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THE FRIEND,
JANUARY 1« 1860.
A New Year, and Another Volume of
the Friend.
With this number commences the 23d
volume of our paper. Most heartily we
wish our friends, patrons and readers, on sea
and land, a happy New Year. Remember,
however, happiness can be obtained only
upon certain conditions. You must obey
law—law relating to your physical,,social,
mental, moral and religious being. " The
law of God is exceeding broad." Comform.
to law, and happiness is as sure to follow as
effect to follow cause. " Whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also reap." Break away
and rebel against God's government, and like
Paul you will find it " hard to kick against
the pricks." Submit to God's authority, and
like Paul you will find " a peace that passeth understanding." Reader, on the opening
of the new year, make good resolutions, and
rely upon God's grace to assist you, then
A. D. 1866 will be a happy portion of your
earthly pilgrimage.
From Thomas Marshall Esq., of Kauai,
we would acknowledge a large supply of
papers for distribution among seamen, and
among them a file of The Boatswain's
Whistle," published at the National Sailor's
Fair at Boston. Hereafter we may make
"
extracts.
" Harriet Newell."—We
JANUARY I, lHlifi.
are gratified
that D. Foster & Co. should have given a
missionary name to the M. Star, although it
is after the daughter of one of the owners.
guage of the Kingsmill or Gilbert island inhabitants. It is a translation of the Hawaiian
Protestant or Puritan Catechism. It is a
translation entirely completed by the Hawaiian missionaries, without any aid Irom
their American brethren. The American
missionary, the Rev. H. Bingham, is now absent from that station in the United States.
The printing of this Catechism was executed
by a sailor by the name of Hoskiss, who was
wrecked while attached to the Aslerion. It
is printed on letter paper, as no printing
paper could be obtained, and only a small
quantity of that, hence only eight copies
were printed. A much larger edition will be
printed in Honolulu and sent thither. It is
exceedingly gratifying and encouraging to
witness the laudible efforts of Hawaiian
missionaries in Micronesia and Marquesas.
The apostle Paul wrote to the christians
at Corinth "ye are our epistle—known and
read of all men," so Hawaiian missionaries
and christians are a noble epistle addressed
to all men," declaring what has been accomplished by American missionaries on the
Hawaiian Islands. The Rev. M. Hoapili,
preaching in England, is no less the fruits of
the American Puritan mission to the Hawaiian Islands than are our Hawaiian misisonaries in Micronesia and Marquesas.
"
To Navigators.—In Blunt's Nautical Almanac for 1866, there is an error of one
degree in the sun's declination for apparent
noon on July 3d. The declination given is
23 °58 34.8, whereas it should be 22 °58
34.8. The error does not appear to have run
through the whole edition, as we have seen
one copy which is correct.
Freedmen.—Several of these men, on
board the Lancaster, have called upon us for
spelling books and large type testaments.
They appear very desirous of learning to
read.
{©l&SrrifS, »«L23.
Letter from Rev. J. S. Emmerson.
[The following letter was written to a
friend in the United States, but its contents
relating exclusively lo the tenth and last
cruise of the Morning Star, and to the condition of missions throughout Micronesia, it
has been suggested that there was a propriety
in publishing it at Honolulu. Mr. Emerson
has consented to this arrangement, hence we
have taken the liberty of inserting " Mr.
Editor" in place of
]
.
Tenth Cruise of the "Morning Star" through
Micronesia.
,
On Board the Morning Star, )
Lat. 9 N., lon. ISO, Nov. 14, 1865.
Mr. Editor :—We are now on our return passage from Micronesia. We left
Oahu July 17th, and have been absent almost four months up to date ; and I may as
well give you now my general impressions
of this Mission as to wait till I reach the
Sandwich Islands. As business took us to
(lowland's Island, on the equator, the Gilbert (slands were the first Missionary field
to open up to our view. We reached Tarawa August 10th, occupied by two Hawaiian
Missionaries and their families, anchored at
dusk, and before 9 o'clock at night were
visited by Haina, who had been to a western islet among the people, and R. J. Ma-
hoe, his associate, with his wife, who had
been spending a week with the people on an
eastern islet of the lagoon. These visits are
conveniently made at high water only, as at
low water they become one island, except
one or two ship passages into the lagoon.
The islands are verdant, and well covered
with cocoanut trees, but very little other
fruit, as the soil is extremely shallow, and
the water brackish, which is their only resort, except so far as they can depend on
rain water, which can generally be obtained,
but not always. These brethren have been
about five years in this field, then entirely
uncultivated. They have erected two goodsized meeting-houses and two school-houses,
one near them and the other two on another
islet. Their own buildings were mainly
erected by their own hands, and all look
neat and more comfortable than we at first
enjoyed at the Sandwich Islands. Their
schools are not yet all they desire nor all
they hope. The king took apparent pleas-
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ure in showing us how well he could read
in his own language. Some ten or fifteen
children also showed us they could read,
and quite a number united very well in
singing a song of praise to our Redeemer
and theirs. The Missionaries got us for
dinner some hard bread, stewed chicken
without salt, and fried slapjacks without
butter and almost without lard. They also
gave us cocoanut water, the best they had,
and without apology. They have had no
salt for five months. They are respected by
the king and the people. 1 could but admire them as men and women of warm
hearts and true devotion to the cause of our
Lord and Mister; and we shall expect to
know that he has honored them in his service.
Near evening we left for the ship, Mahoe
and Haina expecting to come on board early
in the morning. At early dawn we were
on our way winding out of the crooked
passage of the lagoon into the open sea, and,
having a fair wind, we were at noon entering the passage to the lagoon of Apiang,
and by 4 P. M. were all on shore, Mr.
Snow and wife and children, Kanoa, Kapu,
Ammai, and families, Mahoe and Haina,
from Tarawa, and Maka and wife, the new
Missionaries from Oahu. It whs near night
on Saturday, and but little could be done hefore the Sabbath.
At 8 o'clock Sabbath morning, the King
and Queen, Missionaries, Captain and crew
of the Morning Star, with some fifty or
more men, women and children, were assembled for worship. Addresses were made
and interpreted. Tears were shed as Mr.
Snow reported the story of Mr. Bingham's
sickness, and his visit with Mrs. Bingham
to the States. They both have evidently n
warm place in the affections of the King and
Queen. Their inquiries were many and
often made about them. After the addresses
the Lord's Supper was administered, seventeen Church-members being present, the
Queen being the only native who partook
with us. The King appears well, and has
the reputation among the native Missionaries of being a Christian man.
By agreement, a new station is taken at
Pitt's island, by Kanoa and Moka. We
left them there with their effects, with the
approbation of the King, Kaiea, and his
Chiefs. To all appearance the station is
promising, the people numerous, and food
more plentiful than at Apiang.
Although the evidence of the Spirit of the
the Lord among the people of the Gilbert
Islands is not so marked as at some of the
stations further west, yet there is much occasion to give thanks and take courage.
The necessity of the presence of the American Missionary for years to come in the
Gilbert Islands is quite apparent. The field
is large, the people numerous, and the necessity of a moving and cheering spirit
among them is quite apparent.
Touching at several Islands in the Marshall group for the trade of the vessel, we arrived at Ebon, Tuesday, August 29th, and
found that the Pfid direct from Honolulu,
with Mr. and Mrs. Doane, had arrived two
days before us. We were happy to meet
them, with Aea, and family, all in good
»«*lt_, Mrs. Snow now felt that her cup
wat tfi he full of rejoicing—having an
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able family and an accomplished sister as
associates, of which she had so long been deprived. But letters from Boston and Honolulu soon brought a cloud of disappointment
over their minds. The big tear stood in the
eye of Mrs. Snow as the letters were read
before us. But the noble spirit of self sacrifice soon triumphed. They at Bonabe are
more needy than we, was the unselfish response, and the Lord's will be done, was the
meek and generous reply. So Brother Doane
and family go to Bonabe, and Brother Snow
and family remain in the care of two fields,
300 miles apart, speaking languages entirely
unlike, and no missionary using the English
language within 700 milts of them.
The Church nuil School* nc Ebon.
The chiefs all being absent on other Islands,
many of the church were with them. But
the prayrr meeting, Wednesday evening, was
one of peculiar interest, and showed there
was a christian feeling among a people so recently heathen. Although but partially
clothed, their appearance was every way
becoming and decent, and 1 could but feel
that there was a good Spirit among them.
Examination of School*.
present 125 scholars, mostly girls and young
mothers—readers nearly all, 44 can repeat
the gospel of Mark entire, 50 can repeat
the multiplication table, 40 or 50 sing well
together. 4 girls and 4 boys can sing independently, or lead a choir. The appearance
of these scholars under the care of Aea, assisted by Mr. Snow, or Mr. Donne, was admirable, and promises much for the future
teachers of the Marshall Islands.
Friday, p.m.. v/e sang Heber's Missionary
Hymn, on the shore. Mr. and Mrr. Doane
took leave of ihe people, (for whom he had
laboured 9 years,) and now £0 on to the far
west. Mr. Snow leaves his family at Ebon,
and goes to visit his other flock _t Kusaie,
300 miles to the west. Saturday, Ist, arrived at Namarik in the morning, spent a
few hours with Kapali, and Elemakule, at
their new station ; but as ihey have been
there only 7 or 8 months, the cultivation is
not very apparent. A few children are learning to read, but are not much trained as yet.
The brethren manifest a good spirit. We
left them in the afternoon, and sang a cheering song as they parted from the ship, to
which they had accompanied us.
Reached Strong's Island, September, Bth,
and left Brother Snow with the people of his
first love ; but we did not leave ihem without forming a very high opinion of their love
to their teachers—their modest demeanor—
their warm hearted thanksgiving prayer and
hymn at meeting with their pastor : but so
quiet, so manly, so subdued were all their
exibitions of joy at meeting with their teacher, 1 could but give thanks in my heart, and
say of a truth, the Lord is with this people.
But I left them to return and see them
again.
In the evening we embarked, and were
soon on our way for the west. Passed Macaskil's Island, September 12th, and on the
18th, reached Wellington's Island, where we
stopped and held a meeting with the King and
people. A Mr. Smith, an Englishman, engaged in the oil trade, lives on the Island,
and with books from Brother Sturges, has
taught some 10 or 15 of the people to read
and sing; and they meet on the Sabbath for
prayer and reading the Scriptures, as far as
they have them. They are said to be an
honest and inoffensive people. There appeared to be a large number of young children. They understand the language of
Bonabe, and many, also, understand the language of Ebon. The King said ho would be
glad to have a Missionary. How far they
will learn and embrace the truth as it is in
Jesus, without a teacher who himself has
learned Christ, is doubtful.
We arrived near Bonabe, Tuesday, September 19th. Left the Morning Star near
the Bonatik Harbor early in the forenoon,
and took passage in a whale boat for Mr.
Sturges' place, some 25 or more miles distant. Mr. and Mrs. Doane and son, with
myself, passengers. We passed by the ruins
of the 4 whale ships, burned by the pirate
Shenandoah, and arrived at Mr. Sturget late
in the afternoon. They received us with
great cordiality—not like children pleased
with a rattle, but like those who were accustomed, through use, to bear manfully and
alone the heat and burden of the day.
Brother Sturges is a man of genial spirit
warm heart, and iron constitution—weighs,
probably, 225 or more pounds. His wife,
though frail and much in need of rest, is a
noble specimen of fortitude, self denial, and
christian cheerfulness. While the Natiakin,
near them, has burned their house of woiship,
and murdered, in a most brutal manner, some
of the people around him, and threatens
others if they go to the place of public woi ■
ship— saying that the knifo with which he
butchered an innocent woman is reserved for
:;even others if they dare to join the Christian
[tarty. But muiiy of these frightened ulieep
.till
amwH their shepherd with more
than filial confidence. Morning and evening,
from 10 to 40 are daily vi?iting the house of
their pastor, and uniting with him and his
family in prayer and praise. One of then
favorite songs, which I heard more than
twenty times, in tho tune of John Brown,
contained this sentiment: " Haliluia, Haltluia, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, who
has come to bless the benighted people of
Bonabe; " and with this song I could fully
accord, for it was obviously a united thanksgiving of many hearts. I had the pleasure
of spending five days with Brethren Sturges
and Doane, in a visit around the Island of
Bonabe. I enjoyed the visit the more because we saw so much of the rough and
tumble of Missionary life on Bonabe. It
rained most of the time after leaving Mr.
Sturges' house till the day when we returned
to it. For four days and nights our clothe*
were wet or damp all the time, but no one
took cold. We held meetings with the chiefs
and people in five different places, besides
visiting several sick people Sabbath afternoon
after public worship, nnd wherever we called
a goodly number of from 30 to 50 assembled
and expected worship. There were at the
Communion about 70 church members, and
would have been 100 or more, Mr. Sturges
informed me, if the rain and lack of information had not prevented some from attending.
Five infants were baptised, and all the exercises of the occasion presented an aspect of
solemnity and devotion very cheering to my
heart. The Wajai, who was seated like a
Inmh nmong the people, was not long since a
�man of blood, but now a man of prayer. In
the meeting preparatory to the Communion,
this Wajai confessed he had used some hard,
unkind and unbrotherly words to one of the
church when entering the house of worship,
for which he asked pardon of the brother,
which was freely accorded to him—all of
which, among a people where tho power of
life and death was so recently claimed by the
chief, was very delightful. At the Monthly
Concert, which was attended Monday morning before we left, many prayers were offered
with an apparent good understanding of the
object of the meeting. After which came
the contributions, consisting of money, oil
and shells, and very few were destitute of an
offering, however small. The meeting house
built by the Wajai, after his own taste, and
mainly by his own meant, stands on an elevation of at least 1,000 feet, and open to the
ocean around one third of the Island. The
house is about 50 by 70 feet, well floored by
hewn plar.k ; the eaves of the building 30
feet high, and the centre elevated—bellfries
one above the othet, so that standing in the
centre of the house, you can see the conical
top 75 fec-t above the floor of the house. The
building is very creditable to the genius and
enterprise of the Wajai and hi« people, and
had it been done by foreign labor, would cost,
probably, 1.000, not including the thatch-
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ing.
It is estimated that at least one half of the
people of Bonabe are now, by choice and in
their sympathies, on the Lord's side, and now
there is a strong and encouraging movement
in the right direction. It is well that Mr.
nnd Mrs. Doane have gone to take a part in
the work. If they had two good and well
trained Hawaiians to teach schools, and forward the work of the Lord at this time, it
would seem very timely. This is the opinion
of both of the brethren. Schools have been
much neglected of necessity. How to count
100, except by the addition if fives, tens and
forties, has yet to be learned. The people
are not lacking in intellect, and now is a good
time to work for their good.
Bonabe is yet a hard, self-denying and
laborious field, but I think it is destined to be
a delightful land—by far the most beautiful
and productive I have seen.
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The harvest is plentioua mid the laborers low.''
Brother Snow and his interesting and hopeful people. Among this people I saw more
of the modest, humble, industrious, thoughtful, enquiring, self-reliant and Christ like
spirit than I had seen any where else in
Micronesia. They have just received from
Brother Snow the Gospel of Mathcw, and
they appear to study it with all diligence—
not to know whetherthings are so, for of that
they have no doubt, but to know what they
are is their study. The Gospel of John,
which they have had for a year or more, is
committed entirely to memory by many of
the adults and young people. Some, also,
are searching the Old Testament in the English, seeking for knowledge and understanding. One of them said to me, " What docs
Firmament mean ? " and when the word was
explained, he felt enriched. The same man
had a jar with his wife. It was on Saturday,
and he was expected to teach the people on
the Sabbath. He was troubled, and spent a
sleepless night—was shut up and knew not
what to say. He opened the Psalms and
read the two wnrds, " Rejoice Always." His
sadness was soon turned lo rejoicing, and he
was so greatly enlarged that Sabbath with joyin the Lord, that he was filled with rejoicing.
That the Lord was with him that day, he
had no doubt. That this people have simple,
child like confidence in God is so apparent,
that one can not mistake it. The King and
the high chiefs are not numbered with the
Christians. The people look to Jesus only
as their guide and leader. The King and
his brother have not yet allowed their wives
to join the church, although they desire it.
The people told us, as the first thing they
had to communicate, " The King has forsaken his old god of storms and seasons as a
worthless dependence, and is now waiting for
more light about the true God." The King
asked me, just before he left us, if I would
not come back and live with them on Kusaie.
That he, as well as the people, are seeking
for light, and wish for some one to guide
them, is very apparent. After taking Mr.
Snow to Ebon, and leaving him with his
family, the Morning Star went down to
Pleasant Island—a trip of two weeks down
and back again to Ebon.
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lies about 50 miles south of the Equator, and
has thus far received no attention from the
christian world. Their language has not
been learned by christians, and has but little
similarity to any other language known in
the region. Some few words, it is said, resemble those used in Ocean Island. But
some of the people who have floated off to
other islands, have learned a little of Bonabe,
Kusaie, Ebon or the Gilbert Island language.
But they know more of the English than of
any other language besides their own. The
foreigners, of whom there are "now five on
the island, say there nre 3,000 people on it:
n stout, healthy, and at the presant time, a
fleshy people. The Island is about 300 feet
high. Mr. Snow says it is a coral Island to
the top: but others, who have never went on
the shore, say it is basaltic. It is nearly triangular in shape, and is accessible from one
Retara la Kaaair.
point to the other. A man can pass around
and
After a visit of two weeks at Bonabe, we it in a day. It abounds with cocoanuts
been
fruit,
and
little
effort
has
made
October,
at
pandanus
and
arrived
left on the 3d of
Kusaie on the 6th. Spent the Sabbath with to introduce any other fruits. Two or three
May the Lord send forth laborers into this
vineyard.
Whether the inhabitants of Bonabe are increasing is not ascertained by a late census,
but the number of very small children, Mr.
Sturges thinks, is larger than formerly, and
appearances are, in this respect, encouraging.
A vast amount of toil and fatigue must be
endured in this Island of mountains, ravines,
deep gorges, plentiful streams, impassable
jungle, and no less vexatious coral shoals,
passible in boats or canoes only at high tide,
and in some places passable onlyby swimming
at low tide the little inlets. The vast amount
of both sea and land productions to be now
found in and about Bonabe, and what they
may yet develope, may yet give a significance
to the name Ascension, which the Spaniards
never thou ght when they gave it the name.
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of the foreigners living on the island are said
to be wealthy. One, by the name of Stewart, an Englishman, told me that a Missionary, if fairly introduced to the island, would
live unmolested by the people. A native
chief also told me that the peeple would protect, and take kind care of a Missionary and
his family, if they should come to live with
them. But they have the reputation of being
a treacherous people. The things they offered the ship for sale indicate more skill
and industry than seen in almost any other
island which we visited. These consisted of
mats of various shapes and figures, hats,
boxes, work-baskets, girdles, belts, ornaments
for the head, beads, spears, fish-hooks, &c.
Their canoes were large and commodious,
and some would carry 50 or 100 people
All were made of narrow strips of board,
and fastened together by twine made of the
cocoanut fibers; and the most rapid sailing
craft used in the Pacific. This Island is so
small, so populous, so accessible on foot or by
water from point to point, so elevated, with
so cool an atmosphere—not broken like Bonabe or Strong's Island—with a population so
robust and healthy, that it would seem very
desirable that they be instructed into the
knowledge of the truth before hope of doing
them good has gone by.
Jala,at,
one of the Marshall Islands, is now opened as
a Missionary station by Kapali, one of the
two native missionaries who were located
one year since at Namarik. Jaluet is a
larger, more central and more accessible field
than Namarik, and it is hoped will be more
productive of good. The harbor is a very
desirable one for anchorage—better and safer,
in the opinion of Captain James, than any
'
other in the Marshall Islands.
November 25. Longitude 158 W. Latitude 29 N. Have just passed Slaver's Island,
and making good progress on our way. The
Meaning Star holds out well, although the
Captain has been apprehensive lest the old
rigging, the stays or spars, would give way
while far away in remote and rarely navigated seas. Our jib-boom gave away in a
squall, some ten days since, but fortunately
it soon moderated, and two pleasant days
were allowed us in which a new one was
put in its place. The stays have been
strengthened by means of chains, secured
from the ships burned at Bonabe. I think
that the work of the Morning Star will, in
future, require a larger craft, with more carrying capacity, and more room for native
passengers than the present will ofadmit of.
The christianizing and civilizing the Micronesians will and must go on together.
But so long as tobacco is the main article of
supply for the people, and but little is done to
create civilized or civilizing wants among
them, the progress must be very slow.
One of the latest stories of Mr. Lincoln
is ofhis interview with a delegation of ministers. It is not reported that they had much
to say when they were admitted to the presence ; but, in taking leave, one of them remarked he " hoped the Lord was on our
side."
agree with you," said Mr. Lin" I don't
coln.
Of course they looked amazed. " I
hope, indeed, that we are on the Lord's
side."
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THE FRIEND.
JANUARY I, 1866.
The
"Morning
Star"
Sold.
So, the Morning Star has been sold, and
her place to be supplied by a new vessel now
building in Boston, and to be sent out during
the first six months of the current year. This
is undoubtedly a good and wise arrangement.
It will bo doubtless much cheaper to build a
new vessel in Boston, than expend the funds
necessary to make the repairs required on
the Star, after running so many years. The
new vessel, we learn, is to be " rigged " after
another fashion, and, also, to be a few tons
less in measurement; besides she will be
otherwise fitted up to suit the peculiar object
of a missionary craft in the Pacific. The
new schooner will retain the name of the old
vessel. This is a good idea.
Having advocated the building of the
Morning Star ; having been present on her
arrival at Honolulu in 1857; having wit-
nessed her frequent departures for Micronesia
and Marquesas ; having welcomed her arrivals from those distant missionary fields ;
having once made a delightful voyage in her
through the Microncsian Islands, and having
been fully conversant with the management
of the little craft, during the entire period
that she has been sailing in the service of
Missions, it affords us much pleasure in
bearing testimony to the great assistance
which she has rendered the Missionary
cause. A great and good work has been accomplished by her aid. The hundred thousand stockholders could not have invested their
" dimes "in a more paying enterprise. The
vessel was planned and built, launched and
kept running to further the Missionary cause
in Micronesia. She has fulfilled her mission,
and it has been a noble mission. She has
made ten trips to Micronesia, and more than
half that number to the Marquesan Islands.
All the Missionaries in those groups have
been conveyed to and fro, and otherwise received unnumbered favors by her various
trips. She had become extensively known
among all those islanders, and her visits were
exceedingly prized, even by those not directly
connected with Missionary operations. Language would fail to express the joy awakened
in the hearts of our Missionaries by the sight
of her flag, after dwelling for months on their
lonely islands, without communication with
the outer world. She has become an absolute necessity to the Missionary cause. To
be sure, it has cost money to run her, and
some trouble has been experienced in her
management; but these are nothing—the
merest trifles—compared with the amount of
her usefulness.
" Bleasings lirighteu
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they lake their flight."
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And now we should enter our protest against
her sale, were we not assured that another,
and better vessel, was already "on the stocks,"
and would be soon hero. Even now, it is
rather hard to say " Farewell " to the little
craft, and we sincerely l*opc he? future owners may not employ her in any ignoble
trade !
It ill becomes us to say " Farewell," without tendering our kindest acknowledgments
to those able, experienced and skillful commanders, Moore, Brown, deleft and James,
who have been so fortunate as to navigate
her safely over so many dangerous reefs and
hidden rocks, in and out of so many harhors,
and finally to bring her safely to port.
Hawaiian Missionaries in Micronesin.
The reports by the Morning Star respecting the labors of the Hawaiian missionaries
at the Marshall Islands is very encouraging.
We have received letters from D. Kapali,
dated Namarik, Sept. 22<1, and H. Aea,
dated Rube-Station, Oct. 24th. The former
is supported by the Ist Congregational Church
of San Francisco, and has proved a most
faithful missionary. The latter, H. Aea,
went out as a school teacher, but has recently been licensed to preach the gospel. As
a school teacher he was highly successful
we remember to have witnessed with much
delight his efforts in teaching at Ebon in
1861. From his letter we quote as follows
" I remember the time when you landed
on these islands ir, 1861. My family send to
your family their aloha. The health of my
family is good.
"We have now become acquainted with the
islands, and they with us.
people of
The christian converts are very desirous that
their King should become a christian. I believe the Lord will soon call lii.s straying
sheep.
"The schools are very much increasing.
The scholars can read ami sing. I was not
tired to teach them during these six years.
In my school there are 310 scholars, out of
which 110 in the Ist class, 99 2d class, 47
3d class, 54 4th class. There are 17 chiefs
that can read and write. This month I have
appointed two of my scholars as assistant
teachers. Mr. Snow and myself have printed
some hymns on the press which Mr. Doane
brought out from America. Mr. Snow and
myself treat each other kindly. I have nothing to give you but my aloha.
Yours, H. Aea."
This is surely a good record for the young
Hawaiian missionary. Q.7* It should be remembered that these schools are among a
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and tlie Puritanizeil Hawaiian* who have reduced "the language of those people to a
written form and established schools among
them ? He might do so with the same propriety that he abuses the American Puritan
missionaries on these islands !
treatment
His Excellency Governor Bullock.—
To-day we suppose the Honorable A. 11.
Bullock will succeed Governor Andrews as
the Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts. Most nobly has the retiring Governor discharged his official duties
during the civil war. Most sincerely ao we
congratulate our old college classmate, Mr.
Bullock, in having secured the suffrages of to
large a majority of the free and independent
voters of Massachusetts. It is a high honor,
and we are confident he will honor his position as the people have honored him. In his
youth he was a fine classical scholar and eloquent .speaker, and from his appointment to
deliver the oration before the New England
Society of New York, we are delighted to
learn that be is inclined to follow in the track
of the eloquent men of the Old Bay State.
The New "John Williams."—A new
missionary vessel, to take the place of the
one lost a lew months ago in the " South
Seas," has just been launched in England.
We copy the following from ■ late exchange
Tin' new -hip has been litiill with greal oareb;
Mr. Hall nl Aberdeen, 'in.l will coat, »a believe,
about £8,000. II tins bevn paid lor. like its preilecensor, by Ihe aubscriptlnna nf tbe voting people
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dependent congregation*.
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From this notice it is gratifying to learn
that " English Puritanism " is still pressing
forward the work ol missions in the South
Seas. The missions of the London Missionary Society are among the most successful
of modem times. No more energetic and
scholar-like missionaries are to be found than
those in the Samoan or Navigator group.
The new John Williams and the new Morning Star we liojk- will soon commence their
regular trips among the islands of the South
Seas and Micronesia. English and American
Puritanism appears to work harmoniously in
prosecuting the Polynesian missions.
Honolulu, Dec. 6th, 1865.
Editor of the Friend:
Sir—l nolice in your last numlicr the appointment
and proaprctive consecration of a negro to lII* office
of liishop of the Church of Knglaml for some part
of Africa. Knowing you lo be familiar with such
tt»k will the laying on of the hands of Ilia
people who were accustomed to kill and matters, I tbe
Arch-bishop of Canterbury make tbe
Lordship
massacre, only a few years ago, every white negro, Samuel Crswther, a Lord >
Your friend, A Layman.
man that landed upon their shores, and would
allow a white man to live among them.
In 1852 or '3 two California vessels were
burnt and the crews cut off at this very island. We wonder if the Bishop of Oxford
would say that " mismanagement and inalnot
O" For the requisite information we must
refer our correspondent to the law advisers
of the Crown of England, or perhaps the
Bishop of Honolulu, on his return, may be
able to furnish the. desired information.
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Senator Wilson's Silver Wedding.—
friends. This has proved of immense usefulness to seamen. During the shipping season "The silver wedding of Senator Wilson
the reading room has been a constant place of at Natick, on Friday, was largely attended,
around,
has
antl
the
and was a very enjoyable affair. Among the
rolled
resort.
Another year
Chairman of the Executive Committee is
In closing this brief Report, I congratulate prominent persons present were Senator
most happy to come before the Board of the Trustees, patrons aud friends of the Sail- Sumner, Collector Hamlin, Anson BurlinTrustees with a much more cheering report or's Home on the continued existence and game, Linus Child, F. W. Bird, William
than he was able to make on the last Anni- usefulness of the establishment. I regard it Claflin, and Generals Underwood, Tilton and
versary. The condition of the premises one as a most necessary and important means of Hamlin. Letters of congratulation were
year ago and the prospects of the institution usefulness. So far from relaxing our efforts read from Rev. Samuel Hunt of New York,
were vastly different from what they arc on in maintaining and sustaining the Home, I who officiated at the original wedding, Prof.
the present occasion. As the Trustees are would urge all interested in its welfare to Calvin E. Stowe of Hartford, Secretary Stanaware, for several years scarcely anything press forward. We owe it to seamen and the ton and John G. Whittier; and original poems
had been expended in repairs upon the buil- character of the port that the Home should were furnished by Elizur Wright of Boston,
ding outside or inside. While the keepers be generously sustained. The good already and F. B. Sanborn of Concord. The value
had done all that they had agreed to do, and accomplished is a pleasing earnest of what of the gifts in silver ware was about $5,000,
and Mrs. Wilson had a purse of $4,000 in
all that could be expected of them, the time we may hope to witness in the future.
S. C. DAMON,
green-backs presented to her by friends in
had come when very extensive repairs were
these
wonder,
No
under
Natick and elsewhere." Exchange paper.
of
the
Executive
Committee.
absolutely necessary.
Chairman
circumstances, taken also in connection with Honolulu, 26th December, 1865.
The above notice reminds us that the time
the fact that the business of the port had
for our silver wedding is near at hand, for
Friends of seamen need not imagine we were married in the same town, by the
exceedingly diminished, that some of the
Trustees should have felt rather despondent that they can furnish us with an oversupply same
clergyman, and in the same month of
and should have said perhaps the mission of of reading matter for gratuitous distribution
the
the following year. We can hardly realize
the Home had been accomplished, and
Among books called for are
seamen.
among
the
entertained,
not
may
be
might
question
that a quarter of a century has elapsed since
premises be diverted to some other use f As primary school books, spelling books, arith- that time, but old age creeps on imperceptithe Chairman of your Executive Committee, metics, reading books, newspapers, particuour old
it affords me much pleasure to report that larly illustrated papers, &c. A man-of-war's bly. We sincerely congratulate
both
his
Senator,
the
the
matrimonupon
friend,
very shortly after the Annual Meeting
the other day for Josephus' history,
affairs of the institution took most decidedly man came
ial and political success in life.
a favorable turn. The Trustees and mer- and we were most happy to supply him with
Week of Prayer.
chants of Honolulu generally, when applied a copy sent for distribution.
to, sabscribed very generously for thoroughly
The following topics for the Week of
repairing and repainting the buildings. About Personal.—The Rev. L. Smith, Rev. E. Prayer come to us indorsed hy the Chairthat time, or about the first of April, respon- W. Clark, Rev. H. Bingham, Sen., and Rev. men and Secretaries of the British, French,
sible persons came forward and offered to H. Bingham, Jr., were at the meeting of the German, Belgic, Genevan, Swedish, and
refit the Home internally, not calling upon
The Rev. Dr. Turkish Branches of the Evangelical Althe Trustees for any pecuniary aid. They American Board at Chicago.
that only liance
that
of
Goodale
at
stated
meeting
and
this
the
amount
to
day
have done so,
Sunday, Jan. 7.—Sermons of the duties
their expenditures is known only to them- three missionaries of the Board were his
of Christians to each other, as members of
it,
and
Mrs.
Miller
enMr.
Suffice
selves.
seniors : viz, the Rev. A. Thurston of Honof
tered upon the management of the establish- olulu, the Rev. Dr. King of Greece and the the body Christ.
Monday, Jan. 8.—Acknowledgments of
ment when Captain and Mrs. Oat honorably
India.
Divine mercies and confession of sins.
retired. The bedding and furniture of the Rev. M. Spaulding of
Tuesday, Jan. 9.—The Christian Church :
Home have been thoroughly renewed and reThe Morning Star sold for $4,300 That
its testimony may be clearer, its faith
fitted many new bedsteads were procured
to $6,000 in currency at Bosstronger, and its devotcdncss, liberality, and
and neatly fitted up ; rooms were carpeted ; in gold, equal
and the ceiling was repainted. Perhaps the ton, which amount will go far towards the zeal enlarged.
Home was never in much better repair in- purchase of the new vessel.
Wednesday, Jan. 10.—Nations For their
ternally and externally than at the present
and spiritual welfare ; for kings,
temporal
Seamen on board U. S. S. lancaster and all in authority ; for the maintenance of
time, and I am most happy to report only a
trilling debt is now standing against the have subscribed $304 for the purpose of peace ; and for the increase of" righteousness,
Society.
erecting a monument to their shipmate who which exalteth a nation."
1 cannot say as the Home has been any was killed a few days ago while on shore.
Thursday, Jan. 11.—For Christian famimore useful during the past year than during
lies,
for servants, and for schools and colleges.
former years of its existence, yet I can say
A letter has been received by the
Friday, Jan. 12.—For Christian missions
that its usefulness has not diminished. As Editor for William A. Sherman.
ministers, and for all engaged in Chrisand
and
blessnow managed, it is a real comfort
tian work.
this
port.
to
Never
resorting
the
seamen
of
the
Friend
for
1865.—
Cost
ing to
Saturday, Jan. 14.—For Christians in
more than during the past year. Seamen from
Paid for printing, paper, postage
$614.00 sorrow, in sickness, nnd in persecution ; for
English and American vessels of war have
&c.
the widow nnd the orphan.
made it a place of resort. Travelers from •ceiptsfor the Friend, 1865.
Sunday, Jan. 14.—Sermons : The blessCalifornia have also found it a quiet and
$176.00
Foreign subscribers,
ing to be expected from the manifested union
comfortable boarding establishment.
Donations,
128.75
In the early part of the year Mr. Bonner
221.00 525.75 of believers in all countries.
Island subscribers,
and Mr. McCandless offered, on their own reFKIF.N0. BETHEL.
Donations.
sponsibility, to take charge of the reading
$88.25 I priend,
Debt, Dec. 28th, '65,
• r
*5.00
room. They caused a part of the room to
$5.00
• 5.00
N.B.—We hope our delinquent subscrip- Captain Penniman,
be partitioned off and fitted up as a place for
10.00
it
10.00
Thompson,
this
way
off
this
debt
for
tions will pay
1865.
holding religious meetings. In
"
5.00
5.00
Ashely,
is believed much good has been accomplished.
" Landers,
Bethel,
induced
to
he
1865.—
5.00
5.00
been
thereby
have
Many seamen
Homans, •
Incidental expenses, 1865,
5.00
$154.82
visit the Home who, under other circumstan125.00 dr. McCully,
5.00
Donations &c.,
5.00
ces, would have kept away. At the reading
Smith,
3.00
3.00
supplied
been
gratuitously
room seamen have
Debt, Dec. 31st, '65,
• rJ9.82
with the materials for writing letters to their
Eleventh
Annual Report of the Honolulu
Sailor's Home Society.
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Reforms and Changes in the Navy of Che
United States.
The great civil war which has been raging
in the United States has produced important
changes, not only upon land, but in the Navy.
Without attempting to notice all these changes we would refer to the following:
Ist. Grog Ration Abolished. —Spirituous
liquors are not allowed to be served out, except under the Surgeon's orders. This rule
applies to officers as well as to ihe seamen.
It is a very serious offence to take liquors on
board. Officers are allowed wines when
purchased by themselves. Seamen receive
a pecuniary compensation corresponding to
the value of the spirit ration. There was no
doubt much growling among " old salt;;," but
there cannot bo a doubt, among all right
minded persons, that the abolishing of the
spirit ration was an important step in the
right direction. It was an old traditionary
opinion in the navy that in a time of battle
the sailor needed to have his rum mixed with
powder! The Surgeon was inclined to this
opinion who suggested to Admiral Farragut
that it would be well to serve out grog to the
sailors before the fleet should attempt to pass
the forts at the entrance to Mobile Bay. The
Admiral's reply was noble : "Give the men
each two cdps of coffee." The results of that
morning's engagement showed that sailors
could fight without an allowance of rum
mixed with powder!
2d. Flogging Abolished.—The oldand barbarous practice of flogging has passed away.
Methods of punishment more humane and
rational have been introduced. This is another step in the right direction.
3d. Compulsory Attendance upon Divine
Worship done away with.—No one now attends upon the Divine service unless voluntarily inclined. According to the old system
there was apparently great respect for the
worship of Almighty God. " All hands,"
willing or unwilling, must appear in their
" Sunday best" when the Boatswain piped
to service. All worship to be acceptable must
be voluntary, and hence we are inclined to
the opinion that this too is a good change.
The Chaplain now relies very much for
hearer* upon his ability to interest his audience. His circumstances correspond to those
of all preachers on shore. There is no doubt
that one effect of this change will be to introduce into the Navy a superior class of Chaplains. No dull, prosy and worldly divine
will be inclined to seek the Navy as a sphere
of Übefulness, and accept of a Chaplaincy in
the Navy as a sinecure.
4th. The Navy is now filled with a much
Younger Class of Mm than formerly.—Thia
is true of both officers and seamen.
" Old
men for counsel and young men lor action
"
i* uodoobtedly a principle that will apply
J A NII \R V , I 8
6*6.
with telling force upon the Navy and the
nation. If other ships of the U. S. Navy
correspond to tho Lancaster, the average age
of the ship's company would not exceed
twenty five years.
sth. The Number o) Colored Seamen is much
increased.—There is about one hundred on
board the Lancaster, or about ono-fifth of the
crew. This would be about the average of
colored soldiers in the Army of the United
States.
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"Tbe people j'ol thf Hi>w/iiian Itlaadi] "are
wearied out by tie niieminugetnun' and mnl treatment of Ameiicar, Puritanism."—London Timet.
This is a sentence from the address of the
Bishop of Oxford, at Salisbury, England.
We are not at all surprised that the Bishop
should have made this nnd other equally extravagant remarks. Amcrcan Puritanism
has obtained a pretty strong foothold on these
islands, and we do not think it will be rooted
out during this or the coming generation. It
would be no easy matter to destroy the good
which Puritanism has accomplished here.
Protestant churches, schools, colleges and the
entire native literature of the Kingdom present a pretty bold front. It is no small compliment to the kindly, genial, civilizing and
refining influences of Puritanism that it has
trained up some who, when traveling abroad
find themselves at home amid tho refined circles of Republican America, or the Aristocratic of European society. Let no one be
surprised at these illiberal remarks of the
Bishop. This style is quite characteristic.
There now lies before us a volume, published
in London more than twenty years ago, and
written by this same personage when he was
a much younger man. It is entitled His"
tory of the American Church." Its style is
much the same as in this address. When we
read the complaints of the Bishop and others
about American Puritanism " we are re"
minded of President Lincoln's reply to the
man complaining of General Grant's drinking whiskey " I wish more of my Gcnerais
would drink the same sort! " When we look
over these islands and behold on every side
the good results of American Puritanism, we
instinctively exclaim " what a blessing Puritanism has been—the more of it the better."
The good Bishop's efforts to displace American Puritanism in the Hawaiian Islands will
be about as fruitless as General Beauregard's
attempt to blow up Plymouth Rock.
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A Ship Without a Bible.—As we were
passing along the Esplanade, distributing
tracts, on a Sabbath morning, the mate of the
hailed us, " Will you give me a
Bible ? we have not one on board." The
next morning, on meeting the master of the
said ship, we thus accosted him : " Captain,
I should be afraid to go to sea in your ship."
He seemed to be somewhat surprised, and
asked
" why ?" " Because you have no
Bible on board." " But I have a testament,"
said he ; " besides, I sail according to the
charts." Really, sailing on the sea of life
without a Bible is not less absurd and unreasonable than to sail on the ocean without
a chart or compass.
The Oldest Commercial City.—The
in the world,
and one which still retains its mcrcantila
currents, is Damascus. The caravan comes
and goes as it did three thousand years ngo ,
there arc still the sheik, the uss, and the
water-wheel; the merchants of th» Euphrates and of the Mediterranean still "occupy
with his multitude of their waters." From
Damascus came the damson, the blue plum,
and delicious apricot ofPortugal, Damascus
damask, the beautiful fabric of cotton and
silk, with vines raised upon a smooth, bright
ground j the damask rose, introduced into
England in the time of Henry VIII ; the
Damascus blade, so famous the world over
for its keen edge and wonderful elasticity,
the secret of whose manufacture was lot.t
when Tamerlane carried off the ,1 rts into
Persia ; and that beautiful art of wood and
steel with silver and gold—a kind of Mosaic
engraving and sculpture united—called
Damaskeening, with which boxes, and bureaus, and swords, and guns are ornamented.
Damascus remains what it was before the
days of Abraham, a centre of trade nnd
travel, an island of verdure in u desert, a
with martial and sa" predestinal capital,"
cred associations extending through more
than thirty centuries. It was " near Damascus" that Saul of Tarsus saw the " light from
Heaven above llie brightness of the sun;"
and the street which is called Straight, in
which it was said "he prayeth," still runs
through the city. The city which Mahomet
surveyed from a neighboring height and was
afraid to enter, because it was given to men
most ancient centre of trade
to have but one Paradise, and for his part
he was resolved not to have his in this
world, is, to this day, what Julian called the
eye of the East," and Isaiah the " head of
"Syria."
It is still a city of flowers and
bright waters ; the streams of Lebanon, the
rivers of Damascus," the " rivers of gold,"
"still
murmur and sparkle in the wilderness
of Syrian gardens, while Tyre and Sidon
have crumbled on the shore, Banlbec is a
ruin, Palmyra is buried in the sands of the
desert, and Nineveh and Babylon have disappeared from the Tigris and Euphrates.
Can a Mother Forget ?— Not a morning.
noon or night, but she looks into the comer
where you read Robinson Crusoe, and thinks
of you as yet a boy. Mothers cannot forget
the" child. A short sentence, full of household history, and running over with genuine
mother-love, is tellingly
" Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and
brought it to him from year to year, when
she came up with her husband to the sacrifice." A mother mourning at her first-born's
grave, displays a grief whost very sacredness
is sublime ; butheavier than ihe death-stroke
is the desperation of a son who rushes over
a crushed heart, into vices which he would
hide from even the abandoned and vile.
beautiful:
�JANUARY, 186 6
APVBRTISBMUIaTTB.
APVBRTI3-.IYISNTB.
PLACE. OF WORSHIP.
BRTHEL—Iter. B. 0. Damon Chaplaln-Klng
street, near the Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. M.
U__-Mt_
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7
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t ft* ft ft Cft
J H
ml, s. iian k.
«. atbsrtom.
4-tos ■. cookb.
Beau Free. Sabbath Sc'iool after the raurulng service.
CASTLE -Y COOKE,
Prayer meeting on Weuuesday evenings at 7J o'clock.
N. li. Salibatb School or Ulble Claaa for Seamen at 94 General Merchants in theFireproof Store, Ktuf Street, oppoo'clock Sabbath morning.
site theSeararn's Chapel.
FORT STRUCT OIIURCH-Coruer of Fort and Beratunia
ALSO AGENTS FOR
streets—Rev. K. Corwin Paitor. Preaching on Sunday! at
Dr. Jaynes Celebrated Faintly Medicines,
A.
ami
Sabbath
School
10
T,
11 A. M.
P. M.
at
M.
Wheeler «V Wilson's Sewiiiß Machines,
BTONK CHURCH—King street, abore the Palace—Rev. 11. 11.
The Kohala BuKar Company,
Parker I'll;nltir. Service* in Hawaiian every Buuduy at 94
The New Knglanii Mutual Life Insurance Company,
A. M. and a I'. M.
The New York I'hcnlx MarineInsurance Company,
CATHOLIC CUL'RCH—Fort street, near Beretanla—under
The New York Security Marine Insurance Company.
�W-ly
the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Muigret, aaiiUted hy Key,
Pierre Fa vena. Services every Sunday at 10 A.M. and 2 P.M.
SMITH'S eilUßCll—Biretanla street, near Nuuanu street—
Rev. Lowell Smith Pastor. Service* In Uawaiiao every
Sunday at 10 A. M. and il P. M.
RKMRM-D CATHOLIC CHURCH—Corner of Kukul ami
,ir VISITE TAKEN IN THE
Nuuanu streets, under charge af Rt. Itev. Ilinhop Staley,
ajiisled by Rev. Messrs. Ibbotson, Gallagher and ElklngH-ft style for $"> prr dote... Copying done in the beat
ton. English Marias; every Buidny at 11 A. M. and 7| ninniuTand pictures enlarged on the most reasonable terms.
Photographs of the Kings Kamehameha, and Chiefs. Also,
*:"■_.
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I Scenes
of the Inlands. For sale at 25 cent* each.
11. L. CIIABK.
IHtM
SAILOR'S HOME!
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PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY!
CAKTKS
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ADVXaBTISEIVX-SSrTS.
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AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Hrr.nioot Store, RobiusonN Hull-lug,
lit'KRN STREET, HONOLULU.
477-ly
Will continue business at tha new staod.
J. 11. (OLE,
AUOTIOW-H-H,
(aroc—Moa to a. p. araasTT.)
tt Ms late rooms, tlueeu Street.
*
CASTLE
11. \V. SEVERANCE,
Wheeler & Wilson's
SEWING MACHINES!
MACHINE HAS ALLTIIK LATEST
impmvemenM, snil, addition former premiums, waa
TMIIS
awarded tho highest prise above all European and American
to
in
476-ly
COOKE,
VI.IMH I OK
AUOTIONBEn,
OSoera' table, with lodging, per week,.
9&
6
See,mans' do. do.
do.
do.
Shower Bathe on the Premises.
Mr. nnd Mr*. MILLER,
Managers.
Honolulu, April 1, 1865.
J. C. MERRILL & Co.,
Commission Merchants
Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS In IMI,
a»o
ami at the Kxhlbitlon In 1-ndon in 18S2.
The evidence of the superiority of this Machine is found in tha
DR. J. MOTT SMITH,
record of Its sales. In 1841—
_J_3KTTIBT.
The Urovcr & B:iker Company, Boston,
•?«»•_ and, 300 c 'nil tornln, Street,
OlBce uansar ol Fort ami Hotel Streets.
*£>9-l»
TheFlorence Company, Massachusetts.
The Parker Company, Connecticut,
s\\ iiu\<imo.
R. lIUEFMA.NN, M. I>„
I J. M. Sinner 4; Co., New York,
Kaa IJ Finale Lyon,
ALSO, AUKNT3 OF I'llrri/slci—i and Surgeon, Makse'sBlock, corner Kuecn and
Clias.
Howlkuil,
Delaware,
W.
I7s-ly
humanu streets.
M. Greenwood Co., Cincinnati, 0..
San
N. 8. C. Perkins, \orwalk, 0.,
WII,. i. 11. Smith. Connect,, Ut.
C. 11. AVr.TMORE, M. O.
Particular attention ,:l yen to the sale and purchase of mar
old lS,6tx), whilst the Wheeler Wilson Company, of Bridge
PHYMCIAX & SURGEON,
chandlse, slnps' business, suppl'.lug whaleships, uagetiati.'t
art, maiie and sold l&\Ttt daring the same fwtvsa.
8.
exohanra.
HAWAII,
1.
So
HILO,
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11 tt
CrPlrase Catll and Kxnmliw.
j r All freight arriving- at Asa Franoisco, by or lo the Ho
N P —VleaitiueClietis carelully repisolsli-.l at tto
tioluluUi.e ol Packets, will b.- forwarded rant or ooiunaiioa.
b-tOC
STORE.
t.(f
HILO
j_y- Kxohange on Honolulubought andaold.
Auctioneers,
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MARINE JOURNAL.
R. liiahop, Trrasurrr, iv account curwilh Iho Honolulu Sklloi'h
llonii- Society.
rent
Receipts and Disbursements from Dec. 26th, 1864,
to Dee. '_ls(, 1865.
1864.
DR
$120.83
Dec. 26—To Cash on hand,
FORT OF HONOLULU, S. I
ARRIVALS.
3ft—-Hi its h ship llliu-kb-Tii, 81 days from San Francisco.
I861').
April 10—To Cash contributions from followin;,'named
persona:
Aldrich Walker fc Co.,
II. Ilnekfeld & Co.,
0. I'. Judil
.I.W.Austin
J. If. Waterhouae
Kd. UoiTsehlaegcr <n Stapenharst,
25.
20.
20.
2010.
10'• I 60
60.
26.
20.
April 10 -To Cash from Rev.
20.
10.
10.
6.
6.
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—, H. tlnlick for reut of
llltlce up to Jan. 1st, 1866
Ii,,.. 19—To Cashfrcin Bil. Hoffachlaeiieri Stapenhorst
for use of Cellar from N«v. 1st to Dec.
Ifilli, 1805
302 60
76.00
1600
$612,113
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In-'
15.13
21—To Balance bro't down,
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There Is a balance due on l\ M. Wnlston's hill
paid hy him
from which deduct amount nf Cash on hand.
Leaves a dellrii'iicy lit this dale nf
18«6.
38.72
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amounting to $107.60
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8. II. Dowsett,
20.
10.
K. 0. Hall,
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Honolulu, Dee. 21st, 1865.
CIIAB. K. BISHOP, Treasurer.
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Captain D. Smith, $20.
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Lancaster.
UO.fSicers.
F. F. Pearson, Actio; Rear-Ado)lral, Commanding Pacific
Squadron.
Albert 8. Barker, Fleet Lieutenant.
Thomas R. Proctor, Admiral's Secretary,
ornoaaa or thb anir.
Commander—11. K. Darenport.
Lieutenant-Commander—William B. Cushlnp.
Lieutenants—W. R. Brigham, M. W.Sanders,Fred. Pearson,
C. W. Traey.
_n»to«—W. W. Iler.drlckson.
Chief Engineer—B. B. H. Wharton.
Paymaster—Bdward Foster.
Passed .assistant Surgeons Fred. E. Potter, Jobn D. Murphy.
chaplain—Donald McLaren.
Captain Marines.— D. M. Cohen.
Second Lieutenant Marines—F. D. Webster.
Assistant Surgeon —E. K. Bingham.
Second Assistant Engineer —X. M. Breesc.
Acting Second Assistant Engineer—B. F. Fowler.
Third Assistant Engineers—George Sawyer, Vanderslice,
Richard Inch, Bdward Stiles.
Acting Third Assistant Engineer—SouthallJtfafea—R. W. Lane, George W. Claxton, JohnDetless,
Carpenter—William D. Foy.
Boatswain—MoKlnley,
Ounner—Burgees P. Allen.
Sailmaker—Stephen Seaman.
Information Wanted I
Mr. Editor.—Would yon be kind enough to advertise in your
valuable paper, tbe Friend, lor Information respecting a young
seaman of the name of Robert Bowera, commonly called "Joe
Bowers," who went down from San Francisco to Honolulu with
aptain fcalth, 6 years ago. He
was then IS years of age, and
was supposed to hare Joined a whale
ship at your port,
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For San Francisco—per Maunskea, Pec. 4—Mrs Bryan
Mrs Mason and 2 children.
From San Francisco—per 11. N. Kugg.es, Doc. fl—Five
Hawaiian*.
From Han FnnNCisco—per Whistler, Dec 14—11 Hillebrand,
lady and child, Mr Bowman, lad- and BUM, Miss M X
Andrews, .1 X Waterliouse, jr., Henry L Uoyer, Charles Burg.-ss, Suinu'.'l Notl, Henry (lark, W C fYeeden, W It Porter,
Ah On, P R Uedbury, Jim Friday, II Rudolph, Kam t-iug,
and 18 Hawaiians—27.
For San Francisco—per Onward, Doc. IS—Mifs roil, Mis.i
tlattle MempMmd, Mr and Mrs Lowchayn, Mis MiHatt, J
Strive, BC Clark, B PreeooW. 'i B*odte, J Franci*, c Fuller,
R Brigge, I Veen, N Perkins, C Knos, J Prader, Mr Sylvia, II
Leudaber. W Kecler, G Blucher, W llampur, W Gum, J Silvlax,
L A Mui'thiiigt'.n, X R Gardner, J B Owens—27.
for HoKfiKoso—per Fairlight. Dec. 10—Miss F M Weed, 0
L Weed, Jas Weed, W Rab, Ah Chung—s.
For Brkmbs—per A. J. Pope, Due. 15—Mrs Hulin and 4
children, Mrs lack and child, X L Bond, II Burderdorf, G
20 —Am bark D, C. Murray, Iti'mn-tt, 19 days from Snu
Francisco, witli .ndse :ind passengers to Aldrich,
Walker & Co.
I—lliw'n wh lik llae Hawaii, Hepping done, from Arctic, via San Francisco, with IGOOwbaie and 16,000
lbs hone.
4 -Am lurk Sunbeam, Barrett, Rrotd Hilo, with 270 bbla
oil and MOO Hn bona.
o—l'. P. ft. S. Lancaster, _0 gun_, Admiral lVarson, 26
days from Panama.
6—Am aclir 11. N. bonlsi, Chadwick, 23 days .mm
Pan Francisco, with mdse to 0, Bmnr k Co.
7—Am clipper ship Fairly lit, Bush, 21 days from fan
Berg—lo.
Francisco.
From San Francisco—per Comet, Doc. 23—W Love,wifB—Ham. hark Tony, 31 days from San Francisco, with
tand child, .Mrs Ah Vo, Mrs McF-MTest and daughter, Capt W
cargo wheat for Melbourne.
steerage.
Lawrence,
ship
Taylor.
daya
2C
from
Stott—7
cabin
ami
10
If,
11—Br
A.
Snn
Francisco.
12—Am bark Muiof, Latie, 19 days Iron. San Francisco, with mdse to, Adrich, Walker H Co.
aofOnftTirdhcuesSociety.
HSoanilmru'es
12— Hum ship Juniata,Thompson, 10 days from Han
Francisco.
CiOino
Oit
18GC.
in
Morning
Tkustkkb
Star, fantta. from Micron.-sia
13—Brig
S. N. t.'aslle.
.!. n. I'arter.
14—Am bark Whistler, Paly, 12j days from San FranC.I-aajtr.
Go.
8.0.
Hall.
J.
cisco, with indse, to 11. fleekMd k
W. I. (Ireell.
*'. A. tklnu ter.
16—Schr Odd Fellow, Clmiy, 40 days from Baker.-;
Island.
Goino Otrr in 18fi7.
17—Haw'n brig lMii-1, Ziegenhirt, Iron Miciunnsia.
J. M. Smith.
W. A. Alilriih
day.s from
17—Am clipper ship George*, lleu-tiss,
0. M. Bafcerlion
I'. ('. Jam m.
Lang's Island.
)i. A. r. Oaitar.
a. f.Jada
20—Am wh hark Canton Packet* Flatter, 14 days from
fan Francisco.
Ooisa Out in I*oB.
22—Am brig Kentucky, WlUlitan, 16days from Boreka,
.1. W. Austin.
S. ('. Daman.
I'. 11. Ijewirwith lumtM r to Aldrich. Walker It Co.
K. Coiivin.
28—Am bark Smyrnintr, Lovitt, 12 days from San FranDaniel Smilli.
0. K. llishnp.
cisco, with indue to Aldnch, Walker & Co.
OffHMM s'OR 1860.
2'—Am bark Comet. Puller, 11 tUji from San Francisco,
('ash
President. —?•- N.
k.
with B-dee and niiisngers to 11. Raokre id k Co.
lice I're.iiilcnt.—J. W. Atsnw
26 --Am bark Oregon, Wilson, 64 days from New Castle,
Secretin i/.— llh. Smith.
wiih coal. Sailed same day for San FranctfCo*
Treasurer.—C. It. BIMHOF.
Executive cmnmiiir.e.— C. Duoon, K. 0. Halt, J. <>
DKI'AKK RUN.
Carter.
$50.
A.S, f'leghorn
Daniel Smith
C. Brewer & Co.,
Janion Green Ac Co.,
B. C. Damon,
.1. I. Dowsett
Samuel Bavldge,
C. It. Bishop
W. N. Ladd,
Cash
PASSENGERS.
—
27 —Haw'n ship lolani, Green, for K«W Bedford.
28—Am wh bark Oriole, Jeraegtn,for cruise and home.
MARRIED.
28—Am wh ship Reindeer, Kaynor, for a cruise.
29—Am wh ship Addison, Pierce, for a eruiso.
ilAl.l.— VanCi.kvk.—lll lliiniilulu, Dec. -20th, at Ihe raaldanc
"U-Ain bark A A BUridge, Abott, for Portland.
of lha br-egronm'a father, K. O. llall.Bsq., by Bar. v.. Cur
Ashley,
a
ship
Troupe,
Got.
for
cruise.
I—Am wh
win. Wtll-ni W. Hull, bq., in Mi- R-a-Hh A. VsoCltvs
I—Am wh ship Jeeephtoe, Chapman, for a cruise.
only daughter of Den. 11. P. VanCleve, of St. Anthony, Mm
DOOM,
a
bk
for
cruise
and
Caswell,
I—Am wh
Vineyard,
ni'Mit.i, fy Nn cunls.
2—Am wh ali Oliv.r Crocker, Lipinan, for a antiae.
S\wy.:r—l.liioi.akl—By Rsjv, .1. S. Km.rs'iu, Not. 2, 186.1
2—Am bark Constitution. Clements, for Paget Sound.
on
ii'mrU tho Morning Btar," in the l.aKi'ini nf .inluiit, Marahal
4—Haw'n bark M-iinakca, Kobinson, for Ban Francisco Island,,
Henry Bawycr, a Portagneaa, in Ugola—t, a native o
4—Am wh _h Onward, AlUn. for cruise.
with the approbationat the chief, Latast—
Jaluet,
4 —Am wh sh C. W. Morgan, Landers, for eralae.
4—British ship Hlackburn, Murphy, for Baker's Island
4—Am wh sh Cornelius. Rowland, Iloinan, for cruise.
DIED.
4—Am wh bk Minerva, Pennimau, for cruise.
fr—Am wh sh J. I*. West, Tinker, for cruise.
consumption, at Lahainahina, Maui, Nov. 17th.
KisxtcY—
Of
6—Schr Kitty Cartwright, Qregg, for Farming's Island. Mrs. Helen K. wife of .1. K. Kinney of Honolulu, and daughter
7—French wh sh Winslow, Lablaet, for cruise.
Key. John I—slltus 0. Oakland, California.
10—American clipper ship Fairlight, Bush, for Hong- of
Jacinto—ln Shantar Bay, Ochotsk feea, Sept. 6. 1865, Antokong.
nio Jacinto, ltd officer of ship llliuoiH, Capt. Davis, of New
12—Br ship A M lawrence, Taylor, for Hongkong.
Bedford. He was a nntivt' of Madeira, and his death was
13—Ham bark Tony, Gartner, for Melbourne.
hy being carried down by the line.
caused
Francisco.
13—Am bark Onward, Hempstead, for San
Cj.Aiii-—In Newlmven, Oct. 12th, Sarah B. Att water, aged
13—Am whaleship Java, linos, cruise.
years,
wife of Capt. W. W, Clark.
13—Brem brig Agnes, Siedcnburg, for Bremen.
41
14—Hawwhale hark Florence,Loveland, cruise.
New Haven Courier, from which we extract theabove
the
In
and
Makf-e's
14—Schr Kate Lee, Chadwick, Lahaina
we find the following notice of Mrs. C, which will interest hitLandiug.
many acquaintance, here.
IK—Am wh ship Geo Howland, Jones, for home.
Obituary.—Vnder the appropriate head will I>e found the
18—Am wh ship Mount Walliatou, Willis, for a cruise.
of the dt-ath ofthe wife of Captain William W.
annouccment
a
cruiae.
22—Am wh bark Canton Packet, Frasier, for
Clark, ofthi-i city. We deeply fritva* with hundred of others
—the acquaintances and kindred of this family—that our
MEMORANDA.
friend should have been called in the very noon of life, to bear
the heavy sorrow which has fallen upon him. Mrs. Clark was
kind-hearted and eminently faithful In all her duties and
Report of Morning Slur.
Recollections of the noble truthfulness of her
friendships.
Sailed from Honolulu on the 17th July. Touched at Howher warm enthusiasms and amiable deeds, cause us
land's on the 4th of August. Found the paapto in want of character,
while
to
hesitate,
we long to give some personal expressions of
food. Landed supplies and sailed same day for Gilbert Islands. our sympathy with
those who are in mourning to-day. The
Arrivod at Tarrawa on the 10th of August. Spent twelre days late
Clark,
Mrs.
has
for a long time been In rather delicate
in thisgroup and sailed on the 22d for the Marshall Islands. health, though few would have so suspected, owing to her uniArrlred at Mill■ ion the 25th. Cruised through the group and form cheerfulness. For about twelve years *he resided in tho
in the Seiiaivane Islands as far west as Ascension, arriving on Sandwich Islands, and twice made voyages around the world
the 20th September—hesriog for the first time of tbe Shenanhi vessels In which her husband was the Captain. Her many
doah'sdestruction of the whaling fleet.
friends in those distant islands, where she was known and loved
Sailed from Ascension on the 3d October for the EasL Visit- with unusual affection, will learn with great sadness that they
ed Pleasant Island on the 23d October. The ship fVarhaiok, are to see her face and listen to her voice no more, and that she
touched
there
on
the
12thOctober
from
M'Kean's
Capt. Dunbar,
never agaia extend to them those generouscourtesies which
Island, with 1600 tons guano, bound to the Mauritius, all well will
with her, invariably blended with all the common affairs
on board. Continued on crntse Kant as far as Millii. Lost were
of
life.
sight of Mlllil at noon of the 10th of November, hound for
Palaau, Molokai, Dec. 4, Mary Ann, daughter
Burrows—Ai
to
easterly
winds
from
lat;
14° N.
Honolulu. Had moderate
14° to 21° had very strong tradei X N. X.; had the first of J. W. and Helen Burrows, aged four mouths and Aye days.
please copy.
New
London
long.
papers
from
thence
to
174° W.s
westerly winds in 30= N. lat..
long. 167° W.,had alternately winds from westward anil N.
BTKW4RT—At U. 8. Hospital in Honolulu, Dec. 16th, George
long.
lat.
29
160
X., most of the time fresh and squally. In
°
° Gardner, a/tan Stewart, ordinary seaman bnloti(ring to Y. 8. B.
W., had the wind from K. S. K. In lat. 26° wind S. K. to 8., Lancaster. He belonged to Atlanta, Georgia, but Is reported
light. On the 10th hail breeie from K. N. X., and saw land at to have friends residing In Philadelphia, and a brother in San
noon of the 12th. Anchored at midnight outside.
Francisco. He had been injured by a fall from a horse. Hie
Vs»9«i.s Baml: —At Pitt's Island, brig Tyro, Capt. Randall, remains were buried in the U. S. naval lot, in Nuuanu cemetery.
bound to Sydney, and brig Hirnet, Capt. Lee. At Kbon Ist
Chisholm.—Died in Honolulu, Dec. 22d, John M. Chlsholm,
September, saw brig Pfiel ; again at McAsltill on the 3d Octo- of Woodside, by Aberdeen, 08 Barau St. He came to the
ber. At Ascension bark Kamehameha Y. 20th September; Islands in 1864, steward of the Leonodaa of Peterhead.
again at Wellington on the 4th October. 7th December, lat.
Ririioa—At the U. 8. Hospital, Honolulu, Dec. 26, John T.
29 (ON. long. IM 09 W., saw barkentineConstitutionand
from whaleship Illinois. During
a whaling bark supposed to be Oliver Crocker, both heading Raynor, a seaman discharged
th# war he s*rvM «o board the D. f*. B. Ohio
N.K.
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FRIEND
THE
HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1866.
3ta Series, 001.17 Dto. U
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CONTENTS
For Frbrunry, 1 5t....
Visit of the laancnster
Volcanic Phenomena of the Island of Hawaii
New Zealandand Hawaiian Islands
The Morning Star
The Pacific Cod*Fishery
Mutt Inexcusable Ignorance
Salt* of Mr. Wyllk's Library
Lines on a Skeletr n
The arrival of the Ajax
Hawaiian Antiquities
PiOR.
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THE FRIEND.
FEItRUARY 1. 1866.
We are glad to learn from Admiral
Pearson, Capt. Davenport, and other officers
ol the Lancaster, that they made so pleasant
an excursion from Hilo to the Volcano, during their late trip to Hawaii. It was quite
remarkable that they should have escaped
the severe storm which was raging in other
parts of the group. We would take this opportunity to express our gratification, in view
of the very agreeable visit of the Lancaster
to these islands. Both officers and seamen
are an honor to the United States. In our
intercourse among the seamen, as they have
gathered around the " Home," it has afforded us very great delight to meet so many
well disposed and excellent men. We have
met some old man-of-war's men who had
retired from the seas, but who nobly responded to the appeal wh»n the President
called for seamen to man the vessels of war,
and put down the rebellion. Their song
was :
"Down with the traitor—
Up with the King."
The sailors have a noble record in the late
civil war. Uncle Sam's " web-footed " boys
were not found among those who would pull
down the flag. The following slip, from a
late American paper, will be read with melancholy interest :
" William Conway, the sailor who, on the
secession of Florida in 1861, refused, at the
dictation of an officer who had turned traitor
to hi? country, to hnul down the national
flag at the Pensacola Navy Yard, died last
week at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, aged
about sixty-three years. His luneral was
attended at the Hospital on Saturday afternoon. The services were conducted by
Chaplain Stewart, who preached a suitable
discourse, in which reference was made to
the long naval service of deceased, and
particularly to his action at the Warrenton
Navy Yard, Pensacola, where, on the 15th
of January, 1861, he was ordered by the
rebel Lieut. Renshaw to haul down the old
flag. 'No,' the veteran responded. ' I have
served under that flag for over twenty years,
and I shall not pull it down.' "
Generous Response.—It affords us much
gratification to acknowledge the prompt response which has been made by numerous
families to our appeal for books and papers
for seamen. The following persons have
kindly sent buodles to our office : Mr. Hall,
Miss Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, Mrs.
deVarigny, Rev. C. B. Andrews, Rev. J. F.
Pogue, Capt. Snow, Mrs. Dimond, Mrs.
Parke, and Mrs. Thrum. Most of the contributions have been distributed among the
seamen and marines of the Lancaster. The
friends of seamen never need fear that they
can furnish an over supply. Among the
colored seamen there has been a loud call
for spelling and other school books. We
are now employing Mr. Dunscomb, formerly
a sailor, to act as keeper of the Depository
and Reading Room at the Home. Seamen
will always be supplied by making application to him. Seamen wishing to write letters will be supplied with materials at the
Home.
We favor our readers with a long and
interesting communication from the Rev. Mr.
Conn, upon the volcanic eruptions on Hawaii
during the last half century. It was written
for a Scientific Society in Paris, at the solicitation of Mons. Desnoyers, the French
Consul and Commissioner. As we were
honored with the transmission of the document we solicited a copy for our columns.
Few persons have enjoyed such favorable
opportunities for witnessing the action of the
volcanoes on Hawaii as the Rev. Mr. Coan.
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{©uStries,
Mill.
Volcanic Phenomena of the Island
of Hawaii.
BY REV. TITUS COAN.
It is a well-known fact that all the Hawaiian Islands are of igneous origin. Submarine fires commenced the work of elevation
in unknown ages past; subterranean, subaerial eruptions have continued until some
of our mountain summits stand 14,000 feet
above the sea-level.
The whole Hawaiian group has been raised from unmeasured depths of the Ocean.
Nor is this elevating process yet completed.
The southern portion of Hawaii covers a vast
abyss of fire, from which hot steam and gases
escape at a thousand vents.
Mauna Loa is the great crowning dome of
this part of the island, and it is of itself only
an immense volcano. From base to summit,
on all sides, it is scarred with pits, rents and
cones, and ten thousand marks ol fiery struggle. From these fissures, and yawning craters, molten floods have been disgorged from
time immemorial—spreading and solidifying
over all the mountain rushing in fiery
streams and cataracts down its sides, expanding over the plains below, sweeping down forests, licking up lakes and rivers, and throwing up mounds, ridges and hills, and leaving
a surface resembling a raging sea suddenly
congealed in a tempest. On the summit of
this mountain is the vast crater Mokuaweo•weo a yawning gulf of sufficient capacity
to gorge the largest city on our planet.
This crater is constantly emitting steam
and sulphurous fumes, and occasionally eruptions of molten lava take place in its bottom.
The whole mountain is subject to eruptions
at any time and at any place. The great
Kilauea, at its eastern base, is but one of
scores of its lateral valves, extending on all
sides to the ocean. The southern portion of
Hawaii is unfinished land, subject to further
changes of elevation, subsidence and extension ; even Mauna Loa—which is seen more
than 200 feet lower than her sister peak,
Mauna Kea—may yet tower far above her
under the elevating process of subaerial eruptions. One eruption on the very summit of
the mountain might raise it 500 feet. Mauna Kea is a cluster of extinct craters.
It is unfortunate for science that our knowledge of the Hawaiian Archipelago is of recent-date.
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Chaotic darkness broods over the lonjr pa t river passed over a wild and uninhabited reapes, when submarine thunder rolled under gion, ami was little noticed by the natives
(be deep—when the fiery throes of nature there being no foreigners near at the time.
disturbed the quiet bosom of the Pacific, and As there was neither pen nor pencil, nor inheated her waves to licrceVbullition—raising telligent eye near the scene, little is known
from unmeasured depths the massive piles ol this grand phenomenon except what can
which form our beautiful group. Nowhere be gathered from the permanent results, conelse on earth are all the conditions for observ- sisting or caves, pits, hills, ridges, precipices,
ing volcar.ic action so favorable as Hawaii ; caverns, yawning chasms, and vast fields ot
and yet it is scarcely half ■ century since tlie smooth, glistening lava and of jagged scoria,
world has been able to obtain reliable facts tiusos and steam are still issuing from many
fissures along the line of flow.
on the subject of our eruptions.
Kruption of 1833.
During the last forty years many travelers
This was local and insignificant. It rent
have visited our volcanoes —surveys have
been made, charts projected, and observa-'. the northern bank of Kilauea ; spouted up
tions, sketches, photographs and descriptions incandescent masses to a considerable height,
published. To these the inquisitive reader, burning jungle and trees, and flowing off
is referred.
into an extinct and wooded crater at a little
The limits of this paper preclude all butj distance north. Many of the jets were
the merest outline and epitome of the vol- thrown up into trees where the lava-stalaccanic phenomena of our islands, or even of, tites still hang suspended from the branches.
what has come under the observation of the j But, as this eruption was unimportant, we
writer. We begin with
pass it without further remark, and speak of
—
Kilts ii vn.
Thcr
This is the great active volcano of Hawaii,
not to say of the world. It is a vast and
nearly circular pit, near the eastern base of
Mauna Loa (Long Mountain.)
Its depth varies from 600 to 1.200 feet, the
difference being occasioned by the filling up
and the disgorgement of lava. The circumference by trigonometry is more than 7£
miles, while to a pedestrian it is 10 miles.
The pit is sunk in a vast level tract, and
one may ride for seveml miles along its margin, and horn his saddle look down into the
black and smouldering abyss of lava, listening to its mutterings, its hissings, its belchings, the cracking and rending of its solid
strata and the startling detonation of exploding rocks and gases. He may also witness
its fiery jets, its smoking cones, its molten
streams, its burning caverns, its glaring ovens,
its boiling pools, and its raging lakes of liquid
minerals, and all a thousand feet below him.
All over the bottom of this pit, and from its
craggy and creviced walls, and from the regions surrounding its upper rim, innumerable
puffs of smoke, steam and gases are constantly arising, indicating the presence of a
vast abyss of Are below.
The old native mythology called this crater Ka Lua o Pele (the pit of Pele), supposing that the fire-goddess Pele held carnival
there—bathing and disporting in the molten
sea—hiding in fiery caverns, breathing out
fire and smoke and sulphur from her nostrils ;
glaring with her burning eye-balls from fissures, and vomiting out floods of wrath upon
all who failed to propitiate her. Leaving
legends and traditions, we will speak of some
of the great eruptions of Kilauea ; and first,
I
minion of
INK).
This combined the elements which kindle
the emotions of sublimity, grandeur, awe
and terror.
It commenced in June, and for twentyseven miles it was chiefly subterranean. For
seventeen years the great cauldron of Kilauea had been slowly filling up. The fused
lava had been rising, and fiery demonstrations had been increasing within the crater,
and becoming more and more vivid and startling. Many lakes of boiling fusia opened in
the bottom of the cmtor. Scores of hissing
cones are from five to twenty-five feet high,
spiiting out fire and sulphurous gases, with
a voice which resembled the letting off steam
from a hundred fire engines. Fissures epencd all over the floor of the crater, from which
lines of fire were everywhere seen like chain
lightning in the clouds. At length the lateral pressure of the igneous lava became too
great for the walls of the pit and the fusia
found vent in subterranean galleries, some
1,200 feet below the rim of the crater, and
for days the flow was so deep and obscure
that it was known only by the subsidence of
the lava in the crater, the cracking of the
superincumbent strata under which it was
flowing towards the sea, and the throwing
up of puffs of gas and smoke, of hot jets of
lava from the fissures. As the liquid flood
was drawn off from the crater the solid mural
floor, which had rested upon it, fell in with
cracking, crashing and roaring sounds like
those of ice when the water is drawn from
under it. When the molten stream was
within twelve miles of the sea it broke
ground in a vast and burning flood, and from
this point it pushed its way over the surfcice,
The Kruplion of 1823.
consuming forests, filling up pits and ravines,
This, for some miles, was subterranean. licking up pools of water, sweeping around
The lava at first found vent in chambers and and over hills, bearing immense rocks, boulducts under the south bank of the crater, a ders and masses of earth upon its bosom, and
thousand feet below the surface of the coun- finally pouring over a precipice some thirty
try—in their dark passage, cracking and feet high into the ocean in a sheet of fire
rending the superincumbent strata and throw- one mile broad ! The scene baffles descriping up puffs of smoke and jets of sand along tion.
the line of the flow, until at length the obThe ocean boiled intensely and the waters
structed fusia burst forth in a sea of fire and were heated and fishes killed for twenty
rolled down to the ocean in the districtofKau. miles along the coast. The explosion of
This stream is from one to four miles wide, rocks, the shivering of lava, the detonation
about twenty-five long, and varying in depth of gases, the smoke, the sulphur, the gyratirorri five to one hundred feet and more. The ing clouds of steam, the dark volumes of
angle of descent is about 2 ° The igneous smoke, the flashes and gleamings of lurid
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18 ti 6.
light conflicting with darkness, and the confused rape of the elements, formed a. scene
of awful sublimity. For three weeks this
river of fiery ruin flowed into the sea, push-
ing out the const line, and raising large
mounds of tufa and sand, which towered
from two to three hundred feet above the
water. The stream fell into the ocean in
the district of Puna, nearly twenty miles
from the town of Hilo, and during its flow
all communication between the people on the
opposite of the igneous river was intercepted.
All eastern Hawaii was lighted up at night,
and the scene resembled a burning firmament. Many of the natives gazed upon it
with little emotion, while others were struck
as if the final conflagration of all things had
commenced. The length of the stream,
above and lielow ground, is estimated at
thirty-nine miles. It is from one to three
miles wide, and of unequal depths, say from
four feet on the margin to one hundred, two
hundred or three hundred in basins and central channels. The subsidence of the lava in
the crater of Kilauea was four hundred feet,
and from this it has been estimated, by Prof.
Dana, that the amount of the disgorged lava
was 15,400,000,000 cubic feet. A few small
villages and some cultivated patches were
destroyed, but no lives were lost. A few
small villages and some cultivated patches
were destroyed, but no lives were lost.
After a lapse of twenty-five years hot
stea,m and gases are still rising at many
points along the line of eruption.
The depth of Kilauea, after this depletion,
was more than a thousand feet. In some
places the walls were smooth and perpendicular, in others jagged and beetling. At
some points immense masses of toppling debris lay against the walls, from the base to
the top, on angles of 60 to 80 degrees. For
a long time it was thought to be impossible
to descend to the bottom of the crater, but
the writer at length, with difficulty and peril,
reached the floor of the abyss, no one venturing to accompany him.
The great cauldron of fusia, called Halemaumau, was found to be in feeble action,
and the forces which had, for so long a time,
startled and astonished beholders, seemed in
a state of rest or exhaustion.
Through
1841-2 the action was feeble, but gradually
increasing. In 1843 action became more intense. Overflowings of the fiery lake spread
large deposits over the bottom of the crater.
Uplifting forces—such as gases, steam and
the gradual rising of the fusia from below—
elevated the superincumbent strata, so that
in 1844 the crater had nearly regained all it
had lost by the eruption of 1840. At the
present time all thecentral portion is elevated 500 to 600 feet above the point to which
it fell during the eruption. Since 1840 there
have been no discharges of lava from Kilauea,
either subterranean or subaerial, though there
have been boilings, and gushings, and overflowings, and many fiery demonstrations
within its walls.
A pit 600 feet deep, and two to three miles
in diameter, furnishes an area sufficient for
pyrotechnical displays on a scale of great
grandeur. And such are often witnessed in
this wonderful laboratory. The great lake
of fire, sometimes enlarged to half a mile in
diameter, mutters, boils, surges, rages, and
throws up spiteful splashes and fierce jets of
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; .sometimes the rocky
walls of the pit are lent and the awful flood,
bursting its adamantine barrier.!, pours forth
u sea of fiery ruin, covering an area of two
or three square miles, and sending up a radiance which lights the heavens and hangs
like a burning cloud from the firmament.
Hot sulphurous steam often fills the atmosphere, hissing cones rise and disappear, the
roofs ol vast fiery caverns fall in, extended
fissures open, and streams of igneous lava
gush up. Avalanches of rocks and earth
fall from the high, circumvallating walls
with thundering roar ; pits of liquid fire
open and rage at numerous points in the bottom of the crater, and for a season all the
infernal forges of Pluto seem in full blast.
I have seen eighty to a hundred points of
action in the bottom of Kilauea at one time.
Anon, all will be comparatively quiet for
months, or for years. The old mother-lake
babbles sluggishly ; her circumference contracts ; her sanguinary bosom is nearly covered with a black and hardened pall, under
which it beats feebly; here and there the
lire shines up through a crevice, or a few jets
are thrown out against the walls. Her satellites are all obscured ; her glowing furnaces
extinguished; ferns and other plants shoot
up in bottom of the crater, and men begin to
predict that the extinction of this amazing
fire-fountain is near.
Again we are startled by sights and sounds,
and by such vivid demonstrations as arouse
all the powers of the spectator, and fix his
attention with resistless interest.
The great lake once lifted the superincumbent strata of solid lava, and formed
over herself a rock-roof, or dome, sdme two
miles in circumference and 200 feet high,
with a single aperture in the apex of about
100 feet in diameter, down which the spectator looked, as into a shaft, and saw and
heard the fiery billows raging 150 feet below
incandescent fusia
him.
Afterwards this whole dome fell in, forming a great depression or basin, and bringing
the fire lake tn the surface. Sometimes the
lake rises very gradually Aid overflows its
rim—the overflowing stratum hardening at
once, like water freezing around the mouth
of a well. By repeated overflowings of this
kind the surrounding rim of the lake is raised from ten to twenty feet above the general
floor of the crater, and, as the fusia is constantly rising within the rim and serving t0
form it, the whole lake of fire, half a mile it
may be in diameter, is thus elevated above
the surrounding area where it boils and rages
above the head of the amazed spectator, until
at length the lateral pressure becomes so great
or the action so fierce as to burst the barrier
and flow off in a sea of lire, covering three or
four square miles with its molten wave, and
lighting up the heavens with its lurid glare
and forming ■ scene of terrible sublimity.
But we must leave Kilauea, though a tenth
ol its wonders have not been told, and glance
at a few outside eruptions ; and, first,
Kritplioli on Miiuiis I lint, .fiiiiimry l(>, 18
13.
Near daybreak of the above date, a twinkle, like that of a lamp or a small star, was
seen near the summit of the mountain. The
light increased rapidly, and in an hour floods
of liquid fire were spreading over those high
regions and beginning to rush down the side
of the mountain towards, the north. The
light rose high in the firmament, and a splendid radiance spread over all the summit of
the mountain. In a day or two the burning
river had reached the northern base of the
of the infernal regions. This eruption spent
itself on the higher regions of the island and
never reached the sea. It covered a superficial area of about sixty square miles.
mountain, while a branch of the stream shot I'. in|»i ion on Ma iinft 1.1111. I'YbriKi ry
off to the westward towards Kona, and a
This eruption commenced near
second branch flowed northwest towards
Wnimea.
With a congenial companion, and several
native helpers and guides, I was soon on my
way to the scene of eruption. Our path,
for twenty-five miles;, was up the bed of a
rapid stream, full of beautiful and noisy cascades, and leading through a dense jungle
and forest, and without a human habitation
or a domestic animal in all the route. The
scene was wild and romantic—the flora was
tropical and of wonderful luxuriance. The
consisted of wild cattle, wild dogs,
fauna
wild hogs and wild birds and insects. We
slept two nights in the deep forest, listening
to the roar of the cascades, the music of the
rills, the chirp of insects and the bark of
wild dogs. On the third day we emerged
from the jungle, and, after traveling some
fifteen miles over rocky fields and grass
plains, we came at night to the foot of the
great trunk of the igneous river, near the
base of Mauna Kea, and about twenty
miles from the terminal crater of Mauna
Loa. The stream was nearly a mile wide,
and it was creeping slowly over the plains,
its upper suface blackening and hardening rapidly by the reduction of heat caused
by contact with the atmosphere. From
under this indurated crust the viscid fusia
flowed out, forming an irradiating line of
fifty yards in breadth across the whole width
of the stream. Here, and at lateral gulches
along the margin of the river, and at numerous pools, which broke throagh the hardened
stratum which covered like ice the flowing
fusia, we could dip up any quantity of the
igneous minerals, and cool and preserve them.
We spent the first two nights and a day on
the high plains between the bases of Mauna
Kea and Mauna Loa, in close proximity to the
great molten sea which was spreading over
all that region. On the next day we ascended the mountain, following the stream up to
its great terminal furnace, about 13,000 feet
high. In going up we walked over the solidified surface of the stream —now on the left,
now on the right margin, crossing and recrossing as safety, convenience, speed and
curiosity dictated. In passing up upon the
solidified surface or counterpane of the
stream numerous fissures and orifices, like
cracks and holes in ice, opened down to the
fiery stream below. Through these apertures we could look down the depth of from
twenty to one hundred feet, and see the incandescent river of fire rushing down the
steep side of the mountain in a smooth,
vitrified fire-duct, at the rate of forty miles
an tour, directly under our feet. When this
fusia first began to flow down the mountain,
and before the surface refrigerated, it spread
out to the breadth of three miles, but alter it
was covered and protected by the hardened
crust it was confined to dykes and deep channels, which were cut by its own heat and
motion. To look into the very bowels of the
mountain and witness this stream of fire
and brimstone, as it rushed along its awful
track, was a scene of startling and amazing
interest. It
if one had had a vision
i
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the summit of the mountain and only five or six
miles southeast of the eruption of 1843. For
two days, this sumniit-cratcr sent down its
burning floods along the norlh-eastcrn slope
of the mountain; then suddenly the valve
closed and the great furnace apparently
ceased blast.
After thirty-six hours the fusia was seen
bursting out of the eastern side of the mountain, about midway from the top to the base.
It would seem that the summit lava had
found a subterranean tunnel for half the way
down the mountain, when coming to a weak
point or meeting with some obstruction, it
burst up vertically, sending a column of incandescent fusia a thousand feet high into
the air. This fire-jet was about one hundred
feet in diameter, and it was sustained for
twenty days and nights, varying in hight
from 500 to 1,000 feet. The disgorgement
from the mountain side was often with terrific explosions which shook the hills, and
with detonations which were heard for forty
miles. This column of liquid fire was an
object of surpassing brilliancy, of intense
and awful grandeur. As the jet issued from
the awful orifice it was at white heat. As it
ascended higher and higher it reddened like
fresh blood, deepening its color until, in its
descent, much of it assumed the color of
clotted gore. In a few days it had raised a
cone some three hundred feet high around
the burning orifice, and, as the showers of
burning minerals fell in livid torrents upon
the cone,it became one vast heap of glowing
coals, flashing and quivering with restless
action, and sending out the heat of ten thousand furnaces in intense blast. The struggles in disgorging the fiery masses, the upward
rush of the column, (he force which raised it
thousand vertical feet, and the continuous
falling back of thousands of tons of mineral
a
fusia into the burning throat of the crater
and over a cone of glowing minerals, one
mile in circumference, was a sight to inspire
awe and terror, attended with explosive
shocks which seemed to rend the mural ribs
of the mountain and sounds to wake the dead
and startle the spirits in Hades. From this
fountain a river of fire went rushing and
leaping down the mountain with amazing
velocity, filling up basins and ravines, dashing over precipices and exploding rocks until
it reached the forests at the base of the
mountain, where it burnt its fiery way, consuming the jungle, evaporating the water of
streams and pools, cutting down the trees
and sending up clouds of smoke and steam
in murky columns or fleecy wreaths to
heaven.
All Eastern Hawaii was a sheen of light,
and our night was turned into day. So
great was the illumination at night that one
could read without a lamp, and labor, traveling and recreation might go on as in the
day time. Mariners at sea saw the light at
two hundred miles distance. It was a pyrotechnical disrlay more magnificent and marvelous than was ever made by an earthly
monarch.
Concluded on psje li
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narrowly this people
the
which is now seen
doom
escaped
general
FEBRUARY I, 1868.
to have overtaken the aboriginal inhabitants
of other groups of Polynesia. There have
The War is New Zealand—The war of races in
New Zealand still goes on with unabated vigor, as it been crises when it seemed as if they must
always does wherever Anglo Saxons oome into colgo, and their independent nationality be lost.
lision witb men guilty of a tawny skin. In their
own country the brave, intelligent, and warlike We need but refer to the events of 1839,
Maories have no friends among the white population; 1543, and to others which might be cited.
bat in England, where their lands are not so immediately coveted, their cause has been token up by the
According to our view, three fundamental
Society for the Protection of Aboriginal Raoes." principles have been successfully adopted in
" officers of this Society have written to ihc MaoTbe
ries, advising them not to sell their lands to the the administration of the affairs of this GovEoglith settlers, sh their titles are as valid as those ernment which have led to the happy results
of the Dukes of Bedford or Northumberland to their
immense estates. But this doctrine finds little sup- now to be witnessed
port. It is especially denounced by the London
1. The native government has been upTimes as destructive of colonization, which says that
tbe only title the Maories have to their lands is tbe held, and foreigners, when admitted to partifaot that many years ago they killed and devoured cipate in governmental and political affairs,
Ibe former occupants. It is diffiult to sec how they
could have a better or clearer tille. In swallowing were required to take the oath of allegiance.
tbe proprietors tbey may be said to have appro2. When the feudal tcnureship of laud
priated all their rights and interests in the lands;
from the King and Chiefs, the compassed
and oertainly there is little danger of tho former
owner) returning to press their claims.
This primi- mon native was secured in his kuleana
"
tive bat effectual way of conveyanoing strikes the
London Times with horror; that journal maintains ho became a bona fide land-owner. The
the right of the Anglo-Saxon to displace all inferior common native was also allowed to enjoy
raoes in the interests of trade and civilization; and
as this is also the prevailing sentiment iv England, the right of suffrage, and other civil and
we presume the finest and most intelligent race in the political rights, without regard to his propSouth Pacific—a race capable of a high grade of civilization—is doomed to extinction.— Exchangepaper. erty qualifications. He was treated as a
The sbove paragraph presents a most un- man, and we fail to see any bad results from
desirable state of civil, social and political such treatment.
3. Foreigners have not only been permitaffairs in another part of Polynesia. In his
habits, customs, character, language and ted or tolerated in the country, but allowed
manner of life the New Zealander strikingly to own land and enjoy the same civil rights
resembles his Hawaiian cousin. He belongs as the natives of the soil. There has been
to the same family group with the Samoan, political, religious and civil equality.
Tahitian, Marquesan and Hawaiian. His
We might also refer to the general diffudoom appears to be sealed, but he says: "If sion of knowledge—establishment of schools
I must go to the wall, I'll go facing my ene- and of churches. We arc not unmindful
mies, with weapons in my hands." It would of the principle enunciated by Kamehameha
appear that there are those in England who 111., which has become the national motto
strongly protest against the treatment which "Ua mau ke ea oka aina i pono." (The
the New Zealander is receiving from the life of the land is perpetuated by righteousness, or through right.)
British Government.
In closing our remarks, we would merely
We desire our readers to survey carefully
the state of the aboriginal Polynesian races refer to one other fact lhat has had a strong
in New Zealand, Fejeean, Samoan, Tongan, conservative influence. American MissionTahitian and Hawaiian islands. Note this aries have always felt that the benign infa:t, that in no part of all the widely ex- fluence of Christianity among Hawaiians
tended regions of Polynesia does the Anglo- would be most happily carried out by the
Saxon take off his /tat to an aboriginal Chief perpetuation of Hawaiian Independence.
except upon Hawaiian soil. This is a most This idea has been embodied in their consignificant fact. Now it is well worthy of stant prayers to heaven for this people. It is
the thoughtful reader's attention to stop a not for man to say how far Hawaiian Indemoment and enquire into the reasons for this pendence may be in answer to prayer, acremarkable fact—singular political phenom- companied by the earnest efforts of the friends
enon! Here, where Americans—Republican of this people. In view of all these facts,
and Democratic Americans—have settled as how superlatively absurd for the Hawaiian
Missionaries and merchants, planters and Consul —Mr. Hopkins—in London, or the
mechanics, here the aboriginal race is pro- Bishop of Oxford, or any other Bishop, to
tected and secured in its rights; whereas, in proclaim the American Mission to these
other parts of Polynesia, where European islands a failure." Hawaiian Independ"
Missionaries and settlers have taken up their ence is, undoubtedly, one of its results.
abode, the native ofthe soil is told in the lanThis is a subject which is yet to attract,
of the London Times, that he belongs more and more, the attention of thoughtful
■n inferior race and must retire, if
un- minds. /The Hawaiian nation is great bypohng, then by force—" vi et armis."
sition. Our islands arc a most favored part of
Pereous unacquainted with Hawaiian his- the world. Hitherto different races have
THE FRIEND,
Tory are not aware how
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1866.
here dwelt together in peace and harmony.
We shall continue to do so, in our confident
belief, if we continue to treat man as man,
irrespective of color or nice ; but a war will
come when the wicked doctrines of the London Times are allowed to prevail, and the
Anglo-Saxon is allowed to disp'ace an inferior
race in the interests of trade and civilization.
"Our foreign people wish me to continue to
preach to them. Can I bear tho strain ? I can do
all things through Christ." Ac.
We copy the foregoing paragraph from a
letter recently received from a Missionary,
located at one of those stations on the island;,
where the foreign population is upon the increase. We know that Missionaries are always ready to assist in keeping up religious
services in English, but, having large parish-_
es, the tax is somewhat onerous. The question
arises, has not the time fully come for Sugar
Planters and others, residing at Wailuku,
Hilo, Kona, Hanalei, and perhaps elsewhere,
to take up the subject in serious earnest to
supply English preachers for the growing
population? Such enterprises will require
an outlay of funds at the beginning, and then
need to be constantly fostered and supported.
We believe the Hawaiian Evangelical Association would readily assist in enterprises of
this nature, but the well disposed monied
men at those localities ought to take the initiative steps and come forward with liberal subscriptions, accompanying such subscriptions
with pledges of what they are willing to do
in the future. Now is the time for those
looking to the future welfare of the foreign
population of these islands, to " devise liberal things," and act out a true-hearted generosity. No, we will not denominate the
support of the gospel and gospel ministry a
generosity, it is#a solemn duty devolving
upon those who look to the welfare of the
community and the interests of religion.
Large property holders should realize that
they have more than an individual responsibility in this matter. Now is the time to
consider the subject and act accordingly.
All may help in promoting it. In the meantime, where there are even a few foreigner! l,
let them come together and hold religious,
services upon the Sabbath.
New "Morning Star."—Letters received
from the Mission House, Boston, per Ajax,
announce that this vessel will not be ready
for sailing until on or about the Ist of October. This, however, will afford her a favorable season for doubling Cape Horn. The
Missionary Society is authorized to charter
a vessel, if necessary, to visit the Mission
Stations in Micronesia.
Donation.—In our last issue the Bethel
was reported in debt, $29 62. A friend
(S. P.) has forwarded $30 to liquidate the
same. Many thank*.
�I II I.
The Pacific Cod-Fishery.
generally known that fishing grounds have been discovered in the
Pacific quite as extensive, and, if anything,
more prolific and inexhaustible than those on
the Banks of Newfoundland. But such is
the fact, and to Captain Mathew Turner is
due the credit of inaugurating the lucrative
trade which now flourishes between these
It
is
not as yet
-
1866.
rßinii. FEBRUARY,
Most Inexcusable Ignorance.
•' Look on
thin picture, then on thut.
'—
Shakespeare.
The following remarks were made by the
Bishop of Oxford at " one of the largest and
most fashionable audiences that has ever assembled at the Victoria Hall, in Leeds,
England —Queen Emma, Rev. J. Hoapili,
and many dignitaries of the Church being
'
rjresent:
/ "The means of livelihood in these (the
Hawaiian Islands) distant islands arc abundant, but then life is supported almost upon
nothing. The mere growth of a single plant
is enough to maintain a man in all that is
necessary for his physical wants. It is with
them as we might expect it would be ; they
have a very poor country. They did export
the native grown sandal wood, but the sandal forests have been almost entirely cut
down, and there is no exports now. Since
the cessation of that trade there has been
next to no export, and, therefore, next to no
imported wealth in the islands. They are,
therefore, as far as regards silver and gold
and the like, a poor people, and they cannot
raise a sufficient sum of money at home to
build their first Churches, and to plant among
their people the first Missionaries of our
Christian faith. Therefore, we must send
them the help if the work is to be done."
Having read the foregoing, we desire our
readers will peruse with care the following
grounds and San Francisco. In the spring
of 1863, Capt. Turner, in the brig Timandra,
made an experimental trip in search of codfish, and, although only partially prepared, he
met with sufficient success to induce him,
the next season, to fit himself out with everything necessary for entering into the business
in a regular way. This time his success
was complete. He filled his vessel, taking
more than one hundred tons of fish, which
brought from 12 to 16cents per pound in the
San Francisco market. Two other vessels
were fitted out at the same time, but did not
succeed in finding the right spot, and returned with a few tons only. Last season,
however, seven vessels were fitted out from
San Francisco. They sailed from that port
about the last of April, and returned during
the month of September—every one full.
Their united cargoes amounted to at least statistics:
five hundred tons, and, at the price averaged
From the last issue of the government
(12 cents per pound), would bring, in round paper, the Hawaiian Gazette, published Satnumbers, $120,000. The minimum price,
urday, Jan 27th, we copy the following stawhen all the vessels were in port, was 11 tistics relating to the imports and exports for
cents per pound ; and when the Smyrniote ;1865:
left San Francisco, about six weeks ago, the
IMPORTS.
faliic of goods having paid duly. - $1,220,937 77
price had advanced again to 13 cents, and It
Honolulu goods in bond, 489,964 d9
the probability is that the fish will all be Lt Honolulu imported free of duty.- 204,997 14
Honolulu imp'd at I.alumni duty
consumed long before the next season's catch Itpaid,
2,542 22
arrive,
not
a
has
been
Lt
Honolulu
although
pound
1,946 70
imp'd at Lahaina tree.
shall
Lt Honolulu Imp'd at Hilo dntyp'd,
11.391 18
seen,
be
Thus,
it
that
alwill
exported.
It Honolulu imp'd at Hilo free,
3.963 .VI
M N
though the fleet in this trade be doubled, or Lt Honolulu imp'd at Kinvailutcp'd.
Kawaihae live
MM 87
even trebled, there will still be a market for Lt Honolulu imp'd at
all, and for a long time the business must be
Total.
Sl,946.26;> 68
jast year total imports were in value
1.712,241 (17
one of extraordinary profit to those engaged
-
in it.
Showing an excess over last year of
$234.024
01
BXFORTB.
The Pacific codfish arc of an excellent
Value foreign goods exported,
• 5 287.04;> 73
sweet
—and
without
—fresh
and
the
quality
Value domestic goods exported. - 1.130.211 82
offensive odor of the Eastern fish which Value domestic goods furnished as
supplies,
fl 1,000 00
have made the voyage around the Horn,
Total.
$1,808,157 id
and a great many of which are of a very uncertain age when shipped. We speak ad- j HAL AM> KMONAL PBOreBTT til HAWAIIAN KIKODOJf.
real estate.
no
- m.:s:i:j..->82
visedly with regard to the quality of the Total
Total personal property, :S.li<!3.122 00
is
several
fish,
for,
it
years
although
Pacific
Total,
- S7.996.701 III)
since we met our friend Capt. Turner, he has
The Custom House receipts for 1865 were
sent us a package of them, for which we
would here take occasion to thank him 5192,5«6 63.
and to assure him that, although we ■ are
Aside from all sectarian and religious
much pleased at the receipt of it, the thought considerations, we do think His Majesty
that he bears us in remembrance is still more should instruct the proper officers of his
gratifying.
Kingdom to furnish the Hawaiian Consul in
of
distribution
The
London with a truthful statement respecting
gratuitous
For
Gelett,
Rev.
the financial condition of this Kingdom, and
$10;
T.
From
Capt.
Friend :
Coan, $5 ; Mrs. Sinclair,of Niihau,sS, and that he be instructed to cause the same to be
I published in the leading papers of England.
1 Hcninrwrll Estl Boiloil. $10.
13
It is most lamentable that a Bishop of the
Church of England should appear before the
English people with such barefaced misrepresentations. If we should know an American Bishop or clergyman to be guilty of such
flagrant departures from facts and figures,
in appealing for funds, we should say that
he should be silenced instanter and deposed
from the ministry.
In conclusion, we would merely add that,
poor as Hawaiians may be, they have built,
during the last quarter of a century, Church
edifices the estimated value of which is from
$150,000 to $200,000. These-are exclusive
of Catholic Churches and Chapels. But it
is utterly useless to argue this point with
our readers.
Sale of Mr. Wyllie's Library.—The
sale of about one thousand volumes of this
valuable library took place at Cole's Auction
Room, on the evening of the 23d ult. The
books sold at fair prices, and some quite high.
The total amount realized was about $1,300.
Most of the books, we nre glad to know, arc
scattered abroad among foreigners on tho
islands. Some have regretted that the library should be scattered, but it speaks well
for our community that these books are distributed and to be read by many more than
would ever have perused them had they remained together. Our people read and prize
good books. We are of the opinion that
there is as much reading among the foreign
community here as among the same number
of people in any other part of the world.
Books, we also are of opinion, are the very
cheapest ornamental furniture with which
any one can adorn his house. Good and
substantial furniture, with plenty of books,
furnish a dwelling far more elegantly than
costly furniture and no books—except a few
yellow covered novels! Children had better
spend their money for books than toys and
candy ; young men had far better dispense
with wine and segars than with a good library, while good books and old age are most
admirable companions.
Musical Concert.—Just as our paper was
going to press we noticed hand billsannouncing that Madame Bishop would give a grand
concert at the Court House. We need not
commend to the people of Honolulu the musical talents of this lady —so well and favorably known in Europe and America. We
think " the lovers of song," by patronizing
her concert, will be amply repaid.
Books Missing.—Guthrie's Sermons on
Ezekiel; Hawaiian Islands, by Miss Anderson j General Miller's Memoirs, 2d volume
—from the library of Mr. Wyllie. Any
person having these books in their possession
�TII X IRI X N I), Fi:BRI A R Y
14
|Colicla<Ml from psffr ll]
In the day time the atmosphere, for thousands of square miles, would be filled with a
murky hHze, through which the sunbeams
shed a pale and sickly light. Smoke, steam,
gases, ashes, cinders—furnace and capillary
or filamentous vitrifactions called I'ele's
hair—floated in the uir, sometimes spreading
out like a fan, sometimes careering in sw,lt
currents upon the wind, or gyrating in everehanging colors in the fitful breezes.
The point from which the lire-fountain issued is 10,000 feet above the level of the sea,
thus making the igneous pillar :i distinct object of observation along 'the whole eastern
coast of Hawaii.
During the eruption the writer made an
excursion to its source. After three days of
hard' struggle in the jungle and over fields,
ridges and hills of bristling scoria, he arrived
near sunset at the scene of action. All night
long ho stood as near to the glowing pillar as
the vehement heat would allow, listening to
the startling explosions and the awful roar of
the molten column as it rushed upwards a
thousand feet and fell back in a fiery avalanche which made the mountain tremble.
It was such a scene as few mortals ever witnessed. There was no sleep for the spectator. The fierce, red glare, the subterranean
mutterings and strugglings, the rapid explosions of gases, the rush and roar, the sudden
and startling bursts as of crashing thunder
—all, all were awe-inspiring, and all combined to render the scene one of indescribable brilliancy and of terrible sublimity.
The'river of fire from this fountain flowed
about thirty-five miles and stopped within
ten miles of Hilo. Had the fountain played
twenty days longer it would, probably, have
reached the shore.
Eruption
»< Minima Lost, Annual. 18ftS.
This eruption, though less noisy and demonstrative than the former, exceeded in magnitude and duration any eruption during the
present generation.
The stream, including its windings, maybe sixty miles long and varying in oreadth
from one to three miles. The depth of the
deposits is, of course, unequal, ranging from
five to two hundred feet. The point of
eruption is about 12,000feet high, and neurly
mid-way between the eruptions of 1843 and
1852. The stream mil nearly parallel with
that of 1852, and in some places not more
than two or three miles from it. The fusia
issued from immense rents near the summit
of the mountain and extending far several
miles down its north-eastern slope. The
duration of the eruption wus fifteen months.
The igneous matter was first vomited upon
the surface of the mountain, whence it rushed rapidly down to the plains and forests below. At length, as in other eruptions, the
surface of the stream solidified, forming ■
covering and protection to the fusia which,
like a river frozen over, continued to flow
beneath.
The writer visited this eruption some
twenty times, exploring it all the way from
its high source on the mountain to its terminus, five miles from the shores of Hilo.
He spent days and nights on the refrigerated
part of its surface and along its irregular
margins ; noting its progress through a dense
forest of twenty-five miles—boiling his teakettle and toasting bread and ham over its
,
18 66.
mineral (ires. I once spent a cold and rainy times immense boulders, EprUssded with
night on its margin without shelter, warm- chrysolites, are raised from unknown depths
ing myself by its beat, and watching its open and deposited in heaps and ridges upon tli'"
channels, its boiling pools, its jots and its la- cooled surface of a lava stream. These are
teral and vertical gushing of fusia until morn- very cotnpnet, as if cooled under great presing. In my position 1 could command n sure. Some of them have a metallic apview of ten square miles of the river, witness pearance and give out a ringing sound when
its thousand thousand glowing points of struck with the hammer.
The volcanic caverns abound with beautifusia, listen to the sound of fulling trees and
see numerous bonfires ol consuming forest ful and multiform stalactites and stalagmites
—often tubular and vermiform, sometimes
and jungle.
On other occasions 1 would sit all night ferruginous in appearance and often iiic-riistgazing upon the molten stream ;is it pushed ed with the most delicate crystalline salts.
Pumice of an imperfect character is proits way down some deep and precipitous
water channel, leaping down cataracts, plung- duced in moderate quantities. Obsidian is
ing into deep basins of water from twenty to sometimes found. Vitresceut filaments, callforty feet deep, throwing the aqueous flood ed Pele's hair, are abundant. This hair-lik<into intense ebullition and sending it all up substance is spun by the shivering of melted
in fleecy wreaths of vapor towards heaven. lava ejected suddenly into the air or thrown
Some of those scenes were of indescribable against the craggy walls of the volcano.
interest, and, as the burning stream ap- Some of these capilliform vitriftietions inea.proached to ten and five miles of Hilo, mul- ure a yard in length, but the more common
titudes of people visited it. For fifteen long measure from four to six inches. It hangs
months the inhabitants of this town watched in masses and festoons from the crags of the
with deepening interest the progress of the craters like swingling-tow around a flaxdevouring flood. Its course was direct for
the town and harbor, and its breadth insured
the burial of both should its steady and relentless progress not be arrested.
Mercifully the fusia ceased to progress
seaward when only five miles from the shore,
and, although the great terminal fountain
continued to send down its burning floods,
the lava was so obstructed in its long
course as to be thrown out laterally and vertically and deposited in heaps and ridges
and capes along the flow, without reaching
its terminus. Thus Hilo was saved from a
fiery tomb, and we were culled upon to render thanks to the Lord for this merciful de-
liverance.
Eruption of January, INSII.
dresser's barn. Some of the filaments are.
exceedingly fine and light, and they are often floated in the atmosphere and carried in
currents of wind to the distance of ono hundred miles.
Of salts, sulphur and sulphate of lime arc
most abundant.
Sulphate of alumina, of
ammonia and of copper arc found in moderate
quantities.
Chloride of sodium and glauhcr salts are
found in caves. Oxyde of iron is abundant.
Of copper less. Silicious deposits are sometimes found.
The foregoing is a very incomplete history
of Hawaiian volcanoes during the last fortytwo years. Many other eruptions of lesser
note have occurred during this period, but
the limits of this article exclude them.
This is the latest outburst from our great
Or the Eruption*
volcanic mountain. The first point of this Noticed in this pfiper, B mere epitome has
eruption was high on the northern part of been given. An extended and full presentathe mountain, and northwest from the three tion of the facts would require a volume of
last named eruptions. At first the lava several huudred pages.
flowed north and was seen on tbe eastern and
Hilo, Hawaii, Bth Sept., 1886,
northeastern shores of Hawaii. Soon, however, this upper furnace ceased its subaenal
action, and the igneous stream passed down
in subterranean channels, opening fissures
on the northwestern slope iind descending
rapidly to the sea in North Kona, reaching
the shore in eight days.
The scenes witnessed in this flow were
vivid and thrilling. The igneous stream
Igaped precipices, rushed along tunnels,
sometimes on the surface and now and then
.spouting up jets of great beauty and brilliancy. The eruption was quite accessible
and it was visited by large and numerous
parties of ladies and gentlemen, lt lias also
been so often described in public papers that
a narrative on our part would be superfluous.
ProilnclM of lliiwiiilnn Volriinoc..
Of theso I need say only a word. The
lava, minerals and stilts have ban examined,
analysed and described by Professors Dana,
Silliman, and many other savans. Most of
the deposits of our eruptions consist of palioehoe—a comparatively smooth lava, either
compact or'vesicular and cellular—and aa,
an exceedingly rough and pointed slag. The
rocks forming the outer walls of our craters
are basaltic, and often very compact. Some-
Almost daily we are applied to for information
formation respecting seamen and others who
have Wandered away from home and will not
keep their friends and relatives informed of
their whereabouts, As an incentive to urge
upon all such wandering rovers, upon land
and MB, the importance of keeping their
friends posted up, we Would state the fact
that, baring succeeded in opening up communication between one such arid bis friends,
it affords us pleasure to inform bin that "an
estate worth, at least, $10,000," awaits bis
return. He litis been absent some fourteen
years. The Friend found nut this man.
Now we would earnestly entreat all teamen
and others, absent from home, not to fail in
writing every time they visit Honolulu, or
any port where they can send letters. At
the Sailors' Home you will find " pens, ink
and paper," gratis, and if you have no money
to pay the postage, come and we will furniih
stamps.
�mm; iv I
I■; ,\
l), rRIRI A R V,
ADVERTISEMENTS.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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fin.,.l, nedr Uss Eillßia' bmbbw. rc.n. hing at II A. M.
J. B. iTUrfll-'V
MM •. tOOtti
y,i, FrSB
BatßlßsSfl IewSEJ itft-T tie- In.irinlig servii**. AMI N. CA-ITI.K.
Prayer meeting ..el Wc.ln-rtd.-iy sveningfl :it 7<i o'clock.
CASTLE
&
U.S. laßßsth Sahsal or Bible Class f'.r MrsßsrS at 0)
QtMtftl MtTflitinU in Mo- Kir<-].n»>f ftsM, Kinp Strrrot, r>|>,MV
cluck I iI.ImCIi EtSEaBBf.
nitr tin' S Jtniril'i Chllp' I
FORT ITeVSR C'FII 111 ll—Corner of Fort and Bi-rrlauia
Ai.so ai;kms for
strc.-t-i~U.-v. X, I'urwin PaasOC. IV. .u't.ini.* no tnici.i cy* :it
Dr. .luync'* (Vlfhr:ii'-'l t'-unily M''«lirin««,
II A. M.:in.i 7! P. K. eWibbse Ist I cit 10 A. M.
Wlk.-i.t a- Wlboa*. to*In* Mrit-liiiM's,
■TOlvl iMirili'il-Kin ? street, sbshbi bee Pslsbb Isv. 11. B.
TbC K'-lillti Ni.'iir *'"in|..niy.
I'lrk.r Fastor. eVrvkssi m Bawaltso. every SnßsSs/at tj
The New Buflaod Mntiiril Lift Insunince Cum,-any,
A. 11, unci:; p, 11.
Tins N'-v sfort. lMiiiii\ .Marini' [iMWMM i'mnpany.
CATIIOI.U: ('II tlllCll—Fort street, Mag Heretaiiin—under
Tin- V-w York Sri unly .Murini' Itisiirunct: Coinpuny.
of lv. Bar. Bhksa Hsurrst, ssslwes by Hot,
603-ly
tbscbarfc
Plans t-'.iiehr,. Ivice. cv. ry Sun.l.iy ..t 10 A.M. uml I'M.
FMITII'jJ CIIL'KCII lleret.mia street, near Nuncum street—
Itev. Lowell ifnnih Pattor. bWtbbel in Hawaiian every
y.au lay ot 10 A. M. and
2J P. M.
RtFOSMSO CATHOLIC ClU'llOH—Corner of Kilkul and
AGENTS* lOR
Noaaon streets, aadar idusrfß of lv. li.v. IvtEwop Bulbf,
asiiMte.l by Itev. Meisri. ll.botß.tn, IsalEtgbsr and Hiking- •
tea. Knijlish service every ScuM at 11 A. M. and 7*
P M.
SAILOR'S HOME!
COOKE,
~
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—
tons
EBBSWBESBEBESG
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Wt—JlßmrwHl offlßni|li'lllllllffiFll'llllllCl ffiF
COOKE,
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BBSBI
Wheeler & Wilson's
~-
SEWING MACHINES!
ADVERTISEaVCEIs'TS.
11. «'. SKVKRANI
*
CASTLE
15
186 |.
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aMATIIIXE HAS AM.THK [aATIWT j
I riMUS
wan j OflioorH'
ft iin|>Hivi'itinit:i, mill, hi
X,
A.XJ aTlONiam*..
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
'
:i,Milinu to former i-n-QiiuuiH,
tulilo,
prlM iii»<ivp all KumjuMii ami American
iiwfliilid
Sewing Mfirhiuertntthf World-i KxhiMUon in I'AKltf In 1861, jjSeaineuß' ilo.
uml al tin' Exhibition in London hi iv.:
.'lie evidence of the superiority <>f 11*.-*>Murium' il I im«l in th**
rword at lv Halon. In 1861—
quekn mm, Honolulu.
Tin- OfOfff k Uaki'r OompMiy. ■taton,
477-ly
Will continuebusiness at the new stand,
The Florence Coaipaiiy, Musaacliu'wUi.
The l'urkrr Ciiiiipaiiy, ('..niieoUai.,
.1. M. Singer if Cn., New York,
J. 11. COLE,
Kiuklr k Lyon,
"
AUOTIONBEH,
Chan. W. Howlinid, ,>elnwaT'\
(f;cc!Ci:S.-COR TO A. P. KVKKRTT.)
Jfc Co., t'itichniiiti, 0..
M.
476-ly
N.S. C. IVrkitiP, Norwalk, 0.,
Al his Isle rnoins, Quern Street.
WttMQ H. Smith. Connecticut,
old 18,5f10, whilntthi) Wheeler -V Wilvhi Company, or Bridge
i>ft. J. JIOTT SMITH,
niatle
and sold 19,726 during the •ame period.
ort,
DUIVTIST.
] ,' I'lniNi* •trail nll I Kxiniilnr.
11 (I
469-ly
i)IH.» mtSMT of Fort und Hotel Streets.
Fire-proof Store, Roliinxon's Kiiiliiiiie,
"
with lodging, per week,.
86
6
do.
do.
do.
Shower llntlis on tin- Premises.
Mr. mill Mrs. MM.I.Kit,
Honolulu, April I, 1866.
Managers.
W. A. AILRICH.
Commission Merchant
AID
-f^uQtioiieers,
PHYSICIAN fc SURGEON,
HILO, HAWAII, S. I.
MM and 300 Calltornla Street,
CEO. W. VOLLUM,
BOOK-BINDER,
C. 11. WETMORE, M. D.
SA.N I IS V\< IM O.
ALSO, AOKNTS OF TUB
Sail Francisco k Honolulu Packet**.
REMOVED TO THE LARGE
building In Merchant Btrcct, opposite the Sailor's Home,
is prepared to execute all ordsJ.) for binding
ItlioKs, Plimphlcts,
HAVING
N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the
HILO DIMTf; STORE.
6-tf
JOBS MCBACBEE.
ALDRICH, MERRILL <V Co.,
I tEMOVAL!
E. HOFFMANN, M. I).,
Physician and Surgeon, Makec'sBlock, corner Queen and Kaa
478-ly
humanu streets.
J. C. MKEEILL,
Particular attention given to the sale and purchaie of aer
ehanillse, ships' business, supplying whaleships, negotiating
exchange. Ac.
I,- All freight arriving at San Francisco, by or to the Ho
nolulu Line of Packets, will be forwarJcd rass or commission.
O* Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold. XH
Ac, Ac.
—EErBBEEOBS—
Attorney nnd Counsellor nt law.
Orders from the other Islands should be accompanied with Messrs. C. Is RiciusDS A Co.,
Honolulu
OAIIU
COUNKII FORT and MERCHANT St., HONOLULU,
particular directions in to the style, and If the work is to
•|
II Hacepeld A Co.,
490-ly
sample
volume
should
be
bound,
match volumes previously
a
C
Bbewer
0.,,
C
If
'-ft
sent Willi the job.
Bishop A Co
m
Dr. R. W. Wood,
BKOOES, W. FKANE LADD, EDWAHD I. nAI.I.,Ja.
DBAS.
WOLCOTT
Mechanic*
Importer and Dealer in llamhwahk, Cijtlebt,
Hon. K. 11. ALI.EM,
Thou and Aukioultcbal Implements, For street, llono
DC. WatkeMAK, Esq.,
478-ly
490-ly
lulu.
A. F. JUDD,
G tf
Newspapers, Music,
Old Books,
"
W. N. LADD.
"
CUAS. W. BROOKS k CO.,
CO.,O.'iieral
C. L. RICHARDS &dealers
in
Chandlers ami Commission Merchants,
Mwilhllsillßw> EMS constantly on hand a full assortment
of merchandise, for the supply of Whalers and Merchant
vessels.
400-ly^
fltip
JOHN THOS. WATERHOUSE,
Importer and Dealer in General Merchandise. Honolulu, 11. I
—RMKKISCBs—
SHIPPING AND
BIBLE, BOOKand TRACT DEPOSITORY.
SAILOR'S HOME,
AND TRACTS, in the
French, Portuguese, German, Welsh, Swedish and Spanish languages. These books are
the Hawaiian Bible and
cost
for sale,
Tract Societies, but
Commission Merchants. BIBLES, BOOKS HONOLULU. English,
offered
prioos, by
at
PACKET
UNE
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The following lines accidentally fell
under our observation in the cabin of the
Lancaster, when Captain Davenport informed us that he found them while overhauling
the baggage of the pimtes whom he captured
at Panama. It will be recollected that the
pirates were prepared, under a commission
from the "Confederate" government, to fit
out privateers in the Pacific. They were
taken to San Francisco, and were there tried
and sentenced to be hung, but that sentence
was subsequently commuted to imprisonment.
The leader of the gang is in
prison for life. Captain Davenport represents him as a well educated man. The
original of these lines was found hanging on
a case of skeletons, at the Royal College,
London:
Linos on a Skeleton.
Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull
Once of ethereal spirit full,
This narrow cell was life's retreat:
This space was thought's mysterious seat.
What beauteous visions filled this spot,
What dreams of pleasure long forgot.
Nor hope, nor joy. nor love, nor fear
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this mouldering canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye:
But start not at the dismal void—
If social love that eye employed.
If with a lawless fire it gleamed.
But through the dews of kindness beamed,
That eye shall be forever bright
When stars and seas are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern bung
Tbe ready, swift and tuneful tongue.
If falsehood's honey it disdained,
And when It could not praise was chained,
If bold in virtue's cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke:
This silent tongue shall plead for thee
When time unveils eternity.
Say, did these fingers delve the mine!
Or with the envied rubies shine?
To hew the rock or wear the gem
Can little now avail to them.
But if the page of truth they sought.
Or comfort to the mourner brought:
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
San Francisco "Call."
the passengers by the Ajax came one
of the founders and chief editorof that lively
sheet. We learn from him that he expects
to spend a few months on the islands. We
hope he may find his sojourn agreeable, and
may the readers of the Call be enlightened
by his communications from our shores.
of the
I V , 186 «.
The Ajax.—The long looked for steamer
arrived Saturday, January 27th, having made
the passnge from San Francisco in fourteen
days. During her passage she experienced
a severe gale and constant head winds, which
accouuts for her long passage. The clipper
ship Blue Jacket made the passage a few
days previously in ten days. The Ajax is
now discharging her cargo, and is advertised
to sail on the 10th. Nearly all the staterooms, we learn, are already engaged. The
arrival of this steamer has essentially quickened the pulse of life in Honolulu, and
should a line become permanently established, we may expect the tide of Hawaiian life
will flow much more rapidly.
Photography.—Mr. Chase has removed
his establishment to the rooms lately occupied by the Messrs. Weed. It is a fine location, and fitted up with much taste and expense. May his success correspond to his
liberal outlay. The old stand of Mr. Chase
has already an occupant, Mr. Burgess, whose
Married.—The reading public
Dec. 31—Danish brig- Carl Ludwlg, Callson, Hdays from _F.
Jan. 2—Russian hark Nahinoff, Archlraauilriftoft, 34 days
from Sitka, with salmon to Hackfeld A Co.
3—Am brig W. D. Rice, Buddington, from San Fran
ciaco, via Ililo.
7—Hnw'n brig W. C. Talbot,Dallmann. fm Howland's I
7—Am clip ship Blue Jacket, Dillingham, 14 dys fm S. F
Vl— Bremen bark Dodo, Heustman, 80 days from Newcastle, with a cargo of coal, en route for San
Francisco, put in for provisions and water.
U.
19— 8. 8. Lancaster, Pearson, 80 guns, from Hilo.
27—Am stmr Ajax, Godfrey, 14 days from S. Francisco.
"Ike"
is
have long been acquainted with this member
of the Partington family. A sister of " Ike "
is now upon a visit to our shores, and makes
known this item of domestic news. We
are also glad to learn that Mrs. P. is still a
member of the corps of editors whose brilliant and witty paragraphs have so long rendered the Boston Evening Gazette a favorite
with the reading public.
specimen photographs exhibit much artistic
skill and taste.
MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVALS.
PASSENGERS.
C. Murray, Jan. 3—Mrs McForHull, Mr C Cooks, Capt T Long.
Julian, Chas X Smith, Capt B PinParker.
Jones,
Mr
H
L
A
Hawaiian Antiquities.—We are glad to nex, B Frank Bolles, C Louis, Mr Spencer, J 8 Trimble, U
T Carr, F Hout, T Alback—lB.
learn from the Rev. L. Andrews, author of Webster,
From San Fbancisco—per Blue Jackrt, Jan. 7—Mr and Mrs
and child, Mr and Mrs Fowler, Mrs Bailey. C H Bailey,
the Dictionary, that he is now engaged in Bolten
Mr Sissons, Mr Low, Mr Richardson; Mr Sourof, Mr Congden,
translating and elaborating a work upon the C C Lapman, Doutherland, II W Potter, Mr Wheelsck—l6.
For San Kbaxcisco—per Whistler. Jan. 22—Henry Hayrr,
antiquities of the Hawaiian people. The Wiegard,
Jas Wilson, C 11 King, J West, Shalarbaum—6.
translation is from the original manuscripts For New Abcbasoel—per Nahinoff, Jim. 25—Geo Uiggins.
of the late Rev. David Malo, of Lahaina.
From San Fbaecisco—per Ajax, Jan. 27—Capt W H Moore
family, Mrs. H T Whitney, Miss M R Audubon, B C Horn
Mr. Malo has been styled the John Locke— and
and wife, Rev Geo B Whipple and wife, Clara Workonanic,
Bishop Shultz, Mr Shultz, Mils Phealan, C
the philosopher—of this people. He was Madame Anna
Lewis Leland, Asa D Nndd Joseph Farwell, F 8
really a learned man in Hawaiian history Laicellcs,
Wood, J W Grifnn, Dr J W Alsop, Jr., Chai Crowtll, W II
VanReed, Klssassboro, John Oreenwald, Capt
and antiquities. We hope, at a future time, Bailey, Eugene
J J Ayers, Mrs
R S Frits and servant, Col JamesW Bicknell, Kuler,
Geo E C
to present extracts to our readers.
Mrs
L Wood, Chss Buckner, Mr
Reese,
AB
llluyas, Dr Chas Spear, Jacob Stelninao anil arriant. Dr Frank
Spaulding, II D Dunn, Albert E Massi-y. H A Benjamin, W
MARRIED.
A Oilman, Ed Hoflschlaeger and acrvant, G C Filch, X H
Arthur, J B Lynde, James Spruance, Bam'l Drury, JumesSatLewis—Kai-ena—ln Honolulu, Dec. 31st, 1865, by Rev. 8 terlee, 8 A Wood, M R Evans, and 14 others.
C. Damon, Mr. John G. Lewis of Honolulu, to Amelia Kalcna,
ot Kohala, Hawaii.
Information Wanted,
Lyman—Bbicewood—ln Honolulu, January Bth, at the resRespecting John M. ./action, aged 24 yeara ; light hair and
inence of thebride's rather, A. P. Brickwood, Esq by the Rev.
BrickA.
to
Lyman
eyea.
Kufus
Miss
Rebecca
He
ia a native of Clarksville, Red River County,
A.
gray
8. C. Damon. Mr.
wood. D" No Cards.
Texas. He left home In April, 1860. He ia reported to hare
theSandwich
Islands, in company with one K. J. Reyvisited
nolds. Any information will be moat gladly received by the
DIED.
Editor, or the Postmaster in Honolulu, or the young man's
brother, R. 11. Jackson, Clarksville, Texas, care of K. Marque:
Bibcock—ln Honolulu, Sabbath afternoon, January 21st, & Co.,Ne ■- Orleans, La.
She
Annie Kllaa Baboock, aged 8 yeara 2 monthsand 16 days. upon
Respecting John Bingham and Thoma*Bint/ham, reported
was the daughter of Capt. W. H. Babcook. In reßectii
been lo°t while attached to the American schooner or
the death of this charming child the lines of Dickens rise to to have
brlr T <' ~.»o reported to have been lost, about the year 1848
mind :
or 1849, while on her trip from San Francisco to the Islands, or
Oh ! it Is hard to take to heart
The lessons thatsuch deaths will teach,on her passage from Honolulu to Lahaina. Any information
But let no man regret it,
will be gladly received by the Editor, or John Bingham, Esq.,
at Adams' Express Co.. Philadelphia.
For It is one that all must learn.
And is a mighty, universal Truth.
When,death strikes down theinnocent and young.
For every fragile form from which he lets
The parting spirit free
A hundred virtues rise.
dt> VISITE;
In shapes of mercy, charity and love,
LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS;
To walk the world and bless it.
Of every tear
COPYING AND ENLARGING;
That sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves.
RETOUCHING <lor- its ihr beat uiniinrt.
Some good is born, some gentler nature cured.
and on the moat reasonable terms.
Purr—Of consumption, January°th, at the residence of his
Also for saleJPhotographs of the Craters Kilxuen and
brother, F. 8. Pratt, Tasker S. Pratt, Esq., aged 32 years. The llnlrnknln, and other Island SceDes; the KINDS KAM X
deceased had been residing for several years in San Francisco, lIKMEHA, &c.,«yc.
and he came to theislands hoping that a change of climate
would operate favorably. His funeral was numerously attended
on the Sabbath afternoon following his death
B. L. CIIASR.
Ccminqs—Capt. Preston Cumlngs disappeared from Honop. s —Having purchased the Portrait Negatives from Mr.
lulu, January 6th, and on Thursday of the following week his
remains were found in a mountain gorge or ravine in rear of Weed, duplicate copiea can be had by those persona wishiug
Punchbowl. He is supposed to have committed suicide. He for the same.
505-2 m H. I- (..
left a nativewife at the place of bis residence at Kealakekua,
Hawaii, wherehe has resided forabout flfteen years, and accumulated considerable property, haviag been engaged in mer<fc CONWAY,
cantile pursuits.
KAWAIHAB. HAWAII,
HiomtAS) —Capt. JacobUeustman, matter of the German
the Oenera Merchandise and Shipping business
hark Dodo, committed suicide on the plain east of Honolulu, Will contlnae
at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish UnJanuary 16th. His mind la reported to have given signs of
Kawalhae Potatoes, and such other re
justly
celebrated
Insanity before arriving in port.
cruits aa are required by whale ships at the shortestnotice
WABXEKJra—II. Warneken was drowned in the harbor of
47Srly
terms.
reasonable
body
but
his
was
not
and
on
the
moat
Honolulu, Saturday nlgbt, January lath,
recovered until the 16th. He was a blacksmith on board the
whaleship Julian.Capt. Lubbers.
For Ban Fbaxcisco—per D.
resl and daughter. Capt Jas T
,
Avails it whether bare or shod,
These feet the paths of duty trod 1
If from the bowers of ease they fled,
To seek affliction's bumble shed.
If Grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to nature's cot returned:
These feet with angels' wings shall vie,
And tread the palace of the sky.
Akontmods.
Editor
_IBRt A
—Among
By the Ajax arrived H. D. Dunn,
Esq., connected with the Bulletin, of San
Francisco. He visited our islands some
ye»» »go. We extend to him a cordial
welcome, feeling assured that his « notes
"
on the islands will be reliable.
,
"photographs.
CARTES
At the Gallery on Port Street.
ALLEN
FIRE WOOD ON HAND.
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FRIEND
THE
HONOLULU. MARCH 1, 1866.
$.tto t%nmt 9A.\7, $<r. 3.}
CONTESTS
For March, 18(10.
Kisaboro, the Japanese Traveler
Queen Victoria aid a Bible Claaa
A Surveying Expedition, kc...
H iwaii. Russia, America
Sailors should have flood Books
-.
True Apostolical Succession
An Old Bosk
Rev.
Hall
Mr.
Lelterfrom
New Year's in Washington
letter from an Hawaiian Missionary in Micronesia
.
17
{©toSnits,
M23.
Sailors' Home.—ln consequence of the
Queen Victoria teaches a Bible class every Sunpaper.
protracted ill health of Mrs. Miller, we rePack. day.—Exchange
and we
the
brightest
jewel,"
Consistency
1'
gret to announce that the present managers
"
>1 are glad to learn that the good Queen has it
of the Home have resigned. During the
I"
Some years ago, did she
18 I9 in her possession.
1° not inform certain visitors from Africa that
19
Bible ?
20 England owed her greatness to the
21 If England is truly a Christian nation, it
21 well becomes the Queen to teach a Bible
24 class
a
school.
THE FRIEND.
MARCH 1, 1866.
Kisaboro, the Japanese Traveler.—On
the return of this gentleman from the United
States to Japan, he spent a few days in
Honolulu. He travels in company with Mr.
Van Reed, an American, connected with the
house of Hurd & Co., of Japan and China.
Kisaboro belongs to the " upper ten of
Japan, and wears two swords. He is a careful observer, and notes in his memorandum
book whatever he considers worthy of record
to take back to his native land. While at
Washington he was introduced to President
Johnson and Secretary Seward. He was
peculiarly impressed with the style of pardoning rebels in Ameriea, in comparison
with the summary methodof chopping heads
off in Japan, or commanding the rebel to
fall on his sword ! We were glad to learn
from him that Hiko, the protege of Senator
Gwin, and also that Mangero, the translator
of Bowditch's Navigator, are still alive.
Some of our readers may remember Mangero's visit at Honolulu, in 1860 and 1860,
as the interpreter of the Kandinmarah, the
Japanese steamer.
"
American House.—We are glad to learn
that a hotel is to be opened this day far
more worthy of the name than anything
which has before existed in Honolulu. Mr.
Kirchhoff, .'ate of the Aldrich House, has
leased the premises lately occupied by the
British Consul, and fitted them up in a style
of neatness and elegance that we are confident will prove attractive to the public.
period of their management, boarders and
the friends of the Home have been well
pleased with Mr. and Mrs. Miller. They
leave the Islands for return to California.
They will be succeeded by Mrs. Crabb and
her son, in the management of the Home,
in Sabbath
whose aim will be to conduct the establishReports of the Supreme Court.—We ment so that the designs of the friends and
had prepared a notice of the second volume patrons of the institution will be fully carried
of the Reports, just issued from the Govern- out. ,
ment Press, under the supervision of Judge
Some unknown persons have kindly
Davis. The want of space in our columns sent us copies of the New York Post, Balticompels us to defer it until the next number more Commercial, and English papers conof our paper. It is a work of much labor, and taining articles relating to matters and things,
will be read with interest by all tnterested in
and personages at the Islands. Havthe legal affairs of the Hawaiian Kingdom. persons
ing had something to do with type, we conus to see how recklessit
We would call the attention of all fess that frightens
men sometimes furnish matter for reportly
interested in making the Hawaiian King- ers and type-setters! One thing is quite
dom appear to good advantage in the forth- certain, Hawaiian affairs are in a fair way
coming Grand Exhibition, at Paris, to send to be thoroughly ventilated, both in England
forward their specimens of Hawaiian manu- and America.
factures. We learn that specimen volumes
While the Lancaster lay in port a seaKuokoa
Gazette,
Advertiser,
Okoa
and
the
man, by the name of G. W. Stewart, was
of
will be sent forward. As we have nothing killed. His shipmates contributed over 8300
but a few manuscript sermons and the
a mounument. An order for the same
Friend, we have concluded to send the latter for
forwarded, by Captain Bennett, to San
was
for ten years, thinking the Parisians will not
We would now, on behalf of the
Francisco.
appreciate the Puritan sermons.
seamen of the Lancaster, acknowledge the
kind services of Capt. Bennett in purchasing
learn,
are
to
from
the
late
We
glad
the freight by the ownReport of the Secretary of the Navy, at the monument,C.and
Murray.
ers of the D.
Washington, that the United States Government has it in contemplation to send to the
Card.—The Chaplain would most gratePacific a surveying vessel, to cruise among fully acknowledge, from Admiral Pierson,
the islands of Polynesia. A vessel of the the officers and seamen of the United States
United States Government could not be bet- steamship Lancaster, the sum of 8242 75—
ter employed. There is much work of this of which 8147 25 is to be devoted to the
kind which remains to be accomplished. We support of the Friend, and the remainder,
could mention scores of islands, visited by 895 50, for the Home.
whaleships, where a United States vessel of
war was never seen.
The Herald, for December, acknowlthe receipt of 8600, from native Chrisedges
The Rev. L. Smith.—Letters have been tians of two churches on the Sandwich
received from Mr. Smith, as late as January Islands, to constitute Abraham Lincoln, Mrs.
AdIst. He is expecting to leave the Eastern Lincoln, Lieut. Gen. Grant, and Vice
States for the Islands in April, or early in miral Farragut honorary members of the
Board.
May. The family all well.
�18
I H I FRIEND, MARCH,
Hawaii, Russia, America.
During the last few years the work ol
emancipation has been going forward in the
very smallest and the largest nations of the
earth. Great principles may be illustrated [
among a few as well as among many. It is
to the principle of emancipation we would
now invite the reader's attention, as illustrated among the inhabitants of these Islands,
Russia and America.
Hawaii.—A few years ago the principle
of serfdom was in full force among Hawai-
181 6.
breed of pigs or poultry, the Chief, on hearing of it, had no hesitation in making the
property his own: This takes place, independent of the customary presents and tribute ; even every dollar obtained by traffic
with strangers must be given up, on pain of
the Chief's displeasure. Europeans are subject to the same oppression; and from this
general insecurity of private property arises,
in a great degree, the absence of much industry or improvement, both among them and
the native peasantry.'' —page 385.
The King then is a complete autocrat
all power, all property —all persons are at
his disposal; the Chiefs receive grants of
land from him, which they divide and let
out again in lots to their dependents.
*
The cultivators are not paid for their labor,
nor, on the other hand, do they pay a regular
rent for the land. They are expected to
send presents of pigs, poultry, kalo and other
provisions, to the Chief from time to time,
together with any little sums of money which
they have acquired in trade, or any other
property which it may suit the fancy or convenience of the great man to take. This
arbitrary custom is a sad hindrance to the
—
"
ians. The common people were held as
serfs. They were not bought and sold,
but they possessed no civil and political
rights which the King and High Chiefs were
bound to respect. So long as it was for the
interests of the Chiefs, or proprietors of the
soil, to employ the common people or allow
them to remain in possession of their lands,
or in cultivating the soil, they did so, but no
longer. Perhaps the most satisfactory stateWhen a
ment relating to this subject is to be found in prosperity of the tenant.
tencnt refuses to obey the order of his Chief,
the address of the late Judge Lee, before the the most severe and summary punishment is
Royal Agricultural Society, in August, 1850: inflicted on him, namely, confiscation of his
within the last year the Hawaiian property. An instance in point happened
" Until
held
his land as a mere tenant at sufferance, while I was at Waialua. Coxe had given
resubject to be dispossessed at any time it orders to some hundreds ol his people totocut
to
the
woods
an
pair
by
appointed
day
might suit the will or caprice of his Chief, or
that of his oppressive luna. Of what avail sandal wood. The whole obeyed except one
was it to the common people to raise more man, who had the folly and hardihood to
than enough to supply the immediate wants refuse. Upon this his house was set fire to,
;
of their subsistence? Would the surplus and burnt to the ground on the very day
was
belong to them, or afford the means of future still he refused to go. The next process wife
to seize his possessions, and turn his
independance ? Far from it. It would go and
family out of the estate —which would
add
to
the
to
stores of their despotic lords,
who claimed an absolute right in all their inevitably have been done, if he had not althe place of valor,
property, and who periodically sent their lowed discretion to take
submission
to prevent
and
made
a
timely
hordes of lunas to scour the country and
plunder the people without the shadow of this extremity."—page 451.
The change or revolution in the land ten"
right or mercy. Often did these ravagers—
the land pirates —leave the poor makaaina ure of this Kingdom, and the emancipation
(native of the soil) with little else than his of the common people, marks the transition
malo, his digger and his calabash! With
such a tenure to their lands, and with such from the old to the new order of things. All
protection for their products, what could be honor to those men, among foreigners and
expected of agriculture or the people ? I natives, who brought it about./ First of all,
thank God that these things are at an end, let the name of His late Majesty, Kauikeaand that the poor kanaka may now stand on ouli, Kamehameha 111., be mentioned with
the border of his little kalo patch and, holdthe
ing his fee simple patent in his hand, bid de- respect. To be sure, he did not initiate
movement,
but
it
could
be
before
fiance to the world ! Yes, I thank God that important
He has moved the hearts of the King and carried out his assent must be secured. His
Chiefs of these Islands to let the oppressed High Chiefs were also consenting to the
go free! The granting of Royal patents, in
fee simple, to the common people for their measure.
The previous work of preparation was im.
lands, is the brightest jewel that adorns the
Crown of Kamehameha 111., and will shine mense. For many long years the measure
with increasing lustre long after his body had been maturing, and associated with its
shall have mouldered to mother earth//
initiation and progress, the names of RichIn order to show that Judge Lee has not ards, Judd, Ricord, Lee, Andrews, Armgiven an exaggerated view of the state of strong, Robertson, and others, should ever be
vassalage among Hawaiians, we annex the mentioned with honor. If any one would
following paragraphs from the travels of Mr.. catch a glimpse of the herculean work acMathison, an intelligent and observing En- complished, let him visit the office of the
glishman, who visited Honolulu in 1822:
Interior Department and solicit the favor of
an industrious person brought glancing over those huge folios and quartos,
Jmore
" Whsyoever
land into cultivation than was neces- over which Mr. Smith has, for the last twensary for his subsistence, or reared a good ty years, acted as custodian.
*
* *
Vln this work of emancipation and change
a homestead was secured to the common native. As a fundamental principle, it was
taken for granted that the tiller or cultivator
of the soil had a right to own the land which
he cultivated. This was all-important. This
is just the point which, we fear, has been
over-looked in the emancipation of the slaves
in the United
States.//
Russia. —The facts in regard to the emancipation of the Russian serf we shall present
in the language of Mr. Senator Sumner, at a
public meeting in Worcester, Mass. On the
platform, near Mr. Sumner, sat M. Kapwist,
a Russian gentleman, holdjngan office under
the Imperial Government of Russia.
is a glorious instance in our own
" There
says Mr. Sumner, " which is an exday,"
ample for us, when the Emperor of Russia,
by a proclamation fulfilling the aspiratious
of his predecessors, set free twenty-three
millions of serfs, and then completed his
work by supplementary provisions investing
the freedmen with civil and political rights,
including the right to testify in court, the
right of suffrage, and the right to hold office.
I have in my hand this immortal proclamation, dated at St. Petersburg, 19th of February, 1861; promulgated amidst prayers
and thanksgivings in all the churches of the
national capital, and at once expedited to
every part of the widely extended empire by
the hands of Generals and staff officers of
the Emperor himself. Here it is, in an official document, entitled Affranchissement dcs
Serfs, and issued at St. Petersburg. After
reciting that the earlier measures in behalf
of the serfs had failed, because they have
been left to • the spontaneous initiative of
the proprietors,' the Emperor proceeds to
take the work in hand as a sacred legacy
from his ancestors, and declares the serfs,
after an interval of two years, ' entirely enfranchised.' Meanwhile, that nothing might
fail, ' a special court' for serfs was created
in each province, charged with the organization of local governments, the adjustment of
boundaries, and generally to superintend the
transition from the old to the new, with ' justices of the peace ' in each district to examine on the spot all questions arising from
emancipation. Had the work stopped here,
it would have been incomplete; it would
have been only half done; but no such fatal
mistake was made.
the proclamation are sup" Accompanying
plementary
provisions, called ' regulations,'
prepared with infinite care, and divided into
chapters and sections—occupying no less
than ninety-one pages in double columns and
small type—by which the rights of the freedmen 'acquire the rights belonging to the
condition of free fanners,' they then proceed
in formal words to fix and assure these rights,
civil and political. By one section it is provided that ' the articles of the civil code on
the rights and obligations of the family are
extended to the freedmen ; that consequently
they acquire the right, without the authorization of the proprietor, to contract marriage,
and to make any arrangement whatever concerning their family affairs ; that they can
equally enter into all agreements and obligations authorized by the laws, as well with
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MARCH, 18 66.
19
JUL X It I I \
the state as with individuals, on the conditions established for free fanners ; that they
can inscribe themselves in the guilds, and exercise their trades in the villuges; and they
can found and conduct factories and establishments of commerce.' Another section
secures to the freedmen the right of acquiring and alienating property of all kinds, according to the general law, and, besides,
guarantees, on certain conditions, ' the possession of their homesteads,' with the grounds
appurtenant. Another sections secures to the
freedmen complete equality in the courts, with
' the right of action, whether civilly or criminally, to commence process, and to answer
personally or by attorney ; to make complaint, and to defend their rights by all the
means known to the law, and to appear as
tcnlnesses and as bail, conformably to the common law.' Other Sections secure to the freedmen equality in political rights, by providing
that, ' on the organization of the towns, they
shall be entitled to take part in the meetings
and elections for the towns, and to vote on
town affairs, and to exercise divers functions ;'
that they shall also take part in the assemblies for the district,' and shall vote on district affairs, and choose the chairman,' and
generally enjoy all the rights to choose their
local officers, and to be chosen in turn. And
still another section authorizes the freedmen
' to place their children in the establishments
for public education, to embrace the career of
instruction, or the scientific career, or to take
service in the corps of surveyors.' And it is
further provided that they ' cannot lose their
rights, or be restrained in their exercise, except after judgment of the town, according
to fixed rules.' And still further, that they
' cannot be subjected to any punishment,
otherwise than by virtue of a judgment, or
according to the legal decision of the town to
which they belong.' Such are the safeguards
by which emancipation in Russia has been
completed and assured. Such is the lesson
of the great Empire to the great Republic."
America.—lt will not be necessary for us to
dwell so minutely upon the work of emancipation in the United States, for all the newspapers, Members of Congress, lecturers, ministers and people, at home and abroad, have
been discussing the subject for years. The
work has proceeded so far that an amendment has been annexed to the Constitution,
declaring that forever slavery is abolished
throughout the United States. Freedom is
now the organic law of the land. The great
question of negro suffrage is now under discussion, in Congress and out of Congress.
But there is one question which we deem of
more importance than even thatof suffrage—
it relates to the ownership of land. We fear
the Government of the united States has
not provided as it should—that the emancipated may become land-owners. It does
appear to us that each family, in its emancipation, should have had a home secured to
it. Unless the freedmen become owners of
the soil, and are allowed to vote, they will
have a hard lot.' If our lot was cast among
the American people, it would be for suffrage
and a homestead that we should contend.
Negro Suffrage.—This appears to be the
We are, however, hopeful, and when we consider what has already been accomplished by great question now under discussion in the
the civil war in America, we are far from United States. But is that enough ? When
being despondent.
the Emperor of Russia emancipated the serfs,
Sailors Should have an Abundance of they were secured in the possession of the
Good Books to Read.
soil which they had cultivated. When Hawaiians were emancipated they were securwe
seamen
the
The longer
labor among
ed in the possession of their lideanas. It
more anxious are we to furnish them with was taken for granted that those who had
good and entertaining books. We have wit- tilled the soil had a right to that soil. We
nessed their usefulness over and over again. believe this to be a sound principle. Now,
negro have
A thousand volumes ought to be thrown why should not the emancipated
to him more or less of the land
secured
among the five hundred sailors on board the which he has tilled ? A negro is reported to
Lancaster. Suppose many of these books are have claimed wages from his master, but his
lost, wet and torn up, others will be read over master replied: " I have no money to pay
the negro:
and over, through and through. If, as the you." To this reply respondedthat."
Now,
you have land—give ma
But
head
is the
old proverb says, " an idle man's
we ask, was there not a sound principle at
devil's workshop," we go for filling that work- the foundation of that reply of that emancishop with good thoughts and good ideas. pated slave?
"
Read the following, copied from the Portland
True Apostolical Succession. —The Rev.
Mirror:
Mason Gallagher, an Episcopal Minister of
it is of Oswego, N. V., has written a pamphlet on
" I tell you," said old Capt.
very little use to try to do anything "for sail- " The Apostolical Succession "—a timely
ors. I know, for I have followed the sea all contribution to the cause of Christian union.
my life. They are a careless, reckless, The mass of testimony, and the array of
drunken set, and the better you use them the quotations which he cites from the reformers
worse they are. The only way to get along and the leading divines of the mother Church
with any comfort is to have a mate that can of England, and of the daughter Church in
who the United States, demonstrate, beyond a
take care of them. There is Capt.
sailed yesterday in the * * * if he does not question, that the exclusiveness of the modhave trouble with his crew I am mistaken. ern High Church party originated with ArchHis first officer, they say, is a clever little bishop Laud, and has been tolerated only as
fellow, but what can he do with that crew, a matter of private opinion ; but has never
especially with that big stout fellow that went found its way into the standards of that
on board drunk, and came near getting up a Church. The testimony of non-Episcopal
mutiny before the vessel got out of the dock ? divines is also largely qnoted, to show that
By the way, I am told that Mr. M. put on they have not been ignorant of the historical
board that vessel a library that cost 810.00
facts which this pamphlet presents in such
the money might just as well have been variety and volume. Thus, the late Dr.
thrown into the dock. Some of the men may Leonard Woods says : " The exclusive prinpossibly read, but they will be much more ciple of the High-churchmen I cannot find
likely to steal the books and carry them on in their book of common prayer, nor in their
shore the first chance they get and sell them thirty-nine articles, nor in theirrules for orfor rum, or tear them up to light their pipes daining ministers. The High Church Episwith."—So thought the old Captain.
copal pretensions in the Church of England
He had been a good seaman. He knew were unknown a long time after the estaball the ropes and how to handle them. But lishment of that Church. They originated
as to the management of sailors had he got about the time the Puritans settled in this
country."
the right hitch ? Perhaps not.
It is now * * * weeks since the vessel
Mr. Gallagher has well said, " The bitterabove referred to left this port. Six of the est enemy of our Zion could wish us no
crew have written back—all in the same ex- greater harm than the sole defence and supcellent spirit. The big stout fellow from port of men of narrow, exclusive and illibas he says,
whom so much trouble was anticipated eral views." His tract is written, of
our Procharacter
the
true
to
exhibit
writes as follows:
"
We had a very fine passage out here. testant Church as established by the English
" * * * is a very good ship, and as for the reformers ; and as received by our AmeriThe
officers no man could wish for better. lam can revisers ; and thus to remove widealso happy to inform you that on the—th all spread prejudice and suspicion, and to comhands went to the Bethel, and that some of mend our Zion to the regard and acceptance
our crew, including myself, have taken the of the vast body of intelligent Christians in
Total Abstinence pledge. I hope I shall be ihe land." It will do much towards furtherforgiven for the disgraceful way in which I ing this end.—N. Y- Independent.
left Portland, for I tell you this, if my Maker
National Sailor's Home.—The main
spares my life to get back to Portland, I trust
edifice
of the National Sailors' Home, in
through his grace, you will find we a changed
is
and roofed. It will accomman. * * * We have great hapiness in read- Quincy, raised
one hundred sailors. Parlors,
modate
about
we
library
ing the books from the beautiful
dining room and kitchen occupy
were honored with. * * * we shall all feel sitting room,
floor; the hospital and chapel the
first
Goi
the
that
hope
we
all
forever thankful, and
the third and fourth.
will enable us to return back to Portland second, and dormitories seventy-two acres,
compose
that we may express our thanks personally." The grounds
Was the old Captain right? or was he
and surrounded by beautiful scenery.
s
wrong ?
"• "•
—
-
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THE FRIEND.
MARCH 1. 1806.
An Old Book.
Nabhativk or A Visit to Uhazil, Ciiii.k, Pkbit, add
tbi Sandwich Islands, daring the years 1821 and
1823. lly Gilbert r'arquhar Mathison, £*q. London: diaries Knigbt, 1826
I< I! II; V I). MARCH,
18ft.
in a state of totnl drunkenness and insensi-
bility. On one side of his head was extended an enormous sow, which every now
and then gave n grunt, as if in sympathy
with its master; and upon the other side sat
his Queen, an immense woman, like him,
almost in a state of primitive nudity, who
seemed endeavoring, though in vain, by her
caresses, to assuage his beastly transports;
Some people have a great fancy for new it few chiefs and domestics, in all about
books upon the islands, nnd push aside an twenty, completed the group—some asleep,
old volume. The very opposite fancy con- others fanning nway the flies, and singing
trols us in our choice of reading. We much the wildest and harshest lullaby that ever
saluted mortal ears.
prefer old standard authors, for quite too
'• We then passed into another room bemany of the modern books arc mere compil- longing to the head Queen, who, though
ations. A good and impartial history of the equally large in her person, had n benevoHawaiian Islands and Kingdom is yet to be lent and pleasing cast of countenance. She
was dressed in it loose robe of English chintz,
written. A most interesting volume, with and,
to my delight, was engaged in learning
the above title, has lately fallen under our to write, which she had only attempted
notice. We have mentioned the work in within a few days. She showed me her
the hearing of several who considered them- performance on the slate with great engerselves tolerably well read-up upon Island ness; and well she might, for really the
letters were by no means badly formed. I
history, and they have never even seen or then
underwent, as on my first landing, a
ol
heard this work. We would acknowledge thorough examination, during which her
our indebtedness to Mr. Pease for the loan Majesty often lnughcd immoderately, and
of the book, whose extensive library is, prob- ended her remarks by saying that 1 was a
ably, the most complete upon Polynesia of mere child, and hnd no beard."
Before the Bishop of Oxford goes off in
any in this part of the world.
Mr. Mathison landed in Honolulu June his florid style and rhetoric flourishes in de24, 1822, and left for China August 10th scribing these Hawaiians in their innocency,
—having remained on this island forty-seven before they were contaminated with Ameridays. During his visit, he traveled around can Puritanism, he should carefully read
the island and was most kindly entertained tho descriptions of early voyagers and travby the foreign residents and Missionaries. elers. A certain other Bishop, who is
He appears to have been a well-educated proclaiming to the people of America that
man and careful observer. His writings the Hawaiians arc ten times worse off
"
"
indicate that he was literary and scholar- than before they came under the influenceof
like in the choice of his reading.
We Puritan Missionaries, we should recommend
have not met with a" single carping and ill- to read this narrative of his countryman, Mr.
natured remark in his journal, but many Mathison. There was certainly a great
which clearly evince a sincere love of truth change in the royal family from 1822 to
and fairness.
1862, when the newly-arrived party of
Honolulu, in 1822, was a mere village English Missionaries were conveyed from
of two or three thousand inhabitants, with the landing with " coach and four."
no streets, except crooked paths among the
At the time of Mr. Mathison's visit, the
grass huts. On landing our visitor was im- Rev. Mr. Ellis was residing in Honolulu,
mediately surrounded by what he styles " a assisting the American Missionaries to remob of men, women and children, dressed duce the language to a written form. Messrs.
au naturel, or nearly so, with nothing but Bennet and Tyreman were also on a visit to
the maro." He became the guest of the Honolulu at the same time. It will \\c reUnited States Consul, J. C. Jones, Esq. collected that these gentlemen were upon a
Soon after landing he accompanied the Con- circumnavigating voyage around the world
sul to pay his respects to the King :
under the auspices of the London Missionwent
with
I
the Consul to the palace of ary Society. On their return a narrntive of
the" King, if such a term can be applied to a their voyages was published, under
the care
grass hut, floored with mats, and only disof the poet Montgomery.
tinguished from the rest by a few cannon
placed about it in terrorem. Imagination The following paragraphs of Mr. Mathihad pictured the monarch sitting in the son contain truths eminently sound nnd
midst of his chiefs with dignified composure, practical:
his interpreter on one side and secretary on
The mere arts of civilization and interthe other (for he really has two such offi"
course
with Europeans are evidently insufcers) j and, as the subject of a brother King,
ficient
to elevate the character, or correct
l anticipated a
most gracious reception.,
immoral habits, of ip*vn in such a slate
wnat, then was my astonishment on
enter- of society. This is reserved for an infinitely
ing the royal hut!
more powerful and influential cause, namely,
,oh ■•>•«»! Oh, l,i,h
ambition, lowly laid! 1
the Christian dispensation ; and who, then,
T
*ne roytl beast
lay sprawling on the ground that has witnessed
such a scene in savsge
*
.
.
life as I have cursorily described, but would
feel most anxious to impart the blessings ol
Christianity to these rude islanders ? So
thinking, I directed my steps to the dwelling
of some American Missionaries, who had
arrived a few months ago, and my visit was
altogether most gratifying. Their house, a
little distance from the village, is built of
wood, brought with them ready prepared
from America, nnd is sufficiently large for
the accommodation of four Missionaries with
their wives and families ; of whom the principal is Mr. Bingham, who seemed very
active in the discharge of his Missionary
duties."
Mr. Mathison furnishes his readers with a
most interesting account of his visits to the
Pali, Kaneohe, Waialua and other parts of
Oahu, and also of his interviews with the
King, Chiefs, nnd people generally. During
his sojourn the Americans celebrated the 4th
of July. " About sixty persons of all nations were present, but principally Americans, sat down to the dinner, under a marquee tastefully decorated with flags and
colors from the different ships." The King
was present, dressed in a " magnificent
cloak of red and yellow feathers," the head
Queen, also, equipped in the costume of the
country. The Prime Minister, Krimnkoo,
gave the following toast, through an interpreter, "The health of nil individuals present, and prosperity to all nations."
Krimakoo was no ordinary personage.
His name stands forth most prominently in
the history of this Kingdom. His treatment of an English sailor, who promised to
" knock off" his grog and then broke his
pledge, is quite worthy of publication. Jack
had promised to work for Krimakoo a certain
period without touching n drop! "The
penality for breach of promise was to be
forty lashes, besides the forfeiture of pay.
Unfortunately a boat's crew came on shore
the same day, from some merchant vessel,
and Jark could not resist th? temptation of
drinking a few glasses of his favorite grog,
never thinking that the Chief would in
reality enforce the penalty; greatly to his
surprise and annoyance, however, Krimakoo
watched an opportunity for seizing him, and
inflicted the punishment without pity, enjoying at the same time his temporary distress, and exposing him lo the derision of
the whole community —a sad triumph, indeed, of barbarism over civilized life."
But we are protracting our notice of this
" much beyond our intention.
"Wenarrative
can assure our readers that every page
is interesting, and if our limits would allow
we should most gladly reprint the whole,
without abbreviation.
General Marshall.—We learn from late
Boston papers that our old fellow resident,
J. F. B. Marshall, Esq., by the recommendation of Governor Andrews, has been advanced to the rank of Brigadier General in
the military service of Massachusetts. During the war he has rendered very important
service as Paymaster General of the State.
The State of Massachusetts has paid over
$12,000,000 as bounty money luring the
war.
�111 X VUI X N l»,
-0~ We know many of our Island readers
will peruse with interest the following letter
which we have just received from the Rev.
Mr. Hall, the Irish Clergyman, who visited
the Islands a few months since, and during
his stay made the tour of Hawaii and Oahu.
He left Honolulu, a passenger on board the
Morning Star,h\ July, and was so fortunate
on his arrival at the Gilbert Islands us to fall
in with a cocoa-nut oil vessel, which conveyed him to Sydney, and from thence he
obtained passage to New Zealand, where he
was when ho wrote this letter. The Rev.
Mr. Hall was in the employ of the General
Assembly Missionary Department of the
Presbyterian Church of Ireland. He was a
fine preaoher, and withal a most genial, social,'scholarly and companionable guest and
acquaintance, and, we doubt not, our readers
will say, on perusing this letter, that he had
" music in his soul," just like so many
others from the Emerald Isle
21
MARCH, 1866.
perate as they perceived their power departing.
Prisoners of wur have expressed surprise to find
white peoplo still in tho country, as they had
been informed by native demagogues that all tbe
colonists hud lied or had fallen MM their victorious bludgeons. In this large city und province we only hear rt']x>rts of the war. Volkner,
the Missionary, who was murdered, was highly
esteemed. It is believed here that Levi might
have suvod his life. Nittivos have confessed that
u Missionary of another persuasion assured them
that Volkner was an informer and onemy. It is
tho story of Whitman und the Oregon Indians
over again. The now fanaticism, the offspring
of a schemer, ii a set-off or antidote against a
religion which has had much to overcome in the
past, but which has ill ways proved itself triumphant because it is Truth.
I arrived in Sydney about a month ago. It is
u splendid city, with a salubrious climate, and
one of the finest harbors in the world. As an
outpost and depot of Missionary enterprise it is
not second to nny in Christendom. From it half
tion from your own private journal and published
pamphlet—" Morning Star Papers :"
flittering In the sun's bright beams,
" AndPlaces
there sre where Ocean smiles
Meandering In a thousand streams
Among as many blooming isles ;
Seeming to the delighted eyes
Ou earth s heavenly paradise."
1 shall be in Auckland for
a month, and per
for a year. With affectionate regards for
yourself and fu::.ily, 1 am, my dear sir,
hut
*
Faithfully yours,
John Hall.
New Year's in Washington.—lit referring to the negroes visiting the President on
Now Year's Day, the New York Independent
says:
President Johnson honored himself, his
country, and the cause of republican equality, in permitting negroes to visit him at the
White House on New Year's Day. Says a
telegram in the Herald: "This was the first
time in the annuls of the Republic, and there
appears to be no reason why it should not
be repeated. Their hearty good wishes for
the President's welfare, their God bless
you!' and invocations for a happy New
Year and many returns, audibly and respect-
ships sail regularly for stations in tho Southern Pacific, with supplies and
with agents, recruited in health. Having spent
u month most agreeably in the Morning Star,
1 feel as if every reader of Missionary narrative
should have an interest in tho successful voyuges
to set
of tho John Wil/iain.i, tbe John Wesley, the fully expressed, and plentiful enough
Southern Cross, and the Dayspring. Besides Mr. Johnson up with a stock of benisons to
Auckland, N. Z., Oct. 27, 18G5.
these, two or three other vessels are annually last until anotherreception." The President
My Dkak Mr. Damon—Thank* and praiso to a chartered hero in tho Interest of Raman Catholi- in this has done well. Now, if he will
kiml Providenco, 1 urn tit lust able to report my- cism in Occitnica. The Christian poet has passed stand up squarely, to the extent of his power,
self in Now Zealand, where I arrived lust week, away, but what his muse indited forty yoursago for equal rights in the work of reconstructall well. I spent lust Sunday ten miles out of is still a new song
ing the Stnte governments at the South, we
Auckland, in u fertile plain, where an Irish min"The iinnniiMc Paottfl smiles
warrant him "a stock of business"
will
tlmujoind
delightisles,
flock.
It
was
Kountl
little
ten
iHtor I'oldß his interesting
enough to last him during his whole
lluutits
of
vtosstaM
ami
wiles.
plentiful
to
find
at
myself
ful, evon at tho antipodes,
Itul the powers of darkness yield
life, and to enroll his name among those of
For Hi.' Cross la In the field,
C'liureh in u rural district, with nothing to disAnil the light of liferevealed.
tho world's greatest benefactors.
turb the blessed rest of thu Sabbath, and much
The Chronicle says: The spectacle witThoro is ft Hyde Park in the centre of Sydney,
to recall the embalmed associations of boyhood.
After viewing for years tho forests of Vancouver's to which crowds repuir on tho Subhuthultcrnoon, nessed yesterday at the Executive Mansion,
[aland, and not having been fortunato enough to und where open uir preachers, like philosophers and tbe residences of the different members
find in New South Wales, during my short so- of ancient (ireeee, address peripatetic congregaof the Cabinet, although occurring annually,
journ, a fertile spot, it was plousunt to survey tions. Residing near the Park, I was drawn, by
is,
nevertheless, worthy o( special notice, not
of
Otahuhu,
and
to
sco
the
the rich open plain
sympathetic attraction, to several stand-points,
account of its display, but as an illustraand
on
hedgerows
long
golden
well-trimmed thorn
and heard seven orators in un hour address us
lines of blooming gorse enclosing fields clad with many audiences, almost within range of each tration of the spirit of our republican form of
verdure, while luxuriant clover fringing tho road- other's voices.
Do they always keep the peace government. The most exnlted officer of
side was kept hack from the causeway only by here?" I inquired.
Always," replied a well the government, unguarded by any array of
is
tho constant roll of coach and wagon. It
dressed constable. "Always. It is free speech military power, and free from the pomp and
superfluous to add that the peoplo in this exten- und fair play." As I entered tho park u lay circumstance of
unmeaning forms and cerebivo plain are in comfortable circumstances.
preacher, wit i broad Irish ucccnt, repeated tho monies,
as well as hollow show, receiving
On Monday morning, ua I waited for the coach, invitation—" Come to Jesus." Hating urged it
I was introduced to a good brother who came by weighty considerations, an American brother the hearty congratulations of his fellow citicantering up on ft bonnio gray, lie had travol- prayed. Farther on, the propriety of voting fifty zens, without distinction, at his own mancd ten miles, and had ten more to travel in the jiounds for helping immigrants to tbe Colony sion, is a sight which can be seen nowhere
WIUI> bo but in
next hour, to he in time for a meeting of Pres- was canvassed by u seedy politician.
the United States. Whatever may
bytery. "Your horse is rather young," 1 re- said, [tutting hands into people's pockets to be the impressions produced upon the minds
It
can't
be
ho
1 bring out other people's friends. "And why,
helped," replied.
marked.
of the representees of foreign Goverments
rodo another thirty miles, yesterday, and held then, don't you send for your own friends," wur
at beholding such a sight, no American can
to
tho
he
went
gray
throe services." (living rein
the humorous repartee ol one in tho crowd. On
off lit a gallop in order to ovcrtak" ft co presbyter one side of a neat fence un advocate of teetotal- view it with other than feelings of gratitude
who hud gone on helorc. It was my first inter- ism—u (ioliuh in stature—decluimed, with sten- and pride. We have no privileged aristocview with tho pioneer of the district to which I torian voice und uwful griinuce, against grog racy before which the masses are compelled
have DSM designated— it military settlement •bops in general! while on the other side the to uncover their heads in token of reverence
where the greatest battle with the natives hit* followers of Johanna Southcote, with flowing and respect. The humblest as well as the
boon fought, und where the plains did not re- boards and hence usuully designated beardios," most distinguished citizen had access to and
quire the effusion nfblood to render thorn fertile in succession, a large tissemblago which speedily
To thi* backwoods eet- dissolved when a lew sweet voiced Women, sup- was received by the President with like cona* any in the Province
an occasion we cannot
tlement, on the bunk* of the Nuikuto, I shall porting another preacher in another j.lucc und sideration. On such
probably repair in a few week*, and shall bo ex- forming tho nucleus of a congregation, com- but recall and adopt the memorable words of
pected, doubtless, to conduct, like my predeces- menced the service of praise. Soliloquising, I Daniel Webster in his great speech at the
sor, three services every Sabbath, und ride over said music is mighty to attract. Would that it laying of the corner-stone of the new Capislumps and gullies some thirty miles. This oc- was more appreciated by ministers und people
tol : To-day we are Americans all, and all
curred to me M 1 mounted tho stage couch, and
Star will buvo urrived, 1 lioiie, nothing but Americans."
Tho
Morning
caused me to exclaim: "Woe is lno!" The before
you rccoive thi*. with tho gallant Master
Catalogues.—We would acknowledge
war in this colony—comnunc, d by tin: Governand
all
ou board quito well. I was delighted
ment to maintain the right of a chief to sell bis with tho cruise to Micronesia, and, us you aro the receipt of a Catalogue of Vale College,
the interference of
without
Crown
lindtothe
Rundull from Prof. Lyman, and also of Oakland
to Aiwaro, most fortunate in finding Captain
other chior*, who hud ent-red into rt leugue.
uliuost roudy to sail in tho good Bhip Lyra for
be
The latter is most
it
soon
C*>Jlege, from
expected,
it
sell no more land—will,
Sydney. 1 found tho Captain very kind and our beautifully printed, and ornamented with a
terminated. H natives now arc lighting against voyage was short and pleasant.
handsome engraving of the College buildnatives. The colonists, 1 find, speak favorably
Tho words of a poet express, better thnn I can,
of the natives in former times, and cannot rto- whut I feel respecting
ings. We watch with much interest the
visited,
the
islands
and
I
u t for the change tlmt came over them in
informa- progress of this rising institution.
satisfactory
of
which
derived
the
most
I
dcsIt is supposed that tho chiefs became
a dozen Missionary
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Extract from Hawaiian Antiquities.
Tho following contribution to " Natural
History " is from tho pen of a native Hawaiian—the late David Malo, of Lahaina. Ho
left a great amount oT manuscripts relating
to the history and legendary lore of the
islanders. A friend has kindly furnished us
or publication a literal translation of a
chapter relating to the animals nnd birds of
the islands. Our readers must not expect a
strictly scientific use of language! But
we regard these extracts as interesting—
showing the train of thought and reflections
of an Hawaiian, born in the very darkness
of heathenism, but partially educated after
he hsd arrived at manhood. Hnd he received an American or European education
his abilities would have been much greater.
Chapter 13.
Of Tame
Wild Beasts.
Concerning tho Beasts of the Islands, there
is no account of the time when they were
brought hero, nor of those who brought them.
Perhaps the ancient settlers brought them,
especially tho tame ones ; but whence came
wild ones ?
Sec. 2. If perhaps the primary settlers
brought the smaller animals, why did they
not also bring larger ones ?
Sec. 3. Perhaps it was because of the
smallness of their ennoes in which they
came, or from the fear ot tho trouble they
would make, or from the fear of an attack
from an enemy when they would all be destroyed together; hence perhaps they brought
only small animals.
Sec. 4. The following arc the animals
belonging to the islands, viz.: the hog [puna]
a little tho largest j the dog [ilio] a little
less ; the hen [mna] a tamo bird, but a small
animal. The wild birds of the forest, jvhence
are they ? The reptiles [mea kolo] also,
whence arc they ? If this had been a volcanic country in ancient times, they would
all have been destroyed by the fires [Pele.]
and
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The following
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arc the names of
the larger wild fowls viz: The goose [nene]
is a singular fowl; it is about the size of
the foreign fowl, the muscoey duck; the
feathers are spotted, the legs are long, its
neck is long; about its moulting time when
Sec 9.
it descends the mountain and is pursued by
the bird-catchers of the mountain, then it
may be caught. Its feathers were formerly
made into jty-brushes [kahilis] and sold for a
high price ; its flesh also is suitable for food.
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Sec. 12. The moho is a bird that seldom
flies; it only walks about through the grass,
it has but few feathers, but its eyes are
beautiful; it is similar in size to the alula ;
it is caught by stratagem, it is an eatable
fowl; they do not fly towards the sea, but
live only in the jungle, for their feathers arc
very heavy if they should be wet with the
sea.
Sec. 13. The following are the small
wild fowls; some of them are like chickens,
its feathers are greenish, its flesh is sweet
food, it is cr-.ught with bird lime [o ko knpili
kepau Va raea c \oaa %
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The omao is a bird similar to the ou ; its
flesh is good for food ; it is caught with a
snare. The oo and the mamo ure birds very
much alike ; they are smaller than the ou,
their feathers nre dark colored, their bills arc
sharp, their flesh is good for food, their
feathers were made inio large fly-brushes
Ikuhili] for the use of the Chiefs. The
feathers under their wings nnd their tailfeathers are very beautiful; they are yellow
and were wrought into red-feathered [ahuiila]
cloaks, the garment for soldiers in lime of
war; ulso into leis [chnplcts] for feinnle
chiefs—for noble women, and crowns for the
year gods [aktia makahiki], and a great many
other valuable purposes. These birds were
caught with bird lime and snares.
Sec. 15. The iwi is a bird of red feathers;
it has a long curved bill, its feathers were
wrought into red feathered clonks like the
feathers of the oo and mamo; its flesh is good
for food, it was caught with bird lime.
The apapane and the akihipolcna are red
feathered birds. The nla is n bird with
black feathers, its bill is red, so also its eyes
and legs; it has its nest in the side of a
bank, it is celebrated for its sweet singing.
The ua is a bird similar to the ou. The
akohekohc is a small bird that mnkes its nest
on the ground. The mv is a bird of yellow
feathers. The amakihiwnA the akihialoa are
nlso birds of yellow feathers ; their flesh is
good to eat, they arc caught with bird lime.
[poko the cutworm perhaps], tbe winged ant
[naonao], the 7/io//( [mu|, the kuapaa [the
worm that cuts vegetables), the head louse
[ukupoo], the kapa louse |uku kupti).
Whence wore tbeso small animals ? Were
they brought here ? or did they grow out of
the dust [ainiij.
The following animals have lieen brought
here from foreign countries from the days of
Kamehameha I to those of Kamchamehu 111.
Neat cattle [bipij, they arc large animals
and have long horns upon their bends; their
flesh is good for food, antl so also their milk.
Sec. 27. The horse [lioj is a largo ani-
mal ; men can sit on '.heir backs and ride,
they have no horns on their heads. The ass
and the mxdc [hoki and piulu, more correctly
in In hi |, they both carry men on their backs.
The goat antl the sheep [kao me ka hipn], the
flesh of these are good for food. 'I he cat
[popoki] and the monkey |keko] uro nlso
foreign animals ; some swine [puna ] and some
dogs [ilioj have liecn brought from foreign
lands.
Sec. 28. The following arc birds from
foreign countries : the turkey [pelchii]; the
muscovy duck [maim kolon) a green fowl,
nnd also some new hens; they arc nil
eatable.
Sec. 29. The following have lately been
brought hither; not animnls however to be
eaten. The mosquitoe [mnkikn|, the small
cockroach [elelu Qilii], tho broad cockroach
[elelu papa], the //ra [ukulele]. The folSec. IS. The kolaa [wild duck] hns spot- lowing are small animals that run : the rabted feathers, its bill is broad, its feet are bit [iole rubuti] good to eat; the wharf rut
soft and webbed ; its flesh is excellent for [iole nai], the mouse [iole liilii|, the centipede
eating, it is caught by pelting with stones jknnnpi], the snake [moonihoa\va|, these
and by pursuit [haoa].
have lately liecn introduced, perhaps they
The auhuku lias [jrey feathers, it lias a will increase hereafter.
long neckand lons bill, it is good for eating;
its size is about that of an owl, it eats the
Apology LPoalMtmredaosjnorf
fish anac, it can be caught by pdting with
Gkn. Biitlkii.—When den. Butler issued
■tones,
Sec. 19. The kukuluaeo is a bird good his celebrated Order No. 28, in New Orfor food, it has long legs, it is caught by leans, known as the " woman order," he
was denounced by the rebel chieftain Beaupelting with stones.
is regard as a " boast," which epithet has not
The kioea is gootl for food. The
also good for food; it is pursued and taken only echoed nil over the South, but was
adopted in spirit by Lord Pulmcrston, late
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captive.
Sec. 23. The following nre birds from Prime Minister of Great Britain. Shortly
foreign countries, [mvi k:i lewa inni]; the afterwards the Knne-Palmerston scandal was
kaupu, a bird black all over and hns a large set afloat, much to the discredit of the noble
bill; it is the size of a turkey. The uaukc- Lord. Gen. Butler took advantage of ihc
wai is a larger bird than the kaupu; its fact und addressed a note to the distinguishbreast is white, and also its wings, its back ed gentleman on the other side of the Atlanis black. The a is a large bird like the tic, in which he alluded to the fact that
kaupu, its feathers are all white. The molt Palmerston bad repented the dirty scandal
is also a large bird of the same sizo; the iwa about his (Butler's) "woman order;" that
is also a bird like the kattpu, its feathers perhaps the learned premier was not a ware
mostly arc black, but some of its feathers that the order which, in consequence of the
are gray ; they are made into fly-brushes. beastly conduct oT the rebel women of New
These birds are placed on the year gods Orleans townrds the Federal troops, beCSme
[itkua makahiki] ; they are good for food ; a military necessity, was copied verbatim
they are found chiefly on Kiuilu and Nihoa, from an order of the City Council ol London,
and are caught by hand. The note is a established during n time of jiencc ! Gen.
small birtl like the kolea, its forehead is white. Butler, hnving just heard of the gossip about
The kala is like the now; these birds are all Mrs. Kane and Palmerston, remarked in the
eatable, —they arc sea-birds.
* * * letter referred to that probably his lordship
Sec. 25. The following nre smnll wild had begun to learn how good it was to bo
animals: the mouse [iole], the mountain slandered. Upon reading Gen. Butler's letlizzard [mookaaln], the black lizzard [moo- ter, which embraced all the lacts about the
kaula], the cockroach [elelu], the sow bug misconduct of the rebel women, making Or[pokipoki], the angle worm [hoe], the to [a der No. 28 a necessity, Lord Palmerston
species of bug], the earwig [aha|, the spider wrote a letter of apology to Gen. Butler,
[punawelcwele], the small spider [lalana], which tho latter still holds.— Washington
the nuhe [a species of wormj, the cattcrpillar Republican.
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not Ih'cii disuppointod in this division ol labor;
the old men and women nnd the youth ol the different islands, have liecn of good courage, and,
grasping the torch of I'hrist, have lieeome lights,
scattering the ilarknei-s of the devil ill his ratholes. 1 have hecu constrained to laughter to
consider tho disappointed spider watching for
dies. This figure of the Spider and the lly, as
applied to satiiu and his victims, have taken
the Lira Kamalll.
liimi the hymn inare
very hold in their work.
The converts
They are striving to inlhience their hieinls constantly. If they meet a person in the road Of
elsewhere, tlicy slop him nnd propose to hold I
meeting. If any refuse they inquire as to the
reason of their refusing, and exhort them to
light the good light of faith ;" and they exhort
"their
Chiefs, having no lear of man. hut roincmhi ring llini who is able to destroy ihc soul in
aLExeActnflroMimsMHawnriyn icronesia.
[The following letter wo ropy from the
December number of-the Mailr Quarterly,
the periodical printed, but not published, by
the Children's Missionary Society. This
I
letter was written by an Hawaiian Missionthe
this
supported
Society.
Surt'ly
ary,
by
patrons of missions never could ask for a
more encouraging and charming letter from
one laboring under their auspices. Having
visited, in 1861, the very spot where this
Missionary is stationed, at the Marshall
Islands, we have read this letter with pernhell.
liar interest. He was ihen—at the time we
Tiik iNyriiiF.KS.—Many of the rebels are forsakwere his guest, during the detention of the ing their generals, and desiring the Heavenly
the
ol Jesus. Thus
Morning Star—at Ebon.]
Ban, Ebon, Sept. '."J. 1866.
Miss M. A. Cham/ier/mn anil ihr Hnieniion
Mission Children's Society
Uniting: I r*>
ceived your letter on the iSJth of August, which
Wits dated tho llith of July, und great iN my adliiiriitinii nnd love for your continued kindness
towards inn und my household—oh ! my kindred
in Christ Jesus ; nnd not only are we kindred in
Christ, hut we stand in the ■una family relations, in that Hawaii is our hirth-pliiee alike,
and wo nil stylo it our nntivo land.
1 now proceed to fulfill tho wish of your lottoT,
namely: " Wo dosiro to hoar of tho progress of
the Lord with you."
Therefore listen attentively, my kindred
First—Tho blessings of our souls, and bodI*l an
well. From tho sailing of tho Morning S/nr, in
the month of November, 1804, until the 'JSlh of
August, 1865 (those ton months and ten days),
we, your beloved, have been constantly piBasil lull
among these benighted heathens—among whom
1 labor (of which I shall state hereafter) ; hut,
first, I must tell you, tho seal of the Holy Cove
nant of tho (iospol of Josus Christ hits been
placed upon tho heads ol some of theso wild
islanders of Ebon, and they have huOualll soldiers
in the garrison under our Lord.
Holy, holy
is our Uod. The whole earth is "full of His
glory." And again " The word of tho bird is
a strong tower.,
And those converts,
beloved of Christ in this field of my lahors. are
valiant Soldiers of tho Cross, therefore, I feel like
asking you to unite with mo in praising Uod by
—
• • •
:
•:• •
singing the two hundred nnd twenty-seventh or
one hundred nnd sixty-first hymn of tho Hawaiian Hymn Book. However, thisis as you please,
my friends.
Second— Of the leaders and the Church members. 1 have boon destitute of Missionary associates during three months—for Kov. Mr. Snow
was at tho Hawaiian Islands ; and Kov. Mr. Kupali and Mr. Klouiukulo, with their f.uinlies,
were stationed at Numarik ; and Mr. Doano was
in the United States; and I alone, with my family, was loft at Ebon—tho Church mombers only
were my holiiors in tho work of tho l<ord. Since
this group consists of numerous small islands,
scattered through the sea here, wo cannot gather
together often to the evening meetings at my
island, therefore I have given this work into the
hands of the Church mombers of tho islunds distant from my own. Thore aro threo of these
islands, on each of which several Churoh members reside, and this is thoir manner of working
One brother conducts the ovoning mooting on
Wednesday, another on Thursday, another on
Friday, and ao on—and so they continue to do at
the time of my writing. In tho same wny the
female Church members conduct meetings among
themselves; and on the Sabbath sometimes I
oonrluot the meetings, sometimes
themselves. As
! toot lhU oou
ttrter I was left
Iv
alone
by m,
'"• associates. The"°parent birds had
nown. and I occupied
the dsaerUd nests. I have
i
songs
Mima, *nd to sing
they are repenting of their rebellion and seem
near the Kingdom of Christ.
TBI SCHOOLS,—The work of schools advances
rapidly. They greatly desire to learn tho things
pertaining both to their hodicH and souls. DO
lure I am constantly going from island to island
in tins work in which I have been engaged six
Nor is it vain ; they read the
years and more.
Bible and other hooks. Many have committed
to memory tho Uospel of Mark from beginning
to end. Some are very forward in arithmetic,
both man IsI and in some of the rules of written
arithmetic. They have committed to memory
many of tho principal histories of the lliblc as
they have beard llk in from my lips; und the
Catechism, also. They sing, also. Mr. Snow
and myself have taught singing. Some tunes
they snip, well by numbers. They arc familiar
willi many tunes in the Lira Kiimalii.
Bonu 01 my pupils are now nhle to assist me in
leaching. There are two hundred pupils collected in my five schools, and it rejoices me much
that they are able to assist mo in teaching the
alphabet and putting together syllahlce. Thus
I am engaged week days, and, though 1 am often
fatigued by my walks through wind, rain or the
hot sun, yet I am not discouraged in the least,
nnd 1 trust that your investment of your funds in
me and my work is not in vain, and our l/ml
Josus Christ is over us all.
OaatTACLM.—Foreigners from other lands are
hero who do not pity these dark heathens, and
oppose the progress of Truth among thcin. Tiny
prefer to feed them with tbe dark food of satim,
which they lived .on before. These soldiers of
tho Prince of Ktcrniil Death ale shameless. Oh!
pray to (iod for tie that these opposers may be.
bom again. The gates of Death shall not prevail against our side. Pray without ceasing for
MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
IKKIYAIaN.
Jan.
Ftb,
bnbatta, ■totMafeVf. UO (Iny* from
Moiitcvi.lio.
4- Urilixh hlihi Krum-U Henry, Tolliince, M day* lr<>m
"H— HnnilxirK rhi|)
Ainklllllil.
11—Am
h Krk
is well. Tbe Lord has given us
another child this year. We are on tho most
friendly terms with our neighbors, the |iooplo
who dwell around us, both in regard to temporal
and spiritual things.
The Chiefs, also, seem attached to myself and
family. So they say to mc, "Do not think of
leaving us for a moment." So they said to DM
when I wished to remove to Mejro to reside.
They have great uflcclion, likewise, for Messrs.
Doano and Snow. They are very pleasant to
come to my dwelling and convene. Seventeen
of the Chiefs are skilllul in reading and arithmetic. A great many of them at present have
gone t" tho islands north of Ebon.
1 must now cut short this letter, and refer you
for fuller particulars to the rtewtpnpv Kuokoa.
With warmest love to you all, and all your
households, do not leave us destituto of letters.
11. Aka.
Wewould acknowledge late California
papers from Capt. Hempstead, of the bark
Onward, and Capt. Bennett, of the bark D.
t?i Murray.
A Co.
llontoii
with
Am
MtiripiertiiH, With lIVU bMI h]ieituoil.
_4— Am hHrk l>. C. Murray, llcnm-n, H da/I frt'iii Bun
Fran. 'ii.ni, Willi |iM>»eliK*'il» ami imlne, |0 .IUILc.
Allen A 00.
IrKIMKTI KKS.
Jun. 87—-Am hark Uchrlng, Lano, for Baa Fraaotaoa.
Ul—Ham. ihtp UribaHi, Blnlntiwhur tor ttokar1! Mtnd
b'< h. 8— Am brig Kentucky, Wilh-iun, for laa Fnmci»co.
I >C. 0. L sUwOMUt, Aihniiiil I'euriori, f..r J*tui Fmn
'
F_HB
Btlß *lll|> Kr:i licit Henry. To 11.irife, ferflu FrftDCtavCO
10—CM. H. N. Co'k Hti-iiliißiiu, AJ.ix, Uinlfrey, fof Han
Kraiirlrn'o.
IS— lliiw'n wh lank Hue Hawaii, l!rj,|iinK»t"iie, f,.i
14
rntirie mill Arctic.
llaw'n hark UokM boa, Wilhehul, for .taker* Iklmiml
IU—(HIV Wh hi IK Cinrt, Hire, fof CTUUU.
it
Am bark Kaiyrnlot*, LotIU, forßaa Pra aetata,
II Brifa. t.ark l.tirt'iic. Tot)lan, for Ui'ttftaag.
•to—Am ofloptr i>hi|i BHu Jacket, pHUnghan, tor NVw
lliilfnri.
PASSENGERS.
KiiANeiseu—pier HlirrliiK, Jan.OT—Mmhiil Mr* IV II
Knr
Krmiels nml clnlil, I' It W I'llliurv, I S roster, Minor Motion,
X ■■ tim.i.tn.l. IN aillllaod.J M Has*—t.
Knr KAN rsASCISCO— |«r Kentucky, Kill. :i—l) Wlilli-si.l.-. .1
CliH|imsn, .1 Sli-|ilii-iihi>ii, Mr Mnmliall.
Kiib Sax PbaJUSOO—pst AJhx, Khli. Kills.— Mrs L llur.lill
Mr nml Mrs II A PCartvT. Capt Moor*, wife sml 2 rlnlilrrn
Mr ami llr. II 0 Hon., Mrs W W X Ivngs in,l 4 chilli
Mis
A Rosso. W A liiliiiiin, Cap! .1 11 Spencer, In ■sfrr, Mrs tlrav,
.1 W iiiiilln, rims Cmroll, 11. Itrvniiiii, A Nu.hl, 1,. Lohuul,
.Ins Kara. 11, Miss M It Anilul I
IV Al.i.p.. Jr. Mrs II T
Whitney. .1 I Klnir. X 0 Kitili. .1 Junes. Mb. Unity Live—32.
ritnM .-in Kn isei>eu —|wr Onward, K.-h. 16th—0 II Motrinuii, Mr.. II Uioojui. iiinl servant, Mr nml Mrs .1 0 Wlllinms
nml ilmiicliti-r, Mrs Anton* Kl'.rrnce nml rliilil, Minn X llitvrrlv.
Miss Miuv •tuilinri', \V II Mi.nrsi-, Ca|.l A Wllllanis, lapt I
llriiililiii.il, W II (li.ulil, N X Kvmis, llunry Smith, S Knni-li. If
Kiilliiir. !l W Irf.uvc nml wife, X ismilli, A Silvia, C. Sylvlii—2-1.
tun lUxmi's Isi.anh- per lli>kiil<>n, Kcli. Ulli.—Mr. Hauler.
Kami Hi.st.is -|..r lllimi Allen. Keli. Illli Henry Allen
Knit Susi Kiiasi isc —iHTSinyri.li'te, 100, 17th.—Sll Onws.tl,
II I'iirtiT, II Kls.'lnr, O Sriii'lki'ii, W Ynuuir, .1 llrnkriinmii, .1
Myers, # Molntosh, MiniliUm. Chaa Munyanl, II Kli.-k.-ii
Sis
Slldl-11
Knr lliisi.bonii -psr l.ilii'lli-, Kill. IS— Mailnmr Alum Bishop
SrlllilU, llr BCOSM*, I'lnis IiBBSBIIBS, Ml** I'lirliili, BStBSM Van
ll.nl, Klsnlmru, Koamko, win- nml i-liilil, Hay, wifi- unit :l
.lnl.il. ii. Chan Back—ls.
rot N Kw llmiki.iii. pot nine ,l:uki t, Nk> It—l Kuwl.-r nml
wife. II X Arthur :i.
Kr.iin Sam Kuan. 800 -|iit 11. ('. Murray, Krl.. M- Mi C A
Wil.liiiiis, u if.-, 2 ill mid svl. Gael T l.i nun nml wile, Mtosra
K. Sim■•■ir.-i, II buaohtr, W Lodrato, W I. Julmnnn. W U J.mis,
11 II
J liuLer. II I'liln, lliunslii—lo.
-
us.
My family
Klh'in Allen, IJU iluyn Trom
H 0. Urcwcr
Bin
hark
Onward, HaaafaKaßd. 'i(>>\»yn fraaa Hjl h
Krnnt'iHi'M .villi nnl.tr |a Walker, Allen A Co
16—llremeii tmrk l.iht'lk', Tohiiut, 'ii ihiji limn Im
KriineiMK
10—llhw'ii I'iirf Nuiitinu, 60 ilnyn from Amoy, Chlim,
—■IglHd tv Melchem At Co.
2'l—Am Ht-tir JuveHtH, Howe, 4.1 day* from I'ort Aiiic'ln*
fii rout.' 1..r ThIiIU.
&I—Am wh hlii|> Kimly Morgan, Alln urn, 'JO ilnyn from
lit
MARRIED.
—
Hyatt— I'au lii Honolulu, by Hit, Itiv.
l'.Hh, Mr. Osvrgi Waaalrajtao Hyatt to ML
». 0. Daaeaa, Paw
DIED.
HiDKNNTiri.KH— At M, April 14, INttr>, of rontmrnpiiofi,
OftDTC* triiU'iiHilcktT, utewiird ol wh>tleahi|» 'M'lcero," of New
Bedford, DcOaHU-td wan it (Jeruiau, 'l'.\ yenr* of
hail redid
ft! in thU pUtM aiiicc S (lUiiil'iT, IH/ift; ami, for aeveral yearn,
had feWM i'iii|i|nynl in tin- Imkery Of Mr. <» 0. Mclean. He
le«»e* u widowed inotlur In hid niitivi' I<>tTll,
ntarh, ntvir
lln-im ii.
(Yttini.—Mrn. Annie M. Cutting, indue if Win. K. ,1 on Man,
dliil m
Masa., Nov. ;.uth, IKtlfi- aged ;t? yeai*
Ohkkv—Fvb. 1, tit Hella VIhU, Niumnu Valley, Itohert I-on
thlitii QflMa, infillll ■■• nf W. L (Irrni, >>i|
"Tll-Ti 1 i* M Hock, however watched and tended,
Hut MM dead lumti ti there !
There i» no tUi-alilc, howt-Yr di fended.
Hut haa one vmanl rhalr-"
Wtlijr—At IVincevlll.-, Haul. Feb. 7th, Mr. H. 0. Wylli*
lIU remain! were Interred In the Church yunl at Urn Witton
]ireuiiuei.
—
Baltftftfll In Honolulu, H<b. 2tUh, at the MUta. of Mr.
Duyeii, In Nuuanu Valley, .Mrs. Harah A. Hancock, aged SI
yen.rV Thedm lined wui a native, uf llalUinorv, Md., hut had
riiiilcd tome year* In Hun Franciacn, and ciime. to the I aland n
for tier health, ftie tiled of diieaae of the heart.
l.iHTi.nr —In Vearie, Maine, I>re. 17lh, Ullie, yourural
daughter of I.and ('. Y. Hartkit, nf IJot.oliihi, a>;e.l b yrari
and 10 month*.
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For April,
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Itev. P. 8. Klulng
I'. *. SU'iinur LtawaaMf
The Puritan ol 18l):t
Kdit ..r'e Tulile
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Sunny
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A few Thought! For the Cnnaiilrration u( frofrnnlng Clirintlani 30
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Marine Journal, atfl
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TII E F 111 E N 17,
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APRIL 2. IHOIT.
A Sunny-Side Item, Smacking
Olden Time.
of
the
In former years, and those good old times
of our grandfathers, the Puritans of New
England paid their pastor a reasonable salary in money, but that was not enough.
They drew wood toJns door and chopped it.
They sent the pastor's family nice upples,
and luscious pears, good butter and cheese,
besides many a choice piece of veal or pork.
The general impression is that those good
habits of the New Englnnders are passing
away. Perhaps they are in some localities,
but we are glad to learn that, amid the rugged hills of New England, there still lingers
muny a parishioner deservedly to lie ranked
among the best of those who lived in the
days of the Cottons, the Hopkinses, the
Mathers, the Edwardses, and those whose
names are recorded in " Mather's Magnalia."
This is one reason for our thinking so. In
one of those snug country parsonages,
quietly nestled among the hills of Worcester
county, Massachusetts, and cosily sheltered
under the shadow of old Wachusett, rearing
aloft his bald head and culm brow and looking abroad over the beautiful villages of the
Bay State, there lives a country parson who
has long since preached his thirtieth anniversary sermon from the date of his settlement. Now, the wife of that good parson,
writing to one of his former parishioners,
APRIL 2, 1866.
now living in it western homo, thus describes
incidents connected with the intercourse of
the ptistor Mid his people, but assuredly
without the remotest thought that a paragraph, of her letter would ever find its way
to those Sunny Islands and be caught up by
an editor :
seem rather on the
" Our people in
■tiding sonic They put away—some to
new homes, and some to their long home.
The last funeral Mr. P
attended was
will follow before
, ami gootl Mrs.
uiiinv hours. Our old friends are just as
kind us ever, and remember us in their
friendly way as they always have done.
Never doing great things, but steadfast—
sent Mr.
always the same. Old lady
and myself, yesterday, a very nice
P
pair of white woolen stockings, and Mrs.
brought me a supply of thread. Then
I have in the house a mince pie and loaf of
cake Mrs.
sent us, and a fine piece of
sent, not to mention
beef that Mrs.
's turnips.
's pumpkins, and Deacon
Thus, you perceive, though prices are high,
and we, not having much money in our
purses, have the comforts of life. I feel as
though I ought to commence this new year
with a thankful heart for the healing mercies ' bestowed upon us," &c, ice.
A country parson, with such parishioners,
would be, like the Vicar of Wakefield,
" passing rich with forty pounds a year,"
and long may minister and people live to
enjoy each other's society, and when they
pass " the bourne from whence no traveler
returns," may they enter upon the rest that
remains for the reople of God.
'
The Rev. Franklin S. Rising.—This
gentleman, who has been laboring during
the last four years as an Episcopal clergyman nt Virginia City, Nevada, arrived a few
days since from San Francisco, hoping that
a visit to these islands and a tour through
the group would prove beneficial to his
health. He is the bearer of most cordial
letters from the Rev. Mr Beckwith, Rev.
Mr. Buel, A. B. Bates, Esq., and others, in
California, commending him to the fellowship of Christians upon the islands.
{(DtoStritst M.J?,.
The U. S. Steamship Lancaster.—This
vessel, after leaving Honolulu, made a remarkably fine run over to San Francisco,
making the passage in a few hours over ten
days. After remaining there a few days
she sailed for Valparaiso, but having been
out two or three days she sprung a leak, and
was obliged to put back, and is now undergoing repairs at the Navy Yard. Admiral
Pearson, Lieut. Cushing, and Mr. Proctor,
the Admiral's Secretary, had left for Panama,
on their way to Valparaiso. Two or three
months would be required to repair the vessel. We were favored with a letter from
the Admiral, from which we take the Hberty
of making the following extract:
)
U. S. S. Lacaster,
San Francisco, Feb. 16,1866. \
My Dear Mk. Damon :—We had a tolerable run, mostly under sail, and arrived here
to-day. 1 need not express to you the pleasure which penetrates the hearts of Americans on visiting Honolulu, for every visible
object reminds them of their own beloved
country. We met there a diversity of people, but assuredly most of them have American tastes and manners, even to the native
citizens. Such a society is always agreeable, and the more so as we meet therein
many ladies and gentlemen among the natives whose intelligence and other accomplishments would not only grace the best
society of any civilized country, but who
are singularly interesting to us, as we feel
that the groundwork, at least, of their educacation and manners was laid by our honored
Missionary brethren and the teachers who
took part with them in the noble work of
education and Christianity.
I was highly gratified with the " Home,"
with its neatness and order in every particular ; with its provident, respectful and generous regard for a large and increasing class
of our countrymen, who so richly merit
the friendly advice and manifold comforts
which the seamen of the Lancaster were
sure to receive without stint at the Sailors'
Home, in Honolulu. I was, also, much interested in the Seamen's Chapel, ifc., »kc.
"The crowning feat, the kindliest act
Of freedom, is the freeman's vote."
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26
.INI! N
l>. APRIL, 1866.
every drop of blood in his veins
was tinged with as strong and true a "blue,"
in the Mayflower.
THE PURITAN OF 1863. as if he himself hadtolanded
the sterner doctrines of
| He took naturally
wkittkm ma nte nr.vr rtlM onsf.KVia
[ religion, while Mr. Allan, versed in a.'l the
MRS.
R. D. C. ROBBINS, MIDDLEBURY, VT. ! modern lore, questioned and doubted. The
BY
key-stone of Mr. Owen's theology was the
It was in the early part of October,
s sovereignty of God ;
Shall not the Judge
that the Rev. Mr. Allan started to walk to of all the earth do —"
right?" This was the
Farmer Owen's over the hills. He had to man upon whom God had now laid his hand
cross two low spurs of the Green Mountains, so heavily and Mr. Allan felt that if the
and as he climbed to the top of the second trial brought no murmur, no rebellion against
the rich valley of the Otter Creek lay spread that mighty Sovereign, the stein old faith
out before him. At any other time he would were indeed a rich one in which to live and
have stopped to admire its gentle undula- die. He knew that one element in this war
tions ; its great flower garden of forest trees, was Puritnn. Sons of the Roundheads filled
rich in every color and hue; its silver threads up the ranks of the Northern army. They
winding their way to trie waters of the Cham- marched to battle to strains of old tunes that
plain, and the glorious autumn light which had lingered in the nursery and the sanctualay like a golden mantle over them all. But ry front the day lhat Cromwell and his solthis afternoon he seemed oppressed by the diers chanted them on Marston Moor. All
beauty which surrounded him. He looked down the aisles of Time came tramping to
upon it with eyes misty from tears. There the music mailed men, bearing on their shields
was a dull, heavy weight upon his heart—a the two words, Liberty and Equality. They
weight which even the long, fervent prayers trembled on Mr. Owen's lips with his parting
that he had uttered so unceasingly since blessing to his boy. Would he remember
noon had failed to move. Between him and them, and would they comfort and give him
that landscape, we might almost say, be- strength now?
tween him and the mercy seat, there moved
Where there is affliction in a house, the
a slight, tall boy, with a laughing blue eye, minister is at home. Mr. Allan entered
clustering brown hair, and lips always ready without knocking, and made his way to the
with a merry pleasant word. To-day, there large, old-fashioned kitchen in which he was
was Bennie, nutting under the bare, brawny sure of finding the family.
arms of the butternut tree; throwing his
There, by a table, with his arms folded
line into the little brooks, that come babbling and laid heavily upon it, sat Mr. Owen.
down from the steep mountain side; driving His wife wns.in a small rocking-chair by the
his cows along the narrow foot-path ; stand- fire, and Blossom, a young girl, sat between
ing with Blossom undprthe bright maple, them.
and shouting with pride and joy as she
Mr. Owen rose to welcome him: so did
wreathed her pretty face in the gay leaves. Blossom; but the wife did not notice him,
•' Oh, Bennie ! Bennie!" Mr. Allan hardly she sat still rocking herself to and fro, looking
knew he was calling the name, until it came at the blazing wood.
back to him with such an empty, mocking
Mr. Allan put a hand in the brawny one
sound, from the heartlees echo ; " almost"— that was held out toward him, and laid the
Mr. Allan thought, startling himself by ihe other on Mr. Owen's great heaving breast.
seeming impiety of the words—" almost as My friend," he said, how is it with the
if there were no great, kind Father over us "decrees of God ?"
all."
and true are all thy ways, thou
" Just
As he came near Farmer Owen's house, King
of Saints," faltered out the man.
he saw his oxen yoked to the plough. He
There was something strange in his voice
knew they had been there since the telegraph —a thin, womanly sound, so unlike the deep,
came. Mr. Owen had read it in the field, stentorian tones in which he had always
gone to the house and forgotten them, and spoken
before. Mi. Allan, when he heard
no one had dared to put them up. He was It, almost felt as if it had dealt him a blow.
a man fully capable of taking care of his own
forsaken
" Thank God ! He hasofnot, then,
affairs under any circumstances, never having you,
and from the depths this deep trouble
been known before to forget.
can still say, ' The Maker of all doeth
Mr. Allan beckoned to an Irishman who you
well.'"
was passing, and asked him to take care of
—and for an instant there
" Yes, yes"
them. The man came with an awed look glimmered
from his dull eye a spark of the
upon his face, as if even there he stood in old
fire—" you don't suppose I
the presence of a great sorrow, and with- havecontroversial
held on to that anchor when the skies
out the least noise obeyed.
were cloudless, and the little waves just
Mr. Allan walked on slowly toward the rocked my bark, to let alone of it now—now,
house. He had known Mr. Owen for many when the great waves and billows are going
years, and he knew him well. Indeed there over me,
do you ? I've planted it firm, and
was a peculiar bond of
it don't yield ; no, it don't yield, but the
between
sympathy
the two men. In
all his large parish, there strain is terrible. God send it may carry
was not one upon whom the
oh, Mr. Alhn, say it will. It
as he did upon this strong, minister relied me into port;
sturdy farmer, has seemed to me to-day so dark, so wonderiviany and many an hour he
had walked by ful, so inscrutable, that he—my Bennie!
enVy! l en , was "Pining the brown Mr. AlUn, there is a good, wise purpose
d"»coursed with him on t icg behind it all. Can you see it ?"
whirl,
which would have
sounded harsh and
•' To bring you nearer the kingdom," said
ear but Which were fr
the
minister.
?Vl,al in,ereBt t0 them
don't tell me that; I can't bear it.
uwen
"
Owenwn
was a direct Jdescendant of
«'• God Oh,
the Puriis too wise; He knows a hundred such
PRIZE TALE.
IJ
tans and
,
!
;
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souls as mine are not worth one of my Bennies. I can suffer if lam too great a sinner
for God's grace to save, but Bennie ! Bennie!!
I have sat here all day, since the news came,
wondering, wondering ; he was so good a
son," —and Mr. Owen's voice grew almost
inarticulate in its emotion,—"such a dear,
precious, noble boy ! I thought when I gave
him to his country, that not a father in all
this broad land made so precious a gift,—no
not one. God forgive me if my grief is a
; sin. Mr. Allan, the dear boy only slept a
; minute, just one little minute, at his post;
I know that was all, for Bennie never dozed
over a duty. How prompt and reliable he
was ! " and Mr. Owen's eye wandered out
over the brown fields, with such a perplexed,
wondering look. " I know he only fell off'
one little second ; he was so young, and not
strong, that boy of mine! Why, he was as
tall as I, and only eighteen ! and now they
shoot him because he was found asleep when
doing sentinel duty." Mr. Owen repeated
these words very slowly, as if endeavoring to
find out their true meaning: Twenty-four
hours, the telegraph said,—only twenty-four
hours. Where is Bennie now?"
" We will hope, with his Heavenly Father," said Mr. Allan, soothingly.
" Yes, yes, let us hope; God is very merciful, and Bennie was so good —I do not
mean holy," lie said, correcting himself
sharply ; " there is none holy—no, not one,
but Jesus died for sinners. Mr. Allan, tell
me that. Oh, Bennie, Bennie ! "
The mother raised herself as she heard his
name called, and turning, said, with a smile:
" Don't call so loud, fither. Bennie is not
far off; he will come soon."
" God laid his hand on them both, you
see," said Mr. Owen, pointing to her, without making any direct reply. " She has not
been justly herself since. It is a merciful
thing she is sort of stunned, it seems to me;
she makes no wail. Poor mother! if my
heart was not bioken it would almost kill
me to see her so. Bennie was her idol. I
told her often, God had said, ' Thou shalt
have no gods before me.'"
Mr. Allan looked in astonishment at the
bowed man as he came now and stood before
him. These few hours had done the work
of years. The sinewy frame was tottering,
the eyes were dimmed, and the sudden sorrow had written itself in deep wrinkles all
over his manly face. He recognized the
power of the great, kind heart, simple and
almost childlike in its innocent, clinging
affection : how could this be reconciled with
the stern, strong head—the head that to
common observers outlined the character of
the man ? " God have mercy on you ; He
is trying you in a furnace seven times heated," he exclaimed, almost involuntarily.
be ashamed, father !' he said,
"' 1 should
when
am
a
to think I never used
1
'this great right man,
arm,'—and held it out so
proudly before me,—' for my country, when
it needed it. Palsy it, rather, than keep it
at the plough.'
Go, Bennie, then go, my boy,' I raid,
'nnd
you.' God has kept him, I
think, Mr. Allan ! " and the farmer repeated
these last words slowly, as if in spite of his
head, his heart doubted them.
Like the apple of his eye, Mr. Owen,
doubt it not! "
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27
1866.
mind,"but she told her story now simply and
Blossom had sat near them listening, with will neigh to me from his stall, and precious
on
back
waitstraightforward, and handed Mr. Lincoln
Blossom
stand
the
stoop
little
blanched cheek. She had not shed a tear
letter to read.
shall
never—never
come.
Bennies
to-day, and ihe terror in her face had been ing for me—but 1
BenHe
read
it carefully, then taking up his
;
bless
all
you
your
forgive
poor
it.
She
Good
had
so very still no one had noticed
a
few hasty lines, and rang his
wrote
pen
occupied herself mechanically in the house- nie." that
the
door
the
backMl.
night
of
condition
Late
which
her
mother's
"
hold cares,
Blossom heard this order given : Send
softly and a little figure
devolved entirely upon her. Now she an- stoop " opened
this dispatch at once."
and
down
the
that
led
out,
footpath
door,
glided
the
kitchen
a
at
swered
gentle tap
the mill. She seemed rather I The President then turned to the little
opening it to receive from a neighbor's hand to the rond by
her head neither girl and said : " Go home, my child, and tell
walking.turning
a letter. " It is from him" was all she said. flying than
left;
not, as the that father of yours, who could approve his
the
right
starting
to
the
nor
dead.
Mr.
from
the
'Twns like a message
fantastic
shapes country's sentence, even when it took the life
moon
queer,
full
stretched
Owen could not break the seal for his tremand
then of a child like that, that Abraham Lincoln
her,
now
looking only
bling fingers, and held it toward Mr. Allan, all around
hands
if
in thinks the life far too precious to be lost.
Heaven,
and
her
as
folding
to
with the helplessness of a child.
Go back, or—wait until to-morrow ; Bennie
The minister opened it, and, obedient to prayer. hours later the same
girl
will need change after he has so bravely
young
Two
as
father,
the
read
follows
a motion from
death, he shall go with you."
faced
the
comwatching
at
the
Depot,
Mill
stood
Dear Father:—When this reaches you
"
conductor, as
bless you, sir," said Blossom; and
train,
and
the
"God
of
night
ing
it
seemed
the
first,
At
shall
be
eternity.
1
in
who
doubt that God heard and regisin,
her
wondered
at
shall
so
down
to
lift
it
he
reached
about
awful to me but I have thought
tered
the
request.
face
that
was
upturnsweet,
the
tear-stained
much now that it has DO terror. They say
Two days after this interview the young
he held in his
they will not bind me, nor blind me, but that ed towards the dim lantern
soldier
came to the White House with his
hand.
thought,
I may meet death like a man. I
sister.
He was called into the Presitold
little
few
and
answers
questions
ready
A
lather, it might have been on the battle field,
room, and a strap fastened
could
have
cared
more
dent's
private
all,
and
no
father
him
fell,
when
it
I
that,
for my country, and
shoulder,"
Mr* Lincoln said,
the
upon
his
than
he
for
our
shot
for
child
only
tenderly
"
would lie fighting gloriously ; but to be
sick
a
comrade's baggage
carry
that
could
"
down like a dog for nearly betraying it, to little Blossom.
act so uncomplainingand
for
the
good
her
to
to
die
way
Wsshington,
She
was
on
father,
!—oh.
wonI
die for neglect of duty
for her brother's life. ly." Then Bennie and Blossom took their
der the very thought does not kill me. But ask President Lincoln
a
to their Green Mountain home, and a
1 shall not disgrace you. I am going to She had stolen away, leaving only note to way gathered
at the Mill Depot to welcome
gone.
where
she
had
crowd
why
her
father
and
write you all about it. and, when I am gone, tell
farmer Owen's tall head
back,
and
her;
them
She had brought Bonnie's letter with
you may tell my comrades. 1 can't now.
them all, and as his hand
above
heart
the
President's
could
towered
no
kind
like
Carr's
good
" You know I promised Jemmy
grasped that of his boy, Mr. Allan heard him
mother, I would look after her boy, and when refuse to lie melted by it.
fervently, as the holiest blessing he could
sny
reached
New
York
morning
next
they
for
He
The
him.
did
all
could
I
he fell sick 1
upon his child "Just and true
suitable
company
the
pronounce
back
and
conductor
found
was not strong when he was ordered
are
woys, thou King of Saints."
her
to
Washall
thy
on
into the ranks, and the day before that night for Blossom, and hurried
night
be
That
Daisy and Brindle and Bet
minute
now
a
might
year
Every
on
ington.
|
own,
beside
my
I carried all his luggage,
home
from pasture, for they
lowing
came
her
brother's
life.
our much. Toward night we went in on in
calling them at the
hear
a
well-known
voice
And so in an incredibly short time Biosdouble quick, and though the luggage began
he pats his old pets and
and
as
;
at
Bennie
gate
the
and
was
hurried
too,
som
reached
Capital
to feel heavy, everybody else was tired
looks lovingly in their great brown eyes,
and as for Jemmy, if I had not lent him an once to the White House.
catches
through the still evening air his
had
but
seated
himself
President
just
he
have
The
dropped
would
arm now and then
voice as he repeats to his
and
Puritan
father's
overlooking
task
of
by the way. 1 was all tired out when we to his morning's
these
jubilant words : " Fear
mother
happy
came into camp, and then it was Jemmy's signing important papers, when, without one | not,
; I will bring thy seed
for
am
with
thee
door
and
I
announcement,
the
opened
then
his
word
of
I would take
turn to be sentry, and
j Blossom, with
thee irom the
East,
folded
'from
the
and
gather
downcast
and
eyes
place, but I was too tired, father. I could jj
North
up, and to
West;
to
the
give
I will say
not have kept awike if 1 had a gun at my hands, stood before him.
; bring my sons
not
back
keep
South,
said
the
in
pleasant,
Well,
child,"
he
his
"
my
head, but I did not know it until—well, unthe ends of
cheery tones, what do you want so bright | from far, and my daughters from
til it was too late."
by my
one
is
called
earth,
the
that
every
j
and
in
P
morning
thanked,"
Owen
the
early
interrupted .Mr.
God be
for
glory j
my
have
created
him
name,
faltered
out
for
I
sir,"
reverently, " I knew Bennie was not the " Bennies life, please,
made him."
him,
have
yea,
I
have
formed
I
his
Blossom.
at
carelessly
post."
boy to sleep
Bennie ? Who is Bennie ?"
They tell me to-day that I have a short
""My
"
brother, sir. They are going to
During the late visit of the Morning
circumstances,
by
to
me
given
reprieve,
\
his
post."
shoot
for
at
sleeping
our
Colonel
you,'
4 time to
him
write to
good
Star at Pleasant Island, in Micronesia, Richhis eye
and
ran
father,
does
his
Lincoln
yes,"
Mr.
only
him,
he
"Oh
Forgive
Hamiltm, son of a Baptist Clergyman,
says.
I remember. ard
duty ; he would gladly save me, if he could, over the papers before him. "child,
at
Little Staughton, near St. Neats, Hants
it was
and don't lay my death up against Jemmy. It was a fatal sleep. You see,
desired to be reported at that
England,
of
The poor boy is broken hearted, and does at a time of special danger. Thousands
Captain of a
nothing but beg and entreat them to let him lives might have been lost for his culpable island, having been left by the
vessel,
bound to
trading
negligence."
die in my stead.
'• Beche-de-Mer"
graveof
motherand
Blosfather
said
Blossom
said,"
think
So
my
can't
bear
to
us
the
Rev.
J.
S. Em—so »c torts to
"I
and China
som. Comfort them, father! Tell them I ly, but poor Bennie was so tired, sir, two, erson, who saw him there.
die as a brave boy should, and that when the Jemmy so weak. He did the work of
but
Enigma.
war is over they will not lie ashamed of me sir, and it was Jemmy's night, not his,
Bennie never
as they must be now. God help me. it is Jemmy was Joo tired, and
Sunt mihi, sunt lncrymtE, fed non est causa
very hard to bear. Goodbye, father, God thought about himself that he was too tired."
here,
come
doloris,
if
?
me,
dear
not
at
all
as
is
this
child
'
you say,
to
seems near and
" What
ccelum, sed me gravis impedit aer;
he wished me to perish forever, but as if he I don't understand," and the kind man caught Est iter ad
non nascitur ipse.
felt sorry for his poor, sinful, broken hearted eagerly as ever at what seemed to be a jus- Et gui me genuit, sine me
be
with
tification
of an offence.
him
child, and would take him to
A Riddle.
life."
Blossom went to him ; he put his hand
and my Saviour in a better—better
up the
A great sob burst from Mr. Owen's heart. tenderly on her shoulder and turned
but not from sorrow ;
mine,
Tears are
anxious face towards his. How tall
"Amen !" he said solemnly. "Amen !" see pale,
a
pathway
up to heaven :
Mine
the
he seemed, and he was President of
in the early twilight I shall
sire, without my presence,
my
To
" To-night
dim
of
this
thought
!
from
A
pasture, United States, too
the cows all coming home
Blossom's
Daisy and Brindie and Bet; old Billy, too, kind passed lor a moment through
"
:
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:
I
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"
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28
British Colonies. His advice was: "My
young friend, you will get along very well
AIMIII. 3. IN6O.
in making your decisions you never give
any reasons or appeal to any preceEDT
ITOR'S ABLE.
dents." Such advice, if followed, would
New Book.
certainly save our Judges from a great
iron* or a Postiom or tuk DtcoiaioNtt Rknuereii amount of labor, but would hardly satisfy
it the Stratum Couht or Tint Hawaiian Iblani>«.
In lav, Equity, Admiralty and Probate. 1867- the views of an intelligent community in
-1866. B/ Robert 0. llama, Juetioe of the Su- which many imagine that they would mako
preme Court, end Member of Ilia Mejeety'a Privy
Counoil of State.
Hawaiian Rcporte, Vol. if. very good judges themselves.
Honolulu—Government Preaa—lB6*.
Leaving the Ixiok aside, we can most hearIDOE* Or THE BUMEHE CotlHT DtIBINO THK t'KrlHlli tily congratulate the compiler of these Reor hike RsroiTs—Hon. Eliaha Allen, K. C. X ,
Chanoellor and Chief Juetioe ; Hon. Qeurgo M. ports in having, nmid all the perplexities
THE FRIEND.
I
.
—From the Rev. W. P. Painc, of Holdrn,
Mass., copies of his Quarter Century Sermon, itiicl, ulso, a sermon preached by the
■MM genilemnn on the thirtieth anniversary
of his settlement.
From Mission House, Boston, a copy of
the Key. Dr. Kirk's Sermon at tho Inst meeting of the Boartl, at Chicago, and also other
publications.
, copies of"The Work
—From
Begun for the Freeman's Aid nntl Union
Commission."
, "American Artisan .and
—From
—
Roberteon, X C. X Vloe Chanoellor and First and difficulties of his situation, brought out I'atent Record."
Aeeoolate Juetioe ; Hun. John li, rVoouJ Aeaoolate
—From C. W. Brooks & Co., Sun FranJuatiee. Hon. Hubert 0. Dafie waa appointed this volume of eight hundred pages. We
Second Aeaoelale Juetioe on the 18tb day of Feb- can well imagine that it must have been a cisco, copies of their circular, forwarded per
ruary, A. D. 1864, in plaoe of Mr. Juetioe li, who
had resigned.
Attorney General Charlea ft most laborious undertaking. No doubt the Ajar..
Harris. X K.
From Robt. E. C. Steams, Esq., of
knowledge possessed by Mr. Davis of tin-
—
The Throne —the Bench—the Legislature,
the King—the Judge and the Legislator
hen evenly bejlanced and working Imrmoously, constitute a government " ordained
God," and whosoever resisted) the pow, resisteth the" ordinance of God." It hits
len the peculiar good fortune or providential ordering of the Hnwaiian Kingdom,
during the last twenty years, to enjoy the
labors and wisdom of Judges whose integrity, learning and common sense have secured the general confidence of the community. This fact has become so patent
that, of late years, those litigating in civil
suits have preferred, for the most part, to
appeal to the decision of the Bench rather
than to that of a Jury.
The second volume of Hawaiian Reports
has just been issued from the Govcrmnet
Press. The printing, binding and general
appearance of the volume would indicntc
that it must have been printed and published by those old publishers of law books of
Boston. The volume is highly creditable
for its mechanical execution. It contains
thirty-one cases in admiralty, thirty-seven
cases at law, nnd eighteen cases in equity—
making the total number of cases reported
eighty-six. Having been familiar with the
published facts and evidence connected with
most of the cases, we have perused the volume with much interest. It forms no inconsiderable portion of the history of this
Kingdom during the period covered by these
Reports. Aside from the judicial nature of
these Reports, and their great value as prewill bo read by many for tho
I and general information which
tain respecting the Hawaiian Kingill may not agree in the conclusions
i some cases. That would be too
expect, for the Judges on the Haaench have not followed the advice
d English Judge, whose advice was
iy a newly appointed Judge about to
ngland for his poet in one of the
Pthey
—
English, Hawaiian, Spanish and French San Francisco, copies of "Tin; Heidelberg
languages has been of immense aid to Catechism, in German, Lntin itrid English."
him in tho prosecution of the work. Al- The Tercentenary edition. This is a most
though Mr. Davis did not enjoy tho ad- valuable historical publication, mid is pubvantages of nn University edticalion and lished by Scribner, of New York. Also,
the lectures of a law school, yet from the (rom the same gentlemuii, a copy in two
dnto of his arrivul in Boston, when ■ boy, volumes ol I'rof. Shedd's " II istory of Chrisuntil he left the country, he was tinder the tian Doctrine." This is a work of great
very best of Boston instructors, who fitted research, careful analysis, wise discriminahim for Cambridge, but his eye-sight failing tion and felicitous phraseology. Dcncons
he wns obliged to forego the course. He and parishioners, who love their pastors,
spent about eighteen years in Boston under Could not tin better than present them with a
such teachers as Mr. Solomon P. Miles and copy of this invaluable work. We do not
Mr. W. Sherwin. Miss Anna Jones was believe there is any gift that a faithful pn.stor
his patroness—sister of J. C. Jones, Esq., so would more prize from n parishioner tlniii
long known its the United States Consul at the present of some valuable und standurd
the Sandwich Islands. It must bo highly book. This work of Prof. Shedd is pubgratifying to his early friends to learn that lished by Scribtwr, of New York, in the very
he has been advanced to so honorable a po- best style.
sition as one of the Associate Judges of the
—From Ce.pt. Wood, master of the British
Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Kingdom. ship Oracle, we would acknowledge u volutin!
It is surely it source of great and unspeak- entitled " Soldiers' Letters from Carnp, Batable satisfaction that the Judiciary of this tlefield and Prison," edited by Lydia MinKingdom has acquired, and deservedly so, a ium Post, and published for the U. S. Sanireputation for uprightness, integrity and im- tary Commission. This it a most remarkbook. It nevercould have been produced
partiality. Long may the Kingdom be bless- able
except in America, and by volunteer Union
ed with good Judges.
soldiers. Europe can produce many things,
but not such a book as this.
Many thanks to those who have kindThe Rev. L. Smith.—Letters have been
ly forwarded to our address the following
received from this gentleman which state
publications :
—From His Excellency Governor Bul- that he expects to sail with his family from
lock, of Massachusetts, we would acknowl- New York April 10th, anil hopes to reach
edge a copy of his Inaugural, addressed to the islands about June Ist. We met a memthe two branches of the Legislature of Mas- ber of his church recently who reported that
were earnestly praying
sachusetts. Liko many other of the produc- his old parishioners
for his speedy and sale return.
tions of Massachusetts, it reads "good, solid
Some remarkable fasls are coming
and substantial."
—From General Marshall, a copy of Gov- out in the grand summnry of the great roernor Andrew's Message anil other reports. licllion in the United Stntes. This is one :
—From Messrs. Trubner ii Co., of Lon- The Rev. Dr. Bellows asserts, upon the best
don, " The Bibliographical Guide to Ameri- of authority, that over III) per cent, of the
Union army wns made up of native born
can Literature." This is a most valuable
Americans. This fact silences the oft pub600
a
pages, furnishing lished slanders that the ranks of the Union
publication, of near
list of American publications during the last army were filled up with foreigners and the
refuse of European Society.
forty years.
�111 X VI.Ii; ,\ l», APRIL,
TS.herougnh ian
aBostnHawai
Spectacles.
Having been favored with n letter from a
young lady belonging to the islands, but now
visiting the United States, we venture to
publish so much of it us relatos to the " Hub
of the Universe "
Boston, January 6, 1800.
To-morrow 1 shull sit in the Old South
Cboreh, and listen to Mr. Manning, and I
anticipate a fine discourse. Last Sunday I
bean! Dr. Hliigdcn in the same place. His
text was "That we may finish our course
with joy." How grand and hallowed the
oh) church seemed to DM. So old fashioned,
with its second gallery so high up the folks
looked like children. The great soundingboard, pendant above the speaker* head, and
threatening every moment to drop. The
huge pews, all cushioned mid footstooled so
with such high backs only people's
ds were visible. I thought for some
c I had never seen such n short set of
worshippers till I chanced to notice only my
head was visible fo others. The trembling
organ; the sweet, perfect singing; the linted light, and ibe soul of the speaker made
US MM "not of this world." In the evening I attended the Monthly Concert at Park
Street Church. It was the anniversary, and
Dr. Anderson preached the sermon. The
remarks that followed were very appropriate,
and the congregational singing soul-stirring.
hear Dr. Stone, of that church, has at
t accepted tho cnll to Sun Francisco,
much to the sorrow of his people. They
linil already raised his salary from $4,000 to
$0,000 to keep him, but I presume some
extra inducement had presented itself.
Boston is such a big place that, positively,
it cannot lie seen for the houses and the
streets ! If it is not the twistiest place under
Heaven, then I don't wish to see it. No
wonder it is called the "Hub"—its curves
indicate its revolving nature. But I am
getting along nicely as to finding my own
way about ; and if I get lost won't ask any
one, but find my own way out. I really enjoy such fun. Washington street is a big
street, and, oh, what crowds do constantly
throng it. It is astonishing where all the
people come from. I am kept busy, I do not
have much time to go out sight-seeing, hut I
improve every opportunity. The Public
Library is n splendid place ; hushed voices
and soft footfalls only are allowed within it,
and such a sight of books, such method,
such inviting nooks for reading or study—
what a blessing it is. I went till over the
City Hnll on Christmas day, and it is a
grand building. It has been recently completed, and was open to the public for the
first time. We traversed six flight* of stairs,
and saw much to interest us. Some of the
afloat were very elegant—the Mayor and
Aldermen's rooms, with their velvet sofas
and chuirs, desks, stands and libraries ; then
tho room for the Common Council, with its
rich carpet, chandeliers, desks, easy chairs,
statuary, paintings, arched roof and enrved
:
X-,
fl
1866.
with his hat under his arm, looking benignly
on all who pass him.
New Year's day I visited the State House
and saw the battle flags of all the Massachusetts regiments, grouped a round the pillars and draped from lb" wall. It was a
painlul sight—(hose beautiful banners whose
silken folds glistened so brightly in the sunlight as they went forth—now torn, tattered,
spattered with blood and riddled with bullets.
It was next to witnessing a battle, in my
mind, and really made me faint. A few
days uro, in a gnind procession, in which all
the flags were curried, one standard hearer,
who lost both his nnns in battle, marched in
his place, and his tattered flag was borne
immediately behind him. Oh, how little we
know of the war !
Most Curious Relic.-Mr. Thomas C
Lawson, an Englishman, residing upon the
Marquesas Islands, has forwarded, by dipt.
Burred, of the Sunbeam, to our care, to be
sent to President Johnson at Washington,
a fan which hits been sacredly preserved by
(lie chills at the Marquesas Islands. This
fan, among those chiefs, wits valued from
More than
its historical associations.
fifty years ngo Commodore Porter, commanding the Essex, visited those islands
during what Americans speak of as the
" last war." In a skirmish between a boat's
crew of ttte Essex and some natives, this fan
was pierced by a bullet, hence it Ixvnme
sacred in the estimation of the natives. Mr.
Lawson asserts that he received the fan from
a chief who hud received it from a former
chief, who received it from some preceding
chief. Ho furnishes the names of these
chiefs in regular succession. He is very
particular in giving the names of these several chiefs and many other facts respecting
the history of the fan. Its venerable appearance indicates that it might have come
down from "olden times," and, unquestionably, has lieen long in safe keeping among
the peoplo ol those islands. Knowing the
habits of Polynesians, in regard to such
relics and traditions, we can place the utmost reliance upon these statements of Mr.
Lawson. Perhaps these chiefs and Mr.
Lawson may have bsM prompted to send
this relic in compliment for the presents sent
out by President Lincoln, as a reward for
rescuing Mr. Whalon, of the wlmlcship Congress.
The Rev. Thomas Thurston.-It affords
us sincere pleasure to welcome bnck to the
islands, as a fellow laborer in tho Christian
Ministry, the Rev. Thomas Thurston, son
of the Rev. A. Thurston, formerly of Kailua
but now a resident of Honolulu. Mr. Thurston left the islands about eight years ago,
doors, stucco work in plenty. Wo thought and has
been pursuing his college studies at
it would be very easy to look after the city,
Vale,
a
do
it
and
his Theological course at Union
in. In front
with such nice place to
of the building is a large statue of Fmnklin, Seminary, New York city. Ho preached
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an interesting, eloquent and impressive discourse tit the Fort Street Church, Sabbath
evening, March 24th. We think all who
listened to the discourse were most favorably
impressed with his übilities as a preacher.
We hope a career of usefulness, equal to
that of his father, awaits the young man.
The Rev. A. L. Stone.—The readers of
religious newspapers, during the last two
years, have been fully made acquainted with
the fact that a certain Congregational Church
in San Francisco, has invited this divine to
leave Park Street Church, Boston, and come
to the Pacific Coast. It appears that he has
finally decided to come. The Boston people
have been decidedly opposed to his coming.
The editor of the Congregationalist thus
closes a jeremiad upon this topic :
" The cause is one, and we huve no doubt
(hat our afflicted friends of the Park Street.
Church will rise to the heroism of bidding
him go with their blessing to his distant,
and in out' sense, lonely field. His sacrifice
will be great, under the best view of it; his
friends itere will not have the heart to render
it greater."
It is decidedly nmusing to read such lugubrious and lachrymal lines. Only think of
what a lonely plncc San Francisco is!
Then, of the good minister's sacrifices ! Last,
but not least, of the heroism of his friends !
Why, the simplo truth is, doubtless, about
this, the good man's heart has been aching
for months to get out where he could breathe
the free and bracing air on this side of tho
Rocky Mountains, and a twelve month
hence we do not suppose there would be
found money enough in the " hub" to
tempt him buck.
Ke Alaula, or The Day Spring.—This
is the name of just the neatest Hawaiian
newspaper ever issued al tho Islands. It is
to be published monthly, and is intended for
children. It is handsomely illustrated with
engravings as beautiful as those appearing
in The' Child at Home, or Child's Paper,
published by the American Tract Society.
An edition of five thousand copies will be
printed. This paper is under the editorship
of Rev. Messrs. Oulick and Parker. We
are confident it will be hailed with delight
by children throughout the Islands. We
hope the very best writers in the Hawaiian
language will contribute to the columns of
this paper, sending forward none but their
purost, choicest and noblest thoughts. It is
highly gratifying to know that the " Hawsiinn Evangelical Association " is displaying
unwonted activity in furnishing choice reading for Hawaiinns. Several new books are
in course of preparation. The Rev. E. W.
Clark is now in New York supervising a
new edition of the Bible, printed by the
American Bible Society.
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111 X IK I IV\ l>. APRIL, ISdfi.
A Few Thoughts for the Consideration thoughts for the consideration of professing agreement hath the temple ofGod with idols?
of Professing Christiana.
Christians, not of any one sect or denomina- for ye are the temple of the living God."
No man can serve two masters." '• Let
The duty of making a public, profession tion, butofall who are looking for salvation to '•not your good
be evil spoken of." "Abstain
|
of religion you acknowledge, for you have !
voluntarily taken your position in the community as professing Christians. By so doing you publicly pledged your names and
character that you would " stand up for
Jesus " as your Saviour and Master, Leader
and Friend. At the time you made a profession of your faith, you felt it to be a most
solemn affair. It was a turning point in
your lives. From the very nature of that
profession you took upon yourselves the
solemn responsibility of exemplifying the
principles of the religion of Christ, in the
face of your unbelieving and ungodly neighbors and friends. They witnessed the profession which you made, and in all honesty
have a right to expect Of you that, relying
upon the grace of God, you will carry out
your vows and fulfill your promises.
Among all classes in the community there
exists no question respecting the duty of
professing Christians always and on all
occasions casting the influence of their example and character on the side of virtue,
justice and good morals. While this may
be true, there appears to be a question in
the minds of some professing Christians,
whether they are bound to cast their influence in opposition to what may be styled
the popular amusements of the world, and
the strict observance of the Christian Sabbath. We refer, for example, to card-playing, dancing, theatre-going, wine-drinking,
Sabbath-visiting, reading secular neivspupers
upon the Sabbath, visiting the Postoffice on
the Sabbath, riding out for pleasure on the
Sabbath.
We are quite prepared to hear some of
our readers exclaim : " Those are small matters, and it is quite foolish and Puritanical
to abstain from such harmless pleasures and
recreations." Such remarks, it is expected,
will be repeated over and over again by those
who make no profession of being Christ's
disciples. In the view of thoughtless and
irreligious people they may appear of trifling
importance, but pearhaps not more so than
giving a cup of cold water to a disciple of
Christ, and yet He has said that whosoever shall do even this, will not lose his reward—Matt, x, 42. We take it for granted
that many of our readers will deem our
views too strict and Puritanical, but when we
see how strongly the tide of worldly pleasure
and Sabbath desecration is setting against
the Church—when we see how many of
the professed followers of Christ are being
swept away by that rushing tide, when we
see the line gradually becoming fainter and
fainter between the Church and the world—
ws feel constrained to throw out a few
our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. You
stand before the world as Christ's representatives. He has a right to expect that you
will be true and faithful to your solemn professions. The ungodly expect this of you,
whether connected with Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Methodist, or Independent Churches.
The nature of your vows requires this of
you, whether at home or abroad, whether
among friends or traveling among strangers.
If wrong for a professing Christian to play
cards in New or Old England, does it become right to do this at the Sandwich
islands or in California ? Perhaps, even
you may ask, what wrong can there be in a
single game of whist? In reply, we answer, if there was not a wrong tendency in
card-playing we are confident the Secretary
of the Navy would not strictly forbid cardplaying on board all United States vessels-
from all appearance of evil." "It is good
neither 10 eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is
offended, or is made weak." "Only let
your conversation be as it becotneth the
Gospel of Christ." "Be sober,"
Praying
always."
It is useless to argue this question. If
the heart is opposed to these views it needs
enlightenment. It needs more of the power
and grace of God to bring it into living
sympathy with the holy and blessed Jesus,
whom Christians profess to pattern after and
of-war.
It is stated in a late paper that the Roman
Catholic. Archbishop of Baltimore has
preached a vehement denunciation of certain dances used in fashionable circles, and
refusing both absolution and the saemment
to any who indulge in them.
As regards the various degrees of Sabbath violation, to which we have referred,
we feel constrained to call the special attention of all professing Christians of every
sect and denomination. Surely the clear
and emphatic declaration, "Remember the
Sabbath Day and keep it holy," &c, as
uttered on Sinai, should restrain all professing Christians from secularizing the Holy
Sabbath, or devoting its sacred hours to
pleasure seeking and vain amusements.
God never gave us the Holy Sabbath for
that purpose. Our Saviour, we know, has
said that " The Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath." But we
think persons assuming, from this declaration, that license is granted by our Saviour
to indulge in vain and worldly amusements
on the Holy Sabbath, are altogether in error. God rested when the work of creation
was finished, so let man rest after the labors,
toils and perplexities of.the week. Let the
interest of man's immortal and spiritual nature be the principal subject of attention on
the Lord's Day. We are perfee'ly convinced that the best interests of society, families, individuals and the Church demand
that Christians of every name, sect and denomination shoulrl unite in keeping holy the
Sabbath, and should refrain from doing their
pleasure on God's Holy Day. The foregoing remarks, we hope, will commend themselves to the thoughtful consideration of all
professing Christians who may chance to
read them. " Wisdom is justified of her
children." The Church should set the world
an example, but not follow the world's ex-
In regard to dancing, theatre-going and
wine-drinking, we are confident the soberminded and devout portion of all Christian
Churches are right in condemning such
practices. There now lies before us (he
report upon dancing, presented ars#approved
by the Presbytery of Onondaga, in the State
of New York. It is published in the New
York Evangelist, of Dec. 28, 1865. After
referring to the action of the General Assembly upon this subject, in 1818, 1827,
and 1563, the report reads as follows
With these judgments of our own Church
nearly all the evangelical churches of the world
agree. Dancing is not approved by Christians generally. It is regarded as an amusement into which they cannot enter. And it
is claimed by the frivolous and irreligious as
something distinctively their own.
Nor are dancing Christians to be found in
the walks of usefidness. Of the two thousand
Sunday school delegates recently assembled
in Syracuse it is not likely that many of
:
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love.
Such views as these are eminently sound,
and commend themselves to all serious
minded Christians.
Episcopalians and
Catholics think dancing and various worldly
amusements are particularly wrong during
the forty days of Lent, out why not equally
wrong at other seasons of the year ? We
confess our inability to see the difference.
them were dancing Christians. People that
attend the prayer meeting and come to the
Communion Table, that teach in the Sunday school and distribute Bibles and tracts,
do not usually attend upon dancing assemblies. Praying and dancing are so illy associated that commonly one has to be given
up for the other.
Conscience is against this practice. The
young cannot feel that it is wrong. The
person halting between two opinions sometimes finds the whole question poising here.
If dancing can be retained they will come to
Christ, but they feel that it cannot be.
The Bible too condemns dancing. It does
this by its spirit and teachings throughout.
These passages are in print, any one of which
is enough : Present your bodies a living
«
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, *
and be not conformed to this world." " Have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them." " What ample.
"
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AUOTIOJXrUJ3£I,
McCraken. Merrill & Co.,
SAILOR'S HOME!
(BrCCKBStoR To A. P. BVKRRTT.J
At hia late rooms. Queen Street.
475-ly
11. W. SKVERAStB,
AUCTIOINrEBH..
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building,
SUSHI STREET, HONOLULU.
Will continue business at the new Blamt.
FORWARDINC AND
(omul ission Merchants
I'ortlaiid, Oregon*
VI KG BERK ENGAGED I.N Ol'R HREsent business for upwards of sewn years, and beihit
(Ire
Hi
proof brick building, we are nrrparwl torece.Te
located in a
and dispose of Island supltrs, such hs Sugar,Klce, St rnpa, I'ulu,
Coffee, &c, to advantage- Consignments especially solicited
DR. J. JIOTT SMITH,
for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid,
and upon which ca.«liadvances will be made when required.
DBOTTIST.
613-ly
PAN FHAMCIItCO Rkfirrhcu:
OlBce corner of Fort and Hotel Streets.
Iladger Jfc Llndenberger,
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Co.,
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Kerens, Baker 4 Co.
Physician and Surgeon, Makee'aBlock, comer Queen and Kaa
Portland Rrfkhknckm:
huroanu streets.
478-ly^
Ladd k Tiltou.
Allen & Lewis.
Leonard k Green.
477-ly
C. H. WETMORE, M. D.
PHYSICIAN Si. SURGEON,
lIILO, HAWAII, S. I.
N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the
6-tf
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Attorney
llon(iu:i.c Rkfkrejicrm:
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490-ly
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Walker, Alien k Co.,
478-ly
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W. BROOKS &, CO.,
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Importer and Dealer in Hardwark, Ccti.bbt, Mechanics
TnoLB and Aoriccltcral Implemest:, For atreet, Hono
478-ly
lulu.
86
Officers' table, with lodging, per week,.
do.
do.
Seamens' do. do.
Shower Itaths on tbe Premises.
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Managers
Honolulu, April 1, 1866.
°
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Commission Merchants.
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W. N. LADD,
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B XT \V EE V
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lIFI'ICK-."' 11 tJaasaine St..comer Merc-haul
PARTICULAR
thePurchaae, Shipment and Sale of Merchandise ; For
and Transhipment Goods; the Charteringand Sale
ATTENTION GIVEN TO
to
warding
oi Vessels | the Supplying
of Exchange.
"
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of
,
"
Dr. Jaynet Celehrated Family Medicines,
Wheeler *V Wilson* Sevrinfj Machines,
Company,
The Kohata
TheNew England Mutual Lire Insurance Company,
The New York Phenix Marine Insurance Company,
TheNew York Security Marine Insurance Company.
608-ly
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a(>4
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San Francisco k Honolulu Packets.
Particular attention elven to the aale and purchase of mar
chandiae, ships' business, supplying whaleahips, ncgotiatlnf
exchanite. Ac.
CT All freight arrlrlns- at Saa ?rancieco, by or to the Ho
nolulu Line of Packets, will ha forwarJeii rBBB or commissioi.
XT Exchange on Honolulubought and sold. XS
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Messrs. C. L. Richards A Co
II UACEfELD Co
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C Bbewbb a;
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Dr. R. W. Wood
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I) C. Watebbab, Eaq.,
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AGENTS FOR
Wheeler & Wilson's
SEWING MACHINES!
ritn is
and 900 On 1Horn In Street,
SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FKANCIBCO.
of Whaleahips ; and the Negotiation
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Ills Ex. R. C. Wyllio,..Hon. B. F. Snow, Eiq
Ullo
" Thoa. Spencer, K«q
Dimomd Son,
on
Honolulu
Exchange
in sums to suit.
H. Dickinson, Mea...lAbalaai McßuerA; Merrill. San Francisco
ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
C. W. Brooks* Co. ~Ban F. U I. Lawton, Esq.,
Field & Kice,
New York
Tohin,Bros. & Co.,
REFER TO
Wilcox,Richards A C>>. 11.;».'ulu.
Jas.Hcxmeweli.Esq., Boston
Walker, Allen tf Co
391-ly
Honolulu. Henry A. Piikoi A Co.
Binj.
Esq.,
Sisb A Co.,
Snow,
Rutleb,
J. B. ATHERTON.
AHOB B. COOKI
F.
AU'L. N. CASTI.K.
C. Brewer A Co.,
Sdttok A Co.. New York.
CASTLE &
Bishop A Co.,
Wat. 11. Fooo A Co, "
Esq., Hilo.
11. Fooo A Co., Bhanghae.
General Merchants in the Fireproof 3tore, King Street, oppo- Thos. SrsMCKR,
Allmand tf Co., Kanagawa. M'Crakbn, Mbrrill A Co.
site theSeamen's Chapel.
505-ly
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-A-uotioneers,
Ship Chandlers
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& CO.,
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Merchandise. Keep constantly on hand a full assortment
of merchaudise,for the supply of Whalers and Merchant
613-ly
Tessela.
J. C. MERRILL,
W. A. ALDRICH.
MACHINEHAS ALL.THE LATEST
.ft: CONWAY,
KAWAIIIAK. HAWAII.
Will continue the tlenc-ra Merchandlee and Shipping buaineas
theabore
port, where they are prepared to furnish the
St
Justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re
cruita aa are required by whale ships at tbe shortestnotice
478-ly
and on the moat reasonable terms.
FIRE WOOD ON HAND.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
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awarded the highest priie alxive all European and American
Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS In 1841,
A RTFS ale VISITS I
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LARGER PHOTOGRAPH*),
The evidence of the superiority ofthis Machinela found In the
1861
record of its aalea. In
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The Grover A Baker Company, Boston,
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Massachusetts
The Florence Company,
For the Piirrh.inr mill Snlref lain nil Produce.
and on the aaoal rrasooabl. terms.
The Parker Company, Connecticut,
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Also forsalejl'hotnfraphsofthe Cralrra X llamas and
Singer */ Co., New York,
J.
M.
New
York.
Esq.,
Hood,
Jobs M.
Ilnlrakala.and other Island Scenes-, tha KINGS KAMI
Finkle A Lyon,
I
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HKMEHA, «c., 4/c.
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H. Greenwood A Co., Cincinnati, 0..
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N. S. 0. Perkins, Norwalk, 0.,
San Franclaeo.
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R. B. Swau A Co.
11. L. CHASE.
Wilson
11. Smith, Connecticut,
495-ly
Cbas. Wolcott Bboobs, Esq.
old 18,&60, whilst the Wheeler at Wilson Company, of Bridge
P. 8 —llarlng porehaaed the Portrait HagaUTea from lit.
ort, made and sold 19,725 during tbe same period.
Weed, duplicate ooplea can be had by those persona wlehing
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The Prize Tale we copy from the New
York Observer, but it can hardly be styled a
fictitious tale, for, during the war, several
incidents of a similar nature occurred. Only
a few days since we read one very nearly
corresponding to this. We think our readers will be interested in the perusal of " The
Puritan of 1863."
The Steamek Ajax will sail on the 4th,
and we learn that a full freight and large
number of passengers have been secuied.
This surely indicates that steamers will
eventually run between Honolulu and San
Francisco.
Surplus Revenue.—Report says that
nearly two hundred thousand do.'lars has
accumulated in the vaults of the Treasury
Department. We hope the roads, bridges
and other public works will be repaired.
The Public Debt of this Kingdom is not
far from one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. Most of this amount is paying the
bondholders nine per cent, per annum interest.
Next Legislature.—By Royal Proclamation the 25th of this month is appointed for
the assembling of the next Legislative Assembly, at the Court House, in Honolulu.
Information Wanted,
Respecting William A. Burnet, who sailed, in 1864, in the
u WilliamRotch.'- from New Bedford. It was reported that he
was
IKI I; .\ l».
I II X
overboard. Capt. Baxter was then master of the
ship. Should this notice attract theattention of Capt. Baxter,
or any one attached at that time to the ship, they are requested
to communicate with tbe Editor, or Rev. S. Fox, of New Bedford. If any keepsakes, books, photographs, &c, remain, it is
desired they may be kept. This unfortunate young man's
father is an aged clergyman, residing in Scotland.
tf
Respecting John O'Brian, who left the whaleship ''On
blacksraithing
and
worked
reported
is
to have
at
in
ward,"
Honolulu. His mother Is exceedingly anxious to hear from
him. Please communicate with the Editor, or Rev. 8. Fox,
New Bedford, or Mrs. L. A. Beideleman, La Salle, La Salle Co.,
Illinois-Box 461.
Respecting D. Glover, a Printer, but who has been sailing
out of Honolulu. By communicating with the Kditor, or his
brother in Vermont, or Rev. S. Fox, New Bedford, he may hear
something for his pecuniary benefit, respecting the settlement
of an estate.
Captain W. G Bell, formerly commanding a vessel In the
South Seas," writes us from Warwick Lodge, County Derry,
Ireland, desiring information respecting Jane Doyle, who came
to California in 1861. Her friends, residing In Ballynegufgan,
near Magherafelt, are exceedingly anxious to hear from her.
Any information will be gladly received.
Respecting Robert Boyd Stmonrf*, aged 40. Leftthe United
States on board the ship " General Williams," of New London,
about twenty years ago, and landed at the SandwichIslands.
Any information will be gladly received by theEditor, or Mrs.
tf
Abby J.Bellows, East Wilton, N. 11.
Respecting Allen McDonald. He is requested to communicate with the Editor, or his mother, Mrs. Anna McDonald, residing at No. 62 Washington street, Newport, R. I.
Respecting Harry Cook, alias Nicholas Henry Cook, about
28 years of age. He has sailed in tbe *' Brutus," Cambria, 1
"Jireh Perry," and rei<orted to be living on the Sandwich
Islands. Any information will be glady received by the Editor,
or his father. CharlesCook (Police Officer, No. 21), I,ll6Taylor
■treat, Sao Francisco.
Respecting John M. Jackson, aged 24 years; light hairand
gray eyes. He la a native of Clarksville, Red River County,
Texas. He left home In April, 1860. He is reported to hare
visited the Sandwich Islands, in company with one K. J. Keynolds. Any Information will be most gladly received by the
I'd itor, or the Postmaster in Honolulu, or the young man's
brother, R. 11. Jackson,Clarksville, Texas, care of E. Marques
4 Co., New OrL-ans, La.
Respecting John Bingham and Thomas Bingham, reported
to have been lost white attached to the American schooner or
biig Lodi, also reported to bare bean lost, about the year 1848
or 1846, while on her trip from Ban Francisco to the Islands, or
on her passage from Honolulu to Lahaioa. Any information
will be gladly received by the Editor, or John Bingham, Esq.,
at Adams' Express Co., Philadelphia.
lost
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APRIL, 1866.
MARINE JOURNAL.
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SPOHNR.LTFUI
ARRIVALS.
25—Am wh bark Peru, Smith,from cruise, leaking.
25— Am bark A. A. Kldridge, Abbott, 23 days from
Portland, with imlse to Walker, Allen & Co.
26—Ruas ship Caezurwitch, Al< xandroff, 18 day* from
Sitka, with merchandised Hackfeld & Co.
March 2—Am wh bark President, Kelly, 7 months out from
New Bedford, with 75 bbls whale oil.
3_Brilish bark Adeline Burke, Blake, 64 days from
New Castle.
s—Haw'u bark R. W. Wood, Jacobs, 120 days from
Bremen, with mdse to 11. Hackfeld & Co.
s—Am wh bark Sunbeam, Barrett, from a cruise to
southward, with 110 bbls sperm.
11—Am wh ship Josephine, Chapman, from Cat. Coast,
with 600 wh and 30 sp.
14—IIhw'd bark Maunakea, Robiusoii, 23 days from
Pugt-t Sound, with lumber to 11. Hackfeld k Co.
15—Am bark Whistler, Paty, 21 days from Sau b'ranciscc, with radee to 11. Hackfeld k Co.
16—Sehr Odd Fellow, 51 days from Baker's Island.
16—British ship Falcon, Gunu, 35 days from Valparaiso,
bound to China.
16—AmImrk Bhering, Lane, 20 days from San Francisco
with mdse to Walker Allen and Co.
IS—Am steamship Ajax, Godfrey, 10 days and 10 hours
from San Francisco, with mdse and passengers to
C. Brewer & Co.
18—Am wh ship Nautilus, Bliven, 9 raos. from New
Bedford, with 75 bbls wh oil.
18—Am wh shipOnward, Allen, from Coast Cal., with
450 bbls oil.
22—Am wh ship Champion, Worth, 7 mr>s. out from
home, with 700 whale and 4000 lbs bone.
22—Am wh ship Splendid, Fisher, from California Coast
with 300 bbls wh oil.
24—Am wh bark Roseoe, Macomber, 8 mos. from New
Bedford, with 290 bbls sperm.
25—Am wh shipUuy Head, Ridley, Otnos. out from New
lbs bone.
Bedford, with 60 bbls wh oiland
26—Am wh ship Cornelius (lowland, Human, from Cal.
Coast, with 600 bbls wh oil.
27—Am wh bark Jos. Maxwell, Chisc, from Coast of
Chile, with 160 bbls sperm.
27—Am wh bark Mouticello, Comstock. 128 days from
New London.
30—Am wh ship Reindeer, Raynor, from Cal. Coast,
with 600 bids ml.
80—Am wh bark Nile, Graves, from Cal. Coast, with
250 bbls oil.
30—Russian brig Olga, 23 days from SanFrancisco.
Feb.
DEPARTURES.
Feb. 26—Ambark Ethan Allen, Snow, for San Francisco.
March 3—British bk Adeline Burke, Blake, for San Francisco.
4—Scbr Javenta, Howe, for Tahati.
6— Am bark Onward, Hempstead, for San Francisco.
7—Am bark Comet, Fuller, for San Francisco.
14—Am bark A. A. Kldridge, Abbott, for Portland.
17—Am clipper ship Georges, Heustisa, for New York.
18—British clipper ship Falcon, Uuiin, for Foo Chow.
18—Haw'n brig Nuuanu, Hager, for Hongkong.
22—Am bark D. C. Murray, Bennett, for S. Francisco.
22—Am wh bark Sunbeam, Barrett, for Ochotsk.
23—Am wh ship Onward, Allen, for Oohotsk Sea.
23—Am wh ship Josephine, Chapman, tor Ochotsk Sea.
26—Schr Odd Fellow, Reynolds, for Baker's and Jarves
Islands.
27—Russian ship Caezarwitch, Alexandre!!, for Victoria, Y. 1. ■
29—Am wh bark President, Kelley, tor Arctic.
30—Russ brig Olga, Watker, for Japan.
Report or ship Reindeer—From the Coast of California,
four months from Honolulu, and nine months from New Bedford, with 600 barrels whale oil. Cruised this season from the
Bay of San Francisco to Margarita Bay. Took our first whale
near the former Bay, January 12th, 1866, and our last one on
the Coast near Cape St. Lucas. Had light winds moat of the
season ; whales very wild and hard to strike.
Saw and heard from the following ships:
Feb'y 23—Bark Richmond... Barm Cogan
600 bbls
23—Oliver Crocker.... Lapman
300
Ashley
25—Gov. Troupe
600
Kelly
26—Nile
260
« 26—Wai. Gifford
Fisher
260 ■
March 13—Mllo
li&wes
660
Thompson...
13—
J.
Brown
600 *■
D•'
13—Fanny
Hunting
800
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13—Eliza Adams
Fish
300
Have had light winds during the passage, being 16 days
On, W. Ratror.
from Clarion Islands. Yours, <Vc.
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PASSENGERS.
From Portland—per A A Kid ridge, Feb. 25—J Bush, M
Jones—2.
For San Francisco—per Ethan Allen,Feb. 2ft—C L Tilden,
I> C Waterman, Benj. Sini.h, A Uayoe, M Burns—b.
From Bremen—per R. W. Wood. Murch6—Fr Segelken, Fr
Wedemeyer—2.
For San Francisco—per Onwnrd, March 6—Mr and Mil
Miller, Mrs Levmore and s-rv't, Mr and Mrs J II Boltonand
child, J Spruauce, J W Bucknell, Master Oat. Master Dick
Crabb, X Stephens, Mr Gallagher, O P Clark—l4.
Francisco—per Comet, March 7—Mr and Mrs Ira
Richardson and 3 children, Mrs Brickwedde. Mr B Brickwedde,
J 11 Krivm.r. S J Dewar, ThsOwens, Wm Bird. C Kinnedy, C
llaaset, A C Fowler—14.
For Portland—per A. A. Kldridge, March 14—J Bush, Mr
Jones.
For Nkw York—per Georges, March 17—Mrs J F Pogue,
Sam'l W Pogue.
From San Francisco—per Whistler, March 16—ThotCoady.
G Coaks, A Wilkinson, Jas II off. F Coffin, W Hubbard, Mrs
Mary Chotlar, Master F Chollar, Wm Stapletoo, Peter Davis,
Mack Webber, Geo McConnell, J II McKay, Jas Dunbeary—l4.
From San Francibco—per Bhering March 16—Capt. Sam).
James, Mr D. Sprague, Rev S. F. Rising, and 4 in steerage.
From San Francisco—per Ajax, March 17—
Miss Nellie Freeman,
| Dr Gamberrelli,
Mrs Mary T Uayden and three Mark Twain,
children,
W W Kimball,
W II Kimball,
Mrs E A McDonald,
W II Brown,
Mrs J V B Hyde,
Miss Alice Hyde,
W II B!ackwood,
and
family,
J
Marsh
A
W P Hazelton,
Capt W 11 Dimond and lady,
C C Bennett,
Misses Dimond,
Geo W Frag,
Capt JamesSmith and boy,
Geo W Stillwell,
Capt W II Phillips,
II W Crabb,
Capt A W Fish,
Luke Keegan,
Rev G T Thuott n,
J B Gibbs,
Edward Merriam,
Anions Cavachochi.
For San Francisco—per D D Murray, March 22—Mrs Caverly, Mrs A B Bates, Miss Mary Bates, Capt and Mrs Leroan,
Mr and Mrs Monsoon, Francis Sinclair, B N Castle. Mr Chapman, J Steinmann, F Spaulding, W Syode, W B Nurse, G A
Simmons, Jr, A Williams, A W Allen—l7.
For Victoria—per Caeaarwitch, March 27—Alex M cKlnvon
For Bakbr's Island—per Odd Fellow, March 26—Mr and
Mrs White and 2 children-
MARRIED.
McDcrr—Luna—ln Honolulu, March 11, by Rev. 8. 0.
Damon, Mr. Alexander McDuff, of Honolulu, to Lulka, of
Knu|.o, Maui.
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MEMORANDA.
Aduis—PcHnsrji—ln Honolulu, by the Rev. H. 11.Parker,
•I
•
• • a • • ■a
March 14, Mr. John Adama to Pohunui.
Dimond—Umy—On the 10th day of January, at
Rrp.n ol Bark Saabrain ofNew Bedford.
the real,
Sailed froui Honolulu, Dec. 11th 1866, for a cruise on the dence of Charles Merrlain, Esq., of Springfield, Masa., W.
Line. Had the trades from E. to E. 8. E. about all the time Henry Dimond. of Honolulu,(late Captain U: 8. A), to Miss
with a rough eea. Crossed the equator Dec. 26, in long. 160.32 Nellie W. Gray, daughter of Dr. J, H. Gray, of Springfield.
W., cruised between the equator and Lnt. 10 8. Saw sperm No Cards.
whales twice and took 6 makiog 110 bbls.; touched at the
bHiDCBS—Xi LUBOILiNI.—In Honolulu, March 17th, by
Marqueaas Jan. 27th for water and wood, sailed Jan. 31st. Rev. 11. 11. Parker, Mr. George A. Bridges to Miss Mary KeCruised between the islands and the line 18 days, then crossed liihoalani.
the equator In long. 140.00W. Made Onhu March Ist, and
Walbbb—Molmttkb—On the evening of March 80, at the
Fort Street Church, by the Rev. Ell Corwin. Mr. John 8. Walker,
ai rived at Honolulu via Kawathae March 6tb.
D. C. Babbstt, Master.
of the firm of Walker, Allen Si Co., to Miaa Jeanle Mclntyre
daughter of 11. Mclntyre, Esq., of this city.
By the American whale bark President. Kelly, 7 tnoa. out
of
following
have
thereport
the
Bedford,
fromNew
we
veaaels:
Dan'l Wood. Richmond, 180 sp. off Patagonia.
DIED.
Champion, Worth, 117 wh. anil 40 sperm, off Patagonia.
Union, Rogers, 1 right whalesince hint report, offPatagonia.
Htitt—Feb. 2ft on board schooner Helen, after an Illness
Rainbow, Baker, 100 sp. off Chili.
Odd Fellow, Weld, 1 right whale.
of five months, Pall, wife of George
W. Hyatt, of Honolulu.
Sappho, Coffin, 1 sperm whale since last report.X LL V
D «»'niber 6, 1864, Denis Kelly (Captain of
.i. bark r*,' ■«»;,
the
of
Howland—Cruised
Balioaa
Ntie,
in
Rifobt or ship Cobbblius
Honolulu, on a whaling crulae), aged 84 years
late of Lowell, Maas. Captain Kelly leavea a wife and three
Bay until February 28, then sailed for Clarion Island. Remained there three or four days. Left March 3d for this port. children to mourn his loaa. (rj South Boston papers please
Sighted Hawaii, March 22d, and arrived in HonoluluMarch
28th. Reporta light winda veering from 8. K. to N. E. Have
In San Francisco, Feby 9, D. Flick, L.L.D., aged 78 yeara, a
taken 600 barrels oil. Spoke the following veaasls under date* native of France, and for several years a resident of Honolulu.
annexed!
Bbrbill—ln
Honolulu March 19, ofcongestion of the lungs,
Caatlne
2 whales. Maria Louisa H.,
Jaa'y 26—Ship Congress
daughter of Capt. Wm. and Mrs. Maria Ber200 barrels. rlU
26— Bk John Huwland. Whelden
of this city. Aged 2 yeara and 4) months.
1 whale.
go—Bk Oliver Crocker. Lapman
16
IlßTDosv-In Honolulu, Saturday morning, March
Feb'y 20—BkJ. D. Thompson. Brown
of
congestion of the lungs, Edwin Heydnn, aged five years,2tth.
20— Bk E. P.West.... Tinker
oldest
•>
aon of Mary Thuraton Heydon
Redfield
9 ••
SO—Cal. brig
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THE
RIEND
Beto Series, OoU7, Ho. 5.,
CONTENTS
For May, I860.
—
Paof.
Ecclesiastical Polity nf lbs Mission Churches nn tlie Ha- \ a3
wahaii Islands
5
33
Opening of the Hawaiian Parliament
33
What the Jesuits did not do in Japan
Lincoln..34
A Letter from the Kev. Jam-s Kelola to President
34, 35
To the Kriends of Missions in the Sandwich Islands
35
Loss of the London
38 i
Editor's Table
30
An Encouraging Word from II. li. M. S. Clio
37
Great, Good, Urand, (ilorious
37
Surplus Revenue
Death of S. H. Dowsett
37
37
A lleiuinisr.iiee of the Kearsnige and Alabiima Fight
38
The Empress Josephine and the Sailor's Old BhoSS
38
Encouragement to L:ibor for Seamen
38
Children's Playthings
40
Marine Intelligence, &c
THE Fill END.
MAY I, ISGG.
Ecclesiastical Polity of the Mission
Churches on the Hawaiian Islands.
Local difficulties in Church, as well as
State, often give rise to the discussion of important general principles. Refusal to pay
a few pence, as a ship-timber tax in England,
and the tax on paper in America, are illustrations in point. A difficulty has arisen at
Waimea, on Kauai, respecting the ownership of the church building. Two parties
claim the edifice. The case has come up
from an inferior Court on that island, lo be
tried before the full bench of Judges of the
Supreme Court. To hear the evidence and
offer the pleas of the counsel occupied three
days. The Court allowed the evidence to
cover a wide field, and the whole subject was
gone over with, in regard to the establishment
and government of the Mission Churches on
these islands. While we do not profess indifference to the decision which the Court
shall arrive at in this case, yet we feel that
the general question of ecclesiastical law and
custom among the churches is of far higher
consequence. Although our churches have
never laid down any platform, or published
any book of discipline, or even adopted a
common form of Articles of Faith, yet it
was found that there was a species of " common law" among our Island Protestant
Churches, which indicated a unity of sentiment in faith, doctrine and practice, which
HONOLULU, MAY I, 1866.
was highly gratifying. There was found to
exist an eclectic Church (ioveriinient, which
combined the elements of Presbyteriunism
and Congregationalism in harmonious union.
While local churches are essentially Congregational, yet they are subject to the control of island associations, and these island associations were found to be under
the general supervision of the Hawaiian
Evangelical Association. This ecclesiastical polity was ascertained to be the
gradual growth or development of the Mission to these islands, established in IS2O.
There was ascertained to be a net-work of
ecclesiastical law and regulations extending over every part of these islands, and
interwoven with the very existence of Protestant Christianity. Although without a
name, yet potent and conservative. Over
and over were such questions and answers as
the following put and replied to :
Q. —Is the government of the church
Presbyterian ? A.—No. Q.—Is it Con-
33
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call forth the energy and manhood of a people rising from the state in which this people were found forty or fifty years ago.
Their system is one which courts and will
bear investigation. More upon this subject
hereafter.
Opening of the Hawaiian Parliament.
In accordance with His Majesty's proclamation, the Nobles and Representatives convened on the 25th ult., at the Supreme Court
room, at 12 m. A large audience assembled
of both foreigners and Hawaiians. The arrangements were excellent. Seats were
reserved for not only Government and Consular officials, but for many ladies and
The Assembly was quite
gentlemen.
imposing. At the appointed time His
Majesty was escorted from the palace by the
military array. On entering the audience
chamber the usual display was made of national insignia. His Majesty was accompanied by his Ministers and Judges of the Supreme Court. The opening address was
gregational ? A. —No. Q.— Will you please delivered first in the Hawaiian language and
to state what it is ? -.—lt is a mixed form then in English. The Legislature having
of government, combining features of Pres- been pronounced as opened, the King retired
byterianism and Congregationalism.
and the audience dispersed.
One witness compared it to the consociated system of Connecticut. We have heard
it styled Apostolic.
Whatever it is, or shall finally prove to
be, we feel fully confident that it is answering the great and all-important purpose of
training and preparing its members for another world. Believing, us we firmly do,
that no particular form of church government—Presbyterian, Congregational, Independent, or Episcopal—to be laid down in
the New Testament, we arc of the opinion
that the American Missionaries on these
islands have been led from one stage of their
work to another to adopt a form which answers all essential purposes and is admirably suited to the state of social and religious
advancement of the people. We think they
have pursued a course admirably suited to
What the Jesuits Did Not Do in Japan.
They did not translate and distribute the
Bible in the Japanese language ; but this is
what the American Missionaries are now
doing. It is a great undertaking, and when
accomplished will be a good foundation for
prosecuting the Missionary work in that Empire. We refer our readers interested in
this subject to the letter of the Rev. S. R.
Brown, found in another column. Bible
translation is a marked feature in all Protestant Missions, and forms a most striking
point of contrast between all Papal and
Protestant Missions to the heathen.
We would acknowledge a bundle of
American and German papers, for distribution, from Mr. Henry Chester, of San Francisco. Such contributions arc very acceptable.
�111 i: FKI
34
ALetter
from the Rev. James Kekela,
a Hawaiian MissionaryIslaatnds, Marquesas
LParetAsdiohnted
Lincoln
Our. readers are familiar with the facts
relating to the presents purchased by the
$600 sent out by the U. S. Government, to
reward certain parties at the Marquesas
Islands, who rescued, Mr. Wtialon, of Ship
Congress, in January, 1864. The Hawaiian
missipnary, the Rev. J. Kekela, was one ol
those persons to whom a gold watch was
presented, in the name of President Lincoln.
The following letter, was written on receiving the valuable testimonial. As appears
from the date, it was written only a few days
before President Lincoln's death. The
translation of the letter from the Hawaiian
language into English, was made by Judge
Bond, late of the Island of Kauai, and now
residing in Boston. We copy this interesting
document from the Christian Register, published in Boston, March 3d, 1866.
[Translated expreasly for the Christian Register. |
Hivaoa, March 27, 1865.
To A. Lincoln, Pretident of the United States
of America.
Greetings to you, great arjd good friend !
My mind is stirred up to address you in friendship, by the receipt of your communication
through your minister, resident in Honolulu,
Jameti Mcßride.
I greatly respect you for holding converse with
suoh humble ones. Such you well know us to be.
I am a native of the Hawaiian Islands, from
Waialua, Ouhu, born in 1824, and at twelveyears
of age attended the school at Waialua of Rev.
Mr. Emerson ; and was instructed in reading,
writing and mental arithmetic and geography.
In 1838 I was entered at the high school of
Lahainaluna, and was under the instruction of
Messrs. L. Andrews, E. \V. Clark, S. Dibble and
Alexander. Not being in advance of others, I
remained in the school some years, and in 1843 I
graduated and was then invited and desired by
the teachers to continue my studies in other
branches, that is, to join a class in theology,
under the Rev. S. Dibble. He died in 1845, and
I and otherscontinued the study of the Scriptures
under W. P. Alexander. In 1847 I graduated,
having been at Lahainaluna nine years. In that
year, 1847,1married a girl from my native place,
who had for seven years attended a female seminary at Wailuku under the instruction of J. S.
Green, E. Bailey and Miss Ogden.
In the same year 1847,1 and my wife were
called to Kahuku, a remote place in Koolau on
Oahu, to instruct the people there in the Scriptures, and in other words of wisdom. I remained
in this work for some years. It was clear to myself and to my wife that our lives were not our
»wn, but belonged to the Lord, and, therefore we
covenanted one with the other, that we would be
the Lord's, " His only, His forever." And from
that time forth we yielded ourselves servants
unto the Lord. In 1852,certain American missionaries, Dr. Gulick and others, were sent out
on their way to Micronesia. I was one of their
company, and after seven months absence, I returned with E. W. Clark. On my return I was
employed in arousing the Hawaiians to the work
of foreign missions.
In 1853 there came to our islands a Macedonian
cry for missionaries to Nuuhiva, brought by
Matunui, a chief of Fatuhiwa.
The missionaries speedily kid held upon me to
jo to this group of islands. I did not assent iin>n«*alely. I stopped to consider carefully, with
much prayer to God, to make clear to
me that
tnia caH was from God, and I took counsel with
i; N
l). MAY, 1860.
my wife. It was evident to us that.this was a
call from God, therefore we consented to come to
these dark, benighted and cannibal islands.
I hud aged parents, and my wife beloved relatives, and we bad a little girl three years old.
We left them in our native land. We came away
to seek the salvation of the souls of this people,
because our hearts were full of the love of God.
This was the only ground of our coming hither,
away front our native land.
In the year 1853 we cumo to these cannibal
islands, and we dwelt first for four years at Fatuhiwu, and in 1857 we removed to Hivaoa, another
island, to do the work of tho Lord Jesus; and
from that time until now, we have striven to do
tho work of Jesus Christ, without regard for
wealth or worldly pleasure. We came for tho
Lord, to seek the salvation of men, and this is
our only motive for remaining in this dark land.
When I saw one of your countrymen, a citizen
of your great nation, ill-treuted, and about to be
baked and eaten, as u pig is eaten, I ran to save
him, full of pity and grief at the evil deed of
these benighted people. I gave my boat for the
stranger's li(e. This boat came from JameaHunnewell, a gift of friendship. It became the ransom of this countryman of yours, that he might
not be eaten by the savages who knew not Jehovah. This wus Mr. Whalon, and the date, Jan.
14, 1864.
As to this friendly deed of mine in saving Mr.
Whalon, its seed came from your great hind, and
was brought by certain of your countrymen, who
hud received the love of God. It was planted in
Hawaii, and I brought it to plant in this land and
in these dark regions, that they might receive the
root of all that is good and true, which is love.
1. Love to Jehovah.
2. Love to self.
3. Love to our neighbor.
If a man have a sufficiency of these three, he is
good and holy, like his God, Jehovah, in his triune character, (Father, Son and Holy Ghost)
one-three, three-one. If he have two and wants
one, it is not well; and if he have one and wantwo, this, indeed, is not well; but if he cherishes
all three, then is he holy, indeed, alter the manner of theBible.
This is a great thing for your great nation to
boast of, before all the nations of the earth.
From your great land a most precious seed was
brought to the land of darkness. It was planted
here, not by means of guns and men-of-war and
threatenines. It was planted by means of the
ignorant, the neglected, the despised. Such was
tho introduction of the word of the Almighty
God into this group of Nuuhiwa. Great is my
debt to Americans, who have taught me nil
things pertaining to this life, and to that which
is to come.
How shall I repay your great kindness to me ?
Thus David asked of Jehovah, and thus I ask of
you, the President of the United States. This is
my only payment,—that which I have received
of the Lord, love,—(aloha.)
I and my wife, Naomi, have five ohildren, the
first with Miss Ogden, the second with Rev. J. S.
Emerson; we now send the third to live withRev.
L. H. Gulick ; the fourth is with Kauwealoha,
my fellow missionary, and the fifth is with us at
present. Another stranger is soon expected.
There is heaviness in thus having to scatter tbe
children where they can be well taken oare of.
We have received your gifts of friendship according to your instructions to your minister,
James Mcßride. Ah ! I greatly honor your interest in this countryman of yours. It is, indeed,
in keeping with all I have known of your acts as
President of the United States.
A clear witness this in all lands of your love
for those whose deeds are love, as saith the Scripture, Thou shalt love Jehovah, and shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself."
And so may One love of tbe Lord Jesus abound
with you until the end of this terrible war in
your land.
I am, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States, your ob't serv't, James Kekila.
"
To the Friends of Missions in the Sandwich
Islands.
Yokohama, Japan, 14th Jan., 1866.
Brethren in Christ,—A little company of
believers of several nationalities, residing
here, have for the last seven days been observing the concert for prayer with you of other
lands, and whilst assembled this evening to
supplicate the throne of grace in behalf of this
heathen nation, it was unanimously resolved
to appoint a committee to issue an address to
Gods people throughout the world, asking
their prayers in a special manner for Japan.
In order that the ground of this request may
be better understood, permit us succinctly to
state the circumstances in which we find
ourselves here at the present time. There
are now Protestant missionaries representing
three or four branches of the Church of
Christ in this country. Two of these are at
Nagasaki and the remainder at this port.
Most of these have been here since 1859, or
more than six years. They see marked
changes in many things since their arrival.
At first the prejudice and suspicion of the
rulers of this country, led them for some
time, frequently to send posses of officers to
the houses of the missionaries, ostensibly as
friends calling upon friends, but really as
spies, to find out for what object these nontrading people had come to Japan. But for
more than three years past such domiciliary
visits have entirely ceased. The first decisive symptom of the abatement of suspicion
on the part of the Government was the
sending of about a dozen young men of rank
from Yedo to Kanagawa to be taught English
by one of the missionaries. More recently
the Governors of Nagasaki and this place
authorized schools to be opened for a similar
purpose under their auspices, and the Protestant missionaries were invited to take
charge of them. One missionary at Nagasaki, has during the last year, devoted three
or four hours a day to the school there. The
school at Yokohama, has over fifty members,
and for more than two years past, three, and
sometimes four, ol the missionaries have
been engaged in it, teaching an hour or two
each day. A large supply of American
school books has been imported by the Governor for the school, and the teachers have
in no wise been restricted as to the manner
or matter of their teaching. Through the
use of these foreign school booltt more or
less of Christian truth is almost daily brought
in contact with the minds of the pupils, and
has been freely made the subject of explanation and remark in the classes. The effect
of this, is manifest in the unhesitating manner in which the pupils make inquiries, and
seek information on religious subjects, and
in the frequent expression given to Christian
facts and doctrines in their school exercises.
Four years ago, when copies of a book entitled the " Christian Reader," were bought
of a missionary, by some young men who
were desirous to learn English, they at once
erased the word " Christian," from the title
page and cover, for fear it should be noticed
by others and bring them into trouble. Now
a considerable number of those who have
been under instruction have purchased copies
of the scriptures for their own use. In the
school rooms and in our houses there is no
reluctance to speak, and many do speak from
�I 11E r'KIKNU, MAY, 1866.
day to day, of God, of Christ and Christianity. The name of Jesus is no longer uttered
with bated breath. Some of the wives of
missionaries also have interesting classes of
Japanese boys under their instruction in
English, with great succes.
A medical missionary has a dispensary
thronged with patients from day to day,
where the ten commandments and passages
of scripture in Japanese are hung upon the
walls, and read by the patients.
Again, the Gorojiu or council of State at
Yedo, is now making arrangements to erect
extensive buildings in this town, for a school
in which some hundred young men of the
higher class, are to be taught, in an English
and a French department, and the Protestant
missionaries have been requested to take
charge of the former. These facts will enable you to see to what extent the Japanese
have come to repose confidence in the missionaries. Meantime the members of the
several missions have applied themselves to
the study of Japanese, endeavoring to make
their labors in this direction available to
those who may come after them, by publishing works for this purpose, and a JapaneseEnglish Dictionary containing some 40,000
words is now nearly for the press. Most, if
not all of them have for a good while past
been at work upon the translation of the
Bible, so that, by a few months of cooperative labor, they would be ready to publish at
least the four gospels in Japanese.
Contrary to the general expectation it has
been found that the Japanese generally do
not entertain a feeling of hostility to foreigners, nor are they bigoted in religious matters.
They even pride themselves upon being less
stiff, and more liberal in the latter respect
than the Chinese. Those who belong to the
class called Samurai, who alone are eligible
to civil or military office, manifest much
eagerness to gain a knowledge of Western
languages, science and arts. Some of those
who have been or are now studying English,
are in the habit of going daily to the missionaries' houses, in groups of from two or
three to six or seven, to read the English
Bible, prefejring this to the study of schoolbooks. These intelligent young men, frequently express their earnest desire that the
day may soon come, when all their countrymen shall have the Holy Scriptures, and the
free political institutions, of which they are
the basis'. Tbey despise the Budhist creed
and the Budhist priests.
One of the first teachers employed by the
missionaries in 1860 recently died, in the
assurance that he was about to be with Jesus.
He had, at his own request, been baptized in
his own house and in the presence of his
own family, with their full consent. Thus
the first fruit of the gospel in Japan, at least
in our time, has been gathered into the garner of God.
Here, then, we are, in the presence of this
great heathen population, estimated by themselves to number 32,000,000, and you may
ask, ' what hinders the gospel from being
freely and publicy preached?' This is the
question, that presses us at this moment, and
urges us to ask your prayers for this people.
This government is in some respects a
strong one. In consequence of what occurred with the Jesuits and monks of former
times, it took the most stringent measures to
efface the very name of Christianily, as that
of a crafty usurper, from the memory of its
subjects, or else to make it the symbol of
whatever is dangerous and detestable. Unfortunately the Jesuits did not leave the Bible in Japan when they were banished from
the country, else the condition of things here
now, might have borne more resemblance to
that in Madagascar. But now, every man,
woman and child, must be registered at some
Budhist or Shinto temple, or be denied a
decent burial. Thus every Japanese is
within the grasp of an iron hand, the hand
of the government. There is no evidence
that the old edicts against Christians have
been revoked; no proclamation from the
government as yet assures the people that
they would not be treated as criminals
worthy of the death penalty, should they be
suspected of favoring the Christian religion.
The missionary might or might not suffer for
the offence of preaching, but his hearers
would. • Here, then, we hesitate and desire
to know the divine will and our duty. We
would neither be cowardly nor rash. We
call upon our brethren in Christ to pray, that
this last obstacle may be removed,—that the
treaty powers represented in Japan, may be
inclined to do what Christian governments
ought to do in this behalf, —that the Spirit
of God, may move the rulers of Japan to
proclaim liberty to their subjects, liberty to
hear and read the word of God,—and thus
that speedily these everlasting doors may be
lifted up, and the King of Glory may come
in. May we not hope that those whom this
address reaches, will remember this object in
their families and closets, and meetings for
prayer, and that it will be specially inserted
among the subjects forming the programme
for the week of prayer at the opening of the
year 1867. In behalf of the Committee.
S. R. Brown.
Loss of the "London."
English andAmerican newspapersreceived
by a late mail, contain full narrations of the
loss of an Australian Steamer, with a large
number of. passengers. It is reported that
269 went down with the vessel, which had
sprung a leak in a fearful gale offthe Bay of
Biscay. One boat's crew alone were saved
to report the sad particulars of the vessel's
loss. The particulars as published in the
" Times" of January 19th, are most heartrending. There were two clergyman on
board, the Rev. Dr. Woolley and the Rev.
Mr. Draper. There was also a noted trageThe Captain,
dian, Mr. G. Y. Brooks.
who was among those who perished, is reported to have conducted himself with great
calmness and composure, and was seen
walking the quarter deck when the vessel
went down. As the boat pushed off from
the doomed vessel, a young lady shrieked
out an offer of " a thousand guineas if you'll
take me in." It was too late, and she perished with the rest. All the accounts which
we have read, bear the most honorable testimony to the heroic conduct and faithful
35
preaching of the Rev. Mr. Draper, a We?leyan minister bound) out to Australia. In
the " Watchman and Wesleyan Advertiser"
for 31st of January, we find a communication from a correspondent, who appears to
have taken much pains to ascertain the facts
respecting the loss of the " London." He
thus refers to the Rev. Mr. Draper:
" Being anxious to obtainall the information
I could about the " London," I made it my
business to see two of the men who were
saved in the small boat, and I had a long
conversation with them. They both spoke
in the very highest terms of Mr. Draper's
conduct, and stated that he had exhorted and
prayed, almost without intermission, for
twelve or fourteen hours before the vessel
went down. One of them said when he
last saw him, about an hour before the boat
left, he was then in the saloon, and that men
and women in distress were going up to him
and saying, " O ! Mr. Draper, pray for me,"
or pray with me. The last words he heard
him say were " Well my friends, our captain
tells us there is no hope, but the Great Captain above tells us there is hope that we may
all get safe to heaven." Another said, he
saw Mr. Draper a few minutes bofore the
boat pushed off, that he was then speaking
with deep emotion, but in a strong clear
distinct voice, and that the last words he
recollected having heard him say, were
" Those of you who are not converted, now
is the time, not a moment to be lost, for in a
few minutes we shall all be in the presence
of our Judge." Thus he, doubtless, continued to exhort and entreat until the sinking
of the vessel stopped his utterance, and he
" ceased at once to work and live," realizing
in his last moments the wish expressed in a
verse which he often sung :—
if with my latest breath,
" Happy,
I may but gasp his.name.
Preach him to ail, and cry in death,
« Behold, behold the Lamb.' "
" During one of the last conversations 1
had with him, I expressed my regret that his
stay in this country was so short, and that,
owing to various circumstances, I had not
been able to see so much of him as I could
have wished. He thanked me very kindly
and replied, "Well, I could spend another
year in England very pleasantly, and should
like to do so if my conscience would allow
me, but I feel I must get back to my work."
Little did he then imagine that his work on
earth was so nearly finished, and that he was
so soon to enter into the joy of his Lotd.
But, if " that life be long which answers life's
great end," then Mr. Draper has lived a long
life; and, having had the pleasure of his
acquaintance upwards of twenty years, I can
testify that his was a joyous, happy life, and
that much of his happiness consisted in seeing others happy and endeavouring to make
them so.
"I have made this hurried notice much
longer than I at first intended it to be, but it
has afforded me a mournful pleasure to pay
this last tribute of affectionate esteem and
regard to the memory of a long tried, true,
and highly valued friend.
I am, Gentlemen, yours very truly,
A. M'Arthur.
Raleigh Hall, Brixton, Jan. 29, 1866.
�36
THE FUIENU, MAY,
1866.
ians, but only for their religious." How his quarterly tours through the districts of
Bishop Staley could have allowed such an Hilo and Puna, and carefully acquainted
Mil 1, 1866.
assertion to go from his pen, before the Eng- himself with the professing Christian people,
lish people, is to us utterly unaccountable. he never would have allowed his pen to have
Editor's Table.
Who has taught these people to sew, to written the following paragraph in his jourKind friends will accept our thanks for plough, to wear clothing, to read, to introduce nal :
This nation is as really heathen as
keeping our table constantly supplied with civilized customs and practices. On the ever it was, only with a thin film of Chrisnew books, pamphlets and newspapers.
41st page of this very pamphlet, Manley tianity over it." When Bishop Staley or
" Fku—'fulness in Old Age."—This is Hopkins, Hawaiian Consul in London, com- his friends publish such assertions, the Amerthe title of a funeral sermon preached in the pliments the Missionaries, in no measured ican M issionaries are put upon the defensive.
Central Presbyterian Church " of Brooklyn, terms, for what they had done. He compli- If inclined to be captious and controversial
N. V., by the Pastor, the Rev. J. E. Rock- ments them for rendering " much useful as- this pamplet abounds with statements and
well, D. D:, on tho death of Mr. John Morris. sistance in governing the country." Un- assertions which are highly calculated to
The Pastor of a church may well utter words less the Missionaries had some regard to the call forth remark, hence we regard its publiof touching eulogy and feeling lamentation social and physical wants of this people, cation as exceedingly injudicious.
over the remains of one who had attained why has the Board sent out physicians,
Pastoral Letter of the Rt. Rev. H.
"
"
the ripe old age of " four score and ten," and thousands upon thousands " in the Potter, D. D., with the Replies.—This is
"
and had spent a large proportion of his life shape of medicines, to be distributed gratuit- a goodly sized pamphlet of 140 pages, conin upholding the Pastor's hands and laboring ously. Appropriations for the medical de- taining the cream of a discussion now going
for the good of the Church and his fellow- partment have always been as ample as for forward in
the Protestant Episcopal Church
men.
any other department of Mission labor. of the United States, respecting the inter" Occasional Paper of the Hawaiian But we did not sit down to review this pam- pretation of certain Articles of that Charch.
Church Mission."—This is a pamphlet of phlet, yet we cannot refrain fiom noticing Bishop Potter takes very High Church views,
63 pages, published in England, and contains his reference to the labors of the Rev. Mr. and some of his diocese have adopted views
"Bishop Staley's Journal of a Missionary Coan, at Hilo. The Bishop asserts that a the very opposite. The replies are from the
Tour in Oahu and Hawaii;" " Extract of a certain Christian man " went over to the Rev. S. H. Tyng, D. D., the Rev. E. H.
Sermon of the Rev. George Mason;'" Extracts Roman Church only last year, having Canfield, D. D., the Rev. J. C. Smith, D.
from Cornhill Magazine;" "Urgent appeal nothing to believe, and no objective worship D.,and the Rev. W. A. Muhlenberg, D. D.
from the Bishop of Oxford," ice.
under Mr. Coan's wretched system." Now, The replies are very able and indicate that
In reading the Bishop's journal we have it so happened that we visited Hilo during the writers are determined to enjoy that libmet with some paragraphs, which read rath- the summer of the very year referred to. erty in practice to which they are entitled by
er strangely.
We now state what we saw : In company a fair interpretation of the rules and regulaIn his journal for January 13th, 1863, with Mr. Coan, the Missionary, we walked tions of the Episcopal Church of the United
kept while making a tour around Oahu, the into the outskirts of the village of Hilo. It States. This pamphlet contains much usewas a warm day in July. We came upon ful and valuable information.
Bishop makes an entry after this style
The
for
a
district
only
spiritual
provision
a school house, or small building, where the
"
of 45 miles by 10, at the north of the island, common people assembled. Now, what An Encouraging Word from H. B. M.'s
Ship " Clio."—It is most encouraging to
called Waialua, is that of a Congregationalist were the natives
doing ? Were they sleepwho never baptizes infants. The people
receive letters from seamen and strangers
when they die are buried like dogs, without ing ? No. Were they drinking ? No.
who have visited Honolulu, and look back to
a service, and they are married civilly only. Were they playing cards ? No. But
where they received
considers there is a great opening each one had his Bible open, and they this spot ns the place
Mr.
and formed good resolufor a clergyman, and he says £150 could be
good
impressions
were earnestly endeavoring to arrive at the
lies before us a letter recently
guarantied from the natives, who are most
meet- tions. There
desirous to have one. This, with _100 from meaning of a certain passage. The
a warrant officer on board H.
received
from
the S. P. G., would suffice for a married cler- ing was conducted by one of their number.
Clio, which visited Honolulu
gyman with a small family. But he must During the exercise one delivered an extem- B. M.'s ship
year
ago. We quote as follows
about
one
be a clever and good preacher. What is pore sermon! and then his hearers made
evening after leaving
Wednesday
wanted is some one to take an interest, not
"The
remarks upon the doctrines inculcated. A
Society was formour
Abstinence
only in the religious but also in the social
Honolulu
and physical welfare of the people, which more orderly, quiet and praiseworthy gather- ed, and it has been well attended every week
the American Missionaries seem never to ing we never attended. It was very manisince, and with a gracious influence, so that
have done."
fest that " Mr. Coan's system " was anyThis is something new to us, thatCdngre- thing but "wretched." The people so far men have not only been led to put away the
also to put away inigationalists never baptize infants! So far from having nothing to believe, had the intoxicating cup, but
and
turn unto God." The whole letquity
as we know, it is always their practice to Bible, and to its study they were devoted.
Christian
baptize the children of parents either of We hesitate not in making the assertion that ter breathes an earnest and truly
on board are members of the
Some
spirit.
whom are members of the Church, and we Mr. Coan has adopted and pursued a system
a class,
presume the Bishop would not baptize an eminently scriptural, practical and useful. Wesleyan Society and have formed
who are resolved to live a
embracing
those
infant whose parents or whose sponsors were As a Missionary of broad views and laborilife. We are rejoiced to know
not church members! Hence, in
ous practice, Mr. Coan has but few equals Christian
the practice ofCongregationalists and Church- in any part of the Christian world, and, in that other of Her Majesty's vessels of war, in
men' is the Same, olthough they might differ our opinion, any man in this world merits, this ocean, contain among their crews Godif
fearing and temperate men. When vessels
as to what constitutes a Church member.
par excellence, the title of Bishop, it is the of this description
touch at Honolulu, their
The Bishop asserts that "the American Rev. Titus Coan, of Hilo.
crews will find sincere friends to give them
Nonaries seem never to have had a regard
We honestly think if Bishop Staley had a cordial welcome and speed them on their
for the social and physical welfare of Hawai- accompanied the Kcv.
Mr. Coan in one of course heaven-ward.
THE FRIEND.
"
"
"
i
:
:
�THE FItI
Great, Good, Grand, Glorious.
When traitors fired upon Sumpter great
was the uprising of the people. When the
army of the Union needed recruits, it was
good to have 200,000 colored troops to fill
up the ranks and march shoulder to shoulder with the white soldier, to put down the
rebellion.
When President _incoln saw the situation of the whole country, he resolved to issue
his Emancipation Proclamation —this was
grand, and even more so for the people to confirm, by their vote, the passage of the law
abolishing slavery throughout the country,
and annex the same to the Constitution.
When a majority of the people's Senators
and Representatives, in good faith, passed
laws for the protection of the freedmen, and
the President vetoed those bills, it is glorious
to witness the noble and firm conduct of
those Congressmen in passing the " Civil
Rights " bill over the President's veto. As
we understand the provisions of that important bill, the colored man now stands
upon perfect equality with the white man,
except upon the suffrage question. He may
buy and sell, sue and be sued, go and come,
give evidence, and in all civil respects be
his own master as much as the white man,
and whoever shall oppress him, or abridge
his civil liberty, shall be fined and imprisoned. Let no man, after this, assert that the
civil war in America is barren of good fruits.
" John Brown's soul is morching on." We
hope, hereafter, to hear or read no more repetitions of that meanest and most contemptible of political sentiments, Ihe United States
Government is only " the white man's government." We are confident that every true
American and friend of liberty, throughout
the world, will hail with delight and rapture
the passage of this law. Brother Jonathan,
white or black, may now " put his hat
squarely on his head, and walk like a man
I: \D,
—
Surplus Revenue.
Shakspeare and
Kamehameha Y. both say " Money in the
bag." We are not aware as another Potentate, in any part of the world, in the year
1866, can appear before his people and announce that the Treasury is full! According to the report of the Minister of Finance
there was a balance in the Treasury on the
Ist of April of $169,059 34. The total
expenditures of this Kingdom for two years
have been $582,341 02, or $291,170 51,
per annum.
Death of S. H. Dowsett, Esq.—lt was
with unfeigned sorrow that we heard the announcement of the death of Mr. Dowsett.
We had known him from boyhood, and witnessed with delight his gradual advancement
to become an esteemed citizen and merchant
in Honolulu. In all the social and domestic
relations of Hfe he was respected and beloved. His untimely death will be deeply
felt in this community.
Vote on the Civil Rights Bill.—In the
Senate the vote stood 33 yeas and 15 noes.
In the House of Representatives, 122 yeas
and 18 noes. The noes would have been a
few more, but some members of the House
were so indignant, when they saw how the
vote was going, that they left without allowing their names to be recorded. Most anxiously shall we look for the news by the next
mail from the United States.
We would acknowledge a valuable
contribution of books for seamen from Mrs.
Chamberlain, in Honolulu. Our friends
need not imagine that the Depository can be
over-supplied. Seamen are calling continually for reading matter. They are becoming acquainted with Mr. Dunscombe, who
has charge of the Reading Room and Depository.
Generous Reward for a Kindly Act.—
Some years ago, a native of this city, now
residing in Boston, met there a man intoxicated and in want. The man said he had
been led away and was desirous of assistance. He was taken in, and when sober,
among men."
money was furnished him to return to his
Some years ago a young man by the home in New York. Recently that man,
name of Hyde, was sent as a Mormon Mis- ever after sober and respectable, died rich,
recollecting the kindness shown him by
sionary to the Sandwich Islands. His lec- and
the one who acted the part of the Good Satures, exposing the errors and delusions of maritan, bequeathed him thirty thousand
Brigham Young's creed, will be remembered. dollars. Newburyport Herald.
Having renounced Mormonism in Honolulu,
A Teetotaler.—Capt. John H. Pease, of
he went to the Eastern States, lectured in
Edgartown, who has performed sixteen whaNew York and Washington,and finally pub- ling voyages, and was proprietor of the
lished a very readable book. What finally Ocean House in that town for several years,
has become of him we know not. His father never drank a glass of liquor, chewed tobacwas a prominent follower of Brigham Young, co, or smoked a pipe or cigar in his life.
are not many sons of the ocean, we
and was formerly a solicitor in London. Thereventure
the opinion, who can present
will
late
it
that
he
has
lefl
papers appears
From
such a record of total abstinence as this,—
Utah and returned to London, where he is iV. B. Standard.
now prosecuting for a divorce from his EngDonation.—From Dr. R. W. Wood, for
lish wife, so that he can marry one or.more Ladies'
Stranger's Friend Society, $50.
wives in Utah. His' case is exciting considwe
learn
London,
interest
as
from
in
erable
The Chaplain has received a letter for
—
the newspapers.
37
MAY, 1866.
Samuel Wood, belonging to Sag Harbor.
ReminsAc eKarstonFight.
hgdeefAlabm
A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, who
has had opportunities of conversation with
some of Semmes's old crew, gives the following interesting reminiscence of the fight between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, from
which it appears that the rebels were left to
drown when the pirate sunk:
I thought you had been in the Confederate navy?" "I was," said Aleckj "I was
with Semmes everywhere he went. I was in
the naval brigade and blockade-running, and
on the Alabama all the while he commanded
her." " But not when she sank, I suppose," I
rejoined. " Well, I was, and was picked up
with him by the Deerhound." "It was a
pretty sharp fight, wasn't it?" I suggestingly
asked, " It was tlv-.t.,' replied Aleck, but he
didn't care about enlarging. "I suppose it
was the 11-inch shells that did the business?"
Oh, no," said he, coming to a kind of con"fessional,"
we never had any chance j we had
no gunners to compare with the Kearsarge's.
Our gunners fired by routine, and when they
had the gun loaded, fired it off blind. They
never changed the elevation of their guns in
all the fight, and the Kearsarge was working
up to us all the while, taking advantage of
every time she was hid by smoke to work a
little nearer, and then her gunners took aim
for every shot." Then itisn't true that the
Alabama tried to board the Kearsarge ?"
sir; she did her best to get away from
"herNo,from
the time the fight commenced. We
knew well that if we got in range of her
Dahlgren howitzers she would sink us in
"
"
minutes."
"But," I asked, "don't you believe that
Semmes supposed he would whip the Kearsarge when he went outto fight her?" " No,
he was bullied into it, and took good care to
leave all his valuables on shore, and had a
life preserver on through the fight. 1 saw
him put it on, and I thought if it was wise in
him it wouldn't be foolish in me, and I put
one on too. When Semmes saw that the
ship was going down, he told us all to swim
who could, and was one of the first to jump
into the water, and we all made for the Deerhound. I was a long way ahead of Semmes,
and when I came up to the Deerhound's boat
they asked me if I was Semmes before they
would take me in. I said I wasn't and then
they asked me what I was on the Alabama.
Said I, 'No matter what I was on the Alabama, I shall be a dead man soon if you
don't take me in.' They asked again if I
was an officer or seaman, and would'nt take
me in until I told them that 1 was an officer."
But, said I, " did they actually refuse to pick
up common seamen and leave them to drown?"
" They did that," replied he wrathfully, and
probably not very correctly ; " and as soon as
they had Semmes on board they made tracks
as fast as they knew how, and left everbody
else to drown or be picked up by the Kearten
sarge."
Three hundred and thirty million dollars
have been counted during the post year by
the female clerks in General Spinner's bureau of the Treasury Department, and not
one dollar has been lost.
�38
THE FRIEND, MAY, 1866.
a splendour which does not constitute happi- turned to account; this is not the place for
ness. I shall not fail to surprise you when being too nice or particular; we have our
I relate that I felt more pleasure at receiving most important wants gratified when we
of
tbe
amiable
an
Josephine
divorce
old pair of shoes, than at being presented have the needful." He did not wait for our
the
After
she
with
all the diamonds which are now spread reply, but went in quest of his old shoes,
husband.
Napoleon,
from her second
retired to Malmaison, a pleasant country before you.' We could not help smiling at which he brought to us with an air of exultaresidence not far distant from Paris. Here, this observation, persuaded as we were that tion, and offered them to Hortense, who rethough retaining the title of empress, she Josephine was not in earnest; but she repeat- ceived the gift with every demonstration of
lived in comparative seclusion till the period ed her assertions in so serious a manner, that delight. We set to work with the greatest
of her death in 1814. Some time before her we felt the utmost curiosity to hear the"story alacrity, and my daughter was enabled,
towards the close of day, to enjoy the pleaslamented decease, she was visited by two of this wonderful pair of shoes.
I repeat it, ladies,' said her majesty ; it ure of again amusing the ship's company.
young ladies of her acquaintance, whose
interview with her is thus described by one is strictly true, that the present, which of all 1 repeat that no present was ever received
of the party, in the Memoirs of Josephine others has afforded me most pleasure, is a by me with more sincere gratitude. 1 greatly
It happened to us to request of the em- pair of old shoes of the coarsest leather ; you reproached myself for having neglected to
to show us her diamonds, which were will readily believe it when you shall have make inquires after the worthy seaman, who
ocked up in a concealed cellar. She yield- heard my story. I had set sail with my was only known on board by the name of
ed with the most willing compliance to the daughter Hortense, from Martinique in the James. 1 should have felt a sincere satisfacwishes of such giddy girls as we were, West Indies, on board a ship in which we tion in rendering him some service, since it
ordered an immense table to be brought into received such marked attentions, that they was afterwards in my power to do so.'"—
the saloon, upon which several of her maids are indelibly impressed on my memory. Hortense afterwards became the wife of Louin waiting laid a countless number of caskets Being separated from my first husband, my is Bonaparte, King of Holland.
of every form and shape. They were spread pecuniary resources were not very flourishEncouragement to Labor for Seamen.
upon that spacious table, which was abso- ing; the expense of my return to France,
lutely covered with them. On the opening which the state of my affairs rendered nec- Extract from a letter from one oj the Seamen of
of the caskets, we were perfectly dazzled essary, had nearly drained me of every thing,
the U. S. S. Lancaster, addressed to Mr.
with the brilliancy, the size, and the quantity and I found great difficulty in making the
Dunscomie, at the Sailor's Home.
of jewels composing the different sets. The purchases which were indispensably requisite
"1 now return my many thanks for the
most remarkable after those which consisted for the voyage. Hortense, who was a smart
kindness
I received while ashore at the
and
performed
songs,
child,
white
diamonds
were
the
of
negro
in
shape pears, lively
sang
of
formed of pearls, perfectly regular, and of negro dances with admirable accuracy ; she Home; 1 assure you it will be ever rememthe finest colour ; opals, rubies, sapphires, and was the delight of the sailors, and in return bered. I was much encouraged, and I do
emeralds, were encircled with large diamonds, for their fondness she had made them her truly believe the Lord has been with me
which were, nevertheless, considered as mere favourite company. Ino sooner fell asleep from that time. I thank my God 1 have
mountings, and never taken into account in than she slipped upon deck and rehearsed been so guided to such a place. By this
the estimation made of those jewels; they her various little exercises to the renewed de- amazing love and mercy He has not cut me
formed altogether a collection which I believe light and admiration of all on board. An off in my sins. I'm trying to tell others of
to be unique in Europe, since they consisted old mate was particularly fond of her, and the dying love, of our dear Saviour; 1 beof the most valuable object* of that descrip- whenever he found a moment's leisure from lieve the Lord is indeed with us, and
tion that could be found in the towns con- his daily occupations, he devoted it to his awakened many to a sense of their own
quered by our armies. Napoleon was never little friend, who was also exceedingly peril. lam thankful to say, one has come out
under the necessity of seizing upon objects, attached to him. My daughter's shoes were boldly, and others about to decide for Christ;
which there was always evinced the utmost soon worn out with her constant dancing and may they indeed decide before it is too late.
and myself are trying to lean upon the
anxiety to ofler to his wife ; the garlands skipping. Knowing as she did that I had J
Saviour;
should
I
I feel it very encouraging to be
her,
of
a
countless
for
and
lest
fearing
and bouquets formed
such
no other pair
number of precious stones had the effect of prevent her going upon deck, if I should with those, with whom I can take sweet counverifying the truth of the descriptions hither- discover the plight of those she was fast sel. The coloured inert are still on their way
to so fanciful, which are to be met with in wearing away, she concealed the trifling ac- rejoicing. May God ever be with us, and
the fairy tales. None but those who have cident from my knowledge. I saw her once make us steadfast in the faith of Christ Jesus
seen this splendid collection can form an returning with bleeding feet, and as.ked her, and Him crucified, and manfully to fight
adequate idea of it.
in the utmost alarm, if she had hurt herself. under his banner, against sin, the world and
The empress seldom wore any other than '• No, mam." " But your feet ar.' bleeding." the devil, that at last we may gain that infancy jewels ; the sight, therefore, of this "It really is nothing." I insisted upon as- heritance, incorruptible, undehled and that
fadeth not away."
exhibition of caskets, excited the wonder of certaining what ailed her, end
most of the beholders. Her majesty greatly that her shoes were all in taiters, and that
Children's Playthings.—A very slender
enjoyed our silent admiration. After having her flesh was dreadfully torn by a nail.
half
of amusement is found to be
apparatus
the
We
had
as
permitted us to touch and examine every
only
performed
yet
'
thing at our leisure—' I had no other motive, voyage ; a long time would necessarily elapse enough, where children are accustomed, on
she kindly said to us, in ordering my jewels before I could procure a fresh pair of shoes; the one hand, to much active sport abroad,
to be opened before you, than to spoil your and was mortified at the bare anticipation of and on the other are intelligently conversed
fancy for such ornaments. After having the distress my poor Hortense would now with, at all hours, by their teacher. Munifiseen such splendid sets, you never can feel a feel at being compelled to remain confined in cent grandmamas and affluent aunts will,
wish for inferior ones ; the less so, when you my wretched little cabin, and of the injury spite of remonstrances, continue to be good
reflect how unhappy I have been, although her health might experience from the want customers at the toy shop; but those who
with so rare a collection at my command. of exercise. At the moment when I was .have actually had to do with children are
During the first dawn of my extraordinary wrapped up in sorrow, and giving free vent well aware of the fact that no delight is so
elevation, I delighted in these trifles, many to my tears, our friend the mate made his brief as that caused by the possession of an
of which were presented to me in Italy. I appearance, and inquired with his honest elaborate and costly toy ; in truth, the pleasgrew by degrees so tired of them, that I no bluntness what was the cause of our whimp- ure, as to its continuance, seems generally to
longer wear any, except when I am in some erings. Hortense replied in a sobbing voice, be in inverse proportion to the sum that has
respects compelled to do so by my new rank that she could no longer go upon deck, be- been lavished upon the gift. Ani often, in
in the world; a thousand accidents may, cause she had torn her shoes, and I had no consideration of the kind donor's feelings, a
besides, contribute to deprive me of those others to give her. " Is that all ? I have little artifice has to be used in order to make
brilliant though useless objects; do I not an old pair in my trunk; let me go for them. it appear that the splendid article has not
P°''iu" the pendants of Queen Maria Antoi- You, madam, will cut them up, and 1 shall become an object of indifference or disgust,
nette ? and yet am I quite sure of retaining sew them over again to the best of my pow- the very next day after its arrival.
them? Trust to me, ladies, and do not envy er; every thing on board ship should be
Isaac Taylor.
The Empress Josephine and the Sailor's
Old Shoes.
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�1 II X KIMKMi. MAY,
PLW
OACEFS ORSHIP.
SEAMEN'S BKTHISI.—_T. 8. C. Damon Chaplain—Klug
Preaching at 11 A. M.
Sailors'
Home.
street, near the
Seats Free. Sabbath School after the morning service.
Wednesday
erentngs
at 7r o'clock.
Prayer meeting on
N. B. Sat—th School or Bible Class for Seamen at <H
o'clock Sabbath, morning.
FORT STREET CHURCH—Corner of Fort and Beretanla
streets—Rer. K. CorwinPastor. Preaching on Sundays at
'11 A. M. and 7i P. M. SabbathSchool at 10 A. M.
STOWS CHURCH—King street, above the Palace—Rev. H. H.
Parker Pastor. Services In Hawaiian every Sunday at
A. 3d.and 3 P. H.
CATHOLIC CHURCH—Fort street, near BereUnis—under
the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Key,
Pierre Faveus. Servicesevery Sundayat 10 A.M. and 2 P.M.
streetSMITH'S CHURCH—Beretanla street, near Nuuanu
Rev. Lowell Smith Pastor. Services in Hawaiian every
Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2J P. M
REFORMED CATHOLIC CHURCH—Corner of Kukui and
■jSJSy,
Nttuanu streets, under charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop —kingassisted by Rev. Messrs. Ibbotson, Gallagher and
and.i
M.
Sunday
at
11
A.
every
service
ton. English
P.M.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
_
ADVERTISEMENTS.
JOHN THOS. WATERHOUSE,
Importer and Dealer In General Merchandise. Honolulu, H. I
(80C0—BOBTO a. r. evbbbtt.;
At his late rooms. Queen Street.
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381-ly
"AJLliEilf
QUEEN STREET, HONOLULU.
Will continue business at the new stand.
SAILOR'S HOME!
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«fc CO-WAY,
BJLJMIJIhHHHHMIBfIfIHHHEB—
t
FIRE WOOD ON HAND.
EEMOVAL !
BOOK-BINDER,
IsARGE
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building,
■~..—
KAWAUIAK. HAWAII,
Will continue the GeneraMerchandise and Shipping business
at theabove port, where they are prepared to furnish the
justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re
emits as are required by whale ships at the shortest notice
478-ly
and on the most reasonable terms.
4i5-ly_
11. W. SEVERANCE.
__-cro_, ic>_aisiis__.
ADVEHTISEMEKTTS.
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—REFERENCES—
Honolulu
lIIsEx.R.C. Wyllie,..Hon. B. F. Snow, Esq.,
Hilo
Dlmomd ft Son,
Thos. Spencer, Esq
Merrill.
SanFrancisco
Lahsloa
Mcßuer
Dickinson,
11.
Esq...
<r
C. W. Brooks*; Co. ..San F. G. T. Lawton, Esq.,
New York
Field ft Rice,
Tobin, Bros, ft Co.,
Wilcox,Kichards ft Co Am .lulu.
CEO. W. VOLLUM,
J. H. COIsE,
AUOTION-BR,
39
1861.
REMOVED TO THE
building in Merchant street, opposite the Sailor's Hume,
HAVING
Is prepared
all ordaislor binding
to execute
Books, Pamphlets,
$8
Officers' Üble, with lodging, per week,.
6
do.
Seamens' do. do.
do.
Shower Baths on tbe Premises.
Mr. and Mrs. MILLER,
_
Honolulu, April 1, 1866.
r.
I. A.
SBIRKAS fBCE.
Managers.
I. BABTLB—.
CABTBB.
C. BREWER
CO.,
Commission & Shipping Merchants,
Newspapers, Music,
Old Books, _c, _c.
Orders from theother Islands should be accompanied with
Honolulu. Oaks, H. I.
particular directions as to the style, and If the work is to
DR. J. MOTT SMITH,
match volumes previously bound, a sample volumeshould be
AGENTS
*-ft
job.
with
the
sent
DBN'TIST.
Of Ihe Boston and Ilouolalsi Packet Liar.
6—-ly
Streets.
Fort
and
Hotel
corner
of
AGENT*
Ofßoe
JOHS H CBACXEK.
W. A. AIJIEICH.
1. 0. MEBBILL,
Far the Makee, Wallalta H ana Plan In t lon
HOFFMANN,
D„
M.
Co.,
ALDRICH, MERRILL
E.
AGENTS
Physician and Surgeon, Makee's Block, corner Queenand Kaa
For the Pnrohaseaad Sale of Island Produce.
humanu streets.
—REFER TO—
!•— York.
Jo»» M.Hood, Esq.,
C. H. WETMORE, M. D.
1
Cms. Bbbweb, Go.
AXD
Boston.
SURGEON,
Hdshiwill,
Esq.
James
PHYSICIAN
)
J.C.
Mebbill
ft
Co.
S.
HAWAII,
I.
HILO,
Ban Franetaeo.
R. B. Bwai» ft Co.
>
ao4, and 300 __lltorisl— Street,
—My
N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the
Chas. Wolqott Beooej, Ksq. )
tTI-lJ
_____
-
6-tf
HILO DRUG
6 tf
_
Commission Merchants
*
Auctioneers,
s \ > FRANCISCO.
STORE.
and Counsellor at Law.
CORNER FORT and MERCHANT ST., HONOLULU, OAHU
San
>
PHOTOGRAPHS.
ALSO, AGENTS OF THE
A. F. JUDD,
.
-
Francisco & Honolulu Packets.
sp ARTFsS dc VISITEt
LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS f
Particular attention given to the sale and purchase of mer
COPYING AND ENLARGING;
ehandlse, ships' business, supplying whaleships, negotiating
exchange,ftcdone In Ihe heat mnaner,
RETOUCHING
W. N.
to theHo
Cr All freight arriving at San Francisco, by or
and
on
the
most reasonable terms.
Importer and Dealer in Habdwaeb, Cotlbbt, Mechanics noluluLine
oommibsiom.
forwarded
or
tees
of Packets, will be
Tools and Aqbictltcbal Imflbmbets, For street, Hono.i
Also for sale, Photographs of the Crater* Kllaaeaand
_- Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold. XI
"8-1
lulu.
and
other
Island Soenesj the KINGS KA—_■
Hnlrnkaln.
REFERENCES
Honolulu HEMEIIA, tc.,ffC.
Messrs. C. L. Richabds ft Co.,
C. L.
H HiCEVELD ft Co.,
on
Ship Chandlers and Commission Merchants, dealers in General
«•' C Brewer <r Co.,
H. Is. CHASE.
Merchandise. Keep constantly on hand a full assortment
Bishop ft Co
of
Whalers
and
Merchant
for
supply
the
the
Portrait Negatives from Mr.
merchandise,
of
P. S —Having purchased
R.W.Wood,
Dr.
M3"l
vessels.
Weed, duplicate copies can be had by those persons wishing
Hon. E. H. Alleb,
for the same.
D 0. Watebma«, Esq.,
AMOS S. COOKE
I. 1. ATHEBTOS.
IH'L B OA3TLB.
614_>
H. I» O
A—-ly
Attorney
*-•'
LADD,
RICHARDS
_
CO.,
*
CABTLE _ COOKE,
General Merchants in Ihe Fireproof 3tore, King Street, opposite the Seamen's Chapel.
ALSO AGENTS FOR
Dr. -aynes Celebrated Family Medicines,
Sewing Machines,
Wilson's
Wheeler w
The Kohala Sugar Company,
The New England MutualLife Insurance Company,
The New York Phenlx Marine Insurance Company,
The New York Security MarineInsurance Company.
McCraken, Merrill &
Commission •Merchants.
Oregon.
OUR PREBEEN ENGAGED INyears,
being
-
business f«T upwards of seven
and
fire proof brick building, we are prepared toreceive
_.ted
_d Aisoose of Island staples, such as Sugar, Rloe, Syrups, Pulu,
soUcltto adVantage- Consignments especially bepaid,
forthe Oregon market, to which personal attention will
required.
aud upon which cash advances will be made when
Bab Francisco RsrBEBNOES:
Badger ft Llndenberger,
Ohaa. W. Brooks ft Co.,
„
Fr J I"n>
ft
Co.,
Patrick
Ju
Bto-n.,B_„kCo.
WTC*_.«C.,
Reverences:
Portland
Ladd ft Tllton. _o_rd ft Green.
Allen ft Lewis.
HOBOLBLO RarißßNC—:
8. Savldg..
Wslker, Allen ft Co.,
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OHAB. WOLOOTT 880018, W. FBABE LADD, BDWABD
CHAS. W. BROOKS
r. BALL.JE.
CO.,
CASTLE
*
COOKE,
AGENTS FOR
SHIPPING AND
Commission Merchants.
Wheeler & Wilson's
AGENTS FOR THE
THE LATEST
fa-UUS MACHINE HAS AIsLformer
BETWEEN
FORWARDING AND
-nt
HAVING
In a
Port Street.
At the Gallery
SEWING MACHINES!
Co., HAWAtmN PACKET USE _
*—-ly
Por____
—
*
_
__HO\OLILIj4sSANFAANnS(O__
OFFICE—SI 1 SsßMac SI., earner Merchant
SA-sN" FRANCISCO.
ATTENTION GIVEN TO
PARTICULAR
thePurchase, Shipment and Sale of Merchandise;
warding and Transhipment of Goods ; the
;
to For.
Chat-ring aad Sal*
of Vessels; the Supplying of Whaleships and the Negotiation
of Exchange.
Exchange on Honolulu in sums to suit.
,
ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
REFER TO
Wileee, AlL_ 4> Co
Honolulu.
Bes-i. F. Sbow, Esq.,
0. Brewer ft Co.,
Btsaor ft Co.,
Thos.BrsECEs, Esq., HUo.
Ailm-D k Co., sUnasraws
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J AS. HosaBWSLL Esq., Boston
HSBET A. P—BOB ft Co.
Botlbb, Bisb ft 00.,
Sottoe ft Co.. Hew York.
Wn. H. Fooo ft Co,
H. loos ft Co., Bhanghae.
M'Cbaeeb, Mbb_ll ft Co.
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premium, was
impiovements, and, Inadditl— to
awarded tbe hlgbsst prise above all European^and. Amsrjaaa
Sewing Machines at tbe World's Exhibition in PARIS la IS—,
and at theExhibition In London In 1802.
The evidence of the supertorltyof this Machine Isfound In the
record of Its sal—. In IMl—
The Orover ft Baker Company, Boston,
The Florence Company Massachusetts
The Parker Company, Connecticut,
1. M. Stager *> Co.,New York,
a
Finale ft Lyon,
Cass. W. Howlaod, Delaware,
Co.,
Greenwood
ft
Cincinnati, 0.,
M.
N. B. C. Perkins, Norwalk. 0.,
Wilton H. Smith. Connecticut,
old 18,-0, whilst the Wheeler ft Wilson Obmpany, of Bridge
ort, madeand told 1»,7— daring the same period.
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THE FRIEND:
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY
�I.4KRV
1 II X
40
MARINE JOURNAL.
PORTFI
S. .
HONLU ,
AIA.
wh ship Jas. Maury, Cunningham, from Cal.
1,1, with 300 bbls oil.
li hriic llsrrietNewell, Cunningham, 32 days
vi McKean's Island,
wh bark J. D. Thompson, Brown, from Cal.
lit, with 600 bbls oil.
wh ship Joho Ilowlsnd, Wheldon, from Cal.
ist, with —0 bbls oil.
rh bark Pacific, French, from Bay of Islsnils,
New Zealand, with
bbls sperm and 100wh.
wh ship Wm. Glfford, Fisher, from Cal. Call 800 bbls wh oil.
vh ship Ocean, Barber, 130 days from home via
.walhae, with '25 bbls sperm,
rh bark Congress Ist, Csstiue, from Cal. coast
Hilo,clean.
Premier, Klla, 31 days from Victoria, with an
I'd cargo to -anion,Clreen ft Co.
rig Jeannle, M—rehouse.23 dsysfrom SanKrun*}, en route for Japan
wh bsrk John Wells, Desn, 8 mos. out from
me with 80 bbls wh oil and 000 lbs tone.
Jones, „ days from San Francisco,
urk
wh ship Mllo, Ilawes, from Cal.' Ooasl, with
bbls
l
wh oil.
rh bark Active. Robinson, 5 mos. from Home,
Lahaina, clean,
rh ship Alpha, 6 mos. out from Home, with 200
s wh oil.
rh bark Martha, Thomas, from line, clean.
ian gunboat Zobul,Pilkiue, 40 days from Val-aiso.
rh bsrk Funny, Hunting, from Cal. Coast, with
I bbls wh oil.
bark Helen Angler, Staples, 20 days from San
incisco, to 1). C. Watermiin ft Co.
clipper ship Franklin, Bursley, 23 dsys from
l Francisco, to Walker, Allen ft Co.
clipper bark Smyrniote, Lovett, 16 days from
1Francis—, with mdse to Walker, Allen 6> Co.
wh bark Richmond, Cog&n, from Cal. Coast
h 676 bbls wh oil.
rh bsrk Oen'l Pike, Russell, from Qsllapagos
mil, with 380 bbls sp oil.
n sloop Northern Light, Tenstrom, 27 daysfrom
l Francisoo.
ark Sam'l Mcrritt, Manson, 25 days from San
incisco, with mdse to Walker, Allen ir Co.
wh ship St. Geori'e, Soule, 6 mos. from Home,
Lahaina, with 160 bbls up oil.
rh ship Eliza Adsius, c ish, from Maria Island,
li 400 bbls whaleoil.
bark Comet, Fuller, 12 dys from San Francisco,
h freight and passengers to C- Brewer ft Co.
rh bark J P West, Tinker, from California coast
Hilo, with 260 whale.
Ib ship Severn, Cralgie. 22 dsys from Victoria.
rig Hesperian, Wood, 19 days from Humboldt,
h lumber to Walker, Allen ft Co.
hip Oracle, Wools, 11 days from San Francisco
wh ship Thos. Dickason, Jernegan, 0 mos. from
ne, with 105 bbls wh oil, 176 sp oil, 1200 bone,
wh bark Massachusetts, Wilcox, 8 mos. from
ne via Hilo, with 70 bbls sp oil.
wh bark Dan'l Wood, Richmond, 11 mos. out
n home viaHilo, with ISO bbls sp. 80 bbls wh. oil.
rh bark Harrison, Cooty, from Cal. Coast with
I bbls wh oil.
slipper ship Rattler, Msrsh, 16days from 8. F.
flip Ntco—r, Remmand,l6 days from San Fran,
'h bark Endeavor, Wilson, from Cal. Coast via
o with 376 bbla wh oil.
wh ship Oliver Crocker, Lapman, from Cal.
■at via Hilo, with 875 bbls wh oil.
'hbsrk Aurora, Aveline, 6 mos fromhome, clean,
wh bark Midas, Drake, 6, mos. from Home,
h 100 bbls wh oil.
wh ship Rainbow, Baker, 7 mos. from Home,
h 126hb's sp. 26 bbls wh oil.
rh bark Trident, Rose, 6 mos. from Home, with
bbls sp oil.
ark Camden, Mitchell, 32 days from Port Anns, with lumber to H. Uaekfeld ft Co.
rb ship Almira, Osborne, from Marquesas, with
I bbls wh oil.
rh ship Roman, Hamblen, 21 mos. fromhome,
h 860 whale aad 700 sperm; voyage.
ian gunboat Aleout, Rsgouly, 2 guns, 46 days
n Valparaiso.
rh ship Arnolds,Ilawes, from Cal. coast, with
Iwhale,
rh ship Gov. Troupe, Ashley, from Cal. coatvia
10, with 480 whale,
vh ship Mercury, Tooker, from Cal. Coast 70 sp.
wh bark Lydia Bathaway, from Hume via
10, clean,
wh ship Florida, Fordham, from Cal. Coast,
in 700 wh.
sh bark N. 8. Perkins, Poole, from Cal. Coast,
.wh.
»ark*3ambridge, Hempstead, Xi days from San
ancisco, with mdse to Walker, Allen ft Co.
wh bark Europa, Pierce, from Home via Hilo,
th „ bbls sp.
wh bark Islander, Holley, from Home via Hilo,
ran.
wh baik Courser, Hamblen, from Home via
110, with .00 sp.
bark Clara R. Sutel, Hall, It days from Ban
ranoisco. an routs for Japan,
wh bark Awoshonks, Norton, from Home, via
___
11k,,-sperm.
—
t'RIUMI,
MAY, 1866.
DEPARTURES.
PASSENGERS.
Msr. 31—Am wh ship Cornelius Howland, Homan, for Arctic.
April 2—Am wh ship James Maury, Cunningham, for Arctic.
-.—Haw'n wh brig Victoria, Fish, for Arctic.
3—Am bark fihering, Lane, for San Francisco.
3—Am wh bark Pacific, French, for Kodiac.
3—Am wh ship Splendid, Fisher, for Arctic.
4—Am steamship Ajax, Godfrey, for San Francisco.
4—Haw'n brig W. C. Talbot, Dallman, forports in North
Pacific.
6—Am wh ship Win. Gl fibril, Fisher, for Arctic.
6—Am wh burk Nautilus, Blivcn, for Arctic.
6—Haw'n bark K. W. Wood, Jacobs,for Bremen.
6—Am wh ship Oay He;id, Kelley, for Arctic.
6—Am wh ship Champion, Worth, for Arctic.
6—Am wh bark Koscce, Macomber, for Arctic.
7—Am bark J. D. Thompson, Brown, for Arctic.
7—British brig Jennie, Moorehouse, for Kanagawa.
7—British bark Zulatte, Jones, tor Melbourne.
7—Am wh bark Cicero, Paun. for Kodiac.
B—Haw'n bark Mauruikea, Robinson, for San Francisco.
y—Am wh ship Congress, Castinn, for Arctic.
9—Am wh ship Ocean, Barber, for Arctic.
9—Am wh bark Peru, Smith, for Arctic.
10—Am wh bark Active, Robinson, for Ochotsk.
11—Am wh bnrk Martha, Ihomas, for Arctic.
11—Am wh ship St. U-.'orpe, Soule, for Arctic.
Angler,Staples, forllowland's Is.
11—Am bark
14—Am wh Btiip Reindeer. Raynor, for Arctic.
14—Am wh bark Fanny, Hunting, fur Arctic.
14—Am wh ship Oen'l Pike, Russell, for Kodiac.
16—Am wh bark MonticMlo, Phillip*, fur Arctic.
16—Am wh bark Nile, Fish, for Arctic.
15—Russian gunboat Zobul, Pilkiue, for Jap:in.
16—Am clipper ship Rattler, Marsh, for Hongkong.
IG—Am wh bark Harrison, Cooty, for Arctic.
16—Am wh ship Kmily Morgan. Athearn, for Arctic.
IT—Am wh ship Alpha, I_.wton.fi-r Arctic.
17—Am wh bark Midas, Drake, for Ochotsk.
17—Am wh hark Aurora, Aveline, for Arctic.
17—Am wh bark Massachusetts, Wilcox, for Arctic.
IK—Am wh bark John P. West, Tinker, for Arctic.
18—Br clipper ship Oracle, Woods, forBaker's Island.
18—Am bark Whistler, Fuller, for New Bedford.
19—Am wh ship Klizn Adams, Fish, for Arctic.
19—Amwh ship Rainbow, Baker, for Ochotsk.
20—Am wh ship Mllo, Hawes, for Arctic.
21—Am bark Smyrniote, Lovett, (or San Francisco.
21—British ship Nicobar,Remman,forllowland's Island.
23—Am wh bark Oliver Crocker, Lapman, for Arctic
Ocean.
24—Am wh bark Mercury, Tooker, for Arctic Ocean.
24—Am whship Florida, Fordham, for Arctic Ocean.
24—Russian gunboat Aleout, Rngouly, for Japan.
26—Ambark Comet, Paty, for San Francisco.
26—Br. schr Premier. J. Klla, for Victoria.
20— Am wh bark Ljdia, Uathaway, for Arctic Ocean.
20—Am wh bark Courser, Hamblen, for Arctic Ocean.
20—Am wh ship Almira, Osborne, for Arctic Ocean.
26—Am wh ship Qov. Troupe, Ashley, for Arctic Ocean.
26—Am wh bark Islander, Holley, for Arctic Ocean.
27—Am wh ship Roman, Humblen, for the Arctic.
27—Am bark Clara K. Sutel. Hall, for Japan.
27—Am wh ship Thos Dickason, forArctic Ocean.
27—Am wh ship Arnolda, Hawes, for Arctic Ocean.
27—Ay wh bark Trident,Rose, for Arctic Ocean.
27—Am wh bark Kurnpa, Pierce, for Arctic Ocean.
27—Am wh bark Jos Maxwell, Chase, for Arctic Ocean.
From McKkan's Island—per Harriet Newell, March 31—A
Con_Block, B Boyd, E M Cornell, J Kinney, and 26 natives.
For San Francisco—per Bhering, April 3—Capt 0 Spencer.
For San Francisco—per Ajax, April 4—Hon C R Bishop
and lady, Dr and Mrs R W Wood, Mr and Mrs H W Severance
ami daughter, Mr and Mrs T Foster, Mrs J P Oelett, Miss SaraBenson, Miss Mary Kice, Mrs Oeo W BMven and son, Miss
Nellie Freeman, Miss Dora Freeman, Clias Benckner, A J
Marsh, W B Guld, W 0 Bluckwocd. H W Crabb. A P Massey,
H James, J J Ayers. S Dole, W H Rice, W H Brown, Capt
W Stott, W P Hazelton, J Fraeer, Thos Coady, J Boardman,
O W Stilwell, W H Hubbard, Mack Weber, Ed Hoffmann,
C Oldekop, A D Dunn, H Geluyas, Ah Chuck, M R Kvans.
Stk-kack—_ M Cornell, X M Sprague, J Turner, A Lupka, M
Stlva, H M Bullen, J V King, A Recoulle, F Bebcnd.—6o.
For Brehrn—per R. W. Wood, April 6—Mrs M Mossman
and 2 children—-.
From Sap Francisco—per Smyrniote, April 9—James Louaada, Mrs II Cornwell, John 0 Peabody, .las O Carthy, JC
Goldsmith, Mrs McForest and child, S Magner and wife, S S
Magner, Mrs L R Low and 2 children, II W Massey, J II Fox,
James Ray, II Nier, F Dollman, L Charbert, L X Man.
From San Francisco—per Comet, April 10—Rt Rev Bishop
Staley, Henry Baker, Wm Kinney—3.
From San Francisco—per Sam'l Merritt, April 10—HKlckhofT, 0 W Jones 0 Pausch—3.
From San Francisco—i»er Northern Light, April 9—Chas
Norman n—l.
From San Francisco—per Helen Angier, April B—D C Wa«
.
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terniau —1.
From San Francisco—per Franklin, April B—A W Nichols.
For SanFrancisco—per Maunakea, April B—Chas Brnthtet.
From San Francisco—per Oracle, April 13—Mr and Mrs
O W Frink and 2 children—4.
For Nsw Bedford—per Whistler. April 18—Mrand Mrs 0
W Willfong and 4 children.O Scholtz—7.
From San Francisco—per Cambridge, April 24—Mrs A
Blanchard, Miss L B Crowell, MlssCß Coit, Miss II Hempstead, Rev R B Post, Mrs R B Post, Mr Chas Hughes, J M
Oat, J Drescher. Jos Giensto, Mr Roland, Oeo L Leet.
For San Francisoo—per Smyrniote, April 21—Mr and Mr»
V Prevo-t, Mrs Mary Thurston, Mr Mann. W Wilson, S C
Goldsmith, J M Kusßell, 0 Seabury, A Tengstron, L Chaboit
Wm Morgan—ll.
For San Francisco—per Comet, April 26—Mrs A J Marsh,
Miss Alice Hyde, Mrs J V B Hyde, Miss Ellen Lyman, Miss li
Marsh, Mrs J Paty, Miss E Alexander, Mr and Mrs Frink and
children, .Mrs Hitchcock and child, Mr and Mrs W G Needhsm
and 3 children, Mr and Mrs J T Waterhouse, H Waterhouse, H
Nathan, J A Peabody, Mr McGill. J Braizie, R Ely, L Hubbard,
C II Alexander—29.
MARRIED.
Bingham—Potts—ln San Francisco, March 10th, by Rev
Donald McLaren, Dr. E. B. Bingham, U. S. Navy, to Hannah
M. Potts.
DIED.
MEMORANDA.
Bond—ln Hallowell, Maine, Bee. 22. 1866, Mr. Elias Bond,
aged 91 years and 9 months. The deceased was the fathar of
the
Rev. E. Bond, of Kohala. He whs a remarkable specimen
Report of Brio Harriet N-,wki,l.—Sailed from Honolulu,
Jan. 1-Hb, 1866, for Ruenix Island, had light westerly and BW. of one who retained his faculties down to old age. He was
born
in Watertown, Mass., March 14,1774.
winds for the first three days, then took the trades quite strong
to tbe line in 166° 37 W, and arrived at Phoenix Island, Feh.
Bradley—April 18th, Mr. Stephen Bradley, second officer of
2d—13 days from Honolulu, found all well at theisland; landed the bark Jotepk Maxwell. The deceased fell into the harbor
provisions and sailed the 3d for _nderbury Island. Arrived at of Honolulu, and died shortly after his body was taken from
that Island 21st of February. Had very light winds and a very tbe water. His remains were taken to the U. S. Hospital.
strong westerly current. Found all well. Landedrecruits and
Mi I.I.KH—At the Queen's Hospital, April 2_d, Francis Mullcr,
sailed the same day for McKean's Island, arriving there on the
23d February. Landed recruits and sailed the 26th for Hono- a seaman who was discharged frtm an Hamburg vessel,bound
_
lulu. From the island to 2° 00 N, 176° 30 W, had strong to the Guano Islands.
easterly winds, and from 10° 00 N. to 170° 00 W. had very
Stanobnwald—Died suddenly on Friday eve. April 6tb.
bad weather, with heavy squalls, and continual rain. From Frank
Dimond Stangenwald, aged 2 years and 8 months,
there to 24° SON. 161° 00 W, bad very good weather and
light winds from the eastward. March 27th took thewind from
Gould.—Killed by a nght whaleoff Maria Island, Jan. 18th
NNE, and raised the Island of Oahu at daylight the 29th. and 1806, Everett C. Gould, a seamen of Am. wh ship Elisa Adams.
Diamond Head the 30th—32 days from McKean Island.
Mkdlbt—Drowned off Juan Fernandez, January 1866, James
On March Ist in Lat, 4 ° 60 N, Long. 174 ° 00 W, exchanged
signals with a large merchant shipin ballast, showing Hamburg I. Medley, a seamen belonging to whale bark Dan'l Wood.
Wm. J. Cunningham, Jr.,
colors.
Lcttrill.—Pbrrt.—While cruising off tbe Coast of CaliforMaster brig Harriet Newell.
nia, Jan. 31, 1866, Wm. Luttrell, of Buffalo, N. V., and Joseph
Perry, a Portuguese from Western Islands, both belonging to
ship Oliver Crocker.
Information. Wanted,
Dowsstt—ln San Francisco.on tbe 7th of April, of aneurism,
who
the
sailed,
1804,
in
in
Respecting William A. Burnet,
Mr. Samuel 11. Dowsett, of Honolulu, aged 31 years.
William Botch,'- from New Bedford. It was reported that he
was lost overboard. Capt- Baxter was then master of the
lUtdom—ln Honolulu, Wednesday evening, April 26th, of
ship. Should thisnotice attract the attention of Capt. Baxter, diptheria, Mary Ileydon, aged 22 months,—youngest child of
ship,
they
the
or any one attached at that time to
sre requested Mary Thurston Heydon.
to communicate with the Kdltor, or Rev. S. Fox, of New BedBrics—Drowned March 10, Lat. 8 ° 00*8, Long. 160 ° 20 W,
ford. If any keepsakes, books, photographs, «_c, remain, it is
Fell overboard from bark "Pacific,"
desired they may be kept. This unfortunate young man's John Brice, seaman. water.
emptying a tub of
while
Deceased was 21 yearsof age,
tf
father is an aged clergyman, residing in Scotland.
supposed to have been a native of Canada West. Montreal paRespecting Robert Boyd Simond*, aged 40. Left the United pers please copy.
States on board the ship " General Williams," of New London,
about twenty years ago, and landed at the Sandwich Islands.
Any Information will be gladlyreceived by theEditor, or Mrs.
tf
Abby J. Bellows, East Wilton, N. H.
reported
Respecting John Bingham and Thoma*
REV. lIAXIKI, DOIsE. AT KOLOA.
to have been lost while attached to the American schooner or
Kauai, has accommodations in bis family
brig Lodt, also reported to hare been lost, about the year 1848
or 1840, while on her trip from San Francisco.to the Islands, or
For a Few Ilonrdfag Scholars.
on hrr passage from Honolulu to Lahaina. Any information
Persons wishing to learn the Terms will apply to liin,
will be gladly received by the Editor, or John Bingham, Ksq.,
Itf
or theKdltor of" Tub Fbibbd."
at Adams' Express Co., Philadelphia.
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BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA.
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HONOLULU, JUNE 1, 1866;
JO. fi.>
—
Queen Krasia's Visit to Kngland
Death'of It. It. 11. Princess Victoris
Reformed Catholic Mlsslpn
Puritan Ilcnevolenceoftin? Oldtn Time
Editor's Table
t
EQuen mma:
I tithe
CONTENTS
Far Jasr, 18GG.
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41
,
,
real condition of things here. Chrisis to-day as firmly established here
Paob.l
41—44] as in Europe or America.
In proportion to
441
the wealth and population of the Islands, we
44]
44 1 have as many Christian Churches, Christian
Itianity
A. lVterratlve of the Object of Hit
MlKMltm to l^mrlnncl.'
Qlkkn Emma! gracious lady.
4Sj Schools, Christian Benevolent Societies,
451
All hnil to the 111 itisb Isles ;
46] Christian families and other Christian appli-9
May every face that greets thee
-01
Be deck'd with the brightest smiles.
ances. We challenge " A. I.," the authorl
441
Christian Union
May blessings shine upon thee,
191 of this pamphlet, or any one else, to prove!
Letter from Geo. Anastronf
In tby passage o'er our land,
48] the contrary.
481
And hearts be opened to thee.
Mafiue Journal
From this very pamphlet we gather the
While outstretched be ev'iy hand.
most undeniable evidence that our educaMay the prayers of England's best
tional system has been the most successful.
Ascend to' Heaven with thine,
From npith to south, east to west,
JUNE I, IStt6.
The reader will please read Miss Bessy's
We'll pray tor tbe love Divine.
description of the Royal Family of the HaEngland.
Emma's
Visit
to
Queen
In our churches and our homes.
waiian Kingdom as it appeared at the EngWe'll think of the gentle Queen
It is highly gratifying to learn, from valish Court in 1824,'and as it is represented
Who far IVoai hiv o» u now roams,
rious newspaper notices, that Queen Emma at the present time
Her Islands so blight and green.
by Queen Emma. We
has been most kindly welcomed by Queen
ask what has produced the vast change ?
be thy search
Queen Emma! blest
Victoria and the people of England. We We answer, Puritan Schools and Puritan
For the gem of priceless boon,
For the Christian's God and Church,
publish the entire contents of an interesting
influences. How came it to pass that bis
To take to Hawaii soon.
pamphlet relating to her visit. It was late Majesty was enabled to translate the
printed in London, but only the initials Prayer. Book ? How came it to
QUE
EN MMA.
pass that
(A. I.) of the author's name are given. For her Majesty can
now on our shores,
the
There
is
a
royal
lady
speak
English language
the most part, the author writes a very suitwith greater accuracy than the Princess of coming and going amongst us, and learning
able narrative, but has made a few erroneous
daily more and more what English people
Wales ? This very pamphlet we have re- are,
about whom very little is known to the
■statements which we shall endeavor to corpublished in externa, because it is really one majority of (he people who seem to welcome
rect,
of the most confirmatory documents to the her so gladly. It is therefore the object of
1. The Sandwich Islands are situated in
glorious success of the American Puritan this little book to give some account of Queen
the North Pacific, and not in the South Painduced her to leave
Mission to these Islands which we have Emma, and of what has
cific, as is twice stated in this pamphlet.
in the South Pacific, and
home
her
island
ever read. The old Latin saying will yet
brave the perils of this long voyage, and to
2. Queen Emma's grandfather, John
prove true at the Sandwich Islands, Magna try and enlist the sympathies and interests
Young, was an Englishman, not an Americtt Veritas et praevalebit, (Great is the truth of some of the thousands who throng to
can.
and it will prevail.) If writers here, in catch a sight of her, and who, from lip to
3. The third error to which we allude is England or America, will persist in publish- lip, pass the question, Who is Queen Emstated in the following words : " No efforts ing unfounded charges and erroneous state- ma, and what has brought her to England ?"
were successful, in extenso. in the Sandwich ments, we know of no other way but in deQueen Emma is the youthful widow of
Islands to establish Christianity, though both fence to disprove them and state the honest the late king of the Sandwich Islands, and
bad she come merely out of curiosity to see
American Puritans arid French Roman truth.
the wonderful and great empire, whose fame
Photographic
Scenery.—At Chase's gallery
Catholics have had Missions there;" and
she must hare heard of from ber earliest
will be found an excellent assortment o, days, her presence would have been hailed as
furthermore it is stated that, in the opinion
of Kamehameha IV, " the Puritans had photographs representing the Scenery of the a signal for feting and welcoming her, and
have made the rememdone more harm than good." Jt does an, Islands. Some of them are quite superior. English people would
her
a
of
visit
and joyous time
bright
brance
peur passing strange that any person in At the same place will be found photographs to look back to, when she was once more
ef
the
of
the
Kings
Islands and also of many
England should improve the opportunity of of the Chiefs.
(here
These have been in requisi- safe amongst her native subjects; but
the Queen's visit to that country, to traduce
tion in former times, and we are glad the •By A. 1. Lonuon Dsv A Son, Limited. < QaU
the people of these Islands and misrepresent public ran now be supplied.
"^tWP
street, Lincoln's Ian Fields.
Correspondence
Letter from Kngland
Good Advice to a Young Christian
D. L. Gregg on Negro Question
THE FitlE IN D.
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u something so peculiar—so mournful and which an account is given of the reception j Queen Emma, so recently the beloved
yet touchingly sacred—in the cause which of the King and Queen of the Sandwich consort of the reigning King of the Sandimpelled her to come, that a kind of refin- Islands in London, during the year 1824, ! wich Islands, bears about as much reseming, gentle joy, seems to pervade all hearts by Mr. Canning, the Secretary of State, j| blance to this description of her uncouth anthat have felt her story, and to leave an im- These royal visitors were Queen Emma's cestors as the present inhabitants of Great
press behind, wherever she has been, that ancestors, and as such, a description of their Britain may be supposed to do to the Anpeople will not readily forget. However, it appearance to English eyes, and to so acuta, cient Britons, when feathers, paint, and
is to enlist the sympathies and interests an observer as Miss Berry must have been such personal adornments were not applied
befoivhifltd, in a proper spirit, of those who specially, will not fail to be peculiarly np- in the way that they are now; but when,
perhaps, our British King, Caractacus, may
have not seen her, that these pages are writ-1l propriate at the present time.
"Friday, the 2Sth.—At half past 10 have seemed quite as savage in Roman eyes
ten; for out of the numbers who catch a
passing glimpse of the royal lady as she jI o'cjock I went with the Prince and Princess as these native sovereigns of those lovely
comes and goes from town to town, but very 1Lowenstein, their son and my sister, to Mr. islands in the southern ocean appeared in
few comparatively may ever have an oppor- Canning's, the Secretary of State, who re- 1824 to English ladies and gentlemen.
tunity of listening to the viva voce relation ceived for the first time the King and Queen Queen Emma is neither short nor tall,
of her mission to England in her actual pre- of the Sandwich Islands ! They arrived in though the newspapers describe her as both !
sence, and yet it is a tale that should spea4- the midst of a numerous assembly of all the according to fancy. She appears to be
to the hearts of every earnest, thinking man, best society, and all en grande toilette, for a about 5 feet 4i or 5 feet 5, as near as can
woman, and child in this Christian empire, large assembly given at Northumberland be ju.lged, but possibly her mourning attire
and if rightly understood, draw forth such an House. Mr. Canning entered, giving his rather takes from her height; and if the first
impulse to aid her, that she will return to hand to a large black woman, more than six of the two, hazarded without accurate measHonolulu with a blessing in her gentle, pure feet high and broad in proportion, muffled urement, she is just the stature thought perheart, ever to be breathed to Heaven for up in a striped gauze dress with short fect for a woman. She is slight in figure,
England, which shall recompense every mite sleeves, leaving uncovered enormous black and of easy, graceful carriage, and has a pewhich has been added to this widow's, as a arms, half covered again with white gloves; culiarly gentle, winning grace of manner,
an enormous turban upon her head ; black which is irresistibly attractive; her hair is
sacrifice of love to a holy cause.
First, we will try and account for the hair, not curled, but very short; a small bag dark, almost black, but looks bright and
seeming curious circumstance that the native in her hand, and I do not know what upon glossy ; her complexion is of a rich, brunette
Queen of the Sandwich Islands is so very her neck, where there was no gauze. It tint, and darker than often met with in
English in her appearance; so much so, that was with difficulty tnat the Minister and his English women, but not in any way appeople have been heard to express great company could preserve a proper gravity for proaching the Indian type ; her features are
astonishment that she is not a black lady, or the occasion. The Queen was followed by regular, and of most pleasing contour; her
at any rate of thut dark, swarthy coloring a lady-in-waiting as tall as herself, and with eyes large, dark, and very earnest in their
so much more widely diffused amongst the a gayer and more intelligent countenance. gaze; and her whole expression, though
savage races of the earth than the actual Then came the King, accompanied by three sweet, amiable, and highly intelligent, is
Who is this new of his subjects, all dressed like him in Eu- that of seriousness, almost sadness. To this
black or negro type.
Queen ? I've henrd say she is a black wo- ropean costume, and a fourth whose office I we must add an npparent quick' sensibility
man come from the Savage Islands," the did not know, but he wore over his ordinary to emotion, when the mournful incidents pi
writer of this heard asked a few days ago in coat a scarlet and yellow feather cloak, and her life are the theme of discourse in her
a northern town,-to which Queen Emma hnd a helmet covered with the same material on presence, and an instant sympathetic look
just paid a visit, and a desire to make known his head. The King was Shorter than his when a child approaches her; and there is
who and what she is, and why she is not four courtiers, but they all looked very little more to describe in this royal lady,
black, arose instantly in her mind, and sent strong, and except the King, all taller than who seems to possess a very considerable
her home to collect all the information likely the majority of those who surrounded them. amount of attractions, even for the critical
to be of interest to many besides these mere The two ladies were seated before the fire in English taste, and to win hearts and sympathe gallery for some time. Mrs. Canning thies very readily in her own person.
ignorant querists.
There is an English gentleman in high was presented first to them, and then the Nothing is recorded in Miss Berry's descripoffice in the Hawaiian Court, who has writ- Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the tion of the King and Queen of 1824 about
ten a book descriptive of these islands—of Prince Leopold.
The Queen took the their acquaintance with our language; but
their chiefs and sovereigns, and of their won- Duchess of Gloucester by the arm and shook our royal visitor speaks English gracefully
derful desire to effect their own conversion— it. One would have pitied them for the and well, as all testify who have seen and
of what England has done to aid in carrying way in which all eyes were turned upon heard her, and, of course, her acquaintance
out this design, and of the zeal and devotion them, and for all the observations they occa- with it as a written language is as perfect at
of the late king Kamehameha to promote sioned ; but it seemed to me that their any rate as that of the Princess of Wales for
every effort to civilize and christianize his minds are not sufficiently opened, and that instance, who was said to be able to read
countrymen—and from that book I remem- they are not civilized enough either to no- and write it perfectly when she came to
ber seeing extracts relating to the domestic tice or sufler from it. From the gallery Mr. England, but not to speak it easily at all;
afflictions of the gentle Queen Emma, to- Canning, still holding the Queen's hand, so in this respect Queen Emma has the adgether with many interesting particulars conducted them through the apartment and vantage.
relating to her descent; but this book was under the verandah of the garden, where the Queen Emma is directly descended from
written and published before she came to band of the Guards' regiment in full uniform an American, (some accounts say an EngEngland, and what seems more wanted now was playing military airs. Her savage lishman, and we should like to think so,)
is a more purely personal account, and a sim- majesty appeared much more occupied by who was taken prisoner by the great King
ple narrative of her mission, in such brief the red-plumed hats of the musicians than Kamehameha I., on his landing on the
form, that " he who runs may read," and by the music. She ought to have been island, and who was eventually naturalized
that we may have the latest account of our pleased to see that the officer's helmet of her and elevated to grant honors in the rule of
honored visitor.
court surpassed them as to color. From the country by the King, in gratitude for his
Before personally describing Queen Emma, there they were conducted into the dining- wisdom and experience in the means of civilhowever, it may be interesting to a great room, where there was a fine collation. The ization. This man, John Young by name,
a table eventually married a native lady of high
many readers, who"wish to know very dis- two ladies were seated alone at
tinctly bow she differs in physical traits placed across the room, and ate some cake rank, and had two daughters, one of whom,
from the English type, to give ab extract and drank wine. They appeared awkward •named Fanny Kekela, married a native
«*wn a book vary recently published,* in in all their movements, and particularly em- Prince of the Hawaiian blood royal, named
barrassed in their walk. There was nothing Naea, who were the parents of our heroine,
Extracts of the Journali sod Correspondence of the
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free step of the savage, being probably Queen Emma. When her father died, she
of JUia Berry, from the veer 1783 to 1862." Edited by Lady Theresa Lewia. London: Lonf- embarrassed by the folds of the European went to live under the adoption of her aunt's
husband, a Dr. Rooke, and from there beatani, Crreen i Co., J865
II dress."
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JUNE, 1861.
43
principles of the English tive—to attest by their presence how deeply
came the consort of Kamehameha IV, or the !j founded on all the
Good, who has so recently left her a widow I one—a Bishop was consecrated and ser.t to their sympathies and interests are roused,
the see of Honolulu in Hawaii; and and how desirous they are of helping forby his early demise. Many people will re- found
this great ward the good work so ably begun and so
member the circumstances of the death of in time to come, if God prospers
withdraw
and touchingly pleaded.
work,
who
was
divines
can
child,
English
Prince,
their
only
the young
leave the educated competent Hawaiians to
A brief outline of the motives and operathe hope of his royal parents and of his select
their own coun- tions of the Society for the Propagation of
their
own
from
in
be
trained
all
clergy
was
to
as
he
country,
the Gospel in Foreign Parts, as especially
Christian graces, under the immediate care trymen.
And now we come to explain the cause connected with Queen Emma and her misand tutelage of Bishop Staley, and so realize
widowed Queen's visit to sion to England, may not be out. of place
all the earnest aspirations of the King, who and objeqt of the
It
is
partly to realize the. wish here, and may also enlist fresh sympathies
country.
the
this
good
lived but to promote in every way
in its sjjble and
and welfare of his people. When the little of her husband, and to tell all of us in Eng- and interests for the Society
its
fields. There
hear,
land
who
care
to
how
earnest
and
zealous
working
general
in
King's
them,
lafrom
the
Prince was taken
explained
the
are
the
of
Oxford
ably
(as
sorrow-stricktrue
that
little
world—the
SandBishop
spot in
ment and grief, and that of the
of regeneration. at a recent meeting where Queen Emma
conwich
Islands—is
the
work
in
touchingly
mother,
most
were
en young
is partly to feel she is carrying out the was present,) other Societies for carrying the
veyed to English hearts in a letter written It
sacred
wish of her husband, and inspiring gospel to heathen lands ; but this one stands
Queen,
our
to
gracious
the
himself
King
by
those who plead her cause alone in its peculiar mission, and therefore
presence
to
be
her
by
godcondescended
who had lovingly
and has been chosen as the promoter of the Hamother to the little Prince of this far-distant so eloquently to isbe yet more eloquent
isle ; and in the beautiful and touching ex- convincing. It partly, perhaps, to see the waiian Mission. It was formed and designed
to save and destroy—to to convey Christian and our Church's special
pression of their sorrow, enforced by the country so powerful
and our principles—to teaching to those distant lands where Engsimple but powerful native eloquence of lan- understand our ways
herself what our Church is lish rule is observed by the settlers, that
see
and
for
judge
it
was
forcibly
into
English,
rendered
guage
in when they leave the parent country they
suggestive of another royal father's sorrow— like—to note the working of Christianityand
may not be deprived of all the comforts and
King David of Holy Writ—for the same ten- this favored land, and to learn to love us
as
she
has
done
in
hearts,
the
honor
us
hitherto
duties
of religion ; and of course, while this
reality,
both
and
filled
der, gentle love
idea;
and,
who
shall
how
the
cause
of the Society sending out its
perhaps,
in
say
decree
conseis
same submission to the Divine
means to excrated their sorrow to the world, when, in- much she may be influenced by the innate agents, it neglects no available
to the headesire
to
come
and
see
a
land
whom
tend
the
ol
blessings
Christianity
was
no
more.
from
the
child
deed, they knew
Scarcely recovered from this great trial, the she may be said remotely to derive her then nations around ; and this is the true
who has seen Queen teaching of the gospel. " Go ye into all the
King and Queen resolved not to delay the birth ? Let any one
creainterests of their country, but to come on a Emma say, if they do not feel, she is come world and preach the Gospel to every
more real, more ture," was our Lord's injunction to His
mission to England, and ask for the sympa- on a high and holy mission,
told he that negthy and aid of our Queen and country in en- vital in earnest, devoted zeal for her faith Church, and also we isare
worse "than an infihouse
deavoring to save their countrymen, both and country, than wereandthe pilgrimages of lects his own
do they not feel del ;" so that this Society fulfils both claims,
old to the Holy City;
spiritually and bodily, from extermination.
love,
honor,
her, to see for it follows the surplus population of our
to
and
and
welcome
God
did
not
Kamehamepermit
King
But
ha to realize this desire. He was called and share in the best of all our country can land when it settles in other countries, and
to his great account; but he had sown the offer, and to desire each and all to strew her establishes a Church wherever the British
good seed, and it was his earnest hope that path with flowers and cheer and brighten the colonist set* his foot, and at the same time
once planted, it would spring up and bear gentle, sorrowing heart, so meekly clad in sows the good seed wherever our flag floats
in commerce, and aids more than anything
fruit, and increase a hundred fold. That he its widow's garb ?
And those who have not seen her, and do else the progress of civilization amongst savwas a man of wonderful intellectual vigor,
And as in our colonizing
as well as graced, as becomes the ruler of a not understand why she comes and goes age nations.
us,
think,
all,
think
we
too
often carry the seeds of
if
and
at
movements
they
genamongst
all
the
more
refined
and
kingdom, with
tle virtues of a large, pure, heart—noble and that perhaps the Society for the Propaga- bodily diseases heretofore unknown to the
devoted to all that is good, is proved by his tion of the Gospel have induced her to be natives, so we should indeed be guilty of
having devoted himself to and accomplished present at their meetings for purely selfish cruel wrong and neglect of duty if we failed
the task of translating our Prayer book into reasons, and to enhance the attractions of to carry to them the healing gospel, which
their claims for aid on the public ; let them once loved and lived in, is more potent than
the Hawaiian language.
He wished his people to feel religion in take an early opportunity to go and see any human remedy for' arresting disease,
their hearts, and not only subscribe to its Queen Emma if they can, and if not, to read crime and death; and so establishes happioutward forms and expressions ; he wished this little book, and then bid her God speed, ness, prosperity, and all healthy virtues.
the lives of his countrymen to be made pure and help her with heart and hand, prayers Othr-r Societies choose their own Missionand holy, and so progressive in all that can and means, to return to Hawaii and say, aries, nnd so it is doubtful if the teaching of
create and elevate a nation ; and so his first " See what the good English people have the Chiirch of England is always carried out
act was to educate and train some of the given us to make our church a praise upon in its integrity, for there must often be party
ablest and most intellectual of them in the earth, and to render them dear for ever to spirit and dissenting views to contend with ;
English language, so that after learning all every Hawaiian heart, who can thus be but in the case of die Propagation Society
the teaching and principles of Christianity taught to pray for a blessing from the Chris- the clergy are selected and sent by the Archbishops ef Canterbury and York and the
they might teach it to the masses. And tian's God on good England."
Our own gracious Queen has welcomed Bishop of London, and therefore there is less
this is only to be done at first by native
teachers, who understand how to win their and honored in every way the visit of her chance of peculiar party views being imhearts, and of course must be conveyed in sister in affliction to these shores, and from planted in distant lands, and the Churches
their native language; for is not this one of the highest and noblest in the land she has, founded there are as complete in themselves
the primary doctrines of the English Church, and will continue to receive, every consider- and their principles and doctrines as the
that religion to be felt, and realized, and ation and honor that her exalted position Mother Church.
This is why no efforts were successful m
loved, must be conveyed in a language and yet simply borne state can command ;
known to all who seek its teaching ? King and the most humble of Queen Emma's vis- extenso in the Sandwich Islands to establish
Kamehameha desired to establish the Chris- itors or well-wishers render her in their Christianity, though both the American Purtian religion under the form clearest to his hearts that homage and love that is accorded itans and the French Roman Catholic* haVe
insight of what his people needed—that of to every one who is holy and good, be they had missions there, until King Kamehameha
the English ProtestantChurch—permanently of gentle or lowly birtb. It is no mere wish saw for himself he hftd not got What the
in his country, and to effect this he asked to stare at a royal personage that impels specialties of his country demanded, and
the Queen and Archbishops of England to such crowds of Queen Victoria's subjects to with wonderful perspicuity he wanted a
aid him. To this end—not to plant a mis- go and see this other Queen ; but, let us Church to be planted in Hawaii, which
sion, but to establish a Church in the land venture to hope, a higher and worthter mo- should live, and grow, and spread ■wlver-
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fio.
THE FRIEND.
ing the Gospel was formed and incorporated
sally in tbe hearts of the people. When
in 1649. This Society, at first composed of
pecunnderatood,
and
all
the
taking
once
!
JUNE 1, 1866.
Puritans, sustained for more thsn a century
liarities of race and the natures of fhe peovarious Missionary operations among the
ple into consideration, he rejected the French NOTICE.—H.R. H. Princess Victoria Kamamalu
Kaauu
died at her resldeoce In this city, this morning, St 10 Indians, though after its reincorporation,
mission as a corruption of Christianity, not BLABI7
o'clock, after a lengthened Illness Her Royal Highness arse under Charles II, a
large proportion of its
Christianity in its truth and purity, and saw born
on November 1, 18:18, aud was const fluently, at the time
her decease. In her t.'. enly- 'iglillt year.
funds was diverted to the establishment and
equally clearly that a severe religion like I of All
public unices will be closed Immediately.
Flilll). W. HUTCHISON', tlin. ot Interior. maintenance of Episcopal Churches in the
the Puritans did more harm than good, as
Home
ORlce, May », 18ns..
Colonies." Another charter was obtained
when withdrawn from non-sticcess, the peoIt is with sorrow that we insert <he fore- in 1101 or 2, under William III. '
ple became worse than before from natural
reaction. In the pure observance of our re- going notice in our columns. We had Puritan Benevolence of the Olden Time.
ligion, alHs to be found needed by the emi- known the Princess from her childhood.
Before men allow themselves to speak or
nently earnest, simple-hearted, all-believing She was for many years a member of the
souls of native converts, and therefore, the
write
disparagingly of the Puritun, it would
School taught by Mr. and Mrs.
simpler the teaching the better ; nnd to have Chief's
the
rani:
be well to " consult the records" and examine
very highest
a Hawaiian Church, founded on these Gos- Cooke. She was of
Chiefs,
of
the
of
the
High
some other authorities besides " Coit's Puribeing
daughter
pel principles, King Kamehameha invited
His Excellency Kekun- tanism," about as good authority
as Punch
our Queen to listen to his prayer, and help Chiefess Kinau and
and sister of their Majesties Kameha- would be on the Church of England.
him to save his people, body and soul, and naoa,
announcement has The following example of active benevoso through the Propagation Society, clergy meha IV and Y. No
and funds will be supplied ; and they do yet been made of the time when her funeral lence is quite remarkable. When the Waldenses were suffering the most terrible
wisely and well to induce Queen Emma to will take place.
persecutions in 1655, Oliver Cromwell the
honor with her presence the meetings held
Protector, ordered that contributions should
ReformdMission.
Catholic
by the Society in different places. How
be taken up in the Churches of England in
of
all
modern
long our royal visitor intends to remain
Missionary
The oldest
the
among us is not known to the public, but let Societies is that of the Propagation of the their behalf. These amounted to the handtliem.once sec and hear her mission to us Gospel in Foreign Parts. It was founded some sum of £38,241 10s. 6d. About
spoken of, and they will feel their hearts in- by royal charter in 1702, in the reign of the £20,000 was immediately remitted for their
spired to follow her movements with interest English King William III. To its instru- present necessities. The remainder was inand to learn from time lo time how she is mentality is due the existence of the Epis- Vested for the benefit of that persecuted peoprospering amongst us ; and if she is happy copal Church in the United States, which ple, and, to the credit of the British Governand pleased at her reception, we shall feel was planted when that country was a part ment, the interest on that investment has
more than rewarded for any little mite of of the British Empire, and its first ministers been annually paid for more than two hunhelp we are able to give her; and I shall were mainly supported by grants from that dred years, except during the Wars of Napor
feel I have not pleaded her cause in vajn if I Society, It is the only authorized agency leon. Unless we are much mistaken, it is
can make many feel it as 1 have myself, as of the English Church for foreign missions, now annually paitl ( amounting to about
u high and holy duty that thousands of us all the Bishops, both at home and abroad, £300. This sum is devoted to the support
can join in, and so link ourselves into a being ex-officio governors. Its income for of the Waldensean Pastors. In various
exert his influmighty and ever spreading association ; the last year was nearly $500,000, a large other ways didofCromwell
that interesting but persewhich, if its efforts are directed in like purity proportion of which arises from funded ence in behalf
of zeal to other lands who have no such property. This Society at first granted sti- cuted people.
It was then that Cromwell's Secretary,
sweet pleader as Queen Emma for their pends for three clergy in the Hawaiian
country's salvation, will still help more than Islands, but last year, after the representa- the poet Milton, wrote that beautiful sonnet,
anything else to stem the dangerous spread tions of the Rev. Dr. Anderson and the Con- which has been so universally admired
O Lord! lliy slaughtered saints, whoso
of less pure principles and missions in the gregations list Missionary Association in Aven(re.
boms
name of our Church.
hands
America, it resolved to strengthen the
Lie scattered mi the Alpine mountains eoW •
Kven them, who kept thy truth so pure of old.
of the Bishop by increasing the clergy supWhy Prof. Agassiz Became an Ameriall our ratlins worshipped stocks and
ported to lix. The Society is, we under- � Whenstones.
can.— This distinguished Swiss scholar, stand, about further to extend its operations Forget not: in thy hook record their groans.
Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold,
whom the Emperor Napoleon has vainly at- in this Kingdom, jointly with the Missionary
of the American Episcopal Church,—
.Sl»in by the bloody PlodaMBtess, that rolled
tempted to induce to return to France, in a Board
Mother with infant down the rocks. The moans
Haivaiim Gazette, May 25.
The viiles redoubled to the hills, and they
speech at the Agricultural Show at SpringThe above notice respecting the proposed To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes
he
selectfield, Mass., gave the reasons why
sow
of the Reformed Catholic Mised this country for his home. He said, "I enlargement
O'er all th' Italian fields, where still doth sway
of
the
number
The tiiple tyraiil ; that from these may grow
am in the habit of looking into the condition sion we copy from the last
A hundred fold, who. having learned thy way,
of thing*, and of analyzing the facts which I Gazette. As this paragraph contains an alEarly may fly the Babylonian woe.
witness, and 1 asked myself one day what lusion to the antiquity of modern Missionary
was the difference between American and operations, we think our readers will be inDr. Anderson's friends in New York
European civilisation ; and after careful and terested in some additional facts upon the surprised him a few days ago by a visit,
conscientious, and sometimes a rather trying same subject. We copy as follows from the leaving $2,000 behind them when they went
away. As he has arrived at the age of
surrey of the case, I came to this conclusion :
Eeview, October, 1860:
that the characteristic feature of European North American
i three score and ten," he resigns his situa«The General Court of Massachusetts "tion as Foreign Secretary of the Board, and
society was, that there the institutions were
in the his-,lis to.be succeeded by the Rev. N. T. Clark,
nil calculated to crush down every effort was the first Missionary Society
hay-; 1 D. D., late Professor in Union College.
which might interfere with the privileges of tory of Protestant Missions, that body
the few, while here everything was organ- ing, in 1646, not only provided for sending
teachers to the Indians,
Letters at Honolulu P. O., directed to
ized to foster the advancement of every one. suitable religious
in care of the Seamen's Chaplain : William
The 'American institutions are such that but also voted a pecuniary appropriation
the pas- Lucks, Cant. Hugh R. McRobert, 2 letters ;
they will allow every man to become a man aid of the work. A week beforecommenced
Stephen Wescott, James O. Ellison, Silas
who possesses the elements of true manhood; sage of this order, John Elliot
»
»
other
In
parts
apostolate."
B. Edwards, 2.letters ; Joseph N. Young.
consideration,
his
I
upon the rosult oX my
other similarly earand
by
England,
of
New
children,
to
here
should
having
myself,
s*f4
Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Stranger's
l>o my hom<i and their home. 1 could not nest laborers, numerous aggressions were
Friend Society w"ill be heW on Thursl>ui enjoy those privileges of the boundless made upon trie ignorance and idolatry ofthe
next,
June 7th. at the residence of Capt.
day
of
WinslowV
resources of tho country which established its natives. Through the agency
o'clock, P. M.
3
Snow,
at.
social organization upon such principles," I then in England, the Society foT Propagat.
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for its
question J be perfectly clear as to my true rela- siooarics, which 1 have to regret either
want of charity or truth. Oor mission mast
tion to that production.
We Imv*
I therefore send you a circular, put forth for now be looked upon as established. successive
Sixth Annual Rkport or thk San Francisco Port
for the perusal of my Congregationalist friends in enjoyed the warm sympathy of tioo
SOCIETY.
of tho people, and have wt
January last, which possibly rulers and fathers
We are glad to learn from this Report Boston, TJ. S., in seen.
as
right
much
the Congregationalista and
not
as
not
have
yoo may
Christianity, acthat the friends of seamen, but particularly
to
propagate
choose
to
Roman
Catholics
publicity
you
wish
to
I
you give any
the ladies of San Francisco, are vigorously that statement.
lours faithfully,
cording to the laws, forms and usages of the
Church to which we belong?
T. N. Honolulu.
prosecuting their benevolent efforts in behal'
We desire to cultivate only friendly rotation*
there
)
of seamen. The friends of seamen
with members of other Christian bodies, and ws
15 1'kmuf.rton Square,
Boston, January 1866. J
I have no wis* to magnify divisions in the pceshave had a powerful opposition to contend
My Dear Sir
kind- ence of those who are not attached to any Chriaam
for
obliged
your
:—I
that,
as
yet,
with, and we are sorry to learn
ness in pointing out to me certain expressions I lian organisation.
Believe mo, my dear sir.
they have not succeeded in breaking up the offensive to the American Board of Commissionon the
Missions,
in
Faithfully yours,
ers
for
a
Foreign
publication
of
Shangpernicious system there practiced "
Hawaiian Episcopal Church reocntly printed in
I. }N. STALKY.
shipped,
are
the
sailor.
Sailors
haeing"
Bishop ofHonolulu.
England.
first say that 1 saw the pamphlet in
To J. S. Rorts, Esq.
they know not for what port bound. We Let mofor
the first time when in New York
are constantly meeting with instaaces of this question
|Correspondence or tin Congresatlonalist |
early in November last. It contained extracts
Letter from England.
from a journal kept solely for my own benefit
description.
that of the Board of Missi >ns (London ComBY REV. J. C. HOLBROOK, D. D.
From this Report we rejoice to learn that and
mittee,) in which 1 recorded especially such
London, Feb. 16', 1866.
the " Home" is flourishing, and the Rev. facts and opinions nahad a bearing upon my own
meeting was held here in Exeter
Mr. Rowell, the faithful chaplain, is about mission and work in the Islands. It was not
great
A
me before publication. I had no Hall last evening, to commemmorate the
to have erected a new Bethel. A site has submitted to
for
opportunity
revising any phrases (and there
Amendment
been purchased, and funds amounting to would be such, of course) which subsequent ex- adoption of the Constitutional
slavery is
States,
the
which
United
by
in
during the two following years might abolished and
nearly $10,000 collected for the building. perience
Benjamin
forever
prohibited.
shown
required
nave
me
some
modification.
Our advice is, go "ahead, but keep out of Still I am responsible for the statements them- Scott, Esq., Chamberlain of London, preselves, though not for their publicity. Let me sided, and introduced the exercises by a very
debt.
then olserve, that having been in the Islands just forcible speech, in which he referred very
the
Containing
corThk Love-liks ok Du. Kank. of the acquaintance, three months when the sentences in question kindly to our country, and characterized the
respondence nnd n history
I relied rather upon the testimony action above alluded to as the great event of
engagement and secret marriage between Elisha were penned,
of
others—who
seemed trustworthy and compe\ork
Carle:
New
and
Fox.
Margaret
K. Kane
tent authorities—than upon my own personal the age. He was followed by Handel Crosslon Publisher, 1806.
The Chief Magistrate of the dis- hair, Esq., of Bristol, one of the company of
« Fact is stranger than fiction." If any investigations.
trict, with whom I was staying, told me a variety British capitalists who visited America last
one doubts the assertion let him read this of faots—with regard to the points involved in year, who moved a resolution expressive of
statements—that could leave no doubt of the satisfaction of the meeting, in view of
singularly truthful book. That Dr. Kane, my
their substantial truth.
the extinction of slavery in the United States,
Margaret
loved
truly
the Arctic Explorer,
1. Marriages. lie himself, during my stay, and supported it in a powerful speech that
Fox, the spirit-rapper, no one will doubt who married natives, and I learned from him that he repeatedly "brought down the house." Rev.
performed the ceremony. I underreads this book. Our reading of the book frequently
stood him to say people were oftener married Newman Hall seconded the resolution, and
makes us think better of both, and of human civilly than by the Missionaries. I wished to spoke forcibly for half an hour, when the •
nature in general. Shakspeare bit the idea give the main idea and not the precise details. motion was adopted by acclamation. An
Writing currents calamo" in my journal, (not opportunity was then afforded me, as an
when he wrote, " The ceurse of true love intended"for publication,) I naturally say " mar- American
citizen, to make a short response,
never did run smooth." Only think of Dr. riages are celebrated civilly only," not of course
Rev. Mr. Allen, an Episcopal
did.
which
I
Kane tramping over the cold and snowy re- meaning in every instance.
After adding the Minister of London, then brought forward
Infants.
2.
Baptitm
of
gions of the Arctic, with a portrait of Mar- Roman Catholic population to the actual Church another resolution of sympathy with us in
garet Fox strapped upon his back! This membew, we have 2O,O00+17,fXK)*-=37,OOu, our work for the freedmen, and pledging asleaves half, or say one-third, the popula- sistance, and spoke fervidly in denunciation
book nnd many other new and interesting which
tion unaccounted for. It follows that the in- of slavery, and was followed by Hev. Mr.
works will be found at Whitney's Book- fants of this part are iinhaptized. Hearing dur- Brock, a prominent Baptist Minister in the
ing my stay of rusts in winch the Missionary of city. Two or three other persons also spoke,
store.
that district had refused to baptize infants, I
it was his custom to do so. and the meeting adjourned with much enShortly after our last issue appeared, naturally stated that that
he baptized the infants thusiasm. The immense bouse was tolerdid
not
then
know
I
containing an editorial notice of Bishop of'• Church members." I should therefore now ably well filled. The meeting was under
Staley's " Journal of a Missionary Tour in alter the phrase from
" never," Ac. to " never the auspices of the London Freedmen's Aid
baptizes any but the infants of Church memSociety.
Oahu and Hawaii," we received from him bers."
3. The expression about the Missionaries not
the following communication and circular.
We would acknowledge C. W.
the
social and
"
Although the Bishop does not read news- paying soasmuch attention towelfare
&
Go's business circular, per Bherof the peo- Brooks
to the spiritual
physical
paper articles referring to himself, yet he ple," is a generalization, and as such it hud bet- iiwm&ntl also late San Francisco papers
appears in somc*way to have obtained the tor not have been made. It was not my object from the same firm. Captains Hempstead,
censure them, but to show the openings of the Cambridge, Bennett, the D. C. Murdrift of our remarks, and we are glad to to
of
through which we might work.
and Lane, of the Bhervig, have our
learn that after a longer jpidence on the There are other passages in which I should ray,
grateful acknowledgements for files of late
Islands, he sees reasons for refracting or have made certain modifications if 1 had bad the'
opportunity of revising my journal. For nothing papers. Such favors are always acceptable,
modifying his previously published state- else am I responsible in the pamphlet but what for they furnish the Reading Room at the
I have written myself.
Sailors' Home, after undergoing a surgical
monts.
Honolulu, May S.
operation by the editor's scissors.
••••••'
When I left, it hotter feeliug existed in the
S. C. Damon—Dxar Sir —I was
Tn*
Hawaiian Evangelical Association,-—
toHyon have printed in Tax Friind extracts, Islands than bad done for some time, and I bewith ooaiaients thereon, from a pamphlet issued lieve that all will yet be found working harmo- The annual meeting of. tKis Association will
irelxmdoo, eatitled an " Occasional Paper." kc. niously in their ssveral methods for the commence its sessions at the Stone*Church
I have Mt seen your article, as I never read any- moral and social religious training of the
people. During my public advocacy of the on Wednesday, 6th inst, at 10o'clock, A. M.
thing written about myself in this place.
(after
that
should
you
cause of our Cfmrch in ibis country, not a word Missionaries, native pasters and delegates,
however,
It is only iuBt.
UkinS the trouble to notice the brochure in has escaped me about the Congregationalist Mis- win Uv in miciiuttiicv *
Editor's Table.
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Young Christian Away son will do good anywhere. Some
from Home.
set as if God had made the world
Good Advice to a
The following letter was written by the
late Rev. Mr. Ramsay, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, to a member
of his Church, who had removed to a distant
part of the country. The letter, containing
the following paragraphs, chanced to fall
under our observation, and the counsel uppeered so eminently sound and good that
we take great pleasure in publishing the
same, most earnestly commending it to the
consideration of our readers :
It often happens that when young Christians remove far from home, and from the
circle of Christians among whom they formerly dwelt, and with whom they labored
for God, they either conceal their Christian
character entirely or else lend such a life of
seclusion that no one would ever suspect
them for being professing Christians. This
may arise from many causes. How you
have acted in this respect, since you have
baen thrown among strangers, I know not.
If you should become desponding, then you
will begin to wish that no one should know
that you are it member of Ihe family of
Christ; but, if you are still happy and
cheerful in God, then you will seek to bring
others to experience the same joys that you
yourself profess. You no doubt have good
preaching where you are, but let me give
you a short sermon. Permit me then to say
to you, my dear M.—
1. Be a Bible Christian; that is, be a
Christian whose faith rests on the Word of
God, and not on the opinions of men. The
Christianity of too many in our days is regulated more by the opinions of others than
"by the Word of God ; und hence they are
unable to give a reason of the hope they possess. (1 Petor, 3, 15.) Such Christians
never enjoy much of the love of God, and
never do much.
2. Search the Scriptures daily and with
prayer. (John 5, 39.) Read the Bible in
course, and read it all. John Quincy Adams
said before his death a short time, that for
many yean, of bis life he had read the Bible
through once a year. How few Christians
can say so. Have a small Bible alwnys
near you, and often read it, as well us regularly morning and evening.
3. Be a prayerful Christian. None should
indulge the hope of Heaven who do not love'
to pray. Prayer is the brenth of the Christian. Some p»ople pray to keep their hopes
alive, nnd not because they love to commune
with God. Have your regular
devotion, and if anything should brealKi
upon the time you have given to God, don't
retire for the night till you have redeemed
your pledge to God. The character of your
prayers in secret wjJl tell you what is the
character of your religion. It is sad to think
of the time Christians waste in idle chat and
visits, and than excuse themselves from jeer** pray>r for want of time. Such
Christuns never are happy. Read Psalm 66, 17,
Dan. 6, 10. Pray till you love to pray.
Bmt Dr. Wettt and Henry on Prayer.
4. Seek to do good. If you ask me how
you ctn do good, I answer, imitate Christ in
flw spirit and in His conduct. A good per-
1866.
people ileges are they entitled ? To none, except
of the national authorities.
for them byAspermission
minister
the right
alone, and that everybody must
to
to
of franchise in the revolted
them i but the secret of true joy in religion States, 1 would say that loyal slaves arc
is, to be doing-good. This will cheer the more to be trusted than their" disloyal mnssoul and will secure the blessing of Ood. ters, and if my views could prevail, I should
Be a thing epistle, sent from God to the Far tell you to give the loyal negro the right of
West, and carry with you the Spirit of your voting, and disfranchise his disloyal master,
Divine Lord wherever you go.
until time and events have made the latter
5. Aim at a high degree of piety. The come back, with "pure hande and a contrite
religion of the great mass of Christians now- heart," and o full acknowledgment of his
adays is of a sickly growth. Multitudes are errors to supplicate the favors of American
in doubt all their life whether they are citizenship. No the loyal negro who has
Christians or not. Mnny are what 1 would fought for American nationality is fur more
call see-saw Christians, tip to-day, down to- to be respected than the disloyal traitor who
morrow. Let your piety be like the flowing has borne arms
of treason, or supstream, on and on, deeper and wider, till ported the cause of the Southern Confedfaith is lost in sight and hope in possession. eracy by his voice or his pen in the counTo obtain this, make it a matter of con- cils, or the interest of Northern traitors.
science to attend to every duty; be faithful The man who has refused to acknowledge
in all thoainnans of grace ; never forsake the the correctness of Mr. Lincoln's policy and
communion of saints j love Christians; love statesmanship, should—no matter what his
not the world ; never sacrifice the fuvor of professions now may be—" stand out in the
God to please your best friend on earth; cold" until he has accomplished the full
keep Heaven in view, and while you pant measure of penance required for anything
after God you will feel His love, and soon, short of the unpardonable sin.
my dear young friend, you will see Jesus,
!
your Lord.
Christian Union.
Hon. D. L. Gregg; on the Negro Question.
St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, was opened
for a conference of the Christian Union Association last Sunday evening. Rev. Mr.
Mills and Rev. Mr. Gallagher, rectors of the
Church, and Drs. Porter and Buddington,
made uddrcsses. Dr. Porter showed that
the office of this Association was to promote
spiritual union and to awaken thought on
the subject of fellowship and communion.
Dr. Buddington believed the movement, by
holding up the banner of union, would bring
out great results in the future. Rev. Mr.
Gallagher (Episcopal) thus addressed the
A Carson City paper publishes the following remarks of the late IT. S. Minister at the
Hawaiian Court nnd Hawaiian Minister of
Finance :
The question of negro suffrage, is sought
to be made an issue by the Copperheads,
but they mistake the true grounds of controversy in taking this position. In this State
the basis of suffrage is established. But how
is it in regard to South Carolina, and Georgia i They are disobedient children. They
have revolted against just parental authority. meeting i
They have discarded the allegiance they
" Baptized a Presbyterian, lie had gone
owe to the Government. Shall we at once into the Episcopal Church, nnd for a time
permit them to resume all the rights of their had held the erroneous doctrine that an unformer condition ? I give you my answer broken lineal, tactual, episcopal apostolic sucfirmly nnd emphatically in the negative. cession was essential to confer validity to orKeep them under the duress of military uu- dination. At that time, to stand where he
thority until they agree to behave themselves now stood, affiliating with Dr. Porter aa a
for the future as faithful members of the ! minister, he would no more have done than
Union. Make them consent to respect the | to have thrust his right hand into the flames.
proclamation of emancipation, and to give to ] But like Peter, ufter the vision of the clean
their equals under the law—colored though and unclean beasts, he had been taught by
they muy be—the rights, the privileges and the Divine Spirit to call nothing common or
the prerogatives of American citizens. Comp- unclean which God hud accepted. Whom
el them to agree to the Constitutional ! Christ had acknowledged ns ministers should
amendment abolishing slavery. Let ihem he not accept ? Yes, he would with his
know, and be made to understand, that re- whole rouI ; with no reserve whatever. No
bellion is Qot a mere farce, to be compro- terms could express his aversion to exclumised by professions or atoned for by any siveness as found among all denominations.
spirit which tends to carry out the teachings ; It was not the Spirit of Christ. He was an
of rebellion.
Episcopalian true to his old standard. Cran• While the still continued traitors of the mer and Hall stood here, and until the corlate Southern Confederacy hold to the senti- rupt age of Chades the Second, ministers
ments of rebellion, they ought not to be per- were inducted into the Episcopal Church
mitted to cast the votes of the two-thirds of from non-Episcopal Churches, and reordinaemancipated slaves, who have heretofore tion was not .so much as thought of."
added to their basis of representation.
Rev. Mr. Mills, as rector of St. Ann's,
Negro equality in the South Who dis- isaid, among other good things: '• May
pates its propriety ? The loyal negro has these walls crumble to dust ere this Church
fought for his country, under the banners of ■ departs from the practice of her fathers (Mcthe nation, is now, an 1 at any time, more Ilvaine and Cutler) and excludes from her
than the equal of his master, who stood by Courts any of God's ministers or people."
the flag of the Southern Confederacy.
At a late hour the meeting adjourned.—
The privileges of rebels ! To what priv- iV. Y. Observer, March 16.
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111 L FttlE N D, JUN E, 18 66.
PLACES OF WORSHIP.
SEAMEN'S BBTIIBX—Iter. 8. 0. Damon Chaplain—Klin
struct, iicnr tha Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. M.
Scats flM. Sabhuth School iftn tsM morning service.
Pr.grar meeting on W»lii-»,Uy evenings at 74 o'clock.
N.B. S ii b.uh School or BiW) Class for Seamen it Si
o'clock SablMlh morning.
PORT srilBKT CHURCH—Corner of Port ana Dorelanln
atr-ule—Rev. K. CirtTln Psstor. Prenohlng on Sundays at
it A. M. and 7J l>. M. Bauluth School at 10 A. M.
ST01H UHUKOII—Kins street, arowe Urn P.ilaoe—Rev. II. II.
Parker Pastor. Services In llavrall in avery Suudny at Hi
A. M. and 3 P. M.
CATHOLIC CIlUitCH—Port strtst, near lieratanla—under
the ohnrgs of Hi. Kit. Bishop Mmgret, astlstod by Iter,
PierN CaniM. Strvloet every Sunday at 10 A.M. and J P.M.
HMITII'B CHURCH—IWrtanla street, near Nuuanu street—
Hot. LiwiiII Smith Pastor. Services In Hawaiian every
Sun lay at 10 A. M. and 3t P. Mat
UHPilltMK.I) 0ATIIOI40 0111111011—Corner of Kukul and
Niiuumttivctt, underohnrg* of lit. Rev. Bllliop Staley,
assisted i.y Roy. Messrs. Ibbotwn, Uillagher ami Bikington. KnglUb service every Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7|
P >l.
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ADVEHTI3E."Ii;NTS.
APVBRTIIBMB.VTS.
W. N. LADD,
SAILOR'S HOME!
Importer and Dealer m Habdwabb, Cutlsbv, Mbcsabios
nc^h^Tii
Tools and Aobioultcsai. lari.sass»s, for street. Ilono
«»-ly
lulu.
| SIIBBBAB
ADVEHTI3iUIVTETOrTS.
«<'«.
I.
11. A. B. OARTBB.
C. BREWER
SABtLSTT.
* CO.,
Commission & Shipping Merchants,
Honolulu, Onhii.
AGENTS
H. W. lEVKRANt 1.,
AITOTIOIVIIim,
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building,
LIUKKN BTIIBKT, HONOLULU.
W'U continue, business at the new stand.
477-ly
K >-
-
mMJi SBSSSj |SB».
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BNw
"WJ7HTTH
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S.
Bales Room Queen Street one door from Kaahumanu It 620 ly
t BB«LJ||L--J|l|l Jl)l|,--
Of llsr Boatoii and Honolulu l'nnlti-1 I.lnci.
AUKNTB
For the Mulirr, WulluliUSi. Ilssun PlßSSlnllanu
ABKNTB
Par llsr I'ur.hn.. nnd Snli-of lsloii.l Prasluee.
—REPHR TO—
York.
Jobs M. noon, Ksq
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Chas. Bsswbb, ft 00.
.Boston.
.IAHSaIIUMBBWBLL, Esq. |"
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3. C. MSBBILL ft 00.
San Prancisto.
R. B. Swaib ft Co.
>T ',
OIIAS. V.OLOOTT lISODKB, Esq.)
C. 8. BARTOW,
AUOTIOWaHH.
BBBBBBBat
B^' "s?S
iO
H. I.
CARTES
•
VINITKJ
LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS!
COPVINO A.M> BNLARu INO 1
RETOUCHING ilour la Ike br.l snniluer.
.1.-
and on the most reasonable terms.
Also for sale, Photographs or the Cralorw B llnaja snd
Hnls-iskiilis,and other Islsnd Boenesi the KINUSRAMHIIKMKHA, Ac,
A/c.
-
At the Gallery on Fort Street.
U CHASE.
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■jyttSHILS ■**»* iSLMIjIH
table, with lodging, per week,.
Ij Officers'
do.
do.
Scamrns* do. do.
Shower
Baths on the Premises.
Honolulu, April 1,1808.
•«°
Mr.. CRABB.
Manager.
McCraken, Merrill & Co.,
FORWARDINC AND
Commission llmliantx
H.
P. B—Having purchssed the Portrait Negatives rrom Mr.
persons wishing
by
can
be
had
those
duplicate
copies
Weed,
Portland, Orcjon.
Silly
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for the same.
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ENOIGED IN OUR PREBERN
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US-am
E. HOFFMANN, M. I>.,
ssnt business for upwnres) of seven years, sad Besag
proof
building, we are prepared toreceive
Kaa
lire
brick
WOLOOTT snoOBS, W. SBABS LADD, SDWASD t. DALL.JB
snd
located
s
Makee'sßlock,eornerttueen
.HAS.
In
Surgeon,
and
Physician
and dispose of Island slsples, such ss Sugar,Rloe, B.vnips, Pals,
hutuanu streets.
'J8 5!.
Coffee, Ao., to advantage. Consignments especially solicited
for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid,
C. 11. WF.TMOUE,. M. D.
SHIPPING AND
snd upon wt.lch cash advances will be made when required.
SURGEON,
PHYSICIAN «t
Sab Pbabcisto Rbvbbbbcbsi
Jas. Patrick ft Co.,
Badger k Undenbcrger,
HILO, HAWAII. 8. I.
Pred. Iken,
W. T. Coleman ft Co.,
at
csrrfullyreplenished
tbe
N. B Aledloiiio Chests
ft
Stevens, Baker 00.
AOKNTH FOR THE
HILO DIIITG STORE.
6-lf
I'OBTI.ABD RBrSBSBOMt
Leonard ft Orssa.
Ladd ft Tllton.
Allen ft Lewis.
lloBOLKLt! RsrsSBBCSS:
A. P.
8.
Co.,
Savld.e.
Walker, Allen ft
BETWEEN
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
CORNlill FoßTund MERCHANT ST., HONOLULU, OAHU
J. MOTT SMITH,
aDEHsTi'itapr.
Office corner of Fort snd Hotel Blasts.
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CHAS. W.
_„
BROOKS & CO.,
°
HAVING
Commission Merchants.
—
JUDD,
Ma-ly
C. L. RICHARDS & CO.,Oeneral
In
Ship Chandlers and Commission Merchants, dealers
Merchandise. Keep constantly on hand a full assortment
of msrchsudlse, for the supply of Wbslcrs and Merchant
HS-ly
vessels.
BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA.
,
St&WJUI/Mt PACKET USE
ISim
lIPFICK-IHI
SassersrSl.,
.-ornrr Mfirebanl
BAN FBANCISCO.
ATTENTION GIVEN TO
PARTICULAR
;
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REMOVAL!
GEO. W. VOLLUM,
BOOK-BINDER,
the Purchase, Shipment and Bale of Merchandise to For.
warding and Transhipment of Goods i the Chartering aud gals
otVoeseU-, the Supplying of Whaleships t snd the Negotiation
of Exchange.
Kxohango on Honolulu in sums to suit.
■ ItVIMG REMOVED TO THE LARGE
[] building In Merchant street opposite the Sailor's Borne.
AT KOLOA.
REV. DANIEL DOLE.
all onlaia lor binding
ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS. Is prepared to assents
Kauai, has accommodations In his family
Pamphlets,
Books.
For a Few BaareHuaj Scholars.
REPER TO
Newspapers, Music,
Jas.lldbbbwbllEsq.,Boston
to learn the Terms wilt apply to him. Walbbb, AllbbA-Co,
Old Boosts, Ac, 4c,
XT Persons wishing Fbisbp."
6 if
Honolulu.
RaSBV A. PSIBCB ft Co.
M
or ths Editor of T«s
from
thsotht Islands should be accompanied with
Siss
Orders
«
Co.,
ft
Bovlbs,
Bs*J. P. Bsow, Esq.,
particular directions s to the style, snd If lbs work Is to
Burros ft Co.. New York.
ahos s. oooss 0. Bbswsb ft Co.,
J. a. atbbbtob.
asa'L s. oasti.s.
match volumes previously hound, s sample volume should se>
Wm. H. Fooo ft Co,
BisHor ft Co.,
sent with the Job.
11. Pooo ft Co.. Ihsnghas.
Tsns. Brssoßß, Esq., Hilo.
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CASTLE «t COOKE,
Lswis.
JOSS M 0BAf»I».
Osneral Merchants In theFireproof Store, King Street, oppo. Ai.i.habd s> Co., Kanagawa. Allbb ft
ST. A. ALDBICH.
I. 0. MBBSILL,
Portland, Oregon.
606-ij
THE
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ths Seamen's Chapel.
ALSO AGENTS FOR
Dr. Jaynes Celebrated Family Medicines,
Wheeler A Wilson's Sewing Machines,
Sugar Company,
Tbe Kohala
The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Marine Insurance Company,
Ths New Tork Phenis
Ths New York Security Msrlne Insurance Company.
site
sOS-ly
JOHN THOt. WATERHOUSE,
.
Importer and Dealer In Osneral Merchandise. Honolulu. H. I.
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BEWING MACHINES!
—REFERENCES—
MACHINE HAS ALL THE LATEST
Impiorsmeota,and, In addition to former premiums, was
Honolulu
null 11. U Wy111.,..H0n. B F. Bnow, Esq.,
Thos.Spencer, Esq
Hilo swarded the highest prise shoveall EuropeansadAmerican
Dlraomd ft Son.
In PARI* In IMI,
II Dickinson, Esq...Uhaina Moßuers/ Merrill. San Francisco Bswlng Machines at ths Wortd's-lahlbltton
sisdst tbe lshlbltloolo UnionIn IIM. ■
OW. Brooks*/ C0...8an F. QT. Lawton, Esq., '*
Is found In ths
of
this
Machine
Field ft Rice,
New York
Thesvldsocsof the superiority
Tobin, Bros, ft Co..
record of lv sales. In leal—
Wilcox, Richards ft Oo II in 'ulu.
Boston,
TheOrover ft Baker Company,
Ml-ly
The Florence Company, Massachusetts
The Parker Company, Ooouectloot,
«fc
J. M. Singer s> Co., N.w York,
KAWAIIIAE. HAWAII,
"
Finkle ft Lyon,
Cuss.
W. Howland,Delaware.
Shipping
Merchandise
snd
business
I
WUI continue tbe Genera
M. Ureeuwood ft 00., Oloolnnsli, 0.,
at theabove port, where they are prepared to rural,b tbsI X.
I. 0. Perkins, Norwalk, 0.,
Justly celebratedKawalhae Potatoes, and such other ns
Wilson H.Bmith. Connecticut,
oralis ss are required by whale ships st ths shortestnotice)I
whilst Iks Wheeler ft Wilson Oosspaay, at Bridge
478-ly
old
11,140,
aad on the most reasonable terns.
ort, mads and sold 18,7*. during the same period
11 tl
Haas*
Call sac Ewaaalaa.
XT
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ALLEN
THIS
CONWAY,
FIRS WOOD ON
"
HAND.
ALDRICH,
MERRILL A Co.,
COOKE,
CASTLE
Commissionan Merchants
AtSENTS FOR
Auctioneers,
Wheeler & Wilson's
and aoo
i)O4
CsUitornlsv Strssest,
WAN FRANCISCO.
ALSO, AOBBTB OP TBI
San Francisco &
Honolulu Packets.
Particularattention given to the sale and purchase sf ssar
standlss, •hips' business, supplvlog whaleships, nsgetUsta,
-.
eicbange. Ac.
XT All freight arriving st lea Frsnelsoo, by or to tksrlo
oolulu I.lns of Packets, will be focwarjed rasa or ooasasssoß
XT Exchange on Honolulu bought and said. JDS
—
—ssrsssaoss
Messrs. 0. L. Rioaasos ft Co.,
" II Haobsbld ft Co.,
0 Bsawsss/Co.,
Btsaor ft C0...
Dr. R. W. Woo»,
rton B. H. Allss..
D C. Waisbbus, ssso,
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Biaslsss
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1 II
X FRIKMI,
JUNE, IBC 6
die of starvation were it not for this. Their
children are kept at school, and we get them
work to prevent injustice. Take us all
Action and not preaching is to me plainly away, and the negroes might as well be
hung nt once. The old masters cannot
my sphere, though a little talking occasion- all
be
trusted.
ally is allowable. 1 cannot look upon my
Out of my window 1 see hundreds of
being spared through such vicissitudes as
in a little bay. Splendid oysoyster-boats
significant
providence
but
a
calling
anything
me to such labors for my fellows as 1 can ters we get, the best in the world, I will
best perform. Thus far 1 am led. I have tell you my counties, so you can see my
got the position in the Bureau to give my 1 domain on the map. They are these:
powers their fullest test, and by the help of jMatthews, Glocester, York, Warwick, ElizUod shall succeed. Beyond the present I nbeth City, James City, Charles City, New
see nothing, but all will be well. Yesterday ; Kent and King Williams. General Howard
I walked out to the Auburn of the South, ! told me it was the hardest position he had
and on the banks of the James we saw !to fill, there is such ill-feeling between the
many reb*d graves, Gen. Stuart among whites and blacks, so many paupers, so
others. It is a beautiful, tasteful place. I much idleness and such an enormous popuPresident Jefferson's tomb is also there, but lation. I have just commenced, and shine
the monuments are far inferior to those of I ye lucky stars !
There is a beautiful sheet of water before
the North. Bight over the river we saw
the infamous prison-ground of Belle Isle, the village,'the 3cene of the fight between
with its countless Union graves, its dead- the Merrimac and Monitor, the naval renlines, and narrow unsheltered pen, where dezvous of the war, and the base of operamice twelve thousand of our soldiers were tions of the army of the Potomac twice. It
imprisoned nnd starved. We walked under is all history about here. The work is
the James River Canal to the water-works, splendid, and if God leads me as he has
and thence out upon the rocks in the river, done, I shall have nothing to fear, and all
and frisked nbout like children, leaping from will be well.
We have to deal with cute, oily secessionboulder to boulder, 11 sport that I had not enists,
smart as steel, smooth as sycophants.
We
on
a
joyed for many years.
gathered
It
reminds
me of the days when I was editor
rock and sung " \V»Uut are the wild waves
saying ?" and, in chorus, " America,"and I of the Hae Hawaii.
It is uncertain how long I shall remain
the sound floated over those snd graves.
The incense of patriotism has seldom gone here, as the Bureau may not last long.
Letter from Gen. S.
T.
Armstrong.
HOTEL
I
Rk'iimonp. Va., March 4, iB6O. (
iSpotthwook
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up from these rocks, on which the sunken
Information Wanted,
eye of despair has ofttimes rested in hopeless longing. There is a holy thrill nl such Respecting William Beaut- *ho »* Honolulu, as a " On
sul's man," on board the D. C. Murray, in January last. He
tunes that is unspeakable.
is reported to be In San Francisco. By calling upoo Capt.
15th.—Took the sleamer for Fortress Mon- Beunett,
of the D. C. Murray, lie will he»r go«d news from
Please communicate with Mi*s Klliahelli Beggs, Wil
roe and am now at my post in the village of home
ton House, Dalkey, Ireland, or with theeditor of Ths Fbibsd.
Hampton, beautifully located, and once one Respecting theperson referred to in the following letter, adof the finest towns in the South; all burnt dressed to Hon. James Mcßrlde, American MinisterResident
Philaiiblphia,' March 1. 1866.
to the ground and replaced by thousands of
James Meßride, Minister at Honolulu—Sir —I have tbe
to William Davison Bent
negro cabins. There tire seven thousand honor to request a favor in regardlight
complexion, blue eyes, 6
who Is 33 or 34 years old.
negroes on a radius of three miles from my ley
In his
feet 4 or t Inches high, has a very bad impediment
received
from
him was dited Honospeech
Thelast
letter
I
some thirty-live thousand in my
enough
to s.certsm If
Msrch «, 18&B. WHI you be kind
I linvo about a dozen officers under lulu
he Is living In Honolulu, sad by giving full particulars of him
mother.
a
heartbroken
you
oblige
will
and
a glorious
lgh I am a civilian,
I remain, sir, very respectfully.
labor. Some thirty-four lady tenchYour obedient serrnnt.
SAKAII DKNTI.KY.
the North, and others, aTe co-oper- In csre of Mrs. Wallace, 318 North HXh street. Philadelphia.
Some splendid people are helping.
RespecUng John W. Jones, late from San Francisco. He is
He came
In some psrtof he Islands.
Dalley, who for fOj'ir years was ma- supposed to be residing
editor, or Dr.
health. Please communicate with the
one of the large-, hospitals in the forhis
Buffum,
C
Honolulu.
A.
Del.
country, is a rare woman, a Florence NightRespecting William Dyke, belonging to Wllroingtoo,
bvhe 'ditoror Mrs.
she
is
I
her,
America.
admire
so
Any Informstion will I* gladly received
ingale of
Wilmington,
Del.
He
street,
B Yates, No. 16 Robinson
noble; she has an Industrial School in one Kllfn
is supposed to be residing in San Francisco.
1864, In the
of the hospitals, is about fifty years old.
Sbanertlnß William A. Burnet, who sailed. In
reported that be
from New Bedford. It
This place is historical. A little above •• v5Z£Ilotch"
ms.ter
of the
Baxter
was
then
lot overbear*. C.pl.
here is Jamestown, in my district, where the was
the attention of Cspt-Baater,
shU. Should Ibis notice sttrsct
ship,.hey
req-este.l
sre
the
any one attached at that time to
first settlers came, and the ruins of the or
.be KM*.jr fcr/K.»£, «f*» ■£
photographs, Arc remain, Is
church an standing. In my field "were toc.lnonleatewi.h
ford If any keepsakes, books,Thl.
unfortonato young inaV.
kept.
desiredis the/
tt
fought many battles, und some of my own. faUier
residing
In Sootlnn.l.
an sged clergyman,
•
Kid
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This Hampton has been the city of refuge Respecting Robert Boyd o.montfs, aged 40. Left the: United
of New London,
for the negroes during the war. Here they (Jie! on bird the ship " Oeneral Williams,"
ear,.go. and landed at Ihe Sandwich ..binds.
came from all Virginia to seek freedom, S,went"
by
received
Ih. Kdltor, or Mrs.
AM Information will he gladly
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and a
hither caravans daily Abby J. Bellows, Bast Wilton, N. H.
ired in for month*, with young, old and
MARRIED.
pies*, and built their little cabins, and did
st ihey could. Here were raised several
,,
M.. Mth. bv Rev. B. O. Damon, at
ored regiments, which took the men nnd
O.
Id home;
women helpless, and other miseries
: thehave
been, which cannot be told; but
■re
i worst is over. The men came not back,
ice most were killed, disabled or died, and
re are their families in my charge;. We
ue 1,800 rations a day to those who would
.
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MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
AREUVAaUt.
Aplil 29—Am wh bark Minerva, Penniman, from New Zealand
.
with 36 bbls sp.
39—Am wh bark 'George, Davis, from home via 11110
with 280 bbls sp.
May 2—Am wh bark Seiue. Smith, from Home via 11110, clean.
&—B;irkeiitiiie Constitution, iron. Tahiti.
li—Uuasiun ship K-iuit-chnika, Ohberg, from Cronstadt.
via llumlnirg nii.l Bt. Catherine on route for Sitka
7—Am brigantliie bubra, Howes, IB days hum San
Francisco, en
route (or Hongkong.
7 —Am wb barkJha breese, Hamilton, 6 mos. oat from
Home, tJeai-r
9—Am clipper .ark D. (\ Murray, Berfaett, 14 day*
Irocc. San Fraacisco, wilb uidae and passengers to
Walker, Alkn t, Co.
9—Am whahip Juuiw, Smith, 6hms. out from Home,
With 200 sp,
10—Am barken tineVictor, Greenleaf, 28 days from Teekulet with lumber to H. Hackfeld k Co.
11—Haw'nbrig Pflel, Ziegenliirt, 2S days Irom Victoria,
with asstil carfM to Kd. Hoffachlaegcr At Co.
12—Am bark A. A. Eidrldge. Abbott, IS days from Portland, with aidse to Walker, Allen At Co.
14—Am bark Ethan Allen, Snow, 14 days from Portland,
with imlsf (o Walker, Allen At Co.
H-*aWs bark Antm, Watson, «6 days from MeMtourne en
route furBan Francisco.
19—Ambark Radish, Jcrrkens, 14 days from Sydney.
20—Dr. steamer Thames, 28 days from Victoria, with
cargo to Janlon,Green <b Co.
2\ -Otttu'K bar,ik I'iaua, Tocgel, 160 day* from Bremen
with rndse to Metcher* & Co.
22—Am bark Live Yankee, Wiggins, 20 days from San
Francisco, with indue to C. brewer A; Co.
II M— bark Clara Bell, Sutton, 22 days from San
Francisco.
25— Am wh bark Navy, Davb,
i.6—Am brig Kentucky, \\ .iliatni.. 'J9 days from Carmen,
Island t-u route for Nickoluski, with cargo of salt.
May 27—Am bark Hhering, Lave, )4 days from San Francisco, with ratine to Walker, Allen ft Co.
27—Am schr Milton Badger, 16 days from Humboldt,
with lumber to Walker, Allen At Co.
31—Am clipper ship Bunker Hill, Bhvlh, 18 days from
San Francisco.
00— Am wU ship Nile, Davis, fmm cruise.
I—Br bark Hadby*, Swain, 65 days from Sydney, via
Tahiti, with coal.
PASSENGERS.
For Pobtlasii—t*r Sam'l MerriU. May B—R X Chambesiyne.
From 'iabiti—L"T Constilutiou, MMy 6—L Alton, J Archer
W Lloyd, D II W heeler—4.
For Sab Fhasciscu—per Hesperian, May B—Rev X lbbottI) N Tbain, Wm
son, II M Alexander, U Kellelt, i A Quisle,
Lloyd—6.
For sab Fbasosco—per Camden, May B—A W Nichols, U
N Greenaell, J 11 Klckoff. U Ueiyeis—4.
From Sab Fkahciwu—per I>. C. Murrny, May »—Miss ■ A
Hrooks, Mrs Oro llesrts, «C Apperson, Mrs A Louisda, A
LoumdH, Muster Louauda, Mrs X L.iylon, L W 1-sylun, ti Layton, 11 Layton, II Heyuian, M S Grluhaum, 0 S Chsse, 11 Heyeler, J llemrics, A Maillanl, I'l A C llulliim, X F Howard, W
Oadblil, 1. L> Monroe. Geo Eltet, and U in steerage—2<f.
Fob Bakkk's Islabo—perKaroshsnieha V—C A Williams, A
J Kieny, A V.cCulioagh, J Wond—4.
Fbob Vtctosu—per Pfeil, May 11—Alepau, wife and 3 children, Ityll, Alcual. Asam, Atung, AUu- 10
From Portland—per A. A. Eldrldgc, May 12—Mrs O Clark,
Mr snd Mrs Cade—3.
For Pas Fbasosco—per Cambridge, May 10—Mr and Mrs
W B Wright and S children. O W Ilendley, Mr and Mrs J
Willisrus, D II Wheeler, Mr and Mrs Hunter, O Ktel, W Altoa,
R Brown—l4.
per Hhering, May 27—Messrs 8 N
From Sab Fbabcisco
Castle, Hiram Sandford, ThomasWaters, John Rlngln, A Qarslon, Wm Qnde, A F Scnamm—T.
For Hesososo—per Banker lini, May M—H A Peterson.
For Sab FbabCWCO—per Btben Allen, May 31—Mr Kuler,
II llorle, Mr and Mrs Y. Hon. Juo Hunt, l) fmlth, Mr and Mrs.
J Marsh, i Huro, X Redmond. O Hunter, F Casey, Mrs
Edwards and S sblldara, Mrs Sinder and 3 children—a.
DIED.
Tiiaata—In Honolulu, May bah. Mr. Cunrlea Turner, aged
65 yean. He was a native ol England, and was once a famous
pugilist.
Jseason—Io Honolulu, Eliaa Jaektnn,age* 8 months, Infaut
daughter of Mr. William Jackson
Mavra-On the 7Uiof May at Kalae, Molekal, aged B years
and »months, Bertha Amalla daughter of B. W. |nd K. V.
Meyer.
Mealope. wife of Mr Z. Bent.
BsaT-In Honolulu, May
—,
the South
The ileceaseit was a native of Mauahlkl, one ofof the LonSea Islands, and IwS t>cen taught by Missionaries
Society.
Mr. P. H.r- don Missionary
Mis. Hl» Bilen. daughter of
IK-LLACBAM-May lllh, at the V. R Hospital Honolulu.
He betoaged to South Boston, M.». ■>
vey of KeDduakeag, Maine. No card".
Oonagharn
Thomas
-tawing that
his friend. r«lde at the comet of at
Gold
streets
and
co y
Queen's lloanltal, June 2, Mr. Lewis Steven',
rvavicss.-At
tSanPrauclsco and Philadelphia n»P«" P>«» M l' -l
Troy, N. T. He was a cooper, and had retldea
by Rev. S. 0. D. anon, belonging to
May
U«T-n.eD-In Honolulu,yAa.Bird.
many years upon the letaod'.
Mr ,.W.,..,.toM,-M M
McCudyX."
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CONTENTS
For July. tSUO.
American Ship H Hornet" Burnt
Third Report Hawaiian Evangelical
Alumni at Punahou
New Foreign Policy in China
Kditor's Table
."
A Frenchman's li»ca*tif Putit:tui.sm
Earthquake at Sea
lla*. Dr. Anderson's l*Srt well Letter
Wrvca of the •'John H'wlij"
Address of Rev. F. S. aUalqf
Marine .Journal, .V'-
Association
Pags.
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49—52
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BD, 64
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THE FRIEND,
JFJI.Y Z, 18011.
American Clipper Ship "Hornet" Burnt
at Sea. 43 Days in an Open Boat.
The following letter was addressed by
Captain Josiah A. Mitchell to A. Caldwell,
Ksq., U. S. Consul at Honolulu :
LafaHOKUOS, Hawaii,
i
Monday, .ItiiH- 18, 18li(i.j
By the mail of to-day 1 am just able to
inform you of the loss (by fire at sea) of the
American ship Hornet, under my command.
on the 3d of May last, in lat. 2 ° N., lon.
lon 112 30 W., bound from New York for
San Francisco. In the Providence of God
I was permitted to land at this place, on the
afternoon of the 15th instant, after being 43
days in the boat, with two passengers, eleven
men and third officer, (fifteen in all,) all in
a starving condition. The Consul at Hilo
has already kindly and prbmptly relieved
me of the men, which I trust will add much
to my recovery. I am very weak, and shall
require sone days of quiet rest to recover
some vitality before moving fromsSere. We
were obliged to leave the ship in haste, the
first officer taking eight of the crew in one
quarter bout, the second officer and six men
going in the other quarter boat. The boats
were together nineteen days before separating, at which time we divided what few remaining stores we had and parted company.
I trust they may have been picked up, and
not left to the sufferings we endured. Annexed I furnish the names of those in the
boat with me : Mr. Samuel Ferguson and
Mr. Henry Ferguson, passengers; J. S.
'Ptiomas, third officer; and the following
seamen : Henry Morris, Joseph Williams,
Peter Smith, C. H. Haartman, Antonio Cas-
°
iero,
Turner, Thomas F. Tate, James Cox, John
Campbell.
The vessel was consigned to Messrs. Geo.
Howes & Co., Sin Francisco. Mr. Thomas,
third officer, tind the seamen, have arrived
in a vessel from Ililo. We fear the other
two boats will never be heard from, unless
they providentially fell in with some vessel.
We regret our limits will not allow us to
publish a full narrative of particulars.
OFTHE
BTOHAREFD
Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
We render our Report for the year ending May 31, 1866. with thankfulness to
God for the prosperity He has thus tar
vouchsafed us.
II
iiiip
l!e|»!trliilrnl.
RECEIPTS.
Our Treasurer's Report shows a very
gratifying increase in the benevolence of
our Churches. The total of our receipts
this year exceeds last year's by $1311 03;
and, even adding to last year's sum that
which was the result of a special effort for
the A. B. C. F. M., and this year's receipts
from home sources exceed by $467 15. It
is also interesting to notice the contributions
from our young Mission Churches in Micronesia, made principally in cocoanut oil—
valued last year at $63 32, and this year at
$80 60; and this does not include contributions made directly by them to the American
Board.
The following table shows our receipts
during the three years since our organiza-
In Rev. J. Kekela's letter to President
Lincoln, as translated by Mr. E. P. Bond,
Mr. Kekela is made to say, " I gave my
boat for the stranger's life." There is doubtless some error in this ; for, in a letter to
Hey. L. Smith, D. D., dated June 15, 1864,
and printed in the Hawaiian language, in
the Hokuloa of February, 1864, Mr. Kekela says that on the 13th of January, hearing that the Chief, Mato, who held Mr.
Whalon captive, had said if a boat was given
in ransom he would release the white man,
he immediately told his own
tona, that he might offer his boat with all its tion :
•
furniture. The next morning, however, Home Mission! lo Haw.Board, $
Publications
Tahitona gave Mato a gun, which was ac- rMucatinn
" "'•
»
OeneralFond, "
Mr.
ransom,
and
Whalon
was
recepted in
••
Fur. Missions "
leased.
This correction is due to Kekela, lost he
seem to those who are intimately acquainted
with the facts to have assumed more credit
for generosity than he could properly claim.
The examination, exhibition and
other exercises took place at Oahu College,
agreeable to public notice which had been
given. We regret that our limited space
will not permit us to notice these exercises
as we have been wont to do in former years.
They all passed off creditably to teachers
and pupils. We had iptended to make
some remarks on the state of the College,
but shall defer them until the publication of
the Quarter-century Catalogue of teachers,
trustees and pupils, which is now in preparaFerris,
Frederic
Neil
tion.
Clough,
John
»01.23.
TR
hiredAnual eport
{©lbStrits,
HONOLULU, JULY 2, 1806.
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1804.
1S86.
67 00 f 670 05 $ ail 44
ao
'Mi
87 10
80 00
70 87
W 18
80
tit 41 1.870,
1A» 1»
8« »060*18 3,806 11
$3,608 86 $4,446 69 $6,167 73
For. Missions from Micronesia,
03 82
80 60
Directly to Am. DM, from Haw. Churches, 842 88
$6,36-3 80 $5,888 3!
LIBRARY.
We have, during the year, received very
valuable donations of copies of the early
issues of the Mission press on these Islands,
all of which are carefully bound for preservation. We trust friends having books and
documents relating to the Missionary work,
particularly in the Pacific Ocean, will remember this Library. It now numbers
nearly two hundred volumes.
HOME MISSIONS,
One Hawaiian has been ordained on Ha->
waii, one on Maui, two on Oahu and one
on Kauai, making now a total of twenty
ordained Hawaiian pastors.
We are happy to report that Rev. Thos. G.
Thurston has, at the instance of this Board,
returned to hi« nativ land, and has rom,->
�TIE FRIEND, J I I, V
50
.
1866.
aaaanasr SJavv awataiiaiii? aiiu their way hiiher. Wo were happy to remit
to ihe Bible Society the sum of $308 84,
at Waituku.
We bre, sluriug in* year past, sustained ihe result of the sale of Bibles ar.d TestaWe have also on the wuy from the
A Oaatiaa* ataataar Missiouary at Huuapepe, ments.
American Tract Society, New York, two
avauiu, ami aaiotb«r at Xiihau, ami wr
assisted two pastors ou Mam. The Key. thousand Kumumua Hou and three thouaaaraarjwal aaaSJaW*
fcuQan
YiN
J. Pbctur Greeu has accepted an appoiut-
sand Lira Kaumlii, for which we have paid
Home Missionary to assist rinu in tht'in $705 -IS. We have received from
his labors nt bleokeaaud Huelo ; aud Rev. tbe American Sabbath School Union,
Mr. i&ckuelj has been assisted at Ewa,, as through the Rev. E. T. Doane, a number of
sets of large Scripture pictures, which will
bar was also lost year.
be highly prized by our Subbath Schools.
aUIUCATUIiK.
The Tfwilogknl School, at Wailuku, We are also indebted to the American Tract
under the Rerv. W. P. Alexander, has been Society, New York, for a grant of one hunsmalt Scripture maps.
successlully continued, though with a dimin- dred sets ofwe
In April
commenced the publication of
ished number of students. Tw.o young
■ children's ilustrated newspaper, called the
who
cum
men.
hud
pieced two yeurs of study, Alivla, under the
editorship ol Key. O. H.
entered upon the third year. One of these
Gulick- Great paius have been taken to
has since found a field of labor at Hauuia, make
it attractive and useful. We have
Oahu. Ten new pupils have joined the
School during, tile year, one of whom has aery kindly been allowed to take copies of
died and another left The present number MM aal the nil-, st cuts of the American
Tract Societies. New York and Boston,
IB therefore nine.
with which to embellish the sheet, and we
Alexander
reports.
the
Mr.
recanting
expect soon to receive for it the finest quality
studies of tile veur
" We liave been once
paper, it is published monthly, at twen■I
over tile ground of the Evidences of Cinsyear, or four dollars for
tianity, Didactic Theology, ami Church ty-five rental a one
to
address. About four
copies
twenty
History, besides one lesson a week on Exe- thousand
have been put into circulation. We
gesis and one tnul Sermon and a Theologihope much immediate good from it to our
cal Lecture."
Our best and most ttilented youcy; men chilur: ii. and the bound volumes will in fuone of the most attractive of
should be carefully encouraged to enter this | ture years be
School, fat uur llome and foreign fields are Hawaiian books.
In the Gilbert Island dialect we have pubnot all filled. Some of our English.-speakan edition of five hundred of a Scriping Hawaiian and half-caste young men lished
ture catechism, a translation of the " Ui no
should be urged to heed these cads for minke Akua," by Rev. I. Mahoe. This is the
isterial labor.
The Female Sc/uxl established aj !uu, first atonal published in another than his native tongue by a Hawaiian. In the Ponape
wis, according to ihe action of hist June, dial,
ct we have republished a book of Scriptransferred to Waiulun, Onhn, in August.
ture aceedot.es anil a little hymn-book. We
The buildings were repaired and en- have also carried
through the press one
larged, as far as the funds at our disposal thousand each of the
of St. Luke
would allow, (luring August and September, j and the Acts of the Gospel translated
Apostles,
by
under Mr. O. H. Gulicks personal superinRev. A. A. Sturges into the Ponape dialect.
renileiico. In October new pupils began to ',
W. Clark is still engaged
be received, and by the close of the month I The Rev. E.
edition of the Hawaiian Bible,
on
the
new
the whole iiumher was thirty-seven. By
of
the lhh of January fifty girls had been re- which he hopes to complete by the close
from
himself
of
his
Having
1566.
learned
Hawaii
15, Maui to, Oahu
ceived from
Id, Kauai 3, and from Micronesia I—the readiness to remain in New York, and preand carry through the press such
daughter of one of our Hawaiian Mission- pare
works
as the Hawaiian Board may desire,
aries. This is as many as the moneys at
requested him, after the completion
we
have
present granted will allow us to support.
an
Miss Lizzie Lyons' fairhful services have of the Bible, to first engage in preparing
which was
illustrated
Bible
Dictionary,
been secured during tie past year, and she
commenced some time since by Rev. E.
will remain for the year to come.
Bond ; and before the close of another year
There is much Co encourage us regarding we
bope to lie able to forward to him for
the girls in this institution ; but we would
Text
urge all who are interested in it to pray for publication the MSS of the Bible
than half comBook,
which
is
more
already
n{
the Holy Spirit's infln- I
laTger measures
ence among them, that the main object of its ! pleted by Rev. B. W. Parker.
The R«t. J. F. Pogue has accepted the
establishment, and of all our labors for it,
to devote himself as far as possiproposition
may he more fully and certainly secured.
ble to the preparation of books, and thus the
PUBLICATIONS.
failure of his health at Lahainaluna promWe have, during the year, published the ises to be a great gain to our work. He
Sabbath School Question Book, called the hopes ere long to have so far recovered his
" tTiEartialii," spoken of in our last Report health as to be able to enter upon literary
aainftnw. Its adaptation to a felt need is labors, when we trust he will commence the
shown by our baring already disposed of preparation of some of the Commentaries so
about haw rhe editionoV two ihoosand. We much needed by oar ministers and bible
Is*** republished the Ui no Iw Akna" in j students.
"
a* edition of three thousand, and also five
We hare in the press a new Scripture
tragw
—c*>
ISoa. 4, 6 and 7.
*"»»«l
"<
Question Book, adapted to quite young
._*—' »*• Ainaritnii BiMe Society we scholars. We have also in readiness for
*■?•*•••* •*• Its—wnd Hawaiian- publication at these Islands another number
"•**
and a mmber are on of "OleloAoLiilii," biographies of OpukaEafTPsfc Ttmmtm,
roeot
a*
a
,
:
:
'
,
,
'
haiaand Keopunlani, and a work on Popery ;
and we have authorized the republication of
several tracts now out of print.
It will thus be seen that we shall need all
the funds there may be on hand for publication, together with all we may receive during the year.
During the year past 2,800,486 pages
have*been put in circulation, 2,437,295 of
which were sold. The receipts from the
sales of books have amounted to $893 44.
Farelsja Drpurlatsent.
The Morning Star was sold in December,
by order of the Prudential Committee, arid
we expect a new vessel of the same name,
of the same rig, and perhaps a little larger,
early in 1867.
MICRONESIA.
The Morning Star left Honolulu July
17ih, 1865, on her tenth and last voyage to
the West. She was detained several weeks
for Mr. and Mrs. Doane, expecjed from the
United States; but, hearing of iheir shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico, she finally left
without them. They arrived, however, on
the 2oth of July, and, taking passage on the
Ffeil,, reached Ebon two days in advance of
the Morning Star.
The Rev. J. S. Emerson visited Micronesia as our delegate, and rendered much valuable service in communicating with our
Hawaiian brethren. Mr. and Mrs. Snow
and children returned to Ebon on the Morning Stt.r. R. Maka and wife, of Wnikane,
Oahu, also went as Missionaries to the Gilbert Islands, he having been licensed to
preach by the Oahu Evangelical Association before leaving.
Haina, of the Gilbert Islands Mission,
came with the return of the Morning Star,
to Honolulu, with the consent of his brethren and our delegates, Messrs. Emerson and
Snow, for medical assistance. On the 28th
of May, just closed, he left in the Ffeil, restored to health, to resume his work on Tarawa. By the same opportunity we have
sent this year's supplies for all our stations
in Micronesia.
PONAPE
(ASCENSION ISLAND.)
Ronokiti—Rev. A. A. Sturges and Mrs.
S. M. Sturges ; Rev. E. T. Doane and Mrs.
C. H. Doane.
Mr. Doane has, after an absence of eight
years, returned from Ebon to this, the first
scene of his Missionary labors in Microne-
sia.
The work still progresses in Ponape, notwithstanding opposition, fire, and bloodshed ;
perhaps we" should say by their help. In
February, 1865, the drunken Nanakin of
Kiti burnt the Church erected at great expense of time and labor at the Mission station, and, by several horrid murders he has
tried to check the Christian cause. In
April the pirate Shenandoah added to the
reign of terror by destroying four whaleships in the Bonatik harbor. They first
gave the vessels over to the natives for plunder; and it is noteworthy that but few
Church members were induced by this, to
them, great temptation to join in the robbery. The officers and crews of these
vessels remained on shore for four months,
and, with but few exceptions, assisted more
than can be told to the debasement of the
people.
�51
THE FItI X N I), JULY, 1866.
jects, and that he had forsaken his old god
of storms and fruitful seasons, and was
searching for the true God.
We may well join with Mr. Snow in saying : " What hath God wrought for this
poor, filthy people ! Formerly stupid as
indifferent as the grave; now indeath,
have."
best they
Thirty persons had, during the year pre- tensely interested in the word and work of
vious to August, 1865, been added to the life." Let this encourage us to labor on for
Church. Five had died, leaving the total the fields in which we have not yet begun
179. A few are under discipline. In the to reap.
MARSHALL ISLANDS.
main they do well, though their pastor says
Ebjm—Rev. B. G. Snow and Mrs. L. Y.
of them : " They are very much like very
young children." The triumphant death of Snow ; H. Aea and his wife, Debora.
Namnrik—J. A. Kaelemakule and wife.
a remarkable woman, named Ruth, is reJaluit—Rev. D. Kapali and his wife, TaShe expressed a longported at length.
ing desire to see Jesus ; not one lisp of com- mara Kealakai.
The Chiefs and people of Ebon could
plaint, not one desire to get well." " The
satisfaction," writes Mr. Sturges, "we have hardly feci reconciled to Mr. Doane's leavwith our Christians, helps to fill up our cup ing them, when it was first proposed in Auof joy, which is a very large one, and all gust last, so attached were they to him ;
but the Christians were at latest dates bethe time running over."
ginning to feel that what was their loss was
than
that
more
Mr. Emerson reports
"
half of the head Chiefs now reckon them- Ponape's gain. Mr. and Mrs. Snow are
selves as friends of the Bible and adherents again left without foreign associates, in cirof the Missionaries, and an equally large cumstances of isolation too extreme to be deportion of the people." After a tour of five sirable, though they themselves accept it
days round the-Island with Messrs. Emer- with a cheerful sadness.
Mr. Doane writes : " Aea has done well
son and Sturges, Mr. Doane, who is well
able to compare the present with the past, in Mr. Snow's absence. Things look very
expresses his delight at the spread of the hopeful on Ebon. Some have fallen away,
good work, the number ofreaders, the readi- but many othefs have been gathered in."
ness to take part in religious meetings, and Aea reports three (ffridred and ten scholars.
the desire of the Chiefs for teachers, and Seventeen Chiefish persons among them
speaks of the necessity of now giving " per- have learned to read. Mr. Emerson speaks
manency to what has been done." "In of a school examination, at which there
order to this," he very justly says, " the were one hundred and twenty-five scholars
people should, as far as possible, be gathered present, mostly girls and young mothers,
into schools." Both the brethren there ask and most of them readers. Forty-four could
for a Hawaiian laborer or two to engage in repeat the Gospel of Mark entire, fifty knew
the Multiplication Table, and about as many
teaching.
Regarding Mokil, (Wellington's Island,) more sung well together. He says : " The
about a degree east of Ponape, Mr. Emer- process of schools at Ebon, and the fidelity
son found that ten to fifteen had learned to of Aea, are praiseworthy and very encourread and sing from Ponape books, having aging." Aea has been licensed to preach.
The Morning Slur made but a brief visit
been taught by a white man formerly on
Mr. Doane says: "We
at Namarik.
Ascension Island.
found the brethren well, had a meeting and
KUSA IE (STRONG'S ISLAND.)
heard their report. During the year they
Mr. Snow made a short visit to this, his have had sad trials from an oil-trader, (left
old station, in September last. During the there by the Morning Star.) but on the
year previous but one had forsaken the whole they have made progress. We voted
meetings kept up by themselves, and re- to let Kapali take up a new station."
turned to heathenism. Four others had
In accordance with that action, on the rebeen suspended by the nction of the Church turn of the Morning Star from the West,
itself, but still attended all the meetings, Rev. D. Kapali and wife removed to Jaluit,
and Mr. Snow truly remarks : '■ It is an (Bonham's Island.) The way had been
interesting and touching fact in the Church prepared by Mr. Snow's having touched
discipline here, that hardly a prayer is of- there a few weeks previous, and having sefered in which they do not make mention cured the Chiefs' assent.
The station
of and pray for the fallen members."
seems to have been taken under favorable
Some forty were reported to Mr. Snow as auspices.
Mr. Doane touched at Mile on the voyage
having turned to the Lord during the year,
making the total of hopeful converts not yet from Honolulu, and saw the Chief named
admitted to Church privileges about one Drime, a kind man, who promised to take
hundred, of whom more than thirty were in care of a Missionary. Mr. D. says:—
September admitted to the Church. This "The field is a good one. A Hawaiian
makes the number of Church members about would get along well there. He would have
eighty. Nearly seventy gallons of cocoanut a goodly number of souls to preach to, and
oil were sent up by the Morning Star as a fair supply of food."
Monthly Concert contributions.
The Morning Star also touched at OnaMr. Emerson, in his report to us, re- iro, (Pleasant Island,) and Mr. Emerson was
marks : " That little band of Christians at impressed with the fact of that Island's being
Kusaie appeared to me more m.ture, more open for Missionary labor.
manly, and more Christ-like than any peoIn view of the healthy state of our Treasple I found in Micronesia." The King ury, and of these several calls for laborers,
told him the Christians were his best sub- the Hawaiian Board has decided to send out
Mr. and Mrs. Sturges have devoted much
time to laborious touring round the Island,
but Mr. Sturges lemnrks: "Going round
Ascension Island is not now what it used to
be. Now we have friends to welcome us at
very many bright little spots, giving us the
"
several new men. Let us pray the Lord of
the harvest to raise up and send forth the
laborers best adapted to work in Micronesia.
GILBERT ISLANDS.
Tarawa, (Knox Island)— Rev. J. H. Mahoe and his wife, Olivia ; G. Haina and his
wife, Kaluahine.
Apaiang. (Charlotte's Island)— Rev. W.
P. Kapu and his wife ; D. P. Aumai and
his wife, Maule.
Butaritari, (Pitt's Island)—Rev. J. W.
Kanoa and his wife ; R. Maka and his wile.
In the United States—Rev. H. Bingham
Jr., and Mrs. M. C. Bingham.
Mr. Bingham left in July for the United
States. He is somewhat invigorated, and
hoping to return to his Missionary field.
Regarding Tarawa Mr. Emerson reports :
The meeting-houses, school-houses, and
"buildings
show that the Missionaries have
been neither idle nor destitute of success.
Some fifty are learning to read and sing.
Five or six have become tolerable readers."
On Apaiang the Queen still remains firm.
"At a conference meeting," says Mr. Emerson, "the King, who was present with his
wife, led in prayer with much propriety. I
could but hope that the Spirit of the Lord
had visited the hearts of a few in the place."
A hurried meeting of the brethren of that
Mission, with Messrs. Snow und Emerson,
was held at Apaiantr, at which it was decided that Rev. J. W. Kanoa and R. Maka
should take a new station on Butaritari.
Kanoa very cheerfully left his well-built
house, and we have reason to hope that he
will win the good-will of the people of his
new field, as he has those of Apaiang. The
young King of Butaritari, after a full conference, received the Missionaries, promised
his protection, and sold them a piece of land
near the main village.
In the words of Mr. Emerson, Although
the evidence of the Spirit of the Lord among
the people of the Gilbert Islands is not so
marked as at some of the stations farther
west, there is much occasion to give thanks
and take courage."
"
marquesas islands.
Fatuiva—
Omoa—Rev. J. W. Kaiwi and his wife,
Hana Napaeaina.
Hanavave— Rev. A. Kaukau and his wife,
Ruta Kaihihekai.
Hivaoa—
Fuamau— Rev. J. Kekela and his wife,
Naomi.
Atuona —Rev. Z. Hapuku and his wife,
Hannahi—J. W. Laioha and his wife,
Hana Ihuanu.
Uapou—
Hakae\au—Rev. S. Kauwealoha and his*
wife, Kaaiawahia.
Our last report was rendered just after the
return of the Morning Star from her seventh
voyage to Ihe Marquesas Islands, and, as
we have sent no vessel since then, we have
comparatively little to report. It is to be
hoped that when we shall again have a vessel entirely at our command we shall be
able to communicate annually with that
Mission.
We have received letters from Kauwealoha, Kekela, Kaiwi and Kaukau, the latest
dates being December 20th. The Mission-
aries are reported well, and regarding their
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IHE XXI X N
l».
JULY, 1866.
THE FIUEND.
their is nothing specially noteworthy,
very dark shadow has, however, passed
.11 I.V 2. 1800.
over tbem, in the desertion of Rev. A. Kaukau's wife. In August Kekela visited
New Foreign Policy in China.
Hoou'ii, Island of Nuukahiva, and found
stationed
laborthe Christian converts
there
For some years past there have been seing steadily. Fourteen persons are reported rious fears that the affairs of the Chinese
as attending their meetings. Some who at- Empire had fallen into such disorder that
tended have left.
Mr. Kekela's letter to President Lincoln the time was not far distant when England,
has been published in America and Eng- France, Russia, and perhaps America would
land ; and has done good in showing the step forward and demand a partition e>( the
character of our foreign Missionaries.
Empire. France had already made serious
CALIFORNIA.
demonstrations, and was for claiming a ProWe have requested Rev. Lowell Smith, tectorate of the silk-producing Provinces,
D. D., to visit the Hawaiians in Tuolumne while the- British Lion was ready to place
county, California, while on his way from
the Eastern States ; and we hear from him his paw upon the tea-growing regions. If
that he was to leave San Francisco for Jack- that result had been fully consummated,
sonville on the 9th of May. We trust he Russia add America would doubtless have
will be able to make provision for the con- had their share of the enormous spoils of the
tinuance of the work commenced among oldest
empire on earth. We are most happy
these Hawaiians by Mr. Theodore W. Guto
learn
that a new and entirely different
remain
will
longer
that
no
lick, and
they
policy has been inaugurated. The four
sheep without a shepherd.
above-mentioned powers have mutually
The Alumni Society of Punahou—Which was
pledged each other and the highest authoriorganized in Juno, 1864. held its second annual
Chinese Government at Pekin
celebration on Friday evening, loth inst., in the ties of the
school room, in honor of the twenty-tilth anniver- that hereafter the integrity of the empire,
sary of the opening of Oahu College. There were territorially, shall reanin intact. This is
present many of the graduates, trustees and noble. It virtually emancipates the empire
scholars of the Institution. The proceedings were
from foreign interference. The future inopened by an eloquent oration from the Presithis co-operating policy, as it is
dent, YY. I). Alexander, which commanded the at- fluence of
with blessings inculculable
is
fraught
tention and admiration of all present, hollowing styled,
this was an exceedingly interesting historical to the most populous empire on earth. The
sketch of the Institution, rmd reminiscences of
part taken by the American Minister, Mr.
school days, by A. Francis Judd. Esq., which was
Burlingame, is most creditable to the Govwell received and justly appreciated by the guests.
ernment which he has the honor to repreincidenls
he
narrated
the
removal
of
Among the
tie "big rock.'' near the College building, in sent, as well as to his fjwn diplomatic skill.
which sport King Kauikeaonli joined with all the When this policy was initiated in China,
zest of a school-boy, and sat ash ide the rock as Sir
F. Bruce, now British Minister at Washthe natives brought it down from the hill. To
at Pekin.
close this part of the celebration, Miss Mattie ington, was the British Minister
the
best
of
huHis
stand
and
conduct
at
the
eventful
crisis
Chamberlain kept the audience in
mor with another sketch of school-day recollections were worthy of all praise. Any one of our
at J'tinaliou, written in her usual facetious style.
readers who would thoroughly investigate
After the mental purt of the entertainment was
this all-important subject, we would refer to
over, our reporter* and his companion (including,
Mr.
Burlingame's dispatches as printed
a
adjeurned
audience)
rest
of
the
to
course,
of
the
sumptuous supper table where all the dainties of among the documents issued by the State
the season were liberally provided, and everybody Department at Washington. In those comenjoyed the supper heartily. Remarks fell from munications will be found most honorable
Rev. Mr. Damon (a trustee). Rev. Mr. Dole (a references and allusions to the British,
former President), and one or two others, which French and Russian Ministers at Pekin. It
were aprvpos to the occasion. Several toasts were is believed that for once, at least, the Plenioffered and eloquently responded to by the gradu- potentiary Ministers of those great nations
ates of the College. The company broke up about rose above national prejudices and jealous
• eVsven o'clock, and all retired well pleased with rivalries, and inaugurated the co-operating
the entertainment, and expressing the hope that policy, which will for a long time to come
tbc Alunmi would have a similar gathering every
give quiet and peace in that part of the
year at least,— Adveiiiiir.
world. Under these circumstances, the
Government has done well to reThe clipper hark Swallow arrived on Mon- American
turn Mr. Burlingame to Pekin. With Milthe
lion.
Anson
Rarlast,
bringing
afternoon
day
ton we may truly say,
V.Bganic. 1". S. Minister Plenipotentiary to Pekin.
hath her victories
" Peaco
and. .fleti.R: R'.Tan Valkenbnrg.U.S.Min. PlenipoNo less recowu'd than war."
t 'iitlnryto Japnn. Mf. Bnrllngnme is accompanied
wfrb. his wife and children, and the (ieneral with his
Secretary of Legation. They are stopping at the
American House, and will remain till about the
fourth nf July, when they will proceed on in the
.SaxiUow to Kanagawa. Hen. Charles R. Bishop
and his wife also arrived in the same vessel, having been absent some two and a half months.—Ad-
Editor's Table.
Tue American Mission in the Sandwich Islands i
A Vindication and an Appeal in relation to the
Proceedinpa of Ihe Kefonaed Catholic Mission at
Honolulu ; by flat). IV. Kltiit, formerly Missionary in the Sandwich Islands, and Honorary
Member of the American Hoard of Commissioners for Foreign) Missions. London, 27 Paternoster Row, 18ti(i.
This is the title-page of a new work of
103 pages. It is written by a veteran in the
Missionary service. If the writings of any
man on Missionary subjects are worthy of
perusal, they are those of this distinguished
author and Missionary. Most especially is
this true when he takes up his pen to write
respecting affairs in any part of Polynesia.
His " Researches" have been a text-book on
Polynesian antiquities for more than a quarter of a century. Those four volumes are a
perfect Thesaurus upon Polynesian historical subjects. To any one familiar with subsequent writers upon Polynesian affairs, it
is a matter of perfect nstonishrnent how
much they are the debtors of Mr. Ellis.
Hrs works on Madagascar are equally exhaustive and valuable.
The pamphlet or volume which has just
made its appearance, only a single copy of
which has reached the Islands, is equally
meritorious and judicious. It abounds with
a careful review of the whole subject indicated by the title-page. The style is admirable, occasionally enlivened by a touch
of quiet humor not unworthy of Washington Irving. He has not written ignorantly
and without due research, but appears to be
completely conversant with every book and
pamphlet which has recently appeared relating to this part of the world, even to the
letter of the Rev. J. Kekela, addressed to
the late President Lincoln. This letter is
published in full, with much other valuable
documentary matter. Our limits will not
allow us to quote as much as we should be
glad to do from this work, but the following
paragraph upon the hulas is worthy of perusal
:
"I once, when residing in Honolul
went in obedience to a message from tl
Queen, to a place, where, to my surprise ant
disgust, a sort of rehearsal of one of tl
dances was going on, and, almost before
was fully sSvare of what it was, the filth
picture seemed to be burned, as with vitrio
into my mind, as i turned and hurried horn
from the spot."
Because the American Missionaries hn
discouraged such exhibitions, certain perso
have, heaped upon them unmeasured abu
We hope a supply of this pamphlet will
due time be forwarded for sale in Hondluli
Following the example of some EastKapiolani ; thr Heroine ok Hawaii.—
ern newspapers, we shall issue this number
the May number of the " Hours
In
of our paper a few days previous to the date.
Home"
we find an interesting sketch oft
This will account for the absence of the remarkable
High Chiefess, Kapiolani, w
notice of the State Funeral and other curon the sth of Ma
Kealekeakua,
died
at
rent topics.
�II!
1841. This sketch is .prepared by Dr. Anderson. His visit to Hawaii in 1863, and a
study of her character, has led him to write
an article, which will be read with interest by
the friends of Missions and loversjof the heroic.
The character of Kapiolani has also been
sketched by a clergyman of the Church of
England, who aspires to the rank of poets.
The following is the title-page of a volume
now lying before us :
; with other Poems. By the Jiec. Httbert
Grant. B. C. L., Fellow of Winchester College,
Vicar of Bradford Abbas, Dorset, Ac. "One of
the greatest acts of moral courage which has
perhaps ever been performed; und the actor
was a woman, and,as we are pleased to call her.
a Bavage.'' Voyage of li. M. S. Blonde to the
.■Sanduiich Island's, '1824-1825.—Page 187. London
John Hatchsud & Son, 187 Piccadilly.
Kapiolani
i;
IKI X i\ I>, JULY,
Is ti
:
.
53
ica represents the blossoming limeof ProtestRev. Dr. Anderson's Farewell Letter.
antism. A Republican Church has Riven
Missionary Hovsk, Boston, April 3, 1866.
birth to Republican Society. In America
liberty has sprung from religion ; for this To the Hawaiian Evangelical Association :
reason, undoubtedly, it has resisted all
Dear Brethren :—I nm drawing, as
storms, while in France, liberty, the daughter ot revolt, has been almost always lost by most of yon know, nenr to the ordinary limit
her own excesses. In America Rhe has ere- of human life, and equally near to the period
I have proposed for the close of my lite as a
ated institutions ; here she has destrsyed.
Corresponding
Secretary of the Board ; and
This is surely remarkable language for a
as my last official letter to you.
I
this
regard
thoughtful and reflective Frenchman. What Allow me, therefore, a few words of exhortis the world corning to when Frenchmen ation, as your brother in the Gospel of our
eulogise the Puritans and Puritanism ! Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Some of you will recollect my aniriety,
renders will find an interesting article on this
when I was with you, that the meetings of
Home,"
the
Hours
at
for
May.
subject in
"
the Association should embrace native pas-
We would call attention to the loss
of the John Wesley and the earthquake re1848.
ferred to by Capt. Morse. Both, it will be
This poem occupies about thirty pages,
seen, occurred in November, I860, in the
and presents a beautiful picture of many inSeas. We regret the date of the loss
South
cidents and characters celebrated in HawaiJohn
of the
Wesley is not given. See page
ian annals, viz: the abolition of idolatry;
54.
the conversion of the people to Christianity ;
An Earthquake at Sea.—English pathe visit of Kapiolani to Kilauea; the death
pers contain the following :
of Capt. Cook, &c, &c. At some future
" Capt. Morse, of the ship Syren, of Bostime we may print the poem entire.
ton, U. S., which recently arrived nt Birkenhead, states that
lSih of November,
Fifty Gallons of Cocoanut Oil for a
1865, at six o'clock, A. M., in latitude 24'
Bible.—We learn by a letter received a S., longitude 173 30 W., while on his pasfew days since, that the work of Missions is sage from Baker's Island to the port of Livprogressing throughout the low coral islands erpool, he experienced what he supposed to
to the north and northwest of Samoa, as a be a shock of earthquake. At first was
heard a heavy, deep, rumbling sound, accentre. J. C. Williams, Esq., British Con- companied by a vibration of the ship, which
sul at Apia, Upolu, Samoa, (son of the mar- increased in violence until the vessel seemed
tyr of Erromanga,) thus writes, under date as though driving over a reef. There was a
strong breeze, with rather heavy clouds ; the
of March 6, 1866.
of the ship appeared as if
natives of the Ellecis group are in sea in the vicinity
" The interesting
fixed, a phenomenon which lasted
suddenly
state;
wanting,
longing
a very
between three and four minutes.
Tor teachers. In their unxiety to have apparently
The compass-card during the time of the
lotu,"
or
a
Chief
religion,
gave
Christian
"
shock was rapidly revolving. The man at
about fi(ty gallons of cocoanut oil for an
and visibly shaken,
English Bible, which nn English captain the wheel was violently
generally were scarcely
had the wickedness to charge that price for. and those on deck
Honor be to another English captain, who able to keep their feet. One man engaged
the hose-pipe to a force-pump
urged the Chiefs to burn their idols and the in connecting
forecastle was thrown
the
topgallant
,upon
of
their
These
are
a
people
in
gods.
houses
bitts. The sound at
the
backward
against
very pleasing condition, ready for the Gosfirst resembled distant thunder, and increased
pel."
in intensity, till, at its height, in could only
as
Frenchman's
Idea
of
Puritanism
be
compared to the deafening roar of innuA
the tierm of American History.
merable pieces of the heaviest artillery."
Professor Astie, of Lausanne, has recently
We would acknowledge the receipt
published in Paris a new history of the
a "Catalogue of the Young Ladies' Semof
United States. The eminent French writer,
inary," Benicia, under the management of
Edouard Laboulaye, has written a preface our old friends, the Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Mills.
to this history, from which we copy the folthat 104 pupils have been conIt
appears
lowing paragraph, which, being penned by a
nected with the School during the year. It
Frenchman, is remarkable:
is a Day and Boarding School. From the
What M. Astie wishes to show the old success
and experience of Mr. and Mrs.
world is this that one and the same idea,
teachers, at the Islands and in the
Mills
ns
one and the same force, impelled the emigrants of the 17t!i century to the Rock of Eastern States, it may confidently be prePlymouth, sustained the emigrants of the dicted that a'prosperous career must attend
18th century against the arrogance of Eng- this Seminary. Parents may feel the utland, and covered America with independent most confidence in confiding their childen
provinces and free Governments. This idea, to their care.
this force, is the religion of the Gospel unTwo hundred and eighty-nine pupils
der its austerest form—Puritanism. As
Athens represents art and poetry, Rome the have been connected with Oahu College
spirit of conquest and government, so Amcr-
:
i;,
tors and delegates from the native Churches,
and that its proceedings should be in the native language. My brother Missionaries
felt as I did ; and I cannot tell you the satisfaction which the account of your last
meeting gave nic. As in that meeting, so
in all your future meetings, I trust that none
will forget the respect due to the fathers of
your Churches, and that the Christian dignity of your assemblies will ever be preserved. Mutual courtesy is always and
everywhere a Christian duty. In preparing,
lately, a biographical account of the excellent Kapiolani, for a religious periodical, I
was interested in seeing how much she possessed of Christian gentleness and urbanity.
I am thankful in being able to say that
the recent efforts to prejudice the good people of this country and England against the
work of God on your Islands, though not
without effect in some quarters, has on the
whole, been overruled for good. Attention
has thus been awakened ; the facts are the
better and more extensively understood and
known ; and those on whose prayers and
contributions you must chiefly rely have not
for-a long time been so much interested in
your religious welfare as they are now.
Allow me, as in my Inst letter, to speak
of the importance of laboring for a revival of
religion through all the Islands, as did our
Missionary brethren before the jjreat outpouring of the Spirit in 1837 and the following years. Such lubors" for a revival of
religion are now becoming abundant among
our pastors and Churches in this country,
and they are not in vain. Revivals ure
multiplying among us, and we hear of hopeful converts by the thousands. Think what
will become of your Churches and the
Church of God on your Islands if you have
not a'great and general revival soon. When
the enemy is " coining in like a flood," pray
the Lord to " lift up a standard ngainst
him." Let each pastor, let each officer and
Church-member penitently humble himself
before God, and earnestly offer the prayer,
revive Thy work !"
" Oh, Lord,
Your Churches must be spiritually revived, or they will decline and die. And
be assured, dear brethren, that there is no
unwillingness to grant the richest spiritual
blessings on the part of Him who is King in
Zion. He, Himself, hath said, u If ye, being
evil, know how to give good gifts- unto your
children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them
that ask Him » (Luke xi, 13.) And again :
Whatno" Verily, verily. I thesay unto you,
ever ye shall ask
Father in my name
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THE FRIEND, JULY, 1866.
he will give it you." (John xvi, 23.) With
such petitions, and such promises to encourage, we may " come boldly unto the Throne
of Grace, that we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in time of need." (Ueb.
The great thing needed for the highest
prosperity and happiness of your beautiful
Islands is an outpouring of the Spirit. Methinks, should I hear of such a shower of
heavenly grace upon you, I should feel like
saying, with Simeon of old, "Lord, now
lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace."
Let me exhort you to remember in your
prayers your King and his Ministers, and
your Judges and Legislators, (1 Tim. ii, 2,)
your pastors, your Missionaries in Micronesia and the Marquesas Islands. Nor forget
your numerous friends and patrons in this
country ; nor me, who have so long borne
intimate relations to you ; nor to my intended successor in office ; that we may " all be
one," in the sense of our Lord's prayer,
(John xvii, 21,) when He prayed, not only
for His disciples, but for them also, in every
age, who' should believe on Him through
their word.
I remember, in writing you, that you are
Hawaiian citizens and subjects. And 1
counsel you, as a religious duty, while you
God," to " honor the King," (1 Pet. ii
" fear
17 ;) to " be subject to the higher powers,"
not only for wrath, but also for conscience
"sake,"
seeing " there is no power but of
God," for " the powers that be are ordained
of God." (Rom. xiii, 1, 5.) Even though,
for the time being, the rulers should apparently be not in sympathy with you, but rather with those opposed to you, resist them
not. " Live in peace, and the God of love
and peace shall be with you." (2 Cor. xiii,
11.)
The ordinary business of your annual
meeting will remind you of the great responsibilities resting on you as a Christian community. Upon the Hawaiian Board, not
upon the American Board, rests, now, the
responsibility of working the instrumentalities for the upbuilding of Christ's Kingdom
in your portion of the ocean-world. You
must furnish the Missionaries ; to the extent
of your ability you must provide the funds;
and on you it will devolve to see that all is
done wisely and effectively, to the glory of
God and the best interests of His blessed
Kingdom. You are now among the recognized Christian communities of the earth, as
your nation is among the recognized Christian nations, and the eyes of the Christian
Church will be upon you. Being encompassed " with so great a cloud of witnesses,"
let me exhort you to lay aside every weight,
and the sin which doth so easily beset you,
and run with patience the race set before
you, " looking unto Jesus." (Heb. xii, 1, 2.)
It is matter of joy and thankfulness with
us that we hear a good report of the native
pastors. May they have grace to feel their
responsibilities more and more deeply. I
commend unto them thefrequentand prayerful reading of the Epistle to Titus. May
they be faithful unto death," as the only
condition" on which they can expect to receive ''a crown of life.'' (Ravi ii, 10.)
1 can, close my last epistle to you no better than in the words of the holy Apostle
Paul, when writing, near the close of his
life, to his beloved brethren at Ephesus :
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the
Lord, and in the power of His might. Put
on the whole armor of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole
armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all,
to stand. Stand, therefore, having your
loins girt about with truth, and having on
the breast-plate of righteousness ; and your
feet si ol with the preparation of the gospel
of peace. Above all, taking the shield of
faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench
all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take
the helmet of salvation, and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the word of God. Praying always with all prayer and supplication
in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with
all perseverence and supplication for all
saints."
Your affectionate brother in Christ,
R. Anderson,
Foreign Secretary of the Board.
out the sessions.
Of the detnils of the work
and the present condition of the spiritual
field you will receive fuller information from
the Eeports of the Hawaiian Board, and the
Beport in a separate form on the Sfcte of the
Churches. We have to lament the continued spiritual dearth of the field as a whole,
although there are not wanting some encour-
aging signs.
May we all be stirred up to more earnest
self-searching and more prayerful effort for
an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We rejoice to hear of the revivals in the beloved
Fatherland, while we wait and long for similar blessings here.
And now we are called upon to pronounce
that saddening word farewell. To you,
whose admonitions and example have so
long animated our efforts and stimulated our
zeal; to you, whose counsels and words of
heartfelt sympathy have so often strengthened our weakening faith and cheered our
fainting hearts ; to you, whose presence and
voice in our midst remain as precious memories ripening for a heavenly reunion, we
say farewell. Yet not a sad farewell. Rnther a solemn, glorious farewell, until we
meet around the great white Throne on high.
And while we thus address our reluctant
REPLY.
parting words to you, we would nlso extend
Hoxou i.u, June 14, lufifi.
our cordial greetings arid assurances of
Rev. R. Anderson, D. D., Secretary of the hearty sympathy and co-operation to the beA. B. C. F. M. fir Foreign Missions, loved brother who succeeds you in your
Boston :
high position of responsibility and Christian
Dear Brother :— Your excellent letter of privilege.
April 3d, 1866, has been read in the HawaiAloha nui.
ian language before our Association, during
In behalf of the Hawaiian Evangelical
its sessions of this month, which are now Association,
■
drawing to a close.
\
G. P. Judd,
of
a beIt comes to us all as the counsel
A. O. Forbes, > Committee.
loved father to his children. But especially
M. KIIABA,
)
to those of us who have so long been accustomed to look to you for counsel and assistWreck of the "John Wesley."—The
ance in the ardous work of reclaiming this London Watchman gives an account of the
land to Christ does it come as a tender fare- loss of the Mission brig John Wesley, on the
well, whose earnest exhortations we trust coast ofTonga, in November last. She had
will abide with us, and animate us to a on board four Missionaries, who were going
higher and holier sense of the great and to the District Meeting, and was wrecked on
glorious work in which it has been our priv- a coral reef, on which she was cast by a violent ocean current. This current was proilege to co-operate with you.
The remembrances of the past can never duced by an earthquake, which extended
die in our hearts. The hopes, the fears, the hundreds of miles, and caused much damtrials, the prosperities, the joys, the sorrow*, age on the islands. The brig has done
of the past forty-six years have bound us good service to the cause of Missions, havtogether with you in precious bonds of ing been used for twenty years, conveying
Christian love and sympathy. Your name our Missionaries and Mission stores from
is a household word in these Islands, and island to island, and was fully insured in
your life-long endeavors in behalf of the England. No lives were lost, and the carhighest welfare of the Hawaiian people is a go was all saved. The Watchman states
part of their history. As the result of those that the Jubilee schooner will soon be
efforts, and by the blessing of God, you have ready, and able to perform most of the trips
the happiness of seeing this nation raised necessary for Mission purposes, and that
from the depths of heathenism to the high steps will soon be taken to supply a tempolevel of Christian civilization. The Lord be rary successor to the John Wtsley.
praised for His wonderful works.
The Hawaiian Evangelical Association
commenced its sessions this year on the 6th
instant, and has now been in session six
days. There is a full attendance from all
the Islands, especially-of the native pastors
and delegates. The number»of native pastors present has been nineteen, and of
delegates from the various Islands fifteen.
Of the Missionary fathers eighteen have
been present, and of the sons six. It ds
gratifying to record the unanimity and harmony of spirit which has prevailed through-
as
When any one complains,
Diogenes
did, that he has to hunt the streets with candles at noonday to find an honest man, we
are apt to think that his nearest neighbor
would have quite as much difficulty as himself in making the discovery.
If all mankind were suddenly to betake
themselves to telling the truth, and nothing
but the truth, the whole world would appear to have pjt on a mask merely from
having taken one off.
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THE FRIEND, JULY, 1866.
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cruits as are required by »Ink- ships at the shortestnotice
478-ly
Kit. J. IHOTT SMITH,
aud on the mom reasonable terms.
xaisiiNrTxasvr.
omoe comer of Fort »nd Hotel Street!.
X,
6H-lf
HOFFMANN, M. D.,
Ptiyelcian and Suraeon, Makee'alllock, corner Queen and Kaa
4J*^ljr__
liumauu ilreetl.
C. 11. WKTMOIti:, M. I>.
PHYSICIAN Si. SURGEON,
HILO, HAWAII, S. I.
fflaai aaaaaaO
FIRE WOOD ON HAND.
McCraken, Merrill & Co.,
FORWARDINC AND
Commission Merchants,
I
'iir! L.i ud, Oregon.
Officers' table, with lodging, per week,.
S«
HEEN ENGAGED IX OIIRI'RKo
sent business fur upwards of seven years, and being Seaniens' do. do.
do.
do.
located in a Are proof brick building, wt are prepared to receive
on
the
Premises.
Shower
lluths
and dispose of Island staples,such as Sugar, Kice, Syrups, lulu,
Coffee, tfec, to advantage- Consignments especially solicited
Mrs. CRABB.
Attorney and Counsellor at Ibw.
JUanagtr.
for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid,
Honolulu, April 1, 1866.
CORNKit KOHI and MEKOIIANT St., HONOLULU, OAHU and upon which cashadvances will be made whenrequired.
4W>-ly
Ban Francisco Rkfkrknces:
Badger ft Ltodenberger,
J as. l'utrick ft Co..
W. N.
Fred, lken,
W. T. Coleman k Co.,
Importer and Dealer in niaowaaa, (Jotlbrt, MaCHiaica
Stevens, Raker k Co.
dc VISITEj
Tools and AoaioOLTOHAL lan-aMaars, For atreel, llono
I'oKTI.AND RkKKHKNCKH:
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LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS;
lulu.
Allen k Lewis.
Ladd k Tllton.
Leonard k Green.
COPYING AND ENLARGING!
Honolulu Refeekkcks:
RETOUCHING done la Ihe heat aaaaaer,
8. Bavidge.
Walker, Allen k Co.,
478-ly
and on the moat reasonable tenna.
ItKV. DANIEL DOLE, AT KOI.OA,
Alao for sale, Photograph! of the Cralern Kllaaea and
Kauai, ha*accoiiiniiMliiliuu! in bi! family
W. A. ALDRICH.
J. C. MBBXILL,
JOHN H CRACKIN.
Hnlenknln, aud otherlaland Scenes*, the KINQSKAstaU
For ii few ISoii.iliug Scholar*.
11EME11A, Ac, *>c.
&
ALDRICH,
Co.,
MERRILL
liim,
ICT Peranna wialihiic to le»rn the litiu! will apply to °'t
Gallery
raiaNU."
ut
Kditor
Tub
or the
H. L. CIUSB.
WATERHOUSE,
P. 8 —Raving purchased the Portrait Negatlrea from Mr.
by
persons wishing
U.
those
Honolulu,
Mercliandiae.
IAMD
duplicate
copiea
Dealer
Oeneral
can
be
had
Weed,
in
Importer and
for Hie aame.
—RKFKIIKNCKS6232
m H. L. C
Honolalu
Illa Bx. R. 0. Wyllie,..llou. U. t. Snow, Eaq.,
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Ililo
Tlioa.Spencer, Keg
Dimomd at Son,
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San iittvnxo.
O. W. Brooks*; C0...8an a'. U. I. Lawton, Kaq.,
New York
Field it K,ce
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AGENTS FOR
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6-tf
a. fTjudd,
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CARTES
BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA.
Commission Merchants
"
JOHNTHOS.
on Fort Street.
At the
Auctioneers,
"
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CASTLE
"
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Sim
anus s. oooaa
I. 1. ATHaaroa.
-
Francisco & Honolulu Packets.
*
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Wheeler & Wilson's
Particularattention given to the sale and purchase of mer
chandlae, ships' business, eupplviog whaleshlps, negotiating
CASTLE &
exchange.
Ac.
Oeneral Mm:hunts in the Fireproof dtore, Ktug Street, oppo
X All freight arriving at San Francisco, by or to the Ho
■ite the BeaineiVa Chapel.
noluluLine of Packets, will be forwarded raaa or oOMKUMioa.
ALSO AGENTS FOR
IS MACHINE II AS ALL THE LATEST
XX Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold. XX
Dr. Jaynet Celebrated Family Medicine* 1
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Wbeeler *V Wilson's Sewing Machinei,
Honolulu awarded the highest prlae above all European and American
Messrs. C. L. HiCHiana & Co.,
The Kohala Sugar Company,
II HACSreU) A Co.,
Sewing Machines at the World'/ Exhibition lo PARIS In IMI,
The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
0 Baawaas>Co.,
and at-the Exhibition in London In 1802.
Tbe New York Phcuix Marine Insurance Company,
Bishop A Co
Theevidenced the auperlorlty of this Machine ll found In the
R. W. Wood,
WS^ Dr.
record of its salel. In 1881—
Hon. K. 11. ALLaa,
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I. BARTLETT.
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The Florence Company, Massachusetts
MO-ir
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C. BREWER &
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CBAB. WOI.COTT aaOOKS, W. riIANK LADD, aDWAHD F. HA1.1..J8
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For the Maker, WhilukuAt liana Planlntione
ort, made and sold 19,720 during the lame period.
11 tl
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For the Purchase naid Sale of Island Predace.
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READING ROOM, LIBRARY AND DEPOS.
—REFER TO—
Near York.
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ITOKY.
a
Co.
Cms. Baawas,
a««,«Boston.
AND OTHERS, WISHING
CIEAMEN
Ji«a»llu»aawai.L, Kaq. j
XEX \V FFX
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i
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)
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oharge of the Depository and Beading Boom until
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ASTa
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,
SEWING MACHINES!
Till
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GIVEN
; to
GEO. W. VOLLUM, PARTICULAR ATTENTION
;
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HAVINGin
la prepared to
building
TO
tbe Purchase, Shipment andBaleof Merchandlae
Fori
warding and Transhipment of Goods the Charteringand Sal*
of Vessels the Supplying of Whaleshipi; and the Negotiation
of Kxchange.
;
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execute all ordaw for binding
,
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6 tf
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8-ft
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out 1/
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56
Address of Rev. F. S. Rising before the
Hawaiian
Evangelical
Aaaocintion.
After the Rev. Mr. Corwin had made a
verbal report of the Fort street Church, the
Rev. Franklin S. Rising, a clergymen of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States, from Virginia City, Nevada,
was called upon to address the meeting, and
spoke as follows :
I am glad to avail myself of this opportunity to heartily thank you for your courtesy
in tanking me to sit as a correspoliding
member of this Association. I suppose that
this courtesy bus been extended to me becnuse you lisive rightly judged me in full
pympathv with the cause of evangelical religion. Few feulures of your Missionary
work have struck me so forcibly as its
ihoroujfh evangelical character. As a clercvmnii of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States, I count myself most
loyal to my own Church, to her articles and
to her history, when I thus express my sympathy with a faithful ministering of the Cospel of Christ, whether in my own country or
in heathen lands ; therefore I am happy to
prove my loyalty to my own Church hy
uniting with you in thanking God for the
Gospel work which He has put it into your
hearts to do in these Islands.
1 thank you for the affectionate hospitality
that has welcomed me. at everv station which
1 have visited. You could not have shown
more kindness had I been one of your own
number. I shall, therefore, carry away
with me, deeply impressed upon my mind,
the precious truth which no Christian, and
especially no Christian minister, ought ever
to forget—the essential oneness of all who
love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
We represent here the opposite poles of
Church polity. May the time speedily
come when "all our differences shall be
reconciled in Christ."
I have been taught from boyhood that the
preaching of the unsearchable riches of
Christ to the heathen world is the sublimest
work that Christ's ministering servants have
to do in this life. I firmly believe that
those called of God to this work are His
most honored servants upon earth. Their
crown of honor becomes effulgent when the"
Lord seals their labors with His outpoured
blessing. It has been permitted you to
raise this once heathen people to their present point of Christian attainment. I deem,
it, therefore, a rare privilege to meet with
you, whom God has so greatly honored, to
learn from you the ways in which God has
led you on to the accomplishment of this
amazing work, and to rejoice with you that
your earnest, faithful labors have been rewarded with so abundant a harvest.
The Lord has never deemed me worthy to
be sent to a foreign Missionary field. It is,
therefore, for me to take my place with the
native pastors. They do in Hawaii what I
try to do elsewhere; our work is one. The
end of our ministry is the salvation of the
souls of men through Jesus Christ. A
chief means to this end is a bold, earnest,
unceasing setting forth of that Lord Jesus as
the one all-sufficient Saviour, with a simple
looking to the Holy Ghost to give efficacy
to
that means.
FIMKM).
J I I, V
.
1866.
May we, brethren, so preach the glorious
The new Hawaiian childs' paper,
Gospel of Christ, by our lives and with our Ke Alaula (Dawn of Day) is a success. It
lips, that when we appear before the Chief has already 4,000 subscribers, and an edition
Shepherd we may receive a crown thut
fadeth not away. Then with the four and of 5,000 is printed. Of the native weekly
twenty elders we will fall down before Him newspaper Kuokoa, (Independent,) edited by
that sitteth on the Throne, and worship Him Dr. Gulick, 2,300 copies are printed. Of
that liveth for ever and ever, and cast our the native weekly newspaper, Okon, (New
crowns before the Throne, saying, Thou Era,) Government paper, about 2,000 are
" and printed.
art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory,
honor, and power, for Thou hast created all
Five hundred and fifty Sabbath
things, and for Thy pleasure they are and
were created."
School Scholars were present at the late
S. S. meeting at the Stone Church. About
#The death of ihe late Mr. Wyllie, at one hundred were foreign children, from
Kauni, wns most sad, and can only be ac- Fort Street Church and the Bethel. Among
counted for by considering (hat he was the speakers on the occasion was Mr. James
afflicted with temporary insanity. We have Mcßride, the American Minister-Resident.
conversed with those intimately acquainted
During the month of July the Hawith all the facts and circumstances, and waiian Evangelical Association will issue
that is their unanimous concluu'on. High two supplements to The Friend, containing
as may have been the eisteem of his friends the sermons on Home and Foreign Missions
and neighbors in America, it was not higher which have recently been delivered by its
than that which he secured for himself invitation.
during his sojourn upon the Islands. Most
cheerfully we give place to the following
communication received by the lust mail:
A Curd.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
MARINE JOURNAL
W'ai.tiiam. 1i.i.., U. S. A., April 12. IBM,
W'r. Uie uudVrsigui'd, Id-deepcit sympathy witli
our bereaved Menus, pen the following tribute to
the manor* of Koiskut C. Wyuk•■
He was a young man who was held in the highest esteem by all who know linn. bwCWlaaj of his
strict moral Integrity, his quirt, unassuming deportment, and liis consistent Christian lids. His
kindness of heart uml cheerfulness ol temper wen'
peculiar. lie was tlie farthest removed from
everything like nioiosonc-s. misanthropy or mclancboly. lie had a pleasant smile anil it kind word
for all. lie never exhibited the ■lightest symptom
of mental aberration, but was regarded, on the
contrary, U possessing u sound, well-balanced ami
discriminating mind. In the winter of IMiO ho
made a public profession of his Faith in Christ,
uniting with the Presbyterian Church ol this place,
anil always giving evidence of a high-toned personal piety. His violent and untimely death we
deeply deplore, and we who knew him longest and
best shall be the last to believe that he fell by his
own hand, ircii under the inlluence of a diseased
or deranged mind. His many warm friends in bis
American home will await with intense anxiety
further particulars, since we cannot give lull credence to any account we have yet heard of his
death, contrasting, as they do, so strangely with
his well-known cheerful and hopeful temperament.
We .hall ever, remember, with grateful hearts,
Hie many acts of kindness shown him by bis dear
friends iv his far-off island-home, and shall appreciate every effort they may put forth to unravel
the deep, durl: mystery of his death.
W. \V. Wki.i.s. his former Pastor.
James Wyi.u:.
Jobn Wvi.ie, Elder of tbe Church.
ARU'.VALS.
June ;i2—Am bark fmyrnlote, L<> vctt, 1* rtnyn from S.-m Francisco, wulr m4m lo U ulk'-r, Allen b Co.
13—Ambark Comet, P.ity, U lUys from San Francisco,
wiih mdse to C. llrewcr A Co.
18—Am bark Swallow, It daya from San Francisco, en
route for China and Japan.
19—Italian rlipp r ship Culuuibus, 69 (lays from Macao,
en rout*' fur Callao.
19—SiiirOdd Fel'ow, HcTnolda, from Jarvis Island.
19—Am burkentine .Monitor, Nelson, 17days from Humboldt. Willi lumber to HnckMI & Co.
DKI'AKTI RES.
June 2—Am hark I). C. Murr;iy, Bennett, for Sun Francisco
S—Am bark A. A. Elilridge, Abbott, forPortland.
10—Am bark Bhanaff, Lane, lor San Frinciaco.
20—Italian clipper slop Uuluinbud, Chinppuro, for Callao,
PASSENGERS.
For Sas tuxtisoo—Per D. C. Murray, June 2d—Mr. ami
Mrs I* OJoiies, airs Oeo Hunt, C Arnold, O W I'raeger, W
W Calllll, W O'Brien, J Sadd.rly, M S Uriubauui, O Apperson,
W 0 Kimball, W W Kimball, X T Merriman, W Uurnham,
Mr» McDonald. Thus An her, Capt J Smith and aervl, T Metcast, Miss Kmma Metcnlf. V Metcalf, X Leyton,L l.rvi.oi. C ti
Cliadwlck, J II Uriffln. Mr and Mn Wtnalow, Mis. Whmlaw,
Mr and Mrs J Harris and 4 children, Jno Johnson, J Mcßryde
V l'otta,J Smith, j Di.lz.ia N Rahh, A Carachschl, H. Clark,
O X lUubcii, J lloliin s, John Quincy Adams Warren and lady
-48.
For Pohtlsnd—per A. A. F.ldridge, June B—Miss Phillips,
ThniJ Cooks.
From San Francisco—far Bmyrniote, June 12—Mr and Mrs
II Logan, child and ncrvaut, Win .Mann, A W Allen, W Wilson,
li Credifurd, Ah Sing.
From San FBiNcirco—per Comet, June 13—Rev L Smith,
lady and son, Mill X L Smith, Mr II Mackie and lady, Mr J J
Aycrs, lady and child, Mlr-a Armstrong, Miss M Harrington.
Mrs Sawyer, Mrs M. Iville, J U hartenhy, 11 W Severance, II
Wateihiuse, H Puttman, J Caulking, J Bird.
For Sax Fkakoisio—per Bliering, June 19—Mrs Menitt, T
Waters, F A Srhamroer—3.
From San Francisco— per Swallow, June 18—Hon and Mrs
C X Bjalmp. Ku route for China and Japan—Hon and Mrs A
Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
Burliiißiiaie, child and servant, GenM X B Van Valkenhurg, .Mr
S N Burdick, Col WKumsuy, J Davenport, X X Fuller,
.Verniers Present tram Hawaii—Rev*. T. Coan, D. B. and Mrs
A Uiirlingame. O W Burgess—l 6.
Lyman T. Pohano, J. Kauhanc, J. F. Pogue, 8. W. Papanla, F. S Ituillnjame, W
From Banks's Island— per Odd Fellow, June 18—I Fisher
a. Pali, S. C. Luhiau, a. Bond, 8. Kukahekahe. Delegate! wife
and child, and o natives.
Kaaua.
from theChurches—D. Bareiutba, Pakaula,
From Maui and Molokai—Bevi. 8. Kamakahiki, W. P.
Alexander, D. Baldwin, 8. K. Biahop, C. B. Andrews, J. 11.
Moku, N. Pall, A. O. Forbes. Delegates—A. Kaukau.
from Oahu—Revs. B. W. Parker, M. Kuaea, J. S. Emerson,
n Parker, L. Andrews, 8. C. DaA. Kaoliko, J. Bicknell, H.
mon, B. Corwin, O. H. Oulick, L. 11. Uullck, P. J. Uulick, A.
-O. P. Judd, Ktq., K. 0. Hall,
Wsiwalole
Poll,
B.
Bishop, Z.
Ksq., Hon. 8. N. Castle. Delegates—P. Naone, P. Kapobaku,
Natankla.
Paikuli,
N.
From Kauai—Heir: K. Johnson, D. Dole—Mr. A. Wilcox.
Delegates—J. W. Habere, 8. D. Kupahu, 8 Y. Nauinu.
Corresponding Members— Hon. Johnli, Major W. L. Moeh.niua, S. Kamelainela, P. Kaaekuahlwl, *. Kekoa, P. W.
ataavwa,
-
MARRIED.
Foiiii—Ucasoa.—In toiscilv, an the 2d inst, by the Kev.
Asa Tliuratoo,Dr. 8. P. Ford to Miss Caroline Jaekaoo.
llov—loHNSOM.—In the New Meeting Houii at Kalnalio,
NorthKona, Hawaii, May 21th, by the Key. J. D.Parla, W. »'.
Koy to Mrs. K. Johnson.
Qolditosb—Miller In Honolulu, June93d, by Rer. 8. 0.
Damon, Mr James Goldstone to Mrs. Mary T. 8. Miller.
—
DIED.
WlLftB—In this clly, May 30th, of consumption, Samurt
W' Lib, in the 30th year of his *Te.
�57
FRISUP LEMNDENT
THE
TO
f MiAti
t{ the §wminu
<6vmstlial
more elevated than that occupied by the wise men of heathen antiquity.
While philosophy was discussed in the schools of Aristotle and Plato,
at Athens, visions of the Messiah's triumphs among Gentile n ions
Honolulu, June 18, 1866. were passing before the enraptured minds of Isaiah, Daniel and MalaRev. S. C. Damon—Dear Sir:—The undersigned respectfully chi. All the rays of light radiating from Hebrew prophecy were
request the publication, at your earliest convenience, of your inter- found to converge and centre on the Promised Messiah, as the central
esting and very comprehensive discourse on " The History of Puri- figure in that grand panoramic picture of coming events. In the fultan Missions in the Pacific" preached in Fort Street Church last even- ness of time He made His appearance, and finished His work, but ere
ing.
taking His departure from this world He gathered His eleven disciples,
With the expression of sincere friendship, as ever yours,
and thus addressed them : "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
E. Corwin,
Lorrin Andrews,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Elisha H. Allen,
S. Peck,
Holy Ghost." That command seems clothed with a species of military
James Mcßride,
J. W. Austin.
authority, admitting of no questioning or reasoning on the part of those
to whom it was or is addressed. Never has our Saviour's last command been canceled, revoked or altered. It is as binding now upon ihe
Church, individually and collectively, as when it was first uttered.
When a young English clergyman applied for advice to the Duke of
Wellington, respecting his duty to go as a Missionary to India, the
hero of Waterloo replied, " Look to your marching orders." That
pithy and. laconic answer is the best of all comments which I have ever
read upon our Saviour's last command to His disciples. That command contains the marching orders of the Church-militant, until the
Gospel shall be preached to every creature. When those orders are
obeyed, then will the great Captain of our Salvation fulfil His gracious
promise, " Lo, 1 am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."
Gathered on this Missionary Anniversary, I have chosen as my theme
PuMristanoPacific:
itnhe
of discourse,
HONOLULU, JULY, 1866.
"*
ADISCOURSE,
i,versary
ForDeStlivChontaterhetduretAofcnhthe
EVAHNGAEWLICALI NASSOCIATION,
EVSEANBINGAT, H17,JU1866.
NE
PURITAN MISSIONS IN THE PACIFIC.
The time has not arrived for writing a full and complete history of
Missionary enterprises in the Pacific. It is. however, approaching.
:
For a work of this nature the most abundant materials are in process of
When Isaiah glanced his prophetic eye down the vista of coming collection in London, Boston, Lyons, Honolulu, or wherever there is a
centuries, he was favored with a glorious vision of the conversion of centre of Missionary operations, extending to any portion of Polynesia.
the Gentile world to the Messiah. The vision has passed away, but The time is coming when the history of each separate Mission will not
the reality has taken its place. Prophecy is now receiving its fulfil- be viewed apart and isolated from the rest, but as an integral part of a
ment and gradually melting away inio the details of history.
and comprehensive work, bearing some such title as " The
" Proph-no grand
ecy," says Lord Bacon, " is a kind of historiography." It requires
History ot Christianity in Polynesia," or " The History of Missions in
forced and.arbitrary principle of scriptural interpretation to apply the the Pacific." As the various dialects spoken by the Fejeeans, Samoans.
language, of Isaiah, in the text, to the peculiar situation of Hawaiians Tahitians, Marquesan? and Hawaiians form but one language, so all
when the law of God was first proclaimed among them, or to Polyne- Polynesians are members of the same family or race, and whoever
siims generally when Protestant Missions were first established in the would understand or study one should study all.
Pacific. The application is natural, graceful and satisfactory.
At a glance it will readily appear that a most interesting field of inWhile prophecies are not to be regarded as our rule of duty, yet from quiry and investigation is spread open. A complete history cannot at
their study we may gather strength and courage to press forward in the present be written, for the work of evangelization remains unfinished.
pathway of obedience, especially when we witness passing events in the All the Islands of Polynesia have not as yet been visited by the Misworld's history manifestly fulfiling what the prophets of the Lord fore- sionary of the Cross. There are numerous dwellers on the islands of
told should take place in the last days, when the mountain of the Micronesia, and upon those islands with New Guinea, or Papua, for a
" mountains, and shall centre, who have never yet seen a Missionary or heard the name of
Lord's house shall be established in the top of the
be exalted above the hills: and all nations shall flow into it." Was it Jesus. From this widely-extended field of operations—evangelized
not so with Peter on the day of Pentacost ? With what telling effect and unevangelized—the most abundant historical materials are now
he quoted the prophetic language of David and Joel, in his sermon on being gathered in the archives of the various Missionary and Historical
that memorable occasion !
Societies. When such a history is completed, it will embrace the
The subject of Foreign Missions, or Missions to unevangelized records of the labors, efforts and doings of various Missionary Associanations, may be profitably contemplated in the light of Hebrew tions, Protestant and Catholic. This history will prove one of no ordiprophecy. Those old prophets stood on a mount of vision far nary interest, when it shall be written by an Ellis or Jarves, a BingIsaiah 42 : 4.*-" The isles shall wait for his law."
Matthkw 28 19.—" Go ye therefore, and teach all nations."
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Puritan Missions in Polynesia form a bright and gloham or Anderson, a Williams or Cheever, a Turner or Dibble, a Mur- Apostles," while that
in
To
those
whose
rious
appendix.
chapter
It
be
character.
unique
will
in
or
Stewart.
ray
minds are fully alive to the sublime work of man's Redemption by a
Tahitian Mission,
Crucified Redeemer, this .history will exceed, in thrilling interest, the On the 10th of August, 1796, or just seventy years ago, a vessel
most exciting tales of romance which were ever written. Most truly sailed down the River Thames, conveying as precious a company as
may those readers be envied, who will, at some future day, peruse a that which left Plymouth on board the Mayflower for the shores of
comprehensive history of Gospel triumphs at Tahiti, Samoa, and hun- New England in 1620. This vessel was called the Duff, and comdreds of other islands of Polynesia. Look at a map of the Pacific. manded by that most remarkable man, Capt. Wilson. He was the
Scarcely a generation hits passed away, since, throughout nil these man whom Hyder Ali, that monster of cruelty, in India, had loaded
widely-extended regions of our globe, the Prince of Darkness reigned' with irons and confined in a prison of India, from whence he
supreme. Idol temples were as numerous as the villages which lined came forth, after twenty-two months of imprisonment, emaciated, half
the shores or were scattered over the hills and mountains. Idolatry starved and naked. This was the man whose hair breadth escapes and
everywhere abounded. Cruplty and oppression were common. There daring adventures»caused a Turk in the train of Hyder Ali to exclaim,
was much in the beauty of the natural scenery to please the eye and
This is God's man.* Having experienced such unexampled suffercaptivate the fancy. Voyagers delighted to describe the paradisiacal "ings, God honored him as the commander of the firsr Missionary vessel
appearance of the numerous islands which sparkled like so many gems to the isles of Polynesia. It was at early dawn when the Duff quietly
in the peacefnl waters of the vast Pacific, but the moral aspect was glided awny from the dorks of London, and the Missionary company
dark, and the nearer it was viewed the darker it appeared, although on board united in singing,
the Bishop of Oxford describes the inhabitants of Polynesia as " chil-
"Jesus, at tby command
dren of nature, children of the air, children of light, children of the sun,
I launch into the deep."f
children of beauty, taking their greatest pleasure in the dance." Alas,
The year previous to the sailing of these pioneer Missionaries, the
man is a sinner. His heart is depraved. The debased character of
the unevangelized Polynesian has never been fully laid open to view, London Missionary Society was organized, and was now sending forth
a band of Missionaries to the fur-distant South Sea Islands.
They
any more than the heart of the sinner in civilized lands.
were going forth to establish the first Mission planted under the ausIs this tlii! flight of fancy ? Would it wen-!
Heaven's Sovereign saves nil beings lint Himself
pices of that noble and most truly catholic Missionary Society, which,
That hideout sight, a naked hitman heart."
for seventy years, has not filtered in its glorious career.
Many were tho difficulties and obstacles which attended these early
Yet at the door of bear's concealing " that hideous sight" the
Saviour has knocked and found a welcome. Most cordially has He efforts of the friends of modern Missions. Some of their views were
been welcomed by multitudes of idolatrous Polynesians, some of whom incorrect. The minds of the Directors were laboring under that false
were once cannibals. Is not the history of such a people full of in- and erroneous idea that civilization must precede the introduction of
terest ? What can be more so ? Whut struggles, what joys, what Christianity among a heathen and savage people. We may learn this
sorrows the Recording Angel has noted down in God's
of Re- fact from the somewhat unclerica! nnd non-Missionary character of that
membrance, which will be disclosed in another world! To a sketch of first band of Missionaries to the shores of Tahiti. The following is a
Puritan Alissionary operations in the Pacific I would now call your at- list of these Missionaries Four ordained Missionaries, five carpenters, one shop-keeper, one buckle and harness maker, two tailors, two
tention.
After Cook, Vancouver and other explorers had returned to Europe, shoemakers, one gentleman's servant, (subsequently turned tin-worker,)
and published the thrilling narratives of their voyages in the far-off re- one whitesmith and gardener, one suigeon, one brazier, one cooper, one
gions of the Pacific, their reading awakened an interest second only to butcher, one cotton-manufacturer, one Indian weaver, one hatter, two
that which followed the report ol Columbus that a new world had been bricklayers, one linen-draper and one cabinet-maker. Only two of the
discovered. A Macedonian call was heard, " Who will volunteer to go four clergymen were accompanied by thf ir wives. The weaver, one of
forih as Missionaries to reclaim the dwellers on these beautiful islands the carpenters, the butcher and the brazier were also accompanied by
from heithenism to Christianity ?" Years passed away, and there was their helpmeets. Three children also belonged to the company. In
no response to this call, although some have reported, but I think with- all there were thirty-nine souls. The youngest member of the company
out due foundation, that Vancouver had solemnly pledged his word to was sixteen months, and the oldest s xty-four years.
send forth a Missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Cook took to EngThe Duff made a prosperous passage from England to Tahiti, touchland, from the Society Islands, the " gentle savage," Omai, but listen ing at the Western Islands and Rio Janeiro. In contrast with the
to the desponding address of the poet Cowper to that visitor from Poly- habits of Puritan Missionaries of that period and those of the present,
this fact is noteworthy, that at Teneriffe, the Mission-ries were inrepresented the heathen imploring the Gospel:
structed to procure " four pipes of the best wine, in hogsheads," and
Alas! expect it not. We found no bait
" To tempt us to tbv country. Doing good,
pay for the same by " a draft on the Treasurer" of the Society. MisDisinleresM t/mui. is Ml Met trade.
sionaries of recent times do not receive instructions of this nature from
W'v travel lUr. 'tis true, but not for iiimglit.
the Secretaries of those Societies which send them forth. During the
And must be bribed to eompanH earth again,
voyage the attention of the Missionaries was much occupied in making
other
richer
fruits
than
yours."
hopes
and
By
r, however, was about to strike on Time's dial-plate for Poly- arrangements for future operations. It was decided that the four ordained Missionaries*, together with twenty others, including five females
pass into a new form of being. Old things were to pass and
two children, should remain at Tahiti, ten of the company should
all things to become new. To whom shall be assigned the
and two—Mr. Harris, the cooper, and Mr. Crook,
ir of performing the human portion of this grent work? proceed to Tonga,
the gentleman's servant—should proceed and establish a Mission on
the
of
Old
and
New
Heaven assigns the enterprise to
Puritans
England.
Who can doubt that it was the Spirit of God which first awakened a the Marquesas Islands.
On the 4ih of March, 1797, the Missionaries approached the long
Missionary zeal among them to enter upon this Herculean undertaking?
and beautiful shores of Tahiti. The following day being
wished-for
to
lie
It must be borne in mind that the Missionary enterprise appeared
a far different work then from what it does at present. Whatever other the Sabbath, they did not land, but held divine service on board, the
branches of the Church-universal may hereafter follow in the footsteps simple-minded and idolatrous inhabitants witnessing the srene from the
of the Puritans, yet to them belongs the high honor of having been the shore. The Rev. Mr. Cover preached from the text, "God is love,"
pioneers in this bold work. To English Puritans was assigned the and hymns commencing with the following lines were sung:
work in the South Pacific, and to American Puritans a similar underbills of darkness," Ac, Ac
" O'er tbe gloomy
the trumpet, blow," Ac, Ac.
ye
Blow
taking north of the Line. Bigotry, prejudice and sectarianism may
"
combine to overturn what the Puritan has accomplished, or Christian
It may now be said the work of evangelizing the inhabitants of Polyzeal may prompt Missionaries of other denominations to perform what nesia had commenced. The Missionaries had entered upon their arthe Puritan had left undone ; but the future and impartial historian duous, difficult and untried work. For them not to have made miswill ever award to him a most honorable meed of praise, for having takes would be to expect something more than that they were erring
been the apostle of Christianity among the inhabitants of Polynesia.
of the Mission to Tahiti has been so often pubThe Puritan's record is a noble one. It cannot be effaced or blotted mortals. The history
out. It has become a part of the history of a world's redemption. The
• Williams' Missionary Enterprises.
history of modern Missions is but an appendix to the " Acts of the t Missionary Voyages, ship Duff. London, 1799.
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lished, and is so familiar, that 1 shall not dwell upon its details, buti The Island Queen," thus portray the character of the martyr, Wilonly touch upon those points deemed worthy of notice, in presenting a liams:
"A man sublime in his simplicity—
rapid sketch of the operations of the London Missionary Society in the
Hero of Missions—whose expausive soul
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Pacific. The fundamental principle of this Society, adopted at the
Nor realms could satisfy, nor space control;
is,
1796,
annual
is
thus
defined:
"Its
design
first
To one great purpose true, his manly part
meeting, in May,
Proving the power of earnestness of heart;
not to send Presbyterianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other
While burned bis zeal amid all dangers warm,
form of Church order or government, but the glorious Gospel of the
Brightest when tried, aud strongest in the storm."
this
is
Now,
Society
supported
although
blessed God to the heathen."
t
was Rev. William Ellis, who still survives, and is one of the
by various Evangelical Christian denominations in England, yet the The other
Missions in
remarkable men now living. His fame is
most
for
such
|
the
Missionaries
to
assume
themselves
leave
it
to
Directors
" shall appear most agreeable to the South Seas and the Hawaiian Islands are his debtors, while his reas
j
to them
form of Church government
to rank among the
the Word of God." So far as lam able to ascertain the facts, all Mis- | peated visits to the Island of Madagascar entitle him
from
sionaries sent out from England to establish and perpetuate Christianity Missionary benefactors of the heathen world. The very last accounts for
is
still
laboring
age,
that,
inform
us
his
old
he
in
England
vigorous
Puritan
those
stamp, except
of the
in the South Seas have been of the
the last mail a
Church Missionary Society," and of the " Society for the Propaga- Missions, and that our Mission is not forgotten. By
"tion
received, with the following on its title-page
was
pamphlet
goodly-sized
of
confined
these
two
Societies
have
of the Gospel." Missionaries
Islands; a Vindication and
their efforts almost entirely to New Zealand. The VVesleyar. Mission- "The American Mission in the Sandwich
relation to the Proceedings of the Reformed Catholic
aries at the Tonga and Feejee Islands, as well as those in New Zea- an Appeal in
This is a sound,
land, I doubt not would wish to be classed among Puritans, rather than Mission in Honolulu. By Rev. W. Ellis," &c.
vindication
appeal,
by a veteran in
and
and
triumphant
Pumasterly
among those " Church" Missionaries, whose views are High Church.
the Missionary cause. Respecting its author, I would add : Noble
Puritan
Missions
in
subject,
view
of
the
or
this
Taking
seyite Ritualistic.
Long may he survive to labor in the Missionary cause, ere his
Soci- man
the Pacific, are spread over the following groups of islands, viz
be enrolled beside that of Elliot, Brainard, Martyn, Buname
shall
ety, Marquesan, Hervey, Friendly, Samoan, Feejeean, New Hebrides, chanan, Schwarz,
Mills, Judson, Cary,
Hawaiian and Micronesian. This is a very large and populous field
it,
Puritans
from
Old
and
"Whose
honored names on history's pago shall live,"
for Missionary operations, but, in working
New England have sent forth as devoted bands of Missionaries as ever For they, with many others, have devoted their lives to the evangelizalabored among the heathen, and most liberally expended funds to carry tion of the heathen world.
forward their enterprises. As a groundwork ior their operations, they
During the last half-century the Missionary work has been prosehave caused the entire Bible to be translated into the dialects spoken, at cuted at the Society Islands with varied success. The Missionaries
Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, Harotongn and Hawaiian Islands, and parts of and native Christians have passed through a series of trials and persethe Bible into many other dialects. The cardinal idea of all these Mis- cutions. Most nobly have the native Churches been sustained. The
sionaries is this, that Missionaries, when sent to preach the Gospel among Tahitians have held on to the principles of Protestant Christianity with
an unevangelized and heathen peopb, should aim to convert sinners to true Waldensean tenacity. The emissaries of Rome have found their
Christ, and preach among them the simple principles of the Gospel, match among the guava and orange groves of Tahiti, as well as amid
and not the tenets or opinions of any one sect of Christianity. They the fastnesses of the Alps. It is a mattpr of great astonishment that
hold that the Bible should be translated and printed in the various lan- the Tahitians should have so pertinaciously and resolutely adhered to
guages and dialects spoken by all nations. They place great stress the faith taught them by the English Missionaries. It is proof positive
upon the preicfiing of the Gospel.
that Christianity has taken a firm hold of the hearts of the Chiefs and
With such views the English Missionories commenced their labors people of Tahiti. At the last accounts Protestant ministers and teachat the Society Islands. At the end of three years a chapel was built, ers were settling among them, who were sent out from France, while
but it was nearly five years before the Missionaries could preach famil- an appeal has been made to America for funds to sustain the Mission.
iarly in the language of the people. Sixteen years rolled away ere a
The following pom's I deem worthy of special attention in estimating
single convert was made. Many changes had taken place in the Mis- the good accomplished by the establishment of the Mission at Tahiti
sion. Several of the company left for the colony of New South Wales. 1. It being the pioneer Mission in Polynesia, all subsequent Missions
The interest awakened in England at the outset of the Mission had have profited by its example—its errors, its failures and its successes.
died away, and the question was seriously discussed of abandoning the Not only have other Missions in Polynesia profited by a study of its
enterprise. The work required was too exacting for the weak and history, but Missions in other parts of the heathen world have also been
faint-hearted. There was, however, one devoted friend of the Mission benefitted by reviewing its progress. 2. The history of this Mission
in England, who would listen to no such proposition. He declared he has effectually exploded the idea that civilization should precede Chriswould sell his coat from his back rather than the Mission should be tianity, in the evangelization of a heathen people. Neither the London
given up. This good man was Heweis. He was a Churchman of Missionary Society, nor any other Missionary Association, will ever
enlarged views and noble conduct. He, presented the Society with a send forth so many secular men to establish and prosecute the Missiondonation of £200, or $1,000, and then proposed that the friends of the ary work. 3. Tahiti has been found to be admirably situated as a
enterprise should observe a day of fasting and prayer. This was the centre or basis of Missionary operations. From thence Missionaries
set time for the God of Missions to favor His Zion at Tahiti. The ves- have gone in many directions, as will appear from brief sketches of
sel taking out instructions lor the Missionaries to continue their work Missionary operations in other groups.
was'on her outward-bound passage while a homeward-bound vessel
Tongan Mission.
from Tahiti was returning to England freighted with idols which had
been given up. The dawn was now approaching, after a long night of The Directors of the London Missionary Society entered upon the
toil. The glad news thrilled the hearts of the friends of Missions in work of Missions in Polynesia with enlarged and noble views. From
England and other parts of the world. It was a most memorable event the beginning they designed to extend their operations to other groups
in the history of not only the Mission to the South Seas, but of Mis- besides the Society Islands. No sooner had the Missionaries become
sions in general. While the Christian Church wns praying, God heard settled on Tahiti than the ship Duff sailed for the Friendly or Tonga
and answered their prayers. These events occurred just half a century Islands. Upon those were landed ten Missionaries, who xame out
not successful. In a few months
ago. What momentous events have since occurred in the history of from England. This Mission was murdered,
and the remainder were
Missions!
three of these Missionaries were
the year 1817 two most remarkable men joined the Mission at taken to Sydney; in 1800. No subsequent attempts were made to
iti. One was the Rev. Mr. Williams, who won for himself the en- evangelize the Friendly Islanders until the establishment of the Wesle title of the Apostle of Missions in the South Seas, but who finally leyan Mission in 1822. The Rev. W. Lawry was the leader of. this
killed, and will forever be known in the history of Missions as the new enterprise, which was destined to be crowned with success. Other
artyr of Erromanga." A monument has been erected over his re- Missionaries followed in 18i6, 1827, 1830, and so on down to the
mains, at Apia, Samoan Islands, with this inscription : " Sacred to present time. The peculiarities of the Wesleyan system of Church
the Memory of the Rev. John Williams, the Father of the Samoan organization has been introduced and found to be eminently successful.
and other Missions, aged 43 years and 5 months, who was killed by the King George is now a local preacher, and has successfully officiated as
cruel natives of Erromanga, while endeavoring to plant the Gospel of Chief Magistrate of that little Kingdom, and also as a laborer in proPeace on their shores." Beautifully does Mrs. Ellis, in her poem, moting the Kingdom of God. He has granted to his people a written
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Constitution, and, so far as reliable information can be obtained, the
Friendly (slanders have bejpme a civilized and Christian people. What
I deem of special importance to observe in tracing the progress of civilization and Christianity among that people is this, that it matters not
whether Missionaries are Independents, Wesleyans or Episcopalians in
their views of Church government or ecclesiastical polity, the Lord will
crown their labors with success, if they are faithful in their work of
preaching and exemplifying the Gospel.
Marquesan Mission.
In the rapid sketch of Puritan Missions in the South Seas, I shall
next direct attention to the various efforts which have been made to establish the institutions of the Gospel on the Marquesas Islands.
Strange as the announcement of the fact may appear, the first rites of
Christianity were performed on this group long before the Pilgrims
lainli-.l on Plymouth Rock, even as early as the 25th of July, 1505.
These islands were discovered by Alvaro Mendana tie Negra, and
named Marquesas in honor of the Marquis of Ciinck , then Viceroy of
Peru. The Mass, or Catholic service, was performed on shore, and
just two hundred years from that date the ship Duff landed two English Missionaries on those islands. Their names were John Harris
and William Crook. After residing upon the islands for one year, disheartened and discouraged, they returned to Tahiti. More than a
quarter of a century elapsed before another effort was made on behalf
of the Marquesans. In 1825 Mr. Crook, accompanied by two Tahitinns, returned and renewed his efforts. He discovered that a few natives had given up their idols, in consequence of his former efforts, thus
showing that good seed had been sown. Again, discouraged, he returned to Tahiti. The following year, 1826, the Mission was again
renewed, but only to be again abandoned in the year 18:29.
The work of Missions on the Marquesas Islands was renewed in
1833, by the Rev. Messrs. Armstrong, Alexander and Parker, with
their wives, from Honolulu as a base of operations. Before a twelvemonth had elapsed, they returned from the field, to lie succeeded by
Missionaries from Tahiti, who prosecuted the work for several years,
and again abandoned the enterprize. In 1838 two Catholic Priests
landed upon the islands, which led to their occupation by the French
for political and naval purposes. An effort was made to make n penal
settlement of them. This scheme was soon abandoned, and the Catholic Missiofiaries alone remained, with a merely nominal occupancy by
French military authorities.
Thus matters were continued until the Hawaiian Missionary Society
sent out a Mission from these islands, in 1853. The history of this
successful enterprize is too well known for me to enter upon the details.
Our Society has not only sustained the original Missionaries, but sent
out reinforcements. The Marquesans have been found to be the most
savage and untractable of all the various members of the great Polynesian family. One attempt after another has been made to evangelize them, but hitherto all efforts failed, until our Hawaiian Missionaries
settled among them. They have held on with a firm grasp, determined
not to give up until the work shall be accomplished. This is much to
their honor, and if no other good has been done, this point has been established, that Hawaiian Missionaries arc worthy of all praise for their
persevering zeal, when both English and American Missionaries had
given up. A letter recently published, and written by one of those
Missionaries to President Lincoln, indicates that an Hawaiian Missionary, for mind, scholarship and piety, may take rank among the best of
those employed to preach the Gospel among the heathen.
It is a question of much interest and importance why Marquesans
should have been so unwilling to receive the teachings of the Missionaries, while other branches of the Polynesian family have received
them with open arms. Perhaps I may be mistaken, but I think the
almost utter anarchy in regard to civil and political government has
been the principal reason. Human government is a Divine institution,
but among Marquesans there appears to have been very little of what
could be called " law md order." This leads me to remark, I think
that Missionaries and the friends of Missions do not sufficiently value
the regular form of government which hasfor so many years existed upon
these islands. Wherever the Government is unsettled, or anarchy prevails, it has in all ages been found a difficult thing to plant the institutions of the Gospel. This is a point to which my attention was first
called while visiting Oregon, in 1849, and conversing with a Missionary of the Board who had been laboring among the North American
Indians. He had experienced the sad effects of an absence of civil
government among the Indians, and his remark was that Missionaries
Sandwich Islands were peculiarly favored. The Marquesans
are divided into as many clans, or tribes, as there are valleys in the
1
They have, from time immemorial, carried on warfare. They
never at peace. The following lines of Cowper are applicable to
the Marquesans, as well as to the nations of Europe :
group.
are
"
.Mountains interposed,
Make enemies of Millions, which had else,
talk* kindred drops, been mingled into one."
Samoan Mission.
our
of
Puritan Missions in the South Seas, the
survey
general
In
1
Samoan or Navigator Islands will next claim our attention. Most intimately associated with this group are the Islands of the Hervey
group, embracing the islands of Raratonga, Aitutake and Mangaia.
The first publication of the Gospel on these beautiful and populous
islands will always be associated with that ardent, enterprising and adventurous Missionary to whom I have already alluded, the Rev. John
Williams, the Martyr of Erromanga. " For my part," wrote Williams
to the Directors of the Loudon Missionary Society, " 1 cannot content
myself within the narrow limits of a single reef; and, if means are not
afforded, a continent would he infinitely preferable to me ; for there, if
you cannot ride, you can walk; but to these isolated islands a ship
must carry you." Because there was no ship at his command, and no
money to purchase one, he actually built one with his own hands and
the assistance of the natives. It was called " The Messenger of Peace."
"Tis brave to see the gallant ship,
Willi snowy pinions, tly
Across the ocean, like n bird,
licncalh a pleasant sky ;
Vet braver night I deem it is.
And goodlier, when a ship.
With Mercy's beralib, doth In r wing
In yonder waters dip.
A burden bearing, rioter far
Than gold or canning gem
Yea, walling tiding! of the star
That shines from Bethlehem."
:
She was from seventy to eighty tons burden. This vessel proved to
be an excellent sailer, and most serviceable in the Missionary cause.
The building of that vessel, anil its trips to the Navigator Islapds, on
voyages of exploration, are most wonderful, and well entitle the projector of these enterprises to be accounted an original genius. Ono
English writer has remarked that Defoe, the writer of the adventures
of Robinson Crusoe, " never ascribed to the hero of his romance an
achievement so wonderful." The fact is something stranger than fiction. It is now something more than a quarter of a century since Mr.
Williams published an account of his Missionary voyages, under the
title of " A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea
Islands." The details of Missionary labor contained in that volume
read more like a work of romance than sober reality. Subsequent
events have proved that the originator of those enterprises was no enthusiastic adventurer. Thousands of British and American Christians
perused the volume with the deepest interest. I have not forgotten the
thrill of delight which 1 experienced while reading that volume. The
Church at large was now convinced that the Angel having the everlasting Gospel to preach was fully commissioned to extend his flight
over all the islands of the South Seas, and those stnnzas written by an
American poet to be sung at the embarkation of the second band of
Missionaries sailing for these islands from New Haven, were now found
to be animated with new life and inspiration
:
"
Wake isles of the South, your redemption is near,
No longer repose in the borders of gloom ;
The strength of His chosen in love shall appear.
And light shall arise on the verge of the tomb.
The billows that girt ye, the wild waves that roar,
The zephyrs that pluy where the ocean-storms cease,
Slmll bear the rich freight to your desolate shore,
Shall watt tlie glad tidings ol pardon and peace."
Williams, having led the way, was soon followed by as noble, laborious, patient and successful a company of Missionaries ns ever left the
shores of Christian England nnd landed upon the shores of heathendom. The names of Buzacott, Pitman, Royle, Mills, Turner, Geddie,
and many others are associated with that of Williams in prosecuting
the work of Missions in the Hervey, Samoan, New Hebrides, New
New Caledonia and other islands, stretching away to the westward.*
• On the day but one following the delivery of this discourse, the author .received a letter from J. C. Williams, Ksq., 11. 11. M. Consul at Apia, Upolu, Samoa,
who is the only son of the late Missionary, Key. John Williams, Martyr of KrroThe natives have the
manga. Under date of March 6, 18(ifi, be thus writes
Bible In their hands, which they can read and understand, and with this wettpou
The
are
well
armed."
natives
ol
Ellice's
•
they
group are in an inter* *
esting state—waiting, longing for teachers. In their anxiety to have the "loin"
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New Zealand and Feejeean Missions.*
Although I do not feel justified in classing the New Zealand Missions among Puritan Missions in the South Seas, yet 1 can appreciate
what has been done by those dilfering from the Puritans in their ecclesiastical organization. The Church Missionary Society commenced
operations in New Zealand in 1814, and has there accomplished a
noble work. The devoted Missionaries of the Society have labored
with alternate successes and defeats. The Wesleyan Missionaries
came to their aid in 1819, and nlso Missionaries under the auspices of
the ancient " Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts,"
have entered that field. The history of all those Missions abounds
with incidents of thrilling interest. The steady and persevering efforts
and patronage of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, an Episcopalian, and
Chaplain at Sydney, presents one of the finest pictures of Missionary
zeal anywhere to be found upon record. Ho stood by that Mission
through evil ns well as good report. Cannibalism and idolatry have
been the main obstacles in the way of the preaching of the Gospel.
The late Sydney Smith presented the cannibal feature in a most striking light. When Bishop Selwyn was about to leave England lor Ins
distant diocese. Sydney Smith thus addressed him : "I hope, my
Lord, you will keep a bountiful supply of cold cooked infant on your
sideboard, for all visitors, and, if any of the natives should fancy to cat
you, I can only heartily hope you will disagree with them." The
good Bishop yet survives, but, if reports are to be credited of the
Maories reluming to their cannibal practices, it would be impossible to
predict how long he may be spared. The humorous sarcasm of the
witty Divine indicated a condition of heathenism in New Zealand and
the Feejce Islands, which those devoted Missionaries have been called
to encounter in all its hideous and loathsome features.
From New Zealand turn your eyes for a moment to the achievements of the Wesleyan, or Puritan Missions, in the Feejee Islands.
Contemplate Gospel" triumphs in that region of Polynesia. No Missionary hereafter need be discouraged at the most appalling obstacles and difficulties that may be presented in any part of the heathen
world. Just thirty years ago, or in 1835, the Rev. Messrs. Cross and
Cargile landed among the unblushing cannibals of the Feejee Islands.
Human flesh was no inconsiderable portion of the food of the debased
Feejceans. Foreigners of the very lowest class had introduced the
vices of civilization j but even there the Saviour has found followers.
Schools have been established and the Bible has been translated. The
Wcsleyans have happily and successfully introduced the peculiar practices and forms of John Wesley's system, and these have been found
admirably suited to the elevation and amelioration of the debased Feejeeans. All honor to those devoted laborers.
wh eh the Sun of Righteousness has not risen. If the work advances for the next
twenty years at the same rate of progress as it has done during the past, that eonBtimmatioti will not be far from being realized. When we began our labors here,
in L896, all beyond us to the West, and all to the North except your group, was
enshrouded in heathenish darkness. A glance at the work which was published
some time since, a copy of which 1 beg your acceptance of, will show what has
been done in the way of extension, in connection with this Mission, and will also
give you a glimpse of the opening prospects in the respective neighborhoods of
the islands and groups of which it treats. Each of the off-shoots of this Mission
is. ia its turn, becoming a centre of influence, a radiating point, whence the light
is spreading fur and wide. And now that our Westward Missions are off our
bands, we are turning our attention to the northwest, and intend, God helping us,
to press forward in that direction till we reach the boundary which your Missionaries have lixed as the limit of their operations southward. A very hopeful commencement was made, in the months of May and June of lust year, among the
range of low coral islands known by the name of Ellice's group, Mitchell's group.
Ac., Ac. I visited five of these and placed teachers on three of them, and we have
since sent teachers to the other two. I found these Islanders in a deeply interesting state. They had long abandoned idolatry, and were literally waiting for the
law of the Lord. I cannot give you particulars. One deeply interesting thing to
is that the whole, eight in number, with
itH, connected to the islands referred to,
a single exception, are peopled by the descendants of Samoans, who had been
drifted thither many years. I suppose centuries, ago. Hence our books are available and our teachers are at home. The islands are small, as is also the population. Tbe whole range, I suppose, does not number over z.&OO, or, at most, 3,000,
but they have a relative importance which is not small, especially with Nui,
which has been peopled from the King's Mill group."
* This portion of the discourse, relating to New Zealand, and some other paragraphs, were omitted in the delivery, for want of time.
man."
T/ie hour had struck for the Hawaiian people to pass into a new form
of being. Through the thick darkness of heathenish night, Divine
Providence had been leading this people to abolish their old system of
worship. Unseen hands drew back the bolts from the gates, and threw
wide open the doors for the pioneers of the American Puritan Mission
to enter upon their work of evangelization. This event has thus been
portrayed in poetic strains by the Rev. Robert Grant, a clergyman of
the Church of England, in his poem, " Kapiolani."
#
Hawaiian Mission.
In my remarks upon Missionary operations in Polynesia, I have
dwelt exclusively upon the laßfcrs of the English in what may strictly
be denominated the South Seas. 1 shall now invite your attention
somewhat briefly to the labors of the American Puritan Missionaries in
the North Pacific. The Hawaiian Islands will, of course, first claim
our attention. In passing, I cannot refrain from alluding to that harmony which has always existed between the Missionaries of the London Missionary Society and those of the American Board. At a very
early stage of operations, there was a perfect understanding that Islands
south of the Line should belong to the English Missionaries, while
American Missionaries should go to the North Pacific. As events
have been developing, and the streams of emigration have flowed to
the Australian colonies via the Cape of Good Hope, and to the Pacific
coast via the Rocky Mountains and the Isthmus of Panama, it has become
clearly apparent that an overruling Providence guides the streams of
emigration and the progress of foreign Missions. The leading facts
relating to Missions nt these islands are so familiar to your minds, and
have been so often published, that I shall not be expected to dwell upon
the details of Missionary operations. The work has not been done in
a corner, but openly, and in view ol friends and enemies. The system
and principles adopted by the Puritan Missionaries have been severely
criticised und examined. In reviewing the establishment of the Mission, it would be quite impossible to keep out of view certain marked
interpositions of Divine Providence. The visit of Obookiah and his
companions to America, and their education in the Mission School at
Cornwall, Conn., form a most beautiful introduction to a history of the
American Mission to the Islands. 'The abolition of idolatry and the
tabu system are also incidents of marked significance. Before the news
of this unheard-of and unexpected event reached the United States, the
first Missionary Company had embarked from Boston. The way had
been thereby prepared for the introduction of the Christian religion into
these islands. " The isles shall wait His law." Literally were the
inhabitants of these isles waiting for God's Law. Not to recognise in
this wonderful work of preparation an interposition of an unseen but
Divine hand would savor of n denial of an overruling and Divine Providence. In contemplating this event in Hawaiian annals, how forcibly
the following truthful, eloquent and philosophical remarks of Bancroft,
the historian, forming the exordium of his late eulogy on the life of
President Lincoln, will be found to apply : " Sometimes, like a mesreligion, a Chief gave about fifty gallons of cocoanut-oil for an English llible, senger through the thick darkness of night, Omnipotence steps along
which an Knglish captain had the wickedness to charge that tor. Honor be to mysterious ways; but when the hour strikes for a people or mankind to
another English captain, who urged the Chiefs to burn their idols anil the bouse of pass into a new form of being, unseen hands draw the bolts from the
their gods. These peoplu are ready for the Gospel." Another letter wiw reoelved
of futurity ; an all-subduing influence prepares the minds of men
from the Rev. A. W. Murray, author ola very important work. " Missions in gates
letter,)
who
has
been
ut
the
for
the
coming revolution ; those who plan resistance find themselves in
of
which
the
accompanied
Western Polynesia," (a copy
Samoan Islands over a quartet of a century. Mr. Murray, under date of Match conflict w'th the will of Providence rather than with human desires ;
Z, IB6C, thus writes: " One cannot help feeling sonielhitig like regret that your and all hearts and
all understandings, most of all the opinions and inMorning Siar is no longer to be employed in the high and holy work for which fluence of
the unwilling, are wonderfully attracted, and compelled to
she was built, and which she has done ho well for so many years. The consolation is that she is to have a successor, which we trust will take up the wort where bear forward the change, which becomes more and more an obedience
she ilaid it down, and carry it forward, till few if any of the isles shall remain on to the law of universal nature than submission to the arbitraments of
oped a wide and an effectual door,
" God
For ere the messengers of peace unfurled
Love's banner, waving o'er a rebel world,
Moved by a mighty impulse from on high,
liursting each social, each domestic tie,
a
The Island King tbe ancient creed disowned,
Threw offthe burden beneath which they groaned,
At one bold stroke ; and, with a statesman s view,
He broke the fetters of the strict tabu,
Enforced by stern authority's high band:
Thus idol-worship ceased throughout tbe land."
Enemies arose and opposers resisted the onward march of the new
order of events, but they have passed away. A righteous judgment
appears, in many instances, to have overtaken the enemies of the Gospel in this land, not unlike the fearful destruction which at a subsequent date, awaited Boki and his band, to the number of near five hun-
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dred, who embarked at Honolulu, in December, 1829, for an expedition
South Seas. Only twenty of the number ever returned. The
leader had placed himself in opposition to the advancement of the cause
of truth. His career an 3that of his followers was marked by " prodigality, inteniperence and opposition," imperiling the very Government
us well as the Church. "At length,*Temarks Dibble, the historian,
of nations, who had so signally interposed in other emer" the Goddisplayed
again his timely aid." In more than one crisis have
gencies,
truth in this nation had occasion to
the Missionaries and
adopt the language of Ezra " The hand of the Lord was upon us,
and he delivered us out of the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay
in wait by the way." As I once took occasion to remark, on a national
fast-day, more than twenty years ago, so I will now repeat the remark
The more I become acquainted with the history of the affairs of these
"islands,
the sentiment becomes more strongly impressed upon my mind
that the Sandwich islands is no field for wicked men and the opposers of
truth and righteousness to think of practising their schemes before high
heaven, unless they are willing to incur the awful risk of being pursued,
even in this life, with the retributive justice of God."
There have been many bright as well as dark providences in the history of this people during the last half century. The friends of foreign
Missions in the United Stales have been permitted to learn the good results of their investment of a million of dollars to redeem Hawaiians
from heathenism. Missionary labor has produced a goodly harvest.
How striking the contrast between this and some other fields of Missionary efforts. The great and successful African Missionary and
Explorer, Dr. Livingstone, recently has put forth the statement that
forty foreign Missionaries going to Africa, died of disease and the climate before a single convert to Christianity came forward to cheer the
hearts of God's Missionary
Not thus has the great Head of
the Church compelled the American Missionary to toil on in faith.
Those who have sown the seed have been permitted lo gather in ihe
harvest. The sower and the reaper are combined in one. I rejoice in
being permitted to see present on this occasion a representation of the
first Missionary band landing on Hawaiian shores, in IS2O. Long
may our venerable associates be spared to make their annual appearance at our Missionary and festive gatherings. Their presence is ever
welcome and cheering. They form golden links in that historic chain
connecting the present with the past.*
Whatever may await Hawaiians in the future, the past is secure. A
record has been made. Were Missionaries on these islands now to
erect a monument commemorative of the past, no more appropriate inscription could be found to chisel upon that monument than the one
furnished by the prophet Samuel three thousand years ago • "Hitherto
hath the Lord helped us."
In estimating the good which has been accomplished at these islands,
no candid and impartial observer can overlook or undervalue the strong
conservative influence of American Missionaries in upholding and perpetuating the independent sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Individually and collectively, their influence has been upon the side of
good order and the Kamehameha Dynasty. Glance your eye ny- a
map of Polynesia, and where, I would ask, has the kingly authority
been more happily sustained ? Whem troubles have arisen, and ships
of war threatened, the American Missionary's influence and pen have
been ever found in defence of the native Government. Look at Tahiti;
look at New Caledonia ; look at New Zealand. 1 do not undervalue
the skilful labors of the diplomatist, or the incessant toils of the civil
magistrate, or the invaluable efforts of our Judges ; neither will 1 knowingly undervalue or slightly pass over the prayers and toils of those
who have spent their lives to perpetuate the Hawaiian race and Kingdom. Republican as the Missionaries may have been in their origin
and sympathies, yet they have proved the very staunchest supporters of
a monarchical form of government in these islands. Yet the Bishop of
Oxford describes these men as " rather more severe, sour and vinegarlike" than even their fathers, " the stern old Puritans of New England.
to the
:
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Mioronesian Mission.
In order to complete the sketch of Missionary*opemtions in Polynesia,
1 will briefly call your attention to the efforts which have been made to
evangelize the islands of Micronesia. A Mission thither was undertaken in 1552, and has been prosecuted to the present time. Many
hindrances and obstacles have retarded the work. The islands are
remote from each other. The inhabitants speak different languages or
dialects. The influence of foreigners has been most'pernicious.
Sweeping epidemics have more than decimated the people. It has
* Reference la made to the Hey. Asa Thnrstnn and wife, and Mrs. Whitney.
been difficult to hold regular communication with the Missionaries and
forward supplies. Notwithstanding all these hindrances, and more
which might be enumerated, American and Hawaiian laborers diligently prosecuted the work. They have reduced four languages to
written forms, established schools, organized Churches, and performed a
vast amount of Missionary work. Having been permitted to visit those
islands and witness what a few laborers have performed, I can bear
my humble testimony to the good which has been accomplished. The
Puritan Missionary has been a great worker. He has gone down
among the people, and labored to bring them up to a higher standard of
civilization, and introduce among them the principles of the Gospel.
But few Missions in any part of ihe world can boast of more cheering
results. The mariner in those seas owes an everlasting debt of gratitude to those Missionaries. It was the presence of the Missionary, beyond all doubt, that put an end to that series of bloody massacres which
have been perpetrated at the Marshall Islands, thus affording a good
foundation for a remark of the Rev. Dr. Kirk, in his sermon at the
last meeting of the American Board: "The Missionaries have become the guardian angels of seamen in the Pacific. Formerly the natives were pirates and murderers. It was dangerous to sail among
them. Now that is all changed wherever a Missionary has been laboring." The inhabitants of some of those islands were living the most
debased lives, rendered doubly so by the vicious example of depraved
foreigners, from Sydney and elsewhere, yet from among those very inhabitants God is gathering a people to himself. The wonderfuljvorkon the
Marshall Islands, Kusaie and Ascension, I regard as particularly noteworthy. Light is breaking on the Gilbert Islands. All honor to ihe
few noble men and women, American and Hawaiian, who have commenced and carried forward this good work. They have not entered
of all praise,
into any other man's field of labor. They are
and are entitled to a most generous sympathy and support.
Kemarkß on the Character and Ecclesiastical Polity of the Puritan
Missionaries, as Developed in ths Pacific. >
Having presented a sketch of Puritan Missionary operations in the
South and North Pacific, by English and American Missionaries, it appeal's that I have merely performed what Montgomery executed in a
much briefer style
:
"The immense Pacific smiles
Round tea thousand little isles,
Haunts of violence and wiles.''
'•Hut the powers of darkness yield,
For the Cross i* in ilm field.
And the life of light revealed."
In passing to my concluding remarks, I would observe that the following appear to be the prominent features of these Missions : Preach-
ing, Bible-translation, establishment of Schools, organizutixm of Cluirch.es,
and general welfare of the people, including their civil, sociul and physical condition.
The plain preaching of the Gospel and scriptural exposition of Bible
truths claim the first place in the programme of the Puritan Missionary.
In order that this work may.be successfully accomplished, he resolutely
sits down to the study of the language and the translation of the Bible,
or parts of it, into the vernacular of the peop.'e among whom he has undertaken to labor. As soon as he feels confident that he has sufficiently
mastered the language to communicate with the people, he commences
preaching; not timidly, but boldly ; not faint-heartedly, but fearlessly,
as did Paul on Mars' Hill, when announcing the great truths of the
resurrection of the body, the unity of the human race, and salvation
through Christ; or as did Martin Luther, of whom it has been eloquently remarked by Edward Everett that he " moved to his great
work, not
'
To the Dorian mood
Of flutes and soft recorders,'
But grasped the iron trumpet of his mother tongue and blew a blast
that shook the nations from Rome to the Orkneys. Sovereign, citizen
and peasant started at the sound." Thus went forth the Puritan Missionary, preaching among Polynesians. Having acquired a familiar
and idiomatic acquaintance with the vernacular language of the people
—their mother tongue—he dispensed with interpreters, nnd blew the
Gospel trumpet, which gave forth so clear and certain a sound that
Kings, Chiefs and common people were aroused from their idolatrous
slumber of centuries, and directed to the Lamb of God, who taketh
away the sin of the world.
As soon as a few were discovered who professed to have accepted of
the offer of salvation, and become converts from heathenism to Christianity, a Church was organized, baptism and the Lord's Supper ad-
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ministered. Thus the work of Christian evangelization went rapidly false aspersions and unfounded misrepresentations before an enlightened
they have been called to encounter oppoforward when it had been once commenced. There were hindrances Christian public. Sometimes whom
no exposure could shame or argu>
and obstacles, but the work advanced. Throughout all parts of Poly- sition from a class of persons
class),
reach.
refer
to
a
of
foreigners whose habits rendered
I
Puritan
have
established
ment
referred,
which
have
Missionaries
I
nesia to
heathen frorr
Christian Churches. They have not aimed to build up a great hier- them even more debased than the heathen. ofA civilized
truth,
his influecclesiastical
Christian
lands
is
the
most
the
and
deadly
sysopponent
and
burdensome
and
a
cumbersome
introduce
archy
the
an
the
South
Missionary
in
pernicious.
themselves
to
ence
most
When
English
the
of
the
Apostles,
adapted
example
tem, but, following
Seas met a person of this class, he inquired his name, and received foi
the peculiar circumstances of their situation. Taking even the nine- answer,
"My name is Satan." By no other name would the man evei
teenth Article of the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England as
Church,
Alas, the name was fitly chosen. He was an adversary
a
maintain
be
known.
I
Christian
the proper definition of what constitutes
that English and American Puritan Missionaries have established hun- and represented a class.
When the Puritan Missionary came to the Pacific, he enlered nc
dreds of'genuine Churches. "The visible Church of Christ is a conman's field of'lubor, any more than did his ancestors, the Pilgrim!
gregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, other
and the Sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordi- when they landed on Plymouth Rock or the Puritans in Massachusetts
Bay, but boldly faced the powers of darkness whose sway was supreme
nance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same."
Even before Churches had been organized, the Missionaries had es- throughout this part of the world. He grappled with heathenism ir
la- her stronghold. He bearded the lion in his den. The contest was
tablished Schools, set the printing-press in motion, and otherwise The
fierce, but the issue not doubtful. Bible truth was the Missionary's
welfare
of
the
people.
spiritual
and
bored to promote the temporal
weapon. He dealt many and fierce blows with " the sword ol
Puritan Missionary goes forth, accompanied by his educated and faith- principal
the
which is the Word of God." Perhaps Missionaries of a
spirit,
before
the
a
community
endeavors
exhibit
heathen
and
to
ful helpmeet,
of
the
stern
faith would have quailed before the enemy and suca
estimate
less
proper
well-ordered Christian family. In forming
of opposing influences. Ere long, however, the
good accomplished by the Missionaries in the Pacific, no language cumbed to the array
idols
the contest. The idols—those hideous
of
of
yielded
appreciation
worshippers
would
embody
fully
my
can
command
which I
that important part which woman—educated and refined—has per- mages—"grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile" and surrendered; a shipformed. Reports from the South Seas tell of noble Christian women, load was sent off" to England, and they are now on exhibition in the
who have toiled at Tahiti, Samoa, and elsewhere, but 1 do not depend British Museum.
upon flying repo-ts when I speak of Christian woman's work on the' It has been happily remarked that if Lord Bacon were again to visil
and witness the wonderful results achieved by the steamHawaiian Islands and in Micronesia. Let no one presume to assert our world,
and
female,
and
could
have
acmagnetic telegraph, he would lay his hand upon both these
engine
Missionaries,
male
possibly
that unmarried
complished for good what may now be witnessed. She that was " last machines, saying, " These are mine, for they are the resultsof of inj
Polyat the Cross and first at the Sepulchre" has made the voyage of eighteen principles of philosophy." Would not the Mission Churches
thousand miles around the Cape, and here, if she has not established nesia be as justly claimed by those old Puritans of the 17th century
Churches, she has established many Christian Homes. This work I who sent an Elliot, the Mnyhews and others among the North Americall of the Protector Cromwell
regard as only second in importance to the establishment of Churches. can Indians, or collected, at the Waldenses,
the interest on a pan
Thus Christian principles have been exemplified before the heathen. £38,241 10s. 6d. for the persecuted the
British Government to that inIt is no mockery to sing " Home, Sweet Home," in the Pacific. We of which'is now honorably paid by
have our homes, centres of refinement, culture, happiness, intelligence, teresting people ? Igo one step farther. Suppose the great Missionwhich are presided over by woman, officiating in all those offices recog- ary Apostles, Peter and Paul, were again to visit our world, and, dur
ing their voyaces and travels, should sail in the John Williams, the
nized as her sphere ol duty.
some
who
have
John Wesley and the John Knox, among the Christianized Polynesian)
know,
am
to
been
openly
sorry
There have always, I
and persistently endeavored to misrepresent or ignore the good which of the South Seas, or in the Morning Star among the Hawaiian anc
has been accomplished by Protestant Missionaries in the Pacific. Micronesian Islands, would not those Apostles recognize Churches es
Recently the most extravagant charges have been put forth and reiter- tabhshed by Puritan Missionaries as genuine Christian Churches, ir
ated. It has been published in England that the Puritans at these which the ordinances were duly administered ? Furthermore, would
Islands had "done more harm than good." " The people were wholly not these Apostles recognize the Pastors, Elders or Bishops of these
neglected when sick,"* and " This nation is as really heathen as it Churches as their successors ? I trow they would.* " Divest the
ever was, only with a thin film of Christianity over it;"t while the Apostles," as was most forcibly stated at the Conference of Missions a
Bishop of Oxford is reported in the London Times to have employed the Liverpool, in 1860, "of miraculous power and the gift of inspiration
following language at a public meeting at Salisbury. " The people of the and you have the modern Missionary, a true successor of the Apostles. 1
Hawaiian Islands are wearied out by the mismanagement and maltreat- Among modem Missionaries, results have fully demonstrated that the
ment of American Puritanism." Before any one allows himself to Missionary of the true Puritan stamp has as fair a claim lo be accountee
employ such language in the pulpit or from the press, he should make a successor of Peter and Paul as any who have left Christian Europe
a careful investigation and thorough examination. The Puritan Mis- or America. He goes forth free and untrammelled. He takes witl
sionary is prepared to meet such charges and prove their falsity. When him no Procrustean ecclesiastical organization, but. with the Bible ii
fresh laborers enter upon an enterprise thai is supposed to be unfinished, hand, he proclaims " the unsearchable riches of Christ," and otganize;
they are accustomed to undervalue what has already been performed. Churches. Puritan Missionaries have spread themselves through
To "such persons the language of a King of Israel may be appropriately out nearly all the Islands of Polynesia. Not more firmly did the Puri
addressed: " Let not him that girdeth on the harness boast as he, tan of the 17th century plant his foot upon the rock-bound shores ane
granite hills of New England than has the Puritan Miisionary of thi
that putfeth it off."
There is a marked contrast between Hawaiians in 1820 and 1866. 19th century planted his foot upon the reef-encircled islands of the Pa
It is a very different matter to land among a naked, ignorant and un- cific. Here, among the aborigines, he has made his home. The dcs
civilized nation of savages, or to come among them clothed, instructed tiny of these two branches of the human family have become closel;
and civilized, supplied with schools, books, newspapers, churches and identified. The graves of the Puritan and Polynesian will be side bi
many other of the accompaniments of a civilized and Christian people. side. It is not possible to conceive of any social, political or religiou
Macauley remarks that, in the 17th century, those had little reason to revolution which can separate them. You might as well attempt tt
lauo-h who met the Puritan in the hall of debate or field of battle, and uproot the one as the other. .The seed has taken root in the soil, ane
may I not with equal justice ndd, neither have those who meet the can no more easily be uprooted than the stately cocoanut tree, whost
tall and slender trunk sways so gracefully in the windy blast. The in
Puritan Missionary on the Mission-field of Polynesia.
I do not appear as an apologist for the errors or shortcomings of the fluence of the Puritan is not only now felt, but it must continue to.bi
Missionaries, but I will bear my testimony to the truth, and carefully
guard the interests of evangelical Missions here and elsewhere. Although not one of them, lam emphatically one with tfiem. I would
have those know, who set themselves in opposition to a cause so signally blessed of Heaven, that they will be held responsible for their
*
The Mission Field, Vol,
IX, p.
13 : London.
1 Occasional Tracts : London ; Xo. 2.
■ • The author of this discourse is gratified to learn that his views, as expreasee
in the foregoing paragraphs, are fully sustained by the conductors or editors o
the London Record, the organ of the evangelical party of the Church of England
From a notice of Mr. Ellis's pamphlet, published in that paper, on the 26th o
April, 1806, we copy ns follows "It has been shown by us that the Church o
England has ever recognized the various Reformed Churches as being tni*
Churches of Christ, and worthy compeers with herself in the great work of evan
gelizing the world."
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felt for ages to come, or so long ss there shall be dwellers upon these
fair islands. Not only is the Puritan brought into contact with the
aborigines, but he is called to breast a wave of immigration from China.
Asiatic laborers will overspread these Islands and other parts of Polynesia. The Puritan and Asiatic will be brought together. Here they
meet. But I cannot dwell on this interesting and important subject.
Not only has the Puritan Missionary become a power in this part of
the world, but his influence is felt in Turkey, Africa, India, China, and
other portions ol the globe.
The elements contributing to form the character of the Puritan Missionary are aggressive and expansive in their nature. They are essentially the principles of the Mew Testament. Their birth, as one has
remarked, was in Bethlehem of Judea, and their development is religion laboring for the people. Necessity rests upon the Puritan to take
a part on the world's theatre ofaction. He adopts the sentiment of the
old Latin Poet, Terence :
'I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity concerns myself;" and also that of the old Latin Father, Augustine: " In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things
charity." He may not believe in manifest destiny, but he does believe
in manifest duty, declaring, with the modern Missionary Cary, " Duty
is ours, consequences belong to God." In the performance of that duty
he is thoroughly in enrnest. According to ancient fable, it was possible
for King Mollis to confine the winds in a cave of the mountain, but the
principles of the Puritan cannot be so readily confined to a narrow
space. With him, as with his Divine Master, " the field is the world."
New England cannot be shut out in the cold, or Plymouth Rock blown
up. New England principles are rapidly permeating all portions of the
North American continent, and controlling the destiny of the Western
world. The recent struggle in America has made this fact more and
more manifest.
'
"There is a power at the secluded hearth
Of yon New England household, that may bo
l'elt by the dwellers at the ends of earth,
Known to tbe islands of tbe distant sea."
There is an "irrepressible conflict" among the nations, and the New
England Puritan will be found on the side of civil and religious liberty,
free speech, free schools, a free press, a free Gospel and foreign Missions among the heathen and unevangelized nations of the earth.
"Coming events cost their shadows before.''
scribe the organization of Mission-Puritan Churches in Polynesia.
All those great ecclesiastical establishments and " Church and
State" arrangements centering at Antioch, Constantinople, Rome and
elsewhere were an after-growth—aye, and may 1 not add, a fungusgrowth—when Christianity became corrupt. The Mission-Churches
of Polynesia, I maintain, have been modelled after a New Testament
and Apostolic pattern, and the English and American Puritan Missionaries, 1 furthermore maintain, have most fully carried out the spirit of
the last command of an ascending Saviour, " Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
They have sown the Gospel seed and much good has been produced.
Some of the fruit may havefallen unripe and immature; still,after making
a full allowance for all the defections in the Mission Churches, and permitting the bitterest enemies of the Missionary enterprise to set off a
broad margin, there remains much scattered over the numerous islands
of Polynesia which we should still cherish, of which we may be justly
proud, and from which we should be extremely unwilling to take a
farewell. Who would say, " Level the Church-edifices which the people have built for the worship of Jehovah, and raze their foundations;"
or who would silence the chime of many hundreds of church-going
bells, the sound of which breaks the Sabbath-morning stillness on so
many islands, inhabited by Tahitians, Samoans, Marquesans, Tongans,
Fecjecans, Hawaiians and Micronesians ; or who would forbid those
thousands of simple-hearted Christians singing the Songs of Zion in
concert with their fellow-Christians of other climes and other lands ;
or disband these Churches, and turn over their members once more to
idolatry; or scatter the week-day and Sunday Schools, or burn the
school-books, hymn-books nnd Bibles ? Or who would rebuild the old
morals or heiaus, rekindle fires upon their altars, call forth the human
victims for sacrifice, make the hills and valleys ring with the shouts of
midnight revellers around the burning pile ? Or who would summon
from Heaven those who have died in the faith of Jesus, and are now
striking their golden harps and raising their voices to the song of" Him
that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood?" Or
who can for one moment doubt that the Revelator, John, saw in vision
a goodly company of redeemed Polynesians among that great multi"
tude which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, [who] steiod before the Throne and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes and palms in their hands, and cried with a
loud voice, saying, Salvation to our Gotl, which sitteth upon the Throne
and unto the Lamb" ?
Men of narrow minds and bigoted opinions may ignore this class of
agents. Writers, of prejudiced views and a limited range of ideas,
may misrepresent their principles and conduct, but the future historian,
following the example of Macauley, will assign them in history a position even more exalted than that distinguished writer gave the Puritans
of the 17th century, respecting whom he wrote that they were, perhaps, Missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas.
"the most remarkable body of men which the world has ever produced
[From the Annual Report of 1861.]
—a brave, a wise, an honest and a useful body." Listen to the language of the Earl of Shaftesbury, before a London audience, respecting
Soe-iM; Islands.
American Puritan Missionaries at Constantinople : " He did not beTahiti —Rev. George Morris, Papeete. Huahine—Rev. Charles Barfl".
lieve that in the whole history of Missions—he did not believe that in
Tahaa—Rev. J. L. Green.
the history of diplomacy, or in the history of any negotiations earned
Raiatea—Rev. George Piatt.
Rev. J. C. Vivian.
on between man and man, they would find anything to equal the wisHervey Islands.
dom, the soundness, and the pure evangelical truth of that body of men
who constituted the American Puritan Mission. There they stood, Rarotonoa—Rev. E. R. W. Kjmuse. Mangaia—Rev. W. Wyatt Gill.
tested by years, tried by theirworks, and exemplified by their fruits; Aitctaki—No report.
tnd he believed it would be found that those American Missionaries had
Samon n Islands.
done more towards upholding the truth and spreading the Gospel in the Savaii—Rev. George Pratt, P. G. Bird, JosephKing.
East than any body of men in this or any other age." I might quote
TJroLU—Rev. A. W. Murray, Rev. Geo. Prummond, Rev. (Joo. Turner,
similar testimony from British officials in high stations in India, reLL. 1)., Roy. Henry Nisbct, Superintendents of Mission Seminary at Malua ;
specting the character and labors of American Missionaries in Ceylon Rev.
Henry Gee, Rev. J. M. Mills.
and other parts of India.
Thomas Powell, Rev. S. J. Whitmee.
Totuh.a—Rev.
Puritan Missionaries, scattered throughout Polynesia, have displayed
Loyalty Islands.
similar wisdom and foresight, common sense and sound piety. These
characteristics are remarkably conspicuous, as 1 maintain, in the orNkngone (or Mare)—Rev Stephen M. C'reagh, Rev. John Jones.
ganization and management of their Churches. If we take the Book
Rev. James Sleigh.
of Acts and the Epistles of Paul, Peter, James and John, or the New Liru—Rev. Samuel Macfarlano,
Niue—Rev.
G.
Levwes.
W.
Testament as a whole, for our guide, I do maintain that the Churches
organized by Puritan Missionaries in Polynesia will favorably compare
N. B. We regret that no recent reports of the Wesleyan Missionwith the primitive Churches gathered by the Apostles in various parts
of the Roman Empire, during the first century of the Christian era. ary Society and the Church Missionary Society have been received, so
In many respects there is a most striking resemblance between the that we could publish a full list of English Missionaries now laboring
Churches organized by the Apostles and those which now exist in va- at the Tonga and Feejee Islands and nt New Zealand. We also rerious parts of Polynesia. The more closely the examination is made gret that, from no publications or reports at our command, can we
and comparison drawn, the more manifest the parallel will appear. present a satisfactory sketch of the important labors of the Presbytp.
The very language employed by Mosheim and other ecclesiastical his- rian Missionaries from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, now located
torians, respecting the Churches of the first century, would aptly dc- in Melanisia.
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THE RIEND
HONOLULU, AUGUST 1, 1866.
$* Stats, MA7, }h. 8.1
CONTENTS
Far Angu.l,
1860.
America. College at Pekin
'SlahBrown, Jto
Narrow Kacape of the Blue Jacket1
General Sanaa' View of tbe Treatment of Negroei
Key. I. 8. Riling
Story of the ■ Mqrniug Star"
Chinamen belt managed by Kindness
LateNewi
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Kapiolanl
An
Knftliihniuii'a
Opinion of New Hrglantl
IMilor'l Table
The Murder of Mr. liudoit
Marine Journal,Ac
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PIGI.
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THE FRIEND.
AUGUST I. 1860,
American College at Pekin.
Having met with newspaper allusions to
a College at Pekin, during the visit of Mr.
Burlingame we applied to him for information on the subject. The following is the
substance of what we learned: It appears
that, several years ago, American merchants,
missionaries and others, residing at Canton,
received injuries in their property to the
amount of several hundred thousand dollars.
A demand was made upon the Chinese
Government, through Mr. Burlingame. An
arrangement was effected, and the Chinese
paid $750,000. Those who had claims now
brought them forward and were settled with,
but after all were paid there remained a balance of over $200,000. Mr. Burlingame
offered to return this amount to the Chinese,
but they declined receiving it. The question then arose, whit shall be done with
this money, which, in the meantime, has
been well invested. It has been proposed to
endow an American College at Pekin, and
invest this money in a Board of Trustees,
consisting of the Minister Plenipotentiary at
Pekin, and a certain number of American
Consuls in China, together with a number
of American Missionaries, who shall be
elected from time to time to that office, in
all, say ten Trustees. It is furthermore
proposed to admit young men from the
United States, who shall receive an annual
stipend to defray their expenses while at-
65
{(SMJStrits, M 23.
"Mark Twain," at the Confessional!
tending this College. While enjoying its
them
This noted correspondent of the Sacraadvantages, it is proposed to educate
Union, has left for the coast, but we
and
mento
so that they may become interpreters
at
Embassy
,and may expect he will continue to write about
translators
the American
the various Consulates in China.
the islands and people. On his departure,
It is also proposed to admit deserving he sent us the following epistle :
Honoluw July 19, 1866.
young Chinese, who may there learn the
Mr,
Rev.
Damon
:—Dear Sir—l return
and
become
acquainted
English language
book I borrowed, with many
herewith
the
last
with the knowledge of " outside barbarians." thanks for its use and for all your kindness.
There is no doubt such an institution, if I take your Jarvc-s' History with me, beonce established, would be of incalculable cause I may not be able to get it at home.
good to both Americans and Chinese. We I " cabbage " it by the strong arm, for lear
refuse to part with it if I asked
furthermore learned that the necessary steps you might
you. This is a case of military necessity,
for the attainment of the end proposed were and is therefore admissable. The honesty
now being taken by the President and the of the transaction may be doubtful, but the
leading men at Washington. As the inter- policy of it is sound—sound as the foundacourse between the Chinese and Americans tion upon which the imperial greatness of
increases, it is seen that something of this America rests.
So just hold on a bit. I will send the
kind is necessary. Hitherto, the Govern- book back within a month, or soon after I
ment has been compelled to depend upon arrive.
missionaries for translations. The present
C7* We sincerely wish that nil who borrow
Secretary of Legation at Pekih, S. W. Wil- books were equally conscientious. May this
liams, Esq., was for many yean connected remind others who have books in their posseswith the American Board's missionary op- sion belonging to our Sanctum, to return
rations in China. He is now admitted to them instanter.
be one of the most profound adepts in ChiThe arrival of General McCook, the
nese antiquities and language. His " Midnew Minister-Resident at the Hawaiian
dle Kingdom" is a standard work on China.
Court, relieves the Hon. James Mcßride,
He originally went out as printer to the
who has represented the American Governmission, but has risen to eminence through
ment during the last three years. The reindefatigable labors and studies.
tiring Minister has conducted the affairs of
Should this College become established, his
official station in a highly creditable
aud the " New Foreign Policy," referred to
in our last issue, be carried out, it will place manner. He has often evinced a most
American interests in China upon an ex- hearty attachment to the Government which
ceedingly advantageous basis. Well may he represented, and shown that he was a
the country be proud of the diplomatic skill
man of true Union sentiments, uncontamiand achievements of Mr. fiurlingame and
nated
with the least " copperish mixture."
others, who have been foremost in bringing
about these important results. We shall He has been often spoken of as a man of
not forget one remark of our distinguished the Lincoln type of character. He is a nacountryman, Mr. Burlingame. He remarked tive of Tennessee, but for many years has
that the collapse of the Southern ConfedHe returns to his
eracy and triumph of the Union cause was been a citizen of Oregon.
home
a
wide
circle of family
gladdened by
a most potent moral argument to effect the
who
policy
give
in friends,
will
him a cordial welaccomplishment of the American
China. Americans in China were not the come, while his friends and countrymen reonly Americans abroad who felt the moral siding on the islands will give him a most
influence of the triumph of the Union cause. cordial '• aloha" at his departure.
.
�THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1866.
66
with interest the pursuing and pursued,
was to intercept her, for they had quickly
discovered that a direct chase would be useless, as the sloop showed herself to be a very
fast sailer. So the brig stood straight towards the river mouth, hoping to reach it in
advance of the sloop, while the other kept
on to capture her if she should turn back
and attempt to run into Haspwall or Portland.
" We shall be tuk, cap'n," cooly remarked
a tall, ungainly youth of eighteen, who,
with a dipper fastened to a ten-foot handle,
was bailing up water from the sea and
throwing it on the mainsail of the sloop, to
swell the threads of the canvas and make it
better hold the wind. As he spoke, he
paused in his work, and leaned upon his
long dipper-handle, and shutting one eye, he
took a deliberate survey of the cruisers.
" iSot so long as two timbers of the Sally
hold together, 'Siali," responded the captain,
who grasped the helm, and with one eye
ahead and the other watching the enemy,
directed the course of his little vessel towards the shelter he sought. "If we'd only
had another twenty minutes afore sun-up,
we'd a got in. But the day aint agoin' to
stop for any man, and I dout expect it to.
All we'must do is to keep the Sally out of
'.he hands of the Britishers, now they've got
their eyes on us. Wet the sails, 'Siah,
keep wettin' 'em."
" I guess they kind o' guess what we've
got on board, captain," said 'Siah, as he
cast a shower of spray over the mainsail.
seem to take allfired trouble to catch
"us.They
See how the Sally jumps. The way she
tosses the water with her bows, I won't have
to wet her jib ; she does that herself."
" If we don't get into the river, and them
chaps overhaul us, what is to be done ?"
asked Mr. Bissell.
" It won't do to let them capture them
six big guns, and two barrels of powder, and
ton of shot, that we've got for the fort, that's
a fact, 'Siah," said, very decidedly, Captain,
or rather Deacon, Butters, who owned or
commanded the Sally, which had been engaged a few days before, by the Government
agent in Boston, to convey armaments and
ammunition to the fort. This enterprise the
deacon—for he was a lawful deacon in his
own town,, which was forty miles up the
river—had cheerfully undertaken, assuring
the agent that he could get the Sally into the
river safely, in spite of the cruisers. Shrewd,
bold and cool, the deacon saw that by running only in the night and hugging the
shore, he could probably get into the river
undiscovered, especially as the cruisers used
to stand off from the shore at night, a mile
or two for an offing, and run in again at
sunrise. The agent felt that a small coasting-vessel, with so watchful a captain as
Deacon Butters, would be quite as likely to
get into the river as a large one, if not
more so, and gave him the commission.
For the sum of three hundred dollars the
deacon had bargained to take the munitions
to the fort, and had also bound himself if
there was any danger of being captured to
scuttle the sloop and sink her.
The cannon were battery thirty-twos, six
in number, and were laid athwart-ship, side
by side upon the deck. The shot were
piled forward, and in the forecastle was
ing
'SIAB
H ROWN;
OR,
TheandEnYaSlgnlkiosehopCruiser.
BY
WM.
ADRIAN
HUNTLEY.
Kennebec River, in Maine, is without a
rival in New England, either for its historic
associations or the beauty of its natural
scenery. It rises among the passes of the
highlands that form the northeast boundary
line between the United States and Canada,
and, after flowing through a romantic region
for many miles, enters a valley of surpassing beauty, through which it meanders between level intervals of the richest verdure.
There is a fort near the mouth of the
river, called Fort Hunnewell. It is now a
ruin, and is a celebrated resort of the people
in summer. It was erected during the last
war to defend the entrance to the river. It
is situated upon a low beach, which is commanded on the north by a bold headland, a
hundred feet high, on which frowns the
ruins of a battery.
At the time of our story, which was near
the close of the war, two British armed vessels had been cruising off the mouth of the
river some days, occasionally running close
in with the fort, so as to draw their fire.
They were effectually blockading the entrance to the river, and for some time no
vessel had gone out or come in. Everything
was brought to, even to the small fishingboat, and the strictest vigilance was maintained from the first day of their arrival.
One morning in June, just as the sun was
rising from the sea, throwing its fiery spears
faT across the sparkling waves, lighting up
every object upon which it lit, the English
cruisers were standing in towards the mouth
of the river, under topgallant-sails, with the
wind free on the larboard quarter. They
were half a mile apart, their course converging to a point. This point was a sloop, hugging the land and endeavoring to make the
entrance to the river. Her broad mainsail
was flung to the wind like a great white
wing, and she was sweeping across the water like a gull flying before a storm. She
had been discovered by the cruisers only a
lew minutes before, when they tacked together and pressed after her to intercept her,
making sail as they went. Fifteen minutes
more of the obscurity of the morning, and
the adventurous sloop would have got into
ttte river and under the guns of the fort unseen, or seen too late to be cut off.
It was a beautiful sight to behold the three
vessels in motion, one small, unarmed, with
but three sails to help her along in her flight,
bounding along close under the shore; the
others tall, frowning with batteries and covered with canvas from deck to truck. The
sloop was a mile in-shore of the cruisers,
and about three miles westward from the
mouth of the river, being, when discovered
just stealing round Caps Smallpoint.
The cruisers stood on for about ten minutes after tacking, in the same converging
lines, when the corvette signalized the brig,
Which immediately luffed and bore up four
points eastward, while the former kept her
first course. The object had in view by this
manoeuvre of the brig, it was plainly evident
to the fisherman, who, from the rocks upon
which their huts were perched, were watch-
.
stored the powder in casks and securely protected under canvas ; tarpaulins also covered
the guns.
"If we can only stand on ten minutes
more, 'Siah," said the deacon to his mate,
don't fear them two cruisers a bit. One
"ofI them,
you see., has luffed to try to cut us
off. If 'twant for this plaguy heavy iron
we've got in her, I'd show the enemy how
to make a keel cut blue water through.
But we must get in Lot," he added, turning
to a ragged old man, who looked like a
weather-beaten fisherman, who comprised all
his crew, and who was now engaged in tending the main sheet, the slack of which he
held in his iron fist.
It's get in safely, deacon," answered Lot
Bissell, gruffly, " and get three hundred dollars, or sink the sloop, and no insurance !"
" That's a fact, Mr. Bissell," responded
the Yankee skipper with emphasis ; and he
glanced under the main boom to see how
the fort and shore lay, and then hove his
eyes to the windward and took a deliberate
inspection of the enemy.
«' Take a small pull on the main sheet,
Mr. Bissell. 'Siah, haul aft the jib sheet a
bit. The Britisher is smoking his pipe,"
added the skipper, quietly, as he saw n jet of
smoke belch forth from the bow of the corvette. He had hardly got the words out of
his mouth when the boom of a gun reached
his ears, and simultaneously a shot passed
whizzing over their heads.
"I don't stand that 'are," said 'Siah, in a
determined tone, which singularly contrasted
with his awkward exterior. "Give me
leave, deacon, and I'll give 'em a shot
back."
" Ease off the main sheet. Lot. Be ready
to dodge, for I guess there'll be another of
them chunks of iron this way. They hain't
no pilot or they wouldn't keep so near Porpoise Rock Ledge."
Cool and steady the skipper stood at his
post and directed the course of his little
craft. All at once he gave a loud hurrah.
The corvette had struck upon a rock barely
below water, known as Porpoise Ledge, and
everything was taken aback, while her main
royalmast went over the side.
" That's for not taking a pilot on a strange
coast," said the skipper, drily, while his
keen littleeyes fairly glittered with pleasure,
but he made no further demonstrations of
joy ; but after taking a second glance at the
vessel, and seeing that matters on board of
her were in too much confusion for them to
trouble themselves further about him, he
now gave his whole attention to the brig,
which was about a mite from him, and about
an equal distance from the river.
Upon seeing the accident that had happened to her consort, she bore down a little
and hoisted a signal. It was responded to
on board the corvette, when the brig resumeo
her course.
" The corvette, I suppose, says she don't
want any aid. so the brig is left at liberty to
look after us," said the skipper. " It looks,
too, as if she would be likely to get to the
entrance as soon as the Sally, and then I
guess it's all up with us. But I don't give
up so long as a timber hangs to her, or 1 can
have a limb to hang on to the tiller by. But
what in natur' are you doing there, Josiah f
Well might he ask this question. The
"
�ambitious young man had brought from the
forecastle a keg of powder, and knocked the
head in with a handspike, and was now tying about half a peck of it up in a handkerchief which he had taken from his neck.
" Doin' ! I'm goin' to give 'em a gun. If
these here guns have got to go to Davy's
first, I
locker, I'll have one fire out of
guess," replied Josiah.
As 'Siah spoke, he threw down a moveable section of the bulwarks amidships, leav-
ing an open space to the sea before the muzzles of three of the enormous cannon that lay
across the deck. He then took up his huge
cartridge, and thrusting it into the muzzle of
one of them, began to ram it down with a
handspike.
" I guess if they got that shot it'll settle
'em," said 'Siah, as he dropped, feet first,
off the rigging, and tried to see through the
smoke.
As the smoke slowly rolled away, the
brig was discovered, no longer standing
down, but knocking about at the mercy of
wind and waves, her foremast gone by the
board and dragging over her sides, with all
its yards and sails. The shot had cut oft'
the mast within two feet of the deck.
'Siah was perfectly confounded, but manifested no surprise, while the deacon and
Lot set up a loud hurrah of triumph.
" Why, what's the matter ? Why don't
you hallo ?" said the deacon, taking breath.
Coz it ain't nothing more'n 1 meant to
"
is the critter at ?" cried do," replied 'Siah, with inimitable sangfroid ;
surprised, if you be, deacon."
" IInain't
twenty minutes more the slsop Sally,
'Siah made no reply, but, having rammed
the cartridge home, he rolled a thirty-two with her valuable cargo, was sheltered unpound shot towards it, and giving it a lift, der the guns of Fort Hunnewell. The Britshoved it into the muzzle after the powder. ish corvette lay upon the rock till the next
" Now for primin' her, and then if I don't tide, and the brig lay by her, rigging a jurygive 'em a Fourth of July salute they never mast. Before sunset both vessels made sail
and steered eastward, on the way to Haliheard one."
As he spoke, he poured a handful of fax, to repair damages. The blockade was
powder into the vent, and then jumping to raised, greatly to the relief of the commerce
the caboose, he lighted a pine-knot, and ap- of the river.
proached the gun.
Narrow Escape of the " Blue Jacket."
Stop, 'Siah, stop !" shouted the skipper,
"
of our readers will remember the visit
Many
voice
b.'ow
the
; " you'll
at the top of his
Sally to Jericho if you fire that 'are gun of the Blue Jacket to Honolulu, last Decemaboard on her!"
ber, for a cargo of oil. She was then leakI don't calculate I'll be tuk pris'ner by ing, but the captain deemed her sea-worthy.
" Britishers,
deacon, and be put in Dartthe
News by the late mail reports that she made
more. 1 don't mean to fire jest yet, but take
a chance for good aim, and then give them an uncommonly good passage of 99 days
from Honolulu to New Bedford, but entered
saltpeter!"
bone out of the Sally," leaking badly. Notwithstanding a windmill
every
It'll
shake
"
said the deacon, in alarm.
had been rigged to assist in pumping, the
As he spoke, the brig fired a shot across
crew
were much exhausted by excessive
her bows.
to, Lot," said the labor. We congratulate Capt. Dillingham,
means
heave
That
"
knot."
his wife and the crew on their providential
skipper. " 'Siah, put out
"I mean to by'm'by, deacon. Wait till I escape. We copy the following from the
get a shot at 'em. I ain't afeard of hurtin' Boston Journal
'•
the Sally a bit. You just yaw her round a
Ax Evkxtfx'l Cakekr.—The adventures of Capt.
little bit, and bring the muzzle of my artil- James
S. Dillingham, of Chelsea, witbin afewyeai*,
lery piece right agin the brig, and if I don't afford sufficient nmlerial for a novel. In 1860,
don't
while first mate of the Nabob, of this city, he was
show them how a Yankee can speak, I
want to see t'other side of old Kennebec instrumental in bringing (hut vessel into port, over
" What on r.irth
the deacon.
67
THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1866.
Gen. Banks' View of the Treatment of
Negroes.
General Banks, in Congress, recently,
told the following story :
When I was younger than 1 am, in the
State of New Hampshire, in the town of
Nashua, where I obtained my education at
a university with a belfry at the top and a
wuter-wheel under the lower stories, [laughter,] looking out with my associates and
fellow-students upon the smooth and glassy
surface of the Merrimack River, that stream
of perpetual beauty and perpetual life, we
saw a colored boy, intimately known to us,
upon the surface, engaged in the pleasant
exercise of skating, for it was winter. While
we looked upon the beautiful Merrimack,
the little negro boy suddenly went in. You
may never have seen a negro under such
circumstances.
We went down to him with all the speed
possible. Going out to the middle of the
river, we took up a plank and handed it to
the negro, and he grasped it with as much
alacrity as any one of them will take a ballot
when we give it to him. Just as we had
got it on the hole into which he had fallen,
he fell oft' the plank and went in again*
The second time he came up he wore an
expression I shall never forget. You may
never have seen a negro under such circumstances.
He was speechless ; his emotions suppressed all rhetoric ; he did not indulge in
any eloquence at all. He grasped the plank
this time, not with alacrity, but with ferocity,
and we brought him again to the surface.
We thought he was a negro saved from the
jaws of death; but off the little fellow
slipped and went down. You may never
have seen a negro under such circumstances.
He addressed us a speech, and I never
heard a speech that contained so much of
touching eloquence as was embodied in that
little negro's speech. " Please gib dis nigger dc wooden end of «lat board," You see
the end we had given him was the Jcy end.
It was the same icy end that m* been
held out to him by the Southern people for
two hundred years. He was entirely satisfied that the wooden end was the beW.
Now, sir, what we propose for the negro
ten thousand miles, under jurymast. In 18GL he
entered the navy as Acting Master, and after a in this country, is to give him the wooden
year's service resigned and accepted the ornmand end of the board. He has had the icy end
of the clipper ship Snow Squall, and sailed for the
of it for more than two centuries. The desWest Indies. On his return he was overhauled hy the Confederate hark Tuncaloosa, and while under her guns managed olation of more than moral retribution has
by skillful seamanship to escape, and though fired upon and
chased, he eluded capture
come upon the men who extended to him
He again left New York in the Snow Squall, snd on his pasend of the board. He will receive
sage through the Straits of Lemnir whs blown ashore, and put the icy
Into fort Stanley, where the ship was condemned, but deterfrom
that
act of justice the same joy which
mined to make the best of ids misfortunehe stripped his ship
and sold the material, transferred his cargo to another vessel that little negro experienced.
River agin."
A second gun came from the brig, and the
<
shot passed within ten feet of the deacon's
a
made
rent
a
fathom
his
long in
head, and
mainsail, and the shock caused his peak halyards to part and let the peak of his mainsail down. This caused the Sally to fall off
a point or two, and while the skipper, unflinching and with a quiet look, was trying and the royage terminated much more successfully than could
to bring her to the wind again, 'Siah, taking h»ve been expected. He took passage on the bark Mandarin
for Baltimore, and a few days out fnm Kio Janeiro,the bark
advantage of a moment as she swung, in was
captured and burnt by the Florida, loMng his churls, Ac.
which his loaded gun bore upon the brig, in- Alter a stay of ten days aboard the pirate he was put on board
a Portuguesebrig, and reached Baltimore.
the
vent.
The owners of (he Snow Squall, snd also the underwriters,
stantly applied the torch to
were entirely satisfied with his tact and enterprise. Tbe former
The roar, the flame and the concussion placed
the new ship Blue Jacket in his charge, and in June
were terrible. The little vessel reeled under 1866, he left for Ban Francisco. He then started for Honolulu
wherehe
tn a cargo of oil and bone and started forNew
the recoil of the vast gun, till the waves Bedford. took
When a few days out the ship began to leak and
to leak badly, so badly that 'tie pumps were incespoured in ever the bows and stern. The continued
at work, and the hands were only relieved by a windmill
skipper and Lot were laid flat on the deck, santly
which Captain Dillingham erected. Unwilling to abandon his
ship, he concealtd the actual condition of sffnirs from his crew,
while 'Siah found himself hanging by the and
by his own example and cheerfulness induced his men to
hope for the beat, and on Friday last he brought his ship Into
heels in the lee shrouds.
New
Bedford, 99 days from Honolulu, to the surprise of all
deacon
his
thought
For a few minutes the
who have visited the vessel.
vessel would go down, she wallowed and
A wise man is not governed by the
plunged so; but she soon steadied herself,
though with her decks flooded and her wind- ordinances of men, but is governed by the
rule of virtue.—Antifthenes.
lass unshipped.
•
New Bedford Whalers Striking Oil.—
The New Bedford Standard says : Messrs.
George and Matthew Howland, we understand, have the present week settled with the
officers and crews of the ships Corinthian and
George Howland, the voyages amounting to
the enormous sum of 1600,000—the former
$275,000 and the latter 8225,000. No
merchants engaged in the whale-fishery ever
had the opportunity of settling two such
voyages in a single week, and they amount
to a larger sum than ever before resulted
from two voyages.
Advise not what is most pleasant,
Solon.
but what is best;
—
�THE FKIKMI. AUGUST, 18 66.
68
THE FRIEND.
tsee.
august
Rev. F. S.
i.
Rising.
As before stated in. our columns, this gentleman is a clergyman of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States.
During the last four years he has been
preaching in Virginia City, Nevada. His
health having failed, he came to the islands
to recruit, and we are happy to know that
he returned almost entirely recovered. While
here, he received an appointment under the Church Missionary Society of
the Episcopal Church of the United Stutcs.
This is a voluntary Society formed nmong
the earnest and evangelical portion of that
Church. Hereafter Mr. Rising's address
will be No. 3 Bible House, New York. We
mention this fact, thinking some of his
friends upon the islands might wish to communicate with him. During his sojourn
here, he travelled quite extensively through
tne group, visiting nearly every station occupied by (he American and French Missions,
not omitting to make thorough inquiries
respecting the Reformed Catholics and every
literary, eleemosynary, Missionary and scientific Association upon the islands. His
investigations have been most thorough, and
he succeeded in collecting a mass of statistics and facts—historical and Missionary—
such as has rarely been gathered by any
visitor. Some of the officers of Government,
Missionaries and others, have furnished him
with many valuable books, pamphlets and
other documents. We are not informed to
what use the clerical gentleman will put
the materials at his disposal, but of this we
—
Thb Story of the " Morning Star."
This is the title of a small pamphlet of 72
pages, written by Rev. H. Bingham, Jr.
The history of the Missionary vessel is written in a pleasing and entertaining style.
The Prudential Committee of the American
Bonrd appear to have employed Mr. Bingham as an agent to raise the necessary funds
for building the new Morning Star. The
sum required is $13,000. The method
adopted is essentially the same as that so
successfully employed ten years ago, when
funds were raised for building the first vessel. The children in the Sabbath Schools
connected with the Churches supporting the
Missions of the Board are invited to con-
•Late News.— Congress has appropriated
$50,000 per annum for ten years, to subsidizo
a Line of Steamers between Honolulu and
San Francisco.
So the question of Steam
communication is now settled.
A new Freedmen's Bureau Bill has passed,
and bear vetoed by the President. On being
returned to Congress, a large majority immediately re-passed the Bill, which was
instantly reported as the law of the land. In
war times, the President's power was imperial, if not equal to that of an Autocrat, but
in peace-times, that power is reduced almost
to a nullity.
The news from Europe is important.
Great Uittles have been fought. Prussia
tribute their dimes. Each dime represents triumphs over Austria. Venetia has been
a share, or each contributor of one dime be- ceded to Frnncc. Another great battle was
comes a stockholder in the enterprise. Ere about to be fought.
long the children of our foreign and native
Bishop of New Zealand.—Some unschools will be invited to co-operate in this known friend has
kindly sent us a copy of
enterprise. In America, a contributor of "The Supplement to the
Weekly News,"
fifty cents is entitlod to receive n copy of this published at Auckland, N. Z, May 12th. It
little pamphlet, "The Story of the Morning contains an
interesting address of Bishop
Star."
Selwyn, and furnishes much valuable inforChinamen best Managed by Kindness.— mation respecting the work of missions in
We shall not soon forget the remarks of Mrs. Melanesia, under the direction of Bishop
Burlingame, wife of the American Minister, Patteson. In onr next issue we shall publish
during her visit to Honolulu. She had lived extracts.
in China, and had much experience among
An English Bishop's Opinion of American
Missionaries, Especially those at the
Chinese,
and
her
was
in
testimony
the
fnvorof kind treatment. No people, she said, Sanhwich Islands.—At the late meeting of
British and Foreign Bible Society, at
were more susceptible to praiso and kindness. Hall, London, Bishop Smith, of Exeter
China,
Ordinarily tell your servants what to do and Church of England Bishop, bore the follow,
they will do it. One great source of diffi- ing testimony to the character of the Americulty was that they could not understand Missionnries :
"I wish that on this occasion my voice
exactly whut was required of them. Those might travel across
the Atlantic, and carry
employing them should most scrupulously to our dear American brethren there the
fulfil their engagements. See to it that they nssurance that British Christians and British
are ronftfrrnt, that he has qualified himself
arc promptly paid and well fed. Kindness Churchmen cherish no common sympathy in
to act efficiently as an officer of a Misbegets kindness, while ill temper engenders their religious welfare and usefulness and
sionary
and hereafter, should quesnational prospects. I received no ordinary
and resentment.
courtesy and attention from Christians of
tions arise among the managers of " Episco- anger
pal Missionary" funds in the United States, Tabu on Alcohol not taken off. —We every denomination in America. I feel that
we are in danger of not sufficiently appreMr. Rising will be prepared to speak with are glad to learn that a majority in the Ha- ciating
the strength of their organization
authority and intelligence, and we are very waiian Legislature had the good sense not and the blessedness of their Missionary laconfident he will be ready to bear honorable to open the flood-gates of ruin any wider bors. And let me here say that it has been
testimony in regard to the work accom- than they are at present. Give rum sellers my happy experience to associate with American Missionaries of no ordinary reputation.
plished by the American Missionaries. unrestrained license and we think the Ha- As
long as the names of Abeel, Richmond,
Already, as a corresponding member of the waiian race would go to destruction with Holman, Bishop Boone, and the young marHawaiian Evangelical Association, while rail road speed. It is not quite time to tyred Missionary, Walter Lowrie, shall survive in my memory, so long shall I retain
loyal to his own Church, he has made unchain the tiger."
an affectionate veneration and respect for the
known that he could unite in " thanking "
of my American brethren in the
God for the Gospel work which He has put Samoan Bible.—We would acknowedge character
Missionary work, and so long will I refuse
it" into the hearts of the American Mis- a
copy of the Samoan Bible—beautifully to listen to any statements or assertions from
sionaries here to perform. Such men can printed and bound—from the Rev. A. W. any quarter, which may try to depreciate in
fraternize with " the good, the true and the Murray, of Apia. It is published by the our minds the value, the solidity and the
permanency of their Missionary labors in
faithful" of all evangelical denominations of British and Foreign Bible Society.
every land, and not least of all the labors of
Christians throughout the world. Unless
our dear brethren in the Sandwich Islands."
we are much mistaken, he will be ready imRufus L. Rundell will find a box, to (Applause.)
partially to make known among Episcopa- his address, at the office of A. J. Cartwright
A few days' absence from Honolulu,
lians in the United States what has been
done by American Missionaries on the Ha- Esq., Agent of Wells, Fargo & Co. It was has prevented us from promptly issuing the
waiian Islands.
tho Isi
„,r.,,iU
Friend
itkiui, nn
sent to the care of the Editor.
on un.
i3i nf
oi t\,§.
me niontn.
�Reminiscences of
Kapiolani.
RBYEV.LOANDREWS.
R IN
Having lately read an article in the
Hours at Home, written by the Rev. Dr.
Anderson, respecting some traits of Christian character as exemplified in the life of
Kapiolani, of Kaawaloa, Hawaii, I Teel inclined to add my testimony to the correctness of the statements there made, having
been for some time a resident in her family.
In the latter part of the year 1829, the
sloop-of-war Vincennes, Capt. Finch, visited
the islands. After a pleasant intercourse of
some weeks of the captain and officers with
the Chiefs at Honolulu, the Chiefs of Maui
and Hawaii were about to return to their
respective islands, when Capt. F. kindly
offered to convey them to their homes in the
Vincennes. Among other passengers of this
class were Kuakini, (John Adams,) Governor
of Hawaii, and Kapiolani, of Kaawaloa, on
the same Island.
Some time previous to this the Mission
had appointed a deputation to visit Waimea,
on Hawaii, to see if it were practicable to
establish a Missionary station there, partly
with a view to the recruit of health. Of
this deputation I was one, and, by the invitation of the First Lieutenant, took passage
from Lahaina in that ship. On the morning
of the second day, being off Kailua, Hawaii,
Governor Adams and suite were put ashore,
and the ship passed on and anchored in the
Bay of Kealakeakua, on the Kaawaloa side
of which Kapiolani and her husband, Naihe,
had their residence. The Vincennes lay at
anchor in the bay some three or four days,
and then returned to Honolulu. Waiting
the arrival of the other members of the deputation to Waimea, I resided as a guest in
the family of Kapiolani some two or three
weeks. To all that Dr. Anderson says of
the civilized habits, and refinement even, of
that woman, I was all that time an eye-witness. I can say I never put up at any
boarding-house where the arrangements of
furniture, the furnishing of the table, the
preparation of the food, the attention of servants, the dignity of the presiding matron
were superior. Everything was neat and
kept in order. I often wondered how a person so long under the influence of the degraded habits of heathenism, could, in so
short a time, arrive at and adopt, not merely
civilized habits, but a high degree of them,
and entirely to have dropped her former
ones; but such was the fact. We have
seen, in a multitude of cases, the Chiefs and
people forsake their habits peculiarly heathenish, but it has always been slow and
difficult work fully i<> adopt civilized habits.
Not so with Kapiolani. As soon as she
began to attend to instruction at Honolulu,
under the teaching of Mr. and Mrs. Bing.
ham and Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, she became perseveringly interested ; her manners
and intelligence at once commenced improvement, and what she gained she never lost.
This continued nearly three years. On the
location of the membersof the first reinforcement, she and her husband returned to.Hawaii, with Mr. and Mrs. Ely for their teachers, where she was taught more fully in relation to domestic habits.
The last evening before the sailing of tho
AUGUST, 1866.
Vincennes from Kaawaloa, Capt. Finch and
the wardroom officers were invited to take
tea at Kapiolani's house. Mr. Bingham and
Mr. Stewart retired early from the table, in
order to prepare some documents for the
Missionary House in Boston, and left me to
act as the sole interpreter between the parties. Capt. F. had seen much of Kapiolani
before, but always in company with other
Chiefs. But now he was permitted to see
her in her own house, and as she appeared
in her own family. The Captain had a
great variety of questions to ask about herself, the other Chiefs, their former state, the
instruction of the Missionaries, Sec., &cc.,
to all of which she replied readily, pertinently and fully, at the same time doing the
honors of the table. Some of the questions
about herself were, " How long since she
had learned to read and write ?" Whether
she " went to school like a little child ?" kc.
To this she replied, she and other Chiefs
went to *he Missionaries and were taught
by them to read and write ; for at that time
regular schools were not formed. At the
same time she called to a servant to bring a
manuscript. It was a copy of the Gospel of
St. John, in her own hand-writing. She
said she received the sheets from Messrs.
Thurston and Bishop, as they were translated, and she transcribed it herself for her
own use, as she could not wait to have it
printed. When she spoke of instruction,
the Surgeon of the Vincennes began to put
questions to her concerning Boston, London,
New York, Europe and America, which she
promptly answered. He then asked her
where she learned these things. She said,
Missionaries told me." The Surgeon
" The turned
to me and said, " I am very
then
glad to hear this, for at Honolulu we were
told that the Missionaries taught nothing
but religion."
The evening passed with the highest degree of good feeling on both sides. Just before the Captain left, he took a seat beside
me on the settee, a little apart from the
others, and said': "Mr. Andrews, I never
expected to have the slightest feeling on
leaving these Islands; but, as I have seen
this woman, heiird her conversation, observed
her manners and especially noticed her religious principles, 1 cannot help admiring
what I nave seen. I shall remember this
tea-party as long as I live. I have no where
in my visits to different countries seen any
woman who reminds me so much of my
mother as this. 1 shall shake hands with
her with a sigh."
To all this I know of no drawback. She
ever continued her civilized habits, her generous, kind-hearted disposition, and especially her anxious desire for the intellectual,
moral and religious improvement of the common people, until her death.
Supplement for August.—We furnish
our subscribers with another Supplement,
containing the Sermon upon Home Missions.
lately preached by the Rev. E. Bond.
We would acknowledge late American
papers from Capt. Hempstead, and also C.
69
rII X FKI ti M>,
Kapiolani.
The moral heroism displayed by this distinguished Hawaiian Chiefesa, in visiting
Kiluuea, has imparted to her character an
elevation and attractiveness which have impressed most favorably the minds of all acquainted with the circumstances. Her visit
is no less remarkable than the abolition of
the tabn system, The most earnest entreaties, by friend and foe, were put forth to dissuade her from incurring the wrath of the
goddess Pcle, whn was supposed to preside
over the boiling caldron, where, from time
immemorial, her worshippers had brought
their offerings and cast them into the flames.
Standing near the active pit, and in presence
of mnny of her people, she exclaimed :
" Jehovah is my God. I fear not Pole.
Should I perish by her anger, then you may
fear her power. But if Jehovah save me,
when breaking through the tabus, then
you must fear and serve Jehovah. The
gods of Hawaii are vain. Great is the
goodness of Jehovah in sending us Missionaries to turn us from these vanities to the
living God." Then all united in singing a
hymn of praise, and bowed in prayer to the
Jehovah.
Lord Byron—cousin of the poet—commanding H. B. M. ship Blonde, (which
brought the remains of Kamehameha II and
his Queen from England to Honolulu,) thus
refers to Kapiolani's heroic conduct: " One
of the greatest acts of moral courage which
hasv perhaps, ever been performed ; and the
nctor was a woman, and, as we are pleased
to call her, a savage." (Voyage of the
Blonde, 1824, 1825.)
The Rev. Dr. Anderson has graphically
described this event in Kapiolnni's life, in
the sketch of her life and character recently
published in the Hours at Home." He
"
concludes that sketch with this paragraph :
" The hand of God is to bo acknowledged in
the consistent, Christian life, for twenty
years, of this child of a degraded paganism.
Hers was the religion of the Puritans, and
would to God that all those Islanders, from
the highest to the lowest, were like her.
We should then behold a nearer approach to
a heaven on earth than earth has afforded
since the fall."
Kapiolani died May 5,1841, at Kaawaloa,
Hawaii, very near the spot where Captain
Cook was killed.
We copy the following poetic description
of Kapiolani's visit to Kilauea from a poem
published in London, in 1645, and written
by the Rev. Robert Grant, B. C. L., Fellow
of Winchester College, Sec., Sec.:
I''air is the morn : tbe sun is mounting high,
Cloudless as truth itself, the clear blue sky,
As a vast mirror, in their ceaseless Bow
.Seems to reflect the azure depths below.
�THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1866.
70
What newer peril stops tbe dauntless band?
Collecting in a circle, see, they stand,
And hark! upborne on wings of faith, they raise
From grateful hearts sweet strains of holy praise.
How different from the crater's hollow groan!
Unwonted strains, and music not its own!
Such sounds, when sleep hud hushed tin- prisoner's
wail,
Broke the sad silence of Philippi's gaol,
When, echoing the dreary cells among,
Tbe holy captives sang their midnight song.
Christian's creed.
The Gospel light can soften and illume
Hushed in one moment is the gathering hum,
The crater's horrors and the dungeon's gloom.
As speed the tidings swift, "They come, they As nearer to the lowest dcptliß they drew,
come!"
So stronger waxed their faith and bolder grew.
All eyes are fixed, as with a faithful few
Each conquest won seemed easier than the last,
The fearless Kapiolani nearer drew ;
A presage of tbe future is the past.
In vain affection urges all its ties
the vast crowd a kindling courage spiead,
Through
enterprise;
To move her from the
Tbe horrid depths grew by degree." less dread,
her
rude
attire.
In vain the priestess in
None dared the thought to utter, or reply—
Tbe fringes of her robe consumed by fire,
Vet, " Where was I'ele'.'" spoke the asking eye ;
prophetic
eye,
her
witli
mock
staff,
Waving
Incredulous no longer of success.
Threatened tbe vengeance of the deity;
The closer to the crater's edge they press.
In vain ;—the light of Gospel truth bad shone,
And watch with rivetted and mute surprise,
Her spell was broken and lier power was gone.
Tbe triumph of the noble enterprise,
Of different aspect, natural, firm, serene,
As, far below, far as the dizzy sight
dose by her side the man of God is seen
Can pierce the gloom of that volcano's night,
No wand ho waves, no mystic robe lie wears,
Down at the lowest depths they see them stand,
His best credentials, in his h\nd he bears
Whilst Kapiolani with uplifted hand,
arms
God—the
he
wields,
only
The word of
Firm to the last, in God's own service brave,
;
yields
two-edged
whose
sword
the
Before
opponent
Uninjured stirs tbe hot yet harmless wave.
Truth on his lips, and mildness in his eye,
No vengeful goddess in her flaming car
Ho loolw, he is, a legato from the sky.
Wakened the strife of elemental war ;
With hurried step, and with averted face,
The invaders of her realm secure remained,
Oft had she passed the awe-inspiring place,
And all around unwonted quiet reigned.
When childhood's faith was simple and sincere,
Then burst ten thousand voices from that throng,
her
fear
so grew
9hd growing with her growth,
Ten thousand hands were raised, whilst every
But now no fears could influence or control
tongue,
of
the
heroine's
soul;
The settled purpose
No longer owning Pele's iron rod,
bravado's
mien,
was
her's
the
bold
Yet
not
Confessed tbe might of Kapioluni's God.
Whose self-reliance in his look* is seen,
Scarce more triumphantly on Carmel's height
challenge
theatric
air
and
loud,
with
As
Truth turned false Baal's priests to shameful flight,
He courts the plaudits of the gazing crowd ;
With outstretched hands the holy Tishbite raised
Hers was a quiet bravery, which proved
His prayer to Heaven, and straight the altar
Her deep devotedness to Him she loved,
blazed,
As some fair lake concealed from public view,
And wrung from Israel's throng the glad acclaim.
Whose deepest waters are the stillest too,
Tho Lord, the Lord iB God:—we bow to His
Her modest flame, not lit with earthly fires,
great bame."
Glowed with that warmth a holy cause inspires.
relied,
steadfastly
on
her
God
she
Not
in her proudest days, when festal Koine
As
Welcomed some favorite child of conquest home,
Her surest Guardian and her safest Guide.
Did grntulation shed so warm a smile.
When nearer they approach the dizzy brink.
Some faithless fearful spirits halt and shrink
As beamed that day on fair Hawaii's Isle.
Willi all a patriot's glow theirbosoms burn.
From the dread trial, whilst a holder few,
And grateful thousands hail her safe return ;
By her example nerved, their course pursue.
And now they reach the edge, where, undismayed, A nobler triumph and a holier fame
and
prayed! Adorn forever Kapiulani's name.
By those terrific depths, they stopped
Humble as brave she shrank from public view,
A solemn, breathless silence reigned around.
no
sound, And gave the glory where alone 'twus due.
escaped
that
concourse
there
From
vaat
No cheer they raised.no speeding sound they gave; Yet glowed her breast, yet gleamed her modest
eye,
So still spectators stand around a grave,
O'er whom a sympathizing gloom is cast,
To sec the march of Gospel liberty,
By her, advancing through her native land.
As they look downward, and that look the last;
Error dethroned, and Truth triumphant stand,
So gazed the crowds, when Kapiolani went,
dread
descent.
Truth in its saving, civilizing power,
As to her death-place, down the
This cheered her life, this soothed her dying hour.
What eye can follow, or what pencil paint
The fearless footsteps of that heroiue saint.
Snubbed.—Newly two hundred of the
Where cliffs o'erhang, and, trembling to its fall,
The lava lifts its self-suspended wall ?
of the Church of England have united
clergy
Here, rifted rocks of dark and uncouth form
a letter.to Cardinal Patrizi, at Rome,
in
some
volcanic
storm.
Lie, the huge rocks of
their earnest desire for the restoraThere, deepening gulpbs and caverns yawning stating
tion of communion between the Church of
wide,
Break up the surface of that frozen tide,
England and the Church of Rome. But the
Whose treacherous crust, like faithless ice, gives
his
plainly tells them that
High on the beach is drawn each light canoe,
The idle net suspended on the trees
In light festoons waves with the gentle breeze,
Nature herself intently seems to lean,
Tbe still spectatress of the coming scene.
AH, sll i* hushed ; save where tbe crowding throng
Towards Kirauea's craterbastes along.
About to witness the decisive deed
Which shattered I'ele's throne and stamped the
;
:
"
.
Cardinal in
Beneath whose mask Death lurks to seize its prey.
Cautious and slow they urge their downward route,
First try tbe staff, then fearless plant the foot;
See them now climbing Borne opposing height.—
And now 'tis mastered—now'they're out of sightMoments seem hours when anxious thoughts prevail,
Whan hope and fear alternate turn the scale,
The eager look and parted lip reveals
The unutUred bodings which the breast conceals,
The straining eye strives to descry in vain
Their forms emerging from that billowy plain ;
Yet, yet they're safe! again they onward press,
Still, still descending they grow less and less.
So have we seen some bartCbuoyant and brave,
Riding triumphant on the crested wave,
Anon, descending with the arrow's flight,
Ingulphed as In a tomb, it mocks the sight,
Haply forever; —no, it mounts again,
And speeds its gallant course along tha main.
Opinions of Eminent Englishmen about
New England.
John Bright lately delivered an address
before a Sunday School Conference in Rochdale, in which he urged the importance of
universal education, citing the example of
New England in support of bis views :
Mr. Ellice, the very eminent member of
the House of Commons for Coventry, traveled in America, as he had done tvvo or three
times before, very near the close of his life,
some six or seven years ago. He visited
Canada and the United States; and, in a
conversation which I had with him after his
return, he said that in those New England
States there was the most perfect government in the world, there was the most equal
condition, and most universal comfort
amongst the people; and he said that the
whole population, he believed, were more instructed, more moral, and more truly happy
than any other equal population had been
in any country or in any age of the world.
The whole of this is to be traced, not to the
soil, not to the climate ; but it is to be traced,
I believe to the extraordinary care which the
population, from the days of the Pilgrim
Fathers until now, have taken with every
child, boy and girl, that they should be
thoroughly instructed, at least in the common branches of learning. The census
shows that, speaking generally, there is
scarcely to be found one person, one native
American certainly, out of many hundreds
in the New England States, who cannot
read and write. Now the influence of those
States is enormous. Though only small
States, containing not more than one-tenth
of the whole population of the American
Union, yet the influence of their opinions is
felt to the remotest corners of that vast territory. In New England they consider their
plan as the only plan. They have tried it
for two hundred years. Its success is beyond
all contest—it is absolutely complete. There
is nothing like it that has been equally successful in the world. And what our Puritan
ancestors have done (I know they were our
ancestors as well as theirs) in the States, if
the people of England had the sense to comprehend their true interests, they might
compel to be done in the country in which
we live.
From the Ochotsk.—The cargo of codfish brought into this port on Saturday last,
by the schooner Porpoise, Capt. Turner, is
by far the finest ever yet received in this
market from the Pacific Coast codfish banks.
There are 30,000 fish in the cargo, and the
consignees, Marks & Co., inform us that
they are found to average fully one pound
heavier than any former lot; and tbey come
fresh to market within sixty days of their
being taken from the water. So far as the
Pacific Coast is concerned, the Newfoundland Fishery Question may be decided either
way—it is a matter of indifference to us ;
we are henceforth independent of the Atlantic sources of supply for this article.—Alta
California, July 10.
reply
unconditional surrender is the only terms
which the Pope can think of.—Exchange.
We do not see the necessity of English
clergymen asking the Romish Church to
make* any concessions, for we should suppose they were going at a sufficiently rapid
rate without any concessions. From another
of our English exchanges we learn, on the
authority of Henry Borne, M. A., Vicar of
Faringdon, Berks, that five hundred clergymen of the Church of England became
•
Papists dui-ing the interval from 1842 to
As gangrenes are the most dangerous
1864. Mr. Borne states this fact in his re- of bodily wounds, so insatiate avarice is the
view of the Bishop of Oxford's charge.
worst disease of the mind;—Democrittu.
�71
1866.
1 II X FRIEND, AUGUST,
ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Ii BARTOW,
Auctioneer,
Snln Room on U.nrrn Street, one doer Irolt
street,
ly
R. W. ANDREWS,
SAILOR'S HOME I
C.
620
Kaahumanu
H. XV. SEVERANCE.
Auctioneer and Commission Merchant,
CHINERY, GUNS, LOCKS,
REPAIRS
RiUdhi'i Building. <lucrts Street,
630-ly
Will continue business at tho now stand.
mi. J. Mini' smith,
Dentist,
Physician and Surgeon,
Ml ly
Makee'a Block, coraer Qnecn and Kaahumanu
C. H. WET.HORE, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
HILO, HAWAII, S. I.
A. F. .lini'.
and Counsellor at Law,
Carner of Fort nnd Merchant Streets.
«ao ly
W. N. LADD,
I mportct and Dealer la Hardwr.re, Cutlery, Median Ii V
Tools, sad Agricultural Implements,
ly
Fort Street.
C. It, RICHARDS & CO.,
and Commission Merchants, and
Dealers la Central Merchandise,
(handlers
Keep constantly on hand a full assortment of merchandise,tor
the supply of Whalers and Merchant Teasels.
613 ly
ami
aaoa
CASTLE fc COOKE,
a. cisTin.
J. b. ithiktor.
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COOKE.
an BRaaT
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A«*E\T* FOR
Wheeler & Wilson's
SEWING MACHINES!
to
Attorney
Ship
CASTLE
premiums,
and
Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS in 1861,
HILO DRUG STORE.
631
Btf
MACHINE HAS ALLTHBLATKST
waa
former
impiovements, and, in addition
I'HIS
American
awarded the highest prise above all Kuropeau
N. B— Medicine Cheats carefully replenished at the
6-tf
4;c.
Fort Street, opposite Odd Fellows' Hall.
612-ly
Offlce corner of Fort and Hotel Street!.
E. HOFFMANN, M. D.
Kjia
ALL KINDS OP LIGHT MA-
FIRE PROOF STORE,
!■
MACHINIST.
b. cooks.
$6
Officers' table, with lodging, per week,.
and at the Exhibition in London in 1802.
6
do. do.
do.
l'be evidence of the superiorityof tolaMachineis found In the Seamens' do.
1861—
record of its sales. In
Shower
Baths
on
the
Premises.
The Qrover fc Haker Company, Boitnn,
Mr.. CRABB.
TheFlorence Company, Massachusetts
Manager.
The Parker Company, Connecticut,
Honolulu, April 1,1866.
New
York,
J. M. Singer if Co.,
Finkle fc Lyon,
CHAB. WOLCOTT SROORB, W. FBANK LADD, BDWABD F. RALU.JK.
Chas. W. IlouMund, Delaware,
M. Greenwood fc Co., Cincinnati, 0.,
0.,
N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk,
Wilson 11. Smith, Connecticut,
SHIPPING AND
old 18,&60, whilst the Wheeler fc Wilson Company, of Bridge
ort, madeand sold 19,725 during the same period.
11 ti
ETPleas* C-iall and Kauris inr.
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• CHAS.
(oiiiiiiissioi.
McCraken, Merrill & Co.,
FORWARDINC AND
Commission .11 m*lisi nf s.
I»ortland, Oregon,
and General Merchants,
W, BROOKS
& CO.,
Merchants.
AGENTS FOR THE
BAWMMK PACKET IMS
BETWEEN
>yiii)iiiiitUsFiUs(is(.>&
OFFICE—6 11 Sau.oine St., corner Mrrr hit sat
Importers
BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PREIn Fireproof Store, King street, opposite the Seamen's Chapel.
SAN PBANCISOO.
sent business for upwards of .even years, and being
AX.lmo. -A-ajon.-taa for
located in a fire proof brick building, we are prepared to receive
ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Sugar,
Syrups,
Rice,
Pulu,
such
Jaynes
Family
dispose
staples,
Celebrated
and
of
Island
as
Medicines,
Dr.
the Purchase, Shipment and Sale of Merchandise ; to For.
Coffee, Ac, to advantage. Consignments especially solicited
Wheeler e> Wilson's Sewirijj Midlines,
forthe Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, wardlngand Transhipment of Hoods ; the Chartering and bale
The Kohala Sugar Company,
of Vessel* | the Supplying of Whaleahlps ; and the Negotiation
The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and upon which cashadvances will be made when required.
of Exchange.
The New York I'benix MarineInsurance Company,
Sam Francisco Rrrbwirrcrs:
603-ly
Exchange on Honolulu in sums to suit.
Badger fc Lindenberger, Jas. Patrick fc Co.,
Colemanfc
Co.,
W. T.
Fred.
Iken,
ADVANCES
MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
p.
cabtrr.
I. bartlrtt.
aaajiHAJl rIOK.
a. A.
elevens, Baker A 00.
C. BREWER fc CO.
REFER TO
Portland RirRKBtTCBS:
Jah.HcbrrwrllEsq..Boston
Leonard fc Green.
Allen fc Lewis.
Ladd fc Tilton.
Walbrr, Alls* It Co
Commission and Shipping Merchants,
Honolulu. Hrrrt A. Panics A Co.
IInNULCLU
RsrSBMOBS:
Honolulu. Oahu, H. I.
Bbij. F.Sbow, Bag.,
Sisr fc Co.,
HI'TLRR,
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S. Savldse.
Walker, Allen* Co.,
AGENTS
Burro* fc Co.. New York.
Ml-ly C. Biiiwbr fc Co.,
Of the Beaten sstid Honolulu Packet Line.
Bisroffc Co.,
Wa. H. Fooo fc Co,
Tbos.Dfrrcrr, Esq., rtilo.
11. Fooo fc Co., ghanghae.
AGENTS
JOBS a ORACXRB.
W. 1. ALDRICBT.
I. 0. SJRRRILI.,
Al.i.HAifD It Co., Kanagaws. Allrr fc Lrwis,
K«r the.Matter, Wailukufc liana I'lnalalion.
Portland, Oregon.
bui )y
AGENTS
ALDRICH, MERRILL &. Co.,
Par the I'urrhasrauil Snl.-of I aland Produce.
—REFER TO—
New York.
Jobs M.Hood, Bag
Co.
I
Chas. Baawaa,
Boston.
ABD
EM* VISITE;
JiiieaHo»»Bwßi.L, Esq. J
)
J.C. MsaaiLL fc Co.
LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS;
San Franelaeo.
>
R. B. Swain a Co.
COPYING AND ENLARGING I
M
*8t
Esq.)
ly
Broors
Oaas. Woloott
304 and aofl California Street,
RETOUCHING done In the heat snasssssar,
Si.
CONWAY,
ALLEN
and on tbe most reasonable terms.
SA\
Photographs of the Craters Kilauea and
Also
for
Kauslbae, Hawaii,
tale,
AGENTS
OF
THK
ALSO,
Ilalrakala.and other Island Scene*; the KINGS KAetaV
Will continue the GeneralMerchandiaeand Shipping buaineas
lIKMEHA, fee, «Vc.
at theaboveport, where they are prepared to furnish
the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and
such other recruits as are required
Part icular attention given to the sale and purchase of mer
H. L. OH ASK.
by wbale ships, at the
chandiae, ships' business, supplying whaleahlps, negotiating
P. 8 —Haling purchased the Portrait Negatlrea from Mr.
shortest notice and on the most reasonable terms.
exchange, fee.
Weed, duplicate copies can be bad by those persona wishing
oxx Band.
X'irevrood
XT All freight arriving at Baa Francisco, by or to the Ho for the same.
Ml-ly
nolulu Line of Packets, will be forwarded raix orootmissioß.
H. L. O
632-im
ST Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold. JCS
HAVING
PARTICULAR
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*
Auctioneers,
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CART
FRANCISCO.
San Francisco k Honolulu Packets.
JOHN XHOS. WATERHOUSE,
Messrs. C. L. Richards fc Co.,
■<
H llacrrru) fc Co.,
—REFERENCES—
0 Baawna If Co.,
Eaq.,
Honolulu
Snow,
Hie Ex. B. C. Wyllle,..Hon. B. F.
Btaaior At Co
Thos. Spencer, Esq
Hilo
DlmomdiSon,
R.
W.
Ban
Francisco
Wood
Dr.
Mcßuer
Merrill.
4r
H. Dickinson, Esq... Lahaina
Hon. K. 11. Allbh,
O. W. Brooks*; Uo. ..Sea F. G. T. Lawton, Esq.,
Mew
York
DC.
WITRRMAR,
>Sq.,
Field
Rice,
Tobin, Bros. Co..
ItO-ly
Wilcox, Richards a Co, Honilula.
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BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA.
REV. DANIEL DOLE. AT KOLOA.
M. Kauai, baa accommodations in hia family
Far
Few Bearding Scholars.
XT Ferwms wishing to learn the Terms will apply to him,
Otf
•or theEditor of TaR Frirsd."
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—RSfRRRROaS
Importer and Dealer In General Merchandise.Honolulu, H. I.
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READING ROOM, LIBRARY AND DEPOSITORY.
SEAMEN
apply
AND OTHERS, WISHING
to obtain books from the Sailors' Home Library,
wm please
to ths Bethel Sexton, who will have
charge of the Depository and Reading Boom uutil
further notice.
Per order
At the Gallery on Fort Street.
THE FRIEND:
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY
'
SAMUEL C. DAMON.
A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,
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...
TERMS:
One oopy, per annum,
Two copies,
Fi»e copies.
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�THE FRI I N I), AUGUST, 1866.
72
PASSENGERS.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
PLACES OF WORSHIP.
RKTUF.L-llev. S. C. Dninon Chaplain-King
Titui Apostolic Sccckdhion ; or, tho Unity of the USAMKN'Snear
For Sab Francisco—per Live Yankee, June 23—W II Deal,
the Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. M.
street,
Spirit not unbroken—Episcopal Succession the
Seats Free. Sabbath School after the morning service. L Dc Mouroc—2.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 7| o'clock.
Revealed Bond ofPeace to the Church. By Rev.
For San Francisco—per Milton Badger, June 27—James
N. B. Sal Imili School or Bible Claee for Seamen at U) #ird, W Bhaplelon—2.
Mason Gallagher, Rector of the Cbnrch of tbe
o'clock Sabbath morning.
For SanFnAXCiitco—per Monitor, July 3—RBurns, R Spear,
Evangelists, Oswego, New York. 1866.
This is the title of a pamphlet of 04
pages, in which the writer argues that the
High Church notions so strenuously put
forth by some in the English and American
Churches are altogether of a modern date.
On page 31 he refers to Cranmer, Jewel,
Kainolds and Usher, as men who, par excellence, have a right to be styled fathers,
yet they held no such exclusive views.
When referring to those who were instrumental in establishing the Episcopal Church
in America, he represents them as holding
the most liberal and fraternal opinions to.
wards other denominations or Churches of
Christians.
On page 13 the author thus deals ;t
heavy blow at his fellow-churchmen
"In
unchurching others, we simply follow in the
wake of the early Puritans, who first, among
Protestants, asserted the exclusive ecclesiastical claim by Divine right." This is a capital joke, to say the least. High Church
Episcopalians following in the Puritans'
wake! We knew that they had followed in
the wake of the Puritan Missionary, but
now we learn that in High Church notions
they are equally inclined to copy the Puritan's example ! We hope Puritans will see
well to it, that they always set a good example before their fellow-Christian Episcopalians.
:
Thw Murder of Mr. Dudoit.It is with
deep sorrow that we are called upon to
chronicle this melancholy event. We have
long been acquainted with the deceased and
had very often met him in the social intercourse of life. Our sympathies are drawn
out most tenderly towards the deeply afflicted
family, and we rejoice to lean»sfhat there is
a reasonable prospect that
life
will be spared. As the Advertiser aud Gatmtte have sp fully narrated the particulars,
we shall omit their publication.
DIED.
Born—ln Honolulu Aususl 4th, Capt. Benjamin Boyd. Ua
mat*of the steamer Kilauea, but had Commanded
lie was a nttive of Cork,
Irsiaod, sad baa Meade realdlnf Ui*r*.
Urairr—In San rranolsoo July 10, Mrs. Mary Chater,
.lausht.r of Capt. Kbrll of Tahiti,and ajrandauibter of ths Rev.
Mr. Henry, one or the anfllsh Pioneer Missionaries to Society
Islands.
aOBIBSOB—Died at Quern's Hospital, Honolulu, May 18, Mr.
Charles Robinson, of aneurism, lie hadbeen sick since January. The deaaased was a painter. He came Iron Australia,
where be Is known to save friends still reilulnf. |t*ydoey
papers please oopy.J
laroolr—ln Honolulu, July Utb, Mr. Lorenao B Lincoln,
of Waimea, Hawaii. The deoeaaed bad lon| resided upso
lbs Islands, bat was a natire of Taunton, Haas., where his
(rlaasj are supposed to reside. {Papers la Massachusetts please
wsi Ittaljr
FORT BTRKKT CHURCH—Corner of Fort and Beretania
streets—Rev. R. Corwin Pastor. Preaching on Sundays at
11 A. M. and 7) I'. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. M.
STONK CHURCH—King street, above the Palace—Rev. H. 11.
Parker Pastor. Services in Hawaiian every Buudny at 9J
A. M. mi,! 8 P. M
CATHOLIC CHURCII—Fort street, near Beretania—under
the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop M.ugret, assisted by Key,
Pierre Paveus. Services every Sunday at 10 A.at. and 2 P.M.
SMITH'S CHURCH—Beretania street, near Nuuanli StreetRev. Lowell Smith Pastor. Services In Hawaiian every
Sunday at 10 A. M. and ii P. M
RKFORMKD CATHOLIC CHURCH—Corner of Kukui and
Niinami streets, anvsT charge of Rt. Ilrr. Bishop Staley,
assisted by Rev, Mes*n>. Ibbotson, Gallagher and Kiltington. English service tvery Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7j
P M.
MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVALS.
June 27—Portuguese ship Dolores I'quarte, Orlando, 51 days
from Macao bound to Callao.
30— Am brig Sunny South. Patten. 15days from San F.
30—Am clipper ship California, Barber, 10 daya from
San Francisco, passed the pint without stopping
30—Am brig Sunny South, "alien, 15 days from San
Francisco.
30—Am clipper ship Star of the Union, Reed, 15 days
from San Francisco.
July I—Am bark Cambridge. Hempstead, 14 days from San
Francisco, with mdac and passengers to Walker,
Allen a Co.
2—Baw'n hark Hcrnloe, Borello, 10 days from Sun
Francisco, with mdse and passengers to 11. Hackfel.l & Co.
3—Am bark Palmetto, Arthur, 28 dsysfrSan Francisco.
B—Am achr Ban Diego, 17 days from San Francisco.
B—British brig Keying, Billings, II days from San
Francisco.
9—ltalian clipper ship Colombo, Sir faun, from Sen.
10—Ham. Clipper ship A. N. Willie, 89dys fr Auckland
12—Am clipper ship Wm. Wilcox, Mantcu, 18 days from
San Franoisco, passed the port.
15—Am bark Metropolis, Howard, 39 days from Victoria, withlumber to Walker, Allen A Co.
10—Am barkentlne Constitution, Clements, 24 days from
Port Angel.*, with lumber to 11, llackfeld fc Co.
20—Am bark D. C. Murray, Bennett. 13 days from San
Francisco, with mdse and passengers to Walker,
Allen fc Co.
days from Port
22—Am barkentlne Victor, Qroenlcaf, 214;
Angelos, with lumber to llackfeld Co.
17—Am achr San Diego Tenstrong, for Ouano Isltnds.
22—Am hark FJthan Allen. Bnow, 12 days from San
Francisco, wiih mdse to C. Brewer fc Co.
23—Br achr Premier, Loudon, 22 days from Victoria,
with mdse to Walker, Allen At Co.
25—Am schr K. Crosby, Perkina, 21 days from Victoria,
with mdse to Janion, Green fc Co.
4S—British eohr North Bur, McKinnon, 17 days from
Victoria, with oaal to Walker. Allen fc Co.
29—Bark Maunakea. Robinson, 21 days from Tahiti
bound to Puget Sound.
Aug.
3—Haw'n brig Kaiochameha V., Fletcher, 46 days from
Howland's Inland.
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DEPARTURE".
s Island.
June 26—Br. bark Hadleys, Payor, forBaker
27—Am aohr Milton Badger, for San Francisco.
30—Portuguese ship Dolores Uquarte, Olando, lor Callao.
July
2—Am brig Sunny South. Patten, for Kanagawa, Japan.
3—Am harkontlne Monitor, Nelson, for Ban Francisco.
Territories.
6—Am hark Palmetto, Arthur, TorRussian
7—Am bark Bwallow, Hatfleld, fur Kanagawa.
Ban
Francisco.
11—llano, ship A. H. Willie, for
12—Am clipper ship Btar of the Union, Reed, for Guano
tot schooner Kawrkameko Y.
ship Colombo, fttefano, for Callao.
12—Italian clipper
Keying, Bllllugs, for McKesn's Island.
Aug.
18—British ship
19—Am bark Comet, Paty, for Ban Fraualßco.
19—Ambark Smyrnlote, Lorett, for Ban Franolaeo.
24—Am barkentlne Constitution, Clements, for Teekalet.
28—Haw bark Bernlce, Borrelo, for San Franolaeo.
31—Am bark Cambridge, Hempstead, for San Frandaco.
I—Am bark Kadosh. Jenksns. for Ban Francisco.
3—Am barkentlne Victor, Qrwaolsaf, for Paget Bound.
MARRIED.
Obat—Mabob—On theMth ol Jane,at the residencei of_Mr.
t O. Wilder, Kualoa Plantation, Koolau. by the Rev. 8. Poll,
of Kualoa.
IraooßiißTß×ln Honolulu, at the American House, July Mr. Gray to Miss Kmma Mahoe, both
1, Mr. John Suucktaejtr, a Oennsn. The deceased came from
this olty, at the residence or the bride's
BSAI—SwiBTOB—In
Hesmann,
OtUnrala tor his health.
father, on the overdue of July I*. by Rev. rather
sautb -la Hoaoluhi, July «th, Harris Morton Health, ton of W.lter R. Seal to Mist Helen M. Bwlnton, youngest rtsuiher of
J.Uott
Baalth,
Pr.
Henry B. Bwlnton. No cards.
aaed 3 jtara and 7 month.
«W-1
O Robinson—3.
From San Francisco—per Cambridge. July I—John Kehoe,
Mrs John Kehoe, Miss Mary Kehoe. Miss Maggie Kehoe, Bartholomew Kehoe, Joho Kehoe jr. Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Foster.
Mrs Fost-r, Miss Foster, Mr. Kuhl, Mr A Oinoll, JosMarmuse,
Mrs Jos Marmuse, Miss Jennie Marmuse, Mast Jaa Town—lo,
For Bab Francisco—per Comet, July 19—C W Martell, II
Hlllebrand, Q W Vollum, wile and 4 children, Mrs Thos Silencer, Miss Kate Spencer, Miaa Nellie Spencer, Mr and Mrs
Macki- 1 J Whartenliy, MLs Amelia Armstrong, X.l Howard,
John Kengan. W A Aldrich, C X Williams. Miss Tbeo Paty,
John Pryer, J Santa Anna, B Maimaase, wife aud child, JP
Urace, I' Allman, Mr. Illttell—2B.
For San FRANciaco—per Smyrnlote, July 10—J ami II A
Ferguson, Mrs Klrby and 2 children, MissI Cotton, Mrs Blackburn, Mr and Mrs T Tennatt, Mr Lohoy, Rev FS Rising;, Mark
Twain, Mrs Blanchard, Capt Mitchell, Mrs Main Charlisa aud
child, Peter Gough, A Schweigcr, J Morrison, X Venplsee, Wm
Young and child, A C Fowler—2B.
From Fab Francisco—per D. C. Murray, July 20—W F
Laild, wife and servant, Miss A Ladd, Miss S Stoddard, P 0
Jones and wife, I)r W Hlllebrand and wife Master Wm F Hlllebrand, Capt J Smith, W Castle, Miaa II Castle, II M Alexander, C Rhine, H Vaasand wife, Master Vass, Master Vaaa, Miss
Vass, Miss Vaas, Mr Ahchuck, Mr Ahfung and child, Mr
Ahfun, li Mitchell. W J Linton, M Loulson, Mr Itindldi. CF
Wolf. Thos llir.-t.-it. John ll.lliitt. A W Carter, C Williams.
Stkhraor—C C l'hi'.es, D W Gallagher, J Urifiin, II Crremrr,
From San Francisco—per Kthan Allen, July 22—Oen R M
McCook iiii-l wife and -2 servants, 11 It Rouse, J Cleucy, Dc Kncount, T Lack, 1) CofTr.-y, O Bennett, J T Van Winkle, Jaa Hall,
F Caugham—l2.
From Victoria—per Premier, July 21—GeoDearill,,H Rowo,
Ashln, Achuck—4.
For Ban Francisco—per Hernloe, July 25—11 Havill—l.
For San Francisco—per Cambridge, July 30—Mr and Mrs
T T Dougherty, Mi«s Mary B Ciirtwrigbt, Miss Colt, Mr Jaa
Mcllrlile. Mr lc.lntal.li, S W Kirby-d.
For Bar Francisco—per Kadosh. Aug. 2—o Kussel, C Blaley
and wlie, Chas West, Jos Prince, wire and family—7.
Kr-iin lUkkr's Isi.ami—per KamehiLineha V, Aug. 3—Misa
Kuuua Coa, C A Williams, Mr Hall, Mr Chills, Mr Hyan and
son—o cabin and 27 lalmn-rs.
,
Report.
BaIskelr'nd
April 2*1—Arrived ship Oracle.
May 9—Ship Victoria, off Apia, Upnlu, Navigator's Island.
9—Ship Winslow. French whaler,off Navigator's Island.
Id—Sailed ship Juamta for Falmouth, Eng. with full
cargo of guano.
20—Sailed bark Oliver Cults for Cork, with full cargo
of guano.
June 13—Arrived brig Kamehameha V., with supplies.
16—Arrived ship Ssmtiel C- Grant, 141 days ftotu Liverpool, to load, and with moorings for the couipany.
Ship li.-itnlts at mooring, loading, 051 tons on board.
Bark llokuloa at mooring, loading, 220 tons ou bourd.
Yours respectfully,
Wm. Baboocb,
Superintendent at Baker's Is.
Information
Wanted,
Respecting Mr. Caleb H. Babbitt, who left Tnunton for
years ago,
Honolulu four
ami has not been heard ln>tu since.
Any inrorniatlon communicated to B. 0. Hall, or tbe Editor,
will be thankfully received.
if
Respecting William A. Burnet, who lalleil, in 1804, in the
11 William Hotch.'' from New Bedford.
It waa reported .lint h«
was lost orerboard. Capt. Baxter wan then manter "f the
ship. Should this notice attract the attention of Oapt. Baxter,
or any one attached at that Lime to the -hip, they are req'.'eettd
to communicate with the Kdftor, or Rev. 8. Fox, of New Bedford. If any keepsakes, books, photographs, fee,remain, tii
desired they may be kept. This unfortunate young aaan'a
fatheris an aged clergyman, residing in Scotland.
H
Respecting Robert Boyd Simnnd*, aged 40. Leftthc United
States on board the ship General Williams," of New London,
about twenty years ago, and landed at theSandwich Island*.
Any information will be gladly received by the Kdltor, or Mrs
Abby J. Bellows. East Wilton, N. 11.
tf
Respecting the person referred to lo the following letter* adJames
Minister
Mcßrfde,
dressed to Hon.
American
Resident:
I'ini.iußLPiiii, March 1, 1800.
Jnmet Meßride, Minuter at Honolulu—Sir § —I have the
honor to request a favor in regard to William Daviton Bent
ley, who Is 88 or 34 years old, light complexion, bias eyes, b
feet 4 or 6 Inches high, has a very bad impediment In his
speech. The last letter I received from him was dated Hooululu. March '22, 1860. Will you be kind enough to ascertain If
he Is living In Honolulu, and by giving fall particulars or him
you will oblige a heartbroken mother.
I remain, sir, very respect fully,
Your obedient servant.
SARAH HUNTLEY.
In care of Mrs. Wallace, 24& North 10th street, Philadelphia.
Respecting John W. Jonei, late from San Francisco. He Is
supposed to bo residing In some part of the Islands. He came
forhis health. Please communicate with the editor, or Dr.
A. 0. Buffum, Honolulu.
Respecting William Dyke, belonging to Wilmington,Del.
Any information will be gladly received by the editor, or Mrs.
Ellen B. Yates, No. 10 Robinson street, Wilmington, Del. He
i« supposed to be residing In San Francisco.
"
�FTHE RIEND.
TSUPLOEMNT
§ übliotted lrg the pnw»iiatt
HONOLULU, AUGUST,
18(5(>.
A SERMON
ON
HOME MISSION'S.
Delivered at Fort Street Church, on the Anniversary of the
HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION,
SABBATH EVENING, JUNE 10, 18GG.
BY REV, E. BOND.
:
John 9 4.—" I must work the works of Him Unit sent
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while it is ilay."
Jesus came from Heaven to redeem and save the human race. That
was his " work." He did not, however, propose to accomplish the
divinely assumed task by His own personal agency, whilst in the flesh.
This He left for others.
Having chosen and instructed n small band of disciples, and having,
in them, set forth the germinant idea of the Christian Church, to them,
as His earthly heirs, He committed the further prosecution of the work
He came to do; promising, meantime, to be with them, even unto the
end of the world, and then He returned, by the way of the Cros? and
the Sepulchre, to His higher mediatorial work at the right hand of the
Father. From that time to this the task which the Son of God assumed as His own peculiar work has been equally the work of His
Militant Church j and to-night the language of the text is appropriate
to every true disciple of Jesus, the world over.
It 4s not, as you see, the mere expression of a simple desire or purpose, but the cordial acknowledgment of an imperative obligation.
work."
"ToI must
this Society
therefore, organized for effective service in behalf of
the truth in its saving application to the population of these islands and
aiming at tbe largest measure of such service, I present, as not unsuitable for brief consideration this evening, these two topics, furnished by
our text, viz I
I. The work to be done.
•1. The; work to bk
11. How to do it.
done.
1. Where is it ?
The field is the entire group of these fair islands, on which, either
permanently or for the time being, our lot has been cast. From Hawaii to Niihau, wherever lives a Hawaiian or a foreigner of any name
or color, who is known to be in a state of spiritual destitution, for the
supply of which no other means exist, there is found ready to our hand
the legitimate work, to do which we, as a Society, exist.
2. What is it t
In general terms it is, as just suggested, the evangelization of the
spiritually needy portions of the population of these islands and the supply
of their rcligiius necessities, by means of divine truth preached and otherwise disseminated, a service which the lapse of time is more and more
imperatively demanding at our hands, and of the immediate and pressing necessity of which, those of us who occupy the more distant por-
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tions of the land are feeling with an ever-increasing painfulness of conviction.
From all points the current sets in towards this central metropolis,
over
leaving on every side remnants of population sparsely scattered
that
prosimilar
to
and,
of
without
an
agency
tracts
territory;
large
vided for by this Society, as there already is, so there will inevitably
continue to" be, a rapid retrogradation of these communities towards a
barbarism as ruthless as that whence, by the grace of God, the nation
has once been rescued.
than
There is no possibility of a result in any sense more cheering
or
through
in
duty
fail,
we
a
culpable
supineness
this, if
either through
a narrow selfishness in providing the requisite pecuniary and other
means to meet the exigences of the present time and of the immediate
future before us. But this is our appropriate work, and, by the favor
of God, we would hope not to be found recreant thereto. Not only are
we called upon to send, or aid in sending, to every feeble Hawaiian
Church a pastor, and to every destitute community those who. will
point them to the Lamb of God, but we would also see to it that the
foreign comwunities here and there gathering upon tho islands—wherever desirous of the preached Word—are supplied therewith. And if
possible, also, we would send the Word of Life into those social and
spiritual graveyards, the plantations and other great enterprises scat-be
tered over the islands, with the hope that its saving power might
once more felt by some of those connected therewith, that some at least
might again listen to the sweet and saving words of Jesus, which their
fathers, when sitting in the thick night of heathenism, heard, and in
simple faith receiving, awoke to a new and higher life in God. Whilst
the small and rapidly-diminishing remnant of those Christian heroes in
the Hawaiian Church is briefly tarrying beneath the droppings of the
Sanctuary, and rejoicing in the Word of Salvation, preparatory to their
final flight Heavenward, we would fain see to it that their children cry
not hereafter to be rescued from the worse than heathenism which is
seriously threatening them.
But our work lies not solely in regions remote. In the name of God
and by the power of His truth we should do something to save this
metropolis from the condition, if not from the fate, of Sodom. It is
indeed a task not to be lightly spoken of, nor yet to be undertaken with
an undue confidence in human wisdom. Nevertheless, it is one with
which we obviously need to grapple, if we would hope to achieve any
enduring success in the other department of our labor; for, with this
great central crater ever pouring its death-dealing streams abroad over
the land, how as nothing in effect will be the sum total of our efforts
therefor!
It is scarcely an indication of profound wisdom to trim the twigs of
the Upas, whilst leaving the huge trunk, with its giant branches, still to
overshadow the country.
Also, it is not to be forgotten in this brief enumeration of the work to
be done, that we have a large and still increasing Asiatic element in
our midst, of whose salvation there can scarcely be a ray of hope.unless
it come through the agency of this Society. Foreign in every sense it
is, save in this single one of domestication among us. Vicious, too, it
is in«rharrcter, or, at best, heathen, and withal notoriously inaccessible
to the moral and religious motives of the Gospel, as well as to the
various agencies usually employed by those who would press these motives upon their consideration. Yet still the stubborn fact remains, that
Christ has purchased them for His own, precisely as He has purchased
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ourselves. And that other glorious fact, too—let us never forget it—
Chinese and Hawaiian both, equally with those more highly favored,
were among those irrevocably given to the Son for His everlasting inheritance.
And can we do nothing for*these perishing strangers ? Shall we sit
down contented with the thought that they have come to a land overspread with the blessings of Christianity merely to perish in their paganism f Shall the light in which we are dwelling serve but to ligbS
t/tem to death ? Or is there some one or more yet to be found, whose
hearts aglow with the love of Jesus, shall with our aid give them>elves
to the blessed work of telling the simple story of the Cross to these benighted wanderers from their distant home ?
Such is the brief and imperfect summary of the work to be done. It
is not for me to say how much or how little of it our Sovereign Lord
shall deign to honor this Society with accomplishing. It is enough to
know that we are mainly to determine that point for ourselves, and
moreover, the issue we are sure is to be wrought out only by prayerful,
patient, self-denying toil. Scarcely an earthly crown adorns the brow
ol royalty that has not been purchased with seas of blood and treasure
untold. And why should we expect to wear the trophies of a victory,
save as they too are won through our own unflinching devotion and
self-sacrificing zeal, by the blood of God's dear Son ? We are not to be
crowned unless we first strive. Nor is our Master to be honored through
us if we fail to meet the issues now presented. The time has forever
pone by when the disciples of Jesus could fold their hands and wait
their Master's will. They have now to do it. The conflict is already
upon us, and it never can be done save by a high and holy resolve in
divine strength to " fight it out on this line." And this our Lord expects of us.
11. We now pass to inquire, How is this work to be done ?
We effect our purposes by the use of means adequate thereto, and so
does our Omnipotent God. True, the means which He uses, and which
also He has provided and taught us to use, are not, by the ordinary
calculations of human arithmetic, adequate to the results-proposed and
actually accomplished. Bur then He has told us beforehand that His
calculations are not as ours. The highest wisdom of man is foolishness
with Him. By the foolishness of preaching we know He has actually
determined to save them that believe. Just as in the Kingdom of Nature He delights to show us what stupenduous results He can effect by
the most insignificant causes, so also in this Spiritual Kingdom. It is
true, and we should never forget it, that the Kingdom of God among
men has in its inception always been insignificant in its dimensions and
apparent power. It is the still small voice, the stone cut out of the
mountain without hands, the bit of leaven, the grain of mustard-seed.
And yet, though so insignificant, it was and is to fill the whole earth.
We aro inquiring now how it is to be made lo fill these islands, or rather how our part of the work which is to hasten the glorious consummation is to be done. What do we needfor this end f
1. We need a suitable organization, through whose agency our work
can be efficiently and at the same time economically prosecuted. This,
indeed, we already have ; and if it be not particularly imposing at
present in the magnificence of its proportions, we find comfort in the
thought that it is capable of indefinite enlargement and increase of
working power, limited, in these particulars, only by the gifts and purposes of its patrons. Besides, we cannot forget that the vast organizations for Missionary purposes, both in Europe and America, have each
and all passed through this period of infancy, and have attained thiir
present vastness and efficiency for good through the large-hearted liberality and prayerful zeal of those who make them the channels of their
beneficence for enlightening and saving men.
If therefore, with the machinery already to our hands, and in actual
operation, those who are in sympathy with us will but give what is further needed for bringing the Society up to its full working capacity, the
problem with which we have to do is solved. Our work is ns good as
done.
It is not to be supposed, however, for a moment, that the most skilfully adjusted organization gives us in itself any new forces. It has no
creative energy in this direction, nor should we rely upon it as though
it hurl. Associated action simply affords us, in another and more convenient form, the forces already existing ; and in our estimate of available means, for present or future use, the unit of calculation must ever
be, not the organization, but the individual therein. And the aggregate
of the individual capacity for executive labor, or pecuniary givrhg, or
spiritual power, gives you the sum total of the means placed at your
disposal—neither mote nor less—by the perfected organization.
•That mischievous idea, floating illy-defined in the minds of many,
that a Society, like this has in some way a sort of inherent vitality and
power of indefinite onward working, should be forever discarded by all
the true friends of God and humanity ; for it need not be said that a
false conception like this can work nothing but injury to the individual,
as well as disaster to the Society, and to the cau-se for the furtherance of
which it exists. A correct, truthful idea of such an Association as this,
is rather that by its entire helplessness, aside from our individual
agenty, it becomes a new and perpetual incentive to a more abounding
zeal and more faithful labor, rather, in behalf of our fellow-men, through
its good offices.
But we have other wants not provided for, for the full success of our
undertaking.
2. We need money.
We have some, but the amount is painfully small. We need more,
that is, if we would be classed among the live progressive agencies of
the time—as wide awake, both to the claims of humanity and to those
of God.
Located as this Society is, in the midst of a foreign community noted
for generous giving, and to a large extent certainly not hostile to the
objects at which it aims, it has ever seemed to me that it has not yet
felt impelled by a true inward conviction to that large-hearted, practical
recognition of its indebtedness to this wasting people which duty demands at its hands, and which it has been wont to recognize in other
channels of well-doing.
That the indebtedness of which I speak is not a mere figment of
fancy, but exists as a sober fact, and rests with an imperative responsibility upon each and every one of us residing in these islands who bears
the foreign name, I would fain believe is a truth honestly accepted by
each of those now before me.
■
Coming hither from other and mare enlightened lands, we come inevitably as representatives of those lands. A higher civilization and a
more ndvanced Christianity are, willingly or unwillingly, impersonated
in us, worthily or unworthily, as the case may be. And, whilst claiming for ourselves a superiority in those respects, which is readily conceded, we surely cannot desire, selfishly and stingily, to monopolize the
blessings of our nobler birthright! The goodly lands we represent are
known and read of all men, not only as opening wide their arms to receive the oppressed and degraded of every name, but also as generously
employed in sen-ling abroad to every race the free offer of the choicest
privileges, social and religious, which they themselves possess.
And shall we, who have come to dwell among this kind-hearted
people, aim to do less than that ? Whilst we freely receive of theirs,
shall we parsimoniously hesitate to bestow upon them in return our better gifts ? If, by the blessing of_God, we have a richer inheritance than.
Hawaiians, as we would answer for it in the final day, let us make them,
so far as we may, by liberal pecuniary offerings, as well as by individual example and by positive and persistent effort, partakers with ourselves in this richer inheritance. By the love of our common Father,
by the redemption of our common Lord, we are bound to seek the peace
and prosperity of those among whom we dwell, and to do it, moreover,
in no stinted measure, but liberally, generously, as God has dealt with
us and ours. And who can doubt that, even on lower grounds than
these, we are bound thus to contribute to the well-being of a people
through whose aid we come to accumulate stores of wealth ? Even as
a matter of shrewd business policy it should be done. " Give alms of
such things as ye have and behold all things are clean unto you," is
one of those simple yet far-reaching utterances of Jesus which are read,
but which few, in its intimate practical application, trouble themselves
to comprehend. Its meaning is nevertheless plain. If one would secure the favor of God upon his business enterprises, let him give, in
due proportion to his gains, to the needy on every side of him. This is
an offering acceptable to God. And wherever it is liberally provided
for in the adjustment of one's business plans, directed by ordinary
soundness of judgment, by the general consent of those of large experience, pecuniary disaster is rarely known to fall. And, had 1 the persuasive eloquence of an angel, and were thus able to induce those who
hear me to make in their business arrangements a generous provision
for the highest welfare of this people, with whom our lot has been cast,
through this and kindred organizations, I am sure that, as the principles of God's providential government are sound, there would thereby
be introduced into the condnct of their affairs a large and positive element of permanent success.
But I remark
3. We need more earnest workers.
These are essential prerequisites to earnest work. Ido not now refer
to those specifically set apart to the service of the Society, but to others ;
for in every Christian community there are always found those outside
of the official pale who are the most persistent and effective workers
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both for God and man. #Let us fix it in our minds, as a settled truth, j not only that these demands are felt, but that in many bosom
the high and holy purpose to meet them in
that the Hawaiian people is not to be saved by the single item of Mis- j has already been formed
we must come, or these souls about
sionary effort, distinctively such. If this is to be accomplished, the j Jesus' name. And to this resolve
sheafless
the
their
us
and
we
to the great Harvest Home of
come
to
line
of
inevitably
perish,
go
up
friends of Jesus throughout the islands must
the
world.
bear
the
laid
responsibilities
and
willingly,
joyfully,
calling,
yea
high
Our foreign communities are supposed to know little shout the social
upon them by our common Lord. For their own profit as well as for
care little. I speak
His honor, and for the well-being of the entire community, this respon- or religious interests of Hawaiians, and hence to
And, were the whole truth to be told, probably little dispothe
generally.
Besides,
all.
there
is
at
been
laid
us
upon
has
equally
sibility
of society
present time a peculiarly urgent and solemn necessity for a most pro- j sition would be found to penetrate deeper into the conditions aware,
for
it now exists around us. There are cogent reasons, lam
nounced coming out and standing up for Jesus. How el?e are our as
Christian, nor is it
such
a feeling.
Vet
to
to
this
is
not
yield
feeling
that
are
to
crown
our
adorahonors
behold
the
accumulated
longings to
ble Lord ever to be satisfied ? How else is sin to be drawn out, and the humane. Would there were abroad among us more of the large-hearted
Roman r " Nothing permultiplied blessings of salvation to come, in an ever-increasing harvest, sentiment so nobly expressed by the heathen
me."
A sentiment noble, intaining
attain
to
human
welfare
but
interests
else
are
we
ourselves
to
How
upon this perishing population ?
because, even coming
from
but
deed,
not
because
it
come
heathen
lips,
Christ
Jesus
?
the fulness of the perfect stature of men in
philosophy is so broad and far-reaching.
The truth is, there has too long existed in the minds of our foreign from such lips, its genuine
community—even those known ns the uncompromising friends of mo- Let it incite us, who bear the Christian name, to a more thoroughofpracour
rality and religion—a too great willingness to leave to Missionories the tical appreciation of the nobler and more authoritative injunctions
great
of
for
nil
and
undertaken
enterprises
responsibility
entire management
thy neighbor as thyself."
the spiritual good of this people. Now this is clearly an injustice
" Love
to all, as ye have opportunity."'
both to God and man.
" Do good
one
burdens."
ye
friends
of
Bear
reasons
all
who
to
be
profess
the
why
There are
weightiest
""As ye would another's
that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them."
virtue and religion should be prepared, in times like the present, to be
Our Hawaiian neighbor may be poor, socially degraded, and morally
known as such, not in name merely, but in deed, It cannot be right
indiNevertheless he is a man, and for him, not less than for the
corrupt.
life,
should
absorb
the
of
this
totally
that the world, the business
vidual, leaving not even a tithe for God and humanity. No man ran honorable tind highly favored, Heaven stooped to earth, and Jesus, its
so wrap himself up in the triple brass of selfishness and be guiltless. First Born, was nailed upon the Cross.
Let it not, I pray you, be accepted as a foregone conclusion that the
His Maker has claims against him which cannot be shaken off; and so
has society. Believe me, thajre is something more valuable than gold. less-favored race is, by some stern law of necessity, to be ruthlessly
it
Accumulated wealth is not the supreme good, affirm it though some swept from the earth by the advance of the more favored. I know
may, believe it though more do. Piles of precious metal can never is easy to generalise from the accumulated facts of the past, and to rerepresent more than their earthly equivalent. They can never stretch gard it as a fixed rule that the aborigines must give way before the adaway beyond and certify to any soul its title to Heaven. We need vancing tread of civilization j meaning thereby that they may be pessomething that can do this, and that something is the favor of God, se- tered and pushed from their own rightful inheritance, till the sod has,
a tear, been laid over the last remnant of the race ; and all this
cured by a life of loving, active obedience, through faith in Jesus without
without
fain
the
in
cctnpunction, because, forsooth, fate has decreed it!
service
that
would
name
I
urge,
Christ. And it is this very
But let us not so narcotise our consciences. For humanity's sake—
of our gracious Lord, and in the name of those for whom He died, upon
the attention of all whom voice or pen can reach throughout these yea, for the sake of our common Father and our redeeming Lord, let vi
islands. Oh, for a clarified spiritual vision ! for eyes touched by the not be too ready thus to generalise that dark and shameful chapter of
finger of Jesus and freed from this thick film of worldliness! for the facts which has been gathering ever since Columbus first stepped foot
upon American soil, and which, sad to say, is not yet concluded.
gracious spirit,
•• Upon the eyeballs of Ibe blind
Rightly used, those records would indeed tell us of that insatiate greed
To pour celestial dity I"
ot gold, which, in the service of the dominant races, has pitilessly trampled its untold myriads to a hopeless death. But surely no fixed law
Another want which is greatly felt in our work is,
4. A more cordial sympathy with the people —a more practical fellow- of Providence, or of a true civilization, is here indicated. An infinitely
benevolent Father has not thus unfeelingly left his helpless ones to be
feeling with and for Hawaiians.
Even with the professedly religious and friendly element in the com- cruelly crushed under the heel of a diabolical selfishness.
Whatever causes of decrease are or have been operative among this
munity, there is altogether too much working at arms length. The
short arm of the lever is too long for the economical expenditure of the people, are easily comprehended ; and as those from other lands gave
forces at our disposal. We have need to get nearer the object to he birth to ihese causes, and have mainly endowed them with perpetuity,
moved, and to understand better its character and conditions. Other- there is a special fitness in the demand that through their agency, too,
wise we must not feel surprise if a retributive Providence suffers the they should be checked or eradicated. It is easy to say that this is an
Man of Rome to seduce from the old paths many for whose salvation impossible undertaking, I am well aware, and thus excuse oneself from
active effort, if not from all outworking sympathy for the people. But
the Protestant Mission was established.
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No amount of zeal or of pecuniary gifts can replace a genuine fellow- faith and facts are both against us. The monstrous licentiousness of
feeling in any agency for drawing men to God, or even in drawing the Corinthians, notorious the world over, cultivated as a shameless art,
them from a lower to a higher and purer social condition. A genuine yielded to the preaching of the Cross. And Roman pollution, too, (an
effective sympathy with this people is what we pre-eminently need. I unfathomable abyss, the extent of which history partially discloses, and
repeat it. Not that of the Priest and the Levite, which can look upon which the revelations of Pompeii are but too faithfully giving us afresh,)
them, and, with an affected sanctity, pass by on the other side ; for we sustained, as it was, by the entire power of Paganism, quailed before
have had enough of that; but that of the Good Samaritan, which can tbe early approach of the Gospel, and was vanquished in the contest
not only " look " upon their necessities, but which can go, as well, and which ensued.
It was the pebble and the sling against the giant, over again ; and so
with its own hands pour in the healing balm, and, if need be, even
set them upon its own beast and take them to the fold of the Good it has ever been, is, and will ever be, to a steadfast faith. It is this
faith only, grounded upon the divine promises, and the Holy Spirit
Shepherd for shelter and care.
The bare recognition of the necessities of a people, or the periodical made effectjal through a genuine sympathy with this people, that will
bestowment of a contribution, or even personal service for their benefit, now give us success in the work, which in the name and strength of
without the genuine sympathy that moves and opens hearts, is of little God, we have upon our hands. We need, too, just now, an obstinate
practical avail. What we need is the capacity for becoming all things pertinacity of faith, that will not yield the day, or for a moment indulge
to all men, and so show the world that we practically hold to the true tbe thought of giving over the remnant of the Hawaiian nation to the
This power of hell. If the warfare is stubborn and desperate, so it is everyApostolic succession. This alone is the spirit of Jesus.
self-denying, pains-taking purpose, working out through the law of where in this sin-cursed world. The conditions of life and character
Christian love, this alone, achieves miracles in penetrating the hardest are everywhere the same, and the same tried and trusty weapon with
hearts and reforming the most hopelessly degraded lives. And this, which those before us have wrought exploits for the truth, even the
too, is the very thing which the exigences of the present demand at our Gospel of God's crucified Son, we, also, still wield, or may wield for
the salvation of the Hawaiian race; and shame on us if from »ny causa
hands. Shall this demand be met ?
We may at least thank God that on every side there are indications, we fail to achieve victory therewith 1
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And this brings me to mention, as another of our wants
6. A more specific and positive faith in God, and in divine truth as
the single instrument of human salvation.
Not that human eloquence, learning and skill are to be rejected, provided, always, that as subordinates, they can be made to hold up everywhere and always the only name under Heaven whereby they can be
saved." Still, it is not to be denied that, as a saving agency, the wisdom of the world is "foolishness" with God. And the great Apostle
counts it all as dung, that he may, for himself and for others, win
Christ and be found in Him. He gloried in but one single thing. That
was in the vicarious sacrifice of the Cross.
Putting all else beneath his feet, he concentrated the entire forces of
his being to this dVie resolute purpose, of proclaiming the crucified and
risen Jesus as the one only sacrifice for nil the spiritual maladies of our
race. He knew, indeed, that "to the Jews it was a stumbling-block
and to the Greeks foolishness." Yet by this very foolishness of
"
preaching" he also knew it pleased God to save them that believe.
Thus " knowing in whom he belived," and assured that the " foolishness of God was wiser than men," we see how it was lhat he determined, even among the highly-cultivated and fastidious Corinthians, to
know nothing save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He could not dally
upon outside considerations, but opened up at once the power and glory
of the Gospel, in its individual application to the hearts of men. And
now it is just this resolute faith of the Apostle in the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, as the sole specific for nil human necessities, that we need today, to fire anew our zeal and give assurance of the coming victory.
Let it be. therefore, our glory, as it was His, to know nothing but
Christ and Him crucified for the salvation of men. Tell us not of imposing rites or a pompous ceremonial, neiiher of salvation flowing from
consecrated finger-ends, nor yet of priestly offices, which, shutting out
the broad and blessed Sun of Revelation, would stupidly send us to
God by candle-light. Away with tlifoe borrowed baubles of heathenism ! Give us a pure Christianity, and in beautiful apostolic simplicity
let us point this people to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of
the world.
And let it be our constant joy to know that one of ihe crifwning glories of the Gospel which we lubor to bestow upon this people is out and
out individuality. For the mere accidents of human character it has
no partiality. It knows nothing of authoratative monopolies through
whose officious agency alone its grace may be vouchsafed to the spiritually needy; nor with aggjegations of men has it anything to do. To
corporations or organizations it has not one word to say, save, indeed,
as they may be the proper and healthful outgrowth of individual men.
To the man it speaks directly—to the individual man. Abject and despised he may be, morally corrupt and undone he certainly is ; nevertheless he is a child of God, and by the sign manual of Heaven he has
in reversion a celestial- birthright. A Lazarus in rags, repulsive to
sight, he may be now, and thankful for the kindly sympathy and companionship of dogs, but to-morrow's sun shall find him entered upon his
promised inheritance, a child of glory reposing in Abraham's bosom.
This, I repeat, is one of the crowning glories of the Gospel, and with
what fixedness of hope and faith should it not inspire us! By divine
authority we .iffer its weal'.h of blessing directly to the living soul, and
upon that soul also we lay its solemn and weighty responsibilities. It
is what he needs, for it is his Father's provision for its extremest necessities. With his political relations it may not, perhaps, directly meddle, nor with his social standing. It is enough that he was made in
the image of his Creator; enough that, as such, he is a subject of God's
moral government. For him, as such, the Cross on Calvary was
reared. For him attoning blood was shed. To him comes the offer of
life or death, and, as the steward of this manifold grace of God, naked
and alone shall he come at length to the final Judgment Seat.
Divide this heirship to the bounteous pifts and responsibilities of the
Gospel you cannot, neither the one nor the other. Each individual of
the rose if personally heir to the whole. No Church can interdict it,
no priest circumscribe it, no Bishop lay his finger" upon it. Such is the
Gospel committed to us ; such its relations and dealings with man.
Outside of it there are no motives that can touch the conscience, or savingly affect the life, spiritual or material. THts can ; and we should
never forget it. It is well to recur often to what it has done, that sight
as well as faith may be assured and stagger not at the promise of what
it i» surely to do. Think of that first quarter of a century after Jesus
hung upon the Cross! Run your eye over the Epistles. Romans,
Corinthians, Gallatians, Ephesiane, Phillipians, Colossians, Thessalonvans A marvelous catalogue ! They indicate to us, in the briefest
'""J*' not R WO W
by some proud earthly monarch,
but by the simple story of the Cross- I'and that, too, against the com-
"
k°k
*
bined powers of civil and religious despotism, of earth and hell.
Again, tune your thoughts to the conquests of the truth within the
present century. Time would fail us even to run through the catalogue of territories and peoples won for Christ, both from Popery and
from Paganism, on continent and on island. And it is worthy of remark, in passing, that not one trophy thus won for Christ has again reverted to the foe. Recall, too, in this connection, what the Gospel has
done for these islands. We are sometimes inclined to underrate the
magnitude of the work actually accomplished. In this we are wrong.
When our foes exultingly tell us that a fox running upon the, wall
which the Gospel has erected among the Hawaiian people would weak
it down, it is not perhaps surprising that, for the moment, in the midst
of great discouragements, too, we are half inclined to believe them.
But is it so ?
Point to whatever valuable institutions or conditions of life you will,
now existing among us, civil, social, religious or political, and every
particular one of them has something more than a poor dumb mouth
with which to speak for our Immanuel and the power of His Cross. It
is both well and wise to strengthen our faith by this survey. We have
need thus to be prepared for what the immediate future is yet to reveal
to us, and need also to assure ourselves that the sword of the Lord and
of Gideon is yet in our hands. And with this trusty weapon, in the
Name of Names, the Church of God on these fair islands shall yet cut
her way to victory through all her gathered foes.
But I hasten to the last of our wants which time will allow to be
named, viz :
6. A more practical Christianity.
In other words, a Christianity embodied in the every-day man, and
not simply in the sleek and pious church-goer on the Sabbath.
Our religion is too ethereal and delicate to bear the coarse scrutiny
and test of this ordinary business life of ours. We need something
with more tangible substance to it; something that can better "rough it"
in the world. No mere theory of Christianity, apart from its actual
adaptedness to the common necessities of life, is for us worth a moment's thought. That which solely attracts our interest to-night is
Religion as a reforming and saving agency, both in its actual performance and in its known capacity for effective work among men. It matters little to us, even though its indicated capacity as a system be infinite, so long as its actual working is partial and imperfect. The skilful engineer is never satisfied until he can work up his engine to its
given capacity ; and if he gets but half the indicated power therefrom,
he is sure that there is a defective working of it. And so we, in working the system of means which God has given for reforming and saving
men, whilst painfully conscious of the imperfect results actually attained, are sure that our working of the system is defective.
Now, it is manifestly absurd in us to expect to accomplish the vast
work which we have in hand, with forces so painfully inadequate as we
find them. The children of this world exhibit no such stupidity; why
should the children of light ? Is it written in the book or God's decrees that the former shall be wiser in their generation than the latter?
Or is this the mere statement of a humiliating fact, whose existence is
conditioned upon no fixed necessity, but simply upon a defective spiritual economy, persistently believed in and pushed laboriously on to its
meagre results ? Can we doubt which ? And we know, too, where the
great defect lies.
Give us, therefore, not a new religion —we are right there—hii* a
new system of spiritual economy, vitalized by the fresh element of
power to be found in the honest application of Christianity to the ordinary
business oflife.
We are told that the results of forty-five years of Christian toil
among this people are not commensurate with their cost in treasure and
human energies ; and, vast as these results are, I am far from disputing
the allegation. Considering the large numbers, in every department of
life, who have borne the Christian name, and still bear it, in these
islands, the results are indeed unsatisfactory, and it is by no means difficult to tell why. Our religion, instead of occupying its rightful position as the controlling power in the conduct of life, has been made far
too generally to dance attendance upon our worldly interests; and so
accustomed have we become -to this method of Christian life, that not
only the world—the outside sinners—but many even of the baptised
children of the Kingdom have come to accept it as an established truth
that worldly business cannot be successfully conducted if under the
control ofreligion !
And this is precisely the debasing idea that is now being diffused
throughout the native community, viz, that there can be no joint agency
of the Divine with the ea'rrhly principle in conducting the every-day
affairs of life ! as though religion were a Utopian scheme and the Bible
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE FRIEND.
.
!
And so, when one takes to business
a book of impracticable precepts
of any sort, he feels that he follows high precedents in eschewing the
to be
Divine law as his guiding light, and following what he supposesfervent
in
business,
Not
slothful
and
better
judgment.
his own wiser
"
in spirit, serving the Lord," is to him, as to others, an unmeaning in-
congruity.
Now, can any people ever be Christianized on grounds so low ana
unworthy as these ? I do not ask if they can be brought into the
Church thereby, for they may be, as others have been, both in this and
other lands. But we do not hold to baptismal regeneration. Heathenism baptised is heathenism still, and baptised worldliness ii, worldliness
still, call it by what name you please.
But this people have long since been able to comprehend the discrepancy that exists everywhere among them between the religion of the
Bible, as read and as preached to them, and that which is thus pracWith their religious teachers, they approve the former and acknowledge, as readily as we do, its divine excellence, whilst, as human
nature is, they naturally and almost inevitably content themselves with
practising the latter, and think they do a< well as their employers and
acknowledged superiors. And is this to be disputed ?
We cannot now stop to speak of the domestic and more private relaIslands if
tions which we hold to Hawaiians; but look abroad over the our
the
of
management
great
if,
fairness
in
say,
and
all
in
you will,
plantations, for example, and other important enterprises which absorb
is practical Christianity
and control all the native labor available, theremake
the faintest appreenough—l will not say humanity enough—to
ciable show. I mean, of course, as seen by Hawaiian and other em-
tised.'
....
ployes.
Let us not deceive ourselves. Hawaiians are not slow in estimating
the sort of Christianity that simply treats them as beasts of burden,
without the slightest actual provision for their wants as immortal beings. A Christianity that works them incessantly for six days of the
week not to say more, even, than that—and then turns them adrift on
Again, I repeat, a new religious life is what we perishinglv need ;
and everythat, conscious of the abiding presence of Jesus, shall always themselves,
where stand up for Him. And, whilst art and science gird
as now, for the conquest of the material world, is Religion, which alone
gives beauty and significance to both, with careless mien and folded
arms to sit idly by ? Has she, too, no conquests to win for Him whose
name she bears? No trophies for Christ! And this, too, in the year
when expectation stands on tiptae, and faith beholds the raillenial dawn
already streaking the hill-tops with coming glory ! It cannot, surely,
be! It must not be ! The Master says it. Our faith and love both
forbid it. We must work the work of Him that sent us whilst it is
day !
And how sqlemn as eternity are the motives which urge us onward
to our work, to a quickened zeal and a stronger faith—to a new and
higher religious life in and for our adorable Lord !
The time is short. Soon our work will have come to an end, and
the grave will have closed over us forever. Forever, did I say? No.
Christ is the Resurrection and the Life. In Him toiling and not faint,
in Him trusting and not ashamed—yet a little while and He will come
and take us to our waiting thrones on high ; and—cheering, glorious
thought—not us only. Multitudes of these despised ones for whom He
died and we toil, shall, through atoning grace, there reign with us too;
and together we shall sing, in sweetest harmony, the Song of Moses
and the Lamb.
Members of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
Hawstl.
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
Rev. T. Coan, Rev. D. B. Lyman, Chas. H. Wetmore, M. D., Hilo.
Rev. J. F. Pogue, Kau.
Rev. J. D. Paris, Kealakeakua.
Rev. L. Lyons, Waimea.
Rev. E. Bond, Kohala Akaa.
the Sabbath, without even the care bestowed upon the cattle, and so
NATIVE pastors.
drawing them down by an inevitable process of demoralization (and by
Pohano,
Hakalau.
Rev.
T.
no hesitating process either) towards barbarism and death. This cariRev. J. Kauhane, Paliuka.
cature of Christianity is not, nor was it ever -designed to be, in any
S. W. Papaula, Kapalilua.
land, the power of God nor the wisdom of God for tbe salvation of ' Rev.
Rev.
J.
W. Kupakee, Helani.
men.
O.
W. Pilipo, Kailua.
Rev.
ever
to
be
this,
better
than
our
work
is
if
Now, we need a religion
Kekaha.
Kaonohimaka,
Rev.
done ; a religion from which are eliminated all these unnatural excresPali, Kawaihae.
Rev.
A.
we
short,
these
fatal
defects
are
remedied.
In
which
ences, and in
Rev. S. C. Luhiau, Kohala Komahana.
His Word, heavenly
need the sort of Christianity that God gives us inwell
Rev. S. Kukahekahe, Waipio.
as
divine
its
in
humane
as
in
as
well
as
its
origin,
its
aspect
in
Mail.
relahis
two-fold
nature
and
in
man
ever
practical teachings, regarding
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
this
sort
of
Chrisations, and striving to bless him in both. Give us
Rev. D. Baldwin, Lahaina.
tianity, not as a beautiful ideal but as a tangible substance, touching and
S. E. Bishop, Rev. C. B. Andrews, Lahainaluna.
Rev.
and
our
point,
Hawaiian
life
at
conceivable
every
blessing this actual
W. P. Alexander, Rev. Thos. G. Thurston, W. Bailey, WaiRev.
wor|j God's work—on these islands shall be speedily accomplished, luku.
and the top stone shall be brought forth with shoutings of grace, grace
Rev. J. P. Green, Makawao.
uno »t!
, , conceivable
NATIVE PASTORS.
S
•, •
li
avail is the
But, at this stage of human progress, of what
Moku,
Rev.
J.
Kaanapali,
H.
fro;n the marts
religion that, either doubtful or ashamed, sneaks away
Rev. S. KrAnakahiki, Keanae.
the planta8f trade—from the ship's deck, the dock, the counting-room,
Rev. H. Manase, Honuaula.
tion—whilst in the prayer-meeting and on the Sabbath, when secular
Hol.kal.
can
to
to
exhort
faithfulness
zealously
business is safely in abeyance,
FOREIGN MISSIONARY.
Him who redeemed them with His blood, and who said, too, He that is Rev. A O. Forbes, Kaluaaha.
ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of him?
NATIVE PASTOR.
Out upon the Christianity that, in the last half of the nineteenth
Rev. S. W. Nueku, Halawa.
Laaal.
century, and in the light of the last fifty years, can read the second
Psalms, and still hesitate and apologise in putting its foot significantly
NATIVE PASTOR.
of our beRev. E. Pali.
forward for Christ. Fools and fanatics there may be danger
and
do somebut
is
not
better
to
be
fools
the
world
it
goes,
as
•Mas
coming,
Rev. Asa Thurston, Honolulu, without charge, by reason of age.
thing for our blessed Lord and for our race, than weak-backed and
Rev. Artemas Bishop, Honolulu, without charge, by reason of age.
fearful worldly-wise ones, whose noblest aim is to sit astride the fence
and
strive
to
serve
world,
His
from
the
Rev. P. J. Gulick, Honolulu, without charge, by reason of age.
vainly
divides
Kingdom
which
Rev. Lorrin Andrews, Honolulu, employed on the native language.
them both ?
Rev. L. Smith, D. D., Honolulu, Pastor Second Church.
It is a bootless task to aim at the regeneration of any people by such
Rev, H. H. Parker, Honolulu, Pastor First Church.
an agency as this. As a working power, without a fresh baptism from
Rev. L. H. Gulick, Honolulu, Corresponding Secretary of the Board
on high, it is well-nigh played out; and hence it is that our work
has
of
on
our
hands.
What
the
the Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
adequate
triumphs
heavily
so
hangs
Rev. S. C. Damon, Honolulu, Pastor Bethel Union Church,
Cross won through our agency within the last half-score of years ?
Rev. E. Corwin, Honolulu, Pastor Fort street Church.
What new trophies have these years given us, which to-night we may
Satan
is
not
to
be
under
W. D, Alexander, A. M., Honolulu, President Oahu College.
easily
thus
bruised
Nay,
?
feet
lay at Jesus'
Rev. J. S. Emerson, Waialua, without charge from failure of health.
our feet. In this conflict Christ' indeed is to win, but He is to win
through the unstinted devotion of the Church He has purchased with Rev. O. H. Gulick, Waialua, Principal of Female Seminary.
•
.
•
.
His own blood.
Rev. B. W. Parker, Kaneohe.
�SUPPLEMENT TO THE FRIEND.
78
FORMERLY MISSIONARIES, NOW IN SECULAR EMPLOYMENTS, HONOLULU.
.
E. O. Hall, S. N. Castle, Amos Cooke, G. P. Judd, M, D., Henry
Dimond, Honolulu.
NATIVE PASTORS.
Rev. A. Kaoliko, Waianaje.
Rev. M. Kuaea, Waialua.
Rev. Z. Poli, Waikane.
Rev. S. Waiwaiole, Waimanalo.
OF THE TREASURER OF THE
HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
RECEIPTS FROM JI \K 1,
...
I'ioui Hawaii.
Kapalilua, S. W. Papuula,
....
Hilo, T. Coan,
Kailua, Pilipo,
- Waimea, L. Lyons,
Dr. J. Wight, Kohala, ....
South Kona, J. D. Paris, .
We§t Kohala, S. C. Luhiau, - ...
South Kohala, A. Pali,
.
NATIVE PASTORS.
at
Makawao, Maui.
Missionaries to Micronesia.
.'tension Island, (Ponapr.)
Ronokxsi —Rev. A. A. Sturges, Rev. E. T. Doane, American Missionaries.
Marshall Mantis.
Ebon—Rev. B. G. Snow, American Missionary; H. Aea, Hawaiian
Missionary.
Namarik—J. A. Kaelemakule, Hawaiian Missionary.
Jaluit—Rev. D. Kapali, Hawaiian Missionary.
Gilbert Islands.
Butaritari—Rev. J. W. Kano, R. Maka, Hawaiian Missionaries.
Apaiang—Rev. W. B.Kapu, D. P. Aumai, Hawaiian Missionaries.
Tarawa —Key. J. H. Mahoe, G. Haina, Hawaiian Missionaries.
Missionaries to the Marquesas Islands.
MISSIONARIES OF BOAKD OF HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION.
Uopou —Rev. S. Kauwealoha.
Hivaoa—Rev. I. Kekela, Rev. Z. Hapuku, J. W. Laioha.
Fatuiva—Rev. J. W. Kaiwi, Rev. A. Kaukau.
Hamakua Centre, P. Kaaikuahiwi,
West. Hamakua, S. Kukahekahe,
East Hamakua, S. Kamelamela,
Children of J. D. Paris,
...
....
.....
....
....
From Mitui.
Lahaina, D. Baldwin,
D. Baldwin,
Mrs. Baldwin,
D. D. Baldwin,
Miss E. S. Baldwin,
Miss H. M. Baldwin,
A Friend in Lahaina,
Hana, S. E. Bishop,
Keanae, S. Kamakahiki,
Makawao, J. S. Grean,
Wailuku, W. P. Alexander,
-
Students at Lahainaluha,
Members of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association for M. C. Fort street Church,
1866-67.
flflletrs.
President—Rev. T. Coan.
Vice President—Dr. G. P. Judd.
Corresponding Secretary—Rev. L. H. Gulick.
Recording Secretary—Rev. H. H. Parker.
Treasurer— E. O. Hall, Esq.
Auditor—l. Bartlett, Esq.
■sßslMwa
FIRST CLASS.
Rev. S. W. Nueku, Molokai.
S. N. Castle, Esq., Oahu.
Rev. L. Smith, D. D., Oahu.
Rev. H. H. Parker, Oahu.
Prof. Church, Oaha.
Pres. W. D. Alexander. Oahu.
Rev. J. W. Smiih,M. D., Kauai.
Rev. E. Helekunihi, Kauai.
SECOND CLASS.
Rev. J. D. Paris, Hawaii.
Rev. J. W. Kupakee, Hawaii.
Rev. J. F. Pogue, Hawaii.
Rev. E. Corwin, Oahu.
Rev. A. Kaoliko, Oahu.
Rev. B. W. Parker, Oahu.
Hon. John li, Oahu.
Major W. L. Moehonua, Oahu.
THIRD CLASS.
Rev. T. Coan, Hawaii.
Key. E. Bond, Hawaii.
Rev. W. Pilipo, Hawaii.
Rev. W. P. Alexander, Maui.
I. Bartlett, Esq., Oahu.
G. P. Judd, M. D., Oahu.
Rev. S. C. Damon, Oahu.
Rev. M. Kuaea, Oahu.
CwaMUttee*.
81,050 84
Balance June 1, 1865,
Rev. J. W. Smith, Rev. D. Dole, Koloa.
Rev. E. Johnson, A. Wilcox, Waioli.
N. B. Rev. J. S. Green, Independent Pastor
1865, TO MAY SI, 18««.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
kaial.
FOREIGN MISSIONARIES.
Rev. E. Helekuniki, Anaholu.
Rev. J. Waiamau, Lihue.
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
-
...
...
- ...
- ....
Waialua, M. Kuaea,
Waimanalo, S. Waiwaiole,
From a Sailor, by Mr. Damon,
-
Mr. Pahukula,
Mission Children's Society,
Waimea, J. W. Smith,
Koloa, J. W. Smith,
Waioli, E. Johnson,
-
-
-
......
From Kauai.
-
Missionary Society at Waioli,
.Missionary Society at Koolau,
....
....
Halawa, Nueku,
Kaluaaha, A. O. Forbes,
From Holokal.
Foreign Missions —S. C. Damon, M. Kuaea, H. H. Parker, W. L. Kalaupapa,
Moehonua.
•
Home Missions—G. P. Judd, John li, W. D. Alexander, L. Smith.
From I lion.
Publications— E. Corwin, £. O. Hall, H. H. Parker, H. M. Whitney. M. C. Ebon, H. Aea,
Education—B. W. Parker, W. D. Alexander, A. Kaoliko.
M. C. Ebon, avails of oil, •
Appropriations from A. B. C. F. M.—S. N. Castle, B. W. Parker,
J. D. Paris.
From Apaiang.
Ur«l (oasßlUffs •■ F.dnratlon.
M. C, J. W. Kanoa,
Havmt—3. D. Paris, T. Coan, C. H. Wetmore, D. B. Lyman, J. F.
From Tarawa.
Pogue.
M. C, J. Mahoe,
MauL~W. P. Aleiander, S. E. Bishop, A. 0. Forbes, H Manase.
Kauri—J. W. Smith, E. Johnson.
Amount carried forward.
-
-
1,489 00
339
25
5
10
2
2
50
00
00
00
00
00
10 00
8 75
17 25
' 40 00
20 50
From "aim.
. ....
- . .
900 00
73 00
104 00
20 00
200 00
31 00
20 00
29 00
29 00
24 00
15 00
18 68
...
Kaumakapili,
Kawaiahao, H. H. Parker,
Kaneohe, B. W. Parker,
Waianae, Kaoliko,
Hauula, M. Kuaea and Ukeke,
Collection after An. Sermon by B. G. Snow
H. Manase,
"
"
G. P." Judd,
Mr. Ukeke,
Messrs. Hoffschlaeger & Stapenhorst,
8 35 00
....
498 68
74 10
143 98
601 62
79 00
5 50
18 50
105 50
81 12
20 00
2 00
25 00
33 25
59 25
50
2 00
150 00
•
1,401 32
46 50
170
46
50
7
00
40
25
25
320 40
93 25
90 90
2 75
2 87
44 48
186 90
47 35
22 25
11 00
•6,027 74
�.
TMEHON
FR.
Amount brought forward,
- •
- - - - - - - - -- -- - -- - - - .- -- - -- - -- -- - -- •
-
•
•
From California.
Sabbath School First Congregational Church,
85,027 74
Balance June 1, 1865,
200 00 From A. B. C. F. M.
From the I mini States.
From the A. B. C. F. M. for Micronesia,
Total receipts Foreign Missions,
-
From Hawaii.
Kapaliuka, J. Kauhane,
Students of Mr. Lyman's School, Hilo,
Dr. Wetmore, Hilo,
North Kahala, E. Bond,
Kau, O. H. Gulick,
South Kona, J. D. Paris,
North Kohala, E. Bond,
South Kohala, A. Pali,
West Kohala, Luihau,
Waimea, L. Lyons,
Hamakua Centre, P. Kaaikuahiwi,
West Hamakua, S. Kukahekahe,
East Hamakua, S. Kamelamela,
-
-
- --
Waianae,
•
•
50 00
450 00
132 34
230 00
114 50
18 00
20 00
62 00
13 00
10 00
8 68
From Oahn.
M. C. Fort street Church,
Ewa, J. Bicknell,
Waialua, M. Kuaea,
109 95
8 00
143 25
8 25
•*
...
From Kauai.
Koolau, E. Helekunihi,
Wailuku, W. P. Alexander,
-
Kaluaaha, A. O. Forbes,
...
From Mini.
From Molokai.
-
Total receipts General Fund,
-
-
--
HOME MISSIONS.
Balance June 1, 1865,
From Oaho.
A. B. C. F. M.,
■
-
From the Inlted States.
Dr. J. Wright, Kohala,
Total Expenditures,
Balance,
.
From Nasi.
From Hawaii.
2,100 00
18 67
24 00
8691 50
8200 00
82,209 61
8 60 42
456 05
237 16
2,000 00
2,753 63
... - ....
PERSONAL.
•
-
-
-
869 86
87,137 41
•
- - ...
- -- - - -- - -.... - - CR.
Audited and found correct,
Honolulu, June 6, 1866.
24
823,310 03
16,172 62
■
BALANCES.
1,171 64 To Foreign Missions,
To Home Missions,
To General Fund,
•
To Publications,
To Female Education,
•
269 45 To Theological Education,
To Tract Fund,
12 70 To General Meeting,
To Medical Fund, Micronesian Mission,
43 00 To Personal,
178 77
600 00
..---- 84,963
Total Cash Receipts,
$3,446 46
$ 91 60
FUHLICATIONS.
Balances to Mr. Doane,
Bible Fund Dr.,
«
FiAd, MICRONESIA.
- - - -- - --
Total,
$355 56
- - - - - - ...
....
- ...
- - - -- - - -
Wailuku, W. P. Alexander,
MEDICAL
From A. B. C. F. M.,
43 00
O. H. Gulick, $ 31 6S
Collection after Annual Sermon by
» S. E. Bishop, 113 17
«
33 92
M. C. Fort street Church,
■
$6,927 74
Total,
*
Balance June 1, 1865,
81,906 67 M. C. Fort street Church,
Avails of stock to Binder,
Avails of books sold, L. H. Gulick,
$ 38 12
From A. B. C. F. M.,
25 00
GENERAL FUND.
Balance June 1, 1865,
1,700 00
- -
GENERAL MEETING.
79
■
81,940 33
297 00
3,130 68
882 67
11197
25 12
157 91
461 75
200 00
59 86
87,267 19
129 78
$7,137 41
I. BARTLETT,
Auditor.
Report on the State of the Churches, June, 1866.
To the Hawaiian Evangelical Association .Your Committee having reviewed the several station reports that have
been made to this body by the Pastors of the forty-three Churches here
represented, would present ihe following brief review of their progress
during the past year, and of their present position.
The Freatliln? of the Word.
The Word of Life has been faithfully, intelligently, and regularly
preached, from Sabbath to Sabbath, throughout the land, and not without saving and quickening effect, though no marked or general outpouring of the Holy Spirit has been witnessed.
82,677 00
Total receipts Home Missions,
FEMALE EDUCATION.
Temptation*.
$1,596 23
Balance June 1, 1865,
are now in many places subjected to many strong temptThe
people
29
87
Church,
8
M. C. Fort street
ations, from which in previous years they have been in a measure pro1,600 00
From A. B. C. F. M.,
use of fermented and distilled liquors,
1,629 87 tected. The manufacture and
and also of the native awa, the desecration of the Sabbath, the hula,
added, horse-racing with its concomitants of betting,
$3,226 10 and, it may beidleness, all
Total receipts Female Education,
these have been effectual in separating from
and
gambling,
THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION.
many of the younger members, while also the general
our
Churches
840 12 tendency to dissipation has led a still larger number of the younger
Balance June 1, 1865,
50 00 portion of the adult population to stand aloof from the Sanctuary and
Kona, Hawaii, J. D. Paris,
its influences.
Total,
BIBLE FUND.
Balance June 1, 1865,
Dr. J. Wright, Kohala,
Avails from Dr. L. H. Gulick,
- -- --
8 20 00
552 11
Total,
8282 99
572 11
8855 10
Total,
Balance June 1, 1865,
Avails from L. H. Gulick,
$90 12
TRACT FUND.
-
-
•
-
8 68 74
104 17
8172 91
A Peeallarlty of Hawaiian
(horrors.
One marked feature which is to be noticed in the native Hawaiian
Churches, is that the officers—those who constitute the Executive
Board of the Church—are generally old men, past the energetic period
of life; that the majority of them are upwards of fifty years of age,
while rarely can a single church officer be found under thirty.five
years of age. In those Churches whose pastorate has lately been filled
by young men, it is thought all the more necessary that the faithful
and triedremaining Christians of the past generation, the earlier and
first fruits of the Gospel seed sown in this land, should mostly guard
the ark of God. -A want of confidence in them seems in a great measure to have prevented the younger men too generally from securing
personal responsibility or charge in the perpetuation of the Christian
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE FRIEND.
institution", of the land. The results of this lack of confidence are twofold.
First, that young men, business) men, the men of to-day, are neither found
managing the affairs of the Churches, as officers, nor willing to take part in
aotivo Church operations; and, secondly, timt but few of them are fitted to
take such charge.
%
The attention of Pastors should, we think, bo called to this fact, and they
should be recommended to make special efforts to induce the younger men of
promise and of Christian character to take part in the work and to encourage
them to come forward and assume their share of responsibility in the various
Christian enterprise. Here, as elsewhere, the harvest is abundant
borers are few. The study ofevery Pastor should be to influence all
tpable to enlist as reapers of this harvest.
corned by young and old, as a subscription list of noarly four thousand names
clearly proves. This little herald of tbe day is recommended to the care of
Pastors and Sabbath School Superintendents, who may do a good work in
promoting its circulation.
Tbe Island Associations.
regard the Island Ecclesiastical Associations as important, and tending
Hawaiian Churches. These Associations superintend the Churches under their cure, attend to cases of discipline brought before them, establish new Churches, ordain and set over them Pastors. There
have been ordained and placed over new Churches by these Associations, dur.
ing the past year, four new Pastors, viz. One on the Island of Hawaii, two
on Oahu and one on Kauai, making in all twenty-one Hawaiian ordained
Here Pastors .Veiled,
ministers. Some of the Churches aro destituteof a Pastor to look after the
sheep, to watch over them and preserve them from the wolves that are strainour Churches have, during tho past year, suffered for lack of Pasing hard to scatter the flock. It becomes these Island Associations to observe
iry effort should be made promptly to supply such destitute fields. these institutions, and strive too seek out and speedily place over them Pastors
lued efficiency and vitality of our Churches seeioß to human view to feed and guide theseChurches in the way of life.
pendent upon continued and faithful pastoral labor and care. Destitute Churches at once attract the ever-vigilant eye of the worshippers of
Theological School.
who are not slow to enter, teaching lor doctrines the commandments of
As auxiliary to this work, we regard a Theological School, where persons
shall be trained for the work of Pastors and Preachers, us very important.
A Sign of Piotrress.
Such a School we have commenced at Wailuku. We regard an increase of
r e notice in most of tho Churches a critical spirit, one that judges with pupils as important. We recommend to the Pastors of the several Churches to
more or less intelligence of the capacity, tuleDts and virtues of their Pastors, seek out and induce to enter that School such young men as seem promising
and of candidates for the pastoral office. The standard of character required for the work, so that we may furnish Preachers ana Pastors for the destitute
by the Churches of the native ministry is much higher than it was a few years Churches of these Islands, and also laborers for the various Missions of this
since ; thus indicating an advance in the intellectual and Christian character ocean.
of tho individual church-member and church-goer. Though there may in
Other Institutions of Learning.
some cases be shown a captious and hypercritical spirit, nut the offspring of
The
of
Lahainaluna
also bears a near relation to the work of furSeminary
true wisdom, yet, on the whole, we view this as one of the clearest and most
satisfactory proofs of intellectual and spiritual growth. The effect of such an ninliing pupils for the Theological School. In this Seminary some young men
appreciative spirit can but tend to incite the Pastor to greater diligence and lay the foundation of knowledge suitable to make them pupils in theology.
faithfulness in his labors. An exacting spirit and uncharitable critieiam we So, also, the Hilo Boarding School is important to raise up pupils for the
would most severely condemn; while healthful, kind and appreciative criticism Theological School. But the Theological School at Wailuku is not the only
must bring forth good fruits, stimulating the young Pastor to covet earnestly place where theological teaching is given. Some of the Pastors of the Churches
are teaching young men-, suitablo to become Preachers and Pastors in future
tbe beat gifts.
B>!
We
decidedly to the benefit of tbo
:
Ky,
Christian Young Men should be Encouraged to Knter the Mlnl-irv.
Mindful that several parishes are now destitute of Pastors, and in view of
tbe changes that will be effected by time, we regret to see so few of tho young
men looking forward to the ministry; and we would invite the attention of
the friends of Zion to the duty of setting before the minds of young men of
promise and of Christian character tho claims, tho honors and rewards of this
nigh calling, as well as the sacred responsibility of tbe office.
So far as we know, no one of those young Hawaiians who have enjoyed the
high advantages of English education afforded by the College und tbe High
School (the Royal School) of this city, are looking forward to the ministry,
though the rapid increase of English speaking residents in every parish of the
Inlands loudly calls for those who understand both tho English and Hawaiian
languages to occupy all posts of usefulness.
Sabbath
Schools.
time.
Female Boarding schools.
Female Boarding Schools are very important to prepare Hawaiian girls to
become enlightened mothers und suitable wives for the graduates of Luhitinalunu. Seminary, the Preachers, Pastors, Missionaries to other Islands, und
others. There ore four Female Boarding Schools, under the auspices of our
Evangelical Association, or our faith, embracing one hundred and Jforty-four
pupils. These Schools are at Koloa, on Kauai, Waialua and Makiki on Oahu,
and Miikawuo on Maui. Other Hawaiian girls are trained in the various families of foreigners, mostly Missionaries, of the Islands, and these we think will
number some twenty or more.
We exhort those friends who have girls of suitable age to send them to a
Female Boarding School of their own faith, believing it not consistent to send
them to Schools of other religious persuasions, us some parents have done.
Onr
Warfare.
From the signs of the times, it is very clear that there is to be a warfare,
These are receiving, in many places, more attention than heretofore. They
are, to our view, a most indispensable agency for leading all classes to seek from this time onwards, between darkness and light. The enemies of the pure
Gospel of Christ are cunning, skilful, and ever vigilant in striving to turn men
and know the truth as it is in Christ. If we have the ytffng we have all.
Evidence is most abundant to establish the fact that the study of the Bible from the Bide of truth to that of darkness and error. What tenders this an
may be made as interesting to the youth of Hawaii as to the young of any unequal contest is, that the sinful heart of man is in league with tho works of
Christian land ; and practical religious instruction can be made as efficient darkness. Therefore, it becometh the followers of Christ to be equally vigilant
in warring against the old man of the heart, that would lead them to death.
here aa elsewhere.
A most interesting and attractive department of some of our revived Sabbath
Popery.
Schools is that of the Infant School, in which little ones of from three to seven
years are made to receive with joy the words of life which may fit them for a
on
Islands
these
are not asleep. They are ever
The emissaries of the Pope
glorious Heaven. This department of each Sabbath School striving to gain a foothold where opportunity offers. They are quiet and silent
of
Christian
guidance
in sowing the leaven of error among the people. Their aim is to draw into
young ladies.
their influence tho obildren of Protestants. This they do by establishing
Hawaiian
Sabbath
School
Association,
just organized in this place, is,
The
where they can be efficiently instructed. In their efforts in this direcSchools
Wanda
we hope, destined, to do a great work throughout the
in awakening a
tion they say, We have no intention of proselyting or teaching religion, but
and
"
in imgeneral interest in this important department of Christian labor,
to instruct in the knowledge of books and fancy-work." These smooth
parting instruction as to the methods of making Sabbath Schools interesting merely
words operate as a bait to draw in such parents as desire to advance their chiland beneficial.
But the leaven of Popery and error is
dren in knowledge and
Nothing more delights the eye and cheers the heart of the Christian than to constantly instilled intofancy-work.
such children, leading them to become Papists.
upon tome of our Sabbath Schools, where the infant, the youth, the
Therefore, we exhort 'parents, and all who stand upon the side of truth in
le-aged and those bowed with the weight of years may be found, each in
this contest, not to be induced to aid the side of the enemies of the (iospel.
lass, drawing wisdom and inspiration from the great fountain head.
We exhort you, as Hawaiians, in this warfare with darkness to acquit yourselves like men, that the truth may prove victorious.
Newspapers.
In this contest " take to yourselves tho whole armor cf God," that you may
is continued and increased circulation of such a paper aa the Kuokoa is a be able to stand up against the advocates of darkness. Take* above all, the
ful sign of tbe times. This paper is one whose religious, moral and polit- sword of tbo Spirit, the Bible, and with ityou are sure to conquer.
teachinga are such as we are happy to say recommend the paper to tbe
E. JOHNSOfr,
onage of tho intelligent and enlightened portion ofour island communities,
and we can truthfully odd that it is lead and appreciated throughout the
O. H. GULICK,
Und.
S.
KUKAUEKAHE.
The Alaula, or Dayspring.a. child's monthly pictorial paper, has been
started undor the auspices of the Hawaiian Boardi, and baa been heartily wela useful life and a
may often be moet properly committed to the care and
(in
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lIONOLULI,
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CONTENTS
For Siiileiiiliii', 1 8 -0.
Opinion of American Missionaries
ghafubury's
of
Earl
Captain Cavaily, of the Steamer Sacramento
The Harriet Newell
The Wandering Saili r brought to God
Ritualist Controversy In England
Pleasing Incident in a Young Man's Life
Causeof the Death of the Martyr of Erromiinga
Hawaiian Idol
Talle
Kilitor's
Wreck of the Libelle
Remeily for Asthma
A Western Pioneer
Letter from Rev E. Corwin
Foreign Preaching at Wailuku
"A Coming Event"
Marine Journal, *c
Pack.
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THE FIUEND.
SEPTEMBER I. 1 80M.
The Earl of Shaftsbury's Opinion of
American Missionaries.
The Bishop of Oxford and the Earl of
Shaftsbury differ essentially in their opinions
respecting the American Missionaries. The
former describes them as " stern, sour, vinegar-like, narrow-minded, uneducated Puritans," while the latter lately remarked that he
had -'always regarded the American Missionary as a remarkable man. He is calm and
collected, uniting with zeal, enthusiasm without rhapsody, and combining in the most
wonderful manner, piety and common sense.
This is the characteristic of all the American
Missionaries. They have laid the foundations so sure, that if the superstructure of
Christianity is ever to be erected in the East,
it will be on the foundation laid by them."
Missionary operations in the East, or
Turkish Empire, during the last quarter of a
century, or more properly speaking last half
century, have taken a singular and remarkable tur». About the year 1819 the American Missionaries —Parsons and Fisk—went
to Palestine and other parts of the East on
a tour of exploration. They have been followed by successive companies of Missionaries including some whose names rank
high among scholars and divines. Their
operations have extended to various parts of
the Turkish Empire, and among those who
adhered to the ancient forms of Christianity.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1866.
Ifft 3fri*s,
81
tioi.
2:',.
der that shipowners and insurance companies do not make it a sine qua non that shipmasters and officers, as well ns seamen,
should totally abstain from all intoxicating
liquors. We hope the time will come when
it will be considered as complimentary and
polite to invite a friend to drink a glass of
pure water, as it is now to sip a friend's
health in a glass of such miserable comare supposed to be
ago an American bishop, named Southgate, pounds and decoctions as
vine,
which
really do not
of
the
but
and
a
similar
the
fruit
went thither as a Missionary,
the grape.
the
of
of
juice
but
a
particle
contain
England,
enterprise was started from
both schemes have been abandoned, and the
field essentially given up to the CongregaThe "Harriet Newell."—The following
the
of
the
under
auspices
Missionaries
in relation to this old favorite we take
tional
from
the Kuokoa of the 25th ult.:
Board."
"
Star)
But what is quite significant and remark•' The Harriet Nhoell (late Morning
able, the friends of Missions in England, sailed on Thursday, August 16th for HongChin merchants of Honolulu
principally members of the Established kong. The $1,500
for freight on shipments
nearly
paid
called
the
Church, have formed a society
her. This is an indication as to
made
by
designed to raise her currying capncity, and her adaptation to
" Turkish Aid Society,"American
Mission- the merchant service. Considerable repairs
funds to be expended by
was
at
a
late
meeting have been put on her by Mr. Foster, her
It
aries in Turkey.
himself a ship carof this society that the Earl of Shaftsbury present owner, and being
one hundred
it
has
cost
at
least
him
penter
offered the remarks quoted above. Some
have
cost the
than
it
would
cent,
less
per
years the amount contributed to this society Missionary Board. After the most thorough
examination, she is rated A No. 2 by the
has been quite large.
insurance offices, which speaks well for her
Capt. Cavarly of the Pacific Steamer condition. It will gratify the former stockcareful and competent holders of the Morning Star to hear so good
" Sacramento." —A
of their old favorite, after all that in
shipmaster and navigator on board a large a report
years
has by some been said of her poor
past
steamer is a real benefactor to the commu- build and many defects. But the wisdom of
nity. From a letter recently received from the .Prudential Committee, in deciding to
Dr. R. W. Wood, we take pleasure in copy- sell per and procure a new vessel, is fully
sum necessary to have reing the following paragraph relating to Capt. justified ; for the
this
expensive port, so far as
her
in
paired
Cavarly, which was not intended for publi- would have been necessary for the coming
cation :
three or four years, together with tbe 84,30(1
whose
steamer
on
a
never
been
have
I
in gold, which she brought at auction last
commander inspired more confidenceamongst December, would very nearly, if not quite,
by secure an entirely new vessel. With the
passengers, or who was more esteemedand
the passengers for both his professional
experience of the part to guide, we may
social qualities. He is a staunch, good man. well hope the new vessel will be more econof omical than the old.
He neither takes wine or strong drinkuse
their
countenances
kind
nor
himself,
any
smongst his officers."
We would acknowledge the United
We have heard, known and seen so much
States
Navy Register, for 1886,from Thos.
of the sad effects of intemperance among
Proctor,
Admiral Pearson'! clerk.
those in command of vessels, that we tf on R.
Now, American Missionaries are Congregational in system of church polity, holding
to but one order of the Christian ministry.
Some Episcopalians in England and America have supposed that Episcopal Missionaries, or those holding to the three orders in
the ministry—viz : bishops, priests and deacons—would be better fitted to labor successfully among those ancient churches. Years
.
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�THE FR I E NO, SEPTEMBER, 1866.
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The following narrative of a " Wandering
Sailor," we find published by the
American Tract Society. We have before
us a letter which we received from this sailor
after his return to New York. .He is now
employed by the friends of seamen in New
York, to labor as a Lay Missionary in that
port. When he visited Honolulu in 1855,
he was indeed a " wandering sailor," but
appears to have been led soon after to seek
the way of life and salvation.
THE WANDERING SAILOR BROUGHT
HOME TO GOD.
A Narrative
by
Bev. Chales Whitehead.
John B
was born in 1819, in Killarney, Ireland. His father, who died in 1847,
was a man of piety. He walked before his
family in the fear of God, and trained up
his children for the Lord. Many faithful
watery brink and thought of death, he was While lying there, a missionary of the Seaterrified and appalled, nnd could not carry men's Friend Society came on board to visit
out his guilty purpose. The rememberence the sailors, and distribute tracts and Testaof father's advice and prayers touched his ments. "He gave me," says John, a little
heart. He thought too of hell, and dreaded Testament with some words of "counsel,
the idea of wilfully plunging into the abyss which was a word spoken in season to me.
of perdition.
God applied it to my heart. After the conIn the year 1849 the regiment was ordered versation, I went away by myself and reflectto Arcot. Soon the cholera broke out, and ed on the course of life pursued by me for
from thirty to forty were swept each day many years, and my mind was filled with
into eternity. His heart amid these solemn remorse. I saw the wickedness of my conscenes was insensible. One night two men duct, and resolved that if God would help
carried him home from a place of carousal me, I would give to him my whole heart.
stupefied with liquor. Both of these men That night I commenced to pray, and going
died after placing him upon a cot. When alongside one of the guns, I knelt down and
he awoke he arose and wept, and then felt asked God to pity me. The more I prayed,
that hia condition was hopeless; that if such the more I felt a burden upon my soul. I
awful scenes could not drive him from his wept and prayed for more than five days,
sins, his case was desperate. The monster until nearly despairing, 1 remembered the
held him in his giant grasp, and there was little Testament, and opening to the passage
no escape.
to which I had been directed—the third
In 1850 he obtained a discharge from the chapter of John—l read it with deep and
army, and returned to his native land. A heartfelt interest. There 1 saw what constikind sister welcomed him with affection, but tuted a Christian, and that if not ' born
her heart was pained in discovering the indi- again,' I must perish for ever. When descations he bore of a dissipated and profligate pair was at its height, the sixteenth verse,
life. She saw his constitution impaired, his ' God so loved the world that he gave his
once open nnd cheerful countenance over- only begotten Son,' came to mind. Encourshadowed, and his once gladsome heart now aged by this blessed truth, I went alone by
imbittercd with shame and self-reproach the mainmast in the middle watch of the
through the demon of intemperance, and night, and on my knees I earnestly pleaded
with earnest entreaty she tried to rescue her the promises of God, asking him to have
poor erring brother from the fangs of the mercy upon me, and to reveal his Son to my
destroyer, and bring him back to virtue and soul. As I closed my eves in prayer, I lieheld by the eye of faith Jesus dying for me
purity, to God and heaven.
This poor wanderer from God having for- on the cross. I cried to God for mercy on
saken the only source of true happiness, me for his sake, and to help me trusi my
found no place of rest, but went from country soul's salvation to Christ. He heard my
to country —on the land, on the sea—seeking prayer, and believing in Jesus, I found parquiet and peace for his disturbed spirit. don and peace. On what joy filled my soul
Leaving Ireland once more, he came to that moment. I felt that I had passed from
America, and in 1854 shipped on board the death unto life—that my sins were forgiven,
United States' steamer Massachusetts at and that I had become a new creature in
Norfolk, Va. While cruising on the Pacific Christ Jesus."
ocean he yet gave indulgence to his evil habWonderful grace, that thus subdued the
its, and on every opportunity of going ashore heart ofone who had so long and so far departhe with other seafaring men would drink ed from God. Though an alien and enemy by
and carouse, until at length by these excesses wicked works, he is brought nigh by the
he became seriously ill. Violent rheumatic blood of Christ. His darkened understandpains seized him, and all his limbs became ing is enlightened. He sees his sinful and
so filled with agony, that often he would get lost condition, and beholds the Saviour able
out of his hammock at night, and tossing and willing to save even him, the chief of
upon the deck, would curse the hour in which sinners. He takes him at his word, and
he was born.
believing in Jesus, learns by blessed experiWe have thus followed the poor prodigal ence that him that cometh unto Christ, he
in his guilty course, and seen him reduced will in no wise cast out. Now sitting at the
to penury and woe, feeding his famished soul feet of Christ, clothed and in his right mind,
on the husks which the swine do eat. What he is filled wiih joy, and renouncing all his
an object of pity! How degraded by sin, evil habits he enters upon a life of holiness,
how lost to usefulness and happiness, and devote* himself t» the service of God, and
sunk in the depths of pollution and wretch- becomes as distinguished for his zeal and
edness !
activity in the cause of the Redeemer as he
But even for this poor lost one there is was before in the cause of sin and Satan.
After he experienced the pardoning love
hope, for Jesus came to seek and to save
that which was lost; and as it was said of of God, he at once became anxious for the
the once debased and sinful Corinthians, salvation of shipmates; but no sooner did
" But ye nre washed, but ye are sanctified, they observe the change apparent in his conbut ye are justified in the name of the Lord duct, than they made him an object of deriJesus, and by the Spirit of our God," so it sion. Having become a man of prayer and
may now be said of this once impenitent and a reader of the Scriptures, and instead of a
abandoned sailor. Let us behold him as the profane and vulgar inebriate, giving vent to
grace of God met him in his wanderings; coarse and filthy discourse, now uttering the
counsels were given to this dear son, and
many fervent prayers mingled with tears
were poured forth in his behalf; and though
that loving parent did not live to witness the
return of his wandering child to the fold of
Christ, yet in God's own time he was reclaimed, sanctified, and made a vessel of
mercy.
Alter the death nf his mother in 1837,
John, then in his eighteenth year, joined the
English army, and sailing for India, was
stationed at Madras. Now opened before
him a bright prospect, with every opportunity, he thought, of acquiring distinction and
honor. With an active, intelligent mind,
and pleasant address, he had the ability, by
self-discipline and fidelity in duty, to secure
the confidence of his superiors, and gain the
reputation of an accomplished soldier. But
alas,all his prospects were blighted by yielding to the vice of intemperance. Acquiring
a fondness for intoxicating drink, he fell a
victim to that dire enemy who has slain
thousands of strong men, and thus foolishly
threw away all the advantages that were
placed within his reach ; and although he
remained upwards of twelve years in the army, yet he was unable to retain any position
of honor which he at different periods by
good conduct acquired. At one time he was
promoted to the office of adjutant's clerk.
On several occasions he was rewarded for his
soldierly deportment, obedience to orders,
and punctuality in duty, by being promoted;
but he was always reduced again to the
ranks, in consequence of drunkenness.
In JB4O, while on the coast of Malabar,
he became depressed in mind. He
of home, and the enjoyments of the parental
roof, and felt so troubled at having forsaken
his native land, and exposed himself to the
hardships of a soldier's life, that he plunged
more deeply into the habit of drinking, hoping to drown hia sorrow in the inebriating
bowl. His condition waa such that he had
to be removed to the hospital, and was confined there for weeks a wretched and helpless inebriate. After coming out, his reflections were so painful, and his rumorse of
conscience so bitter, that he thought death and brought him back to his Father's house.
would be better than life, and determined to In 1855 he was invalided, transferred to
destroy himself. He accordingly went down the sloop of war Vincenneey then in San
to (be beach with the view of throwing him- Francisco
harbor. On her homeward-bound
self into the sea; but when he stood upon the
passage she put into the port of Honolulu.
language of piety, and speaking to them
words of Christian counsel and reproof, he
called forth theirsneers and enmity. " Very
few," he writes, '• except those who know it
by experience, can imagine the trials of a
�THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER' 1866.
Christian sailor. Oh that they had known
the feelings of my heart towards them at
that time in the fervor of my first love, they
would never have persecuted me as they did;
but the more they pointed at me the finger
of scorn, the more closely I clung to my
beloved Saviour; and while I stood a lone
witness to his power on earth to forgive sin,
my soul was filled with heavenly joy nnd
peace. For many weeks I was called a fanatic, declared to be crazy, and they said
they would knock religion out of me. One
night my hamrlock was cut down, and I fell
severely hurt, I was
on the deck,
enabled to pray, Father, forgive the poor soul
that was tempted by Satan to such an act.
While I live I shall never forget that hour.
As I lay on the deck I thought I could not
be more happy in the body and live.''
These trials were met with Christian
meekness and forbearance, and gave occasion
for the exhibition of the reality of his piety.
Ho returned good for evil, and the more
earnestly prayed for those who sought to injure him. They discovered that persecution
could not quench the flame of affection that
burned in his soul both towards Christ and
towards them. So uniform and persistent
was his kind treatment and gentle demeanor,
that ere long they began to cease their opposition, and become his warm friends. His
mild and benevolent temper, accompanied
with efforts to promote their spiritual welfare,
were like coals of fire to soften and melt
their hearts into love, and he soon realized
the truth of the promise, " When a man's
ways please the Lord, he maketh his enemies
to be at peace with him."
Having now gained their friendly feeling,
he was able to speak to them of their own
salvation. On a certain occasion he induced
several of them to hear his experience. In
the fear of God he related what had been
•his previous chan-cter, and how the Lord
had brought him" to give his heart to the Saviour, and opened***to him new
joy, and " now," said he, ."shipmates, I aw
a Christian. Long have 1 lived a poor miserable drunkard, without a home, wandering
from country to country, seeking rest but
finding none. At last I came to Christ, and
in his religion I have found what I never had
in sin, true happinesss. Jesus shall now be
my Master." 1 know him to be my Saviour,
and his precious blood was shed that you too
might enjoy pardon for your sins. Let me
say still more. You may hate me because I
have came out on my Lord's side, you may
persecute, it will only drive me nearer to
him. And now see that yard-arm—you
might hang me from it, but I think 1 could
love you all even in death."
From the hour Mr. li
thus addressed
his shipmntes, he says he had no trouble,
ami scores in that ship listened attentively
to that gospel which is the power of God
unto salvation.
" Repentance towards God,
and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ,"he
earnestly pressed upon their consciences, and
entreated them not to delay a duty essential
to their eternal salvation.
He also gave himself to prayer, and enjoyed sweet moments in communion with
God. To use his own language, " How my
soul yearned over my shipmates. I felt 1
could endure any suffering to see a soul converted to God. One night on the gun-deck
in prayer I asked the Lord to give me one
soul to be a companion for me. Not that 1
felt lonely, for Jesus was my constant companion. Soon my God gave me the desire
of my heart—a young man; the son of a
praying mother. He came to me four days
after, and said he felt himself to be a wretched
sinner. Soon we were in prayer together;
and after some days of sorrow and anguish,
the Lord removed the burden of guilt from
his soul. I never saw so happy a young
man. For a season he had to endure the
scoffs of his old companions, but none of
these things moved him. He took up his
cross with me, and Oh the happy hours we
spent together alongside of one of the guns,
or under the bow of the launch, where he
first taught me to sing,
safely moored,
perils o'er,
"' Nnw
I'll sin|£, first in night's illinium.
my
For ever snrl fur evermore.
The Star, lhe Star of Hothiehem, 1
"
says he can never forget the
answer this boy gave an officer who inquired
of him where Cain got his wife : " Sir," he
said, " when I felt myself a poor lost sinner,
I was not asking where Cain got his wife,
but crying, ' God be merciful to me a sinner ;' and He had mercy, and I praise him
for it." The officer felt reproved, and sent
lor him afterwards and presented him several religious books, saying, Let you and
Mr. B
"
read them."
Four or five more precious souls we trust
were truly born ag n, and these, with himcompany of Christain
self, formed a
B
brothers, who found great enjoyment during
the rest of the passage irt social worship, and
in conversing together of what God had done
for them.
After arriving at New York, Mr. B
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Christ. Mjiny precious souls were brought
to the Saviour; and it gave him special
pleasure to see Christians of different names
and communions uniting with one heart in
labors of love to save souls. In every part
of the country, he records, the people were
awakened to a sense of their danger as sinners ; and with other servants of God anxious for the promotion of His kingdom, he
traveled from town to town, holding meetings, visiting from house to house—'• the
Lord being with us, owning and blessing .his
truth, and giving his poor servants great joy
in seeing sinners brought to Christ." After
a stay of four months, and seeing many
young men raised up to labor in Ireland, a
field now ripe for the harvest, our friend returned to New York to labor in his favorite
field among the seamen.
He then vistied California with the view
of seeing some dear relatives, from whom he
had been separated many years, and telling
them what great things God had done for
him. While in San Francisco he labored in
connection with the Mariners' church, where
he "was much blessed, and learned much of
the goodness of God."
After about a year he came again to New
York, and was reinstated in his old position
in connection with the floating church for
seamen, sustained by the same Christian
friends who before cooperated with him in
this blessed work. His own experience
taught him to pity his fellow-seamen, for he
knew their dangers, their hardships, nnd
their temptations, and he knew that religion
And
wai their only protection and comfort.
his experience taught him not to be discouraged in laboring for their good by any depravity or vicious habit or hardened impenitence that might mark their character, for he
was once himself a poor abandoned prodigal,
without God, and without hope, and the
same grace that saved him could save them.
Gratitude and love to Christ for unmerited
mercy constrained him to seek the salvation
of their precious souls alike ready to perish,
and with warm benevolence he longed to
communicate the joy that filled his own
was discharged from the navy, and went to
board at the Sailor's Home in Cherry-street,
where daily in his own room he had the
sons of tlie ocean to converse and pray with ;
and " blessed be God," he gratefully remarks,
my weakness and ignorance he blessed
"mein there
in my humble efforts ; and when
the adorable Saviour makes up his jewels,
many a dear sailor will look back with delight to that little room, and-exclaim, I was heart.
The devotion of his heart to the service of
born there ? To God he the glory."
After an absence of eleven months our Christ is breathed in the language he utters.
Christian brother returned to New York to " In this glorious work, with God's blessing,'
be welcomed by kind friends, several of I mean to live and die: I feel I ought to
whom united in his support while he labored live entircjy consecrated to him who loved
in connection with the floating church in the me, and plucked me as a brand from the fire,
East river. For several years sustained by sensible of my own weakness. I daily try
the liberality of these excellent men, he de- to remember the pit from which I was taken,
voted his untiring energies to this good cause, nnd leaning on the omnipotent arm of my
gathering poor sailors from the haunts of Immanuel, 1 know that the grace already
wickedness into the house of God, carrying given will increase ; and blessed be his name
the gospel to their families, bringing their for the sweet assurance, that having loved me
children to the Sabbath-school, distributing he will eter love me, and will make me more
Bibjes and tracts, and by daily efforts scatter- than conqueror over every foe, and will bring
ing the seed of the kingdom, and endeav- me to that land where faiih wilt be lost in
oring to bring these neglected and hardy sight, and prayer in eternal praise; and with
sons of the ocean into the fold of Christ. the redeemed in glory poor unworthy 1 shall
And his labors were not in vain, for many join in their song, ' Worthy is the Lamb that
who listened in that church to the gospel as was slain.' "
God be praised for such monuments of his
faithfully prenched by different ministers,
grace, such tokens of the Redeemer's power
were converted to God.
He then again visited Ireland, and was and willingness to save—such rich encourdelighted to find in the town of Tralee a agements to the worst of sinners to repent
blessed revival of religion. He at once en- and flee to Christ. Let not the hardened
tered into the work with all his heart, and and impenitent, nor the profane and profliin union with other Christians, endeavored gate, nor the poor degraded inebriate desby various means to advance the cause of pair, but be assured that the blood of Christ
'
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THE FHI Ei\ D
SEPTEMBER, 186 6.
THE FRIEND,
cleanseth from ill sin, and that by accepting
hie offered mercy, the very outcast of Satan
may become a child of God and heir of gloSailors »re apt to think their case to be
hopeless. That ihey are so exposed to temptations on shore, and so surrounded by profane and wicked companions on shipboard,
that any efforts to become Christians would
be fruitless, and any indication of serious
feeling would bo met with a ridicule and persecution that could not be resisted.
Here is a sailor who in the most unfavorable circumstances reformed, and became a
man of fervent piety. Addicted to a most
debasing vice, he yet renounced his sins, and
became a child of God ; and though taunted
and derided by his comrades, he not only
persevered in his religious course, but so exhibited the beauty of the»Chrisliaii character
as lo conciliate tlie favor of his enemies, and
persuade many of them to become his associates in the love and service of his Redeemer
When a man desires and tries to break
oil from sin, God will help him. He cannot
do it in his own strength, but earnest prayer
will bring to him promised aid ; and there
are no obstacles, however great, that will not
yield to Omnipotent grace. " Ask, and ye
shall receive ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock,
and it shall be 'opened unto you."
.
Cof
ause
SEPTEMBER I, 1808.
A Pleasing Incident in a Young Man's
Life.
We copy from the Advertiser lhe notice of
Mr.
! Roger's death, nt Hilo. It was not our
privilege to have formed his acquaintance,
i although we may have met him. As he has
passed " the bourne whence no traveler returns," it may not be amiss to record a most
pleasing incident in his life. May others go
and do likewise. Some months ago this
young man came out as a passenger in one
of the Boston Packets. Soon after the vessel arrived the master called our attention to
his colored cook, remarking—" I believe the
man has become a changed person." We
were somewhat surprised at the Captain's
remarks, for shipmasters are not wont to
think much of the piety of their colored
cooks! It was not long before we chanced
to meet the cook of the
, and Irom
him learned the following facts. During the
long passage of the vessel around the Cape
this young man, being the only passenger,
was accustomed in cold weather to visit the
Ritualist Controversy in England.—In cook's quarters, who appears to have been
the Record for May 2d, we find a notice terribly profane. At length the young man
of the Ritualistic controversy in England, as succeeded in checking the cook's volley of
publicly discussed by the Rev. J. Hunt and oaths in this way: "he commenced "scoring
the Rev. Dr. Blakeney. The former under- down " the number of oaths: The cook saw
took to prove that incense, vestments, and so long a " score " running up that he broke
"
at least two lights on the altar, in the time off entirely. The young man next induced
oi the holy sacrifice commonly called the the cook to commit to memory the ten comMass, can be defended by scripture, antiqui- mandments, and several psalms. To enty, the law of expediency and the Church of courage him, he would first repeat a psalm
England." Dr. Blakeney undertook to prove*l and ihen get the cook to do the same. This
that " the Mass, with the processions, vest- practice was continued until the vessel arrived
ment-!, incense, images, lights and adoration at Honolulu. But long before her arrival lhe
is unscriptural, contrary to the laws and profane cook had become the humble and
teachings of the Church of England, and praying Christian. This instance shows
subversive of the Reformation." A full re- how much good may be accomplished by an
port of the controversy is to be published. earnest and pious young man who employs
The Ritualists openly ignore the distinctive skill and tact in winning souls to Christ.
doctrines known as Protestantism, and re- Writes the Apostle James, " Let him know
fuse to be known by the name—Protestant. that he who converteth the sinner from the
Ritualism appears to be Popery in disguise. error of his way shall save a soul from death,
hide a multitude of sins."
Prize Awarded To D. B. Lyman, Esq., and shall
How Ue that Mule rarvlle throwsits lirriins,
at the Cambridce Law School.—We are
So shine, a |oud *>nl in naughty world."
glad to learn, from a late Boston paper, that
We would acknowledge the report of
another of our American-Hawaiian young
the
Valparaiso Bible Society," and"A
"
men has been a successful competitor for
Discourse,
pronounced at the Dedication of
prizes among the students of tbe United
the
Union
Chapel, in Santiago, Chile, by
States. We ropy the following:
Trumbull."
These are interesting
D.
Rev.
" For essays by students who have at- documents, indicating that the cause of
tended the school'three terms, on 'The extent to which the Common Law is applied in Protestant Christianity is making steady
determining what constitutes a crime, and advancement in Chile. It is about twenty
the natkre and degree of punishment conse- years
since the Rev. Mr. Trumbull comquent thereupon.'
menced
his work of Evangelization in Chile,
The
" first prize, $60, was awarded to Jeremiah Travis, of St. Johns, New Brunswick ; and most nobly has he battled for the truth
the second prize, $60, to David Brainerd and the free circulation of the Bible nnd the
Lyman, of Hilo, Sandwich Islands."
preaching of Ih. Gospel.
the Death of the Martyr of
Erromanga.
Bishop Selwyn, of New Zealand, stated in
his address, on the 19th of April, that the
Rev. John Williams' death Was in revenge
for barbarities which English sandal wood
traders had inflicted upon the islanders.
These are his words : " The island abounded
with sandal wood. Many of our traders
passed their lives in providing supplies of
that wood to be burned before idols in the
Chinese Jess Houses. The island of Erromanga wus a special object of desire to our
traders. Their first idea was to take it by
force, and that was the cause of the death of
John Williams. Those traders went to the
island, having enlisted into their service natives who understood firearms better than
the natives of Erromanga. They fired at
the people, drove them away und took possession of the place. The man who killed
Williams, nnd to whom Mr. Gordon introduced me, accounted fof it in this way : U e
said—■ those white men came and killed my
relation.' (I think Mr. Gordon told me it
was his father.)
I made a vow to kill the
firs, white man I saw.' That man happened
to
be John
'
Williams, so he paid the penalty
of the bad deeds of others oT our countrymen who had gone before him."
Melancholy Death.—We learn
from Mr.
Emmes, of the firm of Emmes k Pfluger,
of this city, that his brother, Mr. Henry Wm.
Emmes, was probably drowned on his passage across the Isthmus of Panama, about
the lOih of March last. The young man,
about 21 years of age, had been spending a
few years in the shipyards of Boston, ieaniw the trade o/a shipwright. Having most
onorably completed his time, he was on bin
way to the islands, with fond hopes of soon
meeting his friends. It appears that while
crossing, by the Nicaragua route, a passenger fell overboard. Young Emmes, urged
forward by the strong impulse to save a fellow being from drowning, was himself
drowned. We do not learn ns his body was
ever recovered. We well remember the
young man, nnd do most truly sympathize
with his afflicted friends. Newspapers in
Boston are requested to copy the above.
Atlantic Cable.—So the great enterprise
is achieved. Its announcement does
not
strike the world ns did the report that the
cable was laid some years ago, but all feel
that it is no less an achievement now than it
was then. News from London has already
reached Honolulu in eighteen days.
' «'
-
.
Our call for reading matter to distribute
among seamen has called forth a large
load " of books, pnmphlcts and pawagon
"
pers from Mrs. Johnstone, nnd also a quantity from the Key. E. Johnson, Kauai. Mr.
Hall and Miss Ogden have made valuable
contributions.
�THE FRIEND. SEPTEMBER, I 8 6 tij
Hawaiian Idol.—A genuine idol, of the
olden time, has recently been discovered at
Waialua, Oahu, by Mr. Lane. Through
the permission of His Excellency ex-Governor Kekuanaoa, this idol has been presented to the Museum of Oahu College. It
is about eight feet in length, and resembles
the ancient images represented in Jarvis'
History. Mr. Chase has had this idol
sketched by Mr. Emmert, and very soon
phdtographs will be on exhibition. Many
hundreds of Hawaiians have gathered to see
this huge image while it was set up in front
i>f the Kuokon. office, at the Sailors' Home,
Honolulu. So very rare are these specimens of ancient idolatry that but very few
of the present generation of Hawaiians ever
saw one. This one was found in a taro
patch or fish pond, where it was doubtless
cast when the idols were destroyed in 1819.
One old native woman informed us, while
gazing at the image, that Mr. Lane would
get no more fish from his fish pond because
he has shown such ipdigr.ity to -this idol!
Reader, do not be surprised at this woman's
thought. What says the great English
writer, Macaulay, in one of his essays?
with no tal•' We have seen an old woman
fortune-teller,
of
a
the
cunning
ents beyond
nnd with the education of a scullion, exalted
into a prophetess, and surrounded by tens of
thousands of devoted followers, many of
whom were in station and knowledge immeasurably her superiors; antl all this in
the nineteenth century, and all this in LonVol. iv., page 307.) We
•<|."_(Essays,
on
vloubt not there is less superstition in Honolulu than in London !
'
EDITOR'S TABLE.
TitliiNKit's American axo Omental LtiMuar Raoono. A Monthly Beghrter ul 1110 moat important
Works |ii:l>lix)ir<l in North and South America,
India, China, and tho British* Colonies; with
Notos on Gorman, Dutch, Danish, Kivncli, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, ami Russian Hooks.
London—lKGB.
We are favored with an exchange by the
publishers of this work. It is a most interesting and instructive publication to any
one desirous of being kept informed in regard to the Writings and efforts of literary
men throughout the world. In glancing
over the late numbers, we have met with
some items of interest to our readers:
In 1565 a portion of Shakspeare was
translated and printed at Bombay, India, in
the Gujarati dialect.
The Rev. W. A. P. Martin, D. D., an
American Missionary, at Pekin, China, has
recently completed a translation into Chinese of Wheaton's Treatise on International
Law. This work has been published also
in Japan, by the Japanese.
The Rev. Dr. Legge, Missionary of the
London Missionary Society, is now publishing a translation, at Hongkong, of the celebrated Chinese classics, so noted in the literature of that Empire.
The whole fifteen books of Euclid have
just been republished in China, under the
superintendence of Tsang Kwo-fan, Viceroy
of Keang-sov.
Lee, the Governor of Nanking, is just
about to publish Whewell's Treatise on Mechanics," it having been translated by the
Rev. J. Edkins, of the London Missionary
Society.
The enormous extent of books and treatises published at Pekin, in Mongol, Tibetan
and other languages, can scarcely be imagined. One correspondent writes Trubner
"The Chruch of England Temperance thaTa mere list of such books would require
Among the re- an efficient scholar's hard labor for one
Reformatory Society."
month to copy.
the
Anniversaries
we notice
of
London
ports
The civil war in America called forth 186
the meeting of this Society. In the report distinct
works on military subjects.
of one speaker we note the lact that the
Last year 1,775 separate works were pubteetotaller.
•■ Bishop of Columbia" is a
lished in America, including 222 theologilearn
From another source we are glad to
cal, -165 historical, 129 poetical, 113 novels,
—
that the Rev. Mr. Garrett, bf Vancouver, is
still advocating the cause of temperance.
Some of our readers will recall the time
when be signed the pledge at the Bethel, in
Honolulu, after delivering an eloquent address. How it is possible for ministers of
the Gospel to withhold the influence of their
names from this good cause we can not un-
derstand.
•
At the Anniversary of the "Religious
Tract Sociely," of London, in May last, it
was stated that on the day Garibaldi entered
Naples 7,000 copies of the Bible were sold.
On last Christmas 500 Protestant children
marched in procession through the streets of
Naples. Colporteurs are selling and distributing in various parts of Italy.
Donation. —$5 from
.hip " Sailor's Home."
theMasterofBritish
&c., &c.
Since the close of the civil wnr in America 300 daily and weekly newspapers have
been started.
An explanatory version of Lord Bacon's
Novum Organum. Prepared in Sanskrit by
Pandit Vitthala Sastri, and in English byJames R. Ballentyne, LL. D. Five parts,
8 vo. pp. 320, sewed. Benares, 1852-54.
The Mission Press nt Shanghae, in the
north of China, under the care of Mr. Gamble, has lately issued thirteen books and
tracts, 30,500 copies, comprising 1,435,000
pages. These include the " Pilgrim's Progress," two works on the Old and New Testament History, and a Compendium of Theology, in three volumes.
The Bible : its Construction, Character
and Claims, considered in Three Lectures,
delivered in the Evangelistic Hall, on behalf
of the Satthin Veda Samajnm. By the Rev.
85
Suumarez Smiih, M. A. Svo. pp. 64,
sewed. Madras, 1860.
Buddhist and Christian Education, in
Ceylon.— The controversy between the
Buddhists nnd Christians in Ceylon continues to. excite great intereet throughout the
island. It is now stated that Buddhist
schools are to be commenced to save the
children of Buddhists from being spoiled in
Christian schools. There was never such
excitement among Buddhists as at the present moment concerning their religion.
Missionary Literature in China.—The
Missionaries in Canton have established a
weekly paper for the people, in Chinese, at
the trifling cost of two cash per copy. It is
called The Chinese and Foreign Weekly
Newspaper. English civilization is beginning to make progress in China in a way
very similar to its course in India. The
Futai of Shanghae pays an American Missionary £500 a year to teach several Chinese youths English; and an English school
has been opened for the same purpose nt
Pekin, at the cost of the imperial authorities.
The Rev. O. Gibson, of the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Fuhchau, has translated a
School Arithmetic into Chinese, using the
Arabic numerals instead of the Chinese.
He has also translated and issued the Gospel
of St. Matthew into Chinese.
The Rev. Dr. F. Mason, an American
Baptist Missionnry, publishes, in the Karen
dialect, Burmah, the newspaper called the
Pali Star.
Trubner announces in the April number
of this periodical that Bancroft, the historian,
is about to issue the ninth volume of his
history.
,
A Comparative Vocabulary of the Chinese,
Corenn, ond Aino languages is about to be
published in Paris by Professor Leon dc
Rosny. This curious pnmphlet, printed,
with the characters peculiar to the ihree
above-named languages, is edited for the
friends of the author only, nnd will not be
accessible to the trade.
Work on the Dervishes.—Mr. I. P.
Brown, Secretary to the United States Legation nt Constantinople, and member of the
American Oriental Society, to whose journal
he hns contributed various important papers,
has in preparation a work of great interest,
to be called The Dervishes; or, Oriental
Spiritualism."" The work will comprise
eighteen chapters, the first of which will be
a resume by the compiler, and the Inst a biography of Ali, by Shemsed Oin Sivesser.
About forty illustrations will accompany the
work.
Robinson Crusoe. Translated from the
Rev. J. Robinson's Bengali version, by Pandit Badri Lall. Svo. pp. 456. Benares,
1860.
So it appears that the writings of Shakspeare, Bunyan, and Dc Foe (author of
Robinson Crusoe) are finding their way into
the languages of the East. No one, we
think, can review the above list of works in
foreign languages without being impressed
with the immense amount of literary labor
performed by English and American Missionarict.
�86
THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1866.
schooner nlso has been chartered and sent to ardent spirits to their ruin ; hence we say
search for the missing boat among the islands again, beware of the poison, internally! Try
This vessel was supposed to have been of the northward, and to return to Wake
the sulphur and molasses.
lost, but recent intelligence makes known Island and remove tho large amount of treasher fate. It was our privilege to have seen ure which had been saved and buried there.
A Western Pioneer.—The St. Paul
DoniTKin, Islands axp Rkkfs.—An old and exmuch of two of me passengers, during their perienced
Press publishes the following letter,
(Minn.)
nliip-nittsler lias handed us two items, revisit at Honolulu, viz., Messrs Van Reed garding Wake Island, the scene oT the disaster to which was lately received by Captain James
the Libelle, and the reef noticed in our lurl upon
and Kisaboro. A notice of this Japanese which
L. Fisk. Its tone is bold, but it may nevera vessel was lost, and the crew reached
found
issue
will
in
be
our
for
March
traveller
Tahiti.
theless be thought to show some feminine
—Wnlie or Halcyon Island m fifteen miles in
last. Among the passengers were Madame
characteristics:
circumference,
has a lagoon inside. The island
Bishop and Mr. C. Lascelles, distinguished iB surrounded byandrocks,
Springfikld, Mass., March 28, 1860.
and the beach is covered
brush wood. Its position is iv lat. 19"
singers, whose performances in Honolulu wilh short
My Dear Sir: I see by a Boston paper
l(i(i° 31' K. Vessels leaving, or passing,
ll'N.,
were so noted. Mr. Van Reed furnishes for Honolulu xhnuld get into lat. 18 30' X., which par- that you are to lead, in May next, your fourth
allel will carry tliem through the l.atlrones. clear, expedition overland from Minnesota to Monthe China Mail the following ;
of all danger, up to 130° E.. then steer, for the tana. I have a brother out there, a miner,
The Bremen bark Libelle, under the com- llashees.
Vessels taking this course have the full in the diggins called Last Chance. He
"
"
mand of Captain Tobias, on the passage Strength of Urn lorthetlt trades nt all seasons.
has written me to join him. If you can
—The sboal or reef upon which the Hrilish bark
from San Francisco to Hongkong, with a
(rtori/r Qrtß was lost, nnd which the Captain speak a word of encouragement, I should
valuable cargo valued at over $300,000, was Sir
not laid down on his charts, will he found
make the trip across the plains unsnyswus
cast away on the night of March 4th, on an on the Franco charts of d'l'rville. and is styled prefer to
the regis of your expedition.
uninhabited and dangerous reef, called '• Me el leeif dc Miuerve." It is located us follows : der am
I a schoolma'm, and have recently come
Wake Island. The passengers and crew Kitst cud. lat. 22° SB' S.. long. 136" 24' west of
from
eight months' teaching in the South.
13(1"
30'
Paris.
West
lat.
west
of
end,
S.,
22°
long.
remained on board during the night, the sea
Paris.— jidcerliscr.
1 had the courage to stand out against monwreck
over
the
all
the
breaking fearfully
Remedy for Asthma.—A gentleman at sters whom it were praise to call devils; and
while, and landed with difficulty through
certain 1 shall not be afraid of mere
Bethlehem, Conn., inquires what will cure I'm quite
the breakers the following day.
such are to be encountered in the
if
savages,
for
water
for
After an ineffectual search
asthma in his child a year old. I can tell
to
the
mountains.
journey
three weeks, and much privation, it became him. If he will follow the simple direcMinds as well as mines are to be developed
the
boats
to
take
to
and
endeavor
tions
know
it
cure.
will permanently
imperative
I give, I
there—so many families I know have
to reach the nearest habitable island, friendly Give the person subject to asthma a dose of out and are
going there. 1 have means to
disposed to defenceless ship wreckedpeople. plain flour of sulphur and molasses every gone
fare,
and
a saddle-beast and
pay
my
were
a
suitits
Several days
administration equipments beside.to bring
spent in finding
day. It is a sure cure if
can ride with the best,
I
able and safe point for departure, the break- be persisted in, whether the person having
ers encircling the island, which appeared to the malady be old or young. It is a very and should it come to that, can shoot, too.
Please to say if I cannot go to Montana
be some twenty miles in circumference. cheap remedy, and perfectly harmless. The
with
your expedition, just as well ns not.
Taking such provisions and water as were sa- quantity of sulphur to begin with should be Whatever
your answer, let it be understood
ved from the wreck, the passengers were trans- very small—not enough with the molusses to
have
made vp my mind to go with you,
that
J
ferred to the ship's longboat, in charge of the create anything- like diarrhea, but just
First Mate, the Captain preferring his gig ; enough to keep the bowels regular. It must a7iy way. Very respectfully, yours,
and on the 27th of March both boats sailed be taken every day—as well when the paTo Captain James L. Fisk, commanding,
for the Ladrone or Mariana Islands.
tient brealhes well as ill.
expedition to Montana.
in
with
To
cast
it
into
this
terriprovisions,
speech,
popular
Twenty-two persons,
an open boat but twenty-two feet in length, ble astbma (from which I suffered 15 years,
Something more Potent than Nitro-Glycerine.-From
to undertake a voyage of 1,400 miles, sub- and then wrought, I trust and believe, a perthe " P. S." of a letter,
calms
and
a
storms,
trop- manent cure as above), is nothing
ject to equinoctiiil
ical sun, with short rations, and an ocean mor in the system, determined for the time recently received from Dr. Wood, and dated
studded with hidden rocks and coral reefs, being, or when a spasm is present, to the on board the steamer Arizona, June 18th,
gave but poor hope of arriving at a port mucus membrane of the bronchia. What- just before entering New York harbor, we
with life.
ever will cure an external humor of the skin
as follows :
The dangers which were imminent from will cure asthma. Sulphur will do it in copy
"We
have a passenger on board—a Mr.
the frequent squalls, cross seas, and shipping both cases.
of Springfield, Mass.—who is on
Merriam,
seas encountered, were the greatest trials,
readers
of
asihmatic
give
If any
will
your
his
return
from Chile, and claims the dis6
and in thirteen days, the boat being de- this simple, cheap and safe remedy a fair
grees of longitude in error, arrived off the trial, I wish they would report results, for I covery of an explosive three times th*! force
town of Guam, all in a pitiable and forlorn have cured many by telling them of its ef- of nitro-glycerine nnd twenty times the force
condition. The Captain, with eight persons, fects, and their faithful administration of the of gunpowder. He was sent out to Chile,
in a boat twenty feet in length, leaving at the medicine. Thepatient suffering from asthma by his company, to offer his services to the
same time, has not been heard from, and should keep the pores of his skin open, clean Chilean Government to blow up the Spanish
unless picked up by some chance vessel, and healthy. The sulphur will .aid him in fleet, but was too late, us the bombardment
must have been swamped, as a heavy cross (hat work. Let hini aid the sulphur by an of Valparaiso had commenced before he had
sea was met shortly after leaving the Island. occasional
" rum sweat," which cleanses time to complete his arrangement of torpeThis, it is said, was the third vessel the from the inside out, and leaves the pores so does and submarine war ships."
Captain was so unfortunate as to lose within they can heh the patient breathe.—Country
New Bedford Whalers Striking Oil.—The
the past few years.
Gent.
New Bedford Standard says : Messrs.
Among the passengers were Madame Anna
Knowing that some of our readers are sufBishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schultz and fering from the asthma, we publish the above George and Matthew Howland, we understand, have the present week settled with
Mf. Charles Lascelles, of the English opera
troupe; and Mr. Eugene M. Van Reed, of remedy. We know of one who has tried it, the officers and crew of ships Corinthian antl
Kanagawa, almost all nations being repre- excepting the " rum sweat." We should George Howland, the voyages amounting to
sented.
recommend that part of the prescription with the enormous sum of $500,000, the former
Too much praise cannot be awarded to many misgivings The truth is, rum is so $275,000, and the latter to 8225,000. No
!
His Excellency Francisco Moscoso y Lara,
merchants engaged in the whale fishery
Governor of the Mariana Islands, for his much of a curse that we should almost fear ever had the opportunity of settling two such
prompt and humane efforts to relieve the to recommend even an external application ! voyages in a single week, nnd they amount
distress of the shipwrecked, who had lost We know of some afflicted with asthma, to a larger sum than ever before resulted from
their all and were in want of everything. A who have tried the internal application o' iwo voyages.
Wreck of the "Libelle."
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TIIK FRIEND, SKPTEMRKII. 18 66.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
C W, BARTOW,
Auctioneer,
Sales llooiu on ((urrs Street, one
620
Kaahumanu street.
door Irom
If
H. XV. SEVERANCE.
Aactlonrrr and (ommlsslon Merchant,
DR. J. MOTT SMITH,
Dentist,
631 ly
C. 11. WET.WORE, M. D.
PHVSICIA*.* & SURGEON,
HILO, HAWAII, 8. I.
.
CASTLE
HILO DRUG STORE.
A.F. i
Attorney and Cnnnsrllor at Law,
Corner of Fort and Merchant Sireelß.
*t» lr
W. N. LADD,
Importer and Dealer in Hardware, Cutlery, Medianlcs'
Tools, and Agricultural liiinlfDHMits,
631
lj
For I Street.
C. L. RICHARDS St. CO.,
Ship Chandlers and Commission Merchants, and
Dealers In General Merchandise,
Keep constantly on hand a fullassortment of merchandise,for
the supply of Whalers anil Merchant vessels.
613 ly
BAM'L B. CA3TLB.
J. U. ATHBBTOH.
AMOS
». COOBB.
CASTLE Si. COOKE,
Importers and
*
\<;i:ms
Btf
COOKE,
for
.. . .. .
r*S '..mw,
A
ffaltt I 5* .1
El] ~r* f*e
Wheeler & Wilson's
SEWING MACHINES!
TUIIS
N. B.—Medicine Cheats carefully replenished at the
C-tf
MA-
Fort Street, opposite Odd Fellows* Hall.
612-ly
Makee's Block, corner Uucen and Kaahumanu sts.
SAILOR'S HOME!
MACHINIST.
HOFFMANN. M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
R. W. ANDREWS,
(il
lis Robinson's Building, Queen Slrrrl.
W'll continuebusiness at the new stand. MO-ly
E.
APVEItTISSIttBWTS.
ALL KINDS OF LIGHT
REPAIRS
CHINERY,
NS, LOCKS, trc.
FIUK PROOF STOKE,
Ofnoe corner of Fort anil Hotel Street*.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
General Merchants,
In Fireproof Store, King street, opposite the Seamen's Chapel.
Also, Agents for
Dr. Jaynes Celebrated Family Medicine.,
Wheeler if Wilson's Sewing Machines,
TheKohala Sugar Company,
The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
TheNew York Ptienix Marine Insurance Company,
MACHINE HAS U.I/niK LATEST
impiuvt-m- his, anil, inaddition to former premiums, wu
B^B^*SBB*"*^*"J"^B^?~'
awarded tho hinlieat prize above all European ami American
Sewing Machine* at the World's Exhibition in PARIS ta 1861,
* 01
and at the K\hil>iiii.u in Loudon in 180*,.
Officers' table, with lodging, per week,.
I'l.' ■ evidence of the siiiwriority (if this Machine il found in the Seamens' do.
do.
do.
do.
6
record ofUh sales. In 1861
Shower Hatha on tlie Premise*.
The Grover k linker Company, Boston,
The Florence Company, Maasachusetts
Mrs. ell Aim.
The Parker Company, Connecticut,
Manager.
Honolulu, April 1, 1800.
J. M. Singer A Co., New York,
u
Finkle k Lyon,
OBAB. WOLOOTT BROOKS, W. FRABB LADS, BDWABD T. BALL,JR.
Chas. W. Howland, Delaware,
M. Greenwood k Co., Cincinnati, 0.,
N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0.,
Wilson 11. Smith, GoaMOtmL
SHIPPING AND
old 18,560, whilst the Wheeler k Wilson Company, of Dridgt
ort, made and sold 19,725 during th same period.
D" PI cane Call nnd Examine*
II tl
—
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CHAS. W. BROOKS & CO.,
Commission Merchants.
McCraken, Merrill & Go,,
FORWARDING AND
BAWMWK PACKET Uttfi
Commission Merchants,
AGENTS FOR THE
B V V YV EEIV
Portland,
Oregon.
OFFICE—SII SausonjcS..,corner Merchaat
HA
VIXG BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PRE*
SA.N FRANCISCO.
•ent business for upwards of seveii years, and being
located In a fire proof brick building, we are prepared to receive
ATTENTION GIVEN TO
and dispose of Islandstaples, such as Sugar, Rice, Syrups, Pulu,
the Purchase,Shipment and Sale of Merchandise ■, to Fur.
Coffee, kc, to advantage:. Consignments especially solicited wardtngand
Tranahlpment
of Goods ; the Chartering and Hals
Tor the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid,
of Vessels ; the Supplying of Wbsieshlps; and the Negotiation
antl uikhi which cash advances will be made when required.
603-ly
of Exchange.
Si h Fhakcisco Rrfrrkkckh:
£xohaDge on Honolulu in sum. to suit.
Badger k Lindeuberger.
Jas. Patrick k Co.,
BHBBMA* PBGC.
11. A. F. CABTKR.
I. BARTLBTT.
Fred.
ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
Iken,
W. T. Coleman At Co.,
C. BREWER Si. CO.
Bteveos, Baker k Co.
REFER TO
Commission and Shipping Merchants,
Portland Rkfrrinces:
Jas.HdbbbwbllEsq..Boston
Walkbb, Allbk If Co
Honolulu. Ouliu, 11. 1.
Allen k Lewis.
Ladd b Tilton.
Leonard & Green.
Honolulu. Hbnrt A. Pbirob si Co. '•
AGENTS
Honolulu KargaßNCas:
Bbsj. F.Bsow, Esq.,
Rutlbb, Bibb b Co.,
OT lhe Boston and Honolulu Packet Line.
S. Savidge.
Walker, AllenAs Co.,
Sonoß k Co.. New York.
C. Bbbwbr & Co.,
631-ly Bishop a Co.,
Wh. H. Fooo kCo , •'
AGKNTS
Esq., Hilo.
For Ike Makee, Wailuku At Hana Plantations
Tsos.
BrRBCKR,
H. Fooo k Co., Shanghae.
Y. A. iLDRICH.
J. C. HKRHILL,
JOHN M CJUCKIM.
AU.M k Liwis,
Ali.hand */ Co., Kanagawa.
AGENTS
Portland, Oregon.
ly
605
For the Pnrckaaeand Sale of Island Produce.
ALDRICH, MERRILL &. Co.,
—REFER TO—
Jobs M.Hood, Ksq.,
New York.
)
Csab. Bbbwbb, At Co.
Boston.
JawsHobbbwbll,Ksq.
)
J. C. Mbbbill k Co.
AUD
dc VISITE
X B. Swaim A Cn
San Francisco.
LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS!
Chas. Woloott itaooss Ksq. )
4.6-ly
PARTICULAR
,
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-.
Commission Merchants
Auctioneers,
304 and. aOO California Street.
ALLEN St CONWAY,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Kawaihae, Hawaii,
ALSO, AGENTS OF TUB
Will conllnuo the General Merchandise and Shipping business
st the above port, where they are prepared to furnish
the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and
such other recruits a. are required
by whale ships, at the
Particular attention (riven to the .al. and purchase of mer
ehandlse, ships' business, supplying srhaleships, negotiating
shortestnotice and on the most reasonable terms.
San Francisco k Honolulu Packets.
Baud.
JOHN THOS. WATERHOUSE,
exchange, ate
U r All freight arriving at San
Francisco, hy or to the Ho
nnlulu Line of Packets, will be forwarJed .bbb op commissiob.
XT Exchange on Honolulubought and sold. AZS
—BBriKBBCBS—
Importer and Dealer In General Merchandise. Honolulu, H. I
Messrs. C. L. Richards A: Co.,
—REFERENCESn Hacb.bld k Co.,
•'
Snow,
Esq
His Ex. U. C. Wyllie,..Hon. B. F.
Honolulu
C Bbbwbb Co.,
Dimnmd k Son,
Thos. Spencer, Esq
Hilo
Bissor k Co
H. Dickinson, Esq ..Lah.lna Mcßuer*- Merrill. San Francisco Dr. K. W. Wood
Hon. B. 11. Allsh,
C. W. Brook.*/Co...San F. G. T. Lawton, Esq.,
Field ft Rice,
New York DO. Wati.ua., Ksq
Tobin, Bros, a Co.,
Wilcox, Richard* k Oo Honolulu.
JKHMt
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881-ly
.
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BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA.
REV. DANIEL, DOLE.
AT KOLOA.
family
Kauai, has accommodations In his
THE
Far a Few
Hoarding Scholars.
17 Persons wishing to learn the Term, will apply to him,
or the Kdltor of
"
Tas Fbibnd."
*•
6tf
Honolulu
"•'
«•
"••
••
READING ROOM, LIBRARY AND DEPOS-
ITORY.
OEAMEN AND OTHERS, WISHING
to obtain books from the Sailors' Home Library,
will please apply to the Bethel Sexton, who will ha.c
charge of the Depository and Reading Boom nutil
further notice. Per order
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PHOTOGRAPHS.
»
CARTES
COPYING AND ENLARGING!
RETOUCHING stone In lhe best manner.
snd on th. most reasonable terms.
AIM for .ale, Photograph, of the Crater* Kllsuca and
Hnlrnknln. anil other IslandScenes; th* KINGS KAMKIIEMEUA, *0.,4>c.
At the Gallery on Fort Street.
OH
H. L
ABB.
P. 8 Haring purchaaed the Portrait Negatives from Mr.
Weed, duplicate cople. can be had by those person, wishing
for the same.
11. L. C
iti-ixn
THE FRIEND:
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY
SAMUEL C. DAMON.
� MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN, MAEINK AND
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,
TERMS:
#
On* copy, per annum,
Two copies,
Five copies,
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92.00
8.00
6.00
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88
Honolulu, August 27, 1866.
S.
Rev.
C. Damon— Dear Sir: In accordnnce with your request and my promise,
made to-day on my return to this city, I
send you for publication in The Friend some
of the items of measurements completed during my summer vacation. Though not a
road contractor, the roads certainly contract
very much under my chaining, and the distances become much less than they have
SEPTEMBER,
Foreign Preaching at
1866.
Wailuko.—We
are glad to learn that there is regular preaching in English at Wailuku, on Maui." It
speaks well for the foreign community there
that a subscription, amounting to over
$1,500, has been made for the purpose of
erecting a suitable chapel. If we have been
correctly informed, the edifice is now going
up. In all such enterprises we take a deep
commonly been reckoned.
with the
Starting from the crossing of King and interest. They are in harmony
on
Home
Missions.
Key.
Bond's
sermon
Mr.
streets
it—
we find
Nuuanu
miles lo top of Pali,
If the Wailuku people want help to complete
j mile down the Pali.
their undertaking we hope they will let their
Kaneohe creek.
9£ miles 4 chains toGreen,
residents on the islands become acto gate of
McKibbin & j fellow
IGJ miles
quainted with the facts. The success of
Co.'s Kaalaea Plantation.
such
enterprises essentially depends upon a
17J miles to Waikane churches.
20 miles to Wili-ka-n-i Mill, Wilder's few energetic persons who are determined
Oahu Plantation.
the thing shall succeed, and it will succeed.
24", miles to Ah Sing's, X hnw.
There
are one or two other places on the
26 miles to Severance's Punaluu Hice
islands
where we should rejoice to see such
Plantation.
32 miles to Laic—Mormon Settlement. enterprises starfed.
36 miles to Hipa the high projecting
rocks east of Mr. Moffitt's.
"A Coming Event."—It is announced that
37J miles to Mr. Moffitt's.
a daily newspaper is to be published in HoMeasuring from the same initial point—
the crossing of King and Nuuanu streets—I nolulu. Its title will be the Daily Hawaiian
find it to be 10A miles to top of hill before Herald. The Atlantic telegraph and the
descending to tRe stream at Ewe.
publication of a daily in Honolulu are two
11 miles to the foot of Waianae and Waia- great events of 1866. May both succeed.
lua roads.
have our sincere good wishes. Should
14 miles to foot of pavement in Kipapa Both
both fail, we should not be surprised, but
Gulch.
Kauthat eventually both enterprises will succeed
20 miles to top of hill this side of
kanahua Gulch.
we have not the least doubt. Both news.28 miles to Waialua.
papers and telegraphs must succeed, here and
33 to top of hill beyond Waimea.
in this go-ahead and hurry-up
The 38J mile mark is the most distant everywhere,
age.
either
route.
point, being half-way round by
Though it is but 77 miles by the Toad
For the Friend.
round the island, yet, during my vacation. I
UHaAoprbluiIslands.
Naf, vgator
350
have traveled in my carriage about
miles, deriving physical strength and mental
harbor of Apia, on the Island ofUpnlu, Navigator Islands,
recreation more than sufficient to compen- liesThe
in latitude 13* 61m. 20s. south, and longitude 171° 46m.
and has a good entrance,
sate for all the patience and care requisite •e.t, i. OHspcinus, wellorprotected,
with a sufflclenl depth water for vessels of any siae. An exhave,
with
the
road.
As
you
in measuring
perienced pilot is always at hand.
Thisport has for twenty-Aye yearsbean frequentedby Ameryour own family, so recently made the cirwhalers, thst lonch here to obtain water and supplies,
cuit of the island in a carriage, I leave you ican
while many merchant vessels hare had occasion to arail themselve. nfiissdvantages. Slpce (lie importation of guano has
of
the
and
to speak of the condition of
roads
commenced from BakerY Ilowland's, McKean's sod other
inlands', many of the .easels engaged in that trade have called
the objects of interest by the way.
Apia for water ami provisions. Supplies, both foreign and
Yours fraternally,
E. Corwin. atnative,
sre to be obtained, while fresh water is close at I,ami.
Several
and hospitable merchants, of much biuiurss
BC?" We had prepared a few notes of our experience,agreeable
are established here, making it th. depot of an extrade
among tbe various groan*.of islands in the South
trip, but the island hasbeen so often described tensive
Pacific Ocesn. These merchants are always prepared to take
discount, and they are ever ready to oblige
reasonable
at
that we will not inflict another " Journal of draft,
those to whom they c»n render sny service.
the
conviction of those well experienced in
It liss long been
a Tour around Oahu" upon the reading such
matters—persons cnpable of forming a Judgment Id this
Apia would make a most eligible depot for goano
public. We have only space to add that we respect—that
and siesai vessels. A wharf or dock could. In a short time and
the
at a trifling expense, be built, thus rendering every facility for
found the roads uncommonly good,
landing of.csrgoes.
scenery delightful, the weather charming theTheattention
of merchant*, ship owners snd master, is earto the many advantages offered them at thisport.
nestly
and friends hospitable. With the public It ta a called
well known fact that vessels calling at many of the
the masters
generally we would express our thanks to islands In the Pacific are often that* delayed, whiledesertion
of
put to much trouble and inconvenience by the
the Key. Mr. Corwin for his voluntary ser- are
their men. Desertion here Is of a very rare occurrence, snd
of
the
vice in
kind dies happen, the apprehension
planting mile-st<>ne&," not only when a case of this
is certain (Just for Ihe mere fact that the natives of this
on,this island but also on Kauai and Maui. party
port are eager to receive the bounty), thus saving a great
—
;
"
We wonder if Shakespeare did not refer to
" mile-stoaei" when he wrote,
" Sermons (a stones and good In cverythiiiK."
Now, for the Pastor of Fort Street Church
to write 77" during his vacation, is doing
" know there is mucr"* good" in
well! We
such preachers along the road ! "They wonderfully beguile the tediousness of Ihe road.
MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVALS.
.
6—Ambark Aurelia, Howes, 16 days from San Francisco
7—Am clipper ship Windward, Bairett, 12 days from
Saa Franelsco.
ft—Scbr Kitty Cartwright, Gregg, fromFanning 1 Is.
B—Br brig Ann Anderson, Anderson, 68 days from x'okahama.
18—Columbianbark Barita, Wilson, 16 days from San
Frsnclr-co, with mdse to 11. Hackfeld & Co.
U Salt clipper ship Isabella, Capper, SA days from
Aug.
Slianghse.
14—Hiii bark Japan, Snow, 13 days from San Francisco,
en n-ute for Hongkong.
14—Am bark A. A. Elilridge, Abbott, 15 day* from Portland, with lumber to C. Brewer A- Co.
17— Am barkentlne Jane A. fclksußMß, Itumbell, 111
days from Portland, with lumber to Walker, Allen It Co.
,34 days from
17—Britclipper .hip Whampon,
Koochuw, seeking freight.
26—Br sh Sailor's Home, Bryant, 30 day* from China.
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DEPARTURES.
B—Br schr Premier, London, for Victorlo.
B—Am clipper ship Windward,Barrett, for Hongkong.
9—Am schr K. Crosby, Perkins, for Victoria.
Aug. 11—Haw brig Kamehameha V., Fletcher, fsr Baler's
Island.
16—Hawlirig Harriett Newell, Cunningham, for HongAug.
kong.
16—Britbrig Ann Sanderson, Sanderson, for Pan Fran.
18—British clippar ship W'hampoa, Carter, for Callao.
PASSENGERS.
From Yon ha MA—per Ann Anderson, Aug. B—Mr and Mr*
Birch, Wm fed.mine, John Roberts, Misi Jordan, Mr Rowell —6.
For Hobtokonc—per Windward. Aug. B—Ant Onrstien.
For Victoria, Y. I.—per Premier, Aug. B—A W Mclifnnnn,
Mr and Mri Myers nud 2 children—s.
From PHAScnAr—per ItmbellH, August 12th—Win Church,
Chas ttennett, John Cochran—3.
From Sax Francisco—per Sarita, Aujr. 12th—Brig Gen Max
dc Herrmann, MrsC A Gillespie, Miss Gillespie, Mr and Mis
Bradley, Mrs L Aller—6.
From Portland—per A A Eld ridge, Aug. 14lh —VI Admin.
For Hokokokcj— per Harriet Newell, Aug. ltftta—l Piolmv- r
and wife. Brig Oen Max dc Herrmann, Aehee—4.
WHALING NEWS.
Co., we are In receipt
From Messrs. 0. L. Richards
of memoranda of the catch of vessels which cruised to the
westward, between seasons, and who reported at (Junin nnd
Yokohama. The report was furnished hy the coojx-r of h
ship who was in tbe Ann Sanderaon, which lately touched
here en route to San Francisco.—Adv.
Yokohama, April 25.
From Home.Northern Light, dough, 860 bbls. sperm.
44 Honolulu, Mt. Wallastou, Willis, 160 bbls. sperm.
Lagoda, Fisher, SCObbls. humpback.
•m
Addison, Pierce. 250 hbls. humpback"*»
Stephnnla, Sinclair, 60 hbls sp. 60 humpback.
Coral, Crandal, 40 bbls sperm.
»*
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William and Henry.Stetson, clean.
San Francisco, Helea Snow, Campbell, 70 bbls sperm.
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(Jt'AM, Mariasa Isi.asi>s, no date given.
From Ilonolnlu, Java, Knos, 1 whale.
a
'•
Hae Hawaii, Ileppingstono. 66 sperm.
San Francisco, Merlin, Sherman, 2 whales.
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DIED.
flisjasjiii II Waikapn. Maui, August 9, 18C6, Isaac O.
Cornwell, youngest son of Henry and Auelia Corowell.
STamro—ln San Francisco. July 24th, Margaret Dewing,
wife of Itev. i. D. Strong, aged 35 years.
Rooks*.—At Hllo, Hawaii, August 12th, of typhoid fever,
Chas H. Rogers, son of John T. Rogers ofLowell. Mart., aged
10 years sad 5 months, Boston snd Lowell papers please
oopy.l
I
Oairrmrs.- In this city. August 23.1, of dropsy. Charles
Griffiths, aged 65. Deceased wss a native of Cardiff, Wales,
and for some years a resident ofKauai.
Dianas—At the United States Hospital, Honolulu, Aug. 23d,
Frank Hardee, a native of Lifu. in the South Seas, situatril
good
a
is
at
There
all
times
to
the
masters.
of
trouble
amount
near New Caledonia. He was discharged from the American
supply of wood snd water and all other things generally rewhale ship Additon about one year ago. Durlug the last dsys
quired y vessels. Owners and masters would both And it to of his lingering sickness he remembered the teachings of the
their advantage to send or bring their vessels to this port for Knglish Missionary, the Bey. Samuel MacFarlan, stationed on
refre.hrueots.
thatisland.
To thosewho would emigrate here with a .lew of settlingon the
price,
Islands, I would say—goo.l land I* to be obtained at a fair
cu|
snd there are no dlfflcultiea whate.er attending ag" ture.
Information Wanted,
The cotton, which is now extensively cultivated, is ofa superior
Respecting Jamaa O. Kltiaon, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Re is
quality and commands a high price In foreign markets The supposed
to be on board some whale ship in the North PsciAe.
foreign population Is at pre**nt tncreasinfr. and arlller* would
On his return he Is requested to call upon the Chaplain, or
be welcomed here with every demonstration of emrdlalll/.
communicate with his mother, Mrs. Amelia Ulliaon, 77 Vanderbilt avenue, Rmnklyn, N. \
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RIEND
HONOLULU,OCTOBER 1, 1866.
Seto Series, IM. 17, $ff. Mj_
Ilawnilan Club, Boston
Bresd Cast upon the Waters
'J'he Bible
History of Julius Cmsar
T. F. Wilson. Ksq
Cholera Conductors
Tlesth of Theophllus Metcslf
Small Change
-Missionary Vessels
Nautical Information
Ballad of the Whale.
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FRIEND.
OCTOBER I,
188H..
Repaired.—We
learn from a letter of Dr.
■"■a"""™" 1
Gulick's tljat at the late meeting of the Association of West Hawaii, it was decided to
repair the church at Kailua at an expense of
$2,000. This church was built in 1836, and
dedicated February 4, 1837. From the little
work, a " Missionary's Daughter," we learn
that Governor Adams, alias Kuakini, labored
most efficiently towards the building of this
church. He bore the entire expense of the
carpenters' and masons' work. He accompanied the people to the forests to cut timber. After the building was dedicated, he
enacted a law to exclude dogs, and " after
two months no woman will be allowed to enter it without a bonnet." He also appointed
officers to wake up all sleepers! The old
Governor would not allow a woman to come
upon his premises bonnetless upon the pain
of having her hair shorn close to her bead !
The formation of this Club is a most capital idea. Our only wonder is that it was
not thought of long ago. By a private letter,
we learn that Capt. C. Brewer is President.
James Hunnewell Esq, Vice President,
Messrs. Marshall, Pitman and Bond, Executive Committee; E. P. Bond, Esq, Secretary.
By a late mail, we received the following
Circular. The plan of opening a Register
is exactly what is needed. We hope the
suggestion to " the friends of the *Club at the
islands" will be carried out. We believe
the Club designs to keep on file at their
Room," copies of all the newspapers pub"lished
at the islands, and also to gather an
Hawaiian Library. We shall refer to their
Club again.
HAWAIIAN CLUB.
(Organised January 17th, 18o«.
Hostok, July 1, ISoo.
Sib—The
Hawaiian Club bus been organised "to
Dsab
promote social Intercourse among the friends of Hawaii,resident
Interests
in or visiting Boston snd vicinity, and to advance the
of the United States at the Hawaiian Islands, and the welfare
diffusing
information
and
collecting
ofthe Hawaiian Nation, by
bearing thereupon, and by all other honorable means.
Wednesday
Its members meet on the afternoon of tbe third
ofeach month. They are always glad to see at their meetings
be In thla
happen
to
Islands
who
friends Irom the Hawaiian
neighborhood, and to hear from those who are too far away to
.
present.
. ■- --.
was instructed to
At a Isle meeting of.the Club, the Secretary
address
Ktgister or Directory in which to record the
may hapof all present or formerresidents of the Islands, who
can
be
learned.
far
so
as
tbi.
pen to be In the United States,
the Club at the
He was also Instructed to Inslte the friendsof
notice of the
Islands to sendbitn for Insertion in this register,
friends for the United
Intended departure of themselves or to
arrive
of their
here,
eipect
States, o( the time when they
contemplated
rostofflce address In this country, and of their
announce
them
to
prepared
be
movements, so far as they may
found quite useful.
It Is thought that such a register may bemake
it
known
as
you
If the plan meet your approval, will
by furnishing
occasion may offer, and cooperate with the Club,it.
that
shall
further
any information In your power
The Club will always be glad lo receive from its friends any
Its
other Information that will help Its members tocarry out
general purposes as above set forth.
P.
Edwasb
Yours very truly,
(Addresforthe present, Bbwabd P. Bo»a, Board of Trade
Rooms, Boston, Mass.)
be personslly
open a
\m*txw,&L22.
BREAD CAST UPON THE WATERS,
Hawaiian Club in Boston.
CONTENTS
For October,
89
*£<
will see well to it, that in setting up mileChina Steamers.—So the question is destones, around this island, special attention cided that the China steamers will touch at
is paid to the inscriptions.
Honolulu, going and returning. Captain
aisy, Mike," said one of two Irish Baby, an Agent of the Pacific Mail SteamHould
"
pedestrians, as he reverently approached a %hip Company, has arrived, and is prepared
mile-stone. " Thread lightly," said he, " for
respecting
here lies a very ould man." Pat carefully to negotiate with the Government
to learn that
glad
154,"
Sec.
We
are
wharves,
Baltimore
the
iascnption,
out
spelled
"
entrance of
and then continued: "He was 154 years Captain B. reports the bat at the entrance
to
the
from
Bnltithe
harbor
be
no
obstacle
will
old, and his name was Miles,
of the large
ss steamers.
OR,
The Collegian
and the Newsboy.
When I was at college 1 en
turning to my room at a late hour one nigin,
when I stgambled over something lying on
the sidewalk. As I was just beginning my
up
junior year, and had consequently given
the sophomoric idea that swearing was a
mark of superior manhood, without so much
as a blessing upon careless watchmen I bent
down, and after a little examination, found
that I had stumbled over one of the city
newsboys. He was almost frozen ; so wrap-d
ping him up in my heavy cloak, I carri«"
him with some difficulty up the long bill,
and soon bad him in quarters something
warmer than those in which 1 had found
him.
It was a long time before the boy became
conscious of his whereabouts j but when his
delirium was over, and he sat before my fire
wrapped in my warm dressing-gown, 1 ascertained how it happened that I found him
asleep on the sidewalk.
He told his story in a few words. He
was alone in the world; his father and
mother were dead, and he was shifting for
himself. He had been unsuccessful in the
sale of his papers that day, was hungry and
thinly dressed, and the wind blowing very
cold, he had crouched down a moment at
the comer
to
shield himself from the cutting
blast, had fallen asleep, and in that state I
had found him.
I thought the little sinner was lying to me
when he began about his father and mother,
and I watched to see if he didn't bring himself out some way before he finished. He
was a bright little fellow; thin, to be sure,
and very pale, but he did have a keen, black
eye, and no mistake. His story, short as it
was, was not ended before 1, feeling sure he
was not lying to me, had decided what to do.
The next morning, measuring the length,
breadth and thickness of my newsboy, I went
down street to my tailor's, obtained a suit of
clothes which he chanced to have on hand,
and which, with a few changes, proved to be
just the thing, purchased a pair tvf shoe*
which exactly fitted the measure I had in my
pocket, and returned to my room before ths>
lad was%wake.
„__a
You ought to have seen how he opened
room,
at
those eyes and stared at me, at the
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�THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1866.
90
terything,
and have watched the shadow of
rplcxity, astonishment and delight flit
ross his face, as the recollections of the
it few hours came back.
my man,".said I, " how do you
"■1?Well,
Well enough to get up and see if these
ps are anywhere near the size of that body
He was out of bed in a flash, and in a
ry short time was dressed in his new suit.
>! but he did look well, as he stood there
so neat and
that I felt as
flogged the
than
trim, and so thankful withal,
the school-master did when he
boys, that " it is more blessed
to receive."
Well, I kept the boy with me till he was
well and strong, and one morning 1 called
him to me, and in a set speech, a la junior
exhibition, said:
" Mr. Newsboy, it is high time lhat you
should begin again the voyage of active life,
and this morning I am going to cut you
adrift. Here's a little cash to help you nlong
in your travels at first, and do you be careful lhat you don't make a bad use of it. Before you go I want you to promise me that
behave yourself, be an ornament to
and all that sort of thingswill you f"
id yes, of course, a dozen times, and
learty shake of the hand and a hasty
>ye, Sam," he disappeared down the
itairs.
passed along. I graduated, settled
ess, married ; but still never once
my boy, and at last he and the ocwere forgotten,
years ago this winter my business
le to the West. It proved a sorry
to me. I lost my traveling-sack,
containing valuables to quite an amount;
my journey had been a wild goose chase
the least shadow of success, and just
DUt discouraged, I started home.
Misfortune did not desert me here. On
■king my wallet, I found that it had been
ilen, and that I had not a dollar in my
eket. I have a faint recollection of not
feeling particularly amiable just at that time.
Out West, in those days, was something different from what it is now, where you roll
over the ground aj the rate of forty miles an
hour, and out West, with not a dollar, and
no means of communication but a line of
snail-paced stage-coaches, was anything but
tthout
delightful.
The coach for the East was just starting,
and having watched it out of sight, I went
back to the tavern and sat down to think how
1 should get out of my difficulty. I had
been sitting there for some little time, when
a man who had been warming himself with
his back to the fire drew hischair near mine,
and after a little chat at the weather, sur, of
prised me by asking if I wasn't Mr.
Providence, Rhode Island. I told him 1 was,
and before I could return the compliment of
asking his name, he said :
Do you remember the boy whom, when
you were a student in the University, you
found almost frozen in the streets of Providence ? Do you remember that I promised
yoa (for I am that boy,) to be an honest, industrious man, to behave myself,and become
an ornament to society ? Yes, sir, I am that
boy, and I can say, without fear of denial,
ibat I am an honest and successful man, and
ihst whatever I am, morally, or socially, J
"
am indebted to you for it," and he shook my
hand as only a grateful man can.
Then he told me what he had been about
all these years ; how by industry and perseverance he had won the confidence of his
employer, had in time been admitted by him
as a partner, had married his partner's daughter—in a word, he was happy.
My surprise at the appearance of " my
boy," his evident pleasure in meeting me,
his earnest inquiries after my welfare—all
these things at the time I fully appreciated,
anl I did not hesitate to tell him how I was
situated. He laughed at my misfortunes,
hoped I " wouldn't lie awake o' nights grieving about them," and taking my arm, led me
away. He took me to his office, told me of
his extensive business, made me shake hands
with his fathf r-iu-law, nnd I don't know how
many others, and soon after, leading me up
the stately steps of as fine a dwelling as a
reasonable man could wish to possess, he introduced me to its lovely mistress, his wife.
I passed a plensnnt week under that
friendly roof, and more than once I thought,
as I journeyed homeward, how many more
such grateful harvests might be garnered if
men would be less miserly of the proper seed.
How to Prevent a Divorce.—When the
senior Jonathan Trumbull was Governor of
Connecticut, a gentleman called at his house,
requesting to see His Excellency in private.
Accordingly he was shown into his sanctum
sanctorumt and the Governor came forward
to meet Squire W., saying, "Good morning,
sir; lam glad to see you," Squire W.,
returned the salutation, adding as he did so,
" I have called upon a very unpleasant
errand, sir, and want your advice. My wife
and I do not live happily together, and I am
thinking of getting a divorce. What do you
advise, sir ?''
The Governor sat a few moments in deep
thought; then turning to Squire W., said :
How did you tr.at Mrs. W., when you
were courting her? and how did you feel
towards her at the time of your marriage ? "
Squire W., replied, " I treated her as kindly
as I could, for I loved her dearly at that
time." " Well sir," said the Governor, "go
home and court her now just as you did then,
and love her as when you married her. Do
this in the fear of God for one year, and then
tell me the result." The Governor then
said, " Let us pray." They bowed in prayer
and separated. When a year had passed
away, Squire W., called again to see the
Governor, and grasping his hand, said : " I
have called, sir, to thank you for the good
advice you gave me, and to tell you that my
wife and I are as happy as when first we
were married. I cannot be grateful enough
for your good counsel." "I am glad to hear
it, Mr. W., and hope that you will continue
to court your wife as long as you live." The
result was that Squire W., and his wife
lived happily together to tbe end of theirs
married life. Let those who are thinking of
separation in these days go and do likewise.
"
nets .of kindness,
" Little
Little deeds of love.
Mnke this world an Eden.
Like to that above."
While the civil war was raging in the
United States, European writers were loud
in their condemnation, of it, because brother
was arrayed against brother ! But it appears, that the present struggle in Europe,
presents features of a similar nature.
The London correspondent of the New
York Times thus refers to the relations of
royalty to the war:
" The sympathies of the Queen of England must be strangely divided in this contest. The husband, of her eldest daughter
commands a division of the Prussian army,
in which near relatives of her late husband
occupy prominent positions. The husband
of her second daughter has a command in
the Austrian army. Prince Teck, just
married to the Princess Mary of Cambridge,
has accepted a command in the Austrian
army, and sets out for the seat of war, with
his bride, before the honeymoon is half over.
There is scarcely a member of any royal
family in Europe who is not mixed up in
the war. A dozen princes of Northern Germany have already lost their crowns and
kingdoms. Some are exiles in Austria, some
prisoners in Prussia. The King of Hanover,
with his army of 30,000 men, is hemmed in
by the Prussians, and considering whether
the Federal Army of Frankfort may not
come to his rescue. The King df Saxony
escaped with his whole army ; but Bismarck
says of him and the others, that if they ever
get back they will not recognize their
kingdoms, so rapid and radical are the
changes ho is making. When Victor Emmanuel was starting to cross the Mincio, he
telegraphed the fact to his son-in-law, the
King of Portugal. " You will hear from
me in a few days," said the Kiflg. " Tell
Maria." The King of Portugal has heard of
him, and, 1 presume, has told Maria.
A Descendant
of John Rogers, the
correspondent writes us thnt
the young man by the name of Rogers, whose
death we recorded in our last issue, was a
son of J. F. Rogers, Esq., cashier of the
Railroad Bank, Lowell, Mass., and was also
a descendant of the tenth generation of the
Martyr Rogers, who was burnt at the stake
February 4, 1555, during the reign of Queen
Mary, known as Bloody Mary. Descendants
of the Martyr we knew were living in America, and are very glad to learn that the worthy and estimable young gentleman who
lately died on our shores descended from so
worthy an ancestry. The parents of the
young man are soon expected to visit the
Martyr.—A
Islands.
Old Paterson—Whom Scott saw reviving the inscriptions on the tombs of the
Covenanters, went to America, and became
the grandfather of a Paterson, whose widow
married the Marquis of Wellesly. The
sisters of that Mrs. Paterson married the
Duke of Leeds and Lord Stafford. The
direct blood of Old Mortality went in another
and as remarkable a direction. His granddaughter, Miss Paterson, was the first wife
of Jerome Bonaparte. The marriage was
never " legally annulled, and a son who
sprung from it," the great-grandspn of Old
Mortality, is now on the staff of his cousin,
the Emperor of the French.
�91
THE HMIiMi, OCTOBER, 1866.
THE
BIBLE.
the gospel, a religion which is intended ultimately to absorb all the other religions of the
world. It speaks to us as immortal beings
on the highest, noblest, and most important
themes which can challenge our attention,
and with an authority that is absolutely irresistable and overwhelming. It can instruct,
edify, warn, terrify, appease, cheer, and
encourage as no other book. It seizes man
in the hidden depth of his intellectual and
moral constitution, and goes to the quick of
the soul, to that mysterious point where it is
[The following remarks are copied from
the American edition of the German Prof.
Lange's Commentary on the New Testament. These excellent remarks were written, by Prof. Schaff, whose reputation stands
so high among American Divines. We
commend them to the reader's careful perusal.]
The Bible is the book of life, written for connected with the unseen world and with
the instruction and edification of all ages and the great Father of spirits. It acts like an
nations. No man who has felt its divine all-penetrating and all-transforming leaven
beauty and power, would exchange this one upon every faculty of the mind and every
volume for all the literature of the world. emotion of the heart. It enriches the memEternity alone can unfold the extent of its ory; it elevates the reason; it enlivens the
influence for good. The Bible, like the per- imagination; it directs the judgment; it
son and work of our Saviour, is theanthropic moves the affections ; il controls the passions;
in its character and aim. The eternal per- it quickens the conscience; it strengthens
sonal Word of God " was made flesh," and the will; it kindles the sacred flame of faith,
the whole fullness of the Godhead and of hope, and charity; it purifies, ennobles,
sinless manhood were united in one person sanctifies the loWeman, and brings him into
forever. So the spoken word of God may living union with God. It can not only
be said to have become flesh in the Bible. enlighten, reform, and improve, but regenerIt is therefore all divine, and yet all human, ate and create anew, and produce effects
from beginning to" end. Through the veil of which lie far beyond the power of human
the letter we behold the glory of the eternal genius. It has light for the blind, strength
truth of God. The divine and .human in for the weak, food for the hungry, drink for
the Bible sustain a similar relation to each the thirsty; it has a counsel in receipt or
other, as in the person of Christ: they are example for every relation in life, a comfort
unmixed, yet inseparably united, and consti- for every sorrow, a balm for every wound.
tute but one life, which kindles life in the Of all the books in the world, the Bible is
heart of the believer.
the only one of which we never tire, but
Viewed merely as a human or literary which we admire and love more in proporproduction, the Bible is a marvellous book, tion as we use it. Like the diamond, it
and without a rival. All the libraries of casts its lustre in every direction ; like a
theology, philosophy,. history, antiquities, torch, the more it is shaken, the more it
poetry, law and policy would not furnish shines ; like a healing herb, the harder it is
material enough for so rich a treasure of the pressed, the sweeter is its fragrance.
choicest gems of human genius, wisdom, and
What an unspeakable blessing, that this
experience. It embraces works of about inexhaustible treasure of divine truth and
forty authors, representing the extremes of
comfort is now accessible, without material
society, from tho throne of the king to the alteration, to almost every nation on earth in
boat of the fisherman ; it was written during its own tongue, and, in Protestant countries
a long period of sixteen centuries, on the at least, even to the humblest man and wobanks of the Nile, in the desert of Arabia, man that can read ! Nevertheless we welin the land of promise, in Asia Minor, in' come every new attempt to open the meaning
classical Greece, and in imperial Rome ; it of this book of books, which is plain enough
commences with the creation and ends with to a child, and yet deep enough for the
the final glorification, after describingall the profoundest philosopher and the most comintervening stages in the revelation of God prehensive scholar.
and the spiritual development of man ; it
uses all forms of literary composition; it
The Late Mrs. Strong.—In late Califorrises to the highest heights and descends to nia papers we notice the death of this most
the lowest depths of humanity ; it measures
and estimable lady, the wife of the
all states and conditions of life; it is ac- excellent
J.
Rev.
D.
Strong, Pastor of Larkin Street
with
every grief and every woe ; it
quainted
touches every chord of sympathy; it con- Church. Mrs. Strong is well remembered
tains the spiritual biography of every human in Honolulu. She was most amiable and
heart; it is suited to every class of society, retiring, but gifted with a poetical mind, and
and can be read with the same interest and her thoughts often found expression in verse
profit by the king and the beggar, by the
philosopher and the child ; it is as universal and prose. She frequently wrote for the paas the race, and reaches beyond the limits of pers, and was a constant contributor to the
time into the boundless regions of eternity. Hesperian. In a late Bulletin we notice the
Even this matchless combination of human following indicative of an appreciative parexcellencies points to its divine character and ish :
origin, as the absolute perfection of Christ's
Editors Bulletin.—Allow me through your
humanity is an evidence of His divinity.
columns to express my gratitude to the memBut the Bible is first and last a book of bers of the Larkin Street Congregation and
religion. It presents the only true, universal, other friends, who have just placed at my
and absolute religion of God, both in its disposal the sum of 81,177 86 to meet the
preparatory process or growth under the dis- increased expenses rendered necessary in my
pensation of the law and the promise, and household by the death of my dear wife.
in its completion under the dispensation of
J. D. Strong.
Whale Catchers of the Olden Time.
In reading thnt marvelously odd old book,
Cotton
Mather's Magnalia," on page 58,
"
1.,
Vol. we met with the following paragraph
relating to Yankee whalemen of the 17th
century
" From the catching of cod, and other fish
of less dimensions, they have since passed
on to the catching of whales, whose oil has
become a staple commodity of the country ;
whales, I say, which living and moving islands, do now find a way to this coast, where
notwithstanding the desperate hazards run
by the whale catchers in their thin whaleboats, often torn to pieces by the strokes of
those enraged monsters; yet has been rarely
known that any of them hare miscarried.
And within a few days of my writing this
paragraph (1696 or thereabouts) a cow and
calf were caught at Yarmouth in this Colony. The cow was fifty-five feet long. A
cart upon wheels might have gone in at the
mouth of it. The calf was twenty feet long."
In the Colonial history there is frequent
mention of..catching whales off the coast of
New England. It is interesting to trace the
history of the whale-fishery from that day
until the present, when now whales are seldom to be found except in the remotest parts
of the seas and oceans of the world. Yankee
whalemen are still following in the wake of
these monsters of the deep, until finally they
have called to their aid steam and gun-powder. As the last echoes of " there she blows"
were dying away amid the dreary regions of
Greenland and the Arctic Ocean, a shout
was heard from the backwoods of Pennsylvania that "ile was struck." Lo! out gushes
a stream that flows on without cessation.
:
Cure
for Want of
Appetite.—This
is
a
very common complaint, and the medical
authorities give various directions to persons
who are thus afflicted. There is one however that we have not seen stated in the
books. Cause a good dinner to be prepared,
and it on sitting down you do not feel an appetite, immediately direct your cook to remove the foodand convey it around the corner
of the street to the Widow Smith, who has
several small chiraren. Rest assured your
dinner will not go uneaten, and your next
meal will be eaten with a good relish. Try
An American Missionary of Fifty Years
Standing.—Died, Mnrch 23, at the Mahabu-
leshwur Hills, India, Mrs. Graves, wife of the
late Allan Graves, in the 79th year of her
age. Mrs. Graves was prepared for her
missionary labors under Rev. Dr. Proudfoot,
of Salem, N. V., previous to the year 1816,
when she was married to Rev. Allan Graves,
Soon after she and Mr. Graves sailed for
their work in India, under the direction of
the American Board of Foreign Missions.
Having lost her husband and all her children,
by death, in India, Mrs. Graves labored on
in her Saviours cause for fifty years, dfrvoiing herself with untiring fidelity to tr*»J*wtjk
of bringing the heathen to a knowledge jjfc
the way of salvation through Jesus "Cnrir-t
our Lord. Worn out in her Master's service',
she now sleeps in Jesus.
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�THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1811.
92
THE FIUEND,
OCTOBER t, 1806.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
IlMTOsr or Jui.au Cassar. • Vol. 11. The Wars in
Gaul. Harper A Brothers, New York, 1866.
In the November number of the Friend,
1865, will be found a notice of Vol. I.of this
important publication. On opening this volume, our attention is first arrested by this
fact (before reading a page,) that the Emperor should have given to this volume the
last touches of his pen at " the Tuilleries,
March 20, 1866," and before the 20th of
September, or between the vernal and autumnal equinoxes—the 20th of March and
the 20th of September—the volume should
have been printed in Paris, reprinted in London, and again reprinted in New York, and
brought lo Honolulu, on the opposite side of
the world, from Paris! Truly we live in a
fast and progressive age.
This volume embraces the history of
Caesar's life, while carrying forward the conquest of Gaul, down to the time when he
crosses the Rubicon, exclaiming : "The die
is cast! Let us go where I am called by the
prodigies of the gods aud the iniquity of my
enemies." The basis of this volume is, of
course, the famous " Commentaries" of
Caesar, which have for so many centuries
been the study and admiration of historians,
scholars, divines and the whole literary
world. Caesur's commentaries still retain
their place as a text-book in academies and
colleges. Only last week we chanced to take
a peep into the Latin recitation room of Oahu
College at Punahou, and 10, there sat President Alexander hearing, among others, a
pure Hawaiian youth, translating from Latin
into English, that spirited and remarkable
passage relating to Julius Caesar and the
haughty German, Ariovistus, not altogether
unlike the recent diplomatic and curt correspondence between Bismasjk, the haughty
German, and the present Emperor of France,
author ,of this volume now under review,
Ariovistus wondered what business Julius
Caesar or the Roman people had in his division of Gaul. So Bismark wonders what
business the Emperor of France can have in
extending the boundaries of his Empire up
to the Rhine. History repeats itself in a
cycle of years.
By the way, if we mistake not, this was
the same Hawaiian youth whose correct demonstration of a difficult problem in geometry or trigonometry at the late Examination
led Bishop Staley to remark that the youth
putted himself in a manner which would
re done credit to a student of Oxford or
mbridge.
But to return from this digression, here
s before our eyes this beautifully printed,
.
s
f
handsomely bound, and expensively executed
volume. How pleasant to read over the
story of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul, written
by a Napoleon who now rules over France !
The author could write, " My uncle" threatened to land an army in Britain, but Csssar
actually led an army thither, and in this volume there is the narrative of the manner in
which it was done. Cresar's description of
the Britons during the first century prior to
our Saviour's birth, is not very flattering to
their descendants of Old or New England.
They were clothed in skins, wore their hair
long, lived in mud huts, besmeared their
bodies with blue paint (woak,) and in morals
were not above the inhabitants of New Holland or the wilds of America ; and furthermore, were as much under the influence of
the old Druids as were the North American
Indians under their powwows, or the Sandwich Islanders under their kahunas.
This volume suggests many topics, upon
which we should delight to dwell, if our limits would permit. It is a book which will
provoke much interesting discussion in military and literary circles. From the' publisher's note prefixed to this volume, we learn
that Consar's Commentaries have been carefully studied by several of the distinguished
Kings and Emperors of Europe of former
times. It appears that Charles Y. left a
copy of Crjßsar, with marginal notes written
with his own hand j King Henry the IV.
of France, translated the first two books of
the Commentaries; Louis XIV. translated
the first book, and many others studied
Caesar with care. Napoleon I. at St. Helena,
dictated the " Precis dcs Guerres dc Cesar,"
which was published in Paris in 1836.
We regret that this volume should not be
accompanied with the plates and maps referred to so often on almost every page of the
book, and it is surprising the publishers in
New York should have allowed the volume
to go forth thus defective. An old writer
says that geography and chronology are the
eyes of history. If so, this volume is a oneeyed affair ! We learn from Mr. Whitney
that he is expecting a supply of this book,
which will be soon offered for sale. We
would tender our indebtedness to the gentleman who kindly loaned us this volume, on
condition that we cut the leaves.
We would acknowledge a small pamphlet from Boston, containing in part the results of Mr. Horace Mann's botanical researches upon these Islands in 1864. It will
be remembered that Messrs. Brigham and
Mann visited the Islands for scientific purposes. We also learn that Professor Brigham has returned to Boston, via China, India
and Burope. We notice tbat in the above
mentioned pamphlet very honorable reference
is made to Dr. Hillebrand as a botanist.
—
T. F. Wilson, Esq. By a late vessel
this gentleman arrived from Washington.
He belongs to the newly organized Consular
Corps, which has been called into existence
by a law of Congress passed in 1864. According to this law of Congress, a certain
number of young men, after undergoing an
examination in international law, general literature and other branches, are placed on
the " line of promotion." They first serve
as clerks, or in some of the lower offices of
the Departments, and then are advanced.
The French and English Consular systems
are copied, being adapted to our Republican
Government. Mr. Wilson comes out with
the rank of Vice-Consul to officiate at this
Consulate during the contemplated absence
of Mr. Caldwell. Mr. Wilson has already
acquired much Consular experience, having
officiated for three years as United Stares
Consul at Bahia, Brazil. He was tbe Consul who co-operated with the commander of
the Wachusett in cutting out and taking to
the United States the rebel cruiser Florida
during the war. The deed was no doubt executed in violation of international law, but
under the peculiar circumstances, we suppose
both the Brazilian and United States Governments concluded that " the less said the
better." Subsequently the Florida was sunk,
and there thea>matter ended. The law of
Congress to which we have referred will undoubtedly revolutionize the matter of foreign
Consuls, and place the system on a much
better foundation.
New Attorney General.—If the state of
morals, crime and general depravity require
the Hawaiian Government to send abroad
for an Attorney General, we- are sincerely
glad that it had the good sense to send to
old Massachusetts and invite a prominent
member of the legal profession from that
State. Mr. Phillips, having been an Attorney General of that ancient Commonwealth,
surely comes amongst us to wear, not acquire laurels. We hope our lawyers will see
well to it that this gentleman does not prosecute unto conviction any poor innocent
hade or tnaoli who may chance to beaccused.
" Better let ten guilty escape than punish
one innocent," is the old adage. We would
warn all violators of the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom, look out, you have a Massachusetts lawyer after you, and report says
that the lawyers are very smart in the " Hub
of the universe."
The sum of £SO.OOO or $400,000 has
been contributed in England, for the benefit
of the Freedmen of the Southern States.
One fourth part has been contributed by the
Quakers.
The opening of the October term of Court
has bee. postponed till Monday th. tth.
�93
THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1811.
Cholera
Conductors.
The following facts are taken from a tract
compiled by Rev. James B. Dunn, and just
published by the National Temperance Society t
Prior to the advent of the cholera in England, in the Spring of 1832, a placard was
daily carried through the streets of London,
by order of the civil authorities, having in
large capitals the words, " All spirit drinkers
will be the first victims of the cholera." The
result was that few persons had the cholera
in that city.
In the cities of New York and Albany, the
same year, thousands of posters bearing this
caution were put up with good effect: " Quit
dram-drinking if you toould not have the
cholera." This arose from the fact, that
however writers and theorists may differ
about contagion and non-contagion, on this
point they all agree, that Intemperance predisposes to cholera, and that the intemperate
are its first victims, and make up nine-tenths
of its subjects. Everywhere the cholera has
manifested such an affinity for the temperate that they have been, not unappropriated,
denominated cholera conductors.
Monsieur Huber said of 2160 persons
whom he saw die in twenty-one days in one
It is a most remarkable
town in Russia :
circumstances that persons given to drinking
have been swept away like flies." In Triflis,
containing 20,000 inhabitants, erery drunkard has fallen—all are dead—not one remains.
Nearly all of the 30,000 persons who died of
cholera in Paris during its last*visit were in
the habit of using strong drink, and ninetenths of all who perished by the malady in
Poland were of the same class. Throughout
England, Ireland, and Scotland, it was not
known that a single member of a Temperance society died of this disease during its
ravages in 1832, while it is computed that
five-sixths of all who perished were taken
from the ranks of the intemperate, and in
one or two villages in Scotland every drunkard had fallen. When it visited those countries in 1848-49, one of the most extensive
and respectable liquor-dealers in Glasgow
remarked that cho'era had cut off at least onehalf of hisbest customers. Similar testimony
is borne by the Glasgow press of that period
as that recorded during the cholera ravages
in 1832, that the lists of mortality were always swelled after some carousal season.
Dr. A. M. Adams, Professor of Medicine in
Glasgow, and one whose name ranks high in
the medical profession, in a letter dated Nov.
29, 1848, makes the following striking statement : I have found the use of alcoholic
drinks to be the most powerful predisposing
"
Uka iii or Tiikiii'imi.i-s Mtnu.r.—Tho friends of
this stenLleman will regret to hunr of his decease,
which occurred at Oakland. Cal., on the Cth of
August. He bud been suffering for several years
from lung disease, snd was advised ,o try a voyage to the States, but lived only a few weeks after
his arrival lo San Francisco, lie was a native,
of Geneva, Western New York, and having
received a good academical education, devoted
himself to civil engineering. In this capacity he
was engaged in laying out tbe Michigan Central Railroad, where his abilities became so conspicuous that, before he was 21 years ot age, he
received the appointment of Chief Engineer of
that, which was then one of the greatest railroad enterprises in America, iieing still quite
young, his health gave way tinder the arduous duties required in his new office, and he was advised
to migrate to a warmer climate, lie came to these
islands May 19, 1842, engaged in his profession of civil engineer, and held office for several years as Superintendent of Public Works.
He was also Marshal of the Islands for two or three
years. About the year 1855 he commenced the
Kaupnkuea l*lantation on Hawaii, which he continued to carry on till his death. Few men have
done more to develope the resources of this group
than he, and few hove more thoroughly studied
its wants and necessities. He possessed a vigorous and powerful pen, and contributed some Interesting articles on our agriculture aud resources.
Our readers may remember tho series describing
the harbors of this group, published ten years ago.
These Were from his pen, and showed a thorough
knowledge of tho wants of the islands. He was an
excellent French scholar, and studied the current
agricultural and mechanical literature of France
with the greatest interest. At the time of his death
he was *7 years old. He leaves four children—
the two eldest of wbom were with him at the time
of his death. His property is supposed to be
worth from $50,000 to $100,000. By his will he
has appointed Dr. Judd, Charles R. Bishop and E.
O. Hall bis executors, and leaves $10,000 to each
of his three younger children, by a" second wife,
and the residue to his oldest daughter, by his first
wife. In case of her death without issue, Oahu
College'(which institution was always a favorite of
his) becomes the residuary legatee.—Advertiser.
-
Sauii
Change.—We
think the time has
come when some one else besides the Editor
of the Herald should mov.i in this matter of
small change.
Every merchant, housekeeper, the banker, the Chamber of Commerce, Treasury Department, and if necsjsv
sary, the missionaries—Protestant, Catholic
and Reformed Catholic—should endeavor to
introduce a better currency than is now in
existence. We think if the Minister of Finance had worked one-half as hard to bring
about a change in the small change as Ke did
to introduce paper money, he would have
found the public more grateful for his arduous services. No one but admits the necessity of some change, but the great objection
urged is this, " Oh, the natives will not take
dimes—they are opposed to dimes—they
wet* once bit by being compelled to take a
dime for something less than a bit, and you
cannot get them to overcome their prejudices." There may be some force in this objection, but we have the remedy at hand.
Suppose the banker, Minister of Finance and
Chamber of Commerce agree to put " bits "
to the value of dimes, and then let the Au
Okoa and Kuokoa explain the change, and
depend upon it, the change would be soon
brought about. Kanakas are not so stupid
and thick-headed as some imagine. Let the
retail traders also come intothe arrangement,
and it would essentially aid and forward the
change. Keep the matter before the people,
ye editors of the weeklies and the "Daily."
—
Hot Summer. From the newspapers we
learn that the heat has been intense in the
United States during the past summer. Dr.
Wood thus writes from Concord, Mass.,
under date of July 10th : " The maximum
of heat during the present month is said to
be without a parallel. For nine days in
July the thermometer has ranged about
90 ° In this town it has reached 96 ° —in
some localities 98 «**. In New York 110° ,
with twenty-three cases of sunstroke, and a
large proportion of deaths." He furnishes
the following table, showing the temperature
relatively of Koloa (Kauai), Honolulu, San*
Francisco, and Concord :
Perhaps the Gleaner would more appropriately head our sheet than the friend,
for it requires much close gleaning to pick
news items, after the itemizers of the Advertiser, Gazette and Daily Herald have had the
field for a full month. We shall endeavor
however to see that our readers always
find something in our columns that they do
not find in the columns of our neighbors.
The suggestion has been made that the
Friend should be issued Sunday morning.
We honestly think the good people of HonoaOLOA (lABAt), HTCATtD 11 23* SOUTH 1.AT1TCUF..
Minimum Maximum.
"
lulu had much better be occupied in going to
l)t V
Vtf.
cause of malignant cholera with which I am church, teaching in Sabbath schools, visiting For August, 186S
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"1
Peptember,
For
186S
Bible,
goon
the
and
other
the sick, reading
acquainted."
M
For October, 1886
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seekbooks, than in reading newspapers, or
At aoMOLCLC.
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1888
November,
Most sincerely do we congratulate ing amusement.
Remember the Sabbath for
IS
For December, 1884
"
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of
1888
10
For January,
Mr. Harris, H. H. M.'s Minister Finance, to keep it holy."
M
7»
For February, 180«
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80
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on his most providential escape from instant
—By a late For March,at sai raAHCisco,31* aoaru latitiui.
French
Commissioner.
New
the
1*88
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death while ascending
Pali. Under the
For April (17th to SOih),
47
vessel from San Francisco, Mons. Beranger For May (Tlh to ttth), I860
coscokD, ataaa.
circumstances, his deliverance appears almost
88
W
June (14th to 80th), 1866
miraculous. He may well have exclaimed arrived to officiate as Commissioner and For
70
M
For July (l'jth to 18th), 18M
with David of old, " There is but a step be- Consul of the French Empire at the HawaiCommissioner,
retiring
ian Court. The
tween me and death."
We would acknowledge pamphlets
Mons. Desnoyer, leaves with the respect of and
for seamen, from Rev. E. Bond,
papers,
Donation —$5 from Capt. James. of the not only his countrymen, but of the comKohala.
bark Gto. Buxton for support of the Bethel. munity at large.
.
.
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�THE VKIK N I >. OCTOBER, 18 66.
94
Missionary
Vessels.
1. John Williams.—This is a new hark
of 300 tons, built in Aberdeen, Scotland, at
a cost of £8,000. It has been paid for by
Sabbath school children in England, in sympathy with the operations of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas. This
vessel is supposed to have sailed from England, and is probably now in the South Pa-
cific.
John Weslev.—This vessel was
wrecked last November on one of the Tonga
or Friendly Islands. Its place will doubtless
be very soon supplied by a new vessel, to be
owned, as was its predecessor, by the Wesleyan Missionary Society of England.
3. John Knox.—This is a vessel owned
by the Missionary Society of New Brunswick,
sending missionaries to the New Hebrides.
2.
Amelia—but there is such a vessel, which is
running to South Africn. German missionaries are laboring near or among the Zulus.
7. Morning Star. —The new Morning
Star is now building at one of the ship-yards
at South Boston. She is expected to sail
from Boston, so as to reach Honolulu on or
before the coming Spring. The money for
building this vessel is now being raised among
the Sabbath school children of the United
States.
The Maoris of New Zealand. —The
race is melting away ; and if there were no
more war, and the Europeans were to leave
the country to-morrow, the extinction of the
Maori, in an exceedingly brief period, is as
certain as anything human can be. A very
few figures will show this. In 184i!, according to the best estimates which could be
made, the authority of missionaries and
other long residents in the country, their
number was 114,000. In 1850 a well-informed Wesleyan missionary estimated them
at 70,000. In 1858 a government census,
generally supposed to be in excess, returned
them at 55,970. The war and natural causes have, by this time, probably reduced them
to 45,000. Carry on the calculation, and it
is evident that the certain extinction of the
race, except a few individuals, is a thing
which many of us may live to witness. The
one great cause of this has been, and is, their
utter disregard of all those social and sanitary conditions which are essential to the
continuing vitality of the human race. The
result is, the constitution of the Maori is
absolutely decayed, and they do not produce
children to replace the current generation of
adults.— English paper.
She is now running among those islands.
4. Southern Cross.—This is a vessel
owned by tho Church Missionary Society of
England, and placed at the disposal of Bishop
Selwyn of New Zealand, and Bishop Patteson of Melanesia. This vessel has recently
made a trip among the Solomon Islands, and
the crew of one of her boats was fired upon
by the natives of one of those savage islands.
Two of the bout's crew were wounded by the
poisoned arrows, which caused their deaths.
These young men belonged to Norfolk Island, being descendants of Pitcairn islanders.
One of them was a son of the Rev. Mr.
Nobbs. Within the field of the Melanesian
NaInformation.
uticl
Mission there are at least eighty islands.
We shall from time to time publish the position of islands in
5. Allen Gardner.—This is a mission- this ocean, prepared for us by Cspt. Dan'l Smith, an experishipmaster resident here, who has for many yearsmale
ary schooner owned by the South American enced
this his special study. The figures, after being set In type, will
Missionary Society, operating among the na- be carefully revised by him, and only Issued when known to be
tives of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. perfectly correct. So many errors are found In nearly all the
charts, and so many shipwrecks therefrom, that this
She sailed originally for that Mission in present
information must prove important, as It will lie reliable. We
1854, and is still running. At the last ac- commence with glvlnsr the position of Jhe Islands oomprlslng the
signifying cloud or multitude. Tho
counts she was on a visit to England. It Poaovon Gbocf, the name
following list embraces only a part, theremainder will appear
will be remembered that this Mission was Id a future Issue.
In most of the Amerlcsn and English charts of the South
remarks Capt. 8., I have found from experience, in
started by Captain Gardner, an officer of the Pacific,thriingh
this ilsngerous group, the positions very insailing
laid down. In 1856 while in Papeiti, Tahiti, I
Royal Navy, who relinquished his commis- accurately
obtained from the late Ca|>t. Jos. Moore, (of Papeili,) well
sion and devoted his life to the self-denying known in that part of the Pacific forhisresearches sinong those
a French chart said to be very correct (and I have
labors of a missionary among the degraded islands,
since found it so)—by Mr. Vlnccndan Dumoulln-, from the obot the French conrettes CAstrolabe and la Zelee,
inhabitants ot Tierra del Fuego and Patago- servations
from which I copy :
nia. Captain Gardner and his associates
Minerva Is. and Reef, Let. of West end ■• 38 to 22 ° 41 S.
Minerva Is. and Siecf, Long, of West end 133 » 42 west of
perished with hunger about fifteen years ago, Greenwich.
under circumstances which excited pity and MinervaIs. and Reef, Lat. of East end 22 ° 36 to 22 40 8.
Minerva Is. and Reef. Long, of East end 133° SO west of
sorrow. The impression was made upon the Greenwich.
Manga Rceva or Gambler Islands, extending N. E. and S.
public mind that Captain Gardner was reckW.
lessly imprudent, although zealous as a mis- W. 18 miles, principal Lat. 23 ° 08 8., Long. IS6 ° 02
Long. W.
8. Lst. of Grenwich.
sionary. An incident has lately occurred
deg. min. drg. min.
presenting a new feature to tbe affair. A Crescent Is. (centre)
23 18
134 40
13ft 35
21 M
letter, it appears, was written by Captain Lord nood's Is. West point
136
l
=2
pol"'
Hood's
Is.
Kast
Gardner to Admiral Sullivan at the Falkland Lord
13« 12
21
Moerenhout Isle
SI 2«
137 82
..me)
Islands. That letter was delayed, and never Isle (no Isle
23 08
137 18
reached the Admiral, and in fact was taken Marane
20
87
extending
point.21
Is.
». W. I N. W point.21 29 134
Acteon
138 28
andS.K
to England, and only was opened in 1864 at
JS.E
138
40
12
point
22
Cacsburn Is. N. K.
the office of the Board of Trade in London. Osnalmrgor
Matilda Is. extending K. N. E.
68
ISO
00
21
point
8.
16
8.
and W. W. miles, W.
It was the delay or miscarriage of this letter Faith
138 61
21 10
Is. (doubtrul) said to be In
which resulted in Captain Gardner's death. Carysfbrt
Is. N. K. point
20 44
138 £0
140 88
21*8
6. Amelia.—This is a German mission- Bllgh'a Is.
180 02
20 44
Is
188 8*
10 26
ary vessel, built under the auspices of Pastor Harrow's
Whitsunday Is. (centra)
2»
(centre)
Is.
1»
Harms. We may be mistaken in the name— Egmoot
1*8 40
1» M
Quern Charlotte's Is. (centre)
•
* »»
'*
Long.
>
B. Lat. ofUieeuwiij
drg. min. deg. mi.
18 46
188 45*
Nonkoutaoualte, 4 islands, largest
Landers
18 81
139 07
lie de
138 24
Narcissus Is. K. 8. K. W.N. W.,tt. K. pL17 20
Is.
K.
point
Tonnere
S.
18
40
188 10
Clermont
18 81
138 22
Clermont TonnereIs. N. W. point
miles,
E.pt.18
Is.
t
3.
10
8.
28
138 63
N. W.
E.
Series
19 40
140 21
Byara Martin Is. (centre)
19
18
ISO
30
Island,
(no name)
Small
I* 10
141 18
Cumberland Is. (centre)..
Island
19
08
140
38
(centre)
Gloucester
18 46
141 40
Prince Win. Uenry, (centre)
point
140
37
1° 22
Harp Is. 8. E.
18 04
141 02
Harp Is 8. W. point
Groups"—IstCSouth
Is
18
16
142 08
«'T»o
18 03
142 08
(ir.mpc.r ManskaJ North Is
69
<
17
142 08
Is
•> u
Douhaida,
2d group North
,« 01 H2 oj
W<M end
islet...17 44
140 34
S. W. Islet... 17 68
140 48
islet....17
48
140 33
East
140 48
West Islet... 17 48
17 22-141 36
Resolution Is. 8. E. point
18 47
141 39
Island or Good Hope, (centre)
139 6!)
< end, group islet..16 65
Island. I'redpnstie E.
09
w end. srrosjp islet. 16 58 140
140 61
15 61
A rakcheyeff Islands, (centre one)
( N. 14. Island
142 05
16
41
Wolkhonsky Islands j g w
142 14
Island
15 61
142 27
18 12
„ ,,
Barclay de Tolly
Uroup}(8N point
42 ,s
16 M
142 48
,__
18
33
.( North Isot
Neerou (Oroup) j g00lh le
M 49
43
17 04
142 40
f Eastern Islet
143 02
Manoutea (Uroup) i Western Isletof Ktl17 05
surrounding
17 11
142 61
142 30
Melville ls.N. W4-S. E. 12roiles,8.K.end. 17 39
143 08
Keltoua (Group) N. 18.10 miles, 8. Islet.. 18 18
St. Paul's Islands, N. N. W. and S. a. E.
19 54
8 miles, 8. E. Islet
141 65
143 07
17 61
Mini's Is
143 23
17 27
F.iraiki or Crocker's Is
141 02
Motoutoua Is. E. S W. 12 miles, East point.17 01
Anna or Chain Group N. N. W. It 8. S. E.
146 27
17 30
18 miles, 8. E. point
18 60
144 16
Ohlti Islands, centre
16 42
144 08
Tapnutou Islands, centre
18 40
144 08
Toumako Islands, centre
kim
K *,"" <l S- K. pt. Het.18 40
143 24
*■ N
1 *") NW.pt. Islet 18 28
143 63
i» miles.
n
goon, 36
(
16 21
142 69
Holt's Island, ( S. E. point
18 19
148 12
atol and la-2 N. W. point
143 08
(S. point reel surrounding. 16 27
goon.
144 42
Touena Islands, <*. E. point
16 48
144 62
atol & lagoon. \ 8. W. point
18 62
145 02
MllaradowltchorF-Iti Isld. J 8.B. point.. .16 59
146 18
N. W. point.10 43
atol and lagoon.
18 30
144 58
Alice Island, centre
144 08
Katlou Islands, atoK 8. E. point
16 33
144 13
) N. W. point
and lagoon.
18 26
145 83
03
»
Group, atol)f Islet. N. point... 16
Faarawa
g 3i
4i m
and lagoon.
{ Wcslernmott Islet 18 09 145 43
16
10
„Raraka grnup,l(Islet, E.point
144 42
> |nl
uo6
lU u
1<k w
atol and I. 8oulh
..j.trMnuyree(sura
rounding
1....16 14
144 49
146 04
16 44
islet
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
C. S. BARTOW,
Auctioneer,
Street,
Sislrs Room ess Q.neeu
Kaahumanu street.
620
one deer
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APVBRTISBBtIjIgTS.
R. W. ANDREWS,
SAILOR'S HOME!
ALL. KINDS OF LIGHT MA4;0.
REPAIRS
ClllNKllY, GLNB, LOCKS,
FlllF, PROOF STORK,
Street,
Ist Kobiuson's HuildiuK. q,sscea
630-lj
Will continue business at the new stsnd.
A. K. JUDD,
lort Street, opposite <>dd Fellows' llsll.
AGENTS FOR
Wheeler & Wilson's
SEWING MACHINES!
Importer nnd Dealer In Hardware, Cutler), Mechanics'
_
Tools, and Agricultural Implements,
Foi-l_Siree«.
}T_
MACHINE
Impiovenients, unci,
IV.HIS
highest prite
awarded
DR. J. MOTT SMITH,
the
Dentist,
Btf
CASTLE Ik COOKE,
Counsellor at Law,
Csrser of fort nad Merchaist Streets.
490 ly_
W.N. LADD,
681
ADVERTISEMENTS.
MACHINIST.
srssssi
ii W. SEVERANCE.
Auctioneer and Couimlsslen Merchant,
Attorney and
95
fi FRIEND, OCTOBER, I S6 6.
HAS A 1.1. Till. LATEST
premiums, was
inaddition to
ahove all European and American
rormer
1
Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS in 1881,
$6
Officers' table, with lodging, per week,.
and at the Exhibition In London in 1862.
do.
l'he evidenceof thesuperiority of this MachineIs found in the [ Seamens' do.
do.
do.
record ofits sales. In 1801
E. HOFFMANN. M. D.
Shower Baths on tbe Premises.
The Grover & Bnker Company, Boston,
Physician and Surgeon,
Mr,. IKABII.
The Florence Company, Massachusetts
ly
631
andKaahumanu
sts.
Connecticut,
Manager.
Company,
The
l'arkcr
Mskee's Block, comer Queen
Honolulu, April 1, 1868.
J. M. Singer *> Co., New York,
M.
D.
K.WETHORR,
Lyon,
Flnkle
&
LAPP, SDWASD f. SALL.JS.
0.
OBAS WOLOOTT BBOOIS, W. BSABB
Chas. W. Howland, Delaware,
PHYSICIAN fc SURGEON,
M. Greenwood ft Co., Cincinnati, 0.,
S.
I.
HILO, HAWAII,
N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0.,
Wilson 11. Smith, Connecticut,
N. B.—Meillcine Chestscsrefully replenished at the
SHIPPING AND
whilst the Wheeler k Wilson Company, of bridge
old
18,560,
6-tf
HILO DRUG STORE.
ort, made and sold 19,725 during the same period.
11 tl
yPlcyisc Call nnd Examine.
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CO.,
C. L. RICHARDS Ac
Office corner of Port and
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Hotel_Btreetf.
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Commission Merchants.
McCraken. Merrill & Co.,
FORWARDINC AND
HAWAIIAN PACKET UNE
Commission Merchants,
Commission Merchants, and
Dealers In General Merchandise,
Ship Chandlers and
AGENTS FOR THE
Keen constantly on hand a fullassortment of merchandise, for
Merchant vessels.
the supply of Whalers and
613 ly
BETWEEN
ALLEN *. C'ONWAT,
KswaDjie,
CHAS. W. BROOKS & CO.,
Hawaii,
Portland, Oregon.
business
Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping
to
at the above port, wh'jre they are prepared furnish
Kawalhae
and
Potatoes,
celebrated
the Justly
such other recruits aa are required
by whale ships, at the
shortest notice snd on the most reasonable terms.
Hand.
jE» Ir o -xxr oo ci on
BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PREOPFICK—6II Sanoosue St., corner Merchaat
sent business for upwards of seven years, and hetag
SAN FBANCISCO.
located in a fire proof brick building, we are prepared to receive
and dispose of Island staples, such as Sugar, Hloe,Simps, Pulu,
ATTENTION GIVEN TO
Coffee, Ac, to advantage. Consignments especially solicited
to For.
the Purchase, Shipment and Saleof Merchandise)
for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid,
of Goods i the Chartering and Sale
wardlugand
Transhipment
and upon which cash advances will be made when required.
ofVesselsi the Supplying of Whaleships i and the Negotiation
Sab Fbascisco Hkfkbkbces:
m
of Kxchanfte.
Badger At Llndeuherger,
Jas. Patrick k Co.,
ABOB S. OOOSB.
1. S. ATBBBTOS.
SAMT. B. OASTLB.
Exchange on Honolulu in sums to suit.
W. T. Coleman k Co.,
Fred. Iken,
CASTLE k COOKE,
ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
Stevens, Baker k Co.
PORTLAND RBrSHSSCSS:
Importers and General Merchants,
BBFBB TO
Leonard k Green.
Ladd Tilton.
Allen k Lewis.
Is FireproofStore, King street, opposite the Seamen's Chapel.*
Jas.IHtbbbwbu. Bsq., Boston
WAt-BBS, Allbb a> Co
HoBOLi'LC Rsrsassoss:
Honolulu.
Ilsflsv A. Psibcs k Co. ■'
J*-limo, AgOUtB fOX"
8. Savldiie.
Allen at Co.,
Walker,
Bova.bs,BiSß
k Co.,
Bbbj. F.Ssuw.Ksq.,
Medicines,
Family
Celebrated
Jaynes
Dr.
SBl-ly
Strrros k Co.. Mew York.
C Rbstwbk fc Co.,
Wbeeler a> Wilson's Sewing Machines,
Wat. H. Fooo fc Co.,
BisßorfcCo.,
The Kohala Sugar Company,
JOBS At CBACBBB.
J. O. MBBBILL,
H. Fooo fc Co.. Bbsngbae.
Thob. BrsBCBB, BsV,., Hilo.
W. A. ALDBICB.
The New Kngland Mutual Life Insurance Company,
AI.I.HABD lr Co., Kanagawa. Aixss k Lswis,
The New York Pbenli Marine Insurance Company,
Portland, Orsgoa.
603-ly
Co.,
ALDRICH, MERRILL tV
606 ly
HAVING
PARTICULAR
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Commission
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I. BABTLBTT.
■. A. F. CABTBB.
■BBBBAB rSCK.
C. BREWER At. CO.
Commission and Shipping Merchants,
Honolulu. Oahu, 11.
304, and 300 t"ullloriilti Street,
Of the Boston and Honolulu Psicket Line.
AQKNTB
For the Milker, Wnilaku St. Ilium I'lii nlii lion.
AOBNTS
Per the Purchase »ad Sale of Inhaad Produce.
—REFBR TO—
New York.
Jobs M. llood, Rao.,
1
Cbab. Bbbwbb, k Co.
Boston
y
.lamkhHdbmbwsll, Ksq.
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f
San
Francisco.
E. B. Swaib A Co.
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Cbas. Woloott Bbookb Ksq.)
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JOHN THOS. WATERHOUSE,
BAJ* FRANCISCO.
ALSO, AGENTS OF THE
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Messrs. C. L. Ricbabds k Co.,
II IIACBFBLD k Co.,
C Bbiwbb if C0.,,
Bisbop k Co
Honolulu1
HIs Ex R. C. Wylllc,..Hon. B. F. Snow, Esq.,
Thos. Spencer, Ksq
Hilo1 Dr. R. W. Wood
Dlmomd fc Son,
Merrill,
Mcßuer
San
Francisco
Ksq...
Lahslna
w
Dickinson
Hon.
H
B. H. Allbb
O.W. Brooksa- 00...8anF. O. T. Lawton, Ksq.,
D 0. Watsbmab, Esq.,
Field fc Rice
New York
Tobln, Bros, k Co.,
408-ly
Wilcox, Richards k Co, Hjailulu.
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381-ly
BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA.
,
DOLE. AT KOLOA.
REV. DANIEL
Kauai, has accommodations In his
THE
Fssr as Few Roardisss; Scholars.
family
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exchange. Ate.
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nululu Line of Packets, will be forwarded rsss or cosmissiuß.
XT Exchange on Honolulubought and sold. XI
Importer and Dealer In OeneralMerchandise. Honolulu. H. I
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PHOTOGRAPHS.
Sao Francisco & Honolulu Packets. > UKMBHA, fee, a/c.
Gallery on Fort Street.
AMhe
Particular attention given to the sals snd purchase of mer
nW
H. L. CHASB.
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LARGER PHOTOGRAPHS;
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RETOUCHING sUae Ist the heat massurr.
and on tbe most reasonable terms.
Also for sale, Photographs of ths Craters Kilauea snd
Halrahala. and other Island Scenes* the KINGS KAMK-
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Auctioneers,
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AND OTHERS, WISHING
SEAMEN
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Weed, dopllcste copies can be bad by those persons wishing
for the same.
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THE FRIEND:
PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY
SAMUEL C. DAMON.
TO TEMA MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED AND
PERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,
to obtain books from the Sailors' Home Library,
will please apply to the Bethel Sexton, who wiU have
Reading Room sTutil
to hist charge of the Depository and
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THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1816.
TBhatoel df
Whale.
BY
BRAD
THORNTON.
Tho Northman lay on his iron cliff,
Outlooking the Norman sea ;
With his bold, blue eras of wild emprise.
Abroad o'er the wave locked he.
In a restless mood of solittido,
He longs in the chase to roam :
"I've conquered the bear in the Toriiean wood,
And the shark by the deep Maelstroom!
My fitting foe lived long ago—
The mighty mastodon!
His blue eyes bravely glanced below—
The chivf from Ms cliff had gone!
'Tis the whale ; yon whale that tempts his sail,
Like an island he moveth on—
By the boundless sen. I'll conquer thee,
Thou ocean mastodon !
He darted his skiff from the foot of the cliff,
All armed with corded spear ;
Soon tbe barb is dyed in the sea beast's side.
Anil away to the West they steer.
Willi hempen rein, o'er the ocean plain,
Mot* licet than the sledge they go ;
With the retl setting sun a race they run.
In the road of its ruddy glow.
And tho sturm-waves keep up a glassy calm,
That strange Hist bark to see :
And tlio sea-gods rose the chase to charm.
And shouted-" We'll ride with the*!''
And one of their troop the Norman chose,
To share in his daring deed ;
White was her breast as the Finland snows,
Her heart like tho brown sea-weed.
And thus they twain o'er rode tho main.
And the Norman's shirt oCsnuil.
With his shield he clashed, as they land-way washed,
Till he stranded the maddened whale!
That night on the strand of Owhyhee's land,
He built for his mermaid bride
A bowery hut, and the oil ho cut,
For a lamp irom the monster's side.
And from these two there sprang a crew,
The boldest to spread the sail;
And on every plain of tbe stormy main
They chase the tumbling whale!
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Intemperance.
Foul flend, begone! I scorn thy tempting wile—
1 heed thee not—l know thy subtle arts.
There was a time thy deep insidious smile
l.nred me to throw aside man's nobler part,
And made God's work a selfish senseless thing—
A plague-spot in the path of fellow man.—
I loaded to madness with the venom'd sting,
A prey to anguish 'neath thy withering ban.
Hut I am onco again myself, and now
My tribute age shall speak in truthful lays
Of thy deep pitfall and how keen the blow,
When mem'ry reverts to bygone days.
Where are thy victims? Legion calls their name
The high, tbe honored, all have felt thy spell.
What's tho result, source of all sin and shame?—
The murderer, suioide, too plainly tell—
Like to the deadly upas in the shade
Of loneliness, thou touch with ftetid breath.
Things of bright promise 'neath thy influence fade,
Then left by thee to an eternal death.
Sophia Wkhhkr.
Launcenton, Dec. 11, lSfifl.
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The Bathometer —a New Philosophical
Instrument.—We understand that Mr. Sidney E. Morso, the founder of the Boston Eecorder, the senior founder of the New York
Observer, and the inventor of Cerography,
has recently invented, and just patented, in
connection with his son,G.Livingston Morse,
a new and very simpre philosophical instrument, which they call a Bathometer. It is
intended, ns its name imports, to measure the
depth of water everywhere, even in the deepest parts of the ocean ; and it does this with
a rapidity and accuracy far exceeding that of
any apparatus now in use ftfr the purpose.
No line is used, and it sinks therefore, rapidly, with little obstruction from friction. No
line being used, its accuracy as a meter of
depth is not affected by currents. You throw
it overboard, with its appendages, in the
ocean, where the water is miles deep. It
goes down like a shot, and, as soon as it
touches bottom, it turns and comes back to
the surface. You pick it up, and the true
depth of the water at the point where it struck
the bottom is seen on the scale of the Bathometer, just as you see the degree of heat on
the scale of a Thermometer. You turn the
instrument on its side, and then cause it
again to assume a perpendicular .position,
and it is ready for a new operation.
One of the most curious parts of the whole
contrivance is, that with a slight change, the
same Bathometer can be used as a meter of
the depth of water in the ocean, on a scale of
an inch to a mile, and in a bathing tub on a
scale of more than the tenth of an inch to a
loot, the lower part of the scale being used
Tor shallow and the upper part for deep water.
MARRIED.
Maivlabo—Cartwbiiiht—On the morning of the 12th of
September,by the Key. It. B. I'ost, at the residence of the
brides father, Mr. Adolf O. F. Mailland, of Vorkshlre, England,
to Miss Mary O. Cartwright,only daughter of Ales. J. Cartwright, Esq., of this city.
Wsis—Wilbblb—ln Honolulu, Sept. 15th, by Rev. B. C.
Damon. Mr. Jacob Weill to Miss Dorothea W ilhelni, both of
Honolulu, but late of Germany.
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Hawaiian Physicians.—We have Hawaiian miniBters of the Gospel and lawyers, but
how does it happen that we have no educated
Hawaiian physicians ? Whose fault is it ?
There are many young Hawaiians, well educated in general studies, who, we are confident, wouid make good physicians, infinitely
better than the miserable kahunas who are
killing off the race. Might not some young
Hawaiians be trained at the Queen's Hospital, or by our physicians, who would make
good practical physicians amting the natives?
Will not some one properly qualified discuss
this subject in the Advertiser or Gazette, and
also in the Au Okoa nnd Kuokoa f
DIED.
Class—At Wslslus, Oahu, Aug. SOth, 1840, of pneumonia,
Arthur Merrill Clark, aged four years ami ten months,
son of Alvsh K. Clark late of this city, and foster son of Mr.
and Mrs. 0. 11. SBSBsSh.
naows—At Kshuku, Kan, Hawaii, Aurust Slst, Amanda W.,
daughter of Robert and Chailotte Drown, .red 13 years awl 1
month.
•• Suffer little children to come unto ml, snd furbld them not,
of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
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MEMORANDA.
XT
cisco
Bark Comet, Commodore Paty, reports—Left San FranAugust 10th at 8 P. M.j nrst two days had line winds
balance of the passage light wlnde from N. E.
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MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I.
ARRIVALS.
Aug. 26—British clipper ahlp Bailor's Home, Bryant, 29 days
ami 14 hours from Shangi.ae, seeking freight.
28—British brig News Boy, ..•-swell, 10 dayt from San
Francisco, en route for Shanghae, sailed same day.
80— Am ■fhr Umpqua, Long, from a cruise,
I—British bark Ueorpe ftuxton, James, 130 days from
Uver'H>ol, with mdse to Janion. Green 4) Co.
Comet, Paty, 13 days from San Francisco*,
2—
with mdse to Messrs. C. Brewer k Co.
6—Ham. brig Carl, l.udwip, from San Francisco.
6—British bark Cap Sing Moon, Luders.from San Francisco, passed the port without stopping.
B—Olden, brig Perle, fillers, 165 days from Bremen,
with mdse to Kd. Hoffschlaeger 4> Co.
10—Russian schr Milton Badger, Miller, 16 days from
Humboldt, with lumber to Walker, Allen k Co.
10—Atn bark Smyrniote, Lovett, 13 days from San Francisco, with mdse to Walker, Allen k Co.
11—Am schr Minerva, Hardener, 18 days Irom Victoria,
with mdse to ii, Nathun.
12—Am wh brirk Wm. ■Jifford. Fisher, from Kodiac, with
960 bbls wh. uiul 136 bbls sp, season.
12—Haw'nbark X C. Wyllie, llatteiman, 134 days from
Bremen, with mdse to 11. Hackfeld k Co.
days from San
23—Am brig Jeanie, Moorehouse,
Francisco via Hilo.
26— Ilaw'u bark Mttuuakca. Ro))inson, 20 days from
Putret Sound, with lumber to 11. Hackfeld k Co.
26—British ship Nlmrod, Oughten, 42 days from Sluing
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li.it', seeking.
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DEPARTURES.
Ang. 26—Am bark D. C. Murray, Dennett, for San Francisco.
SO—British ship Sailor's Home, Bryant, for Callao.
Sept.
30—Am bark Ethan Allen, Snow, Tor ban Francisco.
6—Columbian bark Sarita, Wilson, for San Francisco.
18—Am bark A. A. Kldridge, Abbott, for Portland.
19—fcchrSan liiego, for Howland'sIsland.
24—British bark Ueo. Kuxton, James, lor Valparaiso.
26—Am imrkentine Jane A. Fatkinburg, Kumweli, for
Portland, Ur.
26—Am brig Jeunie, Moorehouse, for Kanagawa.
PASSENGERS.
for Sab fßAßCtsco—per D. C. Murray, Aug. «—Mr snd
Mrs \V frank l*ild, childami serv't. Miss C R Carter, Miss
E A Brooks, Mrs Sawyer, Mr and Mrs Birch, Miss Kmma Coe.
C L Richards, J Clauey, C Ithine, E II Dimond, Acuong, W
Edwin, ll Cuffery, Ahtune, M S Jewell, A Wilkinson, W
McKeugie, A Cramer— 2l.
from Shanghai)—per Sailor's Home, Aug. 25—Mr and Mrs
frsaer and serv't.
for Sab fßASClsco—per f.tlian Allen, Aug. 30—11 Balser, A
X I'luiner, Chus kolburn, A Keller—4.
m from Sax Fbancisco—per Umpqua, Aug. SO—P West, T
O'Cutiner—2.
for Cau.au—per Sailor's Home, Aug. 30—8 Dunbar—l.
from San fBASCIsco—per Comet, Sept. 3—Thus Wilson. Esq.
aud lady, M Berenaer, lrencli consul; Mrs J Paly, Miss Theodora Paty, Mr f Herbert, Mrs f lleriert, Miss Medau, Mrs J
Williams, Mr Henry Nathan, Mi A It Smith, JamesCrager, J
Buchols, A Mause.
for Sab Fbancisco—per Surlts, Sept- 6—L. Davis.
from Bbskbb—per Ferle, Sept. B—A Dreler.
from Sab fbamcisoo -per Smyruiote, Sept. 10—Mranil Mrs
TT Dougherty, Capt ami Mrs f X Baby, Hun S H Phillips.
Miss Kmma Metcalf, Mr anil Mrs Thos Eastward. Jas lllack,
H N Greenwell, 11 Hillebraml, Kit Kinney, D Mcintosh, Mr
Jackson, A Remains, P H Roberts, Assm-17.
from BaUß×per 11. C- Wyllie, Sept. 12—Mrs A Wilhelm,
Miss D Wilhelm, Miss X Wilhelm.Miss I, Wilhelm, Masters f
Wllheloi, 8 Wilhelm snd E Wilhelm, II Bremermann, C A Anderson, A Ehlers, Miss B Hoppe, J Welk—l*.
for Pobtlabd—per A A Kldridge, Sept. 18th.—W L Adams,
E Allen, A Weaver, A Thrum—1.
forHowland's Island—per San Diego, Sept. 10—T E Clark.
for Windwabd Posts—per Kilauea, Sept. 23-Miss Mary
Wsterhouse, Miss Dickinson, Hon Q M Robertson, C H lowers,
C
E llobron, N W Tallant, Dr Bechtinger—7 cabin and 30deck
from llabalbi— per Prince, Sept. 22—Miss Josephine Wuuilenburg, Miss Anna Wuiulenburg, Miss Aunelte Wundenburg,
J Derrick, 11 Markle—6.
fross Koba aod Kav—per Knicline, Sept. 24—Mrs 8 M
Carter siui 2 children, Miss Hattie Hempstead, Miss Brown, J
Smith, J Collins—7.
from Koloa—per Nettie Merrill, Sept. 24—Miss Msria
Whitney, Mrs Pease, Dr J M Smith, V Knudsen, P Richmond,
Hart—6.
I
for Kasaoawa—per Jeannie, Sept 24—JasHall.
for Valbabaibo—per GeoKustoo, Sept 24—W Jsimeson, C
Anderson, A Koch, R Stein—4.
from Labaiba—per Kate Lse, Sept 28—Bishop Staley, Miss
Stsley, Miss Mason, U Dickenson, X C Philes, W Davis, loans
—1.
.
from the
W.I
Island of Man! on
N N X with fair weather. Made theHonolulu
at 2 A. M.,
and arrived off
the mor'nlng of Sept. Istdnys
passage.
Sunday, the 2d Inst.; IS
sailed
from
HamboMt
XT Schooner Milton Badger, Miller,
Bay AUi: 28th. Had light winds the entire pssssge Iroan the
Sept.
Arrivedoff
Honolulu
10th,
Eastward, with One weather.
making the ma down in 16 days.
Fran,
rr Am bark Smyrniote, Lovett, reports—Left San
winds the
claw St SP- M. on the 28th of August, hsd light
t Y.
at
arrived
off
Honolulu
with
Bne
ossssge.
entin
wealhc-rs
hours passage.
M on His afternoon of Sept. 10th. 13 days 2about
days.
10
sail
In
ship
Serpent,
Sea
to
U-fcln portclipper
reporUf—
XT Hawaiian bark R. C. Wyllie. Hatteraann.
he
Left Bremen May Ist. clearing the ahsnnel on the h14th
theSou
In
Crossed
the
line
June
12disagreeable Atlantic,
same month. Horn,
weather
rsperlenced vers
and off Caps
experienced light
will, strong westerly winds. In ths PaclM
off Honolulu
winds, nnd crossed the line August 2». Arriving
making too passage in
of
the
12th
Inst.,
early on the rooming
V
184 days.
Information Wnatted,
reports-20 dsys
S-r Haw'n bark Maunakea, Robinson,
Respecting
Ckmrtu
Corvmr. a youngman belonging to Near
pasweather
the
Hsd
Hue
iisssscr from Puget Sound.
London, who oame out about seven years ago with Captain
windsrrom the northward. On theoth Septem- Morgan.
aare,
Please communicate with the Editor,or Captain Grey,
ber, saw the iwhooner Premier, hence nn the Bth August, bound Makawao, Maul.
Into the Hound.
to
;
wholei
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