https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d8dbf48d52154de47736f026b094b105.pdf c59e09a9baa6a51d2215e37c332d1a41 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND 25 gt.4.! HONOLULU. APRIL I, 1863. the CONTENTS For April, 1803. Declai n of the Rupre*ne Court One Hundred Wars Ago—(lranville Sharp More Uncle Turn Literature..". Cause or the Civil War in America Original L'tUv of Thomas Clarkson Bishop Colenso Again A British Surveying Vessel A Kf tired Shipmaster Kleven Shipsand their Cargoes A Monument to CaptHin Cook Lancashire Fund TheSabbath Ilymi. Book—A Review Marine Journal, fee I'A08. 25 '26 26 26 27 27 28 28 28 29 29 30 32 THE FRIEND. U'RII, 1, 1863. the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of the Liquor Law. Decision of In view of this decision a neighbor remarked, who is well versed in Hawaiian history, " I feel that we really have something for which to be proud, in Hawaii nei." We can add that next to the fact (hat we have a Constitution is this, that we have able, high-minded and learned Judges to expound that Constitution. Perhaps we ought also to add that we are living in the midst of a law-abiding and well-ordered community. In order that our foreign readers may understand the merits of this decision, we would remark, that under the Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the Legislature passed laws prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors to Hawaiians. With sorrow we publish it, there are some in our community who would break down this law. For years there has been a suppressed and lurking feeling in many minds that the law was unconstitutional. Under that feeling there has been a " winking" at its partial violation, on the part of the executive officers Violators of the law of the Kingdom. the law was prejudged growing ffcre bold, and at length a case was unconstitutional, as brought before the Police Court, and a fine imposed. An appeal was made to the Supreme Court. This was well understood in community, ns designed to test the constitutionality of the law. The case was ahly argued on both sides. Every opportunity was given for a fair trial. In our February issue we published the argument of the Attorney-General. The lawyers on the opposite side did not fail to put forth their most potent arguments. The Hawaiian Courts have seldom witnessed a more able, eloquent and learned display of forensic talent. The Court took ample time to make up its opinion. That opinion has now been given and published. The decision was given by Justice Robertson, and fully concurred'in by Chief Justice Allen. These gentlemen fully sustain the decision of"the Police Justice. In presenting their decision our Judges have gone most fully into the merits of the Hawaiian Constitution, showing from whence it was derived, and upon what it is founded. It would be quite impossible for us to present even an outline of this most able of decisions. Unless we are much mistaken it is among the ablest, if not the ablest, court and state document which has ever appeared in this Kingdom. We now know better than ever before where we stand. King and people, foreigners and natives, have their prerogatives and rights better defined. Englishmen may boast of Constitution," Americans of the " British theirs, and so may Hawaiians boast of theirs. We cannot refrain from adverting to one point, dwelt upon by the Attorney General, and still more clearly brought out by both Justice Robertson and Chief Justice Allen. The point to which we refer is this, that the Hawaiian Constitution is not founded upon the voice of the people as in the United States, nor was it extorted from the Sovereign as in England, but was the free gift of of H. M. Kamehameha 111., King of the Sandwich Islands. We hope our readers will not fail to give this decision a thorough reading. It will well repay the perusal. »Smrs, M.20. Something worth telling about Sugar. On Saturday last, Dr. Judd exhibited a specimen of sugar, of a most excellent quality, which he said was manufactured the day before, from cane growing in Nuuanu valley, fieport says, that in four hours from the time the cane was brought to the mill, at Mr. John Wood's Plantation, it was ground, the syrup brought to town and run through the clarifiers at the Sugar .Refinery, and ready for use ! We saw the sugar. Now if Mr. Wood has demonstrated that a small mill can manufacture sugar profitably, on a small scale, we consider that he is a benefactor to the Sandwich Islands. There are many places where the land will not warrant the outlay of a large capital, but it would supply cane for a small mill. Besides, we have many small capitalists who do not wish to go extensively into the sugar-gTowing business. Lahaina Sugar.—The cane-growers and mill-owners, at Lahaina, have had their patience severely tested, but we are glad to see specimens of their sugar now coming into market. We sometimes take a stroll along our wharfs, and see the products which are landed from the other islands. The quality of the Lahaina sugar is good, and certainly reflects great credit upon Mr. Spencer and others, who have*commenced its manufacture under great disadvantages. We believe Lahaina will produce as good sugar as any locality on the islands. Rice and Rice Mills.—Until we began Hawaiian grown rice we never knew what good rice was. Our market is now supplied with an article of Hawaiian grown and cleaned rice, which is very superior. If any one doubts it, let him purchase a bag St Capt. Snow's store, cleaned at Mr. Prendergast's mill. As an article of food, it shouM be more and more generally introduced. Hard as the times are, it will be possible to obtain good rice. There is no healthier of cheaper food for children. to eat �THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. 26 One hundred Years Ago—Granville Sharp. No person can understand or appreciate the present struggle now progressing, and the conflict now raging, in America, who is unacquainted with the history of the slave trade, as conducted by the merchants of England, and the final abolition of that trade by the labors of such men as Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce. One hundred years ago the trade was regularly conducted as a lawful branch of British commerce. Slave owners were accustomed to visit London with their chattels, and whip them as a London drayman would whip his horse. Just one hundred years ago it may be said the contest fairly commenced, when the abominations should be brought to an end. Wonderful indeed are the ways of Divine Providence. " Church and State" were quietly sleeping over the evils of the slave tiade. Now, mark ye, God was educating in the family of a Quaker, a young man who should finally make judges, lawyers, nobles and the nation submit to his opinions upon this subject. (s}kanvillk Sharp, the grandson of an Archbishop of York, was apprenticed to a Quaker linen draper. While in that man's family, Sharp says he was taught " the proper distinction between the opinions of men and their persons." Time rolled on, and young Sharp becomes an under-clerk in one of the Government offices. While toiling in that capacity, poor and unknown, a slave owner from Barbadoes brought to London one of his slaves, by the name of Jonathan Strong. The master brutally whipped the man, and turned him adrift a friendless outcast in the streets of London. Poor, lame and homeless, he attracted the attention of Granville Sharp, the clerk and linen draper's apprentice. Our limits will not allow us to enter upon a full history of this and subsequent trials, which finally resulted in compelling the highest Court of England, presided over by Lord Mansfield, to make a decision that forever settled,the question, so far as England proper was concerned, that slavery could not exist in that country. Writes Cowper: "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs ReceivA our air, that moment they are free. They touch our countryand theirshackles fall." Thep it was that Lord Mansfield enunciated certain great principles, which have been gradually and slowly extending their inshence over the civilized world. The on- ward tide of abolition has been flowing for one hundred years. At times it has seemingly ebbed, but never really so—onward, rrmoard, it has flowed, until the President of the United States comes forth, on the Ist of January, 1883, with his Emancipation Proc- lamation, liberating 4,000,000 slaves. This proclamation is simply a natural sequence to what has gone before. It is only one of the waves in the abolition tide sweeping over the globe. Some men are striving to arrest this onward rushing tide, but their puny efforts will be as fruitless as that of 'the old King Canute, sovereign of Denmark, Norway and England, who ordered his courtiers to place his chair on the shore, where the tide was flowing in. The poor, silly old dotard, seating himself in the chair, thus addressed the sea "Hitherto shalt tsvu come, and no farther." Did the inward rushing tide obey his mandate? Alike vain, futile and absurd are all the efforts ofpro slavery and secession men in America, England or the Sandwich Islands, who imagine that negro-chattel slavery will be perpetuated. If, reader, you are faint-hearted and desponding, study the past. Would you visit Granville Sharp's grave, go to Westminister Abbey, and there among the torSbstones of England's noblest *ons, you will find one bearing this inscription : " Granville Sharp, to whom England owes the glorious verdict of her highest court of law, that the slave who sets his foot on British ground, becomes that instant : free." More Uncle Tom Literature. The January number of the Atlantic Monthly contains " A Reply," from the pen of Mrs. Stowe. Our readers may ask, " A Reply" to what ? It appears that a few years ago more than half a million of British women, including persons of all ranks of society, addressed a letter to Mrs. Stowe, imploring her aid to wipe out the crime of slavery from the United States. This letter was written on vellum and the signatures filled twenty-six folio volumes. It was forwarded to America with a letter of a British nobleman, now occupying one of the highest official positions in England. Mrs. Stowe, it appears, has never until now publicly replied to this letter. Her "Reply" will be found in the January number of the Atlantic Monthly. We hope it will be read by every surviving signer of that letter, and by every woman residing in England, or any part of the British Empire. The North is now engaged in a struggle into which they have been compelled to plunge, by the South boasting that the slave-roll shall yet be called upon Bunker Hill!! The South openly avow their purpose of making negro chattel slavery the corner-stone of theirConfederacy ! The last cry which comes upfrom the South is this: "No mediation; we must conquer or be conquered!" We do hope all the good people of England who sympathize with the South, will read Mrs. Stowe's «' Reply." The Cause of the Civil War In America. In our last issue we made some remarks upon the civil war in America. We asserted that slavery was its cause. We are still of that opinion, notwithstanding the remarks of the Editor of the Polynesian, in his issue of March 14th, and those of a contributor to the Polynesian, in the issue of the 7th, whose signature is " K." It is not our purpose to enter upon a newspaper controversy with these gentlemen. We think if any one will carefully read over their remarks, the tinct impression will be left upon the mind, that we have at least two writers in our community who would not be very much shocked in their moral sensibilities if they were actually living in South Carolina! According to their view, slavery is not so very bad a system after all. "X" remarks, "As to its operation [slavery] upon the slaves themselves, 1 can point to them as the best cared for four millions of human beings on the face of the earth." If Mr. K." has any children, we wonder he does not place them under that best system. We wonder he does not place himself there ! Shame ! Shame ! So does Mr. A. care for his pigs, Mr. B. for his sheep, Mr. C. for his horses and Mr. D. for his cattle. Now, Mr. "K." says the slaves are " healthy, happy and useful." Whether Mr. " K." ever visited the South we cannot say, but to offset his assertion that the slaves are " healthy, happy and useful," we will introduce the testimony of one who formerly lived amongst us, and is the son of one of our merchants, and now the Chaplain of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment, stationed in North Carolina. The Rev. William F. Snow, writing a few days since to an old friend, employs this language : " You will remember that my views on the slavery question were what are called conservative. Those views are now changed. Since I have been here 1 have learned to hate slavery with a perfect hatred. When I see how it not only maltreats and defrauds the black man, but also debases and brutalizes the white, stunting the intellect, quenching the finer sensibilities, and obliterating the conscience, 1 am ready to cry— Away with the accursed thing from the face of the earth ! And when I see, as I have on two marches, the negroes hail our advancing columns as their deliverance; when I find them willing to brave hunger, cold, fatigue and danger from lurking guerillas, in order to escape; when my heart is pained to its core at the sight of weak women and toddling infants struggling onward beside our army, with naked feet torn and bleeding over the frozen ground; is it aov wonder that my old ideas are blown awjf as chaff, and that Isa forbid that this contest should close until the possibility of such things in the future is clean gone forever! May all the people say,' Amen !' " - �27 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1 863. Original Letter from Thomas Clarkson, Never before Published. In examining the papers of the late William Ladd, Esq., a manuscript letter of Thomas Clarkson was discovered. It was in his own hand-writing. It was addressed to the Rev. J. Diell, Secretary of the Sandwich Islands Institute. We doubt not many of our readers will be exceedingly interested in the perusal of this letter, written by one of Nature's Noblemen, whose efforts contributed so essentially to the abolition of the slave trade. [cop ii.] near Ipswich, Suffolk, August 26, 1839. Sic :—I acknowledge the receipt of your letter making me an honorary member of the Sandwich Islands Institute, and that I approve of the laws and rules of it. As I am now in my eightieth year, and nearly blind, you must expect but a very short letter, even though I have been so much honored. I received also from Mr. Beaver five of your printed Essays. I am glad to find that the members of your Institute employ their time so usefully. Their publications, while they do honor to themselves, willfurnish the people of Europe with the most interesting and gratifying information, and indeed every one who is solicitous of the happiness and welfare of the uncivilized world. There is one circumstance more to be deplored than any other in the part of the globe which you inhabit, which is that the kings are owners of all the soil, nor will it be an easy matter toremedy it. Could they be persuaded to let out their land to tenants, as in Europe, they would still have the property of the islands as before, and sufficient authority over their people for the purposes of government. I am aware that no man wishes to part with power. But still this is a vital desideratum, and a step which must at some time or other be taken, or there is a bar to all improvement. Such a step would promote industry and labor, and labor would promote health, and perhaps stop the devastating havoc made in your population, which no man can read without horror. Akin to this is the power which the kings have over the property of the people : whatever a man may earn, it is not his own. Whatever he may have gotten by his industry belongs to the king, his poultry, his pigs, his fisa>—who, then, would labor with any spirit, when what he acquired in this way may be taken from him. These are the two evils against which you will have to contend, before the condition of the common people can be ameliorated ; and I trust that some way will be discovered by which you may remedy them by degrees. Other nations have been in ihe same state of society, where these evils do not now exist. What has been done once may be done again, though this must be a work of time. I have sent you a little work, just now publishe3—my History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade." It contains my own labors, and those of others, from the year 1785 to 1792 or % in that noble cause, and it has Playford Hall, " now been republished at the request of many enlightened and most respectable individuals. I am thinking of following up this subject by a subsequent history of my proceedings in that great cause, from 1792 to the present year, 1839, but whether I shall live to finish it, at my advanced age, I do not know. I have sent you, also, for your library, another little book, which 1 think may be interesting to you, and which has been lately published. It is called, " China and its State and Prospects." I think it may be very useful to you in your part of the world, and furnish many useful hints. I believe you have some intercourse with this people. Perhaps you will not understand the preface to my own book, " History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade." It is written by Lord Brougham. The sons of my late dear and valued friend Mr. Wilberforce, attacked me in a very unhandsome manner, in writing the history of their father's life, but the people of England were roused, and they have been completely silenced. I find 1 have written till I am quite wearied and can write no more. I can therefore only send you my best wishes that your endeavors for the good of the poor natives among whom you liveunay be blessed by Providence I am, Sir, yours truly, Thomas Clarh*son. P. S.—I need not tell you, who are liberal and enlightened men, how, in trying to remedy the two evils above-mentioned, you must steer clear of slavery. John Diell, Cor. See., of the Sandwich Islands Institute. Bishop Colenso Again. Newspapers continue to come to us, abounding with remarks and refutations of the Bishop's book. The most interesting document which has yet fallen under our notice, is the letter of " A former Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge," addressed to the Bishop. This letter originally appeared in the London Record. It is evidently written by one fully the Bishop's equal in learning, erudition and research. Our limits will not allow us to copy the whole letter, but we think the following portion will give the reader a good idea of its general tenor: Lord to her, and that she found prayer answered, un# that all this was proved sincere by her blameless and harmless walk amongst the neighbors ; whilst I, with all my science and investigation, was barren and unprofitable, and miserable —an unbeliever in heart, and yet not daring to avow it, partly from the fear of man, but more from a certain inward conviction that all my skeptical difficulties would be crushed and leaped over by the experience of the most illiterate Christian. 1 was perfectly ashamed to feel in my mind like Voltaire, Vol'ney, or Tom Paine. I could claim no originality in my views; and I found they were no comfort, but a constant source of misery to me. May we not compare this kind of state to that which God speaks of in Jeremiah xlix : " Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart." And observe what follows: "Hear the counsel of the Lord. Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out." It may now be asked bow 1 camo ever to view Divine truth differently. I desire to ascribe all praise to him to whom power belongeth; I desire to put my own mouth to the dust, and be ashamed, and never open my mouth any more, because of my former unbelief. I cannot describe all I passed through, but I desire with humility and gratitude, to say I was made willing in a day of Christ's power. He sweetly melted down my proud heart with his love ; He shut my mouth forever from caviling at any difficulties in the written Word; and one of the first things in which the great change appeared was, that whereas before time-preaching had been misery, now it became my delight to be able to say. without a host ofskeptical or infidel doubts rushing into my mind " Thus saith theLord." 0, I am quite certain no natural man can see the things of God; and lam equally certain he cannot make himself do so. "It was the Lord that exalted Moses and Aaron," said Samuel; and " By the grace of God I am what 1 am," said St. Paul; and so, in a modified and humble sense, 1 can truly say. It used to be a terrible stumbling-block to me to find so many learned nan, so many acute men, so many scientific men, infidels. It is not so now ; I see that God has said, " Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;" I see, as plainly as it is possible for me to see anything, that no natural man can receive the things of the spirit of God. Hence I expect to find men of thin stamp of intellect coming out boldly with -their avowals of unbelief in the written Word of God. The only answer I can give to them is, " God has in mercy taught me better;" and never do I sing those beautiful words in the well known hymn, but I feel my eyes filling with tears of gratitude to the God of all compassion : : "Jesus sought ate when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God." it was with me; so it must be with any one mo many an hour of of So them if ever they are to know the truth in its 1 really felt what 1 so power, or to receive the love of the truth that man It would have spared misery in after days had went into often said, vis: that the deeper a science, the humbler he ought to be. and the more cautious in pronouncing an independent opinion on a suhject ho had not investigated, or could not thoroughly sift. But, though all this was true, I had yet to learn that this humility in spiritual things is never found in a natural they may be saved. I feel very much for the young of this generation, remembering the conflicts I passed through in consequence of the errors of men of ability. 1 hope the Lord will graciously impress on maSy hearts the serious truth of these words, " Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit;" and The wisdom of this world is foolishness with "God." My own way of explaining it to myself and others, when required to do so, is by saying, It is not the mind, bot the affections which re"ceive true religion. ' Knowledge puffetb up, but charity edifieth.' " I remain, my dear Sir, your obedient servant, A Former Fellow or man. I took orders and hegan to preach, and then, like the Bishop among the Zulus, I found out the grand deficit in my thoology. I had not the Spirit's teaching myself, and how could I without it speak " in demonstration of the Spirit and of power?" In vain did 1 read Chalmers, Paley, Butler, (Juußscn, Ac, and determine that,as 1 had masTrinity Oollkob, Cabuuudob. tered all the other subjects I had grappled with, Oct. 15,18G2. so I would the Bible, and that I would make myself a believer. I found a poor ignorant old Men are greatly tried by the extremes woman in my parish more than a match for me things. fortune, was distressed to find of and be is really a great man who I that in Divine she was often happy in the evident mercy ot the can withstand both. �28 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 18 0 3. THE FHI END,. APRIL 1, 1863. A British Surveying Vessel. H. B. M. surveying sing Hecate arrived in our port a few days since, from Acapulco in Mexico. She has been engaged for several years surveying in the vicinity of Vancouver's Island, and is now on her homeward passage, via Navigator Inlands and Sydney. We know not what feelings the sight of a surveying vessel calls up in the minds of our readers, but to us a surveying vessel appears to be one of the most important, necessary and useful of all vessels afloat. Think for one moment, what is their object ? They are cruising over the ocean to ascertain the correct position of reefs, shoals, rocks, sand-spits, islands, and whatever else may facilitate or retard navigation, commerce and the intercourse of nations. Who then will not join in the prayer of the put* Cowper ? " Heaven speed the canvas gullantly unfurled To furnish and accommodate a worlu !" Vessels engaged in this praiseworthy employment ore true pioneers of commerce, guardians of trade, handmaids of science, harbingers of Christianity and friends of humanity. We know very well that a surveying vessel does not attract the attention of a frigate or a line-of-battle-ship, when cruising around the globe, but that does not matter! In our humble estimation, one surveying vessel actively employed; is really conferring more benefit upon a nation's commerce than a whole fleet of " three-deckers," sailing over the ocean " looking" after the interests of commerce. England, France and the United States have been supporting large naval armaments in the Pacific for many years, and yet how little has been done to improve the "charts" of the Pacific during the last quarter of a century. We sometimes think that our naval commanders are really afraid to sail out of the old beaten track of .navigation, lest they might possibly be wrecked. They give all supposed rocks and shoals a "wide borth," whereas it should be their business to ascertain where they are to be found and whether properly laid down upon tfeir charts. We could mention whole groups of islands where no surveying vessel has ever cruised. There are literally thousands of islands, reefs and shoals, which need to be accurately surveyed. Scarcely a single island or reef of the Marshall and Caroline Islands has ever been accurately surveyed. The whole of that portion of the Pacific known as Micronesia needs to be explored and surveyed. Every year wrecks occur because the charts are so defective. Only a few months since report reached Honolulu that three British wrecks were piled up upon a single reef or low island to the westward of Ascension. The Liholiho was sent away " wrecking," and serious feßrs are entertained that she too may have become a wreck and her crew met a worse We have been hoping the United States would fit out surveying vessels for the Pacific, but we fear home troubles will prevent it. Would that suitable representations might go to the British Admiralty and cause them to send the Hecate back into the Pacific, accompanied by half a dozen smaller craft, which might make a thorough survey of the vast regions of the Pacific lying between the Sandwich Islands and China. There is work enough for a score of surveying vessels for the next twenty years. When we reflect upon the enormous annual cost of a large vessel of war, and the comparatively useless employment in which many of them are engaged, we must express our surprise that the " heads" of Naval Bureaus cannot be persuaded to devote a greater amount to surveying and less to cruising! more to sounding and less to fighting ! more to ascertaining the location of rocks and shoals and less to avoiding them ! In conclusion we congratulate Capt. Richards and his officers in completing their long and tedious cruise, and would express our earnest wish that when they have once more visited '• merrie old England," they may be sent back to the Pacific to finish up the work left unfinished by Anson, Cook, Vancouver, La Perouse, Belcher, Wilkes, and all the other navigators of former years. fate! A Retired Shipmaster. It is no easy undertaking for a shipmaster or any sea-faring man to retire from the sea, and quietly settle down on shore. Having for years roamed over the ocean and visited foreign lands, the quiet and every-day scenes of shore-life appear tame. Not a few trying it are sadly disappointed, from the fact that they lose their property. Their investments are not carefully made. Very many of our old friends, among whalemen, have been most sadly bitten by unfaithful agents who have pretended to be their friends. We could mention the names of many old shipmasters, who had acquired a competence in the whaling business, but who have been stripped of the last dollar! We deeply feel for such men. It afforded us great pleasure to hear a favorable report of one retired shipmaster, from whom it was our privilege to have received, some years ago, acts of disinterested kindness. We refer to Capt. David Wood, who commanded the United States transport steamer Massachusetts, which visited Hono- lulu in 1849, bound to Oregon, with United States troops. Capt. Wood kindly offered us a free passage from the Islands to Oregon, and from thence to San Francisco. We accepted the offer, and enjoyed the trip to Oregon and California beyond what language could well describe. Years have passed away without our learning anything about our friend and benefactor, her.ee we were delighted to read the following in a letter from another old visitor and friend, the Rev. H. Wood, late Chaplain of the Powhatan, which conveyed the Japanese Embassy to the United States. The Rev. Mr. Wood, now stationed in the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. 11., thus writes under date of January 10th, 180^: " I lately visited my cousin, Capt. Wood, of Ncwburyport. He quit the sea eight years ago, quite independent, and now devotes all his efforts to the Sabbath School (of which he is superintendent) and works of piety." We are delighted to learn that one whom we so highly esteem is thus favorably situated and usefully employed. He seems to be enjoying the quiet old age described by Cicero, in the oft-quoted saying, Otium cum dignitate." Capt. Wood was a" graduate of Cambridge University (1814) and a classmate of Prescott the Historian. It is well known that Mr. Prescott was partially blind, so much so, that he was always obliged to employ a reader and amanuensis. We recollect dipt. Wood's account of the circumstances under which Mr. Prescott lost his eye-sight. While as students they were seated at a dinner table, in Public Commons, a classmate threw a crumb of bread, which struck Prescott in one of his eyes. The other became affected through sympathy. Eleven Ships and their Cargoes. "Mr. Pierson, a rich Wcslcjran Motliodist of Hull, Kngland, lias lost eleven valuable vessels in attempting to run our blockade, and he hag failed in consequence." We clip the above paragraph respecting a Mr. Pierson, from a late exchange paper. We wonder what John Wesley would have said about this member of the Wesleyan Church, who has been ruined while attempting to bolster up a Confederacy takjig for its "corner-stone" negro-chattel which Mr. Wesley declared to be the sum " of all villainies." Mr. Pierson ought to console his mind, in view of his ruined prospects, from the fact that he has contributed 11 ships and their cargoes" to support the blockade ! The U. S. Government has thereby received a contribution of a million more or less. We would suggest that Mr. Pierson change his politics and plans, and instead of sending his ships to run the blockade, follow the example of a certain American ship-owner, who is furnishing one of his ships, freight free, to convey provisions to the starving poor of Lancashire. " �29 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. memory. At this meeting I Capt. Kichards, of H. B. M. ship Hecate, \ Capt. James Cook was killed at Kealake- suggested that a light house near the en- | akua Bay, on the 14th of February, 1779 trance of Honolulu harbor, would be an op- j eighty-four years ago, and yet no appropriate propriate monument to Cook's memory. The and becoming monument has ever been following resolutions were then unanimously carried: erected to his memory. In the Church of "Resolved, That, in the opinion of this meeting, a LightHarbor, to be called St. Andrew's, the Great, Cambridge. Eng- HOI'SK, near the entrance of Honolulu * Cook's Light House,' would tie the most appropriate nionucommunion Capt. tablet near the Cook. nieut to the of memory there is u land, That a public melting he railed for Monday next, " Resolved, table, with this inscription : with a view to taking hleps to raise lite required funds to carry memorate Cook's A Monument to Capt. Cook. — is mkmort or CAPrAIN JAMES COOK, OF TIIK ROYAL NAVY, Cne of the m.»t Celebrated Navigators that tins or former ages can boast of, Who was killed by tho natives of Owhyee, In the IMciße Ocean, on Uie 14th of February, 1719, In the 61st year of his age. It has been our privilege twice to visit the spot where Capt. Cook fell. The first time on the 4th of July, 1844, and again on the 20th of lebruary, 1859, the anniversary of his burial. By referring to the Irvend of August Ist, 1844, we find the following record of our first visit: stump of a cocoa-nut has been set "inThe fissure of the rocks to mark the the up spot where Cook fell, only a few feet from the water's edge. It is five feet high, one foot in diameter at the top and two at the base. This simple monument bears three inscriptions on copper plate : No. 1—" Near this spot, tell Captain James Cook, H. N., tho renowned circumnavigator, who discovered tho islands, A. 1)., 1778." Oct. 17,1837." '• His Majesty's Ship Imogene, No 2—" This shoot and coppering put on by in order to the Sparrow-hawk, Sept. 10, 1839, preserve the monument to tho memory of Cook. No. 3—" This bay was visited July 4th, 1848, Lord liy H. B. M. Ship Carytforl, the Rt. Hon. (in I'uulet, Captain ; who was the representative of H«r Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria. These Islands were ceded Feb. 25, 1843." Tradition reported that the identical cocoanut tree, bearing the above inscriptions, was partially cut off by a ball from Cook's ship at the time he was killed. The top of tho tree was taken to England by Capt. Bruce, of H. B. M. ship Imogene. All that now remains, we believe, is simply inscription No. 1. The topic of a monument to Cook has been often discussed and warmly advocated, especially by all English navigators, seamen and visitors. A subscription was first commenced fc# the purpose in March, 1859, by the late Acting Commissioner, B. Toup Nicholas, who took a deep interest in the matter* In consequence of his death the awhile longer, affair was allowed to slumber partially upon the ground that Gen. Miller was expected to return to the islands, and it was confidently hoped he would have revived subject. Mr. Green, while Acting Bri- the subscriptions tish Commissioner, received amounting to $889, and about $200 additional was pledged. On Friday last, March 27th,a Mr. Synge, at H B M Commissioner, called meeting, effectualwere taken to which initiatory steps ly carry out some plan which should meet the public expectations and becomingly com- out this undertaking/ The following minutes of the proposed meeting, we present as furnished by Mr. Spencer, Secretary of the said meeting: LancshireFund. We learn from Mr. Synge, the British Commissioner, that the subscription for the poor of Lancashire has already amounted to $3,850. Among the late donations, there was one of $11,78, brought by a poor kanaka from the remote and secluded district of Waipio, on Hawaii. The native remarked, us he paid over this donation, that he had read in the newspaper respecting the sufferings of the poor people of England, and he had collected among his neighbors this amount. We are confident the poor Hawaiian never gave this money to have it reported, but we say let it be published beside " the widow's two mites," for his sake and the sake of his countrymen, whose Christian character has been so needlessly assailed and misrepresented by Mr. Manly Minutes of a Meeting held at the Court House, on the 'M)th day of March, 1803, to decide on the iito.it appropriate monument to the memory oj Capt. James Cook Proposed by Mr. Synge, and seconded by Mr. Green, that Capt. Richards, of H M. S. Hecate, take the chair. Carried. Proposed by Mr. Suvidge, and seconded by Mr. Hopkins, Hawaiian Consul in London, in Montgomery, that Mr. S. Spencer be SeereUry of his recent work on the Sandwich Islands. l his meeting. Carried. We only hope Mr. Hopkins may visit the Proposed by Mr. Pfluger, and seconded by Mr. of Waipio, before he publishes a Qreen, that the folUwing resolution, proposed by people second edition of his work. We would Mr. meeting Synge's Richards at a held at Capt. residence, on the 26th inst., be adopted by this meet- merely add, that the Valley of Waipio is in : ing, viz: "Thatin Uie opinion of this meeting, a lighthouse near the entrance or Honolulu harbor, to lie called * Cook's Lighthouse,' wouldbe the most appropriate monument to the memory of Capt. Cook." Carried. the parish of the Rev. L. Lyons, through whose energetic labors, during the last thirty years, the gospel has been brought home to the people of that part of Hawaii, and where there have been built, in his parish, (or rather bishopric,) no less than 13 or 14 small churches, several of which are surmounted with neat cupolas and bells ! It is certainly a noteworthy fact, that the poor people of this district should have been moved by their own free-will, to send forward their subscriptions Jo the poor of Lancashire. The Cowper woujd hffve aptly described tnaßßwregioii only a few years ago : But the sound of church-going hell, These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared." P. S.—Since wnting the above, we have met with the following list of the Waipio Proposed by Capt. Babcooli, and seconded by Mr. Heuck, " That a committee of five be appointed, one of whom shall be Treasurer, to collect further contributions, and to report progress nt a meeting of the subscribers, to be convened (or the purpose, within three months from the present time." Carried. Proposed by Mr. Synge, and seconded by Mr. Goodale, that the following gentlemen be appointed for the committee: Capt. Meek, Messrs. Webster, Pfluger, Severanoe, and Green. Carried. Proposed by Mr. Satidge, and seconded by Mr. Green, that a committee of seven be appointed to recommend a position for the lighthouse,—Capt. Richards to be one of the committee." Carried. The following gentlemen were then duly appointed: Captains Richards, liubcock, Meek, J. Brown, Berrill, Messrs. Prendergust and Webster. Proposed by Mr. G. Rhodes, ond seoonded by Mr. Synge, that the committee of five apply to the principal Insurance Offices abroad, and to such other persons as the committee may see fit, for contribu- donors to the Lancashire tions towards the object in view, and that the said oa newspaper: committee prepare a circular letter for that purpose. k " U. W. D. Halemanu, Carried. Kaalelc A vote of thanks was then unanimously passed to Kahananul 1, the chairman, Capt. Kichards. Kaaua Kaalihikaua. The meeting then adjourned. Kahananul 2, .1. W. Kausrahl, A new edition of Cook's Voyages lies Aua, Kua, before us, published by A. & C. Black, of Kuaana, Edinburgh, 1860. It is edited by John Hoke, I'ahau, Barrow, Esq., F. K. S„ dec. At the close Kimo Kahilipulu of the book, on page 631, we find this para- Makaalnana. graph : " One thing yet remains to be done. A public monument to Capt. Cook, and one worthy of his great achievements, the benefits he has rendered to mankind, and the lustre shed by his name on the Navy of England—some noble Light House in the pathway of all nations, which may lead them safely to their respective havens ; or if this cannot be, at least a statue in Trafalgar Square, where Dr. Jenner and Sir Charles Napier are most grieviously out of place, occupying as they do the site of statues of Collingwood, Hardy, St. Vincent, Howe, Duncan," &c. Kallmakahl, Ksaiiksna (Haole,) Nawahlna, Kawaihae Lele, Makuakane K. Kaalialama, Kallleleele T. Walokalehua Kamiol, Kaluna, Aa-alua, Kalllksnl, Kalawaia, Kalakunlai, Kanaloa, Kaholokahlkl Kaal, Kanokoa, Nalua, N. Kelkenul Kapehs, Psele. Fund, in the Kuo- 121JKoko 13J Makaa, 12iKukunr, 13IKaubie 1*..Mi", 13IKoo 60IKapule, 26SKik.u, 12tKeaka, 36SKaluna, IS1 Puaanui 12iKalllkes, 18I I'alm-J 12! Mahoe ISI Kahaolenui, 12I Kahili 60IKekumu MI Kaumeli lau fc Ana, 12!Moi ISI l-alupalu 12! Kralanalirl<, 26 Kuapuhi, 25] i 36>|Kauakehaikuli 26.iKaelemakulc, 26.Muli.ai 131Kukahekahe 12 Pupuk'iiul, 13uPaaoao, 12iNaiwl IS!Maka. 121Ikeole,. •••• IS!Napua, 1211Mamakakaua, Kahlanwe, 13.J. W. 121Kshawala 18;1Haataaa, > : 26| Waipio, Hawaii, *«r, 28.18M. 13 18 13 13 36 13 IS 11 IS 13 36 18 12 18 13 13 10 13 18 08 13 18 11 IS 26 13 IS 11 18 11 1» 12 IS 12 a* 26 •*• �30 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. EDITOR'S TABLE. A. Review. Tin Sabbath Hymn Book—For the service of Song in the House of the Lord. Published by Mason Brothers, New York. A good hymn, suited to the purposes of religious worship, is more valuable than the purest pearl that ever shone in the necklace of a queen. When a collection of such hymns are brought together in a book, they form a gift to the Christian world, of priceless value. It is one of the most significant and promising signs of the times, that writers belonging to different branches of theChurch worship, for the passing age, it is just what was needed. It may not answer for the next generation, for new hymns are continually appearing. These will secure favor. There is one feature of the book which we must not fail to notice. It contains hymns composed by writers of various denominations. By looking at the " Index of authors," it will appear that Congregationalists, Independents, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Moravians, Unitarians, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, and we know not but some other sects, will there find themselves represented. The worshippers of God may differ theologically and doctrinally, but agree when breathing forth their devout aspirations to their common Father and Saviour. They may refuse to recognize each other as Christians, or be unwilling to endorse each other's creed, but yet all unite together in singing the same songs o/ Zion, as they do in reading from the same precious Bible. Many a churchman has taken delight in singing the hymns of Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge, although he would not have entered the chapels where they preached. Many an English Independent and American Congregationalist have sung with rapture the hymns of Cowper, John Newton and Bishop Heber, without suspecting that they belonged to the established Church. Who ever thinks of Montgomery as a Moravian, when this one of his admirable hymns is given out to be sung: universal, are making valuable contributions to the common stock of lyrical poetry, so that from the general mass there can be made a selection which approximates towards perfection. We are far from supposing that a faultless book of either prose or poetry can be produced, by the combined efforts of the best writers of all countries, but it is possible to make commendable improvements. This we think has been most satisfactorily done by the compilers ofthe Sabbath Hymn Book. This book contains 1290 Hymns, 24 Doxologies, and 58 selections for chanting. These are accompanied by several admirablyarranged and classified indexes. We have given the book a thorough examination, and can truly and conscientiously assert that a more complete and well arranged hymn book " Prayer is the soul's sincero desire," itc. The hymns of John and Charles Wesley fallen under never our It inspection. has are the common property of Christians of all embraces a range and hymns truly Protestant sects. Of late years, several wricommendable. many of the ters have arisen in England, Scotland and psalms of David arepresented in the beauti- America, whose lyrical productions are of ful and appropriate language of Watts, Mil- the very highest excellence. We are deton and other standard lyric poets. These lighted to find specimens of their choicest pieces in this book. Among writers of this are followed by specimens of hymns transla- class we would mention Charlotte Elliot, an ted from the Greek and Latin Churches. English lady, the author of the hymn, The Reformers furnish their quota, including " Just as I am, without one plea," &c. some excellent hymns of Luther. Coming The Rev. Dr. Bonar, of Scotland, is along down to more modern times, the com- another admirable writer, and among his pilers have carefully brought together hymns hymns this specimen is found " I was a wandet-ing sheep," &c. composed by Watts, Newton Doddridge, writers of good Among Addison, Pope, Montgomery, and many hymns, werecent American names of S. F. Smith, notice the other authors whose names have long been G. W. Doane, Mrs. Sigourney, and several familiar to those who take delight in the others. worship of the sanctuary. To these are In reading a hymn we always desire to added many choice hymns composed by nu- know who wrote it, and seldom do we omit the index of authors to ascertain merous living poets on both sides of the At- looking into that fact. Many of our hymns have a hislantic. We really cannot mention the title tory which adds immensely to their richness of any hymn book wherein so much unex- and worth. Take, for example, Cowper's ceptionable, choice and sacred lyric poetry is hymn, commencing, from the world, O Lord, 1 flee, to be found. Other compilations may have " Far From strife and tumult far," ,tc. excellencies, this is the but book hymn their This is an exquisitely beautiful hymn in itpar excellence. It is a book which comes self, but how much deeper and richer every up to the present time, while it embraces word and line will appear, when it is known the good hymns of the "olden time"— that Cowper wrote this hymn just after being hence we are not surprised that it should discharged from the Lunatic Asylum at St. have met with so favorable a reception from Albans, and when he had retired to the quiet and beautiful village of Huntingdon, the Press on both sides of the Atlantic. It where he enjoyed rich rural delight and sois rapidly growing in favor with the Christian cial pleasure. (See Cheever's Lectures on community. For the purposes of religious Cowper, and Cowper's Letters.) : We never read or repeat another of Cow- per's hymns, commencing, God moves in a mysterious way, " His wonders to perform," &c, without recalling to mind the melancholy circumstances under which these lines were written. The poet was one day experiencing the premonitory symptoms of returning insanity. His thoughts shaped themselves in the touching lines of this off sung hymn. The gathering clouds settled down upon his disordered mind, and for several years he enjoyed but few lucid moments, never, we believe, writing another line, until after years of mental aberration. God does indeed move in a mysterious way ! Other of Cowper's poems possess a history equally remarkable. More than thirty years ago we remember to have heard an intimate friend of the late Mrs. P. H. Brown, of Monson, Mass., relate the circumstances under which she wrote the oft sung hymn, or 64th of the Sabbath Hymn Book, I love to steal a while awuy, " From every 'cuiuh'ring care," &c. was Mrs. B. living at the time in Connecticut, near the residence of Judge , whose wife one evening remarked, " Why do you, Mrs. Brown, walk in your garden every evening?" The next morning the wife of the Judge received the accompanying hymn in manuscript. Originally the first stanza read, 1 love to steal a while uway, From little ones and cares," &c. The hymn was entitled an Apology for an " Evening Walk." We know not how it is with others, but in our estimation a hymn is much enhanced in its value, if we can ascertain the circumstances under which it was written. We think a most interesting volume might be written upon the history of the various hymns in this and other compilations of English and American lyrical poetry. By looking over the numbers of the Spectator, we learn the circumstances which led Addison to write certain hymns which have become the common property of the Christian world. When those hymns were written, how little the Prince English Essayists imagined that he was composing hymn* which would be sung wherever the English language should be spoken, or God worshipped by Englishmen or their descendants. See numbers 441 and 453 of Spectator. The history of the " Olney Hymns," written by Cowper and Newton, is most interesting. Let no one be surprised that thj value of a hymn should be enhanced by recalling its Read what an English writer history. (quoted by Trench in his "Study of Words") says respecting the history of a single word : "There are cases in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign." When the poet, under the influence of a heaven-born inspiration, culls out the choice words of our language and expresses ideas that lift the soul to God, he confers a blessing of untold value upon the Church " £J and the world, wherever the English language shall be spoken. In the poet's moments of inspiration, " language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtile thoughts have been embedded and preserved." �31 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 18 6 3. It is the poet's privilege so to arrange words that they " convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow, and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across the gulf of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." But we are allowing our pen to scribble along much beyond what we designed when we sat down to write this notice. We have not, however, touched upon all the points which temptingly elicit comment. We had designed to refer to the " Hymn and Tune Book," but we must defer any additional remarks until a future occasion. C. BREWER _ Sd~ SAM'L. ■. CASTLE. I. B. ATBIBTOI. CASTLE Importersand Wholesale and Retail dealers In General Merchandise, in the Fireproof Store in King street, opposite tbe Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR Dr. Jaynes Medicines, Wheeler 4- Wilson's Sewing Machines, TheNew England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash assets 52,360,000, w Reynolds, Devoe A Pratt—lmporters and Manu'acturersof Paints. Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil, C. Van Home A Co.'s Carriages and Carriage Materials. * CASTLE COOKE, Y. EVERETT.) 315-ly SEWING MACHINES! 11I1ISMACHINE HAS ALL THE LATEST impiovcmetits,and, in.additiou to former premiums, was awarded the highest prise above all European and American Sewing Machines st the World's Exhibition In PARIS in 1881, AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, and at theExhibition in London in 1862. The evidence of the superiority of this Machine Is found In the Tire-proof Store, Robinson's Building, record of It* sales. In 1801 qi;kkn strkkt, Honolulu. The tlrover & Baker Company, Goston, The Florence Con>i>any, Massachusetts, 316-ly Will continue business at the new stand. The Parker Compsny, Connecticut, J. M. Singer A- Co., New York, DR. J. MOTT SMITH, ■ Finkle A: Lyon, Cllas. W. llowland,Delaware, X>333XTTIST. M. Urecnwood A Co., Cincinnati, 0., 332-ly OlBoe corner ot Fort nnd Hotel Streets. N. S. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., W_oa ll* Smith, Connecticut, ls.oiici, whilst the Wheeler A Wilson Company, of Bridgesold HOFFMANN, I>., M. E. ma«le and sold 19,7_ during the same period. port, Kaa Physician and Surgeon, Makee'sBlock, corner Queenand } r Pleaae Call nnd K.xnmim-. 11 tl Itiu-ly humanu streets. — " 11. STANCENWALD, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, Late New York City Dlsiiensary Physician, member of the Medico Chlrurgical College and of the Pathological Society of New York. Ofltc! at Dr. Judd's Drug Store, on F»rt Street. Residence In Nuuunu Valley, opposite that of K. O. Hall, Ksq. :130-Iy C. 11. WETMORE, M. D. PHYSICIAN &. SURGEON, HILO, HAWAII, 8. I. N. 11.—MedicineChests carefully replenished at the 6-tf HILO DRUG STORE. _ 1. A. r. CAETEE, Boston. C. BREWER & CO., Commission - Shipping Merchants, Honolulu. Oi.hu, 11. I. -EMIR TO— New York. Joan. M. Hood, Ksq JamieHi'bnew ci.l, Ksq., } Boston. Cbablbs Bbeweb, Ksq.,> 11. A. Pbirci, Bsi., Macaws. Mcßiee Meheill, I •>__-,__ 8 r nel,co OBiS. WotOOTT BsoOES, Esq., ( Hongkong. Mcasas. Wm. Pustad at Co Oo Manila. Messes. Peels, Hubbell _"" > * * MO-ly »» JAMES J. O'DON V 111. 1., Practical House and Ship Plumber. 1 'fl-V j9M SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND owned by tbe "Honolulu Sailors' Home Society," has recently been placed under tbe management ot 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. Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. 96 o Seamens' do. do. do. do. CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT, Managert. Honolulu, March 1,1861. •> CHASE'S Ambrotype and Photographic BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'S Watch and Jewelry AT G__3_3U__RY Pumps, Bath Tubs, Wash Stands, Water Closets, etc, L. LLEI% A. KKKKILL, ■rjccßsaoES to G-eorge "W. Macy, — Establishment, in Kaahumanu street, will be Next door to the Post Office—up stairs found the following works over the Commercial Advertiser" Almanacks for 1862. Printing Office. Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Assistant. TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE. Laws of the Sea. Ambrotypes, Photographs, Melaineotypes tor esueh ss The Art of Sailmaking. Lockts, Ac., Landscapes, Views of Dwellings, Ac, at reas—aiso— onable prices. Ship's Compasses and Dividers. ALSO ON HAND—A. good assortmentof FANCY CASKS, —also H. L. UHAML FRAMES, Ire. [T-tfJ Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. : " _ Chronometers and —— — —also Chronometer Watches. —ALSO— English Charts of North and South Pacific. —ALSO A great variety of other articles useful to the Mariner. —AND— Many ornamental articles, inoluding Breast Pins, Rings, Cups, &c, &c. Particular attention given to repairing and rating Chronometers. REMOVAL. GEOBOE W. V01,1,1 .11, BOOK-BINDER! 1. 0. MBBBILL D. C. M.IUEB. lIcRUEIt i_ HA * Books, MERRILL, Commission merchants AID AUCTIONEERS, AGENTS OF THE Regular Dispatch Lane of Honolulu Packets. _r All freightarriving In transitu for the Sandwich Islands, will be received and forwarJed by the "Regular Dispatch Line', rasa or coaaissios. Particular attention paid to forwardingand transhipment ol merchandise,sale of whalemen's bills, and other exchaage, la Burance of merchandise and specie under open polloles, suppr ng whaleahlps, chartering ships, etc. 117 and 119 California street, aarsa to : I VINO TAKEN THE STAND ON X A Ahumanu street, orer the store of Bolles A Co., opposite Captain B I. Baow, HYDRAULIC RAMS, LIFTING Farce Bishop Co.'s Bank, is now prepared to execute all orders for Messrs. C Biswas 4/ Co., fitted up in the best manner. All work done at the verylowest rstes and perfect satisfaction warranted. workshop on King Street, In same building with Geo. 0. Siders. A Hj aW.!.— .■ j. M PICTURES CHAB. H. I.I'KT Honolulu. J, -—I'm —™l SS6-ly Wheeler & Wilson's 11. W. SEVERANCE, ATJCTIONBBH, Honolulu. - IMOS. S. 00011 COOKE, AGENTS FOR J. 11. COLE, AUCTIONBBrt, BIIIKHIN PECE, SAILOR'S HOME. General Merchant and Agent for the sale of the products of the Brewer Plantation. S'JA-ly ADVERTISEMENTS. SBBBJOfBJBBBB TO A. At his late rooms, Uueen Street. APV_RTIg-a-__TTB. ADVERTISEMENTS. J Hoaajola. Binding Pamphlets, Newspapers, Music, •Old Books, Ac. _c. Partlcalarattention paid to reblnding old and choice Books. Mr. Y. having had many years experience In Book-binding, in all its branches, hopes to receive a share of the business required In Honolulu. Orders from the other Islands should be accompanied with directions as to the style, and If the work Is to match volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sec* with the Job. particular KAWAIHAK. HAWAII, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping busiaes BOUND VOLUMEB at theabove port, where they are prepared to furnish the Justly celebrated Kawalhae Potatoes, and such other re THE FRIEND, FROM 1845 to 188S— For sale by the Publisher—PrlsHS tl per „!■», ,-ruite as are required by whale ships at the shnrtestnotloe, 320-ly bound together. and on the most reasonable terms. OF THE FRIEND; A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO Tjßb- PEBANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: - On* oopy, per annum, ««..-• Two copies, Fire copies, it." ±m -™ �THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. 32 Among those who are evidently disappointed by the decision of the Supreme Court, is the editor of the Polynesian. His thoughts are manifest by a brief editorial accompanying the publication of the decision. It wns with no little sorrow that we read his announcement that he should now address himself to the arduous work of so moulding public sentiment that the next legislature would thoroughly revise the laws upon this subject, and of course remove the tabus. He may succeed, but if so, we are fully confident another element will be added to the already fearful list now working out the extinction and doom of this people. If we had deliberately formed the decision to do all in our power to complete the ruin of this people, we should go in for supporting the Editor of the Polynesian in the undertaking to which he is now to address himself. It is with no other feeling than that of a desire to promote the well-being of both foreigners and natives, that we would earnestly entreat our brother editor to re-examine his premises, and take a sober, second thought, before he really buckles on the harness, and puts himself into the party traces, for overturning the existing laws and Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom. We would acknowledge the reception of the following sermons and pamphlets Sermon before the Maine Missionary So"ciety," by Rev. J. O. Fiske; Sermon on " the death of Mrsgfi. L. Powers, late misat Austerlitz, sionary to N. V., January 2nd, 1863, by Rev. P.O. Powers; " Hall's Journal of Health; " Dr. " Peabody on the American Board of Foreign Missions;" "Fiftieth Report of the Norwich and New London F. M. Society;" "Rev. Dr. Anderson's Letter to Rev. Dr. R. S. Caudlish." : We have been much gratified to witness the effort of the Purveyor of the U. S. Hospital, to provide a reading room for the seamen under the care and protection of the Consul. The inmates of the Hospital need something to beguile the tedious days and weeks of their confinement. It is astonishing how much happiness may be conferred "by a small expense. The present Purveyor seems disposed to do all in his power to make comfortable the inmates of the Hospital. At latest reports, Rev. Dr. Anderson and family were at Hilo, about starting for the volcano. They touched at Kealakcakua on their passage to Hilo. Seamen wishing to write letters to their friends, will find pens, ink and paper, gratis, by calling at the Sailor's Home. Donations—Towards nished for Chapel: Hymn Books fur- From a Trlend, J. M. S. E-romaSalUr from Unknown »rleml,by J.o.C .10 00 '.'.'.'.'.'.'. *., JJ 4 60 MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. March 2—Am bark Arctic, Hammond, 133 days from Boston, with an assorted cargo of iuiIn to C. Brewer at Co. 5—Am hark Cambridge, Brooks, 12 days from fan Franc mco, with mdi e to Aldrlch, Walker <y Co. 11—Haw. wh bark Florence, Jon. bptncer, from 1111.>. 13—Br aU.-umshlp Kobert Oongjtluh, 1 2{ days ftn fan Francisco, en route fur Hongkong. Sailed •nine eveniiig. 13—Pnaasiunhark Dot*, WHIniid,20 day* from 1*uget route fur Bhanghae, wlili corgo of Juuiflknd.cn bW. Hailed MOM day. 13—Am tmrkl.Jfiiny Kurd. Mct'nrty.fromI'uget Sound, via Jlilo, with cargo hsnhaf to 11. Ilackfeld ft Co, 13—Am wli ill Henry Kiie.-lainl, Sm-le, 7 months from New Bedford. Lay off ami M aod.mtllrd on the 10th for a cruise Wealand (forth. 14—Am wh ah Catherine, Phillips, N L, 9D days from Margarita I lay. wlili 360 hrla wh 17—11. H M. nt.'iuni'r llanaaa. fls.pl■la HMsaalla. II .I.< \ ■* frotn Acapuleo, on a WsTTl jllgTajajai 17—Am wli »h F.ur<>i>a, Milton, 1 aval out fnt New Itedlurd, 'AW Ml M|H:rm, 1H« brla <>n l<oard. 19—Am l>k t'omet, Smith, 16 day* (mm San Kraiiciseo, indue iuhI passenger*, to Wilcox. Richards 6f Co. 20—Am ah hk Florence, Spencer, n turned i<> port on In 21—Am wli sh lllllmaii, KiKk, lajonlha fan N. w liedford, with -'> hrla sperm. Anchored outabfsj, 22—Am wli nil IhiriiHUihlc. IIioimoii, hn Const, with 'JOU brl* wh. 23—Am wh oh Nile, Fish, 21 day a &■■ Const, with |JiH» lirln wh. 23—Am wh t>k lVnrl, Bush, 142 dya from New London, to C. A. Williams At Co. DEPARTURES. March 6—Am bWtne Constitution,Knbinami, for Victoria. V.l. IK—Am wh hark Florence, Splicer, ituihc and Ochoian. 21—Am hktne Jenny Ford, M'Carty, lor Yiei<»rhi, V.L 21—Uld'g wh wli Oregon, Maiinneii, I»r Oehmak. 24—Am wh hark Richmond, BfppjngitoOt, f'>r Oehotsk. PASSENGERS. MEMORANDA. Hark Fi.ukkncr.—Thi* vt-wn-l while lying off and on, on JTn liny, March 30th, wri discovered to be on Are hi the forelfold. By (he combined effort* of iho tug Pelf, crew of the Hrcatt, numerous I'm- companies, and we know not how many good citiiens, the rehttel win brought Into port, nnd the flames extinguished. We are sorry to learn that In rendering aid. Captain Wilcox received a serious Injury in one of hla feet, which confines him to bla house. The veaael la undergoing repairs, and in r few clays will he ready for aea. We, have not learned the orlgin of tin- lire. Tbe fact that the vessel wan not destroyed la entirely owing to tin- promnt and energetic efforts of tlxtse who volunteered to extinguish tlie flames. lWton Oct. 10 ; <rj Hark Arctic, Hammond, report*— experienced very rough weather on leaving the coast During c the 37 16 S.K., N., lat. a heavy gal. from lone. 68° 36 W., damaged the rudder, making it necessary to hang It with chains of the Crossed the passage. equator, Atlantic, the remainder Nov. 23—34 days out; had light B.K. trad.* to lat. 30° 00 S. \ severe from thence to 60° 8., encountered wealtier, having a continuation of heavy gales from _.W. for 16 days. Saw and DBjMSd OajM Horn Jan. 4th, where we had hard gale* from W S.W. to W.N.W.. With a very heavy aea—77 day*. Was _„ days from lat. 60° 9 , Atlantic, to 60° »., Pacific ; from thence to Ul. _•• H.. ha>l light, variable winds. Took the B.K. trades light in lat 24° H., and ajsjosjod the equator in long. l_6e N. VV\, Feb. lft—lltt days, took the N.K. trade* in lat. c 00 00 fight" d Maui on the _Sth. anil riinii'into jxirt on Monday, _d of March —i:u ilaya iMsstlffsj. Sighted twveral ves_el« off Cain? Hum, Im'uihl Kant. IT Ship Hrttry Kntrlnnit, l*e|M»rt* herself seven niontlis from New liedford, clean. Touched at Faster Inland, and also ul the ..litnpietcn. At Ihe former, learned that a Peruvian |_S> at*, had boa*] there in search of laborer* lor the t'liitieluu*, nnd had obtained a few. Timcla-d at the MafqattSSaf, Feb. 6. and reports there hark Mars, ofNew liedford, 76Uhrbt. >|M'rm bark Mary Ann, of Fair Haven, 1200 brls. sperm. Also, whip ChainpkNL Worth, aailed Kelt. 4. having taken nothing since leaving Sandwich Islands. Tin- Henry Kurrlantt failed again on Monday, lor a cruise to the Neat ward ami Arctic. fy Hark Cathrrint reports—B|i_ke, Kelt. 21, hurk Ilnrnstahle, 2HO brls; ship Hchidcer. 300. lit aid from, about Feb. 14, brig Coiii't. whales; -hip Adeline, aboOt 300 brls, Feb. 10, brig Victoria, 10 rfc-ftS) Feb. ]&, ahtp W m ('. Nn ol pan Frariei-no, from Hilciihs liny, touched at Marfnrila Kay, with ;*.IHI brls. ItcjK.its ships Tints, iJickason and John llowlund, 4; wlnths each. J r Miip t-'urft/m, 7 months nut, reports 3&0 l»r)« sjrcrtn I Ince leaving New IMUH-| IMtjtrsl on hosid. Touched at Mtcha, ooaal ot Obll*. Spoke Ds«.Sft. H- Lat. _2 Long. (>_ o, _lip|*r lUp Minstrel. HO ilsys from lbrnton, bo.md In _mi Fiaiiei-co. Same day, clipper slii|> OsWBOM* H6 days troin boston, will) mime, destination. Deo. SB. Lat. 63°. Isong. A4 ° , spoke ship Kii'mi-, Wiwkl, of Nr* liedford. 2 month-, out. 10 t-perm. Jan. H>. >. I.r.i. 44=40. Long M 40. spoke whakshfp Tamerlane, dray, of New ltedford, 6 months ont, lOinsMw. Feb. 4. on Callan (intuiul, ship Trident, Finher, of N. 11,37 months nut, « •, « = , - For San Khani'lki'd— |kt Florence, Feb. '.'O—II \V CsßjSfflfaaJl, M Mtniifvr, Tims McAllister. From Has IhUloißOO—Mr Camlirliltfl', Maruli 6—Mrs llurnanl anil :i children, tl W Wilcox, J A llariur. From Has r_SCMOQ—par ('mint, Mureti ll*—Capt J M )2&osjperill. /Vsr/, lh»h rejtorts—l«en. New Lnrntnn Novrmher Qrswa, t'n|it Miitmi Ki-ii. II It Laddlnftoo, Uugh Jaoksiw, rwtat 2, J.f ltark sjsjsjl, IBM experi'-nee.l very rough Wtath. Ron Hiving the(."ronseil Wolff, Win llollironk, J F OwnrssS, Alifu—B. and when day » nuti nrri'-d away tholOfOtOpS ast. the i-ipiatttr in the Atlaiiiic, l»tc. s, :>7 dsys oat. Hail light trade* 10 32 S., and ortliimry weather to the Mtgos, which we Information Wanted I pasHtil Jan. '27, 87 dnytt nut. Had ui"«ier«t. guh-tt off the Respecting OtJaaasss Myth, who. on the 'M.l of Janunry, with the exopiioii ol one m-vere gah- friMii W.H.W., which 1547, at Tahiti, sliijipeil ssj lm;inl tin- O-in-h wlmlcNhlp laitted threr dayi*. fVu _l days from CrU S., Atlantis psWW, lt» 8., l'aclllr. Fro* UmMa Intßß., hail Ikfbt, variable winds, " Fi I'illiiaiiil" sad sal bbbo_ _sd ul llouululu, the IBta of 60 S.; 01-bSSsI the equator IliHeinlKT, of bbbbj yenr. Bts family hats mil B_M Inurd and lag, T«Mik the SR, lraden in 20 from him. Ills rullii-r, I). <>. Hlytb, rslUai in I'oleh, *l<r, in litMtf. l_o-, w.. UafsJi t, 12£» ten <>«t Hfbloil Matttl IoM |>Oli N the 23*1, |4S days passage. Kasex, hturUuil. Any Information will be gladly received by llaroh _3t ami HW I*l. 12-rt , »|Hike l.S.S.lia*. o_pt Willianm, lioiind to St. the editor, or K. C. Wyllie, X*([. La-id, spoke Kng. bark spirit of the I>ay, lle.poitinij Robrrl l.rßoy Mi-llinnys. lie balls from Haiti Helena. Offritaten from i'ort Htaidey to \'idpiraiKt». mure, anil was on hoard IBS "Silver rilsr" whi*n wlie was wrecked u|Kin a guano Ulstiil in 18ttu. lie returned to Honolulu, but MARIED. since that iiute no toOlllsßßoa has been received froni huu. Any Information will be luiuiUully received by Ul mother Mrs. 1)AHNAK|>—llAKNAKJi —Oil the fltll ull., Iiy It.'V. H {'. I>amon, Kli/.iili.th June Mellliiny!*, of New Orleans, or by the Editor. Itrsp,-! tiiiK. Arnold R. Austin, of Providence, U. 1., who at the house of C. K. Bishop, Kan" John K. Barnard, of Honoleft the ship Itodiiiiui, about ISM, at Honolulu. IVrluips Capt. lulu, to Kninm llitrijiinl, relict of the lute ThornsBond Barnard, Spencer may recall this man, if so, assst* eomiuuulcatu with of Adelaide, South Australia. Mrs. O. It. Austin of Providence or editor of the Frieml. J : • - , DIED. Relief to the Suffering in England.— The ship Geo. Griswold sailed recently from New York, heavily laden with provisions, the gift of Americans to the poor of Lancashire. By a singular coincidence, all her officers are from Newburyport. The hold of the vessel, says an Eastern paper, is absolutely filled with a precious freight of provisions, including, in round numbers, thirteen thousand barrels of flour, together with a large supply of beef, bacon, corn, rice and bread. This has been, with the exception of eleven hundred barrels sent by the Corn Exchange, purchased by tbe Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, or sent in small quantities by individual contributors. The whole sum subscribed to the International Relief Fund is 9108,000.. The following is a complete list of the Griswold's cargo : 12,812 bbls. flour, 125 bbls. bread, 575 boxes bread, 50 bbls. beef, 50 bbls. pork, 402 boxes bacon. 157 bags corn, 8 tcs. and 2 bags rice. Kino—In Honolulu. April 1, Capt. Thomas King, a native of Kugland. lit* came to theinlands In 1837, having been one if the crew of the Kriglidi whaleshfp "flledstiines." wn-cked U|*m Ocean Inland, in Nt.nli Ut. 28 ° 22, and Went Long. 178 ®,30. Tim vessel was wrecked July 9, 1837. The crew built a schooner from the wreck, Id which they came safely to Honolulu. i'kniiali.ow—In I'ortMnnuth, N. II., ot dropiy of the cheat, ec.D —, Mm. Mary I'mhallow, relict of the late Capt. D. |». Henhalltiw, of thli city. Au—In Honolulu, Feb. 2H, All. a Laacar, and native ofTefticherry, ooaat of Malabar, lllndnoatan. aged 66 yeara. Mi l),.n.n.L—At Makawao. K. Maul, Feb. 27, Bllsa, wife of D. A. McDougall, M.D. After a long anil painful illncas, which sin- bore with christian fortitude and resignation, she was at last suddenly called away, to a homo where sorrow and suffer lng never come, and the waary ace at rest.—Com. Vaan—At aea, on hoard ship Henry Km eland, Feb. 2», Lai. 15 ° W., l,ong. 141°, of <Mugeat ion of the luugs,Manuel \ erg, a native of Klorea, Western Inlands. Jou**—Drowned in the surf, at Magdalen*, fel». 2. Jamea Jones, of New York, a seaman on board whale ship Henry Kneeland. Bimkdiit In Honolulu, March 26, of consumption, Mlia Mary M. Benedict, only daughter of Capt. W. A. Keswdlct, a«ed •JO yeara. Coopaa—In Honolulu,March 16, Mr. Thorns* Cooper, an , - , — Kngllshinan. Lora—In Honolula, March 16, Robert, infant son or Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lore, aged 7 uiouths. Valbz—At aea, December 6, 1802,on board whalaahlp Reindeer, of bilious fever, John l*. Valea, aoaman. KauwLaa—James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist, died at Torquay. England. Nov. », at theage of 78. " The Wife," •* The llunchbaok," " Love," and "Woman's Wit," were among tha best or hi* plays. Of lute years he had given up the drama, and been a preacher of the Baptist denomination. � 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 - 1863.04.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.04.01