https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/3917f7b86e0558084b90749645c3abfb.pdf 90ac24aa3b9926b20d9da66927fb2df7 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND Series. l)ol. 17. $to. U HONOLULU. J.IMJAKY Cox-jews For Jiiuiuiry, 1808. N t-w Year, ISGB Animal Meeting of tin■■flat'l RfISM Society Siberian Bxpcrkoot of an Explorer of the RumUd Aim-rfcaa Negrafh Company VhOK. 1 1 > . * » 3 Po— Kvil Mtfttcf Fa*t Living, or a FM New VearVhVMVeiioiw, 4 4 The ]>own-l.ill Bide of Life Kilanen—;i It Don't Tay The I'oeni. Una ~v Thirt'cnti) Annual Ru|«»rt of Hon. Sailor* Home Society... The Iliad of Homer Life ami Character of Rear Admiral Qtttrgi I\ lVarwni Naval Senator Yate* upon hi« Reformation Marine Ncwh, &c, Jkc 4 5 5 5 0 fi 8 8 THE FRIEND. JANUARY 1, 18(18. New Year, 1868. Commencing a new year with our accounts with the printerall settled, and other expenditures of the Friend paid, we feel hopeful for the future, and most cordially wish our patrons and readers, on sea and land, "A Happy New Year." Our great aim is to convince our readers that true happiness is alone to be found and enjoyed by obeying the laws of God. " The law of God," says the Psalmist, " is exceeding broad." It relates to man's physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual natures. The violators of God's laws derive a momentary and delirious pleasure which some style enjoyment, but it falls infinitely short of that pure happiness to be derived from rendering obedience to the law of God, when that term is used in its broadest signification. Entering upon a new year, and not knowing what 1a day or moment may bring forth, we would earnestly enjoin upon our readers to take God's Holy Word as a larap unto their feet and light unto their path, turning neither to the right hand or to the left. Read, we entreat you, some portion of God's Word each day. By reading two cTiapters in the Old Testument and one in the New Testament every week day, and six in the Old and four in the New every Sabbath during the 1, 1868. {(DluScrhs. OoI.LM. year, you will find at the year's end that you Siberian Experience of an Explorer of have read the Old Testament through once, the Russian American Telegraph Company. and the New Testament through twice. This enterprise of joining Asia and AmerTry it. If you will follow this suggestion, we doubt not at the year's end you will be ica by telegraphic wires, via Behring Straits, has failed, but it doubtless would have been thankful. put through had the Atlantic cable again Annual MIHINB of Honolulu Sailors' failed. The undertaking, however, was a Home Society.—This meeting was held at grand affair. Look at the map of the world— the Home December !26th, at 11 o'clock. the Northern Hemisphere. See what a stretch After the reading of the annual reports pre- of wire it would have required ! What difsented by the Treasurer and Executive Comficulties must be overcome ! Koads and pathmittee, the Society proceeded to the election ways must be cut through dense forests, bays of six new trustees. The Board now stands and rivers must be crossed, a wire must be as follows : stretched across the straits, the mountain of 18 ' Going out 'in 1868.—5. C. Damon, C. K. Siberia and Russian America must Bishop, C. H. Lewers, Eli Cbrwin, J. W. cended, savage Indian tribes must be concilAustin, Daniel Smith. iated—the winters are long and the summers Going out in 1869.—F. A. Schaefer, F. are short. All these difficulties, and a thouBanning. S. N. Castle, Daniel Foster, Joseph sand and one more, would have appalled men 0. Carter, W. L. Green. of less resolute spirits than the projectors of Going out in 1870, newly chosen. —H. A. this gigantic enterprise which has failed, but P. Carter, A. F. Judd, J. H. Wodehouse, P. the noble effort can never be allowed to pass C. Jones, J. Mott Smith, J. Bollmann. into oblivion. Officersfor IS6B— S. N. Castle, President; Mr. Bollmann, the Russian Consul, who visJ. W. Austin, Vice-President; J.Mott Smilh, two years ago, there beSecretary ; C. K. Bishop, Treasurer; S. C. ited Kamischatka come with a young American by acquainted Damon, E. O. Hall, and J. O. Carter, Exthe name of Kennon, engaged in exploring ecutive Committee. the rugged wilds of Siberia. Mr. B. has reReligious Notice—Week of Prayer.— cently received a letter from him, from which In concert with Christians in other parts of he permits us to copy a few paragraphs. the world, Fort Street and the Bethel They are so life-like and graphic, that we churches of Honolulu, will observe the first are confident our readers will peruse them week of January as a week of prayer. Ser- with interest: vices will be held at the Bethel at 11, A. M., You hnve perhaps read in the American and 7£, P. M., each day, commencing with papers some accounts of our progress; but Monday, January 6th. The community is the story of "one who was there," and whom you know, will, I am sure, be more interestrespectfully invited to join in this concert. ing than dry newspaper articles compiled by The Friend, including the very last those who don't know anything about the numbers for 1867, bound and for sale at the subject. To begin with Kamtschatka. I canremember any journey of my life which office. Purchasers can be accommodated not gave me more enjoyment at the time, or with volumes, including from one year to six- which is pleasanter in the recollection, than teen, at $1 a year. theirs/ part of our trip through Kamtschatka. Surrounded, as we continually were, by the It is reported that a Wesleyan, the wildest, most beautiful mountain scenery, Rev. Mr. Baker, has been killed by the na- experiencing for the first time the pleasure tives of the Fiji Islands. and novelty of camp life, and feeling that �2 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 18(8. nameless fascination which an unknown, unexplored country has for adventurous spirits, wo were as gay and lree from care as schoolboys just emancipated from the bondage of rod and book for a holiday excursion. The weather was delightful, and suggested to one's mind the sunny skies* of Italy rather than the ideas of cold barrenness and desolation which hud always before been associated with the name of Kamtschatka. We rode all day through grand mountain scenery, down into green smiling valleys, over ridges which were glowing with the colored foliage of autumn, and camped at night in some little grassy glade surrounded by forests of yellow birch, and bordered by some clear, cold mountain stream which fell in musical cascades past our little tent. It was the very poetry of travel. At Sherom, the head of the Kamtschatka River, we left our horses, pitched our tent on a raft, and floated quietly and pleasantly down the river to Kluche. The following extract from my journal will show you how I enjoyed that : it was Gray who said that his " Iofthink idea Paradise was 'to read eternal new romances of Marivauxand Crebillon.' Could the author of the 'elegy' have stretched himself out in the sunshine on the open deck of a Kamtschadal boat, covered to a depth of six inches with fragrant flowers and freshly cut hay—could he have floated slowly down a broad tranquil river, through ranges of snowclad mountains, past forests glowing with yellow and crimson, and vast steppes waving with tall, wild grass—could he have watched the moon rise over the sharp snowy peak of the Kluchefskoi volcano, bridging the river narrow trail of quivering light, and listerreu to the plash of the boat;:.en's paddles and the low melancholly song to which they kept time, he would have thrown Marivaux overboard and given a better definition of the pleasures of Paradise." You see I was highly delighted with the scenery, the weather and the mode of travel; but alas, the pleasantest part of it was over when we reached Kluche. We ascended the Yolofka River in little canoes, and started on horseback to cross the Tigil mountains, but were overtaken by a severe storm on the summit, and suffered considerable from cold, rain and fatigue before we reached Tigil on the sixteenth day from Petropaulovski. From this place it was all hardship. The storms which heralded the approach of winter had already set in, and for a week after we left Tigil we were alternately drenched by cold autumnal rains and frozen by driving snowstorms. On October 4th we reached Lesnoi, a Kamtschadal village on the west coast in about latitude 59° 30*. Here our small party of three was divided—Major Abasa and Dodd going by water in a whaleboat, and I, starting with half a dozen Kamtschadals and horses, to cross a range of bleak rugged mountains lying between the village and Padkagernia. In case Major Abasa's progress was stopped by a storm, I was to take him and Dodd on my horses ; and in case I found the snow very deeo on the mountains, I was to signal to the whaleboat, send ray horses back, and go on with them. In one way or the other we hoped to get through. Major A. was stopped by a gale of wind only fifteen vents from Lesnoi, while I, knowing nothing of it, struggled on through deep snow and a pourga," got lost in the mountains, our wet clothes froze stiff on our bodies, our provisions were exhausted, nnd a blinding snow-storm hid everything from sight. We waded through the deep snow, dragging our horses after us, and succeeded by the aid of a pocket compass in finding our way to the Samanca River, one hundred and fifty versts north of Lesnoi. Here I was ordered to wait for the whaleboat two days ; but as the storm continued with unabated fury, and I had nothing whatever to eat, I waited only one day, and then started back exhausted and hungry, and very doubtful whether I should ever reach Lesnoi. We rode every night until midnight, wading deep, icy streams, cutting roads through dense thickets up narrow ravines, and dragging our horses over rocks where we could not ride them. I soon got very faint and weak from excessive fatigue and want of food, but a strong will will hold the body to its work long after it is exhausted, and I managed to reach Lesnoi in tremendous " safety. The Major had just walked back with Dodd from the place where they abandoned the whaleboat, and we were all once more together. The exposure and disappointment brought a severe fit of sickness upon the Major, and all thoughts of further progress were given up for the present. Dodd was sent back to Tigil after a new outfit of provisions, and I remained at Lesnoi with the Major, who was sick a month. It was very lonely. The Major never spoke a word, I could not talk Russian, and was at my wit's end for amusement. Early in November, however, the Major's health improved, and the winter road having been established, we started once more on dog sledges for Ghijiga. This time we were more successful, and after twenty days of travel, camping nearly every night on the steppes or among the mountains in temperature as low as 43 ° , we finally reached our destination. At Ghijiga we could hear nothing from the party landed at the mouth of the Anadyr which was to cooperate with us in the exploration of the route of the line, and as the Ispravnik says in a letter to the Russian papers, " there remained on the hands of four men, two of whom were at the A moor River, the exploration of a route for the line through a country six thousand versts in extent." The Major, however, did not despair, and after ten days spent in rest and refitment, we started again—he to explore the country west to Ochotsk, and I north to Anadyrsk. I reached the latter place in twenty-three days, experiencing at times as great cold as 50 ° degrees below zero. At that settlement I learned through wandering Tchucktchis that a party of five men had been landed the preceding fall at the mouth of the Anadyr, where they were still living in a little hut built of bushes and earth. 1 had no orders to go farther than Anadyrsk, but fearing that something might happen to so small a party in such a desolate country, and among such fierce, bloodthirsty natives as the Tchucktchis were represented to be, I lost no time in gathering sledges to go to their rescue. I found that no one had ever been to Anadyr Bay, and that the natives were afraid to attempt it, declaring that the cold was intense, the storms terrible, and that for hundreds of versts along the river there was not a bush, tree, nor stick of wood. I had authority, however, from the Ispravnik at Ghijiga to compel them to go where I wished, and backed up by a Cossack, I succeeded in obtaining eleven sledges, and on January 10th started, carrying dog food and provisions for thirty days. As I approached the mouth of the river, I found that the stories of the natives with regard to the scarcity of wood were true. For the last hundred and twentyfive versts 1 could not find enough to boil a tea-kettle, and was compelled to travel day and night as the temperature was from 46 ° to 50 ° Wlow zero, and I dared not camp without a fire. We reached Anadyr Bay on the 19th of January at midnight, found the little hut buried in snow, waked up the frightened inmates by shouting down the stovepipe, and received a warm welcome from our long exiled comrades. I returned to Anadyrsk, carrying them with me, together with their stores, and arrived on the 4th of February, having been absent twenty-five days. During February I occupied myself with explorations between Anadyrsk and Penjina for a better route, the one which I first explored not being satisfactory. In March I returned to Ghijiga to meet Major Abasa. He had located the route as far as Ochotsk, and nt that place had met Messrs. Mayhood and Bush, who had explored all the country between there and Nikolasefsk—so that when we met on the 27th of March, we could congratulate ourselves on the successful exploration and location of a route for the line from the Amoor River to Behring Straits. This had been accomplished during an Arctic winter by only four men in three months and twenty-seven days, during which we traveled altogether nearly twenty thousand versts on dog sledges. Whatever may be the result of our labors, we can always look back upon this part of them with honest pride. Through all the summer of 1866 we were compelled to lie idle, waiting for vessels, money and stores from America. We had no men, no horses, no money, and no provisions, and could do nothing until the arrival of the Palmetto on the 20th of September. One whole summer, the best season of the year, was thus lost, but through no fault of ours. As soon as the Palmetto arrived, Major A. started for Yakoutsk to hire native laborers and purchase horses, while I remained at Ghijiga to accomplish what 1 could with our small party of eleven men. I spent the winter principally in traveling to Anadyrsk, Yamsk and intervening points, and starting the work where I could. At the opening of this spring we had about fifteen hundred versts of poles cut, sixty houses and magazines built between Ochotsk and Anadyr Bay, six hundred laborers engaged and on their way from Yakoutsk, together with two hundred horses and stores, etc., for their subsistence. Everything now promised a large season's work this summer, when we were suddenly astonished and disheartened by orders to abandon. One of the most important female qualities is sweetness of temper. Heaven did not give to women insinuation and persuasion in order to be imperious; it did not give them a sweet voice to be employed in scolding. �To break the lingering tie that bound her race To Pele, flame-crowned goddess of thy chasm. BY W. C. JONES. O'er fire-browned clinkers and through tangled woods, Deep Hades of the seven Phlegethons ! From thy basaltic pillared walls I gaze, Up mountain steeps a hundred miles she walked, Through sulphurous clouds that ceaselessly ascend Trampling the creeds of ages 'neath her feet, Braving the wrath of all the mythic gods, From fiery maelstroms in red, rushing whirl, That like dark incubii on heart and brain, Into thy vast abyss with silent awe. Eve's curtains gather round thee like a shroud, Had checked the progress of Hawaii's race, She sought thy depths to tempt and to defy And drape in shadow Mauua Loa's dome ; The rage, the power of their multiple gods ; Tho trade wind o'er the bending forest sweeps, While awe-struck thousands on thy lofty rim, Cold and mist-laden from the eastern wave : And as it parts the fire-born clouds below. Gazed tremblingly beneath in firm belief That Pele in her wrath would hurl her fires The smouldering ruins of a city vast— W On one who dared her in her sulphury home. A giant Moscow in a sea of flame— Herbrow all radiantly illumed by hope, Appear with blackened walls, and dome and spire She stood beside thy rushing, liquid tide Of church and grand cathedral crashing fall; Of red hot lava in its maddest flow, Turret and tower and monument go down, And as the sulphury vapors wreathing, rolled As round them lap and whirl the eddying flames, In eddying fire-lit waves round her tall form, Like those lost cities which Jehovah's wrath She seemed divine as thus she calmly spoke : O'erwhelmcd in sulphury hail and fiery rain. In His great name who died for men I come, up, the smoke went plain from theruined Till To prove to my lost race the living God ! Seething and dense as from a furnace blast. And here, oh, Pele ! superstition's myth ! I feci a wonderment—a deeper awe, I do defy thee on thy throne of power ! Than e'er w.is wakened by earth's grandest scenes, If thou existest, whelm me 'neath thy waves, When I have viewed the mightiest rivers leap Pour on me all thy scorching lava flood, In thunder echoes from bold beetling cliffs, Or suffocate me with thy sulphury breath, Or foam in cataracts through rocky gorge ; Or close around me all thy lakes of fire ! Niagara were tame compared to thee, And Ocean's majesty, in calm or storm, But no—the fresh breeze, lifts the sulphury clouds, The waves subside, the fiery jets decrease ; Inspires no feelings kindred to the thoughts Awoke by thee, wild flaming lake of fire ; God calms thy vortex as the restless sea ; And the volcanic vents—earth's crater cones— I trample here on thypretended power, Are nought to the stern grandeur of thy depths. And cry, Io Jchova ! in thy depths ; Thou fiery wonder of the untaught mind ! Io leliova ! let the triumph ring, Till all the isles shall know the living God! The simple natives of the isles had made She passed majestic o'er the lava vale, A home in thee for Pele—fiery power, Goddess of the volcano's hot domain ; As a triumphant smile illumed her face, How like the ancient Greeks, who wove their dreams God-like and noble, born of faith and hope. Now sable night hangs o'er thee, Kilauea, Of the ideal in poetic forms, And robed Cocytus' son with Pete's power But night illumed by thy sulphury glare ; Over their burning, weird, infernal river. Thy seven seething lakes light up the clouds No Stygian waves surround thy Hades deep, With an unearthly and demoniac glow, No Iris bright descends with golden vase, The fever flush from thy hot heart of flame, To bring the dreaded draught to perjured gods ; The hectic glow ot an expiring world ; Yet thy wild, fiery glare hath lighted up I watoji their bubbling jets in fiery play, And deem that Vulcan in his boiling forge, A scene more brilliant than Greek poet's dream, Sublime in moral courage and the faith Is moulding fantastically strange his forms, That rent asunder superstition's chains, While Cyclops, roused from slumber far beneath, And by her incandescent throne of power, Pour the fused metal in infernal moulds. Defied the Goddess Pele in thy depths. Now the waves flash, and eddying, whirl and leap 'Gainst crumbling shores of glass-like lava cliffs, Kapiolani—noblest of her race— Where Pcle's fair hair waves in sulphury steam ; Kapiolani—type of woman kind— In high moral heroism born of love, The fiery jets, fierce bubbling, chase each other, In past or present and in every clime, Like flame-maned courses on their burning track, Immortal as the faith which fired her heart, Then disappear, lost in the ragiug gulf; Her deed sheds lustre on these ocean isles ! Ever witli northward flow the current sweeps, Grim Superstition with his gory rites, Crackling and sparkling in red fissures deep, Had ruled the isles for ages and the sigh As the cooled surface breaks, like fields of ice, Of souls fettered by tyrannous tabu, And dark-red lava heaps in fiery drift. Hose pleading to the mercy scat of Heaven ; Here, by this wasted, shelving, fire-mined brink, 'Twas answered by a voice to them unknown, That trembles leaf-like o'er the whirling gulfWhose spirit notes thrilled the Hawaiian heart, Faint hieroglyphic of Almighty power— ■ Like that low voice in Jordan's wilderness, I feel the utter littleness of man That cleared the way for a more radiant light; A grade in being's scale, progressive formed, It withering, blighted superstition's creeds, His thread of life is frail as Pele's hair, The dreaded tabu broke, the grim gods hurled A mere development for birtli of thought, From temples red with human sacrifice, Grasping at ideas of a higher life ; Till the awed people seemed earth's wonderment— And thoughts he deems are God-like—whatare they? A nation religionless, yet free in soul! Dim, dream-winged shadows of Progression's Law ! Then came the messengers of peace and love, Thou seemest not of earth ; thy red waves come, Who taught the pure and holy creed of Christ; Up—rushing from that central, fiery sea, And ne'er were sown the seeds of gospel faith Beneath earth's ocean that resistless wars With all that forms this planet's fragile crust. In a more vigorous and virgin soil. The light of faith fired Kapiolani's soul And is I gaze upon thy deep abyss. With moral courage and a high resolve, Thoughts of the grandeur of Eternal Power Kilauea. " " :— I 868. 3 THE FRI KN D, JANUARY, Sweep o'er the mind in wild magnificence, To far past ages, when Creative Will Flashed through this planet's incandescent maw Ere the earth's crust was cooled, or the vast sea, Condensing, fell from seething atmosphere. On lava beds just cooling round the poles. Around me arc God's forges, in the domes Of mountains vast that pierce the blue ofheaven. And from thoir snowy diadems look down On plains of lava blackening to the sea. And in the line of lessening cones that sweep From thy weird chasm by pit-craters deep ; Here in Time's morn, red columns flamed from ocean, Hurled boiling back the hot and vapory waves, With blazing cataracts of liquid fire, Till this great isle arose, a smoking mass Of fire-scorched cinders, as the giant tread Of the nuul earthquake stamped it into form ! Yet thou art nothing to the flaming spheres That formed our system ere the morning stars Together sang as each was formed for life ; Our glorious sun, the flaming keystone vast Of the bright planetary arch which sweeps Fran pale Urania, round his throno of fire, Is boiling now just like thy liquid lakes, In flaming whirlpools nnd in fiery jets, Stained with dark spots of cooling lava drift! Thou art a light to Science, Kilauea— Thou dying embers of earth's central fires, And in thy burning Phlegethons is writ A lesson deep of philosophic truth ; And as I contemplate the waning power That heaved these sunny islands from the deep, I find my thoughts in silent prayer ascend To that UNKNOWN, whose firm, resistless laws From nebular chaos formed the Universe ! P. C. Advtrtiur. — — "There are no letters 'held for postage' age 'in the Providence office. A wealthy gentleman visits the office every week and furnishes stamps for all letters that require it. What motive prompts him to this action is not known, but it is said that some years ago he suffered loss to a large amount through the failure of a letter toreach its destination." We truly wish " that wealthy gentleman" would extend to the San Francisco Post Of- fice the sphere of his benevolent operations, for we are confident letters destined for the Islands are there detained and sent to the dead-letter office at Washington, because the postage has not been prepaid. Until a postal convention can be formed between the United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom, by which this difficulty can be obviated, we do think this Government should instruct its Consul in San Francisco to send forward all such letters, and let the postage be collected in Honolulu. A Sailor's Wit.—A landsman once said father die?" The sailor replied, "On the sea." " Where did "your grandfather die ? " "On the sea." are you not afraid to follow the sea " Well, business, seeing that it has proved so as' your fatal to your ancestors ?" " Well," said the sailor, "and where did your father die?" "In his bed." " And where did your grandfather die?" "Inhisbed." "Astonishing! and are you not afraid to go to bed, seeing it has proved so fatal to your forefathers ? " to a sailor, "Where did your �4 1 II X FRIEND, JANUARY, THE FRIEND. JANUARY 1. Ihiik. Evil Effects of Fast Living, or a few New Year's Reflections. 1868. The Down—Hill Side of Life. Old age, to some, but not all, is a most undesirable period of life. When men come to " be afraid of that which is high," and fears are " in the way," then life becomes to many a burden. But is there no secret source of happiness which will render old age rather desirable ? Cicero, tho old Roman orator and philosopher, wrote an essay upon old "ge. Amid even the darkness of heathenism, he found great consolation in the probability of the soul's immortality. His remarks arc worthy of a Christian philosopher : I am " fur from regretting that life was bestowed on Those given to fast living do not live out half their days. They die prematurely. They waste their vital energies. Eager for enjoyment, they pursue the method which destroys it. There is irfcch of rational enjoyment in this world within the limits of law, but when the devotee of pleasure seeks for enjoyment by overstepping those limits, then a fearful retribution follows. " What- me, as 1 have the satisfaction to think that I soever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." it in such a manner as not to God has given to each one of the human have employed lived in vain. In short, I consider this have race a certain amount of vitality. By carewhich Nature never deful obedience to the laws of our physical and world as a place for my permanent abode ; and I look signed moral natures, that vitality may be prolonged, on my departure out of it. not as being driven c'en down to extreme old age. " Wine is a from my habitation, but as leaving my inn. mocker," declares Solomon, "strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby O glorious day ! when I shall retire from this is not wise." If Solomon had lived in our days, he would have been equally severe upon tobacco, opium, lager beer, and the score of other deleterious stimulants which waste man's vitality. All unnatural stimulants lery tribute upon man's vital energies and tend to shorten life. '• Though th« mill* of (Jiml grind lalowty, yet they grind exceeding Hlnall Though with natteoee ReataVndi waiting, with exactaeM grinds Wile all." : No man can out-wit his Maker or transgress his Maker's laws with impunity. We recommend our renders to review their lives, and if they discover that their vital energies are too rapidly wasting, let them in season do all in their power to remedy the evil. There is a wonderful recuperative power in the human system. We are never too old to learn. The fast liver is continually wasting his vital powers. Fast living is a mortgage upon man's vitality which must be paid off. Death usually forces a foreclosure long before roan has attained three score and ten. Wholesome food, abundance of sleep, constant employment, and a good conscience, are the requisites for long life and happiness, while fast living, late hours, idleness and» vice will bring a man to a premature grave and certain shame. A word to the wise on New Year's morning is sufficient. A complete edition of the Bible has just been printed in the dialect of the Fiji Islanders by the British and Foreign Bible Society. If the savage Islanders kill missionaries, give them the Bibln to teach them a better way. The English newspapers report that the Prince of Wales has signed the pledge. We should be glad to see it reported in the American papers that the President had done the same. low ana sordid scene to associate with the divine assembly of departed spirits. * * * Thus to think, and thus to act, has enabled me, Scipio, to bear up under a load of years with ease and complacency. And after all, should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it isat least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to mv latest breath." Thus reasoned Cicero. He hoped the soul was immortal. He was not quite certain, it might after all be a delusion, but it was a pleasing delusion. Turning from such reasoning, let us contemplate the doctrine of the soul's immortality from a Christian point of view. Paul had no doubts upon this subject, for his faith was in " Jesus Christ, who hath abolished'death, and hath brought life and immortality to light in the Gospel." To one whose views of life and immortality resemble those of the apostle, old age is no undesirable period of life. We have been led to indulge in this train of remarks by the suggestive thoughts expressed in the following paragraph copied from a letter of one of our American correspondents, an Episcopalian " I do not know how it is with you, but I feel that I have Touched the hill top, and am now going down the other side. Stay be you are only on the top ?—you speak of such unbroken health and vigor; so I want to tell you, this 'side of the hill is just as pleasant as the other. Morning has its freshness and beauty, but evening has the glory of the day; and this side of the hill has all the sunset's glow. Gleams from ' the golden shore,' I think they must be. I have always admired old age, and everything that was its type. When we reach fifty, I think we can begin to spell out, for ourselves, the meaning of that period of life—its joys and sorrows, its helps and comforts. Slow learners we are of all the lessons of life,even under such a Teacher; yet if he be our Master, we do learn. Increase in the knowledge of Him.' Ah, it is : ' this which shortens the way, that makes the heart wurmer and brighter as years increase. In youth we may believe in Him, but we do rot know Him as in later years, when the burdens, cares and sorrows—the sin we find in ourselves and the imperfection in all about us—have made us lean on Him, and turn to Him for sympathy and help, then we begin to taste 'the riches of His grace,'as the young pilgrim never can. We know Him, because we have tried Him." It is a personal Saviour whom we all need, anil iu,A have as our faithful companion, and then the up-hill as well as the, down-hill side of life will always appear bright and cheerful. If any of our readers have reached the top, and are upon the down-hill side of life, but have never made the Lord Jesus Christ, their Saviour, most earnestly would we call their attention to this important subject nt the commencement of a new year. This year may be your hist. How vastly important that you now attend to the " one thing needful." Allow the glorious light of Gospel truth to shine into your soul, and you will not feel the doubt and uncertainty which rested upon Cicero's mind, but you will come into the liberty of the Gospel, and be ready to say with' Paul " 1 know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day." : It don't Pay! What don't pay ? The California papers will not pay. One paper asserts that there are thousands of gallons of wine now stored in San Francisco which will not pay the expense of raising the grapes and the manufacture of the wine. The question arises, why will it not pay, when so much is drank ? " This answer is given, that wine and brandy can be manufactured so much cheaper in San Francisco than at Los Angeles, that the wine business won't pay, the pure wine, we mean. Advertisements such as the following appear in the California papers : report that the wine crop — SALOON KKEI'KRS, Look to your Interest and Save MO PER IHAVE CENT. TUB BUTT HKCII'KS FOR. TIIK iii.iiiutaeUiii- ut Old RoejTbon, French Brum)}, 111(1 Tom. in" also Irish mid Sciteli Whisky. Holland Uin, These IMlpaii Hie v.-.. .1 Uf Mil tin: li-iidnig fffcnlwll lleillers, mid you buy freni llietn the same ailicles yuu can easily make youi-Beli. lluy the recipes, niitnuractiirc the liquors you uae and save your money. Not one uf the alaive mentioned liquors, will cost to exceed TWO DOLLARS PCI liALLON. Price of recipes three dollars each, or twelve dollars lor aix. From this notice and failure of the wine culture to pay, it readily appears that wine bibbers and brandy drinkers make use of a spurious and counterfeit article. Verily "wine is a mocker." Wine and brandy drinkers are cheated of their money, ruin their health, and entail upon themselves, their families and society all the sad consequences of in- �temperance. We wonder if the people of Honolulu imagine they drink the pure article when they sip their wine or drink their brandy ? The proper phraseology should be, when anybody proposes to drink one's health in a glass of wine : " Will you allow me to drink your health in a decoction of logwood, strichnine, and ." Precious little of wine, or brandy pure gin finds its way into the market. Who then is the wise and sensible man, the total abstainer or the drinker of those decoctions sold under the names known tenance of a Home of good character, from which all intoxicnting liquors shall be excluded, and by such other means as shall be deemed proper."' The Home has now been in successful operation for thirteen years, and during that period has endeavored to carry out the object of the original organization in the following manner : 1. By keeping a boarding and lodging house. 2. By keeping a reading-room and library. to the trade ? One would suppose that a 3. By keeping abooks and papers. word to the wise would be sufficient. depository for Bibles, 4. By furnishing writing materials for seaPoem, "Kilauea."—Some weeks ago this men and others, when they might wish to poetical effusion appeared in the columns of communicate with their friends. the Advertiser, having been contributed over 5. By supporting a colporteur during the the signature of "La Paz." We were so last two years, who has been occupied in keepmuch struck with the talent displayed, that ing open the depository and reading-room, visit led us to inquire for the author, who has iting ships, hospitals and distributing papers, kindly consented to have the poem repub- tracts, and endeavoring to promote the wellished with his name attached. He has fare of seamen. added several additional lines. A similar During the past year these methods for poem was published in IS4B in England, a improving the social, moral and religious " notice of which will be found in the August condition of seamen" have been unremittingly number of the Friend for 1566. The writer employed. It is believed that Mrs. Crabbe, of this, however, assures us that he never had as manager of the boarding and lodging deread that production, and was ignorant of its partment, and Mr. E. Dunscombe, as manexistence. There are doubtless many his- ager of the reading-room, depository, etc., torical incidents and legendary stories re- have fully discharged their respective duties. specting these Islands and their inhabitants, Their respective positions call for the exerwhich only require writers of a poetical genius cise of rare executive talent to meet the ever to present in verse, and they will be embalmed varying class of boarders and visitors at the for immortality. We hope some Scott, or Home. The present condition of the estabByron, or Burns, or Cowper, or Thompson, lishment is the best proof which can be ofwill yet arise to do for these Islands what fered that they have been faithful servants those poets have done for the British Isles. of this Society. The buildings and premises, The incident in the life of Kapiolani, which externally and internally, are in good condithe Rev. Mr. Grant and Mr. Jones have por- tion. During the past year the baggagetrayed in their respective poems, we have room and setting-room have been re-shingled. always regarded as truly heroic and grand. The cellar and the Kuokoa office have been It was the triumph of Christianity over super- so leased as to bring into our treasury more stition, of the Cross over the tabu. than three hundred dollars, as will appear C. R. Bishop,Treasurer, In account current with Ike Honolulu Saitor'i Home Society. Receipts and Expenditures frtim December 271*. 1886, to December I'M, 1887. To following receipts, reported by Kxeoutlre Committee aa per their •latement, rurntihed this 17th da/ of December, 1887: DB. From J. T. Watarhouse, in acveral payment! toward* $40 00 salary of K. Dunscombe April 1—Froma friend, toward! salary of K. Dnnacombe, 16 00 July 1—from Kuokoa (newspaper) for one year'a rent 100 00 ofoffice 66 00 Oct. 2—From I'. 8. snip 7'iMMrorn. paintDunacouibe, for fc. by From labor Hethel, Oct. 2— fro 00 inn, . , July 2) Bept30SFrom II. Ilackfeld Co,for rent of cellar,....423 00 live. 17 lite. 17—FromRe-'. 8. C. Damon, toward! salary of K. Ilunscoinix' 00 00 8 06 Dec. 17—Cash, 80 60 Dec. 17—Balancecarried down, > * $«U !>5 ORI860. Dec. 27—By WHH *W By follow,mr nmm-.l ti.pii.tfWB tf Executive Conimit)<>••, as per their itateiiu-nt mikl vouchers furniibeil this 17thday of Dvowftbtr, 1867I " 1»U(. April 1—1.y pflitl K. Dunscombc's account. Incidentals for quarter, July i—\\y |)HI(i K DoaSaWDte*! account, incidentals 17 " •*> 11 25 for quarter, July 1—Itypitl K. 11. fi. Q. Sctfelkeii's accourtt, had, 15 62 lead ]>i|K .etc 2 00 July 5—By paid 11. M. Whitney's account, Aufr..i7—By paid Mrs. Craht.e,amount expended by her 25 00 fur repairs it. room 1*, Oct. 1—By fctk. K. nunnctiiulh-'j account, incidentals 7 87 for <]UHrier, Oct. 12—By pud Lmu A: WinKina- account, shingling 100 00 roof of b8tfg>K»-r«ii«B Oct. 12—By piii'l Lunis fc WiKfrina' account. repairs on 15 75 verandah, etc Oct. lii—By p iid lifwirs A Dickann'u account, shingle* 18 68 ami baitens Oct. 16—By paid sundry persons for labor and material 36 68 for repairing siltmil-room, Dec. 2—By paid J. Nott A Co.'s account, conductor* 5* and elbows, 2 80 Dec. fi—Ry paid W, N hadd'n account, natu Dec. 17- By paid K. Dunscooibe's account, labor, clean6 &0 inn well, Dec. 17—By paid K. Banscoiul*'* account, Incidentals 7 87 for quarter, Dec. 17—By paid K. Dunscoiiiue'a- salary Tor one year,.. 366 00 * * $6:si 05 $80 60 Dec. 17—By bsUnce brought down (debt), K. k O. K. C. R. Bieuor, Treasurer. Honolulu, Dec. 17, 1867. The Treasurer reported a debt of $80 50, which was promptly paid off, and a small balance remains in the treasury. The Iliadof Homer and the Ramayana. In a recently published book, Mr. James Hutchinson, of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, points out remarkable resemblances in the Iliad of Homer and the Ramayana of Valmiki. He contends that the rape of Helen and the siege of Troy are really but the carrying off of Sita «nd the capture of Lanka done into Greek verse. He goes further and asserts his conviction that Homer not only worshiped the same deities as the Hindus, but was himself a Hindu. from our Treasurer's report. Other sources of income have enabled the Executive Committee to meet all necessary expenses, without incurring but a comparatively small debt. The manager of the Home has been much Donation. —From officers of United States steamship Lackawinna, for Friend, $20 ; for assisted during the past year by the patronage extended to the establishment by the Bethel, $26 50. The six free baths established by the {Rid also by Consuls, of Boston are patronized by and Prussian authorities British city Thirte nthAnnual Report of the Honolulu those shipmasters who have sent their crews about ten thousand persons daily, men, Sailor's Home Society. women and children. They are all well arto board at the Home while their ships have ranged, and have from thirteen to thirty-five In present in?; the thirteenth annual report been repairing. dressing-rooms. The water flows continually of this Society, it may be proper to revert to Fully confident that the Home has not through openings at the sides, making it the object for which this accociation was or- been a failure, but has been conducted in ac- always clean and cool. ganized and incorporated. In the preamble cordance with the original design ofits foundexpenJUares and receipts for 1867 : to the Act of Incorporation, it is stated that ers and patrons, and in accordance with the tethel W Expenditure., the Hawaiby November, 1854, the Act of granted 424 60 Ueceipts* HonoIncorporation on the 20th of ***• $80 42 lulu Sailor's Home Society was formed " for ian Government, this thirteenth annual reDebt December 30,1867 oat ofthe Fritmi, 1867 the purpose of improving the social, moral port is now presented by $670 00 Printing, paper, postage, etc.r 080 60 Samuel C. Damon, Baceivod from subarrilKTs und donors, and religious condition of seamen resorting Balance on hand December 30,1867 $10 60 Chairman of Executive Committee. to this port, by the establishment and main- Boardera s t the Home during 1867.— There haveubeen two hundred and eightyfive boarders ut the Home during the year. : �6 I II X Life and Character of Rear Admiral George F. Pearson. The following paragraphs are copied from "A Discourse delivered in the Chapel at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H., on Sunday morning, July 7,1867, by Rev. C. Burroughs, D. D." The subject of this discourse was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the year 1799. His early education was in Salem, to which place his parents removed soon after his birth. He very early showed his predilection for the navy, and enlisted as a midshipman in the year 1815, having received his appointment from Massachusetts. Ten years afterward he received a commission as lieutenant. While holding that rank, he was married to Miss Ellen Jackson, of Newburyport, belonging to one of the most respectable families of that city, and sister of the distinguished scholar, who, for his antiquarian researches, general knowledge, and high virtues, was appointed by President Jackson as Minister to Copenhagen. After the year 1832, Lieutenant Pearson was ordered on duty to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, where he acted as Lieutenant Commander more than three years, and then he received a commission to serve on board the frigate Constitution. In that ship he made several cruises to the Mediterranean. He availed himself of the.proximity to the Holy Land to visit it. With a few friends he left the ship at Jaffa, where he was anchored, and went to Jerusalem, whose sacred localities he diligently surveyed; and he drank in holy emotions from every scene, made dear by the presence and acts of his Saviour. While in the Mediterranean, he took the Syrian fever, which was so severe and lasting, that his recovery seemed impossible. But the Divine Physician watched over him and preserved his life, to make it the means of new blessings to his friends and country. After the year 1837, he was transferred to the United States schooner Shark, of which he had the command for a few years. He was ordered to cruise among the West India Islands, where our ships were constantly molested by pirates. While at Constantinople he was a guest at the house of the late Commodore David Porter, then Minister Resident at Constantinople. The Sultan, cherishing the highest respect and esteem for the Commodore, consulted him in relation to the choice of some distinguished officer of our navy who might be deemed qualified to take a temporary command of the Turkish navy—to have the whole discipline and services for which our fleet officers were distinguished. The Sultan offered ten thousand dollars a year to any American officer who would take that command. Commodore Porter said, "If I should search the whole American navy through to find such a man, I would take the one, now a guestat my house, Lieutenant Commander Pearson." The Sultan regarded the suggestions of the Commodore, and offered to Commander Pearson the supervision of the whole navy. The Commander respectfully acknowledged the singular and generous offer, and, with his characteristic modesty, declined it, though he knew it was to be but a temporary arrangement, which by no means implied a FRIEND, JANUARY, 186S. renunciation of his country, or of allegiance to its laws. The next day the Sultan earnestly renewed his offer. The love of country and of its service made the Commander blind to every foreign favor and every golden enticement, and he promptly declared in reply, " that his country was dearer to him than everything which the Sultan had in his power to offer." From 1860 to 1864, he had the command of the Portsmouth Navy Yard. About the year 1864 he took command of the Pacific squadron, and wus much at Honolulu, Sun Francisco, Lima and Callao. He was made Hear Admiral in 1565. He was about three years on duty in the Pacific. In the spring of this year he returned to his home, leaving his family in the Sandwich Islands. His constitution, severely injured by an attack o f the Asiatic cholera when he was in China, developed some of its mischiefs on reaching our shores. Much quiet and care were necessary for the recovery of bis strength. He had barely reached this country, when he was summoned to attend a court martial at New York. This duty being ended, he was ordered to Annapolis in Maryland, to preside at the examination of the Naval Academy in that place. As he thought of duty more than of himself, he was unwilling to neglect any of the cares and demands on him, to watch and arrest the increasing progress of the disease ; so that when he returned to Portsmouth last June, it was obvious to all his friends that he was suffering severe prostration. That was soon succeeded by congestive chills. None of his friends apprehended any danger about him until Thursday, the 27th of June last. Tfie previous Wednesday he enjoyed a walk. On the evening of that day he was visited with faintness, and said, " this is my last sickness ; " and gave a farewell pressure to the hands of his attending friends. About one o'clock on the morning of the first of July he calmly expired. We have committed his remains to the dust with all the honors due to his rank and merit from the army, navy and community ; with all the solemnity of the services of our ritual ; with expressions of the deepest sorrow and universal love. How merciful was it in Providence to have permitted him to return to his native country to meet his family before his decease, and to interchange the last words of pure and warm af- favor of it, from his language, conduct, manner and bearing. He was in heart and soul devoted to our national Union. All Honor to "a Sailor named Marshall." In reading the account of a terrible explosion in a shaft connected with the Hoosac Tunnel, our attention was arrested by the bold and fearless daring of a sailor. Thirteen laborers were supposed to have perished at the bottom of the shaft, sunk 600 feet. After the'fire was extinguished, but ere the noxious gases were totally expelled, this sailor volunteered to descend and look after the fate of the unfortunate laborers at the bottom of the shaft. The following extract will indicate that the sailor is the man at the moment of danger, and when there is only one chance in a thousand that there is a possibility of escape : The next day a sailor named Marshall, at the peril of his life, was let down the shaft by means of a rope fastened to his body, in the hope that possibly some of the men below might yet be alive. Previously to his going down, knowing the perilous character of his expedition, and the dangers to be encountered from foul air in the shaft, Marshall made his will, and then heroically descended. He went down 600 feet, from which point he was able to see that the bottom of the shaft was covered with water to the depth of 20 feet or more, and that there was not the slightest possible hope for any of the men in the pit. He then made the signal to be hauled up, and when some feet above, encountered a current offoul air which rendered him insensible. Upon being brought to the mouth of the shaft he was still senseless, and scarcely alive, and it was not until the most vigorous means of restoration were applied that the heroic man was restored to consciousness. The tale he then told dispelled the last hope for the men below.— Troy Daily Times. Naval.—H. B. M.'s S. Cameleon, Com. Annesley, arrived at this port on Tuesday, Dec. 17. On entering the harbor, it was <|ititc dark, and she ran into the ship Magnolia, carrying away one of her own boats, and damaging rigging, &c. The Gtmeleon sailed from Plymouth, England, June ST-'d, and touching at Madeira July 4th, mid Rio August 22d, arrived at Valparaiso November Ist. From the latter port to Honolulu she wns 46 days. Her tonnage is '.ii")2tons, horse power 200, and she has 7 guns. She is a sister vessel to the. Chanticleer, of the same sizo and armament. After spending a month here, she will proceed to Victoria, Y. 1. The following is a list of her officers: Commander—W. 11. Anrii>lcy. Lieutenants—A. 11. 0. Hoolh, anil O. C. Young. fection. His voyage of life is ended. He has exchanged his earthly robes of honor for the garments of salvation, made white with the blood of the Lamb. He has fought a good fight and finished his course in faith. Vie-" tory is inscribed on his banner. He has reached the haven where he would be. He some distant shore, where " has landed onbeat and billows never roar." Nay. Lieutenant —Juiiil-h Fi.lii-r. tempests never He has gone to the glorious realms where is Suryeon— W. J. Uairil, M. 11. ll. M. bVrnard. no more sea —where no waves of sorrow shall Paymaster— Chief Enyinrer—R. Iltxlgi'. —W. J. Holmes. Suryeon his Assist. ever roll over peaceful breast. Assist. Paymaster—W. A. Burninlon. In contemplating his life, one of the most Sub-Lieutenant —J. Godfrey. Engineers—Mom. Tottenham, fireen and Irwin. prominent circumstances commanding our Midshipmen— Memn. Murdock, Hendcraon,L'utntld, Htuarl, attention is the service that in his official Holmca, Haatingii, Oillow and TiUard. Qunntr-1. W. Re«. character he has rendered to our country. Boatswain —K. Tucker. Fifty years was he employed in the duties Carpenter—Weatiord. of naval life ; and twenty-two of those years was he in sea service. He was a devoted A little boy being asked what meekfriend to his country was a noble represen- ness was, replied, "Meekness always givta tative of it, and impressed every foreigner in smooth answers to rough questions." — �7 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 18 6 8. ADVERTISEIVTENTS. APVBRTISBMBgTS. PLACES OF WORSHIP. SKAMEN'S BKTHEL—Kev. S. C. Damon Chaplain—Kiln ■ml M. CSKTLS 1. 1. JTHIKTU*. street, near the Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. M. J,. «. OOOU. beats Free. Sabbath School after the morning serrlce. CASTLE Jt COOKE, l'rayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at "i o'clock. N. II Sabbath School m Bible Class for Seamen at VI Import(Tv and l.eneral Mm hunts o'clock Sabbath morning. POUT STREET CHUBCH—Corner of Fort and Beretania Kitiu street, opposite lite Srsmru'a Chapel. streets—Key. K. Conrin Pastor. Preaching on Sundays at Also, Agouta for 11 A. M. anil 71 P. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. H. Dr. Jaynes Celebrated Family Medicines, t SI'ONK CHURCII-King street, above the Palace—Key. 11. 11. Wheeler «V Wilson's Sewing Machines, Parker Pastor. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 9! TheNew England Mutual Life Insurance Company, A. M. and 3 P. M. TheKobala Sugar Company, Hawaii. CATHOLIC CHURCH—Fort street, near Beretania—under The Haiku Sugar Company, Maui. the charge of Kt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Key, The Hawaiian Sugar Mills, Maui. Pierre Favens. Servicesevery Sunday at 10 A.M. and 1 P M 3JI —H -If I Ml- —*")i—w!--. fll .mwji Iffc The Waialua dugsi Plantation. Oahu. SMITH'S CHURCH—Beretania street, near N'uuanu street— The Lumahai Kice Plantation, Kauai. 566 ly every Hawaiian Itev. Lowell Smith Pastor. Services in Sunday at 10 A. M. and '•!} P. M. ». 1.1.l \ .v CONWAY, REFORMED CATHOLIC CHURCH—Corner of Kukul and ksnaihar, Hawaii, Nuuanu streets, under charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Staley, aH»ist.-.l bf Itev. Messrs. Ihhntann, Uallagher and Klklngconlinui' the tleneral Merchiindiseanil Shipping business Will 7) and A. Sunday M. at 11 liin. English service every at tiieabove port, where they areprepared to furnish P. M. the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits as are required by whale ships, at the ADVERTISEMENTS. shortest notice and ou the most reasonable terms. a " Pircotroocl oil Hand. 680 ly C. Ms BARTOW, Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. 86 Auctioneer, 6 Seamens' do. do. do. do. So Ira Hum ob Una <a. Sirri-I. oiai- door from Kaahumanu sireet. 673 Shower Baths on the Premises. SAILOR'S HOME! 11. L. Chase's Photographic Gallery ! FORT STREKT. K. P, Auctioneer and ADAMS, (Oiuini—ion FIXE I'ROOK mil, IS Merchant, In Robiaaou'o Buildiujf, Hurrn Street, 682-ly Dentist, (65 1; Mccracken, merrill & Co., F.. HOFFMANN. M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchantanil Kaahumanu sts., near Postofflce. 680 ly JOHN S. McGRRW, M. Physician and Surgeon. BOARDINiTSCHOOL AT ROLOA. THE BR. J. MOTT SMITH, OlBce corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. Mra. IK A Hit. NOW OPEN AND PRKPAKF.O TO Manager. Honolulu, April 1, 1866. take PHOTOGRAPHS of any size in the B«8T Styi.ii ISO (IN THK Most KiASONABLK Tkhms. COPYING AND ENLARGING done in the best manner. REV. DANIEL DOLE. AT KOI.OA. For Sale Cards of the Hawaiian Kings, Queens, Chiefs and Kauai, baa accommodations in his family other notable persons. For Also—A full assortment of LARGE AND SMALL. n Few Bctnrdlng Scholars. Hj Persona wishing to learn the Terms will apply to him PRAM KM, For Sale at Low Prices. 696 3ra otf H. L. CHASE: or the Editor of Thk Fkiund." I)., " GEORGE WILLIAMS, LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. FORWARDING AND COMMISSION Ml K« II Wl Portlujicl. Oregon. TIM KS THE 111 SIVKSS ON HIS OLD >. CON Plan of settling with Officers and Seamen immediately on their Shipping his Office. Having no connection, either at direct or indirect, withany outfitting establishment, BERN ENGAGED IN OUR PKEing no debts to he collected at his office, he hopes foSrre as OlBce—Over Dr. E. HotTinann's Drug Store, corner of Kaahu sent husiti- i for upward* of seven yearn, and being good satisfaction In the future as he hae in the past. roanu and Merchant tits., opposite the Post Office. Rjhidknuk— Chaplain St., between ftuuanu and tort Sit. located iii a tin- proof brickbuilding, we are preparedto receive ITr Office on J as. Robinson a Co.'s Wharf, near the IT. g. and dispose of Island staples, such as Sugar, Rice, Syrupfi, Pulu, Consulate. MS Sm (in k-k llocas—Fi-oni 8 to 10 A. M., and from 3 to 6 P. M. Coffee, &c., to advantage. Consignments especially solicited 669 ly for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, and upon which cash advances will be made when required. C. H. WETMORE, M. D. San Francisco References. PHYSICIAN fc SURGEON, Badger k Lindeuberger, Jas. Patrick k Co., AGENTS FOR Fred. Iken, HILO, HAWAII, S. I. W. T. Coleman k Co., Stevens, Baker k Co. N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the Portland Rkekrrncrk: 6-tf HILO DRUG STORE. Allen k Lewis. Ladd k Tilton. Leonard k Green. Honolulu References: A. F. JUDD. Walker k Allen, 8. Bavidpe. Attorney aud Counsellor at Law, ly 684 Cornerof Fort sod Merchant Streets. 696 ly HAVING _^_____ * CASTLE COOKE, Wheeler & Wilson's SEWING MACHINES! W. A. ILDRICH. C. Is. RICHARDS fc CO., Ship Chandlers aud Commission Merchants, and Dealers Id General Merchandise, Keep constantly on hand a fullassortment of merchandise,for the supply of Whalersand Merchant vessels. 606 ly a. A. r. casts*. C. BREWER *i CO. Commission and Snipping Merchants, JOHN M CRACEEM. ALDRICH, MERRILL & Co., Commission TUerchant§ Auctione erg, 204 and 206 California Street, n a. 3\r o is o o. ** ALSO, AGENTS OV IS MACHINE HAS A I.L THE LATEST TMt impmvementa, and, in addition to former premiums, was American awarded the highest prise above all European and —AND— W. N. I.ADD. Importer and Dealer In Hardware, Citlery, Mechanics' Tools, and Agricultural Implements, ly 610 Fort Street. aasavin raoa. i. 0. MERRILL, TIIE San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Sewing Machines at theWorld's Exhibition in PARIS In IMI, and at theExhibition in London In IM2. Theevidence of thesuperiority of this Machine is found la the record of Its sales. In 1861 The drover 4 Baker Company, Boston, The Florence Company, Massachusetts The Parker Company, Connecticut, J. M. Singer Co., New York, " Flnkle k Lyon, Cliaa. W. lies-land, Delaware, Co., Cincinnati, 0., Greenwood M. k N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., Wilson H. Smith. Connecticut, •old 18,600, whilst the Wheeler Wilson Company, of Bride* port, madeand sold 19,736 during the same period. 11 tf ICy Please Cmll aad Kisminr. — •> " « Particularattention given to the sale and purchase ot merHonolulu. Onhu. H. 1. chandise, ships' business, supplying whaleshlps, negotiating AGENTS exchange. ax. XT All freight arriving at Baa Francisco, by or to the HoOf the Boston and Honolulu Packet Line. AGENTS nolulu Line of Packets, will be forwarded ran or ooMsuatoa. rillß SALE AT At Haaa PlaalalUaa Far theMaltee, Wallaka O" Kxchange on Honolulu bought and sold. X3l J Paper. AGENTS —ssrsaaaoaa— C. L. Richards s Co., Honolulu Far the Parclsaoraud Sislr of Island I'rod wee. Messrs. ■' HaoaraLDkCo.,...'. II —REFER TO— 0 UsiwislrCo., New York. Joan M.Hoob, Esq., M Bishop A Co '» Cms. Baawaa, a Co. Botton. ■ J Dr. W. Wood, R. Esq. ) JIMSSIII NKSWELI., Hon. K. H. ALLBat, PUBLISHED Co. I R. B. Swaia A Esq O.WsiaaiiiK, D. San Francisco. * Cms. Woworr Baooas Ksq.J Bound Volumes of the "Friend" "" " flOi-ly ~R. W. ANDREWS, WT " ly READING ROOM, LIBRARY AND DEPOS- MA-CHIISTIST. SEAMEN ITORY. AND OTHERS, WISHING to obtain books from the Sailors' Home Library, will please apply to the Bethel Sexton, who will have ALL KINDS OF LIGHT MAcharge of the Depository and Reading Room until CHINERY, GUNS, LOCKS, ire. Vsrt Street, opposite Odd Fellows' Hall. Btf further notice. Per order REPAIRS THK OFFICE OF THE THE FRIEND: AND EDITED BT SAMUEL C. DAMON. A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEM- PERANCE, SEAMEN, MAINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TERMS: One oopy, per annum, Two copies, *• Five copies, .. .. i 92.00 8.00 4.00 �8 TIIK Yates upon his Reformation. His Wife's Letter to Him. Senator — Temperance is one ol ike sweetest and delightful things upon c.irih ;. it is the very spring-head of chei»Wulncss, happiness and joy—the very chivalry of manhood itself. I have beet) a temperance man for fifteen days, and I am a gayer boy to-night than I have been for seventeen years. (Laughter.) «I think lam the gayest man in the Senate, except the compeer of Clay and Crittenden—the able, indomitable and galJant old cavalier of Kentucky (Garret Davis.) I except you also, Mr. Chairman. (Laughter.) Temperance gloomy ? Not a bit of it, Mr. President. My pledge shall be a per]ietual charm, " n thing of beauty which is a most joy forever," not a cloud of gloom, but an ever present rainbow of promise, hope and beauty. lam as proud of it as of my wife and children, and that is the strongest way 1 have to express my pride. (Applause.) I am as proud of it as 1 am ot the commission which entitles me to hold the position of nn American senator. Hy-the-by, Mr. Chairman, I will submit to you the question. I rather think the commission and the temperance pledge ought to go together. (Applause.) What do you think about having " the teetotaller" put into the iron-clad oath ? (Laugh- ter.) You say, of what use is the pledge ? I will tell you. Twenty days ago there came along a friend of mine, a senator, and said, " Let us take a drink." I said, '• Certainly, all right." Another friend from Illinois in minutes and a half came along and said, " Let us take a drink." Said I, " All right." It is this way. One drink of liquor is enough for me ; two ain't half enough (laughter) ; three is only one-third enough, and four is chaos. After I signed ,the pledge I was asked several times to drink; but I didn't do any such thing. (Laughter.) After I signed this temperance pledge 1 wrote to a little lady out in Illinois, who weighs about a hundred pounds, has black hairand flashing black eyes, and " a form fairer than Grecian chisel ever woke from Parian marble," and 1 received the following answer: My Dear Richard :—How beautiful is this morning ; now bright the sun shines ; how sweetly our birds sing; how joyous the children ; how happy is my heart. I see the smile of God. He has answered the prayer. Always proud of your success, you have now achieved that success which God and angels will bless. It is the shining summit of human aspiration, for you have conquered yourself. All who love you will aid you to keep the pledge. I love you, my dearboy. Katie. Love, the sun, souland center of the moral universe ; Love, which links angel to angel, and God to inati | Love, which binds in one two loving hearts. Howbeautiful is love. (Applause.) As 1 look over this audience, composed of senators and representatives of this great nation, and these galleries blazing with beauty and the worth of the city, and sojourners from all the states and territories, I ask myself why they are here. Proud England, upon whose dominions the sun never sets, has but one queen ; but, thank God, we have millions of queens, who M Miln* In hMttlv Ilka, the. nl«l,t FIIIKMi, JANUARY, 1808. wh lik Montiollu, Phillips, to rrulte. whose chains we feel, and yet we bless the Dec. Id—Am 17—**Ulk wh hrig Count, Weeka, locruiae. silken sceptre. You are here to give by your 17—Am wh hk Java, Emm, to cruise. 17—Haw wh hk Eagle, l,oveland, to cruise. presence encouragement to the congressional 21—Am wh bark Wm, Retch, Nye, io craioo. wh hark Hercules, Howlind, to cruise. ti'J-Aill temperance society, and I propose, sir, that 88—Br war stnir Clianiich«r. Bridges, for \ ietoria, V, I, this society shall be the lieginning of soci25—Br ship I nnt—fHT| Baskflll fi>r Baker's Inland. eties throughout the land, and that we will push forward the temperance column, move PASSENGERS. upon the enemy's works and give him canister and Greek fire. (Applause.) We will Foil San Francisco—Per Firefly, Dec. 4—F W Tiffany, storm upon the citadel of intemperance until Capt 1* C Lefr;i.v,Tliin,Keardr>ii, A Binnlum, M Pratt, Ht VinChun JoOOpft, A Silva, J Fiamis, J Rosa, J Sylva, J De. it shall crumble ana totter and fall to the cent, Laurie—l2. earth. (Applause.) Why do I refer to the Fuji Oiam- Per Ana, Wee. 2—Thus Neal, A Perry, J J Bula. ladies ? Because their example is mightier hv.iu— PftOM San P>4W.CHCO—PUT rtIWW Idaho, Dec. 5—X dc thousand than the eloquence of a senates or I'ivsiit, z s S|i:miiiiii!i,D U VYitrnaiß, Jjowmwlure John Paly, Capt it <; it.'kir, .1 Sinclair, John IMt, Ahchuck, W s the banners of thousand legions. Wk, I'W Meyer, V Knudeen and wife. Mist: R Robliwoii. snowy are here to see the to-night You Miss mat} Rlet,MraT \ Nnhican.ls.ni,ami hftcenlaotaaraga. white flag of temperance as it is unfurled Pofl Wimiw.mid Pouts—per Kiluueu, Dec. 2—l) I) BaldVita in id child, .Mrs NeedhilDl unit 1 children, Mis l.amli. over the capitol of your country, as it rises win. Cant W N CUtanu, Henry Cooper, Om W Macey, Charles and and rises, and unfolds to God spreads I\l;'kii-, ami Tftdeek paweeiafora. Windward Pouts—lVr Kilauea. Dae. 7th—Her until it shall cover the whole land, and until XxFrom Goretneu Keliinkitlaiii, Mr and Mrs Q C Dcvcnll, T N there shall not lie a drunkard nor a moderate Noble, N w Tallatat, i) N ftantri, Mn Jan—a, ami oo deck. Windward Ports—Per Kihiwa, Per. Bth—■His Hon drinker to take away the bloom from the E For II Allen, His E\ R ll Phillips. Mr and Mm Nebta and sun, cheek of female beauty, and until all the Col .Inn.*, N W Blahi.n, N W Tallant, Mr. I.kw.lyn, Mr AlFrank Harris, and SO dirk. hearthstones of this land shall blaze with len,From San Francisco—lN r Magnolia, Dec. 7—M W lllahor, comfort and joy, and happiness and gladness Mr Simmons, and 4 iti steerage—6. For San Franci*< o-Pcr Idaho, Dec. lfl—Mrs Jern-'jran, shall dwell in green freshness there. (Tre- Rapt Yinal, Capt lllivn, C;ipt Tinker, Capt Creeii,Miss Armmendous applause.) Btnuiß, P CJ Dnixiis, Capt Cbilda, It (, LSmeraan,wna ami three • MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. children, Miss Kmereon, W Prance, John Baaett, J II Ualvay, W It IViin.-y, W \\ Payne, F Baatevood and wife, Mr Meyer, A Silva, W Boata, W Sviiiiiiih, V Marks, J Khtf, I' Silvan! da Bona, (■ I. Wicks, Henry Ott, HaeUba, J Loge—3B. For Windward I'ohtn—Per Kilauea, Dec.ltitii—Her Majesty (taeen Emma. Miss Mary Cooke, Samuel N. Castle, 8. C. Alexander B. 1). Clifford, J. Welsh and wife, W. F. Sliarnut, 11. Marfarlane, N. I>e|ieyster, F. Stodard, Tims. Shiel, C.J. Lyone, (lias. Baldwin. Messrs. Uuin, Beits, Parr and 2 oilier*, and SU deck passengers. lon San Francisco—Per D. C, Murray, Dec. 2Sth—l). C. Cotton, Mrs. Cottonand 8 children, Andrew Velteinan, C. O. llrown, Capt. J;.s. Smith; Chus. 11. Smith, M. Phillips, C. 1.. Manchester, D. Mackintosh, Capt. K. S. Sniilh, Manuel Faistein, Jons.lvh, Henry Alter, <i. s. Ryan, Tims. W. Warren, U.S. Chap* 1. W. VV, Cox, 8. J. Hide, J. A. Palmer, Mrs. Palmer, M. Melville. W. <;. Bit. s, Robert Johim Jas.lt. Still, John Baxtat, W. Rhiranai. R. Ci rant, W. S. Thomson—.JO. Nov. 26—Am wh bk Lydia, llathaway, from Hilo. 27 —Am wh ship Hercules, Howland, from Hilo, with :iim> hi,is sp. 4mi Mils wh, and i.ooo Ihs ben*. 29—Am wli ship Ocean, BartMn*, from Hawaii, with 000 hiiis wh, 9,800 Ik, bone. 20—Am wli bk JamesAllen. Florae, from llilo. ,'hi-llr »h hk ItolH-rt Towns, Barker, fm llilo. Dec. 3—'.in bk Stephanie, Sinclair, fin l.aliainn. MARRIED. 3—Am bk Ueerge, Diivis. fm llilo. 3—Am sll Ohio, Lawrence, I'm llilo. 4—liritsh Magnolia, Clarke, 14 dais fin|Sau Francisco. 4—Am wh sh Raiebosr, itaker, from Ochotsk, with 45 lleckm.v—Mktc-ai.k— At Hat rntidence of tin- hiMil, at bMs sp, 7"0 hbls wli. and K.00011.s bone. >I;nma Valley, N\ i),<- Iter. 11. 11. I'.trkir, .Miss Kiiima, rldiNt s—Ship Chesses, Lowe, 3o days fm Ptujet Bound. daughter of the lata T. C. Mrtr.ili, Bag.t to Frederick, eldest 6—Am sir Maho, Connor, 11lis 20 firs MM San l-Yaiieiseo. ■on "f W. ll.ekley, Baa). s—Am wh hk Progress, Dowttea,frotn Areiic, with 4uo Bowman— Tannek.—In New Dadfiwd, July 1, 1867, Mr. bbtssrh oil, ii.uoo lbs bane. George. 1.. Ilnwiiiiin, of Falmouth, Mass., to Mils Celia Tanner, B—Brit war str Chanticleer. Bridges, from Hawaii. ol New Bedfefd. '.I—lint sii LeehnafarT, BaakflU, 02 day fm Hongkong. 13 -Eng bk Cohans, Bablwin, 1m Msorgar, Ochotsk boa, via HakodacU, 4o da)s, with Too Mils oil, and 8,000 lbs hone. DIED. 14—Am hk Vietnr,Greenleaf,3sda>* front PlTownsend. IT—Br ship of war Cumelcon, Auuealey, 40 days from Valparaiso. On board whaling bark I.ydia, May 8, 1867, John William*. 26—Mr ship Robt. 1.. Lam, Martin, 40 da\ a fin Acapulco. On hi-ard whaling hark Gnam. Oct 14, IM7, on the? pat-auge from theArctic Io llilo, rtamuel Peters. On board whaling hark James Allen, Nor 3,1857, by falling DEP.4RTI RKS. from aloft, Joseph Mindo. Nov. 30—Am sh Othello, I'inkham. for Liverpool. Himmies—On Sundaynight, Dec. 15,1867, of <Iro|rsy, Henry 30—Mr war sir Chanticleer, Bridges, for Hilo. Hughes, Igad 67 feat*. l.bceu»ed wan by birth an Englinh30—Am wlialer Awasln.nks, Norton, to cruise. in;i!i, anil hud been a resident of these islands some 35 yearn. 30—Am whaler Navy, Davis, to endaa. 30—Am whalerCalifornia, Wood, to cruise. 30- Am whaler Berg Cumminga, llalacy, to cruise. Information Wanted, 30—Am whaler Oriole, Hayes, Io cruise. Dec. 2—Am wlialer Sea Breexe, Hamilton, Io cruise. Reelecting William Betiyn, belonging to Winton Houpe, 2—Am whaler Corinthian, Lewis, to cruise. Dalkey, County Dublin,Ireland. He left Honolulu for t*an Fran4—Am whaler Cherekes, El.ln.lgc, to cruise. cisco just two yeara ago. He is known to have reaided for a 4—Am whaler John Wells, Dean, to cruise. short time in Han Francisco. 4—Am whaler Florida, Fordbam, to cruise. Any information will be gladly received by the Editor, or his 4—Am whalerCourser, llamhlin, to cruise. mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Begga, Winton House, Dalkey, County 4—Am whaler Illinois, Davis, to cruise. Dublin, Irelund. 4—Am whaler Nile, Allen, to cruise. LYTO. Mars., Aug. 28, 1867. 4—Am whaler Jos Maxwell, Chase, to cruise. Mb. Hii.i kh—Dear Sir:—Will you please tv inform me 4—Am whaler liiliernia, l.udlow, to cruise. is in Honolulu or not ; he is a Richardson W. Joseph whether cruise. 4—Am wlialer Champion, Worth, to brother of mine. 1 wrote to him a year ngo ; I received mime 4—Br brig Ana, for Guam. letter. It an aiiv.riis. ,1 j■ tin- Honoweeks elnce the aanie San Francisco. 6—Haw brig Fireiy, Chapman, for lulu font Office from Dec. ;ilst to may Ma> 28 tb. If Ik dead, I —Am wh bk Ohio, Lawrence, to cruise. about his death, and whether Ins particulars pleaee send me the 6—Am wh bk Midas, Drake, to cruise. Yours, very respecfully, eon is living or not. 6—Am wh bk Washington, Baker, to cruise. Edwahd s. Kit II AH UNO*. s—Am wh bk Norman, to cruise. For the Friend. 6—Haw wh lil, Hae Hawaii, Ileppingstooe, to cruise. T—Am wh sb Gen. Scott, Wasbburne, to cruse. Keepecting Robert J.eroyMcGinnis* alias Hurnt, belonging 7_Fr wh sh Winslow,Labaste, to cruise. visited Honolulu Aye years atro, and is to New Orleans, lie 7—Am schr Flying Dart, Sweet, for Tahiti. reported to have left in a vessel bound to Hampton Roads, but to sruise. George, St. himself Soule, «—Am wh hk in the United States, ft has ac he never has reported —Oldg wh bk Julian,Lubbers,Io cruise. been conjectured that he might still be sailing in the Pacific. to Eagle, wb bk McKenzie, cruise, o—Am Any Information will be gladly received by the Kdltor, or his 10—Amstr Idaho, Connor, lor San Francisco. mother, Mrs. Elisabeth J. McUinniat, New Orleans,La. 11—Engsh Centurion, Higglns, for New Bedford. Respecting Edward St. Germain, of Laneingburgh, New 14—Oldg wh ship Oregon, Mammen, for Bremen, Tork. Any information will be gladly received by the editor la 1 in .h I.L HnnLani llarrett to crnis". , > 10 � 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 (1868) 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 - 1868.01.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1868.01.01