, because the profound. We are under apprehension, Where is the Proof? money due them at this place have in most; however, that the New Bedford ship owners In thevNew Bedford " Whalemen's Ship- 1 instances to be kept from 4 to 7 months, be- -will not appreciate the benefit of keeping ping Lis." for March 15, the Editor works fore an opportunity occurs of investing int half a million of their capital locked up in himself into a paroxysm of horror at the''exchanges, and then the premium will not[Honolulu in order to facilitate the necessary "fleecing and shaving system" practised'on an average more than cover the loss off disbursements of the masters of their ships. here in Honolulu upon the innocent owners interest. Another time, when the Editor pleases to of whale ships in New Bedford and elseThere is another fact in relation to ex- ■ notice the ' Honolulu traders' and business where. He says : changes' which we hope the Editor will lay men, we hope he will remember that though An Agency at Honolulu.—It is estimated that'before his readers. The merchants of this they are only few in number and poor in to the Araerithe drafts drawn by ships belonging can whaling fleet and touching at Honolulu and[ place, who had anything to do with whale- ■ wealth, yet they are as sensitive to the dieLahaina during the the last scu-son, have amounted-1 ships, advised the masters, at the com- ■ tates of truth and honor as any man in (we to $400,000. The cost of exchange upon this larget mencement of the season, of the probable had nearly said New Bedford 1) any other amount has perhaps not been less than 20 per cent., | advance of exchanges, and of the conse- place; and that we, as an independent exmaking the enormous sum of $80,000 which nasiquent necessity of engaging their funds at ponent of public opinion, will not permit hit gone into the pockets of Honolulu traders who have not rendered the slightest equivalent, but whoilthe then going rate of 10 per cent. Many libellous assertions to pass unchallenged. should rather have paid something for drafts on New masters did avail themselves of this advice, Bedford as the most expeditious way of getting; and in the course of the season our merU. S. Marine Hospital.-The their money. It is very clear that our ship-owners j chants were frequently, in fulfilment of their stone of the U. S. Marine Hospital was laid 1 need somebody al Honolulu to look specially after their property. Surveys of shijiß arc rarely con- obligation thus entered into, disbursing for yesterday at 4 o'clock, P. M. A large ducted with fairness, because it is for the interest of■ ships at 10 per cent, when they could not go number of gentlemen were in attendance, those who are usually called upon to perform that in the street and raise a dollar on bills of notwithstanding the blustering nature of the duty to condemn a vessel that they may purchase exchange at a less rute than 20 per cent. day. The building is to be situated on her for a trifling sum. We know an instance in Does this look like and Rincon 'fleecing shaving?' Point, on a commanding eminence which a ship was thus condemned, bought for almost nothing, and will be fitted out at an insignifi- Does it not rather look as if the merchant that faces the harbor and presents one of cant expense and sent whaling again as good as here kept the interest of the owner at home the finest possible views of the city. It is ever. in view, even to the detriment of his own? 182 feet long by 86 wide, and is to be built We think the evil might be remedied if our mer- We would finally remark, in connection o( brick, somewhat after the Grecian style some chants would appoint honest, responsible and with this subject, that if our merchants: of architecture, with all the improvements disinterested person to rc.ide at Honolulu at a fixed salary, whose business it should be to disburse theJ charged commission for disbursing, (as and additions of modern date. It will be necessary money and suaplics to masters, and gene- charged at all other ports, but from which four stories in height, and presents a beaurally to act for the inteapts of the owners and of the whalers are exempt here,) it would more tiful collonade row in front and rear, both of voyage. Until this shall be done, or something like than equal the much talked of profit on ex- which are to be alike. The building, when it, the fleecing and shaving system will continue in1 change. completed, will accommodate eight hundred ful 1 force. Now we neither know, nor care, whether The Editor's assertion that ' surveys of patients. The walls arc of most substantial malice prepense, or inexcusable ignorance ships are rarely conducted with fairness,' is thickness and strength, and put together is at the bottom ofthis splenetic article; but such a barefaced calumny, that in behalf of with the best sort of cement. Numerous we protest against the Editor making capi- those who are usually culled upon to per- bath rooms for both hot and cold bathing, tal among his own community at the expense form that duty,' it becomes our duty to call are comprised in the establishment, as well of the "honesty and fairness of the Honolu- upon him to substantiate his assertion with as all other conveniences and comforts that some show of truth. Let us see what he such an institution should contain. The lu traders." tAs the "enormous cost of exchanges" produces. He knows ' an instance in which bricks of which the building is constructed seem to have got astride of the Editor's a ship was thus condemned' &.c. As there are made on the spot, the clay in that place nose, to the of his; was but one instance during the past year being of the best description for the purfinancial optics, we T>eg to offer a few facts of a vessel being condemned, bought up pose. for his distinguished consideration. Thei here and refitted for whaling, what does the The building will probably be finished by rate of exchange did certainly sometimes Editor know of that transaction to justify the Ist of October nexM and will be one of the ornaments of the city. The location is during the past season range as high as 20 him in calumny and defamation ? per cent., but it was also at other times as The ship to which the Editor alludes perhaps the best that could have been selow as 6, 5 and 3 per cent., and the follow- must be the "Heroine," late of Fairhaven, lected possessing, as it does, purity of air ing table of moneys drawn, with their rate but the survey by which she was condemn- and a commanding view of the city and of exchange, by one prominent firm in this ed, was held by order of the U. S. Consul, harbor, which must naturally tend greatly place, will show that out of $192,118 drawn E. H. Allen, Esq., who choose, for the to the restoration of the patients consisting, by them, only $11,441 were drawn at 20 " performance of that duty," to call upon as they must, of mariners—men who are in per cent., while nearly two-thirds of the Capt. F. C. Smith, of the Eliza Adams, the habit of amusing themselves more by whole amount drawn was at 10 per cent, or Capt. J. K. Turner, of the Gladiator, and outward observation than innate reflection. R. Holt, Esq., of the firm of J. Robinson & Such a view must therefore afford that dis under. Co., of Honolulu. Now we hardly think traction from ones selfand occupation to the 90 at 20 per cent. $11,441 that the Editor will dare to impugn the mind that would otherwise prey upon itself. 3,786 10 18 15 42,998,44 " honesty, fairness or disinterestedness" of In the plan, solidity and apportioning of the the two first named gentlemen; and the last different part of the building for specific 12 1-2 11,903 31 named gentleman, although unfortunately, a |purposes, Mr. Reuben Clark has done him93,626 87 10 Honoluluan, yet owns the largest ship yard iself great honor and credit. The contract 52 5,836 8 in the place, it was evidently his interest— was made with Mr. Charles Homer for 7 6,781 99 7,229 34 6 all other considerations apart—not to con- I$185,000, but an appropriation by 5 #' demn but to repair. 6,123 30 i of $200,000 has passed in its favo 3 So much for the 'fairness' of the survey. 2,399 27 And now a word in regard to the ' insignifiA man of integrity willatlinsoye cant expense' at which she would be fitted $192,118 12 - -,- > : - ' ' ' • i J corner — , ' '' ,, . " i " ' nevr �THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1853. 48 f— 1 w m»*. On board H. B. M.'s shin "Arnphitrite," April 9t, Franci. I have no doubt but that an in- Collier, private Royal Marines, belonging to Baflat oa Trent Report of the Secretary of "the English. class Cue Read, private R. M., Newport,'Tlle of Wight. of from 6 to 12 in number, May Hith, teresting Society. May loth, Thomas Christie, ship's cook, Port Sea. Hawaiian Bible would formed, be who be willing quite might In this city, on the 16th lust., Francis McN'amee, of Baron's Honolulu, May 535, lBod. TyronV, Ireland, aged about to receive instruction concerning the chris- Court, Newton Htuart, County recently Mr, President :—In presenting the an- tian years. The deceased arrived 96 in the Colorado, with it would increase religion provided dieeaae died. He had resided in the of which consumption, nual report of the Hawaiian Bible Society, their knowledge. Such a class would need New-York, and wasin the Mexicanbewar. I have no striking facts to communicate, to be instructed on the Sabbath, as they say though many such may have transpired, in they have not time to attend school on other connection with thi# subject. As the distri- days. It seems to me that an attempt should MARINE JOURNAL. of the scriptures during the past year be made in this matter, ifonly one should be PORT OF HONOLULU. as been confined chiefly to seamen, the induced to embrace the truth, and he only Arrived. work has naturally devolved upon the Seait might be the beginning of a May S—Br bk Josephine, Harrison, 96 dc tin Vancouver's in. theoretically, the for and as depositary mens' Chaplain, 3—Br clipper sh Noma, Clelland, 14 dc fm Sin Francisco good work that would reach many others.— 4 Am sch Itinlto, Kisg, 37 dc tin Sen Francisco. bibles has been at Mr. Damon's study.— We should not forget as we look upon the s—Am bg Colorado, Havene, 27 dc fm San Francisco. The few copies of the scriptures which have Chinese among us, that they are the repre5- Am wli eh Mary, Baillee 11 mos fm Edgartown, 130ap the as well 7—Bark Tartar, Madigan, San Francieco. islands, been distributed through 7—KiiKiian Corvette Olecoulza, Naeinioft", 90 gum, from sentatives of more than half the Pagan as some sent to Micronesia, have been Karatrhatkn. 9—Am. Bark Fanny Major, Creasy, San Francisco. mostly drawn through Mr. Damon, and are ll—/...n0, Maratcn, in dietreea. 19—F.dgar, Pieraon, Cold Spring, 5, months out, clean. probably included in the following estimate All ofwhich is respectfully submitted, E. Am TAYLOR, 16— T. wh sh Carolina, Gray, 5 moa fm New Bedford. furnished by him. Whole number of bibles 16—Br bk Mary Ray, Lieter, 179 da fm Hamburg—cargo the merchandise. and distributed during gratuitously sold 16—Br sch Royalist, Harris, 66 ds fm Sydney. 16—Fr sh Jules Cesar, Lessrgent, 18ds fm San Francisco year, 366. Whole number of testaments Installation of the Rev. T. E, do. 17—Am clipper ahip Carringtun, 13 dc fin sold and gratuitously distributed during the Taylor,The Fleetwood, 13 ds fm San Francisco. over the 2d Foreign Church of 18—Am do. " " 19—Haw brig Juno,Pitcher, 18 ds fm A large proportion of these Honolulu, will take place at the New Court 19—Haw brig Eliz. iNewell, Smith, 17 da fm do. een distributed gratuitously. One- House Sabbath 33—Haw. bg Baltimore, Pnty, 60 da tin Manila—assorted June sth. Evening, cargo to J. C. Spalding. "the 660 Jjibles and Testaments were 93—Ambk Bhering, Jennings, 115dsfmBoston—assorted n different languages. cargo to Rice 4. Co. a is curThe Buffalo Courier says rumor 93—Haw bg Baltimore, Paty, 60 ds fm Manila. n we Consider how widely these rent in that city, that a company of twenty May 93—British bk Panama, McLcod, 16 da tm San Francieco of the sacred word have been seat- have purchased the exclusive right to use 23—Am bk Itherina, Jennings, 113 dc fm Boston. 97—11. S. Arnphitrite, 94 guns, 42 ds fm Valparaiso. B. M. to what classes they have been dis- the caloric engine on the lakes, and that they 97—Dan. ech Corinthianer, 16 ds fm San Francisco. Splendid, different and dis19 da fm SanFrancisco. and to how Ilriu many ributed, had made the preliminary arrangements for 97—Am wh sh Kicha'rd Mitchell, from Him. tant circles they will yet find their way, on the construction of a number of heaters and Cleared. the sea and on the land, it is not for us to propellers. May s.—Mary, Merchant, Arctic. Caprice, Lyons, San Francisco, via Lahaina Nor s—Haw ech May the of this circulation. results estimate 6— Am wh sh Polar Star, ll.illy, Kodiack. 11.—Fanny Major, Creasy, HongKnng and Canton. is it saying too much to affirm, that of all The Hoosick Tunnelling Machine, which 17—Am wh sh Edgar, Pearson, Ochotsk. the benevolent societies, whose Anniversa- was to walk straight through the granite 16—Am bk Tartar, Madigan, Sydney. 19—Am wh sh Zone, Marston, Arctic. ries are held among us, that which has for hills of New England, has so far proved a 90—Am wh sh Carolina, Gray, do. its object the circulation of the holy scrip- failure. 91—Am brig Colorado, for Lahalnn. sh Fleetwood, Dale, Shanghae. without note or stands first. 91—Am comment, tures 94—Br bk Mary Ray, Lister, Kamschatka. : iution 8294. Ie foundation of all the others, rpHE Undersigned, for many years Pilots of the view of the importance of this cause, 1 Kono Kittie, or Lee Harbor, desire to invite the PORT OF LAHAINA. to the fact that they ret to state, that some excellent reso- attention of all ship-masters Arrivals. serve them with the ut- May 9—Br «eh are as to still, ever, ready Caprice, Lyons, fm Honolulu. on the duty of this society to give most fidelity as Pilots, Interpreters and Traders. 16—Am sch E. L. Frost. Hempstead, fm Honolulu. le to the entire foreign population of They need hardly say that they refer with great 17—Am sch Emrav Parker, Aahbey, 21 daye (hi Tahiti. sch E. L. Frost, Hempstead, San Francieco. islands, passed at our last annual satisfaction to the testimonials given by all Cap- May 16—Am do. 17—Br sch Csprice, Lyons, this Port. Such as these they hope visiting remained tains sch Emmy Parker, Aahbey, do. know, have so far as we 17—Am I, letter. It will be remembered by ever to merit. JAMES HEDLEY, MEMORANDA. present at our meeting one year since, LOUIS CORGAT. Sailed from Manila. that it was then stated, that a letter had Rono Kittie, Ascension Is., ) March —Bark Maid of Orleans, Wallts, for Boston. 19 Ship Eureka, Welch, New York. Dec. 30, 1853. ) been written to one of the Missionaries in 19 Southern Cross,Pane, "" Raven. "" Henry, 92 China, requesting some Chinese books for Lat. 6 deg. 41 jnin. N—Lon. ISB deg. 24 mm. E. Boston. JoshuaBates, Esterbrook, 29 these the Chinese among upon York. "" John Jay, Honland, New PASSENGERS. Salem. Cashing. Hindoatan. About the 1st of June, 185-2, " Inward.—Per Newell.—G. G. Howe. E. Island, 1862. Arrivals at ioxes were received from S. Wells Per Royalist—Moody, Seal, Miller, Beatie, Mrs. Oct. s.—Eleanor, E. AscensJsm* Hobart Town, trader, the Mission press Webster. , connected with suited Oct. 18, bound to Hong Kong. Oct. 19. Milton, Jones, from New Bedford, 600 bbls. whale, n, containing over 4,000 copies of sailedOct. 95, hound for theline. Married. s and tracts, in the Chinese lanOct. 20.—Mohawk, Swain, Nantucket, 1500 bbla. sperm. Married at the Minion House, Boneby, on the Island ofr Oct. 27th—Jima, Barnes, New Bedford, 40 Sperm, These little books are on various AKrnaion, Oct. 13,1852, by Rev. A. A. Sturgoa, Mr. Charlefli Nov. 7.—Sheffield, Boyce, New York, 1600 whale. to Leantingunitta, and Mr. John Simpson, to LemanNov. 90.—Hannibal. subjects, including sevcrel hundred Reedle, Nov. 23.—Frigate Eugenic, Virgin, Sweden. the gospels of Luke and John, der. Dec. 23.—Brig Freak, Burns, Sidney, Sandalwood. Dsc 99.—Barque Italy, Rowley, Greenport, 1600 whale. parately. About one-fourth of the Died. ceived have been sent to different At theTesldenceof the Princess Victoria Kamamaln, SaturRELIGIOUS NOTICE. morning, May 28, 1853, Mai. Mart P., wile ol J. A. UriiIs. on the several islands for distri- day ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING of wold—aged 90. an adopted daughter nt Nearly two hundred copies have The subject of the above notice wasRoyal the Hawaiian Tract Society will be held on rchool, for seven Johnli, and was a pupil in the Thursday Evening, June 2d, at 7 1-2 o'clock. The culated in Honolulu. Most of the Hon. years, where she endeared herself to her teachers and lellow 1 t Chinamen, and many of the ser- pupils. She whs married Dec. 30, 1851 ; and left an infant i Public are invited to attend. aged two mom he. Her sufferings during her l»st Honolulu, May 28, 1853. re able to read in their own lan- daughter, and, aa sickness were extreme. She felt conscious o« danger, deparher lor see. liarsell eye the could prepared Chinese have many far aB human Though She took a calm and effecting leave of lier friends iialects, they have the same written parture. to absent ones that were present, and sent her last message that others whom ..he loved would A Monthly Journal devoted to Temptrante, m. All that can read of those who She expressed the wishfor death. the hour of trying while health in prepare l this place, manifest a willingness Dearest Mary thou hast left u», Seamen, Marine and General Intelli" deeply feel, low thy Hen we 'e tracts. Some appear to be highBut 'tie God who hath bereft us, gence. y ou Red. One was found who hail a He can all our sorrow heal." PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY Place, the residence >ne of the Evangelists, which he had In Hon< lulu, May 88th, at Washington aged years, SAMUEL C. DAMON, Beamen»s Chaplain. 33 ol Mrs. Dominis, Capt. W. F. Jsssisoi, from a Missionary before he left Master of the Am. bark Bhering." The deceased was a Norfolk, Vs., and"very much beloved and e.tetined nd the appearance of the book in- native of by an extensive circle of friends in this part of the world. JV.OO dicated that it had been read. Those of Died, at Petropaulaskl, Kamschatka, Dee. 31, IBM, Mr One copy per annum, Conn. He bad resided over $-00 the Chinese who are shop keepers in Hono- Tolman, aa American, native ofbeen Two copies per annum, thirty years at that port, having married among the Ruslulu, are many of tlieiu desirous of learning sians. , Eon — . THE THE FRIENBT - TERMS. --------- � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.06.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.06.02 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/bba4d616e6fb38e7525d3c6cc8e7d862.pdf b885431e8fc89492f1e503f7af85d2b1 PDF Text Text THEFRIEND. HONOLULU, JULY 1, 1853. New Series, Vol. 11, No. 7. 49 •Id Series VOL X. year he accompanied the expedition to Mi- feigned joy that another effort is to be made, cronesia. He is a modest, persevering and but it would be no surprising thing if it 49 : Marqueaan Expedition, 49 reliable man. The other ordained man, had should meet the fate of preceding attempts. Farewell meeting*, 50 Reraarka by Rev. E.W. Clark, been a settled pastor on Maui. It was at Believing, however, that failure in a good 50 Remark* by Rev. JameaKckela, 51 a great sacrifice of personal feeling, that cause, is even better and more honorable Remark* by Rev. Samuel Kauwealoba, 51 those men left their parishes for the arduous than inglorious inactivity, our watch-word la Louie XVII. (It-ad? Firat annual Report of the S. F Society, 51 toils of a Missionary's life on the barbarous is, onward! 52 Anniverssriea, Exchange Papera, Coemagraphy, fee, 53 shores of Fatuhiwa. The churches deeply We hope, as the Missionary spirit is awa53 Editorial Correapondence, and two expeditions having already that their should leave king, regretted pastors 53 Intelligence from Microneaia, -54 them. These men were warmly attached to left our shores, others will follow in their Pleaaant Inland, 55 their people*, and their people to them. Poerne forth*Sea, by Mrs. Slgourney, We wake. Let one, at least, annually go forth, 50 Marriagea, deatha, Ship newa, fee, honor these men for their self-denial, and until every island in Polynesia shall not only their example is a most cutting reproof to be visited, but theBible translated into every Christian Pastors in Christian lands, for the dialect spoken by these wasting nations.— a history of Missionary operations shows, that The Bible faithfully translated into the diait is a rare thing for a settled pastor to ask a lect of any heathen people, is a prouder HONOLULU, JULY 1, 1853. dismission from a beloved people, for the monument of the Church of Christ, than ara purpose of " going on a mission to some the most costly christian temples which Marquesan Expedition. far off heathen land. Long has the heathen adorn the enlightened nations of Europe and The English brigantine " Royalist," charworld been sending its appeal to christians of America. Suppose the nations and tribes of tered for the purpose of conveying the Marand America, but it has been un- Polynesia may waste and vanish before civilEngland quesan chief, and the Hawaiian Missionaheeded by a majority of those commissioned ization, let christians break to them the bread ries, to Fatuhiwa, jailed on the 16th June. of life, and now promptly discharge a duty, to preach the everlasting gospel. Our readers have been fully made acquainted The Rev. Mr. Parker, Pastor of the Na- which was tardily performed or altogether with the circumstances under which Mako neglected by former generations. nui, one of the chiefs, of the island of Fa- tive Church, at Kaneohe, on Oahu, accomFarewell Meetings. tnhiwa, visited our shores. Whatever may panied these young Missionaries, and will Sabbath afternoon, June J2th, the introduce them new On to their field of labor. be the fate of this enterprize, and whether two native in Honolulu assemcongregations return the in Royalist." expectations which have been entertained He will bled at the The large ediKing's Chapel. will ever be realized, we feel no hesitation Mr. J. Bicknell also goes out with the Exwas well filled. Several spirited adfice in expressing our public approval of the pedition and is expected to remain on the iswere The dresses made. substance of those Directors land. The circumstances under which he prompt and efficient action of the made Rev. and by the Messrs. Kekela KauNot forth are o. goes simply these,—being a son of the Hawaiian Missionary Society. our readers find another will in wealoha, and wholean **a connected with the Englishman formerly generous to have returned hearted response to this call would have be- Mission at the Society Islands, having been part of our columns. In the evening of the same day, a similar tokened culpable inactivity, and distrustful at Tahiti, being acquainted with the Tahireliance upon the promises of God's word; tian language, and also with the French, be- meeting was held at the Bethel. nay, more, flagrant disobedience to the com- ing also a carpenter by trade, and above all, The exercises were opened by singing the thus: mand, " Go ye into all the world and preach having a desire to .do good, he offered to go hymn commencing Wake the aong of jubilee, which the forth and " render himself useful, in such Let it echo o'er the Sea," ate. the Gospel to every creature," Duke of Wellington aptly styled " a minis- ways as Providence may direct. He is not Then followed the reading of the LX under the patronage of the Missionary Soci- Chap, of Isaiah, containing the sentiment, ter's marching orders." The Directors of the H. M. Society en- ety, although the Directors of the Society " Surely the isles shall wait for me," &c. deavored to obtain Hawaiians, upon whose provided for him a free passage on board Prayer having been offered by Rev. Mr. character much reliance could be placed. the " Royalist." Lyman of Hilo, the Rev. Mr. Clark, CorFrom among those who offered to go, they We would merely remark that the Di- responding Secretary of the H. M. S. ofselected two Hawaiian ministers of the gos- rectors are not unaware that many great dif- fered some remarks, which will be found in pel, and two school teachers. These were ficulties must necessarily attend the establish- another column. accompahied by their wives. One of the ment of this Mission. Repeatedly have at- Addresses were then made by the Rev. teachers belonged to the Rev. Mr. Smith's tempts been made to plant gospel institutions Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Bicknell, which were parish in Honolulu, and the other to the on Marquesan shores. The English and followed by the addresses of the Rev. Mr. Rev. Mr. Bishop's parish of Ewa. One American Missionary Societies, as well as Kekela, end Rev. Mr. Kauwealobs, (see of the ordained men was the Rev. Mr the French Catholics have all been doomed another column) the Rev. Mr. Cosn interKekela, pastor of a church on Oahu. Last to disappointment. It is a source of un- preting. (Jontenis - ... - .... OF THE FRIEND JULY 1, 1833. - ... .... _ - - - ------ ------ - - TUB " " �THE. FRIEND, 50 JULY, 1853. in the strength of Him who has Thes audience then appeared to ba much Remarks by the Rev. M,r. Clark, Correspond- forward ing Secretary of the Hawaiian Missionary promised to be with us to the end. Marthe by with a few remarks gratified We pledge ourselves to these brethren and quesan chief, Makonui, who said that he Society. to our Savior to carry forward the work to Permit me to make a few statements in which we have put our hands, unless some was made very happy because he had obto the enterprise which has now call- unforeseen obstacle shall prostrate our purtained teachers to return with him. His regard ed us together. poses. We say to those who go forth, your and three days people were in darkness. In When we were assembled in this house bread and your water shall be sure, so long three sail, to (showing three nights he hoped one year ago, to say a few words, and min- as you stand fast in the Lord, striving for fingers.) He assured the audience that no gle our prayers and our tears with the breth- the salvation of the dark minded Marquewho were about to embark for Microne- sans. We pledge them cur prayers and our harm should come to the Missionaries. At ren sia, we little thought, that we should so soon sympathies, as well as our pecuniary suphis Rev. Mr. Armstrong, the the request of be called upon to fit out another company to port. We have put our hands to the plough interpreter, he repeated a parte! the Lord's another part ofour great Pacific on the same and cannot go back. Prayer, which had been taught his country- errand. But so it is. The work seems to We are aware, however, that serious obmen, many years ago, by a native Tahitian be laid upon us, in such a maner, that we stacles may beset our path. Missions have cannot escape from it if we would. been attempted at the Marquesas, both by Missionary. There stands one among us, praying, American and English Societies, and have inabilWe readily acknowledge our utter come over and help us," not in a vision, failed. We must be prepared, therefore, to ity to repeat Makonui's remarks, being ac- " as the man of Macedonia appeared to Paul, encounter difficulties and perhaps defeat.— companied by certain gestures and expres- but we are permitted to see and hear him But we will not go back while Providence sions of delight which must have been with our bodily senses. For two or three is beckoning us forward. We will remonths past, the earnest entreaty of Mako- spond to this call from those famishing for seen to be appreciated. nui, (who is now present,) the principal lack of vision, leaving the issue to Him who The Rev. Mr. Parker followed with some chiefof the heathen Island of Fatuhiwa, has sees the end from the beginning. Our plans exceedingly appropriate remarks, furnishing been resounding in our ears,- "give us may fail, but His purposes shall move on, una brief history of Missionary efforts to evan- teachers." Can we refuse this call? With til all shall know Him, whom to know is life no; guilt will rest eternal. one voice, we all gelize the Marquesan Islands. His re- upon us if we do. exclaim, I would take this occasion to express the marks were listened to with more attention The four brethren and sisters, who are now thanks of the Directors of our Society to all from the circumstance that about twenty before us, have listened to this call, and have who have extended a helping hand in this this er- good work. years ago he resided for several months as a consented to be our messengers on received rand of have The native churches have responded with mercy. to-day They island of the Missionary on Nukehiva, an public instructions, in their own language, a liberal hand to this new call. A few Sababout to on embark group, and was now from their Society which sends them forth, baths since, over $600 were pledged for this and have exchanged a word of exhortation object in the first native church of this city, board the "Royalist." more than two thirds of which has been paid The following original Hymn was then with those whom they leave behind. Two of them are ordained ministers of the in. Stansung, having been composed by Mr. The foreign community with characterisGospel, who have been for some time pasgenwald: tors of native churches, and have greatly en- tic liberality, have extended their generous deared themselves to their flocks. Two of aid. [Tune M'umonarjf Hymn.] Hark ! 'cross the briny water**, them are experienced school teachers, who May_fhe blessings of many ready to perFrom realms In darkness bound, ish come upon all who have co-operated ir go out as helpers in the work. Tbey raise their feeble voices, Rev. Parker also them this good work. Mr. accompanies ;— and mounful sound low A to their field of labor, to aid with his counAnd now may the Good Shepherd go with They turn their eyes in sorrow Toward the Northern skies. sels, and return in the vessel. Mr. Bick- our brethren and sisters, and crown their laAnd long, to see in beauty nell, a lay brother of Rev. Mr. Taylor's bors with his blessing. The Star of Bethlehem rise. church has kindly offered his aid in commenMarquesas isles are waiting cing this important work. Substance of the Farewell Address of Rev, For God's eternal law— We go forward, therefore, with strong James Kekela, delivered in the First Nativt slum Id we, with minds enlightened, fnith and cheerful hope, trusting in him who Church, and in the Seamen's Chapel, HonOur helping hands withdraw? has said, " Go ye and teach all nations." their sad condition Should not June 12, 1853. olulu, The enterprise is different in some of its To pity move our heart? aspects, from the one in which we were enam Or, should they empty handed, I happy to meet you cm this occasion. And, without aid depart? gaged last year. We were then called to We remember our old state, darkness and act as helpers in carrying out the plans, sin covered us. We were poor, wicked, and No! hut to noble action which were formed in Boston of establish- degraded. This was the condition of our We'll join our hearts and hands, Toaend the bles»ed Gospel ing a Mission of the American Board in Mi- ancestors and from them I sprang. But To far off heathen lauds. cronesia. We are now to commence a Mis- all is now changed. Teachers have come O, bear the joyfultidinga sion on our own responsibility as an inde- among us. The Lord has been gracious to To Fatuhiwa*s shore, pendent Society. It is doubtful whether the us, and we are blest. In 1852 we sent out And spread the light of knowledge, American Society would feel called upon to a mission to Micronesia, and now, in 1853, Where darkness reignod before. commence missionary operations in the Mar- we have a Macedonian call from FatuheFear not, though rolling billows quesas Islands. By a sort of missionary wa. To this call we cheerfully respond. It Your little bark may toss, Go, preach in men benighted courtesy, the Islands in the South Pacific are is as the voice of God. I cannot resist it.— The story of the cross— regarded as the appropriate field of the Eng- The Marquesans are in darkness. They Tell themhow Jesus loved them, lish Societies, while those north of the line need our help. We do not go to seek our Long 'ere the world began, fall to the American. But to us, inhabitants own things. Love to Christ and love lo the And how he bled and suffered of this great ocean from all parts of the benighted constrain us. It is hard to leave For guilty, fallen man. world, the Islandsof the Pacific are common parents and kindred and friends. We love Speed onward in your journey, ground. We do not, therefore, feel at lib- them and they love us. It is hard to leave Salvation's trumpet sound Till like therose in blossom erty to neglect the call which comes to us my church and people. They cling to me The desert blooms around ; from Fatuhiwa. and my heart clings to them. But we will Till love and truth prevailing, y The nations war no more, But we must remember, that, unlike the go. Our .bodies will be separated, but our And King Emmanuel's banner Shall float o'er every shore. H. S. enterprise last year, we alone are responsi- hearts will be united. You will go with us, Honolulu, Oahu.S. I , Juiieti, 1853. ble for the commencement and the continu- and we will all go together. And God will were The interesting exercises closed ance of the mission. We must, therefore, be with us and with you. He is there. He come up io the wsrk as a Society, and go is here. Ha is everywhere. with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Thurston. — , �JULY, 1853. 51 THE FRIEND, Dear christian friends, pray for us, snd we Tutman is written by Rev. John H. Hanson, Jntire disbursement* and oweatmerat, fS.6fi3.aJ follows, viz: will pray for you. Remember us. We will 'a clergyman of worth, and transmitted to Mr. 'aid cash forasblank book., 2.00 • not forget you. We ask your love, your Putman by Rev. Dr. Hawks. Dr. H. bears «• •' charity, 664.88 materials for Fair, 71,37 sympathy and your intercession. Farewell, testimony to the high character of the author " " 2000.00 the Lord bless you all. and also to the reputation for truth and piety " Mortpnse loan, maintained by the person who is the main " Sufferer* by 'Independence,' 916.00 $3,663.25 Address of Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha. subject of the article. The object of this Friends, —You have all article is to furnish evidence that My Christian Louis down 3,864.87 heard of Makounui, the Fatuhiwan chief. XVII, son of Louis XVI, King of France, Total receipt* broughtbrought Total disbursements down 3,663.26 You know his errand to our islands. He i. and of Marie Antoinette, of Austria, did not 1795, of teachers. His land is land of die as was to the in pursuit in prison in reported a Balance on hand in cash, $801.62 night—of darkness—aland of sin and death. French Convention, but is still alive and in The amount contributed to indigent and He comes to implore our aid—he asks for the State of New York, in the person of destitute seamen amounts to $312.50 over teachers to go and instruct and enlighten his Rev. Mr. Williams, a Clergyman of the one half the whole sum expended, exceptProtestant Episcopal Church, who has ing the special contributions for trie sufferpeople. And we consent to the call. We rejoice labored chiefly as a Missionary among the ers of the Independence." to go. But we do not go to seek wealth or Indians, and been generally regarded ns a Connected as we are with the sea faring or honor or glory, or pleasure. We go not half breed, is no other than Louis XVII.— community, this result was anticipated.— to seek our own things; we go to labor, to A mass of strong circumstantial evidence is The liberal contributions of the masters and to serve, to teach the truth—to do good to furnished—evidence so connected, and so other officers of vessels, however, enables the needy. simply consistent, that it seems conclusively us to render such assistance with the utmost I am a particle of the dust of Kamehame- to show the fate of Louis XVII, and that cheerfulness, not so much as a contribution ha 111. lam weak and ignorant and help- the Dauphin was secretly conveyed from to charity, as an act of common justice. less in myself. In God is my trust. If He prison to this country, and placed among the The total number of persons receiving ashelps me I will rejoice. If he helps you we Indians, in the Northern part of New York. sistance from the Society numbers 36, many will all rejoice. " A French gentleman died at New of whom, but for the aid of the charitable I go from love to Christ; I love the truth; Orleans in 184S, named Belanger, who would have suffered and die** through comI love my missionary friends; I love you all. confessed on his death-bed, that he was the plete destitution. It has been our province You are my parents. You have taught me person who brought the Dauphin to this to be the ulmoncrs of the bounty so liberally the good and the true. My love to you shall country. When (he Prince dc Joinville entrusted to our care, and it is a source of visited this country in 1841, besought out Fvfr. never fail. congratulation that our Society in its finanThis is my land, my home; I leave it for a Williams, and after demanding a conditional ces is in so sound a condition; and that its land of misery and want. You foreigners pledge of secrecy from him, told him he was ability to do good to the suffering and indiare strangers here. This is not your land. Louis XVII, and asked him to sign a resig- gent stranger is not impaired for want of necBut you will remain here and work for the nation of his title to the Crown of France in essary funds. The two thousand dollars Lord. You will pray for us; you will work favor of Louis Philippe. This statement, loaned on bond and mortgage will furnish a for us. Little children, serve theLord—live Mr. Williams asserts lo be true; and also certain income of two hundred and forty in love. We are all little children; let us that not only did the Prince dc Joinville dollars per annum, which may be estimated afterwards correspond with him through obey our Father in heaven. one third the amount required to meet all We go to Fatuhiwa to dig treasure —not his Secretaries, but that Louis Phtllippe at demands upon our Treasury for the coming gold—not silver—these are poor. We go to wrote to him (Mr. Williams) with his own year. dig for truth— for hidden pearls —for heaven- hand, after the Prince's return. Louis Respectfully submitted, ly treasure. We go to remove the rubbish— Phillippe knew th« Dauphin was alive, and H. H. NEWCOMB. the earthiness of sinners—to seek souls—to the name of the Dauphin was omitted from Honolulu, June 9, 1853. Treas. find immortal treasures for Christ. We the solemnities for the departed Bourbon go to dig, to toil, to work. during Louis Phillippe's reign. Another Norway.—A prosecution of persons proI go to pay a debt I owe for my education. piece of strong evidence is a statement that fessing mormonism is resolved upon by the I give myself for the debt—it is all I can do. the French Ambassador, Genet, while in Government. They have agreed that Morthis country in 1818, acknowledged in the mons are not dissenters, and shall, conseWill you cancel it? Farewell! our hearts are united; let us work presence of Dr. Francis, and other gentle- quently, not be tolerated in any public act together, pray together and rejoice together. men of this city, that the Dauphin was not of worship or instruction in the Norwegian dead, but was brought to America. As the Kingdom, or be allowed to make oath before Is Louis XVII Dead? Prince dc Joinville, and other parties re- any court. London Paper. The following paragraphs contain the out- ferred to are still alive, there can be no line of a discussion now carried on in the suspicion of an attempt at deception, unless Young America.—A little curly headed American newspapers. If the son of Louis it be on the part of Mr. Williams; and Dr. lad less than four years old, wandered near XVlth prefers the life of an humble Protes- Hawks says all the precedents of his char- the door of our sanctum, recently, when we acter are antagonistic to this idea. Mr. tant Missionary among the North American Williams has not been the active agent in took occasion to ask his name. It having Indians, to the crown of France, or even an bringing the facts before the public." been correctly given, we asked, '* where was to that attempt crown, in our opinrecover you born?" He replied, "On board the ion, he is a very sensible man, and although FIRST ANNUAL REPORT American ship Montreal, under the Amerihe may not wear an earthly crown, to which can flag." or the Ladies' Stranger's Friend he may be entitled by birth, and which Society. |C7** At the Jubilee of the British and formight be ruthlessly snatched from him, yet The Treasurer of the Stranger's Friend eign Bible Society, held in Exeter Hall, London, in March last, the sum of $50,000 we doubt not, if faithful, he will everlastingly Society would submit the following report: was subscribed to the funds of the Society, a crown of wear righteousness" which the Since the organization of this Society, the about ten minutes Weekly Dispatch. $3,854.87 in Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give him in Total amount of receipts is "rt*» It is said that the Ericsson will be ready the great day of final account, when the re- )f which have been received for for sea by the Ist of July, when the wrought iron deemed shall come from the east, and the membership*, 57.00 .hall have been put in, and she cylinder-bottom, ?rom tho Fair, 1,915.50 direct to London. will west, the north and the south, and shall sit proceed 602.37 Donation., "•' 124.50 Labor, down in the Kingdom of God. The King of Sweden has resumed the GovernSale of Cake, 240 50 "The N. Y. Sun has an article based upon " of the Kingdom. The Commission appointment 915.09 Special subscription, been canone in Putman's Magazine, and asks " if we $3,864.87 ed to officiate during his sickness has j have a Bourbon among us?" The article in c elled. r« - - - - -... " — " •• - ... ... - --- --- — �THE 52 FRIEND,' JULY, 1853. past week. May the bU/ssing of the Lord rest He does not pretend to demonstrate its truth Anniversaries. by astronomical and mathematical experiThe Hawaiian Tract Society, held its upon those who devise such liberal things! ment, but would throw out hints which may Xllth Anniversary at the Bethel, Thursday Our Exchange Papers. experimental philosophers in their reguide O. evening, June 2d. The Treasurer, Mr. We regret that our small sheet does not searches. He has some curious remarks The anH. Gulick, presented .his report. enable us to clip more extensively from our and would make those swift nual address was delivered by the Seamen's numerous and valuable exchange papers. about comets, confirm the truth of vistors Chaplain. The collection having been The publishers of the papers will please re- winged his theory. The author has some remarks taken up, and officers chosen for the ensuing our thanks for the constant supply too, rather curious, and perhaps true, about ceive year, the subject was warmly discussed of which they send by each mail. We asand Expanding" of our employing a Colporteur during a part ofthe sure the publishers and editors that after the Collapsing rise to certain phenomena, giving globe, that the of sum $600 year. It was intimated their papers lie a short time upon our table, called earthquakes! We say again, Dr. to out the entercarry would be required they are widely circulated among visitors or Winslow, you rather surprise us, who live in prize, and $365 was immediately pledged! deposited in the Seamen's Reading Room. this matter-of-fact world. We hardly know Should the officers of the Society succeed in We very much doubt if any of their papers what to write about your theories, as you securing the services of a proper person, extensively read. The following are aware we Sandwich Islanders are not are more we doubt not the full amount required would are regularly received:—New York much given to theorizing. The world to us papers be forthcoming. " Tribune," Herald," "Observer," " In- is a stern reality! We are not much accusThe Rosyai. Hawaiian Agricultural dependent " and " Sailor's Magazine;" the tomed to hold converse with comets and meSociety, held its Hid Anniversary, June Albany " Washingtonian and Rechabite," teors and Nebular substances; but if, DocBth, at the Court House. The exercises (a most excellent temperance sheet,) the tor, you or any ofyour philosophical friends were opened with an address by the Presi- Washington National Era," the Ameii should wish to examine a real volcano, we " " dent, Judge Lee, which was followed by can Messenger," and Child's paper," pub" would cordially invite you to visit Hawaii. several interesting reports. lications of A. T. Society; The "Puritan We assure the author," who kindly forOn the evening of the same day, the New Bedford "Shipping List," warded us a copy of his book, that its perur Recorder," Annual Address was delivered by J. Mont- Martha's Vineyard "Gazette," Nantucket sal has afforded hours of pleasant recreation, gomery Esq., whose persevernnce and suc- "Enquirer," Sag Harbor "Corrector," diverting the mind from the dull and monotcess as a practical gardener in the vicinity and " Litchfield Enquirer." The San Fran- onous scenes of every day life. Its reading of Honolulu, fully entitle him to speak, cisco Pacific," and Advocate," and Sac- has lifted the mind to a higher region of conBy Authority," in certain departments of ramento " Banner." "The Scottish Tem- templation. The truth or falsity of the theoagriculture. perance Review," (Glasgow,) the British ry advanced we presume not to touch upon. On the following day there was the annual "Temperance Herald," "The Friend," If true, it will be gratifying to reflect that exhibition of stock, grain, fruits, vegetables, (published in London,) The Sailor's MagAmerica has its Newton, and if false, the &.c, Sec, in quantity not great, but in quality azine" published by the B. St. F. Sailor's ideas suggested may prove stepping stones better than last year. Society, London, " The Cornwall Chroni- for some future Newton, to mount up still The reading of reports was continued all cle," published in Van Dieman's Land, higher in the temple of science. day Thursday, and the Society adjourned "The Voice in the Wilderness," and the very late in the evening. The operations of Christian Advocate," published in Sydney. Advertisements.—By a late Act of the Hawaiian Legislature, the License Law, rethe Society are exciting a most salutary inlating to advertising newspapers having been fluence throughout the islands. New Work. our columns will be open to such Our Benevolent Societies.—We con- Cosmography; or Philosophical Views or repealed, of by C. F. Winslow, M. our advertising friends as may choose to clude our remarks in the present number, the Universe, either business cards or general ad& insert by Crosby, Nichols upon the Anniversaries of our Benevolent D. Published The Friend opens the best vertisements. Societies. It is highly creditable to the Co., Boston, 1853. which person might wish, for any means, the reception, We would acknowledge liberality and benevolence of the foreign with the sea-faring commucommunicating volume with the above ofa community, in the islands, that all of these through the mail, the Pacific. During the coming in the nity readers will recognize title. Our island institutions should be so liberally sustained. shipping season, it is our intention to issue The report of the Treas. of the Ladies' S. F. author as a physician, formerly residing in the Friend semi-monthly, for the accommoSociety, shows that the managers of that Lahaina. The character of the work tnkes dation of seamen, which will be more advanassociation are skilful financiers. In regard us by surprise, for we did not imagine that tageous to advertisers. Terms reasonable. of to the usefulness of this Society, and the our old fellow resident, was of that turn modest style, tact of the ladies in collecting funds, a New- mind." In a very careful and Small Pox. —This fearful contagion is York correspondent thus writes us, "I he advances a somewhat new theory in re- prevailing in Honolulu and the vicinity. All Physicians are laboriously enthink many daughters have done virtuously, gard to the Physical Universe. He suppo- the foreign in arresting, so far as possible, its gaged force operathat there is an all-powerful but they have excelled them all, and that ses ravages among the natives. Isolated cases the use to be made of the money is most ting throughout "all worlds," antagonistic to are reported on Kauai, Maui and Hawaii. the great law of universal gravitation, as The Physicians report that the disease ustimely and humane." We hud supposed that, after the very discovered by Sir Isaac Newton. Hithert*. sumes a mild form and when tho patients will submit to their directions, that it may bo liberal contributions for the Bible, Tract, Mis- philosophers have been puzzled to account controlled. It is hoped that general vaccinthe styled technically what is sionary and other Societies, the benevolence for, or explain ation in the other Islands, will prevent its of the foreign community, in Honolulu must "Centrifugal force," in our Solar System. general prevalence. This remedy cannot have been well nigh exhausted, but the This new theory embraces that subject, in now be too generally adopted. Only three cases have occurred among foreignChaplain has had very unexpected and sub-' its wide grasp. The author denominates his or four and none as yet fatal. ers, stantial evidence to the contrary during the new theory, as " A Theory of Repulsion." " " " " " " " " " �JOLY, 1853. 53 THE FRIEND, Inteflrigocm icronesia. M Installation.—The following were the vent abuses and shield the islanders from would counalone cut Philanthropy of.—A boat's A California Schooner Exercises at the installation of the Rev. T. injustice is not sufficient crew Murdered American brig " Inga" if course; sel such a but this E. Taylor, as Pastor over the Second For- inducement, politically and commercially, it cut off at Pleasant Island. An English eign Church of Honolulu, Sabbath Even- is absolutely necessary. Many vessels have Captain left his vessel Seamen's Chapel been missed within the last few years among at Rono Kiltie. Liberality of two whaling ing, June sth, 1853. innocent the Captains. Scriptures, the islands, and doubtless manytheir Invocation and reading lives with have the paid penalty men of much importance has been Intelligence Damon; prayer, introductory Rev. S. C. for the crimes committed by a few degraded Ascension, via San Francisfrom sermon, Rev. received Emerson; singing; Rev. J. S. individuals. I feel convinced however, that seem as if the fact, we now Smith; co. It would L. unknown, Rev. and it installing the evil is prayer, A. Bishop; the extent of has! be presently publish would be quite sufficient to induce charge to Pastor, Rev. A. Thurston; Right only to be made known to even- those who have the direction of naval affairs will not that this I doubt hand of fellowship, Rev. E. W. Clark; remedied. colmeans of your to tually pass come by Coan; singin these seas to dispatch a vessel thither charge to the people, Rev. T. umns, when another benefit will be added to too long have, those seas Pasing; concluding prayer and benediction, the many already conferred on those whose forthwith. Quite with a species of semi-pirates, been infested tor. lot has thrown them in the Pacific. Another subject mentioned in your col- whose bloody acts call for merited chastiseumns is worthy of notice, and I cannot con- ment. If the new Mission thither accomEditorial Correspondence. clude without a remark on it. It appears plishes no other good, we hope it may be in"Amphitrite," May 31st, 1853. that it is not an unusual thing to find scatSir:—Since visiting the Sandwich Islands | tered here and there among the numerous strumental in spreading before t|p world the I have enjoyed many opportunities ofperus- islands of the Pacific, run-away sailors, ruf- truth and facts respecting both the foreigning "your excellent paper, and I feel that I fians and outcasts of the lowest grade. ers and natives residing in that part of the should be wanting alike in gratitude as in This at first sight might be viewed as one of ocean. duty, were I to leave your shores without |the greatest curses that could befall the unAscension Island, Feb. 19th, 1853. the benevolence of |happy islanders, and doubtless it is in a great expressing my thanks to those who so readily place it in the hands 01 ]measure; but a close observer will discover Mr. Damon, Califorseamen. Many a full heart has beaten {that even this is not unattended with good. Dear Sir:—lt is reported that a off the in nia schooner has been cut Radock chest has quicker, and many a brawny The gloomiest day is never without some And heaved with emotion at the wholesome and cheering rays, so in the most degraded of Range at Boston or Coville Island. who arrived there that a whale boat's crew "Friend." As a of the genial influence His creatures, God's image is never extinct, killed as they sailor I can answer for this being the case even these wild ruffians and desperadoes too weak to walk, were ulso with seamen, and I believe I am not exag- though they are, are created for some defi- crawled up the beach. It is among us, gerating when I state, that it is by no means nite good. They first step on shore in a thought probable that the schooner was uncommon with those individuals who may savage isle, their sunburnt visages and Capt. McKenzie's, which left here in Oct., two months. have the happiness to read it. But it is not brawny limbs are objects of much admira- and was to have returned in have since taken even Several vessels whaling the or opportunity every one who has tion to the untutored savage as their reckpower to express his feelings. There are less courage and intrepidity are subjects of from that island considerable sums of money. times when feeling renders us eloquent; reverence. It is an all-wise and incrutable Capt. Hussey, of the Wm. Perm, received when the full heart pours forth its wealth Providence that has ordained that these it is said, over a thousand dollars. It was crew, an Oahu in rich and empassioned language; but men, bud in themselves, should be the for this money one of hisnative has since is killed That him. native, when language are, there other times means of ultimate good; that they, the lowIsland, by one it powerless to express the deep emotions of est in the social scale should be the pio- been, killed on Simpson's shoot. the soul, and feeling takes refuge in silence, neers of better and worthier men, whose is sard, whom he himself was about to and Thus do the dead their bury dead," and significant, " perhaps more impressive sole object and care of life is to place their than the most thrilling eloquence. This is dusky brethren on the same footing as murderers execute murderers. Within two weeks Capt. Fish, of the nothing new, all must have witnessed this at themselves. May success attend their efIndian Chief," came by Coville's island.— not lives; of their sailors are some period " forts. an abundance of devoid of feeling: but it is hard for those I am afraid my remarks have extended to He report, them as havinghad a purpose of who do not know them, to discover in their an unusual length, but I may not again have money. He thinks they Solomon' from negro him. A capturing exterior any the bronzed cheeks and rough opportunity of addressing you, and I signs of emotion. I, however, have had was loth to leave your islands where I have Island is the ringleader of mischief on that some experience with them, and many an spent many happy days, and where not the island. honest seaman have I known who would least pleasure has been derived from your Capt Barnes of the brig Inga, N. B has have given much for the power of stammer- paper, without expressing the gratitude I been cut off at Pleasant Island, to the surprise of every one acquainted with the ing out his gratitude to those who so kindly feel as A WAVDERER. peaceable character of those natives. It is place the "Friend" at his diposal. the The Friend." To Editor of surmised that it must have been in revenge Among other information derived from for a Pleasant island native who died at his the accounts by was startled your paper, I Address of English Ladies to Mr.. hands in this very harbor, and over whom given of the frightful enormities and atrocities committed by the crews of vessels Stowe.—We copy the following from the we performed the funeral ceremonies.—* searching for Sandal wood—that quarrels letter of an English correspondent of the Capt. B. has for the last four years been practicing high handed outrages on the in*> should take place, and that blood should ochabitants of these seas. casionally be shed in the intercourse be- N. Y. Independent: and is not The and constituted 26 Capt. Oliver, ju.t from Pleasant island savages, signatures address tween civilized beings occurred singular; but I was totally in the dark as to large folio volumes; the signatures numbered reports that the difficulty first were prethe extent of these enormities, and more 562,848, " there is scarcely a district in the among the crew, who he thinks horrified at the wanton murders on the one kingdom which is not represented; great viously to blame—that all the whites but one bund than ut the dire spirit of revenge which zeal and sympathy universally pre\ailed, were killed—that the brig drifted off to sea— prompted retaliation on the other. I remark and nothing but the short space of time al- and he thinks that Capt. Swain has her upon this, as I feel confident that these lowed to the work prevented a very large chronometer and several other articles, prothings are unknown in Great Britain and the multiplication of the signatures." The first cured from Pleasant Island. I also learn from Capt, Oliver that previous to Cspt. United States, for it is monstrous to suppose copy of Mrs. Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Barnes' difficulty five foreigners were killed that two such powers awure of these hor- Cabin was produced at the meeting. A copy rors, should allow them to exist. Can of the address, as elegantly illuminated on by the natives of Pleasant Island: probably neither of these great states with their pow- vellum, is to appear to-morrow ie the Illus- in consequence of violence upon the natives. Last November or December, Capt. erful fleets spare one little barque to pre- trated London News. • — ,, , —— — , — " �54 THE FRIEND, Rono Kiltie, March 2nd, 1853. " Ge»ii," of Sydney, left his Mr. Damon, vessel at Strong's Island, for what cau.e we Rev. Dear Sir:—You will Brown, of the JULY, 1853. furnish recruits for mind and soul, and then send them on their way to sing, doubtless be glad to Anil iell ihe world hid power lo aave, are not fully informed. King George would To"heathen landa the Goapel brio*, hear respecting your out-stations and your Tocheer their pnaeage to the grave.n not allow the crew to remain on shore, and parishoners as they occasionally My love to your family. The Lord bless they finally took their departure. Capt. B. numerous in visit us their wanderings up and down you and your labors. Island.— started in a canoe for Ascension these wide seas. We are happy in receivSincerely, We have heard of him as having touched visits from them, and very happy in ALBERT A. STURGES. at Wellington Island, and now we are told ing being able to report so favorably concerning by natives who stole his boat from the Raven them. Some twenty delegations have called Island, that he is there. These natives also since our residence here, affording Pleasant Island. us upon Raven island, dealh on the report the violent to society, us much our kindly adding good Or an Island without the Gospel. of a foreigner named George May. our work by Thus do I communicate the massacre of comforts, andofgreatly aiding This is an Island lying among that cluster sympathy and confidence in two ships' companies, the murder of a boat's public proofs denominated, Micronesia. It of islands crew, the singular desertion of another ves- our undertaking. Two American captains, Roscoe, of and of has never been visited by Missionaries, and Rowley, the (Gorham, sel by it. captain, and the nearly successful grounds and its inhabitants have never, in any way, been the have purchased of the Italy,) with the death fourth, of a mutiny a temporary chapel and par- brought under the subduing and christianicaptain. Do not these affairs require official buildingsforforthe benefit of seamen visiting sonage, attention? zing influence of the Gospel. We someBut I am most anxious to communicate our port. The friends of the sailor, and times hear the elevating influence of comfew, are not rewill they everywhere surely of more encouraging particulars—items hope for these seas, in which I call upon all to joice to hear that in Bonabc there is now a merce extolled. We are far from denying that the sons of the ocean come to commerce and trade exert beneficial influrejoice witlrPus. A Seaman's Chapel has Bethel, whereocean's God, with the Bethel been secured for this port by the united worship the them, marking the dawn of ences, but they must be accompanied by the purchase of Captains Rowley and Gorham. flag waving overthis benighted island, and Gospel. The Missionary and the Merchant They paid sixty dollars and secured the Sabbath upon nine-pin-alley, and a should go together, labor together, pray tothese dark seas! A property of a foreigner who was about to leave the island, which consisted of a dwell- place where rum was once sold, are now the gether, and they may rejoice together over of Ihe curse of seamen.— islands evangelized, and natives christianing house and bowling alley. The house I blessing instead am to occupy; one part of the alley is to be Foreigners on shore, have generally united ized. When the Missionary goes alone, this house for service. We are up converted by the united labors of several in fitting room, for a he feels the need of the reading civilizing also influence preparations making a neat and chapel, resident foreigners into the other portion perhaps into a reading room intending to appropriate what suitable mat- of commerce, and when the merchant goes Will you not rejoice in this as good news.— ter we may have fer this object, looking to alone, demoralization, immorality, disease The Nanakin, our chief ruler, readily con- you, and to other friends of the cause, fo and death follow in his footsteps, although sents to this disposition of the place. There- help us in making it an attractive, as well as in a pecuniary point of view, he may before among Ihe facts of interest I think you profitable place, to the sailor. we have double interest come vastly enriched. The history of evanMissionaries, As and Readmay mention a Seamen's Chapel ing Room, at Rono Kiltie, Ascension Island. in seamen. They come to us with prodi- gelization and commerce, in the Pacific And now may we not ask our friends, and gious power for good or evil; their example abundantly establish these positions. Let the friends of seamen, to send for this read- and influence must greatly affect our opera- no one infer from these remarks that we ing room all the good books and papers they lions with the natives. We stand therefore can spare? Will you be so good as to at the gap, offering them the Gospel, wel- would advocate a union of the missionary forward papers by all opportunities? The coming them to our houses, and especially to and mercantile character in the same perwork upon this building will be done ajter God's house, hoping thereby to benefit their son, or in the same establishment. The Gosthe spring ships leave us. We hope to souls, and at the same time, check or purify pel missionary has his definitely defined the streams of influence they send in upon have it reudy by the fall season. sphere and so has the merchant. The two Yours, L. H. GULICK. us. You speak of our "Mission as intimately should remain distinct, but they may labor connected with the conversion of the abund- together. The following letter is from Mr. Corgat, ance of the seas to the Lord." So we reit. How solemn then our relations !— Two circumstances have directed our atthe Pilot, who has resided about twenty gard How fearful the night that would follow our tention to the condition of the inhabitants years on the Island. failure! Stand by us then, help us to main- of Pleasant Island. In the course of our Rev. Mr. Damon, tain our post, give us the fuel, and the reading, we have recently met a volume, enof the Almighty shall kindle a flame Dear Sir:—l am much obliged to you for breathBonabe in Feejee," or ," Five years that shall save many a mariner titled "Life upon the very valuable present you sent me. It Cannibals," the among by an American lady, is the Word of God, and therefore I value it from"the way to hell, going to the chamand strike into the the wire of Capt. WalD. deep death," Wallis, bers of Mrs. M. the more. For want of it this island has redarkness over the fairest commanded midnight brooding lis, who has a Salem vessel enmained in darkness, and nothing but the of the Pacific! beech the dc mer trade at light of the bible can expel this darkness. portions in ii gaged " And how much have seamen to do in this I am also very thankful to the good Chris- work? They are first to visit these islands, the Feejee Islands. In the course of his tians of your islands, as also those ofAmeri- are first to set in operation causes of bless- voyages, he occasionally visited other isca., for sending Missionaries to us. It is or cursing generations—they bring Mis- lands of Polynesia, and being accompanied What we have needed, what I have long ing sionaries and often determine whether they by his wife, she was accustomed to journalwished for. Twenty years ago I wrote to shall have landing —they furnish (hem ize. The volume from which the the Sandwich Island, for Missionaries, and with suppliesa of following food, books, etc.—they afterwards to Tahiti, but no Missionaries back reports and trophies of victories; extract is taken embodies selections from bring ever came. You may be assured, dear sir, in short, from beginning to the end of the her journal, and we can assure our readers that it did my heart good to have the Caro- missionary enterprise, they form a very im- that it is a most readable book. line come, and I was only sorry because I portant part. could do no more for her. I am determined How responsible your post, operating as The following paragraphs furnish an acto do everything that lie. in my power to do, at the gathering place of these count of their visit to "Pleasant Island." make your Missionaries comfortable and you forces! Do them good, send them The other circumstance to which we allude, mighty successful. on their way to us. We have good ports, Should it ever come in your way to visit us good recruits; our hearts will welcome them is the fact that an American brig, the I shall be very happy to sue you. to all comfort.; we will do our utmost to " Inga," Capt. Barnes, has recently been " �5 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1853. (See Rev. Dr. Gu- sides of the vessel; but supposing that palm- ure somewhat tall and comely, with a very leaf hats, of which great numbers were ruddy countenance, such as the beholder sale, had been bought by the sea- may both love and fear. His hair is the celAug. 9.—We arrived at Pleasant Island, brought for men with them, I said nothing about it.— or of the filbert when fully ripe, plain to his or the whaler's -depot, I think it should be They brought a quantity oflines to sell. Mr. ears, whence downward, it is more orient of called. No anchorage being found, the W. stood on the quarterdeck, buying them, color, curling and waiving about his shoulbark lay to, and we were visited by the inhabi- and had them into the house, which ders; in the middle of his head is a seam of passed tants in great numbers. An African negro, was filled with natives; and as the lines and partition of long hair, after the manner or as black as Africans ever are, came off in cocoa-nuts were passed in on one side, the the Nazarites. His forehead is plain and one of the first canoes. He was asked if honest natives dexteriously passed them out delicate; his face without spot or wrinkle, there were any white men on the island.— on the other This was beautified with a red; his nose and them selling again. "Oh, yes, sir, there be three besides my- continued sometime before they were discov- mouth are exactly comely his beard is of the formed: the The white men soon self," was reply. that they brought was sold for to- color of his hair, and thick—not of any ered. All came off, bringing a sick pig and a well one and I was almost stunned by the vo- great height but forked. In reproving he is for sale. One of the men, called Bob, wus bacco, ciferous cry of the girls, of "Captain's wo- terrible; in admonishing, courteous; in the captain, I presume, as he appeared a man, give me chaw tobacco." They placed speaking, very modest and wise,; in proporvery confident, bold, business sort of a fel- no value upon which was offered them, tion of body, well shaped. None have seen low. They are all deserters from whalers. although they cloth, leku," him laugh, but many have seen him weep. wore nothing but a He informed me that there were about fifmade of grass. The whole conduct" of this A man for his surpassing beauty, excelling teen hundred inhabitants on the island, —that was boisterous, rudeand immodest in the children of men." they were divided into tribes, each tribe hav- people the extreme. The girls came on board for ing a petty chief, and the whole being gov- the vilest of purposes, but stated that their Poems for the Sea. by Mrs. L. H. erned by a queen. They perform no reliSigourney. purposes were not accomplished, as the saigious ceremonies, but believe in the immor- lors were aliaid of Captain's woman." Several months since we received this " tality of the soul. When a chief dies they This little island, which is only six miles believe he becomes a star, (a poor material, in circumference, was discovered by Capt. volume, " Presented to the Seamen's ReadI should judge, to make such brilliants of,) Fearn in 1798. Its inhabitants then resem- ing Room, Honolulu, with the best wishes of and when a poor man dies, his spirit has to bled in character those that I have before the Author." This is a .thrice welcome wander about on the island in dark and un- described as belonging to the young Wil- gift. The contents of the volume clearly frequented places. There are often wars liams group. Whaling vessels have been in indicate, that the mariner is not forgotten by among them, but they seldom kill their ene- the habit of visiting this place for many those who dwell upon the land. It is a gramies,—they only kind 'o play fight. With years, and here are shown the effects of a the Bob white men, Capt. coolly heathen intercourse with white (I can scarce- tifying thought that some of the best writers regard to stated that not more than three or four could ly say civilized) men from civilized lands. of (he age are employing thoughts and pens agree to stay on the island at a time, as they It is true that at home this class appear like in literature for those furnishing a cut off at this island. lick's letter.) . pure usually got to fighting and killed each other; civilized beings, but it is too often the case We but three years had now elapsed since the that when men visit foreign climes, their whose home is upon the deep. with an oclast white man was killed. shall enrich our columns gladly conduct shows that they have left; their souls None of the vegetables or fruits usually at home. casional extract from this volume. The found in tropical climates are found here, Here is a practical illustration that civili- following address to The Ocean," we now except the cocoa-nut. These, with fish, are zation does not follow intercourse with civilthe food of the natives. They raise pigs ized people, unless accompanied with the copy:— TO THE OCEAIf. and fowls for the supply of their whaling uospel. I believe that the state of society Ah! let :in' lie thy pupil, mighty Deep! visitors. Capt. Bob, however, does not al- ut Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands would Yet apeak thou gently to ok 1, for I fear low the natives to sell the piss themselves. have been no better than Thy voice of terror, nor desire to learn this, bad not the He kindly takes possession of any long face gospel been close upon the white Those lessons that do make the mariner man's track. Shrink in hid dreams. that happens to be brought for sale by other Such, in a few years would Feejee become, My Mother Earth imparta than his own clan, sells it at sixpence alb., were not the gospel there to counteract in An eaaier lore. She talketh of her Bona. and indemnifies the owner with such a quan- some measure the baneful consequences of Her ievel'd mountains,and Irt corn-clad vales, tity of tobacco as he thinks best. He al- intercourse with trading vessels. The reaTown, tower and temple, and triumphal arch, lowed the natives to sell their fowls, which son why it has not already become so, is, All speak ofman, and moulder while they apeak. did for one head of tobacco they negro But, of whose architecture, and design, that the dangerous character of the natives apiece. The black man did not belong to Inn hitherto prevented a free intercourse Tell thine eternal fniiiiinin*, when they rise To combat with the clouds, or when they fall? Bob's clan, and lived at another part of the with them. I presume there is no class of Ol whose strong culture, speak thy sunlesa plants? island. He appeared much better than the be found this mundane world on beings to And groves of coral, which no mortal guest trio composing Bob's company. He asked Hath visited, and liv'd? excepted,) whose minds would be me if I could give him a Bible, or a Testa- (Chinese What sculptorwrought found more impervious to gospel influences leaves of Bible. ment, or even a few a I than the inhabitants of Pleasant Island. These monuments of amber, and of pearl, felt happy that it was in my power to comply Where sleeps the sea-boy, in a pomp, thai earl* Denies her buried kings? with his request. Capt. Bob regretted our Description of our Saviour.—The folWho strangely streteh'd short stay at the isle, as I was the first white lowing epistle was taken by Napoleon from A line of sand to curb thy monstrous tide, lady that he had ever seen at that place, al- the public records of Rome, when he deAnd w rittng JJitArrio."'—bade the mad surge " though he had been here seven years. He prived that city of so many valuable manuRespect thy silent mandate? would have been happy to have had Mr. W. scripts. It was written at the time and on From whose loom and myself visit the queen, and to have the spot where Jesus Christ commenced his Came f-rtli thy drapery, that ne'er waielh old? No 1.. Men leaf, or withering floweret marks shown us the island. The sick pig he brought ministry, by Publius Lentullus, the GovernThy sere decadence of autumnal time. was of very large dimensions. It appeared or of Judea to the Senate of Rome—Cresar, Who hath thy key*, Oh Deep? Who taketh not* feeble, but Mr. W. was assured that it was Emperor. It was the custom in those days, Of all tby wealth? Who nuinbereth the host exhaustion occasioned his of only by journey for the Governor to write home any event That spread their tent amid thy cells,and aleep from the land to the vessel, not being ac- importance which transpired while he held Uiiwakeu'd, unretiring? Who doth scan customed to travel by water. As we had office. The secret annal, from Creation lock'd In thy dmk cabinet? long been without fresh provisions, Mr. W. " C( nscript Fathers:—There appeared in still, one reply ! R.ich breaking bilmw speaks that One Drttd ffamt paid eleven dollars in cash for the long face. these our days a man named Jesus Christ, Which he, who deepest gravea within his heart Our decks were completely filled with na- who is yet living among us, and of the GenIs wisest, though the world may call him fool. tive men and young girls, who stole every tiles is accepted as a Prophet of great truth; Therelor* I hend tr> thy resounding tide*, And list the echo ofthy countless waves, thing they could lay their hands upon. I but his own deciples call him the Son of A lone disciple,—ifperchanre, my soul caw them handing shirts, trowsers, sailors' God. He hath raised the dead, cured all That poor shell-gatherer, on the shores of tim*, other over the statHay by tby lore instructed, learn of Hod. knives and various articles I manner of diseases. He is a man of " �JULY, 1853. Selections for the Friend. MARINE JOURNAL. BY ALIQUIS. PORT OF HONOLULU. *gj"* "I promise myself to see the day, Arrired. June B— Am bg Emily Bourne, Butters, fm San Franciaeo. when it shall be as much the fashion amongst 6—Nicaragua!, bg Director t'indea, Town, do. a 7—Am bg Colorado, Haven*, fm Lahaina. raptuie of to admire men politeness, even 9—Am tik Rebekah, Speight*, fm San Frnnciico. of St. Paul, as any fine expression in Virgil 9—Am bg Mary Ann Jones, Fotger, fm Hong Kong. May 96,—Am. Zoo, 18 Uaya I'min San Franciaeo. or Horace, and to see a well dressed young .Inut 11 Phiii-Iibrig hk Concordia, Hroverinean, 15 dn fm 3. Fran. man produce an Evangelist out of his 13 Ham. ah J. W. A. Lorenzo, Henricliaen, 170 ds from Hamburg. pocket, and be irb more out of countenance 14 Br ach Time, Chape, 13 <ln fm Ban Franciaeo. 16 Haw I'H Willielmiiit*, Sailer. 76 di fm Hong Kong. than if it were a classic printed by Elzver. — Addison." . 56 THE FRIEND, Donations. For the Seamen's Chapel, [seats free] supported hf graluiluons contributions; nnd the Friend, one thousand copies of which are distributed gratuitously among Stamen in the Pacific Oaeau. Name*. For Chapel | For Fricni -- " - -- .... ... ...- The Sea, $3.00 5.00 Mr. (i. 11. C. Isgraham, lUce & Co., 10.00 6.00 Dapt. Furnhelm, Klinkofstrom, Nicolai, I." A Sailor, A Wanderer, " "" June SO Am. hk Magdala," Corey, 16 da fm Fanning'-* li. Tapley, 13 days fm 8. Francinco. ** IAm.8.bg51....pBo*olton," War Portsmouth 1 1-2 daya fin Hilo. $1000 1.00 4.00 PUN AH OU SCHOOL. The next term of this school will commence on 30 Ru»t-ian bark Tuaku," 9 mouth* front Abo, (Fin- Wednesday, August 3d. The Punahou school is a boarding and manual laland) clean. bor school, the boarders being required to work two Cleared. May 30,—Austrian brig Spli ndid, for Hat avia. hours a day. June 1,—Am. Whale>-hip Meteor, Crapo, 8. F.via Hilo. The location is one of the most pleasant and health, June ti— Panir-h erh Cot inthianer, Richelr-en, Manila. ful in the world; and being about two mile* from 7—'Kin hk lthering, Mnase, Kamchatka. Honolulu, the pupils are not exposed to many of the 7—Haw bg Juno, Pitcher, Ban Francisco. 8—Am hg .'.dorado, Havens, do. temptations of the city, and yet, they can enjoy its it, which has not its use and beauty in the Sailed, June titb, Run-nan Corvette Olevoutza. privileges of religious and other meetings. system." 11 Daniah hark Concordin, Hong Kong. The school year is divided into three terms of 12 13 Am bk Rebekah, Kiiwitih-te. weeks for the convenience of pupil* living at a dis14 Brig Din nor Pindea, Port Phillip. fjgp "No religion, purely as areligion," Bible, snys Cecil, represents an extensive and highly cultivated garden, where there is a vast variety and profusion of fruits and flowers; some of which are more essential or more splendid than others; but there is not a blade suffered to grow in |@» "The " " WHALEIt*. 14 Am hg Emily Bourne, Lahaina. tance. observes Dr. Wilson, the late Bishop of 14 All) bg Zoe, P-an r'rMiiriMi', The branches taught, are those generally attended 16 Am brig M, A. Jon.-, Lihatna. the but Calcutta, was ever propagated in academies and high schools. to, Christian. Heathenism was never a matter PORT OF HILO. A course of lectures on Natural History, may be of dissemination or conversion. It had no As only a pari of the arrivala of whalers at Hilo this expected. Hoard, per week, including washing, spring have been published in our Marine Journal,we publish 4 00 creed, no origin distinct from the corrupt below a correct list of the ssme. Tuition, per term, 12 00 traces of a remote fabulous antiquity. It Arrived. It is expected that the boarders will furnish their was a creature of human mould, contrived Jan. 17 Sh Magnolia, Col, New llcilfi.nl, 16 moa. Cld Jan. SI rooms. Sag Harbor, 28 nios. Cld Mar. 5. Ontario, Brown, Feb. 6 8h for the sake of human legislation. The Applications for admission, to be made to the 17 Sh llenj. Morgan, Chapel, fm Honolulu, N. 11., 17inos. teachers. D. DOLE. Greeks and Romans imposed it not on their Cld Feb. an. sp. Titos. 6 200 Cld Dickeraon, Taber, 8., mos., SI Sh N. "Wm. H. RICE. subject nations. Mahomedism was the triMar 11. Honolulu, June 30, 1853.—tf-7. 2-> Ilk Isabol, Smaller, N.R., 8 mos., 124 sp. Cld Mar. 11. umph of the sword. Conquest, not religious 22 Sli Marcus, Sherman, Fair Haven. .Id March 21. XXV. C. M. BLAKE'S SELECT 23 Sli Catherine. Hull, 30 mos. Cld March 11. faith, was its manifest object; rapine, vio23 Hk Alice, White, C. H., 10 mos, 700 wh. .'ld Mar. 18 BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS, its credentials. lence and blood-shed, were 36 Bk Black Eagle, Ludlow, S. 11., 19 m.s., 75 sp. Cld AT BENICIA, CALIFORNIA. Mar. 28. No religion was ever attempted to be Caroline, Giflbrd, N. 8., 7 mos, 130 sp. Cld Mar 12. In this school thorough education in the English, spread through the world by the means of Mar,271 Sh Sh Caravan, Br***, Kail Kiver, 5 mo*. Cld Mar. 111. Ancient and Modern languages, and mathematics, is 1 Sh Rambler, Willis, N. R.,5 mos, HO sp. Cld Mar 30. instruction and persuasion, with an authority 1 Sli Columbia, Cash, Kan., 'j.-i mos, 45 sp, 35u wh. Cld afforded to a limited number of pupils, under the of its own, but Christianity. The idea Mar 17. care of experienced Teachers : 1 8h Benj. Tucker, Sands, N. 8., 10 moa., 200 wh. Cld The course of study is calculated to fit the icholar never came into the mind of man to propaMar. 21. 7 Sh, Harrison, Hnthaway, N. 8., 27 moa., 150 sp, 1201) for active business pursuits, and also to prepare such gate a religion having for its set design and as desire to enter college. «h. Cld Mar. 26. exclusive object the enlightening of mankind 7 Sh Kuropa, Weeks, N. 8., 16 mos., 60 sp., 1550 wh., The location at llenicia, has been chosen as res ('ld It, a divine. bone. Mar 22,000 All with doctrine professedly markahly healthful and accessible ; and the arrange5 mos. Cld Mar. 21. 9 Sh Newell, 11., N. CoptS, ments of the family are such, (hat pupil* will find the Christianity said to her disciples, "Go ye 14 Sb BnKiklino, Kelly, N. 8., 27 mos. Cld Mar. 30. 16 Sh Pacific, Allen, N. 8., 5 m05.,31,0 sp. Cld.Mar.27. comforts of home. into all the world and preach the Gospel to 16 Sli Winslmv, Davereux, Havre, 4 mos. Cld April 2. Music is taught by an experienced master. 17 8h Falcon, Gardiner, N. 8., 8 mos., 50 sp. Cld Ap. 2. every creature." The Academic year begins with August Ist, and U 17 Sh Unman, Tripp. N. 8., 3-2 m05,300 SO, 50. wh. 17 Sli Arnolds. Il.irdnig, X. 1!., 8 mos, 350 sp. Cld Ap. 4. divided into four quarters of eleven weeks each. 11l Sli Julian,Cleveland, N. 11.. 16 mos., 20 sp, 18110wh. Terms per quarter including all charges, $ 160, St. John's Day.—June 24th was observed 19 Sh Mary Ann, Dallinan, N H., 30 mos. eld Mar. 26. 19 Sh Niagara, dough, F. 11., 18 mos., 50 sp, 1950 wh. payable in advance. by the Masonic Lodge in Honolulu. There (Id April 2. REFER TO Coy. J. Bigler, California. 21 Sh Rainbow, Flasket, N.8..4J mos, 70 ip CldAp.2 Hon. L. Severance, was a public procession, which attended Di21 ShCallao,Baker, N 8., 8 mos, 110 sp, 60 wh. Cld Klisha Col. J.C. Fremont, Allen, Esq. 11. April 2. vine Service at the Bethel, where the Rev. Rev. T. I). Hunt, San"Fran 2,1 Sh James Maurv, Whelden, N.8., 16 mos. Cld Mar2B Capt. John Patv, 24 Sh Kiitusolf, Fierce, N. It., 17 mos. Cld Mar. 29. Rev. Daniel Dole, S. H. AVilley, L. Andrews preached. This was followed 96 Sh John C'.ggesliall, Norton, F. 11., 5 mos. 014 Ap 8 liev. S C. Damon, Rev. A. Barnes, Phils. 6 Teste, Knssiter, Havre, mo*. (Id April 6 18 Sb Oen. by a dinner. Rev. S. L. Pomeroy, Bos. 28 ilk Fanny, Nye, N. 8., li mos ,20 sp.. Cld April 9. Rev. E. Bond, - - - - April! Sh llillman, Cos*, N. 8., 20 mos. Cld April 7. 8 Bk Chile, Anderson. X. 11.,9 mos, 50 sp. Cld Ap. 19. PASSENGERS. Inward.—Per brig Emily Bourne, 2S. Islanders. Per brig Director Pineda, 27 passengers, en route lor Port Phillip. Per bark Hebckah, A. S. Bronsart, 11. M, Stone. Fowler, Outward. —Per Juno—Win. Fowler, L. Miller, L. Winter, W. B. M. Maclenery. Per ■Colorado—Capt. W. A. Benedict, Mr*. Benedict, Trlrs. Benedict, senior, 6 children of Capt. 8., Isaac Titcomb, J. C. Spalding, Mr. Biggs. Cs.pt. Fielpstcad, Mr*. Fieldstead, Mr*. Teldheitn, Mrs. Cole, Charles liarstow. May 13 Sh Daniel Wood,Tallman, X. II ,4} mos, 140 sp. Cld April ML 14 Sh Richard Mitchell, Dc Friez, N.,4J mos., 90 sp. 18 Sh Meteor, Crapo, S., fin San Francisco. licnieia, January 1,1853.—tf-7. FRANKLJIV PrSKABURY, NO. 18 SOUTH WATER STREET, NEW lti;i!IOKI), MERCHANT TAILOR, INFORMATION WANTED. AND HKAI.f'.R IN Respecting Mr. David Wilson, who visited Honolulu in 1846, and wrote his family from this port READY MADE CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS. July 15, 184fi, but since that time has not reported himself. Any information, will be forwarded if sent Garment, of every description made to oror to Friend, Earl, Mr. Pater to the Editor of the der in the best style and at short notice. tf. American Theatre, San Francisco. &3~ Seamen's Outfits of the best duality. Respecting Josuni A. Covi.ter and Edwaiu> O. Dknnistrr, who left the ship Midas, Capt. Woodbridge, nt Lahaina in the autumn of 1851. Should Married. Temperanse, of HonoluAlbsny, N. V., Jon™ 0. annxion, merchant, this noticefall under the eye of either, he is requested A Monthly Journal devoted to ii.tlaliu, Sandwich I.landa, to Anna M.kv, daughter of to communicate immediately with either the Editor IntelliSeamen, Marine and General Samuel Stevens. Esq., of Albany. In lloMoinlii, by the Rev. T. E. Taylor, on Monday, May of the Friend, or Mrs. E. E.Exall, Newark, N. J. 90, Ma. Wh. Gill, to Mi.. Liv, of Honolulu. Respecting Wm. Dirbiiow, who left the T.T. S. Ship PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY ____.——__________—. Columbia, at Honolulu in 1939. He is reported to SAMUEL Cs DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. Died. have died at the Hospital in the fall of 1839, but still At the U. S. Hropital, in Honolulu, June 27th Mr. Leonard his name cannot be found upon the Consulate books. last He at IMI autuiun. xhp port left a whale Rarimm who Any information will be thankfully received by the One copy per annum, belonged to Ware Village, MaWS., where hi. family now re Chaplain, and communicated to his friends in New fv.oo aide. Two copies per annum, 3.00 tf Kenway, York city. John Maitland 10th Hawaii, in.t., At Waimca, Five copies per annum, 5.00 Honolulu, June 30, 1853. only .on of Gwrge 8. Kenway, aged 3 1-2 year.. — THE EAt * FRIENDT TERMS. - - - --------- � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.07.01 - Newspaper https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/631653d1c0328157dc1db277f1478f37.pdf 7d23ba0014a7a00d93c9668be1f694b2 PDF Text Text New Series, FTHE RIEND. f«L 11, N«. 8. HONOLULU, St.PTI.MBKR 1, 1853. 50 Old Series VOL X. « San Francisco have also been received.— Rotation in Office. All our exchanges previously mentioned This is the American system. With the Page 58 Our Exchanges, are received regularly. Pierce-atlministralion go forth new Consuls 58 Rutalioa in Office, The "Illustrated News," published in to various parts of the world to occupy the 59 Letters about the Arctic, No. 1, Editorial Correspondence, 59 New York, by H. D. & A. E. Beach, and offices of those who were appointed by Presi60 Lecture on Phyeical Education, Among the 80 Mr. Barnum, of Jenny Lind noteriety. The dents Taylor and Fillmore. Fancy Sketch, 61 publishers will please accept our special Political Alfmm in Turkey, of President Taylor, may appointments good 61 Small Pox—Temperance, -.--.--61 thanks for the successive Nob. of their ex- be reckoned that of E. H. Allen, Esq , as Revolution in China, 68 cellent paper—really at the head of all AmOriginal Wuhinguwiana, Consul for this port. In his official position, 62 Table Talk of Napoleon, erican It Pictorial comes the publications. he has reflected honor upon the country which 63 Feejee Island!, No 1, --------63nearest to the English Illustrated News, of he represented, and most eminently secured Obituary Notice, 65 anything we have ever seen issued from the | Vmnderbilt's Steam Yacht, the respect of the government to which he 65 Marine Intelligence, Deaths, A.c American Press. We do not see why anl came accredited.- He has also secured the American Weekly Pictorial may not be esteem of both the shipmaster and the sailor. made equal, if not to surpass similar publi- Surprising as it may appear to persons accations in Kurope. We think they would, if quainted with the relation which a Consul HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 1, 1853. Yankee publishers were not in such, a hurry; sustains to the seafaring community, both the they do not allow the ink to dry before' skipper has been generally satisfied, and Jack Our Exchanges. (Continued.) the news-boys are selling them in the streets! gratified with his reception at the Consular In our last No. we noticed the reception i ofSan Francisco! We delight to see things office. While we must express our regret of certain papers, the publishers of which; but we really wish our country- that a gentleman so well qualified for his go-a-head, honored us with an exchange. Recent mails were not in quite so much hurry. Suc- office, should retire, we rejoice to welcome men have brought us additional papers. The, Weekly Pictorial. his successor, B. F. Angel, Esq , who comes "DeseretNews"haB been received, accom- cess to Mr. Barnum's shall we be to exchange. Right glad exnot only approved by his political friends, but panied with marginal remark, " please Here comes "Harper's New Monthly highly recommended by his political oppoof the change." This paper is the organ Magazine." The No. for July has been nents. Mormons at Great Salt Lake City, Utah .received. This is a most valuable and inFrom certain documents issued from the Territory. Touching all matters temporal, | structive Articles are Monthly. carefully State Department at Washington, we learn to and thriving prosMormons be appear the written. The monthly Summary of News that the entire Consular system of the U. S. to bud are the desert They causing perous. is excellent. To an American abroad, each is to undergo a revision We are glad ofit and blossom. Some ofour readers may wish No. of this Magazine, is worth a year'ssub- and we hope the U. S Consul may not hereto learn the location of the rising city of the scription. We hope many subscribers for after be compelled by " his instructions," to Mormons; we reply, N. Lat. 40° 45' 44" so reports the this publication may be found upon the is- refuse admittance to the hospital of any seaand W. Long. 111° 26' 94" lands. There is no difficulty about the men sailing under our country's flag, al"News." Although the Mormons, or Lat- mails at present. Subscribers might rely though they may not have become naturalter-day-Saints have arrived, as they think at upon receiving each No in from 45 to 60 ized as American citizens. the promised land, still we are sorry to learn days after its publication in New York.— from the columns of their paper that some of Mr. Whitney, Post Master, acts as agent the inhabitants of that land do not pay their Three thousand years ago, says for this publication. debts, others steal, and another thinks of getSolomon, "Of making books there is no end." (jg** We would also acknowedge our inLaw, while a his practising by living ting The same work has been more or less acdebtedness to J. Ludlow Esq., of San FranMormon poet by the name ofTomlinsonpretively carried on ever since. The end has cisco, for several packages of late Amerisumes to perpetrate rhyme after this mannot yet come, and we are most heartily glad can papers. ner: of it. We are' also glad that a goodly Imthe whole law of God is known, By late California papers, we rejoice portation has just been made, and even more " Here And no one needs to fueei, to notice, that the meeting house of the Ist glad, that they find a ready sale. Mr. WhitFor Brigham does thelaw make plaia That leads to happiness." CongregationalSociety, (the Rev. T. Dwight ney's invoice, by the Matanzas " was the " Yes, we shall be glad to exchange, al- Hunt's,) has been completed and also dedi- most valuable, included a larger variety and though we cannot comply with Poet Tomlin- cated. It is represented as a beautiful edi- more choice selection than was ever importfice, finished in the most elegant style of ed at Honolulu. It speaks well for our comson's invitation, Come to Daaaret, modern church-architecture, and will seat an munity, that " books thai are books are " When sbines the sUr of day." audience of 1200 persons. immediately bought and read. A new inThe "Peekskill Republican," published voice has also just been received by tb« and The weather is with little or no fine, "Prices in Westchester Co., N. V., at "Mechanics' Own." at trades. published rain, intervals, strong Current and Shipping List," Oil It'll lOF THE FRIEND SEPTEMBER 1, 1853. ------ - --------------------,- - ------ TiKlI FKSJIIRa©. I ., 1 " �THE FRIEND, 59 SEPTEMBER, 1853. In glancing over a file of the "New with bustle and activity, but hardly has the great rendezvous—surrounded by old friends, Bedford Whalemen's Shipping List," we ob- work commenced, when the unwelcome wind and by strange faces, with letters from borne, sea rises with fearful rapidity; and ships sailing and arriving daily, and I serve a series ofinteresting letters, written by increases, the the land is under the lee; a d far out extend must defer saying more until a more quiet some master of a whaling vessel. The first the great ice barriers. Cutting in is out of season. letter appears to be dated in Honolulu, and the question—and equally impossible is it subsequent letters at sea. Thjnking those lo lie with the whale alongside—so his flukes Editorial Correspondence. letters may contain some useful hints mid are unjointed, and slowly he drifts astern, ami with him, to our great chagrin, some Lahaina, July 19th, 1853. suggestions to our seafuring readers, and hundred and fifty barrels of oil But we inpart information to the general reader have no time to grumble. Our sails must Dear Brother Damon, —After leaving respecting "the cold regions of the North," be close reefed, and the storm-sails set. your hospitable house, I had the unusual we commence their publication in our col- With watchful attention we clear the ice and comfort of a passage home in the U. States Sloop-of-war Portsmouth, by the kindness of umns. We regret our inability to insert I lie land, and ride out the storm. when the next whale is captured Capt. Dornin, in company with others, HonPerhaps writer's name : and cut in, every thing favors us, and the olulu and Lahaina friends. The Portsmouth Not a cloud obscures arrived here the 28lh ult., and was joined LetarbsouActih.-Noe 1. contrast is delightful. the blue sky, and the golden sun the 3d inst. by the Frigate St. Lawrence, bright, TBOMHAYASETFRWSHIP. HALE irradiates a calm, blue sea. The rugged Com. Dulaney. Both shiys sailed this mornNov. tfiU, 1863. cliff's of Kamschatka rise far off on the west- ing lor San Francisco. Dear Sir —Although you have been ern horizon—mountains towering above The presence of these ships at Lahaina lough to request it, I hardly feel coin- mountains, until they pierce the arch of has greutly varied the monotony of this quiet to give you the information which you heaven, the blue fields of ether mingling season of the year. We regret the prevauching the Arctic regions, the Man- with the snowy cliffs that rise against them. lence of small pox among yourselves, but id customs of their inhabitants, I The scene is glorious, but quickly passes feel greatly indebted to it, or rather to our lortant and dangerous fishery which away. The cold and bitter Norlh-West own Providential freedom from it, for the terprise of New Bedford has there winds sweep down from the mountains and a pleasure we have enjoyed from their visit. Hon lu , : ' shed. Had I known your wish when meridian sun cannot arrest the continual Liberty was granted to the men of both vessels, and I am happy to say that they connailed from home, what I have to sny formation of ice. be much more valuable and interest- To speak of some of the particular facts ducted well while on shore, with a few exHie time to obscrvo, and to form ac- of my voyage. In May the weather con- ceptions, proceeding from the usual cause of opinions would have been when I was tinued cold, and we had continual snow- disorder, liquor. Intemperance is not a preided by the scenes and objects them- storms and squalls, but no rain or fog. The vailing vice at least on the Portsmouth. I of which you ask me to speak—when first rain was upon the last day of May, and witnessed on board of that ship, for the first rital and physical powers are all coin- the first fog on the Ist day of June. The time, the distribution of the grog ration. into activity, and the observation is ice was then stretching entirely across the Reclining, a little sea-sick, on the poop, my led by the constant care, anxiety, sea, from ihe vicinity of Cape Olutorsky to alfactories were suddenly assailed by a most ngers of an Arctic cruise. From the St. Paul's Island, and I think Bristol Sound pungent and unmistakable odor, which I ncement of our voyage all its exeite- was also full. From the sth of May to the was happy soon to discover did not proceed ind good and bad vicissitudes con- '25th of June I cruised over a good part of from the breath of any unfortunate individalternate. As our good ship presses the Sea of Kamschatka, without taking a ual in the vicinity, but from a queer looking 'aid, she has at first storms and whale, and seeing veiy few. Last season lob amidships, garnished with a number of weather to contend with. As we the ice was two or tiiree decrees further diminutive pots, around which some old awtil 'ill nearer to the land of ice, the ruin south than tin; season previous, on ihe Ist of a tew younger DMB were collected. Each Iged to snow, gales cross our path June. This was very discouraging, and 1 came in his turn, took up a tin pot, emptied ibritlled fury,—the great ocean waves, | began to calculate the chances of another the contents with great tbrmuiitv and steadialmost to the skies, and as tlie wind failure. It was the opinion of many that ness into his mouth and retired, looking as if r veers, assuming a pyrauiidical form ilie ice would remain too late to allow much he thought he lelt'a little better. I was glad to n to swallow us up—but the faithful whaling, but I thought at the time, that a hear that only 30 ii.en on the P. drew their uggles on her lonely way. Perhaps considerable portion of the Anadir Sea wasl grog-ration. is swept from the cranes ; now and clear of ice, though ships sailed along the By Capt. Dornin's invitation I preached spar is broken or a sail is split, audi harrier from Cape Olutorsky to St. Paul's on hoard the Portsmouth, last Sabbath mornthe wild cry of the gale, and the Island ad could not find an opening. The ing— the service being attended by our peoI and drifting snow, the hardy seamen opinion was altcrwaids confirmed, for I ple from the shore, and many from the Frift to bend another, up a ringing en- passed through an opening, and sailed north gate. I have rarely had a more numerous, n ice. The gale is over, and we have forty miles in clear water, nor was any ice and never a more attentive audience. weathered it, and now, with a fair: to he seen Irom masthead. My reason for The 4th of July was suitably observed by our course is still Northward, still my opinion was that during May the wind a dinner at neighbor Oilman's, where the ; the icy barriers and snowy m.oun- lilew, for the most part, from North East to ladies and gentlemen of the squadron favor" the Arctic. N'orih West and drifted ihe ice south. The ed us with their presence. A band from the titude57the polar whale is found, previous year the wind was principally from Frigate discoursed music, and patriotic favorable weather is often captured. the South and Ivist, in consequence of which feeling and cordiality prevailed. Last ThursNow comes new excitement, in the magnifi-i the ice was driven home, and closely com- day the Princess Victoria, and the ladies of cent chase of the great sea-mon-tcr. The pacted in the Anadir Sea I took my fourth the place, were entertained on board the boats are lowered, and before he has dream- whale on the Ist July, entered the Straits on frigate. ed of danger, the monarch of the waters, the 20lli with seven whales, took seven in the Some of the officers of the P. expressed hat received the flying harpoon, and made Straits, entered the Arctic, on the 22d of much delight at a visit to Wailuku and his grand dive in search of safety. He August, took five in that sea, and one on the and Makawao, where they found wheat fields t»kes out some fiv* or six hundred fathoms I6lh of September—heing seventeen in all— ripe and waving, abundance of strawberries of line, and for some forty-five minutes we slowing 2100 bbls. The greater portion of and some fine peaches, all quite home-like. •ee nothing more of him. He rises into the fleet kept along with the whales from Lahaina, after all, has its attractions—a daylight once more, to receive tha bright, Cape Thadtleus across the sea, and through favorable impression seems to have been keen lance ; he throws into the air a crim- the Straits. Generally the whales moved mutually produced. We shall not be sorry son column, and breathes his life out in the slowly north Many of the ships passed to see American national ships again in our red streams of his vital blood. Oftentimes, through the Straits to the Arctic about the port. Nor will they, we think, be altogether however, our industry fails of its reward Ist of July, and finding no whales returned. backward to visit us. Our magnificent prey is taken alongsid-, But I must close this letter. I am in the Yours truly, and preparations for cutting in fill the ship midst of all the bustle and excitement of tints S. E. B. �THE FRIEND, 1653. SEPTEMBER, 60 FanS cy ketch. muscle into said of running,l We hear it sometimes said, that every Some mouths since, we noticed a lecture exercise. This may also be leaping and playing ball. To climb the delivered by the Rev. D. Dole, at the Beth- high hills where the air is cooler and clear- thing about the Sandwich Is. is interesting. el, on the subject of Physical Education. er in pursuit of botanical specimens and Perhaps some of our readers will peruse with It has since been published in a neat pam- shells, and to obtain fine prospects, is favor- interest the following paragraphs from that phlet form, and is deserving of a careful able to the development of the physical very respectable periodical, "Hunt's MagNor would a pedestrian turn- azine" : perusal by every parent, teacher and youth powers. around any of these islands, in favorable "Tun Effects of Commerce. —It is but Islands. We it hope may circumstances, be amiss, even for girls.— a few on the Sandwich years since the ijandwich Islands were find its way into every family and school. Such excursions, besides being beneficial to a race scarcely removed from the monkey Copies are now for sale at the Polynesian; the b dy, would do the mind good, by awa- tribes, or if removed at all, it was in the kening thought and by cultivating sensibili- direction not particularly creditable to them. Office and at the Chaplain's Study. ties to the beauties und sublimities of na- They herded together in a state of nudity in We copy the following paragraphs from ture. cool weather, to get warmth from each the concluding pages of the lecture. After I will close with an extract from John other's bodies. They lay down upon the On the duty oj preserving health." sand of the sea shore to feed upon therotton referring to the injurious effects of various L'cke, "If by gaining knowledge, we destroy lisli cast ihere by the waters. They had no kinds of condiments, the Lecturer reour health, we labor for n thing that will be religion, no literature, no regular language. marks: useless in our hands; and if, by hariassing They had no sciences, no arts, no trade. use of tobacco, our bodies, though with a desire to rentier They Still more injurious is the hud no houses no clothing, and hardly opium and intoxicating drinks. Why to- ourselves more useful, we deprive ourselves food. Th' y were too indolent to fight—they used, ever have been it is difbacco should of the abilities and opportunities of doing lived the life of slothful brutes. There was ficult to tell; for it is a loathsome weed, and that good we might have done with a meunet an equality among them which might have it is also a poison. The use of it is filthy, talent, we rob God of so much service, and satisfied the most rabid Red Republican. It disgusting and exceedingly annoying to the our neighbor all that help, which, in a state was the very race, indeed, upon which the I have known one, at least, who of health, with moderate knowledge we might of cDinmunizing could be fairly brmed a resolution when a girl, never to have been able to perform. He that sinks experiment tried without compromise to the theory. It used tobacco. his vessel by overloading it, though it be was lecome the wife of one- who commerce that civilized and saved the Thousands of similar resolutions have with gold and silver and precious stones, Sandwich Islands from utter annihilation.— Would that the loubtless .been formed. will give his owner but an ill account of his A half of a century has barely elapsed since lumber might be greatly increased. these humanizing influences commenced, and voyage." Those who have formed the habit of you may now Cnd in Owyhee, long, paved be to break persuaded ising it will hardly of substantially-built dwellings and streets Young in prevalent Men.—The idea is t off; yet many of them have doubtless warehouses. There are also schoolhouses and iften wished that they had never formed it. some communities, that the young men are churches; in short, there are all the positive and that they statesmen, unfit for or generals Jut let parents exert their influence over evidences of civilization. heir children against tobacco. It is easy must be kept in the back-ground until their As you look upon the dignified old Sandis and physical strength impaired age, by from the formation for the young to abstain their intellectual faculties blunted by years. wich Island merchant in fine broadcloth, and of this habit, but exceedingly difficult to Let us look at the history of the past, and his somewhat corpulent wife in the finest silks break it off when formed; and besides, the from the long list of heroes and statesmen walking in a christian manner to church, or side of abstinence. If cain is all on the who have nobly distinguished themselves, we behold them surrounded with all the-luxuries any pleasure in using it, there is of Europe and America in a magnificent :nsive breuth nnd disgusting spitting, will find that they were young men who perhouse, you are apt to wonder if these same them formed those acts which have won for tendency to hard drinking and to are the identical naked rotton fish eaters who fame, meed of and which an imperishable y. sunned themselves on the sea shore! formerly on their names the of placed page history.— tobacco, to and opium e, in regard and the young lady with ihem, the elegant, of the whole civithe conqueror ting drinks, let the motto of the Alexander) brunette—the young stubrilliant roguish, viz, : Greece, Egypt, and Asia, be, "touch not, taste not," your lized world, dent too, as deep in the love of classic lore was crowned Empedied at 33. Bonaparte health, respectability, and happias if he lived in a more favored land—are qmre that you practice abstinence, ror of France when 33 years of age. Pitt, these the children of the real heathen themof brother, the was 33 younger years age, education, exercise bodily hysical selves? It is even so. Such miracles are s particular uttention. And the ex- when in Britain's Parliament he boldly advowrought by the pursuit of trade.— Hunt's hould be generally in the open air. cated the cause of the American colonies: Magazine. made Chancellor of the and but when 22 and nature n need much exercise, important moTei them to take much. While this L'.xchequer. Edmund Burke, at the age of Good Movement.—An set on foot at Liverpool, was first Lord of the Our ment has been Treasury. 25, the should not of nature be restrainng in e should be taken that their exer- own Washington was but 25 when he cover- chiefly by the captains of American ships, ed the retreat of the British at Braddock's favor of the abolition, on both sides of the and the kind.— varied of right i kinds of exercise which may defeat, and was appointed to be commander- Atlantic, of the present practice of giving the uninended as most beneficial and best in-chief of all the Virginia forces. Alexan- advance notes to seamen. The reform if to to our climate, are walking, run- der Hamilton, at 20, was a Lieutenant Colo- carried out, will be equally advantageous the A deputation the men and employers. 25, nel and aid to at a member Washington; to naking excursions the mountains, owners of British coasting shipping, i>n horseback, swimming, jumping, of Congress, and at 32, Secretary of the of the the quoit and playing ball. Girls Treasury. Thomas Jefferson was but 23 had an interview with Mr. Cardwell, of tb« to remonstrate against the tercise as mucb as boys, and the fine when he drafted the ever memorable Decla- Board ol At the age of 30 proposed new Merchant Seamen's bill, Mr. went of their physical powers is not ration of Independence. >ortant than that of the other sex.— years, Sir Isaac Newton occupied the me-i Cardwell did not hold out much hope of their nost, if not in all the kinds of exer chanical chair at Cambridge College, Eng- opposition proving successful, notwithstandtheir statement that if the coasting trade lave mentioned, there is no reason land, having by his scientific discoveries ing Mu-\ is to foreign sailors, able British searendered his name immortal.— Merry's opened •y should not participate, men will be driven into Ihe American seruch a climate as ours, it would be scum. vice, where there interests are mora cared r them to learn to swim and become in the art. It would be for their Sailing Side-by-Side.—The clipper ship for than at home.—Exchange Paper. It might be for the saving of life, Kate Hayes, Capt. Mauron, and the clipper Sir John Franklin has now been absent ig on horseback is an exercise not ship Antelope, Capt. Crosby, both sailed from nearly eight years, since which time fifteen ed by any in its pleasure and bencfi- Shanghae Nov. 5, and both arrived at New expedition* have been engaged in search of him, at an expense of four million dollars. ulti. It is recommended because it York on the 3d. Lecture on Physical Education. brings almost every bone and — " — Iadies. i I , . �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1853. 61 Political Affair of Turkey. ported; hence, it would appear that nowhere Revolution in China. At St. Helena m re than thirty years ago, has the disease raged as in Honolulu and Recent intelligence from China, confirms Napoleon remarked respecting the Emperor the vicinity. We hope, ere long, to report previous rumors, that a most formidable opof Russia, that "all his thoughts are directed that the loud and mournful wail which has position party has arisen in the Southern part to the conquest ofTurkey;" "especially Al- for so many weeks been heard in the town of the empire. The designs of the revolutionexander wanted to get Constantinople, which and up the valleys, will have ceased. is s so far as ascertained, appear to be to 1 could not allow, as it would have'destroyed We have good reason to believe that ef- overturn ihe present reigning Tartar dynasty the equilibrium of power in Europe." That fectjal measures have been adopted by the and introduce a more liberal government. which Napoleon in the height of his power Board of Health to purify those parts of the The revolutionary army, at the last accounts would not allow, the combined powers of city most infected. Many old houses have had taken the city of Nankin, and was mediFrance and England are now endeavoring already been demolished *and others puri- tating a inarch towaids Pekin. As yet no to prevent. English and American papers fied. foreign power has declared in favor of either refer lo the Turkish question as the most We would urge upon all strangers and party. What is the most striking feature of important which now agitates Europe. The seamen, arriving at the islands, re-vaccin- this movement, is this, that the leaders arc Emperor of Russia is now concentrating a ation. decidedly favorable to the cause of Christilarge army ia (he region of the Black Sea, anity. This fact was ascertained beyond a and the most active wa-like preparations are Some weeks since, our neighbor doubt, by the visit of the English Admiral to The Russian "The Argus," published the letter of a Scot- iheir camp, near Nankin. They have the going forward in Turkey. Ambassador having made certain demands tish clergyman, in which, the'writer most Bible freely circulated among them, and proupon the Turkish government, had retired, prudently and courteously shows that the fess to adopt the ten commandments, as their inasmuch as those demands had not been Scottish Presbyterian church, is not tainted rule of practice. One or more of the leadcomplied with. We shall wait with no or- or infected with the principles of teetntalism. ers were formerly under the instruction of dinary interest to learn the result of all these With our ideas upon this subject, we thought Ihe Missionary Gutztlaff. Although it has political movements, for they unquestionably our Scottish brother was laboring under an been extremely difficult to obtain accurate have a most important bearing upon the ful- erroneous view of the subject. We have intelligence respecting the insurrection or filment of a prophecy contained in the Book revolved,his statements and reasonings, over revolution, still quite sufficient is now known of Revelation, 16, 12, "And the next Angel in our mind, again and again. If the Scot- to excite the live iest interest in the religious, poured out his vial upon the great river Eu- tish clergy entertain lax principles upon this political and commercial ciicles, which are phrates; and the water thereofwas dried up." subject, and act upon those principles, we watching the progress of events in that quarThe time it would seem has nearly come for are not surprised to find in the public prints, ter of the globe. those waters to dry up—for the Turkish Em- such statements as the following:— In another column, will be found the pire to vanish away, but for the development At the last of the general assem- letter of an American meeting " ship-master, dated, of some part of God's wonderful scheme of| bly of the Established Church of Scotland, April 15th, Strong's Island. It appears that providence, the forces of England and France four ministers were deposed for intemperance, he had lost his ship, but under what circumare combined to prevent the catastrophe.— and (woof them, shocking to relate, for in- stances, we are unable to ascertain. Report** Those who contemplate these movements toxication at the Communion table." savs she went ashore in a calm! apart from the plans of God, shoot wide of their Such melancholy instances of aberration mark. So we think. The Apostle Johnsaid, do occasionally occur among the clergy of Various enquiries have been made "blessed ia he that watcheth." We shall America, where, almost unanimously the for the Friend of August. The truth is, if hope to secure, in part at least, this bless- clergy of all denominations have ardently we must confess it, that while there was so ing. espoused the cause of Teetotalism, bul in- much sickness in town, (our ears constantly stances of this nature are now very rare, listening to the unceasing wail of the natives Small Pox.—We regret that it is not our being by no means so common as in former for the loss of their friends,) and everything privilege to report that the ravages of the was so dull, we had not the energy or heart small pox have ceased. So far as we can limes. Whenever we become acquainted with such melancholy facts, among Ihe cler- to publish our little sheet. We intend I owascertain, the facts are as follows: In the gy of any sect, creed or denomination, so far ever, before the close of thp year, to furnish town of Honolulu, there are but few cases from its weakening our faith in the principles our subscribers with more than " 12 Nob." at present. Tne Commissioners of Health we advocate, the effect is rather to nerve us During shipping season, it is our intention, report 45 cases, Aug. 26th. In the envito duty. Who is safe, if he drink from that if our means will allow, to issue the Friend rons the disease is still prevailing. There j Cercean cup? Is the gospel minister? Facts semi-monthly. are many cases on the windward side of answer, No. To our ministerial brethren of Oahu, and also atEwa. The total number We would gratefully acknowledge a all lands, we would say, let ts see well to it, of deaths on this island would not, certain- that the volume upon the Finances of the United peolpe may never qaote our example, for ISS -2, from the Hon. Senator ly, fall short of 2,000, out of a population of should States, any of them be inclined to sport in not over 18 or 20,000. None of the other; Seward. On former occasions, we have also Ihe eddying circles, surrounding that fearful islands of the group have been so severely been indebted In the same distinguished genvisited. Probably not 20 cases have oc- Maelstrom, Intemperance. tleman, for U. S. public documents The* curred on Kauai; none existed at last revolume just received contains much valuable California papers report the dedica- historical information relating to the fisheries port. Comparatively few on Maui. None reported on MoloLai or Lanai Aug. 15, tion, in San Francisco, of the new Unitarian us they were prosecuted, during the early Mr. Fuller writes from Kealakeakua, that Meeting House. This edifice is reported as settlement of America. The history of the only two cases existed in thatdistrict. There a beautiful structure. Pews sold at high original " thirteen colonies" is intimately had been 73 deaths. No cases at Kan, Ha- prices. $1300 was paid for the first choice identified with the Cod and Mackerel fishewaii. In other districts a few cases are re- above the appraisal. ries. �62 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1853 Good Movement —The Rev. Mr Speer, contribute to hasten the adoption of thia in San Francisco has ■Man measure by Great Britain."—Newark John H. W. Hawkins, in answer to the| Chinese Missionary Daily Advertiser. statements going the rounds, that the leaderj been delivering a course of lectures on ChiTable Talk of Napoleon of the Baltimore Washingtonian movement na, at the Rev. Mr. Hunt's church. At the at St. Helena. Baltimore, in a low grog-shop is keeping close of the course, $8,000 was raised by am of opinion thai as soon aa the 1. I gives the present standing of the original six the audience for erecting a suitable building affairs of France are settled, and things are as folows:— government will allow me Mission," "the the in quiet, English to accommodate Chinese Anderson, blacksmith, do"David master to return and finish my daya in Europe, to soon ing well, and accumulating property; John the city. $10,000 additional was very do not believe that they are 1 England. well; doing Hoss, master the subscricarpenter, subscribed in the city. Among F. at the expense of eight James McCurley, a master coachmaker, do- bers we are gratified to observe several foolish enough to be keep me here, when I millions to annually, ing well, also accumulating property; Archi- Chinese viz:—See Yup Co (by Atai) am no longer to be feared. names, an doing extensilver-plater, bald Campbell, establish an universal libersive business; William R Mitchell, on his $200; Chun Aching $100; Yeun, Wo Co, 2. I wanted to ty of conscience. My system was to have no own farm, seven miles from Baltimore—un- $100 Lee Kan fk. Co, $50; TongK. Achick, predominant religion, but to allow perfect fortunately does not keep his pledge; $50; Gee Atai, $50; Cho Yun, $20. liberty of conscience and of thought, to make George Siears, died in 1841, a sober man— all men equal, whether Protestants, Cathowriter to the last. We know not what or his paper, kept pledge lics, Mahometans, Deists, and others; so that The above interesting information respect- to credit with the following beautiful and their religion should have no influence in geting the six original Washingtoniani, we truthful paragraphs on the death of infants ting them emploi ineiit under government. I copy from a late American paper. Milton These sentiments harmonize so exactly with made everything independent of religion. excellent mother is a woman of rejoiced that even one angel, was "faithful our own reflections upon this subject that we 3. My and courage great talent, more of a mascufound among the faithless," it is our privilege most gladly give them a place in our col- line than a leminine nature, proud and to rejoice that among the original Washing- umns:— high-minded. To the manner in which she tenians, only on* is. faithlessfound among the The Death of Infants.—Those who never formed me, at an early age, 1 principally a child are unable to understand how owe my subsequent elevation. My opinion faithful. We trust that that one may be- lost a void the death of one little one can is, that the fu me good or bad conduct of a great d.wn to the drunkgo and not think himself make There is, we think, nothing on child entirely depends upon the mother. ard's grave, over which the pen of Inspira- earth that can cast so long and wide and 4. Josephine died worth eighteen millions tion has inscribed that melancholy epitaph, black shadow as a small coffin. It is em of francs. She was the greatest patroness recorded in the 10th verse of the 6lh Chap, phatically the shadow of death which freezes of the tine arts that had been known in the parent's heart. France for a series of yeara. She waa grace of the 1st of Corinthians. as is an infant's tomb, it sometimes personified. Every thing she did waa with a Small We have somewhere met with the stateis capacious enough to hold all the brightest peculiar grace and delicacy. I never saw ment that perhaps of the 600,000 who pro- hopes and d-aresl joys of a family circle. her net inehgantly during the whole time we fessed to have joined the Washingtonian The little chid is often the brightest focus lived together. 5. Women when they are bad are worse ranks, three-fourths had returned again to where all the rays of gladness in a housereflectmen, and more ready to commit crimes. and from which are than they centre, hold intemperance. habits of Suptheir former again over happy hearts; and when this The soft sex, when degraded, falls lower ed pose that has been the result, even then.there central light is eclipsed great darkness falls than the other. Women aie always much would remain an army of 150,000 reformed upon all. better or much worse than men. inebriates! With an army less in numbers How many there must be in heaven, 6. A battle sometimes decidea everything, than this, Napoleon achieved most of his gathered up from all climes, even from and sometimes the most trifling thing decides who have died so young as the fate of a battle. most brilliant victories, and well nigh con- heathen shores, 7. There is a great difference of opinion to retain no memory of earth, and to whom If the Washingtonians, that world of glory seems as their native as to what I ought lo have done. My opinquered Europe. and all other divisions of th» GrandTeetotal land; whose souls were washed and regen- ion is, that 1 ought to have died at Waterloo, Army will labor together, "shoulder to erated so early that no stain of this world perhaps a litile earlier. Had I died at Moscow, 1 should probably ITave had tho reputashoulder," a glorious victory mny yet be was ever visible upon thrm. there Whatever wound of sin may have tion of the greatest conqueror ever known.— of Alcohol, over all the forces King achieved been has healed without a scar; their every But the smiles of fortune were at an end. I that grand enemy of our race. thought has been moulded by the society and experienced little but reverses afterwards; scenery of heaven, and they stand continu- hitherto I had been unconquered. I ought ally before the face of the Father. In how to have died at Waterloo, but Ihe misfortune three Years Old. News a sense may we say, "Of such is the is, that where a man seeka the moat for death, It is now about three years since any in- large he cannot find it. Men were killed around of Heaven!" Kingdom telligence has been received from H. B. M. me, before, behind, everywhere, but no bulship "Investigator." It may be recollected Whaling.—The most successful whaling let for tut. that this vessel touched at Honolulu, in the voyage, and the one which amounted to ihe 8. Surely conversation ia never ao lively, most money, is that of the ship Montreal, or so witty, as when ladies lake a part in it. summer of 1850. On the 20th of July, the Captain Fish, recently arrived at New Bed11l were an English woman, I should feel Commander, R. Mc'Clure, wrote to the ford. She was absent thirty-two months and very discontented at being turned out by the British Admiralty, at sea, 20th July, 1850, fifteen days, and during that time .she obtain- men [after dinner] to wait for two or three lat. 51" 26 N., long. 172° 35' W." Since ed a caigo which sold on her. return for hours, v hile they were guzzling their wine. N«w in France, society is nothing unless la$136,023 19—JV. B. Shipping List. this date no tidings. dies are present. They are the life of conhas intelligence is since any It two years MtOorsfe.Stowe. versation. been received from the Enterprize, Capt. A private letter received by a gentleman 9. There is nothing in the world makes a Collinson. of this city, from Mr. Charles Beecher, man hate another so much as' inainuations; Should any of the returning whalers thi* slates that his sister Mrs. H. B. Stowe.hxs re- especially when they come from one in power, at because he cannot repel or answer them. autumn, be able to report respecting either ceived from Constable &. Co., publishers 10. What I want ia to have no mystery or the Enterprize or Investigator, or any other Edinburgh, an offer for a temperance tale secrecy hand, a used about me, whenever there ia they Cabin, are like Uncle Tom of $10,000 in ol the English exploring vessels, intentioas. requested to communicate with H. B. M. and hail'the proceeds of the work, after that mystery, there are always bad O'Mearu. Exile, ol sum Napoleon by if i» says, the editor is realized. letter also at or The Consul General Honolulu, { To 6c CoutitHud J1 she has strength to do this, it will certainly Hie Friend. 1 ThWashingtonians. eOrignal " " — �THE FRIEND, 63 SEPTEMBER, 1853. FeIslanjd-No. 1. The power of their gods is confined to the the year 1833 or 4 there was a marked This group of islands was discovered present life, with the following exceptions: change in his character in this respect, and When a person dies, he is furnished with a he appeared a reformed man; and in the more than two centuries ago, (1643) by club, or other instrument Off war, that he year 35 he was received as a member of Tasman. It lies between 16 deg. and 31 may contend successfully with a deity called the church at Kailua, on profession. He deg. S. lat., and E. Ion. 177 deg. und 178 ravuyah, that is, "soul-killer," who is post- has, however, several times yielded to solicied somewhere in the passage between this tations to drink since that period, which is deg. W. Ion. world and bnlu, (the residence of the gods not strange, considering his formar habits Population. —The English Missionaries es- and separate spirits,) for the purpose of'and the strength of the temptations which timate the number of the native population clubbing the souls of the dead. If they es- assailed him. He has been a member of at 300,000 ; while in Wilkes' U. S. Explor- cape this evil, they become the companions the Church for about 18 years, during which of the divinities in bulu. AH their oll'erings period, and except the faults above mening Expedition," the number is stated as low refer to the present life. They propitiate tioned, after each of which he professed as 130,000. This discrepancy is doubtless their gods for favorable winds, fruitful sen- pentance, he has exhibited himself as on rethe owing to the different estimates upon the sons, success in war, deliverance from sick- Lord's side. He was a regular attendant number of people inhabiting the interior of ness, N.c; but their religious ideas neither on the means of Grace, and his seat in the the large islands. Some of the islands sus- extend to the soul, nor to another world.— house of God was never vacant except from They prepare for death just as for a least; ill health, absence from home, or some press tain a population of 10 or 15,000, while the nnd the wives of Chiefs are strangled under ofbusiness which could not well be deferred. inhabitants of'some of the smaller islands' the consideration that they will be as neces- It was his custom to be present at the mornwould not amount to 100. sary and useful in the next world as in the ing prayer-meeting on the Sabbath, the two present. preaching services, on Wednesday lecture Number ofIslands. —The number ofislands ( Formerly, natural death was an accident and prayer-meeting on large and small, is about 100, which arc di- in Feeice. It was a rule recognised anion" evening. If he was absent fromSaturday any of vided into Leeward and Windward islands.! them to strangle the sick; anil is even now these services it was always expected there Many are very small and uninhabited, oth- to a great extent. Better views, however, were substantial reasons lor non-attendance; |are gaining ground, and will, it is to be and if absent at any service inquiries were ers are large, high and mountainous. hoped, ultimately prevail. regularly made.—Where is Mr. Rice ? He Government.—According to the reports of The Feejeeans are always armed. The must be ill or away from home; it was so the natives, there are thirty-two places on reason is, they know not who may he seek- rare an occurrence for him to be absent from the group entitled to be called Kingdoms. ing their lives. The dead bodies of human the house of God. He always appeared inin continual requeet at Ban, the terested in religious services and always gave These, however, must include the petty beings areThe capital. of temples, Chiel- a wakeful attention to the truths of the gostraders and chiefs, for visitors represent two |houses, taking building down the masts of new ca- pel. He was not a sleepy attendant on the or three powerful chiefs as having rule noes, &c, are all occasions of numerous services of the Sanctuary. He was a reguthroughout the whole group. Ba-u, n small murders, for the. sole cause of* gratifying lar attendant at the monthly prayer-meeting, island, is the Metropolis of the Feejec group. 'their superstitious fancies and cannibal up- and his contributions as regular as his atThe following remarks in regard to the'ipctites. The persons whom they thus mur- tendance, and never less than $1. Besides, der, are theue whom they look upon as their he contributed for the support of the gosreligion, priests and character of the Fec-j enemies. The Feejeeans are a people who pel in this place. jeeans, we copy from a work published in set no value whatever on human life. The He read the Bible much till his eyesight London in '1847, and prepared by E. Hoolej(children are trained up to acts of cruelty; failed, and since he frequently requested his one of the Secretaries of the Wesleyan]jnnd even their ordinary spoils show how apt wife to read to him some chapter or porthey are in learning the degrading lessons tion of the word of God ; and a short time Missionary Society: lof Feejeean depravity. "It is particularly since lie was seen to take the blessed book As it respects the nature of their gods. 'painful," says one wh > has been an eye- and pressing it to his lips, with streaming they consider them very much like them- jwitness of* these revolting seems, "to see eyes, expressed his tears that ho should no selves, only more expert in evil. All kinds [them acting a cannibal feast. One of them more be able to peruse its sacred pages. A of human passions and vices are attributedjjwUi feign himself dead, and the others carry lew days previous to his death he was seen to them. If a handsome woman die, they!jhim about, singing the cannibal song. But to retire frequently to his closet for comsay some god ha* fallen in love with her, [what is far worse, in many instances, the munion with his Grid. In his last will he has and taken her for his wife. As they consider children are almost obliged by their parents ocqueathed to each of the following institutheir gods to be possessed of like' passions to eat Hesh. it is a common Nay, the sum of fifty dollars To the Protions with themselves, they employ the sum practice1111111.-111 to make infants suck a piece of it, testant Mission, to the Bible Society, to the means to appease them, as succeed among to prevent a disease which they call rangau- Tract Society, Seamen's Friend Society and themselves.. If the gods are supposed to be ibakala." to the Oahu Charity School, making $250. angry, they present an offering similar to The above are some of the evidences of his those presented to an angry Chief; the gift interest in the institutions of the Gospel, Obituary Notice. has the same name, and is presented in the and of his discipleship. He was a kind Kailua, July 27th, 1853. neighbor, a benevolent, sympathizing friend, same way. The number of their deities is prodigious. To Rev. S. C. Damon, and we hope and trust, with all his baitings Every tribe has its god, while some are acDear, Sir :—I am requested to give some as a christian, he has gone to mingle with knowledged by all. They profess to mul- account of the character and decease of Mr. that happy company "who have washed their tiply them at pleasure, as the departed spir- Rice, a resident of about 30 years in these robes and made them white in the blood of its of their friends are all eligible to this Islands, mostly at Kailua on Hawaii. He dignity. The only difficulty is in finding died on the morning of the 24th mat., rather the Lamb." A. THURSTON. some person who has impudence and hypoc- suddenly, V'lh the cholic or cramp, of which Magnificent British Testimonial.—The ricy enough to declare that the spirit of a he had many previous attacks in years past. certain person has visited him in the char- He was a blacksmith by trade, but for 15 rovernment has presented to Capt. Joseph acter of a god, and selected him to be his or more years past he has acted in the ca- Drinkwater, Jr., of Yarmouth, Me for savPriest. pacity of a retail merchant. Though not ing the passengers and crew of the British The Priest is the connecting link between very well fitted for the service, he has so bark Venilia, wrecked in February last, a the people and their gods. managed his business as to collect some lit- magnificent telescope: and to his crew a graTheir offerings are of two kinds: the sois tle property, and built him a house at a cost tuity of thirty pounds. or atonement for sin;" and the mandrule, of over two thousand dollars. For about 18 Milton was asked by a friend whether he or "thank-offering." Both are often called years of his residence in these islands he would instruct his daughter in the different inandrale, which is a general name for reli- was addicted to drinking to intoxication, and languages?—To which he replied, "No sir, gious offerings. spent all he earned in this way. But about one tongue is sufficient for a woman " ■ I : , " �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1853. 64 From the Nantucket Inquirer. Strong's Island, March 30th, 1853. that he would lead us, his erring children, into all truth, and that he would so far Mr. Editor.—On the late voyage of thej Rev. S. C. Damon, ship Phoenix of Nantucket in the Pacific, Sir :—I take the liberty of sending you banish every unholy prejudice that our Ocean, under my command, I made several' this, trusting you will have the kindness to minds may be open to receive whatever important discoveries which I consider of;tender my most sincere thanks, in your bears upon it the stamp of a celestial'origin. sufficient interest to the commercial world to widely circulated paper the " Friend," to It is a wonderful fact that this spirit of demake public:— the Rev. Mr. Snow, as also Mrs. Snow, for votion seems an utter stranger to almost all In July 1851, 1 made a dangerous reef in their kindness and courtesy to me after the wonders of the sceptical class. They boast Lat. 1 40 S., Len. 174 50 W., extending loss of my vessel at Strong's Island. I can- of their deism, mid neglect one of its first from N. W. to S. E. about one mile, and! not describe the sympathy they at all times anil simplest lessons, viz: the duty of an innearly 3-4 of a mile broad, on which I got manifested towards me, and their kind at- telligent, but feeble anil dependent creature soundings from the boat of 4 fathoms, where! tention when so deeply in want of it ; and seeking counsel of the great and merciful I also discovered two pointed rocks just be-j by giving this publicity you will much oblige Being who formed him." Your obedient servant, low the surface; we remained with two boats! anchored on the reef about three hours and THOS. NELSON, INFORMATION WANTED. Respecting Mr. David Wrtsow, who visited HonLate Masterof bk. Paragon, Ntitucket. olulu caught a large number of cod fish. This la 18 Hi, and wrote his family from this port reef is not laid down on any chart that 11 P. S. I can also add that too much can- July not reported 1844, Imt since that timo has not be said in praise of King George, who know of. himself. Any information, will be forwarded if sent The position of Rapid reef S. W. of the is a truly good man and did every thing in to the Editor of the Friend, or to Mr. Peter Earl, American Theatre, 8an ruBiitun tf. T. N. Fegees, laid down on the chart, is in Lat. 21 his power to assist me. 36 S. Lou. 175 10 E., which is erroneous; Territory of Washington.—A new ter- nsjnmillnn Jouph A. Cor/LTU and Edwabd G. who left the ship Midas, Capt. Woodthe true position is Lat. 21 36 S., Long. 174 ritory with this designation was created, and DigrmVrn, at Lahainn in the autumn of 1861. Should 50 E. and is a very dangerous reef being in provision mads for its organization, by an bhdge, tin.-, notice fall under the eyo of either, he is requested the track of ships from King's Mill group to Act of Congress approved on the 2d inst. It to communicate immediately with either the Editor New Zealand. comprises that part of Oregon which lies of the Friend, or Mrs. E. E. Exalt, Newark, N. J. The following information I obtained from north of the middle of the main channel of Respecting Wm, Daaaow, wholeft theU. S. Ship Capt Bulger, an experienced shipmaster at Columbia river, to where it crosses the 40th Colombia, at Honolulu ill 1839. Heis reported to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, which degree of latitude, and thence along said de- have died at the Hospital in the fall of 1839, but still hit. name cannot lie found upon the Consulate books. may be useful to be known: gree of latitude, to the top of the Rocky Any Information willbe thankfully received by the Island of on Apee (New Hebrides) At the and communicated to his friends in New Mountains. The land occupied by mission- Chaplain,y. the S. W. side, there are yams to be pro- ary stations, not tf i it o*o acres to each, Tort exceeding cured in abundance from the month of Feb- together with the improvements, is expressly Honolulu, June 30, 1863. ruary to the latter part of August. Also at reserved and PUNAHOU SCHOOL. confirmed to the Missionary Bank's Southern Island on the west side. If Societies respectively which established the The next term of this school will commence on August 3d. you should go so far to the westward as the same. Stations that were so occupied prior Wednesday, The l'unahou school a boarding and manual laLouisades there is plenty of yams to be had to the passage of the Act organizing the Ter- bor school, the boardersisbeing required to work two at Cape Donnis on theNorlh side ofthegroup. ritory of Oregon are also confirmed to the hours a day. At Achilles Island, in 8 S. 17840 E., there Societies, which established them, even The location is one of themost pleasant and healthful in the world; and being about two miles from are plenty of Pigs to be had for boat axes.— though they have since been abandoned. Honolulu, the pupils are not exposed to many of the Yams at the above named Islands. Ironi temptations of the city, and yot, they can enjoy its hoop is the trade. There are also plenty of A Sandwich Islander's Notion op an privileges of religious and other meetings. Yams to be had at the Northern Bank's Is- Oath.—Preparatory to an investigation into The school year is divided into three terms of 12 land, also Bananas, Taro, Breadfruit and the circumstances attending the death of a weeks for the convenience of pupils living at a disother fruits in plenty. I have always made native of the Sandwich Islands, who had tance. branches taught, are those generally attended it a rule in trading with the above Islands to been engaged with 14 others, inhabitants of to,The in academies and high schools. make the officers in charge of the boats buy Honolulu, to navigate the ship called the PeA course of lectures on Natural History, may be the yams first, and fruit afterward, because kin home to England, and had been killed expected. 4 00 if the natives are traded with (or fruit they on the passage, each of the natives being hoard, per week, including washing, 12 00 per term, will not bring the Yams for sale. questioned by the Lord Mayor as to his Tuition, It expected that the hoarders will furnish their Pbrry WlNSI.OW. knowledge of the nature of an oath,#aid rooms.la but Applications for admission, to Be made to the Nantucket, March 5th. 1853. " A man who tells a lie will have nothing D. DOLE. pain herealter.—(Pointing to the fire.) The teachers, Wm. H. RICE. the body and go to Heaven. Arctic Whale Fishing.—English papers spirit will leave 30, 1853.—tf-7. The truth is always told when the heart is Honolulu, June make the following mention of the company warm (purely directed.) God is Jehovah in REV. C. M. BLAKE'S SELECT which Capt. Penny has formed for prosecu- heaven. The body dies, goes to dust. The B0AR1HM. SCHOOL FOR BOYS, ting the whale fishery and locating a perma- soul lives after death. It never dies. The BENICIA, AT CALIFORNIA. oath take is like on to I a God prayer calling nent settlement in the Arctic regions: In this school thorough education in the English, look and see that what is true." 1 say Ancient and Modem languages, and mathematics, is ' He designs to employ propellers in whale fishery in the bays and inlets of Davis's Counsels to Young Men, by John Morison, afforded to a limited number of pupils, under the experienced Teachers : Straits. A colony is to be founded in the inD. D.—"l may here premise, that care ofcourse of study is calculated to fit the scholar let known as Northumberland inlet or Ho- no man was ever in earnest to find out the lorThe active business pursuits, and also to prepare such about the same latitude as garth Sound, in truths of Christianity who did not make as desire to enter college. Archangel. In this locality there are not only conscience of imploring God's direction and The location at Benicia, has been chosen as reexcellent fishing grounds, but great stores of assistance in an inquiry upon which so much markably healthful and accessible; and the arrangefamily are such, that pupils will find the mineral wealth, especially plumbago. The depends. If Christianity be not a revela- ments of thehome. comforts of company will send out two screw steamers of tion from God, then has none ever been Music is taught by an experienced master. 500 tons each, in the spring months, to the vouchsafed to the children of men; and if The Academic year begins with August 1st,and is sea9between Greenland and Nova Zembla, none has ever been vouchsafed, then are divided into lour quarters of eleven weeks each. and later in the year the steamers would start the whole race sunk in gross darkness as to Terms per quarter including all charges, $150, for Hogarth Sound so as to arrive there be- the character of God, and the destinies of payable in advance. ILEt'KB TO fore August. Tney would remain there un- futurity. If Christianity be a revelation Hon. L. Severance, Gov. J. Biglcr, California. til ihe ice forms in November, when they from God, then is it treason against Heaven Elisha H. Allen, Esq. Col. J. C. Fremont, " Rev. T.D. Hunt, SanFraa would return to England with the produce, to reject its evidence, or to set light by the Capt. JohnFaty, Rev. Daniel Dole, 8. H. Willev, leaving the settlers to prosecute the in-shore remedy which it prescribes for our fallen Rev. 8. C. Damon, Rev. A. Barnes, Phils. fishery, and store up the proceeds until the and guilty nature. Under these circuin Rev. E. Bond, Rev. 8. L. Pomeroy, Bos. return of the steamers in the spring.' stances, how necessary ia it to ask of God Benicia, January 1,1863.—tf-7. l,i, 1 — — - - - �THE FRIEND, 65 SEPTEMBER, 1853. Aug. J-Am b» Zoe, Paly, for Ssn Francisco. INFORMATION WANTED. Su—An. Bk. Matanxax, Blearnes, Calcutta. Sidhbt G. native of CanandaiDbto, Respecting Mr. Vanderbilt, the king of steamboat gua, N. Y. He has been absent from home about 6 Memorandum owners ana" agents, in New York, has built yean. Information will be gladly received by 11. Paa Polas Htas-—Sis.ke ship Addison, 15th Jiae, 2 whalta June 13th, sperm. Euphrates. 1 whale. SOD a aplendid ocean steamer, on board of which Pitman Esq., llilo, the Chaplain, at Honolulu, or We understand that theship wh. sti. Addison is at Lahaina, bmv Leonard B. Smith, Canandaigua. tf. lug taken 400 bbla. wh. uil this seas,n he has taken his family, including " his sons I tr" If Chaklis k. Tatlor, of the bark Ra" reand bia wife, and his sons' wives," with his jah," will call at the Chaplain's Study, he may A CARD. ceive gratilying intelligence fromhis friends. The subscriber thankfully acknowledges a Dogrand children, and proceeded to Europe Letters at the Chaplain's Study, for Hiram F. nation of $31.fi0 from ihe officers of the U. States The boat is called the North Star, and rumor Richardson. Capt. B. B. Lamphier, Mr. Charles aloop-of-war Portsmouth. S E. BISHOP, intimates that when the trip ends, the Butts, Enoch C. Cloud, Lewis L. Bright, (ieorge Seamen's Chaplain. Hank, Morns E. I.cc, James Drummond, James P. owner designs selling the floating palace to Ludlow, Capt. Moses J. Buddington, Henry W. Lahaina, July 19, 1853. the Emperor of Russia. The following no- Hammond, Thomas Banks, Wm. T. Mi-Kneel, Austin Hildeith, Henry A. Clearland, Crawford C. tice of the boat, we copy from the London Butts, W.Scal. lately been received by the undersigned, Chronicle, of June 9lh. and will be found the best selection ever ofadmitted hoard the giThe public were on Died. fered in Honolulu. Among them are Honolulu, on the 6th July, Willis, infant son of Mr A gantic steam yacht, the North Star, belong- 0. In Poetical Works of Byron, Shakespeare, Milton, and C. Habcock, agrd 5 weeks. Campbell, Montgomery, Sigourney, &c, &c. ing to Mr. Vanderbilt, an American gentle- In Honolulu, 96ih of August, Mr Isaac Sargent, lair man, now lying in the Southampton Dock, Iff oni California, i e originally came from Virginia. In Cali- A few works on *tlr*ll'flirT»fai and Gardening. Agricultural Works.—Among them books treathe renided at Columa. yesterday, for the first time, and hundreds of( fornia,Honolulu, 9th, Robert Robinson, of small pox, ing of the horse, sheen, domestic animals, poultry, the nobility and gentry availed themselves of isonInof Mr. JamesJuly Kobim-on of this city. pigs, bees, —Sugar planter's Manual, and a variety SVatnY edrbmil's acht. , — , NEW BOOKS HAVE the privilege during the day. The American!i In Honolulu, July Iftth, Mr. G. W. Taiebr,' aged 27 yean. of farm books. He belonged in Boston. Dining his reside'ce on the inlands, Medical Works—A large assortment, comprising Consulate establishment has been beseiged lie nad acquired the esietmofall who knew him. His re- some of the mostpopular workH on medicine. for days paat for tickets to view the North mains wr* t..lmw<-d to the N. V. Cemeter) by the Hawaiian Miscellaneous Books.—The assortment of misStar, and persons have come from a great: OUf*rds. In Honolulu, July lMh, Malcolm McLean, ag< d 4u years. cellaneous books embraces some of the latest and distance to see her Every ticket admits 10 He was a native of Edinburgh. most interesting publications. A few only are spepersons. The public will he admitted lor the July 27th, Joseph Ryder, H«d 24 years. He was a sea- cified below: belonging to Hag Haibor, Long Island. His disease the man, Melville's series of books, comprising Mardi, Tythree days previous to the owner's departure small pttx. for St. Petei'Bhurgh. The saloons and fur- Aug. 41, William Bbaou, a native of Pennsylvania, aged pee. Omoo, Moby DicK the whale, and Pierre. v rs. He was a policeman in Honolulu. Hi* disease the Colton's Deck and Port, Sea and Sailor, Land and niture appealed magnificent in the extreme. 21 Lee, Ship and Shore and California. email pox. Everything on board the North Star is Ameri- In Honolulu, on the 22d inst. of the small pox. Peter Cheever's Sandwich Islands, Island World and the Brotmees, aged 53 years. Mr. B. was a Dane, and bad resided Whale. can, and it is very evident that in many of upon the islandsabout 38 years. the useful and ornamental arts the Americans At Niu, Oahu, of small pox. James, youngest son of Capt Hind's Oregon. Bryant's Ca'iiornia, Fremont's Oregon and California. Alex. Adams, aged 16 years. are our equals in point of taste and skill United States Exploring Expeditions. At Jams* native of Kauai, Ruddach, aged a Scotland 60 Surprise has been expressed at the small years, an old resident Barrow's Voyages to the Antic. on the islands. quantity of fuel consumed on board the North At Kwa, Oahu, of small pox, on the 23d inst, Robt. Hunt, Webster's Dictionary, octavo and quarto. M'Aulay's Hist, ot Eng., 2 vols. Lcyard'a NineStar when her great speed is considered.— aged 21 years,sonof Thos. Hunt, Galveston, Texas, April 14th, Capt. Benj. F. Hanna, aged vah. She made one of the quickest passages across 65Inyears. Harper's Magazines— 6 vols, bound. the Atlantic on record, and consumed only Suddenly in San Francisco, on the 21st of July, Joseph Travels of Madame Pticffer round the world. Esq., England, formerly Secretary a while the Channino of of Guhmer, consumpfifty tons of coal day, The llowadji in Syria, Lamartine's History of the Foreign Relations of King Kmehameha III., the Ministerof tion ordinarily in such steamers is from 70 to and latterly a clerk in the Custom House of San Francisco. Restoration. Hunter's Life. Travels in Africa Lady Wortlcy's Travels. had a numerous circle ul respectable friends in 100 tons daily. She has been enabled to The deceased , he made many friends on the Sandwich Islands, and UNCLE TOM'S CABIN—in paper cover—sl. traverse the ocean with such speed at so lit- London he received a kind protection from the American Authorities The Key to Uncle Tom is shortly expected. San FrancUco, ol which he always expressed himself in the tle expense, by her being driven by what is in Thrilling Tales of the Ocean. ■oaf, grateful terms. Mr. Cummer was in his 52d year, and called a beam engine, an American invention, has lelt a largeand young family. Am. Cruisers' own Book, Missionary Offering. EngWilliam an Book of Common Prayer. Bibles. Gill, In Honolulu, on the 9th inst., E which has never before been us< d in a steamlishman, of disease of the orain. The deceased was Foreman er to cross the Atlantic. The fortune of Mr. of ilit- "Protection Hookand Ladder Company," and his fun- Shew's Water Cure Manual. Every man his own Doctor. Vanderbilt is estimated in America at nine eral was attended by the members in mourning Bowditcii's Navioator. Tom Jones. Mr. Thomas, also an EngHonolulu, in day, On the same millions of dollars, or very nearly two mil- lish School Books, embracing spellers, readers, gramabout M years. manned mars, &c, &c. lions sterling.. He has risen from the ranks. Stationery.—Every description always on hand. When informed that the people of SouthampAlso the latest New York Pai-ehh and popular ton would like to visit his yacht, he immediMagazines. HENRY M. WHITNEY. ately consented, and only stipulated wilh his Sept. 1,1853—tf. PORT OF HONOLULU. agents, who were empowered to issue tickets of admission, that poor people as well as rich Arrived. FRANKLIN P. ftEABUKY, should see the North Star, and they felt every July 3—Haw sch Maria, Hobrnn, 10 ds fin Christmas Island. NO. 18 SOUTH WATER STREET, SI ds fni Kan Francisco. bk M-illumed Ali, s—Fr curiosity to do so. The crew of the North NEW BEDFORD, 6—Am bgt Oriental, Bisbee, 14 ds fni do. 7—Am hk Rel„ kali, Speight, fin Hawaii. Star consists of a captain, two mates, four 14—Chi. ese sh Hamilton, Keller, 14 ds fin San Francisco ME R 111 AM TAILOR, quartermasters, and fourteen seamen, twenty 'JO.-Anier can aliip Stag Hound, Berlin, 13 days tr.ru San AND DEALER IN Francisco. four engineers and firemen, and eighteen Sl—Breach PBel, Rothfoss, 275ds fm Bremen. READY MADE CLOTHING AND FURstewards and assistants. 7he captain's name 35— liaa sh Cecrops, Neilson, 13 ds fm San Frmncisco. bg Oce.m, Bell, 1? ds fm San Francisco. NISHING GOODS. ia Eldridge. He was for many years com- Aug. 26—11r Francisco. 3-Am brig Zoe, Paty, 16days from San 3—» bk vlalanzaa, Siearns, 150 days from Huston. mander of a ship between Liverpool and of every description made to orGarments Hempstead, 13 ds San Fraa. fm ll—Am sen IS. L. Frost, the best style and at short notice. America. A deputation from the chief inder in ds San Francisco. fm Betty, 10 Courser, ah 12—Am tO" Si-aiiirn's Outfits ol the best Unslity. ll" 28—Am shSinw Squall, li ds Im habitants of Southampton have gone to Lon3- Schr Emeline, Osbouri.e, 15 ds fm Ban Luis Opispo. to to Vanderbilt a at I3idYork J.WORTH N.iw banquet don invite Mr. 31—Am sh Mechanics' Own, Sealiury, established liim.-elf in business at Hi wh. ship Polar Star, Holley from Kodiack, 10 the Town Hall in that town, and a universal Aug. 25.—Am. months out, 300 bbls sp. 400 wh.. 10, Hawaii, is prepared to furnish ships with 26.—Am. Brig Boston, Tapley 13 ds. fin. San Francisco recruits on favorable terms, for cash, goods, or Bills feeling prevails there that the friendly and brig Swiss Boy, Dexter, 13 da Ira San Francisco' 2*.—Am of magnificent visit from a merchant prince n the United States. Cleared. the New World should be welcomed with beSan Francisco. »m bg Boston, Tapley, for GlialAN U CO., coming splendor and cordiality. All who July 2— 5—Prbk Mahomet Ali, Poadichery. 5—Rusa bk Prince Mencliikolf, for lionin Is. have seen the North Star believe that we may SHIP CHANDLERY 8—Am bg Oriental, Biabee, F. egee la. learn as much from her in the building and 8—Hmta ah J. W. A. Lorenzo Heurichsen, Kamschatka. 9—Asa bk Rebekah, Speight. Ban Francisco via Kauai. engineering of passenger ocean steamers as GENERAL MERCHANDISE. 14—Sh Hamilton, Keller, Ascea-ion Is. we learnt from the celebrated American sailau— Am sk Stag llou. d, Behm, Hoi.g Kong. Shipa supplied with RECRUITS, STORAGE. 21-Sch Pari, Waio.sa, Kauai. MONEY advanced for Bills of Exchange, ing yacht, two or three years ago, in the 25— Bb l ecr pa, Neilson. Hong Kong. 1863-tf-iU Lahaina, Maui. M-Bg Ocean, Ml, TakM. building and rigging of sailing ships. — MARINE JOURNAL. - — HAVING � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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I be18*4 lieve that letters about Ihe Arctic, \os. 2and 3, not a man in the ship would have semi-monthly meetings at the Bethel vestry News from Tahiti, ■ injured me if it had been in his power. room, where an opportunity will always he tiB-71 Loss of the" Citizen," 14. Ido not ni;ree with you, Doctor, but afforded for signing the Pledge of the SoFeejee Islands, No. 2, M I do believe that they (French seamen) will ciety. Should any one be induced to sign "II illlicml Dorlllllents, at other times, he will find the books of the 72 make as good seamen as yours. The sea is lh-alh of the Rer. 11. Chase, Come 72 yours—your seamen are as much superior Society at the Chaplain's Study. Marriages, Deaths and Ship news, seamen, all, one and assert to ours, as the Dutch were once to yours. your indepen1 think however, thut the Americans are dence! No longer serve in the ranks of better seamen than yours, because Ihey are King Alcohol, who degrades his subjects, less numerous. To this, Dr. O'Meara re- below the rank of galley slaves. Who is a HONOLULU, OCTOBER I, 1853 plied, that the Americans had a considera- greater slave than the person who has acble number of English seamen in Iheir ser- quired the habits ofthe inebriate? He is to be pitied! Let the temperate drinker beware Tabic Talk ot Napoleon, at St vice who passed for Americans. Helena. 15. There never was yet, a King who We do not assert that all temperate drinkers 'was more (he Sovereign of the people than will become drunkards, but we do maintain [fiwtiiiuetl from page (<'!.] 11. Robespierrk was by no means the I was. IfI were not possessed of the small- that all drunkards wero once temperate who will be drunkards worst character who figured in the revolu- est talent I could reign easier in France drinkers. Those are now temperate live or ten hence years tion. Me opposed trying the Q.ueen. He than Louis or the Bourbons, crdowed with drinkers. Lookout then jolly, good fellows, was not an Athiesl; on the contrary, he the greatest abilities. I have not sprung ahead!" breakers publicly maintained the existence of a Su- Trom the ancient nobility, nor have I too premo Being, in opposition to many of his much encouraged the priests. The French Education at Victoria, Vancoucolleagues. Neither was he of opinion that nation have predomincnt in them an unconver's Island. They will as it was necessary lo exterminate nil priests querable passion for glory. A circular, issued by the Rev. R. .' and nobles, like many others. He was a soon do without bread, as without glory A M., Chaplain of the Hudson-; |Staines, lanatic, a monster, but was incorruptible, When I hear of a nation living without;Bay Company, has been placed in our and incapable of robbing, or of causing the .bread, then I will believe that the French hands, showing that he is prepared to redeath of others, cither from personal enmi- will exist without glory. ceive boarding scholars in his family, where Hi. At Waterloo, not a single soldier ty or a desire of enriching himself. He they will receive instruction in all the was an enthusiast, but one who really be- betrayed me; whatever treason there was branches of a thorough English education, lieved that he was acting right and died not existed among the generals. or he prepared for the University. It i17. The most beautiful woman I oversaw worth a sou. gratifying that another institution ol highly 13. As for me, lam considered as dead, was an Irish girl; whether she was born in learning has been added to the list, of those as already in the sepulchre. I am certain Ireland, or was only of an Irish family, I springing up on the shores of the Pacific.— rhat before long this body will he no more am not certain. It was during Josephine's Public sentiment in California, Oregon. (No?. 2d, 1817.) I feel that the machine time, and long before I married Marie Sandwich Islands and Vancouver's Island is struoL'les but cannot last. I could listen to Louise. tending in the right direction upon the al. 18. Those English who arc lovers of the intelligence of the death of my wife, of important subject of Education. my son, or of all my family, without change; liberty, will one day lament with tears havof feature. Not the slightest sign of emo-i ing gained the battle of Waterloo. It was Resignation of the Ministry. lion, or alteration of countenance, would be as fatal to the liberties of Europe in its His H. Majesty's Ministers resigned their visible. Every thing would appear indiffer- effects as that of Philippi was to those of during the past month, but they have (offices Rome. ent and calm, lint when atom in my chamber If). The allied powers cannot take from been re-appointed with the exception ofthe then I suffer. Then the feelings of Ihe man mc hereafter tint great public works which I Minister of Finance, Mr. Judd, whose office burstforth. have executed, the roads which I have is now filled by Mr. Allen, late U. S. ConIS. I always had a good opinion of made over the Alps, and the seas which I sul. English seamen. When I landed at Elba have united. They cannot place iheir feet with Usher, my guard had not arrived, and to improve where mine have not been beIC7* The Hon. George M. Chase sucThey cannot take from me the code ceeds Usher gave me a guard composed of his fore. Mr. Bunker as the U. S. Consul at of laws which I formed, and which will go I had every reason to be content- down to the latest Lahaina. He has entered upon the duties posterity. Thank God, ith them. They were surprised at the of these they cannot deprive me. OF TUB FRIEND OCTOUF.R 1, 1853. Page l>.'> Table talk of Napoleon, - - -- -- - -- - - - - ----- TiKl!! FKjirm — Mnes. . �66 , THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1853 seeing any Letter* about the Arctic No. a. cut by the mast-head tackles they can by north of the Diomedcs withoutof a narrow the cross deck tackles. I think the Corne- clear water, with the exception Failure of Season 'Sl.-Clipper WW* Ships. lius Howland and'the Arctic combine the;'strip on the west shore, north of Cape Polar Whales, Sec. most excellent and important qualities of'Chaplin. Capt. Colinson told me that he At Sea, Nov. 22d, 1852. any whalers that I have seen. Imeasured ice eighteen feet thick, and in The great failure of the Ust season wnsi Perhaps this is as good a place as any to; some places it was so heavy and so that he could scarcely occasioned by circumstances over whichi speak of that peculiar animal—the Polar closely packed,through it with his ship, and man had no control. I followed along the■ Whale. This differs in form and movement make his way he a month in sailing that diswas nearly whale, from the although; m aterially right ofthe ice from Thaddeus to St. Cape verge The whales that passed up the Lawrence's luland, and so on along thei it resembles the latter more than it does any tance. eastern shore of the Straits, until oil' Cape■ other species. In motion the polar whale is North West Cape of St. Lawrence's Island. taught them that Prince of Wales—a distance of about (>'K)I not unlike the sperm. Its adaptation to the Their instinct must have was clear water there and along the rethere which it inhabits is very miles. We saw but few whales, and thesei frozen region as I observed their course I was as soon as the harpoon pierced their sides, markable. The thickness of the blubber, coast, and would immediately sink below the surface, which is a great retainer of heat enables it |led to believe that there must be clear water should find whales nor rise again until they bad reached the to remain in the coldest water without in the in that vicinity, and that I did. had I only stopped a or then as They In one its faculties. checking powers We seldom of them least saw i ice-pack. rest slim! time to on their way into the water at the I nearly ; reached his fact this whale prefers again unless the lance had vitals and he had poured out his crimson freezing point. Some of them exhibit great Arctic after a tiresome passage under the blood, in beautiful contrast with the elevated anxiety and haste to move north, although' ice. No other but the polar whale could have made the passage under the ice upon which it fell, and down the sides of'others linger further south during the sea-,'possibly a distance, and it must have which it run in streams. Often, I have son. The peculiar form of the head if ad- jice for such been difficult even for that species. 'Hie mirably ice,; lor clear among adapted moving looked out upon the field of ice in or weather, anxiously watching for clear water, which it would for want of breath, be abso- breathing places are holes in the ice, cakes have where two irregularly shaped do, whale to indeed a durk fur other lutely impossible any vain. It was iiml watching in as large over as and a hard season. I thank God, in the since where the ice is close packed and left a small aperture about the breadth of a whales' back. This would them to destruction it would be for impossible and ofproperunparalleled heavy, in gi-i about one-third his length, and extending ty, that so many human lives were Spared. raise themselves up to tiie surface, and as he sis the ice does some ten or fifteen feet I felt as I gazed upon the great frozen much so to get their spout holes above below the surface of the water, a whale, to ice-fields stretching far down to the horizon, water, in the small cavities and blow holes raise his spout holes to the air, must almost head, while the ice, there the on account of the by in that they were barriers placed Mim to rebuke our anxious and over-ween- long bow head and high spout holes of the double himself. Ido not not think as some polar whale enables it to rise to the surface, do that they prefer the ice to clear water, ing pursuit of wealth. The advantages of clipper ships in this and spout with ease, where a right whale although they are frequently found amongst of open ice, appearing perfectly dangerous service are sufficiently obvious, could not find the air. Still I think the large Hows think thisis owing to the abundant 1 at home. finds sometimes ini-| polar whale great difficulty and their construction is an important which may be found where the ice flow provement. Their quick passages out and| in raising its spout holes above the water in food When in the ice the whale home is a great advantage, hut this is not these small cavities, and where the ice is, is very large. still and moves easily. When I !is very however M This difficulty all. They are better than a dull vessel, be-j■ivery thick. towards the whules oft" King's cause they can cruise upon a whaling, guarded against, tor it has the power of re- worked up the points of ice. It was ground longer and take more oil than a dull] taining its breath for a great period of time. Island I saw over reached the spot and but ship, and then arrive at another ground as,IThey arc many times much exhausted in midnight when I These were going three whales were seen. ice.— they does. actual under extensive fields of In passing as she whaling soon I I sent two boats in liav\s another advantage. They can work. On the 29th of June 1851, I had reached! quickly to the north. and two boats into the ice which | tin to a whale that is turned up at a consid-j■ King's Island by passing to the south and pursuit, their erable distance to the windward, in a much cast of St. Lawrence Island, and had fol-ji was open, so that theynotcould work whale mile, for a but another in a way the ice along on about north course!i shorter time, and the economy of time thus 'lowed I seen. This confirmed me in my secured, may be the occasion of gottino from one island to the other. At 4 o'clock, was to bethat these whales stopped to rest opinion, M., the discovered a 1 another whaic. Time is of utmost im- P. number of spouts toI portance, especially when there are whaleslithe N. W. over two long points of ice cx- when they got into clear water, but how long lam not able to determine. The ships in sight, and it requires no little judgment toII tending a considerable distance from the!(llolminok and Ann passed King's Islahdone ijmain body mid about eight miles distance,j improve it properly, and a whale is often' a good many lost, that would have been saved, by n smartI in a bay of clear water formed by ice. In; day in advance of me, saw whales north of the 11polar Diomedcs, going could have worked for about a mile extent the air was in ship that up to him, |I fact, of the ice, and before it shut in thick, or blow hard. In a;ijconstantly full of spouts. Theyremained in Jnorth fast along the verge on fresh breeze clippers can get round under'ithat position us long us it was sufficiently! from one point to another they followed obstructed •to Point course was Hope. Their as as From the iinnsu is necessary, and i light to distinguish them. double reefs, as fast with the land, but the ■mat as an ordinary ship under whole top- -ally large and high spouting, it was evident by the ice closing on, whales still affording another proof kept from i this is a that whales were exhausted great advantage. InII greatly sails—and the sea did exist to the | that clear and open taking cure of oil, the ship .stands bitter up..having come so far under the close packed north of this cape, notwithstanding the stow dowu and do entered ice from quicker, They seventy faster, boil slice. the can straits was nearly full, and the Anadir Sea i'.ny kind of work with greater celerity.—-miles to the east of Cape Thaddcus to St.i . < ' • , -. , Thus in any given time, a considerable■i Lawrence's Island, and must have gone, at the time. I will resume this subject in my more work can be done on board a stifffifrom one hundred to two hundred and fifty] next. clipper ship, than in an ordinary vessel,,'miles under the ice. 1 am confident thatl LETTER No. witii the same number of men, and with lessi there were no lagoons or openings in the ice| At Ska, Nov. '25th, 1852. fatigue. Such a vessel would probablyj'jwith the exception of some small cavities or Food Whales. Arctic Birds, See. of save more whales during the season.—-blow holes. The wind had been blowing I closed my last letter with some discusThere is however in my opinion one great; from the south and east during .June. This, mistake made in building mode.n whalers—■■ I with the north-east current must have sion of the subject of clear and open seas and that is deficiency of beam. Most off.wedged the ice as close as possible, and no north of Cape Hope. It seems to me very then are too narrow by several feet. Thisi clear water was seen by ships that cruised certain that whales would not pursue their makes the deck room small and the shipi along the verge ofthe ice, nor by those that way under and along extensive fields ol limber—two very great faults. In the''worked their way some distance into it.— ice unless there was a clear and open space drafting of models, give them bearings;ijH. M.'s ship Enterprise entered the ice beyond. The whales which I spoke of seesomewhere, and place a large sampson post'linear Cape Thaddcus, crossed the Anadir ing in my last, were an early school, hurrying opposite the gangway, and if they cannot:Sca, through the Straits, ami 110 miles towards the first or earliest feed, which ». — �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1953 67 in my opinion consists of large shoals of whale teaches him where the best "feed" is I have heard much said about the mystesmall fishes. This is the first food of the to be found, and he goes there. Nor is the rious movements of the polar whales, their whales in coming from the south—next is the polar whale the sole consumer. There is a sudden appearance, and equally sudden have beshrimp and minute insects with which the small gray whale called the "California disappearance, and I know some water is literally filled. If T wished to give Cray"—by others the "Muzzle Digger." lieveel that they could remain under water an idea of this last mentioned provision for and by others still the " Scamperdown."— for any length of time. This is not strange the whale, I should say that you would get In the Anadir Sea are many hump-back when you may cruise so long, with a good a good notion ofits appearance by throwing whales and smne finbacks. The walrus and look-out, and not discover a single spool, seal arc also very abundant, and birds of for a distance of three or four mile's, and a handful of pearl barley into the water. These little mites are very fat, and where various kinds are so numerous as literally then in an instant discover whales in almost they exist in great numbers the water is to cover the witter, and fill the air in every every direction, and even directly astern of nearly covered with "slicks" caused by the direction. There are seven or eight differ- the ship After some thought, I attribute: oil which rises from them. These, and the ent kinds of ducks, the most numerous re- this to sudden change in the atmosphere' "old-squaw" of our shores.— and also the different ways in which the shrimp too I think, retain nearly the suinej sembling themove northward about the same whale spouts. When he is tired or frightThese birds After they lay the during year. position whale, some going far ened he makes a much larger, thicker and and time with the polar bottom, sink to the there! their eggs they case. The atremain until the next season; when the ice north in the Arctic, and others remaining in higher spout than when at dense along the clears and the water gradually becomes the straits anil Anadir Sea. Their food is mosphere is at times very is; horizon, the whale. There and the surface of the water of so the same with that of and i warmer, they soon come to maturity, whale can he* gradually rise to the surface. Should the ;i sin ill whale-birdthat very much resembles! light a cast that the spout of a tret) when it ice remain late, or entirely cover the surlaee, a Mother Cary'i Chicken in size, term mid! teen only at a short distance with is strong. A whale is often discovered by it is my opinion, that these two kinds ol! motion, of a gray and reddish brown, whale feed never come to maturity—and broad Stripes, that is very common whore the spout holes when no spoilt is visible.— this is the reason why whales were nut seemlever the whale feed is abundant. They feed [This is when he is very still, having hail Ins in the straits after the ice cleared. Only aj on the oil that rises from the minute animals] fill, so that he does not exert himself below few were seen and they moved on through] which I beve described. Their beaks are in Ithe surface, and when he rises, breaks very at a rapid rate, only excepting a small 'constant and rapid motion when setting on easily, and keeps his spout holes under number between King's Island and the Dio- the water atnid.st the: oily slicks. These water, heaving up very little with their be standmedes. It must be remembered that a birds move with the whale, and sometimes in I breath. For instance, a ship may and sea apbut seldom the weather good, get ing along, him, on advance of further very that passage was open during the season a whale coast, and the water one mile from the ice north than 71", and there: is seldom much parently so. One would suppose three miles, if there is from two to five degrees warmer than |clear water to the north of that. The En- could be seen two or still that in its immediate vicinity. It is certain terprise went as far north as 7!s° DO,' but were any within that distance, but there are not even the slightest indication of I on 'saw no whales her cruise. during the polar maturity the do come to that shrimp so thick is bottom. If you take a piece of lean flesh 'think it probable that they may pass round his vicinity so quiet is he, and Resides they are: often from a whale and sink it to the bottom, and 'to Davis' Mruits in some favorable: seasons, the horizon. let it remain there a fvw hours it will lie, when there is considerable clear water, but stretched along almost in a straight line, covered with a large white worm. A ship J believe some of them go as far south in the and remaining under water some time', a ship midst master who lay at anchor for some time about winter season as the Japan Islands, Mats- might pass along and nrrive in their The or smoke vapor as them. seeing Islands, Kourile before occupying season me that mai and the: previous told Cape East the he watched their growth in this way. many degrees of latitude in the winter as in then rises from the horizon—the surface of It is positively known that the water becomes dark—the whales again When they were from two to three im hes the summer. r l, >" of latitude in the summer, commence feeding, and one after another in length, they began to change color from they occupy directions stronger and white to red. The whales remain at the for t!i< y have been found thus far apart, the spouts rise in all sudden change in the atThis stronger. not numerous at either they freeze were although over,] North until the water begins to of spouting, and the manner in When those that are mosphere, they move:, then work gradually south and frequent the] extremity. for the sudden appearaccounts well enough south on still and generfurther, these small furthest shores—following go and up buys I think they can fish as they move south. This is the time, ally keep in aelvane c. Very few remain ance of whales, although from one to two^hours. JY. B in October, the natives lay in their winter north of ©2° in the winter. They have: been remain under List. latter Shipping ice seen south ef Island the Behring's of blubber. When the small supply " comes," they say, " then plenty of whales." part of May, and very few have: been seen Mechanics' Benefit Union. As the season advances they are forced to [north ofthai island earlier than the 90th of The mechanics of Honolulu, and others, met at move south both on account of ice and April. They catre at all seasons ofthe the Court ElaflSS on the evening of Sept. Cth., purWm. H. Johnson was called to the scarcity of feed. For the support ol' tin year. Calves ere not si'en in the Arctic, suant to notice Mott Smith chosen Secretary. The whale these waters are very rich and pro- because the- whales go into the buys and chair, andwasJ. addrevwed by several persons, tueetin" ductive, and regularly produce and bring to bights to produce theiryoung. Very few go forth the hrartlts which would result from the formmaturity immense quantities of living 'mites' into the Arctic to calve. They remain ation of a Mechanics' Union. After choosing a comand small fishes—as regularly as the rich along the coast south-west of the struit9 and mittee of eight to draft a constitution, the meeting Capt. Sayer, of the ship adjourned. soil does an abundant crop. Put as this Kamschatka. The adjourned meeting was held at the Court last may be cut off from a variety of causes, Miry Mitchell, saw a calf in the ice in June, rloas*, Sept. 16th. The committee reported a contook I myself the' Anadir Sea. one so the crop of "whale-feed" in the Northern 1851, in stitution, which was accepted and after being deSeas is sometimes diminished, and somtimes out ofthe cow Sept. 13, 185*2, in the Arctic, lated, article by article, was adopted. This maeting to meet again Sept. 20th, for entirely destroyed. This may be occasioned ithat measured only six feet three inches, was then adjourned, constitution. under the by the ice remaining very late and entirely land would not certainly have been born organizing Tuesday evening, Sept. 20th, the meeting was covering the waters beneath which the jbefore December or January. This shows called to order by the former chairman, and the convaries about six causes the the time: of calving jthat germs exist. This undoubtedly stitution produced for signers. Nineteen persona difference in the movements of the polar 'months. I heard it from a Russian officer having signed, the Union proceeded to select officers. Johnson. whale, their different route and positions in jthat he had seen the beach covered with President, Wis. H. M. R. Harvey. 'dead calves in the winter season, about the Vice " feeding at different seasons. Secretary, J. Mott Smith. During the two seasons in which I cruised 'entrance of the: Pay of Pctropaulovski. Treasarer, R. W. Holt. Sea, a the the Ochotsk in ships the with few the Last season Arctic, C C. 11. Lbwbkr, exceptions, in movements of the polar whnle have been found a good many calves in the bays in the Ex. Committee, Jc. Wikq, ( B. F. White. entirely different. In the localities where south-western part of the sea, and I have A committee of three was elected to draw op » ofthe a season, were found the last been informed that some made ships great numbers code of by-laws. The meeting was adjourned to they were scarce during the first, and vice business of taking calves that yielded from Friday erening, Sept. 80th, for the the purpose of versa. This is one reason why some ships ten to twenty-five barrels of oil with but receiving new members to the Union. J. MOTT SMITH, Bee. did not take more oil. The instinct of the little, if any bone. — II ' — — — �THE FRIEND, 68 OCTOBER, 1853 this time to have had this group, with the |CP The clipper ship " Sovereign of the News from Tahiti. rilled with voluntary churches and :Seas" still holds Ihe preeminence among leeward, Intelligence from the Marquesan Expedition. in a state to send the Gospel lo the {clippers, as capable of making the quickest prepared Royalist 38 days to Tahiti. Royalist sailed A series of political regions beyond the Unsettled State of Af- events, however,them. for Marquesas. over which we had no passage. She hss recently made the quick- — — Raiatea. control, have deferred that important duty to est passage of any sailing vessel, from New Papeete, Tahiti, Aug. 2*2, 1853. an indefinite period. York to Liverpool, having made the run in Rev. and Dear Sir:—l am glad to The two native Ministers preached here in thirteen days and a half. She has been 2*28 take advantage of an opportunity of acknow- the native chapel on the sabbath alter thenledging your kind letter before the return of arrival, and Mr. Parker Imd engaged to days at sea, and had made an average speed the Royalist. The Mary Catharine will sail preach to the Sandwich Islandeis who reside ol 180 knots per day during the whole time, from here for your islands in a few days.— here; but on leaving the ship on Saturday !having been dismasted in the mean time, by Tha Royalist came into port on the '24th of he sprained his ancle, which maile it painful 'losing all her lop-masts, and was rigged at July, with all hands well on board. On the for him to walk. He rested with us until The: most remarkable feature connectfollowing day I accompanied the Rev. Mr. Saturday the Ijlh of August, when the vessel sea. ed with this extraordinary running is the fact visit Parker lo pay a to M. Page, the sailed. Muy Ihe Divine arm protect her uno French Governor, to state the object of Ihe prosper her mission. I have every season (hat she has made the last two passages with Mission and to hear if he had anything to to believe that Ihey have ere this reached a crew of 38 seamen and 6 boys. This, say about it. He received Mr. Parker very the island, as strong southerly winds have contrasted with a frigate's crew, is indeeel graciously, and at once informed him that been blowing ever since her departure. She surprising. Ihe island of Fatuhiva belongs to France.— obtained a new mainmast here. He then stated that he was very happy to Our own circumstances are ihe same as During ihe run of the Sovereign of ihe give his consent to the Mission, and promised when I last wrote lo you. We are wailing Seas from Honolulu to New York, she ran to give all the protection possible to the to bear the elecision of the two governments 3,-44 miles in ten consecutive days. The members of it. He took considerable pains concerning what has been done. highest distance logged in the *24 hours was to give to Mr. Parker a correct idea of Ihe The leewarel islands are in a very unsetstate ofthe island, the nature of the harbor, tled state, and have been so tor some time', i") miles. and other information which was of consid- especially the island of'Kaiatea. The island erable advantage to him to know and by isj divided into two factions, and ihey are Isoss «»l the Citizen. which he was enabled to see more clearly now living in intienchments provoking each the nature ofthe difficulties as they lay before other to an attack. The occasion 1 believe In another column of our paper will he him. He stated that ihe chief is by no to be, that Ihe old King cannot be brought found an account ofthe wreck ofthe "Citimeans a principal one; and we learned from lo give up some of his heathen rights, which zen," which we have copied from the Polyanother quarter that a short time before he involve considerable oppression. He is nesian of Sept '24th. From the same person left for the Sandwich Islands he had been quite willing to make good |aws |(u t |)e canbeaten by a chief who appears to have sub- not be brought to understand why he should who furnished the particulars iheir published dued, or nearly so, the whole island, ami be compelled to observe them. A large we have obtained a few additional in rethat the chief in question hud been driven body on the other hand are determined that gard the to ship's! company. From memoiy into an insignificant nook, where his estab- there shall be no difference between Monarch he furnishes the following list of the crew: lishment consisted of some four or five huts and subjects belore the law, and they have T. H. Norton, master, Martha's Vineyard. only. The Governor slated that he had not taken up arms in defence of this principle. Lewis C. Hoy, Ist officer, Newark, N. J. )et hoisted the French flag at that particular In Ihe mean lime, cultivation, education and John P. Fisber, '2d officer, M. Vineyard. island, but now that foreigners were about religious duties are placed in oheyance, and William Smith, 3d to settle there he would immediately do so, our brethren the Missionaries, are left to " unknown. and that a small vessel would frequently sigh over the desolation, physical and Win. Collins, 4th " " visit the island to see how the parly pro- moral, which reigns around them. C. F. Heath, carpenter, Philadelphia. ceeded. In taking leave the Governor exJohn Johnson, cooper, England, I herewith send you a lew reports which I pressed his earnest wish for the success of hope may be of service in furnishing sum" Abr'm Osborn, boatefeerer, M. Vineyard. John Norton, the Mission. " interesting matter i\tr your "Friend," " John Lackadore, " I feel satisfied that the committee of your which I have no doubt it proves itsell lo be unknown. infant Society acted wisely in advising Ihe' to many, as ihey plough the briny deep in Jas. Wentwortb, " " A. Ferdinand, party to touch here, as thereby much trou- search of its treasures. " " ble and perhaps difficulty will have been I am Rev. anil dear Brother, yours very George Long, seaman, Philadelphia. Jus. Mitchell, avoided. " Heading, Perm. truly, in the Gospel of Christ. It is said (hat the chief who is or was the Charles Noss, WM. HOWE. " New Haven, Ct. Charles Dyer, conqueror, is a benevolent and sociable man To Rf.v. S. C. Damov. " Pennsylvania. Nicholas Powers, " and one in whom partes may confide.— Boston, Mass. Should this prove to be true it may turn out The Maine Law in England. Wm. Myers, M. Vineyard. " in favor ofthe Mission; and on the other unknown. Lale advices from England, give us the John Jones, " hand should he be indisposed to acknowledge highest encouragement. St. Helena. The friends of Dennis Aping, " tiie French claim, which to this time had Temperance have succeeded in having iheir Peter Cox, " Camden, N. J. Jus. Flannigaii, " not been asserted, the arrival of both cause presented before the House of ComIreland. parlies about the same time may induce mons; the facts and statistics have startled W. 11. May, unknown. " him to think that there is some connexion the members and produced the liveliest '2 Kanakas, •' " between them, and he may refuse to accept interest. Mr. Hume, who was a member of 9 Portuguese, '• " Win. Smith, cook, (col.) " them. All these things, however, were the Ministry, one of the most talented and well understood by Mr. barker, and he influential members in parliament, aelvocateel Chris. Simmons, steward, " Of the above five were drowned, viz: is therefore prepared to take a correct view the petition, and said distinctly that he was ofthe course he ought to pursue. Chas. T. Heath, and four Portuguese. in favor of such a measure as the Maine I was much delighted to receive the ac- Law. A lire has been kindled, as we think, Two are reported to have perished with the count you sent me in the " Friend" for dis- that whole cargoes of rum cannot extinguish. cold, viz: James Wentworth and a Sandwich tribution among the various missions con- If some man can now be found with the hu- Islander. nected with our Society. I have sent most manity and perseverance of Wilberforce, the Three men belonged to the crew, whose of them away and am only waiting a suitable day is not far distant when the accursed names our informant was unable to recollect. opportunity to send the remainder. Your traffic shall be entirely destroyed in the Society is a atep in the right direction. May British isles, and when it comes it will be a EF" We have receiveel several communications, the Dunne favor rest upon it in all its de- day to be remembered in the world's his- which we are unable to insert or notice for want of partments. Ten years ago we hoped by tory. Am. Paper. ■pace. fairs at . — �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 69 1853. on trial for membership; that the word of cians shall pronounce them protected from contaon shore ; and it preached every Sabbath in filly-three' gion, your men may sately come In of these regulations places, widely scattered throughout thegroup, I is believed that an observance of the population, government, religion and will entirely protect your crews from the Small and that a desire for decent clothing, a love cannibalism of the Feejeeans. In regard to of rending, and attention to the duties of do-|[Pox. I am happy to be able to inform you that there the cannibalism of this people, any language mestic lile, are observable in those e>f the is little ofthe disease remaining in Honolulu, and No case which we should be able to employ would fall peuple in connexion with the Mission War, no case ainontf the white population. still prevails in almost every part of] exists among the* shipping. The ill.ease has thus however, far short of the reality. Traders, explorers the group; cannibalism is still practised to far been almost exclusively confined to the natives, and missionaries ajiree in all their represen- an awful extent; and crimes of vurious kinds, iinil efficient measures have recently been adopted to prevent its further ravages. tations upon this subject. Probably in no too daik to admit of disclosure, are habituI am permitted to name and recommend the ally committed. following physicians, either of whom will visit part of the heathen world, has the horrid of the most hopeful signs connected y«>nr vessel if you desire it upon the terms above practice of eating human flesh become so One with the present stale of Missions to the Hea- indicated, tos Doctors Hardy, Newcomb, Ford universal as at the Feejee islands. Bloody then, is the gradual increase of Native iLethrop, lioftinumi, llillcbrund, Smyth and 1 wars did not furnish a sufficient number of Preachers and Teachers in various places. Schell. With much respect, victims for the tables of the chiefs, hence the Even in Feejee, the Holy Ghost is separat1 have the honor to be, AY.c, work ofthe ministry, | history of those people abound with innume- ing unto himself, for the 15. P. ANGEL, men whom he has graciously prepared fori U. S. Consul. rable instances of the most revolting scenes thai service, snd whose labors he is crowning of murder, committed merely for the purpose with bis effectual blessing, There are in! I). N. FLITNER, for food. After Connection with the above Missionary Sta-,, of furnishing human I'ontinnes to repair Chronometer*, gm±sr<*t\9k [ and Local turns, 44 preachers *2 I ('atechisls, reaninji the " Narrative of Wilkes," relating slnnd ; accurate rales IMe of vast Naherolubu, riau and two AI places t by observations of the " to the Feejeeans; "Fee-jee," by an Amerit*'lt'^*lf'atH«*>' l I "* itnd slurs, with''''''' those islands, two native Tea- sun a IraasU uistriunent made by in iiniiorlance can lady; the Journals of the We-sleyan chers are cairvinj; on ihe work with great Itoskell. Liverpool. Particuliir attention given to Missionaries, and other books upon the cha- sun-ess; one of whom gives tne following line »:iieh repairing. Sextant and Quadrant ('lasses silveieil and adjusted, ti-tf racter and habits of the Feejeeans, it does account of the progress ofthe Gospel among 1)K. J. MOTT SMITH, appear, that no other race of Polynesia ban ihe people:—" The lotu," that is, the GosThere are ol' Aibany, N. V., ever sunk so low or became so degraded.— pel," "grows at Naherotubu. now upwards of 50 who lotu," that is, " at•JL, _irj o -If U tiiS 4P > We have sought seemingly in vain, for even tend preaching." "I am continually in one redeeming 'rait of character, until the pleaching to them. I show them the wrath Office Fort street, next door to the French Hotel. labors of the English Wesleyan Missiona- of God on account of sin, and Its punishment. LEWIS .v CO., I make known to them that God loves all who ries commenced among them. repent, and embrace Jesus Christ as their Importers nml Commission Merchants. The Missionaries commenced their labors Savior. I teach ihem the alphabet, that Ihey I. K. MiTciiK.i.l., John (i. I.kwis, a few months before the visit of the U. S. may he able lo read and know the meaning BostOH, Mass. Honolulu, Oahu. ljrr—M Exploring Expedition. (See vol. 3d, pages of books; and I teach them the alphabet of (that is, 139-199.) To the mind of Lt. Wilkes, Ihe ihe lolu, that they may know well'" experience) " the love of God, and be very To Masters of Whales-Ships visiting the Missionary's prospects were dark and forbid- happy, like the angels Hawaiian Islands. in heaven. 1 do not attention is railed to the following fasts ding. " It is not to be supposed " writes Lt, hide from them the anger of our Lord; I winch an ft 11' as inducements to viait Wilkes in l«40," that the success ol the mis- make it known to them that lolu, and to them KEAI.AKKAKI'A BAY the coining season for resionaries will be satisfactory, or adequate that do not lolu. I make known to them that cruits. fire ol hell, and to them (hat You will find here in the greatest abundance and to their exertions, or a sufficient recompense don't lolu the lain the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, uud of the best kind, the following articles, which will for the hardships, deprivations anel struggles his anger also." be tarnished at the shortest notice and at moderate Potatoes, the best the islands afford, which they and iheir families have to enTwo thousand two hundred and fifty have prices:—Sweet Melons, Oranges, Cocoanuts, Beef, MutSquashes, counter. There are few situations in which actually renounced Heathenism, and hun- ton, Ooatt, Hogs, I'iwls, Turkeys, Wood in any so much physical and moral courage is re- dreds more know that Christianity is the only quantity, delivered nt thenolanding. Lastly andasmost small pox, that religion that offers a Saviour to fallen man.! Important, you will run risk ofnor quired, as those in which these devoted and The lias not appeared here, within several indirect influence of the Gospel is wide- pestilence attention will be paid to pious individuals are placed; and nothing but ly diffused, and its leading truths are exten- miles of this Hay. Kvery those who may favor us with a call. a deep sense of duty and a strong determi- sively known. P. CUMIXGS. Keulfikeakua, Sept. 1, 1853—8m-19 nation to perlorm it, could induce civilized CIRCULAR. persons to subject themselves to the sight of PKIJITjEUS WANTED! ) United States Consulate, Honolulu, Sept. 31, 1653. \ such horrid scenes as they are called upon GOOD PRESSMAN. Also, a Compositor. Enquire at the Polynesian Office, almost daily to witness. 1 know of no situSir:—The undersigned, American Consul at ation so trying as this for ladies to live in, this port, wnh the concurrence of the Commission- Oct. Ist., ISJIS. of Health, would respectfully urge the masters particularly when pleasing and well-informed, ers of" American vessels coining' into the harbor of The Friend sent abroad. as we found those at Somu-Somu.'" Honolulu the strict observance of the following By paying in advance the subscription price, tne Such testimony as this is valuable, having regulations. Friend will be sent by the earliest opportunities, to been recorded previous lo those triumphs Ist. On the arrival of your ship you are re- the United States, England, China, Sydney, or any which have attended Missionary labors among quested to have such of your crew as have not foreign country. the Feejeeans, during the last ten years. had the Small Pox or Varioloid, vaccinated for We copy the following summary respect- kine pox. P. SEABiRY, 2d. You are desired .0 retain your men who ing Ihe Mission to the Feejee Islands, from NO. IS SOUTH WATER STREET, are not protected against contagion, on board lloole's" Year Book of Missions " for 1817, your vessel for at least eight days alter your M'.H BEDFORD, Feejee Iwlands—]\*o. 11. our last number we gave some account God is JUtk ' ' "'*' " YOI'R A FRAIVKLIIf published in London. From recent communications from Feejee arrival. At your request, any resident physician you AND HRAI.r.R IN we learn that the gospel has been introduced may mine, will visit your vessel and vucc tiate into 24 islands; that 3,300 persons are con- such of your crew as may be necessary, at the READY MADE CLOTHING AND FURsidered as stated or occasional hearers ofthe rate of half a dollar for each person, where the NISHING GOODS. day the word; and that of this number about 1,870 number amounts to ten. After the fifth of every description made to orGarments rewill again visit your ship and are under school instruction, 1,278 are full same physiciau those whose pustules have not begun to der in the best style and at short notice. vacciuale and accredited church-members, and 12S ate form. After the eighth day or when the physi- JE*r cjaauwu's outfits of the Seal ftnalii). MERCHANT TAILOR, �70 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1853. copy No. 17 ofthe Polynesian, published this The right to cede or acquire lerritory, or Official Documents. to unite two independent nations by compact, morning. The subject of the annexation of the HaMy thanks are due to Ihe King and Coun- is regarded as inherent in all independent waiian Islands to the United States has called cil for taking immediate measures to apprize sovereignties. Il has certainly been practised forth the following official communications: me officially ofthe exact contents of the ad- Irom time immeniowul. The power which dress, which I perceive remonstrates against can cede a pail can cede all the purts. Mothe "extraordinary course adopted by some dern history abounds in examples, and none May it please Your Majesty .* American merchants, landed proprietors and more than English and trench history. We, the Representatives of Groat Brilnin other citizens ol the Untieil Stales" to induce Annexation is neither a new thing nor rare and France, beg leave respectfully to inti- the King to alienate His Sovereignty and the in our day, as the Turks and Arabs of Al(,'afl'ies of South Africa, and mate to Your Majesty, that we are fully in- indepeiideuo of the islands by immediate geria, the formed of the extraordinary course adopted negotiation fur annexation to tho United more than one Hundred and thirty millions of people in India can testily,—people it is by some American Merchants, Landed Pro- States. prietors and other citizens of the United You are aware that the government ofthe hoped who may he benefitted by the change, States connected with the Protestant Mission- United Slates has never made any proposi- hut whether so or not, I cannot adinil that aries residing on Woahoo, with a view to tions to ilis Majesty's government to annex annexation by voluntary consent is any moreinduce Your Majesty to alienate Your Sov- the islands, (hough the matter has undoubt- illegal or reprehensible than annexation by ereignty and the independence of these isl- edly engaged the attention both of citizens of conquest. Bui whether it be done by one ands, by immediate negotiation for annexa- the United Slates anil of Subjects of the process or the other, the government of the tion to the United Stales' uud thai we un- King. To me it is not surprising that the United States can have no Colonies. Whataware, also, ofthe countenance and support " merchants and landed proprietors," whe- ever territory is added is but an integral part that a memorial which those gentleatea have ther Auioi iiuus or others, should perceive ofthe whole, and subject lo the same national addressed to You, to the aforesaid effect, has ■real commercial advaniagea in such a con- constitution and laws. received from high official functionaries, at nection, considering thai the principal part Ths expedience of union with the United Honolulu, all of which proceedings have of the commeroe of the islands is with the States I do not propose lo consider at pregiven rise to considerable excitement among United States, and that the islands must look sent, lor 1 have no authority lo say that the French and British residents. almost exclusively lo the Pacific coast of tin United States will consent to any terms that Under these circumstances, we consider il United Slates for a market for their products may he offered; yet 1 have no doubt if they our duty to remind You that Great Britain and the means of paying for their imports, I shall be offered ihey will he frankly received and France havo entered into solemn Trea- perceive, therefore, nothing very extraordi- and duly consi end; hut no sinister means ties with the Sandwich Islands, by which nary in the project remonstrated against. of accomplishing the object, however desiraTreaties Ymir Majesty, Your Heirs, and And il now or at any Inline time it shall be ble, will receive any favor from the United Successors aro hound lo extend, nt all times, found to be decidedly for the interest of both States. 1 urn most happy to have your testimony to French and British subjects the same ad- countries to unite their sovereignties, 1 am vantages and privileges as may be granted unable to perceive any treaty or moral that the Commissioners ■and Consuls of the to subjects or citizens of the most favored obligations on the part of either to forbid the U. S. have acted fuliy and faithfully up to the nation; and that the joint Declaration of desired union, or any good reason lor foreign principles declared by Mr. Clayton and Mr. Webster in the communications referred to England and France, of the iMili ol" Novem- interference to prevent it. ber, 1813, was founded upon Ihe clear una* r1 anch and English subjects might still be liv you, and lam not permitted to doubt that derstanding that Your Majesty was to pre- entitled to Ihe privileges ol the " most fa- vim will have as little reason hereafter, ns serve Your Kingdom as an Independent vored nation," and on the score of commer- you have now, in distrust the friendly intenState. cial advantages cannot well complain of be- tions of the government and people of the Therefore, we declare in the nnmo of our ing subjected in these islands to the revenue United States. Governments, that any attempt to annex the laws of a country which consumes and pays My regard for the King ond his governSandwich Islands lo any foreign power, what- for French manufactures and oilier products! ment, and for the highly respectable repreever, would be in contravention of existing in the amount of forty millions ol dollars an- sentatives of England and France in these Treaties, and could not be looked upon with nually—the revenue laws of a country rapid- islands who have deemed it their duly to inindifference by either ihe British or the ly growing, anil whose trade is now of more terpose an official remonstrance*, alike deFrench Government. value to Great Britain and France than thai nuded the Utmost frankness in the expression We beg further to observe lh.it in accord- of nay of their colonies, il not indeed of all of ihe 'sentiments I entertain, which I am ance with the Hawaiian Constitution, Your of them added together, ■■a.-t as (be English sure they will duly appreciate. The agreement or joint declaration ol the Majesty could only a!ienato Your Sovereign- Colonies ate. ty and Islands under certain circumstances In view o! these great interests thai would 28th November, 1843, that neither (Jrea: —which circumstances have not occurred— be sacrificed hv a disturbance of pacific il- Britain nor France would take possession of and that no Monarch whatever, nccording lo lations, (to say nothing of several millions ol these islands as a protectorate or otherwise, Vattel and other writers on International American stocks held in Europe whose value was creditable to those powers. The govLaw, has a right to alienate his kingdom, or might for the time be seriously affected,) it ernment ol the United States was not a patty to enter into a negotiation with that view, is not to he supposed thai Fiance will insist to the engagement; neither waa Kaotthamewithout the concurrence of his people. on the little advantage oi' importing into these I ha 111, so far as appeals. The parties to it, We therefore consider that tho time has islands silks, wines, fee, to the amount of a by their naval lories, ad both made hostile arrived lor us to remonstrate, and we do few thousand dollars at live per cent d'ltv, as demonstrations upon the King's sovereignty. hereby remonstrato against Your Majesty she now docs hv her construction ol the trea- The United States had not, but both before becoming a party to the scheme recently got ty of 2tith March IN4<I, a treaty which in- and since, though their interests were far up, or to any other project which existing stead of being a valid reason why the King greater here than those of any, or all other Treaties and the Hawaiian Constitution do should not transfer his sovereignty, is a foreign powers, they have constantly resnot sanction. [standing and powerful argument to justify pected the government of the King. They EM. PERRIN, WM. MILLKR. jhim in doing so, since that treaty denies to have never sought to limit the right of his mmii one of the most important attributes o! 'government to frame its own system of U. S. Commission, Uovereignty—one in Ihe highest degree es- finance, enaetits own revenue laws, regulate No. 47. Honolulu, Sept. 3, 1853 sential to all independent nations. its own system of public education, establish Sia:—l have the honor of receiving your Snll less is it to be supposed that Greut its own judicial policy, or demanded any specommunication of this morning, in which you Britain will claim the privileges ofthe "most cial favors, and they were the first to recogsay it was resolved by the King in Council favored nation " under this French treaty, nize the complete and unqualified national on the first day ofthe month, that you should since she has generously thrown up her own independence of the Kingdom, by the treaty pass to me, officially, a copy ofthe joint-ad- treaty ofthe same date and tenure, and sub- I of 20th Dec. 1849. dress to His Majesty by the Representatives stituted thatof 10th July 1851, in accordance That treaty having been faithfully obof Great Britain and France, made on that with the American treaty of Washington of- served, there is nothing in the policy of the United States towards these islands which reday, which you have done by enclosing a 20th Dec. 1849. Honolulu, Sept. Ist, 1853. ! �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 71 1853. INFORMATION WANTED. to impose some restraint upon the crew, who quires concealment, or demands explanation, them as well as they the danger of Respecting Sidhby G. Dbto, native of Oanandaidid not understand —nothing to disturb the harmony which hap- exposure to the cold, or the hazard they would N. Y. He baa been absent from home abont a pily exists between the United States and run in attempting to reach the East Cape, which gua, ycare. Information will be gladly received by B. the great commercial powers of Europe. some of them had an idea of undertaking, when l'itman Ksq., Hilo, the Chaplain, at Honolulu, or tl. Leonard 11. Smith, Oanandaigua. Lest silence on my part, after the publica- their provisions failed. tion of the joint reinonstrsrhcc, should make From February to April, different parties left for tw*" It Charles It. Taylor, of the bark Raa different impression here or elsewhere, and the Cape, about MS miles distant. They traveled jah," will call at the Chaplain's Study, he may reand wherever they found natives, they ceive gratifying intelligence from his friends. considering Ihe distance ofthe seats of gov- on the ice,the same kindness and hospitality as at received be ernment of Europe and America, it may at the Chaplain's Study, for Hiram F. the first village. Tlli.s journey was performed Laatara advisable to depart from the usual course in with much Suffering. Failing of native huts, they Blnhsrlsna. Capt. B. B. Lamphicr, Mr. Charlea Enoch C. Cloud, Lewis L. Bright, George such matters, and publish this letter also, to were sometimes compelled to sleep upon the ice, Hurts, Hank, Morris E. Lee, James Urummond, James 1\ go with the remonstrance of the British and and almost perished. Ludlow, Capt. Moses J. Buddington, Henry W. French Representatives. The last parly reached the Cape settlement Ilainmmid, Tliomns Hanks, Wm. T. McKneel, Aus*2d of July, anil on the the middle be, June, lo about of tin llildcith, Henry A. Clearland, Crawford C. I have the honor the thrilling cry of sail ()! greeted th"ir ears.— Hurts. With great respect, a This proved to he the Bremen ship Josep'i llac Yourobedient serv't, Respecting Mr. David Wilson, who visited Honwrick their (iiiosiiiiin, who had lienrdof don, Capt. olulu in 1846, and wrote hia family from this port LUTHER SEVERANCE. and was in scan-li ol them. The shipwrecked July IS, is til, hut since that time has not reported His Excellency, anil board, every taken o-> men were immediately himself Any information, will be forwarded ifsent weir Wyi.i.ie, they Robert Crichton attention shown them. From tins ship to the Editor of the Friend, or to Mr. l'ctcr Earl, Minister of Foreign Relations, &c. scattered among the fleet, and some of them have Aiuiricun Theatre, San Francisco. tf. Noralready arrived here, as stated above. Capt (sears Coultkk and Edwabd G. A. exnespsntliig I.oss of Ship Citizen, of New liedford. ton is on bond the Helen Augusta, and is soon Daaaiersa, who left the ship Midas, Capt. Woodwe be may whose arrival cruisport, upon that at thil pected bridge, at Lahaina m the autumn of 1861. Should Of the tmiii"ro'.i< leet of vrhsJesbtp* to his dised in the Antic in 18.VJ, we believe the Citizen, able to procure more details in regard this notice lull uader the eye of cither, he is requested as aster. of New B-dford, was the only one not reported to communicate immediately with either the Editor owned in tons. :md 4fi4 been The Citizen was of ol the Friend, or Mrs. E. E. Exall. Newark, N. J. having visited some port, or known to have Jr. & Co. Bhe had lost. °Por the past six months, or since news from N.-w Bedford by I. (lowland, oil on Respecting Wm. Disiirow, who leftthe U. 8. Ship and three thousand barrels the different ports visited by whalers had been re- between two of filling up, had she Columbia, at Honolulu in 18311. He is reported to ceived, fears were entertained for the fate of this hoard, with a fair prospect have die lat the Hospital in the fall of 1839, but still ship, which, unfortunately, have been confirmed not met with this disaster. the Consulate books. that after the gale in September hi-, inline cannot be found upon reported from It is Taker, Win. Capt. Tell, of the received by the by the arrival season of fine weather, and Any information will lie thankfully friends in New of was a abated, arc two the there ship on board of which Arctic, the communicated to his As winter ap- Chaplain, and abounded. of whales innumerable these, I Joseph Citizen. one crew of Ihe From York city. tf were seen heading Honolulu, June 30, 1803. Mears of Philadelphia, the following particulars proached, immense numbers into the through and the Straits goin* southward, have been obtained. to be frozen over, On the 'Jsth of Sept., 1853, the Citizen had been iopen sea. The Arctic appeared here and there, and NEW BOOKS lying-to in a heavy gale for four days. Having with the exception of holes seems to be estabbeen without observations, her position was not ex- from the observations made, it lately boen received by the undersigned, the Arctic, in do not winter and will be found the best selection ever ofactly known; and during the night of that day it lished that the whales sea outopen fered in Honolulu. Among thorn arc was found she was getting into shoal water, when but seek a milder temperature in the the ship was immediately put about and sail made side the Straits. PosmCAt, Works of Myron, Shakespeare, Milton, In view of thekindness shown these shipwrecked Campbell, Montgomery, Sigournoy, &c, &o. upon her. Betore she could accomplish this, howtheir when entirely within ever, she struck upon a sand beach, about north men by the natives, A few work! on Arciiitkoturb and Gardening. the expression ofthe latitude ti7 J, when her mists were immediately cut power, we cannot foi bearrichly a An KicuLTi'ttAL Works.—Among thembooks treatmerits substanthat their conduct opinion soon after struck the ship, away. A heavy sea of the horse, sheep, domestic animals, poultry, ing the by government. Americas acknov'lodgnient her tial a and carried away her poop-deck aft, making bees,—Sugar planter's Manual, and a variety pigs, form of blankets, the dollars, in hundred A few perfect wreck. books. of farm the past, sucthick &c. would themfor clothing, reward Being too rough for boats to live, th" crew Works—A large assortment, comprising atMkhii'm. crews future shipwrecked secure to ceeded in getting ashore on spars, iVe. with the ex- and might their lives and some of the most popular works on medicine. ception of four Portuguese and one American, tentions and aid that would sustain Miscki.i.ankous Books.—Tho assortment of misPolynesian. Charles L. Heath, of Philadelphia. These were restore them to their country. cellaneous books embraces some of the latest and The reach the shore. attempt the to drowned in most interesting publications. A few only are spemorning dawned upon u bleak and uninhabited cified below: is the retest of an Jcy enjoyment of The peril, them circumstances in shore, and found Melville's series of books, comprising Mardi, Tyit. nerves to encounter. Durmembrance which it leaves behind which required strong Omoo, Moby Dicu,the whale, and Pierre. pse, were ing the day a small quantity of provisions Deck and Port, Sea and Sailor,Land and I Cotton's washed ashore, which were carefully rolled up on ! Lee, Ship and Shore and California. the beach. The next endeavorof the shipwrecked RET. C. M. BLAKE'S SELECT " . HAVE — ! men was to find inhabitants, and I shelter from the ("heaver's Sandwich Islands, Island World and the bleak winds and intense cold, which would soon BOARDIND SCHOOL FOR BOYS. Whale. have cut them off, without protection. Hindi Oregon, Bryant's Ca'ifomia, Fremont'a AT BENICIA, CALIFORNIA. 'Oregon and California. After a little exploration, two natives were discovered, who were friendly, and these they acIn this school thorough education in the English, United States Exploring Expeditions. is Barrow's Voyages to the Arctic. companied to the nearest village, which was about Ancient ami Modern language*, and mathematics,the Webster's Dictionary, octavo and quarto. 15 miles distant Here they were received with afforded to ■ limited number of pupils, under MAulay's Hist, of Eng., 2 vols. loyarda Ns«»the kindest attentions, and every thing done for care of experienced Teacher" The course of study is culcul ited to tit the scholar 'vuh. their comfort which the circumstances of the nato such Harper's Magazines—s yolb. bound. tives allowed. Sledges were despatched for the for active business pursuits, and also prepare I Travels of Madame Pficffer round the world. provisions saved, which wen* safely housed. as desire to enteratcollege. The location Bcnicia, has been chosen as re- ; The Howadji in Syria, Lamartine's History of the The crew were provided for in the native huts. Hunter's Life. markably healthful and saeeesible ; nail the arrangeand furnished with skins, without which, during ments ofthe family are such, that pupils will lind the |Restoration. Travels in Africa. Lady Wortley'a Travels. the winter, they would have perished. The proIN CLE TOMS CABIN—in paper cover—sl. comforts of home.' visions saved from the wreck subsisted the crew Key to Uncle Tom is shortly expected. Music is taught by an experienced n.aster. ; The for about six months, after which time, for two or TheAcodomic year begins with August Ist, and is Thrilling Talcs of the Ocean. three months, they were furnished by the natives divided into four quarters of eleven weeks each. Am. Cruisers' own Book, Missionary Offering. with fish, whales' blubber, walrus flesh, &c. For Terms per quarter including oil charges, $150, Hook of Common Prayer. Bibles. months entire and Miew's Water Cure Manual. Every man his owa darkness reigned, payable in advance. more thin two the cold waa most intense. An American and a Hector. RBKKR To Ooy. J. Itigler. California, j Bowditch's Navigator. Tom Jones. Hawaiian were frozen to death during the winter. Hon. L. Severance, Bosom. Books, embracing spellers, readers, gramThe settlement consisted of 15 huts, and a popu- Elisha 11. Allen, Esq. Cot J. C. Fremont, " ltev.T. 1). Hunt, San Iran; iiiKrs, fee, Ac. lation of about 50 persons, all of whom seemed to Capt John Paty. Stationery.—Every description always on hand. 8. H. Willey, feel a responsibility for the safe-keeping of their Roy. Daniel Dole, [Also the latest Nkw Yoaa Papkrb and roruLAa Rev. A. Barnen, I'lnla. guests, and apprehensive that if any of them should Rev. S. C.Damon, HENRY M. WHITNEY'. K*v. S. L. Pomeroy. Boa. | MAUAziasa. be lost, the American government would punish Rev. E. Bond, 1, 1863—tf. Sept. 1,1853.—tf-7. Benicia, I January This led I apprehension their neglect then for : : ■*■ �72 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1853 18— Am wh hk Oscar, Dexter, 93 mos, 300 an. 1100 wh, PASSENGERS. 10,000 bone, b 0 bbls this season Antic. the Star from San wh ah Saratoga, Harding, 9 mos, HOOwb, 14009 By Shooting fellow Francisco.—Mrs. 20—Am ing obituary notice of a most highly esteemed bone, Kodiack, via Uilo. Mrs. Turner, Mews. Perkins, Mitchell, Kinsman, laborer among Williams, Hanchor, Haight, Fielheiin, and tliree ini ~ Memorandum Obituary Notice of the Rev, Henry Chase, the ateerage. The Mechanics' from New York, April 20th. Own, Seamen's Chaplain, New York City. By the Benj. Howard, from San Francisco, Geo. On tin* 99th, saw sperm-* sailed hales, in Int. 3b north, lore 40 WOOL We notice with regret in the papers by the l««t mail, thei M. Chggabj Esq., Am. Consul lor Luhaiua and son, (J. Crossed the ana tor in trie \tlantie. May fljftjfc, gg days out, in On the 'JSth od June, pas>ed through the death of Rav. Hbnit Chaii, who is. well known a* having I C Porter, M. I)., Mr. Kinney, clerk, Mr. Howard, long WW. straits ol |,e Maire and the mpe in t 9 days. YVcHther hue, been for many yean neaineii'h Chaplain of the Bethel, Roooe- G. 1). Oilman and Mr. "Weil. although the sun was aOQOC the horizon bujt seven hours a day. Light w inils to the equator, whnh she crossed in the velt street, New York City. Mr. Chase wm a native of RejejBPacific, long. 1 S west, I 13 days nut, on the 1lib of Aug. Same Died. salaerCn., N. Y. He became pioua in early life, anil joined d ij saw sperm w hales in large niunkn, fnun 30 to tin bai rcls. himself to the Methodist Church. Soon after, leaving hit* At Honolulu, nn the morning of the 31st ult., of disc ise off )u the 17th of August was boarded by a Isiat from ihe K rn in plough, he Commenced a more thorough course of edu< .torn i the brain, Hemht MutiMAM, aged 0 years, son el Thomas'Vian hark Kmpress. !H» days tiorn China, with 4.MI coof this city. |board, bt inni n r Callao. nn the -'Tib. made the isliiid td than he had been able tc acquite during boy-lioud, and sus- tfaenenea the and al Lahalnaoa arrived this Hawaii, Mtu, at j (in daughter of touched Win. P. tained himself by keeping a school. Hi* piety and talents■ami the Wailuu Falls Estate, A.i.iie, port on the :ilst. \\ ith the exception nf a very few days, the Kekipauahi Kagsdale. soon brought him into the notice of the Church, and ho becamej "Suil'er little children to come unto imp and forbid them weather was eo moderate during the whole voyage, that an open whale-boat reUhi haveanndy kept the ship company. successively class leader, eihorter, and finally a minister o not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The Sophroina aaibrd from on the lath of April, and Hit: Metbodi-t connection. In Honolulu. Sept. let.Onoana Hush,an Bngrlsa resilient ileached (ape Horn in 74 days,Boetoa w here the was detained three hMU islands, standing at the of an affection of the brain, weeks; bad In ivj weather aad toal Jib-boom and head of At length he was assigned to tlie Roosevelt St. Church by of ■god n. I'nt in at \ukiiinwa on ihe 19th t Aog. fliorl 1 fore top tua-t. n quest of thoSeaman'* Fiiund Society, and it is it strong proof i)n the same day, Mr. Thomas RfOMsanso*, also an F.ng- "jnf water, and nHod again on the BOth. Ten days beflare of hie fitness for the work of a Seaumii's Chaplain, ili.it he lishinan, and lbrmcrl) a partner of Mr. Hush in thu butcher reaching this port, sprung a leak, and has continued to leak about loo strikes, both at sea and ai the dock ; r.tiise of leak was allowed tn retain that position over twentj year*, thoughi business, ot consumption, aged 36. Aug. 20, at Mie small pox hospital, JoieStlvada, of Fayal, ! y. t nnknou n. (he rule of the Mothodist conferences is h> change, their preach T.ie bophroaia left at the Marquesas i-lands the American a auMpul Of trade. ers every two year*. 1iwhale ship Win L* ol \anlucl ei, 16 months out. With SS i In Honolulu, on Tinsdny, Si pt. 8th, Panniaica IV. Tnonr- ; bids, sperm oil, to sail m ihree dayeon a cralee. She put in For this long series of yeaw he labored tor the (not 1of seas.in, aged 9S >ears, B native ol Ch:irlesti.w n, Mas-. Mr T. leaky In New V«rk 4 where the t occasioned by bad caulking men, being iustuiil in season and out of season, zealous ami bad reeided at the bdaade tor nian) year*, and n/m eiteuvivel)■ ship was tilted out Leak -topped, and ship in good coiuliateer ei* the orderolf| tion. indefatigable. Mm church always stood wiih open doors oni known as an auctioneer. Rewnei Masons, and of Hie Haw ah. n Guard, ami bl« Mineral'I Ji it 4.—Marin Theresa, Taylor,7 whales, Capt. T. was the sabbath, with the I'ethel ttiij waving from ifs dome to free was ntwnded bt both tuoue bodies, from the reaideuce of Mrs. sick on board ■ French slop, nhlefa had i doctor. welcome tho long tost mariner retained to port, and its rhnp- DurolnU. nn Wednesday. The Hawaiian Cavalry and Guard1 Jti.v 19.—Thos. Nve, Almy, l.:i o bbjs. i.iiii ready at hid poet with n warm heart,to breiik (he bread ofI lunoed the e-cori to the gra\ e, in .Nun rm (>im ter> mill hiss; Jii.\ l\— Hill.mm. ot k. BOU I bis. a large number ul frieude, military Mien, Lang bbls. hie to the spiritual wsnts of Ins congregaiion. Ill his prearh remain* were followed b> ■ JilaliJ«l)30.-ImiPacific, ollicers and private ejti/.ens. iC Hou laud, VV. st, I", w hales. I iug .Mr. Chase waif plant, spiritual, and seemed to comprehend (In the bth m-t Row p. of I 'oii.-u nipt ion. Mr. II..I Ai «;. I.— Mi.unr \ in n Nye, 3 whales. Kuwin C. Hie peculiarities of his hearers. His tit-run ns seldom exceeded arrived ■ few dayi before In the nwtea Bty, '».—t 'niton. Wing, T whale-. too fiir gone with lo—.Northern Light, Mott, 13 whales, lost his rnati twenty miimtec, and thus while lie Nil able to detain tl it at- the disease I > be reslored. hy fhe rupture ot a bl« d vessel, Columbus, Crowell, ■! whr, \\';ijinea, Kauai, Aug. tention of his audience, all were convinced front hit manner of of the liver. 95, \i affeOtfOfl Da* Kva, li,—finterpri«e, Jarnogan. 7 whales; John and ElixaBona Ko'n.t, widow of King Kaumualii. forinerl) the s u-ithat he was earnestly desirous of iheir eternal sjnod. ell ', whaloa\ Oroaiinbn, JohlMon, Id whales; eign of that island, liebnra had tor man) years been in betfa, Chap, Adam-, if w hales Clio iiinati, Williams, I w ii. Kilt the great point in Mr. Chase as a chaplai n, lay BOJ so active end ronnieteut church member, and bet loaafa deeply \\ in. C. N» e.Lau astt r. Uuiy," whales. Ai o. IS much in his pulpit efforts, as in his labors out o t the churchi :• ii by her people, among whom her influence for good waa Heard from, about the middle of A up— By shin Wm. 1|About the middleTell.walls. He had a happy faculty of adapting himself to alli ver> great. Her age wae about 5j of July the Liverpool 2d, ol N. B.. Switt, In III, Sept. '?ltl], Mr. TnoMAI Ctao- m a-ter, struck ou a auliken reef off*Port t larence. in Bhering*s phnse-t of the sailor's character, and tuck ffil his ticilitj in! ! Very suddeiilv. in II Honn, I native id Scolland, aged ."»I >ears. The ileceaeed lelti si aits, and bilged, got oil' with the aasi-tance of Capt. rules, winning their esteem, that there were but few of the nut Iti In.- native land about ten years aince, and lmuiigrated toi of ship Helen Augusta, ot Newport. Got her into St. LaWHide of seamen frequenting the port of \nv fork] who did! Auckland, New Zealand, where he nrcupled offices «>t respon- reoee*s Bay a d cuudeuined ber. Capt. r*alca took tin il and and trust under the Bnnafa Goven iiniii) He visited * of his Me intluetice. ?nt was l set lire to her. come under the known' not rain.'' 1 these islands o igimdly hoping to engage In bla favorite proi'.\ liacar, from Arctic, Aug. 18,—poke— |>DM| ilit-m ai " Father Chase,*' and many a book or trac Ij feaalonal eroptoj n cut, as ■ gerdner. Hnfftcient en Aug 10- -hi|. Roman, I rlpp, ■-r>'> bbls, aclanrlAc 1 distributed by Jiim fuiuid an attentive reader lar out from thelie.Miiranemi nt not being offered, he engaged in mercantile pur* l.-,_sli Herald, «locum, r> whales. l". Ph Isaac in. ks. skinm-r, c wUalea. land. I -nits. He Wnfl much esteemed as an Intelligent, iii-rig it. and I] tW We arc extremely glad seamen: to receive the follow- r • ' — ,•" - ,,< " 1 • < r ' , ' , . ' • , r' , •* , -- > man. Thelast hour offall life was ape i the study >Ichristian ttii* chaplain, attending of the Bethel church. , * - ' ,' . , , ,. tl 1H—Sh Dr-iper, Coffin, clean. infrequently thronged with visitors, ami nf n meeting i;i—Sh Marcus, Sherman. was at home, whether edatinlstertng religious lie did not rumplani of illness appearing as calm and rhei rful H. ltd U in advice, distributing reading matter, or listening to Jack'a as usual, but on his way home w as obliged through pain ami i Aug. 16—*h Magnolia, Cox, 1300 wh. .weakness, to c ill at a neighbor's, where be expired in about Sh Anad ir. sw i,i. :, whahaa, wandering tale of his life or Inst voynge. TO visitors in his ten minute*. His known chrhntan Sli Martha. T.-oker, 1300 w II. rharacier ennrds pleasing family, the study was often the most interesting part of his 11evidence to belli \ c hi.*, la-t wordf ere those ot one « ho fell sh CI Her Price, Taber, 1900 wh, '■ am prepared for what I am bunt toi Pia Mug Trams.—We experienced a terrible storm 0. m house. It contained an atmosphere of cheerful good will, eon- jtheir meaning, I hope I our u -jiith pertinent meet." How exhortation. the IStli of May, in Pick's chat nel straits, Unil n Watch, Savior** t.» ih. gi uial to the sailor's confidence, who while he felt him--Il m> ■in■lefure, tor re know neither the da) not tho luim wh«relii both aides, w ith a heavy \. K gale, Which caused the ship t<. intruder there, opened his heart without reserve, being assured thf ii ol BUM coiiiith." .Matt. BS -13. carrj -ail to keep clearof the *h< re. Finally sails n ,i rigging aw ay. Hot h am hors Were then let 20. with 00 lathOf kladftOM and profitable adv ice in return. [ In Honolulu, at the French Hotel, S.-pt. -,*7 rIi. Mr Thomas all taken uiii- ot chain. The vessel still continued to drag, On the McKay, Croni and a on California, ihe passenger late hoard ot the atfachiiieiu the him, DMUiaon fell towardi print In h morning f the Ifhh parted the atarho id chain, A amall an Sivi.-s He bad resided ankee Jim Caliat \ Digglnga, in may hu added, that unce it being thought advisable to supply fornia, Roy. Ichor was■then lei 10, and four boat anchors, together with a but came originally from w is un-in. : dot k-pot andthtee blubber hooks. The vessel still dragged, h.-i place by another minister, such was the feeling of dieatls- ; and pitched away Jtti 1 tl\ Ing Jin in. m and living lore t. p laettoa manifested, thai be wis returned again t<> his post. gal ant mast. The w in.I then abat. d, w hn li enabled the crew Tokensof individual esteem, brought from foreign lands, ofti n rn bend the tore-sail, heave np the anchors and gladly escape from a verv dangerous pusiuou.—[Commonkited by tin mute, surprised him, nn.i conduced to endear tiie lailof to his heart, Mr. Jmsepi h. Silo*. Mr. Chase is the father of leverel children, who are now en-I PORT OF HONOLULU. C-iijed in th> active duties of life Tn a uT three ol iln sun-, are widely kn-iwn as connected «Ith tha wore ol education. SUPPIIES in hi-> family he waa the kind father, the cordial nirnd and Arrived. the onteitaiiiiug companion. AT KOI.OA, KAUAI ! Aug. 'i'-Aiii sh Snow Squall, I'.urshv, Ijds fm Pan Pram iaeo Through i loi | lint Mr. dhaae has been actively engaged in Fuielrtie, (I-boo me, 1'. d> f ti S.u LHs OhleOO, 30—Sch GEOKGE oiI.MOKE, at Koloa, Is pre the work of the go-pel. BudeafOd to all who knew Inni pi r :C-\msh Own, Heabury, Wild: fm N. York pared at short uotice to l'nrni-'i supplies fit sonally, faithfil in his work, he ha> bean gathered to hU>.Sept. 'J—Aiiisii Mechanic** T\phooii, Salteis, III d- mi San PranelaoOi ahips, including Brrwood, cweet potatoes, foivla, fathem, to enter upon the reward* ofthe eternal world. How ]Sept. 5— \ui bark's .phronia, Hall, l(J davi from st m R I much good he accomplished m caunot estmate. 'I he church 'J—Am. uli. >hip Pheffie'd, Rove, Oeld Bpring, Uea> turkies ] igs, beef, butter, &c. Terms reaaonnJ le. h.is lost an eflcioat laborer, and seamen a devoted friend, atsh Sea, 1000 bbln. this ~. a*on. J. -M. s. ! s>pt. 11—Am dipper ship shooting rttar, 19 di fm Kingman, "The Clerical Association of Oehu" San Franc-co. \ will hold its next sciiii-imiiuiil meeting at i;.-Aui sh Benj. Howard. PauoVra, 11d> fm Ban Fran. iCT 1* Tlie noxt No. of The Friend will aplliiiuilii on Oahu, mi the 12th ofthe current montl Hi-Am wh sh Ceo. Hflwland, Wight, ISO bids. ■, pear in the middle ofthe month. Pepfc 11'—a in w h an vYm. Tell, Tabor, -) moa out, tm Arctic, It is ax pected there will occur at the same time 11 il 1500 wh, 10—Am wh sh Tamahroo, \e I. M mos, Arctic, ,".ihi w b. place,, dedication of a new native meeting house. Donation. Vj—t.'hil. brig Parouete de la Serena, Larraaabat, Ji d*, All im mil is oi the nssociation are deaired to lie i ir< $2 from the mate of tho whale ship "Sheffield," fm VaTparalao. mit. 8. C. DAMON, *J0—A'iiwhvh Motte/iinia, Tower, 96 mos, Ochotak, for the support of the Friend. Sir. of tlie Association. Sept. 28, 1853. , SIMwb. •JiJ— llntish bk ilar> Catherine. Robertson, tin London, If is study w.i- not Mr. Chase # — , - * MARINE JOURNAL. • FOR SKIPS, : Mil. < . ;VJOTICE.— ■- Married. On Pnnday the 13lh lat*L, by Rev. C. B. M'l.een, Grant THoRnuRN, Ksq„ of Asiona, L. 1., and .Mrs. attaia J•Waeii.i,ofNcw Hartford,ct. [At the mature aire of eighty one, and in the possession ol ■hyairal and mental faculties which he at'innw ''never were, wtter"—after the experience, too, of helfe reninrv ol married il'o.he baa ventured iiftain noon its map .n-ilnii lea. Mi. (.all will be i rat iff<d to learn tnat a hatero ho propitious, adorn* the sequel ofthe lifeol Ihe hero of "Laurie Todd. '; In Cb:irle*ton, S. C, 9J inst., Mr. Donald G. Mitch*i.l, o-f Connecticut, author of the "Reverie* of a Bachelor," and re rently appointed Consul ro Vence, and Misa Mart P., daughter of Mr. Wm. B. Priugle, of Charleston. In Honolulu, Sept.. 97th, hv h>v. H. C. Damon,-Mr. 11. H. W. Berkenburt-t, to Nahuawai. both of Honolulu. THE Cleared, SB—Anaeh F,. I., frost, Hempstead, San Franci-rn. Bail BD, Aug. 99, sh Snow Squall, Bttraloy, China. Sept. J Typhonn, Salters. Pnanghnei tog, Sept. 10— \m brig Boston, Taplev, tor San Francisrn. dept. 1'J—Bohr. aanoHne, Osbourne, Kawaahae and Kona, ilu waii. FRIEND:" JI .Monthly Journal devotettto Temperance Seamen, Marine and General Intelii gence. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY PORT OF LAHAINA. SAMUEL C. DAMON, Seaaaea'. Chaplaia. Arrived. Aug. 96—Am wh sh Addison, Clark. 11 mos., 200 ap, 400 wh, 4,0.(0 bone,Kodiack. Sept. 13—Am wh ah Rm hrntes, Peakes. 24 mos., 300 ap, 1700 wh,—000 wh this season, Kodiack. TERMS. copy per annum, Two copies per annum. Five copies per annum. One - -- --------- $2.00 3.00 5.00 � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.10.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.10.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/11f6a3d413adadd6a078732e9e9eb272.pdf 7255b3871b9e250e57804aaf29fe69db PDF Text Text FRIEND THE New THE - - the Arrlic, Nos. 4 and 5, IsMteM ahuut Death of Mrs. Palmer, Late , ■ . - i o. Ixiea of Liverpool So, Loes of Susan, • Life on board 2t. a ' - of war, always and oath to custom my people, common NOVEMBER 1853. 1, This 1 them. St. Napolcon at of Talk benefit possessed really Tallyhand con-] my with acquainted time, and long a projects my a Tullyrand is I and is rapacity what by to care means of money, he obtains it. that I great, so was covetous so un-j as His speak kind'v obliged, was after having in vain warned him several times, to from 16 20, when I used to Reslaureteur one three louis of happy upon my on provements stance no I was made I forced an in Had I died 23. to much so never truly it, French at thou- fifty im- speak some for reputation A bullet Then I had It ought then; whereas, me was, not ander himself never perhaps, Alexander, married a a when a a to me But that union, those under less or reading was perceived to I could not that he and I put man all tho of was an iyct bird of " an their But I Empe- there were from prop not is government, not to I of this can world, at everything re-establish soar me so that the his ears, quickest has passage ol he is beaten, but he yet not imagine or think ol that passages . _ the The been made! quickest the are following but Arabia, Brother Jona- must that his cousin John upon steamers (American) upon (English.) acknowledges y« a* . _, .. Clock Tim*. passage,) paassge,) Baltic,, (western " " hra, 9 14 9 821 » an Arsbis, 71 and their hands arrived I did lay line, Hays up, bate the mast of the upon lighted Cunard line, the I3JT now in There port. including that one religion. — are about Estimating master, thirdare 100 American whaleahipi the number of seamen and officers) at natives of the various ne»ia. nearly**anothwr third and remaining render it the foundation and Europeans. and of morality, and good principles, wished to third are embrace. (no 3,000, probablj ialandaof Poly Portuguese, and th( American., EnglUhmer. to above need of somerhmg great of the Collins spite teachers is the equality three years the two or true, . made. of eternally preaching are kingdom power victory Arctic, (eastern everything they in my to by Alex- of not In and frauds of the that from the time upon, head Atheist. For perched some, Napoleon laugh- Nevertheless it is being who by of birth contended for the supremacy ocean. Arctic, resting iniquities seize as and credited unbeliever. replied, religion, lay me the rruejses far from am book, is career Cunard and Collins' The help not the the child of per- always a people would a was, the voice secution. in June last she be maxim by much. have for years 1817i a was my that kind of Re- English oligarchy that the at In fuct, people. talents, without distinction to reason in commit- never would read such it had been asserted check. arising I in- is les- misfortune by more my powerful was the head of it to 31, Fanaticism is to He him, that tnuny to believe that he ed, great have reputation my — than paral- a sister of the Erfurth. inconveniences in to received proposed as at family, and which this Moscow, I should have without exile. his conduct is known New Testament. observing almost every I had me in his bath. book, litlle a separation, avowing the in of fortune, and this system or O'Mcara, (I9th March, Napoleon saw open in Called the nation, most been of opinion, alwnys Imperial government on 23. Writes 1 have be the to name From nothing I world, Europe sovereignty lay bit- She fought which I of all posterity. the of because have I have framed and carried into myself the I crime battles, almost monarch in feet. unparalled, was wilh di.tant public. of my misfor- her. crime, I have a seated certainly ;of or but prc- merciless and unfeel- a man his to the contrasted. will be have raised the to re- country, and the in misfortune, his that I had ror a history. me is sened. to A to woman, me and known; code of laws, that will bear my a most a asked with what I have doubtless erred that end like was hap- to no do Jjajsterity will will be elevation gained. have Political in time last join to view. in left behind me, lel always 1 restored war his wife, to tlics, paid Ihe were evil whilo doubt, but in political object 22. their to ardent desire Is this the result of mode- living Not that I have doing with lamented her cruel from him. go about I made in France will themselves. there is was the contrary, families send I throne. a myself there: life. were for which I They that I may say, I occupied, proach lodging a month. a to another, to rately, and having piest days days happiest The 21. life of my the My effect to I have libels, the fame. The truth filly pitched greatest She, poor died always treated in" tyrant? employments." dismiss him from his loved. Let Maria Louise be tenderness I ty was them with what I have done, wilh the faults which I have 33. divorce my first wile, the herself, for of all unaccompanied It be of the to to witnessing her *t mo tenderly fortunately es. great talents, although wicked, of principled, not two or year before I put them in execution. a man frequently j was pro- the soldiers converse to found induced I in fidencc for X. pronounce can man no spite committed, me. to tves to equal. men llDOsigflt go Helena. 20. swore I have been twice married. 27. bj good all a Nature formed all In 20. justice. exterminate was, to ask their little histories, and Table in spy taken worships. all tect 2(5. HONOLULU, VOL. lie will do in his last moments. destiny. At my coronation, I heretics. FRIEND. THE Kings French tho reign, Before my 25. 76 ... the man a and possess it, as fear about my his avoid man cannot A . deaths aud aliip news, Marriages, been would have Rus- a wife, ray - - « allow to the Tuileries for Alexander. - - Affair, Melancholy priest like not be the confessor of to I considered he n - - - from China and Japan, news sian I, 1853. I did religion. her NOVEMBER FRIEND Tahlo Talk of Napoleon, Series Old 1853. 1, 73 fjoilteilt!* OF NOVBMBKR HONOLULU, 10. 11, No. Vol. Scries, human wonderful. consoratisn and resource laws. Religion to these Man is a The Editor would of papers, wno| dolpho, from Mr. U. S. S. " M. acknowledge filer Hall and Portsmouth". J. Goq- �about the Letters Ice. lts mation and may In readers. fur breaks up every found open ited those and interesting Kam.chalka 70° all by to the ice-islands do not to least the during the during the bine these two the in Partly form from Ihe the from the attracted, by rapidly, sometimes into sharp several water degrees in which it formed. for following considerable portion the not surface large a fresh places many superficial current the surface of these that of fresh a closely seas resembling road. sandy a Water than that puddle in, it breaks up there is a water to raise is llirown sufficient layers a the of this way it thick when a is that in a Anadir some wind and gales, aided and ueinlv of coast latitude, there, This shore is from of and south in must the sy gales Then from the North in near most found August. there July was whale. and fresh it a made ° high early Ships of appeared 1 for and I to and decay North, the influence of water,l[change of and strong and hea- •locality, and the steady drive it South, and This I opinion was shows I shall Jject ihe a to all cold to thai must s and to ibis slier Ihe strong force must and a es- the sweep Shipping List. li. No. 5. , of the cause Anad ice |moderate be be frozen sides, a the would warmer broke and East packed the heat. in one first up current Anadir as so and run by and and sea, as in the heat the and through keep forcing sea it a Thaddeus the the ice possible, wedging it thereby The to to the Then Cape a and would until the pieces. combined close position. one into mass, than usual severe remain it This the these localities easterly gales prevailed These the Arctic, by ships passing: only less being thei, giudually tliey I;[across byjistraiis. that in was, infreq.iency solid one The long gales. of of subject of ice. so the portion in over it , large [southerly and winter the greater a moving!(North the resume movement remaining spring, 1853. 25th, Sea andsStraits in 1851, r cause ice Nov. Movements. will we formation and broad weather and wilh — In this letter far south, 1! 'spring, increase of the confirmed of discussion of this sub- Sra, lts Ice. di- destruction on tho letter.—JY. next At In the this sides, over room, it. resume ill my is southward shore, west I'nnce portion strong LETTER favorable , a current, work from on along with to May inclined tun they gales prevail, pecially ice il through in October for again considerably Cape L the constantly doomed position northerly Some; there all on almost the driven back current near so I southerly winds subside, insurmountable imildness of sea, dotted wind be the there as is ice. rapidly. as along the May. , equally south, an shord way. the that al- from ire learn ihe norlh, and that th flows of of carried through soon height til larger portion current considerable a feet ar, dreary! its. as is east east gives that to,' was is jam the at as 'through, to This upon it across being soon 25th nt sets the on ihat — the believe to Noth- their and confident water sea force jI some felt rapidly ice. would met 30. were far so looked stretching bodies ° pretty was water May, Wale. eastward passed June. in constantly November Ibis along Sea the straits by the north most which looked six to thick be ice seen miles I ex* a| proach, near generally of ice in the Anadir number of brea- and decreases moves 1 believe considerable a approached, case. and which diminished in yard, being as have been able between clear ■Anadir a I the main most. to sea presented a I six or fast, appear to I have distance of live by sinks the nol very ol upon un- supposed Dave is away ice which proved very thin. ,a this little distance it heavy the ice barrier from through W. passed through would ex- the up, ships the at washes bodies ol seen and eighty miles! and she l near along about have as thrown point Int. 58 opening Noith ol this wall much clear by These melts and but no ice that as Some depth. about in sweep along not fast ; water counteracts her when there is as sinks the ill anient will ship current across of ice swept a Il learned that as account from fast the particu- under current holding and their bonis will of sight, deeper under current eight feel or lew a out so paitly uniting opposite surface, ice in ice moth half the to thai the St. which sailed point moved met near as omen, in when I a = anil ol June. ol appears under an sometimes position, tin rent Wloitoski. upon was having on no I7» ice this ihe Same only working is formed way middle of June were iwall to Islands. the May, partly by an selling on frozen tent, or with if there is the surface The 2l)lh is caused whalers iiur surface, the ship der Ihe lite as ice which the The fnrnier extendi six the of for- are flows 1852 from one they as the as until belt long so in along continuation of the ice field the' strong covered with or jilie abounding by water there is the and the coldest air. Fox west, in nearly a In 'Thaddeus measure toils and during July ly eai of than the ice, Ihe sol- in been much clear after met ships [Long. becomes the by of pail some I entered July force. larly kamschatka Cape to the have must and one: added is June in 2thh of Ingether by hem. covered wall Pauls was I of contact harrier of particularly 'latter part some fresh make along first, for ice!Ches fifteen ships to accumulating east to the Itrark, plainly' [and different sea ice snow reaches very uflen but clear [About thicker. even The Kumschatka Sea owing tent ten winter, constantly quite or of in complete the seen where These ice thai first makes driven ing lie This is) of the some also ions lo below becomes These huge the south—the other ear- fragments from layers currents, it the of strails as surface and a that westward inclose The approach of the cakes I have vided some single the is sea sea, through of North. —both con- ice it water of St. Pauls, thai being could sets are and thickness succeed working a must weaker portion aj of Cape Wloitoski. be|Itbe meridian of 180 the broken oilier. quantity large Much of it. space large appearance of the inches thick, and in so ly solid, four or wind regu- but cementing generally believe ships west greater a of gale a I barrier, of must by sur- something, the the as in over ice, and sharp In ice. three seen freezes Ilie in movements niyslei ihe it bodies of ice form from St sea two places water weaker top of the from seen the upon the the upon When soon ho come IThis, color in thus colored 20th a sweep away Hows adds and eastern Thus !the cause some of impregnated with of salt. quantity or in and there ( portion avalanches, borders Island. jce. consid- a resembles mostly Ires.hand certainly lier for river—in water and gale Large fresh, IIfonnidablc is they sea large a as first and over a rise level still but The has formed suffieient- ice thicknesses, must :sea forms in seas of its on Where thei ihe north of it, extend to distance—indeed the reasons salt, entirely. passed lSlh W. and found the to of into t whales, and no the Anadir Sen, mid in straits—l lliink wou- which the form like south, and Others [South very empty into Ihe streams erable being all ced than that water ° 178 the I the on plenty, Until Ihe in plenty were thrown nmsl pieces and separate from it. ■coast, a along these thick oval or every masses Pauls In of the id gradually gets have various manner: in wears that the ice makes and thinking the I which motion and shoalest warmer the By thus lite stand the first gale to strong various is on are, forced the current, it ice. ice but feet above ten body a numerous]i.smooth. This sea. Being Lon. good whaling dill'cr- firsJuly found straits. and unequally!.During June gieal the they of iec and freezes. lodges [throwing rivers. uniting constant a c gale large bodies straits on believe at' the so the the to strong I a where harrier of ice frozen entire-! whales stantly accumulate In strength wears wind to They appear When water,,ly large the this very formed by ihe ice thrown up, which the upon asj surrounds prevalent of shapes, large of a round snow that supplied! to is is other-][returned and sufficiently .hat. 61 a up. The broken many the are eight lar. in in fresh from from . face, early [ current in prevents away. by ice Straits water of ice by a com- in lop forms away causes for these flows field, sides, the the thickness in jence . . washes many vis- formsj'derful that it which almost it flows vast the West, seting This from single ice it the straits I have not been able to this, pressure of the gale the weakest gives way, 'part of August. land bays are made ami passages spread in learn a' what lime the ice cleared mil of the water, frozen temperature, North sometimes position, a through up |the Arctic, cover-i been deep freeze il, that there over whole, strong bringing when bodies and could break probably have is water it maintain StraitsI all directions, and South lam] and Particularly before not the Behring's The away. high seas, would con-' a becomes sea to destruction of the and May, melts it which 1853. movements of this for the Davis' Various and that is above the and If winter melts summer. seas of in as part of great*?!' summer. as ice to your lWould Anadir r and owing shallowness forms in from the early r] hard to who have navigators hasten the to wilh wise clear, . least it has beenJspread and the Southern Ocean. at for- of such portion Artie Ocean, 'times the Anadir Sea must be but fresh is water 72° N. the ice»Jly* over, season—at localities. partly ed 1852. of the NOVEMBER, Straits and the Lat. at up succession a of the ice in the Po- .salt, and prove the Behrings seas, by FRIEND, siderable description movement!) regions lar No. 4. Sea, Nov. 28, little some Arctic formation. — At Perhaps as THE • 74 to affected of in remain course side of (bis—the air also became as �THE cold the ice before it had as would freezing temperature by Still ire. paasjng unlly bee.me weaker and kept and June, during watched its it up in the seemed whole on followed ice ihat there sea to large a a and ihe westward, to the northward, the it, until they ice in of tity the short a (here it does in by up polar There Anadir still a I a ice and the straits in the by such all freeze be in so Ihe old heavy forced being and gales basin of water glrhe. pole cailic it idea, islands. the great the at am there is a North Pole that warm by by the wind never J current. a would more through with the laws of open by ice be so, This or, but nature melling, for north is a to me for not and died city, funeral which he had of: ion :of the last at was the and and citizens seamen in which he by those who held ihe straits half of the jwill be in in many dropped jthe world, the|I port, as the although clear ii Chase is on many a intelligence no more.— in a a to position work and in spreads Independent July sea to June, j would for inform sale, them, and for The that he has gratuitous a re- again. the Horn, days. thanks ofj 1 in to einiiK would copies.i ing distribution. to and nt 45 He of Good to return reduced He thought at over an to the rules was a the" vote was of his book or fre- during and of for his autho- of the British English of the about 70 unanimously Agent out- thought Lloyd's his wind and of such in the way Captain discourse, him Hope by he case occupy copies engage said instead of the for- He stated that he supply Use charts. current days. gallant voted with cur- rcferen- by California home had which not able address. 4. and days, Cape his of in month, and between New a The was ' Henry: winds observance. applauded delivery rized Lloyd's sailing intercourse between San Francisco would be by the way of voyage would TearSj' a and 5. Liver- at the United States had from ward voyages, and I 76 loi York, Sept. lectures character and results wind of'27 England .Chaplain ' few ; yet—strength accompanied their directions, with Books. ; and my friend regarding average time of 40 antl Singing Books.—Seamenoften timesfor the singing aim, assured, endured depend, meet given advantage! the quickest ol kept I same, and Rio the voyage has been be-j quently in many that he while we origin, ocean shortened those Cape far off quarter sen, the an mer at grcal . sailor. until has the voyage lucii who devoted, . patience thee splendid his to s that labored, both by of his efficacy much-neglected ihe unless j were on in the rents the large company J also Maury He sliited the prove I feci loss, Father, my whose merit's I commend the and comfort all your God, of his observation cur- the Church the unfailing love loudly and before the members of pool, the week.— of last at hope retain, still New York Chaplain ofj testified was would Lieut. room minister, as long and successfully Sabbath, to though your tears mirffrpnst years, with my al- Roosevelt street,i close attended now derived from devoted in mourn Farewell; beloved Rev. Henry Chase. faithful soothe, more. mains. letter. in the present and will , o'er, are no eternal gain." ever ever part form wea- the subject tins her me must sickness, Jeans, on To outer when speak of or you London, .1 earth. And j commanding fresh, causes—a Mariner's Church am! this [and - the loved life, . worm and calls to Itut let that hiss with I in thick sli'l That The of ice should entirely I purpose of inconsistent1'inquire for of 68 off, veins, at most, your lu-enst loss, is you have in vain died this wasted meet I trust, to memory wedded spent 1 eontiilc ; dust and feed the transient To please can-, comply, and husband, though few short a in ever Thai often! for S. breath; my not lieen Jesus moderate your grief; My (Mir it thisj it. near ship a has for many years officiated think oft surrounding Yet " look-out sharp with or on and vicinity is their left seen ship's length of vol-i ito whom his labors had mainly been 1 for it account for it feeble hand of death cold live for he hath with the shall May full, as light Very I shall mingle 'I'lnn have God, is strong, in that Then, we from to spirit die. when Yet, drained from it. next Death ice some, immense bodies of ice is must generally the Must to deep 1 | II is and the current, freezes, road happy day bare I BrK learned to suffering, and my nights of pain, in my 1 know wash but near, given. contact in not My faith horizon discussion of which there is beany,i esteem not upheaving sea being cl.ivs hi In health ice is under easy, yet am! proper abovej kept internal heat of the think this ice to clear by M. mandate to him. verse been arrests to Farewell her had now imperioni Ye-, my dear a When ibis is that mass, of ice that is stowed away understand the loss a deep surrounded She her before expressed the and suflicient, flight. thank I often when fog, from ike arising constant and a coming my nts of internal heat the fact, and carried southerly I more In ii strong and tUa by this may appear to certainly quantity in the Arctic, by appears forming, that is the wonderful than the more that her by time she earth, to the wish lone; extended, My out-: yards Very than (he more water is leep enough a believe that there is the at south southerly a to Though absurd is its For of; and! the thick and dense that the ice so 'Phis In causes lather sea. ice new freezing (empera(ure by the it I feel the and genet ally! thick a always requires sail. in sizes on hundred high. not seen keep ways north extent It = ther, when in quan- be* Covered with must seen \i is avoid (o passing there is or over, winter, either by indeed inclined an clear be of Point heaviest ice is Iml two north of all the ice s<a adieu H. regaining short A measure. She said after find! we constant fragments, indication sure and il more north various of to a fifty the ice prevent the border of (he to far be will warning not hot n must of whales can from from Scto footed. is This great body old that all the space between ihe barrier mc a done. was to Davis'! waters much fine ice is off small breaking extends round arch the seauoilh nothing of should be put in So at Palmer left there Lady, for the purpose husband, her, they Mrs. licr heavy, took extent Point Beaver in these caused by the This is spite of all the fog is tune so side. a brought against of considerable water (.'ape. not Island. Nobba the' It south- will are by Mr. G. composed Mr. J pieces in There tended approaching firmly so this away a the existence of lor near, by the by on the whole Is, ihe edge of the solid ice. stra that with was north. stowing the straits and open was tune, and clear was lung. bidding would be lliat (his insy in the summer by I Bel from coast up shapes. so I confirm, my belief Ihat there salt up under he ice of that east It early The ice Straits. Sea.— gradually position, By large a ice melted he to forced lall, in the is made ithe north short so Anadir legs broken were moving rapidly ice at northward This a you for to And if it sheet your Pitcairn's Nantucket ■ was to lines are husband, again gradually moves and in them. of bioken lor lull, with nearly swept two pressure. and Hope, Nobhs jam,l probably and it, center Then it sea,''straits, space in sway through the force with which thai have been of the me, disposal. Tlii'y curv- the interest to acceptable the Friend. insertion in an the your the coast to basin. polar size the ward, late from the bodj a la heat. shows Mope and from Sea, and kept it in its powerful it rapidly, large connecting These Arctic ice. north of the Hope to supported enough Cape East to a were extended Point the over and it further to slow portion that on in it \V. into the moving bodily along been The snails ice rested - space 'Phis shows that the ice straits, of ice body time. the ice suggested was hotly north nf-Voinl the considerable The worked and back have must clear that was Til decrease ihe and wind that entire August. the passed it ° 71 us the have moved to the must after fast indeed I in. set powerful, sea, last at During moved gradually it forced rose rain fell also fug so So and on the 10th of by was ■shore, have I weaken- greatly it subjoined Point, add any and Ihe strong along up lines health in sooth of Point Hope, and along that shore the wind sea the fury, setting current reading Damon.—After C. This i copy of them would be solidly props way. S. until ihe whole surface is covered several years. swept north gales Farewell my straits into the Arctic, and our with it and new formed ice north of the husband, the almost far north as the the com-, The July. the current, by days through the ships The attack dense dark, a its hold. "jo on two the (be decay, constant bent, and gave element.! ed, Rrv. on shore, more until 18*3. Oct., 17th, winds As formed the S. Islands. Ship Mohawk, Honolulu, ! ice in the southerly western ex- reasona- of the 1861. ice wedged in, were in case the Hope, and along the remain all ed by all the freshly, of these Influence the ice let of and Willi great and copiously, forced IBlh tne Strongly and rolled in in would it however and ill limbs. body, wind blew Tiie thai Arctic previously break blocks tn the stated, cer-| greater the pressure was combine for the destruction of to inciiced and decrease, been have are northward. current a 75 1853. month la- a consistent and perfectly in and lores must I July. ol' is South = 5 ice until heavy to set it, Soulhers "of something interposed At last sniiiiuer. " grad-| Snll It and point of that a portion suppose Arctic moves north when the ausjy' wore half nearly gradual that unless tain it from that ter. a the, ble under narrower. all the ibrvngh fast hold to The mass rapidity. with considerable fall soon when over forced:!tensive fields water the Ocean hinder mi fur passed wanner current the along by the and surface, its NOVEMBER, FRIEND, gor- of sailing current chaits Sea Captains as make observations accord- prescribed.— San Transcript, Oct. 3d. Francisco �76 THE Late from news China and Japan. Whampoa, The Susquehanna steamers have returned from Commodore Perry the Mandarins. in tow entered the hay boarded were attempt Commodore made was to The Commodore tained by went Emperor, the enter- He sumptuously. President's the to message with the request for him weigh to take (herein contained, and matters reach lad: any 1853. permis- get supposing few items, a you to and perhaps get not that the H. A., Captain that The American ed GREGG. by Capt. Y. 350 sperm The of "Liverpool American Whale 2d." Ship, out, run upon reef, a following ete Ihe vessel into Port St. months undel- for On (he (he 14th, wilh island, from (he South at to consider well his he would it again call in (he be favorable. might Mississippi which land spring', Imping thai He then returned Hong Kong, touching The for answer, to to this port ibis af- the Rebels Respecting we have heard but Our river and the was Ap- Calcutta, having, a Chinese 10 in number, and crew, lightly ed serious consisted of Malays balance of the midnight, being About M., him, the captain, murdered the cabin, two passengers and captain's being The Malays bearing on run robbed the the boats. ship in After about Hong Kong The crew to went rates out ago are put to but found them chase, selves so it not fleet of Pi- a and numerous they thought their and were of (be lorchas, I write by the is glad enough superior in so getting not to back to .carry in now who it The to avail them- the to (hat it " Helen The no to kept the offi- opinion to (he assistance any lettors or taken on on his who sels. after soon the day, Capt. his hav- papers, Hnthaway viz ; We are Swift " taken oft' to by the Black that say, they kindness. utmost transferred were still, of more the distributed among other this port at the to eight and Huntsville, Smith arrived r. remain- board of which on the they but 2 at re- ves- a few in Fales. nut Oil, was the We is and2, of the dress, enlarged are much pleas- Naval.—The French Corvette ti. Tho M. M. following is a on “Moselle,” the list of her officers Lieutenant I.ngouginc, ltosciir.weig, linitcigne dc M. 23d from M. Tahi- : VaiaeeMi ; dc Vaisscau ; Duvivier, Knscignc dcViusseau; dc Vaisscau ; crew distiibuted Berthou, Enseignc Griffon I)u - Jonchicr, lii'llay, Sous Aide Capt. Swift, Lectern, Chirurgicn Ducret, Chirurgicn Brown, Stivy, Aspirant licrtrar.d, Aspirant board D'Adhemai Commissair. dc ; classe; clasee; classe; dc 2c classe ; dc 2e claaae; dc Lantagnac, Fournier, Aspirant 2e lero classe ; dc 3c do le Oauticr, Aspirant and Watson Hammond. dc Vaisscau ; ingcuieur dc Charles Davis on It enterprise. Spanicr, Knseigne Augusta." Richard I, ed with (he appearance of the sheet. Success finding The Nos. recieved. a new greatly improved. Guetin to state, while Era". been Weekly Argus", being stripped, were "New have days whatever Helen Officer, requested captain landed There sold her liclland, Commander, arrived Cap(. sunk. John Small, Kilburn'Webqui.h, upon the ice. days subsequently, eight crew were paper and power. two P. Collins Steward, and four Steerer, Seamen, in taking vessels, except 3d six an William N. The ihcy subsequently Capt. and Company's Island, authorized or The Dc board until Parish, for " vessel, was and Spars vessel and drowning vessel. where hoard the mainder should fall in and commenced fire and board other Boat port. Captain was set on The com- Two had William tho treated wilh Susan's this sight. Capt. repairing Rigging, valuable. was But highest bidder, in sight; are all went on finally steer following hove in company Bay. facilities for we were and Some five Capt. Captain duty On the Augusta" offered any ship's subsequently by drowned was eight days, the unless (hey Bay, the succeed- the ice. one Warrior of New London, Endeavor; his and upon following day. the wilh vessel; continue in the vessel, days since in Ihe Mcnkar of New Bedford. was.bis vessel. some the (he their unanimous safe not in not and badly. leaking Crew concurred. of Mr. Solide which was besides pieces, consultation a expressed was with in be to held in away and clear of Irishman, perished an a lower breast unmanageable more steered his boats for planks ship, Rudder Irons Post, quarter, the follow- cut 21 of the escape, perished, came out by constantly and the under her being Subsequently however, they qualities to Hamburg brig well advisable sailing loading for Honolulu. ing orders Swift by reached their it is suppo- attack them and put about, the Pirates in found here The vessels known may lead attack to be then gelling bouts, two up four En right, M.on examination, knocked were nearly was small armed vessels Casks, two her, to pumps hogged," Slern He immediately from Macao armed that Fastenings reaching the shipped Three of them have, days her that it sed been arrested. A few ; starboard m., another boat p. their c Englishman, ts were of them agent which " off, forward, ; Kales most be minutes, she found was thorough a found the shore St. Lawrence in Ship hard, (humped Water and Provis- condition Upon was and concluded Malays succeeded but floated, Rudder all of the the day. and hook cers rigging. treasure which (he of Chinamen shipping detection. and next Whampoa the of her (he She receiv- no Captain (hat hours and twenty in found was abandon Ihe to near eff the evening a. m. on were the other upon the ice. lightening overboard Oil, disabled vessel be- struggle then made(heir escape valuables, in the the board.— on picked ed relative of the Oil murdering ship to chief officer, into the tip The Chinamen after whites, a of ma- previously from officer In these she were The found she As Ship going two (hen rushed all of the whiles alarmed and came boy, a and ed. at pany there 1\ At 5 by made straits, ice. in the fill boat succeeded wreck. (he the to passage the vessel the by masls were wrecked, the W., and ininules, sight. commenced In six started Chinamen attacked the land, (he boat five crew about five miles the deck and murdered in 20 time, reef in in Portuguese.— one but this reef. a throwing going. and N. (o The ing day. about her Boussoul On damage her attempts being hazy to Island. surrounded causing with out, was At the lime of the wreck, making through sea, Company's Boih most China passengers, the At his upon ions. for Hong Kong Arraloon brig altered knots, of any again part, 0 immediately the sth (he British left car with • Pirates. tin infested sea are ihe weather was hard. signs Bow, had 7 fathoms of water, M., about at lowered little for (be last month. S'arboard course struck ternoon. the leagues distant, ship's 1 P. Loochoo. at came off by command- 16 months 27th, about II o'clock, one time 1853. of obP. 2 n whaleship Susan, Smith, was hound West, purpose 15th, of side, 1853, Lawrence Clarence, wood. taining 15th, July 20 east circumstances :—On the left biceze strong the on ihe vessel "Liverpool Ochotsk 2d," Capt. W. J. Swift, Master, kindly 'Susan.' ship and 50 whnle oil, April 27th, Loss treated very were of Loss re- source. A. they Kales and his Officers. papers, supposing you before you any other Bhering's Straits, shore and on the authorities despatched well tho resisted. successfully letters, Your'a respectfully, by surround them as usual, with boats which the NOVEMBER, Ihe agents to some have written consisting having steamers An send to ceived it from last and July applied sion Mississippi 'his might possibly wilh his fleet Plymouth and Saratoga of Jeddo in and I have you would I 1853. Japart. of the above named the ) China, August lOth, FRIEND, dc 2e Aspirant dc claaae ; 2. claaae; �THE MelaucholA y ffair. Two •« belonging Seamen Portsmouth", friends They board on excited wilh Soames, when Liquor, to a became Death funeral of the followed. unfortunate the officers and seamen the Tho Bethel. t!.e after blow, been taken as dram i shops stroys ! How men's reason quence of were Parker is shoie, has on Wo ! it the upon is such well I that de- to have retnsjn* 10(10 our facts no call is the lOlh of out our is a — IB.] t<> note in have only 3-4 in bees and cts; the made since 100 and but the transac- S moderate ex- be quantity of reading School about demand hear and of sales 30,000 of lb. at 34 Free Similar favors *S§*** Seamen at the of French menced n's H Us barrels of if sent Peter Earl, tt Hiram for Hank, F. Charles Mr. Lmnphier, Morris E. W. Buddington, Henry Banks, Win. T. McKneel, AusA. Crawford Clcarland, the living Arctic circumstances while York in Hospital are Will and nre here- a and from an officer, Tracts &.c ijf'i.oO. From' A friend C. the fall of in 30, Commanderand " and French wh. ah. the when day, next vessel " when kept a was as sold for 75 cents not 22.10 Palk.. the by friends in New Obtained. one Coulter and Ed. O. DennU- in vessels year ago bound to the invited com- Office nt the until the resident* near m. d. H. I. the market, reaidencs and Bcretania street*, above the Ca- tholic Church. Ships ever medicine* with supplied than and prices sea-worthy Store Drss of Fort corner and aTlathrop, HONOLULU, res- called Seamen Bethel. attend. to hoisted the the at Thursday next Temperanco Meeting NOTICE— evening, six Gosnold," to company survey condemned was 13. came received State.. danger geo. great was Consulate booka. were vessel afternoon to .till but 1839, block in stove The Tuscany," vessel sold was before furnished the Opposite Market, in much at thi* lower city. DRUGGIST, LANGHERNE, per barrel, and next door to Capt. Spencer*. The Ship Chandlery. ships. barrels of the oil day for All the $100. vessels To the The discharged. were commenced wind all the the happy are saved. in tho " to "Tuscany" and was that report The taken crew all out are in the be 6.0* best kind, furnished the Passengers Mr*. 1). Little, W. Kiild, C. Mosht*. 8. at tho important, you has pestilence shortest of this will not E. F. Jesson, L. Reynold*. a. Baker, W. O. Jewon, Y. run no risk Bay. SornicnsiA.—Capt. Swift, Hill and of .mall By nard tub and Zoa—J.' B. Knapp Mo**r*. wife, d. a Higg" l ". CUMINGS. **• c. & »*trr». SMITH, CHANDLERS SHIP Bar- and U„ Vance. AGENTS. GENERAL Ship, supph.d with RECRUITS, STORAGE. MONEY. j". A The paid to be call. oh.*im. Larabee, J. Brown Capts. that AND Mr. Bunker, Sharp, and family, a* several 1853—6m-19 1, Howci. and pox, within Luce, Messrs. Nelson, Rowc, family, Alwin, Rate, Tobey, Bickles, which will attention wiU Every with may favor us GILMAIT Swan. Tnr. re- and at moderate notico and appeared here, nor Kcalakeakua, Sept. Serpent. 1). virit abundance greatest following articles, r. Sea fact, to coming .eason for find hore in tho You will tho*e who by the followiing cruits. miles B. Gosnold." " the arrived, have remainder BAY the inducement, as the best tho islands afford, price*:—Sweet Potatoes, Cocoanuta, Beef, Mut.Squashes, Melon*, Orange*, hands Wood in any ton, Goats, Hogs, Fowls, Turkeys, tho landing. _ Lastly and most quantity, delivered at adrift. set Ten of the Mary". anchor, and the Island.. called to offered are KEALAKEAK.UA of the There the remainder of the oil nnd hull ■which visiting Whale-Ships attention is YOUR south of Indian Ft. Bay of Hawaiian next fresh, blowing weighed vessels for stood away were Masters and anchored that afternoon, nnd (501) came to 8.00 officers ofll. B. M.'» Bhlp Amphitrite, U«t*r of It and there large a both sailed United Several M., ter; Ship 1853. passing impossible the upon 8. reported tf city. Honolulu, June encountered was bow. In $8.00 ft.OO Friend, a ■I larboard Cushing, Owen, Weil, Chapel, (including services, lighting, painting, .tc.) Capt. Scabury, Mechanics' Own, " Neil, Tahmaroo, M It A. !) These vessels cue. the Tripp, two masters wbaiesiiip Pallas, $2.i0. the expenses at ice. distress, Mary" goodly Offerings. from she the XJ. Hoi. thankfully communicated to his Respecting Joseph A. sinking. of We including Histo- Friend, Siraitg left 1839. will be information Chaplain, ; Disnßow, who Honolulu cannotbot'ound name Any following of leaking, her a Friend, $.'.. 'rom 000 Wm. at have died at the Chaplain's with supplied matter, of the support lalcahipa, $11, incidental It on about ship stripped acknowledge Books, Newspapers, the c out, with timbers, and four planks. Bt r forwarded to Mr. port reported not J. Henry Respecting Ship Marcus, Capt. of all of them. ar the when trood would by calling will study, they R- llildeith, be or Bright, Ueorge L. Mose. Hammond, Thomas in- closing (irmly. Andrews, notified that •r by B. B. Capt. Capt. Friend, Chaplain* Study, tho at from this family that time ha. San Francisco. Theatre, Columbia, divided equally among the three gallon; to We trifle. n Chaplain Judge ries, Ix>c, of the Lewis Butts, a his wrote since mar- The transactions firm. solicited from others. by followed of September, day and ■track, The oil donation of Books for gratuitous distribution from Editor Richardson, 'Marcus.' Ship mos blocks cb steer the cts"per gallon. improved The August inquiry, been very lb—the market super ; MARKET. cts. fair W'halkbone. —Continues 33 30 Aug. ; from Current at IM eH per have clude 2850 bids st 53 25,000 lb, by sales late Mail the change ; 133 at being at of libeling*' Hcattered and of resident Prices ending no bbll, the week have some tin wrecked was struck deny- that afflicts both List of linn quality holders prices the to Ra- may n- from hi. friend.. will Any information, himself. left Katu- from Nuke- sent be soon Ocean, under (lie and it, that selling curse, news the wcrk Whalv.—There tent, Catholics, world Sherman, 31 conse- General here is liquor HKDPORI) Sperm.—We of another were and 1846, letters They The American Whale second oil, in inelancholly following [for tion* from Royalist" island. Island Loss herd rum the occurred see Shipping B. extra " after the same and liiv.-i, to special NEW bbla. informed in July 16, 1816, hut he •' Wimow, who visited Hon- Mr. Dayio Respecting bark Chaplain. Study, gratifying intelligence the Catholic Missionaries had landed some of the would that is, Attorney including the last of ccive tl of the Taylor, of death should This has will fact, No our also (hat, source, " which shall we respecting It. call at the will jah," about 6 Smith, Canandaigua. B. If Chahj.l. r**** expected. when expected, Leonard home gladly received by B. Chaplain, at Honolulu, or the Hilo, Esq., Pitman native of Canandai- be Information will olulu are colors ket, be land- prospects WANTED. Darro, ha* been absent from He N. Y. years. expedition. seafaring. the N. could full report a were their Respecting gua, return- Catholic Priest. seamen evil and greatest copy and as soon make to had The Missionaries favorable as Royalist" Katuhiva, at inflicted Sandwich frequenters "Maine Law"; community, we " Sidxkt G. Information hope the ning worst safely On the forcibly for the place enforced. are How the true our officers Police took ! rum We do laws that affray serious that the ; American ship. l.-tanco to O, thai ! warning the INFORMATION liutts. warning a tried 77 Marquesas.—lntel'igence to (hat port. to ed Portsmouth" hiva, who seaman being This inelancholly serve " of the. board his on attended by The services and many others. at The numerously was man ed fatal be able a blow upon the other, John Slinchfield. immediately Tahiti at Addison Mr. one, inflicted Quarter-master, a good as 1853. NOVEMBER, S. has been received from ihe Rev. Mr. Parker S. resorting but, "National," the shop called dram reported are ship, U. shore, Wednesday, came on ult. the 26th Mission the to FRIEND, Seamen's payment of attendance $10 Chaplain wonld from H. B. M.'» at Little cudiiig Sept. 30, CARD. Briton IW3. acknowledge the Con.ul General for Hospital, for th. quarter te*as»l W O established HAVING lo, Hawaii, recruits on H T is prepared to favorable lon the United States. II _ himself in bu»lne*» term., for furui»h *' Hi- .hip* oash, good*, or with Hills �78 THE For Lift Board on Friend. th* choice of bis heart; Man-of-War. a islanders bore but .Vow far ho sweep., where erarre a n I rom midnight watch the reader, the across waves he wolf's long howl tumultuous roar, Even he of the Will June morning glorious, but beautiful unlucky wights 9 ship thought they of the brilliancy fantastic peaks golden light to was sun of no the her best, tars were and if the liltle that so the to stray busy thoughts of beauty her it( did leave it. of how they thought as The craft that war tic, and about was proceed to unlucky papers treat crew beard on have you kind so to think to best the but if ful, the I]than rivited to be old' ■ " li than did far going of harbor out sybils making we were where had we one if you every it me htlle a was not kind so glum with people, Iwe hauled ; ns and t from is ship a t si no sombre rcfiVc- or was not wor.» truly amiable wi bounded onward, the Alter were we tl and the shi we but were Oalm had spec a disappeared was an far, fat • jtwai still there. tin-in f"ltcl til gal Ml"'" W* rsfvsßs. poop the Eastern bias to sooll \\aters; such DO northward over every il'ther as rounding the pnii little world of Honolulu but where smoothly Oalm, as the to steadily cheer-]JI he reception, place heading upon not leaving on departing few hours and a quietly as such no be wondered at, ! A* IV* to a did their best bail bit the less a was went a sellle the matter to always 1 Mow in!ins tilt; Hawaiian*. mv career. prognostications lost was always makes peo- glum was en torn were enough neighbors, my Idling I for interest prophecy to as to that in error, an that it for 1. that Wo betide taeunfo morning I JNo. Itunate fellows that stepped between the wine I enough for all was attention, my sentiment dismal, if I it in, and beeches that just long for either tions, ,jple lliese; were drowning, thai taking so their these fair isles, very in- sybil gone can, one These, no the brigl moincn every length closed at view, better, perhaps not that way, —sure but me, exalted termination the effect of was to since that, sybils Leaving they reader know and occurred fate, have to! more vessel i point among had ,'tiinc ajn missile]• I to be,1 place but lillle escape of until the fainter J feel their loss Insuddenly luck, but But csftiigh ol this, tin-in. sure fate thai time; at narrow t messages villas and pretty growing trees his nobility, but cruise, and then the words of the kind;land creature my arc with, f< to givin Waymauola; 1 little hut am, gootl for ominous words voyage hundreds of some Nuiianu with its 'j green 1 had time, leathery you you tempi your a 'lof our I though me flic then rejoinder; very begin the Arc- her. of their movements, teresting subject, a a veryjjother were of was the writer of these papers of the what to they soon speak we her [very these 1 the Faith to start on .had loveliness of the spot made them discontented " think of them , occasionally scene, was was muddy chain,: a some was beauty beneath; over of the beauty flood of• a her shoe after bravado threw ol out back. or j cheerful that occasion my on so, threw drowned if the over shed reflected in the bright mirroi unhappy morn! valley of Nuunnu; purpose, dressed in peering he Oahu, upon the of the beauty ns I morns;! of gloomiest very of the more .nurse worthy j Ijsnils, when I left home for the fiist .'been busy unmoor-' were island;that hove ocean, we pilot goodbye, our feel the loss! shore, then filled and 'carry on trimming ou therefore kind stood for the little valli please. I, naturally upon the more short time, bid to dote, respect you Once us,],!a mother, sister, a was, to in the little harbor of Honolu- lu, it seemed the little who , it the at fair lo somewhat down in the mouth; years was brnlie bright though severely, whom on if you feelings froni[Omalaska'i shore."—Pleasures ope. any of the relationship enough have you girl fair some that long creature an that not home there, and at 1653. NOVEMBER, exactly beeir quite the dear of blow, that slumber in eternal srrew, wastes nd waft »r*ese* had we to be *miles Rcliring's rocks and Greenland's naked isles, Did on bis ing their or summer FRIEND, sow IBM SUN ni'i-t, when ill thai isle 111 no Uanssf it area *n M In ,r. make themselves to 1 I shall not enter minutely into the details For upwards of of the passage to Bearing, straits for inconI ten been years have knocking about the forehand, it is but a inuu-01-wai 's cruise; j ol the Dumber of vessels that nnsequence globe, many shores have I visited, many seas there and back again. ' nually resort thitherin pursuit of the whale not •have I roamed and have I a few perils The sun had scarce the passage is as well known as the appeared, when, as if passage as far would I cheerencountered, but to Atlantic, therefore it is unnecesacross fhe greet him, a swarm of seamen sprang aloft, Ihe sails dropped from the yards, and fully travel, twice the dangers would I enfor me to offer remarks the feel you inclined, the soon ship and we began but how clank to it the fair the fiddler nearly our played his merriest tunes, last to no hearts to the even look there wassomethiag could find cling to suggested tions might be "mud." great rough sentimental a At sea-cow and hauling on our grance played of around us, sighing if' what of as is na- old he is soulless more refreshing at some fra- fitfully murmuring loth time or to land of four it they ing away o'clock. I preten- ■ has its cha- ■ that or The eyes. both the as de- Doubt- another, I or But image to canting minute more and bracing round our island we friends were with the a in the up from those he loves and holds dearest either side as if pearly to and cheeks, teeth and lus- is the to ship from the welcome this time most fog, so no 'A at was from part much so, 800 sonic islands are and tolerably over nations for retreat in the is to the wildest tacit who left arc enjoyment This comparatively island and of cuttinrr speak- Behring's straits, westernmost ani- few scattered a it short time since, then all vessels fori round the other forbearing shores. the islands snow, parallel, they wandering Esquimaux, a new route a same houses of inhospitable ■ through ■ ing, salt! the with degree Unknown in tintumeablc of the other their high, bold, prrthe time we made covered partially to a at is went up, I so We left then gone that way, and i waved more narrow and were tribes of i by t blaz- light passed through rocky, and cold most either jibs, we little a thick was required day during the which, I never could discover the reason why, except shore, —ai that, that ancient mariner, Capt. Cook had the of the and mals and indelibly but discursive. went than are a and a of we broad parts of the world in the lovely formed of God chafing but splendid spirit pervades last adieu, breakers i bleak daughter of Ere■ head yards, centre less blushing return strangely think, stars beautifully same dark, are remarkable very one wind for the have V2 passed 000 of it. i eipitotis to was with The Aleutian daughters i them, not the must as beautiful wilh its i thou, fair skin and Islands we a volcano, and a The weather dirty, very Aleutions in groat rate, but all boesl pretensions skins at a light house for it pa- of Vumaska and the is- peaks, one was such dear■ the southwest, dusky mean brilliant sister of the i thy dusky here no east made the (38th June) M. mountains, with four we the to a. between the islands gentle island, are mean oar each balmy light, carefully have become was no .Sandwich their art clear thy trous and neither moon, bit a breeze stole behind. ' about It of taste, Spain, Even Indeed the with its night wilh affec- sun stamped. beauty and forth the true luint and matter that; if tlie day is glorious bows, then and in and and beyond and south concerned a forgotten, not it is ship's head slowly if like ourselves'it less the reader has its ns the liden with the and leave such parted a at is palm be to why beauty, authority.— no Beauty of the Pncific have on ils iron dog, sea is beauty as far the Cyclades. be- isles that now dewy flowers, gently came, as part But not far i were fiddle of land is "Our Greece, Billy,—my to the from the shore, from the land gel far, that say sage from Honolulu islands of Hawaii. hearthc to of song hearts and warm re- England days, was the last to object swung springs, to us. balmy even therefore last the anchor receded it that the far behind. tion, were Our anchor held churn as it rouse in these Noras the the but forms, a to siib- on any suffice it ' ject, left be-j racteristic, hut which fhe supremacy, has notI all been decided, then why net Great Britain as we thoughts touched its mad heai't, that ture, began girls and reluctant lustily, tugging vain impetuous litlle plaintiff. rank ol hearty Italy science, until [their beauties and put scraped string! could sad,-our were away," gan nothing purpose, of their termi- at as Honolulu. at cheerlessly,• Italy, Greece, Circassia and he " and struck the up savage hind us," catgut and fiddle welcome, got of her fair natures clank,;;far up, clank, sary myself ensure a we as boast oni may manned, was and as Honolulu all these, at in the face, at nation, ception harshness kind home. at us counter, could I can- sleepers and agreeable ponderous anchor, i slowly black bc-i in the hoarse i[Spain capstan came the cable went was for holiday our weigh dismally in vain, he that all The end. at an was you cloud of a dismally proclaimed anchor" that Up may, but I tell woke the stillness of• then voice, a have aroused the island, us, clothed in pipe and deep might " was shrill a vass, the expect, accompany and I &.c, channel with roaring our seamen ■ racteristic tenacity for old our return I i on such still adhered to it, until praiseworthy daring weakness, ■ ed vale, t» actually slashed broke and cha- Capt. Maclure a through through in the Polar with their methods, routes, the regions mind the islands, a beyond antiquatand season was in ad- �THE of vance that way it tropics, like bath into the cold stepping long out of wanting not rapidly approaching gions, we then after were days and long ihe passing the the around constantly casionally sighted part came fishermen prising themselves. that there is but barren, value and turn At 11 M. smooth P. aS go to carofully putting our all large popular Hardening. books treat- hooks assortment, works embraces to | comprising few a [to, the of A few of our latest , only arc Sandwich States Barrow's Exploring Voyages of Eng., ships, The to, in UNCLE Africa, to It Wlil. S\ Thrilling NO. 18 mars, MERCHANT own Levant. AND I vols, bound. of in the of every best and X SHIP WIS* C. to I. It. to of his man of si desire to enter location formerly occupied by Nuuanu with Ships Supplied Bills of advanced for ' Exchange. the Bcnicia, family FLITNER, «psJjjjfj»3E at ihe to old stand; ■SBBBSBBWsaQBsW <'I-ieriiiiiieil by sun and star*, with a Roskell, Liverpool. fine watch tranait accurate instrument Particular attention repairing. Sextant adjusted. and J. of no MOTT Albany, a*a sar "H? Office in Port street, Hotel. By 1 6-tf the year quartet, door to •md invited at to at P. 7, New the and M., at !) commence Court 1-2 M. a.. Room Mouse Native also. and 2 1-2 at all is open and 11 at Churches P. M. hours late for- having are and Chaplaincy for tho sup- solicited lcspeptfully arc of the the An mutual Any contributing $50 person of the life made York. is entitled to become and Society, the of publication $20 to become a an tf. Member. is the such prepare the as Blaag**j fc~h Wy re- arrange- all BIBLES! .: ■It la l>! JUST Study, master. Ist, audis and for sale at the charges, $150, BIBLES of various These books binding. weeks each. arc and sold Society, oty prices in New IC7* Bible* Bigler, California. J. C. S. H. imported by styles of the Hawaiian American Bible Boci- at the with the York, Chaplain* size* and additional charge Fremont, Hunt, will be sent by rry years at Special San Fran guese seamen in those PomSroy, 80., IJ*OR . Friend, subscription price desire will be more or any given will to Spanish and Portu- supplied with be Bible* SALE the at Chaplain* Study, complete Notes on the New Testament, and Job. Also "Webster's of the cheap Spelling sailor unable edition of t'NCLE Book. to read, and desirous of be supplied with Webster* Spelling learning, will Book gratuitously, unless he prefer, paying for il 2, 3, 4, 6, 6,7. • A a History reduction made to than gra- tf. sets of Barnes' Isaiah Bound. Chaplain's Study. who they the Also a lew copies subscription price, to earliost opportunities, ' TOM'S CABIN. of the Friend for I, .ale and Barnes' Notes! j 11T Any the notice is that the the language,for Phila. States, England, China, Sydney, volume* various languages. Bornos, Rev. S. L. in tuitous distribution. " Willey, Rev. It. in advance purchasers ume. and Sabbath afternoon, particularly are meeting Vestry, English, chosen und Rev. T. D. Dole, paying from the Frenc prayer at the to the Am. ye Col. Patv, The the room Ilihlc Gov. J. Damon, United 8 and report of all donation, is Seamen's Friend Society in New foreign country. and the during invited to aid in keeping respectfully supplied with useful reading matter. Honorary under August eleven of quarter including Bond, Bound V., aas'tf. next ; with begins Allen, Esq. SMITH, N. Seamen gratufor tho BOYS. Benicia, January 1,1853.—tf-7. to Friend Quadrant Classesi silvered and I)R. given from Strangers arriving day. t Friend, The Friend sent abroad. by be and other most convenient evening fl rumen and papers hand., pott rale> made be ovcry RECEIVED Severance, John of the will of the Friend day. services home. per 11. Rev. E. observation* nations) vi.itChaplain's the at they where calls all of actual expenses. L. Klisha repair Chronometers,, will Seats free. m. (of cull to Seamen. Reading that pupils will find the such, * N. 1-8 r. pies c< Wednesday on rOTOXAJ the pupils, taught by an experienced Rev. Daniel Continue* with receive Sabbaths, said gram- in advance. payable Rev. S. C. 1). in been and accessible Capt, Honolulu,—tf. and and also to has are Hon. 7 to vessels every college. aavaa Cash nnd Sea- Worship is calculated to fit the scholar pursuits, Street. recruits. on FOR of ments of Terms GrimesI the to CALIFORXIA. number mly at The Academic // made DOLE. experienced Teachers: course Music is & be for Public open m., It 1-2 o'clock, eign M. WHITNEY. markahly healthful J. U. Lewi*. jr. E. their furnish 18.53.—tf-7. the line plate, The own languages, and mathematics, United a active business The or- CO., Nath'l Fai-k, Papers thorough education afforded CHANDLERS, MiTciSfct.r.. to A. M. and Tom Jones. NT 11001- and Modern The notice. 00 attend. M. HI.AKK'S SELECT BEXICIA, divided into four Store I oti Every HENRY Ancient as made will to weekly religious conference held also tit IMS—tf. comforts of 1. A is Bibles. YoBS New a. mutter. Public —Every description always latest AT care short at i -12.00 - the boarders .10, belonging Donations In this school description style the Sept. 1, lor Garments the cover—sl. paper Manual. 11 at Life Director READY MADE CLOTHING AND FUR- der June afternoon of each fee. fte., STREET, NISHING GOODS. - admission, Chapel is Chaplain world. shortly expected, Prayer. 1.0U..,1\<. BKAI.EU l.\ - for Nine-, itotuly supplied Hook, Missionary Offering. .IMaoaxinkb. TAILOR, be may week, including washing, per term, this port are invited Study, in Chaplain street, quarto. 2 vols. Tom is for BEDFORD, NEW Natural History, 011 1). men. of tho RET. WATER SOUTH Also supplies lectures • Seamen Tales of the Ocean. Cruisers' Si aTio.vi'.itv. SEABCRIf, l\ -1 Ltulv Wurtlev's Travels. Uncle Book of Common potatoes, low Is, Terms reasonable. schools. high ing and TOM'S CABIX—in Key Am. sweet Ike. turkies, pigs, beef, butter, I to furnish firewood, 12 di»- at • generally attended those taught, nrc expected that Sabbath, Ilowadji in Syria, Lnmartine's History Hunter. Life. The KAUAI! I at short notice including terms of pupils living TO ELBA M EX'TaXD STRANGERS.—Tho Fremont's School Books, embracing spellers, readers, MR.pared of Win. 11. IUCE. ol MadarM Ptictl'er round the Travels day pre- per Honolulu, Restoration. sailsI is It is leading Travels sleep, Koloa, into throe teachers. Doctor. at of Applications and Arctic. octavo Harper's Magazines—/> FOR SHIPS (iII,MORE, I Es peditio&S. to the , , scuttles, branches course rooms. Sailor, Land C'a'ifornia, Oregon, Bryant's California. Hoy. hitch's Navioatou. GEOROE meotings. other divided is year for tltu convenience Hoard, Island World and the Island*, i as we Continued. AT KOLOA, religiousand in academics and A ape-! and I'ierre. whale, Sea and Port, Webster*. Dictionary, acts next from miles expected. and and United Clarence The light. about and California. Shews Water Cure SUPPLIES mis-l I books, comprising Mardi,Ty- of Deck and so wind, hours of school The on medicine. some Dick the Moby and Shore Hind's said, our the most pleasant and health- of and Whale. all Oregon water Port one world; Tuition, series Oinoo, Cheevsr'l 'J the spot which the •reek* rah. no in The variety below : Cotton's discover its or la- manual to work two day. a privilege, animals, poultry, a on two being the Honolulu, the pupils are not exposed to many of temptations of tnc city, and yet, they can enjoy ito ful Hooks.—The assortment llankocs Lee, Shi]) in. To be domestic, interesting publications. pes, their soil no the July, hats in and exclude the wind went get most account. to below went Misct most enter-] be it anchor, then furling our Woiiks—A ol the most M'Aulav's Hist, little by and let we will magic, upas natural breakwater, to a oc- and race, may desolate, so the (ith on We nearly their good to , deserve it, truth, but with oil, glided we it birds. it American an and boarding being required the boarders The locution it &c, fee. WoitKs.—Among them horse, sheep, Medical some dead whale audi having shore no re- and citied these expert and with hours commence and school i.a l'uiiahou school, of farm hooks. were, These for the Well do they and comment, of a beyond that of energy is as across Americans, are are pigs, base, —Sugar planter's Manual, and smoothi that deep of the bor Shukespcure, Milton, Byron, AuciiiiEtnitE on Aouict'i.rciiAi. ing Melville's whalers. tew a j I ceUsneOUS mention to of The of- ever will 3d. Kancs. Polar the them Among Wiiiiks works few, undersigned, whales, seals and wal- us, myriads and countless rus ol monsters not A warm] nights, Aleutians, sea, huge the the SCHOOL. of this school term Vr.iliissasjr. August found the rwst selection Honolulu. Poetical reccivedsby been be PTJKTAHOU The next Office.) the! Campbell, Montgomery, Sigourney, indicate how to short unruffled surface of the ,1 other cir- change, great in , teed the] in a and will 79 BOOKS Pclvneiian the "■JTAVE lately Hut inde- of air. (At our felt we so cumstances were the to» been 8t sal altered we degrees, draught of this pendently 40 ai'ter being was NEW old eusy hardly had islands, when too, for change We nearly temperature was from the islands, invariably now. days from the the went shown, it once follow, and ships go who Capt. Collinson, The road way. 1853. NOVEMBER, FRIEND, Seamen single vol- A FEW Study. ' of the COPIEB Sandwich Sandwich I.laed*. of Island, Jarves' tor HUtorv safe at the of the Chapla n'» **• �HARRIED, in « R»r. T. B. Taylor, at his evening, 13th inaL by D. Valley, John R. Smiih and faaballa Tuesday 1853. NOVEMBER, FRIEND, THE 80 PORT OF JOURNAL. MARINE LAHAINA. Arrived* idrnc* in Nuuaau Naw Court In the Honolulu, Aaa U. Thurston, OF 83d. by the Rev. T. E. Taylor, daughlor ol Misa Marah Andrews, to Esq., PORT tho cloaa of the at House, Honolulu. Hoa. Lorrin Andrews, all of 5—Am bk OcL via TaMartin, 41 da fm Sydney 3—Br bk Orkney Lass, 5— 6—Frsch Henry Samuel J. Uowselt, of Honolulu, aeB. y Bk Bart. Coanold, 25th from to a I Philadelphia, anil left jw.m1I, in that .fry. Ins prop- over 6—Am T. wh sh "sh 10—" bk " Ludlow, 20 IOJ3 wh, inns, 1030J 17 " Bedford. .New the deck. Itlh Sept. John 17th. Ocl Millkanaka. King's i go <Oct arh, XM3 b. 12— " 12— " Am. whale Ill— " at Mr. in Nuuanu I.i- Ksialo Wllcnx'a ard Butler, or Philadelphia. Mr. Valley, Rich- bettlad will he Killed by 13— waa 1.1 officer of cap-iaed, survive Mitlwo At .am. the wu never leave, a he seen e,.me oui interred were HI. .gain. so on ship disappeared a, tl.o on side south moum Last, Capo ol M_ " II- " |4_ « ll— it-■ 15 15- 1859, on to boat eteorcr, belonging 1853, Sept. ship. board whale on Sherman, Island Sandwich a . 17— 17 — native. 12, 1853, May on alo.rur, bolonging hoard the Empire, Freeman Rn.wn.a also a Sandwich Islander. to boat Pocasset, //armnny. Captain on board Ship August 15th, 1853, ft. Hi. remain, were conbelonging to New tendon, veyed'to Talcauhano, Chi.i, la the Orhotsk Sea, Captain Mai tha'a Vine) ard. bis to mourn on Ans. a wile SStk, to He belonged loaves He shore. Enterprise, �l.ip aged S3 years. lleorv Jernegan, gartown, a.d burricd board on and K.I- child Wr. Illnrhman, belonging to At aaa, oa board ship Eh ctra, Ins end boiug taken down by New York. The ueceaaed'mot line. by the ahlp, Charles Carroll, tlen, Wm. Brown, aged April uaa, Hth, at a native on on Slst July, of c.nsump about20. board aea, of Feyal, killed by falling from ah.lt. S3d, of conaumptlna, Suss Htodoam-, aged Ocl_ Sin, at at the U.S. Hospital, I.aJiaina, N. Y. 18, of Palmyra, Mas. Lahaina, Marth» John Manwaring of whaloahip CapL Maswsamo, wife of 173- West, board Ocl 5th, in laL «*> North, long. of N. Y. Cbaa. Carroll, JonaTiian T»tt«ah, roaring water., With scarcely The water, a moment closed o'er to murmur aim a prayer, The ocean cloved o'er him, glare. Aad ao now real, seen, aaark guide, the and mounterto the aad kind hearted, Oa board be waa cheerful, willing mourned siuce he parted, Selnved by hi. shipmates, now it baa flaun, But bis soul is «t re-t, up to God And left friend, and kindred bit aba.nee snore Taioagh shall his hand the w.de waste guide the to mourn. dreary and dark, hla Maker on high, Bui bit spirit shsll sing to hi. ocean bed shall .wall to the sky. v. hilewavee-o'cr I'.' end. 1 he seal, though (be body should sink (a the 25 •» •■ it i* « " •* »« " b. h. 15. *p " li, M sh Good Ketnrn, \\ " sh wh, Uno-i b. wb, 4000 b. |- l.'t tvt t sp, (oo wh, 3000 b ekjOQ Wb, 11, Ill'Uslij, ArC, Arc*To tpe3so -H ,|. (' tXMKI b. bone. John,TiUon, Cornell, Arctic, !900 wh, 7000 b. Gratitude, Three Brothere, Aiiam-.-io hp/JOoo w,-£Gni-ob ap, Am Kb ne. h b. wb, Ckhio lb -tfiiL-olina, Vauque in, Fr ** 15 .0 wh, 9 .00 ing. bk Oc»r|to, tftevona, " " h.ini. I'nrriii^ton,-'.*> sp, l4oh •* ii li b I too wli, UtoOO b. Rambler, rortcr, Japan, AouODi «-11 "nh «• 15 ds fi.i San Franci-co. Logan, While, N 11, boo sp, 9 00 wli, 20,000 bk W T H'he.lon, I oni-tock, NL, 700 W, 10,00,.1> Hp. sp. i?7oo w, liooo -|», 900 wb, 154mb b. mKh Mary At. Susan, llrown, So «p, 1400 wh, ..000 b. 2,1.i ih Cm. SOttU, up. bone. m bk Prudent, Na-h, i.5.» wb, 12opo 150 2050 w, 19000 h. mlb Harrison, llalhaway, pp, I.mo ii ui!,.'HMK) hone xh oiympia, ltn>M'ii,'.i ■ >p. raiaihnU', Has tun, 5o ltoo wli, 4000 bone nli •• sti doo Holnt, Arc, h|, " Cm A re, "Jo gh l.iina.tor, Aliny, Ocll,4osp, 1000 wh, 10,000 mib *« Nan., J.i.io sp. da fm V Ixindnn. //armoiiy, Itogers, llio Vl'-vola nil, ah Koiiiiiliii, Baker, Arc, lo pp, Ukw 300 sh Win. II iniiii n, '* " Sw am, Tot.) Vesper, I...per, NL, 4.10 wh li Dover, llalicock, Moo wb, No. 11 M 26 b 83,ese Jh |i m, (i sli Riinaii, Cttmakey, * w 8000 hone. BoSe wb, •» » b N L, boo I'erkiin, Allen, tt II Booob A IS ** " « do. w, r "sh A* Coffin, •« «* >■ till Norm.in, rh;t>', Japan, " 1000 bono 200 wh. 4otto bum- *' 116 Uuu 2300 wh, thin William-, season no. Cleared. leii, liailey, sh California, Wood, sh Meteor, Crapo, sh Mary " " " " Nan ,800 w:i,7000 hone. Mys.. & N 11, loft., SI, cum, wb, looo© bone. F„ Adims, S oillt, N 11, Ho" wh, 10.000 hone. Oct. 21—Am sh llenj Morgan Chapel, OCk, 9400 wn, 2 ~™> 1 h 20— " sh 21 "sh vi m(. (* " " " " " " " 25 " 11 " " " (i " »( " " i< M ,i " " "bk " �~ ** Fr .» 11 • • •s— " »«' - 700 wit, 55u0 China, How**, " 9500 wh. 8000 hone. Scotland, Smith, 900 whi 5000 b. Wnshingion, Edwards, Arc, bk lirooklin, Keliy, Arc, ISae wh, 18000 b. Jos.llayden, lloosrsan, Arc, 325 wh, 4000 b. 000 150 5p,3300w,5 utahcite, Wciting, Arc, 3km wh, 50,000 b. Suomi, lli«bagcn, Och, C. Carrol, Hardoy Are, 1900 wh, 10.000 b Chapel, Arc, loosp, 3100 w, 45,n00 14,'xi wh, 14000bone. Nova, Ca-e, Och, 1000 wh, 9oo>.bone. Cherokee, Smith, Arc, 15 ap, 75 wh, 3000 b. "ah Columbus, Harris, " -* " "«• u <• >• •< Nan., 65o»p. N II, 2Gaowh, 9*3.000 b. Henj. Morgan, t'liapcl, loo Mb. Carbine, OilTor.l, N II, 13o .p, 2ooo wh, 4 B, N ,000 bone. M< rcury, Iliinori, •* 9— " Mary Ann, Dullnian, Wail 12—Bark Sarah Sheaf, 9_ Cavalier. Freemai, J. Loper, Whippey, " " 16.—Ship Norton, B, U5o wh, 55oo bone. I'aleon, 25) Wh. J)o0 lbs bone." upm. Memoranda. From 55 miles 1500 b. wh, 25000 of. its fiom true aMpa made by rapt. Stuart of the CorNew Zvalahd to the Arctic, he Island is laid down on his i, chart position. to keep Lai. IS° that neighborhood, » « ood movent while rnoulng IS «., Long. 103= 85 W. discerned an island, 9th ol March, Itt53, the same ship c 55, Long. 170° chart. It la in*. Lai. S not laid down on the and f )und it to be a dnngcreus reef, Saw ihe breaker* T, W, 11.il> W. by N., say l.i ■1 long by Ihree extending K. by ri. Slid the reel above water. Can I a seen but broad. A small part af On the eight miles In clear weather. ..,„,. Ship laying Corinthian, 10 In a came in sprit Och, svesl Ho recommends in Soo wh, 800*lion*. bone. careful observation folly satisfied that S'iw»rrow'* aged .000 a inthian, on Ills passage lo* sp, 1300 w, 5000 b. Trldest, Tatwr, Och, 3600 wh, 2 1. Coggeshall, F II, loo up, lloo w,3ooob N !3on wh, 12 000 bone. 12-Hhin Kutusoif, Pi. res, SB, N. B., SO nios. out 50 15.—Ship Parachute, Boston, Octobor 5000 lbs bone. 51 hbts spin. 200 whale, Cardner, N. B., 16 mot. out, 50 bla 11000b. Gnoige, »i •• _ S&u wh, Isaac Hicks, Skinner, Arc, loon wit, 18000 bona. sh •• g bone. White, Arc, 500 wh, Gooo ( orcy, Och, 850 wh, ltiooo bone. bk Salainaadre, " Am it 9 b. sh Tuscany, Hsl-ey, Arc, IGoo wh, 1000 bono. " Luhr., och, 500 wh,snoo bone. •• ■< sp, Arc, >i Am •> 125 Qiadiator. Turner, Och, 3100 wh. 40,000bone w«< Rita bk Arrived. Oct. fi—Ship Nornnn, Chase, 750 wli, 6joobone. " bone. "bk (Jen Scott, Smith, lo sp, 2200 wh, ,'.ooo 2(Hmi " wli, 7ono bone. sh Hanibil, Lester, 200 sp, lire " Av,lleinekcn,Ge«rh*B, 2300»b, 23000b. " " 5000 b. Catherine, sh " " s,hi wh, \ p Talmadgt!, Edwards, Arc, ltioo w, 22u00 b Hull, Arc. 100 wh, 8000 bone. sli Mechanic, " " Allen, Arc, " " sp, " Sao II 00bona, Dromo, Ilrunsnn. wh, 80. America, Walkor, Och, 3000 w, 48(ioo b. bk Alice, »• bo 15.. Hunlsville, Smith, Och, sp,27oow,3o,o*K>| .Sarah Sheaf Wall, " 11."mi wli, Soon hone. " •( " P. Del.'iimye, Pierce, 11 PORT OF HILO. Dickens, Arc,3oo wb,Boeobona. Newark, "sh Mary, llayltss, «( •' Herald. übk Neptune, «« " •• C.B.C •' *. i^>. U, Hsmpstsao', Honolulu, 80s sh M'.liawk, " 20— soon to bend, To tc-acl- other seaman, their thought, to.are To Gad. who la willing, aad able Ibbbb of N Nil*, Conkiin, Opt., - •• If ty this he a warning, hi. untimely Aiin/,!iii| Uafi'Of, I, PUhor, b, 1 0,000b. up, Sj.mj r',l.' nil IS£o wh, 7000 BeM »*h Milo, (Joule, Arc,, .">j -p, H ill, Och, I i-» hl J7oij *rh, 18000 i> B|| 5.,;,be?, ilia, Btranh irg. Arctic, 1730 wh, iSt-on b n»« ib iii ('iiiinlloi I'll, c, 'I'ahcr, Arc, 9lfio »b, iMeeu b up hj, .* 19— helm of the balk, of water., so Cambria, d.ttlo, Arctic, 1400 wh, sh 19 19— •■ Ns nil 8000 , ,\ 11, 150 >p, >160 wh, 23—Am fh Saratoga, Harding, cruise. Sept. 1300 li. 100 , Peakea, crulee and home. Am eh Baphroloo, wh, Oct. :t 3oe Wh. loon b do. Martha, Slocuin, N 11, S—Amah MonterHroa, Beiijamin, 11,5 bone. Ban o N..rtli Star, ltr,,wn, N 11, 700 wh, sh sh 'I Nlag art. Ctuugn, Honolulu, W2, Nimrod, Oct sh Knterpri-c, Pease, N 11, 1000 wh. 17550 bone. -h Kuropa, Week-*, do, frl. Mary (;ar(iinur 21, born, Honolulu. 1000 N. sh ('o.lnlliian, Lnzland, do. <lo la Noye,' ruiae. Stuart, NB, "Jon sp, il.-o wh, 2ii, Hh rrui-e. 22, Phillip sh Itonian, Tripp,3oo sp, 9.10 wh, (1000 hone. Cruise; Win. IJauiiltnn. Oct 27th, •fm.»hipOeorgol ßtovona, 4.HK) and home liMs. do. lik Alice Frazter, T.ilier, W.i, Crosby, cruue Oontrel.ua Oamuum, y/onolulu; bone sh Nile, Lake, HF, -I 11 wh, ISoo •i young sailor's grave. --'i.) \. h. It, .to.ooo b. •» wh, 'U w '• //.iiiol.ihi(not reported) pstsad, N m ao green, so bright deep in the dark wave, He wink in the water, Hi. body he I ,01 n li, 100 up, " " no more waa ~ VVii.i.iiii-t, Pendleton, 2400 IK— " steered, Ar 11. "hh sh ('lt " with a] wild rushing sp, wh, 4000 bono, no With-out doaftoco. CaM.iuo, l.i*r>r.l, Arctic, J3o '« 2G He allpt from among us, and quick disappeared, o'er which the .hip 'Neath the wild Arc, 9.13 aaJlod " 1. Hellespont. " sh ** nil tor. ii 2J3 sp, \. It., Och., 1303wh,«*W0 I.u.Vi, //mier, Mohawk, >w..i», over ship nrv, Magnolia,Col, bk ",h ■' 300 wh. liiin..!., Och, *Jo iv. ii-ii, !.;■ 17— u For the Friend. from II ** " lit I*. " u .Mil., w Maiulell, Wins, N. 11., 45sp, 135n w, G,..0n sh Arctic, (iellett, !•'. H., 80 sp, SSo wh, 17,000 h. <« -.[i sli (* ( Heroine, II sti sh •■ ne. 35 Hiniili, Arc, Uoj wh. 11000 b. i iin*, Chief, Fi-h, 17— " Lost b It ,Japan, D Ului m, Aic, 100op, IliKtw,.kx)o 17— »* Ho whaleehip Cowpcr, Josaru Fauna of Natick, of Lahaina.CaoaoE Oct 89d, in the port fell overboard and waa drowned. IS mate of .hip So. Boston, Oct N* tlitu •• ii. sp, A sh Kii/a ■>« • b. .BJ' 373 Och., laoep 5000 bone mm. wb, Soooo bone ■***#. " 20— lose. On board sk '> "sh 17 17— \t Sea Baker J sp, N. D., Och., 210 sp, M.odlrster, 17—Am sch K. L. Frost, |7— Henrietta, lo J9oo Arriic, '■ i* ii N. L., Ft.k, Klectr.i, 15—Am bk a Mass. Falmouth, board Francis John Abigail, sh •' la— IS— kee. Oct. Mrs, kneel unl, Vinall, Mill sh Km,.ne, IS—As. sh John Hac- Abigail, , Oct. 15—Am hk Heroine, bla loss. board the Whale Ship sh 14—" j}™*"-," wasJBerney Th. remain. ot Mr name " II wl Ml a. to lha hoard H_ vh, 18130 •' severely injured in t'.a v.»«l. wife and child to Oct »th 1852, A A«>lioi,k« t.ik the struck and was taken .... hours after being boat'- crew time ..no ol his Irishman who Mdridge -tBMriS«, 1853, Mr. Freeman !001 N. n , \rr., Lawrence, l-'.il.. Arc, Flaher, "fh Tthoo, llartnir, A clic, " is in h,.ne. h, sh Henry " ■9 whale In Aufu.t. a of lalmouth, Dartmouth, » do. sh Ctnrpor, Fi-hor, Arc, |v\w wh, Sooo itone. N ivi;: itor, Ki-h. Arc, !300 trb, trooo bono. ll " bun*. It..bin lloul. M'Uinlcy, 28) i by the It. 8. Consul. boat wh.,8030 , Aon, ah Mary "h.I 22 103sp, 11X13 uh, Arc, " I>J i wh, ISM boas. sh 13—" Jeiiaey, > 9 24 Awashnul,s, sh 3IJ Nantucket. to He belonged (Jibbs, J.uiih. Ciirnrcll, sh bk ."Vooo bone. WiM, 000 wh. "• Mir-i.ti, l*hZona *' U'J 53J wh,B3OJ sp, ne. w1.,7J1) 1st. officer of the David B.Caswell, skip Mohawk. harbor, Honolulu in board Hen.y Knoeland, a Ocl 5th Mr \lfc.l 7000 b on H mk, IMckeraon, Taber, Arc, 800 sh 'J. i*b Cowpen '■ I'j ■j-m.iwii,:i:>iiii.. 5) Arc., >h *' l'j New Zeal*. I Miicle/.iim.i, Tower, francos Henrietta, Swain, Arc,G7s kli mo bone. -p, 3Su los p,«Wo wh, 9000 wli, M sjo uh,2000 bono. Bunhattia, Terry, N. Btlfl >nd, IVnllrton, Arc, 1300 wh, booo b •!■ M " 17 bone. 12— 900 Kp. wb, Chaadltmr. 'Jim . wb. «'1 I'l''" »■ 14.t0 *-J*'s tVfliii, Smith Bto»tc*fli eh •• '• 1~ 17 Bafts, N. America, Haaue, ,h Draper, sh soook> k Mo 5000 bone. eh ' It.iii, Wherni.in, sp 800 wh, Och.3ob ap, 24m> w, 30,000 h 17 —Am sh Cabinet. Noyns, .N<-rtun, Arctic, 1000 wh, (tooo bone. " nil \avy, '• 17 Amuth *, Fi-ho, Arc, 12.. sp, 2uoo 0000 4)13) bone, 0 wli, 27 bono, 12— a Handboard whale ship Pioneer, Marry, Sent l«t, 1853, dead instantly wicl, i.lsnd «t,ve. Tho deco.i-od dropped on kli t 17 Coral, licii.ut, Oeb. 11. ap, t big-ail, Draw, <)ch,3i-|i. sh 8-Ain Oct—ll. Omsfo, Fi-bcr, 14—Am »b 17 'I'.ilimarno, Neil, wh sli 7—Am port- upon .' bone, Arctic. (J— Am ■"»»""■»;»« w.r.™urie.d "I." lllack hk ~-, w 14,00.. I). |.x;tii:-li*r, Ryan, I 100 wh, s,on*i bone. \ „-, Kb Oliver Crocker, Cash, « 14_ Arctic. l> .lie, 7—Am abater of Sherman, m h •* Dougherty, 2o mos, 13)3 wh, BJO3 Ueleoaea, sh hh Aiiulir, rfwitt.'Jtjm wh, J4— 21. 0 wh, 2J 130 bone, (Oct. moa, 1,8i.550n,25 mos Phillip Oekseak, slater reaidiug 21st, Capt. Kd, in ]3_ Ochot-k. making board, 1000 thin ka Ewrr, l7<ior*r.. la Ni-yo,Pioi'Ce, 7unp,sAa |i;_ 23 Hunter, Holt, sli o—Am hk He liny. the .Vvi.-a in 4000 It■■bertson, Washburn, 700 wh, lo 000 el 14— Pr ih rail**, 1013 wh, 1533 i bono, mas, th Ba i;j Hillings, 27 mas, 750 wit, C033 bone, Weeks, 2J hli I'liillipilo *< « 13_ 14300 wh, Pales,)! «' );*_ en. Arctic. 17th Inal. U.ch. Buller.nrCnn.urnptlnn At sea, September from the while on her passage American whale .lop «:or..l, VV. and long. I...=> In lat. 40= 4o\ Orhonksesto Honolulu, about four beer. .» invalid had The deceased "'* remain the paNy. from an attack of autfarod severely before the vessel arrived about two week, ' rTstnasaalovakl. On S.m Franci Arctic. mo, Delta, sh G-Ain Inlu, on (he sdrroinUahlorninieceiitly waa Ma. Jokes, Sent., tin Arctic 6—Am 2GO wh, ap, season, full. Hotftt, 12— ll_ Boston. 15 (Is tin (-'.tuning's Island. «l< Augusta, Manser, s—Am bk Mass. Tiabury, to Helen His. b Messed be Herald and New Bedford Mercury please copy.) board the sh s—Am 19 tin 13 i d, Moras,S0 Say* Martha, Browne, C—Am brig Zoe, rats, i.utiilul and friond. enVjlionate wife, daughter, sister and hath lai.cn away. -Tha Lord gave and the Lord the name of the Lord-" elonging Am sh Judge Shaw, .'itrlis, G—Am bk llhering, Mat.vii.Ln Howliwd, the Oa the 89th of October, Disos.m late of S. Ilowland. eldest child ol the wile Clough,&>Joon Niagara, 'Oct ll—Ami-li Emily fm San Fran 15J ds Im New Yurk. 3-Ani sh Montauk, lludd, DIED. 12W thi* ■on. 17 ds Harriet Iloxie. Manwiring, all -li 6- Am hiti. a Oardner, Lowen, 75 Arctic. 5 -Am • h E'lrop*, Week*, Oct- aged 86 wli thin »ea*on, Arctic. Mary bone, Arrival.. 3—Am be lined 7.i0 bone. HONOLULU. Ocl Sabbath •renin, .ervica. erty eh Montezuma, Benjamin.26 mos, 2200 wh, 7000 Sept. 28—Am "■"»■ n gale in ol contact with us as the and bad sea 1853, at i.u, oor bow.prit, very Ciaaoi broke lu „ v whim mid-night which dam- head, Jib and II)lug Jib-bonnis, st chafed our ship Hr Shif Cattails a the ship Mary of Eagerlown follows:—L shnoids and sprung plates Arctic Ocean August31 wind, and oar bow- rail fei two had otherwise. 11. B. M'a ship Battles***, arrived at Port Clarence on Monday 58d August 34th .sailed for Point Barrow oav the H. B. M'a ship Plovor at 4 A. M. Aug. (Wednesday) 4o loan boa*. " >h .... „ .. ™ ap, Lancaster, Almy, Och, Koh-l-noor sailed from Port Otareac e The schoonar Kngllsh b> "bk Columbia, Hallock, Are, 3o ap, 1300 w, so»<i > oa Monday, 12th September, fur A»ag Keag. " ■' " 11 bk •• •• Pacific, Peas*. Aic, 4o sp, 9io wh, .010 boa*. i bona Blk Warrior, Bartl.tt. 0ch,700 wh.Tooo Omi|(, »lmu, lSsp,B»owb,»ooob � 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 (1853) 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 - 1853.11.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1853.11.01