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THEFRIEND.
HONOLULU, OCTOBER I, I8«4.
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October, 1801.
Missionaries Aiding Commerce
Suicide
\V. M. Gibson, Kst|
A Day in Niuiaiiu Valley
Massacre of the Cr> a' of Hamburg
Lat« War News
A Lesson from Honnlulu
lleorgc WhitQcl.i
Monument to Oat Grant
Ktlitur'a Tabic—Nt* Hn«k
Intelligence from Miernmsia
Dale in the Tropics
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In the March number of the Friend, we
published some interesting particulars respecting the timely efforts ol Hawaiian missionaries at the Marquesas Islands, in rescuing the first officer of the whaleship Congress
from imminent peril and danger. We are
happy to learn that, as soon as the facts were
reported by our Minister-Resident, Mr.
Mcßride, at Washington, President Lincoln
directed Mr. Seward to authorize the expenditure of $500 in gold for those Hawaiian
missionaries, a German carpenter, and the
native chiefs who assisted in the rescue of
Mr. Whalon. We consider this money well
expended. Suitable presents will be sent to
Marquesas the next trip ot the Morning Star.
In our columns will now be found highly
important information, furnished by the Rev.
B. G. Snow, of Ebon, respecting the loss of
the Hamburg schooner Franz and the massacre of the crew. We are assured by the
agents, Messrs. Melchers & Co., and the
Hamburg Consul, Mr. Heuck.that this information is of the very highest importance.
Efforts in vain have been made for years to
ascertain the fate of this schooner. Would
that merchants and civilized and Christian
governments might see the importance of
extending the influence of missions over
•very island in this great ocean. No mur-
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tiers have taken place in the southern portion effort and failed ! He had not the courage
Hamlet
of the Marshall Wanda, since the American —the desperation—the madness!
Mission was established at Ebon, in 185G or reasoned well :
"The dread of soim-thine. after death.
'57. We hope the missionaries may very
The undiscovered country, from whose bourtic
traveller
No
returns, —putties the wili.
soon lie stationed on all the islands.
"
us rather bear those ills we have
—
Suicide.
"A German named Groffman, who came
here passenger in the bri", Ha?is from Mexico
some four months since, was found dead in
his room on Monday last, and in a chair by
his bedside a tumbler, about one-third full of
a Strong solution of Cyannret of Potassium,
which is one of the most deadly poisons
known. We learn nothing of the causes
that led to his poisoning himself, nor of his
personal history, except that he had been a
Daguerrean artist -in Mexico."—[P. C. Advertiser, Sep*. 10.
In those few lines the sad story is told. It
is not in our power to add further particulars.
We went into the house and saw the room
where the poor man ended his career. According to the Rubric of the established
Church of England, the Burial Service, " is
not to be used for any that die unbaptized, or
excommunicate, or have laid violent hmds
upon themselves." This rule should doubtless be observed, if no discretion is left with
the officiating clergyman to omit, if he may
see fit, certain paragraphs of the service.
Having never subscribed to observe thatritual, we feel no scruples about officiating at the
funerals of those to whom exception is made
in the above quoted directions. Indeed our
feelings revolt from that old custom of our
English ancestors which sanctioned the practice of burying a suicide at the spot where
four roads meet, and of otherwise showing
disrespect to the remains of a fellow mortal
—" bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh!"
So far from that, our feelings would rather
prompt us to accompany the body to the
grave and there drop a tear. We do not believe any suicide ever raised the knife, or
mixed the poison without experiencing struggles and qualms to which most men are utterly strangers! Many a man has made the
And makes
Than rush to others that we know not of.
Tims conscience makes cowards of usall."
Yet there are some exceptional cases.
Some depressed in mind, ruined in fortune
and goaded on, it may be, by the stings of
conscience, do take that " fatal leap in the
dark." Their fate is sad. It is well that
we cannot draw aside the veil. In regard to
one suicide—Judas—an inspired writer has
recorded that he " went to his own place."
Reflection upon such sad instances of mortality should lead those more highly favored
to cherish the most unfeigned gratitude to
Heaven, and see well to it, that they follow
the sentiment of the old Roman poet Juvenal, " our prayer should be for a sound mind
in a sound body." These are the great requisites to human and rational happiness.
Notice to the Friends of the U. S.
Christian Commission.—ln our last we made
an appeal in behalf of this association, the
object of which is so well known. We have
since received a package of publications, setting forth the claims of theassociation, which
we will furnish to any one desiring information, and we arc ready to receive and forward all moneys, contributed for this object,
in Honolulu or from any part of the islands.
Those who do not go to thtfront ought to
willingly contribute for the comfort of those
who are brought
to
the rear wounded and
bleeding.
Terrible Steamboat Explosion.—Late
intelligence from California reports the explosion of the boilers of the Washoe, a steamer running on the Sacramento river. It occurred on the sth of September. There
were one hundred and seventy-five persons
on hoard and about one hundred and twentyfive were wounded or killed. At the time
the vessel left, bringing this intelligence, the
investigation was going on, and the dead
bodies were being identified.
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oners; but (except for deeds of that character, which are the rule and habit of their
The career of some men is so very strange life, and matter of religion and conscience
d adventurous, that a simple statement of with them,) they are a gentle-natured people,
n, sq.
W.M.GibsoE
I
throws all heroes of fiction into the
shade. Among person? o! this class may be
reckoned the gentleman whose name we have
placed at the head of this article. It is well
known that at present he is located in a
beautiful volley, surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills on the Island of Lanai, lying
between Oahu and Maui. Before referring
to his present occupation, we will introduce
him to our readers as portrayed by the
graphic pen of the eminent American author,
N. Hawthorne lately deceased. In Mr.
Hawthorne's last published book, " Our Old
Home," he presents a series of sketches of
men and scenes, as they passed under his
observing eye, while U. S. Consul at Liverpool, England, during the administration of
President Pierce. While officiating in his
consular capacity, Mr. Hawthorne, was
called upon by a great variety of characters,
from the grave divine to the rollicking sailor.
Some of these personages are admirably
sketched, and among the sketches we met
with the following paragraphs. Although
no name is given, yet we do not suppose our
island readers will fail to recognize the man
whom we have referred to as now living
upon the island of Lanai:
of the same class was a
" Anotherofvisitor
refined manners, handsome
gentleman
figure, and remarkably intellectual aspect.
Like many men of an adventurous cast, he
had so quiet a deportment, and such an apparent disinclination to general sociability,
that you would have fancied him moving
always along some peaceful and secluded
walk of life. Yet, literally from his first
hour, he had been tossed upon the surges of
a most varied and tumultuous existence, having been born at sea, of American parentage,
but on board of a Spanish vessel, and spending many of the subsequent years in voyages,
travels, and outlandish incidents and vicissitudes, which, methought, had hardly been
since the days of Gulliver or Dc
oe. When his dignified reserve was overcome, he had the faculty of narrating these
adventures with wonderful eloquence, working up his descriptive sketches with such intuitive perception of the picturesque points
that the whole was thrown forward with a
of your
positive illusive effect, like
own visual experience. In fact, they were
so admirably done that I could never more
than half believe them, because the genuine
affairs of life are not apt to transact themselves so artistically. Many of his scenes
were laid in the East, and among those seldom visited archipelagoes of the Indian
Ocean, so that there was an Oriental fragrance breathing through his talk and an
odor of the Spice Islands still lingering in
his garments. He had much to say of the
delightful qualities of the Malay pirates,
who, indeed, carry on a predatory warfare
the ships of all civilized nations, and
every Christian throat among their prisits
Ftralleled
Kinst
of primitive innocence and integrity.
"But his best story was about a race of men,
(if men they were,) who seemed so fully to
realize Swift's wicked fable of the Yahoos,
that my friend was much exercised with
psychological speculations whether or no they
had any souls. They dwelt in the wilds of
Ceylon, like other savage beasts, hairy, and
spotted with tufts of fur, filthy, shameless,
weaponless, (though warlike in theirindividu.il bent,) tool-less, houseless, language-less,
except for a few rattan] sounds, hideously
dissonant, whereby they held some rudest
kind of communication among themselves.
They lacked both memory and foresight, and
were wholly destitute of government, social
institutions, or law or rulership of any description, except the immediate tyranny of
the strongest; radically untamable, moreover, save that the people of the country
managed to subject a few of the less ferocious
and stupid ones to out-door servitude among
their other cattle. They were beastly in almost all their attributes, and that to such a
degree that the observer, losing sight of any
link betwixt them and manhood, could generally witness their brutalities without greater horror than at those of some disagreeable
quadruped in a menagerie. And yet, at
times, comparing what were the lowest general traits in his own race, with what was
highest in these abominable monsters, he
found a ghastly similitude that half compelled him to recognize them as human
brethren.
" After these Gulliverian researches, my
agreeable acquaintance had fatten under the
ban of the Dutch government, and had suffered (this at least being matter of fact)
nearly two years' imprisonment with confiscation of a large amount of property, for
which Mr. Belmont, our minister at the
Hague, had just made a peremptory demand
of reimbursements and damages. Meanwhile, since arriving in England on his way
to the United States, he had been providentially led to inquire into the circumstances
of his birth on shipboard, and had discovered
that not himself alone, but another baby, had
come into the world during the same voyage
of the prolific vessel, and that there were almost irrefragable reasons for believing that
these two children had been assigned to the
wrong mothers. Many reminiscences of his
early days confirmed him in the idea that his
nominal parents were aware of the exchange.
The family to which he felt authorized to
attribute his lineage was that of a nobleman,
in the picture-gallery of whose country-seat
(whence, if I mistake not, our adventurous
friend had just returned) he had discovered a
portrait bearing a striking resemblance to
himself. As soon as he should have reported the outrageous action of the Dutch government to President Pierce and the Secretary of State, and recovered the confiscated
property, he purposed to return to England
and establish his claim to the nobleman's
title and estate.
"I had accepted his Oriental fantasies,
(which, indeed, to do him justice, have been
recorded by scientific societies among the
genuine phenomena of natural history,) not
as matters of indubitable credence, but as
allowable specimens of an imaginative traveler's vivid coloring and rich embroidery on
the coarse texture and dull neutral tints of
truth. The English romance was among
the latest communications that he intrusted
to my private ear ; and as soon as I heard the
first chapter,—so wonderfully akin to what I
might have wrought out of my own head,
not unpractised in such figments,—l began
to repent having made myself responsible
for the future nobleman's passage homeward
in the next Collins steamer. Nevertheless,
should his English rent-roll fall a little behindhand, his Dutch claim for a hundred
thousand dollars was certainly in the hands
of our government, and might at least be
valuable to the extent of thirty pounds, which
I had engaged to pay on his behalf. But I
have reason to fear that his Dutch riches
turned out to be Dutch gilt or fitiry gold, and
his English country-seat a mdfccastle in the
air,—which I exceedingly regm, for he was
a delightful companion and a very gentlemanly man."
The advent and career of Mr. Gibson on
the Sandwich Islands, have been enveloped
in a mysterious obscurity which has been in
perfect keeping with his previous career.
We fancy the philanthropic shepherd and
farmer of Lanai, addressing us in the language of Othello:
"
Soft you; a wordbefore you go.
I have done the State some service, and they know it;
No more of that. 1 pray you in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as 1 am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice."
We shall try and observe this rule, and
our apology for thus bringing Mr. Gibson again before the world, is because he has
done too much to be let alone. His career
is a part of the current history of the times.
We shall now endeavor briefly to state the
plain facts, relating to his connection with
the Mormons and the object or his visit to
the Sandwich Islands.
Mr. Gibson, after returning from Europe,
endeavored to bring his claims upon the
Dutch government before the American government. For this object he spent some
time at Washington. A voluminous report
of the whole affair was published by Congress. Beyond that report we know not how
the affair terminated.
While at WashingBernheisel, the
Delegate in the House of Representatives,
from the land of Brigham Young, or the territory of Utah. He became interested in
the history of the Mormons, and the idea
flashed upon his mind or took strong possession of it, that it would be a good and feasible plan to induce the whole community ot
Mormons, residing in Utah, to remove from
the United States or the American Continent
and locate upon the great and comparatively
uninhabited Island of New Guinea or Papua.
For the purpose of carrying out this magnificent scheme, leading men in Washington
were consulted. It found favor with certain
members of the Governntent, during Buton he was introduced to Dr.
�75
THE FRIEND. OCTOBER, 18 64.
respondent, who is its most prominent citizen, called an enlightened, or at least a civilized peothougli not officially its chief magistrate. I have ple ; but it is not true. You are a poor, miseraso t
been making some experiments in civilization ble, scabby race."
* of *them.AndBut
* out
1
with a lot of breechless subjects, and the result lash every spark of vanity
though not large, nor distinguishable perhaps to hlc'o say to them, —I liko to live with you, to
lookers on, has been very satisfactory to roe. 1 work with you and for you. Your race of men
have not made much out of men and women, is capable of good and great things. If I can
who had been educated by others, but with boys make one of you a good man, a true man, a genand girls have I mainly built up my establish- erous, independent, intelligent man, one thatcan
ment, and with them have dune the most that hold his own with any race, that shall care for
United States. The Government at Wash- has been done. I have boys between ten and the fame of his family and country, then I shall
twelve years of age plowing cane, corn, &c. I rejoico and feel content with my work."
ington finally was led to adopt another policy. have
sheared this spring two thousand three
I would rather have these Hawaiians than Hinundertaken,
The Mormon war expedition was
hundred sheep with a few hoys. My beet hand dus or other Asiatics. And it the government
which is reported to have cost the U. S. is not over twelve years of uge. A boy herds would offer mo a choice, cither one hundred Hill
our goats, nurses the feeble lumbe with the sho coolies, or one hundred Hawaiian boys, I would
Government no less than fifteen millions!
goats, milks for the family supply, brands, cuts, say, looking to merely profitable pecuniary reMr. Gibson, still indulging his favorite and keeps his flock in nieo order. He has a sults, give me Hawaiian boys. There are 10,000
scheme, visited Utah and conferred with Brig- couple of six year old shavers to help him in boys in this kingdom doing little or nothing.
herding and folding. A boy of ten years is the They go to school and idle the rest of the time.
ham Young. From Utah he came to the chief shepherd to go with the flock. However, They become
smart some of them,—become lawSandwich Islands, where it was known that I have a faithful intelligent man to superintend yers and loafers,—and ull poor, petty rogues.
the stock. Boys butcher, —though 1 regret to If I had the tinkering of a Constitution I would
numbers of the Mormons resided.
them to this work, and avoid doing so when do something for the boys und girls. But no
We are unable to state to what extent Mr. can ; —they try out fat, many barrels of which Constitution will help hero, except the constitusent to market, and dry and pack skins, tional drill of the plantation. That's my gospel,
Gibson adopted the views of the Mormons, I have
which 1 have sent some thousands. They or at least a huge part of it.
of
them.
or whether he really embraced any of
shuck and shell corn, and thrash out wheat and
It has happened a rainy duy,—and being kept
On his arrival here in 1861, it was not oats, with which we are now occupied. They in doors,—pen, ink and paper being at hand,
do nearly al! outside work. The few reliable thoughts flowing, and some (lemon of cucocthcs
known that he held any office in that singu- men
I have, that obey my call, build houses, scribendi being at my elbow, you have got this
lar community: The Advertiser and Poly- stone fence, go with boat to Lahaina, and do infliction from your's respectfully.
W. M. Gibson.
nesian of that year, contain the record of his other heavy work. But I have none but boys
carrying on a plantation of about one hundred
advent amongst us, and of his lectures in and
fifty acres in cane, corn, Ace.
The Prison of Wei-tevreoen And a glance al
Fort streetchurch upon Malaysia. As months The girls, under direction of my daughter, the East India Archipelago. By Walter M.
with her and call her Mama, do a
Gibson. Illustrated with original sketches.
passed on, it gradually became apparent that and who live
little out door work, hoeing corn,cane and potaYork, J. C. Riker, 129 Fulton Street,
New
with
the
plan*
he was intimately identified
toes, about two hours in the morning when it is
1855.
of the Mormons. By some species of leger- cool. But they are chiefly busy in doors making
Our notice of Mr. Gibson would be incombags, in which 1 send corn and wheat and
demain, unknown to the world, he now holds mat
unless we spoke of him as an author.
and
plete,
even wool,
by-and by, sugar to market.
large tracts of land on the island of Lanai, They make all their own clothes, and those of The above is the title of this work now lying
They abo cook the food for the boys.
which were procured under his agency, as the boys.
to be ap»
They churn our goat's milk, which makes very before us. The book must be read
the head of the Mormons. For a time glow- sweet butter and cheese. They make nice pua predated. It gives an account of his early,
and pua ko hats. They keep house,—our's life in the Sunny South, of his embarking
ing reports were spread abroad, that all the pili
and their own. Two girls in a neat little grass
followers of Brigham Young on the Sand- house. Their group
of houses and our's is sur- and voyage to the East Indies in the schooner
wich Islands, were gathering on Lanai. rounded by a live ki fence. They never go out- hlirt, and also of his subsequent travels,
by their teacher. We are vexations, arrest, imprisonment and escape.
Ere long reports of dissatisfaction followed. side unaccompanied
some hand wheels and looms, and hope
expecting
have
arrived
are
to
known
Agents from Utah
to make a little homespun cloth on our island. He returned to the United States on board
and declared that Mr. Gibson had not man- I could tell you a great deal more, for I like to the JV. B. Palmer, Capt. Low, the well
the Bubject, and be garrulous liko any
aged the affairs of the Mormons, on the Is- talk onabout
known clipper which has so frequently
his family,—but come and sec.
parent
lands, in accordance with Brigham Young's
But what is the reverse of this family picture. passed our islands on her way to China.
policy. The result is, that numbers of Ha- It has its reverse. I have had troubles enough,
The style of the narrative is very pecu*
—heart sickening disappointments,—but I never
waiians have withdrawn from the Mount knew despair. I bad 52 children organized at liar. It appears, that on the homeward pasZion on Lanai. For outside* it is quite im- one time. But the foolish parents have been sage, Mr. Gibson was accustorsflrt to enaway—arc jealous of our influence,
his fellow passengers
possible to decide respecting the justice or taking them the
mothers about their daughters. tertain the officers and
—especially
however,
is
This,
merits of either party.
account
of
his
adventures. These
boot,
would,
an
I
1
King,
was
and
Parliament
to
with
If
remove every Hawaiian daughter sea yarns" are spun out through "fifty-four
doubtless true, that numbers of simple mind- I think now,Hawaiian
"
mother and put them into
ed and deluded natives have invested their from everyestablishments.
days," or LIV chapters, amounting to 495
industrial
money in the Mormon church, nnd they
By the way, wo keep school about four hours pages. Abating a certain share of fanciful,
every day, sometimes not more than two when dreamy, tropical and quaint statements of
would be very glad to get it back.
work is pushing.
We have reading, writing,
We conclude our somewhat lengthy notice arithmetic,
and lecturing on various topics,—all facts, the volume contains really no small
our
readers
Gibson,
furnishing
by
of Mr.
in English. We have also military drill, and amount of valuable information respecting
with some extracts of a letter which we re- wear uniforms on holidays ;—though my army the Dutch Possessions in the East Indian
has been worse broken up tiian liragg's or Lee a
ceived from him a few days ago. We shall by desertions, induced by copperhead parents, Archipelago.
allow him to tell his own story respecting and lately by an opposition of another sort,
Rev. Dr. Beatty is the successor of
in this kingdom.
the prospects of Lanai, and of its inhab- some recent arrivals
in New Orleans, and has taken
Palmer,
Dr.
latter
This
opposition has its influence, and the oath of allegiance, but carefully avoids
itants :
faith
that
I
has thinned my ranks, but I have
Dsar Sir,—I received some time past, a copy shall regather the deserters under my standard. any expression ofloyalty to our Government.
of
Organization is my aim, and not preaching. 1 The latter is said to be a colonel in the rebel
of Friend addressed to " Gov. Gibson" Lanai,
which I presumed was intended for your corres- toll the people under my direction,—they have army.
pondent, and I read with much satisfaction some had too much preaching,—too much preaching
remarks of Pref. Alexander about Polynesia and and not enough of training in Hawaii nei. I have
Dr. Caesar Malan died at Geneva,
Malaysia—about Oceanican races and Oceanican had with me breechlesskanakas who can expound May Bth.
He left eleven children ; one of
�
Bible all day, and pray by the hour, who made a j his sons speaks twenty-six languages and
tongues.
*
I am sure jour curiosity mint incline you to living by picking up a few fiah, a little sea-weed,
one hundred and twenty-one
think sometimes of Lanai, and about your cor- anjtfpaling potatoes. I say to then, you art' translates
chanan's administration. It was estimated
that for the sum of five millions of dollars
the enterprise could be accomplished. The
project it is believed found favor with Brigham Young and his people. If it could
have been carried out, it would no doubt
have saved much treasure and blood to the
Fiit
:
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76
Mr. Watson, an
old man-of-wars-man. We have seldom
passed over the pali, or along the road to
OCTOBER I, 1564.
Kaneohc during the Inst fifteen years without
meeting him superintending a company
DNiAaunya Valley.
of natives at work upon the rood. As usual
The Queen i'l Spring, ns Mi-- ptlMd down the vale, M
" I/-ft
| we met him on this occasion near the top of
her rohc mi the trees, and her breutli on the pale
Canti'ltett.
the pali. We passed a few moments of
m —toiißiira in trees, hunks in the ninnitiK lirooks,
pleasant
chit-chat with him, for we well re.-crojuns in stones, and good in everything
'*
Wktkttftmrt.
member one event of this man's life which
With the thermometer at So it is refresh- occurred in the autumn of 1847, nearly sevAt that time we were
ing to project a day's excursion into the val- enteen years ago.
and
where
the
falls
10
extensive
quicksilver
making
repairs upon the Bethel,
ley,
°
there is a complete isolation from the noise, amounting to nearly $3,000. Not having
heat and dust of the town. The picnic the money collected we were obliged to borbasket is packed and all the necessary ar- row. In the midst of our enterprise just at
are made for a day's absence, dusk one evening, this same man-of-wars-man
leeful the little ones. We do not entered our sanctum and took from his
that strangers admire this valley. It shoulder a hag of silver.containing between
iiful. The road leading to the pdi six and seven hundred dollars. As he defor miles with the residences of for- ! posited the specie upon the floor, he remarkand natives. Some of these are very ed, " I want you to take care of that money
lug and comfortable. Many a sailor, for me. Ido not want any interest but only
as he has strolled up this valley and gazed I safe keeping." Not recollecting to have ever
at the neat dwellings surrounded by spacious seen the man before, we were somewhat suryards, has been ready to " sell his ship and prised by the abrupt but confiding salutation !
buy a farm." Our destination is the old The facts were, he had been lately dischargPelly premises near the falls. We toiled ed from an American man-of-war in Califorup,—u,i,—up the hills, passing the residen- nia, or Mexico, and had made up his mind
ces of the King and Queen, Wood's Sugar to settle on shore. In a few months he purPlantation, Hillebrand's Ranch, and at about chased land in the district of Kaneohe, on
half-past ten o'clock we reach this spot. The Oahu, where he has ever since resided.
day is delightfully cool. The clouds, like a Whenever we have visited the mission premspacious umbrella, shield us from the sun's ises at Kaneohe, we have invariably heard a
rays. The hills and mountains never ap- kind word in behalf of our friend and his
peared more green and grand. The late tamily. He must have proved an honest
fains had brought forward a luxuriant growth and faithful servant of the Government, for
of vegetation. Down the mountain sides an he has served under three of the Kamchaoccasional cascade came threading its path, mehas.
and in the distance resembling a vein of silWhile viewing the grand panoramic scenver cropping out from the rugged volcanic ery, seaward and landward, and fancying
mountain ridges. The summits of the moun- what a terrible volcanic convulsion that must
tain were cloud-capped, while the fresh trade- have been, which rent asunder this gorge of
the mist and clouds in fine style the mountains, and sunk mountainous peaks,
leaving the whole region a vast chaos of
fee gorge,
of our party had preceded us, and ruins, we noticed a most admirable illustraifortably settled fora day's residence tion of the trite saying, " then is but one
mse" now owned by the Queen Dow- step from the sublime to theridiculous." On
hich has been recently shingled, various parts of the facial sides of the ridges
nd otherwise made exceedingly in- bordering the road, numerous visitors had
Hardly had we arrived before it was taken great pains to inscribe their names!
by one of the party to visit the pali. Suppose Mr. John Smith did visit such a
re soon saddled. It has been our place, on such a day, it indicates that the
to visit many remarkable spots on said member of the Smith family thinks
rene sphere," but for grandeur and much more of himself than he does of the
f the pali of Oahu, par excellence, is grandest scene of nature, if he can turn
koned among those holding the first away and inscribe his name in such a place !
The view from the summit is siir- To be sure, Washington is said to have inf grand. One never tires beholding scribed his name, when a boy, on the ledge
c road down the pali has been very of rocks near the Natural Bridge of Virginia,
proved during the past year. The but report also says, that no boy has dared to
ng odds very much to the safety of climb higher and place his name above that
One of those
THE FKIEND.
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Rents
iove
—
—
,
■
,
assistants
is
to join our party, it was
pleasant to gather
with a cheerful and sociable company around
a bountifully spread table.
On such occasions, if there is not " a feast of reason"
there is " a flow of soul" that is most delightful. How heartily the little ones partake of the repast.
Food tastes best away
from home," is an old saying- After dinner
the falls must be visited. Time does not
hang heavy on our hands, for our rambles
must all be finished and early preparations
made lor our return, lor five miles ride over
such a road is no joke !
Perhaps it is a mere fancy ol ours, but it
is one we have long indulged, and never pass
up the Valley of Niiuanu without having it
revived, that the region about the King's
premises very much resembles that upon St.
Helena, where Napoleon spent the period of
his exile. In that case Honolulu would correspond to Jamestown. This fancy of ours
was suggested from reading Dr. O'Meara's
" Napoleon in Exile," or " A voice from St.
Helena." In fact, all the accounts we have
ever read of the site of Long wood, and the
weather in that part of St. Helena might
very well describe the upper part of the Valley of Nuuanu. Down this valley the N.
E. trade-winds come sweeping very much
as the S. E. trade-winds sweep over St. Helena, and down the valley OBtending back
from Jatnestown. The showers and storms
in Nuuanu are as frequent and driving as
those sweeping over Napoleon's home. Tie
weather in Nuuanu is not always such as it
was on the day we have now imperfectly
sketched. How dreary Napoleon found the
weather at Longwood—rainy, blowy, and
uncomfortable. Perhaps, however, the stern
rule of Sir Hudson Lowe rendered the spot
most hateful to the exiled monarch. " Sic
transit gloria miindi." Thus passes away
the glory of this world.
"
"An Aktist on a Sketching Touk.—E.
W. Perry, the artist, will start to-morrow for
the Sandwich Islands, on a sketching (our.
Williams will probably follow him in a few
weeks." Alta California.
Among the arrivals, we notice the name
of Mr. Perry. Recently we have had letterwriters, both male and temale, from San
Francisco, who have pretty thoroughly described things animate and inanimate, and
now our islands are to lie favored with artists. We have met Mr. Perry, and seen a
specimen of his work with the brush, for he
combines portrait punting with his other artistic accomplishments. A portrait, admirably executed, of the Rev. Mr. Corwin, is on
exhibition at Mr. Whitney's Bookstore. It
is true to life, and should Mr. Perry succeed
in his future efforts, in a similar manner, we
arer. For these improvements we of »G. W.!"
think those favoring him with their patronOn returning from our ramble to the sjj|li. age will not be disappointed.
>ted to Capt. Luce and his assistants,
—
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Maos eSHaCfcahotrm.“Fbuwnze,gIslands.
Mf”arshl
the natives, either from his teaching or from
his praying, called the name of the praying
man Jehovah.
After they had killed the company they
worked the vessel on shore upon the reef and
burnt her.
O how I long to learn more of that ill-fated
company and of those dear praying ones.
Had they only touched a little farther south,
where the influence of the gospel is felt,
they would have been as safe as in your
own harbor at Honolulu. You, and the
leaders of the Friend, well know how recently the same barbarities were practiced
here on Ebon. Now there is gathered here
a little church of thirty-three members, with
sabbath schools and day schools and other
humanizing, elevating influences. Also on
Kusaie, Strong's Island, where I hnve more
or less evidence of some four or five vessels
having been cut off and all on board murdered, there is now a gospel church there, to
which fifty-eight of the natives had been received. And, as you know, they are trying
to perpetuate the blessings of the gospel with
no teacher but the great and good Shepherd.
I hardly know where you can point to more
demonstrative proofs of the divine origin of
our holy religion than to what has been and
is being wrought upon these barbarous and
savage islands. As I told the people last
Sabbath, we have used no such appliances
as the Gadarenes did with those possessed
with the devil, yet hands that were quick to
steal, and feet that were swift to shed blood
have not only become harmless to do evil,
but ready and joyous to do good. We have
used no candle-burning and bell-ringing appliances. We have only used a few pebbles
from the banks of the river of Life, and
slung them from our poor pouches of prayer,
and behold what salvation God hath wrought.
I do wish you would try and constrain those
dear English friends, who are trying so hard
to reconvert the Sandwich Islands, to take
their Bibles and Prayer Books and go down
near to our " Boka Bay" country and establish themselves on New Ireland and New
Guinea. They can be sure of the raw material there, and will be in no dosibt but that
they have the devil himself to contend with.
They can gather in their disciples and build
up iheir churches with all the imposing
grandeur that the circumstances require.
Utopian as the proposal may seem I feel in
my very heart of hearts that it is worthy of
piayerful consideration and immediate adoption.
We of Micronesia will give them a full
chorus of Bishop Heber'i
The Hamburg schooner Franz, Capt. CatTihusenleft, left Nic.olaefsk, on the Amoor
river, in July, 1661, and loaded with salmon
and firewood was bound to Honolulu, consigned to the German house of Messrs. Melchers & Co. Since her departure from the
Amoor river, nothing has been heard from
her until the arrival of a German vessel,
commanded by Capt. Dauelsberg, from the
Marshall Islands via Guam. The following
paragraphs from letters written by the Rev.
B. G. Snow, the American Missionary on
Ebon, leave no doubt respecting the fate of
the captain, his wife, and crew of the ill-fated
Franz.
Ebon, May 19, 1864.
Rev. S. C. Damon,—My Dear Brother,—
If you have not learned the fact before, let
me here communicate to you the sad intelligence that another vessel has been cut off
among these islands, and all on board have
been murdered. It was sometime during the
past year, and at one of our northern islands.
The native name of the island is Kongtfik,
lat. 11 ° 26' N., long. 167° 14' E. according to Kotzebue.
The information is from our Ebon natives
who have just arrived from the north. They
have not been to that island but have seen
natives from there, and obtained many things
They deof them taken, from the vessel.
scribe the vessel as a schooner about the size
of the Maria, which was wrecked on this
island.' They were at anchor in the lagoon,
and I think it was the second day after they
came to anchor that they murdered them and
took the vessel. They did it while part of
the company was on shore, murdering those
on shore first, then those in the vessel. So
far as I can learn there was no provocation
whatever for the barbarity. It was solely for
plunder. And they were greatly disappointed to find that the things they most wanted
were not in the vessel, such as tobacco,
hatchets, knives, axes, etc.; but on the contrary there was a great dca of clothing,
prints, boxes, boo'..s, and I should judge, bariron for blackstnithing, together with a great
many China or Japanese boxes.
But what makes it sadder to us is the probability that there was a missionary family
on board, for they speak of one of the company—and he was not the captain—who
read from a book morning and evening, and
then stood up and shut his eyes and talked,
•' Walt, will' ye witnh the utory.
and while he did this all the rest put their
Anil ynu ye waters roll,"
shut
is,
that
sleep,
imd
went
to
heads down
as
pass along by our lone island homes.
woman
who
was
they
The white
Up their eves.
Our work is far from being completed in
on board was the wife of the man who prayThe recent arrival of twelve
«d. The dug of.the vessel with a name on Micronesia.
two hundred and sixteen
with
their
are
now
at
Jaluit.
proas
it is with our chiefs who
has
brought us a real live Jebeings,
with
human
from
the
vessel
chest
medicine
1 have ■
She
would
be glad to wipe every
labeled
zebel.
all
of
them
1
it,
and
a few medicines in
from
the
island
if she could. She
is
on
the
convert
in German. An apothecary's card
started the other morning with a torch to
A.
name
L.
cover
with
the
of
the
inside
She began at a misSiemens and Hamburg upon it. This is burn all their houses.
poor old Hannah,
old
house
of
our
other
erable
things,
also in German, stating, among
friends but Jesus and his discior
who
has
no
be
fitted
out
chests
could
that medicine
that was burning one of our
replenished at short notice and on reasonable ples. While
said
to her, "Go on, Likwor,
men
terms, with directions in the various langua- young
houses, bum them up."
your
are
all
they
Europe.
ges of Continental
else took the thunder all
something
fact
that
or
This
It is a touching a* instructive
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out of the old jade, and she not only stopped
but promised to rebuild it! But they predict something worse than thunder when the
next fleet arrives.
Your Brother,
B. G. Snow.
In a letter, under a subsequent date. May
2oth, Mr, Snow thus refers to the signal-flag
of this ill-fated vessel, " A bright young
chief, by the aid of the large letters in the
Tract-Primer, gave me " FRANS" as the
letters on the flag. The colors were red on
top, white in the middle, and blue at the bottom, running off to a point. The " bottom"
and " top" colors might be reversed as they
might not know the right side up" of the
"
flag."
It is quite remarkable that Mr. Snow
should have so identified the letters on the
flag, from a native's report, as he had not
seen it. The name identifies the vessel beyond all doubt.
We now plead, as we long have formerly
done, that the gospel may be |rreached
We
throughout all the Marshall Islands.
hope the Morning Star may at least cruise
among those northern islands. Unless we
are much mistaken, this schooner, the Franz,
was cut off at what are called the Piscadores,
where Capt. Dowsett is supposed to have
been murdered many years ago.
LateWN
ar ews.
The latest news from the seat of war indicates that the Union armies are striking
some heavy blows.
Fort Morgan, at
Mobile Bay, had surrendered, thus adding,,
another to the long catalogue of substantial
and permanent conquests of the Union forces.
Sherman's capture of Atlanta is complete
and decisive. He had marched his army to
the south side of the city and cut off the
only remaining railroad leading to Macon.
The rebel General Hood fled in the night
from Atlanta, blowing up nine raujsad engines and destroying eighty-one cswloaded
with the munitions of war. It was not
known where Hood would make another
stand with his array.
Grant's success on the Weldon Railroad
south of Petersburg is considered very decisive in favor of the Union cause.
" John Brown's soul is inarching on,"and
we pity those who imagine its march can be
arrested until the last vestige of chattelslavery is swept from the earth. It is reported that the screws have so heavily pressed Jeif Davis and his co-rebellionists, that
they are willing to exchange a black Union
soldier for a white rebel soldier 1 If this.is
true it is a most important step. We should
not be surprised if the rebels yet tried to
make the negroes fight! Only think of a
rebel soldier fighting alongside of a " nigget!!"
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78
(Tron tb« fma Frmoclsco PMinc.)
LeAsfronmHonolulu.
A' young man born at the Sandwich Islands, writes from Caracas in Venezuela,
he misses the quiet stillness of his old Hawaiian Sabbath. A young lady, paying
California friendo a visit, longs to get back,
for she does not find San Francisco so very
superior to her island home, and surely, she
says, "it is not so civilized." A Honolulu
pastor, now present among us, tells a fact of
the Fort Street Church of that city, where
the congregation numbers three hundred,
which we are constrained to hold up as an
example to more than one church of our
State. He has been there several years.
The society stipulated him a liberal salary.
They have always overpaid it, sometimes to
the extent of a thousand dollars. But, what
is best of all, and is the lesson which we
would especially commend to Boards of
Trustees, church treasurers, pew-renters, and
church going people generally, they have always paid it up, plump, round, full, on the
day before the beginning of each quarter.
We have no sympathy with Shady-side"
literature ; we are not among those who are
prone to commiserate the ministry on being
the worse-treated and paid of all men. We
do not believe they are. But it must be confessed, that they are more likely to be thrown
Upon the variable impulses of men, and so
to be dependent on an uncertain, rather than
a fixed and punctual support. Renters of
pews, subscribers to ministerial salaries, are
| too much inclined to make payment whenever it is convenient, rather than when it is
due. Church treasurers are often the best
of men, but on that very account, not always
the ones most fond of collecting dues.
Church Trustees are occupied with their
own business, and do not always take pains
to look narrowly and promptly after the ways
and means by which their pastor is to be
"
'
kept in fuuds.
This Honolulu habit of prompt payment
is as valuable to people as to pastor. On
the other basis, finances are always in a
slip-shod, uncomfortable state. At the close
of the year, there will be a great deficiency,
to be (hjrown as cold and wet cloth over the
and to be made up by a
provofimg
assessment. Business men who
are always behind-hand, are the plague of
the street; and we know no reason why men,
who are prompt in paying their servants and
employees and in settling their accounts,
should be lax in matters pertaining to the
Church of Christ. On the contrary, we hold
that wherever else we may indulge slackness,
it is no place to indulge it in or about the
Sanctuary. How comfortable and pleasant
the Honolulu practice is to the pastor himself, we need not attempt to say. At least,
it helps him wonderfully to keep his Master's
precept: " Take no thought for your life,
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,
and wherewithal ye shall be clothed."
In order to secure this habit, it is needful
first of all not to have a debt on the church ;
they have none at Honolulu. It is needful
to promise only what it is intended and ex-
pected to fulfil.
Better that thou shouldest
not vow, than thou shouldest vow and not
pay." It is needful that the officers of she
"
BE* It.
18 6 4.
church be prompt and regular, and exact in
attending to the collections; they should
spare no pains to see that all is right; they
should devise ways and means of doing what
has been promised ; they should not allow
the quarters' dues to go one after the other
unsettled. The people, each individual man
and woman, should make it a matter of honor as well as conscience to do what belongs
to them. One prime rule of the whole matter is—there is one fixed day, when the payment is due, and be sure and make that payment the day before.
GeorW
ge
hitfield.
There was a bright, rosy boy, with the
blue apron, in an inn, struggling with the
confusion of great thoughts within him,
which he could not either exclude or comprehend. There was the poor servitor of Pembroke College, choosing the meanest drudgery, wearing the coarsest clothing, eating the
worst food and but little of it, standing in the
biting frost until he had no feeling in his feet
or fingers, and trying hard to fast the whole
forty days of Lent. These were the glimpses they had of the childhood and youth of
George Whitfield, who afterwards became
an evangelist such as the world had never
known since Peter the fisher preached at
Pentecost. Roused from self-righteousness,
and opening his heart to the love of the Saviour, he went on his first work of preaching.
Church after church was closed against him,
but he went into the open air and proclaimed to listening thousands the unsearchable riches of Christ.
The effects which
followed were extraordinary. As he stood
forth, his young manly countenance seemed
to bespeak hearing ; and when once his voice
was heard, so exquisitely was it tuned, and
so successfully was it wielded, high and low
were subject to its spell. Add to his eloquence the earnestness which the heat of
holy passion kindled, and they would not
wonder at his influence. His powers of description must have been marvelous. Men
saw the saencs he painted.
David Hume
was held enchanted by his eloquence until he forgot to sneer.
The philosophic
Franklin was moved like a common man;
and the artificial Chesterfield was startled
for once into an impulse of real feeling, and
sprang forward to arrest the fall of the blind
beggar whom the speaker pictured on the
cliff Alone he went to Bartholomew Fair,
and commenced to preach. The showmen
gave up their pursuits. A deaf old woman,
who had at first obstructed him, was found
clambering up the pulpit stairs, that she
might not lose a syllable of his sermon.
The persons who heard him wept and trembled. The tears made little rills of cleanness down the cheeks of the Kingswood colliers. Children hung upon his lips with
loving, earnest eyes ; but perhaps the most
touching illustration of his influence was the
case of a little boy who sickened after he
had heard him preach, whose soul cried out
in the pauses of pain, "Let me go to Mr.
Whitfield's God." This was not the power
of what was called the pocket handkerchief,
nor dissembled tears. Whitfield could not
help being an orator, but he aimed to be an
evangel, and so great was his success that
BBBBBBsI
he was said in one week to have had a thousand letters from persons who had been
blessed by his ministry. His work was
preaching, and he knew it. The physicians
once prescribed for him a perpetual blister.
He said he had tried perpetual preaching,
and found it answered as well. When winter came to stop his journeys, he mourned
over it like a smitten child ;and when spring
returned, he bounded on to his beloved labor.
He said he hoped to die in the pulpit, or at
least soon after he came out of if. After
thirty-four years of successful labor, the
evangel gathered himself up for his final
discpurse. The people listened long, as if
they knew that for another Elijah there
waited a chariot of fire. He then requested
another minister to speak to them, and with
the candle in his hand was ascending the
stairs, but suddenly he turned, as if with a
sense of mortality rapidly finishing, and of
moments more precious than gold, and addressed them from the stairs until the candle
burned down into the socket as he held it
in his hand. The next morning he was not.
In the night the messenger came, and, like
his Master, he ascended from a mountain of
prayer. Such was George Whitfield, and
ages yet unborn, as they read the moral of
his life, will bless God for that prince of
preachers, that noblest, grandest emblem of
the revelation angel flying in the midst of
Heaven with the everlasting Gospel of peace.
Punshon's Lecture on " Wesley and his
—
Times."
Monument to Gen. Grant—The "hero
of Vicksburg" is to have a tmmument, chiselled from the best Italian marble, erected on
the spot where the interview took place between him and the rebel General Pemberton, before the surrender of the enemy's
stronghold on the Mississippi. The conference was held under a large tree, which disappeared months ago, carried off by curiosityhunters. The monument will be placed
where the tree stood. It is a pyramid, says
the Cincinnati Gazette, twenty feet high,
surmounted wirh a fifteen inch globe. On
the principal side is a large American eagle,
with outspread wings which cover implements of defence. In one claw it holds the
laurels, in the other an American shield, and
in its beak a pennant, inscribed, " E pluribus
unum." The eagle sustains on its wings the
Goddess of Liberty. On the one side of the
monument is inscribed : " To the memory of
the surrender of Vicksburg, by Lieutenant
General J. G. Pemberton, to Major General
U. S. Grant, U. S. A., on the 4th of July,
1863." On the other side : " Site of the interview between Major General U. S. Grant,
U. S. A., and Lieutenant General J. G.
Pemberton, on the 3d of July, 1863."
In New Zealand, when a person becomes
an habitual drunkard, the fact is published in the pap rs by the magistrate before
whom the case may be proven, and all persons are warned against selling the drunkard
liquor under the penalty of twenty pounds
fine and three months imprisonment
•
" I haven't another word to say, sir,
I never dispute with fools," said a gentleman
who was getting the worst of the argument.
" No," was the reply, " you are very sure
to agree with them."
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111 X FKI X N I). IM TOB E X , 18 14.
Information Wanted!
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Respecting John T Stevtnuon, who ulled fromNew London
Sept. 8. 1868, on board " Philip lit," C»pl. Eliaa Hempstaad.
Any information will be glndly received by Capt. Hempstead,
Waieha, Maul, or Mia, Anna C. Harder, Hudion, Columbia
Co., New York, or by the Editor of The Friend."
Respecting Ocrni'i'ii., Illyth, who tailed 18 years ago from
Resolution," Capt. Parke, and
England, in the whale ship
on board
was discharged at Tahiti in 1847, and there shipped
the French whale ship " Ferdinand,* and was discharged in
Dec. 1847, in Honolulu, since which time he has not been heard
from. Any information will lie gladly received by the Editor,
or Bishop St;il>y, of Honolulu, or his friends, residing in Colchester, England, vis, Philip Smith Sparling.
Respecting Makiel Cunningham, wholeft New Bedford June
17, 1848, as seaman on board the "William II imillon," Uaptuin j
Shockley. Any information will be gl.idiv ranlnd by the Editor, or Mr. Nicholas Cunningham, No. SH Fricnl street, Boston, Mass.
•
Respecting Clark Peck, late chief mate of ship "Hamilton,"
of Bridgeport, Conn., who Isft the ship at Honolulu in 1843.
Any information will be thankfullyreceived by Mr. William 11.
Johnson, San Jose, California, or by the Editor.
Respecting Wilha-n H. Qidlow. of Cambridgcport. He was
heard from In 1860, bound North on a whaling cruise, on board
the Ooorye and Mary. Please communicate with theEditor,
or Mrs. Lydia Matilda Hess, Cambridgeport, Mass.
Respecting Henry TW~uny. of Lennox, Mass. He boarded
at the Sailor's Home in iB6O. Any information will be gladly
received by Mrs. Marion French, of Lennox, Mast., or by the
DR. J. MOTT SMITH,
"
*
I
Editor.
DENTIST.
Once corner of Fort and Hotel Streets.
AJfVBHTISBMIIHrTS.
SAILOR'S HOME!
405-ly
E. HOFFMANN, IK. D.,
Physician and Surgeon, Makee'sBlock, comer Queen and Kaa426-ly
humanu streets.
11. STANI.ENWALD, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND BURCEON,
Late New York City Dispensary Physician, member of the
Medico-chirurgicalCollege, and of the Pathological Society
of New York.
OlBcv tt the cornerof Fort and Merchant Streets. Residence In
Nuuanu Valley, opposite that of E. 0. Hall, Esq. 383 -ly
C. H. WETMORE, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
FIILO, HAWAII, S. I.
N ll—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the
6-tf
HILO DRUG
STORE.
J. B. ATHBHTOK.
iAII'I.. N. UlltA
AHOB. 8. COOKS
CASTLE & COOKE,
$8
Officers' table, with lodging, per week,.
6
Seamens' do. do.
do.
do.
Baths on the Premises.
Shower
AGENTS FOR
Dr. Jayncs Medicines,
CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT,
Wheeler A; Wilson's Sewing Machines,
Managert.
Honolulu-. March 1,1861.
The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash
Importers and Wholesale and Retail dealers In Oeneral Merchandise, in the Fireproof Store in King street, opposite tho
Seamen's Chapel.
Respecting Ansel C. Gorham, who sailed from New Radford
in a whale thip tor the Paoiuc. Please communicate with
IT. S. Consul, Honolulu, tht Editor, or his brother James 8.
Uorharn, Williamsburg, N. *". Also, should ship -'Smyrna,"
touch at Honolulu, Capt. Kelly is requested to call upon the
assets $".,360,000,
Seamen's Chaplalu.
Raynolds, Devoe Pratt—lmporters and Manufacturers of
who
« Respecting, Arnold R. Auttin, at Providence, R. 1.,Capt.
Paints. Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil,
left the ship Rodman, :ili<>ut-18M, at Honolulu. Perhaps with
C. Van Home & Co.'s Carriages and Carriage Materials.
Spencer may recall this man, If so, please communicate
tSg-ly
Mrs. C. B. Austin of Providence or editor of the Friend.
■• a. r. carter
Orders from the other islands should be accompanied with 9BKRXAN raca,
Honolulu.
Honolulu.
particular directions as to the style, and if the work Is to
CO.,
match volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be
C.
&
BREWER
sent with the job.
Merchants,
Respecting Jamct Re.illy, formerly mateof brig "Josephine."
Any information will be gladly received by the Chaplain, or by
Honolulu. Oahu. 11. I.
607
Water
McPorlan,
hi» brother, Daniel Reilly, care Matthew
—REFER TO—
Street, New YorkNew York.
John. M. Hood, Esq.,
Respecting Albert Stout IFatkim, belonging to Schuyler
JIMESlICNN KWKI.L, Esq., }
Co., N. V., supposed to be attachod to some vessel in the PadBoston.
Bkiwkk, Esq., S
Charles
fle. He left home in «B*7. This information is sought by
H. A. Pkibce, El,
Charles McClinlic, Y. S. Hospital, Honolulu, and Morgan Stout,
Merrill, 1
Messrs.
Mcßcer
-.„ «„_„.[.__
at
,r nc co
Ban
Schuyler Co., N. Y. Please communicate, with the Editor of
Cuas. Wolcott Broom, Esq., {
the Friend.
Hongkong.
Messrs. Wx. Pottao b Co.,
Respecting Allen McDonald, who left the UnitedStates in
Messrs. Peels, Hrja*M.L & Co
Manila.
388-ly
1866. He luu been engaged in the North Pacific whaling busiby
Chapreceived
the
ness. Any information will be gladly
lain, or by his mother, Mrs. Anna MoDouald, No. 62, Washington Street, Newport, R. I.
UNDERSIGNED IS PREPARED TO
Respecting Octaviut Blgth, who, on the 23d of January,
take Ambrotypes and Photographs. Also Cartes da
1847, at Tahiti, shipped onboard tho French whaleship
the
13th
ol
Visite
a
Honolulu,
"Ferdinand" and was discharged at
In style second to none in Honolulu.
Specimens can be seen at the Gallery, next door to the Pott
December, of tame year. His family have not since heard
resides
Colchester,
Office,
in
oTer the P. C. Adrertiser Office.
from him. His father, D. O. Blyth,
429-3 m11. L. CHABE.
Essex, England. Any information will be gladly received by
the editor, or K. C. Wyllte, Esq.
Respecting Alomo John Appleton,ot Kittery, Maine, who
has been reported at Honolulu, on board whaleship Phoenix."
Any information will gladly be received by the Editor, or Mr.
Edwin S. Appleton, Kittery, Navy Yard Village, Maine, U. 8.
Respecting Henry Ayihford. Any person having knowledge
of this individual, (a native of London, England,) who arrived
at New London July 30, 1848, in the ship Charlea Carroll,"
from Desolation Island, will be remunerated by communicating
theinformation to Henry P. Haven,New London, Conn., er to
REMOVED BACK TO THE OLD
the Editor or the Friend.
Mission Bindery, is now prepared to execute all orders
for binding
& CONWAY,
ALLEN
KAWAIHAE. HAWAII,
*
business
Will continue the Oeners Merchandise and Shipping
to tarnish the
at the above port, where they are prepared such
and
other
recelebrated
Kawalhae
Potatoes,
Justly
cruits at are required by whale ships at the shortestnotice,
426-ly
terms.
the
reasonable
most
and on
FIRE WOOD ON HAND.
Commission & Shipping
,>
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CASTLE
Wheeler & Wilson's
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SEWING MACHINES!
PHOTOGRAPHS.
11HISMACHINE HAS ALLTHBUTBST
imptovementa, and, inaddition to former premiums, was
awarded the highest prise above all European and American
Sewing Machine*at the World's Exhibition in PARIS in 1861,
and at the Exhibition in London In 1882.
Theevidence of the superiority of this Machineit found in las
record of Its sales. In 1881—
The Qrorer At Baker Company, Boston,
The Florence Company, Massachusetts.
The Parker Company, Connecticut,
J. M. Singer a> Co., New York,
Flnklc A Lyon,
Cuaa. W. Uowland, Delaware,
M. Greenwood A Co., Cincinnati, 0.,
N. S. 0. Perkins, Norwalk, 0.,
Wilton H. Smith, Connecticut,
old 18,660, whilst the Wheeler A Wilton Company, oLAffcLft
ort, madeand told 19,723 during the same period.
11 tl
p-Please Cull ssd Kacawelmg.
11HE
EEMOVAL!
"
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CEO. W. VOLLUM,
BOOK-BINDER,
"
HATING
ADVERTISEMENTS.
(successor to a.
At his late rooms. QueenStreet.
422-ly
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building,
424-ly
W. N. LADD,
Importer and Dealer in Hudwiis, Cotlsrt, Mioeakics
Toolsand Aoriccltcral latrLsaisim, tot street, Hono42*-ly
lulu.
JOHN THOS. WATERHOUBE.
Honolulu,
H. I.
Importer and Dealer In General Merchandise.
—REFERENCES—
Snow,
Esq
Honolulu
His Ex. R. C. Wyllie,..llon. B. F.
Hilo
Thos.Spencer, Esq
Dlmomd & Son,
H. Dickinson, Esq...Lahalna Mcßuer e> Merrill, SaoFranoitco
«
O. W. Brooks* C0...8an F. 0. T. Lawton, Esq.,
Field 4 Rice,
NtwTTork
Tobln, Broa. k Co.,
Wilcox, Rlchardl Co., Honolulu.
attly
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ATJCTIONEEII.
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B ARAN AS and DORA T E O
BAR A NA S.
Ruiiniscenckb or Amiiehst College: Historical. .SciYor are HKRKiiv notified to appear before the
entific, Biographical and Autobiographical: also, of
other and wider Life Experiences, (with four undersigned, who will inform you how to proplates and a geological map.) By Edward Hitcb- ceed, in order to obtain ,*1,116 37 now on deaaak, published hyßridgman \ f'hildi, Northamp- posit for each of you, in the (state Treasury of
fßß, Mass.
VVc hardly know whether to style ti»
book an Autobiography, by Prof. Hitchcock,
or a History of Amherst College. To all
graduates of that institution it is a volume
of peculiar interest, and it is by no means
devoid of interest to the general reader.
It
with
hints
to
all
of
the
abounds
teachers
young. Prof. Edward Hitchcock, the Geologist, was no ordinary man. Some eminent
writer has brought forward Franklin as the
best type of New England character, flowever great and distinguished Franklin may
have been, we should decidedly object to giving him that standing. Franklin was not a
religious man. His mind was not devout!
Prof. Hitchcock's character would more exactly fill out our beau ideal of an educated
New Englandcr. Born in the very heart of
New England, and struggling in early life to
obtain an education, he finally acquired not
only an American, but an European and
world-wide fame. He was a self-educated
man. This volume furnishes abundant evidence that he might have become eminent in
poetry, astronomy and mathematics if he
had not chosen to explore the fields of natural science or history. His death occurred
only a few months ago, and was noticed in
the May number in our columns.
This volume was completed only a few
weeks before that event. It is the last production of his fruitful pen, for he was a voluminous writer. During his life he published
twenty-four distinct volumes, thirty-five sepninty-four papers in scientific
and eighty newspaper articles.
■Servant of God, welldone !
Rett from thy loved employ i
The battle fought, the victory won,
Knter thy Master's joy."
from Micronesia.—By the
a
German
schooner, Capt, Pauelarrival of
berg, intelligence has beun received from
Rev. B. G. Snow up to May 30th, and from
the Rev. A. A. Sturges up to June 27th.
Both the American and Hawaiian missionfamilies were in health, at those dates, and
engaged as usual in their missionary work.
We have been permitted to read letters from
those gentlemen addressed to Rev. Dr. Gulick. While encouraged by cases of manifest
conversion, yet the great mass of the islanders hold on to theirheathenish and idolatrous
practices. The missionary is making progress but encounters many obstacles. Human nature in its heathenish as well as its
civilized type is a stubborn foe to the humbling and spiritual doctrines of Christianity
Intelligence
MARINEJOURNAL.
IVotice
EDITOR'STABLE.
New Book.
.
To JOSE
Aganu, Island of
tjuuin.
R. C.
Honolulu, Mfc Isptftatsr, 1901.
POHNRLTFUI
S, . .
ARRIVALS.
Sept.
WILLIE.
FeDaisrtfuGnclhvadeTropics.
In our last issue we reported the loss of
the Lady Washington at Baker's Island, on
the 3d of May, 1 o'clock, P. M. This island lies in 0° 13' north lat. and 176° 22'
west long. The wind blew from the westward with violent squalls in one of which
the vessel went down.
The Hey. B. G. Snow, missionary on
Ebon, (one of the Marshall islands, lying
4° 39' north lat.and 168= 50' east 10ng.,)
thus writes under date of May 3d.
*
"It came* nearest a wale of anything I have
seen in Micronesia, (12 years a resident.)
It reached its height about noon yesterday.
You would, hardly know the end of the island. Every green bush and shrub is gone.
The water tore everything before it. Up to
this time the wind had not varied much from
the south. It began now to haul to the
west." Our correspondent proceeds to give
an account of its destructive march, tearing
down large forest trees, eocoanut trees,
houses, the house of the missionary Aea,
and the school house, also breaking a fine
boat belonging to the missionary.
The
water approached nearly up to the missionary's house. Having a distinct recollection
of the spot, as it appeared in June 1861, we
cm readily imagine the fearful havoc made
by the winds and the tremendous rollers
coming in from the sea and rolling upon the
land.
Apples.—The apples from California this
year arc uncommonly good. Mr. Roy, at
Bolles & Co., is now engaged in a business
which will be likely to prove beneficial to
both San Francisco and Honolulu, viz., exchange of fruits.
We would acknowledge files of the
Bulletin and ilag from Captain Hempstead,
commanding the Onward. Capt. H. is ever
thoughtful for the conductors of the Press.
May he always have quick passages.
the German schooner,
commanded by Capt. Dauelsberg, there is an
importation of beautiful canary birds. They
Canary Birds.—By
are most excellent songsters.
The first whaler has arrived, but
brings not very favorable news from* the
Arctic fleet.
—
.* tnpenhorst.
21—Am bark Comet. Smith, 16 days from San Francisco,
with mdse and pass, to Wilcox, Richards & Co.
22—Am clipper ship Fleetwlng, Kelly, 42 days froic
Baker's Island.
26—English clipper ship John Nicholson, 16 days from
Ban Francisco, en route for Hongkong.
JU—Am bark John Well*, Puiley, 20 days from San
Francisco.
23—Ham. hark St. Thomas Packet, Rlekerton 23day■
from San Faancinco, in ballast, Miking. Sailed
same day for Hongkong, without Flopping.
29—Am whale ship Splendid, Cleaveland, Irnin Arctic
and Kodiack, with 100 bbls whale and 900 l-on'-.
30—Am bark Onward, Hempstead, 19 days from San
Francisco, with mdse to Aldrich, Walker *y Co.
*
The Bee Hive.—We notice uncommon
activity around this establishment since the
arrival of the Comet. There is a good display of a portion of the large and valuable
cargo brought by that vessel, where the customers will find anything from a bale of
goods to a " bundle" of greenbacks ! See
that the bees do not sting, and visitors will
obtain a good exchange for their gold !
Bennett, 14 days from San
I—Am hark A.
Francisco, with mdse lo Aldrich, Walker fc Co.
4—Am clipper abip Resolute, Prince, H days from
Ma/.at lan. put In for supplies .unl men.
7—A in clipper ship Malay, Ilutcliinaun, 12 days from
San Francisco.
7—Dan. brig Carl, 16 days from San Francisco.
H—Am clipper ship Mary L. Sutton, Rowland, 13 daya
from Man Francisco, en mutt; forBaker's Island.
19—Haw brig Honolulu, Schumacher, days from Bremen, with mds« to Messrs. h. Hoffschlaegei- At
DEPARTURES.
Sept.
I—Russian corvette CalavaJa, Ourrken, for Amoor River.
6—Am bark Yankee, Paty, for San Francisco. *
6—Am clipper ship Emerald Isle, Scott, for the Guano
Islands.
7—Am bark Unjliiliill, Iturditt, for San Francisco.
7—Am clipper ship ReMute, Prince, for London.
B—Pan. brig Carl, for Japan.
10—Am. clipper bh Malay, llutehiiiFon, for Hongkong.
10—Am clipper Ship White Swallow, Prince, for the
Guano Nl.iii'l.
12—Brig I'omitiU, Spencer for Victoria.
21—Am bark A. A. fedrtdft, BcPMtt, for San Francisco.
21—Am clipper ship Mary L Sutton, Rowlaud, for
laker's Island.
22—Am bark Whistler, Allen, for San Francisco.
PASSENGERS.
From San fnAXOISCO—per Whistler, August 30— Geo Jenner
and 2 Chinese.
From San Francisco—per A. A. Kldridgr, .Sept. I—Mrs S J
Ladd, Robert Mawcomb, A B CUrk, T Gray, G W Vatch, J II
niack, II IKorle, G McDougal, John Gnltin. M Wolf, John
CoDStantine—and 4 in the steerage.
Fur San I hancisco—per Yankee, Sept. 3—C Derby, T O
Hearsing, F X. Rossi, Mr liruutz., Achu, Angel, Rossi, Quong
Sy, X Vermissi—tf.
For San Francisco—per Smyrniotet Sept. 6th—Miss E X
Hunter, Miss M P Moitou, Mr P N Makeu, Mr L C Hunter, J
J Gately, W Freeman—o.
From San Francihco—per Comet, Sept. 21—Rev Mr Corwin,
JCattaoach, 11 L Chase, o It Stillwell, KW Perry, C L Richards,
T T Dougherty and Wife, Mr McClandleas, Mr Alhertun, l)r
Staugenwuld, R Love and Wife, Miss Johnson, Capt Wm Stott,
C A Castle, J T Waterhouse and Wife, Master and Miss
Waterhousr, Miss Dimond, John Kenny, John A LangarlStkkhagk—John G Tihlo, R N Morrison, Daniel Shields, Tboa
Kehoe, J F Clarke, Robert Cunningham, Charles Caasino,
M J Duffy, Thos Kearu, John Kehoe, P Mahony, Mr McCullough, D McClasky, F Harbor. W Harbor, Kd Rrown, W U
Rose, Chaa Vanpatch, ThosSackct, Jabes Turner, Jan Blum,
G Collins, R WYsh, G Wright, .Mm McMabon,and 2 boys for
McColgau.—6l.
For Hah Francisco—per AA KM ridge, Sept 21—Miss Charles T
Miss Clark, Messrs W M Lenmn, Adsit, Ausuii Cox, Jas Gay,
8 Gray, Kobert Synge, GeoVitcb, Capt Vicars, F Hasard—la
cabin.
For San flUfimi |in Whistler, Sept 22--MrJ A Langarl,
Mantcr H L Wilcox—2 cabin-
MARRIED.
Weed—Chapman—ln Honolulu. Sept. sth. by
father Hernnan, Miss Sarah Chapman to Mr. Fred.
both of this city.
the Rev.
M. Weed,
Rooees—Rowell—At Waimta, Kan.ti, on the 16thinst., by
Rev. Q. 11. Rowell, Mr. Kilttnnil 11. Roerrs of Honolulu, and
Malvlna C. Howell, daughter of Rev. Geo. B. Howell or theformer plaoe.
DIED.
Alapai—July 4th, In Agana, Island of tliuuu, Akpai, a native of Honolulu, who, on the 30th of March, had been dis-
charged from the American bark Ontario, tick and unable la
perform his duty on boar,!.
Phillips—On the 22d August, at hit resilience in Lahaina,
Island of Maul, 11. I„ Thomas Phillips, a native or Haverfordwest, Pembrookeshire, Sonth Walet, aged 64 yean, a resident
of these Islands (or S« years.
DERUn—Died on board ship Danube, al Baker's Island,
July Hid, HO4. George Dennis, a native of England, aged
bout 23 years. Eastern papers pleate copy.
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