https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/f4bef7fb4d19cab163051269ca0ca061.pdf 07e7b1ef2678135ece5794c5ba706a12 PDF Text Text T. HE RIEND. F HONOLULU, JUNE l, 1850. Vol. 8. 41 No. 6 fine and''vantage from the lessons of exercise which velvet car- they had received. In front of the palace Viait of the Bonite, etc 41 pet; around us, everything was silent; no- gate were stationed the royal guards, conA True Story, 42 heard except the chirping of some sisting of eleven men, dressed uniformly in iyile Intelligence, 4*lrthing was as flew over our heads. We re- 'pantaloons and white calico vests with scarbirds, they 41 O'Brieo and O'Dc nohne, 44.mained there until night came to conceaf let facings. Each man was armed with a Eillnguifhtng Fire* on b.itmJ i>r Slips, Were my''musket and bayonet. This was without disNew Map of California, ...---- 44,'from us this ravishing spectacle. National Ere, 44 residence in Honolulu, I should often come pute, the elite of the army of Oahu. They 44 to New Hooka relating to Ihe Sandwich Inlands, seemed to hold the soldiers of the line and 1 meditate in the valley of Manoa. Agricultural Association, --.---- 46 has to luxury begun Although European i the militia in the most profound contempt; Mutiny In the Pacific, 4S .appear 11 in Honolulu, yet very few carriages: while from their proudly erect attitude and Dr. Dick 4 [are [ to be seen. The King has u carriage from their military bearing, it could be easiLong, low, black schooner," 46: • which he never uses. A few of the Europe- ly perceived that they were wonderfully im"Donations, Deaths, Marine News, etc. • • 4>l an and American residents bnvc chaises and pressed with the idea of their superiority. coaches. The rich chiefs, and especially The beating of the drum announced that their wives, who, on account of their corpu- the exercise was about to commence. An lence seem unable to walk, are seen riding officer read a long discourse, not one word of the French Sloop-of-war Visit about in hand-carts drawn by men. I recol- of which could I understand. I was informBonite, lect having met in the streets of Honolulu, ed afterwards, that many men having been to the Sandwich Islands in 1836. the Governor of Maui and his wife making absent from the last parade, the adjutant was Translated for the Friend, from Ihe French of their visits. They were lying flat, side by exercising his eloquence on this subject.— side, supporting their chins with both hands, The exercise at length began, and surely, ■Adolphe Barrot. NO. VI. and their immense bodies tossed about by without excepting even the royal guards, the Prospect from the hill overlooking Manoa val- the motion of the vehicle, reminded me of'Hawaiian soldiers appeared to me somewhat, ley—meet the Governor of Maui and his certain carts which come to us from Sceaux deficient in expertness. But this however, in a strange manner review of\lor from Poissy. A throng of servants pre- is a science which they will learn soon enough. wife riding ihe soldi rs Kim's house library char-\ ceded and followed them; one carrying a There are many things much more useful than acter bogxin and fencing does not trouble parasol, another a fly-brush, and a third, the military exercise which they could and should himself with the affairs of Government Mis-\[heir of this noble family. The menon whoa have been taught a long time ago, and of sionaries govern in the name of Kinau drew this inleresting couple, moved at which they have not yet acquired the least King's feeling towards the Missionaries —j brisk trot, the team being composed of at idea. The orders were given in English.— tacit compact manner of spending his eve-\(least eight or ten robust fellows, who from The lust orders were, "Kneel—ground arms—to prayers!" The adjutant then read nings incident inwhichhis antipathy against time to time were relieved by others. The Governor of Maui stopped to talk a prayer of some length, and the command the Missionaries appears notice of the Island's capabilities. with me, and, thanks to Mr. Charlton with was given to break up the ranks. During my stay at Honolulu, I made a whom I happened to be at the time, he made After the review, the King invited me to number of excursions in the vicinity. The me understand that there would be on the walk into his house. It is a large cabin, valley, in the midst of which Honolulu is morrow a grand review of the troops and of having in the interior a certain appearance situated, is truly magnificent, and it could toilthe militia in Iront of the King's house, and of neatness and even of luxury. It consistmade to produce our colonial supplies in he invited me to be present. ed of a large saloon and three chambers— Unwilling to lose so fine an opportunity of calico curtains composing the partitions. The abundance. The hills around might be cultivated, and they would produce excellent seeing the military forces of his Hawaiian frame, made of a black hard wood, was held coffee and cotton of superior quality. One Majesty, I was punctual to the appointment. together by braided cords of differentcolors. day I took a delightful ride with Mr. Grimes,'Three hundred men, composing the entire Very fine mats covered the floor. At each an American merchant. About a mile from army of the line, were drawn up in three end and in the side were large doors with the town, we left the road which extends lines. Each man was armed with a musket glass windows inserted. The wall was oralong the shore, and directed our course to-' of English or American manufacture, with- namented by a number of paintings, among wards the hills. We ascended by a very|' a bayonet. I shall not undertake to des- which I observed the portrait of King Leotheir costumes, for I should never pold, then Duke of Saxe Coburg; the portolerable path. On reaching the summit of scribe l a hill, Mr. Grimes stopped his horse to enjoy j;iget through. I could have wished that one trait of Canning, and those of Rinoriho and my admiration. And surely it is difficult to iof our inspectors general of infantry had his wife, painted in England. A number ol imagine a prospect more picturesque audibeen present. Of some, the only article ol chandeliers were suspended from the beams. more enchanting. Behind us, trW sun was.i(clothing was the maro about the loins; others Chairs, tables, and two or three sofas, comdisappearing in the ocean. Before us, shut in|wore upon their shoulders large pieces of pleted the furniture. Kauikeaouli invited between two high mountains, the fantastic'cloth falling ostentatiously infolds, in the me to enter the interior apartments—one of shapes of which were figured in profile on the Roman fashion; and others Iflfcthe bead and them contained a magnificent cstradejJiAMfc ade azure of the sky, stretched a cool and ver-|lbody partly covered with leaWfl of the cocoa feet long and eight or ten wide. or bed, raised two feet from the floor, wbf dant valley divided by a stream, which was iarid banana formed into festoons. hastening on through plantations of taro and Opposite the army of the line, and drawn composed of mats spread one upon aaotner, sugar cane. In the middle of the valley were up also in three ranks, was the militia of in the manner already described. At the about fifty cabins, shaded by kukui and bread Honolulu. To distinguish the regular troops other end of the room was a bureau, upon fruit trees; beasts were giving in the mead- from these would have been difficult; for which were some loose papers and a small ows-; the shade o/ the msftntams extending there was no difference in their clothing.— book-case containing some religious books, over the whole valley; and the air was fresh! Few of the militia had muskets, and from which probably,' are not often read by the and fragrant. The hill from which we en-.lthe manner of using these, it was easy to King, and a history of France presented him joyed this prospect, rose on our left by an |perceive that tbey had not derived much ad. some days before by an officer of the Boaite, CONTENTS. - imperceptible slope, and I(almost 'gilded herbage covered it like a ...... - - - ... ....... - - u —-| - - - - THE FRIEND. — — — — —— — — — —. — ' ' out . i 1 I I ' �42 THE FRIEND, JUNE f, 1850. sad which he will n«t read oftener than his 'playing and drinking with the first one that' coffee in abundunce, which can safely chalother books, although he expressed to us a comes; and yet,only a jjood occasion is need- lenge a comparison with the most commendStrong desire to learn the French I iiguage. ed, I believe, to elicit from this diamond, un- ed of similar articles. I have seen speciThis house hi situated at the extremity of polished though it be, some rays of light. mens ofOahu cotton which seemed to me to extensive court, surrounded, as are all We were able to perceive something ol have very fine and very long sillf. Indigo houses ofthis country, by a wall of bricks the antipathy which the King has conceived grows spontaneously, and the high moundried in the sun. In this enclosure are near- against the missionaries, at the time of our tains offer the precious sandal-wood for exly fifty huts, which serve for kitchens, store- feast at the Pali. A missionary and his wife, portation. All the farinaceous plants, the houses, lodgings for the King's servants, and on their way from another part of lb" Island potatoe, sweet potatoe and taro, are produbarracks for the soldiers. to Honolulu, n-iH lied the Pali at Ihe moment ced easily and in abundance.! Almost all Kauikcaou'.i improves surprisingly upon when we were about to tHke our places at the Islands in the group present the same acquaintance. He is naturally timid, but if able. He barely saluted them, and (hen conditions of prosperity; all are watered he discovers kindness and indulgence in the turned his buck. At (lie same time it was more or less abundantly, and wherever naperson with whom he enters into conversa- remarked that the King appeared somewhat ture does not perform this work, industry can tion, he becomes confiding, and then can be embarrassed; for a luitu had always been, find the means of irrigating. The heat at perceived in him the germ of an understand- up to that time, a scene of debauch ry; and the Sandwich Islands varies from 60 to 84 ing which needs only to be developed. He that which was given in honor of us, was degrees of Fahrenheit. The climate is very asks many questions, and sometimes the ans- perhaps the first at which a majority of the salubrious, and epidemic diseases are as yet wers call forth from him vry judicious re- guests did not btcnme completely intoxicated. unknown. Rains are abundant on the coast flections. He appears to have a vivid per- When Ihe missionary went on his way and during the months of February, March, Auception of his own ignorance, although his disappeared behind the first angle of the gust ami September; in the mountains it character is naturally fickle and inconstant. mountain, the King seemed relieved of a rains almost incessantly—the clouds with But these defects result, without doubt, from great burden and his natural gaity returned. which their summits are continually crowned the education he has received, and his ideas, are dissolved in abundant rains, which form constantly directed to frivolous occupations, The Sandwich Islands are eleven in num- streams, and these flow on to enrich the have little to do with serious subjects. The ber; five of which are Inrge, namely: Ha- plains, so that nature, after having in her society also in which he mingles, tends not waii, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, and Kauai— convulsions produced this land, labors cona little to confirm the habits of dissipation three are small, Kahoolawe, Lanai, and N'u- stantly to render it fertile. which he contracted in his childhood, and he lian; and three are islets or rocks. They A True Story. delivers himself up, with deplorable readi- are situated between the 19th and 23d deness, to the influence of evil examples. He grees of north latitude, and between the A sea Capluin's thirty years' absence—claimreceived one day, while on board a whaling 157th and 159th degrees of west longitude. ing his daughter, etc. AARON HI Kit's GREAT PLEA. ■hip, a decided taste for pugilistic combats, A hasty glance at these Islands, shows that aad for a long time the recreation of the they have not figured long upon the surface Many years ago, I happened to be one King and of the young people of his court, of the earth. The volcanic eruptions which of the referees in a case that excited unusual consisted in boxing; and this pastime was in have produced them, are yet recent, and ma- interest in our courts, from the singular narogue on our arrival. Thou we were call- ny promontories, upon which villages are ture of the claim, and the strange story which ed upon to furnish amusement. In his visits now seen, have been formed within the me- it disclosed. The plaintiff, who was the capaboard the Bonite, he had occasion to see mory of man. On going into the interior of tain of n merchant vessel trading principally our men go through the exercise of fencing, the Islands, the truth of this assertion be- with the West Indies,had married quite early, and no persuasion was needed to turn his comes evident. We con follow, step by step, with every prospect of happiness. His wife thoughts to this new distraction. During the the march of creation, and take her, so to is said to have been extremely beautiful, and whole lime of our stay he was constantly speak, in the very act. It is easy to distin- no less lovely in character. fencing, either with then en, whom at his guish, as one ascends, the modifications After living with her in uninterrupted harrequest the commandant sent to him, or with through which the lava must have passed in mony for five years, during which time two those of our sailors who passed near his order to be decomposed and become vegeta- daughters were added to the family, he sudhouse. He stopped them, brought then in, ble earth. Thus the lava which formed the denly resolved to resume his occupation. aad then laying aside the royal dignity to- lower points with which Ihe shore is, as it which he had relinquished on his marriage; gattwMMth his coat, he feared no loss of re- were indented, is still almost evevy where and when his youngest child was but three crossing swords with them du- such as the volcanothrew it out; yet the na- weeks old, sailed for the West Indies. His mgaarna hours. tural and artificial irrigations and the heat of wife, who was devotedly attached to him, sorThus giving himself up entirely to his ca- the climate, have already in some valleys rowed deeply at his absence, and found her pricious passions, he relinquishes the care near the shore, and especially on Oahu, de- only comfort in the society of her children of government to his sister-in-law, Kinau composed the lava on the surface, and have and the hopes of his return. But month aftShe, as I have already remarked, is com- rendered it capable of producing certain er month passed away, and he came not; nor pletely under the influence of the missiona- plants with short roots, without being able to did any letters, those insufficient but welcome ries, and they govern in her name. The nourish vigorous trees; and no sooner do substitutes, arrive to cheer her solitude.— missionaries, however, are not certain of the the roots penetrate to the lava, than the plant Months lengthened into years, yet no tidings duration of their domination, and the oppo- dries up and dies. I remarked in our ex- were received from the absent husband; and sition which is excited against them among cursion to the Pali, that all the trees which after hoping against hope, the unhappy wife the foreigners fails not to trouble them. Tne had reached the height often or twelve feet, was compelled to believe that he had found King and his court are in open enmity with were dead, while the bushes beneath tln in a grave beneath the weltering ocean. them. It is with reluctance that the King formed a thicket so dense that a man could Her sorrow was deep and heart-felt, but submits outwardly to their religious and po- not penetrate it. At a certain elevation the the evils of poverty were now added to her lice regulations, and often does ho shake off conditions necessary to the decomposition of aftlicfion, £d the widow found herself oblithis yoke; but his desires for independence the lava arc found united with greater power ged to resort to some employment in order reach not to the determination ofseeing clear- than in the lower lands; the work has ad- ,to support her children. Her needle was ly into the affairs of state, and it is his per- vanced more Eiujidly and the trees are much, the only resource, and for ten years she lasona! conduct only that he strives to with- more vigoiouaH bored early and late for the miserable pitdraw from the investigation and the censure Oahu, justly called the garden of the tance which is ever grudgingly bestowed on of Ihe missionaries. Thus there exists at Sandwich Islands, on account of the numer- an humble seamstress. present, a sort of tacit compact between the ous streams which water it, ie capable of reA merchant in New York, in moderate yet missionaries and himself; an agreement, so compensing the labors of agriculture with all prosperous circumstances, accidentally beto speak, has been entered into between the products of those of our colonies which came acquainted with her, and pleased with them, that he will not interfere with the gov- are the most favored by nature. The plains her gentle irianneMpo less than her extreme ernment, on condition that no evangelical of the interior and those near the shore, are beauty, endeavoredto improve their acquaincensure shall ever cross the ibreshold"of his exceedingly well adapted to the cultivation tance with friendship. After some months palace. In consequence, Kauikeanuli spends of sugar cane, which grows here to an as- he offered his hand and v. as accepted. As ail hi* evenings in a public billiard room, tonishing size. The hills'produce cotton and the wife of a successful merchant she soon Si• • " ffsJMesMrafcom — �THE FRIEND, JUNE 1, 1850. 43 found herself in the enjoyment of comforts Burr whispered a few words, apparently en-jiaccustomed to sew by the light of chips which and luxuries such as she had never possess- couraging her to advance, and then grare- she kindled to warm her famishing children, ed. Her children became his children, and fully raising her veil disclosed to us a face of Ibecause she could not purchase a candle received from him every advantage which proud surpassing beauty. I recollect, as well without depriving us of our morning meal.— wealth could procure. Fifteen as if it hud happened yesterday, how simul- '.Such was our poverty when my mother conyears passed away; the daughters married; tnneously the murmur of admiration burst Itracted a second marriage, and the change and by their step-father were furnished with from the lips of all present. Turning to the Ito us was like a sudden entrance into Paraevery comfort requisite to their new vocation plaintiff, Burr asked in a cold, quiet tone, idise. We found a home and a father."— She paused. of housekeepers. But they had hardly quit" Do you know this lady ?" ted his roof, when their mother was taken ill. " I do," he replied. " Would you excite my child against me?" She died, and from that time until the period " Will you swear to that ?" continued Burr, icried the plaintil)', as he impatiently waved of which I speak, the widower resided with " I will ;" he answered, " to the best ofIhis hand for her to be silent. my knowledge and belief, she is my daughter.' The eyes of the witness flashed fire a* he the youngest daughter. Now comes the strangest part of the story. " Can you swear to her identity?" spoke. After an absence of thirty years, during "lean." " You are not my father!" she exclaimed vehemently. " What! call you my father? which time no tidings had been received from " What is her age'" him, the first husband returned, as suddenly " She was thirty years old on the 20th day You! who basely left your wife to toil, and your children to beggary? Never! never! as he had departed. He had changed his of April." Behold there my father!" pointing to the agiship, adopted another name, and spent the " When did you last see her ?" whole of that long period on the ocean, with " At her own house, about a fortnight tated defendant—"There is the man who watched over my infancy—who was the sharer only transient visits on shore, while taking since. did you last see her previous to of my sports, and the guardian of my inexin or discharging cargoes; having been care" When perienced youth. There is he who claims ful never to come nearer home than New that meeting?" The plaintiff hesitated—a long pause en-' mv uffeclion, and shares my home—there is Orleans. Why he had acted in this unpardonable manner towards his family, no one sued—the question was repeated, and the an- my father ! For yonder selfish wretch—l know him not! The best years of his life could tell, and he obstinately refused all ex- swer at length was, have been spent in lawless freedom from soplanation. " On the 14th day of May, 17—." "When she was just three weeks old!" cial ties; let him seek elsewhere the comThere were strange rumors of slave-trading and piracy afloat, but they were only added Burr. " Gentlemen," continued ho, panion of his decrepitude, nor dare insult the conjecture rather than the truth. Whatever turning to us, " J have brought this lady ashes of my mother by claiming the duties of might have been his motives for his conduct, here as an important witness, and such 1 kindred from her deserted children !" he was ceitainly anything but indifferent to think she is. The plaintiff's counsel has She drew her veil hastily around her as his family concerns when he returned. He pleaded eloquently in behalfof the bereaved she spoke, and moved as il to withdraw. raved like a madman when informed of his husband, who escaped the perils of the sea, "Gentlemen," said Burr, "I have no wife's second marriage and subsequent death, and returned to find his home desolate. But more to say. The words of the law are exvowing vengeance upon his successor, and who will picture to you the lovely wife, bend- pressed in the book before you; the words of terrifying his daughters with the most awful ing over her daily toil, devoting her best truth you have just heard from woman's pure threats, in case they refused to acknowledge years to the drudgery of sordid poverty, sup- lips; it is for you to decide according to the his claims. He had returned wealthy; and ported only by the hope of her husband's re- reqnisit ion of nature and the decreeof justice.! one of the mean reptiles of the law, who are turn? Who will paint the slew progress of I need not say, that our decision was in always to be found crawling about the halls heart sickening, the wasting anguish of hope favor of the defendant, and that the plaintiff ofjustice, advised him to bring a suit against deferred, and finally the overwhelming ago- went forth, followed by the contempt of evethe second husband; assuring him that he ny which came as her last hope was extin- ry honorable man who was present at the could recover heavy damages. The absurd- guished, and she was compelled to believe trial. ity of instituting a claim for a wife whom herself a widow? Who can depict all this death had already released from the jurisdic- without awakening in your hearts the warmSir John Franklin.—The expedition in tion of earthly laws, was so manifest, it was est sympathy for the deserted wife, and the search ol Sir John Franklin, says the New at length agreed by all parties, to leave the utterest scorn for the mean, pitiful wretch, York Tribune of March, will sail from this who could thus trample on the heart of her port in May, and will consist of two schoonmatter to referees. It'was on a blight and beautiful afternoon[whom he had sworn to love and cherish?— ers suitable for the navigation of the Arctio in spring, when we met to hear this singular Whether it was love of gain, or licentious- Seas, of seventy and ninety tons burden.— case. The sun-light streamed through the ness, or self-indifference, it matters not; he The command of the expedition has been dusty court room, and shed a halo around the is too vile a thing to be judged by such laws tendered to Lieut. Dc Haven, who was atgrey locks of the defendant; while the plaint- as govern men. Let us ask the witness, she tached to the Exploring Expedition, who has iff's harsh features were ever thrown in still who now stands before us with the frank, accepted the trust. Passed Midshipman bolder relief, by the same beam which soft- tearless brow of a true hearted woman—let Griffin will be second in command. A party ened the placid countenance of his adversary. us ask which of these two has been to her a has gone East to select the vessels for tht The plaintiff's lawyer made a most elo- father?" expedition. quent appeal for his client, and had we not Turning to the lady, in a tone whose sweetbeen informed about the matter, our hearts ness was in strong contrast with the scornIn Tuscany, the Romish priests hare comwould have been melted by his touching des- ful accent which had just characterized his menced persecutions against two printers of cription of the return of the desolate hus- words, he besought her to relate briefly the Florence, for having under the government recollections of her life. flush A early slight with which he now beband, and the agony of the Republic, printed a translation of Ihe held his household gods removed to conse- passed over her proud and beautiful face as New Testament in Italian, on the express crate a stranger's hearth. Thacelebrated she replied: ground of " their having published the gosAaron Burr was counsel for fiwdefendant, " My first recollections are of a small, ill- pel in the vulgar tongue, so that every one and wo anticipated from him a splendid dis- furnished apartment, which my sister and may be enabled to read it.'' play of oratory. He merely opened a book myself shared with my mother. She used to of statutes, and pointing with his thin finger carry out every Saturday enjping the work A Russian ship of war lately arrived at to one of the pages, desired the referees to which hnd occupied her during the week, Portsmouth, England, has excited a good one. following for a moment to and back work for the bring while he retired rend it, and admiratioaJafrom the and of attention had that to her deal employers, journey Saving bring in the principal witness. We scarcely finished the section, which fully de- her regular attendance at church, she never beauty of its model. It is caUJHp chef d'incided the matter in our minds, when Burr left the house. She often spoke of my father cevre ofnaval architecture. T|js"vessel, returned with a tall and elegant female lean- and of his anticipated return, but at length stead of being of Russian build, as supposed the Kaming on his arm. She waAutired in a simple she used to weep more frequently than ever. by the English connoisseurs, la Americans schatka, were built New York—by in then she because we I thought wept a of leaves enivy white dress, with wreath onr on- and of American materiaJi. for his Majesty circling her large straw bonnet, and a lace poor, for it sometimes happened thatshe was{the Czar. j'-.dtto ) ■« -\-\ia Irn veil completely concealing her countenance. ly support was a bit of bread, and i 1, �44 THE FRIEND, JUNE 1, 1850. THE FRIEND, HONOLULU, JUNE 1, 1850. The following is from a Hobart-town |C7* We are glad to have added to our list ofexchange papers, the " National Era," paper: We regret exceedingly to learn from an the well conducted and talented anti-Slavery ' authentic source, that Mr. O'Brien is sufferin the city of Washington ing severely, both mentally and personally, paper published from his banishment to Maria Island. Next Mr. Bailey, the responsible editor, wields a LATE INTELLIGENCE. By a recent arrival from California we have week we will refer to his particular case more vigorous pen, and conducts the paper in a mtelllgence in less than fifty days from New fully; it would be unmanly and unjust not to manner to command the respect of eminent York. The ' Alta Californian' of May Bth, do so under all circumstances. .members of Congress, as we have observed has fallen under our inspection. From its As for Mr. O'Donohoo, he availed himself in reading the speeches lately delivered upon columns we learn that Hon. John C. Cal- of the Government indulgence, and is em- tho Slavery question. The Quaker poet, neVw died at the capital in Washington, on ploying his time and talents in editing a pa- Whiltier, is the corresponding editor. The the 31st of March. During the long period per entitled the " Irish Exile." Era is a paper that a true American is glad of forty-two years he has boen actively en- The following letter to the London Timesito meet in n foreign land. Americans wangaged on the theatre of political life, occupy- contains information, which will he of great; tiering in foreign lands, feel proud of their ing stations of distinguished importance. He interest to captains of vessels and to others country, but they blush that her fair name whs born March 15, 1782, and had just en'Sir—The owners of the Caleb Grimshaw should be associated with the foul blot of tered upon his 69th year. Only twelve days demand a means for extinguishing lire in the'slavery; hence when they meet a paper like before his death he spoke in the Senate up- hold of a ship. The material required are the Eru, calmly, boldly, manfully, yet in a nothing more than a cask of common chalk on the Slavery question. in the bottom of the hold connected with the .dignified manner, discussing the subject, it We also learn that the trial of Professor deck by a-small pipe, and a two gallon bot- .'serves to showthat mighty efforts are making Webster had taken place. It lasted eleven tle of sulphuric acid—which, on the alarm of[lor the abolition of the enormous evil; and days. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. fire, being poured down the pipe, will gener- ( that to, under the very shadow of the capitol. When it was announced, the convicted crim- ate a sufficient quantity of dense smoke (gus There may be din" rences of opinion among in which flame cannot exist,) to extinguish inal fell back in his chair with his hands any fire, however large. I enclose my card the non-slavc-holdiiig portions of the Ameriresting upon the railing, and remained for in accordance with your rule, but any chem- can community, respecting the best method some moments in an insensible state. When ist knows flame cannot exist in carbonic acid of doing away with this colonial bequest of is generated by the action of sul- the he recovered, he remarked to the officer who gas, which on mother country, but we rejoice to learn acid the chalk. I beg to subscribe phuric had charge of him, ' Why are you keeping myself, your obedient servant. that there is a growing conviction among the me here to be gazed at?' He would receive northern people that it is an evil which should his sentence in a few days. In our next Map of the Mining District of Cali- 'be confined to its present limits; hence the files of United States papers we may expect fornia by Wm. A.Jackson. —We would ac- tug of war' in Congress respecting the adknowledge our indebtedness to Wm. Ladd, mission of free California. foil reports of the trial. A steam propeller, the ' Carolina,' had Esq. for a copy of this Map, which is neatly New Books Relating to the Sandwich arrived at San Francisco from New York. lithographed. It is by fur the best and most Islands. She had made a remarkable quick passage accurate map of Alto California which has Solomon was justified in saying, If ICJ* from New York to Panama, in seventy-six ever fallen under our inspection. It shows of making books there is no end," many " days. The quickest on record, thus out run- that in reality, more wns learned respecting with how much more emphasis may such a the of the the geography country during year ning the steamer 'Sarah Sands,' (which had remark be now uttered. By late arrivals the 1819, than was ever communicated to just arrived,) twenty-six days. several new hooks have been brought, some There has been a great fire in San Frnn- world before. To the curious in matters of of which relate to scenes in the Pacific,' and oisco. Several blocks were entirely consu- this description, it is really amusing to com- at these Islands. Lieut. Wise, of the-United med. The loss is estimated from one to two pare this map with maps of the country pub- States Navy, who visited the Sandwich millions of dollars. The gambling establish- lished five, ten, or more years since. Until Islands, while attached to the United States the discovery of the mines, the geography ments suffered severely. ship Independence, has published a narraof a later arrival, papers have California was as unknown to the world, tive of his rambles, under the title of "Los Pottcript. —By been received to April Ist. We learn that as the geography of the center of Africa or Gringos." Dr. Wood, late Fleet Surgeon Professor Webster had received his sen- New Holland. of the United States Squadron, in the Patence—to be hanged! It is announced that twelve sisters of cific, has published " Wandering Sketches, charity are about to embark at Brest, to of People and Things, in South America, O'Brien and O'Donohoe.—Inlatepapers found an establishment at Honolulu, the cap- Polynesia, California, and other places." from Van Dieman's Land, we notice frequent ital of the Sandwich Islands, by invitation Another similar work, we observe, anallusions to these distinguished Irish Revolu- from King Kamchameba 111. ! ? ! ! ? nounced as Jiublished in London, written by tionists who have been'transported to that Penal Colony. O'Brien had the offer of in- Nearly four thousand copies of Webster's an EnglisrWjuvnl officer, by the name of dulgences, but he scornfully refused them, quarto dictionary have been sold in Boston, Walpole, who visited the Islands, we believe, preferring to wear the uniform of a convict. in a little more than two years. Thirty mil- attached to H. B. M's ship Collingwood. In Is the Launcsater Chronicle, we notice the lions copies InWe been sold of Webster's the "Biblical Repository for July, 1849," spelling book—about six millions since the there is a lengthy, and carefully written arfollowing: of the author, in 1843, or one million ticle, upon the Sandwich or Hawaiian Isl' Mr. S»» O'Brien is to be removed to death Pott whore he is to be accommoda- per annum. ands ; their history and relations to the rest ted in the stable attached to the former resi- We are glad to welcome the Eliza War- of the world," by Rev. H. T. Cheever, who dence ef Commissioner Lempriere, which is wick' from Boston, so soon after the arrival visited the Islands,*aeveral years since, and to be prepared for the purpose, and his inmonths, two travelled over In ofthe'Charles.' less than of the group. every.part tercourse is to be restricted to the visiting magistrate, the superintendent, ihe officer we may expect the 'Ohilo,' which sailed from Bcp- In Dr. Wood's work, so far as relates and serjesnt of the guard.' Boston March 2d, for Honolulu. to the Sandwich Islands, we are gratified in ' : • — . '' �THE FRIEND, JUNE 1. 1860- 45 of country. The observing a spirit of candor and good sense. common among both natives and foreigners. fined to a very limited extent root, a native of tbe same recultivation of this In judging of Missionary influence and suc- All acts ofreligious worship, when properly gion as the potato, has hitherto proved unsuccess, he does not appear inclined to carp, performed are acceptable lo God, but in cessful in Europe, more from ignorance of rs* treatment, than from any other en use. or to observe—merely to express—in-, that of family devotion, there is something requisite Tbe climnte of these Islands seems lo be well discriminate commendation, but rather to we believe peculiarly acceptable. We envy adapted to the aracacha, as also to t number of have observed the "golden mean," endcuvor- not the feelings of those who, denounce and other useful plants, ot which a lons list might be BERTHOLD SEEMAN, ciied. ing to keep his mind free from strong preju- decry Missionary influence, when it tends, Naturalist of H. B. M. ship Herald. dices on either side. We shall here make a as we know it does, to lead a once heathen To Rev. S. C. Damon. May 14, 1850. single extract from his work,-relating to some people to worship their Maker, while kneel- Honolulu, the Picific.—We gave curMutiny in scenes which chanced to fall under his ob- ing around the Family Altar. our last, says the New Bedford Merin rency servation during a visit to the volcano on Mrs. Newman's School.—This lady has cury, to the report from an Edgartown corHawaii : N. Y. Com. Advertiser, a school for instructing Hawaiian respondent of the opened that Capt. Hussey of the ship Planter In addition to the wondcrlul scenes of stating nature which this expedition had afforded us! children and youth in the English language. of Nantucket, had deliberately and without an opportunity of beholding, it made us ac-, She proposes, upon reasonable terms, to any just cause, shot one of his crew. The quainted with some traits of the native char- lodge, board and instruct a few pupils. Her following facts in relation to the affair, have acter, and presented a wonderful illustration residence is near the Rev. L. Smith's meet- since come to our knowledge from a reliable source: of the good effects of even n low degree of civilization. Early in the morning on which ing-house. In June last, while cruising in the vicinity we left Kilauua, hearing the monotonous References —Rev. L. Smith and Seamen's of the King's Mill group of islands, the crew loncsofn human voice under the window of Chaplain. of the Planter, led on by a few desperate fellows, refused duty, alleging as a cause, that the hut, near which I had been sleeping, upThAgericultaAssociation. on looking out I saw Kianuhi, our native the ship had cruised long enough, and should captain, upon his knees, earnestly engaged Remarks respecting its formation in the go into port. Capt. Hussey refused to comHawaiian islands. in prayer, his countenance wearing the exply with the demands of the crew, whereupthe physical and moral improvement on they armed themselves withknives, handpression of fervent devotion. During the ofWhile becoming tlaily ihe is more conHawaiian* etc. and threatened last night of our stay at the school-house, spicuous, arts aivl sciences begin lo flourish.— spikes, boarding-knives, whilst we were lying about the floor, the only Agriculture, in which the aborigines even at the the lives of the captain and officers unless light of the apartment being a candle in a time of the discovery, had attained some skill, their demand was immediately complied with. hatchet, sticking in one of the posts, the nil- |has not kept puce with the advance civilization Capt. Hussey endeavered to reason with lives wanting some occupation, produced has made throughout thegroup. Though indif- them, Bna" u P on going forward to do so, was several books from the desk, printed in their ferent parts extensive plantations have been es- met at the try-works and forced back. Aftnil oilier of useful plants have own language. er several ineffectual attempts to induce the They were hymn-books, jtitlilished, mill a yet the former stand ns isolated introduced, with the notes of the appropriate music ; and been to return to their duty, and finding that crew undertakings, while most of the latter owe their several of the Indians gathering about the nutuiitlizuiioii lo accident, not design. Those they had determined to force the captain to candle favored us with the hymn in their na- who visit these Islands and become acquainted return to port or take possession of the ship. tive language, but with one of our familiar with their lovely climate, are particularly struck Capt. Hussey ordered the ship's muskets to with ihe small variety of cultivated plants and be brought on deck, and loaded with ball tunes. On the following morning, having arisen vegetables. No attention has ns yet been paid cartridges. He then addressed the crew, Itis there- stating his determination to maintain his auearlier than my companions, I directed one Ilo a subject of so much importance. great satisfaction that the friends of thority on board, if need be at cost of life, of file Indians to make up the fire, and in the fore, withobserve the, present movement in favor and gave them half an hour to consider the mean time I strolled off to walk among some progress of an Agricultural Association—for nothing shows of the neighboring huts. From one of them mere the advance of a community, than the for- matter and make up their minds whether they I heard the continued utterance of monoto- mation of societies pursuing 11 useltil and general would return to duty. nous sounds ; and upon looking in nt the door object. At the expiration of the time, he again ad-' I saw a man, I presume the head of the fa- An Agricultural Society, such nn one as these dressed them, and finding they still persisted Islands need, ought to be more than a mere se- in their mutinous intentions, he very coolly mily, kneeling on a mat in the corner, pray- ries of meetings which are discussed informed them, that he had ing aloud, whilst the various members of the and the results ofnt practicaltheories experiments report- and resolutely knelt a row near the course for him to purin old and determined upon young, j family, ed. In order to rentier it really useful, it ought him. The only words which I could under- (to go a step further. It requires a few acres of sue—that he was a good shot, and that the stand were "Ehovah," and "Luna," the for- »ronnd. where new fruits, vegetables, esculent first man, who on being commanded by him, mer word, of course, given them from our roots anil herbs, useful as fotlder fur cattle mid should refuse to obey, would be shot dead on purposes, are cultivated. At the the spot. He then took up and tried a muslanguage, and the latter from their own, sig- other domestic head of that establishment it wants a person, who ket, and calling one of the ringleaders by nifying above. What a scene ! and what possessing both practical experience and sciential to come aft, the only anwords from the hut of n native, on the wild j l> now ledge, diffuses the newly acquired plants name, ordered him fie of a volcanic mountains Huwaii ! among peo- hy distributing them among the members of the swer to which was a defiance. Capt. Husple the last born of civilized discovery, many society and giving directions for their successful sey then leveled his gun and fired. The ball of whom, Christians of no more than adult cultivation. He might also keep up communi- entered the temple of themutineer with similar establishments, ami thus ex- ed out the opposite sidflk thu head; sera he years, bear on their persons the marks of,cations one production for the other. same course was barbarian customs. As a careless member ichange fell dead upon deck. would have a fine pursued with another ofthe ringleaders, who of a community to which Christianity was n A society thus organized, before it—ihe best stimulus to exertion, anil the remainder of the crew, preferred birthright trust, I felt rebuked. Never, in field undoubtedly obtain great results within n few with the "dim religious light," and amid Un- years. Plants from nearly every part of the globe returning to their duty to being shot at—and solemn paraphernalia of Art's sacred temph-s, Imight be acclimated and successfully grown.— the ship continued on her cruise. did I feel such an impulse to devotion, and The Hawaiian Islands not having a strictly, tro- The peril to which the vessel and crew involuntarily my own spirit of adoration was pical climate, the society would principally have were exposed by the conduct of the mutineers will doubtless furnish to the minds of all, a borne along with that of those humble wor- 10 turn its attention and to look for acquisitions to ihe cooler parts of the world, and to those dis- sufficient justification for the extreme measshipers." tricts of the equinoxial regions where the gracethe captain was compelled to We have made the above extract, not be- ful forms of the tropics are harmoniously blended ures to which afford to him ample vindication resort, and the of At an vegetation tempernte into the zone. cause there is anything very remarkable elevation of n few thousand feet the highlands of by the lews ofhis country. about the observance offamily worship-among the East Indies, of Mexico, New Grnnadn, Eu Thirty thousand landlords own Engvariety of the Hnwaiians, but because we know that it cador and Peru, produce a prodigious nominally three thousand ewe Scotland; six land; of are useful plants, most which but is a very common practice among them, so known to more civilized nations. The itracaohn thousand own Ireland; leaving more than inMissionary come under for instance,pro- 25,000,000 inhabitants of those countries far as they have of Peru, (conicum maculatuiii,) is con- without a foot of God's creation. bably vegetables, more the finest ofall esculent that was practice Would this fluence. " ' , ', i , �THE FRIEND, JUNE 1, 1860. 46 Dr. Dick. 'the siie of two volumes. For the "Philoso- Slate, I received £80 and a ven-J|phy of a Future 1) Forthe of "Mental The "Long, Low, Black Schooner." The sppended letter, written by the BY TIM TALFELLOW, ESQ. It had been n " dirty mylit," blowing and , of'few cdpies. copy-right erable author, Thomas Dick, L. L. Scotland, was received by a gentleman of Illumination," £130. For the "Practical, raining terrifically in squalls, and dark as this town, in acknowledgement of the receipt! Astronomer," 50 guineas and 50copies, &.c. Tartarus; and the morning veiled in a canoof a bill lor £6, the contribution of a gentle-'tic. These and the other sums have been py of heavy rolling clouds, was little better. 'spread over a period of more than twenty The wind hnd I'ullen, but a huge sea tossed man of this vicinity, as a slight to the high moral worth of Dr. Dick, and five years. I .received from the booksellers us mercilessly, and a thick mist circumscriin America on two or three different occa- bed our vision to within a few yards around the value of his literary works. sions, forth several sums for sending corrected our ship. As the day advanced, the clouds which the|i The circumstances called contribution for this excellent and venerablei sheets across the Atlantic before the works were dissipated, until at lust, as is often the case in the transitions of weather al sea, the man, who is now over eighty years of age, alluded to were published in Britain. misty which surrounded us rose sudWe from the letter. may be readily inferred Notwithstanding our small income, and in- denly,curtain as if at the fiat of elemental power. letter,cumbrances, we endenvored, by dint of the may awaken, in other places, a disposition to most rigid economy, to move onward, though The cry of " suil ho!" wus almost immeforecastle deck,, and make Dr. Dick some partial returns for the without some of the comfoits we could have diately heard from Iheaway?" from the offidebt of gratitude due him for the healthful wished, and never had the least idea of lay- tt, the cull of '* where moral and religious influence of his literary ing open our circumstances to Ihe public.— cer of the deck, which ulways follows such was answered in the works, and such as will assist him in the dis- But about three years ago it was suggested an announcement, it same hoarse voice, " four points on the lee charge of the manifold obligations which an by some respectable gentlemen in Dundee, bow, sir;" and turning our e>es in that diall-wise Providence has seen fit to impose.,that 1 should present a memorial to Lord John rection, we discovered a vessel already upon him in his declining life.—[Washington Russell for a small pension from the fund alnnd seemingly not far off. The Union. authors, &x. This memorial, ac- "hull up," lotted distance have been a couple of miles; ) might Scotland, neat-Dundee, Broughty Ferry, companied with the warm recommendations near enough, if in clear weather, to have S 30th Jan., 1860. of Lord Duncan, Lord Kennard, George Mr Dear Sir :—I have much pleasure in Duncan, M. P. for Dundee, and about a doz- easily distinguished in every particular by the aid of glasses; but seen as she was, acknowledging the receipt of your very kind en other official gentlemen, was presented to through the half melting haze, not so readily letter of the Bth current, enclosing n Bill of|Lord John Russell through the medium of reduced to shape, form and exactitude of Co., &. for on Messrs. Harnden ; tbe historian but no answer Mr. Macaulay, Exchange At first she looked huge and £6. |was ever returned to it, and by this time it character. kind, I return to you, dear sir, and your ihas likely been quite forgotten. About three clumsy, looming in the partial light like the of the 'Flying Dutchman;' friends, my most grateful acknowledgements iinonths ago, a benevolent gentleman from wandering ghost and trim; then small and hye-nud-bye, still your and disinter"-! friendly remembrance for [England, formerly unknown tome, happened esfed liberality ; and I pray God you may all, to call, and in the course of conversation, al- more diminutive and quite plainly a schooner. have such a portion of the good things ol lusion happened to be made tolhis memorial. The sight of a sail is one of the most excithis life, as may promote your true enjoy- Ho requested that a copy of it might be sent ting objects of a sea life; a companion in ment, and be conducive to your progress in[to him, which was done n week or two after- darkness, a lelluw traveller upon tlie desert, is not more welcome; not all the wonders of the divine life, and above all, that you may wards, and in a very short time a paragraph the deep have half its thrilling interest!— be enriched with those spiritual and heaven- appeared in the Athenaeum nnd the Literary Gazette, expressed in rather too strong Conjectures ore rife; her what and whatly blessings which shalj enduro forever. a new subject, with all the adPerhaps it is due to your disinterested terms. I had no hand whatever in the inser- ahout being vantage of a chance matter, which at all kindness and generosity, that I should state ( tion of these or any other paragraphs which limes enhances the gratification of a pleasure. some circumstances in relation to my family |have lately been going the round of the can she be from?" "Where "Where affairs. About seven years newspapers. These statements are the inand my temporal were the questions immediately ago, my daughter and her husband, both in ferences which my kind friends have hecn bound?" the prime of life, died within thirteen days of pleased to deduce from what wus stated in asked. each other, leaving five children, two boys the memorial. At the stunt- time, should the " I can't imagine," said our captain. " I don't see how a craft like that could get here and three girls, tho oldest about ten and the public think that my writings have been in —what the mischief can she be about?" youngest about two years of age, almost, the least beneficial to society, and should It be a small vessel," observed anmay had I for their " support. without anything they choose on this ground to present a testherefore to bear the greater part of the bur- timonial, as you have so liberally done, } other, "hound to Algoa Bay, or into the Channel." den of their maintenance and education. As certainly will not refuse it. It would tend to Mozambique "Impossible—our latitude to dny will be we had previously kept no regular servant, procure us some comforts we have not hithwe were under the necessity of getting one erto enjoyed, and enable us to promote the over forty-two—more than seven degrees to into the family, and for several years we education of my female orphan grand chil- the southward efLa Ghullas!" "Perhaps an express packet from Engwere under the necessity of submitting to dren. Last spring I was subjected to a danto India?" this additional expense. About three years gerous disorder, which for some time baffled land "Even then," again rejoined the captain, into John of the were admitted girls Jfee efforts of all my medical attendants, but ago, two Watson's Institution, Edinburgh, where through the blessing of God 1 gradually re- with a skiff like that, one might fancy the they are maintained and educated gratis, but covered during the summer and autumn. fellow would work round close in with the at tan.age of thirteen or fourteen years, But about two or three months ago I was sub- land in smooth water." Every suggestion was maturely discussed, at home. The jected to a severe surgical operation on my they9P*t be againjfljteivcd but none seemed entirely satisfactory. There goirflrprofessions. Besides,' have now from tumor boys breast, which a large was exstill a something wanting to confirm the was sister, once a in tracted ; but everything went favorably on, I have an aged and infirm At one time, so small did she reputable and prosperous condition, now, the wound is healed, and I enjoy at the pre- argument. look, that we suddenly fancied she might lie affairs, of mercantile the of uncertainty sent moment, a tolerable share through good the launch of some large vessel that had left without almost any resources. Her hus- health. band, and Utterly, all her family, grown up Mrs. Dick joins me in kind wishes and foundered in this tempestuous part of the to men and women, have died, and for more grateful acknowledgements to you and your ocean, and might contain Ihe remnant other than seven years she has been an inmate in friends. May you enjoy every desirable crew, who had thus saved themselves!—and immediately we pictured a scene of distress our family, chiefly depending on us for supcomfort through life, hope in death, and at and suffering that might naturally have been port. length an abundant entrance into the ever- the consequence of such an event—of weepThe profits which have arisen from the lasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior, is ing, and wailing, and nakedness, and fear; publication of my works in this country have the earnest desire of, ofexhaustion from exposure; madness from the entire small. For comparatively been Sir, My thirst; of starvation itself, and all the hagDear copy-Tight of the "Chrrstian Philosopher," 1 Your much obliged, gard horrors which the combinations of such received at first £120, and a few years ago, and most obedient Servant, a spectacle must have presented. There a few pounds more, when very large addiTHOMAS DICK. might be women aboard too! for in the mass tions were made to it, so ts to increase it to trust that the simple statements of the , , , , 1 — " �47 THE FRIEND. JUNE 1. 1850- of migration' from England to her colonies, visions now before us, it was then all glee.!|and our position became immedistely tbe particularly on this route " beyond the The chattering petrels about us were not subject of cool dscussion. She wss prowas Cape," whore lie India, ihe jewel of her more gladsome. If we had before been de- nounced suspicious; snd the conclusion crown, and the colonies of Australia—the lighted by the mere sight of a way-farer like ss soon fallen upon that whatsoever she might giant progeny of an ever teeming mother— ourselves upon the waste' of waters, ihe be, if hostile, it was now too late to attempt the number who embark upon the ocean for pleasure was now ten-fold in the expectation escape by running. It would be difficult to other dwelling places, would astonish our of greeting him. The idea too, of intelli- board us in so heavy a sea; perchance we own home-keeping and home-loving country gence from the living nnd breathing world, might run her down—the risk to ourselves in women who dreamof the north and the south, iiom which we had been so long excluded, such a case was but a choice of evils.'* It the cast nnd the west, as of a day's journey, had in it something very cheering—a feeling was determined that our only chance lay in and of the sea as a far-off and fearlul road!' which none can appreciate who have never an air of the most unflinching determination, Scarce a ship from England pnsscsthe Cope: endured the heavy incarceration of the seas. and to this end we stood on. She was now Our friend wus still at some distance, and about half-a-mile off, but heading directly without them —daughters returning to parents alter an education " at home," as Eng- over a heavy head sea with the wind ex- for us, and her sails settling very low, it was land is fondly termed hy them, though born tremely light, we approached but slowly. impossible to see any thing upon her deck. upon the soil of its most distant dependency; As we came nearer however, there seemed Men were running up and down her rigging, wives to husbands, after a visit for the resto- to be a change in our feelings, an indefina- as if for observation. We were evidently an ration of impaired health; friends rejoining ble though very perceptible something over object of solicitude with them; and reversing friends, and relations to be united; and not the spirit of them, like the mutation of a the matter, 1 must own, they were equally so unfrequently, the betrothed going forth in gently proceeding dream. We were less with us. Anxiety had now become suspense. the palpitating expectancy of a consumma- gay, talked less, laughed less. It was evi- Our little armory was open within the poop; tion of her plighted faith with one whose for- dent something new occupied our thoughts pistols lay disposed upon the table, and mustunes havo unitctl him with a distfnW region. Each with his glass—some three or four kets and cutlasses were in ample reediness Such thoughts as these, carried the picture was earnestly watching the little vessel, around. Our men stood scattered, or moved which our imaginations had drawn lo the while those who were without these aids to silently from place to place with a fidgety air, highest pitch. But on looking again and their physical vision, were passing from one gazing intently on the little stranger, oranon more narrowly, we discovered that our little to the other of the observers, inquiring what glancing aft with a feeling natural to the igschooner was well and sufficiently rigged; they saw. Our attention was first arrested norant, as if to read in the countenances of her sails were well fitted and well set; no- by the enormous size of her sails; every those to whom higher station had perhaps thing in her appearance indicated haste or thing 100, was set, while our reefs were yet given quicker perceptions, that which they emergency, nor had she any of the usuul sig- in, the weather still looking threatening.— could not themselves discover; the blood The captain was the first to break in upon a coming and going in more faces than one.— nals tif distress flying. ciicd the first observe silence that had now been some time pro- I never saw a ship so still! We talked end be," It cannot to " were silent—laughed, and were more silent these distinctions; there can be no jury- longed. rig about that craft!—twig her gaff-topsail " He out-carries us," he observed, speak- than before! We remembered our dreams ing as if casually, and throwing his eyes with of fresh butter nnd new laid eggs, and called and flying jib." "You arc right," answered the captain, a seeming carelessness aloft—doubtful, per- it a capital joke; but it would not take the truck to heel!" haps, of exciting unpleasant feelings by a complexion of a jest. " she's a dandy from We approached. And with these unanswerable arguments more serious nir. " Mr. M—," he continuwe wore fain to give pity to the winds for ed, addressing the officer, " call all hands" He is near enough," cried one, " to give shake the reel's out of our topsails—set the us a shot," and we started as though we had lack of substance. Another conjecture was now started—al- inain-lop-gullaiit sail, and loose the mainsail seen the flash! At that moment he gave a ' yaw,' paying and jib." together new. off; our glasses flew instantly lo our ; an aud broad Aye, reply sir," cried the with wasthe you," quick captain, aye, tell " " I'll arch curl upon his lip, the expression of a the alacrity with which the order was obey- eyes; we could see his deck—see all—six, sell cnmplucuncy which ulways announced the ed, showed that there was some uncommon seven men were on his quarter deck—two forward—a dozenpr more jackets and trows ert*. conception ola thought thai he fancied par- interest felt in the work. ticularly cunning; "I'll tell you now what From much chattering we now became in Ihe fore rigging were hung ouMf dry, and she is—a little fellow out of Capetown, bound strangely silent. Our eyes were kept stead- the great gun amid-ships, huge as imagined round to the Mauritius, with wine, fruit, ily on the schooner; glasses were wiped and thunder, resolved itself intoa long black whale positions changed und re-changed, as if by boat, bottom up! "mm, and such like notions." And there seemed to be something so ex- every imaginable effort to see as much and A few minutes later found us with the captremely probable in this, from the known as distinctly as possible. The number ofher tain of a little sealer out of London for a commercial relations of Ihe two places, that men had evidently increased. Four—five— guest; a hardy weather-beaten son of the the idea was immediately adopted as a mat- six were aft; four were in the waist; as ma- ocean, commanding a vessel of eighty tons ny forward; and a score were in her fore and eleven men, formerly the yacht of my ter ofentire certainty. "Fruit—butter—fresh eggs!" muttered rigging. Each observer of these testimony■prd somebody, I forget who, bound toes near one, us he walked slowly down the quarter nls to her real character spoke hurriedly?Rie south pole as ice and cold weather would without removing the glass from his eye, and allow him to go, and begging us to take letdeck. "Butler nnd fresh eggs, did you say ?" was answered only by the short confirmatory ters for him, though by the way of India, es bewhisperedanother, " softly, my sweet fellow, ejaculation of another. New objects devel- it would probably be his last opportunity fore returning to the world again. It was softly." And by a microscopic vision there oped themselves. of s belligemight have been seen in both, at the usual "There is something amidships," cried odd how entirely every evidenceto one, and covered with rent had succumned the better propensity black, the and long, round, of between mouth articulation " point feelings of our nature—the meal of the lean the well turncd-up whisker, what Charles cunvnss." Lamb, in his sweet essay on roost-pig, calls "I see it," answered another, quickly, kino' was nothing to it! Tbe muskets, cut' an involuntary moistening of tho nether lip.' " over the msin-hatch—long, round, black." lasses and pistols, had quietly taken themUpon a long voyage, men grow imagina- At this point, mere silent sensibility had selves off, and though the last were indubitive in the gratification of their palates.— attained its utmost. As if by a common vo- tably loaded to tbe very muzzle, yet not ens Amid the sorry realities of musty biscuit, salt lition, the glasses fell from our eyes as though could be found to remember lhat he bad any beef and pork, and such halting, half-star- it were little worth our while to look longer hand in the work! ved semblances of ducks and chickens ns or for more; and gazing round, each seemed i"I thought," said our friend, "yon were have lived through hard weather and confine- to await that from another which he daredie man-of-war, when you bore up; for-every thiug had run away from me!" ment long enough for the sacrificial knife, not utter himself. "Yes," we replied, "we took a little " 1 do not like her," said the captain.— the sense becomes a sort of spirituality, subdo and we reckon we might make s you rakish, faro.— She has the look of a of better knave—what sisting on the recollections " pretty good fight." The iden of freshness, even in a head of gar- think of her?" lic, comes upon it like gurgling water upon Our misgivings once broached, the weight A fine breeze had sprung up before he left the thirsty traveller; and with the delectable of an Alias seemed removed from our bosoms, us, and both filling away on the same coarse, — — " ' ' ' �48 THE FRIEND, JUNE I, 1860. . 8 Am ak Canada, B>a<*»*ia. 848 Mas, flda fr B Fraa. Market House Pbicbs. 8 Tahmaa ach Will Waacn, Maa*. Hi lona, H*» Potatoes Taro SI perbrl, II per brl, TahKt. Yams 1 l-I 1 aVn ah F—Tla, Jaahoia. M8io». I« *» fr FrMOars. Orange* Chtsnuts Pine apples 1 I Am ah Charlee. Andrewa, 41* lons, 155 da fr Boauiu. 75c " Kiwi, ■ Br brag Mcl-ean 8« lona, 28 da fr 8 Franclaco. Lemons Papoa 7.V 1 10 TekUlaa ach AirWkla. Byard, 41 ion., 21 da fr8 Fran. Old cocoa nuts New Floating Bethell, Whampoa, 10 91 Green cocoa nuts 20 do 10 Am brig afcta-Blch, 206 loan. It da fr X Franclaco. Dried banana 10bundles SI —We rejoice from various sources to learn May ll—Chlleau bg Jnt. 8., Scbuilill, 194 lona, 48 dayafrom Bananas 3 banehes f1 Fowls 4 II Valparaiao. Pumpkins S3 1-2 100 18. Br ah ll.irmony, Pnppe, 629 lona, 84 da fm Sydney. Turkeys that this establishment finds such generous each Small 75e 1 If Aai ach JultuaPrtngfo, Buchanan,B7 loiia, 16 da from i Small 75c Ducks 1 San Fraucueo. patronage and encouragement among seaFishing net 25c per fathom 15 Am ah Conatcllation, Flluier, frnm New York—aid Hogs 6c per lb fur San Franel,co. men and merchants at Canton. In the OcIron wood $4 per boat Other wood S3 per boat 17 Br bk Braul Packet, fm New Zealaod. Native cloth SI 3 fathoms Yellow do SI a piece tober number of the Sailor's Magszine, we 17 Br origan Velocity, Sydney. Hats 25c to SI each May la—Br ach Velocity, M'Velgh, I*B lona, 67da f«i Bydaey, ■Bonnets SI each notice four subscriptions by mercantilehouses aalled for San Frau. Mats 50c a fathom Double width 1 dala a do bk BrazilPacket, 99 da New Main, X Br 199 lona Iron poles 10 SI I'm of $400 dollars each, and several other subZealand. Regulations. 90 Am ach Honolulu, Morton, 158 lona, 17 da fin Ban I. The appointed Bales Man is to arrange all (rata DM**). scriptions varying from 5 to $300. 20 Br ach Pera, with the Captain, and the Captain to pay him his fee; IHB tona, 22 da fin Kan Fran. SO Am ah|i llantplon. lla.ia 448 lona, 23de Tin San Frnn. jin cloth or cash as he may agree on. Some of our Island readers will re21 Br bk Jane Uiion, wnii will, S2S tona, 22 da fm San 11. Should the Captain wish to engage natives tc Franclaco. collect Mr. Hill, the English traveller, who 21 Br bk Ducheaa of Clarence, Cole, 279 tona, 19 da fin take his supplies to the boat; SI a day is the charge San Fraackns. Ifor each man visited our shores about a year or more since. II Br bk Fair Taemaniao. Ellla, 155 tona. 19 da fm San 111. Mo boat or ranoe from shore shall be allowed Francisco. In a late paper we notice his embarkation at 22 Am ahp RobertPulaford, Cooke, 406 Maa, 16 da I'm to take off trade to ships, to lie sold on board. Boats may be engaged to take off supplies bought on shore. SanFranclado. Vera Cruz for Havana, en route for Eng22 Br b( Swan, Ayrea, 149 lona, Van Dleman'a Land. Charge, $5 the first day and $3 each day after. 23 Am bk Nahunekeag, Champlut 266 loua, 15 da fm IV. NoAaoit or conor from shore shall be allowed land. A correspondent of the New York SanFranclaco. 13 Aai bk Alice Tarlton, Hale, 310 tore, 20 da fm San to go offlMhips when making the land, except the Tribune, thus refers to him: Franclaco < one appointed by the authorities. 23 Hr ach Joaephine, Clinton, 25 lona, 19 da fm San Fr. Y. It is requested that no Captain secretly engage, 'Mr. Hill, ao English traveller, bound 23 Bronx* wh ahp Alex. Barclay, Ilein, 450 toaa, fm or take away on board his vessel, any natives from the homeward via Havana, Cadiz and the PyreLahaina. shore. Any Captain wishing to engage natives for a nees, after three years spent in Russia, SiCleared. cruise, arc requested to make arrangements, before April 99—Haw, by Paciflco, Bogue,for San Franclaco. beria the Polynesian Islands, and the.inte- Fr. proper witnesses on shore, with any willing to go. A bk Winn rlna, Laacaaaa, Manilla. rior of South America. His 10-Hr bk Pilgrim, Francla, Hoof Kony. contrary procedure will be reported to the nearest 1t,.1)t. Brucr, Dm kendnrf, for IConsul, of the nation to which the ship belongs. have been of remarkable interest, and will, May 4 Orator, Tayt, for a Franciaoo. VI. It is requested, that on the desertion of a man Primua, Draper, for Tahiti. I hope, soon be made public. from a vessel, the Captain give immediate information iioio, Ha*i>, for Lahaina and San Franclaco. Fori to the Chiefs of the Station, and that the vessel do not 6—Ebeneaer, lilckhiaon, for Tallin. The New Bedford Mercury states that 7—Coquette, I Hint, for Tahiti. 1leave the Island until the deserter be apprehended. ', Cnllard, Air Sydney. 9—Duke of Roxhon That for every deserter delivered by the natives to the Capt. Timothy Colby in that city, has a bed May 11.—Am bk Clyde. Kempton, Hon* Kong. Captain two pieces of cloth to be paid, one to the cost made of whales' sinews,which has been 14 Br ach Shamrock, Gray, Auckland. of the station, and another to the parties who 14 Br ach Sir J. Franklin, Paleraon, San Fran. IChief in the family since 1640—two hundred 15 Am bk Lunette. Keen, Valparaiao secured his apprehension. ao« nine years—and has been used by Capt. May 18.—Am byMeta, Rich, for San Fran. Tia Lahaina. VII. That in case the deserter he not found until 18 Br bg Tepic. l.uce, lions Kong. after the vessel has left the island, when apprehended, Colby forty-one years, and is now as good as 18 Am abp Carthage. Rope*, Manilla. 24 H BMB Herald. KrlleM, vailed for Kotzebue Sound. Ihe shall become a prisoner and be employed m public a dozen new hemp bed-cords. It has never 21 Am xlip Fliivio. Jenkllia, Hons Kong. Iwork, until he leave the island. been broken. VIII That, in any case considered necessary for a PORT OF LAHAINA. Captain to leave a man on shore, the sum of S3O be The Propeller 'Carolina,' just arrived in San Frantf paid for each individual so left. cisco from N. V., is lo ran between San Francisco ana Arrived, 24—Sch Naeva Mtxnllane., Hofflngton, 19 ds fm S F. Oregon, under the command of Capt. David Wood, who April Strangers.—The To Seamen and Seamen's Hrlg Juno, Smnli, 18 tin fm San Fran. formerly commanded Ihe Propeller Massachusetts 25—Bark Montgomery, Meyer*, 13 dayi from San Franclaco Chapel is open for Public Worship every Sabbath, April 28—Br hg Fanny, Twohey. fm Auckland. |at 11 a. in., and T 1-2 p. m. Seats Free. May S.—Am ahp (Jolumbua, Crowell, Fatrkaven, 6 moa out. The Seamen's Concert for Prayer is held at the DONATIONS. 60 bbla aperm. ? An. ahp Triton, Sanda, New Bedford, 5 1-2 mos out, Room the 3d Monday evening in each month. For Chaplaincy. For Friend. 100 bbla aperm. Seamen belonging to vessel* (of all nation*) via. 2 00 10 Am >>.' Forfunic, limit y, fm San Fran. ■n Jotioaon, king (hi* port are invited to call at the Chaplain's 5 00 A Friend. IIMggV 16 Am rich Honolulu, Morton.fm San Fran. Study, where they will be gratuitously supplied with rather »rul ad^/m. S 00 titt 17 Am "lip Ale- Barclay, Heln, fm Braroeu. 500 IMeiM.avaiMl," copies of the Friend and other rending matter. It Cleared. Mia. Femmlluw, io oo will be most convenient for the Chaplain to receive <_t|n. Paica, 3 00 ( A.pril 29—Br h*r Fanny, Twnhej, cruise. calls from Seamen between 2 and i p. m. 5 0) • May II-—Bk Montinmery, Uyera, do Caft. Muller, Public aervicea at the Native Chuichea, on the 12 Bbp UulnmlMH.. Crowell, Arctic. 00 $33 00 Triton. Arctic. Sand*, 12 M ISabbath, commence at 9 1-2 a. m. and 2 1-2 p. m. 14 Caravan, Uerrfan, do The Seamen's Reading Room is open at all hour* 17 Bg Jaur, Pierce, Sm^Frnn. BONATtONS FOR SEAMEN'S CHAPEL AT lIILO. of the day. Strangers arriving and having late fo$1 Oi reign papers, are respectfully invited to aid in keephjai.'Smlta, •Jaimftun,' iM Memoranda. 4 60—810 50 apl. UiamiMUl, Caravan,' and rog ing said room supplied with useful reading matter. ThefolHiwing veaarta have keen told Hawaiians, to T. COAN, Chaplain. Donations are respect fully solicited for the supliiiilrr tha Hawaiian Hug. m ach Matetli fit, 47 tona, called Victoria. iport of the Chaplaincy, and the publication of the DIED. ach railed PauahlWanderer, r 42 tona Friend. An annual report of all donation* is made Tali i>ch At rev Ida, 40 tona, called KaaUumanii Akahi. I* Hoaatalu, Mar '•". Mr. Chassis H Mais, a»rd 2f, be- Montevfdean ach JNueva MageHaoe, 69 tona called Helen to the Am. Seamen's Friend Society in New York. Any person contributing f}so is entitled to become a Mflaf I* ajancht-elar. Euglauid He had brep euployed aa Mare. alark In the'merraiilile botiee ofMeaara. ttlarkey, Janinn A Co. Life Director ol the Society, and $20 to become an Also, 18th, Mm BoriiiA Thaiho, wife of Mr. Joaeph Tratkn. PASSENGERS. Honorary Life Member. Alan, Ajirll IBlh, at tha 11. R. Ilnapftal, Xr.JOf.ErB W. SAM'L C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. Dinarv, belong In* to Bunion. He cama to the lalanda as ofPrbk Petrel, fm Hobarttown, 11. Allison, fleer oa beard Ihe Flavin,' frera California,bat left Boalon an Levesby, J. Green. hoard (he ' Jacob Peraina oJßoar pa"May BSrh. Mr W.ilcott, late tram California, but Pr Orixa, fm St Malo, G. Jordan, D. Jordan, S.j AHe, aaapaaed to brloei te Roxbury, Mass. Hela reported l chave 8. Spooner, P Fish, J. H. Dc La Hunt, M. D',l, A Journal devoted to resided about five year* la California. He came paaacuger In D'Aubigne. the '«o«neetreol' frontBan Franclac*. Ilia cffecta are In the ance, Seamen, Marine and General Pr bk Clyde, fm San Fran, T. Raarear, J. SteS. Cena»l. the eftwuoen snd "evening saw the V— with low, black schooner keeping close on her quarter. S hag, « * China " " , " ' , " " " ' ' . ' < , experiences , ' . < Colby : ' • ' - . - - .- - - - ' ' ' ' _ Rred - ' < * ' M.I ' XHfc.Xtha.il. THE FRIEND: Monthly , Intelligence. phenson J. Si Cruise, W. 8. Heath. 11. Get, Faying, Aming, Temper- Chinaman. PUBLISHED AND IEDITED BT Per Fanny, fr Auckland, C Partridge anil lady, R II Smyth. Per Charieaft- Hoatoa. Mra J Andrewe, Mlea 15 Baabop, J H SAMUEL C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplaao. Wood and lady, J V \ Johnaon, J Hardy, W Brandon. PORT OF HONOLULU. Per Wanderer, ft N Zealand, H Llavd, lady and awo daughters, W Cooper, Bmlnard. Uealtv, W Nugiut One copy per annum Per Will Watch, fr Taliili, I) Poole aud la.iv, Venaud, B 82,00 Arri*«*L Mra Mcl —.a. ■ Two copies per annum, Mar e_A«a *k Cwahaeje, Rosea, 4M waa, SI daya ir S. Fran- Kimball, a* 8,00 Per Balmoral, ft Sydney, Mra E Newman, J llendcraon, lady I Fire copses per annum, claco. 6,00 8 H. B. —."a Ship Herald, Kellet, comaunding, JS gnna, and four children. Ten copies per annum. 10,00 Wdawtnim alatathin. 6 Braea Wanderer, Prlngle, 66 tona, 8 N Zealand-35 Oy Bound volnmcs of Thb Friend, for 1, J. 3. 4, RTeaHMghulontieurksRarotonga. Pdtices, 7 Br brig Fanny, Twohey, 171 tona, 84 Ha a: Auckland 5, 6 and 7 years, at the Chaplain*t Study. A rcdnction via Tahiti 7 BrtrbjMver Chief. Mairhewa, 158 *« fr Xelboarae, N No charge for water, except she a—.a to the na--iWorn the subscription price will be made to Seamen, MARINE JOURNAL. ' TERMS. -.....- - Cttli 'tires the Captain may engage, to fill the cask*. 'iadd purchasers who desire more than asingls volume � 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 (1850) 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 - 1850.06.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850.06.01