383 10 11783 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/1219faa3d5ed5c6e5e107c62048deb37.pdf b688ae045eda6bc04975ff0c6bb6cdb3 PDF Text Text THEFRIEND. M. 23. $tto HONOLULU, JUGUST 1, 1874, if. I.} CONTENTS 187 4. For An«nal, __. Editorials Henry the Illustrious or Portugal 11. B. M.'sS. Cameleon Egyptian Ruins Visit to Kilauea Marine Journal German Consul's Letter Y. M. C. A I'AUB 6 64,68 « »» •». 09'° •»70 ,J (.1 vi 1 Rev. F. Thompson.—Most sincerely we regret to part with our fellow laborer in the Christian ministry. For five years he has officiated as pastor of the Foreign Church at Hilo, and secured the confidence and affection of his people. His style of preaching is attractive, and his discourses are carefully elaborated. We lose his services, but we feel fully confident some parish in California or the East will profit by our loss and secure the labors of an eloquent preacher arid good pastor. He leaves with the cordial good will of the foreign community generally, taking passage with his family on board the I>. C Murray. at Hampton —New York 1874. Illustrions of : 0. P. Putnam's OF AMERICA. Sons. The celebration of the Centenary of American Independence now near at hand, will evoke from the records of the past every utterance and action that foreshadowed thediscovery of the Western Hemisphere, and the growth and development of the Great Republic of America. Many pens of the Continent will be occupied about the time of the great anniversary ia commenting upon the sayings of prescient souls, who anticipated the New World and the beneficent political promise for humanity, which it should nourish and unfold unto the grand development of the present day. These prophetic voices foreshadowing discovery begin with Senecca, or perhaps earlier in the Egyptian story of Atlantis—are continued by the poets Petrarch and Pulci, are alluded to AuuiVAL or Wav Ves.ikls.—Last Sunday, two in Scandinavian legend and rune ; but had national vessels arrived at this port, the British ship utterance nnd expressionCainekon, Commander Kennedy, 33 days from Cat their most distinct This is an illustrated volume of two hundred and fifty pages, descriptive of the growth and present standing of an institution established for the higher education of the colored people of Virginia and the South. We received the book by the last mail, and have not the space to notice the same in our present issue, but we shall not fail to do so in a subsequent number. Our island readers are aware that this institution is under the general management of General Samuel Armstrong, a native of Honolulu, and that an old fellow resident, General J. F. B. Marshall, has become identified with its financial affairs. We would thankfully acknowledge the volume from General Armstrong. . ho, coming in first, followed during day by the corvette Haydamak, Captain S. Tirtoff, 40 William Foster, A. 8., at Vale Col- Russian days from Valparaiso. The following nre the officers lege.—We are glad to notice in the New of the Cumeleon : Commander—A J K.uncilj York Observer that another of our island Lieutenants—V. 11. liuckle, T. .Macliill. Lieutenant—J. Procter. boys has successfully competed with his A/an. Staff-Surgeon, id Cl.—O. MeN Johnson, M. I> classmates, and borne off the honors. Young Paymaster—R. Hill. Fltz»ersld. Chief Engineer—G. Foster, son of D. Foster, Esq., graduates at Sub-Lieutenant—H. dc Lisle. M. U. Suroron—St. Lawrence Mullen, Asst. Paymaster—O. A. F. CC. Scales. Vale this year in a large class numbering Engineers— John Taylor, Eel. Bnrtet. 120. Seventeen of this class received prizes Gunner— ll. Richards. Pellow. Boattuiain—C. "for excellence in composition during the Cnrnenter—ll. Oay. Lake, L. Tufncll, M. Thoiopsoi. ll. Midshipmen— year," and among them we notice the name of W. Foster." The Havdamak is a modern built, clipper looking Teasel, of 260 horse-rower, has an armament of 7 The author of"The Prison of Wel- guns, and carries 170 seamen. She exohanged salutes with the shore battery on Monday morning. tevreden has furnished the readers of the The following ia a list of her officers I „ , „, Friend with a historical sketch of much in- Captain— B. Tlrton". Lieutenants—M. Reunoff, W. Iretsky, A. UimelclT, W. terest. Its preparation has required great WilhelTt. Paymaster Lieutenant—P. Molss. research, and its style will not unfavorably Sub-Lieutenant— P. BsauJonT. Surgeon—Pierre dcLavchenko. compare with the charming pages of Pres/foe. Officeri— F. Bokolor, A. Ostoloporl. Artillerist—M. Renter. cott, Irving and Bancroft. It will require Engineers -K. Orlorsky, W. Etepauofl SAip Builder— ll. Abramson. _. one or more numbers of our paper to comA»(ds*i>m«n—P. Helmhola, C. Muhecll. A. Bolchefl, A. Oafowitch—Advertiser I'avlelT, W. ■ plete the sketch. " " £wies, M 31. IWrltten lor the Fbißa."! Portugal. Henry the Hami'lon and lis Students. By two of its Teach1463. Born 1396, Died ers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow.— With fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by FORERUNNER OF COLUMBUS IN THE DISCOVnUIV Thomas P. Fenner, in charge of Musical Department EDITOR’S TABLE. THE FRIEND. 18T4 AI 65 , _ . . in the person of I'RINCE HENRY OF PORTUGAL. This great man, surnained the Illustrious by his admiring countrymen, has been singularly overlooked by nearly all American writers touching on American history, although Irving in his Columbus, makes prominent mention of the great work and influence of the illustrious prince in respect to the discovery of America; and it is a matter for surprise that the learned author of Prophetic voices " relating to America does not mention his name. 2 Yet this Prince was the 1 Irving says he died in 1478. This must be a " mistake. Barroe says 1463 ; and furthermore as Irving states, Columbus entered Lisbon in 1470, three years before the alledged death of Prince Henry, and there met Dolta Felipa, tbe daughter of Henry's favorite Captain Pereatrello in indigent circumstances, which would not bave been the ease, if the great patron of the Perestrellos had been alive. 2 Prophetic voices, concerning America. A monograph, by Charles Sumner;" which very tin. " �66 TBE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1814. than that of overthrowfounder of maritime enterprise, and the very fighting for his country. The entreaty of with an axe,—rather 6 with a lance. apostle and creator of the spirit of discovery the sweet maiden was more powerful than ing a man HE PROPOSES TO INVADE AFRICA, which led to the circumnavigation of Africa, the gold of Castile or the armies of Portugal, about twenty years of age, he conof Gaunt offered honorable When the discovery of America, and the exploration and so John the inspiration of his mother*; ceived under and Portuguese King being the in-j of the Polynesian island world. His name peace; influence that the formed of the and tender teaching, purpose of attacking and de| noble should stand before all others as the harbinand the great about an Moorish citadel and fort unexpected stroying such brought j had ger of the new hemisphere, and of the behalf, Ceuta, the his of the ancient besought Abyla, one of the Pi)' in favorable diversion of i progress modern spirit of enterprise and lars of Hercules, that marked on the coast Prince the of his for hand daughter, loadstone, English was J the " among mankind. He wise and modest young of Africa the entrance to the Straits of Gibthe very seed and engendering stone of dis- and the beautiful, the raltar. When he spoke of such a purpose Queen of Portugal.* covery,—the one that helped nature in this Phillipa became of sons, bore several the to his father, who was as prudent as be wa» youngest She happy conception and educated discovery to brave, he was laughed at by his experienced) whom became Henry that strength, that it durst venture beyond sire,—who told his enthusiastic bt>jr royal the known world to open soon after to THE FAVORITE OF HIS MOTHER. must be content to rethat the Portuguese 3 He prepared the way, in-; The eldest was to be King, the next to be another world." main on the peninsula, as he had not a ship of telligibly and distinctly for the discovery general of his country, but for her favorite to his crown, and America, but the smallness and decay of his i boy, this noble mother marked out a special or a mariner that belonged he would require great fleets as well as* i native state have led to the obscuration of career. She, like many a faithful, English armies to strike at Moorish power in Africa. his name; therefore, let one who though a I matron, was the sole instructress of her create for and men," said I you ships will humble sojouner in a Pacific isle, yet claims | children during the most impressible period "the ardent, Prince. However inspired young a part in the continent and in the polity that iof their youth. She inspired Henry to be a nonsense, to all this the wise and prudent dominates it, and which sprang into being' sailor, although Portugal had not then a sinwould not then for a moment listen. Joao through the prescient and enlightened genius gle vessel of war. She pointed out the But after a time, he is astounded to discover of this noble prince; speak for his fame on achievements of his grandfather Gaunt, who that his good and faithful Queen is encourthe eve of the great celebration, and place under Edward 111. and Richard II was Lord this extravagant scheme of their aging him where the presiding genius of the Ame- High Admiral of England. She told her youngest boy. Phillipa pleads with her rican continent may honor him. noble boy, as he stood by her knee, listening royal husband to grant their generous son ai HENRY'S ENGLISH MOTHER. with ardent heart to the words of a beauti- commission, that will enable him to solicit ful and inspiring mother, that the cause of voluntary aid of men and means to underThough a son of Celtiberia, yet we of Anthe blessed Christ could never prevail be- take the crusade against Ceuta. After glo Norman blood may claim him as one of the bounds ot his native peninsula, urgent entreaty of mother and child, the yond mother was a of our race, as his Princess among many nations living on the shores of father at last reluctantly consents to what fair, the sweet This was lady England. the Mediterranean sea, so long as the infidel he esteems an almost insane enterprise.6 Phillipa, who accompanied her gallant father, Moors held so many strongholds on the When Henry obtains the royal sanction, John of Gaunt, when he went as a princely Coast of Africa, from whence they issued he makes a stirring appeal to the generous filibuster along with his famous brother the and kept terrified youth of his own, and of neighboring connBlack Prince, to fight for Pedro the Cruel of with their piratical prows, confined to European tries. They flock to Christians forever him at Lisbon, like the Castile against the heroic Joao of Portugal. whilst beyond them, beyond the Grecian heroes to She on one occasion, when an engagement shores; Jolchos to assist Jason to was about to take place, prompted not only Gates of Hercules, there lay the nations obtain the golden fleece of the winged ram Hanno the Carthaginian, and far of Neptune. And so did Henry look for by the curiosity, but by the courage and love visited by the western seas, no doubt, those islands some wondrous golden fleece in western of heroic action which animate maidens as in well as men, ventured like young David, in of the blest, which would some day glorify seas;—and the citadel of Ceuta and the the naughtiness of her girlish heart, to es- the cross, and the heroes who sought them Moorish rovers were dangers in his path to be overcome, even as Jason conquered the cape from the observations of her maidens out. Oh, and noble woman What glorious fiery brazen bulls, the crop of armed men ! and the confinements of her tent, and go and and seed did fruitful precious you implant the she beheld the and the dragon that guarded the treasure he battle, and look upon heart earnest who looked boy, in the of that at the head of her brave King riding father's sought. As the ancient heroes flocked unto foes. But he appeared before her generous up into your beautiful eyes, and filled his Jason,—so did brave and generous men come young soul, not as an enemy, but as a hero soul with your high aspiring purpose like a unto Henry from every Christian land, bringing experience, skill, and weapons to leading his people to battle for the indepen- worshiper of some heavenly inspiration. The thoughtful and high-minded young help conquer a way outside the Gales of dence of their country, and the heart of the glorious English maiden was at once in- Prince, under such tuition, became too noble Hercules, now held close by Moorish piracy, spired with admiration, sympathy and love. to waste time in the dissipations and rude —along the coasts of Africa, and thence beThe fond daughter quickly touched the heart sports of his country. He disdained the yond to unknown worlds. And as in the of a magnanimous father. His fair young tourney, which occupied the attention of the ancient, so in the modern great adventure, Phillipa had been solace and companionship young nobles of his day; and we can im- was a womanly soul the guide and inspirato him in many expeditions, and he listened agine how such a high purposed young soul, tion ; —but Phillipa the fair and noble mother to her ardent pleadings. Why should he would have disdained in our day the paltry, inspired for nobler objects, than did the beauwar for a tyrant against a gallant Chief puerile tourneys of billiards. He preferred tiful witching maiden Medea. Vet, in any the honor of learning to do some useful gularly omits any mention of Henry, the great found- thing, even to fashion a timber for a ship 1 5 Faria 7 Sousa, Hist. Geral. Lifiteau, Con- ; : — er of modern discovery, who distinctly prepared the way for the discovery of America. Boston, 1874. quetes dcs Portugais. 6 Mattheo dc I'isano. 4 Walaingham's History of Eogland. Edward 111. Portugal. A. D. 1867. Schaeffer, Histoire dp �THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 1874. case, happiest and most fortunate, are all the right wind," she replied ; and then, address•world's men of mark and of great deeds, who ing her dear heroic son, she urged him not •have been blessed and guided by the inspir- to neglect his great enterprise, even for her ation of some faithful, loving soul of woman. sake. She told him that he would sail on In the refinement of her nature are not only St. James' Day, then some eight days dissanctities, but heroisms, too much overcloud- tant ; and that he would be successful in his ed in men by the dominance of their passions; glorious enterprise, and would open up new and happy is he, who has a great work in the ways for the Cross of Christ, and for bringworld, if he can have it consecrated by the ing great glory and power to his country. All her words were fulfilled. She was .love of a woman. indeed a prophetic voice for the glory of HELr FROM ENGLAND. Among the host of heroes that came to adventure under the standard of the gallant Prince, there appeared a plain bluff Englishman named John Coffin, who was nothing more than a tallow chandler of Cheapside, London; but he came with five* well appointed ships filled with armed partisans, and all provided by his own long purse. He -came to respond to the appeal of the noble Prince, the cousin of his King Henry Y., being inspired by memories of the lovely Princess Phillipa, whom he had seen upon her palfrey grace the streets of London. 7 When the sagacious King Joao saw the — force and means that had sprung up to re- spond to the enthusiasm and heroic purpose of Prince Henry, and especially when he the substantial ships of the Englishman cast anchor in the Tagus, with the banner of the Prince at their mainmasts, he felt that the enterprise had assumed a proportion ■which deserved the serious consideration of himself and of his government; and which it was important that he as King should control and direct. And thus as usual would conservative caution step in, as it does everywhere, to reap the fruits of the enthusiasm and enterprise of genius. And the old fogyism of the Court of Lisbon was glad to avail itself of the success of an enterprise, which its cautious spirit had led it to condemn. But Joao was a true Prince, who denied not to his son and his associates the full meed of glory, which their enterprise deserved. He joined his armies to the enterprise, and .noon the Tagus beheld a great fleet, on board of which was a great army ready to ■sail for the coast of Africa. Queen Phillipa lay on a bed of sickness, whilst the fleet, being detained by contrary winds, was awaiting an opportunity to depart. Her faithful warrior boy was watching by the bed-side of his precious mother, —and she was encouraging him to leave her to go on his great enterprise. By and by, a gust shook the casements, and she enquired, '* What wind is that blowing so hard, which now shakes the chamber ? " " The north wind," said her servants. "That is the Portugal, and deserving of mention along with her great son among the prophetic voices to be honored by America. And it would seem that she inherited the spirit from her brave father, —that Gaunt of Lancaster, who says in Shakespeare : " Methinks I am a prophet new inspir'd;" And then gives utterance to his glorious eulogy of England. She passed away without witnessing any of the glories of her illustrious son. The chroniclers of Portuguese history all speak of her with enthusiasm, —not only of the nobility of her character, but of the great beauty of her person, which she preserved unto her latest days, along with a transcendent sweetness and serenity of disposition. She was the idol of the people, and her royal husband found it necessary in order to win popular approval of any public act, to let it be known that it met the approbation of Queen Phillipa. H CAPTURE OF CEUTA IN 1415. The expedition sailed on the day mentioned by the Queen. When the fleet arrived at Ceuta, Henry was the first man to leap ashore; and after three days of terrible storm and siege of one of the strongest fortresses of those times, and after forty thousand human carcasses had encumbered the streets of the Moorish city, Prince Henry was hailed as a conqueror, about the same time that his cousin Harry of England won his great victory of Agincourt. He, standing amid the gore and debris of a sacked citadel, was honored by various titles given to him by his father; and the King then caused to be proclaimed, that the Prince should ever after be hailed by his countrymen by the title of " HENRY THE ILLUSTRIOUS." But though this great Prince had proven himself a warrior, and a captain of the first class, like his royal father, the hero of Aljubarotta ; like his grandfather the Lord High Admiral; like his great uncle the Black Prince ; and like his uncle Henry IV. and his cousin Harry Y. of England. Yet war and conquest and the destruction of his fel- 8 Tantoe euim opinionis apud populum quod solum illud recte factam videbatur quod ipsa comprobaaaet." Mattheo dc Pisano, Gesta regis Joan7 Walaingham in hit History of England says that nig, 1. c. p. 21. Schaeffer says that Queen Phillipa twenty-seven English ship* owned by adventurers preserved a virginal freshness and brightness of joined the expedition against Ceuta. " " .. -.i. u;_ as nim, low men, was no passion witn i 67 ~.iii, wiin all his distinguished warlike and princely relatives. The capture of Ceuta was not for him an opening to farther conquest; but simply a gateway by which he might enter a new pathway of discovery leading into and throughout Africa. Having established the freedom of Mediterranean waters for Portugal, and the privilege to pass unmolested through the Straits of Gibraltar, and to adventure along the coasts of Africa, he lait aside his arms, dropped the discussion o war; and became only interested in talkin with men of science, and with travelers He assembled around his person African traders and travelers. He had negroe brought to him from the interior of the con tinent,—the blacks of Jalof,—and with pa tient study of their language, endeavored t find out some of the secrets of the grea Ethiopian land. He especially wished t determine whether or no a navigable sea bounded its southern shores, and would per mit a Portuguese fleet to sail along it coasts, till doubling some southern extremity it could sail northward into the waters of India, and thence to the Red Sea. He saw that this would be the great and easy highway to the treasures of the East, and if found out by him would win for Portugal the wealth and renown, that Arabs, Egyptians, and Lombards of his day had been winning for ages. However the Prince's passion was more for discovery than acquisition. He preserved his mother's faith to open up new ways for the Cross, and to enhance the glory of his country by carrying her religion and her flag into unknown lands. But this ardent soul was checked by the ignorance and fears of his age. A gateway was opened, but he could find none willing to enter on the pathway beyond. A degree or two beyond the Straits was the limit of enterprise in his day. The great gulfs leading to destruction as then supposed lay beyond thestorrny headland of Cape Non; and the navigation of those days would not leave the limits of well known coasts. But Henry who had studied carefully all that was said about the navigations of Hanno, Eudoxus, Menelans and the Periplus of the Erythroean sea, and whose clear mind doubted not that nature was controled and regulated in all parts of the globe even as he beheld in the Mediterranean sea, saw that men needed more knowledge to get rid of many imaginary terrors of unknown seas, and heresolved to concentrate all information from geographers and mariners in A STUDY OF THE SEA. The young Prince in his twenty-fourth year, turned his back on the splendors of his father's court; and on all the opportunities for �, TJJfc r\II l i, 68 military glory in Africa and in Europe, for which he was preeminently qualified to Wm a great share, in order to study the mysteries of the sea, and to search out tkd great secrets of the Earth.* He retired to a re'.rtat near the i ofty head lands of Cape Vincent, which overlook the ocean t Vne object of his constant thoughts; and Vnere he established an academy for the study of navigation, and the first observatory. He who had gathered around his standard at one time, heroes to capture and destroy a strong city, was now equally successful in rallying around his person, men of skill to enable him to assault the dangers of the deep. His chief worker was one James of Majorca; but there came also many captains and geogaphers, and among others Perestrello, who had with him a little Phillipa, that was to help yield a great influence, in stimulating maritime enterprise and discovery, even as the illustrious royal Phillipa . had done. THE FIRST CHART MAKER. The especial skill of this little maiden's father was to delineate the outlines of lands and waters ; and his pencil was one of the foremost under the direction of the great Prince, to make the first of charts for the purpose of navigation. A story is told by Mattheo in relation to this cartographer and his daughter, which is an illustration not only of the enthusiasm and research of the period inspired by Prince Henry, but also of the noble spirit of the women, which in that day stimulated the enterprise of men. Perestrello though a noble Italian cavalier, and distinguished by his Prince for his voyages and discoveries as well as his charts, was somewhat negligent in respect to his means of subsistence ; and on one occasion, when he desired to execute a large chart, he had no proper material for its delineation and he could not conveniently procure it, not having in his purse even a solitary maravedi; but the enthusiastic and loving Phillipa understanding the need, and sympathizing with the desire of her zealous father, took from her scanty wardrobe a garment of fine linen, which furnished the desired surface for the delineations of the cartographer. And this Phillipa, beautiful and enthusiastic, and of a nature to inspire men of high purpose became THE WIFE OF COLUMBUS. 10 Here was a Phillipa fitted to continue the inspiration begun by the Royal Phillipa;— 9 Comegando do tepo do Infante Dom Enriqae que foy o primeiro inventor desta milicia austral et oriental." Dc Barroa, Decada Primeira dos feitos que 08 Portoguescs fexeraon. Fol. 4,1628. 10 Irving says it waa a "match of mere affection." Aad if it had been a match of mere fortune, with the daughter of some rich grandee of Lisbon, Columbus " AD«UST, 1874. and the great Prince the promoter of discovery, and the great discoverer himself, both derived their inspirations from two women of the same name,—both naturalized in Portugal, the one an English woman and the other an Italian ;-—and the world should recognize how much the founders of its greatest movements and acquisitions in modern days were indebted to the inspiration of two noble women, who in an era that produced an Isabella of Spain, showed that noble feminine souls grasped and even prompted every high purpose of the foremost men of an enterprising age of the world. ( To be continued.) likely would not hate boon the discoverer of America; but living as he did in poverty, with the enthusiastic wife and daughter of Perestrello, who had preserved all the maps, charts and memoranda of this captain and confidant of the great Prince Henry, Columbus had every opportunity to nourish his genius and inspire his mind. ■very THE FRIEND. AUGUST I. 1874. The Friend Useful for Reference.— An old resident now in Bremen, acknowledging a hie of the Friend since 1852, thus writes: " Since my first visit to Honolulu I have been collecting sheets of the Friend, but always found parties eager to borrow them for information, and, passing; from hand to hand a good many times, disappeared, and prevented me from getting complete files together. 1 shall be glad to have you send me by next vessel, such files as you can spare prior to 1852, also a complete bound volume which will be issued this year," &c. We are frequently receiving similar testimony, and would add that we are prepared to furnish complete files from May, 1852, at a reasonable deduction from subscription price. Apply to the publisher. Egyptian Ruins.—ln another column will be found a brief notice of the explorations and discoveries of M. Mariette, a French savant and explorer. When it was our privilege to visit Egypt in December, 1669, we wandered through this necropolis or city of the dead. At that time we were not aware to whom belonged the honor of opening up those ancient treasures gathered from the tombs, and now safely deposited in the vre Museum in Paris. This " city of the dead " was the burial place of the ancient city of Memphis. At present it is covered by the sands of the desert, and the ruins explored by M. Mariette were approached by excavating and removing sand. The task was herculean, and he merits much praise for his genius, scholarship and perseverance. " The Bull-pits," referred to in this extract, are immense stone sarcophagi hewn from solid granite, each one of which is sufficiently large to contain the dead body of a sacred bull. The number of the huge sarcophagi cannot be ascertained, as the sands of the desert have been only partially removed. A whole city—that of Sakkara, is buried beneath the sand. We entered temples which had been laid open, and on the walls we saw beautiful inscriptions and hieroglyphics, and some of these were apparently as fresh in appearance as if painted but yesterday. Wi even removal with a wet finger the jicncil lines of the draftsman. Egypt is a most wonderful country ! Greeks and Romans in ancient times, and Englishmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Germans, and other nations in modern times have been bringing away specimens of sculpture and curiosities from Egypt, yet the country is not exhausted. All the museums of Europe are filled with Egyptian curiosities, and yet more remain than have been brought away. There lies the sister to Cleopatra's needle in the sub- urbs of Alexandria, awaiting its removal, when some English engineer shall be found M.'s H. B. S. Caweleon, —Now in port, who will venture to undertake its transportit will be remembered, left Honolulu some ation to England. It was presented by a eighteen months since on a cruise through late Vice Roy of Egypt to the British Govtbe South Seas, touching at Pitcairn's Isl- ernment. We think another generation will and. She took thither supplies, under or- pass away before its removal. ders of the British Government, and boxes Sailing of the Morning Stab —The Missionary of clothing were supplied by brig Morning Star, Capt C. W. Oelett, left this port Saturday last, July. 11th, for her annnal visitaof the foreign residents Honolulu for dis- on tions to the Missions of the Micronesian Islands. The tribution among the Pitcairners. AH these passengers were, Mrs. A. A. Sturges, of Bonabe, (Mrs. S. has been absent from her field of labor since contributions were gratefully received. There 1869, and now returns with partially restored health are now, as we learn from officers on board to her loved work,) Rev. It. W. Logan, wife and Mr. F. E. Rand and wife, and the Rev. H. the vessel, seventy inhabitants; Thursday ohild; J. Taylor, wife and child. Mr. Taylor will be assoOctober Christian is chief magistrate; Simon ciated with the Rev. H. Bingham in laboring for the of the Gilbert Islands. Tbe rest of tbe comYoung and daughter are school teachers. people pany will labor for the inhabitanta of the Caroline The islanders are quite prosperous and con- Islands, having their head-quarters at Bonabe. Retented. Their former companions on Nor- ligious service*, as usual, were held on board the folk Island are also prospering at last ac- vessel before her departure. The Secretary of the Hawaiian Board, Rev. J. F. Pogue, conducted the counts. exercises, assisted by Rev. J. N. Paikuli, Pastor of tbe Waialua Church, Uahu. A large number of New Books.—Some new books will be Hawaiians and foreigners manifested an interest in found at Thrum's book-store, and among the Missionary cause by their presence. The vessel them " Sumner's Prophetic Voices of the left her wharf soon after 12 o'oloek, with a strong trade wind. She ia expected to be absent about Republic." eight months.—Advertiser. �I II h FRIEND, Just as the paper was going to press we received a private letter from one of a large party, which has recently visited the volcano, and we copy as follows, under date of July 27th: " We started just a week ago to-morrow, in the fresh and dewy morning, quite a party of us, you know. " The woods through which we passed seemed more than ever enchantingly beautiful and tropical. We had delightful weather all the way, reaching Kilauea at a little after three o'clock. The House is delightfully comfortable and seems a magical contrast to the old-time quarters. We enjoyed everything from the glow of the open fire-place to the strawberries and ohelos, from the fresh bracing mountain breeze to the steam of the sulphur bath. evening we watched the fires " Tuesday from the brink of the old crater. The reflection on the clouds was very fine. Wednesday morning was superbly bright and cool with Maunaloa and Maunakea in grand relief, perfectly cloudless. The center of the great lake, you know, fell in during the earthquake of '68. We walked around the edge of the basin to the lake. We explored a cave on the way where the specimens of crystals, etc., were very fine. When I visited the volcano before, (1S68), the surface of the burning lake seemed several hundred feet below us, and we could watch the action of the lava without much difficulty. Now everything seemed changed. The surface seemed within about fifty feet of us and the heat was intense. We did not dare to remain long for fear the bank would fall in. 1 was grandly satisfied. There was a tremendous opening in the northern part of the like through which the lava was flowing at a fearful rate off into some part of the large crater. The action was terrible ! After we left the lake, we parted company with some of the more timid members of the expedition, who went home the safer way, while the rest of us pushed on over the surface of a recent flow. We passed several caves where there was a furious disturbance, looked down through cracks, where the lava was flowing, ran through steam and gasses, and at last reached a stream of liquid lava. It has always been my most earnest desire to see the lava near at hand, and now I was enabled to thrust my cane into the burning lava. I was delighted. We procured some fine specimens with coins sunk in them. Every one reached the house safely though sadly tired. We arrived at Hilo Thursday night, and we have been resting ever since." Nomad. Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Scotland. —English newspapers abound with notices of these American Evangelists and their labors. We have received from Mr. Waterhouse copies of the Aberdeen Daily Free Press, containg reports of their labors in that part of Scotland. The following is the opening paragraph of a long editorial published June 15th : Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the eminent American evangelists, whose fame during the last few months has been spread over all the land, and whose work has in many respects been attended with marvelous results, AUGUST, 69 1874. arrived in Aberdeen on Saturday by the mid-day mail, and were welcomed by a large gathering of clergymen and others. The DEPARTURES. July work that these gentlemen have been carry- ing on in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and other places in the south of Scotland has, besides being noticed at great length in the daily press, received the patronage and as- sistance of a larger and wider section of the clergy than any movement of the like nature within the memory of the present generation. The widespread stirring-up of religious feeling has been a fruitful subject of comment and reflection from the General Assemblies down to the humblest prayer meeting or cottage gathering, and the influence of the Moody and Sankey movement has by no means been confined to the places they have visited. Dr. Wythe.—Our late visitor, pastor of Powell Street Methodist Church, San Francisco, is now writing a series of articles for the California Christian Advocate, entitled "A Month in the Sandwich Islands." " No. 4" appears July 16th. We copy as follows: " You must certainly see the volcano before leaving the islands,'' was the common remark of my friends. Vet there were but ten days more until the advertised time of starting, and the steamer running to Hawaii would not tarry long enough for me to make the trip to the mountain. In this dilemma, .Mr. Foster, the owner of several coasting schooners, proposed to give me a letter to the captain of one of his vessels, detaining her a day or two for my convenience. This unlooked-for generosity was a sample of the hospitality afforded me everywhere during my stay. t>—Am bk Powhsltan. F Ulackstone, for Puget Souud. 7—Am schr Serena Thayer, Brown, for San Francisco. 10— Am bk Little Williams, Hall,for the Guano Islands 11—Am brlf Morning Blar, C W Gelett, for Micronesia. 16—Am bk Helen W Almy, Freeman, for Man Francisco 18—Hawbk Queen Emma, Jenks, for Ssn Francisco. '28—Drit stmr Macgregor, Grainger, fur Ban Francisco. 30—Am ship Midnight, Kendrlck, for tbe Guano Islands. 31—Haw bk Matlie Macleay, Forbes, Iter Portland, O. MEMORANDA. — Retort or Babk Mattie Macleav, Fosses, Masteb Lett Astoria June 20th; first fire days had fresh N W winds, then light baffling winds to July 3d, when we got the trade* tresh. Msde Maui July 6th at 6 a m, and at 11 A ■ made Oahu. Arrived In Honolulu the same day, after a passage ol It days. Repobt or Babkextine Jane A. Fai.kinsi ro. Bbown. Mastkb.—Sailed from Astoria Juue 23d; first four days had light 8 and BW winds to lat 42° 10', long 13* ° W-, from thence to lat 30 °, long I*6° W, had light variable winds. Had the NE trades very light from lat 28°, long 147°, to port. Made the east end of Molokai on the evening of July 10th,snd arrived In Honolulu Ihe next day, making Ihe passage in 18 daya. PASSENGERS. Fbom San Francisco—Per Queen Emma, July 7th—Captain Chas McX Leoscr, 1) 8 Fitzgerald, Vi Thos Wilson. Fbom Pobtland, O.—Per Ji-ne A. Falkinburg, July llih— JohnLewis, Geo Wilson. For Micronesia—Per Morning Star. July 11th—Mrs Sturges, Rev R W Logan, wife and child, Rev J Taylor, wile and child, I-' E Rand and wife. For San Francisco—Per Queen Emma, July ISUi—W F Poguc, II M Whitney, Jr, W II Johnston. From Tahiti—Per lonia, July 2>d J Estall. From San Francisco—Per Midnight, July Mtk—J 8 Christie, Jr,C W Morgan. From Sydney—ParMacgregor, July 23ih—li Wctliam,and 135 in transitu for San Francisco. For San Fbancisco—Per Macgregor, July 2'llh—Miss A C Park, Mrs Gelett, Mi*s F. Howell,.) R Kinpn-y. wUk and 4 children, W T Wilson, U S Fitzgerald, C McX l.eoser, Harry M Mack, C I'oukc, M Green, A t Judd.fi W Hurt. E S Iloiulon and wife, H Miintyre nnd daughter, I. X McUrew, fl Magliin. Jas Dodd, W Emerson, 11 llraham ami wife. 2 Angel, Frank aud George Angel, Mr l.cony,and 136 in transitu from Sydney. From San Francisco—rer I>. C. Murray. July 31st—Mr Hildrcth, wife nnd child, .Mrs Baldwin and I children, Mi Knudsen and wife. Miss II Dickson, Mr Osrcner, Mrs Melville, Mrs Roth and 2 rhildrcn. Mr II Harris, Capt II T Reynolds, l)r V II Hutchinson and 5 children, Miss ilerzig, J 8 A miracle, Frank Deer, Koiv On, Chung Shung, Sum Po, Ah Pan. Ah Nee. — MARRIED. In Northampton, Muss., Jan. 29th. by Ihe Rev. Mr. Dwight, assisted by Ihe Rev. Dr. Hall,Franklin Iladley, D.,of to Miss Emma W. Pick,daughter Benney, M. New Redkobd, June 30, 1*174. /'<,. 8. C. Uumon —My object in writing lo you at this lime of Ihe late Sherman Peck, Esq., of Honolulu. on Ihe 26th of June,at Ihe Hllo, Husbands—Jesus—ln is to inquire Alter Abel Lord, who sailed from this port second residence of the bride's father, by Rev. Father Pusol and Rev. mate ot the bark Rajah. The Rajah was castaway in Ibe to Clotilde P., Thompson, Frank Husbands Mr. R. Y. Ochtsk Sea, near Shactcr Island. The Captain, first male, and 11 men were lost. And Abel Lord, the second mate, and second daughter of Louis Jesus. residence of tli" city, this the at Jaeoer—Robinson—ln the remainder of the crew, went to Honolulu in the ship by Rev. II 11. Condor,which ship was condemned in your port,same voyage. bride's father in Nuuanu Valley, July 7th, Annie, daughter of Jaeoer Miss Parker, Mr. Albert to We arc pretty well satisfied that Abel Lord is dead, hut what Esq., James both of Honolulu. Robinson, wish ascertain is where and whenhe Ihe disdied; to we aa city, July by Rev. fc>. Hutchinson—Ukrioo—ln this 'list, posal of his estate depends upon thedate of his death. C Damon. Fbancis Blake Hutchinson, M. D., to Miss Yean very Iruly, James l>. Butleb, Emma Hebzoo. Seamen's Chaplain. Atlanta, Geoboia, May 25,187-1. DIED. November received 1 Rev. S. C. Damon Dear Sir—Last a letter from my brother, Robert 11. Solomon,dated from Japan, July informing me that he would sail to Honolulu in a few days, and Ili-nt—ln this city, 4th, Mrs. Elizabeth Hint, wife requested me to direct letters to him in the care of yourself, of Mr. Wm. D. Hunt, aged about 18 years. the U. S. Consul, and Capt. Tripp, of thebark Arctic. Having Bivins—In this city, July 16lh, of consumption, Abse heard nothing from him since, I am grcitly uneasy about him. Hivins, aged 46 years and 11 months, a native of Savannal. If you can give mc any information concerning him, or any New York State, and a resident of these islands since 1869. information in reference to the bark Arctic, 1 will be much Kahala—ln this city, July 19-lh,of lung disease, Chables obliged. Veryrespectfully, C. 8. Solomon. Kahala, aged about 80 years. He was a Printer by trade, formerly employed in theold Government Gasette office, and until a few weeks before his death was employed in the Advertiser office. Lewis—At MarshfieUl, Waikiki, July 20th, Infant daughtci of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Lewis, aged 26 days and 11 hours. Sobenson—ln this city, July 21st, Ida Emilia, aged a years, 5 months and 23 days, daughter of Mr. ThomasBorPORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. cnson. Mirkiiam—la this city, July 30th, Atchison, son of Mr. ARRIVALS*. Win. A. Markham, aged years and 2 months. Carter—ln this city, July 12th, Sybil AuoubtaCarter, July 6—llaw bk Maitie Macleay, Forbea, 15 days irom youngest daughter of Henry A. P. and Sybil Augusta Carter, Aatoria. aged 17 months. 7—Haw bk Queen Emma, Jeuka, 10 Java from :n..i One look upon thy face ere thou depart! Franciaco. My daughter ! It is soon to let theego! 10—Am bk Lizzie Williama, Halt, 13 dayi from San My daughter ! With thy birth hasgushed a spriug Franciaco. I knew not of—Ailing my heart with tears. 11—Am bkln Jane A Falkinburg, Brown, 18 daya from And turning wilh strange tenderness to thee— Portland, O. A love—O, God ! it seems so—that must flow: 12—U B Mi Mean, corvette Cameleon, A J Kcnneily, Far as thou tleeal, and 'twist heaven and B*f, S3 day■ from Callao. Henceforward, be a bright and yearning chair. 12—H1 R Mi iteam corrette Ilaydamak, S TirtolT. 40 Drawing me after thee! And so, farewell! days Irom Valparaiso. 'rTillis., 20—Am bk Delaware, Hinds, 21 dayi fm Victoria, B C. Ist and id verses.—l will lift fca mine eyes un22—Tahitian bk lonia, LovegroYe, 18 days fm Bolabola in Ps. CXXI, from hills, my the whence Cometh help m y help cometh 26— Am ahip Midnight, Kendrick, 10 dayi from San from Ihe Lord whichmade Heaven and Earth. Franciaco. 28—Brit atmr Macgregor,Grainger,23daya fm Sydney. 31—Am bk D C Murray, A Fuller, 11 daya Irom San p, i Hit m jpur nrari pen m mm l.orl is a Refuge for us. InformatiW n anted. Hknney—Peck— — MARINE JOURNAL. » " Franciaco. , ; �THE FRIEND, AUGUST, 70 The following is a copy of a letter addressed to the Captain of the Morning Star, by the Consul of the German Empire. It appears that any piratical rovers engaged in the kidnapping, business in the Pacific, and sailing under the German flag, must not expect to find mercy if caught. We are glad to learn that the great nations are alive to the honor of their respective flags, and will not allow the same to protect any scheme of base kidnapping. Imperial German Consulate, ) Honolulu, July 11, 1874. J Captain C. W. Gelett, Commander of the Missionary Packet "Morning Star." P'esent. My dear sir :—Referring to our conversation on the subject of the kidnapping of natives of the South Sea islands, as carried on by foreigners, I beg to solicit your kind co-operation in finding out whether or not, and if so in how far, Germans or vessels under the German flag are implicated in this detestable business. Certain articles appearing in the Friend of June Ist, of which I enclose copy, seem to imply that such has been the case of late; and if there exists, as is however to be hoped, no error, it is very desirable that more details and positive proofs, as far as obtainable, should be procured on this matter. The German Government is ever zealous power to do, to suppress this infamous trade, of which humane intentions it has repeatedly given proof; and I should like to be in a position to report more definitely on this subject to to aid, as far as it is in its Berlin. May I respectfully ask you, sir, during your present cruise to give this matter your earnest attention, and to report to this Consulate on your return whatever data you may gather when among the islands at the different missionary and mercantile stations. Be pleased to confer with the reverend gentlemen at Ebon, Ponape, Ascension, etc., etc., etc., and in my name invite their kind assistance in the object at hand. If not asking too much of you and the Rev. Messrs. Snow, Whitney, Doane, Sturges, etc., etc., it would be highly acceptable and much appreciated if you and these gentlemen will advise oftener than by the return of the Morning Star, and from time to time when an opportunity for sending letters offers, in order to enable me so much sooner to acquaint the Imperial German Government of what facts you may collect as you sail along. Be assured, sir, and I beg through you to convince the missionaries at all the stations, that the good will of my Government is with you all and the noble work in which you and they labor, and that everything will be done by Germany in the cause of Humanity and Religion. Wishing you and your companions on board of the brig a safe and pleasant voyage and happy return, I pray that God will bless all engaged in carrying and preaching His Word and acting in His Cause among the interesting people of those charming isles you are about to visit, and wherever true religion is spreading its way all over the 1874. sphinxes of Cairo and Alexandria, the names of Apis and Osiris united. From this moment he held the thread that was to lead him into the labyrinth, to the valuable discovery of the Serapeum, or burial-place of Apis, less elegantly called by English travelers, " The Bull-pits." He began the labor of excavation the Ist world. of November, 1850. A second sphinx rose Believe me, my dear sir, with sentiments from its winding-sheet, with the names of of high respect and esteem, to be Apis and Serapis engraved upon its side. Yours very truly, Soon a third appeared, then a fourth, then another. Days and weeks succeeded each Theod. C. Heuck, Consul of the German Empire, other, and with them—sphinxes ! After the twenty-first, a slight deviation hid for a moThe Buried Treasures of Egypt—Discovery ment the direction of the avenue; but it was of the Tomb of Apis—The Labyrinth of found again. The depth at which the Sphinxes—Recent Explorations in the sphinxes were found went on increasing. After two months' labor the 139th sphinx East—French Egyptology. was found, but not its successor. It was the [The following sketch of the labors of M. Mari- Ist January, 1861. M. Mariette was not ette, ia bringing to light the wonderful treasures of ; avenue surely could not Egypt, has been translated for the Boston Daily discouraged this Advertiser from the Revue dcs Deux Mondes. It is have led to nothing. After more labor it owing to the perseverance and extraordinary success was discovered again,—it had turned toward of M. Mariette that France has a right to claim for the south. herself a large share of the glory of the modern These old structures were never built for advances in Egyptology.] the vanity of an outside show. All the M. Auguste Mariette was born in Bou- careful decorations, and sculptures, and logne in 1821, and began life as a teacher of chambers decorated with paintings, were for drawing in England. Afterwards he became the service of the mummied dead when he a tutor in a small college in his native town. should awaken to resume them, and were In some of his leisure moments he was at- carefully hidden by all the deceits of windtracted by the exhibition of a mummy case, ing passages and unexpected turns. in one of the halls of the Boulogne MuWe cannot begin to describe the pavement seum, and resolved to decipher the inscrip- reached at last, beyond the 141st sphinx— tions upon it. He gained access to some of the circle of Greek statues—or the little Champollion's books, and without other guide chapel further on dedicated to Egyptian The eight thousand francs with or encouragement of any sort he succeeded kings. in interpreting the hieroglyphics painted which M. Mariette was provided were Hearupon this mummy case, and it was not long ing their end; and yet, after two months before he became master of the system of more of excavation, the pick-axes of the feldeciphering Egyptian writings. He studied lahs, in the beginning of March, struck the the Coptic language thoroughly and made threshold of the Serapeum. himself acquainted with all the works pubYet when we read further that the Serapeum was entirely cleared away, and of all lished at that time upon this subject. He reached Egypt in October, 1850. its transportable monuments 7,000 were carWhile awaiting in Cairo the result of the ried to the Louvre; and when, in now visitformalities that are so interminable, yet so ing this imposing gallery, we find it emptied necessary, in the East, he made the ac- of all but the huge granite sarcophagi that quaintance of the prominent men of the it would be impossible to move, we cannot country known for their sympathy for but regret that these discoveries had not France, Linant-Bey, Varin-Bey and Clot- been made under a more appreciating dynasty, and that Egypt might have kept her Bey. He also made the acquaintance of two own. sphinxes, similar to one that had struck his How imposing to enter again that magniattention in the garden of the Belgian Con- ficent apartment, passing down its stairway, sul-General, Count Zizinia, in Alexandria. shut in by more than a hundred sphinxes, Upon each was a peculiar inscription, bring- and itself adorned with sculptures, filled ing together always the names of Osiris, with vases and ornaments, now scattered in Apis and Serapis. He found that these had a foreign country ! It is true, we are told all been obtained from the hands of a Jewish that the sand quickly covers again these merchant in Cairo, who had made it his monuments that have been excavated, but business to exhume such antiquities from be- have not the future ages a right at least to yond the little village of Sakkara, on the rediscover these footsteps of history that left bank of the Nile, on the edge of the ages have so carefully preserved ? desert south of the great Pyramids. Travelers upon the Nile can form some M. Mariette determined to draw out a idea of the material work that has been acchronological plan of this necropolis. From complished in the magnificent buildings that the height of the pyramid of Sakkara, he are now laid open for their admiration, but could already distinguish, on the shining, we still await the publication of the result yellow plain below, the several quarters of of the studies of Mariette Bey. Three the fourth, eighteenth and twenty-fourth dy- small pamphlets give a slight idea of the nasties of Pharaohs, and the Ptolemaic purport of these works ; the result is hoped tombs. He had sketched out a plan for this for in some large publication that might vast burial-ground, when one day his foot bring out the light that his discoveries have struck a stone bearing hieroglyphs. He thrown upon archaeology and the religious picked it up and found upon it, as upon the and political history of Egypt. �TBE FRIEND, AUGUST, DILLINGHAM &CO. ADVERTISEMENTS. fl HARDWIRE, lITUIII. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, HOLLOW WARE, BREWER Honolulu, Oahu, 11. I. P. Kire- Proof More, in Robinson's Bull.llng, Queen Street. KEROSENE LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS, |-|R. AND WARRRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. Dentist, I < 1 11 |"*1 hlx ' Wagon anil Carriage Builder, 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. 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Old Bishop Ivo met one day, As he went up and down the hinds, A stern, sad woman on her way, Wilh fire and water in her hands— in this band water, that hand fire— And she was filled with holy ire ! mean those symbols, Mother, tell " What And whither go you ?" She replies quench with this the flames of Hell, " To With this to burn up Paradise. .- : Fear, hope must nevermore be known, But man serve God through love alone ! er what is due to outraged justice—whatever that may be. The other speakers, strongly opposed the idea that courts had anything to do with justice as an abstraction or a sentiment, or the principle of vengeance, and held that they only had to consider what was necessary for the protection of society, and on that simple ground alone would they with benefit legislate and adjudge upon matters of penalty. They held that otherwise there is no regulating principle in punishments known to men ; that there are no rules of vengeance, no definite information as to the exact nature of Divine justice, or laws for its application to human forums. And further that there-is no evidence that the enactments of the Mosaic Code on this subject, were intended to apply to the race for all time, that on the contrary the Ten Commandments, which were doubtless intended for universal application, positively avoid all reference to punishment by human tribunals; and that the quoted text " whoso shedeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed," was simply a statement of natural consequences and not a command. Capital punishment was further opposed, on account of the impossibility of making amends to persons wfio are subsequently ascertained to have been mistakenly punished ; whereas, in case of confinement for life a termation of punishment, is always possible. It was also held tint on account of averse sentiment to capital punishment it is becoming more and more difficult to convict criminals of murder, and so justice is defeated and protection to human life endangered by the very severity by which it is sought to be promoted. The topic of discussion for the next meeting is Prejudice. 72 HYACMshooeriucnatn’gf onolulu. In communities where not only those who make the laws but thoso who execute them are elected by the voice from the ballot box, there is perhaps more hope for reform than in a community like our own, where those who are called to execute the laws are the appointees of men who do not look so much to character and actual fitness for the work, as to the fact that they have a preference for the official because he is n personal friend or a friend of their sovereign. The power of well directed public opinion should not be undervalued however, even though unsupported by the ballot box. Where changes take place in the heads of departments, as has been too frequently the fact of late, we may reasonably look for some change in the bureaus not necessarily of individual officials but of official opinions master like man." " Like Subordinates, with a very natural desire to retain position, too often conform their theory and practice of duty to the known or supposed views of their chief. Public sentiment has few terrors for them. Again, the subordinate may well question the consistency of a public sentiment that berates him for failure to arrest a person At the July meeting of the Association, Mr. A. L. Smith opened the discussion of the evening with an essay on Capital Punishment, in which, after mentioning the difference of public sentiment on the subject, he argued in favor of the continuance of the death penalty for murder, arson, etc., upon the ground of its necessity for the protection who is a drunkard or one who breaks the of human life. The essayist urged that imlaw by selling in quantity more or less than prisonment for life or any other punishment his license warrants, or one who furnishes liquors to persons around whom the statute less than capital could not have a sufficient has thrown a protection, when the same sendeterring influence upon men to prevent the timent fails to elicit a protest at the appointcommission of these crimes; that in the ment to the chief seats in the nation's counpunishment of solitary confinement for life, cils of men who are engaged in the traffic. there would always be the possibility of Not only failing to protest but approving with pen and voice the wisdom of the appardon, or alleviating circumstances in matpointment. ter of comfort and luxury, and so it would We are not so near the millennium as to be robbed of its worst terrors, and thus have a justify the expectation that subordinates will tendency to lower the moral standard reenforce a very rigid observance of the statgarding the sacredness of human life, and to utes affecting the sale and use of intoxicating drinks while their chiefs have no symreduce murder to a comparatively mild with the advocates of temperance pathy offence. He further referred to Divine law, The Temperance Question. reform. upon this subject as conclusive for all time Much less reason have we to expect reThe desire expressed in many ways by on this point, fixing unalterably, with all the form from official sources when we consider community more thoughtful part of this force of inspiration, the death penalty to the the that one of the Ministers is directly interestto limit, if not to prohibit the sale and as a ed in the sale of wines and spirits. crime of murder. intoxicating liquors Just what we have a right to expect from In the discussion which followed, those consequence, the use of is not the result of a new idea, official sources is well foreshadowed in the this city in who took part were divided into two sides, but rather of one that has been struggling report of a Special Committee of the Legislative Assembly, of which a Cabinet Minisfavoring capital punishment, and opposing for a better development for many years, a ter was Chairman, to whom an Act to supor doubting its policy; the former holding profound conviction that something must be press the sale of intoxicating drinks was in addition to the arguments of the essay, done to save the rising generation from the referred. that the Mosaic code of laws in fixing the The report set forth that treaty obligations and dominion of that despot—King death penalty enacted a principle which sway prevented legislation to the desired end, a Alcohol. statement not based upon fact; but, coming applied to the human race in all ages and In all the efforts made to this end, how- from the Attorney General, accepted as the circumstances, and which was under all ever crude and spasmodic they may have truth. therefore intended to be binding upon the How those who desire to push the tembeen, there has without doubt existed as an race through all time. Also, that beside underlying motive the honest and praise- perance reform movement to a successful the object of protection to society, an element worthy intention to do good to mankind ; issue can expect to win the field, while the of abstract justice, or vengeance, entered but is it not possible that mistakes have been surrounding heights are in possession of a unto the principle of such a penalty, and made because there has been a failure to bold enemy, is moro than our comprehension to understand the simple fact that can grasp. that Legislatures and courts ol law must recognize, And just here the question might be conlaws have no force other than that given be influenced in their verdicts by both of them by the sentiment of the community in sidered, whether we need more legislation these principles, and must not only look out which they are enacted and to be put into or a more sound, consistent, public sentiment ? 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Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1874.08.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874.08.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/496cb2d49e2b8496b9a0315acd143ea9.pdf b65939a81dcafb241b3ebcff0315a87f PDF Text Text FRIEND THE HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 4, 1874. £* Stties, M 23. 3MJ acciprocity Report upon Samoa Islands Charles 11., John Bunyan, &c Sweet Sad Story of theCross •Queen Victoria Important to Navigators In the Pacific The Martyr-Bishop of Melanesia United States is the natural market for our products. Very soon, by quickened trade, the United States would control the trade of these islands, and another step would be taken towards the control of the trade of the Pacific. In view of such results, the " half a million " of duties imposed upon the Hawaiian sugars and collected in the San Francisco Custom House, is a trifle scarcely worth mentioning. American statesmen are now discovering that they have been " penny wise and pound foolish " in regard to Canada, but they are equally so with reference to Hawaiian Islands. " Give and it shall be given unto you," is the enunciation of a principle, true not only in the philosophy of Christianity but of political economy and commerce among nations. The point to which we now call attention, we think, is worthy of those fond of statistics. Fill Uncle Sam's pocket, and he will reciprocate/ western coast of the CONTENTS For Seplesssber, 1874. Pans, • Marine Journal Aberdeen Memorial Pacific Medical Journal Transit of Venus Y. M. C. A '"J* ra ••'* TO J* J7 J*J* r8 "•» THE FRIEND. 18T4. SEPTEMBER 4. The United States the Gainer by Reciprocity with Hawaiian Islands. By late papers we learn that the United States is about to renew its reciprocity with Canada. One of the strongest arguments for the renewal of this treaty, is the fact that ever since its abrogation the United States has been the loser. The leading men of the country are convinced that while Canada will be benefited, the United States will be the greater gainer. Statistics show that during the last few years, the high duties and jwactical' non-intercourse have been detrimental to the commercial interests of the United States. Will not the same course of reasoning apply to the Hawaiian Islands ? /AYe think it will. Of course we know the Hawaiian Islands would be essentially benefited by a reciprocity treaty, but would not a greater benefit accrue to the United States ? We think it would. Suppose such a treaty should be negotiated and the agricultural interests of the islands were quickened, then here would be opened a ten-fold greater market for the lumber, salmon, and every description of goods manufactured in the United States, but especially west of the Rocky Mountains. Should this take place, the trade with Oregon and California would be marvelously augmented. Our products sugar and rice—would not interfere with the products raised on the western coast of the United States. Our islands are the natural market for their products, and so the 73 . {®ttSm.s,lto..3l. We regret that the manuscript for a continuation of " Prince Henry of Portugal " did not reach us in season for this number, but will appear in our next. Rev. J. H. Archebald.-This Presbyterian clergyman will' be remembered as having visited Honolulu a few months since. We have received a letter from him, after his iafe arrival among his friends residing in Truro, Nova Scotia. The Rev. Mr. Snowden, of the Congregational church in Darien, Ct., formerly of Redwood City and Honolulu, has resigned, and intends to establish an educational institution in Brooklyn, N. Y. Sad Accident.—By the upsetting of an ox wagon at Kualoa, on tbe Koolaii Bide of this Island, on Saturday last, a little boy some four or Aye years old, a son of Mra. J. H. Thompson, was instantly killed. The remains were brought to town en Sunday, and the funeral was numerously attended by sympathizing friends of the family. Mr. 11. 11. Sawyer, at whose house Mrs. T. was sojourning at New Books, New Books. Koolau, was in consequence of tbe excitement accident, stricken with paralysis, A more tempting display of fresh new caused by the was brought to town in a helpings condition. and books, we have rarely seen exhibited in Ho- We were glad to bear yesterday that bia symptoms nolulu, than is now spread out at Whitney's were improving.— Advertiser, Aug. Bth. " bookstore. Passing over the long list of volumes of fiction with their marvelously strange titles, we will call attention to such Thoreau, the Poetas the following : Naturalist; "The Land of the White Elephant; " Sub-Tropical Rambles," in Mauritius, "Zenobia," "Julian," Aurelian, " " " by Ware; " Festus," 30th edition; " Holidays Abroad "by Mrs. Kirkland; " South Sea Idyls" by Stoddard; "Annual Record of Science and Industry;" Burns," " Hood," " Keble ; "tion," " " Camp Fires of the RevoluParley series; Swiss Family Robin- son. We might continue the list indefinitely, and other books equally entertaining could be noticed. Those about going to sea could not more usefully invest a few dollars, than by visiting Whitney's and there making a choice selection. We would recommend seamen on board vessels of war, making up a purse " and purchasing a good supply of such as the above mentioned volumes. " "A writer in the English Churchman Magazine calculates that there are 17,000 hymns in the mother-tongue, of which but 216 have been accepted into general use by the English church. Of the latter number 24 are by Watts, 21 by Wesley, 10 by Montgomery, 11 by Heber, 9 by Newton, 9 by Tate and Brady, S each by Cowper and Doddridge, and 6 each by Keble, Kelly and Neal, and 5 only by 'Anon.' " Exchange. Thus it would appear that the Independent Non-conformist Isaac Watts stands at the head of the list of English Lyric sacred poets, even far above the Churchman's favorite Keble. The English Churchman admits Watts, Wesley, Doddridge, and even Tate and Brady " into the choir. Tfcijs "shows that in the sacred songs of the sane-, tuary, there is a Christian fellowship and " communion of saints," akin to the eomniu.-. nion of the Redeemed in HoaYen. — �74 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, been partially at least ignored, and the native governments allowed to become subWe would acknowledge from A. B. Stein- verted and overturned. This fact being unberger, Esq., U. S. Special Agent, a copy of controvertible, we are not surprised that his Report to the Secretary of State at Samoans should seek an alliance with the Washington. This report is printed under United States Government, or a protectorate. the authority of Congress, and is very full and complete respecting the Samoa Islands. Charles II., John Banyan, and the Quaker Sailor. It will be remembered by many of our readers, that Mr. Steinberger passed through " The Pilgrim's Progress" is doubtless great work, and that which has Bunyan's Honolulu on his passage to and from those to his name, but he was exhaustive, given immortality islands. This report is quite a voluminous writer. We have now quite and acquaints the reader most fully with facts works, in three on our table lying Bunyan's to the relating population, and statistics agriculture, climate, commerce, missionary large octavo volumes. It is Offor's famous operations, and natural history of the group. edition published by Blakie & Son, of GlasFrom this report and the statements of the gow, in 1853. The engravings and printwriter during his last visit at Honolulu, we ing of this edition are executed in the very learn that the native population, English highest style of art and workmanship. No missionaries, and foreigners generally were expense appears to have been spared to do exceedingly anxious that the United States honor to Bunyan, whose writings have atGovernment should extend its protectorate tained universal popularity." Among Bunover those islands. He concludes with this yan's other works we would mention, viz., "Holy War," "Grace Abounding," "The paragraph : They know nothing of finances, or the Pharisee and the Publican," "The Jerusaart of government; in theory they may dis- lem Sinner Saved," &c, &c. Bunyan was play some wisdom, but they must fail in in his day quite a controversial writer, and practice. They fully realize that some gov- was very severe upon the Quakers, until he ernment must aid (hem. With a population learned that through the intercession of the one third less than the Hawaiian Islands, Quakers, he obtained his release from prison. vastly gieater natural resources and amiable It is a somewhat noteworthy fact, now well and tractable people, and upon the track of authenticated, that Charles 11. liberated Quaa growing trade between English speaking kers and Puritans from confinement through people, Samoa under guidance and protec- the personal intercession of the Quakers, tion would develop and concentrate a great among whom was Richard Carver, who was trade. To the touch of industry, its harbors mate of the fishing vessel which conveyed would be busy marts, its timber utilized, and the king to France, after the famous battle its valleys and mountain slopes teeming of Worcester, 1651. This honest Quaker sailor, after twenty years had rolled away, with native products." If the United States Government is in- appeals to the king in person in behalf of clined to obtain a foot-hold or acquire pos- those who were in prison. When the fugisessions in Polynesia, this group would tive king fled for his life, this sailor conveyseem to offer a tempting prize. We have ed him on shore. "The vessel was bound heard the rumor that the Emperor of Ger- for Poole, coal-laden, with two passengers, many might look that way if the United who passed as merchants running away from States should fail to assume a protectorate. their creditors—the fugitive king and Lord The policy pursued by the British Govern- Wilmot were landed at Fecamp in Norment at Fiji, may lead to important steps in mandy, upon the back of a Quaker, and regard to Samoa. From a general survey the vessel recrossed the channel to Poole." When the honest sailor appeared before of the various groups of Polynesia, including Society Islands, New Zealand, Fiji, Sa- his majesty, the king expressed astonishmoa, and Tonga, there does not appear to ment that he had not previously sought some be any group where the rights of the natives reward; the sailor replied that he merely had and the authority of king and chiefs, have done his duty, and God had rewarded him been more sedulously guarded than upon with peace of mind. "And now, Sire, I ask our own islands. It is a most singular and nothing for myself, but that Your Majesty noteworthy fact that republican American will do the same for my friends that I did missionaries and American citizens, have for you—set the poor pious sufferers at libuniformly sustained a kingly government on erty, that you may have that peace and satthese islands, while in the groups of the isfaction that always follow good actions." Report upon the Samoa Islands. " " 1874. and the sailor, we conclude our brief notice of this interesting chapter in English history, in the words of Offor : Shade of the noble sailor, Thy name," Richard Carver, is worthy of all honor." John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has come to the fullness of his honors at last. On the 10th of June a bronze statue of him, erected in his native village, was unveiled by Lady Stanley, wife of the Dean of Westminster. The spot chosen is within a few hundred yards of the prison where Bunyan spent twelve long years. The statue was the gift of the Duke of Bedford; the address was by the Dean of Westminster; and in the large company present were Earl Cowper, lord-lieutenant of the county, and other representatives of the national Church. At the banquet in the evening which followed the unveiling of the statue there wereChurchmen, Independents, Baptists, Methodists, an Irvingite minister, and a Catholic priest. This fact very fitly symbolizes the catholicity of Bunyan's immortal work. Dean Stanley's address abounded in telling points. One is worth quoting here : " The whole of English literature has produced only two works of universal popularity, and both of these were by Non-conformists. One is the work of a Presbyterian journalist, and is called Robinson Crusoe, and the other is the work of a Baptist preacher, and, its name is The Pilgrim's IVogress." "Sweet Sad Story of the Cross." Some months ago a gentleman in Honolulu forwarded the little tract with the above title to Dr. Hepburn at Yokohama, to be translated into the Japanese. We have just received a letter from the translator, from which we copy as follows " I have translated the little book and published it in blocks. I have had 3,000 copies struck off, at a cost of $77.00. I send one hundred copies to your address. The Japanese like the little book much, and it is much sought after. lam only too happy to have been able to do this for the Lord's sake, and hope it may be the means of bringing many of this people to know and love Him, to whom we owe so much." We would merely add, that if any one acquainted with Japanese living in different parts of the islands will send to us, we shall be glad to furnish gratuitously so many copies as may be needed. Remember, it was reading a simple tract by a Japanese acquainted with the Chinese language, which led him to forsake his country, visit China, and proceed from thence to Boston, where he became acquainted with Alpbeus Hardy, Esq., who educated the young man at Amherst College, and now he has just graduated from Andover Theological Seminary, and is designing to return as a missionary to Japan. We refer to the South Seas," where missionaries and for- King Charles thereupon pardoned 471 Qua- Rev. Mr. Nesima. At the late anniversary "eign residents from England and other Euro- kers, and many Independents and Baptists at Andover he delivered his oration in the pean countries have predominated, the rights —among them John Bunyan. In view of Japanese language, although speaking tbe of kings, chiefs and common people have so meritorious an act on the part of the king English. : �THE FRIEND, Queen Victoria. In reading the life of the distinguished American Baptist missionary, the Rev. Dr. Mason of Burmah, the translator of the Bible into the Karen language and the author of an important work on natural history, we met with the following paragraphs relating to the Queen of England. Dr. Mason was a native of England, but has spent many years in America and Burmah. He styles himself a workingman," and has " written and published his autobiography under the title of The Story of a Working" man's Life,", which is certainly a very remarkable book and richly worthy of the perusal of every friend of missions and humanity. After spending many years in Burmah he returns to America via England; and upon approaching his native land, he thus writes respecting Queen Victoria : After a few hours detention at Plymouth, we pushed out to sea again, and the next land we made was The Needles, the western extremity of the Isle of Wight. As we went up the Solent, between the island and the main land, both shores appeared like gardens, cultivated down to the water's edge, in striking contrast with the wild picturesque shores of Burmah, which we had so recently left. The flagstaff towering above Osborne, the Queen's residence, was pointed out to us nearly in the centre of the island, among the highest of its chalk hills, and that is about the nearest approach to royalty I ever made. The Queen of England is the most liberal monarch in Europe. She heads progress, does not obstruct it. Whenever the will of the people is unmistakably made known through the House of Commons, she never sets herself against it, as the Lords often do, but, whatever may be her private opinion, acquiesces in it more readily than half the American Presidents. We never hear of measures of great public good being vetoed by the President. The workingmen of England owe more to Queen Victoria than to all the previous monarchs that have sat on the throne since the days of Alfred. Her name will go down to posterity on more acts for doing justice and loving mercy to the wronged, oppressed, and suffering, than can elsewhere be found in the statute books all put together. The acts for household suffrage and the disendowment of the Irish Church, alone place her name at the head of English reformers. I deprecate any change at the head of the British Government, and join heartily in the universal cry of " Long live Queen Victoria! !" God save the Queen The "Ellengowan."—This is the name j new missionary steam yacht, destined he exploration of New Guinea. This 1 is presented by a lady in Scotland, has arrived in Sydney. We have red a letter from the Rev. W. G. Lawes, is expected to accompany the expediThis gentleman was formerly a misry of the London Missionary Society SEPTEMBER. on Savage Island or Niu. From a letter written by him and dated Sydney, 31st July, we copy as follows : "After eleven years of very happy and successful missionary work on Savage Island, we went to England in 1872. While there I carried through the press a new edition of the New Testament and Psalms, also of Genesis and Exodus in the Savage Island dialect. I fully expected to have returned, but the directors of our society requested me to join the New Guinea mission. lam now en route to that new and interesting field. You will be interested in knowing that one portion of New Guinea is peopled by the same race as your Hawaiians or Eastern Polynesians. The little that is known of their language leaves no doubt of this, although their light color and fine physique showed that they belonged to a different race from the Papuans. We have a small steamer— the Ellengowan—given by a lady in Scotland for our use in visiting stations, locating teachers, &c. We are entering on our work with many indications of our Master's ap- proval." Father Taylor, "the prince of sailor preachers," has been worthily honored by a memorial window in the new Methodist Episcopal Mariners' Bethel of Philadelphia, which was dedicated June 14th. The window is the gift of the wife of Captain Chadwick, of the United States Navy. The design on it is a " foul anchor " resting on an open Bible, with the legend, " Father Taylor was anchored to his Bible, and the anchor never dragged." The new church is a beautiful structure of green and drab stone. The dedication-day was made memorable by a gift of $20,000 from Mr. Queen, the publisher of the New York Clipper. Mr. Queen had taken a great interest in this enterprise, and had made large advances of cash to the Building Committee. The repayment of these having been secured to him, it was announced at the close of the day that he had contributed the large sum above named. The surprise and gratification of the congregation could hardly be described. 1874. 75 Important to Navigators is the Pacific. To the Editor of the friend: Dear sir—Please insert in your valuable paper the position of the following reef aod islands, although they have appeared (some of them from their first discovery) from time to time in the Friend, yet we find that they are still very imperfectly known : Caldew, Shooting Star or Alice Thorndike shoal and reef, reported in the Friend of September, 1855, by Capt. W. E. Kingman. Center, lat. 6° 27' N., long. 162° 12' W. The SW. extremity, lat. 6° 22' N., long. 162° 22' W. Reported by Capt. Ferries of the steamship Tartar, which grounded on the reef last June. Other reports, lat. 6° 12' N., long. 162° 22' W. From the best information which I can obtain, this reef runs ENE. and WSW. bycompass 30 to 35 miles—still unsurveyed. Palmyra's Island, lat. 5° 51' N., long. 162° 20' W. Capt. Zenas Bent and Capt. English. Position pretty well ascertained. Washington Island, lat. 4° 41' N., long. 160c 15' W. Wilkes' survey. Samarang Shoal or Islets : Capt. Stone of the Josephine, tender to the American Guano Company's Islands, and Capt. Rickman of the C. M. Ward, present tender to the same company, have frequently passed over the position assigned to them, but never saw anything of them (islets). Capt. Truxton of the U. S. S. Portsmouth tried to find them on his last cruise, but did not succeed. I could not find them. How very important it is that the space from lat. 3° N., long. 152° W., up to lat. 7° N., long. 165° W., should be properly surveyed, being right in the route of the Australian and San Francisco steamers to and from Honolulu. Farming's Island : English harbor, lat. 3° 51' N., long. 159° 22' W. Capt. Harry The word love, in the N. A. Indian English. language, is " Schemlendamourtchwager." Christmas Island: Center of Cook's Islet, How nicely it would sound, whispered softly lat. 1° 55' N., long. 157° 26' W.; SE. in a lady's ear, " I schemlendamourtchwager point, lat. 1° 40' N„ long. 167° 12' W.; you! "— Remarks Dr. Anderson, in reference to NW. point, lat. 2° 5' N., long. 157° 34' W. Aloha or the word for love in the Hawaiian Capt. Bridges, while in charge of the island for the American Guano Company, 1872. language. have not to some words express In the vicinity of Washington Island, Pal" If they of the greater ideas, they certainly have a myra's Island, and Caldew Reef, the current word expressing one of the sweetest, richest sets strong to the eastward all the year sentiments of the human heart Aloha. It means love to you. I never wearied with round, while it sets the opposite way at its repetition, though I repeated it thousands Christmas Island equally as strong. of times."—Dr. Anderson's visit, 1863. Yours very truly, We would acknowledge a copy of the Daniel Smith. Geographical Magazine, published in Lon- Harbor Master's Office, Honolulu, Aug. 23d, 1574. don, from Trubner 6c Co., publishers. — �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 76 and family, which are among the sweetest heritages of our human lot, linking him SEPTEMBER 4, 1874. with almost indissoluble bonds to these early scenes and associations. But within him The Martyr-Bishop of Melanesia. him Max Miiller in a recent and very remark- j the world-spirit was at work, before the whitening fields, and he heedstretched able address in Westminster Abbey, said, ed the call of the " Master of the Harvest." "If we had many such missionaries as Bishop Selwyn, whose name is connected Bishop Patteson, if Christianity were not only preached but lived in that spirit, it with much of missionary interest and operwould prove itself what it is—the reli- ation, had returned for a season to England, gion of humanity at large, large enough and with him this young curate started out itself to take in all shades and diversi- on his mission, for which years of careful ties of character and race." This trib- study and thought had been preparing him, ute to the broad and noble spirit of christian albeit unconsciously. It is from this point, consecration, which was in a peculiar de- March, 1853, that the real record of his lifegree characteristic of the late Bishop Patte- work begins, which seemed so suddenly to a years since ; but the real issues son, will, we are fully persuaded, meet with close few of which the eternities will alone disclose. a very cordial response from the many who The memoir before us derives an especial are now enabled to gain a satisfactory knowlcharm from the letters of which it is so edge of his worth and character, through largely compiled. There was, if we mistake the medium of a carefully compiled < Life.' an unusual fullness and depth of affecnot, It has been with unusual pleasure that we tion the family intercourse, which was in have thus traced through its various phases sacred and beautiful between peculiarly of development a life, so adorned with all son. Through the great and severe father and the graces of a Christ-like spirit, which and departure, through all deepened and broadened as the interests of trial of decision the years of separation it wells tip with a the Redeemer's Kingdom rose luminous over which attests better than all earthly purposes, and which, triumph- power and intensity assertion could the entire and direct any antly surmounting great and trying difficul- utter spirit of that consecration which led ties, received in its prime the Crown of him to leave all for " Christ's sake." These Martyrdom.'" with narrative of misJohn Coleridge Patteson was born in Lon- home-letters replete effort, of the hopes and fears, telling sionary don on the Ist of April, 1527. His family of the yearnings and longings of his life, in its numerous relations embraced many and capabilities of his distinguished in the Church and in Law. revealing the depths nature, cannot but move all readers by the It is to these early associations that we can their earnestness and of sympathetic power trace much of that Christian THE FRIEND. ' refinement which was inseparable from all his after-life, simplicity. Few positions in life, perhaps, call for a under many varying and peculiar circumstances. This atmosphere of culture and more thorough and complete sacrifice of religious society fostered in no small degree personal feeling and worldly ambition than the yearning tendency of the boy towards a that which is involved in entering upon the life devoted to the service of his Master and missionary work among the Islanders of th' kindled to an ever brightening flame the in- Pacific. The utter degradation and darkness terest which he so early manifested in the of the people call for untiring efforts, a progress and advancement of the Missionary never-ending surrender of personal, comfort Cause. The years of his boyhood are mark- and of self, the raising through the divine imed by no precocious development. His pelling power of Christian Love, of all these school life at Eton was that of the average sad, burdened souls into the light of an imboy in sports and studies, but yet even here mortal hope and blessedness. Some one has we note traces of a noble and chivalrous styled this labor of love as the office of the character. After his course at Oxford he parental Missionary in distinction from spent some time on the continent where his the life of argument and controversy which aesthetic tastes and refined perceptions were appeals simply to the intellect. Bishop fully gratified and a new impulse was given Patteson was possessed, in a high degree, of to his fondness for language, a fondness a nature instinct with the most delicate of which proved of most essential and practical poetic perceptions, keenly alive to all the service in the acquiring of new languages glory and beauty of a life devoted to art and letters, yet in the grandeur of his life-resolve, and dialects in after years. He entered upon the curacy of Alfington he brought all and laid it at the feet of his at the age of twenty-six. Here he was sur- Saviour, esteeming it a joy so to do. It was rounded by the tenderest relations of home thus armed that he labored through all the years of an earnest life. Strong in this faith " , * c la two valnßm MacmUlao Tonf _ Lira or Joan Colebidoe Pittbsom, by CharMtt M. Co., 1874, Loadon. " he met disappointment and discouragement, 1874. standing undaunted before the fierce " recoil of the wave of heathenism," which threatened to sweep away all the barriers which right and purity had reared. It will be remembered, that the islands embraced under the term Melanesia, comprise those groups known as the Loyalty Islands, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, etc., which lie in a fringe off the northeast coast of Australia. But little had been done in the way of reaching the inhabitants of these groups before Bishop Selwyn visited them, taking thence native lads to be educated in New Zealand. It was in this division of the Pacific that the field of Bishop Patteson's duties was so largely laid, and it was in one of its groups, the Santa Cruz, that he met his death. In 1861 he was consecrated Missionary, Bishop of Melanesia, an office which be entered upon with an earnestness and enthusiasm which ended only with his life. Through his instrumentality, the College on Norfolk Island was established, which is still in operation for the education of Melanesinn youth. This Mission work became the sole object of his life. He never returned to England, was never married, but every purpose, wish, hope and affection, was consecrated to this important work. His researches in philology are most interesting since in his numerous visits among the Melanesion Islands opened up to him new people and new dialects, for the acquirement of which he displayed a remarkable aptitude. Is it not true that in the history of Missions are to be found the rarest examples of a grand and liberal Christian Spirit? It would seem as if in response to the thorough renunciation of all worldly and selfish interests that an especial revelation of the glorious truths of religion flashed in upon these earnest workers in the vineyard of the Lord ! Bishop Patteson's attachment to the Church of England and to its ritual, was most sincere, yet above all, he recognized that grander Church in this world, whose limits are placed Ly no earthly judgment, but is in its divine beauty and perfectness composed of all those whom Christ Himself has chosen. Over the wild waves of sectarian debate and controversy these words come as the olive leaf of hope—" It isn't High, or Low, or Broad Church, or any other special name ; but the longing desire to forget all distinctions, and to return to a simple state of things that seems naturally to result from the very sight of heathen people." He did not seek* to overlay the truth " with human traditions," to confuse the mind of a simple people by a useless and hollow method of formalism; but he did strive with all the power of God-given strength to break unto hungering and wanting souls the �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1874. 77 or Bark D. C. Mubbay, A. Fuller, Master — S. Emerson, B. S.—We learn LeftRetort San Franciaco July 19th at 6 a m. Firm 3 daya out had moderate winda W to N with passing fog k-quails Then that another of our island young men has thewind hauled from gradually to N and E, and finally aettled in theremainder of the paasage with doe weather. July upper and broader plane of Chistian-living, graduated with honors at an American col- EINE 30th at 7 a m, made the eaat point cf Maui bearing SW by 8, miles. distance 30 Arrived in Honolulu Friday morning, July where churchly ordinance and trammels are lege. We refer to Mr. Emerson, as now 31st, after a paaaage of 11 dayi. Report or SchoonerC. M. Warp, Rickmas, Master.— forgotten in the better and purer revelation " Bachelor of Science " after four years of Left Honolulu June 11th. Bad light winda from the NE, of the truth and the Gospel, if we might hard study at the " Massachusetts Institute which laated for twelve houra} then calm for ■ixteen hours; took light breese from the eaatward up to lat 6° IN, long He entered then meet all workers in all fields, forgetting of Technology," in Boston. 100° 20' W, thenhad light air and calma from Ihe B to SW, with heavy rain, lasting for alx daya. Arrived at Enderbury names and orders, with the hearty spirit of with a class of ninety-one, and graduated laland June38th, winds light from the eastward. Left there for Baker's Island June 80th, wind light from ENK, arrived 4th, Christian fellowship and brotherhood, help- with a class of nineteen, seventy-two having at Baker's July 3d. Left there for Howland's laland July wind very light from the eaatward, arriving there July 6th. ing, cheering, blessing in the name of a fell out, principally on account of the severe Left there forBaker's laland July 6th, wind strong from the arriving next day. Left Baker's for Honolulu the same common Lordand Saviour.then indeed might j text-examinations in the higher Mathemat- BE, day, wind fresh from the eastward. Arrived in Honolulu Aug after of 27 daya. 3d, we realize in very truth the grand significance ics, Italian, German and French, and the Rbporta paaaage of Stbambhip Tartar, J. B. Ferric", ComMarket Left Street wharf at 1.30 p m July 28th; m-nder.— Natural Sciences. Emerson is now Mr. of the Holy Catholic Church !" passed the Farralone islands at 4.30 p m. Had line calm " throughout the passage, arriving in Honolulu at noon There are many passages we could wish employed with a prominent civil engineer of weather on Wednesday, Auguat 6th. Time of passage from land to Boston, Mr. Bewdwitch, a grandson of the land, 7 days and 17ft hours. W. It. hodqkinb. Purser. to quote, full of the ripe experience of busy, of the Retort of Babk R. C. Wylii, Walters, Master.— author Fin*t part of paaaage hnd considerable boisterous and stormy " Navigator." laboring years. They contain the lessons but after entering the NE tradea had a floe run down Rev. P. J. Gulick.-We have received a weather, to the Rio Plate} experienced a very severegale there from which all missionaries and societies must Saw a bark at about lat 9° N and long 140° W, steerBE. ing NW, but could not get near enough to make out where learn, that of setting not an abstract theory letter from Mr. Gulick, dated June 30th, she waa bound. Off Cape Horn had mostly moderate and deal of calms to this port, whereshe and dogma before a heathen people, but the Osaka, Japan. He with his family reached fine weather, and a great Thursday morning, Aug ftth, after a passage of 116 dayi. warm-living heart of Christianity; that of that city in safety, and hereafter expects to arrived Rbport of Steamship Macoreoob, 11. Gbainobb,Comsending men as the "Ambassadors of Christ," be located with his son, the Rev. O. H. Gu- mander—Arrived at San Francisco at 6r si AuurBth. Dedays by the non-arivat of the mails, delay being tained who shall be able to reach the needy by the lick, who has been stationed at Kobe. He caused two by the English mail being sent via Boston instead of own Mrs. writes that his health and that of New York, Left San Francisco Aug 18th at quarter past 12 power of earnest, heroic, sympathetic lives. Gulick, midnight; experienced dense fog after clearing the Golden was improved by the voyage. Gate. No pilot boat} had to bring the pilot (Mr Nathat) on. He was anxious to awaken the manhood Next day strong northwest wind and sea; moderate northwest winds fine weather till the20th. Got the trades on tho which he felt was implanted within them, Arrival.—The Bishop's former parish in 21st in and lat 28° IS. Arrived in Honolulu on the evening of another worker to R. B. Prinolb, Purser. the Aug 28th. not to "denationalize" a race, by endeavor- England has furnished staff Hawaii. the on in Mission Tartar By PASSENGERS. ing to make them conform in an unnatural the sth, we welcomed Mr. Abel Clark, the manner to all the tendencies of this or that ninth of the Bishop's former parishioners Fbom the ouano islands—Per C. M Ward, Aug. 3d—42 laborers. more enlightened people. His creed was who are now associated with him here.— native Fob Pobtland, O—Per Jane A. Falkinburg, Aug. 3d—ll Mclntyre, Jno Lewis, George Wilson. Monthly Messenger September. Church and Him crucified," and through Hato'n for Fbom Ban Fbancibco—Per Tartar, Aug. 6th—Count do "theChrist Ryschkan, A Clarke, T Aldon, and 64 in transitu for New of such a belief he felt all inspiration Zealand and Australia. Sydney—Per Fob Tartar, Aug. 6th—F W Anderson nnd blessed. would be wife, Mr Shadwell, Mr Knight, wife and daughter, and 04 In It was during a cruise of the Southern transitu from Ban Francisco. Fbom Beemen—Per R. C. Wylie, Aug. 6lh—ll Low. Cross, in the Santa Cruz Group, that Bishop PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. Fob Tahiti—Per lonia, Aug. 7th—Jas Silra, Jas Estnll, Rodgers, Ah Ttam. Jos Patteson met his death, the 21st of SeptemFob Sab Fbabcibco—Per 1). C. Murray. Aug. lOlh—W F ARRIVAL.. Kruger, Mrs J M Green and 4 children, F II Damon, ber, 1872, at the hands of the natives, who, Aug. I—Am topsail schr Alice Ilaake, Thomas, 13 days tin Austin, I Albert R Mitchell, Rev F Thompson, wife and 2 children, X Curtis, Mrs Hickman, Mrs Campbell and 2 sons, F M II San Francisco. in revenge, for some wrong, received from a 3—Am schr C M Ward, Hickman, 27 days fm Baker's Weed, H L Dow, T W Moore, A I. Smith, W R Pond, J Brown, S Slaning, J Cordroy, II G McGrcw, C B Morgan, Island. far different source, slew him, who was their s—Brit stmr Tartar, Ferries, 7 days and 17 hours fm Rev II Foote and wife, Z S Spalding, Mrs Humphreys, Capt Weeks, B F Feary, M Williams. San Francisco. truest friend. Fob the ouabo islands—Per C. M. Ward, Aug. 13th—23 6—Haw bk R C Wylie, Wolters, 115 days fm Bremen. native laborers. ship Tordenskjold, with 14—Danish 36 Sorenson, P days are that it was a custom the J We told Foe San Feaeoisco—Per Alice Ilaake, Aug 19th—Mrs fm V'adiwosiock, en route for the guano ialands. 2 daughters and son, J N Simmens, G C Cleveland. Old Guard, at the calling of the roll, that 21—Brit stmr Mikado, Moore, 111 days from Kandavu. McGregor,Sydney—Per Fbom Mikado, Aug. 21st-Mr Gourlay, wife 26—Brit stmr Macgregor, 11 Grainger,8| days from San and child, Miss Gourlay, Mr Corbitt, and 73 In transitu for the dead should have equal mention with Franciaco. Francisco. 29—Haw schr Victoria, Tripp, 38 days from Plover Bay. Ran Fob Sab Fbancisoo—Per Mikado, Aug. 21st—M Hyrnan, the living. As the name of him, whose B Whetham, J Crane, N A llannemann, Mrs C W Hart and DEPARTURES. voice was hushed in the eternal silence, was child, Mra Bird and 2 children,Mrs Quinton and 6 children, Mary Qulnlon, CarleFresce, Achee. Achau, Akon, Apal. hktn J A Falkinburg, Brown, for Portland, 0. Mrs called a comrade, answered solemnly, Aug. 3—Am Foe Bab Francisco—Per R. C. Wylie, Aug. 26th—T Bor3—Am schr Geo Francis Train, Tengstrom, for Tahiti. o—ll I R M's steam corvette ilaydamak, S Tlrtott", enson. Dead on the field of Honor." It is all we Fbom San Fbabcibco—Per Macgregor, Aug. 26ih—Mrs for Japan. "to-day Mrs Quilter, Mr Magnin, Mr Hslstead, Mrs llalstesd can do for one who stood in the van6— Biit stmr Tartar, Ferries, lor Auckland Sydney. Fyfe, and 6 children, Mr Hayseklen, Mrs Fuller, Miss Fuller, I> 7—Tahitian bk lonia, Lovegrove, for Tahiti. Foster, Miss Foster, Surgeon Hall, U S N, Mr Whitehead, E C 10—4mbk D C Murray, A Fuller, for San Franciaco. guard of Missionary heroes, to say that he Doran. Mrs Doran and 3 children, 4 in the stcersge, and 49 in 12—Am bk Delaware, Hinds, for Victoria, B C. lor Australia. fell where most of all death was welcome, 13—Am schr G M Ward, Hickman, for guano islands. transitu Foa Sydney—Per Macgregor, Aug. 28lh—J M Laurie, J B 10—Ambgtn Alice Ilaake, Thomas, for San Francisco. Lcften, and 49 In transitu from San Francisco. on the field of honor, because the field of 20—11 B M's S S Cameleon, A J Kennedy, for Tahiti. 21—Brit stmr Mikado, F Moore, for San Francisco. duty and devotion, sealing his life-work with DIED. JO—Haw bk R C Wylie, Wolters, for San Francisco. 28—Brit stmr Macgregor, H Grainger, for Sydney. life-blood, while his ransomed his spirit Walloku, Maui, July 10th, Sii.an ChandChandleb—At i.eb, aged 64 years and 4 months. He was a native of I.fitMEMORANDA. passed on to the " glorious company of the U. S. and had been a resident of the A., yard', Connecticut, Sandwich Islands 31 years. Apostles, the goodly fellowship of the Port of Kus.rll, N. Z. Thompson—At Kaaloa, Oahu, Auguat Ist, William. Inwabds.—May 19th i Bark Merlin, Thomas, from whale youngest son of the late John 11. Thompson, aged 4 years and Prophets, the noble army of Martyrs." fisheries, with 400 sperm, season; bark Alaska, 340 tons, 6 months. Nomad. Fisher, from whale fisheries, ISO sperm. May 30th i Bark Labd—ln this city, August 7th, Mra. Lucbetia Nye Ladd, Mary Frazier, Nye, from whale fisheries,put In to stop a leak. June 9th t Osmanli, 292 tons, Williams, from whaling grounds widow or WilliamLadd, aged 67 years. Foster—ln this city, August 26th, Samuel Hudson Fob since leaving last April. Silver Wedding.—A few weeks since we —nothing Outwabdb.—May 22d: Bark Chaudiere, Brown, for New tbb, a native of Davenport, Scott County, lowa, la the 82d (freight year with whalebone from of hie age, leaving a widow and three children to mourn Bedford, 417 tuna oil, 6 tons congratulated the editor of the Haicaiian whaleshlps); bsrk Corsl, Marvin, for whale fisheries. June his loss. _r Davenport (Iowa) papers please copy. view of this 3d: Bark for fisheries. Juris 4th: Alaska, Fisher, whale Theodora—ln this city, Aimnst 28th, 1874. Sister Tmeohappy event in his Bark Rainbow, Gray, for Gazette, in New Bedford. June lllk: Milton, doba, aged 33 years,of Ihe Sisterhood of the Sacred Heart. married life, and now we are most happy to 871 tons, Fuller, for whaling grounds, with part original cargo; Fynh—ln Kona, Hawaii, Auguat 80th, of consumption, F.i Atlantic, bark, Brown, for whaling grounds. June 20th, Adams, ship, 406 tons, Hamblin, for whale fisheries; oebe J. Ftbb, aged about 40 years, a native of Holyoke, do the same for the editor of the Pacific Elleb Merlin,bark, 246 tons, for whale fisheries; Mary Frailer, bark, Mass b/• Massachusetts papers please copy. Ridley—ln thia city, at the residence of Mr. Wm. Hashes, Commercial Advertiser. Our limited space 301 tons, Nye, for whale fisheries; Osmanli, bark, 292 lons, Williams, for whale fisheries—last of the whaling fleet for this September 2d, John Ridlby, a native of Tullauiore, King's County, Ireland, j/ Tullamore papers please copy. will not allow a more extended notice. _£_ of Life." If we might all rise to "thisBread height of Christian freedom, to that Joseph MARINE JOURNAL. _ �THE FRIEND, 78 Aberdeen Memorial. Within the year just closed, we have had the satisfaction of acknowledging what will probably be the most effective of these memorial contributions, so Tar made. This is the gift to our treasury of £300 in gold (81,626) by the Countess of Aberdeen, of Scotland, to send out and keep in repair, through the Society, from its Rooms at New York and Boston, one hundred loan libraries, in memory of her son, George, Earl of Aberdeen, who was for more than three years a sailor on American vessels—and was lost at sea, six days out from the port of Boston, Mass., January 27th, 1870, while first mate of the schooner Hera, of that port, bound for Melbourne, Australia. A brief, but most interesting record of his life may be found in the Sailors' Magazine for May, 1874, pp. 129 to 139. This gift was received from Lady Aberdeen, after a correspondence with the Secretary of the Society, initiated by C. H. Dabney, Esq., of New York, in which the donor became thoroughly conversant with our Library work. With a careful and intelligent apprehension of its history and bearings, she adopted this as the practical and promising means of carrying out her desire to permanently benefit the class of men with whom her son passed so protracted and interesting a portion of his life on earth. Her letter of Februory 19th, 1874, reads Haddo House, Aberdeen, Scotland, ) February 19th, 1874. { Key. Dr. S. H. Hall, : American Seamen's Friend Society, 80 Wall St., New York, U. S. A. Dear Sir :—I have to thank you very sincerely for your letter of December 13th, '73, which I delayed answering in the hope of having some small books ready to be sent at the same time as my letter. This is not even now the case, but before another fortnight has elapsed I expect to be able to transmit the parcel to your address. 1 feel extremely obliged to you for the kind interest you take in my project and for your promised aid in sending out the Seamen's Libraries. I enclose a cheque from our Edinburgh agents on their London Bankers, which they inform me will be the most convenient method of sending you the £300, as you can have it cashed by your own Bankers, and get the benefit of the exchange at sight on London. I should propose to employ £250 in sending out Libraries, and to invest £50 as a fund for the keeping up and restoration of the same, but you are a much better judge than 1 can be of the proportion which ought to be placed to the reserve fund, and I should wish, therefore, to leave that to you. As 1 mentioned before, I should like to give more Libraries to Boston than to the other seaports, owing to my son's greater connection with that place. The parcel of books to which I alluded, consists of 250 or 300 copies of a small brochure, published as an appendix to the latest edition of the memoir of his father. It is a very short account of our son's life, but I think it would be interesting to the American Sailors, whom he so highly esteemed. I should be glad if one or two were placed in each Library. Your plan of hay- SEPTEMBER, ing a brass plate with an inscription on the case seems much better than marking each book, and 1 would propose only a slight alteration in that which you suggested. I write it out on thn other side, and with renewed thanks from myself and family for your cordial co-operation, I remain, yours faithfully, M. Aberdeen. Proposed Inscription. Amkuhan Seamen's Fbienm Society, LOAN LIBIIABY, Bent (o sea by his mother. In memory of George, Earlof Aberdeen,himself a sailor, and lost at sea in January, 1870, aged 28. 44 Hehath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over." It only remains to add that, following the suggestions made by. the Countess, the one hundred Aberdeen Libraries are now being issued by the Society, to sea-going vessels from New York and Boston.— N. Y. Sailors' Magazine, July Ist, 1874. Pacific Medical Journal. We would acknowledge from Dr. Wythe, a copy of this journal containing an article relating to the leprosy in the Sandwich Islands." During his trip to the islands he visited the Leper Asylum on Molokai in company with His Majesty, and as a medical man took much interest in examining the condition of those located there. His report is highly favorable to the Board of Health having the care of the establishment. We copy as follows a few paragraphs : During a recent visit to the Hawaiian Islands, I received an invitation from the government Board of Health, to accompany its members and the newly-elected King, in a visit of inspection to the Leper Asylum, on the island of Molokai. Near the rocky landing is the store-house, supplied weekly by the government by means of a small schooner, and from which rations, etc., are dealt out under the superintendence of a former member of the Hawaiian legislature, who, on finding himself a " leper, voluntarily relinquished the ties which bound him to society, and surrendered himself to the authorities. His business talents find useful occupation in the oversight of his fellow-sufferers. Near the store, under the shade of a solitary group of Pandanus trees, is a small Koman Catholic church, in which a priest, self-exiled, officiates. A Protestant church, I am informed, is located on the other side of the valley. The King and Board of Health*were welcomed at the landing by a group of between two and three hundred, with a band of music —all the musicians lepers—and from the general expressions observed, I should judge the welcome to have been a hearty one. From the landing, we rode over about three miles to the hospital buildings, and under the guidance of Dr. Trousseau, the physician of the Board, and a son of the eminent physician of that name, I was shown the various stages and varieties of the disease. The patients uniformly expressed themselves well satisfied with tbe care exercised in their behalf, and they were evidently far better offthan in their own homes. 1 came away from the asylum profoundly impressed with the benevolence of the Hawaiian government, and the fidelity of its agents. 1874. A HINT TO THE MoNEY-BORROWER, WILL not pay.—lf there is one more despicable character than another, it is the man who borrows money and "forgets" to return it. A melancholy instance of the evil effects of this is here recorded : " forgetfulness" At Brooklyn, N. V., on Friday, there passed away a person who was known as the "Twelve o'clock Man." For seven years he had stood near the City Hall, within sight of the clock, from eleven o'clock until the first stoke of the noonday bell, when he would slouch away to his home. No inclemency of the weather kept him away. Never adequately clad, he was always at his post at the usual hour, in the severest storms of winter, and the warmest day of summer. For more than five years his daily position was at a particular part of the railing, against the pickets of which he leaned, and looked mournfully at the clock. If spoken to he would mumble out an answer to the effect that he was waiting for somebody. " He'll come by twelve o'clock; he said he would." No one knew his story, but many guessed a piteous history of his life. It is now told that he had saved a sum of money by hard work ; that the money was borrowed of him with a promise to pay it, with interest, on a certain day, at noon, in front of the City Hall. But the old man never saw the borrower again. This unfortunate lived in an old hut, and did odd chores in the morning to earn a few pennies with which to buy food. Some one has drawn his picture for a Brooklyn club, and a warm-hearted resident of the neighborhood has tied a piece of crape upon the railings by which he used to stand. The Transit of Venus. English astronomers are not unanimous as to the situations that promise to be most convenient for the observations of the transit of Venus in 1874—Mr. Proctor urging certain sites, which are not approved by the astronomer royal. Much satisfaction is expressed on hearing that M. Flourien, an experienced naval officer and competent observer, will be sent to the Marquesas by the French Government. It is assumed that you will have leading stations at Wladiwostsk, near Yokohama and Pekin, and in some other portions of China, Japan or the adjacent isles, and also in one ofthe Sandwich Islands. The Germans will occupy three principal stations and eight subordinate ones, while Kussia will fill no less than twenty-seven stations, scattered through Eastern Siberia, and stretching between the Caspian Sea and the mouth of the Amoor, at all of which first and last contacts will be observed. In addition to the preparations made in England at the coast of the State, Lord Lindsay intends to visit the Mauritius at the time of the transit, with a good equipment of instruments, and to provide with his own hands and staff for more than one form of observation. With regard to the alliance of photography with the transit observations, Dr. Warren dc la Rue here, and Professor Bond in the States, hold that the measurement of the photographic images of the transit will in all probability give results of three-fold higher value than any direct eye and hand observation that could be secured. Exchange. — �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, & Dii_r_i_\rGH_:__._v_: co. 79 1874. ADVERTISEMENTS. an HOFFMANN, . M 0., Physician and Surgeon, IVOS. 95 AND 97 KII.G STREET, Corner Merchant andKaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office sp HAVE OK HAND AND FOR SALE A FULL ASSORTMENT OF BREWER HARDWARE, CUTLERY, MillIIHIU IMPLEMENTS, HOLLOW WARE, ADAMS. Auction and Commission Merchant, Fire-Proof Store, In Robinson's Building, Queen Btreet. SEINE AND WRAPPING TWINE, FISH HOOKS AND LINES, KEROSENE LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS, r|R. Dentist, Ol_ 8. *p WEST, Wagon and Carriage Builder, AN T> DRY, 74 and 76 King Street. Honolulu. CT Islandorders piomptly executed at lowest rates A I. I. E N RIFLES, OUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, CAPS AND POWDER, _r a. xaa. '•_ G«.i- cl 3VK *v tolxo «_ . Attention. Careful and Prompt _T A ■** A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c, &c. CURIOSITY HUNTERS will And at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF VolrauiJ Specimens, Corals, Shells. War Implements, Ferns, Mftls. Kapaa. And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and Micronesian Curiosities. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY I Jal 187* iOEE V CEiEEE J. C. MERRILL & Co., 204 and 206 California Street, Francisco. ALSO. AGENTS OF TBI . PIERCE __ (Buccesors to 0, L. Richards Apeiiis Ppplob Salt CO.. Co.) * I _E ">' » "1/ 10 Merchant Street, --- Honolulu. OF READING MATTER—OF THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! PACKAGES Papers and Magsimes, back numbers—put up to order ly educed rates for parties going to sea. THE PROPRIETOR WILL SPARE NO pains to make thia ELEGANT HOTEL. BOOH3CAN BE HID BY THE NIGHT OB WEEK I HALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR ly J_» PUBLIC MBBTINOB, OR 8001 TIM, CASTLE & COOKE, AGENTS OF al PHOTOGEAPHS ! First-Class in Every Particular ! GENERAL MERCHANDISE! '• STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, AND CIRCULATING LIBRARY, San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Honolulu THCB. G. THRUM'S No. Particular attention given to the sale and purchase of merchandise, ships' business, supplying whaleshlps, negotiating exchange, ke. XT Allfrelght arriving at Baa rranciseo.bj or to tbe Honolulu Line of Packets.will beforwarJed raas or oommibbioe. XT Exchange on Honolulubought and sold. J_ BEVEBEBCKS— Works, Brand's Bomb Lantts, And Perry Davis' Pnlss Killer. IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN _ * W chants, with or without board. Commission Merchants and Auctioneers — , Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. OX HAND A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, ALWAYS Messrs. A. W. PeireesGo H. Hackfeld a Co >• C.Brewer* Oo >• Bishop C0.... Dr.lt. W.Wood Hon. r H. Allen d« R T 11 Flrewond on H_nd._- ~-_^^B^^E*>' 1 61 Fort Street, Honolulu, San < 11 11. I. I N(;wo Kawaihae, Hawaii, Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer M. DICKSON, Photographer, I. 0. BEEEILL. _ Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping business at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the Justly celebratedKawalhae Potatoes, and such otherrecruits aa are required by whaleahips, at theshortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. I_T OUR GOODS WILL BE SOLD TO SUIT THE TIMES AND TERMS...__J • Island Orders will Receive I) Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea andFort streets. Hubbuck's Best Lead Zinc and Oil, Manila and New Zealand Cordage, _3 M MoGREW, Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, KEROSENE STOVES, DOWNER'S & DEVOE'S KEROSENE OIL, IN , Having resumed practice, can be found at his rooms over X Bircha k Co.'s Drug Store, corner ol Fort and Hotel sts. TO GIVE SATISFACTION. FANCY PAINTS. SMITH, MOTT KEROSENE LAMPS and CHANDELIERS, to Burn without Chimneys, JOHN WAKRRANTEI) CO.. Honolulu, Oahu, 11. I. P. Wjs GALVANIZED IRON, WOODEN TUBS AND BUCKETS, AND Si. Commission and Shipping Merchants, FOR THE BEST, GO TO THE COSMOPOLITAN PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY No*. 64 nasi 68 Pert Street. _ Alto for Sale, Photographic Views, etc., etc tf H. CHASE. Carriage Making; and Trimming I I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM TOD THAT I now employ the beat Mechanics in the Hoe of Carriage Making, Carriage and General BktcksmWiing, Painting, Repairing, Ac., REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF Oo tbe llswaiian Group ; and it if a well established hot that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. WhitPsckets, New Kngland Mutual Llfs Insurance Company, The Union Marine Insurance Company, Ban Francisco, man, la aa well executed aa any in New York City or The Kohala Bugar Company, elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted io laying that The Haiku Bugar Company. we can maoufaoluie aa good a class of work in HoThe Hawaiian Bugar Mill. W. H. Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, nolulu aa oan be found in any part of the world. I The Walaiua Sugar Plantation, will also Mate here that we fully intend to work at The Wheeler Wilson Sewing Machine Company, tl Ihe loweal possible rates. 0. WEST. Dr. Jaynt Bona Celebrated Family Medicines. THE ** �Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this : To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and lo keep one's self unspottedfrom the ivorld. Edited by a Committee 0/ tbe Y. I. C. A. Here a Little, There a Little. MEETING OF THE HONOLULU Y. M. C. A. The regular monthly meeting of the Honolulu Y. M. C. A. was held in the usual place on the evening of the 14th ult. The Aheong committee presented a report which embraced a letter from that gentleman, declining the proposition made to him by the Association that he return to this country and labor for the salvation of his countrymen here, giving as his reasons for this decision that he is engaged in school-teaching, nnd that the sum offered him for his support by the Association is insufficient. The committee also read a letter from the American Consul at the place where Aheong is residing. The Association resolved to make further investigations in the matter. An essay was read by the topic committee, on Prejudice, which was followed by a short debate. The Association was also favored with a very profound paper on the same subject, by Dr. Powell of New York city. The subject announced for discussion at the next meeting is, "The supply of Christian workers." The Tilton-Beecher scandal continues to occupy a prominent place in the American papers. We are glad to see that almost without an exception, the newspapers of the United States treat the reports as false. Good will result from this unfortunate discussion. It shows that the Christian community will not tolerate a suspicion of wrong in its most popular preacher, and furthermore that when there;; is no wrong, the •church and the world will stand by those falsely accused. The subjoined letter we insert with satisfaction and pleasure, as an indication that our labors as an Association for the good of our fellow-men, are appreciated : Letter frossi Two Sailors. Honolulu, Sailors' Home, ) August 17, 1874. J Gentlemen— We being strangers to the port of Honolulu, and having traveled a good deal of the world in our years of experience as seamen, (both of us being over 20 years in the British Nary) we are only too thankful to the gentlemen of the Y. M. C. A.of Honolulu, for the interest you have taken in the welfare of seamen ia providing a good Reading Room, in which they may, or those who are willing and glad to hear some good from the Lord, spend their leisure hours ; also, that they can get accommodation in other ways, so we hope and trust in God, you may see the good you are doing for seamen, who are so much exposed to the temptations whilst on shore, not forgetting the kind attention paid to us by Mr. Edward Dunscombe, the Manager of the Home, and the kind words and treatment from him. We also wish that the seamen would use this Home to their best advantage,—sleeping also. We also wish the Home every prosperity, hoping and trusting in the Lord. Thanking also, the good people of Honolulu, who have taken so much interest in the 80 ChYAMrsiooetucann'gHf onolulu. able judgment, although by. common usage such an idea is generally connected with it. It is as proper to call love at first sight " a prejudice, as that popular sentiment existing in England and the United States with " regard to frog-eating. Prejudice is the result of ignorance, and indeed we may almost say that it is identical with ignorance. The one is the legitimate offspring of the other. It is always of rankest growth in unenlightened countries, welfare of seamen—spiritually. G. W. Broodley, and among the least cultivated classes. A John Rendell. great many of our prejudices have been Of the Camdeon. handed down from generation to generation. Having come by them so innocently and unPrejudice. consciously, we often fail to recognize them for Since selecting the above topic consid- as prejudices. We are extremely apt to be eration this evening it has occurred to me Roman Catholics, or Protestants or Mohamthat this is not the first attempt I have made medans merely because our ancestors were to indite a disquisition on this subject. before us. We often meet with individuals While still an unfledged school-boy of ten- who exhibit a prejudice which appears to us der years, and wholly ignorant of the exist- the most unreasonable of all prejudices,— ence of Y. M. C. A.'s, I was bid to write a that against color or race. And you will composition on Prejudice, but although I notice that the degree of such prejudice is had successfully accomplished a number of in proportion to the ignorance of the indibrief essays on various branches of philoso- vidual in regard to the people in question. phy, this proved too profound or too abstract A better acquaintance inevitably modifies for my youthful mind. In fact I stuck on the judgment, and induces more charitable the title itself. For after having written opinions. A man's ignorance may always with illimitable self-confidence the letters be gaged by the number and strength of his P-r-e-d-u-d-i-c-e at the top of the page, I was prejudices ; and conversely that community overcome with the conviction that there was or individual most free from prejudice may a mistake somewhere. The word bore an be safely regarded as being the most adundeniably spurious look upon its face. It vanced in knowledge and liberality and appeared to me like a wolf in sheep's cloth- charity. ing. But what there was wrong about it We see the evils of prejudice around us completely mystified me. 1 repeated the on every side, but as they are coeval, coexword to myself again and again, and repeat- tensive and identical with those resulting edly came to the conclusion that there could from ignorance it would be a superfluous be but one way of spelling pred, and that task to dilate on them. Apostles of the was p-r-e-d. I had not then arrived at the truth in every land and clime find Ihem the dignity of a school edition of Webster's dic- most formidable obstacles to success in their tionary, but the blue-covered spelling-book mission. But the onward and irresistible by the same author was my sole guide and march of knowledge and enlightenment will, authority in orthography, and while desper- little by little, cause them to disappear, and ately searching its well-thumbed and unin- the " coming man " will be the almost goddexed pages for a solution of the mystery, like embodiment of all that can result from the hour expired, and my composition re- universal knowledge, infinite charity, and a capacity to judge men and principles on mained unwritten. their intrinsic merits alone. old is AngloThe word not of the good In regard to our duty as men and memSaxon stock, but is an exotic, being in realbers of this society in this matter, we canLatin trimmed the word prajudicium ity not be in doubt. We should constantly be to of the requirements a little suit the off English tongue. It is defined as a "pre- on the guard lest our prejudices cause us to judgment," which is a literal translation of do injustice to some of our brother-men, or the original word, or, to be more explicit, as at least to fail to accord to them the full a bias or leaning toward one side or the measure of charity which the example of "other of a question from other considerations our great Leader teaches us to vouchsafe to Topic Committee for August. than those belonging to it." It does not all. August 14th,'1874. necessarily convey the idea of an unfavor- � 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 (1874) 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 - 1874.09.04 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874.09.04 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b8afb47797dbd38aa60abc9ea0b562c8.pdf 53a19605242836d9a18b71bd0e5b5f96 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE gm Series, M. 23. Star. Io.J HONOLULU, OCTOBER 1, 1874, CO XT EN TS Far Oclaker, 1874. _. Reciprocity Henry the Hlu.triou.or Portugal U. S. Comul Barns and Sankry Marin* Journal Missionary Vessels In the Pacific Honolulu Sailors' Home The TranspacificTelegraph Y. M. C. A • Pas., 81 81—84 86 So 86 86 86 86 88 THE FRIEND. OCTOBER 1. 1814. Reciprocity. There is a growing feeling throughout our island community, that a Treaty of Reciprocity between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands, is both desirable and may possibly be secured. Hitherto, we think, the question has been viewed quite too much from an Hawaiian stand-point, and not sufficiently from an American, for unless it can be made apparent that it will, in a national point of view, be more beneficial to the United States than the amount of Custom House duties derived from Hawaiian sugars and other products, most assuredly the Treaty cannot be secured. Our Hawaiian Agents going to Washington must be able to show that America is to derive a substantial benefit as well as the Hawaiian Islands. Here has been one of the errors of former negotiations. As we view the question, America, even in a pecuniary way, is quite as much profited as our islands. When the subject was up for discussion in 1869, we were in tlie United States, and conversed with members of the United States Senate upon this subject, and at that period, they expressed the opinion, that the Treasury of the United States must not relinquish any amount of duties derived from* foreign importations. Times have now changed. The national debt has been somewhat reduced, the effects ot the civil war have partially passed away, and Reciprocity with Canada is now under discussion. From these and other considerations, it appears to be a favorable opportunity for re-opening the subject. The leading and influential men in Washington are inclined to look abroad and contract foreign alliances, which will augment commerce and promote national prosperity. Let now the Hawaiian Government improve this tide in the affairs of men," and it may lead on to fortune. As for Annexation, it should not be mentioned, for it will only perplex the question and hinder negotiation. Its discussion here would only irritate the Hawaiian people, and we are fully convinced that the United States would not accept the little Kingdom if offered. A Treaty of Reciprocity would secure all the benefits to both countries of Annexation, without any of the complicated questions which would attend that subject. If now the Hawaiian Government will take firm and conciliatory ground upon this matter, we honestly believe the authorities at Washington would meet them half way. Let the foreign and native community sustain the Government, and our newspapers cordially work together in this matter; and above all, let those who write letters to " American newspapers not be afraid to attach 'their names to their effusions, then there does appear to be a fair prospect of success. Our little Hawaiian Canoe might not, solitary and alone, be able to paddle its way into the Haven of Reciprocity, but taken in tow by the Canada " steam frigate, she might safely pass all the difficul- " ties and shoals lying along the passage-way through the White House and the United States Senate. Astronomers.-It is gratifying witness the preparations now making by these gentlemen, to facilitate their observations on the approaching Bth of December. The most ample appropriations appear to have been made by the British Government for this object. It is confidently hoped that results may correspond to these comprehensive arrangements here, and in other parts of the world. English to 81 \m Series, 0«1.31. I Written tor the Fbimd.] Henry the Illustrious of Portugal. Born 1396, Died 1463. forerunner of columbus in the of america. discovery TBOAHUYEFPORWISOFNELTEVREDEN. Continuedfrom August Ist. CONSEQUENCES OF THE MARRIAGE OF COLUMBUS. It is well to consider the opportunities and influences that attended the marriage of the Discoverer of America with the fair depositary of the accumulated knowledge and experience of the Founder of the spirit of modern discovery and of ocean navigation ; and if we glance at the achievements of the latter,—undertaken with such Zealand maintained with such perseverance,—the records and evidences of which were preserved by the noble Dame Perestrello and her daughter, we then can form some opinion of the value of the knowledge and inspiration which Columbus derived from his union with the fair Phillipa Perestrello, in conceiving and carrying out the discovery of a new world. HENRY'S PASSION FOR DISCOVERY. The devotion of our Illustrious Prince to the purpose of research and to enlarge the knowledge of our earth, would be remarkable in this day; and how marvelous must his character appear, when we consider that his genius shone alone amid the darkness of an ignorant, brutal and bigoted age. His desire to penetrate beyond the dark bounds of the then supposed impassable ocean became a passion that possessed his soul and occupied his very dreams, like a pure, great and ardent love. The memory and admonition of his noble inspiring mother were never out of his heart; and it was her spirit that bad kindled and continued to prompt his genius. It is recorded by Mattheo and others, that often as he wandered meditatively along by the brink of the bold bluffs of Sagres on the coast of Algarve, he would pause in his walk, and looking westward �82 THK FRIEND, OCTOBER, would seem by his wistful gaze and impassioned gesture to be yearning like an anxious lover to behold some object that lay beyond the great wavy desert before him, and that object was some fair new land in western seas, not yet seen by European eyes. HENRY CONCEIVES THE IDEA OF A NEW WORLD. 1874. watched the seas and studied the heavens, of Cape Sagres, or St. Vincent, he talked find out new pathways leading to new with his brother knights and late companregions of the globe. He was among the ions in arms in African warfare, like a foremost to conceive the advantage of the professor, and inspired them like a prophet. magnet to enable the mariner to strike out' He declared that he felt it was even as his boldly into the open sea, and no lonirer blessed mother had said, that God had aptimorously hug a visible coast; and so he pointed him to open up new ways and lands first brought the compass into practical use for the advancement of the Kingdom of for navigation. His observations of heaven- Christ, and the great glory of Portugal. But ly bodies led the way to the perfecting of he especially pointed out to his companions the astrolabe by Rodrigo, Joseph and Be- the absurdity nnd the worthlessness of the hem, during the reign of his grand nephew. chivalrous dreams of the day, which peopled John 11., which was practically as available unknown lands with giants and fairies, and for celestial observation as the quadrant now monstrous animals that were impossibilities, in use. And in order to preserve a record and set forth to them that the rest of the of all observations at sea, and of discoveries globe, not known to the civilized world, of lands, Henry organized at Ternaubal on must be animated by human beings and the headlands of Cape Sagres, the first ob- other creatures as natural in their organizaservatory in the world, in which he was as- tion as those they beheld in their own quarter sisted by a corps of skillful geographers and of the earth. And he then inflamed their cosmographers, who there drew the first ma- minds with the vision he presented of the rine charts as aids to navigation. In conse- glory and consequence that would accrue to quence of all these efforts and acquisitions their country and to themselves in the event to promote navigation this great Prince has of finding new lands with new people, with whom they could establish friendly and been preeminently named. intercourse, and also enlarge the profitable " HENRY THE NAVIGATOR."' bounds of human knowledge and sympathy. What could have fed the enthusiasm of to Castaiieda and other authors of the sixteenth century state distinctly, and the Abbe Prevost, early in the eighteenth century, in his great work, Histoire Generate dcs Voyages, repeats, that Henry originated and organized ocean navigation, solely with the view to discover new lands and a new world.' His intelligent estimate of the form and dimensions and general character of the terraqueous globe, convinced his observant and prescient mind, that the vast ocean must embrace within its extent great spaces of terra firma not yet known ; and he doubted not from his calculations in respect to the extent of the earth's circumference, that there must be a mighty space between Europe and India westward, where intervening islands or continents must be found. But it must be stated that Henry's ruling idea was to reach India by sea by sailing such a soul, to contemplate so ardently en- HIS INSPIRATION. FIRST VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. around the continent of Africa. terprises and adventures that were utterly What a hope was awakened among these THK AGE OF CHIVALRY. condemned by the spirit of his age ? The young enthusiasts, as they were inspired by And when our young Prince 2so thought ignorant objections which Columbus encoun- this princely lecturer! This was the first and planned, as the Apostle of Discovery, tered at Salamanca were advanced knowlgerm of modern progress,—Sagres was its and as the first mathematician of his time, edge, when compared with the"*gross, sodden cradle, and Henry was its prophet. He was —all others of his rank and of that period superstition that stood in the way of Henry. not an idle dreamer, or mere visionary,—he were solely interested in the panoply and His purpose of sailing beyond Cape Non, was a laborious student in the acquisition of butchery of real or mock war. During the the limit of European adventure, west of knowledge, and yet he seemed to be moved Prince's youth, his countryman Vasco dc the Straits of Gibraltar, and to pass into the to many of his enterprises less by calculaLobeira, who was knighted by Henry's torrid regions beyond was considered a sac- tion than by an impulse of soul or inspirafather after the great victory of Aljubarotta riligious invasion of awful gulfs of sea and tion, ft is related that one night his dreams had inflamed the heart of young Europe of desert wastes of land reserved as a mys- and reflections about discoveries of new j with the romance of Amadis dc Gaul,—and tcrious retreat for invisible powers. Henry lands so possessed his soul, that heroused up the rash and senseless adventures of the could not in consequence of this ignorance ■with fervid emotion,—and calling around knight errant Amadis, of Galaor the "son and opposition, even in the highest places, him his followers, and speaking of his imof the sea," of Lisuarte, and of Oriana the obtain from his own brother on the throne, pressions during the night, as a vision from " peerless lady," were then of infinitely more who had spent his time in sports' and God, he appointed two of their number who interest and consequence to the noble youth parades, the slightest help in order to prose- had some experience as seamen, to take ol those days, than anything that the stars, cute his designs; but fortunately he was not command of two caravels then in the port or the ocean, or the whole universe could a poor adventurer like Columbus, to weary of Lagos near by, to put out to sea and to unfold. And the genius and noble spirit of out his soul by toadying around an ignorant sail down the African coast into the unknown Henry in opposing the idle spirit of chivalry, and an unappreciative court;—he had an seas that had not yet been ventured into on which perhaps had its value in a lawless income of some consequence derived from account of European ignorance and fears. age, sought to correct by rational enterprise the territorial gifts of his royal father, as And forthwith, on this very day, some time that which the wit of Cervantes in Don Duke of Viseo and Lord of Corvilhao, given in the spring of 1416, this first voyage unQuixotte ultimately cured. to him after the victory of Ceuta ; but this dertaken for the sake of discovery, since the THE COMPASS, THE QUADRANT, AND THE CHART. income was chiefly obtained from his posidays of the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians, commenced, and the Prince's caravels was The son of Phillipa alone in his day tion as Grand Master of the Military Order beyond Cape Non, the point on the and with the means the passed of Christ, and with C1 e fut le Prinoe Henri, troisieme fill dc Jean et faithful associates in connection with this coast of Africa, east of the Canaries, which dc Phillip*, gui forma le projet dc la ducoarerte d' aa nooreaa mande par la navigation. Pre.ost. order of Christian Knighthood, the Prince was then regarded as the tabooed limit of Hiatolre generate dee voyages. Tome 1 er, livre 1 was enabled to prosecute the enlightened European enterprise. But these pioneer discoverers' did not venture more than 180 2 the Prinoe waa 10 years of age at the time of purposes of his soul. the ee-iymt of Centa, and established hia college HE TEACHES AND LECTURES. and observatory at Ternaubal near Cape B»grei, or 3I do not find tbe names of these two captains, St. Vincent, two yemri afterwardf. In his quiet retreat on the bold headland engaged in the first voyage of discovery, mentioned �miles beyond the forbidden point, having been terrified by tempestuous seas,—by the break and turmoil of the waters that ever fret and foam around Cape Bojador,—and considering this point as the entrance to some vast and destructive whirlpools and absorbing gulfs, they put their vessels about and returned to Portugal. HIS UNQUENCHABLE HOPE AND PERSEVERANCE. The enthusiastic Prince was not in the least discouraged by the poor results of the voyage; his enlightened mind rightly judged that the especial commotion of the sea around an advanced point of the African coast, which had terrified his inexperienced captains, must be an agitation and clash of waters caused by some strong and extensive currents and counter-currents, which could be avoided and passed by standing well out to sea, and by trusting to the compass in order to double the point. Therefore he ordered a strong built caravel to be got ready for another voyage, and this he placed in charge of two faithful officers of his household, named Juan Gonsalez Zarco and Tristan Vaz Texeira, who fully parlook of their Patron's enthusiasm, and were determ- 1874. they were so delighted with the discovery, that they resolved not to continue the search along the African coast, but to return with their present acquisition of knowledge, and with evidences of their discovery to their expectant Patron. Prince Henry was delighted witii the account given of this first discovery, and first fruits of his genius and enterprise. He thanked God and rejoiced as though he had gained a great victory. It is true that other islands, Lancerota, Fuertaventura, and all the group of the Canaries had been discovered some time before in 139">; but these islands are close to the African coast, and their discovery was accidental; whereas the discovery of Puerto Santo, though partly accidental, was the result of a scientifically planned ocean voyage. THE FIRST OCEAN COLONY. Immediately he planned a scheme of colonization, and in regard to the spirit of colonizing, he as fully anticipated the great and gallant Raleigh, as he did in the spirit of discovery, the enlightened and persevering Columbus. He denied himself, not only the luxuries, but many of the proper con- ined to encounter all the terrors of the veniences of his station, in order to fit out African seas. three earavols well manned.—On board these SECOND VOYAGE OK DISCOVERY. he placed several laborers fitted for settlers, Their courage and skill as seamen were persuaded to go by tempting inducements, soon tested. Not many days after passing and who carried with them a varied stock of the Straits of Gibraltar, and while standing domestic animals, and all kinds of grains well out to sea, in order to niake a course and plants, valuable for cultivation. The two clear of the supposed stormy capes of the brave officers, Zarco and Texeiza, each had African coast, they were struck by a sudden command of a vessel, and the third one was and furious tempest which drove them placed in charge of Bartholomew Perestrello, away from the Continent to the southwest. the zealous chart-maker, and father of the For three days, Henry's officers and their devoted filial Phillipa. company momentarily expected to be enTHE KIKST COLONIAL GOVERNOR. gulfed in a raging sea. But the stout little This Italian gentleman who had won the ship withstood well the terrible buffetting of confidence of the Prince by his skill and the storm tossed waters,—and the brave command of the exZarco and Texeiza, standing day and night courage, was placed in and Governor of the pedition appointed with undaunted nerve by the helm, whilst island. And thus was the fatlior-in-law of the affrighted sailors were grovelling and in the pioprostrate and praying to saints, were at last Columbus importantly engaged neer work of discovery, and he was the first relieved by the subsidence of the gale, and colonizer and planter in newly discoverd then a clear sky revealed to them the blessed western ocean lands. But Perestrello did sight of land, which proved to be entirely not succeed in the cultivation of the island. new,—with a strange people and a novel He lost at sea and by sickness on land, all vegetation for European eyes. The grateful animals, 83 TBE FRIEND, OCTOBER, and in writing up his journal and an account of his observations,—and when so occupied, his people were neglectful, and so, no doubt, the rabbits got ahead of his cultivation.4 He abandoned the Governorship and proprietorship of the colony, which was vested in him, in order to return to take part in more congenial work for the Prince at Sagres. There he assisted James, of Majorca, the Chief of the College and Observatory, established by Prince Henry, in trating out new coasts discovered, and the courses of voyages already made, and in preparing plans for new ones about to be undertaken by Henry's navigators. His son-in-law, the Great Discoverer, afterwards went with his wife, Phillipps, to reside on Puerto Santo in order to get a living out of the wild property bequeathed by the cosmographer; but Columbus proved as poor a farmer, or ranchero, as his fatherin-law, and gained nothing but some increase of knowledge and the birth of his son, Diego, in Puerto Santo. When Perestrello's expedition returned from Puerto Santo with nothing to show for the cost and the hopes of the venture, the scoffers and those who esteemed the Prince's enterprises as not only madly visionary, but sacriligious, had now ample occasion for critical comment. But the intelligent perseverance of this matchless Hero of Portugal was wonderful. He never relaxed for a day during forty odd years of his life, the pursuit of discovery. He foresaw the navigation around the dread southern coasts of Africa unto India, and the discovery of mid-ocean lands, as in a vision,—therefore disappointments and losses were to him stimulants to greater exertions, and not hindrances. DISCOVERY OF MADEIRA. Again he sent forth his two brave Captains, Zarco and Texeiza, who, sailing to the southward and westward of Puerto Santo, discovered the Island of Madeira, —whose dense forests caused it to receive this Portuguese name for wood. This lovely and fertile island, like Puerto Santo, had no doubt a people and a name of its own*; but they have passed away, and the footstep of the civilized discoverer has obliterated every trace of the aboriginal dweller. The first act of the discoverers was to set fire to the and of all his and devout young officers, thankful for their live stock, he preserved only a pair of dense forests, which fed a conflagration, that safety and the opportunity of repose, called rabbits. was not fairly extinguished till after a lapse the island Puerto Santo, or the Holy Port, of seven years. And when the virgin soil THE FIRST COLONY DESTROYED BY RABBITS. and this was the of this fertile land was fully exposed, then This healthy pair of rodents and burrowers FIRST SPECIAL OCEAN DISCOVERY. the enterprise of Henry caused the establishAnd as they found its people comely and flourisbed and increased on Puerto Santo gentle, befitting the character of the Fortu- with such wonderful fecundity, that in about 4 Faria y Sousa relates tbe story about the rabbits 6 It is stated that Madeira when firat discovered nate Isles, supposed to exist in those seas, three years all the small hand-cultivation of waa uninhabited; bnt this is very remarkable, in Perestrello's was them. people destroyed by fertile, the was very and observed that soil view of the fact that the neighboring email island of doubt No the cosmographer neglected the* Puerto Santo was inhabited. Many faoti connected by Castai.eda, Navarrete, Faria y Souia, Galvan, farming of his island. He found his most with tbe colonization of the island by Prinoe Henry or would lead to the belief that Madeira had an aboril.afiteaa, Barroe, Porchaa, Prevoat, by any other congenial occupation in the tracing of charts, ginal population before the arrival of the Portuguese chroniclers of this event. A. P. W. his useful productive �TBE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 84 ment of a-colony and plantations, which were fully successful, and contributed largely to the revenues of the Prince and to the advancement of his subsequent enterprises. THE FIRST SUGAR CANE PLANTATION. This colony of Madeira was the nursery of two notable things of momentous consequences in the history of all subsequently discovered and colonized western countries. One was the introduction into this island of some growing shoots of a beneficent plant, obtained by Prince Henry in Sicily, but originally brought from Southeastern Asia, and spoken of by nn old Biblical prophet as the " sweet cane from a far country." Our practical as well as enthusiastic Prince planned, organized and established the first sugar cane plantation; and such was his success as a planter, that after about five years of planting experience on Madeira his intend* ant was enabled to return to him 60,000 arrobas of sugar. This was only twenty per cent, of the annual product of the island; and was reserved as the especial revenue of the military order of Christ of which the Prince was Grand Master. THE NEGRO. And the other notable matter was the labor, by which this tropical staple was produced so abundantly. By what hands did our noble Prince, and the most Christian order over which he presided, produce this profitable result ? Not by voluntary Portuguese agriculturists, who could not be in- duced to exile themselves and could hardly be procured except by penal enforcement; and not by any aboriginal people of this or of neighboring islands. But Africa's black children, that had been toiling involuntarily ages upon ages as chattels for Asia, were now for lhe first time employed by Europeans in extracting wealth out of the new lands of the West. PRINCE HENRY A SLAVE-HOLDER. His acquiescence in the bondage of his fellow men will to many minds dim the glory of our great Prince ; and although he was the Apostle of the Spirit of Discovery, the Founder of Modern Progress, the first Modern Colonizer, the first Utilizer of the Compass, the Quadrant and the Chart, and the Inventor of Ocean Navigation; yet in his character as First Planter and Slave Owner of Europe in the newly discovered lands in Occidental seas, he will seem to tarnish the brilliancy of his otherwise lustrous fame. But the Prince, though far in advance of the political intelligence and enterprise of his age, was not and could not dream of being superior to the humanity of the faith derived from his sainted mother' and held by the civilized world in his day, as the only salvation of mankind. His read- ings of St. Paul and other Primitive Fathers of the Church, taught him that human bondage was not only acquiesced in but endorsed by them ; he knew that slaves had been bought and sold in Christian Rome. Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Persia and Kome in their days of power, and even Venice and Florence down to his time had used the negro as a traditional slave. The sentiment of Latin Europe had been accustomed to the enslavement of the African ; but even had our Prince's mind been trained by the Germanic sentiment, which is the foundation of our spirit of human liberty, it would not in the fifteenth century have enlightened his spirit of humanity in respect to African bondage. The negro was then everywhere as in ages past, the symbol of shivery. Grecian and Koman sentiments of liberty had never applied to such a traditional slave race, whose chief industry and commerce with the stranger was in the enslavement of and trade in themselves. And there was no question of humanity or of human liberty in Prince Henry's mind, no more than there was in the mind of the noble and generous Isabella of Castile, when he and she permitted the enslavement of their black or savage fellow beings. The inhumanity belonged to their age and to the whole past sentiment of the world ; and the nineteenth century has only in our day, seen and felt anil sought to redress this wrong. HENRY'S HUMANITY. But his humanity in all other respects was of the noblest character, and far superior to the age in which he lived. He was notably the friend of the poor, and the chivalrous defender of the oppressed ; although this will seem so contradictory, when he could permit the African to be torn from his home, and to toil on his plantations. But it was the African's countryman who tore him away from his home, and sold him to the stranger for a small price. Henry would not permit violence and injustice to be done by his own people. He was frequently obliged to repair at great sacrifice, the injustices perpetrated by his officers abroad. Captain Suero da Costa had obtained seventy slaves at Palma ; but his superior officer Joao dc Castilla, who when Costa reported to him was recruiting at Gomera, one of the Canary Islands, not being satisfied with the success of his lieutenant, kidnapped a sufficient number of the friendly Gomerans to make up a complement of one hundred slaves for Madeira. When the Prince heard of this outrage upon those whom he deemed not only a friendly but a free people, he ordered that they should be well clothed, and returned with an abundance of gifts unto their own country. " Le talent dc Wen faire." The Prince was more zealous to do good, 1874. than to win fame. He had all the religious zeal of Columbus and of Magellan. He was as eager as a Jesuit to work for the greater glory of God ; but yet he was not inclined to sacrifice his fellow men, as mere dead matter ("perinde ac cadaver") in the accomplishment of this object. His great desire was to do good in the world ; and with this sentiment in his heart he adopted his famous motto, the French words: "Le talent dc bien faire; or, the talent of doing good, which was affixed as an inscription in every land where his navigators went. " HENRY AS A MISSIONARY. When Jean dc Betancour the Norman ceded to Prince Henry the Canary Islands for a portion of the island of Madeira, the Prince sent a large expeditionary force of about 2,500 men, mainly recruited from his military order of Christ, in order partly to colonize the group, but chiefly to convert the native people to the true faith. The zealous religions officers of Henry succeeded admirably in advancing the cross at the point of the sword. Perhaps the poor ignorant Guanches could not appreciate great truths without some such sharp and incisive argumentation. They believed, and then passed away, to the last man after the reception of the new faith. Alas! for such a salvation, which had no promise whatever for this world ! Henry did not appreciate it, as his officers did. He became disgusted with this plan of propagandism, and abandoned it, and the islands. But here we see the beginning of the decay and destruction that has ever attended the progress of enlightened discovery, and the beneficent intentions of philanthropy. Guanche, Carib, and Indian have utterly passed away, either by reason of oppression or the abrogation oftheir old conditions oflife. The Illustrious Henry in leading the way to the discovery of the savage world, was no doubt the unconscious instrument that commenced the destruction of its simple minded people ; but his spirit of humanity prompted him to be a savior rather than a destroyer ef his fellow men, and we must not contemplate him as the one, who having unveiled the mystery of the ocean, led the way to the destruction of innocent savage races; but rather as the founder of the new, progressive era of civilization that now explores nnd peoples every nook of our planet. ( To be t'ontimnil.) Contribution.—From theReligious Tract Society of London, and John Thomas Waterhouse, Esq., we would acknowledge a valuable box of religious books and tracts, including a good supply of reading matter in the Russian language. Among the books we notice a goodly number of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Friends of seamen cannot invest their funds in a more suitable and useful manner than by furnishinc readme6 matter. 6 cood 6 Special �New U. S. Consul.—We notice in American papers, Dr. Scott's appointment as Consul in the place of the present excellent occupant of this office. Mr. Mattoon has now officiated as U. S. Consul during the period of four years, and to the general satisfaction of all parties. So far as seamen are concerned,we can truly say that we never have heard the first complaint, and our situation enables us to speak somewhat intelligently upon this matter. The change is made purely on the American principle of rotation in office. We only hope that his successor may discharge the duties of the office in a manner equally correct and satisfactory. We should imagine the Hawaiian Government would retain a man of Mr. Mattoon's ability and integrity. H. B. M's S. Scout.—This vessel, with the Astronomical Expedition on board, and which had been expected for several weeks past, arrived on Wednesday evening last, 35 days from Valparaiso, and exchanged salutes >vith the shore on Thursday. The following is a list of her officers : t'aptat t— Ralph. P. Cator. Lieutenants—W'iltiain It. Clutterbuck,Edmund 11. Oldham, George Worth, W. I*. Shak-ipcar. May. Lieutenant —Edward A Clapp. Chaplain and fiat. Inst.—Kev. Frauds C. Autridge, M. A. Staff' Surgeon, Acting—John Tennings. Paymaster, Acting—William J.Kilioy. Chief Engineer—Robert Madge. Sub-Lieut' nants, Acting —Charles B. P, Hiune, Kdward F. Tyacke, John Ledgard, Cornwallis J. Trowcr. .Van. Sub-Lieutenant—Richard H. \Vtilings. Engineers— William Ball, John Taylor, F. Coombs. '."miner 2 Cl.—Frederick Tiill. Boatswain 2 Ct.— William Douohuc. Carpenter 2 TV—Alfred Evans. Midshipmen— Frederick P. firaves, Joseph H. P. Thackwell, John A. M. Fraser, Reginald dc la I*. B. Peirse, Francis E. J. Tottenham. Henry J. D. Laxton. Clerk—lnnes W. Taylor.—P. C. Advertiser, »/•/. 12. Burns and Sankey in Scotland. A Scotch paper, telling of the wonderful popularity of Mr. Sankey's revival hymns, says : " In one short half year a set of hymns and tunes have sprung to a place which even the songs of Burns hardly reached in their palmiest days. You hear them in drawingrooms, in workshops, in dressmakers' rooms, in Sunday-schools, and at prayer-meetings ; you hear them hummed by the thoughtless gamin, and accompanied with the concertina by the itinerant street singer; the fisherman in his boat, the plowman in the field, the mother lulling her infant, all resort to them ; north and south, east and west, nothing is so popular as Sankey's hymns. Apart from its religious significance, this is a remarkable phenomenon in an intellectual and social point of view. What a power must there be in any set of songs that acquire so wide and so sudden a popularity." These hymns and songs are the same as those sung among the young throughout the United Stales. Many of them have been translated into the Hawaiian language, by the Rev. Mr. Lyons of Waimea, Hawaii. Only a few weeks since we received from Mr. Waterhouse, then visiting Scotland, specimens of these hymns, and already they are spreading among Hawaiians through the columns of the Knokoa. 1874. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Sept. B—Am bk Edward James, A Wagner. 50 days from Hongkong. 9—II B M's H Scout, X P Cator, 35 days from Valpa- raiso. 10—Am bk David lloadley,Kelton, 49 days from Newcastle, N 8 W. 11—French gunboat Gazelle, Limine, 21 days I'm Tahiti. 16—Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, 18 days from Sydney, via Kandavu. 18—V rt 8 Benlcio, Hopkins, from a short cruise. 18—Am ship Ellen Morris, Chase, 1G days from San Francisco. 19—Haw wh achr Giovanni Aplani, Dority, Im Arctic, with 12bbls wh oil, 0000 tbs bone, 6000 lbs ivory, 600 fur skins. 20-Am bk D C Murray, A Fuller, 10. days from San Francisco. 20—Am trading brig Timandra,Ravens, fm A relic, with 278 bndls codfish, 17cs furs, C pkgs seal oil, 5500 tbs wh bone, 11000 tbs Ivory. 21—Brit stmr Mikado, Moore, 7 days and 16 hours front San Francisco. 22—Am ship Syren, Benson, 121 days from Boston. 22—Am trading schr Gen Harney, Red Held, from Arctic, with 10000 tbs wh hone, 20000 tbs ivory. 25—Am bktn Jane A Falkinhurg, J A Brown, 14 dnys from Astoria. 25—Barks Queen Emma :ind Chicnla. Captains Jenks and Shepherd, arrived ofl' port lin San Francisco, en route for New Zealand. DEPARTURES. Sept. 9—U 8 S Benicia, Win E Hopkins, to cruise. 10—Ambk David lloadley, Wagner, for San Francisco. 17—Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, lor San Francisco. 19—Ambk Edward James, Wagner, for San Francisco. If—Am ..hip HelenMorris, Chase, for Ihe guano islands 21—Brit stmr Mikado, Moore, for Sydney. 22—French war brig Gazelle, l.autrec, for New Caledonia 25—Barks Queen Emma and Chicola, Captains Jenks antl Shepherd, for New Zealand. MEMORANDA. Captain Dority, of the Hawaiian schooner Giovanni Apiani, arrived on the 19th September from the Arctic, with ivory, whalebone, furs, dec, reports fine weather and open sea. The following are the whalers spoken and heard from by Captain Dority i Bk Onward. Hayes, 100 bbls whale oil, 1500 lbs bone, 425 bbls walrus, 2600 tbs ivory. Helen Mar, Coon, 460 walrus, 1000 tbs ivory. Illinois, Frazcr, 500 bbls walrus. Josephine.Long, 140bbls sperm, 335 walrus, 1000 lb* ivory. Java, Fish, 400 walrus, 1200 lbs ivory. Tilton, Heppingalone, 100 whaleoil. 1500 tbs bone, 400 walrus, 1200 tbs ivory. St George, Knowles, 165 bbls sperm, 700 walrus, 2600 tbs ivory. Progress, Dowden, 400 walrus, 700 lbs ivory. Marengo, Barnes, 350 walrus, TOO tbs ivory. Jireh Perry, Owen, 140 bbls sperm, 360 wairus, 700 lbs ivory. Arctic, Whitney, 100 bbls whale oil, 2000 lbs bone, 350 walrus, 1600 lbs ivory. The Captain furnishes (tie following memoranda i Sailed from Honolulu April Ist; passed Fox Islands on the 29th*, made, the ice on May 6th and went into the Arctic on June3d. Had fine weather during the whole season and very little ice. July 24th left Point Barrow r.nd the whaling fleet anchored oft' the point, with the exception of Jos Maxwell and Europa, whichhad sailed. Left St Lawrence Bay Aug 23d, and had fine weather during the passage down. Arrived In Honolulu Sept 19th. Report op Trading Brio Timandra,okSan Francisco, Capt. H. Ravenr.—l#eft San Francisco March 18th; had light southerly winds during.the passage of 17 days and 20 hours to Choumagin Islands. Lay at the islands from April 6th to May 12th,and then proceeded; arrived at St Lawrence Island May 24tb, meeting no ice on the passage. May 26th, found the ice to the west of St Lawrence Bay in a heavy field. In long 172 ° 48' W. lat 63 ° 05' N, extending to thenorthward and going north at the rate of four miles an hour. Saw a few finback whalesalong the ice. Light southerly winds and foggy weather from the24th May until the Oth of June Heavy field ice then bagan to open gradually. On the6th ol June spoke the Joseph Maxwell, of New Bedford. Capt nickmott reported nothing done among the whaling fleet. On the Bth June worked through the Ice over to Indian Point. Jane9th, feven whaleships in sight in and around the Ice. June 11th spoke the Gen Harney, trader, of San Francisco. June 12thlost an anchor. June 13th, proceeded northward through the ice. Ships all report no whales. June 15th, arrived at East Cape; plenty of ice, and going north at Ihe rate of six miles per hour, wind strong at NE. June 19th, clear water, ice all gene. Arrived at Cape Prince of Wales June 20th. Proceeding North, on the 24th of June came into the ice again in lat 66° 65*, southerly winds and foggy. Saw a number of whaleships, all clean. June 291h came to anchor at Kotzebue Sound. July 2d, proceeded southward. Aug Oth, arrived at Ounamik Pass.; came to anchor at Choumagin Islands, Sept 2d, and arrived at Honolulu Sept 19th, after a passage of 18 days and 8 hours. Have found this year three-fourths of tbe time southerly wind* and foggy weather. On the paaaage lo Honolulu, southerly weather from Choumagin Islands to lat 34° N, then we got the NE trades light, and held them to port, with passing rain squalls. Report tbe following ships spoken up to Aug 16th: Jos Maxwell, clean; Arctic, clean; Onward, 1 whale; Josephine, clean; Marengo,clean; Progress, 1 while (80 bbls); Jireh Perry,clean. There had been but two whales taken up to Aug 10:h. Aug 20th, five whaleships went south lo cruise for right whalee. 85 TBE FRIEND, OCTOBER, Report or Bktn. Jarr A. Falkihiibo, J. A. Brown. Master —Sailed from Astoria Sept 10th; first two days out had moderate 8 and SSW winds to Ist 44° 40" N. long 120° VV, from thence to lat 31° M' N, long 140° W.had strong NibilNW winds. Took NE trade wind* very moderate In lat 27° 50\ long 146° 40*. Sept 90th at 8 a h exchanged signals witn mail ateamer City of Melbourne, In lat 27 ° 26\ long 147 ■ 60\ bound for San Franclaco. Made eaat end oi Molokai Sept 24th at 12 m, and arrived off" Honolulu evening or tame day,—a paaaage of 14 daya. Loan of the French War Stramkr I.'Hermite.—We have received the followingparticular* or Ihe los* of theabove vessel, from an officer of tbe Dido:—"On the 10th July the Cyphrenes arrived at Kandavu from San Fraociaco,and reported having passed just before dusk, on the Bth, a large steamer on shore at Wallia Island. This Information being reported to Captain Chapman, of 11.M. rt. Dido, he immediately left Levuka for that place, where he arrived on the 20th, and found that the vessel reported waa the French war steamer l-'Hermite, 7 guns, 1,000 tons, Captain Melt. She was lying on her beam ends at the western extremity ol the entrance, Ihe seas breaking heavily over her. From her position and the distance shehad been driven on tbe reef, any hopes of saving her were seen lo be out ot the question. 11. M. S. Dido having steamed through the entrance and anchored, Captain Chapman sent at once and offered any assistance to thecaptain, who, returning with the lieutenant, aent tocall on him, remained on board the Dido all that day writing hia despatches, ir. Captain Meil was very grateful, and expressed his thanks, stated that beyond supplyinghim with some provision* and taking back letters to Fiji, he waa not in want ol any furtherassistance. He reported that ranking Wallis Island from the eastward, on the 30th June,and rounding to paas In at the narrow entrance through the reef, the vessel was met by a itrong tideof nearly 6 knots running out. Thinking ahe would not round to in time, he shifted the helm and attempted to go outj it was however too late, and the vessel waa swept broadside on to the western reef, on which a heavy surf was breaking,causing the ship towork and strain to such an extent thnt the captain fearingmomentarily her breaking up decided to abandon her. This operation was accomplished with great difficulty, and with the loss of two men. Two officers were dispatched in the whaler to Fortuna, a distance of 130 miles, for succour, the German hark San Francisco waa lal'en In with, and immediatelyproceeded with the bout's crew to Wallis Island. Eighty men were went in her to Noumea, the captain and the remaining seventy men stsying on the island to save all that was possible from the wreck. Most of her spars, Mils, and stores had been landed, and working parties were still able to get on hoard at low water. Hopes were entertained that, the weather remaining line, the guns might be saved. The L'Hermite was nearly a new vessel,and left France only some eight months ago, coming out through the Straits of Magellan; and after visiting Society and other groups was bound to New Caledonia."—Sydney Morning Herald. PASSENGERS. Fed* Honokono—Per Edward Jainei, Sept. Bill—lll CliineK, and 1 died on tbepassage. Fob Sa!. Fbancisco—Per City of Melbourne, Sept. 17th— P C Wright, Ed May, wife and child, 8 C Nathan, 8 W Pogue, 11 Bird and daughter, Mr. Mattoon, J J Agoew, Jan Walker, Mr Ryschkan, Ja.Achew,and 6 Chinamen. Foe Ban Fbanci.co—Per Edward Jamea, Sept. 10th—Dr Jones, Wm Agnew. Fbom San Fbancisco—Per D. C. Murray, Sept. 20th—Mr. . 0 H Judd, Mis* Julia Judd, Miaa Laura Wilder, Mr. W C Wilder, Master. Gardiner, Charle*and Chancey Wilder, F W Glade, John Oat, Willie Booth, Francis Wilson, Joaeph Sluart, Capt Week*, Ben Freery, John Titlow. Fbom Ban Fkabcibco—Per Mikado, Sept. 21st—Capt H W Miat, Arthur D'Asaallly, Mr Dixon, E Woodwonh and wil Mr* J M Smithand daughter, Mr. F I) Red-eld, Master R 1. Boyd, J Gasper and wife, Dr Mohabeer and .errant, W R Montgomery, A L Smith, M Marshall, JnoMurphy, Jno Nagle, Mrs V W Hart, L E NormaD, 6 Chinamen, and SO In transitu lor Sydney. Fob Sydney—Per Mikado, Sept. 21«t—R Ballislier,wifeand 3 children, F ilollub,and 30 in tran.ltu from San Franciaco. Fbom Poetland, O—Per J. A. Falklnburg, Sept. 2SUi— Ed Cofley. J B rthumsken. Fbom San Fbancisco—Per Queen Emma, Sept. 28th—0 Hawaiian.. MARRIED. Vermont, July 2Mh, Rev. T. A. Uopkint, Mauk 11. Ki.ivjev, ofCincinnati, Ohio, to Dita M. IloFkiam, hi Fruit Vale, Alameda County, Cat. BArr«ev—Cockitt—At Walkapu, Ewt Maul, September l.t, by thy Rer. J. M. Kealoha, Mr. Wn. Saff*ey, ol L'lupalakua, to Mlv Emily Cockett, of Walkapu. Hiieloon —Lake—A t Grove Ranch, Makawao,Eiat Maul, Keplember slh, by the Her. J. R Green, Hexby C. Bhilihi>. ill Honolulu, to l.i naimii A. Lake, only daughter of Mr. (,'harlre Lake, of Tiverton, R. 1., formerly of Lahaink, Maui. Wnsir.— Tayi.oe—ln San Rafael. Cal., on Wednesday, \ urn.l 10th, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev T t. Taylor, I. I'. Win vie, Kaf|.,of(Janon, Ncy., to Mlaa l.t i I Tui.ui, of Ban Rafael. Kiomy—tlOFKixn—Al Burlington, hy Rev. L. U. Hopkioa, Jr., aailaled by DIED. Fsaskki.—ln lan Francisco. Aufost 11th, A. Fbakkel, »«eil SI yean, a native of Forth, Bavaria, and latterly a resident of this city, where hit family now reside. Sfehcek—ln this city,September 11th,Jos cm Reynolds, infant eon of v,apt. Joseph R. and Emily J. Spencer, aged 11 months and 19 days. YVii.HEi.il—ln this city, September llth. Kabl Loi is VTi i hei.h, aged 22 years and 20 days, a native of Wurtemburi, t.rriiiaiiy 3 ,-■ Han Francisco papers please copy. - �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 86 Chung Lung.—This is the name of the Missionary Vessels in the Pacific. Chinaman, a son of Mr. Afong, of young tbe John Williams, a bark, owned by this who formerly was a pupil at Oahu city, London Missionary Society, and cruising but is now at school in Hartford, College, the South Sea Islands. among Morning Star, a brigantine, owned by Conn., preparing for College. We are glad the American Board, and cruising among to hear favorable reports respecting his standing. He was recently honored with the islands of Micronesia. the appointment as Interpreter of the ChiDay .Sirring, a brigantine, owned by the nese Commission, appointed by the GovernPresbyterians of the Australian Colonies, ment of China to visit Cuba and enquire and cruising among the New Hebride Isl- into the treatment of the Chinese coolies. The young man has since resumed his ands. Sunthern Cross, owned by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and cruising among the Solomon Islands. Ellengotnan, a steamer, built in Scotland, and donated by a Scottish lady to the London Missionary Society, and destined to explore around the shores of New Guinea. All these vessels are now in active service, and are largely contributing to aid the interests of commerce and navigation, aside from their direct missionary work. This fact will be readily apparent to any one who will examine the pages of the North Pacific Pilot, published in London, 1870. We do not hesitate to assert that these five missionary vessels, running at a total expense to their respective societies of say $50,000 or £10,-000, arc indirectly contributing more to the interests of trade, commerce, navigation and civilization in the Pacific than an equal amount appropriated by the governments of England and the United States, directly for this purpose. Honolulu Sailor's Home.—Just twenty years have elapsed since the Home enterprise was started, fts usefulness has been constant and abiding. The Executive Committee would be glad to re-paint the building, but only 817.60 remains in the Treasurer's hands. Any persons favorably disposed, will please forward their contributions. The following testimonial will show that the Home has not outlived its usefulness H. M. S. Cameleon. ( Honolulu, August 18, 1874. | D_AU Sm :—Before leaving this port, I beg to : offer my testimony to the very efficient working of tbe most useful institution "The Honolulu Sailor's Home ;" daring theCameleon's stay here tbe ship's company have fully availed themselves of the many advantages it offers them, and I am sure joins with me in thanking you and tbe other gentlemen, through whose exertions the establishment retains ■its high character for tbe comfort and attentions they have always met with in the house. Ml shall have mocb pleasure ia bringing the Home to the notice of any Captains of ships visiting this part of the world, and shall not fail to express tbe high opinion I entertain of its merits. Believe me dear Sir, very faithfully yours, W. Kennedy. The' Rev. S. C. Damon, studies. 1874. Ist. 28° 55' N., long. 158" 07' K. From its summit. for a distance of about 46 miles to the westward. there was bat t slight inappreciable fall, and from that point to the base a dope of 90 feet to the mile, its eastern slope was 60 feat. Its height is 6,000 feel. For the next GO miles, the bottom was regular till lat. 24° 02' N., long. 155° 08' was reached, between which and lat. 20° 25' tf., long. 168° 01' was a fifth mountain, extending to tbe surface in an island known as Marcos Island. A cut was taken in lat 24° 20' N., long. 154° 06' F... a distance of about seven miles from this island, to the northward: 1,500 fathoms of water were found, which gives the land a northern slope to this point of 1,284 feet to the mile. From this point to the eastern base, the slope was about 200 feet to the mile, and to the western, 157 feet. For 176 miles from the list position, the bottom was, comparatively speaking, regular; then the next 180 miles was occupied by the sixth mountain ridge, its eastern base in lat. 25° 11' N., long. 149° 46' £.; its western in lat. 26° 09' N., long. 146° 10' £~ snd its summit in lat. 25° 42' N., long. 148° 89' C. Itheight was about 7,800 feet; its eastern slope, 168 feet to the mile, and its western 59 feet. From this point to Port Lloyd, a distance of 210 miles, theslope was about 8C feet to the mile. I have taken, in consideration of the height and slope of the submarine elevation, about ;:,000 fathoms of water as the depth of the plateau proper; for it was only at that distance that it remained regular for any distance, and again the average depth between the bases of the mountains or mountain ridges, and for over half the entire distance of tbe line, was about that. All the slopes computed arc tbe minimum." Diaijram ot Ocean Bed from Honolulu to Yokohnnn'i. " Scientific Expedition. Tbe following is a list of the gentlemen forming the expedition sent out from England to observe the Transit of Venus in December next, and who arrived on the Scout September 10th Captain Tuprnan, K. M. A., t. It. S.. Chief Astronomer nnd Head of Expedition. Professor Forbes, Chief Astronomer. Lieutenant Kamsden, K. N., Astronomer and : Photoheliograpber. Lieutenant Noble, B. M. A., Astronomer. Mr. Johnson, Astronomer. Mr. 11. CJ. Barnacle, Astronomer. Mr. Nicholl, Astronomer. Necessarily some considerable time will lie consumed in selecting suitable sites for observations, etc., after which the members of the expedition will be detailed ns follows : Chief Station at Honolulu—Captain Tuprnan, Lieutenant Kamsden, IL N.; Mr. Nicholl. Station on Hawaii—Professor Forbes; Mr. 11. ti. Barnacle. Station on Kauai—Mr. Johnson : Lieutenant Noble, K. M. A.—P. C. A. (From the P. C. 4dv*rUßCf, Sept. -'ti, 1574.j THE TRANS-PACIFIC TELEGRAPH. A synopsis of the soundings between this pert and Yokohama, was published in a late number of the New York Tribute, which we copy below, together with a diagram of the ocean bed, which last we copy from an engraving in The American Journal of Science tnd Arts for September. "Sixty casts were taken at intervals averaging about 67 miles. The water fell rapidly and steadily from Honolulu until lat. 21° N., long. 159° 20' W. was reached (a distance of about 95 miles), to 2,418 fathoms' depth, making a slope of nearly. 162 feet to the mile. From that point to lat. 20° 16' N., long. 168° W., in a distance of 580 miles, there was a slight gradual slope of only four feet to the mile. Between tbe last named point and lat. 20° 52' IL, long. 172° 39' W., a distance of 185 miles, there is a submarine mountain, with its summit in about lat. 20° 41' IL, long. 171° 88' W. Its height is 5,160 feet. It has a slope of 40 feet Id the mile on its eastern side, and 128 feet on its western. "From the last station mentioned, where there was 8,045 fathoms of water, the bottom was regular for 240 miles, until lat. 21" 29' IL, long. 178° 15' VV. was reached. Between this station and lat. 22° 1' N., long. 178° 43' £~ the second submarine mountain was passed, with its summit in lat. 21° 41' N., long. 176° 54' E.; its eastern slspe averages 87 feet After completing tbe line to Yokohama, as to the mile for about 127 miles from its base, and 51 feet tbe rest of the distance to the summit. Its described above, a line was started thence to western slope is 55 feet; its height is about 12,000 connect with tbe Cape Flattery line, commenced '■From this last station the plateau can be regarded as level, for over 470 miles, until lat. 28° 81' Acknowledgements.—From the Key. D. N., long. 161° 57' £. was reached. Between this and lat. 24° 07' N., long. 160° 09' 11, the third Dole, the Rev. L. Smith and family and S. point submarine ridge or mountain was discovered, with its N. Castle, Esq., we would acknowledge a summit in lat. 28° 45' N., long. 160° 56' E. Its is 9,600 feet Admitting the slope of this generous supply of valuable periodicals and height mountain to be regular from its base to its summit books, for gratuitous distribution. These (which is of coarse the minimam slope possible), it are very opportune, as our supply was run- will have an eastern slope of 192 feet to the mile, a slope on its western side of 204 feet. Between ning low. Favors of this nature *re always and the last position and lat. 28° 56' N., long. 166° 10' E., was the fourth elevation, having its summit in last fall. Two lines were started from the Japan coast and abandoned on account of tbe great depth of the water. A third line proved feasible, and was continued along the Kurile Islands to tbe Island of Kanaga, one of the Aleutian group; thence to Ounalaska and thence through Ounimak Pass to Cape Flattery. Tbe greatest depth of water found was 4,655 fathoms, or !>{ miles. This is the greatest authentic depth yet sounded. The greatest depth on the northern line finally surveyed was 4,037 fathoms. �DILLINGHAM & CO. 1874. 87 THE FRIEND. OCTOBER, ADVERTISEMENTS. E"J HOT F MANN, D., M. Physician and Surgeon, \OS. 9* %\l> 97 KING STREET, Comer Merchantsnd Kuhuninu Street., near th. Pott Office HAVE ON HAND AND FOR SALE A FULL ASSORTMENT OF HARDWARE, 111'lEIII. Mil I 111 Itll IMPLEMENTS, WlLLillt WARE, |"1 BREWER It CO.. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oahu, 11. I. P. Wjt ADAMS. Auction and Commission Merchant, &ALVANOBD IRON, WOODEN TUBS AXl> BUCKETS, . Fire-Proof Btore, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. SEINE AND WRAPPING TWINE, FISH HOOKS AND LINES, KEROSENE LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS, |"| MOTT R • SMITH, Dentist, * KEROSENE LAMPS and CHANDELIERS, to Burn without Chimneys, JOHN S McGREW, Late Surgeon Y. S. AXO W..RRR.4NTED TO GIVE S..TISFAI TIOX. 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Whitfaot The Union Marine Insurance Company, San Fr.ncisoo. man, is aa well excoated sa any in New York City or TheKohala Sugar Company, elsewhere. therefore feel warranted in saying that I The Haiku Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Mill. W. 11. Bailey, we oan manufacture as good a class of work in HoThe Hamakua Sugar Company, nolulu aa oan be found in any part of tbe world. I The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, will also state here tbat we folly intend to work at The Wheeler k Wilson Sewing Machine Company. Dr. Jayne k Sons CelebratedFamily Medicines. tf I tbe lowest possible rates. 0. WEST. GENERAL MERCHANDISE! THE WOULD �Young Men's Christian Association of Honolulu. 8 Pure religion arid undeflled before Ood, the Father, is this: To visit thefatherless and rvidows in their affliction, and to keep otic's xelf vnsjtottedfront the world. Edited ly a Committee of the Y. M. C. A. Prayer Meetings. The September number of the Scribner's an editorial paper entitled " The average prayer meeting," which severely criticises the common type of prayer meetings as existing in dissenting churches, and suggests as a remedy for their stiffness and want of heartiness, that a liturgy " full of the detail of common wants, appreciative of the aspirations of the people, genial and hearty," should be adopted in place of the present informal service. While it is impossible to deny the general truth of his charges, it may perhaps not be iiasy for us to adopt the writer's conclusions. It is true that the average attendance on prayer meetings is small, that the majority of these are the women rather than the men of the church; that the minister often feels discouraged by a slim attendance ; thnt after the meeting is thrown open to the laymen, there is often a long period of silence; that the deacons remain silent for fear that their voices may have been heard too often ; that individuals are called upon by the pastor to lead in prayer, who are not in a mood for public prayer and would much rather not but don't like to excuse themselves, or that individuals equally out of the mood, get up and lead from a sheer sense of duty, in both cases with results painful to speaker and hearers and unacceptable to God except by way of sacrifice. The length of the meeting is arbitrarily measured by the vestry clock rather than by the interest or want of interest of tbe prayer seekers. There is no doubt but that many attend on these services purely from sense of duty, many others from a desire to encourage the pastor, that some stay away from a fear of being called on by the pastor, and others because the meetings from their experience are likely to bore rather than benefit them. Admitting these things to be so to a greater or less extent, we do not see the absolute necessity of laying aside the voluntary and spontaneous type of our prayer meetings in principle, for a liturgical service however beautiful that service may be. We are not prepared to give up the social and democratic feature, for sake of possible greater dignity of recited prayers and reverent responses under priestly leadership. The public church services of Sunday supplies the want of formal worship. Besides this we need opportunities of free, social communings together, where and when the atmosphere shall be religious, and Christ Monthly has the topic. It is not more formality that wo plied with water of the same nature and ere need but less. The danger is that the stiff- long in many a domicile Rachel is mourn" ness of our present customs of standing up ing for her children, and will not be comfortto speak without the support of question and ed because they are not." A man of sereply, but in a way which is at once inde- dentary life habitually devours more and pendent and oratorical from the nature of richer food than his system can assimilate, the case, of calling upon any one to pray and when long-suffering Nature remonstrates without previous intimation, of stretching with an attack of " biliousness," he rudely out an enthusiastic meeting like a piece of attempts to coerce her into silence by swalindia rubber up to the regulation half-past lowing the poisonous "blue-pill." This eight mark by the clock, when it should course induces temporary relief to be sure, have been dismissed fifteen or twenty min- but the ultimate result is undermined health, utes before, and of cutting short off the pros- and suffering. It is a matter for astonishperous progress of a meeting full of the spirit ment to see how constantly and how methof prayer, at the same chronological notch, odically the commonest laws of health are that these arbitrary and undesirable ways ignored by the intelligent and educated. will swamp our meetings in dreariness and With " a sound mind in a sound body " one failure more than at present. is thoroughly prepared to enjoy the good We need freedom to converse, to sing, to things of life, but destitute of either of those pray, freedom to ask questions to state requisites, the individual finds but little to doubts and difficulties, where all can conconsole him though surrounded with the tribute to these solution: prayer must be without constraint or there is danger that it treasures of a king. One of the noticeable will cease to be prayer. With these condi- peculiarities of Honolulu is the lack of any tions provided these opportunities afforded organized facilities for exercise and recreaand in a way partaking rather of the home tion. In the old countries almost evenand the family circle than of the House of town has its or or shooting, base-ball, boatParliament, there is little danger that we or some other kind of a ing, club, but here be driven to to save meetliturgies will these ings from destruction. Kather let them bor- sordid apathy for everything beyond moneyrow privileges from our social reunions, if getting appears to prevail. we may thereby save them to spontaneous Since the day when Shakespeare wrote and warm spiritual feeling. And how quick- the sentiment about " stealing my purse," ly a social entertainment would be chilled etc., commencing— and killed, by a request from the host or name in man and woman, dear my lord. hostess to any one present to lead in conver" IsGood tbe immediate jewel of their souls : sation, or if etiquette demanded a fixed hour, " no matter what the circumstances for the There has never been a more atrocious attermination of parties, and the dispersion of tempt to rob a man of that kind of jewel the guests. We speak for the prayer meeting as the than that recently made by Messrs. Tiltou, fireside of the church, where all the members Moulton Sc Co. on the Rev. H. W. Beecher. may assemble one family in Christ for dear The nefarious plot has happily for religioa and familiar interchange of thought upon and civilization most completely failed, and the interests of the great household, and of the bold conspirators have only succeeded in the Master who is its head.—Made Wreath. besmearing their own names with eternal obloquy and shame. Mr. Beecher's collegeHere a Little, There a Little. mates and intimate friends unanimously asPhysical Morality.--Out Association has sert ever labored to promote a higher standard of that there never lived a man possessed a more frank, open, and transparent nain this branch of ethics, and we propose to ture. Duplicity and intrigue are impossicontinue our labors in this direction. Some bilities with him, and they could as soon beadvanced philosopher announced years ago lieve that the sun is in the habit of shining that "it is a sin to be sick," and the civildown from the meridian at midnight, as to ized world is slowly adopting the same creed. believe that he could for years act the part The astonishing growth of chemical science, Juan, of a Don and then with an infinitude and the rapid progress made in other branches and cheek give the lie to the of hardihood of science, arc teaching men that what was accusation. once regarded as the visitation of an inscruA full attendance is requested for the next table Providence is generally nothing else of the Association, which occurs on meeting than the natural effect of a violation of physof the present month, as the prothe ninth ical laws. A community uses water conbe of unusual interest. The will ceedings taminated by the vile poison of sewerage, subject for discussion will be a and soon the typhoid fever fastens upon them of one just introduced a couplecontinuation of months with deadly grip. Or a herd of cows is sup- ago, viz.: Prejudice. � 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 (1874) 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 - 1874.10.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874.10.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/a3f8f10ca6678539833ece45dd21a839.pdf a31fc4a71ccab7bad1b96066df31bc69 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND HONOLULU, NOVEMBER 2, 1874. litis Series, M. 23. $O.)U CONTENTS For Xovrmkr, . 1874. Page. 69 Reciprocity Henry the Illustrious Report of Whaleships 89, 91) 9.3 93 94 94 Marine Journal Ctrculation and Support of the Friend Columbus Jack a .hilo.opb.erand I'atriot Plant Trees Y. M. C. A 94 94 98 THE FRIEND. NOVEMBER 2. 1874. Reciprocity will Enrich American and Ship Owners. Merchants 'It is taken for granted that a Reciprocity Treaty will prove beneficial to sugar planters and all others residing upon the islands, both natives and foreigners, though we are inclined to think, that the golden harvest will not prove quite so abundant as some imagine. Respecting, however, the profit to American merchants and ship owners, we have no doubt./ A few days ago, we were coming ashore from the U.S. S. Benicia, and the ■officer sitting by our side remarked, as we were admiring a trim newly painted and handsome American brigantine about to sail fsr Oregon, " that craft is coining money for her owners." This remark led to a similar one respecting a certain clipper bark running between Honolulu and San Francisco. Now /here is a small fleet of sugar and lumber vessels plying between the islands and the coast. There is no doubt these vessels are running most profitably for merchants and ship owners. As the officer remarked these " vessels are coining money for their owners." Now, we argue that a Reciprocity Treaty will increase tenfold—the number of these barks, brigs and schooners flying like shuttles between the Hawaiian Islands and the western coast of America, the natural market for our sugars, rice, bananas, and other products, while our islands form a market for manufactures and products of the United States. Last year—lB73—according to Custom House returns, these islands export- Ed to the United States products to the value of $1,139,725.81, while imports from the United States amounted to $529,982.08. Reciprocity would quicken trude, multiply vessels laden with products of each country, and enrich not only the Hawaiian Islands, but merchants and ship owners on the coast. What the East India Islands are to Europe and the West India Islands to the Atlantic States, the Hawaiian Islands will prove to the Pacific Coast of America, if commerce is increased and our products find a good market. How can we buy goods unless our products find a good market ? For two hundred and more years the cities of the United States on the Atlantic Coast have been trading profitably with Cuba, Jamaica, and other neighboring islands. Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities have grown rich from trade with those islands. San Francisco, Portland and others will derive similar benefits and profits from a quickened trade with Hawaiian Islands,/ 89 {©lb Series, M 31. I Written for the Friinu.1 Henry the Illustrious of Portugal. Born 1396, Died 1463. forerunner of columbus in the of america. by the author of the prison discovery of weltev- REDEN. Concludidjrom October Ist. The purpose of this monograph has been somewhat exceeded in dilating upon many particulars in the history of the Prince, not relevant to the establishment of his claim as the forerunner ofColumbus in the discovery of America. But the writer of this sketch, whilst setting forth this especial claim of the Portuguese Prince, was tempted to gratify the intelligent readers of the Friend with some few additional incidents of interest in the history of his favorite hero. That Henry led the way to all the ocean discovery since his day, will be recognized from the facts already adduced; but let us follow a little farther the progress of his lieutenants along coast of Africa, and observe his efforts the New United States Consul.—Dr. James to reach India by a direct sea way, which Scott, of Cincinnati, Ohio, arrived by the was we know the sole purpose of Columbus. last steamer, and has entered upon his OF OCEAN NAVIGATION. DREAD ANCIENT duties, as successor of Mr. Mattoon. Mr. Those who read old chroniclers of the W. H. Peebles occupies the position of Lice fifteenth century, and more particularly CasConsul. tafieda, Galvan, Barros and other writers of We would acknowledge our indebtthe early part of the sixteenth century, can edness to the Advertiser and Gazette for appreciate from their account the dread enpartial lists of Hawaiian youth abroad. tertained in the mind of civilized Europe, in We would acknowledge papers for respect to the dangers of the sea along gratuitous distribution from H. A. Peirce, Africa's southern coast line, and the terror Esq., Mrs. Dickson, Mrs. Allen and Mr. of ocean navigation before the genius of Henry dissipated those fears. For a time, Dimond. none of his enthusiastic associates and brave Personal.—Oliver P. Emerson, late of officers could be induced lo attempt to double Lynnficld Center, Mass., son of the late the stormy cape of Bojador in the 27th deJohn Emerson of Waialua, has accepted a gree of north latitude. It is difficult at first call to the Plymouth Church, Pittsburg, Pa. thought, for us to understand their fears, Ice Cream Festival,—To be given on we who have run down the whole coast of the 24th instant, for the purchase of a new Africa, and have struck out boldly on many organ for the Bethel Chapel. Vide adver- an ocean path, with a well appointed ship and with ample sailing appliances,—with tisements in Advertiser and Gazette. — �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 1874. 90 chronometer, quadrant, compass and chart. THE POPE GIVES TO lIENHY THE NEW WORLD. now to be recognized as sovereign lord over Our patriotic Prince had great hopes, after new dqpiains, a hundred fold greater than But our surprise ceases when we reflect that Henry's navigators had to cruise in vessels the doubling of the redoubtable Cape Boja- his own little native strip of Europe ; and that were little better than large open boats. dor, to win a mighty domain from the un- he and his associates to be assured of being Where arc the mariners of this day that will known world for his country ; —and hoping saints, should they die whilst prosecuting voluntarily venture, even on a well known to bind forever the new discoveries to the the work of discovery, and of conquering, ocean path, in an undecked craft ? Where- interests of his native land, he appealed to capturing or converting their unbelieving as those amateur Portuguese seamen were an authority and an influence, then esteem- fellow men. persuaded to make ventures with their frail vessels out into unknown seas, and without any of the appliances that enlighten our way. We cannot appreciate their fears when sailing in a modern well built, well appointed thousand ton clipper; but we might better understand them if buffeted about in mid Atlantic on board a fifteenth century twenty or thirty ton caravel. Therelore we may recognize some good reason for the fears of nnvigators early in the fifteenth century, —not only in the ignorance of the sea, but in the weakness and ill appointed condition of the ships that had to venture on an obscure and stormy ocean path ; and so we can understand that when Lancelot Gilianez, one of Henry's lieutenants, doubled Cape Bojador in 1434, his exploit awakened as great an interest, and excited Europe iiuite as much in his time, as the doubling of the Cape of Good Hope by dc Uama, or .•ven the discovery of America by Columbus, EUROPE AROUSED TO MARITIME ENTERPRISE. ed superior to that of all earthly kings,—to Christ's Vicegerent at Rome, to grant unto him in behalf of his beloved country all political authority forevermorc over all tho new found lands acquired by his enterprises of ocean navigation and discovery. The great and enterprising Prince was sustained by an enlightened pope,—and he who was esteemed the king of kings in 1432, Martin V., issued a bulla from the Vatican, granting unto Prince Henry in behalf of the crown of Portugal, the suzerainty in perpetuity over all territories, states and kingdoms, which should be discovered by Portuguese navigators, in the regions lying lieyond Cape Bojador unto the Indies, and all new countries of the African and Indian seas eastward unto the great ocean, whose princes and whose peoples were heathens; and furthermore there was granted to all the officers and mariners of Henry a plenary indulgence, and ampin assurance of everlasting bliss in heaven, —should they perish in carrying out the designs of their great patron. ;1 Ah! this was success for Henry,—who had been laughed at by his royal father, when he proposed the expedition to Ceuta, —and mucked and scorned by his brother princes for his so-called visionary schemes ot adventure, The voyage of tiiliancz, and the subsequent voyages of Gonzalez and Baldaya, and especially that of Tristan in 1443, who first brought slaves from the coast of Guinea, and gold from Rio d' Oro, which were all expeditions planned and fitted out by Henry, glory of commencing, and lor a lung time carrying fully aroused the spirit of adventure in Por- on alone the enlightened pursuit at discovery. Protugal. Henry had his enthusiasm satisfied vost says, liv. pretn. p. 3: "On confesse nniD- — by geographical discovery alone, without caring for any prizes to gratify cupidity ; but his countrymen and the other peoples of Europe were only aroused somewhat to recognize the correctness of his views and the wisdom of his enterprises, when the shining gold and the profitable glossy black slave dazzled their eyes. The western ports of the Iberian Peninsula then became the starting points aud chief sources of European enterprise, and of all modern progress in navigation, discovery and trade. Portugal alone led the civilized world in the fifteenth century to discover another savage world, nearly a century in advance of others,—and Henry was the sole inspiration of Portugal. 2 1 Prevost says : Cette action fut mise par les ncrivains dc son terns, au dessus dcs trsvaux d' Hercule." This exploit (the doubling of Cape Bojador) wss placed by tbe writers of his time far above the labors of Hercules. 2 Navarrete in bis oollecion dcs viagea," boosts or the maritime enterprise of Castilians and Hisoayoas la tbe beginning of the fifteenth century, but it was certainly confined strictly to coasting commercial TtsUm. Portugal alone U entitle! to all the " " moin? quealea I'ortugais fureot lex premiers gui tenterent la navigation dc I'ocean, et gui tirent naitre mix autiea nations dc l'Kuropc le desscin <le cbcrcher uu THE FIRST EAST I.MIIA COMPANY. But the best result of Henry's success was the stimulation of private enterprise. The first gold fever of modern times then set in, and affected nil the noble and daring youth of Portugal. Lagos became a great expeditionary port, in which private companies were formed, and from which private expeditions set out. Gilianez, the bold navigator who had doubled Cape Bojador, formed a company along with three of his friends, Alonzo, Alvarez and Diaz, who had some property, and who owned ten caravels ready for sea; and they obtained a charter from Prince Henry in 1844, which authorized them to prosecute discovery, colonization, and the quest of gold on the coast of Guinea. This was the first company of adventuring traders and colonizers, upon the model ol which the Spanish, English, Dutch and all subsequent East or West India companies we it formed. 4 ITALIANS PATRONIZED HY HENRY. Adventurers of every nation, class and profession,— warriors ami geographers, a.s well as traders, flocked to Portugal;—not to the royal court ut Lisbon, but to the court of genius und of enterprise, situated upon the bold promontory of Sagres, and in the It was mostly Italians ocean port of of ability and enterprise,—especially those of Genoa, Venice and Florence, who eagerly sought the new Portuguese field of adventure. Their governments were so deeply interested in the lucrative overland trade with India, which they had controlled as a source of commercial pre-eminence in Europe for ages, that they would not offer the slightest encouragement to the new African and ocean enterprise of Portugal, which threatened an interference with their monopoly. Therefore their sons of genius, who had no employment in this monopoly and who thirsted for noble maritime adventure outside of the Mediterranean, hastened to the generous court of enterprise of our illustrious Henry, who promised glory and reward in unknown seas. There came Antonio dc Noli and Cadamosto the Venetian, who discovered the Cape dc Verde Islands ; and there we have seen Perestrello, the Florentine, executing the Prince's marine charts and revising the logs of the voyages nou.el hemisphere. Lee Espngnols i-toicnt si i'loigni'S dc former cette pensee, que non seulement its ne commenoerent as'en occupcr que pre- dc qunr»ntc (soixante dix?) ana apns leura voiains, mais qtif dans cette intervalle its consider erent lea enterprises dea l'ortugaia comme autant d'avantures ronianeaqueB, et d'effeta dune imagination diireglec. lis eurent long-tema la nn-iue opinion dc ccux gui lour proposoient d'en imilcr l'exemple, et gui avoit deja reuaaie dans quelque partie dc ('execution. L'experience fut acule capable dc lea convaincre que lea l'ortugaia avoicnt raisounr juste, et que lea eaptJrancca dc Colomb n'etoient pas moina aolide." It must be confessed nevertheless tbat tbe Portuguese were the firat who essayed ocean navigation, and who gave birth among Kuropean nations, to tbe design of searching for a new hemisphere. Tbe Spaniards were so far from tbe conception of such a thought, that not only did they not give it any attention till forty (seventy T) years after their neighbors, but during this interval they looked upon the enterprise of the Portuguese as so many romantic a Iventurca, and the eflects of a disordered imagination. They hod for a long time tbe same opinion of those who proposed to imitate their (the Portuguese) example, and who bad already succeeded in some part of lhe execution of their plans Experience alone sufficed to convince them tbat the Portuguese had reasoned justly, and tbat the hopes of Columbus 4 Gilianex and his associates Ktienne Alonxo, Rod. were as well founded. rigue Alvarez, and Jean Diss formed a joint slock S Vasoonoeloe. Hist, dc loao IT. Castaneda. company in the town of Lagos, 1444. BsrrosHist. IRK?. Faria y Sousa �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, of his lieutenants;—and what a pity that which .sailed from Palos to discover a new Columbus the Genoese had not arrived in hemisphere,—after spending a princely forPortugal a little earlier, say in 1460 or '60, tune and the fire of a great soul, in trying instead of 1470, seven years after the death to inspire all the noble and adventurous of Henry. He would not in siich a case spirits of the world who came to him, to go have wasted time with selfish, conceited and and discover new lands and new people; yet jealous ruling princes at Lisbon or Madrid ; with all this effort he had not run down but being received at once by the enlighten- more than fifteen hundred miles of African ed and enterprising Prince at Lagos, he coast, and had not sailed but a few hundred would have had his purpose and genius not miles out into the ocean beyond the shores only appreciated, but farthermore inspired of the old world, when he died. Perhaps and stimulated. Ah, indeed! he would have if he had not ben a Prince he would have found the very conception and enterprise gone with his own expeditions, and have won that have given his name to everlasting the signal glory of a great discoverer in fame, then and there in the soul of Henry, ; person. as he did afterwards in the records of the [ THi; .RIM'hU SOWn THAT Dill NOT ItKAf. In reading the history of this hero we feel great Prince. sorrowful, that he who planned so greatly WHAT HE.NBV Ull> I'ltl. THK WOItI.N. and labored so much, should have obtained was aroused Portuin Thus public spirit success in his day. He laid so little visible and all awakened to a new deEurope gal, and drew the designs of a of and the foundation progress beneficent enterprise parture [ by the genius of a Prince. A devotee of the building,—but others have won all the glory Church of Christ, a monk and a hermit had of the superstructure. Thus does one man once inspired Europe to waste its blood and sow and another reap,—and there is more treasure to rescue and guard a doubtful consideration attached to the visible product tomb of Christ; but here was the son of a j of the reaper than to the hidden labor of the king and a knight of Christ, who sought to sower. But both should have their honor inspire the old world to forget its crusading and reward of fame,—and when you speak chimera about a vacant sepulchre, and to ot the justly glorious achievements of Colexpend its enterprise and means in seeking umbus, of Vasco dc Gama, and of Magellan, to enlarge the Kingdom of the Redeemer on you must not pass by in silence those of this earth by the discovery of vast unknown Henry the Illustrious. What these great lands and peoples—by the discovery even of men achieved were realizations of ideas and a new world. He directed the enterprise of purposes of Prince Henry, and made feasible the chivalry of Europe in ■ channel that has for them by the spirit of discovery which he originated all the modern progress of civil- originated, and by the facilities for ocean ization. He proved the navigability ol the navigation which he invented or put into seas along the African const. He tested the practical use. TIIK DEATH AND CHARACTER OF HKNIIV. feasibility of ocean voyages. He had through his lieutenants discovered the Madeira isles, Henry died November, 1463, at the age fhc Capo dc Verde group, and other ocean of sixty-seven. His privute life was as reislands unknown before to Europe. He hud markable lor its purity ami uprightness, as awakened a new em for his country and the his public career was for its beneficence and world. And yet whatever Henry won and lustre. He never married, he lived a celisaw in his day, was far from commensurate bate all his days, his name was never :is<nwith his great labors ami hi> greater hopes, ciated with any female intrigue, si. common HENRY DOES NOT BEHOLD HIS I'ItOUISKU UND. in his age and country, and as he is repreOur inspired Prince was the Moses of sented as a robust, healthy, and very handmodern discovery, that led Europe out of some Prince, 6 of a most genial social dispothe dark Egypt of geographical ignorance, C lion Kiiriquo tuvo una piuporciou ada grao after passing the red sea of Ceuta, through dcza " micmbroa übultados y fuertes; blanoo y rubio : the desert of an unknown navigation unto cabello re-io y citsi irsuto produiia teruor cou el aspecto : circuuspecion y coustahcia notable en las the hope of a new land of promise ; but palabrus; modcsli.i en el trito dc su persona dentro Henry like his Israclitish prototype was only do loa terminos dc la alteza dc su fortuna; sufrini until en loa trabajos; en laa arniaa valor y osadia : en permitted to get a glimpse of the Canaan of las artea y letras fu veraada y dieatro : en laa imitehis hopes. After spending all his resources maticos superior a todos los que laa manej-ruu en su edad; no se le conoeio costumbre vioiosn; no caso, and the efforts of his life, on more than a ni se supo d' el que violas., la purcza dc la contiscore of maritime expeditions for discovery,-' nencia." Barros.—Prinoe Henry was largely proportioned, strong and well limbed; red and white —the least of which was equal to the little complexion; curly haired and bearded; hia countcnaval venture that was eked out of the gen- nance inspired fear and reaped. He waa very ciroumapect and precise in his speech; modest in bis erosity and sympathy of a woman, and bearing when at the height of his fortune; patient : : sition, we may wonder at his denial to himself of the joys of a family. 7 He certainly could not be a woman hater, after his worship of his mother. Perhaps it was this worship ond undying filiallove for the blessed Phillipa, the inspirer of his genius, that caused him ever to preserve the memory of the character of the exalted mother ag a standard in his mind, to which the ladies of the Court of Portugal could not approach. He was noted for his lively humor, fine conversational powers, and enjoyment of society. The ladies of his little court,—the wives and daughters of his officers and followers, enjoyed much of his company, and shared socially in the vivacity of his spirit, which was animated snd graced by poetical taste and refinement; but he ever maintained a certain reserve, and did not mark any of the fair sex with a preference. No doubt a man so ardent and so generous must have loved a woman as the necessary complement and companion of his life ; this love must have been lost and hidden away somewhere in his life,—and such a loss,—a great am delicate soul like his would never reveal. His purity of life, coupled with his arden enterprising nature, was the wonder of his country and of all Europe. HENRY .NOT AITHECIATEI) HY HIS PUK. This Anglo-Celtiberian Prince lived preeminently for his country und to do good unto mankind. He, a direct descendant of William the Conqueror, kinsman of all the princely warriors of Europe of his day, and an eminent approved warrior himself, gave up his life to works of peace and enlightened progress. His genius was despised by his peers in Europe, nnd although private adventurers (locked unto his standard, ns to that of a glorious captain ; yet the princes vi England, of Spain, and even of his own Portugal considered his schemes ns the result of an ill regulated imagination, and as destructive of tree chivnlric adventure, and of feudal princely couaequeoct', His brothers and other kinsmen on the throne of Portugal accorded him only a grudging ussist ance, as in the case of his father, who wa forced into the successful expedition o Ceuta. And it was so, that when Columbu sought enterprise and fortune in Portugal ii 1470, the king who then reigned at Lisbon though a capable and politic prince, did not appreciate the truth of the enlightened view of his late deceased great Kinsman, as th adventuring Genoese mariner did, and so Portugal lost the larger part of the great glory that her Illustrious Prince had devised for her. :;jiI |1 : 91 1874. : and enduring in labor; a brave and Oaring warrior; I nod lie was never suspected of hu»iug violated (be 5 Prince Henry fitted out about tweuty maritime in arts and letters was most skillful; in mathemalics perfect purity of a continent life. expeditions for the purpose of discovery, in which superior to all others who essayed the science in his 7 All Portuguese writers »pe»k euthuiiimticalljr of were employed about 170 vessels. age; he had not one bad habit; he never married, I the immaculate life of thin mott noble l'rinee. I �92 THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 18 74. THE FOUNDER OF DISCOVERY AND THE DISCOVERER. One is tempted again and again to reflect upon and regret all the possibilities that would have attended an earlier visit of Columbus to Portugal. Had he come at the same time with Noli, Perestrello, and other able Italians, he would no doubt have becon|p one of Prince Henry's captains, and have discovered America much earlier than he did. Or perhaps he would not have sought a new world by pursuing an occidental ocean course, because this purpose was conceived after long residence in Portugal and at Puerto Santo. His whole idea, even when he decided upon a western course, and when he sailed from Palos in 1492, was to reach India by a direct sea way, which Henry conceived and planned and tried to have carried out, as far back as 1416, when like an inspired youthful apostle, he sent his first missionaries of discovery to sail along the coast of Africa in order to pass round its southern bounds unto Eastern Asia. And so had Columbus joined the Prince at Lagos, —the ardent, enterprising, and persevering nature of this Italian adventurer,—greater than that of Cadamosto, Noli, Perestrello, Gilianez or other captains of Henry, would have been readily employed, and he would in accordance with the Prince's plans have pushed on the route to India, by way of the African coast; and have anticipated dc Gama in doubling the Cape of Good Hope ; and if he ever discovered America, it would have been most likely by voyages eastward of India, and so after first finding America by a Pacific route would most reasonably in following up his career of discovery have anticipated Magellan by the circumnavigation of the globe. WHY COLUMBUS SAILED WEST. It may be asked, if the Discoverer of America entertained only Prince Henry's idea of reaching India, and Marco Polo's Cathay and Cipangu, by a direct sea route, why did he not continue to confine the accomplishment of his purpose and enterprise to the African 1me of coast ? It must be borne in mind that when the Genoese adventurer arrived in Portugal, the government and the private enterprise of this country, stimulated by her great Prince, had been actively engaged for about seventy years in the quest of the African-Indian ocean route. Lusitanian enterprise, preeminent over all the rest of Europe during the fifteenth century in the pursuit of ocean navigation,—as influenced by the genius of Henry, had confined its energies to the opening of its direct Indian highway. This enterprise was in the full tide of activity, when Columbus arrived. He resided in the center of its influence at Puerto Santo, and took part in its action, in voyages to the coast ef Guinea with his brother-in-law Correa. 8 And when here, working his part on 8 Pedro Coma the brother-in-law of Columbus Santo, and had charge of s recruiting station for African squadrons. Columbus resided on s goat ranch,—a district of wild land awarded to the widow of Perestrello. Oviedo—El Pairs. was governor of Puerto the circumcontinental Indian way, he hears j accordance with the generous spirit of adthe stories of the drifted bodies and carved | venture, that induced so many of his counwoods from some western ocean land. The i trymen to seek the new land of enterprise. records of Henry are with him, at his ocean He was then a man of ardent soul, and a outpost, that reveal the purpose of a western chivalrous soldier of fortune, and though discovery; and his quick perceptive and ap- grey headed, he marries as Irving says for preciative soul conceives that India may be " mere affection; " but let us mark that this only half the distance west, that it is by the mere affection was no doubt the foundation round-about way east; and so determines to of his glory. He and his young wife were carry out Henry's idea of a western voyage. poor,—so poor that they could not keep a But the whole energies of Portugal were j house of their own, and must live with her now confined to her eastern course. Her mother. But they made a happy home. forts and settlements were scattered along The widow and daughter were happy, with the western coast of Africa, down to the this brave man for a protector. He was the land of the Hottentots. She was in full pos- ■ countryman of the deceased husband and session of this route, and confirmed in her father, and as he like him had spent the title to it by the indisputable sanction of the j dearest action of his life in adventurous voyVicegerent at Rome; and as genius no ages and in cosmographic labors, how happy longer influenced the action of the country, must the mother and daughter have been to the spirit of conservatism would confine it- j| find a protector in one who could appreciate, self to the line of action already established, jj by his own vivid experience, the life and And the then ruler of Portugal, though a i work of the departed husband and father, moderately able man, yet he was influenced Perestrello. Thus the home of Henry's trusted captain by a too frequent jealous and conceited spirit peculiar to mediocre men in power, who do and cosmographer, became the home of Colnot wish to appear to be led by outside umbus. The great adventurer entered into ideas, but to be esteemed sufficient for not the innermost recesses of the College of only the government but the enterprise of: jSagres, he inherited the records of its costheir country, rejected the plan and over- mographer, and the mantle of its great tures of the Genoese adventurer, as being | prophet fell upon him. And with all this, calculated to, disturb Portugal in her present j! lie had love for a teacher. Love, in his pursuit of Indian dominion. And very like-' generous uncalculating soul, made him woo ly Columbus would have acquiesced resign-1 the daughter of a poor widow, who had no edly to the denial of his scheme, and have title deeds of lands, but only charts of imstill sought employment for his energies in j aginary ocean lines to give him. But those Portuguese African enterprise, had not his j| were lines sufficient to satisfy a noble soul Phillipa died, and broken up his Portuguese jjwhose great hopes were never in the dross home. It was mainly this event, more than of the earth. Still love and schemes could his disappointments in appealing to those in not feed the poor young wife amid the artipower, that induced him to abandon the pre-; licial wants of Lisbon, and so the Discoverer cincts of the Court of Lisbon, to seek the with mighty purposes and no money, went neighboring one of Madrid. 9 He felt that' to seek a living out of the goats and rabbits though Spain had derided the maritime en- | of the wild lone ocean island that belonged terprise of Portugal, yet her jealousy of her jto the dead father. But in the valleys and peninsular neighbor, was more likely to ] glens of Puerto Santo, Christopher and prompt her, more than any other country, to Phillipa saw their happiest days. Here engage in an opposition enterprise in an oc- their Diego was born ; here the veteran hero cidental ocean route which was open to her, | and his youthful bride gathered plants and and not in conflict with the potential bulla 1 shells, and looking out upon the ocean rollof the Vatican which covered the advancing j ing in from the westward, the thoughtful Phillipa spoke of the ardent ocean hopes of line of the dominion of Portugal. And thus Columbus was led to seek his j her father's illustrious patronizing Prince. western route to India. continually of the achievements I She spokewho unveiled Africa and disclosed COLUMBUS FOUND HIS SCHEME IN PORTUGAL. of him It is far from the purpose of this writer to the secrets of the great ocean. And shall exalt one man by detracting from another ; I we not suppose that the soul of her warrior but rather he would have the glo.y of one and mariner fired _s he listened to her disesteemed great still enhanced by showing i course ; and that as he listened, he resolved his appreciation of the great purposes of an- to fulfill the purposes of the great Navigaother. Columbus unquestionably derived tor ? Yes, it must have been so,—and as very largely the knowledge and the inspira- Christopher and Phillipa sat fondly together tion that directed his great achievement from j in their modest island abode, or walked hand the mind of the Portuguese Prince. He ar- in hand through its woods and by its shpres, rived in Portugal as stated in 1470,but sup- talking of the work of a dear father and of posed by some writers to have arrived there his illustrious patron,—then the purposes of much earlier in 1467. He had been an ad- a great man, dawned upon another great venturous warrior and mariner in the Medi- one, —and the germinating seeds of Henry's terranean of some merit before his arrival in mind brought forth ample fruit in the fecunPortugal; and there is no evidence that he dating soul and heroic action of Columbus. came to this kingdom to propose any scheme Now may it not be said in conclusion, of discovery, matured elsewhere, that of that when the great American Republic pursuing a western voyage. He came in celebrates her Centennial, and at the time contemplates the prophetic voices that cilled 9 Columbus lived in Portugal and Puerto Santo, forth her Continent from the vast unknown with bis wife Phillipa, about fourteen years. He be- of the past, that she will have reason to came a naturalized l'ortuguese, and if his wife bad give a foremost place in her Temple of Famelived, it is reasonable to suppose that be would not to the Illustrious Prince who closed the era have left Portugal. ' ; J I ' ! ' • :: J ! I ' i �93 THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, Is74. of the dark ages, who was the harbinger of the first dawn of all modern enlightened progress, and who hoped for and led the way to a New World '( from ancient gloom emcrg'd " Then The rising world of Trade ! the genius then Of Navigation, that in hopeless sloth Had slumber'd on the vast Atlantic deep For idle ages, starting, heard at last The Lusitanian Prince, who, heaven inspir'd, To love of useful glory rous'd mankind, And in unbounded Commerce mixt the world." i o 10 Thomson. By Authority. MARINE JOURNAL FORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Sept. 28—Am lik II W Almy, Freeman, 15 days from Humboldt Bay. 29—Haw bk Manic Macleay, Forbes, 20 days from Portland, O. 29—Brit hk Rifle, J Itun.it>. 153 days from Liverpool. Oct. 11—Am schr Flying Mist, Beckwith, 35 days fin Itarup Island, with 150 ctter skins. 18—Brit stmr Cyphrenes, T Wood, 22 days fm Sydney. 19—Haw wh brig Onward, Eldridge, fm Kodiak, with •00 wh and 5.000 bone. 21—Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, 81 days from San Francisco. 27—Brit brig Robert Cowan, Cluney, 44 days fm Sydney. 27—Am wh ship Jireh Perry, Owen, fm Arctic, with 1,650 bbls oil, 10,000 lbs bone, and 1,000 tbs ivory. 27—Am schr C M Ward, Rickman, 25 days from the guano islands, 27—Am bk Delaware, Hinds, 28 days from Victoria. 27—Am bk Powhattuii, Blackstonc, 33 days from Port Gamble. 28—Am schr Undaunted, Miller, 17 days from San Francisco. 29—Brit schr Favorite, McKay, 28 days from Victoria. 30—Am wh bk Sea Breeze, Wicks, from Ochotsk, with 70 bMs wh. 2d, wind hauled to eastward; aaw Hunter or Foam Inland ahead, at 9 p M passed close lo Ihe south of the inland; strong CNstcrly wind and heavy sea. Atir m Sunday, Oct 4th, Mount Washington, Kandavu, bore eaat about 68 utiles; arrived abreast of Levuka at 3.20 a m, and signaled tor pilot, but did not anchor in Ihe harbor till about 7 am; landed malls, passengersaud cargo, and received mails and passengers. At 4pm proceeded on our voyage; 9.90 P m passed Goro, and took our departure from Manuka the next day at 6.30 a m, wind NE with passing showers. Oct Bth passed Duke of Clarence Islands. They appear to be more westward than ihey arc marked on the chart, and a little more northward. From lat 2° 8, loaf 173° W. to lat 3° N. long 160° VV, current set from BW to VVSW, from one to one and a half mite per hour. In the regions of theSE trades had a continuance of strong NE and E winds; in lat 2° N, long 161 ° W, the wind was EBE, with fresh breeses, and continued to Ijst 6° N, and long 168° W, with passing showers of rain. Oct 15th in lat 9° N, long 167° W, the wind was NNE, fine and clear, and continued to midnight of the 16th,when in lat 14° N we got NE trades very strong for a few hours, and then moderate till arrival in Honolulu on Sunday afternoon, Oct 18th. Taking the passage as a whole, the Oyphrenes has experienced extremely Ane weather, and cool passing through the tropics, on account of the stray NE winds blowing. Henry Adams, Purser. Rrport or Whalino Brio Onward, J. P. Eldridoe, Master.—Left Honolulu April 18th for Kodiak; experienced strong NE winds to May Ist. Sighted Queen Charlotte's Island May 16th. Cruised between Cape Fairweather and Queen Charlotte Island; aaw very few whales,and took three. Had strong Bto ESE winds all the season. June 27th spoke bark Mount Wollaaton, with 4 whales. Left Kodiak July 16th for Bristol Bay; outside tbe Fox Islands had a steady fog for 13 days. Passed through Ounimak Straits Aug Bth. Had SE gale to the24th with thick fog. Sept 16th spoke bark Java, Fish, with 800 whaleand 60 sperm. On the 18thexperienced a heavy ga'e, during which one boat was swept away from the cranes and had another stove. Took 2 more whales, making altogether 600 bbls oil and 5,000 lbs bone. On the passage down had strong NW and W gales to lat 42° then light 8 and SW winds to lat 27°, and light N brcecc to arrival in Honolulu, Oct 19th. Kept 15th saw the bark Adventurer cutting in a whale. Whereas, Monday the sixteenth day of November will be the anniversary of His Majesty's Birthday, and the first after His accession to the Throne, it is ordered to be set apart as a day of Public Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the many blessings vouchsafed to this Nation during tbe past year, and • of Prayer that He may be pleased, to prosper and His from His absence guard Hia Majesty during DEPARTURES. Kingdom. All Churches and Paators of whatever Sept. 28—Am bk D C Murray, A Fuller, for San Francisco. faith are invited to hold a aervice for this purpose Oct. 4—Am schr Gen Harney, Redfleld, lor San Francisco. C—Haw bgtn Victoria, 1 C Havls, for Tahiti. during the forenoon of tbat day. 10—Am bgtn Timandra, Ravens, for SanFrancisco. The Government offices will be closed throughout 13—Ambktn .1 A Falkinburg, Brown, for Portland, O. 14—Haw wh schr Giovanni Apiani, Dority, to cruise. W. L. Green, the Kingdom. 14—Hawbk Mattic Macleay, Forbes, forPortland, O. 17—Am schr Flying Mint, Beckwith, for San Francisco. Minister of the Interior. PASSENGERS. 18—Brit stmr Cyphrenes, Wood, for San Francisco. Department of Interior,) 21—Brit stmr City Of Melbourne, Brown, for Sydney. For San Fbancisco—Per D. C. Murray, Sept. 28th—R F 34—Am bk Helen W Almy, Freeman, forSan Francisco. Honolulu, Oct. .1,1874. ) Fletcher and wife, L E Normand, Cha* Whilcbreatl, W R ;;o—Brit bk Rifle, JohnRancle, for Portland, O. Montgomery, Fred Barker, John Norgrove, Frank Beer, J II , Report of Ship Jireh Perry. 1,550 barrete of oil, 16.000 pounds of bone, and 1.000 pounds of ivory, season's catcb in the Arctic Ocean; 5.000 barrels of oil and 55.000 pounds of bone for the voyage of 344 months since leaving home. (Six hundred barrels of the above being sperm oil.) I report the following vessels : MEMORANDA. Report of Brio Robeht Cowan, Cluney, Master.— l.i II Sjilney Sept 12lli; sighted Tahiti on the lltll. I'a.scd Kairoa the day after, and saw a sloop and six schooners lying at lactaot in the lagoon. sighted HawaiiOct 18lh; arrived in Honolulu on the-Tib, after a passage of 44 day.. Retort of Bark Powhattan, Blackntonk, Master. First 14 day. had light sw winds, then took Ihe NE trades in lat 25° N,10ng135 3 W, carrying them to .port. Arrived in HonoluluOct 27th, 33 days from P.rt (iambic. Sept 30, Illinois, Fraser, 13 whales. Report of Schooner C. M. Ward. Rickman, Master. Sept 30, Triton, lleppingstone, 8 whales. —Was 25 days on the passage up from the guano islands,and Sept 30. Javaid, -i.her, 0 whafes. report, the following i Sept 30, Ml Wolla.ton, Mitchell, 7 whales. Ship California, of New Bedford, touched at linker's Island Sept 30, Onward, Hayes, 15 whales. July 20th, 23 months out, with 1,300 bbls sperm oil on board. Sept 29, Ja. Allen, Keliey, 9 whales. at Enderbury Island bk Chalmetle, 1.130 tons guano, leaded From Sept 20lh to 2-th i and sailed for Liverpool Aug Ist; bk Eureka, 800 tons, sailed Marengo, llarnes, 5 whales. Sept Mb. Savannah tor t George, Knowlcs, 4 whales. Progress, Dowden, 5 whales. Report of Schooner Undaunted, Mu.LEn, Master.— Belen Mar, Koon, 1 whale. First part ol passage had strong SW wind with rain; latter Previous to Sept 16thand up lo Sept 2011li part strong winds from the E to NNF. with heavy squall, anil Arctic, Whitney, 3 whale*. high sea. Arrived in Honolulu Oct 28lh, after a passage of Josephine,Long, & whale.. 17 days from -an Francisco. Jo. Maxwell, liickmott, 4 whales. XT Bark Sea Breeze, Captain Wicks, left theOchotsk Sea Europa, McKeniie, 4 whale.. October 13th, and hails 70 bbl.. Reports in the sea The present has proved a very open season, Faraway, 300 bbl. wh. more so than last year, and the whole fleet sailed Camilla, 106wh and 40 >pm. Arnolda, 80 wh and 140 spin. farther east past Point Barrow than ever before, II Gosnold, 350 wh nnd 140 spm. and I have no doubt could have followed the coast A Barnes. 300 w|i and 150 spm. Tugus, 120wh. a its entire length to the Melville Islands, and that Northern Tight, 1.050 wh. Shore party, 60 bbls. steamer might perhaps have passed through the The Faraway, Spencer, had gone right whaling. — _ : Northwest Passage. The temperature of the water was fully 10 higher during the whole summer ihan usual, and the general absence of ice very remarkable ; but the constant easterly current and light, baffling winds, presented great difficulties to sailing vessels venturing along that coast, expecting to return the same season—or indeed the suc- = Report of Steamship Mikado, F. Moore, Commandeb. —Left San Francisco at 4 p M on Sunday, Sept 13lh. During the passage had line weatherand moderate trade, throughout. Arrived in Honolulu Monday morning, Sept 21st, having accomplished the trip in 7 days and 16 hours. I|. O. Ellik, Purser. Report of Ship Syren, Benson, Mabter.—Have had fineweather all Ihepassage. Spoke .hip W M Wright in the Atlantic,hound to llueno. Ayres. Theweather off Cape Horn remarkably good for winter. Saw a comet in tbesouthern was ceeding one. heaven, in July. Arrived in Honolulu Tuesday noon, Sept We did not And any better whaling than right 22d,after a passage of 121 day.from Boston. off. and in the vicinity of Point Harrow. I arrived Repobt of Bark Helen W. Almy, Freeman, Master at Honolulu October 27th. —Left Ilutiilnil.lt Bay Sept 13th; first part of passage had northwest winds; from lat 30 s N had light northeast winds Yours respectfully, to port. Arrived in Honolulu Sept 28th, after a passage of L. C. Owen, fifteen day.. Master Ship Jireh Perry. Report or Steamship Cyphbknis, T. Wood, Commandeb.—The A 8 N Co's Chartered R M 8 8 Cyphrenes moorings in Johnson's Bay Boon after 1 r M on Saturleft Consular Rates.—Tbe following are the prices day,her Sept 24th, with H M mailsand about 60 first arid aeeond the United for Levuka (Fiji), Honolulu and San Franclass passengers off at the office of crews, fixed for paying cisco. Cleared Sydney Head, about 240 r m. wi nd N Wand States' Consul for this port: fine weather; towards evening wind shifted to W, still fine; 9« cents per fa'- next day wind went SWand WBW, .qually with constant perm oil heavy sea, which continued with short Interval, to lat 29 ° 8. 3* ' ircllcoil long 161 s E; currant Betting W about one knot an hour. 82 out oil 82 Thence to lat 26° S, long 168= E, variable wind, and fine ValroaoU weather. Thence to lat 23° 8, long 171° 38', freah ESE Vhalebone »• 'J wind, 3» lb. with heavy sea and much rain. At 7 r it Friday, Oct Valrua teeth "" ""' " " " "" Constantino, A Campbell, Mr Woodruff and wile, S A Fisher, Mr Ellis, llr Powell and son, T C Heuck, G W Holmes, R Whitman. Fob Tahiti—Per Victoria, Oct. 6th—Francois Matelot. For Portland, O.—Per J. A.Falkiuburg, Oct. 13th—AC Coffey. From Sydney—Per Cyphrenes, Oct. 18lh—Godfrey Brown, Rev Dr O'Conner, and 41 in Iran.ltu for San Francisco. Fob San Fbancisco—Per Cyphrenes, Oct. 18th—Hon EII Allen, Hon HAP Carter, B F Dillingham, R Rycroft, Mon. Assailly, A Herbert, T G Thrum, W M Wallace, 8 G Wilder, Mr Pengilly, Mr Akoui, Mr Kin Fan, and 41 In transitu from Sydney. - From San Francisco—Per City of Melbourne, Oct. 21st— 1 R Mitchell, B Spalding, Miss Auldrldge, Miss Dc Vallie, Mis. Annie Aldricli. Mi-. G A Thurston, A D Richot, M Richot, James O Reed, Dr Eudu., Rev M Beckwith and 3 children, J T Waterhouse and wife, M Green, J Scott and wife, J G Feeble, and wife, W II Peebles. N Klndell, T Curran, A Genoa, L A Gross. J Kennedy, I> W Clark, W F Baker and wire, II Baker, M Moranand wife, M Kohuk, F W Blense, B llnmaitl, W Everett, W 8 Garnough, 3 Chinamen, and 51 in transitu for Sydney. Fob Sydney—Per Cily of Melbourne, Oct. 2l.t—W Marshall. Mr Mueller, and 51 In transitu from San Franciaco. Fob San Fbancisco-I-r 11. W. Almy, Oct. 24th—D G Helen. From the ouano islands—Per C. M. Ward, Oct. 27th— 23 laborer.. Fbom Ban Francisco—Per Undaunted,Oct.2Bth—Richard yon Klceck. MARRIED. Fountain-Robinson—At Kaluaaha, Molokai, Aug. 15th, by Rev. Mr. Hermann, Mr. Robert Fountain, eldest ion of Capt. E. C. Fountain, to Miss Maby Ann Robinson, both ol that Island. Andrehen—Burns—In this city, September 3Clh, by Rev. 8 C. Damon, Mr. Henry P. Andkesen to Miss Maroaret Burns, both of Honolulu. Kutz—Bennett—In this city, Oclober 1st, by Rev. S. C. Damon, I) I) .George F. Kim, Chief Engineer D. 8. Navy, le Mrs. Catherine Bennett, of Honolulu. CT No cards. Wilcoi—Lyman—In Illlo, Hawaii, on Wednesday, October 7th, by Rev. D. Dole, Mr. 8. W. Wilcox, ol Llhue, Kauai, to Miss Emma, daughter of Rev. D. B. Lyman, of Hilo. [rj. No cards. Schmidt—Weioht—In thie city, October 20th, at theresidenceof the bride's father, by Rev. W. Frear, Mr. Herby William Schmidt to Misa Maby Ann Weioiit. McConbibton—Johnson—In this city. Oct. 27th, by the Rev. Father Hermann, Mr. Daniel McCurbirton to albs Jane Johnbqn, bolh of Honolulu. DIED. Read—In this city, Oclober Ifth, Mr. Benjamin Bead, who hsd been a resident for tome yeara bbw a brother residing on Slaten Island. on the islands. Be Coffin—In this city, October lath, of lung fever, George A. Coffin, Jr., aged 19 years, 8 months and 19 days. Wilhelm—In this city, October 22d, Mra. Maria Wilhblm, aged 74 years, 8 months and 8 days, a native of Wurleniburg, Germany. She leaves to hemourn her death a very large ciicle of friends, having been the mother of ten children, and having now living 22 grandchildren on the islands, 10 in Germany and 7 in the UnitedSuites, 39 in all. u Germany pspera pleaae copy. �94 . THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 1874. the number replied, " Don't you understand Iceland in a vessel from Bristol, England, the matter ? then I'll tell you ; it is because adding, "as he was able to converse with Theaiuallcat bark on life', tumultuous ocean that great question i. settled." Not un- the priests and learned men in Latin, he Will leave a track behind forever more; derstanding exactly to what he referred undoubtedly learned ol the existence of anThe lightest wave of influence set in motion. asked, "What question?" "Those! other continent to the west and south ; and we Extends and widen, to theeternal ahorr. We should be wary, then who gobefore Alabama claims of course," was the quick this knowledge, not the mere fanaticism of A myriad yet to be; and we should take After reply. saying a few more pleasant a vague belief, supported him during many Our bearing carefully, where breakers rear, And fearful tempest, gather; oue mistake words we parted, and the reflection came to years of disappointment." Irving in his life May wreck unnumbered bark, that follow in our wake mind, that Dr. M'Cosh, President of Prince- of Columbus makes no allusion to his visit ton College in New Jersey, had given utter- to Iceland. Circulation and Support of the Friend. The following brief dialogue, we copy ance to just the same idea recently when on Our neighbors the Advertiser and Ga- his visit to England, and while addressing from Mr. Taylor's letters : zette, have recently displayed marvelous large audience, he remarked that the set- i I mode an effort to talk with a group of farmers, modesty and magnanimity in acknowledging tlement of the Alabama question by the Ge- finding them ready enough, only a little embarrassat the start. that the Friend's circulation is larger than neva Convention had removed all irritation ed "Do you know who first discovered America? " either of those sheets. It is generous to do and unpleasant feeling in America towards I asked. all was Yes, they yes a it cried, so, and hence some of our readers might in- Great Britain. Jack is no less a philosopher Leif, " the son !of" Erik the Red." in body; " fer that this paper must be a vastly profita- and patriot than the great philosopher of the "When was it T" "About the year 1000. And there was Tborfinn ble affair. The simple facts arc these, for age, Dr. M'Cosh. A certain American j Karlsenne. who went afterward, and Thorwald. thirty years it has been our practice to issue Commodore some years ago, when the Van- They called the country Vinland." "we know it," said I. "lam a Vinlander." a large number for gratuitous circulation Im sailors pointed the guns on board the among seamen and strangers. In former British man-of-war at the mouth of the years, in this manner a thousand and more Peiho in China, gave as a reason, Blood ; Plant Trees.—" Egypt, well known for copies were circulated monthly. Since our is thicker than water." This would" not be ! its dry climate after the destruction of its shipping has fallen off, our gratuitous circu- true, if a sailor's blood was up," in conse- forests, olive and other plantations, had about " lation has been less. At the present time quence of some real or fancied wrong. An- six rainy days every year on an average; ! but so many millions of useful trees have it is about 500 monthly. We reserve some imosity between blood relations, separated there are now about 200 or 300 copies for binding, hence our by national grievances, is most bitter ; again been planted twenty-four rainy days per year recorded. present issue is 1,200 monthly. Each hence, who does not rejoice when such is a man who deserves the greatest monthly issue is published at the cost of grievances are settled by peaceful arbitration There esteem from all civilized nations—Napoleon about 850. To meet this outlay, we depend rather than by war; on sea or land ? Hid; who, with all his faults, has given the upon receiving about $400 per annum from an example which, at least, in France, Some weeks ago both the English world subscribers. The balance has, for many will render his name forever immotal. Couyears, been made up by donation*. During weekly newspapers promised the public that vinced of the great benefit Ihe barren and the last month we have received from Dr. they would refrain from calling each other swampy districts would derive if planted HofTmaiin $5.00, and n sailor of the Ilcni- hard names, and from using coarse lan- with trees, by his command many million:, in vast districts of the i-iu $2.00, for this purpose. guage. We think the public desires tlicy have beenByplanted his command thousands of country. Our account stands thus, ou the 30th of would keep their promises. George Curtis, acres of the desert in Algiers have been December, 1873, there was a debt for paper editor of Harper's Monthly, and who is transformed into forests, with trees suitable and printing, $89.00; from donors and sub- deemed no novice in criticism and journal- to the climate, and with surprising results. scribers we have since received during the ism, remarks in his "Easy Chair " for Oc- By their rapid growth a great change of the climate is observable, and twice more mm current year, $196.00. Hence, to meet the tober : and dew has fallen in the neighborhood ol "A style which would become honest men the young forests than before. By his comexpense of publication for the year 1874, we have received only $107.00, leaving the in conversation, which would justly be mand, more then sixteen geographical square thought coarse and vulgar, does not change miles of the swampy and unhealthy country sum of $500.00 to be collected. Before the its character because it appears in a newsclose of the year we hope, from subscribers paper. It remains coarse and vulgar, and along the coast of the Bay of Biscay in the Department of the Landes, where swamp and donors, to receive sufficient means to those who are not that kind, know it to be fever was prevalent, have been planted with meet our outlays for the Friend ; if so, we so." " When a man exhorts you, ' come and millions of trees, especially the cork-oak and let us reason together,' by squirting foul swamp-pine, with surprisingly beneficial reshall be satisfied. water in your face, something else than rea- sults. Not only have these trees drained !C7" Subscriptions and donations gladly soning will probably follow." "It is never- the land, but they have changed it into a received. theless a foolish illusion to suppose that healthy country with fine forests. In Japan moderation of phrase and courtesy of tone a law exists that whoever cuts down a tree Jack a Philosopher and Patriot. are signs of weakness or lameness. Junius is obliged to plant another instead. In is not most effective when most vituperative, Biscay every proprietor plants two for one The people of Honolulu have witnessed and Junius is swiftly passing into oblivion." | which he cuts down, and the law compelling of late, an uncommon degree of cordiality this is severely executed."— Joiirnttl of Columbus.—For three hundred years the Applied Science. among the seamen of the Scout and JBenieia when ashore on liberty. They are off world has given Columbus credit for having in the country together on picnics, and then discovered a new world, but now it turns Captain Robert Wilbur, of Mystic. anon, are to be seen on the plains ft out that voyages to New England or Vin- Conn., soon after leaving New York for Sau a year a<jo. " cricket" and " base ball " games. In land were made by the Scandinavians via Francisco and Liverpool, about began religious former years, it has not been so. On meet- Iceland. Bayard Taylor, in his letters re- on his vessel the htivntless, and before he reached the home ing a group of Heniciu boys we asked, lating to his recent visit to Iceland, as pub- exercises, port nineteen out of his crew of twenty-one How happens it that you and the Scout lished in the New York Y'rihiine extra for persons, of seven nationalities, were con"boys fraternize so well of late ? " One of September, asserts that Columbus visited verted.— Aimi-ii'ttn paper. Influence. B» MBB. >. T. BOLTON • . : �NOVEMBER, 1874. ADVERTISEMENTS. DILLINGHAM & CO. HOrPM A N W, |V tT, . ■ ,■. TUBS AlfJ) DUCKETS, P. Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Buildin j, Queen Sired. * mr C«.i- cl «. toY\ o m Careful and CASTLE & COOKE, importers (J-ENERAL ill NttU i\ 7. and 7* King Street, Honolulu. gar Islandorders piomptly executed at lowest rates 41.-XV Kawaihae, Hawaii, . Engiund Company, Company, The Kohala Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Mill, \V. 11. Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, The WaiaiuaVugur Plantation, TheWheeler JtWilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrated Family Medicine.. m-i -_...-_. Prompt Attention. » CO.. AgriUs l'nuloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb l.anff., A Large Collection of Beautiful Views o: Hawaiian Scenery, &c„ &c. And Perry Havl.' Pala Killer. CURIOSITY HUNTERS will find at this establishment I SPLENDID COLLECTION OP STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT. AM) CIRCULATIXQ LD2RABT, THOS. No. (oral., Shrlli.. War Iniplrsnrni-, IVnu, Mala. Kiipn., ' rates lor --- Honolulu. to at to PHOTOGBAPHS! FOR THK BEST, 1.0 TO THK No.. UI una Commission Merchants and Auctioneer (111 Fart Street. Also for Sale, Photographic Views, etc., etc 204 and 206 California Street, tf Francisco. 11. L. CHASt. Carriage Making and Trimming! ALSO. AGENTS Ot THK San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular attention {Wen to the.ale and purchase of Merchant Street, Cosmopolitan Photograph Gallery ! JOB- U CB.IB> J. I MERRILL & Co., rS a. n II) «. THRUM'S OF READING MATTER-OF papers and M.gs.ine., h.ck number.—put up order PACKAGES ly parties going sea. educed And n Great Variety tf other Ilaieiu'mii ami Mi ■•lu.lr.lian Curiosities. I. C. -IBBIM.. THK A- chants, jal 18U PROPRIETOR WILL SPARE NO pains to make this PIERCE (Succesor. to C. L. Kichards k Co.) Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY I THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! * Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer M. DICKSON, Photographer, Volr.nii Specimen.. t. \V. A ■™ MERCHANDISE! ALWAYS MENT OK PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OP Mutual Lit.- Insurance Packets, New TIHK The Union Marine Insurance San VntMnM, m. CIIII,I,IVII\VORTII. Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping basinetsat the above port, where they are prepared to lurnish the Justly celebrated KawaihaePotatoes, and such other recruits as are required by whaleships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terras. t_r FlrewMd •■ Hand .O VI Fori Street. Houoluln, OX BAUD A CHOICE ASSORT- AGENTS OF I< Wagon and Carriage Builder, OUR GOODS WILL be sold to suit the times and terms. Island Orders teill Receive . _Vt M. MeCREW, WEST, I>RV, RIFLES, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, CAPS AXD POWDER, ' ms\ . Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakes and Fort streets. Hubbuck's Best Lead Zinc and Oil, Manila and New Zealand Cordage, m S Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, KEROSENE STOVES, DOWNER'S & DEVOE'S KEROSENE OIL, _EI y«. Dentist, 111 II N IKKK IVTKII TO f-IVE S._TISF.4<'TIO.V. Olti AND SMITH, MOTT Having resumed practice, can be found at his room, over E SHrehi Co.'s Drug Store, corner ol Fort and Hotelits. KEROSENE LAMPS and CHANDELIERS, to Burn without Chimneys, I"V Honolulu, Oahu. 11. I. ADAMS. Auction and Commission Merchant, KEROSENE LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS, I»AT-VTW. CO.. *. BREWER SEINE AND WKAPPING TWINE, FISH HOOKS AND LINES, 11 X FANCY D., Commission and Shipping Merchants, HARDWARE, lITLEII.. Mill ITIKIL IMPLEMENTS, HOLLOW WARE, \V . Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Street., near the PostOfllo. HAVE ON HAND AND FOR SALE A FULL ASSORTMENT OF AXD M Physician ayd Surgeon, **«>*. IKS \\\9 97 KIN*. STREET, tiALVANIZED IRON, WOODEN 95 THE FRIEND, I nier WOULD RESPECTFULLT INFORM YOU THAT 1 now employ the beat Jfaehacics in the line of Carriage Making, Carriage and <Wmral Blaiksmithing, T lIOTEIi Painting. Repairing, dbc, On tbe Hawaiian liroup ; and il la a well established Fint-Clau in Every Particular ! oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. It. Whitfsot that —BBramBBOBS Bonoluli man, is aa well exeoaied aa any in New York City or tOOMS (U IE HAD BY THE NIGHT OK WEEK ! Mewrs. A. \V. Pelreefc Co therefore feel warranted In aaying that elsewhere. I 11. Hao-fald at Co *' C Brewer k Co " with or withoutboard. we oan manufaotute aa good a elaaa of work in Ho" Bishop A C0.... "" nolulu aa oan be found in any part of tbe world. I HALL, AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR Dr. K.W.Wood will also elate here that we folly intend to work at Hon. E. H. Allen ly d 6"ly jo* PUBLIC MEETINGS. OR SOCIETIK?. tbe loweet poeeible raiee. 0. WEBT. EXjBC. A. N •handlse, ships' business, supplying whaleships, n.fotlatlni ■xchange, Ac. CT AlKreight arriving at Saa Kranclsco.hy or to the Ho wlulu Lin. of Packets, will be forwarded r bbs or communis CT" K.vchanfe on Honolulu bought and sold. JIB — I �ChYMrisoetuann’gHAocf onolulu. The Chinese Empire. According to Mr. Michel's statistics, the population of the Chinese Empire is 369,-000,000, which is about equal to that of North and South America and the whole of Europe combined. If all the inhabitants of the world were gathered together in one place, every third person would be a native of the Chinese Empire. We are certainly assured by the promise of God, that the people of all nations shall be converted to Christ; and, as we consider the immense majority of those happy redeemed spirits which shall be gathered from among those nations which are of dark complexion to praise God through endless days, over their Caucasian brethren, who shall be saved, we are constrained to exclaim, " God's thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are o_r ways His ways." " The way of the Lord is perfect." We feel convinced that these great masses of people will not be wholly convert- ed until the Jews shall first be restored to Christ; according to the word of God written by Paul, "If the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness," and, "If the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead." Rom. xi. This glorious period when " nations shall be born in a day," is very close at hand, and it is our faith that the day is not far distant, when all the Chinese Empire shall by the power of the Holy Ghost, turn as one man unto the Lord Jesus Christ, as it were "in a day." God has indeed been manifesting His grace unto this people within a few years. For twelve years prist the number of conversions in the Protestant churches have doubled every three years. Nevertheless the spirits ual wants of this vast empire are very great and sad to contemplate, and there is More Help Needed. We are often led to inquire, Can nothing more be done to reach the masses ? There arc, io the same province with Ningpo, eleven walled cities of the first rank, each containing from 200,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. There are, besides, nearly 100 walled cities of the second and third ranks, conand 200,000 inhabitaining from 50 tants; besides aldffst innumerable market towns and villages, large and small, which crowd the plains. So that there are in all, between twenty-five and thirty millions of people in this province, and it is the smallest of the eighteen. How are these multitudes to be reached and evangelized ? ttifO, 96 Pure, religion and undeflled before God, the Father, is this: To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. A Safe Investment. Theodore L. Cuyler has some admirable suggestions on this subject in a late number of the N. Y. Independent : It seems like investing a long way off to be laying up treasures in heaven; but this is a mistake. Heaven is very near to God's children. The leagues thither are shortening every hour. Whatever we lay down here to please Jesus, will be laid up there. How rich some of Christ's millionaires will be ! Paul will have a magnificent inheritance. All the mighty service he wrought for human souls will be to him a shining crown. John Bunyan, alone in jail, comforted himself in the thought that he had led souls to Jesus. How many thousands will thank him for leading them to heaven ! I love to think of Robert Raikes, as surrounded by hosts of Sunday School children in Paradise. They will be a part of his to-day at Waterbury. Rev. John Quinn of Waterbury was chosen to be head vicar of the Connecticut delegation in the national convention of the American union at Chicago, Oct. 7, Jas. W. O'Brien, of New York, secretary of the national organization, and several Catholic pastors of the State made addresses. Rev. Lawrence Walsh, of Hartford, was re-elected President of the Connecticut union. Preparations are completed for the State parade in this city tomorrow. Thirty bands have been engaged, and 3000 men will be in line from all parts of the State. There is considerable excitement among the Catholic population here in view of the great demonstration of their church for total abstinence, the greatest attempted since the time of Father Mathew. country." M. Black, Honolalu, Military Institute at Oakland, Cal. Caleb A. Buriiank and Robert W. Bubuahk, Kauai, graduated with high honors from Friends' Boarding School, Providence, It. 1., and have both entered Brown University in the same city. Wm. Bond, Kohala, senior class at Vale College. Benjamin Bond, Kohala, Exeter Academy, N. H. James and John Campbell, Honolulu, at High Schoel, San Francisco. Clarence Cooke, Honolulu, Obcrlia University, Ohio. A. F. Cooke, Honolulu, Ann Arbor, Mich. Bruce Cartwbiqut, Honolulu, Vermont Univer- Catalogue of the Youth of Hawaii Abroad. Frank Austin, Hilo, at High School, Oakland, California. Aluxg Afoxg, Honolulu, at Academic School in Hartford, Conn. Fredekick Allen, Honolulu, in Germany. S. C. Andrews, Makawao, at Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich. Miss Andrews, Ann Arbor, Mich. Wm. W. Adams, School of Technology, Boston. Adela W. Adams, High School, Castine, Maine. Lucy M. Adams, High School, Castine, Maine. E. Fletcher Bisnor, Lahainaluna, Amherst Col- treasures, as well ns Christ's. To John Elliott, the converted Indian will be a star in his crown. Wilbcrforce will be enriched hy the salvation of liberated bondmen, nnd Franke will be the happier when he finds some of his orphans before tho throne. Faithful pastors, who gave up all prospect of worldly emolument in order to spend and be spent for Christ, will discover that they lege. Jacob Brown, Jr., have made wise investments in the " better Boston. Honolulu, at Scientific School, Harry Poor city missionaries and bible women, and frontier preachers and godly needle women, have their savings banks at God's right hand. These banks never break. There is no corruption within, and no consumption from without. The moth never gnaws there, and the thieves never break in to steal. It is impossible to compute what treasures every faithful Christian may be storing away for his long life-time in glory. Ged is a faithful trustee. He keeps his ; and each good deed of " record onacthigh »f self-denial, each surrender love, each of pride or selfishness, or human applause for Jesus sake, will find sure remembrance there. They all come up "as a memorial " sity. Alexander Cartwright, Honolulu, Academy at Benecia, Cal. William Castle, Honolulu, just admitted to the Bar, in the city of New York. James Castle, Honolulu, Oberlin College. Ed. W. Doane, Honolulu, at Oberlin College, Okio. before God." W. F. Damon, Honolulu, Barnard's Btuiaeaa ColListen to the inducements which Jesus lege, Minneapolis, Minn. holds out. He said once to an aspiring William Foster, Honolulu, at Vale Law School, Haven. young man, Give up all thou hast, and New GeorgeOat, Kauai, School of Technology, come and follow me, and thou shalt have Francis Oat, Kauai, School of Technology, Boston. Boston. treasure in Heaven." Charles Oat, Kauai, Chauncey Hall School. is Miss Eliza at Boston. Oat, Kauai, Treasure in Heaven ! What it ? Something safer than anything you can toil W. F. Hillebrand, Honolulu, University of HeidGermany. for here. What is it ? Something more elberg, Louis McGrew, Honolulu, at Medical College, * " " " abundant than anything you can earn in gold or greenbacks. What is it ? Something more enduring than mines or broad acres. It is the only real estate in the universe. If you will lay down self at Jesus feet and accept him and his service, you will become part owner of Heaven. You will be a joint heir with him who saith, "All that the Father hath is mine." Paris. Henry McGrew, Honolulu, at Santa Clara, Cal. W. F. Pooue, Honolulu, Ohio. Henry at Marietta Academy, Hackfeld Pfluoeb, Honolulu, now at school in Germany. Aubrat Robinson, Kauai, at Law School, Cambridge University. Miss Mart Rqwell, Kauai, senior class. South Hadley. Jared Smitu, Kauai, at Medical College, New York. Augustus L. Smith, Honolulu, at UnitedStates InCatholic Total Abstinence Convention. stitute, Eaaton, Peon. —New Haven, Conn., Sept. 1. The CathoOliver T. Smipman, Hilo, Amherst College. societies State of this lic total abstinence H. M. Whitney, Jr., Honolulu, Amherst College. held their fifth annual State convention olaseoflB74. � 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 (1874) 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 - 1874.11.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874.11.02 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/2f9b871a0809159e9956e8f0f1f7795c.pdf 3716f986d930d441ea47bbefd6d45253 PDF Text Text FRISUP EL ND.MENT THE TO HONOLULU, .NOVEMBER 24, selected from that most eubliaal specimen of Hebrew poetry, the Song of Moses, as recorded in the 32d of Deuteronomy, opening with the words, Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, 0 Earth, tbe words of my moutb." In that song, Moses refers for illustration to the days of old," and when speaking of God's dealings with the Jewish people, useth this language, "He found him, in a desert land, and in a waste bowling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him, as the apple of his eye." I endeavored to illustrate the manner of God's dealings with the Hawaiian people,—how God found them a poor, ignorant, unprotected and people; then how he bad led, instructedi Jriendless und protected them. I furthermore remarked, that while (iod had thus watched over tbe Huwaiians, ns a nation, he had not failed to punish evil-doers, adding, "tho Sandwich Islands is no field for wicked men and the opposersof truth and righteousness, to think of practicing their schemes before High Heaven' unless they were willing to Nations Honoring God, He will Honor. incur the awful risk of being pursued, even in this world, by the retributivo justice of God." Observation since made docs not lead mo to change my opinion, but rather confirms me in the rhfd at Fort Strrrt fhirth, In Honolulu, position than taken. A whole generation has Koy. 16, 1871,by Rev. S. C. Damon. since passed away, including four of the Hawaiian Sovereigns, and many of the High Chiefs; yet the 1st Samuel, II., 30lh : " Now the Lord sailh,/or them that nation lives, and we all know how signally God .Iiouor me, 1 will honor." has, again and again, interposed for the nation's There is a tendency in the current popular and protection and perpetuity. scientific thought ot the passing age to ignore a HAWAIIAN NATION HONORING GOD. divine agency in human affairs. The proclamanow advert to various instances, wherein will 1 tion, at the call of which we arc this morning the Hawaiian feople have honored (iod, and also, convened, breathes no such sentiment. I am con- wherein He has most signally honored them. I fident there were many of the King's loyal sub- do nst forget, averlook or ignore the (act that inand his dominions in residing foreigners jects dividuals in this nation may hnvc fearfully diswho read with emotions of delight the proclamahonored God, but I now speak uf the Hawaiian* tion, setting apart this day as a day of Public u nation. " Whoever has followed the history Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessings as tho French historiof this Nation the during vouchsafed to past year, cala nation" remarks Tamo, in the life of critic, "cannot help recognizing that he and of prayer may be pleased to prosper as strict as in tho life of an and guard His Majesty during his absence from a nation a continuity his Kingdom." The wording of this proclama- individual." Nations commence their existence, here on earth. Nations are not imtion expresses in the most full and satisfactory live and die, manner, that God is a Sovereign Ruler over the mortal, but there is an important sense, wherein character, or universe, and also a prayer-hearing being who a nation has a moral and religious does reward and may be addressed by the children of mei. The the reverse. God may,—nay, will individuals; but the most prayful and devout believer in the religion punish nations as be reward or punishment is conof the Bible, could not ask for a more full and sphere ot a nation's to this world, and does not extend to another, explicit recognition of Divine Providence in na- fined the case of individuals. The same great in as affairs. tional Because this Proclamation so harmonizes with laws of growth and 'decay, influenced by moral Bible-troth, as expressed in Old Testament and religious considerations are as apparent in the of tbe Hawaiian race and nation, as are phraseology, I have been led to select my text history he witnessed in the great nations of antiquity, from that portion of the Sacred Scriptures. to as portrayed upon the page of history or as they For them that honor me, I will honor." are to be seen passing before our eyes in tbe now prove be to and illustrate will object My present stale of the nations of the world. the following sentiment, based upon the text : Hawaiian authentic history extends not beyond NATIONS HONORING OOD, HX WILL HONOR. the period of one century, but this very limited Thirty yean ago, I preached a sermon on a day period renders tbe subject intensely interesting, net apart \>y Kamehameha 111., and on an occa- because causes and their results are seen to masion, not unlike the present. My text was then ture so rapidly. In great and populous nations, it Honolulu, H. I., Nov. 16,1874. Dear Sir :—We respectfully request you to allow the publication of your address delivered at Fort Street Church, on this day of public Thanksgiving and Prayer, set apart by the King as he is about leaving His Kingdom to visit the United States. We are convinced that you have given expression to the sentiment of this community in the loyal patriotism which binds Americans to their native land, while their lot has been cast here, and also in their sincere wishes for the religious and the material prosperity of the Hawaiian race. Very respectfully yours, Henry A.Peirce, E. 0. Hall, J. C. Glade, J. Scott. J. Mott Smith, F. Banning, H. Waterhouse, S. N. Castle, A. S. Hartwell, and others. " " ' IHANKSGIVING DISCOURSE, " " 1874. 97 requires a grand sweep of centuries and historic cycles to witness results produced by remote causes lying bid in tbe dim twilight of legendary antiquity, but upon Hawaiian shores an ancient system of idolatry is abolished as if by the wand of the enchanter, and old feudal institutions crumble away and vanish like tbe dissolving views of a keleidoecope or magic performance. I would now remark that the Hawaiian nation honored God by its ready and cordial acceptance of Christianity, as tbe religious faith and belief of tbe nation. The idolatrous system of this people was abolished in the months of October and November, 1819, coeval with tho departure of On the American missionaries from Boston. their arrival, the way was fully open for the preaching of a new faith, and that the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Observes a lute writer, in a London Magazine, who is reviewing the history of the Hawaiian Islands, subsequent to tho abolition of idolatry and the arrival of missionaries, It is curious to read in tbe annals of a not inconsiderable monarchy, that the King and his younger brother (referring to Kaniehameha 11. nnd 111.) with twelve chief men and as many chief women, were now learning to read and write. Marriages begun to be celebrated in connection with tbe public worship of the mission. Tbe King requires rest on the sabbath, with a penalty for disobedience; and tbe crier goes round on Saturday evening to proclaim tho new law." Rome was not built in a day, neither did the Ilawaiiansadopt Christianity without much labor on the part of their teachers. Just twenty-one years, however, to a month from the abolition of idolatry, or on the Bth of October, A. D. 1849, the Hawaiian King and chiefs formally adopted the Christian religion, nnd bases) the Constitution of tbe Hawaiian Kingdom tipun the religisu of the Bible, using die following " language: must be our aid, for it is bis province " God alone to give perfect protection and prosperity. Wherefore we first present our supplication to bim that be will guide us to right measures and sustain us in oar work. It is therefore our fixed decree, that no law shall be enacted which is at variance with tbe word of tbeLord Jehovah, or at variance with tbe general spirit of bis word. All laws of tbe Islands shall be in*consistency with tbe general spirit of God's law." For more than thirty years since that emphatic and distinct recognition of tbe Bible and tbe God of the Bible in tbe affairs of the Hawaiian nation, the general tone of all legislation has been in harmony with the noble and Christian stand then taken. Individual kings, individual chiefs and multitudes of the people may bare fearfully dishonored God, bat as a nation, when acting in its collective capacity, tbe Hawaiians havebeen a Christian people. I am fully aware that some are inclined to take dark and discouraging views of tbe Hawaiian action, Hawaiian politics and Hawaiian civilisation. �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 98 1874. > enacting establishing a Christian laws imharraony with the Bible, but by establishing and sustaining Christian churches, Christian schools and Christian missionary societies. These are all to-day in nctive and successful operation. I cannot dwell upon these facts minutely, but these efforts of the Hawaiians arc known to the world. In proportion to their means, their enlightenment and the obstacles which they have been compelled to encounter and overcome, I am fully confident no nation is now more fully entitled to the name of Christian. Among this people, as well as among the people of the most enlightened Christian nations, there is much over which tho oyc of pity weeps, and over which Christian charity would gladly draw a veil. There is much of truth in the remarks of Mr. Jjordhoff: Though the Hawaiian is no more a perfect Christian than the New Yorker or Massachusetts man, and though there arc still truces of old customs and superstitions, tho missionaries have eradicated tho grosser crimes so completely, that oven in Honolulu people leave their bouses open all day and unlocked at night, without thought of theft; and there is not a country in the world where tho stranger may travel in such absolute safety as in these islands." . shadow of calumny and foreign opposition, the shadow of much backsliding. But the path was upward. The missionaries | well give Bat in all nations, there are those who like tbe left prophet of old, imagine that they alone areEven to uphold thehonorofthenationandof God. then, when Elijah thus reasoned, God had seven thousand in Isreal who had not bowed tho knee unto Baal. I maintain that tbe Hawaiian nation has honored God by upholding the great principle of religious toleration. Each Christian communion enjoys full religious libcrtv nnd freedom to worship God according to tho dictates of tho individual conscience. The separation of church and state is as marked and distinct as in the United States of America. The Hawaiians have honored God, nut only by thanks to Almighty God, when the evil, miseries, and havoc of war are contemplated. While this little Kingdom has enjoyed threescore years and ten of unexampled peace, and freedom Irom civil and foreign war, how fearfully have all tho other nations of the earth been torn, rent, distracted nnd mutilated by war. Again and again have the nations of huropc, Asia, Africa and America, been engnged in the most deadly combats and destructive battles. Millions of soldiers have been killed ami mutilated, while the waste of property and treasure it is utterly impossible fully to estimate. Who can computo the misery, suffering and wasto of treusuro and lile, • • wcie not weary in well-doing, and so not fainting, they have already reaped. Ami there on the sunlit ocean of the Pacific lio these islands, lighted by a yet grandeur nnd holier light—living illus- trations of what Christ, by the sniue old everlast- ing gospel, is ever almighty to achieve : nnd of what the Christian missionary essays, persists, dares, succeeds to do —sustained and cheered by souls and churches baptized by the missionary spirit at borne." In harmony with these observations I will resulting directly and indirectly from the wars of ngain quote from Mr. Noidhoff, tho American Napoleon, the Crimean war, the Typing rebellion journalist, whose visit here is remembered by all. in China, the Civil war in America, and the many lie writes ns followß : other minor conflicts of this century. Yet dur" Though the Hawaiian people become extinct, ing all this long period the Hawaiian nation lias it would require a century to obliterate the wayenjoyed a prolbuud pence, even while wars have Bsarka of that handTul of determined New Eng- been raging throughout other parts of Polynesia. land men and women. Their patient and effective labors seem to Surely I iod has honored this jn-ople by thus sigme, now that I have seen the results, U have been nally blessing thorn with pence. God has so overruled events that the Hawaiian sini/ii/riilij urn/ r-vnlw<l at home. No intelligent nation has bccoinejsfccognized and honored among American can visit the Islands and remain there the nntions of the earth. To secure this recogni- even a month, without feeling proud that the tion, required great labor and much negotiation. civilization which has bore been created in so This work was undertaken by Messrs. Richards marvelotisly short a. time was the work of his and llaalilio, during their mission to the I'nited country men and women; and il you make the States nnd Europe, in 1842, ami wns eairied for- acquaintance of the older missionary families, you ward by Mr. Wyllic, Mr. Judd, Mr. Lee, Mr. will not leave them without (leap i-crsonal esteem Iticord, Mr. Allen and others, who labored with t for their characters, ns well as admiration for a zeal, perseverance and anxiety, which those in their work. They did not only forts a written for tho Hawaiian race, ami painfully office at the present time, can with difficulty apthem school bookß, a dictionary, ami a of departments govwhen the various preciate, in of the Scriptures and of a hymn book ; ernment are carried forward in a systematic not merely gather the people in churches round of routine duty. The principle of the recog■ children into schools ; but they guided nition of Hawaiians as a civilized nation and govslowly and with iiumeni,e difficulty, ernment was urged with fully ns much difficulty 'hristian civilization." and discouragement, as a Treaty of Reciprocity, is now advocated. To the honor of tho United FOB HKC iriIOCITY. Government, the initiative was taken at States NATION. GOD HONORING TIIK HAWAIIAN the blessings ami smiles of God's overby the which was soon followed Washington, Let us now look upon the other side of the picrovidence, the Christian people of Amerduplicate Treaty, signed by the Representatives ture, and see bow God has honored Hawaiians. conferred upon the inhabitants of these of France and England, on the 28th of Nov. 1843, God has most signally honored this people, by preChristian civilization, and the Hawaiians a day which is still recognized nB the day of Hai their it has existence, national when been serving waiian Independence. All the nations of Kurope have cordially reciprocated what has been done so frequently and ruthlessly assailed. At certain soon followed, so that the Hawaiian Kingdom, for them. Already have the people of tbe times tbe existence and integrity of this nation small as it may be in population and territory, is United States spent over n million- of dolhas been attacked, and to all human view, it now as fully recognized nnd honored, as any lars for their evangelization. There has seemed as if tbe end had come to the Hawaiians, Kingdom of Europe, or Republic of America. grown up between tbe two nations, a most as an independent nation. History has fully This is an honor, for which, ns a nation, we should intimate relationship, not only in commerce recorded these events, and 1 need not now hold be truly thankful. It gives to the decisions of our nnd trade, but in the intercourse of life. them up to view. There was a most significant Supremo Court, and our Courts of Admiralty an Our sons, and daughters seek to complete meaning in the memorable speech ofHis Majesty, acknowledgment, similar to those of the Supreme their education in the land of their parents, but Kamehamcha 111. on the 25th of Feb. 1843: Court the United States and tbe Legal Authori- erelong, hope to return to the islands and spend Here ye ! I make known to you that I am in ties ofof Europe. This is a great honor for the small, their days. Some of our sons fought manfully difficulties into by reason of which I weak and remote perplexity Kingdom of Hawaii. The and heroically on the Federal side in tbe great without therefore I cause; have been brought of the Hawaiian Islands, m a. Ruler and Civil war, and one honored as a General in tinKing the of bear land, life our give away ye but my King among the Rulers and Kings of the civilized Federal Army, now presides over the important rule over you, my people and your privileges will world, and his subjects are free aud independent, Normal School, for educating the Freedmen, at for I have hope that the life of tbe land under a limited Constitutional Monarchy. Hampton, Va.; and let me not omit to mention i be restored when my conduct is justified." living Not only have tbe Hawaiians been honored as the fact, that within the last two years, four offia due time, to the honor of the British Govnation, conducting their affairs in ac- cers of the United States Navy bave led to the u civilized ernment, it was restored, and the Hawaiian Flag cordance with the rules and principles of civilized Hymeneal Altar, lour of our fair daughters. In again waved, after British rule from tho 25th of i but a still higher honor has been con- a social and religous point of view, the Hawaiian Feb. 1843, to July 31st,—a period of five months. I nations, ferred upon them. They have, in the good provi- Islands are now annexed to the United States' The sentiment of His Majesty, that by right- dence of Cod, become honored as a Christian There is not a more intimate connection, in tbeße life of the land is is preserved," eousness tbe nation. I think I cannot be mistaken. Some respects between England and any one of her coworthy of becoming tbe National Motto, and of few months ago, a Christian lady of rare powers lonial possessions. America has been the fosterbeing inscribed upon the nation's escutcheon. of observation, a member of the Church of Eng- parent of Hawaii nci, and now the latter, asks God, I would maintain, has honored tbe Rulers land, daughter of a clergyman of that church, for a still more intimate bond of union, such as and people of the Hawaiian Islands, by maintain- after having traveled extensively over this group will be formed by a Treaty-of-Keclprocity. I do ing their national existence. returns to Kngland and publishes her most earnestly maintain, that it would prove islands, of Not only boa the national existence of the peo- testimony in the October number of a Ixindon mutually beneficial, —beneficial not only to the ple been preserved, but tbe nation has enjoyed an magazine, which came to hand by tho late mail, islands, but still more beneficial to the United uninterrupted reign of peace for three quarters of I bave already made a quotation. States. These Islands are what the people of a century. lam not aware as any other nation and from which After a general review of the political, social and Oregon and California need to complete their has thus and honon earth been signally blessed state of affairs during the last three commercial integrity and unity; such as may be ored during the XLXth century. From the religious of a century, she concludes as follows: secured by Reciprocity. The commerce and busquarters his of war period when Kamebameha I. closed iness of the Islands have been developed under is within accomplished—to give Our object conquest, at the end of the last century, down to the natural and fostering care and capital of the tbe present time, tbe Hawaiians bave enjoyed comparatively narrow limits a complete review of have United States, aqd for the United States Governundertaken and victorious. We a mission peace. On one or two occasions, there bave been history from all tbe degradations of ment not to promote increased intercourse and slight risings or insurrections, but really such as traced theuntil we have seen a nation recovered,; .trade, would seem a suioidal policy. the taboo scarooly merit tbe historian's notice. to Jesus Christ; there were shadows we have " * " ! Ii , : " ! Stinue, " " « Paace hath her victories No Icm reoown'd than war." pointed out—the shadow of the old idoltary rePeace is something for which any people may appearing, the shadow of licentiousness, the MAJESTY'S VISIT TO ABBBICI. of The visit His Majesty to the United States, HIS �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, at this critical time appears to be most opportune nor too long, and by their felicitous appropriateness and providential. Most heartily do we hope and to the occasion and effective delivering proved that believe Christians of all communions will respond we were listening to a pulpit orator of no ordinary to the call, in the Proclamation of the 21st of ability. Quoting from Isaiah, tbe words beginning October, to pray that (iod will " be pleased to with, Ariße, oh Jerusalem!"—he spoke of the his absence prosper nnd guard His Majesty during " from his Kingdom." Tyndnll, Huxley, nnd other grandeur and the splendid hopes centered in the materialistic philosophers, may prove to their Holy City,—had she been only true lo her faith, and entire satisfaction, that (Jod does not interfere had faithfully recognized the Almighty's dispensawith the established order of" the created universe, tions in her behalf;—and in this connection comyet 1 have not the least doubt that thoso scientists, menting upon the blessedness nttending a recogniif they were about to cross the Atlantic in a And staunch Cuoard steamer, officered and manned by tion by Princes and People of Divine Guidance. the ablest commander and seamen, would after thcu the Kevercnd Father, addressing especially His all feel a little more at case and a little more safe, Majesty, said: " And indeed, oh King ! it is a gloif assured that their lathers, mothers, sisters and rious sight to seeyou this day invoking the assistance friends, morning and evening, offered up prayer of the Great Kulcr of the World and asking His protecto Almighty God in their behalf and lor their tion in your journey, undertaken for the good of snfety! The author of our being has deeply your country, —aud this act of devotion lo its welfare implanted in the human soul, B feeling of dependence, which finds its natural expression in must forever enthrone you still more in the affections humble prayer to (iod. No amount ol reasoning, and in the hearts of your people. As the history of speculation or argument can effectually eradientc the world tells us, the Church adapts herself to every this feeling from the human heart. The dweller lawfully constituted government. She teaches obein the darkest and most heathenish island of dience to lawful uutliority. She is the friend of Polynesia or in the wilds of Africa, acknowledges human progress, the guardian of rational liberty, this truth, equally with those educated in the meridian light of modern civilization and Chris- anil Your Majesty will see anil feel her influence in tianity. Those men denying this principle may the Great Republic you arc about Ii vi;it And your be true to their scientific convictions, but they presence here to-day acknowledges her mission of arc not true to their spiritual natures; hence, peace* anil loyalty."—Then after alludiug to the conmost Heartily do I honor His Majesty for making flicts of the Church, he went on to say—" Hut here this request, and so must every Christian man, the woman and child, throughout this Kingdom. In in these lovely islands, under your benign sway, conclusion, listen to the word of (iod, by his Church is free and unfettered, for you govern with b'nr tlitiß saith the high and justice aud liberality,—the proudest prerogatives of all Prophet Isaiah lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name Kingly power. And the Church, ever mindful of is holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with her earthly benefactors, calls her priests and prelates him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit.'* people to join Many an humble and contrite prayer, 1 doubt within her sanctuary to-day to ask the not, will go up for His Majesty from his subjects with them in praying God to increase you in faith of all communions that (Jod will " prosper nnd and wisdom, and I know that from the moment our guard " King and people, now and ever more. venerable and saintly prelate heard of your intention Amen. to come here, he, of his own accord, and from the impulse of his own fraternal heart, ordered this act I SBti lbs I'. C. Advertiser, Nov. 21st.] of public solemn worship to invoke God's choicest THE ROYAL BIRTH-DAY. blessings upon you,—that on sea and land He may Prayers for the King. have you in His keeping, and that He may send His angel with you as He did with the son of Tobias to Monday, the 16th inst., was observed in Honolulu guard and counsel you on your way and bring you with great honor as a National Holiday. It was the back home in safety and honor to your people. King's thirty-eighth birthday, and moreover His Happy is tbe Prince who places bis trust in God. Majesty had, by Royal Proclamation, invited His He" governs according to God's law; and he underPeople to join in the offices of religion in invoking stands that religion is the great basis of his throne, the protecting care of Divine Providence over our and secures his authority,—that the infidelity which Ruler during a visit to the United States of America, throws off the yoke of faith will soon throw off tbe and elsewhere abroad. yoke of obedience, and that he who is false to bis His Majesty and Suite attended the Churches of God can never be true to his King.—That yon have the three principal denominations in our city, to join endeavored to govern in justice and wisdom is evident in the prayers offered up in his behalf. to all, for you are encircled to-day by the affection, His Majesty first attended tbe early morning serthe devotion and the homage of your people. There vice at St. Andrew's temporary Cathedral, and re- seems a holy rivalry amongst all in asking God to ceived tbe Holy Communion at the hands of the guard Your Majesty; but I am free to say there are Lord Bishop, in company with Her Majesty tbe none who more heartily pray for you than tbe venQueen, and Queen Dowager Emma. And thus Ko- erable Prelate and the priests and people who surlakaaa, Kapiolani and Emma kneeling together at round you here,—and that having accomplished your tbe same altar, gave happy assurance of the peace mission you will return home in joy, having added a of Hawaii. new glory to your crown, and increased prosperity to Afterwards His Majesty, accompanied by His Royal your people." Highness the Heir Apparent, Their Excellencies At the close of the address, Monseigneur Bishop J. S. Walker, Minister of Finance, and VV. L. Moeassisted by several of bis clergy, celebrated Maigret, honua, Minister of the Interior, Their Excellencies the worship of God in a High Mass, which was acand Dominie, Allen, Kanoa, Kapena, Governors companied by instrumental and vooal music, under the Royal Aids, arrived about 10 a. m. at the Cathothe skillful direction of Father Hermann. lic Church of Mariekamalu, where they were met by At 12 o'clock His Majesty met an assembly of his the Commissioner of France, Mr. Ballieu, and the bat preceding Chancellor of the French Legation, Mr. Pernet, in people at Kawaiahao Stone Church; occasion, speak of the report oar of this we must ihe party to royal full uniform,—who conducted a in seats near the altar. The Rev. Br. O'Connor now offerings of prayer to God, and of discourse day at Fort Street Church, commencing honor of tbe the rail front of His in Majesty, to stepped forward and made some happy and pertinent remarks. The at 11 o'clock. After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Frear, in which DiReverend gentleman's words were neither too short . : . ■• 99 1874. vinoe guidance and protection were especially invoked in behalf of His Majesty, the pulpit was filled by the Rev. Dr. Damon, who preached an admirable discourse from tbe text, Tbem that honor Me,I will honor." He showed how the spirit of this country, ever since its first dawn of religious light bad been to honor God, whose mercies thus far had never failed it in its hour of need. But weneed not comment here, as we print the discourse in full on another page. Bat this we will sny,—that the discourse breathes a spirit of unbounded charity and hopefulness. Some may criticise the optimism of the Reverend Gentleman, but it is in accordance with the spirit of noble humanity and wide Christian charity, that leads him to accept the universality of Christianity under various opinions, conditions, and denominations. He partook of the holy rivalry mentioned by the Reverend Father in the Church across the way, and we must say, that notwithstanding wo have our preferences in the exercises of worship, we were happy to-day to be present at so many different shrines, where fervent prayer, earnest words, and the sweet voices of choral singers lifting up our hearts with sacred melody, inspired tho warmest emotions of brotherly love and Christian sympathy. At the native Church of Kawaiahao, tho regular thanksgiving services were held in tho morning, the Pastor, the Rev. 11. 11. Parker, preaching a sermon appropriate to tho occasion, before n large audience. But the culminating proceedings of the day were the services held in this church from 12 o'clock until 2, whiosfwere attended by their Majesties tho King and Queen, His Royal Highness, Prince Lclciohoku. their Royal Highnesses tho King's Sisters, Her Highness R. Keclikolani, the Hon. Mrs. Bishop, the King's Ministers, and tbe members of His Suite. An extensive platform had been prepared on a level with the pulpit, on which tbe Royal party was seated in a semicircle, their Majesties in the centre. The exercises were opened with the Hawaiian version of God Save the King," sung by the choir, the immense Badience joining and accompanied by the Band. After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Kuaea, and a hymn by the choir, came the oration by Mr. Kuaea, an eloquent retrospect of Hawaiian history, wherein the speaker maintained that the nation has great reason to give God thanks for the many blessings and privileges enjoyed in the past. He gave brief sketches i»f the Sovereigns who have reigned, from Kamehame!.» I. to Lunalilo, their characteristics and their sets, and finally concluded in substance as follows: Finally we Co ue to King Kalakaua 1., whose motto is Hooulu Lahui." The "-or ..cation that weighs upon his mind is the saving of this nation. To ac-complish this is the aim of his existence, and if be accomplishes bis desires the independence and life ol this nation will be maintained. But life and death are in our own hands, this whole nation are digging their own graves. Bo not think your King can save you. He can only tell you what you should do, con only be a guide for yoa. You must save yourselves. This question is a hard one to answer do not puzzle yourselves to solve it, for you cannot.do it. Oh, for some prophet, lo solve this mystery—l win be the prophet to give this answer. It is this: Let every parent gather bis children together, place around tbem his arms, and vow that he will not let them, both daughters and sons, wander away into the paths of evil. In this way alone will this nation be saved. He who stands at the helm of the ship of state wishes to direct her prow towards the port of salvation. Tbe great desire of oar King is to seek aid for the agricultural interests of tbe country—the cans fields. and the rioe fields are the soul of this country. Take " " " " " " . 1, ; �1874. THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 100 who is doing to much for as and our country. We mast give ourselves up soul and body a sacrifice to God. We must ask God to protect our King on his journey. Let as pray God to control the winds and still the waves that He maybe returned to us in safety. We mast pray that the heart of the King may trust in God and in Him alone ; that He may not trust in himself, nor in any man, but in the King of Kings." Tbe oration was followed by singing The Hymn of Kamebameba," by tbe choir, the words being composed by His Majesty and the music by Mr. Berger. At the conclusion of the Hymn, His Majesty arose, and stepping forward spoke as follows Mr People On this the first anniversary of my birth-day occurring after my accession to tbe Throne, I have thought it fit and proper that it should be made a day of national thanksgiving to Almighty God, for His many mercies and blessings to us as a people; and, as it occurs on the eve of my undertaking a long journey to a far country, that you may also on this day Implore the Divine protection for me in my absence, and a blessing on my mission. Iv tbe history of nations, we may learn that it is no unusual thing for tbe Head of one Government to visit that of another for the purpose of seeking the welfare of the people. It is for this purpose,—in the endeavor to forward the best interests of you, my people,—that I am about to visit the seat of government of our good friends, the United States of America. That Government has given another instance of its friendship to us, by placing one of its war vessels at my disposal to convey me to its shores. To-day, our country needs tbe aid of a Treaty of Commercial Reciprocity with America in order to ensure our material prosperity, and I believe that if such a Treaty can be secured, the beneficial effects will be soon apparent to all classes, and our nation, under itsreviving influences, will grow again. It is with these impelling motives and hopes that I now reluctantly bid farewell for a time to the dear land of my birth, and to you my people. In conformity with the Constitution, I bave appointed His Royal Highness my brother, to act as Regent and Head of tho Government during my absence, feeling confident that in bis hands tbe conduct of affaiis will be safe. And I ask for him, the Queen, and my sisters, tbe tame consideration and loyalty that you bave accorded me. Let yeur united prayers asceml to the Almighty that He will grant me His protection during my absence, a prosperous termination to my mission, and a safe return. Tho King's remarks were listened to with marked attention, and in the pauses were greeted with laud applause. Then followed singing again, after which Prince Leleiohoku made an eloquent address. In the course of bis remarks, he compared tbe country In the present condition of stagnation and business decadence to a ship becalmed on the ocean, without a breath of wind to propel it along, but which In reality waa gradually going astern. Tbe captain, anxious that the ship shall move ahead on her voyage, leaves bis comfortable cabin and qaarter-deck, and getting into a boat, goes ahead and endeavors to tow the vessel out of the calm. "That," said the Prince, "la what your King is about to do; he leaves his throne and his country to go and labor abroad in the Interests of you, tbe peaple. And while your King is thus exerting himself on your behalf in a foreign country, what are you going to do yourselves? In what way can yon second him in his endeavors T I will tell you: By being industrious, virtuous and thrifty. Let the laty drones, who wear One clothes sad do nothing for a living, go to work at some " : : honest occupation, and earn their food by tbe sweat of their brows; not be consumers only'but producers as well. In this work of bringing about tbe prosperity and recuperation ot the people, let every one And something to do. and don't allow it to be said that you, the people, stand idly by, while Your King does all.*' The Prince spoke earnestly and at length, frequently eliciting the applause of the audience. Then came a piece of music finely rendered by the Hand, after which His Excellency J. M. Kapeua, the Governor of Maui, (who accompanies His Majesty on his journey) spoke a few words of farewell. The exercises concluded with the singing by the choir, with tine effect, of the " Hawaiian National Hymn," the words and music composed by the Princess Lydia Kainakaeha Dominis, His Majesty's eldest sister. We givean English translation of the Hymn Father Almighty ! Lord of all! : Incline Thine ear to hear out cull; The nation lift- iia voice to Thee, {suppliant in humility, That pence and order still may reign O'er these fair inlands ol the main; From mountain steep to coral shore, lie Thou our guard torevermore. Long lire our sea-girt island home, Free as the waves thatround ua foam; Sustained hy justice, truth and right— Save Thou our King, O Godof might! O Lord, Thy constant care extend About our King-, be Thou Hi* friend; (.rant that He long may live and reign; By Thy strong hand His throne sustain; Teach Him to rule with gentle sway, His people's good to seek alway, And 'neath theshelter of Thy wing Long live our Sov'reiga Lord the King Long live our sea-girt, See. (iod save the Chiefs; with loving hand Protect the leader* of our land; God save the People of our race Whose hope and trust is in Thy grace; Stretch out, U Lord, Thy saving hand; With patient love guard Thou our land; So may we stand and live to be A nation sav'd to honor Thee. Long live our sea-girt, &c. : Thus concluded tho public observance of the first anniversary, since his accession, of the birth-day of King Kalakaua, and all must acknowledge that it was most fittingly celebrated. [From the Alts California, October Nth.] Hawaiian Reciprocity. Among the passengers wbo arrived yesterday, from Honolulu, are Elisha 11. Allen, Embassador to the United States, empowered and instructed to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with our Government, and 11. A. P. Carter, who accompanies him as Commissioner, to co-operate in the negotiations. King Kalakaua will follow them, leaving the Islands in the American war ship Henicia about tbe middle of November. We welcome the two diplomatists to our shores, and commend them to the favor of our merchants and officials. /Even if, in a business paint of view, reciprocity shoultl not prove a source of much direct profit to us, it should still be granted. The Hawaiian Kingdom is suffering a severe business depression. A large part of its income has been cut off by tbe decline of whaling. There seems to Ire only one mode of relief, and that is, in reciprocity with our Government. We, who alone can render this service, are under many obligations to do it. We are bound to tbe Hawaiians by geographical proximity, by commercial and social intercourse in the past and in the present, and by joint commercial and industrial interests in the future. The prosperity of the Islands will contribute to the wealth of California, to the importance of the commerce of the North Pacific and to tbe popularity and patronage of tbe California route from Western Europe to Eastern Asia. We trust that the Pacific. Coast delegation in Congress will listen with favor to Messrs. Allen and Carter. [from the Ban Fr»,nci»co Chronicle. October 30th.) California and the Hawaiian Islands. / Tbe geographical position of tbe Sandwich Islands is such as to make it a matter of very great importance to tbe United States that they should not fall into the possession or under tbe influence of any foreign power.| The area of tbe entire group is only some 6,670 square miles ; the papulation does not probably exceed 80,1101). Hence, whatever importance the islands may have is chiefly derived from their position in the Pacific, their admirable harbors, some of tbem protected by barrier reefs of coral, and their value as a naval station. A*he predominance of American influence in the Pacific demands that neither France nor England, nor any other European nation should be permitted, under any pretense, to establish a •• protectorate over these Yesterday the Hon. Elisha 11. Allen, Minister Plenipotentiary duly accredited by tbe Hawaiian Government, and H. A. I". Carter, member of tbe Privy Council, arrived in this city en route for Washington. Their object is understood to be to negotiate a treaty of reciprocity between tbe United States aud tbe Hawaiian Kingdom. some years the trade between the islands and tbe Pacific Coast has been steadily diminishing. Tbe Australian colonies coveted that trade and sought to secure it by reducing duties on imports. We impose an average duty of three cents per pound on the raw sugar that comes to this port from the islands, while tbe duly in the Australian ports does not exceed one cent per pound. It would seem to be clearly for the interests of the country at large, and it is certainly for the interest of California to establish tbe relations with tbe Hawaiian kingdom which it is the object of the present Embassy to promote. For a period of twenty years tbe Hawaiian Government has been anxious to make a reciprocity treaty with tbe United SrltesJ There have been Presidents and statesmen who were in favor of it ; hut the Senate has been uniformly opposed to the idea. An objection often urged against reciprocity is that it would diminish tbe revenue. Such diminution in this particular case would be too trifling to bave in itself any weight in influencing tbe policy of the Government. A much more important consideration is the establishment of tbe precedent. If we adopt the policy of reciprocity with the Sandwich Islands, on what grounds are we to repudiate that policy when urged upon us by Canada for instance. Practically and in its material results the question of reciprocity with tbe Sandwich Islands is not one of vast importance, but as a precedent and the indication of a general line of policy it is a matter of no little consequence. " Strangers, yet Friends.—Several months since, a gentleman arrived in this city from one of the Colonies of Australia, an invalid in search of health. Modest and retiring in his habits, he made few acqaintances, and so remained a stranger, in a strange land. The disease with which he was afflicted was rapidly sapping the fountains of life, and on Tuesday be breathed his laat, and was buried on Wednesday. But he was tenderly cared for to the last by the Fraternity of which he bad become a member in another land and under prosperous circumstances, and when all was over his mortal remains were escorted to the tomb and reverently laid to rest with the touching and impressive rites of the Order which be loved and had adorned, the members of which in this far off isle of the sea were to him strangers, yet friends. The person to whose death and burial we refer, was Mr. Alfred John Hooke, of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, a Past Master of "Harmony" Lodge. No. 410, Y. *A. M, The funeral was attended by members of both Blue Lodges of this city, and the services were conducted by W.\ Masters Dayton and Fyfe, assisted by Chaplain Macintosh and P.. Masters Allen and Bartow.—r. C. A. Nov. 21. � 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 (1874) 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 - 1874.11.24 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874.11.24 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d29a0d67c3027bbe92eb0b5714ad4617.pdf 7f110fe9184a3f0a1a02eb2a889ae911 PDF Text Text 101 THF E RIEND HONOLULU, DECEMBER 1, 1874. $tto Serifs, tfol. 23. »1.J2.j A Word with Donors. CONTENTS For Decraß.brr, _. End of Volume XXXI The Story of a Scottish E.rl Mother. Losing Sons at Sea Editor's Table—Bancroft's History Iceland Submarine Mountain Discovered Loss of a Host's Crew M.rine Journal Meeting* of American Hoard... V.M.C. A 1874. Paob. 101 101,102 102 103 103 10. 104 10. 104 108 THE FRIEND. DECEMBER I. 1874. END OF VOLUME XXXI. With this number closes another year of The Friend. As on former occasions, so now we would respectfully acknowledge our indebtedness to friends, patrons and subscribers for their many favors. We expect to issue on the Ist of January, 1875, the first number of volume 32, but we fear unless our friends, donors and subscribers are prompt and punctual, wa shall not close the year without a debt. Our subscribers will remember that they have not until now been called upon for the year 1874,and they will favor us by paying the amounts due, to Mr. Dunscombe, when their bills are pre- During the last month we have received from C. R. Bishop, Esq., $10.00 ; Captain Owen, bark Jireh Perry, $5.00; Captain Fisher, bark Java 2d, $4.50. To meet the actual cost of our paper distributed gratuitously during the past year, we ought to receive this month at least one hundred and fifty dollars. Shipmasters, officers, seamen and others have, always expressed much satisfaction in receiving a fresh copy of the Friend, on the first of the month. Now it is not unreasonable to ask those friendly to the enterprise, to lend us their aid. The smallest favors thankfully received! In former years we were wont to receive aid from English and American vessels of war, and we hope the good practice is not abandoned. Miss Isabella I. Bird. Many of our island readers will remember the visit of this lady in Honolulu, and her travels over the islands. Since her return to England, she has published in the " Sunday at Home," a London mnnnzine, Reminiscences of her visit and a Review of Missented. sionary labors. Her writings evince independent thought, keen observation, extensive New Books at Whitney's.—Among the and logical generalization. She reading now books displayed on Whitney's counter, some puts points in a style which would we picked up Dr. Smith's Smaller History doubtless call forth remark, if stated in the He for a should have chosen of England." same manner by an American Congregationmotto, " Multum in Parvo," for in no other alist. Miss Bird is a member of the Church of have we ever so England found history much valuable and readable matter in so of England and daughter of a clergyman of small a compass. We have read his similar that Church. She is accustomed to write histories of Gree:e and Rome, but this vol- for the magazines, and we find in the " Sunume seems to surpass those for interest. It day Magazine " a series ofarticles on Keble, must prove a most excellent book for the John Newton, Cowper, the Wesleys, and young, far superior to that of Dickens or other English religious lyric poets, which Hume. It is illustrated with wood cuts, and we have read with much interest. Her armight well be styled "A Pocket History of ticle on the poet Cowper is really the best England," quite full and complete. Buy it. critique on that gifted poet we have ever met with, much better than Southey's. We Donation,—For "the Home," $5.00 from have heard the rumor that Miss Bird conCaptain Fisher, Java 2d. templates publishing a book on the islands. " {©ftSmts,M3). [Krcni the New York Christian at Work for July) TRUE STORY OF A SCOTTISH EARL. — He I .en its hi. Karlasm-l'smrs I* America Takes nn Aa.un.rd \atnr Skips ■■ n Ceaaasea Sailer—AMeade a Xn.Hr.l College Becesaea Firs. Male —Hie Veyagee aad his Drain A Mu-tul»r Starr. — — — BY REV. H. H. M'FARLAND. The recent gift of £300 in gold, by the Scotch Countess of Aberdeen, to the American Seamen's Friend Society of New York, brings freshly to public notice the remarkable career of her son, the sixth earl of that name. All things considered, his life, for the four years next before its close, was more wonderful than any fiction. It is the story of a nobleman who came to this high earldom at the age of twentytwo, enjoyed it for twenty-six months, then laid it by of his own accord, and four years afterward died as first mate of a Boston schooner bound for Melbourne, having been a sailor in subordinate position on American vessels for nearly all the time from May, 1866, to January, 1870. During this period his assumed name was George H. Osborne; but he did not keep his family in ignorance of his whereabouts. On the contrary, he wrote to them repeatedly, describing his voyages; and it is now supposed that all his lettert.v'but two were received. letters were answered, but the replits did not reach him. Most of them went back to their writers from American post-offices. It was when this correspondence ceased that his friends began the investigations -which assured them of his death, ana familiarized them with his extraordinary life. The question why he undertook it baffles inquiry. Evidently not from necessity. He was neither pauper, invalid, nor misanthrope. He was not a despondent, a do-nothing, nor a roue. Health of body and of mind in him were excellent. He was very skillful in shooting, and rowed a boat with the utmost vigor and endurance. He had practical knowledge of affairs quite uncommon for his age and position. His education was of a high order; his disposition cheerful and kind; his whole spirit very much the spirit of Christ. The key to his strange career is likely to be found in an intense passion for sea life, cherished from his boyhood. It is probable, also, that he intended, after voyaging a �102 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, short time longer, to return to Scotland and home. If one accept these views, the history of his service at sea may be read sjwith interest undisturbed by the feeling that for its existence there is no adequate solu- his incognito and having to leave the ship, so he refrained from making himself known. In 1868 he spent some time at Richmond, Me., where he fished, shipped, etc., and, in December, sailed as master of the Waltion. ton schooner, bound for Jacksonville, Fla. Succeeding to his father, George Hamil- Thence he shipped for Galveston, and then ton Gordon became Earl of Aberdeen in back to Pensacola, Fla. From the latter March, 1864. In January, 1866, he sailed place he wrote to his mother : for New Brunswick on a visit to his uncle, "Do not fret for me, for though I should like to who was governor of the province. Then ccc you now, I mint defer it a little longer. You tee me, mother, before you expect it. At prestraveling in the United States, he came, in may ent I am prevented by beyond my May of that year, to Boston, and during the control from going or doingcircumstances just what I could wish. summer, under his new name, made his first Lett you may think that I am hard up, I may menvoyage, shipping aa a sailor from that port tion that thousand! of dollar* are entrusted to me; to the Canary Islands. In October he re- also more than a few lives and muoh property are dependent on my capability. The secret of all this turned to Boston and offered himself as first is, that I have been for two years, and am, a rigid for the children's officer missionary ship, the teetotaller." Morning Star, bound for service in the He had been abstemious. There Southern Pacific. His fine physique, ad- were somealways other voyages in the dress, and manners, excited the surprise of Walton, and some coasting more quiet months at the committee of the A. B. C. F. M., who Richmond. Wherever he was the same tesmade the appointments, and it was with sin- timony has been given to the simplicity and cere regret that the young man's confessed usefulness of his life, and to the warm atinexperience made his appointment impossi- tachment felt for him who knew him. ble. Disappointment in connection with He spent much timebyinall the public library. this application, probably induced his entry His love of children was So into the Boston Nautical College and into a with his love of music, forremarkable. his ear which commercial school. At the former institu- was very correct. tion George became foremost in study among But this was the beginning of the end. its one hundred and fifty students. A fellow Early in January, at Boston, he enpupil says : " His theoretical knowledge of gaged as first mate 1870, of the schooner Hero, nautical astronomy surpassed that of any bound for Melbourne. While awaiting her one I ever met, in my experience of nearly departure, and on the wharf, no prothirty years at sea." He went from Boston fanity, no harshbusy or rough word even, was with a college certificate that he had passed heard from his lips. The ship sailed on the examination as a first class navigator, and 21st, and before dawn of the sixth day out in seamanship second class, and was soon his death ended his earthly voyage. A after examined before the Board of the sailor who was with him describes it in this American Shipmasters' Association in New wise : York. The record of his case upon their I waa in the watch of the first mate, George 11. " books, is as follows : Osborne. He had the watch from four to eight a. m. to his were lowering the main sail. Osborne and I •• 4969—George H. Osborne. Lunars and D. We were side by side hauling on the same rope. The Alts., good; Chron., very good, 9." ship gave a heavy roll, and the down-haul got slack; Ten was the perfect mark, and four the pass then with another roll tbe down-haul got taut. Osborne and I were both caught in the bight of the number. This examination gave him his down-haul. The first shock came on him because be mate's certificate, as he had not been long was nearer the sail than I. I had time to lay myself enough at sea to entitle him to a captain's. down, and the rope passed over me, while Osborne The next year he obtained the latter. With was dragged across me, and into the sea. I saw him sea, fall into the but could do I nothing to prevent his mate's certificate, he began to voyage It was the work of a second. I saw him come to with Captain John Wilbur, of Mystic, Conn., it. the surface. It was not a dark night. I threw him who wondered much at his male's appear- a rope as soon as I possibly could. I heard him call ance, manner, and character. As they walk- out to launch the boat and call the captain. We ed the deck on fine evenings, George gave threw bim planks and ropes, but he did not succeed laying hold. The boat was cast loose as quiokly him much information about the stars and in as we but by the time the boat was loose it planets, and they also had frequent conver- was toocould; late. I don't think any men could have sations on the subject of religioo. There gone in the boat without great danger to life. Some were prayers and reading of the Scriptures of the Boston men volunteered to go in her, but the thought it waa not right to risk their lives. with the men on Sunday mornings, and on Icaptain heard what to be Osborne's last cry beone or two evenings during the week. It is fore the boatI believed was ready. We never heard or saw a beautiful picture of a Christian atmosphere him again." No wonder that the earl Houston, Texas, to his brother: There is no better or happier place in the "world than a good, small American vessel." Since George's death the good captain has given to his mother, at " Haddo House," in Aberdeen, an account of their mutual assoon shipboard. wrote from ciation. Thus his life ran on, in the new groove, with the usual vicissitudes of seafarers. He sailed from New Orleans to Mobile, to Vera Cruz, back to New York, and then to Trinidad. Here he saw his uncle, the governor of the island ; bat of course could not make him aware of his presence without giving up 1874. for bad be been spared to carry out bis plans, I think he would have instituted a radical change in the mercantile marine, and would have been regarded by sailors almost with veneration." Now his mother, with a double purpose, that she may carry out his wish to benefit the class of men with whom he companied, and to conserve his memory, has made her gift. It will put a hundred loan libraries for sailors afloat on the sea which covers his remains. Each case that holds the books has on it this inscription, suggested by the countess : Ambbican Biamcn'b Vbibicd Society, LOAN LIBRARY Sent to Bea by his mother, In memory of George, Earl of Aberdeen, himself a s.llor, .nd lost at Ma In January, 1870. .fed 28. " Be hath made the depth, of the sea a way for the ransomed to pas. over." • And so, this Scottish earl, from his life of mystery, ended when it might seem that its special usefulness was just ready to begin. He being dead yet speaketh to those among whom his last days were so strangely cast. Mothers Losing Sons at Sea. In our columns will be found a most interesting sketch of the Earl of Aberdeen, lost at sea. The Countess of Aberdeen is not the only mother, however, who mourns the loss of a son. By a late mail a letter of inquiry was received by the Chaplain, respecting Charles A. Ambler, of Natick, Mass., and on making search we found that he belonged to the unfortunate and ill-fated boat's crew of the James W. Allen. A letter from the young man's mother now lies before us, which we have answered by communicating the sad news. This letter breathes the warm and anxious affection of a mother hopingand praying for her Charlie, far away in the Arctic Ocean, whose remains with so many others rest in the depths of the ocean, to await the time when the " sea shall give up its dead." Writes the young man's mother: I am going to write this letter hoping you will answer it, for your poor mother wants to hear from you. You don't know how much, if you did you would send me one line, I think of you and hope you will make a good man. They say a widow's prayers are treasured, then mine will be for you. Oh, for my boy to be good and honest and true, is all I ask," &c. [C7* How earnestly we desire and entreat sailors to write their mothers. When comHis family had begun their search for him ing to Honolulu they will always find pen, in November, 1869. It cost thousands of ink and paper at the Sailors' Home, gratis. miles' travel, months of watching and waiting, perseverance and ingenuity, to obtain Joseph Moore,—Has arrived per steamer the facts we have set down, but all were from America. He is a memfinally rewarded. His friends believe that Cyphrenes the of " Friends," and is a ber of Society when once engaged in the duties of a mera of that denomination in professor college chant-seaman he was so struck with the wrongs and hardships of the class that he at Richmond, Indiana, and comes to spend a had earnestly turned his thoughts to the best few months on the islands. He brings with means of improving their condition. One him credentials of the best and most satiswho knew him intimately in the United character, and letters from Friend factory States writes thus : have better cause to mourn his early de- Bean, who spent some months on the islNone " parture than the seamen of this and his own country; ands several years ago. " �EDITOR'S TABLE. History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent. By George Bancroft. Vol. X. Boston, 1874; Little, Brown & Co. History tells us that Homer rehearsed his immortal poem, The Iliad, in the hearing of his delighted countrymen, and that Herodrtus—the father of history —repaired to the Olympic Games and there repeated in the hearing of the assembled hosts, the story of his travels in foreign lands. We may envy the old Greeks who were permitted to listen to Homer and Heroditus, but there is one privilege modern readers enjoy, which was denied to the ancients. It is the privilege of cutting the leaves and reading a volume of some favorite poet or historian, printed on purely white or tinted paper. Such a reflection was suggested, as we opened and read Bancroft's tenth volume of the History of the United States. It has been reported that this volume has been a long time in the printer's hands, but its publication was delayed because Mr. Bancroft wished to verify a certain document by comparing the copy with the original, carefully preserved in some of the of Europe. This only leads that Mr. Bancroft appears to have far outstripped all former writers on American history, in his unwearied and indefatigable research among the public and private libraries and family histories of both Europe and America. From the immense mass of materials thus gathered, he has been able to solve many perplexing and doubtful points in the history of his country. The reading of the tenth volume reminds us of the pleasure we enjoyed, when a boy in college just forty years ago, of reading the first volume published in 1834. Thus Mr. Bancroft has published a volume, upon an average, once in four years. At that time he was principal of Round Hill School, Northampton, Mass., but has since been called to occupy some of the highest and most responsible offices within the gift of the President and people of the United States, having been at one period Secretary of War, and more recently Ambassador at the Court of Berlin. Not only America but Europe and the world know how honorably he has acquitted himself in the latter position. During all these years he has steadily kept at the ope point announced in the preface to his first volume, " I have formed the design of writing a history of the United States from the discovery of the American Continent to the present time." The tenth volume brings down tbe narrative of historical events to 1782, when the state archives us to remark, revolutionary war closed and the United States were acknowledged as an independent nation by England and all the nations of Europe, although really independent from July 4th, 1776. This volume affords ample evidence that the statesmen of France, Germany, Russia, and all the courts of Europe watched with intense anxiety the progress 103 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1874. habitants, for whom four hospitals are established. The inhabitants are noted for their honesty, industry and devotion to their island and its institutions. Reports are exceedingly favorable respecting schools and learning generally among the people. Many of the inhabitants speak good English. Bayard of events in America. In fact, the pen was Taylor illustrates this fact by referring to as mighty as the sword in achieving Ameri- his guide a lad of seventeen, who had read can independence. Patties were fought Shakespeare and Byron. around the council .tables of kings as well as It appears that some of the inhabitants deon the fields of America. to emigrate from their island to some sire * It has been intimated in the newspapers other part of the world. We clip the followthat Mr. Bancroft would end his labors as a ing from a late number of the Occident, historian with this volume, but he gives no published in San Francisco : such hint; hence in four years or less, we " The committee of Icelanders, who are may look forward for an additional volume, seeking a suitable place for emigration for should God spare his life. Millions of his their countrymen, were in this city last week. By direction of President Grant, the countrymen will doubtless pray that his life sloop of war Portsmouth, was placed at may be prolonged, and that he may continue their service and they have sailed for Alaska. to write the history of his country until he This is the third time that the Icelanders have sought a new home for that portion of has attained four score years and more, their people who have found a removal when, like Guizot, the great French histo- necessary. Their first trial was in the rian who has recently passed away at 87, he mountains of Brazil; but they did not find ends his career on earth with pen in hand. the country adapted to their habits of living. When sitting down to write the notice of A company then went to Canada, but soon this book, we intended to remark upon the dissatisfaction prevailed among them. It is to be hoped that the climate of Alaska, so delight we experienced in reading the second similar to that of their own country, and the and third chapters, relating to Germany and fine fishing and hunting will prove more atthe United States during the latter half of tractive, and that these excellent, primitive, the eighteenth century, but our space is too pious people, will here in time add another star to our American constellation." limited. " Suit was brought against a firm of liquor dealers in Brooklyn by the father of a Iceland. youth who died from the results of intoxication by liquors sold to him the firm in The recent celebration of the one thou- question. The damages were by laid at 815,sandth year since the settlement of that isl- -000 and a verdict for $2,000 was gained. and, has called public attention to that inter- Had the suit been on behalf of a wife for the esting people. We have read with much loss of a husband, or of a child for the loss of a father the damages would have been asinterest Bayard Taylor's letters, describing sessed much higher. Judge McCue held his recent visit to that island, as published that the jury could assess damages for the in an extra of the New York Tribune. funeral expenses of the deceased, and the From those letters and other sources we value of his services to his father till he arat the age of twenty-one. He further gather the following facts, which we doubt rived held that they could award whnt exemplary not will interest some of our readers. In damages they thought proper." 1850 there were 59,157 inhabitants, or I Rev. S. Antliff, D. D.—By the steamer about the same population as upon the Sandwich Islands. They are all genuine de- Cyphrenes this gentleman arrived, en route scendants of the Scandinavians or Norse- for Australia, He is leader among tbe men, and retain many peculiarities of that Primitive Methodists of England, and is race, so noted in history. In religion tbey sent forth to visit all churches of that comare strictly Lutheran. They are a thrifty munion in America and Australia. It it a and industrious people. Upon the island peculiarity of this branch of Methodists, that there are about 500,000 sheep, 40,000 cattle they encourage laymen to take part in all and 50,000 horses. Hay is the principal their affairs. crop. Ohio Penitentiary.—A remarkable work The capital is Reikaivik, a town of about has been going on during the past three 1,000 inhabitants. The island belongs to years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus, Denmark, and was recently visited by the under the efforts of the chaplain, Rev. O. H. Out of the thousand inmates King of Denmark. The island not only Newton. the prison usually contains, 462 have which abounds with volcanoes, and is visited by become members of a Young Men's Chrisan occasional earthquake, but, we are sorry tian Association which has been formed, to learn, that leprosy afflicts some of the in- and which is in effect a church to the men. — �THE FRIEND, 104 THE FRIEND. DECEMBER 1. 1874. DECEMBER, Bethel Organ Fond.—The proceeds of Concert," amounting to $450, and after paying expenses leaving a balance of $375, forms a good nucleus for this purpose. Any one favorably disposed will please send contributions to J. O. Carter, Esq., treasurer. The choir desire to obtain an organ which shall cost from $800 to $1,000. —A donation of $25.00 for this purpose gratefully acknowledged from Mr. Herbert, proprietor of the Hawaiian Hotel. the " Drowned.—It is with deep sorrow we announce the death, by drowning at Kailua, Hawaii, of Mr. Charles Lambert, a young Englishman, whose father resides at Coquimbo, Chile. This young gentleman came to the islands for the benefit of his health, a guest of Captain Cator, H. B. M.'s ship Scout. He accompanied the party of English astronomers, who are taking observations Ice.—We regret to learn that Captain at Kailua, Hawaii. The sad occurrence November, Smith's ice machine has broken down. Ice took place on Friday, 20th of with Professor has become so much of a necessity that we while out bathing in company do hope that in some way, he may be enForbes. The surf being high, the unfortuand to start upon a permanent basis. was out to sea couraged swept nate young man is Ice needed as much for the sick as those swimmer, a was unable to good although health. in was with the shore. It considerable regain difficulty that the natives were enabled to Hawaiian Hotel.—While there are so go out and Tecover the body, but they finally many strangers in the city, we are glad there succeeded in the perilous effort. There are is a hotel where they can find accommodamany attending circumstances rendering the tions and attendance. " Mine host" apdeath of Mr. Lambert an event of great sad- pears to belong to the " Leland " family, so ness, and among them, that the young man famous in keeping American hotels. % was rapidly regaining his health, and was anticipating a return to his friends. Card.—The Seamen's Chaplain, in behalf of the choir and attendants at the Bethel, Submarine Mountain Discovered, About would return sincere thanks to all who in THE HEIGHT OF MaUNA KeA, OR 14,600 FEET. any way aided or patronized the Concert at —The U. S. S. Tuscarora, on her survey- the Hawaiian Hotel, on the evening of the ing trip from San Francisco to Honolulu, 24th ult. when in north latitude 33° 10' and west We would acknowledge papers and longitude 131°, discovered a submarine mountain. About 500 miles away from the magazines for distribution from Mrs. Dole, Coast, the bed of the ocean was found to be A. S. Hartwell, Esq., Rev. S. E. Bishop 2,800 fathoms below the surface, but sud- and Mrs. Allen. denly the sounding apparatus gave only the New Books and Christmas Gifts.—These depth of 365 fathoms. When the ship had be found in abundance and of all variewill passed the summit of the mountain, the bed at Thrum's book-store. ties, of the ocean was again found to be about fathoms the The aver2,800 below surface. Loss of a Boat's Crew.—The bark age depth of the bed between San Francisco and Honolulu is about 2,700 fathoms. From James W. Allen, reports a most melanthe surveys thus far, the route from the choly accident which happened near Herald American Coast to China and Japan is far Island on the Ist of October last. Captain the most favorable via the Hawaiian Islands. Kelley says that on the above mentioned day, he lowered his boats for whales close to the Wedding.—In ship's bow ; the mate stood out ahead of these days of clerical Silver often the ship about a mile and tacked, standing it is not change and migration, on the opposite course until he was about to at a is officiate privileged that clergyman the marriage of a young couple and at the three quarters of a mile from the ship on the end of a quarter of a century, be present at weather bow. The weather was rugged, the silver wedding; yet such was our privi- with frequent thick snow squalls. The lege on the 2d of last month, at the resi- mate lowered his sail to have a better chance dence of Dr. and Mrs. Hoffmann. Our to see the whales, and was last seen in that neighbors of the Gazette and Advertiser position. At this time the captain saw a have duly noticed the interesting event. We whale off the ship's lee quarter, and signalled have only space to say, it was one of those the boats to go there; he in the mean time pleasing incidents in human life which hap- wore ship, and before the vessel came to the pily makes people feel not old, but young wind, looked to sea if the boats were comagain. Long may they live to enjoy their ing, when he missed the -chief mate's boat. pleasant home and the respect of tbe com- He became alarmed at once, as there was a munity. heavy snow squall coming down, and he 1874. immediately set the recall signal in hopes that if they were all right they would set their sail, so that they could be seen. As* the approaching squall threw a dark gloom on the water, he could not see them ; no boat could be seen, the snow squall enveloped the spot where they were. He then made sail for the spot with the ship where the boat was last seen. When the squall blew over nothing was to be seen of the boat. The mast heads were manned by the sharpest-eyed men on board, as all felt anxious for the safety of the boat's crew. When the ship reached about the place where they were last seen, she wore round, standing a short distance on the opposite tack, with the American ensign set at the peak, to call the attention of the bark Triton, which was to windward and steering down towards them, in hopes they might see the boat, and if she had struck a whale and had been towed to windward to render assistance. The bark then came down, spoke the James Allen and luffed to under her lee. The James Allm wore off to cross to leeward, when they saw an oar and two hats; lowered a boat to pick these things up, not knowing but there might be a man. The next moment they saw the boat off the lee quarter, bottom up, with not a soul to tell the sad story. Capt. Kelley says, from the appearance of the boat, he judged they had struck a whale and had been drawn down by the line getting foul, in which case they could not have kept afloat longer than ten minutes, as it was bitterly cold, and the ice making very fast, the spray freezing as it struck the ship. The lines in the boats were frozen stiff, and the captain thinks that it was from this cause that the line got foul. The names of these unfortunate men were John Norton, chief mate; Alexander Collins, boatsteerer; Thomas Barker, John Seypan, Charles Ambler, Charles Beyer, seamen. This sad occurrence cast a gloom over the spirits of the whole ship's company and put an end to a promising season's work.— Gazette, Nov. 11. Massacre of- the Crew of the Lapwing.—The arrival of the Bcliooner Jessie Kelly from New Caledonia, after a six days passage, brings tbe news ot another dreadful massacre at Santa Cruz Island (New Hebrides), near the scene ol tbe murder of Bishop Patteson. Tbe particulars we bare gleaned, are from Captain Christopher, late master of tbe schooner Bruce, wbo arrived here as passenger in the Jes.te Kelly, and who got his information from the crew of the W. S. Fox, which reached Noumea just before his departure. Tbe Lapwing was a cutter of about forty tons, and sailed from New Caledonia about eleven months since, witb a crew of lour white men and several natives, on a bechle-mer voyage in the New Hebrides Group. The cutler having fulfilled her mission, preparations were being made for tbe return to Noumea, but she was short of provisions. The mate left the cotter with a native boat's crew to endeavor to get provisions from tbe natives of Santa Cruz, and while the boat was close in shore the inhabitants of the place made a combined attack upon ber, Snd either clubbed or tomahawked all excepting �one Tanna dative, who escaped In tbe boat and got clear of the island. An attack was then made upon the cutter ; and the master and tbe rest of the orew were killed, and tbe cutter seized and destroyed. The Tanna man was picked up by H. M. schooner Sandfly, cruising in the vicinity, and conveyed to Sandwich I.land (New Hebrides), from whence the W. 8. Fox sailed. The Lapwing was owned in New Caledonia. It transpired tbat H. M. schooner Sandfly. Lieutenant Howell, when at Ssnta Cruz, was nearly taken by tbe natives ot tbe island. It is reported that sbe was at anchor in a culm, und the crew were all below at dinner, one tniui only being on the lookout; but the ship's gun wus louded and all tbe rifles fully charged in case of an emergency. Several hundreds of canoes, It is stated, surrounded the Sandfly with the evident intention of attacking her. when tbe Sandfly opened lire upou tbe natives wilh the swivel guns und small rifles. The Are was hotly returned, the canoes sending volleys of arrows from all quarters, and ullll surrounding the schooner, and getting at closer quarters. A breeze, however, sprung up. enabling the Sandfly to get away from tbe place.— Sydney Empire, Oct. M. New York, Oct. 18th.—The Trustees, of the Board of Education Fund held tbe annual meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. The report of the general agent was read, going over the business of tbe past year in detail, and shows favorable results. Hon. Wm. M. Evarts read the report of the Committee appointed on the subject of education. The report considers the prospects and hopes of the public systems of education at the South will receive a serious, if not a fatal blow from any legislation whiqh should make such system maintainable only on the scheme of mixed schools, and that while justice and public duty, in the interests of both the white and colored people of the South ooncur, demanding this scheme of public education, which should give equal opportunities and advantages to their children, yet no inch result oould be attained by legislation. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Nov. 7—Am bk D C Hurray, A Fuller, 14 daya from Ban Francisco. B—Am wh bk Janies Allen, Kelley, fm Arctic, with 1300 wh, 16000 bone. B—Am wh bk Onward, Hayea, fm Arctic, with 1400 wh, 400 w.lrus, 14000 bone. B—Am wh bk Jar.Si, Fisher, from Arctic, with 700 wh, 400 walrui. 9—Brit wh bk faraway, Spencer, from Ochotak, with 330 wh, 6000 bone. 10—Arawhbk Arctic, Whitney, fm Arctic, with 060 wh, 10000 bone. 11—Am bk I H Kingman, Bearse, 16 d.y. from Ban Franclaco, sn route for the -ru.no island.. IS—Am wh bk Triton, tleppingatone, fm Arctic, with 800 wh, 8000 bone. 14—HB H's 8 Tenedoa, Menieu, 13 day. fm San Francisco. 14—Am wh .hip Josephine, Long*, from Ochotak, with I*oo bbl. oil, 30000 tb. hone. I*—H B Ma S Seoul, Ustor, from Kealakekua B.y. 17—Brit atmr Macgregor, Grainger, 23 daya fm Sydney. 17—Am wh ahip Europa, McKenile, from Arcilc, with 10Mbbls oil, 12,000 lbs bone. 21—Brit atmr Cyphrene., T Wood, 101 d.y. from San Fr.ncl.co. 23—H B H's 8 Reindeer, Commander Anson, 41 day. from Panama. 23—Brit wh bk Adventurer, Ilerendeen, from Brlitol Bay, with 660 bbls oil. at—Am wh bk Arnold., Bauklry, from Ochotsk, with 125 apm and 126 wh. a»—V S 8 Tuscsrora. Commander 11 Erben, Jr, 26 days from Sao Francisco. 28—Am wh ship Bartholomew Oosnold, Willi., irom OchoUk, with 400 bbl. oil. . DEPARTURES. Nov. 2—H B H's 8 Scout, Ralph P Cator, for Kealakekua. •—Am bk Pswb.ttan, Blackatone, lor Port Gamble. 7—Am wh .hip Jlreh Perry, Owen, for New Bedlord. 11—Am Khr C H Ward, Rlckman, for theguano l.l'da. 11—Am bk E 11 Kingman, Besrae, frr the ju.no I.l'da. 12—Brit Khr Favorite, McKay, for Ssn Francisco. 12—Am achr Undaunted, Miller, for San Francisco. 17—U S S Benlci., Hopkins, for B.n Franclaco. 17—Brit >tmr Hscgregor. Grainger, for San Francisco. 22—Brit itror Cyphrene., Wood, tor Auckland <t Sydney 26—Am wh bk Sea Breeu. Reed, for New Bedford. 27—Am hk D C Murray, Fuller, for San Francisco. MEMORANDA. . RBFOaT OF BaBK 11. C. MIIBBAY, A. FI'LLBB. tIABTBB I..ft Ban Frsoclacu Oct SSil at 3 r n\ Ar.t .lay out wind fresh from WN W bikl then hauled tv hW and remained so the next two day., tin the fourth d.y wind hauled to NE with Site westher. In Ist U=> N, long 137° W, tho wind hauled back .gain to SE with overeat .ud rainy weather .nd remained ao till 11th day out, when il went hack again to ENE and E, haffling and raiu> Bloat the time had s heavy awell from NW. Arrived in Honolulu Saturday forenoon, Nov 7lb, .Iter a pa.a.ge of II daya. RKmu-j op Whalino Bank J awe* Allen, \V. 11. Kelley. Master.—Paused through Uttering Slraita Aug lit. having takenup io that lime 280 bbla oil alnce leaving the inlands laat full. Found the iea clear of ice, and arrived at Point Barrow Aug 6th. While* acarce at first, but In oeplember were plenty but shy, nnd had nome unfavorable weather for whaling. Lett Point Harrow Sept 28th, with 1200 bbl«, and ■teered for Herald Island. Klghted thelaland Oct 7ih; took two whales there. Weather cold and rugged, ice making full on the «hip. tame day lowered for whalea( lust thechief mate and boat's crew by drowning Tiny were ca patted or taken down by a foul line, and being iodic distance to windward of the ihip and other boat*., and at the same lime enveloped in a heavy mow squall, before any assistance omUl reach litem, they were drowned. We found the boat bottom up nn hour alter, but uot a aoul left to tell how the accident happened. 1 judged however, from the appearance of the boat, that they were tuken down by a foulHue. l.eti the Arctic Ocean Oct 10th,and arrived at Honolulu Nov Blh. Rkport op Whaling Bark Tritos, Heppinoktonb, Master. —Sailed from Honolulu Dec yd. 1873, for a cruiae on the line; saw sperm whales twice, going fast to thewindward. Chaaed them but without success. Arrived ut Yokohama March 27ih, and suited again April Ist lor the Arctic Ocean] had a good passage up to Cupc Apoupinskoi which we sighted April 28th, then took NE gales which lasted until May 2d. Made the Ice on the4th, aaw but few whalea off shore, and took one on tho 31st May. raised through Bhering Hindis on the 17th June; found the season mild and Ihe sea quite free from ice- Commenced walrusing June 19ih, taking our laat July 10th. During September aaw quite a good ahow of whalea. anywhere, from three lo fifteen miles off the point. Struck li and saved 80l then; took our last bowhead Oct Oth. Passed East Cape on the 14th, and arrived at Honolulu Nov 12th. —Lost overboard from bark Triton, Pept 23d, 1874, Ray* mom) Manuel, a I'ortuguese seaman. —Died at sea on hoard bark Triton, Oct 12th, 1874. a native named Muilo, of Hilo, Hawaii. Report of Steamship Macoregor, H. Qrainoer, Commander.—Cleared Sydney HeadsOct 24th at 3.50 v m; experienced strong NE winds throughout. Reached Auckland Oct 30th at 4p m; discharged and sailed next day at 6.10 an. In lat 17° 60S, long 161° 60* VV, Nor oth, passed a bark steamer steering west. On the 10thpassed a topsail schooner steering south, in lat 3 ° W rt. long K>U ° 10' W. At 1.30 pm Not l2ih, sighted Fanning'a Island bearing NE half E, distance 12 miles Crossed the equator Nov 11th in long 169° 16* W. Moderate winds and fineweather to port, arriving In Honolulu Tuesday morning. Nov 17th. R. B. Prinole, Purser. Report of Steamship Cypherneb, T. Woods, Commander.--Left HonoluluOct 18th at 8.40 p m, and had fresh NE trade winds, carrying them to lat 36° N, long 131° W. They did not however prove very true, varying from NNE to ENE. Oct 28th, wind HE and cloudy weather; towards evening easterly winds. Sighted the Farralonea at 3aM on the 29th, and at -930 a m look the pilot onboard; passed In the Golden Gate at 8.30 a m. Returning left Ban Francisco Nov 10th at 1p m, with pilot on hoard. Passed and landed Ihe pilot at the Golden Gateat 2.26 r m, wind WBW and foggy. .Moderate Wand NNW winds prevailed till the 13th, with hazy weather and light showers. Same day signalled the ship Hereford, of London, also sighted aeveral other ships. On the 14thhad fresh BE windsand cloudy weather; text day wind •ame with drizzling rain, continuing so till morning of the 18th,when strong BW winds set In. Bame day, noon, increasing breeze; midnight a strong S\V gale and high sea. The gale continued till arrival with very heavy sea, having shipped large quantities of water on board. Arrived off Honolulu on Friday night, Nov 20th, and crossed the bar next morning, Henry Adam, Purser. gale having moderated. The Hawaiian schooner Dauntless arrived al ihe Bay ol Islanda on the 23d Instant, from New Caledonia. Captain Berrill has furnished us with the following report:—On Tuesday, Oct 6th, we leaNoumea, with a light BE and ESE wind, which continued until Tuesday, Oct 13th, when tbe wind ahifted to BE, with fresh breeies. Spoke a French man-ofwar, bound from Sydney to Noumea. Arrived at Norfolk Island on Thursday, Oct loth, where we look on board fresh provisions and one passenger for Auckland. On Friday, at 6 p m, bore away for Auckland, with a moderate WBW wind, which Increased on Saturday morning to a gale, and lasted for four days; after which we had light variable winds and calms until yesterday. After sighting the North Cape we had fresh breexea and cloudy weather until arrival at Russell. The Dauntless is loading with a cargo of coal at the Bay, forAuckland, having been chartered by Messrs. Ford, Malller tfc Co.— Auckland Wttkly Htrald,Oct. 81. 1874. 105 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, For Bah Francibco—Per Macgregor. Not. 17th—Z 8 Spalding and wife, Mr Dixon and wife, J G Reid, F W Glade, R T Uaaklna, A D Rltcbat. J II Black, J S Christie, Jr, W 8 Grecnagb, W Everett, J T Butterfleld and wife, R Nealey, Mrs Ellsworth, Mrs Kuis and child, 3 Chinamen, and 39 iv transitu from Sydney and Auckland. Prom Ban Fbancisco—Per Cypbreuea, Nov. 21st—Mrs II P Hayea, Dr J P Morse. Miss Owen, W M Wallace, Prof Jo» Moore, A Herbert, R Rycroft, J W Wilder, M Casper, J D Rice, Thoa O Thrum. S O Wilder, The* H Davlea, wife, 2 children and nurse, B P Dillingham, Thoa May, Mra Pomeroy and aon, Miss N O Bennett, A F Judd, wife and Infant. J X Kennedy and wife, J W Widdetteld, wife and 2 children, W C Cardeohlre, Mlaa Dockatade, B B Hempstead, O W Hempstead, John Brash, J II Stoefe, J Hultcrlin, A Rulter, D Colvllle, R Descent, and 06 In transitu forAuckland and Sydney. For Auckland dc Sydney—Per Cyphrenea, Not. 22d W P Baker and wife, II Baker, JneMornn and wife, P A Donohue,and 06 In transitu from San Franclaco. For San Francisco—Per D. C. Murray, Nov. 27th—Masters C and W Schmelflenlg, Choa Shuman, 11 Koharke, B HornhoUl, J II Howe, J McArthur, Rev 11 11 Parker, R D Wicks, E R Poiiom, wife and child, II Brautlecht, F W Illume, Miss Gedge. — MARRIED. , Dixon—Wood—ln thia city, at St. Andrew's Cathedral1 November vh, by ihe Rev. R. Dunne, M. A., Albert P. Dixon, U. fl. N-, to Stella May, second daughter of John 11. Wood, Esq. tu- No cards. Moeiionva—Kahele—ld this city, November 21st, by the Key. li. H. Parker, His Excellency W. L. Moehonua lo Tapeta Kahele, both of Honolulu. Clapp—Luce—Iv thla city, at St. Andrews' Cathedra), November 21st, by the Right Rev. Bishop of Honolulu, assisted by tbe Rev. F. C. Autrldge. M. A. R. N., Edward Bcobrll Clapp. N. Lieutenant R. N., H. M. S. Scout, to Alice, third daughter of George 11. Luce, Esq., of Little Britain,. Honolulu. SJ* No cards. DIED. Aka—ld thia city, at the Kawalahao Seminary, November lat, of dropsy on the heart, Rachel Aea, aged 12 years, only daughter of (he late Rev. 11. Aea, missionary at the Marshall Islands. Shomaeer—At his late residence In Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, on Monday morning, November 2d, 187*, of heart diaease, J. B. Shumaker, an American citizen. Rapfbrt—At Ulupnlakua, Maui, November Bth, Captain E. Biffery, of Upwtll, Cambridgeshire, England, aged 08 years, a resident of these islands for 36 years, and he leaves a widow and 14 children to mourn his loas. Hooke—ln ibis clly, November 17th, ol heart disease, Alfred John Hooke, aged 42 years, late of Wagga YYagga, New South Wales. Carter—ln thlacity, November 30th, Lieutenant Ariel B. Carter, IK C Navy, aged 20 years; lately attached to the U. 8. 8. Btnicia. He was the son of Rev. A. B Carter, an Episcopalian of New York City, 168 Lexington Avenue. [The luneral will take place to-morrow (Dec. 2d) afternoon at 3 o'clock, from H t. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral. Information Wanted. . Manfred C. Blngh.m, son of Wm. St. H. Bingham, a r»*-J-dent on theSandwich I.land. about twenty year, ago, write* lo the editor to enquire respecting an advertbement whichappeared In the Sunday Mercury, newspaper publiahrd la Plttabarg, Perm, and aigned ''Sandwich 1.1and.." Any one wbo can give Information reapectlog th. matter will pie... communicate with the editor or Hr. M C. Bingham, care Mr.. John Drew., Arch St. Theatre, Philadelphia. Naval.—H. B. M. S. Reindeer, seven gang, from* Panama, arrived on the 28d init. Tbe following is a list of her officers -. Vernon Anion. Lieutenants—Vert U Orlebar. tlav. Lieutenant—Henry Hmband.. staff Surgeon—Wm. L. Powell. Paymaster—Vim. Rhode.. CkieJ Engineer—Fred. H. Hermann. •Suo-Lfeufenanr.—Erneit Duncombe, Fred. Elton. Nn. Sub-I.teuttna:it— Geo. A. Warlelgb. Surgeon— Arthur Y. Smyth. Asst. Paymaster— Francla H. Bale. Engineers— Alex. Smart, John Jefferies. t.'unner—Augu.tua Llttleneld. Itoutswain— Thoinaa Slocomb. Carpenter—Wm. Denbow. Commander—Cliarli-a — The following is a list of officers of U. 8. 81 Tuscorora, which arrived on Wednesday laat: Commander—Henry Erben, Jr., Commanding. Lieutenant—C. A. Schetky, Executive Offlcer. O. A. Norrls, Navigator. *''■ F. M. Symonds. C. O. Alllbone. PASSENGERS. Webßtsr Doty. Master—M. D. Hyde. MidsAismsn-W. B. Sontberland, R. H. Gael, Y. L. CottPboh San Fbabcisco—Per D. C. Murray, Nov. 7th—Capt Mclntyre, Miss Hclntyre, Hrs Humphrey., Lieut Bymood., msn, T. E. W. D. Veeder. Miss Case/ Engineer —C. Andrade. Parker, wireand son, Hi.. Greathouae, Mr. Gresthouse, Past Asst. Paymaster—l. Goodwin Hobos. Mr. Andrade and .00, Hrs Csrrlck, Alex D Dow, G B Norton, Asst. Surgeon— P. Fltssuamons. 8 W Pogue, J B Csstle, Minnie Klmoklo, Wm Goodne.., A Past Asst. Engineer— Jonalh.n H. EmaaaWl. Widder, Chun Veong, Ah Kan, Jim. Hoatswain— l. T. Barker. Poa rati atj.ao islanbs—Per C. M. Ward, Nov. 11th—A (Junnor-C. P. Vensble. J Kinney, and SO laborers. Carpenter—Josephua 1.. Thatcher. toa Ban Fbabcisco—Per Undaunted, Nov. 12th—J CurS*U mater—l. O'Rotldy. ran, L A Gross. Postmaster's Clerk—E. S. Davis. Captain's Clerk—l. D. E. B. Higgini. Fbom Svsnbv and Aucbland—Per Macgregor, Nov. l.lh —J R Morgan, Wm Guy,aad S» io tranaitulor Sao Fraaclsco. —P. C. Advertiser, JVov. 26th. ■■ . �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 18 74. 107 youth seeing some American ships saw that there reading of the reports of the meetiVigs to our readers, as they will appear in the secular and religious papers. secret of this power in the first verse of Genesis, In tbe beginning God created tbe heaven and the earth.' He desired to go to America, but bis father would not allow him, and even punished him for asking. Filially, the boy was taken on board of a ship but tbe captain could not get him away, and finally be was transferred to a Boston ship and thus reached this country. There be was introduced to the owner of the vessel, who filially sent bim to Phillips Academy, to Amherst College and to Andover Seminary. When tbe Japanese embassy came to this country they bore the pardon of this Japanese youth, and a request that he would act as Secretary of the Embassy. " It waa by this young Japanese that the system Meeting of the American Board. of education now adopted by bis native laud was The old arid venerable missionary society wrought out. His was tbe brain and bis tbe baud that conceived and set in motion that educational held its annual meeting this year at Rut- movement which is putting Japan abreast of tbe land, Vt., commencing on the 6th of Octo- most progressive nations ol the earth. lie will New Mission on Papuasia. We have received a letter from the Rev. VV. G. Lawes, who is connected with this mission, dated Sydney, Oct. 3d, 1874. We copy as follows : There is no doubt about the natives of the southeast part of New Guinea, speaking a dialect of Eastern Polynesia. You doubtless know that the Ellengotcan arrived at Cape York early in August. She steamed out through the canal and via Singapore and Batavia. At present Cape York on the Australian coast will be tie headquarters of the mission. Mr. McFarlane is there now, and I should have been but for unavoidable delays. Mr. McF. has lived among the Papuan race at Lifu, and to him will naturally fall the Papuan branch of the mission with the Loyalty and New Hebrides teachers. My experience being with Eastern Polynesia, 1 take the Maylayan branch and superintendancc of Rarotongan and Ninean teachers. If the last reports are confirmed, then Mrs. Lawes and 1 will go at once to Port Moresby on the mainland and take up our abode there. The John Williams has just gone; she has six Rarotongan and five Savage Island teachers on board with their wives, all going to New Guinea. Bye the by, where did you get " Papuasia " from ? Ido not think I have seen it before. Editorial.—The writer asks for our authority for using the term " Papuasia " in the May number of the Friend. It is our present impression that we saw the word in the " Ocean Highways, or Geographical Review " of London. Is not " Papuasia " as proper as "Australasia "? Lines on a Sea-Shell. BY F. A. HILLARD. Thou painted emblem of the sounding msln ! Prom out thy wreathed lip.. In thi. lone hour. Therebreathes o'er my rapt ear with spirit power Such wild sequacious aadneaa,—auch a .train Of lone lamenting, tbst methlnk. tbou art Tbe prison ofOcean', aelf,—wherein be dream. With vibrant murmur, of hi. aurging heart, His strength spontaneous and his world-brightbeam*. And thou, O Shell of Earth .' thouw.ve-to>eed thins Upon Time', shoreless sea ! there breathes in thee A voice eternal, thatdoth ever ilng With fond contlnusnce thy borne', iu&nlty. Leara thou the anthems 'ne.th thy prison roof that.well: Shame to the.oullea. faithful than the sc.-aaml shell. must be a power behind tbem greater than soy power in bis own land. Getting a few Dutch books, and a few translations ot our books into Chinese, and last a part of the Bible, be found the ' now speak for himself/ ber. A full report of all its proceedings, we lion. W. E. Dodge here arose to say that tbe of last speaker prevented him from find in the Rutland Daily Herald. To modesty the saying that it was Alpbeus Hardy wbo received read so full and accurate a report, is the tbe young Japanese to bis home and gave him an next best thing to attendance, and we are education. Rev. Joseph Nee Sima being introduced spoke not certain but that a full report, graphic- as follows: In the parting of tbe Saviour with bis commanded tbem to go forth and ally drawn up, is even better than attend- discipleshisbeGospel. But I Und to my sorrow a preach ance, for it saves a vast amount of trouble, small number of Christians who are not willing to command, but you of tbis board are not anxiety and expense. It has been our privi- obey this lege to attend two annual meetings of ihe Board; one at Portland, Maine, in 1851, and the other at Pittsburg, Perm., in 1869. Hence we infer what must have been the nature of the meeting at Rutland. It is a capital plan to hold these meetings in different parts of the country. An interest is thereby awakened among the people, which could not otherwise be aroused. Aside from the reports much interest usually centers around the gathering when the sermon is preached. The Rev. Dr. Scudder of Brooklyn, but formerly of San Francisco, preached, and his discourse, as reported in the Herald of the 7th ult., is a spirited, earnest and " live production from " the text, " How shall they preach, except they be sent." We can readily imagine that the people h-aard him gladly." Dr. " Scudder was once a missionary in India. He is the son of a missionary, and has a son now on his way to India as a missionary. He is one of a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters,—all at one time missionaries in India. The two daughters married two British officers, who resigned their commissions and became missionaries. Such a man as Dr. Scudder may appropriately speak upon the subject of missions. If our limits would permit, we should gladly republish extracts from his discourse, which we hare read with much interest. Another interesting feature of this large gathering, was the presence of the Rev. Joseph Nee Sima, of Japan, who was introduced by Alpheus Hardy, Esq., with the following address: — "Tea jamri «go Japan waa sealed to the entire world. There wm living tWre then a vootb son ot 19, of a man of two swork' rank. This ' of Ibis number, for had it not been for thia board I should have been a heathen to-day and there would have been no hope for my country. If tbe Christians in this country will continue to give even but a little of their substance, my people will be led with tbe bread of life. Our country has sent about 300 students to different parts of tbe world to learn the best things tbey can, but I am sorry that most of them are under infidel influence in Europe. Hut we need more than education, we must have spiritual teaching for our nation. Japan is your youngest daughter or your faint young sister, and yet she is already sell-supporting. In a country like Japan the devil will sow seed early. So we must go ahead of tbe devil und sow gospel seed. Tbe church in Kobe has no educational institution, but she must have something of tbe kiud. It is repulsive to tbe Japanese mind to beg, but I fear we must beg for that, for Christ says, ask and ye shall receive. Therefore I ask you to give belp enough to start tbis training institution, to raise up teachers and preachers to help some 33,000,006 people. Will you do it? I will not sit down until you promise it. Hon. Peter Parker, formerly of tbe Chinese mission, arose and said I promise $1,000. Mr. Nee Sima continued I was sleepless last Son of a Sailor's Daughter. night over this, but I shall sleep better to-nigbt. A lady of Vermont promised $100. Mr. Ruskin, the eminent author and art Mr. Nee Sima said: I am strong enough to critic of England, appears to take a sort of carry back $100,000. A Massachusetts lady promised $50. wicked delight in announcing his pedigree Mr. Nee Sima said : I hare seen much of your wealth, but your power came from tbe Christian and ancestral relationship. He is even more religion. I ask the same for Japan. sarcastic than Napoleon who said, " I am A lady from Massachusetts promised $100, and a lady from Rhode Island 9100. my own ancestor : Governor Page then said: Vermont wants to "My mother was a sailor's daughter, so be counted in and I promise 91,000. Mr. Nee Sima continued: I want to say more, please you; one of my aunts was a laker's bat my heart is too full to say more. It is painful wife—the other, a tanner's; 1 don't know to part with many friends. It is hard to go from much more about my family except that the light of day to the gray dawn of morning, but there used to be a green-grocer of the name I must imitate my Saviour, wbo left the Jerusalem in a small shop near the Crystal Palace." of heaven for that on earth. I will follow him and weep no more. Rev. T. J. Gore.—Some months ago Mr. Then Mr. Nee Sima offered the Lord's prayer in Japanese. Gore passed by Honolulu, on his way to Dr. Smith, of Dartmouth, offered a resolution: Resolved, That Hon. Alpbeus Hardy of Boston America, from Adelaide, Victoria, and is be requested to act as treasurer of a fund for the now on his return. He represents the Comestablishment of an institution in Japan for tbe training of native preachers and Christian teach- munion of Christians or Campbellite Bapers, and that subscriptions for that be sent to him. tists, quite numerous in : : " Kentucky and the Our narrow limits preclude any addition- Western States. Several congregations have al remarks, but we earnestly commend the been gathered in the Australian Colonies. �DILLINGHAM & CO. 1874. ADVERTISEMENTS. M * HARDWARE, CUTLERY, AGRICULTURAL HUTS, HOLLOW WARE, 1 SEINE AND WRAPPING TWINE, FISH HOOKS AND LINES, KEROSENE LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS, KEROSENE LAMPS and CHANDELIERS, to Burn without Chimneys, AND WARRRANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. »R Y V \ V . M. I>.. 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On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established fact that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. & WhitXT Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold.Xl —aarsasscas— any In New York City or Honolulu man, is as well exeeated aa Messrs. A. W. Peine* Co elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that H. Hackfeld a Co " "•' C. Brewer k Co can manufacture aa good a olaas of work in Ho" we " Bishop aCo nolulu aa oan be found in any part of the world. I " , W. tt. Wood Dr. "" will also stale bore that we folly intend to work at Hon. B. H.Allen the lowest possible rates. ly d« G. WEST. �109 YMoeunnC'gshH Ariotcaf onolulu. Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this : To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. GC7" We have been requested to publish ploring the territory with a view to its colothe following lines, which were sung so nization. The reasons why they thus turn to the sweetly by Miss Lottie Alexander at the Concert: most uninviting portion of that domain are cogent, forcible and convincing. It is too Mrs. Lofty and I. " far north " and too cold, for any civilized Mrs. Lefty keeps a carriage, Bo do 1; person but an Icelander to exist in comfort. She has dapple grays to drawIt, Its climate is well suited to the raising of None hare 1, hardy Icelandic cattle allowing an abundant blue-eyed laughing baby, Willi my Trundlingby, supply of beef, butter and cheese for the I hide hie face, lent she nhould ace Coast; its fisheries and timber are Pacific Thecherub boy, and envy me. abundant. May not the sturdy fishermen Her fine husband has white Ongera, Minehaa not-, and lumbermen of Iceland aid us in supplyHe could give his bride a palaceing the deficiency from sources now undrawn 11l Ine a cot) Hers comes home beneath the starlightupon ?—American paper. Ne'er cares she, Mine comes In the purple twilight, Kisses me, And prays that He who turns life's aands Will hold his loved ones in His hands. Mrs. Lofty has her jewels, Sohave I; She wears hers upon her bosomInside Ii She will leave hers at death's portal By-and-by; 1 shall bear my treasure with me When I die; Tor 1 have love and shehas gold: She counts her wealth—mine can't be told. Shehas those wholove her station. None have I; But I've one true heart beside mc; Glad am 1} I'd not change ft for a kingdom, No, not 1; God will weigh It Inhis balance, By-and-by; And thedifference define 'Twixt Mra. Lofty'a wealth and mine. Alaska and the Icelanders. What are the United States going te do -with Alaska with a population of 29,000 souls, of whom only 1,300 pretend to have fully acquired the blessings of civilization ; where there are 180 rainy days in the year at most places and sometimes 285 days of incessant down-pour at Sitka; where the temperature descends to 70 degrees Fah. And averages about 44 degrees throughout the year ? The productions are abundant of * timber, some coal, some gold and silver and plenty of sulphur and furs worth about $85,-000 per annum. In such parts of the country aa we know anything about—and that is only along the coast line 4,000 miles—it appears that there are resources well worth 'development but immigrants are very scarce and capital would doubtless consider any investment in this direction precarious. The Icelanders are gazingtowards Alaska. Four or five hundred immigrants have arrived in Canada and the United States and already a petition signed by fifty Icelandic names has been forwarded to the President, asking for government co-operation in ex- > • ' spell, the delusive spell—in which the idea of the benefits of temperate drinking had involved my husband and sons. I begged, 1 prayed; but the odds were against me. The Minister said the poison that was destroying my husband and boys was a good creature of God; the Deacon (who sits under thepul])it there and took our farm to ysm his rum bills) sold them the poison; the Doctor said that a little was good and excess ought to be avoided. My poor husband, and my dear boys fell into the snare, and they could not escape, and, one after another, were conveyed to the sorrowful grave of the drunkard. Now look at me again. You probably see me for the last time—my sand has almost run—l have dragged my exhausted frame from my present home—yourpoorJtouse —to warn you all—to warn you, Deacon!—to The Town Meeting—License or no License. warn you, false teacher of God's word!" and with her arms high flung, and her tall Gov. firiggs, of Massachusetts in a speech form stretched to its utmost, and her voice at Albany, related the following thrilling in- raised to an unearthly pitch—she exclaimed: cident : " I shall soon stand before the judgAt a town meeting in Pennsylvania, the ment SEAT OF GOD—1 shall meet you there, question once came up whether any person YOU FALSE GUIDES, AND BE A WITNESS AGAINST should be licensed to sell rum. The clergy- YOU all!" The miserable female vanished—a dead man, the deacon, and physician, strange as it may now appear, all favored it. One silence pervaded the assembly—the Priest, man only spoke against it, because of the Deacon, and Physician, hung their heads— mischief it did. The question was about and when the president of the meeting put to be put, when, all at once, there arose from the question, " Shall any License be one corner of the room, a miserable female. GRANTED FOR THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LlShe was thinly clad, and her appearance in- quors ?" the response was unanimous dicated the utmost wretchedness, and that " No!" her mortal career was almost closed. After a moment of silence, and all eyes being fixed Rev. G. B. Bacon, D. D.—The visit of upon her, she stretched her attenuated body this clergyman will be remembered by many to its utmost height, and then her long arms in Honolulu. We rejoice to learn that, with to their greatest length, and raising her re-established, he has entered again health voice to a shrill pitch, she called to all to upon pulpit and parochial duties in Orange, look upon her. "Yes!" she said, "look upon me, and New Jersey. We copy the fallowing from then hear me. All that the last speaker has a letter dated October 7th : said relative to temperate drinking, as being months exactly since I resumed the father of drunkenness, is true. All prac- work. " It isI five have preached twice a day every tice, all experience, declare its truth. All drinking of Alcoholic poison, as a beverage Sunday since,—made 200 calls, attended councils, meetings of divers in health, is excess. LOOK UPON ME. conventions, sorts,—and still live, and am well and did. You all know me, or once You all know I was once the mistress of the best strong. Put me off the sick list! will have seen the papers full of farm in the town. You all know, too, I had " You Beecher's Mr. case, and perhaps you will be one of the best—the most devoted of hussurprised if I tell you that my conviction »f bands. You all kaow 1 had five, noble- his integrity is unshaken and my confidence hearted, industrious boys. WHERE ARE his ultimate vindication is complete. So in THEY NOW? Doctor, where are they now ? You all know. You all know they it is. The conspiracy against him is fearstrong, but it will be lie in a row, side by side, in yonder church- fully yard ; all—every one of them FILLING blessed are theyofwho are not offendedP you often. Your islands "We think THE DRUNKARD'S GRAVE! They were all taught to believe that temperate make one of the few places in the world that drinking was safe,—excess alone ought to be 1 want to go back to. I have sung your avoided; and they never acknowledged ex- praises, earnestly urging Honolulu for health, cess. They quoted you, and you, and you," for pleasure, for rest, —and for annexation (!) pointing with her shred of a finger to the with incessant vehemence." Priest, Deacon, and Doctor, as authority. safe under such Rev. Mr. Copeland,—A Presbyterian " They thought1 themselves teachers. But saw the gradual change clergyman belonging to Dunedin, New Zeacoming over my family and prospects, with land, touched at Honolulu on his return dismay and horror; —1 felt we were all to be overwhelmed in one common ruin—l tried from Europe, having gone thither via the to ward off the blow, I tried to break the Red Sea and Egypt. — � 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 (1874) 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 - 1874.12.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874.12.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d72b470e0a80665e21874db1993ab65b.pdf 82525a5860851c5550c1ffaec4958755 PDF Text Text THE FRIEND HONOLULU, JANUARY I, 1875. $cto Srnts, M 24, lo* J.I —- Visit CONTENTS For Juituary 1. 1875* PAQK Editorial! Visit ot the Kiag in America Transit of Venus, 1769-1874. Discovery of Neptune I nstallalioni Trusting in Jesus—Poetry Turner* Transit Instrument To the Lorers of Sacred Music Marine Journal Editor's Table Letter from New York Y. M. C. A 1 1 1,2 3 -3 4 4 5 5 6 0 8 THE FRIEND. JANUARY 1. 1875. New Year, 1875.—We wish our readers, patrons and friends,—A Happy New Ve;ir. "The Friend," 1874. -- COST AND RECEIPTS. »oS0 00 Tinting, paper, postage, &c, 'eceived irom subscribers & donors, 428 70 S151 30 donors we From subscribers and hope to receive a sufficient amount, so that no debt will remain on the Friend. - -- -- DONATIONS. Mr. Walker, Josephine, Mrs. McKenzie, Uev. Mr. Autridge, A friend, • 85 00 5 00 2 no 280 U. S. Consul-general at Calcutta.— We clip the following from a correspondence of the New York Observer: It is very pleasant to be able to state that in General Litchfield, the Consul-General for the United States, they found a ready helper. He addressed the meetings frequently, with much solemnity and power, from the experience of a tried soldier of the cross; and no speaker was listened to with greater attention than he commanded. Recently we had a special meeting for seamen in the hall of the Sailors' Home, and about 200 were present, listening with close attention to a few earnest addresses from General Litchfield, Captain Fales, and others, who pressed upon them the claims of Jesus Christ. Readers of the Friend in Honolulu will please not fail to notice in another column, the reference to Philu* Phillips. We hope the Advertiser and Uazette will notice his expected arrival. of King Kalakaua to America.— His Majesty arrived at San Francisco on the 29th of November last, where he was received by the civil and military authorities with all the honor due his rank, and was most handsomely entertained. Leaving there on the 6th of December by the railway, the party made no stop on the route, arriving at Washington Dec. 12th, after a pleasant trip, the only drawback to which is the fact that the King caught a severe cold at Omaha, in a snow storm, which would confine him to his room in the Arlington House for a few days. Congress proposes to appropriate 850,000 to entertain the King of Hawaii while at the capital. New Bedford has been the first of Eastern cities to extend an invitation to Kalakaua to make a visit. Unquestionably the King will he most cordially and respectfully received throughout the Republic. Temperance Lecture.—Mrs. Dr. Thompson, from Portland, Oregon, gave an interesting and instructive lecture at the Bethel on Tuesday evening, December 29th, before the members of Good Templar lodges. There was a good audience, and Mrs. Thompson spoke in a way that impressed the minds of the hearers most favorably. Her subject was, The Temperance Crusade " in Port" land. "Friend" Moore, from Richmond, Indiana, also made a short and interesting address. Honolulu Sailors' Home ~ Society.—At a meeting of the Trustees held Dec. 29th, the following officers were chosen S. N. Castle, President; F. A. Schaefer, Secretary ; C. R. Bishop, Treasurer. Executive Committee—S. C. Damon, E. O. Hall, and : F. Banning. One Second.—It is a noteworthy fact that the mean time of the four amateur Only observers, viz.: D. Smith, D. If. Flitner, C. J. Lyons and F. S. Pratt, diners only one second from that of the English Astronomers. {CMijSmß. f01.32. TRANSIT OF VENUS. 1769-1874. Captain Cook's Observations at Tahiti, June, 1769. The following paragraphs, from Cook's " First Voyage Round the World," we think will not disappoint our readers, as being ap. propriate to the times : As the day of observation now approached, I determined, in consequence of some hints which had been given me by Lord Morton, to send out two parties to observe the transit from our situations ; hoping, that if we should fail at Otaheite, they might have better success. We were, therefore, now busily employed in preparing our instruments, and instructing such gentlemen in the use of them as I intended to send out. On Thursday the Ist of June, the Saturday following being the day of the transit, 1 despatched Mr. Gore in the long-boat to Imao, with Mr. Monkhouse and Mr. Sporing, a gentleman belonging to Mr. Banks, Mr. Green having furnished them with proper instruments. Mr. Banks himself thought fit to go upon this expedition, and several natives, particularly Tubourai Tamaide and Tomio, were also of the party. Very early on the Fndjy morning, I sent Mr. Hicks, with Mr. Clerk and Mr. Petersgiil, the master's mates, and Mr. Saunders, one of the midshipmen, in the pinnance to the eastward, with orders to fix on some convenient spot, at a distance from our principal observatory, where they also might employ the instruments with which they had been furnished for the same purpose. The first internal contact of the planet with the sun being over, Mr. Banks returned to the observatory, taking Tarrao, Nuns, and some of their principal attendants, among whom were three very handsome y»ung women, with him ; he showed them the planet upon the sun, and endeavored to make them understand that he and his companions had come from their own country on purpose to see it. Soon after Mr. Banks returned with them to the island, where he spent the rest of the day in examining its produce, which he found to be much the same with that of Otaheite. The people whom he saw there also exactly resembled the inhabitants of �THE FRIEND, 2 that island, and many of them were persons whom he had seen upon it; so that all those whom he had dealt with knew of what his trading articles consisted, and the value they bore. The next morning, having struck the tents, they set oat on their return, and arrived at the fort before night." The observation was made with equal success by the persons whom 1 had sent to the eastward; and at the fort, there not being a cloud in the sky from the rising to the setting of the sun, the whole passage of the planet Venus over the sun's disk was observed with great advantage by Mr. Green, Dr. Solander, and myself: Mr. Green's telescope and mine were of the same magnifying power, but that of Dr. Solander was greater. We all saw an atmosphere or dusky cloud round the body of the planet, which very much disturbed ihe times of contact, especially of the internal ones; and we differed from each other in our accounts of the times of the contacts much more than might have been expected. According to Mr. Green, The Aral external conlast, or firat an- *OK -. pesranceof Veou. on tile .un, waa] 9h -*■**■• «•■ ""•"■"■« . '~ . .. Th. first internal contact, or total '« emersion, wit. J The second internal costact, or be»lo- I 3 lunar ot theemersion 5 The second external contact, or total*. emersion J u - ~„ H „ g Br, ernoon .. „ The latitude of the observatory was found to be 17° 29' 15", and the longitude 149° 32' 30" W. of Greenwich. A more particular account will appear by the tables, for which the reader is referred to the Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. lxi. part 2, page 397, ct seq., where they are illustrated by a cut. The Transit of Venus. This phenomenon, which took place on the Bth of December last, was observed in Honolulu by the British expedition with good results. The day was most favorable; not a cloud was visible, and the state of the atmosphere peculiarly adapted to astronomical observations. Most heartily we congratulate the observers. We clip the following from the Gazette of the 16th ult., which partly contains a report from the chief astronomer : Capt. Tupman after the phenomenon reports as follows: " The atmospheric conditions were favorable, exceedingly so at times; 150 measures of cusps and limbs were obtained, and 60 fine photographs. A totally unexpected appearance presented itself at Internal Contact. The disc of the planet became visible as an entire circle many minutes before contact, and from then to complete establishment no definite or sudden phase was observed by anybody. You will perceive, this is fundamentally different from our working model, in which perhaps we expected a too close resemblance to the actual phenomena. With inferior optical means or less pure sky, this unexpected appearance would hardly have been noticed. * * * * Mr. Johnson at Waimea, Kauai, actually saw the complete disc of Venus at ten minutes before the internal contact, regarded by me as a truly astonishing observation. Prof. Forbes at Kailua, Hawaii, had very cloudy weather but obtained some valuable raeas- JINUARY, 1875. ures with the micrometer. The British Nautical Almanac time of Internal contact was 2m. 545. too early." The time observed by the party was iman (Chl.f) it. Nolilc The importance of this phenomenon, in a scientific point of view, may be judged from the fact that it affords astronomers the best means of measuring the distances of the heavenly bodies, and of ascertaining their weight and dimensions. The first occasion on which a transit of Venus was observed for this purpose was in 1761, the eminent astronomer, Dr. Hnlley, having recommended the method, and devised a plan of operation to be used after his death, as he knew he could not live until the occasion arose. The plan, however, was carried out at first imperfectly, and conse- : 3h. 36m. 66s. .7 3 36 64 .4 The Waikiki party, with Flitner's Honolulu time, observed as follows : Cspt. D. Smlttj I). F. N. Khmer Prsll 8. .111. 35m. Ma. .8 3 36 68 .8 3 36 63 .0 At the survey office the local time, after corrrection for the direct and reversed position of the Troughton & Simms theodolite used for solar altitudes and measuring to 10" of arc, was: quently with inferior results; but in prepa•yons ration lor the following transit, in 1769, i. M .in. la, r, The time .noted being the first flash of light complete arrangements were made by the clear across, visiblVwith a power of 20 dia- Royal Society, as well as by other learned meters. There was no waiting afterwards bodies in Europe. The Royal Society disto see the " black drop," of which Captain patched a vessel, under the command of the celebrated Captain Cook, to the South Seas Tuptnan, moreover, saw nothing. Here comes in a bit of history. A month to take observations ; and it was in this voyor more since Prof. Alexander had made a age that Cook explored the coast of Newcalculation from the data given in the Amer- Holland, now known as Australia, and took ican Nautical Almanac, (which differ slight- possession of that important island in the ly from the British) of the expected time of name of Great Britain. contact for Honolulu : lat. 21° IS' 23" lon. The observations of 1769 have formed the 157c 48' 52", with certain results, the rec- basis of nearly all the accepted facts of modords of which were stowed away in a private ern astronomy, so far as the computation of drawer, utterly unknown to his assistant distance, etc., is concerned. On these data Lyons, who was depending on the British it is that we have all learned from our earlyAlmanac. The Professor went out of town years that the sun is distant from the earth Wednesday noon, December 9th, returning more than ninety millions of miles; that Saturday night. On Monday morning, De- Mercury, the planet nearest to the sun, is cember 14th, he came into the office and 36,800,0(10 miles away from it; that the fished out the papers. What was the pleas- distance of Venus from the sun is more than. ure of both parties of the survey to find the 68,000,000 miles, and so on. But it is a following predicted times recorded therein : singular fact that, notwithstanding the care External contact 3h. 7m. 44s. .6 with which the observations were made in Internal contact 3 35 52 .2 1769, and the frequency with which these The latter agreeing most remakably with observations nnd the based on what was observed at Honolulu. Professor them passed under thecalculations examination of the Forbes had alluded to the error of the Brit- most distinguished astronomers, it was disish Tables already (see " Nature," p. 87), covered only a few years back that certain without stating its precise amount. Prof. errors had crept into the reckoning, by which Alexander had also worked from the British the sun's distance was over-estimated by data with the following result : about four millions of miles. The error had External 3h. 05tn. 05s. .6 necessarily affected all the other computaInternal 3 '&i 3*5 .1 so that for nearly a century, as one tions, There remains a vast amount of working writer has put the matter, distances of up of micrometer and photograph observa- all the heavenly bodies were the overrated by an tions. No real practice could be had for amount equal to tenpence in the pound, and such a centennial phenomena. It only ap- their weights by as much as half-a-crown in marvelous that observers should so pears the pound ; and these inaccuracies will be nearly coincide from totally different stand found in the best authorities on the subject, points. except those which have passed through recent editions. |From Alfred E. Beach's Science Record.] The discovery of such errors, under the The Transit of Venus in 1874. severe processes By which modern research The year 1874 is a very notable year in is conducted, has led to increased anxiety on the history of science, for in it, on the 9th of j the part of the scientific world to secure the December, will occur the phenomenon known most perfect accuracy in every detail conto astronomers as the transit of Venus. | nected with the next transit. It will thereMore than one hundred years have elapsed fore be watched with the greatest care by since the last occasion of this transit; an- i astronomers all over the globe; their observother will happen in 18S2, for, according to ! ations will afterward be compared, and the the laws which govern the respective mo- results finally given to the world will, it is tions of Venus and the earth, the transits, hoped, satisfactorily settle the questions inwhen they do happen, occur in couples at volved. The recurrence of a transit in 1882 comparatively short intervals ; but there will will afford an opportunity for devoting rethen be no other transit until the year 2004. newed attention to any point or points that The phenomenon alluded to is the passage may be left in doubt by the transit of 1874 ; of the planet Venus between the earth and and, in the present state of scientific knowlthe sun, in such a position with regard to edge, we may expect a much nearer apthe earth's orbit, that Venus is seen to move proach to absolute»jsccuracy than was possilike a round black spot over the sun's face. -1 ble in the last century. : �1 875. 3 THE FRIEND, JANUARY. 2d. Prayer, by Rev. J. H. Pahio, Pastor Lord Lindsay's Expedition to Mauritius. this impression with Herschel, that he of the Onomea Church. writes : ' We see it as Columbus saw AmerIn reading Prof. Forbes' work on the ica from the shores of Spain. Its movements 3d. Hymn and Sermon, by Rev. D. Dole, the fol- have been felt trembling along the far-reach- 1 who preached from Romans, 1:16. of we met with Venus," Transit " lowing interesting notice of Lord Lindsay's ing line of our analysis with a certainty not of 4th. Installing Prayer, and Right Hand fur inferior to ocular demonstration.' Fi-' Fellowship, by Rev. T. Coan. most commendable efforts in promoting the sth. Charge to the Pastor, by Rev. D. Dole. nally, two young mathematicians, Leverrier interests of science : of Paris, and Adams of Cambridge, Eng-j 6th. Address to the Church and CongreBesides the expeditions under the direc- j land, each unknown to the other, set them- j gation, by Mr. Henry M. Whitney, Deletion of the British Government, another has j selves about the task of finding the place of gate from the Bethel Church, Honolulu. been prepared which is perhaps the most this new planet. The problem was this: i 7th. Original Hymn, composed by Rev. completely equipped one which has ever Given the disturbances produced by the D. Dole; viz.— bets undertaken by a private individual in attraction of the unknown planet, tofind Thou Herald of Salvation, Willi joy we welcome thee the interests of astronomy. Lord Lindsay ] its orbit and its place in the orbit. Adams, To till., the In.tor. .istion. has made preparations to take up his posi- after assiduous labor for nearly two years, Andhonored niiiii.tr> What mortal i. .ullleienl tion at Mauritius, provided with means for I completed his calculations and submitted For trust, so vast h. Thee, O'erlooked by theOmniscient, them to Prof. Airy, the Astronomer Royal, utilizing all the different modes of Who hidden inolive. see. * tion. He will combine his own results | in October, 1845. In the summer of 1846, With life and death eternal. Russians; of the and it | Leverrier laid a paper before the Academy mainly with those And doctrine, falae and true, And eneiniea infernal, is probable that no station could have been j of Sciences in Paris, announcing the posiIt will be Ihine lo do, found more suitable for a single observer to j tion of the unknown planet. Prof. Airy, j And thou wilt plead and reason ; Hut men wilt turn away, occupy when so many different methods are hearing of this, was so impressed with the a convenient aeaaon *' At We will rejient and pray." employed. All the instruments are of the j value of Adams' calculations, that he wrote the most perfect description and made by And thou wilt mourn their blindness i to Prof. Challis, of Cambridge, to use his | And think Ihy lire mi..pent, best makers. The photographic method large telescope to search that quarter of the And pray that God', great kindne.s which he will employ has been already de- heavens. Prof. Challis did as requested, and May li'iul them to lepent. Cheer up ; for well thou knowe.l scribed. The siderosiat has been made ex- saw a star which afterward proved to be the The prnmiae ne'er deceive. ; The preciou. seed Ihou aoweat pressly for this purpose, and its surface has planet so anxiously sought for, although at Shall be returned in .heaves. be truly plane. that time he failed to ascertain its true charbeen tested and found to The Go.|>el'a proclamation Lord Lindsay and his assistant, Mr. Gill, acter. On September 23d, of the same To ulorlala dead to God, Han poser to their aalvation. lay considerable stress on the employment year. Leverrier wrote to Berlin, asking for Throueli failh in Jeaua' blood. of the heliometer, and have discussed its assistance in searching for the planet. Dr. The Saviour wilh thee ever Thine earnest care will bless, capabilities with great lucidity. They pro- Galle, that same evening, turned the large And lo thy wise endeavor pose to make observations of the external telescope of the Observatory to the place inBsslOv? unhojied success. contact by the aid of the spectroscopic dicated, and almost immediately detected a The Choir was assisted by Her Royal method. The expedition will be provided bright star not laid down in the maps. This Highness Mrs. Dominis, and the singing with about fifty chronometers, including one proved to be the predicted planet, found was excellent. uncompensated. These will be transmitted within less than a degree of the spot describThe exercises were all exceedingly approfour times between Aden and Mauritius. ed by Leverrier. Such is the history of one priate, and th*3 Address to the Church and ft is probable that they will also connect the of the grandest achievements of the human Congregation was particularly happy. The longitudes of the different stations on that mind. It stands as an ever fresh and assur- exercises were closed with the Benediction, The ing proof of the exactness of astronomical ijroup of islands by chronometers. F. S. Lvjian, Clerk. by the Pastor. German expedition at Mauritius will proba- calculations, and the power of the intellect a bly be connected with Lord Lindsays by to understand the laws of the God of NaInstallation of Rev. O. P. Emerson. trigonometrical survey. Of these islands ture. This gentleman was installed at Alletwo can be connected by direct signals with "Neptune revolves about the sun at a a heliotrope reflecting the sun's light. From mean distance of about 2,750,000,000 of ghany, Pa., on the 6th of November, over experiments made in Russia, it appears that miles. The Neptuniup year is equal to the Congregitional Church of that city. a. signal may thus be seen in a mountainous nearly 165 terrestrial ones. Its motion in Ministers of the Gospel belonging to three ■country with a clear atmosphere at a dis- its orbit is the slowest of any of the planets, exertance of .200 miles. There is little doubt since it is the most remote from the sun. different communions took part in the then that the longitude of each station on The velocity decreases from Mercury, which cises, viz.: this group of islands will be accurately moves at the rate of 105,000 miles per hour, Right Hand of Fellowship, by Rev. Dr. L nown. to Neptune, whose rate is only 12,000 miles. W. A. Davidson, a Methodist. " Its diameter is about 37,000 miles. Its Charge to the people, by Rev. Dr. A. A. Discovery of the Planet Neptune. volume is nearly 100 times that of the earth. Hodge, a Presbyterian. density is about that of Uranus, a little While the attention of many of our read- Its Sermon, by Rev. Dr. Eli Corwin, a Conless than that of water. ers is turned to observations on the heavenly "As the inclination of its axis is unknown, gregationalist. bodies, we think that no discovery in an- nothing can be ascertained concerning its Charge to the Pastor, by the Rev. Dr. H. cient or modern times surpasses the simple seasons. The sun gives to Neptune but M. Storrs, Presbyterian. light and heat which we receive." (acts relating to Neptune. The following tuVtj The Rev. Mr. Emerson is a native of the brief notice we copy from Steele's FourHawaiian Islands, son of the late Rev. Mr. " Installation. teen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy " : Emerson, of Waialua, Oahu. For the motions of Uranus many years " We copy the following from the Gazette Captain G. L. Tupman.—We learn from were such as to baffle the most perfect calcuthe 23d ultimo : of lations. While far-distant Saturn came Professor Forbes' " Transit of Venus," that The Installation of the Rev. A. O. Forbes, around to his place true to the minute and to Captain Tupman, the British Government second, even after his journey of nearly as Pastor of the " First Foreign Church of thirty years, Uranus defied arithmetic, and Hilo," took place Dec. 6th, and although it has entrusted the entire business of fitting refused to conform to the time set down for was a rainy day, there was a full attend- out the several expeditions to observe the ance, and a deep interest shown by all pres- transit of Venus. He is " head of the entire him on the heavenly dial. "At length it was suggested by several ent. The exercises were conducted as Al- enterprise, and is responsible through the astronomers that there was another planet lows, viz.— Astronomer Royal to the government for Ist. Invocation, Hymn, and reading of outside of its orbit, whose attraction proKey. every ptrt." was Lyman. D. B. So marked Scriptures, by duced these perturbations. observa-1 . . �THE FRIEND, JANUARY. 1875. 4 THE FRIEND. JANUARY Flitner's Transit Instrument. I. 1875. In the year 1845 Mr. E. H. Boardman, watchmaker, established a transit instrument Trusting Jesus. in Honolulu, to assist in the work of rating 1 am trusting Thee, Lord Jeiiu, The instrument, imported Thee chronometers. Trusting only ! Trailing Thee for full Miration, for the purpose, was expensive, and the arGreat and free. rangements most ample. Subsequently it I am trailing Thee for pardon. became the property of D. N. Flitner, who At Thy feet I bow; For thy graceand lendermercy, has been so successful as " chronometer, Trusting now. watch and clock maker," during the past 1 am trusting Thee for cleanung, quarter of a century and more in Honolulu. In thecrimson flood. Trailing Thee to make me holy, Mr. Flitner's long experience as practical Hy Thy blood. astronomer and observer enabled him tc I am trailing Thee to guide me, make observations during the late " transit Thou aloneihalt lead, of Venus," which have attracted the attenEvery day andhour tupplying All my need. tion of Capt. Tupman, and which this genI am triuting Thee lor power-, tleman has done our townsman the honor ol Thine can never fall; duly recognizing. This fact should not pass Worda which Thou Thyself ..halt give me. without its impression upon the minds of Must prevail. shipmasters and navigators in the Pacific, 1 am trustfug Thee, Lord Jesus; Never let me fat)! who desire to keep their chronometers in I am trusting Thee for ever, good repair and properly rated. —Engliih Exchangt. And for all! In this connection we would add that the Week of Prayer. longitude and latitude, which has been auThe following is the programme of reli- thority with Mr. Flitner during his residence in Honolulu, was obtained by Professor C. gious exercises for the week of prayer : S. Lyman, now of Vale College, who visited Sunday, January 3.—The unity ot the Christian Honolulu in 1846 shortly after Mr. BoardChurch. The real oneness of all true believers. man established his transit instrument. ProHindrances antl motives to union. Monday, January 4.—Thanksgiving : B'or na- fessor Lyman employed this instrument, or tional, domestic, and personal mercies, both spirit- rather he finally adjusted this instrument ual and temporal. CllllfllM Unworthinessand accurately to the meridian of Honolulu, and guilt of our people and ourselves.* determined the latitude and longitude by obrues-day, January s.—Prayer : For tbe Christi- serving the culmination of several hundred an Church ; for Ihe increase of faitb aud holiness, stars. We well remember the many days power grace and aud for the more abundant love, ; and weeks that Prof. Lyman wns employed of the Hoi; Spirit. C—Prayer lining the latitude and longitude, fob. Families : Wednesday, January « Home and parental iufliietiee. Schools, private and public. Sons and daughters absent from home. Children in sickness and affliction. The erring and disobedient. : Thursday, January 7.—l'bater For nations ; for public virtue and righteousness; for the banishment of intemperance, infidelity, superstition, and error, and for the diffusion of Christian literature. 8.—Prayek : For the evangeliFriday, January zation ot European countries ; for tbe conversion of Israel; for tbe spread of the Gospel in Mohammedan and heathen lands: for persecuted and Buffering Christians. : Saturday, January 9.—Prayer In review of the events of 1874. Recognition of the providence of God. Happy issue of tbe Divine dispensations. Sunday, January 10.—Sermons : Subject, kingdom universal and everlasting. Iethel Organ Fond. From the "Concert" Capt. Brewer, Boston Capt. Hackfeld, Bremen J.C. Pfluger, Bremen Total rtBashecankfetivoeunsd.l y H : c west 157° |8' 45"—Latitude north 21° It 12 o'clock, M., Honolulu, is situated on Union r Hotel, and is mounted upon a • based upon the coral rock and iolid as cement and granite could make it. Tlie little building sheltering the same was designed by R. A. S. Wood, Esq. for many years superintendent of govern' ment works, and designed to be modeled after a Grecian temple. Small as it may be, the plans and drawings were sketchet with as much labor and# painstaking as anj j building ever erected on the Hawaiian Isl nstrument Mr. Rice, the Mind Reader.—There Iteceiccd. has recently appeared in Honolulu a gentle$362 00 man from Oregon, who has given a lecture 100 00 upon this subject, and exhibited some rathci 100 00 difficult " tests" which have puzzled the 100 00 wise men and keen witted women of Honoas a certain man of the same class ha: $662 00 the dons " of Vale College as reported in " the papers. The Sailors' Home Society in Account with C. R. Bishop, Treasurer. . DR.—1873. Dec 31, To amount paid 8 C Damon, account In full. .$ 8 SS s K Duuscoinlie, sundries 2t 60 * * Lowers At Dickson, lumber.. t20 O Segelken At Co, lead pipe 1 00 '■ II M Whitney, adverliaiug... 1 10 " •' water pipe J Noll ex Co, 2 76 '• July.'l.'TI," Dickson, lumber., tl 80 " " Lewere* 7 00 •' •' Neaelken At Co, gutters rep'd. '• 02 00 "'■ J N Simmons, carpenter.... M '. sundries Dunscombe, E 4 76 **" July 9, Chaa Snillh, painting 012 Dunscombe,sundries E 7 30 Dec 23, s s ii 6 00 Daniel Janer, repatct'g slates 8 66 Balance cash on hand carried to new account "" " "" " " " " "" " "" •• ' " " $19105 CR.—18.3. $ 43 00 Dec 31, By cash received of the Trustees Jan6,1874, From D Smith 3 00 May 14, Amount from H A Peirce. Esq. U 8 Minister Resident, being the proceeds of four cuttle from Kauai native* 40 05 July 2, Amount received for rent of Depository. 1874.. 10000 Nor 10. Amount from Capt Fisher, bark Java 5 00 " " $10106 $8 M December, 1874. By balance cash on hand Chao. R. Bishop, E. Ac O. E. Preasurer. Honolulu, Dec. 24,1871. — "Mary A Defender of Tyndall. Butts' " criticism on prayer which appeared a few days since in the Gazette, reminds us of a remark of Goethe in "Faust": "We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand—to see them snarl at the good and beautiful, which is often troublesome to them." We have read many books purporting "lives" of our Saviour, but for a vivid reproduction of the scenes of Jerusalem and times of our Saviour during his existence upon earth, we think Ingraham's " Prince of the House of David" excels them all. It is well worth reading, and may to be be obtained at Thrum's book-store. Wooden Wedding.—There was a large gathering at Capt. Hobron's, Nuuanu valley, on Tuesday evening, December S29th, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the marriage of his daughter and Mr. William Bailey, of Wailuku. Everything was most enjoyable, and " wooden ware " of every description was abundant. Condemned.—The American whaling bark Joseph Maxwell, which met with rather severe weather on the return from the Northern eeag, wag condemned after survey—and sold at auction during the past week. The hull with lowerraasts wss bought by Mr. Geo. Emmes, shipwright, for $1825, and will probably be broken up. The spars, rigging and furniture were sold separately, and brought about S/2GOO. The ship was an old one. built about Ihe year 1884. Advertiser, Dec. 2C. It is curious to read that at the meet- ing of the American Oriental Society, Rev. Selah Merrill read a paper on "Assyrian Monuments in America,"and another paper was on " Recent Discussion of the Evidence of Phceni:ian Colonization of America." We shall not be the " new world " long at this rate.— S. F. Pacific. It is now hinted that Mr. Bancroft will write the history of the Constitution in a series of additional volumes to the just completed history. �To the Lovers of Sacred Music. The foreign residents of Honolulu are about to enjoy a rare opportunity for listening to the world renowned Philip Phillips, who has probably sung sacred music in the presence of more hearers than any other He enjoys both an person now living. European and American celebrity. By the last mail a letter was received, from which the following extract is copied : " The Committee in Australia are quite anxious that I should reach there ns soon as possible. I can therefore only stop at Honolulu, the time necessary for the steamer to tarry, which I am informed is some 24 or MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. Dec. to me (if desired, on your part,) to have an engagement fixed, at any time, after five hours landing, that you might deem proper. " I leave San Francisco per steamer Mikado, January 3d, and will probably reach you about the 12th or 13th of the month. " I leave the whole matter entirely in your hands. I only desire to cheer some Christian heart or lure some erring one to the Pilgrimage of faith, by the charm of pure and lofty sentiment, or Gospel truth, expressed with unpretentious melody." The Trustees of Fort Street Church have kindly consented to allow this Concert of Sacred Music to be given in that place. The avails of the Concert, after defraying expenses, will be devoted to the Honolulu Sailors' Home Society. Tickets 81.00 ; children, 50 cents—to be had at Whitney's, Thrum'?, Hotel, Home, and at the doors. CC7" Immediately on the arrival of the steamer, posters will announce the hour when the entertainment will be given. Come and hear and learn if Sacred Music hath not charms! David Sinton, of Cincinnati, who, a few months ago, gave $100,000 to the Seamen's Bethel and $50,000 to the adornment of a public square in that city, the other day made a third gift of $33,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association, for the erection of a new building. Cincinnati is growing proud of Mr. Sinton, and she may well do so. Men of his kind are rare. Better Sunday in Paris.— A society has been formed in Paris and in the Departments of France for the promotion of the better observance of the Lord's Day. The ladies, members of it, are said to number a hundred thousand, and they decline to patronize any tradesman who keeps open on Sunday. Information Wanted. ■eapecting Hiram B. Btory, from Amhemt, Man; he left America about twenty yeara ago In a whileahipbelonging to Stomngton, and it known to have been ■ailiuir In American whaleahlpa to IbePacific. Any information will be gladly re- wh l*k Jon Maxwell, llickmt.it, with ÜbO wh, 9500 hone, 1800 Ivory. 2— Am from Arctic, S—Brit bk tiparrowhawk, Calhoun, 41 daya from Sydney. y—II It Ma rt Reindeer, Anacn, from Waimea, Kauai 10-11 li Ma 8 Tened.w, Meulen, from Kona, Hawaii. 12—Brit atmr Mikado, F Moore, 21 daya ftn Sydney. U—Am bk Garibaldi, Noyea, 27 daya from Portland. 17—Brit atmr Macgregor, Grainger, 8} daya from San Francisco. 18—II B Ma & Tenedoa, Meulen, fromKona. Hawaii. 19—Am hklo Jane A Falkinburg, Drown, 20 daya Irom Portland, O. 20—Am ahip Enoch Talhnt, Kimball. 46 daya from Tahiti, en route for Sun Francisco. 21—II II Ma 8 Tenedoa, Meultn, from Waiinea, Kauai. 24—H B Ma S Tenedoa, .Meulen, from Wafmt-a, Kauai. 28—Haw bk Multie M.irleay, Walter, 30 daya from I'ortland. 30—Am schr Varuna, Gilbert, 17 daya fm San Franc.sco > 4S hours. " Now it would be exceedingly gratifying 1875. DEPARTURES. Dec. 2—Am wh bk Jaa Allen, Kecnan, to cruise. 4—Am wh bk Java 2d,Fi«l.er, to cruise. s—Brit wh bk Faraway, Spencer, locruiae. 6 -H B Ma S Tenedoa, Meulen, forKona, Hawaii. A—II B Ma ri Reindeer, Anaon, for Waimea, Kauai. 7—Am wh ship Josephine,Long, for New Bedford. 9—Am wh hk Onward, Hayes, to cruise. 10—Am bk Delaware, Hinds, for Victoria, B C. 10—Brit brig Robert Cowan, Cluncy, lor Sydney. 10—Am ahip Syren, Benson, tor New Bedlord. ll—Am wh ahip Europa, McKenzie, to cruise. 12—Brit stmr Mikado, Moore, for San Francisco. 14—11 B M's 8 TenedtM, Meulen, for Kona, Hawaii. 14—Haw wh brig Onward, Geo Uilley, to cruise, lo—Am wh hk Triton. Hcppingatone, to cruise. 10—Britwh bk Adventurer, Hercndeen, to cruiac. IT—II B Ma S Scout, Calor, for Tahiti. 18—Brit atmr Macgregor, Grainger, fur Auckland. 18—Am lik Garibaldi, Noyea, lor Hongkong. 18—Am wh bk Bartholomew Goanold, Willis, lo cruise and home. 19—Haw wh bk Arctic, Whitney, to cruiae. 19—Am wh bk Arnulda, Bnuldry, to cruiae. 19—11 li Ma 8 Tenedoa, Meulen, for Waiinea, Kauai. 20—Am Rhip Enoch Talhot. Kimball, for San Francisco 22—11 B Ma S Tenedoa, Meulen, for Waiinea, Kauai. 30—Brit hk Sparrowhawk, Calhoun, lor San Franciaco. 5 THE FRIEND, JANUARY. or from Tahiti Tta Auckland, we learn of Ihe destruction two large American shins by in. strange Ie relate, both vessels were built in the same year, belonge-l to the same owner, left ihe same |»rt together, wilh similar cargoes) bound for Ihe same place. Both Tesaela were destroyed by Are in the Pacific Ocean wllhln two hundred inl'es of each other, about the same time,anil Iheaurvlvorareached Tahlll and ihe Marquesas within a few days of one another, the boata having traverse,! a distance of 1200 miles, and both crewa met in Papeete, and learnt of each other's disaster. These ships were ihe Centaur, of HU Mas, and ihe Mogal, of 1.104 tons. both owoed by J. H. Pears at Co. of Boston, and both loaded wilh coala from Liverpool for San Franciaco. No dates sre given. Put Inlo Papeele In dlatreaa (no date) American ahlp Enoch Talbot,of Boston, from linker's Island lor Cork, with guano, making eight Inches of water per hour. She wua condemned and would he sold. PASSENGERS. Foa Victobia, B. C—Per Delaware, Dec. loili—N Mor- phy. Foa Nbw Bedfohd—Per Syren, Doc. lOlli—Master Ed Adams Fbom Sydnby—Per Mikailo, Dec. 12th—M Chany, nnd 38 in transitu lor San Franciaco. Foa San Fbancisco—Per Mikado. Dec. 12ih—F. M Meyer, Capt D fniiih anil wife, Dr J F Morse, Wm Waterhouse, Capt Wood. Fnov I'obti.abd—Per Garibaldi, Dec. 14th—Mrs Tlionipson, and & Chinamen. Fbom San Francisco—Per Mncgregor, Pec. lTlh—Mr Atworal, Miss Atwood, 2 Misses Vtetmore, Mr IV, Injur.-, Rev Father Mooiton, Mr Hearse, Mr and Mrs Sisson, Mr Buldwin, Mr liwillln. Mrs nml Misa Rowland, Mra Cartwrlght, Mr Steele, J II Black, Maaler Ilnrry M Black, and 41 In transitu for Auckland and Sydney. Fob Honokono—Per Garibaldi.Dec. 18th—34 Chinamen. Fob Sydney—Per Macgregor, Dec. 18ih—Antone Rulher, anil 41 In transitu from San Francisco. Faox Pobtland, O.—Per Jane A. Falkinhurg, Dec. 10th— J l.c Forest. MARRIED. this ciiy, at St. Androw'a Temporary Cathedral, nn .Monday, December alar, by the Right Rev. Uiahop of Honolulu, avaiated by Rev. J Mackintosh, Mr. Frederick Marri*on II aynkldfn, formerly of Brighton, England, lo Miaa Tai.uh Lucy, only daughter of Mr. Walter Murray Gibaon, of Lnnal, and formerly of l'endletan, South Carolina. Hayrkldkn—Ginso.v—lii DIED. Herfield—Al Tayloraville, Alexander County, North Carolina, September 23.1, Mr. M. llenfield, aged 45 years, for some years a resident ol Honolulu. Keeoan—ln this city, December Ist, Luke Kekoan. a naReport of Whaling Hark lUrtholomew Gosnold, Wii.i.ih, Master.—Ult Honolulu Nov 20th, 1873, bound weal tive of Pawtuchet, R. 1., sited 42 years, lonf a resident ra on a cruiae. Had moderate iradea with good weather. Sighted these islands. 1r Rhode Island papers please copy. Mu.grove laland l)*c <iiti, next day, 16 initea due aoulh of the Dbiscoi.e—ln this city. December 13th. of hemorrhage of ialand, caught three aj>erm whalea, making 00 bbla. Dec 13th, Ihe lungs, Thosmb Dbiscole, a native of Near liedford, Mass. touchedat Ebon laland Dec 16lh,arrived at Strong'a I*l-and; lauded mail and procured auppllea. Dec 19th, left for folomon'a group, arriving there Jan 4th, 1874; cruised untd Feb ISili, without seeing a aperrn whale. Feb 20th, touched at Lord Howe's group Feb 27th, in Ut 3° lo' 8, long 160° 20' C, caughtone sperm whale, making 60 bbla. Marchoth, touched at--*tfang's Island. March 11th,touched al McAaskill Island. March 13th, nigh ted Aacenaion, aad chaaed March 21at, anchored at sprrm wbalea without success. ». * Uinatic, Guam, and procured water, flame day anchored at Tinuiau. April 10'h, touched at Peel's laland. Same day, Autruaius Savory, ofthat ialand, died. April 16th, anchored at Yokohama, and left for Japan Bea on the 22d. May sth, passed through Corea Strait*,; cruiaed on Coaat of Tarlary until June 4th, seeing but few whales. May 23d, caught two right wbalea,making 120 bbla. WhiteRock bearing north, disJune 23d, off theWood Und; in lat 42° 41' tance 6 miles. V long 13& ° 30' E, caught one right whale, making 140 bbla; (or a few days aaw and heard whales quite plenty, there being a dense fog all the time loat them. July Ist passed through I'erouae Strails, and cruiaed a abort time In Ochotsk Sea without seeing whales. July 22d, arrived at ihe Shanter Islands, and cruised there until Oct 17th. Had fine weal ber up to Kept 20tb. There were about 60 whales seen in the bays, most of them in rtW Uay; we found them shy and always goingquick; caught one, making 70 bbls. Eight ships and one schooner have cruiae I in those bays, catching 10 whales (800 bbla), all caught in 8W Hay In September. Oct 17th, we left for Honolulu; passed through 50th I'aasage Oct 28lh. Had very heavy weather, mostly from the south with rain. Nov 22d, winds moderated; in lat 30° N, long 154° W, winda veered to the N, since then have had light northerly winds Officers' $8 Table, wilh lodging, per week, with fineweather. Arrived in Honolulu Nov2Bth. do. do. 5 Report op British Bark Bparrowhawk, Calhoun, Seamen's do. Mamter.—Left Sydney Oct 28th, wind N W to BW moderate Shower Baths on the Premises). to New Zealand. Sighted north cape of New Zealand, and crossed the meridian of 180° in lat 86° S. Sighted also cd. im \s(-omit:, Cook or Harvey Islands. Had oo BE trade winds,but took the NE trate winds in lat 10° 8, blowing very strong from Hiinhilii. January 1. 1875. Manager. Ihe equator to Hawaii. Crosited the equator in long 156 ° W. Arrived in Honolulu Dec Bth, making thepassage in 41 days. Report of Baixentime Jake A. Falkiniuro, J. A. Brown, Master.—failed from Astoria Nov 28th; Ural twelve FOR niK BKST, CO TO THE hours after leaving port had moderate NE winds. On the20th had a heavy gale from SE; wind shifted to SW and blew a C(i Mao heavy gale lor three daya. From lat 43° N, long ! W. to lat 37° N, long 138 ° W, had strong SSE and SW winds; from thence to lat 30 ° N, long 142° W,had moderate GO Fart >'•«. nml 04 Street. winda from NW, and from thence to port had light variable winda. Made the east end of Molokai laland on the morning of Dec 18th, and arrived at Honoluluat 7 p m same day, after Also for Sale, Photographic Views, etc., etc a passage of 20 days. U 11. L. CUAgIC. MEMORANDA. SAILORS' - HOME! LwaWt* . .. ... PHOTOGRAPHS ! pali tun Phstograpk Gallery ' �THE FRIEND, 6 EDITOR'S TABLE. JANUARY, cumstances either exposes it to decay or 1875. Sketches of Creation—A Popular View calls its vital properties into activity. Hence, where seeds have been buried deep in the of some of the Grand Conclusions of earth, not by human agency, but by some the Sciences in reference to the Hischange, it is impossible to saytory of Matter and of Life ; together geological anteriorly to the creation of man with a Statement of the Intimations of how long may have been produced and buried, Science respecting the Primordial Con- they as in the following curious instance : Some dition AND THE ULTIMATE DESTINY OF THE well-diggers in a town on the Penobscot Earth and the Solar System. By River, in the State of Maine, about forty Alexander Winchell, LL D., Professor of Geology, ire., in Michigan University; miles from the sea, came, at a depth of about twenty feet, upon a stratum of sand. with illustrations. This strongly excited their curiosity and inThis is a most readable and entertaining terest, from the circumstance that no similar volume, in which the results of scientific ob- sand was to be found anywhere in the servation and analysis are beautifully pre- neighborhood, and that none like it was nearer than the sea-beach. As it was drawn sented. The dry and fossil "bones" dug up from the well it was placed in a pile by up by the geologist are clothed with flesh and itself, an unwillingness having been felt to sinews. Ezekiel's valley of dry bones is mix it with the stones and gravel which made to have a scientific resurrection. The were also drawn up. But when the work about to be finished, and the pile of long periods elapsing prior to man's appear- was stones and gravel to be removed, it was ance upon the earth are made to pass before necessary also to remove the sand-heap. the mmd like the paintings of a grand pano- This, therefore, was scattered about the spot ramic representation. There is much which on which it had been formed, and was for we should gladly copy into our columns, if some time scarcely remembered. In a year or two, however, it was perceived that a space would allow. number of small trees had sprung from the Some months ago, in illustrating the vital- ground over which the heap of sand had ity of moral and spiritual truth or seed been strewn. These trees became, in their when sown in the hearts of men, we took turn, objects of strong interest, and care was occasion to speak of the " vitality of seeds," taken that no injury should come to them. At length it was ascertained that they were as for example, Egyptian wheat now growBeach-plum-trees; and they actually bore ing, although the seed from which it sprung the Beach-plum, which had never been seen was found deposited in the folds of cloth except immediately upon the sea-shore. The wrapped around an Egyptian, whose body trees had therefore sprung from seeds which was embalmed four thousand years ago. were in the stratum of sea-sand that had been pierced by the well-diggers." It can This statement has been questioned, but the not be doubted, as Carpenter concludes, that following interesting lacts are set forth upon the seeds of the Beach-plum had lain buried authority which cannot be questioned. It since the remote period when that part of will be seen that Prof. Agassiz endorses one the state was ths shore of the slowly-receding sea. of them. VITALITY OF SEEDS. well known that Dr. Lindley raised three raspberry plants from seeds discovered in the stomach of a man whose skeleton was found thirty feet below the surface of the earth, at the bottom of a barrow or burialmound which was opened near Dorchester, England. With ihe body had been buried some coins of the Emperor Hadrian, from which we are justified in assuming that these seeds had retained their vitality for the space of sixteen or seventeen hundred years. If they remained undamaged that length of time, their condition was practically fixed; and who shall say that ten thousand years would have produced a greater effect ? Professor Agassiz asserts that there are some well-authenticated cases "in which wheat taken from the ancient catacombs of Egypt has been made to sprout and grow." Dr. Carpenter even goes so far in this connection as to give utterrance to the following observations, which happen to be extremely pertinent in the present instance : " These facts make it evident," he says, that there is really no limit to the duration " this condition (latent vitality), and that of when a seed has been preserved for ten years, it may be for a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand, provided no change of cirIt is dent of the leading Woman's Missionary Society in America. New York, Nov. 16th, 1874. Dear friends:—On Saturday Miss H. G. Brittan, Miss Marston, Miss Kimball and Miss Woodward sailed for Liverpool on the steamer City of New York. The agent of Cook & Co. meets them at Liverpool on their arrival, has their baggage, boxes, Sec, re-shipped on a steamer for Calcutta—they taking a portmanteau across the continent to Brindisi, Italy. Then they take a steamer for Calcutta ; if there is a prospect of storms, for Bombay, but must pay the railroad from Bombay to Calcutta. The farewell meeting was on Friday afternoon, ladies coming from Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, New Brunswick, and other places. After the religious exercises, there was an opportunity to be introduced to the missionaries. They were invited to take tea with us, Miss Brittan and Miss Kimball came ; the others were detained with friends. Some of our ladies had a Fair three days for the mission in India. Thursday evening tableau scenes in India were explained by Miss Brittan. Every one that saw them was interested. The ladies that got them up drilled the children—bag wigs and old style dresses. They came in a large omnibus all dressed from Brooklyn. The parents paid the expense of dresses and conveyance. 1 enclose a programme. It may seem foolish, but one must, sow beside all waters, and if they only take an interest in missions, the great point is gained. Since Miss Brittan went out in IS6I, over 10,000 of the higher castes have been taught, besides those of the lower castes. In Calcutta we have a Dispensary, Child's Hospital, Orphanage, and have been asked by the government to instruct in the Foundling Letter from New York. Asylum children rescued from the famine. We think our readers will be interest- j They have six Singer's sewing machines— ed in the following extracts from a let- make the uniform for the police. The pay receive goes for their support. Sunday ter written by Mrs. Doremus, now verging they morning early they have some parched rice towards eighty, and received by a late mail. ! dressed in white muslin, called a chuddar This lady is President of the " Woman's over their heads—each two have an umUnion Missionary Society" of America. brella, walk two and two a mile to church. She has exercised a controlling influence in It begins at 7 o'clock. At 10 they return to breakfast, then prepare for Sunday school: the organization of this Society, and during j lessons from 12 to 2 o'clock, and then they the past forty years has been engaged in have dinner. They do not attend service in missionary, philanthropic and benevolent la- the afternoon. The week day school is from bors in the city of New York, but particu- 7 until 1 o'clock. Some of the orphans go assist the ladies in the Zenanas. They larly in the matter of hospitals of various to are fond of Bengali tunes and Christian kinds. If there is a lady in America now j hymns. When Mr. Sheshadra was in this meriting the name of " Florence Nightin- country, he told me that just such things gale," it is Mrs. Doremus. She is con- are taking place as are depicted in " Showritten by Miss Brittan). nected with the Dutch .Reformed Church, shie," (abutbook the Bible can make a change. Nothing but her sympathies rise above aad extend Bishop Harris, of the Methodist church, beyond all church organizations. Amid visited our missions in Japan, China, Calher multiplicity of labors, she finds time for cutta and Allahabad, and he gave me an incarrying forward an extensive correspond- teresting account of them. General Litchence, and it is our privilege occasionally to field, Consul at Calcutta, is a religious man ; does all he can to aid our missionaries. His receive letters from her pen. She has a wife has gone from Boston, and will meet most marvelous ability to manage the details our ladies; she is going with them to Calof business as well as officiate as the Presi- cutta, &c., Sec. �THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 7 18 75. Twentieth Annual Report of Honolulu Sailors' Home Society. Our Home, under the excellent management of Mr. and Mrs. Dunscombe, has been carried forward through another year. It is confidently believed that the original design of its establishment has been steadily kept in mind, and the amount of good accomplished all which could reasonably be expected. According to the report of the manager, three hundred and eight (308) seamen from vessels of war and thirty-two (32) from merchant vessels and whaleships —making a total of three hundred and forty (340) —have found accommodations at the Home during the past year. There are included in this number several shipmasters and officers. Very many of these young men, besides scores more, have resorted to the Reading Room for writing letters to their friends; and when they left have been supplied with reading matter to take to sea, and in many instances they have received a word of " good counsel." Much good has thereby been accomplished. The Young Men's Christian Association has, with most commendable and praiseworthy liberality, sustained the Reading Room, which has proved beneficial not only to seamen, but many others. As a means of usefulness, this branch of Christian-benevolence cannot be overestimated. The Home and Reading Room are standing witnesses and manifest proofs of the Christian liberality and kindly feeling of the foreign community of Honolulu towards seamen and strangers visiting this city. The following testimonial of the commander of H. B. M.'s S. Cameleon, is in harmony with the verbal remarks of many others : ADVERTISEMENTS. 6* Uf IRWIN THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! CO.. A. rpHE PROPRIETOR will spare ■ Commission Merchants, Plnntalion and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, 11. I, EWERS Si. | EajBOARTT DICKSON. Fort Street, Honolulu, H. 1. HOFFMANN, M . 11 BREWER li Post Offloe J. C. MERRILL & Co., ADAMS. Sji ii Auction and Commission Merchant, ■| . MO T T San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particalar attention given to the sale and purchase of merohaadlse, ships' business, supplying whaleshipi, negotiating SMITH, Dentist, Having resumed practice, can be found at his rooms over E Strchz k Co.'s Drug more, corner ol Fort and Hotel atl. |011 N S.MeG R E W, Francisco. ALSO. AGENTS OK TIIK Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. X /OB* at CUES! Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 206 California Street, Honolulu, Oahu. U. I. P. HALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR PUBLIC MEETINGS. OR gOCIaTTIM. \j hIM t. 0. USBBILL. CO.. Commission and Skipping Merchants, O M.D ~ exchange, ate. tar Allfrelght arriving at Baa Francisco.br or to the Ho. am Line of Packets, will beforwarJed rasa or oomnssios. XT exchange on llonalulubought and sold. XX —SEFEBBSCKS— Messrs. A. W. Pi-iree* Co HsckfeM Co Late Surgeon U. S. Army, **" C.11. Brewer Co Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Bishop Co Alakea and Fort streets. Wood Dr. 11. W. Hon. K. 11. Allen WEST, •08 |-i Wagon and Carriage Builder, 74 and 70 King Sli-eet, Honolulu. ty laland orders ptnmptly executed at lowest rates Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping business at the above i«irt, where they are prepareil to lurnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits as are required by whaleships, at the shortest notice,and on the most reasonable terms. ij '• "" "" lr M. DICKSON, Photographer, 61 Fort Street. Iloimluln, ALLEN fc CHILLING WORTH, Kawailiae, Hawaii, Honolulu * ** " O* Firewood on Iluiid WEEK 1 with or without board. D., the SOTKZi ROOMS CAN BE HID BT THE NIGHT OR Physician ami Surgeon, CornerMerchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near no First-Class in Every Particular ! Dealers in Lumber anil Building Matirials, ■it pains to make this HAND A CHOICE ASSORTALWsVSOX MENT OF PHOTOOKAI'UIC STOCK, A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c, &c. CURIOSITY lIUNTKRS will find at Dili establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Vol, nnlj Specimen*, H M. Suir Cameleon," ) W. PIERCE fc CO.. Corn la. Shells. Wnr I nsplrisaenls, " 18, 1874. J A Honolulu, August (succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) Ferns. Mills. Ksaai, Dear Sir —Before leaving this port, I beg to offer Commission Mer .4ml a Great Variety of other Ihneaiiun and Mimy testimony to the very efficient working of the Ship Chandlers and General chants, cronesian Curiosities. most useful institution, "The Honolulu Sailors' Honolulu,Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Home." During the Cumeleon'iituy here the ship's PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY! company have fully availed themselves of the many Jsl 1874 advantages ii oilers them, and I am sure joins with Agents I'nuloii Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, And Prrry Duvi.' Pain Killer. me in thanking you and the other gentlemen, through whose exertions the establishment retains its high CASTLE character for ihe comfort and attentions tbey have THOS. G. THRUM'S always met with in the house. STATIONERY IHPOUTKBS AM) DEALERS IX NEWS DEPOT, I shall have much pleasure in bringing the Home No. 10 Merchaut AND ■ Sirni, Houolulu* notice of of ships visiting this any captains to tbe part of the world, and shall not fail lo express the OF READING MATTER-OP Paperi Mini Map*znie*, back immbert—put up to order at entertain of its merits. high opinion I AGE/ITS OF educed rates lor panic** going to sea. ly Believe me, dear sir, very faithfully yours, W. Kennedy. REGULAR PORTLAND LINE Of Packets, New England Mutual I,if- Insurance Company, The Res. S. C. Damon. San * : & COOKE, -- PACKAGES NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENERAL MERCHANDISE! 11IIK The t'niun Marine Insurance Cumpsny, Francisco, Company, Kohala The Treasurer will report the amount of The Haiku Supir Company. The Sugar Hawaiian Mill. W. 11. Bailey, our expenditures. The verandas and cookThe Hamakua Sugar Company, DILLINGHAM & CO., house have been thoroughly repaired during The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler Ik Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Noa. 95 and 07 King Street, the past year, and much work was done for Dr. Jayne guns Celebrated Family Medicines. tf * a small amount of money. The Home KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF it and is to be repainting, needs hoped the Carriage Making; and Trimming;! means will soon be obtained for doing the WOULD RESPECTFULLYINFORM YOU THAT same. Let it be remembered that nearly I now employ the best .Mechanics in the line of ten years have elapsed since any public apCarriage Making. peal has been made for funds to carry on MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT Carriage and General lilaclcsmithing, during the )ait Six Years can testify from personal exSHIP Painting. Repairing, etc., the "Home." perience that the undersigned keep tbe belt assortment of Hawaiian On the Group ; and it is a well established I would acknowledge a valuable donation our Carriage Trimmins;, hj Mr. R. Whitof books and tracts for gratuitous distribu- GOODS FORTRADE faot that man, is aa well executed as any in New York Citj or tion, from J. T. Waterhouse, Esq. elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that And Sell Cheaper than any other House in ihe we can mauunictute as good a class of work ia HoS. C. Damon, Goods Suitable for Trade. Chairman of Executive Committee. Honolulu, 24th Dec, 1874. Kingdom. DILLINGHAM 4 CO. The t-ugar I nolnlu as em be found in any part of the world. I will alto state here that we fully intend to work at the lowest possible rales. G. WEST. �ChYHAMrsiooetucann'gf onolulu. 8 Pure religion and undeftled before God, the Father, is this: To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to kcej) one'e selfunspotted from the world. Among other questions of public interest, much attention has lately'been given, or at least invited, in the newspapers and elsewhere, to the fact that the last census returns of this country show a continuing decrease of population. This fact has formed a topic of Koyal speeches, public meetings and newspaper articles; and there is no reason why our Association should not also consider it with a view of affording, or even suggesting, any possible assistance in combating so terrible a state of affairs. Our field, so far, has Comprised principally the devising and carrying out of plans for the welfure ol foreigners in the islands; we have done what has been in our power to provide rational entertainment for residents of our own race, to establish and maintain a good reading and writing-room for sailors and other transient and undomiciled visitors, to give some little assistance to Sundayschool teaching and prison and hospital visitation ; and we are endeavoring still to set on foot a means for throwing at least a glimmer of religious light upon the two thousand pagans who dwell amongst us. But with the natives of the islands we have as yet had little to do. For them, indeed, much has already been done : Christian teaching has long been provided without lack of pecuniary assistance ; and they possess a system of state primary education equal in extent, if not in degree, to that of any other country. They have a Constitutional Government and a King, whose interest is sincerely in the welfare of his people ; they have churches and preachers, schools where their boys and girls may obtain as much education as usually fills to the lot of a middle class in other civilized countries, a well endowed hospital for the sick, und doctors maintained at state expense. The climate is healthy, and absolute poverty is unknown among those who care to work. Why should it be so frequently, and alas! coldly remarked that in a few years more the nice will have disappeared ? We do not put this question with a view of hearing the well-known answer that it is because they will not take care of themselves and their children, but rather to elicit opinion as to whether anything can be done which neither earnest religious teaching nor an efficient administration of existing laws will do. We say that many of the people are idle and dissipated. Men cannot be always at manual work, even when hard work is a stern necessity of mere life, which it is not here ; and what terrible temptations to idleness and dissipation would have been ours if, even with a good schooling, we had enjoyed no literature of our own, if all our after-school information and entertainment had to be obtained through the difficult medium of a foreign tongue! It is sometimes asserted that the government system boys and girls at school may read and speak of a good educational paper would be proof fluently enough in English, from the moment against these objections. The Board of Edwhen school is over and they take up subse- ucation is a body perfectly free, in its official quent occupation among those of their own capacity, from party feeling, and would race, the language of their parents, of their enjoy the fullest public confidence in its infancy, will resume its place as their lan- management of such an undertaking. We guage. In what other country under the sun believe firmly that the publication by this has a native tongue been exchanged for one State Department of a periodical newspaper imported, unless as a condition of conquest? or magazine, containing well selected matter We speak, of course, of the language of the of an instructive and interesting kind, majority, the middle and lower classes, for whether historical, scientific, or fictitious, higher education, and even fashion, will would strike a powerful blow at the terrible often produce such an exchange among those enforced idleness of mind to which, we conwhose position renders them amenable to tend, is attributable to so much of the dissisuch influences. pation of the people. Such a periodical, The question as to whether a change of attractive and handy in form and interesting the vernacular is desirable or possible, we in material, would be sure to find many cannot now discuss ; such a change has ap- readers ; while, bound up for reference, it parently not suggested itself as practicable might become a nucleus of the Hawaiian to the earlier teachers here of any creed, and literature of the future. we will assume that their decision in the If this Association agrees with us as to matter has been right. the relation which we have endeavored to Without doubt the people are, to a great establish between mental idleness and the extent, shut out in this way from a means of decline of the race, it cannot fail to appremental recreation and improvement; where ciate the importance of seeking a remedy ; is the wonder, then, if idle minds naturally and the idea of a State Educational Press drift in a wrong direction ? may suggest still better plans, or may be Some effort has been made to meet the taken up and submitted in some practical difficulty by the publication of native news- shape for public consideration. papers and magazines, two of which, the The time allotted here to an essayist will Kuokoa ami Lav Oliva, are now extant; not permit more than a brief allusion to but these, however good, are u mere pebble other matters affecting the census returns. towards filling up tlie bucket of unoccupied In view of so enormous a catastrophe as mind in our country. The latter, appearing the possible extinction of a race, and under monthly, is a very neatly printed magazine circumstances which nowhere else find a of four pages, enriched wilh illustrations, parallel, are we bound in any way to mould and usually containing a good selection of our laws on sanitary and moral matters with moderately simple article! upon subjects of martinet-like precision to the exact dimengeneral interest, secular as well as religious. sions and number of folio pages which may The Kiiokon is an ordinary weekly news- be found advisable in other countries very paper of four large pages, of which a consid- differently constituted 7 This is a country erable portion is occupied by the advertise- where public opinion itself upon these subments necessary for the support of the pub- jects requires reform. Here every man lication ; it is partially devoted, too, to constitutes his own public opinion, we might politics, and much of its space is given up to almost sny ; in fact, he does as he pleases, the volunteered effusions of subscribers and provided he be not a criminal or a leper. to the marvelous serial tale which, like the We do not hesitate to say that the dis"Thousand and one nights," ransacks comfort and uncleanness of many of the heaven, earth and oilier parts of the universe poorer dwellings, especially in "crowded in search of means to keep itself from neighborhoods, is a matter which should be approaching tho words vigorously handled by the government; it That private enterprise can do no more would be all very well under far different than it has done is, we fear, perfectly true; circumstances to cry out about the rights of the Au Okou, the Nuhoa, the llaimii private judgment, but we are threatened by I'onoi, after vigorous but short lifetimes, the dreadful alternative of national extinchave all perished for lack of support. If, tion. If the cesspools and heaps of garbage then, the existing literature of Hawaii is to which surround every poorer house have be enlarged, associated effort will have to not yet brought upon us the sweeping epiattempt what private endeavor evidently demics usually following in their train elsecannot do. where, there can be no doubt that they inThe government of the country has at sidiously suck away much of the health and one time or another directed or subsidized vitality so greatly needed. portions of the public press as its mouthWhat foreigners might do for the morality piece ; and since a paper thus entirely or of the land is among many of them synonypartially under government control must mous with what they leave undone. Though necessarily be the organ of a party, its use- morality cannot be maintained by law, a fulness must also be.fettered by the extent of fearful responsibility rests upon those who in of education ought to aim at making the the sympathizers it may possess, even if spite of their better knowledge contribute to English language the vernacular; but while principle of a partisan government press the be the prevalence of dissipation and immorality the natives so far out-number the foreigners not seriously objected to as a means of unfair among the natives. And, to our mind, no false resident here, no amount of legislation will influence. delicacy should prevent legislation from going prevent the Hawaiian language from being But the appropriation of a certain amount as far as it will in making the people live, that most familiar to the people; and though from the public money to the maintenance even it cannot if make some of them moral. � 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 (1875) 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 - 1875.01.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875.01.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/542bfa7864e4375d8a7763a8760e7d1f.pdf a5534e26a97dfed64fc888adbd3403c2 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, -1815. $eto Stries, M 24, $0. 2., THE FRIEND. FEBRUARY I, 1876. CONTENTS Far r>bri.»rv 1. 1876. Reciprocity Deneflclal to the United State. l.ate Captain Meek Mora About the Ureal Pyramid 4300dNews from Ireland Business College, in the United States .Jreat Revival In Scotlandand Ireland Our Island Bojs Abroad Larrikins and Hoodlums Fate of the Apostles Marine journal Hello's Answer—Poetry rtarvrva! of the Fitlesl Transitof Venus, 1639 Hlshop Garrett Y. M. C. A PltUB (l 0 . 11, 10 10 10 11 19 la 13 13 14 14 14 14 18 Reciprocity Beneficial to the United States. The whole question in a nut-shell. If the United States do not give us Reciprocity, fiiey will be the losers as well as our Islands, if the following statement is true, and there can be no doubt of it: Death of a Missionary.—The painful news was received by the Cgphrenes, from Sydney, in a letter from a native missionary at Pitt's Island, that the wife of the Rev. H. J. Taylor, a Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., stationed at Apiang, died at that Island on the 26th of September last. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor arrived here from the United States in June, 1874, and sailed hence for the field of their labors in Micronesia on the 12th of July following. This bereavement is rendered peculiarly afflicting from the fact that Mr. T., is left among a scarcely halfcivilized people with an infant child to care for. Mr. T., is the son of a Missionary, and was born in India ; Mrs. T., (formerly Miss Rudd) was from McMinnville, Term.—The Missionary Packet Morning Star will be due from Micronesia some time in March.— /'. C A.Jan.Zid. The Late Captain John Meek. COMPARISON OF EXPORTS. In 1873 the Sandwich Islands took of American products to the value of $836,522The British, Dutch and Spanish possessions ia the East Indies, from whom we bought last year over $30,000,000, took from us only $450,000—about half as much as these islands. We bought from Cuba over $77,-000,000, principally cigars and tobacco, and they took from us less than $15,000,000. China bought of us, with a costly steamer subsidy, only a trifle over $1,000,000, exclusive of specie. "Hawaiian Almanac and for 1875." This is a neat pamphlet of some fifty pages, made up of much useful information relating to our islands, together with the ordinary current statistics and time-tables of an almanac. The publisher merits patronand we hope Mr. enterprise, age for his far be so that hereencouraged Thrum will after he will issue an annual and " be up to time," for it should appear in November or December, instead of January. Aside from furnishing useful information, it affords an excellent advertising medium. It is printed at the Advertisei- office, of Black & Auld. This venerable and much respected gentleman, who at the time of his decease was tbe oldest pioneer among our foreign residents, departed this life at his residence in this city, at a quarter to 7 o'clock yesterday morning, at the advanced age of eighty-three years, two months and five days. He was a native of Marblehead. about fifteen miles from Boston, Mass. Belonging to a family that bos for generations followed the sea as an occupation, he visited these Islands in 1809 as first offioer of a vessel in the North West trade, and in 1812 he was master of a ship in the port of Honolulu. He sailed from thia port in that oapacity on a number of voyages to China an the coast of Mexico, but has been a permanent resident of this Island for the paat fifty years. Tbe late John J. Astor thought so highly of Captain Meek that he built a ship specially for him. He engaged extensively in the grazing business, and took especial pains to introduce improved breeds of oattle and horses into the country. Combined with the plain and bluff manner of the true sailor, Capt. John Meek was noted for his probity of charaoter, and a genial kindness of disposition. He was the firm friend and often advisor of Ihe chiefs and successive Kings of these Islands, from the days of the first Kamehameha to the present time, and was Pilot and Harbor Master of Honolulu for many years. He was the laat surviving pioneer of the Order of Free Masons tn the Pacific having been one of the ten who were instituted aa "Lodge le Progres dc l'Oceanie," No. 124, by Captain Le Tellier, in 1848. He leaves a large family of children and grandchildren —P. C. A. Jan. 80. " " 9 {(Dil»cSmts,M32. MORE ABOUT THE GREAT PYRAMID. Perhaps the fact that it was once our privilege to stand on the summit of " the greatest architectural wonder on earth," makes us peculiarly interested in reading about it, and noting the recent observations of the learned Egyptian scholars, still there are some facts of general importance, which we think will not be unacceptable to our readers. We copy the following from an article which appeared in " The Lutheran " of New York : It was in the time of Alexander the Great, more than three hundred years before Christ, that the Greeks began their proverb about " the seven wonders of the world." These were,—the Pyramids of Egypt, the walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Statue of the Olympian Jupiter by Phidias, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos of Alexandria. All these have disappeared except the first, the Pyramids; and of these, all are falling into ruins but one, the chief of them all, the greatest and eldest, known as the Great Pyramid of Jeezeh, above Cairo, on the Nile. It has been only within the past few years that any sort of rational appreciation of this Pyramid has found place in the minds and knowledge of men. Though it is the oldest of the standing works of man, and the largest and loftiest building that ever existed upon the globe, the world has until lately known very little about it. The solid rock his been cut away to an It consists of 70,exact level for its base. --000,000 cubic feet of built masonry, the stones of which are seldom less than three or four feet thick, seven or eight long, and as many wide. It covers more than twelve acres of surface. Its height is 486 feet, and its circumference 3,074 feet. It is a perfect square in its base, the four corners being set in sockets accurately cut into the rock to receive its four foundation stones. It has four equal sides terminating in a point at the top. The whole body of the structure was originally cased with polished marble from Mokattam, though most of this casing has been torn out* to build Cairo. The structure is solid masonry throughout. It has but one narrow passage, which pierces it on the �10 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, north side directly on the meridian. The opening is considerably up in the masonry, and runs at an angle pointing outward to the then Pole Star. A branch from this passage leads up to two small chambers in the centre of the solid mass. The solid work is two thousand times more than the space occupied by all known passages, chambers or openings in it. The upper chamber has been called the King's, and the lower and smaller the Queen's Chamber. One solitary piece of furniture is all that the vast edifice contains, or is ever known to have contained. It was put in when the edifice was in course of construction, and cannot be removed. It is an ark of dark porphyry or granite, a chest or lidless coffer, of exquisite finish, cut in one piece from some one of the Sinaitic mountains. The date of the erection of this great Pyramid—the earliest ascertained fixed date in all the Egyptian records—which is astronomically given in the Pyramid itself, is, 800 years before Moses, 2170 years before Christ, and 3948 years ago. In the year 2170 B. C, and only then, the Pleiades and the then Pole Star (« Draconis) were at midnight in October, exactly opposite each other, and both were on the meridian together, one below and the other above the Pole. The arrangements of the Pyramid have this state of the heavens built into them, astronomically correct as then existing. Sir John Herschel, thirty years ago, thus fixed upon the date of the Pyramid, as embodied unmistakably in itself. The same configuration of the heavens cannot recur, from that time, for 25,862 years, which will be more than 20,000 years hence. At the rate of an inch for a year, the number of years in the whole processional cycle is built into the sum of the two diagonals of the base of this great pillar. The mathematical principles embodied in this Wonderful structure are very remarkable. Not only is its base an exact square, but its four sides incline toward its central axis at equal angles of 51 degrees, 51 minutes, and 14.3 seconds. Its height is thence to twice its base breadth, as the diameter to the circumferenf 0 f a circle; that is to say, height: lour sides of base : radius : circumference; though it has not been long since modern science first determined this ratio of diameter to circumference. This great Pyramid thus stands up in its whole shape a type and memorial of a squaring of the circle, performed ages and ages before the question was ever heard of smongst the schools of philosophy or the written records of mathematical investigation. A hebdomal system also appears in this greatest and oldest of human structures. The mean proportion of the entrance passage is one-seventh of the mean height of the grand gallery leading to the King's Chamber. The side walls of this gallery are marked with seven overlappings of the stones in each. The horizontal passage way, leading off from the lower entrance point of the grand gallery and conducting to the Queen's Chamber, is, in its entire length, just seven times the distance from a marked section starting from the north wall. This passage, at iv southern end, has a step of suddenly increased depth, which is one-seventh of the whole passage—a nobler and higher unit filling out a scale of seven. The Queen's : Chamber itself is seven-sided, like a geometrical figure, or a natural crystallization—four walls, two ceilings, and one floor. Thus there is a passage way of sevens, to a perfectly finished room of sevens. The astronomical intelligence embodied in this great Pyramid is equally wonderful. It is not only truly orientated as above stated ; that is, placed with its four sides exactly facing the four quarters of the heavens, but each side of the base of the Pyramid measures 365 cubits—the numberof days in the year—with a slight addition in each which together makes up for the nearly six hours additional which in four years require one day to be added, as in " leap year." The Pyramid thus exhibits the precise number of times and parts of a time that the globe turns on its axis during ils annual circuit round the su/i. Each of these cubits of 25 inches, well ascertained as the sacred cubit of Moses, is a ten-millionth part of the polar semi-axis of the globe. The height of the Pyramid, multiplied by ten to the ninth power, gives the distance of the earth from the sun, almost precisely as most recently calculated in miles, and most probably with greater accuracy than our modern science, which still labors under some uncertainty on this point. The daily progress of the globe round the sun is a grandly even quantity, in decimal arithmetic, of the Pyramid inches. The situation of the Pyramid on the 30th degree of latitude, and at a height of about 2,600 inches above the sea-level, its chief chamber, containing the coffer, gives, by means of two ventilating tubes, the mean temperature of the whole surface of the habitable carth--68 degrees Fahrenheit, or onefifth of the space between the boiling and freezing points of water, measured from the latter. The porphyry or granite coffer is equally astonishing as it stands there in its sublimely secluded and enshrined loneliness. It contains 71,250 cubic Pyramid inches of internal space; a Pyramid inch being equal to one and one-thousandth part of our inch. The mass of its sides and bottom exactly equals its internal space. The height is to the length of two of its adjacent sides as the diameter to the circumference of a circle. The exterior volume is double the interior capacity. The volume of the bottom is onehalf the volume of its sides and ends. As a whole, it is exactly one-fiftieth of the size of the chamber in which it is placed. The chamber itself stands upon the fiftieth course of the masonry of the entire structure. The weight of water to fill the cofler at the Pyramid temperature, being considered one ton of 2,500 pounds, each such pound equals five cubic inches of the earth's mean density ; so that the coffer's measure of capacity and weight are framed precisely to the mean density and specific gravity of our globe, and corresponds, in its inner contents-measure, to the sacred ark of the Mosaic Tabernacle, constructed according to Divine direction. The Great Pyramid thus exhibits an allcomprehensive system of Metrology, arrange ed in five different branches, all accurately founded on the system of the universe itself, and perfectly agreeing, in round and even numbers, with themselves and with each 1875. and condensed for our readers, in the above statements, have been derived from "Life and Work at the Great I'yramid," 1867, and •' Our Inheritance in the Great l*yramid" 1864, both by C. Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer-Royal for Scotland, who spent four months at the Great Pyramid, making the most particular and accurate measurements and observations of everything concerning it; and a work called "The I'yramid and the Jlilile," 1868, by a Scotch clergyman, of whom Piazzi Smyth says, that he has thoroughly mastered the descriptive literature of the subject. There have been published recently several other works on the topic, the best and ablest of them agreeing in their conclusions. Good News from Ireland.—lntelligence from Dublin and other towns in the north of Ireland, make known thnt Messrs. Moody and Sankey, American Evangelists, have met with a most cordial welcome. From the British Missenyer for December, we copy as follows : They did not arrive at Dublin till late on Saturday the 17th of October; but already the Union Prayer-meeting on that day swelled to ten times its usual numbers and overflowed the large hall. The first service was held on the day after, the Lords-day. Seats had been provided for 5,000 in the glass building known as the Exhibition Palace, and capable of accommodating on its ground floor about 15,000 people; and there were many who supposed that such a provision was Utopian, and thnt the place would be an array of empty benches. An hour before the time of meeting the seats were occupied, then standing room was seized, the galleries were invaded, the very platform was scaled, Hnd even when the doors were locked a dense mass formed outside. It was the largest crowd ever seen in a building in Dublin: but as no one was prepared for its magnitude, it was not very manageable, nnd the noise of persons walking round the galleries in search of n place from which to hear or see disturbed the entire service, except when IVlr. Sankey hushed the crowd into absolute stillness by two of his hymns. Business Colleges in America.—We notice that these institutions are now established in all the principal cities nnd with marked success. We have recently met Mr. Gay, v»ho has just returned to the islands from Boston, but while in San Francisco he attended the Business College. He speaks of it in the highest terms. There now lie on our table the prospectus " and other docu- " ments relating to the tute of Business and " United States InstiFinance " of Easton, Perm., which evidently indicate that it ii a first-class institution. Eastman's Business college of Poughkeepsie is another similar institution, and we have carefully examined nepers relating to its course of study. We have also examined catalogue and prospectus of a good Business College in Minneapolis, other. Minnesota. Such colleges must prove imThe particulars which we have collected mensely useful. �18 75. THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, The Great Revival in Scotland and Ireland. Metropolitan Hall, but the principal were in the Exhibition Palace, which can accommodate from 10,000 to 15,000 people at least We are accustomed to refer to great re- in the Great Transept and the Leinster Hall. vivals of religion in former ages ns some- There was a platform erected at the angle thing truly wonderful, but imagine that such where the two halls meet, and on this were scenes are not to be witnessed in our age or clergymen of different denominations, who took part in the services; and, as already at the present time. Perhaps if we care- stated, there was a choir of trained voices. fully enquire into the facts, we shall find Persons were nlso appointed to meet "inthat God is now in our day, and at this quirers" after the meetings were over and present time, doing a work in Scotland nnd try to fix in their minds the impressions left Ireland, as truly marvelous as was achieved by the services. There was no attempt made to win proselytes for any particular on the day of Pentecost, in the days of Luchurch, and not the faintest allusion to any ther or Edwards in New England. The of the distinctive characteristics of sects and labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey are .creeds. The result was that Protestants and fully reported in the English papers. It ap- Roman Catholics, Christians and Jews, Prespears that some few have arisen even in byterians, Methodists, Moravians, Arians, nnd Quakers, were all mingled in the great Scotland and denied the work to be genuine, assembly, and ull seemed equally impressed. Key. hence the testimony of such men as the The presence of. over 750 clergymen of Dr. Horatius Bonar is peculiarly gratifying various communions, in answer to the inviand satisfactory. The following is Dr. tation of the Committee who have taken charge of the work, is a significant proof of Bonar's testimony the success of the movement. At the conWhat we have seen or heard during the vention and a private conference held yesterpast twelve months appears to us who have day at the close of the series of meetings, and be watched tested it day by day to as arrangements were made for carrying on the truly a work of God as any that we have work which Messrs. Moody and Sankey beseen or heard of. In Edinburgh and through- gan. The two "evangelists" have gone to out all Scotland, during the past year, min- England, and intend to make Manchester isters of all denominations have been exam- their next field of operations. ining and admitting many thousands of apto the latest intelligence, According plicants for communion ; and, iv doing so, Messrs. and Sankey had commenced been, or unconsciousMoody have consciously they ly, declaring that a notable work of God has their lubors in Mnnchcster, England. It is been going on in the land. Time will test reported that arrangements will be made for the work; the precious will be separated the American evangelists to commence their from the vile; the love of many may wax cold; but meanwhile necessity is laid on us labors in London during the coining spring. TESTIMONY OF I'.I'ISCOI'AL CLERGYMEN. to say that, as Christian ministers, we are One of the most remarkable features of persuaded that the Spirit ol Cod has been working amongst us. tlif gtaat Revival in Ireland has been the In Ireland the revival has been even more cordial co-operation of the minisicrs of vapowerful and convincing than iv Scotland. rious communions. None have been apparThe Dublin correspondent of the London ently more enrncst and cordial than clergyI%mes thus remarks men of (he "Church of England." The of American The visit the evangelists, Heir. J. S. Fletcher, of Dublin, thus writes Messrs. Moody and Sankey, terminated on Mr. Moody is noble, brave, earnest, fearThursday, and with it a series of religious less" in the statement of what he believes to services which have marked the progress of be true, yet his heart is full of love nnd a movement the most remarkable ever witsympathy. His preaching is powerful, and nessed in Ireland. There have been at va- has been wonderfully owned of God, because rious times so-called "revivals," which have it is simple, earnest and scriptural, and deals cast a flood of devotional feeling over the directly with the heans and consciences of country, but their influence was only tran- men. sient—they left but little trace of any perall the occasions upon which he has " Of in manent effect. This new mission has been spoken public since he came to Dublin, I of a character essentially different, and seem- don't think he has, in one single Instance, ed to possess elements of vitality which were put forward any statement touching any wanting in others. There was nothing sen- doctrine nt variance with the standards of sational, though much that was novel and our Irish Church, or, indeed, of any of the attractive, in the nature of the services nnd other evangelical denominations; and as a the mode of conducting them. minister of that church I maintain that there Let those who think they can do so ac- is not a faithful minister in Dublin but count for the movement, and explain, if they ought, on bended knees, to thank God for can, what it is which brought together such sending us at this time so bold and uncomimmense congregations every day for nearly promising a champion of Divine Truth, and six weeks, and produced such extraordinary if there is one who does not, he must be effects. The fact itself is memorable and either totally unacquainted with Mr. Moody's suggestive. teaching, or very ungrateful for it. However The organization was admirable. There some of the clergy may feel towards him, were numerous services of different kinds certain it is that the laity greatly value his each day, intended for different classes and services, and ' esteem him very highly in conditions of people. Some were in the love for his work's sake.' " : : : 11 What seems quite remarkable, the great Revival even calls forth the approval of Roman Catholics. Thus writes the correspondent of the London Times : "It is right to say that there has been no hostile feeling shown by the Roman Catholic inhabitants, but rather a respectful interest in their proceedings, which are wholly devoid of any polemical element. The Nation, alluding to a rumor that some opposition was to be organized, strongly repudiates the suggestion, and writing in a good spirit, calls upon its co-religionists to hold firmly their religious convictions and allow the fullest equality, not to excite a religious war, but to ' let Protestant and Catholic work and pray to keep the teachings and the theories of the Huxleys and the Tyndalls far from theshores of Ireland.'" Rev. J. S. Fletcher says : The noonday prayer-meetings in Dublin have continued without any abatement, cither in the numbers attending, or in the interest in the proceedings. It is a novel sight, but a most gratifying one, to see from 2,000 to 3,000 persons leaving the comfort and retirement of their homes, to enjoy together the " sweet hour of prayer." Several hundred requests for prayer from all parts of Ireland, and some from England and Scotland, have been laid before the Lord at each of these meetings. Yesterday the number reached 500. It is also pleasant to relate that many thanksgivings for mercies received in answer to prayer have been presented to the Lord. Woman.—"A man's honor must be estimated according to his own estimate of women." This remark of a German writer by the name of Leopold Schefer, is quoted by (loethe in "Faust." How little men imagine that they place themselves on a very_ low level, when they make disparaging remarks about women. A true nobleman will never utter a remark reflecting unfavorably upon women, for by so doing he casts a severe reflection upon his own true nobility of character. Bod men never think well of women, and are often heard to speak unfavorably of them. From Dr. Scott, U. S. Consul, we I would acknowledge n copy of " Monthly Re.of port of the Department of Agriculture " the United States for October, 1874, and also " The Annual Report of Agriculture " of the United States for 1872. These documents contain much that is both interesting and instructive. —From Trubner & Co. of London, we would acknowledge seven numbers of Geographical Magazine. —From the Religious Tract Society of London, we also acknowledge copies of '• Sunday at Home " and " Leisure Hour." The church at Darien, Ct., has accepted the resignation of Rev. R. B. Snowden, who is now interested in a prosperous school in Brooklyn, N. Y.— Exchange. �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 12 THE FRIEND. FEBRUARY 1. 187ft. Our Island Boys Abroad. In the November issue of the Friend, we published a catalogue of our island youth abroad at school in Europe and America. From various sources we have received the most gratifying intelligence in regard to many of them, that they are enthusiastically pursuing their studies and in many instances with the most gratifying success, thus building up a good character for scholarship and manhood, and thereby making the hearts of parents and friends glad. It has been our privilege to receive letters from several of them. One writes from the United States Institute of Business and Finance, Easton, Perm.: "I am getting along nicely in my studies at the Business College, and like it better each week. I am studying BookKeeping, Penmanship, Phonography and Telegraphy. I find Phonography the hardest of all, but time, patience and perseverance will conquer all things." A Freshman writes from College, Mass.: " I have enjoyed my studies so far very much. We finished our Greek for the term yesterday. Prof. M. offered a prize for the best poetical translation of a passage from the Odyssey. The four best were read before the class, among which was my own, ranking third." We are not surprised, for before he left Punahou we were told by his teacher, that he was waking up to the poetical beauties of the blind old bard of Greece. Respecting a junior in the same institution from our islands, we hear that he is " working hard in Chemistry, analyzing four hours a day." Another, who is studying up to pass an examination for a degree in a German University, writes : " I am engaged at present in reviewing " Tacitus' Life of Agricola," for all foreigners must pass a Latin examination for a degree. Any author may be chosen that suits the candidate ; C.-csar is the usual one, but 1 take something harder. Tacitus is a difficult author, and the translation into German is not the lightest part of the work." Another lad writes from , Minnesota : " I like my school very much ; it is carried on upon the same principles as Eastman's Business College of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Besides teaching Book-Keeping and all the business branches, there are free lectures on Geology, Chemistry and Natural Philosophy." We have also heard most favorable reports from other pupils studying in California, Boston, and elsewhere. Many of these pupils write back, that they have not forgot- ten their island teachersand schools. " Pu- nahou " is remembered among the bright spots on their island-home of the Pacific. There lies before us a letter from a gentleman who was long resident in Honolulu, and who took his children to Switzerland, to afford them a good opportunity to study the modern European languages, but the following remark in this letter is creditable to this gentleman's good judgment and to the ability of the late teacher of his son in Honolulu : is still at school; except for the " languages (French and German), I had rather my son was under Mr. Atkinson than any teacher I ever knew, and the grounding and start he got at his establishment was of great benefit to him on entering here." Larrikins and Hoodlums. Lexicographers and linguists tell us that new words will be coined, whenever there is a necessity for their use. We most profoundly regret that the state of modern society in regard to the young in Australia and California, should have demanded the coining of new words expressive of a new species of juvenile depravity. Far be the day that a state of affairs among our young people on the Sandwich Islands, shall require the introduction of these or similar words to describe our youth : Australian Hoodlums. The bill for whipping larrikins (or "hoodlums") introduced into the Legislative Council at Melbourne, forbids all assemblages of boys at the street corners. Boys under 16, convicted of larrikinism, for the first offense, are to receive not more than twenty strokes with a cane, privately, and to be immediately discharged. For the second offense thirtystrokes nre to be inflicted, with imprisonment. Old offenders are to be severely dealt with. Whippings are to take place .in the lock-up, the executioners being policemen.— Melbourne News. Hoodlumism Must be Checked.—The miserable and shocking affair which occurred in this city on Sunday evening, by which an apparently innocent and industrious as well as dutiful boy was sent suddenly to his death, is one which ought to awaken every person to whom has been committed the guardianship of the young, to a keen sense of theirresponsibility, and of their duties in the premises. That miserable affair, traceable to a great want of proper training of children, and of unworthy motives on the part of older persons, has sent this youthful support of his poor mother to an untimely grave; has filled the life of that poor mother with a sorrow that cannot die, however time may soften the pain, and has filled the heart and life of an old man, with regret and anguish, perhaps but little, if any, less than that of the bereaved mother. This terrible affair ought to awaken and arouse the people of this city, and its municipal authorities to the dangers existing all through the city in consequence of the unrestrained outlawry of what is termed " Hoodlumism." We have — 1875. in this city some of the worst and most depraved and reckless boys that can be found anywhere. The late action of the Board of Supervisors providing that boys under a certain age shall not be allowed to congregate on the streets during the hours of night, may do much toward the breaking up of Hoodlumism, theft and debauchery. It is a move in the right direction.—S. F. Alta, Jan. 6th. Some months since, the Chicago Board of Education abolished the use of the rod in public schools. No one, we presume, pretends to deny that the rod is the Bible-appointed method of discipline in ordinary cases of youthful crime. But it seems, in our day, that men are becoming wiser than their Creator. The Hon. Edward Everett wrote that, " When a boy, the scholars courteously saluted a gentleman when passing a school; now, if I can avoid having a stone hurled at my head, 1 think myself quite fortunate." The worthy Superintendent of the schools in Chicago, finding that either the scholars must rule and the teacher be under the young mob, or all scholars who are found ungovernable must be turned out of the institution, requested the Public School Board to have a Reform Day School established, where bad boys, in a population of over 400,-000, might be sent and disciplined. This the Board have thus far declined doing.— New York Observer. In the New York Evangelist for Sept. 24th, 1874, there is an interesting communication relating to events which transpired in Honolulu in October, 1826, or nearly a half a century ago. The events appear to have made a deep impression upon the mind of Captain Matthew Sayre, the master of a whaleship. It appears that he acted an important part while Captain Jones (subsequently Commodore Jones) was lying in port, having under his command the U. S. S. Peacock. Our narrow limits will not allow us to copy the long article, but we hope the Advertiser or Gazette will not tail to reprint it. We would merely add that during Commodore Jones' visit to Honolulu in 1843, we heard from his own lips the same story as Captain Sayre dictated to the writer of the article referred to. Captain S„ it appears, is now residing in Cairo, Green Co., N. V., at the advanced agj of over four score. He is remembered by all the old missionaries and foreign residents. Mr. Bingham, in his history, refers to the same events as are more fully detailed by Captain Sayre. King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands has received an invitation to visit Westboro. The extending of this invitation is prompted by the fact that Mrs. D. Chamberlain, an old resident, was one of the original band of missionaries that went to the islands about fifty-five years ago, when the inhabitants were savages. Mrs. Chamberlain is in her 88th year, and she retains her mental faculties to a remarkable degree. She speaks the Hawaiian tongue fluently.—Exchange, �I II X FRIEND, Fate of the Apostles. Matthew is supposed to have suffered martyrdom, or was slain in the city of Ethiopia. Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, till he expired. John was put in a boiling cauldron at Rome, but escaped death. He died a natural death in Ephesus, Asia. James the Great was beheaded in Jerusalem. James the Less was thrown from a pinnacle and beaten to death. Philip was beheaded. Bartholomew was skinned alive. Andrew was crucified, and pounded while dying. Thomas was run through with a lance. Jude was shot to death with arrows. Simon was crucified. Matthias was stoned. Barnabas, stoned to death. Paul was beheaded by the tyrant Nero, at Rome. Sunter's Green Corn.—This article is becoming quite common among our substance of food. He is soon to offer a nice specimen of sweet corn." Orders left at Dilling" & Co.'s ham Acknowledgments.—Ours are due to the following persons for books and papers for distribution among seamen : Mrs. Dickson, illustrated papers ; Mrs. Hall, a lot ol books ; Rev. Mr. Mackintosh, lot of " Good Words." Donations,—For theFriend, from Capt. Crane, $5.00, and from Mrs. Green, Makawao, $3.00. Albert W. Newell will find a letter to his address with the editor. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Jan. s—ll B M's B Tenedos,Van der Meulcn, fin Kailua. 9—P M Co's stmr Colorado, 11 G Morse, 19 days from Yokohama. 12—H B M's 8 Tenedos,Van der Meulcn, Im Waimea, Kauai. 14—Brit stmr Mikado, Moore, 7 days and 20 hours from Ban Francisco. IS—Am schr Undaunted, Miller, 30 days fin San Francisco. 19—Brit stmr Cyphrenea, Wood, 19 days fm Auckland. 20—Am bk D C Murray, Fuller, 25 days fm San Francisco, consigned to C Brewer Sc Co. 20—Am schr C M Ward, Rickman, 22 days from Guano Islands. 20—Am schr Humboldt, Kustel, 23 days fm Humboldt, with Lumber to A W Peirce «fc Co. 21—Am schr Fannie Hare, Green, 27 dsys from Nanaimo, VI. 21—Am bk Powhattan, Blackstone, 37 days from Port Gamble, withLumber to H Ilackfeld «fc Co. 22—Am bk Helen W Almy, Wlddonson, 30 days from Humboldt, consigned to Castle At, Cooke. 23—Am schr Btaghound, Pllta, 32 days from Fiji, en route for Ban Francisco. 23—Nor Ger bk Deutschland, Tiemann, 156 days from Glasgow. 20—H B M's 8 8 Reindeer, Anson, fromKauai. days from San Francisco. 31—U 8 8 Portsmouth, Skerrett, 20 DEPARTURES. Jan. 2— U B M's B Tenedos. Van der Meulen, for Kailua. 4—Am bktn J*ne A Falkinburg. Brown, forPortland, O 7—Am schr Varuna, Gullbert, tor San Franciaco 9—ll B M's S Tenedos, Van der Meulen, for Waimea, Kastai. 12 P M Co's stmr Colorado, Morse, for SaoFrancisco. ll—BriC stmr Mikado, Moore, lor Auckland and Bydaey 20 Brit stmr Cyphreues, Wood, for San Francisco. 20—Haw bk Mattie Macleay, Walter, forPortland, O. Franciaco. •23 Am schr Staghound, I'iltr, for SanKauai. 23—H B M's 8 8 Reindeer, Anson, for Reindeer. for Hawaii. Hilo, 8 M's 8 Anson, B 27—H 20—Am bk Pwwhattan, Blackstone, for Port Townsend. 30—Am schr C M Ward, Rickman, for theguano islands 3j_Am schr Humboldt, Kustel, for Tahiti. 1875. FEBRUARY. MEMORANDA. RBFOItT OF STEAMSHIP .M IK ADO, F. HOORB, COMMANDER. —Slipped from the buoy in Johnson's Bay, Sydney, at 1.60 r n, Nut 21st, discharging pilot at 2.66 r it- Experienced fresh breezes from N with cloudy weather for the flrat two daya, when wind chnnged suddenly to I*-, from thence clear weather and moderatebreezes. Sighted "Three Kings at 710 a at on the Will, and pasted " Hen A Chickens " at 1 a m and an* chored in Aucklaad harbor at 640a m on the 26th. Left anchorage and proceeded towards Honolulu at 10 a m on the 27th. At 660 P M Dec 2d sighted Island nf Manua. From Auckland experienced unfavorable windsand unsettled weather with a contused sen hi the last few daya. Sighted Honolulu light at 10 p m Dec 11th, but w*s obliged to lay oifand on until 5.40 a m next morning, having received the pilot. Made Marry Ridobly, Purser. fast t.» wharf at 7.16 a m. Report of Steamship Colorado. H. O. Morse, Commander—Left Hongkong Dec 12lh, 1874, at 3.30 p M, and arrived at Yokohama on the 19th at 8.30 pM. Left Yokohama Dec 22d at 8 a M, with 14 cabin, 39 Euro|>can steerage and 330 Chinese steerage passengers, and 1,623 11-40 tons freight. Weather, as lar as the 180° , fine with fair wind, then had strong northwest wind. Jan 6th, 1875, increased to a heavy northwest gale,compelling the ship to run before it. On the Till lit Bfr> m, 400 mile* distant, deemed it prudent to make this port for more coal. Arrived in Honolulu Saturday afterGeo. M'Lahb, Purser. Roon, Jan Bth. Report of Steamship Mikado, F. Moore, Commander. —Lelt Ban Francisco at noon on Wednesday, Jan Oth. Experienced favorable winds the first five days; since then had fresh head breezes with pleasant weather throughout. Arrived iv Honolulu nt 9 a m on Thursday, Jan 14th, alter a partsage ot 7 days und 20 hours. Harry Ridobly, Purser. Report of Schooner Undaunted, Miller, Master.— Left Han Francisco Dec 19th, 1874. Had light N and NE winds and line weather till Jan2d, 1875, when in lat 22° 30' N, lsug 149c 30' Wj from thence to Honolulu had a heavy gale from SSW to W with high sea. Arrived in Honolulu Jau 18th, after a passage of 30 days. Report of Steamship Cypiirkner, T. Wood. Commander —Left Sydney with the mails and 50 passengers on Wednesday, Dec 23d, 1874, clearing the Heads at 2.30 p m, with strong NW wind; towards evening had a heavy southerly gale. Next day had a moderate SE breeze, but heavy cross sea; thence to Auckland had variable winds and fine weather, arriving Dec 30th at 12.3d am. Landed mailsand passengers andreceived outward New Zealand mails, and left again at 1 p m, passing Little Barrier at 6pm; thence lo lat 30° 44* S, long 178° 40'E, had strong NE gale with fierce squalls and very heavy cross sea, ship laboring heavily and shipping much water. Sunday, 3d Jan, 1875, had light NE breeze and tine weather but heavy swell from eastward; thence to lat 21° S, long 178° W, wind E to ESE wilh thick weather. No SE trades were met with, hut through the regions ofthem ENG and NNK winds were experienced. Passed MikailolTIsland at 2 p m Jan 4th, two miles off; there appeared to be a strong WSW curreut. Saw Ova at 4p m, and experienced thijk drizzling rain and heavy chopping sea. Jan 7th paused Vauvau (Navigator group); Bth passed Gente Hermosa or Swain's Island, current setting SE. From lat 0° 04' N, long 102 ° 68* W. to rat 9 ° 32' S, long 158 ° W, had ESE winds and line weather. From ihence to Honolulu light northeast ami northerly winds. Captain T Wood reperts: Friday, Jnn Bth, by our position yesterday and to-day, by good compass and other observations, and the chronometerbeing correct, as we sighted Vauvau (Navigator group) tbe evening previous, we ought to have passed about 16 miles west of Gente Hermosa or Swain's Island, as placed by theAdmiralty chart. Findlay's South Pacific speaks of Gente Hermosa and Swain's Island as two, and places the former in lat 10 3 30' 8, long 171° W. To-night at 10 pm, being then rather cloudy, passed an Island in about 11 ° 02' S, long 171 ° 15' W, which may probably have been Gente Hermosa." Sighted Oahu Tuesday, Jan 19th, at 4.16 p m; pilot boarded at it p m, and made lost alongside wharf at 9.45 p m. —Mr A Audrews is the agent iv charge of the New Zealand Henry Adams, Purser. mails. Report of Bark D. C. Murray. A. Fuller, Master.— Left San Frandisco Saturday noon, Dec 26th; dead calm drifting in on the south shore; let go our starboard anchor at 4.30 p m in 7 fathoms water; payed out 40 fathoms chain, when it parted at 35 fathoms. Light air springing up from NE, made all possible sail. First three days out had fine breezes from N to NNE and afterwards dying out light. The next live days wind light from Eto SE with passingrain-squalls. The ninth day wind hauled to SW wilh threatening appearance. Next five days a successionof hard gales from SW to W with tremendous swell Irom Wand some of the most severe thunder and lightning ever experienced. Fifteenth day dying out with light air springing up from N and clearing up. Since then had light head winds and calms. Saw Maul Saturday, Jan 16th. Jan 19that midnight anchored off port. —Monday, Jan 4th, at 2 a m, the second steward fell overboard ; we lowered theboat and rescued bfm fortunately at 3 am. Report of Schooner Humboldt, O. Kubtel, Master. —Sailed from Humboldt Bay Dec 28th, 1874; had fine weather the first seven days from N to NE. On Jan 6th, 1875, experienced a heavy gale from E gradually shifting to SE; theoce squally weather with thunder and lightning to within 300 miles of ibis port; then light wind and calm weather. Arrived in Honolulu midnight of Jan 19th. Report of Schooner C. M. Ward, G. W. Rickman, Master—Left Honolulu Nov 11th, 1874, with light winds from the NE, and arrived at Enderhury Island Nov 80th. Left Enderhury Island for Baker's at 2 p m Dec 2d, arriving there on the 6th, wind from the east. Left Baker's Island for llowland's at 2 a m Dec Oth, arriving there at 10 a m the same day, wind from NE. Returning- left Howland's Island for Houoiulu Dec 19th, arriving on the 20th Jan, 1876. Report of Bark Powhattan, Black stone, Master For 17 dsys after leaving Port Townaend had flneand pleasant weather. In lat 26 ° and long 148°, took HW and westerly gales with thunder and lightning, which lasted for six daya. Balance of passage bad calms and variable winds from tbe SW and NE to port. " " — 13 KaroßT irr Schooneb Fabnie Disk. Gbeen, Masteb.— First psrt ol passage had liuhl breeses from E.NE to N, hsullog to WBW witll line weather and smooth sea. Jan 7th took a strong fsle In lat 33 s if, long 140 s 30', Irom th. BE with a high acs; contioued so the next day, hauling to 8W on ths 9th with a fearful, high and confused sea, On the 10th snd 11th,much the same weather, with fearful lightning, thunder and heavy rain. On the 13th. wind all round the compass; 14th,wind battling with heavy squalls and rain; loth and 16th the Mine-, 17th. strong hreeae. from EBK to HWi on the 18th had a strong gale Irom the westward, the acs running very high; 10thand uoth. strong breeses from HE to ESE. Arrived in Honolulu Jan 21st. Report or ll.bk Helen W. Almy. J. Widdokson, Mabtbb.—First part of the psssage had light northerly winds lo Ist 38° 30> N, long 126 s 40' W, and then moderate SE wind to lat 27 ° N, long 140° W; then variable winds from 8 In W with very heavy squall. Iv lat 23- N, long 160° W. From thence to port had moderate NE and ENE winds. Made Maui Jan 21st, arriving in Honolulu next day. PASSENGERS. KobSan Francisco—l'er Sparrowhawk, Dec. 30th—Cspl S Hickmottand wife. Fbom San Fbancisco—Per Yaruna, Dec. 30th—Thomas Sorenson. Fob Pobtland, O.—Per Jane A. Falkinburg, Jan. 4—Mrs Dr Thomson. Fob Bam Fbabcisco—Per Colorado, Jan. 12th—II O Barnacle, Miss A Aldrlch, Miss E 1. Dockstader, Mr Atwcod, Henry H Webb, J MclnUsh. Fbom Ban Fbabcisco—Per Mikado, Jan. 14th—Col Wood and wife, F Oay, MrsRobblns, Capt Durln, Oen 8 G Bridge. 0 W Oleason, Col Z 8 Spalding. Dr II Ktangenwald, VV W A.hford and wife, 1 J Scott and wife, Capt Pollartl and 2 servants, J Davis, Mrs Moore, Paul King, II McHugh, M Kelh Chaa Stewart, 11 II Harrington, II E Bunker, W Woodsll, F M Weed, 1 Chinaman, and 40 In transitu for New Zealand and Australia. Fob Auckland and Sydney—Per Mikado, Jan. 16th— Capt Borres and wife, I, Vale., Dr Steele, and 40 in tranaitu from San Francisco. Fbom Auckland—Per Cyphrenea, Jan 19th—Sir David Wedderburn, and 33 in tranaitu for San Franciaco. Fbom San Fb.ncisco—Per D. C. Murray, Jan. 20th—Rev II II Parker, Mr and Mra Campbell, Capt and Mr. Sampson. Mrs Lovell While, Ml.. E Toomey, W m D Harwood, Cecil Brown, Albert McWayne, C C Coleman, Chung Fas, James Agnew, John Woods, Wm Mrlnlyrc, 5 Hawaiian seamen and 17 Chinese. Fob San FrtANClsco—l'er Cyphrenea, Jan. 20lh—Thomas Lack, James Wilson, Pac Sam, J McArthy, J W Wilder, Miss A Pomeroy, Prof A E Rice, Prof Gasper, W C Garden.hire, II Ochner, W Marrlotlc.and 33 In transitu from Auckland. Fbom tub ouano islands —Per C. M. Ward, Jan.20th— Capt Hempstead and wife, Mr Ferrlo. Mr Hugo, and 20 Hawaiians. . MARRIED. Iiubiio-Lewis—At I.ihue, Kauai, January 19lh, at the residence of Hon. P. lsenberg, Mr. Otto Ibenbbbo to MU> Helen Liwia, both of that Island. DIED. Killitt—At llaualcl, Kauai, December 23d, 1874, K«wf Kau, widow of the laic Captain John Kellltt, aged about Myeara. Her several sous and daughters and grandchildren mourn her loss. Beckley—On Tuesday morning, December 20th, at the residence ol B. It Davidson, Esq., Mahy Ann Thessilliah, widow ascd 36 years, daughter of the late Dr Treaslllian and of thelaic Win. Beckley. She was greatly beloved by all who knew her, anil more especially by her late husband'srelatives. Che had ever a cheering wordand a helping hand for those in affliction, and was always among the first to be found at ft sick bed. 8he was especially distinguished for her invariable good temper, cheerfulness and amiable disposition. D. Thiium—In San Francisco, Dec. 12,1174, Fieddii, infant son of John F. and Mary Thrum. Molteno—In Han Francisco, Cal.. Dec. 2olh, Chables, sou ol Charles and Dora Molteno, aged 1? monthsand 26 days. Eckabt—In this city, January 21st, of consumption, Mr. Chsistian Eceaet, aged about 46 ye*ra. He was a native of Bavaria. Chanbeblain—InIhia city, at the residence of her grandmother, Mrs. L. Chamberlain. January20lh, at 8 o'clock a. «., Ali.ethba M.. eldest daughter id W. and Cells W. Chamberlain, in the l»lh year of her age. The deceased was a moat amiable young lady,possessing in a rare degree the esteem and affections of those with whom she was acquainted, and those who knew her best loved her roost. She wss ft consistent and exemplary Christian. The blow has fallen suddenly and beavily upon the parents, grand-parent, relatives and friends, but Ihey have the blessed assurance that theirloss is her unspeakable gain—that of her it can be said with confidence— •• Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord She rests from the labors ot lire and her works wilt follow krr. Meek—In this city, January 28th, at 0.46 a. ■., Captain John Mbek, a native of Mftrblehead, near Boston, Mass., aged 88 years, 2 monthsand 6 days. " Information Wanted. Respecting George E. Whitton, sged 32 years, (if now living, he Is about 40) who shipped on board the whale ship Cicero, in 1866. Left thevessel at Honolulu,Oct. 1867, and haa never been beard from since—Captain's name, John I'nun. of Mid dlehoro, Mass. Any information will he gladly received by I. r. Whitton, Filchhurg Repair Chop, Ch.trlestown. Nan. �THE FRIEND, 14 FEBRUARY, away the native rat, as the European fly has driven away our own, and as the clover kills our ferns, so will the Maoris disappear before the white man himself.'" This writer then Must I my faith in Jesus constant show specifies various native plants of New ZealBy doing good to all, both friend and foe ? and which are giving pface to those of Eobo—" Both friend and foe." foreign origin. It is the same on the HawBut if a brother hates and treats me ill; aiian Islands, native grasses, shrubs, plants, Must I return him good and love him still ? and trees, are gradually giving place to those Echo—" Love him still." of foreign origin. There is a struggle—the Whatever usage ill I may receive, fittest alone will survive ! We do not pretend Must I still patient be, and still forgive? to define the limits, extent, influence, or Echo—"Still patient be, and still forgive." reason, for this great underlying law that is Things being thus, let him who will reject, everywhere cropping out and manifesting My graoious God me surely will protect ? in nature, but that there is such a law itself Eoho—"Surely will protect." cannot be doubted. To deny it is absurd, or But after all these duties, when they're done, to ignore it is only an exhibition of ignorMust I in point of merit them disown. ance. How far the much talked of law of And rest my soul on Jesus' blood alone? evolution will explain it, we do not pretend Eoho—" On Jesus' blood alone."— Selected. to assert. Facts are stubborn things, but in "Survival of the Fittest," or Strongest. true Baconian style let them be examined, We believe the literary and scientific and ere long correct generalization will be world is under obligation to Darwin for this evolved. intensely significant and pregnant expresTransit of Venus, A. D. 1639. sion, " Survival of the Fittest." Everywhere Echo's Answer. True faith producing love to God and man—' Bay Echo, is not tbis the Gospel's plan ? Echo—" The Gospel's plan." around us may be witnessed an intense struggle for existence. Our attention is often called to this subject by observing the decadence of Hawaiian trees, and the introduction of those of foreign origin. Our city is embosomed in a dense growth of beautiful shade trees, but not one of them is of nativeorigin, except it may be the Imm, which is also disappearing. The mango, algeroba, saniang, indiarubber, guava and tamarind, are all of foreign origin. From a short article in Thrum's Hawaiian Almanac for 1875, we find two pages upon the subject of 41 Decadence of Hawaiian Forests " from the pen of F. L. C, who we suppose to be Mr. Clarke, of Makawao. It is worthy of perusal, and we only hope this gentleman will give more attention to this subject. In our forests, and throughout our whole group, there is an intense struggle for life. This remark will apply to the human race, animals and plants. The Fittest will alone survive in the long race ! What may be witnessed on our group of islands is fully as apparent on other groups of Polynesia. A late mail brought to us the Geographical Magazine, published in London, by Trubner & Co. In the November number we find an interesting article On Human Agency in the Dispersion of Plants, by Dr. R. Brown, F. L. S., R. G. S. In this article we find " the survival of the fittest," more fully unfolded. He remarks as follows : " In New Zealand especially we see this struggle for existence going on between native and introduced plants. The Maoris have even recognized it, and have a proverb that, ' As the white man's rat has driven " THE BOY ASTRONOMER. 1815 found Horrox, the boy astronomer, now just past twenty years of age, intently watching a sheet of paper in a private room, on which lay the sun's reflected image. Over this reflection of the sun's disc on the paper he expected, moment by moment, to see the planet pass like a moving spot or shadow. Suddenly, the church bells rang. He was a very religious youth, and was accustomed to heed the church bells as a call from heaven. The paper still was spotless; no shadow broke the outer edge of the sun's luminous circle. Still the church bells rang. Should he go? A cloud might hide the sun before his return, and the expected disclosure be lost for a century. But Horrox said to himself: "Imust not neglect the worship of the Creator to see the wonderful things the Creator has made." So he left the reflected image of the sun on the paper, and went to the sanctuary. When he returned from the service, he hurried to the room. The sun was still shining, and there, like a shadow on the bright circle on the paper, was the image of the planet Venus ! It crept slowly along the bright center, like the finger of the invisible. Then the boy astronomer knew that the great problems of astronomy were correct, and the thought filled his pure heart with religious joy. It is said that the first transit of Venus Horrox died at the age of twenty-two. ever seen by a human eye was predicted by Nearly 130 years afterward, Venus was a boy, and was observed by that boy just as again seen crossing the sun. The whole he reached the age of manhood. His name astronomical world was then interested in was Jeremiah Horrox. We have a somewhat the event, and expeditions of observation were fitted out by the principal European wonderful story to tell you about this boy. He lived in an obscure village near Liver- Governments. It was observed in this counpool, England. He was a lover of books of try by David Rittenhouse, who fainted away science, snd before he reached the age of 18 when he saw the vision.— Hezekiah Butterhe had mastered the astronomical knowledge worth, in St. Nichols fur Decemin r. of the day. He studied the problems of Kepler, and he made the discovery that the Bishop Garrett.—By late papers we tables of Kepler indicated the near approach learn that the Rev. A. C. Garrett, formerly of the period of the transit of Venus across of Victoria, and more recently of San Franthe sun's center. This was about the cisco and Omaha, has been consecrated Misyear 1635. Ofien on midsummer nights the boy sionary Bishop of Northern Texas. Some Horrox might have been seen in the fields of our Honolulu readers may remember his watching the planet Venus. The desire visit when en route from England to Victosprung up within him to see the transit of ihe beautiful planet across the disc of the ria, via Honolulu, about fifteen years ago. sun, for it was a sight that no eye had ever He preached several times in the Bethel, seen, and one that would tend to solve some greatly to the. acceptance of all lovers of of the greatest problems ever presented to pure and evangelical Christianity. He is the mind of an astronomer. So the boy truly an eloquent preacher and scholarly began to examine the astronomical tables of Kepler, and by their aid endeavored to dem- writer, awake to the current reforms of the onstrate at what time the next transit would age. We. can well remember his appeal occur. He found an error in the tables, and in behalf of " temperance," and then his dethen he, being the first of all astronomers to scent from the pulpit and the affixing of his make the precise calculation discovered the sign-manual " to the teetotal pledge. Durexact date when the next transit would take " his residence in the Colony of Columbia ing place. He told his secret to one intimate friend, he preached among the Indians, learning one a boy, who like himself, loved science. The of their most difficult dialects. He is an young astronomer then awaited the event Irishman, with all the noble traits of that which he had predicted for a number of enthusiastic people. Most earnestly we hope years, never seeing the loved planet in the shaded evening sky without dreaming of the that he may enjoy a long and prosperous day when the transit should fulfill the beau- career, as a Bishop of the Protestant Episcotiful vision he carried continually in his pal Church of the United States. mind. The memorable year came at last—l639. The proper pronunciation of the name The predicted day of the transit came, too, of Grant's visitor, the King of the Sandwich at the end of the year. It was Sunday. It Islands, is " Kalla-kah-00-a."— Exchange. �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, ADVERTISEMEMTS. Places of Worship. Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Damon. Chaplain, G. IRWIN A. CO.. King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching wsr Commission Merchants, at 11 a. x. Scats free. Sabbath School before tbe morning service. Prayer meeting-on Wednesday riantstion snd In.urance Agent., Honolulu, H. I. evenings at 7£ o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting every day from half-past 12 to 1 o'clock. ■ EWERS A. DICKSON. Fort Street Church—Rev. VV. Frear. Pustor, corner of Fort and Beretania.streets. Preaching Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials. on Sundays at 11 a. m. and "£ P. M. Sabbath Fort flreet, Honolulu, 11.I. School at 10 a. m. Kawaiahao Church—Rev. 11. H. Parker. Pastor, ■si HOFFMANN, M D., King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at Dj a. m. and 3 P. vt. Physician and Surgeon, Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Corner Merchant snd Kaahumsnu Street., near the Post oflies Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret. assisted by Rev. Father Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services BREWER fc CO.. jp every Sunday at IU a. m. and 2 p. m. Kaumakapili Church— Key. M. Knaea. Pastor. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Beretania street, near Niiuanu. Services in HaHonolulu, Oahu. H. I. v. waiian every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2* P. M. The Anglican Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. AlP. ADAMS. lred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A.. ■.v. Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Auction and Commission Merchant, Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. English, services on Sundays at u'i and 11a. m.. and Fire-Proof Store, in Kobinson's Building, Queen Street. 24 and 74 p. u. Sunday School at the Clergy House at 10 a. m. MOTT SMITH, . |"|R. Rev. E. Corwin, D. D., repeated his essay ead before the General Association on Reponsive Worship. We clip the above from one of our exchanges, and add that if the essay is worthy o f repeating, is it not worth printing ? Please Dentist, . Having resumed practice, can be found st hi. rooms over X SlrehiIt Co.'. Drug Store, corner of Fort snd Hotel St.. S. JOHN McGREW. M I> sLate Surgeon Y. S. Army, J. 0. MBBBILL. SOHB U CRISIS J. C MERRILL & (Jo., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 206 California Street, Francisco. ALSO. AGKNTS OF THIS San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular attention given to the aale and purchase of mer ;handise,ahipa' bu.lne..,supplying whaleship., negotiating exchange, Ac. XT AIIfreight arriving at Saa Francisco, by or tothe Ho nolulu Line of Packets.will berorwarJed vbbb or cohmissiob XT Exchange on Honolulu bought and .oId.XJ Honolulu " W. Peireei Co Co C. Brewer A Co •' Bishop A Co Dr. H. W. Wood Hon.B. H.Allen »8e 11. Ilackfeld " * " "■ "ly THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! X Si. CHILLING WORTH. ED. DUNSOOMBE, Manager. Honlnlii, January 1, 1875. D. IV. MIIM.I! '111- OI.D BUSINESS IN THE CONTINUE* XIKK-I'ROOK building, Ks.humsnu Street. Chbobombtbbs rated by ohservsttona of lbs lun snd stars with a transit instrument accurately adjusted to Ihe meridian of Honolulu. chants, Honolulu,Oahu, HawaiianIslands. M. DICKSON, Photographer, Agents Pnuloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Uates, •1 Fort Street, Henalali, Askl Perry Davis' Pali. Killer. S ON A CHOICE ASSORTOF I'lluruOKAPlllC STOCK, AI.W AIMENT THOS. HAM) O. THRUM'S A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of BTATIONEKY AND NEWS DEPOT, Hawaiian Scenery, See., Ac. llouolulu. No. 19 Mrre haul Si reel, --- OF READING MATTBR-OF PACKAGES paper, snd Msgisinei, back number.—put up for parties going sea. educed to to order at IF NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF EIjUGANT EEOTsDIi First-Class in Every Particular ! Goods Suitable for Trade. MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the last Mx Years can testify from personal exSHIP perience that Ihe undersigned keep the best assortment of GOODS ROOMS CIN BE HID BY THE NIGHT OR WEEK! HALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR PCBLIC MKETINOS. OB SOCIBTIES. FOFHTRsrVDE And Sell Cheaper than any other Bouse in the with or without board. ly I WOULD RrsSPECTFULLY INFORM * Not. 95 and 97 King Street, PROPRIF.TOR WILL SPARE NO pales to make thia $< 6 Carriage Making and Trimming! DILLINGHAM & CO., jus* .... YOU THAT I now employ the beet Mechanics in the line of Carriage Making. Kawaihae, Hawaii, Carriiujr and OmSTSI Blarksmithing, Will continue the General Merchandise snd Shipping busi/'•ihjinij. Urpitiring, rfC, ness at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, snd such other recruit, as On the Hawaiian Oronp ; and it is a well established are required by whale.hips, at the shortest notice, sod on the faot that oar Carriage Trimming, hy Mr. It Whitmo.t res.on.ble term.. man, is as well executed as any in New York City or Mr Firewood on Hand.sO elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that we can manufacture as good a class of work in HoA nolulu as oan be found in any part of the world. I W. PIERCE fc CO.. •*■*• (Succeior. to 0. L. Richard. & Co.) will also state here that we fully intend to work at 0. WEST. Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer the lowest possible rates. a I. I. E N rate, T'lIK . b^ Officers' Table, with lodging, per week. Seamen's do. do. do. Shower Bath* on the Premises. M 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. XT I.land order, piomptly executed st lowest rate. —BBFKBEKCKB— A. 9JJEBh9B9Ex Can be consulted at hi. residence on lintel street, between Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing A lake, and Fort streets. Hextant and quadrant gls.se. silvered and adjusted. Charts snd nsutlcal instrument, constantly on hand and lor sals. WEST. Wagon and Carriage Builder, Me.ar.. SAILORS' HOME! Eesbbbi- .p end us a copy. S;i n 15 18 75. Kingdom. DILLINGHAM ft CO. CURIOSITY RI'NTKItS will And st thl. establlshaMat a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcaskla Specimen*. C.r.ls, Shells. War lasalraarals, Persia. Mots. Kaaas. And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian ami Micronetinn Curiosities. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITT: Jal 1174 CASTLE & COOKE, IXPORTKBS AMI lIKALKIN IX GENERAL MERCHANDISE! 11HE — juEtirs — or RECDIsAR PORTLAND LINE OP Packs*., New Kngland Mutual Llf. In.nraao. f.ssaaaj, Ths Uaiaa Marios In.ursnce Company, Saa FraaoksM, The Kesbbsb sugar Company, Tbe Hslku Bttfar Company. The Hawasiaa taßsr Mill. W. 11. Bslley, Ths Hsssskus Sugar Company. Tha Waists*. Bug»r Planuilon, The Wlßtstrv A WIlKn Sewing stsehia* Company, Dr. Jayne A Bon. Oelebrated Fully Medkluss. tf �Men's Christian Association of Honolulu. Pure religion and undeftled before God, the Father, is this: To risit tin fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keej> one's self unspottedfrom the world. Edited by a Committee of the Y. M. C. A, may denounce the habit as Filthy. Eeepensiri ant! Unhealthy, I take higher ground. I maintain that it mars the image of Gol in The Iceberg. good men, binders the conversion of sinners A THOUGHT I'Olt L'UUIHTIAN LAUOSKIU. übout us, and the conversion of the world. Great obstacles obstruct the Gospel. I am The ioeberg drifting in the Polar Scan Scorns ill the rigors uf the frigid air; doing what I can to invoke attention to a Againgt tlie sharpness uf the blustering breexo mighty one, and to prepare the way of the l'roail o'er tbo deep his glittering head to bear; Lord. My Cause is unpopular—l am unliut floutiu)' southward from the Arotio bound. popular; but somebody must do unpopular Near sunny slime-, waked out of wintry death, work, or it will never be done. I have pubWarm aim embrace the rugged stranger round And melt away his angles with their breath; lished two hundred different Tracts against The touoh of Summer') oheek, all bathed in team, Tobacco and Strong Drink. lam trying to Thrills bis cold heart, his ioy strength Rives way. spread them gratuitously over the nation. It Ho wraps his head in mist and disappears,— is expensive business. On the sea's bosom weeps himself away. So logic, ceusure, force, all vainly spent. Yours truly, Geo. Tkask. At lore's warm louch hard will the Mamovun, Turkey, Feb. 1874. beart relent. C. C. T. Tobacco. Clergymen and others ask why 1 have devoted myself to the Anti-Tobacco Cause twenty years? This inquiry deserves an answer. 1. I was myself a user of Tobacco. J gave it up; and, as it formed an era in my life, like a young convert, I joyfully proclaimed it to my fellow-men. 2. My preaching was blessed of God. Many clergymen and many laymen relinquished the habit; and young men and boys in large numbers signed the Pledge against 16 Young The Missionaries in China are pleading with God that Great Britain may " let His people go, that they serve him." " Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from The Opinions of Napoleon. When he was chained down to the rock of St. Helena, he turned, it is said, to Count Montholou with the enquiry : "Can you tell me who Jesus Christ was?" The question was declined, nnd Napoleon proceeded: " Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Crcsar, Charlemagne, and I myself, have Temperancr ft Anti-Tolnicc.it Depository, Fitchbtirtj, Mass. founded great empires; but upon what.did these creations of our genius depend ? Upon force. The recent Jesus alone founded His empire upon in meeting London to protest " against the opium traffic with China was a love, and to this very day millions would die welcome sign. A more iniquitous and infa- for him. * * * I think I understand mous act wns never done by a professedly something of human nature, and I tell you, Christian nation, then when the Government all these were men, and I am a man ; none of Great Britain, by force of arms, com- else is like him, Jesus Christ was more than pelled China to open her ports to the opium man. * * * I have inspired multitude* trade for the benefit of British India ! The with such an enthusiastic devotion, that they annual revenue from this traffic is about would have died for me. * * * But to 845,000,000—the money valuation of the do this it was necessary that 1 should be measureless curse. Nothing more disgrace- visibly present with the electric influence of ful can anywhere be found than this black my looks, of my world, of my voice. When spot, staining yet the honor of that great 1 saw men and spoke to them, 1 lighted up self-devotion in their hearts. ' Christian Government.'"— Chicago Ad- the flame of has succeeded in so raising the vance. Christ alone mind of man towards the Unseen, that it To the depth of our heart do we endorse the becomes insensible to the barriers of time truth of this article. Opium is however even nnd space. Across a chasm of ISOO years, more injurious, producing poverty, sorrow, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is crime, bodily and mental stupor, insensibility beyond all others difficult to satisfy ; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek to the interests of the soul, and death. A censein vain at the hands of his friends, or a less tide of human victims have been speed- father of his children, or a bride of her ing down to an untimelyand dishonored grave spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks Tobacco and Strong Drink. 3. In the course of investigation, I soon saw that Tobacco was injuring the piety of church-members, rendering some irritable and others stupid, and tending to destroy all aspirations for sanctificatioii and the "higher life." 4. I became convinced that Tobacco is an Idol, assuming the place of God—as really an Idol as Baal or Juggernaut, and that our ever since opium was admitted into China. young men, whilst worshiping it, can no A halo of glory shall ever rest upon the more be saved, than whilst worshiping God memory of that noble, good old man, the and Mammon. Prime Minister of China, who, when asked 5. In looking over churches, I saw that by the Privy Council of that nation to sign back-sliders were Tobacco users, and 1 came the treaty with Great Britain, replied—" No; to the conclusion that Tobacco had much to do with their apostasy. This is confirmed 1 shall never sign a treaty which shall be the death warrant of my countrymen." Thirty by mournful facts. 6. On farther investigation, 1 found that pieces of silver for Jesus and £9,000,000 for many devotees of Tobacco are in a narcotized one year is the price of blood for those for or abnormal state. Their moral sensibilities Jesus died. Behold the lambs of are not only stupefied, but the glorious at- whom ! China Must they also be sacrificed for so of is tribute Free Will paralyzed, and their much gain ? power to choose God well nigh destroyed. 7. I found that when men relinquished And now, after such unmeasured evils Tobacco, it paved the way to relinquish other destructive habits, and this to a resur- have proved the awful curse of the opium rection of the whole moral man, and this to traffic with the Chinese people, will not a determination to be right with God, and every Christian and benevolent hearted to lay hold on eternal life." " Conferring with Missionaries in this and person in the world unite with us in pi, ml8. other lands, I found the evil as broad as the ing with the British Government to release world ; that the Chinese and Turks are in- the Chinese Empire from her heart rending toxicated and narcotized, not only by Opium, obligations to Great Britain, so as to allow but by Tobacco, and whilst in this state their her to act according to her own free will in conversion hi about as hopeful as that of dead relation to the importation of opium, or in men in the catacombs of Rome. These are my reasons for sacrificing materially checking its ravages in her own myself to this despised cause. Other men land? for the human heart ; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally ; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful! in defiance of time and space, the soul of man, with all its powers nnd faculties, becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ. All who sincerely believe in Him, experience that remarkable supernatural love towards Him. This phenomenon is unaccountable ; it is altogether beyond the scope of man's creative powers. Time, the gretft destroyer, is powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength, nor put a limit to its range. This is it which strikes me most; I have often thought of it. This is it which proves to me quite convincingly the Divinity of Jesus Christ." A Very Mean Theft.—Some evil-disposed visitor has stolen from the Y.M. C. A. Heading Room, most of the late monthlies and files of late weeklies. There is a suspicion where the thief may be found. Let the party or parties beware ! Any person favorably inclined to the Reading Room who will present files of late papers and magazines, will confer a great favor on those visiting the " Home." � 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 (1875) 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 - 1875.02.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875.02.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/5e57ce6a3fbc0bbf059f86a987b09bab.pdf 07b2df2a4cf43c2273e16c7c3fb180dd PDF Text Text FRIEND THE 3fjn» Series, HONOLULU, MARCH 1, 1875. M. 24, Sf.3.} so that he may go to be CONTENTS For March 1, 1875. " I Count Hie Hours Unit Shine," Obookiiitl on llle Dcalti of Captain Cook Correspondent* Discovery of Whale, in Orliolsk Hca Our Dssstk ol Hon. T. \V. Willliinis Key. E. T. Doane's Addnss Ccorgc 111, Washington, Franklin Key. Dr. Uulick Philip Phillips Murine Journal " Cruiseof the " Morning Slur Bayard Taylor's Istttam irom Rgnßl Y. M. C. A ' forever with the think) that the hereafter I feel 17 is like stepping through a veil, concealing us 17 18 from the world, but perhaps not a hiding of 11l ID the world from us. That seems most natu20 -<> ral, most in harmony with what tee are. -0 '.I) Some one has said, 'of the manner of the -1 future life we do know nothing. And in11 H deed why should it be told us how we are M| to live the tirst instant after death, any more Pagk Lord.' (not than what fresh experiences we shall have age after aire in eternity ? Sufficient for our day is the light we have ; and to-morrow if MARCH I. IIT*. we have things to do not of this earth, then "I Count the Hours that Shine."— we shall be lighted for our work in another We occasionally find scattered through the way than we arc now.' " pages of one of our American correspondents Acknowledgment.—From Mrs. Taylor, of London, gems of thought most beautiful and suggessix numbers of Spurgeon's Sword and Trowtive. After a long silence she thus ends a •11; Irom 0. F. llusscy, of Brooklyn, N. V., it paragraph : " Never mind the silence. I was pamphlet, " Week of Prayer." wearied and worn out, and cannot write Rev. E. Corwin, D.D.—We notice in the letters to dearest friends when the heart is Democrat published in Jamestown, N. V., too full for words ; and if* I could I would an anniversary sermon preached by the Key. not give one shade of care to far distant Dr. Corwin, formerly of Honolulu. It apfriends through the recital of little passing pears that our former associate is still earntroubles ofmine. I like the old Florence Dial- est and eloquent in his pulpit services, and Motto, ' I count the hours that shine.' But enters practically into the great work of the who can tell which are .shining hours of our Christian ministry. lives ? A ray from the 'eternal day' will so In another column will be found change all earthly readings that our highest Obookiah's narrative of Captain Cook's joys will be seen to spring from the deepest, death. It is a singular coincident that just darkest sorrows of this life! We each at this time, when Obookiah's narrative is must say, My half-day's work is done.' first published, his countrymen living near Almost sixty on our ' mile-stone,' how we the spot where these memorable events ocfeel life is rushing on ! —very near the end curred, should hove ordered from Honolulu organ for their church, costing $200, the ' here '—very near our ' hereafter.' you an money having been raised entirely among ask me in a late letter, what I have come to themselves. think of the future life ? I am a poor thinker you know, dear friend 5 'Ik/mm Church Choirs, following hints of Philip that my Redeemer liveth.' If lam His Phillips thrown out at his late concert in then I shall live also—and there is, can be, Fort Street Church, would not prompt such no death only for the poor perishing body. a prayer as the following, offered recently by What we call death is simply 'entrance President Finney of Oberlin : O Lord, we have sung an anthem to thy into life '—the eternal life of the soul. Jesus conquered Death. He cannot touch the praise. Thou knowest the words, but we do not. We pray thee that those who thus believer saved through His blood. Death lead us maydoopen their mouths that we may only unclothes him, laying away the earthly know what they say, that we may join in tabernacle, the clogs and bars— freeing him, thy praise." THE FRIEND. ' " 17 » Series, M 32. Obookiah on the Death of Captain Cook. During the visit of His Majesty at New Haven, Ct., allusion was made in the address of the Key. Dr. Bacon to the incident in Obookiah's life, when a friendless and pennyless stranger he was found sitting and weeping upon the steps of Vale College by one of the students. This occurred in 1809, some ten years before the departure of the American missionaries. Obookiah's visit to America formed an important part in awakening an interest among Christians of America, in behalf of the Hawaiian Islands. He died in 1818, and was buried in Cornwall, Ct. During our last visit to the United States in 1870, we met the Rev. Dr. George Allen, a distinguished clergyman of Massachusetts residing in Worcester, and officiating as chaplain of the State Insane Hospital. He is advanced to a good old age, but still retains a most vivid recollection of events occurring a half century ago. We recollect that he had much to say respecting Obookiah, and placed in our hands the following document, which some of our readers may peruse with interest, as it has never before been printed : Worcester, 21st March, 1559. Dear sir :—ln the summer of 1811 I attended the academy in Bradford and was a boarder in the family of Deacon Jno. Haseltine, whose family then consisted of himself, his wife, son, three daughters, Abigail, Mary, Ann, afterwards Mrs. Judson and several boarders, among whom was that very interesting native of Owhyhee, Obookiah. He gave me at different times a particular account of his life, adventures, &c. He gave me a particular account of the death of Captain Cook and the causes which led to it. Said he, " Captain Cook, he came to Owhyhee in a ship and had a great many sailor. One day the sailor tie a boat to the shore with a rope, and in the night the wind and the wave come and broke the rope. Then the sailor came and say Owhyhee steal the boat and they didn't, the wind and the wave carried him away. Then sailor get mad, and Owhyhee men get mad; �THE FRIEND, 18 wouldn't give sailor no hog, no cocoanut, no banana, no wood. Then sailor go ashore and find no wood and so he get an old woodgod, take him on board ship and burn him in caboose. Then king of Owhyhee he mad, and Captain Cook he mad too. Why, said I, did the king get mad ? You see, said he, Owhyhee men take a log and make a great wood-god, look just like a man, and when they have a new king, they kill men and hang them up and kill hogs and hang them up right before the wood-god. But, said I, did they, believe that the wood-god knew anything ? O no, said he, when they get the wood-god all made and put up then the spirit come and live in the wood and when the wood get old they make a new wood-god and the spirit go out of the old wood-god, and come live in the new one. Owhyhee men get mad because the sailor burn up the old wood-god," (deeming it I suppose a sort of sacrilege. The burning of this old deity occasioned the conflict between the natives and the sailors, which took place during the absence of Captain Cook). Then said Obookiah, the sailor began to fire bullets on Owhyhee men and Owhyhee men hold up blankets to keep off the bullets and then boards, but they did no good. Then Captain Cook heard the noise and come running down to see what was the matter. Then one man say you kill Captain Cook, but he 'fraid, then a man say I will, and he came behind him and kill with a spear. Well, said I, what did they do with Captain Cook ? They cut him in pieces and carried him up into the mountains and burnt him. Why, said I, did they burn him ? O, said he, they 'fraid his soul live, and go back to King George and tell King George how Owhyhee men kill Captain Cook and then King George send men and kill Owhyhee men and so they burnt up soul and body together. How, said I, did you know all these things ? O, my grandfather tell my father and my father tell me." I have thus very hastily given you a very brief outline of a part of many interesting conversations, which I had at various times with this very interesting young man. He was a great favorite with all the family. He had so much frankness, honesty and simplicity that no one could be offended with him. lam constrained to say that 1 was one of those persons, whom he mentions in his life as " unserious." With one or two exceptions the students were not professors of religion. He afterwards as you well know became a very devout Christian, as did Thomas Hopoo, who came to America in the same ship with him. Please excuse the chirography of this hurried letter Yours, truly, and oblige " Joshua Coffin. Worcester, Mass., March 30th, 1870.—1 hereby certify that the foregoing narrative (transcribed for me by Mr. George J. Morey of this city) is a true copy from the original now in my possession) addressed to me by oshua Coffin aforesaid. Geo. Allen. S.—Obookiah was born at Kealakekua P. Bay in 1792, hence was about fifteen years old when taken by Capt. Brintnall to the United States. There are now growing at Kealakekua Bay two cocoanut trees, which tradition reports to have been planted by J MARCH, 1875. Obookiah, who was educated as a priest for multitudes that have greeted and cheered idolatrous temple at that spot. See Life of him at every Rail Road Station, King Obookiah. Kalakaua has always said and done the * right thing—at the right time and in the OUR CORRESPONDENTS. right place--'He has never made a mistake.'" 1 have myself felt surprised at this, as I Late mails have brought us letters from believe this to be his first visit to a foreign various parts of the world, from which we country ; and I have sometimes cast an eye copy such paragraphs as we think will be behind him to see if I could find advisers but 1 have never discovered perused with interest by the readers of the and prompters, any. His own good sense and tact, I preFriend. The first is an extract from a let- sume, have been his only advisers and ter written by an old resident of these isl- prompters; and these appear never to have ands, but now residing in the vicinity of forsaken him. King Kalakaua's visit appears to have put Boston, under date of January 11th, as the people and the press in good humor follows : towards himself and people, so that the disRev. S. C. Damon, Ilonaltdtt —My approbation of constituents is less to be Dear Sir—Never has a President of the feared now by members of Congress in the United States met with more brilliant re- matter of the Treaty than at any former ceptions than have been accorded to King period; but should the Treaty fail, the Kalakaua during his journey from Omaha King's visit will not be lost, for it has raised through the principal cities to Boston. himself and his people in the estimation of In one respect, Kalakaua's triumph sur- his friends, and at the same time disabused passes that of any of his predecessors. the minds of those who remember the All political parties and all classes of men Sandwich Islands only as they were in have vied with each other to pay him suita- the days of Captain Cook. ble homage. A New Bedford correspondent writes unA becoming kingly dignity without pride, der date of January Ist as follows : pretense, or ostentation, has gained him New year commences cnld and clear, theruniversal admiration; whilst his modest, frank and cordial bearing has won all hearts mometer below zero. His Mojesty Kalakaua wherever and whenever he has allowed him- is here, and although it is so cold, the whol* self to be presented to the public —more es- of New Bedford are ready to give him a warm welcome. He is riding about the city pecially the hearts of ladies—due no doubt with Mayor Richmond. The streets are to the King's gallantry—as at a large gathwith citizens who are greeting him thronged of members of the Hawaiian and Club ering others, at a reception given by Wm. F. with gladness. The City Hall where he seemed to be more crowded Brigham, Esq., of Boston, where the King gave a reception, when than it was President Grant gave a saw more of the sex than at any previous reception—he was heard to remark that he reception. The King looks well, but he sufwas tired of talking with gentlemen, but fers from a bad cold, and is unable to speak would be pleased to talk with ladies. No to an assembly of people. I had the pleascorporation or body of men have appeared ure of taking him, Mr. Allen, and the Govmore gratified with the cordial greeting given ernor of Maui by the hand. I hope their them by the King, than the officers and presence here may hasten forward the Recipatrons of the American Board at a recep- procity Treaty. Long live the King. tion, on the same day of his arrival in this The Rev. Dr. Pierson, formerly a missioncity, at the house of Hon. Alpheus Hardy, ary in Micronesia, thus writes from Adel, where His Majesty, in the fullest, sincerest Dallas Co., lowa and most gracious manner recognized his The Friend is a welcome monthly guest obligations to the American Board, through at our house. We still feel a deep interest whose instrumentality his people had become in our island friends; though out of sight a Christian and civilized nation. But that they are not out of mind. We are now you may not think that our love of Hawaii reading with interest the daily notices ofthe has lent the color of the rose to my King of the Sandwich Islands as he is passstatements, I give you the impression the ing through our Everything indicountry. King's visit has made upon a disinterested cates respect and honor for a King who friend of mine—and travels to learn from what he sees in other elderly gentleman—a who, though he has never seen the King or notions how to govern his own. I taken special interest in Hawaiian Affairs, is see the secularwisely papers call upon the people a very close and accurate observer of men, to show him the more respect because he as he has been of the reported conversations does riot come on any diplomatic business. and impromptu addresses of the King on trust that he will return with nothing but I diverse occasions to private and public bodies in of men. Referring to such interviews, my kindest feelings, and pleasant memories to the American people. regard friend (and I never knew him to do or say a false thing) remarked, He has never made a mistake. He has everywhere sowed Our next extract is from a letter repure wheat and no tares"—and he con- ceived from the Rev. H. Bingham, laboring tinued in substance: Whenever and among the inhabitants of the Gilbert or wherever he has been presented or called King's Mill Islands, and received by the a of the : " " upon for recognition homage sought to be paid to him, whether by Ecclesiastical, Morning Star : Educational, Rail Road, or Manufacturing The Morning Star brought a very preCorporations; whether by Governors and cious freight. The arrival of our American Counsels, Mayors and Aldermen, or the Associates, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, gave �us great joy. For many many years we had prayed and' waited for help, and in God's own time He gave us the desire of our hearts. Our brother and sister began very early to give attention to the language, but they had been only a few weeks on shore when Mrs. Taylor was taken sick of typhoid fever, and after an illness of some -sixteen days fell asleep in Jesus on the evening of Sept. 26th. 1874. Early in her sickness she expressed the feeling that the Lord was about to call for her. She was, however, very willing to leave the issue with her Heavenly Father. During her last days her reason was much clouded, her fever being attended by nearly all of the most aggravated symptoms of typhoid. We are in deep sorrow. We have been nreatly bereaved. With our poor vision we may not be able to see the reason, but we doubt not there was a needs-be which our Heavenly Father will make plain some day. Oct. 2Sth. You may perhaps remember that the Morning Star took to you last spring a report of very general drunkenness on this island. The King had just began to attempt its suppression when the Morning Star sailed. In this he has been very successful, and drunkenness for the present at least has been driven from the island. Continued peace also prevails and the people are beginning, some of them at least, to give attention to spiritual things. Four young men and two young women were received to our church on confession of their faith in Christ, on the first Sabbath of this month. During the present month thirty-four persons have publicly declared their wish in our church prayer-meetings to become Christians, and are numbered among our Inquirers— more than ninety of whom have expressed such a wish since the beginning of the year. Our training school is flourishing. On Monday last the first village school in Kanawa, taught by Gilbert Island teachers, was opened. They receive their support from the people. This item ought to rejoice the hearts of the members of the Hawaiian Board. C7" We copy the following letter from the Boston Daily Advertiser of December 24th, and we have no doubt the " initials " indicate the letter to have been written by Captain Brewer, so well known in our island community: "WHALE STORIES"—FIRST DISCOVERIES IN THE OCHOTSK SEA. 1 notice in your paper of the 17th instant an article under the head of " Whale Stories," which reminds me of some incidents relating to the whale fisheries which occurred during some of my own cruises in the Pacific Ocean. In the month of May, 1833, I left the Sandwich Islands as master of the American schooner Unity, of 60 tons, bound to the port of Ochotsk in Siberia, and thence to the port of Petropaulowski in Kamschatka, on a trading voyage. When in the neighborhood of the Kurile Islands (which were then in sight), a large whale was noticed coming slowly toward us on our starboard quarter, and thinking that when he came near enough to see the vessel he would sheer off, I therefore did not feel alarmed. FRIEND, MARCH. 1875. 19 I Iff X But he came directly on toward our star- to the American whaling captains at Honoboard quarter, when he settled down and lulu of the existence of the great abundance passed under our schooner's keel, scraping of whales in the Ochotsk Sea, which proved the whole length of his back against it, so profitable to them and to their owners for ing up on our port bow, making the little several years after. In the year 1836-7 and craft trembleand shake as if running with subsequently many ships took from 2600 to 3500 barrels of oil in the short space of a considerable speed over a coral reef. My second officer, who was standing near I few weeks. The average yield at this date me, sprang into the cabin, seized a loaded (1874) of right whales is about 70 or 75 pistol, and was going forward to give him a i barrels, but few were taken in that sea the shot, when he " broke water," or came up past summer. In former years the fleet conunder the larboard bow. But I forbade his sisted of 250 ships engaged in the right doing this, and, seizing the tiller from the whale fisheries in the Arctic, Ochotsk and helmsman, put it " hard down," bringing Kodiak seas, but the past summer there the schooner up in the wind, as I was quite were only 25 ships cruising there. C. B. willing to be allowed to pass clear of his | Jamaica Plain, Dec. 21,1874. whale- | flukes,"—the loss of the American " ship sfissMS in 1820 by a whale being still in j Death of the Hon. Thomas W. Williams. remembrance. On the 9th of July we passed through the passage of the Kurile Islands This Christian gentleman and merchant, and saw many very large whales on our so long and favorably known in the comway up the Ochotsk Sea. We arrived at j mercial and religious world around New the port of Ochotsk on the 19th of July, London and elsewhere, died at his residence after a very rough and stormy passage from | Honolulu of 57 days ; then left again on the in that city December 31st, 1874. Remarks Bth of August, 1833,for Kamschatka. On j a newspaper of that city, " Thus with the passing down the Ochotsk Sea we sailed, | passing away of tho old year passes away during one night, about 40 or 50 miles one of our oldest and most prominent citithrough phosphorescent matter, called " brit," js just six years ago to-morrow or " whale feed," which appeared to us as zens. It he stricken down by a paralytic milk; sea of since was if we were sailing through a and as our vessel sat very low in the water, shock, from the effects of which he never we could read a newspaper on deck from the fully recovered. That he has lived thus reflected light of the sea. The next morn- long is due to a remarkably vigorous constiing the weather was pleasant and clear, and iron will." He we were about 20 miles from the islands of tution combined with an Porumsishir. died at the ripe age of over four score. Long the forenoon we were surrounded During has he been known as the head of the house by whales as far as the eye could reach, and of Williams, Havens & Co., which now astheir " spouting " could almost have been Williams & Co., compared to a forest of trees, they were so sumes the name of Havens, abundant. Many of them were of the larg- —his son Augustus, so well known in this est size and would yield from 100 to 300 part of the world, entering the firm. barrels o( oil, with whale bone in proportion, During his long career as a man of extenas has since been proved. On a subsequent sive business relations, he has also representvoyage in 1834, in the brig Bccket (formered his district in Congress from 1839 to ly of Salem, Mass.), bound from China to Kamschatka, when near the Kurile Islands, 1842, besides occupying other positions of I was lying one afternoon in my berth read- official trust. He was the friend of missions ing ; I was startled by a tremendous thump and other benevolent enterprises. In 1832 under the counter of the vessel which almost part in originating the threw me out of my berth. Springing out I he took an active to seamen at the Sandwich Islands, a mission windows, cabin where had I went to the good view of a large whale, which had in under the auspices of A. S. F. Society, passing struck us a glancing blow on the and sent out free of charge the materials for side of the vessel, but without damage. 1 the Bethel (now standing in Honolulu) on passed the Kurile Islands again in the year 1835, in the ship Rasselas of Boston, on board one of his ships, the Mentor, Captain our passage from China to Kamschatka; Rice. His brother, General Williams, of saw but few whales, being too far east of the Norwich, Ct., was also a remarkable man ; islands. On this passage I discovered a they were both noble Christian gentlemen of cluster of dangerous rocks not laid down best type. upon any charts at that date,—lat. 31.54 the Another of the same class, Senator BuckN., long. 140.20 E., the weather being clear smooth. went to the masthead and sea ingham, of Norwich, Ct., we notice has also I while passing abreast, within a mile of them. just passed away. More than thirty years I saw South Island bearing S. by E., and ago, when a young man just starting for the Orango-Simo bearing M. by W., both of Sandwich Islands, it was our privilege to them at the same time. These rocks are low and cannot be seen far in thick weather. meet these three gentlemen, and to receive They are about 10 or 15 feet in height, kind attentions from them which we have forming nearly a circle, and about two ca- not forgotten. bles' length in diameter, with much broken water around them. We notice in the South Illinois Journal I returned to the Sandwich Islands in the of January 18th, the death of Dr. D. H. schooner Unity in November, 1833. I think I was the first person who gave information Lyons, formerly of Honolulu. com-1 i �THE FRIEND, 20 THE FRIEND.. MARCH 1, 1815 Rev. E. T. Doane's Missionary Address. Sabbath evening, Feb. 7th, the Rev. E. T. Doane addressed an audience gathered in Fort Street Church, on the subject of Missions in Micronesia, where he has spent the past twenty years of his life. Although familiar with the history of that Mission from its origin in 1852 down to the present time, yet the speaker, fresh from the scene of his labors, presented the subject in a style so attractive and charming that it awakened in our own mind and also in the minds of many others, feelings akin to those produced when long years ago in our Father-land we listened to veteran Missionaries on their return from India, China, and Africa. We are glad that Mission labor has not lost its poetic charm and idealistic beauty. Why should it? The Gospel message is one of good news, and Isaiah sings, " How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth salvation." Mr. Doane has been a hard-working and devoted Missionary among the Marshall Islanders and the inhabitants of Ponape— having learned two dialects of a difficult language, but he has a most happy faculty of looking on the bright side of a dark picture. The dark cloud resting on the once heathen islands and atolls of the Pacific has to his eye a silver lining, or rather it is tinged with a golden edging. It was pleasant and home-like to listen to the story of landing three Missionaries and their wives, with a bouncing baby, on the wild shores of the Mortlock group. What is more inspiring than the story of the converted natives on Muggins, so intent upon their worship of God upon the Sabbath morning, and such Puritans, in the way of Sabbath keeping, that they would take no notice of a signal hoisted on ship-board for a pilot, no, not if run up and down until the halliards were worn out! Then to, the conversion of the inhabitants on Pingalap, where Captain Hayes caused the King to sign a treaty that no white man, no black man, no red man, no mulatto, should land for ten years, and to keep away all Missionaries; yet some natives from that island returned to their home from Ponape and told the story of Jesus and the cross! We think it was on this same Pingalap that the speaker landed and officiated at the marriage ceremony of forty couples ! The Millennium is dawning! Most skillfully the speaker interwove facts, figures and poetry, telling us that five hundred hymns had been composed in the MARCH, 187 5. various dialects of Micronesia, besides parts of the Bible and school books, amounting to two million of pages. As the happy results of Mission labor, more than a thousand converts had been enrolled and gathered into Christian Churches. The beautiful Island of Ponape is now encircled with a necklace of eight churches, embracing five hundred members, linked in holy fellowship and Christian brotherhood. Not the least pleasant feature of the address was the cordial commendation of the labors of his associates, American, Hawaiian and Micronesian, while he did not make himself more prominent than the humblest laborer in the field. It was our privilege some fourteen years ago to visit that Mission field, and on the Island of Ebon to receive a most cordial greeting from Mr. Doane. The scenes then and there witnessed are among memory's valued treasures. We spent a Sabbath upon the island and witnessed his zeal in the Mission work. We are now glad to return to him as cordial welcome as he then gave us, and to see that he is still animated with the same youthful ardor, buoyant, hopeful and trustful as ever—traits which enable him to make playwork and cheerful labor of duties which to some minds would be the veriest drudgery and most irksome toil. He can "stoop to conquer," and right manfully he has conquered amid difficulties which would have appalled a less hopeful spirit—conquered in the name of Him who came to our world " conquering and to conquer." A Singular Musical Enigma.—The Rev. Mr. Doane states that the natives on the high volcanic islands of Micronesia, Kusaie and Ponape, are most excellent singers, while those living on the low coral islands are almost entirely destitute of musical talent. He does not venture to state anything as the satisfactory explanation of this singu- lar phenomenon. — Dr. Harkness of Sacramento. This gentleman arrived by the last steamer from California. He not only has a standing in his medical profession, but is also known as a man of science in the use of the microscope. He is among the " old '49 inhabitants of California, and has traveled extensively in Europe. It was our privilege to meet him at Cairo in Egypt, and he was one of " our party" on an excursion to the pyramids. He has left for a trip on Hawaii and to the volcano. During his foreign travels he has been intimately associated with Mr. Stanley, the discoverer of Livingstone, and relates many interesting anecdotes of that remarka- " ble man. George III, Washington, Franklin. . The London Spectator, in reviewing Bancroft's Tenth Volume, more than intimates that the historian has made a failure in giving such prominence to the events of the revolutionary war following the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The writer however concludes with the following significant paragraph " Although the war of American Independence will always form an epoch in history —on the one hand, as representing the birththroes of a great nation ; on the other, as having been, as it were, the artillery duel which preceded the Armageddon battle of the French Revolution—it is probable that in course of time its details will justly fade away from the world's memory, and that little will remain of it but three figures : in the foreground the tragic one of the half-crazy king, resolved only that America should not be independent; and the heroic one of the stout-hearted Virginian country gentleman, the impersonation of massive English common-sense, resolved more sternly still that she should be ; and a little in the rear that of the shrewd New Englander who in his : brown coat fascinated the most brilliant court in Europe and showed himself more than a match for the diplomatists of three , kingdoms." Rev. Dr. Gulick.—Mr. Doane, in some remarks upon Micronesia at a meeting of the " Cousins' " Missionary Society, Saturday evening, Feb. 27th, complimented Dr. Gulick very highly, in view of his labors as a geographer and man of science. No modern explorer of Polynesia is more frequently quoted than Dr. Gulick. In Findley's Directory of the Pacific and Rosser's North Pacific Pilot, Dr. Gulick is quoted alongside Anson, Cook, Vancouver, La Perouse, Belcher, Wilkes, Perry. Just now our American missionaries in Micronesia are doing more in the way of exploration than both the English or American navies. Naval officers must look out for their laurels as explorers and geographers! Philip Phillips.-This world renowned singer of sacred lODfi arrived by the Cyphrenes on Weddesday Irom San Francisco, en route lor the Colonies of Australia. He gnve one concert the same evening at the Fort street Church. The unusual hour at which the concert commenced—6 o'clock —together with the short notice given, prevented a luller attendance; aa it was, the house was comfortably full. Everybody was delighted with the singing, which though intutistic and simple, was peculiarly sweet, and to the religiously inclined, elevating and enlivening. The receipts of the conceit, less expenses, were $197, which sum was divided between Mr. (Phillips and the Honolulu Sailor's Home Society. We learn that Mr. P. donated his share of the proceeds to a destitute church in New York. He sailed the same evening for Australia, where we .expect to hear that his concerts of sacred song have met with the same popular approval us in England and America.—P. C. Advertiser, Feb. 20. �FRIEND, MARCH, 1875. 21 1 ll X Rrsosf or thb U8 8 Fuao Smr Pehsacola.—At 11 o'clock A M of Feb. 2d HI. Msjesty King Kslskaus wss rsceived on board with tbe prescribed ceremonies by Admlrsl Almy, a letter from Mr. Thomas Keating, of Chicago, Captain Oherardiand the ofHcer. ol tbe Pensacola. At 6.20 quiring for intelligence of hia brother, John Keating, weighed anchor and .learned out of th. harbor of Ban Franciswho is said to have resided here some seven years co, steered the direct course for Honolulu, snd anchored In the of New Kaufman, harbor at S o'clock AM of theloth Feb. 3d and 4lh li.d fine, ago. Another letter from Louis mild weather, generally cloudy daring the day and clear al Leleiohoku, inquires York City, addressed to Prince night, wind light and variable. Feb. sth had a fresh lireese as to the whereabouts of tbe writer's brother. Wilfrom south snd east, will, a rough sea; banktd fires, uncouplliam Kaufman, said to be a resident of these islands. ed propeller and made all sail Feb. 6th, 7th. 3th, 9lh snd 10th experienced a long snd very heavy swell from south and west, —P. C. Advertiser, Feb. 27. Ran Admib.l—John J. Almy, U. 8. N., Commanding U. sea at limes cross snd confused \ wind generally from south Pacific Station. "8. Naval North Force, during the snd thl. lime and quite strong, with frequent east of C. Jones, Jr., one of the agents squalls of wind and ruin. Feb. 11th, 13th, 13th and 14th had ChiefEngineer—W. J. Larabdin (Fleet). (Fleet). Browne smooth sea, and light breese from north Inspector—]. Kaufman Medical fine clear weather, M. whaleship Arctic, reports William Brevet Lieut. Col. Marines—}. Forney (Fleet). and east. Cay (Fleet). t. Ca.well enterprising master—T. as attached to that ship,—an RKPORT tIF BTEANRHII* CVPHBENCS, T. WOOD, COMLieutenant—T. B. M. Msson (Fleet). mandeb Left San Francisco on Sunday, Feb 7th, at 11 *M. lf. Secretary— man. Admiral's Dee. 11. clearing Ihe Golden Gate at noon. Paised the Farrakraes at 3 and correct young r M, wind moderately fresh from the north and heavy weather. Captain—Rincroft Gherardl,U. 8. N., Commanding. SW and 8 wind, were met with to lal 24° N, long 1«»° W, A. D. Brown. Commander— Lieutenant L. Morgan and thence N E and E breexc. with fine weather. Sighted The late Major General Lieutenants—T. A. Lyon., R. E. Impey, C. C. TorJd, C. P. Hawaii at 11 A > on Tuesday, Feh loth, and arrlvsd oft* HoSmith, who was found dead in bed at Tay- Shaw, D. Kennedy, 0. W. Jarboe. nolulu al 11.66 rM. Fine pleuant weather has been experiPassed Asst. Engineer—J. 11. Harmony. llenbv An.ns, Purser. enced throughout thepassage. lor's Hotel, Jersey City, was a very estimaPassed Asst. Surgeon—W. O. Farewell. Refobt or B.bk Delaware, Hinds, Mastee.—Sailed Lieut. Col. Marines—J. d'Hervilly. ble man and brave soldier. The cause of his Second wind, from NW, Dec with favorable 23d, from Esqulmslt on Asst. Engineer—F. M. A.hton. which continued until in about lat 40 •> N; from thence to death was rapid congestion of the lungs. Asst. Surgeon —Psul Filsaimmon. ol with frequent wlod, R. 11. McLean, at. K. Schwenk, 0. B. Miles, about lat 29° N nothing but gale, Throughout the war, Gen. Smith displayed J.Midshipmen— and much thunder and li.htning, heavy M. Robinson, J. W. Beane, C. B. T. Moore, B. A. Fiske, F. heavy .quail, of rain, wind, and Feb rjlh, contrary; variable swell from westwsrd. unusual gallantry, and was frequently com- 11. Holmes. E. J. Dorn (Stan"), W. Alldcrdicc. in lat 32° 1»\ long 138= 46' W, at 1r M, passed a .Ide-wheel Clerk— E. A. Abell. Admiral's and rapidly his officers lat superior 13lh, in 27° N.long .teamer, steering to the SW| Feb mended by Captain's Clerk—C. W. Benedict. 144° W. at 3 A M, passed a steamship steering SW| from lat Breed. Pal/ Clerk-i. promoted from the rank of Colonel to that of Fleet s< nnd W, with 29° N to port, light and contrary winds from Pay Clerk— .l. G. Sankey. continued .well from the wc.lwurd, with frequent intervals of Major General. He had previously served Boatswain— W. O. Tompkins. calmai Feb 241h arrived at Honolulu, 6 days after sighting Gunner—W. A. Ferricr. with honor in the Mexican war. At the oatland, during which time we hail Ihe wind light and variable, Carpenter— I). W. I'erry. from SE and W, occasional squalls with rain, and a wrong break of the rebellion he organized the Sailmakrr—r. B. VY hitc. current setting SE. Feb. SO. it C. Advertiser, —P. and with led Eighth Missouri Regiment, Rbpobt or Sbhooner An. May, B. W. Johhson, MabAfter the the attack on Fort Donelson. teb.—First five days out lihci light wind, from BW. thence and light winds from E la f i few the last ten days expeLondon, Dec. The Rev. Dr. Lang is calm, close of the war, Gen Smith was appointed rienced heavy westerly swell with much rain and calm, and which has left the steamer just by which posipassenger occasional heavy gales from ESE. Arrived in Honolulu on Consul to the Sandwich Islands, Thursday evening, Feb 2uih. short time. His age was with mails for Australia via Egypt. Information Wanted.-His Majesty has received in- The U. S. S. Pensacola, bearing the broad pennant of Admiral J. J. Almy, Commanding the Pacific Squadron, arrived at this port at 9 a. m., on Monday last, 13 days from San FranoAo. The Pensacola is a second-rate screw, carries 22 guns and is of 2,000 tons measurement. The following is a list of her officers : . 17.— tion he held only a about sixty years. Am. paper. — Captain Haykes.—This person, who was for a number ol VMM past a notorious character "Ashesailed, as he sailed," Among the islands of the Pacific, was recently MARINE JOURNAL. FORT OF HONOLULU, S. X. ARRIVALS. PASSENGERS. Foa the ouano islands—Per C. M. Ward. Jan.29lh— Capt F Klbllng, Robt Burns, Mr Miguel, and 12 Hawaiian.. Fob Tahiti—Per Humboldt, Jan. 30th—A Heath, Ucnry Dimood,J Kennedy. ForSan Francisco—Per 1) 0. Murray, Feb. Ist—W A.hford anil wife, Mrs Bobbins, T W Gulick. W Kendall, W R Frink, F A Mitchell, wife, 6 children and servant, Ml.. Grace Booth, P Grislier. For San Francisco—Per Undaunted, Feb. Sd—Thoma. Mason. From Micronesia—Per Mananas r"ar, Feb. 3d—Rev E T Doane. From Svdnky—per City of Melbourne, February 6lh—Mr. Lccshman and family, Carl l.emlgren. Fob Sab Francisco—Per City of Melbourne, Feb Bth— Nolle, N W TalCol Z 8 Spalding, I ol Wood and wile, II lant, Sir David Wcdderburn, Oan I llrlilge, E llemp.tead, T Bent, Ah Sam, Mr Aulridge, Miss dc Vellle. Fbom Ban Francisco—Per Cyphrenea, Feb. 17th—Mrand Mrs David Smith, Mrs Farewell, Mrs CalvinBrown, Dr Ilarkness, 1, Abel, F S Pecker, The. Lack, 11 other., and 49 In transitu for Australia. For Aucbland i ByDNEY-Per Cyphrene., Feb. 17th— Wm Woodall, and 49 from Baa Franciaco. Foa Ban Francisco—Per Helen W. Almy, Feb. 23d -Chas Peterson, Thos Lyon, John A F.nyrs, John Bheplar, Alexander by the Commander of 11. 1!. Ms. As he wits an Pats, 3—Am missionary brig Morning Htar, Gclette, 30 days S. 8. liomtrio. iit Strong's Island. from Micronesia. American citizen, nnd nothing tangible was charged 4—ll II M's 8 8 Reindeer, Anson, from Hilo, Hawaii. against him, he was not detained. Subsequently 4—Am hk Camden, Robinson, 25 days fan fort Gamble tbe Commander of the Rosario told the King of the 6—llrit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, 14 day. Irom they prethat would Auckland. if missionary and the island 15—II s Hag-ship I'ensacola, Rear Admiral Almy, 13 sent u written statement to the effect that Hayes days from San Francisco. was a nuisance, ho woulil take him away to .Syd16—Uril stmr Cyphrenes, Wood, 10 days from Ban ney. We do not learn that this was done, but Francisco. 1 17_Nor Ger bk llnkel Bracsic, Chcibner, 78 day.from probably anticipating that it would, Hayes put to Newcastle, N 8 W. sea in a small boat with but one companion. After 24—Am bk Delaware, Hinds, 62 days from Burrard's the Rosario had departed he returned to the island Inlet. and presenting himself to the missionary declared 2i—Am schr Ada May, B W Johnson, 28 day.from that, repenting of past misdeeds, he intended to San Francisco. lead a correct life in the tiiture. It is not a matter DEPARTURES. for surprise that, until Hayes had given some real proofs of reformation the missionaries, to whom he Feb. I—Am lik I) C Murray, Fuller, for San Franciaco. had been such a strong opponent, were slow to 2—Am .chr Kannie Hare, Green, for Valparaiso, Travey. believe in his conversion.—P. C. Advertiser, Feb. (i. v—Am schr Undaunted, Miller, for Ban Franciaco. From San Francisco—l'rr Ada May, Feb. 26th—Orlan li—ll II M's S 3 Tcuedos, lollard, for San Franciaco. for FranKincale, P Gibson, Theo W Johnson, Thos Hurts. City of San Melbourne, Brown, 6—Brit stmr Porsmouth. —We were glad to welcome U. S. S. cisco. 12—Am bk Camden, Robinson, for Fort Gamble. DIED. on Sunday morning last. Ilie arrival of our old ac17—llritstmr Cyphreues,Wood, lor Auckland ec Sydney 23—Am bk Helen W Almy, Widdonsou, lor Ban Franquaintance, the Portsmouth. Commander Skerrett, Yellott—At Pouhik.', or Aacenaion Island,Pacific Ocean. cisco. formerly of from San Francisco. There are some probabilities 27—Nor Ger bk Dcutschland, Tiemann, for S Francisco Augunt '-5lh, l 8 4 Mr Ai.KI4NDBbYki.lott, Baltimore and New York City, aged «4 yearn. He landed on ol her making a lengthened stay in our port. native wife and four 1836 He leave* a above liland In the MEMORANDA. When here last, she was on surveying service, but children to mourn bla low. jf»B«—In Jamaica I'lain, December 2*1. I.TDI* Jowkh, now mounts a full battery. The following are her Report ok Bark Camden, Robinson, Master.—Sailed daughter ol the late Daniel Jonea of Nanmcket, and wife of C. officers: from Port Gamble Jan 10th. First eight days oul had strong P. Wiualow, M. D. winds. On the 18lhhad a heavy 8W galej carried MlLTON-At Walalua, Oahu, on Tucaday, February 9th, Commarulei'—Joseph S. Skerrett. Commanding. northerly the lower main topsail yard; then had light winds lo lat away Willi»m, Infant aou of Joartih and Harriet K. Milton, aged 1 Lifuieiiant Cotnmander and Executive Officer N, long 141 ° W ; then trades from NEto SE light Feb month 27 ° and 16 days. 3d at 6 A v, saw Ihe Island of Maui bearing south, distance 30 Lewis Clark. SawYKa—In this city,February 14th, Sir. IUxky H. Sawmiles. Arrived off the harbor at noon of the 4th, after a pasLieutenant and Navigator—J. E. Noel. yk« a native of Lancaater, Maaa., (and hit motherraidea in sage of 25 days. Clinton, Maaa.)aged 63 yearn, lie lunl reiided In theae ialamla Lieutenants—K. K. Moore, 11. S. Richards. Report ok Steamship City or Melbourne, Brown, (luring the paat 24 yeara,and waa much eiteemed by a large .Masler*—F. H. Delano. B. F. I'ickbolim. Commander—Cleared Sydney Heads at 3 p m on Saturday, circle of frienda and acquaintances. Unsigns —J. K. Roller. J. C. Burnett. Jan 16th, and arrived In Auckland at 7 r m on the 21st, after a run of 6 days and 4 hours. During the entire passage from Paymaster—E. N. Whitebouse. Sydney to Auckland the wind we. nearly ahead wilh a heavy Surgeon—W. H. Jones. Information Wanted. head sen. After receiving coal, passengers and mail, started Assistant Surgeon— N. M. Ferebee. from Auckland.lira Friday, Jan 22d, with moderate and Respecting Herbert Franklin Sills, from Trenton, Ontario, Raoul, John Keating. island of one Boatswain— One weather. Sumlay, 24th, lighted Ihe Canada, should the young man vl.lt Honolulu,and will call of ihe Kermadic group, weather.till floe. At 6r «, Jan 26ih, upon tbe Seamen. Chaplain, he may hear something to his Gunner—Samuel Cross. •moke Men in ths di.tance, .upposed to be the mail steamer advantage. Sail-Maker—John Martin. Mikado, the wind blowing fresh from N and NE. On Jan Respecting George E. Whltlon. sged about forty years, who tot-ranter—J. J. Thomaß. 27th, at S r m passed between the islands ol Tuluila and •• Cicero," of New Bedford, in 1886, Anuu of the Navigator grcup. Bent papers .shore by csnoe. shipped on board bark Captain's Clerk—V. M. Graham. and touched al Honolulu 1867. '• There 1. a .mall nun of our course northSince leaving the islands ws have continued Paymaster's Clerk—David Mouat. which woulddo his aged mother bank, ward, with a continuance of fresh snd moderate N and Nil money deposited in tbe cannot be taken oat unlessit •id Lieutenant Marines—Geo. T. Bates. S. TTusoo- winds throughout ihe passage, up to ihe time of arriving off a vast deal of good," and whichwhether her .on i. living or ha. on be ascertained definitely, Passengers—Dr. Simon, for the U. S. this port, on the 6th days*February, al 10.16 r x, making the th. editor or M. E. Whitsent to may died. Information be to on sick C. from Auckland days, leave.—P. and voyage from port to port In 21J rora, and Lieut. Christopher ton, of Charlestown, MiHonolulu, 16 days and 8 hours. •■interviewed" ' — Advertiser. Feb. 6. -- �22 THE FRIEND, JIARCH. IFrom the P. C. Adverluw. reb. Bth J Cruise of the "Morning Star." For the following interesting account of the last voyage of Ihe missionary packet among the islands of Micronesia,—from which she arrived at this port •on Wednesday last,—we are indebted to Captain Colette : The Star left Honolulu July 11th, 1874, on her fourth voyage to Micronesia; her first point was Ihe Gilbert Islands. Nothing of more than usual occurrence look place on the passage down; winds northeasterly until lat. 0° N., when they came around to E.S.E. July 27th, anchored off the north point of Peru Island-lat. I°22' S., long. 176<ni'E.; remained here but a few hours, getting under way tbe same day towards evening Two of the Saiaoau missionaries boarded us; the missionaries were well; the natives clothed. The John Williams had been here a month previous. Reaching Tapetaue the 28th she came to anchor, when supplies were landed. .Valium was ailing with a swelled leg; Kapu was well and hard at work. Schools were visited and appeared well; the scholars number from 25 to 30, rending well, writing a good hand, and were well advanced iv geography. The good work seems lo be prospering. Left this island the 31st; headed for Nanoti, anchoring here the morning of the next day. J.cleo was well but his wife was sick. Spent u Sabbath here. This is a hard place—the natives ure insolent and had frequently robbed their teacher. His school is small; not much accomplished yet. Landed his supplies and sailed Aug. 3d, bound for Apaniuma, reaching there on Monday the 4th The king came aboard, accompanied by Moaes the native catechist, and was curious to see everything in the ship. Left here the oth. It is ■ liny of small things on this island now, but this large population will yet be a Christian one. Reached Malaria the Oth in the morning. Lono boarded us soon after. As the Star was anchored some ten miles from the station no one visited the station save Ihe boat with supplies. Aug. 7th, sailed from here at 6 A. m. and reached Apaiang, coming to anchor the same day at 1 p. m., t distance of 80 miles Found the Rev. Mr. Bingham and Mrs. Bingham in comfortable health. Landed supplies for Haina at Taraua in a boat, with whioh he returned. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor disembarked. Spent here a Sabbath. The good cause is prospering; the training school is in good condition. The natives have improved much since my last voyage in 1864. In wearing clothing or some covering about the person, there is a marked improvement. The missionary is more honored. Many now stand ready to enter the church. Left here the 12th, bound for Maraki; reached there the 15th in the morning. There being no safe anchorage at this island we had to lay off and on and landed supplies at the station. Found Kanoha and family well, reporting progress in his work. Sailed the same evening for Butaritari and came to anchor off the station the next day at 4 p. m. Kanoha and family were here landed, who had returned with the Star from Apaiang. Landed supplies for Maka and Kanoho. Both families were well. The good work is prospering eohools, though small, are kept up, and the general bearing of king and natives is friendly to the teachers. Left here Aug. 19th for Mili, one of the Marshall Islands. Reached there the 23d in the afternoon. Kahelemauna and wife were well, schools prosperous, and Ihe good work advancing. Landed supplies, weighed anchor and left Aug. 25th for ATno, reaching there the next day. Kaaia and wife are comfortable, and also tbe native catechist. Did not enter the lagoon, but sent in the supplies in a boat, which returned the next day with Kaaia. Arno if a large island, rich in supplies of food, breadfruit,— pandauus, coooanuta, taro, fish and fowls. Left the evening of this day for Majuro, whioh is in plain sight, but owing to calms and strong N.E. currents did not reach there till Aug. 80th. Entered the lagoon and landed supplies; found Kekuewa and wife well and hard at work. This is an island heavily wooded and well supplied with food. The mission is prospering. Left here Sept. 2d and headed for Jaluij, distance some 100 miles. Anchored the 4th. Found Kapali and wife well; landed supplies and the freight for Messrs. A. Capelle & Co. The missionary work ii advancing—a great improvement in the last tea yean. Hooey, real cash, gold and silver, is in full circulation, and the value of which the natives well 1875. understand. This is so because of Ihe cash system of A. Capelle & Co. This firm cannot be too highly spoken of in regard to its character and honorable way of doing business. Sails*! from Jaluij Sept. 9th, reaching Ebon the next morning. Rev. Mr. Snow boarded us nnd reported all well ashore. Sent in supplies for Messrs. Snow nnd Whitney. Passengers went on shore; a strong current was here setting to the north. Next day the vessel was out of sight of land, and was not able to return till the fourth Finished landing supplies, and at I r. M. passengers came on board and we put away for Strong's Island, tbe Rev. Mr. Snow accompanying us. Reached this island the 19th; landed Mr. Snow and what supplies he had and put away for Ponape. The next day sighted Pingalap; s*j)t in boat to land mail and see if Rev. Mr. Sturges was on the island. At noon tbe boat returned and we beaded for Mokil, reaching here the next morning. Sent in a boat with mail; at noon boat returned with the king and three men as passengers for Ponape. Filling away the Star reached this island the 23d; anchored at Ova. Here the Rev. Mr. Sturges greeted his wife after an absence of three years. Mr. and Mrs. Rand disembarked here. The'next day Rev. Mr. Doane came up from his station, and the Rev. Mr. Logan, wife and ohild returned with him by boat. Supplies for those at Ova were landed, and Sept. 28th the Star sailed through the lagoon to the Kenan station. Here the supplies of Rev. Mr. Logan were landed, and the Star after recruiting sailed Oct. 2d for the Mortlock Islands. The Rev. Mr. Sturges and wife accompanied us, and a delegate from the church, with some natives from Ova as passengers. Reached the Mortlocks on the Bth, and came to anchor in the lagoon. Found the Ponape teachers all well, and the work prospering beyond expectation. Left on the 12th at 9a. m. and reached Ponape on the 18th. Getting supplies and taking on board Mr. Doane as passenger for Honolulu, sailed Nov. 4th. The school at Kenan visited the Star; trimmed her cabin with flowersand wreaths, under the direction of Mrs. Rand, ond in the afternoon the children came off with banners and flags flying. On board there was singing, greetings to the new comers, nnd a farewell to the old teacher. We reached Mokil the Bth; landed the king and passengers from Ponape; took aboard the contributions of oil; and leaving here the 9th, reached Pingalap the 11th. Took aboard the contributions, nnd left the same day for Strong's Island, which we reached the 13th. Found Mr. Snow well and taking him aboard the next day, left for Ebon, reaching there the 20th. Taking Mr. and Mrs. Snow as passengers for Jaluij sailed the same day, and reached en route Namerik the 22d; Rev. Mr. Snow accomplishing some missionary work, she sailed for Jaluij the 24th and reached there the 27th. Here we took on board freight for Messrs. A. Capelle & Co. for Honolulu. Leaving here Dec. Oth the Star again returned to Ebon, reaching the 10th; landed Mrs. Snow, and took Mr. Snowas passenger for Mili; arrived here the 15th, without entering the lagoon, landed Mr. Snow and squared away for Apaiang, which place we reached the 21st. Here we learned the sad news of Mra. Taylor's death. Left here for Butaritari, reaching there the 30th. Finishing up business we sailed for Honolulu Jan. 4th, 1876. On passing through the trade wind latitudes had winds light and variable. In lat. 27" N, long. 177° E., we encountered a severe gale, blowing from S. W.; had to lay to, under storm sails eight hours. Tbe storm abating squared away to tbe north. From that date to long. 160° W.. had southerly and southweal winds with more or less of ugly squally weather and high seas from the N.W. On Jan. 23d, in long. 176° 60' W., lat. 30° 45" N., buried Kahananui, a seaman of the Star belonging to Kohala, Hawaii; died of dysentery. During the rest of the passage had light variable winds. Arrived at Honolulu on Wednesday morning, February 3d. C. W. Oelette, Master. Bayard Taylor's Letters from Egypt. These letters, originally published in the New York Tribune, and which appeared again in the Tribune Extra (No. 22), are now republished in book-form, together with those written from Iceland. They are well written and contain much useful information, but most signally omit one feature that we should have supposed a man of broad Christian sympathies and patriotic sentiments would have noticed. We refer to the American mission under the auspices of the " United Presbyteiians." He is equally silent respecting the valuable labors of Miss Whately, an English lady, (daughter of Archbishop Whately) who went to Cairo some years ago for her health, but who is now at the head of female education in that city, managing a school of 3 or 400 pupils. It was our privilege to visit her school. The American mission was commenced in 1855 at Alexandria, but now is extending to upper Egypt, having a large working force in Cairo. When we visited Egypt in December, 1869, there was a large school and weekly preaching in Arabic and English. As an evidence that this mission is fully recognized by the Khedive's Government, we would remark that five years ago the mission premises in Cairo were held merely by a verbal permission of the government. In the extensive improvements going forward, the schools of the missiona- ries must be removed; but the government has allowed the mission the large sum of $33,-000 in gold for their premises, and with this sum they are building in another part of the city. The mission is becoming more and more a power in Egypt. For the support of this mission, the ex-King, Maharajah Duleep Singh, now residing in England on a salary of £25,000, grants annually a donation of £1,000 or $5,000. This generous contribution has been made annually since 1864 or 1865, when he married a pupil whom he found in the mission school of Cairo. The labors of Miss Whately are equally worthy of notice; she is a lady of great refinement and ability. Her letters appear in the " Sunday at Home," published in London. She has published a volume entitled, " Ragged Schools in Egypt." Bayard Taylor may consider missions as unworthy of his pen, but he is not the first literary man of eminence who has been mistaken in his estimate of Christianity as a vital force in the world's regeneration. Tn the early days of Christianity Tacitus the historian and Quintilian the rhetorician, reRev. L. H. Gulick.—Numerous persons garded Christianity as a mere " Jewish suhave inquired for Dr. Gulick, and the fol- perstition." So now, literary men like Baylowing, clipped from one of our exchanges, ard Taylor may regard missions to the heathen as something unworthy of notice, or to be gives the information: dismissed with a sarcastic fling. Our only Dr. L. H. Gulick has been visiting the reply is, Christians laboring to spread abroad missions in Turkey." the Gospel can afford to wait! " �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 23 ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. Seamen's Bktiikj Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, King street, near tbe Sailors' Home, .'reaching at 11 a. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before tbe morning service, l'rayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 7i| o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting every day from 12 to half-past 12. Fort Street Ciiukch—Rev. W. Frear. I'astor, corner of Fort and ISeretania streets. I'reaching on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 74r. m. Sabbath School at 10 a..v. 11. 11. Parker, Pastor, King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 9£ a. m. and 3 P. M. Kawaiahao 1875. Church—Key. •• %»r >R.WIN ti. SAILORS' Commission Mercliants, Plantationand Insurance Agents, Honolulu, 11. 1. EWERS | it, DICKSON. Deiders in Lumber and Building Materiuls, Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. I. M HOFFMANN, ■,' Hi ~ 80l BBBBU . D., Physician and Surgeon, Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Corner Merchant snd Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Offloe Rt. Key. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Fort near Beretania. Services street, Hermann; <p BREWER Jkv CO.. every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2 P. m. Kaumakapili Church—Rev. M. Kuaea. Pastor, Commission and Shipping Merchants, Beretania street, near Nuiianii. Serviceß in HaHonolulu, Oahu. H. I. waiian every Sunday at 10 a. m". and 24 p. M. The Anglican Church —Bishbp. the Rt. Rev. AlP. ADAMS. fred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn. M. A.. ■,' Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary and Commission Merchant, Auction Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. Fire-ProofStore, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. English services on Sundays at 6£ and 11 A. M.. and and 74 P. m. Sunday School at the Clergy H House at 10 a. m. r|R. MOTT SMITH, Dentist, D. V MUMIC. CONTINUES HKK-I'KUOF Uuilding, Kaahumanu HIS iil.n BUSINESS IN nil: Particular attention given lo Fine Watch liepairimj Sextant and quadrant glasses silveredand adjusted. Charts and nautical instruments constantly on hand and fur sale. fcl J. C. MXXXII.L. JOHX II (KltlS J. C MERRILL & to., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 206 California Street, S"5 ;i ii Having resumed practice, can !•»• found at hi. room, over H Strehz & Co.'s Drug Store, comer of Fort and Hotel .1.. Street. Chronomktkrs rated by observations of tbe sun and .tars with a tranilt instrument accurately adjusted to '.hemeridian of Honolulu. Francisco. ALSO. AGENTS Of THE San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular attention given to theaale and purchase of mer ehandise, ships' business,.applying whale.hipi, negotiating exchange, Ac. (7 Allfrelght arriving at Baa Franci.co.by or to ths Ho nolulu Line of Packets, will be forwarded rais or commibsiob* EX Exchange oo Honolulu bought and sold..a ■<i Can be 11 s. McGREW. M. Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, consulted at hi. residence on Hotel street, Alakea and Fort streets. "" "ly N THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! between ■.1 ii . s^EBBBB^H IcP*"1 ' If | I'ffßg week, do. Officers'' Table, with lodging, per Seamen's do. do. .. ... $8 6 Shower Hath- on the Premises. ED. DUNBCOMBE, Honlulii, January 1. 1875. Manager. Carriage Making and Trimming! I WOULD RESPECTFULLYINFORM YOU THAT I now employ the best Mechanics in the line of Carriage Making, Carriage and Qtntsvl Macksmithing, I'nintimj. Rtpatrimg, So., On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established faot that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. Whitman, is as well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that Wagon and Carriage Builder, we can manufacture as good a class of work in Ho74 ami 70 King Street, Honolulu. nolulu as can be found iv any part of the world. I XT laland orders piotnptly executed at lowest rates will also state here that we fully intend to work at AlsIsEN At CHILLING WORTH. the lowest possible rates. 0. WEST. sTs WEST, Kawailtae, Hawaii, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping bu.incs. at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits as are required by whaleships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable term.. O* Firewood on Hnnd.sCl! A * W. PIERCE M. DICKSON, Photographer, 01 Fort Street, llouolnln, BAUD A CHOICE ASSORTAIsWAVSON MENT OP PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Sceifery, &c, &c. CO., .V (Succesor. to C. L. Richard. & Co.) Ship Chandlersand General Commission Mer chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian I.land.. Honolul "" D., \ —BBFBBENCEB— Messrs A. W. Peireet Co 11. Ilackfeld & Co C. Brewer b Co M Bi.hop & Co Dr. 11. W. Wood Hon. E. 11. Allen »W HOME! CO.. CURIOSITY lIUNTKIIS WiU find st this est.bli.hmeut a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volrnnir Specimen,.. Corals, Shell.. VVnr Implements. Ferns. Mi.ta. Kauas. Agents Pnaloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, And a Great Vmriety And Perry DnvlV Pain Killer. of other Ilaauiian and Micronesian l.'uriosities. THOS. ii. THRUM'S --- STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. 10 Mnrliiiiir Street, Honolulu, OF READING MATTER-OP Papers and Maßm.nes. back number*—put up order PACKAGES educed for parties going sea. to rates to at ly I'lllTKi: FRAMES A SPECIAIsITVI Jal 1874 CASTLE & COOKIE, IMPORTERS AM) DEALERS IN MERCHANDISE I NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENERAL AGENTS OF DILLINQHAM & CO., Not. 95 and 97 King Street, Br«iin^S THE KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF PROPRIETOR WILL SPARE NO pains to make thia DUsH Gr A 3\T T lIOTsBL First-Class in Every Particular! ROOMS , CAN IE HID BY THE NIGHT OR WEEK ! with or withoutboard. H ALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR juM ly PUBLIC MEETINGS, OK SOCIETIES. Goods Suitable for Trade. SHIP MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the last Six Year, can testify from personal experience that the undesigned keep the best assortment of GOODS FOBTBADE And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM A CO. REGULAR. PORTLAND I.INK OF Packets, New Knglaml Mutual Ufl Insurance Company, IMIK The Union Marine Insurance Company, Ban Yrauciaco, TheKohala Sugar Company, The Haiku Sujrar Company. The Hawaiian Supsr Mill, W. 11. Bailey, Cmir|Mii.y, The llamakua The Waialua fiugitr Plautatlou, The Wheeler til Wilton Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne Bona Celebrated Family Medicine!. * "TBE FRIEND," tf MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO rJeamen. Marine and General tellifeace. A Temperance, I, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BT SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per annum Two Copies per annum Foreign (subscribers, including postage $2 00 joo I.fro �Young Men's Christian Association of Honolulu. Pure religion and umlrflled before God, the Father, is this: To visit tlie fathcrlr.su and widoics in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspoiledfrom the world. Is this not just what our town needs and feeling quite fatigued by ly M, travel, I felt disshould not all Christians hero feel that in it heartened at the idea of again coming before Waiting for the Master. there lies a power which it were well for an audience of three thousand persons. .ReWaiting fur Him in the darkness, them to use ? In all tho history of Christian ferring to one of the tickets handed me by a messenger, it read at the thus: Winching for Him in the light; effort there is no more interesting subject The entire proceeds to gobottom to Mr. Phil" to cutch His orders Listening probably, than the growth and ever increas- lips, TOWARD ERECTING A MISSION HALL IN In tho very midst of the light. ing vitality of the Fulton Street Prayer New York City." I took this as a startSeeing Hisslightcst signal Meeting over which, for so many years, has ing-point, FOR IT GAVE ME NEW COURAGE TO Across the bends of the tbrong ; rested the glory of a divine blessing and SING, AND I ALSO FELT THE SURPRISE TO BE A Hearing His faintest whisper PROVIDENTIAL THING TO INDUCE ME TO COMwhich, in a great and turbulent city, has Above earth's loudest song. MENCE THE ENTERPRISE AT O.M'K receiving proved to so many thousands, the Gate of for that evening's service, without Dwelling bcriertth His shadow any inIn the burden and heat of the day; Heaven." It has had its influence, ns may timation ofmy Mm, from the hands of Mr. Looking for His upbearing, be noted, in many other cities of America Kirkham, Secretary and Evangelist of ConHall, the first subscription, £52 17s As the hours wear lust away. where daily meetings have been established ference (id. So successful was the meeting, that the Shining—to give Him glory; with like signal success. Ours is not a large following well-known Christian gentlemen Working—to praise His name ; city, but in this alone lies the difference. tendered their influence as English referwith the Him Bearing suffering, There are here even more than the " two or ences : Key. William Pennefether, of ConHearing fur 11itn the shame. three " who would gather in the Master's ference Hall; T. B. Smithers, editor of the Art thou afraid to trust Him? name, there are Christians who need this British Workman,' and Matthew W. Richards, of the London Sunday-School Union Seeming so fur away? strengthening of the heart, there are many Committee. Wherefore then not keep closer— who have never learned a Savior's love, and A circular will be issued annually, giving (Jlobc, as He says wo may? best all, of there is the full account of the progress from time to same infinitely loving not walk beside Why llim, time, and sent to all who apply for further Father, who Heavenly will listen to our call. Holding His blessed hand; on the subject. Praying and information Then onward should we have our why not Patiently walking daily asking of the public such sympathies nnd All through tho weary land? Prayer Meeting in Honolulu ! The churches favors as the object deserves, Passing safe through mazos, need it; we need it; the town needs it. I remain sincerely yours, The tangle of grief and care; Philip Phillips. Whom it may reach, God knows. What gloSafe through the blossoming garden rious fullness of come blessing in may Where only the world looks fair. Sailors' Home.—The proceeds of P. Phillips' answer to these Union Prayers eternity may Crossing with Him the chasm concert furnish funds partially sufficient As it were by a single thread ; reveal. for repainting the Home, which greatly needs Fording with llim tho river— Come then when you can, if not daily, as refitting. Persons favorably disposed will Christ leading, as He bath led. often as the duties of life permit. Home and confer a great favor by aiding the institution. business cannot suffer, brothers and sisters, Some people are much inclined to see The Daily Noon'Prayer Meeting. by our looking often together to the Father's motes other people's eyes, but fail to see in house above, thus keeping ever bright the As one of the peaceable, and we trust, beams their own eyes. in abiding fruits of the Week of Prayer, may flame upon the altars of our hearts. be instanced the half hour Prayer Meeting Some people have much to say about The following paragraphs from a circular doing good for the heathen in China, but held daily at the Bethel. During the Union of P. Phillips, will indicate the object fail in teaching Chinamen in their Meetings then held, it was suggested that it families. would be well to have each day a short to which the funds arising from his concerts Some people talk much about praying, Prayer Meeting, in the hope that in this way are partially devoted but are never heard to speak of giving. The there might come to our whole community a London Gives the First Subscription ! is a means of grace and duty as much recent latter tour of —During my song in Enggreat and abundant spiritual blessing. land, and while singing at Conference Hall, as the former. Hence during the weeks which have fol- London, a plain yet beautiful room for Evanlowed, daily the bell has sounded at the gelistic work, accommodating three thousand Some people would cross the ocean to noon time and some have gathered, turning persons, erected by Rev. William Penne- attend a Fulton street noon-day prayeraside for a brief season from the business fether, I made the passing remark, " How I meeting, but will not attend a noon-day we had such a hall in New York ! prayer-meeting when they hear the bell and cares of this life, to talk of the Redeem- wish ring. Shortly after I was invited by the reverend er's Kingdom and to pray very earnestly gentleman to spend an evening for the purSome people talk much about Moody that He might come speedily to bless and to pose of singing a few songs to his own peo- and in Scotland and England, but Sankey, •save.. There has been no desire that it ple, supposing it to be more of a social even- utterly fail to follow their advice in taking should be intrusted to the care of any church, ing than a service of song. With pleasure I active part in prayer-meetings and doing gratuitously accepted the invitation, fixing nor to the especial control of any persons, the date some weeks ahead, and in the Christian work. though the idea may have gone out that it meantime fulfilling my engagements in the Some people commend Reading was under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. north of Ireland, returning to London, the Christian Associations, Religious Rooms, It is essentially a Prayer Meeting for Hono- day fixed with Mr. Pennefether, at ConferNewspapers, Churches and Missions, but lulu, where are welcome all friends of the ence Hall. Reaching mv rooms in London, to my never contribute a farthing for their support, Savior, and above all those who might there great surprise, I learned they had sold tick- unless it may be to pay for a seat" in a learn for the first time the exceeding pre- ets enough to fill the hall. Supposing it to house of worship just as they would for a ciousness of His love. be free, and only a small gathering, and also seat in a theatre. a Committee of the Y. C. A. 24 Edited I " : " " � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1875) 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 - 1875.03.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875.03.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/5df442ebcd3df5838414fb4639283b71.pdf 52603cfc582df32e809fdb5949e0b1bd PDF Text Text THF E RIEND |$tto Series, M. 24, }}a. U CONTENTS Far April 1. 1870. o.ihu College Netils an Endowment llifher Education in America HONOLULU, I'AIIS 2b 26 2H Rev. Mr. Cameron Religious Awakening In KnglKlul A Nolile Way to Use Money I* Ike Newspaper a Correct Mirror of Social Life? Letterfrom Ja|»n Marine Journal Meteorological Table <3iv of Edinburgh 27 21 2S 28 2U 30 - 30 J Y. M.C. A THE FRIEND. APRIL. I. IST.,. Oahu College Needs an Endowment. la another column will be found n statethe eenerous and munifibestowed upon schools and colleges in America—not endowments of thousands, but millions. Jutnes Lick, Isaac Kited, and the Quaker Hopkins, deal in millions ! Now, in cood earnest, we ask, Why will not some noble-hearted lover of youth and knowledge donate a •halfmillion for endowing Oahu College? For the present we would be content with the tenth of a million; just a good round one hundred thousand is what the trustees ment relating to cent endowments of Oahu College now need, to place that institution on a good basis. We want on endowment of $30,000 each for three professorships, viz.: one for the Ancient Languages ; one for Modern Languages (including Polynesian); and one for Natural Sciences. The Hawaiian Government, the American Board, and a few friends of the College have laid a good foundation. Now we want new buildings and new apparatus ; only give us the money and, in the name of the trustees, we pledge our word and our sacred honor to dispose of the same in the manner that future generations will rise up and bless the donors. "O, ye merchants in Boston, New Bedford, New London, Liverpool, Bremen, San FranciscoSand elsewhere, who have made money out of the trade of the Pacific and the Hawaiian Islands, do not APRIL 1, 1875. wills ! You need not wait until you make your wills, but, following the example of James Lick of San Francisco, would do well to pass over a generous donation, and see that it is properly expended, before you pass ' the bourn whence no traveler returns.'" Death of Captain Abbaham Russell.—Another link between tho piiat and tbe present of Hawaii nei was severed on Tuesday last, by the death, at lolani Palaeo, of " Admiral Kussell," as he has been familiarly called for many years past. Capt. Russell was born at Kussell Mills, in the town of Dartmouth, near New Bedford, Mass., in the year 1807, according to his own statement, although in tbe judgment of many he was older. He came of a well-known and respectably connected family, of tbe Society of Friends. Choosing Ihe whaling business as a profession, he first visited these islands in 1827. Subsequently he was here in command successively of the barks Bremen and Bartholomew Gosnold of New Bedford. While in the latter vessel, through some kind offices rendered to the chiefs of these islands, they became much attached to him, and Nahienaena, sister of Kamehameha HI. adopted him, after the native fashion, as her child, and when dying she strictly charged her brother and the high chiefs to This trust recognize tho relationship thus created. has been handed down and faithfully observed by succeeding kings, who hare always been solicitous for the coin/ort and welfare of Aberahama," and " and a home. with them he always found a welcome Recently, by command of His present Majesty, a neat cottage had been erected in the Palace enclosure as a residence for Capt. Kussell, where doubtless he expected to spend his declining days in quiet and comfort. His last active service at sea was some ten years ago, but he may be considered to have been a permanent resident here since the loss of the bark Drymo, of Sippican, at Labaina, of which he was Ist officer, in IH4.Y lie had a son who was killed in battle on the Union side during the late war, and we believe he has a daughter living in New Bedford. His funeral took place from bis late residence in the Palace grounds on Wednesday last, and was largely attended. Their Majesties tbe King and Queen and the members of the Royal Family and of the Court attended tho services at the house, which were conducted by Rev. Dr. Damon, and the King's carriage led the procession to tbe grave in Nuuanu Cemetery, immediate after tho hearse.—P. C. Advertiser, March 21th. 25 {•ft Smts,o«l. 32. The person who borrowed of the editor the London Geographical Magazine for December, 1874, will please return the same, as its loss will break the regular file, which are preserved for binding. Restful Music.—The highest compliment which we have heard paid to the late musical entertainment of Philip Phillips, was that of a German eminent in musical circles, who remarked that " Philip Phillips' singing was the most restful he ever heard." There ia a chord in the human soul that restful music touches. Under its influence the soul feels refreshed. Our church choirs should sing more in this style. The Sabbath is a day of sacred rest; now our music should be in harmony with the day, then will the Sabbath become more and more a foretaste of the rest." There remain" Saints' everlasting eth therefore a rest to the people of God." " A New Scientific Association.—Just as our paper was going to press, we learned with much delightthat a microscopical association was about being organized. A subscription list, headed by His Majesty with $50, and followed by others equally generous, is now circulating. It in proposed to procure a microscope of high power." This is a movement in the right direction. Dr. Harkness, now visiting the islands, is member of a similar association in San Francisco, where great attention is paid to experimenting with the microscope. The lectures of Dr. Wythe, on this subject, at the Lyceum about one year ago, will not soon be forgotten. More hereafter. " " The Islander."—We gladly welcome this little weekly, and are confident if well managed it will succeed. Among newspapers we recognize the same law as Darwin has enunciated in regard to animals, " Survival of the Fittest." Now to the Islander, we say most heartily, "Welcome stranger; try your fortunes; you have chosen a good field, but, like your neighbors, you must of the S. S. The Band U. Pensacola you will not find journalism an easy plays every Tuesday evening on the grounds work; task. Popular favor is a coy maiden—now of the Hawaiian Hotel. smiling, now averting the 'glance of her much courting to disSemi-monthly entertainments are giv- eyes; shetowill need pose her pay out her gold, and perhaps en to the foreign residents of Honolulu by you will find it necessary to 'advertise,' Admiral Almy, Captain Gherardi and offi- although at present you ignore such means, of support." forget Oahu College when writing out your cers, on board the Penaacola. �THE FRIEND, 26 Higher Education in America. There are thiqlkg men in the United States, who advocate the establishment of a National University. In the mean time, schools and colleges for the education ofboth sexes are being endowed most munificently, while all the older colleges are receiving large additions to their funds. Recently a Mr. Hopkins, a Quaker, died in Baltimore, who founded a large hospital and also appropriated by his last will the sum of three and a half millions of dollars for educational purposes. This fund has been entrusted to a Board of Trustees, who are allowed a wide margin in the use of its income. It has been decided to devote the same to the higher purposes of an University Education. President Oilman, of the University of California, has been invited to preside over this institution in its organization and advancement. This subject of a higher grade of education, is now attracting much attention. At a meeting of College graduates, recently held in St. Paul's, Minnesota, S. C. Gale, Esq., a graduate of Vale College, delivered an address, from which we quote as follows, it having been published in St. Paul's Daily Press of January 20th : " Mr. President—l think all the schools of learning in this country are entering upon a new and promising era. And I think I see the dawn of the day when the American university will furnish an education so supremely excellent, so valid, so necessary, so cheap, that hardly one aspiring man or woman will fail to make use of it. the university must have " First ofof all, abundance money. It is likely to receive it. The colossal private fortunes of this age and country sre being appropriated as never before. One wise rich man has at last discovered that there is a more excellent way of disposing of his wealth than dissipating it through his sons, spoiling them in the process. The great acts of private munificence within a few years are astonishing; and they are chiefly in aid of secular institutions of learning for the people. Not many months ago James Lick, of California, 76 years old, a nomadic unlettered frontiersman, but a king, as his acts proved, lest his heirs and their lawyers might defeat his noble scheme if trusted to a will, brought out his strong box one day and poured into the lap of the people of that State twenty hundred thousand dollars, all he had, saying, " This k my everlasting legacy to you, that you may be lifted up from the ground into light, comfort and culture." Does James Lick need a monument? I tell you the gray, cloudcapped peaks of the Sierra Nevada will sooner melt out of sight than this old man with his benefactions be forgotten ! And so all over the country, by the princely gifts of rich men, new colleges and special schools of science and art are being founded. See something of what has been done in the single State of Massachusetts. Five years ago Isaac Ritch—how these homely, two- APRIL, 1875. worded names shine!—paid over in money found the Boston University §2,000,000 ; and that institution is now as prosperous as its policy is broad and liberal. The Smith College for girls at Northampton, with a half million of dollars behind it, donated by a woman, with structures and grounds of marvelous perfection, will open its door for the first time during the coming season. Then there is the Durant Female College at Weilesley, near Boston, having attached to it a magnificent domain of 300 acres in lake, woods and park, with a building, finished within a month, said to lie the most elegant and perfect for its purpose on the continent. Next September, 300 girls will be invited to occupy it, nnd they will each pay a total expense for board and tuition of $250 per annum. Ten years ngo, Nathan Vassar founded the college, called niter him, nt Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ where now 400 girls are pursuing a curriculum of studies not much inferior to that of the oldest and best colleges of the land. Within six years Ezra Cornell has given eight hundred thousand dollars to endow Cornell University, nt Ithica. To this bounty the Slate has added as much more. Already this University is among the foremost in the country; and its promise for the future, in my opinion, equals if it does not exceed them nil. Four weeks ago Ezra Cornell died and was buried. I hope they will inscribe on his tomb simply his own memorable words, "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.'* The old colleges, moreover, from the same sources, have been enriched nnd widened more within fifteen years than in the fifty years preceding, and chiefly in the direction of science and art. Will this stream of munificence continue? I think it will widen and deepen as time goes on. " Here, at length, is the method by which the broader common sense of the people will perpetually be felt in fixing the character of the university. Nine-tenths of the men who make these gifts have not been trnined in the old schools of learning, and I am triad of it." to Rev. Mr. Cameron. By the last Australian steamer came Mr. Cameron, a missionary, who was sent to India, underthe auspices of the missionary society of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He had labored in the vicinity of Bombay until by the sod effects of a sun-stroke, he was compelled to relinquish his post, and for the benefit of his health, visited the colony of Victoria. Partially restored, he is now going on a visit to Canada, the early home of Mrs. Cameron. On their route thither will visit Detroit, Michigan, where Mrs. C. has two sisters. Mr. C. furnished us with files of Bombay papers. The following appeared in one of the colonial papers, published at Ueelong, Victoria, where the subject of the prohibition of intoxicating liquors was under discussion: The Rev. C. I. Cameron in seconding the"resolution remarked that he had himself been a total abstainer for 23 years, and intended to continue so for the remainder ofi his life. (Applause.) In India, where be had labored, there were 200,000,000 of human beings, ofwhom 10,000 were annually destroyed by furious animals which inhabited the jungles. The Hindoos, averse tc shedding of blood of any kind, regarded the sacrifice with indifference, but ihe BritisL Government interposed and offered a reward of 300 rupees for every tiger killed. Now, notwithstanding all that Brahmins and Hindoos might say to the contrary, he though) they would all agree that the destruction of these animals was a humane and proper object. Yet, here there were no wild beasts, but an nrmy of demons tolerated that annually sacrificed not only thousands of lives, but all that was noble, pure and worthy U being guarded by the community. Strong drink produced nine-tenths of the pauperism, three-fourths of the crime, one-half of the disease, one-third of the suicides, threefourths of the juvenile depravity, and onefifth of the shipwrecks by which the world' was nfilicted, and he thought it was therefore the duty of the Government to endeavor to curtail its ravages The continuance of the evil could not be defended on the score of sound political economy, and he related the anecdote uf the Roman matron, who when asked to exhibit her jewels, introduced her visitor to her nursery, and pointing to her children declared they were her treasures, as as nn incident that speakingly proved that there were other things besides money that constituted the wealth of nations. (Cheers.) The wealth, of the colony was its boys ant girls, and men and women, and whatever injured them physically or intellectually waann injury to the vital interests of the commonwealth. (Loud applause.)" P. O. Stamps.—The son of a Congregationalist professor at Washington is an enthusiastic collector of postage stamps. During the last year he received from the Sandwich Islands a gilt of nine stamps, three sets of three stamps each of the earliest emissions of that missionary isle. Improving his own collection by the addition of one set. hi wrote lo a dealer in such articles in New York, offering a second set for sale, and th« dealer sent him ten dollars for each stamps or thirty dollars for the set. Encouraged by this success, he wrote to another denier it England, offering the third set for sale, anil the English dealer wrote back offering twenty-five dollars for each stamp, or seven ty-hve dollars for the set. The offer was accepted, and the bill of exchange then sold for ten per cent, premium. The six little stamps therefore realized one hundred and twelve dollars to the young collector. We chronicle the experience with fear and trembling, lest it feed with new fuel a fever, which happily is just now running low. New Year's Customs at Washington.— A correspondent in Washington thus writes. Year's Day I noticed that in most "ofOntheNew houses, nothing stronger than Beef Tea, or Bouillon, was served, and that was furnished in tea cups. I made twenty-seres: calls, includiag all the Cabinet Officers, and only once was asked to take wine !" �THE FRIEND, APRIL, Religious Awakening in England. A century has elapsed since the great awakening in England, under the preaching »f Wesley and Whitfield. Thoughtful his•vorians do not hesitate to attribute to that movement the salvation of England from the flighting influence of deism nnd infidelity. It is now an acknowledged fact by sound .churchmen of the church of England, tlmt it was a great mistake to turn away from 'Wesley and to have driven him into the n Selds and burns. Ineffectual efforts have since been made to win back the millions of Wesleyans thus forever alienated from the established church, but not from the church • Christ. Another wave of religious awnkening is of low passing over the united kingdom Ireland nnd England. The American Evangelists have been cordially welcomed to Scotland and Ireland by the united sentiment of all evangelical communions, ft is a source of much rejoicing that an oqually cordial sentiment pervades the religious community of England, including .many of the clergymen of the r-stablished •hurch. Messrs. Moody and Sankey have visited London, after laboring in the northern cities of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. A preliminary meeting, consisting of nearly one hundred ministers ■it various religious communions, was held »n Monday, January 25th, at the Beaumont Institution, with a view to furthering the objects contemplated by the intended visit of Messrs. Moody and Sankey to the city of jf 27 187 5. Christians have been revived, refreshed, and stimulated to new consecration and service ; and very many, both old and young, who before were strangers to Saving Grace, have professed their acceptance of Christ as their Snviournnd joined themselves to His people. Messrs. Moody and Sankey have agreed lo spend in London the four months above named, and it is hoped that they will be assisted in the work by men of known Evangelistic gifts, who have been invited, not only from other parts of our own land, but also from America. The Committee of the Central Noon Prayer Meeting, representing all denominations, has secured, with the approval of Mr. Moody, the Agricultural Hall, Islington, for ten weeks, from 28th February to 9th May. Exeter Hall has been taken for the Central Noon Prayer Meeting. Other large halls arc being sought for ; some have been already offered ; and it may be needful to erect temporary structures in one or two localities in which buildings nf sufficient dimensions cannot be obtained. To provide for the large necessary expenditure, it is proposed to raise a fund, to be paid into the hands of Messrs. Fuller, Banbury Ac Co., Bankers, 77 Lombard street, to Day Prayer Meeting Account;" and "weNoon are sure that all Christians, who have the means, will value the privilege of contributing to carry on a work which, we cannot but hope, will prove one of unpreced- Dalzell, a talented and enterprising missionary physician, was sent out to select a suitable place nnd commence operations. The missionaries of A. B. C. F. M., among the Zulus, in Natal, gave him a most hearty welcome, and it is understood that he has chosen his field in the upper part of that colony. My heart swells with grateful emotions when I contemplate this noble monument for perpetuating the virtues of one of God's children, flow much better to spend money in this way,-than on costly piles of marble or granite, which, after all, are perishable. What benevolent heart will not commend that thoughtful Christian lady, who thus consecrates her son's inheritance to the regeneration of benighted Africa? If Dr. Dalzell succeeds in his plans, nnd the school he is now initiating, grows into a seminary like that of the Scotch mission at Lovedale, in Kaflraria, what finite mind can calculate the good of which it may be instrumental.— .Boston, Conyreyationalist. We would call the attention of our Island readers to the following letter received by the last mail,—if any one desires garden nnd vegetable seeds, they have only to send their address : West Unity, Ohio, Feb. 21, 1875. £«t). S. C. Damon Dear Sir:—I have about twenty choice varieties of vegetable ented blessing. seeds; also many flower seeds, which I On behalf of the Committee, would like to send to the Sandwich Tims. Stone, Chairman. Sam'i. Moblky, M. I'., Gkobok Moork, John Bands, Islands. Now if you will send me the name Wm. McAbthuh, M. P., Hugh M. Matukson. of some one who may wish my seeds, I will Moorgatc Street Hall, E C, Feb. 1875. gladly forward them. If you have not time to answer this letter It has been arranged that the American please give it to some young lady or gentleEvangelists shall spend the months of man who is a lover of fruit and flowers. March, April, May and June, in London. I also have a large collection of dried plants illustrating a part of the flora of my London. A Noble Way to Use Money. country which I will send, if desired, to any Conference at Freemasons' Hall.—At loon on Friday, February slh, Freemasons' BY RIIV. JOSIAII TYLER, MISSIONARY I.N SOUTH student of botany. Yours, &c., Geo. W. Finch. Hall was crowded with ministers and other AFRICA. workers from nil parts of London Isilnodgh.-Ca,ptefin SoeuKtahcutter and suburbs, to meet Messrs. Moody and There died a few years ago in Scotland a ■Sankey in conference touching the forthcom- young man " in the budding and flower of Leslie, while recruiting lubour at Aurora, one of tbe ing four months' services in the metropolis. what promised to be a brilliant career,"' Now Hebrides Group, waa murdered by the naThe gallery was filled to overflowing, and " than whom," to quote the venerable Dr. tives. They also killed the other unlives which every inch of standing-room was occupied. Dull', " Cambridge never had a grander composed the boat's crew. There was another The general tone and spirit of the meeting specimen of a Christian young man." His boat on shore at tbe same time, in charge of the were most hopeful and encouraging. name was James Henry Hamilton Gordon, trading nnißter. lie shoved nil', and tried to cover second son of the late Earl of Aberdeen, the llrst boat with lii.-t gnu ; every time he Hred tbe The following we copy from the London Premier during the Crimean War. A short natives dodged befiind the boat, and then would run Christian of February 11th time before his death, this young nobleman out and club the crew before tbe mate could load Messrs. Moody and Sankky's Visit to turned his att< uiion to South Africa as a again. They stripped tbe body of the captain and Reviewing the wonderful blessing field for missionary labor, and, had he lived, dragged it into tbe bush, in sight of those in the which has attended special Evangelistic would doubtless have devoted his wealth, if boat. The natives seemed to be friendly u tew minServices held during the past year in many not his life, to evangelistic work in that part utes before, and exchanged trade, and no reason I parts of this country, it has been arranged of.the world. But with his death, thank can be assigned for the outbreak. Tbe trading to hold a series of such services in various God, there did not end the carrying out of a muster, being no navigator, did not know what to districts of London during the months of part, at least, of his noble purpose. His do with the vessel, but after some knocking about lo reach Havannab harbour, uml tbe March, April, May and June. mother, after the sad bereavement, concluded tbey managed of the IlallUs Jackson, tho vessel that was While not a few of the Lord's servants that no monument could be so well fitted to mate wrecked there, brought tbe cutter on to Levnkn. iave been used by Him in connection with perpetuate the memory of such a son as a Captain Douglass, of the Mary Eliza, has just italis : work, it cannot be doubted that the mission station in South Africa. She there- returned from u lubour cruise, lie has brought He reports that while at Anichief instruments have been the two Ameri- fore handed over to the Free Church Mis- sixty-tire labourers. Island, be wiw in the possession of the native* can Brethren—Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey. sionary Society a large sum of money for byrn a ship's boat, painted white, with mast, sails, and Wherever they have gone, large numbers an endowment, agreeing to bear in addition ours, which had something like a name painted on have been brought under the sound of the the expense of erecting' necessary buildings. tbe stern. The natives would not allow bim to and bad fighting pits dug on tbe beacb. He *Gospel ; the Ministry has been greatly A committee composed of the members of land, waa there some six months before, and landed some quickened; there has been a marked increase the Aberdeen family was appointed to con- labourers. Each of these bad a gun, and on this it Brotherly union and co-operation ; many duct the affairs of the mission, and Dr. occasion made use ol them. • . < ■ : — �28 THE FRIEND, THE FRIEND. APRIL. 1, 18T6. Isthe Newspaper a Correct Mirror of Social Life? In reading the seventh edition of a volume of sermons by Alexander Raleigh, D.D., published in Edinburgh, Scotland, we met with the following paragraph : "The much-vaunted publicity which everything gets by the press, is in a large part the publicity of the evil and dark side of our social life. It is the publicity of amusements and follies, and immoralities and vices, and crimes. Read the daily journals Irom the beginning of the year to the end of it, you will find but little of the nobleness of human nature and human life in the things recorded and commented upon." Finding this remark in a sermon, it suggests the idea that, as our printer is calling for copy, we will moralize or sermonize upon the shortcomings of newspapers, (not imagining for a moment that our little " 7x9 monthly sheet will be reckoned among the " journals aspiring to mirror forth the social life of the passing age, or daguerreotype the passing daily life of the world). We think there is too much of truth in the paragraph we have quoted. We should be sorry to think society was as corrupt and vicious as represented in the daily press of the cities of San Francisco, New York, London, or Sydney. Papers from those cities are constantly passing under our inspection, and really they appear to be nearly filled up with reports of the police courts, criminal trials and scandal investigations. Reporters seem to vie with each other to publish some startling murder scene or detail with disgust- APRIL, 1875. periodicals. "No editor should allow his pen to record language which he would not utter with his lips." An editor should remember that he is a gentleman, or ought to be. His paper ought never to become the vehicle of ungentlemanly language, not even over the signature of an anonymous writer. We had proceeded thus far in our moralizing, when our eye glanced upon the following paragraph in the last number of the Islander : "As well might a clergyman preach what he does not believe to please his audience and for the sake of his salary as a journalist act in the same way to his readers from financial considerations. We further hold that while it may be unnecessary to the world's progress, that any particular journal should continue, it is necessary that whatever is spoken or published should be honest and manly." Now we do not think the conductors of our island weeklies are lacking honesty and manliness in giving expression to their ideas. Far from it. We think in some respects they are very high-toned and honorable, but this is wherein we complain of them, they find fault with each other in small matters the dotting of an " i " or the omission of an o." Now while it is well for us to mind our"p's"and "q's"—yet we do not think it of sufficient importance to make a manifest error of proof-reading, the subject for an editorial. The editor or editors of the Islander appear to have entered upon their labors with a high ideal, hence we may all — " numerous and more expensive buildings than the Shinto Shrines, and they are kept in good order. I believe, entirely by free-will offerings. Within two miles of us, there is a Btidhist monastery, where some twenty or thirty young men are preparing for their ministry. I believe they are partly supported by then own labor; partly by offerings of the people. Provision for the Budhist ministry seems not to be very liberal, as I know of two, said to be priests, and are now domestics in private families. One of them attends family worship, in which the Scriptures are read and expounded. I have seen men on the streets who appeared to be praying as they walked. But the most touchingsight I saw was a poor woman in front of a temple, stooping over a small stone image with a child, probably two or three years old, very close to her, and whom she seemed to be teaching to worship it, as she appeared to be doing. Oh! thought I, if Christian mothers were generally as zealous to teach their little ones to love and worship the blessed Savior as this poor heathen seemed to be, teaching her child to worship an image—how soon the world would be converted! It is said, a triumphant Christian death at Yokohama recently, made a very deep impression 'on some natives who witnessed it; and that one of Mrs. Puryn's pupils had been, through the Spirit, the happy agent of converting several, including her parents I believe. At the various stations and outstations of the Board, the work seems to be deepening and widening. Mr. Nisima is said to have produced quite an awakening in his native place. Imamura, who accompanied my son lo the Islands, seems to be a growing Christian. And it is said, gives very satisfactory addresses. My son, his wife and sister, went to Sanaa, 18 miles distant. He preached on the Lord's day and left the ladies there throughout the week. They were busy from morning till night in teaching the females who came in small numbers, or whom, by invitation, they visited at their own homes. In the evening, both sexes assembled, and parts of the New Testament were read and remarked upon, first by the natives and then by the missionaries. It is said that females there show more interest in religious institutions than at any other station. As an instance of the change coming over this people, take the following: About a year ago, at one of the hospitals at which Dr. Berry was invited by native doctors to practice and give instruction, he consented to do so, only on the condition that the Bible should be read and explained as a part of his labors. When they heard this, half of those who invited him, objected and withdrew ; they, however, subsequently returned, and now the number is increased to about 200. And recently in drawing up rules for their guidance, he fearing to offend some of them, should he first refer to the Bible, put down several items, and then alluded to the Bible. When reading his paper to them, and came to the Bible, they said, that should have been first, as it was the proper foundation hope to be benefited by their example, although old veterans of the editorial quill naturally think of the saying of the King of Israel—" Let not him that girdeth on the haring minuteness some miserable affair that ness boast himself, as he that putteth it off." ought never to be heard of beyond the immediate neighborhood where it occurred. Letter from Japan. Although we may incur the censure of Kobe, January Ist, 1875. our editorial neighbors, we do think that our Mr. Editor—A Happy New Year to you island papers are not altogether free from and to all my Hawaiian friends. I must tell you a little more about the rethe same propensity, to report in detail inciAlthough it sits dents, scenes and crimes, which might as ligion of the Japanese. on most of them, yet over some, it lightly well be omitted and forgotten. If any possi- has considerable influence. ble good could be seen to follow from such In my morning walks at Osaka, about minute details of crime and wickedness, sunrise, I repeatedly saw men on the corners meanness and vice, we would not utter our of the streets praying ; some audibly, others also saw a white horse in silence. A few weeks ago, for example, and white There I protest. bull, apparently kept as objects of there occurred a stabbing affair by a sailor worship. They however say it is only the belonging to a ship of war in port. Now we spirit that rides upon them which is worcould not see why the readers of our island shiped. They are kept in the courts of the weeklies at home, and more especially Shinto shrines, and these are usually in a grove of trees. The worabroad, should be made acquainted with this beautiful clump or shipers stand at the door and offer their shameful affair in the lowest grade of so- prayers and throw their gifts into a little ciety. Who was benefited ? We merely room kept open for that purpose ; and where instance this case for an illustration, but you see small coins, lying as if they were tossed in. Both there, and in Kobe, when similar cases are frequently occurring. see a fine clump of trees, you will There is one rule of journalism, which we you usually find a shrine in it, reminding you of of all. do stoutly maintain ought never to be vio- the groves in Palestine, in which the heathen Again, there are now here several bright lated by editors of weeklies or any other worshiped. Budhist temples are far more young men, who, from their dress and �111 X FRIEND, APRIL, manners, seem to be of the upper class; and have come, one from 150 miles east; another 150 miles west of us, and another 120 miles of us, to learn about the Christian religion. One of them has brought his family with him, and has put two children into the school of Misses Talcotand Dudley. Although the rulers do not frankly proclaim the toleration of the Christian religion, still this seems to me to be the most interesting heathen nation of which I have any knowledge. We have sun, ice and a very little snow, «nd the mercury down to 33°— we have not suffered from the cold. As ever, yours truly, P. J. Gdlick. west North American Indians.—A New York City correspondent thus writes under date of Feb. 11th, 1875: " Recently we had an in- teresting service in my church —Rev. Dr. Rogers, pastor—in behalf of the Aborigines (Indians) of our land. The present administration is trying, I think, to do these people good. We had, among others, an address by Gen. Fiske; also from Father (as he is termed) Wilbur, Methodist, who has been laboring among the Indians in Washington Territory and vicinity for the past eighteen years. He showed very clearly how those people can be governed by the Word of God, not by gun and sword. He is a boanerges ; also from Mr. Boudinot, of the Cherokee tribe, he told us of the great importance of making citizens of this people together with Choctaws, Chickasaws, &c; he said, why not as well as Irish, German and others 7 I fully endorse his ideas. May God bless all efforts to bring these red brethren to a knowledge of the truth." MARINE JOURNAL. PORT Or HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. March 6—Haw bk Wm C Parke, Penhallovv, 18 days hit Port Gamble. 7—Am bk D C Murray, A. Fuller, 11 days from San Franc lico. 9—Am acbr Good Templar, Krogcr, 16 days fromBan Franciico. 9—Brit itmr Macgregor, H Grainger. 21 days from Sydney. 11—Am bk Edward J ame*, Forbes, 17 daya from Portland, en route for Hongkong. 11—Brit aimr City ol Melbourne. J W Brown, 7 daya and 22 houra from Ban Franclaco. 11—Am bk Colon.*, Howei, 13 daya fin San Francisco. 16—Am achr Flying Mist, Beckwith, 14 daya from San Franclaco. 18—Am bktn Jane A Falkinburg, J A Brown, 13J daya from A itorla. 18—Hawbk Ka Moi, Carrels, 136 daya from Bremen. 19—Am achr Fanny, Worth, n( days fin San Franclaco 19—Am acbr Peerless, Hamilton, 11 dayi fm 8 Francisco 22— Am wh bk Mt Wollaaton, Mitchell, fm cruise, with 100 aperin. 23— Am wh bk Onward, ffaye*, fm cruise, with 140 ipm 27—Am bk Agate,Brown, 00 days fm Newcastle, N 8 W 28—Am wh bk Jamea Allen, Keenan, from cruise, via Kawaihae, with 162 apt*nn. 30—Hawbk Mattie Macleay, Walter, 22 days fm Astoria DEPARTURES. March 4—U 8 ft Portsmouth, Skerrett, for coast of Mexico. 4—U SBTuscarora, 11 Erben, Jr,for the Navigator Is 10—Brit stmr Macgregor, Grainger, for San Francisco. 11—Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, for Auckland 11—Am bk Edward Jamea, Forbes, for Hongkong. IS—Am bk Coloma, Howea, for Howland'a Island. 12—Am achr Ada May, Johnaon,for San Franclaco. 20—Am bk Delaware, Hinds, for Victoria. 20—Hawbk Wm C Parke, Penhallow, forPort Gamble. 20—H B Ma 8 Reindeer, Anson, for fan Francisco. 23—Amachr Peerleaa, Hamilton, for Samoa, 23—Am acbr Plying Mist, Beckwith, to cruise. 24—Am schr Fanny, Worth, to cruiae. 26— An wb bk Mt Wollaaton, Mitchell, for the Arctic. 27—NorGerbk Hnkel Braeaig, Cheibner. for 8 Francisco SB—Am bk D C Murray, A Fuller, for San Franclaco. 29—Am wh bk Onward, Hayea, for the Arctic. .31—Am wh bk JameaAllen, Keenan, for the Arctic. ' 29 1875. Fbom Sydney k Auckland—Per Macgregor, March Mh— T B Grainger, and 97 in transitulor San Francisco. MabtCß. Fob San Fbancibco—Per Macgregor, March loth—Jno T Penhallow, or Habk Wm. 0. I'abk t, —Left Pail Townaeud Sunday, Feb UUi, al 11 aa. Al noon Walerhouse. wifeand child, Mrs II A I' Carter. Mr Spittles, F l.ad Hoe NE, miles-, distance JO II Delano,Ed Wright, MrsRowland, Miss Rowland, A Lewnext dßy Cape Flattery bore weaiher with light winds from Ihe N. In Ihe afternoon Ihe enberg, F Uirgham, Mr l.iilitaieand wife, Jno A West, O Kinthat quarter brecae Increased from Ihe NW, continuing from coid, Mrs Mariana and child, M Francis, C W Glenaon, W until the 21st. then veerinK to NNE. On the afternoon same Nuttal, 3 Chinamen, and 97 in transitu Iront Sydney Sc Auckbark land. day, In lat 86° N, long 132° 22' W,spoke Ihe American Clara Bell, 74 days from Manila houixj to Han Francisco) waa Fbom Ban Fbancibco—Per Cily of Melbourne. March 11th leaking, bulwarks stove ill, ami had lost two men overboard', —Mrs Magulre and child. Mrs Denham, II I Nolle, A J requested lo be reported. On Feb 27th bad fresh breexe from Malnn, W Stephens. W lllancliard. A J Prarln, II H Webb, C NE; March2d strong trades and squally. Sighted Maul on Baker, 1 ChinamaV and In transitu for Auckland & Sydney the 6th,and at 11 a m Iheday after look Ihe pilot off ihe port. Fob Auckland A Sydney—Per City of Melbourne,March Repobt or Babk D C. Murray, A. Fulleb, Masteb— 11th—Jos Mcllugh. Wm Telfer, wifeand 2 children, JohnGilLeft San Francisco Feb 23d at 3 p M, with fresh breetesfrom man, and In transitu from San Francisco. WNW, which continued the first two days out; then the San FBABCIBco-Per Ada May, March 12lh—E Wigwind moderated and hauled more to the N and NE, and re- ger,For T X McDonald, 2 Chinamen. mained so eight days. Saturday, March Slh, at 7 a m, the Fbom Abtobia—Per Jane A. Falklnburg, March 18th—II east point of East Maui bore 8, distance 26 miles, andrllrß hove to off Coco Head. Arrived In Honolulu Sunday after. Porter, wifeand daughter, Alex McKinstry. hours, acnoon, March 7th, after a passage of 11 days and Fob San Fbancibco—Per D. 0. Murray, March 29th—Capcomplishing Ihe round trip in 33 days. tain Sampson and wife. Miss Blmonds, Frank Sylva, E M Powers, Robt X Halt. C Stevens, Jaa Nagler, Miss Parker, James Repobt or Steamship Macobeoob, 11. Gbainobb, ComO Tanner, W S Callahan, II Wield, manoeb.— Cleared Sydney Heads at 6.30 A M Hth February, Egan, H F Garcelan, L experienced easterly windsand sea Arrived at Auckland on Jaswade, Mr Scanlan, A D Hsrwood. the 19lh at 830 p m; discharged cargo and proceeded lo sea next day al 660 a m. On the 271h Mr N Young, a resident of MARRIED. New York, died of consumption; his body was committed lo the deep Ihe same day. Crossed the equator on 3d March In Wilcox—Rockwell—ln West Wlnsled, Conn., December lung 161 o 33' W. Havehad no Irade winds during Ihe pas.10th, 1874, by Rev. L. 11. llallock. assisted by Rev. Dr. Elsage, but strong head winds and sea from Auckland to arrival drldge, Edward P. Wilcox, of Hanoi, i, Kauai, to Maby P. R. 11. PbINOLE, Purser. in Honolulu at II p m March 9th. 11., daughter of B. B. Rockwell, Esq. Repobt of Steamship City of Mblbovbne, J. W. Brown— Tebby—ln Portland, 0., February 14th, by Rev. IlaowN, PwsBUB—B. LbK San Francisco nt 11.16 am on D. J. Pierce, Captain J. A. Briiwn. of the burkeDllne *J, A. March 3d, and cleared Ihe heads at twenty minutes past 12. Valkinburg," to Miss Fannie Terry. Experienced 8 and 8W winds Willi foggy weather for Ihe first Shepherd—Scott—ln San Francisco, Cal., February 16th. four days; from thence lo Honolulu 8 and SE winds withrain Maby and thick weather. Arrived in Honolulual 10 a m March Uth. by Rev. F. F. Jewell, Captain I>. P. Shepherd to Mrs. C.Scott. Report of Schhoker Flying Mist, Heckwith, Masteb. Lbb Sam—l'OLOLt—ln this city, March 11th,by Rev. S. C. —Left San Francisco March Ist; exiiericnced only moderate Damon, Peter Lee Sam to Maby Pololu, both of Honolulu. On the second day out east winds throughout the passage. Mobrib—Boutino—ln this city, March 16th, by Rev. B. sighted what was supposed to be a wreck, awl which proved W. Parker, Mr. Henby Morbib, of Heeia, Koolanpoko, to lo be one on nearer approach. The entire hulk was submergMary BouTIXO, of Honolulu. Miss ed with the only remaining mast broken off, and projecting about fifteen feet above the water. It was impossible to make out d.'lliiitely what the vessel might have been, but Ihe capDIED. tain iklnkß it was probably a schooner; and says that, judging from Ihe appearanceof parts seen, it must have been some Taylorsville, North Carolina. November Flying Mist Binfield—At lime in the sume state It was thenobserved. The daughter of Marcusand Mary Benfleld, is bound on a fishing voyage to the North Pacific, although 22d, 1874, Ida. infant Deceased was 6 months old. late of Honolulu. her exact destination is not known. Arrived on the 16th In Mbyob—In London, England, ol heart disease, Mr. E. M. Honolulu, where she called for provisions ami general recruits. Meyob, formerly of this city and Private Secretary to His REPOKT (IF 11, Ilk I.N 11 \K .1. A. Fa I.XIN BUBO, J. A.BBOWN, Majesty Ihe King. M AsTKti. -Mailed from Astoria March 4th; llrst two days out Jones—Al Newton, near Boston, Mass., February Ist, Mrs. had strong Sand 8W winds wilh heavy swell from NNW. On Jane M wile of Mr. Peler U. Jones, and mother of Mr. P. C. Ihe liili wind shifted to the N W wilh strong breeie, and conJones, Jr., of this city, aged 63 years. tinued so up lo lat 28 N, long 142° W; from thence to lat Pierce—ln San Francisco, Cal., February 18th, of conges27° 20', long 142 ° 60' had moderate NNE wind with NE tion of the lungs, Mrs. Ethai.inda Piebce. aged 66 years. trades, strong breeae and squally weather. Made east end of She was a sister of Captain J. Worth of Hllo, and of Mrs. Molokai on the 17th ut 4 v v.and arrived in Honolulu at 3 a Johnstone of this city. m on the 18th, making Ihepassage in 13 days auil 12hours. Habbis—At Hllo, Hawaii, February 26th, Frank Hkbvey, son of Justice C. C. Harris, aged 30 years. Rkimiiit of Habk Ka Moi, 11. Gabrf.i.s, Masteb—Left only Brickwood—ln this city, on Sunday, March 7th, Makabi Bremen on Ihe 2d Nov, 1874. On the 6th took bearing of the 11. Brickwood, aged 18 years. Galloper (light-vessel) NW by W. wind from the westward, 11.,wife of Mr. Chas.cily, Manuel—ln this March 9ih, of consumption, Antobeating towards the English Channel; on the 7th passed South nio W. Manuel, aged 22 years. He leaves a wile and one Foreland, anil Laudsend on the 11th; on the 23d sighted St Anchild. tonio (Cape dc Verde Island). On tbe 30th exchanged signals Shabbatt—At Makawao, Maul, Marchloth, Frederic J wilh English bark Stewart Klphenston, from London, bound and 10 ilo Montevideo, 30 days out. Dec Bth exchanged signals with son of W. F. aud E. Sharralt, aged 4 years, 1 month Norwegian bark Linle Nas, from New York, bound lo Callao, days. cily, Humphreys. Dow—ln this the residence of Mrs. at 37 days out. On Ihe 10that 6r M, took heating of Ihe Island Garden l.anc, March 12th, of consumption, Mr. Alexandeb Peoetlo dc Tedero NW|N, about 12 miles off. Crossed the Scotland, aged 23 years. line In the Atlantic in long 2!lj ° V Dec 11 ill, .1(1 days out. On D. Dow, a native of Edinburgh, XT Grass Valley. Cal.. papers please copy. an Amerihe 20th, iii lilt 34 ° 6' Sand long 48 ° 48' VV passed cily, Dbbweb—ln this March 13th, Mr. J. F. Dreweb, ican whaling bark, name unknown. Jan Ist, 1876, in lat 30 of Mennl. Prussia, aged 62 years. 14'8 and long 63 s 36' W had a very heavy storm from 88W. a native Wadwell—On East March Maui, —, Mr. Georoe Wadwith a high cross sea running, the vessel pitching very hard 46 years. and shipping much water on deck. Passed lat 60° 8, long well, aged aboutthis city, Captain Abbaham March 23d, Russell—ln Jan 12th exchanged signals til- W Jan 10th, 69 days out. of Dartmouth, Mass., and a resident of with English ship Golden Gate, from Liverpool, bound to flan Russell, a native years, aged years. for 30 66 past Ihe Francisco, en days out. Un Ihe 13th ran through the Straits these islands Luckbino—ln this city, March23d, of brain fever, Gkoboe of l.c Malre; 14th spoke English ship N X 1) W, from Liver- Seymour son of Mr. and Mrs. AnnieLokpool, bound to Callao, 62 days out, and on the 24th signalled sing, agedKamilipua, infant 9 months and 14 days. with English ship Helen Burns, of Glasgow, from Bwanaea, Judd—At Pawaa, near Honolulu, March 26th, of rheumabound to Valiwraiso. 73 daya out; her captain died on Ihe voytism of the heart, Allan Wilkes Judd, aged 33 years age. Jan 291h passed lat 60 e 8 and long 80 c 32' Wln the and 11 months, youngest sou or the late Dr. G. P. Judd. Pacific; fromlat 60° 8 In the Atlantic to here took us 10days. Coary—On board the U. c. S. Pensacola, March 27ih, Mr. Throughout this wholemonth hsd very stormy weather and Coaby. heavy gales from N W anil WNW with much rain and hall John showers. Crossed the line in the Pacific in long 125° W March 6th. Arrived in Honolulu March 18th, after a passage Information Wanted. of 136 days from Bremen, or 127 days fromLandsend. j The following letter haa been receded by the IT. 8. Consul Repobt ofSchooneb(Pilot Boat) Fanny, A. J.Wobth, ! dated New York, February 20th, hence any one being able to Masteb Left San Francisco March 7th MllS. Experi- furnish the dealred Information will please communicate with enced flue weather throughout the passage, and arrived in the theConsul: port of Honolulu March 19th at 8 am. Captain Worth reHeir sir—Having been informed by a sea captain that a ports the following! Capt C U Avery, of Uieschooner Peerless, certain MlchallKehoe la residing somewhere on the Sandwich killed himself on Thursday, March 4m, and Capt Hamilton Islands,and baring had a brother by that name who left this took charge of the schooner, sailing day after Ihe Fanny. country some twenty-five years ago, 1 have taken the liberty Report of Schooneb rkSBLEaa. Hamilton, Mabtbb.— ! to address you and ask you If you can in any wayassist me in Left Ban Francisco March Bth at 4 r Nt first four days experi- finding hfm, and letting me know where and how a letter would enocd WNW winds,and thence to Honolulu NE winda. On reach him. He was formerly from Rochester, N. Y. Mate. Ihe night of March 18th hove to off Coco Head, arriving In Bm. D. Kkhor. Respectfully, Honolulu ihe next morning at 10i o'clock. Respecting Herbert Franklin Sills, from Trenton. Ontario, Canada. Should (he yonng man visit Honolulu,and will call upon tbe Seamen's Chaplain, he may hear something to hla PASSENGERS. MEMORANDA. Report — — * , = , ° — Fbom Ham Fbakciboo— Per D. C. Murray, March7th—Mrs Capt Gherardl, son and nurse, Mrs l>r Brown and servant, Capt Folver, Miss Shannon, J W Rutherford and wile. Miss Carrie Simons, Mrs Alice Stuart and daughter, Mrs Clarkand ■laughter, E J Blake and wife. Mr Robertson, 1. O Fanner, H F Gandon, W 8 Callohan, E M Powers. Fbom Bam Fbabcisco—Per Gsod Templar. Marck Mfc—J D Ackerman, A Vernet, Henry E Hurray. advantage. Respecting George E. Whllton, aged about forty years, who shipped on board bark Cicero," of New Bedford, in 1800, " and touched at Honolulu 1807. M There is a small sum of money deposited In the bank, which would dohis aged mother a vast deal of good," and which cannot be taken out unless it can be ascertained definitely, whether her son is living or has died. Information may he sent to Ihe editor or M. E. Whitton, of Charlestown Mass. �30 THK FRIEND, APRIL, 1875. |From the Partite CommercialAdvertiser, March 27ih, 1875 ) KMTetaHoorbnlplgeictTuatY wfor ears. Mit. KuiTOii:—Aa these isles are more and more resorted to, for purpose* of health, recreation, sight seeing aud scientific purposes, an well as for business objects, and as inquiries fire frequently made in regard lo temperature, bealth, &c., I have thought that tbe publication of reliable data, bearing upon these points, might be of public service. I have therefore brought together, in one tnble, from the first and second volumes nl' the Hawaiian Spectator, the meteorological observations of tbe late T C. B. Rooke, M. D., covering a period of two years in succession, one of them unusually dry and tho other unusually wet. But the two will doubtless give a fair sample of the average climatic condition of the locality where the observations wero made. Tbe islands have a great variety of climate depending upon the Altitude and locality, but mild ami salubrious in all habitable places. The windward sides of the islands being wet, and the leeward sides dry. These observations were made in Honolulu, in latitude 21° 18' iiortli, and longitude 158" V west, lyiug on the leeward or southwest side of Oahu, and is one of tbe warmest and dryest localities in the group. I should odd that tbe post winter has been colder lliiui any one I have experienced in a resideuce of thirty-eight years in Honolulu, the thermometer several times fulling to 56° nt C o'clock A. M., nnd to 52" on the oth of January, in a northerly exposure; whilst at the transit of Venus station near tbe seaside th« mercury marked 50" 5' at (I o'clock A. M. 8o far as I know, this is without precedent in Honolulu. Yours truly, S. N. Castle. Honolulu, March 26th, 1875. 11. IICMMIIMI Tl.k. H >!* R*iBi IE5,Ij ip el -St "&\|Ht|!?-li ■ I »I li I Illi •Ml WW. January February March April Muy July A ugust September October November —• December Average of the year. .. 93IS § ■y u - V- I I . ' l'-'l"l |2J ,77.31 US. 9 ,76.6. 0 6(i 73.1 ,79.61 74.s 44 82 181s. .lauusry February March April May Juno July A ugust BHSMBM .September October November December AVITHI ol ths rear ... 69.3!175.671.6, 71.2 75.3 7J.1 72.0J ,76.1 78.6 71.5,176.7 72.8 180.3 76.5 73.2J 76.4,,81.7 77.1 70.4'82.6 77.9 77.aiS3.2 78.4 76.7,,82.6 76.0 80.1 I.VJ 71.3 76.6 71.5 76.3 71.6 78\8 15.1 I*»1 in 7.'l 75 74 77 78. 80., 80. ,19.1 76. 73. 70. 21 r. :i 1 r. 7 .1 1 I 7 I) 25 I : < i i f { ; pr. *. ST r. 67.9 70.0,71.3 80 til 71.li 10 14 i7 .l!77.7 72.7 81 M 73.6 22 4 69.6 78.6 72.4 79 SI 72.0 I 1» 0 72.1 i78.4 73.7 80 71 75.5, .10 0 178.4 80.2|76.0 82 71 76.5 311 I 176.1 81.9,77.6 84 w 70.6 20 0 76 4 81.5 77.8 84 75 79.6 •2< 1 176.9 M.I 78.184 7ft 79.6t .HI 0 76.5 8.1.0 77.0 86 75 80.0 29 1 7«.*'80.6 76.0 83 71 l77.0i M 4 72.7,,77.0'73.8 8l' 60 75.0, in 7 , June ' :atii. -. v. S 'I I . II,HUM IKTKB. 5 I >J I -s -1)0 il I ~ ■: il •v VQ ■* ■ ■ n ' ;I I is ■ c »5 i' s »» I :*r !I • ■. 1 « I c a ■ i of great magnificence. The bridal gifts, which were duly announced in the daily papers at the time of the celebration of the nuptials were very numerous and very valuable; but they all dwindle into insignificance hy the side of the Khedive's superb present. These diamond ornaments, which consist of a necklace and a pair of ear-drops, are the most valuable gifts which any Egyptian has made as a mark of personal regard since Cleopatra dissolved her pearl in vinegar and drank it as a "health" to Mark Antony. The present was received at the customhouse last week, where it had to be detained until Congress could pass an act authorizing it to be delivered free of duty. The experts of the custom-house appraisers' department estimated its wholesale value in gold at $280,000, and nt this valuation the duty upon it would be $70,000, or very nearly $80,000 in currency. But Mr. Tiffany, who is a better judge of jewelry than any custom-house expert, puts the value of the €i I ; sr i jewels at $300,000.—Ilechany,. ; s29.970!136^606.10.041 10.143 29.871 00.270 29.960 ,00.200 30.070,.30.030.30.000 30.180 An Old Claim. 30.098;!30.057j 130.087, 10.1 so 129.860'00.330 30.128 30.092 30.117 30.200 29.980' (10.220 M 4 Tim old claim against the Chilian Government 20 1 1 0.0 30.109 30.085 30.097!!30.240 30.020 00.220 21 II 6 1.4 10.093 30.081 |30.085|,30.200) 211.W.H,90.240 for Dm ship Gorxl Return has been settled. Tbe 30.115 .10.095 30.186' .'III Ml:.,00.140 30.107 II 7 .1 2.8 ■ 3 8 | 2.0 10.077 30.066 30.087'.••.MM:io.o.ri,'i JOO.090 claim is of forty years' standing. The following 0.7 .111.11115 .10.080 [30.097 .30.176 30.005 nil.170 telegram from the Secretary of State to Honorable ■ 1 0.4 30.110 30.070.,30.120!'30.206 30.025'00.180 M 1 IK S 4; 4.r. 3O.07O'30.029' '30.071 30.226'29.904 00.320 .limit's liiiflinttin explains tbe details of the settle1 1 27 1 .1 1.0 10.124 30.072 30.116 30.236 211. '.125 ,00.310 ini'in : •17 5 21.1 30.128 30^060 io.O'.ki 30Tl9i:29.1ICS 1111.2.11 ■• The claim against Chili lor tbe Wood Return has been settled, and twenty thousand dollars been I I I I 25 I .1 II. s 30.080 ,30.028]30.051 30.185! 2ll.98."i 00.220 paid. I have received a draft on London for Ihe 18 ('. 4 8.5 .10.016 129.9701130.005 30.185 '29.865' 00.310 niiioiiiit. deducting exchange, and will cnmmtinicato 21 4 8 I 2.1 J30.105 30.064;;30.996 30.195 29.950' 00.245 Ihe facts to the owners ol the claim. 27 2 1.0 30.127 1:10.095 30.140''30.216! 80.015 00.200 (Signed) Hamilton Fish. a 1 2 0.6 '30.149 30.139 30.182 '30.245; 1 .10.005 011.240 Secretary State." 17 I 10 2.5 30.086 30.140 30.C90I130.176 20.926]'00.250 24 3 4 1.6 '30.091 30.068 30.092;i30.155'30.026J 00.130 The following particulars w« obtain from the? 28 1 2 1.2 30.078 80.052 30 07S 30.145 .10.016 00.130 26 3 ! 3.6 30.073 30.035 30.088 .'10.125 29.985 00.140 Standard : 20 I 6 (1-2.0 10.040 30.021 30.042 30.136 29.816 00.320 •• The ship Uotxl Return, ol New Bedford. Job 19 I 8 I 6.7 30.041 30.008 30.044|130.18629.706, 00.480 ■ (i 17.6; '23 978 29.878 29.993 130.125 29.775 00.360 Terry. Muster, arrived at Talcukiiano, May 2S, 1832, in distress, having lost her rudder on tbe 18tb. She 41 gallons 24 .1 18 3 1 22 2 2.0; 1.7 2.6 1.2 l !! I had 13,180 of sperm oil, 88.226 gallons ot wbale oil, and 22.U0U pounds whalebone on board. and whose father played them The vessel was detained by tbo Chilian Governduring long life, so thatfor quite a hundred ment, as Captain Terry says, 'on the miserable years past, no hand has struck the music of pretext of a few pounds ot tobacco found in tbe " chimes," his City of Edinburgh. A lady correspondent traveling in Scotland thus writes, under date of Jan. 25,1875: We arrived in Europe July 16, 1874. We traveled till winter set in, and then settled down in this beautiful city set upon a hillside and fair to behold. It has many modern and ancient features of interest. Its immense Castle," the city's fortress, set upon solid "rock, 300 feet above city level, its history, so truly interesting, and in fact, its nt/c is beyond the limit of all history gathered—is still kept in good preservation and occupied by 1000 of Her Majesty's officers and soldiers. Then the quaint old " Holy Rood Palace " and its old Chapel and Abbey Kuins. Then there are— Calton Hill, with its several elegant national monuments; Arthur's Seat and Salsbury Crags; the Roaming and Resting Range of Sir Walter Scott; the Lonely Ruins of St. Antony, the Hermit Monk. Among the things not to be forgotten, is that queer old house where " Dr. Johnson " put up, on his first arrival in Edinburgh, 1773. Its present odd occupants, and its past history, formed a peculiar commingling in one's mind. Then the dear old " St. Giles Church," founded in 1401. I often visit its Belfry Tower with the dear old lady who, for 30 years, has daily played its — chests of the sailors.' ol the presence of which tbe those chimes but theirs. boarding was informed. Captain Terry was Many is the wierd tale she has told me of told that ifmuster lie would give tbe Customs officers 80 or the past as we sat among those old grey 60 ounces of gold they would let the ship go, or timbers, dustcovered and thickly webbed with else they would make all the trouble they could. vessel was detained until October 27. An esglistening fibres of long ago. It has a charm The timate ot damages amounting to $36,041.65 was for me I canna tell ! made by parties interested, and another estimate The many modern points of interest are amounting to $37,165 waa made by a committee of numerous : Museums of Science ; Galleries liritisb naval officers appointed by Lord Towsbend of the liritisb frigate Dublin. Captain Terry wbo of Art, and more than can be told. The was the largest owner, called on every President streets and parks are greatly beautified with Iroin Jackson to Lincoln, in relation to his claim, life-size statues of notables and elegant monuments—one to the memory of Sir Walter Scott is superbly magnificent. Well, I must not weary you with more of this lovely city, most of which, from history, you already know. and frequently stated that if the Government would grunt him a letter of marque be would collect it without any further trouble to Uncle Sam. The 520.000 is probably all that will ever be recovered.— N. R. Shippiwj List. "Ka Lahui Hawaii."—This is the name ,of a newsteligious weekly published in the The Khedive's Present to Gen. Sherman's [ Hawaiiau language. It is a spicy and live Daughter. ; sheet, edited by the Rev. Henry Parker. When General Sherman was in Egypt, a i The editor is giving sketches of his visit to year or two since, he paid a visit to the California in successive numbers. From a Khedive of Egypt, Ismael Pacha, and gave .caricature posted about town, this little pasome valuable advice to that progressive ruler in relation to the re-organization of his per must have fired a " big gun " last week, army. In return for the favor done him the and put to flight certain jurymen who degrateful Khedive has sent to General Sher- clared in Court a certain native woman aa man's daughter, who was recently married innocent, when she had confessed her guilt! in Washington, a bridal present in the form Hawaiians are a newspaper reading people, of a diamond necklace and a pair of ear-rings fond of a good joke. �1875. APRIL, ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. Skamkn's Uktiiki. Itev. S. C. Damou, Chaplain. O. IRWIN St, CO.. King street, near tbe Sailors' Home. Preaching WWT at 11 a. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the Commission Merchants, morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday riantatlnti and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, 11. I. evenings at 74 o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting every day from 12 to half-past 12. EWERS *. DICKSON. ""Fort Stkekt Church—Rev. YV. Fieur. Pastor, | corner of Fort and Deretania streets. Preaching Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, on Sit inlays at 11 a. M. and 74 p. M. Sabbath Fort Street, Honolulu, H. 1. School at 10 a. m. KiwiuiiAo Ouurcii—Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, mp D., HOFFMANN. M King street, above the Palace, tfcrvicea in Haat waiian every Sunday 94 A.v. and 3 l*. M. Physician and Surgeon, |Ro«AN Catholic Church—Under the charge of Ciirii-T Merchant ;iml Kaahumsnu Streets, near thePost Ofline Rt. Rev. Biahop Maigret, ussisted by Rev. Father Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services A 1 BREWER fc CO.. every Sunday at 10 A. m. and 2 P. M. Kaumakapii.i Church —Rev. M. Ktiaea. Pastor, Commission and Shipping Merchants, Beretanin atreet, near Niiuanu. Services in Hall.innlulu, Oahu. 11. I. waiian every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 24 r. m. Thk Anolican Church —Bishop, the Rt. Rev. AI P. ADAMS. ■red Willis. 0. 1).; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A.. tf Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Auction and Commission Merchant, Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. on Fire-Proof Store, In Robinson's Buildinc/, Queen Street. services at and a. at. and 11 English Sundays 114 and 74 I'. M. Sunday School at tbe Clergy H House at 10 A. M. |-|R. MOTT SMITH, 31 THK FRIEND, SAILORS' HOME! BBBiJbmLi . Dentist, If. \. FLITiVEK, HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THK MKK-PKOOK UuiUling, Kaahumaau titreet. CONTINUES . Ilavlug resumed practice, can lie found ut Ills rooms over X Slrehs A On.'s Drug Store, corner of Fort and Hotel sts. JOHN S. McGREW. M. I> Officers' Table, with lodging, per week. Seamen's do. do. do. .. ... $1 S Shower Baths on the Premises. ED. DUNSrOMBE, 11.luluIn. January I. 1875. Manager. Carriage Making and Trimming ! I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT I now employ the best Mechanics in the line of Carriage, Making, Carriage and General BlacksmWting, Painting. Repairing, etc., Can be consulted at his resilience on Hotel street, lietween streets. lakes ami Fort A On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established Particular attention yimn to Fine Watcli ltepnirintj fact that our Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R WhitWEST, fext&nt and quadrantglasses silvered and adjusted. Charts pi man, is as well ezeouted as any in New York City or mud nautical instruments constantly on hand and for sale. elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that Wagon and Carriage Builder, u j we can manufacture as good a class of work in Ho71 and 71) King Street, Honolulu. nolulu as cm be fuund in any part of tbe world. I JOHN M'CKIKKN. [HIT Island ordersptomptty executed at lowest rates J. 0. MMXXII.L. will also Hate here that we fully intend to work at J I & Co., 0 WEST. A I. I. F \ Sl I 1111.1.1M.U lIKI'll, tbe lowest possible rates. Chkoxohitkbs rated by observations of the sun and star* with a transit Instrument accurately adjusted to Ihe meridian Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, of Honolulu. MERRILL Commission Merchants and Auctioneers Kawaihae, Hawaii, 204 and 206 California Street, Will continue the Oeneral Merchandise and Shipping dullness at theabove Mat, where they are prepared to lurnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such otherrecruits as are required by whaleships, st theshortest notice,and on the most reasonable terms. C Firewood on Hnnd..O Han Francisco. ALSO. AOKNTS OF TIIK San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular attention given to the sale and purchase of merW. PIERCE St. CO.. A chandise, ships' business,supplying whaleships, negotiating ""■ (Succcsors to O. L. Richards k Co.) exchange, Ac. D* All freight arriving at San Francisco, by or to the H»and General Commission Mer ootuluLint- of Packets, will he forwarded rasa or commission. Ship Chandlers chants, Exchange bought on Honolulu and XT Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. —BBFBBSMCBB— Messrs. A. W. Pelreeat Co Honolulu Agents Pnnloa Sail Works Brand's Bomb Lances, « H. Hackfeld ft Co (,'. Brewer ft Co And I'orry Dnvla' I'nlu Killer. Bishop k C0.... m " Dr. At. W.Wood Hon. B. 11. Allen Tllsis. ft. THRUM'S I** ly_ * " " " "" THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! - -- STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. 1!) Mi i rim nl Slrctit, Honolulu. OF READING MATTER—OP Paper* and Magazines, back numbers—put up order PACKAGES parties going rates fur Ifduccil 1/ to /ran %\ M. DICKSON, Photographer, 01 Fort Street, Houolnlu, AI.W Its o \ HAND A CHOICE ASSORTMKNT Of PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c, &c. CURIOSITY rtUNTKRS will flnil at this establishment n SPLENDID COLLKCTION OF Volcasllr Spcrlnn'i,.. Corals. Shells. Wnr liiiplriurnla. Ferns. Malm Knps,. And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and Mir.ronesian Curiosities. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY: jal 1874- • CASTLE & COOKE, at IMPORTERS AM) DEALERS IK to "**■ . MERCHANDISE! NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENERAL AGENTS OF DILLINGHAM & CO., Nos. 95 and 97 Ring Street, «W«»^ii»SW»BBBBBa«BBB»B»BljWSW,aw5? ?*•'(l>"dL J1 T'iHK PROPRIETOR WILL SPARE NO pains to make this HIjBGAWT HOTBa First-Class in Every Particular ! MORS CAN IE HID BY THE NIGHT OK WEEK! with or withoutboard. HAH- AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR PUBLIC MIETINOe. OB SOCIKTIKg. Aa*j ly KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OP (roods Suitable for Trade. REGULAR Portland LINK or Company, Packet!, lihe Kntfand Mutual Ufa The UnionMarin* Inaurance Company, iiari Frauciaco, Insurance New The Kohala Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Mill. W. 11. Bailey. The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, Tbe Wheeler & WHion Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jaync 4k Bona Celebrated Family Medicine*. if "THK FRIEND," MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT MONTHLY during tbe last Six Years can testify from personal exSHIP perience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of A Temperance, JOIRNAI. DEVOTED TO I If lllbjiibbb PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY Seamen, Marino and General GOODS FOB TRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGIIAM A CO. SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: Ona Cop7per annum TsoCsples per annum Foreign Subscribers, Including postage $2.00 SCO ».6o �YMoeunnH A'sgCochiartf onolulu. Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and (o keep one's selfunspotted from the world. Thankful and Unthankful. DV 11. C. TREVXII. as he ililnketli In his heart, so is he."—Prov. xsii 7. " ForSome murmur when their sky is dear, a And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue; And sumo with thankful love are filled. If but one streak of light, One ray o(pod's good mercy, gild The darkness of their night. . In puluces are hearta that ask, In discontent and pride, Why life is such a dreary task, And all good things denied And hearts in poorest huts admire How lovo has in their aid (Love, that not ever seems to tire) Such rioh provision made. "Can he Have Forgotten his Mother?" ble evidence of your affection. Her loneliness will be imidiated by the sunshine of your kindness; her heart will be warmed hy the assurance of your continued love ; and your own soul will be benefitted by the doing of a filial deed. " Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be lon;,' upon the land which the Lord thy (iod giveth thee." There is a state of morals on the Sandwich Islands which needs a thorough discussion in the public newspapers; but it is |our opinion that this discussion should be differently carried forward in the foreign newspapers from what it should be in those papers published in the Hawaiian language. The two classes of readers essentially differ in their modes of thought and methods of illustration. We would not be understood as asserting, that the principles of morality and virtue differ when applied to the two races. "We are all of one blood," and accountable to the same God. Morally one class may be no better than the other, but Hawaiians do speak of things in common language which are essentially ignored by AngloSaxons. Now, let this discussion be carried forward according to the mental training of each class. In former times we think many articles have been published in foreign newspapers which ought never to have appeared. In consequence of their publication, an entirely erroneous impression has gone abroad, respecting both the foreign and native community. We hear rumors of a re-opening of the discussion of certain subjects, hence, we sincerely hope it may be confined to the native papers. In justification of our position, we would remark that native preachers and missionaries may and do employ (and very properly) illustrations which would not be tolerated in the sermons of preachers in In the recently published volume of the Rev. W. M. Taylor, of the Tabernacle Church, N. V., upon the life and character of " David, King of Israel," we find an interesting and touching allusion to David's kindness to his parents; and we quote the following, inasmuch as it may convey a useful hint to some young man, away from home : Behold in David's tender provision for his parents an example of the care which we ought to have tor father and mother. There are few things more delightful than to see a son or daughter lovingly supporting an aged parent; and, on the other hand, there is nothing more worthy of our scorn and reprobation than the conduct of those who leave their parents to the cold charity of an unfeeling world. Nor is it only in the matter of support that we should show our regard to our parents. We should reverence them when we English. are beside them, and when we go to a distThe annual meeting of the Y. M. C. ance from them we should be regular and full in our correspondence with them, letting A. will be held on Friday evening, April them know all about us, and making them 30th, when a choice of officers will take feel that we appreciate their interest in us. place. Is there a son here, to-night, who has allowed The next monthly meeting of Y. M. many months to roll past without sending a single line to his father or his mother, to tell C. A. will be held on Friday evening, the how he fares? Let the blush of shame suf- 9th inst., at7.J o'clock, at the Beading Koom. fuse his face as he thinks of his thoughtless- Punctual and full attendance requested. ness. You may not have much occasion to Noon-day Prayer Meeting.—The hour remember your home. In the bustle of the workshop, or of the store, or of the counting- of meeting for the greater convenience of room, many things force themselves upon who would attend, has been changed to your attention, and you do not miss your some and continue until 1 o'clock. o'clock, 12.\ home. But your mother, having such a multiplicity of things to divert her mind, is Rev. E. T. Doane's Lectures.—This thinking upon you all the day long; and as the postman goes his round each morning, gentleman, by invitation of the Y. M. C. A., she looks out expecting a note from you. has delivered two interesting lectures at the But, alas ! eacji day she turns away disap- Lyceum, during the past month. The assopointed, saying, with a heavy heart, " Can ciation feels upder special obligation to Miss he have forgotten his mother?" Don't let this occur again. Go at once and send her Castle, Miss Mosely, Capt. Tupman and Dr. a cheery, hearty letter, if possible with a Hoffmann for the musical aid which they check or a post-office order in it, as a tangi- have rendered on these two occasions. 32 Pilgrims' Progress in Chinese. Some days since, standing with a group of Chinamen, before a large engraving, representing Bunyan's Pilgrim, on his journey from the "City of Destruction" to the "Celestial City," and thinking they might possibly be made to understand the meaning or design of the picture if it should be explained in the Hawaiian language, we requested a person versed in that language to act the part of interpreter." To the surprise of all, one"of our Chinese friends, remarked : " I have read the book in the Chinese language;" adding, "you see, when the Pilgrim, with the burden on his back, approached the ;ross, the burden fell off and rolled into the sepulchre." While all present were somewhat surprised at this intelligent and discriminating remark, another of our Chinese friends present, added—" But I have read the book in English." This pleasant little incident occurred at a gathering of thirty or more Chinamen, who were present at the marriage of one of their countrymen, who has thoroughly renounced the doctrines of Confucius and become a follower of Him who was present with His mother at the marriage, in Cana of Uallilee. Perhaps some of our readers will now learn for the first time that Bunyan's Pilgrim has acquired the language of the "Middle Kingdom," on his pathway to the " Celestial City." We hope this incident may encourage those who are teaching in the Chinese Sabbath School, and in other ways, are endeavoring to impart a Christian education to the Chinamen with whom they are acquainted. We would merely add that the one referred to as having read Pilgrims' Progress in Chinese," is a member of Fort Street Church, and the other of the Bethel. " Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou shalt find it after many days." " Correspondence, in reference to a Chinese colporteur, is still in favorable progress, and it is confidently hoped in our next issue we shall be nble to report that all the necessary arrangements are completed. Compulsory Physical Exercises in School.—President Elitt, of Harvard, says of compulsory physical exercises in schools : They should form a part of the programme of every school for boys, and should be insisted upon just as regularly as Latin and mathematics from the time a boy is ten years old until he is sixteen or seventeen. Most American schools entirely neglect this very important part of their proper function. Many young men, therefore, come to the university with undeveloped muscles, a bad carriage and an impaired digestion, without skill in out-of-door games, and unable to He, row, swim, or shoot. It is important that the university should give opportunity for a variety of physical exercises ; because this student prefers one form and that another, and an exercise which is enjoyed will be ten times as useful as one which ia repulsive.—N. Y. Observer. � 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 (1875) 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 - 1875.04.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875.04.01