https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d12694aab062c29f62ed5c9f6a8e7665.pdf 945f8c861b1d535886c945dcefa49abd PDF Text Text 89 FRIEND THE HONOLIILU. NOVEMBER 2, 1815. &1» Series, 001. 24, Dto. 1U CONTENTS Par N art-saber 8. 1815. Page 89,90,111 91 91 94 94 Hindoo Poetry A.la Peopled from AmerIcs A Disciple of Dr Guthrie Deaf to the Call of Humanity New Whaling Ground Marine News Friendly Island. Key Q B Dacou Y MC A *» •* •* *• THE FRIEND. NOVEMBER 2. 1875. Some of our readers will peruse with interest the article in our columns on much Poetry," by the author of the " Hindoo A glimpse is obWeltevreden." Prison of " tained through these notices, of the subjectmatter of Hindoo poetry, upon which 200-000,000 of the inhabitants of India, have for ages feasted—morally and intellectually. Is it any wonder the people of India are sunken in the depths of superstition and idolatry, when such poems are to them what the Old Testament is to the Jew, the New Testament to the Christian, and the Koran to the Mohammedan ? Our Saviour said, quoting from Moses, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." The soul of man needs wholesome spiritual food, that food is not in the two great poems of India, in the Arabian Nights Entertainment, Hawaiian Meles, or any merely human productions; but is to be found alone in the Bible. We think our correspondent has most admirably put the point in the closing paragraphs of his communication. Never do the Oracles of God and the sweet story " " " " " " rating and life-inspiring food for meditation and reflection as in the parables and teachings of our Saviour; in " the story ef the cross;" in the narrative of Jesus speaking with the Samaritan woman at the well, and that of Mary bathing the Savior's feet with her tears; in the interview of Jesus and INicodemus ; in the epistles of Paul and Peter; and the penitential Psalms of David, together with the writings of the Old Testament Prophets? We may go to India, to Greece, and the wide world's literature for information and amusement, instruction and knowledge; but no human author can authoritatively say to us," Come unto me, and I will give you rest." Our attention was suddenly arrested a few days since by a merry jingling of the church bells of Honolulu, and we were at a loss to account for the reason, but the following announcement in the " Court Journal " made all satisfactory : Her Royal "An Infant Princess. Highness Princess Miriam L. Cleghorn, wife of the Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, gave birth to a daughter on Saturday last, the 16th inst. This is the first birth that has occurred in the present royal family since theaccession." — Ferns and Mosses.—These islands are particularly rlob in varieties ol ferns ; but it was only recently that amateur collectors were aware of the large variety ot beautiful native mosses that is to be found in our woods and on our mountains. We bad tbe pleasure lately of examining a collection of some eighty distinct varieties of ferns, gathered by a gentleman in bis journeying! about tbe group, all handsomely mounted; and an equal number of mosses, both from the sea nnd tbe land. These last were singularly beautiful, retaining all the brilliant colors of nature. It occurred to us that Ibis collection (and we do not think there is another like it on tbe islands) would look well in tbe Hawaiian Department at tbe Centennial next summer.—P. C. A. of old " appear to better advantage, and more precious, inspiring, ennobling and savFor the Centennial.-Inthe window of Thrum's ing, than when contrasted with the legends of the Hindoo, Persian, Arabian, Grecian, or Stationery Store are three bound volumes of The Hawaiian mind. Where will the human Friend, "Tbe oldest paper in tbe Pacific" from 1862 to 1876. They are quite handsomely bound soul, in its state of unrest, sin and sorrow and lettered, and are intended for tbe Centennial and find such wholesome nourishing, invito- Exposition at Philadelphia next year.—P. C. Jl. 1010 Series, Pol. 32. HINDOO POETRY. Lanai, October 21st, 1575. Dear Friend:—l have read with interest and some surprise in your October number, extracts from a notice of the two great poems of Hindoostan, the Mahabarata and the Ramayana, by Prof. Arnold of Oxford University, which are represented by him as marvelous treasures of literature, hitherto utterly unknown to the European mind, and "which may claim a grander scheme and higher aims thnn either," (the Iliad or the Odyssey) and " which, in some portions, may be contrasted to the advantage of Hindoo teaching, with any Scriptural representation of Death and of Love." These prolix epics of the Sanscrit, or ancient Dewanagari tongue of Hindoostan, cannot be so much unknown to Western intelligence as dfe Professor represents. When I made an enforced stay on the island of Java, I had some leisure and opportunity lor study; and among other matters, 1 perused a voluminous story, named the Barataynda or Sacred war, both in the Javanese language, and in an English translation by Sir Stamford Raffles, of which extracts are to be found in his history of Java. This story is a Javanese epitomized version of the Sanscrit Mahabarata; and this Hindoo poem is read by natives of Java, both in the original of the Asiatic continent, and in their own insular tongue—and consequently is well known to—and frequently mentioned by English and Dutch writers in India, such as Raffles, Crawford, Van Carnbee, and many others. The sister poem of the Indian Peninsula, the Ramayana is better Awn than the Mahabarata, not only to the Javanese, but to, the Malay people of the Indian Archipelago j and must be rather familiar to European, scholars and readers. I read the Malay, version of this poem, vfhich consists mainly of an account of the rambles and adyentures of the hero Sri Rama, or Illustrious Rama �I 90 III: in search of his wife Sita ; and in this respect the Hamayana may be said to bear some resemblance to the Odyssey which celebrates the adventures of the Grecian hero Ulysses in quest of his wife Penelope. But surely such a resemblance ; and because the Mahabarata celebrates a war, even as the Iliad celebrates a war, are not sufficient reasons for comparing the Indinn poems with the Grecian epics, and for naming the former compositions the " Iliad and Odyssey of India." What ground is there for the flaming eulogy of the Hindoo vaticinations, to the disparagement of the beautiful and majestic genius of Greece ? Is it in consequence of quantity? And because 250,000 Indian verses, so greatly overreach the 30,000 Grecian lines? Why, I know a Hawaiian mele writer who could produce and print 250,000 lines about "Serpent Kingdoms containing " one hundred thou- " sand snakemen," and other such rigmarole ds is found in the Mahabarata and quoted by Arnold in no very considerable length of time. Is the Hindoo imagination about the "Aswamedha, or Sacrifice of the Sacred Horse," an animal which had " milk flowing from its ears, and produced camphor in its flesh, and from whose intestines light beamed and flashed," any less extravagant and absurd than the Hawaiian conception of a half sheep and half man adventuring through kingdoms in the air? Then why this extravagant laudation of certain Asiatic compositions, said to be so long hidden from Western intelligence ? And what can warrant such language as Professor Arnold uses, and which I have alreatta quoted—disparaging the masterpieces of the mind of Greece, and even the inspired Volume of God ? Professor Arnold is evidently one of the school of thinkers who mock at the Biblical " legend;" and who like Strauss in his " Old Faith and the New," would substitute Cosmism, a worship of science and art, and a scheme of life derived from the theory of evolution in the stead of Divine Revelation and Redemption. Such thinkers elated with the pride of intellectual culture, scorn the " legend " that reduces all mankind to one common level through sin. They believe in aristocracies of soul, and disdain the humiliation, contrition and tears of the sinner. Their prophets and poets, like Strauss and Goethe, teach that man can save himself, or lead humanity to a higher plane of existence through the ptffaction of knowledge. And hence they hatftbove all things the story of the Cross, and delight to attempt its disparagement by laudations—sometimes of Gredan genius, or as in this instance of Hindoo mythology and cosmogony, or of Confucian moralizing*, or of Zoroastrian rhapsodies, or of Vedic myths, Runic Sagas, or of other FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 1s 7 ii. effusions of the mind of man in past ages of this appear, apart from literary curiosity, as credulity. an illustration of the teaching of love, —to But what consolation for humanity, in a one who in earnestness and candor of soul state of •in and sorrow, is there in any of has read the story of the compassionate these productions of human imagination ? Jesus consoling and lifting up to a heaven Those ancient systems of poetic or priestly of grace, the poor, despised, broken-hearted, invention, as well as modern ones, based on weeping, sinful woman at His feet. the elevation of art and science, can only be And one matchless instance of love," " quotes from the Hindoo epic, interesting to the successful and strong, and which Arnold to those favored with pleasant opportunities as one of the noblest religious apologues, in this world; but the Spirit of the Bible, "not only of this great epic, but we venture and its complete illustration in the Gospel of to think as nn illustration of faithful love " Jesus, litis up and consoles the poor, the of any creed. Let me repeat it in substance. mean, and those denied all advantage of Yudishthira, a King, weary of the vanities life; nay, it embraces the whole of the chil- of life, seeks Suarga, or the heaven of Mount dren of men. In the Mahabarata the Paria Meru, where the god India reigns foreveris cursed and cast.out from all other human more, and where •' union with the infinite companionship" and sympathy; nnd in the may be found. As the King approaches the" Bible, the leper is healed and blessed. Indian Olympus, the god appears before the And woman restored and exalted to an weary monarch, and invites him to enter the equal participation with man in the scheme celestial gates. But this royal pilgrim who of Messianic Love; where is she, and what has made his progress in company with a is she in many vaunted systems of human dog, does not wish to enter into the celestial imagination, and especially in this much rest, unless his faithful companion can follauded scripture of the Hindoos, concerning low him, and when the animal is denied an which the Oxford Professor says: " We entrance, the pilgrim turns away from Indra, have dipped but a cup or two from its musical saying wavelets of love ?" Read of this love in the brute has faithfully followed me; " This I will to hell, if he goeth, Lord." following words, quoted by him from a translated passage of the Mahabarata, offered for He had been assured that his beloved Drauour admiration, and which I copy from the padi and his brethren were already in notice published in the London Daily Tele- heaven, but because he could not have his dog with him too, this royal champion and graph : saint of the Hindoo faith, turns his back on " And Yyasa, the sage, said that the wid- his hearer and his god. ows who wished to rejoin their dead husYudishthira, the hero of the Mahabarata, bands might do so; and all the widows went seems no more than a savage Indian of and bathed in the Ganges and came out of America, who finds his heaven in a favorite water again, and kissed one by one the the feet of Dritarashtra, (the King,) and then hunting ground in company with his dog. went and drowned themselves in the river, The rude associations of earth are sufficient and through the prayers of Vyasa they all heaven for him. And what is here for our went to the loved ones they wished and ob- admiration or instruction? What is there to compare with David, the hero of the tained their several desires." Ah ! here is a system well suited to the Chronicles of Israel ? His God chastens corrupt and selfish heart of man, who having him, smites him in his flesh, and takes away gained a preeminence, would keep it by wives, children, and people, and yet he only making parias of his weaker brethren, and gives praise to Him who gave, and to Him who would satisfy his jealous spirit by per- who taketh away. In the depth of his sorsuading the women he leaves behind on rows and privations he exults in his love for earth to drown or burn themselves! And God— love Thee, Oh Lord, my strength." " I will yet this ■ Hindoo teaching," according to s • • * than»they that My soul waiteth for the Lord more the Professor, may be contrasted with ad" " watch for tbe morning." vantage to any Scriptural representation of Here is the grand, exalted love of a great Love!" How miserable must such language soul for a transcendent object. And David appear to one who, having read in the Mahis God and attained unto his exalted found habarata, how poor women were sacrificed consolation of Divine Love, not through any the lust and caprice of a priestly oligarto chy, or who reads the sentiment of the pride or self sufficiency, but through humiliaheroine of the story, Draupadi, the sweet tion of soul, saying : " I have behaved and quieted myself, m a " Surely faced one," who unbinds her hair on a cer- obild that ia weaned of his mother; my soul is even tain occasion, and says that her lover shall as* weaned child." " are There is no such sentiment as this, or the tie my tresses up again when his fingers dripping with Duhsusana's (an enemy) one that the Kingdom of God is like unto blood!" How miserable, I repeat, must all a little child, in the Mahabarata, or else- : �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, where among the productions of men. And yet it is this child spirit, following a Lamb, which a Yudishthira needed to elevate his soul to a conception of Divine Love, which nn Arnold needs, when he contrasts the rude passions of Hindoo imagination with the love of Jesus who gave up His life on the cross for the sake of His persecuting fellow men; and which an evolutionist needs, when he would offer, through art and science, a consolation to poor, sinning and sorrowing fellow men, instead of the scheme of Divine Love, that gave an only Begotten Son for circumstance which, if not a proof of his theory, is a wonderful coincidence: At Copan, in Central America, n two-horned figure has been found which is now unknown here, but which resembles closely the Chinese symbol ofFokee; and Chinese history records that Fokee was a great "stranger" king, who came from over the sea and introduced picture-writing among the Chinese. Mr. Brooks' theory is certainly a plausible one. That portion of the human race which inhabits the so-called old World did certainly descend from the plateaus of Asia ; but who knows but that the ultimate ancestors of the Asiatics came across the sea from the real old world, America? And who knows but the redemption of the world. that, if we continue the investigation far As works of an ancient literature, the enough, we shall find that Adam was a great Hindoo poems are, of course, highly Digger Indian, and that the Garden of Eden interesting; and when published in our was located somewhere in the Salt Lake tongue, as proposed by Trubner & Co., will Valley. A Disciple of Dr. Guthrie. be gratifying to a multitude of English readers. But they can only furnish the same the October number of the " HaIn entertainment, and to a less degree, as the waiian Church Monthly Messenger," Miss Arabian Nights. There is the same extrava- Bird, author of the new book, "The Hagant invention of necromantic transforma- waiian Archipelago," is spoken of as " a distions, of supernatural beings, of demigods, ciple of Dr. Guthrie;" hence "it is not surgiants, giantesses, and genii, in the Hindoo prising that she should find the ritual of the compositions, as in the Arabic; but there is prayer book above her desires and comprefar more of human interest in the latter hension." This is surely not very complithan in the former. The Hindoo Legend mentary to a Christian lady, whose writings deals only with a dazzling parade of an im- evince a keenness of observation, perceppossible wealth of precious gems, and with tion, discrimination and acumen quite renone but exalted personages,—with gods and markable. The reader is also left to infer goddesses, with rajahs and rishis and prin- that she is a Presbyterian, instead of an cesses ; and nowhere in it, nor in any other Episcopalian. She is the daughter of an scheme of faith of man, is a poor man made English clergyman, educated in that coma hero and a leader, except in the scheme munion and now a member of the same, if inspired by Divine Love which sent Jesus we have been correctly informed. She is, it the carpenter, who chose Peter the fisherman. may be, " a disciple of Dr. Guthrie," in the W. M. G. same sense, that Wilberforce was a disciple of Dr. Doddridge; the Rev. Dr. Tyng of Asia Peopled from America. New York, a disciple of the late Presbyterian This is an iconoclastic age, and old historic pastor of New York (Dr. Spring); the late idols are being cast down. William Tell Bishop Mclllvaine of Ohio, a disciple of Dr. has become a myth and the apple taken Alexander of Princeton Seminary; and so of from his boy's head. Pocahontas is not many other ornaments of the Anglican and Church of the United allowed, to stand over Captain John Smith, Protestant Episcopal except in an historic painting. It is even States, they are disciples of Non-conformists. this is the reason why Anglican questioned whether George Washington's Perhaps Church dignitaries, while singing the hymns hatchet injured his father's pear tree ? Now ofWatts, with Dean Stanley as their leader, a San Francisco merchant author who has are now vicing and uniting with Non-confor many years officiated as Japanese Consul, formists, in erecting statues of Bunyan and undertakes to tell the world that Asia did Baxter, and protecting the celebrated Bunhill cemetery in the midst of London, from desenot people America, but America Asia. cration which, if unconsecrated by an EpisWhat daring! copal Bishop, is'yet more solemnly consecrated Mr. Brooks, whose paper, read before the by the graves of 150,000 Puritans, although California Academy of Science, has been no " cross surmounts a single grave, as we mentioned in the Times, alleges that the have reason to know from personal observaprobabilities are in favor of his view, for tion. Dean Stanley, by the way, has rethese reasons: Ist. That the Western Con- cently been moved to erect, at his own extinent is geologically older than the Eastern, pense, a tablet in Westminster Abby to and, therefore, was earlier fitted for the de- Charles and John Wesley. We have not velopment of the human species. 2d. That yet noticed whether the authorities will allow the ancient Chinese records say their ances" Rev." to be attached to theirrevered names. tors came from across the sea. 3d. That All these events indicate a better time comthe trade winds of the Pacific would carry a ing. Let fraternization, not ex-communicavessel from Peru to the coast of Southern tion, be the watchword of the various China. Mr. Brooks mentions some striking branches of the church-militant. " . 91 18. 5. 2875, A. d.—A writer in the Christian with somewhat of an imaginative Union, and speculative turn of mind, fancies what may be the topic of conversation one thousand years hence, or in 2875, a. d. The Honorable Mr. Plimsoll will have, no doubt, a place in the history of English shipping and commerce. After referring to the discussion in England and relating to unseaworthy ships, this writer continues thus : The above suggests a possible scene, say in 2575 a. d., between an ingenuous youth and a teacher in history. Teacher: "So these rich men were in the habit of sending their ships to sea till they were worn out and rotten ; and if when the sailors found they were unsafe ihey refused to go in them, they were put in prison and punished ; and very many of these ships went down, and thousands of sailors perished. And at last a man named Plimsoll found these things out, and went into the Great Council of the People, and told of them." Ingenuous Youth: "And what did the Council do 7 " Teacher: " They said they had other things attend to, and that it was very wicked of Plimsoll to lose his temper and speak disrespectfully." Youth: But wasn't England a Christian nation ? " Teacher: "Oh yes, " and spent vast sums a very Christian nation, to maintain Christianity. But at this time, part of the church were very busy in preventing a Wesleyan minister from putting 'Rev.' before his name on his daughter's tombstone ; and part were contending about which side of the table the priest ought to stand at the Lord's Supper; and so the church couldn't pay much attention to the sailors." Youth: "And what became of Plimsoll and what became of the church ? " —What the teacher will have to answer, remains to be seen. to • Home Again.—We clip the following from the Greenville (Michigan) Independent of Sept. 16th: Church and family are expected lo a visit. Eighteen yeara ago Mr. Church, Mm Frances A. Lord (now Mrs. Chnrob,) and tbe editor of the Independent, as classmates together reoiled Latin paradigms and dag oat Greek rooti ia the olanio shades of Oberlin. In 1861 one went into tbe army until tho fall of 1866, toon after which be made Greenville hia home. The other two, joined heart and hand, migrated to Honolulu, Sandwiob Islands, 'a thousand miles west of sundown,' be to beoeme President of Oahu College and (be to become matron of the same institution. After ten yeara spent in the bosom of the Paoiflc, tbey have returned to spend a year in tbe 'States.' Sabbath morning in tbe Congregational church Prof. Choral) will give a talk about tbe Sandwiob Islands, aoApn Sabbath evening give some account of tbe Marquesas and Microneaian Islanda "—P. C. Advertiser, Oct. 28. " Prof. E. P. arrive this evening to make our oity The work of creation not only proceeded gradually from one thing to another, but rose and advanced gradually, from that which was less excellent to that which was more so, teaching us to press toward perfection.and endeavor that our last works may �92 Till-; THE FRIEND. NUVCMHKK t. IB7t*. Deaf to the Call of Humanity. FRIEND, MMLIIBKK. ADVERTISEMENTS. "In Sir G. Richardson's Arctic Expedition down McKen?ie's River and eastward along the coast of the Arctic Sea, THOS. G. TH Xl ?l (page 162--4) I find mention of many black Will lssie in Time for the UECEJIBER STKAMKRs, whales, seen as far east as Cape Bathurst, OK POSSIBLY KA It LI Ml. long, west, which is nearly 30 ° east of Point Barrow. The question is, whether it will answer for ships as ordinarily equipped to venture far to the east and risk an Arctic AND winter of ten months in that frigid climate." AIvTIffUALi for 1876 ! Ships have this year made the venture and For Home or Foreign Headers. escaped, but whether it will ever do to make FIFTY CENTS PER COPY PRICE. remains to seen. the trial again be as follows: The unfortunate officers and seamen, belonging to the crew of the Jessie Scott, lately dismasted and foundered at sea off the roast of Patagonia, and brought hither by the American ship Gatherer, report that their appeal to the muster of the ship Empire, of Boston, was utterly unheeded. We feel quite inclined to suspend judgment until the Captain of the Empire can explain his Capt. Hates Again.—When we last beard of this apparently inhuman conduct; but if the case oelebrated person, he was at Micronesia, claiming to is as reported, then we feel assured he will have been converted from the error of his ways. be severely censured by the public, but by Since iben he weut to Guam, on the whaleship Arctic, Whitney. There he repurchased a none more severely than his brother ship- schoonerCaptain that he formerly owned, and sailed away, masters. One shipmaster, Capt. Whitney, having on board seven escaped convicts and a Spanof the Marianne Nottebohm, has enjoined ish " commissary absconding with government " upon us in language which we will not re- funds. On the aide of the island opposite tho capital, went on shore for water, and while taking a peat to denounce the master of the Empire, Hayea bath he was captured by soldiers looking for the in the strongest terms which the English runaways, and carried back to the oity. Those on language can furnish, for he added that he board the schooner, seeing this, made sail and eswas once forsaken by a ship when he was caped- Having got into the hands of the Spaniards, flying a "signal of distress." The world who are not given to be merciful, Hayes may be as near tbe enoTof bis adventurous career. will forgive some things, but not inhumanity considered P. C. A. sea, at when a shipmaster is deaf to an appeal for aid by those on board a sinking A Social Reunion of the alumni of Oahu College ship. We would merely add that a state- and invited guests took place on Monday evening ment respecting the Empire has been lodged last, at the session-rooms of the Fort street Church, the occasion being a welcome reception to Mra. Mills, with both British and United States Consuls. wife of the Rev. C. T. Mills, of Mills Female Semina- — ry, Brooklyn, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Mills were in The wrecked belonging to the Jessie Scott oharge of Oabu College in the years 1860-64, during and Albert Gallatin, both British vessels, some of its most prosperous days, and at tbe gathering of Monday evening a number of tbeir former are unbounded in their expressions of thank- pupils revived pleasant memories of the past. Apfulness to Captains, office* and seamen, of propriate address were made by Rev. Dr. Damon, the Gatherer and Syren, both American Rev. Mr. Frear, Prof. Alexander and others. We ships, for the kindness which they experi- learn that Mrs. Mills leaves for Hawaii on Monday and will visit Maui during her vacation.—P. C. A. enced while on board those GRATITUDE OF THE WRECKED. 1875. 11HAWAIIAIW ALMANAC TIHK VERY FAVORABLE RECEPTION which thisHand-Hook me' with on Iv first appearance, and the completed arrangements Tor its general circulation throughout the Pacific and Eastern Btales, through the Centennial Exhibition, Colonies, Australian Steamers and the Islands, makes it a desirable advertising medium, for which a limited apace will be devoted. It will contain—with the Calendar—theTimeof the Bun '■ Uising and Setting fur each diiv, and the Moon's Phases, Table of Marine Signals, Register of the Court, Official and other Officers, Societies, «Vc CuHtom House Tables, Meteorological Tables, List or Island Mosses, HawaiianChronological Events, Mission Register, History of the Hawaiian Post Office, History of the Coffee Industry and Tables in Connection Therewith, Reminiscences of News-taper, and Offices of Honolulu, Postal Tables, together with Other Matters or Interest. Early applications for spaceand orders for copies solfclted. Orders fromabroad mast Include postage (10 cts.) and can be remitted in stamps. Address , THOS. G. THRUM. Publisher, Honolulu, H. I. THE LONG LOOKED FOR BOOK HAS COME. Mi*;-. Bird's Hawaiian Archipelago! I •IH'lK.s.irsT XXI KIVKII OYI'IIRKNES, PKICK FIVK DOLLARS. AI'KIV |'XX vessels, and in Also, Anolhrr Fine l.nrut- Callcctla. .1 landing them safely in Honolulu, where they To humble ourselves is the only way BRADLEY & RULOFSON'S are provided for by the British Consul. to rise. CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHS! The annual report of the Postmaster General of incabinet sise, and a few copies of New Whaling Ground.—It has been sup- Japan, the Hon. H. Mayesima, has been sent us. posed that American whale ships had com- It is hardly necessary to say that it is not in Japan- ELAINE and the LATE W. C. RAL9TON ia imperial sise, and pletely explored all the oceans, seas and bays ese, being printed in English. It makes a pamphArcona and Officers, where whales resorted and could be taken. let of ten pages, and shows tbe department to be a healthy financial condition. Stamps on en- and U.ii. R.*V M Kills BY in 8-4 rise. in This year whale ships returning from the velopes, newspaper wrappers and postal cards are Call early for Choice Selccliona, or send orders which will Arctic Ocean, have filled up during the in use, and last year the postal revenues were 352.- have immediate attention. Tbe following ia a list of cabinet celebrities. month of September, from four to six hund- -244 89 yen. This is an increase of 56 per cent, His Majesty Kal.kaus, His Majesty snd Suite, His Kx. J. 0. Domini., HI. Ex. J. H. Kspens. red miles east of Point Barrow and off over tbe previous year, a fact which is attributable W. 0. Halaton, Capt. Skerrett, Karon yon Keibnlt., Arcona and Officers, B. st X.'l Medley, Pslsoe Hotel, increased mall facilities. to There was McKenzie river. There they found an open some stealKlalne, Alice Dunning Lingard, Dickey Isingsrd, Alice snd Dicker ss '-The Orphans," Kautiy Davenport, sea and plenty of whales. Of course, the ing, but to no great amount, and one man wbo bad Mis. Pstemsn, Jennie Lee, Klstori. Anns Bi.hop, stolen 27 yen actually made a voluntary confession lie Murski, Maggie Moore, Willlsmsoo, Bmenon, of the shortness season caused them to work and restored the money. Tbe document is well May How.rri, Florenoe Colville, Netlson, Jsi. Lick, Hans Christian A twlorson, J. Y. Morse, Jostjuln Miller night and day, and be ready to leave before written, thoroughly business like, and a gratifying 11. J. VonUgne, Mrs. Judah, The Uirards, i'enaacola, C. Massey, and others, many of them in several styles. the ice began to rffke. But so far as ia yet exbibition of tbe rapid advancement in civiliza- Orders from the other I.land. for cabinet, left to my selection known, alt ships fortunately escaped, here- tion which has taken place in tbe island empire will be ailed st $4.00 per hall dosen, or »7 60 per doscn, ot single copies, 76 cv., snd sent by mail, if desired. within a few years past. after they must keep a sharp lookout, or we sha-ll have another Arctic disaster." More The Japanese are shipping bricks to California CHRISTMAS GOODS TO BE OPENED " than twenty years ago whales were reported and seling them cheaper than those made in that UP NOV. 16th.and BOOKB FOll TUB HOLIDAYB on the notwithstanding there is an ad valorem duty 20th, so that parties on the other Islands oan have ample time in this region. In The Fribnd of Decem- State, for their Christmas selections. of twenty per cent, on them. The Japanese brick Specification,, of this a»*ortinvnt will be glren next month. ber, 1864, will be found a letter from our is 8j inches long, it, inches wide, aud 24 inches THOS. C. THRUM, townsman, Capt. A. W. Pierce, who writes thick. KslS Mi-rrhuMi Street. ' �I HI, MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. Inspire. They were all safely landed in Honolulu,where they have been taken under the charge of theBrlti.h Consul, and provided for al theHome. Respecting the fate of their unfortunate companions, nineteen in all, no information can be obtained. The boats parted half an hoar after the Gallatin was abandoned, and nothing has been beard of the missing boat. Sept. 30—Haw wh »chr Olovsnni Apiani. Dorliy, 20 day. frm The Europa from the Arctic, bring, a very goodjssrport from Plover Uay, with 6600 lbs wh bone, 13300 lbs wal- the ships cruising there, up to themiddle of September. The rus tusks, 884 fox skins, 180 gslls wh oil, 6 bxa following report made up by A J Cartwright, Esq, includes the Japanesegoods lo Chas Long. Oct. 6—Am bk ClaraBell, Pl ehepherd. 20 days from Ban catch of tbe ship, as .poken and heard from, and their destinFranciscoation, 14—Haw hk W C Parke, Adams, 40 days from Puget Honolulu Fleet. San Francisco Fleet. Sound. Suropa 1600 1800 Onward 18—II B M S Pelerel, Cookson, from cruise. rrlton 1200 llllnoi 2000 17—Brit stmr Macgregor, Grainger, 21 daya fm Sydney. I relic 2sKW 860 Camilla 19—P M S Vasco d. Gaina, Rice, 9 days and 18 lira fm ' San Francisco. 19—Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, 8 day.and 4 hour, from San Francisco. 20—Am hktne J A Falkinburg, Ilnbbart, 27 days from Portland, O. 20—Am bk D u Murray, Fuller, 20 dsys from SanFrancisco. 22—Am bk Mary Belle Roberts, Gray, 10) days from San Francisco 24—Haw bk R C Wylic, II Walter., 118 days fm London 28—Am wh bk Europa, McKentle, Im Arctic, with 1800 bbl. oil. 17,000 lbs bone, 3,000 lb. ivory. 28—Am .hip Gatherer. Thompson, 122 daya from Philadelphia. 31—Brit wh bk Faraway, Spencer, from Ochotsk, with 610 wh, 8000 bone. 31—Am shipSyren, Newell, 130 dsys from Boston. Sl—Am bk Garibaldi, Noyes, 36 day.from Portland. 31— French corvette Volia,Floucaud tlo Fourcroy, 18 days from San Francisco. DEPARTURES. Sept. 26—U 8 flag-ship Pcnsacola, Rear Admiral J 1 Almy, for Coast of Mexico. 25—Tahitian bk lonia. Lovegrove, lor Tahiti. sor Howland lava, Fisher las Allen 1100 Rainbow 700 800 Florence 1200 660 800 Northern Light 'Brawny 180 Helen Mar 1660 trig Otiwanl 40 Mt Wollaston clean Jcsinond 840 SlOcorge 1600 400 Java,Colson Report or WH Hark Eubofa, J H McKenzii, M.stib. —Sailed from Honolulu April 15thand Kauai April 17th. Arrived at Cape Thaddeu. and the ice through the 72d passage May 20th after a very rough passage, with strong winds rroin NW most of the time. Being too late for outside whaling, pushed through thu ice; and passed through Bherlng Strait. June 18th,in que.t of walrus. On July Bth, having takenabout one thousand walrus, left the ice; and on the 28th of July passed Point Barrow. Found the ice closely packed, and but a narrow atrip of clear water along tho shore. No whales seen by the fleet III) the 18thof August, when a strong NE wind broke up and scattered the Ice, and whaling began. In September the Ice had nearly all disappeared, and in a clear sea the ships could Mil down the shore as far as they wished to. Some of the ships went nearly to McKeosieriver, farther than ever whaleshlps ventured before. On the 18thof September having whale, enough on board to All our casks, we left tbe ground in company with the Onward and Camilla, the wind blowing a gale from NE. The ships had all taken more walrus than on any previous year,and at thedate of our departure were doing extremely well whaling. Have no doubtall (be ships will fill theircasks Ii theweather permits. " 93 1875.. FRIEND, NOVEMBER, " Rirorr or 8 8 City or Mklrournk, Brown, ConnanLeft San Francisco Oct 12th at 1030 a m, and cleared the head■ at 11 am, with a light SW breeieand thick weather, the wind continuing light and baffling until 1 h m «n the 16th, thence a strong SW wind which lasted 20 hour*, thence light airs and calm* until noon on the 18th,thence light t-B wlndn until arrival nt Honolulu, which waa entered at 3.30 ptn on the 19th,making the passage Id 8 daya and 4 hour*. Rbfort or Bark D c Murray, A Fuller, Uabtkk.— Left flan Franciaco Friday, Oct lit at 8 p m In low of lug Joe Redmond; cant off1 at 6 p m and made aall with a light hrvese from Wand a dense fog, which continued till tbe following day. First 7 dura out had light breetes, fine weather and smooth sea. Got the trades the Bth day out In lat 87° 64' N, lonic 188 °W. Continued very light till .2 daya out in lat 23 ° N, long 146°W; from thence hauled to south ami died out calm. The 17th day wind sprang up from eaet. Tbe Utter part of passage had very heavy N W awell. tew Hawaii Oct 19th at 0 i> in, and Oahu next day at 10 a in. Report or Hark Mary Bills Robert*. Gray, Master. —Left Han Francisco Oct aid; experienced light N W winds in lat 24° 30. long 146° W, and SW winds which lasted 4 days, from thence to port light NE. Sighted Maul Oct 21st at d a m, arriving In Honolulu next forenoon. RapoßTor Bark R C Wylib, Walter*, Master.—Left the Downs on the 87th June with lipht westerly winds) stood off* Sctlly on theIst of July, from whence made a one run to the line in 22 days; had no SE trades at all, wind always from the southward. On the 61st dsy out stood 60° 884° W, from there had calms and gales from the westward till the 80th day, In 60° 8 and 88° W. From thence had fine weather till arrival in Honolulu on Sunday, Oct 24th, after a passage of 118 days. der — PASSENGERS. Fbum San Francisco—Per Clara Bell, Oct 6th—C J Holland. For Guano Is—Per C M Ward, Oct 13th—Jas Green and 1 laborer. Foa Tahiti—Per Giovanni Apiani, Oct 13th—WT Bradley. Foa Sab Francisco—Per Clara Bell, Oct lMh—E V Thwing, J Holland. Fbom Auckland—Per Macgregor, Oct 17th—J S Webster. Foa Windwabd Posts—PerKilsuea, Oct 18th—J W Wi.i ditleld. Miss Lack, Theo Tool, E Probart, Judge Kamnkipili, Kia Nahaolelua, H Hind, J Crowder. 8 Staines, E S Hitch cock and wife, Jas Wood., Judge Fornsnder, J Tucker, Lieut Christopher, W II Cornwell, wife and child, G Armstrong. wife and 8 children, F Welsh, E Morris, W Meyeisbarg, F Wundenburg and about 46 deck. Foa Ban Francisco—l'er Macgregor. Oct 18th—MrsClapp and daughter, W H Van Hire, Mis. Slocum, Miss Sarah IS Peirce, Mr Grlnbsum and wile, Jsmec Barton, Mr liaws.ui, MrsDexter. T R Lucas, W Lsughland, J W Girwln, C Lopes. Luin E, A F Howe, JasMartin. Fbom Ban Fbancibco—Per Vasco dc Gams.Oct 19lh—J C PDuger. II M Witney, A P Everett. Mrs O T Mills, Miss llattie Raymond, W C Parke, E P Adams, wife and 2 children, T Henderson,Mlas A Johnson, W II Bailey and wife, Mrs Ja. M Alexander and 2 children, Capt O Spencer, Capt Provost, wife and child,and 12 in steerage. Fbom San Fbancibco—Per City of Melbourne, Oct 19th— T A Dudolt, and 2 In steerage. For Auckland dr. Sydney—Per Vaeso dc Gama, Oct Nih —F Henderson. Foa Sydnby—Per City of Melbourne,Oct 19th—Max Arnstein. Fbom Portland—Per Jane A Falklnrraro, Oct JOih—John Kearney, Miches) Lewis, J C McKay, ChristianRevs. From Ban Fbancibco—Per D C Murray, Oct 20th—Mrs Louisson, 2 children and nurse, Mr and Mrs 11 J Abbott, Mr. Parks, Col Sam'l Norris, Mr P Kelly, A C Skeniti, Wm Shepherdand 6 Hawaiian seamen of schooner Flying Mist. Fbom San Fbancibco—Per Mary Belle Roberts, Oct 22,1— Harry Lowers, Mr Durraod. T Howard, J H O'Brien, E B B—Brit .hip Ravenilondale, Wm Jack,for 8 Franciaco 13—Uaw schr Giovanni Apiani, Dorily, for Tahiti. 13—Am schr C M Ward, Lambert, for GuanoIslands. 16—Ambk Clara Bell. Shepherd, for San Francisco. 18—Brit stmr Macgregor, Grainger, for San Francisco. 19—V M 8 Vasco dc Gama, Rice, for Sydney. Repobt or Ship Hvben, Newell, Mister —Left Boston l'.i -llrii stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, for Sydney 22—U BM 8 Pelerel, Commander Cookson, for Kauai. June22d, and crossed tbeline in the Atlantic July 23d In long 24—Haw bk W C Parke, T B Adam., for Puget Sound. 28°62. Crossed the 60tta parallel Aug 29th in W long 83° 29—Am bktn Jane A Falkinburg, llubbart, lor Portland 18. Spoke ship Alice M Mlnot on"the Falkland Islands, Nov 2—Am bk U C Murray, Fuller, for SanFrancisco. bound to San Francisco. Off Platen Island picked up a boat's crew belonging to theBritish ship Albert Gallatinand brought MEMORANDA. them to port. Crossed the equator in the Pacific Oct 10th in W long 121°30». Havehad moderate weather throughout the Abimdorxil nl Sea. pasasge. Arrived ia Honolulu Sunday, Oct 31.t, after a pasJohn Dugan, second officer of ihebark Jessie Scott, an Eng- sage of 130 days. lish vessel, reports as follows i The Jessie Scott left Liverpool, Ripobt or Hawaiian Tbadino Schooner Giovanni April 6th. bound to Central America, when off Patagonia, was Apiani. Dobity. Masteb.—Sailed from Honolulu, April 16tb, dismasted September 6th, and lost main-mast and niissen- for tho Arctic Ocean. Had strong winds mostly to the Fox topmast. On September 7th, American ship Empire hove in Islands. May 12th, went through the Ounimak Passage in sight, and a boat Irom the Jessie Scott, four hands and chief company with bark Florence, Made theice May 19th,in latoilier, boarded her. She was 130 days out, bound Irom New itude au°lo' N.longitadc 174°28. Arrived al Plover Bay, York to San Francisco. The chiefmate reported the condition June Bth. Experienced fineweather during Juneand tbe first of July. Strong southerly winds during the middleand of the Jessie Scott, and desired to be taken oo board, but the part latter part of the season. July 10th, while in company with master refused, because he had already made a long passage the bark Arctic, lying at anchor in Wainwright Inlet, a strong and was short of provisions. To this the mate said, there was south-west gals set the ice in, which drove the Arctic ashore. After losing boih anchors I succeeded working the schooner plenty on hoard the Jessie Scott, but no water, except for about out. As soon ss the ice broke up I In back, and found tbe went ten days ; still the master of the American .hip refused, and Arctic In 11 feet of water. Captain Whitney had discharged suggested they might pull lor a barkgsrhich had been seen to everything to gether off. July 29th, 1 sailed from Point Barrow, snd next day fell in with the Arctic, working northward. leeward. Theyreturned on board list vessel, and after drifting Captain Whitney having succeeded in gelling her off* without llendrey. to the southward for eight days, fell in with the Francisco injury. Had southerly winds to Plover Bay, and aailed thence Fbom London—Per R C Wylie, Oct 24lb—W N Padra, an Italianhark, which took all elf, and on the following September Ist. arriving st Honolulu, September 30th, having light variable winds the whole passage. Saw whaleahip. day the American ship Gatherer hove in sight, snd kindly hadreported MARRIED. as below on July 26th, and none since: took live seamen snd second mate, our informant, who were Illinois,MO Mils whalesnd MO bhl. walru.; James Allen, 700 bbls walru. ; Arctic, 140 bbls walrus; Java, 660 bbls wal-'. ' [The visit of the Rev. C. Onions, at Honolulu, in 1873. aa he brought to Honolulu. Passage was also offered to tbe rerus} Triton, 060 bbl. walru.; Onward. 082 bbls walrus; Despreached In theFort Street Churchand the Bethel, will be remainder, If they wished to come, but they declined. They re- mond, 640 bbls walrus; Helen Mar, 860 bbt. walru.; C Howland, port moat favorably, respecting the kind treatment received 600 bbls walrus; A Barnes, 900 bbls walrus; St George. 110 niemhered by many of our readers. We clip the following on board the Gatherer from bolh officers and crew. Our in- bbls whale snd 1,000 bbls walrus; Europe, 060 bbl. walrus; notice of his marriage from a late Engll.li paper i] 230 bbl. .perm and 210 bbl. whale. The Indian, reOnions—Gittins—On Tuesday, Aug. 17th,at the Weateformant reports that the JessieScott must have sunk on the N tight, port Camilla, In St Lawrence Bay, with 8 right whales yan Chapel, Wrexham, by the Rev. J. Rodwoll, of Dunaiabte, day following, that oo which she was abandoned, as .he had Onions, to Klii* Mosliy, daughter of Mr. Ripobt or Bark Clara Hull, P P Shbphkbo, Masteb. theRev. Chas. about four feet ol water. The Jessie Scott was classed for a John Glllens, Egerton House, Wrexham. Sept light —LeltSan Francisco 14th with hreese from SW, seven years' cruise to Central America. For a cargo, she bad and calms which lasted for two days. Then took light breese■• I DIED. among thearticles a portion ofa Catholic church, with altar from the Wand NW, which lasted six days; then windhauled to SW and SB, with frequent calms until arrival at port. decorations snd incense. Sighted Maui and Hawsii on Sunday, Oct 3d, arriving in Hoand Overboard Vrowntd.—Gto. JosirH, a Greek, Lout 'Wreck of she Albert Gallatin. nolulu at noon the following Tuesday. from the Gatherer,off Cape Horn, 17th of September. by Captain commanded Groves. W. This was aBritish ship, Report or 8 BMacobeoob. H Gbainoer,Commander.— /.»»< OverboardandDrowned.—Wm. ohoy,(colored) >lewShe left Antwerp, 30th of April, in ballsst, bound to cfclao to Lelt Sydney at 1.16 p in Sept26th. sod experienced moderate-9 ard of the JeesteBcort, August 24th. He belonged to Anli<Jno, West Indies. easterly easterly winds and One 27th fresh and weather; 1 .he lost her rudder Horn, load with guano. When off" Cape squally; 38th breese and heavy beam sea; 29th strong[ Bennett—ln ibis city, October 3d, John Binnitt. a naand drifted about fourteen days; when, as .be was about to go gale and heavystrong sea; 30th passed Three Kings, and arrived att tlve of Charlesrbwn, Mas. and for some time a resident of upon the Islands of 111 Defonso, she was abandoned, and all Auckland at 860 a m; sailed again same day at 2.10 pm,i Nantucket, aged o*. years. hands took to the boat.. In the Captain1 boat were nine with light westerly wind, to Oct 4th,and fresh BE winds to thl« city, October 14th, JoacrH Rich lat 10° 8, long I*B°41' W. Crossed the equator m longf Rich»sd»on—ln person., vis.: Captain Groves, his wife and two children; 161°47' W. Strong SE winds and Doe cool weather there- AUDeoN, aged 27 yearsand 7 months, a native of Coaoatoga County, Pennsylvania. Lancaster Center, [ second mate, McFay ; George Hitchlns, carpenter; Timothy mainder of passage. Oct 16th at 10.80 p m passed a fore and October 28lh, Mr. K. O Addulkt—ln this city, suddenly, Flint, .toward ; John Gibson, seaman ; and B. Kingawell, sea- aft schooner, painted black, standing to the southward, in lat AnDKBLBV, England, aged 71 year, and Sheffield, a native of 16°68' N.long 168° 14' W. Oct 17th at 3.23 p m receivedI man. After touching at two islands, snd drifting about for 18 pilot on board. Deceased arrived theseislands at In 1858. ptoslays 6 months. Prinole, Parser. RB to which he had resided about 26 years in theUnited State., days, leU in with American ship Syren, of Boston, Captain Repobt or 8 8 Vasco dc Gaha, J F Rice, Combjabdbb. where he has a son now living. He was much respected by all Newell, oft* Stalen Land on the 2d of September. From Capt. —l.clt San Franciaco Oct 9th at 1.30 m; experienced flno■ i whoknew him. p Newell, officers and crew, the wrecked persons experienced weather throughout the |>aasagc, and arrived in Honolulu Octt I'sendesoast—ln this city, October 29th, Col. Rtmr every kindness which humanity could dictate or sympathy 19lb at 3 30 a in. | r«ENniaoABT, a native of Tipperary, Ireland, aged 60 year. Oct. .' - '— , — , ' �94 111 X FKI E N I), NOVEMBER, 1875. Rev. George B. Bacon, D. D.—The visit per gallon on spirits, one dollar on wine and a shilling on each bottle of beer. There are of this, gentleman will be remembered by Disceiption of Tongatabu—King George— (consequently no public-houses; moreover many of our Island readers. We have reMissionary Influence—Maine Liquor <every sailor is required by the law to be on ceived a pamphlet, containing an address by board his ship by 8 o'clock in the evening. Law, &c. No sooner had the C/utllenger anchored him at the opening exercises of " The Lowell with canoes, con- Mason Library of Music," in the Vale DiWe copy the following sketch of the than stf) was surrounded taining a great number of natives, who soon vinity School, May 11, 1875. The speaker Friendly Islands, from the narrative of the found their way on board; and a fine race of cruise of the Challenger as published in the men they were—tall, robust, with intellect- discourses in most interesting and eloquent London Geographical Magazine, for Sep- ual features, and singularly good looking; manner, respecting church music, in Old and .ember Ist, 1876: ttbe women being decidedly handsome and New England. Respecting the universality On the morning of the 19th, they hove-to very fair, might easily be mistaken for half- of Lowell Mason's influence in shaping the off the Island of Eooa to await daylight, and castes ; but notwithstanding their superiority church music of the passing age. Dr. Bacon at 7 o'clock Tongatabu was seen right ahead, in form and intellect to the races found on remarks as follows: Euaigie Island being on the starboard bow, other islands, they are equally indolent, for All the sects of Christendom almost— and in the evening the Challenger anchored very little labor being required to produce low, broad, narrow, Calvinist, Arminhigh, almost are too to cultilazy any crop, they ofl the king's residence at Nukalofa. ian, Socinian—sing praise to God in Lowell Tongatabu group is the principal and most vate as the islands abound with cocoanuts, Mason's tunes. Even the Spiritualists, who southern of tho Tonga or Friendly islands, bananas, oranges, yams, &c., which grow the most deplorable rubbish, in what I sing almost spontaneously. and derives its name from the largest island. The usual dress of the natives is much suppose they call their worship, and who The Island of Eooa lies to the south-east, 9 females, perhaps, as Mr. Artcmus Ward would say, miles from Tongatabu, and although the the same for the males as for the around the are "saddest when they sing," sing to some smaller island rises to a height of 600 feet, viz., a roll of " tnpa wrapped extent in Lowell Mason's tunes. The last the larger, Tongatabu, is flat, the highest loins; but the influence of the missionaries church tune-book that I have happened to dress, has this that in caused revolution they point, on which the church now stands, must appear more decent in company, and a examine, and, I believe, the last one pubonly ; 60 a few hillocks feet high other being fine of a dollar is imposed on a man that lished, borrows upwards of sixty of his of 30 or 40 feet may be seen. board a ship tunes,—more than from any other composer; Tongatabu Island is 23 miles long east ventures to put his foot onshirt a on. The and the same, and commonly a greater prohaving regular without broad, about 8 and the and west, and in to women are not visit permitted ships at portion, is found in most of our church form of a crescent, bearing its convex side to and tune-books. In the indexes of the south, while coral reefs extend 6 and 8 all. Some of the natives have adopted the hymn his name is like what Dr. Watts' is in much tunes and wear it with dress, European miles off tbe concave side, and form numerous channels leading towards the harbor. 1pride; the women, as is natural, are fond of the indexes of hymns. Ten years ago, on manufacture my first Sunday in London, I worshiped There are but two of these channels navig- Igay-colored dresses,theice.barkThe of a of the from tree is dis- in Mr. Thomas Binney's " Weigh-house tapa able for ships, one to the east, the other to as as order to chapel;" the first hymn of the morning in much couraged possible north, which vessels thread their the through the natives to cultivate the cotton- service was sung to one of Lowell Mason's induce way by observing from the masthead, the One year ago, 1 was ifi the Sanddiscoloration of the water caused by the Iplant, which thrives wonderfully on the lux- tunes, wich Islands. Late one Saturday evening uriant soil the island. of coral reefs. A lagoon about 3 miles deep, About forty white people are resident at I had lost my way, and needed friendly help into which there is only a passage for a canoe, lies 4 miles east ol the town of Nuka- Nukalofa, and as is unfortunately the case and guidance. Presently I saw, through the dark, the outline of the tower of a little lofa. It leads up to the town of Bea, which in too many places, the missionary labors church, and soon after the light of a the country sects, are divided two different by very termed of heathenism be the stronghold may which I conjectured must be in the lamp, and the Roman Catholic. Wesleyan of on the island, the natives retaining much The village or town of Nukalofa is prettily minister's study. So it was. I made my their original characteristics. to the door of the neat grass house, The soil of the island is rich and very ;situated in a bread-fruit and cocoanut grove. way found it was the parsonage. The dusky church is the and The most conspicuous building fertile; the luxuriance of the foliage can was at work preparing for scarcely be surpassed. In seme parts of the on the island, as it is situated upon its young minister on the morrow. his On the table was duty It is a highest neat-looking building, hill. island the soil consists of a blackish mould, his study-lamp, his books and papers; and which emits an agreeable odour of bergamot, divided into three aisles by two rows of among but it quickly evaporates in the air.* The columns that support the frame-work of the Bible, athe boekaf conspicuous next to the well-worn copy of the "Carmina population is estimated at 5000, of which roof, which is thatched with the leaves of about one-fifth are Christians; supplies of the sugar-cane. Near the church door is a Sacra," by Lowell Mason. I was made food may be obtained, but the great want is monument erected to the memeory of Com- more welcome than ever, when I presently, fresh water, there being no streams on the mander W. Broker, who was killed in an as best I could without a knowledge of the island, water being only procurable by dig- unsuccessful attack on the village of Bea in Hawaiian tongue, explained to the young that I too was a minister, and that, in ging, and such as is obtained by that means 1840. The church is capable of holding man the church to which I ministered, the man 600, and on the was Sunday from 700 to not good. ia made that book had been my luna,' The Friendly islands form an independent well attended. A native preached, and the that " head man. Where could I go, I presently state, and now have a national flag. The singing, accompanied by a tolerably good or and in excellent time. So began to wonder, where I should not find king (George) was residing at Nukak>fa. organ, was sweet that the work and influence of Lowell Mason He is a hale old man of about seventy-five, far back as 1797, the London Missionary with a pleasing expression of countenance, Society sent missionaries to this island, but had been before me. the face being fringed round with white the warlike nature of the inhabitants caused whiskers and beard. The queen was not so them to quit the field, and a quarter of a Naval.—The French steam corvette Volta left prepossessing; she is very stout, and seemed century later, the Wesleyans commenced San .Ifnooisco on the 12th iost., en route for thia conscious of her dignity in her European their labors, and their efforts have been emi- port. Tbe Volta'i tonnage is 1400; her engine* are dress, her head being surrounded by gipsy nently successful; most of the natives having 260 horse-power; her armament oonaUts of nix heavy hat and feather, after the most violent type embraced Christianity, and schools have guns, with a crew of 150 men. Tbe following ia a list of her officers: of servant-gal-ism. Young as the country been established. Captftin— Floucaud dc Fourcror, Captain of Frigate. is, the people understand direct taxation, a 'id Captain— Due dc Pealhlevre, l.ieuinnant of veMel. The grand prize of Rome for sculppoll-tax of seven dollars being levied on each Stojf—H. M. Andreani, Le Breton, FaucoD, Aabert, Fahrt M*»urelle. adult, whilst a most effectual bar to drunk- ture has been awarded by the French Gov- la Iff Surgeon —Mturin. enness is effected by the excise, in a license ernment to a young American student Asst. Surgeon— Merhain. Mukjol. Asst. duty of 100/., levied on spirituous liquors of named Hughes, a pupil of the sculptors Nay. Paymaster— Midshipman—Buoel any kind, and a customs duty of two dollars Duniont and Bonnassieux, of Paris. Oct 28 Advertiser, -P. C. FRIENDLY ISLANDS. ', ''<< ''' '' '' '' '' - ' '' ' ' '' ' ' �ADVERTISEMENTS. Places of Worship. Seamen's Bethei Rev. S. C. Dunion, Chaplain, King street, near tin- Sailors' Home. Preaching at 11 A. H. Seats free. Sabbath School before the morning service, Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 74 o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting every day from balf-paat 12 to 1. Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7£ p. 11. Sabbath School at 10 a. m. Kawauhah Church—Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, King street, above the Palnce. Services in Hawuiian every Sunday at 94 a. m. and 3 v. M. Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret. attainted by Rev. Father Hermann; Fort street, near Beietauia. Services every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 P. u. Kai-mikahi.i ('in uch Rev. M. Kuttea, Pastor, Beretania street, near Niiiiumi. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2£ P. M. Tug Anoi.ican ( 'hi wh—Bishop, tho lit. Rev. AlIrud Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A.. Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. Knglish services on Sundays at ti.J and 11 a. m.. and 'ill and 74 p. m. Sunday School at the Clergy House at 10 a. M. IRWIN G. \at It. SAILORS' Commission Merchants, I'lanl.lion and Insurance Agcnla, Honolulu, H. 1. EWKRS ■ , DICKSON. <V Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. HOFFMANN, ■,« 1. M . D.. Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchantand Kaahumanu Streets, near the PostOfflos BREWER t 1 sV. Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oahu, 11. I. Officers' Table, with lodging, per week, ADAMS. P. El Seamen's do. Auction and CtnnmUsioiktMerchant, |~)R. MOTT 8. II \ ii MoOREW. do. .. SO ..'.'• ED. DimSCOMBE. Honlulu, January 1, 1878. Manager. SMITH, Sirens <« Co.'s prug Store, corner of Fort and Hotel its. I do. Shower Baths on tbe Premises. fire-ProofStore, In Robinson's BulHMg, Queen Street. HIS OLD BUSINESS IN TIIK Street. ' 1RaMR I IHk W PsjJßl * Wrm H CO.. Having resumed practice, can be found at bis rooms ovsr B Chboxometerh rste.l by observations of the sun snd stars with s transit Instrument accurately adjusted to the meridian of Honolulu. (HOME! CO.. Dentist, D. IV. lI.IIMII. > IKK-I'ltOUF Building, Kaahumanu CONTINUES 1875. MIVKMBKR. 95 IHE FRIEND, M. D Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, Carriage Making and Trimming! RESPECTFULLY INFORMTOO THAT . I WOULD I now employ the beat Mecbauioa in tbe line of Carriage Making, Carriage and Oeneral Blacksmithing, Painting. Repairing, die.. Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing Hawaiian Group ; and it it a well established that Sextant snd quadrant glasses silveredand adjusted. Charts fact oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. B. WhitWEST, man, la aa well ezeoated aa any in New York City or |~1 and nautical Instrument, constantly oo hand and for sale. fel elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that Wagon and Carriage Builder, we oan manufacture aa good a olata of work in HoKing snd 76 Honolulu. Street, 74 JOBS H'OB.KBB. s. 0. aSBBILL. nolulu a* oan be found in any part of the world. I (l_r Island orders piomptly executed at lowest rales will also state here that we fully intend to work at & Co., C 0. WEST. ALLEN A. CHILLING WORTH, Ihe lowest possible ratei. J. Oau be consulted at hi. residence on Hotel street, between Alskes and Fort street.. On tbe MERRILL Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 208 California Street, Han Fr* a.n cis co o AIsBO. AOBNTS OP THB San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular attention given to thesale and purchase of mer■usndiM,.hips' business, supplying whaisships,negotiating exchange, Ac. %ZT All freight arriving at Saa Franci.co, by or to the HonoluluLine of Packets, will be forwsrJed rasa or ooamssios. XT Bxchange on Honolulu bought and sold..CD Kawaihae, Hawaii, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping business at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish tbe justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes,and .uch other recruit, as are required by whaleshlps, at tbe shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. EX Firewood on Hand.Xl A '* * J Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, —.SrBBBBOEB— "" "" "ly_ Bog THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! ' *- : .18888-Mfe 101 ■ fig* BWSBWsV WILL SPARE NO to make this ITBK PROPRIETOR pains BXs 11 C3r A. 3\T T HOTBII PirfWJlaM in Every Particular! SOON Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu Messrs. A. W. Peireea Oo 11. Ilackfeld A Co •' C.Brewer* Co Bishops Co " W.Wood Dr. R. Hon. I. H.Allen MI BE HAD BY THE RIGHT OH WEEK I with or without board. H A LL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR ly PUBLIC MIETINOS, OB SOCiBTHS. •M PIERCE k CO.. (Snecesors to U. L. Richards k Co.) W. Ageits Pooloa Salt Works, Braid's Bono Lances, And Perry Davie* Pnln Killer. THOS. G. THRUM'S --- STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. 10 Merchant Street, Honolulu. Paper, and Maga.lnea, back numbers—put wp PACKAGES parties going sea. educed rales OF READING MATTER-OP (or to M. DICKSON, Photographer, 81 Fort Street, Honolulu, ASSORT- IS ON HANI* A CHOICE OV PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, ALWAMENT A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c, Ac. CURIOSITY HUNTERS will find at this MtablUhmsot a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcanic Speclueeno, Corals, Shells. Wsir lsa.plrasar.ato. Kerns, Mala, Knatos. And a Great Variety of other Ifautaiian and Micronesian Ouriositits. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY I lal 1W CASTLE & COOKE, to order at • IMPORTERS ly AND lIEILERB 111 MEEOHANDISE! NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENERAL AOstlfTS or DILLINGHAM & CO., Nos. 95 and VI King Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Goods Suitable for Trade. THB — REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF Mutual Lira Insarsam Company, Packets, Nsw Bngtand ThsUnion Marino losuraoos Company, San Irsnclseo, Company, The Kohala Sugar Ths Haiku Sugar Company. Tbs Hsvalian Sugar Mill, W. H. Bailey, The Haasskus Sngar Company, Tbe Wslaloa Sugar Plantatioa, The Whsslerk Wilson Sswlnt Mschin. Cocopsny, By, Joyns A Bsns Cstsoralea family MostnlßSS. sf "THE FRIEND/ MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the last Six Years can testify from personal exSHIP MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO perience that the uoderalgned keep, the beet assortment of A Toasßoraoos, Seamen. Marios and Qsnsral lutsukfsocs. GOODS FOB TRADE And StU Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM & CO. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL O. DAMON. TERMS: • Foreign Subscriber., Including postage One Copy per annum... Two Copies per annum $1.00 JSO «.» �ChYMrisoetuann'gHAocf onolulu. 96 Pure religion and undeflled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. EdbaiCteomyCMYhf.eA. Some Time. Some time, when all life's lessons have been learned, And suns nnd stars forevermore have set. The things whioh our weak judgments here have spurned. The things o'er whiob we grieved with lashes wet, Will Huh before ns, and light life's dark night. As stars shine most in deeper lints of bine; And we shall see how all Qod's plans were right, And what most seemed reproof was love most true. And we shall see, how. while we frown and sigh, God's plans go on as best for yon and me; How, when we called, he heeded not our cry, Because his wisdom to tbe end could see; And c'en as prudent parents disallow Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, So God, perhaps, is keeping from us now Life's sweetest things because it seemth good. And yon shall shortly know that lengthened breath Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friend. And that sometimes the sable pall of death Conceals the fairest boon his love can send. If we could push ajar the gates of life. And stand within, and all God's working see. We could interpret all Ibis doubt and strife, And for eaoh mystery could find a key. But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart! God's plans, like lilies, pure and white unfold. We roust not tear the close-shut leaves apart: Time will reveal tho calyxes of gold. And if, through patient toil, we reach the land Where tired feet, with sandals loosed, may rest. Where we shall dearly know and understand, I think that we shall say, •• God knew the best." —Helen Hunt. " God Tempers the Wind to the Shorn Lamb." The touching truthfulness of this sentiment has been called to mind while listening to the story of shipwreck and exposure off Cape Horn, from the lips of Mrs. Groves, wife of Captain Groves of the Albert Gallatin. In the very depth of a Cape Horn winter, with wind blowing a living gale," " amid thunder, lightning and storm, they were compelled to embark in an open boat, and then for eighteen days to be exposed to alternate snow storms and hail; now landing on rocky shores, sleeping among rocks, and then embarking, yet compelled to subsist, one hardly knew how! Yet, out of all these hardships the delicate mother, with an infant in her arms, came forth in health and safety. Verily may we .say with David—" Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known." Mrs. Groves and her two children are now stopping at the Sailors' Home; and the ladies of Honolulu are doing ajl in their power for thejr comfort. Rev. W. Spear, D.D. The visit of this gentleman at Honolulu from San Francisco will be remembered. His interest in behalf of the Chinese of California is well known. He once edited the Oriental partly in Chinese and partly in English, and was for many yeara a missionary in China, where he acquired an intimate acquaintance with the language and people, as appears from his book entitled " Chirm and the United States." We are glad to learn from a late number of the New York Observer, that he has resigned his position as secretary wsfthe Presbyterian Board of Education in Philadelphia, and will resume labor in behalf of the Chinese. This is as it should be. Many others may act as secretary of the Board, but few are so well fitted to labor for the Chinese. The editor of the Observer remarks as follows : " He does not propose to return to China, but to devote himself to the benefit of the Chinese in this country, by writing and lecturing. Because of his acquaintance with the language, character and habits of this people, he is peculiarly adapted to a labor in their behalf such as he proposes, and which has been urged upon him by others." with a stronger sense of humanity than is often practiced by nations claiming a higher degree of civilization, forbade the vessel leaving the harbor with the coolies on board, and insisted that they should be set free. Further, Japan provided the unfortunates with a passage to their homes in China. The Government of Peru claimed damages from the Government of Japan for the course pursued, and sent two iron-dads to enforce the demand. By the intervention of the English and American legations at Yeddo. an agreement was brought about by which the whole subject was referred to ihe Emperor of Russia for arbitration. The award of the Emperor Alexander completely justifies Japan in the proceedings taken, and declares the government not responsible to Peru for the consequences brought about by the stay of the Maria Ijuz in the port of Yokohama. This verdict will go a long way toward bringing the coolie traffic into greater disrepute than it is even at present. Before the award was given, the action of the government of the Mikado had resulted in robbing the trade of some of its horrors. It led to treaties between China, Peru and Portugal, under which all three governments undertook to exercise supervision, so as to prevent anything like the abuses which were shown attached to the shipment of coolies carried by the Maria Luz. Coolieism under nny form, is bad enough, but under the old system it was One Less Idolaters.—We have heard of more like a system of slavery than a voluna Chinaman up Nuuanu Valley who has tary labor engagement S. F. Bulletin. cast away Josh, and in the place, posted up Oldest Biblical Manuscript. The the Ten Commandments. Codex Sinaiticus, one of the two oldest Sit Moon at Hilo.—A letter has been re- Bible manuscripts in existence, is supposed, Tischendorf, its discoverer, to be one of ceived from Hawaii, reporting that our col- by the fifty copies of the Scriptures which the porteur is laboring among his countrymen at Emperor Constantino directed to be made Hilo and upon neigboring plantations. for Byzantium, in the year 331, under the care of Usebius of Caesarea. It consists of Award in an International Dispute. 345£ leaves of very fine vellum, made either from the skins of antelopes or of asses, each A mail from Yokohama brings the award leaf being 14$ inches high by 13} inches of the Emperor Alexander of Russia, in the wide. The early history of the Vatican Maria Luz case. This is the second occa- manuscript is not known, but it appears in sion since the Washington treaty in which the first catalogue of the Vatican Library in 1475. It is a quarto volume, containing 146 nations have followed the example of Great leaves of fine thin vellum, each 10} inches Britain and the United States, and settled high and 10 broad. Both manuscripts are international disputes by a reference to a written in Greek uncials, or capital letters, third party. In this case the parties to the are without spaces between the words, and dispute were the Empire of Japan and the have no marks of punctuation. Republic of Peru. The circumstances conFresh Teas—Since the establishment of nected with the whole affair redound to the the telegraph and steamship lines, a great credit of the Japanese Government. The change has taken place in the tea trade Maria Luz, a Peruvian vessel, having on between China, Japan, and the|United States. board a cargo of coolies from Macao for Formerly, teas that were ordered in the were not received in the United Callao, put into Yokohama from stress of early spring, States until the first part of the following weather. While in the harbor, certain facts winter, November being an early date on came to the knowledge of the Japanese which to receive the new crop gathered in Government which left but little doubt that China the previous spring. Now, teas that on the bash in Japan, in the poor coolies had been entrapped, to say were growing are landed in New York by the Ist March, the least, on board the vessel, and were cru- of June, and a month later, the market is elly treated. The Japanese Government, fully supplied with these teas. — — � 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 (1875) 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 - 1875.11.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875.11.02