https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/60308c04aaf6ae2a266f1bbcae6c25d1.pdf b73f96cd084feb9635b8f7a8a46ee679 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. Vol. 8. Contents OF THE Kill KM >, FEB. 1,1860, Bell's Weekly Mcaaenter. Pane '> 9, 10 Vi»il of French Ship Bunitc, Ac., coiitinnecl, .Sir John Franklin, 1, 12, 15, 16 1'ealh of W. B. Tappan, the Poel, II Late New* from Arctic Ocean, 12 Examination of Mr. Puller'* School, 13 A Hint 10 Pursera ill the U. 8. Nary 12 Oregon, and California, 1-3 Loss of Four r: rrenland Whalera, 13 Facta Tor Scoflcra and Sceptic, 14 Commercial rtuuUlicfePr Haw. lalands, for 1619, 14, 15 Father Mallhew, 15 16 llcalha, Donnlions, Ac, m WBeelk'lsyMessenger. No. « only of the (own, and the honor of the capture brought away by the conquerors." The English might well congratulate themselves in being permitted to gratify their palates around a table spread for President Madison, and decorated with decanters, of choice wines ! " The champagne was in coolers—a fine desert set out on the sideboard, etc. So the British officers ordered in the supper, and Gen. Ross drank His Majesty's health at the head of the table with the President's wine !" While the English politician was smiling over these facetious remarks, it must have been far different with ship-owners in Liverpool and London,as they glanced overLloyd's list of British vessels captured by American privateers. The most interesting numbers of the Messenger are those of the 9th of July and 15th of August, 1815, immediately subsequent to the battle of Waterloo. The Homan, when his burning heart Was slaked with blood of Home, Threw down the dagger—dared depart, In savage grundeur, home. He dared depart, in utter scorn Of men that such a yoke had borne, Yet left him s«ch a ilretm! His only glory was that hour Of self upheld abandoned power. Hut thou—from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung— Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung ; All evil spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean. EDITOTR'S ABLE. 9 Tnere has recently fallen into our possesAnd earth hath spilt her blood for him, sion a file of Bell's Messenger for 1814, Who thus can hoard his own I with an occasional number for 1815. Those And Monarchs bow'd the trembling limb, | allied times. was England were xtiiring Visit ofthe French sloop of war And thank'd him for a throne 1 Bonite, to the with tbe nations ofcontinental Europe to put Fair Freedom ! we may hold thee dear, Islands, in down Napoleon. He was banished to Klba, Sandwich thus thy mightiest foes their fear but on a sudden re-appears upon the theatre', When Friend, le Translated from ihe French of for In humblest guise have shown. of action. Immense urmies are speedily orBarrot. Adolphe behind Oh ! necr may tyrant leave ganized, and meet at Waterloo. The histoNo. 11. A brighter, name to lure mankind! ry of that period is familiar to otir renders, The house of Mr. Forbes is in the midst of but the best history (ails to bring before tbe to have been somemind so vivid a picture as is presented in the It wns during the year 1814, that the Em- a garden, which seemed by a quicksurrounded Prussia, and the of what and King of Russia neglected, pages of a weekly newspaper, and that paper peror visited England, and were entertained in a set hedge of ki—the ki is a shrub with large edited with rare ability. has the taste As we are not favored with regular files of■style becoming royalty. In the columns of leaves, and its root when cookad or The natives forreport a full of their burnt sugar. we have of calomel newspapers fresh from the presses of Europe the Messenger from it, and the United States, it is certainly a good progress, and the splendid entertainments merly extracted a very strong liquor have the Missionaries prohibion account. at present their but file of more prepared papers substitute to meet with a i distillation than thirty years old. Buonaparte is the There were many sad accidents connected. ted, under severe penalties, the family of the of this root. royal the domestic affnirs the of Pwith in picture grand and prominent figure of England, which found their way into the Mr. Forbes received us very cordially, and that age. and venerable introduced us to his family, consisting ol hia In the paper for March 27th, 1814, the first public journals. The aged with insanity; the wife, a native like himself, ofthe UnitedStates is afflicted 111, of Lord George ofthe file, we have a despatch George IV, nnd two lovely children. Kapioluni joined us Prince subsequently Regent, lington, detailing a signal victory which the. bell called us to church. allied army had obtained over the French at['quarrels with his wife, and otherwise con- and very soon the is in.every rea forever Kaawaloa will manner that The church-of in ducts hrmself march Borupon Orthes, and then of a rapid ; it if a country with houses of the like the spect, the most dishonorable epithets deaux. Then follows a long list oT the ' kill- 'associate shed in the form of a lofty cone, or raIgreat and ',his memory. of name The thanks missing.' ed, wounded and the J At this period England was at war withjther, of a roof resting on the ground, Parliament. Marshall Soult's proclamation],'the held tc-t, a frame by an account supported being United jsidas States. In publishing to the French occupies a prominent placßaj the British 'gether by cords—for nails are not used in of Washington by the burning the •jof matters, Besides these important while it was jibe construction of houses. This forms a presents his readers with an ordinary supply'Ifirmy, the editor remarks, that the ar- sort of lattice work covered on the outside* the dock yards, of news, relating to deaths and disasters,,'proper to destroy " Washingat with the leaves of the pandanus, the cocoatreasury the affairs, -senilis, and public ll apbankruptcies and commercial In the houses of nut in too far army.went -ton," the yet destroying tree, or sugar cane. concealed pears that patent medicines, producing wonby mats is thmthatching President's the palace."—i chiefs, derful cures, were remarkably in vogue at,t|" the capitol and editor, "is a which line all the interior. The length of remarks the •'Washington," that period. ; church is about eighty feet, its width aOur narrow limits will not of course per-jcapital city, rising in the woods of America Ihe which Amerbout forty, and its greatest height aboutlrfty. mit us to make lengthy quotations, althoughi it is the temple, as it were, from is olof containing more than a thouis to be It It is capable produced. inlercsting ican civilization on every page the eyo falls upon travellers About six hundred Islanders were of interest to sand. banmost the only object articles. The fall of Napoleon and his and naked counor kneeling sitting upon coarse mats. A that new in for •'and strangers a fruitful theme tsbjnent to Elba, formed were of chairs had been placed for us near and number palace ; the President's I'try theme which capitol newspaper discussion. It was a It was interesting to and their the minister's pulpit. the destruction ( pride of Union, roused the poet Byron to touch his lyre. Inithe wound. To sny see This multjfcdc assembled to hear the word greater therefore, inflicts a to on Napoleon a beautiful Ode* addressed wodM have preferred that of Christ, where, scarcely fifty years before, his fall, and published in the Messenger r all in a word, we had been spared, and the spoil they offered bfrnan victims to abominable diI buildings Aptil 24th, we find these spirfc»d lines : llnese 1836. ■ I I : ' i Wel-J i ■ - i ■ t : i i I �10 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. vinitiea.. There are it is true, very fear real i slmtishness of Iheir clothing, diminished very- an adventure which seemed too interesting chriatiana among the natives, and almost all much the strength oftheir attractions. As the to be omitted here. retain in the interior of their villages and of men that we had seen up to that time, seem- \ The natives in their canoes frequently pass their houses, their absurd superstitions ; yet ed to have a preference for money and rlo- over the channels which separate the differit ia much to induce them to come occasion-,Ihi 112, so the women at Kealakeakua appear- ent Islands of the archipelago. < in- day, a ally to hear words too mystical, without ed to have preserved the. taste for toys no- native accompanied by his wife and two doubt, and of which fhey understand nothing, ticed by the first navigators. A string- of'small children, put off in a canoe from the but which contain lessons of christian moralsi glass bends, a copper ring with a colored northern point ofLanai with the design of so sublime, so simple and so well adapted toi stone, filled them with joy. landing on the southern putt of Molokai, a of seven or eight leagues. When disclose to them, by degrees, the means of Towards noon, the entire female popula- |distance civilization. The men were on one side and tion of Kealakeakua assembled to bathe in a lie Inul put to sea ihe weather was fine, but the women on the other. No individual was small bay surrounded hy lava rocks ; one!suddenly a dink cloud blackened Ihe sky, a admitted naked, but Mr. Forbes was obliged:I rock served the bathers for a screen, nnd gale commenced and the sea becntne very rough. For a long time the skill with which not to be too particular in respect to the lorm they plunged thence entirely naked, into the the islander guided his linil skill' in the midst the most the men garment. part, the For of waves which were breaking upon ihe shore ; were enveloped in large pieces of native cloth a plank, six or eight bet in length, ami of the waves preserved it from being in the manner of a cloalt. Many of the wo- pointed at one end, enabled Ihem to sustain!'wrecked; hut at length a sea broke the outjriggcr nnd the canoe capsized. The chilmen wore straw hats, and some were envelthemselves on the crest of the waves. It was dren were too young to be. able to swim. He oped from head to foot in unbecoming cloaks indeed, a singular picture—»a swarm ofyoungl M'l/i'il iln-ill at the moment when the sea was such as English females still wear in the women passing returning 1 about to lai out to sen, thenborne swallow them up, and placed them Individuals the congregation in country. with the swillness of an airow, upon had prayer books, printed at Honolulu and■ the foaming crest of the surges which break upon the canoe, which being made of light wood Hooted, although bottom up. Then he Lahaina in the Hawaiian language, and when with the noise of thunder on each side of the and his wife swimming at U&side, undertook according to the Presbyterian form, Mr. hay. to see them to urge it aletig to the nearest I expected every moment shore. They Forbes commenced singing the psalms of the dashed against tbe sharp points of the rocks, were then near the middle of the channel.— ritual, voices, hesitating at first, and then but they avoided the danger with surprising more confident, accompanied that of the mis- address ; indeed, danger seemed to delight After many hours of liitiguing exertion, and sionary. In fine, with the exception of some\ them, and they set it at defiance with a cour- when they bad almost reached the shore, they met a very strong current* which urged want of attention, occasioned no doubt by our which astonished me. The least move- them buck into the open sea. To struggle presence ; with the exception of some enti- age ent of their body gave to ihe plank which| against the force of the current would hflk cing glances from the women near us, all m them, the desired direction, and.been to expose themselves to certain dealn, s ustained off* —but it wrs to passed decently easy per- disappearing for a moment in the midst of they therefore decided to cieve notwithstanding, that the great majoridirect their canoe t he they very soon arose from the towards another part of the island. Yet the breakers, ty of the congregation were present by nef oam and returned at their ease run the to night came on and they began to feel cold. cessity. Kapiolani was arrayed in her best; same race again. I saw a mother, who hav- The woman was the first to coKtplain of faher dress was of black satin, and she wore her child, scarcely a year old, tigue, but the desire so natural to ing escape upon her head a cloak of native fabric as uponplaced a two feet long, pushed it before death, and the sight of her children whose plank ' She seemed to fol- her to a glosay almost as satin. and then great distance, abandoning low with attention the divine£ervice in the it to the fury of the waves, she followed, di- life depended upon the preservation of her own, gave her courage, and she continued book before her ; her countenance was no) recting only now and then the plank which to swim near her husband, pushing the canoe wanting in dignity, and a pair of batteredI it. before them. Soon the poor children became spectacles on her nose, gave to her an ap- ■ sustained which even in Hawaii, appeared to> I had expected to see this population such fatigued, for they could not long cling to the pearance us very singular. as ('apt. Cook found it, free and indepen- round and polished surface of the canoe withOn the morrow, I went to visit the villagel dent, and the contrast I avow, did not appear out a continued effort, and they were also with cold. Soon they relinquished ofKealakeakua, accompanied by M. Eydoux[ to me in favor of the present, whenl after- chilled their and fell one after the other, into hold, wards saw these women covered with dirty of the and To M. Hebert. corvette, surgeon the sea. Their parents seized them and pla■ land with dry feet was impossible, and we! rags. ced them again upon the canoe, striving at were obliged to swim in some manner in orThe difficulties we had experienced in land- the same time to encourage them. Alas! der to reach the shore. This failed not to ing, suggested the idea of returning on board excite the mirthfulness of the population a- 'the Bonite in a canoe. We had been able their strength was exhausted—their little round us. It is certain that the customs of'to appreciate during the day, the advantages hands could no lunger retain their grasp, and engulfed them for the third time. It the country were much better adapted to the'possessed by these light and easily worked the sea longer necessary to think ofpreseroccasion than our own. A crowd of boys 1canoes in a rough sea over our heavy boats. was no the canoe ; ihe parents therefore took and girls immediately surrounded us. Al- We entered a canoe of about fifteen feet in ving though scarcely two miles distant from Kaa- length and a foot or more in width. This the children upon their backs and swam towards die land which was scarcely visible in waloa, the population of Kealakeakua ap- ; canoe, like all those of the Pacific islands, tbe darkness. An hour later, the woman disto be far under influence less the of had an out-rigger made of a piece of light' peared the missionary. We could perceive this wood and fixed parallel to the canoe by means covered that the child which she was carrywithout difficulty in the clothing of the island- 1of two transverse bars four or five feet in ing was dead, and she broke forth into bitter ers and in their conduct towards us. Here length. Our Indians waited for what is csll-l lamentations. In vain did her husband perthe maro was the only article of clothing worn 11ed a calm, that is the moment when the waves', suade her to abandon the child and to take couruge, pointing out to her the shore which by the men, nnd scarcely were the women which usually succeed one another to the', better clad. But the manner in which the 1number of four or five, seem to cease for an',now seemed near. The unhappy mother women received us, proved beyond a doubt, instant, then they drew the canoe rapidly.,would not separate from her lifeless child, and she continued to carry her precious burthat their actions were not so immediately some distance from the when springingl until she felt her strength nearly exhaustunder the control of Mr. and Mrs. Forbes as'upon their seals and shore, den paftdling vigorouslyl( those of the inhabitants ofKaawaloa. They they were able before the next wave rolled in (ed, when she told her husband that she must die, for she could swim no further ; yet, notemployed every possible art to attract our;'to such a distance that we experienced withstanding her attention and to win our favor ; but it is true gain husband's earnest entreattwo three We or only strong undulations. ies, she would not relinquish her burden. that flle rings and necklaces distributed by 1reached the Bonite safe and sound. He then endeavored to sustain her with one these gentlemen to the prettiest, were not The next day I spoke to Mr. Forbes con- |hand and to swim with the other, but without influence upon their friendly disponature cerning the extraordinary dexterity in swim- icould not prolong the struggle, and she sitions. dishad observed ming ; which I on the preceding appeared beneath the waves. Tbje husband The itch seemed to be a prevailing malady day among the natives. " You can have no continued to swim on in sadness. The deamong them, almost all were more or less adequate idea of "they are isire to save his surviving child'alone sustainit," he i with it. affected This circumsflhee, joinedI more at their ease in th*replied, water than on the ied him. At length, after many hours of unto the copper color of their skis and to the[ land." To confirm this assertion, he related ispeakable hardship, and when almost dead, 1 , _.. ',' ' ' > ' , ' '' ' , > , , , . : , �THE FRIENI}, FEBRUARY 1. 1850. 11 he reached the shore. His first care was to which have been enlarged, continues thei has been proved to have been a bad one for embrnce the son he had saved, for he alone same that it was before (he discover* of thei making researches in those seas, which would remained to him of his beloved family. But island. As a general thing, the houses of"of course delay them; secondly, that Sir J. on taking him into his arms, he perceived: (lie natives ire sufficiently comfortable ; the Franklin, knowing that this would be the that he was dead, and he fell senseless upon floors are cninmoiily covered with mats ex- ■ last expedition that in all probability would the sand. He was discovered at day-break cellently lirnitled, upon which they spread a be sent out, would naturally endeavor to lying prostrate on the shore, by some fisher- hed of dry ferns. Formerly there was but make the most of it; and thirdly, that almen. He revived, but he died soon after in a single room in a house, nud that was used though he only carried out provisions for consequence of his sufferings, and perhaps fur a dining room, drawing room and bed!.three years, yet when seeing that he was also, from grief. He had been in the water chamber. The missionary >t are now per- likely to be longer detained he would lesson eighteen hours. suading the people to make divisions in their the quantity of victuals served out to the We were at Kealakeakua six days, visit- ■houses, and for this purpose they generally men, as one half the full quantity allowed it ing the natives at their houses and collecting employ large curtains of/apa or of Knglish sufficient to keep men in health, and theresuch information as seemed to possess any calico, These separations form the sleeping fore he was not likely to suffer on that acinterest. We were informed that Knpiolani iipni'tmenls. The lied is composed of a great count, saying nothing of the occasional together with Kaahumanu, wife of Kameha- number of mat* laid one upon another, ho as supply of seals, birds, &c, which abound in meha, was the first to embrace the christian to form Hiieslinde, the coarsest being placed those regions. The lecturer also showed religion, but her conversion was not very at the bottom. This place is tabu (prohibited) from a map Ihe different places where he sincere at first. " For twelve years or more,", to all ihe world. supposed they could quarter safely for the said Mr Forbes, " she was a very bad woNear Kapiolmii's house is the tomb of her winter. He thought, however, after all, that man. She was constantly drunk and she had husband—u lame stone edifice with a roof"if we received no intelligence from them befour or five husbands. Even after having of boards. This man was a powerful and fore the end of the autumn, the chances in received baptism, she retained two ; and it],very rich chief; but at his death, a son that their favor would be greatly lessened.—[Boswas only in consequence of our expostula- ,he bad by his first wife, took from Knpiolani ton Transcript. tions that she came to the conclusion to have almost all thai she held from him, and she is Death of W. B. Tappan.—This Christian but one." At present she is a virtuous wo- now comparatively poor. A few calabashes for pot, (fermented paste, poet, whose name is associated with some of man, and she has bceotne the firmest defender of the moral and religious innovations on made of lam,) one or Iwo Lahiles, sometimes,our most familiar hymns, has been called to Hawaii. Kapiolani has given many proofs a line and some paddles, constitute the entire that " peaceful rest" which was so often the of greHt energy. It once happened that a 'furniture of a Hawaiian house. Fish slight-, theme of his song. He died at Needhain, sailor belonging to an American ship, was ly salted and very often raw, and poi, com-,■ Mass., on Monday last, of cholera, after an arrested and put in prison, having been con- prise their principal fond. I took a notion to .illness of but eleven hours. victed of the offence for which persons were taste of poi, but it seemed detestable. It Mr. Tappan was truly a good man, humsentenced to labor on the roads of Hawaii. possesses the color and consistence of starch ble, affectionate, sincere, benevolent,devoted. The captain of the ship waited upon Knpio- -and an acid Insle is very perceptible. At He loved Christ, His people, and His cause. lani and threatened to fire the village unless Kealakeakua butcher's meat is never eaten. He was particularly interested in Sabbaththe sailor should be instantly released.— All (hat Europeans can find here to sustain schools, to which he consecrated, not his "Here is my law," said Knpiolani, "the animal life, are low Is, pigs, cocoa-nuts and a time Oily, but some of the choicest productions of his genius. At the time ofhia death sailor shall pay the fine of fifteen dollars or few kinds of fruits. he shall work four months on the roads—the The importation of intoxicating liquors are he was a General Agent of the A. S. S. Union same as his associate in guilt. Now if you prohibited ; we could however perceive that which office he had held for several years. have the force, fire the village; but while the islanders are not destitute of the fondness The impression which Mr. Tappan made Kapiolani lives, her law shall be executed in Tor ardent spirits, which has been observed, upon all who knew hitn, was that of quiet, her courtry." The captain was obliged to' exists among all nations. Even the women unassuming, but deep and fervent piety. Ha pay the fine, in order to obtain tlie release opened their mouths with avidity to receive breathed much of the spirit of Christ and of of the sailor. the brandy which we gave them. The heaven. Ia spite of all the zeal of Mr. and Mrs. islanders as a general thing, are restrained As a poet he did not hold the first rank even Forbes—and Ibe latter participates in all the from giving themselves up to their old prac- among the poets ofhis own country and time. labors of her husband—the number of real tices not by conviction of truth, but from fear His reputation had been belter if he had christians has scarcely increased in the dis- of punishment. Whenever occasion offers iwritten less. A ready faculty of improving Mr. Forbes being they hasten to throw off" the yoke which has incidents, hints, allusions and affections, betrict of Kealakeakua. alone in this district, and his school at K'au- been imposed upon them. Four or five trayed him into a passion for turning everywaloa demanding his uninterrupted attention, months before, Kauikeaouli, King of the thing into rhyme, so that instead of clothing he has not the leisure to make distant excur- Sandwich Islands, with a part of his court,'Jthe passing event, however trivial, with a' sions. Consequently his influence is scarce- made a visit to Hawaii, and he gave himself rich and shining garb of spiritual philosophy, ly felt at a short distance from Kaawaloa, up to excesses in which not only those who ihe sometimes gave only a jingling narration and the natives retain almost all the super- accompanied him took part, but the whole of the event itself. Yet he had in his heart stitions of their old religion. I should have population of Kealakeakua also. Neither, the well-spring of poetry, which ever and earnestly desired to visit those parts of ihe Kapiolani nor Mr. Forbes ventured to make anon bubbled up and sparkled in the sunisland where no missionaries reside, in order the least remonstrance—they waited impa- light, and poured forth life and sweetest melto see the natives in their nearest approaches tiently in their houses until the country should ody. Enough that his memory will be emto the primitive slate ; but my lot being found be deliveredfrom the presence of the wicked. balmed in the affections of the Church, when at the opening of public worship they sing closely connected with that of tho Bonite, even until my arrival at Manilla, it was neSir John Franklin.—An English paper '• Holy be this, as was the place cessary to be content with seeing only those states that the Rev. Dr. Scoresby delivered To him of Padan-arain known ;" parts where civilization has penetrated. a lecture last month in England, "On Ihe or, meditating on a Saviour's passion, find Kapiolani treated me with great kindness ; Hopes and Fears concerning the absent Arc- utterance in that pensive strain,' she made me a present of a magnificent kahile,' tic Expeditions." The lecturer, who has 'Tis midnight—and on Olive's brow, a sort of feather broom—among the chiefsi'cx|il<ired these regions himself, and whose The star is dimmed that lately shone ;". this is a token of authority. She invited me father made several impottant discoveries in to visit her house at the lower village, andI arctic navigation, first entered into an his- or, when assembled to pray for the coming also the one she was building nt the upper■torical account of the different discoveries of Christ's kingdom, tliey raise the triumphvillage. The latter lias the advantage of be- made in these parts, and then entered into ant anthem, ing near the missionary, and it has assumed I Ihe more immediate subject of the lecture. 'Wake! Isleaof the South, your redemption is near 1 a certain European aspect. There was build- •He (Dr. S.) is of opinion that the hopes of or, when in the midst of storms and trials, ing on the same let a stone house of twoi Sir John Franklin and his company ought yet they seize the lay of comfort and hope, storied. Her house in the lower village, withito outweigh the fears, for many reasons; There is an hourof hallowed peace," the exception of the doors and windows, first, because the first summer they were out ' I I . , " ' " �THE FRIEND, FBBRyARY 1, 1850. 12 < that place the Plover is wintering. The educational aspect of affairs in Honolulu.— Herald and the Nancy Dawson, left the,'.The average attendance has been about thirty Where purity with love appears, Sound on the 1st of Oct., just as the ice was Ifive, embracing pupils engaged in the vnri" And bliss without alloy ; beginning to make. Both vessels steered for'ous studies pursued in the best academics of And they who oft have sown in tears Shall reap agam in joy." Mazatlan, Mexico. From thence the HeraldIthe United Skates, and unless our memory JV. Y. Independent, July, 1819. iwent on a surveying cruise up the Gull ofIhas proved treacherous, the standing of the California, and the Nancy Dawson left forischolars would favorably compare with that England, under command of Mr. Hill, master 1of tbe scholars of the same age elsewhere.— 'of the Herald. At Mazatlan, died Capt.' In the department of sketching natural sceneHONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. Shedden, of the Nancy Dawson, which ves- ry nnd maps, great neatness and skill weie sel was owned and fitted out by him. She idisplayed. The interludes of singing gave from Arctic Ocean. Late News had been about two and a half years from ia gratifying variety to the performances.— Cruise of the ' JVancy Dawson' discovery of England, having visited all the ports of im- While referring thus to drawing nnd singing new Islands party start-overland for Baf- \portance between England and Bhering's we would nut have the inference drawn, that !the severer studies were slighted. When fin's Bay, and death of Capt. Shadden. Straits, via Cape of Good Hope. do add that no the young gentlemen were heard to declaim sincerely California, arrival from Most we to Mr. regret a late By Shannon arrived as passenger, who was re- i report is brought in any way relating to Sir in the language of Lord Chatham, Daniel Webster, and other orators, it made the cently chief-officer of the ' Nancy Dawson.','John Franklin. youthful blood again course through tbe He reports as follows— Sir John Franklin's Expedition.—In' The Nancy Dawson, the Royal Thames jveins of not a few of the spectators who had several late papers from the United Slates commander,,' owned her received their education in the schools of by Yatch Schooner, iwe notice articles relating to the probability manned England nnd the United States. One feature by twentyCapt. R. Shadden, and that Sir John Franklin and his fellow exploleft and of the school was apparent, that pupils of in April, seamen, China touchfour rers may yet return. Intelligence has been [Hawaiian extinction, fairly maintained an ed at Loo Choo Islands, where they saw Dr. received at the British Admiralty, through equality in point of scholarship with thooe Bettleheim. While there one of the seamen masterof an English whaler, that " two I Jthe jwho could boust that they were of Americofractured his arm on firing a salute on the! of the ships had been frozen up for four years' Anglo-Suxon descent. Queen's birth-day, which was amputated by on the west side of Prince Regent's Inlet, Viewing Ihe school wilh a pedagogue's Dr. Bettleheim. On the 4th of July, the' and that the other two had been frozen up on eye, we might perhaps discern ia>vtne defects vessel left the Russian settlement at Kamthe east side for one year ; that the two ships, that a little care would readily remove, but acthaka, and on the lHth entered the Arctic 1 which had been there the longest, had tried our columns are not the place to point them Ocean. On Ihe following day to get beyond Cape Rennell, but not being out. Most sincerely we desire to call the bue's Sound, where H. M. S. * Herald' and able, had come into Prince Regent's Inlet to.attention of parents and the friends of educa'Plover,' were at anchor. These vessels where the ice had not broken up,tion in Honolulu, to the importance of renimmediately got under weigh, and the Herald winter, since—and that the Indians had been on, dering Mr. Fuller a generous and cordial stood to the awestward, towards the Asiatic board all tho four ships in March last, and support. We moreover hope the day is not coast. Previously, however, a boat expedithey were then all sufe." far distant when some beautiful site in Honotion was fitted out from the vessels, composed This report is founded upon the statement lulu, or its environs, will be adorned with a of the Herald's launch, (the Owen,) thePloof certain Indians, who made their report, school edifice that shall prove a ver's pinnace, and two whale boats. This temple of expedition stood to the north, along the A- "without special questioning." This intelli- knowledge to the youth of our prosperous merican coast, in company with the Nancy gence is furnished by the owner of the whale itown. An institution, such ns we would have, at Hull, England, who writes would in an eminent degree exalt tbe tone of Dawson. They parted in tbe fog, to the'ship, residing the Secretary of Ihe Admiralty under date educution here, and reflect true glory upon north of Icy Cape. The Nancy Dawson of Oct. 4th. Until something more definite our community. Who will second the movewent aa far north as 72°, and experienced shall be heard, we may certainly cherish the ment ? heavy gales of wind, which drove the ice so pleasing hope that the long lost adventurers as almost to wedge up the passage, and at may yet return and report to the world the A Hint to Pursers in the U. S. Navy.— one time it was feared the vessel would not'I narrative of their trials. We can scarcely ; Some years since, a worthy sailor, native of escape. The Nancy Dawson at length' imagine an event which Englishmen would Finland, but serving on board a United States' rounded Point Barrow, and entered Elson's hail with greater joy and national enthusi- vessel of war, was left at the Hospital in HoBay, where she fell in with the boats. The asm ; and we are confident that Americans, nolulu. After recovering his health, another boats reached a point eighty miles east of and other nations, will cordially unite in a " States' vessel" took him away. On his arPoint Barrow. Lieut. Pullen of the Plover,! burst of generous and heart-fell rival home he was subject to unnecessary exjgeneral and Mr. Hooper, mate of the Plover, with a' pense in collecting his wages, which he al'delight. company ofabout fifteen men, and sixty days iludes to in the following language, copied provision, embarked in the two whale boats, 1 Examination of Mr. Fuller's School— a letter which we have just received to proceed as far as possible by water, andlit mny be a funcy of ours, but a School Ex- [from him, bearing date New York, Nov. [from then to get over land with all possible des- amination is among the most choice delights •21, 1848. ■ patch to Englana, ty way of Baffin's Bay. jthat sweeten our cup of human happiness.— "Leaving Valparaiso we touched at Rio, We now return to the Herald's cruise.—-{What more interesting than to witness the and arrived in Norfolk, Va. in the beginning She reached the 73° north, and on the 17thi improvement and development of the minds of March. The JOlh I went on shore. You day of August, in latitude 71 16, and wastI of children and youth ? At each successive are not aware that the Purser on board the charged on my account all the bills, alongitude 1M 45, discovered a group off examination you can mark their progress.— to near $300, relating to my extnounling Islands. All the vessels again made Kotse- ■The High School under Mr. Fuller's instruc- penses while in the Hospital. Coming on buc's Sound, the place of rendezvous. A tion, is among the pleasing features in the shore in the United Siates, I repaired to or rise exultingly towards the world of lowed peace," " hal- < THE FRIEND. — — , ' ,, , — �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. 13 Washington to claim my wages, and was de- restricted in his missionary labors. The [and immediately afterward the Lady Jane tained there a foil night, and after I was fi- common people were pdhibitcd from even was literally cut in two, the masta at the nally paid off*, I found I was about s.'iO short 'same time falling overboard, and in less than* of what I expected, for my case would not selling him articles in the market. If he at- [two hours not a vestige of the ship was seen tempted to hold intercourse with them the' in admit of any allowance for travelling expenso completely had the ice covered her.— ses. This I have mentioned, that if such a streets, they would run from him through From the time the Lady Jane was first struck case should come under your nolico, 1 know Ifear of the government, although it was his ito the lime she disappeared, the crew, conof no better wnv to avoid the difficulties, belief that the common people would " huve sisting of fifty souls, succeeded in securing than when asltetl In sign the accounts, refuse the seven boats belonging to the ship, tolit(il gladly." to do it. The'United States Government heard gether with some clothing and provisions. makes allowance lor the sick, and expects to the American vessel, although dreadAs support Religion in Cali- fully shattered, every purser to be acquainted with the rules Efforts to the crew, aided by those be* and regulations of the navy, so as to be able FOBN1A, —We quote as follows from private' longing to the Superior and Lady Jane, made to settle the bills of u sick man." letters of Ihe Rev.-Dr. Hunt, dated San an effort to keep her afloat. After remaining in the ice till the 1tit la, and finding all at$CZP That this sailor did not make an im- Francisco, Dec. '20lh. to save the vessel abortive, the protempts use of bis proper money when it catne into " A chinch is also being erected for my- visions were divided and the crews got the his hands, the render may learn by referring self, 25 by fill feet, on Jackson street above boats ready and launched them, and at 7 ■ Stockton. I have been raising subscriptions o'clock to " The Friend" for March, 1819—See |>.'21.; M., with the wind N. E., and clear P. both for the lot and the building, and have |weather, they sailed southward along the I hope to Oregon.—We have received intelligenceraised between; ii and $7,000. of the ice, sometimes having to encounthe church the first Sabbath in jedgc by idedicate from Oregon to 'J'id of Oct. We rejoice tor fields of ice, which caused them to large ter Ijauuary, 1850. The Rev. Mr. Mines (Epislearn that the interests ofeducation are sub-1copal,) has now a church edifice. Dr. Ver drag the boats over it to gain the open sea. Peterson's party made land on the stantially cared for by the prominent men of Mehr has one erecting—the Methodists have Captain 19th, though the weather was thick and fogone, another, the so that mine will Baptists the country. An act has passed the Legisgy, and after each boat's crew had obtained latin e incorporating the Klackatnus county complete the fifth. Five months since we refreshments, they set sail again and made had not one ! This rapid growth is in keepFemale Seminary, to be located in Oregon ]ing with the city and slate. The Presbyte- for the nearest Danish settlement, keeping the land in as they proceeded. Thus City. Tualatin Academy has also been in- |riant have a small church on the way from exposed to view the weather, sometimes rowing and like ourselves, have no ser- and sometimes corporated. A good Common School law, the 1 Slates, sailing, and contending with vice on the Sabbath at present." the an acti has also passed Legislature. By heavy falls of snow and gales of wind, they At Sacramento City there are four church succeeded in gaining Opernaw'ick. Leaving of the United States Congress Ihe sixteenth; viz. among the Methodists, two boats with their crews, Captain Pater{organizations, and thirty-sixth sections of every township'' and Episcopa- son proceeded with the other five boats, all Baptists, Congregationalists are appropriated to create a School fund. of which reached Lively, another settlement lians. of the Danes, 500 miles from Melville Bay, Write! the Rev. Mr. Atkinson— The estimated population of San Francis- June 29, where the/ were kindly received, have been from returning Our citizens " California, both by land and sea, almost co is from 20 to 30,01)0. Sacramento tjity and every hospitality shown them, as far as weekly since you left. Some have again gone Ifrom 8 to 10,000. Total of Ihe Territory the means in possession of the natives could afford. The unfortunate crews of the other to the mines, but the tendency is now to dwell over 100,000. vessels were, we are happy to say, equally at home and improve the lands. Many re-| According to recent intelligence from Cal- successful; not a life was lost, and they turn in poor health. Frequently we hear ofl much sickness prevails throughout eventually gained the latter-named settledeaths of Oregonians. But few emigrants]ifornia, 1 have come into this valley. Three hundredIthe country —the rains render the country ment in safety, whence they were forwarded soldiers are quartered in town. Rents are almost impassable. The tide of immigration to the Orkney Islands by the first vessel that very high. Little cabins command $30 per (flows in unabated. Sixty-seven vessels are touched the settlement. The Prince of Wales, whaler, was wrecked in another part month," etc. etc. reported in the Boston papers, as having left of the Davis' Straits, under precisely similar ~ , , ithe Atlantic States for San Francisco in the ~. circumstances. She was caught by the huge Murder of Missionaries. —The London month of October. masses of ice, cutting her up in a very short Church and State Gazette states that Dr. time, tbe crew barely having time to save Bcttleheini and his family have all been murLoss of Four Greenland Whalers.— dered at the capital of Loo Choo, where,This season has been one of Ihe most disas- their boats. They gained the Orkney Isthey were residing. Dr. Bettleheiin, who trous on record to the whaling vessels. In- lands in safety, and have, ere now, we trust, reached their respective homes. It is worthy went to Loo Choo under the auspices of the telligence has already been received of the of remark (hat one of the above vessels was Bishop of London, was a native of Hungary, .entire destruction of four; and rumor has it was originally of the Jewish persuasion, andl that others have shared a like fale. These'[the oldest whaler in the Greenland service— but; Lady Jane; she had been employed in for the profession, surgical was educated four are—the Superior, 400 tons be-|[the the fisheries nearly 70 years. The destrucafterwards joined the Church of England.— longing to Peterhead; the Ladyburden, Jane, He was a young man of much talent, and no tons, Captain Paterson, of Newcastle; the tion of the four ships is computed at a loos wife was inconsiderable experience. His a|.'Prince of Wales, 380 tons, of Hull; and a iof nearly .£50,000.—[ John O'Groat's Jour, nal. native of London, and it is said that they had :lnrge American ship, Mc Lellau, —Ihe whole two children. The disastrous fate which has to pieces by Ihe icebergs. The parT. S. Brown, Yankees in Russia.—Major fallen upon them is said to have visited the''|cruslied are thti3 described: "Onthel2th Chief of the N. Y. and Erie RailEngineer ticulars Roman missionaries also. hof June Inst, three of the above named ve»-, road, has made an engagement with the Czar We copy the above remarks from the N. sols were fishing in company with eight oth- of Russia, to take the place of the late Maj Y. Observer of Nov. IS, 1848. The state-ier vessels in Melvelle Bay, Davis's Straits. Whistler in the superintendence of the great Four days previous the gales hud been fre- railroad from St. Petersburgh to Moscow.— nient in regard to the murder of the missionquent and terrific, and the sen tempestuous,. Maj. Brown is to receive $12,000 a year, aries must be erroneous, for the U. S. ship in the extreme. About 11 o'clock in the! with some perquisites which will swell bis Preble visited Loo Choo in the spring of 1849 forenoon an alarm was raised of Ihe floating isalary to $15,000, and the engagement ia to and at that date Dr. Bettleheiin and family iice setting upon them. So suddenly did it be continued for five years. He will take were enjoying good health. The Loo CIum> bear down, and with such force and immense his departure on or about the first of next masses, that the Superior, the Lady Jane, month. The grading of the whole line*of Islands are under the Japanese Government, and the American ship McLellan of New irailroad (nearly 500 miles) is completed, but and the local authorities of the Islands are London, had not the slightest chance of es- only about 18 miles have been laid. All the extremely jealous of foreign influence, so caping it, and were speedily cut in pieces. necessary iron is on the road, and so art the much so, that Dr. Bettleheim is exceedingly The first vessel destroyed was the Superior, locomotives and cart. • , '' ' I ' < J , , ' . , ., , ', < �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 18.0. 14 FactSfsoeS arnd ceptics. COMERIAL STATISTICS. The old proverb runs, " one fact is worth thousand arguments." It would be folly Statement of Import!? Export Duties, fyc , at the Port of Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, for the year ending December SI, 1849. to think of arguing with scoffers and sceptics, of tin to comin adopt with any hope leading Gro*w invo.j Gross Value Return Nell I Nett Description of Goods. mon-sense and reasonable views upon reliVillus'. dulie*. Re-exported, lllllie*. coti-iinip'. dunes. gion, yet it often happens, that they will 70.222.0H 2,818.(8 5:13 181.04 27.355.3S stumble upon facts that shut their mouths Good* paying 5 pi. ct. duly, 6(13,40.3.04 30,174.00 and compel (hem to cease, lor a time, their Spirit*, Wine*, etc., Mis- 43,328.03191,944.13 -18,879.47 109,279.48 24,448.5o 82,005.45 hy Consul*, impudent railing against Christianity. We Imported sions, etc., free ol duly, 74,8r0.20 (he commend following to their consideration: Hy whale ships, under ihe 74,890.20 $200 8,117.57 provision—Free, 8,117.57; The Malay's Test of Honor.—A new England sea-captain, who visited " India beyond 222,118.99 89,103.07 I 12,098.16 640,137.37 110,020.83 the Ganges," was visited by a Malay Mer- Deduct spirits, wines, and 729,739.44 chant, a man of cosideruble property, and floods, etc., now III hoinl, asked if he had any Tracts he could port mid which will piohiihlv with. The American, at a loss how to acbe exported, estimated at 18,000.00 44,000.00 18,000.00 14,000.00 count for such a singular request from such 729,739.44 222,118.99 107,102.07 150,098.16 122.1 37 37 66,020.83 a man, inquired " Whut do you want of Tracts t—you cannot read a word of them." 17,403 His., nt G <•., 1,04-1.18 True, but I have a use for Ihem, never- IMPOiiTs/.r the year 1849, amounting, as per Tallow 20 r. en., 6,297.CO 31,488 theless. Whenever one ofyour countrymen, table, to $729,73:1.44— were I mfoktku from (sunt Skins " Irish I'nltiloiMi the folloicinv; countries, viz. : 858 lilds 2,574.00 or an Englishman, calls on me to trade, I United " $3 Stales of America $239,246.4> Swffl tin., SOti 459.00 his and " " $1,50 put a Tract in watch him. If California way, 131.505.89 Onions $1,246.25, Pumpkin*$200.50 he reads it soberly and with interest, I infer limit Britain 44,578.11 Limes $115.75, Lime .luii-e $153 that he will not cheat me ; if he throws it British Colonies 52,821.59 Pirkle* $2ijl), Oiniiges $704.50 2,680.00 95,787.27 aside with contempt nr a profane oath, I have China 994 His.,'• 37i c., Butter 872.75 87,556.05 Huy 35 Inns, " $50 1,750.00 no more lo do with him—l cannot trust him .'" Chile 23,455.78 CiihI 4ti4 basket* 25e., 116.00 Anecdote of Dr. Mason. —To a young in- France " 19,840.27 VVi.ixl SOeor.U " $10 SOO.OO fidel, who was sending at Christianity, be- Tahiti Columbia River 12,672.38 Wfusl 1,000 11m. 124 cts. 125.00 cause of the misconduct of its professors, Hamburg 9,723.58 CornI Stone 440.00 said the Doctor—" Did you ever know an Petmpiiiilovskoi 6,022.8$ Fiirniiurt) 1,520.56 uproar to be made because an infidel went M.i/.uil.oi, Manilla, Paniittin, BreMules 360.00 12, nt$30ench 6,629.27 Horses astray from the path of morality ?" The men Sea, &.C, &c. 400.00 4, $100 '« 150.00 Sheep 50, " $3 infidel admitted that he had not. "Then, •? $729,789.44 Tinkeys 375.00 500, " 75 c. " don't you see," said the Doctor, that by1,290.25 expecting tha professors of Christianity lo be Domestic Exportsfrom Honolulu,for the year Cloihing» Kim Shingles, Timber nml Bonnls, holy, you admit it to be a holy religion, and 1849 :— nml 8 House Friimes 10,809.90 that is the highest compliment in your Sugar, 653,820 His., at 5 e..-, $32,691.00 Ejiirs, Melons, Benns, Arrow Root, was The infidel silent Molasses power." 41,235 (pits., " 25 r., 10,308.75 Brooms, Put, Cunt, Mnstnril Seeil, ! Jl Hindoo's notion of the Sabbath. —Rev. Coffee Biieon, Drieil Beef, Sausages, 28,23111)*., " 10 c, 2,823.10 2,866 bbls., « $1 2,866.00 Yutiis, Sic, &c. Dr. Stenknpff relates that an English sailor Salt 1,257.65 1,813.00 9061 " " $2 in Calcutta had gone on shore one Sunday to Lime 158 1,896.00 " $12 perform some work. While he was engimed Beef $89,743.74 Hides 2,512 lbs., '■ $2 each 5,024.00 in it, a Hindoo observing him, said to him, and made, The cloth from which the was clothing frames, is call most of the timber of the house yourself a Christian ?" To "Do you which he replied that he did. Why" said foreign produce. the Hindoo, does your God require you to ■ work on the Sabbaih day ?" To which he Statement of Imports, Exports, Receipts, Sec., at the Custom House, Port of Honolulu, Oahu, did not attempt to make an answer ; but, on Haxoaiian Islands, for the years 1848-4-5-6-7-8-9. returning to the vessel, he found these quesKeturn Nett Kelt [Transit Harbor (Total nett (Gross value Gro. duties.i l{c-cxtions incessantly recur to his mind, till they Years.[of duties. amounts. duties. duties dues ported. mports. receipts. I 1 brought him on his knees to acknowledge his ; sin and 239.31 5,270.74 8,468.88 from that moment 1843,1222,383.38 6,701.84 66,618.17 1,670.41 156,565.21 ignorance nnd 1844,'350,357.12 10,326.13 60.054.06 1,50I.34! 289,!I69,77 8,970.13 411.60 4,881.33 14,263.56 he doted his conversion to God. Importance of Supporting Religious Wor- 1845, J546.941.72 21,563.94 67,010.93 2,098,82 471,319,78 19,465.12 734.01 4,890.83 25,189.96 21,667.02536,056.5031,780.76 20.56 4,705.32' 36,506.64 ship.—Last Sabbath evening, in the Taber- 1846, |598,382.24 53,447.78 62,325.74 101,512.25 55.208.07 56,991.171653,930.4544,521.08 184.93 4,095.24 48,801.25 nacle, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Thomson, said 1847,1710,133.52 1848, 605,613.73 142,357.73 38,551.55 90,148.27:572,067,18 52,209.46 264.52 3,094.96! 55,568 94 that some years since, the majority of the 1849, 729,739.44 222,118.99 198,102.07 156,098.16l622,637.37|66,020.H3 235.13 5,687.59 71,943.49 people in a village in Massachusetts declnred They would dispense with religious worship. Gross Receipts at the Custom Houses of Oahu, Maui, and Kauai, for the Property consequently declined in value, and Year ending December 81, 1849. and the habits character of the people speedily i Lahaiha, Mac I. degenerated. After lift disastrous experiHonolulu, Oahu. ment was satisfactorily tried, the observance Import duties 66,020.83 Import duties 1,101.22 of tha Sabbath and public worship of God Transit duties 235.13 Transit duties 30.16 5,687,53 Stamps were resumed, nnd the moral character and Harbor dues 724.50 2,726.88 Anchorage dues 600.00 prosperity of the place were again visible. Stamps 40.70 Light 76.32 A shrewd and energetic, but worldly man in Fines and Forfeitures 528.24 Canal 62.00 a manufacturing town gave sundry lots of Interest 836.50 2,124.44 Shipping and discharging Seamen land for the erection of churches. Three Storage things, he said, were requisite for such a $3,330.70 S77.363.75 place ; an abundance of water, good air and lln.o, Hanalei, and Kealakeakua— plenty of orthodox preaching. Some leading Ha&bor Mastkr, Honolulu— : 97.87 1,153.00 Stamps, &.<•., men in Lowell have remarked, that if every Shipping & discharging Seamen Amount at Honolulu (bro'l over) 79,802.75 1,286.00 church in that city should be destroyed, it Stumps would well repay the manufacturers to rel$79,802.75 083,231.32 build them, even at an expense of $100,000. « i | " — -.... .... - - - ..... - -... - .... " .... .... - - " - - - - " " " " .... " * ... - - - - - - -.- - - - . - ... .... ..... - - ...... . . .- - - - • �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1830. Whaleships entered at the Ports of Honolulu and Lahaina, during the year 1849. Lahaima. Imeriran 153 i'rench HoMOLULU. Lahaima. Bremen British 108 7 should not have approached nearer. If it is impracticable to proceed northward through Prince Regent's Inlet, and equally so to pro* ceed southward toward Melleville Island, with ihe hope of reaching Hudson's Straits HoNOLULI 1 15 4 I in their ships, the only alternative will be to take the shortest cut by land across CockI :•! burn's Island to some point on Baffin's Bay, Total 274 say at PiNl's Bay, where the northern whaling vessels slop. Here ns well as nt other Amount of Domestic Produce furnished as Supplies to Shipping. places, provisions should be placed, and stakes stuck lip at all prominent points indiHonolulu. Lahaiha. cating where the provisions are to be found. nnd estimated Produce Vessel*, $4,000 exported, (mostly Gov. Domestic Ships of War We have no means for knowing whether an 134 Merchant Vessels, say $80 each 10,720 Potatoes,) iihoiit $14,000 overland journey is practicable at the place each 3^,500 27,000 154 >V baler*, say $250 108 Whalers (inside) '• 250 " 1,120 mentioned, but as the distance from Prince 1 14 Merchant Vessel*, $80 each Inlet to Muffin's Bay does not ex|Kegent's 1 $41,720 $53,020 ceed *250 miles, it does not seem so unsurmountable when the lives of a hundred men Total Value of Domestic Produce exported to Foreign Markets; and furnished to Foreiirnj ■or more nre at stake. The expense of such $I!)0,0(H>' ihe Islands, 1849—Estimated, friiui thn Hawaiian f.»r year VeMseli un expedition would be trifling, and we have no doubt that competent officers can be found passed up it ill one of his explorations it) who SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. will gladly embark in so praiseworthy an The news of the probable safety of this search of a north west passage. It has been undertaking. Hundreds of daring seamen, celebrated polar navigator has been received passed by repeatedly, by ships, during two ton, would at once offer their services.— with great pleasure by all. In fact, we ques- centuries, hut being choked up with ice du[Providence Juurnal. Xj tion, whether in England itself, a stronger ring this period, navigators knew not ihe ex- I interest bus been felt for him than in the U. istence of such a sound or strait as opened Father Mathew at the Massachusetts States. Our millions of newspaper reuders itself to Captain Perry. The same igno- Blind Asylum.— By invitation of Dr. Howe, have been made familiar with his history, and rance existed with regard to other openings. Superintendent of the Perkins Asylum for wiili ihe object fur which he has exposed him- For a long period they would remain closed, .the Blind, Father Malhew visited the Instiself, his officers and crews to four rigorous and a mild season, attended by favorable tution on Thursday, in company with severwinters. During this long period he has winds would ulone open them. jal friends, and was highly delighted. There been shut out from all civilized society, and Our fears now are, that Prince Regent's are between 80 and 90 blind peisnns at this nearly so from all human beings; bis ships Inlet having been shut up for four successive excellent institution. Among the number enclosed with misery and starvation years, the probability of its opening again are two blind boys, twins about nine years becomes less every year. The fact that staring him in the face. old, with flaxen hair. They are from the In case the late accounts received by the dipt. Ross's ships, which were sent to re- State of Maine, and arrived at the Asylum whaling ships from the Esquimaux are true, lieve Sir John Faanklin, having been en- only a few days since. They were hardly that two large, ships have been for four years closed in the ice in the same Inlet for a year, tame, or easy, so long had they ran wild at frozen up in Regent's Inlet, and that these (according to the Esquimaux), seems to fa- home. Father Malhew was particularly inships are Sir John Franklin's, what means vor this view. They were described by the terested in Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb have they to escape? All who are familiar Ksquimaux as being on the opposite side of and blind girl, having never witnessed such with the polar regions, (we mean through the Inlet; but their situation is ns perilous a case before. On being informed that she books, as we presume few of our readers as that of the ships they went to rescue.— was shaking handa with Father Mathew, have had personal experience there), know The question now is, what can be done for Laura expressed great pleasure, by her anithattheir great straits and channels are some- these during but unfortunate men, to rescue mation. He presented her with a tempertimes closed with ice for years. That when i liiin fronvtheir situation. The present sea- ance medal and she wrote on paper in reply, from an unusual cold season this ice does not son is, ofcourse, too late, nor can we now " I thank you most sincerely for the medal; break up, the following wilder renders it expect Sir John nnd his crew can reach Eng- we are all very glad to see Father Mathew." more solid. This sometimes follows for sev- land, even if all the accounts we have re- He thanked her, and remarked, I shall " eral seasons, when a barrier of ice is formed ceived are true. We beg, therefore, to sub- keep the writing and put it in a frame, and the for the consideration following plan of such magnitude, that it remains for years mit take it home with me to Ireland." Eighteen impassable; in fact, great channels nnd in- !of our Government. of the scholars expressing a wish to take the lets are sometimes rendered so, and even the Early in the Spring of next year send a pledge, it was administered to them with with coal to the settlement Danish at great interest, and open coasts are unapproachable for a cen- vessel each received a medal tury. A few facts will sustain this assertion. Cope Farewell, on the southern coast of and certificate, with which they were much another to Disco on east-, Greenland, Island, and half the and ago, a About a century delighted.—[Boston Traveller. cm coast of Greenland was approachable; Ihe eastern shore ofBaffin's Bay, in the 70th it is laid down in all old maps, and was, im degree of latitude, or at some point on the New Line of Steamers.—The steamships doubt, visited by whaling ships alike with opposite shore. Reckoning Sydney as one Sarah Sands ami New Orleans have been purother parts of this inhospitable region. But station for coals, there would then be threeichased and despatched for the Pacific, by J. are thus establishing anin late times, or since the period named, the' ports from which a steamer could get her Howard & Sun, who other line between Pananin and San Francisco. immense barriers of ice, piled mountains supplies. As early, then, as practicable, |There will doubtless be business sufficient for high, have prevented all approach to the' send a steam propeller with a screw so con- two lines, though price* will probably full m that it he or the coasf structed might shipped unshipcoast. Captaii Scoresby explored consequence of (he opposition. We hear that from Cape Farewell as far North as 65 ,' ped as necessities might require. At Syd- Messrs. Everett & Co. are to be ihe agents at when he was obliged to leave it and pass | ney, in Nova Scotia, she might take her sup- San Francisco.—Polynesian. round to Ihe 70th deg. before he could again ply of coals to carry her to Greenland, she We have been informed that the Post approach it, when he found no difficulty in would wait till the season was sufficiently adShe might then proceed Master General in London, was about to order his further progress northward. Captain vanced that a scaled mail bag for the Hawaiian Islands, Graah, who was sent out by the Danish Gov- to Lancaster Sound and endeavor to reach iIh» made up there, every mouth, lo come by way ernment some 20 years since, expressly to Prince Regent's Inlet. In case this should of Panama and Sun Francisco. then Greentwo should prove parties coast eastern explore trace the and land in •earch of the ancient Danish colony, be formed to proceed on tbe ice on the eastAmerican Consul for the Post of Hokoknown as La* Greenland," made every ern and western shores of the Inlet in search LULu.—Elisha H. Allen, Esquire, of Wabe, effort wtth his ships and boats to reach the of the missing ships; and in case they are was appointed Consul, as aho*e, on the l&tlT of coast, but could not for the ice. Lancaster found, to conduct them to the steamer in October last, and we bear rai to bare left the Copt. Perry Barrow's Straits or Lancaster Sound, if she United States for these Islands in December. Sound was never entered 120 154 ... - - - - ! ° '' " uOl < �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY 1, 1850. 16 Srhr Klifabdh, from San Francisro, J Danluiiu. and If Sir John Franklin should make'period, when ear column., are ffot so crowded, we in-ii In D Tnivel. Itcnd more full making report. a In lliiu Spcnrer, from San Francisco. S Mal*rly. C his appearance, the friends of Mesmerism' V Kuar, (i Town, J Wilkinson, Funds now received for Chaplaincy will be tic-<jßeaulesu, S H Lafrenz, will keep a Jubilee ! Kenny, D Lynch, and W Kowler. W G votcft to defrayiftp incidental expenses of the estab-; In Brig CoiMinicils, from San Francisco, W Harris, J * The Manchester Guardian contains a long liihini'iit, including the hill of $135 75 for painting. H Thorp, VV O Smith, N I. Birge, H Cole, R H Whit Account of the second interview between Mr. Chapel and Heading-room. more, 1* Verplnnk, W Ii Uu'len. R W Ogdeii, A Sweet, Haddock, a friend of *ir John Frapklin, and |T F A Read. I) T Raymond, VV Boweu, J Mnsitravp, I, S 0y The BEAMENS' to READING ROOM will jltulloek. X Hnblple, Mr Barrtow. M LJohnsKw, W l.athe Bolton clairvoyanto. She professed W L Plainer, J Smyth, W Pearson.Oß Norton, have had interviews with Sir John Franklin be found supplied by fresh papers from England nndilflainaM, iI)M Byrnni, T H Brown, J McGuire, J Kattenhury and and Sir James Ross, described their position tho Vnitcd States. I'True D ! In ShipMnzeppa, frnm S.in Francisco, T Morrio. in the ice, with sundry other minutiae. She In Bchr Samuel Rolens, from San Francisco, Mr Russaid she hnd had some refreshment with Sir H Truman. J Black, .Mr. Leadheier, 11 Fowler, E JOURNAL. -cl, John Franklin, who had his provisions in Richmond, C dishing, J 0 Pierce, Mr Granr, Mr I.cc, |IV il Winie, J P Ni.sh Mr b.pln, Mr Hall, Mr Sherthick tin boxes. He had also some hard PORT OF HONOLULU. wood, Ii I, Pond, Mr Haknis Hi urry, Mr Parks, 11 meat in a big tub. Sir John, she said, would Wehiler, B Taylor, X V Sarjrenl, W A Human*. S B be out of the ice in less than nine months.— Arrived. Tadner, C Mrdluiry, J F Rnl.iiisou, J Master, J FAlden ketch Prim-tin, Lane, 66 tiny* from Sydney. nnd S l> Reynolds. That it was ten minutes past eleven by Sir Jan 4—Br 5—Am » liJili- ship Tuvchi oi'h, l.rek. In Schr Josephine, frc in Snn Francisco, T Grevswell, bk.-Ve. unn, McKay, Tin Sun Francisco. John's time ; and a quarter past ten (a good jmi.)U.9 Am. Nnd 11 Carter. 'I'ltliiuiiu Kb. Mi liiJh. Silva, Im Tahiti. Sir Ross' lime. That Connecticut, from Sun Frnnciscn, J O Domiwhile after) by James 12. Am. Sell. Friendship, Bishop, from ISnii Franclsce I In Itnrk 15. Urn hnpan. cheerful, \\ iiliniiiN.tiii Tahiti. ni- C X Hitchcock. J M Billiard, VV B Hallet, P Davis, she went a good way further than Sir John 16. Am. cell. .»<«aitir, Morrell, I'm ban Frniiciaco. |T Cummin*, J Huston and A J Moreion. Ross, where it was very dark, and the stars M hi. Am. nth. Anonyms., Latham, In Ship Viclory. from Sydney, F Colliinn and lady. Jan. 15. UrnhW. Cow lilt, Wejntnii, fm London. went round and did not twinkle, but she was from Snn Francisro, H Doschen, J W 19. H' ii. Mh Aiiui/.i-ii. Hnherison, 26 da fm San Francisco. ! In Schr Mnry. sure it was quite ridiculous to attempt to rind 19. Am. brig i'anouiciis, l.voii, 19 di fm Snn Francisco. [Thompson. J H Ludlow, Wf node, G VV Bronson. J llaiSilva and .VI Jusc. Salker, M *■ r lone, Sjifiicer, g Robinson, 81. lini. hr 80 ds •• a road for ships over there. That she found 81.Hrn.»h vta£e|>pri, Morddunt, 8U ds In Schr Mary Ann, Irom San Francisco, O Spalding, •' " bk Connec-ilcut,Peiihallow, Am. Sir Johu in a house made of large blocks of 24. C W Tliursmn. J B Marshall, J McKrayer. W E John12 da " u Am, cell 8. Ruber.*, Falkenherger, 17 da son, II H Sawyer, J H Russell and J VV Swain. " ijfie, about nine yards from the ship. That « Fr. ah Me use, Ilsuvel, 16 ds In ship Carol**, Sf*. Whilne} ami Urs. I'arMins and sou. •' " u Chi ach bliutbeih, Ao,ueiil, 27 da •* John had been a over "Br great way .the ssaßßa**Sßajsaaßßaßasaßß .^—mm———^ " ItllW. >ill JoscjiilliM'. I llhloll, 2.1 tin " •* " country, but had returned to his ships. That Am. briga.it Planet, Friedenbur*., fm Lahalni. " Haw. 25The Friend, sent Abroad. ft h Mary, Tilth. \, 23 ds fm San Krinjcrt.ro. Sir John bad seen the natives, but not Sir 29. Am. ab. Carolnn, Uunh'ar, 127 da fm Boston. and that there Am. bk Druiumond, Pierce, 11 di fm t*tt\i Frnnciaco. James Ross ; were two ships Any person, paying the annual subscription price of the Friend ($2,00) in advance, can have the paper on their way home, which would bring good Cleared. sent to China, Sydney, Tahiti, San Francisco, or overbrig John Bull, Robinson, for llobartown. news. The statements of this girl have exci- JanAm4—Br land, via Panama, to the United States or England. whale alitp Warren, i vans, to cruise. ted great interest all over the country. Am whale ship Heroine, Wall, io cruise. According to the U. 8. Post Office laws, newspapers Am brig Henry, Kelt*ru, Astoria, Col. River. sent from the office of publication, the postage may Crinliim, £pence, 8> dncy. s—airship lie paid by the person to whom the paper is addressed, Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel.—The l'.r.iii ach Allien, Meereu, Manilla. 9—Am aliip Wuljmilu, Culler, Singapore, but otherwise the postage must be pre-paid. author of the admirable Essay on the UnBy If wc have been correctly iiifofrncd, there is Am ship I'harsalia, Allen, Chlciiiih. ion of Church and State," has united him- 10—Am whale ship Dover, Jeffries, to cruise. not that irregularity About letters and papers going to Am bk Ui to ii Bird, nil, for Poi tland, Oregon. self with the Baptists, been re-baptized, and Jan. the United States, that there is about their conveyance 15. Krit. brig Tepic Luce, for Snn Francinco. become the minister of a congregation in 15. Am. wh ship Monmouth, lialaey, to cruise, hence. tf 1 MARINE " . " lb Am wh bark Le Grange, fur Fair Haven, I S, bk Vernon, M'Kny, for Hong Kong. 19. Brit, ki ii li PrtaMHs Lane, Sun Fiaucisco. A CARD. M 19. *• lirigan lici'il-il, W ilnain**, The subscriber, having been left destitute in HonoShipping in Port. Jan. 19. lulu, and through misfortune been compelled to unPropeller Mns-jttrhiiaelts, 8 R Knox. dergo an amputation of hi* left leg, returns bis sinI.a. surv,.\ hit; cutler Swing,McArthur, Lieut. Com'g i ciro thanks to all those merchants and others who Am whale ship Tu&xarorn, Leek. havj so generously subscribed JffO.Sll dollars for bis Gray's Inn Road, London. Jan.H. Am. < DIED. Jn Honolulu, on Sunday morning, Jan 6, at the I' 8 Hospital, Mr. AaaAvT. Auaass, ol Bristol, Ct. where his family now resides. He came from Ban Francisco on board tlie Flavins, and died three days after his arrival. Iliaremslns were deposited in the Nuitanu Valley Cemetery. Merchant Vessels. Also, ath, Mr. Smith, belongingto Oregon. benefit. He desires especially toarknowledgc Dr.LaAlso, 18th, at the L*. S Hospital, IHnmb Rich, a Fcanian, Am ship Mariposa, Martin. !drop's gratuitous surgical and medical aid. aad native of l'aJuivra, N. V., who belonged to the l'rcble. Ham. sh.'p Bin-germeister Mitiliie-cn. Jan«en, JOHN UKACE, ilk shipped on board the vessel at C'allao Am Prix Copiapo Southward. Also, 10th,Mr. Jors Bzattt, (tinman,)aged4>, belonging Mnl lik Three llrmhers, gw art, for Iluae Nutive of Pico. W. Islands. to thecttyof New York, lie had been for H years a resiHonolulu, Jan. I, 1*50. Br brig Mary Dare, (Scarborough tf dent on the Islands. At Lahaiiia, Dec. 16, at the hospital, of consumption, Mr. Alssst 8. llsaniKo, belonging to Newport, It. I. but had Tin* Friend, Bound. PASSENGERS. been a resident of Lahslr.e for two years. Also, Deo. 81, at the hospital, Ksekibl Cerrsi, from the In the Flavins, from San Francisco—L Reynolds,! Pound volumes of ihe Friend,for one.or more vear», American whale ship John Elizabeth, Caps. W M Chapel. Greennel, 8 II Fickett, D S Merrill, John Prcn- !can l»c obtained at Hcv. T. Conn's, Hilo; Hev.'T E. Onboard the Kngiiah brig Sprnefr, oil Itonolnlu, Jan. Hi, bahuina j and rke Chaplain's study, HonoMr. Dasisx Lynch, of London, a pessengerfrorar California, tlice, J Prentice, jr., Joseph Watt, J C Turner, JohniTaylor's, At Honolulu, ou board schooner Loin, Jan. i. Mr. (.soaps ]Murphy, Wm Brandon, J Jenkins, N 8 Thomas, H lulu, tf Savar, of New York city He came passenger in the ship iW Mullory, II Kasang, B Haynes, J S Butler, II 'v Msmoset from the United l'apeis In .Near York < _ — ' <, .. please copy. States. C7~ . 1 Gillingham, J Phillips, I Clark, N Clark, J Byrne, — Hooks, for Sale at the Chaplain's Stndv 1 Also, Will, at the U. S. hospital, Mr. Kr.rr.iai. i Diss, of J West, L Hollenback, A T Shute, S A Lake, D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation; Jarre* Patterson, Sydney. 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