2 10 13 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/05eb064e10a6392904d01f0830c91d30.pdf f51ebeb318ca22ff19cc090c835ddac3 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND $ttoSmM,M2i\ HONOLULU, MARCH I, 1812. SJ».».I CONTENTS Far Marrls. IX7*. _. Editorials Consul Houghton on tat Sanrrwich Islands official Japanese Document! Laying Corner Stone of a.verntuent House American Relief Fund Editor Table '• Speech Iwtlfura'l W.lras Catching Y. MC. A THE FRIEND. Vienna Exhibition, 1873.—Through the Consul, Dr. Hoffman, we learn that Austrian Paob 1T during the coming year, 1873, there will be IT held in Vienna, a Grand Universul Exhibil 1* tion. From reading documents relating to Exhibition, we learn that it will combine *• M this' 2° the useful with the ornamental, and that no m reasonable expense will be spared lo render 2 it worthy of a world-wide interest. Special attention will be paid to labor-saving machines from the United States. * * MARCH I, 18T2. . 17 AamoSinuptehrssgfeJapan. (n the November number of the Friend for 1871 we gave some particulars respecting this singular people. The following additional fact may uot be uninteresting to our readers. Some years ago a naturalist visited Japan, and was very desirous of obtaining specimens of the skulls of that people, which , are of such peculiar formation. Capt. V the British Consul of Hakodadi, was knowing to the fact that three skulls were purloined from the burial place of the Amos, which were sent to England. Gloom and despair came over the Amos, who made a serious representation of the theft to the Japanese Government. The affair was brought officially before the British Minister, who pledged his honor, if the skullscould be traced out and found, that they should be returned. Search was made, the skulls were found and brought back to Japan and delivered over to the people, and the only serious result which followed was the dismissal cf the Consul, but whether he was honored with an appointment elsewhere our informant did not tell us. We hear the report upon good authority, that George Latbrop, Esq., son of Dr. George A. Latbrop, formerly of Honolulu, was married -in London, a few months ago, to Miss Rose Hawthorne, daughter of the late Nathaniel Hawthorne, the well-known author. The happy couple have returned to America, and are residing with Dr. LathropV family in Fairville, New Jersey. f®li£crits,»ol.M. Hlotoghnoen ch HCons.uSandwi . Islands. In our last issue we noticed the remarks of "Gail Hamilton," alias Miss Abigail Dodge, respecting the past, present and folure of these islands. We have since fallen in with some remarks upon the islands by H. H Houghton, Esq., late U. S. Consul at Lahaina, but now editor of the Spirit of toe Press published in Galena, Illinois. This gentleman appears to have taken copious notes Good Templars.—We rejoice to learn and made observations during his residence that this organization is in vigorous opera- iupon the islands. He has publiahed several lion. At a late meeting it was our privilege |leading articles in his paper, relating to Ihe s to be present as an invited guest, and to wit- social, moral and commercial condition of ness the inauguration of their officers for the tthe foreign population. From the concludcoming quarter. We saw much to approve, iing article in tbe issue of December 18,1871, and observed that they were acting upon one \we copy as follows : principle of great value in every good and "All this has been brought about by moral living organization, viz : all the members 1means alone. Not a drop of human blood » * J_,jfe were made to feel their individual responsi- has been shed in effecting it. * and property are as safe in that country as bility, and were called upon to take an active !in Galena, or any other town in the United part in the meetings. We are rejoiced to States, or among any other same number of learn that several valuable donations have people anywhere, in any other civil governbeen received to aid in sustaining the funds ment, *. i * of the association. Success to the Good In our opinion, the influence of the SandTemplars, for so far as their influence is felt, wich Islands, and what has been done there it will serve to remove the curse of rum and jis not confined to that little nation alone. promote the happiness of families and the We doubt that if this effort had not been welfare of the community. successful, if Japan had not been sealed to ■ tbe outside world to this day. In our opinThe following is a list of the persons ion, also, in less than ten years, our system who have been accommodated at the Royal of revenue, our system of schools, oar sysHawaiian Hotel since the first of January, Item of currerfcy, our postal system, in many 1572: Willism R. Bliss, New York; H. W. respects our judicial system, and wo may say also, our agricultural system, will be aa fully Severance, San Francisco I M. S.Grinbauro, jadopted in Japan as they are now in the Honolulu; Mrs. S E. Morrison, four chil- ;Sandwich Islands. Convince the Japanese dren and servant, San Jose ; Mrs. E. C. ithat our Christianity is belter than their Bates, Baltimore; Lt. J. Edwards, R. N., iidolatry in its practical effects on the conduct men, and the one would be adopted and England ; J. N. Harrison, E. W.,New York; jof the otherabolished in a single day. Madame Y. Rosenberg, Java; K. W. Lame, It was not the original design of the misPalestine; Mr. Hughpraig, Auckland; C. sionaries to the Sandwich Islands to have H. Clegg, England; Alfred Lench, England; any thing to do with a change of their govJ. A, H. Caird, England; R. P. H. C»ird, ernment, except as that change was wrought England; J. R. Whitney, San Francisco; through Christiantjr. The services rendered Nicholas Donnelly, Queensland; Mr. and i were asked for as they are now being asked Mrs. McDonald, Auckland; Mr. C. King, |for by Japan, and in the same way they are Washington ; Mr. A. Hayne, Washington ; rendered now as then. The Mikado is do| ing bow what the king and) high chiefs of Mr. and Mrs. Spalding, California. ',,, , —— .', ,,'< t ! �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1872. 18 the SaodwJcij [.lands did before him, and if the same prudent course is pursued in the one easels was done in the other, good results -wiH follow. ■* * « Tbe missislfcaries had to meet great diffi'-niwies. In uddilion to the superstitions of * sucrva people, they had to fight small-pox, measles, scarlatina, and other diseases, all of which were introduced from foreign ships, which, unless arrested, would have nearly depopulated the country. When the fever earne on that is a part of those diseases, the native* had one resort, to bathe In the sea, and death usually followed. This had to be prevented, and our way of treating those diseases enforced. They contended for the lives of that people, and have so far succeeded as lo stay their apparent earthly doom. We do not think the history of the labors of these benefactors has yet been fairly written, it will occupy no menn pface m the history of the events that have changed the character of the world." Several reasons lead us to copy the foregoing remarks of Mr. Houghton. First. He distinctly recognizes the fact that the revolutions of the Hawaiian Kingdom during the last half century have been bloodless. They have been effected, as he aptly remarks, " by moral means alone." These are the revolutions in which we rejoice, and in which Christians should take special delight, because brought about by the silent yet potent influence of the leaven " of gos" pel truth. Second. Mr. Houghton most admirably puts the point respecting the missionary influence upon the decrease of the population, which point was prominently noticed by Gail Hamilton. Mr. Houghton remarks most aptly, the missionaries hnd " to fight small-pox, measles, scarlatina, and other diseases." Again, "they contended for the lives of the people, and have so far succeeded as to stay their apparent earthly doom." Third. Mr. Houghton makes a strong point upon the present and prospective influence of the islands upon China and Japan, but especially upon the latter Empire. Some of our readers may smile at this idea, but there is doubtless much truth in it. The social, political, civil and religious affairs of these islands are as a " city set on a hill which cannot be hid." They occupy a central position in this great ocean and part of the World. We know that their influence has already been great upon other islands of this ocean, and we cannot see any thing unreasonable in supposing that China and Japan will be more or less affected by the problem which has been here solved. It must necessarily be so. Taking this view of the position of this kingdom, we regard a residence here ss eminently desirable. So far are the Sandwich Islands becoming a stale subject for newspaper writers and bookmakers, they really are just now coming up for discussion. Hereafter, not alone will .missionaries and their friends and opponents write about the affairs of this "little pinhead kingdom," and " water mellon patch in mid-ocean," as a certain California editor speaks of us, but political writers and philosophical essayists and statesmen will study the changes and revolutions which have been here effected. It is not the territorial size of a nation nor the number of its population which makes it interesting as a subject of investigation, but rather its position and internal management, hence Greece and Palestine, with their limited territories and population, are among the most interesting and remarkable countries which have ever exist- of absence, and ordered to accompany this Embassy to Europe. During his absence, the Secretary of this Consulate, Mr. Horace D. Dunn, will perform its duties as Acting Consul. Permit me to express the hope, that in the event of his ever requiring your kind cooperation in the exercise of his official duties, you will kindly recognize and grant him such necessary support, accepting the assurance that any officer of H. I. M. the Tenno of Japan will gladly reciprocate your friendly offices when occasion offers. I have the honor to remain, with great re- spect and consideration, Sir, your obedient servant, ed, and never will cease to be studied and Chas. Wolcott Bhooks, written Hbout. Mr. Houghton, referring to Consul of Japan. work the missionary accomplished on these To Rev. S. C. Damon, Editor the Friend, of islands, concludes his article with this senHonolulu, Hawaiian Islands. tence: "The missionaries solved a problem LioOsftcfiaO l fficers. that will ultimately—say in the next century Composing tuf. Embassy ok Hfs Majesty, the E*f—noiselessly affect vastly for their good, pkbob ok Japan, to the Treaty Powers, ami Composinu the Suite. Japan, China, and the whole of the East Okkiceks Ambassador Extraordinary —Siooii Tomoinl Iwa- Indies." kura. Junior Prime Minister. Official. Consulate of Japan for California. ) San Francisco, Jan. 10, 1872. Sir :—I have the honor to inform you that the Embassy from His Imperial Majesty, the Tenno of Japan, accredited to the Treaty Powers, now on its way to this port, may be expected in this city about the 16th instant by steamship America. From here they purpose proceeding to Washington, and thence to various Courts in Europe. The Embassy is composed of the following officers ot high rank, viz: \ Iwabtabc—Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs, now Prime Minister of Japan, coming as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Treaty Powers. Knio—Member of Mis Imperial Majesty's Privy Council, and Assistant Ambassador. Oumi—Chief Minister of Finance, and Assistant Ambassador. Ito—Assistant Minister of Pttblio Works, and Ambassador of tbe ISecoud Rank. Yaha Gfcm—Assistant Minister of Foroign Affairs, and Ambassador of the Second Rank. Accompanying the Embassy as their suite, will be eight Secretaries, twenty-one officials selected from the different Departmental Bureaux of the Empire, a Surgeon and attendants, comprising in all forty-four persons. During their stay in this city they will occupy rooms at the Grand Hotel. It has long been desirable that the ruling classes of Japan should by a tour of observation personally judge of the advantages of foreign intercourse without dependence upon reports from those of inferiorrank and years. This Embassy, comprising many of the highest and most influential men of the Empire, contemplates.a thorough study,of Western civilisation, as well as considerations connected with a revision of foreign treaties. The undersigned has been granted leave Vice Ambassadors Extraordinary—Jussamrai Takayossi Kido, Privy Councellur; Jnssammi Tossimitsi Okubu. Minister of Finance ; Jnsbie Kiiobutnie Ito, Acting Minister of Public Work*; Jttshie Massouka Yamagutsi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs. First Secretaries— Yaskitzou Taoabe, Noriuki Ghli, Atsnobou Sbioda. Foreign Department; Ghen-Itsiro Foukoutsi, Treasury Department. Second Secretaries— lliromuto Wntanabe, Teruiori Comatz, Tadas Hyash, Kedjiru Nagano,Foreign De- partment. Third Secretary —Quando Kawage, Foreign De- partment. Fourth Secretaries —Massatsne Ikeda. Educational Tad&tsne Ando, Foreign Depattmem. Department; Priixjfe Secretary to Chief Ambassador- Konn'ttake Konme, Clerk to tbe Legislative Code. Attache—Yassi Nomoura, Foreign Department. Commissioners connected with the Ambassadors Jtishte Takanori Sassaki, Acting Minister of the Judicial Department; Jussamrai Mitsitomi Higassikniizi. Chief Chamberlain of the Imperial Court; Jngoi Aklyossi Yamada, Brigadier-General of the Imperial Army; Mits-Aki Tauaka, Commissioner of tbe Bureau of Census, Treasury Department; Fouzimar Tafiaka, Cbief Clerk of the Educational Department ; Tameyossi Hida, Commissioner of Dockyards, Public Work Department; Nobouyoasi Nakayama, Vice Governor ot Hiogo; Yasaookaz Yasaouba, Deputy Commissioner of Revenue ; Jushie Yassouoaka Itsotitsotizi, Assistant Director ol Ceremony, Imperial Court; Tadakats Otttsmi, Secretary to the Governor of Kanag.twa. Officers attached to the said Commissioners—Yossikazon Wakayama, Hlsaom Abe, Morikata Oki, Kazounari Souguiyama, Moriyas Tomita, Naga- — massa Yosio, Treasury Department; Kasoumltsi Harada, War Department; Norltaongou Nagayo, Nagamoto Nakassima, Massatsna Koodo, Waro Imamoura. Kimihira Outsimoura, Educational Depart- ment; Takato 0-Bima, Fonrou Ouriu, Pnblie Work* Department; Take-Akira Nakano, Siguetossi UkaOutsi, Yossinari Hiraka, Houmiaklra Nagano, Judicial Department; Tsounemita Mourata, Yossinaga Takatsouzi, Hiroya* Kagawa, Imperial Court. Britain.—There a great storm on eat It rained inwastorrents, the 24th Grult. the wind a hurricane. blowing The lower portion of London was flooded. The Parliament building* were injured, the decoration*, tbe furniture, etc beine damaged. The *torm extended throughout the Britiah Isles. Tfce telegraph wires were prostrated. The storm in tbe Channel, on tbe Iriah coast, waa excessively severe. There waa serious damage done to tbe shipping it is feared Owing to the derangement of the wires no wrecks are reported. �•' f Klliii II , !H AX I II , Ioi Several ailrer, nickel ami copper colnt of foreign countries, Copies of the lotkiwlog newspapers printed hen i Tbe HawaiianQuelle, The Pacific CommercialAdvertaser, weekly and secm-wetkl), TheKriend, The Hawaiian,' The practice of laying the corner stones of imKe An Okoa Nupepa Kuokoa, with imposing ceremony Ka portant public buildings Ke Alaula, dates far antecedent to the Christian era, and is IlaeKalollka, followed at the present day amung all civilized Ka Lav Ollva, Ka Manawa, nations. The Order of Free Masons, which emCalendar for 1872, Hawaiian and English, blematically uses tlie square, the plumb and tbe Constitution of the Kltmlom in Ilaw.iiau and English, Hawaiian Dictionary, level, instruments of operative masoorj, is by Andrews' Reader, universal consent selected as tho proper body to Hawaliau " Grammar, conduct the ceremonies on such occasions, and Phrase-Book, By-Laws and list of members of the Mechanics' uencfit lor which it has an established formula. His Union, Hawaiian Majesty's Government have recognized Constitutionand By-Laws, and Lial of Members of" V'tlma and sanctioned this time-honored custom in this Thule," '-Queen Emma" and * Honolulu" Lodges of IndeOrder of Good Templars, Kingdom by requesting the services of the Ma- pendent No. 1, Knights List of officers and members of Oahu sonic Body in laying the corner stone on Monday of Pythias, of an important national building in this city, Constitution, By-Laws and List of officers and members of Lodge No. 1.1. O OF. intended for a Legislative Hall and for Govern- Excelsior List of members ofCotmnandery No. 1, Knights Templar, Ity-I.awa and Listof membersof Honolulu Chapter. R. A. M. ment offices, situated on the lot known as MiliBy-Lawa and List of members ot I.c Progres Lodge No. 124, tant, on King street, opposite the present Palace. LatyhoingeSCfotorne f NewG the overnment Building. " .. at a. It. Besides the Free Masons, the Mechanics' Benefit P. Constitutionand Regulations of the M. W Grand Lodge Union, the Orders of Good Templars, Knights o( of California. Proceedings of the W.. Grand Lodge of California. 1871, Pythias, and Odd Fellows were invited and took By-Laws and List M.-. of members of Hawaiian Lodge No. 21, a part in the procession. This was formed at 11 V.cc A.M., o'clock A. M., on King street, in front of Lodgo Programme of theDay's Processionand Proceedings. Le Progres dc I'Oceanie, No. 124, A. F. & A. M., The Acting W.\ M.\, assisted by the brethren, and marched to the ground at Militant, in the fol- then performed the regular Masonic ceremonies for laying of corner stones, after which the Marshal W. lowing order: C Parke, then made public proclamation that the stone was duly laid by the Order of Masons of Honolulu. The choir then sung, the following Hymn, in which the entire audience jc d: Marshal. Bund. Mechanics' Benefit llnion. flood Templars. Knights of Pythias. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Masonic Fraternity, as follows i Tylers with drawn swords, Stewards with white roils, Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts, Master Masons, Junior Ucacous, Senior Oencons, tecretarfes, Treaaurera, .Inni r Wardens, Senior Wardeus, Musters, Past Masters, Honolulu Chapter No. 1, R. A. M Honolulu Collimandery No. I, Knights Templar. The Olflcisling Pa-t Masters, as follows i , . Tyler, Stewards with rods, Treasurerand Chaplain, Hearer of Golden Vessel of Corn, Hearers of Silver Vessel- of Wine and fill, Senior and Junior Warden., Assistant to W. Mssler, Deacon with rod. W. Master, lleacon with rest, Arrived nt the Mililn.nl premises, the procession opened to the right and left, and uncovering, the Masonic Body passed through to the spot where the stone was to be laid, at which an awning wa*spread. Tbe services commenced by prayer in Hawaiian by the Rev. H. H. Parker, followed by singing from the choir of Kawaiahao Church. Silence having been commanded by acting VV.-. M. A. J. Cartwright in the usual Masonic form, he read tbe request of His Excellency, F. W. Hutchison, Minister of tbe Interior. The Rev. G. B. Whipple, acting as Chaplain, then offered prayer. The W\ M.-. then addressing P.-. M.-. John A Hassinger, acting as Treasurer, said : Brother Treasurer, it has been a custom among Masons, from time immemorial, on laying tie foundation stones of public buildings, to deposit beneath the same gome memorial of the time in which the building was erected, for the information of after ages. Has suoh memorial been prepared T Worshipful Master, it Tbe Treasurer responded his, and tbe casket containing the same now lies before you. The W.-..M.'. then directed tbe Treasurer to read the list as follows of the Contents or th« Casket : : Ntmes of roemhers of the Court and principal officer, of the Government, Photograph likenesses of Ktiuehameha 1. and of his Uuoen, " u Kamehameha 11. " Kamehameha 111. " Kamehameha IV. " ■111 Majesty Kamehameha V Her Royal Hlglincss the Princess Victoria Kamaiualu, Hit Highness Mataio Kekuanaoa, Prince William C. Lunalllo, The Hon. Sirs Uonmils. Mrt. Llkelikc M. Cltghorn, Major W. L. Moehoiitw, Heve.nl phntogrsphs of lit valiant iv tile ordinary coituae. Five rjpper Hawaiian ecaia. " " ," Tubs—" Hod Save tke King." Lord, on our work to-day Tbe Craft Thy blessing pray, Maker of all ! Stjttart. is the corner laid, Plumb set and Level made Prosper with graciou. aid Each riling wall! Unchecked by wart alarm, Unhurt by earthquake harm, Or tempest blast. Do Thou the work protect ; Each cunning I and direct, Each wise design perfect Uuto tbe last. Long as these walls endure, fcio long may Justice pure VViih Mercy meet! Here may Thy wisdom shine, Pramer of law divine ! Here Peace flail e'er her sfirii.-. And Truth her teat ! Lord, whoae Almighty sway Rulers and Kings obey, Our Monarch bless i Long may he o'er ihe land Proclaim that by Thy hand The Kiagdoni's strength shall stand in righteousness ! The address by His Excellency S. 11. Phillips, Attorney Genernl, (through whose courtesy we are enabled to give it entire) is an able production, though necessarily losing in the reading the force and elegance of its delivery. May it please yoib Majksty : It is customary, on laying the corner-stone of a public building, intended to lie of lasting character, to improve the opportunity for directing attention to its object. Tbe ceremonies and pageant of to-day attest the extraordinary significance of an act to be done. Not only is the completion of a large structure, with convenient arrangements, anticipated with pride—neither ran we overlook the proot of material progress and increased resources, furnished by the extent of tbe work. Its nature, place and object, indicate permanence and dignity in the political arrangements of a kingdom, which, within a century, has been redeemed Irom barbarism, and has demonstrated its capacity to regulate its in- ternal affairs, and its relations with other powers. We declare, to-day, by symbolical act*, tbe adhesion of this nation to the cause of good order and constitution*! government. The Sovereign of these islands ho* honored thi* occasion by bis presence. With his own hands, he has helped to rear an edifice, whioh will subserve useful purposes In the administration of public affairs. It will also constitute an enduring memorial of the strength of the political fabric, *nd will manifest his desire that this government shall be maintained upoti fixed aud well established principles. Upon several interesting occasion*, thi* people *• 19 bays been proud to chronicle, in an interesting manner, by imposing ceremonies, lbe triumph »l pure religion in this archipelago. Aor has ll been witb ordinary feelings of sell congratulation that they ha»e repeatedly paused to express gratitude to tb« lie da, (liver of all good for tbe vouchsafed <nlo them end for llrwv saving grace which hits been for tbe healing of tbe nation, llut while all should acknowledge, with reverential humility, tbe direct agency of a Kind l>rovidence, thus signally manifested, it is most suitable toremem >>«r also that these islands are largely indebted to the whole world for the benetlcent innuences of civilisatinn, and its gladsome light dillused through so many channels, The art of liovernment is one of its most valued fruits ;—and this Kingdom, which by treaty after treaty, has been warmly welcomed into the lttmily of Kations, and now maintains a proud indiyiduality, and which is recognised, upon enual termx by the oldest and strongest countries upon the globe, can assert witb honest pride that it is eo.ua! to tbe task of maintaining tbe authority of law. It proteots tbe rights of its ciliiens with on exactness and completeness everywhere exlolled. Tbe general influence of good government is exerted by moral power, and the elliciency «f s good system is apparent by the quietness with wbicb it works. Uut eome emblems of national authority should be palpable to tbe sight and are always regarded with pride. Keilber will any citisen jealously scrutinize a liberal expenditure of money upon a tlovernment edince of fair proportions designed for the transaction of public allairs. It will rather excite a generous pride because it demonstrates the resources and requirements of the nation. It is a proper object upon which to lavish the ornaments ft art and thereby to elevate tbe standard of publiu It is lit that it should be of an enduring t,„»« character, so that memories and traditions may cluster around it. such we consecrate its foundation stone. Ve believe the fabric will prove convenient in i!s arrangements and pleasing to all observers. VV« hope that it will possess lasting strength and vrlll be preserved long after>the days of all present shall have been numbered with the dead. It would be idle to anticipate tbe sentiments with which a future generation will regard the pledge here publicly given and renewed that tbe authority shall he maintained with dignil?, of this and that its transactions shall be conlinuedin a spirit worthy ol the enlightened civilisation of this age. Ibis nation is not powerful in any ordinary sense. It has neither fleets nor armies to make its strength oNensive, It has no powerful alliance ; but it has the mild rule of the present dynasty, it has subsisted for more than of a century, and has earned the respect of tbe entire world by tbe justice, moderation and beneficence of its sovereigns. Other nations admire tbe spirit in wbicb its Kings have governed their people, and have proved worthy of the solemn trust committed to their hands. The future must be predicated upon the past. Ve proudly recall the experience of these islands since Known to foreigners, and invite lbe judgment of a candid posterity. If as equwl administration of tbe laws, if an enlightened public spirit, Keeping pace witb the progressive tendency of the age. if a generous appreolation of good inlluences resulting from unrestricted intercourse with other nations entitle our most gracious sovereign, to the respect of mankind, there may safely he claimed for lbe existing dynasty the impartial verdict of history and tbe grateful conaiderallcn of tbe world. in support of this effort to perpelusts and strengthen the ca»s<> ol good government, we in vile lbe oo operation of all good citizens, and the continued blfssings o< Almighty «3«d. H benedilioa, by the Nev. <3, U. Whipple, closed the ceremonies, and the large audience retired, tbe different civic bodies returning to their respective rooms. llie dav was a peculiarly lne one for tbe ooo» gentle br«««e from tbe wsst brunzlit passing clouds in suLcicnt quantity to toper the rays of tbe sun. Ilinz street, through which s!,>n, tbe profession moved, was lined witb spectators, ladies and children predominating, land tbe day was generally a b»l!bolid«>y. <5n tbe grounds the crowd was dense, but the arrangements w«r» well carried out, and everything passed o2° in tb« must orderly and slatislnctury manner.—l". <?. H. �20 TB fc FR I X THE FRIEND. MARCH 1, ItJTt. AmeFriucRandl,efetc. Tho Treasurer's Report of this Assoeia' tion, published in another column, affords us an opportunity to offer a few remarks respecting the necessity of vigorously keeping up this organization, as well as others of a similar churacter, viz : " St. George's Society," s Friend Society," " German «ger etc., etc. Saviour remarked, when on earth, re have the poor always with you." as true now as eighteen hundred go. The question arises, how are they to be supported in a proper and becom- ing manner ? In answering this question, we remark that our circumstances are very peculiar, as we shall now show. MI. 1872 contributing to its funds ; but we should suppose every right-minded American, in prosperous circumstances, would feel it a privilege to contribute SI per month, or $12 per annum, to aid his fellow countrymen who may have been less prosperous in the struggle of life, especially as we live under a Government which has never taxed its subjects for the support of the poor. The American Association has one rule which we think is too stringent, viz i a beneficiary must have resided on the islands twelve months before he can receive aid. The reply is, that our funds will not allow the alteration of the rule. Our limits will not allow us to discuss this subject farther, although we have some thoughts we should bo glad to express about " the passenger tax of #2," the Queen's Hospital," the liability of ships landing passengers," etc., etc. " " First—The Hawaiian Government has never passed any4aw for levying taxes for the support of the poor. No one's property is taxed for their support. This fact should be well considered when foreign residents are called upon to aid their fellow countrymen. We think the time has fully come when t|ie Hnwniian Government should seriously consider this question, for otherwise this Government cannot claim to have fully framed its laws to harmonize with those of civilized and Christian nations. Second—Foreign consuls" can provide for indigent seamen, but not for citizens of their JURfH, EditorsT ' able. KiuMArriNO in the South Seas. Being a narrative of a three months' cruise of H. B. M. ship Ho sario. By Capt. George Palmer, R. JV, F. R. G. S. Edinburgh: 1871. ■ The world has finally found out that kidnapping has been going forward in the Pacific for many years. It has been tacitly covered np, under the plea of securing laborers for Queensland, Fiji Islands, and Tahiti, but the facts stand out so glaringly, that the British Government has finally begun to move in the matter. This volume is the " narrative of the cruise of a British man-ofwar to examine and ferret out the business, or as Capt. Palmer remarks in the opening paragraph of his preface : " The following pages are written with the sole object of exposing the deeds that have been perpetrated among the beautiful islands of the Pacific by men calling themselves Englishmen, and whose transactions have been invariably carried on under cover of our glorious old flag." This is a most interesting volume, and cheerfully. Fourth—There are several hundred American citizens on these' islands in good and prosperous circumstances, yet have they all dona their duty in this respect? The Americnn Relief Fund Association was organized February 22, 1865. Only 167 members have ever subscribed towards this fund, and daring the past year only 65. Of tbe 102 to account for, 50 have withdrawn, 33 have left the islands, and 19 have died. This is a voluntary association, and of course every One must exercise his own choice about appears at a most opportune time, when the British public is aroused to consider this subject in consequence of the murder of Bishop Patteson. The evil may be arrested, but that the guilty will be punished we have little hope. It is no easy matter to arrest and bring to.trial such men as Captains Hayes and Pease, whom we arc ashamed to confess are both Americans, but are intimately engaged in this kidnapping business. Captain Palmer, of tbe Rosario, when he seized the schooner Daphne, found it'no easy matter to prove the guilt of the offenders before an English court in Sydney. This volume contains n most interesting report of the trial. From the public newspapers, we learn that this subject will soon be brought before the British Parliament and a thorough investigation be undertaken. If it results in break- respective nations requiring aid. Third—lt is natural and proper that foreigners residing on these islands, under present circumstances, should provide for their fellow countrymen in distress; hence we most strenuously argue that every British subject in prosperous circumstances ought to have his name enrolled as a member of the St. Geerge's Society,'' and every American for the same reason ought to have his name enrolled as a member of the " Relief Fund Association," and so Germans ought to belong to the "German Club." So far as aiding in supporting their indigent and distressed fellow countrymen, they ought to pay their annual subscriptions promptly and irig np the nefarious system and the punishBishop Patteson's death ment of the guilty, will not be in vain. IwakurDinner 'sSapGtehrcenhd inSanFrancisco. Iwakura, the highest official personage of the Japanese Embassy, delivered a most remarkable speech at the dinner in San Francisco. He spoke in English, and was loudly applauded. Our limits will only allow us to copy as follows : " Within a year a feudal system, firmly established many centuries ago, has been completely abolished without firing a gun or shedding a drop of blood. These wonderful results have been accomplished by the united action of a government and people now pressing jointly forward in the peaceful paths of progress. What country in the middle ages broke down its feudal system without war ? These facts assure us that the mental changes in Japan exceed even the material improvements. By educating our women we hope to insure greater intelligence in future generations. With this end in view our maidens have already commenced to come to you for their education. Japan cannot claim originality as yel, but will aim to exercise practical wisdom by adopting the advantages and avoiding the errors taught her by the history of those enlightened nations whose experience is her teacher. Scarcely a year ago 1 examined minutely ihe financial system of the United States, and while in Washington received most valuable assistance from distinguished officers of your Treasury Department. Every detail learned was faithfully reported to my Government, and the suggestions then made have been adopted, and some of them are now already in practical operation. In the department of public works now under my administration the progress has been satisfactory. Railroads are being built both in the eastern and western portions of the Empire. Telegraph wires are stretching over many hundred miles of our territory and nearly 1,000 miles will be completed within a few months. Lighthouses now line our coasts, and our shipyards are active. All these assist our civilization, and we fully acknowledge our indebtedness to you and other foreign nations, as ambassadors and as men. Our greatest hope is to return from our mission laden with results valuable to our beloved country, and calculated to advance permanently her material and intellectual condition. Japan is anxious to press forward. The red disc in the center of our national flag shall no longer appear as a wafer over a sealed empire, but henceforth be in fact what it is designed to be—the noble emblem of the rising sun, moving onward and upward amid the enlightened nations of the world." * The Hawaiian Hotel.—We have now a first-class hotel in Honolulu. It was greatly needed, and may success attend the enterprise. " Mine host" appears to be a gentleman who can keep a hotel, and will doubtless render every facility to the comfort and welfare of his boarders and guests, whether permanent or transient. The building is fitted up in the most suitable nnd satisfactory style, being admirably lighted with gas. �- hr Klh.\ Information Wanted, Nasawao, veonnber lath, ls?l. ll»v, B, <?, v»»o>, Honolulu trace, of my fxmlly, 1) , )] AX ( II . I h iI Donations.—For the Bethel, from C. Brewer, Esq., Boston, If 100; Mr. Arundel, 85; Mr. Tullock. second officer Morning Star, $4. For gratuitous distribution of the from Consul Mattoon, $5; Captain Gheerlcen, $5. doulely, ?srsa 0«»!<Ui-r. »« Wall »treot. «ew »ork <!ity. Bound Volumes at Reduced Price ! Wli.l. FURNISH BOUND VOLUMKS tht Friend at one dollar per annual (subscription price $3). for any number of years from 1862 to the present tune. XT Adding tht ootl of bindiog. WK of THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL I MTHK NEW lIOTKL. IS NOW OPEN for tht recaption of guests. The Proprietor .ill spare do paias to in.kc this Kkci.nl Hotel FIRST CLASS in every particular. He intends to make ihe charges for rooms and board especially reasonable. AI.I.KN IH.HBBET, Proprietor. ALLEN tV Cll I I. I. I N(i W () II T 11 , Kawaihae, Hawaii, Will continue theOeneral Merchandise and Shipping bu.iness at the above port, where thry are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, slid such other recruits as are required by whaleship-, at the shorrett notice, tnd oo the mntt reasonsble terms. XT Flreweed an II nnd. .a ' * * oui) when wa sailed. b. ti. Moses lay lor, N. T. Bennett, Commander, consigned to 11. HackfeM «V Co.. Ag nts, left SaQ FnuicsMai«Ktb 8, IbU.a 10 p. in. Had light wind from S w*. and c-ilm weather, wli smooth sea from port to port. Slghud Molokat Bp,m Fe 1(1, arrived 10 p. m. A. K. CLAM, i'uu.ser. , fVhnlera' Krftoria. We glean the following from the Auckland papers of Jan ary 20Ui i Tlie schooner Helma, which arrived from Tahiti oo Jsiiuar 9th, reports baring spoken the following whsters on Jahuar 40a: rt|K>ko the ship Niger, ol New iletlfurd, Captain Gran 14 months out, will. I.tHW barrels oil, all IoM, 400 uarrr sperm, and 020 barrel* whale, had taken HO barrels si* leaving Bay of Inlands. Captain Grant reports having spokt the ship Milton, Captain W ilnon j she had 1,400 barrets wit. a told. We hare been favoredby a correspondent nt Norfolk ltlai with the following report of whalers i (September 86th, Kaui Fisher, Sydney, 10 months, 260 barrels s|ierm, 260 harre whale oil; Milton, New Bedford, S3 attonlt.*, 1,46u sperru, September 27th, Waterwltch, Hobart Town, 0 week We learn that the exports and imports whale. clean. October 4th, Janet, Westport, 24 months, 360 sperm. for the Hawaiian Islands for 1871 were as October loth, Sea Rang* r, New Uedlord, 800 sperm. October 18th, Louisa, New Bedford, 29 months, 1,160 whale, 660 sperm follows: October J Ist, Coral. New Bedford, 37 mouths, 3,000 whale, t 00 sperm New Bedford, 27 months, 600 sperm. No Sxport $1,80-2,069 V> remix*; Tamerlane, lat, Niger, New Bedford, 18 months, 000 whale, 40» 1,M».S*» m reports Norember sperm. loth, Lydia, New Bedford, 28 months, 060 Arnold, New ItBalance In favor of Island Uade t-;H6,186 18 whale, 160 sperm. Nov mbcr 11th, James ford, 26 months, 000 sperm, 800 whale \ Napoleon, New Medlord, 41 months, ],600 sperm, 1,100 whale. December 6ih, Iloliart Town, t months, 60 sperm. December 4th, Ice, Ice.—We are glad to learn that Capt. Aktddln, KHsti, New Bedford, 28 months, 1,600 sperm. December 1041', Sydney, 9 months, SO sperm. December 171b, Smith has again commenced the manufact- Adventure, Robert Towns, Sydney, 2 weeks, clean. December lbih, sperm. Captain ure of ice. Hereafter we hope the freezing Mlunesola, New Bedford, 42 months, 1,600 Short, of theschooner .S'iiccm*, report* the following whalers Addison, hark, Car process will tiot be checked by any accident. as lying at Norfolk Island whenhe left: ; tain Sinclair, 20 months out, 600 barrels Island Maiy, brig. 86 barrels sperm An ice-cream freezer has been attached to Captain Trench, 0 months out from Sydney, oil; Napoleon, hark, Captain Fuller, full ship, 1,800 barrel* sperm, 1,200 barrels whale oil, bound home via Russell i Rol the machine. crt Towns,bark, Captain Edwards, 1 month out from Sydney, oil. From the Custom House report for noRkPOBTop B&kk MaLTuri.—Left Bremen Oct Bth. 1871. Hud 11 vt: days* W aud N W wind through tho British Chan 1871, we learn that 2,272 passengers arrived DelCleared tbe channel Oct 11th- Had light winds ami weather to the Hue. Crossed the line hi the Atlanand 1,399 left, showing that 873 were added moderate tic Nov 12th In long 81 ° W. Had S £ trades moderate lo M 20° S, then light winds and moderate weather to the Straits to the population of the islands. of Le Maire. Passed through tbe straits with a heavy g;,ifrom t<, i hen gales from VV to lat 60° S, Jan Bih, 187S ; Irom thence to theline 28 dityi. Crossed the line In the Pacific Feb Bth In long 128° W with light weather. Carried 8 E trad™ to 9° IN Kb 12th, then N E trades and moderate weather m the Islands. Sighted Maul Feb 32d ; bore to In calm und< I Molokai Thursday night. Entered the harbor Friday I' M. • MARINEJOURNAL. PSI OHNR.LTFU, . .1. McCraUen & Co., FORWARDING ANO Portland, Oregon. IIKKN ENGAGED IN OUR PREHAVING sent business for upwards of seven years, and being we are prepared receare a Are proof brick building, to Island staples, such as oußar, Rice, Syrups, Pulo, and dispose or Coffee, Ac-, to advantage. Consignments especially solicited for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, and upon which cashadrancet will he made whenrequired. San Francisco HarKKKHCsa: Badger k Ltadenberger, J as. Patrick A Co., Fred. Iken, »'. T. Coleman & Co., Pterins, Baker A Co. PORTLAND RkTBHIKCIH! 4llea 4 Lewis. Ladd A Tilton. l*onard A Green HoSOLULO KarRRMIfOIM: ly ■9 Walker A Allen. J. C. MR*.RILL. JOHN M CHAKkS j. C MERRILL k Co., Commission. Merchants aud Auctioneers. 204 and 206 California Street, Sji ii I^rancisco. ALiJO, AOKNTS Or TH* * San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular Attention iriven to the tale and purchase of mer chandlae, thipt' business, supplying whaieihips, negotiating exchange, ac. freight arriving at Ba* Kraneisco, by or to the HoCr noluluLine of Packet!, will lie forwar.le.l rata or OOMMItMIO*. Kxchange on Honolulu bought and told. T3 *•" — XT Natvs « *» " Bishop * Dr.n.W. Wood II .i. X H. Alton ii BBPBBBBOSB— C. h. Richards a Co 11. Hactfeld k Co C. Brewer fc 00... PASSENGERS. ARRIVALS. mis« ii \a is, located In 21 strong aorthwrly wiods tor three Java, amakiaf One run of one-third the distance to port, rod light southwest trim>» ami calm* Om remainder of passage aighteo East alass Ibe mornlpg of 1 Ith, since when have had strong easterly rurrenU, and arrived Iheafternoon of l3t«, having •ccttpletl 44 daya©v the round trip. The Murray had not arrived over (2od.y» Donation, Most Timely.—Mr. J. T. Waterhouse's donation of $100 worth of oil and paint—including 300 pounds of the best zinc white lead and someexcellent green paint for the blinds,—was received just as the painters commenced work upon the chapel. For proof of its quality look at the .Bethel! wen all in aiuany Olty. Vour, very re»pe»lluliy, . Honolulu .»... Do v '* - . Fo» Fo«T Townmnd—Per Free Trade, Feb. Ist—Benry Cox, wife and child. Fob San Fbamcibco—Per Comet,Feb. Itli—Jas Kelly, M Lewi., V Link Faoa Auckland and SvDNKv—Per Nebraska, Feb llth In transitu for Sim Franeioco—J N Harrison, Mr and Mrs. McDonald, E A Houseman, F A Maynard, T William*, W Harrington, A Leach, C Clafg, T E and C Evans. Mis Van Rowmherg. Mr suit Mrs Carliug, Mr and Mrs hitiiant»<"i and 2 children, T D Richmond, S Ci Tangye, W Thurbu n. Mr and Mrs Spray, Hrt MeGirl, Mr Donnelly, Mrs E C Mat. », It P Caird. J A H Calrd, Mrs Corcoran, J 1. Van der Bogarei, Lieut Edwards Blanche,and 17 steerage. Fob Uuabo Island*—Per O M. Ward, Feb. 18tli--A DEP \lt-l I Rr>. Almy, ataislant ; L Wbqlers, carpenter ; aod 60 laboiers Friib Ban Fbabcibco—Per Queen Eoimt, Feb. I'iih .1 Jsn. 30— lirit ship Nlcoyt, Jones, for Coito Rica. Credlford, II I. Umtlford, 8 Ihinainaa and 1 native. Feb. 1—Am hktn Free Trade, lluildington, for I'ort TownFaoa Ban F*ABClac»—Per Moses Taylor, Feb. Ulh- Rev «end, W T. 3 M Alexander and wile, Mrs 9 T Alexander. Mr O W Town&—Am bk Comet, Fuller, for San Francisco. send ami wife. Miss ■ l.yiiinn, Mrs J U Wallace, Mra ( J 6—Am schr Sovereign, Chambers, for Tahiti. While. Mrs Rice and daughter, Mr J R Whitney, and 22 In 10—Am schr U M Ward, Hickman, for r.uano Islands. Iriio'ilu for Aucklandand Sydney. 11—Brit lirik* Robert Cowan, Revely, for Victoria. Fob I<an Fbabcuco—l"er Moaet Taylor, Feb. lOlb—VV II 12—Am bk Alslanla. Sinclair for Sydney, N S W. Dimond, II W Severance. Oeo Frltshe, Mn lloswcll. 1 daught17—Am stmr Nebraska, Harding, for New Zealand and ers and servant, Mn Hopkins and % d.iigfitcra. Judge A M Australia. llarlwelland wife, M HUrinbaum, R McFarlane, J It Helen, 19—Am stmr Moaes Taylor, Bcnnctl. forPan Francisco. A F Judd, Mrs Paly* A Hopper, Olrungfart, II Harlsp, Si at Strw ba Uueen Emma, Gelett, for t*an Francisco I'lonigs, GJ Caliber, Aiuna, Aliuna, and to in transitu Irom Au kland aod .-ydncy. Fo« Bab F»ancisco—rer (tnern Emma, Feb. 2»d—Frank MEMORANDA. Screndar, lleory Walton, O Whatman, Chtt Thompson. RcpußTOr BTBiaiHlr Nbbsasba —Lclt Sydney January MARRIED. 20ih.and Auckland at midnight Jsnuary 26ih Since leaving Aucklandhave experienced heavy head sess with strong gale, from northwest to northeast. The present has been the »,o»«,y««—!!««»»!—at R»ai»». lfehrwav 14, !y l»r> .tormie.t paasage we have yet had between New Zealandami Honolulu. February Ist, at midnight, passed the steamship llan»>.!»» »! 41, lteuoas Nevada, all well. Ikon Obaio, Purser. Oosssi.!.—tlaoeoo—ln Uiia cUy, Xehruary l»tn»»»»e. RtroKT or Bab* Hi-ebb Emma.—Sailed hence Dec. 58 ; I!, «, !>ark»r, air, T, I»o»a,t.t. to Mi»> Xst.!.!, 0,»«<>» had Ihe trades to latitude 28, then strong gain from south 10 southwest two daya, followed by a still heavier gale fiom DIED. northwest which lasted 24 hours, blowing In terrific squalls, with a fearful cross sea running from south and northwest, NoaaaawS—a, January «th, s«r» llt>a»»»s«. wife during which the quarter boat was stove inlo splinters, ami «i!o, had the man at the wheel lasliefl to prevent being washed over- of R V, Kuahaai!,. city, thia February 1Kb, X»s»aaa» />»«, board had a auccrssioo ol galea lo the Farallouca, which was a!»»U«sa»—!n sighted ihe 13th day out, then light weather and waa live voun»e»t daughter of Danietand »<ar«are> lsorewaad, ROM 13 days In ihick tog, with pilot on board two days previous to yearaaad lS daya, Brooklyn panora »4eaa»«»py arrival; made aran of 200 mHea ilurlag 18noun previous to sighting the Faraltones, the only favorable op|>orliiiiity during 21a«. »sv»» N Tsaanwav, liaw, likewur of tke laa»< oi the passage. Cnaßted thebar with considerable difficulty, the »laai, a««d 6? ,«ara.a aalive of the Bta»» of Haw V,«a, current running about eight knots an hour, aud arrived at San where and in lllinoia, he haa relalivea living, n> rrovldence, ri*uri»co, January 10th. On return Ui» sailed 23d, aith lt. l.and »l«w Vork «<typaaera p»«a»« ewpy. Feu. 7—Haw hit Ka Hot. 8 Oeerlten,lit days from llremen. lv— Haw brig Ksraehameha V, Tengßtrom, 80 days iv ballast from Tahiti, via Kawaihae. 11—Am stmr Nebraska, Harding, 16 days from Auckland. 13—Am bk Aureola, Robs, 63 dayi from Newcastle. ri ll.iw bk ttueen Emma, Gelett, 21 dayi from San Fraocisco. Id—Am stmr Moses Taylor, N T Bennett, 10 days from Bun Francisco. 21—N Uer bk Malvinn, II Klugc, 138 days from Bremen. — . ». •, aiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai �22 THK XX I KM). We desire to call special attention to the following appeal of a New Bedford shipmaster, it is a burning shame for whalemen to kill off the walrus in the Arctic ocean. Suppose.the nationsof Europe should aend fleets of armed vessels to destroy the fisheries and oyster-beds along the American coast, would there not be war ! Yet whalemen penetrate the cold regions of the north and literally take ihe food from the poor Esquimaux, whose only staple food is the walrus meat. We hope to hear no more of such destruction of a poor people's food. WalrusCatching. To the Editor of the New Bedford Standard : For the past three or four years the North Pacific whaling fleet has been taking walrus in the months of July and August, as the whales in those months go into the ice and around Point Barrow, out of the reach of whalemen. During all the years from 1849 to 1867 the whalemen had let tho walrus alone or taken a very few. In 1868 a few ships commenced taking walrus, and did quite well, securing from 200 to 600 walrus, and destroying half as many more. In 1869 a large number of ships were engaged in the business, but in 1870 the whole fleet (with two or three exceptions) "went in" and took nil they could. Probably not less than 50,000 female walrus, with their young, were killed and destroyed. The past year three-fourths of the fleet were engnged in the business, but the walrus were shy and far into the ice, and they did not do as well. Shipmasters had to send their boats twenty and twenty-five miles to find them. The Arctic walrus are nearly all females, who go into the Arctic in the summer months to bring forth and nurse their young, which the mothers are very fond of and attached to. They will never forsake their young, but will take them in their flippers and hold them to their breasts, even when their destroyers are putting their.sharp lances through and through them and the blood streaming from every side, uttering the most heart-rending and piteous cries, and so until they die, and then the little one must starve, unless the whaleman can thrust his lance through it and send it to the bottom. This is one of the' most cruel occupations that 1 know of, and many a humane whaleman has felt guilty and turned aside as he did it. The walrus average about twenty gaUqps of oil and four pounds of ivory. But the worst feature of the business is that the natives of the entire Arctic shores from Cape Thaddeus, in the Anadir Sea, to the farthest point north, a shore line of more than a thousand miles on the west coast, with the large island of St. Lawrence, the smaller ones of Diomede and King's islands, all thickly inhabited, and our own coast of Northern Alaska, are now almost entirely dependant on the walrus for their food, clothing, boats and dwellings. Twenty years ago whales were plenty and easily caught, but the whales have been destroyed and driven north so that now the natives seldom get a whale. This is a sad state of things for them. The question now is, Shall our whale- MAHi H, IM 2 men keep on taking the walrus and eventually starve and depopulate these Arctic shores? It will certainly come to that soon. Already they are starving or on the point of starvation. Several captains lately arrived home have told me that they saw the natives, thirty and forty miles from land, on the ice, trying to catch a walrus to eat, and were living on the carcasses of those that the whalemen had killed. What must the poor creatures do this cold winter with no whale or walrus? Capt. Barker, who was shipwrecked and passed the winter with them last year, says that they were upon the point of starvation in many places on account of the walrus being so scarce and shy, and he was ashamed of himself to think he had been engaged in the business, and would never do it again. 1 have seen most of the captains lately arrived home, and they all tell the same story, That the natives are or will starve if the business is not stopped. Some say '• I never will take another walrus ; " but several others I have talked with say they won't take walrus if others will not, which means just this, "I shall take all I can." But it wants the condemnation of the shipowners and agents here in New Bedford, for I think their ships can be better and more profitably employed in whaling. TheTe are plenty of humpback and California grey whales yet south of the Arctic, and long sperm whale cruises will pay better than the early bowhead whaling. Ships csn engage in sperm whaling until June or the Ist of July. Ships the past five years have not more than paid their ice damages up to the Ist of July. I think this is the opinion of most shipmasters. At any rate, I ask my brother shipmasters to spare the walrus, and let the hospitable, kind and good natives of the Arctic shores live. When the natives of Plover Bay were told of the loss of the fleet north they said, Bad, very bad, for you," and then added, Good, good for us! more walrus now ! " Man's inhumanity to man makes countMess thousands mourn," says one, and now this cold winter, I have no doubt, there is mourning in many an Arctic home ns the little ones cry for something to eat and the parents have nothing to give, for the walrus are killed or driven far away. — " " . C7" it is exceedingly pleasant to glean from newspapers and other sources, notices cf the good work in which those are engaged whom we have known at the islands in former years, and with some of whom we have been engaged in various enterprises of mornl reform. The following we clip from a "circular" issued from a committee of the trustees of " Hampton Normal and Agricultural School " of Hampton, Va., November, . 1871: " It is proposed to issue from this institution an illustrated monthly four-pago newspaper (24x36 inches, full size) to be called the Southern Workman, devoted to the industrial classes of the South. S. C. Armstrong, Editorial Manager; J. F. B. Marshall, Business Manager. Terms: one dollar a year, in advance. The first number is expected to appear not later than next Christmas, dated January Ist, 1872; succeeding numbers on or before the first of every month. " The Southern Workman will be printed on fair white book paper. Mr. J. H. Osgood, of Boston, has generously offered a picture Irom Every Saturday for each number. It is hoped to secure further contributions, in order to present, in each number, a variety of illustrations, embracing pictures of the best inventions in agricultural and household machinery, of good stock ofevery kind, offamous places and scenes, and of domestic life; also portraits of distinguished men." There is a political party in California which has undertaken lo exclude Chinese and Japanese from the privilege of American citizenship, and even Irom enjoying the fruits of their labor. At the late grand dinner given in honor of the Japanese Ambassadors, the Rev. Dr. Stebbinsgave that class of politicians a home-thrust, which has excited their utmost ire. " One word more." he said, " and I have done. There is nobody here but ourselves, and that one word I would say is, we here are providentially placed in near relations with these exclusive civilizations. The changes wrought by trans-continental communication have changed forever the area of commercial distribution for this city. We A Shipmaster. can never do business of the Mississippi Valley, and probably we shall not extend our ReliAF fmerican und. inland commercial area beyond the summit of the great mountain chain. To compensate This association as per previous notice held its anfor that we must gather up the islands of the The officers nual meeting on Thursday etening last. and push our trade to the unnumbered sea for the ensuing ye»r are a* follows of the Asiatic world. But our populations President—\. J. Ctrtwright, Ksq., is anomalous. While we are here position 11., 8. D. President—Res. U Damon, Fice. 'JVeatarer—Ohaa. R. Bishop, Esq., to-night wooing the commerce of old empires, J. Geo. Oat, Sr., M. Meesri. Executive Committee— you, Governor, as the representative of one W. Houghtailing, Jacob Brown. political party, and our ex-Governor Haight The following ig the Treasurer* report: as the representative of the other, are com1011. $ 310 71 mitted to a Feb. 22d—To balance cash on hand policy to exclude these people 1872. 604 10 from our shores. The position is absurd and Feb. 22d—Tocaah from aiibacrlptlone As a policy it is nonsense, as a Cohtsi. $934 71 ridiculous. $ 264 00 (dieeharged ) By amount paid relief No. 37 is nowhere. It is ragtag and principle it T t T ■u 41 112 00 (on relief.) " ■• it "46 92 00 (to 8. Franclaco.) bobtail. If any of you cheap politicians have 68 00(00 relief.) ••ii iiii •• ii•• •• 6$39 12 25 (lolm. Asylum ) won a penny by it, in the passions of an "••ii al 64 00 (died & buried.) hour, beware when you put that penny in i. ii '• h o ii ii 6$ 99 60 (on relief.) your purses, lest the eagle on the reverse of •i ii 4 00 Haw. Oaaette.. •• Stationery •i 3 00 « •• «'. your gold coin stick his talons through and ii 225 96 ii Balance oa band scratch the face of liberty." $931 71 This speech took everybody by surprise Chas. R Bikhop, E. & O. E. and created the wildest excitement. Treasurer. Honolulu, Feb. 22d, 1872. " : . ,i ,i - �1H X VR I E NO, MARCH, 23 18.2. MASTERS OF SHIPS DESIRING TRADE ADVERTISEMENTS ~TT— 8. BARTOW, sp "■ I 1 . Auctioneer. f ■■ , SaltsRoom on Queen Strati,one door from Kaahnmanu Strut. HOFFMANN, |i« M. Physician and Surgeon, D. Corner Merchantand Kaahuflnsnu Street!, near the Pott Ofllot Aft BREWER fc. CO.. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oanu, H. I. P. K» ADAMS. Auction and Commission Merchant, Fire-Proof Store, In Robinson* Building, Queen Street. BEN FI E LD, Wagon and Carriage Builder, 74 and 76 Kinr. Htreet, Honolulu. Ta| SHOULD CALL AT THE HARDWARE STORE, No. ©£5 Ivinj»- Street, where tliey can get ||<ll Itl.r: XT Island ordtn piomptly txecuttd at lowest rates. A. W. I'IKKCB. AND SINGLE BARREL SHOT GUNS, HENRY'S CARBINES AND RIFLES, PARLOR RIFLES. I'OWDKIt, CARTRIDGES for Henry's Rifle*, the Parlor Rifles and Revolvers, SHOT of all sizes, Shot Pouches, Powder FlaskH, Percussion Caps, Eley's Beit. Cheap Files, all sizes and kinds, Butcher Knives, got out expressly for trade, Butchers' Steels, 8 to 16 inch. A •™ * I. B. PKTKB*IH. . PIERCE tV CO., (Sueceaort to 0. L. Rlehards A Co.) W Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Ageits Pailta Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Laates, An Endless Variety of Pocket Cutlery, Sail Needles & Hooks, Sewing & Hoping- Palm*, Attti Parrr Pavl.' Pain Klllar. Marlln Spike*, Sail Twine, Best Copper Tacks, Ship's Thick Steel Scraper*, Conceding Link*, Topsail Chain*, Cooper*' Hammers and Drivers, and other Tools, A Full Assortment of Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes of Every Description ! ALL OF WHICH WILL I»E SOLD at PRICES THAT WILL GIVE SATISFACTION January, 1872. DILLINGHAM & CO., CASTLE & COOKIE, JOHN McGR E \V WHEELER & WILSON'S FAMILY SEWING MACHIENB, all— THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS: Th* HIGHEST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL Over all Other* I AWARDED ITTHE GREATWORLD'S EXPOSITION PARIS, M. D., Can be consulted st his resldeooejon Hotel street, between Alake* and Fort itreetl. ATI H. WETMORE, 18671 M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Hilo, Hawaii, 8.1. N. ll.—Medicine Cheits carefully replenished at the Stf Hila l>ru| Store•• i TIKIS. JkT , Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, AGENTS FOR —wren S. NO 95 KING STREET. " O. THRUM'S STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, --- AND CIRCVLATING LIBRARY, Net. 10 Merchant Street, Honolulu. 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ChYMrisoetuann'gHAocf onolulu. Edited by a member of the Y. M. 0. A. Books. Lear** from tbe woodland *h*dc9 float on tbe Hummer air ! Waifs from tbe world of thought drift to vi lit-re ami then- ' Books from tbe live* of men, eooh of some life a part, speak to our listeulag Boat* liulb* of tin- mind ami beart. Ho read we as we run Ibe live* of other men ; year* afterwards may bring tbe l'leon* back again. thnt, and so on ad finitum and we trust that on the principle of not Idling the left hand know what the right hand doeth, each annual recurrence of this privilege will be hailed by the supporters, oblivious of the past as a fresh and delightful novelty. We also make a request for books. Almost every reading man is always laying aside books that he does not care lo read twice, and perhaps has not room for on his If such would now and then take the trouble to make a selection nnd hand them to us we should be very much obliged and they would be entitled to the conviction that their discarded books were causing others a pleasure and perhaps doing much good. and triumphantly, he has rightfully won and proved himself worthy to hold the foremost place as the strong and sufficient friend of men, with the fullest sympathy, and enough for all needs. In the mystery of tbe trials and the temptations lhat come to us and often seem so ut- terly disastrous, we may comfort ourselves with the confidence that thoy are God's lessons, hard ones indeed, but if we learn them, if we go through them rightly, the harder the better perhnps for us.in the end. And so like Christ, we may become through such lessons wise and strong, fitted to lie the trusted and enduring friends of all humanity. aHeLriL Tthle,r ittle. The St. Andrew's Magazine for this ThRoom. eRading That correspondence of feelings between month notices the article on pulpit critihave us the The evidences that come to of " individuals which we call sympathy is not success anil importance of this institution wholly an intuition ; it is rather an accom- cism " which appeared in our last number,' replying to it with much fairness nnd with a during the past year are most pleasant and plishment gained through experience anil reencouraging to those interested in its sup- quiring the severest course of discipline for restatement of bis own peculiar views. Though the argument upon the privileges of port, nnd would doubtless have the effect, if its full perfection. clergymen in exemption from criticism in generally known, to make all kindly temA person may be humane and tender- their special work, in distinction from other pered men in the community of every church hearted, but the sufferer, whatever may be men in theirs, is a plausible one in many reor no of church, of whatever class, sect, na- the affliction, instinctively seeks and confides spects, it does not seem to have any reasontionulity, society, lodge, profession or trade in one who has passed through similar ex- able basis. The writer of a good hook is they may be in, the enthusiastic and inter- periences, and only there can find the healas much inspired as the preacher doubtless ested supporters of this quiet and hospitable ing and comforting ministrations of the renl- of a sermon, but is that any reason why his reading and writing-room. est sympathy. Pity is not wanted ; com- wbrk should not be subject to that criticism It is perhaps, tbe only place here, with op- miseration does not reach the pain ; only a whichis a test merit? of Occasionnllysermnnportunities for reading and writing, always mutual interchange of feeling with one who izersare not inspired, for they fall into error open, and absolutely free to the utter stran- knows the bitterness, is enough; and no in matters of doctrine and instruction ; must gerns well as to every one else. In a place like mortal can know the bitterness of physical mistakes be allowed to go On unchecked to suffering, of disease, disappoint- do whatever mischief they are capable of, Honolulu, where so many seamen and other or spiritual ment, bereavement, unless he has experi- because of a mistaken reverence for the perthe are ashore for a enced it. strangers during year son of the preacher by virtue of his office? few days or nights, with rarely anything In joy it is the same ; it is spiritless in- Is not the cause more important and more open to the public in the way of innocent deed to confide tho secret of a happiness sacred than the man ? There seems to be amusement and recreation, the importance with one who has never in his own life no reason to believe that ministers are more responsible for their influence than other rif "such an institution can hardly be over- reached its meaning. It is thus that we are able more fully to men. rated. The February meeting of the Association recognize the compensations of trials. DoubtThe room is open every tlay till late at less they are sometimes sent as punishment, tailed for want of a quorum. It is lo be night; is well lighted in the evening and sometimes as tests of character, but above hoped that this will not be repeated thiscontains an interesting variety of English all other ends the great Educator of men month as there is important business to be develop in us the transacted. We would recommend to the and American news and illustrated papers, Would by these influences power of being much to our fellowmen, of absentees the thoughtful peruse of the paraperiodicals, ice.. &c., also a small but well knowing what to do to raise up and comfort ble ol 'the feast in the 14th chapter of Luke, selected library that is slowly growing. those cast down, to develop in us the power beginning with the 16th verse. VVriling materials are always on hand. of that sympathy which though so human, Archdeacon Mason preaches on Sunday the evenings during Lent, at St. Andrew's. Hundreds of individuals have appreciated seems so divine a part or our nature; The Morning Star sails in a few days for of our nature that makes us able strong part and have so and profited by these privileges, to werk with God in his loving plans of sav- the Marquesan Islands taking supplies to expressed themselves. the missionaries stationed there. The Haing men and perfecting his creation. This is an enterprise that belongs to the In this we even seem to find a compensa- waiian Board has failed in engaging new community or ought to, and the Association tion in the committal of sin, which comes teachers for that field, not having been able is tbe standing committee for carrying it on. after the repentance and perhaps makes us to convince the wives of the men who were to help others who have fallen. wiUiog to go, that their duty was in that diTowards the expenses incurred in originat- wiser A great nnd invaluable feature of Christ's rection. We believe the financial condition ing it, the citizen* liberally contributed, and life on eafth was the human experience by of the. Hawaiian Board is prosperous. It has again a year ago they gave it a good lift whk he acquired his perfect sympathy for happened with the American Board several over aTather wide crevice. Now the.standi- men. Passing through all the years from times that when their financial prosperity infancy to manhood, with the joys and sor- was the highest their theoretic success was ng committee " are ready again for the an- rows of childhood, tbe hopes, the disappoint- the lowest and vice versa, that is, when they nual boost and hope for a good strong one. ments and the temptations of youth, meeting had plenty of money to send missionaries It hr probable, almost certain, that the public personally with a terrible variety of suffering with it was difficult to find the men to send, will have th* opportunity for a similar pleas- and trial, assailed with the sorest tempta- and when they were short for money, there ure next year, arid doubtless the year after tions, and passing through all so manfully were large numbers anxious to go. QuaolifctnS fs ympathy. � 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 (1872) 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 - 1872.03.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1872.03.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/3a86b307dec05c5cf8a1f198686a4ece.pdf e43b644e0e7461bcaa3d98ecef68f174 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND HONOLULU, FKBHTARY I, 1872. Wm»ato,*Ltl ®o.2.\ CONTENTS Far February, 1872. Pads Naval Officers look out for yoarlaurels Oall Hamilton on the Sandwich Islinds Ktlitor's Table Cruise of ihe Morning Star" Letter from a Guano I,land The "Hawaiian"and other paper. The Poet Cowper XVIIth Annual Report Sailors'Home Society The Hossler Kxpedition T. M.C. A " ' • 9, 10 10 11 11 1* IS 1* 1* 1* THE FRIEND. FEBRUARY 1, 1878. American Relief Fund.—On the 22d of this month—Washington's birth-day, will be held the annual meeting. We learn from A. J. Cartwright, Esq., that only, sixtyfive names have been upon the paying list, during the past year. Only sixty-five Americans on the Hawaiian Islands willing to pay $12 per annum to aid their indigent countrymen. We would suggest that the list be read on the 4th of July, and such Americans as are not willing to contribute for this object should not be allowed to participate in the festivities. We would also suggest that a list of all the non-paying Americans be published in the newspapers. We know of some boastful Americans who have never contributed a dollar to this fund. When the annual meeting is held, we trust there will be a large addition to the list of paying members. 9 {©IbSmes.ttol.M Sandwich Islands. Naval Officers look out for your Laurels. Gail Hamilton on the Taking "The North Pacific Pilot," noticed in another column, and published by Imray & Son, of London, 1870, as authority, it discloses some facts not very creditable to the activity of the British and American Navies. This book brings out the record of explorations in remote parts of this ocean during the last half century. According to this book, the Missionaries of Micronesia and the commanders of the Morning Star, have performed more exploration and published the same to the world, than has been done by the British Navy since the days of Cook and Vancouver, and by the U. S. Navy since the days of Wilkes. According to the recent estimate of the Rev. Dr. Anderson, the entire expense of the Micronesian mission, up to 1870, would not exceed This famous newspaper, magazine and book-writer, thus discnurses in a late number of the New York lndependant: There are the Sandwich Islands, which were the seat of a savage society, murderous, idolatrous, licentious. Now they are clothed and in their right mind. They are governed by a constitution, snd they worship the true God. So the missionaries preach, and so we believe. But, on the other hand, infidels and unbelievers tell ub that the natives are dying out. In the good old times, when they worshiped their own gods, and were not hampered by dress, they numbered 400,000. Now they are but 05,000. The infidels admit, indeed, that this depopulation had begun before the missionaries appeared upon the scene ; but their appearance has not checked it. The rate of decrease has even been higher than ever sinoe the mission work ; and they attribute it to the fact that the missionaries have substituted for the natural dress and the natural amusement of the simple islanders, the oumberoue dress and the severe manners of their own austere • " $150,000 including the running of the climate. true the enemy hath saith this ; but we " It isknow Morning Star. This small amount would wantto if what the enemy hatb said is true. not keep a sloop-of-war in commission, one God maketh the wrath as well as the meekness of man to praise him. Have we carried the Gospel year! verily, the church is very prudent, and the arts of civilization to a nation tbst was and good results, even to commerce, are rapidly dying out, and has it been dying all the apparent. We have long thought and ad- more rapidly sinoe it accepted us? If so, is it ? Is there some offset of wbich we good vocated that more surveying ships ought to know economy nothing." be cruising in this ocean; commerce and It appears to be a great puzzle to "Gail trade absolutely demand their presence. Hamilton,"and many other writers, why the Ships of the navy go from port to port, depopulation of the Sandwich Islands, and giving all shoals and islands a wide berth, other islands of Polynesia should go forward unless they run upon them in the night, or after all that has been done by the missionare specially instructed to examine their aries and others, for the evangeliaation and locality. It is quite time there should be a civilization of the aboriginal inhabitants. thorough exploration of this whole ocean Waterhouse's under the auspices of the British and (J. S. She asks, we want to know if what the true ?" By the arrival of Mr. ship the city is supplied with fresh groceries Governments. of the best quality. Housekeepers had betFrom S. W. Partridge & Co., Paterter take a look, for the prices are very noster Row, London, we have received a reasonable. large hand-bill sheet, printed in the HawaiiIt is reported in the newspapers, that an language, with a fine engraving of the some twenty and perhaps more, Japanese Piodigal Son. It appears No. lof a series. young ladies from the first families of the Empire, are to be sent to the United States From E. Platz & Sons in Erfurt, to be educated. This will be the most im- Germany, we have received a catalogue of portant and unexpected movement of that flower, garden and tree seeds. Any person desirous of consulting will please call. Empire. " enemy hath said is We may not answer this question to her satisfaction, and that of others equally puzzled. The following facts, however, may contribute to the solution of the problem, or the explanation of the puzzle. From thirty years observation and extensive correspondence, with missionaries and others residing upon various islands of the South Seas, the following we believe to be the facts. In no part of all Polynesia, or Micronesia is the native population upon the increase, �_ 10 , -s . - THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, but rather upon ths decrease. In some groups the decrease has been much more rapid than at others. On the Sandwich Islands the decrease has been, upon an average about 1,000 per.annum, since 1820, this decrease would include the ravages of the small-pox, in 1853, and the influenza of a prerious date. The small-pox swept away about one half of the population of Ascension, or Ponape, in Micronesia, in 1853-4. In very many of the South Sea islands, the influenza, terminating in consumption is a terrible scourge among the natives. In speaking of the causes of the depopulation, we must mention the old and destructive wars among the Sandwich Islanders, and among the New Zealanders and Fijians, the constant wars which have been going forward for ages and are still in progress. Among the causes of depopulation, must be reckoned that disease which was brought by those who came in the ships of Capt. Cook, and this same disease has also gone forward, more or less depopulating all these islands of the Pacific. Its ravages has not as yet been arrested. Another cause of depopulation has been the large number of young men who have been taken away from their homes, and become seamen. They left at an age when they might have remained and reared families, but having wandered abroad, they have died and never contributed to the increase of the population. This cause is much more influential and wide-spread, than is at first apparent. In referring to the causes of depopulation, may be mentioned the introduction of measels, whooping cough, fevers and the "numberless ills which (civilized) flesh is heir to." All these have followed in the track of civilization and intercourse with foreigners. Now the idea, of attributing the depopulation of the Sandwich Islands, or sny of the islands of the Pacific to missions or Christianity, is just absurd as any thing which can possibly be imagined. Christianity has no more depopulated the Sandwich Islands or Polynesia, than did the preaching of the Gospel depopulate Rome and the Roman Empire, eighteen hundred years ago. Nero was wont to charge the burning of Rome and the overflowing of the Tiber to the Christians! Hence arose the cry, "Away with Christians to the lions!" Christianity has no more depopulated these "isles of the sea," than has Christianity caused the old] Puritan element or English Stock of New England to die out! This fact appears to be one conclusively established by Dr, Allen of Lowell. The fact is, the Polynesian race, appears to be destined finally to give place to the Anglo Saxon and Chinese. We think no one can doubt the truthfulness In the future the Chinese will supplant Polynesians. The kalo patches of the natives are to become the rice fields of the Chinese, while the latter, fifty and a hundred years hence will become the cultivators of the soil throughoutthe Paof the assertion. cific. 1872. Editor's Table. : North Pacific Pilot Part 11. The Seamen's Guide to the islands of the North Pacific, with the winds, weather, 6,c, of the North and South Pacific. By W. H. Rosser. James Imray <Sf Son. 1870. an Appendix on The above is the title to an important in a subsequent work, relating to the navigation of the which we have Ocean, and ought to be in the North Pacific the above : copied Is there anything in the position of the Sand- hands of every shipmaster. In reading, wich Islands which makes it incurabeut on us to we are surprized to learn how much the have n Christian people there, even though we slay the natives with the sword of the Spirit, and author is indebted to the publications of substitute for them a population transported from Honolulu, The Friend, Commercial Adverour own Bhores." tiser, and Gazette, and yet these sheets are This quertion is somewhat involved, but not once alluded to. While our humble in answer to the first part of it, we unhesi- labors, as gleaners of marine intelligence, tatingly reply ; yes. there is something in the are thus ignored, we rejoice that the composition of the Sandwich Islands, which manders and missionaries, who have sailed makes it incumbent to have a Christian peoin the Morning Star and other vessels, are ple here. We hold that there is no spot on not overlooked. We find the names of the face of our globe, where it is more necesCaptains Moore, Brown, Gelett, Paty and sary, there should be established a Christian James, duly mentioned as having contributcommunity, than upon these islands, with ed important information. The names also, Honolulu as a centre. We would call " Gail of the Revs. Messrs. Gulick, Doane, PearHamilton's" attention, and that of others in- son, Bingham, are mentioned and credited terested in this subject, to the following re- with having contributed very largely to this marks of the Hon. W. H. Seward, when a work. Page after page, is copied from Dr. member of the United States Senate in Gulick's memoranda of islands, reefs and 1852. On the 29th of July of that year, he shoals. Portions of lectures, delivered by delivered his famous speech on " the comare copied extenmerce of the Pacific ocean." During each him in Fort St. Church, of these were published subsequent year the truthfulness of his re- sively. Abstracts marks have become more and more appar- in the Polynesian, yet no mention is made ent, while some paragraphs of his speech, of the. sonrce whence they were derived. were truly prophetic : English publishers and authors are very •■ Even the discovery of this continent and its islands, and the organization of society and gov- severe upon American publishers for reernment upon them, grand and important as these printing, without giving due credit, but here events have been, were but conditional, prelimi- we have a London publisher plagiarizing nary and ancillary to the more sublime result now in the act of consummation—the reunion of no small portion of a volume, from Hawaiithe two civilizations, which parting on the plains an periodicals, yet not mentioning the name of Asia four thousand years ago, and traveling of one of them ! We positively know that ever afterwards in opposite directions around the Messrs. Imray Ac Son, publishers, and W. on the coasts and islands world, now meet again of the Pacific ocean. Certainly no mere human H. Rosser, compiler, could not have obtained event of equal dignity and importance has ever occurred upon theearth. It will be followed by this information except from these publicathe equalisation of the condition of society and tions. the restoration ol the unity of tbe human family. In this publication, numerous Islands and Who does not see that henceforth every year and their locality are copied verbaEuropean European commerce, Shoals," politics, Europeon thoughts snd European activity, although act- tim, from a valuable communication, written ually becoming more intimate, will nevertheless ultimately sink in importance ; while ths Paci- by Capt. Daniel Smith, of Honolulu, and fic OCKAN, ITS SHORES, ITS ISLANDS, AND TBI VAST published in the Advertiser, and also in the " Gail Hamilton," asks part of the article from " " RBOIONS BEYOND, WILL lIKCOMK THS CHIEF THEATRE Or EVENTS IN THE WORLD'S GREAT HEREAFTER?" In view of these remarks, we would ask, Is " there not something in the position of the Sandwich Islands, which makes it incumbent on us to have a Christian people there?" The apostles,—but especially the apostle Paul—are believed to have been guided by Heavenly wisdom, in establishing churches in Rome, Corinth, and vajrious parts of Asia Minor. To employ a military term, those were strategical points, taken for the conquest of the Roman Empire. Just so Honolulu, and other points irt the Pacific ought to be occupied by Christian Churches, at whatever cost of treasure and men. Friend of June and July, 1868. We feel a little jealous for the honor of our friend Capt. Smith, who is so staunch a Britisher, and for seven years commanded a government vessel in the East India, and served for many years in the Honorable East India Company's service. Capt. Smith is authority upon all matters relating to the navigation, of the Pacific, hence we would suggest, that before Imray & Son publish the second edition of their North Pacific Pilot," they " should open a correspondence with Capt. Daniel Smith, Harbor-master's Office, Honolulu. �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, Cruise of the Morning Star. soon on account of his wife's eyes-1 tear she will be entirely blind! Our associates Mr. ana Mrs. Whitney are meeting with great favor among the natives of Ebon. Mr. Whitney had made such progress in the language that be occupied the pulpit three Sabbaths, discoursing in the native language. This surely Is a bopetul beginning tor tbe missionary work. In it all 1 exceedingly rejoice. Wouldn't I like to see a Rev. B. G. Snow. Morniku Star, At Ska, November 0, 1871. Letter Irooi Rbv. Dr. Damon, Mr Dkar Brother :—Accompanying this you will find a couple of notes from Keduka's widow «ad daughter lo you. You will probably be surprised as we were to learn ot his death. No one has passed away from among this people whom we shall miss so much as Keduka. He was ulways among the tirst to greet us oa our yearly visits, and the last to say " Good bye." He is ttie only one who has known and been with us through all the changes, trials and prosperities ot our work on Kusaie. Now that he is no more with us, I was surprised to see how much I had leaned upon him. For days after our arrival i« seemed us though lie would drop in somewhere and we should hear his voice aguiu either about our house or in our meet- ings. home and at work. I called at McAskil's on our wsy down and made arrangements for sending there some of our native teachers ; I was surprised at the swarms of natives there ; it is a hopeful field for our Christians ; it is good to give them work this early. We dedicated a very good house of worship the other day at one of my out stations ; the people have erected it during my absence and it shows quite considerable skill and much industry. Our people are trying to develop themselves, and lam very happy to be with them to assist in this matter. It is rather sad to feel myself so all alone, but tbe dear ones are cared for with kind friends, and I am where Jesus would have me. The visit of the Jamestown to Ponape was a success ; I think all friends of this poor people and our mission will rejoice with us. My dear place and home at Kiti where you visited ns in '61, and which "Pease" took possession of, and occupied by quite a company of foreigners is now quite clear of incumance, and a good deed given for it; all owing to the good work of the Jamestown. Capt. Trnxton did a good work here, and has left a good impression on our natives ; we shall long remember him. Yours &c, A. A. Sturges. We found much to sadden us during our recent visit to Kusaie. Our long abscence with no pastoral care lor the church, and much ol untuwfrd influence from without, had led many ol thorn to go astray, and eight at one time had been cuni .d off by kidnappers-! lint their church discipline hud Facts in Human Life.—There are about been kept up with their usual fidelity. Our visit as usual did much to strengthen the 3,064 languages spoken in the world, and things that remain and tone up the Christian feel- its inhabitants profess more than 1,006 difing all over the island. Nine were admitted to ferent religions. The number of men is the cbuicb. ten children baptized, a pastor ordained to take the place of George who bad died, as about equal to the number of women. The one of those who had been a deacon, were among average of human life is about 33 years. those who bad been kidnapped. It is fearful to One-quarter die previous to the age of 7 what exti-nt slavery business is carried on in these seas. You may learn from Mr. Sturgis about one Capt. W. H. Hayes who defeated a plan for Christian teachers on McAskill'e Island by making a written agreement with the king not to allow any missionaries to land there for ten years! This was done that the missionaries might not interfere with his making money out of the natives. You will be pained to learu of the death of Deborah. Aeu's wife. She is the last of the original lour who came with us to Micronesia in 1832. Y'ou will learn much of interest about her, her sickness and death from her husband who is on the Morninr, Star, with bis little boys. It is a great loss to our mission to have such a break in our forces just at this time. He was just getting a good bold of tilings on Mejuro, one of the most populous islands of this ganup. It is a dark providence that takes bim away from us at this time. Y'ou will be interested in bis report of that faithful Jeremaie and his wile who have been such faithful colaborers and such kind and faithful nursurs during Aea'a sickness from poison-fish and daring Deborah's sickness. He thinks none of them would have been alive now had not Jeremaie and Likaji been with tbem. Aea also speaks in very high terms of Jeremaie as anaiive preacher. This corresponds entirely with my own estimate of blm as a preacher. I sorrow greatly in the necessity ol" Kapali's leaving with bis wife and family. This leaves our Hawaiin force very small, only two young men and tbeir wives. And I fear one of those will be Letter from a Guano Island. obliged lo leve This vessel has just returned from an extensive and succesful cruise among the Micronesian Islands, touching at all the Mission Stations, and establishing Mission* aries at new stations. From the Rev. Mr. late FitiKXi) or any other late papers ? How quietSnow's letter, our readers will be introduced ly and silently tbe great world moves to us out to some of the " lights and shadows" of here. Most B. G. Sxow. fraternally yours. missionary 4ife, in those remote islands. Let er fromRev. A. A. sturges. The Rev. Mr. Sturges writes in his usually I'onai'e, September 28, 1871. cheerful tone, respecting missionary labor on Rev. Dr. Damon :—lt is now late, Saturday evenAscension. From the Rev. Mr. Bingham, ing, and I am to go on board the Morninfr Star Monday morning, to take some of our Ponape we have gleaned information respecting the early teachers to the small atolls east of the McAskill missionaty enterprise on the Gilbert Islands. Islands and Wellingtons We had a delightful and passage down ; the Hawaiian missionWar and intemperance are their exerting prosperous aries generally well and doing well ; we reached anwhole, balpful influence, but, the upon their chorage iv the " Mission Harbor," Ova, on the 18th recepthe work is steadily progressing. The call of tbis month. I was glad to meet such a kind tion from our people, they wore evidently very glad for teachers and sale of books are upon the to see tbeir old teacher, and I am very glad to be at increase. 11 1872. years, one-half before reaching 17,and those who pass this age enjoy a felicity refused to one-half of the human species. To every 1000 persons, only 1 reaches 100 years of life; to every 100, only 6 reach the age of 65 ; and not more than 1 in 500 lives to 80 years of age. There are on earth 1,000,000,000 inhabitants, nnd of these 33,333,333 die every year, 91,824 every dny, 3,730 every hour, and 60 every minute, or one every second. The married are longer lived than the single, and above all, those who observe a sober and industrious conduct. Tall men live longer than short ones. Women have more chatnee of life in their favor previous to their being 50 years of age than men have, but fewer afterwards. The number of marriages is in the proportion of 75 to every 1,000 individuals. Marriages are more frequent after the equinoxes, that is, during the months of June and December. Those born in the spring are generally more robust than others. Births and deaths are more frequent by night than by day. The number of men capable of bearing arms is calculated at one-fourth of the population. Endbrbury's Island, December 25,1871. Rev. S. C. Damon, Dear Sir :—Being fully aware of tha fact that you are always glad to hear news concerning Teasels and their crews after leaving Honolulu for a voyage, I send you a line or two that may serve insertion in tho marine journal. The Hawaiian bark Mauna Loa, Brigga, arrived at this island on Not. 22nd, 1871, 19 days from Honolulu. The passage down was a very pleasant one. The cruise were mainly from the wrecked fleet in the Arctic ; many of the foremast hands having been officers in the whaling fleet, and they were tho most ablcbodied, efficient, and orderly ship's crew it has ever been my pleasure to sail with. They could sing well too, Mr. Editor, I like to hear men sing heartily on shipboard. It is an infallible sign of a cheerful heart; and where a cheerful heart beats in tbo bosom of a man be entertains a sense of his own superiority and realizes what is due alike to his Maker and his fellowman. I always think thero is something radically wrong on board of the ship whose crew does not sing and if there is one place more than another where music hath charms " it is round " rusty windlass when the anchor grips hard. 1 found on board a number of the bound volumes of the Friend, and frrand them very valuable indeed, Dot only for the interesting .articles contained in them, but as works of reference, and it seems to me that no better Directory or Guide Book to the Hawaiian Kingdom could bo purchased and as a Record of past events fraught with the greatest of interest to the nation I hardly know how the resident of Honolulu can do without it. I have derived more information from its columns concerning the commercial advancement in tho islands than I could possibly have dono by a long residence at them, after the more important,events had transpired. A perusal of the column headed Missing too tells its own tale. How many anxious hearts look to it for relief from years of agonized suspense, and this too seems to be one of the most gratifying proofs to mc of its value; that its worth, as u medium of communication between loved ones and those who have wandered away from homo and its sweet influence, should be telt the world over, and a glance at these anxious enquires broatbing love in every letter prove that it is so. Long may it flourish and bo the bearer of good tidings as a true friend always should do. The Mauna Loa, after landing Mr. Geo. E. Weston and some supplies, sailed for Baker's Island, at which place she was to land 25 native laborers, and proceed on her cruise. On Dec. 9th the bark Lagoda, Capt. Swift,arrived off the island cruising ; Captain reported all well on board ; had sprung his topmast in a gale on Dec. 2nd ; hud seen nothing but one humpback since leaving Honolulu 20 days before ; she sailed lor tbe*Weetward the same day and would touch at Baker's Island. On the 10th of Doc. the whaling bark Progress Capt. Dowden, arrived off the island and just after making land, sighted a very large school of sperm whale close in shore; struck four and saved three of them turning out one hundred barrels. After standing off and ob the island until the 22od, sho sailed for the westward and would touch at tho King Mills group for wood and fruit. I boarded this vessel in company with Capt. Hempstead just after she made the island, and In the cabin lying on an open chart I noticed a volume of the Friend open and the Captain informed mo that had it not been for the sailing directions for the l'hccnix Group published in it be would have been in a " pretty niese," his oliarta having the islands misplaced, and some not laid down at all—another thrilling instance of a true friend in a tight place. May it prove valuable to many such, and whether they steer for a heavenly or an earthly harbor by its direetioos may they ever find it is the earnest wish ot (iao. E. Weston. Yours Truly, Chemist fhamis Guano Co. a �12 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1872. THE FKIEND. The Late Bishop Patteson. mirably fit him for the office of an editor. Then too, he is so highly gifted and skilful The Australian newspapers received by FEBRUARY 1, 1872. in writing original poetry in Hawaiian, and the Nevada contain full particulars respectin making translations, that the columns of ing the lamentable death of Bishop Patteson. The Hawaiian. the Alaula will always be supplied with Our object in again calling the attention of It is gratifying to learn that we arc to good poetry. ourreaders to this subject is to bring out a have on the 15th of each month, A home " The "KaLau Oliva" (The olive Leaf.)— remarkable paragraph found written among literary, social and scientific journal." the Bishop's private papers. He thus writes : publishers of this journal have sketched a This is the title of a monthly sheet in the 1 desire to protest, by anticipation, against good beau-ideal, which most earnestly we Hawaiian language, edited and published any" punishment being inflicted upon natives hope may be filled out. This number gives by the Rev. H. Parker, pastor of the Stone of these islands who may cut off vessels or indications that we have buried talent which Church in Honolulu. It appears to be the kill boats'crews until it is clearly shown that only needs to be called forth. The writer official organ of that church. We notice these acts are not done in the way of retrifirst committed by white of A Base Line for a Noble Use," is capa- that one page is devoted to advertisements. bution for outrnges men. Only a few days ago a report reached " ble of writing in a scientific style, and we It has long been a matter of surprise to us me that a boat's crew had been killed at only wish he had made the scientific more that our foreign merchants, who are partial- Espirito Santo. Nothing is more likely. 1 prominent and left the wit out of his article. ly dependent on native trade, did not adver- expect to hearof such things. It is tbe white fault, and it is unjust to punish the The intelligent readers on the islands desire tise more extensively in the native news- man's colored man for doing what, under such cirCo, We see that & papers. Dillingham a good common sense notice of Prof. Alexcumstances, he may naturally be expected to ander's efforts lo run a Base Line." We and others, have commenced. We should do. People say and write inconsiderately " want science and wisdom, but not science think an advertisement in native would be about the treachery of these islanders. I have and wit. The -wit and humor we want "In equally important ns one in the Euglish experienced no instance of anything of the kind during fourteen years' intercourse with the Verandah." newspapers. them, and I may fairly claim the right to be Editor opens the discussion of Secret believed when I say that if the Melanesian The Poet Cowper. ieties—their necessity and usefulness, native is treated kindly he will reciprocate together with some objections thereto. We memorial to the is A poet Cowper pro- such treatment readily. The contact of many propose to enter upon the discussion posed in England and subscriptions from the of these traders arouses all the worst suspicions and passions of the wild untaught man. this subject, only to remark that we ap- lovers of his verse in the United States are It is not difficult to find nn answer to the preciate their eleemosynary and charitable desired to the beautiful object. If all who question, Who is the savage,and who is the have been cheered by his pen should lay a character, but we desire to see the Church trifle on his grave, the monument would be heathen man ? " of Christ do all ihe great and grand work, great. Exchange. Religious Awakening in Honolulu.—In which it is proposed to be accomplished by As with Shakespeare and Milton, so with our last issue we published ihe programme these associations. Let no one join such Cowper; the age and century of his birth the week of prayer. Meetings were held of associations thinking that no more is re- did not fully recognize his genius and true in accordance, and such was the interest quired of him by the demands of God's merits. Cowper was unquestionably the awakened, that union meetings were conlaw, or the claims of the Gospel of our Lord English Poet of the 18th century, others tinued every week-day evening during the Saviour Jesus Christ. These associations secured a temporary and ephemeral fame, two following weeks. It is sincerely to be boast that many Christians have joined vastly superior at the time of the publication much good has been the result; the them, very well, now what we want to see of their poems, but many of them have long hoped have been numerously attended, meetings is, that these Christians should do through since been forgotten, while Cowper still lives and many of them solemn and impressive. the channel of the church, what they pro- and will live as long as the English language The members of our churches have found pose to do through these secret societies. shall be written and spoken. We do not affections awakened, and we We hold that every church ought to aid remember to have seen a tablet even, to his their religious trust some have really commenced a new the poor as well as provide for the religious memory, in the Poet's corner of Westminand religious life ,- " By their fruits," saith wants of the community. Success to T/te ister Abbey, but his beautiful hymhs and Saviour, "ye shall know them." This 'our Hawaiian, and may it erelong grow into a choice lines are engraven upon the memories was the test eighteen hundred years ago, periodical like the old Hawaiian Spectator. of millions of English reading people in all and it remains the same now. There were some writers of genius in the parts of the world. We have long been Entertainment without Wine Punch Bowl, and we hope they have not left anxious to fall in with n copy of Cowper's andNaval Liquors.—Among the receptions given the kingdom but will let us read more of Homer, and our desire was gratified a few to the Grand Duke Alexis none have been their quiet and humorous communications, days since, in visiting an auction room more honorable than that of Admiral Smith, as they may appear in The Hawaiian. where some old books were to be sold. We of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A handsome was spread on the occasion, secured the prize, and have been delighted entertainment in which but one omission was noticed, and (The Dawn of the Morn- in reading his translation of the Odyssey, that was the feature of the reception, a testiThis is the title of the Child's Paper considering it vastly superior to Pope ! We mony to the principle and courage of the d in the Hawaiian language, and hope erelong to be able to compare it with host. It was the absence of all kinds of inely circulated among Hawaiian chil- Bryant's, which is announced among the toxicating liquors.—Exchange. We are glad to lenrn that there is a growroughout the islands. The Rev. L. new books,just issuing from the press in if Waimea, is editor for the current Boston. There is an indescribable charm ing disposition among those occupying posiyear. Most heartily we congratulate the about Cowper's prose as well as his poetry, tions of official trust, to give entertainments young people of Hawaii nei, in having so which will ever place him as a writer and without the use of intoxicating drinks. We a monthly sheet. Mr. Lyons' per- poet among the masters of the English lan- cannot see why semi-intoxication is the owledge ol the Hawaiian language, guage, when its beauty, strength and purity, necessary accompaniment of intercourse in known love for children, must ad- are under review. fashionable life and at public cntertainmantf. the »not — "Ke Alaula," eil �TII X l- It I I■: N I). FEBRUARY, MARINE JOURNAL. Information Wanted. Information wanted respecting John Harris, liy Richard Ilellerldge, steward of lloyal Nsval Hospital, Yokohama, He has a finger short Japan. Said Harris Is thusdescribed PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. on one hand, to the best of my knowledge he settled at Honolulu, about 10 or 12 year. ago. He wrote to hi. mother for heard of He wa. not him. have death, 1 some lime since har ARRIVALS. married lo a native woman on Sandwich Islands, and had two children. Doc. 31—Nor Gcr brig Peter, B7 days from Newcnatle, N8 W. Information wanted respecting Benjamin Hoot's., who ia Jan. 9—Haw hk R W Wood, Wet-hi, ti, days frum San supimMd lo have died on the Sandwich (.lands, after visiting Francisco. Australia. Any Information will bo glsdly received by U.S. S—Haw »clir Kamallc, M days from Guano Inland*.. Consul al Honolulu, or by his son Louis Robins of Norm To4—Am Itkin A P Jiihlhii, 31 days from liuinlmhlt. 9—Brit snip Nicoya, Jones,' 122 days from London. peka, Shawuee Co., Kansas, or by the editor. 9—llrlt ship Devonshire, Walters, 33 dayi I fin Pugct Information wan'eil respecting William Francis Good by Bald Oood is thus Hound, en route fur Callno. William Seton Ogden of I'ortland, Oregon. Irian Englishman who wa. London, 11—Am MClir Sovereign, Chambers, M days from Tahiti. described A tall, alrong 16—Am stmr Nevada, Ulethen. 16 dnyi from Auckland. by lurna, sailor, soldier and baker, wa. married In theSand16—Ambk (rim.lfii, Robinson, 3*3 days from Port Townwich Islands at out 1843-1 •, at any rate a shi named Janiea 9lh of send. Francis Oood wa. born to them on the Islands on ihe re|K,rtcd Oregon Francis and is 17—Am Missionary brig Morning Rtar, Matthews, 27 ame lo November, 18*6. Wm. days Irom Micronesia. to have left here aa steward of some vessel bound lo China, 10—Am bktn Free Trade, Buddlngton, 60 days from since when nothing has been heard Irom him. Port Townsend. from New Bedford Of George Francis faughan, whoBailed 10—Brit brig Robert Cowan, Ravcly, 23J days from in 1855. Any information concerning him will be gratelully Victoria. It C. received by his father, residing iv Springfield, Mass., or at the 20—Am stmr Moses Taylor, N T Bennett, 11 days from office of this paper. San Francisco. Of Reuben Sherman, who lea his home some years past, 22—Brit brig Susan. J W Hughes, 21 days from Tahiti. and has never hean lieird from since, lie IB aboul 66 ycara 25—Am schr C M Ward, Ricknian, 164 tlays from howland's liland. ~f age. Supissied 10 have been in Honolulu. Any informatho Kditor 26— Am brig L P Foster, James Mills. 28 days from tionconcerning him will be thankfully received by City. Street, 17th New York by Koyce, 33S Kast Masailan, Mexico. H. A. or 26—Am bk Comet, A Fuller, 27 days from Sail FranRespecting Leverett Fuller, formerly of Buffalo, New engaged cisco. York. He was in llonolulu ten or fifteen years ano i as a scsman on board of some whale ship. Any liifiirniallon DEPARTURES, will be gladlyreceived by Or. O P. Jodd, or by the editor. t . : . fa* Wagon and Carriage Builder, 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. g_r Island order, piomptly executed at j. o. lo west rates. /ous assaiLL. a ca*»B« J. C. MERRILL & Co., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers, 204 and.2o6 California Street, Sn n Francisco. ALSO, AQKNTB 0* TIIK San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. purchase ol mer thandlse, ships' business, supplying whaleships, negotiating Particular.Attention given to the sale and .. eiehange. Ac. All freight arriving at Saa Francisco,by or to the Honolulu Live of Packets, will berorwarJed raas or ooaaisaioi. tr Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold, jrx — —RBrBRBHOas Messrs. C. L. Richard. A Co 11. Ilackfeld* Co *. C. Brewer A Co .' Uishop fc Co Iw.R.W. Wood ll.in. K. 11. Allen .' Honolulu " A I. I. I \ 3—Am bk D C Marray, Shepherd, lor San Francisco, S steam frigate Callforuiu, for Tahiti. 6—Nor Ocr bug Peter, ltundguard,lor Maiden1! Is. 10—Nor Ger bk Ingertlia, for Staihuck Island. 14—Brit hk Duke of Edinburgh, Ilil', for Newcastle, N S W, in ballast. ]'(_H«.w schr Kamaile, Bridges, for JarvlsIsland. 21—Am stmr Nevada, Blcthen, fur Aunklnnd. 24—Am si hi r Moses Taylor, Beimelt, for Sau Francisco. Jan. 27—Am 3-mastcd schr A P Jordan,Perry, for San Francisco. 27—Am bk Camden,Robinson, for Victoria. 28— V 8 S Narragansett, Mead, for Navigator's Islands. 29—Haw bk R W Wood, Weeks, for Sau Francisco. Jan. lIKM'tKLII, 4V. I'HII.I. INC. WORTH kawnihae, Hawaii, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping hus|. ness at the above port, where th"y ore prepared to lurnisli the justly celebrated K.walhae Potatoes, and such other recruits aa are required by whaleships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. tJT Firewood on Hand .' l Carriage Making and Trimming;! WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORMYOU THAT J |_ I now employ tho best Meobauios in tbe Hue of Carriage Making, Carriage und General Blaeksmithing, Painting Repairing;, <f'<:.. On tho Hawaiian Oronp; and it is a well established faol lhat our Carriage Trimniing, by Mr. X Whitman, Is aa well exi-cuii-il as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore It-el warranted in saying that we can inaniifaeture as good a class of work in Honolulu aa o m be found in any part of tbo world. I will also state bere that wa fully intend to work at M BENFIELD. tbe lowest possible rates. Honolulu, Not 20ih. 1871. Bound Volumes at Reduced Price ! ..rr, \VII.I. FURNISH BOUND VOLUMRB of the Friend at one dollar per annum (subscription price Si), furany number of years from 1862. tu the present jj Adding the cost of binding. time, a—l MEMORANDA. U 8, N 7. dr. A M 8 8 Link —The Nevada arrived at Auckland l>»c- 8, snd at Sydney Dec 16. Returning left Sydney arrived at Auckland Dec su Left there l*M 23, 7 p m., and Dec 30. Jan 3, st 6:30 p.m., met steamer Nebraska, ex* changed paper, with her In lat. i'J° 23' south, long. 174 39' west. Jan 6. 3 a. m., arrived off the harbor as I'nga Pegs in the Island of Tutiuila (Navigators.) Landed Mr. Seed, on government business for New Zealand. We have 3 passengers for Honolulu and 69 for San Francisco ; and 40 lons freight fir Honolulu,©60 tons measurement for fan Francisco, and large mail. Have had head windsaial a great deal ol rain the greater part of the voyage from Sydney. Arrived at Honolulu Jan 10 at 7 o'clock a. in. Report or Hrio Robert Cowan, rROM Victoria.— Left Royal Road on the evening of Dec Slot. 1871, aud Cape Flattery Dec 2'2d. Had heavy N E and N W gules wilh snow lo4»° N ; then had a succession ol S W gales to !»• N, long 136° W ; from there to )iort hail light variable winds. Hark Delaware, hence,arrived at lliii rani's Inlet Dec 16th, to load for this port. Report or llaskf.ntihk Fhke Trade, Capt. M. J. Bin. dinoton —LeftPort Townsend Nov 3011l ; when w.thin a few miles of Cape Claa.lt encountered heavy gale. Split and list sails, aud relumed to I'orl Angelos. Left Fort Angelos D>-c oth ; had heavy southerly gales to latitude of Ban Franc sco, then light and battling airs and calms to the Islands. No trades during the passage. The steamship Moses Taylor, N T HemicIt. Commander, left Saw Francisco Jan 9th at 12:30 I'M. Hal strong .1 i: wind with very bad cross sea for 48 hours—made little or no headwny. Jau 1211 l st lIP M |>assed steamship America bound in -had light anulberly wind Irom the I lili until renrhii.g port. Jan lsih al 2 V M passed a bark steering N E, wind light. Jin 20lh at 4 A M s ghted Mol-.kai i passed a brig healing up tlte channel off Molossi arrived st Honolulu at A. K. Clark, Purser. ■l p M. Report or Brio L. P. Foster, Capt. James Mills.— Left Maaatlan Dec '.tun ; Bad very smootli sea and light wind van lug fmrn nortliwe.l to north. Afterward very light trade winds until Jan *llh. In sight of Maui Jan20th ; had a very heavy gale from Ihe westward, wilh a tremendous sea and heavy raiu squalls. The gale reached Its height on Monday night, Jan ail, when the barometer fell lo 2928. The wind th.n moderated and drew to tho northward. Made the port In 28 days from Maaatlan. Ilirini i or Schooser C. M. Wane, Capt. Rickmak.— I,cft Honolulu Dec 16lh, 1871, with Ihe wind from the aouth•east, veering to Ihe westward. Had the wind light up lo lat 16° north, long 168° 38' west; took the trade, in lat 14° So' north, long 169 o no' weal. Arrived at Phoenix Island Dec at 291h. I*ll Phosnla for Enderbury's Dec 30th Arrived2d, Enderbury's at 4 T a asm. d.y. Left Enderbury's Jan 1872, for Baker's Island. Arrived at Maker's Island Jan 6th. 6lh January. Arrived at Left Baker's for Howland's on the (lowland's Island for HoIlowland's Island on the 7lh. Left nolulu on the Bth of January. In long 171° 48' west took the wind light from Ihe southward, veering to the westward weather looking very threatening. On the night of the 20ih January blowing hard from Ihe westward,with heavy sea running. On Ihe 23d wind hauled to the northwest, with heavy squall and rain alecl blowing hard wilh heavy sea. At 2 a vi mi the 23d, weather more moderate. Arrivedu!T Dianioud Head after a pasoag.of Hi days irom Uowlwd s Isl- - -, ; 1872. 13 -- R*...lsil.M,.*s s Island i.i.n.. At Knowrimry and, and a round trip of# 38t Asa;.- a. ■poke whaling harks Progress wlta 100 bariela sis-ra., aad a» aall.tactorlljr everything working l.agoda, hi clean. Found the islands visited. as IlrnißT or Baas CoasT, Cipt. A. Fuller.—Leu Franci>co Dec3olb. In crossing the bar look several Ma. hoard, it breaking at Ihe lime. The first 16 days oul aco tinuallon .1 heavy gale. Irosi BWE to SOW with a great dea of rain. .Then had 4 day.' light winds from NE to F.SL .1 From Jan 31st to 24th had a very heavy gale of wind p'enty rain from 88 X lo WSW, blowing heavieal when reacked BW, with n very lieavy swell from WNW. After il gale the wind sprung up from N W lo NNW snd remained to when we made the east end of Maul JanUtah ala *a a. K.-porl frsia Knd.-rbury'. l.lalid. The Hawaiian bark Mauna I.oa arrived here Nov. 17lh after a pawge of 10 day. from Honolulu, snd after laialn. .tores and one passenger, proceeded on her cruise the aalii d,y, having on board thirty native laborers for Baker's Wand The whaling bark l.sg.sla,Capt. Swill,arrived off the I.lan I>ec. 9th, JS days from Honolulu. The captain raporled heav weather and a gale from Ihe westward on Ihe 2d and 3d lie renilsr, during which Ihe forelopmast "was sprung |" ha. Been no whales since leaving. Hlie continued on her cruise same day. The whirling bark Progress, Capt. llowden, a rived off the Island Dec. 18th. Bonn after making land a larg '*school" of sperm whales were sighted ; boats werelowtrr, und lour whales struck, three of which were killed cliae 1 shore, Ihe fourth g-tllng away, the faslboat being badly .lov during Ihe run. Laid "off and on" until the 2*l, whensi sailed to the westward, intending to touch at one of ihel-lais one of Ihe Kings Mill group for wood. The whsles turn.-d out yes hundred barrels of oil The csplalus of Ihe above named well Imsrd. re|sirl aels all on , PASSENGERS. From San Francisco-raf RW. Wood, Jan. 2d-S native seamen from bark "Cambridge." For Bar Francibco—Per D C. Murray, Jan. 3d—Jamea Proser, T N Noble, John O Wood, Robert Windlleld, A J Powers. From Jarvis Island—Per Kamailc, Jan. 4lh—Mr A J Kinney, 1 native laborer. For Btarbuck IsLASD-Pcr logerlha, Jsn.Bth—Mr Arundel, and 62 Hawaiian laborers. From Port Gamsle—Per Devonshire, Jan.tHli—Mr Kelly, Mr Lawson. From Tahiti—Per Sovereign, Jan. llth—Thca Laurens.17lh From Microsebian Island.—Per Morning Star, Jan. —Rev 11 Bingham and wife, from Apaiaug. Gilliert Islands Rev II Aen and 4 children, from Mljro, Marshall Islands | Hey D Kspali, wife and 4 children,and assistant, from Ebon jRev J W Kanoa. wife and 6 children, arM assistant, from Butaritari, Ollbert Islands; Mr Teboko. assistant lo .Mr Bingham, and Miss Ustlie X Ilalna, from Apaiang Per steamer Nevada, from Sydney Jan 16—T Ileyseldcn, G Puliy, Clilng Pot, and 69 lor San Franci.co. For Jarvib Island—Per Kamalle, Jan. lOlh-J Blakely, and 2 native laborer.. From Port Townsend—PerFree Trade, Jan lOlh—Fsmuel Willoghby, D A Thayer, A D Barri.ier, wife and sun, Mm Waters, Chas I) Ford and wife. .Miss Ellen A Buddlnglon. From San FRAsoisco-Pcr Moors Taylor, Jan 20lh-ll W Severance, W II Dlmond, 8 T Alexander, W R Bliss, A Herbert wife and daughter, Mrs Purcelle. R Newcomb, wile and child, Mrs 8 E Morrison, 3 children and servant, Win Donnelly, G O Garlher, F Kaye, and 27 in tranaiiu for New Zealand and Australia. For Aucrlandand Sydney—Per Nevada, Jan. slatLous Ilaselmeyer, C Relnhardl, and 27 In tranaiiu from Ban Francisco. From Tahiti—Per Susan, Jan. 22d—Capl Schneider, r Chinese. Bonneiln, Mr and Mrs GoS". and 4Moses Taylor, Jan. 24ih-H For San Francisco-Per and children, 2 M Eckarl, Mrs C Billing., V Magnin, wife Adam., R W Kirkham and 2 daughters, Mr. Hastings, daughter and servant. V Link Fred Sloll, Mr. X Hitching., Han. l.ar»>en David K. Ily, F J Ross, John M Ross. W Farley, R G Casino, Chas Luce, W Ah.cc, T Well., J W Maleer, S 8 Gsgc, and 89 In tranaiiu from Australia and New Zealand. From Guano Island.—Her C. M. Ward, Jan. 2*th—John Row, J M Holland, C J Maston, Job Vlcorlne, L Wohlcrs, and 64 Hawaiian.. „ „ From Maeatlan—Per L. P. Foster, Jan. 26th-Mr and Mrs Wilson, Wm Th tnpson, Mrs Thompson, Omar Klngsky, Jame. Roy, Dauiel Crow, Joe Williams, Geo Sharp. Eugene Lee, Master Romeo, Master Johnny Cooke. Fred Blorrer, Mr Frits, N While, D Halpruncr, James People, Chas Dunlap, John Lawless, Harry HeWitt. From SanFrancisco—Per Comet, Jan 20ih—Mrs Franklc . .. , .. _ . ' ""for'san Francisco—Per R. W. Wood, J.n. 29th-Robcrt Foster, wife and 6 children, E I. Taylor, Cha. Marsten, J M For Koloa—Per Jenny. Jan. 30th—Judge Mcßryde ami wife, Mis. Luce, Mrs Hindi, Jno Wright, Capt Wright. MARRIED. Spencer—Daniels—At Wailuku, Maul, on the 11th inst, by the Rev. Archdeacon Mason, Francis Spencer, Esq., Dietrict Jusilcoof South Kohala, Hawaii, lo Mis. Martha Daniel., daughter of W. Daniels, Esq., District Justiceof Wailuku. llabtv.ui—Smith—Al Koloa, Kauai, January loth, by Rev. J. W. Smith, aaaisled by Rev. D. Dole, Hon. Al.rßEri S. Hartwei.l, First Assistant Justice Supreme Court, to Lot. Tib E daughter of Rev. J. W. Smith. Billino-Story—ln San Francisco, Cal., December 3d, at the Episcopal Church, cornerof Howard and Twenty-first street., by the Rer. Dr. Brotkering, Mr. Peter 8. O. Billing to Miss Emma Story, mood daughter of Mrs. Rachel , McShane, of Honolulu, 11. I. DIED. Momuk—In tin. city, Jauuarjr »Jd, Rciccca, younfru i yuui ud 4 day.. <i»u(jlii«i of ibc Ule BotKil Murj.ui, tjul �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1872. 14 Honolulu missions, etc., and on leaving, left the following statement respecting the Home : an excellent Home for the " Here weof have closing of another year reminds us wayfarers the sea, and situated as Honot a report must be mude respecting the lulu is, for its central position a great number seamen find it an invaluable institution for history and usefulness of the Sailor's Home of their and comfort. Both the during the year 1871. As during former lodgingconvenience and boarding departments appear to years, so during the one just past, the Home be of the very best description,—even to the has been sustained and its original design beds of the ordinary sailor being furnished carried out. Soon after the year opened, with the luxury of mosquito curtains, and the fully adequate to the more Mrs. Crabbe, who had for nearly five years well spread tables fastidious taste of the officers as well as the managed the institution with much skill and demand for the good and plenty ' of the ' good judgment, retired and made over the man before the must. At this season when management to Mrs. Whitius. This lady shipwrecked seamen are flowing in in such having been a boarder in the Home for many liirge numbers from various parts, it is imto fully appreciate the benefits of months, entered the establishment fully aware possible this Sailor's Home. Hundreds, nay thouof the peculiar duties required of a manager, sands of sailors, no doubt will carry a grateand of the perplexities attending its success- ful recollection of this institution throughout ful career. We are most happy to report their lives, nay long as eternity shall roll. the benevolent parties who have renthat Mrs. Whitius has fully complied with Could dered special assistance towards this instituher engagements, and admirably succeeded tion witness its usefulness, they could not but in meeting the wants of seamen and the feel the utmost pleasure in thus seeing the transient community seeking the Home for happy result of their labors and contributions. lodging and boarding. She has fully ac- The excellent lady who has the management establishment seems eminently fitted quired the confidence of the community, so of the her post." for that the Home to-day is in successful operaWe are happy to report that the arrangetion. We are happy-to report that since the ment made with the Young Men's Christian Ist of October, Mrs. Whitius has paid a Association has been continued during the rent of $25 per month, which amount added past year,and the reading-room in the Home to the annual rent from the Hawaiian Mis(the only public and free reading room in sionary Society, ond that of the cellar, has Honolulu) has been sustained very much to enabled the Executive Committee to make the pleasure and usefulness of seamen and all the necessary repairs, and close the year the traveling community. with a small balance in the Treasurer's hands. In closing this report, the Executive ComIn reviewing the financial history of the mittee cannot refrain from testifying to the Home during the last six years, it has been exceeding usefulness of Mr. Dunscombe as proved nearly, if not quite, a self-sustaining the superintendent of the reading room, deinstitution. At the close of one or two years pository, and general oversight over the esa small debt was paid by the Trustees, but S. C. Damon, tablishment. no appeal for funds has been made to the Chairman Ex. Committee. public since 1566. It i3 to be hoped that Honolulu, Dec. HO, 1871. hereafter, by prudent management, no apR. Bishop as Treasurer, in account peal will be required to be made, unless in Charles current with Honolulu Sailor's Home Society. some very extraordinary emergency. Db. 1870. has the the Committee cash hand as per accl. rendered $1UJ HI past year Dec. 21—To on During 1871 received 847 from the ladies of Falmouth, Mch 28—Amt.Bros, donation from Messrs. Wilson of San Francisco, by hand A '"00 Mass., to keep in good condition the room Dowsett & Co of Aug 11— Toamt.forrentofDeposllory for 1871. 100 0O known by the name of " Falmouth," and so Nov 24—To amt. for rent of Home for Ocluber M00 and November called when the Home was opened. Dec. 24—To amt. for rent of cellar 8 months to 380° Slstlnst About one hundred and seventy-five sailor a DO 27—To amt. for rent of Home for Dec boarders and lodgers have been accommo$331 HI • Ca. dated during the past year. This is entirely Jan.1871 G. Segclkcn'a account $ 13 76 12-By paid F. II. aa 12—Hy paid J. O. Osborne's account exclusive of the numerous shipmasters, offi- Mch 26—By 18• 04 paid L. L. Toibert's account 48 60 Co.'a paid J. Nolt account A 28—Hy their wives and who have cers and families 1 00 Apl. 26—By paid F. H. A. <1 Segelken'i account.... 23 83 14—By paid l.ucas A Wlggin's account been accommodated in the private depart- Oct. 20—By » 80 paid E. O. Hall A Son's account 37 00 M. Gales'account ment. Reviewing the Home as a boarding Nov 14—By paid JudahPrison's 28 Mr account Dec. 4—By paid Oahu 18 60 18—By paid J. G.Osborne's account and lodging establishment during the past 28 account 17 Dickson's 21—By paid Lewers A 27—By paid Ed. Duneeombe's account year, it has occupied a position of great use"2 1 60 28—By paid Hawaiian Gnselle Ofllre's account. 4 26 fulness in this community, and we can hardly 28—By paid Dillingham A Co.'a, account > Tobalance, caah on hand .__. see bow it could have been dispensed with. $331 VI Rev. G. a Smiles, Dec. 80—To balance brought down $66 91. A few weeks since the $16 70 has beer, the amount expended ($286 70) all but ihe gentleman from New Zealand, spent some forOfmaterialand premises, and labor nail In repair, upon .tallonery, postage., etc., etc. 70 for rexpect$16 the making inquiries remainder, days in Honolulu, Char. R- Bishop, Treasurer. ing Honolulu, the Hawaiian government, Honolulu, Dec. 30th, 1871. SeventeenthAnnual Report of the Sailor's Home Society. trhe * The Hassler Expedition. A new expedition of great importance to the interests of Science if not Commerce, has sailed from Boston in connection with the United States Coast Survey. A new steamer, the Hassler, of 436 tons, provided with a steam launch to run in shoal water, has been buill and is to sail for the Pacific Ocean, where it will be permanently employed, but the voyage out is made the occasion for important scientific explorations. On leaving Boston the Hassler will sail direct for the West Indies, where the new apparatus for deep sea dredging will be tested near the Island of St. Thomas. The vessel will go outside the West India Islands to investigate the great current that enters the gulf of Mexico, and how the gulf stream is supplied ; then eastward, seeking the greatest depths of the Atlantic Ocean ; next to Rio Janeiro, the east coast of Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, where investigation will be made of the currents that come from the Souih Pole into the Atlantic. The Hassler will then pass through the Straits of Magellan into the Pacific, exploring the Straits on the way, and then through the archipelago of Chiloe, striking out into the ocean toward the Islands of San Juan Fernandez. This will be during the month of February. Next summer will be devoted to the exploration of the coast from. Panama to San Francisco, the islands west of Lower California, and the voyage may extend as far north as Puget's Sound. A scientific party has been organized under the direction of Prof. Pierce, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, to make investigations and form collections that shall subserve the general objects of science. Of this party, Prof. Agassiz will be the chief, and will devote himself principally to natural history. The expenses of this part of the expedition are defrayed by private funds and not by the Government. The party will be occupied about a year in its investigations and the vessel will remain on the Pacific coast to carry on the survey. N. Y. Observer. — Deaths from Drink.—Doctor Edward Jarvis, statistician of the General Life Insurance Company of London, furnishes the following statement, as showing the death of persons who are intemperate as compared with an equal number of persons of temperate habits. He says lhat if 100,000 intemperate persons be taken from fifty to seventy years, and an equal number of corresponding ages, who are not intemperate, 32 of the former will die as often as ten of the latter. Out of 100,000 of each, 15,907 of the intemperate will be dead before fifty of age, but of those not intemperate, 4 266 only will be dead. From fifty to sixty years, the comparative number of deaths will be 6,419 and 2,254, and from sixty to seventy they will be 55,175 and 33,280, Here is an argument ad rem which should be much more potential than any prohibitory laws to check the suicidal growth of habits whose fatal results are thus mathematically demonstrated. The following persons will find letters for them in care of the Chaplain, Martin Kelley, Daniel Kershaw, George W. Hulsc, and Reuben Sherman. �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY. MASTERS OP SHIPS DESIRING TRADE 15 I S7 2. ADVBHTISEMEJTTS. ,i 8. d i . BARTOW, Auctioneer. Bales Room on Qaetn Btreet, ons door from Easaoamru Btrctt. ■jl HOFFMANN, M . D., Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchant and Kaahumsnu Streets, near ths PostOfflc.; BRE W E R di Jt CO.. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oahu, U. I. TO ADAMS. P. Auction and Commission Merchant, _ Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. 1. W. riRRCR. * SHOULD CALL. AT THE HARDWARE STORE, AW I- S. rtTRRSOR. PIERCE CO.. (Succesnrs to 0. L. Richards k Co.) Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer Wo. OS King- Hti*eet9 where they can jyet chants, ■ |OI HI.K AND SINGLE BARREL. SHOT GUNS, HENRY'S CARBINES AND RIFLES, PARLOR RIFLES. 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Honolulu,Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. art work., following scriptions only by subscription and difficult to obtain from regular publishing houses: A Full Assortment of Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes of Every Description ! ALLOFWHICHWILL BE SOLD at PRICES THAT >V 11,1. <: IV i: SATISFACTION January, 1872. a A r"liotOKrapli, Site,from a Crystal to a Mammoth, taken In the best Style of the Art, And on most reasonable terms. ALSO, for sale Vlaws or the Portraits of the Kings, Queens,and other Notables, *c Md Exasslae far Yoirsclvw! Islands, oa'J ly H. L. CHASI, Fort Street. Any of the above work, will be ordered and delivered to subscriber, lo any part of tbe Sandwich Islands,on application H. M. WHITNEY. lo djj Honolulu,U. I. �16 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1872. YMoeunnC'gshH Ariotcaf onolulu. Edited by a member of the Y. M. C. A. The Cloud and Fire. A HYMN. In cloud by day, in fire by Dight, Jehovah's pillared symbol bung; Anil day and night, in Israel's sight, Its heaven-sent token earthward Hung. It rested o'er their sticred tent.— And in tin ir camp the host abode ; it lilted thence, and onward went.— And they its desert pathway trotle. They saw it rest. Ibey saw it rise, The signal or Jehovah's will ; They watched it with unfailing eyes,— And struck their tents, or waited still. Not now in columned Bhade or Dame,* Our steps, 0 God, Thy glory leads ; But signs divine Thy will proclaim.— Tby banner still Thy church precedes. Thy light is on our pathway shed, Thy counsel on our hearts impressed— And by Thy guiding Spirit led, Thy watching host move on, or rest. Scribner's Montlily. — .certainly sliow a most disheartening degree of moral apathy. A late number of St. Andrew's Magazine of this place, says, in " a few words to parishoners," " Don't criticise your clergyman's sermons. They cost him much labor and anxious thought," which seems to us to be very strange advice. There has never been much of value in literary and spiritual result, without " labor and anxious thought." But where would we be in the world of books without the severe and sifting reviews and the free criticism that so carefully weighs and guages, each new product? Pastors of the more liberal churches here have expressed themselves in a similar way, deprecating criticism of the methods in which they may choose to carry on their peculiar work. It is difficult to explain the cause of such apparent confessions of weakness. All that men have won of religious freedom and independence has been through a very different principle Irom this. If occasion seems to demand it we shall not hesitate freely to comment on the different features of religious and pastoral work in our community, whether of sermons, forms of service doctrine, methods of enIt is the misfortune of preachers, that they lose in their peculiar vocation the ad- forcing religious truth, or anything else convantages which come to other callings nected with the all important subject of through that close rivalry, which is a kind Christian influence. Pulpit Criticism. of competitive struggle for success and which tends to the " survival" or establishment " of the fittest;" that, through a species of traditional reverence, they lose the benefit of that free and searching criticism which is so necessary and valuable to all other enterprises in the fields of.thought and human influence. This feature of their position is felt by many of the profession, who anxiously watch for signs of choice or condemnation in regard to the intellectual and spiritual food which they deal out to their flocks, and who for want of definite evidences of such acceptance or non-acceptance, feel alone, and separated from men instead of being among them, and of them, and pf making their religious teachings a part of their mutual practical lives, and grope, as in the dark, for the natural, beating pulse of humanity as affected by religious teachings and their manner ofapplying it. * The more choice and important the influence* that come to us, the greater the reason for anxiously guarding them, so far as in us lies, from deterioration. To look on unmoved and silent while our standards tif principle are affected or threatened, would "Here a Little, There a Little." The regular meeting of the Association for January was well attended and interesting. The treasurer reported the Association in debt about $114, over the amount of cash in the treasury. The Cainmittee on the Chinese Sunday School, reported progress, with very encouraging prospects. Mr. T. R. Walker, the Committee on Topics for the evening, spoke on the Use and Abuse of Fiction his discourse, both in its historical and critical parts, was most entertaining and instructive. The meeting joined in an informal discussion on the same subject after he had finished. This is a new feature in the monthly meetings and one that promises to add much to their interest. One member at every meeting is expected to read a paper or be prepared to speak on a subject which he has announced at the proceeding meeting, and which shall afterwards be opened to the other members for discussion. The subject for December was the Use and Abuse of Narcotic Stimulants ; that for the present month, is the question how the Association can best work in relation to the temperance reform. The daily prayer meetings which have been conducted by the Bethel and Fort St. Churches through a large part of the month, have bean attended with much evident interest and teeling. The Chinese Sunday School of which mention has been made, has been commenced with most encouraging circumstances. It is held at the Sunday School rooms of the Fort St. Church on Sunday afternoons, the Association having given up their prayer meeting for this work. The opening day was stormy and the attendance both of teachers and scholars was very small. On the second Sunday there were sixteen or seventeen Chinamen present and about as many teachers; and this number has since increased. A large proportion of those who attend have previously partially learned to read, and so in a measure able to receive religious instruction. It is to be hoped that all who may be interested in the success of this enterprise or in the improvement of their own Chinese servants, will allow and encourage the latter to attend. The second Sunday of last November was observed by Y. M. C. Associations throughout the world as a day of prayer for their work. As it has been the custom of our Association to observe every Sunday in a similar manner, our ignorance of this arrangement is of less consequence. There are now 1,448 Y. M. C. Associations, 860 of which are in the United States. A jury of investigation in Illinois lately returned a verdict that the action of a school teacher in burning matches under the nose of a scholar as a means of correction, was as a mode of punishment " improper" but not severe." The sale of certain American pictorials of the Police Gazette stamp has been prohibited in Prussia. " The Y. M. C. A.of Brooklyn lately held its anniversary in the Academy of Music ; it numbers 3,662 members. H. VV. Beecher and others made addresses. Key. H. Stebbins of San Francisco is called to St. Louis with a salary of $10,000. a"ItnhedNither."-Prof.Haldeman " Among spurious Hibernicism, ni-ther for neither (neether) may be placed—a mispronunciation rejected by Mr. Ellis, and by says : the distinguished London elocutionist, Prof. Melville Bell. This ni-ther has been attributed to Hibernian pot-house writers, who had probably been told that their legitimate and historic form— nay-ther —must not be used in England, when they blundered upon nigh-ther, and sent it up into ' good society.'" N. Y. Evangelist. — � 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 (1872) 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 - 1872.02.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1872.02.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/63f01d82cbb2a50bd9cf30d5f0367a10.pdf 177ca749986366eb8662e53d0ee5b7ba PDF Text Text F THE RIEND JBfa Series, 001. 21. 10. J.} __ 1 “How is the 'Friend' Supported!” CONTENTS Fer Ja.au.rr. 1818. !■»■. Week of Prayer Editor's Table, Union Prayer Book Letter from Aheong Literary Coeslp Luther's Hymn Rev. Dr. Lobschsld's Remarks Murine Journal,&c "Dec 80,1020" Shakers, Y. M. C. Association 1 1 8 8 & 4 * 8 THE FRIEND. JANUARY 1, 1878. Week 1872—From of Prayer, January HONOLULU, JANUARY I, 1872, Jan. 7th, to 14th. Sunday, J»n. 7th—Prayer, for the presence of the Holy Spirit In tho Meetings held In Concert the present week—for faith In Ood, and a reliance on His exceeding great and precious promises " to Ills people. " Jan. Bth—Por all Nations, for Rulers and all in Authority, for peace among the Nations, for the removal of hindrances to the circulation of the Bible and the preaching of the Gospel, for the removal of obstacles in the way of moral reform. Tubsday, Jan. 9th—For institutions of learning—Colleges and Schools, for Sabbath Schools and Bible Classes,and for the correction of the young. Wcsnisday, Jan. 10th—For theright improvement by all classes, of such calamities as Ood In Ills Providence has perand that when il lille* to come upoa the earth Ihe past year, Ilia J udgmests are In the earth the inhabitants of the world may learn righteousness." Thursday, Jan. 11th—For Missions to pagan and nominally Christian lands lor an Increase of Missionary seal In the churches *, for as increase of laborers to go to opening fluids and gather in Ihe ripening harvest. FaiDAY, Jan. 12th—For the ont.poorlng of tbe Spirit in the Hawaiian Islands and In other lands; upon Pastors and Churches and Congregstlons *, that professing Christiana may be revived and sinners converted onto Ood. Saturday, Jen. 13th—For a blessing on the labors of Christian laymen ; Young Men's Christian Associations, Blhle end Tract distribution *, for tbe religious press | for Benevolent in all the Associations, and lor a " Higher Christian Life Churches. ___________^__ Monday, " ; " God's Time Table.—We hear and read time tables." Agents for much about steamboats, manufactories, and schools, arrange time tables. When God created this world and placed man upon it, He arranged a time table. Six days for work and the seventh for rest. On Sinai, God re-enacted the same time table. Men may break away from it, and live regardless of it, but if they would be happy, healthy and prosperous, let " them conform to God's Time Table, Remembering the Sabbath Day to keep it holy." " {(Mi Series, MSftEditor's Table. We were asked, not long since, How is Ths ©won Prayer Book—Sew York—A. S. Barnes 4* Co., 1872. the Friend supported 7" Our reply was, "By giving it away." It has always Between thirty and forty years ago, it been our practice to distribute gratuitously was our privilege to sojourn for a few months, in Burlington, N. J., and, occasionally, it of each number, from 500 to 1,000 copies. was our praotiee to drop into St. Mary's " Installation.—The Rev. Mr. Forbes, late pastor of the second native church in Honolulu, is now Professor in the Lahainaluna Seminary, on Maui. His successor, the Rev. G. W. Pilipo, has for several years been the pastor of the native church at Kailua, Hawaii. His installation took place on Sabbath evening, December 31st, according to the following order : " Reading of the scriptures and prayer, by Rev. E. Kekoa; sermon, by Rev. B. W. Parker; installing prayer, by Rev. S. Waimaiole; right hand fellowship, by Rev. H. H. Parker; charge to pastor, by Rev. J. F. Pogue ; charge to the church, by Rev. Dr. Smith, first pastor of the church ; benediction, pastor elect, by Rev. G. W. PUipo." Acknowlegement.—We desire to return our sincere thanks to the Rev. Mr. Coan of Hilo, who has for a quarter of a century acted as agent for the Friend in Hilo, not only paying over in full all he received from subscaibers, but usually adding a donation. In sending forward his annual report, he adds the following : " 1 wish the Friend to live, for I value it not a little. It is the only paper I read through. It is a good little Repository of good words and thoughts. Though small and. issued monthly, yet I think it has chronicled more useful matter during the last twenty-five years than all the other English papers on tbe islands. I think it will not die yet." Another subscriber from Kauai, the Rev. Dr. Smith, thus writes in sending forward his annual subscription : "We like the Friend. Always welcome its arrival, and hope it may continue to be issued 28 years longer at least, nnder its pres ent editor." Church, where Bishop Doane officiated. We seldom heard him make an address or preach, but in soma way he refered to the "inimitable prayer book." He would give his hearers to understand that the " Prayer Book". was nearly, if not, quite perfect. One of his parishioners presented us with a copy, which has been more or less, our companion ever since, and which we have occasionally used at funerals and marriages. We have found much that was good in the book but with theRev. Dr. Cheney of Chicago, the late Rev. F. S. Rising, and many others, we have thought that there might be an improved edition, from our congregational stand-point, we think the new " Union Prayer Book " is a vast improvement on the old book of "Common Prayer." We never could see why eminent divines of the Epis-i copal Church in England and America were willing, aye, eager to improve King James* translation of the Bible, but those «ame scholarly divines would not allow a word (even regenerate) in tbe baptismal service to be altered. The course they pursue gives the impression that they think far more of maintaining the integrity of tfce "Prayer Boole " than they do of the Bible, This " Union Book" is vastly bttter arranged and to our taste better suited to public and private devotion than the old " book." We have family prayers for every morning and evening of the month; then to, there are a great number of forms of prayers for special seasons and occasions; including prayers for Sunday schools, Thanksgiving, and many other occasions. We know fot who are the compilers of this new book, but we honestly thimk they have performed their delicate and difficult task with much wisdom, skill, and evangelic good taste. �TOE FRIEND, JANUARY, 1872. 2 lOOEEnroEOEEOE.J Letter from Aheong. As many of our readers are acquainted with Aheong, the Chinese missionary, who labored among his countrymen on the islands, we think they will be interested in the perusal of the following letter. We would call attention to that part of the letter which describes the reports about poisoning. It will readiiy appear; how easy it is to raise such reports among an ignorant, superstitious, and prejudiced people. If his health is restored, we shall hope to welcome his return to the islands. We value this letter, because it is the communication of a native of China, who ncquired a knowledge of the English language, sufficiently, to enable him to write with intelligence and accuracy. As the Chinese are now educated in California, Honolulu, and elsewhere, we hope many more will be found of like spirit with Aheong : Canton, China, August 10, 1871. ■»* S. Rev. C. Damon: Dear Sir.—Your first welcome letter, I received last year with one roll newspapers. Your second letter, of March 3d last, came to my hands, April sth, with another roll of newspapers. I do not forget your kindness to send me them. They help me q great deal to know something about Hawaii and other countries. Since I got home, 56 days after, my grandfather died. He was 83 years of age. So long as I stay at home with poor health, 1 take the medicine, but still do not get cured yet. So I did not try any work lor our God with my countrymen. My mother and brother are determined to keep me at home always, but it is not my mind. I keep the Sabbntji and family prayer at home with my family. My brother is almost turn to the true, but my mother is as hard as ever. I pray God for them, and for all my countrymen. 1 hope that you and all the good people at Hawaii do not forget to ask G«d for me, with my family and my countrymen. So we do not forget to pray to God for thee, and all at Hawaii and other places. My countrymen's hearts are very hard. I try to explain about the Gospel as well as I have chance, but thsy are laughing at me. It seems to them that I am a foolish man, but I do not feel ashamed for them to see me so. I shall like to get my health better, then I will try again to see if I can do something for our Lord. About three month* ago, 1 received a letter from Gen. C. H. Howard, of Chicago, the Secretary of the American Mission Association, he wishes me to go to California to engage in our great work for the Chinese there. Jt was a good chance for me to carry the work of Christ, but 1 was fearful on account of my poor health, so I did not go there; also, i did not answer his letter. The news, at the north of China, between the Chinese and French, I did not hear very well. I only learned that tfc people* there killed some French, by believing that they Bryant's ' Odyssey ' is out, making every put some poison in water, and in bread, to poison the children, and take out the eyes one love the ' blind-bard better but sets you fer medicine. The matter was settled by to wondering whether after all we haven't both Governments. I think you may hear the ' sweeter singer ' of the two with us toall the cause now. During these tew weeks, day. To me the success which Bryant has people of our district raised some story that achieved in his Homeric translation is the some foreigner and sOme missionary put the most enviable which any American author poison in bread and cake, and hire some poor has gained in a long long time. But really I think you are quite too hard Chinaman to feed it to Chinese, if any person eat that, then will have a kind of bad upon poor ' Tom Brown ' or rather his creasickness. Then go to see the foreigner or tor, Hughes. Of course all good moralists missionary, they will give them some medi- must needs be troubled over the sad state of cine to cure the sickness, if that person Oxford morals and the loss of scholarly reculture which one would expromised to join the church of the foreigner; finement and find, but then in as much as if not, the person whom took the poison shall | pect there to soon die. The people of this town are afraid. Mr. Hughes has so vividly portrayed Oxford Some of them come to me to tell the story. as it is, we should rather admire the clever I tried a great many ways to explain to bit of realism that 'Tom Brown' is, than them how untrue the story is ; how kind and find fault with its author. I am sadly afraid just the foaeigners and missionaries, nnd that a very similar picture might be painted how careful the church of the Gospel is to of some of our American colleges. I have been reading Mrs. Stowe's ' My let any pesion to join in it. Some of them believes me, and some are still doubting. wife and I,' as a sort of lecreation. Enjoyed In this, two days, the story seems to die it and yet I was sadly disappointed in it. out. See how foolish are my countrymen She writes too much—quite too much—there here, for they do not see the true light of are one or two exquisite touches, here and there, and the book abounds in the best of our Christ. hints, Yet as a work of art the book moral not when shall and 1 dq get better, know I to me a failure. One wearies of all go to work again. I hope I shall see you seems soon, if God is willing to let me. Hoping this sentimentalism and ' back-kitchen marthat your work be successful, and your ried experience. You will see the December monthlies. church-member be increasing all the time. The school of the Chinese I hope keeps The Atlantic seems the best. Fields dison, and tries to bring some of the poor courses very pleasantly though affectedly on Mary Mitford. Have you Chinese sinners to the Redeemer. I hope Wordsworth andtreat Howell promises us in that God soon raise up some preacher for noticed what a the Atlantic of '72 ? Among Hawthorne's them. How pleased that I heard yon have the papers after his death was found a manugreat jubilee last June. No doubt God is script novel, the scene of which is laid in Concord during the time of the Revolution. blessing His work. Please send my love to Hawaii Board, It is of course in Hawthorne's intense spirit style. The hero—a weird conception and all the Mission at Hawaii; also, all tbe and members of the Bethel Church, ask them —is to be a deathless man. All this we not to forget me and my family in saying shall have next year. It will seem more like their prayers. Send me often of your kind having Hawthorne back with us again in alt his wonderful, terrible earnestness. letters. But really I must stop seme where for we with me to My wife and children join so much in common that I might ramsend our love to thee, and Mrs. D. May liveon ble to a wearisome length. Yet just anGod be with you. other word. Have you read Browning's Your unwortny brother irr the Lord, new poem ? You will admire it for its minS. P. Aheong. gled beauty of Browning and Euripides. It is a transcript form Euripides, and is a revLiterary Gossip. elation of tne power and sweetness of the One of our American correspondents thus long ago singer that is exceedingly interestAt quite the other extreme of literaindulges in notices of new books and current ing. notice, if you have not yet, Meline's ture the a last mail literature. From letter by the ' History of England' by attack upon we copy as follows : Froude. It is going to overturn the popularThe holidays are bringing us new books ity which the historian has gained by his in the most gorgeous of covers. I saw a dramatic power and very deceitful reasoning. red line edition of Burns last night which There is something almost pathetic in so was a perfect gem. One's purse never seems great a man's being convicted of such mean shorter than now-a-days. The books are so faults. Set the fountain to playing fc* me, and tempting but so costly. Q banning, the friend ' ' " ' of ' * . * * * Hawthorne, Emerson and Thoreau be sure, the spray silvers the very tree tops." sends out a volume of poems which seem F. W. D. quite too sweetly sad and gentle to be rudely handled by the paper critics. For of course Mr. Whitney's Book Stork.—Never they will be, for only ' the few' can love we seen his counter and shelves so well have in still, writes his them. Joaquin Miller gay, sensuous, luxuriant style which so supplied with choice books, and such as are blinded his English friends. 1 have just especially suitable as gifts for the holioays. finished his volume of poems and feel as We would also call the attention of our if I had been looking at some fiery sunset. readers to his advertisement in another colHe is so tropical and color-mad. Yet after all it is a ' fine frenzy.' I n,ofsuhscription-booka. um �“The Spirit of the Press.” This is the name of a new paper started in Galena, Illinois, and edited by H. H. Houghton, Esq., late United States Consul at Lahaina. Let it be remembered that this gentlemnn, is a veteran editor, having edited and published a newspaper at Galena for more than thirty years. He was among the earliest friends of President Grant. Mr. Houghton is a old neighbor and personal friend of the President, and was among the very first to start him on thit line, which finally elevated him to the Presidency. In the number of the paper lying on our tafile, for November 27th, we notice a leading editorial relating to the " Sandwich Islands." We are glad to learn that Mr. Houghton carried away with him a pleasant impression of a residence on the islands, and the readers of his paper will doubtless derive much useful information from bis pen, jotting down remifisences of his sojourn at Lahaina and in Honolulu. The editorial closes with the following paragraphs : " Two years ago, there was living at Lahainaluna (Upper Lahaina), a woman who accomplished one of the greatest swimming feats on record. She and her husband were onboard a schooner, which was wrecked off the shore, some twenty miles or more. All on board were lost, but herself. She and her husband, in possession of a single plank, started for Hawaii. They swam for life. The husband had the plank till by some accident it was lost. He became exhausted. She took him on her back, and so carried him for eight hours ; the last part of the voyage he was an inanimate corpse. He died from exhaustion, but she clung to the body till she landed it on shore. She had strength enough to crawl towards a hut, where she was discovered and cared for, and she is probably still alive, though old. They were twenty-rour hours in ihe water. It is told by her, that before she lelt the wreck, they both engaged in prayer for deliverance, which was answered by saving the life that we live here, of the one, and of granting a more speedy entrance on the eternal life to the other. We spoke of Mrs. Treadway. When coming to this country with her husband, and when near Aspinwall, on the blhmus of Panama, in going off shore for the ship in which ihey were to sail, the boat in which they were was capsized, and herself, her husband and a passenger were thrown into the sea. In this case, she not only saved the life of her husband by taking him to the shore in an exhausted state, but she then returned and saved the life of the passenger." New Church in Goshen, N. Y. A copy of the Goshen Democrat lies on our table, furnishing much agreeable information respecting the'dedication of Presbyterian Church, in which will officiate the venerable father, (the Rev. Dr. Snodgraas) of our fellow townsman, Mr. Snodgrass. This new church has been built at a cost of over 1872. 3 rII X KRIEND, JANUARY, “Value of Old Newspapers.” SIOO.OOO. At the dedicatory evercises, it was gratifying to notice, that the Rev. Dr. Tyng, the distinguished and venerable Episcopal clergyman of New York city took part. In the course of his eloquent address he thus remarks : " The eloquent Whitfield told the truth when he said that asking Father Abraham, in heaven, whether there were Episcopalians there,* he answered, 'No, my son.' 'Are there any Presbyterians?' ' No, my son.' ' Any Quakers?' ' No, my son.' Who are there ?' 'All Christians.' This is the grand essential, and in all the essentials the differences between Episcopalians and Presbyterians are only microscopic, and can only be with satisfaction by a microscopic age." A file of the London Times is reported to be worth £3,000 and more. A file of the New York Herald, 55,000 and more. A file of the Friend, from January IStb, 1843, to the present time, complete, we will furnish for $50; subscription price, t66, neatly bound in three volumes, but we have only one file for sale. A file of the new series from 1852 to the present time, twenty volumes, we will furnish for $25. When we spread our little sheet to the breeze, not another sheet printed in the English language was issued on the western coast of either North or South America, frcm Cape Horn to Bherings' Straits, or in any part of Polynesia. We can with diffiupon In the April number of the Friend, culty realize this fact, when we reflect weekly scores hundreds of daily, and for 1871, will be found a translation of one the of Luther's famous old hymns. The trans and monthly periodicals now issued in Calilation was made by Miss Catharine Wink- fornia and elsewhere. The following English newspapers had worth, and will be found, in the Lyra Getbeen published in Honolulu, but previously 1869. The manica, published in London, out had died before the Friend was started : the same was hymn following translation of ' made by the Rev. Dr. Lobsheid, author of the Chinese Dictionary, on his passage from Honolulu to Canton, and kindly forwarded to the editor: " EIM FISTS BDRO MT CSSEE OOD." 1 A solid fortress is our God, A trusty shield and weapon ; A ready help in ev'ry need, Whate'er to us may hpppen. The old malicious foe. Intends us serious woe ; With might and crafty weiles TV unweary he beguiles, On enrth is not his equal. 2 With our own strength wo nothing can, We were soon lost (some) forever ; Itut for us fights the proper uiau, By God sent to deliver. You ask me, who that is ? His Dame is Jesus Christ, Tbe Lord God Sabbaoth There is no otber God 'Tis He must win the battle. Death of Mrs. Admiral Pearson. 8 And if the world full devils were, All e.igcr to devour us ; We would not yield a single hair, They cannot overcome us. Their dreaded prince no more Can harm us as of yore ; Look grim as e'er he may, Doomed is his ancient swsy, One word can overthrow him. 1 They to this mighty word must yield And yet no thanks shall merit ; For He is with them in the field. With gifts ai.d with his spirit. E'en should they take our life, Goods, honor, children, wife— Let tlietu take all away, We aboil yet win the day ; —W. L. God's kingdom ours abideth. Pacific, August, 1871. } ter by Sandwich Island Gazette, published weekly Honolulu, from 183ti to 1839.—5. D. Mackintosh, editor. For about twelve months the Sandwich Island Mirror appeared monthly in' place of the Gazette, in consequence of the want of printing paper. The Hawaiian Spectator, published quarterly at Honolulu, from January, 1838, to October, 1839, conducted by "an association of gentlemen." The Polynesian, first series, published at Honolulu, from June 6th, 1840, to December 4th, 1841.— J. J. Jarvis, editor. The Friend was first issued January 18th, 1843, and has been regularly published ever since, except from March, 1851, to May, 1852, including the period of the editor's first visit to the United States. at A friend has kindly forwarded a copy of the Boston Transcript, from which we copy ihe following notice of Mrs. Pearson's funeral. Tbe visit and residence of Mrs. Pearson and her daughter in Honoiulu, will be remembered by many of the families of the foreign residents. They came hither while the late Admiral Pearson was in command of the Pacific Squadron. The happy impression left by both the Admiral and his most excellent wife, will long be remembered. " Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 6.—The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Pearson, widow of the late Admiral George F. Pearson, took place on Saturday at the Rockingham House in this city, and waa largely attended by the relatives and friends of the deceased. Rev. Dr. Bingham of the Episcopal Church conducted the services. Mrs. Pearson was much esteemed by all who knew her, and her sudden death is mourned by a large cir- Mr. Albert Lyons will receive a letcle of friends." calling at the office of the Friend. �TUB 4 THE FRIEND, JANUARY 1, 1872. Ethnological and Philological Rotes Respecting Hawaiians. During the brief visit of the Rev. Dr. Lobahied at Honolulu, on his passage from San Francisco to Hongkong, he became much interested in observing the Hawaiian*, — eihnologically and philologically. On his passage to China he noted down some of his reflections, which he has forwarded. We think many of our readers will be interested in the following: A FEW MORE SCRAPS. In the Friend I see that there is a considerable degree of intercourse between Chinese and Hawaiian women. Is there no danger of tbe Christian woman being made and treated as a concubine by the Chinese polygamist? A law should be passed for, the protection of the women. Every Chmaman who is about to leave the islands should be compelled to report his intended departure to the local authorities at least a fortnight before his embarkation. There is a Chinaman here on board who comes from Kauai. He has a wife in China and has been living with a Hawaiian woman at Kauai. He takes about $6,000 home with him. Should he not leave $1,000 for the woman with whom he has been living? Let the law be passed and the people will soon learn to protect themselves and their interest. Page 50, (June, 1S70) in the jubilee sermon 1 read the casting away of the idols by the Hawaiian's to be without example in history. It may be of interest to yon and the Hawaiian* to learn that about 350 years ago the inhabitants of the Sunda, Spice and other islands all cast away their idols and remained for a considerable time without any religion whatever. Then came the Mahommedans and the people adopted their religion. 1.—The Hawaiians are evidently a mixed Their hair, size and complexion as well as their language point lo a mixture between the superior Hindoo with the lighter colored Mongolian. Bastards are in general taller and more corpulent than the races from whom they descend. The hair of the Hawaiian is not that of a descendant from a Mongolian with a negro. (Vide Cafusos in South America). The Papuaz are likely to have sprung from an intermixture of straight-haired blacks with negroes. The language of the Hawaiians retains some traces of a Japhetite origin, some of the forms pointing to an indo-Gennanic-elements, whilst the absence of flexions indicate a Harnitic origin. Their course of migration was certainly not from east to west. 2.—Are the words like mauna (mountain?) ai.aula (aurora?) like (like?) manomano (many?) mana (divine, manes?) and many others oi prehistoric date? Is Mauna Loa so designated in Cook's voyage? Are the many Hawaiianized words reminiscences of accidental intercourse, of which all traces are loet,«or is the similarity of sound pure accident? I think not; for the foreign race. KJJ END, JANUARY, 1872. words in other languages contradict the you admit a partial descent from Japhet, then you can account for the Greek words in a more rational hypothesis of accident. If way than Hopkins. 3.—There are a great many Hawaiianized words which sound as if they had come from China. Compare the Chinese koko, that, those, every one. na, nako, that, those, mai, do not, with several Hawaiian pronouns. Hawaiian : Pau ke kaua, to cease fighting, would in ancient colloquial Chinese be: Pa kau. Add to the many words the similarity of sound which would arise from a change of the consonants I, r, v, t and others, as maka, the eye, Malay mata, ax., and you will admit an accidental acquaintance with Asiatic nations. Languages often undergo rapid changes. The English language has no flexion of nouns and adjectives, no gender, &c., &c, whilst in German everything is change and gender. 4.—1 have perused wiih much interest the copy of tbe grammar which you were kind enough to present to me. I find there is one great mistake made with reference to the cases. The different forms under declensions should stand under the heading of prepositions and the cases they govern. If you will look at the syntax of a German grammar all will be clear at a glance, c. g., entlang dcs (genit.) weges, along the road ; van dir (dat.), from or of you; durch dich (Ace), by you. In a similar manner do our verbs govern the various cases—c, g., Ich gedenke deiner (genit.) I think of you ; Es yehort mir (dat), it belongs to me; Ich liebe dich (tic), I love you. I hope you will pardon my liberty of expressing my ideas unreservedly. Please mad the preface to my large dictionary and compare some of the pronouns and their applications with the Hawaiians, alwnys bearing in mind, that nations with imperfect articulations always transfer these imperfections to the languages they learn, if not forced to the contrary. All languages tend towards simplifications with a tendency towards the monosyllabic. Alii, king, ruler, is the Arabic nli, ruler; the sublime, Sec. Are the genealogies of their rulers not the names of contemporaneous chiefs rather than one successive line of sovereigns? If you publish any answer to these questions through the medium of the Friend, will you please send me one or two copies to China? Navai—The C. 8. 8. Frigate California, bearing tbe broad pennant of Admiral Window, of thePacific Squadron, arrived at this port on Friday morning. Dee. 22d, after a long and boisterous passage of 24 daya from San Francisco. Tbe following Is a list of tbe offioers attached to tbe ship: orncsaa or tub flket. Commander in t-hirj—John A. Winalow. Fleet Captain—VtM Shirley. sTArr orrtcsara. Fleet Surgeon— John M. Brown. Fleet Paymaster—(Jasper Schenck. Fleet Engineer—Montgomery Fletcher. Fleet Marine Officer —Perclval C. Pope. Lieut. Commander—Henry GlaM. Ensian E. T. Arthur. Secretary—C R. Win-alow. orrivKfts or thb shif. Captain—l. M. U. Gills Lieut. Commandere—John McFarlaod, J. H. Sands, 8. P. Larnbertou. Lleutenanle-E T. Strong, R. M. Com, R. B Peck, O. W. Coalar. Master—Samuel Ames. Midshipmen- .1. C. Burnett. D. L. Wilson, A. Ward, T. B. Plunki'tt, G. D. Galloway, CS. Rlrlituan, W. M. Irwin. Past Assistant Surgeon—tiea. S. Lulbretts. Assistant Surgeon—J. W. Rosa. Assistant Paymaster—J C burn, tt Engineers—O. E. Tower, Ist; A. F. Diaon, 2d. Boatswain—ll. E. Barnes. Gunner—Chas Morau. Carpenter—LeonardHanscouib. SMlmaker—Nlclttlaa Lynch. Captain's Clerk—T. 11. Caswell. Paymaster's Clerk— E. L. Talbot *7«el Paymaster's Clerk—J. J. Talbol. Clerk—Vl. B. Turner. The California is a fine specimen of naval archi- — . . tecture, and carries 21 guns. She is of the propeller class, with engines of 1500 horse-power, nominal. Through the kindness of Mr. 8. Ames, navigating officer, we have been furnished with the following particulars of the weather encountered by tbe ship on her passage to the islands On tbe morning of the 16th of Deo., in Lat. 22° 67" N, 161 » 87' W, the breeze freshened from the B 9 E, shifting to the westward, and gradually increased tea moderate gale—force 8. This gale lasted about six hours, and from the indications the ship was on the eastern edge of a oyolnne, moving Nlt E and NE. On the 17th it came on to blow again, but not as strong as on the 16th. Tbe barometer fell from 29.89 to 29.76— strength of tbe gale about 7, with occasional squalls of about 10. The direction of tbe wind in both cases was from the 88 W, veering to the westward. On the 19th sighted Maui and Molokal, when tbe wind blew strong, sometimes as high as 10, from Sand E, shifting to 8 and W. Tbe ship was hove tea part of tbe time under close reefed main-topsail and spanker. On tbe 16th a heavy swell was encountered from tbe N sad W, which continued nntil the arrival here, beng but slightly interrupted by the cjclona.—P. C. A , Dec. 23. : Naval—The U. 8. steam sloop-of-war JVarragansett arrived en Saturday evening last, 26 days from Sun Francisco, having mode the passage under sail until within about 150 mites of pert Bbt sailed with the Flag Ship California, and was in company with her until tbe fifth day out, after which she experienced southerly squally weather with a great deal of rniu until uearing tbe islands. Tbe JYarraganseti is a fourth-clans vessel, carrying five guns and a crew of ninety men, which is not her full complement. She will remain in port fora few weeks, after which, we understand, she will proceed on a cruise among the islands in the South Pacific and Japan.—Of The German Language in thence toward Australia. The following is a list of the symptoms of vigorous intellectual activity which the contact with European civilization has effected in Japan, one of the most remarkable is the eagerness with which the Japanese seem to take up the study of the German language. About a year ago a German school was opened at Yeddo, under the auspices of the Japanese authorities, and the number of native pupils attending it, which was four, now actually exceeds one thousand. The influx of native pupils was at times, so great that German sailors had temporarily to be employed to impart to the eager pupils a knowledge of the German ABC. William B. Hallett with the Chaplain. the offioers of the .Yarruganmett: Captain—Richard W. Meade. Executive Officer—Lieut. Commxnder A. H. Wright. ISavigating Officer '/.. L. Tanner Lieutenants— l. Vales, C, J Mitchell, E. D. Tausli Ensigns—Chss. P. Welch, 11. O. Handy. First Assistant Engineer—J. B. Carpenter. Poet Assistant Surgeon—R. C. Ver Jleul.-ti. Past Assistant Paymaster—Geo. N. Grirßdg. Midshipmen— (Jeo A. Calhoun, M. F. Wright, W F n., F. H.Lefever. '• Captain's Clerk—Geo. B. Relman. Gunner—J. O. Foster. Boatswain—Tistn. Savage. —Oatttte. — A kind and encouraging word comes, behalf of the Friend, from several of our in foreign subscribers in America. Would not some of our residents on,the islands confer a favor on theirfriends in England and America, by sending them a copy of the Friendi Subscription, $2.50 ; including postage, and will find a letter the papers are sent by every monthly steam- �MEMORANDA. Information Wanted. DA. 1872. Information wanted respecting JtAn Harrm, by Richard Dellerldge, steward of Royal Naval Hospital, Yokohama, Japan. Said Harris is thus described ■. He haa a linger abort en one hand, to ibe best of my kaowladge he settled at Honoluln, about 10 or 12 yeara ago. Me wrote to hit. mother for aome timeaiuce her death, I have not heard uf him. He waa and O" Any pers-on sending newspapers married to a native woman on Sandwich Inlands, and had two books for gratuitous distribution among children. Information wanted respecting fttnjamin Robins, who ta seamen, and especially illustrated papers, Kuppoatd to have died on the Sandwich Islands, after visiting Australia. Any Information will be gludly received by U.S. will have our thanks. Consul at Honolulu, or by his aoo 1/ouis Robin* i»l North Tc* peka, Shawnee Co., Kansas, or by the editor. (loudby Any of our friendly readers, inclined Information wanted respecting William t'rancis William Selon Ogden of t'ortland, Oregon. Said Good ia thus to aid in support of this paper, their dona>- described i A tall, atrong KngMshrhHti from London, who waa hy turns, sailor, soldier and baker, was married in the Sandtions will be gladly received. wich Islands alout ]843<-4 ; at any rate a aon named James Francis Good waa born to them on the is) ods on the tlh of November, 1846. W'm Francis tame to Oregon and Is reported Avails of the Bethel Fair.—J. O. te have left here as steward of some vessel bound to China, wince when nothing has beenheard from him. TJatter, Esqv, treasurer, reports as follows: from New Bedford Geerye Francis faughon, who T<*al Receipts »74»37 In Of1855. Any in(or met Km concerning him will be spitefully 76 77 received by bis fattier, fexpenaea residing in bpringfleld, Maes., or at the $670«0 office of this paper. In baatl Infoimation wanted reslfwctlng John. Harris, formerly a retident of Honolulu, say ten yeara ago- Be was tnarried to a* Incidental Expenses of the Bethel, 1872. Hawaiian, and hail two children. Any infbrmtftlon wftl be Expended received by the Editor, or Mr. Richard RetteVedge, 4214 91 ■gladly Naval Hospital, Yokohama, Japan. »"> Keyal *c«4»e« We wish our readers and subscribers, friends and patrons, a Happy New Year. Debt from Mrs. Sinclair - January 1,1871 FOB THE 1STHEL $W 00 Expenses of the Friend for 1871. Priming, Paper, 6a ■cribert 1'oitife, A r Uunslioos I'apen sold, Adrertiiing, 4c... Bills unpaid ...v. $316 60 '.. Donations $6i6 IS I. O. KKItRIIT for the Friend :— rom Rev. Iswell H mith Thompson Rev. F. ■rom ....,..,,...... ..»...., 'rom Rev T. Coan Yom J. W. AuAib, Esq... v...* *...s......v ORAk*M J. C. MERRILL & Co., 204 and 206 California Street, San ...$ 48 04 $800 /O*JN It Commission Merchants and Auctioneer.* 30 60 37 60 1» 58—W7 40 bent, becember 30,1871 . 84 41 Francisco. AlrßO, A-OKNTS OF VIIK San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. 4 00 ParticularAtteßKen given to the sale and purchase of mar *Tl8 10 00 ehandlse, ships' business, supplying whaleahlpa, negotlaUng Chinese School at the Bethel.—Mr. Dunscombe, reports average attendance during the year, 13 pupils, but during the last month December 18 have been in attendance. The school is kept in the Bethel vestry, three evenings each week-. “No liquors were furnished at the recent railway banquets in Maine, The officers of the North American Railway exact temperance habits from the men they employ, and it was not consistent for them to set the example of .furnishing wine to their guests." When shipowners follow railway agents and directors in Maine, we shall have fewer wrecks and disasters. The time we hope will soon come wuen insurance companies will absolutely refuse to issue a policy covering a vessel and cargo,-on board of which intoxicating liquors are used either by the inmates of the cabin or forcastle. exchange. Arc ET All freight arvlvinr. at Sua Francisco, by or to tbe 110Rolalw Line of Packets, will be forwarded raaa or oommuwioh. XT Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold. £0 -RRPRKBKOSB— Messrs. C L. Richards ft Co Honolulu H. Haekfeld ft Co 0. Brewer k Co "" " MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. Dec. “Who'll Now Care for the Little Birds?” The death of Mr. Moffitt Stoney has been weekly papers, but one characteristic of this gentleman has not been noticed. He was a friend of the little duly chronicled in the birds, and would not allow sportsmen—those savage enemies of the birds—to wander over his ranch with their fowling pieces. The little birds showed that they appreciated his kindness and protection. The plover especially looked up to him as their friend. We do not think there is any part of the Sandwich Islands which would compare with Kahuku for such exhibitions of civilization, in horses, cattle, sheep, fowls and birds! Ye owner of ranches, "Go and do likewise." "" " "" "ly Bishop it Co Dr.R. W.Wood Hon.B. 11. Alleo D. 0. Waterman, Bsq da 5 I II X FRIEND, JANUARY, 18 72. 4—Haw bk Queen Emma, Hempstead, 16 days from Ssn Ftanclsco. 4—Am bktit Victor, A B Gove, 28 days from Port Gamble, W T. 6—Am bktn Jane A Falklnburg, Wm Cattearl, 17 days trom Astoria, O t—Brit bk Gaucho, J T Hills, 14 days from Baa Francisco. «-Am schr C M W; rd, G W Rlckman, 24 days from Holland's Is. 14—Am bk Atalttnta, Chas H Sinclair, 76 daya from Newcastle, N 8 W. IG-Am bk D C Murray, P P Shepherd, 19 days from San Francisco. 17—Am slntr Nebraska. I Harding, 16 days and 12 hours from Auckland. IS -Brit bk Duke of Edinburgh, II E Mill, 61 daya from Newcastle, N 8 W. 22-U S 8 frigate California, J M B fills, 24 days from San Francisco. 23—Am atmr Moses Taylor, N T Bennett, 11 days 6 hours from San Francisco. 23— U 8 S Narraganaetl,R W Mead, 26 days from San Francisco 27—Nor Gerbk Ingcrtha,RJorstad, 42 days from Amoor Blur. ror Baas Coaar—l*l» San Fraurlato October 18lh. Firtt three daya nut experienced calms and light bat fliug airs around (he compass with oveseast weather. On th* morning of Hie 2Sd October l<axae<t a package of window Then the win.l blinds, evidently only a few daya in lb* water. very light till In hauled into north and east, where It contlnned wllh svtrlatitude 31° no. 111, when we got moderate tracks, Monday. NoArrlveil Honolulu at cast and rainy weather. vemberMh, alter a passage of eighteen da) s. ThiU. 8, N. Z. & A. Mall eteannhip Nevada, J. 11. Blethen. eossmander,left aMfer October 28th, and New Zea land November-3d, arriving if Honolulu November l.Ui at 7 P. M., after a passage of It days, with 42 psasengers, anil 1,680 packages freight for Honoluluand SanFrancisco. It •■■.port or lUukkntinb Victor, Gould, M»rtlr.—l.*-ft Port Gamble Nov. 7lh First six days out experienced very heavy and rough weather. Last six days out was about 40u miles oIT these islands, during whtoh time had southerly winds On the paassge up from Honolulu the Victor arrived seven days ahead of tbe H imrr, while the latter anHcd from Honolulu eight days before the former. Report of Hark Atalanta. H.St-rc'LUtt, M *.*-tbr.—Left Newcastle September SOtfa at midnight. Octt*bev 2d expcrleaceS a terrific gale frbrtl south, which tested until the morning of the4tU •lost sails, stove boat sad aostainc.l other damsges, after which Had a succession of gales and calms for several days. Ike 144b-day after leaving passed tbe Zealand. Had a good li.nnitu.lc of ihe North Csjpe of New were pa»H*.l run from thence to the Touboanl Islands, whichTahiti, which November Ist— mem fifteen days from thence to of 800 (a passed tbe IS* November distance mlles> had was continued light bead winds and calms with squalls. Had no eoutbeast trades. Crossed Ihe Equator In long. IM° wesK, Novemb r 80th took the northeast trades In 10 ° north, an.l bad them fresh. Sighted the east point of Hawaii Dece.nl.er IKb. ('..in.* through the Hawaii channel. Ilave had light -winds and calms until yesterday. Ths BT«iM»H ip Moses Taylor, N. T. Bennett, Coaimander, left San Francisco Dec. 12th at 13 M. Were detained in purt six days by the non-arrival of Ihe British malls. Had northwest wind first two days. Dec 14th wind heuled to the southwest and gradually increaasd until the 17th 'Hovoto" tor 34 hours, tremendous sea running, and wln.l blowing a gale m squalls. On ths 10th wind and sea moderate*!, with wln.l from southwest until reaching port. Sighted Maui Dec. 23(1 at 8 A. M arriving in Honoluluat 6 P. M. A. X Clark, Purser. Ih.i , PASSENGERS. From San Francisco—Per Queen Emma, Dec 4th—Capt F A Barker, O S Plnkham and wife, Hon n A Widcmanu, Miss Emma Widomaun, Miss Hatty Wldemann. From Portland—Per J. A. Falkinburg, Dec. 6th—George Reed. George Pauncefort. For Yokohama—Per Gaucho, Dec. Sth—J A Robertson, II J Franklin. From Ooano Is.—Per C. Id. Ward, Dec. 6th—Capt Bnow, wifeand child, Mr Strachan, Capt Klbling, J Smith, 45 nat.vc laborers. From Sak Francisco—rer D. C. Murray, Dec 16th—1> Mcßryde and wife, 8 N Castle, J C Cluney, L McOrew, G H Riugold, Geo 8 Burns, Mrs Wundenburg, Miss Lena Wuudenburg, Jaa Sands, P II Tripp,and 3 Chinese. For Guaho Is.—Per C. M. Ward, Dec. Ifith—Capt Kihllng, Wm Young, G Holmes, W H Foy, Antone Hugo, 46 laborers. From Alien land—Per Nebraska, Dec. 18th—1 Chinese, and 75 passengers in transitu for San Francisco. For Auckland and Bydn«y—Per Nebraska, Dec. SBd— F A Parker, G L Ringol.l, F A Maynard, T Harrison,8 lleni*,.t.m, and 40 in transitu from Ban Francisco. From SanFrancisco—Per Moses Taylor, Dec, S3d—H A P Carter, wife and daughter, Mrs P C Jones and 2 children. Capt Makee, Mrs P N Makee, Mrs Burnbam, Mra Thomas and daughter, Dr II C Eckstein, U S N, E May and wife, Mrs llvitiiin. servant and 2 children, B 11 Lyon, W tlretn, G A.lderson, wife and 3 childreft. A Ifardle, J F Arundel. J Harrison, Mra Billings, R W Andrews, Mrs Hart, and 40 in transitu for Australia. foa Ban Francisco—Per Moses Taylor, Dec. 26th—M Phillips, Mr Slattley and wife, Miss C Baldwin, C A William-* and son, Mrs (iuthmann, M Louissnu, Capt Snow and wife, D Palmleri, Jno Cor.ley, Chong Po, F Macfsrlane, C Maclarlane, L Hoffmann, W Holderegse, I. Dlederittg, Jno Berry and wife, and 76 in transitu from Australia and New Zealand. For Portland, O—Per Jane A. Falkluburg, Dec. 27lh— George Reed. For San Francibco—Per Queen Emma, Dec. 28tb— H Hustings, Jno McCeary, J Campbell, Julius Kates, R Ilex Ha A J Lawrence. *.-«—■.—»»—■—•»—>—•—•——■.»»»>•>—•—■»-■»—ws**»a DIED. . Ui'ii-Iii this city. December 3d, -*■ R. UhvkiIRI Desha, a native of Cynthiana, Boooe County, Kentucky, la the bud year of his age. Hehad reajtlsd on theseIslands since 194ft. Fisher—In this city, December elh, Tho.na> Kiuhes, a native of Loudon, England, aged 03. years. Ue hat. resided o* theseIslands since 1837. Stosry—In tfijs. oily, December 7lh, Mr L R. MsrwT DEPARTURES. Stonky, a native of King's County, Ireland, in the Wd yea/ of bis agt. Hebad resided on these islands since 18U. Nov. 27—Am bk Comet, Fuller, for San Francisco. at the U.S Hospital, December 11th. 29-llaw schr Kaiuaile, Bridges, for Jarvis Island. Mr. A. W. Smith, belonging to Machlaa, Maine. His funeral Dec. 6—Brit bk Gaucho, Hilts, for Yokohama. by attended the Order of Good Templars, waa 8-t-Brit bk Mary I, Edilh, Littkiater, lor Victoria, B C. SToasucK—In this city, December 27-h. Charlies Viarv 14—Am bktn Victor, Gove, for Victoria, B C. taiott riroRBAtR, a native of Bremen, aged 69 yeas*. Be 16—Am schr C M Ward, Rickman, lor Gaanois. 26—Am simr Moses Taylor, Bennett. Ibr San Frsacisco. had resided in Honolulu during the past 24 years, and wa> highly esteemed by all who knew fcjuv xj" New York and 27—Am bktn J A Falkeuburg, Cslheart, forPortland. 28—Haw bk Queen Emma, Ucllcil, tot Sua Francisco. Bremen papeis please copy. ' �6 TiI,FRIEND, JANUARY, 1 Sit. * J The Shakers. I bare for my design in this article to bring to your notice one of the most singular of the many religious sects, now possessing considerable power in the United States. I have often been surp-jlpd at the ease with which any religious creed, however foolish it may seem, gains followers. We cannot then wonder that when, about the year 1770, an English woman, named Ann Lee, claimed to have received a divine revelation, commissioning her to establish a new church, she was readily believed by some. Infatuation is a strong characteristic of weak minds, and it was not long before the " United Society of believers in Christ's second appearing," as they styled themselves, acquired quite a number of converts. They early separated from the Quakers of which sect they at first formed a branch. The essentials of their creed, are a belief in an eternal farher and mother existing in the deity, the parent of the whole human race; and in the duality of Christ, Jesus being the one and Ann Lee the other member of the child of Ood. Will you now allow me to guide you in fancy as we visit one of the settlements of the Shakers. Just west of the line where Massachusetts joins New York, there lies, nestled among the hills, a beautiful town, New Lebanon by name. It consists of two villages, the one New Lebanon, Spa., a widely known for the efficacy of its mineral water and country air as a restorative, as the other is for being the home of the wealthiest and most influential family of Shakers. It is summer, and around us lie beautiful meadows with their velvet cover, fields of grain bowing with the fitful breeze, and all the lowland seems happy; while far aloft extend the mountains rearing their woodcapped peaks and looking down as if in rare enjoyment upon the beauty at their feet. All' around is busy, and even the trees, as if ashamed to be idle, drowsily nod their heads. A choice spot this, one of Nature's own, well chosen to be the house of a community where the world's strifes enter not. Here all are on a level, and be a man wealthy or be he poor, it matters not; for all things are common, all receive their stores from one treasury, and contribute all their possessions to the common stock. Elders are appointed, men eminent for piety, and to these are allotted the management of their worldly affairs. Shrewd men they are, sharp at a bargain, rarely deceived. In such a quiet nook as this we should expect to find no such thing aa aristocracy; but shall we ever realize this dream on earth. They men may advance in piety and prois accordingly, and tbe Church family, Bk so called, is acknowledged as the highest. The dress of tbe Quakers is retained and queerly enough it looks to see bright girls wearing white caps, and little boys running around with the fatherly broad-brimmed hats; to say nothing of the general effect produced by the plainness of drab or brown unrelieved by any other color. All their buildings are scrupulously neat, and it seems a pleasure to step from the white and scoured floors upon the ground where we need not fear lest we leave a speck of dirt. Their stores are stocked with goods choice and rare, and particularly do we admire the feather work, and the- baskets made from the ash and willow. Let no one enter here whose pocket is empty, for, like the world's people in this at least, they do know how to demand large prices. We enter one of their schools, after a long time spent in coaxing and in controverting the yea and nay of the pretty teacher, and find a pleasant room filled with bright faces. Many of the lessons are in rhyme, they supposing it easier to commit in this way. Only the rudiments of an education are taught. School is now closed and boys and girls are marched in Indian file to their houses, each sex apart. Woe to the curious urchin who may chance, to try to get a peep at the world's people. A boxed ear rewards the curiosity. The sexes live entirely apart, and scarce a word passes between them save upon business matters. They are .firm adherents to the old maxim Early to bed," &c., never sleeping later than half past four in summer. They breakfast at 6, dine at 12 and sup at 6 in the " afternoon. Most of them are vegetarians and all food prohibited by the law of Moses is not used. Once a year they have a social gathering in which three families join. Every brother and sister is expected to furnish some communication, prose or poetry, and the picnic lasts all day. During the fifteen years of its obsepance the day appointed has never been unpleasant and many of them believe that Elder Evans has a controlling influence over the elements. We see on every side abundant evidence of their worldly prosperity and well stored barns prove that want is foreign to them. Curiosity prompts us upon a Sabbath morning to go to Shaker meeting. The sexes enter at different doors and occupy separate parts of the room. All ait quietly for a time. Then the Shakers arise, form a circle and chant tions of a life where poverty Is not, where worldly trials are unknown, where all things are common. But, alas, the one thing making our lives pleasant is lacking here, and we can but feel how cold that heart must become which has nothing on which to fasten its affections, and we gladly turn our thoughts toward our homes, where wealth may not be, but where love reigns supreme. By the proverbial kindness of the Shakers toward all, by their strict integrity and industry they draw toward themselves the respect due to a well ordered community. Thus have we taken a hasty view of the religious sect called by the world Shakers, because of their peculiar mode of worshipping. It is not our field to criticise their creed, but we turn gladly from contemplating it toward our Bible wherein we learn of the wonderful love of God, the essence of the Christian religion, which is so totally absent W. H. C. from their belief. December 20, 1620. “On the Sabbath we Rested.” This is the simple and touching record of the method the Pilgrim Fathers spent the Holy Sabbath, the day before they landed upon Plymouth Rock. It will be found in Governor Bradford's history of Plymouth Colony. The spot where they rested, was on Clark's Island. This island is described as situated just within the entrance of Plymouth Harbor, and so called from the mate of the Mayflower-, who is said to have been the first to step on it. It contains about eight acres. It was neither sold nor allotted in any of the early divisions of tbe lands, but was reserved for the benefit of the poor of the town, to furnish them with wood and pasture for their cattle. The Pilgrim Fathers found time amid all their toils, privations and wanderings, to rest. upon the Sabbath, and then too, they were so thoughtful for the poor in their midst. These two points are worthy of our consideration as we pass along over the anniversary of their landing on Plymouth Rock. Report says, that one Edward Watson and others during the past year have caused the following inscription to be chiseled on a prominent rock upon Clark's Island : " December 20, 1620. On the Sabbath we rested." There let it remain throughout all coming generations, as a reminder to the millions of the descendants of the Pilgrims that it is their duty to remember the Sabbath Day, and keep it holy, thus obeying the command -ef God. When God had finished the work of cre" I lore to Ring, I love to dance, ation He rested. "And on the seventh day God I lon lo be a Shaker." ended the work which he bad made. And and Next feet. keeping time with the hands God blessed the seventh day and sanctified one high in standing exhorts the Shakers to it; because that in it he had rested from all stand firm in the faith, and shows or endeav- his work, which He had created and made." ors to show to the world's people the attrac- �WASTERS OF SHIPS OKSIRhti I HADE ..■.■-*..-■** BARTOW, 8. STI 7 JANU A R V, 18 7t. ASTnfUIKWiTI. , , THE FRIEND, - Auctioneer. gsle* Boom on Qneenßtr'SSt.oiisdo*-* from K*ahnmanaMis*it . HOFFMANN. M D., Physician and Surgeon, Comal*Merchant and Kaahnmspa Street*, near tba Fust Q»os; UREWKR SI ft CO.. __ Commission and Shipping Merchants, Hosotala, Paha, H. 1. P. a,' ADAMS. Auction and Commission Merchant, Fire-Proof Store, in &oblo*OQ'i Btiildlof, Qtwso SlrMt. a. w. rwn'i. SHOULD CAIX at the hardware store, AND SINGI.K lllllßKl. SHOT SUNS. HENRI'S CARBINKS AND KIFI.GS, PARLOR RIFLES, POWDER, CARTRIDGES for Henry's Rifles, tbe Parlor Rifles and Revolvers, SHOT of all sizes, Shot Pouches, Powder Hunks. Percussion Caps, Eley'a Best. Cheap Files, all sizes and kinds. Butcher Knives, got out expressly for trade, Butcbers' Steels, 8 to 16 incb. An Endless Variety of Pocket Cutlery, Sai^Needles & Hooks, Sewing & Hoping Palms, chants, A Full Assortment of Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes of Every Description ! ALLOFWHICHWIU BE SOLD at PRICKS THAT WILL GIVK SATISFACTION DILLINCHAM tk CO., January, 1872. NO. 96 KING STREET. D., S. McURKW. M CASTLE *fc COOKE, JOHNLate Surgeon Y. S. Army, AGENTS FOR WHEELER & WILSON'S FAMILY SEWING MACHIENS, WITH 4LL H. Over all Others ! AWARDEDIT THE GREATWORLD'S EXPOSITION AT I'ARtH. 18671 AQKNTB, ALSO, TOR W'ETMORE, M. D Physician and Surgeon, Hilo, Hawaii, 8.1. N. B.—Medicine Chssta oarefoUy replenUhsd at Ihe «tf HIU Pt<| Sfr«. 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Taking, it for granted tbst the future population of these islands is to be largely and even predominantly Chinese, the importance and necessity of educational and moral influences among them become self-evident. That the bulk of our population a generation hence is to be made up of immigrants trom China and Japan, and their descendants, few who intelligently investigate the subject can doubt. The work, then, of educating those alrea/Jy •amongst us, simply our duty in any case, a»ktunes in these probabilities, or rather certainties, an importance no less than national. It is sowing seed for an hundred fold returns. It is laying tbe foundation for the intelligence and moral culture of tbe future generations of our country. And yet we are doing little towards taking up this work : in the meantime these followers of Confucius or JJudhii ure settling amongst us, marrying among our people, cutting ofT their hair-tails, and as in no other country out of China inheriting the land evidently content to regard it as a home for themselves and their children. Even their corpses prefer to remain here and to rest in peace on the quiet hillside with the yearly oblations and festivities given to their spirits who sit in silent guard on sentry ghost-stones over the sleeping dust, rather than risk the typhoons of the China seas for the sake of the covering mantle of earth of the Celestial Kingdom. This is a significant fact in itself and shows on their part a remarkable readiness to regard Our country as theirs also by adoption. At present many circumstances Tender difficult the work of educating the Chinese already here. A large proportion of them are ignorant and stupidly superstitious; corning from the lowest classes of their own land they present to us the worst possible specimens of candidates for culture snd form no criterion of the average capacity of the race, Plantation conditions are not favorable to the work. But these difficulties are also special illustrations of the greater need of such work, The night school, conducted by Mr. Dunscombe in this place and under the care of Her, Mr. Damon, is perhaps the only enterprise of this kind in operation here. This school is very successful and is to a certain extwit self supporting. The plan of the Association to conduct a Chinese Sunday school Sunday sfternoons will, if successfully carried out, offer a good field of inflneoce in this direction and of gaining ground and experience for future operations. The Chinese Sunday schools in San Francisco have been remarkably successful, and have been the medium of a vast deal of good. We doubt if there is any better or more available method open to us in which to win an influence for good among the Chinese among us. ., He whom the Father promised, So many ages past, Hud come to save poor sinners Yes, He had come at last ! Story. PART I. He lived a life most holy , His ever thought was Love, And every action showed It, To man, and God ahove* Till HTOHV WANTID. Trll me the old, old Story, Of unseen thinge above,— Ol Ikm s an.l llii Glory, Of Jrsuh and His Love. Ilia path in life was lowly ; He was a ■ Working-Man ; Who kuowa the poor man's (rials So well aa Jksun can ? " Tell me the Siory slowly. Ihtii I may tnkt it m,— That wonderful Kedemplion, God's Rrmrdy Ibr sin ! He gave away no money, For be had none to give; Rut he had power of healing, And made dead people live. THI me the Story often, for I forget so soon ! The early dew of morning *' at noon ! Has passed away ' He did kind things so kindly II seemed His heart's delight To make jioor people happy, From morning until night ! ' Tell me Ihe same old Story When you have cause tv fear That this world's empty glory la costing me too dear. Yea, and when that World's Glory Shall dawn upon my aoul, Tell vie theold, old tilory, " CIIhIST Jkmh makrs thee whole He beard each tale of sorrow With an attentive erfr, And took away each burden Of suffering, sib, or tear. ' " " , Tilt STOB* TOLD. And crucified,and slain! ! look ! if you can Iwar itLook at your dying Lord ! Stand near tbe Cross and watch Him Behold the Lamb of God I*1 Look " Listen, and I will sell you ; God help both you and me, And make the old, old Story /its THtisayt unto thee! " " His Handsand Feet are pierced, He cannot hide His Face ; And cru I men M stand staring," In crowds,about the place. " They laugh at Him and mock Him ! They tell Rim to u come down," And leave that Cross ol suffering, And Chang* it for a Crown. Once, In a pleasant garden God placed a happypair ■, Andall within waa peaceful. Andall around was fair. ' Rut, oh ! they disobeyed Him The one thing He denied They longed for, took, and tasted ; They ate it, and—ihey died !' Yet, in His lave and pity. At once theLobd declared How man, though lost and ruined. Might after all be spared ! For one of Eve's descendants, Not sinful, like the r«st, Should spoil the work ofSatan, And man be saved and blest' Uat, some shepherd-* watching Beside their flocks, at night, Were startled In the darkness By strange and heavenly Light One of tbe holy Angels Bad come Trom heaven above. To tail the true, true Story Of Jesusand HisLove. lie came to bring *' glad tidings : " You need net, oust not, tear i For Christ, yournew-born Saviour Lies In the village near ! " " : — ' Hit when he left His people. He promised them lo send The Comforter," lo teach tbein, Apd guide them, to the end. This is the old, old Story." Say, do you takeit At,— This wonderful Redemption, God's Remedy for sin t At that Story They wool at once to see, ' " soakSu of years were over ; Adam and Eve had died, The following generation. And Many more beside. And found Bis Id a niaager. And knew that it was lie. " And now He has ascended, Andaits upon the Throne, "To be a Prince and Saviour," And claim aa far His own. And that same Holy Spirit Is with us to thia day-, And ready now to teach ua The New and Living Way." Hi And many other angola Took up the Story then To God on High be Glory, Good-will, and Peace, to men For our sins He suffered ; For our aloa He died ; And " not for ours only," But '■ all the world's liesids " He should be son of Adam, But son of Ood as well, Aral bring a fall Salvation Prom sin, and death, and hell. And waa It true This gentle, holy Jesus, Without a spot or ataln, By wicked hands was taken, Ym want the old, old Story," And nothing else will do! Indeed 1 cannot wonder It always seems so new ! " ... Such was "the Man Christ Jests!" The Friend of sinful man ! , . But hush ! the tale grow* sadder I'll tell it— If I can/ TART 11. You ask me for the u Story Of unseen things above j— Of Jesus and Ills Glory, Of JEats and Hl* Lt»e." " He was a Man of Sorrows ! And when lie gave relief, He gave it like a Brother, "Acquainted with" Ihe "grief." " Do youat heart believe It J Do you believe it's //ue, And meant for every sjbnss, And. therefore, meant fou you f " Theo takt tikis orkat Salvation ;'» For Jkuus loves to give Believe! and you receive It! Believe ! and you shalllive I ' And U this simple message Has now brought peace to you, Make known " the old, old Story," For others need it too. Let everpbody see It, That Christhas made you free j And if It sets them longing, Say JRevs died for fAce / ■ ** soon, our eyes shall ccc Him ; And, in our Rone above, We'll sing "-the old, old Story Of J t sue and Bis Lore Soon, " � 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 (1872) 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 - 1872.01.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1872.01.01