https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/c706a513e560462b3aefae7e2486b45d.pdf 9c9e257301e9931d8a9e0ebd488164b4 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND {©lij Series, HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 4, 1869. IIM Scries, fti.lt, $0. 2.\ 9 Somabout ething the Fijis Twenty Years eo.\TKivrs \ I j|aaa« lna|li tjuiiin Boy's Loekar. u " Fiji llialiiiiinism Dyaaa Out Oaaaaßl le IM Hawatlaa Islaml. .' Paid 140 Vent (or his llm E.lltor's Tslile .lii|.<*n !>, 10, n 11 11 II Knitik Tliiiiii|i.iiii Death of Hon. I). 1.. Key. Gretf The Great Boohaoier —l'm:try Wur.ls Worth Weighing Kallro.il Speed A JapaneseStinlent in New Jersey Cheap Ice Fiu-her l.ute Near. 1 Mlll.ll l-Kii s Marine Journsl, Ac 1- l.'l I*l 1' 14 14 14 14 1» ** ll* I*l THE Fit IKND. FKItUI A Cypress—Bough. Ago. For February. I HUH. Th* Miuina Lea nmnanilm aboal Dm M2B- till 4, IHIIII. The Mauna Loa sails on Saturday for a cruise among the South Sea Islands, under the direction of the Board of Immigration. We understand the object of the expedition to be to obtain immigrants tat) laborers, with their families, who will come to reside permanently upon the Hawaiian Islands. Capt. English goes in command of the vessel. His long acquaintance with the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands eminently fits him to command the vessel. We are glad to learn that the vessel will go to the Hervey Group— including Mangnia, A itutaki and Rarotonga— instead of visiting the low coral islands under tbe line. Cupt. English will find English missionaries at the Hervey Islands, through whom he can communicate intelligently with the natives. The honorable manner in which Capt. English has conducted the labor system on Farming's Island is a guarantee that he will be equally honorable in opening negotiations with the inhabitants of the Hervey Islands. The terrible lesson inflicted upon South Sea islanders by the Peruvian slavers, has created n prejudice agninst the islanders going abroad, unless they know where they are going. The honor of the Hawaiian Government is publicly pledged that the present expedition shnll he conducted in the most honorable and upright manner. Some writer lor the Hawaiian Gazette, who withholds his name, is furnishing un in- once more, O ye laurels, and once more " Yet Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with fore'd fingers rude, teresting series of articles, entitled, " A Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Hitter constraint, and sad occasion dear. Voyage to the Fijis." The writer appears Compels me to disturb your season due—■ to have been it sailor at that time on board' For f.youlas is dead, dead ere his prime." an American trading vessel from Salem, Milton thus commences his beautiful mon Mass. We are surprised at his vivid recolbewails the death of a young lections of his voyage and his knowledge of ody, wherein he was "drowned in his passage from the language. Persons who have never vis- friend, who the Irish seas, 1637." Would ited the out of the way islands of the Pacific Chester, on similar strains we could and in early days of the missionary enterprise, that in fitting friend and correspondent, bewail our departed can with dilKculty imagine the obstacles Key. S. drowned on the 4th Rising, F. the in the way of those laboring to reclaim the degraded inhabitants of Polynesia. Perhaps of December, 1868, in the Ohio River, near no missionaries have had a more difficult Warsaw, Indiana, when the collision took task than our English Wesleyan brethren at place of the two steamers, the 'America and the Fiji Islands. We honor those pioneer of the missionaries at the Fiji Islands as we honor United States. The full particulars been reported, but few other laborers in any pnrt of the snd disaster have not as yet world. The writer in the Gazette opens but the papers which have been received article No. 4 with the following paragraph : leave us no reason to doubt that Mr. Rising " Some may very naturally nsk—and some must have been among those who perished. have already asked the writer of these Our acquaintance with him, commenced in sketches—' Was it not rather imprudent to spring of 1860, on his arrival in Honogo so far into th» interior of a confessedly the lulu, nn invalid from over-work at Virginia savage and cannibal country, as was your river voyage of fifteen or sixteen miles, and City, where he had labored. " in season and your subsequent sojourn and intermixing out of season," for a period of four years, among the people for days ? ' No ; and for gathering a church and superintending the one very good reason, which I will tell just erection of a church edifice. At the time of here. There had been missionaries at Rewa aware as he had a some years previous to the time of my visit, his arrival, we are not upon the Islpersonal acquaintance knew that wherever there single and our captain were missionaries received among, and who ands, but when he left, after traveling through had acquired nn influence upon, a savage and the group, there were many, many, whose uncivilized people, he could venture without lasting friendship he had secured, and with fear of molestation. This has since been my some of whom he continued to carry on a own experience among the many islands of the Pacific which 1 have visited. Wherever correspondence until the time of his death. there were missionaries one could snfely Among all the visitors to our shores, we land. The pioneer missionaries at the Fijis have never met one who more thoroughly belonged to the English Wesleyan Society. niado himself acquainted with the history, They had several stations in different parts of the group, nnd were apparently a hard- politics, ecclesiastical associations and relaworking and sincere set of men, though their tions, schools, trade, commerce, and in fine, efforts did not meet with much real success everything relating to the Hawaiian Kingat that time. Since, however, and at the dom and people. When he left, he took with present time, I am informed that the principal a very large assortment of books, pamphchief of the islands has nominally become a him convert, and as a consequence, the islanders lets, papers and curiosities. In his search for these he was indefatigable. The use may be said to he Christianized." �10 THE ¥ RIK NO, FEBRUARY, IS «9 . which he has mncle of these documents and information may be learned from his letter, entitled, "The Hawaiian Mission from nn Episcopal Standpoint," and addressed to the Key. S. B. Treat, Secretary of the American Board of Missions, and published in the Friend of September, 1867, and also from a touching tribiije lo the late Rev. Asa Thurston, entitled, " A Cypress-Bough," which will lie found in our present issue. Since Mr. Rising's return to the United Staler!, he has been employed as the Financial Secretary and General Agent of the American Church Missionary Society, known as the Society supported by the Low Church or Evangelical party of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He has also assisted as one of the editors of the Missionary Register, one of the very best monthly publications which is found among our exchanges, and which we always read with interest. Every month and year his labors were more and more abundant. His soul-inspiring aim apptuis to have been to awaken a true missionary spirit among the members (particularly the youth) of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was our guest when he received his appointment, and we well remember his enthusiasm upon the missionary question. His visits among the American missionaries on these Islands served to fan his missionary zeal and enlarge his sympathies in behalf of God's servants who were not members of his church and denomination. From his correspondence, we learn that he always regarded it as a most kind Providence which led him to visit these Islands for recruiting his health. On his arrival, we know whereof we assert, when we say thathe was exceedingly skeptical respecting the success of the American Mission and the genuineness of the work. His ecclesiastical associations had naturally led him to hesitate and be doubtful upon the subject, but Uefore he left, and since his return home, last private letter which we received from him : New York, August Bth, IB6S. Ri.v. S. C. Damon— Dear Brother:— Thanks for your valued favor of sth May, with the kind remembrances and the map ol the lava-flows which it contained. Since that grand and magnificent though terrific eruption, I have lived much in imagination in Hawaii. Mv ride with Brother Lyman from Hilo to Waiohinu, and with Kauhane from Waiohinu to Kealakekua, made me quite well acquainted with the scene of the late out-breaking. 1 lunched at Mr. Kichardi-on's, staid over Sunday at Mr. F. S. Lyman's, and thence went on to Kaawaloa. When I read of ihe mass of tarth thrown toward the sea, ol tin- lava over-leaping palis, forming promontories—of the natives fleeing from their houses, Ice., the whole country came up before ma. How 1 would have liked to see the eruption, antl to ride over the island now nnd see its altered aspect. The eruption, however, must have been frightful to behold, as its results were heart-rending. 1 think with real sympathy of Brothers Pogue and Paris and the native preacher tossed suddenly out of their field of labor, their people swallowed up and their churches laid low. The file of the Friend reached me safely. Thanks. Your journal also now makes me a monthly call, which gratifies me. Within two weeks or so I shall send you a pamphlet now in press, styled, " Are there Romanizing Germs in the Prayer-Book '( " It is a fair indication of what some of our younger clergy are thinking about and propose to do. Our General Convention Meeting October 7th in this city. Its session is anticipated with deep anxiety by some, with much interest by all. When you see Mrs. Thurston, will you convey to her my deep sympathy in her loss. The heat this summer has been intense, but the fall is drawing near. The Friend keeps me posted in the details of Island life, but I am olways glad to receive the additions made by your welcome warmth and blessed light of the Sun of Righteousness. As he is parted from our gaze, we would, with hearty affection, write (his memorial of him as one who glorified his divine Saviour, and in whom the grace of Cod was magnified. HIS HEROISM. He sailed out of Boston harbor in the brig Thaddeus in October, 1819. His face was set toward the Sandwich Islands. The Duff had carried the Gospel light to the Society group in the South Pacific ; but in the north deep darkness brooded. Out of it rose the death-cry ol Cook. Imagination easily sketched the horrors of the land where a savage club laid low the English navigator. A Hawaiian lad, brought by a sea-captain to New Haven, told of the idolatry of his countrymen, and besought some to hasten thither with the good news of God. Henry Bing-11;t iii, Asa Thurston, and five laymen, with their wives, heard this boy's touching appeal, and in answer girded themselves for their grand venture of faith. Foreign missions were not then popular. The chilly October day, when thesails of the Thaddeus were unfurled, typified the coldness of the Christian heart toward the heathen world. But these pioneers were born heroes. Thurston, by his physical strength and courage, had won, years before, at Vale College, the muchprized staff of " bully." With a moral courage and strength more sublime, he and his companions kissed their brides, and led them from the hymeneal altar to dwell in midocean amid savage islanders. Our hearts beat quick as we recall the heroism of those young men and women putting America behind them to win a nation to Christ. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent them out. For the results of their work the Lord be praised ! ROY A I. KAILUA. It was Thurston's lot to labor at Kailua, in the island of Hawaii. What a parish for a novice to handle! It was a filthy village of thatched huts, built upon beds of indurated luva, on which the fervent sun poured his furnace-heat every day in every year. It nestled amid a grove of cocoanut trees, and reached down to the shore, whither came rolling in the white-crested billows. Behind it rose the lofty volcanic peak of Hualalai. Standing at its base one could trace the perennial green of the forests reaching nigh unto the summit, deeply scored with hideous black tracks of lava reaching unto the sea. The luxuriant foliage hid from distant view gaping fissures, thirty-nine extinct craters, the grim ruins of the temple of Umi' and other tokens of vajjd desolation. Further down the coast rose the loftier peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, 13,000 feet high, snow-capped, fierce fires raging within, and now and then breaking out with quakings, roarings, mighty rushings, and terrific hissings, as the lava threw itself red-hot into the sea. Very solemn to dwell in such a land with these volcanoes ever in sight! Then Kailua was, at the time of Thurston's landing, the residence of the king. He was a profligate, and the royal city was the fountain of the kingdom's pollution. Here the tabu had been broken and the idols destroyed, that there might be no check to ini- favors. I send my aloha to Mrs. Damon and all inquiring friends, as to yourself. Yours faithfully, Franklin S. Rising. we know that all hesitation nnd doubt had Bed, At the time of his much lamented [From Hie American Church Missionary Register. New York' October, 1868] death, we do not believe the Hawaiian MisA Cypress—Bough. sion, Islands and people had a more sincere, BY REV. F. S. RISING. devoted and intelligent friend in the world. He wss not ashamed on all suitable occasions On the 11th day of March, 1868, in the among friends or foes, to avow himself as city of Honolulu, the Rev. Asa Thurston fell asleep. He closed his eyes upon the bright the friend of Hawaii. dear Hawaii nei, and the In company with his friends and admirers sunlight of hisburst upon his sight. He laid celestial glory in this and other lands, we would lay our aside the staff of his old ageand grasped the " cypress-bough " upon his bier. His death unfading crown and the palm of victory. He we mourn, for in life's young prime he was ceased from his life of unintermitted missionsuddenly called toexchange his scenes of labor ary labor, and went hence to serve his Lord day and night in the heavenly temple. Near on earth to his rest above. his earthly home the ever-surging Pacific, of Christ, well deae ! emblem of eternity, beat upon the shifting " Servant Praise be thy new employ. sands. Now he listens to the steady dash of And while eternal ages run. the endless ages at the feet of the Ancient of Real in thy Saviour's joy." Days. He walks no longer under the fierce The following extracts we copy from his heat of the tropical sun, but in the genial quity. The ruins of heathen temples were �everywhere about, heart-sickening to behold, and heathen vices were enthroned in every hut and stalked abroad in every village. Men, women and children were like the volcanoes. Raging fires of wickedness within broke out ever in desolating flows. In n thatched hut in the midst of this physical tlesolateness and moral degradation. Thurston and his wife found their earliest Hawaiian home. Amid such scenes their first-born came to them. Here the Gospel was first preached for the regeneration of Hawaii nei and the salvation of many thousand souls. RAKE DEVOTION. a century for missionary work which the Lord gives in our day. Young men ! ponder the life of Asa Thurston. Emulate his faith and zeal. Unnumbered millions call to you for the bread of life. The Gospel is in your hands as a power. Go forth and wield it in the midst of the nations. TO CHRISTIAN WOMEN. We may be pardoned one word of reference to Asa Thurston's widow. She shared his trials, went with him in his long missionary tours on foot, and equaled him in heroism. She taught the Hawaiian men to love their wives and their Saviour; the Hawaiian women to fear God and honor their husbands; the Hawaiian children to obey the Lord and their parents. So she carried into the huts of that dark land those blessed words—Love, Virtue, Home, Jesus, Heaven. Many un Hawaiian household to-day blesses God for the gifts sent by her. She now awaits her Lord's call, and we have ventured upon her retirement that we may appeal to mothers, wives and sisiers to show forth such missionary spirit as hers. Christian women ! do not keep back your husbands, brothers and sons. Do not stay at home yourselves. strained him, and he did not pause in his Make speed to fill the world with the glory labor until his body cried out, " Itis enough." of Emmanuel. bad passed, partial paralysis compelled the heroic Thurston to rest from his toil. He was no longer young. His locks were gray, and grandchildren made more happy his home. During this long period he did not once leave the Islands. Others came and went, but he remained the tireless evangelist. Tropical heat did not abate his vigor. Long journeys on foot over lava tracts did not exhaust his strength. The hardness and wickedness of the heathen heart did not discourage him. PreachiDg in season and out of season did not weary him. The love of Christ conWhen nearly half THE VENERABLE PIONEEK. During these fifty years he bore an active part in all the remarkable changes which God wrought among the Hawaiians. The king and the common people alike fell his influence. His huge church building, within a stone's throw of the royal residence, attested this. When the capital was removed to Honolulu, he did not follow the king, but the common people still heard him gladly. We enn imagine the grateful joy of his soul as, year by year, he saw the heathen people become Christian and the obsolute despotism changed into a constitutional monarchy. It was our privilege to spend a few days under his hospitable roof after paralysis had disabled him. We can not soon forget his venerable form, crowned with flowing silver locks, his gentle, modest spirit, his earnestness of soul, his simple faith, his calm expectation of the future. The king might well bow before him, and the young do him reverence, as one of the fathers of the kingdom. When he landed, Kamehameha 11. was a hnlf-clad savage, dwelling in a filthy hut, rioting in degradation. When he went hence, Kamehameha Y. resided in a stone palace within sound of the church-going bell, with every appliance of modern civilization and Christianity about him. Let unbelieving and half-hearted Christian men sneer at Foreign Missions, if they will. One life like that of Asa Thurston, so sublime, so selfsacrificing, so successful, far outshines any diamond that they can bring from their mines. YOUNG MEN, ARISE ! Our space compels us to be brief. After paralysis came upon him, he went to California in quest of health. There, though nearly eighty years of age, he first saw a milroad and telegraph. The world had been busy with its inventions while lie wasabsorlied in his chosen work. When he returned to Honolulu, to await the Lord's summons, he must have mused upon ihe superior facility Cabin Boy's Locker. Having recently met the man •• saved by a kitten," we insert the following sketch of real life upon the ocean. This narrative was first published in the Boston Recortler. The name of the vessel was the Catalpha, of Boston : 18 69. 1 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY. and Jack was about jumping in, in haste with many others, when, strange as it may seem, he happened to think of his little kitten, that had been his pet all the way out from home. " Now," said JacK to himself, " I must take Mollie with me ; it would be very cruel to let her drown." So across the deck he hastened, and descended the hold into the cabin, where poor Mollie lay huddled up in a corner. He soon had her in his arms, and was on deck: but the boat in which he thought to have gone was separated from the vessel, while, at the same time, he observed that the second small boat was manned. Well, in less time than it takes me to write this, all were off the ship ; of course Jack was among the last in the long-boat. The sea rose to a fearful height, and soon there was nothing to be seen of the ship but a few floating spars. It was found iO be very difficult to keep the boats from swamping, yet in the bands of skillful seamen nil went well. Darkness soon enveloped these little crafts in the folds of night. It wns impossible for them to keep longer toirether. It was a fearful crisis ; all that could be done was to give themselves up to the mercy of the winds. Once the captain, who was with Jack, ordered them to try the oars, Iroping that ihev might make land, but it nearly capsized them, so it was abandoned. At length morning cahie, but Jack with his keen eyes could see nothing of the other boats. Where could they be ? Through that whole succeeding day and the following night ihey were tossed about by the heavy swells of the ocean, and did not make land till the morning of the third day. Where were the other boats? you ask. Alas, they capsized and all perished that were on board. Little Jack knew that if he had not gone back after kitty, he would have shared their fate. He was then wayward and thoughtless, but now, through the grace of God, he thanks the Lord Jesus Cousin Herbert. for the deliverance. There is a thrilling story told of a cabin boy and his kitten, that illustrates in n marked degree the providence of God that often, by the most trifling incident, saves the lite of an individual. It was in his first voyage, and all the more thrilling to him. Brahminism Dying Out.—Through the When the vessel stood out from Boston, Christianizing and civilizing influences now young Jack thought there was never any- at work throughout India, there is a general thing finer than to be at sea in a noble ship. spirit of inquiry, that is effecting a great but For days and days, the strong wind and silent revolution. An intelligent writer ol heaving ocean bore them safely and swiftly extended observation throughout the country, toward their destined haven. But when off who maintains that the religion of the people the coast of Africa near the Azore Islands, is receiving a blow from which, humanly the ship encountered a heavy gale. Had the speaking, it can never recover, makes the ship been in mid-ocean,she would have been suggestive statement: " When the older fearfully driven and tossed by the raging ele- Brahmins have died there will be none acments, yet no doubt would have been saved. quainted with the customs and language of As it was, however, it seemed impossible to their forefathers who cm readily take their avoid the land. It was impossible also to place ; " and adds, that in the stnonghold of steer safely into any quiet harbor, for no har- Brahminism in Western India, not more than bor was at hand, and so after ail efforts proved ten or twelve youths are studying Sanscrit. unavailing, she struck upon the grim rocks Japan Sends a Consul to the Hawaiian that studded the " lee snore," as the sailors Island*. —Among the pus.-engers wlwarrived boats call it. " Cut oway the ! " shouted the captain. Every man was glad to obey by the China is a Consul sent by die Japan the order, lor the fury of the waves was fast Government to the Hawaiian Islands to look breaking up the vessel. Jack was only a after the interests of Japanese subjects residsmall boy, but he worked away nimbly, doing j ing there. He is a young man of about what he could. The crew consisted of twenty-one years of age, highly educated, twenty-four men, and there were three boats and of distinguished family. Tbis, we be-a on board; one of these, the largest, called the lieve, is the first native sent by Japan to long-bout; the other two taking the name of foreign country to assume consular lunctinns, at "jolly-boats." Though the last named Were and indicates the progressive influences somewhat smaller, yet they were calculated work in that exclusive land. It shows, also. to live in as heavy a sea as the " long-boat." the interest it has in the welfare of its subOne of the " jolly-boatb " had been lowered. jects living abroad.—S. F. paper. �12 THE FRIEND, I 1: 15 IM .I. \ . 1860. PAID TOO DEAR FOR HIS HAT; There our friend located, and in due time was ready to welcome the Rev. John WilOR, A Yankee Sailor's Reason for Going to Sea. liams, the missionary heroof tbe South Sua* Benjamin Franklin tells a story about pay- and martyr of Erromangu. For seven years he was in Mr. Williams.' employment, and ing too dear for his whistle, but recently we of met a man from New.England whose whole three those years an officer on board his schooner. Years passed away. missionary life had been affected by paying " too dear He married upon Mangaia, and there was for his hat." He is now a quiet and most his whose death occurred on board born son worthy man of three score and more. In same young limn served This tbe Powhattan. his been on son having killed consequence of the 27th of May, 1867,while attached to the honorably during the lale war on board one U. S. S. Pow/iattan lying in Callao harbor, of the vessels in the blockading squadron. occur, ho applied to us for assistance in obtaining Other years roll away and changes our visitor comes to reside on the Haand whatever money might be due nn his son's We have known for him waiian Islands. account from the Navy Department. In due as a resident on Maui, where several years time, after much correspondence nnd the aslives, engaged in teaching a small sistance of Elias Perkins, Esq., Consul at he now a small compensation from Lnhaina, a draft for the amount due was re- school, receiving and little aid from the Board of a ceived and the business satisfactorily settled. his pupils Thus our friend hns led a most While the old gentleman was seated in Education. checkered, and eventful life, far wandering our office, we became much interested in a brief narrative of his life, including his rea- away from friends, home and country, but sons for going to sea, and an account of his whether upon the whole lie " paid too dear residence upon the Hervey Islands, and other for his hat,'' no mortal can tell. By referring to " A Narrative of Missionislands of the South Seas. Nearly forty Enterprises in the South Sea Islands," ary years ago he left his New England home, John Williams, we find the followRev. by never more to return. His friends were particulars respecting the ing interesting highly respectable, living in Worcester County, and we have often heard his uncle— wreck of the Falcon : the Rev. Gaius Conant, of Paxton, Mass.— " Some time after the introduction of Christianity into Rurutu, a circumstance ocpreach in one of those old-fashioned New curred which afforded indubitable proof of its England churches, where the pews were beneficial effects upon the minds of the inbuilt in the form of a " hollow square," with habitants, and displaying at the same time sides much higher than a little boy's head, the great advantages which accrue from misstanding up in prayer time. But we are sionary labors to our own and other maritime Capt. Chase, who commanded an wandering from our subject. Our visitor countries. American whaler, was in the habit of touchwhen young, was sent to old Brookfield to ing at Raiatea for refreshment. He deterbuy a hat. The hat was bought and taken mined, on his last visit to us, to call at Ruhome, but the price of the hat was so much that an older brother severely reprimanded him for paying "too dearfor his hat." That was a turning point in the lad's youthful career. He leaves his home, never more to see it again. Ere long ho visits Boston, and in a few days he is found on board the whaleship Falcon, of Nantucket, Chase, master, bound around Cape Horn. In December, 1825, this ship was wrecked on Rurutu, one of the Society Islands. Four of the crew, including our acquaintance, left in a whaleboat, and were afloat on the broad Pacific, somewhat after the style of Adam nnd Eve when they left the garden of Eden : wide world was all before them, wljere to cliooae " The Their place ofren», slid Providence their suide." rutu, on his way to America, in order to procure a supply of yams, which are both fine and abundant at that island, when, unfortunately, his vessel was wrecked upon the rocks. " The natives afforded him every efficient aid ; in acknowledgment of which, the captain, on his departure, left the following document: ' " The natives gave us all the assistance in theirpower, from the time the ship struck to the present moment. The first day, while landing the things from the ship, they were put into the hands of the natives, and carried up to the native mission-house, a distance of half a mile ; and not a single article of clothing was taken from any man belonging to the ship, though they had it in their power to have plundered us of everything that was landed ; which fully proves the honesty of the natives of this island. Since I have lived on shore, myself, officers and people have received the kindest treatment from the natives that can be imagined, for which I shall ever be thankful. Myself and officers have lived in the house with Puna, who, together with his wife, have paid every nttention to make us comfortable ; for which I return my unfeigned thanks—being the only compensation from Cnpt. Chase, speaking in the strongest terms of the kindness he had experienced, and informing me that he had committed the cargo add the stores of the vessel to the native teachers; but as they were not acquainted with the relative value of money, he requested me to take the first opportunity of selling the property, and transmitting tho proceeds to the President of the Marine Insurance Company in America. Some two or three months subsequently to this unfortunate occurrence, a trading vessel arrived at Tahiti. The captain, hearing of the wreck; of the Falcon at Rurutu, and that there were only native missionaries at the island, it immediately occurred to him that lie could easily deceive them, and obtain the property ; and instead of coining to Kaiatea and making a lair purchase of me, he raised his anchor, and steered I direct course for Kurutti. On landing he was welcomed by the native missionary, to whom he stated that he had come for the oil belonging to the late Falcon. The missionary asked him if he had not u letter Irom Beni. ' Ceriainly,' replied the captain, but 1 have come from my ship without it; 1 will return for it immediately.' He went off to his vessel and wrote an order, with which he returned to the shore ; affirming it to be from Capt. Chase, he put it into the hands of the missionary. The natives are very unsophisticated at times in the expression of their sentiments and looking the captain significantly in the face, the teacher in his broken English said, You a liar, you a thief, you want to steal this property —you no have it.' The captain, being much enraged at this salutation, or more probably nt being disappointed of his expected booty, began to bluster and storm. The teacher, however, took the captain by the hand, led him into his house, and opened his native journal, in which he had taken the precaution to get Capt. Chase to write ; placing the forged paper by the side of the writing in the journal, he repeated his charge, You a liar, you a thief, you shall not have this property.' The captain threatened to go on board, load his cannon, and take it by force. He left the shore in anger, to carry his threat into execution ; he, however, hoisted his sails and took his departure. We know not from whence he came, nor whither he went. This circumstance shows that the conduct of civilized visitors is not, at all times, calculated to raise the European character in the estimation of the natives. It shows, nlso, that the natives nre not destitute of good sound common sense; while at the same time it exhibits, in a striking light, the advantages the people have derived Irom education. " Capt. Chase rewarded the natives for the assistance they rendered in saving the cargo and stores of the vessel by givingthem a portion of the oil. They immediately formed a Native Missionary Society, and contributed a considerable part of what they hud thus obtained in aid ol the funds of the institution from whose operations they had derived so much advantage ; and in a visit I paid them some time after, they presented me with « set of bills for £60 which they had received from the captain to whom they had sold their contributions. It was with much pleasure that I transmitted this expression of their gratitude, to the Treasurer of the Soci- During the following eighteen days they were alternately driven by the winrjs and drifted by the currents, when a kind Providence brought them to Mangaia, one of the Hervey Islands. Those were years prior to the advent of the English missionaries at Mangaia, Rarotonga and Aitutake, where Buzacott, Royle, Pitman, Gill, Piatt and 1 can make them at present. B. Ciiask.' others have since labored so successfully. " A short time after this I received a letter ety." ' ; ' ' �Editor's Table. Tin. .YvrrRAL History of Man—Being no account »f the Manners and Customs of the Uncivilized llaces of Men. By J. (J. Wood, A. M., f. L. S., &c. Africnti Races. London: published by G. lloutlcdge & So„s. 1808. Skrmunn. By (ieo. Shepherd, ]>. I>. With ■ luemoir. Boston: Nichols & Noyes. 1808. Hawaiian Volcanoes. By W. T. Hrighiini, E**!. Boston 181)8. RttsTtn ami Damli.. With notes. By Key. Henry C'owles, D. D. New York :D. Appleton Ai Co. 1867. : Our limits this month will only allow us valuable publications, embracing the discussion of topics ethnological, theological and scientific. The work by Mr. Wood contains a comprehento insert the titles of these sive discussion of the African races, including Hottentot, Kaffir, Zulu, &c. It is only a part of a more extensive work on the natural history of Man. The sermons by the late Professor Shepherd are excellent specimens of sound New England Orthodox theology. He was one of the best of the generation now passing away. Mr. Brigham's work has already been noticed in our columns. (See Friend for May, 1868.) This book embodies a great amount of valuable scientific and historical information relating to the volcanoes of the Islands. The volume is for sale at Whitney's bookstore. Professor Cowles' work ou Ezekicl and Daniel is richly meriting the perusal of all students of the Bible. Mission Life in the Islands of the Pacific—Being it narrative of tho Lite itml Labors of the Rev. A. Buziteott, Missionary of Itarototiga. London: 18fi0. It was our privilege to receive the abovementioned volume a few weeks since, via Tahiti, from the Rev. Mr. Gill, the English missionary on Mangaia, one of the Hervey Islands. It is a most interesting nnd instructive volume, detailing the life and labors of one of the most successful of the missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas. It was accompanied with the following letter : Maniiaia, Dec. 23, ISG7. DaUl Brother: —I forward to the care of the Rev. G. Morris, of Tahiti, for transmission to you, a copy of Mr. Buzacott's life. Mr. Buzacott was a remarkable man, and a very successful and laborious missionMy ary, us you know ulreudy. It was through his representations that I entered upon the mission work in 1851. We came out together in the old John Williams ; and I feel bound to say that 1 shall ever low and tenderly cherish his memory as a Christian, as a wise adviser, as a genial companion, as a faithful winner of souls amongst these islanders. We shall not see his like again—for he was a scholar, a mechanic, a divine, all in one. You will be glad to hear that the Rev. J. Chalmers landed in Rnrotonga in May last, and was kindly received by the people. He will, I trust, prove H f.iilhlul and successful workman, by the divine bl-o.ing. Not long afterwards the Rev. E. Krause and family left the islands on account of the long continued indisposition of Mrs. Krause. I trust that the voyage to Europe may prove beneficial to her, and that our brother may be enabled to stir up a renewed interest in these missions in the minds of Christians in Croat Britain. Thus you see, dear brother, there are many changes and difficulties in the continued prosecution of our work. But Brother Koyle labors on still at his beloved post at Aitutaki; and, better still, we have the promise, " Lo, 1 am with you alway." I write hastily, but with entire sympathy with you and your honored brethren in their labors amid good and evil reports (on the part of the adversaries of Gospel truth, evil.) The last day will show who were on the winning side. Indeed 1 don't think you need wait so long. I remain, my honored brother, Your affectionately, William W. GILI.. The Rev.Fuank Thompson.—With heartfelt joy we welcome this gentleman to our islands, and congratulate the foreign church und community of Hilo in having elected a pastor who appears to be so well fitted for his station. Long may his life be spared to labor at these islands. His thorough education and former acquaintance with sen-faring life, admirably fit him for usefulness at Hilo. While his brother succeeds so admirably in reproducing in marble and bronze the physical features of the departed, may our Christian brother, in the Gospel ministry, be equally successful in reproducing God's lost image in the soul of man, and in awakening to " newness of life those who are " dead in trespasses and sins." We copy the following from the December number of Put. nam's " Monthly: Thompson's Statue of Gen. Sedgwick. Last month Mr. Launt Thompson's statue of Gen. Sedgwkk, who fell in one of the terrible battles of the Wilderness, was inaugurated at West Point. The statue is cast of bronze cannon captured from the Confederates during the war, and presented for the purpose by Congress. It is of life-size, and represents the General just as he appeared when on military duty, dressed in a plain frock-coat, the badge of the Sixth Corps upon the left breast. The hands are clasped in front, holding the cap and sword. The likeness is excellent, and Ihe pose of the figure noble and commanding. The work reflects great honor on the accomplished artist by " " whom it was — executed. The mail steamer Idaho arrived this morning, February 2d, after a passage of 13 days. In consequence of the cpiarantine regulations, the passengers were detained on board, and would remain until the end of fifteen days from the sailing of the steamer from San Francisco. We learn that hereafter tho Montana will be withdrawn from the line, and the Idaho will continue her regular trips. ». Death 13 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, I8« of Hon. D. L. Gregg.—Many of our residents will note with regret the announcement which appeared in our California correspondence last week, of the death at Carson City, Nevada Territory, of the gentleman whose name is at the head of this article. Mr. Gregg was a man of talent and education, a thorough lnwyer, a genial companion, and always a gentleman. He first came to these Islands in the fall of 1853, in the capacity of United States Commisiioner to this Government, a position which he filled much to the satisfaction of the Government by which he was commissioned, and that to which he was accredited. So well were his talents appreciated by His late Majesty, that on his being relieved in his office as Commissioner, the King offered him the position of Minister of Finance. This Cabinet office he continued to hold until a short time before his departure for. California. Shortly after his arrival in Nevada he received the appointment from President Lincoln of Receiver of Public Lands. Mr. Gregg and the late lamented President had been intimate friends in Illinois, of which State Mr. Gregg had once filled the position of Secretary of State. At the time of his death he was about fifty-four years of age. He leaves a widow and several children. The day after the receipt of the news of his decease the flags ol the Government were displayed at half-mast, as a token of respect. Gazette. — Letters from Boston have been received during the last few months, affording grounds for the report that Mr. Hunnewell's health was declining, but by the last mail we were favored with a letter written in his usu- ally cheerful spirit, and with health improving. The letter concluded with the following paragraph : I do not forget your delightful " silver wedding, over a year ago. If permitted to remain ten months longer (or until the 23d of September, 1869.) we shall reach our golden wedding-day. Wife and self ask not for gold or silver from our friends, but we covet the love and good will of our friends on that occasion." May a kind Providence spare them, and we doubt not their ardent desires will be gratified. Our thanks are due to Paul Isenberg, Esq., of Lihue, Kauai, for a box of pamphlets and papers for gratuitous distribution among seamen; also to Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Dickson and Mr. Castle for similar favors, and also to Mrs. Johnson, of Kauai. Favors of this description are always acceptable. The Morning Star.—This vessel will sail on or about the fourth of March for the Marquesas Islands, to be absent about two months. She has been repainted and refitted. The Rev. Mr. Pogue goes as Delegate ol the Hawaiian Board. We would acknowledge our indebtedness to Purser McLellan, of the Idaho, for a file of lute Situ FroQGMCO paper �THE FRIEND. FEBRUARY, 1869. 14 The Great Enchanter. .Sleep makes us all pashas.— Btdouin Proverb. Sleep ia the poor man's warmest cloak His treasurer to dispense His lavish alms, and turn to gold ; His scanty pence. He heals the siok man in a dream, Aud acts the fettered free ; He calls the beggar from his den To golden luxury. He crowns the bounded exile king. Reverses fate's decreer.. And bids the briefless pleader rise Judge of the (Jonnnou Pleas. Sleep joins the parted lovers' hands, Wreaths the starved poet's brow, And oalli the hero still unknown From lonely village plot*. Sleep holds the resurrection keys, And from his shadowy plain, Down memory's long nnd cloudy vaults, The dead couic bsck a'rsin. bleep comes, liko death, alike to nil— Divine equality ! Blesses the monarch in his state. And slave upon the sen. Sleep brings our childhood bock again The only golden age ; Sleep ! 0 tbott blessed alchemist. Thou holy Archiniogc. — Chambers' Journal. rnnilniinii'Htecl tor llic I'rii'lid. Words Worth Weighing. Andrew Fuller, First Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society which sent out Dr. Carey and other missionaries to India, was one of the most extraordinary men and one of the greatest theologians of this or any other age. It hns been well said that Fuller is " the Franklin of theology ; " "a man whose sagacity enabled him to penetrate to the depthsof every subject he explored, whose conceptions were so powerful and luminous, that what was recondite and original, appeared familiar; what was intricate, easy and perspicuous in his hands." The following passages in one of his works are words worth weighing: " What ever may be the duty of a nation in extraordinary cases, there is scarcely anything in all the New Testament inculcated with more solemnity, than that individuals, and especially Christians, should be obedient, peaceable and loyal subjects. Nor is there any sin much more awfully censured than the contrary conduct. It requires not only that we keep within the compass of the laws, but that we honor and intercede with God for those who administer them. These duties were pressed particularly upon the Romans, who, by their situation, were more exposed than others to the temptation of joining in factions nnd conspiracies, which were olmost continually at work in that tumultuous city. "Nor does the danger belong exclusively to one side. We may sin by nn adherence to the measures of a government, as well as by an opposition to them. Paul, though he enjoined obedience to the existing government, yet was never an advocate for Roman ambition ; and When addressing himself to a governor, did not fail ' to reason on righteousness, temperance and judgment to come.' It is our duty, no doubt, to consider that many things which seem evil to u.s might appear otherwise, if all the circumstances of the case were known, and therefore to forbear passing husty censures; but on the other hand we ought to beware of applauding everything that is done, lest, if it be evil, we be partnkers of other men's sins, and contribute to their being repeated. " The creat point with Christians should be, an attachment to government, ' as government,' irrespective of the party which administers it; for this is right, and would tend more than anything to promote the Kingdom of Christ. We nre not called in yield up our consciences in religious matters, nor to approve of what is wrong in those which are civil; but we are not at lil*erty to deal in acrimony or evil speaking. The good which results to society from the very worst government upon earth, is great when compared with the evils of anarchy. On this principle, it is probable, the apostle enjoined obedience ' to the powers that were,' even during the reign of Nero. Christians are soldiers under the King of kings ; their object should be to conquer all ranks antl degrees of men to the obedience of faith. If a wise man wishes to gain over a nation to any great and worthy object, he does not enter into their little differences, nor embroil himself in their party contentions, but bearing good will to all, seeks the general good ; by these means he is respected by all, and all are ready to hear what he has to offer. Such should be the wisdom of Christians. There is enmity enough for us to encounter without unnecessarily adding to it. "If a Christian be under the necessity of siding with a party, undoubtedly he ought to be in lavor of that which appears to him the best; but even in this case it is not becoming him to enter with eagerness into their disputes. " By entering deeply into the ' party ' contentions of the nation, religious people on both sides will be charged in their turn with disloyalty; and it may not always be without a cause. But if we enter into the spirit of the Gospel, though we may have our preferences for men and measures, we shall bear good-will to all, and whoever be at the head of affairs shall reverence 'the powers that be-' Whatever be our private opinion of the men, we shall respect and honor the rulers. That loyalty which nperutes only with the prevalence ola party, which ever it be, is at a great remove from the loyalty enjoined by the Scriptures. " By standing aloof from ull parties 'as such,'and approving themselves the friends of government and good order, by whomsoever administered, Christians would acquire a dignity of character worthy of their profession, would be respected by all, and possess greater opportunities of doing good." Railroad Speed. If the rising generation of Californiaformed their opinions ofrailroad speed from the ordinary rate of traveling behind a locomotive on the San Jose road, or on the Alameda nnd Oakland routes, they would make a great mistake. Or even if our citizens of European blood, with their remomhrnnees of costly built English railroad;, fancy that American locomotives runninp over American lines cannot make as great speed as is recorded of* any other line in the world, they make a mistake. The Londoners boast of their Brighton Express, and other fast running trains which for 40, 50 and 60 miles make nearly nnd occasionally quite a mile a minute. The quickest run on record, we believe, as made by an English special train, is 18 miles in 16 minutes; the distance wan short and the conditions favorable. On the New York Central an engine once drew six cars 14 miles in 14 minutes ;on the Pennsylvania Railroad a light train ran 10 miles in 7 minutes and 14 seconds, beating the English instance, though for a shorter distance. Long distances are the best lest of the mechanism on the different roads. On the Hudson River Road a short train ran 144 miles in '2 hours and 4!) minutes. A trim once ran from Indiunopolis to Union City, 84 miles, in 90 minute* ; and another starting from Albany reached Niagara,3os miles, in 1 hours and M 2minutes. The highest speed known on an American railroad—and we know of nothing lietter recorded of any railroad in the world—was attained last month on the Chicago mid Northwestern Railroad, when a train made 91 miles in 90 minutes. If such a speed, by maintaining relief engines along the line of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, could be kept up from Sacramento to New York when the road is completed, :i man might leave New York on Monday morning at 6 o'clock, spend 48 hours in this State, and be back again in New York at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning. Perfect mechanism and good arrangements might accomplish the feat, but few men are constituted to withstand the fatigue of such ja journey.— Bulletin. John Wesley Iwoski Nagai, a Japanese student in Rutgers College, was baptized the 22d ult., in St. James' Methodist Episcopal Church, New Brunswick, N. J., by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Tiffany. He received, at his own suggestion, the Christian name of John Wesley, in addition to his family name of Iwoski Nagai. This young man left Japan in 1865. After spending two years in Eng- land, he came to this country last spring and began his studies at New Brunswick. Becoming interested in the preaching at St. James' Church, he joined the Sunday-school and regularly attended Divine worship. In October, after several satisfactory interviews with Dr. Tiffany, he expressed a desire to be baptized, and was advised by Dr. Tiffany to receive the riteand postpone joining any particular church till he had thoroughly canvassed the subject. But he preferred to make this investigation immediately, and his examination resulted in confirming his purpose of joining the Methodist church. He wh therefore, baptized by Dr. Tiflanv the 22d ult. The Newark Daily Adttrtimr, after citing these particulars from a stntement made by Dr. Tiffany,adds: '■ Special interest attaches to this case from the fact that, though there is a Protestant Christian mission in Japan, there have been no open professions among the natives, and we believe that John Wesley Iwoski Nagai is, with one single exception, the only baptized native of Japan."— N. *'. Observer. . �I II X XXIX.MI, I li It It I Oregon and Mexico | « iiliforiiiß, *t«*:iin«lii|» CO.'S ,j San Francisco and Honolulu Route. l'l.i 1 oiiipnii)'»Npi.imli.i v 1 Sl.<ii>i..l.ipa Wll.l. KIN REGULARLY Between Honolulu and San Francisco, By tbr i allow lug Schi-iliili- i.i'Timr : SAN PIIANCIsCM. Montana. Idaho, UKPAaTUB.S. Wednesday, Oct. ARRIVALS. ., Nov. rt 7 Friday, •■ Oat, 28 Nov. Ik " ADVEKTISErvIEHXTS. . 15 18 69. ADVERTISEMENTS^ SAILOR'S HOME! C. 1.. It It II ARKS fc CO.. Ship Chandlers ami Commission Merchants, ana Healers In Oneral Merchandise, Keep constantly on hand a full assortment of merchandise, for the supply of IDAHO AND MONTANA, ' 111 l Whalersanil Merctnint vessels. 6XI ly Bh^*'**' -•*■ * CONWAV. ALLEN Kiiuiilhnr, Hawaii, Will continue the GeneralMrrchatidisennd BhlpptDK bu.inea. at tbeabove port, where they are prepared in furnish th. justly celehral.'d Kawulhue l*otatoe.,RDil such other recruit, us are required hy whale ship., at the shortest notice anil on the most reasonable term.. Ptrowoorl om Hftiicl. 6.1.1 ly •A Ml. B. I'ASTI.S. J. B ATHBSTOS. ajyif" ■ NsTaV 7 ii 'i' A. S. UonKB. Ni.v. 27 CASTLE Si. IIIOKi:. Dec. 11l ( '• Jan. 8 and general Merchants, » lie,-. laaao, Importers Jan. !fll I! King, atrri-i, oppasin* Ike Sraama'. Chapel. Montana, llaa, :ill " " Mi. ID •• .Inn. 20! '• Idaho, 1801), ALSO, AUEfitTS FOR Feb. 10 Mar. 12 Montana, | •' Or. Jaynes IVlehraU'd Family Medicine., Wheeler a- Wilson's .Hewing Machines. HONOLULU. I The $6 Offioera' table, with lodging, per week,. New hiiiMstnl Mutual Life Insurance Company, ntrABTUBSS. ABRIVAIS. I The Seamens' do. do. do. do. Kohsls Suinir Cnmpsny, Hawaii. Oct. 21 Oct. 19 Saturday, Monday, Mnntsns, The Haiku Sueur Company, Mum. Nov. 14 Nov. V Mbliii, " Shower Batha on the PremUr*. Th.- HaaTallanlmar Mills. Maui. Nov 30 I>'"- li Montana, "•' "■' \V sialtiariuiiai I'lsntfttlon. Oahu. Tl:i Paa, Dec. 21 M Idaho, Mr*. CRABB. Ki,-,' Plantation, Kauai ly 000 TinLasssaSi •• Jan. II J«n. Id i Manager. Montana, 18S9, Honolulu, April 1, 1868. " 0 Feb. K.h. 1 i '• Idaho, | (.'.illrn ! Feb. 27 Montana, Ken. 22 " " Hantaan. " : . ° " •• ; 11. L. Clihsc'm i nilmi. iiivaxks made 01, am. PER STEAMEK. ; TOUT STREET. shipments IS NOW OI'EN AMD PKKHARKII TO Cargo for 8»n Franci.c, will lie received at all times in the take I'llilTOlillA Ills or any sise in the Hist Stvlß and .•steamer's Warehouse Mid reei'i|its lor (lie .nine given by the ON TUB M.IST KIA.SUNASLB TsiiXS. iuidcr.lgurd. No charge for Storan*: or Cartage. COPYING AND ENLARGING ilone In the Fire rl.k. In Warehouse not taken hy the Company. bet mnnnrr. lD.ur.nce uuaruoteed .it lower rstts Ui-tn hy sailing vessels Hale—Card, of the HawaiianKlnft., Queen., Chief, and Knr Particular care taken of shipments of Fruit. otl.er nntahle peri-ous. All orders for (ioods, to he purchased in San Francisco, will Ai.so—A full a.sortment of LARGE AND SMALL be received and filled by return of sleuuier. IRA M EM. For Sale at Low I'rlces. i. ■>'< ly H. 1.. CIIASK. OF PASSAGE UKIMCKII! -- -- - KATES Cabin, $30 $50 | Steernge, CT Shipment, from Europe and the (Tutted States, intended for these Islinds, will be received by the Company in Sun Francisco, if consigned to them, und ho forwarded by their SUeuroer. to Honolulu, free of charge, except actual outlay. 1 r Passengers are requested to lake their Tickets before 12 o'clock on th. date of sailing, and to procure their Passport.. All Bill, ag.ln.t the .learners roust be pniented before 2 o'clock on thed.y of selling, or they will have Ui lay over till the return of the ateamer for settlement. 11. lIACKFELD £ CO., Ageuls. 646 irons ly Kaahumsnu street. r)2O a. r. apams. s. a. ADAMS fc WILDER, wiliibb. Anctlon and Commission Merchants, FIRE I'llOOF STORE, la Kobin.on*. Builriing, f»o-ly Umrn Street. OBce corner of Fort and Hotel Btrecti. E. HOFFMANN, M.D. QUI; Physician and Suiceon, Cora.r Merchant and KaahumaDU st.., near Poatolßce. JOHN s. McGREW, M. D., CEORCE WILLIAMS, A.F. JUDD, KS Till-: BUSINESS C\ HISOLT) Plan of -wtillnp with Offlcors and Seamen immediately jq their Shipping at M* Office. Having no connection, either direct or Indirect, with any outfitting establishment, and allow ing oo dehti to he collectedat his office, he hopes to give at good latlnfactlon In the fului* as he has In the |«st. (£7* Office on Jus. Koblnsou A Co.'a Wharf, netr the I* S. Consulate. t>66 3m CONTIM ' REV. DANIEL DOLE. AT KOLOA. Kauai, ha. accommodation, in hi. family Far a Few Itonr.llng Scholar.. II r Person, wishing to Ir.rn the Term, will apply to him 6if or the Editor of " Tb« Fsibkd." THE \<«i:\T§ Law, Fort street, three door, below MerchantStreet.. C. BREWER fc CO. 048 ly ComsalMlon nnd Slilpplne NerchMU, llanolulu, Oaba. 060 H. 1. ly W. N. LADD, laiporlcr aud Dealer In Hardware,Cutlery, MeehMles' Tools, and Agricultural Implements. ly 033 Fart Street. H. WETMOIt 1., >l. D. I'll vsll'l AN fc SURGEON, C. HILO, HAWAn, 8. I. N. B.—Medicine Chert, carefully replenished at the 6-tf HILO DRUG STORE. being for to In FOR Wheeler & Wilson's SEWING MACHINES! THIS THE LATEST MACHINE HAS ALL to was impiovements,and, inaddition former premium., awarded tbe highest prise .hove all European and American Sewing Machine, at the World. Exhibition In PARIS In IMI, and at theExhibition in London in IM2. Th. evidence oftbe auperlority of thisMachine i. found in tbr record of Its .ale.. In tool Th* drover fc Baser Company, Boston, The Florence Company. Massachusetts The Parker Company, Connecticut, J. M. Singera) Co., New York, Flnkle fc Lyon, Chas. W. Howland, Delaware, M. Greenwood fc Co., Cincinnati, 0., N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk.O.. Wilson 11. Smith. Connecticut, sold 18,600, whilstthe Wheeler Wilson Company, of flrldgi. port, madeand sold 19,721 daring the as. period. 11 tl 1 rl'lraer Call nail F.amine. — " " * 'Itter chants JOUB M OSAOUaiI. J. C. USIiaILI.. J. C. MERRILL & Co., LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. Physician aud Surgeon. Attorney and Counsellor at VINO BEEN ENGAGED IN OCRFREupwards of seven year., and sent business HA located a fire proof brick building, we are prepared receive BLACKSMITH, 003 ly OBce in H. L. Chase', building, Fort street. RniDtvo×Chaplain St., betuieen JVuaaau ana" Fori Sts. OrriOß Hocas—From 8 to 10 A. M., and from S to a P. tl. •W ly l'orllimil, Oregon. WILLIAM WIHwIIT, BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA. DR. J. MOTT SMITH, Oentlst, FORWARDING AND ro.l .1 ■•*•*!o.-\ MERCHANTS, and di.poee of I.land .Uples, inch a. Sugar, Rice, Syrups, Pulu, Coffee, Ac, to advantage. Consignment, especially solicited for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, and upon whichcash advance, will be made when required. Sab F.anciioo Ktrsasaoas: Badger k Llndcnberger, J a.. Patrlek k Co., Fred. Ikan, VT. T. Coleman A Co., I Foot of \ uuaii ii Sheet, opposite Segelken'sTin Shop, Steven., Baker A Co. Pobtlamd HarsaaMCßS: *v IS PREPAREDTOTAKK ALL KINDS Leonard k Or**n. Ladd k Tllton. Allen k Lewis. -jr"* of BLACKSMITH INU. Hosoluiu BsrsaBBCBB: **viyRepair, on Carriages, Wagons, Carts, Ac, will receive ly Walker A Allen. 088 prompt attention. sir C. M. BARTOW, Auctioneer, Salra Raon. oa tiuriii Siren, one door Mccracken, merrill &. Co., Commission -AND— Auctioneers, 204 and 206 California Street, BAN PRANOHBOQ.! ALSO, AGENTS Or THK _ San Francisco and Honolulu Packet*. _ PsrllcuUr intention given to the sal* and purchaie ol merthandlw, ships' business, sappl'lnf whaleshlps, nigotiattng exchange. Ac. IT Allfr*lght arriving at Sa* IranolKo.by or to th. HonoluluLine of Packets, will be forwarded raaa or oOMtuato*. 1r Kxshauge en Honolulu bought and sold. i% . —aarsaaucß× Messr.. C. L. Riehsrds A Co ■' II Ilackfeld Co C. BrwwerAOo Bishop k Co Dr.R.W. Wood lion. E. 11. Aiken li C. Waterman, Keg Oil " Honolulu » •' "" "" '* ST FRIEND: THE PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. A MONTHLY JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO TRMPEBANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TERMS: On* oopjr, par annum, Twooopiea, Five copies, » . . .] 92.00 8.00 5.00 �16 1 II X FKIKMI. FKBRUARY, 18 69. Small-Pox.—Our MEMORANDA. Late Telegraphic News. printer calls for "more New Vobk, Jim. 17.—Tim Herald* WiwhinfrUin copy," and we cannot just now think of anyspecial states that on Friday last tin* President sent RIvI'OHT ok Kritimii Hakk Uazi.—Left Si. Catherines on the thing more worthy of notice than our escape Hook. Condon, (»• the Bth ol September. Pa-sod tic Downs on totbe Sonata the treaties with Great Britain Ihe lUth, with i.iir wind. On the 2nd sighted the Madeira*. Alabama claims, tin* rights, of naturalised i iti/.eua front the ravages of the smnll-pox. The ter- Cnwnrii the Ilth of October. long.'-'!» thi4'J lific in west on and tbe questions arising out of tin* joint occupation rible scourge has come, but in the good Prov- I."hi the trades In latitude 30 °33° Mouth, long. 44 ° '21 weal, on ol San Juan. The Alaliama treaty is concluded Wind* variable l«. tin- 710 th I und .nun thai time to ||M idence of God it has not spread. According to present indications it will not. Any one who remembers that " year of tleath," 1853, at Honolulu, when the yellow flag was displayed on every native house from the sea to considered. The natiirali/.iition treaty, it is iiuilei- the tops of the mountains, and when the stoiui, oonoedea, ou the part of Great Britain, that dead cart " was ever present in the streets, naturalized citizens shalt enjoy the same rights in will dread the return of this terrible scourge. tbal country as native citizens. Nkw Yoke, Jan. 17.—Tbe Tribune savs tbu artiMonthly Concent Contributions at cles of Ibe treaty on tbe iUutiMIII are eight in iiiiiuKey. Mr. Coan thus writes: ber, and aubstuntiully us follows : Hilo.—The Article Int. The two (inverunienta agree tn setOur monthly concert contributions keep up risen since " and dillercnces which have tle all claims marvelously. For six months past they have tbe convention ol ls.V!. Article seciind provides for a Commission of four averaged more than $100." substantially on tbe original terms presented by our Government. Am soon as the treaty was received In the Senate, it wah referred to the Committee on Foreign delations, aud ordered printed, in conltdeuce, for use. The Senate Committee meat* on Tuesday next, when the matter will be " persona; each Government being entitled to two representalivon. This Coiinniaaion shall agree upon We call attention to a new invoice of u plan of settlement. books, to lie openi'il nn Saturday next at Article third provide* that a majority of the Whitnev's book-store. Commission shall decide tbu question involved. Article fourth provides for cases of disagreement by the Commission, in such events the two tluvernments shall choose an umpire. The president of tbe United Slates shall net for the I'nited .States, but the umpire elected shall not be<|iiulitled unless PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. conliriniiil by the Senate. AltlllVALS. Article filth provides that in Ihe event of refusal by the umpire In decide, the question slmll lie set- Jan. 2—llus ship Marie, OaaaSaa, 10 days lm fagsl Hound. tled by lot in the presence ol the ('nmmissioii. I—Kus klii|i WkaflSd IfflW, 11.-ii/.ruiunii, 25 days from Article sixth excludes from the jurisdiction of New Ariiiungcl. ll—Am srllr Alaska, Calhoun, 40il;iys rrom Portland. the Commission all cases arising from claims which ship Windward, ll.m li, 22 days (mill Man It—Am have been adjudicated hy Courts of Admiralty. Francisco. Article seventh provide*, that claimants shall first 10—Am lik Count, Ahhntl, IK days from Sail Francisco. ll—Am slnir Molilalia,(lisllrry, 12days from Hail Frniiprove tbey areHritish.suhjects; that they preserved aaaaa. strict neutrality during Un* war; and did not aid Hound. 15—Am bk Vernon, Keller, 42 day. from Puget Ibe South. 15—Hrilbark liazu, UUTofd, 126aajfl from London. sesnions of the Commission Article eight—The 211—Am bk II II Murray, Bennett, 15 days Irom Han (ball be held at Washington. Francisco. MARINE JOURNAL. Cheap Ice Pitcher.—The following simple method of keeping ice water for a long time in a common pitcher is worth knowing : Place between two sheets of paper (newspaper will answer, thick brown is better,) a layer of cotton batting about half an inch in thickness, fasten the ends of paper and batting together, forming a circle, then sew or paste a crown over one end, making a box the shape of a stove-pipe hat minus the rim. Place ihis over an ordinary pitcher filled with ice water, making.it deep enough to rest on the table, so as to exclude the air, and the reader will be astonished at the length of time his ice will keep and the water remain cold after the ice is melted. Rev. F. S. Rising, Secretary of the Episcopal Church Missionary Society, who was lost in the late steamboat disaster on the Ohio River, was the author of the pamphlet, "Are there Romanizing Germs in the Prayer Book?" which has made so much stir among Episcopalians in the United States. New Organ at Fort Street Church.— We congratulate the congregation of Fort Street on the successful importation and erection of the new organ, which proves to be so finely toned and suited to tho edifice, Its appeaiance externally improves the interior of the church. Charles Westmoreland, one of the United States Presidential Electors in California, and messenger with the vote, died of small-pox at Panama. John Minor Bolts, a distinguished Virginia politician, is also dead. , DKl'Altil Kr'**>. Jan. 2—Haw brig Kaiiiihanicha V Kickmuii, for (luauo 1. 2—Am wll sll Ohio, l.awrenro, to cruise. 3—Brit ahlp Kolil I. I.iiuc, llciiip«tead,fdr New llcillord. s—Kus ship Marie, Caaadle*, for Hongkong. s—Am ship Windward, Barrett, for Hongkong. 12—Ha* wh sh Julian, Hepi>inj*Hti.iie, to crui.e. 12—Am wh lik Aivaslionks, Notion, to cruise. 16—Am schr Faimv, Thomas, for Sim FranciM 111—Am .tnir Moolaoa, Uodfrey, for Kau Francisco. IB— Tuh hark lonia, McLean, lor Tahiti. 22—Am achr JII Roaoua, I'rrvosl, lor Man Francisco. 26—Am bk Comet, AIiIkiII, for Sail Francisco. 2S—Am wll bk Monlicello, Pott., lor Bllka. . PASSENGERS. Fob llonokono—Per Windward,Jim. 4th—Akaiiliundsnn, Nine, A Yee, AhT.i, Ahuna, Ake.iin, Kukce, Achou, Awon.Along Chau, Ah Ark, Ah Hliij; mid wile, All Kina, NangHl, and.on—l7. FuoarlAN FaANcisii)—Per Comet, Jan. 10th—Rev Frank ("• R Tlioiii|»oii and wile, Mr and tor* J T Waterhouse Jr. Powers, A C Anderson, Mis. Hiughani, Wong We, and 10 Hawaiians—lS. M Faoa Ham FaASriaco-I'er Montans, January lllli—Miss Emily Alexander, A I. Morris**, Col / H riiialdiug, A M CurJone.,Ben rier, F 8 Renlleld, W N Tullane, A T W'arne, E P (ierrarn, Anthony lierrnro, John Fletcher, F (lungirettl, Lum *i ung, I'm Hoiing Young Chung. HofKce, Cliing Hung—l 7. Fob Man Fbani ikiii- Per Fanny, Jan. li; Mr Welsh—l. l-niiM I.OVIHIX—Per Irasu, Jan. 10:—Richard Wasfaa, — Joseph II I'inckiiey—2. Fob Has Fbani isco —Par Montana, Jan. 18:—Mr nnd Mrs C A Wllllann, 2 children uud servant, Mr and Mr. William and aon, Crockctl anil child, Mis. I. F, lllvclow, Mi. T II Clark Mr W I. R Johnson, Mr W Waldo, Captain 1 H Rciluel.l, t) Captain IS Davl., N A Hluinc, Mr Campbell, T KalialL t, T Bates, (i.sirgc llaiitou, Julliea Cushnian, T M Miller Eugli.h. C Wilson, A T Liuigtoii—2s. Fob Han Francisco-Fat Boat***, Jan. 22:—John M English, Edwin Dlinonil, J F, l.ymlr-3. Faoia Han raaacisoo—Par l>. C. Murray, January 23d Fuller, Miss M Mr. Capt Cavarly, 2 children ami servl Mrs Phllll|is. Mia. R Burn., Mrs Macfarlanc, Mr and Mrs Ale\ Campbell, Mls.es F. and M Campbell. Maater. J and Wand J Camplsdl, H II Ht.sldard, W A Uiiarl'S, Capt /Igenhlrt, r W Wuuilenberg.J Fallock, A Clarl., H E llnllmaiiii, F Crocnll, Jack—24. , „„ ~. Fob Hah F»a»cihi:o—Per Comet, January 26—J Peas,', J France. (.curie, wife and 2 children, Aiitiinc (larcia, M Praia, Win llyke, William Suratt, Johnllage,H II Thouiu., William Parker and aon, Capt Nye—l4. (. Foa BITKA—Per Montlrello, Jnn 2H—.l II Dick.nl, W Paolofl'—2, „_. Fan*. Ban Pbanimen-Per Idaho,Feb 1-I)rOeo T ShipI) N, F A Howe., IIB N, ley, Mr. H M Whitney, L C W H Kllvcrthnrn, J A tiulnan, R Adam«.n, llodlrey Brown, M I.oiils»on, Thorn.. O'Mblh-)', and 2 In .teermiv—l2. ; _ _- _ _ * - , , Novt-nibiT 7th. strong northwest winds-, and strong galea to the 11th. On the loth, exchanged ilgnala with the Hrltlah bark Hampshire, from Bwansia for Vancouver's Island, 72 day* out. Curried away the malu-toimatl yard in a heavy gale, in latitude f>6°:J3 noulh, lung. ft3°4& weat, on Hie 17th. Had Nucreiiiili.niof heavy galea to the 28th. and waa 73 da\* from latitude M* south, lung. 05° well, to * <i|h limn From the Cape to Intiiuile of Juan Fernandez, 21 diiyn. Took the lnull'") in aoulh latitude 26 c 4.\ l"iig. 14*41 we*l, De,eml>*>-r 17th. ClUMld tin* line Jan. 4. 18ll.», in long. 187 c2B weal From line to tin- Islands, 11 days. Arrived at Honolulu January lulh. Wanted, Informatin Bapadtng William F. Blenderh riser, a Ottgtg. who lefl thi; hark e'.tufi*- nnd wont to w-rk on Ihe Ilium Plantation, Muni. Th*' F.'litor will gladly receive any iulbrinatiou. Km HK«TKH, Nkw York, Nov. 25, 1808. Rkv. H. C. Damon Dear Sir .—I have a brother, Walter — Brook*, who has hM away for a number of yeura. llpwiii n sailor, and the lust we heard of him he win* a maleon board lite mlntonirj r')C Morning Star. I loftTWd through ft gentle, ■nan Ht New Loudon, Conn., that there la now i Cut Brook* running from Honolulu to ihe Kuutlieru coast of Africa, and that hy corresponding with you I minht learn If he U the man; and if not, ujftriM} ymi might give me MM information conhardly think he eonId in* there MW, aa we cerning him. should havt heard trom mm. Klill we live in a strange world, and he wiui one of llw claaa that contributed lull) his share toward making it ho. Any InlormMfmi you can pive nn hi to hf* prCMQI wherearnnits will la- th.inklully received hy all hil relatives. Hoping to hear from you ntm, I am, youni very truly, O. t: Bkook». " 1 lletpei -tiMwf iltraard Strry, »>• longing to Yonkert,, New York. He was a seaman on board the whaleihiu Daniel Wood wheu she waa wrecked in the spring of 1887. He oarue tv the Ainer kftfl Hospital in Honolulu, and wai tent by the Consul to Snu Francisco. Any mf-rni.ii.ou will i*e gladly received by tbe Editor, or Mr. ihomai *4eery, Yonkers, N..Y. Respecting William Napkins, /—EI Young, William Yountf and Charlr* i'rtston, belonging to the inland of Si Helen;!, Ailnutir Ocean. Respecting Jn*r/>k Swan, of Frveburg, Maine. Any information will tw gladly received by the Editor, or Olive F. Hwan, Fryfburg. A letter will be found lor him with the Editor. Respecting Charles Lyons, a native of Switzerland. He has been a b.'iit-itetrer on board the Joseph Maxwell, and visited Hoiitilulu during the lull of IWT. Any inlhrmntlonwlll be gladly received by the Editor or Frederick Myres, Hazleton, UWM County, l'eruiHyivanin. Resperting William ttrqgn, belonging to Win ton House, Ualkey, County Dublin, Ireland. He left Honolulufor SanFrancisco just tw" y,-iit-a ago. He in known to have resided for a ■hort tini*. in Km Francisco. Any information will be gladly received by the Editor*or hit mother. Mis. F.li/.aln-th Bcggs, Winton Hoiuse, Ualkey, County Dublin, Ireland. Respecting Hither t Lero-y McUinnutalias Hurst, belonging to New OritWM. He vi-m.-d Honolulu live years ago, and Is rejrorted |o have left In a vr«i-l bound to Hampton Road*, but as he never has ro|K>r*ed liimnelf In tbe United Stated, it hat been conyelurt-d that he might "till befalling Id the PaciUc Any iuforni*tiofi will be gladly received by ihe Kditur, or lm luoibt-r, Mrs. Kli»al>eth J. Modlnnisi, New Orleani, La. IT WHIM II Mar*., July 3f)th, 18GH. Rkv S C. Damon—Dear Sir .-—Will you he so kind aa to Inform me in what vessel my sou Churlea W. 1,. Hayward left Honolulu I hail a letter from him lait January, which was written the iith <>f Den-iiilwr, lHtiT, slating that he should lx* at home before long. He tut*, not returned, nor have I heard from him since, I fn-l veryanxious about him ; and If you will be kind enough U.see what vessel he left that port in, und where she waa bound, you will oblige me very much. Voura with res pert, Mercutio llayward, Wori-ester, Maaa., No. 14 Water Street. PLOACEFSWORSHIP. SEAMEN'S MiTßal—lUv. 8. C. Damon Chaplain—Km. street, near the Sailor.' Home. Preaching at 11 A.M. Seats free. Sabbath School after the aromiug service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening, at 74 o'clock. N. II Siil bath School or Illhle Class fo. Seamen at ») o'clock sabbath uiornliiK. FORT SYKKKT (.'IIL'KCII—Cornar of Fort and Berctauia streits—Preaobing on Sunday, at 11 A. M. and 71 P. M. Sabbath Hehool at 10 A M. STONE CIIIKCH—aUng .treat, above the Palacc-llev. H. H. Parker Pastor. Service. In Hawaiian every Sunday al »' A. M. and i P. M. CATIIOI.It' CilUßCU—Fort .treet, near Beretanls—under the charge, of IU. Key. Bishop Maigret, aaaisted by Hey, Pierre Faw.ua. Services every Sunday at 10 A.M. and 2 I'll SMITH'S (JIU'IICII— Beretanla .treet, ne.r Nuuanu .treet— Key. A. O. Forbrs Pastor. Service. 11l Ilawaiiau every Sunday at 10 A. M. aud 2J P. M. REFUHMKD CATHOLIC I'lll'KCll-Corner of Kukul and Niiiiauu streets, uniler eharg* of Ki. Rev. Bishop Staley . � 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 (1869) 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 - 1869.02.04 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1869.02.04