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Vol. V ]
HONOLULU, OAHU, H. 1., AUGUST 26, 1847.
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THE FRIEND.
{No. XVI.
much a duty as to love God or our neighbor,
as wrong, as an act ol transgression, to violate it as adultery or murder. Asm God
For the Friend.
will hold him none the less guiltless for the
From the Polynesian.
violation of His holy day, than for the vain
Wants of Seamen.
use of his holy name. In the great day of
|jT The following beautiful lines were written hy a
No. VI.
no exceptions will be made in fareckoning
one
of
the
cities
of
the
United
States,
large
young lady in
The sailor needs a Sabbath at sea.
vor of whalemen. The Angel that shall proand placed within the Holy Bible, which she gave to a
He has a body and a soul. These together claim time to be "no longer," is to put one foot
wild and thoughtless brother whose irregularities, had, in constitute him a mortal and immortal being. on the sea and one on land. And when the
a degree,compelled him to leave his native land, the so- His body needs the rest of the Sabbath; his blast of God's trumpet shall startle the
soul, its salutary checks and its divine tn- hosts of earth from their graves, the sea
ciety of his Iriends, his widowed mother, to whom he structions. To enjoy it is alike his
privilege .too shall give up its dead. And when all
should have been a support and slay, and last, hut not and his right.
God gave it to him, and no' nations shall await their sentence at the bar
least, the si-ier who could yet love, and write to and fur man may take it from him. He who wilt not!|of their common Judge, all old ocean's sons
him at follow, for a long and dreary voyage in a whale observe it robs God and himself; he who, in, will be there. Will the whoremonger escape
addition, deprives his fellow of his day of. his sentence ? Will the blood of the murship. lam sorry lo say that he did not discover them
rest robs God and his neighbor. In either dered cry in vain for vengeance? Will the
until some considerable time after he had been to sea.
case the guilt is fearful, only the latter adds ,oppressed there let the oppressor go (reef
tyranny to folly. Perhaps among no class j|Will the blasphemer, or the parricide, Or the
When the parting liosom Meeds,
of men has this robbery been so prevalent defamer, or the hypocrite, meet an offended
When our native land recedes,
as among seamen. Certainly no class of God in peace? No more will the Sabbath
While the wild snd treach'rous main,
seamen have so obstinately and impiously .breaker—no more will the plea of " necessiTakes us lo her bresst strain,
trampled upon the holy Sabbath as whalemen. ty," or " peculiarity," or "strong temptaFather I view a sailor's woe—
And
few Sabbath breakers have provoked the tion," or fear of man, shield the Sabbath
us
Guide
whereso'er we go.
Lord of the Sabbath against more light, and. whaler from the punishment due the insult
with more shallow pretexts in support of the iand the robbery. If this be true of an inWhen the lonely watch we keep,
wicked practice. Never was there bolder dividual in his personal relation to this holy
Silent on the mighty deep,
effrontery before God, or more open defiance 'day, what shall we say of tbe owners, or
While the boisterous surges hoarse
of His jealousy than is made on every occa- musters, or officers, who, not only incur this
Bear us darkly ou our course,
sion and on every ocean, by the whaling guilt themselves, but oblige their dependents
Eye that never slumbers .' shed
fleet. And, as if to mock God and add per-, also thus to challenge the displeasure of God?
Holy influence on our head.
jury to presumption, there are found among Surely his will be "surer punishment." A
this wicked clan those who bear His name man may overtask his own body, and trainWhen the Sabbath's peaceful ray,
and are sworn to His covenant. What mat-' pie on the laws of his Maker, by labor that
O'er the ocean's breast doth play,
ters " custom," what matters the " expecta- knows no Sabbath, and his own body and
Though nu throngs assemble there,
tion of owners," what matters the "com- soul will exact their "own with usury" at
No sweet church hell warns to prayer,
mand of an officer," what matters an appa- I the bar of premature old age and irretrievaSpirit! let Thy presence be,
rent " loss," or a " protracted voyage," or ble ruin. But to bow others ton similar
Sabbath to tbe mustering sea.
what is blasphemously represented as a yoke and alike crime, will add to his own the"
" providential assent" in the shape ofa school insupportable burden ef their guilt and loss.
When the raging billows, dark,
of whales? " Remember the Sabbath day to Would that those whom it concerns could
Thundering, toss our threatened bark,
keep it holy," is the unrevoked law of God. feel this. Then the fear of God and the
Thou, who on the whelming wave,
It is alike universal and perpetual. The sa- law of God would be paramount in the hearts
Didst the meek diieiple save.
cred obligation rests upon all men every and lives of all. If they did not reverence
Thou, who he'ur'st us when we pray,
where. No class of men are excepted. No and hallow the Sabbath, they would at least
Jesus, Savior I be our stay.
strength of temptation, no urgency ofself-in- fear opeuly to violateit. But it is not enough
terest, no fear of man, no peculiarity of cir- that men be not compelled to desecrate the
cumstance can justify its violation, or deliver Sabbath. There should be a disgrace atWhen in foreign lands we roam,
from its penalty. As sure" as the Sabbath tached to its violation. The ill-gotten gains
Far from kindred and from home,
sun dawns on the world, so surely and as of Sabbath whaling should be as much abanStranger's eyes our conduct viewing,
widely and as unfailingly are its sanctions doned as the " price of blood," for they are
Heathen bands our steps pursuing,
binding and supreme. " The Sabbath was I the price of souls. And Sabbath whaling,
I.et our conversation be
made tor man," makes the day of rest the no less than gambling, should be loss of reFittiug those who follow Thee.
world's birthright. No more so is the at- ispectability, for it is bold robbery of God
we breathe. Its repose, its sacred |and man, a kind of privacy against heaven
mosphere
Should pale Death, with arrow dread.
are ours no less than the rains and earth. But the Sabbath should not onenjoyments,
Make the ncea-i wave our bed,
of heaven. It is as much the slave's as the ly be given to seamen as their right, it
Though no eye ol love might see,
master's, as much the poor man's as the rich. |should also be urged upon them as their
Where that shrouded grave might be,
is as inalienable as " life," or "liberty," privilege. They need it. The laws of the
It
Thou who hear'at the surges roll,
"pursuit of happiness." No man may human constitution require its rest. Facts
orthe
Deign to save a sailer's soul.
refuse the boon,-none take it away. It is as the world over prove that no less than a
The Poet's Corner.
The Seamen's Friend.
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seventh part of time is requisite for bodily brings up tender associations of earlier days. Seamen, too, should have all their SabIt is true both of man and beast. Perhaps they used to break it, till at length baths. What a mockery to meet for prayer
And every reason that can be urged for its they fled from it. Still a reverence for it and for the reading of a sermon with a man
observance on land, urge an equal claim at clings to them, nnd they cannot, without a aloft watching for whales, to break up the
sea. It is as benevolent an institution for struggle, shake offits obligations. And how the devout assembly! What trifling with the
the sailor as the landsman; it should bring does the recurrence of the day remind them Sabbath and with sacred things! One Sabhim as sweet repose. He may sail his ships of the Sabbath bell, the faithful sermon, the bath praying God to deliverthem from tempor prepare for the approaching tempest, but praying mother, the heedless, prayerless son. tation and from sin, the next, or in the afterwhale on the Sabbath—never. Compel him If there be no Sabbath whither they have noon of the same day, shouting, rowing,
to any thing beyond the sailing or the safety fled, from the sanctuary and the closet of a lancing, cutting in, and boiling whale! Servofthe ship, and you break bis Sabbath. Un- praying mother, these feelings will subside; ing God when they cannot serve mammon,
necessarily leave port on the Sabbath, and scenes at first vivid and painful, grow indis- serving mammon whenever they can! Alas!
he is compelled to unnecessary work and is tinct and powerless, till at length the habitual for religion when subjected to such contempt!
robbed of his day of rest. Pot him on the Sabbath breaker cares for neither sanctuary Alas for the poor sailor whose only Sabbath
" lookout," except in case of distress, and nor the day of rest. How such seamen need is such a mockery! Multiply opportunities
you break in upon holy time. The time is the Sabbath. Its observance at sea would and such men would banish the Sabbath from
his own, or rather it is God's ; he is at liber- as it were, shut them into its hallowed influ- the world. They would do more than the
ty to use it neither for himself nor for others, ence. They could not escape its reach. It infidel, more than the professed violator of
only as calls for necessity, or mercy demand would throw its light so directly across their the sacred day, to rob land and sea of rest
his attention or aid.
path, that blindness itselfcould hardly fail of and heaven.
But the soul of the sailor most requires a discovering the pit-falls at their feet, and enT. DWIGHT HUNT.
Sabbath. Should he not improve it, it would emies in ambush along their track. In how
only increase the necessity of its observance. many such minds would a train of reflection Good News for Sailors.—A few weeks
Nor would such a fact afford the least ground be awakened, that leading them on through since a lady interested in the welfare of seafor depriving him of the day. The fact that conviction, alarm, despair, repentance, suphe has not been allowed to observe it, or plication, and faith, would terminate in con- men, forwarded usa copy ofthe constitution of
has not chosen to observe it, if allowed, is a version and eternal life. Such would be the the "Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society" of
prominent reason among many why sailors tendency on such minds of a Sabbath at sea. New London, Ct. In glancing an eye over the
as a class are so wanting in principle and so How dangerous to deny the sailor his day of list of officers for 1846-6, we are glad to see
abandoned in practice. From many causesi rest.
There are those, too, at sea, who love the that persons are pledged to the cause from
seamen are notoriously reckless and licenSabbath.
If the rules of the ship require whom much may be expected. The followconversation,
their
their
tious. Their songs,
■
very walk, declare the same truth. The them to break it, what a conflict between ing statement of facts was also forwarded,
passions he indulged on shore, burn within fear of man and fear of God. If conscience and we take pleasure in publishing the same,
him far out on the ocean, and kindle into yields, what a loss of peace, what a shock to
fierce name in anticipation at the next port their religious firmness! How devotion lan- in as much as it will, doubtless, be read by
of renewed liberty and indulgence. But let guishes, as breach ofreligious principle sue- many captains, officers, and seamen, who
the Sabbath be proclaimed on board, let mas- ceeds breach, and defeat treads upon the are attached to New London whale ships now
ters and officers be foremost in its observ- < heels of weakness. How shame lurks in in the Pacific.
ance, let there be quiet and rest, reading and 1 the heart, and mantles the cheek of the selfretirement; or let it be merely a day of ces- reproaching, Sabbath breaking disciple. Joy Some of these ships will ere long return
sation from work, and let him realize that; has long since left his troubled spirit. Hope home "full," when it is to be hoped some of
work is not allowed and why, and who caniis flickering on the neglected altar, con- their respective, crews will replenish the
doubt the restraining effect of such a fact science is fleeing before fear, while faith and funds of the
" Ladies' Seamen's Friend Soupon his mind. Though he " fears not God" love, awaiting the issue of the conflict, seem
and "restrains prayer," the Sabbath will on the wing for flight. Perhaps he will con- ciety" of New London:
operate as a powerful check upon his pre- quer, if so, he will bear the reproach, the " On the 16th day of April, 1845, a numvailing propensities. The tide oflust will be scourging, the hunger, the imprisonment that bor of ladies residing in this city assembled
retarded. The growth of evil will tempora- adherence to principle may cost him, but and formed a society called the "Ladies'
rily receive a check, which in its frequent break the Lord's Sabbath he will not. His Seamen's Friend Society" of New London.
return may stint, and perhaps, in the end kill fall has humbled him, his conflict has The object of the society is to afford rethe monster passion within him. Better strengthened him. But how cruel the ne- lief to seamen and their families, when in
thoughts, and of the future, would necessa- cessity that caused him to stumble; how distress, and to promote their moral and rerily come up in his mind, perhaps, to be sup- criminal the law that periled his christian ligious welfare. To establish a home for the
pressed; "hut up they would come again, and hope! How such a sailor, (and there are sailor when in health, and to afford him aid
while they found a place there would be light; such,) needs the retirement and devotion of and comfort when sick. For these purposes
in the dark chambers ef his soul. Thisi the Sabbath. Give it to him and he would the members of the said society have bound
might go out with the setting sun; but thei find a " secret" place of prayer, though the themselves to contribute from time to time,
sun of successive Sabbaths would at least sneer, or the merriment, or the profanities and have now, by their subscriptions, contribreak up the midnight of his soul, perhapsiof his fellows, should keep him within the butions and exertions, accumulated the sum
bring there twilight and increasing day. But; peaceful enclosure ofhis own bosom. Make of one thousand dollars, exclusive of what
if not made a better man, the outward ob- ■ the Sabbath the law of the ship, and he will they have disbursed for the relief of sick and
servance ofthe Sabbath might keep him fromi soon have companions in its observance.— suffering seamen. But notwithstanding the
becoming worse. At all events it wouldtendI Before the voyage is closed the Bethel Flag exertions they are making and will continue
to retard bis downward course to ruin.
will undoubtedly float over a quiet deck to make, they find themselves unable to afBut seamen are not all thoughtless or■ aad a praying band both in cabin and fore- ford that relief and to accomplish all, or even
vicious To some the return ofthe holy dayr castle.
half, of what their hearts would dictate, withrepose.
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Depth or the Gulf Stream.—The Sacalling on the charitable for aid; and1 or are now forgotten, but it matters not as rewhen the number of seamen sailing from this-1 gards the principle involved. This circum- vannah Republican says that Lieut. Bache,
port, many of them young men well brought
stance led to the discussion of the following of the U. S. surveying brig Washington,
up, and all exposed to numerous temptations,
are taken into consideration, they feel that[ Resolution in tbe " Oahu Temperance So- whose loss at sea has been so much detheir call on the humane and charitable iss ciety:
plored, succeeded, afterrepeated attempts, is
not made in vain."
Resolved, That the retailer of intoxicating ascertaining at one point the depth of the
New London, October 28, 1846.
liquors, who furnishes spirits to a customer gulf stream. The length of the line was
which occasions his death, is morally, and twelve hundred fathoms, or about one mile
For the Friend.
SHORT SERMON—No. II.
ought to be considered as legally, accessary to and a third. This is probably three fourths
that death.
of a mile deeper than plummet ever sounded
BY PARSON COMMON SENSE.
before.
This question was carried without a single
Text—"Don't burn your fingers."
This is a figurative and somewhat polite ex- dissenting voice. Judge Lee presided on English Newspapers
in the Pacific.—
hortation for the plain and unpolished proverb,ti the occasion.
the
"Friend" made
Less
than
five
years
ago
" you had better mind you own business." In a late paper it was announced that a its
Ears vulgar, no less than ears polite, cannot
first appearance. At that time not an
endure truth in its naked and unadornedj rumseller in Rhode Island had been indicted English newspaper was published in any
state. An able parish minister once selected1 by the Grand Jury for manslaughter.
part of the Pacific, or upon the western coast
for his text, 1. Thess. 4, 2, "Study to be
The
ofthe continents of North and South Amerito
do
own
business."
your
quiet and
text, not to say any thing ofthe sermon, was Temperance in Foreign Navies.—A late ca. Since that time the "Polynesian" has
too applicable to the condition of the people,, London paper, gives the glad intelligence been revived. Next appeared the Samoan
"
and he was compelled to seek elsewhere al that the temperance society is having great
pulpit. There may be circumstances whenl influence over the sailors of the navy of•Reporter," at the Navigator Islands. Orethere is a moral necessity for a man to burni Sweden and Norway. Out of the 444 men gon has for 18 months been furnishing a
his fingers, then his scars will become markss forming the crews of the Norwegian frigate " Spectator," of highly respectable appearof honor. The words of the text, however,, the Freea, and the Swedish sloop the Nord- ance. The stars and stripes waved only a
have special reference to cases wherein ai sternen, which have just left Christiana for
man unnecessarily burns his fingers. Whenl the Mediteranean, 302, that is more than few days over California, and some old Spana person intermeddles with difficulties withl two-thirds of them, have desired to receive ish type are taught to speak
King's Engwhich he has no concern, he will be sure to> rations of tea or Coffee instead of brandy. lish," although advocating Republican, rathget singed, -perhaps scorched, it may be
er than kingly" principles, in the columns
blistered, if not terribly burnt. Let my
of
the " Californian." Up rises the Calithe
meddle
with
Successful
hearers beware how they
Oferation.—Yesterday morning,
The Sandwich Island
Dr. Morton, Dentist, No. 19, Tremont fornia "Star."
fires of religious persecution, flames of sinful lust and flashes of unholy anger. Fam- Row, at the invitation of Dr. Haywood, News" follows, and now arrives the
ily difficulties, quarrels of neighbors, dis- visited the McLean Hospital, and adminisand who is mj Neighbor?"
putes among friends as well as the wars of tered his preparation to produce sleep, to a Neighbor,"
is
a
well
destructive
and
to
the
It
conducted
monthly, published at
fires,
are
about
ofthe
undergo
awfully
person
operation
enemies,
will be sure to burn a man's fingers if thrust extraction of a tumor from the neck. We Valparaiso, Chile. Lastly, sparkling and
into them. Beware, also, how you venture learn from a gentleman who conversed with bright, issues the Oahu Fountain." It apnear the volcanic fires that rage in the bo- one of our oldest and most respected physisoms of newspaper editors and contributors. cians, who witnessed the operation, that the pears then, that in less than five years, 4»
They often send forth tremendous streams of success of Dr. Morton's experiment was weekly, (Polynesian, News, Californian and
red-hot lava, scathing, wasting, desolating, complete. The patient sitting in a chair, Star,) 2 semi-monthly, (Friend and Spectadestroying. The only way to avoid these with every thing madeready by Dr. Warren,
and Fountain,)
streams is to maintain a good character for who extracted the tumor, inhaled the prepa- tor,) 2 monthly, (Neighbor
and
English
newspapers
1
semi-annual,
virtue,
and
above
integrity,
ration for a very brief space of time, when
honesty, sobriety,
all, consistency; the latter is a jewel as in- he fell into a quiet slumber, and the surgeon have made their appearance in the Pacific.
destructible by fire as asbesto*, and as fire- proceeded to extract the tumor. The patient
Westward the Star of Empire takes its way."
proof as a salamander. Finally, my hear- did not manifest the slightest symptoms of
ers, if you do not want your fingers burnt, Buffering, and no muscular action whatever.
ape
foSUMvari.lCHorn.
follow this advice, keep to, or get some good He appeared to be totally insensible to what
on
all
The
letter
of
bag Wm. Hamilton, may be
and honorable employment, and then
was going on, till very near the close of the
occasions and in every place, "mind your operation, which was quite protracted, when found at the new store of G. W. Pnncbard
he drew a long sigh. It is quite as much &. Co. Reported to aail Monday, 29th.
own business."
for the interest of the surgeon as for the pa|C7»The Chaplain will forward letters left
tient, that this preparation should be adminTemperance.—In a late number of the
for
renders
the
latter
istered,
while it
insen- in hia care by seamen.
Californian, it was announed that a sailor sible to the pain attending severe surgical
belonging to the U. S. S. Columbus visited operations, it affords the former the means Graphic—A ditch is defined to bea
of doing his work, from all interruptions on
a grog-shop, where he drank so much that the part of the patient, and gives him facili- place in which those who have taken
it very soon occasioned his death. The ties for performing operations in the most too much, wine, are apt to take a little
water."
name of the grog-shop keeper sad poor sail- expeditious manner.—[Boston Journal.
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FRIEND.
never wss in the world, such a commonwealth ever, be betrayed by this desire into writing
as Massachusetts. "There she is! look ut .one line which my own deliberate judgment
her!"—and Mexico.
does not approve.
HONOLULU, AUGUST 28, 1847.
Tortillas.—As you approach the city of Mr Poinsett had an interview with GenPuebla, there are farms of considerable ex- eral Santa Anna in 1822. He saw and
New Book on Mexico.
tent on both sides of the road. The grains judged of him free from the false glare of
Recollection* of Mexico, by Waddt Thomp- chiefly cultivated are wheat, barley,
and In- high position and extended reputation. Santa
son, Ese.., late Unset/ Extraordinary and dian corn. The wheat is used for bread
by Anna was then only colonel of a regiment.
States
U.
at
Minuter Plenipotentiary of the
better classes, and I have never seen i Mr. Poinsett was particularly struck with his
the
Mexico. Published by Wiley Sf Putnam, better bread any where. The Indian corn high bearing and
polished manners. Mme.
i
York and London, 1816.
is used chiefly, I believe entirely, by the jCalderon dc la Barca bears the same testii tbe title of the book indicates, this sp- Mexicans in making tortillas. There is not mony to the grace, ease,
naturalness of his
ars to be a work written not in Mexico, a corn-mill in Mexico. The tortilla is the manners, and the thoughtfulness and repose
but after tbe author's return home. This bread, and the only bread of the great massi which are so striking in his countenance;
of the people. The grain is softened by and on this subject there is no authority so
would be a readable book at any time, but it soaking it in water,
it is then ground on a conclusive as that of a well-bred and accotnis particularly so at the present. Mr. Thomp- smooth stone, with a long roller made also of' plisbed lady.
son left New Orleans in April, 1812, and stone; and after mixing the due proportion— Drones.—ln walking the streets of Mexihence was a resident in Mexico during the which is always a very large proportion of co, it would be very safe to bet that eight
some lime, it is spread out in a thin out of every ten persons you would meet
years immediately preceding the war. When chili and
layer and cooked as we do the hoe cake.— would be officers, soldiers, priests, friars, or
of
the
arrived
the
of
Mexico
some
city
in
he
Corn is not used at all as foodfor horses; the leperos, and it would be difficult to decide
Santa Fe prisoners were still in confinement, only grain used for that purpose is barley, which class is the most numerous. All but
and for their liberation he made successful and the only fodder is wheat straw—an arti- the last of these classes are not only unproexertions. His impressions of the habits, cle generally regarded by us as of little or ductive, but a charge upon the country. It
no value for food.
does not seem to me that the whole produccustoms, morals, and religion of the MexiSanta Anna.—General Santa Anna, isi live industry of the country, so far as the
cans, very much correspond to those of M. now filly-four years of age. He is about Mexicans are concerned, and excluding the
Calderon dc la Barca, in her work, "Life five feet ten inches high, with a finely pro- profits of the labor and capital of foreigners,
m Mexico." This lady, being the wife of portioned person. His complexion is of ani would be sufficient to support these drones.
olive cast, but not indicating any mixture oft Fruits.—The apples and peaches ofMcxthe Spanish Minister, enjoyed the similar opblood, although I believe be is not of pure ico are not good, the latter decidedly inferior.
portunities with Mr. Thompson, for becoming Castiiian lineage. I do not know that Ii The pears are very fine. They have one
acquainted with most of the leading political have ever seen a more striking and finely species of this fruit which is decidedly tbe
characters of the country. Mr. Thompson formed head and face; there is scarcely ai best that I have ever seen ; it is nearly the
feature or a point in either that Spurzheim or size of a goose-egg, and its flavor as deliexpresses a more favorable opinion of Santa Lavater
would desire to change. I remem- cious as that of the famous Philadelphia pear,
Ana than that generally entertained by ber to have beard a distinguished American All the fruits of the tropics—the orange,
i
Americans. We shall furnish our readers statesman remark when Santa Anna was in tine-apple, banana, mango, cherimoya, and
Washington, that be had rarely seen a face ast and least in size, but most exquisite in
with a few extracts:—
Mexico and Massachusetts.—Mexico indicative in a higher degree of talent, firm- ■ flavor, the tuna—are produced in Mexico in
was colonized just one hundred years before ness, and benevolence; and when I say as I'. great perfection. 1 have no where eaten a
do, that I think that his face is not an inac- ■ fruit more refreshing and delicious than the
Massachusetts. Her first settlers were the curate
index to the volume of his character, tuna. It is the produce of one of the infinite
noblest spirits of Spain in her Augustan age,
I
the
reader not to start and lay downi varieties of the cactus, of which I have seen
beg
of
Cervantes, Cortes, Pizarro,
the epoch
Columbus, Gonzalvo dc Cordova, Cardinal the book before he has read a few incidents i twenty different kinds growing on an acre of
Xjssenes, and the great and good Isabella. which I propose to narrate, and for most off land. One of these varieties runs up to tbe
■ height of thirty or forty feet, in the form of a
Massachusetts was settled by the poor pil- wbicb I voucb, es they have passed under
grims of Plymouth, who carried with them my own observation. I am well aware that beautifully-fluted column, and is used to ennothing but their own hardy virtues, and in- I should better satisfy the great mass ofI close gardens, by planting close together.—
domitable energy. Mexico, with a rich soil, readers both in this country and in Mexico, i That which produces the tuna grows to the
and a climate adapted te the production of by speaking in a different vein of this now■ height of thirty feet, and covers an area of
every thing which grows out of the earth, fallen man; but it would be both unjust andI twenty feet in circumference, with the leaves
and possessing every metal used by man— ungrateful in me to do so. I trust that I may (if leaves they may called) dropping over
off each other like the thingIrs of a house.—
MassarVi- tM, with a sterile soil and unge- without impropriety say, that tbe history to
show
that
stooped
I
mission
never
will
sty
climate,
and
no
article
nial
for exportsingle
i These leaves are exactly like those of the
ation hut ice and rock—How have these hatter General Santa Anna when at thei prickly pear on our mountains, only larger,
blessings, profusely given by Providence, height of his power, neither can I find it ini generally of twelve or eighteen inches in
att breadth. The fruit is about the size, and
bean improved ou the one hand, and obsta- my heart to traduce him now. He has
cles overcome on the other? What is now different times, at my instance, released fromi very much the shape, of a duck's egg. The
the respective condition of the two countries? imprisonment mora than two hundred Texani combined flavors of a water-melon, a cucumIn productive industry, wide-spread diffusion prisoners, and has so often afforded me that'I bar, and a lump of sugar candy, will give
of knowledge, public institutions «f every highest of ail happiness, that of making some idea of this delicious and refreshing
kind, general happiness, and continually in- others happy, thst I should be gratified toi fruit, as it melts in the mouth.
creasing prosperity: in letters, arts, morals, know that in his present fallen state any tiling[ Voluntary torture and Clergy.—l
religion in cvrrv thing which makes a peo- which I mow write of him has given him onei have seen, in the church of Saa Augustin,
ple great, there is not in the world, and these moment's gratification. I shall not, how- ■ one or two hundred people assembled at
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night; the chapel was darkened, and they New Book—Lectures to Young Men, on tori- develop; nnd there is scarcely an assignable
out subject*, by Hlnkv Ward Beecmer, 1limit, to which the hand of skill and labor
took off* their clothes and lacerated themselves severely with pieces of hard, twisted Indianapolis, Indiana. PubUhtd by J. P. imay not bear the powers of nature.
cord, made like a cat-o'nine-tails. It was Jewell if Co., Salem, 1846.—(7» thouThe scheming speculations of the Inst ten
not such a flogging as Sancbo gave himself sand.)
years have produced aa aversion among the
to disenchant Uulcinea, but a real bona fide
This is a book which has secured a dc- iyoung to tbe slow accumulations of ordinal*}/
castigation. Of this I have no doubt, for I served popularity in the United States. The Industry, and fired them with a conviction
that shrewdness, cunning, and bold ventures,
picked up one of Ihe disciplinas, the instrument used, and it was wet and soaked with secular, as well as the religious press, cor- (are a more manly way to wealth. There is
blood. I stood at the door as the penitents dially ' puffs' it before the reading communi- ta swarm of men, bred in the heats of adv—
came out, and recognized amongst them ty. A friend has loaned us probably the on- Iturous times, whose thoughts scorn pen-on
themselves
some ofthe most respectable people in Mexicopy that has reached the islands. Much and farthings, and who humble
co. No one in his senses can doubt the sin-j|ly
to speak of dollars; hundred* and trWutoiaos
cerity of those who will voluntarily inflict should we rejoice to place a copy in the are their words. They am men of great
such torture upon themselves.
Ihands of every young man steppping upon ioperations. Forty thousand dollars Is %
There was an amusng incident connected our shores. Its talented author is a Presby- ]moderate profit of a single speculation.—.
with this scene of self-castigation. Some I
They mean to own the Bank; and to look
mischievous boys (for boys are pretty much terian clergyman, being the son of Dr. ( down, before they die, upon Astor nnd Girtbe same in Mexico as every where else) had Beecher of Cincinnati, Ohio. Once more ard. The young farmer becomes almost
contrived to get into the church, and for fear the saying may in truth be uttered, " a chip iashamed to meet his schoolmate, whose
that the whipping would not be well done, of the old block.' Long has the father stores line whole streets, whose stocks are in
they commenced operations themselves.—
every bank and company, and whose inThey were discovered, perhaps, from the stood forth the eloquent and successful advo- (creasing money is already well nigh inestigreater severity of their blows than those cate of education, temperance, virtue, and imable. But if the butterfly derides tbe ben
which the men were inflicting on themselves, evangelical piety, and now his mantle apiin summer, he was never known to do it in
and there was a great commotion for a short pears to be falling upon another son, for al- the lowering days of autumn.
time. The whipping lasted for ten or fifteen
Every few years, Commerce has Hs earthminutes, and the sound was very much like ready one son, Edward, has a reputation quakes, and the tall and toppling warehouse*
hail.
the pattering of
vicing with that of his illustrious father.
which haste ran up, are first shaken down.
I do not think that the clergy of Mexico, Lecture I, is upon Idleness; its various The hearts of men fail them for fear; and)
with, very few exceptions, are men of as
the suddenly rich, made mere suddenly poop,
much learning as the Catholic clergy gen- grades and causes. Lecture 11., upon Dis- fill the land with their loud laments. Bat
erally are in other countries. The lower or- honesty, ofwhich he specifies twelve causes. nothing strange has happened When fha
1 is toM,
ders of the priests and friars are generally We shall extract a few paragraphs from iwhole story of commercial disasters
entirely uneducated, and, I regret to add, as
at some future time con- it is only found out that they, who flung togenerally licentious. There is no night in each lecture, and
gether the imaginary millions of commercial
the year that the most revolting spectacles of' tinue our quotations, for the work abounds speculations, built upon the send. When
vice and immorality, on the part ofthe priests 1 with much forcible reasoning and many elo- |times grew dark, and the winds came, and]
and friars, are not to be seen in the streets-quent appeals.
floods descended and bent upon them
Ithe
of Mexico. I have never seen any class of
both—the
rock sustained the one, and the
Industry
and
Industry
is,'
Idleness.—2.
men who so generally have such a " roue"
let down the other. If a young
shifting
sand
overburdened,
parent of thrift. In the
1man has no higher
appearance as the priests and friars whom the
ambition in lifr than richoften
onstates
severest
toil
of
the
J
Europe,
the
streets.
Or
the
one constantly meets in
es,
Industry—plain,
rugged, bi*irwned-iEoeB,
vaciilasuffices
to
life
a
wretched
make
higher orders and more respectable membersily
homely clad, old-fashioned industry, must
but
Ameriin
famine;
tion
between
food
and
with
the
the
cannot
speak
of
priesthood, I
be quoted. Young men are pressed with n
same confidence; if they are vicious, they ca, Industry is prosperity.
most unprofitable haste. They wish to reap
the
world
with'
has
stored
are not publicly and indecently so. Very Although God of
they have ploughed or sown. F.very
before
many of thorn have several nephews and an endless variety riches for man's wants, |'thing is driving at such a rate, that they have,
to
he
has
all
accessible
only
Inwho
made
them
j
nieces in their houses, or, at least, those
become giddy. Laborious occupations art)
call thtm uncle. The reason given for the dustry. Tbe food we eat, the raiment*which
Money is to be earned in genteel
us, the house which protects, must be avoided.
j
injunction of celibacy, that those who are covers
the hetp of fine clothes, nnd by
leisure,
with
secured
man
by
yet
diligence.
To
tempt
dedicated to the priesthood should not be enthe
soft
seductions
of smooth hair and luxu*■
cumbered with the care of a family, is, I more to Industry, every product ofthesoearth
riant
whiskers.
that
improvement;
has
a
of
susceptibility
theoretical
than
think, in Mexico, much more
man not only obtains the gifts of nature at Parents, equally wild, foster the delusion.
practical.
the price of labor, but these gifts become \Shall the promising lad be apprenticed to his
sayclose
remarks
without
these
I cannot
to
the more precious when we bestow upon them iuncle, the blacksmith? The sisters think
ing that there are men who belong
and cultivation. The wheat \tho blacksmith so very smutty; the mother
priesthood of Mexico, whose pure, virtuous, greater skillwhich
crown our ample fields, ishrinks from the ungentility of his swarthy
and
maize
lives
would
make
them
and self-sacrificing
]
the father, weighing tbe matter prowere food fit hut for birds, before man per- labor;
ornaments of any Christian sect in any age fected
them by labor. The fruits of the for- <dentially deeper, finds that a whole life has)
or country,—the Bishop of California for
j spent in earning the ancle's jproperty.
instance, who, after spending the prime of est and the hedge, scarcely tempting to Inn been
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sagacious parents, wishing the tree to
his life in doing the work ofhis Divine Mas- extremest hunger, after skill wan dealt with These
them to the orchard ]bnar iU fruit before it has btetsnmed, regard
and
transplanted
destitute,
them
to
Mexico
and
I
utterly
returned
ter,
with tbe ithe long delay of industrious trades as a
lived on charity. He had all bis life been[ and the garden, allure every sense
The ifatal objection to them. TtVe son,
in the receipt of a large income, all of which i richest colors, odors, and flavors.
is
man
set
to imust be a rich merchant, or a popular law
world
is
full
of
germs
which
charities.
expended
in
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FRIEND.
yer, or a broker; and these, only as the Scheming speculation demoralizes honesty, Toulon, 356 barrels flour, 94.000 feet of
and almost necessitates dishonesty. He who lumber; Am. brig Commodore Stockton, 450
openings to speculation.
Young business men are often educated in puts his own interests to rash ventures, will bbls. flour, 7,000 feet of lumber; Am. brig
two very unthrifty species of contempt; a scarcely do better for others. The Specula- Henry 70,000 feet of lumber, and 96,000
contempt for small gains, and a contempt for tor regards the weightiest affair as only a shingles—showing a sum total of exports of
errands, to splendid game. Indeed, a Speculator on the 1,736 barrels of flour, 171,000 feet of lumbard labor. To do one's toown
be seen.with a exchange, and a Gambler at his table, fol- ber, and 96,000 shingles. Independent of
wheel one's own barrow,
bundle, bog, or burden, is disreputable.— low one vocation, only with different instru- this, the Columbia completed her cargo with
Men are so sharp now-a-days, that they can ments. One employs cards or dice, the lumber and shingles, the precise amount of
rjampans by their shrewd heads, what their other property. The one can no more fore- which, we do not know; of lumber, it could
lathers used to do with their heads and hands, see the result of his schemes, than the other, not have been much short of 20,000 feet.—
what spots will come up on his dice; the cal- The foregoing at least shows that there is
i Dishonesty.—l 2. Commercial speculations are prolific of Dishonesty. Specula- culations of both are only the chances of something to ship from Oregon. In a few
tion is the risking of capital in enterprises luck. Both burn with unhealthy excitement; months, when harvest time will have passed,
greater than we can control, or in enterprises both are avaricious of gains, but careless of -ye shall have nearly ten thousand barrels of
whose elements are not at all calculable.— what they win; both depend more upon for-,Jlour for export.
All calculations of the future are uncertain; tune than skill; they have a common distaste England.—News has been received to
but those which are based Upon long experi- for labor; with each, right and wrong are on- middle of May. Lord Cowley, brother of
ence approximate certainty, while those which ly the accidents of a game; neither would the Duke of Wellington, and formerly Engare drawn by sagacity from probable events, scruple in any hour to set his whole being on lish minister at Paris, died April 27. The
are notoriously unsafe. Unless however some the edge of ruin, and going over, to pull last heir of Sir Walter Scott has also died.
Ireland.—The famine continues to rage
venture, we shall forever tread an old and down, if possible, a hundred others.
with unabated melancholly results. "An
dull path; therefore enterprise is allowed to
inquest being held on the body of a man
pioneer new Ways. The safe enterpriser exForeign Intelligence.
who died of starvation, the coroner's jury
plores cautiously, ventures at first a little, Chile.—The master of the "General found
a verdict of ' wilful murder', against
and increases the venture with the ratio of
experience. A speculator looks out upon Rivera," Captain Bellinger politely furnish- Lord John Russell. "—[The Neighbor.
(he new region, as upon a far-away land- es us with a file of the "Neighbor," which United States.—ln Baltimore public attention has been much drawn to the quesscape, whose features are softened to beauty contains an excellent summary
of news to tion, "Will the abolition of slavery tend to
by distance; upon a hope, be stakes that,
which, if its wins, will make him; and if it the 26th of June. The President of Chile the prosperity ofthe State ?" Public meetloses, will ruin him. When the alternatives in his Message to Congress, reports the in- ings have been held, the minds of men are
affirmative has the decided
are victory, or utter destruction, a battle creasing prosperity of the Republic. Recom- awake, and itthe
is
said.
advantage,
still
be
But
sometimes,
necessary.
may,
commerce has no such alternative; only mends a National Bank, and reform in cusTo our Patrons.
tom House. The Government has ordered
speculation proceeds upon them.
as
of our readers are aware of the
borrowed,
the
it
is
dishonMany
If
capital is
a "model bridge" from the United States.
est, upon such ventures, to risk, as to lose Public schools are improving. The income manner in which the Friend is supported.—
it. Should a man borrow a noble steed and
Tho total amount of receipts from our subride among incitements which he knew would ofthe Government is increasing. Arailroad
rouse up his fiery spirit to an uncontrolable from Valparaiso to Santiago, is in serious scription list, advertisements, sale of bound
height, and borne away with wild speed, be contemplation. Our enterprising country- volumes and donations for the current year
plunged over a precipice, his destruction man, Mr. Wheelwright, has projected the has fallen below the expense of publication.
might excite our pity, but could not alter our
account stands thus:—
opinion of his dishonesty. He borrowed supply of Valparaiso with water by aque- The'ublication
of the Friend, 8
property, and endangered it where he knew duct, which has met the candid approbation
months,
$666 00
uncontrolable.
it
would
be
that
of the government.
'otal
amount
of
from
receipts
scarceit
can
If the capital be one's own,
and Bolivia.—"The President of
Jan. 1, 1847, to Aug. 20,
366 87
ly be risked and lost, without the ruin of Peru
his
latter
addition
to
the
former
in
prohas,
man
blow
store
the
No
could
up
Other men.
'xpenditures exceeded receipts $310 13
in a compact street, and destroy only his hibition of commercial intercourse, now forown. Men of business are, like threads of a bidden all communication of any sort across We have delayed speaking of this increasfabric, woven together, and subject, to a
ing debt until our ports should again begin
great extern, to a common fate of prosperity the boundary and ordering the return of all to be visited by the fall shipping. We are
I have no right to cut offmy public agents from the Peruvian Territory."
pr ad\
confidently hoping that before the close ot
band; I defraud myself, my family, the com- —[The Neighbor, June 26.
munity, and Go for all these have an in- Oregon.—We would acknowledge a file the year our receipts will fully equal our exeither has a man the
penses. Many seamen have hitherto rens property. He de- of the Spectator, and are glad to learn that
ily, the community in 1 the country is prospering, as may be infer- dered essential aid, by purchasing bound
volumes, and thereby obtaining an equivaill these have an inthe SpectaIf waste is dishon- red from the following item from
lent
for their money.
proportion as it ap- tor of May 13:—
DONATIONS FOR THE FRIEND.
Oregon Exports.—The exports from Or(t. To venture, withS.
R. Thompson, seaman in Cyane, $1 00
has
1847,
is
month
of
April,
y experience gives, i egon during the
1 00
pot foresee, the* we) been as follows: H. B. Company'shark Co- Thos. Derbyshire, "
lumbia, 900 barrels of flour; American bark Mr. Heustis, 2d officer Wm. Hamilton, 1 00
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DIED.
In Honolulu. Anful M, lute Cnana, infnni son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Brewer, aged seven weeks and two days.
B
• respectfully
generally,
127
FRIEND.
STEPHEN H. WILLIAMS r*UI
.NOTICE.
PITMAN, Byron'B Bay, Hilo, Hawaii,
informs the masters of whaleships
that he has made arrangements for, and
PASSENGERS.
is now prepared to supply them with the beat of
la the Gail. Riveba riua Vai.faeaho—Mr. and Mrs. Liv- BEEF ut Honolulu and Msui price*.
Man.
Hilo, aug!7.
Ik the Bbutus riOM Colombia Rites—HeT. Ceorje Gary
"
Bud lady.
FIRE-WOOD AND HEWN TIMBEB.
PsoTiDBBCE ros Sab Fbaboisco—John Ricord,
_
In
the
Esq., Capt. Edward VonPnuter and John Dickson. Esq.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
PORT OF HONOLULU.
by B. PITMAN, 100
(Hewn)
ON 24hand and for sale
length,
Timber,
cords Wood, 180 slicks Ohia
from
to 40 feet in
and from 6x6 to Bx9
square.
Hilo, augl7—2B 3m.
TO LET.
ffflflb completed, containing four good sized rooms,
JiiiH
A new and commodious House just
ARRIVED.
Aug. I».—Br. brig Mary Dare, Cooper, Colambls River.
other neceasary buildings. It is
15.—Chilean brig General Rivers, Bellenger, 44 days from with Kitchen and
Valparaiso.
located in a pleasant and central aituation either for
daya
32
from
Callao.
The
a hotel or private dwelling. Rent low.
H B. M.'s S. Juno, Cspt. Blake,
Hawaiianbrig Keone Ana, Indart, sailed 3 days previous for
Am°merchant ship Brutus, Adams, from Columbia River, to
load for New York.
Apply to
Hilo, aug!7.
.
BENJ. PITMAN.
28 Bm.
TO LET.
16.—Eng. schr. Sam Slick, Smith, 3d days from Tahiti. Left
in port, H. B. M.'a 8. Calypso; H. B. M.'s 8. Grampus sailed
furnished Rooms, either by the
for Valparaiao, 10th July.
week, month or year. Apply to
17.—Am. whaleahip Hydaspe, Taylor,New Bedford, 26 moa.,
BENJ. PITMAN.
950 aperm, 200 whale.
Hilo, augl7—2B Bm.
NewLondon,
250
Scott,
Slatare,
18.—Am. whaleahip Gen.
whale this season.
SUGAR AND BEEF.
MOLASSES,
SAILED.
X A BBLS. Molasses, 10,000 lbs. Brown
Aug 14.—H. B. Co-'a bark Columbia. Duncan. Col. River.
gl_Fr. schr. Providence, Mitchell, SanFrancisco.
Sugar, 20 bbls. Mess Beef, on band, and for
Franciaco.
Mohran,Ban
Haw schr. Com. Shubrick,
B. PITMAN.
sale by
READY
.
PORT OF LAHAINA.
O\J
28 Bm.
Hilo, aug!7.
Just Published.
_____——
ARRIVED.
Aug. 15.—Am. whaleahip Masaschnaetta, Cash, N. Bedford,
for children, selected from Dr.
small book
HYMNS
of numerous
Hymns, designed
of
Watts and others. This is a
the wants the
lo!—Am. whaieahlp Wm. Hamilton,Flaher, New Bedford, children speaking tothemeet
English language on
26 mos., 100 sp., 4100 wh., 1400 season.
the Is-
12.—Am. whaleahip Ann, Edwards, Ssg Hsrbor, 250 ap., SOO lands. Application has often been made to the Sea___„
wh., 300 whale aeaaon.
men's Chaplain for a nook of hymns suitable for
SPOKEN.
children to commit to memory. It is hoped this colBy Capt. Fiaher of ahip Wm. Hamilton—May 26, Edward
will be found to answer that purpose. Many
Carey, 7 whalea) June 2, Fablus, 4 do| 4, California, 1 do; 4, lection
alongside; 9, of them are selected from
Watt's Divine and
Canada, 3 do..—seen later with 5 large whalea
2
Martha,
&
19
do;
George
do;
13,
Champion, Edgartown, 4
Moral Songs," which have obtained an unrivalled
Magnet, S do; July 18, Covington, 6 do; Portamouth, 6 do;
England and America.
Bowditch, 4 do; Benjamin Ruah, 2400 bbls wanted 3 whalea, popularity in
Price $1,00 per dozen—l21-2 cents single copy.
Nlmrod, 2200; Canton, 1100; Aleiander, 2900—wanted 2
Stonington
wanting
of
2
Tiger
3800—
full;
whalea; Brooklyn,
aug!2 If.
whales; Menkar—full; Chaa. Drew, 1200 thla season.
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MEMORANDA.
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CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
THE
present term of the Co-partnership of
AjtEEtcAN Whales im a Ttthoob—By the Schr. "Sam
received, that the
the subscribers being about to expire by limitaSlick from Tahiti, Intelligence has been
there
put
diatreas,
In
in
matter,
whaleahip •' Factor," Hawea,
tion, all persons having demands against the firm
July slh. On the 16thof June, the Factor experienced a sebulwarks, rail, two are requested to present the same for settlement,
vere typhoon, carrying away larboard
badly At this and those indebted are requested to call and settle
boata. and plankshear. She sprung a-leak
Talcuans. before the 81st August next, on which day the firm
time ahewaa on her passage from New Zealand to
for Tahiti.—
Aa soon sa theweather permitted, ahe put away
C. BREWER & CO.
out. A will be dissolved.
whale
0i1—33
months
and
2,200
She had 550 sperm,
tf.
julyl7,
survey had been called, which reported her sen-worthy with
and
aatisfy
captain
the
not
did
report
alight repaira; but the
CO-PARTNERSHIP.
crew, in as much aa the vessel was very old. The men had refused to workuulesa they could be paid wages. When our Insubscribers have this day formed a
formant left it was reported that a eurvey was about to be
Co-partnership under the name of BUSH,
called from an English sloop of war, in port.
Bilva, a MAKEE
The above particulara are obtained from George
& CO., for the purpose of transacting a
who obtained his discharge,
boatsteerer on board the Faclor, Slick."
Ship Chandlery and Commission business at
The acting 3d male,
and shipped on board the "Sam
Grldeon Devoll, slao arrived. Four of the crew were coasting >ahaina, Maui.
about the Society Islands. The remainder of the ship s comALFRED W. BUBH.
pany still remained attached to the vessel.
JAMES MAKEE.
sailed
from
master,
"Georgian,"
Keller
J. A. ANTHON.
err The Am. Bark
13. Mrs.
Valparaiao, for Sandwich Islands via California, May
tf
Lahaina, July 1, 1847.
Walah sod daughter passengers.
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THE
General
_
NOTICE TO WHALERS.
HUe. Byron's Bay, HawiiCis afree port to whale
I
NOTICE.
subscriber being about to leave for
the United States, requests all persons having
THE
ships of aU nationa, the only charge being SI lor any claims against him to present the same for set-
for sale the following list ofMerOFFERS
chandise remaining from
Of ship
j
tho cargo
from Bottom
" Montreal,"
6 cases two blue Merrimack prints,
1 do blue cottons, 48 packs Bruisgin's tail cloth.
bale heavy Raven's duck, 6 do. common do!,
1 bale Flems for pantaloons, I bale Russia diaper,
170 do. tewing twine, 20 bales new Russia oakum,
1 cate ofbrushes ass't., SOO do sole leather aas't,.
75 barrels Haxall flour superior,
10 do. Hope Mills, 5000 do Carolina Rice sup.,
75 barrels mess beef, 76 do. prime pork,
70 whole and 70 half boxes brown toap,
40 caakt Sicily Mtderia wine.
40 baskets champagne, 24 cases claret,
14 do. muscat, 12 do. olive oil,
8 platform scales, 1,000, 1,200 aod 1,700 lbs.,
1 ease sheet iron bake pant, IS crates crockery,
60 boxes ass't. window glass, 12 cant linseod oil,
800 lbs. window weights, 48 groce tea spoons,
200 pieces paper hangings,
An assortment of stationery,
Paintt, hardware, and groceries.
JUIT 9 tf.
1
JUST
DRY GOODS.
received per Montreal, from Boston,
and for tale by toe subscribers :
15 Cases Prints, assorted patterns, Balzarinea,
Lawnt, 10 k 4 Linen Sheeting, 4 m 4 fine Linen,
Marseilles Quilts, 10, 11 and 12 m 4,
Damask Table Cloths, 8, 12 and 16 m 4,
Napkins, Bleached and Brown Sheetings,
Brown Drillings, Denims, Gambroons,
•• Sheetings, Melhuen Duck, do. Ticking,
6 Dozen Ladies' Kid Oloves, Open work Laos do,
Gents. Lisle Gloves,
Ladies* bleached and unbleached Hots,
Children's Bleached and Mixed do.,
Gilt Buttons, Colored Agate do., Pencil Leads,
Razor Strops, Wafers, Hooks and Eves,
Linen Thread, Playing Cards, etc., lie.
EVERETT & CO.
my29 tf.
F. RODRIGUEZ VIDA
for sale on reasonable terms, for
OFFERS
exchange
articles
England
on the U. States,
cash, barter or bills of
:
and France, tbe following
Beef, pork, biscuit, molasses, loaf sugar, coflee,
Tea, rice, tobacco, segart, Epsom salts,
Tinegar, assorted pickles, in bottles, pepper,
Preserved meats and fish, sperm candles,
White and brown soap, tweet oil, linseed oil,
Spiriti turpentine, black paint, white lead,
Green paint, verdigris, double and single blocks,
Ruttia and English canvas, twine, cordage,
Earthen ware, glass ware, files, copper tacks,
Cut and wro't nails, knivet and forks, tamblers,
Log lines, signal halyards, lanterns, stationery,
Manila hata, alop clothing, camp ovent,
And a general assortment of Bbip Chandlery.
tf.
my22
WALDO A CO.
OFFER
Hemp
|
for sale the following articles ef
Merchandise :
and Manila rope, cutting falls, towline,
Blocks, handapikes, blubber books, fin chains.
Canvas No. 1 to 6, standing rigging,
Brack; grten and red paint, white lead,
Spiriti turpentine, paint oil, whale oil, olive oil,
Winchester's No. I yellow soap, California son
JAB. F. B. MARSHALL.
clearance; pilotage being abolished by the law of tlement.
sot/ sad pork, jerked beef, bout,
t*l American
_i July 17.
16th Juno, 1847.
Coflee, sugar, molasses, pickles in bis. and b'ta.
but
little
No grog-thopt at this port, consequently
Chiaese
Repository.
Hoop iron, tea kettlea, saucepans, wick ytts J
Wood 8/6 per
trouble or desertion among seamen.
subdesirous
of
Bins
becoming
cloth caps, felt hats, cot'n and silk
m»kinj
cheap,
*»
cord, and recruits proporUonably
can do s* by
for
the
Repository,
Crape
Tltajrt.it
scribers
Chinese
shawls. China satin aprons, Chtret wine.'
to
recruit.
a desirtbit port for whalo thipt
to
the
Seamen's
Alto—
l Anchor, weighing 1500 lbt, snd 1 new
Chaplain.
applying
at
this
not on record an tccident to the shipping
mrlt
top-matt staysail.
annum.
for*
fB,OO
price,
per
Subscription
experienced
pilot.
an
old
Bay. Alwtys in readiness
PERSONS
umbrellas.
'*
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THE
FRIEND.
CAS/RAT.
REt/GLAR PACKET POR LAHAINA.
THE
THE Clipper Schooner KAME-
E. H.
public attention is called to the fol-
BOARDMAN,
anli tftiro no metre Jttaftrr,
MBatcD HONOLULU,
H. 1.,
lowing facta :
OAHU,
orrcss roiiali am a-boh'ment or
Ist. That on tho 24th of November, A. D. 1841,
•bo King and Premier of the H-wtiian Islands, Clockt, Watches, Jewelry and Fancy t.'oodt.
signed a contract, without any proper or vain idle Sextant tnrl Qua tram (.lasses silvered snd sdju-ted.
Chronometer* repaired and accurate rates given.
consideration, by which Peler A. Brinimade, WilParticular attention paid In watch repairing.
liam Hooper, or their assigns, were allotted to locale
O. BB.EWBR *, 00,
unimproved and unoccupied lands for certain purposes, until the 24th November, 1842, which rijihl (General <ffomintûioii
SttraUantH,
of location, wat, on tho ISth September, 1842, exHONOLULU, OAbU,
tended without further consideration to the 24th of
CHAtLBt BIIWIS, )
J. Y. B. Makshall.V
November, 1846.
Hawahak Is lambs.
«"•
2d. That when there vet remained two years and
r'sANCIB JoHNBOH. )
six
months
of
Ihe
term for such location, taid Brins- Wanted—Government or Whaler's Bills on the United
GEORGE RIBF.LV,
Slates, England nr Fr nee, for which minify will
mtde, Ltdd tnd Hooper, by their duly empowered
A,p<is>saßjC BUTCHER AND GENERAL Attorney, P. A Brinstnsde, sold tnd transferred all
Ie advanced nu ihe ninsi f.iv.ralil.- terms.
SALESMAN,
begs leave most their rights under said contract to the Belgian ComV*i MEAT
EVERETT & 00,
to
inform
Ida
rsaidsnts
respectfully
pany of Colonization, and by a contract executed at
sßbWsSsubSsb of Honolulu sad shipmasters general- Brussels, on the 17th of May, A. D. 1843, with thtl Auction auu (Eornmissiou illcrtljants,
ly, thai bo ha* taken tha stand owned by Mr. Company, divested themselves of Ibe right to loA P
HONOLULU, OAHU, H. I.
French, and lately occupied by Messrs. Robinson cale and enjoy such lands.
J i..
ft Co., where be is determined to sell none but the Sd. That the Belgian Company not having locat- CJr Monej advanced nn fsvnral.le terms for Bills of
bast sif meat, sad trusts that by cleanliness and ed or demanded the right of locating such lands, Exchunge mi ihe United Stslet, Kngltnd and Frtnce.
strict attention to his business ho may merit a ahsre from Ihe 17th of May, 1848, to Ihe 24th of NovemWAL3 0~
0~.
Of public patronage.
ber, 1846, the time for such location hat completely
DIALIBt IN
0. R. trusts nothing shall be wanting on bis part elapsed, and the taid two contract! bave become Ship Chandlery and General Merchandise,
(a give satisfaction to those whom be may have the void hy their own terms.
MAUI AND OAHU,
honor to servo.
O. Waldo, 1
4th. That tin! contract of 1841, in accordance
UtNsoN,
Hawaiian Islands.
[
K. S.
N. I. Oa Tongue sad Corned Bssf cured in s with the established custom of these Islands, havA Lanolois. 5
soporler manner.
mytt ly. ing be in made in duplicate, one being lefi in the
hands of each party thereto, and each duplicate
8. a.. wiL&XA**,g,
consisting of an English and Hawaiian version, (General (frommtßßioii
NOTICE.
fWerehant,
signed tnd sealed, it has come to the know ledge
JAMES ROBINSON k. CO. duly
HONOLULU, OAHU, h. I.
sffj*oja_)a*rf having
of the undersigned, thst Ladd & Co., notwithstandspsasd their new Butcher Shop ing they have told tnd delivered the English version
HUSH, MAKEE A CO,
aa tho new whsrf opposite the Cns- of taid contract to the Belgian Company of Coloni■
bEALKRS IN
torn House, respectfully inform their
have lately assigned the Hawaiian veision Ship Chandlery und General Merchandise,
friends and farmer customers, that they will bo sbls zation;
LAHAINA,
MAUI
of said contract to other parties for purposes un- Ships supplied
to supply them with the host BEEF lbs islands afwilh recruit- at the lowest market prices.
known to ttid King and Government.
Money
advanced
nu
rrasunahle terms fur Bills of
ford, st tho usual prices.
asytz ly.
Therefore, know all men, lhat in case any person
Exchange on the United Stales and Europe
or persons shall hereafter pretend to claim or ssesrt
F. RODRIGUEZ VIDA
BREAD BARESTI
any right under either of those void contracts by
PEALIR IN
or assignment, such
undersigned would inform the lnhab- reason of purchase, transfer
SHIP
CHANDLERY AND PROVISIONS.
persons will meet the just and legal oppoX itanta of Honolulu, that he has removed lo tlie person nrihe
HONOLULU,
OAHU, H. I.
Hawaiian Government.
premises next to the place former!v known aa Mr.Gra- sition of
supplied wilh recruits at the lowest market price,
And be it further known to all men, that whoever Ships
for Cash or Bills on llie Uniled Stsles nr Europe.
vlsr's Hotel, and Mr. Vinceut'alumbor yard. He shall
purchase ttid contracts, will purchase them at
would likewise tsko this opportvnity of returning
CORNELIUS UUVKU,
thanks to hia numerous customers for the liberal his or their own peril, and bo deemed lo have purDKALSt IN
t nullity.
patronage he has received since commencing the chased
General
Merchandise A Hawaiian Produce.
order ofthe Kin? and Government ofthe
above business; and would further inform them that DonS byIslands,
HILO
HAWAII.
at the Department of Finance, in
be can now supply them with fresh Uiiad, both Hawtiian
Whaleshipe sappjied with Recruits nn favorable terms, ta
morning snd evening. Also s large quantity of Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Inlands, this 21st day of exchange for Bills or Goods adapted 10 ihe market.
American snd Chilean flour fox sals in quantities to May, 1847.
G. P. JUDD.
~
sait purchasers.
Minister of Finance and Attorney for the King's
Noae but the beat flour in market wilt either be
my 22 ly.
Government.
sold or baked at this establishment.
HAMEHA 111., Captain
Ahtokia,
having tine accommodations, will run
~|
regularly between this port and Lahai, rfhen required on His Mijosty's service
Her days of departure from Honolulu, as near as
Baa be calculated upon, will be Monday, at 5, P.M.;
mm Lihaim.nn Thursday evenings. She will carry malls and take freight and passengers, but will
not be accountable for damage sustained by freight.
J. PIIKOI.
Apply t*> Captain on board or to
HHBai
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v7«
'jftSZrm. (
«~0
CaaaJußßSse
rpHE
.
•.•Terms cash.—No ciedil given.
J. BOWDEN.
say 1 tf
JUST PUBLISHED!
HISTORYembracing Antiquities, Mythology, Legends, Discovery by Europeans
LANDS,
NOTICE.
OF THE HAWAIIAN IStheir
THE"FRIEND"
A Semi -monthly Journal,
Devoted to Temperance, Seamen, Marian
and
General
Intelligence.
PUBLISHED AMD EDITS*
tV
SAMUEL C. DAMON, SEAMEN'S CHAPLAIN.
in the sixTKRMtS.
& CO. would inform their friends teenth century,
by Cook, with their One copy per annum, --.-....
rediscovery
and the public that they have established them- Civil, Religious
tnd Political History from the ear Two copiet,
selves in business at Oahu in connexion with their
"
WALDO
........
........
........
$2,60
4,00
liett traditionary period 'o the present time. By Three
6,00
bouse at Maui, and will keep constantly on hand at JAMES JACKSON JARVES. Third Edition.—
Five
7,00
«"
bosh places. Beef, Pork, Broad, Flour, Canvas, For sala tt thit Otfiue. Puce, $1,00 in paper,
»
««
Ten
ls.oo
Cordage, and a general assortment of merchandise §1,26 in aheep.
1
usually required by Whalers touohiog at those
—ALSO—
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Islands for recruits.
A few copiet of tho sneond edition, with Steel En One square, 2 insertions, #1,60 and 60 rents for ev|C3» Money advanced aa liberal terms for Bills! gTsvtngt tnd Mspa. Price, 11,60.
additional insertion. One half square oi teat,
of Exchange aa she United States. Franco and Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands, Steel ery
insertions, #1,00 and 26 cents for every addifsglsad
myzs tf. Engravings, handeoniely bound in cloth. Price, 2tional
insertion. For yearly advertising, pieise
m2» if.
81.60.
apply to the Publisher.
P. RODRIGUEZ TIDA
Subscriptions and donations for the Friend receivSUGAR AND MOLASSES).
ed at Ihe Study of tho Seamen's Chaplain, or by the
keep constantly on hand a genera]|
sseortuieul of Ship Chano lery, Provisions, etc. rri IE subscriber is constantly making, and| following Agent*;— Mr. E. H. Board: »n, Heataluhi;
nrcJ for whale ships touching st this L hat oa hand, a superior quality of molasses tndI Rev. Cochran Forbes, Lahaina; Rev. Tit an Cssn,
Hilo; and Ihe American Missionaries throughout the
0 ■ brown augtr, for salt cheap tor oath or approved
,! Islands.
CHARLES E. HITCHCOCK, PRINTER.
I Makmwmo, Matt, 1846. J. T. COWER
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