https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/566f7415161c46ed5f02d314cffccada.pdf 04f207844fab7c9f4d4327623a1dfe36 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE 49 HONOLULU. Jl LV 7, 1860. $eto Serits, ftrt. 9, gto.7.} CONTENTS For July, 1860. .— Page. vastly the number that travel and the passion for locomotion. The calculation originally {(01b StriM, Pol. 17. Shipwrecked Japanese and their Return Home. A few days since, we heard the Hon. Mr. was, that travelers between two towns are (J. S. Commissioner, remark in conBorden, It Shipwrecked Japanese so many, and the provision so much. The City of Yeddo versation, that unquestionably the kindness been have mulhas been found that travelers Responsibility of Purcnta which been extended to shipwrecked that had for and facilities traveling, Lor<) Elgin's Mission to Chinaand Japan tiplied by Oil Wells of America the provision for the thirst has stimulated Japanese seamen, was among the most powOutragesby the Austrian* it; and the greater the facilities, the greater erful reasons which finally led to the opening The True Gentleman of that country to foreigners and foreign comCathollcus Replying to Aliquis ■ the numbers which run to and fro." Biblical—TheKiver Kishon merce. This remark has reminded us of sevScientific Circular The Late Captain Dowsett. eral notices, which we have from time to time Marine Journal, Ac The death of Mrs. Dowsett, an old and published in our columns, and also led us to esteemed English resident, will be found make some additional investigations upon the noticed in another column. A cloud of subject. We do not assert that the following JULY 7, 1800. doubt and melancholly still hangs over the instances are all which have occurred, wherein death of Capt. Dowsett. He must doubt- wrecked Japanese have been rescued and reNew Steamer Kilauea. less be spoken of as dead, although there turned to their native land, but these are The arrival of this Steamer is a marked has been no certain announcement of his among the most remarkable which have ocevent in the history of our little Kingdom. death. He sailed trom this port on a tra- curred during this century: To be sure steamers have visited our islands, ding voyage, June 1, 1834, commanding 1814. and some of them came to run among the the schooner Victoria. While the vessel The venerable Capt. Adams, formerly Pilot islands, but they were ill-adapted to our wa- laid at the Piscadors, Capt. D. and four of of Honolulu, and now residing at his farm ters, and it was rather a blessing than other- his men were captured by the giatives. at Kalihi, on Onhu, relates to us as follows : wise to have them withdrawn or lost. One Seven went on shore, and onl)«wo re- "In the year 1814, I wassailing-master of has arrived which seems exactly suited to turned to the schooner. In 1835,™ brig the British brig Forrester, Capt, Pickett, New SteamerKilauca The Late Captain Dowsett 4», 63 49 40, 60, 61 M 62 62 63 63 63 63, 64 64 66 66 THE FRIEND, he inter-island navigation. The question isnow Waverly, owned by the Hawaiian Governto be decided whether she can be made to ment, and fitted out as a whaler, by Ladd pay. If she can, she will be kept running; & Co., was sent out, partly in search of otherwise, in a few months her owners will, Capt. Dowsett. This brig, strange to say, of course, send her to other waters. It is a was taken and burnt by the natives of matter of dollars and cents. So far as the Strong's Island, and all hands on,board Government can render assistance, we hope it were murdered. So far as we are aware, will be done. If it has money to spend upon no information, to be relied on, has ever internal improvements, we think a portion been received respecting the ultimate fate might be thus spent to far better purpose, of Capt. D. and his men. than to finish the Judd road over the mounAccident on the Fourth.—We regret to tains of Hawaii, or complete some other of announce, that a sailor, named William the half finished enterprises of the kingdom. Buckley, belonging to Binghamton, N. V., If steam works the same revolutions at the (where his mother resides ,) was seriously Sandwich Islands that it has elsewhere, then injured by the accidental discharge of a we may confidently expect that this vessel cannon. He lost his right hand, and three will be kept running, and in two years anoth- fingers of his left hand, (leaving thumb er will be found alongside, making alternate and fore finger.) He is now at the TJ. S. trips. The travel between the islands, mutt Hospital, where he receives every possible not be estimated by the numbers who go in attention. the present schooner accommodations. A We would acknowledge a donation of modern writer has well remarked," Provision books, for the Library at the Sailor's Home, or traveling, by a strange law, has increased from Mr. Durham. cruising off Santa Barbara, California. We fell in with a Japanese junk, drifting at the mercy of the winds and waves. Although the wind was blowing a gale, I lowered and visited the junk. A sad sight was presented. Fourteen of the crew had died, and their bodies had been cast into the hold of the junk. Three alone survived, the captain, carpenter, and one man. These were removed to our vessel, and carefully nursed, and in a few days they were well. They were taken to Santa Barbnr.i, and from thence to Kamtschatka, and, as I understood, were sent home by the Russians." 1S8«. The following article, written by the fier. J. S. Emerson, we copy from the July No. ofthe Hawaiian Spectator, published in 1838: who dwell on the land know but " They little of the varied fortune of those who inhabit the seas; and equally unconscious are they who live under equitable and benevolent laws, of the inhumanity often manifested, under heathen governments, to persons �50 THE FRIEND, JULY', Itta 0 whose only crime is that of being unfortunate. The individuals, a part of whose story I am about to relate, have suffered much from ignorance of navigation, much from the want of the necessaries of life, and more still for for what? For the crime of being shipwrecked on a foreign shore. A crime not known to those protected by equitable and righteous laws. The Japanese, it is well been assiduous in their efforts to keep foreigners from their country ever since the expulsion of the Portuguese. And the more fully to secure their object, even their own subjects, who may wander to other and distant countries, have, as 1 am informed, been forbidden to return on penalty of death; probably lest they introduce discontent by telling what they may have seen abroad. The Japanese, of whom I am now to speak, made the shore of Oahu in a junk and anchored near the harbor of Waialua, on the last Sabbath in Dec. 1832. They cast anchor about mid-day, and were soon visited by a canoe, as the position of the junk, being anchored near a reef of rocks, and other circumstance;, indicated distress. Four individuals were found on board, all but one severely afflicted with the scurvy; two of them incapable of walking, and a third nearly so. The fourth was in good health, and had the almost entire management of the vessel. This distressed company had been out at sea ten or eleven months, without water, except as they now and then obtained rain water from the deck of the vessel. Their containers for water were few, adapted to a voyage of not more than three weeks. The junk was bound from one of the southern islands of the Japanese group to Jeddo, laden with fish, when it encountered a typhoon and was driven out into seas altogether unknown to those on board, and after wandering almost a year, made the island of Oahu. The original number on board the junk was nine; these were reduced by disease and death, induced probably by want of water and food, to four only. The junk remained at Waialua five or six days, when, under the direction of a Chinese, an attempt was made to take it to Honolulu ; but after being at sea two days, nearly twice the time usually occupied in sailing round to Honolulu, it was cast away on Barber's point, on the evening of January Ist, 1833. It is stated that the vessel was becalmed and drifted on shore. The cargo, junkand all, were lost, except the crew, and a very few articles of trifling; value. The men were taken to Honolulu, where they remained about eighteen months, and at length were forwarded by one ofthe residents, — W. French, Esq., to Kamtschatka, from whence they hoped eventually to work their way by stealth into their own country and to their own families, approaching by way of the most northern islands of the group. The men were all married except one. Their success in getting back to their country and homes we have no means at present of learning. Near the same time with the company above named, another crew of the Japanese were wrecked on the N. W. Coast of America, a part of whom, if I am not misinformed, were cut off by the Indians; three only escaped and were brought to Honolulu, from whence they were forwarded to England, and thence to Canton, where they arrived in the year 1836, and, at the date of my information, Dec. Ist, they were with Mr. Gutzlaff. And by menus of them he had obtained a considerable knowledge of the Japanese language. Mr. GutzlafTs intention then was to accompany them to their own native land, if possible, and attempt to cultivate som«; acquaintance with the people. His success of course was doubtful. " 1830. In the Polynesian, of Aug. 1, 1810, the Rev. D. Baldwin furnishes a long and interesting account of some Japanese, taken from a junlc, drifting in Lat. 30 ° N. and Long. 174 W., or about half way between Japan and the Sandwich Islands. These Japanese were picked up by Capt. Cathcart, of the James Loper. This uccount was furnished the Key. Mr. Baldwin by Capt. Kay, of the Obed Mitchell, who was cruising in that vicinity. As the article in the Polynesian is so long, it will be quite impossible to copy it. The Polynesian of Oct. 17, 1810, contains another interesting article by the same gentleman, upon the Japanese numerals. From the same paper, we quote the following short editotial :— The Japanese who took passage in the Harlequin, remained at Kaintschntka, under the protection of the Governor, waiting an opportunity to return to their own country. Capt. Dominis left Kamtschatka in the brie ° " Joseph Peabody ten days before the Harlequin arrived, for this place, rto Norfolk Sound and Mazatlan." 1840, *r Thrrraboma. We are unable to learn the exact date when Capt. Whitfield of the John Howland. brought to the Sandwich Islands the three Japanese whom he took from a small and uninhabited island lying to the S. W. of the Jupan Isl nnds. bur readers have been made fully acquainted with the subsequent career of one of these Japanese—See Friend of June, this year. 1846. In the Friend of Feb. B, 1846, will be found a deeply interesting communication, prepared by Dr. C. F. Winslow, respecting the visjt of the whale-ship Manhattan, to Yeddo, commanded by Capt. Mercator Cooper, of Sag Harbor. It was about the first of April, as Captain Cooper was proceeding towards the whaling regions of the northern ocean, that he passed in the neighborhood of St. Peters, a small island lying a few degrees to the S. E. of Niphon. It is comparatively barren and was supposed to be uninhabited ; but being near it, Capt. C. thought he would explore the shore for turtle to afford his ship's company some refreshment. While tracing the shore along he discovered a pinnace of curious construction which resembled somewhat those he had seen in the China seas. Turning his walks inland, he entered a valley, where he unexpectedly saw at some distance from him, several persons in uncouth dresses, who appeared alarmed at his intrusion and imtne- . diately fled to a more secluded part of the valley. He continued his walk and soon came to a hut, where were collected eleven men, whom he afterwards found to be Japanese. As h? approached them they came forward and prostrated themselves to the earth before him, and remained on their faces for some time. They were much alarmed and expected to be destroyed but Cupt, C. with great kindness, reconciled them to his presence, and learned by signs that they hnd been shipwrecked on St. Peters many months before. He took them 10 the shore, pointed to his vessel and informed them that he would take them to Jeddo if they would entrust themselves to his care. They consented with great joy and abandoning everything on the island, embarked with him immediately for his ship. Capt. Cooper determined to proceed at once to Jeddo, the capital of the Japanese Empire, notwithstanding its well known regulations prohibiting American and other foreign vessels to enter its waters. The Capt. had two greet and laudable objects in view. The first was to restore the shipwrecked strangers to their homes. The other was to make a strong and favorable impression on the government, in respect to the civilization of the United States, and its friendly disposition to the Emperor and people of Japan. How he succeeded in ihe latter object the sequel will show; and I will make but few remarks, either on the benevolence or boldness of Capt. C.'s resolution, or its ultimate consequences touching the intercourse of the Japanese with other nations. The step decided on however, has led to some curious and interesting information, relative to this country, whose institutions, and the habits of whose people are but little known to the civilized world." ; ; "Japanese 1847. Junk picked up.—On the 21st of April last, the Bremen whaleship Otaheite, Capt. Weitung, in lat. 35 N., lon. 156 E., fell in with a Japanese junk, which had lost her rudder and had been driven ofl the coast in a gale, in November, 1846,and had been drifting about for five months. He took off her crew—9 men—and took out of her 12,--000 los. beeswax, some iron, copper, tools, molasses, sugar, rouge, ice. Her lading was chiefly writing paper—the crew reduced to one-quarter of rice, and were then without water. She was of about 80 tons, belonged to Osako and was bound to the north. They had seen one whaleship which steered for them and then went off without speaking. Capt. Weitung kept them with him four weeks, and then put them on board a junk in the straits of Matsmai."—Polynesian, Oct. 17, and Friend, Dec. 2,1847. For an interesting account of the visit of the American whaleship Inez, Capt. Jackson, to the Japan Islands, see Friend of Dec. 2, 1847, or Polynesian about that date; see also Friend of May, 1848, for an account of Americans shipwrecked in Japan. IS6O. This year, Capt. Jennings, commanding American bark Auckland, fell in somewhere in the North Pacific with a Japanese junk, from which he took fifteen or more of the crew, and conveyed them to San Francisco. The citizens of that city paid them very dis- �51 THE FRIEND, JULY, 18«#. tinguished honors. Most of the company subsequently went to China, and some of them, we believe, were taken to Japan by the Perry Expedition. One of the company, Mr. Heko, was taken up by Senator Gwin, and accompanied him to Washington. He received a good education, and enjoyed very distinguished favors. He returned to Japan in IS-M), a passenger on board the surveying schooner Fenimore Cooper, Capt. Brooke, and is now engiged in mercantile pursuits at Kanagawa, near Yeddo. He still retains his American citizenship. He visited Honolulu on his return to Japan. Another of this company picked up by the Auckland, went from San Francisco to Hongkong, where he joined the " Perry Expedition," re-visited Japan, but proceeded with the Expedition to the United States. His name is Samuel Sentharo. He was educated at Hamilton, N. V., under the charge of the Rev. Mr. Goble, and returned to Japan with that gentleman, who is now a missionary at Kanagawa. It was our privilege to receive letter written by this Japanese, in the Engh language, and dated Kanagawa, April i. 1860. We copy the following from the Friend of ct. 15, 1850: Another Junk.— On the 22d of April, in lat. 45° N., long. 156° E., the Henry Kneeland, Clark, master, fell in with a Japanese junk, having thirteen persons on board. The vessel left Yeddo for Kuno, three or four days sail, but was driven to sea, and had been sixty-six days drifting at the mercy of winds and waves, dismasted and rudderless. For forty days their water had been out, and they subsisted on snow-water. Their food consisted most of the time ofrefuse fish. The junk had no cargo on board. Capt. Clark took the crew on board the Henry Kneeland. Th<? commander and two of the crew of the junk came passengers to Honolulu on board the H. K. Two of the crew are on board the Marengo; six were taken to Petroand were taken charge of by the issian authorities, and two came passengers the Nimrod. See also Friend, Nov. 1, 1850. I luloski, 1868. Japanese Arrived —Captain West, of the toe . Hrwland, informs us that on the 15th April in lat. 31 ° N„ and lon. 150° E., about 300 miles N. N. E. of Guam, he fell in with a Japanese junk. It was small and destitute of cargo. Only four persons were found on board. It did not appear that any had died. They had evidently been a long time without much food, being very much emaciated. Their only remaining food was a little oil. As near as could be ascertained, the vessel had been out of her reckoning forty-nine days. At the time of the discovery, the tiller was lashed, and the ship's comprny appeared to have given themselves op to die. Capt. West took them on board his vessel, judiciously administered nourishing food, and they soon recovered their health and spirits. Having taken from the vessel a few spars, Cept W. set her on hre. It is determined what will be done with them. Two of them Capt. W. would be glad to take to America, and if some vessel about to cruise in the vicinity of the Japan islands, will take the other two, it will be a good and satisfactory arrangement. Friend, Nov. 2, 1852. We are unable to learn what subsequently became of these Japanese. not yet — City of Yeddo. By the Chaplain of the Powhattan, we were presented with a map of the City of Yeddo, executed by Japanese artists. It is nearly five feet square. The streets, public squares, temple-grounds, and residences of the Princes, are drawn with great care. Yeddo is truly an immense city, and probably as large, if not larger, than even London. It is one of the three great cities of the world, viz., London, Pekin, Yeddo. The following graphic sketches of this imperial city, we copy from American papers. They were written by officers attached to the Powhattan. " What shall I say of this great and most singular of cities ? A volume is needed to describe it, without attempting to .give its history. I have read of old Nineveh and Babylon below the ground, and have seen and handled the works of art which have been disinterred and created so much admiration on both sides ofthe Atlantic ; but one living Yeddo, above the ground, is worth a hundred old fogy cities below it. I cannot give you any idea of it, it is so unique, so unlike anything except itself, and so impossible, as you will think. I have seen several places of interest, and maintained a cool head, but I was bewildered and confounded when I saw this. It is situated on the western shore of this charming gulf, twenty miles wide by twenty-four miles long. It stretches for twenty miles and more along a beach of semicircular form, with its horns turned outwards, and along which a street extends, crowded with blocks of stores and houses, and teeming with moving crowds, while shop-keepers, artisans, women and children, seem equally numerous within doors and at the doors. Indeed, a dozen or fifteen miles might be added to the length of the city in this direction, since there is nothing but an unbroken succession of towns and villages for this distance, which is as populous and well-built as the city itself. In crossing the city from the western shore to the outskirts, I have walked two miles and a half, and then proceeded on horseback for ten miles more, making twelve and a half in the whole, while in other places it may be wider still. According to the lowest estimate, the city covers an area equal to seven of the New England farming towns, which were usually six miles square. And all is traversed by streets, usually wide, well-constructed, perfectly neat, and crossing each other at right angles—streets lined with houses and stores as compactly as they can be built, and crowded with moving and stationary masses as in our Washington street, or New York Broadway, at least for considerable distances. The population is estimated generally at three millions, which Mr. Harris, our Minister, thinks is no exaggeration. For my part, judging from what I have seen when I have gone into the heart of the city, and crossed the city from side to side, I should be willing to add as many millions more ; for the living, moving masses, seen from sunrise to sunset, and everywhere the same, fairly seemed beyond computation. One city as large as seven fine towns in Berkshire county, and containing a population three times as large as that of the whole Stare of Massachusetts! That is enough to think of for a moment." Japan Correspond' ence of the Boston Traveler. •' Unlike to Pekin, Yeddo is not surrounded by walls ; no magnificent gate-ways open their massive doors ; no nine-story towers rise and frown above them ; and no bastion and parapets upon the walls with cannon peering through the embrasures, or mounted above them, reminds the stranger as he approaches the city, that its happy people ever understood the art of war, or that he lives in a world where it was ever known. Ascending the flight of steps, and standing in the front street, and gazing upon what meets the eye as it turns in different directions, the first feeling is that of disappointment —the houses are so unlike in size and elegance, to what we expected to find them; and the second feeling is that of utter bewilderment, as he sees everywhere tall trees and groves and a thick undergrowth, while hills rise here and there of a considerable size and elevation, all shrouded in a mass of luxuriant vegetation—hills as rural and rough as any to be seen in a country town in New England and New York, which the human foot seems never to have approached, or the hand to have touched. I was in the midst of a city larger in territory and population than London, and yet seemed to be in a forest! That feeling is the one first awakened, and wander where one will, and as long as he will, it is only deepened; and in my case at least, made the more delicious. It is a law, or custom, which amounts to the same thing with the Japanese, that every man is bound to leave on his grounds as many trees as he found, and if he cuts one down, to plant another in its place. Hence the forest city. Some groves covered acres, and were in the most perfect state of nature, while in other places, however thick the trees were planted, and deep the shade they cast, among them were to be seen neat houses, and fine gardens, and the most elegant shrubs dwarfed, and their branches trimmed in a most fanciful — form. The distance from the landing or Front by Mr. Harris, half. Commodore Tatnall and his Flag-Lieutenant, took a single tiorimon, a sort of chair like a box, with mats or cushions on the bottom, and suspended from a beam which rests on the shoulders of two or four men, as circumstances may require. As for myself I chose to walk and see, however the rain poured; and crossing from street to street, all of which cross at right angles; wandering amidst groTet, looking into the shops which line the streets, and filled with the curioaistreet to the house occupied is said to be two miles and a �52 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1861. crowds, but always pushing onwards, we reached the height of a considerable hill, when there instantly burst upon the eye the imperial castle, the massive and«vast palaces ofthe Daimios, or great princes of the empire, all located outside of the walls of the imcrowned the perial castle, while the height of hills amidst the solemn shade of trees, and groves were seen like native forests in other directions, and a considerable river slowly wound its way in another, and THE Fill END. JULY 7, 1800. The Fourth.—When the 12th stroke of the clock announced the close of July 3rd, the glorious Fourth was ushered in by a band playing "Hail Columbia" and " Yankee Doodle." Then followed the firing of crackers, and other demonstrations of joy. During the day, firing of salutes, crackers, horse-back riding, picnics, steamer excursions, and the usual noise and turmoil, marked the observance of The Day. wide streets stretched away in straight lines beyond the reach of the eye. At once alfthe first impression was effaced, and I felt that I was in the midst of an immense and magnificent city—magnificent, not in splendid houses and palaces, and stores, and paved Report says that the Kauaians are procuring streets, and public works of art like Paris and Rome, and London, but magnificent in that an excellent oil from the fat ofhorses. nature which the Japanese have contrived to Some horses when tried out, will produce a preserve in the midst of so much art and barrel of oil, but the average is about half a such an immense population." barrel. Horse oil is reported to be equal to sperm for burning! Will not some manuResponsibility of Parents.— facturer inform the public upon this subject ? was, when settling on thy leaf, n fly " Time Could shake thea to the root: and time has been We have heard of whale oil, sperm oil, rape When tempests could not." seed oil, coal oil, and many other kinds, but If to pilot a ship across the ocean be a oil is something new. horse work of great responsibility, requiring prudence and judgment, as well as knowledge Rape Seed Oil.—The Zoe brought a quantity and experience—much more is it«wuch a immortal work to guide an of this species of oil from Japan. As a spirit through the tumultuous sea of youthful passions and light generator it is equal to sperm oil. It childish impetuosity, and to secure for it a not only produces a bright and clear light, safe passage through the dangers and perils but is remarkably free from smoke, burning of manhood and old age. A ship on the lamps and astral. We ocean may founder and go to the bottom, and equally well in small no one, perhaps, suffer a single pain or breathe are able to make these remarks from daily a single sigh; but an immortal soul, wrecked experiments in family use. The oil is for upon the shores of time, may spend an eter- sale by C. A. Williams, & Co. nity in sighs and groans, but they cannot undo the past or rectify a single mistake. We would acknowledge a valuable donation What the pilot is to the ship, the parent is of looks for gratuitous distribution conducts a frail The one bark to the child. far out to sea, beyond the reach of specinl among seamen, from Robert Lindsay and dangers, and then surrenders his charge into wife, Missionaries of the Society of Friends. other hands. The other guides a deathless These most excellent people sailed in the spirit through the perils and quicksands of Comet for San Francisco, as they were unchildhood and youth, and then leaves it to able to secure a passage direct to Tahiti or the mercy of a treacherous world, to drift Australia. their sojourn upon the During circumstances, or to follow of the tide upon the bent of its inclination given to it by islands, they visited Lahaina and Hilo, and parental training and discipline. Though wherever they went, by precept and example, the parent cannot insure a successful issue, commended their religious professions, as vet he is in a great degree responsible for the most excellent, exemplary, and worthy memfuture career and the fate of his child; for it bers of the Society of Friends. is expressly said, " Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will Return Borrowed Books, when Read.— not depart from it." Next to the pleasure of reading a new and The Press.—The press of the United interesting book, is that of loaning it to some States is vigorous and enterprising, and reach- friend, who will derive an equal amount of es the hearts of the community far beyond profit and pleasure from its perusal. Having that of any other country. It is, for good or for evil, the most powerful influence that acts cleared our own sanctum of borrowed books, on the public mind—the most powerful in it- (alas! we confess our remissness,) we feel self, and as the channel through which most it would not be amiss to exhort others to go influences act. If it could learn that an op- and do likewise—return borrowed books. ponent is not necessarily an unprincipled and In looking over our shelves, some very valuselfish adventurer, a traitor, a coward and a able volumes are missing, breaking up sets, knave; and that our neighbors on an average are about as honest and high-minded as our- and we shall be exceedingly glad to have selves, it would increase its own power; and them returned. the grpat interests of the country (which lanVirtue maketh men on the earth famous, guish under the poison of our party bitterin their graves illustrious, in the heaness) would be incalculably promoted.—Edw. vens immortal, Eeeritt, m N. Y. ledger. Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan. The Harpers of New York, have just issued an interesting volume, containing the Narrative of Lord Elgin's vis.it, or mission to China and Japan. A single copy of the work nas reached the islands, and it has been our privilege to peruse its pages. We copy the following paragraphs, relating to the Boyal Princes and the city of Yeddo "One district of the capital is inhabited by three hundred and sixty princes, each with a house of the size of a public hospital, which he is forced to occupy for six months in each year, and to leave his wife and children to inhabit for the other six, during which he is obliged to reside on his vast estates. Ladies naturally favored with tolerable features are condemned by an inexorable custom to pull out their eyebrows and blacken their teeth the moment they marry, for the express purpose of making them so hideous to other men that the most Othello-like of husbands has no occasion to be jealous. And all this city, and the great empire in all its details, are ruled over by two chiefs—a Spiritual and a Temporal king—with the principle of duality carried through all the inferior grades. Every official has a double, bound to observe and report all his actions; every person whatever being obliged to give an account of somebody else : so that the Siamese twins ought to have been the produce of this land of inseparable duplicates, where the combined titles of ■ Elgin and Kincardine' were naturally concluded to belong to the Ambassador in esse, and the 'other man,' who never made : his appearance." "It is an ordinary thing for one of these princes to parade the country with a force of some thousand men. When we remember th;it all these followers have to be lodged on the premises of their chief, and that there are three hundred and sixty of these dignitaries, we cannot wonder that their residences are necessarily capacious, and cover a very great extent of ground. To judge from the noble trees we observed rising above the walls, spacious pleasure-grounds must be enclosed within them. The handsomest palace I observed in Yeddo was that belonging to Prince Achi, situated on the sleep side of a hill. The gates were tastefully ornamented; the walls surmounted by trellis-work, and numerous magnificent plane and otlier trees drooped over them into the street, tempting one to explore, if possible, the sacred precincts. Occasionally, in the course of our explorations of the city, we met men ofrank ridii.g along one of these silent streets, their retinue taking up almost its entire length, consisting of men carrying badges on long poles—the insignia of the rank of their lord—umbrellas in bags and lacquered portmanteaus. When a great man wishes to move about incognito, his retin'je is not decreased, but these badges of his rank are packed up in the aforesaid portmanteaus." Four Names to Christians.—The Script- ures give four names to Christians, taken from the four cardinal graces : Saints, for their holiness; Believers, for their faith; Brethren, for their love ; the Disciples, for their knowledge.— Fuller. �THE FRIEND, JULY, 1 8• •. A Steamer for the Sandwich Islands.— It was a cold, boisterous night last winter that kept us waiting at the dismal depot at New London, for the late arrival of the train from New York. How the wind howled across the Thames, and shrieked around the exposed station-house, and blew open the doors! But at this very hour might have been seen, on one of the piers, a venerable, white-haired father, of majestic mien, ■waiting and watching amidst the storm, for the coming of his son, in a new and beautiful steamer, which had just been built at Boston to run between the different ports at the Sandwich Islands. We rejoice in her mission, whose results, we doubt not, will greatly tend to the developement and improvement of their resources, and the triumph of truth, civilization and Christianity in all their borders.— N. Y. Sailor's Magazine for May. Advices from Australia bring the account of a recent Polynesian massacre. The schooner Pearl of Anitocum, formerly a well known yacht in Sydney harbor, was captured and burnt at the Island of Rubiana, one of the Solomon group, and her crew eight in number, besides the captain, were kilh-d and eaten by the natives. An attempt was made to capture the Clarence Packet. A similar attempt was made upon tie cutter Oberon. Two of her crew wcrejflrdered while on shore, and then sent wflb the captain, as him. The plan, if from them, desiring however, failed. 4tJPe Dr. Scudder, who was for many years in the East Indies as a Missionary, says that the Hindoo holy books date as far back as 1400 years before Christ. The immensity of their compilation on almost every imaginable s :bject, is marvellous. They write with great rapidity; even with raw materials, he had known school-boys to report a sermon as fast as the Missionary could deliver it. Their language is very melodious; some of the poetry rhymes at both ends of the line. day of 40 gallons each. Another yields nearly pure oil, the amount of water not exceeding one-tenth of the whole. A stream of pure and transparent fluid, far superior to the ordinary petrolium, flows incessantly into a mammoth oil vat, whose capacity is 8,000 gallons, and which yields 25 barrels a day. (CorrespondenceofFriend.) Mr. Editor :—Aliquis is so diseursiva in his controversial flights, and changes his ground so frequently, that it is rather a difficult matter to keep pace with, or follow him in the line of his argument. With your perhowever, I shall further expose the mission, Outrages by the Austrian Frigate Novara.—About of the doctrine, defended by him, that fallacy two years ago, it will be remembered, the Austrian Government equip- " the Greek language is considered heretical ped a new frigate, called the Novara, and dis- at Rome," and at the same time endeavor to patched her on a scientific voyage round the bring him to the point on some matters that world. The vessel returned to Austria some require confirmation. time since; but if we are to judge of the conA statement or assertion is a very different duct of the officers and men of the Novara affair from a quotation, and I do not rememthe accounts received from Sydney, from New South Wales, they have been guilty of ber to have yet seen his authenticated quoa series of outrages on the inhabitants of tation either from Sismondi or Cardinal Stewart's Island, in the Fouveatic Straits. Ximenes. During the stay of the Novara at this island, It is very difficult to prove a negative, and the Austrians committed fearful havoc among of course impossible for me to prove to dethe herds of the natives, carrying whole flocks of hogs to the vessel, without the slight- monstration that Sismondi's monk did not est degree recompensing the poor people from utter the words Aliquis attributes to him, or whom they took the property. Cocoanuts, that Cardinal Ximenes did not assert that dried fish, etc., etc., were carried off wholethe Vulgate between the Hebrew and Greek sale, and for some months after the departure of the Novara the natives were in a state of versions of the Scriptures was Christ betwixt starvation. The inhabitants of Stewart's Is- two thieves. Under these circumstances, it land, who were always friendly to the white behoves me to cross-examine the witnesses men, are now quite the reverse. brought into court, and so discover the validity or worthlessness of their evidence. I have beThe True Gentleman.—The following fore remarked that Sismondi, as a Protestant, sketch is called the portrait of a true gentle- is inadmissible as a witness on Catholic docman, found in an old Manor-House in Glou- trine, nevertheless, as a learned man and a cestershire, written and framed, and hung historian, he is entitled to a certain amount of over the mantelpiece of a tapestried sitting- respect. room : I would ask Aliquis, did he really quote The true gentleman is God's servant, the from Sismondi, or only from somebody else " world's master, and his own man ; virtue is his business, study his recreation, content- who said he quoted from him ? If he did ment his rest, and happiness his reward ; quote from Sismondi, will he inform the God is his father, the Church is his mother, readers of the Friend in what volume of Sisthe saints his brethren, all that need him his mondi's works the quotation is to be found, friends ; devotion is his chaplain, chastity is and what the circumstances under which the his chamberlain; sobriety his butler, temperdescribed, his name, in what age, ance his cook, hospitality his housekeeper, monk was he preached; whether he was and whom treasurer, steward, his to his charity Providence piety his mistress of the house, and discretion a learned man discoursing to an enlightened his porter, to let in or out. as most fit. This assembly, or an illiterate man holding forth is his whole family, made up of virtues, and to a still more ignorant people; whether Sishe is the true master of the house. He is saw and heard him, or whether necessitated to take the world on his way to mondi himself at second or third his information got fast as he he heaven; but he walks through it as can, and all his business by the way is to hand; above all, whether the same doctrine make himself and others happy. Take him was universally preached by the Catholic in two words—a Man and a Christian." priesthood, or the poor ignorant monk was its sole expositor ? This is necessary, because An Astronomical Clock.—There is in the the language ascribed to him is repugnant at town of Nantucket, Mass., an astronomical once to common sense, and facts which are clock, made by Hon. Walter Folger, when to Protestant as well as the Catholic he was only twenty-two years of age. The patent the was manew language," he says, has machinery of its world. "A the whole of plan tured and completed in his mind before he been discovered, and this language, although commenced to put it together. It keeps the new, is old enough to be the mother of all herecorrect date of the year, and the figures sies. This new language, written in a strange change as the year changes. The sun and character, requiring years of study for its moon, represented by balls, appear to rise and set on the face of the clock, with all their masterv, is so well understood that a book variations and phases, as in the heavens. It written in it is in the hands of many, ate. also indicates the sun's place in the ecliptic, It must be well known to Aliquis that keeps an account of the motion of the moon's St. Jerome, a Catholic monk, towards the node around the ecliptic, and the sun and end ofthe fourth oentary. translated the Old Scientijh American. The Oil Wells.—A correspondent of the Erie ( Pa.) Gazette states that among all the hundreds of wells which have been commenced in the oil region, not one has been abandoned as hopeless. The oil sites are usually leased, the owner recieving a certain-portion —from an eighth to a third of the fluid, and sometimes a bonus in money. The first part of the operation of sinking a well, is to dig a shaft about 8 feet in diameter down to the rock, the distance varying from 10 to 40 feet A wooden conductor made of plank, with a chamber of some five or six inches square, is then set down on the rock, reaching to the surface of the ground, when the work of boring is ready to commence. Some bore with a steam engine and some with a spring pole. The boring generally goes on at the rate of from two to six feet per day, and to sink a shaft of four inches, probably costs about $2 per foot. After the rock is ground to sand beneath the drill, it is drawn up by means of a sand pump. The quantity of oil flowing from what is called the Crosby well, " is still held to be almost incredible, though the figures are not now heldashigffas they were in the first outbreak of the excitement. It is estimatedthat the well yields 60 barrels a moon's declination. " 53 — �54 THE FRIEND, JULY, 1860. Testament from the Greek, afterwards another version from the Hebrew, and the New Testament from the Greek into Latin. This work is called the Vulgate, and with little alteration, is used in the Catholic Church to the present day. The Greek language has been taught in all Catholic schools and countries from thut time to this, but the original Greek MSS. from which the Vulgate was translated, have been destroyed or lost in the lapse of ages, and copies of them, more or less faulty, alone remain. Cardinal Ximenes, at a vast expense, assembled a great number of learned men, and kept them employed for twelve years on MSS. of the Bible in the Hebrew, Greek and Chaldee languages—he published them all in the same book, the Latin between the Hebrew and Greek, and the Chaldee below—the whole was called the Complutensian Polyglot. Do these historical facts prove that the Greek language*is considered heretical at Rome or the reverse ? Is it likHy that the Cardinal would have so stigmatized his own work as Aliquis represents him to have done? Would he have sacrificed so much labor, and have expended such large sums of money in completing and publishing a work which was of so unworthy a character that himself was obliged to condemn it? Will Aliquis consult the preface to his version of the work and exhibit the Cardinal's signature, or will he only say that somebody else has seen it, and says it is there ? That somebody may have stated something, of which Aliquis' statement is a perverson, read what follows from a Protestant authority. Dr. Kitto, in his second volume of Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature, page 710, says: "The editors stale in their preface that they have placed ' the Latin version of St. Jerome between the Hebrew and Greek to represent the Synagogue and the Oriental Church as the two thieves, and Jesus, thnt is the Roman or Latin Church, in the midst.' It wi»t not, however, meant by this to disparage the original texts of which Ximenes in his dedication speaks ' in as high terms as Luther could have used.'" See what the same author says, page 924 of the same volume: "Jahn observes that the Oriental Christians in communion with Rome, still use their own versions—the Greek, Armenian, Syrinc and Arabic." I could multiply my authorities, but to what purpose ? Aliquis would not dream of abandoning his position, so I will make him' a present of the nameless monk as an ally and participator in the triumph he supposes himself to have achieved. 1 hare shown, Aliquis to the contrary notwithstanding, and this partly by the testimony of his own witnesses, that t* practice the Greek language it not considered heretical at Rome, inasmuch as that the Holy Scriptures now in use in the Cniholic Church are a translation from the Greek.; that the Lmin version has been published in the same edition, side by side with the Greek, thus challenging criticism; and lhat the Greek text is still in use in certain churches in communion with Rome. lain ready to produce my iniihorities; there is nothing concealed in them, nothing suppressed, nothing insinuated. Can Aliquis say the same for his '-quotation from Cardinal Ximenes;" is it a quotation ? does it contain no suppression of truth, and suggestion of what is untrue ? Is it a true exposition of fact, such as an honest inquirer after the truth, and truth nlone, would adopt for himself and present lo his readers? Will Aliquis blush and explain, or persist and produce hid authority ? His objection to the translation from the Vulgate into the modern languages of Europe, even if his supposition is correct, of which he seems 10 be doubtful, is simply captious and puerile. What does it signify whether a translation were made from ihe Greek or Vulgate, provided the Vulgate be a faithful rendering of the original Greek. I consider it unnecessary, especially, Mr. Editor, having tai»en up so much of your space, to follow Aliquis into the realms of speculation whither he has suffered his fancy to take flight, until the contingencies supposed by hnn shall have actually occurred. Catholicus. Biblical—The River Kishon. "That ancient river, the river Kishon." Is ancient the word to be used here ? It is not a distinctive epithet. The Kishon was no more ancient than other rivers, and the word is not used so anywhere else in the Bible. We read of ancient mountains, but not of an ancient mountain. The Hebrew word which is rendered ancient in Judges 5: 21, is found nowhere else in the Bible In the Vulgate, it is regarded as a proper noun, Cadumim. So also in Luther's version. The verb from which it seems to be derived, in some of its forms, has the signification of rushing upon. Hence Dc Wette, in his German Bible, renders il " Bach der Schlachten"—stream of battles. Dr. Robinson also translates it in the same way. As the word is in the plural number, it evidently means either rushing men, or rushing waters. I suggest therefore that it be rendered The Stream of Rushing Waters. This agrees with the connection better than any other term. The verse reads thus: " The river Kishon swept them away, thnt river of rushing waters, the rivpr Kishon." The Kishon is like one of our Hawaiian streams; at one time a mountain torrent, rushing on with foaming fury to the sea ; and at another time dry through the greater part of its course. See a graphic description of the Kishon, and its sources, in the Land and the Book. The readers of the Friend who have not seen the Land and theBook will be interested in the following extract from the account of Barak's battle: "On the morning c.l' that eventful day, prowas light, DeLorah set the little army in motion, with the energetic command imd animating promise, * Up, for this is the day in which the Lord has delivered Sisera into thy hand. Is not the Lord gone out before thee ?' Rapidly they descend the mountain, cross over by Nain into ihe valley of Jesreel, then incline to the left to avoid the low and marshy ground, nn<l by the first faint light of the morning they are upon the sleeping post of the Cunauniies. This assault, wholly unexpected, threw them into instant and irrecoverable confusion, tint half awake, the whole army fled in dismay down the plain, hotly pursued by the victorious Barak. No time was allowed to recover from iheir panic, God also fought against them—'ihe earth trembled, the heavens dropped, the clouds also poured out water.' Josephus adds, that a storm from the east beat furiously in the faces ol the Cannanites, but only on the backs of the Jews. The storm is required by both the narrative of the action and the song ol victory. It was lo this, I suppose, that Deborah alluded—• Is not the Lord gone out before thee? and this it certainly\vas which swelled the Ki-hon. so that it swept away and drowned the flying host—for it never could do that except during a great rain. The army of Sisera naturally sought to regain the strJkdv fortified Harosheth of the Gentiles, fromHkich they had marched up to their campirsjßound a short time before. This place unit the lower end of the narrow vale, through which the Kishon passeth out of Esdruelon into the plain of Acre, and this was their only practicable line of retreat. The victorious enemy was behind them ; on their left were the hills of Samaria, in the hand of their enemies ; on their right wai the swollen river and the marshes of Thorn; they had no alternative but to make for the narrow pass which led to Harosheth. The space however becomes more and more narrow until within the pass it is only a few rods wioe. Then horses, chariots and men become mixed in horrible confusion, jostling and treading down one another; and the river, here swifter and deeper than above, runs zigzag from side to side of the vale, until just before it reaches the castle of Harosheth, it dashes sheer up against the perpendicular base of Carmel. There is no longer any possibility of avoiding it. Rank upon rank of the flying host plunge madly in, those behind crushing those before deeper in the tenacious mud. They stick fast, are overwhelmed, are swept away by thousands. Such are the conditions of this battle and battle-field that «T3 can follow it out lo the dire catastrophe." See more in the Land and the Book —a work of great interest to the general reader, and which will be of great assistance to all who are studying the Book. bably long belore it Those interested in Deborah's Song, which Lowth characterizes as a "specimen of the perfectly sublime ode," may find an excellent translation and an able Commentary in the BiUiotheca Sacra of July, 1855. Also a Translation and a Commentary by Dr. Robinson, in The Biblical Repository of July 1831. Auquis. �THE FHII. CULBURN, Kaaliumanu street, Honolulu, Oahu. HAWAIIAN FLIHR COMPANY', A. P. EVERETT, Treasurer and Agent. 100-tf HONOLULU, H. I. huildm*fWertal.,r'orUsll Hnnoluta.__los-tf_ H. PITMAN, SHIP CHANDLER. 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If any single phenomenon (such as a detached luminous arch extending from the to a single point conspicuous On the nights of August 28th and 29th, east to the west horizon) was so 1859, and also from the Ist to the 4th of as to be easily identified, it is important to its position, September, there was witnessed one of the have an accurate statement of of its with the time vertex, and the altitude most remarkable exhibitions of Auroral or Polar light which has ever been recorded of its formation and disappearance. 4. Was the Aurora seen in the southern within the limits of the United States. The half and how near the southdisplay was remarkable for the extent of ter- ern of the heavens, it extend ? horizon did —it was visible, over was reritory which it 5. Describe the colors of the light as well markable for its duration—for the intensity of the illumination, as well as the brilliancy as its intensity. any great variof the colors, and for the extreme rapidity of 6. If the Aurora exhibited it is to know important ations of brilliancy, the changes. From the newspaper reports it the times of least as well as the times of that this was witnessed display Appears throughout a region of country extending greatest brilliancy. 7. Did the Aurora exhibit any sudden from Cuba and Jamaica on the south, to an, flashes ? Were there any pulsations, like the unknown distance beyond the Canadason waves of light rushing up from the horizon ? north ; and from central Europe on the east, 8. If any observations were made showing to California on the west. the influence of the Aurora upon the magSince the laws of this phenomenon are yet netic needle, it is desirable that they should but imperfectly understood, it is regarded as be communicated in detail. the that the facts respecting very important effect, if any, was observed on the What 9. late grand exhibition should be carefully colwires and recording instruments ? telegraphic lected and placed on record, in the expecta10. Was there any sensible motion of transtion that at some future day they may afford lation in the Aurora from west to east or the the basis for a complete and satisfactory thereverse, and at what rate ? Aurora is unquesof this meteor. The ory It is to publish in the American proposed tionably one of the most important of all Science the most important part of Journal of meteorological phenomena, and its full exmay be obtained as the whatever information it the planation would probably bring with and it is intended to result of this appeal; explanation of a large number of other phepresent the facts in such a form that each one such laws of atmosorigin as the and nomena, which are necespheric electricity, as well as of terrestrial will have all the materials investigation for himself. to conduct the magnetism. It is then of the highest im- sary all the facts have been communicated, After science that we should ascertain portance to is proposed to present an analysis of the what the Aurora is. The Aurora of August it on the gen23th and following days affords a peculiarly whole, with some speculations Observers may forAuroras. eral of subject favorable opportunity for deciding the questo the either ward their communications tion, and it is therefore important that this Haven, Journal, New "Editorsof Silliman's be investigated. A thorAurora thoroughly city.'* ough investigation of a single Aurora prom- Ct.," or "Prof. Elias Loomis, New York New Haven, Nov. 1, 1859. ises to do more for the promotion of science than an imperfect investigation of an indefinInformation Wanted. ite number. It has been decided therefore to Richard Littkfield, of ship "ParRespecting the strenuous to investigate make a effort Capt. Joseph Purker. He left home in ker," laws of this Auroral exhibition. For this 1833,and is supposed to have been married on purpose we need a careful collection of all the tho Sandwich Islands. Also—Respecting Richard Peters, a cooper, observed facts; and it is earnestly requested ship that every person who made accurate observ- belonging to ftewburyport, Mass. He left Any in 1854. ations on this display would communicate " Navy, and worked in Honolulu received respecting him will be gladlythe them to us for publication. This appeal is information Mi tor by or port, Woods, Newbury VV. W. addressed to men of science in every part of by of the Fiiend. North America, where an Aurora was seen Respecting Mr. B. P. Davol, formerly on board on the nights in question, and particularly on of th«, Bremen ship Alexander Barclay,' He is re" Rev. S. C. Damon, or at our that of August 28th. It is also addressed to quested to oall upon to his advantage. observers on the ocean, and indeed through- office, where he will hear something H. Hackfslu & Co. out every portion of the globe, with the sole Respecting George Nesbit, of Nassau, Bahamas. exception of Europe; for we assume thatthe Also, of Philip Ncmdi, of Malta. appearances in Europe will be fully reported individAny information respecting the.aboveGRfcLN, It imthe is not through European journals. L. W. received be % uals, will gladly probable that the Auroral exhibition may Acting as H. B. M.'s Consul General, Honolulu. have been witnessed throughout the principal Also—Respecting Henry Dulosy, of Philadelpart of the northern hemisphere; and it is of phia, son of a partner in the house of H. Dubosy that great importance to know how far the phe- £ Brother. Reports have reached his friends under an islands, the residing upon may nomenon did extend. be he We desire an accurate but concise descripr assumed name. Any information will be orthankChapkin, Castion of all the phenomena, with the exac- fully received by the Seamen's Cooke. 1 tle their occurrence. time of The Chaplain has recently received letters 1. If a dark segment was seen resting on for§y Penrose, James Dempaey, James E. John the northern or southern horizon, or both of KeUey, (ship "Dromo,") Mr. Jno.Coloord,alias them, its altitude and position should be ac- Komi Amala, and Jonathan Spooner. curately stated. Also—A Daguerreotype for Mr. Jama r. 2. If the streamers were seen to converge Hedges, ship " Ontario,'' New Bedford MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. May 23—10 A. M. Japanese steamer Randinmarrah,Kats-tlntarro, 16 dayi from ban Francisco en route for Ja) tan. 26—12 M. Am clipper shipFlying Milt, Llnnell, 14 days from Stan Francisco en route to Baker's Island, in ballast. 25—3 P. M. Am ship Buena Via*., Linncll, 10 days from Sun Franciscoco route tfcjaWa ItPd, in ballast. 29—Am barkentine Jenny Ford,vloore, ltdaya nxi Paget Sound, with lumber to llackfeld ft Co. 20—Sch Rumehameha IV, Gardner, fm Johnson's Island. 30—Am bark Zoe. Bush. 30 days from Japan. June s—Am brig Josephine. Stone, 26 days fm Baker's Island. 9—Am clipper ship Lotus, LecMe, 11 days fm Sao Francisco en route for Hongkong. 16—Am brim Maouela, M'Gregor, 30 hours from 8110, la ballast. 15—Am bark Vernon. Soward, 18 days from Puget Sound. 10—Am bark Frances Palmer, Pat), 16 days from San Francisco, with freight and passengers to D. C. Waterman A- Co. 17—U. 8. sloop-of-warLevant, Hunt, 30 days fm Panama 17—Am clipper ship Red Hover, Cummlngs, 14 days from San Francisco, en route furBaker's Island. 20— Am barkentine Constitution, Foster, 18 days fm Port Townsend, with cargo of lumber to 11. llackfeld ft Co. 20—Am chip Samuel Robertson, Taber, i.48 days from Boston, wilh mdse to B. F. Snow. 23—Am clipper ship Torrent, Gove, 17 days fin San Francisco with lumber, ftc, passed the port, bound to Hongkong. 24—British bk Grecian, Miller, 134 days fm England, with mdse to .(anion, Green ft Co. 28—Am steamer Rilauea, Bush, from New London Jan. 5, to Messrs. C. A. Williams k Co. DEPARTURES May 23—Am bark Yankee, Lovett, for San Francisco. 23—Haw brig Mary Ellen, Bennett, for Victoria, Y. I. 20—Japanese steamer Kanditiraurrah, Kats-lin-tarro, for Japan. 20—Am shi|> Kuena Vista,Linnell, for Baker's Island. 30— B. it bark Isle of France, Anhmore, for San Francisco. June I—Am clip ship Flying Mist, Lionel), for Maker's Island. I—llaw wh bark Cynthia, Lowe, for the Arctic. o—Am sch Far West, Porter, Tor the North. B—Am hark Washington Allston, Woods, for Bremen. B—Am miss, packet Morning Star, Gillett, for Micronesia. 9—Am barkentine Jenny Ford. Moore, for Victoria, Y. I. 11—Am ship Lntiia, Leckie, for Hongkong. 19—Am brtgantine Manuela, M'Gregor, forVictoria, T. I. 21—Am clipper ship Red Rover, Cummiogs, for linker's Island. 23—Am bk Comet, Smith, for San Francisco. 23—Am bk Vernon,Soward, for Puget Sound. 28—Am barkent Constitution, Foster, for Victoria. Y. I. PASSENGERS. For San Francisco—per Yankee, May 23—PPlank, P Kelly, W [latin, J Lowe, J Lumley, R C Haskell, MrsJ Ladd and son, Mrs Tho Spancer, P Douglass, R H Drysdayle, Mr and Mr Garrett, H Porter. From Gcaxo Islands—per Josephine, June 6—TheirExcellencies GovernorC 11 Judd,lady and servant, and Governor 8 G Wilder, lady, child and servant. Mr Allan Judd, H M Alexander, Messrs Duon, Smith, Wonlen, Drake, Seaman, and sixtynine natives. From San Francisco—per Frances Palmer, June 10—Mrs John Paty, G H Davis, lady, 2 childrenand servant, Mrs L B Farnum. W Sims and lady, G F Pfluger, J B Borland, 8 G Meehen, H Terry—l3. For San Francucu—per Comet, June 23—Hon A O Chandler and wife, Geo Brayton, wife and child, C H Juddand wife, H Hungary and wife, Robert Lindsey and wife. A Francis Judd, Joseph P Cooke, Capt W C Stone, Abel Harris, Frank Harris, A Burgemeister, C Burgemeister, Capt J W Brown and son, W Cornwell, J U Graham, L Louis, C L Richards, Wm Ralph, Mrs Jos Roderick and 2 children. Total—27. MARRIED. Loti—Johnson —In Honolulu. June 1, by Rer. 8. C. Damon, Ma. Kobsjit Lots to Miss Pixxr, daughter of Mr. 3. Johnson, of this city. The Printers' best wishes attend the LovtAaf youngcouple. DIED. Dowsstt—ln Honolulu, July 4, Mas. Mjar Dowsstt, and 62 yean,relict of thelate Capt. Samuel J. Dowsett, and mother of JamesI.and Samuel 11. Dowsett of this place, tin. D. had been a resident of Honolulu for 32 year.,and for the past few years has suffered much as an Invalid frcm a rheumatic comMiCFAm.,l!.!—ln Honolulu, June 9, Mr. Henry M.cfarlaoe, and Sv year., proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, he was a natire of Scotland, and had resided on these islands 14 years. Beoola—At Papalafa, lahmd of Maui,on Sunday, Wth lost., "Sin of England, and St Hanry L. Brooks, aaSTei y«»rs, year, a resident of these islands. Bast June 4, Mr. Edwin Miner, Maul, Llllkot, Mixes—At a natire of England, and for many and 66 years. He was islands. resident of these yearsa Francisco, May 38, R. H. stoeiasaa, Sf Roslxsos—ln San ysews. Honolulu, aswd » »* � 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 (1860) 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 - 1860.07.07 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860.07.07