https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/2cf3337c5db36fb763648d5a68ea5801.pdf 8b596cad21a37a4ff7e8b2b75af9ad68 PDF Text Text TF HE RIEND 39tteStws,«ri.J2, 9f.f.| CONTENTS For Mint fh, 1803. Dr. AnJcrsoirs Visit Admiral Mm Bille's Kepnrt Bishop Cnlenso Two Collegian* Dr. (lutliri.-, the Scottish Tvi-tuttller...Bishop <>f Mauritius Yankee Bailor in China.... Kdltor*i Table .Marine Journal, \c . - PiOK. 1* 18, 19 -° -** .'^l ■ ~% JJ -* THE FRIEND, MARCH 2, IHO3. Dr. Anderson's Visit. Onr Million of Dollnra K\ p.mlr.l upon lh<Siiiiilitmli l-luntl* by Anicricnn Chrimiuua. In round numbers, the American Mission on these islands has cost the American Board one million dollars. Including the appropriations by American Bible Society, American Tract Society, and American Seamen's Friend Society, the gross amount would much exceed this sum. Hence, we think it quite time those societies should have sent hither one or more of their public officers. It affords us much delight to learn that the venerable Dr. Anderson, Senior Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, is now en route for our islands. His long experience eminently qualifies him to take an impartial view of the state of things in this quarter of the globe. He has been connected with the Society's management for more than forty years, and since 1832, has conducted the Society's foreign correspondence. In early life he contemplated going upon a mission, we believe to Turkey or India. About the year 1822, being employed by that shrewd man, Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., he evinced such tact and ability that he was retained in the Society's rooms, and there he has spent his life. The Memorial Volume," or The first fifty years" of the Society's history, was prepared by his pen. This volume and the annual reports of the Society, show that as a keen- - {©ft Series, f101.20. HONOLULU, MARCH 2, 1863. 17 " sighted, thoughtful and large-hearted man, he has but few equals among the managers of benevolent societies in America, or any other country. He has, in former years, visited Greece, Turkey, Syria and India. On his return from the Mediterranean, many years ago, he published —1830—an interesting volume, entitled, " Observations upon the Peloponnesus and Greek Islands." His late visit to India was one of great importance, and attracted much attention in America and England. We are confident every missionary and his family on the Sandwich Islands will give him a most cordial welcome, judging from the universal expression of delight at the announcement of his intended visit. We hope to see him before the next number of our paper is issued. He intends visiting all the islands, and returning to Honolulu in season to mingle in the scenes of the general meeting of the American Mission, opening about the Ist of June. OCT" Since the above was in type, Dr. Anderson, wife and daughter have arrived, passengers per Archer. Mrs. Hepburn, wife of Dr. Hepburn, of the Presbyterian Mission, and Miss Conover of the Episcopal Mission, touched at Honolulu, on their way to Japan. Why and for What? It is highly gratifying to witness the generous contributions flowing into America from Americans abroad, to aid in relieving the distress of the soldiers, and equally gratifying to witness similar efforts among British subjects in India, Australia, Canada and the Sandwich Islands, to feed the poor operatives of Lancashire. So much distress should be relieved. But whence arose so much distress ? From the civil war, of course, in America. But what was the origin ofthat war? We answer, slavery, negro chattel slavery; disguise the facts as we may, the whole of this troublesome evil comes through the abominable system of negro slavery. The Southerners make no effort to conceal this fact. Their generals statesmen, ministers and people openly and boldly declare, that they are fighting to maintain and perpetuate the " peculiar insti- tution !" Says the Georgia Intelligencer, We are fighting for Southern independence and for the government of the Southern States, recognizing African Slavery as an institution ordained by God, as beneficial to mankind, and as a necessity in our political relation as States." Now the whole world is laid under contribution, directly and indirectly, to meet the distress occasioned by this civil war. Commerce suffers, trade languishes, benevolence mourns, fathers and mothers weep over their first-born sons slain in battle—and all for what ? To perpetuate negro slavery. Much as we pray and long for peace, we hope there will be no peace until the root of this evil is torn up and effectually destroyed. Should any compromise be brought about and slavery remain vigorous, defiant and rampant as in former years, then there will be another rebellion andanother war. If the evil can alone be destroyed by war—terrible and horrible as war may be—then we say, fight it out now. Better now, than bequeath slavery as an accursed legacy to be warred over at some future time. " Give Them Occupation.—We hear a good deal said, and much has been written, about improving the social and domestic condition'of Hawaiians. What is most wanting among them is useful occupation. Give them work. If something could be done to give the females more emplayment, it would be a great blessing. We are glad to learn that there is a tend.ency among them to work in the rice-fields. Some too are learning the shoe- maker's trade. Fox the benefit of the islanders, and encouragement to labor, we hor # that the next Legislature will enact a pre ,hibitory duty on flour, oats, rice, potatoes, I jay, leather, shoes, and every other commoc 1,jty which can possibly be produced upon the islands. If Brother Jonathan is goir ,g to pay off his immense war debt, in mrf, by duties upon Hawaiian grown ric B< sugar, &c., then let Hawaiians make A' ne 'r ican products pay a heavy duty when I? >ri( je d and consumed upon our shores. . » �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. 18 Extract FROM RBile'sStn eport " On the Voyage of the Danish Corvette Galathea," Round the World, in the Years 1845-'46-'47. TRANSLATED FKOM THE DANISH BY F. BANNING, ESQ. (Continued from our January number.] It should be considered one of the King's great merits, that without education himself, he so well understood the advantages of it, that he expended annually a considerable amount, in order to allow the growingup princely race to partake of such an education as would prepare them to fill their places worthily. With his own eyes, or those of others, he has seen that it is the only bulwark against the encroachments of the immigrated white population, and that he possesses therein the only true means of civilizing and elevating his subjects to a worthy place among the educated and independent nations of the earth. It is to be regretted that the school is under the special direction of the missionaries, but that should not be considered when examining critically this enterprise, for reason of its great usefulness. It will certainly do the men no harm that they are brought up as teetotalists. However iroung ittle I approve of absolute physical measures for the destruction of moral evils, still I am convinced that teetotalism, if anywhere in the world, is certainly in its right place here ; but of this by and by. I had not as yet had an opportunity to pay my respects to the Queen ; this was, however, afforded me at an evening party, given in our honor by Dr. Judd, at which the royal family, with their retinue of chiefs and their wives, the ministers and the missionaries, were present. But few of the foreign Consuls or European missionaries attended, for reason of the quarrels existing between the government and foreigners, that had degenerated into personal enmity against the Ministers and especially against Dr. Judd. The party was interesting to us. Shortly after my arrival, the royal family appeared, coming from the neighboring palace in formal procession. I have mentioned the colossal size of the majority ofthe chiefs ; I now saw that their ladies were not in the least inferior. Queen Kalama was a very stout person, with a soft, kind-hearted expression. She was dressed in fire-colored Chinese silk, lined with laces and fringes; between her fingers, covered with fine, white kid gloves, she moved incessantly her costly fan. Kalama was represented as a most excellent, pious and benevolent lady, passing the greater part of her time in preparing feather ornaments or sewing dresses for the poor; she is said to be very expert with her needle. It was much regretted that she is not of higher descent, as I was assured that the chief aristocracy is as proud and as full of prejudices here as elsewhere, and they did not treat her civilly. Though tall herself, she was considerably surpassed by the good looking and gigantic sisters of John Young. Among the chiefs present, I remarked James Young, and Billy Pitt, a son of Karaimoku, whose Catholic baptism on board the Uranie, has been so comically described by Arago. This Billy Pitt was one of the best educated of the older chiefs, and the only one who expressed himself fluently in English. He had formerly been very fond of his sprees; now, however, he was entirely under the control of the teetotalists, and after the close of the soiree, in a native hut with the officers, he slid quietly away, while the others were rejoicing with merry songs over their glass of grog. Shortly before, he had broken his vow of abstinence, and had consequently been condemned to pay a considerable fine, which he could only do by giving his schooner in mortgage to the missionaries. Such circumstances as this, though perhaps insignificant, should not be overlooked, as they throw a practical light on the state of affairs at these Islands. The entertainment of the evening consisted chiefly in the playing of my band on the verandah, which, together with the pleasant coolness of the night, brought the company out into the open air, where the evening passed agreeably with smoking and conversation. My officers did not, of course, neglect to offer the young princesses a dance. Big Moses, however, replied at once, that dancing was losing one's time, and Miss Bernice added, very artlessly, that she would not be able to follow her teacher properly next day in her studies, if she had been dancing the night before. 1 have remarked before, that civilization with these people was only laid on externally. It was proved by numerous little occurrences that happened every day, as an incontestable fact. I pass it over, however, as 1 fear to give the impression that I wish to mock at the good people, which is not the least my intention. I only intend to describe that which I have seen, which has left with me the impression that civilization thus far, has only affected the outside shell; time will prove whether it will be possible for it, in the following generations, to penetrate into the kernel, or if they will succumb to the heavy burthen and yield their place to another race, Americans or Europeans. That danger of a complete extinction of the aborigines really exists, I shall, in my opinion, fully prove hereafter. The Hawaiian nation wages a war of life and death with powerful enemies, both without and within. Should it prove victorious, it will be owing solf.ly and ai.onf. to its true allies, the North American missionaries, who have been settled here since 1820, and by whom the Islands have become all they are, viz., a small but independent state, with a certain stability and laws, and a well-ordered and regulated government. The history of the Sandwich Islands is so inseparably blended with that of the missionaries, that I consider it the best course to describe at once the acts of the latter. The spread of Christianity over the Sandwich Islands, is owing to the so-called " American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions," the largest of all American mission societies. This Society consisted originally of Congregationalists; soon, however, they were joined by Presbyterians, Dutch and German Reformists. It was founded in the year 1810. The Sandwich Islands did not at the commencement, engage the attention of the Society. Since the year ISO9, it happened that several young Hawaiians visited the United States on whaling vessels. One of them, a son of a priest, named Opukohoia, was one day sitting on the steps of Vale College, crying. Dr. Dwight, President of the College, observing him, was attracted, and resolved to plant the Christian standard on his far off island home. So the fate of the Sandwich Islands was decided by this little incident. The islands themselves had passed through considerable innovations. By the influence, more especially of the foreigners, the tabu system had been deeply shaken towards the close of the reign of Kamehameha 1., and Liholiho had hardly mounted the throne, when, by instigation of Kaahumanu, and what is still more remarkable, at the request of the heathen high priest Hewahewa himself, he overturned the last pillar that supported it. Shortly before, in August, 1819, the Prime Minister, Kalaimoku, and his brother Boki, had received, on board of the French corvette I'Uranie, Roman Catholic baptism. A few months after, the first American missionaries arrived at Hawaii. According to an old law, no foreigner whatever was permitted to settle on the islands, without the sanction of the King and council. A few evil disposed persons made them believe that England would be much displeased if the American missionaries were received. It required fourteen days hard pleading before the council of chiefs, before permission was granted to the "ai oe oe" (long necks) to land and settle, and then only for one year. A great difficulty arose at first from the imperfection of the language ; nevertheless, two years had hardly passed, before the King might be seen learning to spell, and his Co-Regent, Kaahumanu, forsaking her cards and awa, in order to acquire the miraculous art of confiding her thoughts to paper. Schools everywhere sprang up, and gray men, as well as children, came together at the sound of the shell. Once more did foreigners, the majority of whom consisted of vagabonds, runaway seamen, and convicts from Botany Bay, try to hinder the work of Christianity, and protect their sensual vices from it. The tabu imposed, according to which no females were allowed to go on board ships, was a welcome occasion to cause the dispute to break out afresh. The commanders of several whaleships, by threats and violence, more particularly against the missionaries, who very rightly were considered the authors of this prohibition, had tried in vain to compel the government to repeal it. The scandalous fact occurred, that a United States man-of-war, the schooner Dolphin, Lieut. J. Percival commanding, anchored at Honolulu at the commencement of the year 1826, and by the rudest physical power, forced the abolition of the tabu, and remained ten weeks in the harbor, in order to protect this immorality on behalf of other vessels as well as his own. No opposition was made, though more worthy United States and English commanders soon put a stop to this shameful disorder. The hostile disposition against the missionaries continued and was much increased by the rigid, puritanical measures, by which the most harmless amusements of the natives were abolished, especially such as had a tendency to bring to memory the heathen past, although but indirectly. Discontent spread more and more, and at last, in the year 1833,reached so great a height, that it really appeared, for a short time, that Christianity must be overturned and succumb to the old idols. The Co-Be- �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. gent, the energetic Kaahumanu, had died, and her successor, Kinau.did follow her rule. The King, Kamehameha 111., only seventeen years of age, resided at Honolulu, and had there fallen into the worst company, and was misled, especially by the notorious British Consul, Charlton, into playing, drinking and practice of the wildest orgies. By instigation of his friends he framed a manifesto, by which he united in himself all royal authority, in order to suppress all resistance. Licentious habits and dissoluteness soon spread from his example among the people, and Kinau was obliged to shut herself up in the fort at Honolulu, with a few who remained faithful to Christianity. Schools were disbanded, teachers dismissed, congregations broken up, churches pulled down, brandy shops opened, lasciviousness and even incest fostered, and idols brought out again and worshipped. So far had they gone, and were on the point of completing the work by dismissing Kinau and appointing Liliha in her stead, who was devoted to" the heathen belief, when suddenly the young King turned round and confirmed Kinau in her office by a solemn proclamation. Morality and the former order of things were soon restored. A few years after, one of those revivals manifested itself, which are so much talked of among American Christians, first among the missionaries and afterwards among the natives. Those overpowering mind and spirit religious exstacies, which involuntarily bring to mind the first festival of Pentecost, in which deceit or self-deception play not a small part, often produce, nevertheless, most remarkable effects, which was the case here. The number of church members in 1826 was 1,259 ; in the year 1840 they had increased to 21,739, and remained about the same to 1845, when about one-fourth of the population or 22,652 are reported. The fact alone, that 70,000 Hawaiians are said to have learned to read, is proof of wide spread instruction and consequently of religion among the people. In addition to the above, there is a considerable number of native Catholics. The Independent or Congregational churches include many within their pale (for instance the King himself) whom they do not acknowledge as members and to whom the communion is refused, for reason of their not having proved themselves true and faithful Christians ; and finally it must not be forgotten, that from 2 to 3,000 members have been excommunicated by the application of rigid church not discipline. A married missionary has a salary of 6 or 700 dollarsannually, and an addition for increased family, also free lodging, free instruction for his children; his income may amount as high as 1,500 or 8,000 dollars, with which is also to be added a consideration of receiving all his domestic necessaries at a low price from a mission store, imported free of duty. We have already shown that the propagation of religion and instruction requires large sums at these islands. The American mission, whose expenses reached the highest point, 63,000 dollars, in 1837, average 36,000 dollars yearly, having expended altogether to the present time, about 700,000 dollars. All these numbers, though they convey a grand idea of the sacrifice offered in the service of Christianity, does not represent the manner in which the doctrine lives and moves on these islands, in a lifeless, dry condition. In order to place this picture more fully before our readers, we must lead him about, into the schools and churches. It happened one Sunday, that we had no service on board; we did not neglect the opportunity to assist at the devotion of the natives, in the large stone church. It is situated at the east side of Honolulu, rather out of the town proper; it has a small blunt steeple on one end, otherwise withoutany architectural beauty, resembling on its outside a store or warehouse ; within, without arch, not a picture nor altar nor any such thing to relieve the large empty place, or afford theeye an agreeable resting point. We must remember, however, that we are among Independents, to whom nothing lies farther than art and taste. In the place of an altar stood a pulpit; on its right side the pew of the King, covered with red satin curtains; a little farther off, that of the chiefs. The service began with a Hawaiian hymn, well executed by a native choir. Mr. Armstrong then delivered a sermon on the observance of the sabbath. The congregation appeared to listen attentively and quietly to their teacher, and it caused in us, who for the first time were assisting at a religious ceremony among converted heathen, a curious feeling, when 1 saw men who had invoked Ku, Lono, Kane, Kanaloa, and all the 40,000 idols, adoring the only true God ; when we saw those who, fearing their idols, had dragged their brothers to be slaughtered in a heiau, now bending their knees before the God of love and conciliation and devoutly sending to him their prayers. The sermon of the pastor and the cold orthodoxy pervading it, might have slightly troubled the pleasant picture, in which the present appeared to us in comparison with the past, but Mr. Armstrong preached in the native language, and it was not until some time after that we learned that he pronounced relentless sentence against every act which appeared to him 19 a transgression of the Sabbath-law. Sickness and misfortune, he threatened, would visit the town as a penalty of heaven, because on tho Sunday previous, five Europeans—probably officers of the corvette— had galloped through the streets of Honolulu, because a vessel had been towed into the harbor on a Sunday, etc. It has always been an enigma to me why the Presbyterians upheld so rigidly the holiness of time and in no manner that of place. The pastor not only steps into the pulpit, as with us a professor into his chair, in a frock coat and a walking-stick in his hand, but the church itself, erected for benevolent purposes, was used two daysafterwards as a concert room. Underneath the church is a high cellar, arranged for several school-rooms, the floor and the seats both consisting of earth, covered with hay and straw. A large board and the chair of the native teacher composed all the furniture. The first three schools visited by me were for boys and girls in common, one ofthem for half-wild children picked up on the beach or about the wharves. Not one of the children was naked, on the contrary, they were all carefully dressed. Nearly all the schools are under the direction of native teachers, educated at the mission seminary at Lahainaluna. The plan of the mission, however, extends much farther. It hopes here as well as elsewhere to make itself no longer wanted. It is anticipating the time when the people, advanced in civilization and Christianity, will appoint their own pastors and rear within their own pale preachers of the Word; and then proposes to visit new countries, and disseminate there also, by its rich means, the seed of Christianity. All that thus far had been arrived at, consisted in a few natives having been permitted to teach and preach, but not allowed the right to administer the sacrament. Even this license had been granted but seldom, but happened to be conferred on two young natives, during our stay at Honolulu, our worthy chaplain assisting at the ceremony. If my opinion is desired as to the extent of the influence the American mission has exercised on the Hawaiian nation, 1 should answer about as follows. In spite of the numerous and bitter enemies with whom the missionaries have struggled here from the beginning, it must be admitted that the Sandwich Islanders, from a state in which human sacrifices were a daily occurrence, where parents murdered their children and the children misused or drove away, or, if less cruel, killed, their decrepit parents, where woman lived separate and dishonored, where slavery and and despotism oppressed the people, where the right of property was doubtful and personal safety partially protected, where incest was lawlul, where indolence, drunkenness and sensuality vied with each other, and falsehood and deceit kept captive the innate good nature of the people, they have been raised from this humiliating, almost brutal state, to a sober, peaceful, honest and partly educated people, with a kind government and mild domestic manners; comfortable dwellings with European furniture, have gradually taken the place of miserable, empty grass huts, bread and meat that of poi and raw fish, cotton and silk clothing that of the thin, fragile tapa ; besides taro, sugar, coffee and many kinds of fruits and vegetables are cultivated ; instead of indolence and awa drinking, industry is now cheering up many a hut. Christian marriages and a pious life are more and more taking the place of dissoluteness and lasciviousness. It is yet, alas, not to be denied that morality among the people is still at a very low standard. The fear of the penalty of the law, and not moral principle, keeps sensuality in bounds. Even Sunday, which by the bigotry peculiar to the missionaries, imposes upon every boat, every horse, in fact upon everything, the fetters of the most Holy, has not, nevertheless, succeeded to enchain the loose manners of Hawaiian women, and they give themselves up, without shame on the part of their own husbands, brothers, fathers and mothers, without attempt to restrain them. We heard the most reliable pronounce it as their conviction, that, perhaps, on all the islands, there was not a single innocent girl eleven years old. Also the criminal statistical reports of 1839 and 1846, respectively, comprise 345 out of 522, and 291 out of 427 cases, exclusively dissoluteness ard lasciviousness, and yet it is to be presumed that this vice comparatively seldom becomes the object of lawful penalty. It would, however, be most absurd to accuse the missionaries that they should not have eradicated this hereditary sin, after a labor of only 25 years, for centuries rooted among the people, and too well fostered by the foreigners. It is not this neglect, but rather the positive encroachments upon the manners and temporal welfare of the natives, that the missionaries have been so strongly charged with. They are reproached for having misused religion as a means to seize upon worldly power and dominion ; their efforts as teetotalists have been ridiculed; their religious sternness, the practice of excommunication, the devout keeping of the Sabbath, and the relentless condemnation of singing, dancing and other harmless amusements, have been sharply criticised. We have already shown that these censures are not altogether unfounded, even that the �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. 20 -iprfSharies have incontestably committed fnistakes. Circumstances will, however, furnish much to exculpate them, and even those who disapprove of their rigor and may sometimes mock at their total abstinence, must, on (be other side, admit that the question is whether a young and lately savage and licentious nation, will not fare the best when bridled by the rigor of the law. In so far as the private life of the missionaries is assailed, and they are denounced as striving more for the goods of this world than is be- coming for the servants of the kingdom of God, I must declare that it is an assertion which, if brought against them as a class, is entirely founded on slander, and a want of knowledge of facts. I have already given a detailed statement of their circumstances, and by that it will be seen that, taking into consideration the mode of living here, they do not enjoy a larger income as compensation for tbeir labor, than is required for domestic life, and all that has been said about the luxury of the missionaries and their grow- *rich, rests on ridiculous and unfounded rtlOnS. (TotvConUmi.-rt. Bishop Colenso. In our last issue, we noticed the excitein the theological world occasioned by the publication of Bishop Colenso's book denying the Divine inspiration of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua. The first notice of the work we find in the weekly newspapers, both English and American; ment we shall next expect to see reviews in the Quarterlies, to be followed by a small library of refutations in good sized 12m05., and then there the controversy will end. We cannot refrain from expressing our grief that a minister of the gospel and Bishop of the church of England, should think it necessary to publish opinions, the tendency of which will be evil, and only evil. We are not sure but the editor of the Irish Times has refuted the Bishop in a manner quite us effectual as some of the learned divines will be likely to do. The Irish editor, true to his national instinct for putting things in a ludicrous light, remarks that " Bishop Colenao went to Africa to convert a Hottentot, and 10, the Hottentot converted the Bishop!" A correspondent from Hana, on Maui, thus writes us: " What a mess Bishop Colenso is making of himself] He is doing immense mischief. I went through those very difficulties some years ago, about the extraordinary numbers of the Israelites, which do seem unaccountable and impossible, just as Colenso says; but notice, it is all a difficulty of figures— which are the things most likely to suffer corruption in a book of such antiquity as the Pentateuch. As to the morality of the Mosaic law, to which he objects, it is extraordinary that a man who recommends toleration of polygamy in Zulu converts, should object to some adaptations of the law to meet inveterate social customs of Israelites! All these developements of Infidelity in the English church, go to confirm Auberlen's views of the growth of the Infidel Antichrist in the closing days of Satan's reign." THE FRIEND, MARCH 2, 1863. Two Collegians. An old catalogue of Amherst College, Massachusetts, lies before us, printed in 18*13, or just thirty years ago. On one page we find the name of Henry Ward Bkecher, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and on another page the name of Benjamin Morcian Palmer, of I'ocoUligo.S. C. Thirty years have rolled away and where arc these two men now to bo found ? The former, a representative man of the free, out-spoken, liberty-loving, Puritanic and republican North, and the latter a representative man of Dixie, with its four millions of chattel slaves. Both are men of no ordinary ability. After leaving college, Bcccher went West, and drew inspiration from the boundless prairies, endless rivers and giant States. The latter returned to his native South, to identify himself with all of her peculiar institutions. The former is now Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and Editor of the Independent, wielding more influence lor weal or woe, than any other minister of the gospel in America. " There is, perhaps," says a reviewer in the December number of the Atlantic, " no man in America more widely known, more deeply loved and more heartily hated than the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher." While Beecher has achieved a world-wide fame, his fellowcollegian, Palmer, is almost equally well known. He is Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, and Professor of Theology in the Seminary of Columbia, S. C. Both are eloquent pulpit divines. Probably they are without their equals as extemporaneous speakers on the platform. Both are men of immense power, the one North and the other South. They are living realities. They represent two opposite systems of labor and liberty. Beecher is an independent in church government, and Palmer old school Presbyterian. Both are professedly Calvinistic in theology, yet we fancy their systems of theology would not exactly dove-tail together! There is no mistaking their opinions in regard to the inmates of Uncle Tom's Cabin." Beecher " has said, does say and will say, " Let the oppressed go free," while Palmer declared, in his famous sermon preached in New Orleans just before the war commenced, The providential trust of the South is to "perpetuate the institution of slavery, as now existing, with freest scope for its natural developement. * * * It is a duty we owe to ourselves, to our slaves, to the world, to Almighty God, to preserve and transmit our existing system of domestic servitude, with . the right, unchallenged by man, to go and itself wherever Providence and naturo may carry it." How distinctly we can recall those two remarkable men, as they appeared thirty years ago, when we were fellow-collegians. They were marked men then. Palmer could scan and translate the nicely polished Greek Ode better than Beecher, but in offhand, extemporaneous debate the former was no match for the latter. Beecher knew more about Phrenology than any other man in college, unless it was Fowler, (a classmate,) who now manipulates cniniuins in Broadway, New York, for si shilling apiece. Woe betide the poor Freshman's shins which came in contact with Beecher's; square-toed boots, on the play-ground, when battles at foot-ball were played ! Beecher, we think, must be Palmer's senior by two or three years. Both are about fifty. They are in the prime of life, and maturity of their mental powers. Both are Palmer's sons of distinguished divines. father was the late Rev. Dr. Palmer of Charleston, South Carolina, and his sister, Mrs. Dana, is author of the " Southern Harp," and several literary productions. Everybody knows who are Beecher's father, brothers and sisters. Beecher was born in Old Litchfield, Connecticut, and Palmer beneath a Palmetto tree. Again we remark, these are two representative men, but which is to represent tlio system that shall come out of this struggle triumphant ? Is free labor or slave labor to be hereafter in the ascendant ? The Struggle is now most fierce and bloody. As yet, the end is not to be seen by mortal ken. Additional legions are gathering for the approaching summer campaign. Neither party yet whispers peace unless upon its own terms. Most gladly should we hail the announcement of peace, but WO arc convinced that there never, no never, can be permanent peace in America so long as the shive power is a controlling element in the policy of the national councils. We heartily wish Beecher and Palmer could devise some plan of reconciliation, but we fear they cannot any sooner than Lincoln and Jeff Davis, Burnside and Stonewall Jackson, hence the war must rage, for the present the country must suffer, English operatives must starve and the whole world mourn over the " irrepressible conflict," ;ind nil, we say, because of that abominable system of negro slavery ! root Find For Relief of of Lancashire Opera- the Polynesian and Ailrcrlisir, we learn that the effort to raise funds for this object has been cordially responded to, by not only British subjects, but persons belonging to other nationalities, up to the present time, the fund tives. —From has amounted tv over $3,000. �21 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. Bj§gr" In this issue of our sheet we continue the publication of Admiral Bille's Report of his visit to the Sandwich Islands. We notice several slight errors into which he has fallen, in regard to persons and historical incidents, as, for example, he states a missionary's salary at from $1500 to $2000. Such was never the fact. One half of that amount would be too high, upon an average. We have thought that perhaps he might have reckoned in " rix dollar" currency, as we know is done in some of the nations of Northern Europe, when perhaps he might not have been so far from the truth. We might readily point out other errors, but upon the whole we have thought it best to allow the report to appear without " note or comment." Some of our readers may question the propriety of this plan. Our object in publishing a translation of this report is, that our readers may know what has been written and published respecting the islands among the Danes and Germans, for the original work appeared in Danish and has been translated into the German, and partially into other continental languages. The visit of the Galathea marked an important era in Hawaiian history. It was during that visit that a very liberal and praiseworthy treaty was negotiated between the kingdom of Denmark and the kingdom of Hawaii. This treaty has been the foundation of subsequent treaties, and if all subsequent treaties had been equally liberal and advantageous to the Hawaiian Islands, it would have saved " reams of foolscap," and "gallons of ink." Admiral Billc clearly snw the social and political state of things at the islands, and instead of taking advantage of this state of things to hamper and perplex the foreign relations of this little kingdom, he pursued the very opposite course. He showed that he was an honorable negotiator, and not a narrow-minded and carping visitor, disposed to grumble and find fault because the Hawaiian Islands were inhabited by very much the same kind of people as dwell elsewhere, not much worse, if not better. Subsequent to his visit, a correspondence was continued between Mr. C. B. DeCunitz, the Danish Minister of Foreign Relations, and Mr. K. C. Wyllie, H. H. M. M.of F. R. The King of Denmark sent out valuable presents to Kainelmmelia 111., and among them was ;i gold medal, Struck on the occasion of the Advent of the King to the throne, bearing in bas-relief the united portraits of their Majesties the King and " Queen." Mr. Wyllie also received from the King of Denmark, " A ring encircled with diamonds." This we have seen. It is singularly beautiful and COM!?. We should hardly presume upon our unquestionable right to guess at its value, but think it would be worth from $2,000 to $3,000, speaking after the jewelers style of prices ! At any rate, it has been much admired by the ladies, and there is a tradition, that in 1848, being leap year, the " Laird of Hazel Bank" had numerous matrimonial proposals addressed to him, by ladies lovingly hinting how much they covetted the " Diamond King" for a brooch, all of which were diplomatically declined ! The reasons why these proposals were declined, may appear when the Papers and Journals" of the Laird shall be overhauled by some antiquarian of a coming age, who, like Champollon, shall succeed in deciphering the hieroglyphics which he employs in recording his private " memoranda ! What Let to Dr. Guthrie's Becoming a Teetotaller. One evening recently a great temperance meeting was held in May Street Church, Belfast, Ireland. Dr. Guthrie, who was the first speaker, was received with rapturous applause. In the course of his address the reverend Doctor said, " 1 was first led to form a high opinion of the cause of temperance by the bearing of an Irishman. It is now, let me see, some twenty years since I first opened my mouth in the town of Belfast. Having left Belfast and gone round to Omagh, I left that town on a bitter, biting, blasting, raining day, cold as death, lashing rain, and I had to travel, I remember, across a cold country to Cookstown. Well, by the time we got over half the road, we reached a sort of inn. By this time we were soaking with water outside, and as these were the days oftoddy drinking, we thought the best way was to soak ourselves with whiskey inside. Accordingly we rushed into the inn and ordered warm water, and we got our tumblers of toddy. Out of kindness to the cab-driver, we called him in. He was not very well-clothed—indeed, he rather belonged, in that respect, to the order ofmy ragged school in Edinburgh. (Laughter.) He was «oaking with wet, and we gave him a good rummer of toddy. He would not taste it. 'Why,' we asked, ' will you not taste it? What objection have you V ' Why,' said he,' please your reverence, 1 am a teetotaller, and I won't taste a drop of it.' (Applause.) Now that was the declaration of the humble, uncultivated, uneducated Roman Catholic cabman. It went to my heart and went to my conscience ; and I said, if that man can deny himself this indulgence, not for his own sake, but for the sake of others, why should not I, a Christian minister ? 1 felt that, I remembered that, and I have ever remembered that, and I have ever remembered it to the honor of Ireland. I have often told the story, and thought of the example set by that poor Irishman, for our people to follow. I carried home the remembrance of it with That circumstance, me to Edinburgh. along with the scenes in which I was called to labor daily for years, made me a teeto- taller." (Applause.) tlemen, that you I wish, ladies and gen- should understand the ground on which I stand. Thore are two parties engaged in the total abstinence cause. We work to the same end, though we do do not exactly embrace the same principles. I wish everything to be above-board. I do not agree with my friends of the total abstinence cause, who think that in the use of these stimulants there is anything absolutely sinful. No; it is on the principle of Christian expediency lam a teetotaller. I don't sec why we should quarrel. We may go on different rails, but the terminus is the same. This is the ground I stand on. I was driven to the ground by the feeling that, if I were to cultivate what Dr. Chalmers called the out-fields, if I were to Mess humanity, if I were to win sinners to the Saviour's feet, if I were to build up souls from the wrecks of the Cowgate and the Grassmarket of Edinburgh, I must become a total abstainer. (Applause.) 1 felt it necessary that these poor people shouldabstain, otherwise they could never be reformed— that drink was the stone between the living and the dead, and that stone must be rolled away. It was the demon that met me at every path." Dr. Guthrie having stated that according to his experience, the vice of drunkenness prevailed less in the upper than in the lower and middle classes of society, entered into a lengthened and eloquent explanation of the great service rendered to Scotland by the opposition of Forbes Mackenzie's Act, and concluded his address as follows :—" I am one of the few total abstinence ministers in Edinburgh. lam a total abstainer on principle, and, I am bound to say it, that I do as much work on water as any man on wine, and far more than many of the brethren do on wine. I have tried wine, and I have tried water. 1 am far healthier n»:. wuter than I was on wine. lam richer on water than I was on wine. (Loud applause.) My adage is, and I want that to be the adage of every man—' Water, water everywhere, and not a drop of drink.' (Laughter.) Since I became a total abstainer my head is clearer, my health has been stronger, my heart has been lighter, and my purse has been heavier; and if these are not four good reasons for becoming a total abstainer, I have not another word to say on behalf of total abstinence " (Loud cheers.) Montreal Witness. — " Sic Transit Gloria Mundi."—The fol- lowing is a curious chronological fact;—The Plantagenets ended in 1489, and were succeeded by the Tudors, who er.ded their century in 1589. Then came the Stuarts, am they ended in 1689, and, falling back unde the protection of the Bourbons, seem to have inoculated them with the number 89, for they lived but the century and ended in 1789. —Ayr Advertiser. We would acknowledge the reception of the Vlth Annual Meeting of the General Association of California, held in San Francisco, Oct. 2, 18C2." " Minutes of Donation.—From capt Randolph $2, for support of the Bethel. �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. 22 Mauritius in Madagasman lately visited the CAR> capital of Madagascar, and after participating in serffces conducted by Rev. Mr. Ellis of the London Missionary Society, wrote that gentleman the following letter : The Bishop of Antananarivo, 18th Aug., 1862. Mr DKar Mr. Ellis : I do not like to leave Antananarivo withoutsending you the expression of my hearty thanks for all the kind attention you nave shown me during my stay here, and of my cordial sympathy with the work which you are doing in the name of the Lord. What I hareseen of many members of your congregation has nade me very thankful for the succeas given to the teaching and preaching of the Word of Life, and 1 have seldom, if ever, witnessed a more interesting spectacle than the largo congregation to whom Joa introduced me yesterday after you bad ministered to them yoirrself. I pray that mneh blessing may rest on you and all your fellow-laborers, and on all our brethren in Christ here; and I trust the way will be open for us to work in other parts of the island. I feel it to be a matter of earnest thankfulness that the King is so favorably disposed toward you, and that you havo a Protestant service at which his Majesty regularly attends. May God bless you. Believe me always, yours very truly, Vincent W. Mauritius. The Bishop also wrote to the Secretary of the London Missionary Society, stating that, as all their missionaries were needed in the vicinity of the capital of the interior, he proposed to occupy places on the coast. The Record states that this plan is likely to be carried out by the Church Missionary Society. One happy result of Missionary efforts among the heathen, has been the union of Christians of various churches, and the pro- motion of a feeling of Christian brotherhood. Ayr Advertiser. — Physical Benefit of the Sabbath.—The Sabbath is God's special present to the workingman, and one of his chief objects is to prolong his life and preserve efficient his working tone. In the vital system, it acts like a compensation bond, it replenishes the spirit, the elasticity, and vigor which the last six days have drained away, and supplies the force which is to fill the six days succeeding; and, in the economy of existence, it answers the same purpose as, in the economy of income, isanswered by a savings' bank. The frugal man, who puts away a pound to-day and another pound next month, and who, in a quiet way, is putting by his stated pound from time to time, when he grows old and frail gets not only the same pound back again, but a good many pounds beside. And the conscientious man, who husbands one day of his existence every week—who, instead of allowing the Sabbath to be trampled and torn in the hurry and scramble of life, treasures it devoutly up, the Lord of the 'Sabbath keeps it for him, and, in the length of days, the hale old age gives it back with usury. The savings' bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.— tforth British Review. Da. Abernethy.-The late Dr. Abernethy would never permit his patients to talk much. He could not succeed in silencing a loquabut by the following expedient: >ut out your tongue, Madam." The complied. " Now, keep it there until I done talking." Ilady, A Yankee Sailor in China. —The American General, Ward, who from a common sailor, had risen by his meritorious services to the rank of a high Mandarin and General in China, has been killed in a recent battle near Ringpoo. His brief and brilliant career is thus summarily ended, and the Chinese Emperor is deprived of the only man of real vigor upon whom he depended for -conquering the rebels against his throne. At the latest accounts, the rebels had gathered a great force and were determined to retake Ringpoo, which had been wrested from them by Gen. Ward, who, it will be recollected, first brought himself into notice by contracting to retake several towns from the insurgents, for a stipulated sum. Ward was a native of Salem, and only 31 years old. He was a son of Frederick G. Ward, and his own name was Frederick Townsend Ward ; he graduated from the Salem High School in 1847, and has had an adventurous career since—one experience being that of a Lieutenant in the French army in the Crimean war.—American paper. A Yankee Still in Command of the Imperial Army of China.—Mr. E. Forrester, a young man from Northern New York, who a few years since went to China as a sailor, and entering the Chinese service, rose to a high military rank and became a Chinese mandarin, the next but one in rank to Gen. Ward, is now his successor, thus keeping an American at the head of the Chinese army. Previous to the death of Gen. Ward, Forrester, with 600 Chinese, was taken by the rebels who surrounded the city of Chingpoo, which Forrester bravely defended for 21 days. He was kept in captivity 31 days, being marched 600 miles with a chain about his neck, perfectly naked. He was finally ransomed by British Admiral Hope for $10,000 worth of muskets and powder, and is the only man the rebels were ever known to spare. Reform in Russia.—A letter received in Paris from St. Petersburg, dated the 13th Nov., gives detail respecting the reforms introduced by the Czar into the administration of justice. Trial by jury is to be established as it exists in France. The administration of justice is to be completely independent of the Government. Magistrates have been appointed for the examination ofcrminal matters. All judicial proceedings are to be public. The judges hold their appointment for life, and they cannot be removed from one bench to another without their own consent. The Senate is authorized to form itself into a Court of Cassation, and it is to be divided into several sections, of which each is to have its particular attributes. " The longer 1 live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the great and insignificant, is energy—invincible determination—an honest purpose once fixed, and then victory." The following purports to be an epitaph in an Italian graveyard: " Here lies Estella, who transported a large fortune to heaven, in acts of charity, and has gone thither to enjoy it." Energy.—Goethe says : Fearful Sufferings of a Missionary's Wife.—The Missionary Magazine gives some particulars of the illness and death, at Sydney, N. S. W., of Mrs. Pitman, who, with her husband, (Rev. Charles Pitman), had labored for thirty long years in the South Sea Mission. And referring to his wife, Mr. Pitman says:—" To enter into details of her disease would be needless; suffice it to say, such was its severity and protracted nature that for five full years she knew not the luxury cf stretching herself upon a bed, but was compelled the whole of the above period to sit upon a low seat about ten inches in height, covered with soft pillows, and slept, when pain would allow her, by leaning her head sideways on bolsters, piled up at the foot of the bed. Such was her position day and night, year after year— myself a constant witness." Mr. and Mrs. Pitman were the first European missionaries that took up their residence at Raratonga, where they landed as far back as 1827. The Cost of Our Navy.—The expendiof the Navy Department for the year ending the 30th of June last were a little over forty-two and a half million dollars. This is only about sixty per cent, of the ordinary annual expenditure of Great Britain for her navy. Napoleon spent last year, though at peace with everybody, a third more on his navy than we did on ours. But it is asserted that while our navy cost us forty-two and a half millions last year, the proceeds of the seizures made by it amount to about forty million dollars. If this is true, it would seem that by the joint efforts of the rebels and the English blockade-runners, our navy has been very nearly self-sustaining during the past year.—N. Y. Eve. Post. tures The Descendants of Josephine.—It is interesting to note how good fortune has ever attended the descendants of Josephine. That fortune seems to justify the superstition, which regarded Josephine as the star of Napoleon's destiny. No royalty is now to be found among the relatives of Napoleon, except in the descendants ofhis discarded wife. The grandson of Josephine is Emperor of France. Another ofher descendants was married to the Queen of Portugal; of her granddaughters, one was Queen of Sweden, another still lives as Empress Dowager of Brazil. Her great-grandson may be King of Greece. Neither mind nor body can endure incessant toil. Relaxation is therefore a Christian duty. No man has a right to destroy himself by labor, any more than by poison. The bow that is always bent loses its elasticity ! the mind that is never relaxed, either will wear out body, or become insane. Hatpiness.—An eminent modern writer beautifully says:—" The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman ; the foundation of political happiness, a confidence in the integrity of man ; the foundation of all happiness, temporal and eternal, reliance on the goodness of God." Sensibility and Principle.—It has been wisely remarked that there is no greater error than to suppose that weak and bad men are strangers to good feeling, or deficient in senability. Only the good feeling dees not last. �23 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 18 63. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVBRTISBreiIirTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. J. H. COLE, AUCTIOIw-8811, General Merchant and Agent for the sale of the product! of the 824-ly Brewer Plantation. C. BREWER 3d, SAILOR'S HOME. (SUCCESSOR TO A.P. KVfcRKTT.) 316-ly At his late rooms, Queen Street. H. W. SEVERANCE, ATJCTIORTEEIT. AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, BAM'L. N. CASTLS. 316-ly DR. J. MOTT SMITH, Office corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. 332-ly 11. STANGENWALD, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Late New York City Dispensary Physician, member of the Medico Chirurgical College and of the Pathological Society of New York. Office at Dr. Judd'sDrug Store, on Fort Street. Residence in Nuuanu Valley, opposite that of E. 0. Hall, Esq. 330-ly , Boston. gan FranciiCo Hongkong. Manila. . CHASE'S Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY Next door to the Post Office—up stairs— over the Commercial Advertiser" "Printing Office. TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE. esuch as Ambrotypes, Photographs, Melaineotypes for Lock's, 4c, Landscapes, Views of Dwellings, &c, at reasonableprices. ALSO ON HAND—A. good assortment of FANCY CASES, 17-tf] H. L. CHASE. FRAMES, Itc. PICTURES EEMOVAL. GEORGE W. YOLLITIVI, BOOK-BINDER! HAVING TAKEN THE STAND ON KAahuinanu Street, over the shop formerly occupied by J Lockwood, opposite Bishop 4r Co.'s bank, is now prepared to execute all orders for binding t*. Illualrnled \nrapnprri, Mu«lc« Old Boohs, A.C. Tumps, Bath Tubs, Wash Stands, Water Closets, etc, Workshop on King Street, in same building with Geo. C. 330-ly l'HtMJ»hl< HYDRAULIC RAMS, LIFTING Force 2__ Blders. Commission & Shipping Merchants, New York. Practical House and Ship Plumber. fitted up in the beat manner. All work done at the J3fiilowest rates and perfect satisfaction warranted. Boston. John. M. noon, Esq J AMKS 111JNNKWICLL, Esq., ~\ Charles Ukkwkk, Ksij., \ \ 11. A. Prikck, K> i Mrssks Mcßckr fc Merrill, > Cuas. Wolcott Brooks, hsq., J Missas. Wm. Postau & Co Mrssrs. Pkklk, Hcbbrll & Co JAMES J. O'DOIVIVLLL, Tery CHAS. 11. LUST ll* I. KAWAIIIAE. HAWAII, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping businea at theabove port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re' emits as are required by whale ships at theshortest notice, 320-ly and on the most reasonable terms. *Maav C. BREWER & CO., Honolulu, Onhu. —REFER TO— . Is " as BY George W. Macy, _* C. 11. WETMORE, M. D. PHYSICIAN fc SURGEON, HILO, HAWAII, S. I. N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the G-tf HILO DRUG STORE. Honolulu. Hl— BUCCIt&JORS TO Physician and Surgeon, Makce's Block,corner Queen and Kaa 320-ly humanu streets. H. A. T. CARTRR, l|j u lI—H ALLEN & BERRILL, E. HOFFMANN, >r. l>.. Honolulu. < 336-ly DENTIST. SHKHXIS rRC«, AMO.S. S. CISIKK Dr. Jaynes Medicines, Wheeler tr Wilson's Sewing Machines, Tin- New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash aswts t 2,350,000, Kaynolds, Devoe Aj Pratt—lmporters and Manu racturers of Paints, Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil, C. Van Home & o.'g Carriages and Carriage Materials. Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Bnilding, QUKEN STREET, HONOLULU. Will continue business at the new stand. 1. B. ATUERTON. CASTLE & COOKE, Importer* and Wholesale and Retail dealers in General Merchandise, in theFireproof Store inKing street, opposite tha Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR Particular attention paid to rebindine; old and choicebooks. Mr. Y. having had many years experience In book-binding In allits branches, hopes to receive ashareof thebusinessrequired in Honolulu. Orders from the other Islands, should be accompanied with particular directions, as to the style, and. If the work is tomatch volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sent * CASTLE COOKE, AGENTS FOR Wheeler & Wilson's SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND owned by the "Honolulu Sailors' Home Society," has recently been placed under the management of the undersigned. They hope, by strict attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the seafaring community. The House has teen built and fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their Teasels under repairs, are respectfully invited to send their crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort $6 Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. do. do. 6 Seamens' do. do. THE CAPTAIN AND MBS. OAT, Honolulu, March 1,1861. Managers. J.0. viaaiLL D. C. MRCRR. IfIcRUER & IfIERRILL, SEWING MACHINES! Commission Merchants l< MINK II as ALL THE LATEST impi ovements, and, in.addition IMIIS former premiums, waa awarded the highest prize above all European and American AUCTIONEERS, AMD M to Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS in 1861, and at the Exhibition in London in 1862. The evidence of the superiority ofthis Machine Is found in the record ofits sales. In 1861— The Oroverb Baker Company, Boston, The Florence Company, Massachusetts, The Parker Company, Connecticut, J. M. Singer I, Co., New York, u Kinkle h Lyon, Cuas. W. Howlund, Delaware, M. Greenwood a Co., Cincinnati, 0., N. B. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., Wilson 11. Smith, Connecticut, •old 18,560, whilst the Wheeler A Wilson Company, of Bridgeport, made and sold 10,726 during the same period. 11 tf Hr Pleaae Call aad Examine. " AGENTS OF THE Regular Dispatch Lane of Honolulu Packets. O" All freight arriving in transitu for the Sandwich Islands, will be received and forwarJed by the "Regular Dispatch Line', nil or commission. Particularattention paid to forwarding and transhipment ol merchandise, sale of whalemen's bills, and other exchange, Insurance of merchandise and specie under open policies, suppr ng whalethlps,chartering ships, etc. 117and 119 California, street, ssrsa TO I I Captain B Slow, Honolulu, Messrs. C Baiwia4/ Co., > ». 838-ly BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'B Watch and Jewelry Establishment, in Kaahumanu street, will be foand the following works : BIBLE, BOOK and TRACT DEPOSITORR, SAILOR'S HOME, HONOLULU the English. "QIBLES, BOOKS AND TRACTS, inWelsh, SwedjLJ French, Portuguese, German, ish and Spanish languages. These books are offered for sale, at cost prices, by the Hawaiian Bible and Tract Societies, but furnished —ALSO— Also, Office of The Fritnd, bound volumes for sale. Subscriptions received. N. B.—Seamen belonging to vessels lying "off and on," will be supplied with books and papers, by calling at the Depository, from 12 to 8 o'clock.lV.M. 8. C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. AT Almanacks for 1862. Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Assistant. Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. Ship's Compasses and Dividers. — —ALSO Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. —ALSO— Chronometers and Chronometer Watches. — — of other articles —ALSO English Charts of North and South Pacific A great variety —ALSO useful to the —AND— Mariner. Many ornamental articles, including Breut Pins, Rings, Cups, Ac, &c. Chronometers. given to repairing and rating BOUND VOLUMEB FRIEND, FROM 184ft t. 1868— i\VforTHE \J sate by the Publisher—Prlre tl per ralaase, GRATUITOUSLY TO THE SEAMEN. FRIEND^ A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: - - One copy, per annum, "... Two copies, Fire copies, • - • *^SJ *>9P 8.00 �24 THE FRIEND, >l \ X Editor's Table. I'i imirin's Papers.—Among our •lianges we havo long been receiving the Child Home, and tho Child's Paptr. There is a beauty, finish and artistic neatness about these little monthlies which renders them very attractive to children. The pleasure of distributing monthly one of these little visitors to each member of our Sabbath school, is very refreshing. How their faces brighten as the month conies around. Mrs. Brown, of Brooklyn, sister of a neighbor, is a constant contributor to the Child at Home. In a late number we notioed soui e beautiful lines occasioned by a visit to the grave of"Little Jamie, of Honolulu," who died during the visit of bis mother to her New England Monthly Several other monthly papers for children have recently been laid upon our table. The Prrsfiy/i rm a Stibbalh School Visitor, published in delphia, is a beautiful sheet. The Yonlh's Pi-nW Gazette is another sheet, published by the •rican S. S. Union. The Youth's Sunday nil Banner is another equally attractive it. Too much cannot be written in praise of these little messengers. Tho Rev. E. M. Long, of Norristown, Perm., the Prospectus of what ho stylos, Monthly Sabbath School Lotter," and Magazine of Good News for 1863." be most happy to place these publicun our list of exchanges, and if they prove equal to the prospectus (as we doubt not they will) we shall be glad to notice them in our columns. We should also be glad to add to our list of ezohanges The Little Pilgrim, edited by Grace Greenwood. Catalogues.—We would acknowledge a Vale College Catalogue for 186S, from an old friend, Rev. C. S. Lyman. Also, a catalogue of the College of California, from Mr. J. A. Daly. "The Day at Hand."—This is the title of an address delivered before the Synod of New York, in theScotch Church of New York, by Rev. J. Edson Rockwell, D. D., Minister "of the Central Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. This is an earnest and eloquent appeal to tho members of the Synod to be faithlnl in their Master's work, for the night is far spent," and the Day is at hand." Coming events surely are casting their deep and portentous shadows before tbem. We are upon tho eve of most stirring times. The year 1866 will not pass away without mighty commotions. There is a deep, underground murmur among the nations of the earth. In America, there is an upheaving of the surface. So also in China. The earth's political and moral crusts will soon break away in other spots. I Bus' " " Whence Originally came Good Rice.— The best variety of rice cultivated on the Sandwich Islands was originally imported by Mr. Holstein, of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Gardens. Ithas been generally supposed that the seed of the Carolina rice was imported from the East Indies. It is so stated in various scientific and commercial worlr*. The following item, clipped from an i 11 . 1863. American paper, would indicate another .source than the East Indies : " A member of the Ohio Legislature in a recent speech said ■ When the great Jefferson was our Ambassador at Paris he made a tedious journey over the Alps to examine into the rice culture of Sardinia, to learn to what was attributable the superiority of the Italian over the American rice, and finding it to consist in the quality of the seed, and learning also that the government, for that very reason, prohibited the exportation of rough rice, he filled every pocket of fcfl coat, breeches and waistcoat with the pkU cious grain, which he brought home for taPs, benefit of the South Carolina rice planters. And now our rice is better than any in the world.' " N. B.—lt is yet a question whether Carolina can raise better rice tlian the Sandwich Islands. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. : The Soldier's Relief Fund. —We are glad to learn that Americans on the Sandwich Islands, responded so generously and promptly to the call from America, for funds to assist the sick and disabled soldiers. The amount raised up to this time upon the islands, is $4,1G2. The following letter of acknowledgement (in part) from tlie President of the Sanitary Committee in New York, has been published, but wo take pleasure in giving additional publicity : U. S. Sanitary Commission. ) New York, Dec. 27, 1862. > To Altx. J. Cariwright. Chas. R. Bishop, B F. Snow, Edwin O. Hall and Sherman Peck, Committee: Gentlemen :—Your draft for twelve hundred dollars, in favor of the Sanitary Commission, has just been received and has passed into the hands of the Treasurer, who will enclose his formal receipt. I trust I need not assure you that it will be appropriated to the benefit of our sick and wounded soldiers, with all the conscientiousness of which our Commission, with its now large experience, are able to apply. The loyalty of the more distant parts of the United States, and especially thePacific Coast, to our beloved country in this hour of her distress, has been a most cheering feature in our clouded affairs. But nothing has touched the heart of the people more than the evidences of affection and devotion exhibited by our expatriated countrymen in all parts of the world ! They have proved true as the needle to the pole, to our Union and Constitution. Your own example gives ns only a new proof, that true Americans "change their climate, but not their minds ;" and that the isles of the sea" cannot isolate them from their country and its sacred cause, when they hear that the glorious inheritance our Fathers left us is in peril from their own degenerate sods. The munificence of your contributions surprises us, when we remember how few you must be ; but we know that great hearts make liberal bands. That God may bless you in your voluntary exile, and save you the pains of seeing, from your island home, your still dear and honored country rent iv pieces, is our earnest prayer. We do not intend to suffer suoh a calamity to o our, if courage, self-sacrifice, money and blood can prevent it. Nor amid many disasters and delays do we see any reason yet to despair of the Republic" Let us tbank God and take courage. Gratefully, your friend and servant, Henry W. Bellows, President. " " By the cliipper ship Archer, Capt. Creasy, arrived on Friday last from California, we which have received dates from the East to February 11. With the exception of an attempt by theCharlestonians to destroy or drive away the fleet blockading their harbor, the news is rather meagre. ARRIVALS. Jan. '29—Haw scb Marilda, English, 18 days from r'auning's 1 eland, with about 8000 rails, cocoanut oil. Feb. 9—Am sch Florence, Avery, 18 days from Ban Francisco. 11—Am bark Young Hector, Com. l'aty, 11 days from ban Francisco. Feb. 17—Haw. bark E. W. Wood, Geercken, 124 days from Bremen, and 105 days from Dover. 20—Olden'gship Oregon, Mammen, 144 days fm Bremen. 21—Am barkt. Constitution, Robinson, 21 days mi l*uget Bound, with 66,238 ft dressed and 157,941 ft rough lumber, 20 M shingles, 20 M laths, 10,620 feet of i pickets, to H. Hackfeld k Co. 27—Am clipper ship Archer, Creasy, l«t days from San Francisco, en route for Kanagatra and Shangli;ie, anchored outside. Sailed again swine day. , DEPARTURES. Feb, 7—Haw wh hark Florence, Jos. Spencer, for Hilo. 11—Haw sch Marllda, English, for Fanning* Inland. 13—Columbianbrig Lopud, Broii7.un. for San Francuo, in ballast. 17—Am bark Yankee, Tnylor, for San Francisco. 26—Am sch Florence, Avery, for San Francisco. PASSENGERS. For San Francisco— per Yankee, Feb. I"—J C Spalding, wife and 2 children, Miss Irwin, Miss Surah Clark, Capt Randolph, wife and 2 children, Honorshlea C 0 Hopkins, John li, and W Kapnakea, A M Goddard, D H Vida, Mr toll and servant, X Murphy, W Snyder, Q TT Filbrook, J R Mitchell—2l. From San Francisco—per Young Hector, Feb. 11—Miss M P Norton, Ur .1 James, A J Iladley, Robt Morgan, Jos Barber, 8 W Kirl.y, W Lewis, Wm Snyder, Chas Jarvis, J U Chisholm, Henry Porter. From ItatpiKN—per R. W. Wood, Feb. 17—Mrs Geercken, W I'flugur, C Wundenberg. From Port fpWsMI psf Constitution, Feb. 21—W Wait*. From San Fhancisco—per Archer, Feb 27—Rev Dr Anderson and wife, Mis.s Anderson, Mis& Gillson. MARRIED. Lack—MKYKKit—ln Honolulu, January 31, by Rev. S. C. Damon, Mr. Thomas Lack to Miss Sophia Meyers. DIED. Ladd—ln this city, February 8, William Ladd, formerly of Concord, N. 11., but for many years a resident here, aged 56 years. Owen—ln Honolulu,Feb. 26th, Mr. William Oven, a native of theUnited Slates. lie has resided fur sereral years at the Society Islands, and was engaged in the shfp-carpentcrlng business at Tahiti. Hehas a sister residing in San Francisco. His funeral was attended from the Bethel, on the afternoon of Feb. 27th. Johnson—ln Honolulu, Feb. 24. Freeborn Johnson, sged &• years, a native of Plymouth, England, but for many years a resitlent of this place. He leaves a wifeand child. BtddLbt—ln Honolulu,Feb. 24, of typhoid fever, Sarah H. A. Stud ley, daughter of Mrs. 8. Savidge, aged 8 years. Ccrtis— At Walluku, East Maui, Feb. 14, William Curtis, a native of New York, U. S-, but for many /ears a resident of these Islands. Osbohne—At the Maine Hotel, In Honolulu, Feb. 12, Mr James Osborne, belonging to Cambridge, England. Dimokd—ls, Brooklyn, N. V., Mr. Isaac M. Dimond, aged 59 years. The deceased was a brother of our fellow townsman, Mr. Henry Dimond. In the tndependtnt of Januaay Ist, we find a most honorable mention of his Christian virtues, and honorable character as a merchant and citizen. Our sheet being Justready to go to press, alone prevents ns from inserting the notice in full. Information Wanted! Respecting Grorgt Heron wholeft the Thames" steamer at Honolulu, and is supposed to be at work ii|Kin theislands. Respecting Oetavius Blytk, who, on the 28d of January, 1847, at Tahiti, shipped onboard the French whaleship "Ferdinand" and was discharged at Honolulu, the 13th of December, of same year. Ills family have not since heard from him. His father, D. O. Blyth, resides In Colchester, Kssex, England. Any information will be gladly received by theeditor, or R. C. Wyllie, Esq. " Respecting Roiierl Leßoy McOinnys. He hallsfrom Italti more, and was on boardthe "Silver Star" whenshe was wrecked upon a guano Island In 1800. He returned to Honolulu, but since that date no intelligence has been received from him. Any information will be tnankfully received by his mother Mrs. Elisabeth JaneMcQinnys, of New Orleans, or by the Editor. Respecting, Arnold R. Austin, of Providence, R. 1., who left the ship Rodman, about 1862, at Honolulu. Perhaps Capt. Spencer may recall this man, if so, please communicate with Mrs. C. B. Austin of Providence or editor of the Friend. � 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 (1863) 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 - 1863.03.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.03.02