https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/1ba00dfd643a509c08a32519e8cf598d.pdf 4f33dbe0f1b8726d17511177096bf6fc PDF Text Text , A SEMIMONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, BBAMEN, MARINE AND __——_—__^—.—. —■■« ■ ■ ■ ■-*■ ■ '" __. __*__ . — ■■ - "■' HttVOLILI, OAHII, S. I. JAWCARIT Vol. HI. 9 THE FRIEND. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. ' 13. 1845. 7' ~.i? No.II. ' *—* Like the dove as you go frona the place of John S. Thrasher, and the other gentlemen who aided and encouraged me by many your rest, OP TEMPERANCE AND -EAMEN, attentions and much valuable inforPublished and edited hfySASiCEL O. Damon', Sea- May your heart turn with joy to the land of friendly mation arid advice. men's Chaplain, will be issued (usually) on the (stand birth, your 16th of every month, aach number containing 8 page*. The home where so often your souls have It will be remembered that before my departure it was thought best, from advice re'terms. been blest. ceived in New York, to proceed in an unof kc. $2,80 Him, One copy parannum, the May blessing --..----. 4,U0 Two copies, disguised manner, laying before the Cap* "' Three 5,00 our whole plans, and requesting " tain-general " when the toils the ocean are then, of 7,00 Five And " to prosecute them peaceably. It permission Tan 10,00 o'er, " " was my own desire, for very obviSubscriptions and donations for the Friend received And homeward your tempest-tost bark you certainly at the study of the Seamen's Chaplain, or by tbe folreasons, to take that course, if it could ous shall steer, lowing agents done with the shadow of a chance of sue • Mr. E. H. 80-irdman, Honolulu; Rev. 1.. Andrews, This signal of welcome shall wave on the he cess. But my friends and acquaintances in Seamen's Chaplain, Lahaina; Mr. Burnham, Kolon, shore, Kauai; and tbe American Missionaries throughout the The promise- of all that to memory is dear. Havana, one and all, after consulting with Inlands. each other, assured me that it was their, ADVERTISEMENTS May the blessing of Hint, &tc. opinion that to apply to the governor for Terms.—One square, i insertions, #2,25. and 50 liberty to preach to seamen, either on shipcents for every additional insertion. One half square or less, 2 insertions, #1,76, and 87 1-2cents for every SEAMEN'S FRIEND. board or" shore, would be very much worse additional insertion For yearly advertising, not exthan useless. This opinion was grounded ceeding one column, #50. SEAMEN'S CHAPLAINCY AT HAVANA, on the known policy and laws of Spain and. Cuba, on the result of former applications, CUBA. POETRY. on the character of those at present in powIt is the design of the American Seamen's er, and on the present state of political afTHE BETHEL FLAG. Friend Society to establish Chaplaincies in fairs. BY MRS. ANNA L. SNELLING. foreign Ports, (or the benefit of Seamen of Polict or Srlro.—lt has always been As the rainbow, of promise- that smiling ap- all nations, similar to that established at Ha- contrary to the policy and laws of Spain to peared, vre, France, or the one in Honolulu Hav- suffer the existence of any root of" heresy" When the waters were stayed o'er a ing this object in view, the Executive Com- in her aoil, of any name or species. His perishing world; of said Society, sent to Havana, Rev. holiness has no devotees more bigoted than So the heart of the tempest-tost sailor is mittee the ruling powers of spam. In no country L. Grosvenor, a gentleman, we believe, from at this cheered, day is the atmosphere so loaded with When the flag of the Bethel to him is i our personal acquaintance, to have been the fogs of the dark ages. In Rome her< unfurl'd. the eye of St. Peter's successor, eminently fitted for tbe duties of a Seamen's May the blessing of Him who is mighty Chaplain.' He was originally educated for 1 learn that Jhe British have erected a chapto save, el and are suffered to worship God as they Ever rest on the flag of the sons of the the legal profession, and commenced the please. In Brazil, Protestant worship is practice of law, but subsequently turned his openly tolerated. In Venezuela, (at Catalents to the proclamation of the gospel, af- raccas) the Romish bishops not only made .y this banner long wave as a beacon ofF ter having pursued a course of theological no objections to the erection of a I rotestant studies. We extract the following interest- fihurch, but themselves assisted at its conseAs abroad on the waters you .fearlessly, ing account of his visit to the above men- cration, rffarohing in procession with great ■ roam; parade. But in Spain or her dependencies, May it rise on your thought in the silence ofr tioned port, from the Sailor's Magazine for it is believed we snail search in vain for any Aug., 1844, received by the overland mail: sanctuary where the mass is not performed, night, And mingle with joy in the visions ofhome. "To the Executive Committee of the and where sacred relics, the confessional May,the blessing of Him, &c. American Seamen's Friend Society, the un- and the 'graved image have not usurped the dersigned, who was commissioned to go to place of Christ, and the tithes of mint, anise May it tell you of Him whom the Father has Havana, to inquire what may be done to and rumin, frankincense and myrrh are not 1 raised, promote the moral and social inrprovemenf substituted for the weightier matters of the to Ensign' gather bis chosen ones1 of American seamen visiting that port," re- law. home, spectfully reports: Former i»pbioatioh.—Mr. Tolmey, of he Isles ofthe sea; ' where his name On the 23d of March, 1844,1 sailed from Havana, informed fne that in 1838, he being 1 shall be praised, New York for Havana, in the brig Leopoldo then British Consul, applied to the governor To whom from all nations the Gentiles 1 ()*Donnell, (the owner, Capt. Shaler, and for liberty to have worship at his house after shall come. the master, Capt. Spinney, having kindly the English form, and requested protection May the blessing of Him, &c. given me a free passage out,)and arrived in for those who should attend. He was anHavana April sth. As soon as possible, I swered that any individual undertaking such While your ship ploughs the wave to eachi netered on the business off say mission, and I a thing, would be subject to a jaunt through region of earth, feel bound here to express my thanks to Mr. I the street of the cfty, at public expense, THE FRIEND, " ---------- — * . • Kwave. " M« ' mums. �TH£ tIIIEXD. 10 (January, I mounted on a jackass, with his face toward On the whole it seemed clear to me that proceedings And as there was no privacy the tail thereof. Soon .after, a petition and nothing could be done by asking leave. It of admission, nor any injunction of secrecy subscription ware got up by the British audi was thought, bowe-ver, by all with whom 1 on those who were present, and aa AmeriAmerican residents to erect a church, and conversed, with few exceptions, thst if can sailors sre not proverbial for forbearinj were sent to Lord Palmerston. then Secre- preaching were confined on shipboard, and to speak openly and loud of what they set tary of State, who forwarded the petition to I carried on without 'ostentation, and without and think, whether in New York or Hsva. the British Minister at Madrid, who present- " meddling with matters that engender na, a supposition that the Government reed it to the authorities at that Court, by strife," no interference from the authorities mained ignorant, is out of the question. But need be fesred. This opinion was ground- moreover, the authorities certainly knew ol whom it was instantly rejected. ed the fact that' some shipmasters had my being in tbe city, and were fully informCArTAIN-GEKBRaL O'DONNBLL. It IS heldonservice heretofore without interruption, ed ol" my object, for it was stated in my pasthat there were or if Before, thought also, and that there had been preaching occasion- port; and 1 have every reason to believe if shall be hereafter, " a hook to hang a hope ministers on shipboard, and' also on was again madeknown by (lie Spanish Conby ally on," it does net exist now on account of the the fact that I myself preached there on two sul, residing at the port of New York, it tbe present Governor, despotic character of and 21st of April) without letters written to the Governor. If Gov* and his great seal for the Catholic church. Sundays (14th disturbance than the whistling of eminent was led to consider me a suspicion! other Valdez, as the last governor, a Such mil i-boat men, and the sports on board person, 1 was doubtless watched; and ha< (one who is said to have hated the priesthood vessels and boats. All Ibis was they intended to arrest either me or m [bboring and their nunneries, monasteries nnd other sufficient to create any confusion, and it preaching, it seems probable it would hay it would have felt thought is appurtenances,) cry doubtful whether there was any de- been done at once. But I must, in justice, rather favorably inclined to tbe establishl to disturb v«, though it is quite certain say, that it is quite possible that the sail' ment of anything calculates] to displease the Cor.sul, Don Francisco Stoughton, who is t re was much curiosity excited. of eclesiastics. HowDoubtless, great body and liberal minded gentleman, and t kind ever, a man like O'Donaell, one who can Worship on shipboard uninterrupt- personal friend of O'Donnell, wrote favorathe trident of power with energy is ed.—The services were held on the deck of me andj my mission, and that regarding bly the ded in present emergencies. Bsrque Brighton, of Boston, Capt Cum- this induced the authorities to let me alone. Political condition of Cuba.—The mings, aiid were fully attended by shipmas- I ought not to doubt, that, so far as the perpresent was thought to be an unfavorable ters, officers, seamen, ladies, etc., the boats sonal feelings of the- Consul himself are con■season for our designs, on account of the in which they came being ranged alongside. cerned, he would be very willing to promote You are There was no attempt at concealment, nor your wishes—for he gaye me a substantia immense excitement existing. most that a and terrific con- any bravado pr display. A large awning proof of his friendly feelings towards me begeneral aware spiracy has been detected te re-enact in this sheltered the deck aliaf't the mainmast, an- fore I sailed. Islsnd the trsgedy of San Domingo. I need other was spread athwart ship, which, howBut whatever may be the feelings of an was partly hoisted during the exercises or all the official personages concerned, not disgust yoa by detailing the horrors that ever, have followed the discovery of this intended to admit the breeze, thus giving the curious was permitted, for several days to pursue my insurrection. Whites, free colored persons an opportunity to get some notion of what own path unmolested, and, so far as I know, and slaves are implicated and immolated. was going on, which several improved by unthought of. I was permitted to reside in The government is said to be very jealous rowing acroas our bows several times. The the chy, and go In and out at any hour; and of English and Americans. I was inform- ship lay in the stream about fifty yards from when 1 applied at the Governor's House for ed that two individuals, being or pretending the Casa Blanca shore, near what sailors my return pasport, no inquiries were mn<l< to be Catholio priests, were discovered af- call the "Green Shears." Worship was aliout what I had done or intended to do; terwards to have been emissaries from tbe conducted as usual, with prayers, reading though 1 passed through the usual roiitin* British West Indies. If report be true, scriptures, a sermon, and such singing as ef formalities, and the Governor signed tiie without pasporL servile insurrection is not tbe only evil which could be got up extetniwiraneously ™ the government baa to fear and guard note or comment. Flack for worship.—Being convince 'I considered these meetings, thus held, a against. Tbe slaughter of the American siilor by fair lest of the willingness ot the authorities that the Chaplain's labors must be perform, a sentinel, which occurred soon after my ar- to suffer them. Governments sometimes ed on shipboard, I proceeded to inquire about rival in Havana, and of which I wrote an wink at what they will not openly license; a particular and permanent place for woraccount ia a letter to one ofyour A>mmittee, and the very circumstances which rendered ship. There is in the harbor the hulk oft as a store? caused, as you know, much excitement, it impossible to obtain permission by appli- British man-of-war, lying there whicb is doubtless now nearly abated, but cation, made the present a very favorable ship for recaptured slaves, and hearing from a possibility of wbicb increased at the time the impossibili- opportunity to try the experiment of doing Mr. .Tolmey that there was obtaining that, 1 enquired ofCapt. M'Cleaty of effecting an/ good by application te without it. now commanding the government. Gen. Campbell (Amerir Tbe coffin and corpse of the deceased ry, of if. B.to M. Navy, whether board the vessel said learn I could be per* hulk, American were on informed sit that he sailor Consul) anticipate*] can no serious consequence*, tbe Governor where I preached, and the first time 1 milled to preach there. Capt. MC, ah promising him that justice should be done, preached was previous to any abatement of though he expressed himself very politelj had no authority to permit any and the U. S. Government, moreover, being ihe excitement on the subject. Here, then, said that he on board his vessel other thai somewhat proverbial for forbearance. 1 may was an illegal assemblage (all popular as- assemblage as well add what I have, not seen elated in semblages are illegal in Cuba,) held under his own crew—he had no objection to m; the service and preaching to them any account of the affair—that the Spaniards inauspicious circumstances, aflording nn ex- reading read the service himself ever give and swear to an entirely different story cellent pretence to interrupt the meeting as he said he that concern. Sunday, being required by his govern the a molittcal Americana, of and the from that one.of The fact thai there was no interruption, ment. Mr. Tolmey informed me that mis* Spanish journals gave a Munchausen verChurch of'England sometimes sion of it that must have astonished tbe cor- increased my faith For the Government inters of the on board that vessel, and that M; of They preached meeting*. have known these if themselves, it did not must and sentinel id them to douht their nw.identity. «ld . I . Stral �11 THE fUIEKB 1845.) quite as well as by the seaman's minister. verses] with men of intelligence in Havana, tell me There is no law to prohibit the importation Spaniards as well as ethers, and they of Bibles, or any except licentious books. A that the large majority of what tain world merchant in H. told me he Would be glad to calls the better class ol society, are either receive a consignment of BiMea, nod attend infidels, or entirely neglectful of Church he whether would be justified in certainty distribution himself. Another, an worship—that the really devout pay tbeir to their permitting the Chaplain to use his vessel. orisons in their own houses, not visiting the Mr. Tolmey thought there would be anoth- English mechanic, desired me tohesend some temples at all, having no confidence in tbe which promised er commander next fall. There seems to Bibles snd Testaments, or piety of the Priesthood. 1 have he was morals families in to distribute with which be no alternative for the chaplain at present, the naves and at the altars of their in me stood told hut to follow the example of Christ, whs acquainted. A Spanish gentleman their holidays, half-holidays, on churches, for his some Bibles he intended to purchase vent abort doing good. sacrifice, and have obat their daily and and an orhim nieces, and gsvs I nephews the-number quality of their worserved and to me Importance,or this mild.—Of the im- der fotfo*r which were presented by t and among these spare congregaportance of .such a chaplaincy, I suppose Mr. L. P. Hubbard, of the Marine Bible shippers,black and aged whites, I could hardnone can doubt. Four thousand, and some- Society. I was astonished when I discov- tions of times more, American seamen visit this port ered that, with all (his liberty of light, there ly ses one young, or apparently intelligwa* annually, between the months of October were very few book stores in Havana, and persbn of any color or sex. The poor and worship—and tbe And June. 1 was told there were more than no Bibles for sate in these, it being a book ignorant alone come to aa they enter the 100 American vessels in port at the.time of entirely uncalled for. Yet, I was myself citizen and stranger alike, shrine and image the idly by cathedral, pass not English incidents, Arrival. Of vessels and witness which need seamen, to several my there are about one fourth as many aft Amer- here be detailed, which proved to me that it of St. Peter, to witness the tomb, and bias ican. Your committee have always shown would cost little trouble to aroise the cari- the marble that covers the ashes of Colon. thai they sppreciete ths importance of the osity of the Spaniards, and engage them in On Good Friday and Easier, I inquired in for the mission; and it is the Christian public alone, [reading the Word of Life. The priests the open shops, of tbeir keepers, and was upon whom any motives for action in this themselves are said to be as ignorant of the cause of the expected processions, matter need be urged. Bible as of the writings of Tycho Brahe, answered by shrugs and protestations of igThe temptations to which seamen are ex- and being themselves content, like Jack nornnce. 1 saw the processions themselves. in Havana, I was surprised and de- Cade, " with the score and tally, and no Here was none of that gorgeous display and ightsd to find, are less than ia most other other books," it is, perhaps, to be expected, profusion of wealth, which many ot you, countries, large ports, in consequence of the excellent that they would consider the Bible as tend- gentlemen, have seen in Catholic ot Police regulations; and if these 5000 sea- ing '.'traitorously to corrupt the youth." aud of whicb I hud often read in books savored travels; which, and though they be men remained always in Havana, perhaps But Bibles, Testaments and Tracts might there would not be so much need .of moral and ought to be scattered there like the much of superstition and idolatry, had in I and my instruction as inBoston or Portland. These snow flakes- of a Russian winter. None them also much sof the sublime. ton, as me, friends who were with fancied it almost impossible for can doubt that the Bible will be spread and regulations render the hive' of bearded friars, Seamen to desert, or be decoyed from one the Gospel preached in Cuba, and that the we looked at vessel to another; and the fact that'the car- dwellers in this Island of palm trees—a land monks and prieats, as they " eyed us askance leer malign," that we cotrld rying of pointed knives, or any concealed beautiful as God made it, shall join in the with jealous acrid faces the bitter feelings arms, is prohibited under pain of six years universal millenial '•horns. The proper read in their hearts in of their reflecting upon what once vessels and that masters of is imprisonment, time to do good always now,—the present of days was. The other had departglory •are bound to see thai their men observe this ia never too early. The responsibility, in this ed, and hero was hut tbe shadow oflheir law, ensures almost entire freedom from matter, at. all events, should be shifted from those, disgraceful riots which curse our own our shoulders to theirs. It is the duty of shade." There was the Virgin, overloaded of the free," and into which riots sai- the Christian to kuock at every door, and if with mummeries, like the religion slio repre-of "lorsland are most apt to be .drawn. no one answers, Marry the latch; and Chris- sented—blistered with shallow plasters The laws also forbid tbe owners of eating tian etiquette requires us to stay, hot as lope tinsel, and tricked"out with finery, but apparently much less costly than thatof the slsve and liquor shops, and boarding houses, from as we are asked, but as long as we are negresses who had collected it) the streets to houses, sailors into their or giving to ft minister of the Gosadmitting remain. If fered without written conthem anything on trust, pel were suffered to preach on shipboard in view her. And there were Msgdaleas, and sent of the masters of their respective ves- Havana, it would not be long before he Josephs, and images of Christ—once the sels, under pain of forfeiture of what they would gain a footnold on shore, and then the work of world-known sculptors—once of may supply them with, and all damages that result is in the hands of the Almighty; and solid gold and silver—once arrayed in costmay arise from the concealment of mari- the idolshe will utterly demolish, or his word liest robes and sparkling with precious gems; now stunted, daubed and distorted ners. This law,has been amended," adds ! shall fail. waxen or wooden effigies, that disgraced the Mir Thrasher, "by the imposition of a fine Religion is Cuba.—Notwithstanding .workmen. I saw the Host, (with tha guard of $i4 on any boarding house keeper that shall keep a sailor one night without per- the efforts ot the Government and Priest- soldiers, which, according to one of the mission, over and above tbe forfeiture above hood to bolster up the mortifying body of daily papers, protected the Divine MajesRomanism in Cuba, the observer cannot ty") borne along—not as of yore, between named." It is not needful to say innch of the prob- help seeing and believing that it is already lines of prostrate devotees, but through able influence of such a chaplaincy on the death-stricken. Its pulse already flutters— straggling gorges of idle and laaghing men, religion of Cuba. The direct influence up- stimulants cannot arouse it. The only med- not half of whom deigned to uncover their on the people would be probably small; for icines administered by its anxious nurses are heads, not one of whom deigned to bend the if the preacher were to engage much in any opiates, serving but to deepen its lethargy knee. But a few yeara ago, much of tbe work aside from his special mission, he and hasten its dying gasp. The Spaniards Church property was confiscated and the would be liable to be looked on with suspi- have been drenched in lies, till all religious monasteries broken up; and even in the cion. The work of distributing Bibles and life nnd feeling are gone—and truth, and cbiefest of their temples, one may see, by Had held worship there, using tbe Episcopal forma. Capt MC. doubtless felt willing to to all that he thought himself justifiable in doing. I have no means of judging with fiosed " suf- " " �12 THE Tftiia>ri>. (January,i upon them bow. I visited the former (he difference between Old Hundred" and Time passes on. The habit for strong Church sod Convent of San Francisco, "Auld Lang Syne," yet" it shows how pow- drink increases. Listen now to the brandy now a warehouse for bonded goods', Governx>( drinker's musing, ment stores, fkc. The skeleton of an em- erful, in his judgment, were the charms music. It would admit of no small degree boweled orgsn towered in the gallery, above "But now only look! I'm alight to behold, a mass of barrels and tobacco bales, like a of debate to show whether Waahingtonian 'I he lieanty I boasted fled. single column among the ruins of Babylon; songs or Washingtonian speeches had been You would think I washasnearly a hundred and pilea of .bags and boxes occupied the productive of the greatest amount of good years old, places of the images and altars, and filled in promoting tbe cause the United States. When I'm raising my hand to my head; in the cells of the routed monks, and friars, For it trembles and shakes like tbe earth What has been done other of tbe in parts and nuns. when it quakes, Would that this visible decay of the Ro- world, we desire to witness on these shores. And I'm always a spilling my tea, mish Church in Cuba signified a better state If we cannot convince men by argument, And whenever 1 speak 1 make awful misof religious feeling—a more spiritual per- overwhelm them, with stubborn facts, ception of truth! But i4 tells of nothing shame them by ridicule, let us charut Tilltakes, every one's laughing at me. better than rankest infidelity, generated in intelligent minds by the corruptions of-the them with music, and sing them into an He then endeavors to account for the priesthood; it tells of reckless indifference adoption of cold water principles. Who in the more sensual and debased, arising can estimate the good accomplished by that reason tvhy the ladies "don't love" him, from the reckloss example of their superiors. song, and thinks he discovers it to be from the And in many of those who play parts in this loss of his beautiful aquiline nose," which insipid farce, it tells of Atheism, " clothed " Tbe drink (hat's in the drunkard's bowl now resembles "an "overgrown 'strawberry in the livery.of God to servy the devil in " Is not not the drink for me, stuck on his face." Such figures ofspeech But it also bids us hope that the " rock " of It kills his body and his soul, their foundation in the reality! At St. Peter,, whicb has climbed, and climbed How sad a eight is he, he." till its crags pierce even the temple of God, igth, however, the old brandy drinker exalting itself above all that is called God, Let a company of young people become comes to himself, when he breaks forth;.in "showing itself that it t* God," is already be- fond of such temperance songs as the folimpassioned burst of poetical ginning to topple and to fall. It binds us lowing, and you hnve a powerful barrier to the following believe, that when Protestantism shall be them from the paths of intemperance. planted here, it will, with its regenerating keep M old brandy bottle, I'll love you no powers, restore to lift* the dying and the Sparkling and bright in its liquid light, more, dead. L. GROSVENOR. Is the water in our glasses; on ye ruined me, body and soul, New York, May 10, 1844. 'Twill give you health, 'twill give you wealth, I'll dash you to pieces, and swear from this Ye lads, and rosy lasses. , hour, O then resign youi ruby wine, To give up both you and the bowl. Each smiling son and daughter, And 111 now go and sign;—(l could surely There's nothing so good for the youthdo worse) kolulu, January 15, 1845. ful blood, On thut pledge all my hopes I repose, sweet as the sparkling water. Or And I'll get back my money in pocket antT MUSIC AND TEMPERANCE. purse, For once, we rejoice that the power of It has been with almost perfect delight song has been brought to the aid of the tem- that we have heard the young Chiefs and And I'll get back my beautiful nose! perance reform among the people of Hono- other young people sing the above song. lulu. It has been what we have long de- As the chorus is sung by a full choir of voisired, but have hot been gratified to see ac- ces, what wine-bibber is not resolved for ca,Power of Song.—Mr. Bushnell, of UtiYork, a zealous Washingtonian, havcomplished until the meeting of the Hawai- once to dash his wine cup to the earth? On ing N. business in. a neighboring town was ian Total Abstinence Union, held on the the evening of the 31st ult. we thought the obliged in consequence to see the landlord 31st of December, 1844. Vocal and in- song, of the village inn—he popped at his bouse. When he entered Me bat room, he ssw struments! music are made 'aids to sentiYou old brandy bottle, I've lov'd you too about twenty " men in it, most of whom were social and ment, feeling religious devotion, long," in a stnte of them but hitherto the advocates of total abstinence was sung with great and good effect. NV>w quite drunk. After a little time, one of the have been obliged to pass their hours' of company said .something to Mr. Bushnell, meeting in musical, although not moody si-' reader, yon may be a lover of good old. who replied in a courteous manner, and lence. That old dramatist Shakspeare, has Cognac, yet you cannot deny hut that song spoke on the subject of temperance.' Imof sober, home- mediately, the attention of the contains a amount good aaid, " The man that hath not music in himassembly was and the cause was denounced as self, nor is not moved by concord of sweet spun truth. Many a brandy drinker at the arrested, the work of the priests and politicians. sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and commencement of his career could say to Mr. Bushnell, finding it impossible to his bottle, brandy spoils; his spirits move as dull as tiight, and stem the current of abuse by an appeal to his affections dark as Erebus. Let no sturh " I had plenty, of cash in my pocket and their reason, proposed singing a temperance purse, song, to which they all agreed, and man be trusted." This judgment falls rathbe acAnd my cheeks were as red as a rose, cordingly commenced the Staunch Tefoer heavy upon some of the sons of Adam " And the day when I took you for better or 0n glanciug around the room and daughters of Eve, who cannot bum worse, h <l conc u<'*«. he observed the tear *, * J, the scale, " do, re, mi, Btc." or distinguish I'd a beautiful aquiline nose. trickling down the cheek of almost every ty is . ' Kuence, ETHE FRIEND. _. . < ' I • •" uJler ' ] �T H fc. V ft I fc X 1846.) «. 13 resident, until a few days Honing his thoughts to a gentleman man. The sentiment of the song and the They kept the matter secret said to hitn he thought be that gentleman who from some one which it was when it leaked out sgo, manner in rnelsdious'touching but might get up a society here, and persuaded sung, had awakened their purest sensibili- whs not quite so guarded as he might"be, him to try to gather the residents, snd talk ties—had carried their thoughts back to their it was -said that the establishment could not over the matter. He went out among them, it would be defendwas, be and it if they found, as families and firesides, surrounded they and all promised to sttend the meeting, But innothing swords points. once were with plenty, happiness and* affec- ed even at which was held last Monday evening. The a tion; and then the contrast of a drunkard's timidated by threats, Dr., White -rallied was addressed by persons present, meeting jumped veterßnsv, of temperance home, its dark wretchedness and misery, Company drawn up, which 9 out of 14 and a pledge river, the in quest were widely presented to their minds—and into a boat, and put down the evening they met again, next They signed; those hardened men could not resist the ap- of the bead quartets of Bachus. and meeting, obtajilad had an interesting the into put miles, its truth tears! went down about ten and by peal, but acknowledged and voted to commusome more signatures,, and soon coming The song was unanimously called for again, mouth of a small stream, nicate with the society at Honolulu. You commenclanded, its to a and rock,.they repetition. their'wishes'gratified, by large and will get the official and particular account Soon after the landlord came in, and he was ed a thorough search" in a dense thicket of from them. B. Pitmua, Jr. has been the requested to repeat it for* his special benefit; oak and fir. To cut. the story short, they means, in a great measure, of bringing it produced the same effect oh him, and after soon found the object of their search, which about this good work. All those that have Mr. Bushnell had concluded, he grasped consisted of eight barrels and two hogsheads signed, exceptingtiim and his father, ware him by the hand and exclaimed —" I. will of stuff prepared for, distillation, the large hard-drinkers/ They bid fair, and may they never sell arfother glass of liquor as long as kettle was set in an a/eh, and every thing receive strength sufficient for their temptaI live!" He acted immediately upon the else necessary to proceed in tbe work of tions. resolution, cut down his sigu-post, and clos- death. They did not hesitate what to do, but By an arrival from the Volcano this morned bis liar—the others promising to go to but immediately destroyed epory thing ing, 1 learn that the lake is now full and the boat, the the temperance meeting that evening, and the ketile, wriich they rolled into action consequently increased; persons I have sign the pledge, and they all did except one. and brought it back into the town. are the standing on the edge can dip up the liquid not time to make comments, these '_ lava-with a stick three feet long. 1 ! ■principal facts." With much respect, , I'remain, ThengOtreqiouvnaesr King Alcohol, or his abettors and Temperance Irruption, or Hilo has .agents.—A friend has kindly-furnished the come to the rescue.—By the last arrival following, extract of ja- letter, dated Walla- from Byron's Bay, Hawaii, letters have been there occurmerte Falls, Aug. I, 1*844. received giving the most cheering accounts care of the Rev. Abbe Maigret, The number 68 births. to 62 deaths and it will be pleasing to you of a temperance irruption, which, according red " Perhaps number of deaths up learn how things, are done in Oregon, in re- to present births the of exceeded appearance, is destined to lay the rainy seagard to the subject of tomperance> The «f A» to the Btb December. contrast between ou,f method* of doing the waste the entire dominions of old King Alson commenced, mortality increased, as business, and the policy pursued by the good cohol. • At the meeting of the H. T. A. Unpeople of Oahu, is very striking indeed. I ion, held on the Vth'of the current month, a might be naturally expected. will leave it with temperance people to most interesting communication appeared in �judge which of the two methods is best cal- the (as yet) unpublished columns of the Casculated to promote the objects of temperance We have learned that in two or three incade. The following extract, taken from a movements. As the grand license system of Oahu is letter addressed to the editor of the Friend, stances, the carrier neglected to leave panow known and read of all men, it is not ne- confirms the statements in the Cascade. pers with Honolulu subscribers on the Ist cessary for me to exhibitjt here. } would The two communications were written by of January. If the case should agaia ocsimply refer to two circumstances which are different gentlemen. cur, the neglect will be immediately atteudcalculated to show what is the public opinion of Oregon, with respect to the making yen Hilo, Dec. 13, 1844.' ding, and use of alcoholic drinks. These . Duringthyupnedar 184, astoral . Rev. and Dear-Sia.—■* * *The,best news two things are exhibited in a' few words First the legislative committee, which forms I have to communicate is, that Hilo has a part of our " Provisional Government," come to the rescue. Temperance has here passed an act in their session this-surptner, unfurled her banner and the residents are which imposes a fine of one hundred dollars enlisting.-. Coming forward i obly to the upon any persons who shall either bring to work, and bid fair to drive King Alcohol the country, make, sell, or give away spirit- from Hie Bay But to facts.. A person who had long and faithfully served the ruin King, uous liquors. The second circumstance is this. A few who had descended low in the sea of intemlawless fellows, who were willing to do al- perance, who could take the disgusting, filmost any thing to obtain a little of the thy preperation of "Jlied," in his own words, " creature," undertook secretly to establish a pale, nasty-faced half brother of old Ala distillery. They succeeded in purchasing cohol," came to the determination to cast or eight barrels of molasses, a Urge, off the yoke of servitude, and enlist under fix potash kettle, under the pretence of wanting the tetotal banner, and see if his situation it to boil awill for hogs, a quantity of tin to could*be any worse He thought of sendmake a worm, professing to want it for tbe ing his name to the society «t Honolulu, and purpose of making a baker to bake bread in. beg admission among its members. Men- . " . was Temperance House.—It with much pleasure that we saw the sign with the above inscription. For a long time a good temperance eating htfhse has been greatly wanted in Honolulu. Seamen have again and again applied to us to direct them to such an establishment. From present appearance*, Messrs. Rogers and Grant will find good encouragement in their undertaking. We hope temperance landsmen aad seamen will not fail to patronise the boons, and that the keepers will be abundantly rewarded for th'cir exertions to serve tbe pub- lic, after a temperance style. �14 HX Fa- 4m) Frwod. lr*R I j> Jx 13 . (January, . . than one-third the whole number become COMMUNICATEU. drunkards themselves. ISLANDS. MARQUESAN TISHERINATOFXCDRIGNMKS MORAL? Take Hie fqllowing also from the temPART 11. BAmicyus.—6 No . perance lecture by Shinuel Chipmrtn. and Their.discovery "Is the vender What do early histonl, by Ret. Jl One point more. Allowing that the benefitted? Thompson, formerly an English Missionaman who traffics in intoxicating drinks facts show on'th'nvfflint? Let the reader does secure golden gartfa, admit, if yon look around liim anda nswer this question. ry at Marquesas. [Continued from page 4.] please, that he lays up abundantly, does, Where has tb*J man lived who bus a titawGeographical 'and general drscriphis buffineHS render his friends and con- ed a fortune by the sale of liquor—•-has the principle Islaad of tbe nexions respectable and happy? Is the died sober, end hasteft a fortune to sober tion.—Nuuhivrt, contains a population of about 6000, group, children? this need not point,! Facts on influence of his business upon his family and is nearly 50. mile* in circumference. salutary? or is it in ten thousand "instan- multiply;' tbey are in. reach of every one. Tbe harbor, which is upon the south side, h ces hurtful, ruinous* 1 Does he cater •to In Connecticut state prison, two years in lat. 8° ho' south, long. 199° 63' west. the lusts of tm neighbors in the presence ago, there were lrJ9 convicts; a great Uspoa an Island which lies 31 miles due of his children, perhaps admit them to share intemperate, and of that class, 78 south, has a population ot 1000, and is abont SO mires in circumference. Uahuga lies 30 a share of his business, and do tiiey es- laid been Jiquor sellers! At Lebanon, Ohio, after I had closed mires east of Nuuhiva, contains a populacape contamination? On this point, and Oh the unprofitable nature of the baffle my lectorfe, A. H. Dunlavy, Esq. a dis- tion estimated at 1000', and is about '24 milet Islands are small sni in circuit. even in- a pecuniary light, I beg to call tinguished attorney, remarked to the au- uninhabited,Roberts lio» about 40 milea N. N. W. rhat*he there the attention of the reader to the follow- dience, had resided From of Nuuhiva. In the windward ate' Ilivaoa, ing facts, collected by the author of the the elrliest settlement of tljat town, had or La Dominica, stretching about 30 miles known every man who had kept a tavern from east to west, broad at one end and tenTemperance Documents. there, and he "said the number was 31» ding to a point at the other, contains 6,60( The traffic ht ardent seems to spirit " be marked, eve* in this life, with decisive of whom twenty-five had gone to drunk- inhabitants; near.'the western end, divider, a'channel, about 5 aiires south lies T.iindications of divine abhorrence; and ards' graves. Of the other six, no one by huate, or Santa Christina, an oblong Island, prepflir.ty." with premonitions of sure and awful re- made JO miles round. The harbor, which tribution in the life to -come. In a great With much propriety and force then about is on the western side, is isrlat. 9° 5-1' south, proportion of all the families that' have does the lecturer ask, in conckisiqn; long. 138° 53' west '(The position of.the Why then should the traffic.be con- group is from observations ttiken by officers been accustomed to deal out this poison " to others, one or more of the members. tinued? Who is benefitted? The drunk- in Her Majesty's Navy, and is about 16 often the head, awl in many cases a ma- ard is not; the man who abstains is not; miles eastward of that assigned to it upon jority of the members, have died drunk- the tax payer is not; the poor man is not; Arrowsmilh's chart) Tahuate contains' the rich man is not. ' The poor man by 1000 inhabitants. Fptima, or La Magdaleards. na, 35 miles S S. Eof, the latter, is about In Stcphentown, N. York, there have purchasing the liquor, "takes the shingles '24 miles in circuit,'and contains a popala from on been fifty-four tavern-keepers who sold his own roof and puts them to tion of 3000. Pedro and Hoods islands ardent spirit; thirty-seveu did not succeed his neighbor's." The use of it is at war are small and uninhabited. in business; sixteen are living io'tempe- with the laws of life and health, destroys The face of the country is every where the peace of families and communities." very'rugged, there is nothing like level rate; and four have died drunkards. Is it not then clear as noon day, I sub- land; and large masses of rock thrown by In Petersonrgh there have been fiftyfour inn-keepers; five succeeded t ia their mit, that a traffic at war with every princi- some tremendous convulsion of nauire, lie business, and of the forty-nine who did ple of self-Jove, a traffic on which no man scattered in every direction. TbfjF whole country displays evident marks of volcsnio not, eleven died drunkards. can ask the blessing of God; a traffic re- formation In Sand lake there have been, in twen- pudiated by every man's conscsence; a Those Islands differ from most others in ty years, twenty-nine inn-keepers; seven, traffic. which destroys all self respect, Polynesia by having no coral reef around made money, and five became drunk- brings poverty and disgrace, and ruin, in them; the sea rolls to the base of the mounso many instances, upon the trafficcr and tains, and pi events the formation of that levards. In Brunswick there have been forty his family, is an immorality? Should ft el belt of land so valuable to the natives ol tavern-keepers, twenty-two of them be- not, at- once and foraaver be abandoned other, groups; it also occasions a bold rugged with heavy surf breaking all around, came intemperate, and four died drunk- by each and every man, who -claims to coast, that here a good landing place is seldom so blessed love, I do not here say the ever ards. found, and 'in many places it is utterly imIn Wynants Kill and Albfa there hive God, or even his neighbor, but himself? practicable for a boat to reach the shore. been twenty-two; and nine of them vailThe sea is very deep in the immediate neigh ed by intemperance. borhood, and soundings are only found within few fathoms of the const. Tbe islands In Lansinglnrrgh, ol eighteen tavernA bachelor editor in Baltimore was re- area every where intersected by lofty ridges keepers, twelve are intemperate, or have on board the French of mountains varying from 3000 to tiOOO died drunkards. Ten deaths have been fused admission by deep and fertile vallies, occasioned in the town by ardent spirit, steam ship because -he had not a lady feet, separated mountains are so steep, yet in many The shall gat one during the past year. Here then, in a with him. He thinks he parts so covered by trees and brushwood, as single county, of 207 tavern-keeper* who and carry her about on his arm as a kind in present an interesting and romantic a*sold ardent spirit, seventy-nine, more of passport or ticket of admission! jiearunce. Some of them are so very rug-* _ . ' - , �15 Tilfc'Y*l£Xl>. IBib.) EDUCATION. ged and barren, thai when viewed from the tbe mineral water, ajilywgh disagrtearble, seem but as Tkb'Oaiht Chj**itt School. —The Hogs, very inviting, you do not wholesome. sea, is, I believe, perfectly approach the coast, and see the rich foliage fowls, sweet potatoes, oocoa*nuts and ba- anuual meeiing of the friends and subwhich clothes.the vallies, they appear -lo nanas may be this useful iustitution was ohtamfd, though not in much greater advantage. The Islands are abundance. No Jiar*bru- rjues, but tr pres- sciibers of «vory where we", supplied with good whaler; ent to the chief is customary. Resolu- held at the Mansion House on the evethere are no large rivers, but many brooks the wind ning of.the 4th "instant. Dr. T. C. B. and springs. Upon tbV large Islands-there" tion Bay is open to the. w,aatt but dire«io\i, Rook whs appointed moderator. The •re mineral springs, which the natives ca(l never' blows strong ffbta/llmt Some writers.art-' perfect in water). at seaaans of the Treasurer having been read, (hitler and te. ships report viit hava, sjU on these Islands mention "beautiful cas- safety. Ships makings long stay 'would was approved. The business of tbe last cades," but as I have never seen jiny, I am do wejl to secure good anchorage, as we •year "was cfosed", au4> she following geninclined to believe that they being only tran- are fiere subject* to iieav*y gusts'from the sient visiters, happened to be here in a sea- mountain's, and shios occasionally., drag. tlemen Were chosen 'mffitjters and Trustees son of rain, when there are temporary falls this port bad bet- for the ensuing year,a-ia:—¥*. W. ThompThe vallies generally stretch almost frotn the Ships inlendrrWto enterof the Island, and son, Secrejart; S. Reynolds, Treasurer ; centre of the Island to the-sca. aad in every ter wo/k to windward J. O. Carter, valley where breadfruit is to be found, na- come* through tbe channel which divides T C. B Rooke, H. Grimes, soil taken their abode. The the and passage A. AlJams, -Tiustees. up this Island from Dominica; Holt ¥ tives have clear of. all Among tfte votes passed at the Annual in the vallies is ajmost all that is capable of though narrow, is'deep cultivation, but it is good, and here all the obstructions, with a current generally-setvarieties of tropical prodace maybe reared. ting to the westward sufficient to bring a meeting, ate the following,—. In all the islands there, are harbors, but fr.d*fn which is Voted, iW the dwelling house be the sav,ige*eHaiacter"of \Ui ' people, two of ship through, 'even'if becajmed, often offeuel for tent,'and that Mr, F. W. them afotie are ••visited, tyont. Aan \ Maria, a rare occurrence. Whales,are A Thompson fshall be the proper person to of the channel. Nuuhiva, aad Resolutioa•-. Bay, Taliuata. taken .at the entrance mouth of the of at the (be, .war, the two boards the. ships pilot ship latter, At French whom application may be made. It was brig Pylade, visiting trie Islands, and H. M hnrbor,~but none* is necessary, as there also'voted that Stetson be paid for S. S/marang. (wtiich calre'd .for water upon are no obstructions.} deep water to the herVoul for China) two Missiona/y vessels, very shore. Between the centre anfl his services as teacher, during the year both English*,, bat one freighted by the north side of the" bay, good anchorage 1845. French JVli.sflioßarics. Three British and will source ofemuch pleas.To us, it is be found.. Wood' is here in abuntwelve" American whalers having touched School opens the year Charity that,the -easily ure, and obtaingood ; water during the last year. At Nuuhiva, the Py- dance Potatoes, coeoe-nuta and bana- under so- fayorable prospects of usefullade, Her Ma S "Sulphur and Sterling, sur- ed. veying vessels,, ane Missionary vessel and nas, at times plentiful, often scarce, some- ness fo the' t%\tug generation in this ylabout lea or, twelve whalers have anchored time*! a few pumpkins, fowls, and a few We hoj>e .the Trustees will be dining the same period. A few more touch- hogs obtained by sending the boats with lage. sustained in maintaining this abundantly ing at ether Islands without.owning into an interpreter 'trading round the large this the teacher** salary, and port, make the total fthijipiog paying, of Dominica ; go in the morning, school, group about 40 aantully. At all the Islands Islandreturn in repair. How the buildings in the, evenipg, generally Willi keeping boats are serit ashore trading, while the and virtue, the of education and lovers ships are lying off, bat not without danger. a good supply. Tlie ba/bor i/su.fficient- can an to allow whale Niiujiiva, ly ships cooper tjO At secure unfrequented bay upon intelligence 'in*.Honolulu, better dispose C*pt. Brown, of the U. S. whaler" Cathe- their oil. A hea'v*y surf sometimes" ren- of five,-ten, or fifty dollars each, than by rine, Was seiyd and bound for .five* nights ders landing diffienkfhere ; iir other re*patronizing the Charity rfchool? Let it The first mate of the Alexander, -U. S. whasimilar to .Nuuniva. A spring never be said, that the descendants of an s|>ects, ler, was killed upon Uapof, and. twa mus- tide rises'here onljtbbout four feet. High Ameripan or Englishman on tbe Sandket* were atolqg from a boat belonging to full, .at and Bay, WtUer at Resolution Islands,' grew up to manhood with•virh the Swift, U. States, off the .Island of Hominies., during the last year. For ihe"in- change of the moon, 2 h. fi4 mm. • In-. out enjoying tltf advantages of a good formation of your. sea-fatitfg'renders, we tending to make a'series of observations eduction! We* desire to see* the young ■may mention that the tfhrboe of Nuhbrva fs upon the tide, \ hi*) erected a tidejgtiage, aftiong foreigners and natives, well trainsafe and comtm dious, easily entered and of" bat after 'obscrviqg* one title, a gaje> of ed a| ■ common schools. There is no part equally easy egress It opens to the'soufh* wind caineon.lnd' destroyed thei guSge. of the world where mind, educated mind, is ahout two miles deep, arid forms a fine basin,■He at CONTINUED. ' ,is destined to exert a mere powerful inwhere ships may undergo any repair. JDarC ag*a*ss**ssaassas*a=ac r ■ fluence ; hence*, the young should enjoy is necessary to be exercised here in selectnature best feature the best possible advantages. It is the Good is the in the ing a person to conduct tbe trade, as some of those who put off to ships, 'are men of finest face; «r'rt. majr raise "admiration, remark, we think, of the political -econoabandoned character, unacquainted with the judgment may command* respect, "and mist Say, that tbe person who plants a language and consequently insy involve the knowledge attention. Beauty may in shade- tree, or causes it to grow, is a pubparties in difficulties from misundcr--landing. the heart with lore, but good nature lic benefactor; if that be true, is not the Runaways, if not Islanders, may bo recov- flame more powerful effect: it adds a patron, of schools a. public bepefactor ? has a i ered by ransom Wood here is become our streets and yards, rather scarce. Water is plentiful and good, thousand attractions to the charm ofF Shade-trees adorn youth embellish socieiv and but cduc-nted and an air benevolence gives rain, after of beauty, when the stream except heavy mixes with a mineral spring upon its bank, - , - , . —:—— • ' , r ; i - ' ' • • �THE VJLIT,NB. 16 MARINE INTELLIGENCE. SELECT EXTRACTS. (January, PASSENGJ.BS. Rt. The Rev. Mr. Blancbet, Bishop of Philadelphia, arrived onboard the Columbia, and has sailed fbrl-oi* don. On board the same vessel, arrived and sailed, UicAiirirui. iitiact-When 1 look upon the Mr. Geyer, a German Botanist: also ftrnved Dr. Babtomb* of the great. every emotion of envy die* within lady, BjidUwo cock, childian. fjevts.Mr I erldns, lad), me; whan I read toe epitaphs of the beautiful, every PBEDOFVRLTOIASGW'IRTESLAND. inordinate denot roes out; when I meet with-the gmf The vvmeriean brig- Mil ware, Pell master, sailed and three children They rfav* been connected witl tit* Methodist Missions in Oregon, and aranow returnof pursuit upon tbe tomb-stone, my heart melts with from, this pott ontflVJOt of last Octdber, for the pui% iiiK tsvthe United Slates. *Airitod on board the Will i-ompuwion: when 1 see tombs of parents themselves, 1 consider tlie vanity of (nevina; for those wlioavvte pose of bruiginsj-oIT. the cargo of od saved from tbe Watch, Mr. Heginbothntn- wife, and two children;! must soon follow: when Isee kings lying with these wreck of the IloyeVßorden. See Friend of Nov. 1. Tin. Wbittaker and daughter, and Mr. Popple* ell. who deposed tham—when I consider mm Is laid side be On the 29th of October, a shoal was discovered in N. side, or the holy men that divided tbe world witMntir diipbtes, I reflect with sortua and astonishment on flva lat. £6 60, *nd Mt. long, J*74 26, extending N. W. and little competition.*, fact lonfrfAiid debate* of mankind; S, E. shoot 30 miles, with the appVuranc* of very shoal when I read the several dates on the tombs of some v/atar. T5eV came to anchor one night in 16fajljonis that died yesterday, sjia-aome sixteen hundrexL yearej water. Nov 1, came to anchor at the Island where BKEWER & CO. ago, I consider that rreYspay when wajsbaU all of usI the Holder Bfcrdfcu wis lost; on (he following day went GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS', inside the left on the were Island, reef.. All persons .—. HONOLULU, OAHU, H. I. found health. Mac end month in*good By they 0%l he DomekstnicolAfww,tns.—eThy ho ' Charles Brcvves, 1 talk of a poor man'rberduveiiieuts coldly-, as a happy had succeededtin taking on board the oil and whatever #1. Y. ll.Uaiwkill, > release from pain to the departed, aad a foereiful relief was thought advisable1 to bring off A'severe gal* ' Kkanci* Johnson. ) from expense to the survivor—thefliale know what days, f rom the westward detained them about ten but N. B. Wanted, Bill* on.the United States, England the agony of those hejtmvements is. A silenulook of affection aad regard/swhcn all other eye* are turned on tbe 14th' of December, they sailed for Oahu. In- fee. for which money will be advanced-on the most fa. coldly away—toe consciousness that we possess the stead of finding, the Whole -quantity of oil that was vorubl* teinis. Jaw. I, 1846, tf sympathy and affection of one being wHen all other* savedVrom the Holder Borden, Capt: Pell have deserted us—ha bold,a st.iya-comfort in the originally deepest affliction, which no wealth couid'purcnase. no 'discovered that about 400 barn-Is had leaked out, nence honor bestow. be brought off only 906 barrels, or thereabouts. She HONOLULU< ■ left on the beech, beside the'old hulk of the wrecked a F.W.ThoMPSON,) 1™ 0 "!'0 '"ESducilateons.—fuMnchein vessel, about 160 Sarntls of old casba, a small wood reality dependent'Upon accident, orwhat is calledluck, house, and sufficient timber to buHd a small vessel; and January, 16,11*49. « than ■ commonly supposed. Far moreMepeuds Upon other thing*,of no value. Cfc£t Pell planted about 80 the object* which a man proposes toshimself; w*a»t attainments he aspires to; what is the circle- which cocoanuts 00 tbe 91 E. point of the Island, the future hounds hi* visions and thoughts; what he chooses? not fruit of which may yet be catch by some shipwrecked eCHRtNOMETER MAKQB, to be edncstedJor, bat to educatWiintself for? wheth- mariner! oAi?for«s'e0 Ai?for«s'e an Jewelry, WaJches, er he look* to the end and aim oTme whole of Jife, of •The day after leaving the> Island, a reef was discovonly to the present day or hour; whether he listens to ered •> *V • * lat. aad M, vi N 27 W. long. 174 26, with very CHRONOMETERS REPAIRED. AJVD. ACC\j«ATE the voice of indolence or vulgar pleasure, or to the stirring voice in hjs own soul, urfing his ambition on to heavy brekker*. Capt Pell found by observations that bIVBN. RykTES laudable objects^ hi* former observations were-qinte accurate, which Particular attention •pafd to fine vfatoh give the position ofFell.'s Island, N.-lat. 2101, and W. bectant andQuiidraatOlesses silvered andreawrmg.adjusted. Honolulu, Ou.hu, Jan. 16,- 1845. Tong. 174 51. . StOTERTISEMENTS. . •Ma*nsioiv house, ■- - . ~ ' . ... TSWSj -^C^JRDIfCA-tT..- -• ■ __ ' &. .. At Lahaina, by Rev. L. Andrawsfan' the Bth If Nov. MrjfcAaa A. Dimack, to Keakahma, all ofLahaina. ' ■ ' MARRIED. ' . Port of Honolulu. VESSELS IN PORT, JAN. 13. ' . f*a Reward.' TRAYED stoltn from the of the S. scnber, young hdrse marked XX. The abov* a or hjemipes sub-, • reward will be paid to any peiaon who v«ill restore tin H. B. M. Ketch Basilisk, English brigs Euphema and said animal to C. BREWER, fc CO. Honolulu,*)** Jjf, 1846t ships Cocas and Israel three French whalers, Ameriprinting the Friend),-C can brig Delaware, Belgian brig Indefatigable, HanoFor Sale, verian whale ship Crown Princess. * sea aoaj 4000 *>ci blrs, 6000 Lathes, 8» Tons K 7 Rolls imbia, China 20 kegs Nails, 300 lb* Coffee, Dec. 81, Eng. bark Columbia, from Columbia River, 2-cssejsl.o.if Svgas, 70 bbls Salmon, 30 do Tobacco, 36 .' Sperm boxes saifedfbrEng Jan. 12. P Candles, 150 boxes family Soap, No. V 1.II 80 Cords F. Wood. Jan 1, whaling bark Naw ton, Slocum, (late Sawyer) � E.«k H. GRIMES. of New Jjedford, 1506 wpale. Capt. Sawyer died of Jan. B, tttlmmf ' Liver complaint, at San Diego, California, on the 30th of*Nov,. The crew refused to cruise -for vj hales under hi Wanted. the mate without first Heertjg an American Consul. A CARD. The Rev, Lorrin Andrews, Seamen's Capt. Slocum was therefore obliged to come to this IVjR. VV. H. Heginbothanj, a .practical engineer, f'haplaan at Lahaina, desire* to acknowledge* the re- port-. The Newton left at San Diego, having a lso_ some-knowledge of house-joinery ships Admitceipt of the following amount, for his services duajhg tance and Barnstable, of Boston, the hitter to sail for desires employment.' He hss been for several year* is th* year 1844. Boston in three week*. ''Jibe Newton sailed on a' the employment 0/the East India Company. Mrs. 11. cruise the lOtb. oljpis Iter services as a good seamstress. as follewa, Tliey have taken.the House lust occupied by Mr. ColJam 4. Belgian brig Iridefafsjable, from Columbia. schr. Will WJch, from Sydney, via T*> cord, in Mam street. •hiti. _. Honolulu, Jan. 16, 1845. Passengers on board the Will Watch report that when titles at Ha< they wete sailing from Ny Zealand so Tahiti, on board ia For Sale. the schr.'Frtzroy, spoke Am. wb ship Cabinet, on 7th the Btudy of the Seamen's Chaplain, Notion of is. Ocf!about 360 miles from I lervey Island. The Fitzroy AT(fie Life. Character, and Labors of the late Berth had lost ber reckoning, and all on. board Were suffering L, Puasiki, or blind preacher of Maui, by Rev. J. ■ extremely for food and water. 3'he Master of the Cab- mas S. Green. Single copy 26 cent*, 8 copie*, 60 cent*, 1 I inet furnished necessaries in abundance. per dozen. In giving place to the above Card, we cannot but exHanoverian whalk alipCrow Princess, 1775whale, $1,50 press our joy that the Seamen V Chaplain has been thus ItS saerm. -. % i-stained by the voluntary contributions of the friends American whale ship. Israel, Finch, 1600 whale, 100 of morality and religion. During the coming year, we ,he, Sosmen'* Chaplain, and by A_ T ,ne,?1 "SW! trust that they will be equally liberal.—Eg. Friend. Jan. 7, Am. brig Delaware,"from Pell's Island. See ■'*■ Mr. E. H. Boardman, VoL If, of tbe Friend, above. neatly bound. Price $2. A CARD. As Chairman of the Executive ComJan. 18, ahip GoWHiinter, Wood, of Fall River, al*o invitee of the H. T. A. Union, the Seamen's Chaplain I 14 1-2 months 0ut,900 whale, 86 sperm; last from the waald acknowledge the reception of 918,00 from the I port of Hilo, Hawaii{ left at thai port Bremen ship At the **me places, "Notes on the Commerce. Mir i ompeny of the Uncas, for the purpose of pub-1 Patriot, 3400 wbale. Capt. Wood spoke the ship skins, fee, fee, of the Sandwich Islands, by R. C. WvlEsq. Single copy 81,00; 3 oopiee, $2,00, and ff7,H HBaag WiTitT of the Cascade, and for defray ing the Hts of F. H. on the 9th, had taken 80 barrels of lie, I ipsra *jdo* tsavrag thisport. per dozen. DONATIONS. ' Julia, Schrs. falcon-end Will Watch, American whale • * . * ARRIVED. - SJIX • . ' *"** • .. • . ,i � 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 (1845) 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 - 1845.01.15 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1845.01.15