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Temperance Advocate,
AND SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
Vol. I.
HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, FEBRUARY, 1843.
To the Reader,
Nearly all the columns of the Advocate
for January, were occupied by the Address "of the Hon. T. 11. Marshall. In
urging the propriety of signing the pledge
and endeavoring to show that no Hon.
Member of Congress would lower his
"vast dignity," 'tarnish his laurels," or
"lessen his popularity," by the act, he
looked down at Mr. Wise, who sat just
under the clerk's stand, and remarked,
smiling, "I should say, sir, that the act
was not only the most benevolent, but in
the present state of public opinion, the
most politic, the most popular, the very
wisest thing he ever did in his life." After Mr. Marshall had taken his seat, the
Hon. Mr. Gilmer, (then occupying the
chair,) said he had a friend and colleague
in his eye, from whom it would greatly
gratify the Society to hear, if he was disposed to address them.
The Hon. Mr. Wise, of Virginia, rose
and addressed the assembly in the following speech.
Mr, President: I wish it to bo under-
stood by the assembly here present, that 1
am not, as yet, a member of the Total Abstinence Temperance Society; and lean appeal to you, sir, for my sincerity, when I
express my surprise at having been alluded
to, as 1 have been, by the eloquent gentleman from Kentucky, and at being called
upon to say a word on the present occasion.
It would be impossible, however, not to respond to the allusion made by the gentleman
who BSS preceded me. lie will pardon me
for saying that, in his own case, we are presented with one of the most glorious examples of the triumph of the temperance cause.
He is himself a proof of the position he has
taken, that the possession of genius, of the
utmost perfection of physical power—thut
none of the ties which ordinarily bind men to
society—arc any safeguard against the seductive power of this tremendous vice; and
that, when it has once seized upon a man,
the victim himself is usually the very last to
be aware of it. He will pardon me ifI say
that, when I first became acquainted with
him, while I was struck with the greatness
of his powers, both moral and intellectual,
I mourned under tiie conviction that their
possessor was in the greatest danger, and I
took the liberty to warn him of it. And
when I beheld him, impelled by motives
which heaven and earth must approve, coming
forward to attach his name to the temperance
pledge, I was as highly gratified as I had
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No. II
been before distressed. And now, when bo ought especially to RIM at; mid tint is, to
appeals to me to go one step further tliun I jbn-uk up the prevalence of a dcgiirding vice
have ever yet gone in this cause, I cannot jamong the politicians of our hind: I mean
withstand his appeal. [Loud bursts of ap- the vulgar, base, degrading habit oftreating
<il elections. To prove that lliero ia no neplause. ]
As Ibr back as IB'2B, when I first entered cessity for the continuance of such a practice,
on the career of active life, I joined what let me here state that 1 have been five times,
was then called a Temperance Society. It in succession, elected to Congress without
was founded on the philosophy of the time, it, and in open opposition (o it. 1 have servand especially on the views of that true phi- ed, now in Congress for ten years; and I
losopher in the cause of human happiness, the began my course, as a candidate, as soon as
distinguished Dr. Beccher. It was his es- I was constitutionally eligible; and I was as
says on the subject that first attracted my at- anxious to get here, and as proud of my scat,
tention—a work which I have never yet seen as my friend from Kentucky declares that he
surpassed. 1 have never beon a drunkard; I is. 1 told the people—yes, the people even
never was in the habitual use ofintoxicating ofold mint-julep \ irgiuia, that 1 never would
liquor; and 1 never whs drunk but twice in consent to treat any one ofthem—[applause]
my lite—once when I was nine years old. and I never have had need to do it. 1 have nevagain at the age of fourteen, but when 1 did er asked any thing from them—from the comget drunk at all, I was dilink for dead. li. mission of a captain of cavalry to that of a
both cases I had to be stripped, and sub- member of Congress—that they ever refused
jected to violent friction, in older to bring me me; and I never gave one of them a drink to
to life again. A very philosophic reason has procue his favor. [Renewed applause.] I
been given for this by a friend of mine, who have said to them, when alluding to the pracsaid to me, "You have no reason to boast tice, end the oilers of liquor at first pressed
over being sober, for you had spirit enough upon me—"Gentlemen, this is a war of the
born in you to stimulate any one man; you many against the few: worse than that, it is
have quite enough excitability by nature, a war of many against one. 1 cannot stand
without needing to heighten it by the use ol it. It I drink with one of you, 1 must drfuk
liquor." Anil it was true. I can bear my with all; and that will keep me pretty thotestimony that strong drink is net a necessa- roughly soaked throughout the whole
ry of human life: 1 never touch it. My own paign. You will destroy me; you will totalframe is, on this subject, my best thermome- ly unfit mc for the very task for which you
Jt is.
ter; and to me this poison is deleterious; and elect me as your Representative.
physically and intellectually impossible that
is so, even to the smallest quantity.
Hut it was not a physical reason alone I should possess a well-balanced mind, after
which induced me to abstain: it was mainly passing through a canvass in which 1 must
a moral reason—l mean the fact, which lias drink at the rate of a thousand to one. And.
been so often alluded to, that, when once you [more than this, if my body could stand it,
touch the seducing cup, there is no security my parte cannot; and if you vie to be repagainst excess: the man has no power of re- resented by the mere powerof money and of
sistance. It has been truly said that, wrestle liquor, you must select some other agent to
who will with old John Barleycorn, John is serve you in Congress. 1 propose, it' chossure, in the end, to be the victor. 1 care en, to represent you merely by the personal
not how strong be may be, the man who gifts which nature bus bestowed upon me."
contends against strong drink is obliged to Such whs my reasoning with my constituents,
fall: he falls by a law of nature. What de- and I have never lost a vote by it. When
terred me was not the moral necessity only, they offered me the enn of grog, my answer
but the moral consequences of excess. It has been, "1 will drink with you in ono of
has been well snid, by my friend who lias tiie ingredients, and you shall drink with me
just addressed you, that the mnn who signs in the other: 1 will take the water, and leave
the temperance pledge signs it to secure his the brandy to you." [Applause.] A:id I
freedom; and, if an inebriate, signs it be- here say that, if there be a member of Concause he is resolved no longer to remain a gress —comes he from North, South, East,
slave—the meanest and the basest of slaves. or West, —who will agree pever again to
lie is determined to remain in the enjoy- countenance the use of this poisonous bevment of those gifts, mental and corporeal, erage in elections, that determination would
which the Almighty has bountifully conferred effect more good for him and hisconstituents
upon him; he has vowed to himself and to than the passage of any law I know of.
his Maker, that, in the beautiful language of And here 1 will further say that, when one
Scripture, his body is, and shall remain, a ofyour old seasoned, steeped, soaked drunktemple of the living God. »
ards, whose waya are zigzag" through the
There is one object which this society
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TEMYfcRAXCfc ADVOCATE.
through a Congressional district—especially
'
But the truth is, that men were considered as of the mighty influence which the public
if he has shaken hands, touch to touch, with temperate men at that time, who would, press exerts in this land; few imagine how
every man in it—(( apeak of those parts of without hesitation, be set down for drunkards deep a root the most false and notorious
the country where the stump system, and not now. A drunkard then meant a man who slanders can be made to take on the public
the caucus system, prevails)—by the time kept himself most of his time in a slate of mind at a distance from the spot wheie they
such an old stager has passed through his beastly intoxication, and those that society might at once be refuted. 1 mention this
district, for years, inarching before thou- abandoned to their fate. 1 he doctrine, as a circumstance to show that even the soberest
sands, and drinking with every one of them general principle, was true then, and is true men are liable to be held by their fellow
—(like that elderly gentleman whom-1 heard now, that when once a man has sunk so low citizens in distant places as open drunkards;
at your Inst meeting, declare that he has as to reel and stagger about the streets; when and that it is, therefore, high time that Condrank nineteen cups without falling, and nev- he has got past pinching his lips, and breath- gress should take steps to vindicateits characer was drunk in his life)—a candidate who ing in his pocket handkerchief, to conceal the ter. The legislators of the country ought not
never can meet, eat drink, or sleep together, deadly odor of his breath; when he has done only to be tree from so debasing a vice, but
with any of his constituents, without drink- with all that, and ceases to be ashamed of free from all suspicion of it. But I cannot
ing together—l say that, if he were endowed his condition, it is a thousand to one that he be free from it, so long as I come into my
with the wisdom of Solon; though he has will die as he is, or a great deal worse. But Congressional mess, and there obey the cusbeen an Atlas in the halls of Congress; the cause has now attained to the true phi- tom so happily exposed to the-censure it
though he has left his name in bright, burn- losophy of the case; it has reached at last merits by my friend from Kentucky a few
ing, and imperishable letters on the pages of the true ground—"touch not, taste not, evenings ago—the foolish and pernicious
his country's history—he has left, at home, handle not the unclean thing." This will practice of drinking healths at table. So
a still, small voice which will speak against not only preserve them temperate who are long us he touches or tastes the poison in
'him at the day of judgment. He has wrong- so, but it can reform the staggering drunk- any form, distilled or fermented, no man can
ed his wife—wronged his child—his father, ard himself. The ardent spirit pledge went be secure from suspicion. Never will Conhis mother, his dearest friends—and he has on the supposition that, as the poor laboring gress be thus free, so long as this temple of
fatally and irrevocably wronged himself and man could not afford to drink wine, if he ab- liberty, this grand, this august and beautiful
his constituents. There are instances of stained from ardent spirits he whs safe; but edifice, made, and properly made, like those
this sort in the history of Virginia. Men experience proved that this was not true
of ancient Greece and Rome—(for it is a
who have enlightened the forum by their ale, beer, cider, cheap wines, all were open healthful sign of freedom when the public
reaaoning powers—men to whom Marshall to him, and, as long as he tasted any of buildings so far surpass the splendor of all
has listened with respect, and even rever- these, his reformation was impossible, and private dwellings, so long as the people give
ence—men who have codified the laws of his security a dream. You might as well to liberty and the laws a palace as costly as
this District —men illustrious for intellect, "fetter the flame with a flaxen band," or the dwelling place of kings)—never, 1 say,
and in all other points for virtue, too—have, "stop the ocean with the sand," as attempt shall we be justly free from all suspicion unby the indulgence of this one fatal vice, to hold a half reformed inebriate from re- til this temple shall have been purified; till
wronged and injured mankind more, by their turning to his cups, unless his abstinence is we shall have driven out from its basement
example, then they have ever benefitted total and entire. His choice is between to- story the whole retinue ofcasks and bottles,
them by all their intellect, and by a long tal abstinence and being a bond slave to so as the money-changers were driven out
from a temple yet more sacred. Never can
life of great and illustrious public services. liquor.
But i did not rise here to make a speech. The honorable gentleman from Kentucky it be called pure so long as any of its preJMy purpose was simply to hear my testimo- has told us that he was considered as an cincts are infested with the revolting odors
ny to (he moral and physical value and ne- abandoned drunkard hj many whose faces of alcohol, and the stench of dead mint, by
cessity of this cause. The temperance so- he never sow; but worse than that has hap- the very side of that beautiful fountain of
ciety, as now organized, differs materially pened to me: I have been called a drunk- crystal waters at the west front ofyour Capfrom that to which I joined myself fourteen ard, after being a member of the temperance itol. March on the Speaker of this House;
years ago—of that kind was the old Con- society for fourteen years! 1 have been told march on the President of the Senate; and
gresssional Temperance Society. I was a that it was currently reported in the State purge the Capitol! And now lam ready to
member of what was, in Tennessee, called of Massachusetts that I was a very intem- sign your Congressional pledge.
the State Temperance Society, and since perate man; and a friend of mine had to [Mr. Wise here seized the pen, andaffixed
have assisted in forming several societies of contradict a formnjL statement to the same his signature to the pledge, while the hall
the kind in Virginia. 1 have been called effect, openly made at a temperance meet- continued to ring with renewed, and still
publicly to advocate the cause, and I hope 1 ing not a long time since. One of the itin- renewed, shouts of long-continued applause.]
did not profane even the pulpit itself by hav- erant lecturers in behalf of the temperance
ing, from that sacred place, addressed my cause, in a large public meeting, when ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.
fellow men in favor of temperance. The old pointing to the examples of men in public life
When asked to drink a glass of wine in
society did much good. The reform produ- who were degraded by this vice, and whose polite society, or upon a public
occasion, is
on
soced by it's influence excited the admiration exainjik-a bad so pernicious an effect
of all tb,e lovers of virtue Yet it was found- ciety, mentioned me by name, and attrib- it a mark of ill-broeding to refuse?
This being a question, as yet undecided
ed on a defective principle. The principle uted all the evil things I am charged with to
it assumed was, that confirmed drunkards hard drinking as their fruitful source —(a among persons of high standing, particularly
could not be reformed; that they must be laugh)—yes, to my drunkenness! Not the in military and naval life, the following angiven up; and the means employed must be drunkenness of spirit, which was born in nic, ecdote of General Washington, may be read
preventive merely, not curative. The doc- but drunkenness by alcohol! My friend, with interest.
trine was, that, if we can keep all temperate who had scrvtal on the same committee with
Towards the clese of the revolutionary
who are temperate, the drunkards will die off, me in Congress for eight years, rose and deand then we shall have a sober community. murred to the statement, declaring he had war, an officer in the army had occasion to
Men looked at the vice only in its most en- tiever seen or known any evidence of it; transact some business wilh Gen. Washormous and revolting forms; and the sight of but the lecturer persisted in the assertion; ington, and repaired to Philadelphia for that
Before leaving, he received nn
these becoming so general, and increasing he was perfectly certain of it; for—"the purpose.
invitation
to
dine with the General, which
of
us
are
aware
said
so."
few
Alas,
with so fearful a rapidity, alarmed them. papers
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(Feb.
�TEMPERAXCE ADVOCATE.
7
1843.)
SEAMEN'S FRIEND.
Ed of the design, that rising of ninety dollars
has been pledged. This sum has afforded
such encouragement, that the paper will be
issued regularly once each month, if consisThe Chaplain for Seamen would respecttent with other duties, and the printing can
fully give the following notice to seamen
be secured.
visiting the Port of Honolulu.
Ever since commencing the duties of this
Religious Services upon the Sabbath, at
chaplaincy, the necessity has been felt of 11 A. M., and 7P. M. On every Thursday
having some such medium of addressing sea- Evening, at the ringing of the bell, there will
men. DuriDg the year 1842, 450 English be a
religious meeting for prayer and conand 1,037 American seamen visited this ference in the Reading Room.
port. A number exceeding 1,487 touched
On the 3d Monday evening of each month
at Lahaina. Through this monthly sheet, the Seamen's
Monthly Concert will be held
it is hoped some minds may be favorably im- in the
Chapel at 7 o'clock.
pressed with moral and religious truth, with
All Seamen are invited to call nt the
whom the chaplain may never have the pleasStudy of the Chaplain. He has Bibles,
ure of a personal acquaintance.
various religious books and tracts for gratuiThe editor intends such shall be the tone tous distribution.
and spirit of this paper, that it may prove a
erable!
* #* M. b. Seamen attending religious serwelcome monthly visiter among the numerWashington saw at once the feelings of ous foreign residents scattered over these vices at the Chapel if detained until after 8
his guests, and promptly addressed them:—
o'clock in the evening, will not he arrested
is right. Islands.
"Gentlemen," said he, "Mr.
by the police officers, provided they go diI do not wish any of my guests to partake The question has frequently been asked, rect from the Chapel to the wharf and
of any thing against their inclination, and I why not increase the size of your sheet, and thence to their respective ships.
certainly do not wish them to violate any make it more general, and also open its colestablished principle, in their social inter- umns lor advertisements? The editor can The present law regulating the time that
course with me. I honor Mr.
for his simply reply, such a paper he would rejoice seamen may remain on shore reads as folfrankness, and for his consistency in thus to see weekly issued in this place, but the lows;
adhering to an established rule which can
"At half past seven o'clock in the evennever do him harm, and for the adoption of Seamen's Chaplain is not the man for its ing a gun shall be fired from the Fort, when
which I have no doubt he has good and suf- conductor. His other duties are too nu- all boats and Seamen shall return to their
ficient reasons."
merous.
ships; the whole must return, and at eight
Persons willing to aid in the circulation of o'clock another gun will be fired. When
the Temperance Advocate and Seamen's the second gun shall be heard then all seaor to-become subscribers, will please men (remaining on shore) will be seized,
Friend,
Honolulu, February 10, 1843.
their several Consuls, who
embrace the earliest opportunity for making and delivered to
to the police officers two dollars for
will
pay
ATvsotP
ineacl ledge.
it known. See terms.
each man thus seized."—Page 132 SandWe pledge ourselves that we will not
which Islands Laws.
iiny intoxicating liquors as a beverage, nor
The opinion has frequently been expressprovide thfem as articles of entertainment
MARRIAGES.
for our friends, nor furnish them to persons
ed
by masters of vessels, their crews and
In Honolulu, Dec. 19, 1842, O. P. Rickin our employ, and that in all suitable ways
of the residents that 8 o'clock was too
many
we will discountenance their use in the com- er, Esq., of Salem, Mass., to Miss Sarah
an
hour for seamen to leave the wharf.
of
early
W.
Piper,
munity.
Newburyport, Mass., by Rev.
Samuel C. Damon.
There is good reason to believe that the
The subscriber, desires to raise the sum At Koloa, island of Kauai, January 20, time will be extended, ut the next meeting
of one hundred dollars, by subscription dur- Capt. Abraham B. Russell, of New Bedford, of the Chiefs.
ing the year 1843, for the.purpose of circu- Mass., master of Whaleship Bartholomew
The Am. S. F. Society held its last Anlating publications advocating the principle Gosnold, to Miss Susan Holden, of HillsN.
H.,
borough,
by
Forbes,
Rev.
Cochran
nual
Meeting in New York City, May 10,
of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks American
Missionary.
1842.
Receipts forSailor's Home, $7,762,as a beverage. By the aid of this sum and
and for other purposes $18,099,07. To-82,
the proceeds of a subscription list, he proDEATHS.
tal $20, 861,89, an amount nearly double
poses to issue a monthly paper, which shall
In Honolulu, Dec. 19, ofconsumption, Mr. Daniel that of the former year. The Home and
contain a Seam'n's department. Whatever t.lv,
aged 26 The deceased was a native
ofOirclesums shall be contributed for this object, he ville, Ohio, U. 8., but for some years had resided as a the ground upon which it stands, cost rising
merchant in Warrantor!, Miss.
pledges himself shall be faithfully expended, In Honolulu, J:in. 1, Sponcer Rhodes, (colored man) of $40,000. The Secretary's report states
and at the end of the year to render an ac- aged 40 He was a native of the IT. 8.
that the Home has beeo opened under most
In Honolulu, Sabbath morning, Jan. 29, favorable circumstances.
count thereof.
Samuel C. Damon,
„ ,, ,
Seamen's Chaplain. Mr. Joseph Hicks, aged 40. The deceased
During the years 1840 and 41, the Rev.
Honolulu,
February 9,1843.
was a native of New Bedford, Mass., a boat
E.
N. Sawtell, Seamen's Chaplain, Havre,
builder
and
by trade,
had been living upon
The above proposition has been presented the
France,
Islands
and
from
them
collected in the U. S. the sum of
the
sailing
during
to some gentlemen, who have so far
approv- last twelve years.
$10,000 to build a Chapel in that port for
was accepted, and upon entering the room,
he found himself in the company of a large
number of ladies and gentlemen. As they
were mostly strangers to him, and he was
naturally of a modest and unassuming disposition, he took a seat near the foot of the
table, and refrained from taking an active
part in the conversation. Just before the
dinner was concluded, General Washington
called him by name, and requested him to
drink a glass of wine with him.
"You will have the goodness to excuse
me, General," was the reply, "as I have
made it a rule not to take wine."
All eyes were instantly turned upon the
young officer, and a murmur of surprise and
horror ran around the room. That a person
should be so unsocial and so mean as never
to drink wine, was really too bad; but that
he should abstain from it on an occasion
like that, and even when offered to him by
Washington himself, it was perfectly intol-
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ADVOCATE & FRIEND.
_
.
�With the full consent of the French
Government, the come/ stone of the Chapel
was laid in March, 1842. Rev. Mr. Sawtell is supported by the Am. S. F. Society.
seamen.
a
The Emperor of Russia has granted "lot"
of ground for the erection of a Seamen's
Chapel in the Port of Cronstadt, much visited by English and American seamen. The
" Chaplain, Rev. E. E. Adams, an American,
is supported, jointly by the British and Foreign Sailor's Society and the American Seamen's Friend Society.
"Bethel."—The question is often asked,
why apply the term Bethel, to a Mariner's
Chapel? A reference to Genesis 28: 17, 19,
will show that its original signification is
"House of God." The following extract
from the Sailor's Magazine, will furnish an
answer to the above question.
"It was some time in 1814 when it was
discovered that a few pious sailors, on board
the coal ships' at Rotherhithe, were in the
practice of-meeting together for prayer. A
few religious men, from the shore, began to
attend occasionally with them, and meetings
of this description became somewhat common. They began to call them "Bethel
meetings." The idea of converting a vessel, (a
place which had been proverbially
wicked,) into the very gate of heaven to
souls, led probably to the custom of calling
it a "Bethel." The use of a flag, with the
word "Bethel" on it, as a signal for divine
service on ship-board, was first introduced
by the ship-masters in the coasting trade,
from the north of England, about the year
1817."—Vol. 9, p. 73.
A Card.—The Seamen's Chaplain would
take this opportunity to acknowledge, the
present of three lamp 3 for the use of the
Chapel, ($18,00) from Messrs. Pierce St
Brewer. Also, a can of oil from Capt. Taber, and another from Capt. Dockum.
New York Journal of Commerce, Nov. 17, 1842.
UNION
KTtie
(Feb.
SEAMEN'S T?KIEKD.
8
OF THE ATLANTIC AND
PACIFIC OCEANS.
Company, chartered by the govern-
ent of New Grenada to construct a Ship
anal.connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, have completed their surveys, made
a road over the Isthmus, and are proceeding
to make the canal. An authentic account in
the Cincinnati Chronicle says,
The company having completed a provisional or temporary road from the bay of Cbarera on the Pacific, to the town of Chagres on
the Atlantic Ocean, is not only freed from
the necessity of roquiring additional time,
but the Republic of Grenada could not refuse it without violating its engagements,
since tho company have completed its con- the ocean less dangerous, and more expediexpiration of the time tious, will effect a great revolution in the
limited for the construction of any communi- commerce of the whole world, a revolution
cation whatever. Besides this it has caused of which America will experience the benethe whole country through which the pro- fits before all other nations. [Perhaps the
jected canal is to pass, as well as all the Sandwich Islands next!]
rivers and water courses which must contribute to it, to be thoroughly explored. These
explorations, conducted with great skill by PORT OF HONOLULU.
the Engineer, Morel, have demonstrated that
Foreign Arrivals, since Jan. 1, 1843.
the Isthmus of Panama, instead of being u
ledge of rocks, as many geographers have Jan. s,liar. Vancouver, Duncan, 304 tons.
described it, is on the contrary a valley, from Jan. 5, brig Sarah Abigail,Ooane, 210tons.
4 to 13 miles in width, and scattered over Jan. 10, ship Bartholomew Gosnold, Russell, 355 tons.
with conical heights of from 20 to 60 feet elevation, which upon the East and West rest Jan. 29, brig Joseph Peabody, Dominis,
224 tons.
upon low chains varying Irom 110 to 413 feet
in height. Among these small conical heights Feb. 2, brig Julia, Milne.
wind in all directions various streams and Feb. 6, ship Margaret Scott, 700 bids. oil.
rivers, which descend from the terminations Feb. 6, Adele, Luhrs, 1550 barrels right
whale oil, 50 sperm.
of the Andes, and unite in two principal
channels.
Departures, since January 1,1813.
The one which is the river Chagrcs, throws Jan. 2, ship William and Eliza, Rogers.
itselfinto the Carribbeun Sea; the other call- Jan. 9, brig Sarah Abigail, Doane.
ed the Rio Grande, flows towards the Paci- Jan. 17, sell. Shaw, Dv Pcrnet.
fic Ocean. The dividing country between Jan. 11, barque Vancouver, Duncan.
these rivers has an elevation of only 37 leet
Passengers.
above the highest known level of the sea, or
In the Joseph Peabody, Doct. Lyman, of
of 64 feet above low tide; the flood tides
some times attaining the height of 27 feet. Northampton-, Mass.
The excavation necessary to unite the AtlanIn the Julia, Messrs. I). F. McKay, Hentic and Pacific Oceans by means of the river ry Sea, from Sidney,
South Wales.
Vine, Tinto, Bernardine and Fazlau is only Capt. J. Hall, from Tahiti.
I2J miles; and the fall will be regulated by
Vessels in Port, Feb. 10.
4 double locks, 188 feet in'length. The whole
William Gray, Stickncy.
of the projected canal will be 49 miles in
Dockhuin.
length, 136 feet in breadth, at the surface of James Stewart,
Parker.
Ocean,
20
the water, and M feet at the bottom,
feet
Scott, Smyth.
in depth, and will be navigable for vessels of Margaret
Adele, Luhrs.
from 1000to 1,400 tons. All the rivers which
•■
Honolulu, Sulfcry.
arc to serve ns parts in the canal have, at
Bartholomew Gosnold, Russell.*
the lowest water, a depth varying from 8 to
Joseph Peabody, Dominis.
to 15' feet; they will be swept and excavated
Julia,
Milne.
to a depth of 20 feet, and kept at that depth
by means of two guard locks. The country
Bartholomew Gosneld, sailed
* VVhaleship
through which the canal will pass, presents a from
Honolulu, Jan. 13, for Kauai, to obtain
clayish and coaly soil, with no rock except stores. She came to anchor, on the mornnt the mouth of the Chagres, where the for- ing of the following duy in I fathom water,
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mation is so slaty that it will present no ob- at Koloa. Gule commenced from the south,
stacle.
.Monday motning. Wednesday let go the
Although flic construction of the canal will second anchor. On Thursday lost one anrequite no purchase of land, and no outlay chor, and 25 fathem chain, and cut away
for stone, lime or cement, all which materials mizsen mast. She dragged within ship's
are to be found upon the spot, still the com- length of shore, where she nobly weathered
pany has not hesitated to estimate its cost at the gale. Twice did all hands leave the
the highest rates of constructing such works vessel, thinking that she would certainly beas those, for example of the Caledonian Ca- come an entire wreck upon the rock-bound
nal in Scotland, and the Louisville Canal, shore. She is now lying in Honolulu harthe rate of352,900 francs, or about (66,157 bor, undergoing repairs.
per mile; so that the 42 miles of canal, properly so called, will cost 14,821,800 francs, or
Temperance Advocate and Seamen's
about $2,778,615. In these estimates ate
included the cost of four steam two boats, Friend, published monthly, by Samukl (TDamon,
Chaplain.
two folding bridges of cast iron, 140 feet in Seamen's
Terms. H."O per annum, in advance, single copy.
!p2,UO three copies.
length, and several smaller ones.
iJI.oO two topics.
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#5,00 ten copies.
This juncture of the two oceans, by bring- five copies.
ing the islands of the Pacific, China, Japan,
Subscriptions received at Messrs. Ladd &
Australea, Sumatra, &c, some 4,000 leagues Co., Mr. E. 11.Eonrdman's, the Study ofthe Seamen's
nearer to us, by rendering the navigation of Chaplain, and at the Printing Office.
tract before even the
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