2 10 12 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/c706a513e560462b3aefae7e2486b45d.pdf 9c9e257301e9931d8a9e0ebd488164b4 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND {©lij Series, HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 4, 1869. IIM Scries, fti.lt, $0. 2.\ 9 Somabout ething the Fijis Twenty Years eo.\TKivrs \ I j|aaa« lna|li tjuiiin Boy's Loekar. u " Fiji llialiiiiinism Dyaaa Out Oaaaaßl le IM Hawatlaa Islaml. .' Paid 140 Vent (or his llm E.lltor's Tslile .lii|.<*n !>, 10, n 11 11 II Knitik Tliiiiii|i.iiii Death of Hon. I). 1.. Key. Gretf The Great Boohaoier —l'm:try Wur.ls Worth Weighing Kallro.il Speed A JapaneseStinlent in New Jersey Cheap Ice Fiu-her l.ute Near. 1 Mlll.ll l-Kii s Marine Journsl, Ac 1- l.'l I*l 1' 14 14 14 14 1» ** ll* I*l THE Fit IKND. FKItUI A Cypress—Bough. Ago. For February. I HUH. Th* Miuina Lea nmnanilm aboal Dm M2B- till 4, IHIIII. The Mauna Loa sails on Saturday for a cruise among the South Sea Islands, under the direction of the Board of Immigration. We understand the object of the expedition to be to obtain immigrants tat) laborers, with their families, who will come to reside permanently upon the Hawaiian Islands. Capt. English goes in command of the vessel. His long acquaintance with the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands eminently fits him to command the vessel. We are glad to learn that the vessel will go to the Hervey Group— including Mangnia, A itutaki and Rarotonga— instead of visiting the low coral islands under tbe line. Cupt. English will find English missionaries at the Hervey Islands, through whom he can communicate intelligently with the natives. The honorable manner in which Capt. English has conducted the labor system on Farming's Island is a guarantee that he will be equally honorable in opening negotiations with the inhabitants of the Hervey Islands. The terrible lesson inflicted upon South Sea islanders by the Peruvian slavers, has created n prejudice agninst the islanders going abroad, unless they know where they are going. The honor of the Hawaiian Government is publicly pledged that the present expedition shnll he conducted in the most honorable and upright manner. Some writer lor the Hawaiian Gazette, who withholds his name, is furnishing un in- once more, O ye laurels, and once more " Yet Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with fore'd fingers rude, teresting series of articles, entitled, " A Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Hitter constraint, and sad occasion dear. Voyage to the Fijis." The writer appears Compels me to disturb your season due—■ to have been it sailor at that time on board' For f.youlas is dead, dead ere his prime." an American trading vessel from Salem, Milton thus commences his beautiful mon Mass. We are surprised at his vivid recolbewails the death of a young lections of his voyage and his knowledge of ody, wherein he was "drowned in his passage from the language. Persons who have never vis- friend, who the Irish seas, 1637." Would ited the out of the way islands of the Pacific Chester, on similar strains we could and in early days of the missionary enterprise, that in fitting friend and correspondent, bewail our departed can with dilKculty imagine the obstacles Key. S. drowned on the 4th Rising, F. the in the way of those laboring to reclaim the degraded inhabitants of Polynesia. Perhaps of December, 1868, in the Ohio River, near no missionaries have had a more difficult Warsaw, Indiana, when the collision took task than our English Wesleyan brethren at place of the two steamers, the 'America and the Fiji Islands. We honor those pioneer of the missionaries at the Fiji Islands as we honor United States. The full particulars been reported, but few other laborers in any pnrt of the snd disaster have not as yet world. The writer in the Gazette opens but the papers which have been received article No. 4 with the following paragraph : leave us no reason to doubt that Mr. Rising " Some may very naturally nsk—and some must have been among those who perished. have already asked the writer of these Our acquaintance with him, commenced in sketches—' Was it not rather imprudent to spring of 1860, on his arrival in Honogo so far into th» interior of a confessedly the lulu, nn invalid from over-work at Virginia savage and cannibal country, as was your river voyage of fifteen or sixteen miles, and City, where he had labored. " in season and your subsequent sojourn and intermixing out of season," for a period of four years, among the people for days ? ' No ; and for gathering a church and superintending the one very good reason, which I will tell just erection of a church edifice. At the time of here. There had been missionaries at Rewa aware as he had a some years previous to the time of my visit, his arrival, we are not upon the Islpersonal acquaintance knew that wherever there single and our captain were missionaries received among, and who ands, but when he left, after traveling through had acquired nn influence upon, a savage and the group, there were many, many, whose uncivilized people, he could venture without lasting friendship he had secured, and with fear of molestation. This has since been my some of whom he continued to carry on a own experience among the many islands of the Pacific which 1 have visited. Wherever correspondence until the time of his death. there were missionaries one could snfely Among all the visitors to our shores, we land. The pioneer missionaries at the Fijis have never met one who more thoroughly belonged to the English Wesleyan Society. niado himself acquainted with the history, They had several stations in different parts of the group, nnd were apparently a hard- politics, ecclesiastical associations and relaworking and sincere set of men, though their tions, schools, trade, commerce, and in fine, efforts did not meet with much real success everything relating to the Hawaiian Kingat that time. Since, however, and at the dom and people. When he left, he took with present time, I am informed that the principal a very large assortment of books, pamphchief of the islands has nominally become a him convert, and as a consequence, the islanders lets, papers and curiosities. In his search for these he was indefatigable. The use may be said to he Christianized." �10 THE ¥ RIK NO, FEBRUARY, IS «9 . which he has mncle of these documents and information may be learned from his letter, entitled, "The Hawaiian Mission from nn Episcopal Standpoint," and addressed to the Key. S. B. Treat, Secretary of the American Board of Missions, and published in the Friend of September, 1867, and also from a touching tribiije lo the late Rev. Asa Thurston, entitled, " A Cypress-Bough," which will lie found in our present issue. Since Mr. Rising's return to the United Staler!, he has been employed as the Financial Secretary and General Agent of the American Church Missionary Society, known as the Society supported by the Low Church or Evangelical party of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He has also assisted as one of the editors of the Missionary Register, one of the very best monthly publications which is found among our exchanges, and which we always read with interest. Every month and year his labors were more and more abundant. His soul-inspiring aim apptuis to have been to awaken a true missionary spirit among the members (particularly the youth) of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was our guest when he received his appointment, and we well remember his enthusiasm upon the missionary question. His visits among the American missionaries on these Islands served to fan his missionary zeal and enlarge his sympathies in behalf of God's servants who were not members of his church and denomination. From his correspondence, we learn that he always regarded it as a most kind Providence which led him to visit these Islands for recruiting his health. On his arrival, we know whereof we assert, when we say thathe was exceedingly skeptical respecting the success of the American Mission and the genuineness of the work. His ecclesiastical associations had naturally led him to hesitate and be doubtful upon the subject, but Uefore he left, and since his return home, last private letter which we received from him : New York, August Bth, IB6S. Ri.v. S. C. Damon— Dear Brother:— Thanks for your valued favor of sth May, with the kind remembrances and the map ol the lava-flows which it contained. Since that grand and magnificent though terrific eruption, I have lived much in imagination in Hawaii. Mv ride with Brother Lyman from Hilo to Waiohinu, and with Kauhane from Waiohinu to Kealakekua, made me quite well acquainted with the scene of the late out-breaking. 1 lunched at Mr. Kichardi-on's, staid over Sunday at Mr. F. S. Lyman's, and thence went on to Kaawaloa. When I read of ihe mass of tarth thrown toward the sea, ol tin- lava over-leaping palis, forming promontories—of the natives fleeing from their houses, Ice., the whole country came up before ma. How 1 would have liked to see the eruption, antl to ride over the island now nnd see its altered aspect. The eruption, however, must have been frightful to behold, as its results were heart-rending. 1 think with real sympathy of Brothers Pogue and Paris and the native preacher tossed suddenly out of their field of labor, their people swallowed up and their churches laid low. The file of the Friend reached me safely. Thanks. Your journal also now makes me a monthly call, which gratifies me. Within two weeks or so I shall send you a pamphlet now in press, styled, " Are there Romanizing Germs in the Prayer-Book '( " It is a fair indication of what some of our younger clergy are thinking about and propose to do. Our General Convention Meeting October 7th in this city. Its session is anticipated with deep anxiety by some, with much interest by all. When you see Mrs. Thurston, will you convey to her my deep sympathy in her loss. The heat this summer has been intense, but the fall is drawing near. The Friend keeps me posted in the details of Island life, but I am olways glad to receive the additions made by your welcome warmth and blessed light of the Sun of Righteousness. As he is parted from our gaze, we would, with hearty affection, write (his memorial of him as one who glorified his divine Saviour, and in whom the grace of Cod was magnified. HIS HEROISM. He sailed out of Boston harbor in the brig Thaddeus in October, 1819. His face was set toward the Sandwich Islands. The Duff had carried the Gospel light to the Society group in the South Pacific ; but in the north deep darkness brooded. Out of it rose the death-cry ol Cook. Imagination easily sketched the horrors of the land where a savage club laid low the English navigator. A Hawaiian lad, brought by a sea-captain to New Haven, told of the idolatry of his countrymen, and besought some to hasten thither with the good news of God. Henry Bing-11;t iii, Asa Thurston, and five laymen, with their wives, heard this boy's touching appeal, and in answer girded themselves for their grand venture of faith. Foreign missions were not then popular. The chilly October day, when thesails of the Thaddeus were unfurled, typified the coldness of the Christian heart toward the heathen world. But these pioneers were born heroes. Thurston, by his physical strength and courage, had won, years before, at Vale College, the muchprized staff of " bully." With a moral courage and strength more sublime, he and his companions kissed their brides, and led them from the hymeneal altar to dwell in midocean amid savage islanders. Our hearts beat quick as we recall the heroism of those young men and women putting America behind them to win a nation to Christ. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent them out. For the results of their work the Lord be praised ! ROY A I. KAILUA. It was Thurston's lot to labor at Kailua, in the island of Hawaii. What a parish for a novice to handle! It was a filthy village of thatched huts, built upon beds of indurated luva, on which the fervent sun poured his furnace-heat every day in every year. It nestled amid a grove of cocoanut trees, and reached down to the shore, whither came rolling in the white-crested billows. Behind it rose the lofty volcanic peak of Hualalai. Standing at its base one could trace the perennial green of the forests reaching nigh unto the summit, deeply scored with hideous black tracks of lava reaching unto the sea. The luxuriant foliage hid from distant view gaping fissures, thirty-nine extinct craters, the grim ruins of the temple of Umi' and other tokens of vajjd desolation. Further down the coast rose the loftier peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, 13,000 feet high, snow-capped, fierce fires raging within, and now and then breaking out with quakings, roarings, mighty rushings, and terrific hissings, as the lava threw itself red-hot into the sea. Very solemn to dwell in such a land with these volcanoes ever in sight! Then Kailua was, at the time of Thurston's landing, the residence of the king. He was a profligate, and the royal city was the fountain of the kingdom's pollution. Here the tabu had been broken and the idols destroyed, that there might be no check to ini- favors. I send my aloha to Mrs. Damon and all inquiring friends, as to yourself. Yours faithfully, Franklin S. Rising. we know that all hesitation nnd doubt had Bed, At the time of his much lamented [From Hie American Church Missionary Register. New York' October, 1868] death, we do not believe the Hawaiian MisA Cypress—Bough. sion, Islands and people had a more sincere, BY REV. F. S. RISING. devoted and intelligent friend in the world. He wss not ashamed on all suitable occasions On the 11th day of March, 1868, in the among friends or foes, to avow himself as city of Honolulu, the Rev. Asa Thurston fell asleep. He closed his eyes upon the bright the friend of Hawaii. dear Hawaii nei, and the In company with his friends and admirers sunlight of hisburst upon his sight. He laid celestial glory in this and other lands, we would lay our aside the staff of his old ageand grasped the " cypress-bough " upon his bier. His death unfading crown and the palm of victory. He we mourn, for in life's young prime he was ceased from his life of unintermitted missionsuddenly called toexchange his scenes of labor ary labor, and went hence to serve his Lord day and night in the heavenly temple. Near on earth to his rest above. his earthly home the ever-surging Pacific, of Christ, well deae ! emblem of eternity, beat upon the shifting " Servant Praise be thy new employ. sands. Now he listens to the steady dash of And while eternal ages run. the endless ages at the feet of the Ancient of Real in thy Saviour's joy." Days. He walks no longer under the fierce The following extracts we copy from his heat of the tropical sun, but in the genial quity. The ruins of heathen temples were �everywhere about, heart-sickening to behold, and heathen vices were enthroned in every hut and stalked abroad in every village. Men, women and children were like the volcanoes. Raging fires of wickedness within broke out ever in desolating flows. In n thatched hut in the midst of this physical tlesolateness and moral degradation. Thurston and his wife found their earliest Hawaiian home. Amid such scenes their first-born came to them. Here the Gospel was first preached for the regeneration of Hawaii nei and the salvation of many thousand souls. RAKE DEVOTION. a century for missionary work which the Lord gives in our day. Young men ! ponder the life of Asa Thurston. Emulate his faith and zeal. Unnumbered millions call to you for the bread of life. The Gospel is in your hands as a power. Go forth and wield it in the midst of the nations. TO CHRISTIAN WOMEN. We may be pardoned one word of reference to Asa Thurston's widow. She shared his trials, went with him in his long missionary tours on foot, and equaled him in heroism. She taught the Hawaiian men to love their wives and their Saviour; the Hawaiian women to fear God and honor their husbands; the Hawaiian children to obey the Lord and their parents. So she carried into the huts of that dark land those blessed words—Love, Virtue, Home, Jesus, Heaven. Many un Hawaiian household to-day blesses God for the gifts sent by her. She now awaits her Lord's call, and we have ventured upon her retirement that we may appeal to mothers, wives and sisiers to show forth such missionary spirit as hers. Christian women ! do not keep back your husbands, brothers and sons. Do not stay at home yourselves. strained him, and he did not pause in his Make speed to fill the world with the glory labor until his body cried out, " Itis enough." of Emmanuel. bad passed, partial paralysis compelled the heroic Thurston to rest from his toil. He was no longer young. His locks were gray, and grandchildren made more happy his home. During this long period he did not once leave the Islands. Others came and went, but he remained the tireless evangelist. Tropical heat did not abate his vigor. Long journeys on foot over lava tracts did not exhaust his strength. The hardness and wickedness of the heathen heart did not discourage him. PreachiDg in season and out of season did not weary him. The love of Christ conWhen nearly half THE VENERABLE PIONEEK. During these fifty years he bore an active part in all the remarkable changes which God wrought among the Hawaiians. The king and the common people alike fell his influence. His huge church building, within a stone's throw of the royal residence, attested this. When the capital was removed to Honolulu, he did not follow the king, but the common people still heard him gladly. We enn imagine the grateful joy of his soul as, year by year, he saw the heathen people become Christian and the obsolute despotism changed into a constitutional monarchy. It was our privilege to spend a few days under his hospitable roof after paralysis had disabled him. We can not soon forget his venerable form, crowned with flowing silver locks, his gentle, modest spirit, his earnestness of soul, his simple faith, his calm expectation of the future. The king might well bow before him, and the young do him reverence, as one of the fathers of the kingdom. When he landed, Kamehameha 11. was a hnlf-clad savage, dwelling in a filthy hut, rioting in degradation. When he went hence, Kamehameha Y. resided in a stone palace within sound of the church-going bell, with every appliance of modern civilization and Christianity about him. Let unbelieving and half-hearted Christian men sneer at Foreign Missions, if they will. One life like that of Asa Thurston, so sublime, so selfsacrificing, so successful, far outshines any diamond that they can bring from their mines. YOUNG MEN, ARISE ! Our space compels us to be brief. After paralysis came upon him, he went to California in quest of health. There, though nearly eighty years of age, he first saw a milroad and telegraph. The world had been busy with its inventions while lie wasabsorlied in his chosen work. When he returned to Honolulu, to await the Lord's summons, he must have mused upon ihe superior facility Cabin Boy's Locker. Having recently met the man •• saved by a kitten," we insert the following sketch of real life upon the ocean. This narrative was first published in the Boston Recortler. The name of the vessel was the Catalpha, of Boston : 18 69. 1 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY. and Jack was about jumping in, in haste with many others, when, strange as it may seem, he happened to think of his little kitten, that had been his pet all the way out from home. " Now," said JacK to himself, " I must take Mollie with me ; it would be very cruel to let her drown." So across the deck he hastened, and descended the hold into the cabin, where poor Mollie lay huddled up in a corner. He soon had her in his arms, and was on deck: but the boat in which he thought to have gone was separated from the vessel, while, at the same time, he observed that the second small boat was manned. Well, in less time than it takes me to write this, all were off the ship ; of course Jack was among the last in the long-boat. The sea rose to a fearful height, and soon there was nothing to be seen of the ship but a few floating spars. It was found iO be very difficult to keep the boats from swamping, yet in the bands of skillful seamen nil went well. Darkness soon enveloped these little crafts in the folds of night. It wns impossible for them to keep longer toirether. It was a fearful crisis ; all that could be done was to give themselves up to the mercy of the winds. Once the captain, who was with Jack, ordered them to try the oars, Iroping that ihev might make land, but it nearly capsized them, so it was abandoned. At length morning cahie, but Jack with his keen eyes could see nothing of the other boats. Where could they be ? Through that whole succeeding day and the following night ihey were tossed about by the heavy swells of the ocean, and did not make land till the morning of the third day. Where were the other boats? you ask. Alas, they capsized and all perished that were on board. Little Jack knew that if he had not gone back after kitty, he would have shared their fate. He was then wayward and thoughtless, but now, through the grace of God, he thanks the Lord Jesus Cousin Herbert. for the deliverance. There is a thrilling story told of a cabin boy and his kitten, that illustrates in n marked degree the providence of God that often, by the most trifling incident, saves the lite of an individual. It was in his first voyage, and all the more thrilling to him. Brahminism Dying Out.—Through the When the vessel stood out from Boston, Christianizing and civilizing influences now young Jack thought there was never any- at work throughout India, there is a general thing finer than to be at sea in a noble ship. spirit of inquiry, that is effecting a great but For days and days, the strong wind and silent revolution. An intelligent writer ol heaving ocean bore them safely and swiftly extended observation throughout the country, toward their destined haven. But when off who maintains that the religion of the people the coast of Africa near the Azore Islands, is receiving a blow from which, humanly the ship encountered a heavy gale. Had the speaking, it can never recover, makes the ship been in mid-ocean,she would have been suggestive statement: " When the older fearfully driven and tossed by the raging ele- Brahmins have died there will be none acments, yet no doubt would have been saved. quainted with the customs and language of As it was, however, it seemed impossible to their forefathers who cm readily take their avoid the land. It was impossible also to place ; " and adds, that in the stnonghold of steer safely into any quiet harbor, for no har- Brahminism in Western India, not more than bor was at hand, and so after ail efforts proved ten or twelve youths are studying Sanscrit. unavailing, she struck upon the grim rocks Japan Sends a Consul to the Hawaiian that studded the " lee snore," as the sailors Island*. —Among the pus.-engers wlwarrived boats call it. " Cut oway the ! " shouted the captain. Every man was glad to obey by the China is a Consul sent by die Japan the order, lor the fury of the waves was fast Government to the Hawaiian Islands to look breaking up the vessel. Jack was only a after the interests of Japanese subjects residsmall boy, but he worked away nimbly, doing j ing there. He is a young man of about what he could. The crew consisted of twenty-one years of age, highly educated, twenty-four men, and there were three boats and of distinguished family. Tbis, we be-a on board; one of these, the largest, called the lieve, is the first native sent by Japan to long-bout; the other two taking the name of foreign country to assume consular lunctinns, at "jolly-boats." Though the last named Were and indicates the progressive influences somewhat smaller, yet they were calculated work in that exclusive land. It shows, also. to live in as heavy a sea as the " long-boat." the interest it has in the welfare of its subOne of the " jolly-boatb " had been lowered. jects living abroad.—S. F. paper. �12 THE FRIEND, I 1: 15 IM .I. \ . 1860. PAID TOO DEAR FOR HIS HAT; There our friend located, and in due time was ready to welcome the Rev. John WilOR, A Yankee Sailor's Reason for Going to Sea. liams, the missionary heroof tbe South Sua* Benjamin Franklin tells a story about pay- and martyr of Erromangu. For seven years he was in Mr. Williams.' employment, and ing too dear for his whistle, but recently we of met a man from New.England whose whole three those years an officer on board his schooner. Years passed away. missionary life had been affected by paying " too dear He married upon Mangaia, and there was for his hat." He is now a quiet and most his whose death occurred on board born son worthy man of three score and more. In same young limn served This tbe Powhattan. his been on son having killed consequence of the 27th of May, 1867,while attached to the honorably during the lale war on board one U. S. S. Pow/iattan lying in Callao harbor, of the vessels in the blockading squadron. occur, ho applied to us for assistance in obtaining Other years roll away and changes our visitor comes to reside on the Haand whatever money might be due nn his son's We have known for him waiian Islands. account from the Navy Department. In due as a resident on Maui, where several years time, after much correspondence nnd the aslives, engaged in teaching a small sistance of Elias Perkins, Esq., Consul at he now a small compensation from Lnhaina, a draft for the amount due was re- school, receiving and little aid from the Board of a ceived and the business satisfactorily settled. his pupils Thus our friend hns led a most While the old gentleman was seated in Education. checkered, and eventful life, far wandering our office, we became much interested in a brief narrative of his life, including his rea- away from friends, home and country, but sons for going to sea, and an account of his whether upon the whole lie " paid too dear residence upon the Hervey Islands, and other for his hat,'' no mortal can tell. By referring to " A Narrative of Missionislands of the South Seas. Nearly forty Enterprises in the South Sea Islands," ary years ago he left his New England home, John Williams, we find the followRev. by never more to return. His friends were particulars respecting the ing interesting highly respectable, living in Worcester County, and we have often heard his uncle— wreck of the Falcon : the Rev. Gaius Conant, of Paxton, Mass.— " Some time after the introduction of Christianity into Rurutu, a circumstance ocpreach in one of those old-fashioned New curred which afforded indubitable proof of its England churches, where the pews were beneficial effects upon the minds of the inbuilt in the form of a " hollow square," with habitants, and displaying at the same time sides much higher than a little boy's head, the great advantages which accrue from misstanding up in prayer time. But we are sionary labors to our own and other maritime Capt. Chase, who commanded an wandering from our subject. Our visitor countries. American whaler, was in the habit of touchwhen young, was sent to old Brookfield to ing at Raiatea for refreshment. He deterbuy a hat. The hat was bought and taken mined, on his last visit to us, to call at Ruhome, but the price of the hat was so much that an older brother severely reprimanded him for paying "too dearfor his hat." That was a turning point in the lad's youthful career. He leaves his home, never more to see it again. Ere long ho visits Boston, and in a few days he is found on board the whaleship Falcon, of Nantucket, Chase, master, bound around Cape Horn. In December, 1825, this ship was wrecked on Rurutu, one of the Society Islands. Four of the crew, including our acquaintance, left in a whaleboat, and were afloat on the broad Pacific, somewhat after the style of Adam nnd Eve when they left the garden of Eden : wide world was all before them, wljere to cliooae " The Their place ofren», slid Providence their suide." rutu, on his way to America, in order to procure a supply of yams, which are both fine and abundant at that island, when, unfortunately, his vessel was wrecked upon the rocks. " The natives afforded him every efficient aid ; in acknowledgment of which, the captain, on his departure, left the following document: ' " The natives gave us all the assistance in theirpower, from the time the ship struck to the present moment. The first day, while landing the things from the ship, they were put into the hands of the natives, and carried up to the native mission-house, a distance of half a mile ; and not a single article of clothing was taken from any man belonging to the ship, though they had it in their power to have plundered us of everything that was landed ; which fully proves the honesty of the natives of this island. Since I have lived on shore, myself, officers and people have received the kindest treatment from the natives that can be imagined, for which I shall ever be thankful. Myself and officers have lived in the house with Puna, who, together with his wife, have paid every nttention to make us comfortable ; for which I return my unfeigned thanks—being the only compensation from Cnpt. Chase, speaking in the strongest terms of the kindness he had experienced, and informing me that he had committed the cargo add the stores of the vessel to the native teachers; but as they were not acquainted with the relative value of money, he requested me to take the first opportunity of selling the property, and transmitting tho proceeds to the President of the Marine Insurance Company in America. Some two or three months subsequently to this unfortunate occurrence, a trading vessel arrived at Tahiti. The captain, hearing of the wreck; of the Falcon at Rurutu, and that there were only native missionaries at the island, it immediately occurred to him that lie could easily deceive them, and obtain the property ; and instead of coining to Kaiatea and making a lair purchase of me, he raised his anchor, and steered I direct course for Kurutti. On landing he was welcomed by the native missionary, to whom he stated that he had come for the oil belonging to the late Falcon. The missionary asked him if he had not u letter Irom Beni. ' Ceriainly,' replied the captain, but 1 have come from my ship without it; 1 will return for it immediately.' He went off to his vessel and wrote an order, with which he returned to the shore ; affirming it to be from Capt. Chase, he put it into the hands of the missionary. The natives are very unsophisticated at times in the expression of their sentiments and looking the captain significantly in the face, the teacher in his broken English said, You a liar, you a thief, you want to steal this property —you no have it.' The captain, being much enraged at this salutation, or more probably nt being disappointed of his expected booty, began to bluster and storm. The teacher, however, took the captain by the hand, led him into his house, and opened his native journal, in which he had taken the precaution to get Capt. Chase to write ; placing the forged paper by the side of the writing in the journal, he repeated his charge, You a liar, you a thief, you shall not have this property.' The captain threatened to go on board, load his cannon, and take it by force. He left the shore in anger, to carry his threat into execution ; he, however, hoisted his sails and took his departure. We know not from whence he came, nor whither he went. This circumstance shows that the conduct of civilized visitors is not, at all times, calculated to raise the European character in the estimation of the natives. It shows, nlso, that the natives nre not destitute of good sound common sense; while at the same time it exhibits, in a striking light, the advantages the people have derived Irom education. " Capt. Chase rewarded the natives for the assistance they rendered in saving the cargo and stores of the vessel by givingthem a portion of the oil. They immediately formed a Native Missionary Society, and contributed a considerable part of what they hud thus obtained in aid ol the funds of the institution from whose operations they had derived so much advantage ; and in a visit I paid them some time after, they presented me with « set of bills for £60 which they had received from the captain to whom they had sold their contributions. It was with much pleasure that I transmitted this expression of their gratitude, to the Treasurer of the Soci- During the following eighteen days they were alternately driven by the winrjs and drifted by the currents, when a kind Providence brought them to Mangaia, one of the Hervey Islands. Those were years prior to the advent of the English missionaries at Mangaia, Rarotonga and Aitutake, where Buzacott, Royle, Pitman, Gill, Piatt and 1 can make them at present. B. Ciiask.' others have since labored so successfully. " A short time after this I received a letter ety." ' ; ' ' �Editor's Table. Tin. .YvrrRAL History of Man—Being no account »f the Manners and Customs of the Uncivilized llaces of Men. By J. (J. Wood, A. M., f. L. S., &c. Africnti Races. London: published by G. lloutlcdge & So„s. 1808. Skrmunn. By (ieo. Shepherd, ]>. I>. With ■ luemoir. Boston: Nichols & Noyes. 1808. Hawaiian Volcanoes. By W. T. Hrighiini, E**!. Boston 181)8. RttsTtn ami Damli.. With notes. By Key. Henry C'owles, D. D. New York :D. Appleton Ai Co. 1867. : Our limits this month will only allow us valuable publications, embracing the discussion of topics ethnological, theological and scientific. The work by Mr. Wood contains a comprehento insert the titles of these sive discussion of the African races, including Hottentot, Kaffir, Zulu, &c. It is only a part of a more extensive work on the natural history of Man. The sermons by the late Professor Shepherd are excellent specimens of sound New England Orthodox theology. He was one of the best of the generation now passing away. Mr. Brigham's work has already been noticed in our columns. (See Friend for May, 1868.) This book embodies a great amount of valuable scientific and historical information relating to the volcanoes of the Islands. The volume is for sale at Whitney's bookstore. Professor Cowles' work ou Ezekicl and Daniel is richly meriting the perusal of all students of the Bible. Mission Life in the Islands of the Pacific—Being it narrative of tho Lite itml Labors of the Rev. A. Buziteott, Missionary of Itarototiga. London: 18fi0. It was our privilege to receive the abovementioned volume a few weeks since, via Tahiti, from the Rev. Mr. Gill, the English missionary on Mangaia, one of the Hervey Islands. It is a most interesting nnd instructive volume, detailing the life and labors of one of the most successful of the missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas. It was accompanied with the following letter : Maniiaia, Dec. 23, ISG7. DaUl Brother: —I forward to the care of the Rev. G. Morris, of Tahiti, for transmission to you, a copy of Mr. Buzacott's life. Mr. Buzacott was a remarkable man, and a very successful and laborious missionMy ary, us you know ulreudy. It was through his representations that I entered upon the mission work in 1851. We came out together in the old John Williams ; and I feel bound to say that 1 shall ever low and tenderly cherish his memory as a Christian, as a wise adviser, as a genial companion, as a faithful winner of souls amongst these islanders. We shall not see his like again—for he was a scholar, a mechanic, a divine, all in one. You will be glad to hear that the Rev. J. Chalmers landed in Rnrotonga in May last, and was kindly received by the people. He will, I trust, prove H f.iilhlul and successful workman, by the divine bl-o.ing. Not long afterwards the Rev. E. Krause and family left the islands on account of the long continued indisposition of Mrs. Krause. I trust that the voyage to Europe may prove beneficial to her, and that our brother may be enabled to stir up a renewed interest in these missions in the minds of Christians in Croat Britain. Thus you see, dear brother, there are many changes and difficulties in the continued prosecution of our work. But Brother Koyle labors on still at his beloved post at Aitutaki; and, better still, we have the promise, " Lo, 1 am with you alway." I write hastily, but with entire sympathy with you and your honored brethren in their labors amid good and evil reports (on the part of the adversaries of Gospel truth, evil.) The last day will show who were on the winning side. Indeed 1 don't think you need wait so long. I remain, my honored brother, Your affectionately, William W. GILI.. The Rev.Fuank Thompson.—With heartfelt joy we welcome this gentleman to our islands, and congratulate the foreign church und community of Hilo in having elected a pastor who appears to be so well fitted for his station. Long may his life be spared to labor at these islands. His thorough education and former acquaintance with sen-faring life, admirably fit him for usefulness at Hilo. While his brother succeeds so admirably in reproducing in marble and bronze the physical features of the departed, may our Christian brother, in the Gospel ministry, be equally successful in reproducing God's lost image in the soul of man, and in awakening to " newness of life those who are " dead in trespasses and sins." We copy the following from the December number of Put. nam's " Monthly: Thompson's Statue of Gen. Sedgwick. Last month Mr. Launt Thompson's statue of Gen. Sedgwkk, who fell in one of the terrible battles of the Wilderness, was inaugurated at West Point. The statue is cast of bronze cannon captured from the Confederates during the war, and presented for the purpose by Congress. It is of life-size, and represents the General just as he appeared when on military duty, dressed in a plain frock-coat, the badge of the Sixth Corps upon the left breast. The hands are clasped in front, holding the cap and sword. The likeness is excellent, and Ihe pose of the figure noble and commanding. The work reflects great honor on the accomplished artist by " " whom it was — executed. The mail steamer Idaho arrived this morning, February 2d, after a passage of 13 days. In consequence of the cpiarantine regulations, the passengers were detained on board, and would remain until the end of fifteen days from the sailing of the steamer from San Francisco. We learn that hereafter tho Montana will be withdrawn from the line, and the Idaho will continue her regular trips. ». Death 13 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, I8« of Hon. D. L. Gregg.—Many of our residents will note with regret the announcement which appeared in our California correspondence last week, of the death at Carson City, Nevada Territory, of the gentleman whose name is at the head of this article. Mr. Gregg was a man of talent and education, a thorough lnwyer, a genial companion, and always a gentleman. He first came to these Islands in the fall of 1853, in the capacity of United States Commisiioner to this Government, a position which he filled much to the satisfaction of the Government by which he was commissioned, and that to which he was accredited. So well were his talents appreciated by His late Majesty, that on his being relieved in his office as Commissioner, the King offered him the position of Minister of Finance. This Cabinet office he continued to hold until a short time before his departure for. California. Shortly after his arrival in Nevada he received the appointment from President Lincoln of Receiver of Public Lands. Mr. Gregg and the late lamented President had been intimate friends in Illinois, of which State Mr. Gregg had once filled the position of Secretary of State. At the time of his death he was about fifty-four years of age. He leaves a widow and several children. The day after the receipt of the news of his decease the flags ol the Government were displayed at half-mast, as a token of respect. Gazette. — Letters from Boston have been received during the last few months, affording grounds for the report that Mr. Hunnewell's health was declining, but by the last mail we were favored with a letter written in his usu- ally cheerful spirit, and with health improving. The letter concluded with the following paragraph : I do not forget your delightful " silver wedding, over a year ago. If permitted to remain ten months longer (or until the 23d of September, 1869.) we shall reach our golden wedding-day. Wife and self ask not for gold or silver from our friends, but we covet the love and good will of our friends on that occasion." May a kind Providence spare them, and we doubt not their ardent desires will be gratified. Our thanks are due to Paul Isenberg, Esq., of Lihue, Kauai, for a box of pamphlets and papers for gratuitous distribution among seamen; also to Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Dickson and Mr. Castle for similar favors, and also to Mrs. Johnson, of Kauai. Favors of this description are always acceptable. The Morning Star.—This vessel will sail on or about the fourth of March for the Marquesas Islands, to be absent about two months. She has been repainted and refitted. The Rev. Mr. Pogue goes as Delegate ol the Hawaiian Board. We would acknowledge our indebtedness to Purser McLellan, of the Idaho, for a file of lute Situ FroQGMCO paper �THE FRIEND. FEBRUARY, 1869. 14 The Great Enchanter. .Sleep makes us all pashas.— Btdouin Proverb. Sleep ia the poor man's warmest cloak His treasurer to dispense His lavish alms, and turn to gold ; His scanty pence. He heals the siok man in a dream, Aud acts the fettered free ; He calls the beggar from his den To golden luxury. He crowns the bounded exile king. Reverses fate's decreer.. And bids the briefless pleader rise Judge of the (Jonnnou Pleas. Sleep joins the parted lovers' hands, Wreaths the starved poet's brow, And oalli the hero still unknown From lonely village plot*. Sleep holds the resurrection keys, And from his shadowy plain, Down memory's long nnd cloudy vaults, The dead couic bsck a'rsin. bleep comes, liko death, alike to nil— Divine equality ! Blesses the monarch in his state. And slave upon the sen. Sleep brings our childhood bock again The only golden age ; Sleep ! 0 tbott blessed alchemist. Thou holy Archiniogc. — Chambers' Journal. rnnilniinii'Htecl tor llic I'rii'lid. Words Worth Weighing. Andrew Fuller, First Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society which sent out Dr. Carey and other missionaries to India, was one of the most extraordinary men and one of the greatest theologians of this or any other age. It hns been well said that Fuller is " the Franklin of theology ; " "a man whose sagacity enabled him to penetrate to the depthsof every subject he explored, whose conceptions were so powerful and luminous, that what was recondite and original, appeared familiar; what was intricate, easy and perspicuous in his hands." The following passages in one of his works are words worth weighing: " What ever may be the duty of a nation in extraordinary cases, there is scarcely anything in all the New Testament inculcated with more solemnity, than that individuals, and especially Christians, should be obedient, peaceable and loyal subjects. Nor is there any sin much more awfully censured than the contrary conduct. It requires not only that we keep within the compass of the laws, but that we honor and intercede with God for those who administer them. These duties were pressed particularly upon the Romans, who, by their situation, were more exposed than others to the temptation of joining in factions nnd conspiracies, which were olmost continually at work in that tumultuous city. "Nor does the danger belong exclusively to one side. We may sin by nn adherence to the measures of a government, as well as by an opposition to them. Paul, though he enjoined obedience to the existing government, yet was never an advocate for Roman ambition ; and When addressing himself to a governor, did not fail ' to reason on righteousness, temperance and judgment to come.' It is our duty, no doubt, to consider that many things which seem evil to u.s might appear otherwise, if all the circumstances of the case were known, and therefore to forbear passing husty censures; but on the other hand we ought to beware of applauding everything that is done, lest, if it be evil, we be partnkers of other men's sins, and contribute to their being repeated. " The creat point with Christians should be, an attachment to government, ' as government,' irrespective of the party which administers it; for this is right, and would tend more than anything to promote the Kingdom of Christ. We nre not called in yield up our consciences in religious matters, nor to approve of what is wrong in those which are civil; but we are not at lil*erty to deal in acrimony or evil speaking. The good which results to society from the very worst government upon earth, is great when compared with the evils of anarchy. On this principle, it is probable, the apostle enjoined obedience ' to the powers that were,' even during the reign of Nero. Christians are soldiers under the King of kings ; their object should be to conquer all ranks antl degrees of men to the obedience of faith. If a wise man wishes to gain over a nation to any great and worthy object, he does not enter into their little differences, nor embroil himself in their party contentions, but bearing good will to all, seeks the general good ; by these means he is respected by all, and all are ready to hear what he has to offer. Such should be the wisdom of Christians. There is enmity enough for us to encounter without unnecessarily adding to it. "If a Christian be under the necessity of siding with a party, undoubtedly he ought to be in lavor of that which appears to him the best; but even in this case it is not becoming him to enter with eagerness into their disputes. " By entering deeply into the ' party ' contentions of the nation, religious people on both sides will be charged in their turn with disloyalty; and it may not always be without a cause. But if we enter into the spirit of the Gospel, though we may have our preferences for men and measures, we shall bear good-will to all, and whoever be at the head of affairs shall reverence 'the powers that be-' Whatever be our private opinion of the men, we shall respect and honor the rulers. That loyalty which nperutes only with the prevalence ola party, which ever it be, is at a great remove from the loyalty enjoined by the Scriptures. " By standing aloof from ull parties 'as such,'and approving themselves the friends of government and good order, by whomsoever administered, Christians would acquire a dignity of character worthy of their profession, would be respected by all, and possess greater opportunities of doing good." Railroad Speed. If the rising generation of Californiaformed their opinions ofrailroad speed from the ordinary rate of traveling behind a locomotive on the San Jose road, or on the Alameda nnd Oakland routes, they would make a great mistake. Or even if our citizens of European blood, with their remomhrnnees of costly built English railroad;, fancy that American locomotives runninp over American lines cannot make as great speed as is recorded of* any other line in the world, they make a mistake. The Londoners boast of their Brighton Express, and other fast running trains which for 40, 50 and 60 miles make nearly nnd occasionally quite a mile a minute. The quickest run on record, we believe, as made by an English special train, is 18 miles in 16 minutes; the distance wan short and the conditions favorable. On the New York Central an engine once drew six cars 14 miles in 14 minutes ;on the Pennsylvania Railroad a light train ran 10 miles in 7 minutes and 14 seconds, beating the English instance, though for a shorter distance. Long distances are the best lest of the mechanism on the different roads. On the Hudson River Road a short train ran 144 miles in '2 hours and 4!) minutes. A trim once ran from Indiunopolis to Union City, 84 miles, in 90 minute* ; and another starting from Albany reached Niagara,3os miles, in 1 hours and M 2minutes. The highest speed known on an American railroad—and we know of nothing lietter recorded of any railroad in the world—was attained last month on the Chicago mid Northwestern Railroad, when a train made 91 miles in 90 minutes. If such a speed, by maintaining relief engines along the line of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, could be kept up from Sacramento to New York when the road is completed, :i man might leave New York on Monday morning at 6 o'clock, spend 48 hours in this State, and be back again in New York at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning. Perfect mechanism and good arrangements might accomplish the feat, but few men are constituted to withstand the fatigue of such ja journey.— Bulletin. John Wesley Iwoski Nagai, a Japanese student in Rutgers College, was baptized the 22d ult., in St. James' Methodist Episcopal Church, New Brunswick, N. J., by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Tiffany. He received, at his own suggestion, the Christian name of John Wesley, in addition to his family name of Iwoski Nagai. This young man left Japan in 1865. After spending two years in Eng- land, he came to this country last spring and began his studies at New Brunswick. Becoming interested in the preaching at St. James' Church, he joined the Sunday-school and regularly attended Divine worship. In October, after several satisfactory interviews with Dr. Tiffany, he expressed a desire to be baptized, and was advised by Dr. Tiffany to receive the riteand postpone joining any particular church till he had thoroughly canvassed the subject. But he preferred to make this investigation immediately, and his examination resulted in confirming his purpose of joining the Methodist church. He wh therefore, baptized by Dr. Tiflanv the 22d ult. The Newark Daily Adttrtimr, after citing these particulars from a stntement made by Dr. Tiffany,adds: '■ Special interest attaches to this case from the fact that, though there is a Protestant Christian mission in Japan, there have been no open professions among the natives, and we believe that John Wesley Iwoski Nagai is, with one single exception, the only baptized native of Japan."— N. *'. Observer. . �I II X XXIX.MI, I li It It I Oregon and Mexico | « iiliforiiiß, *t«*:iin«lii|» CO.'S ,j San Francisco and Honolulu Route. l'l.i 1 oiiipnii)'»Npi.imli.i v 1 Sl.<ii>i..l.ipa Wll.l. KIN REGULARLY Between Honolulu and San Francisco, By tbr i allow lug Schi-iliili- i.i'Timr : SAN PIIANCIsCM. Montana. Idaho, UKPAaTUB.S. Wednesday, Oct. ARRIVALS. ., Nov. rt 7 Friday, •■ Oat, 28 Nov. Ik " ADVEKTISErvIEHXTS. . 15 18 69. ADVERTISEMENTS^ SAILOR'S HOME! C. 1.. It It II ARKS fc CO.. Ship Chandlers ami Commission Merchants, ana Healers In Oneral Merchandise, Keep constantly on hand a full assortment of merchandise, for the supply of IDAHO AND MONTANA, ' 111 l Whalersanil Merctnint vessels. 6XI ly Bh^*'**' -•*■ * CONWAV. ALLEN Kiiuiilhnr, Hawaii, Will continue the GeneralMrrchatidisennd BhlpptDK bu.inea. at tbeabove port, where they are prepared in furnish th. justly celehral.'d Kawulhue l*otatoe.,RDil such other recruit, us are required hy whale ship., at the shortest notice anil on the most reasonable term.. Ptrowoorl om Hftiicl. 6.1.1 ly •A Ml. B. I'ASTI.S. J. B ATHBSTOS. ajyif" ■ NsTaV 7 ii 'i' A. S. UonKB. Ni.v. 27 CASTLE Si. IIIOKi:. Dec. 11l ( '• Jan. 8 and general Merchants, » lie,-. laaao, Importers Jan. !fll I! King, atrri-i, oppasin* Ike Sraama'. Chapel. Montana, llaa, :ill " " Mi. ID •• .Inn. 20! '• Idaho, 1801), ALSO, AUEfitTS FOR Feb. 10 Mar. 12 Montana, | •' Or. Jaynes IVlehraU'd Family Medicine., Wheeler a- Wilson's .Hewing Machines. HONOLULU. I The $6 Offioera' table, with lodging, per week,. New hiiiMstnl Mutual Life Insurance Company, ntrABTUBSS. ABRIVAIS. I The Seamens' do. do. do. do. Kohsls Suinir Cnmpsny, Hawaii. Oct. 21 Oct. 19 Saturday, Monday, Mnntsns, The Haiku Sueur Company, Mum. Nov. 14 Nov. V Mbliii, " Shower Batha on the PremUr*. Th.- HaaTallanlmar Mills. Maui. Nov 30 I>'"- li Montana, "•' "■' \V sialtiariuiiai I'lsntfttlon. Oahu. Tl:i Paa, Dec. 21 M Idaho, Mr*. CRABB. Ki,-,' Plantation, Kauai ly 000 TinLasssaSi •• Jan. II J«n. Id i Manager. Montana, 18S9, Honolulu, April 1, 1868. " 0 Feb. K.h. 1 i '• Idaho, | (.'.illrn ! Feb. 27 Montana, Ken. 22 " " Hantaan. " : . ° " •• ; 11. L. Clihsc'm i nilmi. iiivaxks made 01, am. PER STEAMEK. ; TOUT STREET. shipments IS NOW OI'EN AMD PKKHARKII TO Cargo for 8»n Franci.c, will lie received at all times in the take I'llilTOlillA Ills or any sise in the Hist Stvlß and .•steamer's Warehouse Mid reei'i|its lor (lie .nine given by the ON TUB M.IST KIA.SUNASLB TsiiXS. iuidcr.lgurd. No charge for Storan*: or Cartage. COPYING AND ENLARGING ilone In the Fire rl.k. In Warehouse not taken hy the Company. bet mnnnrr. lD.ur.nce uuaruoteed .it lower rstts Ui-tn hy sailing vessels Hale—Card, of the HawaiianKlnft., Queen., Chief, and Knr Particular care taken of shipments of Fruit. otl.er nntahle peri-ous. All orders for (ioods, to he purchased in San Francisco, will Ai.so—A full a.sortment of LARGE AND SMALL be received and filled by return of sleuuier. IRA M EM. For Sale at Low I'rlces. i. ■>'< ly H. 1.. CIIASK. OF PASSAGE UKIMCKII! -- -- - KATES Cabin, $30 $50 | Steernge, CT Shipment, from Europe and the (Tutted States, intended for these Islinds, will be received by the Company in Sun Francisco, if consigned to them, und ho forwarded by their SUeuroer. to Honolulu, free of charge, except actual outlay. 1 r Passengers are requested to lake their Tickets before 12 o'clock on th. date of sailing, and to procure their Passport.. All Bill, ag.ln.t the .learners roust be pniented before 2 o'clock on thed.y of selling, or they will have Ui lay over till the return of the ateamer for settlement. 11. lIACKFELD £ CO., Ageuls. 646 irons ly Kaahumsnu street. r)2O a. r. apams. s. a. ADAMS fc WILDER, wiliibb. Anctlon and Commission Merchants, FIRE I'llOOF STORE, la Kobin.on*. Builriing, f»o-ly Umrn Street. OBce corner of Fort and Hotel Btrecti. E. HOFFMANN, M.D. QUI; Physician and Suiceon, Cora.r Merchant and KaahumaDU st.., near Poatolßce. JOHN s. McGREW, M. D., CEORCE WILLIAMS, A.F. JUDD, KS Till-: BUSINESS C\ HISOLT) Plan of -wtillnp with Offlcors and Seamen immediately jq their Shipping at M* Office. Having no connection, either direct or Indirect, with any outfitting establishment, and allow ing oo dehti to he collectedat his office, he hopes to give at good latlnfactlon In the fului* as he has In the |«st. (£7* Office on Jus. Koblnsou A Co.'a Wharf, netr the I* S. Consulate. t>66 3m CONTIM ' REV. DANIEL DOLE. AT KOLOA. Kauai, ha. accommodation, in hi. family Far a Few Itonr.llng Scholar.. II r Person, wishing to Ir.rn the Term, will apply to him 6if or the Editor of " Tb« Fsibkd." THE \<«i:\T§ Law, Fort street, three door, below MerchantStreet.. C. BREWER fc CO. 048 ly ComsalMlon nnd Slilpplne NerchMU, llanolulu, Oaba. 060 H. 1. ly W. N. LADD, laiporlcr aud Dealer In Hardware,Cutlery, MeehMles' Tools, and Agricultural Implements. ly 033 Fart Street. H. WETMOIt 1., >l. D. I'll vsll'l AN fc SURGEON, C. HILO, HAWAn, 8. I. N. B.—Medicine Chert, carefully replenished at the 6-tf HILO DRUG STORE. being for to In FOR Wheeler & Wilson's SEWING MACHINES! THIS THE LATEST MACHINE HAS ALL to was impiovements,and, inaddition former premium., awarded tbe highest prise .hove all European and American Sewing Machine, at the World. Exhibition In PARIS In IMI, and at theExhibition in London in IM2. Th. evidence oftbe auperlority of thisMachine i. found in tbr record of Its .ale.. In tool Th* drover fc Baser Company, Boston, The Florence Company. Massachusetts The Parker Company, Connecticut, J. M. Singera) Co., New York, Flnkle fc Lyon, Chas. W. Howland, Delaware, M. Greenwood fc Co., Cincinnati, 0., N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk.O.. Wilson 11. Smith. Connecticut, sold 18,600, whilstthe Wheeler Wilson Company, of flrldgi. port, madeand sold 19,721 daring the as. period. 11 tl 1 rl'lraer Call nail F.amine. — " " * 'Itter chants JOUB M OSAOUaiI. J. C. USIiaILI.. J. C. MERRILL & Co., LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. Physician aud Surgeon. Attorney and Counsellor at VINO BEEN ENGAGED IN OCRFREupwards of seven year., and sent business HA located a fire proof brick building, we are prepared receive BLACKSMITH, 003 ly OBce in H. L. Chase', building, Fort street. RniDtvo×Chaplain St., betuieen JVuaaau ana" Fori Sts. OrriOß Hocas—From 8 to 10 A. M., and from S to a P. tl. •W ly l'orllimil, Oregon. WILLIAM WIHwIIT, BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA. DR. J. MOTT SMITH, Oentlst, FORWARDING AND ro.l .1 ■•*•*!o.-\ MERCHANTS, and di.poee of I.land .Uples, inch a. Sugar, Rice, Syrups, Pulu, Coffee, Ac, to advantage. Consignment, especially solicited for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, and upon whichcash advance, will be made when required. Sab F.anciioo Ktrsasaoas: Badger k Llndcnberger, J a.. Patrlek k Co., Fred. Ikan, VT. T. Coleman A Co., I Foot of \ uuaii ii Sheet, opposite Segelken'sTin Shop, Steven., Baker A Co. Pobtlamd HarsaaMCßS: *v IS PREPAREDTOTAKK ALL KINDS Leonard k Or**n. Ladd k Tllton. Allen k Lewis. -jr"* of BLACKSMITH INU. Hosoluiu BsrsaBBCBB: **viyRepair, on Carriages, Wagons, Carts, Ac, will receive ly Walker A Allen. 088 prompt attention. sir C. M. BARTOW, Auctioneer, Salra Raon. oa tiuriii Siren, one door Mccracken, merrill &. Co., Commission -AND— Auctioneers, 204 and 206 California Street, BAN PRANOHBOQ.! ALSO, AGENTS Or THK _ San Francisco and Honolulu Packet*. _ PsrllcuUr intention given to the sal* and purchaie ol merthandlw, ships' business, sappl'lnf whaleshlps, nigotiattng exchange. Ac. IT Allfr*lght arriving at Sa* IranolKo.by or to th. HonoluluLine of Packets, will be forwarded raaa or oOMtuato*. 1r Kxshauge en Honolulu bought and sold. i% . —aarsaaucß× Messr.. C. L. Riehsrds A Co ■' II Ilackfeld Co C. BrwwerAOo Bishop k Co Dr.R.W. Wood lion. E. 11. Aiken li C. Waterman, Keg Oil " Honolulu » •' "" "" '* ST FRIEND: THE PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. A MONTHLY JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO TRMPEBANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TERMS: On* oopjr, par annum, Twooopiea, Five copies, » . . .] 92.00 8.00 5.00 �16 1 II X FKIKMI. FKBRUARY, 18 69. Small-Pox.—Our MEMORANDA. Late Telegraphic News. printer calls for "more New Vobk, Jim. 17.—Tim Herald* WiwhinfrUin copy," and we cannot just now think of anyspecial states that on Friday last tin* President sent RIvI'OHT ok Kritimii Hakk Uazi.—Left Si. Catherines on the thing more worthy of notice than our escape Hook. Condon, (»• the Bth ol September. Pa-sod tic Downs on totbe Sonata the treaties with Great Britain Ihe lUth, with i.iir wind. On the 2nd sighted the Madeira*. Alabama claims, tin* rights, of naturalised i iti/.eua front the ravages of the smnll-pox. The ter- Cnwnrii the Ilth of October. long.'-'!» thi4'J lific in west on and tbe questions arising out of tin* joint occupation rible scourge has come, but in the good Prov- I."hi the trades In latitude 30 °33° Mouth, long. 44 ° '21 weal, on ol San Juan. The Alaliama treaty is concluded Wind* variable l«. tin- 710 th I und .nun thai time to ||M idence of God it has not spread. According to present indications it will not. Any one who remembers that " year of tleath," 1853, at Honolulu, when the yellow flag was displayed on every native house from the sea to considered. The natiirali/.iition treaty, it is iiuilei- the tops of the mountains, and when the stoiui, oonoedea, ou the part of Great Britain, that dead cart " was ever present in the streets, naturalized citizens shalt enjoy the same rights in will dread the return of this terrible scourge. tbal country as native citizens. Nkw Yoke, Jan. 17.—Tbe Tribune savs tbu artiMonthly Concent Contributions at cles of Ibe treaty on tbe iUutiMIII are eight in iiiiiuKey. Mr. Coan thus writes: ber, and aubstuntiully us follows : Hilo.—The Article Int. The two (inverunienta agree tn setOur monthly concert contributions keep up risen since " and dillercnces which have tle all claims marvelously. For six months past they have tbe convention ol ls.V!. Article seciind provides for a Commission of four averaged more than $100." substantially on tbe original terms presented by our Government. Am soon as the treaty was received In the Senate, it wah referred to the Committee on Foreign delations, aud ordered printed, in conltdeuce, for use. The Senate Committee meat* on Tuesday next, when the matter will be " persona; each Government being entitled to two representalivon. This Coiinniaaion shall agree upon We call attention to a new invoice of u plan of settlement. books, to lie openi'il nn Saturday next at Article third provide* that a majority of the Whitnev's book-store. Commission shall decide tbu question involved. Article fourth provides for cases of disagreement by the Commission, in such events the two tluvernments shall choose an umpire. The president of tbe United Slates shall net for the I'nited .States, but the umpire elected shall not be<|iiulitled unless PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. conliriniiil by the Senate. AltlllVALS. Article filth provides that in Ihe event of refusal by the umpire In decide, the question slmll lie set- Jan. 2—llus ship Marie, OaaaSaa, 10 days lm fagsl Hound. tled by lot in the presence ol the ('nmmissioii. I—Kus klii|i WkaflSd IfflW, 11.-ii/.ruiunii, 25 days from Article sixth excludes from the jurisdiction of New Ariiiungcl. ll—Am srllr Alaska, Calhoun, 40il;iys rrom Portland. the Commission all cases arising from claims which ship Windward, ll.m li, 22 days (mill Man It—Am have been adjudicated hy Courts of Admiralty. Francisco. Article seventh provide*, that claimants shall first 10—Am lik Count, Ahhntl, IK days from Sail Francisco. ll—Am slnir Molilalia,(lisllrry, 12days from Hail Frniiprove tbey areHritish.suhjects; that they preserved aaaaa. strict neutrality during Un* war; and did not aid Hound. 15—Am bk Vernon, Keller, 42 day. from Puget Ibe South. 15—Hrilbark liazu, UUTofd, 126aajfl from London. sesnions of the Commission Article eight—The 211—Am bk II II Murray, Bennett, 15 days Irom Han (ball be held at Washington. Francisco. MARINE JOURNAL. Cheap Ice Pitcher.—The following simple method of keeping ice water for a long time in a common pitcher is worth knowing : Place between two sheets of paper (newspaper will answer, thick brown is better,) a layer of cotton batting about half an inch in thickness, fasten the ends of paper and batting together, forming a circle, then sew or paste a crown over one end, making a box the shape of a stove-pipe hat minus the rim. Place ihis over an ordinary pitcher filled with ice water, making.it deep enough to rest on the table, so as to exclude the air, and the reader will be astonished at the length of time his ice will keep and the water remain cold after the ice is melted. Rev. F. S. Rising, Secretary of the Episcopal Church Missionary Society, who was lost in the late steamboat disaster on the Ohio River, was the author of the pamphlet, "Are there Romanizing Germs in the Prayer Book?" which has made so much stir among Episcopalians in the United States. New Organ at Fort Street Church.— We congratulate the congregation of Fort Street on the successful importation and erection of the new organ, which proves to be so finely toned and suited to tho edifice, Its appeaiance externally improves the interior of the church. Charles Westmoreland, one of the United States Presidential Electors in California, and messenger with the vote, died of small-pox at Panama. John Minor Bolts, a distinguished Virginia politician, is also dead. , DKl'Altil Kr'**>. Jan. 2—Haw brig Kaiiiihanicha V Kickmuii, for (luauo 1. 2—Am wll sll Ohio, l.awrenro, to cruise. 3—Brit ahlp Kolil I. I.iiuc, llciiip«tead,fdr New llcillord. s—Kus ship Marie, Caaadle*, for Hongkong. s—Am ship Windward, Barrett, for Hongkong. 12—Ha* wh sh Julian, Hepi>inj*Hti.iie, to crui.e. 12—Am wh lik Aivaslionks, Notion, to cruise. 16—Am schr Faimv, Thomas, for Sim FranciM 111—Am .tnir Moolaoa, Uodfrey, for Kau Francisco. IB— Tuh hark lonia, McLean, lor Tahiti. 22—Am achr JII Roaoua, I'rrvosl, lor Man Francisco. 26—Am bk Comet, AIiIkiII, for Sail Francisco. 2S—Am wll bk Monlicello, Pott., lor Bllka. . PASSENGERS. Fob llonokono—Per Windward,Jim. 4th—Akaiiliundsnn, Nine, A Yee, AhT.i, Ahuna, Ake.iin, Kukce, Achou, Awon.Along Chau, Ah Ark, Ah Hliij; mid wile, All Kina, NangHl, and.on—l7. FuoarlAN FaANcisii)—Per Comet, Jan. 10th—Rev Frank ("• R Tlioiii|»oii and wile, Mr and tor* J T Waterhouse Jr. Powers, A C Anderson, Mis. Hiughani, Wong We, and 10 Hawaiians—lS. M Faoa Ham FaASriaco-I'er Montans, January lllli—Miss Emily Alexander, A I. Morris**, Col / H riiialdiug, A M CurJone.,Ben rier, F 8 Renlleld, W N Tullane, A T W'arne, E P (ierrarn, Anthony lierrnro, John Fletcher, F (lungirettl, Lum *i ung, I'm Hoiing Young Chung. HofKce, Cliing Hung—l 7. Fob Man Fbani ikiii- Per Fanny, Jan. li; Mr Welsh—l. l-niiM I.OVIHIX—Per Irasu, Jan. 10:—Richard Wasfaa, — Joseph II I'inckiiey—2. Fob Has Fbani isco —Par Montana, Jan. 18:—Mr nnd Mrs C A Wllllann, 2 children uud servant, Mr and Mr. William and aon, Crockctl anil child, Mis. I. F, lllvclow, Mi. T II Clark Mr W I. R Johnson, Mr W Waldo, Captain 1 H Rciluel.l, t) Captain IS Davl., N A Hluinc, Mr Campbell, T KalialL t, T Bates, (i.sirgc llaiitou, Julliea Cushnian, T M Miller Eugli.h. C Wilson, A T Liuigtoii—2s. Fob Han Francisco-Fat Boat***, Jan. 22:—John M English, Edwin Dlinonil, J F, l.ymlr-3. Faoia Han raaacisoo—Par l>. C. Murray, January 23d Fuller, Miss M Mr. Capt Cavarly, 2 children ami servl Mrs Phllll|is. Mia. R Burn., Mrs Macfarlanc, Mr and Mrs Ale\ Campbell, Mls.es F. and M Campbell. Maater. J and Wand J Camplsdl, H II Ht.sldard, W A Uiiarl'S, Capt /Igenhlrt, r W Wuuilenberg.J Fallock, A Clarl., H E llnllmaiiii, F Crocnll, Jack—24. , „„ ~. Fob Hah F»a»cihi:o—Per Comet, January 26—J Peas,', J France. (.curie, wife and 2 children, Aiitiinc (larcia, M Praia, Win llyke, William Suratt, Johnllage,H II Thouiu., William Parker and aon, Capt Nye—l4. (. Foa BITKA—Per Montlrello, Jnn 2H—.l II Dick.nl, W Paolofl'—2, „_. Fan*. Ban Pbanimen-Per Idaho,Feb 1-I)rOeo T ShipI) N, F A Howe., IIB N, ley, Mr. H M Whitney, L C W H Kllvcrthnrn, J A tiulnan, R Adam«.n, llodlrey Brown, M I.oiils»on, Thorn.. O'Mblh-)', and 2 In .teermiv—l2. ; _ _- _ _ * - , , Novt-nibiT 7th. strong northwest winds-, and strong galea to the 11th. On the loth, exchanged ilgnala with the Hrltlah bark Hampshire, from Bwansia for Vancouver's Island, 72 day* out. Curried away the malu-toimatl yard in a heavy gale, in latitude f>6°:J3 noulh, lung. ft3°4& weat, on Hie 17th. Had Nucreiiiili.niof heavy galea to the 28th. and waa 73 da\* from latitude M* south, lung. 05° well, to * <i|h limn From the Cape to Intiiuile of Juan Fernandez, 21 diiyn. Took the lnull'") in aoulh latitude 26 c 4.\ l"iig. 14*41 we*l, De,eml>*>-r 17th. ClUMld tin* line Jan. 4. 18ll.», in long. 187 c2B weal From line to tin- Islands, 11 days. Arrived at Honolulu January lulh. Wanted, Informatin Bapadtng William F. Blenderh riser, a Ottgtg. who lefl thi; hark e'.tufi*- nnd wont to w-rk on Ihe Ilium Plantation, Muni. Th*' F.'litor will gladly receive any iulbrinatiou. Km HK«TKH, Nkw York, Nov. 25, 1808. Rkv. H. C. Damon Dear Sir .—I have a brother, Walter — Brook*, who has hM away for a number of yeura. llpwiii n sailor, and the lust we heard of him he win* a maleon board lite mlntonirj r')C Morning Star. I loftTWd through ft gentle, ■nan Ht New Loudon, Conn., that there la now i Cut Brook* running from Honolulu to ihe Kuutlieru coast of Africa, and that hy corresponding with you I minht learn If he U the man; and if not, ujftriM} ymi might give me MM information conhardly think he eonId in* there MW, aa we cerning him. should havt heard trom mm. Klill we live in a strange world, and he wiui one of llw claaa that contributed lull) his share toward making it ho. Any InlormMfmi you can pive nn hi to hf* prCMQI wherearnnits will la- th.inklully received hy all hil relatives. Hoping to hear from you ntm, I am, youni very truly, O. t: Bkook». " 1 lletpei -tiMwf iltraard Strry, »>• longing to Yonkert,, New York. He was a seaman on board the whaleihiu Daniel Wood wheu she waa wrecked in the spring of 1887. He oarue tv the Ainer kftfl Hospital in Honolulu, and wai tent by the Consul to Snu Francisco. Any mf-rni.ii.ou will i*e gladly received by tbe Editor, or Mr. ihomai *4eery, Yonkers, N..Y. Respecting William Napkins, /—EI Young, William Yountf and Charlr* i'rtston, belonging to the inland of Si Helen;!, Ailnutir Ocean. Respecting Jn*r/>k Swan, of Frveburg, Maine. Any information will tw gladly received by the Editor, or Olive F. Hwan, Fryfburg. A letter will be found lor him with the Editor. Respecting Charles Lyons, a native of Switzerland. He has been a b.'iit-itetrer on board the Joseph Maxwell, and visited Hoiitilulu during the lull of IWT. Any inlhrmntlonwlll be gladly received by the Editor or Frederick Myres, Hazleton, UWM County, l'eruiHyivanin. Resperting William ttrqgn, belonging to Win ton House, Ualkey, County Dublin, Ireland. He left Honolulufor SanFrancisco just tw" y,-iit-a ago. He in known to have resided for a ■hort tini*. in Km Francisco. Any information will be gladly received by the Editor*or hit mother. Mis. F.li/.aln-th Bcggs, Winton Hoiuse, Ualkey, County Dublin, Ireland. Respecting Hither t Lero-y McUinnutalias Hurst, belonging to New OritWM. He vi-m.-d Honolulu live years ago, and Is rejrorted |o have left In a vr«i-l bound to Hampton Road*, but as he never has ro|K>r*ed liimnelf In tbe United Stated, it hat been conyelurt-d that he might "till befalling Id the PaciUc Any iuforni*tiofi will be gladly received by ihe Kditur, or lm luoibt-r, Mrs. Kli»al>eth J. Modlnnisi, New Orleani, La. IT WHIM II Mar*., July 3f)th, 18GH. Rkv S C. Damon—Dear Sir .-—Will you he so kind aa to Inform me in what vessel my sou Churlea W. 1,. Hayward left Honolulu I hail a letter from him lait January, which was written the iith <>f Den-iiilwr, lHtiT, slating that he should lx* at home before long. He tut*, not returned, nor have I heard from him since, I fn-l veryanxious about him ; and If you will be kind enough U.see what vessel he left that port in, und where she waa bound, you will oblige me very much. Voura with res pert, Mercutio llayward, Wori-ester, Maaa., No. 14 Water Street. PLOACEFSWORSHIP. SEAMEN'S MiTßal—lUv. 8. C. Damon Chaplain—Km. street, near the Sailor.' Home. Preaching at 11 A.M. Seats free. Sabbath School after the aromiug service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening, at 74 o'clock. N. II Siil bath School or Illhle Class fo. Seamen at ») o'clock sabbath uiornliiK. FORT SYKKKT (.'IIL'KCII—Cornar of Fort and Berctauia streits—Preaobing on Sunday, at 11 A. M. and 71 P. M. Sabbath Hehool at 10 A M. STONE CIIIKCH—aUng .treat, above the Palacc-llev. H. H. Parker Pastor. Service. In Hawaiian every Sunday al »' A. M. and i P. M. CATIIOI.It' CilUßCU—Fort .treet, near Beretanls—under the charge, of IU. Key. Bishop Maigret, aaaisted by Hey, Pierre Faw.ua. Services every Sunday at 10 A.M. and 2 I'll SMITH'S (JIU'IICII— Beretanla .treet, ne.r Nuuanu .treet— Key. A. O. Forbrs Pastor. Service. 11l Ilawaiiau every Sunday at 10 A. M. aud 2J P. M. REFUHMKD CATHOLIC I'lll'KCll-Corner of Kukul and Niiiiauu streets, uniler eharg* of Ki. Rev. Bishop Staley . � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1869) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1869.02.04 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1869.02.04 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/6cbee7937d40f451e1bb7e4fb43a33d7.pdf db10d2b3325b154d9ea1ec997c3f4b8c PDF Text Text FRIEND THE ilea) coirrcjrTi K*r Jniiuniy. I HOU. PAUF. 1 New Volume XXVltli \\ liv bM Hi" American Covernmenl never sent a Mau-olW:ir to Crete m Micronesia * New rtiajiei mi ■trong'si Uiami 1 XIVIL Annual K'-uort *f ttw Honolulu .Sailor'sllonie Kociety, 2 Woekuf Prayer 2 — Oahu Oolitic U Annual Mr- ting of Honolulu Sailor'?. Home Society over an«l help un HunyanN Pilgrim* ProKroHr* in China (.en. W. WHttMft-sof WmTk'h, Cl A Word Fitly H|*oken Editor* Table New Commercial Enterprise iv the P.'icifle Gortpel S-i.il on Ktwaie VaiioiiH Editorial Items Elliot's Indian MM—-Pot-try Relornmtioiiof Drunk a nix More of the Earthquake Marine New*, »kr ~ » {<M Serifs, M.n- HONOLULU. JANUARY 6, 1869. Merits, 9aL)O, 80. I.} :; 3 3 I Hi --i •"> 5 5 5 .(J 6 8 •* T H E FRIEND. J.lM'.lltV U. ISIIII. New Volume—XXVIth. With this number of tho Friend we commence a new volume. Years begin and claft. with astonishing rapidity. Job remarks, " Now my days are swifter than a post; they flee away ; they are passed as the swift ships ; as the eagle that hasteth to his prey;" and again, "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle." These are most expressive similes illustrative of the rapidity of time. The flying post rider, the swift darting eagle, the rapid sailing ships and quick-sped shuttle are apt figures. Jeremy Taylor commenting upon the last, remarks, " Morning sends the shuttle on to evening and evening back to morning, until death cuts the web of life from the loom of time." We earnestly hope our readers will ponder well the rapidity with which they are hurrying forward to the untried scenes of the eternal world. To many this year will be their last. Improve it then aright. Make the most of all your precious opportunities for listening to a preached Gospel, reading the Word of God, doing good unto all as you find opportunity, living in peace with New Chapel on Strong's Island. your fi'llow-ini'ii. and striving to alleviate those distressed, It will be recollected by some of our readAnd replace ers that about six months ago an ell'ort was The smile of joy ami hope in sorrow's face." made to raise the small sum of a little over one You will not then have lived in vain, or lost j dollars to aid the native Christians hundred the golden opportunity which God is now on Island in purchasing the mateStrong's granting to prepare for a better world. rials for their new chapel. In addition to a Why has the American Government never collection of about $60 taken up in the Bethel sent a Man-of-Warto Cruise in Micronesia? congregation, we also received $40 from C. Vessels of war go where tliey arc ordered, A. Williams, Esq., and $20 from H. A. P. but for some reason the American Govern- Carter, Esq. By the return of the Morning ment has never sent ;i vessel of war to cruise Star, we learn that the materials forwarded from 170° B. latitude westward, or from were duly landed. At a meeting of the na10° to 20° south nnd north latitude, em- tive church, a committee was appointed to bracing that region known as Micronesia, or acknowledge the donation, and a unanimous including the Caroline Islands. Upon many vote of thanks was passed. " Every hand of those islands the inhabitants never saw was up," writes the Rev. Mr. Snow. This missionary is now stationed on Ebon, the American flag- displayed from one of our national vessels. The inhabitants on Ascen- one of the Marshall Islands, but he makes sion, however, once saw the Confederate flag annual visits to his old field of labor on Kuof Jeff. Davis displayed on bqard the Shenan- saie, where he spent ten and more years, and iloah, when she visited that island in the where we were permitted to enjoy his generspring of 1865 and burnt four American ous hospitality in the summer of IS6I. He whaleships. American whaleships, the Morn- thus writes respecting his present visit, while ing Star and trading- vessels are constantly passenger on board the Morning Star: cruising among those islands, and visiting Star, Oct. 20, 1868. " Morning wished me to tell you something Keduka their ports. During the late cruise of the " Morning Star, she came to anchor about about the good work on Kusaie. My present visit has been one of the most pleasant I twenty-five times in the various harbors of have ever made. I have enjoyed the visit Micronesia. Whalers have for more than a more from their cordial sympathy with me quarter of a century been accustomed repeat- in my loneliness. [His wife and children are edly to visit Strong's Island and Ascension. on a visit to the United States.] Even the That part of the ocean is alive with trading children never seemed so affectionate, trustvessels, and yet our national vessels keep as ing and loving, and their sweet singing has clear of that part of the ocean as if the Gov- been a great source of joy to me. At almost trnment was afraid to send a vessel thither. every turn I would have some sad, some Repeatedly have naval commanders called lour.hing or aome loving remembrance of the upon us for information upon that part of the past of our missionary life on this gem of the world. Our Ministers Resident have been Pacific." sending forward information to the State Department at Washington. American citizens We listened withmuch interest to the have been murdered in those seas, and Gulick's sermon, Sabbath evening, their vessels cut off". American merchants, Rev. Dr. traders and missionaries have been for years on the history of efforts in Europe and Amercalling upon the American Government to ica to unite all Christians in prayer for the send a vessel of war to cruise and survey in conversion of the world to Christ. It is gratthat part of the ocean, but the call has been ifying to learn that a copy has been requested unheeded, and yet our national vessels have will appear in the forthbeen lying in the ports of San Francisco and for publication, and coming issue of the Advertiser. Honolulu, doing wlial ?—yes, what ? ■• , �VIII I, Mi, J,.MA It \ 111 I 2 XIVth Annual Report of the Honolulu Sailor's Home Society. We hnve high autho/ity for asserting that is known by its fruits. If this princiis not pressed with too much rigidity, we ple are quite willing the Home should stand or fall upon its application. As it was the design of its founders to establish nnd maintain a good temperance boarding house for senmen and others who might avail themselves of its privileges, we propose to introduce the testimony of those who have lieen inmntes of the establishment. Two tables have always been spread for those wishing to board in the Home. During the last few weeks Capt Smith nnd his excellent wife, of the American whaling bark Seine, have been inmates of the Home. That vessel sailed last week, and after she had left the port Mrs. Smith addressed a letter to the Seaman's Chaplain, from which we make the following extract. This letter was entirely unexpected and una tree solicited : Off HonoLtrMT, Dec 23, ISfis. Mr. Damon Dear Sir ; —I cannot think of leaving Honolulu without expressing my thanks for the kind attentions shown me by Mrs. D., as well ns by Mrs. C, Mrs. G. and Mrs. S. And here too let me express my admiration of the Sailor's Home, and its most excellent manager, Mrs. Crabbe. I was delighted with its quiet, its perfect order, its excellent table, nnd the well-bred boarders whom 1 daily met there. I consider it a first class boarding house, and all strangers visiting Honolulu would patronize it, if they could be benefited by my experience. They would not only find Mrs. Crabbe a superior landlady, but a kind and sympathizing friend, whom to know would be to respect and love. My husband joins with me in expressions of gratitude to these truly excellent friends — whom I have named, and he desires that you will publish this iv the Friend; and adds, that if God permits us again to return to our native shores, we shall continue to subscribe for your interesting paper, both for ourselves and friends. Respectfully yours, Mrs. E. S. H. Smith, Bark Seine. The additional testimony comes from a Swedish sailor, who came sick and destitute to Honolulu from San Francisco. As he could not gain admission to the United States Marine Hospital, he cast himself upon Mrs. Crabbe's generosity and hospitality at the Home. We make the following extract from a written statement which he made to the Bethel church before uniting with it last October i 1 came to this porl about twelve months " ago from San Francisco for the benefit of my health. 1 was diseased in both body and soul. I went to board at the Sailor's Home, poor as poor could be; but I believe the Lord directed my steps thither, for I was there by the good people pointed to the healer of soul and body, and urged to seek to-day, . Is 6 il. and not to wuit until to-morrow. Thanks lie lo Cod, I was brought to see the danger of putting off this most important of all things. I was brought up by pious parents, and was early made acquainted with God's word as it is given in the Bible, though I had then no real liking for it. But by the help of God's spirit, many precious words were now brought to my mind, and a few weeks after my arrival I was ennbled to believe that God for Christ's sake had forgiven all my sins. 1 felt as if I had made an earthly fortune ; I know I could not have felt more happy. I lost all desire after the world, for what is it but vanity.' 1 felt I was adopted into the household of faith. I could say with regard to the cure of my body, ' Thy will be done.' I soon found that instead nf getting liotter. I was getting worse. At last I was too weak to do any work. Through the kindness of Mr. D. and the Ladies' Stranger* Friend Society, I was admitted to tbe Queen's Hospital. I feel truly grateful to those people, thrbuch whom the Lord is so wonderfully caring for me." In regard to this man. we would remark that he still lingers at the Hospital, although during the last shipping season he returned to the Home, and for two months and more kept the Depository. As his health is still declining, he will not probably again lie able to leave tfie Hosnital. While an inmate of the Home, he boarded in the seaman's department. Other similar testimony respecting the manner in which the Home is conducted by Mrs. Crabbe might he adduced, if ' necessary. As years roll away, we see more and more the necessity of sustaining this establishment. It is well nigh made self-supporting. We have sometimes thought, if less so, and the community was called upon more frequently and urgently for funds, it would prove advantageous. In view of all the difficulties attending the boardingand lodging department, and otherwise sustaining such an institution, we congratulate the founders, patrons and friends of the Honolulu Sailor's Home in its success, prosperity and usefulness. S. C. Damon, Chairman of Executive Committee. Honolulu, Dec. 26th, 1868. In Chas. R. Bishop, Treasurer. COftMUT with the Honoi.l'M' riAll.Oß's Hume Society. AriniNT ,""■ *& Oft 1867. X-r. i"—To cn»h on hand )„■ M—To unnamt received from the Truatcca us 00 Vnv 18—Tn ami. rec'd from Cha«. Hrewer of Boaton.. 40 00 >M 20—Toamt. re. M Im a Iricnd, nor rl. C. Damon.. 60 00 To following amt«. collected hy Mr. Damon00i $100 Rent of " Kaokoa" Office 112 60 Rent of Cellar 35 16-247 MS rTonil'.W.H.'-Mnhnniro" I* VI Hoc. i»t—Amount due the Treasurer $404 83 CR. 1867. I"0 60 D,. r n—Hy paid luilanec of debt 1868. Dee. 2&—By following amta paid through Mr. Damon. MOO I.ucaa VVigginn' account, Dee. 31.1867.. 0 26 R. Rycmft'a account, Octoher, 1868 C. N. r)|ienrar & Co 'a account, Oct., 1868... 0 00 Septemlicr, 1868.. 6 00 II. M. Whitney'H account, 46 45 I.ucaa & Wlgglna' account, 1888 paid hy kin rt. C. Damotva account, amount to E. Dumicoinhe and Edward Smith fur taking care of Rnuliug-Hnuiu, etc., and for ,jaB incidental* * .. *" II E. K. ,lulu, IV. H, IM * <). »«* ft '«■ Hlal'oi', Trraaurcr. « PWraeoyJkra,nfury,1869. Sabbath, January 3—Prayer for the Holy Spirit,and ihe kingdom ofGodupon thesclslands ; for the better observance of the Lord's Day. Monday, January 4—Prayer for Foreign Missions ; for the growth of Missionary zeal; for the removal of hindrances to preaching the Gospel among all nations ; for recent converts ; and for all who are suffering persecution for the truth. Tuesday, January s—For the institutions of learning throughout tlip world, but especially upon the Hawaiian Islands ; for Sun- day-schools, and private instruction ; for our youlb abroad. Wednesday, January Ci —For rulers and all in authority throughout the world ; for their temporal anil spiritual prosperity ; edifying intercourse and the maintenance of Peace ; for increased openings for the Gospel ; for the removal of social evils. Thursday, January "t —Prayer that all Christians may become united in the work of the Lord ; for more knowledge of God's Word and increase of spiritual life; for sound nnd faithful preaching adapted to rich and poor; growing love to Christ; a more earnest love to Christians of every name and of all nations. Jriday, January B—A day of fasting, humiliation (and prayer) before God for sin. Saturday, January 9—That all printing establishments throughout the world become co-workers for good ; and for a blessing on Christian literature. Sabbath, January 10—Prayer that the Holy Spirit be abundantly poured out in all places throughout the enrth. Oahu College.-We are glad to learn that the new term opens at Punahou with a full school of sixty pupils, and the prospect of additional pupils. The usefulness of that institution was never greater than at present. It is blessed with a full corps of able teachers, who are interested in their work, and inspire the pupils with ambition to excel. We visited the school at the close of the last term, in company with Judge Hartwell, and were most favorably impressed with the discipline and scholarship of the institution. Arrangements have recently been made to enlarge the library accommodation, and we should be glad to learn that some generous minded person had presented the institution with 8500, more or less, wherewith to purchase new and standard books for the library, and also that a good telescope had been presented to the philosophical department. The time may come, and perhaps soon, when an effort should be made to increase the endowment, and add a professorship of Natural History. The College must keep in advance ofall other literary institutions on the Islands. �Annual Meeting of Honolulu Sailor's Home SoCIBTY.—This meeting was held at tbe Home, agreeable to public notice, on Monday morning at 11 o'clock, President S. X. Castle in the chair. Prayer was offered by Key. S. C. Damon. C. K. Bishop, Esq., read the Treasurer's report, which will be found in another column. After the debt was .innouiiccd, a collection was immediately taken up, and more than sufficient was collected, leaving ft balance of over $130 in the Treasurer's hands. Tho report ol tbe Executive Committee was read, which will be loiliul elsewhere. After the meeting had adjourned, tbe Trustees held a meeting, when the following officers were chosen for the coining year: S. N. Castle, President ; Daniel Smith, Vice President; P. C. Jones, Secretary; C. K. Bit-hop, Treasurer; S. C. Damon, E. O. Hall, J. O. Caner, Executive Committee, Trustees going out in IS71—S. C. Damon, C. K. Bishop, Daniel Smith, J. C. Pfluger, T. 11. Davies, E. O. UaiL Trustees going out in IS70—H. A. P. Carter, P. C. Jones, A. F. Judd, J. Molt Smith, J. H. Wodehouse, .1. Bollmaii. Trustees going mil in IS69—F. A. Schaefer, D. Foster, F. Banning, J. 0. Carter, S. N. Castle, W. L. Green. . "Come Over and Help Us."—There is a Macedonian call lor more ministers ol (he Gospel to leave the Eastern States and cross the Kocky Mountains and preach the Gospel in Washington Territory, Oregon and California We recently met one of our old friends, Capt. Swift, formerly master of a whalcship, but now settled in Washington Territory. His neighbors and his own fam ily earnestly desire a Congregational minister from the East to come and preach where he. is located, near Paget Sound. Other localities demand Methodist ministers. The cull is loud for earnest and self-denying men. On the coast of America, west of the Kocky Mountains, 60,000 from China have become located, demanding at least twenty Chinese missionary colporteurs, but we can hear of only some half a dozen engaged in this work. The fide of immigration is pouring into that part of the world, anil the call is for more laborers. The fields are white to the. harvest. Thanksgiving Sermon. —In the Stockton Daily liulcpendent. for November 28th, we find an interesting Thanksgiving Sermon by the Key. James A. Daly, entitled, "Our Cause, our Equipment, our Struggle." If Mr. Arthur Alexander, will call upon the Chaplain, he will hear good news from bis father in Washington, D. C. We would acknowledge a file of the San Francisco Tunes from Purser McLellan, of the Idaho. .. liS« I. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in China. The Key. Mr. Doolittle, author of a recent work on China, writes the following remarks respecting the Rev. Mr. Burns, a Scottish missionary recently deceased, who has translated Banyans Pilgrim's Progress into the Chinese. Mr. Burns' death is noticed in all the English and American missionary publications. For several years before going to China he was a settled pastor in Scotland, and an intimate friend of the lamented McCheyne of blessed memory. "Mr. Burns had an extraordinary facility of acquiring a new dialect. He acquired the Canton, the SwatoW, the Amoy, the Pub Chun nnd the Mandarin dialects, und beside: had ■ good knowledge of the hook language, or the style found in books. A> an author he has done a great work. He prepared and published a translation of Bunynn's Pilgrim* Progress in the classical or book style, and also in the Mandarin dialect. These form standard works in the Christian literature of China. He prepared hymn books in the Amoy, the Swatow, the Full Chan and the Mandarin dialects, llu also prepared a translation of the Book ol Psalms, and a volume called the ' Peep of Day,'after the general plan of the English book having that name, omitting the questions. These volumes remain a standing and permanent monument of his literary ability. •• But .Mr. Burns' special delight was in preaching the Gospel to the Chinese, whether in the streets or in the chapel, whether to Christians or heathens. He eminently succeeded in making himself understood, and in interesting those of his auditors who listened with attention. He had some marked peculiarities of labor which it would not be well for missionaries generally to adopt or imitate. He was unwilling to administer the rite of baptism to converts from heathenism, or to take the charge of a congregation of believers worshiping statedly in a certain place. He wanted nothing to do with the supervision of native churches, or with the discipline of church-members. He loved to preach the (fospel. He seemed to feel as did Paul, ' Wo is unto me ij I pn-each not the Gospel.' "-N. Y. Evangelist. ago (Jen. William Williams, of Norwich, commenced the systematic, visiting of the schools in New London County, which he continued for nearly twenty years, visiting from 160 to 165 schools every year. After completing New London County, he extended his labors into Windham County,and some other portions of theStnte. He became known to the children generally in those towns, and was everywhere gratefully recognized as their friend and benefactor. 1 have had occasion, more than once, to observe with what interest and affection he is greeted and cherished by tlsa children. On the lliih of .March lust. I made a journey from New Haven to Norwich, to congratulate him on the eightieth Anniversary of his birthday, and express iiiv grateful appreciation of bis serenes iv behalf ol schools, His long and practical sympathy with children has largely helped to keep this venemble octogenarian vigorous in bofiy, clear in mind, nnd young at heart. He snhJ tome that day, 'My visits to the schools have given daily joy to my heart, and added years to my life.' " Would that those who are piiiinii from nothing to do,' would follow ihis noble example, and grow young and useful by visit- ' ing schools." A Word Fitly Spoken.—Major General Howard addressed ft large audience iv ihe college chapel at Amherst, Mass. In the course of his remarks, while appealing to ihe students, as their first preparation for any ef- fectual life work, to become Christian men. he said that on the day previous, while on the cars, a young man with his left arm gone, came along selling books. " Where did you lose your arm ?" inquired the General. "At Chancellorsville," was the reply. "In what regiment were you ?'' "In the Vermont." " That regiment was in my brigade," said the General. " But, sir, that brigade was Gen. Howard's." " And my name is Howard." The young man was so overjoyed he scarcely knew how to express his delight. He wanted ihe General to accept a book, and seemed very desirous of expressing his gratitude. After going for a little while into another car, he returned and said, " Excuse me, General, for saying a few words more. I want to tell yon >fa conversation I hud with you in camp. I went to you for permission to get some whisky. You refused, and asked me if I ever drank. 1 replied that I did sometimes on picket. Then you said something to me which made mc resolve never again to drink a drop of intox icating liquors. I have not tasted strong drink since, and 1 think now that I am a Christian too, as ■ result of your remarks to me." Such a meeting and such a conversation between these two one-armed warriors must have been ft touching scene. General W. Williams, of Norwich, Ct. It is known that this gentleman is one of the patrons of Oahu College, and has given for its endowment. The following paragraph from the annual report of the Secretary of the Board of Education in Connecticut, will indicate that the General is interested in the cause of education at home as well as abroad " The Secretary himself, B. G. Northrop, is a man of superior education and of large experience, both in Massachusetts and ConReceipts and necticut, and the views which he presents, Rrcrip" including his vindication of Normal Schools, I). In .linm.irv I. UM Expenditure*. will command public, attention. We cannot \o.n\ servlcai .'mil imiil'iii.iN resist the pleasure of quoting in thi* connec- *Iti'inirs M-lheiaafs. tion a few of the doting paragraphs of the 1».',-. m—laill on li.-tlld report : AND EXPSSDITI'IM rOR THE llECbirTK The of a single individvoluntary work " THE "FllSKD," 1868. ual illustrates the usefulness of this kind of rtcri'iv'il from rnitwrrilierM and donors labor (visiting schools), and affords a. noble BajaaM for printing, pa]«;r, etc example for general imitation. Many years Ca,h in hand : 3 111 I KItI KM ii, ,11 N I \l. Expenditures for the Bethel, 1868. i»*le $«0 ii 144 00 71 3» 10 00—agj 7j $9 Pi 4 BI.K ATIO.V Or tSJO 66 7(g |a $m is �TII X KRI X N 4 I). •• II M IR*' • I» the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft oradultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a truth when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal. From this custom, however, they desisted after the publication of my edict, by which, according to your orders, I .). Rcid for Alex. Ponaldwiu. 170:.'. reply forbade the meeting ol'unv assemblies. After Among some books and patiiphlets sent to "It is a rule, sir, which I inviolably ob- j receiving this account, I judged it so much our office for gratuitous distribution among serve, to refermyself to you in all my doubts; tha more necessary to endeavor to extort the seamen, we found an odd volume of Pliny's for who is more capable of removing my | renl truth, by putting two female slaves lo informing my ignorance ? Hav- tli" torture, who were said to administer in Epistles. We exceedingly a regret that its scruples, orlieen present at any trials concern- their religious functions but I could discover never ing companion is missing, but this volume is full j illg those who proless Christianity, I am un- nothing more than au absurd and excessive of interest, and we have read it with delight. acquainted not only with the nature of their superstition. 1 thought proper thermic lo It contains the famous letter of Pliny to the j crimes, or the measure of their punishment, ■ adjourn all farther proceedings in Ibis nfliiir, order to consult with you. For it appears Emperor Trajan, of Home, respecting ihe but bow far it is proper to enter into an ex- in be Whether there- tn a matter highly deserving your considthem. amination roacerning early Christians. This letter or epistle bus fore any (hll'erence is usually made with re- eration; more especially as great numbers Ik-cii made the occasion ol much comment spect to the ages of the guilty, or no distinc- must be involved in ihe danger of these prosnnd controversy. On many accounts it is tion is 10 be observed between the young and ecutions, this inquiry having already exone ot the most interesting contributions to the adult; whether repentance entitles them tended, and being still likely to extend to been once u persons of all ranks and usjes, und even ol ecclesiastical history of the early part of the to a pardon ; or if ft man Imsdesist from his both sexes. For this contagious superstition Christian, it avails nothing to second century of the Christian era. error; whether the very profession of Chris- is nut confined to the cities only, but has We shall publish the epistle iv full, to-j tianity, unattended with any criminal act, or spread its infection among the country vilgether with the reply of the Emperor Trajan. only the crimes themselves inherent in the lages. Nevertheless, it still seems impossible to remedy this evil and refrain its progress. Ry way of introduction to this literary relic profession are punishable ; in all these points j The temples, at least, which were once meanwhiie, the In lam doubtful. greatly of that early age, wu would offer a few redescried, begin now to be frequented, almost those method I have observed towards marks respecting its author. There were the who have been brought before me as Chris- I and the sacred solemnities, after a long intwo personages ol marked celebrity by the tiiins, is this 1 interrogated them whether termission, are again revived ; while there is name of Pliny, viz: Pliny the elder, and they were Christians; if they confessed, I j a general demand lor the victims, which for have met with but few purPliny the younger. The latter was a nephew repeated the question twice again, adding some time past hence it is easy to imagine when, if they still chasers. Prom ; the same time threats at the of of the former, being u son of sister them to be immediately what numbers might be reclaimed from this ordered I persevered, Pliny the elder. Both were highly renowned, punished for I was persuaded, whatever the error, if a pardon were granted to those who : even in that early period. The elder was a nature of their opinions might be, a contu- shall repent.'' The following was tbe Emperor's reply distinguished naturalist, and perished, as is macious and inflexible obstinacy certainly de•• The method you have pursued, my dear well known, when Pompeii and Herculaneum served correction. There were others also with the same Pliny, in the proceedings against those Chriswere destroyed by the terrible eruption of brought before me possessed infatuation, hut being citizens of Koine, I dibrought before you, is exMount Vesuvius. In one of Pliny's letters rected them to be carried thither. But this tians which were as it is not possible to lay down tremely proper, he gives a most vivid description of the death crime spreading (as is usually the case) while any fixed plan by which to act in all cases of his uncle. From that letter we copy the it was actually under prosecution, several in- of this nature. But 1 would not have you following brief paragraph " My uncle, hav- stances cf the same nature occurred. An in- officiously enter into any inquiries concernformation was presented to me without any ing them. If indeed they should be brought ing drank a draught or two of cold water, name subscribed, containing a charge against before you, and the crime is proved, they threw himself down upon a cloth which was several persons, who, upon examination, de- must Is? punished ; with the restriction, howspread for him, when immediately the flames nied they were Christians, or had ever been ever, that where the party denies himself to and a strong smell of sulphur, which was the so. They repeated after me an invocation be a Christian, and shall make it evident forerunner of them, dispersed the rest of the to the gods, and offered religious rites with that he is not, by invoking our gods, let him wine and frankincense before your statue former suspicion) be company, and obliged him to rise. He raised (which for the purpose I had ordered to lie (notwithstanding any his repentance. Informations pardoned upon himself up, with the assistance of two of his brought together with those of the gods), and without the accuser's name subscribed, ought servants, and instantly fell down dead, suf- even reviled the name of Christ; whereas not to be received in prosecutions of any there is no forcing, it is said, those who are sort, as it is introducing a very daii<,eroufocated as I conjecture." * r* "As soon the really Christians, into a compliance with any precedent, and by no means agreeable to the as it \vas light again, which was not till these articles 1 thought proper therefore equity of my government." third day after, his body was found entire, of to discharge them. Some among those who The foregoing epistles are full of interest and without any murks of violence upon it, were accused by a witness in person, at first the thoughtful mind. There we may beto fell, and but immelook- confessed themselves Christians, exactly in the same position he ing more like one asleep than dead." Thus diately after denied it; while the rest owned hold mirrored forth a most vivid picture of indeed that they had been of that number the social and civil state of affairs during the perished Pliny the elder. but had now (some above three, age succeeding the first publication of the formerly, Pliny the younger, and author of the vol- others more, and a few above twenty years ume of epistles mentioned ut the (lead of our ago) forsaken that error. They all worshiped Christian religion. The following points anremarks, was born A. D. 61, a few years be- your statue and the images of the gods, clearly established by this letter : 1. That Christianity had spread throughfore the death of the Apostle Paul, who is throwing out imprecations at the same time affirmed, out the Koman Empire; "for this contaThey the name of Christ. against supposed to have suffered martyrdom A. D. error, was, gious superstition," writes Pliny, is not conor 66. Pliny was carefully educated by his the whole of their guilt, their " that they met on a certain stated day before fined to the cities only, but has spread its inuncle, and is reported to have composed a it was light, and addressed themselves in a Greek tragedy at the curly age of fourteen. form ol prayer to Christ, as to some God, fection among the country villages." •J. It was the custom of the early t'bn Alter altaininir manhood he became an in- binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for timate friend of the Emperor Trajan, who r;ave him the honorable appointment of ProJAM AKV It. I SCO. Consiil at Bithyuia, in Asia Minor, now Turkey in Asia. He officiated in that capacEditor's Table. ity for two years, and it was about the year Pliny's Ei'lkti.kk.—Translated from the origiiml of our Lord 107 that he wrote the famous Latin, with Explanatory Notts. In twu volumes. we now copy, together with Trajan's Vol. 11. Edinburgh Printed tiy A. Doimlilaon & epistle THE FKIEiM). : : : ; , : : : I I I * : - �tians to address their prayers to Christ, "as God." 3. They covenanted together to live holy live*, avoiding " fraud, theft or adultery." ■1. Their " harmless meal " was doubtless the Lord's Supper. "). "Their stated day of worship was doubtless the Holy Sabbath. 6. While tbe general mildness ol Pliny's character is to be admired, yet not so the to some I putting to the torture two female slaves, who were doubtless two unoffending Christian females of humble life. 1. Trajan's reply indicates that be was a man after the character of Pilate—he would avoid responsibility. .11 \ I 1 IS . . I .s — Better let the Writer go Scot Free. We refer to the writer of that article in the "Overland Monthly," entitled, "Social Life in the Tropics." Crusty and crabbed old Dr. Samuel Johnson once remarked, " Much iiiiiv be done with a Scotchman if he is caught young." -Now we do not believe anything can lie done with the writer of that The article, whether caught young or old. Gazette and Advertiser have both written whole columns Upon the article, but would it not be better to let the author go as not worth minding! Look at the subject in another light for a moment. lie is a great coward, for by the old -code of honor" none but an arrant coward will insult a woman, a child or a clergyman. That the writer has grossly insulted the ladies of Honolulu, no one will doubt who has read the article, and if the writer has not insulted a clergyman, he has done What is far meaner—repeated a stale joke to the missionary's discredit. Hence we say, let the writer go us worthless who iv his flight hps. like the flying Parthian, shot a poisoned arrow behind, which has fallen short of its mark. NIW COMaUMCUL I'/NI KKl'lilsi; IN Till. PACIFIC—By letters we have received from .Messrs. Doane and SturgeS, missionaries mi Ascension, we learn that Capt. Pease, "I the Writer Lily, and formerly of the Blossom, has entered into an engagement with, a mercantile firm in Sbaogfaae to furnish ship timber lor two government gun-boats, now building by the Chinese. This ship timber is to be obtained from the island of Ascension. Two cargoes have already sailed from '.hut island Mr. Beckwith's Select School.—We for China. There is an immense amount ol occasionally meet a youth who unexpectedly tinilier upon the island. Chinese laborers of certain branches of have been imported, and the work is now manifests ft knowledge him, and we ask busily progressing. This is something new sludy, " Where did you for thai island. Similar timber is to be found learn that?" His invariable reply is, "At on Strong's Island. These are almost the Mr. Beckwith's school." From this fact and only high islands in that part of the Pacific. our personal recollections ofhis examinations, From our recollection nf the forests on Asa good school. cension, we believe they will furnish timber we know that he must keep of various kinds for years to come. In 1861 We learn that his winter term has just we brought from that island specimens ol opened at the Session Koom of the Fort ship timlier to exhibit to the ship-carpenters Street Church. Boys that are thoroughly of Honolulu. One variety resembles the taught his school have the reputation of at famous teak of India. being well fitted for Oahu College, especially Gospel Seed on Kusaie, or Strongs Island, in arithmetic. —When we visited tins island in 1861, we became acquainted with a native Chris"How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deal in a naughty world,." He has tian who spoke a little English. Our city fathers have caused one " little the church. Occasionacted as a deacon of " to throw its beams along King and ally since that time we have received letters candle streets, and it is such a beautiful Nuuanu from him. By the return of the Morning illustration of their cfTorts to Star we received one, from which we copy Shakesperean for the as follows. It was written in the Kusaian provide " lepers," insane " und that we sincerely of charity, other objects dialect, but was translated by'tlic Key. Mr. to erect lampbe encouraued will they hope Snow : the all of city. parts in you my love, and to all your posts " NowandI send family, to all our friends. I want to tell you something about tbe good work of our Week of Prayer—We would call the attention Great Lord in heaven. The seed of (.'oil bus of the people of Honolulu to the daily •.-rown up in all the villages on Kusaie. meetings for prayer which are held during There is but little wanting and the land will will be filled with it. On this account, we be- the first of January. A Union meeting lieve that God has heard what you have be held each day at the Bethel at 11 A. M. asked for Kusaie. No man is able to do and If, P. M. The programme will be such a work. It is God alone. I know Jesus found in another column. will kindly brood his little chickens under his lam Keduka, This is all. On account of the amount of work at brother in Christ." Your " Such a letter indicates that the Iruc Gos- the printing office, we have been unable to issue our sheet this month until the Bth. pel leaven is at work. - « !>• 5 I II I. V Ii Ih.Mi. New Mission Station on Drummond's Island.—We learn from Key. H. Bingham that daring the last trip of the Morning Star. a new station wns taken on this island, under ihe inos! favorable auspices. This is one of the Gilbert or King's Mill Islands, which tbe Morning Star visited during the former trip. This island is mentioned and described in the United Stales Exploring Expedition by Wilkes. Hawaiian missionaries stationed there. are now Cheering Reports.-We have listened with interest to the statement-- of the commander of the Morning Star. Capt. Tertgstrom, respecting the progress of ihe missionary work throughout Micronesia. On the island ftf husaie, or Strong's Island, Christianity has taken a linn hold of the minds of the inhabitants. On the Marshall Islands and Ascension the good cause isprogresfting. Late papers from the United Stales report the collision of the steamers United States and America below Cincinnati, on ihe Ohio River. The loss of life was tearful. Full reports not as yet given. We fear our esteemed friend and correspondent, the Key. F. S. Rising, was among the number losl. His visit to these Islands will be remembered. If any of our missionary friends on the Islands possess the odd volume now wanting of " Pliny's Epistles," we should be most glad to have them communicate with the editor. We are inclined to think the. volume was brought to the Islands by the Rev. Mr. Ellis more than forty years ago. His name partially erased appears on the title page. Donations —From Capt. Lawrence, of the Ohio, for Home, $.} ; Friend, »5 ; Bethel,*;'). Capt. Allen, of the Nile, for Friend, »10. Ship James Allen, for Friend, B>s Bethel, S5. Order of the late Capt. Comstock—for Bethel, 812 50; Friend, $12 60; Mr. Lewis, Bethel, $5. ; We would acknowledge our indebtedness to Mr. C. C. Bennett, the newsman, for lite copies of the Alia and other papers, received per " Windward." The Morning Star will sail during the month of February for the Marquesas Islands. Persons wishing lo forward papers, letters, i!cc., should not forget lo lie prompt. Rev. Phineas Stowe, the "seaman's friend," of Boston, Maws., died last Friday morning at the Asylum at Soinerville, where he was recently placed. He was 66 years of age, and an earnest missionary among a class who respected him for his kindness and diliffence iv promoting their worldly and spiritual welfare. He was extensively known throughout the State. Virtue is a rock, from which rebound iill the arrows shot against it.—Kozlay. �TI E I KIE N D. .! Ai\ I AX V 6 Eliot's Indian Bible. A copy of Eliot's translation of the Bible into the Indian language is now only a valuable literary curiosity. The title ia " Up lithium Und," which means The Book ol God " • Holy old relic ! how tbe gears departed. Shrouded in dink and painful memories, rise How many a tear has o'er (licmc page* Started, How many a prayer ascended to the skies ! ' No human eye can glean its holy meaning, Though pnieticcd long o'er ancient sen,Us to range, Or rend the veil ils deep sastsd mysteries screening '.Nc.itli unknown accents, dissonant and strange. "Up Biblnm '.in/" The message of salvation To the fsmr Indian's disappearing nice ; Bidding him bone, though men target his nation, Iv aa*»an his people have a name ami pl.icc ! And though his tongue be evermore unspoken Among the BMUDtaia* whore lie lnved lo dwell, Still let us trust by litis siildinie old token Some Minis in hasten might comprehend it well ! "l'l> llililuui tlnil! " Full many a melting story Didst ihou unfold In the Stem rcd-ninn's ear ; Full many a truth of high ccli'shal glory, Out from this cumbrous, dialect rose ckur ! " And is thy work now ended .' Not so—while thou canst move our holiest tears, Vikl rouse the soul where I.ove and Faith are blended, To spread thy Light in these milennial years ! "L'/i mi'lnm God I O Heath ! O Time ! O Change ! are ye nut ever A triune wonder-worker, stein and dread? Ye can blot nations nut aud tongues, but never The Hunk of God, the soul's perennial Broad ! I'utaam's Ahtgttzille. — Reformation of Drunkards. Rev. T. L. Cuyler writes fo the Evangelist : There is one serious mistake made by many good people when they try to reform an inebriate ; and also with the inebriate himself when he makes an efTort at emancipation. They regard drunkenness simply as a sin, and bring all their efTorts to bear on the conscience. But drunkenness is also a physical disease, and should be treated as such. A drunkard may, by the grace of God, be sptiituully converted, and yet his physical disease may not be subdued. John Vine Hall (tho eminent father of our eminent brother Newman Hall) was a sincere Christian for several years before he became a thoroughly sober man. He would go occasionally right away from the family altar and the communion-table into a desperate and disgraceful " spree." At length he discov- ered that his only hope of recovery from his disease lay in entire abstinence from all intoxicants, and then he became a cured man. The system pursued in the best Inebriate Asylums is to stop off the patient at once, and entirely, from all alcoholic stimulants. Gradual reform is found to be impossible. And it is just there—just when the bottle is being forced away from the enfeebled, deranged and poisoned system of the poor tippler—that the great danger and difficulty lie. For this "devil" when he is "cast out," tears his victim frightfully. Just then the man needs not only prayer, and the grace of God ; he also needs physical treatment of the right kind. A member of my own church,—who had, by tampering with the social cup, fallen into the disease of drunkenness—took a solemn pledge of total abstinence "in reliance on the grace of God." But be also used Valerian for " several days to keep up his shattered frame ; he used the most wholesome diet, and he " . IN(> kept resolutely away from the ihjhl and smell of every kind of intoxicant, lie is today ■ cured man, and a devoted Christian. One-half of the drunkenness in the world springs from mental misery. It is trouble which tills the grog-shops. Men drink to drown sorrow, to brace up shattered nerves, or lo forget for a lew hours their distress ol body und mind. To help some drunkards, we must do all we can lo relieve them from the troubles that drive them to the CUB. A laboring man in the neighborhood fell into drunkenness through poverty and want of employment. In reforming him, our first step was to induce him to sign a pledge,and ihe next was to get hilii u place to work. The " Sons of Temperance " introduced him inio their fellowship and sympathy; he ia doing well. There is hope now for his'soul. Chrisiinuity must proceed on the principles of common sense if it would save a person who is both guilty of heinous sinand the victim of horrible disease. When we seen man falling inlo trouble— citherin his business or in his domestic•life— we always tremble for him lest he may five lo the cup which drowns sorrow by drowning ihe conscience. We would mil answer for the safety of any professed Christian who, cither to brace up a weak body or lo relieve a troubled mind, should touch even a gill of wine. God has provided enough of ionics for the body, and of spiritual supports for the oiiffering or desponding heart. He never Commands His children to use the Devil's medicines. To those who wish to study the best statement made lately on the physical phenomena of drunkenness, we would commend the able and entertaining article of Mr. Barton on Inebriate Asylums" in the Atlantic Monthly for October. It may furnish valuable hints to those who are praying and striving to save beloved friends from the terrible dominion of strong drink. 9, Normal SCHOOL AMONG THE Freedmen.The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, under the auspices of the American Missionary Association und the management of Gen. S. C. Armstrong, of the Freedmen's Bureau, was opened at Hampton, V;i., in April hist, und is now in operation with ;i class of forty-five colored students of both sexes, uveraging about nineteen years ofage. The young men work lour or live hours n day, under the direction of Mr. Theodore Sanselain, un experienced market gardener from New Jersey, on a " truck " firm connected with the institution. The female department, presided over by Miss Elizabeth Brock, ol Northampton. -Muss., is conducted after the manner of Mi. h]olyoke Female Seminary.' Tbe students, who thus pay nearly nil their own expenses, are select scholars from schools in Virginia and North and Soulh Carolina, and enter upon u three years' course of study, with tin' inlcntion ol becoming teachers. They are under the instruction of the Misses Williams, of Synth Deerficld, Mas.-. Commodious buildings, ivell-liii'iiished rooms, and many of the appointments of a complete training-school, have been provided, together with a wellordered burin, at an expense of over $10,OUO. The undergraduates are now teaching tin: primary colored school.- of Hnmplou with good success. The design of this institution U to prove thai labor and study can go well together, and thus to raise up a corps of colored educators lor the South, mainly through 'heir own efforts, who shall tench not only the rudiments of study, but bow to farm profitably and live rightly.— N. Y. Independent. Death of a Pioneer.—Captain James M. Green, formerly well known us a successful whaling Captain out of the port of New London, Connecticut, afterwards a resident of Honolulu, and more recently engaged in New Order of Affairs in Spain.—All the ship chandlery business in San Franmonasteries, convents, colleges, congrega- cisco, died at the Insane Asylum on Wedtions, and other religious establishments m nesday last. Deceased was from New LonSpain, founded since 1537, are to be imme- don (Conn.,) ageiTOl years; first arrived on diately suppressed. All their property, mov- this coast in December, 1845, and was a able and immovable, is to become the prop- member of the Masonic fraternity and Calierty of the State. The monks and nuns be- fornia Pioneers. He was sent to the Asylum longing to these institutions arc to go, with- several months ago for treatment, and his out any pension from the government. The death leaves a wife nnd large family to convents established before 1837 are to be mourn his loss. Stockton Independent, Nod. reduced in number by one-half, and those 28th. left are forbid henceforth to receive novices. Shanghai News Letter is thetitle The monks and nuns thus released from their of The a periodical representing American intercloisters will, however, be permitted to enter ests China and Japnn. It will be pubthe conventual establishments which are not lishedin on the sailing nf each of the Pacific or to secular suppressed, they may return steamers. mail It announces that Dr. W. life. In this case they can claim back the A. P. Martin (translator of " Wheaton's Inthem the convents at made over to by money ternational Law ") has just issued his Lecthe time of their entry. The Jesuits are ex" on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry," pelled from the country. Gen. Prim is re- tures Chinese, for the use of"the pupils of the in ported as having said to three Protestant new of Puking, where he is prorefugees : " From this day forth there shall fessor.university be liberty in our country, real liberty ; every man shall be master of his own conscience, He who tells a lie is not sensible who and shall profess the faith which is best in great a task he undertakes, for he must be his own eyes. You, gentlemen, may return forced to tell twenty more to maintain one.— to your country by the first steamer; and you Fopc. are at liberty to enter Spain with your Bibles under your arm, to preach its doctrines." Give your son a trade and you do The exiled Jews are preparing to return to more for him than by giving him ■ fortune.— Franklin. Spain from Germany. " — �JINI A X \ . IB* I. ADVEII I'ISE VIUMTS. AI»VEHTISK/VIJEIMTS. California, Oregon .mil .Ht-\it'o Stiaßiisliij) Co.'l San Francisco and Honolulu Uoulr. The Company* Spla-iiilid A I M). 7 iH X XX I X Ship ( - I'. 1.. KK'II VKIIs .v haiini. ami iiiiimi urn i ' Dealers in (.ineiiil « «»., Mrrduuts, and Mcrcluudise, SAILOR'S HOME! ■ Keup constantly on nam! a lull ussortinent of merchandise,lor the supply *f Whalers anil Merchantvessels. ly Mnini.lii|i. an - ALLK.V A. I'O.XW.II', kanaihnr, Hawaii, Will ennlirrje ihs Oi'iii-rsl Merehandiseanil Shipping business port, where ihey are prepared infurnisli i at tavataw* I'm! 11i..-s, :Ulii lhi' justly celebrated Kawuiliac WILL RUN KK(;I I.AKI.V such otherrecruits as sre required by whale ships, at the Between Honolulu and San Francisco, shortest notice and un the most reasonable terms. By i In following S.Ih.IhU- oll'iun : o -vscr oxx XX«. aj. cI. oo c* SAN FIIANCISCO. i iIPi xCM ly IDAHO AND MONTANA, 111 IMIITI U.S. •; AIUUVAI..I. « A. ft CHOICE. J. B. ATIIKKTON. CASTLE Si. COOKsts •>"". Importers und (.eneiul Merrhaats, " **». 9 King wlrri'l. iiuaiosilc Ihr Seamra's I'linvrl. Mi.litiiim, "'■ Feb. ID Malm, IMB, ALSO, AliEfiTS FOX Mar II M .ma, Dr. Jaynes Hull I**l.l Family Medicines, key wi HOWOLIILU. WMsm'a Sewing Machines, The Ms* England Mutual Utt Insurance Company, ASKIVAIJI. lIKI'ARTIIIK-. The Kanaka su;:ar Onainany, ItatraJl. Oct. 21 Oct. 10 Saturday, Monday, Montana, The HaikuftaaarCompany, Maul. Nov. U N..v. H •• 1.hi1,,,, The Hawaiian Sugar Mills, Maui. ■' • Baa, Nov 311 Montana, " The Waialua Siiciii Platitaiinn, Oahu. Dan, 21 "«•■ Maftn, "nfl 1* •' " The Liimalini Kieo Plilitiitiim, Kauai 'an. U .1.11. 11 i Moiitanu, isr/.i, "•' Feb. 1 •«*. 0 1.1a1,,,, Ken. 8 Feb_2i Monlans, Montana. Idaho, Montana, Malm, Wnilliasany, Oct. •• '• " "" •• •' - SAM'I. M. CISTLR. " . " "" " I.IBKRAL N"V. Sot, 27 "•''■• 1» Friday, 28 No*, is II"'-. 'J, llee. M .Inn. 20 i F»h. 10 | Oct. »> Tallin ! 11. li. Chase's FORT STKF.KT. ADVANCES MAIIK OX AU. SIIIP.IIKXTS I'Klt STKUIKK. 9& Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. i Searacns' Jo. do. do. do. Shower Ilutlis on Hie Premises. Mr.. < It A Ult. Mannfrcr. Honolulu, April 1, 18C8. ■ Mccracken, merrill & Co., FORWARDING AND NOW OPEN ANO rRKI'ARFn TO take I'IIOTOUKAI'IIS of any size in the llkmt Stvlb ash Cargo forBan Francisco will lie received at all times in the Til IN II \ \ Meaner1 Warehouseand reasiptl it lbs Basse given by ft. ON TIIK Mn.T It.ASiINABI.K Tki>SS. undersigned. No chaw for sinrage or (JsrUaja, (ireuoii. CUPTIMU AM) KM.ARGIXG done in the IVsrilansl, Fire risks in Warehouse ma taken by Hie Company. tS-Kt lIIHIIIier. BEEN BMOASaJDIN Oiril IMlKInsurance piunranteeil st Imvi r riles than by Hailing vessels Fur Sale—Cards nt Ihe Hawaiian Kincs, Queens, Chiefs ami aent business for upwards of seven years, snd lieing Particular care taken or shipments id Fruit. Oilier notable iiei'smis. Al.su—A full assortment or LARGE ANP SMALL located in a lire proof brick building, we are prepared toreceive All orders fur Oooda, In he purchased in Snn Francisco, will lie received ami tilled by return of stunner. Fit A M EM, For Sale at Low Prices. and dispiineof Island staples, such as Sugar, Rice, Syrups, Pulu, Illfl ly 11. L, CIIASK. Coffee, ft*-, to advantage. Consignments especially solicited XT Hliipments rrnm ■*•*•* and llu- United Stales, Intended San for the Oregon market, lo which personal attention will be paid, for these Islands, will la- received liy the Company in and up..ii which cash advances will be made when required* Fianokaan, it einisianeil lo thssa, and lie latwanM by their MIKIII Willi'.'! outlay. Steamers to Honolulu, free of charge., except actual Ham Fhancisco lUkkskscs Jas. Patrick k Co., llsdger Lindruberger, XT Passengers srerequiiUcd to lake tin ir I'nkets liefore 12 BLACKSMITH, o'clock on thedate of sailing, and to procure their Passports. W. T. Coleman k Co., Fred. Iken, presented be tcforsS against the must Co. sieamers Stevens, Uaker A All Hills Foot of Viinuiiii Street, opposite SfKelken'sTln Shop, o'clock on the day of sailing, or they will have to lay over till PiisTLAsn nsrssaacrsthe return of the steamer for settlement IS I'RGI'AREDTOTAKEAIiL KINDS a. Ladil Tilton. Leonard at Oreen. Allen fc Lewis. 11. UACKKKI.II & CO., Agents. ,145 ot BLACKSMITIIINU. HiiNOU'l.t: ItSFBRKSCKK *ISy©Repairs on Carriages, Wsgnns, Carts, SBV, will receive ly Allen. 0.18 Walker k \r prompt attention. Y. S. BARTOW. IS * TS, COMMIMSIOIV HAVINO • « * Anitloiifrr. Halt. Koom aa 026 a. GEORGE WILLIAMS, (likiii Sirei-I. oiar- daar Iraai ly Kaahumanu street. a« p. apams. a. LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. Wil P!U. BUSINESS ON HIS OLD Plan of settling with Officers anil Seamen immediately on their Shipping at his Office. Having no conniption, either ilirect or indirect, with any outlining establishment, and allow ln| no debts to be collected at his office, he hopes lo give as quod satisfaction in the future as he has in the past. XT Office on Jan. Robinson & Co.'a Wharf, near the 11.8. o°S Cousulste. CONTINUES THE HUMS & WILDER, iDfiimi and Commission Mrrrliants, KIltK PROOF STOItK, lit Kobill.ou's Hilil.li.li;. Iturril Sirrri. to6ly 3m^ ROLOA. SCHOOL AT BOARDING DR. J. MOTT SMITH. llentM, Ofßce corner of Fort sn.l Hotel Street!. 618 1; THE REV. IIAMKI, DOLE. AT KOLOA. Kauai, has accommodations in his family K. HOFFMANN. M. I>. Far a Few Hoarding Seholnr.. Sirftroa, Ph;sl(Unand Persons wishing to learn the Terms will apply to him XT ly l'ostofllce. 833 Corner Merchantsnd Kaahunianu sts., near or the Editor of '• Tbb Fausn." &lf_ M. Physician ami Sureean. JOHN S. MrGRKW, D., * Wheeler CASTLE Office in 11. L. Chase's building, Fort Street. KrstnaaC× Chaplain St., between JVuuuau oad Fort Sts. Omc* llorjas—From 8 to 111 A. M., snd from 3 lo f> P. M. 022 ly A. F. II I>l>. Attorney and Coaasellor at taw, Comer of Fort and MerchantStreets. C. COOKE, AGENTS FOR & Wilson's SEWING MACHINES! M9lT BREWER fc CO. MACHINE H AS ALLTHE LATEST Impioveraents, snd, insildition to former premiums, was and American awarded the highest prise shove all KuroiH-an Haaal.l.. Oaks, H. I. ]7_ Sewing Machines 868 at the World's Rshlliition In PARIS In 1801, 1862. in and at the Exhibition In London W. N. LADD, I The evidenceof thesupcrlority ol this Machineis round In the I m port r r an d lieaI c r Hardware, Cattery, Necbaales< record of Its sales. In 1861 The drover a Raker Company. Roston, Tools, aad Asrrirnllurul hnpleneßts, tj The Florence Company. Massachusetts Far! Slrrrl. 833 The Psrker Company. Connecticut, J. M. Singer a> Co.,New York, D. Ftnkle At Lyon, WETMORE, M. C. H. *' Chas. W. Howland, Delaware, PHYSICIAN Si. SURGEON, M. Greenwood Co., Cincinnati, 0., N. 8. 0. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., HILO, HAWAn, S. I. ■ Wilson 11. Smith, Connecticut, sold 18,600, whilst the Wheeler At Wilson Company, of Brulgs. S. B.—Medicine Chests carefullyreplenished at the port, made and sold 19,726 during the same period. U tl HILO DRIT. STORE. 13-Please Call .sad Kaaaalar. Coaiailssioß nnd Snipping Mrrchaßts, in ' IUIIB — * 0-tf ...... " j. o. Jons ManaiLi.. a'CßACjs*. J. C MERRILL & Co., Commission merchants -AND— vV 11 ct ioneers, 204 and 206 California Street, ».A.i»a- phaivoiisoo. ALSO, AGENTS OF TlHt San Francisco and Honolulu Packet*. Particular attentiongiven to th« sale and purchase ol mer- chandise, ships' business,supulrlng whaleships, negotiating exchange, kc. HoXT All freight anlrlng at Baa Francisco, by or to the • nolulu Line of Packets, will be forwarded rasa or ooaanaaio*. XT Exchange en Honolulu bought and sold. jCU BBVSSSSCSS Honolulu! Messrs. C. L. Richards Co 11. Hackfeld *Co C. Brewer Oo Bishop ft Co Dr.R. W. Wood Hon. K. 11. Allen P. C. Waterman, Ksq 861 '» " "" * — * "Jb» " THE FRIEND: PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY . SAMUEL C. DAMON. A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TKM| PERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TERMS: One copy, per annum, Two copies, PWe oopiea. " .. . . ~ 82.00 H.OO 9-w° �I II X I I. I X 8 Ml. JV HI \I .. 1. IS« MARINE JOURNAL. . .. of Fall if 1868. Moke of The Earthquake.-From the la :i lull mid risnplete lint vi .nriiills ot s'hal Ml.,won; earthquake Tin India we hear of Puiijanli in ii,k Bssjosji ul tlli* |H,il for the full sena.ni of [Kits : shock* felt on the 20th of August. Those PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. S/inm. irkuli. Hour. in South America, it will l« remembered, Jnlv 14 \lll l.k ll.aM-.a-, Mitromhcr. ...(HI M.S. Mrpl.lA—Haw aril W II Allen, Kra'lii:or..:ilHl HUM t : 18th of on.the 13th and occurred mainly 26 -Am atrip Mil", llllwox 'JO 40 1,100 that month. Such n relation in time is ftt Nov. JV—Am hk J W arsvef, aftasV, M dy» fm |*J*J*e**astl Oil. I —Am hark Mlitaa, Drake O.lMal aeli 40 Haw AMU I'f.il, 6,..0d I ii,i sh Ok Awsshonks, Ratata, r ,s,i the Art-isr, ~ii least very suggestive ol n relation in cause. i j.'.n —Am bark t'amilhi, .loii.-h 11 1,11 11.,551 bills SISI lbs laSK' Willi SOU Wli |||>U II \m is as us not lairk possible—if Hutch,.N,vc Will nearly 8,000 The Punjnub 'Sl— A 111 sir Misilsiw, UosJOwy, lit d> IntHuii Knurl*, o. .'7O 13— Am abip Jitmra, Hrnrtli ship Heu Her|«nl, While. 1-1 iln> s Iran MM exactly—the opposite point on the earth's Dee. v—AIMI'mis -170 H AM hark I'reanleiit, Kelly 100.. isi-it. JO Am hark .N.-iritilUi, Mruitll l.Oon I I noil xiirfnop to thnt point in Sooth America al ~—llr briL'R.d.t liiwsn, :t'l.lin. lr,,in Vi, n.rin. a f -."(i 1,760 20,000 Ai.i .1. i;.-.. Ilowlanil, Knowlea .'!', l.'onslillllilie. Hiedell, asjrs lli.lll brig \it...,. lii—Am fell. If I |,i.(joo which the shock wns most severely li An. h Three llrolh.ra, Tnher I.KHI illtasiia via iHirk .la.a, Ki11... 11,000 ll.i ik't.i '" Haw we follow the surface from the Snutli AmerHl—Am Inig Moiniiig Slur. Tstnstfan, -'SJ diiy-. In,in kohola, Tri|>|> brill 1.,,u00 700 m lliilurilari. ican shock eastward, we must puss, before 1,660 20,000 21—Am .hip Keimle. r, kuyiair Ill—Tub bk Iniiis, Mil.mii ft* aajr* Iron Tnlnli Jl \m l.atk lalaii.ler. Ilnlley Ml IM LAW Is Haw brig Kiiiiieliiiini tin V, Kiikiniin, ftej days froui reaching Hinilostnn, ncro«s the whole width ..on 4,000 21—AM ahip Ini.vlioa.l, Kelley llowliind'i< (aland. uf Soiilli Americn, the Snutli Atlnntic, the an— Am slim Idnlio, l-'lo.vd. 11 bus fnnn ftaa Frass-ssro an—Bi burk ftfcaos, ll,i|,kin., at da/B tr Nraaf] Continent of Europe and hull the Continent :U|—llnw hark Miiiiiiu I.mi, Hiiiikiiiy. diiy* from V» . lorin, II I'. of Asia. If we go westward, there is the ftyd**] \ui bark Whi.iler. I'uller, .'ii days It whole width of the Pacific and the Chinese I .Inn. St— I—Mil si'br Fanny, Tliuinns, *i dny Imm I liming'- I. - hy the crust of the earth, or we should have heard of the disasters round the world that must have been the result. It is equally certain that the different events were not due to similar electrical or other atmospheric conditions ; for in thnt case it is not possible that the effects should have been felt only as they were. There is still open the possibility that the shock from South Americn was communicated directly through the diameter of the earth—that the vast explosive force which broke up the crust on one side wns felt at the exactly opposite side of the sphere. Perhaps this fact in the history of the recent earthquake —that shocks were felt in the Punjnub—may yet stand in the catalogue as the best of many arguments for the fluid condition of the centre of the earth.—iV. Y. Herald. The Earthquake at Juan Fernandez.A lgtter from on bonrd bark Ml. Wollaston, of this port, dated at sea off Valparaiso, August 28th, states that nu the 14th of August she was lying oil' and on at Juan Fernandez, the captain with two boats' crews on shore, for wood and water. They heard a noise all day like that of distant thunder. At 8 o'clock in the evening, a report near them like the dischnrge of a cannon wns heard, when immediately the earth opened between the settlement and the. beach (only a few rods), from which opening issued fire, smoke and lava, boiling in the same manner as brine when boiling water is poured upon it. At the same instant the tidal wave swept the beach clean, taking Irom the beach all the boats, including those of the Mt. Wollaston. In a few minutes the sea became calm afW signals were made to the ship, and two boats went to their assistance. Those on board the ship did not know that anything unusual had transpired until they saw the signal. The ship proceeded immediately to sea without procuring wood nnd water.— New Bedford Standard. lIKI'AKII KK.s. wb ship On llnwbiiiil, ftaoaass, I* mum. I nii-, wit bk Oriole, Hayes in erui--. Do*. 1—Am wli bk Mumps, Milieu,Marvin, lorrsss* I —Am wli bk lliin Weln.nr, '_• -Am wli sh St lleorge, Huule, lo erui*e nnd li>>io> a— Am wli sh Halnliuar, linker, m sralsi, .'—llril hk numbing, lirlllilha, lor linker's Issassi. .'l—Am wh bk Trident, Ore**, laeraast. :i -Am wli bk John CarvtT, Worth. Iscratse. Li—Am sh Hen asTPSBt, White, for Hongkong. ii—Am wh hk Osliliirnia, Wissl.lorruise. j—Am slinr Montana, n.allrey, lor Hsu Kraiui-", 7—Am wh bk Navy, llnvis, Is rruise. wh bk Wilhelm I, .Miiiiimeii, In eruiso. *— Haw lues, Ilsl~y, In CfßsJan. Am wh bk Hen i' n— '.I—Haw sh Inlaid, Terwilhuiir. lor New MM. ■. oeesn, Harls-r, kir rmise uml I lv—Am wh sh Hi—Am wh bk Onward, I'nlver, lo rrals*. inline IS—An wh bk I'muress, llnwilen, lo 1-j—Am wh bk Oeorge, Dnvls, lo i-rulse. Li—An wh »b o*o Mom, Washburn, in miss 14—Am wh hk Hen Bros**. Klslier, lo Ufa** 14—Haw briij Oeaaa, Usui, to erulsc. 14—Am wli iik Barents*, llowlsnil. taersdar, 16—Am hk llhcrim, l.iuie, for New Hrdloril. II I Ill—Brit silir Favorite, McKay, for Virions, IT—Haw bk A J Fossa. otartan, lor lbto OoKan, Josephine, sh miliar. IT—Am wh 17—Am wh bk Vineyard, Hliiilh, to rrnlse. IS—Haw wh hk Bismnrrk, llnlllllim. lo rruise. IS—Am wh bk Kafir, MeKenale, In irulae. Ki-anry, lor Hsu Frsmise.. U—An bk J W Heaver, H4—Am wh lik Jus Allen, Willis, lo rruise. Ilsthitwsy, i mine tad ln.ni. H Un wh lik l.ydia, Lovelsml, loloirui.e 24—llnw wh hk Kiuile, .Hid home. irulse Heine, Hmilli. lo DM. H—Am wh hk a«l—llr liriK Robert Cnwsli, Gardner, l»i V irb.riu. It I Hunuin, to crass*. 211—Am wh bk Con llowlsinl, Jo-Am wh hk Nile, Allen, to rruise. I'r.inrisio. JO—Am stnir lilslin, Floyd, for Him ail—Am wh hk I'oneorilia, Jones, lo erulai-. as—Am wh hk Peru, Ross, lor New London. ■M—Br hk Ari'hos, Hopkins, for Hall Friimisio Nov. .'si— Asa :to tin VV ateshovsk—PiNßia—On tho 31st Oct, at ihe Weak-v-an dispel, Uurslem, HlalTonlshlre, England,by the Rev. Levi Wawrboaoe, tsslateU by tho Rev. Henry Hastings, John Thos. Wateraouse, Jr., of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, In Elisabeth Wld I, lr of,he Thnmss Pluiler, Esq. No .ard™' "*° ** "" '"* NoTT-Asoaaws—ln this city, on Tuesday evening, Dec tt, by lh« Rev. Dr. L. H. Uullck, Mr. Haiuuel Notl to Miss Mary F. Andrews, daughter of the late Hon. Loriln Andrews. Mo cards. |Han I ran, is.,; und Now Yurk papers pleas.' tap) I , , . .. 600 i.ark I'liiiiiipiou, Worth.. Noriniin. Tele M—-AM hark t'ii.ro, Pium :—l'r ahiji N.irinaii, Sclmie.ler Sl— Am hark Daniel W.-lialer H—Oriole. Illl.iea .1 AM blilt t'oill.'l. Weak" 60 HA—AM ahip Adeline, rtt.iile .'t -\m hark Vin»\.nil, Minith ..i—Am ak Ciiliiomiii. Wool H \m hk Acora llarn.. .lellrev ... 2*.#--Am l.k lli.ir..', Davis II -Haw l.k 111 lli.miir.-k, Dalliilmm. :il—Am l.k Onward, I'ulver Nov. 1 -Am ah Ml Ceorue, Soiile .. 1—Am bk John Carver, Worth.. .. 1 Haw lik Eagle. I.meland 110 21 vni gj .... .... .... .... .... ... .... Am biuk onn -jsn 300 2—AiiilikMonlicllo, PMhira 2 -Am hk I'eru. Morgan, with lo.iH.n ■ Am hk Triileol. Roae 100 2 tin hk Navy, llavia .'--Am lik Tamerlane, Wlnalow.. A—Am bk rrofrraa, Di.wden 4 —Alll Ilk Helen Hnnw, Campbell .—Amhk HeiiCiuiiimiiKa, Halact 'HI 260 ..-Alll Ilk Jnacphilie. I omul Am hk Europa, .M.11.-n ..-Am l.k Eagle. M'Kcu/rc 160 ri-Am bk John Wella, bean '•—Am ah Rairrlaiw, It..k. i '.11l I.l— Am «h Ocean, llarla-r 17—AM hk MM llreeae. Hamilton. .16 17—AM hk Nile. Allen 60 17 —Am ah Ohio, Lawrence 17- till bk' Here.llea. Ilinrlimd IS —Am bk Jalllea Allen, Willi*.. 21 —Am l.k l.v.ha, llalltawav 21—Am ah «'iaill..ulaiiil,llinnair. .. 21—Am l.k t: orilia, .lonea 21—llbl'g hk Juliaar, lulih.-ra 22—Am bk (i. 11 rlc.li. V\ uahhuru. .. rtmilli 2.l—Am bk rd' 30-Allllik \aaahoiika, Norton. , . , .. .. 1,200 t.ooii 20,00(1 ~t IMi ttt 1,300 ,lOO 7.U00 4,MHI ih.ihxi I.lam o.iHai O.oou jo.ooii 4,(Klll B,lHm .1,11011 6641 P.HI uou iii.ihih 1,100 H.OOO MklakkW. . iiOOtl 1«I,(MH1 18,(K1(1 I .. .. initio 26(81 I.IHMI I.OMI 70(1 inn .. 5...0n I'.u 460 1,000 1.060 260 1,300 330 7.-0 1,000 ISO 6MI 1,100 7IHI 1,100 360 1.20(1 7,000 17,000 17,000 '.'.600 17.01111 3,0011 B,(HHI 17.000 1,000 4..HH1 14,(10(1 11.000 20,11011 1,(160 :,tKK> 16,011(1 1.100 Ki.lHai 1,100 1,100 | .1,0011 800 11,600 li»i 000 7.0011 in.niai IH.taio .'(0 MEMORANDA KlriißT Ol lists Wiiistlk*—Left Hydney, N ■•A', Nov Wlh, ,0.l until Bnashaj North Cs|ie had Mining N W gales sod a grist deal ol llumder sisl HgliiniiiK ; then hail tine wenlliei wilh lis' B**f*aa*J »iv.l ln.ni NWlo H W. Hnve |>wi ~„ sI: lr.nl,- |in then pbtce hud the wind Ir.'iii Y. N !', lo N R. Par lOlb ins.l. LsrarrH Islsml, beanos N N X, distance 8 miles PASSENGERS. Haw a hark is'sr the islsisl, evidently coiumuiiicsling with the shore. I'r.s.se.l the eipnitiir llei-ctnhrr lOlh, In long Hb° W Ko* Hvn |.'«imisi:ii-I'er Miuitans, Doc.l Boss, K. M. Mr- I ;..| Hie N X trades iv Ist tI J fcj likiwing very strong most ol Mann, Miss. Miss MeOsik. Miss the tune Mail.' Msui si 7 A M ll.e, uiber ikltb ; that night Cook, wire, rhflil and sorvsnl; Pleurals and servant, Messrs. J Fischer, M I'lnllii-. J Clms, war hove lo in Mnhiksl channel under ckssc reeled topsails, E U Forman.C P Holromlsr, II V Bwsin, J Msicniu, IlisVau, P likiwing a kesvy gsle, wilh treiuendisis set. Arrived at ani'lim Thoiii|ison, W II Ctulnloti, C Nippe, H Hoyes, J Aiinsihi, II sge Hrcfmls-r 31st, Mdsys passage. A. Pdm.Rß, Master Lewis, in Cruiiilnll 1!3. .eft Han Francisco, HoMi r.isr in I'll or Boat Fao.M Til I—II. U. (.'.—Per Roht. Cowan,Dec- l>-Ospi*in vemlsr 'Jttli. sisl arrived si Kasnv—l Ksimlng's 1.1nn,1, December lvn, Roys. L, II on t. lvi ii voysge Heci nils r 113d, sisl srrlvisl oft Honolulu H al midiiighl "I He, .list. Have \|*n.m ~| a constant gsle Ins BakMKS-Pcr A. J. Pope, Dec. nth-Mrs Miirv sim-e leaving tlte Ihisihl wilh a heavy sea. Rice, Miss Mary Rice, Miss Anna Rife, Miss 1) Isenborg, Ms.. llosIscoberg Histcra ol the Sacred Heart—Christina lor P R Winters—B. si'liiiK and Maria Theresa V.nlst | J DIED. Fos Viotiibia, 11. C.—Per Favorite, lleo lOlh-Cnpi JII Swift, Mr Fellows, Ham Hill—3. Mlrhelli, Win I.Ak*.—Nov. 1«. si his lute residence In Keel, Mouth Rons, Fsi.M TAHITI-I'er lonia, llec l»lh-0r llswsii, Mr. H. Ij.kr. Tho deceased waa a usllve of Rll.ahAllen, Jas Morrison, Ahslng, Marcs V—a. Islaisl, ami II la saidhe has a brother on ihe kslaisl of Msui. C Fan* Mn-aosasiA—Per Morning Htar, Her. Hllh-Mr. llibsii s.- Ai Horns K.sia, Hawaii, m Ihe Mih October, J Hoane, Muster X llonne, Rev II Uiiaiham Jr and wife Miss Derrick, M. seed Tl mats. The deceased was a native ol Halite Hturges, Cap! Bridges, Mr Hall, X Andrews, wilenisi New York. 11. sou, Manuel Hllva, John Kanemaka, Roht Brings—l.l. Hwtth—At Ike I H. II -iNt.l. ~n the tl Insl., of rnnsunip V Use 17-W I'k.im Hakks's Ist.ASD-Per Ksinehamcha aisl Isle sesmsli slsler, llisi, Haniuel 11. ■<ioi.li. .4 Kn«sVlyu, N. V L R Johnson, A McCullough, dipt Wctherhcc, wile and isi Isatrd Un Am, n, *n whsle hark Awmksmks. 78 aisl laborers—B3. I.Rwis—ln ii,.,«.i,iiu. Itx-stahsr 4, isf diptherla, ftaafta, Faost Sam FaAsclsto— Per Idaho, Uec 20-HA I) On-ii, I. daughter ia* J. O and Am, lis I •■»!., aged J yearsand 1 Ul.silli; Miss McAllister. X Fagin Mrs J H Nicholson and J children. lUnlwick lot,is-In M II sedulu. lie, sik. Msrls Kouiuaka, aged aft servants, children and 2 wile, A II Houston, Hughes and child ,T X years, wile K. H. Usftn. and wife, Mrs F. Brickwcddo, Mrs IJeo nisi Ift Hasibe, iv Hinsuche, t.'nnkr, Burgess, J.is Tmooov-In P Walker, E Honolulu. He. ism, Hsism.4 Tlnsldy, ag'« steerage-—B7. alssil JV> years, s nallvr ~l Ismsssu. F.ngtso.l Mi-Cullniigt,, Foa Man Fassrisco-Per Idaho, l>c<2«-Mr Nr»w«»—On Kauai, isi the 'J7lh ol Oeccnihrr. isf hesil I. Nokes, VV II iliis'sse, Charles IVilcrirk M Loulsson, Capt Hagonianu, All, B Marks, N anil aged sb.ut In yean. 1 oy, John The d,-ceased was a native olN.wissii, Htevens, Mrs (! Hughes, l> Trnllior Ah \ ouiij Piortb. mi, Baden, llermany. loorgh- T Hechanofr, A Karli, N rtechanofr, C Buchow, A CsuipMl, H Wluiher,Ksisklehl,Hlokl)uhe,Tsksdo HinsekeexT. InformaW tin anted Fob Viotobia —Per Robert Cowan, Dec ad—Cap! Week., Re»iMrtinr Jnnryh .«„•**, <*f Frvt-bnrg, Malm'. Any InWni wife snd son. Cspl Roys, J Kliays, t Marck, II I. Smith -7. (lull, will Inby ntirai ISMtlsw Kdilor .» Olive F.Mwsn Ihr fMnftVMST, N S W-P.t Whistler, lie. -.1 W Ws I n.lniii. \ I'll, i WW I. I .,„�! I.., I,,,,, a.Ill III.- Ml Sal W Piirkeri.fiu—- , ; , * MARRIED. Whalers, - ' Kmpire between. It is pretty certain, then, that the blow from South Americn was not communicated Arrival • .. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1869) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1869.01.06 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1869.01.06