https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/6834b3a4e2eb2ea2b6025bd46675d8ac.pdf bf3c19f77ad5d6f16c945c8c60d8015f PDF Text Text FRIEND THE 3flfto $trirs. tfol. IL\ M M CONTENTS lor September, 1863. Latest News The Restoration and Independence of the Hawaiian Kirgdom A Discourse Most Remarkable Speech Mr Rwagsrs Ustats 0755 Southern,French and English Clergymen Samoa or Navigator Island-* Editor's Table Wreck of the Anita Forty Years a Wanderer A Friendly Word from an Englishman Marine Journal, Ac - THE FKIEND. BEPTEMB*'n 1, ISO3. Latest News. lIOMUJ 11. SEPIKMBER I, 1863. emment is potent. At Charleston the Union soldiers nnd sailors are steadily advancing •* towards the reduction of Fort Wagner nnd <Is—oB the other defences of the city—next will folft* low the siege of Mobile, Savannah, and 08, o» 00 other strongholds, nnd if they are not token 00 this month or this year, then they will be at 70 some future time. The South sees the onTi 71 ward nnd triumphant march of the Northern TI armies, nnd is beginning to sue for peace. 7*l The " brag nnd swagger" that came up from the South in the early stages of the war, are no longer henrd. The South cried, " Come on,"the North obeyed the call, and the result sooner or later will come, that the South Paui. By the Comet, Captain Smith, we have received our files ol San Francisco papers to August 13, and of New York to the last of July. The general American news is encouraging. The Federal victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and in various other parts of rebeldom, have inflicted a most stunning blow upon the so-called Confederacy. The intelligence from various Southern sources is fully confirmatory of the statement that the Southern Confederacy will ere long be among the things that were. Such as the following facts indicate unmistakeably that Northern principles will prevail and Southern die out. In Kentucky, at the late election, the Union men cast a vote of 20 000 majority. In Missouri, the Emancipation party is growing stronger every day —immediate emancipation is their watchword. In Western Virginia, the political state of affairs is most favorable. In North Carolina, a strong party has arisen denouncing Jeff. Davis, and loudly calling for the return of their troops. In Louisiana, a proposition has been made to return to the Union. In Maryland, the Union feeling is very strong. In various parts of the country colored soldiers are enlisting, and before January, 1864, it is estimated 100,000 will be under arms. In all parts ol the loyal North the strength of the United States gov- submit. The European intelligence is interesting. The Times had heard of the recent Federal victories, and received the news with surprise, disappointment and satisfaction !—surprise at the sudden collapse of Vicksburg; disappointment of the removal, owing to Lee's retreat, of n proi-pert of the termination ol the war; and satisfaction in contemplating England's wisdom in not prematurely yielding to the pressure for recognition of the Confederates. must Sailing of the Manuokawai for Marquesas.—ln consequence of the protracted voyage of the Morning iitar among the islands of Micronesia, the Board" of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association has chartered this vessel to convey the annual sup- " plies to the missionaries on the Marquesas Islands. The Rev. B. W. Parker, of Kaneone, went as a Delegate. It is expected he will be absent about two months. From the work of Mr. Turner, on the Samoan Islands, we learn that the Key. Mr. Pratt, a member of that mission, is engaged in preparing a grammar ol the Samoan Dialect. Should Captain Olives S Cleaveland, of ship "Callfornia" call at SandwichIslands, be Is no.nested at call ansa las Gasslals. {tfMoStrits. Col. 20. 65 The Restoration and Independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom. A Historical Discourse, Preached in Honolulu, by the Rev. S. C. Damon, on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Restoration of the Hawaiian Flag. [Published by requex.) I Samuel, vii : 14—" And the eltles whioh the Philistines bad taken away from Israel, were restored to Israel." The provisional cession of these Islands to England, and their Restoration, are among the most memorable events in Hawaiian history. They stand forth distinctly defined upon the historic page, nnd are most care. fully remembered by many now living. Events somewhat similar occurred in the history of the Jewish people. In order to preserve a proper remembrance of the restoration of certain cities to that people, the prophet ■' Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying. Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." It would be no unbecoming act for the Hawaiian people to erect a suitable monument, and upon its four sides to inscribe as follows : 1. Hawaiian Islands provisionally ceded to England, February 25th A. D. 1843. 2. Hawaiian Islands restored to their rightful Sovereign, July 31st, A. D. 1843. '3. Hawaiian Islands declared and acknowledged an Independent and Sovereign State, by the Queen of England and the King of the French, November 28th, 1843. 4. Eben-ezer. Hitherto hath the Lord he.lped the Hawaiian people. These four inscriptions graven upon the four sides of an enduring monument, would be no unbecoming record. The popular enthusiasm with which the 31st of July has been observed during the last twenty years, is a most significant indication of the deep impression which the events of that d.y made upon the national mind. King, chiefs and people felt that they had been grossly wronged. This idea was forcibly and happily expressed in the brief address ol His Majesty Kamehameha 111., at the time of the cession : " Where are you, Chief*, people, and commons from my ancestor, and people from foreign lands. Hetuy"! I make known to you, that I am in perplexity, by �THE FRIEND, S EPTKNBGB, 1803. 66 cession which reason of difficulties into which I have been visited these islands, with no very friendly The King signed the deed of Judd, had been and approved penned the native On by Dr. therefore have towards authorities. 1 feelings brought without cause of by Lord Pnulet. The King felt most here, arrival the in land, of our hear month— following ! my the life ye away given But my rule* over you, my people, and your October, 1842—1 enn distinctly remember keenly the cruelty of those who exacted his will continue, for 1 have hope thnt the uneasy stdte of the public mind. Affairs signature, but there did not appear to be any privileges i life of the land will be restored when my were ripening for un explosion of some kind. jother feasible method of extricating the govDr. Judd had just taken office under the i eminent and of preventing the town from »• conduct is justified." At the end of about five months, the earn- King. Messrs. Kichnrds and Hnalilio had being bombarded. Dr. Judd drew up the est hope of His Mnjesty was realized,—the left for the United States nnd Europe. They articles of cession, and His Majesty signed bathed in tears, but not before the life of the land was restored—the Hnwaiinn wire followed by Mr. Charlton, the British them, flag was again unfurled to the breeze—nnd Consul, who left Alexander Simpson here ns whole body of chiefs knelt in prayer, and the King was again acknowledged as the right- Acting British Consul. It should be "borne sought wisdom from God. These nre facts ml Sovereign of his people. During the jjin mind that at this date the Hawaiian of history. The ceremony of lowering the week the anniversary of the day of Kingdom had not been admitted into the Hawaiian flag nnd hoisting the British took istoration has been celebrated with more brotherhood of civilized nations. Under all place on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, than ordinary joy and enthusiasm. Under j these circumstances it surely is not to Ik- won- February 25th, 1843, just twenty years ago. these circumstances it has appeared to me dered at that ambitious, selfish and unprinci- As I stood with a spy-glass, and watched of the Hawaiian flag, I remarkhighly appropriate to speak of these events in pled men were ready to blot out this nationali- the lowering a ed to bystander, obtain annexation to the British of the and its " J never expect to see ty the House God. Eighteen years ago, anniversary was recognized by a'National Empire, by unfair, if they could not succeed the flag of the Kamehamehas wave again Fast, when I endeavored to improve the by fair means. According to the representa- over these islands." When the act of occasion, by preaching from the text, Deut. tions of Mr. Charlton to the British Admiral lowering the flag was ended, the Innd of the xxxii : 10—" He found him in a desert at Mnzatlan, in Mexico, the Carysfort was Carysfort was ordered to play: land, and in the waste howling wilder- dispatched lo Honolulu, to settle the difficul" Isle of beauty, fare thee well I" &c. It was a dark day for the people of these ness; he led him nbout, he instructed him, ties. It will not be expected of me that I he kept him as the apple ol his eye." I shall give a detailed account of nil the trans- islands. Knowing what the English had spoke of God's protecting care over the actions, public and private, which took done ut Mew Zealand, and the French at Hawaiian people, and of the manner He had place from the date of the Carysfort s arrival, Marquesas and Tahiti, and, moreover, reled, instructed and watched over this people. February 10th, to the 25th of the same flecting on the fact that seldom in the history Some of us were among " the people from month, when the cession took place. In of nations do the greut and powerful acknowforeign lands," to whom the Inte King ad- c Imly reviewing those scenes there is no ledge they have done wrong, there were very dressed the speech which I have quoted. doubt there was on the part ol the represen- strong grounds for the belief that the British For more than twenty years we und our tatives of Englnnd, u fixed and settled deter- flng would never give place to thnt of the children have enjoyed a degree of peace and mination to substitute the British for the Hawaiian. The probabilities were that it Hawaiian flag The whole tenor of their never would. There was perhaps one prosperity under the mild sceptre of the Kninehameha. Dynasty, which calls for our de- claims bore in thnt direction. Before con- chance out of one hundred that it possibly vout thanksgiving to God. In no part of summating this cherished purpose they might. I desire here to call your attention to a rethe world, and under no form of government wished to obtain the sanction of the King's we have enjoyed greater social, civil name to certain documents which would markable coincidence. On the very day have essentially enriched them. In order to that the Hawaiian flag was lowered and the d religious privileges. I propose spenking, firstly, upon the pro- carry out their views, they felt their way British hoisted, Messrs. Kichnrds and Hnalional cession; secondly, upon the Testa- very cautiously und hoped so to cover over lilio had an interview with Lord Aberdeen, tion; thirdly, upon the acknowledgment of the baseness of the transaction, that their at the Foreign Office in London, when His lependence, and fourthly, upon the happy proceedings would be approved by the Bri- Lordship assured them that the British Govrnlts of the restoration and independence tish Government. The King and his chiefs ernment would acknowledge the indepenthe Hawaiian Kingdom. saw the trap which was laid for them. Va- dence of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Thus, 1. The provisional Cession of these Islands rious schemes and plans were proposed to while one English Lord was compelling meet the trying exigency. At one time, it Kamehnmeha 111. to lower his flag, another England. In order to understand the peculiar cir- was proposed to cede the Islands to France, English Lord was assuring the King's Commstanoes under which this transfer was nnd nt another to Frnnce and the United missioners that the Hawaiian flag should be tde, we should endeavor to dismiss from States jointly; but insuperable difficulties respected nnd acknowledged. Above these r minds the history of all the islands of presented themselves. In vain was this earthly lords, there was the Lord of Lords, the Pacific, for the last twenty years. The English party informed that London was the and the King of Kings, who was carefully social and political condition of these Islands proper place to adjust these difficulties, and watching over the affairs of this little kingand other groups in the Pacific, is vastly that commissioners had been sent thither, dom. I shall now pass over the chaotic, unsettled different now from what it was in 1843. who would meet Mr. Charlton at the Foreign Twenty years ago there was a most jealous Office. So outrageous and unjust were the and unpromising period from the 25th of rivalry between England and France, with demands made upon this government, ac- February to the 31st of July, 1843. During reference to possessions in Polynesia. The companied as they were with the threat of a that period however, the friends and enemies strife was so strong and fierce, sharp and " broadside" from the Carysfort in case of of this kingdom were not idle. Messengers bitter, with regard to the Society Islands, refusal, that Mr. Hopkins, in his recent were sent to Valparaiso to notify the British mat it came very near involving the two work upon the Islands, is fully justified in Admiral, nnd also to the United States and countries in war. In 1841, the British gov- saying that 'the first feeling induced by Europe, intelligence did not travel to and ernment took forcible possession of New Capt. Paulet's communication was that of from the Sandwich Islands twenty years ago Zealand, and established there an English dismay : the next, of indignation." The as it does now. Many months elapsed becolony, with Captain Hobson Governor. storm-cloud continued to gather blackness. fore a reply could bo expected. The British During the following year, 1842, the French Self-respect, love of his people, and re- Commission, which was organized to admintook possession of Marquesas and the Socie- pugnance to do an act which would deprive ister the affairs of the Government of the ty Islands, under circumstances which were irirn of his crown, induced the King to hold Islands, until these difficulties should be esteemed a great outrage upon the rights of out. But what could he do ? What could settled, did not work satisfactorily, and more the Aborigines. There was a strong and his chiefs do? What his foreign advisers? trouble seemed to be in store for the King prevailing feeling that the French had simi- " On the side of their oppressors there was and his people. Some were hopeful but lar designs upon these islands. .The famous power." It would be vain to resist. To the others were very desponding. While affairs of the Artemise, Capt. Laplace, in 1839, honor of Dr. Judd, at this critical and trying were ip this unsettled state, it may well be this impression upon the' minds of aril moment, a plan was proposed of making a imagined the arrival of H. B. M. ship Dubdid observers. In September, 1842, the provisional cession of these islands to the lin, bearing the broad pennant of Rear Adfofradf, commanded by Capt. Mallett. Representatives of the Queen of England. miral Thomas, was hailed with joy, amount- : Ine ! I Est lud Pisit Ij �THE r HI E Ml. SEPTEMBER, 1863. 67 ing to ecstasy, when it was announced that I public feeling. He removed with his suite on !of Europe acknowledged it as independent he was resolved to tnnkc an immediate res- shore, took up his übode at the Government and sovereign. On many nccounts the year toration of the flag. This glad news rapid- House, .Manna Kilika, where he remained 1843 may be viewed as the most important ly sprend through the town. The joy of j for seven months, or until he could obtain in the annals of this Kingdom. Annus mtrthe people was unbounded. Very few in- replies to his dispatches from England, and abilis. IV. The happy results of the Restoration deed were the foreigners who did not parti- the arrival of General Miller as Consulcipate in the general exultation. " The life General for the Pacific. During this period and Independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom. of the land" was now to be restored. The of his abode on shore, the Admiral mingled I do not hesitate in making the open and fat\t that good news wns so unexpected, only freely among the foreign community, wns n frank assertion that, in my opinion, it was a increased the general joy. The Dublin ar- constant nttendunt upon public worship, and most fortunate and providential event, that rived just five months and one day from the manifested a real interest in the welfare of the government wns restored to its former cession. The necessary arrangements hav- the people, hence that deep nnd lasting im- positjA. It was not only restored, but esing been made, the 31st of July wns np- pression for good, thnt lie left upon nil clas- tablished upon a firmer basis, which has pointed for lowering the British flag ant! ses. His conduct thus effectunlly produced been productive of incalculable good to all hoisting the Hawaiian. I shall now pro- a kindly feeling among the people towards that classes residing upon these islands. Had it country, the representative of which had on- not been restored, but Rome protective or colceed to speak ly five months previously heaped upon this onial system been devised for administering Restoration. the 11. Of and their Sovereign such marked in- the government.il affairs of this Kingdom, I people flag, of the Hawaiian The restoration am fully convinced there would have been and the re-establishment of the King of these dignities. wur and bloodshed. We should have witthe of his 1(1. rightful enjoyment islands, in Achundedgment of Independence. While the friends of this Kingdom were nessed scenes similar to those which have privileges and immunities as nn independent sovereign, were as unexpected as they were doing all in their power, in this part of the transpired at the Marquesas, Society Islands, gratifying. The most sanguine only hoped world, to restore and maintain its integrity New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Holthat after lengthy negotiations this result and independence, others were laboring land, South Africa, India, America, or would ultimately be secured. Although one equally hard on the other side of the globe. wherever Englishmen and Frenchmen have, fifth of a century has rolled away since it Such an impression did Messrs. Richurds hoisted their flags, among a savage or halfwas my privilege to participate in those joy- and Haalilio make upon the authorities at civilized people. In making this assertion ful scenes and to witness those gladsome Washington, that the President of the United I would not intimate that Englishmen or events, yet so deep an impression did they States, in his message of December 31, 1842, Frenchmen arc any worse than the people make upon my mind that it requires no vig- took the initiative of acknowledging the inde- of other nations. The same result, I think, orous effort to recall bygone recollections. pendence of the Hawaiian Kingdom. The would have followed if Americans had acDuring u period of five months the minds of appointment of a Commissioner soon fol- quired the ascendancy. In the very nature all classes of the people had been under a lowed. The Hawaiian commissioners and of things, a superior, powerful and dominant strong pressure. Party feeling ran high. agents labored most faithfully with the race would not have fully respected and seNever before or since have I witnessed such Courts of England nnd France, and after cured the inalienable rights of Hawaiians. of races. I marked exhibitions of coldness and resent- much negotiation and delay, those two gov- There would have been a war could, have ment among the foreign residents of Hono- ernments entered into mutual engagements, do not believe it would, it it lulu. All felt that some change would take acknowledging the independence of this been avoided. Hence during the Ins't twenof evil has This highly important state ty years an immense amounthave place, but what no one could predict. Some Kingdom. the reNot been prevented. merely uneasy. felt hoped. Some feared. All paper was signed in London on the 2Sth of sults been negatively good, but they have Shakespeare says, November, A. D. 1843. As this is a document esteemed of so much moment and con- been good positively. An opportunity has Before the days ofohange, still it is so, " llj been nfforded for this government to carry a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust sideration, I shall quote yi it full: out those plans of reform and re-organization Kns'iing danger; as, by proof, wo see The srater swell before a boisterous storm." Hor Majesty, the Queen of the United King- which were then under contemplation, and " of Great Hrituin und Ireland, and His Mujcs- some of which were actually initiated. There was just that feverish state of feel- dom ty, tho King of tho French, taking into consid- Would you learn respecting the nature and ing in the public mind. Imagine then the eration the existence in the Sandwich Wands of a joyful rebound and spontaneous out-burst of (Jovernment capable of providing for the regular- extent of those plans, go to the Foreign Ofthanksgiving, when it was announced that ity of its relations with foreign nations, huve fice, the Office of the Interior, the Treasury Admiral Thomas had arrived, and within thought it right to engage, reciprocally, to con- Department, and the Board of Education. an hour perhaps after his arrival, the glad sider tho Sandwich Islands us nn Independent Read and examine the records of those Denews was spread abroad, that the flag would State, and never to take possession, neither pnrtments of Government, if you would directly under tho title of Protectorate, or learn something of what has been accombe immediately restored. He was prepared under anyorother of tho terriany part of form, plished. Examine the records of the Suto do it the next day, and would have done tory of which tliev aro composed. and inferior courts, look at the records' preme so if the King had wished it. It was thought The undersigned, Her Mujcsty's Principal advisable that everything should be done Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the of the " Board for Quieting Land Titles," with becoming decorum and pomp. The A in humidor Extraordinary M His Majesty the and at the Books of Doom's Day, under the at the Court of Ixindon, care of Mr. Smith, or the Books of Record Dublin arrived on the 26th of July, and the King of tho French, ceremony ol restoring the flag took place on being furnished with tho necessary powers, here- under Mr. Brown. These archives of the in consequence, that their said Majes- Hawniian the 31st, amid the salvos of repeated broad- by declare, Government abound with the take rociprocully that engagement. ties sides from three English vessels of war, In witness whereof tho undersigned have most valuable and important historical docuand one American frigate. Ten days were signed the prosont deolurtition, und huvo affixed ments. to festivities. Prisoners were released, thereto tho Scul of their Arms. The most important feature of these chanrom the highest to the lowest there was Done in duplicate, at Ixindon, tho 28th day of ges was the union of natives and foreigners rejoicing. After the flag was hoisted, the November, in tho year of our Lord 1843. s.l in the executive, legislative and judicial [l. (Signed,) ABEKDKKN. offices of this kingdom. The privileges of King, attended by immense crowds of ST. AULAIIIE, [l. s.j citizenship was extended to foreigners. I people, repaired to the large Stone Church, In consequence of this voluntary, timely, am not aware as this same principle has where public thanksgiving was rendered to Almighty God. Amidst these festive scenes and public acknowledgment, on the part of been adopted in any other part of the world two additional American vessels of war ar- these two great powers, this Kingdom has where copper-colored and white races have rived, making in all six men-of-war,—three ever since been ranked among the civilized been brought in contact. Not only have the English and three American, a larger naval and independent governments, entitled to all rights and privileges of the aborigines been fleet than ever before had anchored in the rights, privileges and immunities of a better secured under the restored flag, but I Hawaiian waters. Whnt seemed to make sovereign nation. Thus during the year « aintain, also, that foreigners have been beteverything pass off with delight, Admiral 1843, the flag of the Kingdom had been ter off, inasmuch as there was so great disThomas endeavored to do all in his power lowered and restored, the Kingdom ceded parity in numbers between the native and to mollify and soften the irritated stat* of .md delivered back, and the Great Powers foreign population. The latter have enjoyee. fiven �68 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 18153. privileges and immunities under the native government such as foreigners dwelling in other Jands never dreampt of. His Majesty Kamehameha IV., in his inaugural speech, thus aptly and truthfully referred to the enjoyed by foreigners: " His lajesty Kamehameha Hid, now no more, was pre-eminently the friend of the foreigners, and I am happy in knowing he enjoyed your confidence and affection. He opened his heart and hand with a royal liberality, and gave tillhe had little to bestow <myou little to ask. In this respect I cannot hope to equal him, but though I may fall far behind, I shall follow in his footsteps." Under this government, the missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic, have been allowed not only to carry forward their philanthropic enterprises unmolested, but encouraged therein to an extent that such bodies have seldom experienced in the most civilized and Christian nations on the globe. Look at the apology of a Protectorate Government at Tahiti, under which the English missionaries have been barely suffered to remain. The last member of the London Missionary Society—that pioneer Society in Polynesia —it is reported is "bout to take his departure for England. Look at New Zealand— there even the English Church Missionary Society, has been almost at open war with the Colonial Government. The missionaries have espoused the side of the Aborigines and stood by them, while the Government, in order to foster the Colony, has made flagrant inroads upon the rights of the natives of the soil. War and bloodshed have been the unhappy result. Thus you might circumnavigate the globe on a voyage of observation, and I do not believe you would find on any island or continent an instance where two races have met and lived together more harmoniously than upon the Hawaiian Islands. The first drop of hostile blood is yet to be shed, since those days to which I have now called your attention. In reviewing the past, I would most gladly draw a veil over the deedsofthose whohave labored to destroy this people and nation. Many ot these men have already come to an untimely end. I would here repeat a remark which I made eighteen years ago, when preaching on the second anniversary of the restoration : " The more I become acquainted with the history of affairs at these islands, the sentiment becomes more strongly impressed upon my mind, that the Sandwich Islands is no field for wicked men and opposers of truth and righteousness, to think of practicing their schemes before ' high heaven,' unless they are willing to incur the awful risk of being pursued, evefvip this world, by the retributive justice of God." While wicked men and opposers have been afforded an opportunity for displaying their real and animus, the friends of order, good government and the native race have enjoyed an excellent opportunity for, directly and indirectly, exerting their good offices, fn no spirit of boasting, can I point to the strong and conservative influence of the American missionaries. It is not claiming for them anything more than the future impartial historian will award them, to say it was this element in the troubles of 1843, which •emd as a mighty bulwark for this nation's defence. Two individuals I would here re- Srivileges fer to, who hud been formerly connected with the American mission. One of these, Mr. Richards, was lubonng in Europe, and the oiher, Dr. Judd, was laboring at these islands. In the providence of God, from their knowledge of this people and their language, they performed a task which no stranger could have accomplished, however great his learning or ability. In subsequent years others were invited to offices of trust and responsibility in this government. The names of Ricord, Lee, Wyllie, Andrews, Armstrong, Jnrves, Hall, Robertson. Bates, Allen, and others might lie mentioned who have I'nithfully and manfully labored for the good of this nation. It has been their privilege to witness the good and happy results of their labors. While thus reviewing the past, and looking forth upon the Nation's present condition. I cannot but glance an eye forward to the unknown future. The question naturally arises, •' What is to come ?" What are our future prospects? There are some who take the most sombre views of prospective events, while others look forward more hopefully. While my mind is not altogether free from anxiety, I am far from settling down into despondency. Can we not trust that kind Providence which has led us hitherto? Has God carefully watched over this government and nntion.down to 1863,and is He now going to desert us t No. I believe His " banner of love" is still over this people. Again, if necessary, will He interpose his protecting shield. New difficulties may arise, but let us be prepared to meet them with a courageous heart and a firm trust in God. Surely each one of us may exclaim, in the language of the Psalmist. " The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage." Let us evince our gratitude by laboring for the good of the people among whom our let is cast, and in the language of another, •' go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart." Most Remarkable Speech.—In the Advertiser of the 20th ult. was published extracts from a speech of the Hon. A. H. Stephens, now Vice President of the Southern Confederacy. That speech was delivered in a convention of the State of Georgia, before the Act of Secession was passed. He put the subject in a clear light. He seemed inspired for the occasion. Results have taken place as he predicted. No Northern man ever stated his view of the subject so strong. If any of our readers can furnish a copy of that speech, entire, we should be glad to see it republished. It is a most remarkable document. Read it. Jeff. Davis' Library Captured—A letNew York Herald, of July 27th, dated Jackson, (Miss.,) July 12th, says: The library of JeffDavis was captured, comprising several bundles of private political papers of the arch-traitor, and several letters upon secession, of dates back to 1852. The whole collection brings to light the history of secession. There are letters from both Northern and Southern traitors. ter to the Mr. Synge's Lecture. It is no credit to a man to speak when every one is speaking, or lecture when lectures are common, but when gentlemen are willing to lead off they merit special thanks from the public. Messrs. Mason and Synge have set a good example to the literary gentlemen of Honolulu. The announcement that Mr. Synge would lecture upon "some of the humorists of the present century," created a pleasant surprise in our community, so much of it as had not gone to set the volcano, or otherwise rusticate in different parts of the islands. Considering the fact that so many were absent, we think the audience decidedly large. After allowing the Queen's Hospital to take ihc pecuniary avails, amounting to more than $100, a fnr more valuable result will be derived by the community nt large. It was exceedingly pleasant to listen to a speaker whose allusions, readings and anecdotes indicated that he was familiar with the writings of not only " Scott, Irving and Lamb," but the whole range of modern literary celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic. When our neighbors return from their summer excursions, we hope an invitation will be extended to Mr. Synge to repeat his lecture for the benefit of the Queen's Hosbital, or some equally worthy charity. It was once our privilege to listen to a literary address of the Hon. Edward Everett, whose polished style and classic language riveted the attention of the audience for full two hours, but we think Mr. Synge's lecture of one hour and forty minutes was equally successful in arresting and retaining the attention of the audience. The peroration we thought exquisitely neat and peculiarly happy. In the language ofanother he remarked : " I have culled you a nosegay of flowers and have brought nothing of my own but the thread which ties them." As the beauty of a bouquet of natural flowers consists mainly in their selection and arrangement, so we think Mr. Synge succeeded most admirably in his choice selection and sidlful arrangement of flowers culled from the wide range of English and American literature. As an additional illustration of Lamb's humor, the following specimen of autobiography is worthy of publication. We do not remember to have met with any similar literary composition which will at all compare with it for quiet humor and delicate execution. Charles Lamb's Autobiography.—The following was published in the New Monthly Magazine a few months nfter Lamb's death, with the preface which precedes it: " We have been favored, by the kindness of Mr. Upcott, with the following sketch. �THE written in one of his collections by Charles Lamb. It will be read with deep interest by all, but with the deepest by those who had the honor and the happiness of knowing the writer. It is so singularly characteristic, that we can scarcely persuade ourselves we do not hear it, ns we read, spoken from his living lips. Slight as it is, it conveys the most exquisite and perfect manner and habits of our friend. For the intellectual rest we hfi the veil of its noble modesty, and can even here discern them. Mark its humor, crammed into a few thinking words—its pathetic sensibility in the midst of contnist —its wit, truth and feeling.—nnd, above all, its fanciful retreat at the close, under a phantom cloud of death : Charles Lamb, born in the Inner Tcmp'e. 10th February. 1775; educated in Christ's Hospital ; afterwards a clerk in the East India House ; pensioned off from that service, 1825, after thiny-three years service; is now a gentleman at large; can remember few specialities in his life worth noting, except that he once caught a swallow flying (testa sua manu). Below the middle stature; cast of face slightly Jewish, with no Judaic tinge in his complexional religion ; stammers abominably, and is therefore more apt to discharge his occasional conversation in a quaint aphorism or a poor quibble than in set and edifying speeches; has consequently been libeled as a person always aiming at wit, which, al he told a dull fellow that charged him wi h it, is at least as good as aiming at dullness. A small eater but not drinker; confesses a partiality for the production of the juniper-berry; was a fierce smoker of tobacco, but may be resembled to a volcano burnt out, emitting only now and then a casual puff. Has been guilty of obtruding upon the public a talc in prose, called Rosamond Gray,"—dramatic sketch, named " John Woodvil,"—a " Farewell Ode to Tobacco,"—with sundry other poems and light prose matter, collected in two slight crown octavos, and pompously christened his works, though in fact they were his recreations, and his true works may be found on the shelves Leadenhnll st ret, filling some hundred folios. He is also the true Elia, whose essays are extant in a little volume, published a year or two since, and rather better known from that name without a meaning than from anything he has done, or can hope to do in his own. He also was the first to draw public attention to the old English dramatists, in a work called " Specimens of English Dramatic writers who lived about the Time of Shakespeare," published about fifteen years since. In short, all his merits and demerits to set forth would take to the end of Mr. Upcott's book, and then not be told truly. "' " He died IS , much lamented. Witness his hand, Charles Lamb. ISth April, 1827.' " FRIKM), SEPTEMBER, 96 of the 689 of the Southern Clergy! French Clergy!! 6000 of the English Clergy!!! This is rather u furmiduble array of clergymen. Let us now point out to our renders what they are doing or trying to do. The ninety-six Southern clerpymen have published an appeal to the world against the manner in which the government of the United States is trying to put down the rebellion in the Southern Stales. Their nppeal is published in some of the newspapers. We met with it in the N. Y. Times. It is worth reading. Those clergymen protest against being called rebels and traitors, but particularly do they protest against the Emancipation Proclamation. Our readers will find an answer to this nppeal in the Independent of June 18th. That is worth reading. Read both sides. The six hundred and eighty-nine French Protestant clergymen have addressed the ministers and pastors of all Evangelical denominations of England, Scotland and Ireland, to sustain President Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation, and otherwise exert their influence against the triumph of the government of Jeff. Davis, asserting that " the triumph of such a cause would put back the progress of civilization and of humanity a whole century. It would make angels weep in heaven and demons rejoice in hell." (See the appeal, in P. C. Advertiser, of August 20.) Six thousand clergymen in Great Britain, at trie latest accounts, had already signed the nppeal. The work was going bravely forward. No man, either clergyman or layman, in France, England or the Sandwich Islands, can stand aloof and say that he has no interest in the issues of this struggle. It is a struggle in which the whole human race has an interest and a very deep interest. If the South succeeds then a principle is established that degrades every man who has not a white skin! Let the South triumph and the effect will be felt in the heart of Asia, Africa nnd Hawaii. The triumph of tne Southern rebels would, in the language of the appenl of the clergy of France, •' enable the friends of the slave trade, and of slavery, in all lands, to hold up their heads, ever ready as they are to reappear at the first signal,—in Asia, in Africa, and in the great cities of Europe. It would give a fatal blow work of Evangelical missions," ice. In addition we say, it would be a deadly thrust at Hawaiians, because their King is not a white man. Before men in Hawaii nei, (including the Editor of the Polynesian,) throw up their hats and shout for Jen. Davis, we would suggest that they look out for the consequences! Stand from under! Let our neighbor beware ! In his issue of the Bth ult. he rather tauntingly asks the Friend, it no bowels for the South ?" meaning "ofHas course for white slave-holders. We now ask the Polynesian, " Has it no bowels for Southern slaves, Hawaiians and other colorto the We are glad to learn that the publication of the Hawaiian and English Dictionary, prepared by the Rev. L. Andrews, will be commenced as soon as Mr. Whitney reed races ?" turns from San Francisco. 69 1863. Samoa or Navigator Islands. By the Hamburg schooner Kehrnrieder, Captain Rachau, we have advices to the 27th of June, from the port of Apia, Upolu, in the above group, from which we learn that Mr. Augustus Unshelm has completed various improvements which afford facility ft) vessels to discharge or ship cargo, to repair, to heave down, und to refit generally. The above-named gentleman has large and commodious stores, and always keeps on hand a supply of ship-chandlery. For the convenience ofpassenger ships, bound from these islands or from California, to the Australius, he has built a large iron scow, for the purpose of supplying water with the utmost dispatch. He has also completed large scows capable of discharging or shipping 30 to 40 tons of cargo at one time. We learn further that there is now running a regular line of packets—comprising first-class vessels of from 300 to 600 tons burden—from Apia to London and Hamburg, thus offering facilities for the prompt shipment of cargo to the home markets, which must prove acceptable to those of the whaling fleet desirous of forwarding their oil to Europe under a neutral flag. Supplies of yams are also obtainable at the stores of Mr. Unshelm. One of the chief improvements we note, is the erection of a large signal lantern, showing red, blue and white lights, right opposite the entrance to the harbor, and at an elevation of about 100 feet above the level ofthe sea. The Desdemona, of New Bedford, Captain Bates, had just sailed from Apia, with 800 barrels of sprm oil, and 35 months out. The ship Cesar Godeffroy, Captain Fruchtenicht, (600 tons,) was loading for home. We regtet to learn that several vessels bearing the Peruvian flag, had been for some weeks cruising amongst the Samoa and neighboring islands, kidnapping natives. In some instances force had been employed to On capture the unsuspecting islanders. some of the smaller islands, out of populations numbering several hundreds, not more than l&or20 people have been left, including the native missionary teachers. One vessel on board of which dysentery had appeared amongst the unfortunate natives, had run down to Sunday Island, in the neighborhood of New Zealand, where having landed the sick, the disease spread so virulently that the white settlers were nearly all carried off. The few who survived have since removed to this port. The dead and dying natives were left abandoned on the sands of the beach, and the vessel started to kidnap another cargo. Letters withChaplain.—FTor homas Siglson,Coroner (2) U-ls F. Potur. Cbsrtss Yanoh, Whas W. Cwt, Jobo A. >taa, W. B. Bki.lT. Fvarss H. OfOss ■*■ �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1863. 70 Editor's Table. Sstsntsxn Yiabs in Polynesia—Missionary Life, Travels and Researches in the Islandsof the PaclHc— By the Rev. George Turner, of the London Missionary Society. London John Snow, Paternoster Row. 1859. : In due time we shall have a very respectable series of books upon Polynesia. Every year one or more is added to the list. A few months ago we noticed Mr. Hopkins' work upon the Sandwich Islands. We have now lying upon our table, a new book on the Samoan Islands, lying among the •' Isles of the South." The writer of this work enjoys the reputation of having been a most faithful and successful missionary under the patronage of the London Missionary Society. He was first stationed upon Tanna, one of the New Hebrides, and subsequently removed to the Samoan or Navigators' Islands. If our limits would permit we should furnish our readers with copious extracts. The history of Missionary efforts at Samoa strikingly resemble those upon the Hawaiian Islands, prior to the year 1843 or 1844. By some of our readers it will be remembered that the Samoan mission was established by the Rev. John Williams, the Martyr of Eromanga. As a mission, it appears to have been in the highest degree successful. The mission Seminary for educating Samoans as missionaries to go to remote and unevangelized islands, has been one of the most prosperons educational institutions in all Polynesia. On pages 113 and 114, the writer thus refers to his medical and surgical knowledge: A little surgical knowledge which I had "picked up from a session at the anatomy class in the Andersonian University of Glasgow, was all of service; I only wished that I would it had been more. men for preparing young advise all strongly Missionary work among a heathen people, to devote a year of two at least almost exclusively to such matters." Our views exactly correspond with the writer, as we endeavored to present them in the XXXVIIth Morning Star Paper, see Friend, Nov., 1861. This is a subject quite too much overlooked by young men in the Theological Seminaries of England and America, who are looking forward to a missionary life. If a missionary candidate is pressed for time, let him cut short his theological term of study, and devote one or two years at least to the study of medicine. The reasons for this course are fully apparent to all who become practically acquainted with missionary life among an ignorant and uncivilized people. directors of missionary societies, seting and sending out missionaries, should ist upon medical knowledge as an essenI qualification in a missionary candidate. * * * Pc On pages 609 and 510, we find the following reference to four Natives of the Island of Lifu, situated near New Caledonia, who were once visitors at Honolulu, (see Friend, January and October, 1869.) " The four natives of Lifu, to whom I have already referred as being on board our vessel, now rejoiced to find themselves once more on their native shore. There is a tale connected with these four young men which makes us ashamed of our country. They say they were decoyed from their island by a sandal-wooding vessel from Sydney, upwards of three years ago. They had gone on board to sell some things, were battened down in the hold, and let up on deck next day when their island was all but out of sight. They were nearly a year on Espirito Santo, cutting and cleaning sandal-wood, and were then taken to Ascension, of the Caroline Group, and sold for pigs, yams and firewood. They were rated according to size, age, etc., and fetched from two to five pigs, and a proportionable quantity of yams and firewood for each man. There were ten of them in all. After a time, six managed to run away, and escaped to Hongkong, where five of them died. The remaining four might still have been in slavery on Ascension, but for the kind help of the American missionaries there, together with Captain Thompson, of the whaling-ship " China." The captain bought off two of them, and the other two were redeemed partly by their own earnings, and partly by the missionary. They were then taken to Honolulu. The Rev. S. C. Damon and others kindly attended to them at that place, until Captain Manchester generously took them to Rarotonga, there to await the arrival of the " John Williams," One of them speaks English pretty well. Mr. Williams, the British consul at Samoa, has taken down the deposition of the young man, and reported all at the proper quarter. In the course of our voyage we trace the name of the vessel, and also that of her captain and supercargo. The Lifu people had long given up these four young men as dead, and their restoration was no small addition to the joy occasioned by the arrival of the missionaries. Two of them are of high rank in the bay where we anchored, and it was affecting to see how the people clung to them, listening to their tale, and following them wherever they went." The London press of every shade of opinion pay a very high tribute to the name and reputation of " Stonewall" Jackson. It is said that he combined in his person the intellect and religious enthusiasm—without the fanaticism—of Oliver Cromwell, the strategic ability and rapidity of the execution of Bonaparte, and the patriotic devotion of Havelock. In consequence of the death of the younger Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the Carroll Estate is now settling up. Of three hundred slaves belonging to the estate, all but one hundred and forty have run away. The appraisers valued those at $6 apiece, while a leading slave-holder of Baltimore declared that he would not give $500 for the Fate of a Godless Town.—Some German infidels founded a town in Minnesota, which was named New Ulm, stipulating that no church should ever be placed on the town plot on pain of its reversion to the original owner. The settlers spent their Sabbaths in revelry, and threatened to hang or drown any preachers who should disturb them with the gospel. On one Sabbath last summer they made an effigy of the Saviour, and burned it on the public street. Before the next Sabbath the Indian outbreak began, and the savages assaulted the impious community, and destroyed between 150 and 200 houses, completely desolating the place. The dance hall, which escaped the general wreck, was afterwards used as a place of religious worship by the volunteer troops who were stationed there, and the gospel of Jesus was thus preached in the very place where his religion had been scorned, and he so grossly insulted and reviled. The Boston Advertiser has a letter from Egypt giving further particulars of the discovery of the source of the Nile by the English travelers, Spekc and Grant. It is a lake near the equator, and the discoverers have loyally named it Lake Victoria. These bold tourists entered Africa from the East Coast, and are now coming down the Nile, so that we ought soon to have full details. The discovery of itself does not do much in the woy of practical advantage, but as according to history the question was agitated 2,300 years ago and has been in doubt ever since, it is gratifying to have it settled at last. The Anglo-African enumerates the colored troops now in service as follows:— General Thomas' recruits, 11,000; under General Banks, 3,000; in Kansas, 1,000; in South Carolina, 3,000; in North Carolina, 3,000 ; under Gen. Rosecrans, 5,000; under Gen. Schofield, 2,000; Massachusetts regi- 1,200; in the District of Columbia, 800—total 30,000. There are also 5,000 colored men in the navy. ments, Sleep.—Dr. Trall says the great secret of the superior health of the English, is the greater amount of quiet sleep. The Americans, as a nation, are wearing out for want of rest. Dr. Trail, are the Sandwich Islanders dying out for the want of sleep ? The ship Resolution, in which Capt. Cook left England on his second voyage around the world in 1772—ninety years since—is now at Demerara waiting a cargo. Rev. Dr. Farley, who has retired from the pulpit of the Unitarian society in Brooklyn, after a pastorate of twenty-one years, has received $26,000, as a parting present. What fame is worth is shown by the fact that a portrait of the rebel President has just been published in Pans, with tnis inscription : Mr. J. Davids, President of South America." " Stonewall Jackson's sister is a loyal lady. She said she would rather know that he was deed than to have him a leader in the rebel army. �71 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1863. ADVERTISEMENTS. APVBIRTISEMBIfTS. ADVERTISETVIEIITS. J. O. MBBBII.L D. C. S-at'SS. J. 11. COLE, AUOTIOIVBBn, IrIcKVER (ttOOCRSSOR TO A. P. SVBBrTT.) 36»-ly At his lste rooms, Queen Street. Commission Merchants 11. W. SEVERANCE, ATJOTIOIVDEIII. AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building, SAILOR'S HOME. sV 'II .till I, I -- AUCTIONEERS, of Honolulu Packets. DENTIST. Wheeler & Wilson's PHYSICIAN at SURGEON, HILO, HAWAn, S. I. N. B.—Medicine Chests carefullyreplenished at the HILO DRITC STORE. 6-tf sacs, B. Honolulu. SEWING MACHINES! Commission & Shipping Merchants, Onhii. 11. I. —REFER TO— New York. Joss. M. Hoon, Esq Jambsllobsbwhll, Ksq., } Bsstou. ('baulks Bbswbk, Ksq.,S ) 11. A. PBIBOS, Es 1., McKcss Mbbhill, I Mssbbs.. Bln Fr ndieo (has. Wolcott Bbooks, Esq., \ Hongkong. Msssas. Wh. Postau & Co., Manila. Mbssbs. Pbblb, Hi'bsbll a Co llouoliilil, , . 330-ly SAM'L. S. OASTLB. 1. B. ATBBBIOS. MACHINE HAS AM. THE LATEST irapi<ivements,and, addition IMiIS former premiums, was highest prise above all European and American awarded to in a. t. cabtbr, Honolulu. C. BREWER & CO., * COOKE, AGENTS FOR 352-ly C. H. WETMORE, M. D. Bissau* * CASTLE Office corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. AMOS. S. 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BOOKS AND TRACTS, in the English, French, Portuguese, German, Welsh, Swed*c. These are SIBLEB, books offered ind Spanish languages. Particular attention paid torebindlng old and choice Books. Mr. Y. having bad many years experience In Book-binding, for sale, at cost prices, by the Hawaiian Bible and receive share of the business a re- Tract Societies, but furnished in all its branches, hopes to quired Id Honolulu. GRATTJITOOSLY TO SEAMEN. Orders from the other Islands should be accompanied with particular directions as to the style, and If the work Is to match Also, Office of TVir Friend, bound volumes for volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sent ■ale. Subscriptions received. with the Job. N. B.—Seamen belonging to vessels lying "off books and papers, by READING ROOM, LIBRARY AND DKPOS- and on," will be supplied with oalling at the Depository, from 12to 8 o'clock P. M. ITORY. 8. C. DAMON, eamen's Chaplain. 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Residence In Offlco at Dr. Judd's Drug Store, 335.1J Nuuanu Valley, opposite that of E. O. Hall, Kaq. 330-ly DR. J. MOTT SMITH, — ALLEN A HI It KM I suoosssoss to George W. Macy, Will KAWAIHAE. HAWAII, the General Merchandise and Shipping busmes at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish tbe justly celebrated Kawalhae Potatoes, and such other re emits as are required by whale ships at the shortestnotice, 878-ly and on the most reasonable terms. continue THE FRIEND: A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TaOsPERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: One oopv, par annum Two oonies. a. ww WW Five oopies, " ... • fiOJ _MM. •V M �IHE FRIE.ND. SEPTEMBER, 1863. 72 Wreck of the "Anita," and Loss of Lives. From our ralued correspondent, Mr. A. Unshclm, Hamburg Consul at Apia, Samoan Islands, we have received the following particulirs relating to the wreck of the Anita, and the probable loss of several passengers and the crew. Among the passengers we notice with feelings of deep sorrow the names of our old friends and acquaintances, Captain and Mis. Gardner, of Nantucket, and also two children of Mr. Pritchard. Hereafter should additional particulars come to light, we hope our correspondent will not fail to communicate the same. The Hamburg schooner Anita, bound from Feejee to Samoa with a cargo of cocoanut oil, was lost in a tremendous hurricane on the 12th of January last. The vessel is supposed to have been Inst between Vavou and Savage Island, (Friendly Island Group.) On board of the Anita were Captain and Mrs. Gardner, of Nantucket, proceeding to Samoa, where Captain Gardner had appointed U. S. Consul. On board were also a sister and two children of Mr. W. P. Pritchard, H. B. M. Consul at Feejee, (son of the Consul formerly of Tahiti.) Mr. Pritchard was sending his family to Samoa, to proceed in one of Mr. Unshelm's vessels to England. In the meantime, in happy ignorance of the fearful blow impending over their heads, Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard subsequently took passage in the Cheetah, of Sydney, to rejoin their family, as they hoped, in Samoa, with the view of all proceeding together homewards. On the trip from I'eejee to Samoa, the Cheetah called at Haapai, Friendly Islands, and while receiving cargo, Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard were invited to remain at the mission house. On the morning after their arrival, they took a walk on the beach, along the sea-shore. They had not gone many yards when they observed something floating over the reef. They watched it as it came nearer. "It is a box," they said. A moment more and it was washed to their feet. They recognized , it. " It is our Patty's box from the Anita,' •aid the husband to his wife. This was the only tbing washed ashore on this island from the wreck.—and here Mr. and Mr*. Pritchard first heard of their fearful loss. This box seems to have been sent a silent messenger from the lost, to whisper "the mighty sea has engulphed us—the fearful hurricane has swept over us !" And this is all tbey have been able to trace of those so dear and so precious to them. Subsequently the hull of the vessel was drifted ashore, •n one of the neighboring islands, dismasted, fall of water, without a trace of the fate of the unfortunate crew, but with cargo intact Altogether it is n><*t mysteries**, ease. * The only hope that now remains—after a most thorough search on tr\\ the islands anywhere within the scope of the hurricane—is that some pushing vessel may have taken the people off the wreck, and with this "forlorn hope," Mr. Pritchard and his must amiable lady proceedfd to England in the Cesar Godeffroy. To a fond mother and nn affectionate father, how terrible has been this blow. Forty Years a Wanderer. Some months or rather years ago. we became acquainted with it person residing upon another island, who represented that he hod been many years away from home, without once communicating with hisfriends. He had repeatedly written but could get no replies. We endeavored to assist the man, and by a late mail received a long letter from one of It is brothers. Il nppears that all his friends had removed from his native town, in Massachusetts, and were living in various pans of New York and Vermont. His mother still lives, a venerable old Inciy of more than forescore. We have now letters to forward. Our friend left Boston in ISSJ3, and has during forty yenrs been residing in various parts of the '• South Seas," and upon the Sandwich Islands. We mention the facts to encourage others to write to their friends. Let not long absence from home discourage any one from writing. Your friends will gladly hear from you. Let them learn your whereabouts. A Friendly Word from an Englishman. —While English papers are burdened with editorials and letters, " long drawn out," disparaging to the cause of liberty, emancipation and the cause of the North, it is refreshing to meet with an occasional paragraph, from some English pen, indicating that the writer entertains an appreciative view of the mighty struggle now going forward in America. The following we copy from a letter of Prof. Newman, of England, to one of his American correspondents: "I am sorry to feel how low in my estima»e many of the English gentry, aristocracy and statesmen have fallen, not only as to their morality, but as to their foresight. Those who have substantially come round to your side—who can no longer help seeing that the success of the South would have been a curse to humanity—still go on moaning about the bloodshed and the ravage in a tone of equal disapproval, and cannot yet onderstand that this is a necessary result of the fansticism of the South, which alone is to blame; nay, not alone—Englishmen who have fostered the South, share the blame largely." The North and its friends have only to wait. The future historian will set these points all right. The cause of secession will not appear in a very favorable light a few years hence. The materials of history are imaturing very fast MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. AKKIVAI.S. July Sl—Am ship Asterlon, liunl. ISitays frm San Frsnrlsri, Aug. en route for llowUinu'a Islaiul. Anchored uutslile. Salle,! Auku-i 3. I—Russian steamer Hymla. Bassarguine, 14 days from Sau Francisco. 10—Am hark A A Blrirldge, Bennett, 15 days rrom Kso Francisco, en mule tor shanghae. Anchored outside, and sailed SMtnedsy. 1" -Usui trading brume R>hrwle,ler, Rachau, 44 dys frm Apia, Navigator's Inland. Jo—Russian.team corvette Calavala, Oeltouchln, Is dys from llukotiaili, Japan. 27—Bremen ship Kit-na, Bremer, 13*2 dys from Bremen, with iiiilbi- to 11 Jlai-kf.Id ft Co. 20_Brlllsh >le*l schimner llomltlls, (Iriffiths, 131 dys frm l.iv,T|NH>l, (121 ily» frm Holyhead,) with mdse to Janion, (Jreen A Co. 30— Am Irark Comet, Smith, 14 dys from San Francisco, with mdse to W ileus, Richards A Co. HEI'AKI I KK.S. Aug. ll—Russian itmr Ryada, Bassarguine, for Shanghae. 24— Sell Manuokawal, Aleut, for Marquesas lslauils. PASSENGERS. From San FHAxriw-o—|»er A A Kldridire, August 10—J It'sor, Frank Kc.or. For Shanakue: (from W Copeland. For MAngrrjAs Island*—per Mnnuokawai, August 21—Rev B W Parker. From Livsarnol—|>er Domt 111, August 29— Mr Hyde, wife and 3 hlhlrru, Miss Clinton, Miss time., Mrs Caltauach, Miss Cattsuach. Mr Klkingum—lo. From Sab Fhanciscii— Jier Comet, August 30—0 Wood and daughter. I'io Dias, II Hart, 0 tenuis, 0 Gray, C Lyons, J WilkiTsi.n, J S„.,my, J X Connolly, A isjlor, Mrs C Stewart and •I children- 14. • DIED. IMIIIIM fc Portland. Maine, June20th, IM3, Mr. S. f. InKriihmii. inrt-'ltifi J earn, father of uur fellow tuwusituii, Mr. Q. H. C liiKruham. I'sitKz—ln Honolulu, August 22. J"hn Ptnx. of Valparaiso, ClilU-, aged aliout 30 years. He first arrivt-<l at theau Islands in 1547. MARRIED. SrrN.KK—Haix—ln Kulnalul, N«rth K<in», Hawaii, August 10. 18rt3, Uy the Rev. J. o. Paris, at the mid. nee ul Hit hrhle'i rather. George t. Sjtencer to Mary Jr.llen, daughter of Chatlea Hull, Esq. Information Wanted! Respecting, Arnold R. Auttin, of Providence, R. 1., who left the"lit,- Kodnmn, itlw.ut 18tVl at Honolulu IVrht.pi Capt S]>"ii'tT iinty recall tlili mat), if So, pl-a-e i.-ornmunlc-rile with Mrs. C. B Austin of Providenre or alitor of the Friend. Re*|>ecting Octaviu* Bijftk. who, on the i'M\ of January, 1H47, Rt Tahiti, shipped "ii hoard the Kratich whaleship md wan dlschurged hL Honolulu, thi* IBi'i of " Ferdinand"of same year li-a family have not sl.,ce heard li.r.niin r, from him. II s father, D. 0. filyth, resid-a In Oawawaassr, Kaitx, Kngland. Any Information will be gladly received by the editor, or R.C Wyllle, Ksq. Respecting George F Mrhniyht, of Wctroewter, Mans., who came out In ih« ■ .Mary Milder. In lr-60, and sutist-qurnt.y ■ nipped on hoard of (he " Pacific," now In the Nonh Pacific. Hhould he riait the islands, he U requested to call upon the Chaplain, and communicate with hn mother, Nn Harriet Mc '* Knight. Re-neciin* Jam** Reilty, formerly mate of brig ''Josephine." Any Information will he gladly trosiv d by the chaplain, or by hit brother, Daniel Keflly, care Matthew McPortan, 607 Water Street, New York. R spectlng Francti D Mcttvena. who la »uppoeed to he oo board ship » Navy." Aa* lahia-stliin will be gladly ■waived by the Kditor, or hla stater. Mr*. A. M- Urovae, No. 11 Newton Place, Boston, Maae.. care of Mr. James Uroves. Respecting Alonto John App/eton,o( Klttery, Maine, who haa been reported at Honolulu, oo board wUaleehlp " I'hoenli." Any information will gladly be received by the Kditor, or Mr. ICdwln 8. Appteton, Klttery, Nary Yard Vintage, Maine, L H. Keapectlng Henry Ayoh/otd. Any person having ktiowMgs of this individual, (a native of London, Kngland.) wh" arrived at Ne i London July SO, 1*46, In the ship Charles Carroll," fr'iui Desolation Island, will l>e remunerated by communicating; the information to Henry P. Haven, New Loudon, Conn., or to the Kditor of the friend Respecting Robert L*Roy MeOinnpt. He halls from Band more, aud was ou buardthe ".iilv. rrtiar" when she was wrecked upon a guano Island In IMO. lis returned to Honolulu, vi sinoe that dais do louiitswaoshas beenrec-.lved lYuca him. Any laMinSjllim will ba taanWuliy received by his mother Myo. - " � 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 - 1863.09.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.09.01