https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d3e935af9f23c433989f4b98a25b6a62.pdf 03d8d6055f5b7d9e0ec14e609993e254 PDF Text Text FRIEND. THE New Series, Vol. 1, No. 5. HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 1, 1852. 33 Old Series, VOL IX. speaker of the New Hampshire House of The Sailor outdoing the Marine. when twenty-seven years of representatives OP THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1852. age. He was four years in Congress in the In glancing over the Naval Intelligence in of representatives, and was in the U. the London Evening Mail, of April 30th, we Late news, death of Henry Clay,«fcc. - Page3431 S.house Capt. Gardiner's Journal Senate about three years, when he resignnotice the following paragraph, in a letter Kindness remembered, Story of a Sea Captain, - 3635 ed. President Polk appointed him U. S. dis- dated Malta, April 22nd. "On Tuesday w« Editorial Reminisences, No 1, 36 trict attorney for New Hampshire, and also Anecdote of Dr. King, New Hooka, had a tendered to the office of Generegatta. On board the Bellerophon a him Attorney 37 Fatal Dual, Reflections on Captit.'s death. 38 ral of the United States, which he declined. marine went to the maintop-masthead; on Am and Eng. oil casks, 39 He presided over the convention to revise the Opium trade, arrival of whale ships, this, one of the sailors, simply not to be out Poetry, deaths, notices, &c, constitution, of which the late Judge Woodthe rigging to the maintop-mast bury was a member. These, we believe, done, ran up are all the civil offices which Mr. Pierce has head, and thence mounted to the main truck, where, standing, he coolly waved his hands held. Gen. Pierce was a volunteer in the Mexi- and arms about, as fearlessly as if he had HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 1, 1852 can war. He was appointed Colonel of the been on terra firma. He then undressed and 9th or New England regiment, was afterdressed himself again, finishing his daring wards made Brigadier General by President Late News. down the back stays by exploit, crawling Polk, and marched with his command from Vera Cruz to Puehla. amid the prolonged and boishead-fore-most By recent arrivals from San Francisco, The Democratic party throughout the terous cheers, not only of his own messmates, intelligence has been received from the U. Union, is now huzzaing, "Gen. Pierce for but ofthe crews of the neighboring vessels. S. up to July Gtlj. The papers are dressed President." His fellow citizens, in New The feat was a most one main daring (the the little granite State, are overin mourning, and the public attention was Hampshire, with the nomination. At one place truck ofthe Bellerophon—l have it from Lord joyed directed to the death of one of the most dis- they fired a salute of 282 guns. !! Paulett—not being more than a foot) and tinguished citizens, orators and statesmen Hon. Wm. R. King, of Alabama, is can- one perhaps that not ten men in the fleet could of the United States. didate for Vice President. or would perform." The HON. HENRY CLAY died at be dull at but Honolulu, Times may Washington, June 29th. Great respect was THAE MATEUR. shown to his remains, as they left the city, at San Francisco, the times are bloody ! and passed through Baltimore, Philadelphia, Our columns may be destitute of news, but This is the title of a new newspaper which and New York, en route to their final rest- our neighbors, in California, send us their appeared on Saturday last. The publishers ing place in Kentucky. For several months newspapers stained insideand outside with forwarded us a manuscript copy, and we were this sad event has been anticipated, but the blood, blood, blood ! In one. paper are re- given to understand that it would continue impression upon the public mind has not been corded three duels, in another the shooting of in that form, but 10, out comes the same paa Sheriff, and in a third, the butchering of a less deep and profound. per, from the hands of the Printer. It is the name of humanity The papers announce General Scott, a9 score of Indians. In edited by Master A. W. Carter, and pubthe Whig Presidential Candidate, and the we ask, is not a better time coming ? After the lished by the Hawaiian Juvenile Society. Hon. W. A. Graham, for Vice President. Vigilance committee had executed its work, Success to the literary efforts of our youth. to the reign of terror and At the Convention, there was strong conten- it was be hoped that We gladly transfer to our columns the folblood had ceased. It is cheering to observe and more tion, than fifty ballotings. The lowing items from"The Amateur." friends of Cass and Webster would not yield that the pulpit is right in San Francisco upArrival op the First Whaler in Honolulu. on the subject of duelling. In the San FranThe whale ship "Chas. Phelps," Capt. B. Birch, until dire necessity forced them. from the Okouk sea,1 arrived full and is bound home. A late mail brought news respecting the cisco Herald of August 9th there is an ex- She reports the Mary Frazer, Capt. Hegarty, who whales to fill up. She reports the holding of the Democratic Convention which cellent sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Hunt, up- wanted twothemore Okotsk sea, aa doing well. The Mary vessels in on the of as duelling practice unnecessary, met, at Baltimore, for the nomination of Frazer will probably be the next whaler in. Text, their candidate for President. Eleven names unmanly, absurd, and criminal. fjj* A boat containing three boys was capsized were before the convention, viz, Cass Bu- "Thou shalt not kill" and "Whosoevershall on Sunday week. Two of the youngsters, only, swim. Providentially, however, some nachannan, Douglass, Marcy, Butler, Weller, smite thee on the right cheek, turn unto him could tives happening to be near, soon rescued the poor Houston, Dodge, Lane, Dickinson, and the other also." wretchesfrom a watery grave. This should be i Pierce. American Science.—The existence of a warning for others not to go sailing on theSabbath. The convention contained 288 Delegates, third ring around the planet Saturn, which Another Accident.—While the natives and at the 49th balloting, FrJHdyn Pierce, has for some time been suspected, was re- were firing a salute to H. S. M.'s Frigate of New Hampshire received the Democratic cently ascertained by the astronomers at the Eugenic, through heedlessness in not spongnomination. The question is now, Who is observatory at Cambridge. ing out the gun there was a premature disGen. F. Pierce? We answer in the language killed one man instantly and charge Visitors at the Seamen's Reading woundedwhich of the S. F. Herald. another so that he had to have bis Gen. Pierce is probably known. He was Room will find files ofthe late papers. thumb amputated at the joint next the band. Contents ... ------ tue raism �34 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1862. Gardiner's Journal Ry this tinforseen accident I lost a reference ing been curtailed, tho party are utterly Bible, my private journal, and some useful helpless. Everything found in the shape of In our last number, it was intimated that memorandum, chiefly on missionary subjects, food is killed and eaten—a penguin, a -hag, we might probably publish some extracts which 1 have been collecting for years, also a hall-devoured li.sli washed upon the shore, my rings, and a purse containing £8 Bs., all and even the salted fox, washed out of the rom tho dispatch of Capt Morshead, rela- the money 1 possessed with the exception of cavern, is thrown up again on the beach, and ting to the melancholy death of the English] sd. in copper. All my warm clothing was used for food. Capt. Gardiner writes:—'We missionaries in Patagonia. Capt. Mors- washed away, but providentially thrown up have now remaining hull' a duck, about one head, commanded H. B. M. Ship Dido, which again by the tide in tho course of two or pound of salt pork, the same quantity of damaged tea, a very little rice (a pint), two was ordered to go in search ofthe missionary three days. "Feb. 27.—Mr. Williams is unwell in the cakes of chocolate, four pints of peas, to party, and this dispatch is addressed to Rear boat, and Capt. Gardiner removes to a tent which I may add six mice. The mention of Admiral Moresby. this last item iji our list of provisions may to make more room. (In our last, we accidentally confounded "March 13.—This lent, named a hermit- startle some of our friends, should it ever the names of Moresby, and Morshead.) age by Capt Gardiner, is burnt down. It ap- reach their ears, but, circumstanced as we "In looking over the papers found in the pears that two casks of biscuits and one of ure, are partake nfihein with a relish, and cavern, I am enabled to trace out the wan- pork had been buried at Picton Island to have already ealen several of them. They derings and many of the sufferings which be- disencumber the boats, and, nourishing food are very tender, and taste like a rabbit.' "They are reduced to living on muscles, set the party up to the time ol their unhappy being wanted, as Mr. Williams and J. Badend. Some of tho papers are on private af- cock had got the scurvy, they resolve to go and feel the want of food, and somelimes the fairs, unconnected with their position, anil to Picton Island for it, which they reach on craving of hunger is distressing to them.— some on religious subjects, but I quote only the 23rd of March, intending to remain there Capt Gardiner wriles, 'After living on mustill (he expected vessel arrives from Eng- cles for a lorlnight, 1 was compelled to give from those which bear upon their fate. "Having arrived at Picton Island on the land with stores. Having got these provis- them up, and my food is now muscle broth sth of December, 1850, they landed and ions on board, and finding the natives still and the soft part of limpets.' pitched their tents on the 6th, but were com- troublesome, they painted the notices on the ''July 28.—Capt Gardiner writes of the pelled to re-embark in consequence of the rocks mentioned above, buried some bottles, party in the other boat, —'They are all exannoyance of the natives, until their boats and returned to Spaniard-harbor on the 29th tremely weak and helpless; even their garden seeds ustd for broth are now all out.' could be got ready. Their boats were nam- of March. ed the Pioneer and Speedwell, and they "In the beginning of April another of the "August 14.—Capt. Gardiner takes to his finally disembarked, and slept in them on party (_.J, Bryant) gets tho scurvy, and the bed, but a rock weed is discovered which December 18, the ship sailed the next day, disease gaining on the others, they become they boil down to a jelly, and find nourishment in it. and their troubles seem to have commenced. enfeebled in consequence. "Both boats immediately got under weigh "April 23.—They have provisions enough "August 23.—John Erwin dies. for the opposite shore, on the south coast of to last for two months, but some are very "John Bryant dies and Mr. Maidmcnt Tierra-del Fuego, to a place they have nam- low; and, a fox pilfering from them, they kill buries them both in one grave. ed Bloomfield-hurbor, as the natives annoyed him by putting a piece of pork opposite the "John Pearce, the remaining boatman is them; but before clearing the anchorage the muzzle of a gun attached by a string to the cast down by the loss of his comrades, and Speedwell got on the rocks, lost her anchor, trigger; and as they can only issue pork wandering in his mind, but Mr. Williams is and injured her rudder; it appears to have three times a-week, they dine on this fox, and somewhat better. been blowing fresh, as both boats swamped salt the remainder; altogether they appear "Sept. 3.-Mr. Maidment has never retheir dingies and lost them. The Pioneer to have been very frugal with their supplies. covered from thut day of bodily and mental reached Bloomfield-harbor, but returned a- I find a notice of four large fish caught, and exertion. The remaining remarks I trangain the next day, and joined the Speedwell. an account kept of the number of ducks shot, scribe literally, and must speak for themBoth boats then weighed for Bloomfield-har- as, their powder having been left on board selves. bor, but on this occasion the Pioneer ground- the ship, and a flask and a half being all they "'Sept. 3.—Wishing if possible to spare him(Mr. Maidment) the trouble of attending ed, and the Speedwell having been out all have, they keep it for emergencies. night rejoined her the next morning. On "May 12.—1s a note of the biscuit being on me, und for the mutual comfort of all, I January 6, I find both boats in Lennox harbor, short, and altogether as they have not sup- purposed, if practicable, to go to the river where they had gone to beach them and stop plies for more than three weeks, all (but the and take up my quarters in the boat. This was attempted on Saturday last. their leaks, but in tacking the Pioneer was sick) go on short allowance. Feeling "May 19.—The preserved meat is out, that without crutches I could not afTect it, Mr thrown into a nest of rocks, and she was not Maidment most kindly cut me a pair (two afloat again till the 17th of January. They and Mr. Williams appears to be failing. left Lennox-harbor on the 20th of January "May 22.—-Set apart for special prayer forked sticks), but it was with no slight for Bloomfield-harbor to refit their boats, but, on behalf of the sick, for supplies for food, exertion and fatigue, in his weak state. We finding the natives there in great force, they and the arrival of the expected vessel. Fre- set out together, but soon found that I had bore up for Spaniard-harbor, which they quent mention is made of the tide washing not strength to proceed, and was obliged to into the cavern, carrying away their stores, return before reaching the brook on our reached on the 21th of January. and endangering their sleeping boat, which own beach. Mr. Maidment was so exhaustseem to have experienced "Here they many vicissitudes from the surf and storms they endeavoured to counteract by building ed yesterday that he did not rise from his bed until the Ist of February, when the Pi- breakwaters of stones; but in the night the until noon, and I have not seen him since, oneer was driven on the rocks, her bow stove surf washes away their work of the day. On consequently I tasted nothing yesterday. I in, and irreparable. The party in this boat one occasion I find Capt. Gardiner and Mr. cannot leave the place where I am, and know then took to a cavern, but finding it damp, Maidment have to escape from the cavern to not whether he is in the body, or enjoying and the tide washing into it, they hauled the save their lives, and, taking refuge on a rock the presence of the gracious God whom he wreck of the Pioneer; higher up on the beach, washed by the surf, they kneel down in pray- has served so faithfully. I am writing this at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Blessed be and, covering her with a tent, they made a er. "June 11th.—J Erwin, and another of my heavenly Father for the many mercies [ dormitory ot her, the Speedwell being higher up at the mouth of a river,, which they the party take the scurvy, and misfortune enjoy—a comfortable bed, no pain, or even named Cook's river, altera lady and benefac- seems hovering around them. Their fishing .cruvings of hunger; though excessively weak net is swept away, and J. Badcock dies on scarcely nbleJoturn in my bed, at least it is tress to the mission. the 28th of June, and is buried on a bank a very great vxertion; but I am by his a18.—The tide rose than "Feb. higher trees at Cook's river. After per- bounding grace kept in perfect peace, reusual, and I find the following remark by under thethe forming last offices they retire to their freshed with a sense of my Saviour's love, —'The box containGardiner: which Capt. boat for and an assurance that all is wisely and merprayers. books and ed my most valuable papers was on cifully appointed, and pray that I may receive floating about in the surf, and the beach' "July 4. Having been seven weekshaythe full blessing which it is doubtless designstrewn with its contents in all directions. short allowance; and latterly even this Extracts from Capt. — —• �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1852. 35 11l the midst of these bitter reflections, Ed to bestow. My care is all cast upon God and hisenergy and resources entitle him to and I am only wailing His time and His good high professional credit. At one lime 1 find again his daughter entered, introducing a surrounded by hostile natives und dread- gentleman ofsome twenty-eight years of age pleasure to dispose of me M He shall seem him an in ing attack, yet forbearing to fire, and the, n. stranger. "Am I in the presence of it be die may Whether live or I fit. and soul my to. savages, awed and subdued by the solemnity Mr. G ?" was his opening remark; which, Him; 1 commend mv body At: being affirmatively answered, he continued His care and keeping, and earnestly pray jof his party, kneeling down in prayer. boat, heave off his having another, wife and childtailed to by saying, that he was a successful merchant lake dear my that He will ren under the shadow of his wings, com-j when on the rocks, he digs a channel under of New York—had heard of the misfortunes fort, guard, strengthen, and sanctity them her, and diverts afresh water stream into it; of Mr. G., and had come on purpose to ask wholly, that we may together in a bright- and 1 find him making an anchor by filling an the amount of his liabilities, that he might er and eternal world praise and adore |old bread cask with stones, heading it up, loan the necessary funds to relieve his wants. His goodness and grace in redeeming us and securing wooden crosses over the heads Nor was he shocked at the mention of tho (large amount of $20,000. He handed him with his precious blood, and plucking us as with chain. brands from the burning to bestow upon us "There could not be a doubt as to the ul- his check, which was duly honored : the the adoption of children,and make us inherit- timate success ofa-mission here, if liberally father was once more a happy man; hjp supported, but I venture to express a hope daughter was not houseless; he had found ors of His Heavenly kingdom.—Amen. 4.—There is now no that no society will hazard another without some friend to pay, despite the sneer of his Sept. 'Thursday, But, pray, sir," room to doubt that tny dear fellow-labourer intrusting their supplies to practical men ac- hard hearted creditor. has ceased from his earthly toils, and joined quainted with commercial affairs, who would said the agitated father, "to what am I inthe company of the redeemed in the presence have seen at a glance the hopeless improba- debted for this unusual, this munificent kindof the Lord, whom he served si faithfully; bility of any ship not chartered for the occa- ness, from an entire stranger? " " Perhaps under these circumstances, it was a merci- sion sailing out of her way, breaking her ar- you have forgotten," was the reply, "that ful Providence that he left the boat, as 1 ticles, and forfeiting her insurance for the some eighteen years since, you aided a could not have removed the body. He left frci»htage of a few stores from the Falkland friendless boy of ten years of age to carry a little peppermint-water which fie had mixed, Islands. Painful and unsatisfactory as my his loaded basket up the hill—that you gave and it has been a great comfort to me, but report of the fate of the party is, I trust it him good advice and kindly words. lam there was no other to drink; fearing 1 might may be considered conclusive by their Lord- that boy. I followed your advice—l have suffer from thirst, I prayed the Lord would ships, and setting at rest any further anxiety lived honestly—l have gained wealth, and now, after many years, have come to return strengthen me to procure some. He graci- on the part of their sorrowing friends. have, and &.C. to you, kind sir, the bread which then you I petition, yesterday my answered ously "W. H. MORSHEAD, Captain. cast so freely upon the waters." I was enabled to get out, and scoop up a It is said, gentle render, that our young sufficient supply from some thnt trickled "Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. B." stern boat means friend caught a glimpse of a beautiful girl of by at the of the of d«wn nineteen as he passed through the entry, and one of my Indinriihhcr overshoes. What Kindness remembered. that he called again, and still again, and won, combined mercies tun I receiving at the hands of the old man's daughter. His at holy Father; blessed be of my Heavenly " Cnst thy bread upon the waters, and af- last, the heart it is truly name ! ter many days it will return to thee." This I say, this is said—and I know paper. and marvellous said.—Am. which, truth, s.—Great like all has 'Friday,Sept. 1 is a scripture truth, are the loving kindnesses of my gracious1 been verified a thousand times. The followThe story of a Sea Captain. God unto me. He has preserved me hither- ing little story may serve to illustrate the verwithout bodiand for four that although days, to, Allow me to premise ity of this text. I left the port of Boston years ago, the ly food, without any feelings of hunger or my story is a true one in all particulars :— master of a fine ship, bound for China. I lad of one since, thirst.' a of Some thirty years was worth ten thousand dollars, and the hus"These last remarks are not written soi our eastern slates, about ten years of age, band of a young and handsome wife, whom I plainly as the previous day's, and I conclud- was sent by his employer to carry a basket, had married six months before. When I left ed that they were the last; but I find another very heavily laden with wares, to a purcha- her, I promised to return in less than twelve paper, dated September 6, addressed to Mr. ser : while staggering under its weight up a I took all my money, with me, save Williams, and written in pencil, the wholei somewhat steep hill, a gentleman of about months. to support my wife during my abenough being very indistinct and some parts quite thirty years proffered his assistance, and be- sence, for the purpose of trading when in guiled the tediousness of the way by plea- China, on my own account. For a long time obliterated, but nearly as follows:— "'My dear Mr. Williams, —The Lord hasi snnt anecdote, good advice and kind words. we were favored with a prosperous wind, but seen fit to call home another of our little They parted : fifteen years passed away—the when in the China sea, a terrible storm came company. Our dear departed brother left senior ef these two, now nearly fifty years of upon us, so that in a short time I saw that the boat on Tuesday afternoon, and has not age, sat in his study with melancholy counthe vessel must be lost, for we were drifting since returned. Doubtless he is in the pre- tenance and heavy heart. His door opened, on the rocks of an unknown shore. I orderdaughter, served so and just fascinating and his young sence of his Redeemer, whom he ed the men to provide each for himself in tho blooming into womanhood, entered to anfaithfully. Yet a little while, and though best possible manner, and forget the ship, as the Almighty to sing the praises nounce that a gentleman, an old gentleman, impossible to save her. We struck— it was in, Show him throne. I neither hunger nor thirst though desired to see her father. " threw upon the rocks senseless, a sea Maidment's kind- my darling daughter," said the father, " and and the next me days without food would have carried me back into ourselves."— do leave us ness to me heaven. you, my child, grave, had not one of the sailors She obeyed. The old gentleman entered :— to a watery " 'Your affectionateF.brother in me farther upon the rocks. There dragged GARDINER.' " Well, sir," was his salutation, " have you were only four 'ALLEN of us alive, and when mornand considered my proposition ?" " I have; "'September 6, 1851.' came, we found we wese on a small uning "From the above extracts I must therefore have determined, happen what may, I will inhabited island, with nothing to eat but wild mine, act of the sway, by any not force or conclude that the two bodies found at Cook's i fruit common to that portion of the earth. I River were those of Mr. Williams and J. will of my child. She shall ever be left to will not distress you with an account of our Pearce, and, considering their weak state, her own free choice." " Th<;n, sir, to-mor- sufferings there ; suffice it to say that we reyour property must go it is unreasonable to suppose they could have row, by three o'clock, sixty days before we could make ourof the sheriff, into the hands unless you find mainedknown could scarcely who survived Capt. Gardiner, selves to any ship. We were taken have lived over the 6th of September, 1851. some friend to pay the twenty thousand dol- to Canton, and there I had to beg ; for my he said a with sneer, and coldly "I will offer no opinion on the missionary lars." This money was at the bottom of the sea, and I labor ofCapt. Gardiner and the party, be- bowing, he left the house. The poor father's had not taken the precaution to have it inruined—my heart was racked. am "I yond it being marked by an earnestness and year before I bad a have no friend to sured. toIt was nearly aand devotion to the cause; but, as a brother of- daughter is homeless—l then, I, a captain, home, come ficer, I beg to record my admiration of hisi offer assistance ip this hour of my severest chance 38.] on page [Concluded conduct in the moment of peril and danger, trial," — " " " . . . .. .... . " . .. • ' i .1 .. �36 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1852. We have no doubt of the cor- At one time he is off with a party diving for Editorial Reminiscences No. 1. to Dr. King. of the facts here stated, for it has pearls, at the Paumutu group, at another , rectness been our lot, to enjoy the kind hospitality of endeavoring to obtain portions of the cargo The Cabin Boy's Chest in Disguise. States, visit the United to the family in which the youth found a home ofthe "Mozart" and "Maria Helena" wreckDuring our late the hospitalthat we enjoyed it so happened during the winter of 1807. Subsequently ed on Christinas Island, at another cruising Islands, at another tradreand shipowner ity of a wealthy merchant Dr. King became a finished classical scholar, among the Samoan Zealanders, at another of towns the New ing among commercial one of the siding in the Greek professorship and was appointed to Massachusetts. He dwelt in an elegantly of a New England college, but finally be- lying off the convict island of Norfolk, enfurnished house, surrounded by grounds came a missionary of the American Board in deavoring to obtain supplies, and at another route to tastefully laid out. The interior and exteri- Greece, where he has resided for about a visiting the Sandwich Islands, en and have knew the man or of the dwelling indicated wealth and taste, quarter ofa century. He had married in that China. Those who before his work consider it characteristic. very but not extravagance and folly. Just country, and had become most intimately read Hertoting our departure, the proprietor conduct- identified with the religious and educational The French, at Tahiti, Tvpee-Omoo of Melville'at and Commodore Marquesas, observe some man ed us over the premises to interests of the kingdom of Greece. of the "Narrative the many conveniences of the establishment. This anecdote was related by William H. Charles Wilkes, compiler of meet with but Ex. ofthe U. S. Eepedition," at at a of the every glance Maynard, Esq., Lyceum quite manifest meeting While, the work contains some favor. in I in-.i had a home little upon he, that who once eye, In December, 1807, Mr. M. was teachthe ocean, knew how to fit up and enjoy a " school for a quarter in the town of Plain- things to be condemned, it yet abounds with ing incidents graphically and humorously home on the land. field, Mass One cold blustering morning, stirring On our passing through the front hall in on entering his school room, he observed a descirbed. Us perusal will impress the mind the second story, he pointed to a settee as lad that he had not seen before, sitting on with the aptness ofthe title of another book, benches. The lad soon made The Island world. Its perusal cannot fail being a remarkable article of furniture, al- one of the errand known his to Mr. M. He was fifteen the appearance to impress the mind with the idea, that the though to us it had merely years old ; his parents lived seven miles disHe raisof a neat and comfortable lounge. tant; he wanted an education, and had come Pacific ocean, is, as yet, but partially explored the seat, when lo ! a sailor's chest in from home on foot that morning to see if Mr. ed. The author, Mr. Lucett, at the last acdisguise was presented to view ! "That" heiM. could help him contrive how to obtain-1 counts was quite sick at Manilla and fears remarked, "was my chest when I went to it. were entertained that there his earthly rovMr. M. asked him if he had any acquain" than thirty years more an end, although his a sea, as cabin boy, tances in the place who would give him their ings would come to statu "in remained, The wish quo" chest readers that he might long survive will ago." aid?" "No." " Can your parents helpt ship, from the education?" although obtaining No," when it came toward an and record his observations. you as to rove just " eduits exterior exhibited proof that fair hands " Well, how do you expect to obtain an cation ? " "I don't know, but I thought I A KEY to the structure of the aboriginal lanhad been at work. Pleasing must be the re- would come and see you " Mr. M. told him guage ; being an analysis of the particles flections of the owner, while seated upon to stay that day, and he would see what could used as affixes, to form the various modifihis chest, he glances an eye over his premis- be done. He discovered that the boy was cations of the verbs ; shewing the essential powers, abstract roots, and other peses, the fruits of labor, industry, ahd enter- possessed of good sense, but no uncommon ; and he »'as struck particularly ofthe language spoken by the brilliancy culiarities the prize, at home and abroad. Long may with the cool and resolute manner in which aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter River, that comfortable worthy proprietor enjoy he undertook to conquer difficulties which Lake Macquarie, etc., New South Wales : home. would have intimidated common minds In together with comparisons of Polynesian As the youthful sailorreads this narrativei the course of the day Mr. M. made provision and other dialects, by L. E. Threlkeld, boarded through the winter Sydney. and considers these facts, may his ambitioni for having himwith himself, the lad paying for the for presentation at the Royal family in be excited, erelong, to place his chest in al his.board by his services out of school. He The book Exhibition, London, 1851, under National similar situation. Observe however, the 1 gave himself diligently to study, in which he the auspices ofhis Royal Highness Prince Albert. pathway thither ! Honesty, frugality, indus- made good, but not rapid proficiency, improvThe type colonial, cast by A. Thompson.— try, and temperance are virtues which muslt ing every opportunity of reading and confor acquiring knowledge ; and thus The binding with colonial material. be practiced, otherwise the result will nevei versation spent the winter. Printed by Kemp and Fairfax, Lower be attained, or if attained by dishonorable "This was the early history of the Rev George street. 1860. means, not enjoyed. Above all there shoulr. Jonas King, whose exertions in the cause of ' Some months since the Rev. Mr. Threlbe a firm and humble reliance upon Divinis oriental learning, and in alleviating the miseries of Greece, have endeared him alike to keld, of Sydney forwarded us a copy of a Providence. the scholar and the philanthropist, and shed work, of which the above is the title. Mr. a bright ray of glory on his native country." Threlkeld's long residence at the Society IsAnecdote of Dr. King. lands, as a missionary, has qualified him for B OOKS. N E W a work of this nature. The following reThe attention of the reading public has 1837 I marks may be interesting to such of our IN ROVINGS PACIFICTHE from missionrecently been directed to Dr. King, to 1849, with a glance at California. Uj ary of the Am. Board, and U. S. Consul at a merchant long resident at Tahiti. Lon- 1readers as are fond of philological studies. "All the Polynesian languages at present Athens in Greece. The subject of his imdon, 1851. are similar in their arrangement, conknown prisonment and banishment has already been Almost every month some work appears struction, and government. It cannot be -1 brought before the government ofthe United relating to men and manners, matters and 1affirmed that the Australian has any close States, but the result has not been announc- things, in the Pacific. The above title isi affinity with the Malay either in words or ed. prefixed to two volumes, by "a merchantt construction ; but there is a little resemin the idiom of the Tahitian and AusThe following interesting anecdote, under long resident at Tahiti," who is well under- blance ; in the dual in the reduplication of tralian the heading of " Juvenile energy," we find stood to be Mr. Lucett, an Englishman. The5 verbs ; in the use of the negatives ; and in in an old almanac, published about twenty title "Rovings in the Pacifioa," ■ n0 misno- other similarities, yet not sufficient to identiyears ago, in N. Y. This anecdote relates mer, for the author was given to roving.—fy them as of one class. A comparison of twas . , " r - �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1852- 37 Wit- graded of men, from the second death. the Australian words in the different dialects Reflections on Capt. Gardiner's death. ness his and their patience and devotion. of this country will at once show their affinity, Hear him exclaiming with hii dying breath and their perfect dissimilarity when com- Editor ofthe Friend. "Great and marvellous are the loving kindpared with the dialects of Polynesia, whilst My dear Sir.—No one can read the ac- nesses ofmy gracious God to me"—read also the latter have a few words in common with count of (he death of Capt. Gardiner, and his the dying testimony ofthe surgeon Williams the Malay. But it is remarkable that there missionary associates by starvation on the to the sustaining grace of God, "I would should be such a jump, as it were, of affinity desolate shores of Patagonia, without deep not exchange my situation for or with any across the vast Pacific Ocean to reach the emotion. I am sure it cost me many tears. one in life—l am happy beyond expression." North American Indians, who have those And yet the reading of it did me good. It Tell me, reader, is there not in this scene a very remarkable features in their language will do others good also. Of this 1 have not moral dignity ofsurpassing greatness ? Well which is found to exist no where else in the a doubt. We shall all desire to see the full does the Spectator in opposition to the comand official account of the melancholy af- ments of the Times, remark "Such heroic known world, excepting here !" show that the fair prepared by Captain Morshead, and pub- devotion must seem obsolete in the view of will The following examples lished in the 'London Evening Mail' with the new philosophy, but one great fact proves Hollanders, of the New aboriginal language editorial remarks upon the missionary severe and that of the N. A. Indians, contain words enterprise. While waiting to see the report, that it still possesses a stronger hold over the hearts even ofthe gentlemen of England, corresponding in length if in no other respect. allow me to forward you a short article sug- than that selfsufficient philosophy, and that "The language ofthe Aborigines here, has gested by reading what you furnished in the fact is the instant irresistible burst of symlike the North American Indians, some very last Friend on the death of those missionaries. pathy. They buried themselves on the des]oaa words in their language, but then it If spared, I may add other remarks as the ert shore, but the whole people of England must be observed that there is a combination subject is one of thrilling interest. attendstheir funerals. "Whoever" says the The first thing suggested to my mind on Saviour ofthe world, "whoever loseth his of ideas therein for instance, Tiirrburreabunbilliko, for to permit to be torn ; means reading the account ofthe sufferings of Capt. life for my sake and the gospel's the same likewise that it should be permitted to be Gardiner and his company was The Moral shall save it." done by instrumental agency, and by none Dignity ofthe Scene. AMICUS. Death, though styled the King of terrors, Maui, August, 1851. other, whilst any other agency must be expressed by the different forms already ex- has sometimes a halo of glory thrown around plained. The. North American Indians have his awful head. It is not uncommon to Arrival of the Great Britain.—The a few ethnological puzzles for scientific re- speak of death-bed scenes as scenes of great steamer Great Britain, which noble vessel search, for their words likewise contain a dignity. Nelson expiring in the arms of has out lived her disaster in Dundrum Bay, combination of ideas, as illustrated by the victory, exclaiming, "Kiss me, Hardy," re- and is now commanded by Capt. Mathews, Venerable Elliot, in his life, by Cotton Ma- taining in the language of his biographer arrived this morning from Liverpool. Capt. ther, printed 1094, page 92, in which " that "his firmness and heroism, arid rejoicing Mathews left Liverpool at 9 o'clock on the apostle of tho Indians" gives a specimen, in the glorious triumphs which his death in- morning ofthe Ist inst., and has made the namely " Nummatchekodtantamoonganun- sured to his country;" ana Wolf in the agon- passage in thirteen days, quite equal to the nonash, which means no more than our lusts, ies of death, on hearing tho exclamation, Canada at Boston, when the comparative and if I were to translate our loves, it must "The defeated French run," exclaimed distance is considered. The Great Britain be nothing shorter than Noowomantammoon- "Then I thank God and<die contented," are brings a valuable cargo and 165 passengers. kanunnonash." The equivalent for these often cited as glorious examples of diguity. N. Y. Com. Advertiser, 14th May. specimens of a conglomerate formation And in their ki.id they are so. I do not Thus it appears that the "Great Britain" would be, in the language of Tahiti, To tatou wonder that the pomp of war, the trappings hinaro mo, our evil desires ; to tatou hinaro, of military glory should render such scenes steamer is again afloat. Having a national our desires. And in the tongue of the blacks attractive in the eyes of the ambitious, and right to guess, we do therefore gutss the ownhere, the equivalent would be, Kotlilliyarra- that multitudes should be dazzled by them. ers ofthis mammoth vessel, will keep a sharp kaingearunba, our evil thinking ; Kottilli- Let them go for all they are worth. JJnder murrorongngea-unba, our good thinking.— another head, I may allude to these boasted look out and secure the services of a comEither of which, if a stranger heard it pro- examples of heroism—ofthe spirit ofpatriot- mander who is a teetotaller, or who does not nounced, he would naturally be led to sup- ism strong in death. drink so much but that he knows whether he pose that it was but one word, where three Turn we to another scene, one of patient is steering for the Atlantic ocean or DunA company of are combined, viz, Kottilli, thinking, the ao- uncomplaining suffering. tion of thought, or thought acting, or to think: Christian heroes, self-exiled from their coun- drum Bay ! The rum and brandy drinking all in the abstract form. try—far from home and friends, and every shipmasters, will ere long discover that their earthly resource actually dying from starva- services are no longer required. Shipowners tion; and in these circumstances while yield- will not entrust their vessels to commanders Fatal Duel. ing obedience to the ascending command of see double ! the Son of God, "go ye into all the world who Late California papers announce the death and preach the gospel to every creature," the last meeting of the Temperofthe Senior Editor ofthe "Alta California," dying while engaged in the same work which At the questions were discussed. ance Society, of the world from the who was shot in a duel at Sacramento, by brought the Redeemer "to seek and to save What are the laws of the Hawaiian Kingviz. heaven, of throne Gen. J. W. Denver, State senator from To the eye of sense, dom regulating the retail of intoxicating lithat which was lost." Trinity county. The immediate cause was here is no glory—no pomp and circumstance executed ? Upon a card reflecting upon Mr. Gilbert, and pub- of glorious war—no halo shed around this quors ? Are the laws the of duty their execution ? lished by Gen. Denver. What adds to the scene to dazzle the beholder. And yet the whom, devolves atrocity ofthe bloody affair, the deceased moral dignity is unsurpassed by all that earth At the coming meeting reporta upon these great. In the words ofa British officer questions will be presented. A fall attendchallenged the adverse party, and after the calls one ofthe Bombay establishment, written on ance ofthe members is requested, and the first fire, would not yield to a reconciliation. the decease of a missionary, it may be said public generally invited. The subject deMr. Gilbert was a young man of ability and ofthis company:— much esteemed in California, having been "Deith found then laboring and became their slave, mands a thorough investigation. chosen to represent the State in the congress Through bis dark portals ushering them while they, As the shipping season approaches All bright and kingly, trod upon his crown ofthe United States. While we mourn over Singing their Saviour's triumph o'er the grave." we are glad to learn, that among the houses House," the melancholy death of poor Gilbert, we Look at the heroic Gardiner, leaving all of entertainment, the "Manaion cannot find words with which to denounce the honors which once encircled his brow, Lyons, Mrs. by will be still open and kept the barbarous, and fiendish practice of duell- leading forth a little band of Christian he/oes Ca*«r.) : : ing. to rescue, by the grace of God, the most dc- (formerly Mrs. �38 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1852. had to ship as a common sailor. It was two nine men, and at the same time the first offi- the time of the loss, except Capt. Kendrick years from the time I left America when I cer, Mr. Luzon Weeks of this city, with five who sailed in command, and lelt eaily in the landed in Boston. I was walking in a hur- men attempted to leave the ship, but swamp- voyage in consequence of ill health, and a ried manner up one of its streets, when I met ed his boat in lowering it into the water.— seaman named Frederick Steber. The Jumy brother-in-law. He could not speak or There were three men, including Mr. W., in nius when lost had 230 bbls sperm oil. N. B. move, but grasped my hand, and the tears the boat at the time, and it is not certuinly Shipping List. known that they regained the ship's deck.— gushed from his eyes. He an"Is my wife alive ?" I asked. Capt. Nye and the second mate lay a short English and American Oil Casks. swered me not : and then I wished I had distance from the ship during the night, and perished with my ship, for I thought my wife lights were seen upon her until an hour beUntil reading "Bovings in the Pacific" was dead ; but he very soon said, "She is fore daylight, when they disappeared. When alive." Then it was my turn to cry for joy. day dawned, the ship had entirely broken up, noticed in another pait of our columns, the He clung to me and said, " Your funeral ser- the water about being slrown with fragments thought never entered our mind, that an mon has been preached, for we thought you ofthe wreck, spars, casks, etc., but no other Englishman made an "oil cask," in a differHe said my boat was to be seen. were dead for a long time." wife was living, in our cottage in the interior The two boats then headed for St Augus- ent manner from an American. The author of the state. It was three o'clock in the tine Bay, Isle of Madagascar, which was of that book is a most thorough Englishman, afternoon, and I took a train of cars that about two hundred miles distant, and after be- and does not hesitate to record many a good would carry me within twenty-five miles of ing six days and nights in the boats, they at Jonathan's expense, but an my wife. Leaving the cars, I hired a boy, reached land nbout thirty miles north of the joke Brother is no joke, or rather it is a serious though it was night, to drive me home. It bay. During this perilous voyage the suffer- "oil cask" was three o'clock in the morning when that ings of the unfortunate crew were very great. joke with him. Let not our readers smile, sweet little cottage of mine appeared in The weather was very severe, the men were that we should notice an "oil cask," for if sight. It was a warm moonlight night, and 1 very scantily clad, and in addition to this is in what Mr. Lucett asserts, remembered how like a heaven it appeared camn the horror of threatened starvation.— there truth the of an "oil cask" is an imthen making to me. I got out of the carriage, and went In the haste of leaving the wreck no food or to the window of the room where the servant water could be placed in the boat, except portant item in the business of whaling, and girl slept, and gently knocked. She opened four salt hams. There was the small quan- it would be well for his countrymen to the window, and asked who was there. tity of bread and water in the boats usually take a hint. The following paragraphs we I said. carried in the lantern keg and boat keg. This " Sarah, do you know me?" about Site screamed with flight, for she thought afforded one biscuit to each man for the voy- copy from his journal, while roving at the Bay of me a ghost, but I told her to unfasten the age, and "two swallows" of water three New Zealand and touching to rewished see dewhales are accustomed my times in twenty-four hours. Capt. Nye Islands, where door and let me in, for I to wife. She lay sleeping quietly. Upon her scribes the sufferings of the crew from hun- sort. bosom lay our child, whom I had never seen. ger, fatigue, thirst and exposure, as painful "Is it not extraordinary that we, who have She was as beautiful as when I left her, but to the last degree. immediately upon the whaling colonies I could see a mournful expression upon her On the 27th of October they landed, find- grounds, should yet be beaten out of the face. Perhaps she was dreaming of me. I ing nothing eatable,-but a plenty of brackish field by the Yankees, who have to come a gazed for a long time. I did not make any water. The hams saved from the ship were distance of from 10,000 to 18,000 miles ? I noise, for I dare not awaken her. At Isngth eaten, and the boats hauled upon the beach, am with the son of a gentleman I imprinted a kiss upon the soft cheek of my and turned up for shelter for the night. They whoacquainted one ofthe largest owners formerly was child. While doing it, a tear dropped from were much annoyed by the natives during of whalers out of Sydney. He served his my eye, and fell upon her cheek. Her eyes their stay, as they assembled in considerable onboard one of his father's opened as clearly as though she had not been numbers, and carried off ever/ thing they apprenticeship other remaiks, the vessels; amongst and sleeping. I saw that she was frightened, could Ipy their hands upon. In the morning fruits of his experience, he stated that one of it is husband And !" and said, " Mary your they started again for St.' Augustine Bay, the most expensive items in the outfit of a she clasped me around the neck, and fainted. and when within eighteen riiiles of the place, whaler was her casks. The English casks But I cannot describe to you that scene.— were fortunate enough to fall in with a French are made of very stout oaken staves and She is now the happy wife of a poor man,— barque. They were kindly received on board, heading, the latter beina particularly so, and I am endeavoring to accumulate a little pro- cared for, and their wants supplied. They are long and narrow, with a great booge and perty, and then I will leavo the sea forever. were landed at St. Augustine Bay, where depth of chime, bad to stow, occupying the crew was divided into four parties, and much unnecessary room, and not only diffi—Lehigh Register. went on board as many different vessels dangerous to up-end and cooper in Loss of the Barque Junius. hound for Mauritius and Bourbon, all arriv- cult, butweather. The Yankee casks are heavy ing there in safety. drum, like a the staves are not much abuilt Capt. Nye, late of the Barque Junius, The party accompanying Capt. Nye, which and the heads which was wrecked in Mozambique Channel, took passage in the brig Alexander, consist- bovehall the thickness of ours, in consequence, made of well seasoned pine: returned homo in the barque Lucilla of Bos- ed of George Corey, Charles Barnard, and they don't cost halfthe price, stow in much ton. two natives of the Azores, and it arrived at each cask is more On the 21st of October, 1851, while in lat. Mauritius on the 29th ofNovember. Of the less room, the strain on and, as they have no more divided, equally 21 28 S., long. 40 E-, in Mozambique Chan- six persons left on board the ship, Capt. Nye not only nel, at 7 1-2 o'clock, P. M., the Junius wa3 having lost all his papers, can only recollect chime than is absolutely necessary, but the chimes saved, much space is there so lying to, under close reefed main top-sail, the following names ; Luzon Weeks, mate, when she struck upon a reef, which is sup- Joseph Fernando, cook; Sylvanus Emmons, stand less chance of being broken, and can in any weather; posed to be put down on the charts as Bassos carpenter, and a man named Morgan shipped be coopered without danger ofthe and beadstaves and from the jointing do India. It was blowing a strong gale at at the Cormora Islands. It is possible that casks, the time, and was very dark. At the mo- they saved themselves, as there were two ing being finer than that of English ment of striking, the rudder was driven up other boats on board, even if they did not owing to the great thickness of the latter, less liable to leakage. John Bull, through the deck, and the barque began im- succeed in bailing the one that was swamped. they are the operatives, is particularly pigmediately to break up, striking heavily at Their fate therefore is not certain. The amongst and wedded to his own opinion; he headed every surge upon the reef. names of those who left the ship in the capIn fifteen minutes after striking, all her tain's boat are George Corey, (who came will not believe that a Yankee can teach him and the captain of an English masts had fallen, and it was found necessary home in the Lucilla) Barnabas B. Nye, Jr., anything: would rather pride himself on, and whaler for self preservation to take to the boats.— Jose Francis, Joseph W. Clark, William B. of, the expense of his outfit, greater boast second first mate, the clear got Joseph, Mr. King, John Williams, Calvin B. Hncket, and than try and lessen that expense by taking a with his boat and a crew of six ofthe wreck two other names not recollected. Of the ori■ten. Capt. Nye followed soon after with ginal* ship's company, all were on board at wrinkle from a Yankee." �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1852 39 cruise for a few weeks, and reTHE OPIUM TRADE, or An Essay on the for the continuance ofhis wretched and trans- first officer at.Hilo, to recruit. Opium Trade, including a sketch of its hisi- ient delight ; transient indeed—for at length turn to port above fe the first whaler of the season tort/, client, effects, etc., as carried on in India the utmost effect produced is a temporary The the summer cruise, and Lhina ü by NATHAN ALLEN, M.D. suspension of agony, and finally no dose of touching at the islands from and not because the seadistress, in and comes in a This Essay was written by physician in the drug will remove or relieve a state of suf- son was over or for the want of room to stow more Lowell, Mass., and it is quite gratifying, to fering which it is utterly impossible to des- oil. The season, had, in fact, hardly commenced 13th of July ; no ships had learn from the perusal of this painplet of 08 cribe. The pleasurable sensations and im- when she left, on the through the straits into the probably, gone then, at soon pass first, ideas aginative arising pages, that a practicing physician in that away ; they become fainter and fainter, and Arctic, whither most ofthem were bound. From busy and bustling manufacturing city, finds at last entirely give place to horrid dreams the middle of July to the first ofNov. is tho best ofthe season for cruising in thosenorthern latileisure and has an inclination to look abroad and appaling pictures of death ; spectres of part tudes, and the straits are sometimes not clearof ice with the eye of a philanthropist upon one of fearful visage haunt the mind ; the light till Aug. It may therefore be several weeks before out, need the great " monster evils" of the age. We which once seemed to emanate from heaven many ships come in, and others, recently is converted into the gloom of hell ; sleep, not be expected till Oct. A few ships that require a were prepared, for the exhibition of fright- balmy sleep has fled forever; night succeeds but little oil to fill up, and others from sickness or ful amount of misery and wretchedness con- day only to be clothed with never ending disaster, may come in during the month ; but the bulk of the fleet will hold on as long as the weather nected with tho opium trade, but still the horrors ; incessant sickness, vomiting, diar- will allow themto take oil, with safety to ships and evil has grown to such gigantic size, that it rhoea, and total cessation of digestive func- crews. and death at length brings, As a matter of interest to many of our readers, requires " a taut strain" on our [lowers of tions ensue ; with its annihilation of the corporeal struc- we publish below the dates and ports at the Islands belief to grasp the simple truth. ture, the sole relief to the victim of sensual where the first fall ships have arrived since 1844, 15th. It is estimated that previous to 1822, opium and criminal indulgence. The opium shops In 1844, at Lahaina, July 3d. In at Lahaina, July had cost the Chinese only $10,000,000, hut I visited in the East were perfect types ol In 1845, 184b", at Lahaina, July 3d. since that period, or during the last thirty hell upon earth. 1847, at Honolulu, July sWth. In over fifty over $100,030,0111). A fleet of 1848, at Honolulu, August Bth. In sail, is now running between India and China Who is the Sailor! In 1849, at Lahaina, July 27th. engaged in the transportation of what the In 1850, at Honolulu, August 10th. Chinese denominate " smoking dirt," " vile In his eloquent speech in the Senate, on In 1851, at Honolulu, August 31st. dirt," " flowing poison," " black commodi- flogging in the Navy, Commodore Stockton In 1852, at Hilo, (no date,) about August 4th.— Polynesian. ty," "black dirt," &.C. said : We make the following quotation from I is the American sailor The Holy land.—The Emancipation Beige pages 30 and 31 portraying the sad effects Who, O Senators he is to be treated worse than a dog ?— gives the following intelligence, taken from the that which accompany the use ofthe poisonous He has been my companion for more than n Voix dc la Verite of the llth instant:—" One of drug quarter of a century—through calm and our correspondents at Constantinople tells us that Martin, who is well known as Mr. R. M. sufferings, and danger.— the Divan has decided the question of the Holy the author of several valuable works on In- storm, privations, M. Rothschild the four Paand war in I have lived with htm, Land, by Rivingfortothe sum of500,000,000f., to be dia and the British Colonies, ha 3recently In peace Syria chalics of and fought with him side by side, on sea Treasury of the Sultan. France the in deposited published a large work on China. Mr. Mar- and Northern will tin for some time held the situation of her land. I have seen him in the resign her pretensions to former treaties for was no night to veil his the sum of 50,000,000f., and a remuneration where there Ocean, Colonial, for ConsuTreasurer "larMajesty's the West of 26,000,000f., will be given to Prussia and Engand Diplomatic Services in China," and deeds. I have seen him among of pirates, with his land for their claims. It is not yet known whethwas also n " Member of her Majesty's Legis- India Islands, in chase of his er M. Rothschild will assume the title of King, lative Council at Hong Kong." His oppor- parched tongue hanging almost out that he proon the Emir, Pacha or Bey ; but it is certain him have encnmped'wilh I mouth. tunities therefore, of acquiring information poses to restore Jerusalem and Antioch, and to rethe of mountains, and on plains the Temple of Solomon, as described in the officially and by observation were superior, California ofthe morn- build Holy Scriptures. There will be in the new Jeruand in a chapter on this subject, vol. 11. page the Mesa—l have seen the rays his carbine and boarding salem an exchange, theatres, and places of wor17G, he remarks thus :—" No language ing sun play on seen him march one hundred ship for all religions. This is not all; The new have I pike. of the would convey a description sufferings an enemy's country, monarch proposes to establish a line of steamers miles through fifty and of those to whom Opium has become a necesand to unite to through rivers, with no between Marseilles and Beyrout, sary part of existence ; no picture could im- over mountains and by his his capital by a net-work of railways, Alleppo, Dacanvass, made on tbose of shoes but press the fenrlul misery which the inmates but what mascus, Tripoli, and St. Jean d' Acre. It is even of an Opium smoking shop exhibit. Those own hands, and with no provision said that a time is specified for uniting Alexandria have his to Constantinople by means of a railway. The dens of human suffering are nttended by un- he took from the enemy. I rocks,seen as he new estates of M. Rothschild abound with iron fortunate women —as Opium in the early use feet scarified by projecting the hills. I have ore and pine forests. The new position of the fiis aphrodisiac, and as such prized by the hauled his cannon over into the Rio San Gabriel, nancial king will not prevent his having sharehim plunge seen Chinese. In few, but very few instances, if him in the face of a holders. On the contrary, it is affirmed that M. after and his drag guns indeed in any, moderation in Opium is exerAnd finally, Rothschild will make a solemn appeal to his coa foe. cised : once fairly begun, there is no cessa- galling firefrom desperate re-enter the tent the cold ground, religionists to prevail on themistoalready assured of tion, until poverty and death ensue ; and I have laid beside him on of Abraham and Jacob. He beard. Sir, on his the ice has formed the concurrence of the leading banks of Vienna, when digestion has nearly ceased and deglu- when own. I ought London, Madrid, and Lisbon." tition even becomes painful, the utmost effect his heart has beat close to my day— ofthe drug is merely to mitigate the horrors to know him. Ido no him. And this Letters for Whalers.—In consequence of of his existence. Those who begin its use now, before the assembled Senate of the Relarge number of letters accumulated in the the I his behalf. in stand to speak I public, up of at twenty, may expect to die at thirty years I Post-office at Honolulu for persons in whaleshipa, advocate. Nay, find an abler he will a separate box age ; the countenance become palid, the hope this the Post-master has appropriated each ship, and there are now letters for 220 eyes assume a wild brightness, the memory I am surehe will find abler advocates on for ships on hand, and new ones are received every fails, the gait totters, mental exertion and Ifloor. But, nevertheless, hear me. mail. Each box now contains from three to thirty moral courage sink, and a frightful marasletters, which will afford a rare treat for all hands a Arrival first Whaler.—We learn reduces the victim to of the mus or atrophy sth when they arrive to receive them. Letters for a inst, ofthe that the ship Hilo, letter from ghastly spectacle, who has ceased to live be- by John and Edward, Cathcart, ofNew Bedford, had considerable number of ships have been ordered is he ceased to There no has exist. fore at that port previous to that date, (date of and sent to Hilo, by ships designing to touch slavery so complete as that of the Opium- arrived arrival not given, which we regret,) 14 months out, there and not here. The only reason we hays taker once habituated to his dose as a fac- clean. She was last from Kodiac ground, which ever heard captains assign for preferring Hilo titious stimulant, everything will be endured she left on the 13th July. The cause ofher leav- to Lahaina and Honolulu is, that at the former rather than the privation ; and the unhappy jing thus early, was, that all her officers were sick port liquor was not to be' had, while at the two latter, it was abundant, and caused them intoleiabeing endures all the mortification of a con- and off duty. Whales were plenty, but theweather ble troublewith theircrews. A very sensibleconMarine for report spoken by while was bad. ships (See sciousness ofhis own degraded state, clusion.—Polynesian. The her John and leave will Edward.) ship the ready to sell wife and children, body and soul, : '' ' •', 1 : : �40 1852. THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, Cleared. A friend has handed us the following lines for AU|. s—llr bg Ita|iirl, CraseanU, Him Franriscn. MARRIAGES. ll—llr li|t Cnr.air, Nml, publication. They were written by Dr. 1). M. Smith In Alhany, on tho 21st of 1-*—Am sit Hrvi-rn, Qaraasr, Hlianfh.ir. by Key. J. N. who resided in Chicago Co. N. Y. Only a few Campbell, 1). 1)., Kcv. S. F,. May, II Am .<h tiliviH. Harlllww, Boaolulu. Hishop, of lahaina, ID—it„w. bit W'illii-iiiiiiif, Kins, Hhh Kraaelsan. week* after they wero composed, the author was Sandwich Islands, to Cornelia A., eldest daughter of Kov. seJohn of Sessions, Albany. suddenly removed by death, tho result of being Passengers.—Per Valparaiso from San Francisco, verely burned, 110 was in-a burning building, and —Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Coggeshall, mid Mr. tho second DEATHS. escaped through a window in atory. J. (1. Lewis. Per /im—lv l'eiltiiis, Kaq., of the tlrm In Honolulu I nil iiiHi., J nut', daughter of John and Harriot of Friends of tho doccasod now reaide on tho islands. M itrMcll, Perkins ft Smith of New London, (1. iik.m] '_> year* iiltd month". ' I would an angela winga were mino, To soar beyond tho boundary lino Of mortal Vision's ken I'd mount upon yon golden car, And follow yon bright ovening star, Nor think of Earth again. — : HI At Little l.rit< n rJoarpiUl, Honolulu, Aug. 7th, OaeMfl Matthkwi, nunvi* of Ntm- York. The ilerckxed hid .wen lor InformaW tin anted ■everat y. ;ir« in China, an n rarer on board varlou* ramh. Respecting Mr. Jeremiah I'ott.s oi New London, In Woiiinri, Man*., May tf.hl, Mk, John CuLt'oßn, aged M) yp.ira. Tho dereawed wax lor many year* a resident In hum Ct. He is desired to eomiiiunirale with lii.s Iriciuls, or Dr. Dow, I.iilinimi. lulu. I On tho 17tli iiiwt., of eoiiHmnption, at tho PlantaRespecting Orlando W.Flagg, belonging to New tion of Lb 1,. Torhert, But Maui. Choi-lea J. Flogg, Sltli'tll, MllbS. wild llllS lu'Cll llhlilll -i.\ \IHIH M*ilof UoHton. Miism., IT.lT S. Ak*hl 30 yean. mun mi In>:i nl srhtJe-thlpa iii I'ni-iiii'. He Isdesired lloaton MMH please copy. to cumin mi inilc with liis l'lirinl-.iir tin-Seamen's ChapIn heavenly light I'd bnthc my aoul At Kan Kninrim-n, on the fitl. inut, Kcv. Flaviiw S. lain Uonolnln. Where nature's orbs unceasing roll, Mincw, Rector of Trinity Church, ol that city. Respecting Robert Shepherd, who -hipped in IMO, on board las Am. W. s, Mechanic. At rim tins of Uphold by power divine; shipping, assumed the name of William Read, He JOURNAL. Td li»t tho music, of the spheres, Irf't the ship hi Muni, mill went iii Sydney, hut bsf sot unnumbered million yoors, Whoro, through ■ton boss licitnl Iron, lie belongs in Brocaville, Ood'a glories ever shine. Canada W lie is dashed in report himself to his Arrived. mother, and if he visits Honolulu to cull at the Chap9—Holland 15 da Hun Pram-ism. Henrietta, lik ray way, fields of other trnco Alls. Bias, Through lain's Study. ll—l-'r all Courier ilc I 1 lade, llasuvcn, I.'. (In do. Whore Angel bands for ever itray, 11l—Am srh l)livi,i, Mcrithew, l.nhaitia, ill ttlsll*—. Tilt! Friend, lirst •.cries. Aii^.'Jl—Am ship Kale Haws, Minima, 19 daya tin Han KranAnd where, in hoavenly loro, Aug. Si-Am ship Clias. I'liclpa, lllrch, Orholk Sea, S/.HHI. Kor sale at the tilliec of the Publisher, previous ri-cn. The pure, redeomod, Angelic host, together. 94—lint. ship I.ady Amherst, liando, 15 daya fin Hnn volumes of the Kiiend, bound separately or Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Vol. 1. This vol. was published din ill" 154.'1, when Frmiriscn. 44 94— Am ling Zoo. Richards, 15 davit from Hun Franriaco. no was iaaaed the at oilier English newspaper Islands In Songs, forever-moro. 44 SM—llrit -Nip Pi kin, VVlhlliy, !>K days I'm l.ola-River, to or in the Pacific. It contains documents 14 M—H.SW. Friitato Eugenic, Virgin, II day.from the British Commission, while the Englishrelating tVf Flag was Han Friinr.isco. Great God ! when will these fetters break, 41 36—Dan brig l.ninhnck, llniclicr, 90 daya fin Hnn Fran raised on the islands, ,\v. Which bind my soul to earth, and make risco. Vol. 11. |1H44,| contains "Note, on the Sandwich 44 97— lint, aril Koli moor, Ix-vion, 15 daya hn Han FranIslands," Re.,by U. ('. W'vllic, B*q., H. H. Ms My spirit grovol here ; etaco. 44 '97—llrit. aeh Hea Nyinphe, When shall I leave these earthly toys, MrKcnzic, 15 daya fin Hnn Mill, of K«n. Relations, tc. Frnm-iaro. Vol. 111. |Lsi. >| contain* ■ scries of articles upon 4 mid celestial joys, Valparaiso, revel 97—Am sh 0. F. Smith, 10 daya fin San Fran. the Mnmucsnii islands. To 44 97—Am ah Samuel Applclon, Itnane, 12 da fin Fran. Han Colestial harps to hear ? Vol. IV. |lH4ii|, contains a narrative of twenty 44 99—ah John A Edward, Cnlhciirt, I'm Rodiack ground, cIl-sii. year's residence in Pltcairn'i island, by Johp Iluil'cit, Cleared. etc., etc., &c. My soul is wearied with tho round Aiiro—Am hrifi Ida, Jonos, Manila. Vol Y. |i**47| contains Interesting romraunlraOf earthly vanities, fwould bound 10—Haw hit Baltimore, 'I'lmp, Han Francisco via Kauai. tions, relating to Japan. Uallipagos, and the PolyneAug 14—Am ship Iti-iinli-i-r, Lord, Hong Kong. With joy to bo sot free; sian Island*. The Rev. T 1). Hunt's "Wants of Sen 14—Hull, hk Henrietta, Klias, Java. "I'would clear tho u/.urc vault above, 10—Am brig Androscoggin, M'Kendry, Han Franri.ro. lncn," in 8 No*., Bic M 17—Am hnrk llesdamoiin, ItirhnrdHon, Vol. VI. JIB4BJ contain* a aarrative of thewreck And soar on w ings of heavenly love, sliiji Courierdo aailed without I'lnde, Ueauvau, 17—i r of the "Marls Helena," by A. Ten Byck, Esq.—Narclearance. To dwell for aye with Thee. rative of the niussuere of n part of the crew of the 17—Am Tii Olivia, Mcriithaw, Lahaina. Aug. Ill—Amah Kate lliyi-s, Miiirau, Hhnngliac. whale ship Triton, by Thomas Spencer,— Account of 44 90—llrit. ah l.itdv Atiiharai, Dandn, llona Kong. Oh I grant, that each succeeding day, the lirst whale ship to the Arctic Ocean, *Ye. 44 97- 11. H. Frigate Eugenic, Virgin, Tahiti. MJ's. While ovor life's uneven way 44 97—Danish brig Loinbork, Houclicr, hong Vol. VII. |184!>| contain* sketches of Qaam Kong. Stronjj's Island, Rarotonga, Samoa, Jte.,—"Trip IVotii My soul by storm is driven, MEMORANDUM. Spoken, by tha John nml F.dward, on the 19th of May, ahlp the Sandwich islands lo Lower Oregon ami Upper May serve to clear tho dorking cloud, Pocahontas, 9:1 moa., MO sperm. June 99, ship Cole ndn, 5 California," by Editor. *Vc. whales. Heard from ship Nimrod, one wli.de, ami from Jaim-s Which sin has woven like a shroud, Vol. VIII. "| 1850] contain* "Visit of the Preach l.o|H>r, Nautiirket, nun \\ hale. Heard ulso of tho Hawaiian And fit that soul for Heaven. sloop of war, llouitc, to the Sandwich Islands, in ling Juno, on the ground no report. Lahaina. Aug. 91. 18:9. iH.'tii." This lone; narrative was translated for the Itv the arrival of the American ahlp 4 t:hna. I'lielps," I 'npi. Friend, from the French, by the Rev. I). Dole. &c. from the Oknlsk sea, we lisv. las following veiy favorThe Editor would give notice to mas- lllrch, I"^ The foregoing Signl volumes, eonipri/c the able report from a part of ilie whaling Heel. striit of the Friend, and coiitaiu besides the artiters of Whale ships and others, that he keeps KroKKN— first wlialea. cles ahlp Arctic, 4 specified, a great amount of bwereiting informsMay 95, at his office, for reference a full file of the June 10, .hip Three Ilroilu-rs, 1 dr. tion, and useful reading, relating to all parts of Poly44 91, ahlp Mogul, H do. nesia, the Western const of N. and S. America, China 44 21. fillip llnilMoin, -1 do. New Bedford Shipping List. Btc. Also, much information relating to commerce 44 ahlp Tiger, I do. und whale fishery of the Pa*lis. Hsian mo*— May 93, ahlp Masssrlinaclla. 5 whales. Ordination of a Seaman's Chaplain. Price, $10 00 the entire series, nnd $1 H single June 9.1, ahlp Jt flVraon, K. U, 14 do. volume. A reduction will be made to seamen, as the 44 Rev. Sereno E. Bishop was ordained to 1, ahlp Fellows, clenn. 44 1 ahlp Newbury Purl, 3 wlialea. paper has ever been published for their special benethe work ofthe Gospel Ministry, as an Evan44 I, ship lllllman, 4 do. fit tf. Thompson, the 13 in Wm. Ist, ahlp on June do. Tuesday evening, SO, gelist, , . — 11ir MARINE POHRTF ONOLULU. • " - r , ' J 44 44 IS, ahlp J. E. Donncll, 9 do. W. NKWCOMII, M. D. W. III1.1.H1IRAN1), li. I) Pearl St. Presbyterian church, by the Fourth 44 9"i, ahlp Sea, do. 44 20, ahlp Si. George, 2 do, MiWCDJIB A 1111.1.F11KAND, Presbytery of New York. 44 20, ship Coral,rlran. |J I) n si t i an 3 a u D S n r g c o na, Rev. T. H.'Skinner, Jr., presided, and July 4, ahlp laaac HowUnd, 17 whales. 41 A, ahlp Mary Frailer, 10 do. Residence and office, Hopewell Place, corner of put the constitutional questions, and offered 44 9, ahlp Minerva, H do. lieretania and .Smith street, Honolulu. the ordaining prayer. Rev. Joel Parker, 44 », ahlp Franklin, 7 do. Messages left with Messrs. Mitchell & Co., nt the 4 9, ahlp44 Maris Theresa, 7dn D. D., preached the sermon. Text Acts 20; The ships St. George and 44 Coral.44 were spoken in the Kxpress Office, Nuuanu street, will he promptly at26., "Wherefore I take you to record this Artie ttkolaktea olTCape Olivar" on theSlet of June. They left the tended to. tf-5 Ocean in company with about aixiv sail, part bound for day, that I am free from the blood of all men." the M Okntsk," and part for M Kodiak,' 4 Capt. il. report, ahnut oadj The Friend Kent abi thirty having Jonea* taken Island, in the Okotsk near HI. Rev. J. Spalding delivered the charge an aail average, about eight whale, each. advance, the subscription price, the in By paying and Instructions ofthe Board ofthe Amer- onThe proved Arctichaa more backward this seaseason In the be sent by the cnrliest opportunities, to thanIt wsa last. No disaster, ar. reported, but a complete Friend will ican Seamen's Friend Society. Mr. Bishop son 44 backing out H from the icy regiona. ihe United States, England, China, Sydney, or any expected, when ws hope to give foreign country. is a native oftheIslands, a son ofthe mission- The Isaac Howlnnd ia daily 3-tf. a mora complete report of the Meet. Very truly your4! (i. ary ofthat name. Mrs. Bishop ia a daughter yon I). G. For Bale, ofßev. J. Sessions of Albany, N. Y. To the At the Chaplain's study, 44 J*rve»" History of the PORTF LAHAINA. 1 prayers and support #of the Church of Christ Sandwich Islands," « Bingham's Sandwich Island*," Arrived. in this land are these beloved misesonaries Aug 9—Br brig Rapid, irea.a 44 Wyllie's ell, Sydney. Note* on the Sandwich Islands." Al*o, brig 5—Br Corsair, Neal, Sydney. commended on the voyage, and in this interBible* in various style* of binding, and the publiim18—Amah Severn, Gardner, San Francisco. tion* of the Am. Tract Society. tf esting field of labor. ID -Haw. brig Wiliielinine, King, ooaslwios. ' — iol I . 'i li.iuaiii.i. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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