https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/1f379ea6bb67b63b11887ed15eef7f5b.pdf 7dfeef2f3f6033aa0d77dc6c1781858a PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, OCTOBER 15, 1849. Vol. 7. 57 No. 8 and through forests, and I was glad to learn affair has not yet been published to the World. that a much belter route for a road had been At present, I hardly know what opinion to selected. These plains are about 20 miles adopt in regard to the subject. Page 57 Tour through Willamette valley, 59 in extent, surrounded by a heavy growth of I continued my journey over the plains, Education in Oregon, " 59 limber. The soil is admirably adapted toi and before evening arrived at the house of Vitlt toKJakaniits, " 59 farming purposes, Emigration, Overland, being prairie-land of thei Rev. Mr. Clark, Pastor of a Congregational "" 60 The Friend, useful to Whaleman, small streams in- Church. Occupying the same log dwelling description. best Several Oil taken in theArctic Ocean, " 6061 tersect the plains in various directions. Set- with him, are Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Eells, formSabbath, 140 years ngo. " tlements have already been made in mostt erly missionaries of the American Board, Guam, Cock-fighting, Ac "" 6162 parts of the plains, and nearly all thei among the Indians, but now principals of the Memoir, ol N llowditch, Deaths, Marine Intelligence, Ac. land is now claimed on the system, thatI Tualatin Academy. Mrs. E. was an old ac" 64 every man is entitled to one mile square, or quaintanco, as well as a native of the same six hundred and forty acres, provided that town with myself, in Massachusetts. It was he enters his claim at the office of the County exceedingly pleasant to revive an old acquaintance, after twelve years of separation. Clerk. A Trip from the Sandwich Islands to Lower Soon after entering the plains, I sought Most vividly I could recall the scene of her Oregon and Upper California. out the dwelling of a Mr. Pomeroy, whom departure from the shores of the Atlantic, for I had met at Portland. His good lady furn- her future home in the wilds of Oregon. Leaves selected from "Our Log Book.'" ished me some refreshment, very acceptablei Then it was not an every day undertaking nfter my lonely ride through the forests.—■ for a lady to leave the frontier settlements in VIII—TOUR THROUGH THE WILLAMETTE After dinner, I accompanied the proprietor Missouri and traverse the prairies and mounVALLEY. in a walk about his premises. It was grati- tains lying between the States and the shores Visiting Portland Tualatin Plains Oregon fying to view a farm of more than five hun- of the Pacific. She may be said to have City and Salem. dred acres, fenced, and stocked with twenty been the third lady that started upon this enat Portland about 12 yoke of oxen, horses, cows, and sheep. His terprize, as it was on the previous'year, 1836, Portland. —Arrived o'clock last night, May 15, in company with barn was nearly completed, measuring one I believe, that Mrs. Whitman, and Mrs. beJudge Bryant, the newly appointed Territor- hundred and twenty feet in length, being Spaulding led the way. To these ladies ial Judge, and Cnpt. Crosby. We were nearly filled with wheat. Mr. P. is a native longs the honor of having been the first of cross the Rocky rowed in a small ship's boat from Vancouver, of Massachusetts, and after experiencing a their countrywomen tohundredshave since mountains, owner of a Indians, four and finds himself and although by variety fortune, of about twenty miles, having a strong current against us, our pro- fine farm in Oregon, which he superintends, followed in their footsteps, yet it must be advengress was slow. On wnking this morning, in connection with an extensive building and viewed as a noble, praiseworthy andinto the turous Man plunge example. may Portland, of business. out the town lumber rising upon looked situated fourteen miles above the junction of Proceeding three miles over the plains, I unexplored forest, traverse the almost boundbut the Willamette with the Columbia. The town called at a dwelling of the Rev. Mr. Griffin, less prairie, ascend the lofty mountains, and hardships trials, not of his speak on of the was the let in him "press-work" out the east side who engaged doing is handsomely laid river, and is well situated, having in the rear on the Bth number, volume Ist, of the "Ore- perils and dangers, when woman travels by an extensive forest and beyond that forest, gon American and Evangelical Unionist," a his side "to share his joys and halve his at the distance of fifteen or twenty miles, a periodical of 10 pages, octavo. It was to sorrows." beautiful farming country. The first settle- have appeared semi-monthly, but has been After spending a few hours with friends I ment here was made in the autumn of 1845, partially discontinued in consequence of a hastened back to Portland to spend the Sabno by Capt. Crosby and Mr. Stark, the former, scarcity of printers. A London or Boston bath, as, much to the regret of theispeople, yet perro&ster, and the latter, supercargo of the editor would have thought there would have iclergyman of any denomination, barque "Toulon." Their first building was been also a scarcity ofreaders, for the idea imanently located in the town. No house of public worship having been a log-store, which is now standing; between of issuing a newspaper, where the populatwenty and thirty buildings have since been: tion is so spnrsc would certainly have been Ierected, the upper loft of a large store was erected, and others are in progress. The| viewed as preposterous, by any but n genu- isuitably fitted up for the accomodation of an house built by Capt. Crosby, is an excellent:!me Yankee. Publisher, editor, and press- iaudience of fifty, and more than forty were dwelling house, and cost $5,090, and at thehman, were all combined in one, who was as- |present in the morning. During the interval I attended an interesting present time the premises are valued at $10,-jisisted by a boy who had only set up type but of public services,held in a log-building.— 000. The buildings, including store and( a few months, and a little Indian boy to work.!Sabbath school, taught by two female dwelling house, erected by Mr. Paltegrove the roller! 1 must not neglect to record the'Twenty-four scholars, arc substantial, and docredit to the place, lewfact that Mrs. G. was busily occupied in fold- iand one male teacher, were present. The ing and stitching the paper. The columns icitizens of Portland are sincerely desirous number of inhabitants in Portland, is about one hundred. The site of the town is of the paper are at present principally occu-Ithat a minister of the gospel would be locaadmirably selected, being well adapted to the pied in a discussion and expose of the con- Ited among them, and they are very ready to landing and discharging of vessels. 1 find, nection of the Jesuit Missionaries with the isubscribe for the erection ofa building, which butone vessel in port, the "O. C. Raymond," Indian massacre at Watlatpu, where Dr. iwill answer the two-fold purpose of a chapel undergoing repairs, and belonging to Capt. Whitman and wife, with others, were cruelly iand school house. During the current seaCrosby. This vessel is engaged in the lum- killed. "The editor of the "Union" is fully ison, a Methodist minister is to preach in ber trade with California, and must be doing a of the belief that the massacre never would Portland every other Sabbath. Oregon City. —This morning, Mmy 22nd, business, enabling the owner to pay the mas- have occurred had it not been for the influCity, situter $300, tho mate $200, and the seamen ence indirect, if not direct, of the Jesuit istarted on horse back for Oregon ated >t the falls, on the Willamette, from tea month. Missionaries. per $100 Tualatin Plains.—This morning, May 17, Quite sufficient is known to induce the ito fifteen miles above Portland.. The road Htartcd for the Plains, my road lay over hills opinion that the full history of that atrocious thither lies upon the east aide ofthe river, is Contents OF THE FRIEND, OCT, 15,1849. ' : ': THE FRIEND. i — ' — l :i > < — �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 15, 1849. mouth of the net open down the stream- i only one instance, although, I passed near a somewhat circuitous and by no means adapt- the Into this net the salmon run on their passage iscore of farms; young and old, of the male pathIt is a mere wheel carriages. to ed 58 way through the primeval forests. I had up and over the falls. In this way, I saw portion of the inhabitants, having gone to the take several large and plump fish that imines. heard of wolves infesting these wilds, but them never saw any until to-day, when a large would have brought an ounce apiece could Having spent four days among friends upon been conveyed to the San Fran- ithe plains, including a Sabbath when I pair of dark brown wolves crossed my path. they have Having heard and read much about Ore- cisco market. The snlmon possesses a most preached to a most interesting audience of for ascending streams in mostly children and youth, I started in comgon City, I was exceedingly anxious to see remarkableofinstinct the Go they must, not- pany with the Rev. Mr. Eells, to proceed up side of the spring year. situated the east the place. It is on the Willamette, just below the falls, the river withstanding currents, rapids, and falls may the valley of the Willamette as high as Salem. being perhaps an eighth of a mile wide op- oppose their progress. It was interesting to We rode about twenty miles on the west posite the town and the shores very bold.— see them attempt to ascend the falls, and I side of the river, then crossed, and reached The "city was laid out by Dr. McLaughlin, could not but sympathize with the unfortunate, Salem, about sun set, having travelled bethe proprietor ofthis claim, in 1842, although, who would make the attempt but would fall tween fifty and sixty miles. The capabilias early as 1829 he made arrangements for back into the foaming abyss below, there to ties of the Willamette valley for agricultural the erection of a saw-mill and other build- gather courage and strength for a second, and grazing purposes fully met the expectaings. In the spring of 1830, potatoes were third, and perhaps the thousandth trial.— tions which I had formed, and I was assured first planted here. During the year 1832 a Should they finally fail to ascend, their Inst that the richness of the soil, and its adaptaThe dead tion to nil farming purposes was even betmill race was commenced. About the year struggle is their death struggle! 1838, the whole establishment was nearly may often be seen floating down the stream ter, further up the valley. destroyod by fire, so that as late ns 1840, less by the current. There is a certain species Salem.—This is a new and well located than ten years ago, only one solitary log-hut of eels also, which is endowed with a similar town on the east side of the river. It is the marked the spot, where now may be seen a instinct to ascend rivers. Thousands were centre of the operations of the Methodist town of more than one hundred dwelling to be seen struggling to crawl over the rocks, Mission. Here resides the Rev. Mr. Roberts superintendent of the mission. The site houses, two flouring mills, two saw mills, and force their way up the stream. several stores, a neat Methodist Chnpel, a The Indians, from time immemorial, have of the town is well chosen, on a dry and Catholic Church, a Nunnery, and other ap- resorted to the fulls in the spring of the year somewhat elevated position, so that there will purtenances amply sufficient to constitute a to take a winter's stock of salmon. A num- be no fears of inundations during freshets in thriving settlement, doubtless the nucleus oi ber of their lodges are erected near the river. the river. At a short distance from the town a much larger and more populous city. On The inhabitants of Linn city arc not altoge- is a saw and grist mill. The most interestthe opposite side of the river aro two small ther pleased with their Indian neighbors.— ing feature of the place at present, is the Insettlements also aspiring to be styled cities, Some months since, on a certain evening, a stitute. A large and commodious three not however, of the first class! Linn, and lighted torch was seen to be borne towards story building, with two wings, is here erected. her sister, Multinoma city, have not as yet the habitations of the Indians, and in a few It was originally designed for the education of passed their infancy, and for sometime to moments the surrounding country was beau- Indian youth, but as the mission failed, in concome, may not be able to deck themselves in tifully illuminated with the ascending flames. sequence of such multitudes of the Indians other robes, than that noble growth of forest No one was presumed to know any thing how dying off, the building is now found to be extrees which the Creator has spread over the the fire could have been communicated. The actly what is needed for an English school. hills. I record this opinion with all deference poor Indians lost their winter's supply offish The institute is now under the excellent to my worthy brother, the Rev. Mr Blain, and berries. They applied for redress to the management of the Rev. Mr Wilbur and ofthe Reformed Presbyterian order, who has Provisional Government of Oregon, but were lady, who are assiduously and laboriously enlocated himself on the brow of the hill, nnd told to wait patiently until the white man's gaged in the instruction of about eighty pu, whose Great Chief should 3cnd out little chiefs pils of both sexes. They are anxiously lookthat kind neighbor of his, Mrs. L garden looked so flourishing under her spec- to rule over the while men, or the Bostons, ing for an assistant teacher to he sent from ial superintendence. Linn city, as well as as Americans are called by the Indians in the Eastern States. The central location of Linn county derive their names from Senator Oregon. Ere long a chief arrives in the Salem has led some to suppose that it will Linn, who while a member of the U. States character of Governor Lunc. The Indians become the seat of the Territorial GovernSenate made strenuous and commendable ef- apply for redress, but they are violently op- ment. Upon inquiry, I learned that settleforts in behalf of Oregon. The term Multi- posed. The Indians ask for justice! The ments had been formed to the distance of noma, was the Indian name forthe Willam- Governor goes upon the spot, hears both near one hundred miles above Salem. There ette river. During my sojourn often days in sides, and decides in fuvor of the original can be no avoiding the conclusion, that Oregon city, enjoying the kind hospitality of possessors of the soil. It was a decision the inhabitants in this beautiful valley the Rev. Mr. Atkinson's and Mr. Walker's which did him much credit, not only among iwill continue to increase until they will families, I made various short excursions in- Indians, but among impartial persons of the number sufficient to form one, or more States to the suburbs and environs. The sound of white population. The poor Indian will soon of the Union. Learning that the "Massathe woodman's axe, and the lumberman's be gone, but so long as he does linger, let chusetts" would soon leave for California, I saw, together with the occasional crash of the justice be done to him. Such decisions by was compelled to relinquish the idea of adgiants of the forests falling prostrate, perhaps, the governor will pave the way for him to vancing; I had, however, seen quite sufficient across the very path you may be travelling, form favorable treaties with the aboriginal to give mc a most favorable impression ofthc Inatural resources of the country, and the enare unequivocal evidences that Oregon is a tribes in Oregon. "new" country, but remarkably similar to 1 left Miis morning, June Ist, for a second, terprising character of the inhabitants. New England, two hundred years ago. The visit to the plains, the distance from Oregonl In commencing my return down the valley, traveller in Oregon, who is familiar with the £ity being twenty-five miles. The road isj I was highly favored in being privileged to history of the older portions of the United uninteresting and mountainous. Only an form one of a pleasant party, starting for States, will bo constantly struck with the occasional log-cabin indicated the abode of Oregon city, good fifty miles distant, being similarity which may be traced in the Indian civilized man, and these were generally un-' in the judgement of the ladies of our comware, and the hardships of the first settlers, tenanted, the owners having gone to the pany not a long day's ride on horse back.— their respect for law, and religion, desire for mines. I was favored with the company of',We started soon after sunrise, and reached schools and education, and in their indomni- the Rev. Mr. McKinney, a travelling preach-.!.the end of our journey before the sun went table love of free institutions, as well as in er of the Methodist denomination. He had i down. The Rev. Mr. Roberts and lady, the emio-ratcd to Oregon, from Missouri, and was Rev. Mr. Parish, and several others, composthe natural features of the country. During one of these rambles, I crossed the able to furnish much interesting information ied our party. The road is far from being inriver, and visited a party of Indians fishing respecting the various emigrating parties.who teresting, some portions of it lying through for salmon, just below the falls. The fishing had crossed the Rocky mountains. On en- |pine barrens. 1 must not, however, do inground ia upon a small island at the fool of tering the plains, we passed several beauti-jjustice to the French prairie, some twenty the falls; there the Indians rig out a plat- fill farms, well fenced, and stocked with herds imiles long and five or six wide, surrounded form over the troubled and foaming waters. of cattle and horses, but it was really dis-Iby forests of fir and pine. The inhabitants One of the party then taking a scope net heartning not to see the farmer following his iare French Canadians, married to natives of thrusts it below the surface of the water with plough, or sowing his wheat. I saw this in the country. They were formerly servants 1 I I �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 15, 1849. 59 of the Hudson Bay Company, but from ten am confident this will be the result should ready been formed upon the rich bottom to twenty years ago, were induced to make the territory continue to prosper, and emi- lands. The most remote of these settlements a settlement upon this prairie. Their dwell- grants from various parts of the world flock is now owned by a Mr. Foster, in whose welings are erected on the out-skirts ot the prai- to the beautiful regions watered by the up- fare I felt considerable interest. In the spring of 1842,Mr. Foster, with his family, rie, about a mile apart. Their "claims" per waters of the Willamette. embrace a few acres of woodland and extend During my two visits to the Tualatin plains, embarked with myself at New York, and we towards the centre of the prairie. Wheat is I became much interested in the efforts now were fellow passengers around Cape Horn. the principal product of this portion of Ore- making for the establishment of Tualatin Mr. Foster remained at the islands duringthe gon; it is raised with ease and in an abun- Academy, by the ministers and people of the winter of 1812-3, and then passed on to Oredance. As we rode leisurely over the ex- Congregational Church. A school was or- gon, containing at the period but a few Amertended prairie, the fragrance of the wild rose, iginally started at this place, by the Rev. ican families. After living a few years in growing in prodigal profusion, regaled our Mr. Clark, and an elderly lady, Mrs. Brown. the vicinity of Oregon city, he removed to They were knowing to the fact that there his present residence, sixteen miles up the olfactory sense. About midway on the prairie, we called nt were many children in the vicinity, who were Klakamns river. His farm is situated on the the house of a settler, out of which ran chil- orphans, growing up in ignorance. Moved road leading over the Cascade mountains, dren and dogs in great abundance. In the by a most commendable spirit to provide for and nearly all the emigrants from the States, midst of the group appeared a venerable their education, a school was opened denomi- over the rocky mountains, passdirectly by his looking Indian woman. "There is old nated "An Orphan School." Mrs. Brown, door. Here it is, that the careworn and Dorion's wile," said my travelling compan- living in a rude log-house, received several weary emigrants, after their long journey of ion, Mr. Roberts. "What,"says I, "not the children into her family as boarders, a neigh- months across the mountains, first enter the person referred to in Irving's Astoria!" "To boring log-house was occupied as a school, abodes ofcivilization on the shores of the Pabe suro," he replied. I returned and sought and meeting house. Amid many discourage- cific. Here they may witness tho fruits ofthrift a formal introduction to this Indian dame, ments the school prospered and more schol- and industry; a farm of 500 acres well fenced, who accompanied Hunt's party over the ars presented themselves than could find 100 sown with wheat, 10 with potatoes, the rocky mountains, near4o years ago, and is so comfortable lodging. After a few months, prairie is covered with 100 head of cattle, graphically described by Washington Irving. the friends of the school decided to enlarge together with horses, sheep and swine in Her husband was Hunt's interpreter among these accommodations, and change the name abundance. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have a the Indians, in 1811, and his father was an of the school to that of"Tualatin Academy." promising family of four sons, and three interpreter for Lewis and Clark, in their tour About this period, the trustees secured the daughters. As I beheld so much of substanpermanent services of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. tial wealth, I was forced to acknowledge in 1805-6. My long, fatiguing and dusty ride from Kells, formerly Missionaries of the American that my old Cape Horn companion had proSalem to Oregon city, was rendered quite Board among the Indians, in Middle Oregon. bably made a good exchange of his "small agreeable by the cheerful chit-chat of my I am confident that two more suitable per- and poor farm," far away on the British line, fellow travellers, especially Mr. and Mrs. sons could not have been selected for the in the Stato of Maine, for one of the best Roberts, who originated on the banks of the school; the Rev. Mr. Eells, had been for farms in the flourishing territory of Oregon. beautiful Delaware, a few miles above Phil- several months previously engaged in teach- On my ride out, I met a Mr. Palmer, readelphia, at the very spot where I had spent ing at the "Methodist Institute" in Salem.— turning from a trading expedition among the a happy portion of my life. It was truly de- There he had given universal satisfaction as Cayuse Indians. He was conducting a band lightful in the wild woods of Oregon unex- a competent and successful teacher. Hav- of one hundred and fifteen horses, which he pectedly to meet those who possessed with ing a teacher, the trustees resolved to erect had purchased at the rate ofabout $30 each, mysell, much knowledge in common, respect- suitable buildings. At the time of my visit in trade. These horses were destined for ing towns, cities, villages, and persons in the workmen were engaged in putting up a the market, at the mines of California.— two story log-house for the Rev. Mr. Eells' Thus, it appears, that the mines of Califorpublic and private life. family. While upon the ground, I resolv-d nia extend their influence far away among on my return to the islands to present the the wild Indians of Oregon. This Mr. PalIX—EDUCATION IN OREGON. claims of Tualatin, Academy, and solicit do- mer conducted an emigrating company over Among the settlers in Oregon there exists nations. There I fancied I saw the founda- the rocky mountains in 1845. During the a commendable public spirit in regard to the tions being laid of an institution, which journey, he kept a diary which wns publishsubject of education. The bill which was migrTt, in due time, vie with the Colleges and ed at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847; I procured passed in Congress, constituting Oregon a Universities on tho shores of the Atlantic.— a copy of the book, and find the narrative territory, provided that every sixteenth, nnd The records of Harvard, Vale, Dartmouth, admirably agrees with the verbal narrations thirty-sixth section, should be made availa- Williams, Amherst, Nassau Hall, and nu- which the traveller may hear when he enters ble to the purposes of Common Schools. The merous other now flourishing institutions almost any log-house in Oregon. leading men of the Territory are alive to the would show that they sprung from an equally importance of having the provision of Con- humble origin. The time was when the now XI—OVERLAND SETTLEMENT OF gress fully carried out, so that the rising richly endowed Harvard, was sustained by OREGON. generation shall derive the full benefit of the the contributions of the poor colonists of The settlement of Oregon, by emigrants appropriation; although, at present, the pro- Massachusetts Bay. If a person needs encrossing the Rocky mountains, is one of the ceeds are very small, yet in coming time it to contribute for the establish- great events of the passing age. Ten yeare couragement foundation of fund. a large will be the ment of schools, academies and colleges, in a Had In addition to efforts for common schools, new country, let him attentively peruse the ago it was not believed to be poasible. most certhe various sects are vigorously making ef- history ofalmost nny one ofthose noble insti- the undertaking appeared credible, forts for the establishment of permanent high tutions which are now the pride of the people tainly an eminent European writer would following remarks, schools, which may eventually be converted in the Eastern ano> Middle States. A small never have hazarded the in the Edinburgh Review, as late aa July, into colleges. The Catholics have a school donation of a few dollars, at the period when on the French Prairie, and in Oregon city such institutions are struggling into existence, 1843between are erecting a large building for a Nunnery, is really of more value than a "princely gift" --"However the political questions to the ownership and as America, England which is to connection with there be a in when the same institution shall have arriv- of Oregon, may be decided, Oregon willnevtr young ladies' Seminary. The Rev. Mr. ed at maturity. be colonized overlandfrom the United Statet.'* Blain of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, "The world must assume a new face, be* school, has a for private boys in Linn city, X—VISIT TO KLAKAMAS fore SETTLEMENT. American wagons make plain the road) and girls under his charge. Mrs. Thornton's to Columbia, as they have done to the Ohio." "Boarding and Day School," has been for As if the above assertions were not suffiseveral sessions in successful operation, in About two miles below the Falls, or Orebaseless, the following unfounded inciently Oregon city. At Salem, the Methodists have gon city, a small river, called Klakamas, enknew but little, a flourishing High School. [See visit to ters the Willamette. Tho valley through ference shows that the writer which he w«s subject upon to the regard in runs, timbered, have no this this river is heavily doubt, that erelong which Salem.] I will become a fine institution, embracing a and upon it one saw-mill, if not more, has attempting to enlighten the readers of the i$ Collegiate or University course of study. 1 been erected; several settlements have al- Edinburgh Review, "Whoever, therefore, �60 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 15, 1849. but only a very few scores of dollars A Sabhai it at Ska, 140 vkahs aoo.—ln of Oregon, its peopU [sands i the year 1703, throe Jesuit Missionaries Europe."* will comefrom Ithat we aak. Having perused theso over-confident and started on a mission to China. Being unaEstimated cost of Friend for 1840, unfounded assertions, with the absurd inferble .eceipta from Jan. to October, 388, to obtain passage to I lie Fast Indies, in ence, I was somewhat iatorested to make their churucter a* ecclesiastics, they preenquiries, while travellingTnrough the settle$4l>i tended that thoy "were going to entor the ments, respecting the condition of Oregon, in the summer of 1843, when these remarks Between the present time and the close of service of the Kmpcror of China, Don Amofirst appeared. JCfln the year, or summer ithe year, we must receive about $450 to ilei, as a mathematician, I (so says Father of 1843, 121 "American" wagons, drawn by meet our expenditures. Perhaps $150 will l\i|ui in his jotirnul,) as a painter, and Father Ml horses, and 098 oxen, and accompanied remainder, derived from the subscription; be ll'errone, as our servant." They obtained by 973 loose cattle,crossed the Rocky mountains to Oregon! The total number of emi-'iwe trust will be contributed by the friends pussuge on bourtl the Knglish vessel "Donegrants that year, was 1000, including 558 of "The Friend." If a single number of gal." During their pussngo out, they did males, and 442 females of all ages! Pre- this paper, directed whalemen to a spot where not make known their character, but Father vious to this period it is estimated, that about 1 whales, hundreds of worth bears have taken this to the in they testimony regard Kipu the of the Willamvalley 400 had settled in ette! We must conclude of course, that the imore than a $1000 each, it is surely a mo- observance of the Sabbath, by the heretics. world has assumed a new face! derate tax upon their purses to ask a contri"The principal officers played almost bution of a few hundred, when every dollar every day at draughts, but on Sunday no • The quota! iooa and the ahnve etatiatica, we n-alte from Greenhorn'a work on Oregon, publwbed m New York, mb. Ithus contributed is converted iuto paper one attempted it; and many of those who and ink, to be scattered broad cast over the could read, might be seen during a great part to be the futwre owner , ', ,< . ' wide Pacific. oil lie day with the Bible in (heir hands. One Icy Seamen will aid in the support of the ofthe company who was employed in drawing paper, by subscribing for copies to be sent HONOLULU, OCTOBER 15, 1849. to their friends, also by purchasing bound la geographical map, wishing to continue his work on a Sunday, received a severe reprivolumes. mand from the captain. Such is ihe rigor with We would call the attention of Seawhich these heretics observe the Lord's day." men to the importance, when in port, of obOil taken in the Artic Ocean.—From we could wish modern shipmasters Really, taining a good and fresh supply of reading the reports of various cruisers in the Arctic; to observe the Sabbath as strictly, r emembered less than fifty! matter, for their passage home, or the com- Ocean, it is estimated that not and that the hours of the Holy day, during You vessels have Straits will find some historical passed through Bhering's ing cruise. read, "might be seen durall are able to who and taken oil that ocean. in and miscellaneous works at the Polynesian a of the day with the Bible in ing part great show following call we The table the amount will office. If you will at oar office, their hands." taken thirteen after enthey our best to wants. We ofoil ships, will do by supply your have some books for gratuitous distribution, tered the straits, the highest point which: Academy, Oregon—We would and others for sale, on the most reasonable ihey sailed, the number of whales taken, and Tualatin the attention of the Protestant Missioncall the time when their first and last whales terms. the aries, stations, on the islands, at various were taken. to the importance of aiding the funds of this "The Frind," the Whaleman's J. Institution. As a pledge that the funds conrectory.—Ship after ship is arriving heavtributed for this purpose will be judiciously Hi,. ily freighted with oil andbone from the ArcHi , expended, it may be stated, that the Rev. tic Ocean, the new cruising ground. It m-n i. Atkinson and Mr. Hatch, (formerly re:.Vlr. mas-, not be uninteresting to enquire how the 15 nil than ten of more sident on the islands) are members of the fifty vessels should have tOO Oil of 0 .board of trustees. been induced to steer for Bhering's Straits' 1.0 • u if I T • 4 is li < II , aad the Icy Sea. One and another has inMemoir or N. Bowditch.—Let all our formed us that they obtained their intelliM ;o s* «7 68 6i ■itMl 68 6? 6« la young readers among srnmen, not fail to read 40 i« '0fO ro TO <0| 10 gence from"The Friend." Our object in ' this Memoir. Its perusal may inspire them thus alluding to the subject is this, to' Ural July with an ardent desire to advance in their remind our readers among whalemen, that! 18 n « 14f 7 ISi *5 141*5 The seafaring community, are profession. having been enabled to fill their ships, in more indebted to Mr. Bowditch, probably of consequence the information obtained from than to other writer. His "Navigator" any columns "The but An,Friend," they should' the of now found on board nil American vessels, [is now aid in its support. All we ask is simply, «0ts 10IT 81 s 10 14is t* »6 14 15 and not a few vessels under the flags ofother that at the year's end, we may not fall in • nations. debt to our printer. This cannot certs inly j to each ship, 134-2 brl«. nil Average be viewed as unreasonable, having on board' Oahu Charity School.—Let all friends 147 " " whale, many thousand dollars' worth more of oil and number of whs to each ship, 9 of this Institution, in Honolulu, attend the bone than they would have had, if we had Upon the supposition that other ves«e|« meeting of tlto Trustees, to be held to-mornot taken special pains to solicit information have been equally successful, the following evening, row (Tuesday,) at Mr. Thompson's he a low estimatr. from Capt. Roys, of the Superior," re-'willTotal amount ofoil taken by fifty Room. A,report and business of Auction •pecting his successful cruise in the Arctic ships in Arctic Ocean, in IKIO, 07,100 importance will be presented. 450 Ocean, and which was published in "The Total number "f whales taken, Friend" of November, last year. There' June sth was Iho earliest that a whale was Mexican Claims.—The claims already preNo vrswas an eager demand for that paper, and]|taken, and August 30th, the latent. than the genial to the Commissioners exceed 810,800,000 Iscl as yet reported as going higher several masters hare already acknowledgedC|"Omega," and she was driven by the windsi and more are constantly coming. Congress votheir indebtedness. Now it is not for thou-jjinto 70 c 13. i ted |S,fJOO,OOO in liquidation of tbe whole. TH EFRIEND. Di- , : Imum Mari-nju T«n Junior M a r g r l Wa.lingt ail ne Mnrv Jeanrltc Tlg«rOmrga t l cka | I rm i ' 16.'0 l Oil NO 10 01.10 | :i I !i J'tnr i 16? Julv 1 ihlpa. • SOW 10 0 I'CO \m1 Wh. 1 >■ ; Ilcg'l. Jn * Jul* June Time I ! I nwhalerta'g.iTlmeor whale Jul* tali'g. " " ' ' ' �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 15, 1849. 61 [communicated.] a small grass plot, towards which we saw of refinement to their national character, A Sabbath at Guam—Cock-fighting—Sab-bath several parties of Spaniards as well as sea- which fifty yearsago would have been scoutat the Sandwich Islands. men, directing their steps, and we retraced ed at as ideal and absurd. How widely difMr. Editor: ours. There we found active preparations ferent is the other picture, a rigid, selfish Sir, —To while away a tedious hour, per- going on for a cock-fight, some four or five and ruinous policy is now withering and blastmit me to give you a brief sketch of i Sab- cocks being already there, a small cord be- ing the prosperity of the entire Ladrone bath passed at Guam; including n dinner at ing tied to the leg of each, and at the other group. No commercialmarine whatever. All that El Dorado for recruits, and the spon- end a small peg which was driven in the that we snw, being a few shapeless floating taneous luxuries of nature, believing that it ground, beside each cock stood its owner, masses designated with the name of canoes, will afford an ample theme for reflection.— descanting upon its merits, and waiting for which a Sandwich Island native would blush On Sunday, the '21st of January last, the bets, previous to heeling and matching them. to own. Trade, commerce, agriculture and starboard watch, of which your humble ser- Within a few yards of the last, another group the social comforts of life are in a rapid devant was a member, went on shore for three were seated gambling for money, at a game cline; and cock-fighting on the Sabbath apdays of liberty; start not gentle reader, at peculiarly their own, and they too, within pears to take the preference of every other the idea of our desecrating the Sabbath by one hundred yards of the church, and the pursuit. These are humiliating but stubborn going on shore on liberty, as I nm not aware sound of the little bell before the altar, which facts, and whether it be the difference in the of ever having fallen in with that individual, we distinctly heard. Nearly every indivi- creeds, or modes of instruction, by their spirwho had walked a plank for six months, who dual then, was laboring under a severe at- itual teachers, which has caused so astoundwould not embrace the first opportunity to tack of the influenza, which was raging fear- ing a contrast, it is not our province to say, extend his perambulations, provided he was fully and fatally upon the island; but neither believing that every individual of the large blessed with health and strength. The dis- death nor disease, prevented them from whaling fleet which was so unfortunate as to tance from the landing to the town, was about practising this cruel and brutal amusement as visit those islands last season, will come to a six miles. On our route thither, we met a it is termed. At 4 o'clock, the services ofright conclusion. number of the inhabitants, some on foot, the church were concluded, which was anYours respectfully, some astride a bullock, the males invariably nounced by the tinkling of the bell, when WHALEMAN'S FRIEND. armed with the long curved Spanish knife, they immediately uncovered and dropped on ? Ship Braganza, rather an unseemly sight for the day. Hav- their knees, remaining in that position until Honolulu, Harbor, Oct. 9, 1849. $ ing arrived at the town, we took a bee line the boxed priest and his retinue had passed, Donations. for our boarding house; each ship master the game cocks standing proudly erect, as For Chapel. For Friend having provided a house for his crew, at the':though conscious of their superiority to the Muter, officers and crew of $35,50 the Am. Ship E. Frith, rate of 75 cents per day, per man; (pretty degraded beings who knelt around them. 3,00 tall price and consequently expected tall The procession having turned an angle of Mr. Bonney, Metaeom, J. Maury, 3,00 Manchester, Mr. fare.) Our house having a stone front, andj the government mansion, they sprang from 1,00 1,00 Mr. Lcighton, Bragari7.a, being one of the better sort, we entered withl their knees, adjusted their hats, and proceed- Mr. Cross, 3,00 do 3,00 a smiling countenance, and a keen appetite,! 1,00 jed to cock-fighting, with as much nonchal- Mr. Brown, Electro, sufficiently whetted by our morning's walk.—| as a Broadway exquisite would sip his Proclamation or President Taylor.—The Friend! did you ever take a cold shower What a contrast was here exhibited, President of the United States hns issued a projulep. bath, in the month of December, for any when clamation recommending that the first Fridny in compared with the Sandwich Islands! August be observed by the people of the United chronic complaint? If you have, you can (the group we had just left,) what a melan- Stntes as a day of fasting, humiliation and praywe when experienced judge of the damper of the pestilence that is choly picture! I am neither sectarian in er to nvert the' ravages threntening to sweep throughout the land. we surveyed that table; a table, •which will now creed, nor enthasiast in religion,and although [Am. Paper. never be effaced from memory, whilst reason I have, no doubt, partaken largely, in comholds her sway. In the centre of the room The California Fleet.—The number of mon with my seafaring brethren, of preju- vessels which have sailed for California is 821, a few boards were placed across some upstill not I restrictions, am so dice against 106 viz: ships, 105 barks, 58 brigs, 46 schooners rights, resembling a mason's scaffoldings, 6 steamers. The list comprises vessels which shut the evinnd as to eyes against my bigotted, have sailed from London, Liverpool, Bordeaux, upon which were laid a dozen plates of a here own senses. The contrast dence of my Cowes and Antwerp, as well as from the United dingy hue, with here and there a knife and was too glaring, it would have been an utter States. —St. Louis Jour., June 26. and pattern, refork of every variety, size to have passed it by unnoticed. impossibility Extent or Knowledge in Ireland.—We sembling an importer's card ofcutlcry, whichj both cases we see In religion cherished and notice in some of our exchange paper*, the statesalt water to. had lain sufficiently long in 74 towns, each fostered by the strong arm of government, ment that in Ireland there are hundred inhabiwith a minimum of twenty-five give il a solid coat of rust. Then came the'but how The vastly different the results. tants, not one of which contains a bookseller f— dinner, a hog cut up in small pieces, almost, one an infant nation, springing with giant Scotland, with a third of the population, has bristles and all, and boiled in fresh wateri three times the number of booksellers; being in strides from the lowest depths of degradation the proportion of nine to one! More remarkawith a few potatoes, and a little salt sprinknnd heathenism, grasping the extended hand ble still, there are six counties which cannot boast led on each man's plate, comprised the sum civilization and Christianity, and appear- of even one bookseller or a single circulating liof brary; namely, Donegal, Kildare, Leitrim, total of that dinner. After having tantalized to an admiring world, a Queen's, Westmeath, ami Wicklow. Such a magic) if ing (as by nature, satisfied would be too cxpressivo a certainly needs a revolution; but new people, regenerated and disenthralled. state of things change would be for the betpolitical term, we strolled up towards the Government whether a what they profess, according to ter, is problematical, at least. practising *At the farther exHouse, and buildings. inculcated in them, particulartremity of this range, and n little in ndvance the principles the Loss oftheU.S.Steam Propeller Edith. to Sabbath. A liberal policy —Despatches in ly regard received by express from acting church, which serin located the of it, was in encouraging commerce and arts, has al- Lieut. James MrCormick, to Com. Ap. Catesby vice was performing, il being the Sabbath. Jones, report the lons sf the U. 6. steam Prothem the appearance of a thriv- peller Edith, nejr St. Louis Obispo—officersaud Between the government house and the cal- ready given and added a degree crew all saved. aboose, which stood directly opposite it, was ing, commercial mart, ance — �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 18, 1849 62 MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL BOWDITCH. copious abstractor the mathematical papers culations which were required in navigating contained in it. He was too poor to purchase the ocean. The consequence was, thatevery As this remarkable individual rose by the books of science, and, in consequence, re- one of n crew of twelve men, who sailed with that could read and write, force of his genius, the integrity of his char- -81. ~ed to this laborious method of procuring him to Batavia, acter, and his untiring industry, from a very ihem. Some clergymen, however, of liberal subsequently rose to the rank of captain or humble condition'in life to a conspicuous sta- educatiop, to whom he became known, al- chief mate of a ship. At Salem it was contion among the mathematicians and philoso- lowed him access to their libraries, and thus sidered as a high recommendation of a sailor, that he had sailed in the same ship with N. phers of bis day, and left behind him some assisted his early studies. Among the objects which at an early per- Bowditch, and this circumstance was often valuable testimonials of his talents and industry, it is apprehended that a brief memoir iod engaged his attention, astronomy was un- sufficient to procure for him an officer's birth. of his life, will be interesting to the readers questionably one, for at the age of fifteen, he In illustration of this statement, we arc incompleted an almanac for the year 1790, con- formed that on his second vojage, the first of the Review. The following is compiled from the 35th taining the calculation of eclipses and other .-nut second mates had been sudors in the volume of Silliinan's Journal ofScience and usual phenomena. His indefatigable indus- same ship on the previous voyage. This attry in literary pursuits, is illustrated by a fact tention to the instruction of the crew was Art. Nathaniel Bowditch was a native of Salem. related upon his own authority; that, when doubly advantageous. It not only paved the Massachusetts, where he was born in the quite young, he read the whole of Chambers' way to more lucrative stations, but it furnemployment for those portions spring of 1773. His parents were in very Cyclopedia, in two large folio volumes, with- ished salutary of time which sailors too often spend in corlimited circumstances ; his father, during out the omission of a single article. In the beginning of 1795, when in his rupting each other. Instead of passing their part ofhis life, wus a shipmaster, and subseand demoralizing quently carried on the trade of a cooper, by twenty-second year, ho commenced a sea- leisure minutes in idle which he procured a precarious subsistance faring life, and performed several voyages, communications, they were found to be disfor his family. His mother appears to have first in the capacity of clerk, and afterwards cussing questions respecting tangents and been a pious, though uneducated woman; as supercargo. On the second voyage, the secants, altitudes, dip and refraction. and if she did not store the minds of her chil- captain and supercargo dined one day at the An acquaintance of Bowditch informs us, dren with knowledge, she was careful to house of the American consul at Madeira.— that in 1790, a foreigner was in Boston who guard them against the encroachment of evil The wife of the consul having heard that called himself a professor of mathematics, and her maternal tenderness and pious ex- young: Bowditch was a great calculator, ob- who boasted much of his knowledge in those ample made a permanent impression on the served to him, while nt table, that she had a sciences, and asserted that he had found noquestion, which she would like to have an- body in this country who knew anything on mind of this son. The period of his childhood was that ofthe swered. She then stated that she had re- the subject. He had a question, he remarkrevolutionary war, when the opportunities ol ceived some years before, a legacy in Ire- ed, which he had proposed to several of those literary instruction, even among the wealthy, land. The money was there invested, and who were reputed the most knowing, but they were very limited. From the straitened cir- after remaining some time at interest, the could not solve it. This problem being handcumstances of the family, the education of amount was remitted to England, where it ed in the evening to Bowditch, he returned young Bowditch was confined to the schoolsof remained, still further accumulating, and re- the answer next morning, and subjoined a his native town, which were inadequate to cently the whole had been remitted to her.— question which had once puzzled him. But furnish anything beyond the simple elements The original legacy, the times of transfer, nothing further was heard from the profesof instruction. But he possessed a vigour of &c, of course were stated as she proceeded; sor. He did not manifest any inclination to intellect, and a determination of purpose and she desired to know what amount ought prosecute further this war of problems with which eventually enabled him to overcome to be received at Inst. N. Bowditch observ- the young American. the difficulties of his situation, and attain a ed it was a little difficult, on account of the At the lime when the subject of this merank among men of science, of which, in the difference of currency and number of remit- moir commenced his seafaring life, the book early period ofhis course he probably never tances; but after übout two minutes reflec- on navigation which was mostly used by praction he answered, ''the sum you ought to re- tical mariners was John Hamilton Moore's dreamed. The advantages of the schools, such as ceive is £343 15*. 6|d." She then inquired treatise; a woik of but little science, and they were, ho was obliged to forego, at the of the head clerk of the house, who had pre- abounding with errors in the tabular pints. age often years, and assist in the labors of viously made the'calculation on paper, w lie- These errors he undcitook to examine, and his father's shop, for the support of the fam- ther this result was correct; and he, taking actually corrected eight thousand in the nauily. From this he was soon transferred as his calculation out ofhis pocket, answered, tical tables. But the obvious impel fectiou of an apprentice to a ship-chandler, and subse- "he bus got it exactly; and I venture to sny the work, und the limited portion of science quently became a clerk in a large establish- there is not another man on the island that which it contained, necessarily turned hi* ment of the same kind. During thisappren- can do it in two hours." [thoughts to the production of an original ticeship, lie manifested a strong inclination A curious instnnce of his devotion to scien- treatise. The result was The New Practifor mathematical learning; employing nil the tific pursuits, somewhat similar to the case of cal Navigator, the first edition of which was time he could snatch from the counter, in his Archimedes, is related us occurrying on his issued in the year 1800, when he was but favourite studies. A circumstance, which, third voyage in 1/98. The relations of the twenty-seven years of age. with a boy of ordinary intellect, would, no French and American governments were Though this was the production of an early doubt, have passed away and been forgotten, then of an anomalous character. The na- age, the author of which had his livelihood as appears to havo roused his latent propensity tions a ore not avowedly at war, yet on the well as his scientific knowledge to acquire by to mathematical pursuits. When about four- ocean a state of hostility actually existed.— his own unassisted industry, the Practical teen years of age, an elder brother, who fol- The vessel in which Bbwditch sailed was Navigator is unquestionably much superior lowed the sea, and was attending an evening strongly nrmed; and being chased by u to any woik on the subject which has ever school for the purpose of learning navigation, French privateer, prepared for rcsistnncc.— appeared. informed him that the master had a new The post assigned to him was the cabin, from In succeeding editions, care was taken to manner of working questions; for instead nf which ho was expected to hand up the pow- introduce such improvements as were made numerical figures he employed letters of the der as it should be needed on deck. In the in nautical science; it is therefore probable, alphabet. This excited the curiosity which' midst ol'lheir preparation, the captain, look- the work will retain its place in the school of the brother was not able to satisfy; but in- ing into the cabin, saw with surprise that his navigation, for many future yenrs. formed him the master had a book which told supercargo was quietly sealed at the table, Nathaniel Bowditch, in common with most all about it. This remnrkable book was bor-! 'busily employed, as usual, with his slate and others who have risen to eminence in science rowed, and proved to be a treatise on alge-''pencil. The privateer, however, changing or literature, was*m nothing more remarkabra; the first the youthful aspirant had its course, left the mathematician to finish his ble than his industry. During the time, in seen. He studied it assiduously, made him- problem nt leisure. his eastern voyages, when the ship was lazily self master of the contents, and copied it out The suavity of his manners appears little making its way on the ocean, he was usually from beginning to end. Subsequently, he less conspicuous than his ardour in the pur- engaged in the studies from early in the got possession of a volume of the transactions' suit of knowledge ; and he made a practice morning till nine at night; with the exception ofthe Royal Society, from which he made a! of teaching the sailors how to make the cal- of the times of taking his meals, making the ever' 1 �. THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 15, 1849 63 needful observations for computing the ship's■ individuals; and upwards of five millions off obligations, which tic was anxious to avoid. to fe- .He revolted at the idea of being patronized place, and walking the deck for indispensa- -dollars, nine-tenths of ble exercise. But amidst this pedestrian ex- ■ males and orphans, were thus received and|in the printing of this expensive production, ercise, he was frequently observed to be'invested. In this manner the Institution be- by men who were totally incapable of underdeeply immersed in thought, when it was-1 came, in fact, n savings bank, on an extend- standing any part of it, and therefore chose well understood that he was not to be inter- ed scale, and of incalculable advantage. Weito wait until he could afford to publish it on rupted, ns he was supposed to be solving; nre told that the Actuary was never willing i his own responsibility. A more correct view some difficult problem. And when he wasMo make these investments, until he was sat- .of the cnse would perhnps have been, that observed to dait suddenly into the cabin, the'■ isfied that the owner concerned, was fully some men who had neither the talents, the conclusion was, that he had caught the idea npprised of the nature and condition of the|.taste, nor the industry to study and underinvestment, and it is noted as nn evidence stand such a production, might still have the which was the object of his pursuit. His studies, while on the ocean, were not of the skill and care with which the concerns 'good sense and good disposition to do what exclusively mathematical, for he is said to 1 of this company were managed, that although they could towards enabling others to possess have acquired a knowledge of the Frenchi this was the largest monied Institution in 'such a valuable work. The man who, though and Spanish languages, by the use of hisi New England, with a cnpital equal to ten ignorant of science himself, has the generosbooks, without the aid of a living instructor. common banks, and with loans out amounting.ity to encourage it in others, and to furnish On one occasion, the vessel was obliged to to six millions of dollars; yet during the un-jthe pecuniary means of its promotion, disput into the Isle of France to refit, when it exampled commercial embarrassments, and plays a liberality of sentiment which ought to was found that Bowditch was the only person financial difficulties, which marked the lnter|.'command our respect. An individual who on board who had any knowledge of the years of N. Bowditch's administration, the,'has been endowed with the capacity ofenlargFrench language. I lis acquaintance with losses sustained did not exceed those exper-|ing tho boundaries ot science, and has spent years of unceasing toil in its cultivation, may the pronounciation must have been very de- ■ ienced by some of the smaller banks. leave to others less liberally gifted, .safely and of hold-, year fective, as he had studied without a precep1815, the course while In tor; but his knowledge oflhe language, suchi ing the office of President to the Essex Fire the burden of bringing his labors before the as it was, proved of essential service to the; and Marine Insurance Company, nt Salem, public. The world is certainly more indebtinterests of the owners, as well as to the crew1 he commenced the laborious task of transla-iJed to tho author of a valuable book, even ofthe vessel. ling from the French of La Place, his cele- .'though he may be poor to pay for its publicaAt the ago of seventeen, he had under- brated work, the Mecnnique Celeste. Thetion, than to the man who contributes a small taken the study of Latin, and in this he ap- ■ object of the French astronomer was to de- portion of his property to pay the expense of pears to have combined the study ofmathe- duce from the law of universal gravitation, printing it. matics with the acquisition of that language, established by Newton, nnd the principles of At length, in the year 1829, the first volfor the first Latin book that he undertook to motion, by strictly mathematical investiga- ume was published, and called forth u high read, was Euclid's Elements of Geometry.— tion, a complete theory of the figures, the i encomium from the London Quarterly ReA copy of Newton's Principia being lent to action and motions, of the celestial bodies. view. In that work it is said: "To the stuhim, with liberty to keep it till called for, he The subject itself is one of great difficulty, dents of celestial mechanism, such a work is also said to have read and translated it.* and the instruments of investigation, the must be invaluable, and we sincerely hope The fifth and last voyage of N. Bowditch, highest refinements of mathematical science; that the success of this volume will be such was performed chiefly in the year 1803, hav- ■ but the difficulty of following the author wasias to induce the speedy appearance of the ing sailed for Sumatra in the autumn of the1greatly increased, by his frequent omission sequel. Should this unfortunately not be the precccding year. On his return from this1of the process by which the conclusions were case, we shall deeply lament that the liberal voyage, he was appointed President of the! connected with the premises. La Place does offer of the American Academy of Arts and KsscxFire and Marine Insurance Company, not appear to have considered that his work Sciences, to print the whole at their expense, in Salem, the duties of which lie continued would probably be read by many who were was not accepted. Be that as it may, it is to discharge till the year 1823. During this1not as familiar with the profundities ofmathe- impossible to regard the appearance of such interval, he was several times invited to ac- matics as he was. Bowditch used to say, a work, even in its incomplete state, as othercept of appointments of greater emolument " I never come across one of La Place's wise than highly creditable to American sciin Literary Institutions in different parts of Thus it plainly appears, without feeling sure ence, and as a harbinger of future achievethis country; but these offers could not in- that I have hours of hard study before me to ments in the loftiest fields of intellectual duce him to abandon his native state. fill up the chasm, nnd find out and show how prowess." The second and third volumes In 1823, lie published a chart of the har- it plainly appears." The design of the trans- appeared in 1832 and 1831, each of the three bors of Salem, Beverly, Marblebxad and lator, was not simply to furnish a version of containing about a thousand quarto pages.— Manchester, the survey of which had occu- the original in our language, but to supply The fourth and last volume was nearly compied him during the summers of the three the commentaries which appeared necessary pleted at the time of his decease, and some preceding years. So minutely accurate was to bring it within the comprehension of less of the last reading he did, was a proof sheet this chart, that the old pilots said he bad;Ipenetrnting intellects. To accomplish this of this concluding volume. The cost of pubfound out all their professional secrets, and object, the commentary was more extended lishing this work is stated at upwards of ten thousand dollars, which must have been a had put on paper, points and bearings which than the original. they thought were known only to themselves. Though the translation, as already men- heavy draft upon the property of a man who On the establishment of the Massachusetts tioned, was begun in 1815, nnd it is said to was not rich. Life Insuruuce Company in 1823, he was el- hove been finished in about two years, no N. Bowditch died in the spring of 1838, a few days prior to the completion of his sixtyected to the office of Actuary, being consi- part of it was published until several years fifth year. It is probable that the subject of dered the person best qualified for that high- after his removal taskßoston; during which this memoir will be known to posterity, chiefly ly responsible station, from his habits of actime it is probable considerable revis- as the author of the Practical Navigator, and calculation, and his inflexible integri- ions and curate were improvements applied to the the commentator of La Place's Celestial ty. On accepting the office, he removed to annotations. Mechanics, yet these are not the only meBoston, where he spent the remaining fifteen The manner in which this work was pub- morials of his talents and industry which he years of his life. The duties ofhis new station were performed with fidelity and skill, lished, manifested a spirit of independence has left behind him. He contributed a numand to the entire satisfaction of the Com- which the nature of the case does not seem ber ofarticles to the Memoir of the Ameripany. The original capital was five hundred to have justified. He was frequently solici- can Academy of Arts and Science*, as well ted by his wealthy friends, nnd by men of as to other periodicals of the day. thousand dollars, but at bis suggestion, thei eminence in science, and formally requested Review, Philadelphia. for and obtained to applied liberty Company bold in tiust, and loan o|jjJ, the property ofp by the American Academy ofArts and Sciences to permit them to print it at their cxA profane coachman, pointing to one of pense. But he was well aware that the de(trout probably profound This which was the most work, i • to a pious mathematical treatise tlmt ever appeared prior to the Me- ■ mand for such a work was not likely to re- the horses he was driving, said canique Celeste of La l'iace, wan originally written In Latin, "That horse, sir, knows when I traveller, numerate the and he therefore apthan publisher, forty yearsbebut it was translated into Knglish, more fore N. Bowditch was born. If lie actually translated it, lie[prehended that its publication at tho expense swear at him." "Yes," replied the travelprobably did soto improve blmaelf iv the science, and in the of others, would bring him under pecuniary ler, "ond so does One above." Latin language i 1 : i .. . . * ' i , : '' �THE FRIEND, OCTOBER 15, 1849. 64 ISO bis sp, 80 bis wh, 1 wh this season, July 17, ship Csmbris N J B 6 whs this season, 18, l'acahontas, Tisbury. ft whs this Mr. Damon, | hy On. the Rev. Samuel C. season, 21, Dartmouth, N 11 6 wh this season,2l. l'heiiix, .N B 4. Honolulu, In 18 wh. ISOO bis, 22, Liverpool, 8 wh. this season, 25, St l,ra Vt illlam Taylor, is Mr.. Msriha Ann Lee. MARRIED. . N B 14 whs 2800 bis. 26. Jefferson, 8 H. 8300, 2S, Herald, N II 6 wis 900 lbs, 27, Liverpool, West. N 1117 months out 23U0. Msv 16, Nsvy N B 12 months out 1100, 18, Margaret Scott, N whs this season. 12, Wm Thompson, N B, 3400 barrels. Under distressing circumstances, drowned, on Ihe tta July B, 1 InIt the daughter eldest of Ann, Japan sea, by the Rosaline, ('apt. Mosher—Apr 22, on Islard of Julia Ihe Kaunl, Ihe last, Jules Uudnil. Esq., formerly Consul of France for ihe Ha- Panama. Sag Harbor, 6 whales; 80, 11 v Thompson, Nil general cresied relaelsncholy May I-lsnds The scitdrnl whale; 6, Good Return, N 11. none; 20, Triton, N 8,460 wait*" gret in this community. It was not noticed before, on sc wh; 23, l'ioncer, N 11. 1 whl; 28, ll'y Kneeland, N B, none; of Dudoll'sabsence. South counl M. !27, Boston, Fairhaven, 260 wh, 28, I'huMiix, N 11, 9 Died, In Honolulu, Oct. 13, Capt. I. Hart, carpenMr, long a whls; 29, Ann, S II 1 whl; June 1, Midas, N 11.3 whls; 8, Just Rece «•<! and for Sale j Nile, N B, 6 whls; 11, Liverpool, West, M 11, 8 whls; 22. l.iv resident on the islands. On board ship Tiger, Nov. 5, 1848, Josephus, n»tiv* of,erpool, Tripp, N B, 6 whls, July 1, Alpha,Nantucket, 4 whs; AT THE CHAPLAIN'S STUDY, a new and Sept 26, Ockmulgee, Tisbury, 3200 bbls, ii,, Bliei ing's Straits. the Sandwich Islands bcuutiful assortment of BIBLES in the English LanDrowned si Guam, March 12, 1849, Mark Nickolson, of Deptford,belonging lo ihe bark Envoy, Usui. Walker, of New Tlicy urc bound in various styles, and can be guage. PORT OF LAHAINA. Bedford. Aged 1» year.. had at prices varying from 37 1-2 cents, to $7,00 per On board ship Alpha, of Nantucket, 29th Aug., Mr. Reubln copy. O. Coleman, Ist officer. It was supposed that he died of yelArrived. low fever. Mr. C. was s native of Nantucket. ft?" Seamen, and others, arc informed that at the Sept whaleship of Green13—Am New Wood, Devoll, E. Bragan7a, Bedford, snmc place Died on board same ship, I7lh Sept., P. may be found Bibles primed in Ihe follow36 mos out, 200 ap, 3800 wh, 4,5000 lbs bone. wich, R. 1., alao, Abell B piier, nfConn., on Ihe 23d Sept. German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Lost overhuard sud drowned, in the early part ol August, 16—Massachusetts,Nickerson, Nantucket, 10mos out,none. ing languages: 22—Mary Stuart, Tucker, N V, merch brig. French, Spanish and Portuguese. Mr. Sister, 2nd officer, and Mr B.nks. hostsleerer of the Awugale 13 mos 29—Catharine, London, of Green, New out, 90 5p,2000 N. H —Portuguese seamen are especially notified, •honks of Falmouth. The vessel al ihe lime, being in s wind, having jusl entered the Arctic Ocean. The Is tier per- wh, 20,000 lbs bone. can obtain copies of the Holy Scriptures in aon unfurtiinalely fell overboard, in the anxiety lo save ihe for- Bengal, Hempstead, N L, 28 mos out, 26 sp, 2275 wh, 22,000 that they Ithe old and new Testaments. mer, who was precipitated into Ihe sea, by Ihe bow boat giv- lbs bone. sp, 16 mos 60 2040 Harbor, Washington, Drake, Sag whether they out, ing away. #*# It is left voluntary with senincn Died at aea, Sept. 21, on b lard the Elizabeth Frith, Cap! wh, 26,000 lbs. bone. gift, or pay the whole French whalcshigLo Tour dv I'iln, Smith, Havre, 25 mos 'receive a copy of the Bible us n Fhllander Winters, aged 31, lule master of Ihe Richmond or a received from part of its value Money the sale Afler the loss of his ship, Capt W. lookpassage wllh his bro- oul, 3900 wh, 4400Dlbs bone ther who commands the Elizabeth Frith, bound to Ihe islands Oct I—Am wh ship Sarah, I'arrington,Mattapoisett, 13 ins of Bibles is appropriated to the purchase of new suplie waa a great sufferer during ihe ia.l four days of bis life, out, 1700 wh. 18000 lbs bone. tf plies, Metacom, Shockley, N B, 14 mos out, 200 ap, 1900 wh,20.00 being deranged.and for ihe last sixty hours, unsblc to spesk. Ii Is supposed Hint his death was in pan occasioned by the anx- > lbs bone. Hall. The Friend, sent Abroad. B, piece Majestic, look on mos 40 1350 17000 lbs wh, N 11 out, sp, iety consequent upon llle loss of his ship, which one. the 2nd of August, previously.—(Com. Any by paying the annual subscription price person, Coleman, Nantucket, September sp. John mos Honolulu, 29, 0ut,200 14 Henry, Died st U. S. Nsval hospital, I'anains, lislleck, S 11,24 mos out, 45 sp, 3750 wh, 30000lbs of the Friend, ($1.50) in advance, can have the paper Fierce, seaman, belonging lo 11. S. 8 Preble. He waa a naopportunity, to any port in the resided Deacon Peels. bone. the earliest Sheffield, sent, L. by Muss, where he with tive of Drowned, 11 August. In the Ocholak Sen, Mr. Paul Ashley, Ockmnlgee. Msntir, Ti»bury,2s mos out, 15 sp, 8100 wh, Pacific, or to any part of the U. States or England. unfurluuately was COOOO lbs bone. 2nd officer of Ihe William Hamilton. He B.—By paying the additional sum of 50 cents, Bk Awsauonks,Smith, Falmouth, ir,mos out, 600 wh, 600C N. taken out of Ihe boat by the linegelllns foul. paper will be sent for one year to the U. States, vis At *ea on hoard the Rosalie, September 2,1849, JohnMar. lbs bone. Gibbs, Warcham, 22 mos out, 260 sp, 2750 California and Panama Postage on papers to private tin; September 8, John Brown; September 11, Bill Mitchell;; Geo Washington, wh, 29000 ILs bone, September 29, William Maul,natives of these islands must be pre-paid. The Friend, being a monthLost overboard from Ship Adeline, of New Bedford, oni Bk Eugene, Brown, Stouington, 26 mos out, 100 sp, 2400 w, ly sheet, and containing a full report of Marine Intellithe 18th January 1849, Hiram Fisher, seaman, from Edgar- 22000 lbs bone gence, will be found a useful and cheap method of town, Marthas Vineyard, aged 17 1-2 years. DIED. , , * , . . • J Jthe [persons communication with the mercantile community in EuInformation Wanted. tf rope and the United States. Taunton, Oct. 11, 1848. Dear Sir—l write at the suggestion of Mr. Joscphus Information Wanted, Skinner, of Norton, respecting his son. who sailed from Respecting Eugkne Lewis, a native of the state of PORT OF HONOLULU. Bristol, R. I, on a whaling voyage, in the capacity of New Jersey, U S. A. If alive he is now 40 years of carpenter, on board the ship Chariot, of Bristol, some- age. A report has reached his father, residing in MorShipping in Port, Oct. 13, 1840. time in 1844. From the best accounts that we can get ristown, N. J., that Eugene may be still alive and reH. Mary Ailellue. Williams McLellan, at 11. A ahlp mer Am he left that ship in April, 1845, and when last heard siding in some part of the Pacific. Any information Co. consignees—for Manila. Am mer bark Mary, llailey, 8 II Williams A Co; for Boston from was at some of the Sandwich Islands. We want will be thankfully received, if made to the Editor of Peruvian brig Pncifico, for aale. to learn something of his whereabouts, if he is living, the Friend, and communicated to an anxions parent. Br bark Maxim, Lindsay, P R Vlda, for Valparalao. and if not, where and at what time he died. He was Am ahlp Taar, U'lraley, is II W & Co; for lions Rons. subject fits. Connecticut, Fenhallow. for California. to Vlda, F R bk School Books. Am Am wh ahip Triton, Hpeucer P H Vlda; forU Stalaa. Will you write what information you may have or Teachers nnd others can he supplied with a few do school Win Rotch, Kemplon, Mnkre, Authcn A Co. can get concerning him (lib name is Joscphus A. SkinBragania, Derail, Makee. Anthon A Co do books at the Chaplain's study. The assortment —whether ever knew or heard of such a ner) you perfor s*r|>Romulus, Bogue; Btalee. V Am wh comprisesPrimary Geographies, Arithmetics, GramFrancis' o. son, or not—anil if lie is there, to nsc your influence Am aloop of war Preble, Com Glynn; for Heading Books, Webster's Dictionaries, &c. Am mcrch ship Hcbcr, Patterson, Makee Authou & Co;ito have him return. By doing so, you will serve the mars, for lions; Kong an humanity cause of and relieve unxious family.— do Am wh ship Abram Barker, Barker, The Friend, Bound. Direct to Joscphus Skinner, Norton, Mass. Bark Monmouth. Ilalaey, F RVlda. Bound volumes of the Friend, for one.ormorcyears, Respectfully, your friend, Ship India Miller, Makee Anthon «. Co. Ship Eleotrs, Brown, F R Vlda. C. A HOCK can be oSSiincd at Bsv. T. Coan.s, Hilo; Rev. T E. Ship Marengo, lie vol, M A A Co. Taylor's, Lnliaitia; und the Chaplain's study, HonoRev. S C.Damon, Sandwich Islands. Ship Isaac Hicks, Kice, 8 Reynolds Editor cannot, at present, furnish the de- lulu, tf Ship Rosalie, Mosliier, M A A Co. Whip Julian. Tsber, A B Howe. aired information. Any information respecting the Ship Two BrotlKTS, Jonney, M A A Co. person referred to, will lie duly communicated if made Notice to Masters oi WJ uleships. Ship Pocabonlaa. Cottle. tf to the Seamen's Chaplain, Honolulu. M A aY Co Ship Copia, Taber, Your ships will tie reported correctly in the It?" do Ship Jeannette, West, Friend and Polynesian, if, on jour arrival, a report is Bark E izabeth Frith, Winters, M A as Co IstMstM Captain. French ship AJa-x, Le Tcllier, left at the Polynesian OfKce. ' Unless arc willing Have recently been received by the Chaplain for to take this trouble, theEditors ot theseyou Am ship Margaret, Falea, M A ft Co papers are sub do DaSbip James Murray, Wheldon, W. S Collins, schr. Indiana, Capt. Crosby; Mr. jetted to great inconvenience, and are oftentimes unaShip Adeline, Journeean, do vid Hillson, formerly painter in Honolulu, but who ble to make any report. llardey, Captain. tf French ship Gustavc.Shookley, left on board a vessel bound to Callao; Capt. R. AlM A fc Co Am ship Metscomb, Ship Menkar, Norton, do len, ship Condor; Mr. Israel Horselcy, Condor; Mr Spelling Books. Danish schooner Johanna and Olufla, Egers. James I'eter Ludlow. Margaret; Mr. Sturt, formerly Noah Webster's, and the Asa ship Montreal. Chad v.ick, Williams A Co; for U 8 Union Spelling Books for to lie in Cnli- sale cooper in Honolulu, but Chaplain's Hamburg brig, CeciliaLouisa. Hansen. at Study. tf fornia; Mr. Samuel Rawsonywatch-rnnkcr, now at Ihe Leathart, Captain. Br brig Fanny, Am Ship Moctexuma, Tower, Makee Anthon k Co Religious Books. mines; Mr. Jacob P. M. Mead, ship Dromo; and Mr. Ship Washington, Pratt, do Jeremiah Varncy, Honolulu. E7" The Seamen's Chaplain has just received an Arrived. excellentassortment of Books published by the Aincr Wanted. Information icon Tract Society, including nearly all of their standOat s—Am whaleslilp Catharine, Green, NL, 2100 wh. f| lag brig Anonyme, Brainier, fm San Francisco, Whcntlic"HuntBvillc,"of Cold Spring, left the U. ard publications. These books arc beautifully bound, no F whalaship Omega, Moray, report. 11. S—Ass S., in the fall of 1847,her shipping articles contained and will be sold at an advance on the New York price* Alpha, Folger.Nant. 1400 wh. do do the name of "John Stuart." It is supposed this name only sufficient to cover the expenses. do do Erie. Norton, FII 115 sp 3300 wh. d* do was assumed for that of "Thomas Shbphbrd." Said Tiger, Brewster, 1800 wh, the collection will be found some new and Win Hamilton, Shookley, NB. 4000. do do John Stuart left the Huntsville at Ilobart Town, New instructive books for children. tf Lagoda Finch, NB. 3200 wh. do do fall under his eye, South Wales. Should this notice do Illinois, J agger, Sll 2700 wh. do of the Hawaiian Islands t History to with Mr. earnestly requested he ia communicate Bremen brig Johanna Cscaar. Kberiield, fin Sao Francisco. Embracing their "Antiquities, Mythology, Legends, John Bhepherd, of Patterson, N. J. Should John StuS—Bag Cutter ThoaNUen. fin Tahiti. 11—Span brig ClavUeno, St Juan, fm Hong Kong. art, alias Thomas Shepherd, visit Honolulu, let him Discovery by Europeans in the 16th century, rc-diseo 12 -Haw soar Starling, fm Jian Francisco very by Cook, with their civil, Religious and Politico. tf not fail to call at the Chaplain's study. Spokes. History from the earliest traditionary period to the Sea. Adeline, 22, India, In Jspsn N May ship By ship present time. By JAMES JACKSON JARVES.— Hymn Books. season, June 6, bark II editors'. 10months out, 2 whales thisJune Study. Price. "nssani. fllinlnn. 6 whs this season, ship 10, ship Illinois, At Chaplain's study, large *nd small edition of Third edition. For sale at Chaplain's r Wm Hamilton, Sag Harbor. » whs that soason, July s, $1,00. ,f Book* tf Hymn Seamen* bark Brsmm, N B Julys, this Bedford, season, Hew 17 whi MARINE JOURNAL. _ � 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 (1849) 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/. 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