https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/1819362cb47d8677444015d635e3b157.pdf 025b7602daf003b2ae2b327ec14427ef PDF Text Text THE FRIEND. Vol. IV.] HONOLULU, OAHU, H. 1., SEPTEMBER 15, 1846. 137 [No. XVIII. His father, a son of Hog. Jonathan Law, Governor of Connecticut was an formerly A Semi-monthly Journal, devoted to Temperance, eminent attorney, and during the Revolution Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence. CAPTAIN RICHARD LAW. was an ardent patriot, devoting his time, talPUBLISHED AND EDITED BY Died at New-London, Conn., Dec. 19, ents and fortune to the service of his country SAMUEL C. DAMON, SEAMEN'S CHAPLAIN. at (he age of 82 years and 9 months, Capt. His second son, Richard, the subject of this Richard Law, a valued citizen and venerable sketch, caught the flame that was glowing in TERMS. sea-captain of that place. the bosom of his father, and gave himself up Capt. Law was a man of great skill and with all the boundless enthusiasm of youth $2,50 One copy per annum, 4,00 experience in nautical affairs. A sailor from to the cause of fieedom. At the commenceTwo copies, " Three 5,00 his boyhood, be had made almost a count- ment of the contest he was a member of " " Vale Five 7,00 less number of '* " voyages, and had been in College, having entered that institution at Ten 10,00 " " scenes of danger and difficulty, such as test an earlier age than is now permitted; his ADVERTISEMENTS, the character and task the powers of man in studies having been vigilently superintended One square, 2 insertions, $2,25,and 50 cents for ev- no ordinary degree. His courage and skill by his father, he was qualified for admission half ery additional insertion. less, square oi One were equal to every emergency. In no cri- at 11 years ofage. The news of the battle and 37 cents for ad2 insertions, $1,75, 1-2 every ditional insertion. For yearly advertising, please tical conjuncture did his native firmness and ofBunker Hill, came in among the spirited to the Publisher. decision of mind ever desert him. He had young patriots then at Vale, like a lighted apply Subscriptions and donations for the Friend receiv- an elevated idea of the duty which a com- torch among sheaves of corn, setting them ed at the Study of the Seamen's Chaplain, or by the mander owes to his ship—to the interests all in a flame, and scattering them far and following Agents:—Mr. E. H. Boardman, Honolulu; whether of life or property intrusted to his wide. Richard Law hastened to tbe side of Rev. Cochran Forbes, Lahaina; Rev. Titus Coan, care. On this account he would never take his father and became the companion, the Hilo; and the American Missionaries throughout one of his family to sea with him, lest the assistant, and the confidential messenger of tho Islands. strength of natural affection might in some all his earlier patriotic enterprizes. In the emergency warp his judgement, and cause first town meeting in New-London, which POETRY. him to swerve from the straight line of duty. gave a bold and free voice to the stifled wish In most respects he might serve as a model for liberty, he stood behind the chair of his From the Episcopal Recorder. of an accomplished sea-captain—mingling father, who acted as moderator, and as resourbanity with authority, so as to secure both lution after resolution was adopted, he was FRIENDS. the love and obedience of his crew. In all the first, to toss up his hat, and begin the Friend after friend departs, " hath not lost a friend ? Who his numerous voyages, he never had any se- long and loud hurrah. He finally obtained There is no union here of hearts, rious difficulty with a subaltern, and though permission from his father to withdraw perThat finds not here an end." he frequently shipped men who had been re- manently from college, on condition of enpresented as stubborn and refractory, they listing in the infant navy of his country. " Friend after friend departs," generally proved, under his judicious maAt the age of fifteen he was appointed midAnd oft to those whom most we cherish here, nagement, as cheerful and orderly as any on shipman and attached to the command of Death sends his swiftest darts, board. Capt. Nicholson, of the Ship Trumbull, then And calls them soonest to a brighter sphere, One trait of his character to which we building at Middletown. In the mean time would give special prominence was a gener- he obtained leave to make a cruize in the Where all are friends—true friends, ous fellow-feeling, and open-handed charity "Lady Spencer," a noted and successful Not like to those we often meet with here, Whose mis-n,unod friendship ends towards his brother sailors. "My conscience privateer of that day, and in this vessel had he would often say, "is clear on one his first experience ofactual warfare. •When poverty and sorrow first appear. point. / never neglected the sailor. Often The Trumbull carried 32 guns, and had a Mourn not to lose such friends I have I watched night after night by the side of gallant crew—new indeed to the trade of war, For still remain these who are friends indeed, a sick messmate, or a poor tar. It was always but thirsting for distiction and adventure. Whom God in mercy sends, my pleasure as well as my duty to take good In her first cruise out, she fell in with the To be the dearest in our hour of need care ofpoor Jack." Would that all masters British Letter of Marque Watt, off Bermuda, of vessels could as conscientiously say this. and a terrible conflict ensued. The two Who has not lost a friend V Too often, alas! the sailor's commander is ships lay side by side for four hours, en" If any such there be, most happy they, the very person who has the least sympathy gaged in the fearful work of mutual destrucOn whom such joys descend for the sailor's sufferings. tion. The loss in proportion to the numbers As friendships, unimpaired by time's decay. Only a rapid outline of the life of Capt. engaged was such as to give it a sad preLaw can here be attempted. Had he kept a eminence among naval battles. The Watt But one day soon will prove private journal, or had the friends of his lat- had a cargo valued at £300,000 and many All earthly friendship- lint a broken reed; ter years been more careful to draw out the passengers on board, who came upon deck When we must seek above details from his vigorous memory, or even to and fought with all the heroism of practised help friend to our last time of need. A in note the particulars which were daily flowing soldiers. She is supposed to have lost 70 forth from the rich storehouse of his mind, men, and on board the Trumbull every 4th Then trust His mighty arm, in the familiar intercourse of friendship, a man was killed or wounded—so out of 200 And humbly at his gracious tootstool bend; For nought thy soul can harm, memoir might have been written surpassing being entirely disabled. In this dreadful acWhile thou canst call the King of king* thy friend. in interest the wonders oi romance, or the tion midshipman Law at one time stood alone Philadelphia, Nov., 1844. creations of poetry. at his gun, every other man that belonged THE FRIEND, --------------- THE SEAMEN'S FRIEND. �138 THE FHIEWD. .around him. Some of death the senior officer in the navy. H e post of responsibility, and in fact had occuhis companions were literally cut to pieces, made numerous voyages to the West Indies. pied it all the preceding night, standing at and one, it is said, actually shot into the air and often remained long among the islands the helm, —in sea phrase canning his ship and lodged in the rigging. Weary of the engaged in the currying trade. In that tro- Tiic most intense unxieiy prevailed among awful conflict, the firing at length ceased on pical climate he suffered greatly from its pe- the passengers, and even when night closed both sides, and the two ships drifted apart. culiar diseases, and at one period was so debil- jnround them, the cabin passengers never The Watt was most injured in her hull, the itated that for 14 months life was hut a glim- left the deck, leaving the supper below unTrumbull in her sails and rigging. The mering spark, and day alter day he was touched, and watching the movements of the main aad quarter deck guns of the Trumbull brought from his berth, nnd laid upon deck ship, and the fields of ice floating and hashfired 386 rounds, Bb' of which were fired on apparently to die. ing around them, with silent solicitude. \. t the quarter deck. The marines fired pistols! In 1799, Capt. Law again entered the pub- a useless word was spoken during thai night during a part of the time, exclusive of which, lic service, receiving from the Hon. Ben- of horror. At 12 o'clock while they were they expended near 1200 rounds. An anec- jamin Stoddart, Secretary of the Navy, the luffing and bearing away from a large island dote often told by Capt. Law may be intro- commission of Master Commandant, with Bi that suddenly appeared upon their Ice, they duced here as some relief from these horrid order to tnke command of the Brig Rich- struck against a small piece of the broken details, and furnishing a striking touch oil mond, in the squardron, ofCommodore Tal- ice, which penetrated the starboard bow and natural feeling breaking forth nt a trying bot. In this vessel he was out 14 month., on fixed the doom of the ship. The stroke was moment. In the hottest of the action, when a cruise in the West Indies, and retook sev- so light, and the sound so low that the Capthe langrage of the enemy wan tearing up eral vessels which had been captured by tain did not dream of its bung a fatal blow, their rigging and the deck was strewed with French privateers though nothing of great till one of the crew came up in haste and the dead, one of Mr. Law's townsmen said moment occured. On the reduction of the terror from below, and exclaimed, "Captain! to him eagerly, "Lawzy! Lawzy!—this was navy after tho general peace of 1801, he re- the ship is filling!" the diminutive by which the youthful officer turned to the merchant service and tracked Such fearful tidings, so suddenly announcwas distinguished by his companions—"lf I the ocean in various directions with his ad- ed, could not fail to send a thrill of agitation, am killed, dont throw me overboard with my venturous keel. Before the treaties of the U akin to the frost of depth, through the hearts trowsers on." "Why not?" said Law. "Oh! States with Spain nnd France in regard ofall who heard it. The Captain went imbecause of the guineas! —the guineas stitch- to Louisiana, the Misissippi was barred mediately below, and saw at once the hopemy waistband! Save them for Molly, against every ensign but that ofSpain. Capt. lessness of their situation; but ordering both Law commanded 'lie first merchant vessel pumps to be rigged, he returned to the deck poor Molly!" The day after the action the wind blew a which entered that noble river, and sailed and in a few brief words told the passengers c. TheTrumbull lost her main and iniz- into the harbor of New-Orleans under the that the ship was sinking —that every exermasts, and the foremast wounded in many Ainericun flag. It was received at that time tion would be made to save life, but unless places was saved with difficulty. They lay with loud acclamations, and though a chance silence was preserved, and strict attention at the mercy of the raging elements, their incident is of itself sufficient to give distinc- paid to orders, all must perish together. Not a groan, not a murmuring word, or despairdecks cut up, their masts gone, tho cries of tion to his name. the wounded filling every pause of the storm, In his voyages across the Atlantic, and ing cry followed—the stillness of death the men exhausted with fatigue, and the of- during his residence in foreign countries reigned in the company, and amid that awwith anxiety lest a foe should Capt. Law met with various adventures and ful silence the orders of the chief were issued hwart them, in which case they must became familiarly acquainted with many pro- and obeyed with the promptitude which the iasy prey. The day after the battle, minent characters on both sides of the water. occasion required. The two boats were got c excitement of conflict is gone, is His social disposition, his polished manners. out—3{j men, women and children lowered one of unmixed distress, and gives ready humor and fund of anecdote, his nauti- into the long boat, which was given in charge tore of war in its true light. cal skill and the high integrity ofbis charac- to the 2d mute, and what provisions and waTrumbull was captured by the British ter, made him a favorite with his passengers, ter could be seized upon the instant, were her crew were carried into New and led to his introduction into circles of thrown in by the steward. The few remainnd incarcerated in those dens of bru- high distinction both at home and abroad. ing passengers that appeared upon deck imine and despair, known as the Su- Those who knew him in latter days, will not with the Captain and mate, leaped into the ae and Jersey prison ship. Midship- soon forget the interest which he gave to small boat or yawl and were barely able to w was the youngest of the party and conversation by his lifelike descriptions, and push off from the ship in time to avoide beively sallies of his humor contributed rich and varied reminiscences of noted ing carried down with her. tlo to enliven the dark hours of cap- characters and striking events. The saddest part of the tale remains to be He managed every night to gel free In the year 1805 he made that disastrous told; 27 passengers had terned in for the i irons, and sleep unshackled. The voyage in the ship Jupiter to which the loss night and were asleep below. There was ■s were chained in pairs;—the cotn- of life gave such fatal distinction. He was on not lime to awake them—to attempt it would .f Law was large and robust, while his return voyage from London, having sail- be only to increase the number of the pera slender and delicate youth. Irons ed from the Downs, March 6. Just a month ishing—the boats were already crowded with led to the former, and the moment from that time, on the morning of April 6, life—a tithe of those below, added to the uld escape from the eyes of the keep- being on the South-Eastern quarter of the weight, would bring destruction upon the would slip out hand and foot, and grent Newfoundland Bank, lat. 43", long. whole. Moreover, the emergency did not entreat his companion to take good 49°, they found themselves involved in a admit of deliberation or counsel—there was bis bracelets, till he should call for labyrinth of ice islands. Sometimes they no room for a second thought. Upon Capt. am. He was then comparatively at were in danger of being hemmed in, or dash- Law devolved a responsibility the most sotill the approach of a foe warned him ed to atoms, and every now and then large lemn nnd awful that man ever meets in this m his bonds. masses appeared that had no opening, which life—of determining, and that wiih instant the close of the war Mr. Law with- obliged them frequently to change their decision, whether all should go down togethkii the Navy and entered into the course, and steer wherever the broken ice er in that dreadful vortex which was gatherit trade: had he remained in the poli- afforded a chance of escape. During the ing round them, or whether a chance of esce, he would have been before his whole of that day, the Captain never left the' cape should bo given to some, leaving the to it lying prostrate tin iled �F R I END. 139 THE attention, others in ignorance of their approaching terror and agitation. This he thought might them with the utmost kindnes and with them doom The least hesitation, so imminent have led to the supposition that he was in- and giving up his voyage, returned 24th and impending was their fate, would have toxicated—and if under these circumstances, to .Miirblehead, where (hey landed April the yawl wero the bt»n death to all. But Capt. Law did not he did seize upon the wine standing upon The persons saved in hesitate; though his heart was wrung with the supper table, it must have been because Captain and mate-Hon. Robert. B. KenneJames Übery, of Lonanguish at the dreadful necessity, with per- he was nearly beside himself, and knew not dy. James B. Temple with ope seafect presence of mind and almost stern decis- what he did, or that he hoped thus to fortify don, John Tnp;an, of Boston, man and one passenger. steerage before him. perform duty boats, out his nerves to the his ion, lie succeeded in getting It wns long before any intelligence was rein putting every person that appeared aboard ! Moreover, Capt. Law felt that this version They of them and in getting loose from the sinking (if the calamity was a stigma upon him, as ceived from those in the long boat. with the same day were, however, seemed taken up who a the for it to ship, alone, had •he chief officer of ship. One younij man bound mother and sister below, alter having gut in- jintimate that in time of great hazard he left those in the yawl, by a vessel outward to Europe. to the boat, in the very moment of pulling off, jthe direction to others—a reproach altogeth- which conveyed them demanded to be put back that lie might die er unmerited, as during the whole of that In the year 1807, on a return voyage from with his friends. Remonstrance was vain— day and night, he had nevi r left his post, London, Capt. Law had the honor of bringhe was fixed in his purpose—he leaped on even to take necessary refreshment. In fact, ing out the first Protestant Missionary to Morrison, deck, and as they hauled off, no other living he bad not slept for 48 hours, but had been China, the heaven-commissioned ship who came to this country as a more eligible being w»s Be en to make their appearance with unceasing vigilance guiding the but this man. In half an hour from through the intricate masses of ice and ra- position from which to enter the Celestial Empire than England. He was perhaps inthe time when the first light stroke was heard pid current* in which they were involved. against the ice, the waters closed over this But the noble ship went down, with the duced to take this course by the deep interPresident Madison took in his misgallant ship and her costly freight of human heroic, the tender, the self-sacrificing son est which and brother upon her deck Those that sion. From him he received letters which souls. It is not surprising that these circumstan- slumbered below, deemed, perchance, that were of great use to him in Canton. [TO IE CONTISDED.I ces should have been sometimes misrepre- they vera struggling in a fearful dream from sented, and that Capt. Law has not escaped which they woke not till in nnother world censure for the course taken by him. But The two bouts remained among the fields of Order in Lahaina.—Our correspondent writes when the awful emergency is considered in ice, the yawl in tow of the long boat, contin- us Ihe following gratifying intelligence Lahaina, Sept. 6. all its bearings, it will be found that he not ually relieving the oars, now pulling one way, You cannot imagine how proud wo feel in Laonly acted upon a high sense of duty, but land then drifting another, with difficulty " once more see old good quiet times, such as to that if he had possessed less decision of char- finding a passage, and expecting every mo- haina wi;re in the days of tloapih. We bave no rum, and in, locked dashed to pieces, of course no rows and no noise. It is a rare thing or acter less of that true greatness of mind ment to be which makes a man willing to assume re- during the remainder of that night, and all now to see a drunken sailor, or*a boisterous, abusponsibility when critical situations occur, no the next day, (which was Snday) and the sive sailor in our streets. All is quiet and peaceful. God grant that we may never again be cursed and living voice would ever have been heard re- next night, and until 12 o'clock on Monday, afflicted with intoxicating liquors. Oh, why will ice, but To his cleared the they of At length "r. A. M. the the Ju| story uounting man, for a few blighting dollars, destroy tho peace small boat sea, felt that to a and the being in regard found rough dying day, he always of a whole community, and fix on the poor sailor the the duty he owed to the passengars, ho had 'unsafe in tow was cut adrift, and with her oerss nl drunkenness and deliaucbcry, by selling that acted not only honorably but righteously. It heavy burden of eight souls, they in the long pestiferous poison ? is principle ? Where is benevolence? Where is a fearful position in wbi.h to be placed, boat not being willing to increase their num- is Where sympathy for sutTorers? when men will holdout and one of tremendous moment, to have a ber, was left drifting before the wind, which the glass to their neighbor only to get his money and ship laden with human life, going down un- blew fresh from the south, and in the midst push him into the gutter, yea, into all that is debasder one with headlong rapidity upon the wide [of a drenching ruin which continued during ing, degrading nnd digusting, into moral wretchedocean, und only minds of great natural dis- jthe day. They were in momentary expec- ness a thousand fold worse than the filthiest gutter. hope no such man will be found in Labainr cernment, fcariess, calm, and governed by tation that the boat would fill, but al night Ido and forever."—Plynesian. henceforward abated, and could make use they high principles of action, can perform the jthe wind whole duty of a commander at such a mo- 'of their oars. The next morning found them For the Friend. ment. There is no doubt but that if every much frost-bitten, and exhausted with fasea-captain had the same presence of mind tigue. The boat was so crowded that only Mr. Editor.—Tlie subject upon which I am about and could act in times of peril with as much one could possibly lie down at a time. They briefly to speak, stems in this community to be ihe last promptness and energy, many who have had at first no provisions but a few fragments which engrosses attention, though deserving of especial fornotice; il is that of Sabbath breaking. Too found a premature grave in the ocean might from the supper table, caught up in a table eigners in coming to these Islands appear if many we are to have lived to bless the skill, and he grateful cloth, and part of a demijohn of water, and judgeby actions,—to ibink that all restraint in regard to for the resolute and decisive action of him these were now mostly expended. Their the observance of the Sabbath is thrown off the moment to whose charge their lives had been given only drinking vessel was a gold snuff-box bethey arrive here. My tense of propriety as a man, and longing to one of the company, and after my feelings as a christian, were grossly outraged in solemn trust. by obtheir refreshment in only here notice some all rowing night to that in If may be well serving a few Sabbaths since, as I returned from Church, from accounts which have been given of this sad the morning was whut could be sucked a number of young men, apparently full of liquor and very event, the accident has been attributed to the wristband of a shirt dipped intothe snuff- evidently full of noise, seated in s one-horse vehicle, the intoxication of the mate, and it is said box of water, and then applied to the thirsty driving through the street at a rate that endangered the that some of the passengers saw him in the lips of each of the party Providence had, limbs il" not the lives of pedestrians. They were not most desperate conjuncture of their affairs however, provided relief for them. Before sailors, Mr. Editor, but young foreigners,residents of this have recourse to the inflaming glass. Capt. noon, Thuesday the 9th, they descried a sail, place, whose natural abilities would lead one lo hope for Law always averred that this was a mistake; and hoisting their table-cloth upon one of better things from them. If they must carouse and riot that his mate was n temperate and trust- the oars, they took turns in holding it up, and that too on the Sabbath, would it not be a little more worthy man, though in the trying moment on until they were discovered and relieved. consistent wiih propriety lo retire somewhere from public board the Jupiter, his self-possession desert- They were taking up by the fishing schooner view ? There are others to obserf c their actions besides ORDER ed him, and he seemed almost frantic with Joanna, Capt. Henry Quiner, who treated ignorant natives. : : : ! — ' �140 THE FRIEND. ing and intellectual powers, we judge of there is reason to think, daring and mighty them with a great deal more uprightness robbers, who, at the head of their companies HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 15, 184«. and truth than we do of our hearts. The of bandittis, traversed the countries; comhis defects of the former we perceive and own, mitting pillage, murders and rapes, wherevof Rosseau and The philosophy seems to but those of the latter we conceal as much er they went. true disciples relative to happiness, be adopted by some in our community, who as possible, not only from others, but from There were periods of like anarchy and are continually harping upon the former feli- ourselves. As the heart is the source of the its horrible concomitants, in the history of citous cqndition ofthe natives. They would affections, so it is the seat of all real beauty the tribes of Israel : when "every man did fain make" you believe that the savage in his and deformity belonging to man. By its that which was right in his own eyes,7' when primeval state, possessed the greatest amount qualities is the worth or the vileness of every the highways were unoccupied, and the travof human enjoyment. These unsophistica- human character to bo determined. No elers walked through by-ways for fear of ted savages, true to the genuine impulses of splendor of talent, no brilliancy of intellect the swarms of robbers and murderers that v nature, reflect in their lives, the express im- can countervail the want of Tightness of infested the country. man, heartless however of neither heart. the heroic Ancient Greece, gifted A In knowing ages ; of innocence primeval age the galling fetters of law, nor the unnatural with intellect or furnished with accomplish- there was very little of government or law ; and odious distinctions of civilization. What ments, is not one that will brighten the chain mere brutal strength, united with ferocious though their dwellings are dens and caves of friendship or smooth the path of life. The courage, being the only passport to emiin the earth, their raiment foul and squalid heart that gravitates the wrong way, draws nence. The Theseuses and Herculeses, and their food scanty and loathsome!—Be- the understanding along with it, blind- were renowned and deified for their valorous Not that they ing always accustomed to this, they desire ing, perverting and duping that noble facul- exploits against robbers. to so that it of themselves were of committing ty, without or disjudges right according scrupulous repining nothing better, and murder, the and inclination of its treacherous and now and then ; every what nature feeling robbery joyfully gives. content, receive Such are the reasonings and arguments of adviser. Thus we see many who are ever but they were renowned and deified, because some who come from christian lands. No- ready to find fault with the laws or with the they had been the means of extirpating a thing is more natural to man than the love efforts of Christianity and civilization upon race of banditti more execrable than themof liberty—the liberty of doing as he pleases the happiness of the people ; when if they selves. —of acting in all cases according to his in- would carefully scrutinize their own hearts, The age of chivalry, in modern Europe, clinations, without dread of punishment or they would there find the great cause of bore a considerable resemblance to the heroic ages of Greece. Chivalry, or knightfear of shame On this liberty—which in- their trouble. We to see the civilierrantry, had its origin in the deplorable strides rejoice rapid which nadeed is the only liberty for fallen throughout zation are condition of anarchy in which the countries making Christianity and has a sincere and unreserved liking— ture the laws of government, the opinions of vir- the world ; and in no portion of the globe of Europe were placed. The knights-errant tuous society and the precepts of religion are have their good effects been more apparent or roving knights, were professedly the progalling checks. Hence it is that those who than in our midst. From the ruins of bar- tectors of the weaker part of the community have in their youth enjoyed the privileges barism and idolatry a flourishing kingdom and particularly of the fair sex ; whose and been subject to the restrictions of civ- has arisen, whose people rejoice in the pos- champions they pretended to be, and whose ilization, imperceptibly lose their former session of that gospel which inculcates ravishers they often were. The licentioussense of shame, and rush headlong in the peace on earth and good will to man." A ness of manners, during the anarchial age of path of dissipation and vice. A sense of regularly organized government has taken chivalry, was, if we may credit the fragshame is one of the most powerful checks the place of a despotic monarchy. The ments of its history, both general and shockupon vice. We sometimes wonder that same spirit however, which opposed Chris- ingly enormous. Even so far forward as the ninth century, those who came from lands where a high tianity, opposes the execution of laws, howwholesome and to the there was no public maritime law in Europe, safety necessary ever state of morals exist,should in ao short a space those who of cannot believe in society. consequence of this lawless condition We and of time degenerate in their morals, and manhere, of now force of in piracy was not only tolerated, seas, are the laws the opposers ners. The reason is, they throw off the reand down, to all broken but honor. The petty sovereigns of in desire see held authority straint imposed by public opinion. There is in the natural heart of man, an confusion and anarchy resume their horrible the nations upon the Baltic, provided each If we trace back the streams of of their sons with a ship or ships, and enjoinextreme repugnance to restraint or scrutiny ; reign. so also in the moral heart. It is one of the time as far towards their source as there are ed it upon them to make their fortunes by pimost difficult tasks for one to scrutinize the any lights furnished us from history, we shall racy and plunder. moral frame and operations of his own heart find that no tyranny has been so horrible as Two important particulars clearly follow with a steadfast and impartial eye. Every that of anarchy. In the antediluvian ages, from these historic sketches. The one is, man knows less of his own heart, considered in which no regular government of general that since we live in an age of regulated in a moral point of view, than of anything extent was known, the earth was filled with government and superior civilization, in else with which he is at all conversant, Par- violence. Those giants, those men of renown which life, character and property, are well tial as we always are to our own understand- so termed by the sacred penman, were, secured by law, we cannot too highly prize THE FRIEND. ' ' " �THE FR I ElfD. .. 141 would them, and those blessings : and the other, it behooves in a rude and forlorn condition ?—Assured- ■ the them without destroying wholly, or reach that nil persons possessing any regard for ly not because it was out of the power besides, of And altogether. liberty speech religion or morals, or even for their own beyond the benevolenco of Him to have ren- ■ in society, a great deal less averseis, Eden. t here it a dered the whole face of blooming should use their best eninterests, personal ness to evil speaking than to theft. If one deavors to preserve social order, and to set Upon the moral change of human nature, the ; underwent a i have his money or his goods stolen, he no change their faces steadfastly against all wanton vio- the earth too sooner makes it known, then his neighbors of the frathorn and thistle grew up in place lations of good and wholesome laws. him in searching for the thief, who, The join nourishing flower and plant. i if withand The mass of those who fall under the grant convicted, is sure to be punishchastisement of the law, are to be found heat consumed by day and the frost by night; found ed; because common zeal, as well as comamong those who idle away their days, and obstacles to sloth, and imperious calls to inwas compelledI mon consent, take side against the culprit. spend their nights in revelry and debauch. dustry multiplied, so that man But the pilferers from character fare less There are multitudes who pass along the to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. law by the ■ hard; or rather, they are tolerated, provided stream of life without laboring at the oar, or Not only is labor made necessary but it is as a enjoined t they manage with art and address, and mm:paying anything for their passage ; so that of our general nature, Six shalt days ;—" the Bible gle some wit with their malice or their levity. the charge of their fare falls heavily upon positive law in more Somehow, there is a sad propensity in our nowhere found thou labor." Man is their fellow-passengers. Idleness is an evil fallen nature to be pleased with backbiting, of a very dangerous nature ; for idlers not degraded than in climes the most delicious, and a smack of it gives a zest to general only burden community, but corrupt it. They where the earth spontaneously supplies an conversation. Few are altogether without not only do no good, but much harm ; they abundance for his wants. It is there that hisi envy, which ever takes delight in a backbinot only prey upon the fruits of other men's faculties are torpid, his heart most deeply or detracting tongue. Few are without industry, but deprave public morals ; they corrupted, and his existence superlatively ting some conscious and visible faults; and the are like scabby sheep that taint the flock. wretched. are naturally prone to take pleasure faulty It is absolutely necessary to the well-being In some countries Ihe wisdom of legislanoticeable faults of others, as it tends the in tors has been much employed on this subject, of society, that there not only exist good them about their own. From these to quiet enforced that be they wholesome laws, but promptly and the arm of executive power has causes, and still oftener perhaps, from industry as a political duty which every per- and impartially administered ; for without thoughtless levity, encouragement is given, son owes to the state. The Hollanders in this, they are worse than useless. almost every where, to the small dealers in particular, in the early age of theirrepublic, detraction, who, all together, compose a false witness Thou shalt not bear considered idle persons as politically crimiagainst thy neiohbor.—This sacred pre- pretty numerous body. nal, and punished idleness as a crime against It requires no great stretch of charity to the commonwealth. Those who had no vis- cept is to be understood as possessing a very believe, that there are very many persons of ; wide latitude meaning, comprehending ible means of an honest livelihood, were never have been guilty of any dishonest who calumny, which i only gross not and perjury called before the magistracy to give an acaction, and much less of downright theft, count how they got their living ; and if they are both punishable by civil law, but alsoi be apprehended that there are were unable to render a satisfactory expla- evil speaking, in all its multifarious shapesi But it is to who have never in all their indeed, few nation on this point, they were put to labor. and degrees. It is obvious that although very borne lives, false witness against a neighbor, Those thrifty Hollanders are said to have the prohibitory precepts in the eighth and or another, either by unwarsome of the are both degree in holy decalogue employed also the following singular expedi- ninth articles that are spreading ill reports, or else by rantably evils alike prejudient. They constructed a kind of box suffi- leveled against an ear to slander and deftoo to willing society, yet cial pernicious people giving and ciently large for a man to stand therein upis which most easily concern the one than It the evil in in much more amation. take tight and exercise his bodily faculties. In are least apt to be the interior of it there was a pump. The the other. Every well-regulated civil gov- besets us ; of which we which many people practise, aware, and vagrant or idler was put into this box, which ernment arms itself against theft, and metes without compunction, and almost without was so placed in the liquid element, that out punishment as well to petty pilferers as and the yet violations thought, although apparently of estimable the water would gush into it constantly,; to the highway robber; of divine article pro- characters in other respects. through apertures in its bottom and sides ;' of the next succeeding most without punhibition, for tho part, pass, so that the lazy culprit had to work at the We have received the first two numbers pump with all his might, and for several { ishment and almost without notice. Not trash charbut that is with of the " Sandwich Islands News," a compared money from drown-l hours together, to keep himself civil is inquite but the fact law recently established in this weekly paper acter, is, found medicine, it is was to said, ing. The of genbe an infallible cure for the disease ; inso- competent to the task of taking cognizance place. It is edited by a committee Fienee ninth Janion andDe commandment, tlemen, Messrs. Abel), much that no person was ever known toi of the violations of the the same as the Polfew instances of terms are save in a flagrant enormity. The size and work at the pump for the second time. Peathis Jamas in Mr. tongue, by The the It is printed trespasses of way ynesian. It seemed meet for the all-wise Creator, the new store recentthat man should be subject to labor, else why | are so innumerable, so diverse, and ofttimes cock, in the office over could fc H. Grimes. E no erected Messrs legislator classify by artful, of men so that ly was the earth given to the children • : • much less enact laws that �142 THE FRIEND. incognito, is a problem of great interest to us lovLater from California. We extract the following items of ers of something new. In the present age it is By the arrival of lb* Hawaiian brig Euplieima, 19 intelligence from the Polynesian of Sept. 12: almost the only country there would beany excite- days lalcr from Monterey, we have received the two fii»t Jap aw.— Visit of IT. S. S. Columbus.—The U. ment in visiting, or that could furnish a taking book. numbers of the The Columbus and Vincenncs have both suffered " Californiun," published ly Messrs. S. Ship of the line Columbus, 100 guns, bearing the from Ihe diseases of the eastern cliinntc, Colton & Simple, at Moulercy. broad pennant of Commodore James Biddle, com- somewhat manding U. 8. East India Squadron, arrived in our although the weather at Japan and hence has been s:iyri : the U. about twenty Stales on Wednesday morning and anchored in the very fine. Since leaving and she has now outer roads. This stately vessel is the largest even men have died on board the former, down with the seen hure, cirrying, wlwn all monnted, twenty-two! a hrge number on the sick list—mostlyThe cicw genguns mora than tho Collingwond. She is from Chi- jseurvey or di.irrhii.'u and dysentery. na, via Japan, forty-three days from Jeddo, which erally ore feeble, having been for the lust ninety place Commodore Biddle visile- with the design of days on salt provisions. They, undoubtedly, will In their prospectus ihey W* shall ininiitain an enlire nnd uller severance of all political eonneclioii .viih Mexico. We renounce at nice nnd ton vcr all fealty lo her laws, all obedience lo lior in.indaics. We s.'iiill advocate an oblivion of all pasl political olli lives, and allow every man lb* privilege nf entering llns new otrt of events aue»h*flS*i*d by nny part he opening intercourse with the Emperor of Japan, by speedily recruit under ihe regenerating influence of may have iul.tu in previous revolutions. markets. We shall ma'jitain free.loin of speech and the press, forwarding him a letter from the United States Gov-. our Trades nndBiddle lies taken up his residence on uud iho** great principles af religious toleration, which ernment. The ship anchored some distance below j Commodore Stevens, every ii.an to worship God according lo the (demansion of allows T. H. Esquire. he city for want of proper charts and the indisposi- shore at the lates of his own conscience." tion of the authorities to allow her to come nearer. Naval.—H. B. M.'s brig Spy returned on MonThe lirst number contains the act of Congress, approvThe communication was forwarded to the Emperor, day from a short cruise with iho Collingwood, havexplaining the objects of the visit, lo which he re- ing been in company with her two days bccaluic'd ed Maj IS, raising 50,000 men to serve for the term of plied that he had heard of the United States, that under the lee of Hawaii. She brought despatches 12 mouths, and appropriating *10,1100,000 to defray the they were a flourishing and great nation, nnd lhal lie from the Admiral. expenses. Also the proclamation of thaPresident of ihe The U. S. ship Vinconnes does not visit these hoped they would continue to bo prosperous, but desame dale, declaring war. It advocates the assembling She tho Columbus Jeddo accompanied Islands. to clined any closer relations with them. The onlyof a cnnvculiou to elect a delegate lo Congress to claim with her soon after for tho there, parted leaving and foreign trade that would be allowed was with the the formal recognition of the territory of California, and and thence home via of Good China, Cape Ladrones Dutch and Chinese. He begged the nlnp would sup- Hope. She had sickness on board also. a sent in that honorable body. ply herself with what she wanted speedily, up anchSalutes.—Soon alter Ihe U. S. Ship ColumNaval. The Levant, Capt. Poige, with Com. Sloat or, be oT, and never return. Landtag was disallowed, but Ihe ship was supplied wiih such as the coun- bus dropped anchor, H. B. M.'s ship Juno saluted on board, sailed for ihe U. States July -3d. The Cyane, try afforded, wood, water, poultry, eges, and vege- the Commodore's flag with seventeen guns, which Capt. Dupout, with (.upturns Fremont, Ford mid Swift, tables, for which neither pay nor presents were re- was promptly returned by thirteen. with ihcir companies on hoard, sailed on ihe 21st of July ceived in return. Nothing like trade was allowed At 10 o'clock, Thursday, the Columbus exchanged lor San Pedro, with ihe view of landing their forces to the fort. with the numerous visitors lhat came on board. salutes with Melancholy.—On Tuesday afternoon attack ihe combined forces of the Governor and General Even presents of coin, &c, that Jack gave some of Most of iCnslro. The Congress, Com. Stockton, sailed on the the shore people, were afterwards returned. The John H. Smith, son of the Searpcnt of Murines lying in our harbor, while rid- 26th of July, with the intention of taking such a position only productions of the country obtained were a par- H. B. M.'s ship Juno, was thrown from his horse and dragcel of presents sent by the Einpuror lo the Commo- ing on the plain as to place Castro between her and Capt. Fremont. The dore, which were declined by him. The J ipanese of- ged for several miles by his foot in the stirrup. His IPortsmouth was at San Francisco and the Savannah at pieces neck was dislocated und his head beat to by ficer having them in charge dared not return without so that when Monterey. delivering them, an J as it was at the dusk of the ev- the hoofs of the frightened animal, The U. S. sloop-of-war Wurren, arrived from Mnzutlan boy was picked up a manening, he threw his packet into one of the quartor stopped the in .innate was a lad of but ten years old, on the 12th of August, and sailed again the next day for boats and pulled or] for the shore as fast as possible. gled corpse, lie small of his age, a general favorite, and had attract- San Pedro, with despatches for Com. Stockton. All was There bsinj; no » 10 .etuin it, the contents were divided among tin otfiaers, but they contained noth- ed the attention of our residents. Iquiet at Mazattan when <he left. Accident. —A daughter of Mr. E. M Rogers, Capt. Fauntleroy, wilh a company of riflemen, was ing of much value or skill in workmanship. was much burnt on Wednesday j The Japanese had heard of the intended visit of about five years old, .stationed in ihe vicinity of Sail Juan In lepel ihe invasion 'he C il imbus, but seemed some surprised at her di- morning, by her clothes" taking fire fio.i. furnace mother in a of the Indians and freehooiers. Purser Watmough wi'.h mensions. She was visited by many of the inhabitants, in the cellar. She ran up stairs to her the house with her clothes in flamts. a small party was at Pueblo keeping a lookout lor the evidently with the Emperor's penr dsion, but tho:e distant part ofnothing near with which to extinguish jhorse-thief Indians. Capt. Mervine was in commaud of were no females amnni; ilieni. Armed boats were There being Mrs. Rogers seized ihe burning clothes theFort at Monterey. flames, about as the case her, in of the Manhattan, kept ] er hands and stripped them from the child. In hut thoy were not of force to resist a man-of-war. Prisoners were constantly arriving from Gen. Castro's doing she was dreadfully burned, but Ihe child's 'camp, who The men arc represented as a fine, athletic race, inreport that when Capt. I' ement had arrived she remains as yet very was saved, although quisitive and intelligent. The shore off which the at the town of Angeles, about 12 hours march from him, ile. ''oluinbus lay wis rocky, but wooded, fertile, and List of Offickr.i of the U. S. S. Comjmi-s—Com he broke up camp, buried bis cannon, and left in the diapparently well cultivated. fT«ga and bullocks were James Biddl*—Captain, James W. Wyman—CommanAt his first camp, he gave pennisnot to be h id, though oth r .pplies were plentiful. der, Thomas O Selfrirlgc— Lieutenants, Siephen John rection nf Sonoma. The Columbus lay there ten diys and the.i sailed stone, Percivnl Drayton, fienry French, James H. Strom; ision 10 as many as chose 10 return home. All but about for this place. The Vincennes was subjected to siAetiig Lieutenant, Maildi*«on Rush—Fleet Surgeon, 16 returned to their ranches. Those who followed the milar treatment. Hcnajah Ticknor—Past Assistant do., Charles F. li. General were persons who had committed so many These are all the particulars we have as yet gath- Guillnu—Assistant do., Daniel I, Bryan -Purser, Ed- crimes thai ihey were afraid of justice. The Culiforuian ered of this visit to Japan. The result shows that it win! T. Dunn—Chaplain, Joel W. Newton—Acting of Mathematics, of August 22 soys so far aa California is concerned, the mat wiih no better success than previous attempts, Master, T. M. Wainwright -Professor Yamall—Commodore's Secretary, Edward J. war is at an end.'' and tint the Japane* are determined to persevere Xordecai Clark—Capl. Commanding Marines, Henry B. Tyler— The Brooklyn arrived hence Aug. 3d. News had been in thoirexclusive policy, content with the amount of Lienteiianlsdn., N. S. Waldrnn, John C. Cash—Passed their present intercourse with Christendom, through Midshipmen, D McN. Fairfax, Andrew T. Drake-Mid- received from the U. S. to ihe middle ol May. The Calthe h.onts of the Dutch factory at Nangasioki. In shipmen, Wm. U. Whitin*, G. M. Dibble. W. W Low, ilornian notices a rumor of the death of Lous Phillippe, looking at the result of the contact of Ihe European Ryrd W. Sleven-on. H. A. Colborn. Edward A. 9eWen which pro] no ly arose from the attempt on his life. races with tho native powers in India and China, one John B. Stuart, Charles K. Graham. Nicholas H. Van The lown of Monterey was qnicl, and the crops in thsl Gustavus Harcannot but admire th* polite wariness of the Japa- Zandt, Jonathan Toang Stephen B.Luce, It. Simmons, J. A. vicinity looked promising. The wheat crop was very nese. Every visitor is treated hospitably, but kept rison, Jr., David A. McDermut, A. Forrest Commodore's Clerk, J. Lewi* Captain's abundant. )» board kit ou>» skip. Compliments are met with Clerk, Robert Harris—Commander's Clerk, J. L Refler lompliments, wants gratuitously supplied, and not a —Parser's Clerk, William H. Needles—Purser's Stew Contributionsfor Bethel at Lahaina. shadow of leal complaint given. Christendom will nrd, Wm. Y. Upham—Boatswain, Y. R. Hall—•limner, Mr. Jurnegan, tl 00 I Mr Eggleston find this peaceful, gentlemanly demeanor, a stronger Thomas Robinson—Carpenter, Jonas Dibble—Sail Mak25 | Capt. Dark. Mr. Derkins, barrier to their attempts at securing a diplomatic er, Robert C. Rodman. Capl. Lowen, 60 Smith, Mr. and trading foothold than were all the elephants The following are Brazilian Midshipmen on board U. Capt. Rickeuon, 3,00 Capt. Smith, and sibres of India, or the unwieldly war-iunks and S. S. Columbus, acquiring a knowledge of the service by Mr. Almy, Capt. Dering, 9,00 order of the :— F.mperor __.___. of th* As 62 Mr. Bennel, Halsey, pompous proclam itioie Chinese. yet not Jose Henregues da Silva Froel, Joaquim Paula Mar. Mr. Leak, Mr. 60 Mr. Smolbng, pretext th* most fri.oloua or even force, even for tins c Silva, Basilio Antonio dc Sequeira Barbedo, Sa 2.00 Mr. Warmer, negotiirions has tx-en given. How long hastiano Caetano dos Santos, Jose Ticardo da Costa Mr. Coon, Collection taken at the Chapel, apan will be en ib'od to maintain herself aa a terra Ayaiard Andrada, Mauiede Semoes da SUva. • waters ■' " • J _, .. _ I — " — . Juahing — - 1 �143 FRIEND. THE DRY GOODS AND HARDWARE. voy, nf ProvMert-e.r, whale*; 28, Penibrole of" New London, PASSENGERS. 2 whale., July 1,, Chili, ofNew Brill'iinl. I whale, 11, Kilropa, large assortSole by the subscriber*, 17—Capt. Newell, K. A. Niantic, Aug. for New York, the Now Bedford, whales; 25, In 2 llreiiien, 1 whale; If. Ilereules, of Goods consisting in pari of the followof Boston, late of schooner Kainehameha 111. ment Haven, Mtmld. fair whale*. 2 Id Ihe Morea, of New Bedford—Cant. Butler, of Ni w BedMary, Ba':.-.., New London, ing articles, viz,.; Juli 26 -Am ship George (erd, lataoTAm. whaleship Bailie. 2000 lihla lliis ■'■son. 10 bales bro. Cottons, 15 do. shirting Stripes, Per ship Charl.-s— Captain Snow, supercargo, and Mr. Ily UapMs K»OJ, of ship Charles —Bark Newhuryport, 400do_T. red Hdk'fs, 14 cartoonabl'k Ribbons. Tufts, clerli. l Bnjr, atoclngtoa, U uaMfcs, MS siierni, UN whale; Olive 100 do/ Sailor's Caps, SO boxes family Soapf llranrli,Place, New neiifurit. 9 months, 2 whah-a; Caasander, King, I'rov.. it, ■ months, 180 aporiu, K2O whale; Rirh8 pieces Broadcloth, 1 case paint Brushes, MARINE INTELLIGENCE. 'IO. whale; .O iM'unt. Swift, I'roviileiiie. Jl nionlhs, sfla|»erni, 20-bbl's long nine Cigars, 8 ca*e» white Hats, Runnel, 8. le, New Hiill'ord, II liionlha, ICOO whale; Sharon, PORT OF HONOLULU. (lou<h, t'alr Haven, 14 ninnlhs, 81.0 whale; Fortune, Bailey, 600 corn Brooms, 100 sides sole Leather, New Beiifortl, 20 months, 20(0 whale; Ilraper, l.ortou, New 101 tegs white Lend, S casks sad Iron*, I'edl'oril. 20 ninnlha, sun sperm 1200 whale; Levant, Haveua, ARRIVED. 100 Buckets, 10 do/. Swain's Panacea, Green, Mystic, Sag (spoken from 1600 Onlurio. Harhor, uinulhs, whale; 21 Montgomery, Romulus, Aug. 26 —Am. ship 50 pit Saws, 60 cross-cut do., I.'lllu whale; Lowell, Benjamin, New London, 2100 Aiiiiii.il 1! Maui Willi lists ol' anchor. I 10 casks Vinegar, 10 tons iron Hoops, Slept 2.—Bremen ship Joseph Ifaviln, Parker, Bremen, from iwhale; Endeavor, Weal, New litidford 1100 whale. July II Maria There**, Fisher, New Bedford 1600; July 28. Sophie, 10 casks wrought Nails, 50 do. cut do., Silka, 2j iiiuiilhs, 130(1 whiile. 90S Hoi senson. H'f New Beddate, Addison, Went, Austin, oiling. Maui same 2IK10; in veil. 4 Three whale ship* fro n E. & H. GRIMES 111,1 of Hamburgh, Neal and Cachelol of Havre, September 4 Am. ship Colvo. Bunch, Sloninglon, 15 mos Iford. Hl> Auguot 1, 184(1. I'liantMt" 70 sperm. 3600 whale. Am. ship Governor Troup, S> Kin, New Bedford, 26 months, PORT OF LAHAINA. ISO sperm, 1100 whale. FOR SALE BY J. B. McCLURG & CO. s.—Am ship Julian, Blackmail, New Bedford, 24 months, this season. msrgm. M\d\d\ lbs brow n Sugar, 6,001bs white 250 sperm. 2500 whale, 500 whale ARRIVED. do., 1,000 lbs Bread, 6.—Am ship Inn, Jackson, New Bedford, 100 aperm 700 Aug. 15.—Am. ship Ornsimbo, Norton, New Bedford, 9 .— whale. l.Oot) lbs Coffee, 100 lbs Pepper, mouths, 1250 wliale I l.'O this season. 7, \ m ship Envoy, Fisher, Providence, 26 months, 150 25.—Am. ship Cowper, Hathawav. New Bedford, 15 niontha, 1,600 gals. Molasses, 800 gals, sperm Oil, sperm. 30110 whale, 1500 whalethis season. 100 sperm, 300 whale, 100 sperm, 225 whale this season. 60 bbls Beans, 20 do. Champaign, 11. II M.'s brigaiiline Spy, Commander Woohlridge. Vn. shri Arushnet, Rogers, Fair Haven, 13 months, 26.— Biddle, 4.1 Commodore 8—U. S. ship Columhusi 100 gum. 180 sjier 120 whftle tills season. 60 boxes sperm Candles, 60 keg* white Lead, days from Jeddo. Am art) ;* llrookline, Jeffery, New London, 13 months, 120 100 kegs black Paint, 26 green do., Am. ahip Elitabeth Frilh, Bishop, Sag Harbor, 9 months, 700 aperni, ISM whale this season. 200 gaFs linseed Oil, 100 do. spt Turpentine. 26 50 Balance, Recti, Providence, months, ship sperm, Am. Taylor, St. 13 John, months, N. B. •.—Br. ship Peruvian, 100 ps. Russian Canvass, 1600 Miotic, 1.0 whale this season. „ 700 whale. Am. bark George fie Martha, Beard, New Bedford, 12 mos., 200 coils Russian and Manila Cordage, Hl.—Am merchant ship Charles, Knox, of Boston, 32 days .100 whale this season. 10 casus China Silks and Shawls, trom Kamachalka, via Lahaina. French ship Mississippi, Rosaiter, Havre, no report. Am ship Mocteinma, Tower, New Bedford—no report. 20 cases Tea—Gunpowder, Imperial, &c., Am bark Franklin, Ilalscv, Sag Harbor, 26 months, 170 13.—Hawaiian brig Eupheiuia, Rnssum, 19 da. lid. Monterey. sperm, 6,000 lbs Russian Iron, 6 bis bright Varnish, 1710 whale, 37(1 whille Itiii* season Hf Several sllipa 111 olßng from Maui. Am. ship Monlaiio. Russell,', uitucket, 12 months, 30 sperm, 200 Guayaquil Hats, 10 M Spanish Cigars, SAILED. |800 wliale, fCO whale tllis season. 20 M American Cigar*. Aug 2*—Romulua, Montgomery, Myallc. to cruise. Bedford, sperm, Florida. Met* 13 300 ship Cox, months, An _ug isi 15, 1846. Sept. 1 —Gustav, Poole, (late Norton) Bremen, to cruise 900 whnlc this season. 20 Jolbj, and home. 115 ship Triton, Warren, 1., months, R. 27 —Am. B.—II 11. M's line-of-batlle-shlp Collingwood, 80 guns, Rear sperm, 800 whale. Admiral Sir George F. Seymour, lor Valparaiso via Tahiti. Am.-ship Pacific, Aldin, Fair Haven, 13 months, 60 sperm, DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. Woldrt.lge Commander (450 whale this season. H. BM 's hrigantlne Spy, Lt. copartnership heretofore existing under the s—Charleston, Chester, New London, full, for the United Am. ship Neptune, Oat, New London, 21 months, too sperm, name of JONES & MAKEE has this day been set) whale tllis season. States. Line 'nte. v i._Charleston, fall, for the United States. Am. ship York, Coflln. Edgnrtnwn, 28 months, 500 sperm, dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having 6.—Tnseurorn, to cruise. 1900 wlifile, 700 whale this season. accounts with the said firm are requested to present Erie, Holley.fUll fur li.une. Am. shin John A Flixnbeth, Walker, New London, 25 mos. them for settlement to the undersigned. Ilibcrina, Smith, to cruse and home. 80 sperm, 1729 wliale. 600 whale this season. ELI JONES, MEMORANDA. Am. ship Ansell Gihhs, Merrihew, Fair Haven, 16 months, The. ship Joseph Haydn experienced a severe gale early in 50 snerm, 900 whale, -HO whale (his season. JAMES MAKEE. Bedford, offher starboard sheathing 27 months, 200 Am. ship Hope, Wilcox, New June which «tript the copper and Honolulu, Aug. 12, 1846. arc. Discovcranes, 900 whale 100 whale this season. boats, davits, two sperm, carried »waj smarter, erod some lime after the rudder was badly split, supposed to Am. ship Heroine, West, Fair Haven, 15 niontha, 200 sperm, repair. 1000 whale, 200 whalethta season. NOTICE. have been done in ihe pie. Put into Sitka lo Am. ship Neptune, Nicholl, Hag Harbor, IS months, 100 The ship Romulus returned to Ill's port August 29, on SOhave this day entered into a undersigned were Some of the mutineer! this season. whaje of trouble with crew. 800 whale, count copartnership under the firm of MAKEE & landed, and she sailed again next day. Am. bark Black Warrior, Chnppell, New London, 15 mot., capThe N. some rocks Ist 60 1600 1200 whale this season. whale, in ashore on 100 spinn, Ship l'n / got ANTHON ss Merchants and Ship Chandlers at the 28. Am. ship Lucy Ann, Brown, Greenport, 21 months, old stand of Jones & Makec, and respectfully solicit tain and some of the crew pulled for the ehorc. Whileofgone, the frightened tho remainder this 1(100 whale, thumping heavily, season. the ship i.'iio ufler him—meet29.—Am. ship Mogul, Andrews, New London, 23months. 150 the patronage of the public. crew and they took to Iheir boats and pulledwhen, to their sur- sperm, 2200 whnlc, 500 whale this season. JAMES MAKEE. ing the cayitaln, they put back to ihe ship, of aeveral prise they saw her going off under sail, at the rate Am. slrp Louvre. Green, New London,2s months, 150 sperm, J. A. ANTHON themercy at and was whale this season. 1400 rocks, slipped had from the 2800 whale, knots. She Honolulu, Aug. 13, 1846—tf. of the wind, (hero being no one on board to guide her. After gent. 2 —Am. ship Governor Troup, Sllva, New Bedford, 25 long pulling and much difficulty the crew succeeded in rcn'hiug months, 130 sperm, .1500 whale, loon wliale this season. Am. ship Phenlx, Briggs, Sag Harbor, 23 months, undersigned have this day entered into a On the 23d of April the ship Champion experienced a heavy whale, 1000 this season. copartnership at Honolulu and Lahaina, HaSeptember 3.—Am ship Salem, lland, Sag Harbor, gale, during which a sea broke over her, carrying away Jib 1000 whale, 400 Ihis araaon. waiian Islands, under the firm of J. B. McCLURti boom, lee bulwarks, galley and cook. about 500 miles 7.—Am ship Hamilton, Babcock, 12 months, 1100 whsle, & CO. JAMES B. McCLURG, A part of the Lagrange's crew left her when perished. have supposed aie to boat, and season. 800 this irom land In a ALEXANDER G. ABELI Am ship Abraham Barker, Braytoo, New Bedford, 11 months, The American whale ahip Superior. ofN. L., had two men HENRY ChEVER. 300 sperm "sil wliale, 650 whale th.il season. killed hy a whale this season. Am ship Ceres, Adams, New Bedford, 13 months, 80 sperm, Honolulu, Ist July, 1846. SPOKEN. whale whale, of New this season. 600 SM By the Carolina, Cnpt. Prentiss -Mai 21. Olyraria, English bark Wallaby. Hobart Town, 8 mnntha, 100 sperm Bedford clean -10. Harrison of New Bedi'urd, S whales. June of 800 whale. J. B. McCLURG <fc CO., 13 hark Harvest, of Bridgeport, clean 19, hark Pioneer, whales; 8. Am ship Champion, Corey, New Bedford, 27 months, 115 New Bedford. 2 whatei; 23, Eugene, of Slor.lngtnn. 2 DSALSSS IS 3100 whale. Cabinet, of Stoulnglnn, 2 whales; bark Gem, of Fair Haven, sperm,ship Isabella, Stuart. New Bedford, 12 months, 530 sperm Ship Chandlery. Merchandise and Produce 1 whale. July 4. Am t whnles 29, bark Barliarv, of Fair Haven, of whale. N. 11.16 bark Wlnslow. of New lleilford. 1 whale; 7, Gen Scott, Honolulu,Oahu, > of N. Bed9.—American ship George Washington, Russell, Wareham, HAWAIIAN ISLANIIH. London, 4 whales, bound for Chill; 111, Liverpool, ) Lahaina, Maui, sperm. 1800 whale. fertl 4 whales; 16, Robin Hood, of Myallc, 5 whales,bound for. 25 months, 230 Hamburg, 15 months, 550 Hamburg, bark Tleinan, Hamburg whnles. on hand and for sale. 2 keep constantly Bedford, New Chill; 28, Abigail, of Hamil- ■ whale. -J_ all kinds of merchandize usuallyrequired by By the Joseph ll'ivdn. Capt. Parker—May 16, bark ship Liverpool, Devoll, New Bedford, 2.) months, 400 whales. 2 of Havre, Am hbls; Fanny, Sag 27, ton,of Harbor, 250 whale ships and other vessels arriving at either of June 2, Nile, ofNew Bedford, no report; ;,. bark Harriet Knit, sperm 2000 whale. hbls; 23, t orvo, Am ship Alexander Coffin, Halhaway, New Bedford, 23 the above named ports; in Honolulu at the stand 300 bhls.; 17, Benjamin Hush, of Warren, 160 of New snerm 1000 whale. months. 400 near the principal wharf, formerly occupied by Ladd bbl..; 29, Elisabeth of Stonington, 13 month, out, 2700 July 8. bark Tenedoa,of N. Am shift Wiscatset, Payne,Sag Harbor, 23 months, 80sperm Bedford, 500 snerm, 1700 whale. & Co.; in Lahaina, at the stand of the Consul, for monl'is, 3620 wbale. „ London, 5 whale.; 12, Julian, of New Bedford 23 to CoAm ship Nile, Case, Greenport, II months, 80 sperm 900 luerly occupied by Mil" Calkin. 2400 bbla. No date, H. B. Co.'s ship Columbia, hound whale. lumbia River for cargo, thence to this place Otahelte, Wietlng, Bremen, 9 months, 40 sperm %• Want_d".—Bills of Exchange on the United to of -May Smith Capt. By the Hlberaia, •*."??? 27, l'scinr, 660Bremenbark money will whale. md States, England and France, for which 40 bbla; 14, Jacnuea, La Fltte, of Havre, 600 bbla; "New Am ahip Timoleon, Luscomb, New Bedford, 12 months, 75 be advanced on the most liberal terras. jy 4tf of Pair Haven, 3 whale, this season. June 17, 430 whale. bn- •perm Bedford, 2 whale.; 80, York, of Edgarlown, 2 whales; 24, ., FOR * e 'r — < _ _ . : OUsUvV .. . ', , ., THE THE ,, , THE ; ' t ; _ WILL , 2SE Elizabeth . . ..' ' * �144 THE win?" GOODS, or Boston. jc*t noivtD pi» Day "Chulm" Goods. FRIEND. LIVERPOOL C. Underwriter's Association. BRE WE R 4c CO., Cniryal (fommdsflton J«rrcl;ant.. HONOLULU, OAHU, CHARLES BREWER,) j. r. B. Marshall, > Hawaiian Islands. Underwriter's Rooms, English Prints, assorted ; Muslins and Liverpool, 25th Oct. _| \y Ginghams ; printed Cashmeres ; Turkey red and rWIHIS is to certify to all whom it may concern, FRANCIS JOHNSON,) Madras Handkerchiefs; Linens, Duck, Drills and J_L that the Committee for the afN. B.—Wanted, Government or Whalers' BilK Diaper* ; cold worsted and damask Table Covers ; fairs of the Aasociation have managing appointed Messrs. on the United States or Europe, for which mone* 4-4 Irish Linens;B-4 linen Damask; bleached Sheet- Starkey, Janion & Co., to act as their Agent on favorable terms. ing and Dowlas ; assorted spool Cotton and Thread ; at the Sandwich subject to the annexed in- will be advanced Lwle, Berlin, Thibet, silk and cotton Gloves ; cot- structions, whichIslands, are to be exhibited on all occaton and woolen Hosiery ; bleached English Long sions where the agent may be required to act, so Cloths; Bishop* and Rainsook Lawn* ; Batiste, Me- that no misunderstanding may arise with the parties rino, &c. assured or their representatives, aa to the extent of itel) anti (nivoiioiri-tet Jttaftrr. Flannels, wool Frocks, Mitts, Caps, Drawers, authority vested in the Agent. HONOLULU, OAHU, Shirts, Braces, &c.; monkey and pea Jackets; "No from this Association can divest the S for sale an assortment of JEWELRY, flushing Trowsers ; indigo and mazarine blue Cot- assured,power their or assignees, or the masters of agents, VATCHES, CLOCKS, (,c. tons ; blue Jeans; Kremlin Stripes; blue Drills; sat- vessels of that right over property which law has mometers repaired and accurate rates given in Jeans ; bleached Drills, Tickings, Denims, cot- given them ; but it is presumed that the assured or ton Flannels ; gingham Umbrellas, assorted ; bales icular attention paid to tine watch repairing their avail themselves of will representatives readily brown Sheetings and brown Drills, assorted widths; the assistance of an agent, who is appointed by the Sextant and Quadrant Glasses silvered and adjusted men* and boys navy cloth Caps ; gold navy Lace, underwriters, to act in their behalf, and whose coassorted widths ; cases Bunting, assorted colors and operation will facilitate the settlement of lossor ava/o ©o ©i_i_- [i.i_.i_- a width* ; blue and white Thread. PROPRIETOR OP THE erage with the underwriters." Boots Shoes, &c. By order of the Committee. ia.ITSION Case* Boots, Brogans, Slippers, seamen's Pumps, THOMAS COURT. Secretary. fee.; French waxed Calfskins ; bbls and casks Day HONOLULU, OAHU. FOR SALE. & Martin's Blacking. U. Duck ;| X. Bale* and packs light ravens and GEORGE M. MOORE, PWIHE undersigned have for sale the following crate* Crockery, assorted ; Tumblers, Plates, etc. J_L Goods, on reasonable terms DEALER IN Hardware, Provisions, &c. Pipes ; Soap ; Turpentine ; white Lead ; Paint Sad Irons; English and Amercan Iron, assorted Brushes ; Blocks ; Shot ; silk and cotton pocket General Merchandise Ac Hawaiian Produce, HILO, HAWAII, H. I. sizes and qualities ; sailor's Pots and Pan* ; mill Handkerchiefs Glassware ; Navy blue prints ; black Saws, Grindstones, whalemen's Rivets, 21 cases and white and purple and white Fancy Prints ; LinCORNELIUS HOYEK, sheathing Copper and casks composition Nails for en Drills ; printed cotton Counterpanes ; blue CotDEALER IN same, etc., etc. tons, 3-4 wide ; brown Cottons, 30, 32, 36, 40, 64, General Merchandise & Hawaiian Produce Refined loaf Sugar ; Prunes, sup. Spanish Cigars, 72 and 82 inphes wide ; brown cotton Drillings ; Irish HILO, HAWAII. bbls American mess Beef and prime Pork, white Linen ; Linen platillas ; brown Holland ; linen Diaperfumedsoap, butter Spices, table Salt,bbls supe- per Towels ; Cambric Handkerchiefs ; Diapers ; Whale ships supplied with the best recruits on the rior American Flour etc., etc. Long Cloths ; red and white Handkerchiefs, 30, 31, most favorable terms in exchange for Bills or Goods C. BREWERS: CO. Jan. 28.— ly •4 82 inch ; linen Thread ; Shawls of various sorts ; ndapted to the market. Coffin Furniture red and white Plaid ; Bunting ; wrightT i. h. NOTICE. Covers ; black Crape ; black silk Shoe Ribbon ; & GLAZIER, has lately received white cotton Tapes ; house Paper and Border ; Fur- npHE MANSION HOUSE will be conducted in WJAINTER for sale, JL and offersWhite niture : Dimity ; Black Satin ; Lamp Wick ; blue i futuro by J. O. Carter, F. W. Thomson having Lead ; 300 do Venetian Red, 3000 lbs. ; Linen and fancy Prints ; blue Camlet Cloaks; withdrawn his interest by mutual consent. Shirts 360 " assorted Green Paints; 600 do Whiting, Earthenware of various colors and patterns ; StaJ. O. CARTER. ; 100 gals. Linseed Oil ; Prussiun Blue Jan. I, 1846. F. W.THOMPSON tionery ; and the following assortment of Terra dc Sienne, 90 '* Spt's. Turpentine ; HARDWARE. 10 " Copal Varnish ; Yellow Ochre, BIBLES! BIBLES! Spanish Brown; lamp Black,in kegs and papers, Knives and Forks ; Razors ; back and hand Saws ; ritME Seamens' Chaplain has cross cut Saws ; Pit SawB ; Mill Saws ; Sets of Carjust received pei Yellow Gold and Silver Leaf, ; Chrome penters' Tools; Axes ; Socket Chisels; Garden Hoes; J_L " Brooklyn," a supply of Bibles of various Paint, sash and tar Brushes ; Gum Copal, cut Plane Irons ; cast Plane Irons ; cast Steel Chis- sizes and binding. Sand Paper, pumice stone, window Glass, ; Gauge* ; Screw Augurs ; steel Augurs ; Hatchels ICP* Beautiful and splendid gilt and embossed &c. &c. Putty, ets cast Steel Gimblets ; Spike Gimblets ; Planes ; family bibles. Prices ranging from 50 cents to $6, *,• House, Sign, Coach, Ship and Ornamental Last, Irons cast Lath Nails ; ; Wrought Nails ; Boat or at the New York prices, of the American BibU Painting executed with neatness and despatch. tf. Nails Tacks ; Spike Nails ; Cooper's Rivets ; Copmy 33 per Boilers from 10 to 25 gallons ; Binnacle Lamps ; *,* Bibles and Testaments in various language, WALDO CO. copper Lamps ; Needles ; Iron Table Spoons ; Tea can also be obtained at the Chaplain's study. All monies received will be appropriated to keepfor sale Provisions, Bread, Flour, cord- Spoons ; Fish Hooks ; 2 foot Rulers&c. &c STARKEY, JANION & CO. ing a constant supply of Bibles on hand. \J age, canvass, and a general assortment ofShip Honolulu, July 1, 1846. Chandlery. Recruits and other merchandise usually Honolulu, Jan. 1846. required by whale ships touching at thi* port for supJAMES ROBINSON As. CO. FOR SALE. plies. WAVING made arrangements to kill part of their rage taken at the customary rates. the study of the Seamen's Chaplain, Vols A T stock of inform Cattle, respectfully B. Bills ol Exchange wanted on the United JLJL superior AII and 111 of the Friend, neatly bound. Vol captains of vessels and the public generally, that I of the Hawaiian Cascade. i, England, and France, at the BEEF can be with the best they supplied very isint, March 21. 1846. ALSO, asual rates, under the direction of Mr. George RiseNOTES on the Commerce, Trade, Agriculture NOTICE, ly, a clean and experienced butcher. &.c, &c. of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, H B. M.'s Coitui.atc General, ) G. R., on his part, respectfully begs to state that Minister of Foreign Relations. Woahoo, August 18, 1846. j othing ahall be wanting to give perfect satisfaction. All British Subjects possessing land or house* on Honolulu, Jan. 24.- ly. SPELLING BOOKS. the Sandwich Islands are hereby informed, that it KOLOA SUGAR. r>l HE Seamen's Chaplain has a few Noah Wehmay be expedient to their interest to forward, and they are sow invited to forward to this Consulate SALE, at the store formerly occupied by JL ster's Spelling Books for sale. General statement shewing the situation and parLadd & Co., 120 tons Koloa SUGAR. The ALSO ticular* of their respective premises and specifying above is part of the present crop, and is much suMy first Book of Reading and Spelling," lately " any under what or or particularly circumstances conditions, perior in quality to that of any previous year, issued from the Press of the American Mission and when they obtained possession of th* same. other lot in the market. R. W. WOOD. Consul General. Feb. 1846.—tf. MILLER, WM. 21, ) IS. H. SO.ARDIvIA.2T, EOTJSE, :— - : : * I * FOR * , � 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 (1846) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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