125 10 11779 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b9e6673c9a86ca25447db654faac6bf2.pdf c1bf954e9c9538106defd0ddc193b35e PDF Text Text F THE RIEND Keto Strus, Mrl. 11, #(~ HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 1, 1862. fl.| CONTENTS For September, ISO2. Schools in Uonolulu, Rice culture Jtc, Death of 11. 11. H. Prince of Hawaii, His Majesty's Speech, Kxtratcts from foreign papers, Key. O. W. Bethune, Prof. Hitchcock the (Geologist, Editor's Table, 4-0, &C, MarineNews, &c, Ac, SI Pack. 65 60 65,66 66 67, 70 68 68 60 72 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1802. Schools in Honolulu.—One of the most gratifying features of the society in Honolulu, is the interest taken by all classes in the cause of education. Public and private schools suited to pupils in every stage of their education, are well patronized. While much attention is paid to music and the lighter branches, we are glad to know that the more solid branches are not neglected. At the close of the year, there was an examination of Mr. Brewster's school, which has acquired a good reputation, and the teachers have shown themselves both competent and faithful. The discipline of the school is excellent. The scholars are made to obey, and what is most gratifying they obey cheerfully and promptly. A Hint.—The person who borrowed from the Editor a book, entitled,' Country Parson,' first series, will confer a favor by returning it forthwith. We think of ordering from San Francisco the second series, but if the first is lost, we shall still be badly off. The borrower will find the owner's name upon the fly leaf. Next to reading a new book, is the pleasure of loaning it to a friend, but alas! if that friend will not return it—What then J U. S. S. Lancaster.—We have recently recieved a most interesting letter from the Rev. Mr. Stockbridge, chaplain on board this vessel, and should publish extracts, but it has been unaccountably mislaid. We hope yet to find it, as it contained some particulars respecting an interesting work of reform in progress on board said vessel. The Rice Culture on the Sandwich Islands.—Oftentimes while riding over the waste taro lands of Hawaii, Maui; Oahu, and Kauai, the thought has come up—will these dry taro patches ever again be brought under cultivation ? We could not see how they cnuld be; taro was not a crop that could be raised for exportation, and beyond that, it really seemed as if these taro patches must forever remain fallow, but the mystery is now solved. Rice-culture is a success* Thousands of acres are ready to be broken up and sown. Taro-patches may readily be converted into rice-patches. A million of dollars would not prepare these lands for rice, if they had not been previously used for the cultivation of taro, hence we argue, that at least one million of dollars has been added to the capital of the islands by the rice-culture. It is gratifying to see the natives coming into town, with their donkey loads of rice. It is a crop exactly suited to the natives. We should not be surprised if eventually rice partially supplanted taro, as a staple article of food, among the natives., Mr. Holstein, curator of the Agricultural gardens, merits the warmest thanks of not only all rice-growers, but ofall friends of the Hawaiian Islands. Cannot some public expression be made, which shall «how that his services are appreciated ? New British Commissioner and Consul-General.—Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Our Great and Good Friend, has accredited unto Us, to reside near Our Court, William Webb Follett Synge, Esq., in character of Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General, and We require Our Subjects, and all Departments of Our Government, to pay high consideration to his Person, his property, family and retainers, and to give full faith and attach full credit to all his official sets as such Minister. Done at the Palace, at Honolulu, this 23d day of August, 1862. KAMEHAMEHA. \m Stria. M 19, Death of His Royal Highness, 65 PrincTeohH f awaii. It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of the young Prince of Hawaii, who expired at the Palace on Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock. We did not dream when we penned for our last issue the notice of his indisposition, that this would convey the announcement ofhis death. Yet so it is,—grief and sorrow have seized the royal household, and will be participated in by every person in the Kingdom. The Prince was born on the 20th of May, 1858, and was consequently 4 years, 3 months and seven days of age when he died. He early developed an unusual forwardness, which made him a favorite with his parents, who almost idolized him, and with all who became acquainted with him. As he grew older, the winning traits which he began to develops, naturally drew out to him a strong attachment and love from all who knew him, which showed itself whenever he appeared in public, where he was invariably an object of special attraction. He has generally enjoyed very good healthand shown no symptoms of disease of any kind, till the attack which occurred on the 18th, and which is thought to have been inflammation of thebrain or water on the brain, a very common disease among children. The malady made rapid progress, and in the course of four days it became evident that it would terminate in death. On Saturday, at 10, A. M., the child was baptized by Rev. B. W. Clark, according to the Episcopal form, in the presence of the King's household, cabinetand chiefs, and named Albsrt Edward Kauikkofli Leiopapa a Kamehameha, Mrs. SyDge, the lady of theBritish Commissioner, standing as sponsorfor Queen Victoria of England, Mr. Synge, for the Prince of Wales. Great satisfaction has been expressed with the baptism of the Prince. It was tbe purpose of the King to have the ceremony performed by Bishop Staley; but his non-arrival and the sickness and death of thechild frustrated tbe long proposed plan. During his illness, the greatest interest has been manifested by the public to learn the exact state of his health, and bulletins ware daily issued. The nature of the disease was snob that the little patient suffered the most intense agony during his illness, which exhibited itself in �TUE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1 8 ft l 66 spasms, cramps and shrieks, which no treatment could alleviate. On the morning of his death, however, the pain subsided, and the childbecame culm and his countenance the image of sweetness and heavenly radiance. The King and Queen, broken down with grief, stood by the couch of their dying bey, and with them Mrs. Bishop, Miss Paki, Mr. Wyllie, and some others. Seeing that thd child was dying. His Majesty took the prayer-book and requested Mr. Wyllie to read the prayer appropriate for the occasion. This scene, as the royal group knelt at thedeathbed of the child, and joined in supplications to their Almighty Father, while the infant spirit peacefully left the body and winged its flight to its Creator, was one which can batter bo imagined than described. The booming minute cannon, tolling bells and half-raised flags announced, at 8J o'clock, to the anxious public tlmt the Prince was dead, and the grief of the native population immediately exhibited itself in various ways. Thus has closed in one Bhort week an event entirely unlookcd for, which has sent a pall of gloom into the palace, plucking the chosen flower from the bosoms of the King and Queen, and destroying the fond hopes of the nation. The death of no other person could havo been so severe a blow to the King and his pcoplo as that of the Prince or Hawaii. In this youthful scion were centered the hopes of his parents, and to him the eyes of the whole nation turned as the prospective ruler of Hawaii. In him, all the plans of His Majesty appeared to center—he was the idol of all. But tbeso plans aro prematurely destroyed, all these fond hopes are crushed by an over-ruling Providence, inscrutiblc, wise and good, whoso ways are not as our ways, and whose thoughts are not as our thoughts." To His supremo will let us all bow, and acknowledge that He is the Sovereign of all, and the Ruler of the Universe. How true it is that " man proposes, but God disposes." Most devoutly do we pruy that this heavy affliction may be accompanied with its blessings, not only to the broken hearts of the bereaved royal parents, who havo watched over their child with a devotion which has novcr been surpassed, hut to the whole nation. What parent, who has ever been called on to yield up to the summons of death, hie idolized child, can fail to sympathize with our afflicted sovereigns, or fail to offer up a prayer in their behalf, that this blow may be sanctified to their temporal and spiritual happiness, and to the good of their people. We feel that they have the deepest sympathy of all in this trial of the death of one so dear to the whole nation. " Qod thought it best to take him hencr, Or ekwhe'd not have died— Remember 'twas ao all-good God Who took him from yowside. Weep not for him who In lire's morn Hath from your circle fled He was too fairand food for earth, Then why should tears ho shed. -, It seems as if Providence had selected this very time for this sad event, for some wise purpose, which may not be clear to us now, but of whioh the future may develops the meaning. Why it should hare happened just at this juncture, when mora than usual political feeling has been existing, when His Majeety was without a regular . The Patriarch cr Kaliiii.—Lust Sunday, August IT, was the birth-day ol' our venerable townsman, Capt. Alex. Adams, of Kalihi,*he having completed on that day his 88th year. He stilt enjoys comparatively good health for ono of his age, and is engaged every day, more or less, iv superintending the trees which he planted a score of years ago, and which tire now yielding abunilnutly of their fruit. His garden is a little Eden in the abundance and variety of its products. The Mango trees are loaded down with their golden fruit, and we have nowhere seen larger or handsomer fruit of this variety than those from his garden. The old gentleman has lately had two new HIS MAJESTY'S SPEECH as Artemas Ward faceteeth not " storebutteeth," of 1802. Proroguing the Legislature a gift from the kind Providence tiously remarks, still lengthens his years ; and what is more (Delivered hy Royal Commission—H. Ex. M. which singular, his head, which has been bald, is sending Kkkuanaoa, Governor of Oahu, and Chief out a uew oovei ing of dark hair, while his eyesight Justice Allen, Chancellor of the Kingdom.) and hearing, which have long been poor, are becoming restored. These sre trifling incidents to be sure, Delivered on Saturday, Auocst 23. but such as physiologists like to make a note of. We trust this rejuvenating of the old patriarch's Nobles and Representatives :—Your Joint faculties may add to the happiness of his declinCommittee have announced to me that your ing years and render them niore pleasurable than they might otherwise have been. Ho is almost the House have discharged all the duties which you only link nnw remaining that connects this genera.regard as essential to the administration of my tion with the days and reign of Kamehameha the Oreat.—P. C. Advertiser. Government for the ensuing biennial period. has The duty of retrenchment of expenditures Naval.— H. B. Majesty's steam frigate Termagant, been especially imposed upon you at this session : arrayed on Friday last, ii days from and after a careful interchange of opinions, and Panama, bringing as passengers the newly-appointed in the exercise of a liberal judgment, you have British Commissioner and Consul General Wm. F. missed a Mil of appropriations, which, I trust, Synge and family. Tho following is a list of her will enable tho Executive to sustain the honor officers : Captain. —Robt. Hall. and efficiency of my Government, by an expen/.iVurrnaiiM.--G. D. Eit.roy, R. 11. Napier, 11. C Best diture not exceeding its receipts. It is unques- Him. K. 0. Cailogan. that for Natter.—Thns. I'ntter. provision tionably a sound principle, Lieutenant Marines—Vim. 11. Y. Tom. Surgeon. —Jas. C. Wal*h. its curreryoflxpenscs should always be made. A Paymaster—Chan. Iloyle. dobt on this account should never be imposed on Chief Engineer—Jno. Sanders. B. Peaae. 0. Y. John«on. Sub-Lieuienanti.—C. the a debt for successors. Indeed public Cabinet, and just about the period which had been set for the arrival of Bishop Stuley and the baptism of the Prince with full ceremonies, may appear inexplicable. Had it occurred a few months earlier or even a few months later, it might not have been accompanied with so many circumstances indicating that Providence lias some wise end in view.— P. C. Advertiser. our most valuablo improvements should bo incurred with great caution, and liquidated with as much dispatch as a proper regard for the resources of My people will permit. The amendments of the Constitution whioh you have adopted may prevent anarchy and confusion in the Government, by establishing a more fixed rulo of inheritance of the Crown. Experience has shown that it controls legislation upon some subjects, in which the public interest requires some change. Your amendments have remedied this embarrassment to some extent. The Constitution was adopted under somewhat peculiar circumstances, and will undoubtedly need amendments from the influence of time and events upon the affairs of my Kingdom ; but, I trust, that every modification will be made with a careful judgment. For tho liberality which you have manifested by the provision made for Myselfand My Family, I thank you. It is in accordance with the same spirit which has always actuated tho Representatives of my People. I congratulate you upon the increasing dovelopement of the resources of my Kingdom, and I trust that your legislation will aid in this great purpose, and contribute to the general prosperity. Nobles and Representatives: In taking leave of you, and, as I announce the Prorogation of this Session of the Legislature, it is my painful duty to inform you of the dangerous illness of Our Son, the Prince of Hawaii, which has put Our House in sorrow. He is the Son of the Nation, and the hearts of the People, we doubt not, will be touched like Our own. We trust in a Meroiful God to restore him, if, in His wisdom it is best, and to sustain us in this our hour of trial. Attittant Surgeon —J. E. Georges, Second Matter—Jno. Eriarants. Attittant Paymaster.— W. S. Wbittaker. Midtliipman.—k. I. Booth. Matter's Attittant.—iao. Aylen Clerk.— J. C. sialiben. Attittant Clerk—Vl. A. Kilner. Engineers—W. Curtin. W. Brown. Attittant Engineer.—O. Lecate Ounnsr*.—Thos. Wrslfoot, Wm. ."letters. Boatswain. —Jno. Harris. Carpenter.—Fredk. Avery. — Ibid. The deep interest taken by the public in the young Prince, was forcibly shown in the closing of all stores, and an entire suspension of all business immediately on the announcement of his death on Wednesday; a siillncssand gloom appeared to possess the city. H. B. M.'s ship Termagant fired a Royal minute salute, and she, as also the other ships in port, wore their colors at half mast. Passing the engine house of Hawaii No. 4, of which the Prince was » member, we noticed it draped heavily in mourning, as were also the engine, hose-cart, and the little chair in which he rode during the firemen's parade a few months ago. The other engine-houses were also dressed in mourning. No arrangements have been made for the funeral, and it will probably not take place for some days.—lbid. A comet has been in sight during the past few evenings, visible in the North-west. It was first seen in the evening of the 18th, directly west of the North star. As observed about 8 o'clock, P. M., it is ascending at an angle of about 40 degrees above the horizon, and appears to be moving nearly on a with the sun's apparent orbit. The " tail " indistinct, bat seems to be gaining in brighti very ness and length. It is difficult to say whether it is approaching or receding from the son, so nearly parallel is its course, hut it is probably approaching it, and a few nights may show it more distinctly.—lb. Sarallel Memphis, June 17.—The shipments to the North to day oompriaed 3,000 bales of cotton, 6,000 barrels, and 8,000 half barrels of molasses, and 6,000 barrels of sugar. There was a large supply coming in yesterday. On tbe first day the post-office was opened in Memphis, the citiiens mailed one thousand letters, mostly on business to the Northern cities, and bought $3,000 worth of postage stamps. �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, Loss of the Steamship "Golden Gate." The steamer Golden Hate left San Francisco for Panama on the 21st of July. After a pleasant voyage of six and a half days, she took fire in ihe cook's galley, when 16 miles westward from Maniauillo, on the Mexican Coast. This was Sunday, July 27th. The first c»bin passengers were at the dinner table, quarter to 6 P. M., when the alarm was given. Thirty minutes later the steamer, which was the best one ot the Company's vessels, was a total wreck. Capt. Hudson, (Commao ier,) assisted by Captain Pearson, who was on board tbe vessel as a passenger, did all that could be done tv save the sbip and passengers, but in spite of their best efforts 198 out of 838 on board were lost. The treasure which amounted to #1,400.747, and it is thought about #500,000 in Government securities were lost. Instantly that that tho danger was apprehended all the women and children were ordered to the forward part of the ship, and the vessel headed for tbe shore which was 3J miles distant Theflamosspread so rapidly that many threw themselves into the sea in their panic. Others tarried by the ship until it was only a qnestion of death by fire or by water. The vessel grounded about 800 yards from the beach. Some 80 persons made their escape to the shore through the breakers. Four boats were lowered, one of them was swamped instantly, the other three got oof Two of them arrived sate at Manzanillo, the third, with 20 persons is not yet reported as arrived. Those who landed through breakers made their way wearily and with much suffering over the mountain dense with chapparel to near Mauzanillo where boats came to their relief. Tbe passengers leaving San Francisco in the Golden Gait numbered 242—the officers aud crew, 96 ; of the whole number but 140 are known to be saved. Among the Intter are Captains Hudson and Pearson who were the last to leave tbe ship, Ben Hollady, (of Holladay and Flint,) Abel Guy, and A. J. Gunnison. The origin of the fire is quite unknown. The Rebels as they appear to Englishmen. In glancing over our exchange papers, we find numerous extracts from English newspapers relating to the civil wars in America. There is no question but English editors and writers are changing their opinions in regard to American affairs. At first, the Rebels, no doubt, gained much sympathy among Englishmen, but affairs are now assuming a new phase. The newspapers begin to speak out. The following is from the London Standard, being suggested by the appointment of a day and Prayer, by Jeff. 'ruth is one, and so is justice. Of two nding parties both cannot be right, both s cannot be alike just. We, with our views, can see no objection to the appointment of such days in the North, forasmuch ■sting Davis: as they have on their side law, equity, humanity, and patriotism. Northern Christians, ministers and people may, with an approving conscience implore the help of God to extirpate slavery from the land, and fully believe that their prayers will be registered, their desires ratified, and their work successful. But how the rulers of the South—traffickers in flesh and blood and the souls of men— rulers who proclaim to the wide world that the black man is but a beast of bunion, to be bred, bought, sold, worked, lashed, hunted, and shot, if needful, like other beasts—rulers who avow that their purpose is to found, extend, uphold, and perpetuate an empire on slavery—how such men can look up fe heaimplore the Father of Spirits, who "made of one blood all men to dwell on face of the earth," to aid them in their inhuman, diabolical enterprise, is to us utterly incomprehensible. It is the very clirnlix of wickedness and impiety. It is enough to bringdown upon them thunder and lightning and a tempest of fire ? fand Rebels as 186 2. 67 The Turn of Tils "Times."—Mr. Henry Chartist" lecturer of " Christian The following paragraphs are from the England, delivered on address March 15, on Richmond Examiner: 'The American Crisis," to a crowded meeting Now, what have been the results of the in the Assembly Rooms at Bedford, England. campaign in Virginia ? The war has lasted We have only room for n single example ot a year. Many battles have been fought. In the address: next described the union of every one of the battles fought in Virginia, " Mr. Vincent with the exception of Cheat Mountain and Northern parties for the choice of the next Roanoke, the confederate soldiers have had President, the choice fell upon tough Abe the advantage; yet the confederate armies Lincoln, as fine a piece ofoak as you will find have been alwayajn retreat, never in advance, in the whole Union. ' I perceive,' said Mr. abandoning posiTOn after position, according Vincent, 'that a learned orator in Kent, Mr. to rule and square, till now the state is nearly Beresford Hope, in addressing nn audience all swallowed by the enemy, its fields deso- some time ago, called him, amid the laughter lated, farm-houses sacked, the slaves wander- of a stupid assembly, 'a wood splitter,' Yes; ing in troops, the people a nation in exile, and he began life »t the foot of the tree, working the capital still safe only on the supposition his way upwards, carving A. L. upon the that the precedent of the past shall here be rind, as boys are apt to do, until by a marabandoned. It is time to put in a protest velous growth, the carving has sweiled into against precedent, and to give solemn warn- A. Lincoln, Presidentof the American Repubing to all those, if any there be, who propose lic. (Loud cheers.) 1 cnution you against to continue the campaign in Virginians it has accepting the Times' portraiture of Lincoln— at least until the Times puts in the ' finishing been commenced. The Timet will yet But our generals have often " offered bat- touch.' (Loud laughter.) round without a single word tle," McClellan would not accept it. There- turn gracefully for all its falsehoods. (Cheers.) fore they could not fight him. On this point of apology which trie 'turn' we would refer to a memorable piece of mili- 1 would write the article in should not like to 1 be performed, only will of the tary history. When the great general the fee out of the pocket of the gentlemilitary civil war of Rome was engaged in take his campaign against Publius Silo, a distin- man who will have to write it. (Laughter. 1 mind's eye. guished commander of the other party, he I see the article before me inin my the first line; capitals bothered him much with his trenches and I see the smallpassed through a trying crislow advance. Silo often led out his legions ' America has History—like, Constitutional sis her in in choice positions, " offering battle," which England in her Civil Wars, she has passed Caius Marius would never accept. At last this crisis victoriously and with honor. Publius Silo resorted to this simple expedient: Our will remember, that during He sent a herald in the lines of his adversary the readers darkest phases of the late unhappy to make him this speech. "O, Caius Marepubrius, if you are indeed a great general, why struggle we never despaired of the To do you not come out of your ditches and lic.' (Loud and prolonged cheering.) despaired of America, would have been fight me a battle?" Marius sent back his have race. But own herald to make him this reply; "O, to despair of the Anglo-Saxon do honor to the greatness of the while we Publius Silo, you are a great general, why we must never forget that do you not make me come out and fight you American people, who, called to the Presidency man, remarkable a battle ?" at so critical a period, has, by his good sense, rare modesty, firm will, incorruptible integCause of the Slaveholders' Rebellion. rity, and lofty sagacity, carried the Union —Up to 1861 the South had furnished seven over all difficulties ; entitling himself to reout of the thirteen Presidents, and had twelve ceive the hearty homage of the friends of selfout of the eighteen terms, or forty-eight years government throughout the world." (Cheers.) out of the seventy-two since the adoption of the Constitution; thus leaving the PresidenA Great Change.—The Lonon Review, tial office to be occupied by Northern men says ; Strange transformations distinguish only twenty-four years, or just one-third of the the days" in which our lot is cast. Had any time. Five of the Southern Presidents each one predicted a dozen years ago that the served two terms, while no Northern man has Bishop of London would pretich in an omniever been allowed a re-election. Besides, bus yard; the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Rusthree Presidents were " Northern men with sell in a potato, fruit and cabbage market; Southern principles," and this, in effect, gives the Bishop of Oxford at a railway station, twelve years more to the South; making amid the hissing of steam, and rolling of locosixty years in which they have hud almost motives ; and last, but not least, that every the supreme control, and leaving but twelve Sunday afternoon nnd evening, ministers of years during which the Government has been all denominations, rector, vicar, curate, Wcsadministered, even nominally, by Northern leynn preacher, Independant minister, would Presidents. But during these twelve years take up their places in succession on the stage, it could be shown that the 2(53,000 slave-own- and preach divine lessons to crowded audiers had a preponderating influence in public ences—he would have been set down an a affairs and in shaping the policy of the Gov- fanatic or a dreamer. Yet these are- the ernment. So long as the country was satis- weekly scenes and the recurring acts of m fied with this state of things the slaveholders drama, earnest, real, full of instruction and of course did not complain ; but tlie moment rich in fruit*." the people ventured, by perfectly legal and Churches in Cities.—New York has 214 constitutional means, to elect to the executive office a man who represented their senti- churches, Philidelphia 246, Baltimore 99, ments, those slaveholders revolted. Boston M, Cincinnatti 73, Chicago 67. The they appear to themselves. — Vincent, the �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1862. 68 THE FRIEND. SEPTEMBER 1, 1863. The Rev. G. W. Bethune, D. D. All the late American newspapers, both secular and religious, give prominent notice of the death at Florence, Italy, of this distinguished American Divine.' On his mother's side, he was the grandson of the late Isabella Graham, and son of the eminent christian merchant Davie Bethune, of New York. His mother was a woman of marked ability, and occupied an enviable position in the social life of New York. It was our previlegc once to have been introduced to her, and that by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, now Chaplain of the U. S. Navy, but near forty years ago a Missionary of the American Board, at the Sandwich Islands. Dr. Bethune has occupied a prominent position among the best American Divines. He has been settled in Philahelphia, New York city and Brooklyn. He was acknowledged as having but few as his superiors in pulpit eloquence. It was our privilege to have heard him about a quarter of a century ago, while he was settled as pastor of a Dutch Reformed Church in the City of Philadelphia. He enjoyed at that time, the reputation of being one of the most eloquent preachers. The delivery of the sermon to which we listened sustained that reputation. At times as a platform speaker, on anniversary occasions, he had but few equals. It was on such an occasion that we once heard him speak in behalf of Sunday schools, in the Rev. A. Barnes' church. From the New York lndrpcndcnt for May 22d, we learn that Dr. Bethune commenced his ministerial career, as a Seaman's Chaplain. " He commenced his public and clerical life as a chaplain to seamen in the city of Savannah. For them he wrote that beautiful hymn, which is often contained in our lyrical collections without being credited to him as its author, " Tossed upon life's raging billow." And he often referred in subsequent life to these labors among the sailors with the keenest interest, and a peculiar satisfaction. So in later years some of the most touching and eloquent sermons which he ever has preached have been those which he delivered to the men who cared for his tent and his canoe in his excursions to the woods. These men valued and honored him as a Christian teacher, while they eulogized and emulated his skill as a fisherman ; and it was not an uncommon thing for him to be sent for from a distance of ten or even twenty miles to hold a service on Sunday, to visit the sick, or to bury the dead, in the depths of the woods." We have again and again read the hymn, referred to in the foregoing paragraph, but not until now knew that Dr. Bethune was its - author. It is a really beautiful hymn, and ble in my advanced age, and yet I have thus merits re-printing: far continued to write books, and I have found that so long as I do, I can answer Tora'd upon life's raging billow, but a small part of the letters I receive, and Sweet it is. 0 Lord, to know, Thou didst press a sailor's pillow. in fact for many years past, I have rarely And canst feel a sailor's wo. had less than one hundred unanswered letters on hand. Either the letters or the Never slumbering, never sleeping. books must be neglected." * * * Though tbe night be dark and drear, "Could you not engage some of the whaleart keeping, Thou the faithful watch men to obtain for the cabinet, in the North"All, all's well," thy constant cheer, ern regions, the skeleton of a walrus or narAnd though loud tho wind is howling, whal, or ofsome of the other northernanimals Fierce though flush the lightening's red ; or birds. We could pay for the trouble and Darkly, though tho storm-cloud's scowling expense if not large. My youngest son, O'er tbe sailor's anxious bead— Charles H., has charge of the cabinets. In Thou canst calm the raging ocean. war-times, we find it hard to obtain funds to All its noise and tumult still; increase the cabinets. I have spoken of writHush the tempest's wild commotion, ing books. In 1858, the Government of of thy will. At the bidding Massachusetts published my report on the Thus my heart the hope will cherish, Ichnology (fossil tracks,) of New England, While to thee I lift mine eye ; in quarto of 220 pages and 60 plates. In Thou wilt save me ere I perish. 1860, I brought out a new edition of my Thou wilt hear the sailor's cry. with 12 plates, on Geology. In quarto The editor of the Independent, remarks in a new edition of my I concluding a notice of Dr. Bcthune's life and 1861, published little work on Phenomena, in " The Four death : Seasons"; also, in connection with my Recalling his interest in all Christian discussion, his pathos in prayer, and his filial son, a new edition of my Elementary and unfailing confidence in God—we cannot Geology and Religion of Geology. In the doubt that his last Sabbath on earth was same year was published the Reports of myintroductory to that which is eternal in Hea- self and sons, on the Geology of Vermont, ven ; and we read with a new and more ten- in 2 quarto volumes, of 982 pages and 38 der emotion those lines of his, so often sung besides several articles the Journals. plates, in service : at the funeral This last winter, I have nearly completed a death to die— " It isTonot volume of 300*pages, entitled, " Reminiscenleave this weary road, of Amherst College," but this will not ces And 'mid the brotherhood on high To be at borne with Qod ! probably be published whileI live. You see » • • * I have not been idle, but I am worn out. not death to fling " It isAside My old dyspeptic complaints have culminathis sinful dust, ted in lung disease, and 1 am a constant And rise, on strong, exulting wing, To live among the Just. sufferer. Help me by your prayers to go the solemn scenes which are before through " Jesus, thou Prince oflife ! me, it may be too late when this though chosen cannot die Thy ; reaches Like thee, they conquer in the strife, you." To reign with thee on high !" Professor Hitchcock is one of those rare men, whose mind is so evenly balanced that Professor Hitchcock, the Geologist. while passionately devoted to scientific purIt was our privilege, by a late mail, to re- suits, still the spiritual part of his nature has ceive a letter from this distinguished Divine not been dwarfed and fossilized or petrified. and veteran in the Natural Sciences. He It is most gratifying to know that science still retains his position as Professor of Geol- and philosophy may be so studied that they ogy and Natural History, in Amherst Col- will ennoble and enlarge the mind, although lege, Massachusetts, where he has delivered there are too many sad examples of men lectures on those subjects for about forty who are forever studying the works of nayears. It was our privilige to listen to his ture, without looking "through nature up to course during the years 1834-5. As some nature's God." No wonder that the devout hag exclaimed, of his old pupils reside upon the islands, we poet " The underout astronomer is mad." from hearing think they will be interested in to the friends of Science. —About Notice their old teacher, whose noble, genial and next we shall try and make up a November, kindly sympathies won the hearts of all his of box of Natural History, to forspecimens pupils, and respecting whom none ever to the at Amherst College. ward Cabinet spoke but with the warmest sentiments of Any*graduates of that college or other peresteem, respect and veneration. sons having specimens which they are wilHe thus writes under date of June 25th : ling to part with, will please forward them to * "The truth is, I am extremely fee- the editor of the Friend. * * * �THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, IS6 Z Editor's Table. Literature." The more we read this book, the more our astonishment increases, that a city pastor, of Dr. Bethune's stamp, should ever have found time, (even if he possessed the ability and inclination,) to have issued a work of this character and description. Tue Complete Angler ; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation. By Isaac Walton. And Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clour stream, by Charles Cotton. With copious notes, for the must part original; a Biographical Preface, giving an account of Fishing and Fishing-Rooks, from the earliest antiquity to tho time of Walton ; and a notice of Cotton' and his writings, by the American and Future of its Editor. To which is added an Appendix, in- Hawaii ; The Past, Present Island Kingdom. An Historical Account of cluding illustrative Ballads, Music, Papers on the Sandwich Islands. By Manley Hoi-kins, American Fishisg, and the most complete CataHawaiian Consul-Ucnornl, &c., with a Prefaco logue of Books on Angling, etc., ever printed. by the Bishop of Oxford. London: 1802. Also a General Index to the whole work. Part stand of (old John Wiley, I. New York: This is the title of a new book, of 423 Wiley and Putnam,") 101 Broadway, and "Paternoster pages, just issued inLondon. It is dedicated Row, London. 1848. Russell, H. M.'s Secretary of State to Earl Some months ago, we met a fellow towns- for Relations. Only a single copy Foreign man hurrying through the streets, with his has reached the islands, and having only arms full of books, which he had just bid off over its pages, we reserve any glanced We hailed him, and critical ;it an auction-room. remarks which we may feel disposed took a hasty glance at his bundle of books, to make until we can give the book a thormade up of novels and various miscellaneous ough perusal. It is illustrated with enworks. The only one which attracted our gravings of the King and Queen, Rev. Mr. attention was a beautiful copy of Isaac Wal- Richards, several views of Island scenery, ton's Complete Angler. For a long time we and a wood-cut representation ol the Episcohad been anxious to welcome Walton to our pal .church edifice it is proposed to erect in private library. We knew his character, and under the auspices of the English Honolulu, desired a more intimate acquaintance. Our Mission and Bishop. Staley. mind was instantly made up to obtain the work. Whether the purchaser knew its char- Letter from Rev. E. Corwin. acter we cannot say, but as he belonged to that Just as our paper was going to press we class of persons who obtain their living by received a letter from the Rev. E. Corwin, buying and selling, we very soon fixed upon from which we make the following extracts. a price that was mutually satisfactory. We He thus writes under date of Hilo, August felt ourselves peculiarly fortunate. This book, lying before us, appears to be the first American edition of a book that has run through almost as many editions in England as the Prayer-Book or Pilgrim's Progress. We have been reading not only the text of the book, but the profuse, extended and critical notes qf the American Editor. From no part of the book could we learn who was that American Editor, displaying so much linguistical lore —such minute acquaintance with the art of fishing in lake and stream—such a knowledge of Greek and Latin writers who had written upon the piscatory art—and such familiarity with the whole range of English literature. At length in looking over the Catalogue of a New York Bookseller, to our great surprize, we learned that the American Editor of Isaac Walton's Complete Angler was no less a personage than the Rev. G. W. Bethune, D. D., whose death at Florence, Italy, has just been announced in the newspapers. If any candid reviewer will carefully read the text and notes of Putnam's edition of Walton, we arc confident he will pronounce it a most remarkable book. That such a book should ever have been edited in a manner so masterly by an American Divine, is certainly one of the literary curiosities of the 19th century, meriting a prominent place in MM at »•<*•**..; 29th: . 69 The Seven days' Battle before Richmond. Late American papers are filled up with descriptions and details of the seven days of frightful slaughter before Richmond. The battle commenced upon the 25th df June, and ended on the Ist of July. There is no doubt the Rebels fancied that they should annihilate the Union army under Gen. McClellan's command. They fought with a will, and most terribly have they suffered. Neither Rebels or Union accounts put down the Rebels' loss in killed and wounded at less than 28,000, while the Union loss does not amount to one half that number. The Rev. H. Loomis, one of the secretaries of the American Seamen's Friend Society, thus writes under date of July 9th: "Our last terrible battle near Richmond, lasting through seven terrible days, has been the most bloody on record. The last day was truly awful. McClellan had withdrawn his right wing, through five days retreating and fighting with overwhelming numbers, and. strengthened his left wing. He has fallen back a few miles, until his lines extend about twelve miles from the James River to the Chickahominy, flanked on both sides by large fleets of gunboats. Then came the desperate efforts of the Rebels to break through that line. Immense masses of concripts and raw recruits were driven on in the front ranks by the real fighting men in the rear, and in the face of over a hundred guns, many of them siege guns of heavy calibre. Whole ranks fell before the terrible storm. The loss of the Rebels is yet unknown, it is estimated all the way from 30 to 75,000 in killed, wounded and missing. Our loss, from 15 to 20,000. The last days' fight was on July Ist. The Rebels have shown little disposition to renew the fight, but our army has since advanced Hve miles towards Richmond, bringing it almost within reach of our siege guns." "We have enjoyed our visit very much in all the places we have visited. I wrote you at Knna concerning my visit there and at Capt. Milker's. From Kona we came ou Thursday, Friday and Saturday to Wiahino. Spent the Sabbath with C. Spencer, who. with his young wife, seem very happy. That Sunilny when we had no desire to travel the rain fellalmost all day, while during all our riding time/nun Kona to Hilo we had not more thau three hours of rain all told. Yet moat of the time it was no over-clouded that we did not suffer on account of the sun. And that great, wide, desolate Aa patch on which you lose sight of land in any direction and are completly at sea on a seemingly boundlesslava stream ; a sea of rooks, jagged, Two of the Lost Ten Tribes, viz., the broken, and wildly upheaved in every shape and size of waves, as though theice breaking up in a terrific storm had suddenly Kf.hbenites and Danites, on the Marbecome solid, spray and all; then deluged with Ink to make it more desolate with blackness—who can describe thatscene ? It quesas Islands!—An Englishman, by the is ofitself a wonder hardly surpassed by the great sights of a lifetime, and if we had seen nothing more would richly repay name of Thos. P. Lawson, long resident on forall the real or imaginary toilof such a journey. It is the third great wonder of the islands I Haleakala the Marquesas Islands, has written several standing first as a grand combination of wonders. The giant among volcanoes with its seventeen distinct cones, with Us lengthy communications, one of which ie view of the seven islands from Oahu to Hawaii, its grand sea the children of Israel, now view; its magnificent cloud view ; its sunrise view*, its grant! addressed to march of mist taking the fortress, and last but not least its in Great Britain." In this comgreat depth affording the most exciting amusement I hare ever dwelling engaged in, the sportof rolling immenserocks down and seeing munication, he asserts that the Marquesan thembound 50or 100 feet at a time till they reached the bottom. Next to IlaleakalM, I number Kilauea, withits surging sua of of Abraham ! In fire, Attest emblem of thtbottomless pit. Third, the great field Islanders, are descendants of Aa in Kau. But enough, you can complete the list according this letter he also sends the translation of an to your own judgement. I shall be absent two more Sabbaths, namely, Aug. 31 and Sept. 7, «nd expect to return by the next old Marquesan song, containing the followtrip o( tlie "Nettie." With kind regards to all the Household. Affectionately, K. C. ing lines :— " COURT CIRCULAR. — Funeral of the Prince of Hawaii. The Ceremony of the Funeral of His late Royal Highness Albert the Prince of Hawaii, will be performed at the Palace, at 11 o'clock, A. ML, on Sunday, the 7th of September, proximo. The Funeral will be strictly a private one. By order of the Chamberlain of the King's Household. Palace, 29th August, 186LV (TAnai—Sini" " This means Joseph." " Tbe Take papa below is asleep"—" Abraham." " 00 the is conquered"—" Israel." " tbo Papaiuna not pretend to decide upon the We do merits of Mr. Lnwson's reasoning, but as his communications are so filled up, with English and Marquesan sentences and phrases, we must decline their publication. We should utterly dispair of getting these communications through the press without innumerable mistakes, and as he is not here to look over proof-sheets, his lucubrations must remain in manuscript. �70 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER. 1862. Another Slave-trader Punished.—The vigorous and honest administration of President Lincoln has struck another powerful blow at the slave trad,e. Appleton Oakes Smith, the son of Seba Smith, well known as "Jack*Downing," and Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, also a well-know writer, has been convicted under his recently assumed alias of Oaksmith of complicity in the slave trade, and stands sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the Massachusetts State Prison and a fine of $5,000 or another years imprisonment for every 81,000 unpaid. This sentence is quite as significant as that of Gordon, recently executed in New York. Gordon's death showed that thegovernment would punish slave-traders. Oaksmiths sentence shows that the government is resolute to mete out to high and low alike, without respect to persons, the righteous penalties of the law against this infernal traffic. No healthier or more hopeful sign could be given of the spirit in which our wholesome laws are to be administered. No pains were spared to exert moral influence upon court and jury. An array of well dressed ladies constantly attend the prisoner in quality of sympathizing friends, and a tableau twa?it of much taste and power was brought to bear during the concluding scenes. But all was in vain; and the upright Massachusetts jury returned their verdict as law and truth demanded, however they might sympathize in the grief of the prisoner's friends.—N. Y. Independent. Emancipation in Russia.—It is the high privilege of the now living generation to see what so many noble men of past ages have in vain longed and toiled for—the beginning of the total abolition of human bondage. While in the New World the most wicked form of slavery the world has ever seen has been quite unexpectedly shaken to its foundation by the mad schemes of men who intended to make it the corner-stone of a new government and the starting point of a new ere of civilization, a monarch of Europe is fast clearing away the last remnants of a milder kind of involuntary servitude in the Old World. Late advices from St. Petersburg announce that the imperial manifesto of March 17, 1861, which proclaimed the emancipation of twenty-three millions of serfs, to take place within 2 years, will be followed before the end of the present year by an equally important decree, which will provide for the complete liberation of more than eighteen millions of crown peasants. A few more years will suffice to complete the emancipation of all the peasants of Russia, and thus to increase her free population by more than forty millions of men. William Everett, youngest son of Edward Everett of Boston, who has been for some time a member of Trinity College, in Cambridge, England, has recently gained a scholarship, after a severe examination in the classics and mathematics. It will give him about two hundred and eighty dollars a year. The new Sultan of Turkey is a wonder for a turk. He indulges in but one wife; it a rigid teetotaler, and does not even smoke; while he is a good farmer, angler, shot and pianist Under his management "the sick man" ought to get well. Coral Oil, not Coal Oil.—A gentleman named Denton, who visited the Canadian oil-springs in January, says " It is a common idea, even with geologists, that the oil has been produced from beds of coal, but this oil-field is of itself sufficient to show the incorrectness of the notion. The limestone found in this region, under the drificlay, I recognize as a member of the Hamilton group of the Devonian formation, and as such is geologically many thousand feet below the lowest member of the carboniferous formation, below which workable coal-beds are never found. The truth is, that this oil, found so abundantly in Canada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and many other localities, is not coal oil but coral oil. Stowed away in cells, forming in. the aggregate immense reefs, as it was collected from the impure waters of the early oceans by minute coral polyps, it has been driven by heat and pressure into reservoirs and crevices where map's ingenuity is discovering it from day to day. I have in my possession many specimens of this fossil coral, with the oil plainly visible in the cells." : " Gospel Fruits. —Mr. T. W. Gulick writes from the Kanaka settlement near Coloma, El Dorado Co., that an old Hawaiian man, himself an apparent object of charity, came to "AWill." sGod Pain's furnace heat within me quivers, God's breath upon the flame doth blow ; And all my heart in anguish shivers And Irombles at the liny glow And jet I whiepcr: Jit God will ! And in bis hottest tire hold still. : He comes, and lays my heart, all heated, On the hard anvil, minded so, Into his own fair shape lo beat it With his great hammer, blow on blow : And yet I whisper .It Go<i will .'■ And at his heaviest blows hold mill. : He lakes my softened heart and beats it ; The sparks fly off nt every blow ; He turns it o'er and o'er and heats it, And lets it cool, and makes it glow And yet I whisper Jit God will ! And in his mighty hand hold still. : : Why should I murmur? for the sorrow Tims only longer-lived would be ; Its end may come, and will to-morrow. When God has done his work in me. So I say trusting : .Is God wilt.' And, trusting to the end, hold still. He kindles, for my profit purely. Affliction's glowing, fiery brand ; And all his heaviest blows are surely Inflicted by a Master hand : So I say praising : As God will ! And hope in him, and suffer still. Julius Sturm. him with twenty dollars, as his contribution to the support of the gospel ministry. He said he had been away from the Sandwich Islands now many years, and had not had an The Moral Condition of our Navy.— opportunity to assist. Five dollars were for Mr. Gulick himself, five more for the Rev. L. Rev. C. S. Stewart, the well known chapSmith, one of the missionaries at Honolulu, lain in the United States navy, has written and the remaining ten for his old Sandwich a letter to the New York Observer, in which Island pastor, the Rev. E. W. Clark. The he compares or contrasts the moral and reliman could not be persuaded to take back any gious condition of the navy to-day with what part of the money on account of his own pov- it was thirty years ago. Tlien profane and erty ; he said the Lord would provide for abusive language was common with offihim when he should need.—Pacific, July 10. cers on duty on the quarter-deck ; now it is the exception to the rule, and during the last The Yacht America.—The Port Royal ten years, and serving in two ships in that correspondent of the New York Tribune gives time, Mr. Stewart docs not remember to have the following account of the famous yacht heard an oath, and scarcely a reproachful America, lately raised by Lieut. Steven of epithet, from such officers. Then the use of the Ottawa, after having been sunk by the strong drink among officers was general, and for an officer to be occasionally under its rebels above Pilatka, Florida : "The national pride identified with the influence was thought light of; now the use America gives an additional interest to late of wines and liquors is rare, and intoxication incidents in her history. She was purchased would disgrace an officer. Then a profesof her English owners by the rebel govern- edlyreligious naval officer was a rarity ; noio ment last winter, for 860,000, and was it is not uncommon for one-half of the wardbrought over here for the express purpose room mess and a large number of the crew of carrying Slidell and Mason to Europe. to be professedly religious and in regular When they took another conveyance it was church membership. Then Divine worship determined to load her with cotton, and with was unknown except on Sunday ; now daily thatcargo she was to have sailed for England praycr-iiicetings and other religious exercises not long after the expedition under Capt Ste- exercises are common on board our ships of vens, reached the St. John's and took posses- war.— N. Y. World. sion of Jacksonville." Pontoon Bridges.—The Fredericksburg correspondent — of the I'kiladelphia Inquirer says : The pontoon bridge across tho Rappahannock, at Rebledom.—The ship North this plnce, is one of the greatest inventions of the age. American arrived at New York from New The pieces arc numbered, and, together with the gaita Orleans, bringing about two hundred tons of percha floats, are carried in wagons from stream to bell metal, valued at $50,000. The cargo stream. The crops attached to the pontoon have beso perfect in their laying of the bridge that a consists of the bells contributed by different come stream, the width of the Rappahannock, eao beerosaparties in response to the call by Beauregard ed by the bridge in a few minutea. We have just for material for brass cannon. There are witnessed some practice with another bridge than is really nearly eight hundred of them, varying in size that already laid down, and the performance wonderful. Tbe government is now repairing the from a cow bell to a large church bell. Most rail-road and in a few bridge over the Kappannock, of them arc of the size used on plantations days the oars will be enabled to run from Aquia Creek and steamboats. Fredericksburg. into the city of Bells from �ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. 11. W. SKVKUANCE, AUCTIONEER, OFFICIAL. HONOLULU. Will coutitiue business til the old stanJ on Queen street. 3'.8-ly J. 11. COLE, l y\.*rjra rio3\ru*a3at. (srCCBSSOB TO ». P. KVKBETT.) 315"!i_ At Ms lute rooms, Queen Street. J. MOTT SMITH, DENTIST. I)R. CIIAS. F. GUILLOU, M. I> !»0-1y , to Late Surveon United States Navy, late Consular Physician American seamen and generalpractitioner. andresidence streets, Ofllee corner Kaahumanu and Merchant at l)r. Wood's Mansion, Hotel street. Spanish, and Medical »nd Surgical advice in English, French, Italian.i— at inquire hours Office hoars from 11 a. H. to 2 r. v.; at other . ~ ******* ■Jsrasstsnea. C. 11. WETMORE, M. D. CONSULAR PHYSICIAN ofe SURGEON, Tosick American Seamen, and general practitioner, HILO, HAWAII, S. 1. N. B.—Medicine Chests rarefully replenished at the HILO DRUG 6-tf STORE. CHiS. I. IXKT, H- A- P. CiBTKII, ■HBBMM HCK, Boston. Honolulu. Honolulu. C. BREWER «c CO., Commission & Shipping Merchants, Honolulu. <1111.11, —REFER TO— Joi*. M. Iloon, Ksq Ji»«sllC»sswKt.l., Ksq.,l Cbiblbs Bbkwkb, Esq., > ) 11. A. Fames, Ksi., Missus. Mcßcfb Musmix, I Cms. WoLCOTT Brook.-*, K*q., ) Mibskd. Wm. Fostau fc Co., Hssaaa. Pkelb, lli-bbsil S Co., * H. I. New York. Boston. r TIBCIKO Hongkong. Manila. . 878-ly *»o»- siM'L. a. oisTia. CASTLE & COOKE, »• cooes. Importers and Wholesale and Retail dealers in General Merchandise, in the Fireproof Store in King street,opposite the Seamen's Chapel. Agents for DR. JAYNE'S MEDICINES. SAILOR'S HOME. To the Friends of Education. AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, Office corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. 320-ly ALL ErV «fc BERRILL, HCCCBSSORS TO George W. Macy, KAWAinAK. HAWAII, Will continue the GeneralMerchandise and Shipping busines al the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoeß, and such other re crulu as are required by whale ships at the shortest notice, 3flMy and on the most reasonable terms. THE PUBLIC AR.E ALREADY AWAKE that the principal building of llie Seminary at Lahalnaluna has lieon destroyed by fire. There were also destroyed at the same time a Philosophical apparatus andbooks belonging to the Seminary. The scholars wirealso sufferers. The estimate for erecting suitable building, is $8,000. The Legislature has approB at—J 1 f*i w\ fee 1 aw I SB *fla^*n priated $6,000 to be applied for the erection of buildings, and It will require almut $3,000 to complete and furnish them for the purpose of tlie school, and to furnish a Philosophical apparatus equal to tlie one destroyed and to replace the books. And the Board of Kducation regard it a duty to appeal to thewholepeople of the Islands f>r contributions to supply the deficiency, so *3IbB kPfll IH Lx H\t PR Wl IHsT^sl that tills College may be put once more into successful operation. There is now sn opportunity for the friendsof education to render essentialaid in a time of great exigency to thisInstitution, which has been, and, I trust, will hereafter lie of great service to al| our people. I wouldsuggest that the Superintendent of the schools in each district, in conjunction with the TreaSAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND surer, should take such a course as they may think most expeowned by the Honolulu Sailors' Home dient, to raise a subscription for the purpose. Whatever amount may lie BSSMHSBfI can be paid to the Treasurerof each district, to Society," has recently been placed under the management of the undersigned. They hope, by strict be transmitted by liiui to the undersigned. attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the M. KKKUANAOA. seafaring community. The House has t sen built And 326-lm Office or the Board ot Education, Aup. 5,1862. fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or - 1 THE ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING, ON FORT STREET, of all kinds, Hinges, Screws, Tacks, Ra- LOCKS wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their vesOF SAN FRANCISCO, HAS TAKE*. sels under repairs, are respectfully invited to Mod charge of the Bindery, and Is prepared to execute all their crews to the Home, where every attention will orders for binding, be paid to their comfort. Pasaatklrts, Officers' table, with lodging H ptr week,. fA lllu.irni, ,1 Kewa papers, do. do. Seamens' do. do. 6 .Mi|n/.lnr., Music. AND MRS. OAT, CAPTAIN Hooka, Old Ate Honolulu, March 1, 1861. Managers. LATE Particular attention paid to rchinding old and choicehooks. Mr. Y. having had many years experience En book-binding in all its branches, hopes to receive ashare of thebusiness required in Honolulu. Order, from the other islands, should be accompanied with particular directions, as to the style, and, if thework is to match volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sent with the job. Orders may be left at the book store of 11. M. Whitney, or at the Bindery, in the rear of Rev. Mr. Clark's residence, beyond 317-3 the Stone Church. m BERRY ALUOI, Family Sewing Machines! VARYING FROM 160 TO t.l 10, According to style. PRICES RoMwood Cases, highly finished or plain with Vail Plated Koa and Pine Coffins always on hand. FOOKS FURNITURE REPAIRED. Jobbing done on reasonable terms. 11KNRY ALLEN, Fort St., Opposite the Fam'ly Grocery andFeed Store. NEW AND SECOND-HAND Second-hand Furniture Bought at H. ALLEN'S CARPENTER SHOP, Fort St., opposite A. D. Cartwrlght's Feed Store. IT KOA BUREAUS always on hand. CHASE'S Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY! I " ' FIRST PREMIUM THE THE UNDERSIGNED IS NOW PREPARED to fill all orders from STINCIL PLATKB, for Firms, Plan tattoos.Rice Growers, *c, on short notice. Music, Legal documents, *c, coppied neatly. Ornamental Foil Signs on glass, a beautiful article for decorating RefreshNext door to the Post Office—up stairs— ment Saloons, Bar Rooms, tc, gotup in FANCY STYLES. over the Commercial Advertiser" Billsand accounts made out. Printing Office. The public are respectfully invited to give me a call, as 1 will STYLE. doail work in tbe above line, at prices suited to the times. TAKEN IN EV**JRT AmbTotypes, Photographs, Helalneotypee far such as Orders (rota the country and other Islands respectfully Landscapes, Views of Dwellings, fee., at reasLockets, Ac, ,0 ,! e,, onable pilots THOMAS G. THRUJf, iMO ON HAND-A good atsorUsant ofWAHCTCASU, H. L. CHAM. 331-3 m Fort Street, opposite the Odd Fellows' Hai. •FRAMES, ire. rMfl "" WHEELER & WILSON'S and Pearled Machines of various styles and prices. The practical working of eachand every machine guaranteed. Kach machine is accompanied by a full set of tools i being all that Is necessary for the adjustment and working of themarhme. Also, full and complete printed directions In English, Spanish, UNDERSIGNED BEGS I.KAVErn- French or German. pectftilly to inform hit friendi and the public generally, CALL AND EXAMINE THE NEWIMPROVEMENT! that having recently enlarged his premises, he In now prepared Office and Salesroom, corner of Montgomery and Sacrament* to doall work in the above line, with dispatch and in a workStreets, San Francisco. manlike manner. H. C. IUYDF.N, Aosnrr, 6-tf * BE BKEN at the Harbor Master's Office, Charts of the North and South Paelllc, Indian and PacificOceans, on a large scale; China and Japan Sea*, ftc. Likewise a Sextant, (double arch) by Troughton, an Aneroid, llersburg'sKast 1 India Directory and sunwry nautical works. THE BEST IN UBE ! CARPENTER. BUILDER AND UNDERTAKER. zors, Cut and Wrought Nails, Spikes, Brads, FURNITURE. Files, Carpenters' Tools of all kinds, Pocket and NEW AND SECOND' « sgffM. Sheath-Knives, Marlinspikcs, Caulking-Irons and LSssps&e of every description, QJ I hand Furniture on hand, and for sale at HI Mallets, and numerous other articles, for sale at the I I » I I constantly prices. low M1 W. N. LAPP. (tf) lowest prices, by CHARTS FOR SALE. " HIOOK-BINDINOr »1.-. GEO. W. » 111,1.1 tl. HARDWARE STORE. MAY 71 i H 11; nd.s E P t X 11EI, Ibf 1. iii i: PICTURES AT AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'B Watch and JeweJrv EsUblishment, in Kaahumanu street, will be found the following works : Almanacks for 1862. Merchant's, Shipnuater'sand Mechanic's Assistant. Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. ' -IUO- Ship's Compasses and Dividers. —ALSO— Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescope*. —lUO— Watches. and South Pacific. Chronometers and Chronometer —ALSO— English Charts of North — —ALSO A (treat variety of other articles useful to the -ANDjUriDer. Many ornamental articles, including Breast Pint, Rings, Cups, Ac, Ac. Particular attention given to repairing and rating Chronometers. Children's Books. RECEIVED <— The Child's Picture Book of Birds. •• Picture Book of AniauUs. JUST Bible Picture Book. " Pletare Fabto look. " Price fl *«each.-For Sale by �72 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1862. Death of the Prince of Hawaii.—We Donation*.—For gratuitous distribution of Fritndy from Hod. 0. D. Keane, il It. M.'v »lnn copy the closing remarks of the editor *»f $5,00 Chnrybdis, t tie Polynesian, from his leader upon the Several .Mechanics. Honolulu, 5,00 death' oi the Prince ot Hawaii: " There is a fragnance and sweetness in the memory of the young who die early that is unspeakably soothing to the griefstricken heart of a parent. Be it Queen or PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. peasant, the thought that her little one is with God and stands with anger crown on radiant ARRIVALS. brow, that in the twinkling of some star or the rustling of the wind she sees him beck- Aug. 9—Am clippership Southern Cross, Howes, 13 days from San Francisco, anchored outside, took off 26,960 oning or feels his kisses—such thoughts, lbs fungus,2,69olbs niche dc mer, and sailed again after the first bitterness of parting is past, same day for Hongkong. 17—Am sch J. B. Ford, Pinncy, from Port Tovrnseni! via shed a holy repose over the soul of the Lahaina, with a cargo of lumber. 22—11. H. M.'s steamer Termagant, 25 guns, Capt. Uobt. mourner, an assurance that all is well with Hall, 42 days from Panama. the loved and lost, a tenderness towards the 24—Am Bliip George M'aihington, Anderson, 27 days from Puget Sound, hound to Adelaide, W. Australia, enobling. living, alike purifying and with luiuWr thence to Newcastle, where she will load coal for Sun Francisco. Touched here for Let us trust that such will be the case on supplies, and sailed again same day. * this sad occasion. Weep, ye August Pa24—Haw sloop Louisa, King, 24 days from Palmyra Island. rents j your sorrow is the holiest and purest. 26—Hanov, bark Osnabruck, Seetzen, 22 days from Puget Earth has not another tone Sound, bound to Shanghae with lumlter, anchored MARINE JOURNAL. , tbat with which a mother mourns " Like Her lost, htr only one." outside. next day. and million hearts respond in softened cadence to a "mother's wailing." But, while thus sorrowing, remember that the nation to whom ye gave the child at its birth, claims the privilege to mingle its tears with yours, and tender that sympathy which, coming from heart to heart, is one of the balms which God has given to sooth your grief in this hour of, bereavement. Weep for yourselves, on whom the shadow of lonliness has fallen; weep for your people, whose day-star has sunk; but weep not for him whom the good God has chosen to a brighter crown and a wider realm than ye could have giwi him. Bow to the decree of the All-wise, and seek in the happiness of your people and in mutual love that occupation of the mind, that fortitude of the soul, that will enable you to await the reunion where the lost one will herald your coming and greet you with that undying love that knows no more sorrow nor death." Sailors of Termagent and Charybdis.— We are glad to see that sailors can belave themselves when ashore on liberty. t is pleasant to see them enjoying their liberty in a decent and becoming manner. The seamen of the two ships have shown a selfrespect and becoming deportment while on shore, which speaks well for the good disciiline on board. We hope the day is coming, when drunkenness and profanity will not be regarded, as the indispensable traits of a sailor. The captain of a whaler from the Shetland Isles lately discovered in Hudson's Bay an entirely new amphibious animal. It belongs to the mammifera, is shaped somewhat like the lamantin, manatee and dugong, those singular tropical animals which form the link between the hippopatamus and the purely aquatic animals; has paws like the bear, and, anomalously enough, eight of these, which spread out in the water, disclosing webs between the fingers; a triple eye-lid, like the crocodile, and a voice described as very plaintive; spends its days on land, its nights' in the water, and is thus invisible during the whole period of Arctic darkness. Tbe captain took his prize to the Shetlands. It lives en seaweed, and thrives heartily. Touched for provisions, and vailed again 20—Am clipper ship War Hawk,Simmons, Hi days from San Francisco, with U. S. mad,*, ea route for China. Anchored outside. 27—Am hrtg Curlew. Chapman, 14 days from San Francisco, en route for Manila. Sailed agaiu next day. DEPARTURES. Aug. 16—Am bark Comet, Smith, for San Francisco. 26—H. B. M.'v steamer Charybdis, lion. Geo. D. Keane, for Tahiti. MEMORANDA. Arrivals of Whaler* at the Port of Talcahunuo. 1802* (Reported for the Commercial Advertiser.) Jan. 13—Ship General Pike, Fisher; Baited for the North Pacific to cruise. IS—Ship Camden, Mudgctt, of New York ; sailed for California. 20—Bark Clarice, Brown palled for home. 23—Ship Chandler Price, Ilolcomh ; sailed for home. 24—Bark Maria, Thompson. Lucy Ann, Towusend, from New|>ort, R. 1., for Feb. 3— California. B—Bark Ripple, Morgan, 80 sp ; sailed to cruise. Smyrna, West, 220 sp. 17— 17—Ship Harriet Krving, Manning, from Catdera ; took in wool, and sailed for Boston. 17—Chiliansch Porcia, Reed, 25"0 sp and 200 wb, 0 mos. out; In port. 17—Ship Crest of the Wave, Watts ; took in wool at Tome, tor home. 20—Bark Vigilant, Cole, 260 sp since leaving Paita20— Morning Light, Luce, 650 sp and 460 wh. 25— " Morning Star, Norton, 1200 sp, 55 mouth i out, bound home. 26—Bark Montgomery, Cra-w, 300 sp, 75 wh, all told ; t6 cruise. March 2—Chilianbrig Eulalia, Bowen, 600 wh ; in port. 4—Bark Matthew Luce, Cleveland, 700 sp ; to cruise. 7—Ship Ky-ropa, Maoter, 200 sp. 1800 wh, all told; left Valparaiso for home,after being repaired there. 10—Bark E. C. Cowden, W. Cleveland, 80 sp ; to cruise. 10— Charles & Edward, Gifford, 300 sp, all told ; to cruise. Mary 13—Ship «V Susan, P. Howlaad, 1100 sp, 18 mos. out; to cruise. 15—BarkNorman, Luce, 100>Pi to cruise. 16—Bidp Susan Fitxgerald, from Baltimore; sailed for Valparaiso with assorted cargo. 16—BarkNorman, Gibbs, 200 sp, 10 wh to cruise. lur-Ship Julian,Dodge, nothing since leavingSan Francisco—bodnd home. 20—Ship Arnold*, Crowell, 600 sp on board, 300 spseas.; to cruise. 20—Bark Samuel Jr.Thomas,Hoxie, 30 sp, season. 21— * Osceola, Harablin, 1560 sp, all told. She lost a boat's crew, for which she searched 10 days. They were picked upby a French bark, after bclne 7 days in the boat, and afterwards put on board ship Constitution. 26—Bark Sappho, Coffin, 770 sp, 37 wh, on board. 26—Ship Congress, Switt, 200 sp, 900 wh, an board ; to cruise. 36—Bark MatildaBears, HowUnd, 460 sp, 14 wh, do. ; to cruise. 27—Ship John Coggeshall, Dean, 1600 wh, all told ; to cruise. : " •• " " ; MARRIED. Ciistkk—Hoom—ln Honolulu, August 9th, by Rev. 8. C. Damon. Mr. Alfred ('hater to Mrs. Mary Moore. ll.vkss—Uoild—At Wailuku, Haul, July 18th, by Rev. W. P. Alexander, Mr. William Havens to Mias Lucy Gould. DIED. CoanwELL—AtRose Ranch I'lupalakua, East Msui, August 20, of inflammation of the bowels, John W. Cornwell, aged 22 years, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornwellf of this city. Information Wanted ! Respecting jV. H. Boyaen, who is reported to have Iteen at the U. S. Hospital in February, 1860. lie was a Dane, and was discharged from a Boston ship. Any information will be gladly received by thf Editor. Respecting Reuben Week*, belonging to North Dartmouth, Mass. He i» re|M>rted as having been in Honolulu last April. Any information will be gladly received by the Kditor, or his father Kbeiiezer Weeks, North Dartmouth. Respecting Mr. Armond Gooley, who sailed from New Bedford in lK.'ii, and leahis ship, the-'Thomas Dickason," In 1169. Any information will be gladly received by the Kditor, or Mrs. Ellen Uooley, care of G. B. Richmond, New Bedford, Mass. Respecting George Knottton belonging to Leominster Moss. He left the Tinted States in 1357, and served as a seaman, two years, on board ihe " Arab," Capt. Grennelt. Please communicate with Mrs. Harriet Knollnn,Leominster, or the editor uf the Friend. Respecting James H. Rice% who left Hartford, Ct, in 1364, and sailed the MM year in the ship "William Tell." He left the ship in New Zealand. A sailor was discharged at Honolulu 30th Oct., 1857. Canany of our readers inform us whether Una man is the one referred to? Any information, will I* gladly received by the editor or Mr. 11. C. Rice, of WlllimanUc, Ct. Respecting Mr. George F. McKnight, on board whaleship Mary Wilder." He will obtain news from friends by calling upon the Seamen's Chaplain. Please communicate with Mrs. McKnight, Worcester, Mass. Respecting Kathan S. Gibbs. He was on boanl the Mon texuma" at Honolulu in 1859, and was discharged herein 1860, Communicate with Rev. J. D. Butler, Seamen's Chaplain, New Bedford, or the Kditor of the Friend. Respiting Henri/ Bowera t of San Francisco, who left bark Yankee, 18 monthsago, at Honolulu. Pleasecommunicatewith Mrs R. II Lambert, of San Francisco, or the Kditor of Friend. Respecting William. D. Re.ntly, belonging to Philadelphia. lie last wrote, in 1859, from Honolulu. Any information may be communicated to the Editor of the Friend, or to Wright, Smith ft Pearsall. merchants.No- 5, North sth St., Philadelphia. Respecting Oliver R. (Hie, of N. Andover, Mass. He left the bark Marthalast Novcuilkt. Respecting Peter Parris. born in Syracuse, N. V., and Is now twenty-three years old. He has been absent from home six years. Any information will be gladly received by the editor, or by hismother, Mrs. Catharine Welch, Syracuse New York. Respecting Mr. A/01120 Pearsalf, belonging to Ship Chandler Price. He will find a letter with the Kditor of the Friend. Information is sought by Mr. Wlllett P. Wheston, 26 Stanton street, Brooklyn, L. I. Respecting Paul St*•inberg, of Sagan, in Silesia, left 1847, in shipGellcrt, Capt. Itilder, from Hamburg for Adelaide,sod lias never been "heardof. An anxiousmother longs to hear from hiss. Respecting Martwell B. Martin, belonging to Brooksfleld. Mass. He was last heard from onboard ship Julian, Winegaf. Should the Captain of this ship visit Honolulu, he Is requested to call upon the Editor of the Friend. Respecting Emerson Starkey, of RehoLoth. Mass. He left a whaleship at the Sandwich Islands, sick, in 1842. Any intelligence will !»■ gladly received by the Kditor, or Bradford Ctunmings, North Rchobotli, Mass. Respecting Samuel 11. Dodge, a son or Elisabeth Dodge, of East Cambridge. He was at the islands, six or seven years since. Should he call upon the Chaplain, he will fled a letter. Respecting William Smith, a sailor during last season on boanl the bark Florence. Information may he sent to hisfriends In Brooklyn, New York, or to the Editor of the Friend. B7 The Chaplain has received LETTKRS for Wm. Y. Coi t of bark K. Covington, Francia McEvena, and Jo*. M. Rice. X7LETTERS have been received for tbe following persons 1 Mr. Thomas Bain Mr. Callisch—(this letter is in French.; C7The Chaplain has receive! LETTERS for John Pentoae and William Crumbie. " " , PHOTOGRAPHIC Gr li. 3L, L TH MT, KING STREET, Next Door to H. Dimond A Son. - UNDERSIGNED HAVING RECEI, his NKW PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, has enTHEedrefitted and renovated the Rooms tirely formerlyoccupied by 11. Stanirenvald, M. D., (more recently by Mr. K. D. Durand,) PASSENGERS. and hopes, by strict attention to the tastes and fanciesof hiseasterners, to receive a share of the public patronage. The Carte dc Visite In either plain or fancy styles, put up For Sis Fraxcisco—per Cornet, Aug. 16—KeT A Thurston and «l*!, and 2 children, Mrs Win Humphreys, Mrs (I U neatly and with dispatch. J. W. KINO, ftobartson, Dr Wickliffe, Mrs Bojd and child, Capt M'OleaTS, 524-2 m Kins; street, next door to B. Dimond Bon. T B Hunter, Mr Btswart—l2. * � 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 (1862) 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 - 1862.09.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862.09.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/2c50bce347f404d12326d4200676b448.pdf 9e3dcdf9b05004521356e33bdd3d8b5d PDF Text Text FRIEND THE HONOLULU, OCTOBER 1, 1862. Utto Strits.tfol. n, $o.)(U CONTENTS For October. 18C2. The Poet Cowper's thouitlitu, fee I.illlt- Willie Lincoln's funeral, Thirty years on men-of-war, Correspondence, Sympathy for the Sailor, Letter from Re».T. K. Taylor Count tiasparin's Sew Hook, The Bihle, a Life Preserver, M.-irine Journal, Ac. 4*e • * Pioa. 73'It • •'• 7« ™ ■ J •••■" 'IS *> w THE FRIEND. OCTOBER 1, 1862. To the Friends of the Bethel. The time has come when the Chaplain is under the necessity of calling upon those friendly to the support of the Bethel, to come For several years " free to his assistance. will" and "unsolicited donations" have been sufficient to defray the necessary incidental expenses of the Bethel, but the premises now need repairs, and the buildings need painting. These repairs will cost from $150 to $200. Free will offerings, will be most thankfully received. The Chaplain is under the additional necessity of making this appeal for funds, from the fact that \W The American Seamen's Friend Society, in consequence of the war, has been compelled to diminish, by one half its annual appropriation, for this Chaplaincy. For many years ($800) eight hundred has been the annual appropriation for this Chaplaincy, but that sum has been reduced to ($400) four hundred, for 1862. Thus our war-tax is virtually $400 per annum! The Bethel-Acoount, for Jan. 1, cash on hand, Freewill offerings since Coktba. Incidental expense*. Repairs, * Paints, oil, and labor, Water-work», ic. 18<162. 968 80 61 00 $114 80 $14 78 20 00 24 60 68 16 $127 48 Present debt, 12 08 The Chaplain is very desirous of avoiding the accumulation of any debt, hence he hopes the friends of the Bethel will lend their aid. Will not shipmasters and seamen assist, as they were accustomed to do many years ago ? Of late years, the Chaplain has not made appeals to seamen for aid, because they were not so successful as formerly. As they are coming in with full ships, it is to be hoped they will lend a helping hand. Unless the friends of seamen cheerfully aid the Seamen's Chaplain, it is no easy undertaking to publish a paper, one half of which are distributed gratuitously ; sustain a Chapel with seats free; and keep open a Sailor's Home,freefrom debt. When there is a cheerful co-operation, the wheels roll on smoothly. 73 \m Series, *W. Ifl. The Poet Cowper's thoughts relating to Affairs in Polynesia. In perusing the Poems and Letters of Cowper, we have been much interested in his allusions and references to affairs in this part of the world. It was during his life, that Cook's voyages and discoveries were published in England. By reading the current literature of the last half of the 18th century, we find that the discoveries of Capt. Cook created a sensation in the public mind, rivalling the profound impressions made upon Europe when Columbus returned from his first voyage of successful discovery to the new world. The first extract which we copy from Cowper's writings, is a paragraph, from a letter "Our Rules." addressed to the poet's most intimate friend the Rev. John Newton, and dated Oct. 6, 1783: A sailor met the chaplain last Sabbath I am much obliged to you for the voymorning after the service, and remarked that, " which I received, and began to read ages, for the first time he had been to the Bethel, last night. My imagination is so captivated and assigned that he had not been before upon these occasions, that I seem to partake they because he did not know " our rules." We with the navigators in all the dangersmainray have thought some other seamen might be encountered. I lose my anchor; into shreds; I kill a shark, and by in the same unfortunate state of ignorance, sail is rent signs converse with a Patagonian, and all hence, for their information the Chaplain this without moving from the fireside. The would simplyremark, these are "our rules." principal fruits of these circuits, that have 1. Let every sailor visiting Honolulu at- been made around the globe, seem likely to that staid at tend public worship at the Bethel, without be the amusement ofhavethose made, but been Discoveries home. fail. as will hardly satisfy the such discoveries 2. Let every sailor visiting the Bethel expense of such undertakings. We brought take the seat that suits his convenience, away an Indian, and having debauched him, the we sent him home again to communicate above or below. to be country—fine sport, his to 3. Let every sailor attend the Wednesday infection not defray the cost. will as but such sure, Evening Prayer Meeting, held in the vestry. Nation* that live on bread-fruit, and have no 4. Let every sailor supply himself (if he mines to make them worthy of our acquainhas not one already,) with a Bible and some tance, will be but little visited for the future. So much the better for them ! their poverty other reading matter, before going to sea. the is indeed theirmercy. which These are some of "our rules," W. C." Yours, my dear friend, on observe, to chaplain desires all seamen to in this Sea fslander referred South their visiting Honolulu, and if seamen will The respecting Oroai, was Cowper, to letter of call upon the Chaplain, he will endeavor whom, we find the following in the Ist enforce these rules by some good advice. volume of Cook's voyages. It appear* that The Ladies' Stranger's Friend Society-Will Ornai, returned with Capt. Cook on his second the Seamen's hold it* next meeting at the rsoass of voyage to the Pacific Thursday, Oct 9th. Chaplain, on �74 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, " Before we quitted this island, Capt. Furneaux agreed to receive on board his ship a. young man named Omai, a native of Ulietea, where he had had some property, of which he had been dispossessed by the people of Bolabola. 1 at first rather wondered that Captain Furneaux would encumberiiimself with this man, who, in my opinion, was not a proper sample of the inhabitants of these happy islands, not having any advantage of birth, or acquired rank, nor being eminent in shape, figure, or complexion. For their people of the first rank are much fairer and usually better behaved, and more intelligent, than the middling class of people, among whom Omai is to be ranked, i have, however, since my arrival in England, been convinced of my error; for, excepting his complexion, (which is undoubtedly of a deeper hue than that of the earees or gentry, who, as in other countries, lives a more luxurious life, and are less exposed to the heat of the sun,) I much doubt whether any other of the natives would have given more general satisfaction by his behaviour among us. Omai has most certainly a very good understanding, quick parts, and honest principles ; he has a natural good behaviour, which rendered him acceptable to the best company, and a proper degree of pride, which taught him to avoid the society of persons of inferior rank. He has passions of the same kind as other young men, but has judgment enough not to indulge them in an improper excess. I do not imagine he has any dislike to liquor ; and if he had fallen into company where the person who drank the most met the most approbation, I have no doubt but that he would have endeavoured to gain the applause of those with whom he associated ; but, fortunately for him, he perceived that drinking was very little in use but among inferior people, and as he was very watchful into the manners and conduct of the persons of rank who honored him with their protection, he was sober and modest; and I never heard that, during the whole time of his stay in England, which was two years, he ever once was disguised with wine, or ever showed an inclination to go beyond the strictest rules of moderation. Soon after his arrival in London, the Earl of Sandwich, the first lord of the admiralty, introduced him to his Majesty at Kew, when he met with a most gracious reception, and imbibed the strongest impression of duty and gratitude to that great and amiable prince, which I am persuaded he will preserve to the latest moment of his life. During his stay amongst us he was caressed by many of the principal nobility, and did nothing to forfeit the esteem of any of them; but his principal patrons were the Earl of Sandwich, Mr. Banks, and Dr. Solander: the former probably thought it a duty of his office to protect and countenance an inhabitant of that hospitable country, where the wants and distresses of those in his department had been alleviated and supplied in the most ample manner ; the others, as a testimony of their gratitude for the generous reception they had met with during their residence in his country. It is to be observed, that though Omai lived in the midst of amusements during his residence in England, his return to his native '•ountrv was always in his thoughts and JJH>Jj though he was not impatient to go, he expressed a satisfaction as the time of his return approached. He embarked with me in the Resolution, when she was fitted out for another voyage, loaded with presents from his several friends, and full of gratitude for the kind reception and treatment he had experienced among us." From, Cowper's Task Book I.: and to think that the durance he suffers would be well exchanged for a dance at Anamooka. 1 should however as little have expected to hear that these islanders had such consumate skill in an art, that requires so much taste in the conduct of the person, as that they were good mathematicians and astronomers. Defective as they are in every branch of knowledge, and in every other species of refinement, it seems wonderful Thee, gentle savage ! whom do love of- thee that they should arrive at such perfection in Or thine, but curiosity perhaps, Or else vainglory, prompted us to draw the dance, with some of our English gentleForth from thy native bowers to show thee here men, with all the assistance of French inWith what superior skill we can abuse struction, find it impossible to learn. We The gifts of Providence, and squander life. must conclude therefore that particular naThe dream is past; and thou has found again Thy cocoas and bananas, palms and yams. tions have a genius for particular feats, and But hast And homestall thatched with leaves. that our neighbors in France, and our friends thou found Their former charms ? And having seen our state, in the South sea, have minds very nearly akin, though they inhabit countries so very Our palaces, our ladies, and our pomp Of equipage, our gardens, and our sports. remote from each other." * * And heard our music; are thy simple friends, "October 9, 1784. Thy simple fare, and all thy plain delights. As dear to thee as once ! And have thy joys " Last night I had a letterfrom Lord DartLost nothing by comparison with ours: mouth. It was to surprise me of the safe Hude as thou art, (for we returned thee rude arrival of Cook's last voyage, which he was And ignorant, exoept of outward show) so kind as to lend me, in St. James's Square. 1 can not think thee yet so dull of heart And spiritless, as never to regret The reading of those volumes afforded me Sweets tasted here, and left as soon as known. much amusement, and I hope some instrucon beach, Methinks I see thee straying the tion. No observation however forced itself bathes foot, thy And asking of the surge that ■ * If ever it has washed our distant shore. 1 see thee weep, and thine are honest tears, A patriot's for his country thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state, From which no power of thine can raise her up. Thus Fancy paints thee, and, though apt to err, Perhaps errs little, when she paints thee thus, She tells me too, that duly every morn Thou climbest the mountain top, with eager eye Exploring far and wide the watery waste For sight of ship fror.i England. Every speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thee pale With conflict of contending hopes aud fears. But comes at last the dull and dusky eve, And sends thee to thy cabin, well prepared To dream all night of what the day denied. Alas ! expect it not. We found no bait To tempt us in thy country. Doing good. Disinterested good, is not our trade. We travel far, 'tis true, but not for nought; And must be bribed to compass earth again By other hopes and richer fruits than yours. : From this extract, it would seem, that Cowper did not entertain a very exalted idea respecting the benevolence of British christians. Nobly however have they since wiped away that slur upon their character, by the generous and persevering efforts to establish and sustain the missionary enterprize of the "South seas." Our next extract, from Cowper's Letters, is a paragraph from another letter, addressed to the same confidential friend, the Rev. John Newton, and dated, Aug. 16, 1784: reading Cook's last voyage, and am " I am much pleased and amused with it. It seems that in some of the Friendly isles, they excel so much in dancing, and perform that operation with such exquisite delicacy and grace, that they are not surpassed even upon our European stages. 0! that Vestris had been in the ship, that he might have seen himself outdone by a savage. The paper indeed tells us that the queen of France has clapped this king of capers up in prison, for declining to dance before her, on a pretence of sickness, when in fact he was in perfect health. If this be true, perhaps he may by this time be prepared to second such a wish as mine, * upon me with more violence than one, that I could not help making on the death of Captain Cook. God is a jealous God, and at Owhyhee the poor man was content to be worshipped. From that moment, the remarkable interposition of Providence in his favor, was converted into an opposition that thwarted all his purposes. He left the scene of his deification, but was driven back to it by a most violent storm, in which he suffered more than in any that had preceded it. When he departed he left his worshippers still infatuated with an idea of his godship, consequently well disposed to serve him. At his return he found them sullen, distrustful, and mysterious. A trifling theft was committed, which, by a blunder of his own in pursuing the thief after the property had been restored, was magnified to an affair of the last importance. One of their favorite chiefs was killed too by a blunder. Nothing, in short, but blunder and mistake attended him, till he fell breathless into the water, and then all was smooth again. The world indeed will not take notice, or see, that the dispensation bore evident marks of Divine displeasure; but a mind I think in any degree spiritual can not overlook them. We know from truth itself, that the death of Herod was for a similar offence. But Herod was in no sense a believer in God, nor had enjoyed half the opportunities with which our poor countryman had been favored. It may be urged perhaps that he was in jest, that he meant nothing but his own amusement, and that of his companions. I doubt it. He knows little of the heart, who does not know that even in a sensible man it is flattered by every species of exaltation. But be it so, that he was in sport—it was not humane, to say no worse of it, to sport with the ignorance of his friends, to mock their simplicity, to humor and acquiese in their blind credulity. Besides, though a stock or stone may be worshipped blameless, a babtized man may < not. He knows what he does, and by suffering such honors to be paid him, incurs the guilt of sacrilege. �75 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1862. " We are glad that you are so happy in your church, in your society, and in all your connexions. I have not left myself room to say anything of the love we feel for you. W. C." Yours, my dear friend, The foregoing remarks, upon Capt. Cook's death are worthy of more than a passing thought. Some writers have endeavored to apologize for Cook, and represent his conduct as comparatively innocent in the matter of allowing divine honors to have been paid to him. We however take a very different view of the subject. While, as a navigator and discoverer, we allow Cook to hold the first rank, and occupy a lofty position in the temple of fame, yet it must be confessed that in other respects he was far from being It may have been a model character. owing to certain moral delinquencies which might be mentioned, which has operated upon the mind of the British public, in not erecting a monument to his memory. Nearly a century has passed away, and as yet no monument worthy of his memory has been erected upon the spot where he fell. A copper plate upon the stump of a cocoanut tree is all that identifies the lava rocks which were stained with the blood of England's "rcat navigator. We have twice visited the spot—the first time, in 1841, and again in 1350, but on both occasions, we felt, that justice had not been done to Cook's memory. There is no question, but Cook was a remarkable man, and deserves a monument to his memory far more than a thousand and one heroes, who have obelisks and shafts erected over their remains. If the public has been correctly informed, a fund is now accumulating in the safe of the British Consulate of the Pacific, which will, ere long, be devoted to this object. It was commenced during General Miller's day, and it was continued during the period of Mr. Green's incumbency, and we sincerely hope will be completed under the auspices of Mr. Consul and Commissioner Synge. While there is a vividness and freshness connected with the death and burial of the Prince of Hawaii, we think our readers will peruse with interest the following sketch of similar events in the family of the President of the United States. This description is sketched by the graceful and facile, easy and pliant pen of N. P. Willis, one of the editors of the "Home Journal," published in New York: Little Willies Funeral. , Willie Lincoln had his acquaintances among his father's friends, and 1 chanced to be one of them. He never failed to seek me out in the crowd, shake hands and make some pleasant remark; and this in a boy of but ten years of age, was, to say the least, endearing to a stranger. But he had more than mere affectionateness. His self-possession—aplomp, as the French call it—was extraordinary. I was one day passing the White House, when he was outside with a play-fellow on the sidewalk. Mr. Seward drove in, with Prince Napoleon and two of his suite in the carriage; and, in a mockheroic way—terms of amusing intimacy evidently existing between the boy and the Secretary—the official gentleman took of his hat, and the Napoleon party did the same, all making the young prince-president Not a bit staggered a cerenionius salute. with the homage, Willie drew himself up to his full height, took off his little cap with brain; staggering under a blow like the taking from him of his child ! His men of power sat around him—McClellan, with a moist eye when he bowed to lb* prayer, as I could see from where I stood, and Chase and Seward, with their austere features at work, and Senators and ambassadors, and soldiers, all struggling with their tears; great hearts sorrowing with the President as a stricken man and a brother. That God may give him strength for all his burthens, as, I am sure, at present, the prayer of a nation! Willis, in the Home Journal. — I From the Sailor's Monthly M»guine.| graceful self-possession, and bowed down Thirty Years on Men-of-War. formally to the ground, like a little ambassador. They drove past, and he went on un- LETTER FROM THE REV. C. S. STEWAItT, CHAPLAIN IN U. S. NAVY. concernedly with his play; the impromptu readiness and good judgment being clearly a U. S. Flao Ship Niaoara, > part of his nature. His genial and open exAt Sea June 11,1862. $ pression of countenance was none the less ingenuous and fearless for a certain tincture This is my last letter from the Niagara. of fun ; and it was in the mingling of qual- We have already passed the light-ship off ities that he so faithfully resembles his father. Nantucket, on our way to Boston, and hope, With all the splendor that was around early to-morrow, to be brought, by the kind this little fellow in his new home, he was so providence which has hitherto attended us, bravely and beautifully himself—and that " unto our desired haven." Thus will the only ! A wild-flower, transplanted from the cruise of our good ship come to an end, after prairie to a hot-house, he retained his prairie two years of active service—first, in a voyhabits, unalterably pure and simple, till he age of nearly forty thousand miles to the died. His leading trait seem to be a fearless "ends of the earth," on an errand of nationand kindly frankness, willing that everything al courtesy, in a time of peace; and, then, should be as different as it pleased, but rest- in initiating and enforcing, for a year and ing unmoved in his own single-heartedness. more, the effective blockade of -the most imI found I was studying him, irresistibly, as portant section of our coast, in these times one of those sweet problems of childhood of war. Few, except those who have had the perthat the world is blest with in rare places; and the news of his death (I was absent from sonal experience, are aware at what a cost of Washington, on a visit to my own children, self-denial, patient endurance and exhausting at the time) came to me like a knell heard drafts upon the health and constitution, in such a climate as that of the Gulf, this last unexpected at a merry making. That the performanfc On the day of the funeral, 1 went, before work was achieved. the hour, to take a near, farewell look at the of the duty afforded no opportunity to Comdear boy; for they had embalmed him to modore McKean and the officers and men send home to the West—to sleep under the under his flag to win public admiration and sods of his own valley—and the coffin-lid elicit popular eclat by aggressive onsets and The daring adventures, enhances rather than dewas to be closed before the service. family had just taken their leave of him, and tracts from the merit due them. The orders the servants and nurses were seeing him for of the Government restricted the operations, the last time—and with tears and sobs wholly for the time, to the maintenance of a rigid unrestrained, for he was loved like an idol blockade; this was fully effected, as the leadby every one of them. He lay with eyes ing journals of the rebels themselves bear closed—his brown hair parted as we had witness, and, doubtless, was greatly, if not known it, pale in the slumber of death, but chiefly instrumental in preventing a disasotherwise unchanged, for he was dressed as trous intervention by the European powers for the evening, and held in one of his hands in our national affairs. crossed upon his breast, a bunch of exquisite It is not, however, to prefer claims for the flowers—a message coming from his mother, acknowledgement of the important services while we were looking upon him, praying rendered by our Flag Officer McKean and that those flowers might be preserved for her. those under his command, that I take my to She was lying sick in her bed, worn out with pen, but merely to give brief expressiion with of the connected naval thoughts, some grief and over-watching. The funeral was very touching. Of the life, suggested by the termination of our entertainments in the splendid east-room, the cruise. The Niagara is the seventh man-of-war in boy had been, for those now assembled more which I have served at sea in the thirty-four especially, a most life-giving variation. years I have held a commission in the navy. With his bright face and his apt greetings and replies, he was remembered in every part The cruise made in each has been marked of that crimson-curtained hall, built only by greater or less interest and encouragefor pleasure—of all the crowds each night ment in regard to my office and its duties, certainly the one least likely to be death's but that in this ship far more so than any my purpose to repeat the first mark. He was his father's favorite. other. It is not of cruise, alThey were intimates—often seen hand in spiritual statistics my present to the religious —with a burknown extensively man ready sat the hand. And there then on his brain at which the world marvels public, but only to present a few data, fur—bent now with the load at both heart and nished by a review of my chaplaincy, tending �76 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1862. Kiow that the improvement in morals, c general tone of character, and in relii demonstration in the service, has at least kept ptee with the advances made in it in professional and scientific matters. 1 will attempt this by a brief contrast, in this regard, between the past and present. Thirty years ago profane and abusive language, by officers on duty on the quarterdeck and other parts of the ship, if not general, was so common as to attract little notice or censure. It was'thought and avowed by many that the necessary work in the navigation and management of a ship could not be gained from the sailor without these ; that he was so degraded that curses and hard language only could drive him to the right performance of his duty. In the last two ships in which I have served, within the ten years past, I do not recollect to have heard an oath ; and scarce a reproachful epithet, from nn officer in charge of the deck, or from his subordinates. At the period first named, the "cat" and the "colt" were the arbiters of discipline, and exercised, without stint, almost every day; now, for ten years past, both have been abolished as instruments of punishment, by act of Congress, and, notwithstanding, as a general thing, all work is performed as effectively and more cheerfully than ever before. The reform, in respect to profane language in the social intercourse with the officers on board, is as marked and decisive as on the deck. Thirty years ago the use of strong drink on board ship by the officers, at various hours of the day, was not uncommon, if not customary ; and wines and liquors constituted a regular part of the mess stores. In the ships in which 1 have last served, water has been the only general beverage. Wine is seldom token, even at dinner, and then only at individual and private cost —chiefly in hospitality to a visitor. Once, for an officer to be seen evidently under the influence of intoxicating drink, especially if such was not habitually the case, was thought lightly of; now it would be highly disreputable, and justly regarded, in a single instance, as a reproach. Thirty years ago a professedly religious officer was seldom met or heard of. Even where piety of heart may have existed, little, if any, demonstration of it was made. Church membership in an officer was a novelty, and a thing unheard of in a foremast hand. In the last two cruises 1 have made, one Half of the ward-room mess, in both cases, have been professedly religious men; and for the last few years it has been unusual to find ten, fifteen, twenty, and even a greater number of consistent and zealous church members, in the crew of a single ship. The second article of the " Rules and Regulations" enacted by Congress a half century or more, perhaps, ago, for the government of the navy, enjoins the observance of divine worship twice a day on board every ship having a chaplain. If this ever was a usage in the early days of the navy, it had been discontinued long before I entered the service, and the article had virtually become absolete, though publicly read before all hands at least once a month. On becoming aware of its existence, before first entering on the duties of my office, and suggesting a compliance with it, it was strenuously contended by many that the words "twice every day" could only have reference to the Sabbath, and not literally to every day in the week. It was not thought practicable. The experiment was made however, and with such success as to win general favor even as a mere aid to the good order, harmony, and discipline of the ship—so much so, that when, at the end of some six months, I was transferred, by previous arrangement with the Navy Department, to another ship for a visit to the South Seas, the commander of the frigate I was leaving, though not at the time a religious man, said to me on parting, "1 know not how we shall be able to get along without a chaplain ; but one thing is sure, we must have our daily prayer, even if 1 have to make it myself." At the present time I believe daily morning and evening prayers arc publicly offered on board every ship in the service having a chaplain. The latest advance in religious privilege and usage on board our men-of-war is the establishment, extensively, of daily or rather nightly prayer-meetings, at which, in many instances, officers of all grades meet with the common sailors—who sustain these meet- ings—for an hour of social worship in prayer, praise, and mutual exhortation. Such have been held on board the Niagara since the day we sailed first from New York for Japan. Many of the officers, including Flag Officer McKean and others of all grades to the number of twelve and fifteen and more, have thus identified themselves as fellow-worshippers of a common God and Saviour, with the thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty, and more of the crew, according to circumstances, accustomed to assemble themselves together. The result of all the means of grace enjoyed by us—the regular preaching of the Gospel, the morning and evening worship, at which all hands are present, the nightly prayer-meeting, and an abundance pf profitable reading matter—is, that the Niagara has long been one of the best disciplined and one of the happiest ships afloat. This is treely confessed by every officer who has joined us from other ships, or by orders from home, as has repeatedly been the case during the past year in the changes incident to the blockade. The high-toned character of Flag Officer McKean as a man, and his decision and consistency as a professed Christian, have had much to do, humanly speaking, in making our ship what she is and has been, both in a military and moral point of view—first as her captain, and lor nine months past as Commander-in-Chief of the Gulf squadron. The entire weight of his influence in both positions, as well as his personal example, has been invariably given, not only to everything tending to good discipline and good morals, but also to practical and spiritusil piety. lam happy in believing, from personal knowledge, that the number of naval officers of like spirit and influence is rapidly increasing. With an abundance of such in authority, we may hope that the history of many a cruise will far surpass, in religious interest, that of this ship, and our navy in general, soon become much, if not all, that the philanthropist and Christian pray for. Yours truly, Stewart, U. S. N. C. £ [Correspondence of the Friend.] A Big Stick—Ocean Currents. Hana, Maui, Sept. 11, 1862. Editor of the Friend: Yesterday an object was observed, apparently a wreck drifting by. Several canoes put forth to visit it, one of which I accompanied. It proved to be a tree from 120 to 150 feet in length, and about six feet in diameter above the butt. Its roots would span 20 or 25 feet, rising some ten feet out of the water. Two branches rose perpendicular about 20 or 25 ft., and several more projected below the water. With the broad mass of roots, the huge stem wallowing in the sea, and the erect branches, had the illusive appearance of a water-lodged wreck, with broken frame-work of bows and jurymasts, was rather increased than deminished as we approached it. I boarded the strange craft, wtih plenty of standing and living room if needed. Several tons of clayey earth were embedded among its roots, so that I had the pleasure of setting foot once more upon American soil, and indulging in theappropriate emotions of patriotism, No starry flag being at hand to wave, I was content with hurling defiance at several villainous " secesh," in the form of prowling sharks. Is it not possible that a tree like this may have been taken for a wreck by passing vessels ? It would be an ugly customer to run afoul of in the night, worse than a Mississippi snag. Its course along the south coast of Maui about three miles from shore would be liable to land it upon Kahoolawe. It is probably one of a large number of sticks now infesting this part of the ocean and endangering vessels. A considerable number of logs and pieces of driftwood have come ashore in the vicinity the similar to that past few days. One is above described, but a little smaller. A sawlog apparently perfect was this wreck, towed into this harbor by the finder. These are evidently portions of the immense body of timber launched into the Pacific during the great floods of last winter upon the American coasts. Their simultaneous arrival here at this time seems to indicate quite accurately the force and direction of the currents in this ocean. Truly yours, S. E. Bishop. News from Micronesia.—By the arrival of the Wailua, intelligence has been received from Ascension, as late as the sth of April, 1862. The Rev. Mr. Doane was still with the Rev. Mr. Sturges, waiting for an opportunity to take passage to Honolulu, but he was not expecting any would occur until the arrival of the Morning Star. No intelligence had been received from the Liholiho—she had been absent nearly four months, and of course serious fears are entertained respecting her fate. �77 THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 18 62. (From the Bailor's Monthly MaguiincJ Sympathy for the Sailor. When we recali the conspicuous part which our sailors have thus far borne in putting down the rebellion, it should serve to greatly quicken the sympathy entertained among all Christians for them. The successes which have crowned our arms in every quarter are mainly due to their constant and energetic efforts. Hatteras, Port Royal, *Donelson, New Orleans, and Memphis, bear testimony to their unflinching bravery and patriotism. What heart will not in years come to warm with pride and gratitude toward the American sailor, when the heroism of the brave men in Hampton Roads, who stood nobly by their guns to the last, perishing rather than lower their flag to rebels, is recounted ? In 1860 five millons of persons followed the sea for a livelihood. Five hundred thousand of this number, employe! on thirty thousand vessels, belong to the United States. Since the outbreak of this war, the force in our national navy alone has increased from e%ht thousand to twenty-seven thousand men. How to meet the moral and spiritual wants of this largely increasing class of men is a question of the first importance. In former years the sailor was looked npon almost as an outcast from society, a wandering Ishmaelite.susceptible to no wholesome influence, but given up to his own ruin. When, therefore, at the first Bethel prayermeetings which were established in England, seamen were heard raising their voices in prayer and devotion, it was a matter of as pleasant astonishment as when the deaf heard and the dumb spoke. Later efforts made in their behalf have shown them to be accessible to moral and religious instruction, and willing and anxious to improve. It has now been about fifty years since the first direct attempt was made in the United States to elevate their condition, by the organization of the " Boston Society for the Religious and Moral improvement of Seamen." In 1817, through the efforts of members of the " Brick Presbyterian Church," the " Marine Bible Society of New York" was organized. In 1821 " The New York Bethel Union" was formed, under whose direction sialors' prayer-meetings were opened in various parts of the city. But in 1830 mariners' churches had been built in New York, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, and New Orleans. The " American Seamen's Friend Society" was established in 1826, through the agency, among others, of Dr. Nathan Bangs. Since that time similar associations have been formed in Philadelphia, New Bedford, Wilmington, Alexandria, Savannah, and San Francisco. These comprise the principal associations which have undertaken, in this country, the amelioration of the condition of our sailors. They have been accompanied with beneficent results ; but very much yet remains to be done. In this port alone there are at no. time less than five thousand seamen, whereas there is actual accomodation for only a few hundreds. Notwithstanding the labor of numerous missionaries among them, they continue to be the prey of " land-sharks;" squandering their earnings in dens of infamy, and then embarking on shipboard again, all the more hardened for thrir brief respite This arises mainly from the fact that, being strangers in the city, they are easily enticed by rumors to take up their abode in most any place, no matter how demoralizing the surroundings. "Sailors' Homes," comfortable and convenient, supplied with attractive features and first of all, under religious influences, are required for this floating mass of them. An effort is now being made to establish such a one, to be known as the " Naval Sailors' Home," and to be under the auspices and direct management of the Methodist Episcopal Church. We copy the above from one of the Methodist papers of this city. While the American Seamen's Friend Society rejoices in its own catholic basis and liberal spirit, it would be unworthy of these if it did not heartily rejoice also in every pious undertaking for the good of the sailor, by whomsoever made. We have had our own " Sailors' Home," at 190 Cherry-street, for twenty years, where we have had some sixty thousand sailors, and where they have enjoyed the privileges and benefits of a Christian Home; and it was never conducted under more favorable auspices than now. But surely there is ample room in the great ashore. commercial city for the " Naval Sailors' Home," and we bid it God speed. Extract of letter from Rev. T. E. Taylor.—By the last mail from California, we received a letter from, Mr. Taylor, from which we make the following extract knowing that many of our island readers, will be interested to learn that, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston reached their place of destination in safety Co., ) " Columbia, Tuolumne Cal., Sept. 5, 1862. J Dear Sir : I have just received the number of the briend, in which you express the hope that Father and Mother Thurston may be permitted to reach us in safety. I am happy to inform you that they reached us in safety last evening at 8 o'clock, after a stage ride of seventy-five miles, from Stockton, yesterday. Mother is in usual health, father seems better, physically, than I expected to see him, but his speech and memory are affected more by his paralytic stroke than I had supposed. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. When I left the Islands in 1859 to visit the Eastern States, I had no thought that the next time I met Father and Mother Thurston it would be in the mountains of California, 200 miles inland from San Francisco. ' There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.' ' 'Tis not in man that walketh to direct his steps, but the ways of a good man are orders of the Lord.' My health since I came to this state has greatly improved. For the last year 1 have been able to preach twice every Sabbath, and often three times. This is so much better than I ever expected to be, that I speak of it only with a deep feeling, that God's ways to me have been ways of mercy, and loving kindness. lam very willing to live in this land because I can labor here, but California will never be to me what the Islands were. I had there a circle of friends, which I never expect to replace in this land of gold." : Editor's Table. America before Europe, Principles and Interest* Translated dc Gasparin. from advance sheets by Mary L. Booth. New York, 18J2. By Count Aoenor This is the book of 1862. The reading community was expecting a work from this writer, as a sequel to his former book, entitled The Uprising of a Great People." This one naturally follows the other, in de- " veloping the principles of the Great Rebel- lion in America. We have read this work with mingled emotions of surprise and delight—of surprise that a European, a Frenchman, who had never visited America should have so completely and thoroughly grasped the great struggle that is now in progress in America—and of delight that a mind of Gasparin's stamp should take so hopeful a view of this " irrepresible conflict." If any one is so ignorant and short-sighted as to suppose that the conflict could have been avoided he is but poorly qualified to form a correct opinion respecting the probable issue. Forces have been gathering more than two hundred years. It is a most significant, but remarkable fact, that the first slave-ship to Virginia, landed its cargo of human chattels" in 1620, the very same year that the Puritans landed upon Ply- " mouth Rock. Then commenced two streams —the one dark and muddy, the other clear and bright; the one has been navigated' by unpaid and forced labor, and the other by free and liberty-loving descendants of the Pilgrims. These two streams have mingled their waters along the territory of the border states, and by skillful navigation and compromises, the ship of state has been borne along, but the time had come when the question must be settled and settled for all coming time, shall the Republic of North America, become a nation of slave-holders, or a nation of freemen. Is there truth or is there not, in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence, "All men arc born free and equal ?" The reader o( Gasparin's book will find this great question handled in a masterly style. He will sec that the struggle is not one of an ephemeral nature, but one the nation has been ripening for during many years of unexampled prosperity and growth. All thc'elements of a nation's greatness are now in active fermentation, and how they will subside is known only to Him, who is the God of Battles and Ruler of Nations. Gasparin shows that not only America is involved in the struggle but the nations of Europe must suffer for they too have been both directly and indirectly engaged in building up and fostering the gigantic system of negro slavery. The author, whose work we have now �78 tin; briefly noticed, is firm in the belief that eventually truth and justice will triumph, we hope our readers will not fail to peruse this interesting work. Our limits will only allow us to quote the closing paragraphs of (he work. '» What force there is in justice ! To be rich, to be powerful, to be able, is to be small; to be great, is to be the servant of justice. Principles prevail as surely in social struggles, as in the operations of physics and chemistry. It may take long, but it surely happens at the end ofreckoning. What has elected Mr. Lincoln ? What has created the patriotic impulse ? What has checked Europe ? What yesterday prevented an impious war ? What will perhaps to-morrow constrain the South itself to proclaim or to suffer abolition ? What has opposed an insuperable barrier to interests, intrigues and jnalevolence ? What has given to the Lancashire operatives this resignation worthy of respect ? What has, in so short a time, caused such progress in public opinion ? What provides it with weapons in advance against the possible return of the policy of intervention ? What throws obstacles in the way of the desire, unceasingly springing up on our aide the Atlantic, to cut the United States in two? What? Justice. A just cause has something so triumphant in itself, that men dare not attack it boldly face to face. They turn round it, they deny it, they affirm that it is not itself; for if it were, who would dare sustain the .shock ? I speak, the reader will comprehend, of just causes which have made their place on earth, of those which are such in the eyes of the world. History is full of just causes which have waited, which have suffered, which have been perfidiously trodden under foot, which have been defeated times without number. These will also have their turn ; it has not yet come. They manifest their superiority alone in the inmost recesses of the souls by whom they are believed, they win only internal triumphs. But let the day come when, by force of internal triumphs and external defeats, they will have constrained the public conscience to give them recognition, and woe to those who shall wish thenceforth to check their onward friend, October, iB6 2. gold, on the need which it will soon perhaps experience of exporting its two cotton crops, and of profiting, to ofler it to our famishing manufactures, on the ports which the Union fleet will doubtless occupy and open within its limits. The reasons of my confidence are different. 1reflect that a cause is in question, a cause which has gained its suit; I look at the unanimous conviction of the nineteenth century; I remember, above all, that there is a God. Yes, you will be the stronger, generous defenders of justice ; you will bo the stronger, if you ally yourselves to justice and to God. Hope ! God himself has implanted the need of encouragement in the inmost depths of our soul. Hope ! Cling to hope, preserve a serene and impregnable faith in the triumphs of eternal right. Danton said : ' Audacity, audacity, and again audacity!' I say willingly: 'Hope, hope, and again hope !' This crisis, despite the suffering that it includes, will be the honor and consolation of our times. Never, perhaps, were matter and spirit so directly at strife ; the question is a moral one ; it is for America to know whether liberty and justice will finally prevail. The whole world, I have just said, is engaged in the contest. The uprising of tliis people upraises us also, this spectacle of sufferings nobly accepted, docs us good. We feel that one of those storms which purify the atmosphere is passing at this moment over our globe. Those over whom it passes have to suffer ; but after the tempest comes line weather, and, like that fleet which, after having been dispersed by the storm, found itself again entire in the smooth waters of Port Royal America will seem, perhaps, almost to sink beneath the violence of the winds, until it attain the end. This end is peace. Having once succeeded in suppressing the fearful evil which was devouring them, the United States will not feel that their present sacrifices are disproportioned to the progress accomplished. Acquired at this price, the abolition of slavery will not have been bought too dear. The question in the end is a second creation of the United States. This is carried on by the American method, that of Washington, that of the war of 1812, that which begins in weakness and ends in grandeur. No, the sixteenth President of the United movement! States will not be the last; no, the cisrhtyAbolition is one of these just causes, fifth year of this people will not be the last whose advent is accomplished. The cham- their, flag will come out of battle pierced pions of slavery are lost in advance; they with bullets and blackened with powder, but more glorious than ever, without having let feel that the world goes against them. This is why I ant certain of success; this fall, as I hope, in the melee a single one of is why, having proved that the great Amer- its thirty-four stars." ican people has taken sides against slavery, A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a goal 1 call it a great people uprising. The diffi- school in every district—all studied ami appreciated the principal support of virtue, moculties are great! Who doubts it ? Princi- as they merit—arc ples take time to pass from the domain of rality and civil liberty. ideas to that of facts! Who denies it? |Sckct«i for the Friind, l.y Mia ] ; Military operations may fail! Who denies it ? My confidence would be weak indeed if it rested on the skill of McClellan, on that great army, •marvellously created in a few months, and stretching farther than the distance from Madrid to Moscow, on the prosperity of the North, on theruin of the South, on the discredit of its notes, which already are at a discount of forty-five per rent for The Changed Cross. It was a time of sadness—and my heart. Although it knew and loved the better part, Felt wearied with the conflict and the atrife, And all the needful discipline of life And while I thought on these—as given to mo My trial teats of faith and love to be. It seemed as if I never could be sure That faithful to the end 1 should endure And thus no longer trusting in His might. Who nays, Wo walk by faith and not by sight," Doubting, and almost yielding to despair. The thought aroee : My cross I cannot bear. " Far heavier its weight mast surely bo Than those of others which I daily eec; <>h ! if I might another burden ohoosc, Mctbiuks 1 should not fear my crown to lose. A jolemn silence reigned on all around. E'en nature's voices uttered not a sound; The evening shadows necmed of peace to tell, And sices upon my weary spirit fell. A moment's pause, and then a heavenly light Beamed full upon my wandering, raptured sight, Angels in silvery wings beamed cverywhero, And angels' music thrilled the balmy air. Then One, more fair thnn all the rest to see, One, to whom all others bowed the knee, Came gently to mc as I trembling lay. And " Follow me," ho said I am the way." " Then speaking thus, lie lead mc far above; And there, beneath a canopy of love, ('rouses of divers shape and size were seen. Larger and smaller than mine own had been. And one there was, most beautious to behold, A little one with jewels set in gold; Ah ! this, mcthought, I oan with comfort wear. For it will be an easy one to bear '• And so the little cross 1 quickly took. But all at once my frame beneath it shook; The sparkling jewels, fair wcro they to srr, But far to heavy was their weight for mc. This may not be, 1 cried, and looked again To sec if their was any hero could case my pain, But one by one I passed them slowly by, Till on a lovely one I cast my eye. Fair flowers around its sculptured form entwined, And grace and beauty seemed in it combined, Wondering 1 gazed, and still I wouder'd n.ore To think so many should have passed it o'er. But oh ! that form so beautiful to see. Soon made its hidden sorrows known to mc; Thorns lay beneath those flowers and colors fair; Sorrowing I said: This cross 1 may not bear. And so it was with each and all around. No one to suit my ncctl could their be found; Weeping, I laid each heavy burden down. As my Guide gently said: No cross—no crown. At length to him I raised my saddened heart; He knew its sorrows, bid its doubt depart— Bo not afraid," he said, but trust in mc, My perfect love shall now bo shown to the." " And then, with lighten'd eyes and willing feet, Again I turned, my earthly cross to meet. With forward footsteps turning not aside, For fear some hidden evil might betide. And then in the prepared appointed way. Listening to hear and ready to obey, A cross I quickly found of plainest form. With only words of love inscribed thereon. With thankfulness I raised it from the rest, And joyfully acknowledg'd it the best— The only one of all the many there That I could M was good for uic to bear. And while 1 thus my chosen one confessed, I saw a heavenly brightness on it rest, And as I bent—my burden to sustain— I recognized my own old cross again. But oh ! how different did it seem to be. Now I had learned its preciousness to ace; No longer could I unbelieving say— I'erhaps another is a better way. Ah no ! henceforth my one desire shall be, But He who knows me best should choose for me; And so, whate'er His love sees good to send, I'll trust its best—because he knows the end. For my thoughts arc not your thought!, lailh the Lord."— Isaiah 1, S. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you—IhooiftiU " " �TII X Hi IKN D. OCTOBFaR, IBf, % H. W. SEVERANCE, AUCTIOKTEEn. AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, HONOLULU. Will continue business at the old stand on Queen itreet. 310-ly J. 11. COLE, AtJOTIOINTEBn, ADVERTISEMENTS. bookbindinbT . Kir. GEO. H LATE Tor 79 .. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. . _— SAILOR'S HOME. 10111 11. OF SAN FRANCISCO, HASTAKEN charjru of the Uindcry, and is prepared to execute al| binding, ramphlvti.* IMiiNlrn i.•«. Nriripnprri. orders „ .Mii^ii/iin-M, Mills, (SUCCKSSOH TO A. P. KVKakTT.) SslaSsT!■ u i.l Book*. &C. Particular attention paid to rehlndinjc old and choice hooks. Mr. Y. having had many yeurs exj»erit:i.ce in track-MiniInn; in DR. J. MOTT SMITH, all ittt branches, hopi's l.ireceive aHhare of thebunir.ewHrequired in Honolulu. 30B3NTTIIBIT. Order* from the other islands, t*houltl he accompanied with M ly particular directions, as to the style, and, if the work is to match Office corner of Fort anil Hotel Streets. vnlmut'B previously bound, a sample volume should be nent with the job. CIIAS. F. GUlUrOfJe M. I) (Mm may be left at the hook store of 11. M. Whitney, or nt residence, beyond late Surgeon l.'nitod Slates Navy, late Consular Physician to the Bindery, in the rear of ltev. Mr. ClarkJft ™ &U) ■■ the BisM Church. American seamen and general practitioner. Office aomtr Kaahaaung and Merchant streets, and residence at Dr. Wood's Mansion, Hotel street. and Medlaal sad Surgical advice in Kngltsh, French, Spanish, Italian. I M>KIiSK. NKII II \ \ l\<; RKCKIVOffice hours from 11 A. M. to 2 c. *.; at ottier hours inquire at .MU-ly «iI T.xiW and .Materials |ht m Speedwell," is now prepared nilresidence. to furnish on short notice, 315-ly At hid late rooms, Queen Street. — Wf'^......iLfW^ IflT iJltllllllMlllMssM , ■""-•v '^aassssjjijrjflß Everybody Should Have One! SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND owned by the Honolulu Sailors' Home Society," has recently been placed under the management of the undersigned. They hope, by atriot Y. 11. WETMORK, M. I). Superior so mil Plates, and attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the CONSULAR IMIYSH lAN& Strnc.KON, seafaring oommunity. The House has teen built and Indelible Ink, Tosick American BSIBMB, Sad aajMffi practitioner, fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and rnnrking requisite Kur Silk or Cotton. article Linen, An in Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or IIILO, HAWAII, S. I. every family. Large platen also cut to order, by wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. THOS. 0. THRI'M, N. ll.—Medicine Clients carefully replenished at the Fort Street, opposite the Old Fellows' Hall. Shower Ruths on the Premises. MM lIILO DRUG STOKE. C-tf Masters and Agents, while putting their vetShip CIIAS. 11. LIST, 11. A. I'. CARTKII, CHASE'S SIIKSMAS PKCK, sels under repairs, arc respectfully invited to send lioston. Honolulu. Honolulu. their crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort. C. BREWER & CO., $6 Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. do. do. 5 Commission & Shipping Scamens* do. do. Next door to the Post Office—up stairs CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT, Honolulu, Onhu. 11. I. over the Commercial Advertiser" —KKFKK TO— Managtrt. Honolulu, March 1. 1881. rpilF IMIK ! Merchants, llonn, Bsq JNKWKI.L, K.-ii|., New York. } Hkkwkk, Fie,., > air, X* j., IcKokk Haaaiu, > i.cott Baooca, l-*q-» > ,'M. PtWTAO & Co,, 'kklk, lli imiki.i. & Co > * Boston, Bln ftmc]Kn Hongkong. Manila. . axos. s. oooaa. UK. CASTLE & COOKE, Wholesale and Hetail dealers in General Mcmn the Fireproof Store in Kingstreet, opposite the Chattel. R. JAYMf.S MEDIC IKKB. 320-ly^ EN tc it i i: i: 11 i BrcCßsaoßS to jorge W. Macy, KAWAIIIAK. HAWAII, ;he General Merchantllae ami Sliijipinp busines re port, where they are prepared to furnish the hraU'd Kawnihae Potatoes, and such other re re required by whale ships at the shortest notice, 320-1 y moat reasonable terms. : !• CROCKETT, IPBMITH ! INFORM THE PUBLIC THAT " Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY I " Printing Office. — THE BEST IN USE! PICTURES such us AmnrotypeH, Photographs, Mcluincutyp*** for Ike, Landscapes, Views of Dwellings, Ac., at reasTAKEN IN EVERY STYLE. WHEELER & WILSON'S l..wk''ls, nlmblr price*. ALSO ON HAND—k good assortment ofFANCY CASES, h. l. oiiask. nit) rßAMit,ire. FIRST PREMIUM Family Sewing Machines! PHOTOGRAPHIC, V> -£3l- JL_i VARYING FROM »60 TO According; to style. PRICES Rosewood Cases, highly finished or plain with Full Plated wllO, JL_i tr* ■ Jtrf. Jt KING STREET, Next Door to H. Dimond & Son. UX UNDERSIGNED HAVING llKlKlVedhla NKW PIIOTtXIKAPIIIC APPARATUS, has enT tirety refitted and renovated the Rooms formerly occupied by H. Stangenwald, M. D., (more recently by Mr. K. H. Durnnil.) strict attention to the tastes and fanciesofLis customers, to receive a share ofthe public patronage. The Carte dc Vinite in either plain or fancy styles, put up neatly aud with dispatch. J. W. KINO, King street,next door to 11. Dimond it Son. 324-am and hopes, by and Pearled Machines of various styles and prices. The practical working of each and every nvachine guaranteed. Each machine Is accompanied by a full set of tools ; being all thatIs necessary for the adjustment and working of the machine. Also, full and complete printed directions in Kngllsh, Spanish, French or Herman. CALL AND EXAMINE THE NEW IMPROfEMmNTS Office and Salesroom, corner of Montgomery and Sacrament* Streets, San Francisco. 11. C. lIAYDEN, AosntT^ 6-tf BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'B Watch and Jewelry AT Establishment, in Kaahumanu street, will be found the following works : HENRY .ALLEN, Almanacks for 1862. Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Aasistan Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. CARPENTER, BUILDER AND UN- DERTAKER. —ALSO— kgain commenced business in the atiove line, and hopes, by strict attention, to merit a share of the public patronuyr which was furmerly bestowed on him, not forgetting to re- I'MIKUMUNKII BRGK I.KAVK rrapecttiilly inform his friends and the public generally, TIIK Ids premfMes, he U now prepared that having recently The undersignedhas nsopened the shop formerlyoeeupied by Mr. Robert Mrown, near the Custom House, on the Ksplanade, wherehe Is prepared to execute all kinds of work in theBlacksmiths' line in a workmanlike manner and with dispatch. 331-Sm» WM. CKOCKKTT. Ship's Compawes and Dividers. —ALSO— Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. Koa and Pine Coffins always on hand. Chronometers and Chronometer Watches. —ALSO— English Charts of North and South Pacific. turn thanks for past favors. t HARDWARE STORE. FELLOWS' BUILDING, ON FORT STREET, of all kinds, Hinges, Sorews, Tacks, Ra- 10CKS j tors, Cut and Wrought Nails, Spikes, Brads, Files, Carpenters' Tools of all kinds, Pocket and Sheath-Knives, Marlinspikes, Caulking-Irona and Mallets, and numerous other articles, for sale at the W. N. LAPP. (tf) lowertprioa.by CHARTS FOR SALE. BR BKKN at the Harbor Master's Office, Charta of the Northand South Pacific, Indian and Pacific Oceana, ill a <hi large scale; China and Japan Scan, he. Likewise a Sextant, (doable arch) by Troughton, an Aneroid, Hershurg's Bast 3 India Directory and sundry nautical works. A 1A Y to enlarged todo all work In thoabove line, with dispatch aud In a workmanlike manner. FURNITURE REPAIRED. —ALSO— Jobbingdone on reasonable terms. A great variety of other articles useful to thai —AND— Mariner. Many ornamental articles, including Breast Pins, &c. Cups, &«., Rings, Particular attention given to repairing and ratine HKNRY ALLEN, Fort St., Opposite the Fam'ly Grocery and Feed Store. NEW AND SECOND-HAND ~~- •• w * FUBNTTUBE. NEW AND SECOND- « Furniture of erery description, \U I hand constantly on hand, and for sale at MM ■ * low prices. '1 t. Chronometers. Children's Books. RECEIVED tPicture Book of Birds. at' JUSTThe Child!Picture Book Animals. Second-hand Furniture Bought H. ALLEN'S CARPENTER SHOP, ■art St., opposite A. D. Oartwrlght'lread Store. I ST KOA BUREAUS always on han.l I '• I" of Bible Picture Book. Picture Fable Book. " Price tl 86 each-for Bale by II M. WHITHICY �, I B_l_«_. MARINE JOURAL. Tjl E ¥ RIEN D, O€TOI. R R 80 American Patriotic Fund.—We are heartily glad learn that loyal and patriotic American residents, in Honolulu, hare commenced raising a fund to assist their countrymen whe-are so nobly struggling to perpetuate free institutions, a constitutional government, circumscribe the area of slavery, and we confidentially hope, ere long, abolish the most abominable system of human bondage that disgraces any land. The sum subscribed has already reached S 1,400, and we doubt not will amount to $2,000 or $3,000. This may appear small and insignificant, when compared with the enormous sums daily expended by the Federal Government, but it is an expression of hearty sympathy and cordial good will. Should the time ever come that the American Governnient should recall citizens from abroad, there are some upon the Sandwich islands who will respond to the call. There are at least four sons of Sandwich Island Missionaries in the Federal Army, viz., three sons of the Rev. C. Forbes, and one of the late Rev. Dr. Armstrong. Let no one despair of the American Union, so long as there are a million of soldiers in the field, or in course of training. most to The Bible a Life Preserver. At a Bible meeting lately held near Sydney, in Australia, one of the speakers mentioned the following striking fact, as show- ing the hope and confidence suddenly inspired, in a season of supposed danger, by the unexpected discovery of a Bible : McDonald observed, that he " Captain had formerly entertained unfavorable opinions respecting matters of Bible circulation, but he felt it due to those ladies who were about to engage in the good work, to mention a circumstance that had come under his own observation, and which entirely changed his views. When he was among the Fiji islands he came to one place where ha found that a vessel from California had been wrecked. The passengers and crew, in their fancied freedom from any danger, gave way to enjoyment, when suddenly their vessel struck on a reef, and became a complete wreck. Their horror could hardly be described, when, in the morning, they found themselves helpless among savages, who were once well known to regard whoever was cast on their coast as subjects of plunder and murder. Summoning all their courage, they made for shore, and went to the nearest hut, not knowing what was to become of them. On entering, the chief officer saw lying on a board one object that arrested his attention. It was not a club, nor a barbed spear, nor a tomahawk : it was a small Bible ! ■We are safe,' he said to his companions: ' wherever that book is, there is no danger to be apprehended.' The fact was, some little time before the missionaries had gone there, and such was the change wrought among these people that they not only spared the sailors, but entertained them hospitably until, after three weeks, he arrived there and took them away." Editorial. Our fellow-townsman, Mr. Waterheuse, has two brothers among the Enplish miasionarirs at the Fiji Islands. — Arrivals of Whalersat the Port of Talcahuano, PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Sept. I—Am dipper ship Flying Eagle, WalaVn, lSdays from Shn Francisco, t-n rout*.' for Hongkong, anchored outside. Sailed again on the 3d. I—Haw ach Odd Fellow, Lawton, 29 days fcom Aneva • Point, with 1800 seal akin*. B—Am bark Speedwell, Com. I'aty, 18 days from San Francisco. B—French wh ship Latour tlu Pin, Favoreu, 26 days from Kodiack, 110 sp, ami nlmut 90 wh, Reason. Came in here on account of illness of the Captain. 9—British ship Lady Young, Morrissnn, 34 days from PortTownaend, en route for Ota(io, N. /,., with a cargo of lumber. Anchored outside, and sailed again next day. 10—New Grenadfan hark Inkermann, 48 days from PoKet Sound, with cargo of lumber for Shanghai-. Stopped fur supplier.. 13—Am clipper ship Morning Stnr, Foster, 15 dan from Sun Krjf-Cisco, passed this port, bound SB China. 19—Am sch Wsndo, Uanlner, from PVfSt Sound via Victoriaand l*ahatim, 27 days to the latter place, with about 118M feet lumber to Messrs. Jlackfeld At Co. 19—Am ship Leonidas, Wood, 4ro days from Puget Sound, en route for Monti-video with lumber. I'ut in hen* for repairs, having sprung a leak while at BBS. 20—Am wh ship Heindeer, Kay nor, from the Arctic, 24 months out, 1450 wh, 2:1,000 bone, season ; 100 sp, *13T6 wh, 53,000 bone, voyage ; 1050 wh, 23,000 Im, "ii board. 21—Am wh bark Brapanza, Turner, from the South and Arctic, 34j months out. 000 sp, 1300 wh, 20,000 bone, season ; 68f> sp, 3800 wh, 63,0001>n, voyage | 6CO sp, 1600 wh, 20,000 bone, on board. 21—Am wh bark Florida, Fish, from the Arctic, 38 months out, 50 sp, 1150 wh, 10,000 bone, season ; SO up, 3300 wh, 50,000 bone, voyage; 50 sp, 2000 wh, 16,000 bone, on board. -^ Fran25—Ambark Auckland, Tucker, 18 days frotfJPan cisco—stood off ami on, and sailed again uext day for Shanghai1 26—Am ship Young Hector, Chadwick, 15 days from San Francisco. 27—Am bark Nile, Kldridge,l6 days from San Francisco. 27—Haw. wh brig Wailua, Lass, last from Hon in Islands, 21 months out, 400 sp, 100 brls cocoanut oil. . 1862. (Reported for the Commercial Advertiser.) (Cout Inurd from last Utrue.) Aprd I—Ship Jeanncttc, Winslow, nothing since leaving San Francisco. Came in to laud sick men—took freight forhome. 4—Bark Hydaspc, Pope, 200 sp, season ; 460 sp, 100 wh. ou board. In port—to cruise. 7—Ship Uatconda, Green, 160 sp, season ; 450 sp, on brd. In port-Jto cruise. '7—Ship Niger, Allen, 18 mos out, 250 sp. In port—to cruise. 7—Bark Osprey, Stanton, 150 sp, season ; 376 sp, on brd. In port—hound home. 7—Bark uaoctr. Allen, 800 sp all told. In port—tocr'ae. 8— ■ Kdward, Smalley, 400 sp. In port—to cruise. Mary Ann, Macy, 580 sp, season; 1100 sp, all H— '.l—Ship Cougress, Stranbnrg,nothing since last reportedIn port—bound home. 11—Uark Aflon, Allen, 200 sp. In port—bound home. 11— " Benjamin Cummings,Briggs,60 sp, season ; 600 sp, all told. In port—to cruise. 11— " Clara Bell, Fisher, 150 sp. In port—to cruise. H_ " Peru, Turner, 050 sp, season ; 1300 sp, all MM. In port—to cruise. H_ *• President, Macy, 115Csp, all told. In port—to cruise. 11— *• Ohio, Baker, 1200 sp, 480 wh, all told. In port " —bound honn-. 11—Ship Pacific 2d, Smith, 1000 sp all told. In port—to cruise. 11—Ship Mary Wilder, Cleveland, 120spall told. In port —to cruise. 13—Bark Sea Queen, Burdett, 350 sp. In iiort—bound h"inr. 13— Alfred Oibbs, Nichols, 1050 sp all told. In part —to cruise. Id—Ship Kelly, 12 sp all told. In port—bound " home. 10— " China, llathaway, 600 sp all told. In port—to cruise. 17—Bark Sacramento. Defries, 850 sp all lold. In portto cruise. 17—Ship J. A. Barker, Swain, 26 sp, season. In port— liound home 18—Bark Henry Tuber, Kirby, 300 sp, season. In portto cruise. 23—Ship Kmenild, from New Bedford for California. Put in for water—reports very rough weather off Cape Horn. 27—Constitution, Winslow. 27—Nautilus, Swain. 27—lb syer, Ilamblin. MEMORANDA. Is Pokt—2B whaleships ; 54 arrivals thusfar this season, and several more due. Q3" Ship Rrindrrrt llaynor, reports—Went into the Arctic Miuiy ofthe vessels In port are waiting for a change of wind July 16, and had good weather most of the time, but Iwcame to ro out. At present they are weatherbound. Havehad Northvery blowy during the latter part of August. Took the first J. 8. Van IBOHL bowhead May 16, lat. 60° 04 N., long, ltf* X, and the last erly winds for a week. Q Aug. 22, lat. 70 lON., long. 176° 20 W\—ln all 16 whales, 1450 brls. oil. Saw most whales in lat. 60° 10 N., long. 174° MARRIED. W., from July 28 to Aug. 10. On the Ist of May, lost one of the starboard boats while running in a gale ; on the 18th June, Honolulu, Dana—Saa—ln s<i>t. 1:1, by Her. t>. C. Damon, lost the starboard anchor by the ice coming in contact with us Robert 11. Uiivl-, Ksq., I'ollce Justice of Honolulu,to Mrs. Maria at the mouth of Plover Bay. Found very little ice, and the of this city. S. both Mea, weather more mild this season than on any former iwcnsion— Tuesday ereninp, rVpt. IS, at Dominis—l'ak.i—ln Honolulu, left for Honolulu whales numerous. Having filled all the casks, R. llishop, Esq., by Rev. O. Damon. August 27, and arrived on the 20th Bajli experienced light the residence of Cliaa. John0. Doininis, Ksq., to Miss Lydia K. I'nki. '« breezes all the way down. O" Bark Braganza, Turner, reports—Left Honolulu Pec. 25 tor the Line and Arctic. Took the first sperm whale Jan. 6, lat DIED. 1° 8 t long. 160° W., and the last April 16, In BoM Hay, the westernmost of theSolomon group, lat. 5° S., long. 155 3 X.— Robkrtson—Onhoard bark Comet, Aug. 28, Margaret Ann, in all. 26 sperm whales. 000 brls. oil. ?p«*rm whales were plen- aged one year, daughter of His Honor Jmine Kobe rt son, of tiful In that Bay during the month of February. Went on the Honolulu. We most truly sympathise with the bereaved Arctic whaling ground July Ist *, took our first bowhead whale parents. Mrs. Robertson had started upon a visit to Kngland next day, and thelast Aug. 10, lat. OS » 30 N., long. 173° W., anil thus early was a dark shadow cast across her pathway. —12 bowheads, 1300 brls. Whales were plentiful, and weather We copy the following extract from a letter ofMrs. R., addressed good until about the middle of August, when it commenced to to one of her friends in Honolului blow rather fresh. Found whales most numerous during the "SaM Francisco, Sept. 3, 1862. month of July. Left for Honolulu Aug. 27, and arrived on the "My Dkar Mrs. :—I wtlte to Inform you of s 21st Sept., having experienced fine weather all the way down. very melancholy event, even the death ofmy sweet babe, which ID" Bark Florida, Fish, reports similar to that of the Rrin* took place two days before our arrival here. The dear little dtrr. Whales plentiful, and weather good all the season. lamb was sick all the passage ; she had an attack of convulsions a few days after we left Honolulu,but rallied again, and Vesjaelsj Spoken and Heard From: we began to hope she would get over it on Thursday, the 28th, WIfAI.Kd. she again drooped, and on Friday night convulsions came on, 1—Brig Dauelsbcrg 0 Victoria, and continued with little intermission until Sabbath night at Luf. 12—Bark Isabella, Tucker 4 a quarter pant 10 o'clock, when the Saviour took her to His .1 bosom, where she is safely sheltered from all the trials and sorNary,8ar»ent 12— 0 13—Ship John Rowland, Whelden rows of this world of suffering. We had much sympathy and 1 assistance from Mrs. Duly and Mrs. Thurston—and the evening 13—Brji Kohola, llruinuierhop 3 13—8htpOcean, Clark we saw she was near herend Mr. Thurston came over to our mom, Stewart 7 16— " Thomas Dlckason, and it was a touching sight to see the aged saint shedding tears at 1000 oris..; 20—Bark Coral,Siison the dying couch of thelittle Infant—and It seemed as if thevery 6 20—Ship Champion, Worth elements reverenced the solemnity ot the hour, for the wind died away and the sea was calm, and there was scarcely a motion in 20—Bark Barnstable, Brownaon 4 20—8hlp General Teste, Lopes 6 the vessel, evertblng was perfectly still as the little immortal 4 spirit was struggling to freeitself from its mortal encumbrance." 22—Bark Catherine. Heppingslone 1 25— Zoe, Simmonds—.Smith—At Waimea, Hawaii, Sept. 23, Capt. James Smith, 16 Fanny, Miren 28— aged about 66 years, formerly a pilot of the port of Honolulu. Wish —At U. S. Hospital, Honolulu, Sept. 11, Henry Wish, a Dane, who came from California several monthsago, and has PASSENGERS. been confined sick in the hospital at Lahalnaand in Honolulu. Mason—At U. S. Hospital, Honolulu, Sept 16, Nelson Mason, from Ban Frascuco—per Speedwell, Sept. ft—Mn Melville, a colored seaman. Hiss and Master Melville, Mrs (1 Vollam ami 3 children, Mrs John Waterhouse, T Lancaster, Miss Roderick, Bey C T Mills, C L Richards, James Love, Wm Crockett, J Dargaahea, Dan P Information Wanted ! True, O X Brumellei. JScott, O Perry, H BftWers 11 Lancaster, Respecting Robert S. Fraiier, who left the United States Edward Bush, Kll Griffln, and 2 Hawallans-25. yearsago Are on board the Moctesuma," Cspt.Tinier. Abou for 8a» Frahciaoo—per Yankee, Sept. U—Mrs Dibble. Mrs years ago, be was on board the "American," Capt. Pease Inch, Mrs Colt, JC King, James Rowland,Fakir of Siva and two proper Ills uauie Is Edward W. Robinson, although he has Assistant, B IMS™, Cbewkee—o. osier sailed under that name. Any information will be gladly From Sax Fhascisco—per Young Ttector, Sept. 26—Geo M nxseired hy lb' Keillor, and communicated lo his friends ii Makse, Fred Boss, H Raymond, J f Carawr, M Ckesebom, A H Boston. ». , -, " "" . " � 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 (1862) 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 - 1862.10.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862.10.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/ca553a75b0969594f027107feacf9317.pdf 4fb3245ef2cdbcb49415c5f056d277b8 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE 19. Vol. 9* Stritt, 9vL 1), HONOLULU. NOVEMBER 1, 1862. Mo. )]., Gailor A S a once Soldier, Hospital. Lahaina the in rateful CONTENTS Far Nnrv.Bbrr. 1802. Prospects of Unci*, Tom's Family A Grateful Soldier or English Preaching in Honolulu Arrival of the Episcopal Mission Hawaii i Past, Present, Ac—a Review Marine Journal, Ac,. Ac History PiOB. "I A .81 81-84 86 85-88 88 . THE FRIEND. NOVEMBER 1. 18«2. The Prospects of Uncle still Tom's Family rising. that the condition of the colored population was gradually rising. Recent intelligence is quite astonishing. Not long since, President Lincoln sent for a deputation of colored people to meet him at the White House! This is a new thing in the history of the Republic. But in addition to all other news, President's Proclamation of universal emancipation of the slaves of all Rebels, on the Ist of January, takes us altogether by surprise. Depend upon it, we shall soon hear of an African army ! General Butler has already enlisted several companies of white soldiers, and some that are not quite to white. It is a remarkable and note-worthy fact, that two of the most daring nnd heroic incidents of the war were performed by colored men, and we believe both were slaves. We refer to the re-capture of the schooner, the name of which we have forgot, and the sailing of the steamboat Planter, out of Charleston harbor, by Robert Small and his associates, on the 12th of May. What General, Major, Captain, soldier or sailor, has performed a more daring and successful achievement during the whole war ? By a late paper, we learn that there is a call for 50,000 " contrabands" to proceed to Kansas, to labor upon the Pacific rail-road. Depend upon it, if the slaves are freed, their labor will all be needed within the limits of th« country, and we shall expect to witness a migration of colored people from Canada to trie Southern States. trie {dft Strits, i 81 History of English Preaching in Honolulu. — California mail,a letter was forour care, for the Rev C. B. An- Aw Historical Discourse, Preached in the Bethel, Oct. 19, 1862, by Rev. S. Some three or four years drews, of Maui. Damon, beino the twentieth AnniC. Lahaina Hosin sailor was the a sick ago, versary OF HIS ARRIVAL, IN HONOLULU. the pital, who is, if now living, a soldier of te U. S. Army, in the territory of Utah. The Rev. J. A. Anderson, Chaplain of the 3d Regiment of California Volunteers, thus writes from Utah, as follows : "Dear brother: It gives me pleasure to communicate to you a new proof of the comforting words, " cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." Some years ago, a German sailor was taken sick on your island, and sent to a hospital, which you was in the habit of visiting. Yesterday, while marching as an enlisted soldier in the 3d Infantry, of California Volunteers, a mule which he was riding caused him to fall before the wheels of one of our heavy commissary wagons, which ran over him, crushing his lungs and breaking some of his ribs. His name is S. A. Myers, and he desires me to send you the following message, which I do in nearly his own language. "Writeto Mr. Andrews, who was and is a missionary in Maui. He is the first man, who ever talked to me about my soul. He first told me to rend my Bible. I was sick in the Hospital, and from morning until night he used to be in the Hospital. He used to talk and pray with me, and read the Bible to me. After I got well, he got me a place as a steward in the Hospital. * 1 want you to tell Mr. Andrews that I thank him for all the kindness he did to me. He was good to me and I thank him for it." The letter contains "much more, in a similar strain. It is gratifying and encouraging to learn, that seed cast at random is springing up, and bearing precious fruit. At the time this letter was written, the soldier was not expected to survive. (ri'RLISHED BY RKO.IK.-T.) OBNr.sis xxil, thee." 38: "This twenty years have I been with As I have approached this anniversary, my mind has naturally recalled some of the scenes and events, through which I have passed, and I thought it would not be inappropriate for me, to allow the occasion to give shape to my discourse this morning. The children of Israel weTc strictly enjoined by their lawgiver, Moses, after this manner " And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in tba wilderness." Oftentimes, Moses at the direction of Jehovah, recalled the minds of the Jews to the dealings of God with them. The principle is a sound one, that it it not only proper, but exceedingly profitable to recall the past events of our lives, and by reflection thereon, endeavor for the future to regulate our conduct, more in accordance with the principles of the Bible and precepts of our Saviour. This day, October 19, is the twentieth anniversary of my arrival in Honolulu. This I have regupulpit has been the place whereSabbath, and larly preached, from Sabbath to comthe foreign and Seamen year to year. munity have been the field, wherein I have been permitted the privilege of laboring a* a Minister of the Gospel. My home has been in the midst of this community. In referring to my own labors, I have thought it would not be uninteresting to some of this audience, to learn what had been done in the way of supplying this community with preaching in me English language previous to my arrival. The first English sermon preached in Honolulu, was upon the 23d of April, 1820. The American Missionaries , had landed, on Wednesday the 19th. In A sailor met us in the street yesterday and looking over their journal 1 find the following cruise gave us $10, merely adding: " During my lest Record of their first Sabbath spent in Honoboat, and said * - North, I started off one morning in the $10 for if we caught a whale that day I would give for oharitable purposes.' ' We have devoted one-half to be used by sailors at the ptDs ink and paper " " To-day, for the first time, we hava pubon land. \ comud"** o audience of Eurorvean and American reiidwits I lic" worship '* �82 1 II X FRIEND, MIIIIMIIKK, 1862. During one of these visits, he fell in with masters, other officers of vessels, chiefs, sail- in April, 1820. As 1 have already remarkors, and common natives assembled, in and ed, on the first Sabbath after their debarka- an interesting lad about twelve or fourteen about the house occupied by Mr. Bingham, tion, there was preaching, in the English years old, son of Capt. Carter, commanding to hear the sound of the gospel, for the first language, which was continued, with but few the English cutter William Little, then in time, on these long neglected heathen shores. interruptions, until the establishment of the port. On offering him some books, the little The discourse was from Luke 2: 10, ' Fear Bethel in 1833. Public services were more fellow remarked, that they had some books not; for, behold, 1 bring yon good tidings of frequently conducted, by the Rev. H. Bing- just like them on board his father's vessel; ham, than any other missionary, because he they had a library furnished by the Sunday great joy, which shall be to all people.' "The theme, the scene, the opening pros- was stationed here, but the other missionaries School in Dr. Raffles' Church, in Liverpool, pect, the dawning light of a brighter day, were accustomed to preach when they visited of which he had been a member. Mr. J. inthe incipient songs of Zion, conspired to an- Honolulu. Foreign residents and seamen vited the lad up to his house. In n day or imate our hearts, and to awaken nn unu- were always invited to attend those Sabbath two afterwards, he came, accompanied by sual joy in our souls, while we listened to gatherings, first held at the missionary's resi- another lad, the son of one of the foreign the language of the messenger from heaven, dence and subsequently at the native school [ residents, who asked Mr. J. if he would and seemed to be favored with the special house but when the Charity school house was | teach him to read. He assented with pleaspresence of Him, who was born in the city of built, (1831) the Sabbath services were trans- ure. Very soon another boy presented himDavid, a Saviour, even Christ the Lord. ferred to that edifice. While the missiona- self, nskinir the same favor, and within a Our singing aided by the bass viol, on which ries were always ready to preach anil labor few days, the exercise became a stated one.'' (J. P. Tamoree, (an Hawaiian educated in lor the spiritual welfare of seamen, yet it Hawaiian Spectator, January, 1838. Thus was laid the foundation of the "Oahu the Missionary School, Cornwall, Connecti- was apparent to their minds, that tin; necescut.) played, was pleasing to the natives, and sities of the foreign community nnd seamen, Charity School," which was so successfully will probably have a salutary influence in required the undivided services of some one taught and managed, by Mr. and Mrs. Johnwinning them to approve and to engage in specially devoted to the work of preaching stone, during the following twelve years, and Christain worship." Missionary Herald, in the English language. In order to estab- which has heen continued down to the preslish English preaching upon a permanent ba- ent time, although now, denominated, the May, 1821. 1 deem this record worthy of more than a sis, an appeal was made to the American " Honolulu Free School," and taught by Mr. " . ■ ■ passing thought. The mixed assembly.— representing various nations, nnd embracing both landsman and seamen, is indicative of what the assemblies have always been in Honolulu, which have gathered to listen to the preaching of the gospel. Honolulu has always been, more than any other place in the Pacific, the spot where have centered the representatives of many nationalities. Here the dwellers from the " South Seas" who gaze at night upon the Southern Cross, meet visitors from the cold regions of the North, who gaze upon the Northern Polar Star. Here the European and American meet the representatives from India, China, Japan and other Oriental lands. Our limited foreign community of two thousand, often embraces those speaking fifteen or twenty different languages. It has always been so, since the harbor of Honolulu was discovered, in the 1794, by Capt. Brown, master of the English ship Buttendorth. As I am now referring to events of an historical nature, I would mention the fact, that the*English Burial Service, is traditionally reported to have been read, for the first time, by Capt. Brown, over the remains of the American Shipmaster Capt. Kendrick, who commanded the American sloop Lady Washington. Capt. Kendrick, was accidenta]ly killed, by the wad of a gun fired, as a salute, on board the English ship Butterworth. For convenience, I shall divide the period of forty-two years, during which the gospel has been preached in Honolulu, into four smaller periods, of about ten years each ; the first commences with the preaching of Mr. Bingham, already referred to, and ends with the establishment of the Bethel, in 1833 under the patronage of the American Seamen's Friend Society: the second period, embraces the years from 1833 to 1842, or during the period of the Rev. J. Diell's ministry; the third period embraces those years, from 1842 to 1852, or during the first ten years of my ministry, and while I was the only Protestant clergyman preaching in the English language, in Honolulu. TJte fourth period., embraces the yean, from 18tft to 1862. first Period. This period commences with (he landing of the Missionaries in Honolulu, Seamen's Friend Society. On the 10th. of February, 1830, the Rev. Samuel Whitney, wrote to the Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine, (now Bishop Mcllvaine, of Ohio) corresponding secretary of that Society, requesting, in the name of the Sandwich Island Mission, that a chaplain might be sent to Honolulu. From that communication, I copy as follows:—"At a late meet in j of the Mission I was appointed to write you, as secretary of the A. S. F. Society, and invite your attention to the subject of sending hither a missionary, to labor among that interesting class of men, whose wants have excited your sympathies and call- ed forth your truly benevolent exertions. In all the countries to which our seamen resort, perhaps there is not a place to be found where the labors of your society nro so much needed, as at this port. There are about two hundred English and Americans who reside on the island. From one hundred to one hundred and fifty ships touch here, most of them semi-annually. Their crews are usually from twenty to thirty each, so it is not uncommon that we have more than a thousand sailors here at once." Sailor's Magazine, Dec. 1830. This appeal met with a most favorable reception, and the officers of the Society immediately commenced laying their plans for the permanent establishment of this Chaplaincy. There were many difficulties which it Was necessary to overcome. Honolulu, via Cape Horn, was 18,000 miles from New York—the Society was new and its funds small—and many other obstacles presented In the meantime, the missionaries were so much impressed with the importance of the work, that the Rev. E. W. Clark, and Rev. R. Tinker, were appointed or expected to keep up religious services in the English language. Mr. Andrew Johnstone, a native of Dundee, Scotland, and subsequently resident of the West Indies and the United States, was appointed one of the secular agents of the American Mission, but with the understanding on the part of the Board in Boston, that he should devote a part of his time to visiting among He comseamen, and distributing Bibles. menced his labor* in Honolulu, in I^3l. themselves. G. B. C. Ingraliam. Were this the time and place, 1 could say much in regard to the importance and usefulness of that school, where so many hundreds of both sexes, in Honolulu, have been taught during the last thirty years. I have now alluded to that enterprise, as it grew so naturally out of an effort to benefit seamen, and was really started by one of them. I am now led to speak of the establishment of the Bethel Chapel, in Honolulu, during the, Secoiui Period, embracing the years, from 1833 to 1842. During the year 1832, the A. S. F. Society, established three foreign chaplaincies-one in Havre, France, the second in Canton, China, and the third at Honolulu. The Rev. John Diell, was appointed to this chaplaincy. He sailed with his wife and other missionaries, bound to these islands, from New London, Connecticut, on the 20th of Nov., 1832,and arrived here on the Ist of May, 1833. From the annual report of the SociThe ety, for 1834, 1 quote as follows : chaplain carried out with him a considerable part of the materials for erecting a chapel and dwelling-house. Through the good Providence of God, he was well received by the King and principal chiefs, as well as by the English and American residents, and was immediately furnished with a place of temporary worship, and every facility afforded him for erecting the chapel. The foundation was laid on the 29th of July, and the building was erected on the 22d of last " August." The edifice here described is the one in which we are now assembled. Externally it remains the same, but the internal arrangements are entirely changed. The edifice was dedicated to the worship of God, on Thursday, November 28, 1833, when publicreligious services were commenced, and have been continued with scarcely the omission of a single Sabbath, from that day to this pres- time. From all I can learn respecting the character and success of the Rev. Mr. Diell, he was emphatically the right man, in the " taken great deright place." I have always light in perusing the letters of Mr. Diell, as published in the Sailor's Magazine, and his ent �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 18 62. articles in the Hawaiian Spectator, of which he wasa leading editor. Very frequently have I met shipmasters and seamen, who were personally acquainted with him. From them, as well ns from his missionary brethren, I have became intimately acquainted with the character of my predecessor. He was a very acceptable preacher, and most His whole soul kind hearted man. was in his work, yet in its discharge he was not permitted to labor but a few years. His health became so much impaired, in the autumn of 1839, that he was compelled to relinquish preaching. As it did not essentially improve during the following months, he embarked for China, on the 11th of April, 1839, having made arrangements with the Rev. Mr. Tinker to officiate, during his absence. Mr. Diell's health continuing to decline, he pursued his voyage around the world, returning to Honolulu, in June, 1810. Here he remained for ;i few months and embarked, with his wife and children, for the United States, in December, but died at sea, January 18, 1841, arid his mortal remains were consigned to the deep, there to rest until the voice of the Arch-angel's trump shall summon " the sea to give up its dead." You will pardon me for dwelling thus long, in sketching the history of English preaching, previous to my arrival. Third period. This period embraces the first half of my ministry in Honolulu. I would thus divide my ministry, because during this period, as I have remarked I was the sole Protestant clergyman here, with the exception of a few months during the year 1848, when the Rev. T. Dwight Hunt, preached most acceptably to a congregation of foreign residents, worshipping in the Sharity School house. The friends of the enterprise then failed in organizing a second religious society, in consequence of the very large emigration from Honolulu to California. Under the peculiar circumstances of that movement, Mr. Hunt left for San Francisco, where his services were immediately secured as chaplain,—being the first Protestant clergyman in that city, and as, is well known, he subsequently became pastor of the congregational church, now presided over by the Rev. Mr. Lacy. It was my privilege to enter upon my official duties, in this city at a most interesting era in the history of the Hawaiian nation and of commerce in the Pacific. At that time, this nation was struggling to assume an honorable position una standing among the civilized and christian nations of the earth. During my passage from New York to Honolulu, agents accredited by this Government, had left to secure a recognition of this nation, by the great powers of America, England and France. It was a period of threat excitement. Just before my arrival a naval commander of France had made demands upon the King and chiefs, which were very humiliating but to the house of the French nation, restitution has been made, and only a few weeks after my arrival I saw the Hawaiian flag lowered and the British flag hoisted upon all government buildings, forts and vessels. While I entertained my own views upon those political changes and revolutions, yet I never allowed myself to make any of them form topics of discourse from lire pulpit. While party fueling and 83 national prejudices were more glaringly ap- tributed >o freely for objects of benevolence. parent then, than I have ever since witnessed, In looking over church records and other yet it was my strenuous endeavor to preach memoranda of those early years, the names the gospl to all who might visit this chapel. of not a few, have passed under my eye, Very often have 1 seen those gathered within whose respect, Jove and sympathy, were as these walls, who were very much estranged refreshing and inspiring as "cold water to a in their political views. The nature of my thirsty soul." Some of them still live and commission as a minister of Jesus Christ, others have passed onward to their final reand the tenor of my instructions as a chap- ward and whom I hope to meet in that better lain, under the patronage of the American land. With some, 1 was permitted to form Seamen's Friend Society, imposed upon me but a short acquaintance but even that short a solemn duty. The enlightened and catho- acquaintance laid the foundation of a lasting lic instructions of the society, were couched friendship. Many are thesletters which 1 in language as follows: -'The particular field have received from strangers and seamen, of your labors, will be the port of Honolulu, thanking me for some little act of kindness and the special objects of your solicitude, or acknowledging benefit derived from my prayers, and efforts, will be the sons of the preaching. Such tokens of affectionate reocean. This field commercially and morally I gard 1 esteem us a most valuable treasure. exerts such an influence on the whole It was during this period of my ministry in islands, as to justify in this connection, a 1849, that I made an interesting visit to Ore■ glance at the whole." '• Here, gon and California, being absent about four " then, in this commercial and central position months, but preaching almost every Sabbath. After nearly nine years of constant labor, lietwccn the coasts of Asia and America, you ure to stund erect us a minister of Jesus feeling the need of a season of relaxation. Christ. With the foreign residents you will I embarked for the United States, in Febrube expected to maintain a kind and courte- ary, 1851, leaving the Rev. T. E. Taylor, ous intercourse ; and if they shall be dispos- the chaplain from Lahaina, to officiate in my ed to attend upon your ministry, you will absence, us he had also done while I was watch for their souls, as one that must give absent in 1849. Fourth Period. I returned to Honolulu, iv account." So far as possible I have endeavored al- February 1852, having been absent one year. ways to preach and labor in accordance with My chaplaincy duties were immediately rethose instructions. During the period of my sumed, and have been continued until the ministry now under review, this chapel was present time, with the interruption of my almost uniformly well filled, and much of the visit to Micronesia (1861) and an occasional time crowded, so much so, that, in 1847, vacation of a few Sabbaths. On my return it was remodeled and the number of sittings, I found, the Rev. Mr. Smeathman, a Deacon nearly doubled by the audition of galaries, of the Episcopal church, officiating as a clerand even then, such was the increase of gyman in Honolulu. The congregation aschurch-goers that the building was well filled. sembling to hear bim preach, occupied the The number of seamen during those years Maunakilika building. He preached here was very much larger than at present. Their about six months, but for the want of suffiwas added in '49 and '50, the host of stran- cient encouragement and on account of progers flooding our city from California, to tracted ill health, he left for England, where, which was also added a large numberof pas- if I have been correctly informed, ha was sengers en route, from the Australian Colo- ordained by the Bishop of London, and subnies to the American coast. While 1 would sequently went to some one of the West Inspeak with caution, of the amount of good dia islands, where he died. I have already referred to the effort in accomplished during this period of my ministry now under consideration, I may be per- 1848, to establtsh a second church among mitted to remark, that I performed some of foreign residents in Honolulu. This effort the time the work of two men, for in addi- was successfully renewed in the month of tion to preaching always twice on the Sab- May, 1852, and the 2d of June, "t/venty bath, attending funerals, and weekly reli- five individual associated themselves together gious and temperance meetings, I also con- and were organized into a church, which imducted a semi-monthly religious publication, mediately commenced religious services on doing ail my editorial and other duties with- the Sabbath, first at the second Native church out an assistant. From the peculiar position in Honoluu, and subsequently at the Court which I occupied, I was obliged to act as an House." The Rev. T. E. Taylor was invitagent for raising funds for benevolent purpo- ed to become their pastor, and was installed ses. While the Society paid me a'salary of on the 30th of May. In consequence of ill $700 per annum, I raised annually more health, he was compelled to resign, and was than three times that amount for the main- succeeded by the Rev. J. D. Strong, and tenance of those auxiliary objects connected upon his dismission, the present pastor of with the welfare of the chapel and the com- that church, the Rev. E. Corwin was installmunity. A»>the time when the Bethel was ed Oct. 20, 1858. Fort Street Church has enlarged, in 1847, I incurred a debt of over became well established and is a self-support$3,000 which required more than two years ing institution. In 1856 a church-edifice to pay off. More than one half that amount was built, costing near $15,000. An effort was made to establish a MethI collected by going personally into the cabin nnd forecastle of ships lying in this harbor. odist Episcopal Church in Hbnolulu, and an From ninety one ships, I collected upon an edifice erected in 1855, but, in consequence the trade of the islands, average $17 from each. In thus referring of the falling off in to my labors to collect funds for the support and other causes, the enterprise was given op of this chaplaincy, I am reminded of the in 1861. During the period of its existence, many generous donors and christain friends, the Rev. Messrs. Turner, Maclay, and Anwho spoke words of encouragement and con- thony officiated successively as Pastors of . ; �84 THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 18(2. .. that church. Although the enterprise was peering a colony will again leave our school, finally given up, yet I am witness to much for the Episcopal church. While I have devoted time and labor, as good accomplished by our Methodist brethren, and I doubt not in more than a single a Pastor among the foreign residents, who instance angels rejoiced over repenting sin- have contributed liberally for my support, ners, as the fruit of their labors. yet I am not aware as I have neglected my Returning from my walk about Zion," peculiar duties as seamen's chaplain. Ye and my endeavor to "sketch "the towers are my witnesses that, among seamen, I have thereof," I would resume ray remarks in re- tried most faithfully to do my duty. Early Here it and late, Sabbath-day and week-day, on gard to the Bethel congregation. has been my privilege to preach, during a ship-board, in the Hospitals, in my study, at score of years, with perhaps fewer interrup- the Home and in this chapel, seamen have tions, than fait to the lot of most ministers been the special object of my toils, and of the gospel. In only one instance, have 1 prayers. As 1review the past twenty years, during this period, been detained from the from this "vantage-ground," think not that house of God, on account of sickness, and I feel conscious of having done my whole that merely for a single Sabbath. It is with duty. "To err is human" and I feel that devout gratitude to my Divine Master, that I have erred "in times and ways without I am able to make this statement. Aside number." I hope past experience will enafrom die regular ministrations of the pulpit, ble tnc to preach and labor, more circummy parochial duties have been numerous, as spectly and successfully, during whatever may be inferred from the following statis- may remain of my ministerial career. tics : While endeavoring to pursue the " even Burials. The total number of interments, j tenor of my way," it will ever be my strenin Nuuanu Valley Cemetery, since those j uous effort to labor harmoniously with my grounds were consecrated for burial purpo- i christain brethren, both with those who have ses, in November, 1844, has been 562. At j been my associates in times past, and with least, at 500 of those funerals have I been others who have just arrived, the leading called to officiate. About 240 or nearly member of whom, is at this very hour, one half of those funerals, have been those preaching in another pulpit-in this city, " on of seamen of various nations. I have also j the inauguration of his mission to these isofficiated at various other funerals, when lands." What is before us is known only to Hun, who has bid his ministering serthe interments were elsewhere. " Go ye into all the world, and preach I have, during the period of vants, the to every creature." I enter upon gospel Honolulu, officiated at 140 linistry in ages, including 14, from 1842 to 1851, my third decade of ministerial labor, cheerhopeful and prayerful. Should I receive 126, from 1852 to the present time. ful, the of the community at large, and that aid of During however, the first seven years my ministry, 1 officiated at only 3 marriages. of my own church and congregation, as in This statement indicates the remarkable years past, I shall most assuredly pursue change which has taken place in the foreign my future labors with a trustful, humble and society of Honolulu, during the last few buoyant spirit. May the blessing of God, years. During the first ten years of my rest upon all those who formerly, or more pastorate. I was the sole minister among recently worshipped with us, and now asgospel preached in other foreign residents, whereas during the last semble to hear the to the worship of God. ten, I have always had one, and most of the houses, dedicated To those who remain, and are inclined to period two associates. worship within these walls, and listen to the Bible Distribution. As seamen's chaplain, truth as by me, I would say, you I have gratuitously distributed and sold, will have dispensed undivided services as a gospel my 7,624 bibles and 4,960 testaments, in ten minister. While lam an incumbent of this this different languages. In connection with and Pastor of this church and conchaplaincy department of labor, I have distributed a gregation, it will be my honest and conscilarge'amount of religious reading among all entious aim, to fulfil the duties of a minister classes. of the gospel and seamen's chaplain, to the Bethel Church. I have baptized 65 infants, best of my ability. The grace of God asand since the re-organizatiou of the Bethel sisting me, 1 offer the history of the past church, in March 1850, admitted 84 by let- twenty years, as a pledge for the future. ter and profession, to church privileges. Sabbath School. The Sabbath school, conThe Drunkard's Appetite.—How terrinected with the Bethel, has always been an ble the curse that man brings upon himself, interesting department of ministerial labor. who indulges in the use of strong drink unA Sabbath school was commenced at the opening of the new year 1843, which has til he has implanted an appetite which he been continued down to the present time. cannot control. We have lately met several In recalling the names of those who have, of this class. Their corffcssiofH are enough at different periods, been connected with it, to make any reasonable man "stand in awe there are but few of the permanent residents and sin not." Reader, did you ever witness of the former generation of children, who the ravings of a man experiencing the " dewere not connected with it. I find the name lirium ?" If so, then you have seen of His Majesty and his two brothers as enoughtremens to make you abstain, we should supit was members of the school, when organand'forever, from even the temized, and also that of Queen Emma. Our pose, now use of intoxicating drinks. Even in school, has perhaps never averaged, from perate the wine cup, old Shakespeare saw a fiend, year to year less, than 75 pupils, and previ- where he makes one of his actors exclaim, the organization of Fort Street church " O Iboo,iDTislble spirit of nine, We arc ei-1 Pj nth school, many more wfcat uthrr name oball I rail luce -DEVIL " Prriages. #to THE FRIEND. NOVEMBER 1, 1862. English. — Arrival of the Episcopal Mission. We congratulate the friends of Episcopacy, upon the arrival of Bishop Staly and two other clerical Missionaries from England It has appeared strange to many, that Engglisli Missionaries should never have conic hither, the Rev. William Ellis being the only one, who has hitherto labored upon the islands. He remained here but a short period, and closed his term of labor near forty years ago. The reason why the London Missionary Society, (which has sent missionaries to the Society Islands,) has never sent any to the Sandwich Islands has been this, that between the American Board of Missions and the London Missionary Society there was this understanding, that the Americans should occupy islands North of the line, and the English, the "South Seas." Now, the present Mission comes at the invitation of His Majesty and foreign residents in Honolulu, and under the auspices ofthe " Church Missionary Society" and the old "Propagation Society," both Societies contributing for its support. The members of this Mission find many things on their arrival to encourage them in their work The Royal Family and many of the foreign residents are much interested in their success. The Methodist Chapel affords good accommodations, as a temporary place, for holding Divine Service. We earnestly pray that the Mission may enjoy a prosperous career, and bo instrumental in imparting n deeper spiritual earnestness to the churches and organizations already existing, as well as be theagency which the Holy Spirit shall employ to awaken, renew, sanctifyand prepare many souls for those " mansions not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Every deed approved of God, Where'er its lot be cast, Leaves some good influence behind That shall forever last. Episcopal Meeting.—A imetiug wss held at the Court-house on Thursday evening, Oct. 28. at which were present a Dumber of the foreign residents and natives interested in the establishment of tbo Episcopal Church in Honolulu. Attorney-General C. CHarris in the chair, Daniel Smith, Esq., Secretary Bishop Stal.-T delivered a short address, daring which he produced the plans of the church which is to be erected here, designed in the ancient Gothic style of architecture. The edifice is to have a peal of chime-bells. Previous to adjourning. His Majesty introduced Dishop Staley to ths audience and so individuals present, and His Excelleucy R. C. YYjllic introduced the Rev. Messrs. Mason and Ibbotsou. The Bishop and his associates replied in toaohing and eloquent responses. Messrs. C. C. Harris, G. M. Robertson and W. H. Kaauwai, were sppointsd a committee to apply for a charter, after which (he work of building the new church will immediately commence. The meeting then adjourned to Tuesday — evening. , The adjourned meeting of Episcopalians look placo en Tursday trening, "**tb His Majesty ant �85 THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, 1862. others were present. The meeting wsa convened to bear the provisions of the Charter drawn up by the Committee appointed for that purpose. Alter each article had been read over, tbey were all put to the meeting, with the exception of two or three articles, which were acted upon separately, and adopted unanimously. The Synod of the church, as proposed and unanimously elected, were His Excellency M. Kekuanaoa, His Honor G. M. Robertson, Capt. O. H. Luce sod Thos. Brown, Esq. Among other matters, the Synod were empowered to enlarge, temporarily, the church at present occupied, for the purpose of accomodating the numerous congregation that attend it. Previous to adjournment. His Majesty moved a vote of thanks, seconded by H. B. M.'s Consul-General, to His Exeellenoy R. C. Wyllie, for the generous tender of the use of the late Methodist Episcopal oliurch and premises to the Hawaiian Kpisoopal Mission.—P. C. Advertiser. P[FOACrd.otvechm1iser, 4.] ST An interesting ceremony took plsce at the Iteibel Chapel yesterday at 1U o'clock, on which ocoasion our lellow townsman H. Yon Holt, Esq., was united in marriage to Miss Alice lirowti, daughter of Thos. Brown, Esq., Rev. 8. C. Damon performing the ccremouy. Tbe church was well filled on the oooaeion. After the marriage ceremony was over. His Excellency R. C. Wyllie rose and read an address to the pastor of the Bethel Church, of which the following is a copy : Honolulu, loth Oct. ISO2. Rbt'd Sib :—The undersigned Episcopalians, who, being denomination, their own hare for years without a church of worshipped in the Bethel, of which you are Paator, deriving your ministrations aud still marc from much instruction from tbe example of your holy walk and conversation, pray you to respect, memorial of their and love, be pleased to accept, iv gratitude to you, aa an excellent man, and Christian Minister, aloug with this the Silver Salver which will be presented to you letter. Tne undersigned pray that it may please Ood long to pre serve In health and happiness, a lire which precept and example combine U> render so valuable to all classes of this community. Robt. C. Wyllie, Smith, I Daniel Thomas Brown, H. J. 11. Holdswortli, Thro. Davie* H. Luce. Geo. H I Samuel SavJJgc, Madame Dc Varlgny, Mrs Monsarralt, John Kitsorr, ! •• J. M Green, Chas. K. Hitchcock, 11. M.'s ■ Dudoit, j Consul.San Franciscu. YonPoster, ;"Epiacopus," "Amicus," A. Cartwrlgbt, •• «. "u Corney, "Friend." > had rea.'. the address, Miss Mary Miss R. Atkins, After Mr. Wyllie E. Luce, on behalf of tbe ladies, addressed Mr. Damon as follows: Rxv'd Sib —I shall aver consider it one of the greatest pleasures and honors of mylite to have been selected to present this Salver to your Reverence. Ba pleased to receive ft at my hands, as a memorial of feelings towards you which warm the hearts of us all, but which our tongues cannot express. Tbe Salver was thus inscribed : , To The Rsv. Samuel C. Damon in token of Respect, Esteem and Affection —from— Ladies and Oentlemen, of the Episcopal Faith, who have been regular attendants on his religious miuistralioos. Honolulu, 1862. Mr. Damon accepted the gift with tbe following reply: Mb. Wtlub iso Miss Lock —I thank yon. and through you,all those persona members of my congregation, who have chosen this mode of giving expression to their sentiments of esteem. I see among the nainrs attached to this address some who have sat under my ministry duting the twenty years which it has been my privilege to occupy this pulpit, aud others, wlUi whose faces I have long been familiar in the public worship of the Sanctuary and the Sabbath school. Thesentiments of entcem which you have expressed, I can most rnrdially recipromtc. I should be sorry to think that our separation, aa Pastor .-mkl people, would in theleast diminish our mutual NBUset and Christlan affection. I appreciate now, aa I have ever done, your kindness, sympathy, and aid. Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of a Bishop and other clergj bum of the Church of England, under whose ministry you are now placed. I repeat what I wrote and published eighteen years ago, I wish foreign residents fully to understand, that they are cordially aad freely invited to take seats In this chap.-l upon the Sabbath until they arc provided with some other, more convenient place for public worahlp. Whenever, In the Providence of Ood, that time shall come, the prayersaud benedictions of the Seamen's Chaplain will go with them." " Bound volumes of the Friend con- on hand. REVIEW. Editor's Table. : North America—By Anthony Trollops. Hawaii The Past, Present and Future of its Island Kingdom. An Historical Account of This is the name of a new book upon the Sandwich Islands. By MaklsT Hopkins, Hawaiian Gonsul-Gcneral, 40., with a PreAmerica, by an Englishman, a son of Mrs. face by the Bishop of Oxford. London: 1862. Trollope, who wrote waspishly severe upon America, some years ago. This book is a We briefly noticed this book, in the Sepdifferent affair. In these days of acrimoni- tember Number of the Friend, but remarked ous criticism, by English and American " having only glanced over its pages we rewriters, upon their respective countries, it is serve any critical remarks which we may refreshingly pleasant to meet with an Eng- feel disposed to make, until we can give the. lish author who writes with candor, and a book a thorough perusal." The first thought suggested in our mind, generous infusion of common sense. Mr. Hopkins writes about the Hawaiians with- by the reading of this book, is this, what a out taking the trouble to make us a visit, misapplication of the funds of the Hawaiian but Mr. Trollope visits America, and travels government, to pay the salary of a Consul, the length and breadth of the land. We hope London, to in the Hawaiian misrepresent as the book will be extensively read in England as we are confident it will be in people before the British public. Mr. HopAmerica. His remarks upon the war are kins'intentions may be good, but the maninteresting. We may refer to the book ner of executing them is somewhat infeliciagain when we have more time and space. tous, and in violation of therules of good taste. He has never visited the islands, and yet there we On the 1st of January, 1862, is no topic relating to the social, political and the shall commence the publication, in affairs of the kingdom, which he religious of extracts" from Stecn Captain Friend, " Bille's Report, on the voyage of the Danish does not treat upon, with the freedom and corvette Galathea round the world, in the assurance of an old familiar resident. years 1845, 1846 and 1847, translated from While endeavoring to impress the reader's the Danish by a gentleman capable of pre- mind with the idea, that he is writing with senting a translation worthy of perusal. great fairness and impartiality, upon almost We have already perused portions of the every page he evinces an extreme narrowness translation, and shall be much surprised if it of views. does not prove exceedingly interesting to our That our opinion of Mr. Hopkins' book, readers, especially to those interested in the is not altogether un-English, we refer our history of the Islands. readers to the London Examiner of August The Rev. E. Corwin, for four years 2d. A writer in that standard periodical, in Pastor of Fort Street Church, preached on commenting upon Mr. H.s book, remarks as Sabbath morning, Oct. 19, an Anniversary follows :—" That he writes with a strong Sermon, from the text, " Then Samuel took bias, may be inferred from the pompous and a stone, and set it up between Mizpeh and illogical preface which he has obtained as an Shen, and called the named of it Ebenezer, advertisement to the book." This reviewer saying, hitherto hath the Lord helped us." does not appear to entertain a very exalted 1 Samuel vii: 12. opinion of the Preface, written by the BiahForeign Subscribers.—Now is the time op of Oxford. We think, however, as the for all foreign subscribers, among the sea- Preface and the Book, have been once faring community to renew their subscrip" joined together," they never should "be tions. Subscription price of the Friend, for put asunder," as we consider it a most capione year, $2 50. This amount includes, post- tal match ! age to either England or the United States. In all fairness however, we will acknowlPapers sent regularly every month. edge, that we were somewhat surprised, to But few seamen are in port, thus far read Mr. Hopkins' remarks upon Capt. the present season, but we hope all will com- Cook. If General Miller was alive, we can municate with their friends. They will find well imagine, what a state of excitement " pens, ink and paper," gratis, by calling the old gentleman would have been thrown upon Master Oat, at the Sailor's Home. By into, to find"an English author frankly, accalling uraan the Chaplain, they will be sup- knowledge, that Cook did not discover thr plied witßooks and papers. Sandwich Islands, and that he disgraced of supply himself by allowing the kanakas to worship We acknowledge a good distribution him! Mr. Hopkins' remarks, "numerous reading matter for gratuitous and Mrs. Snow persons of both sexes flocked around Cook, among seamen, from Mrs. . Judd. These donations contain files of Har- and paid him divine honors. An old priest per's Weekly and Monthly, which will be very —offered a pig, pronouncing a long oration," acceptable in the forecastle. bottom, should rend ' holier." »o»or pfEria8octumgsl.e—3hOnfr,toitme he of the French nation instead of page 91. Fit offering! Mr. Hopkins admits, that old Spanish voyagers discovered the Sandwich Islands rti �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER. 1862. 86 tl6th century, and that Cook was un- btedly guided by charts attached to An- 's voyages, published in 1748, in which, the Sandwich Islands, are delineated under Spanish names, " correct as to latitude and degrees too far to the west." Page 82. I. Several chapters in Mr. Hopkins' book, tting to the earlier history of the islands, i very entertaining and written in a lively le. The reader however must be on his guard, and not place too much reliance upon the author's dates and statements. He asserts, for example, upon page 160, that, Nahienaena born in 1816, and sister of Kamehameha 111., is now Premier of the kingdom, under the name of the Princess Victoria! The truth is, Nahienaena, died more than twenty years ago. Now, on page 271, our author correctly states that, Victoria, sister to the present King is Premier ! But on the same page Mr. Hopkins, asserts that Victoria's third brother, is Governor of one of the islands, whereas, he died many years ago ! We could easily point out many similar mistakes. He speaks on page 211, of Dr. Judd, as a minister of the gospel. We are aware that the Doctor has filled many offices, but now learn for the first time that he has been minister of the gospel!— We were amused with the author's allusion to Mr. Jarves, on page 124. He is spoken of as " a candid and industrious historian, but an American citizen/ Now, whether there is anything incompatable in Mr. Hopkins' mind, between " a candid historian," and an " American citizen," we do not know, but his language would certainly convey that idea. Of late some few American citizens have written histories of tolerable ability, viz., Prescott, Bancroft, Motley and others. Mr. Wyllie, seems to be in the estimation of Mr. Hopkins, the "main spoke" in the government wheel, or to employ Mr. Hopkins' own language, " the keystone of the governmental arch," page 268. Now if the King's foreign minister does really occupy so important a position, we beg of him, not to resign his office, or to speak in more courtly style, " throw up his portfolio" and retire to Princeville, as consequences the most disastrous might follow! The keystone gone, " stand from under." It appears to us, utterly unaccountable, how Mr. Hopkins could have allowed himself to have inserted on page 242, that wood-cut of the Rev. William Richards. He remarks upon a fly leaf, that it is " a sketch fretn memory by the author." Was there ever anything more absurd, than for Mr. Hopkins to insert this engraving ! He had met Mr. Richards, in 1844 or '5, and now seventeen years afterwards, he undertakes to sketch his likeness from memory! From our vivid recollection of Mr. Richards' fea- chapter XXIV, he speaks of " missionary achivement and failure." He seems tolerably well '• read up," before commencing to write his book. The works of Ellis, Dibble, and numerous missionary reports lie upon this table, to which he makes frequent allusion. As he contrasts the state of the Hawaiian nation in 1820 with thatof 1860, he is compelled to record much to the credit of the band of " Bostonians who landed in Hawaii." "To the honor of the missionaries be it said, that their little Augustinian ness to Mr, Richards' memory, whose char- band bravely labored on ; encountered with acter and deeds have become historical, it patience intellectual and other obstacles; merits no slur or tarnish from any member of and made themselves masters of a difficult the Hopkins' family of London. The older and very vocal language to which, from that residents of Honolulu, know the peculiar peculiarity, it was veryhard to give phleoneicircumstances under which, a brother of our ic expression." In contrast with such lanauthor came to Honolulu, and now for Mr. guage, which seems reluctantly recorded, Manly Hopkins to caricature the friend of let the reader peruse the following : " Relithat brother, is an outrage upon all the rules gion as taught by the American Missionaries of good breeding ! It is not manly ! Such zealously, fiercely, has hitherto failed to alis the character of Mr. Richards, that it fect the hearts of the mas*. Many superior stands forth bright and untarnished, as any natives have doubtless submitted themselves one which can be mentioned, in the annals earnestly to the yoke, and a few guileless of the Hawaiian nation. He was remarka- Nathaniels may be reckoned among ten thousands of professors ; but the national ble for his unselfish purposes and self-sacri- morality is not what it should be—the nation ficing plans for the Hawaiian nation. is not regenerated." Page 390. We should Messrs. Ricord, Lee, Robertson, Judd, like to turn the tables, and ask Mr. Hopkins, Wyllie, and others may have done much to if the national morality of England is what Certainly not if there is a erect the governmental arch, but Mr. Rich- it should be! of truth in G. F. Train's portraiture particle ards laid the foundation, and the facts are so of a Derby day !" Is the mass of the pop" of Condon regenerated ? Ask the palpable, that, Mr. Hopkins acknowledges it ulation in page 258, when referring to the code of Bishop of London, and the city MissionaLaws, drawn up and translated into English ries ! Yet the gospel has been preached a near two thousand years, in by Mr. Richards, he remarks, " the laws es- thousand, aye, the churches and streets of that city ! tablished the government of the islands very We are not going to rebut Mr. Hopkins' much as it now stands." Those laws, were assertions by statistics, or extracts from miscontained in the blue book," and by Mr. sionary reports, but as an offset to his asser" Simpson, pronounced to be " Blue Laws of tions, we conclude our remarks, with some our own. Mr. Hopkins has Connecticut," page 267. That book of laws, assertions of the islands, and we have lived visited never formed a most important agency in securing among the Hawaiian people for twenty the acknowledgement of this nation, as an years, we have visited every inhabited isindependent nation, and worthy oi being ad- land of the group except Niihau, we have mitted into the great family of civilized na- visited every missionary station on the isare tions. Now for a Hawaiian Consul, under lands, and some of them repeatedly—we acquainted with every missionary personally the pay of this government, to caricature or and his family,—we have spent many Sabrefer to Mr. Richards, in any other way, than baths at the out-stations,—we have travelled in terms of profound respect, is a specimen with and among Hawaiians on sea and land, of literary vandalism that deserves the se- —we have slept in their houses, —we are with hundreds and verest censure. No man living or departed personally acquainted them—we have worshipped in thousands of has done so much as Mr. Richards, to make their churches—we have sat up with them the Hawaiian nation, what it is, civilly and around the Table of tbe Lord"—now this " politically. Under the cireurqjganccs, then is the honest conclusion to which we have come, as the result of our observation, that, we say, Mr. Hopkins' conducNl altogether to the population of the isproportion in inexcusable. The following fact will show, are upon an average as many lands, there how Mr. Richards' services were regarded true christians among them, aa there are at his death, by the King and government. among the people of America, or Europe,— An annuity of $800, was settled upon his we will not except New England, Scotland favored wife, which was continued to be be paid, or England, or any other particunrry of those countries. portion until her death, which occurred but recently. Our readers must pardon us for this long The American Missionaries, are both article, although their are some other points, praised and censured by our author. He in Mr. Hopkins' book which we should nosometimes blows hot and sometimes cold. In tice, if space allowed. tures, this likeness is a gross caricature, and could not have been more so, if borrowed from Punch! If our author had honestly wished to have furnished his renders with a likeness of the noble friend and benefactor of the Hawaiian nation, he could easily have procured a photographic copy of the beautiful and life-like oil-painting hanging upon the walls of the Palace, and alongside that of Admiral Thomas! The notice of Mr. Richards, is in keeping with the caricature—both should go together. In all fair- �I HE FRIEND, * Wheeler & Wilson's CASTLE H. W. SEVKRA.NCR, AUCTIONE33n. COOKE, SAILORS HOME. AGENTS FOR AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, HONOLULU. Will continue business at theold stand on Queen street. 0!«-ly - ■ ■• ASVa&TIgBBCBaVTS. 87 NOVEMBER, 18 62a ' ADVBBTIIIsIIsfTI. ' SEWING MACHINES! 11HIS MACHINE HAS ALLTHKLATEST J. H. COLE, AUOTIOiNTHXin, improvement*, and, in addition to former premiums, wai awarded Die highest prim* above all European and American Sowing Machine.* at the World* Exhibition In PARIS in 1801, ■ (aCCCBSSOB TO A. P. BVBBKTT.) and at the Exhibition in London In 1862. OMf The evidence of the (superiority of this Machine i* found In the At li Is late rooms, Queen Street. reoord of It* sale*. In 1861— The Orover tt Baker Company. Boston, DR. J. MOTT SMITH, The Florence Company, Massachusetts. The Parker Company, Connecticut. DENTIST. J. M. Singer «y Co., New York, 2SO-ly | OfnVe corner of Fort ami Hotel Sirens. Kinkle fc Lyon, Chas. W. Howland, Delaware, M. Oreenwood & Co., Cincinnati, 0.. i>, chas. p. eiriLiaOU, IS. S. 0. lVrkins, Norwalk, 0-, Phy.i.-ian Consular late to Navy, i United SUtes Wil*on U. Smith, Connecticut, i.ai* American seamen and general practitioner. *»ld 18.&T.O, whilrit the Wheeler <t Wilson Company, of DridKe| omce corner Kaabumanu and Merchant streets, ami realawlare i l«Tt, made and sold 19,725 during the same period. at Dr. Wond'a Mansion, Hotel Street. CO" PlrttNC Call mid Kxnmlnr. 11-tf riIHE SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND \li-dlcal and Surgical advice In English, French, Spanish, and ; lialian. owned by the "Honolulu Sailors' Home (ifflee hoars rrom tl a. at. to 2 r. M.; at otner hours ISBBBJW at Society," has recently been placed under the manssMj his residence. agement of the undersigned. They hope, by strict sbbß^Ss " * u. at. D., PHYSICIAN AMD SURCEON, H. STAN«ENVVALI), X BOOKBINDING! IHr. GEO. W. K11.1.l 11. LATE OF SAX FRANCISCO. HAS TAKEN charge of the Bindery, and in prepared to execute all f.ale Sew York City Diaiiensary I'hyslcian, member of the order* for binding, Medico Uhirurgiral College and of the Pathological Society Pnmphli r«. of Haw York. Illn-i rated \rwipnper*. OIBc :at Dr. Judd'a Druit Store, on Fort Street. Residence In >l ii^cr/iiiei. Nntlann Valley, opposite that of K. 0. Hall, Esq. 330-ly Manic, Old Hooltae *Vr. C. 11. WETMORK, M. D. Particular attention paid to reminding old and choicebook*. CONSULAR PHYSICIAN ASIIIKJEOH. Mr. Y. having had many years experience in hook-binding In all its branches, hopes to receive a share of the businessrequired To sick American Seamen, and g«-ti'Tal practitioner, in Honolulu. HILO, HAWAII, S. 1. Order* from the other islands, should be Accompanied with particular directions, a* to the style, and, if the work is to match N. B MedicineCheat* can-fully replenished at the previously bound, a sample volume should be sent volume* fj-tf HILO" 1)RI <; STORE. with the job. Orders may be left at the book store of H. M. Whitney, or at HONOLULU STEAM FLOUR MILL Co. the Bindery, in therear of Key. Mr. Clark's residence, beyond the Stone Church. 330-3 Proprietors.—o. P. JI'DP, ?. SAVIDOK, and 0. H. I.F.WKEH m CHASE'S 0. P. Jcno, Purchasing Agent. S. Bivtdus, SeK.ing Agent. C. H. I.bw BBS, Treasurer. 9BBBBAII rBCK, Honolulu. 31»-ly S. 1. T. CABTIR, CSaS. B. ttBT, Boston. Honolulu. C. BREWER & CO., Commission & Shipping Merchants, Honolulu. Owlsa. 11. I. —RKFKR TO— New York. Joss. at. Hood, Bsq •I ABBS He Y. swill, Esq., i CausLßß Bsbwbb, lag., > Boston. ) 11. A. Paiaca, F.S)., Mbssbb Mcßusa A Mbbb.il, I g -raocisco. has. Wolcott Brooks, Rsq., } iMbssbb. Hongkong. Wai. Pustao Co., Massas. Pbblb, Hibbkll at Co Manila. * 330-lj iiari.. s. oiSTLs. amos. s. cooks. CASTLE A COOKE, Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY! Next door to the Post Office—up stairs— over the Commercial Advertiser" "Printing Office. TAKEN IN EVKRV STYLE. such as Ambrotypea, Photographs. MelaiDeotypes for PICTUBES Lockets, Ac, Landscapes, Views of Dwellings, Ac, at reas- onable prices. ALSO ON HAND—X good assortment of FANCY CASES, FRAMES, ire. H. L. OHABB. 17-tf) HENRY ALLEN, CARPENTER, BUILDER AND UN- DERTAKER. THB that UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE res- pectfully to inform his friends and the public generally, having recently enlarged hla premises, he Is now prepared to doall work In theabove line, with dispatch and in a work* ttnpsrteniand Wholesale and Retail dealers in Oeneral Merchandise, In the Fireproof gtore In King street, opposite the manlike manner. Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR Dr. Jaynea Medicines, Wheeler sr Wilson's Sewing Machines, The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash assets $2,350,000, Kaynolds, Devoe ft Pratt—lmporters and Manu'acturers of Paints. Oil sod Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil, C. Tan Home & Co.'s Carriages and Carriage Materials. 336-ly A. t. CLECHORN, attended to 33»-ly im sucosssoas to FUBNITUBE BEPAIBED. Jobbingdone on reasonable terms. HENRY ALLEN, Fort at., Opposite the Fam'ly Grocery and Feed Stare. NEW AND SECOND-HAND FUTtISITTTTEIE. NEW AND SECOND- fit hand Furniture of every description, OL SSBSmfc nTn|I constantly on hand, and for sale at Mf II "I '1' •» lowprlees. Second-hand Furniture Bought at sbSSSs Dealer in Oeneral Merchandise, flre-proof store comer of Kaahomanu and <*ueen streets, opposite Makee's Block. Also, Retail establishment on Nnuanu street, above King. iCT Island Produce bought and sold. Island orders carefully alleu sc Koa and Pine Coffins always on hand. icicii.i.. George "W. Macy, 11. ALLEN'S CAMENTER SHOP, Fort st, oppoalteTT D. Cartwrigbt's Feed Store. ID- BOA BUBEA PS always on hand. iALE. attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the seafaring community. The House has I een built and fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on tbe Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their vessels under repairs, are respectfully invited to send tbeir crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort. Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. 86 6 Seamens' do. do. do. do. CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT, Honolulu, March 1,1861. Managers. HARDWARE STORE. ODD FELLOWB' BCILDING. ON FOET STREET, of all kinds, Hinges, Screws, Tasks, Razors, Cut and Wrought Nails, Spikes, Brads, Files, Carpenters' Tools of all kinds, Pocket and Sheath-Knives, Marlinspikes, Caulking-Irons and Mallets, and numerous other articles, for sale at the W. W. LAPP. (tf) lowest prices, by LOCKS HONOLULU IRON WORKS ! ritHE UNDERSIGNED IS PREPARED TO II furnish IRONand BRASS CASTINGS, and all kinds ef Machinery and Snrnh's Work at the Shortest Notice and Csßarsst Rates. AND BOILERS STEAM ENGINES TO ORDER. MAUI if CONSTANTLY ON HAND—A supply of Anvils, Oar Boxes, Forge Backs, Chain Stoppers, Sash Weights, Store Plates Ac. and Linings, Dumb Bella, Ax., THOMAS HUGHE*. jawy **~ PILOT & NAVY mEU. SALE, Freali Baked HAND AMD FOB Pilot and Navy Bread | Soda, Sugar, Batter anal Water OS Crackers, in any quantityand the at lowest rates. Parties providing their own flour, will hare It baked apsa rebaked. MILUsVS BAKERY, Corner Queen and Richard Streets 33j-3m* cottow. COTTON, tffe COTTON. THE INDEBBIGNED WILL BECBITB Coma from any native, In payment (or the Ansae i newspaper, at the rate of twenty cents, (20 eta) per poaaat, sar clean cotton, tree ofseeds. Tor ten pounds of good cotton, delivered In Honolulu, a receipt will be given for one year's as*. scrtptton to the Kuolcoa. this otfcr will hold good to ÜBS tBBB H. M. WHITNEY, of January, 1863 Publisher Nupepa Euaken." 333-lm " IfbavChillM Sewing " " KAWAIIIAF.. HAWAII, FOR Will ooßtlnae the Oeneral Merchandise and Shipping buaines BE SEEN at the Harbor Master's OHoe, Charts of PBB RADIO A" A aTBwV at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the the North and South Paetftc, Indian and PaeMc Oceans, r§M> ABBIVB I sacra of thosefavtnW taapawalve,raEsMs aad Is Ussss lastly celebrated Kawsihae Potatoes, and such other re on a large scale; China and Japan Baas, Ac. Likewise a Seaemits as are required by whale ships at the shortestnotice, lant, (doable arch) by Trotjgbtoo, an AwsroM, ■ertburf's East slble, double thread SaTWIWO VAURMbb" C IRIWaB a) CO forsale by and on the mo«t reasonable terms rsSS-ssil 2 Mo-lr ladle Trtrertorv and sundry nautical works MAT CHARTS �THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER, IS I2 88 [From tbe Polynesian.] The Queen received, on the* 16th, a beautiful book, bearing the title of tbe " Guardian Angel," intended to have been presented to the late young Prince, from Mrs. Mason, with the following touching lines inscribed in front of the title page: ' "IN MEMORIAM." ! is It so, dear Lamb of Ood, " Ah la it, indeed, tbe ohastening rod Of Thy aofathomed lore ? We will not mourn, while Angela joy. To welcome home the Princely Boy In their blest realms above ! " Just cradled on these beauteous Isles, To learn tbe enchantment of Thy smiles Which flood the eternal shore ; Now folded in Thy kind embrace He may behold Tbee face to face. And hymn Thee evermore. Oh ! Jesus grant his memory dear. " May serve our weary hearts to ohecr, Along tbe narrow way ; Till waken 'd by Thy trumpet blast. We burst the toombs of earth at last. And meet in endless day ! bliss. happy In holiest infancy ; Sweet Savior. Mary's glorious Son, Teaob us to sing ' Thy will be done,' Thrice blessed Trinity '." Donations.—From Cspt. Sisson Tor support of the Friend 9 6,00 rom Cspt. and Mrs. Raynor, for Bethel 10,00 �« Mr. Eblers 6.00 Capt Smith, bark Comet 6,00 6,00 Mr. D. W. Glover, ship Othello Capt. and Mrs. Smith, Honolulu 7,60 Dr. Hoffmann 10,00 These donations for the Bethel, are very opportune in as muoh as the chapel is now undergoing some repairs, and receiving a new ooat of paint, tbe cost of whioh will be about 8160, besides tbe oil and paints" whioh have been contributed by tbe merchants of Honolulu, Tic, Messrs. C. B. & Co., W. E. & Co., H. H. & Co., A. W. & Co., Capt Wm. Slott, Mr. Hall, Mr. Lowers, Mr. Jones, Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Atherton. " " " " " MEMORANDA. XT Brig Wailua, Lass, reports—Left Honololu Jan. 11, lsSl, on a whaling and trading cruise South, and cruised principally on theline and among the Micronesian group. Took 14 whales,end,obtained 100 brls. cocoanut oil. Oct. 11,'61, discovered a shoal In lat 7 ° 46 8., long. lw» ME. about hair a mile wide, and in length, as far as could be seen from the mast-head—itstands N.W. and S.K.; we passed over it, and fewnd 11 fathoms water ; aboutone and a half miles from where we was, tbe water had a milky appearance, and thinks a vessel passing over there would be likely to strike ; did not find this shoal oa any of my charts, therefore, ships paaslng that way will require to keep a sharp look-out. At the place where we wentover, tberocks were plainly visibleunder the vessel. Oct. 28, lat. 6° 40 8., 146° 18 X., during the night, we discovered another shoal, not down in our charts ; it ia situated between Roots and Lotten Islands, and ia about half a mile in circumference,and la covered with trees. Nor. 6, discoveredanother shoal to the westward of New Britain, N.W. of Nord Island, Aye m*wa off shores. This shoal ia about half a mile wide and five miles long, having the appearance of a half moon ; we lowered a boat and examined It. finding about 10 feet water thawsan, Oa approaching this shoal, the man at the mast-head oried, '-There she blows !" but on nearing it we discovered It to be a boilingspring,constantly emitting water about 150 feet in thatair, and on drat sighting this. It had Just the appearance of a whale spouting; this spring can be seen about is) miles off. Cruised last in the vicinity oftbe Bosiu Islands,and took three more sperm whales. Arrived at Waimea, Kauai, on the 21st of Senassjibar, where we procuredprovisions, and arrived at Ilonoola on the 27th, alt well. jj- Ship Marengo, EMridsa,reports—First entered southern spcrsi ' - Found ■wasjfsatbar scarce, and weatheriatty greater part of the time. July 17, and the last on the 12th of SsssC-la all, ( right whales (MM brls. oil). Left tbe Ochotsk liayt. 9a, ass ewsseteneed fine weather all ihe war Arrived at Hosehiln Oet m MARINE JOURNAL. FRIEOSPMT WMchHhaolitEnsgk eet. HPOI SNLRUT,.F . ARRIVALS. — Oct. S—Am bmrlwntioe Nellie MerV.ll, 15 days from San Francisco en route for China, pawed tins port. days from 13 Banning, M'Keunou, Emily bark 4—Am San Francisco anchored outside, and sailed again day Tor China. fame 4—Am wh bark Coral, Slsscn, 26 days from the Arctic, 1000 wh, 14,000 bone, season ; 2600 wh th« voyage, and 2300 wh on board. 4—Am sen Olivia, Redfteld.from the Arctic, with 12Gbrls wh oil, 12.000 lbs bone, 300 walrus t—th, 300 t»x \ skins. s—Am barkt Jenny Ford, M'Carty, 23 day s from Tort ; Townsend. Report •fahip oil,, Ho. Capt, Killmrr. 9—Hawnch Manilla, Coneland, 10 days troin Fanning'" ; Went into the Ochotsk Slsy «, and took Ihe tlrst whale (boa Island, with about 12,000 gallon* cvoanut oil and I and a small lot pearl shell. j head,) on the 29th took the last on Ihe '.JOth August. Cruised 10—Am wh bark Fanny, Hliven, from tit*" Arctic, 1500 wh, Jj principally in Ihe N K. Uulf, and enjoyed eacellent weather 27,000 bone, season. l (luring the whole season. Found whales most plentiful in lat. 11—Am bark Comet, Smith. 13 days from San Francisco. slj° H., July 10. Left the Ochotsk Sept. 23d experienced clipper ship Henry Brigham, days rarUbte winds and pleasant weather all the way duwn. Ob Potter, 14 fm 14—Am Ban Francisco. Hailed again name day fur China. the 10th April, one of the seamen, a nativebelonging to £astern U—Oldeub'g bark Sylpnide, 13f> days from Island, was killed nt Ilakodadl. On the loth April, anothei seaman, a Hawaiian, died. Oct. IS, saw a black bark in lat Bremen, with merchandise to Mricher* *y Ofc 16—Russian gun-boat Abr-k, 6 guns, Capt. Pilkine, 14 2.'i° IN, steering N. by K.~<mosl likely the Young Hector.) lteports the following vessels up to Sept. 13: days fn>m San Francisco, en mute fur China. Übls. Oil before Isaac Ilowland, Long, with Tender (Caroline) 1800 16—Am wh bark Covington, Jenks, from Lahaina, Planet, Dallman, with Tender(E. L. frost) reported, stood off and on, and sailed again same 1700 South Boston, Randolph day to crul«e South. 1300 Florence, Spencer 10—Russian war steamer Calevala, Admiral I'opoff, 14 1000 Emily Morgan, Whiteside days from San Francisco. 1000 Chus. W. Morgan, Hamilton 21—Am wh ship Othello, Killmer, from Ochot*k. 50 roos. 060 bone, Brig 25.000 and on board Wilhclm Comet, i.*a«on out, 1050 wh, 7M Harvest, Manchester 60 sp, 4500 wh, 66,000 bone, voyage. 700 Milton, Halsey ., 700 23—Hamburg hark Laura A Lotise, Marks,[l6o days from | Cicero. Stivers Bremen, with mdse to llackfekl A Co. MA Adeline, Barber 601) M -Am barkt Constitution, lCobinson, from Port TownsNassau, Quinn end via Hilo, 19 days to latter place, with 245,510 600 John P. West, Tinker feetlumber and 11,165 pickets, of which 109 M ft 4oO lumber and 6,000 pickets were discharged at Hilo. Massachusetts, (Ireene 3ift Wm. C. Nye 26—Am wh sh Marengo, Kldridge, from SouthernOchotsk, 300 Martha, Cornell 38 months out, 1260 wh, 12,000 bone, season ; 30 3<Ki Washington, Willard sp, 3250 wh, 34,000 bone, voyage\ 3250 wh, 12,000 300 Milo, Fortihsm , 150 bone, on board. I-agorln, Cranston 30—French wh ship General Teste, Jadm. from Ochotsk, IfKi t 900 wh, 13,000 bn, season ; 20 sp, 1500 wh, 14,600 bone, voyage andon board. 31—Am wh ship Ocean, Clark, from tbe Arctic, 300 hrls Keif* in ihe lnrinV. wh, 6,500 bone, season. Three reefs have been discovered near theisland of Pitstrserl, fXT Arrived at Hilo, Oct. 26, wh bark Barnstable, Brownson, some thirty-five Fremh leagues, more or less, from theIsland or in the archipelago of the Friendly Islands. from the Arctic, with 700 wh, 8000 bone, season. Also, arrived Fonhatabon, First reef—22° 62' 15" lat. S., and 178° 48* long. W, from at Lahaina, 31st, wh ship Champion, Worth, from the Arctic, the meridian ofParis. Second reef—2l ° 43*lat. S., and 170° 2' 10" loog. W. from with 600 wh and 7000 bone this season. the meridian of Paris. Third reef—22° 43' lat. S., and 180° ZV 10" Ion*:. W. from DEPARTURES. the meridian of Paris. The first tworeefs were discovered by tbe English screw stoop Speedwell, Hongkong. 9—Haw. bark for Holdsworth, Oct. Beauchampa Seymours, 12—Am barkt Jenny Ford, M'Carty, fur Victoria, with lot Pelorut, commanded by Commodore on her passage from Sydney to tbe Feegee Islands. On soundof nee, 7,800 lbs sugar, 968 galls molasses, etc. ing the first reef six fathoms of water were had clear of the 15—Am baric Young Hector, Com. Paty,foi Han Francisco. bottom. 16—Amwh sh Florida, Fish, lor New Zealand and home. The thirdreef has been sounded by two whalers. 16—Sen Maria, Crane, for Howland's Island, with proIt is possible that subterranean fires may exist aboat those visions, Capt Penhallowand 13 native laborers. localities, it having been observed that the sea was singular!) 21 —Russian steamers Calevalaand Abreak, for China. warm in the neighborhood of the reefs, exhibiting at times the 21—Am wh bark Nile, Fish, for CaliforniaCoast. 22—Fr wh ship Latonr dv Pin, Favereu, to cruiseSouth appearance of a boHing e.-tidron.—Panama Star. and home. 23—Am wh ship Reindeer, Kaynor, for coast of California. PASSENGERS. 29—Ambarkt Constitution, Robinson, fur Victoria, Y. I. 29— Am ship Leonidas, Wood, for Monte Video, South America. From Sam Fbascibco—per Comet, Oct. 11—Bishop wtaley, wife and 7 children, and 2 maid servants, Rev O Maaoa, wife and child and maid servant, Ker E Ibbotson, Miss Roach, Mrs MEMORANDA. Humphreys, Mrs 0 M Robertson, Wm Humphreys, S N Castle, A X Mll'.er, wifeanil child, A W Pierce, D M Waterman, 8 Keporl ol bark (oral. Machin, W A Ostrone, O W Patterson, M Tather, T 8 Davis, Wintered in Port Pmvidence or Plover Bay. Went into the Capt. Penhullow, Thos Commlns, J H Cummins. Steerage port in September. 1861, and left It in June, '02. Its position is John Denico, J C Champion, H W Wilkey, Geo Smith, O Davis lat. 04° 10 N., long. 173 o 07 W. I anticipated much colder J E Davis. M Silva, II Silva, F Kuimmcl, M Schmltt, WBer weather than we had, the lowest temperature being 20 below aero; consider the winter a mild one, with the exception of trand, Vl' Simmons. For Hosoeono—uer Speedwell, Oct o—Mrs Holdsworth and plenty of snow, which fell to a depth of aliout seven feet. Had 6 children, Geo D Robinson and wife, Dr Smythe, Wongho and some very severe gales in Decemberand January, from MM, to Fongma. &£.K. During the winter, the ice broke up several times in the For San Fraxoisco—per Young Hector, Oct. 16—J llsTdv On the bay. 2d February, tbe ship swung to her anchor in and wife, Oeo Maker, 8 W Manlev. J O'Neill, J H Master, B F clear water, but in a day or two was again froze in. During M'Caruther, R Smith, W Ricketson. A N Buel, L V the monthof November the whaleswere plentiful, but on account Jennings, C M StubU, Lewis Bettrum.J FHurley, Rote—l6. of the ice could do nothing at whaling. The natives along the coast were actually in a starving condition during the winter, not having beenable to procure theusual surely of blubber aod MARRIED. seals. I had considerable intercourse with These people both along tbe coast and inland. They were always very friendly to me and my company. Had but very little sickness, a few Holt—Beows—ln Honolulu, on the 16th instant, at cases of scurry being the only trouble. We endured a long aod theVos Church, by Ihe Rev. Samuel C. Daman. Hernaaa tedious dark winter, and was glad to hare some of the brethren yon Bethel Holt, Esq., Hanoverian Consul, to Alice, only daughter of heave In sight on the7th June ; we were under great obligations ThomasBrown, Esq., of Nuuanu Valley. to them for supplying us so promptly with fresh recruits B. 11. Sissob, Master of bark Coral. XT Tbe schoonerOlivia, ■Meld, reports—August 25, the DIED. Straits foilof Ice. Also repoJJJJbr following Spoken Vessels Basal Hear* From! IIILMESAND-tn Honolulu, Oct. SI, Francis Hermann, aged 8 weeks, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Hlllebrand. Aug. M—Bark Isabella, Tucker Child—ln Augusta, Maine, Aug. IS, Mr. Jas. L. ChlM, aged 4 Ship John Ilowlaod, Whelden 0 71 years. Mr. Child was the father of tbe wits ot our townsman. H. W. Severance, Esq. Brig Kohola, Brummerhop __, 1 Ship ThomasDlekaaon, Stewart MoPssE-On board bark Coral, Aug. 12, ISM, Hugh MePba*. 7 aged years. •ark Catherine, Hepplngslone 60 steward, 4 Telford—ln Honolulu, Oct. 19. Edward Terror*, agwe about Zoe, Simmonds 1 40 years, a native of Longford, Ireland, and, war many year. steward nf the t' 9 Hospital. Mnnnlnla. ':-: ; ; , Oh 1 Thou who felt a mother's kiss. •• Filling ber soul with WjjWAs Bret right whale . »w — ° : - N.-.sa^"--.- - " . :::::::::! � 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 (1862) 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 - 1862.11.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862.11.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/0983f707b3906d63b03f01b557167012.pdf 708b5462c7557a97a42bfda697bce9e3 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE Jrjrtn Series, Uol. 11, Ik HONOLULU, DECEMBER 1, 12.} CONTENTS For DiT.nil.rr. 1802. Paos. 80-92 M 9S-94 98 News from Mlcmnesia 11.1.1 OS the Bethel The A tinual Report of 11. S. 11. Society Marine Journal,Ac THE FRIEND. DECEJinER 1, 1802. All persons having money in their hands due for the Friend, will please forward the same at the earliest opportunity. This number closes the year. Honolulu subscribers will be presented with their bills. No bills have, as yet, been presented for the year 1862. It is not our practice to demand pre-payment for the Friend, except from foreign subscribers. Subscription price, one year Foreign subscribers, including $2 00 postage... '1 60 We would acknowledge a package of books from friends of seamen, in Philadelphia, for gratuitous distribution among seamen. These books were kindly procured and sent out by Miss Snowden. through Mrs. Chamberlain of Honolulu. We would also acknowledge a single volume of " Plain Words to Young Men," from A. Martien, a book publisher of Philadelphia. The Rev. J. S. Green, of Makawao, preached an interesting thanksgiving sermon, at the Fort Street Church, on the 27th ult., the day set apart for that purpose. Text, Luke 16 5, How much owest thou unto my Lord ?" Many were the reasons which he enumerated for thanksgiving, religious, political, social and domestic. : " The absence of the Secretary of Sailors' Home Society prevents us from publishing minutes of the annual meeting, and Treasurer's report, but we are most happy to report the Institution free from debt, and officers duly elected for coming year. It is expected that vessels will leave Honolulu, touching at the Micronesian Islands, where our missionaries are located. Persons wishing to write cannot forward their letters, Ac, at too early a date. 1862. 89 ,tDlh Smts, Col. 19. Hawaiian Independence Day.—The 28th of November was duly observed as a national holiday, in commemoration of the acknowledgment of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an Independent Arrival of the Morning Star Changes in the Mission Rev. G. B. Snow removed Nation, by the two great powers of Europe, England and France. The day was rendered from Strong's Islani to Ebon Caroline Islands Ronokiti Station Building a still more memorable, by the Confirmation of new Church Strong's Island—EncourTheir Majesties, as members of the new " Reaging prospects of the Mission A misformed Catholic Church" recently established, sionary needed A Bethel Shipmaster by Bishop Staley and other Missionaries sent out Great change among the people of Strong's from England. The ceremony took place at the street. Island Cathedral on Kukui Effect of missionary labor Martemporary shal Islands—School Examination Letter Donations for gratuitous circulation from Rev. Mr. Thane Gilbert Islands War Letter from a Hawaiian Missionary of the Friend always gladly received. As yet, (a translation) Letter from Rev. H. 50 have been received for this pur$52 only Bingham. pose this year, while the editor has distributed papers gratuitously, costing over 8150. Will The Morning Star arrived on the 15th of not the benevolent lend a helping hand, so that we shall be able to close up the year November from her sixth trip to Micronesia, having visited during her absence of about without a debt? five months, all the mission stations on the CARD. Gilbert, Marshall, and Caroline Islands. Ponapk, (Micronesia,) Aug. 1, 1862. We were favored with full and interesting To their numerous friends and benefactors at American misHonolulu and tbe Hawaiian Islands, the brethren communications from all the and sisters of the Mincronesia mission sentl sionaries, and some of the Hawaiians. The greeting. intelligence now received is not only interFirst of all, permit us to express our thanks never for your sympathy and kind remembrance of us esting, but remarkably encouraging, reof gifts. and We have been first in your prayers more so since tSe establishment the minded of your deep interest in us and ot your mission in 1852. There have been no deaths liberality in providing for our temporal wants. May you receive the richest of all rewards—the in any of the mission-families during the consciousness of doing good. past year, except those of Mrs. Doane and Permit us also to ask for a large share in your child, which occurred in Honolulu. Before prayers, that God would continue to as his smiles, and soon make these islands reflect the remarking upon the separate stations, we same genial light and love which now so signally would state, that the following changes have characterize yours. As a more formal expression of our hearts, the been made in the mission. Mrs. Sturges, following resolution was passed at our general who came to Honolulu last year; has returned meeting: her husband and station at Konokiti, on Resolved, That the various donations for our to health and comfort from the friends of missions Ascension; her health.was much improved at Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands, call forth by the trip to Honolulu. The Rev. G. B. our grateful acknowledgements, and make us feel have been removed, by the that we are not forgotten by those we love and Snow and wife are not alone even in our isolation upon these direction of the Board in Boston, from their isles of our loved Micronesia. While we are un- station on Strong's Island, or Kusaie, to able to make suitable returns for the many be kindnesses of thisand post years, it rejoices us to Ebon, one of the Marshall Islands, tp know that our Divine Master has said, " Inas- associated with the Rev. Mr Doane, and A ea much aa ye have done it unto one of the least of Konoa and family returned to Honolulu. these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' These Hawaiians expect to return next year, B. G. Snow. A. A. Sttracxs, to resume their labors at the Gilbert Islands. NEWS FROM MICRONESIA. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — - H.BXNOHAH, JS. R. T. Ooani. The twp Hawaiian missionaries who sailed. �90 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 18 6 2. last year were stationed, the one on the Marshall Islands, and the other on the Gilbert Islands. In sketching our notices of the missionstations, we shall commence with that of Ronokiti, where the' Rev. Mr. Sturges has been laboring since 1852. Caroline Islands. Ronokiti.—This station is upon the island of Ascension. Our letters from the Rev. Mr. Sturges were dated November 14,1861, and August 2d and 4th, 1862. We copy as follows t "November 14th, 1861.—1 hove regularly visited the Shalong station monthly, race the Morning Star left. All is quiet. The chiefs and people have respected the property. Nothing has been disturbed, and I went among them with the greatest pruat Shalong does dencj. The little church well. Jaomautou is one of the noblest of men—he is a christian. It is my purpose to visit them as often as once a month this year, but the journey is a wearing one, and then how little good can be done by a short visit. They much need some one to reside Will not your Christian among them. islanders remember them in their petitions to the Throne of Grace." Editorial Remarks.—The Shalong station is near twenty miles from Ronokiti, and we can testify that it is a most difficult and wearisome journey. In consequence of the tides, it must be performed, partially by night, and the weary voyager is in danger of being left high and dry" upon the coral " flats, several miles from land. Return of the Morning Star.—On the return of the missionary packet, Mrs. Sturges and children returned to Ronokiti, and in view of their return, the Rev. Mr. Sturges thus writes under date of August 2d : " The Morning Star returns and brings to the lone one, the light of home, so we are again a united family; what favored ones we are j how can I be thankful enough for the kindness shown my dear family whilst absent from their home ? How much we have to assure us that we are near by a world offriends ; that we are not out of mind though far away out of sight. " I think your visit to Micronesia must have done you good, as it certainly has us ; and we hope this interest in these lonely islands will continue. hear of the effort of our little " Youto will church put up a house of worship, which they have much needed. Next time you visit us we shall hope to Invite you to a more civilized pulpit. There has been but little of special interest"among us during the past year—our congregation has a little increased in number and Interest, these have been taken into our church, and several others are giving pretty good evidence of being interested In good things. It seems sad to think of these poor peoble being left to go back to darkness. had but few ships in our ports, " Weninehave some in all j they have greatly favored us in bringing news from friends antl the busy world. How hard for you to sympathize with us fully, in our longing to hear from our loved but deeply afflicted country; battles are fought, and the most shameful of all rebellions nearly crushed out before we knew anything of what is going on. Surely these are stirring times! the day is breaking when that curse of all curses, slavery, is soon to be out of the way of the progress of the gospel, then the world will soon be given to the King of Heaven ! 1 have long regarded American slavery as more in the way of the conversion of the world, than heathenism ; let christian nations give themselves to the Lord, and the heathen will soon follow! Oh, the blessing of living in these times, we may hope to see the full dawn of light! Let us nrottse to the full responsibility of our position." Strong's Island. —ln the correspondence of the missionaries, this island is known by the name of Kusaie, which is the native name. It has been occupied as a mission station, by the Rev. G. B. Snow and wife, since 1852. He has now removed to Ebon, one of the Marshall Islands. The number of the inhabitants in December, 1860,was 748. This is not over one-half what it was ten years ago. The decrease is supposed still to be in progress. Considering the small number of the inhabitants, compared with the thousands of the Marshall Islands, Mr. Snow's removal was decided upon. It was exceedingly trying for the missionary to break away from his people, and the little church there gathered. We have several sheets from Mr. Snow, presenting the "lights and shadows'" of missionary life. In referring to his trials among the natives —their instability, ignorance and dark-heartedness, " but this sort of opposition" he remarks, " don't send the cold iron to our hearts as that we are now receiving from another source." Reference is here made to a certain shipmaster, whose conduct is most scandalous and disgraceful. Respecting his course of life, Mr. Snow remarks " Before left, I found that he had taken Capt. a woman from one of the other islands, and had her on board—l don't know how long—but as it was not convenient for him to take her back, he put her ashore here ! And but for Jim Fanning," of Ocean Island, she would "have remained here, and have found a loathsome death ; but the christian world must not know these things, and so I will write something else." Editorial Remarks.—No class of men among the Polynesian Islands is more potent for good or evil, weal or woe, than that of shipmasters and their crews. How far publicity should be given to the real facts is a question upon which there is a difference of opinion among good people. The danger is, that a class will be made to suffer for the sins of individuals, which would not be right, but that sufficient publicity should be : given to the base conduct of the guilty to deter others from trespassing, there can l>e no doubt. There are now no dark corners in Polynesia where the workers of iniquity can hide themselves ! The following extracts from the letters of Mr. Snow will show, that shipmasters and seamen can make the missionaries' heart glad: left, we had another Captain " Before arrival, ship Desdemona, Bates, N. 8., an old acquaintance of ours, that is, he was here in '53 as boatsteerer, and we found in him a christian brother—and he then said, if he ever had the command of a vessel, he should hoist the Bethel flag ; and, true to his word, we found that the Bethel flag was run up every Sabbath. As might be expected, we enjoyed his visit with us exceedingly. He had been deeply nfflicted in the loss of his wife, since he lelt home, " a wife who was all the world to him," as he expressed it. He is a man of strong feelings, young and ardent—his first voyage master. One of the Sabbaths he was with us, we received fifteen to our church. A day not soon to be forgotten in the religious history of poor Kusaie. We have received five others since. So that now we have quite a religious community about us. But most of this has been reported to your islands before this by Brother Doane. I want to say before 1 go any farther, that we"most sincerely and devoutly thank you for your generous donation of latest papers, by Capt. Lubbers, bark German. You can hardly understand how eagerly we devoured all the war-news. That was our latest intelligence, except a couple of Sydney papers by a passing vessel, sent to us by the mate through one of our natives. Though an April paper, it had next to nothing in it from the States. They were expecting we would have trouble with England upon the sea. O that such a disaster may never fall upon England or the States. How we do long to hear from the world. But we are too busy in getting ready for Ebon, to have any time to be impatient, even if the Morning Star is delayed into July. I am fearing that we shall be recalled. Our earnest prayer is against it. Not but that it would be pleasant enough to see the world and its people again, home and friends once more, but what will become of our dear Micronesia? Who will come to supply our lack of service ? Ah no, we are not to be recalled, till we are called to a higher service, I trust. But who is coming to make us a visit this year ? We of Dove Island shall not object to seeing brother Damon here again, provided he gets wind-bound, and has to stay a fortnight instead of a week. I feel sorry that we did not make more of your visit with us, that I had not taken more pains to have gone about the island a little, and Jet you see more of my people. But you know how precious every minute of our time was to us, and the weather was not inviting for lengthy excursions, as you may remember. But your visit let me tell you again, did us a deal ot good. And your Morning Star papers, I can but hope, will awaken a deep and abiding interest ir all our mission. " Aug. 28, 1862.—And (he Morning Star �lias come and almost gone. She reached us July 18, A. M., the same P. M., myself and family went on board, encountering a smart squall while in the boat. The next Tuesday (22nd,) we were at Ronokiti harbor. A touching- meeting was our arrival at Ponape. Mr. Sturges to meet his wife and family, after a year's separation. Mr. Doane to learn that he was next to meet his dear wife and a part, at least, of his family in Heaven. Few hearts would have been tin moved to have seen the bereaved brother as 1 announced the painful intelligence. He fell into my arms und poured out his first trrief in a flood of weeping. Those only who have received such intelligence can understand the feelings, or measure the grief. Some will think it strange, perhaps, that he hardly expected to hearofMrs. Doane's death, but you will learn of his feelings from his own |>en, or from his lips, if he visits Honolulu this year. In two weeks we were plowing our way back to Kusaie, which we reached the following Thursday, being drifted much of the way back by an easterly current, culms, calms, calms. Happy and thankful you may be assured we were to find all things safe, and the little church doing well. We put a test to the honesty of our people, that but few might have stood. As we had to leave in a great hurry for Ponape, we left our dinner table just as we got up from it, dishes and all on it, our doors all open— king, chiefs, and common people in and about the house, closets and cook-house all open, and as yet we have not found anything missing! I cannot think it well that we did just as we did in leaving things so exposed. But it certainly speaks well for our people that they kept thqir trust so well. And the more so as our house was kept open three evenings in a week for prayer-meetings in our large room or hall. Certainly a great moral change has come over that people. What like the Gospel to make a people honest, and tfood citizens? It might have been pleasant to you to have sat with us and our little church the following Sabbath, at the table of our dying Lord, for the last time. It was our joy to receive three others into church fellowship that Sabbath, making thirty-two in all. There are still others who are in a hopeful way. But O, how they need a pastor, or teacher. We can hardly hope to find them all running well, should we ever be permitted to return to see them again. Though now they are like children of the Highest, so far as we can now rend them. 1 do hope that your parishioners may not put -.tumbling blocks in the way oftheir progress, 1 can but hope they may, many of them, try to encourage them in the ways of well-doing, and if possible, help them in the way of clothing, by purchasing such things as they may lie able to raise, if the chiefs do not interfere." Marshall Islands. The only mission-station in this group of islands is upon the island of Ebon Covell's or Boston. Ebon is the native inline. It is the most southerly island of the group. All the islands of this jjroup are low coral formations, but owing in the amount of rain, (hey are well wooded, and covered with foliage. A niiv 91 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1862. sion has been established upon Ebon since 1857. The inhabitants of these islands were formerly very savage, and have cut off the crews of several vessels. The Glencoe, of San Francisco, was cut off at Ebon, in 1852, and the Sea Nymph, ol the same port, was cut ofT, at another island of the group, in December of the same year. Other vessels have there been cut ofr and the crews murdered. When the mission was establish- and when even two vessels had been attacked, and one destroyed by tfcis once savage people. We feel now the lost sailor, drifting about on the "•a, will, if here he touches, find a friendly people and home. Within the past year or two, and on an island of our group, but only two hundred miles distant, a lost boat and her crew were all cut off. There were on that dark island no men of God to bring light to the people. O may the time soon oonie when all the Marshall Islands shall be blessed with the light of the gospel. Your's truly, E. T. Doane. Let any one read the foregoing letter and ed, the chiefs solemnly promised to abandon their murderous practices. The mission on contrast the state of tr%ps there described this island has been exceedingly prosperous, considering the small number of missionary laborers. At present, there are upon Ebon two American missionaries, Messrs. Doane and Snow, and two Hawaiian missionaries. We have received several letters from Mr. Doane, and shall lay before our readers the one bearing date of Sept. 9th : in September, 1862, with the state of the same island in 1852, when the very spot where the mission is located was the scene of the Glencoe massacre, and we think he cannot but acknowledge that the mission has done good. We visited that island in June, 1861, and can bear our testimony to the reality of the change. Even upon the principle of worldly policy, and for the benefit of commerce, missions to the islands of Polynesia should be vigorously prosecuted. So far from advocating the policy of recalling missionaries, more should be sent, and that immediately. But how shall this re- Ebon, September 'Jth, 1862. Brothkb Damon :—But a few days since, wo repeated one of those happy scenes here in this heathen island, we love so much to see and engage in at home—l refer to a school examination. Let mo give you an outline of the whole affair. The night previous, and early in the morning of the day of the examination, our pupils came together from the various islots of the reef. At sult be accomplished ? The Board of Misthe appointed hour, our little church and school sions, in Boston, is laboring under embarbell sounded forth its merry notes—calling us rassments for the want of funds, and our all to the church. We assembled, and with the one hundred and fifty pupils of the school, the Hawaiian Missionary Society can barely supfathers and mothers of the scholars and other na- port 1c Marquesas mission. We do wish the tive and foreign spectators, the building wus some be bein subject might, way, brought The crowded. following was the order of exercises : fore the rich and growing churches of CaliI. A native hymn. fornia. Has not the time come for them to 11. Prayer. stretch forth a helping hand to the missions 111. Hymn. IV. Headers in the Gospel. In this we had in Polynesia ? We are glad to learn that various classes from different parts of the Sabbath School children contemplate the island. And between tho reading of thu clusscs, wo hud singing of building a small vessel, for missionary purnative hymns interspersed. poses, to be called the " Evening Star." Y. Geography. The names of bays and We want not only the* children to become capitals of different countries were sung; and then questions on the map. interested in this enterprise, but the fathers VI. Readers in the gospel, and questions. and mothers of those children, and also VII. Arithmetic. In this the pupils were extheir older brothers and sisters. We feel as amined on to DMsion. of An examination books the VIII. if the time had come, if the subject was prop* writing by missionaries and other friends. crly represented to the Pastors and churches IX. Hymn to tho Morning Star. of California and Oregon, when something X. Procession—walking from the church and past the mission houses, and taking seats in might be done, not fitfullyand for temporary front of my own house. Overshadowed by the More upon tall and large breadfruit trees, beneath which we effect, but for permanent action. Ntt, we sang hymns and talked and eat and this subject hereafter. prayed. Here we made distribution of the naGILBEHT, OR KINUSMILL IsLANDS. tive food the scholars hud themselves furnished. And here was present)*! some two dozen fowls to This is a range of islands extending north the Morning Slar—all the free gilt of tho pupils and south of the equator. Only two islands —und the first friendly offering of the kind this been occupied as misheathen island hud ever seen, perhaps. An in- of the grouphave ever teresting fuct wus—our procession was headed sion-stations, viz., Apaiang and Tarawa. On by three of our young ehiola, one of thorn a the former, the Rev. H. Bingham and one learner and of the highest rank. And he und another of the samo rank, were scholars in the Hawaiian missionary are located, and on the examination. latter, two Hawaiians and their families. Thus ended the exercises of that day, having was commenced by Mr. Bingcontinued some five hours. Good interest was This mission kept up by the spectators and all till the close. ham, in 1857. The language had never We felt this wus a happy day for us. Light been reduced to a written form. Mr. and is breaking in here. We are making some impression on this dark muss of heathenism about Mrs. Bingham have been principally occupied us. And during this happy day's exercise, I in learning the language, and making trarmcould not hut feel how different toe scene then from those bloody scenes, when the poor lost lations. In the rank of civilization, these mariner, if cast ashore, was soon put to death— islanders are much lower than those of the �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1862. 92 , Biball or Caroline Islands. They are much given to war. ' During the pist a most destructive war has been raging een the people oT Apaiang and Tarawa. Tho disturbed state of the people has essentially retarded the missionary work, and brought a cloud over the bright prospects which were beginning to appear one year ago, (see Morning Star papers, No. VII.) Tho missionaries, however, are far from wishing to retire andjjibandon the field. of the Hawaiian Mr. M. G. missionaries, thus writes us, under date of in which our missionaries are situated. It indicates that they possess the true missionary spirit, and that they are willing to hold on to their work amid so many discouraging events. So far from retiring, they call for more laborers to occupy adjoining islands. A brighter day is yet to dawn upon the Gilbert Island- island, they put to sea in a small fleet o some ten or twelve proas, sonic of them with in small hope of reaching Mainna. Defeated thus, they eventually took refuge on Apaiang, saying that they would die at the grave of the father of their king ; doubtless, hoping thus to receive mercy at his hands. Thus Tarawa fell into the hands of our king—a ers : "He directed Te-Kourapi and his aged a temof our leeward reef, until a favoring wind should enable them to reach another land. On the Ist of May, the Apaiang part of the fleet returned home. Ten Rouu seemed left most in power on Tarawa. The timely arrival of Capt. Fairclough and Rnndell. in the brig Freak, prevented the further banishment of Te-Kourapi and his party, and on the 26th of May, the little fleet, under the escort of the brig, took its final departure, and through the influence of the two captains, they were without bloodshed, returned to their homes. Te Kourapi consenting to the residence of nn agent with Ten Koua. Cannon were landed from the Freak- for the defense of the old trading post, under the patronage of Te Kourapi, with a battery of six guns, he continues to this day to defy the return of Te " Apiang, Monday evening, Sept. 29.— grandfather, and blind father, to find Capt. Gelett expects to saii to-morrow. I porary home upon one of flic islets might write you pages more, had I time. I have alluded to the expedition of our people to Tarawa, and feel confident that you would be glad to hear more fully respecting it. Taihanu, Sept. 17, 1862. Rev. S. U. Damon —Love to you and all yours. 1 received your letter on the 2d of July, und tho newspuperrt and parcels. Great also is our joy at the arrival of the new missionaries. D. P. Auiniii is stationed at Apiang with the Kinghums, and Rev. I>. Kapali at Kbon; and Kanoa, with his wife und children, return on account of their feebleness. (irent has been the protection und loving kindness of God towards us and our three children ; wo have all been in good health in our residence in the Lord's vineyard during the post year. There is much war in our land at this time. On account of the war and the famine, all the in the land is seised for the war. The com>n people hate no food, and great is the thiev- : i»'l But our lives were spared—they were not cut in our dwelling, in this part of tho Lord's teyard. Therefore, wo can say as Paul has •ittcn The riches of this world arevarross. Ib things which are seen ure fleeting; the unseen things are everlasting." Again, of the work of the Lord on Apaiang. Tbe charch-meinbers have forsaken their profession, and have returned to theirold ways. Tbey do not desire the light, for their deeds were reproved. Though the word of (rod has been here lor much time, and at this time they do not receive it pleasantly, and their present way of living is extremely uncivilised. To all appearance, they have no desire for the good words of Jesus, nor do tbey wish to embrace them ; but their great trust is in the power of guns and knives, and under the shadow ofbullets and powder, of oo'sand hatchets; these are riches wherewith to kill men—from day to day, they dio for these riches. The missionary-work in this part of Micronesia does not speed on account of this pervcrseness. opposition of all this land of Tarawa and jaiang is not ended. They kill, and are killed ; ey war, and war back. But I do not believe that the teachers should ive them for this persistence in their old way, en till their heads were grey. They do not m for the hardness of tbeir hearts; they do t desire the light that they mayreceive wisdom, d knowledge, and safety, and prosperity. These are my requests to you First, give my re to all the brethren in your part of the Lord's Id. Secondly, pray to the Great I/ird of the neyard that He would cause this part of His Id to be fruitful in righteousness, in understanding, in wisdom, in love and in kindness, without end. This is my hut thought—l have sent to you a parcel of shells by the hand of the Captain. With great love to all your house, M. G. Haina. have a We also received long letter from the Rev. Mr. Bingham. From this letter we copy the following paragraphs, which present a vivid picture of the unsettled state ol these islands, and of the critical position lie :" : bloodless prize. "In 1860, Te Kourapi, the king of Tarawa, put to death a high chief, of whose influence and power he was jealous. The party of the murdered man fled to Apaiang where they found friends and home, though materially increasing the population. "About the beginning of the present year, Ten-Roua a brother-in-law of Te Kourapi, contrary lo the expressed wishes of the latter, took under his patronage two agents from an oil-trader, not belonging to the firm of Smith, Randell & Fairclough, Upon the arrival of Capt. Fairclough at Tarawa the latter part of January, Ten Bona, fearing an attack from the king, fled with his party to Apaiang, being accompanied by the two agents, and on the Ist of February his fleet appeared off our island, and were permitted to land in peace at the south end. Civil commotions in Maraki, drove off some people from that island, and they also found a refuge upon Apaiang. To provide for so many new comers, began at length to seem burdensome to our ppople. Not long after the arrival of Ten Roua, Nei-Ariri, the sister of our king Te-Kaira, an influential land-holder on Tarnwa, came over with her party. So also did Te Marcra, thefather of two young men who had married two of our king's daughters. All these Tarawan parties seemed dissatisfied with their present king, and even eager to be restored to their homes by Te Kaica. The office of arbitrator was accepted by him, and for weeks great preparations was made all over the island. On the 29th of March, he set sail with the greater portion of his fleet for the north end of Tarawa, a part having preceded him by a day. They landed without opposition, men, women and children—almost the entire population of our island—hauled their proas up on the beach along n distance of nearly two miles. The proas numbered some 325, including both great and small. Two cannon attached to the fleet were landed—temporary booths were erected for multitudes who could find no other shelter, and the work of devastation commenced. Young cocnartut trees were ruthlessly cut down—the older ones stripped of their fruit—also the pandanus trees and the taro-patches. Slowly they advanced southward toward the capital, devastating almost everything in their progress —in some places, setting fire to forests of fruit trees. The king of Tarawa was deserted by a large portion of his people —the remainder despairing, fled, almost taking their king with them by force* who wished to remain to die, fighting for the land of his fathers. After reaching the western extremity of the Kaiea. " During our absence at the west, one of his men had been put to death upon this island at the order of our king as an emissary. On the 26th of August, Mr. Mahoo paid a visit to Kanoa and Auwai, accompanied by three natives, in a small boat. They arrived in the evening, and during the next forenoon, a mob assembled about Kanon's premises, bent on the death of one of the natives. They broke down his fence, made some attempt to enter the cook-house where the young men were concealed in a barrel. Konoa stripping off his own coat and laying open his shirt, begged the savages with cries and tears to kill him first. The mob eventually dispersed at the order of the king, and Mahoe was glad to beat a retreat on the morrow, doubtless glad to escape a possible repetition, of the shameful outrage. At present, there is no intercourse between the natives of the two islands. Kanoa and Aumai have recently visited our brethercu on Tarawa, and they have visited us since our arrival, and returned to-day, in safety we trust, with a fair wind to their wives and children." Debt ok the Bethel.— Incidental expenses for the year, and late repairs, leave a debt of $142 25 upon the Bethel: Incidental expenses, Psiuter's Bill To paid for lumber, labor, Ate, $117 06 66 00 144 60 Donations up to date, $326 66 184 80 Present debt 142 2.'> We hope the friends of the Bethel will come forward and contribute sufficieivt to pay off this debt, before the commencement of the new yenr. Donations—For painting Bethel, from a aptain Sailor Ir. McOath Ir. Baker ' $7 60 1 00 2 6D 1 00 �93 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1812. Eighth Annual Report of the HONOLULU SAILORS' HOME SOCIETY. We are gathered to celebrate our eighth anniversary, as a society, organized for the improvement of"the social, moral, and religious condition of seamen resorting to this port, by the establishment and maintenance of a Home of good character." Our Savior declares that " the tree is known by his fruit." We are willing that the principle asserted in this saying of Christ should be applied to the Sailors' Home enterprise in Honolulu. The fruit which has been produced upon this tree is good, and always has been good. Speaking negatively, no one can rise up and say, that he has been injured by the Home. It is an institution that surely has never done anyone any harm, but speaking positively, it has done an immense amount of good. It has entirely revolutionized the whole system of sailors' boarding-houses in Honolulu. It has afforded a temporary home to many hundreds of young men, during their short stay in Honolulu. It has been a centre, (including its reading room, depository, and boarding department,) where seamen have resorted and found those who are disposed to treat them with fairness, honesty, and ku-idness. The trustees have always been exceedingly fortunate in securing the services of an efficient matron to preside over the boarding department. Mrs. Thrum and Mrs. Oat have even done all that could be done by persons in their peculiarly perplexing, trying, and responsible situations. Their toils and labors merit a far higher remuneration than the trustees have ever been able to offer. During the period of Mrs Thrum's management, 1,400 boarders were connected with the establishment, and since February, 1861, when Mrs. Oat succeeded to the office of matron, 422 boarders have been inmates of the Home. The testimony of the boarders has uniformly been in favor of the establishment. It has been with no little difficulty that the Home has been sustained, during the last two or three years, owing to the great falling off in the shipping of the port. It is well known, that the principal object for building the Home was for the benefit of whalemen; but since 1854, when the project was started, the whaling fleet has fallen off from two hundred and fifty ships to twenty or thirty. Even more than this has been the falling off in the number of American and European seamen discharged at Honolulu. To a person not intimately acquainted with the numbers and character of seumen visiting Honolulu, it would hardly be credited that, to a great extent, American whaleships are now manned, not by Americans, but by Sandwich Islanders, South Sea Islanders, Spaniards from Guam and South Amer. ica, and Portuguese. On board of some American whaleships, there is scarcely an American before the msst. The poor "catches" for several years have tended to drive young American seamen out of the business; hence for some years there has been a constant drain upon the fleet, and the young men returned to the United States, and thousands of those who have formerly been pursuing the whale fishery in the South Pacific are now fighting the battles of their country on American soil. Report says, that New London hns a thousand men in the war, and a majority of those were doubtless in the whale fishery a few months ago. The same is true of New Bedford, Sag Harbor, and Nantucket. While whalemen are diminishing in numbers in Honolulu, merchant seamen are increasing. Under these circumstances, let no friend of the Sailor's Home be discouraged or imagine that the institution is now useless—by no means. Perhaps there are as many boarders now connected with the Home, in proportion to the number in port, as there were in 1856 and '57. We are decidedly of opinion that, so long as Honolulu remains a port, where even the present amount of shipping resorts, the Home should be sustained. The goods, people of Honolulu, we are confident, feel right upon this subject, and would spurn the idea of allowing the Home to go down. That should not be. No benevolent institution has ever paid better, to speak in the cant phraseolojy of the day. It now pays, although the dividend is not so large. By this, we are far from intimating that the Sailors' Home is, as yet, a self-supporting institution, but it approaches as nearly to that point as similar institutions in England and America, where the friends of seamen support " Homes" at an immense cost. The physical, moral and religious benefits infi- REVIEW. Noeth AnisicA—Uj Anthony Trollops, author of "The West Indies ami the Spanish Main," and several Novels. Published by Harper & Brothers. 1862. • nitely overbalance the pecuniary outlay. Under these circumstances, the Trustees of the Honolulu Sailors' Home are resolved to keep the flag of the Home still flying. In closing this report, the Committee can not but bear testimony to the friendly feeling still alive in the community in behalf of the "Home." This feeling has thus been mani- Our first notice of this book was very brief. It merits a more extended review. The family-name of its author is familiar to all readers of American literature. His mother achieved a notoriety about thirty years ago, by writing a book upon the " Domestic manners of the Americans," which aroused the indignation of Brother Jonathan, and led the world to infer that there was something of truth in the hara raps which Mrs. Trollopc laid on. On the first page of the book lying before us, the son refers to his mother's book, and assumes a little too much, we think, when he remarks " All that she told was worth telling, and the telling, if done successfully, was sure to produce a good result. I am satisfied that it did so." This is rather cool, and we are a little surprised, that a man of Mr. Trollope's literary tastes should have found anything to glory over, in reviewing that book of his mother, which was more remarkable for its vulgar satire, and coarse portraiture of the Americans, than for any real talent at correct observation, or-just criticism. The son avoids telling his readers about his mother's disappointed hopes, and her unsuccessful schemes at Cincinnati, or how much her irritation and chagrin at not being admitted into good society had to do with her taking up the satirical pen and lashing the upstart Republicans. If Mrs. : ' Trollope's " Turkish Bazaar" at Cincinnati had been a success, she would have written a very different book, if she had written at all. If we remember aright, her book was published about the year 1832. A generation has since passed away, and now the son visits America to execute a plarfknnounccd in the very first sentence of his rook : " It hasbeen the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object, before the intestine troubles of the United States Government had commenced." He has now written this book and a copy lies before us. Upon the whole, in our opinion, he has executed the task, which was "the ambition of his literary life," in a manner more satisfactory than could reasonably have been expected at the present time, while there it so much bitter and acrimonious feeling in active ebulition on both sides of the Atlantic. Unless we are much mistaken in our estimate of the book, it will operate like oil upon the troubled waters. Let a secession Englishman, and a thorough-going Lincoln Republican read this book, end our word for it they will be better friends after than before the perusal of the fested : book. While Mr. Trollope does not profess to handle the war-question in the United Mr. N. W. Ladd receipted, as a donation, $16 00 States, after the style of Mill or Gasparin, bis bill for the Home and Bethel 89 1» Mr. C. It. Lewere, his bill, in part and he yet treats it in the style of a 8 Mr. 0. G. Siders, plucky Englishman, who has traveled suffi$4197 cient to know that there are other people those living upon worthy of respect, The report of the Treasurer will show the British Islands. besides Upon some points, our from debt. that the Home is free author is pretty severe. He does not spare S. C. Damon. those army-contractors, who have connived to fatten upon their country's treasure, by Chairman of Executive Committee. cheating in the supplies for the soldiers. As Honolulu, Nov. 20, 1862. °* �94 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER. 1812. We can- ica should express himself in tolerable Engadmiration of lish. I was looked upon as something strange the writer's candor and honest efforts to rise in literature ; a kind of demi-savage, with a above the petty prejudices and national ani- feather in his hand, instead of on his head ; " mosities which exert (perhaps unconsciously,) and there was a curiosity to hear what such an influence over the minds of so many when a being had to say about civilized society." His remarks upon books, publishers, copythey visit a foreign land, and undertake to sketch the habits, manners, and characteris- rights, Sec., Sec., are exceedingly interesting ; tics of the people. That a staunch and but we are allowing our pen to run along too educated Englishman, one who gives thanks easily, and we fear, shall extend our notice to God that he was born in England, in pre- of this book to an undue length. The truth ference to all other countries, after the style is, we have read the book with intense interof an Englishman described by Addison in est, and if practicable, should delight in a number of the Spectator, and withal a reprinting long chapters in our columns. There is only one point more to which we churchman, stoutly supporting the English Church establishment, that such a writer shall direct the reader's attention, that is, the should possess the candor to admit thnt the probable results of the war. He finished the Americans stand upon a higher level in the book in May last. As he then viewed the matter of religion and education than his struggle, he was inclined to the opinion, that own countrymen, is a fact to be placed on there would be a Southern Confederacy, but record, in our " Index Rerum," and for so that the line separating the North and South honorable an admission, we, as an American, would be dictated by the former. As for find it an easy matter to forgive him and his slavery, that is doomed, "If secession estabmother for all the harsh, sarcastic and lish herself, though it be only secession of the severe paragraphs (arid they are not few,) Gulf-States, the people of the United States which they have written about America und will soon be free from slavery"—page 286. Americans. The admission about religion He is far from taking a discouraging and is the highest possible endorsement of the unpromising view of the results of the present voluntary principle in the support of our reli- civil war in the United States. He does not gious institutions, while the admission in see how the North could avoid taking up arms, regard to education, is every whit as lauda- and fighting for the maintenance of the Constitory of the American educational system as tution. The following sentence administers a the remark of Train : " The American dis- cutting and withering rebuke to his countrylikes to be complimented on speaking good men, who have turned a cold shoulder upon English, when he knows that he speaks bet- the North during the existing trouble: ter English than they do in England. * " They, the Americans, have done much that We will not quote the re- is great and noble, ever since this war has * * •rnainder of this spread-eagle speech, for we begun, and we have been slow to arknow are of Solomon's opinion, when he says, "Let ledge it. They have made sacrifices for the another praise theeand not thine own mouth; country which we have ridiculed. They have struggled to maintain a good cause, a stranger and not thine own lips." The remark, referring to "the want of and we have disbelieved in their earnestness" respect and venerationfor God's word among —page 598. In years past, Americans have been exthe educated classes" needs guarding. Unless we are much mistaken, there is as much tremely sensitive respecting the criticisms scepticism and infidelity among the educated and opinions of European writers, but hereclasses in England as in America. In after they will be less so. They will hereregard to the scientific men of America, we after be less thin-skinned ! They are becomwould make the following statement, upon ing very much like the English in this the authority of Professor Henry of the matter, who boast of their indifference to Smithsonian Institute at Washington. He the opinions of foreigners. This is evidence is reported to have recently stated, that so of national strength. Hereafter, America is far as his knowledge extended, he knew of to become less and less dependent upon other but one really scientific man in the United nations. This is the tendency of things States, who could be numbered among the op- during the present terrible struggle. Hereadmission. posers, or unbelievers in Divine Revelation. after, when America catches a Caudle-lecture Then too, in the matter of religion, Mr. A statement like this, coming from a man of from other nations, she will follow the examTrollope, ( although a staunch churchman,) such eminence, is deserving of much consid- ple of Him, who has been styled, the father of his country. It is reported, but not upon does not put down the Americans as a set of eration. inventions, the authority of Marshall, Sparkes, or Irving, go-aheathen, because they have no established regards enterprise, As of Washington, but church! On page 590, Mr. Trollope remarks headativeness, and a smart way of doing or any other biographer as follows: "In the matter of religion, as things, Mr. Trollope fairly yields the palm to at any rate, the stoty has thus been handed in the matter of education, the Americans the Americans. Even in the matter of liter- down : one night, the good Martha adI think, stand on a higher level than ours. ature, he is much more candid than many ministered a Caudle-like lecture to her There is not in the States so absolute an European writers. He does not sneeringly illustrious spouse. He listened very attenignorance of religion as is to be found in ask, in the language of Sidney Smith, "Who tively, and when the " Father of his country" some of our manufacturing and mining reads an American book I" but admits that supposed his " better half" had gone suffidistricts, and also, alas, in some of our agri- Americans can write and publish " books ciently far, he quietly remarked: " Have you they out- finished, Martha, if so, let us go to sleep ?" cultural districts; but also I think, there is that are books," and as for printing, the in Suiting the action to the word, he was soon veneration for God's altogether, cheapness word strip England less respect and among the educated classes than there is and quantity of their publications. Out quietly reposing in the arms of Morpheus. with us; and perhaps, also, less knowledge author does not belong to that class of Euro* Hereafter, America is not going to lose so as to God's word. The general religious peans spoken of by Geoffrey Crayon, alias much sleep and temper as she has hitherto level is, I think, higher with them; but there Washington Irviug, in a humorous, but half- done, when criticized and lectured. Her is with us, if I am right in my suppositions, serious style, in his Bracebridge Hall. "It policy will be that of a nation, more calm, a higher eminence in religion, as there is has been a matter of marvel to my European dignified, self-possessed, and conscious of her also, a deeper depth of ungodliness." I readers, that a man from the wilds of Amcr- intellectual and physical strength, while res- for poor Buchanan, he does not hesitate to call him a traitor! He is rather severe upon Seward. At this »c do not wonder. The terminatior* of the Trent-affair" is a sore thing for all with secession proclivities. He hits off some of the peculiarities of the American people in a good-natured manner, which nobody can reasonably complain of. He is justly severe upon our mewspaper-press. Some hints about post-office regulations and rail-roads, might be followed, and an improvement made. It could not be expected that an Englishman could travel through the country, and not meet with inconveniences which would call forth an-occasional growl. The mud of Cairo an<f*Washington was doubtless very bad. The off-hand independence of servants and porters at hotels would, of course, offend a traveler whose ideas have been formed after a European standard ! Yet Mr. Trollope lias the good sense to admit that an Irishman is a far better man for expatriating himself across the water, and breathing the free, wholesome, and invigorating air of America. Read the following from page HOO, "The Irishman, when he expatriates himself to one of those American states, loses much of that affectionate, confiding, master-worshipping nature which makes him ,o good a fellow when at home. But he becomes more of a man. He assumes a dignity which he has never known before. He learns to regard his labor as his own property. That which he earns, he takes without thanks, but he desires to take no more than he earns," See. We honestly confess that we are surprised at some of the admissions which our author makes in favor of America, in comparison with his own country. He really clinches the nail which Mr. G. F. Train has been hammering at in the Debating Clubs of London. We will illustrate this remark by referring, ffet, to the matter of education and religion, dWcussed in Chapter XIX. Read the following: " The one matter in which, as far as my judgment goes, the people of the United States have excelled us Englishmen, so as to justify them in taking to themselves praise, which we cannot take to ourselves, or refuse to them, is in the matter of education. In saying this, I do not think that 1 am proclaiming anything disgraceful to England, though 1 am proclaiming much that is creditable to America," &c. This is an important Such admissions surprise us. not refrain from expressing our * �95 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1862. pecting the rights of others, demanding that others shall respect hers. The reading of Mr. Trollope's book, we think, will lead the reader to arrive at this conclusion. The time is coming, when Englishmen and the world will understand Americans and American institutions, better than they do at the present crisis in their national troubles, and we thank Mr. Trollope for visiting America just at this present time, and leaving his opinions upon record. ADVEHTISBMEKrTS. 11. W. SEVERANCE, ATJOTIONBBII, AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, HONOLULU. Will continue business at the old stand on Queen street. 3!61y J. H. COIR, CASTLE AGENTS FOR Wheeler & Wilson's 816-ly E. HOFFMANN, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Makee's Block, corner Queenand Kaa 320-ly humanu streets. H. STANGENWALD, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, is MACHINE HAS A 1.1. THE LATEST imptovements, and, in addition to former premiums, was awarded the highest prise above all European and American Sewing Machines at theWorld's Kxhil.ition in PARIS In 1681, and at the Exhibition In London in 1802. The evidence ofthe superiority of this MachineIs found in tbe record of Its sales. In 1861— The Orover k Baker Company, Boston, The Florence Company, Massachusetts, The Parker Company, Connecticut, J. M. Singer a> Co., New York, ¥inkle A; Lyon, Cvass. W. liowland, Delaware, M. Oreenwood At Co., Cincinnati, 0., N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., Wilsou 11.Bmith, Connecticut, sold 18,660, whilst the Wheeler k Wilson Company, of Bridgeport, made and sold 10,725 during the same period. 11-tf XT Plrssac Cull ssssd Kxusssinr. Til " " CHASE'S Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY! Next door to the Post Office—up stairs— over the " Commercial Advertiser" Printing Office. TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE. Late New York City Dispensary Physician, member of the such as Ambrotyi>es, Photographs, Melaloeotypes for Medico Chirurgical College and of the Pathological society Views of Dwellings, Ate., at reasLandscapes, Lockets, Ate., of New York. Office at Dr. Judd'sDrug Store, on Fort Street. Residence in onable prices. assortment of FANCY CASES, 330-ly good ALSO ON HAND—A Nuuanu Valley, opposite that of K. O. Hall, Ksq. 11. L. CIIABP17-tf] FRAMES, etc. PICTURES C. 11. WETMORE, M. D. C ONBULAR PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. To sick American Seamen,and general practitioner, HILO, HAWAII, 8. I. N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the C-tf HILO DRUG STORE. DR. J. MOTT SMITH, DBIVTIBT. Office corner or C. fort and Hotel Streets. 382-ly THE AMOS. 8. COOKS. Importersand Wholesale and Retail dealers in General Merchandise, In the Fireproof Store In King street, opposite the Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR Dr. Jaynes Medicines, Wheeler a> Wilson's Sewing Machines, Tbe New England Mutual Lite Insurance Company, cash assets $2,360,000, Uaynolds, Devoe As Pratt—lmporters and Manu'acturen of Paints. Oil and Varnish, and Crystal CoalOil, 0. Van Home k Co.'s Carriages and Carriage Materials. 334-ly J. W. AUSTIN, ATTORNIY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office In Honolulu House, over thePost Office. 320-1 v ALLEN St BERRILL, soooassoaa to George W. Macy, KA WAIIIAK. HAWAII, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping busines at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the Justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re cruita asare required by whale ships at tbe shortestnotice, 320-ly and on the most reasonable terms. HARDWARE STORE. LOCKS Koa and Pine Coffins always on hand. Jobbing done on reasonable terms. CASTLE & COOKE, SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND owned by the "Honolulu Sailors' Home Society," has recently been placed under tbe management of the undersigned. They hope, by strict attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the seafaring community. The House has teen built and fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their vessels under repairs, are respectfully Invited to send their crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort. Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. $6 Seamens' do. do. do. do. 6 CAPTAIN AND MRB. OAT, Manage™. Honolulu, March 1, 1861. ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING, ON FOET STREET, of all kinds, Hinges, Screws, Tacks, Hators, Cut and Wrought Nails, Spikes, Brads, UNDERSIGNED BEGS LKAVErMpectfully to inform his friends and the public generally, Files, Carpenters' Tools of all kinds, Pocket and that having recently enlarged his premises, he in now prepared Sheath-Knives, Marlinspikes, Cauiking-Irons and to doail work in the above line, with dispatch and in a workMallets, and numerous other articles, foq*Me at the manlike manner. (tf) lowest prices, by W. N™AltU lIKNKY ALLKN, Fort St., GeneralMerchantand Agent for the sale of the products of the 3'24-ly Brewer Plantation. SAM'L. S. OA9TLS. THE HENRY ALLEN, CARPENTER. BUILDER AND UNDERTAKER. FURNITURE REPAIRED. BREWER 2d, p< E?* SEWING MACHINES! (SCCCRSHOS TO A. r. KVKahTT.) At his late rooms, Queen Street. ADVBRTISBMaaaTTI. ADVERTISEMENTS. Opposite the Fam'ty Orocery andFeed Btore. 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BREWER llluatrnlrd Newssasers, Magazimr., — —ALSO— m. urn, Boston * CO.. # Commission A Shipping Merchants, Hemwlolss, Oaks, -urn TO— Jon. M. Hood, Isq., J AXas HuWWSLL, Isq., \ Csuslss Baawaa, leg., \ H. A. Psiaoa, ■.!., J Msasas. Moßuaa k HsaaiLL, > Ohas. Woloott Baoou, Bsq., J Massed. Wm. Postarj k Co., Msasas. Psblb, Hitsssll k Co 330-ly H. I. _ New Tort. Boston. *° •'■"••SSS. B nongkong. Manila. , �. TOE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1862. 96 MARINE JOURNAL. X3~ chip Ualitei, Mey, reports—Left Liverpool, June 0. Kxperieuced very bad weallier along the Brazilian coast for 50 daya. Crossed the line Atlantic, long. 28 W.—42 days out. Made 60 8.. long. 06 N Sept. 17. Passed tbe Horn Sept. 21, and made 60 S. Pacific, Oct. 2,-11 days from the Horn—llB days out. Crossed the line. Pacific, Nov. 6, long. 120 W. From the line to Honolulu, 23 (lays, arriving Nov. 20—178 days XT Ship South Hojfoii, Randolph—First entered the OchoU k May 10, w here she cruised all the season ; hadfavorable weather first part of the season, but towards the close il became very rugged. In the early part o theseason whaleswere numerous, but at the last they became scarce and wlkl saw most In lat. 61) N, In July and August. Took the first whale In the fulf PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. May 26, and the last Sept 18in Mercury Bay—22 bowheada in til. Left the Ochotsk Oct. 7, and had heavy B.K. winds most of tbe way. March 5, while at Saypan, the 2d officer, Mr. Obed ARRIVALS. drowned by the upsetting of a boat while fast to a Sighted three vessels tiff the Horn—one bark, on*: ship, lloxie. was out. 100 sp, from the Arctic. whole he was a nativeof sandwich. Cape Cod, aged about 27 Oct. 10— Am wh bark Fanny, Uliven, years. May 10, a seaman named Kohcrl Tallmau, a native of 1660 Wh, 2-1,000 bone, season j 960 sp, 2160 wh, und one clipper could not tell where bound. 33.000 bone—''correct report.) Brig Victoria, Dauelsberg reiwrts—First entered the Kanitoiiga, died of consumption. XT Haw wb brig Victoria, Dauelsberg, from the Arctic, Bhering Sea May 21; cruised principally in the Arctic, and Nov. XT Bark CnlAerins, llepplngttone—Flrttentered the Arctic with a considerable amount of trade •, 3- casks found the weather very foggy, with heavy gales whales scarce. July, and cruised principally in that ocean. Found the weatlie, from furs, Ivory, long. 20W.,Aug,14. Wis S casks cask 173° Done bone, N., 4 1 only lat. 68° 20 oil, wh two. bail, and whales scarce and shy ; taw most whales in lat. 69° Saw bark Zoe on frel.bt. nothing at whaling, but enjoyed a lair share of Arctic trade. long. 174, during Sept. Took 4 sperm whales, 1humpback and a—Am wh ship Harvest, Manchester, from theOcnasak, Put into St. lAtwrence Bny, where we found the hrlg Koliola 10right whalea since leaving Honolulu. Lelt the Arctic Sept. 30*Sp, preparing for winter quarters took on board ber season's oil 21, and experienced southerly winds, gales and calms all the 42 months out, 600 wh, 6000 bone, 1800 wh, 9000 bone, voyage 800 wh, 5000 bone, and ten of her crew, and left for Plover Bay Sept 28, where waj way down. Null.log serious occurred during tht whole season, on board. lying the bark Zoe, Simmons, already prepared for wintering with the exception, or one kanaka being nearly mlrt by a whale's o—Am wh Iwrk Isabella, Tucker, from theArctic, SO sp. wo also took on board her season's work on freight and three of fin passing within a lew reel ot him, from which severe shock 26,000 her crew Spoke ship John I lowland, Wlielden,/M//. (as usual.) he soon recovered. 800 wh, 10.000 l)ii, seasou ; '20 sp, '2160 wb. Injuiiil to Sao Francisco. ln,ne. voyage and on board—39 months out. Next left Itcsides 80 brls oil on deck, «—Am hark Yankee, Taylor, 18 days from San Francisco, for Honolulu Oct. 8, in company with the John llowlanil ; exPASSENGERS. bringing proved with m.lse, etc., to Wilcox,lticlmrds & Co. which 12th, favorable, perienced a gale on the 14th. from the loth 11—Am wh sb Navy, Sarvent, from the Arctic via Ililo, us through the Y'ounaska passage on the 1700 300 from Iwiie, sp, gale accompanied 1000 season a 10,000 N.K., 50 sp, wh, to tbe lsth, encountered heavy From gas Francisco—per Yankee, Nov. 6—Rev W B Scott, wh, 18,000 voyage ; 150 sp, 1700 wh, 14,000 bone, with a tearful cross sea we attempted torun la-fore it, but were lady and 2 children, Miss Anna Slott, 1) N Ashmore, S Sexton, on hoard. coni|»elled to lay-to umlix storui-niains'iil—for some Thomas Wood, J C King, John M Hutchinson, J G Risigerl. Ah eventually llnwland. Long, from the (Vhotsk, it blew violently in squalls, with heavy rani; after that, with 13—Am wh ship Steerage—J Hughes, Vt G Woolsiy, W Reed, Chaa W 1700 wh, '.'2,000 Imue, season ; 120 sp. 8400 wb, the exception ol nine days southerly wind, had good weather Chuck. Hilton, W 1) Murdock—l7. Ixiund way. Spoke ship favorablebreezes all the 42,000 iHine, voyage. Adeline, ni»l Kr.nn San Fkasoisco—|«t Kmerakl, Nov 13—C A\\ illlams, 13—All) ship Kinemld, Slull, 21 days from Sun Francisco, into Lahaina. A M Uultlard, A VV Bush, T W Gulick. with awes to C. A. Williams ft Co. reports—Went whaling on the �or San Fkancisco—per Comet, Nov. 16—Mrs laiiiiuul and XT Ship Ad*line, Barber, 14—Am ship Raduga. Bilnlltt. 147 days from Boston, with ground May 12, and cruis.-d principally in S.W. und Sliiinur child, Mrs Whipple, Mrs Andrew Potter ami child, t apt Jas X A: Co. fog acargo if assorted md-e. to C. Brewer the part, th.- sfßiaas. good miilille thick Turner, II Luddington, wife and child, L A Macomber, wife and Arctic, Bays. V» ether hrsl of 14—Am l«rk Catherine, Hepping'tone, trom W A Otrmrne, Geo Wood, Capt F S and rain ; latter part, very iKiisternus. Whales were scarce 3 children. Dr Robin 00 sp, 1140 wh, 10,000 bone, season and on bour.l F Kummet, J and hard to take saw roost whales during the mouth of August. Kedfleld, Cnpt Chadwick, J Vaaselhalt, J Landy, 3400 wh, 40,000 bone, voyage. during passage the had ten down, 24 Sept. Lahaina Joe Francis. C Johnson,Mr Aim—2*. Champion, C the Lett for Morgan. trom Hamilton, wh W. ship Chas 14—Am days' southerly wind, but after that hail favorable we.-iiber. For IloN<;koxu—per Rattler, Nov. 24—0 B Farnuin, W 8 Oelmtsk, 1000 wh, 10,000 bone, season 4300 wh, Took 10 whales (one sperm.) this season, making 25 sp, 550 wh, Kgerton. 38,000 lavas, voyage. the Ochotsk, 6000 bone. 14—Oklen'g wb brig Comet, Wllhehn. from 700 wh, 10,000 l>one, season and on board '2100 IT Bhip Han rit, Manchester, reports—First entered the PORT OF Ochotek May 24 cruised principally in the N.K. Gulf and bays wh, 20,000 bune, voynge. days experienced rugged weather In the Gulf, but good In the bays, Sur, Oelett, 47 Missionary packet Morning 14—Am very shy. Saw foggy—whales quiteplentiful, but ARRIVALS. though rather from Micronesia. during the iiirnlh of August. Took 15—Am wh ship Nassau, Quinn, from the Ochotsk, 460 most whales in the bays Worth, from the Arctic, 560 June2d, and the last Oct. 3d ; first bow- Oct. 20—Am wh ship Champl wh. 5000 bone, season 100 sp, 500 wh, 5000 bone, the first right whsle wh. 7000 none, season ; 220 sp, 650 wh, 7000 bu, head July 14, ii'id last about Sept. 15, in Shaular Bay. Report voyage ami on nourdwh, the Isaac 650 7000 bone, on board. Adeline, exce|* voyage 105 sp, 15—Am wh ship South Boston, Randolph, from the Ocb k, of other vessels about the asme as theto Ayan— lull. Left the 31—Am wh ship Adeline. Barla-r, from theOchotsk, 24 1275 wti. 20,000 bone, season '2600 wh, 34,000 lm, llowland, ÜBf, which was Imund weather most of the way. 660 6000 bone, sraron -, 60 wh, months out, 25 sp, Ochotsk Oct. 4, and had very rough voyage | 2000 wh. 22,000 lame, on boar.l. ■ = ; ; ; *— ; •, season; ; ; ; ; i ; ; •, ; ; LAHAINA. ; ; # ; ; 16—Am wh bark Barnstable, Brownson, fm llilo, off ami and on—lwfore reported. 10—Amwb bark Cicero, Slivers, from the Ochotsk via Lahaiua. 600 wh, 6000 bone, s%a»on I 80 sp, 1000 wh. 10,000 bone, voyage ; 800 wh, 5000 bone, cat board. 18—Oldenburg bark Planet, Dallman, from the fvhntsk, 1000 wh, 24,000 bone, season ami on hoard -, 3200 wh, 40.000 Immk, voyage. theOchotsk, 50 sp, 18—Am wh skip Hlki, Fordham, from sp, 450 wh, 6000 bn, season i 120 3100 wh, 36,000 bone, voyage. wh ship Champion, Worth, fm Lahaina, off and vßon, before report'tl 10-jtm wb ship Milton, Halsey, from the Ochotsk, 1000 wh, 12,000 bone, seasou ; 75 sp, 2000 wh, 23,000 Iward. bone, voyage 1300 wh, 15,000 bone, on s'rnncisoo, 20— Am ship Rattler, Almy, 10 days from Ban came inside for freight, etc., aud sailed agaiu on the 24th for Hongkong. 20- Am ship Anglo Saxon, Caverly, SI days from Howland's Island, from whence she came for repairs, having got ashore there previous to loading guano. 21—Am wh ship Kruiiy Morgan, Whiteside, from Ochotsk, 1450 wh, 20,000 bone, season. 23—Am wh ship John P. West, Tinker, from theOchotsk, 600 wh, 8000 bone, season. 23—Am wh ship Adeline, llari>er, from Lahaina, lielore reported—off and on. S»—Dutch ship Galilei, Mey, 176 days from Liverpool withassorted mdse to Janion. Green & Co. 30— Am wh ship Lagoda, Cranston, from Lahaina—before ; reported. DEPARTURE!*. home. Nov. 12—Axo wu bark Coral, Slssoo, for cruise ami 5000 empty 16—Am sch Olivia, for San Francisco, with bottles and 26 brls sweet potatoes. W_Am bark Comet, Smith, for San Francisco. It—am wh ship Champion, Worth, to cruise South. 21—Am wh ship Ocean, Clark, for California Coast. New •21—frwh ship General Teste, Lopes, for coast ol Zealand and hoase. 81—Hamburg bark Laura k Louise, Marks, for Bremen. 28—Am wh ship Adeline, Barber, for coast California. 2s—Am ah ship Marengo, Skinner 1tor borne. MEMORANDA. .-cr Capt. Helen,of theMorning Star, reportt—Theschooner aSollho, Capt. Bush, touched at ApiangDec. Ist, 1801, and left again foA-Jtbon same day, where shearrived on the 6th sailed again B-fctrong's Island, and arrived there on the 10th left ;; sp, 1000 wh, 10,000bone, voyage; 60 tp, 1000 wh, XT Bark Imlirlla. Tucker, reports—First entered the Arctic ; 6000 hone, on board. July 10, and cruised there principally this season found the pan Nov. 23—Am wh bark Massachusetts, Green, from Ochotsk, 90 weather good lirst part of the season, but aduring the latter sp. 700 wb, 9000 bone, season 120 sp, 1300 wh, heavy of SeptemUT had succession first ami of of August 17,000 bone, voyage -, 00 sp, 1300 wh, 9000 hone gales ; whales were plentiful at the lime, but the weatta-r was on board. too rough to lower the boats. Tock the first bowhead early in wh burk Lagoda, Cranston, fm Ochotsk, 200 wh, 23—Am June in tlte Anadir Sea last, Sept. 28, in lat. 68 60 N., long. ; all V whales this season. 176 •40 = = Saw most ; 3000 lone, season | 300 whales ; sp, 700 wh. 8000, bone, W.—ln voyage 300 sp, 700 wh, 3000 bone, on hoard. during July. In bit 68 to 50 <= N., long. 172= to 177= W. Spoke ship Catherine Sept. 10, cutting in at Hie time, with ten whales, (about 1000 brls,) this season. Left the Arctic Sept. 26,; PORT OF HILO. and experienced very severe weather most of the way dowu took the trades two days before sighting the Islands. ARRIVALS. XT Ship Kaiv, Sarvent, reports—First cruised on the Line ; took two sperm whales In lat. 1° 3» 8, long. 176= 58 X., Dec. Oct. 26—Am wh bark DHrnstuble, Brownson. from the Arctic, all the sea•22. Kntered the Arctic July 15, and cruised theretime; 600 wh, 8000 bone, season 80 sp, 1200 wh, 18,000 whales son ; founil tbe weather very favorable all the bone, voyage ; 1200 wh, 8000 bone, on board. plentiful In July ami up to middle of August ; saw most whales bowTook first In lat. 69* N, long. 176= W., Aug. 3to 9. Sept. DIED. head Aug. 1, in lat. 69= 22 N., long. 175= 18 W. last, 26 N., long. 173 28 W.—B bnwheads In all. Left 8 laLafS Sept. 21, and encountered southerly winds and gales ; = = ; = the Arctic all the way down. XT Ship A7im»oii, Qulnn—Entered the Ochotsk June 3d,and lirst |«rt foggy cruised in different bays during the the weather. Fouiul the whales rulher scarce and shy. TookSept and the last Bay, June S.W. 28, lirst whab (bowhead,) in Sept. 17. In Shantar Bay—B whales In all. Left Mercury BayAugust 19, and had light B.W. to B.K. winds moat of the way. Mangea, a native of Ailutaki,and on the 27th Sept., a native of both died of consumption. O- Ship ttanr. Howland, Long—Kntered the Ochotuk May 6, aud cruised there all the season. Found the weather first and whales part of the season Ibggy, latter part very nigged, Septemscarce and shy. Saw most whales in S.W. Bay during at Jonas 14, May ber and October. Took the first bowhead Island, and thclast Sept. 26 in B.W. Bay—32 In a'l, one of them gales made 260 brls. Left the Ochotsk Oct. 7, and had strong winds from the westward up to lat. 36, after that lightsoutherly Crow, named Jim remainder of tbe passage. Oct. 11, a seaman a native of Tahiti,died ofconsumption. Sea, and XT Bark Cicero, Slivers—First cruised In Japan awl cruised took one right whale. Kntered the Ochotsk June 6,the w heat on there all the season. Found the weallier ibggy but the Ground," but whalesplentllul i saw most In B.W. Bay,Took.the weather was very rough during August and Sept. 1, in Tayfirst whale Aug. 13,In S.W. Bay, and the last Sepl. Shore lor's Bay—7 bowheadsand 1 right whale. Left the North Sept. 26, and encountered heavy head winds most of the way down, after that had 11 days calm. first In XT Ship CAos. W. Morgan, Hamilton—Cruised Japan Sea, and entered the Ochotsk July 13; enjoyed favorJuue 6, first whale the season. Took IM able weather mostof in lat 40= 48 N., long. 138= 58 8., last In Shsntar 17, Oct Left the Ochotsk was seen the roost whales. JMh"" light easterly winds most of the way. Oct. 28, one and •>™k*)"» steerers named Ansel Braley, fell from aloftsleveral the parts or*»» in three placet, and wa» severely bruised n body, andli at present time in U. 8. Hospital, Honolulu. Sydney, N. B. W., XT Am. whale bark IFaverty put into obtaining proAug. 4th last, for the purpose of refitting and time visions She Is 39 months out from home, during which oil-bone and 000 brls. whale she has taken 1760 hrls. sperm on thelPri forAscension,aad arrived on thelath. On the20th the sailed for Duncan's Beef, taking as passenger one Ctpt. Sewald. Capt. Mushintended to be absent from Atcensioi only .about three weeks. Whaleshlp Desdeuiona, Batet, touched at Kbon becember, 1861—oil not reported. Brig Clarence Packet, ■ lorell, touched at Apaiang Oct. 1,18432, nine months out from .Sydney on a trading voyage. Also, brig James, Weiss, from aajne place, 4 months out, trading, touched there the same time, ('apt. Havel! reported, off Woodel's Island, while bark Stafford, Fierce, 24 months out, with 200 brls sperm, hound to Solomon's Island ; also, ship Gayhead, Lawrence, off same island, with not reported. tOO brU spans,' August 21. season; 1 Pottkk—ln Honolulu, Nor. 7. Charles Francis Massena, aped 13 monthsand one day, ion of Andrew and Ann Kliaabeth Potter. Austin—ld Honolulu, Nov. 17, Charles, infant son of J. W. Austin, Esq. Stngk—On the Bth of September lust, at Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire, England, aged 71, the Rev. Robert Pynge, youngest son of Sir Robert Synge, of Syngefleld, Baronet, and father of 11. B. M.'s Commissioner In these Islands. Astiios—ln Copenhagen, on the 18th of August, Louis 11. Anthon, Esq.. formerly Consul of 11. M. the King of Denmark, at Horn,lulu, and latterly Consulof Ilia Hawaiian Majesty for tlw Kindom of Denmark. Vv'hittiir—At his residence, Kona, Hawaii, Not. 16, Mr. .lames H. Whittler, aged about 61 years, a native of Maine, U. 8. A. Skoalis—At the Queen's Hospital, Honolulu. Not. 18, Louie Segalis, aged 49 years, a native of France, for many yean a residentof these Islands. Hoxir—Drownedby the upsetting of a boat, March 6, Obed M. Hoxie, 2d officer of ship South Boston. He was son of Capt. Hoxle, lurmerly master of the South Boston, and had been seveAlso died on hoard same ral voyages In the same vessel ship. May 19, Joseph Talk an, seaman, a native of Rarotmiga Information Wanted! Respecting Edward Droken, who waa discharged from ship Congress 2d, Capt. Btranburg, March 14, IMO. Any information will be most gladly received bj theeditor of the friend, or by his mother, Mr.. Mary Drohen, M south Main St., Fall Hirer, Mass. Respecting Robert S. Fraxier, who left the United States fire yearsago on board the " Moctexatna," Capt. Tinker. About two years ago, he wa. on board the u American," Capt. Pease. HI. proper name it Edward W. kobiiuoti, although he baa never failed under that name. Any Information will be gladly received by the Editor, and communicated to his friend. In, Boston. Respecting, Arnold R. Juitin, of Providence, R. 1., who lea the .hip Rodman, about 1852, at Honolulu. Perhaps Capt. ppencer may recall this man, if so, please communicate with airs. 0. B. Austin of Providence or editor of the Friend. � 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 (1862) 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 - 1862.12.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862.12.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/3d3d171873c2a5597ff7fc02b84bd05c.pdf a8458d0b6b687fe38f97c2b763227be3 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND. Sen Scries, (M, 12, Ba.U For 1 CONTEXTS Jitiitiiiry, 1803. A New Year Tlie H lli>iM-ri;in Cruise of thta Danish ship Oalatheu The Year »>f Jubileehut Come News fr<>ru the Puuth Seas ■ Stick to your Ship" Ordination of Mr. \V. F. Snow Important Arctic Discoveries ■Capt. Newald alias Dixie JWvertHetncntHand Marine Journal Pack. 1 1 2, 3 4 4 6 6 6 .6 7, 8 THE FRIEND. JANUARY 1, 1863. A NEW YEAR. We most heartily wish our donors, subscribers and readers, a Happy New Year. Through the liberality of our donors and the prompt payment of our subscribers, we are enabled to pay our printer, and commence a new volume of the Friend, hopeful and buoyant. Although the number of our readers may have essentially diminished with the decline of the whale-fishery in the North Pacific, yet there are still many hundreds of seamen afloat in this ocean whose visits to our shores encourage us to send forth a monthly sheetfor their perusal. The number of ourreaders ashore is certainly not diminished. From many of them resident upon these islands, and on other islands of the Pacific, we are frequently receiving the gratifying assurances that the Friend is a welcome visitor. A correspondent at Tahiti thus writes us: «The Friend improves in interest as it advances in age, and ithat is saying much, when we remember its vigorous and fascinating youth." This number commences the XXth volume. In regard to the future, we have no extravagant promises to make, but hope to ■keep along the even tenor of our way j our readers will always find us most strenuously advocating " Whatsover things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever •things are of good report." most {©ft-Smts, 0ri.20. HONOLULU, JANUARY I, IS«3. The Hesperian.—This Monthly has out-lived many of the California periodicals, nnd appears to have become established as one of the institutions of the country. We have long been honored with an exchange. Vol. IX, No. 1, has been received, and with new editors. The former editor, Mrs. Day, has gone East, to make arrangements for enlarging and perfecting the magazine, having invited Mrs. Schenck nnd the Key. J. D. Strong to conduct the periodical during her absence. We are most happy to welcome both to the editorial fraternity. Mrs. Strong has engaged to furnish a children's story each month. Mr. James Daly, of Oakland College, is also a contributor. All these writers have an island reputation. We have frequently noticed contributions from Mr. and Mrs. Strong in the periodicals of California. Some of Mr. Strong's translation from the Germanlanguage, have evinced talent of a high order, and been frequently copied. Success to our old friend. We recollect to have once heard a sermon from Mr. Strong, before the Hawaiian Missionary Society, which, viewed as a literary performance, was certainly one of the best we, ever heard. With his taste in literary matters, the Hesperian should be a decided success. Both the Advertiser and Polynesian agree in their estimate of Mr. Fuller's services as Secretary of the Board of Education. It is so seldom that these two sheets har» monize in their views of the officers of government, we think Mr. Fuller must surely have discharged his duties with peculiar tact and fidelity. On the 5th page will be foud an inter- esting account of the ordination of Mr. William Franklin Snow, son of our fellow resident y*pt. We have learned that his regiment, the Massachusetts sth, had been ordered to Newborn, North Carolina. One thing is certain, both the North and South have sent theiisfirst-born and their choicest sons, to engage in, this terrible struggle. The sacrifice is great, but we confidently hope the roward may correspond. Snow. On the first of January lost year, it was priviloge to. report the Home, Bethel and Friend out of debt. We aro most happy to report that the finances of the several institutions aro still in a good condition. The Homo has already been reported out of debt. The Bethel bus had extra repairs and painting, amounting to $331 25 ; and to pay off this debt, the Chaplain has received from donors $254 30, leaving an unpaid balance of $77 25.. The 'Friendh&m lost, for printing and paper, $587 00 deceived from subscribers, donors, &c, 549 25 our ... $37 75 enable will few subscribers A "delinquent" HT us to pay that amount, when we shall start again square with the world. Subscribers in the United States wishing to make remittances for the Friend, can do so by sending the amount in postage stamps. Subscription, one year, $2 50, including postage. Eleven Volume, fer »10 00. A few copies of the Friend from 1852 to 1862, neatly bound, will be sold for $10 00 each, by applying to the Editor. We have heard and read much about Kerusene as an article for lamps. Hitherto, we honestly confess we hare had scruples about trying it, while our labors were so much among whalemen! Mr. Waterhouse has, however, placed us in a position to test our conscientious scruples, by the present of a beautiful study lamp and can of Kerosene. We have no doubt the public will find lamps of all kinds at his well Stocked store, and at most reasonable prices. Persons who have tried Kerosene speak in the highest terras of it. Sugar of Ulapalakua.—The tints has been when the roses of Ulapalakua wore much talked of and admired, but now it is the sugar. We congratulate Capt. Makee and Son, upon their success in manufacturing an article of sugar which is so remarkably good and desirable. "Yankee Notions,"—If any one wishes for any article in the hard-ware line, from a pin to. a crowbar, a comb to a rake, a knife to a plow, a fish-line to a log chain, a hone to a a grindstone, a rasor to a aythc, let him call at W. N. Ladd'a store, on F*m\ Street �2 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, IS6 3. Extract especially as to political science. He lived for some time, before he came here, in Mexico. When Miller, the British Consul General of all the Islands in the Pacific, was officially called to Tahiti, he left Mr. Wyllie at the Islands as his representatire during his absence, when the latter succeeded to gain the full respect and confidence of the chiefs. In 1845 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and held therefore the place of Mr. Judd, who till then had filled that office, together with the Finance Department, since the above-named mission of Mr. Richards. Wyllie was ever, by his opponents, considered a very honest and disinterested man, and served (ss far as I know) the government without compensation. FROM eport BiStleeen'sR DaVoofOnntiyshageeCo"Galathea," rvet e theWor Round1845-'46-'47 Yearlds, the in TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH BY F. BANNING, ESQ. On the 4th October, 1846, in the morning at 9 o'clock, we sighted land from the mast-head. We passed the east point of Molokai at 6 o'clock, and sailed along the coast at a distance of three-fourths of a mile, which being nbove 53,000 feet high and flat on the top, presents to the sea it 3 deeply jagged, perpendicular precipices ; a few cataracts rolled down from the rocks and sparkled in the light of the moon, who stood in her full magnitude, on the cloudless, azure blue, starred heavens. It was a goodly sight, one to inspire man with new strength and courage, especially after such a long and soul-trying passage. We passed " Diamond Hill" on the morning of the sth, and came in sight of the roadstead of Honolulu., The town with " Punch-bowl" in the background, was then just enveloped in a heavy shower of rain, and toon a brilliant rainbow stretched over it, one foot in a verdant valley toward the East. While the rain came down in torrents on the neighboring mountains and their summits were hidden by the clouds, town and harbor were spread out in the most brilliant sunshine. The object of our visit here, was the display of the Danish flag in these remote waters, and the formation of friendly relations (especially for the furtherance and protection of Danish commerce) with this now flourishing kingdom. For other reasons, also, we had to make a longer stay in the harbor ; we had more than forty sick men on board, from scurvy, and it was constantly increasing. 1resolved, therefore, to make the Sandwich Islands one ofthe principal stations of our voyage, and to enter the corvette into the cxcellaut harbor of Honolulu. On the 7th, accordingly, at 9 o'clock, we came to anchor near H. B. M. frigate Juno, and were now laying as in a large fish-pond, in a mirror-bright sea. My first duty was to take the sick on shore. Immediately alter my arrival, I applied for that purpose to the British Consul, General Miller, who with the greatest willingness assigned me a small hospital situated a mile and a quarter back of the town, in Nuuanu Valley, called Little Greenwich." My next object was to enter into communication "with the highest authorities of the land, also the foreign consuls. By the friendly attentions of Consul-General Miller and the French Consul, Mr. Dudoit, this was a very easy matter for me. My visits were directed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Wyllie, the Minister of Finance, Mr. Judd, the Minister of Public Instruction, Mr. Kichards, the Co-Kegent, the Prince Minister, and Minister of the Interior, John Young, or as he is called in Hawaiian, Keoni Ana, and last the Governor of Oahu, Kekuanaoa, one of the highest chiefs, and besides James Young, the only living companion of the King Liholiho and his consort Kamamalu, on their voyage to England. Immediately after our arrival Kekuanaoa welcomed me by an officer of the fort. 1 think proper to give here at once, a short sketch of the lives of these men, as they all play a part in the late history of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Kichards was one of the first American missionaries. He was for a long while resident on Hawaii. In 1838 he was appointed interpreter to the Government and Chaplain to the King. He is the author of the Hawaiian Constitution of 1840. In the years 1842-43 he was a member of the embassy that the present King sent to Europe and America to obtain the recognition of the Sovereignty of this small kingdom, from the three high powers, England, France and the United States. The embassy consisted ofthe chief Haalilio and Mr. Richards, Mr. Simpson acting as co-adjutor or secretary. Haalilio died in the United States. He is said to have been one of the best instructed and most hopeful of the natives. Richards was appointed in 1845, Minister of Public Instruction. I shall have occasion hereafter, to dwell more at length on the seven charges of hypocrisy and hierarchical despotism, against the Missionaries generally and especially against Mr. Richards. Mr. Wyllie came to the islands in 1843. He is a Scotchman by birtl), a Doctor from Edinburgh, and a man of great scholarship, Judd had accompanied the American mission to the Islands as physician. He was born in the United States, is short in stature and rather thin, a man surely of extraordinary talents and abilities and strong character. He is the soul of the Hawaiian government, and therefore he will often be mentioned hereafter. John Young is a son of the well-known boatswnin Young, of ship Elenor, who together with the ship carpenter, Isaac Davis, was taken prisoner in the year 1790. The Elenor was commanded by one Captain Metcalf and was accompanied by the trader Fair American, commanded by his son. The elder Metcalf was drawn into a quarrel with the natives of Maui, who had stolen one of his boats and murdered the sailor who kept watch in her; he enticed several hundred natives near to his vessel, and then caused the most horrible slaughter among them by his guns and muskets. In revenge the natives attacked by surprise the small schooner Fair American, and killed the entire crew, with the exception of Isaac Davis, whom they carried off"as prisoner to the shore. When afterwards the elder Metcalf, unacquainted with this occurrence, arrived at Hawaii, he sent the boatswain Young ashore, to inquire after his son. Young, however, was detained by Kamehameha 1., (then chief of only a part of Hawaii, the ancestor and founder ofthe present dynasty,) to share the captivity of Isaac Davis. He did them no harm but only wished to make use of their skill. Davis died a few years afterwards, while Young, Governor of Hawaii many years, followed Kamehameha in all his campaigns, and up to his death was his friend and counsellor. Young died on the 17th December, 1835, aged 92 years ; on his tombstone he is called "Friend and companion in arms of Kamehameha." He married Kaoanaeha, a daughter of one ofthe hi<m chiefs, and had by her two sons and three daughters ; one was married to the English Dr. Rooke, the two others were ladies o f honor to the Queen. Ricord, Attorney-General and member of the Privy Council, hadbeen a lawyer in the United States. He was undoubtedly a shrewd man, with good knowledge of law; he had made himself, however, unpopular with the white population. A short time alter we left the Islands, he proved he did not feel a strong attachment to his new country, by leaving books, law, and Hawaiian institutions, to take hold of the spade in the California gold mines. How he fared afterwards I did not learn. The British Consul, General Miller, formerly a military man, had made the campaign of Spain, underWellington. Being master nf the Spanish language, he entered into the Peruvian service and fought in the wars that the country had to fight against interior and foreign enemies. Weary of that life he returned to England, offered his services to his country and was sent as British Consul-General to the Pacific Islands, with a special mission to negotiate a treaty of commerce with the Kingdom of Hawaii. The French Consul, Dudoit, had been ship owner and had led a roving life over the Pacific, until he settled in 1836, as a merchant on the Sandwich Islands. In the year 1838 Dupetit Thouars arrived, and was prompted, on account of persecutions against the Catholic missionaries, to act very energetically ; he made a provisional treaty and appointed Mr. Dudoit as French Consul, and, though never confirmed as such by the home government, continued to act until in 1847, he received a successor. All these gentlemen lived in the town or its vicinity, and thus I hnd an opportunity to see at once the capital ofthe Kingdom and its curiosities, which it is true was very soon done. I would call Honolulu a town in spe, and it will surely become a beautiful one, for all the materials are at hand. It is a sad fact, that the better houses have not been erected and are not occupied by the natives, but with few exceptions, by the white immigrated population. The natives, on the contrary, eno the chiefs and the King himself not excepted, consider such stone buildinps as a burthensome luxury, and if perchance they are in possession of one consider ii a gala garment, only put on at festival occasions, as they feel themselves too awkward in it. 1 shall hereafter come back to this subject, for I was far less astonished to see the brave Hawaiians' discontent with European comforts, than that they at all entered upon fhem. But such is trio result of civilization introduced with green-house warmth. �18(4. 3 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, pie that the honor and reverence, paid to the King's name is not to be determined by the size of the Kingdom. I deJatmined, therefore, as forms and show messenger of my King and Lord, to observe the same reverence that I should to any EunQ a Sovereign. The King was standing in the audience saloon, surrounded by his ministers, chiefs and their children. The King is a tall, fine looking man, with a strong beard, and kind but feeble features. He wore a blue unif&rm, with a red collar, richly embroidered with gold, and heavy golden epaulettes, while a red ribbon and a silver star, belonging to some order, glittered on his breast. The latter distinction appeared also on all the ministers and the Attorney-General Ricord. Mr. Wyllie introduced me to Kamehameha 111. After having listened to my short address, with good grace and dignity, His Majesty was pleased to read the answer in kanaka language, which Mr. Judd translated then and there as follows : " 1 am truly pleased to see before me one of the excellent officers of His Danish Majesty. I have heard of the good that his Majesty and his predecessor, Frederic VI., have done for the education, welfare and freedom of their subjects. Following so commendable an example, it has been my endeavor to advance knowledge, religion and lawfulness among.my people. God has been with me thus far. I rely on the support of more enlightened and powerful states, and I am Creator, who orders all for well-being. Oahu, the to hear that your good and great king will favor me with his old, Governor of Kekuworthy pleased the fort the upon I called at and friendship. Please take back to your sovereign the was furnished with sympathy anaoa, a fine-looking, powerful man. His dwelling assurance of my reverence and devotion; tell him I should be pleased very after on his magnificent having put in, came Kekuanaoa taste. of his subjects in my dominions and I will take care that coat and rooms were to see state-rooms; his many uniform, and conducted me into privileges granted to the most clearly very uncomfortable to him. Notwithstanding his European they partake of all the protection and to the earliest navigators and are our conversation soon favored The Danes belong so that came nations. speak English, travels, he dislikes to and have had great influthe and emigrants, a exterior deearliest conquerors among certain to a close. Kekuanaoa had, however, acquired in meanor, in consequence of which the unitorm did not badly become ence for the civilization of the world. I should be pleased to hear be to that expedition hope your 1 what can of service and your way behavior, his short his whole compliments, in him : his polite manners, agreeable to you. God save your King." made a very favorable impression. On the day following, Kekuanaoa stay on our islands may prove these addresses, I introduced my companthe of his best suit and looked After exchange in ; he was dressed paid me a visit on board etiquette was broken up and the company scattered really well. I ordered a salute for him. It was evident that my old ions, and soon the the seat nearest him, friend did not receive such a mark of honor*for the first time; he raised in the saloon. The King commanded me to take but a few simple words with but discovered that he with spoke difficulty covered luxuriantly silver-gray I the three-cornered hat off* his head, the hair, and bowed, when the salute was over, with as good grace as would in English. I endeavored to obtain some information in regard to star, and of the order the above-mentioned ribbon represented by Louis the Fourteenth. origin the court of have done honor to a Frenchman in that they were only a kind of uniform, The streets of Honolulu are not paved, but one walks in the dust but heard to my astonishment the for himself and privy council. sidewalks, furnished with introduced lately by King are they boots, much less high up on his I renewed there the acquaintance of the Prime Minister, John Young, drains, &c. Sometimes a Hawaiian carriage is met with, not however, drawn by horses, but by one or two stout kanakas. European as well a fine-looking man, whose European descent was plainly impressed on as the native chief ladies make use of these conveyances, which are at his features. As it is generally supposed that the Prime Minister best only to be compared to a large child's wagon. I have never seen must be a man, it may be proper for us to explain why the Hawaiian them used by men. ' At first I was astonished at this mode of convey- Government makes an exception, as it is not only permitted, but settled, a deance, though afterwards it appeared no more offensive than gentlemen that it should be a woman. How far progressive civilization and those of foreign form of to according government drawn sire to model their Carriages carried on or post-chaises. by ladies palanquins and horses were extremely rare; when the roads, however, become suffi- countries, will effect a change in this particular, time will show. The first Premier or Co-Regent, was Kaahumanu, the beloved wife, by ciently improved, they will be found in greater number. here, had to Minister dispatched preference, of Kamehameha 1., noted both for personal beauty and high after corvette arrived the I Soon the of Finance, Mr. Wyllie, a written request to be allowed an audience mental qualities. She was appointed to the neglect of his official wife, Kaahumanu died in 1832, with the King, chiefly to pay my respects to His Majesty, and next to and mother of the heir-apparent. When which office she remained in Premier and Co-Regent, Wyllie and had Kinau became apSovereign. Mr. deliver the message of my Lord of Kamehameha pointed in his answer the 9th of October. 1 went accompanied by a up to her death in 1839, she was one of the widows successor was Keand of Kamehameha Kinau's I. 11., of on was restep-daughter shore, retinue officers and other and gentlemen numerous II.; and the last of this family ceived at the landing by Minister Wyllie and the French Consul Du- kauluohi, also a widow of Kamehameha by marriage, that we Christians would call it indoit. The few days of my sojourn here I had employed to inform my- so strangely connected died the year 1845; Victoria, the youngest daughtin cest. Kekauluohi affairs, the state of conversation with men of by self somewhat as to every class, government officers, foreign consuls, commanders of ships, er of Kinau, was selected, but she being only seven years of age, John pnttcstant and catholic missionaries, merchants and captains, and to Young was appointed to fill her place. The future will decide if she I do not believe it, for this bizarre regulamake up my mind what part I had to play on this portion of the world's ever enters upon her office; tion originated from the great love cherished by Kamehameha f, for theatre, not unimportant as regards commerce and navigation. of their personal and mental qualities, as I must not, however, be accused of vanity or conceitedness as though these three women, for reason and capacity of the last two kings. 1 thought myself able in so short a time to acquaint myself with the well as from the inferior power future a more regular succession, both in this office as well as discovered, however, that the whole But in here. soon I of affairs whole state community, from the King and his ministers down to the least officers, the throne, will be adopted, so that the eldest among brothers and sisters the preference. The present crown prince, Alexander, has from the foreign consuls down to the most insignificant foreigners, were will have been chosen and all to They appeared glad heir-ap| arent, to the neglect of his two elder brothers, Moquarrels. filled with various disputes meet with a stranger, and therefore an impartial person, to whom they ses and Lot. By invitation of His Majesty the King, we pissed over from the could defend the justice of their opinions, more particularly as this where the children of the chiefs, boys as stranger was the commander of a man-of-war, a class of men who have, Palace to the Royal School, as girls, are educated. Mr. Douglas, head teacher, commenced Vancouver, an on well important part played nnd time of Cook from"the 1 these Islands. I was convinced that, it was proper for me to keep out-1 an examination, and must acknowledge that I listened with astonishside of all parties, but be friendly tn all, especially to show all marks of ment to the knowledge these children bad acquired. The visit was highly satisfactory and left with me an agreeable impression. The respect to the King and his government, due to an independent present King founded this school in 1839, on a plan proposed by Mr. eign prince, black or white, powerful or weak. Serving a State, which, in comparison with the European powers | Richards. [TO Bfc CONTINUED.] r'presented here, is small, I felt myself the more bound to the princi- ] m Honolulu is situated on the east side of the harbor, a small river flows into it on the north side. The discharging of this fresh water has effected an opening in the reef, which is the entrance to the harbor. On the the harcoral reef, the whole force of the ocean is broken; after entering heard, is in only vain combat dull and of the faint roaring bor, the and then which the ocean has struggled for thousands of years. Nowmuch less it overflows its enemy but has never yet been able to crush, to put him to flight. Who is this enemy? Who raised this unconquerable barrier to the violence of the boundless ocean, and girdled the islands with this unshaken wall, and formed within it protecting harbors ? This work, had it been erected by the band of man, would deserve to be called the greatest wonder of tile world, has been acomplished by smaH, insignificant animals. While England and France expend for many millions of money and the labor of thousands ol workmen, years, upon the erection of a few hundred yards of a breakwater, these little beings have built up imperishable limestone walls, many miles long, and"when their structure reaches'the surface, the safe, deep harbor it for the use of man. It is impossible that the seaman not be astonished at a view of these coral harbors, and at the should same time bend in deep awe before the unsearchable omnipotence of the sover-1i �THE FRIEND, JANUARY, I B*3. 4 1 II Hi ? IV 1 EJ 11 l) JANiA t 1, 1863. The Year of Jubilee has come. To-day—January. Ist, 1863,—a1l the slaves in the rebel states of America are legally free, so declared by Abraham Lincoln, as Commander-in-Chief of the military and naval forces of the United States. Near four millions art legally freemen to-day, who were slaves—chattel slaves—yesterday. What Congress could not do, neither the President as a civil magistrate of the people, has been done by him as a military commander. Let no one of our readers imagine that we are so sanguine in our opinions, oT short-sighted in our views, that we suppose the terrible struggle in America is about to cease. By do means, we are not sure as it has reached its acme. Conflicts in nations usually last in proportion to the length of time that the forces have been gathering, which give life to those conflicts. Now, as we read the history of America, two representative men —a Puritan freeman, from the yeomanry of England, and an African slave, from the coast of Africa—both landed in America in 16120. The one represented voluntary labor, and the other involuntary servitude. During more than two hundred and forty years they have been there at work. The question is now to be settled—shall freedom or slavery control the destinies of America ? This is the question. The freemen of the North cast their vote for freedom. The slaveholders of the South, outvoted, unsheathed the sword, hence this struggle, fierce and bloody. The conflict could not be avoided. Anthony Trollope was right when he said the North must fight. there is anything which savors of puerand childish gossip, it is to refer to the orrel! Tariff," or the antipathy of the Northern people to their Southern brethren, or ofthe Southerners to the Yankees, as the cause of the war. Othercountries have their sectional differences far stronger, yet are living in peace. President Lincoln is right when asserting in his late Message, that slavery is the cause of the war. Could anything be more supremely silly than the position assumed by Bishop McCosky, ofMichigan, in a sermon which he lately preached in Brooklyn, at the opening of the grave Assembly of the Triennial Episcopal Convention. The Christian Times, an Episcopal paper of New York, reports him to have made this statement, viz., that "our national calamities are all to be ascribed to the denial of Apostolic Succession in the ministry of the church, nnd the rejection of the dogma of Baptismal ration, the acceptance of which would to redeem us from the perdition to vc are hastening." B « The Editor, who is an Episcopalian, aptly remarks : "More in sorrow than in anger, we pronounce this sermon an insult to the church ; or, if endorsed by the church, then an insult from the church to the nation which protects it and guarantees it in all its liberties, so that even such a sermon as this can be preached by one of its chief ministers." We cannot speak for others, but for ourself we can obtain views most satisfactory relating to the probable issue of the present struggle, by reading Hume, Alison, Hallam, Bancroft and other historians, who are deeply versed in the history of the Anglo-Saxon race and ifs branches. The Puritan element is more potent in the Uniied States than some imagine. To suppose the leaders of the Southern rebellion will succeed in establishing permanently a confederacy of states with Negro slavery as the corner-stone, is to suppose them capable of throwing a dam across the stream of civil liberty, which has been running broader and deeper for hundreds of years— that stream commenced flowing more than a thousand years ago—"as well dam up the of the Nile with bulrushes." The Barons of England tried it in the days of the " wars of the Roses," and in the language of Alison, " they watered the English plains \Vaters with blood, from which has arisen a harvest of glory." On one battle-field, thirty-six thousand Britons fell by mutual slaughter. "The Barons of the South," (to apply to the slave-holders of the Southern States, an epithet coined by old John Adams,) have declared that they would decide the present " irrepressible conflict" by an appeal to arms. The freemen of the North acewpted the challenge, and now the contest is raging. How long it will rage, no mortal can foresee—but longer, we fear, than some imagine. The political cancer —slavery—which has been so long eating away the vitals of the nation, must be cut out. We hope there is vitality sufficient in the nation to survive the operation. If not, then Ichabod thy glory has departed—must be written upon the nation's ruins. President Lincoln, speaking in the name of liberty, the age and the Gospel, proclaims freedom to the slaves in the Rebel States ; and to the Loyal Slave States he would — offer adequate pecuniary compensation for fheir slaves. What he has done, we lielievc (he highest interests of humanity and the national welfare demanded, and rrad he done less, we fear it would have driven him from the White House. " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish," we are for supporting the President of the United States in this important mensure. He has but endorsed the Declaration of Independence. He has but renewed his oath to support the Constitution. We have no fears for the ultimate results. Items from a California Cokrestond- ent. —Oakland, Nov. 14, 1862.—" You probably are aware that one of our islandboys, Samuel Armstrong, is a captain, nnd was captured at Harper's Ferry by Stonewall Jackson. Nathaniel Emerson has joined the, army also, I hear. I have just read in A newspaper that W. F. Snow was ordained, Oct. 6, chaplain of the sth Massachusetts Regiment. Well do I remember W. F. Snow's thoughtful face, as we-sat in your Bible class years ago." "Rev. Mr. . . . Bcckwith is at work at Old Mission Dolores. It is now quite a city suburb. Mr, Bcckwith preached a noble sermon last Sunday, from the words: 'Fori determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ nnd Him crucified.' His prospects of usefulness are very good. Mr. Strong is preaching in another suburb ofSan Francisco. He resides in Oakland. He has taken the joint editorship of the Hesperian. Dr. Pierson is toiling away tit Brooklyn. Mr. Taylor has gone (from Columbia) to Petaluma." J. A. D. "South Seas." We have received the May number of the jpamoan Reporter, published by the English Missionaries at Upolu, Snmoan or Navigator Islands. It contains the journal of the Rev. Mr. Murray, the delegate from the Mission, who was sent to visit all the islandsand missions touched at by the missionary bark John Williams, during her fifteenth trip among the islands of the South Seas. The inland of Aneiteum has been visited by measles, hurricanes, famines and other calamities. This is the island where the Rev. Mr. Geddie is luboring, who visited Honolulu in 1546 or '47, en route from British America (Prince Edward's Island,) to the South Seas, as a missionary. His mission has been a prosperous one, until the late disasters. The measles were taken to the islands by a sandal-wood trading vessel. So rapidly did the disease spread, that nearly the whole population of the island was down at the same time. Eleven hundred natives died, or about one-third part of the population. Not a dozen upon the island escaped. Some hitherto heathen islands in the New Hcbridc group, are now to be supplied with missionaries. Upon the whole, the work of the missionaries is encouraging, although attended by many obstacles. Af Apia, on the Samoan Islands, English preaching is now kept up. The average congregation is nbout forty. An English school has been established. For the support of the school, donations are solicited by J. C. Williams, Esq., (son of the old missionary,) H. B. M. Consul. The Samoan Christian natives have contributed, during the past year, for the support �of the gospel, about 14,800 in money, besides nearly $400 in cocoanut oil. We regret to no|icc that the Rev. Mr. Murray, in consequence of Mrs. Murray's illness, has been compelled to retire from the missionary work, in which he has been engaged for twenty-five years. Ship."—This advice is often given to sailors, but they are seldom inclined to follow it. This cannot be said of Cajitain Randolph, late master of the old ship South Boston, which has been condemned. He first shipped on board this vessel twenty years ago, and has served in every capacity, from a cabin-boy to master. This ship has been his home for twenty years. We have never known another similar instance. Capt. R.s success as a shipmaster shows what can be done when a man sticks to his ship." fficer of the ship John P. West calling ay his subscription for the Friend, ad, that he was bound home, having tached to his vessel about fifty months, "Stick I to your " his arrival home he hoped to have as the proceeds of his voyage. How etter for an officer who can give such Hint of himself, than one who is a icr," and merely ships to cam a few d dollars to spend in dissipation. New Roman Catholic Version or the New Testament.—Dr. Kenrick, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore; has recently put forth a new translation of the New Testament, in which, with other improvements on the Douay version, he substitutes " repent" for "do penance," &c. The Christian Chronicle remarks: "The good which may flow from this new translation can hardly as yet be estimated. To preach * repentance' rather than ' penance,' is all the difference between preaching a cold and lifeless formality, and the living regenerating truths of the oracles of God. We rejoice in thisstep of progress in the Romanist Church." Superabundance of Men.—There is, according to the census, an excess of 733,258 males over females ia the United States. This fact is noteworthy and ought to quiet the apprehensions of those who feared the war would cause an undue preponderance of women after peace is declared. No matter how bloody the war may be, or how long it may last, it cannot make away with threequarters of a million of lives. The waste of life may make the sexes nearly even, but even then we shall be better off than England, where the females are in excess by nearly a million, and the social problem of the day is how to provide them with husbands or occupations.—Exchange paper. How beautiful can time, with goodness, make an old man look. Ordination of a Chaplain—Mr. W. F. Snow, of Honolulu. We deem ourselves fortunate in being present at the recent Ordination of William Franklin Snow, as Chaplain of the sth Massachusetts Regiment. The services were held in the Franklin St, church, Somerville. Mr. Snow is from Honolulu. He came to New England some years ago to be educated—graduated at Harvard in 1861, and was studying for the Ministry at Andover, when he heard a call from his country that he could not resist, and in the spirit of true patriotism, he enlisted as a private in the Somerville Light Infantry. He was soon chosen corporal, and was serving in camp, in that capacity, when with great unanimity he was elected chaplain of the regiment with which his company was connected, and on the evening of October 6th Was ordained to his sacred office. The occasion was one of deep interest. Mr. Snow was a member of the Franklin St, church, had been a teacher in its Sunday School, and was thus known and loved by a large part of those who gathered to unite in the services. Brief and appropriate selections from Scripture were read, and the opening prayer offered by Dr. Neale of Boston. The sermon, by the Pastor of the church, Rev. Mr. Packard was earnest, and though prepared at short notice, was happily fitted to the occasion. The consecrating prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Marvin of Medford, was brief and pertinent. The Right Hand of Fellowship, by Rev. Plumb of Chelsea, was quite informal and unstudied, but affectionate and admirably fitting. The closing prayer was by the Rev. Mr. Hooker of Medford. At the opening of the service it was announced, that at the close there would be a presentation of a sword to the young Chaplain from the Sunday School. This, we confess, did not strike us pleasantly, but the Unassuming and affectionate manner in which the presentation was made by the Superintendent ofthe School, and the modest and touching response of the young Chaplain, did much towards reconciling us to what we still think an inappropriate presentation. There was one thought particularly, in Mr. Snow's response, that was deeply affecting and impressive. He accepted the sword, he said, only as a symbol, not for use. The use of the weapon was not for him. He was called to another service. His position in the regiment must be in the rear, the saddest plate of all. He must stand back and see his brave comrades rush to the conflict in the face of peril and death, and when they fall must bear them from the field, and minister to them, as he best could, the immortal faith and hope of the Gospel. We cannot recall his precise words, but they Were spoken with a pathos and tenderness that showed how gladly he would take the post of danger if permitted, while he clearly saw that his mission, as a minister of Christ, was "not to destroy but to save." Many eyes were wet with tears as he spoke still further of the peculiar nature of his mission, and nsked for the prayers of all, for himself, and the brave men now girding themselves for their country's service. As he stood there in his plain soldier's 5 THE FHIEND, JANUARY, 1813. dress, with only the humble stripes of a corporal upon his sleeve, we could bat think how the conflict in which we are now engaged levels all artificial distinctions, and brings all true hear}| upon the common plane of a common devotion to the one all absorbing cause. The only time we ever saw thia young man before was at the Cambridge Commencement, when he graduated, arrayed in black gown, delivering his " Disquisition," upon a theme which very likely his heart as well as his head had chosen, " The criterions of missionary success." How little did he then dream that in so short a time he would be called from the midst of his preparatory studies, and in the simple garb of a common soldier, be consecrated amid prayeis and tears to the ministry of Christ on the battlefield. So it is that cherished life plans are laid without a murmur on the altar of tiuty in this trial hour. May God bless the young chaplain, and grant answers or peace to the many prayers that will be offered for him t. and his heroic comrades. Christian Register,Boston. — Important Arctic Discoveries. —The following is a copy of a telegraphic dispatch from Mr. C. F. Hall, the arctic voyager, who reached St. John's, N. F., upon his return on Friday last. It is addressed to Mr. H. Grinnell of New York city : St. John's, N. F. Aug. 22, 1862. I am bound for the States to renew my voyage. I have not prosecuted my mission to the extent proposed, on account of the vessel: but I thank God that He hath impowered me to do so much. I have determined the fate of probably two boats' crews of Sir John Franklin; have solved the mystery of 300 years relative to Sir Martin Frobisher's expedition under Queen Elizabeth, and have learned the fate of five of the men captured from Frobisher by the Esquimaux. I have found and identified the exact place of their landing and prior account of Warwick's Sound: from thence Frobisher attempted to plant the colony of one hundred men. 1 have recovered Avassa, Varedi and a large number of relics of said expedition, and have explored over one thousand miles of the sea coast, including the so-called l-robishers Simits, which I found to be a deep bay terminating in latitude 63 48 N. longitude 70 W. I have also discovered a great glacier and a mountain of fossils between Hudson Straits and Bay of Frobisher. The George Henry was about to depart for the States Aug. 9, 1861, but> thick-ribbed ice kept her entombed until Oct. 18. The ship's company subsisted mostly through the winter by the generous hospitality of the Esquimaux. I bring with mc a family of three people— man, wife and child. The records ol my work exceed three thousand pages. I will report details to you of my expedition on my arrival.. C. F. Hall. Donations—For the support of the Bethel from, several " friends," $20 00. For gratuitous distribution of the Fntnd, received from a friend, $11 75 ; from agents of ships Ematatd andCiithrnne, $10 00. �6 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 1863. Captain Newald, alias Captain Dixie. During our trip to Micronesia, in the summer of 1861, we met at the Island of Ascension, quietly domiciled in the family of the Rev. Mr. Sturgrs, the missionary at Ronoldri Station, an American shipmaster, introduced as Capt. Newald. He was one ofthe most gentlemanly, courteous and intelligent men, whom it was ever our privilege to become acquainted with. He was from Boston, and, to appearance, a more shrewd and competent ship-master we are confident docs not walk the quarter deck of an American clipper. He was well-read in the current literary and scientific literature of the age. He represented himself as having been employed in times past as a confidential agent of certain Boston and New York insurance offices, besides being engaged in certain agencies for the United States government in the East Indies and China. We siw him repeatedly during our stay at Ascension. He was often on hoard the Morn\ng Star, and with him we took many a pleasant ramble over the reefs and along the shores of that beautiful island. He was ostensibly engaged in building a small schooner ; but, after all, the painful impression was left on the mind that something was not right, or in other words, there must be a screw loose somewhere! Yet we felt unwilling to harbor such a thought, for really, a more agreeable, companionable and kind-hearted man we never met on land or sea. In our interviews he spoke of having once visited Hilo, and of being acquainted with Messrs. Coan, Pitman and numerous other foreign residents of that port. During our visit to Hilo, last srimmer, we found that such a man as Capt. Newald had visited Hilo, but under the name of Dixie. We learned some facts about him which indicated that he had left his country "under a cloud." The facjs, so far as now known, are well told in the following letter addressed to the Rev. A. A. Sturges, of Ascension, and written by a gentleman on Hawaii. We should not publish these facts, were it nut that anxious fears are now entertained he may have escaped with the Hawaiian schooner lahohho, commanded by Captain Bush. The LUwliho sailed from Honolulu iv November, 1861 ; touched at Ascension in February, 1862; took Capt. Newald, alias Dixie, on board, but has not since been heard from. The liholiho was bound on a wrecking expedition to a group of Islands to the westward of Ascension. Waiouhu-, Kau, Dec. sth, 1062. Riv. A. A. Stcrob : Dear Sir—From Mr. T. Coan, or Hilo, I have learned the history of the man who, under the name of Capt. Newald, spent many months under your roof. About four or five years since, this man, named Capt. Dixie, was one of the moot popular captains who nailed out of Boston or New York. In command of a fiuo ship, own- ed in Boston, he sailed for the Kant Indies. In some of the eastern scus his ship struck upon a rock and was sinking, when another Boston Captain, named Pitman, came to his rescue. Alter tuking off the cmw of Cuptain Dixie's Finking ship, Captain Dixie said to Captain Pitmuu, privately, that he had down in the run of his ship some boxes of specie, $8,000, which if he, Capt. P., would help him to save, they two would divide the specie batman them. To this Captain Pitman agreed. Taking four of the crew they—the Captains—paid eueh of the four $100 to help tin-in. making them taku oath that they would never tell ; then passing the boxes of specie out the cabin windows ot the sinking ship, they took them on board of Captain Pitman's ship and the two captains proceeded on their vovuge. AVlien approaching theAmerican coast, Capt. Dixie landed in a boat with the same lour men, tuking the boxes of specie and burying them in the sands of the shore of Nantucket ur of some inland near Boston. The ship and Captains then prececded to Boston. Kre long the sailors who had sworn secrecy and who uided in bringing the stolen money, told of their doings and the report reached the ears uf the late owners of Cuptain Dixie's ship. They sent the police to arrest the two captains und seized Captain Pitniun, but Captain Dixie escaped. They ale-o sent officers to guard the seized treasure till they could send fur it. Captain Dixie, eluding the police, took a bout from Boston, and landing in the night on the shore where the money was buried, found the übsent warming themselves under some riendly roof. He took the money to New York, shipped it for California and went mi himself to meet it. With this money lie bought in San , loaded with lumber, in Francisco the brig this brig he came down to llilo in 18.r>B or 1850. On being boarded by the llilo pilot, he learned that Pitman was one of the principal business men of the place. This disconcerted him sonic. But on learning that this Pitman hud been a resident of the Islands some 20 or 30 years, he decided to enter the harbor. In llilo Kay he sold some lumber and 1 think left some on the beach that be did not sell. lie spent several weeks in Hilo, rendering himself generally agreeable and entertaining in all companies. lie uppeurcd much at leisure, und visited either the volcano of " Kilaucu," or one of the eruptions. His general information seemed very extensive and he was evidently a well-read man, and highly ?;imrd gifted in conversation. While he lay in llilo, a whaling-captain happened in, who recognized him, and who asked him if he had not met him in such and such a hotel in Boston at such a time. " No," said that was my cousin, who stole Capt. Dixie, that money—master of such a ship—sailed to the East Indies—the biggest scamp that ever sailed out of Boston !" While remaining ot Hilo, Capt. Dixie became quite intimate with Mr. Conway, Mr. Pitman's bcok-koeper. While getting the brig under way sad afte*r under way, just us Mr. Conway was leaving for the shore, Capt. Dixie said to Mr. Conway, " 1 am that scamp of a Dixie who stole that money ; good bye." He professed to bo bound from Hilo to Sydney. " From Mr. Damon's and Cant. Gclctt'saccounts ofthe Capt. Newald whom they found at Konokiti, there is no duubt but that he is the samo as the Capt. Dixie. Indeed be told Mr. Damon, at your house, that ho had been at Hilo in com(1 forget the name.) When mand of the brig at Hilo, some months since, Mr. Duraon mentioned, in conversation with Mr. Coun, that he met 'at Ascension Island, Capt. Newald, who said he at such a time "had been at Hilo in the brig Mr. Coan replied that he remembered the vessel and the Captain, but that that was not his name. Referring to the record of vessels, Mr. tVian found tho brig aud tbo Captain's naaio was Dixie. lie lias probably sold his vesssol in Australia, and is wandering over the Pacific with the proceeds of his stolen quins. He was building a sehooncr ut Knnokiti, Capt. Celett informs us. We learned some months since, from a letter from Mr. Doann, thut this 'upturn Nuwuld hud taken passugo in the schooner Ltholilin, on her wrecking expedition to the westward from Ascension. She hus probably either been wrecked on somo of the reefs of Western Micronesia, or has fallen a into the-hands of this exploiting Captain < firey )ixie. We feci real pain of heart to give publication to these facts ; nnd if, in the course of time, it should be proved true that we have misrepresented an innocent man, he may be sure it will afford us joy to refute the imputations which have been cast upon his char, acter, for the reader may rest assured he might circumnavigate the glolie and find hut few more competent, accomplished and gentlemanly ship-masters than Capt. Newald, alias Dixie. We cannot refrain, "in concluding our notice of this unfortunate man, from drawing this moral reflection—how much depends upon saying to the tempter, "Get thee behind me." One false step and the poor man's character is gone forever. He flees his country a guilty man ; his employers are defrauded and his friends made ashamed of him, while he must wander an outcast from society to which he might have shown himself so much an ornament; and few men in his position had seen more good society than he had, in various parts ofthe world. Slaves in the South.—Should the rebellion continue in its present shape until the Ist of this month, the number of slavewhich will on that day be emancipated, under the proclamation of the President, will be as follows : Alabama Arkansas ■ Florida Georgia ... Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas - Eastern Virginia Total, accord'g A School - t0 Census Among of 1560,3,405,015 the Contrabands. From the New York Independent of Oct. 2, we copy the following, showing that thereis one female teacher, at the South, teaching the freed slaves' near Fortress Monroe. is divided into two departmental— " Thejustschool learning their those letters, in tho lower of room, under the care of Miss M. S. (rrrrn Sttndmrh blonds, and those further advanced' in the upper room, under the care uf the Principal C. P. Day of N. Y. When the school was commenced lust spring, there were hardly a half-dozen who could mid, while now, after only three months or a little over of instruction, there aro more than twelve classes, numbering in all over hundred children, who can read and spell with tho fluency and correctness of many white children of tlie North. one �ADVERT I SERVIENTS. Respecting EdwardDroken, who was discharged from ship Congrcu 4d. Capt. Ssranburg, March 14, IH6O. Any Information will be most gladly received liy the cdllor of the Friend, or hy his mother, Mrs. itury Drohon, hi South Main St., fall Itiver, Mass. Respecting Robrrt I. Frazirr, who left the United States five years ago on board the Mocter.uma," Capt. Tinker. About two years ago, he was on hoard the •' American," Capt. Pease. although he has His proper name is Kdward, W. Rollins never sailed under that name. Any Information will be gladly received by the J&litor, and communicated to his friends in " nostra! Respecting, JI. Auttin, of Providence, R. 1., who lea the ship Hodman, about IHM, at Honolulu. Perhaps Capt. Spencer may recall this man, if ao, please communicate with Mrs. C. B. Austin of Providence or editor ofthe friend. tUM'L. «. UASTLK. J. H. COLE, Ilni»orter* and Wholesale and Hi tail dealers in General Mer- (SCTOKSSOR TO A. P. aVKaBTT.) 316-1 w At his late rooms, Uueen Street. 11. W. SEVERANCE, AGENTS FOR Dr. Jaynes Medicines, Wheeler Wilson's Sewing Machines, The New *•Kngland Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash assets $2,360,000, Haynnlds, Devoe A Pratt—lmporters and Manu'ncturers of Paints. Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil, C. Van Home k Co.'a Carriagea and Carriage Materials. MMa Next door to the Post Office—up stairs over the "Commercial Advertiser" Printing Office. HONOLULU. Will continue business at the old stand on llueen street. al6-ly DR. J. MOTT SMITH, DENTIST. Office corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. 832-ly TAKEN' IN EVERT Amhroty|*'S, Photographs, Melaineotypes for PICTURES •sash Landscapes, Views of dwellings, fee, at rcasLuck's, Itc, U oaabla price*. ALSO OiV HAND—A goal assortment of FANCY CASF.S, IT- irj 11. L. Oil ASK. FKAMF.r. '•«, REMOVAL. GEORGE W. YOIsLUOT, BOOK-BINDER! E. HOFFMANN, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Makee's Block, cornerQueen and Kaa 320-ly huuiaiiu streets. 11. STANCENWALD, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, Late New York City Dispensary Physician, member of the Medico ChirurgicalCollege and of the Pathological Society of New York. Office at llr. .ludd's Drug Store, on Fort Street. Residence In Nuuanu Valley, opposite that of K. 0. Hall, Ks.|. 330-ly ... Y. H. WETMORE, M. D. * SURGEON, To sick American Seamen, and general practitioner, HILO, HAWAII, S. I. N. B. —Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the HILO DRUG STORE. BREWER 3d, Ueneral Merchant and Agent for the tale of the products of the 324-ly Brewer Plantation. \M.i:> & BERRILL, SUCCESSORS TO George W. Macy, KAWAUIAK. HAWAII. the General Merchandise and Shipping bus, net Will continue at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish tho Justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re cruits at are required by whale ships at the shortestnotice, 3'sJG-ly and on the most reasonable terms. * CASTLE COOKE, AGENTS FOR Wheeler & Wilson's SEWING MACHINES! MACHINE HAS A 1.1.Til X LATEST former premiums, was imp,ovements, and, in,addition THIS above all Kuropean American awarded the highest to prise and Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS In MM, and at theExhibition in London in 18M. The evidenceof the superiority of this Machine ii found In the record of It* sales. In 1801— TheOrorer k Baker Company, Boston, The Florence Company, Massachusetts, The Parker Com|»ny, Connecticut, i. M. feMnger t, Co., New York, Pinkieb. Lyon, Cnas. W. Howland, Delaware, M. Greenwood k Co., Cincinnati, 0., N. (J. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., ■Wilson H. Smith, Connecticut, sold 18,66u, whilst the Wheeler ft Wilson Company, of Brldgel-n, made and sold 19,720 during the same period. IM XT Pltmrn. Call >vl E»s»lsw. " " — STYLE, AUOTI O 3W133311« AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, C. m chandtsc, In theFireproof Store in Kingstreet, opposite the Seamen'■ Chupc]. GALLERY ATJOTIONEEn. 6-tf SAILOR'S HOME. .v COOKE, CHASK'H •Ambrotype and Photographic ADVERTISEMENTS. CONSULAR PHYSICIAN ADVERTISEMENTS. AMOS. H. COOKS. CASTLE 7 THE FRIEND, JANUARY, 18*3. STAND OM HAVIXfJ TAKENtheTHE Co.'s bank, now Lockwiasl, KA- shop furnierly oocupietl hy J. o|i|«wite Bishop 4; prepared to is binding fur ul> orders execute Pamphlets* lllii..lriile<l Ni'wsnnprrs, Mnyii /in,--. ahii'imnu Street, ..v.r Music, Old Hooks, ir. to rcl>indiii< old and choice books. paid attention Particular Mr. Y. havini! had many years rxnaarlenos in book-binding in all Its branches, hopes to receive a share of the business required In Honolulu. Orders from the other islands, should lie accompanied with particular directions, as to the style, and, if the work is lomatch volumes previously bound, it sample volume should he sent with the job. 341am THE SAILORS' lIOJIK, BUILT AN» Honolulu Sailors' Home owned by the Society," has recently been placed under the management of the undersigned. They hope, by strict attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the seafaring community. The House has teen built and fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises). Shipmasters and Agents, while putting their vessels under repairs, are respectfully invited to send their crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort. $6 Ofnoers' table, with lodging, per week,. Seameng' do. 6 do. do. do. CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT, Managers. Honolulu, March 1, 1861. übsrmam rici, Establishment, in Kaahuiuauu street, will be the following works Aln tanks for 1862. Merobnnt's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Assistant. Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. —aijo— — —ALSO — Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. —ALSO C. BREWER fc CO., llua.lulu. Ossbu, 11. I. -KKKKK TO— John. M. Hood, Ksq New York. JAMMS HCNNKWKLI., Ksq., } Boston. Chablsm llhkwkk, Esq.,% J 11. A. Pluses, Ka |~ »*» Freneueo. Hongkong. Cha.. Wolcott Bsooss, Kaq., i .Ylksmhs. Wis. Pcstao k Co., Mmhmms. PssLl, Hibiill Co * 330-ly D. c. Manila. trams. ). o. miss It, IfIcRUER A. Tl I ICICI l,l>, Herehante (ommission AUCTIONEERS, —aLao- AOINTB OF TIIK English Charts of North and South Pacific. —ALSO— A great variety of other articles useful to the —AND— Mariner. Many ornamental articles, including Breast Pins, 4c. &c, Rings, Cups, Particular attention given to repairing and rating Chronometers. BIBLE, BOOK and TRACT DEPOSITORR, SAILOR'S HOME, HONOLULU. BOOKS AND TRACTS, in the English French, Portuguese, German, Welsh, Swedn and Spanish languages. These books are offered for sale, at cost prices, by the Hawaiian Bible and Tract Societies, but furnished BIBLES, GRATUITOUSLY TO SEAMEN. Also, Office of The Friend, bound volumes for sale. Subscriptions received. N. B.—Seamen belonging to vessels lying "off and on," will be supplied with books and papers, by calling at the Depository, from 12 to 8 o'clock F. It. 8. C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. — THE FRIEND, fi«i 1845 lo 1862 lor salt by Publisher. Price, f 1 per vol. bound together. Of a. lost Boston. cias. AMD Chronometers and Chronometer Watches. BOUND VOLUMES r. rum, Honolulu. Commission & Shipping Merchants, : Ship's Compasses and Dividers. ii. A. Honolulu. BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'S Watch and Jewelry AT found " of Honolulu Packets. Regular Dispatch Line 1 r Xll freight arriving in transitu for the Sandwich Islands, will be received and forwarded by the "Regular Dispatch Line', rsas or COMMISSION. Particularattention paid to forwarding and transhipment ol merchandiae,sale of whalemen's bills, and other exchange, lo■ •nrance of merchandiseand apecle under open policies, auppy ng whaleshlps, chartering ships, etc. 117 and 119 California street, Captain B F. Bsow, Messrs. O Bsiwsa 4) airus TO: I Co., Honolulu. ) THE~FRIEND :~' A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMN. TERMS: ... On* copy, per annum, Two copies, Fit* copies, " : - - f 2.08 S.OO 600 �TIB FRIENP, JANUARY,IB63. 8 COMMERCIAL FALL CALENDAR, 1863. \Amml "*"<,- I -Il ! N g2 to 2 �» • S 53* [| Ii 2 OF "il •! I • g|Sigi£ 5 Sig '2:1 77(77TT .. 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J!""*"" V J^ ?*"".'"!. 8i>utli Boston Mnet 12 3 4 6*6 7 8 9110 1112 18 14 £ 20 21 22 28 o 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 2 '2417 2618 2619 27|28!29 30 fe 22 28 24 25 20 27J28 2880.. ..1.. ,31 Il 2 8-4 6 6' 1 2-3 4 6 yi 7 8 91011 12 18| 6| 7 8 91011 12 fc 14 16 111 17 18 19 20 g 13 14:15 16 17 18.19 P U1122 28 24 25 26 27 g 20 21 22 28 24 25 20 28120 80..!..!.. Ii27 28 29 30 31 ..'.. « 9J 10,11 12 13,14*15 10 8466 7 8 .. .. .. .... ! 0 *"™ Flauet J*' 10 Milton . . .. Kmily Morgan J. P. West POST OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Dec. 2—Haw sch Marllda, Copeland, 13 days from Farming's Island, with about 10,000 galls cocoanut oil. 2—Haw back Kathleen, Marchant, 30 days from Alberot, Barclay's Bound, Y. I. ft—aim clipper ship Lotus, Leckie, 18 days from Sao Francisco, anchored outside. Sailed again same day for China, with 22.166 lbs fungus. B—Am hark Young Hector, Coo. Paty, 16 days From San ■ransisco. % B—Columbian brigLopud, Benedict, SO days from I'ugrt Bound, en rotate for Adelaide, S. A., with cargo of lumber. I*at4n here Torrepairs. 9—Bok Maria,0r*M,.32 days from Howland's Island. 12—Am wh bark Florence-, Jos.Spencer, from the Ochotsk, 1100 wh, 14,000 bone, season. 13—Am wh bfc Martha, Cornell, to Ochotak viaLahaina, 500 wh, 6000 bone, season. 13—Am barkentlne Jenny Ford, BtcCarty, ITJ dayi from Puget Sound, with 200,654 ft rough lumber, 60,191 ft dressed do., 16.97ft t-a picket*, ftO M shingle*, 7 boxes apples. 14—JUb clipper ship Kingfisher, Freeman, 18 days from Ban Francisco—came Inside. Sailed again on the 17thfor Shanghac, with 1200 qr. sacks Hour, 36 bags cruahed sugar. 10—An clipper ship Cyclone, Ingeraoll, 11 days from San Fraociaco, passed this port, bound to China, lft— Am wh bark Massachusetts, Green, from Ochotsk via Uhaina, 90 sp, 700 wh, 9000 bone, aeason. Off and on. Bailed again on the lUth, for Line and Arctic. 21—Am barkentlne Constitution, Robinson, 17 days from Paget Bonnd. M—British bark Damietta, Lorell, 169 days from London via Tahiti, with mdse to J. T. Waterhouse 26—Am ahlp Zinaara, Milktt, 47 days from ftiget Soand, en route for Valparaiso, with lumber. Put In here fur repairs. PASSENGERS. Krorntss Fsasoisoo—per Toting Hector, Dec. %—Ttn I JiartleU »nd 2 ohudrwn. MissKnima Smith. Chas O Hopkins, Lornn Miner, D B Frater, A B McCoy. R Davis, Kichs/d Knight, Hsunehume, Vt'Uuana, Oeorf*. from Howlihd's Islastd—per Maria, Dec. O—W Kinney, •wlft tad 8 children, Capt 1-ennaliow, Mr Kirby, ami 2iilawai- iaoav Vor Bas (suuvcuco—per Young Hector, Dec. 23—Capt Stall, Mr Stair, Capt Penhalfow, J B Batter, M Smith, C O Bropstins, Jenkl . ,,', r ! ',. ,' uuclsherg ,, u0 lArefco '!" Long Btlvsai Dallnmn tuniliain ' " lrt«sU *°,,„ ,,„ °«OoUll Honolulu .Arctic ,|„ Hil„ u,„ ' ,|„ do ,." Otbofk Uhalna Arctic Honolulu do ;Hilodu |0ch..t,k Honolulu I epiiij-tmie .Arctic Hamilton Ochotsk .Williclm du ,<*umn do Randolph '" l0 do *> Lahalna Honolulu cl Manchester llchnlsk Arctic do I?" IMrvent do do do do do do do 1I0 do <lo jllalsey do lo do Tinker do do do do do Lalmina do do Honolulu Whiteside Lagoda ,Ciiin»too Miissachusetts Martha Hloreuce lOreenu ( '" '" r 11 Jos. Spencer do *> ,1,1 do . FOR 1862. or 0» ™« »«*«"«• Wh. Hone. r S, !«snriw 20 .... H,VAL «o. moo 1*40! 23000 21 27 , DEPARTURES. Dec. 2—Am wh ship Othello, Killmer, to cruise and home. 2—Am bark Yankee, Taylor, far SanKrancist:o. 3—Am wh bark Catherine, Phillip.-:, for California const. 3—Am wh hli C. W. Morgan, Hamilton, to cruisehome. 4—Am wh bark Isabella, Tucker, for home. 6—Olden, wh brig Comet, Wilhelm, for California coast. B—Haw sch Mariltia, Oopetaad, for Fanning 1! lal.n.d. 10—Am wh ship Nassau, Hldmlge, for New I led Turd. 11—Am ship Raduga, Burditt, for Boston. Dec. 12—Uawwhhark Harvest, Lo vela nd,for Line ami Wefltifl 13—Am wh bark Fanny, Bliven, for Line and Westward. 16—Am wh bark Cicero Stivers, for Line nnd Ochotsk. 16—Oldenburg bark Braganxa, Feibehr, forLine, Japan and Arctic. 16—Am wh ship Kmily Morgan, Whiteside, for home. 18—Amwh ship Milo, Fordham, for home. 20—Oldenburg bark Planet, Dallmau, for Bremen. 22—Am wli ship Navy, Sarvent, to cruise on the lane. 23—Am bk Young Hector, Com. Paty, fur Sun Francisco. 24—Am harkt. Jenny Ford, MeCarty, for Vi toria, Y. I. 26—Am sh Anglo Saxon, Caverly, for the Guano island*. 26—Haw. bark Kamehameha 111., (late Kmerald,) It. G. Spencer, for Hamburg. 26—Am wh bark Lagoda, Pelrce, for Line and Arctic. 26—Haw. brig Wailua, Scbol, for Bremen. Returned to port again same day, leaking. 27—Am bark Constitution, Robinson, for Puget Sound. 28—Oljten'g bark Sylpliide, Ossenhruggcn, far Bremen. 30—Am wh bark John P. West, Tinker, for home direct. MEMORANDA. C Schooner Maria, Crane, reports—Left Honolulu Oct. 16, and arrived at Howland's Island Nov. 1. Oct. 24, passed over a sunken shoal, (not down In any of the charts on board,) lat. was much ° 66 N., long. 164 ° W. ; the water about this spot 4 fathoms of discolored, but the rocks were visible, with about(lolden ship Kagle, Howland's Island Nov. 6, at Left water. Swift loading guano—to sail alamt Nov. 18. Saileil again foe HonoluluNov. B; experienced head winds and squally weather all the way. Arrived at Koloa Dec. 7. and found there the sloop Louisa, Bent, 28 days from Palmyra Island i tits captain condition, with was sick, and the crew actually in a starving only two quarts ofwater on board on their arrival. Arrived at provisions left for Honolulu on the Mi—all well, and enough another such cruise. Spoke whale bark Covington, Oct. 20, lat. 1= N., long. 172° W. XT Bark Florence, Jos. Spencer, reports—Left Honolulu Feb 10 and cruised first on the Line. Saw first sperm whale March id; same day, struck one, hut lost him on account of line pas-tint Touched at Seypan on the 17th, and there struck three huaspbaoks, but lost them all tnrough the line parting. April 20 left Guam for the North. Passed through the Straits and head winds into the 'ocbassk May 18 ; had bad wmUher until the23d, when we made the ice, with flue weather i 26th, saw and ttruck the first bowhead, and lost him in th*lc*, with 4 line*attached n*xt day took the first whale. Cruised princi- * ; a |°n. ths Vovaoi. whkbb | - B01HJn MTI or |ail"»c |iT]wiufcii7 ™* :^~~ors«M<57S 100*376, 63000 California 23 coast, 686 88001 (BOW Uwand ArcticW 15 Oct. 15 80 3300 60000 Home do In nort Oct. 3 MO "" '.'.'.'.'.'. .!! OstTM 1WI0 14000 ....2600 ii.1000 Home Nor. VI 10| loo 160U' 2S000. 060 2160 31000 Line and Arctic U,r. 1.1 660 7000 220 660! 7000 South Nov. 10 »!.... HiJnl 260001 00 *600i 21 Law. 2 a«l MM 12000 :I0 3200: OsOOOillnme do Nov. 21 34000 go 120ol IBOOo'Cal. c'st *j Arc. m 20 m oo 13000 1560 lSOOOlN. und home <wn Z. 21 31 300 5000 200 3300 16000 California Cast 21 31. 26 650 OOnol 69 1000 10000 do cl n. J ,l„ Nov. S trader!.... do Nov. 27 do 3.... 600 7600 300 1800 0000 do Dm. 12 6 ! 856 1200(1 wIsSOO 25000 Home 4 11 60J1000 14000■'' 300 1700 18000 Line 22 13 1700 220UO11 120J3400 42OO0 We« d and Arc. In port 14 00 1140 170001!.... 3400 WTO Californiacoast llec. 3 | 14. ioikp 101100 ! ...J4.I00 .ToOOO H.nne 2700, 20000 Californiacosst 14'.... 700 10000! 15 400 51*00 100 600 6000 Home 10 ! tt 20000 2000! 34000 Condemned... In port HII 500 5'*00 18 10000 Line A: Oclioislt Dec. 15 SO'lOOO' 18, 1900 91000 3200' 40000 Home 20 ]8 50 440 6000 1203100,35000, do 18 1000 12000 23000 Line In port 21....1450 21000 |Ilomc Ucc 15 23 20 000 8000 ....!.... do 30 <M0 20 7DO 8000 Line *■ Arctic. 23....IJ00J 23 90 700 9000 120'1306| 17090 Line 24 28.... 500 6000 ...J.... Home In port Dec. 12 .1100 14uo* I do M BOO 1300 20000 60,1160 16000 400 ,.a..y,„B.W.B.y,andcapture..,,ent,-,^,n._„oohr,. 'south m..'.."."'. «.... .... .... \ » ... .. .... .... 1 .... .... : ».... « ■ ........ * Condemned, hut refitted, and sailed again under the Oldeuburg flag. ! ■■ MARINE JOURNAL. , I "onoium \Um Bonin Is U>pn . »» I A„„ 1V „ D iT 'datb """'■ 1 T" ,° I Iroa-nson lion-land Catherine Cnas. W. Morgan 1 Isaac If" I"*"*1* WH k-"'^ "!'.'!' u-',', SHfffKo KI,lrMl Jeiieriil Teste .,*" *'.,""' Jicton,, ,",', 4 I -n!£L? w. „**0 " I.'.,',' g**" TV, u lt.nistable I caftaik. ! E£!T uHn Srjfl. 910 80 81 . K^ lr,.™oTL> i 7 8 16 8 910 111218 14,1. 1112 18 14 ISiieiK 18|19 2(1 21 ° 16,17 18:19 20 21 22 26126 28 28 26 2 24 26 27 28 20 2228124 27 I • vnasaL's (ami. _. FLEET oil and 14,000 lbs hone, ami lost upwards of 500 lirls through the means ol bad towllae. Oct. 16, left Fellxstoff with lifrht breeze from 8.W., iv company with hsrk Massachusetts, and stood for Ayan; soon alter. Hie wind suddenly hauled to N X., aeeompanicd with a hewvy snow-squall, so we altered our course lor the Slraits; there we experienced severe weather fur 16 daya from 1,1 Oct. '29\ passed through 49th passage, with strong gules from B.VV ; Anally, the wind became so terrific, we were obliged lo lay to for oU'hours after that, enjoyed good weather i until reaching lat. 48 ° 00 N.. long. 166° 00 W., wlun we took another heavy gale from U.S.J!..which lasted six hours; immediately after that. Cook another gale from 9.8.X., vesselunder close-reefed main topsail. At P.M., shipped a sea over thelarboard bow. which passed out over the starboard quarter; sprung bowsprit, jlbbooin and fly-jibboom, topgallant forecastle, lost monkey-rail on both, sides fore aud aft •, lost try-works, as well as starboard bulwasfcaaud gaaaway, ami split the aaiu rail, also lost one boat and stove two others ; in fact we lost every moveable thing on deck, and came very near losing the whole of the watch. Had a continuation of heavy gales fniai 8 to B.K. until reaching lat. 23» ,where we fell in with fine northerly brans*, which carried us to Hilo, after a passage of 60 days Lost threenative* In she Ocbotsh—one fell from the fore royal and soon after diedr the other two died from natural causes— their names were kLuliaina, Waialoh* and llaali. Arrived at Honolulu Dec. 1 ET Bark Damiella, Lovell, report!—Left London July g with heavy gales from W.S.W., and left the Downs on the 11th' lleturiied again at noon of same day on account ofbad weather Sailed again on th* IStr* sad turned down, the Channel against fresh gales. Left Mart Point on the iUS. Crossed theLine Atlantic, August 23d, long. 18°. with moderate Lreeies from west—42 days out. Was aff Cap* of Quod Hope Sept. 27—77 daysout j from thence to the coast of Australia, had a succession of very strong gales ami heavy sea, Came throat* Bass' Straits Nov. 3, with Hue weather, which, continued till sighting the Three Kings, north end of Hew Zealand after that hail succession of strong southsrly wiad»and squalls till the 2Wtha when the wind bee.m. light and vaa, .ble. Pat 1„„ hvefl Tahiti, Dec. l,on acoosmtol water.Unkslesktot-14»4, /out HaiM from there on the4th. Crossed the Line, I'acillc, yon the l.lUi, with moderate breess. from K.N.K.-B days from Tahiti. and 164 days from home. From e« N., took strong northerly gales accompanied with severe squalls and heavy i slghu-d J am on the 241h, weather continuing strong, andseaarrived 1lonm-alu same day—l96 days' passage, off the coast of at tralia, spoke Am. whale bark Alabama, 6 months oat from AusBay of Islands,bound to llobart Town. » — ; '' DIED. Blacxadas—At the U. S. Hospital, lo Honohvta, Dec 23 1862, John Itlackadar, late officer of whalshlp Hsrvest 1 In-longed to H. John's, New Brunswick wherehis friends' now/ reside. He had been sailing many years from these islands Aauns-At the U. 8. Hospital, Honolulu Dae. 16. John Argyle. belonging to Australia. Hla wife livTnir at -Owen's Digging's.', He desired letters to bewas sent directed mrecteu to the care of ClarenceHotel, Melbourne. Kiso—At the Queen's UosyitaL Usnolulu De* u *■*- ■ � 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 (1863) 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 - 1863.01.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.01.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b94e7cb609b9ed1a14245f3e6cb9966b.pdf b8ee5b6d9749bd18c8e0e9062ac30550 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE Beta Scries. M. 12, #0.2. J HONOI.I —-. P__». 0 10 10 10 Repeal of the Liquor Law Hawaiian* In California Brooks hissed—The Rebellion applauded Itiahopric of Madagascar Attoruey-General's Plea .' Distress la Lancashire 11, H ...1_ 13 13 13 14 H 10 IS 16 Drinking Liquor Unconstitutional An English bishop becomes an Infidel Tribute to American Mianionsr.es The Unseen Battle Field, (poetry) Koblnson Crusoe's IhUh-I. President Lincoln's I'n-clamation "To Kamehameha I." (poetry) Marine Journal, *c THE FRIEND. !•_■:_!Ill ARV 2 9 1863. LiqRTuoerhw-LpaatowseiDllnftruochionef {CDlb&rits, ©01. 20. 9 CONTENTS F«r Kebrsarr, 18tt3. 1.1. FEBRUARY 2, 1863. HawatihanR e ace. If the Hawaiians have enemies, at home or abroad, assuredly advocate the repeal of the liquor-law. California fillibusters will, of course, contribute to the fund for prosecuting the suit now pending before the Supreme Court. If it was our design to sweep the Islands with the besom of destruction, we should contribute our humble efforts to the advoctr-y of the unconstitutionality of the liquor-law. Hawaiian* flight to ride a free horse with a loose rein; now let down this tabu, and you let drop the rein upon the neck of the steed and away he goes. This is just what some people desire, but would it be best? Have the people asked it ? Have the planters, the business men, and others employing laborers, complained that the laws were too strict ? The Hawaiians are surely a most sensible people. Seeing the sad effects of rumdrinking, they enacted a law, by their representatives in Parliament, to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to themselves. The majority of tbe people desire the law to be sustained. We hear no complaint from any quarter that the law is unjust or oppressive, but a clique of foreigners, with a few sympathizers among the natives, have arrived at the conclusion that tbelaw is unconstitutional and should be repealed. We say, shame on such injurious and injudicious intermeddling with the domestic affairs of this people, by foreigners. From such professed friends, Hawaiians may well pray, Good Lord de- " liver us." We take pleasure in furnishing our readers with a sketch of the Attorney-General's argument. It will be found on another page. We commend it to the special reading of that class, in our community, who have, apparently without much reflection, run away with the idea that this lawis unconstitutional. It does appear to us passing strange, that the Polynesian and its friends can sit quietly by, or rather delight to see the floodgates opened, and yet be continually harping upon the desirability of perpetuating the Hawaiian race. Surely no man in his right mind, can for one moment argue that any possible good can result to this people, by allowing the native population free access to grog-shops. Why not let well enough alone? But we have no idea our Judges will see this subject in the same light as it appears to liquor dealers, who have so freely contributed their money to prosecute this suit. It will be time to abolish this law wher. the people, the planters, the business men, call for it, and until that time comes we hope it will be strictly enforced by the police and the other officers of this government. We met a gentleman recently from the island of Molokai, and he remarked that of late there had been a good deal of drunkenness among the natives. We asked him from what the intoxicating liquor was obtained ? He replied, " from sweet potatoes, water-melons, and various other substances." Persons acquainted with Polynesians know well their fondness for intoxicating liquors. Now if Hawaiians elect representatives to meet in Parliament, and those representatives pass a prohibitory liquor-law, and year after year refuse to repeal that law, does it not argue good, sound, common sense on their part? They are a sensible people, and should surelybe encouraged in their sobriety. We can hardly find words to express our abhorrence of the conduct of those who would plunge this nation into the vortex of intemperance. No, rather let every honorable, virtuous and Christian man, woman and child do all in their power, by example and precept, to uphold this law and every other wholesome restriction upon the manufacture, sale and consumption of intoxicating liquors. How it is possible for any person professing to be animated by Christian principle not to uphold this law, is passing strange and unaccountable. We are of the opinion of the late eminent Rev. William Jay, of Bath, the only Dissenting minister" of England, who " report says, was ever invited to preach before Royalty: subject of teetotalism, I have ex" Thephysically, amined morally and Christianly; and after all my reading, reflection, observation and experience, I have reached a very firm and powerful conviction—l believe that next to the glorious Gospel, God could not bleu the world so much as by the abolition of all intoxicating liquors."—Jay's Autobiography, page 106. The vending of spirituous liquors to the aborigines of Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti, is strictly prohibited by the law of each of these places ; a violation of this law will incur a heavy penalty by fine, imprisonment and forfeiture of the liquor-license. Now, we would ask, why should the aborigines of these islands be permitted the free use of ardent spirits more than those already referred to ? Some individuals may answer, " Because we want to get rid ofthem as fast as possible!" This would certainly be an effectual method, we have no doubt. The "Morning Star."-Thisvessel is expected to return from her trip to the Gilbert Islands, and be ready to sail for the Marquesas Islands on* or about the 20th of March. All persons desirous of forwarding letters and packages will endeavor to have tham in readiness. �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1863. 10 Hawaiians in California. A California correspondent of one of the Eastern papers thus writes : " In various parts of the state are thronged .the lowest class of American Indians, upon whom the whites, aided by the largesses of the state and the general government, have made frequent tears" (they might as well " rabbits,) while the churches talk of wars with have done absolutely nothing for their salvation. Yet is the good work begun. Certain pious Kanakas, who came over here from the Sandwich Islands in 1849-50, have settled near them, intermarried with them, and taught some of them the way of life. Several most interesting conversions have taken place among them ; and now these foreigners, themselves converted heathen, have organized a missionary society, with very limited means, to evangelize the heathen in this Christian land. It tells well for them, but ill for us, that the first effort for the salvation of our heathen, has been made by these foreign converted heathen. The Association took measures to inaugurate efforts for the salvation of these degraded creatures. J. R." Strange as it may seem, there is now living in San Francisco William Tennoe, a Sandwich Islander, (and a consistent member of the Bethel Church,) who left these islands fifty years ago, went to America, was educated at the Mission school in Cornwall, Conn., and came back to the Islands with the first company of Missionaries in 1820. It surely speaks well for the native Christians from our islands that amid all the "ups and downs" of California, they should have held on to their Christian profession. We recollect to have spent a day and night with a party of kanaka miners, in California, in 1849. They were digging upon the South Fork of the American River, about twenty miles above Sacramento. Some of them were Christian men, and they gathered around us in a manner we shall never forget. On leaving, several forwarded small quantities of gold dust to their families and friends at the islands. incident we shall not soon forget eh occurred while enjoying the kind hoslity of those Sandwich Islanders. There came to the encampment a trader—a rumseller—to tempt the poor people to part with their hard earnings! Yes, that rumseller was an educated lawyer!—an American! It is not very often that we tell such a man to his face, what we think of his trade, but we did on that occasion ! The idea that a man educated in Christian America, should descend so low as to peddle rum to kanakas, was one degree of degradation lower than we had imagined a man could go. It reminded us of the doggerel, a little varied: ■'ne I'd sooner blaok my visage o'er, " And pat dc shine on boot and shoe, Than stand within a ram-shop door And tempt kanakas to my store." a heathen land. We know the value of that flag. To be able to say, 'I am under the of the flag of the United States,' Tho Country Parson says that much de- protection was our glory in a foreign land, and nattess pends upon the way an idea is put. We is it our glory now. May God sustam*rt!" think the Editor of the London Morning N. B.—The only remaining son of the Star put most aptly the following compari- Rev. Mr. Forbes, is now the Pastor of a nason before the minds of his countrymen: tive church on the island of Molokai. " When Sumner was struck down in the Bishopric of Madagascar. senate house by a southern ruffian, all Europe hissed at the outrage, while the ladies "A committee, consisting of the Archof South Carolina presented its bully perpe- bishop-nominate of Canterbury, the Bishop trator with a gold-headed cane. The rebel- of London, the Bishop of Oxford, and severlion is just such a blow at the Union as Pres- al eminent lay members of the Church, has ton Brooks struck at Charles Sumner—and formed for the purpose of carrying out yet there are English hands and voices to been a proposal made by the Bishop of Cape applaud the deed as worthy heroes of partri- Town for the erection of Madagascar into an otism and civilization." Episcopal See, for which the consent of Her If a person will think a moment, he will Majesty's Government has been obtained. see that there is an inconsistency between The endowment for the new bishopric will hissing the deed of ruffian Brooks, and ap- be provided from the Colonial Bishoprics' aided by the great Church societies." Poor Fund, plauding the Southern Rebellion! Post. Brooks now lies in his grave, but the voice of Senator Sumner sounds forth, clear and Thus it appears that the members of the Brooks Hissed—The Rebellion Applauded! — sonorous, in the Senate.Chamber, advocating truth and freedom. We hope the rebellion will, ere long, be attended to its grave, never to rise again, while the Union shall long survive, to offer a home for the oppressed of all nations, and proclaim freedom to the millions of slaves, for whose perpetual enslavement the southern army is now fighting with an energy and valor worthy of a better cause. Disguise the truth as you may, it is for negro-chattel-slavery that the Southerners are now fighting. Read the following from a late number of the Richmond Examiner : "As the war originated and is carried on in great part for the defense of the slave-holder in his property, rights, and the perpetuation of the institution, he ought to be first and foremost in aiding, by every means in his power, the triumph and success of our arms. The slave-holder ought to remember that for every negro he thus furnishes he puts a soldier in the ranks." Church of England are about establishing a branch of their ecclesiastical form of Church Government in Madagascar. Whatever they may do, one thing is certain, the credit of having first planted a pure Christianity, and preached a pure gospel among the inhabitants of that island, belongs to the missionaries of the London Missionary Society. The people embraced that gospel, and have manfully maintained the cause of gospel truth amidst the terrors of a twenty years' relentless persecution. That Society has never withdrawn its watchfulness over the people. Three truly apostolic visits has the venerable Rev. Dr. Ellis mads to that island during the last few years. There is so much similarity between the inhabitants of Madagascar and our own islands, that we shall watch with intense interest the progress of the gospel there, as it was first promulgated by Independents, next by the Jesuits, and now is to be made by missionaries of tho Missionary old Sandwich Island Church of England. An HAS THREE SONS IN THE NORTHERN ARMY. Captain Brinsmade in the Rebel Army. —The following extract from a letter written —We have occasionally spoken of Sandwich by the Rev. C. Forbes, of Kendallville, Indi- Islanders being the in Northern Army, but at Kealekeana, and formerly a missionary we learn from a late number of the New an American akua, Hawaii, we copy from York Spectator, that Abbott Brinsmade, the paper: only son of the late P. "I believe the war is doing our little U. S. Consul, now A. Brinsmade, Esq., is a captain in the Rebel If out here. the creeping churches good Lord will work, I am content to let him work Army. It appears that his wife, a native of in his own way, even though it be by war New Orleans, on visiting New York has and bloodshed. I have three sons in the been arrested as a spy, but as some suppose army, and two of them were in the army of without the necessary proof. It appears that Virginia, and in General Prince's Brigade. They are probably with him prisoners in the Captain has lost a hand in some engageRichmond. The will of the Lord be done! ment. I want to have no will of my own. Oh ! to One Moss, now deceased, clerk of the be able to say always with Jesus, ' I came not to do mine own will, but the will of him court of Fairfax county, Va., stole the orithat sent me!' None of them are natives of ginal of Gen. Washington's will from the this country; they were all bom in the Sand- archives of the court, about the beginning of wich Islands; but I am willing that they the rebellion. It has been bought by the should sacrifice their lives, if God call them, British Museum. Measures should be taken for the flag that protected us sixteen years in to reclaim it. �11 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1863. it was decided that the License Act had no connection with, and was not incontravention of, the Penal Act now under debate; that both were subsistent and operative at the same time; and in addition to this, the lower House there were eight foreign mem- appellant himself, by his License bond, has bers elected entirely by Hawaiian votes, and bound himself to keep the law of which he sixteen native members, (here the Attorney- now complains, under which he has lived General named over several foreign and na- and yearly undergone the hardship of taking tive members.) Can these men be accused out his license for thirteen years—bount of fanaticism, or of missionary bias, as being himself not only to keep this law, which i rabid on the teetotal question ? I think not. in the Statute Book, but still further to obey Of those whom 1 have mentioned who were any Regulations which the Minister of the natives, there have not as yet appeared any Interior may make." With regard to their Hawaiian men who have compared with verbal and grammatical criticism, that it is these men to their disadvantage ; and for necessary to supply the particle to," afte the foreigners, it would be news to them who the verbs "sell and give," and the quantities o are now living, or those dead, if living, to authorities quoted to show that Courts ma] hear themselves classed as fanatics to-day, not interpolate words, in an act, to make sense or accused to have any serious aversion to a of that which would otherwise convey anoth g'ass of good wine, or, indeed, to have had er sense, or no sense at all, the labor o any influence brought upon them in their vo- getting together the authorities is certain! ting, beyond what a sound sense and a re- misspent, since no one would deny such a gard for the welfare of this nation prompted. proposition; and they seem to have overIt was plain to them thirteen years ago, as it looked the most obvious authorities, when is plain to them this day, that had this law they have forgotten that the word give and then failed to find its place on the Statute the like, do not require to after them—so Book, the Hawaiian nation would not in this that if we say, I will give you a bottle of year of our Lord, be found in the family of spirits," it is the same as if one should say, nations. No; theysaid thatthenation was fadI will give to you a bottle of spirits." ingawayfrom various causes. They knew that The Law is alleged by counsel to be in like agencies and internecine wars had been restraint of trade and common occupation." more efficient than the arms of the invading But thi_ is not a common occupation. In race, to sweep from a neighboring continent every land it is subject to law and to restraint. a brave and warlike race of otherwise stoical It falls into the same category as vending and self-restrained men. They had the pow- poisonous drugs, gunpowder, &c. er and happily the inclination, at the time, Is this law, then, inimical to freedom ? to shut out "this agent of destruction, and Are the natives of this kingdom free and they did it; and that they did it to some ef- equal ?" demands opposing counsel. Yes ! fect is evidenced (all talk about broken and we reply. In the words of Dc Lolme, quoignored law to the contrary notwithstanding) ted by him, To concur by one's suffrage in by the effort the vendors are now making to enacting laws, enjoying a share, whatever it set aside the Law. Nor has the history of may be, of power, and live in a state whero these last thirteen years among the foreign the laws are equal to all, (and sure to be expopulation strengthened their faith in the ecuted,) is to be free." In all these particuvirtues of rum, or impelled them voluntarily lars are the subjects of this kingdom free, to the abrogation of the Law. Delicacy for whether native or foreign! This law does surviving friends, will prevent me from indi- not militate " against the right of acquiring, vidualizing and call over the names of those possessing and protecting property, of purwho were here in 1850-«-the date of the suing or obtaining safety and happiness." enactment of the Law. But let any man (Con. Art. Ist.) To be free and equal besilently think for himself, how many are un- fore the law, this is the axiom of constituder the sod or under the sea, and pause to tional freedom. dwell on the cause, and then say to the peoIt is objected "that the Hawaiian may ple, if he can, that the Law is contrary to secure a license to sell, but he cannot buy public policy. Indeed, this branch of the his stock ?" He may import his stock and argument is closed effectually by the appel- sell the same, as the appellant does, subject lant's counsel, who, impelled, I have no only to the same regulations. He is not doubt, by the majesty of truth, himself admits barred from buying. We deny that it is a that the total exclusion of intoxicating right to sell indiscriminately and without liquors as a beverage from this community, regulation of law. That is a false freedom would be " God's blessing." Then so far, it which tends to destruction. There has been no inconsiderable amount is confessedly in accordance with sound public policy, and it is shown not to be in re- of declamation to the effect that this governstraint of common occupations, to which ment and the Constitution thereof, emanated point a large portion of their quotations have from the people, and a great deal about been directed ; and the fact that the Consti- Magna Charta, and some singularly inapprotution enables the Legislature to adopt spe- priate quotations therefrom, which, from the cial Legislation, when the same was for the language in which they were spoken, (Latin,) public good, (see Art. 62 of the Constitution,) were equally as unintelligible to their client was effectually set at rest in the case of Na- as their connection with the subject under one vs. Thurston, decided in this Court in debate was to the Court. There is no ingredient of Democracy in this government. 1856. The next point, that the law in question Powerful Barons have never wrested rights has been repealed by the License Act, was from an unwilling Monarch here ; successful ruled in the case of King vs. Elia, appealed revolution has never brought a Monarch to from the Circuit Court at Kauai—in which trial for his lite, nor set aside one line in fa- Argument of Hon. Attorney-General thoroughly and fully in the ascendancy; the Harris, on the Constitutionality King had called no foreigners, save his Minof the Law forbidding Sale of isters, to the Nobles ; and a Hawaiian Monarch signed the bill. Let us pass from that Liquors to Natives. Legislature to those succeeding. In the Sketch of The Law of June 21st, 1850, contained in the* Ist Section of Chapter 42 of the Penal Code, has been argued in the Supreme Court, as to its constitutionality. The law reads : Whoever shall sell, give, purchase or prooure for, and in behalf of, any native of this kingdom, or for bis use, any spirituous liquors, or other intoxicating drinks or substances, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 8200, and in default of payment of such fine, by imprisonment at hard labor for a term " not exceeding two years." This trial has been of much interest to this community, inasmuch as the effect of the law upon, and its necessity for, the protection of the Hawaiian race, divides the judgment of our community. The one class of thinkers averring the repeal of the law will open the flood-gates of ruin upon our nation : the other, that it is a slavish chain upon personal liberty, and degrades, rather than developes, the power of self-restraint in the native race. The main assault on the law is thus summed briefly : "This law is unconstitutional in the obviously broad and exclusive distinction between the civil rights of the natives of this kingdom, and adopted citizens and foreigners, and which fanatical-class legislation, we contend is invidious and unconstitutional; and in further support of our position we contend that the language of the Constitution forbids any other legislation than such as recognizes the perfect civil and equal privileges and immunities of all the people' of this kingdom, native, adopted and foreign, under like circumstances." ' It was declared to be repealed by implication, because of alleged inconsistencies with the license laws of the Kingdom, published subsequently to the act; and, further, it was argued that inasmuch as the law declares that " Whoever shall sell, give, purchase or procure for and in behalf of any native of this Kingdom, or for his use, any intoxicating drinkat substance, shall be punished," &c. Thatn would be necessary to supply the word " to" after the words " sell and give," so as to make the law of force when the sale or gift was directly to a native, instead of to another, or a middle-man, for the use of the native. And, further, it was said to be contrary to the 2nd Article of the French Treaty, which was quoted as securing to French subjects the right to sell all articles please. ofmerchandise of and to whom The Attorney-General replied, (though we only give his most prominent thoughts as we heard them,) by showing that the appellant in the case is not a Hawaiian seeking his rights, or complaining of oppression, but a British subject, endeavoring to extend bis privileges, by selling spirits to the Hawaiians. Nor can it be said again, that this people consider this law as oppressive. Since its passage in 1850, there have been eight parliaments, from the people; in all these the native members have been in large majority over the foreign members—yet in none has there been a single vote of a native member to repeal this law, to my remembrance, now declared by counsel so oppressive. In fact, the Hawaiians themselves passed and have sustained this law for their own protection. " Fanatical Legislation" is assumed as giving birth to this law. The Legislature of 1850 was under the old system ; affairs were then being organized; the nativo Hawaiian was " " " " " " " �12 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1863. vor of another, and dictated terms to the preferred dynasty. Nor, as in the United States, has revolution vested the entire government in the people, so that they had full right to make what government tbey p'eased, in which case, the people (sovereign in fact at the time) clearly retained all authority not expressly delegated to the ruling power; but, on the contrary, the Constitution was given by the King, voluntarily; by it he resigned certain rights of absolutism, until then vested in him from time immemorial, in the chicfish style ot government. What he gave by a fair construction of the instrument, (not by implications,) are the people's rights; what he gave not, remains still vested in his sovereignty. How then can it be said in the Hawaiian realm that the government has no right to pass sumptuary laws to restrain the appetites of its subjects, to protect its people by laws that conduce to the " common good, for the protection, safety, and happiness of his people," or that such laws interfere with the constitutional liberties of the people ? It is conceded that previous to 1850, the King had the right to interdict the sale of spirits to any and every one, both native and foreign; can it be deduced from the constitution of 1852 that he has ever abdicated thisright ? We think not. Such doctrine is pernicious —such declamation can have none other than evil effect. And in fact, they have abandoned their whole position at last, by saying that if the constitution was the only thing which they relied upon, the Law might stand ; but that the 2nd to 10th Articles of the French Treaty were conclusive against the Law. The rule of law is that treaties of amity and commerce cannot be construed into abdications or humiliations of sovereignty. They must be explained by their context and obvious meaning, and no subject of another power can claim rights under a treaty different from or beyond those claimed by the negotiators. Let us look at the 2nd Article: " Their respective subjects shall have the right to buy and to sell, of and to whom they please," ice., says appellant's counsel. If this clause may be segregated from its context, then, indeed, the vendor of spirits is beyond and above all law. He may sell not not only to the Hawaiian man but to the Hawaiian woman, aye, the Hawaiian child, to the Hawaiian maniac. He may debauch the whole rising Hawaiian generation, unrestrained by any perils which would come home to his fears were he thus to sell to the child of white parents. I draw not, your Honors, on fancy, when I state these possibilities, and having obtained this, they may claim a right to sell opium or other drugs to whom they please. But this clause, rendered by its context, clearly means, " to buy and sell" as relating to monopoly, contract or " sale or purchase," &c., exclusive privileges of for the article expressly says the privilege of the Frenchman shall be the " same privileges as the native bom." Again, the 10th clause of the treaty—the clause that really is devoted to the liquor question—uses the word " prohibited." It is contended " that the sale or purchase of imported spirituous liquors cannot be restricted in any manner to the prejudice ofimporters." It is a fact, that the law in debate was in exiMMsee aod had been in existence yean, when this French treaty was ratified ; it cannot be supposed that the wary and astute French Commissioner, who was familiar withits operFEBRUARY S, 1863. ation, and its effects, overlooked its bearing on the consumption of French brandies. Did he Distress in Lancashire, England. demand the abrogation of the law by using the word restriction, in the treaty, or was he satisThe Illustrated London News, and other fied that prohibition" covered the whole necessities " or possibilities of his case ? The papers, portray in frightful colors the distress term restricted is purposely omitted, and in the manufacturing districts of England. thecustoms returns show that French brandy Private charity and the operation of the poor is not a prohibited article in this country. It is not a Frenchman who comes to-day to law rates, are doing something to meet the demand rights under his treaty ; no, nor a necessities of the case, but they come far Hawaiian man his rights, be they constitu- short of feeding a half-million of starving tional or natural; but an English subject, people. In Lancashire alone, we have seen claiming to extend the gains of his trade in it stated that 600,000 are living upon charispirits, as a right, without let or hindrance, poor people are not only suffering by selling, when he pleases, to whom he ty. The for bread, but as a consequence of short rapleases, despite the sound policy of this tions a new species of fever has made its government, despite the welfare and conservation of this people, despite the dictates of appearance, which threatens to be more humanity, and despite the natural right of the alarming than starvation. We are glad to nation of defense against total destruction. learn from New York papers, that strenuous An Englishman's Thought.—The follow- efforts are now being made in America,, to ing remarks npon the struggle in America, send over ship loads of flour as a contribution. were written by an Englishman in America, Some New York merchants give in the and addressed to a friend in England. They style of princes. One man sent anonymously a check for 1,000 barrels of flour. His appear in the London Star : order concluded as follows : has indeed much to England * answer for in"the prolongation of this war, " Thank God, we have bread and to spare; by deviating from the proud position she and they will not say, I was hungered and once occupied as.the friend of the oppressed; ye gave me no meat.' Will you add to your for without her evident leaning in favor of list 'one thousand barrels offlour' from one the South, this war would long since have whose loaf will taste the sweeter for sharing ended, and she and her people would be in it with a famished brother, and brand it possession of the coveted supply of cotton, the lack of which is causing so much misAt a public meeting $46,000 was subery. scribed. A Mr. Dodge gave $5,000, others Verily, as you yourself remark, nations, like" individuals, suffer for their wrong deeds, give $2,000. Seven merchants give a thouLet England take to herself the lesson she sand each. At another public meeting. has been teaching. Let Ireland once more $20,000 was pledged. StelA, the dry rebel, and let America and the neighboring goods merchant, sent a check lor $10,000. countries of Europe at once recognise her The in New York subscription city has as a belligerent, let every vessel from hence that can enter her ports with arms, ammuni- already reached $200,000. Donations are tion, etc., (not, of course, under the auspices now, through efficient committees, being or authority of (ftvernment,) and how inde- solicited from all parts of the country. The finitely such a rebellion might be prolonged. New York Observer expresses the hope that If the South had in the beginning fully un- the amount of donations may reach a million. derstood that there was no hope of recogniGriswolds, The Messrs. ship-owners, have would long tion as a nation this matter since have ended. Had the North resorted tenderer?, gratuitously, one of their large to the same measures which every other na- clippers to convey the flour to England. tion has had recourse to under similar cirHow much more delightful to contemplate cumstance, and executed every spy and movements, than record the ravages of traitor as soon as thoy were caught, and such war! Cannot something be done by the made them expiate their crime, deservedly, even the or of Honolulu ? In former times, by scaffold, bullet, or by people on the good being tied to the mouth of cannon, this re- generous contributions have been forwarded bellion also would long since have ceased; by English and American residents to the but they, like many others, conscious of Patriotic Funds" of their respective countheir strength, believing, as many, perhaps "tries. Is not the present moment an oppormost, did, that it was hardly more than an outburst of passion, which would soon pass tune time for the residents of Honolulu, withover, were unwilling to throw over every out regard to nationality, to make a generdictate of humanity and resort to extreme ous contribution for the object now under harsh measures." consideration ? We are confident one, if not If any of our Honolulu or Island sub- two, thousand dollars might be easily raised. scribers fail to receive their papers, they will One thousand would make glad a hundred please make it known to the publisher, and families, with a barrel of flour each! Sorely we have merchants who will give ten barrel*. THE FRIEND, * * ' - �13 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1863. or an hundred dollars! Others might give one, and surely there is no one but might give a loaf! We hope our readers will take this matter into serious consideration. Not only think what you might do, but do it. Let our readers in Honolulu remember the scenes of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Your tables were loaded, and plenty abounded. We believe the people of Honolulu spent, in Christmas and New Year's presents, more than enough to buy a hundred barrels of flour! Again we say, think the matter over, and act accordingly. Drinking Liquor Unconstitutional. Whether the Judges of the Supreme Court decide the law, tabuing the sale of ardent spirits to the natives of these Islands, to be unconstitutional or not, one thing is certain, for cither foreigners or natives to drink rum, brandy, gin, &c., is contrary to the human constitution. If any one doubts this statement, we would refer him to the physicians of Honolulu, to the Police Judge, to the police, and the records of the Nuuanu valley cemetery. Among the foreigners who have sickened and died in Honolulu during the last quarter of a century, many scores have died in consequence of their intemperance. > A physician has been heard to say that onehalf of the adult males who die in Honolulu, are brought to their untimely graves through their intemperance. These have not all been drunken seamen! The review of the past is melancholly, but the picture would brighten if the race of drunkards had come to an end. Alas, alas, such is not the fact; others are sure to follow, unless they speedily forsake their cups. A clergyman of the Church of England is prohibited from reading the burial service over a suicide, or " those who have laid violent hands upon themselves." (See Prayer Book.) Now we ask why a man who has killed himself by brandy should enjoy the benefit of the clergy, and that benefit be denied to him who has shortened his existence by a dose of opium or a razor ? Is not the former virtually a suicide as much as the latter ? The Hesperian for January has been received, and we are glad to witness that under the new editors, this Monthly is assuming a much higher standard of literary excellence. In this number appears No. 3of Rev. J. D. Strong's Sketches of the Craters of the Hawaiian Islands. Haleakala is the crater noticed. O. C. A.—The Oahu Clerical Association will bold its next semi-Annual Meeting, in Honolulu, on Tuesday, the 3d inst., at 10 o'clock A. M., at the study of the Key. E. W. Clark. S. C. Damon, Scribe. An English Bishop Becomes an Infidel. Tribute to American Missionaries. Both English and American newspapers In the February number of the Evangelinotice the fact, that the Right Rev. J. W. cal Christendom, published in London, (1862,) Colenso, D. D., Bishop of Natal, South we find the following tribute to the characAfrica, has published a book in England, ter of Americans as foreign missionaries. which is to be re-published in America, in The paragraph concludes a review of Dr. which the most unblushing infidelity is Anderson's Half a Century of Missionary avowed. The Pentateuch, or Five Books of Labor," or Memorial Volume of the first " Moses, are not of Divine authority, in this fifty years of the American Board of Comman's opinion. He also maintains that missioners for Foreign Missions." Moses is not their author. While we mourn The American missionaries seem to be over the poor and deluded Bishop's folly, for well qualified for their work. Men of faith one thing we are glad, and that is, that he and men of prayer, there have also been has the honesty to come out boldly .and no contemptible scholars in their ranks —we of them their make a clean breast" of it. He is now an think from what we have seen "open better qualified on the average than infidel and arch apostate. The world men are those sent out from Britain—scholars like knows where to find him. He does not, like Eli Smith, translator of the new Arabic the writers of the famous " Essays and Re- version of the Bible ; Stoddard, the author views," or some writers of the Westminster of the modern Syriac grammar; Riggs, of Review, cunningly, under cover of a hypo- the Bulgarian Mission; and others. The of the American Oriental Society crite's cloak, advocate the most pernicious journalfull proof of their linguistic researches. gives doctrines. Like the Catholic Bishop Gobet, The sciences of comparative philology and in the time of the French Revolution, Bishop ethnography have been enriched by their Colenso takes his stand, so that there is no labors, and yet the work of the Lord has not have mistaking his position. It is a significant suffered in their hands. Grammars modern Greek, of been them published by fact that he obtains what he calls this " light Armenian, Arabic, Syriac, Tamil, Hawaiiof truth," while residing in Africa ! an. Dakota, Grebo, Mpongwe, Zulu, &c., Bishop Colenso denies the Divine inspira- and dictionaries, more or less complete, of tion of the Pentateuch ; our Blessed Savior the Armenian, Tamil, Chinese, Hawaiian, A held a different opinion when on his way to Grebo, Mpongwe, Zulu and Dakota. too of modem Syriac, of about dictionary two beginning disciples: " Emmaus with the 10,000 words, has been prepared and will at Moses, and all the prophets, he expounded soon be published. Osi sic omnes.' unto them in all the Scriptures the things English Judges on Strong Drinks and concerning himself." We do not imagine our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ doubted Crime.—There is scarcely a crime comes whether Moses wrote the Pentateuch under before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.—Judge Coleridge. the Holy Spirit's guidance. If it were not for this drinking, you (the mistaken, a Unless we are very much and I would have nothing to do.—Judge jury) "screw has been loose" for some time, for Patterson. this is the African Bishop who inclined to Experience have proved that almost all admitting Zulu chiefs, with a half dozen crime into which juries have had to inquire wives, more or less, to church fellowship. may be traced, in one way or another, to drunkenness.— Judge Williams. Intemperance and War. I find, in every calendar that comes before source, directly or indiWe hear much about the ravages of war, me, one unfailing the crimes that are comof most of rectly, and the terrible sacrifice of human life. It mitted—intemperance Judge Wightman. is awful. It is horrible. It is sickening to If all men could be persuaded from the use read the accounts we are receiving by every of intoxicating liquors, the office of a judge mail from America. A little reflection, how- would be a sinecure.—Judge Alderson. ever, will convince any candid mind that inDr. Merle D'Aubigne's New Work.temperance is cutting down more thousands understand that the impression of the We the rifle sword. of Think than the and first two volumes of Dt. Merle D'Aubigne's mighty army of drunkards daily visiting the new work, "The History of the Reformation dram-shops of a large city like New York or in Europe in the time of Calvin," is advancLondon. "In London," says the Rev. J. H. ing rapidly, and that they will be published Williams, in a recent work on the "Moral before Christmas (1862.) by Messrs. Longman & Co., of London. They will also Wastes" of that city, "there are 20,000 appear at the same time in French, German, public-houses, and beer and tobacco shops, and Dutch, at Paris, Elberfeld, and at Rotopen every Sabbath, and only 750 Protestant terdam. The author, who spends the winter churches." What havoc is made by those at Nice, is occupied in revising the transla20,000 shops among the young and old! tions. An American edition will be publishCarter. But we need not visit London, New York or ed by the Messrs. learn what effect a dramSan Francisco to Donation.—For the support of the Bethel shop produces! War slays its thousands, its ten thousands. and the Friend, from Mr. J. S. Walker, $10. but intemperance - — �14 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, Robinson Crusoe's Island. The Unseen Battle-field. There is an unseen battle-field In every human breast. Where two opposing feroes meet. But where they seldom rest. The field is veiled from mortal sight; 'Tie only seen by One, Who knows alone where victory lies, When each day's fight is done. One army dusters strong and fieroe, Their chief of demon form; His brow is like tbe thunder-cloud, His voioe the bursting storm. His captains. Pride and Lust and Hate, Whose troops watch night and day. Swift to detect the weakest point, And thirsting for tbe fray. Contending with this mighty foroe, Is but a little band; Yet there, with an unyielding front, Those warriors firmly stand. Their leader is a Ood-like form, Of countenance serene; And glowing on bis naked breast, A simple Cross is seen. His oaptains, Faith and Hope and Love, Point to the wondrous sign, And gszing at it, all receive Strength from a souroe divine. They feel it speaks a glorious truth, A truth as great as sure. That to be victors, they must learn To love, confide, endure. That faith sublime, in wildest strife, Imparts a holy calm; In every deadly blow a shield, For every wound a balm. And when they win that battle-field. Past toil is quite forgot; The plain where oonfliot onoe had raged, Becomes a hallowed spot. A spot where flowers of joy and peaco Spring from the fertile sod; And breathe the perfume of their praise On every breeie—to Qod. Probability of Marrying.—From 20 to 25 and from 25 to 30 the probability of a widower marrying in a year is nearly three times as great as that of a bachelor. At 30 it is nearly four times as great; from 30 to 45 it is nearly five times as great; and it increases, until at sixty the chance of a widower marrying in a year is 11 times as that of a bachelor. It is also curious to remark how confirmed either class becomes in its condition of life—how little likely, after a few years, is a bachelor to break through his habits and solitary condition; and, on the other hand, how readily in porportion does a husband contract a second marriage who has been deprived prematurely of his first partner. After the age of 30 the probability of a bachelor marrying in a year diminishes in a most rapid ratio. The probability at 35 is not much more than half that at 30, and nearly the same proportion exists between each quinquennial periodafterwards. Assurance Magazine. — Ex-President Van Buren's will begins as follows: "I, Martin Van Bureri, of the town of Kinderhook, county of Columbia, and state of New York, heretofore Governor of the state, and more recently President of the United States, but for the last and happiest years of my life, a farmer in my native town, do make and declare " &* 18(3. We derive from the San Francisco Times an account of a recent call at the Island of Juan Fernandez or Robinson Crusoe's Island, made by the ship Golden Rocket, Capt. C. N. Pendleton. The ship was on her passage from Boston to San Francisco, and had on board fifty-five passengers (twenty-five of whom were ladies) who intend to make California their future place of residence. Getting short of water, Capt. Pendleton decided to stop at Juan Fernandez for a further supply, and, therefore shaped his course thither—the Island being nearly in his track. At six, P. M., March 24th, they doubled the eastern end of the Island, and at seven rounded to, off the bay of St. Joseph, at the head of which the inhabitants now remaining on the island arc located. The Golden Rocket anchored on the opposite side from that upon which Selkirk lived, and there being a mountain to cross to reach the Robinson Crusoe abode, no one ventured to make the journey. The best landing is on the eastern side, but the water is twenty fathoms deep at the head of the bay, and in some places, so bold is the shore, that a boat tied by her painter and drifting to the limits, would be in seventy-five fathoms. The facilities for loading water at the island Capt. Pendleton represents to be not very good. The water is obtained from a number of never-failing rivulets trickling down over the rocks from the cloud-capped mountains. The casks must be taken on shore and filled, rolled back into the water and parbuckled into the boat. While the crew were at their work, the passengers rambled off in different directions to make discoveries. The Island is twenty miles long by about four in breadth. The land is very high, rising in rugged, precipitous peaks, one of them called Tunkcue, 3,500 feet above the level of the sea. The peaks are generally over-hung with clouds. The valleys are exceedingly fertile, the grass growing to the height of six or eight feet. Figs, strawberries, peaches and cherries •bound in their season. The Golden Rocket was there in the season of peaches, and the valleys and hill-sides were full of trees and they were loaded down with delicious fruit. Capt. Pendleton bought four barrels of the inhabitants, and the passengers about as many more. Strawberries flourish best in December and January. There are three remarkable caves in the sides of the hill facing the harbor, about thirty feet in length, twenty-five in width and about the same in height. The inhabitants now number but fourteen, of whom Messrs. Day and Kirkaldie, from Valparaiso, are the chief persons; they have been appointed overseers of the Island by the Chilian Government. Formerly a penal colony, numbering five hundred, was located here and the caves above-mentioned were used by them, but the project was found to be impracticable, and the convicts were taken back to the main land. An immense number of goats are running wild over the island, and an abundance of fish are taken on the coast. An English Friend's Advice.—John Bright, who is one of the mostsagacious and earnest of English statesmen, and who has been oneof the truest friends that the Union has found in England, describes our case in a very few words. He says in a letter which has just appeared, addressed to a Mr. Jewett: "If you are for the Union, and think it can be preserved by conciliating the South, 1 confess I am amazed. They have made war upon you, because they suspected that you would yield nothing more to them—are you to yield more under compulsion of the war, or because you can neither conquer the South, nor yet subsist as an independent State without her ? If you love slavery and wish to continue it, and if you think you can build up with honor a restored and united Republic by humbling yourselves to the South, I can only express my surprise at the dream which possesses you. You may separate—or you may fight out this contest and win—but to leave the slave still a slave, will exposi: you to the contempt of the civilized world. I applaud the proclamation of the President as docs every man in Europe who is not a foe to freedom, or moved by base hostility to the American Republic because it is a Republic, and because it is powerful." American paper. — The Anglican Standard Bearer.—No bishop or theologian has had so great an influence on the developcment and the destiny of the Established Church of England, as Lord Palmerston. Since he has been Prime Minister, he has nominated lo two Archbishoprics and nine Bishoprics in England, and to one Archbishopric and two Bishoprics in Ireland. The Church is divided into three chief parties, commonly designated as the High, the Low, and the Broad Church parties, each of which considers its dissent from the two other parties as vital and incapable of any reconciliation. The submission of tho Church to the State puts it in the power of the English Prime Ministers to make whatever party they like best predominant in the Church, by giving to it the Episcopal Soes.— Tribune. The Cow-Milker.-This remarkable Yan- kee notion, at the great exhibition in London, seems* to have attracted considerable attention : " Tho patent of the ' cow-milker,' which for some weeks has been the "lion" of the department, has been sold to Watkins & Keene, of Birmingham, for £5000, and a royalty to the original inventors; and it is stated that the firm have already received orders sufficient to cover the expenses of the patent, and that the machine is rapidly being adopted by all the great dairymen throughout the country. Ijundon Daily News. Here is a bit of English eccentricity. Mr. Queensly, t.he Cambridge sayan, a great admirer of the G reek poets, has given orders in his will that after his death his body shall be dissected and Ms skin shall be taken off and tanned in such a manner as to convert it into parchment, on which the Iliad of Homer shall then be copied, the singular MS. then to be deposited in the British Museum. — �15 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1863. UH'L. K. CASTLB. 11. W. SEVERANCE, ATJCTIOKTBEIT. AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building, HONOLULU. Will continue business at the new stand. QUEEN STREET, 318-ly At Ms late rooms, Queen Street. I. B. ATHBBTOB. —BOS. S. 00088. - Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR Dr. Jaynes Medicines, Wheeler A- Wilson's Sewing Machines, Tin- New Knrland Mutual Lire Insurance Company, cash _- *tUm P—J fm■ 'I CHASE'S" 316-ly Ambrotype and Photographic I>R. J. MOTT SMITH, DEIMTIST. Offlce corner of Fort anil Hotel Streets. SAILOR'S HOME. CASTLE .V COOKE, Importersand Wholesale and Retail dealers In General Merchandise, in tbe Fireproof Store In King street, opposite the assets $-i,360,0u0, Raynolds, Dcvoe Pratt—lmporters and Manufacturers of Paints. Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil, C. Van Home Co.'s Carriages and Carriage Materials. 336-ly J. 11. COLE, AUCTIONEEII, (SCCOKI9OB TO 1. r. IVBBCTT.) ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVBRTIB-.MI.irTB. ADVERTISEMENTS. 332-ly E. HOFFMANN, M. !>., Physician anil Surgeon, Makce's ninck, cornerQueenand Kaa '.VJtt-ly liumanu streets. GALLERY Next door to the Post Office—up stairs— over the Commercial Advertiser" "Printing Office. PICTURES TAKKN IN EVERY STILE. THE SAILORS' HOKE, BUILT AND Honolulu Sailors' Home owned by the onable prices. Society," has recently been placed under the manALSO ON HAND—k good assortment of FANCY CASES, PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, FRAMES, agement of the undersigned. They hope, by strict 17-tf] Ire. H. 1.. QUASK. Late New York City Dispensary Physician, member of the attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the Medico Clilrurglcal College and of the Pathological Society seafaring community. Tbe House has 1 een built and of New York. fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and o—ce at Dr. Judd'sDrug Store, on Fort Street. Residence In Nuuanu Valley, npiiotlte that'or E. O. Hall, Esq. 330-ly Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. C. 11. WETMORE, M. I>. Shower Hath* on the Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their weaCONSULAR PHYSICIAN dr. SURGEON. sels under repairs, are respectfully invited to send To sick American Seamen, and general practitioner, their crews to the Home, where every attention will TAKEN THE STAND ON KAahumanu Street, over the shop formerly occupied by J. be paid to their comfort. HILO, HAWAII, 8. I. Lixikwood, opposite Bishop tr Co.'s bank, is now prepared to Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. 98 execute all orders for binding N. D.—Medicine Chests carefullyreplenished at the 6 Seamens' do. do. do. do. Pans phlrla, HILO DRUG STORE. 0-tf Illustrated Nrwapnpers, OAT, MRS. AND CAPTAIN Mag— -e.inv*. Managers. Honolulu, March 1,1861. M uaic, C. BREWER 2U, Old Books, 11. BTANGENWALD, M. D., esuch as Arobrotypes, Photographs, Melaineotypt* for Lockrs, kc, Landscaja-s, Views of Dwellings, —c, at reas- " -REMOVAL. GEORGE W. VOLI-Uni, BOOK-BINDER! HAVING *.r. General Merrhant and Agent for the sale of the products of the Particular attention paid to reblnding old and choice books. 3M-ly Hrewer Plantation. Mr. Y. having had many years experience in book-binding In all Its branches, hopes toreceive ushare of the business required in Honolulu. Orders from the other Islands, should be accompanied with J. particular directions, as to the style, and, If the work la tomatch volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sent with the Job. 341-3m 8 111 I>K A I I.lf RAMS, LIFTING F«xc« ftp*. Pumps, Hath Tubs, Wash Stands, Water Closets, etc-. BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE rmm fitted up in the best manner. All work done at the MARINER. very lowest rates ami perfect satisfaction warranted. Workshop on King Street, in same building with Geo. C. D. N. FLITNER'S Watch and Jewelry 2 Siilers. JAMES O'DONNEEL, Practical House and Ship Plumber. lliliKil & BGRRILL, BCOCBttaoas to George W. Macy, KAWAIIIAB. HAWAII, Will continue the Oeneral Merchandise and Shipping buiine* at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the Justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits aa are required by whale ships at theshortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. 320-ly CASTLE * COOKE, AGENTS FOR Wheeler & Wilson's SEWING MACHINES! AT Establishment, found in Kaahumanu street, will be the following works : Alm-maoks for 1862. Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic'sAssistant. Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. —also— Ship's Compasses and Dividers. —ALSO— sasasAM new., cnas. h. lust Boston. h. 1. p. oabtsb, Honolulu. Honolulu. C. BREWER & CO., Commission & Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oaks, -REFER TO— Jobs. M. Boon, Esq., JambsHobbbwbu,, Ksq., f OsasLis Baiwia, Ksq., > 11. A. Pnacs, -si., liassas, Mcßoia s Mibbill, ) Chas. WoIOOTT Bkooka, Esq., J Hsaaas. Wat. Pustau Co., Msssas. Pssls, Udbsbll & Co El. I. New York. Boston. > ' - - 330-ly w_ n<.is<x> «--.™_w__». Hongkong. Manila. *■ D. 0. -IVSB. O. BsaaiiL mcRVER & MERRILL, Commission Merchants Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. -ID —ALSO— Chronometers and Chronometer Watches. AUCTIONEERS, —also— AQKNTB OF TBI English Charts of North and South Pacific. —also— Line of Honolulu Packets. Regular Dispatch A great variety of other articles useful to the Istands, Mariner. —AND— XT All freight arriving In transitu for the Sandwich received and forwarded by the "Regular Dispatch Una', Many ornamental articles, including Breast Pins, will beor oo—air—iioa. rasa Rings, Cups, &c, Ac. Particular attentionpaid to forwarding and transhipment ot Particular attention given to repairing and rating merchandise, sale of whalemen's bills, and other exchaaga, In. surance of merchandise and specie under open policies, sappy Chronometers. ng wtialeships, chartering ships, etc. BIBLE, BOOK and TRACT DKPOSITORR, 117 and 110 California street, BAILOR'S HOME, HONOLULU. asra—to: I BOOKS AND TRACTS, in the English, Captain B Y. Blow, Messrs. C Haswsa tr Co., J Tlonololu. MACHINE HAS ALL THE LATEST SwedFrench, German, Welsh, Portuguese, impiove—enta, and, In.addition to former premiums, was awarded the highest prise above all European and American m and Spanish languages. These books are offered for sale, at cost prices, by the Hawaiian Bible and Hewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS In 1861 and at the Exhibition in London In 1862. Societies, but furnished Tract Theevidence of the superiority of this Machine is bund In the GRATUITOUSLY TO SEAMEN. MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMrecord of lv sales. In 1861— Also, Offioe of The Friend, bound volumes for A The drover Baker Company, Boston, PERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND received. Subscriptions The Florence Company, Massachusetts, sale. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, The Parker Company, Connecticut, B.—Seamen to vessels "off belonging lying N. J. M. Singer «/ Co., New York, be with books and papers, by on," will and PUBLISHED supplied AND EDITED BY Finkle Lyon, " " calling at the Depository, from 12to 8 o'clock P.jM. Cuss. W. Uowland, Delaware, SAMUEL C. DAMON. 8. C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. M. Greenwood k Co., Cincinnati, 0., THIS BIBLES, THE FRIEND: - * N. 8. 0. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., Wilson H. Smith, Connecticut, sold 18,660, whilst the Wheeler Wilson Company, of Bridgeport, madeand sold 10,726 during the same period. II tf XT Pleats* Call a-d Ktawiir. - BOUND VOLUMES THE FRIEND, FROM I gift to 1 862Vor aale by th< Publisher-Price tl per vol-sssr, together. bound OF TERMS: One copy, per annum, Two copies, Five copies, " ... ... - - - 9_.00 8.00 6.00 �THE FRIEND. FEBRUARY. 1863. 16 About two years ago, the following lines were published in the Polynesian. We have never learned the writer's name, but whoever was the author, we should be glad to rend frequent communications from his pen in our island periodicals. We think if the present liquor-law is declared unconstitutional, and the law abolished, the poet will very soon be called upon to pen a dirge over the doomed Hawaiians. President Lincoln's Proclamation of January 1st, 1863. By the President of tbe United States, etc.— Whebkas, On the 22d day or September, 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of tbe United States, containing among other thing* the following—to wit: That on she Ist of Jan- uary 1863,all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall, henceforth and forever, be free, and To Kamehameha I. the Executive Government of the United States, and naval authorities the including military Fbdb Ohb or His Rics. thereof, will recognise and maintain the freedom Shade of honor'd ancestor, surnamed the Great** my and do no act or aots to rewill of such persona, First of a name Illustrious made by thee ;By thee and the Fates omnipotent,—'twas thine press such persons, or any of them, in any effort To see the thresholds of two ages open, they may make for their actual freedom ; and And toneand glorious, like the Morning Star, that the Executive will on the Ist day of JanuTo reign in tbe portala of the dawn ; —to see The ancient might of all thy dynastii-s ary aforesaid issue a proclamation designating the Depart with all Its mysteries, all its gloom. States and part of States, if any, in which the And all its grandeur—taking to the Shades in shall be rebellion therein respectively j Many a brave and noble souluntutor'd, people Worthy ofbrotherhood and rule with thee against the United States, and the fact that any i And bearing with thee, worthy the ln-qu.it. State or people thereof shall on that day be in good their strong manly instincts, now to meet All faith represented in Congress by members chosen And merge with the gentler traits of heaven In thee Bo with one hand waving away the shadows thereto oy a majority of qualified voters in such Of all thy father's faiths, and their traditions, States shall, in the absence of strong countervailTheir savage Impulses and cruel passions, that But holding still their earnestnesi of purpose, ing testimony, be deemedconclusive evidence Their iron will, capacity for action. resuch State or the people thereof are not in And stubbornness toreign, thoudidst reschjforth bellion against the United States: Thy other hsnd. with childlike faith, and welcome And usher in and place before thy people Now thkrkkoek, I, Abraham Lincoln, PresiTheir future llopr. So when theraging sea dent of the United States, by virtue of the power Is lash'd by hurricanes and torn by rocks, Where the vast roll of the Pacirlc roars in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the army Against thesestorm-beat northernbluffs and headlands, the rebellion against time of actual and navy in Subsides to leeward into gentle ripples Government of the United States, as a tit and That softly break upon the coral beach for measure said resuppressing Witts sleepy murmur, bathing children's feet :— necessary war Bo didst thou then abandon i he rude shocks, bellion, do, on this Ist day it January, 1863, Turmoil aud chaos of heathenism, and come and in accordance with my purpose to publish To dwellwith the calmer wor;d, whose Isr advance of 100 days from Would teach thy people pence. my proclamation after a period Fourth of thy Name, succeedingby the grace order, dethe date ot the first above-mentioned Of Ood to this inheritance, I strive, signate the following States and parts of States Have striven and will, hire to maintain the charges Bequeathed by thee in no light mood,—to hold, therein, the people whereof respectively are at With all the strength I may, thy native force this day in rebellion against the United States, to Of thought and purpose.—Yet I grieve ! 1 grieve To see our ancient stalwart race decline, be tbe following, to wit: And shrink and wither in despite of sll Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (excepting the The better tearhinga aud the better will. The vigor Plaquemine, Barnard, Jefferson, St. parishes of Of the old time is gone ! Enervate both In brain and body, they are not the people to St. John, St. Charles, Ascension, Assumption, Who fought with thee and cheered thee on battle, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin und Who draw green plenty from their bounteous land, New Orleans, including the oity of New Orleans,) Ran o'er the mountains awift as summer shadows. And in the deep,'gainst fishes, won therace. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South They sicken and they die. I grieve ! I grieve ! Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, (except 48 Over the wasting land once green with crops. Now mark'd by silence and the grass grown ridges ;— counties, designated as Western Virginia,'' and The merry fields of old wheredance and song the other counties of Berkeley, Accomac, NorthAndhealthful games cheer'd on the dsily toil Princess York, Anne, Elisabeth City, ampton, Till toll was pastime. They are silent now. Portsmouth,) only from some solitary hut Norfolk and Or the cities of including Comes a low wail or feeble strain of song, which excepted parts are for the present left preOr meaningless and melancholly hymn. cisely as if this proclamation were not issued. The spirit of our fathers Is not here | The goodly forms erect and velvet sklnn d, And by virtue of the power and for purpose Valiant in war, playful In peace and love. aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons The pride and beauty of their Islandhome, and Aremiaaing,and thenation droops. held as slaves within these designated States, 1 et still the sliver fringe and broad blue sea parts of States, are and henceforth shall be free; Knaircle us; the same loud rolling surf,the same and that the Executive Government of the United O'er whichmy fathers frolick'd, beau Incessant grand pulsations, and the mountains States, including the naval and military authorishe, only heaven aa ever,— Loom high In ty, will recognize and maintain the freedom of The Implacable Pele, feela the touchof age, such persons. And vomits (orth her wrath In feebler ■?*"»•• Oh King' 'tisknown that thoo didst love thy people. Ana I hereby enjoin upon the people so deThen, If it may be, visit them once more!one draught violence, to from all free, clared to be abstain (In formallow'd by Heaven.) Breathe Of thy old vigor forth over the land. unless in necessary self-defense; and I recomAnd pray lor it io thy abiding place. mend to them that in all cases, when allowed, Wherever that maybe i and pray for me, That I may govern worthy of my race. they labor faithfully forreasonable wages. House up my people from their baneful trance. And 1 further declare and make known that d And in the appointed time join rtnabasli such persons of suitable condition will be reMy crowned ancestors. ceive-in to the armed service of theUnited States, Hawaii,"firth January, 18*31. to garrison the forts, positions, stations and other places, and to man Teasels of all sorts, in said PASSENGERS. service. a I which is believed to be sincerely Upon this, Fro. BA, £l Q Constitution, the an act of justice, warranted by upon military necessity, 1 invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of T Darny, Ahoe, Jao, Oen, Ac>!,a J~: ,,_,IA_per Morning Star, Almighty God. La witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused tbe seal of the United States to b* •___■_. Atl, Manquio Ahong, Ac v»»*/L Jan. SO-0 Hadley, C ■ Data) at the City of Washington on the Ist day Prom Bab Fbascisoo—par "«^rYanaee, „-«_ Jan. Ja-Capt W P Manof January, A. D., 1863, and of the Indepen- Cotter. Frank Nlva. dence of the United States of America the 87th w'„ o year. M Abraham Lincoln. Prmident. . ' . " <^" J2£?s£ ir,_»o-{^^ 0,,_o jao. , w^ev"?.! By Wm H Sswisn, Seorctasy of state. rerw r^•wp:u^. wTwTer^. MARINEJOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. . Jui. J—Am bark Comet, Smith, IS days from San Francisco. 9—Am ich Olivia, Redfleld, 17 days from Sao Francioco. 20—Am bark Yankee, Taylor, 10 days from San Francisco 22—Prussian steamship Scotland, 1200 tons, Stannard, 12 days fromSan Francisco in route for Hongkong, came inside. Sailed again same day. 23—Am bark Richmond, Bliss, 164 days fm New Bedford. DEPARTURES. Jan. I—Haw brifr Waitua, Schol, forBremen. 3—Haw bk Kathleen, Campbell,forSydneyriaPalmyra I. 6—Am wh ship Milton, Halsey, for M'est'd and Ochotsk. <S—Am ship Angara, Milieu, fur Valparaiso. 10—Am brig Morning Star, Qelett.for the Guano Island* aud the Micronesian group. 12—Britishbark Damietta, Lovell, for Hongkong. 13—Am ich Olivia, Redfleld, forLahaina. 19—Dutchship Galilei, van der Hey, for Batavia. 20—Am wh bk Martha, Cornell, for Talcah.uanoandhome 26—-Am bark Comet, Smith, for San Francisco. 26—Am wh bk Isaac Howland, I*ong, Westward & Arctic. MARRIED. HisHiNOKk—Smith—At the residence of the bride* father, Honolulu, on Thursday evening, Dec. 31, by Rev. Eli Corwin. John A. ll«uulnger, Surveyor of the port of Honolulu, to PnacillaB, second daughter of J.H. Smith, Esq., or this city. Lovi—Melville—At the Cathedral,by the Right Kevereud the Lord Bishop of Honolulu, Jan. 1, 1803, William Love, of Honolulu, to Letitia Mary Melville, of Sao .rancisco. Vacchan—O'Nkill—At the Catholic Cathedral, Jan. 4.1803, hy the Right Kevereud Bishop Malgret, Mr. James Vaughan to Mary, second daughter of J. O'Neill, Esq all of Honolulu. Cartir—Hbmpstsad—ln Honolulu, Jan. 10, by Rev. S. 0. Damon. Mr. feamuel M. Carter to Mrs. Harriet L. Hempntead. , DIED. Ladd—On Monday, 19th Inst., at 9 A. M., at her residence on Nuu.mii Koad, Mrs. Abigail Ladd, aged 73, formerly of Concord, New Hampshire. Burrows—At Palaau. Molokal, Jan. IT, Charles, son of J. W. and Helen Burrows,aged 8 days. J_r New London papers please copy. Pikrpont—At Murphy's, Calaveras county, Nov. 18th, 1862, of measles, Mr*. Maria Plerpont, wife of Rev. James Picrpont. Mrs. Plerpont, whose death surprises us so, was a daughter ofRev. Sheldon Dibble, one of the first,and most devoted missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, author of that immortal volume upon ■ Missions." Mrs. P. came to Californiawithher husband In the Spring of 1863, and during all these nine years of ministerial labor in many trying circumstances, has sustained him by her own remarkable faith iv tiod. Her life, especially in the latter years, has been an example of singular piety, and hence, by Divine grace, she approached Its close in perfect peace. In the full assurance of Christian hope. Her last hours were spent trying to win souls to Jesus. She called stranger* to her bed-side, and begged them to be Christians. She sent a dying request to the congregations, with whom she had never been able to worship, that "they should turn to the glorious Though ht-r health for several years was very deli Saviour cate, her wh"le life was a sweet, acceptable sacrifice to Christ, to be remembered by her three orphan children, and all who saw her on earth.—Pacific. Cloud—At Kalnaliu, North Kona, Hawaii, Dec. 28, at tha residence of CharlesHall, Esq., of consumption, Mr. WlLLani Cloud, a native or Ipiwicn, England, aged about 36 year*. Mr. Cloud came to Kona a few montha ago, from California, in the last stages of disease, and was carefully attended by Mr. Hall and family up to bis last moments. Travis—AtKailua, Kona, Hawaii, from injuriesreceived by the premature explosion of a blast, Jan. 14, Mr. John Nelson Travis, a native of the State of New York, bat long a resident of these islands, aged about 40 years. Mr.T. leaves a wife and two children to mourn his death. Makis—On the 17thinstant, of measles, at tbe residence of James Make*, Esq., of llupalakua. East Maui, Matilda, aged 11 months, infant daughter of Mr. George N. Makes, recently of Sacramento, California. 87 Sacramento Union please copy. Hamjuaov—At the U. 8. Hospital, Honolulu, January 22d. John Harrison, aged 60. The deceasedwas discharged from the Braganza." He was an Englishman. Richards—ld Honolulu, December 4th, 1863, Mrs. Boss, Richards, after a long and distressing illness. She came to the islands a dressmaker from California. She has friends residing in New York and New Jersey. Powrrh—In Honolulu, December 4th, 1862. Samuel Powers. He was a very old colored man, and for many years had been a faithful servant in the fAmity of the late Captain Penballow. " " Information Wanted! Respecting Robert Leßop McGinnyt. He bails from Balti- more, and was on board the "Silver tttar" when she was wrecked upon a guano island In IBM. He returned to Honolulu, bat since thatdate no intelligence baa been received from him. An/ Information will be tnankJulljr received by his mother Mrs. Elisabeth JaneMcGino/s, ofNew Orleans, or bj the Editor. Respecting, Arnold K. Austin, of Providence, R. 1., who left the ship Rodman, about 1862, at Honolulu. Perhaps Cape. Spencer may recall this man. If so, please communicate with Mrs. C. R. Austin of Prtvridenee or editor of the Friend � 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 (1863) 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 - 1863.02.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.02.02 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/2cf3337c5db36fb763648d5a68ea5801.pdf 8b596cad21a37a4ff7e8b2b75af9ad68 PDF Text Text TF HE RIEND 39tteStws,«ri.J2, 9f.f.| CONTENTS For Mint fh, 1803. Dr. AnJcrsoirs Visit Admiral Mm Bille's Kepnrt Bishop Cnlenso Two Collegian* Dr. (lutliri.-, the Scottish Tvi-tuttller...Bishop <>f Mauritius Yankee Bailor in China.... Kdltor*i Table .Marine Journal, \c . - PiOK. 1* 18, 19 -° -** .'^l ■ ~% JJ -* THE FRIEND, MARCH 2, IHO3. Dr. Anderson's Visit. Onr Million of Dollnra K\ p.mlr.l upon lh<Siiiiilitmli l-luntl* by Anicricnn Chrimiuua. In round numbers, the American Mission on these islands has cost the American Board one million dollars. Including the appropriations by American Bible Society, American Tract Society, and American Seamen's Friend Society, the gross amount would much exceed this sum. Hence, we think it quite time those societies should have sent hither one or more of their public officers. It affords us much delight to learn that the venerable Dr. Anderson, Senior Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, is now en route for our islands. His long experience eminently qualifies him to take an impartial view of the state of things in this quarter of the globe. He has been connected with the Society's management for more than forty years, and since 1832, has conducted the Society's foreign correspondence. In early life he contemplated going upon a mission, we believe to Turkey or India. About the year 1822, being employed by that shrewd man, Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., he evinced such tact and ability that he was retained in the Society's rooms, and there he has spent his life. The Memorial Volume," or The first fifty years" of the Society's history, was prepared by his pen. This volume and the annual reports of the Society, show that as a keen- - {©ft Series, f101.20. HONOLULU, MARCH 2, 1863. 17 " sighted, thoughtful and large-hearted man, he has but few equals among the managers of benevolent societies in America, or any other country. He has, in former years, visited Greece, Turkey, Syria and India. On his return from the Mediterranean, many years ago, he published —1830—an interesting volume, entitled, " Observations upon the Peloponnesus and Greek Islands." His late visit to India was one of great importance, and attracted much attention in America and England. We are confident every missionary and his family on the Sandwich Islands will give him a most cordial welcome, judging from the universal expression of delight at the announcement of his intended visit. We hope to see him before the next number of our paper is issued. He intends visiting all the islands, and returning to Honolulu in season to mingle in the scenes of the general meeting of the American Mission, opening about the Ist of June. OCT" Since the above was in type, Dr. Anderson, wife and daughter have arrived, passengers per Archer. Mrs. Hepburn, wife of Dr. Hepburn, of the Presbyterian Mission, and Miss Conover of the Episcopal Mission, touched at Honolulu, on their way to Japan. Why and for What? It is highly gratifying to witness the generous contributions flowing into America from Americans abroad, to aid in relieving the distress of the soldiers, and equally gratifying to witness similar efforts among British subjects in India, Australia, Canada and the Sandwich Islands, to feed the poor operatives of Lancashire. So much distress should be relieved. But whence arose so much distress ? From the civil war, of course, in America. But what was the origin ofthat war? We answer, slavery, negro chattel slavery; disguise the facts as we may, the whole of this troublesome evil comes through the abominable system of negro slavery. The Southerners make no effort to conceal this fact. Their generals statesmen, ministers and people openly and boldly declare, that they are fighting to maintain and perpetuate the " peculiar insti- tution !" Says the Georgia Intelligencer, We are fighting for Southern independence and for the government of the Southern States, recognizing African Slavery as an institution ordained by God, as beneficial to mankind, and as a necessity in our political relation as States." Now the whole world is laid under contribution, directly and indirectly, to meet the distress occasioned by this civil war. Commerce suffers, trade languishes, benevolence mourns, fathers and mothers weep over their first-born sons slain in battle—and all for what ? To perpetuate negro slavery. Much as we pray and long for peace, we hope there will be no peace until the root of this evil is torn up and effectually destroyed. Should any compromise be brought about and slavery remain vigorous, defiant and rampant as in former years, then there will be another rebellion andanother war. If the evil can alone be destroyed by war—terrible and horrible as war may be—then we say, fight it out now. Better now, than bequeath slavery as an accursed legacy to be warred over at some future time. " Give Them Occupation.—We hear a good deal said, and much has been written, about improving the social and domestic condition'of Hawaiians. What is most wanting among them is useful occupation. Give them work. If something could be done to give the females more emplayment, it would be a great blessing. We are glad to learn that there is a tend.ency among them to work in the rice-fields. Some too are learning the shoe- maker's trade. Fox the benefit of the islanders, and encouragement to labor, we hor # that the next Legislature will enact a pre ,hibitory duty on flour, oats, rice, potatoes, I jay, leather, shoes, and every other commoc 1,jty which can possibly be produced upon the islands. If Brother Jonathan is goir ,g to pay off his immense war debt, in mrf, by duties upon Hawaiian grown ric B< sugar, &c., then let Hawaiians make A' ne 'r ican products pay a heavy duty when I? >ri( je d and consumed upon our shores. . » �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. 18 Extract FROM RBile'sStn eport " On the Voyage of the Danish Corvette Galathea," Round the World, in the Years 1845-'46-'47. TRANSLATED FKOM THE DANISH BY F. BANNING, ESQ. (Continued from our January number.] It should be considered one of the King's great merits, that without education himself, he so well understood the advantages of it, that he expended annually a considerable amount, in order to allow the growingup princely race to partake of such an education as would prepare them to fill their places worthily. With his own eyes, or those of others, he has seen that it is the only bulwark against the encroachments of the immigrated white population, and that he possesses therein the only true means of civilizing and elevating his subjects to a worthy place among the educated and independent nations of the earth. It is to be regretted that the school is under the special direction of the missionaries, but that should not be considered when examining critically this enterprise, for reason of its great usefulness. It will certainly do the men no harm that they are brought up as teetotalists. However iroung ittle I approve of absolute physical measures for the destruction of moral evils, still I am convinced that teetotalism, if anywhere in the world, is certainly in its right place here ; but of this by and by. I had not as yet had an opportunity to pay my respects to the Queen ; this was, however, afforded me at an evening party, given in our honor by Dr. Judd, at which the royal family, with their retinue of chiefs and their wives, the ministers and the missionaries, were present. But few of the foreign Consuls or European missionaries attended, for reason of the quarrels existing between the government and foreigners, that had degenerated into personal enmity against the Ministers and especially against Dr. Judd. The party was interesting to us. Shortly after my arrival, the royal family appeared, coming from the neighboring palace in formal procession. I have mentioned the colossal size of the majority ofthe chiefs ; I now saw that their ladies were not in the least inferior. Queen Kalama was a very stout person, with a soft, kind-hearted expression. She was dressed in fire-colored Chinese silk, lined with laces and fringes; between her fingers, covered with fine, white kid gloves, she moved incessantly her costly fan. Kalama was represented as a most excellent, pious and benevolent lady, passing the greater part of her time in preparing feather ornaments or sewing dresses for the poor; she is said to be very expert with her needle. It was much regretted that she is not of higher descent, as I was assured that the chief aristocracy is as proud and as full of prejudices here as elsewhere, and they did not treat her civilly. Though tall herself, she was considerably surpassed by the good looking and gigantic sisters of John Young. Among the chiefs present, I remarked James Young, and Billy Pitt, a son of Karaimoku, whose Catholic baptism on board the Uranie, has been so comically described by Arago. This Billy Pitt was one of the best educated of the older chiefs, and the only one who expressed himself fluently in English. He had formerly been very fond of his sprees; now, however, he was entirely under the control of the teetotalists, and after the close of the soiree, in a native hut with the officers, he slid quietly away, while the others were rejoicing with merry songs over their glass of grog. Shortly before, he had broken his vow of abstinence, and had consequently been condemned to pay a considerable fine, which he could only do by giving his schooner in mortgage to the missionaries. Such circumstances as this, though perhaps insignificant, should not be overlooked, as they throw a practical light on the state of affairs at these Islands. The entertainment of the evening consisted chiefly in the playing of my band on the verandah, which, together with the pleasant coolness of the night, brought the company out into the open air, where the evening passed agreeably with smoking and conversation. My officers did not, of course, neglect to offer the young princesses a dance. Big Moses, however, replied at once, that dancing was losing one's time, and Miss Bernice added, very artlessly, that she would not be able to follow her teacher properly next day in her studies, if she had been dancing the night before. 1 have remarked before, that civilization with these people was only laid on externally. It was proved by numerous little occurrences that happened every day, as an incontestable fact. I pass it over, however, as 1 fear to give the impression that I wish to mock at the good people, which is not the least my intention. I only intend to describe that which I have seen, which has left with me the impression that civilization thus far, has only affected the outside shell; time will prove whether it will be possible for it, in the following generations, to penetrate into the kernel, or if they will succumb to the heavy burthen and yield their place to another race, Americans or Europeans. That danger of a complete extinction of the aborigines really exists, I shall, in my opinion, fully prove hereafter. The Hawaiian nation wages a war of life and death with powerful enemies, both without and within. Should it prove victorious, it will be owing solf.ly and ai.onf. to its true allies, the North American missionaries, who have been settled here since 1820, and by whom the Islands have become all they are, viz., a small but independent state, with a certain stability and laws, and a well-ordered and regulated government. The history of the Sandwich Islands is so inseparably blended with that of the missionaries, that I consider it the best course to describe at once the acts of the latter. The spread of Christianity over the Sandwich Islands, is owing to the so-called " American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions," the largest of all American mission societies. This Society consisted originally of Congregationalists; soon, however, they were joined by Presbyterians, Dutch and German Reformists. It was founded in the year 1810. The Sandwich Islands did not at the commencement, engage the attention of the Society. Since the year ISO9, it happened that several young Hawaiians visited the United States on whaling vessels. One of them, a son of a priest, named Opukohoia, was one day sitting on the steps of Vale College, crying. Dr. Dwight, President of the College, observing him, was attracted, and resolved to plant the Christian standard on his far off island home. So the fate of the Sandwich Islands was decided by this little incident. The islands themselves had passed through considerable innovations. By the influence, more especially of the foreigners, the tabu system had been deeply shaken towards the close of the reign of Kamehameha 1., and Liholiho had hardly mounted the throne, when, by instigation of Kaahumanu, and what is still more remarkable, at the request of the heathen high priest Hewahewa himself, he overturned the last pillar that supported it. Shortly before, in August, 1819, the Prime Minister, Kalaimoku, and his brother Boki, had received, on board of the French corvette I'Uranie, Roman Catholic baptism. A few months after, the first American missionaries arrived at Hawaii. According to an old law, no foreigner whatever was permitted to settle on the islands, without the sanction of the King and council. A few evil disposed persons made them believe that England would be much displeased if the American missionaries were received. It required fourteen days hard pleading before the council of chiefs, before permission was granted to the "ai oe oe" (long necks) to land and settle, and then only for one year. A great difficulty arose at first from the imperfection of the language ; nevertheless, two years had hardly passed, before the King might be seen learning to spell, and his Co-Regent, Kaahumanu, forsaking her cards and awa, in order to acquire the miraculous art of confiding her thoughts to paper. Schools everywhere sprang up, and gray men, as well as children, came together at the sound of the shell. Once more did foreigners, the majority of whom consisted of vagabonds, runaway seamen, and convicts from Botany Bay, try to hinder the work of Christianity, and protect their sensual vices from it. The tabu imposed, according to which no females were allowed to go on board ships, was a welcome occasion to cause the dispute to break out afresh. The commanders of several whaleships, by threats and violence, more particularly against the missionaries, who very rightly were considered the authors of this prohibition, had tried in vain to compel the government to repeal it. The scandalous fact occurred, that a United States man-of-war, the schooner Dolphin, Lieut. J. Percival commanding, anchored at Honolulu at the commencement of the year 1826, and by the rudest physical power, forced the abolition of the tabu, and remained ten weeks in the harbor, in order to protect this immorality on behalf of other vessels as well as his own. No opposition was made, though more worthy United States and English commanders soon put a stop to this shameful disorder. The hostile disposition against the missionaries continued and was much increased by the rigid, puritanical measures, by which the most harmless amusements of the natives were abolished, especially such as had a tendency to bring to memory the heathen past, although but indirectly. Discontent spread more and more, and at last, in the year 1833,reached so great a height, that it really appeared, for a short time, that Christianity must be overturned and succumb to the old idols. The Co-Be- �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. gent, the energetic Kaahumanu, had died, and her successor, Kinau.did follow her rule. The King, Kamehameha 111., only seventeen years of age, resided at Honolulu, and had there fallen into the worst company, and was misled, especially by the notorious British Consul, Charlton, into playing, drinking and practice of the wildest orgies. By instigation of his friends he framed a manifesto, by which he united in himself all royal authority, in order to suppress all resistance. Licentious habits and dissoluteness soon spread from his example among the people, and Kinau was obliged to shut herself up in the fort at Honolulu, with a few who remained faithful to Christianity. Schools were disbanded, teachers dismissed, congregations broken up, churches pulled down, brandy shops opened, lasciviousness and even incest fostered, and idols brought out again and worshipped. So far had they gone, and were on the point of completing the work by dismissing Kinau and appointing Liliha in her stead, who was devoted to" the heathen belief, when suddenly the young King turned round and confirmed Kinau in her office by a solemn proclamation. Morality and the former order of things were soon restored. A few years after, one of those revivals manifested itself, which are so much talked of among American Christians, first among the missionaries and afterwards among the natives. Those overpowering mind and spirit religious exstacies, which involuntarily bring to mind the first festival of Pentecost, in which deceit or self-deception play not a small part, often produce, nevertheless, most remarkable effects, which was the case here. The number of church members in 1826 was 1,259 ; in the year 1840 they had increased to 21,739, and remained about the same to 1845, when about one-fourth of the population or 22,652 are reported. The fact alone, that 70,000 Hawaiians are said to have learned to read, is proof of wide spread instruction and consequently of religion among the people. In addition to the above, there is a considerable number of native Catholics. The Independent or Congregational churches include many within their pale (for instance the King himself) whom they do not acknowledge as members and to whom the communion is refused, for reason of their not having proved themselves true and faithful Christians ; and finally it must not be forgotten, that from 2 to 3,000 members have been excommunicated by the application of rigid church not discipline. A married missionary has a salary of 6 or 700 dollarsannually, and an addition for increased family, also free lodging, free instruction for his children; his income may amount as high as 1,500 or 8,000 dollars, with which is also to be added a consideration of receiving all his domestic necessaries at a low price from a mission store, imported free of duty. We have already shown that the propagation of religion and instruction requires large sums at these islands. The American mission, whose expenses reached the highest point, 63,000 dollars, in 1837, average 36,000 dollars yearly, having expended altogether to the present time, about 700,000 dollars. All these numbers, though they convey a grand idea of the sacrifice offered in the service of Christianity, does not represent the manner in which the doctrine lives and moves on these islands, in a lifeless, dry condition. In order to place this picture more fully before our readers, we must lead him about, into the schools and churches. It happened one Sunday, that we had no service on board; we did not neglect the opportunity to assist at the devotion of the natives, in the large stone church. It is situated at the east side of Honolulu, rather out of the town proper; it has a small blunt steeple on one end, otherwise withoutany architectural beauty, resembling on its outside a store or warehouse ; within, without arch, not a picture nor altar nor any such thing to relieve the large empty place, or afford theeye an agreeable resting point. We must remember, however, that we are among Independents, to whom nothing lies farther than art and taste. In the place of an altar stood a pulpit; on its right side the pew of the King, covered with red satin curtains; a little farther off, that of the chiefs. The service began with a Hawaiian hymn, well executed by a native choir. Mr. Armstrong then delivered a sermon on the observance of the sabbath. The congregation appeared to listen attentively and quietly to their teacher, and it caused in us, who for the first time were assisting at a religious ceremony among converted heathen, a curious feeling, when 1 saw men who had invoked Ku, Lono, Kane, Kanaloa, and all the 40,000 idols, adoring the only true God ; when we saw those who, fearing their idols, had dragged their brothers to be slaughtered in a heiau, now bending their knees before the God of love and conciliation and devoutly sending to him their prayers. The sermon of the pastor and the cold orthodoxy pervading it, might have slightly troubled the pleasant picture, in which the present appeared to us in comparison with the past, but Mr. Armstrong preached in the native language, and it was not until some time after that we learned that he pronounced relentless sentence against every act which appeared to him 19 a transgression of the Sabbath-law. Sickness and misfortune, he threatened, would visit the town as a penalty of heaven, because on tho Sunday previous, five Europeans—probably officers of the corvette— had galloped through the streets of Honolulu, because a vessel had been towed into the harbor on a Sunday, etc. It has always been an enigma to me why the Presbyterians upheld so rigidly the holiness of time and in no manner that of place. The pastor not only steps into the pulpit, as with us a professor into his chair, in a frock coat and a walking-stick in his hand, but the church itself, erected for benevolent purposes, was used two daysafterwards as a concert room. Underneath the church is a high cellar, arranged for several school-rooms, the floor and the seats both consisting of earth, covered with hay and straw. A large board and the chair of the native teacher composed all the furniture. The first three schools visited by me were for boys and girls in common, one ofthem for half-wild children picked up on the beach or about the wharves. Not one of the children was naked, on the contrary, they were all carefully dressed. Nearly all the schools are under the direction of native teachers, educated at the mission seminary at Lahainaluna. The plan of the mission, however, extends much farther. It hopes here as well as elsewhere to make itself no longer wanted. It is anticipating the time when the people, advanced in civilization and Christianity, will appoint their own pastors and rear within their own pale preachers of the Word; and then proposes to visit new countries, and disseminate there also, by its rich means, the seed of Christianity. All that thus far had been arrived at, consisted in a few natives having been permitted to teach and preach, but not allowed the right to administer the sacrament. Even this license had been granted but seldom, but happened to be conferred on two young natives, during our stay at Honolulu, our worthy chaplain assisting at the ceremony. If my opinion is desired as to the extent of the influence the American mission has exercised on the Hawaiian nation, 1 should answer about as follows. In spite of the numerous and bitter enemies with whom the missionaries have struggled here from the beginning, it must be admitted that the Sandwich Islanders, from a state in which human sacrifices were a daily occurrence, where parents murdered their children and the children misused or drove away, or, if less cruel, killed, their decrepit parents, where woman lived separate and dishonored, where slavery and and despotism oppressed the people, where the right of property was doubtful and personal safety partially protected, where incest was lawlul, where indolence, drunkenness and sensuality vied with each other, and falsehood and deceit kept captive the innate good nature of the people, they have been raised from this humiliating, almost brutal state, to a sober, peaceful, honest and partly educated people, with a kind government and mild domestic manners; comfortable dwellings with European furniture, have gradually taken the place of miserable, empty grass huts, bread and meat that of poi and raw fish, cotton and silk clothing that of the thin, fragile tapa ; besides taro, sugar, coffee and many kinds of fruits and vegetables are cultivated ; instead of indolence and awa drinking, industry is now cheering up many a hut. Christian marriages and a pious life are more and more taking the place of dissoluteness and lasciviousness. It is yet, alas, not to be denied that morality among the people is still at a very low standard. The fear of the penalty of the law, and not moral principle, keeps sensuality in bounds. Even Sunday, which by the bigotry peculiar to the missionaries, imposes upon every boat, every horse, in fact upon everything, the fetters of the most Holy, has not, nevertheless, succeeded to enchain the loose manners of Hawaiian women, and they give themselves up, without shame on the part of their own husbands, brothers, fathers and mothers, without attempt to restrain them. We heard the most reliable pronounce it as their conviction, that, perhaps, on all the islands, there was not a single innocent girl eleven years old. Also the criminal statistical reports of 1839 and 1846, respectively, comprise 345 out of 522, and 291 out of 427 cases, exclusively dissoluteness ard lasciviousness, and yet it is to be presumed that this vice comparatively seldom becomes the object of lawful penalty. It would, however, be most absurd to accuse the missionaries that they should not have eradicated this hereditary sin, after a labor of only 25 years, for centuries rooted among the people, and too well fostered by the foreigners. It is not this neglect, but rather the positive encroachments upon the manners and temporal welfare of the natives, that the missionaries have been so strongly charged with. They are reproached for having misused religion as a means to seize upon worldly power and dominion ; their efforts as teetotalists have been ridiculed; their religious sternness, the practice of excommunication, the devout keeping of the Sabbath, and the relentless condemnation of singing, dancing and other harmless amusements, have been sharply criticised. We have already shown that these censures are not altogether unfounded, even that the �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. 20 -iprfSharies have incontestably committed fnistakes. Circumstances will, however, furnish much to exculpate them, and even those who disapprove of their rigor and may sometimes mock at their total abstinence, must, on (be other side, admit that the question is whether a young and lately savage and licentious nation, will not fare the best when bridled by the rigor of the law. In so far as the private life of the missionaries is assailed, and they are denounced as striving more for the goods of this world than is be- coming for the servants of the kingdom of God, I must declare that it is an assertion which, if brought against them as a class, is entirely founded on slander, and a want of knowledge of facts. I have already given a detailed statement of their circumstances, and by that it will be seen that, taking into consideration the mode of living here, they do not enjoy a larger income as compensation for tbeir labor, than is required for domestic life, and all that has been said about the luxury of the missionaries and their grow- *rich, rests on ridiculous and unfounded rtlOnS. (TotvConUmi.-rt. Bishop Colenso. In our last issue, we noticed the excitein the theological world occasioned by the publication of Bishop Colenso's book denying the Divine inspiration of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua. The first notice of the work we find in the weekly newspapers, both English and American; ment we shall next expect to see reviews in the Quarterlies, to be followed by a small library of refutations in good sized 12m05., and then there the controversy will end. We cannot refrain from expressing our grief that a minister of the gospel and Bishop of the church of England, should think it necessary to publish opinions, the tendency of which will be evil, and only evil. We are not sure but the editor of the Irish Times has refuted the Bishop in a manner quite us effectual as some of the learned divines will be likely to do. The Irish editor, true to his national instinct for putting things in a ludicrous light, remarks that " Bishop Colenao went to Africa to convert a Hottentot, and 10, the Hottentot converted the Bishop!" A correspondent from Hana, on Maui, thus writes us: " What a mess Bishop Colenso is making of himself] He is doing immense mischief. I went through those very difficulties some years ago, about the extraordinary numbers of the Israelites, which do seem unaccountable and impossible, just as Colenso says; but notice, it is all a difficulty of figures— which are the things most likely to suffer corruption in a book of such antiquity as the Pentateuch. As to the morality of the Mosaic law, to which he objects, it is extraordinary that a man who recommends toleration of polygamy in Zulu converts, should object to some adaptations of the law to meet inveterate social customs of Israelites! All these developements of Infidelity in the English church, go to confirm Auberlen's views of the growth of the Infidel Antichrist in the closing days of Satan's reign." THE FRIEND, MARCH 2, 1863. Two Collegians. An old catalogue of Amherst College, Massachusetts, lies before us, printed in 18*13, or just thirty years ago. On one page we find the name of Henry Ward Bkecher, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and on another page the name of Benjamin Morcian Palmer, of I'ocoUligo.S. C. Thirty years have rolled away and where arc these two men now to bo found ? The former, a representative man of the free, out-spoken, liberty-loving, Puritanic and republican North, and the latter a representative man of Dixie, with its four millions of chattel slaves. Both are men of no ordinary ability. After leaving college, Bcccher went West, and drew inspiration from the boundless prairies, endless rivers and giant States. The latter returned to his native South, to identify himself with all of her peculiar institutions. The former is now Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and Editor of the Independent, wielding more influence lor weal or woe, than any other minister of the gospel in America. " There is, perhaps," says a reviewer in the December number of the Atlantic, " no man in America more widely known, more deeply loved and more heartily hated than the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher." While Beecher has achieved a world-wide fame, his fellowcollegian, Palmer, is almost equally well known. He is Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, and Professor of Theology in the Seminary of Columbia, S. C. Both are eloquent pulpit divines. Probably they are without their equals as extemporaneous speakers on the platform. Both are men of immense power, the one North and the other South. They are living realities. They represent two opposite systems of labor and liberty. Beecher is an independent in church government, and Palmer old school Presbyterian. Both are professedly Calvinistic in theology, yet we fancy their systems of theology would not exactly dove-tail together! There is no mistaking their opinions in regard to the inmates of Uncle Tom's Cabin." Beecher " has said, does say and will say, " Let the oppressed go free," while Palmer declared, in his famous sermon preached in New Orleans just before the war commenced, The providential trust of the South is to "perpetuate the institution of slavery, as now existing, with freest scope for its natural developement. * * * It is a duty we owe to ourselves, to our slaves, to the world, to Almighty God, to preserve and transmit our existing system of domestic servitude, with . the right, unchallenged by man, to go and itself wherever Providence and naturo may carry it." How distinctly we can recall those two remarkable men, as they appeared thirty years ago, when we were fellow-collegians. They were marked men then. Palmer could scan and translate the nicely polished Greek Ode better than Beecher, but in offhand, extemporaneous debate the former was no match for the latter. Beecher knew more about Phrenology than any other man in college, unless it was Fowler, (a classmate,) who now manipulates cniniuins in Broadway, New York, for si shilling apiece. Woe betide the poor Freshman's shins which came in contact with Beecher's; square-toed boots, on the play-ground, when battles at foot-ball were played ! Beecher, we think, must be Palmer's senior by two or three years. Both are about fifty. They are in the prime of life, and maturity of their mental powers. Both are Palmer's sons of distinguished divines. father was the late Rev. Dr. Palmer of Charleston, South Carolina, and his sister, Mrs. Dana, is author of the " Southern Harp," and several literary productions. Everybody knows who are Beecher's father, brothers and sisters. Beecher was born in Old Litchfield, Connecticut, and Palmer beneath a Palmetto tree. Again we remark, these are two representative men, but which is to represent tlio system that shall come out of this struggle triumphant ? Is free labor or slave labor to be hereafter in the ascendant ? The Struggle is now most fierce and bloody. As yet, the end is not to be seen by mortal ken. Additional legions are gathering for the approaching summer campaign. Neither party yet whispers peace unless upon its own terms. Most gladly should we hail the announcement of peace, but WO arc convinced that there never, no never, can be permanent peace in America so long as the shive power is a controlling element in the policy of the national councils. We heartily wish Beecher and Palmer could devise some plan of reconciliation, but we fear they cannot any sooner than Lincoln and Jeff Davis, Burnside and Stonewall Jackson, hence the war must rage, for the present the country must suffer, English operatives must starve and the whole world mourn over the " irrepressible conflict," ;ind nil, we say, because of that abominable system of negro slavery ! root Find For Relief of of Lancashire Opera- the Polynesian and Ailrcrlisir, we learn that the effort to raise funds for this object has been cordially responded to, by not only British subjects, but persons belonging to other nationalities, up to the present time, the fund tives. —From has amounted tv over $3,000. �21 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. Bj§gr" In this issue of our sheet we continue the publication of Admiral Bille's Report of his visit to the Sandwich Islands. We notice several slight errors into which he has fallen, in regard to persons and historical incidents, as, for example, he states a missionary's salary at from $1500 to $2000. Such was never the fact. One half of that amount would be too high, upon an average. We have thought that perhaps he might have reckoned in " rix dollar" currency, as we know is done in some of the nations of Northern Europe, when perhaps he might not have been so far from the truth. We might readily point out other errors, but upon the whole we have thought it best to allow the report to appear without " note or comment." Some of our readers may question the propriety of this plan. Our object in publishing a translation of this report is, that our readers may know what has been written and published respecting the islands among the Danes and Germans, for the original work appeared in Danish and has been translated into the German, and partially into other continental languages. The visit of the Galathea marked an important era in Hawaiian history. It was during that visit that a very liberal and praiseworthy treaty was negotiated between the kingdom of Denmark and the kingdom of Hawaii. This treaty has been the foundation of subsequent treaties, and if all subsequent treaties had been equally liberal and advantageous to the Hawaiian Islands, it would have saved " reams of foolscap," and "gallons of ink." Admiral Billc clearly snw the social and political state of things at the islands, and instead of taking advantage of this state of things to hamper and perplex the foreign relations of this little kingdom, he pursued the very opposite course. He showed that he was an honorable negotiator, and not a narrow-minded and carping visitor, disposed to grumble and find fault because the Hawaiian Islands were inhabited by very much the same kind of people as dwell elsewhere, not much worse, if not better. Subsequent to his visit, a correspondence was continued between Mr. C. B. DeCunitz, the Danish Minister of Foreign Relations, and Mr. K. C. Wyllie, H. H. M. M.of F. R. The King of Denmark sent out valuable presents to Kainelmmelia 111., and among them was ;i gold medal, Struck on the occasion of the Advent of the King to the throne, bearing in bas-relief the united portraits of their Majesties the King and " Queen." Mr. Wyllie also received from the King of Denmark, " A ring encircled with diamonds." This we have seen. It is singularly beautiful and COM!?. We should hardly presume upon our unquestionable right to guess at its value, but think it would be worth from $2,000 to $3,000, speaking after the jewelers style of prices ! At any rate, it has been much admired by the ladies, and there is a tradition, that in 1848, being leap year, the " Laird of Hazel Bank" had numerous matrimonial proposals addressed to him, by ladies lovingly hinting how much they covetted the " Diamond King" for a brooch, all of which were diplomatically declined ! The reasons why these proposals were declined, may appear when the Papers and Journals" of the Laird shall be overhauled by some antiquarian of a coming age, who, like Champollon, shall succeed in deciphering the hieroglyphics which he employs in recording his private " memoranda ! What Let to Dr. Guthrie's Becoming a Teetotaller. One evening recently a great temperance meeting was held in May Street Church, Belfast, Ireland. Dr. Guthrie, who was the first speaker, was received with rapturous applause. In the course of his address the reverend Doctor said, " 1 was first led to form a high opinion of the cause of temperance by the bearing of an Irishman. It is now, let me see, some twenty years since I first opened my mouth in the town of Belfast. Having left Belfast and gone round to Omagh, I left that town on a bitter, biting, blasting, raining day, cold as death, lashing rain, and I had to travel, I remember, across a cold country to Cookstown. Well, by the time we got over half the road, we reached a sort of inn. By this time we were soaking with water outside, and as these were the days oftoddy drinking, we thought the best way was to soak ourselves with whiskey inside. Accordingly we rushed into the inn and ordered warm water, and we got our tumblers of toddy. Out of kindness to the cab-driver, we called him in. He was not very well-clothed—indeed, he rather belonged, in that respect, to the order ofmy ragged school in Edinburgh. (Laughter.) He was «oaking with wet, and we gave him a good rummer of toddy. He would not taste it. 'Why,' we asked, ' will you not taste it? What objection have you V ' Why,' said he,' please your reverence, 1 am a teetotaller, and I won't taste a drop of it.' (Applause.) Now that was the declaration of the humble, uncultivated, uneducated Roman Catholic cabman. It went to my heart and went to my conscience ; and I said, if that man can deny himself this indulgence, not for his own sake, but for the sake of others, why should not I, a Christian minister ? 1 felt that, I remembered that, and I have ever remembered that, and I have ever remembered it to the honor of Ireland. I have often told the story, and thought of the example set by that poor Irishman, for our people to follow. I carried home the remembrance of it with That circumstance, me to Edinburgh. along with the scenes in which I was called to labor daily for years, made me a teeto- taller." (Applause.) tlemen, that you I wish, ladies and gen- should understand the ground on which I stand. Thore are two parties engaged in the total abstinence cause. We work to the same end, though we do do not exactly embrace the same principles. I wish everything to be above-board. I do not agree with my friends of the total abstinence cause, who think that in the use of these stimulants there is anything absolutely sinful. No; it is on the principle of Christian expediency lam a teetotaller. I don't sec why we should quarrel. We may go on different rails, but the terminus is the same. This is the ground I stand on. I was driven to the ground by the feeling that, if I were to cultivate what Dr. Chalmers called the out-fields, if I were to Mess humanity, if I were to win sinners to the Saviour's feet, if I were to build up souls from the wrecks of the Cowgate and the Grassmarket of Edinburgh, I must become a total abstainer. (Applause.) 1 felt it necessary that these poor people shouldabstain, otherwise they could never be reformed— that drink was the stone between the living and the dead, and that stone must be rolled away. It was the demon that met me at every path." Dr. Guthrie having stated that according to his experience, the vice of drunkenness prevailed less in the upper than in the lower and middle classes of society, entered into a lengthened and eloquent explanation of the great service rendered to Scotland by the opposition of Forbes Mackenzie's Act, and concluded his address as follows :—" I am one of the few total abstinence ministers in Edinburgh. lam a total abstainer on principle, and, I am bound to say it, that I do as much work on water as any man on wine, and far more than many of the brethren do on wine. I have tried wine, and I have tried water. 1 am far healthier n»:. wuter than I was on wine. lam richer on water than I was on wine. (Loud applause.) My adage is, and I want that to be the adage of every man—' Water, water everywhere, and not a drop of drink.' (Laughter.) Since I became a total abstainer my head is clearer, my health has been stronger, my heart has been lighter, and my purse has been heavier; and if these are not four good reasons for becoming a total abstainer, I have not another word to say on behalf of total abstinence " (Loud cheers.) Montreal Witness. — " Sic Transit Gloria Mundi."—The fol- lowing is a curious chronological fact;—The Plantagenets ended in 1489, and were succeeded by the Tudors, who er.ded their century in 1589. Then came the Stuarts, am they ended in 1689, and, falling back unde the protection of the Bourbons, seem to have inoculated them with the number 89, for they lived but the century and ended in 1789. —Ayr Advertiser. We would acknowledge the reception of the Vlth Annual Meeting of the General Association of California, held in San Francisco, Oct. 2, 18C2." " Minutes of Donation.—From capt Randolph $2, for support of the Bethel. �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1863. 22 Mauritius in Madagasman lately visited the CAR> capital of Madagascar, and after participating in serffces conducted by Rev. Mr. Ellis of the London Missionary Society, wrote that gentleman the following letter : The Bishop of Antananarivo, 18th Aug., 1862. Mr DKar Mr. Ellis : I do not like to leave Antananarivo withoutsending you the expression of my hearty thanks for all the kind attention you nave shown me during my stay here, and of my cordial sympathy with the work which you are doing in the name of the Lord. What I hareseen of many members of your congregation has nade me very thankful for the succeas given to the teaching and preaching of the Word of Life, and 1 have seldom, if ever, witnessed a more interesting spectacle than the largo congregation to whom Joa introduced me yesterday after you bad ministered to them yoirrself. I pray that mneh blessing may rest on you and all your fellow-laborers, and on all our brethren in Christ here; and I trust the way will be open for us to work in other parts of the island. I feel it to be a matter of earnest thankfulness that the King is so favorably disposed toward you, and that you havo a Protestant service at which his Majesty regularly attends. May God bless you. Believe me always, yours very truly, Vincent W. Mauritius. The Bishop also wrote to the Secretary of the London Missionary Society, stating that, as all their missionaries were needed in the vicinity of the capital of the interior, he proposed to occupy places on the coast. The Record states that this plan is likely to be carried out by the Church Missionary Society. One happy result of Missionary efforts among the heathen, has been the union of Christians of various churches, and the pro- motion of a feeling of Christian brotherhood. Ayr Advertiser. — Physical Benefit of the Sabbath.—The Sabbath is God's special present to the workingman, and one of his chief objects is to prolong his life and preserve efficient his working tone. In the vital system, it acts like a compensation bond, it replenishes the spirit, the elasticity, and vigor which the last six days have drained away, and supplies the force which is to fill the six days succeeding; and, in the economy of existence, it answers the same purpose as, in the economy of income, isanswered by a savings' bank. The frugal man, who puts away a pound to-day and another pound next month, and who, in a quiet way, is putting by his stated pound from time to time, when he grows old and frail gets not only the same pound back again, but a good many pounds beside. And the conscientious man, who husbands one day of his existence every week—who, instead of allowing the Sabbath to be trampled and torn in the hurry and scramble of life, treasures it devoutly up, the Lord of the 'Sabbath keeps it for him, and, in the length of days, the hale old age gives it back with usury. The savings' bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.— tforth British Review. Da. Abernethy.-The late Dr. Abernethy would never permit his patients to talk much. He could not succeed in silencing a loquabut by the following expedient: >ut out your tongue, Madam." The complied. " Now, keep it there until I done talking." Ilady, A Yankee Sailor in China. —The American General, Ward, who from a common sailor, had risen by his meritorious services to the rank of a high Mandarin and General in China, has been killed in a recent battle near Ringpoo. His brief and brilliant career is thus summarily ended, and the Chinese Emperor is deprived of the only man of real vigor upon whom he depended for -conquering the rebels against his throne. At the latest accounts, the rebels had gathered a great force and were determined to retake Ringpoo, which had been wrested from them by Gen. Ward, who, it will be recollected, first brought himself into notice by contracting to retake several towns from the insurgents, for a stipulated sum. Ward was a native of Salem, and only 31 years old. He was a son of Frederick G. Ward, and his own name was Frederick Townsend Ward ; he graduated from the Salem High School in 1847, and has had an adventurous career since—one experience being that of a Lieutenant in the French army in the Crimean war.—American paper. A Yankee Still in Command of the Imperial Army of China.—Mr. E. Forrester, a young man from Northern New York, who a few years since went to China as a sailor, and entering the Chinese service, rose to a high military rank and became a Chinese mandarin, the next but one in rank to Gen. Ward, is now his successor, thus keeping an American at the head of the Chinese army. Previous to the death of Gen. Ward, Forrester, with 600 Chinese, was taken by the rebels who surrounded the city of Chingpoo, which Forrester bravely defended for 21 days. He was kept in captivity 31 days, being marched 600 miles with a chain about his neck, perfectly naked. He was finally ransomed by British Admiral Hope for $10,000 worth of muskets and powder, and is the only man the rebels were ever known to spare. Reform in Russia.—A letter received in Paris from St. Petersburg, dated the 13th Nov., gives detail respecting the reforms introduced by the Czar into the administration of justice. Trial by jury is to be established as it exists in France. The administration of justice is to be completely independent of the Government. Magistrates have been appointed for the examination ofcrminal matters. All judicial proceedings are to be public. The judges hold their appointment for life, and they cannot be removed from one bench to another without their own consent. The Senate is authorized to form itself into a Court of Cassation, and it is to be divided into several sections, of which each is to have its particular attributes. " The longer 1 live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the great and insignificant, is energy—invincible determination—an honest purpose once fixed, and then victory." The following purports to be an epitaph in an Italian graveyard: " Here lies Estella, who transported a large fortune to heaven, in acts of charity, and has gone thither to enjoy it." Energy.—Goethe says : Fearful Sufferings of a Missionary's Wife.—The Missionary Magazine gives some particulars of the illness and death, at Sydney, N. S. W., of Mrs. Pitman, who, with her husband, (Rev. Charles Pitman), had labored for thirty long years in the South Sea Mission. And referring to his wife, Mr. Pitman says:—" To enter into details of her disease would be needless; suffice it to say, such was its severity and protracted nature that for five full years she knew not the luxury cf stretching herself upon a bed, but was compelled the whole of the above period to sit upon a low seat about ten inches in height, covered with soft pillows, and slept, when pain would allow her, by leaning her head sideways on bolsters, piled up at the foot of the bed. Such was her position day and night, year after year— myself a constant witness." Mr. and Mrs. Pitman were the first European missionaries that took up their residence at Raratonga, where they landed as far back as 1827. The Cost of Our Navy.—The expendiof the Navy Department for the year ending the 30th of June last were a little over forty-two and a half million dollars. This is only about sixty per cent, of the ordinary annual expenditure of Great Britain for her navy. Napoleon spent last year, though at peace with everybody, a third more on his navy than we did on ours. But it is asserted that while our navy cost us forty-two and a half millions last year, the proceeds of the seizures made by it amount to about forty million dollars. If this is true, it would seem that by the joint efforts of the rebels and the English blockade-runners, our navy has been very nearly self-sustaining during the past year.—N. Y. Eve. Post. tures The Descendants of Josephine.—It is interesting to note how good fortune has ever attended the descendants of Josephine. That fortune seems to justify the superstition, which regarded Josephine as the star of Napoleon's destiny. No royalty is now to be found among the relatives of Napoleon, except in the descendants ofhis discarded wife. The grandson of Josephine is Emperor of France. Another ofher descendants was married to the Queen of Portugal; of her granddaughters, one was Queen of Sweden, another still lives as Empress Dowager of Brazil. Her great-grandson may be King of Greece. Neither mind nor body can endure incessant toil. Relaxation is therefore a Christian duty. No man has a right to destroy himself by labor, any more than by poison. The bow that is always bent loses its elasticity ! the mind that is never relaxed, either will wear out body, or become insane. Hatpiness.—An eminent modern writer beautifully says:—" The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman ; the foundation of political happiness, a confidence in the integrity of man ; the foundation of all happiness, temporal and eternal, reliance on the goodness of God." Sensibility and Principle.—It has been wisely remarked that there is no greater error than to suppose that weak and bad men are strangers to good feeling, or deficient in senability. Only the good feeling dees not last. �23 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 18 63. ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVBRTISBreiIirTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. J. H. COLE, AUCTIOIw-8811, General Merchant and Agent for the sale of the product! of the 824-ly Brewer Plantation. C. BREWER 3d, SAILOR'S HOME. (SUCCESSOR TO A.P. KVfcRKTT.) 316-ly At his late rooms, Queen Street. H. W. SEVERANCE, ATJCTIORTEEIT. AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, BAM'L. N. CASTLS. 316-ly DR. J. MOTT SMITH, Office corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. 332-ly 11. STANGENWALD, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Late New York City Dispensary Physician, member of the Medico Chirurgical College and of the Pathological Society of New York. Office at Dr. Judd'sDrug Store, on Fort Street. Residence in Nuuanu Valley, opposite that of E. 0. Hall, Esq. 330-ly , Boston. gan FranciiCo Hongkong. Manila. . CHASE'S Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY Next door to the Post Office—up stairs— over the Commercial Advertiser" "Printing Office. TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE. esuch as Ambrotypes, Photographs, Melaineotypes for Lock's, 4c, Landscapes, Views of Dwellings, &c, at reasonableprices. ALSO ON HAND—A. good assortment of FANCY CASES, 17-tf] H. L. CHASE. FRAMES, Itc. PICTURES EEMOVAL. GEORGE W. YOLLITIVI, BOOK-BINDER! HAVING TAKEN THE STAND ON KAahuinanu Street, over the shop formerly occupied by J Lockwood, opposite Bishop 4r Co.'s bank, is now prepared to execute all orders for binding t*. Illualrnled \nrapnprri, Mu«lc« Old Boohs, A.C. Tumps, Bath Tubs, Wash Stands, Water Closets, etc, Workshop on King Street, in same building with Geo. C. 330-ly l'HtMJ»hl< HYDRAULIC RAMS, LIFTING Force 2__ Blders. Commission & Shipping Merchants, New York. Practical House and Ship Plumber. fitted up in the beat manner. All work done at the J3fiilowest rates and perfect satisfaction warranted. Boston. John. M. noon, Esq J AMKS 111JNNKWICLL, Esq., ~\ Charles Ukkwkk, Ksij., \ \ 11. A. Prikck, K> i Mrssks Mcßckr fc Merrill, > Cuas. Wolcott Brooks, hsq., J Missas. Wm. Postau & Co Mrssrs. Pkklk, Hcbbrll & Co JAMES J. O'DOIVIVLLL, Tery CHAS. 11. LUST ll* I. KAWAIIIAE. HAWAII, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping businea at theabove port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re' emits as are required by whale ships at theshortest notice, 320-ly and on the most reasonable terms. *Maav C. BREWER & CO., Honolulu, Onhu. —REFER TO— . Is " as BY George W. Macy, _* C. 11. WETMORE, M. D. PHYSICIAN fc SURGEON, HILO, HAWAII, S. I. N. B.—Medicine Chests carefully replenished at the G-tf HILO DRUG STORE. Honolulu. Hl— BUCCIt&JORS TO Physician and Surgeon, Makce's Block,corner Queen and Kaa 320-ly humanu streets. H. A. T. CARTRR, l|j u lI—H ALLEN & BERRILL, E. HOFFMANN, >r. l>.. Honolulu. < 336-ly DENTIST. SHKHXIS rRC«, AMO.S. S. CISIKK Dr. Jaynes Medicines, Wheeler tr Wilson's Sewing Machines, Tin- New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash aswts t 2,350,000, Kaynolds, Devoe Aj Pratt—lmporters and Manu racturers of Paints, Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil, C. Van Home & o.'g Carriages and Carriage Materials. Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Bnilding, QUKEN STREET, HONOLULU. Will continue business at the new stand. 1. B. ATUERTON. CASTLE & COOKE, Importer* and Wholesale and Retail dealers in General Merchandise, in theFireproof Store inKing street, opposite tha Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR Particular attention paid to rebindine; old and choicebooks. Mr. Y. having had many years experience In book-binding In allits branches, hopes to receive ashareof thebusinessrequired in Honolulu. Orders from the other Islands, should be accompanied with particular directions, as to the style, and. If the work is tomatch volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sent * CASTLE COOKE, AGENTS FOR Wheeler & Wilson's SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND owned by the "Honolulu Sailors' Home Society," has recently been placed under the management of the undersigned. They hope, by strict attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the seafaring community. The House has teen built and fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their Teasels under repairs, are respectfully invited to send their crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort $6 Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. do. do. 6 Seamens' do. do. THE CAPTAIN AND MBS. OAT, Honolulu, March 1,1861. Managers. J.0. viaaiLL D. C. MRCRR. IfIcRUER & IfIERRILL, SEWING MACHINES! Commission Merchants l< MINK II as ALL THE LATEST impi ovements, and, in.addition IMIIS former premiums, waa awarded the highest prize above all European and American AUCTIONEERS, AMD M to Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS in 1861, and at the Exhibition in London in 1862. The evidence of the superiority ofthis Machine Is found in the record ofits sales. In 1861— The Oroverb Baker Company, Boston, The Florence Company, Massachusetts, The Parker Company, Connecticut, J. M. Singer I, Co., New York, u Kinkle h Lyon, Cuas. W. Howlund, Delaware, M. Greenwood a Co., Cincinnati, 0., N. B. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., Wilson 11. Smith, Connecticut, •old 18,560, whilst the Wheeler A Wilson Company, of Bridgeport, made and sold 10,726 during the same period. 11 tf Hr Pleaae Call aad Examine. " AGENTS OF THE Regular Dispatch Lane of Honolulu Packets. O" All freight arriving in transitu for the Sandwich Islands, will be received and forwarJed by the "Regular Dispatch Line', nil or commission. Particularattention paid to forwarding and transhipment ol merchandise, sale of whalemen's bills, and other exchange, Insurance of merchandise and specie under open policies, suppr ng whalethlps,chartering ships, etc. 117and 119 California, street, ssrsa TO I I Captain B Slow, Honolulu, Messrs. C Baiwia4/ Co., > ». 838-ly BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'B Watch and Jewelry Establishment, in Kaahumanu street, will be foand the following works : BIBLE, BOOK and TRACT DEPOSITORR, SAILOR'S HOME, HONOLULU the English. "QIBLES, BOOKS AND TRACTS, inWelsh, SwedjLJ French, Portuguese, German, ish and Spanish languages. These books are offered for sale, at cost prices, by the Hawaiian Bible and Tract Societies, but furnished —ALSO— Also, Office of The Fritnd, bound volumes for sale. Subscriptions received. N. B.—Seamen belonging to vessels lying "off and on," will be supplied with books and papers, by calling at the Depository, from 12 to 8 o'clock.lV.M. 8. C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. AT Almanacks for 1862. Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Assistant. Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. Ship's Compasses and Dividers. — —ALSO Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. —ALSO— Chronometers and Chronometer Watches. — — of other articles —ALSO English Charts of North and South Pacific A great variety —ALSO useful to the —AND— Mariner. Many ornamental articles, including Breut Pins, Rings, Cups, Ac, &c. Chronometers. given to repairing and rating BOUND VOLUMEB FRIEND, FROM 184ft t. 1868— i\VforTHE \J sate by the Publisher—Prlre tl per ralaase, GRATUITOUSLY TO THE SEAMEN. FRIEND^ A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: - - One copy, per annum, "... Two copies, Fire copies, • - • *^SJ *>9P 8.00 �24 THE FRIEND, >l \ X Editor's Table. I'i imirin's Papers.—Among our •lianges we havo long been receiving the Child Home, and tho Child's Paptr. There is a beauty, finish and artistic neatness about these little monthlies which renders them very attractive to children. The pleasure of distributing monthly one of these little visitors to each member of our Sabbath school, is very refreshing. How their faces brighten as the month conies around. Mrs. Brown, of Brooklyn, sister of a neighbor, is a constant contributor to the Child at Home. In a late number we notioed soui e beautiful lines occasioned by a visit to the grave of"Little Jamie, of Honolulu," who died during the visit of bis mother to her New England Monthly Several other monthly papers for children have recently been laid upon our table. The Prrsfiy/i rm a Stibbalh School Visitor, published in delphia, is a beautiful sheet. The Yonlh's Pi-nW Gazette is another sheet, published by the •rican S. S. Union. The Youth's Sunday nil Banner is another equally attractive it. Too much cannot be written in praise of these little messengers. Tho Rev. E. M. Long, of Norristown, Perm., the Prospectus of what ho stylos, Monthly Sabbath School Lotter," and Magazine of Good News for 1863." be most happy to place these publicun our list of exchanges, and if they prove equal to the prospectus (as we doubt not they will) we shall be glad to notice them in our columns. We should also be glad to add to our list of ezohanges The Little Pilgrim, edited by Grace Greenwood. Catalogues.—We would acknowledge a Vale College Catalogue for 186S, from an old friend, Rev. C. S. Lyman. Also, a catalogue of the College of California, from Mr. J. A. Daly. "The Day at Hand."—This is the title of an address delivered before the Synod of New York, in theScotch Church of New York, by Rev. J. Edson Rockwell, D. D., Minister "of the Central Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. This is an earnest and eloquent appeal to tho members of the Synod to be faithlnl in their Master's work, for the night is far spent," and the Day is at hand." Coming events surely are casting their deep and portentous shadows before tbem. We are upon tho eve of most stirring times. The year 1866 will not pass away without mighty commotions. There is a deep, underground murmur among the nations of the earth. In America, there is an upheaving of the surface. So also in China. The earth's political and moral crusts will soon break away in other spots. I Bus' " " Whence Originally came Good Rice.— The best variety of rice cultivated on the Sandwich Islands was originally imported by Mr. Holstein, of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Gardens. Ithas been generally supposed that the seed of the Carolina rice was imported from the East Indies. It is so stated in various scientific and commercial worlr*. The following item, clipped from an i 11 . 1863. American paper, would indicate another .source than the East Indies : " A member of the Ohio Legislature in a recent speech said ■ When the great Jefferson was our Ambassador at Paris he made a tedious journey over the Alps to examine into the rice culture of Sardinia, to learn to what was attributable the superiority of the Italian over the American rice, and finding it to consist in the quality of the seed, and learning also that the government, for that very reason, prohibited the exportation of rough rice, he filled every pocket of fcfl coat, breeches and waistcoat with the pkU cious grain, which he brought home for taPs, benefit of the South Carolina rice planters. And now our rice is better than any in the world.' " N. B.—lt is yet a question whether Carolina can raise better rice tlian the Sandwich Islands. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. : The Soldier's Relief Fund. —We are glad to learn that Americans on the Sandwich Islands, responded so generously and promptly to the call from America, for funds to assist the sick and disabled soldiers. The amount raised up to this time upon the islands, is $4,1G2. The following letter of acknowledgement (in part) from tlie President of the Sanitary Committee in New York, has been published, but wo take pleasure in giving additional publicity : U. S. Sanitary Commission. ) New York, Dec. 27, 1862. > To Altx. J. Cariwright. Chas. R. Bishop, B F. Snow, Edwin O. Hall and Sherman Peck, Committee: Gentlemen :—Your draft for twelve hundred dollars, in favor of the Sanitary Commission, has just been received and has passed into the hands of the Treasurer, who will enclose his formal receipt. I trust I need not assure you that it will be appropriated to the benefit of our sick and wounded soldiers, with all the conscientiousness of which our Commission, with its now large experience, are able to apply. The loyalty of the more distant parts of the United States, and especially thePacific Coast, to our beloved country in this hour of her distress, has been a most cheering feature in our clouded affairs. But nothing has touched the heart of the people more than the evidences of affection and devotion exhibited by our expatriated countrymen in all parts of the world ! They have proved true as the needle to the pole, to our Union and Constitution. Your own example gives ns only a new proof, that true Americans "change their climate, but not their minds ;" and that the isles of the sea" cannot isolate them from their country and its sacred cause, when they hear that the glorious inheritance our Fathers left us is in peril from their own degenerate sods. The munificence of your contributions surprises us, when we remember how few you must be ; but we know that great hearts make liberal bands. That God may bless you in your voluntary exile, and save you the pains of seeing, from your island home, your still dear and honored country rent iv pieces, is our earnest prayer. We do not intend to suffer suoh a calamity to o our, if courage, self-sacrifice, money and blood can prevent it. Nor amid many disasters and delays do we see any reason yet to despair of the Republic" Let us tbank God and take courage. Gratefully, your friend and servant, Henry W. Bellows, President. " " By the cliipper ship Archer, Capt. Creasy, arrived on Friday last from California, we which have received dates from the East to February 11. With the exception of an attempt by theCharlestonians to destroy or drive away the fleet blockading their harbor, the news is rather meagre. ARRIVALS. Jan. '29—Haw scb Marilda, English, 18 days from r'auning's 1 eland, with about 8000 rails, cocoanut oil. Feb. 9—Am sch Florence, Avery, 18 days from Ban Francisco. 11—Am bark Young Hector, Com. l'aty, 11 days from ban Francisco. Feb. 17—Haw. bark E. W. Wood, Geercken, 124 days from Bremen, and 105 days from Dover. 20—Olden'gship Oregon, Mammen, 144 days fm Bremen. 21—Am barkt. Constitution, Robinson, 21 days mi l*uget Bound, with 66,238 ft dressed and 157,941 ft rough lumber, 20 M shingles, 20 M laths, 10,620 feet of i pickets, to H. Hackfeld k Co. 27—Am clipper ship Archer, Creasy, l«t days from San Francisco, en route for Kanagatra and Shangli;ie, anchored outside. Sailed again swine day. , DEPARTURES. Feb, 7—Haw wh hark Florence, Jos. Spencer, for Hilo. 11—Haw sch Marllda, English, for Fanning* Inland. 13—Columbianbrig Lopud, Broii7.un. for San Francuo, in ballast. 17—Am bark Yankee, Tnylor, for San Francisco. 26—Am sch Florence, Avery, for San Francisco. PASSENGERS. For San Francisco— per Yankee, Feb. I"—J C Spalding, wife and 2 children, Miss Irwin, Miss Surah Clark, Capt Randolph, wife and 2 children, Honorshlea C 0 Hopkins, John li, and W Kapnakea, A M Goddard, D H Vida, Mr toll and servant, X Murphy, W Snyder, Q TT Filbrook, J R Mitchell—2l. From San Francisco—per Young Hector, Feb. 11—Miss M P Norton, Ur .1 James, A J Iladley, Robt Morgan, Jos Barber, 8 W Kirl.y, W Lewis, Wm Snyder, Chas Jarvis, J U Chisholm, Henry Porter. From ItatpiKN—per R. W. Wood, Feb. 17—Mrs Geercken, W I'flugur, C Wundenberg. From Port fpWsMI psf Constitution, Feb. 21—W Wait*. From San Fhancisco—per Archer, Feb 27—Rev Dr Anderson and wife, Mis.s Anderson, Mis& Gillson. MARRIED. Lack—MKYKKit—ln Honolulu, January 31, by Rev. S. C. Damon, Mr. Thomas Lack to Miss Sophia Meyers. DIED. Ladd—ln this city, February 8, William Ladd, formerly of Concord, N. 11., but for many years a resident here, aged 56 years. Owen—ln Honolulu,Feb. 26th, Mr. William Oven, a native of theUnited Slates. lie has resided fur sereral years at the Society Islands, and was engaged in the shfp-carpentcrlng business at Tahiti. Hehas a sister residing in San Francisco. His funeral was attended from the Bethel, on the afternoon of Feb. 27th. Johnson—ln Honolulu, Feb. 24. Freeborn Johnson, sged &• years, a native of Plymouth, England, but for many years a resitlent of this place. He leaves a wifeand child. BtddLbt—ln Honolulu,Feb. 24, of typhoid fever, Sarah H. A. Stud ley, daughter of Mrs. 8. Savidge, aged 8 years. Ccrtis— At Walluku, East Maui, Feb. 14, William Curtis, a native of New York, U. S-, but for many /ears a resident of these Islands. Osbohne—At the Maine Hotel, In Honolulu, Feb. 12, Mr James Osborne, belonging to Cambridge, England. Dimokd—ls, Brooklyn, N. V., Mr. Isaac M. Dimond, aged 59 years. The deceased was a brother of our fellow townsman, Mr. Henry Dimond. In the tndependtnt of Januaay Ist, we find a most honorable mention of his Christian virtues, and honorable character as a merchant and citizen. Our sheet being Justready to go to press, alone prevents ns from inserting the notice in full. Information Wanted! Respecting Grorgt Heron wholeft the Thames" steamer at Honolulu, and is supposed to be at work ii|Kin theislands. Respecting Oetavius Blytk, who, on the 28d of January, 1847, at Tahiti, shipped onboard the French whaleship "Ferdinand" and was discharged at Honolulu, the 13th of December, of same year. Ills family have not since heard from him. His father, D. O. Blyth, resides In Colchester, Kssex, England. Any information will be gladly received by theeditor, or R. C. Wyllie, Esq. " Respecting Roiierl Leßoy McOinnys. He hallsfrom Italti more, and was on boardthe "Silver Star" whenshe was wrecked upon a guano Island In 1800. He returned to Honolulu, but since that date no intelligence has been received from him. Any information will be tnankfully received by his mother Mrs. Elisabeth JaneMcQinnys, of New Orleans, or by the Editor. Respecting, Arnold R. Austin, of Providence, R. 1., who left the ship Rodman, about 1862, at Honolulu. Perhaps Capt. Spencer may recall this man, if so, please communicate with Mrs. C. B. Austin of Providence or editor of the Friend. � 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 (1863) 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 - 1863.03.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.03.02 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d8dbf48d52154de47736f026b094b105.pdf c59e09a9baa6a51d2215e37c332d1a41 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND 25 gt.4.! HONOLULU. APRIL I, 1863. the CONTENTS For April, 1803. Declai n of the Rupre*ne Court One Hundred Wars Ago—(lranville Sharp More Uncle Turn Literature..". Cause or the Civil War in America Original L'tUv of Thomas Clarkson Bishop Colenso Again A British Surveying Vessel A Kf tired Shipmaster Kleven Shipsand their Cargoes A Monument to CaptHin Cook Lancashire Fund TheSabbath Ilymi. Book—A Review Marine Journal, fee I'A08. 25 '26 26 26 27 27 28 28 28 29 29 30 32 THE FRIEND. U'RII, 1, 1863. the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of the Liquor Law. Decision of In view of this decision a neighbor remarked, who is well versed in Hawaiian history, " I feel that we really have something for which to be proud, in Hawaii nei." We can add that next to the fact (hat we have a Constitution is this, that we have able, high-minded and learned Judges to expound that Constitution. Perhaps we ought also to add that we are living in the midst of a law-abiding and well-ordered community. In order that our foreign readers may understand the merits of this decision, we would remark, that under the Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the Legislature passed laws prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors to Hawaiians. With sorrow we publish it, there are some in our community who would break down this law. For years there has been a suppressed and lurking feeling in many minds that the law was unconstitutional. Under that feeling there has been a " winking" at its partial violation, on the part of the executive officers Violators of the law of the Kingdom. the law was prejudged growing ffcre bold, and at length a case was unconstitutional, as brought before the Police Court, and a fine imposed. An appeal was made to the Supreme Court. This was well understood in community, ns designed to test the constitutionality of the law. The case was ahly argued on both sides. Every opportunity was given for a fair trial. In our February issue we published the argument of the Attorney-General. The lawyers on the opposite side did not fail to put forth their most potent arguments. The Hawaiian Courts have seldom witnessed a more able, eloquent and learned display of forensic talent. The Court took ample time to make up its opinion. That opinion has now been given and published. The decision was given by Justice Robertson, and fully concurred'in by Chief Justice Allen. These gentlemen fully sustain the decision of"the Police Justice. In presenting their decision our Judges have gone most fully into the merits of the Hawaiian Constitution, showing from whence it was derived, and upon what it is founded. It would be quite impossible for us to present even an outline of this most able of decisions. Unless we are much mistaken it is among the ablest, if not the ablest, court and state document which has ever appeared in this Kingdom. We now know better than ever before where we stand. King and people, foreigners and natives, have their prerogatives and rights better defined. Englishmen may boast of Constitution," Americans of the " British theirs, and so may Hawaiians boast of theirs. We cannot refrain from adverting to one point, dwelt upon by the Attorney General, and still more clearly brought out by both Justice Robertson and Chief Justice Allen. The point to which we refer is this, that the Hawaiian Constitution is not founded upon the voice of the people as in the United States, nor was it extorted from the Sovereign as in England, but was the free gift of of H. M. Kamehameha 111., King of the Sandwich Islands. We hope our readers will not fail to give this decision a thorough reading. It will well repay the perusal. »Smrs, M.20. Something worth telling about Sugar. On Saturday last, Dr. Judd exhibited a specimen of sugar, of a most excellent quality, which he said was manufactured the day before, from cane growing in Nuuanu valley, fieport says, that in four hours from the time the cane was brought to the mill, at Mr. John Wood's Plantation, it was ground, the syrup brought to town and run through the clarifiers at the Sugar .Refinery, and ready for use ! We saw the sugar. Now if Mr. Wood has demonstrated that a small mill can manufacture sugar profitably, on a small scale, we consider that he is a benefactor to the Sandwich Islands. There are many places where the land will not warrant the outlay of a large capital, but it would supply cane for a small mill. Besides, we have many small capitalists who do not wish to go extensively into the sugar-gTowing business. Lahaina Sugar.—The cane-growers and mill-owners, at Lahaina, have had their patience severely tested, but we are glad to see specimens of their sugar now coming into market. We sometimes take a stroll along our wharfs, and see the products which are landed from the other islands. The quality of the Lahaina sugar is good, and certainly reflects great credit upon Mr. Spencer and others, who have*commenced its manufacture under great disadvantages. We believe Lahaina will produce as good sugar as any locality on the islands. Rice and Rice Mills.—Until we began Hawaiian grown rice we never knew what good rice was. Our market is now supplied with an article of Hawaiian grown and cleaned rice, which is very superior. If any one doubts it, let him purchase a bag St Capt. Snow's store, cleaned at Mr. Prendergast's mill. As an article of food, it shouM be more and more generally introduced. Hard as the times are, it will be possible to obtain good rice. There is no healthier of cheaper food for children. to eat �THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. 26 One hundred Years Ago—Granville Sharp. No person can understand or appreciate the present struggle now progressing, and the conflict now raging, in America, who is unacquainted with the history of the slave trade, as conducted by the merchants of England, and the final abolition of that trade by the labors of such men as Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce. One hundred years ago the trade was regularly conducted as a lawful branch of British commerce. Slave owners were accustomed to visit London with their chattels, and whip them as a London drayman would whip his horse. Just one hundred years ago it may be said the contest fairly commenced, when the abominations should be brought to an end. Wonderful indeed are the ways of Divine Providence. " Church and State" were quietly sleeping over the evils of the slave tiade. Now, mark ye, God was educating in the family of a Quaker, a young man who should finally make judges, lawyers, nobles and the nation submit to his opinions upon this subject. (s}kanvillk Sharp, the grandson of an Archbishop of York, was apprenticed to a Quaker linen draper. While in that man's family, Sharp says he was taught " the proper distinction between the opinions of men and their persons." Time rolled on, and young Sharp becomes an under-clerk in one of the Government offices. While toiling in that capacity, poor and unknown, a slave owner from Barbadoes brought to London one of his slaves, by the name of Jonathan Strong. The master brutally whipped the man, and turned him adrift a friendless outcast in the streets of London. Poor, lame and homeless, he attracted the attention of Granville Sharp, the clerk and linen draper's apprentice. Our limits will not allow us to enter upon a full history of this and subsequent trials, which finally resulted in compelling the highest Court of England, presided over by Lord Mansfield, to make a decision that forever settled,the question, so far as England proper was concerned, that slavery could not exist in that country. Writes Cowper: "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs ReceivA our air, that moment they are free. They touch our countryand theirshackles fall." Thep it was that Lord Mansfield enunciated certain great principles, which have been gradually and slowly extending their inshence over the civilized world. The on- ward tide of abolition has been flowing for one hundred years. At times it has seemingly ebbed, but never really so—onward, rrmoard, it has flowed, until the President of the United States comes forth, on the Ist of January, 1883, with his Emancipation Proc- lamation, liberating 4,000,000 slaves. This proclamation is simply a natural sequence to what has gone before. It is only one of the waves in the abolition tide sweeping over the globe. Some men are striving to arrest this onward rushing tide, but their puny efforts will be as fruitless as that of 'the old King Canute, sovereign of Denmark, Norway and England, who ordered his courtiers to place his chair on the shore, where the tide was flowing in. The poor, silly old dotard, seating himself in the chair, thus addressed the sea "Hitherto shalt tsvu come, and no farther." Did the inward rushing tide obey his mandate? Alike vain, futile and absurd are all the efforts ofpro slavery and secession men in America, England or the Sandwich Islands, who imagine that negro-chattel slavery will be perpetuated. If, reader, you are faint-hearted and desponding, study the past. Would you visit Granville Sharp's grave, go to Westminister Abbey, and there among the torSbstones of England's noblest *ons, you will find one bearing this inscription : " Granville Sharp, to whom England owes the glorious verdict of her highest court of law, that the slave who sets his foot on British ground, becomes that instant : free." More Uncle Tom Literature. The January number of the Atlantic Monthly contains " A Reply," from the pen of Mrs. Stowe. Our readers may ask, " A Reply" to what ? It appears that a few years ago more than half a million of British women, including persons of all ranks of society, addressed a letter to Mrs. Stowe, imploring her aid to wipe out the crime of slavery from the United States. This letter was written on vellum and the signatures filled twenty-six folio volumes. It was forwarded to America with a letter of a British nobleman, now occupying one of the highest official positions in England. Mrs. Stowe, it appears, has never until now publicly replied to this letter. Her "Reply" will be found in the January number of the Atlantic Monthly. We hope it will be read by every surviving signer of that letter, and by every woman residing in England, or any part of the British Empire. The North is now engaged in a struggle into which they have been compelled to plunge, by the South boasting that the slave-roll shall yet be called upon Bunker Hill!! The South openly avow their purpose of making negro chattel slavery the corner-stone of theirConfederacy ! The last cry which comes upfrom the South is this: "No mediation; we must conquer or be conquered!" We do hope all the good people of England who sympathize with the South, will read Mrs. Stowe's «' Reply." The Cause of the Civil War In America. In our last issue we made some remarks upon the civil war in America. We asserted that slavery was its cause. We are still of that opinion, notwithstanding the remarks of the Editor of the Polynesian, in his issue of March 14th, and those of a contributor to the Polynesian, in the issue of the 7th, whose signature is " K." It is not our purpose to enter upon a newspaper controversy with these gentlemen. We think if any one will carefully read over their remarks, the tinct impression will be left upon the mind, that we have at least two writers in our community who would not be very much shocked in their moral sensibilities if they were actually living in South Carolina! According to their view, slavery is not so very bad a system after all. "X" remarks, "As to its operation [slavery] upon the slaves themselves, 1 can point to them as the best cared for four millions of human beings on the face of the earth." If Mr. K." has any children, we wonder he does not place them under that best system. We wonder he does not place himself there ! Shame ! Shame ! So does Mr. A. care for his pigs, Mr. B. for his sheep, Mr. C. for his horses and Mr. D. for his cattle. Now, Mr. "K." says the slaves are " healthy, happy and useful." Whether Mr. " K." ever visited the South we cannot say, but to offset his assertion that the slaves are " healthy, happy and useful," we will introduce the testimony of one who formerly lived amongst us, and is the son of one of our merchants, and now the Chaplain of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment, stationed in North Carolina. The Rev. William F. Snow, writing a few days since to an old friend, employs this language : " You will remember that my views on the slavery question were what are called conservative. Those views are now changed. Since I have been here 1 have learned to hate slavery with a perfect hatred. When I see how it not only maltreats and defrauds the black man, but also debases and brutalizes the white, stunting the intellect, quenching the finer sensibilities, and obliterating the conscience, 1 am ready to cry— Away with the accursed thing from the face of the earth ! And when I see, as I have on two marches, the negroes hail our advancing columns as their deliverance; when I find them willing to brave hunger, cold, fatigue and danger from lurking guerillas, in order to escape; when my heart is pained to its core at the sight of weak women and toddling infants struggling onward beside our army, with naked feet torn and bleeding over the frozen ground; is it aov wonder that my old ideas are blown awjf as chaff, and that Isa forbid that this contest should close until the possibility of such things in the future is clean gone forever! May all the people say,' Amen !' " - �27 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1 863. Original Letter from Thomas Clarkson, Never before Published. In examining the papers of the late William Ladd, Esq., a manuscript letter of Thomas Clarkson was discovered. It was in his own hand-writing. It was addressed to the Rev. J. Diell, Secretary of the Sandwich Islands Institute. We doubt not many of our readers will be exceedingly interested in the perusal of this letter, written by one of Nature's Noblemen, whose efforts contributed so essentially to the abolition of the slave trade. [cop ii.] near Ipswich, Suffolk, August 26, 1839. Sic :—I acknowledge the receipt of your letter making me an honorary member of the Sandwich Islands Institute, and that I approve of the laws and rules of it. As I am now in my eightieth year, and nearly blind, you must expect but a very short letter, even though I have been so much honored. I received also from Mr. Beaver five of your printed Essays. I am glad to find that the members of your Institute employ their time so usefully. Their publications, while they do honor to themselves, willfurnish the people of Europe with the most interesting and gratifying information, and indeed every one who is solicitous of the happiness and welfare of the uncivilized world. There is one circumstance more to be deplored than any other in the part of the globe which you inhabit, which is that the kings are owners of all the soil, nor will it be an easy matter toremedy it. Could they be persuaded to let out their land to tenants, as in Europe, they would still have the property of the islands as before, and sufficient authority over their people for the purposes of government. I am aware that no man wishes to part with power. But still this is a vital desideratum, and a step which must at some time or other be taken, or there is a bar to all improvement. Such a step would promote industry and labor, and labor would promote health, and perhaps stop the devastating havoc made in your population, which no man can read without horror. Akin to this is the power which the kings have over the property of the people : whatever a man may earn, it is not his own. Whatever he may have gotten by his industry belongs to the king, his poultry, his pigs, his fisa>—who, then, would labor with any spirit, when what he acquired in this way may be taken from him. These are the two evils against which you will have to contend, before the condition of the common people can be ameliorated ; and I trust that some way will be discovered by which you may remedy them by degrees. Other nations have been in ihe same state of society, where these evils do not now exist. What has been done once may be done again, though this must be a work of time. I have sent you a little work, just now publishe3—my History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade." It contains my own labors, and those of others, from the year 1785 to 1792 or % in that noble cause, and it has Playford Hall, " now been republished at the request of many enlightened and most respectable individuals. I am thinking of following up this subject by a subsequent history of my proceedings in that great cause, from 1792 to the present year, 1839, but whether I shall live to finish it, at my advanced age, I do not know. I have sent you, also, for your library, another little book, which 1 think may be interesting to you, and which has been lately published. It is called, " China and its State and Prospects." I think it may be very useful to you in your part of the world, and furnish many useful hints. I believe you have some intercourse with this people. Perhaps you will not understand the preface to my own book, " History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade." It is written by Lord Brougham. The sons of my late dear and valued friend Mr. Wilberforce, attacked me in a very unhandsome manner, in writing the history of their father's life, but the people of England were roused, and they have been completely silenced. I find 1 have written till I am quite wearied and can write no more. I can therefore only send you my best wishes that your endeavors for the good of the poor natives among whom you liveunay be blessed by Providence I am, Sir, yours truly, Thomas Clarh*son. P. S.—I need not tell you, who are liberal and enlightened men, how, in trying to remedy the two evils above-mentioned, you must steer clear of slavery. John Diell, Cor. See., of the Sandwich Islands Institute. Bishop Colenso Again. Newspapers continue to come to us, abounding with remarks and refutations of the Bishop's book. The most interesting document which has yet fallen under our notice, is the letter of " A former Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge," addressed to the Bishop. This letter originally appeared in the London Record. It is evidently written by one fully the Bishop's equal in learning, erudition and research. Our limits will not allow us to copy the whole letter, but we think the following portion will give the reader a good idea of its general tenor: Lord to her, and that she found prayer answered, un# that all this was proved sincere by her blameless and harmless walk amongst the neighbors ; whilst I, with all my science and investigation, was barren and unprofitable, and miserable —an unbeliever in heart, and yet not daring to avow it, partly from the fear of man, but more from a certain inward conviction that all my skeptical difficulties would be crushed and leaped over by the experience of the most illiterate Christian. 1 was perfectly ashamed to feel in my mind like Voltaire, Vol'ney, or Tom Paine. I could claim no originality in my views; and I found they were no comfort, but a constant source of misery to me. May we not compare this kind of state to that which God speaks of in Jeremiah xlix : " Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart." And observe what follows: "Hear the counsel of the Lord. Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out." It may now be asked bow 1 camo ever to view Divine truth differently. I desire to ascribe all praise to him to whom power belongeth; I desire to put my own mouth to the dust, and be ashamed, and never open my mouth any more, because of my former unbelief. I cannot describe all I passed through, but I desire with humility and gratitude, to say I was made willing in a day of Christ's power. He sweetly melted down my proud heart with his love ; He shut my mouth forever from caviling at any difficulties in the written Word; and one of the first things in which the great change appeared was, that whereas before time-preaching had been misery, now it became my delight to be able to say. without a host ofskeptical or infidel doubts rushing into my mind " Thus saith theLord." 0, I am quite certain no natural man can see the things of God; and lam equally certain he cannot make himself do so. "It was the Lord that exalted Moses and Aaron," said Samuel; and " By the grace of God I am what 1 am," said St. Paul; and so, in a modified and humble sense, 1 can truly say. It used to be a terrible stumbling-block to me to find so many learned nan, so many acute men, so many scientific men, infidels. It is not so now ; I see that God has said, " Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;" I see, as plainly as it is possible for me to see anything, that no natural man can receive the things of the spirit of God. Hence I expect to find men of thin stamp of intellect coming out boldly with -their avowals of unbelief in the written Word of God. The only answer I can give to them is, " God has in mercy taught me better;" and never do I sing those beautiful words in the well known hymn, but I feel my eyes filling with tears of gratitude to the God of all compassion : : "Jesus sought ate when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God." it was with me; so it must be with any one mo many an hour of of So them if ever they are to know the truth in its 1 really felt what 1 so power, or to receive the love of the truth that man It would have spared misery in after days had went into often said, vis: that the deeper a science, the humbler he ought to be. and the more cautious in pronouncing an independent opinion on a suhject ho had not investigated, or could not thoroughly sift. But, though all this was true, I had yet to learn that this humility in spiritual things is never found in a natural they may be saved. I feel very much for the young of this generation, remembering the conflicts I passed through in consequence of the errors of men of ability. 1 hope the Lord will graciously impress on maSy hearts the serious truth of these words, " Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit;" and The wisdom of this world is foolishness with "God." My own way of explaining it to myself and others, when required to do so, is by saying, It is not the mind, bot the affections which re"ceive true religion. ' Knowledge puffetb up, but charity edifieth.' " I remain, my dear Sir, your obedient servant, A Former Fellow or man. I took orders and hegan to preach, and then, like the Bishop among the Zulus, I found out the grand deficit in my thoology. I had not the Spirit's teaching myself, and how could I without it speak " in demonstration of the Spirit and of power?" In vain did 1 read Chalmers, Paley, Butler, (Juußscn, Ac, and determine that,as 1 had masTrinity Oollkob, Cabuuudob. tered all the other subjects I had grappled with, Oct. 15,18G2. so I would the Bible, and that I would make myself a believer. I found a poor ignorant old Men are greatly tried by the extremes woman in my parish more than a match for me things. fortune, was distressed to find of and be is really a great man who I that in Divine she was often happy in the evident mercy ot the can withstand both. �28 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 18 0 3. THE FHI END,. APRIL 1, 1863. A British Surveying Vessel. H. B. M. surveying sing Hecate arrived in our port a few days since, from Acapulco in Mexico. She has been engaged for several years surveying in the vicinity of Vancouver's Island, and is now on her homeward passage, via Navigator Inlands and Sydney. We know not what feelings the sight of a surveying vessel calls up in the minds of our readers, but to us a surveying vessel appears to be one of the most important, necessary and useful of all vessels afloat. Think for one moment, what is their object ? They are cruising over the ocean to ascertain the correct position of reefs, shoals, rocks, sand-spits, islands, and whatever else may facilitate or retard navigation, commerce and the intercourse of nations. Who then will not join in the prayer of the put* Cowper ? " Heaven speed the canvas gullantly unfurled To furnish and accommodate a worlu !" Vessels engaged in this praiseworthy employment ore true pioneers of commerce, guardians of trade, handmaids of science, harbingers of Christianity and friends of humanity. We know very well that a surveying vessel does not attract the attention of a frigate or a line-of-battle-ship, when cruising around the globe, but that does not matter! In our humble estimation, one surveying vessel actively employed; is really conferring more benefit upon a nation's commerce than a whole fleet of " three-deckers," sailing over the ocean " looking" after the interests of commerce. England, France and the United States have been supporting large naval armaments in the Pacific for many years, and yet how little has been done to improve the "charts" of the Pacific during the last quarter of a century. We sometimes think that our naval commanders are really afraid to sail out of the old beaten track of .navigation, lest they might possibly be wrecked. They give all supposed rocks and shoals a "wide borth," whereas it should be their business to ascertain where they are to be found and whether properly laid down upon tfeir charts. We could mention whole groups of islands where no surveying vessel has ever cruised. There are literally thousands of islands, reefs and shoals, which need to be accurately surveyed. Scarcely a single island or reef of the Marshall and Caroline Islands has ever been accurately surveyed. The whole of that portion of the Pacific known as Micronesia needs to be explored and surveyed. Every year wrecks occur because the charts are so defective. Only a few months since report reached Honolulu that three British wrecks were piled up upon a single reef or low island to the westward of Ascension. The Liholiho was sent away " wrecking," and serious feßrs are entertained that she too may have become a wreck and her crew met a worse We have been hoping the United States would fit out surveying vessels for the Pacific, but we fear home troubles will prevent it. Would that suitable representations might go to the British Admiralty and cause them to send the Hecate back into the Pacific, accompanied by half a dozen smaller craft, which might make a thorough survey of the vast regions of the Pacific lying between the Sandwich Islands and China. There is work enough for a score of surveying vessels for the next twenty years. When we reflect upon the enormous annual cost of a large vessel of war, and the comparatively useless employment in which many of them are engaged, we must express our surprise that the " heads" of Naval Bureaus cannot be persuaded to devote a greater amount to surveying and less to cruising! more to sounding and less to fighting ! more to ascertaining the location of rocks and shoals and less to avoiding them ! In conclusion we congratulate Capt. Richards and his officers in completing their long and tedious cruise, and would express our earnest wish that when they have once more visited '• merrie old England," they may be sent back to the Pacific to finish up the work left unfinished by Anson, Cook, Vancouver, La Perouse, Belcher, Wilkes, and all the other navigators of former years. fate! A Retired Shipmaster. It is no easy undertaking for a shipmaster or any sea-faring man to retire from the sea, and quietly settle down on shore. Having for years roamed over the ocean and visited foreign lands, the quiet and every-day scenes of shore-life appear tame. Not a few trying it are sadly disappointed, from the fact that they lose their property. Their investments are not carefully made. Very many of our old friends, among whalemen, have been most sadly bitten by unfaithful agents who have pretended to be their friends. We could mention the names of many old shipmasters, who had acquired a competence in the whaling business, but who have been stripped of the last dollar! We deeply feel for such men. It afforded us great pleasure to hear a favorable report of one retired shipmaster, from whom it was our privilege to have received, some years ago, acts of disinterested kindness. We refer to Capt. David Wood, who commanded the United States transport steamer Massachusetts, which visited Hono- lulu in 1849, bound to Oregon, with United States troops. Capt. Wood kindly offered us a free passage from the Islands to Oregon, and from thence to San Francisco. We accepted the offer, and enjoyed the trip to Oregon and California beyond what language could well describe. Years have passed away without our learning anything about our friend and benefactor, her.ee we were delighted to read the following in a letter from another old visitor and friend, the Rev. H. Wood, late Chaplain of the Powhatan, which conveyed the Japanese Embassy to the United States. The Rev. Mr. Wood, now stationed in the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. 11., thus writes under date of January 10th, 180^: " I lately visited my cousin, Capt. Wood, of Ncwburyport. He quit the sea eight years ago, quite independent, and now devotes all his efforts to the Sabbath School (of which he is superintendent) and works of piety." We are delighted to learn that one whom we so highly esteem is thus favorably situated and usefully employed. He seems to be enjoying the quiet old age described by Cicero, in the oft-quoted saying, Otium cum dignitate." Capt. Wood was a" graduate of Cambridge University (1814) and a classmate of Prescott the Historian. It is well known that Mr. Prescott was partially blind, so much so, that he was always obliged to employ a reader and amanuensis. We recollect dipt. Wood's account of the circumstances under which Mr. Prescott lost his eye-sight. While as students they were seated at a dinner table, in Public Commons, a classmate threw a crumb of bread, which struck Prescott in one of his eyes. The other became affected through sympathy. Eleven Ships and their Cargoes. "Mr. Pierson, a rich Wcslcjran Motliodist of Hull, Kngland, lias lost eleven valuable vessels in attempting to run our blockade, and he hag failed in consequence." We clip the above paragraph respecting a Mr. Pierson, from a late exchange paper. We wonder what John Wesley would have said about this member of the Wesleyan Church, who has been ruined while attempting to bolster up a Confederacy takjig for its "corner-stone" negro-chattel which Mr. Wesley declared to be the sum " of all villainies." Mr. Pierson ought to console his mind, in view of his ruined prospects, from the fact that he has contributed 11 ships and their cargoes" to support the blockade ! The U. S. Government has thereby received a contribution of a million more or less. We would suggest that Mr. Pierson change his politics and plans, and instead of sending his ships to run the blockade, follow the example of a certain American ship-owner, who is furnishing one of his ships, freight free, to convey provisions to the starving poor of Lancashire. " �29 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. memory. At this meeting I Capt. Kichards, of H. B. M. ship Hecate, \ Capt. James Cook was killed at Kealake- suggested that a light house near the en- | akua Bay, on the 14th of February, 1779 trance of Honolulu harbor, would be an op- j eighty-four years ago, and yet no appropriate propriate monument to Cook's memory. The and becoming monument has ever been following resolutions were then unanimously carried: erected to his memory. In the Church of "Resolved, That, in the opinion of this meeting, a LightHarbor, to be called St. Andrew's, the Great, Cambridge. Eng- HOI'SK, near the entrance of Honolulu * Cook's Light House,' would tie the most appropriate nionucommunion Capt. tablet near the Cook. nieut to the of memory there is u land, That a public melting he railed for Monday next, " Resolved, table, with this inscription : with a view to taking hleps to raise lite required funds to carry memorate Cook's A Monument to Capt. Cook. — is mkmort or CAPrAIN JAMES COOK, OF TIIK ROYAL NAVY, Cne of the m.»t Celebrated Navigators that tins or former ages can boast of, Who was killed by tho natives of Owhyee, In the IMciße Ocean, on Uie 14th of February, 1719, In the 61st year of his age. It has been our privilege twice to visit the spot where Capt. Cook fell. The first time on the 4th of July, 1844, and again on the 20th of lebruary, 1859, the anniversary of his burial. By referring to the Irvend of August Ist, 1844, we find the following record of our first visit: stump of a cocoa-nut has been set "inThe fissure of the rocks to mark the the up spot where Cook fell, only a few feet from the water's edge. It is five feet high, one foot in diameter at the top and two at the base. This simple monument bears three inscriptions on copper plate : No. 1—" Near this spot, tell Captain James Cook, H. N., tho renowned circumnavigator, who discovered tho islands, A. 1)., 1778." Oct. 17,1837." '• His Majesty's Ship Imogene, No 2—" This shoot and coppering put on by in order to the Sparrow-hawk, Sept. 10, 1839, preserve the monument to tho memory of Cook. No. 3—" This bay was visited July 4th, 1848, Lord liy H. B. M. Ship Carytforl, the Rt. Hon. (in I'uulet, Captain ; who was the representative of H«r Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria. These Islands were ceded Feb. 25, 1843." Tradition reported that the identical cocoanut tree, bearing the above inscriptions, was partially cut off by a ball from Cook's ship at the time he was killed. The top of tho tree was taken to England by Capt. Bruce, of H. B. M. ship Imogene. All that now remains, we believe, is simply inscription No. 1. The topic of a monument to Cook has been often discussed and warmly advocated, especially by all English navigators, seamen and visitors. A subscription was first commenced fc# the purpose in March, 1859, by the late Acting Commissioner, B. Toup Nicholas, who took a deep interest in the matter* In consequence of his death the awhile longer, affair was allowed to slumber partially upon the ground that Gen. Miller was expected to return to the islands, and it was confidently hoped he would have revived subject. Mr. Green, while Acting Bri- the subscriptions tish Commissioner, received amounting to $889, and about $200 additional was pledged. On Friday last, March 27th,a Mr. Synge, at H B M Commissioner, called meeting, effectualwere taken to which initiatory steps ly carry out some plan which should meet the public expectations and becomingly com- out this undertaking/ The following minutes of the proposed meeting, we present as furnished by Mr. Spencer, Secretary of the said meeting: LancshireFund. We learn from Mr. Synge, the British Commissioner, that the subscription for the poor of Lancashire has already amounted to $3,850. Among the late donations, there was one of $11,78, brought by a poor kanaka from the remote and secluded district of Waipio, on Hawaii. The native remarked, us he paid over this donation, that he had read in the newspaper respecting the sufferings of the poor people of England, and he had collected among his neighbors this amount. We are confident the poor Hawaiian never gave this money to have it reported, but we say let it be published beside " the widow's two mites," for his sake and the sake of his countrymen, whose Christian character has been so needlessly assailed and misrepresented by Mr. Manly Minutes of a Meeting held at the Court House, on the 'M)th day of March, 1803, to decide on the iito.it appropriate monument to the memory oj Capt. James Cook Proposed by Mr. Synge, and seconded by Mr. Green, that Capt. Richards, of H M. S. Hecate, take the chair. Carried. Proposed by Mr. Suvidge, and seconded by Mr. Hopkins, Hawaiian Consul in London, in Montgomery, that Mr. S. Spencer be SeereUry of his recent work on the Sandwich Islands. l his meeting. Carried. We only hope Mr. Hopkins may visit the Proposed by Mr. Pfluger, and seconded by Mr. of Waipio, before he publishes a Qreen, that the folUwing resolution, proposed by people second edition of his work. We would Mr. meeting Synge's Richards at a held at Capt. residence, on the 26th inst., be adopted by this meet- merely add, that the Valley of Waipio is in : ing, viz: "Thatin Uie opinion of this meeting, a lighthouse near the entrance or Honolulu harbor, to lie called * Cook's Lighthouse,' wouldbe the most appropriate monument to the memory of Capt. Cook." Carried. the parish of the Rev. L. Lyons, through whose energetic labors, during the last thirty years, the gospel has been brought home to the people of that part of Hawaii, and where there have been built, in his parish, (or rather bishopric,) no less than 13 or 14 small churches, several of which are surmounted with neat cupolas and bells ! It is certainly a noteworthy fact, that the poor people of this district should have been moved by their own free-will, to send forward their subscriptions Jo the poor of Lancashire. The Cowper woujd hffve aptly described tnaßßwregioii only a few years ago : But the sound of church-going hell, These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared." P. S.—Since wnting the above, we have met with the following list of the Waipio Proposed by Capt. Babcooli, and seconded by Mr. Heuck, " That a committee of five be appointed, one of whom shall be Treasurer, to collect further contributions, and to report progress nt a meeting of the subscribers, to be convened (or the purpose, within three months from the present time." Carried. Proposed by Mr. Synge, and seconded by Mr. Goodale, that the following gentlemen be appointed for the committee: Capt. Meek, Messrs. Webster, Pfluger, Severanoe, and Green. Carried. Proposed by Mr. Satidge, and seconded by Mr. Green, that a committee of seven be appointed to recommend a position for the lighthouse,—Capt. Richards to be one of the committee." Carried. The following gentlemen were then duly appointed: Captains Richards, liubcock, Meek, J. Brown, Berrill, Messrs. Prendergust and Webster. Proposed by Mr. G. Rhodes, ond seoonded by Mr. Synge, that the committee of five apply to the principal Insurance Offices abroad, and to such other persons as the committee may see fit, for contribu- donors to the Lancashire tions towards the object in view, and that the said oa newspaper: committee prepare a circular letter for that purpose. k " U. W. D. Halemanu, Carried. Kaalelc A vote of thanks was then unanimously passed to Kahananul 1, the chairman, Capt. Kichards. Kaaua Kaalihikaua. The meeting then adjourned. Kahananul 2, .1. W. Kausrahl, A new edition of Cook's Voyages lies Aua, Kua, before us, published by A. & C. Black, of Kuaana, Edinburgh, 1860. It is edited by John Hoke, I'ahau, Barrow, Esq., F. K. S„ dec. At the close Kimo Kahilipulu of the book, on page 631, we find this para- Makaalnana. graph : " One thing yet remains to be done. A public monument to Capt. Cook, and one worthy of his great achievements, the benefits he has rendered to mankind, and the lustre shed by his name on the Navy of England—some noble Light House in the pathway of all nations, which may lead them safely to their respective havens ; or if this cannot be, at least a statue in Trafalgar Square, where Dr. Jenner and Sir Charles Napier are most grieviously out of place, occupying as they do the site of statues of Collingwood, Hardy, St. Vincent, Howe, Duncan," &c. Kallmakahl, Ksaiiksna (Haole,) Nawahlna, Kawaihae Lele, Makuakane K. Kaalialama, Kallleleele T. Walokalehua Kamiol, Kaluna, Aa-alua, Kalllksnl, Kalawaia, Kalakunlai, Kanaloa, Kaholokahlkl Kaal, Kanokoa, Nalua, N. Kelkenul Kapehs, Psele. Fund, in the Kuo- 121JKoko 13J Makaa, 12iKukunr, 13IKaubie 1*..Mi", 13IKoo 60IKapule, 26SKik.u, 12tKeaka, 36SKaluna, IS1 Puaanui 12iKalllkes, 18I I'alm-J 12! Mahoe ISI Kahaolenui, 12I Kahili 60IKekumu MI Kaumeli lau fc Ana, 12!Moi ISI l-alupalu 12! Kralanalirl<, 26 Kuapuhi, 25] i 36>|Kauakehaikuli 26.iKaelemakulc, 26.Muli.ai 131Kukahekahe 12 Pupuk'iiul, 13uPaaoao, 12iNaiwl IS!Maka. 121Ikeole,. •••• IS!Napua, 1211Mamakakaua, Kahlanwe, 13.J. W. 121Kshawala 18;1Haataaa, > : 26| Waipio, Hawaii, *«r, 28.18M. 13 18 13 13 36 13 IS 11 IS 13 36 18 12 18 13 13 10 13 18 08 13 18 11 IS 26 13 IS 11 18 11 1» 12 IS 12 a* 26 •*• �30 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. EDITOR'S TABLE. A. Review. Tin Sabbath Hymn Book—For the service of Song in the House of the Lord. Published by Mason Brothers, New York. A good hymn, suited to the purposes of religious worship, is more valuable than the purest pearl that ever shone in the necklace of a queen. When a collection of such hymns are brought together in a book, they form a gift to the Christian world, of priceless value. It is one of the most significant and promising signs of the times, that writers belonging to different branches of theChurch worship, for the passing age, it is just what was needed. It may not answer for the next generation, for new hymns are continually appearing. These will secure favor. There is one feature of the book which we must not fail to notice. It contains hymns composed by writers of various denominations. By looking at the " Index of authors," it will appear that Congregationalists, Independents, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Moravians, Unitarians, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, and we know not but some other sects, will there find themselves represented. The worshippers of God may differ theologically and doctrinally, but agree when breathing forth their devout aspirations to their common Father and Saviour. They may refuse to recognize each other as Christians, or be unwilling to endorse each other's creed, but yet all unite together in singing the same songs o/ Zion, as they do in reading from the same precious Bible. Many a churchman has taken delight in singing the hymns of Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge, although he would not have entered the chapels where they preached. Many an English Independent and American Congregationalist have sung with rapture the hymns of Cowper, John Newton and Bishop Heber, without suspecting that they belonged to the established Church. Who ever thinks of Montgomery as a Moravian, when this one of his admirable hymns is given out to be sung: universal, are making valuable contributions to the common stock of lyrical poetry, so that from the general mass there can be made a selection which approximates towards perfection. We are far from supposing that a faultless book of either prose or poetry can be produced, by the combined efforts of the best writers of all countries, but it is possible to make commendable improvements. This we think has been most satisfactorily done by the compilers ofthe Sabbath Hymn Book. This book contains 1290 Hymns, 24 Doxologies, and 58 selections for chanting. These are accompanied by several admirablyarranged and classified indexes. We have given the book a thorough examination, and can truly and conscientiously assert that a more complete and well arranged hymn book " Prayer is the soul's sincero desire," itc. The hymns of John and Charles Wesley fallen under never our It inspection. has are the common property of Christians of all embraces a range and hymns truly Protestant sects. Of late years, several wricommendable. many of the ters have arisen in England, Scotland and psalms of David arepresented in the beauti- America, whose lyrical productions are of ful and appropriate language of Watts, Mil- the very highest excellence. We are deton and other standard lyric poets. These lighted to find specimens of their choicest pieces in this book. Among writers of this are followed by specimens of hymns transla- class we would mention Charlotte Elliot, an ted from the Greek and Latin Churches. English lady, the author of the hymn, The Reformers furnish their quota, including " Just as I am, without one plea," &c. some excellent hymns of Luther. Coming The Rev. Dr. Bonar, of Scotland, is along down to more modern times, the com- another admirable writer, and among his pilers have carefully brought together hymns hymns this specimen is found " I was a wandet-ing sheep," &c. composed by Watts, Newton Doddridge, writers of good Among Addison, Pope, Montgomery, and many hymns, werecent American names of S. F. Smith, notice the other authors whose names have long been G. W. Doane, Mrs. Sigourney, and several familiar to those who take delight in the others. worship of the sanctuary. To these are In reading a hymn we always desire to added many choice hymns composed by nu- know who wrote it, and seldom do we omit the index of authors to ascertain merous living poets on both sides of the At- looking into that fact. Many of our hymns have a hislantic. We really cannot mention the title tory which adds immensely to their richness of any hymn book wherein so much unex- and worth. Take, for example, Cowper's ceptionable, choice and sacred lyric poetry is hymn, commencing, from the world, O Lord, 1 flee, to be found. Other compilations may have " Far From strife and tumult far," ,tc. excellencies, this is the but book hymn their This is an exquisitely beautiful hymn in itpar excellence. It is a book which comes self, but how much deeper and richer every up to the present time, while it embraces word and line will appear, when it is known the good hymns of the "olden time"— that Cowper wrote this hymn just after being hence we are not surprised that it should discharged from the Lunatic Asylum at St. have met with so favorable a reception from Albans, and when he had retired to the quiet and beautiful village of Huntingdon, the Press on both sides of the Atlantic. It where he enjoyed rich rural delight and sois rapidly growing in favor with the Christian cial pleasure. (See Cheever's Lectures on community. For the purposes of religious Cowper, and Cowper's Letters.) : We never read or repeat another of Cow- per's hymns, commencing, God moves in a mysterious way, " His wonders to perform," &c, without recalling to mind the melancholy circumstances under which these lines were written. The poet was one day experiencing the premonitory symptoms of returning insanity. His thoughts shaped themselves in the touching lines of this off sung hymn. The gathering clouds settled down upon his disordered mind, and for several years he enjoyed but few lucid moments, never, we believe, writing another line, until after years of mental aberration. God does indeed move in a mysterious way ! Other of Cowper's poems possess a history equally remarkable. More than thirty years ago we remember to have heard an intimate friend of the late Mrs. P. H. Brown, of Monson, Mass., relate the circumstances under which she wrote the oft sung hymn, or 64th of the Sabbath Hymn Book, I love to steal a while awuy, " From every 'cuiuh'ring care," &c. was Mrs. B. living at the time in Connecticut, near the residence of Judge , whose wife one evening remarked, " Why do you, Mrs. Brown, walk in your garden every evening?" The next morning the wife of the Judge received the accompanying hymn in manuscript. Originally the first stanza read, 1 love to steal a while uway, From little ones and cares," &c. The hymn was entitled an Apology for an " Evening Walk." We know not how it is with others, but in our estimation a hymn is much enhanced in its value, if we can ascertain the circumstances under which it was written. We think a most interesting volume might be written upon the history of the various hymns in this and other compilations of English and American lyrical poetry. By looking over the numbers of the Spectator, we learn the circumstances which led Addison to write certain hymns which have become the common property of the Christian world. When those hymns were written, how little the Prince English Essayists imagined that he was composing hymn* which would be sung wherever the English language should be spoken, or God worshipped by Englishmen or their descendants. See numbers 441 and 453 of Spectator. The history of the " Olney Hymns," written by Cowper and Newton, is most interesting. Let no one be surprised that thj value of a hymn should be enhanced by recalling its Read what an English writer history. (quoted by Trench in his "Study of Words") says respecting the history of a single word : "There are cases in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign." When the poet, under the influence of a heaven-born inspiration, culls out the choice words of our language and expresses ideas that lift the soul to God, he confers a blessing of untold value upon the Church " £J and the world, wherever the English language shall be spoken. In the poet's moments of inspiration, " language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtile thoughts have been embedded and preserved." �31 THE FRIEND, APRIL, 18 6 3. It is the poet's privilege so to arrange words that they " convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow, and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across the gulf of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion." But we are allowing our pen to scribble along much beyond what we designed when we sat down to write this notice. We have not, however, touched upon all the points which temptingly elicit comment. We had designed to refer to the " Hymn and Tune Book," but we must defer any additional remarks until a future occasion. C. BREWER _ Sd~ SAM'L. ■. CASTLE. I. B. ATBIBTOI. CASTLE Importersand Wholesale and Retail dealers In General Merchandise, in the Fireproof Store in King street, opposite tbe Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR Dr. Jaynes Medicines, Wheeler 4- Wilson's Sewing Machines, TheNew England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash assets 52,360,000, w Reynolds, Devoe A Pratt—lmporters and Manu'acturersof Paints. Oil and Varnish, and Crystal Coal Oil, C. Van Home A Co.'s Carriages and Carriage Materials. * CASTLE COOKE, Y. EVERETT.) 315-ly SEWING MACHINES! 11I1ISMACHINE HAS ALL THE LATEST impiovcmetits,and, in.additiou to former premiums, was awarded the highest prise above all European and American Sewing Machines st the World's Exhibition In PARIS in 1881, AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, and at theExhibition in London in 1862. The evidence of the superiority of this Machine Is found In the Tire-proof Store, Robinson's Building, record of It* sales. In 1801 qi;kkn strkkt, Honolulu. The tlrover & Baker Company, Goston, The Florence Con>i>any, Massachusetts, 316-ly Will continue business at the new stand. The Parker Compsny, Connecticut, J. M. Singer A- Co., New York, DR. J. MOTT SMITH, ■ Finkle A: Lyon, Cllas. W. llowland,Delaware, X>333XTTIST. M. Urecnwood A Co., Cincinnati, 0., 332-ly OlBoe corner ot Fort nnd Hotel Streets. N. S. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., W_oa ll* Smith, Connecticut, ls.oiici, whilst the Wheeler A Wilson Company, of Bridgesold HOFFMANN, I>., M. E. ma«le and sold 19,7_ during the same period. port, Kaa Physician and Surgeon, Makee'sBlock, corner Queenand } r Pleaae Call nnd K.xnmim-. 11 tl Itiu-ly humanu streets. — " 11. STANCENWALD, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, Late New York City Dlsiiensary Physician, member of the Medico Chlrurgical College and of the Pathological Society of New York. 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The House has teen built and fitted up in a style to suit the wants of Officers, and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their Teasels under repairs, are respectfully invited to send their crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort. Officers' table, with lodging, per week,. 96 o Seamens' do. do. do. do. CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT, Managert. Honolulu, March 1,1861. •> CHASE'S Ambrotype and Photographic BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'S Watch and Jewelry AT G__3_3U__RY Pumps, Bath Tubs, Wash Stands, Water Closets, etc, L. LLEI% A. KKKKILL, ■rjccßsaoES to G-eorge "W. Macy, — Establishment, in Kaahumanu street, will be Next door to the Post Office—up stairs found the following works over the Commercial Advertiser" Almanacks for 1862. Printing Office. Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Assistant. 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J, -—I'm —™l SS6-ly Wheeler & Wilson's 11. W. SEVERANCE, ATJCTIONBBH, Honolulu. - IMOS. S. 00011 COOKE, AGENTS FOR J. 11. COLE, AUCTIONBBrt, BIIIKHIN PECE, SAILOR'S HOME. General Merchant and Agent for the sale of the products of the Brewer Plantation. S'JA-ly ADVERTISEMENTS. SBBBJOfBJBBBB TO A. At his late rooms, Uueen Street. APV_RTIg-a-__TTB. ADVERTISEMENTS. J Hoaajola. Binding Pamphlets, Newspapers, Music, •Old Books, Ac. _c. Partlcalarattention paid to reblnding old and choice Books. Mr. Y. having had many years experience In Book-binding, in all its branches, hopes to receive a share of the business required In Honolulu. Orders from the other Islands should be accompanied with directions as to the style, and If the work Is to match volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sec* with the Job. particular KAWAIHAK. HAWAII, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping busiaes BOUND VOLUMEB at theabove port, where they are prepared to furnish the Justly celebrated Kawalhae Potatoes, and such other re THE FRIEND, FROM 1845 to 188S— For sale by the Publisher—PrlsHS tl per „!■», ,-ruite as are required by whale ships at the shnrtestnotloe, 320-ly bound together. and on the most reasonable terms. OF THE FRIEND; A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO Tjßb- PEBANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: - On* oopy, per annum, ««..-• Two copies, Fire copies, it." ±m -™ �THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1863. 32 Among those who are evidently disappointed by the decision of the Supreme Court, is the editor of the Polynesian. His thoughts are manifest by a brief editorial accompanying the publication of the decision. It wns with no little sorrow that we read his announcement that he should now address himself to the arduous work of so moulding public sentiment that the next legislature would thoroughly revise the laws upon this subject, and of course remove the tabus. He may succeed, but if so, we are fully confident another element will be added to the already fearful list now working out the extinction and doom of this people. If we had deliberately formed the decision to do all in our power to complete the ruin of this people, we should go in for supporting the Editor of the Polynesian in the undertaking to which he is now to address himself. It is with no other feeling than that of a desire to promote the well-being of both foreigners and natives, that we would earnestly entreat our brother editor to re-examine his premises, and take a sober, second thought, before he really buckles on the harness, and puts himself into the party traces, for overturning the existing laws and Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom. We would acknowledge the reception of the following sermons and pamphlets Sermon before the Maine Missionary So"ciety," by Rev. J. O. Fiske; Sermon on " the death of Mrsgfi. L. Powers, late misat Austerlitz, sionary to N. V., January 2nd, 1863, by Rev. P.O. Powers; " Hall's Journal of Health; " Dr. " Peabody on the American Board of Foreign Missions;" "Fiftieth Report of the Norwich and New London F. M. Society;" "Rev. Dr. Anderson's Letter to Rev. Dr. R. S. Caudlish." : We have been much gratified to witness the effort of the Purveyor of the U. S. Hospital, to provide a reading room for the seamen under the care and protection of the Consul. The inmates of the Hospital need something to beguile the tedious days and weeks of their confinement. It is astonishing how much happiness may be conferred "by a small expense. The present Purveyor seems disposed to do all in his power to make comfortable the inmates of the Hospital. At latest reports, Rev. Dr. Anderson and family were at Hilo, about starting for the volcano. They touched at Kealakcakua on their passage to Hilo. Seamen wishing to write letters to their friends, will find pens, ink and paper, gratis, by calling at the Sailor's Home. Donations—Towards nished for Chapel: Hymn Books fur- From a Trlend, J. M. S. E-romaSalUr from Unknown »rleml,by J.o.C .10 00 '.'.'.'.'.'.'. *., JJ 4 60 MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. March 2—Am bark Arctic, Hammond, 133 days from Boston, with an assorted cargo of iuiIn to C. Brewer at Co. 5—Am hark Cambridge, Brooks, 12 days from fan Franc mco, with mdi e to Aldrlch, Walker <y Co. 11—Haw. wh bark Florence, Jon. bptncer, from 1111.>. 13—Br aU.-umshlp Kobert Oongjtluh, 1 2{ days ftn fan Francisco, en route fur Hongkong. Sailed •nine eveniiig. 13—Pnaasiunhark Dot*, WHIniid,20 day* from 1*uget route fur Bhanghae, wlili corgo of Juuiflknd.cn bW. Hailed MOM day. 13—Am tmrkl.Jfiiny Kurd. Mct'nrty.fromI'uget Sound, via Jlilo, with cargo hsnhaf to 11. Ilackfeld ft Co, 13—Am wli ill Henry Kiie.-lainl, Sm-le, 7 months from New Bedford. Lay off ami M aod.mtllrd on the 10th for a cruise Wealand (forth. 14—Am wh ah Catherine, Phillips, N L, 9D days from Margarita I lay. wlili 360 hrla wh 17—11. H M. nt.'iuni'r llanaaa. fls.pl■la HMsaalla. II .I.< \ ■* frotn Acapuleo, on a WsTTl jllgTajajai 17—Am wli »h F.ur<>i>a, Milton, 1 aval out fnt New Itedlurd, 'AW Ml M|H:rm, 1H« brla <>n l<oard. 19—Am l>k t'omet, Smith, 16 day* (mm San Kraiiciseo, indue iuhI passenger*, to Wilcox. Richards 6f Co. 20—Am ah hk Florence, Spencer, n turned i<> port on In 21—Am wli sh lllllmaii, KiKk, lajonlha fan N. w liedford, with -'> hrla sperm. Anchored outabfsj, 22—Am wli nil IhiriiHUihlc. IIioimoii, hn Const, with 'JOU brl* wh. 23—Am wh oh Nile, Fish, 21 day a &■■ Const, with |JiH» lirln wh. 23—Am wh t>k lVnrl, Bush, 142 dya from New London, to C. A. Williams At Co. DEPARTURES. March 6—Am bWtne Constitution,Knbinami, for Victoria. V.l. IK—Am wh hark Florence, Splicer, ituihc and Ochoian. 21—Am hktne Jenny Ford, M'Carty, lor Yiei<»rhi, V.L 21—Uld'g wh wli Oregon, Maiinneii, I»r Oehmak. 24—Am wh hark Richmond, BfppjngitoOt, f'>r Oehotsk. PASSENGERS. MEMORANDA. Hark Fi.ukkncr.—Thi* vt-wn-l while lying off and on, on JTn liny, March 30th, wri discovered to be on Are hi the forelfold. By (he combined effort* of iho tug Pelf, crew of the Hrcatt, numerous I'm- companies, and we know not how many good citiiens, the rehttel win brought Into port, nnd the flames extinguished. We are sorry to learn that In rendering aid. Captain Wilcox received a serious Injury in one of hla feet, which confines him to bla house. The veaael la undergoing repairs, and in r few clays will he ready for aea. We, have not learned the orlgin of tin- lire. Tbe fact that the vessel wan not destroyed la entirely owing to tin- promnt and energetic efforts of tlxtse who volunteered to extinguish tlie flames. lWton Oct. 10 ; <rj Hark Arctic, Hammond, report*— experienced very rough weather on leaving the coast During c the 37 16 S.K., N., lat. a heavy gal. from lone. 68° 36 W., damaged the rudder, making it necessary to hang It with chains of the Crossed the passage. equator, Atlantic, the remainder Nov. 23—34 days out; had light B.K. trad.* to lat. 30° 00 S. \ severe from thence to 60° 8., encountered wealtier, having a continuation of heavy gales from _.W. for 16 days. Saw and DBjMSd OajM Horn Jan. 4th, where we had hard gale* from W S.W. to W.N.W.. With a very heavy aea—77 day*. Was _„ days from lat. 60° 9 , Atlantic, to 60° »., Pacific ; from thence to Ul. _•• H.. ha>l light, variable winds. Took the B.K. trades light in lat 24° H., and ajsjosjod the equator in long. l_6e N. VV\, Feb. lft—lltt days, took the N.K. trade* in lat. c 00 00 fight" d Maui on the _Sth. anil riinii'into jxirt on Monday, _d of March —i:u ilaya iMsstlffsj. Sighted twveral ves_el« off Cain? Hum, Im'uihl Kant. IT Ship Hrttry Kntrlnnit, l*e|M»rt* herself seven niontlis from New liedford, clean. Touched at Faster Inland, and also ul the ..litnpietcn. At Ihe former, learned that a Peruvian |_S> at*, had boa*] there in search of laborer* lor the t'liitieluu*, nnd had obtained a few. Timcla-d at the MafqattSSaf, Feb. 6. and reports there hark Mars, ofNew liedford, 76Uhrbt. >|M'rm bark Mary Ann, of Fair Haven, 1200 brls. sperm. Also, whip ChainpkNL Worth, aailed Kelt. 4. having taken nothing since leaving Sandwich Islands. Tin- Henry Kurrlantt failed again on Monday, lor a cruise to the Neat ward ami Arctic. fy Hark Cathrrint reports—B|i_ke, Kelt. 21, hurk Ilnrnstahle, 2HO brls; ship Hchidcer. 300. lit aid from, about Feb. 14, brig Coiii't. whales; -hip Adeline, aboOt 300 brls, Feb. 10, brig Victoria, 10 rfc-ftS) Feb. ]&, ahtp W m ('. Nn ol pan Frariei-no, from Hilciihs liny, touched at Marfnrila Kay, with ;*.IHI brls. ItcjK.its ships Tints, iJickason and John llowlund, 4; wlnths each. J r Miip t-'urft/m, 7 months nut, reports 3&0 l»r)« sjrcrtn I Ince leaving New IMUH-| IMtjtrsl on hosid. Touched at Mtcha, ooaal ot Obll*. Spoke Ds«.Sft. H- Lat. _2 Long. (>_ o, _lip|*r lUp Minstrel. HO ilsys from lbrnton, bo.md In _mi Fiaiiei-co. Same day, clipper slii|> OsWBOM* H6 days troin boston, will) mime, destination. Deo. SB. Lat. 63°. Isong. A4 ° , spoke ship Kii'mi-, Wiwkl, of Nr* liedford. 2 month-, out. 10 t-perm. Jan. H>. >. I.r.i. 44=40. Long M 40. spoke whakshfp Tamerlane, dray, of New ltedford, 6 months ont, lOinsMw. Feb. 4. on Callan (intuiul, ship Trident, Finher, of N. 11,37 months nut, « •, « = , - For San Khani'lki'd— |kt Florence, Feb. '.'O—II \V CsßjSfflfaaJl, M Mtniifvr, Tims McAllister. From Has IhUloißOO—Mr Camlirliltfl', Maruli 6—Mrs llurnanl anil :i children, tl W Wilcox, J A llariur. From Has r_SCMOQ—par ('mint, Mureti ll*—Capt J M )2&osjperill. /Vsr/, lh»h rejtorts—l«en. New Lnrntnn Novrmher Qrswa, t'n|it Miitmi Ki-ii. II It Laddlnftoo, Uugh Jaoksiw, rwtat 2, J.f ltark sjsjsjl, IBM experi'-nee.l very rough Wtath. Ron Hiving the(."ronseil Wolff, Win llollironk, J F OwnrssS, Alifu—B. and when day » nuti nrri'-d away tholOfOtOpS ast. the i-ipiatttr in the Atlaiiiic, l»tc. s, :>7 dsys oat. Hail light trade* 10 32 S., and ortliimry weather to the Mtgos, which we Information Wanted I pasHtil Jan. '27, 87 dnytt nut. Had ui"«ier«t. guh-tt off the Respecting OtJaaasss Myth, who. on the 'M.l of Janunry, with the exopiioii ol one m-vere gah- friMii W.H.W., which 1547, at Tahiti, sliijipeil ssj lm;inl tin- O-in-h wlmlcNhlp laitted threr dayi*. fVu _l days from CrU S., Atlantis psWW, lt» 8., l'aclllr. Fro* UmMa Intßß., hail Ikfbt, variable winds, " Fi I'illiiaiiil" sad sal bbbo_ _sd ul llouululu, the IBta of 60 S.; 01-bSSsI the equator IliHeinlKT, of bbbbj yenr. Bts family hats mil B_M Inurd and lag, T«Mik the SR, lraden in 20 from him. Ills rullii-r, I). <>. Hlytb, rslUai in I'oleh, *l<r, in litMtf. l_o-, w.. UafsJi t, 12£» ten <>«t Hfbloil Matttl IoM |>Oli N the 23*1, |4S days passage. Kasex, hturUuil. Any Information will be gladly received by llaroh _3t ami HW I*l. 12-rt , »|Hike l.S.S.lia*. o_pt Willianm, lioiind to St. the editor, or K. C. Wyllie, X*([. La-id, spoke Kng. bark spirit of the I>ay, lle.poitinij Robrrl l.rßoy Mi-llinnys. lie balls from Haiti Helena. Offritaten from i'ort Htaidey to \'idpiraiKt». mure, anil was on hoard IBS "Silver rilsr" whi*n wlie was wrecked u|Kin a guano Ulstiil in 18ttu. lie returned to Honolulu, but MARIED. since that iiute no toOlllsßßoa has been received froni huu. Any Information will be luiuiUully received by Ul mother Mrs. 1)AHNAK|>—llAKNAKJi —Oil the fltll ull., Iiy It.'V. H {'. I>amon, Kli/.iili.th June Mellliiny!*, of New Orleans, or by the Editor. Itrsp,-! tiiiK. Arnold R. Austin, of Providence, U. 1., who at the house of C. K. Bishop, Kan" John K. Barnard, of Honoleft the ship Itodiiiiui, about ISM, at Honolulu. IVrluips Capt. lulu, to Kninm llitrijiinl, relict of the lute ThornsBond Barnard, Spencer may recall this man, if so, assst* eomiuuulcatu with of Adelaide, South Australia. Mrs. O. It. Austin of Providence or editor of the Frieml. J : • - , DIED. Relief to the Suffering in England.— The ship Geo. Griswold sailed recently from New York, heavily laden with provisions, the gift of Americans to the poor of Lancashire. By a singular coincidence, all her officers are from Newburyport. The hold of the vessel, says an Eastern paper, is absolutely filled with a precious freight of provisions, including, in round numbers, thirteen thousand barrels of flour, together with a large supply of beef, bacon, corn, rice and bread. This has been, with the exception of eleven hundred barrels sent by the Corn Exchange, purchased by tbe Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, or sent in small quantities by individual contributors. The whole sum subscribed to the International Relief Fund is 9108,000.. The following is a complete list of the Griswold's cargo : 12,812 bbls. flour, 125 bbls. bread, 575 boxes bread, 50 bbls. beef, 50 bbls. pork, 402 boxes bacon. 157 bags corn, 8 tcs. and 2 bags rice. Kino—In Honolulu. April 1, Capt. Thomas King, a native of Kugland. lit* came to theinlands In 1837, having been one if the crew of the Kriglidi whaleshfp "flledstiines." wn-cked U|*m Ocean Inland, in Nt.nli Ut. 28 ° 22, and Went Long. 178 ®,30. Tim vessel was wrecked July 9, 1837. The crew built a schooner from the wreck, Id which they came safely to Honolulu. i'kniiali.ow—In I'ortMnnuth, N. II., ot dropiy of the cheat, ec.D —, Mm. Mary I'mhallow, relict of the late Capt. D. |». Henhalltiw, of thli city. Au—In Honolulu, Feb. 2H, All. a Laacar, and native ofTefticherry, ooaat of Malabar, lllndnoatan. aged 66 yeara. Mi l),.n.n.L—At Makawao. K. Maul, Feb. 27, Bllsa, wife of D. A. McDougall, M.D. After a long anil painful illncas, which sin- bore with christian fortitude and resignation, she was at last suddenly called away, to a homo where sorrow and suffer lng never come, and the waary ace at rest.—Com. Vaan—At aea, on hoard ship Henry Km eland, Feb. 2», Lai. 15 ° W., l,ong. 141°, of <Mugeat ion of the luugs,Manuel \ erg, a native of Klorea, Western Inlands. Jou**—Drowned in the surf, at Magdalen*, fel». 2. Jamea Jones, of New York, a seaman on board whale ship Henry Kneeland. Bimkdiit In Honolulu, March 26, of consumption, Mlia Mary M. Benedict, only daughter of Capt. W. A. Keswdlct, a«ed •JO yeara. Coopaa—In Honolulu,March 16, Mr. Thorns* Cooper, an , - , — Kngllshinan. Lora—In Honolula, March 16, Robert, infant son or Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lore, aged 7 uiouths. Valbz—At aea, December 6, 1802,on board whalaahlp Reindeer, of bilious fever, John l*. Valea, aoaman. KauwLaa—James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist, died at Torquay. England. Nov. », at theage of 78. " The Wife," •* The llunchbaok," " Love," and "Woman's Wit," were among tha best or hi* plays. Of lute years he had given up the drama, and been a preacher of the Baptist denomination. � 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 (1863) 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 - 1863.04.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.04.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/7cccb80cd655209d0e488b13fd3e0521.pdf b5d0627279bb1c11f5ea27c74ec94e43 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND. HONOLULU. MAY I, 1863. St*Sim,Swill, IM.J Boston or Coville [Ebon is the native name] CONTENTS For Mny, 18(13. 11. Iter that Ten, Ate Mssa MaYs Bswsrl Pins. ■ > 30• r '' M Masked Combatants, Island of bbSBB When will the War Ml • Surveying vessels needed in the I'aeific Letters from Messrs. Doane and Snow, Marsha!! Islands. Xc, News from bbbßßbSsSSbs New Hawaiian IMcllmuiry Editorial lie DbSBB Marine Journal, Ac., ' ) 30 M 30 37 37,38 38 40 " 4 40 THE FRIEND. MAY 1, 18«:i. "Better that Ten Guilty Should Escape, thanthat One Innocent should Suffer." One innocent Hnwaiian, named Heleiki, came very nearly being; bung in San Francisco, under the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States. The report of his trial and release have already been published, but the case is one which presents many interesting and important points of consideration for judges, lawyers, witnesses, philanthropists, and all who can employ the sentiment of the old Roman poet, Terence : Whatever concerns humanity, concerns "myself." In referring to this case, we shall allude which transpired even before the of the William murder of Capt. Penn,off Strong's Island, on the 6th November, 1852. In October of that year the schooner Glencoe was cut off" and burnt, and every man killed, at Ebon, one of the Marshall Islands. The natives disposed of some of their plunder and money taken from the Glencoe, to Capt. Hussey. A few days subsequently, Capt. H. was killed by a native of Oahu, one ot his sailors. By referring to the Friend of July, 1863, we there find published a letter written by Dr. Gulick, and dated "Ascension, Feb. 19, 1853," and from this communication we quote as follows: " It is reported that a California schooner has been cut off" in the Radack Range, at to events whalehoal's crow who arrived, too weak to walk, were also killed, as they crawled up the heaeh. * ' Several whaleships have since taken from that island considerable stuns ol money. Capt. Hussey, it is said, received over a thousand dollars. It was for this money that one of his crew, a Oahu native, killed him. That native has since been killed on Simpson's Island, by one, it is said, whom he himself was about to shoot. Thus do ' the dead bury their dead,' and murderers execute murderers." Now, after nearly ten years have rolled away, certain persons belonging to the William Perm inform against the innocent Heleiki, and he is thrown into prison in San Francisco. Most providentially for the interests of justice, and the fate of Heleiki, Dr. Gulick was passing through San Francisco, soon after the man's arrest. He visited him in prison, and became thoroughly convinced of his innocence. He now set to work with the spirit of a Howard. But we cannot go into a full detail of particulars, although they deserve to be collected and put into some permanent form for preservaIsland, and a * tion. We hope when Dr. Gulick returns, that he will do it. Suffice it to say, that through the courtesy of United States Judges, the ability of able lawyers, the correspondence of consuls, the collecting of evidence, and, finally, the visit of a deputation of witnesses, sent to San Francisco by the Hawaiian Government, the man Heleiki is fortunate enough to escape without being hung and has returned to Honolulu. This case is most interesting and important for several reasons: 1. The man's life is saved, and the innocent escapes a felon's doom, on the evidence of men belonging to a copper-colored race ! Mark you, there are some parts of the professedly civilized world, where the testimony of His Honor Judge li would not have been admitted. It is only recently that his evidence would have been admitted in the State Courts of California ; but to the honor of the {JDlbStriM, 33 »»1.20. U. S. Court, there was no question upon this point. 2. The Hawaiian Government has shown a magnanimity and zeal in behalf of one of its humblest subjects, when falsely accused in a foreign land, worthy the most enlightened, most civilized, and most Christian nation on earth. We feel proud to dwell under its broad JEgis. Here let us remark, that while citizens of the United States may feel proud of their Supreme Court, and Englishmen may feel proud of their high Courts, so may Hawaiians be equally proud of their Supreme Court, presided over hy such judges as Chief Justice Allen, Judge Robertson, and Judge li—the latter having just returned from his most honorable mission to California. 3. This is a case which cheers the heart of the missionary and philanthropist. 4. This is a case which should teach witnesses that they ought to be very cautious how they swear as to the identity of a man, after ten years have elapsed. 5. This is a case showing that judges and witnesses should be in no haste to pronounce the sentence of death upon a poor criminal. If there is any doubt let him have the benefit of it. 6. There is a good reason for believing that the real murderer of Capt. Hussey was killed by the hand of violence, a few months after he committed the deed. " Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." We learn from various sources, that the Rev. Dr. Anderson, and family have returned to Maui, having completed the " tour around Hawaii," including a visit to the volcano. Last Sabbath they expected to spend at Wailuku, and during tbe current week to attend the annual examinationand exhibition of Lahainaluna Seminary. They would be at Lahaina next Subbatn, and return to Honolulu by the Steamer, on Wednesday morning. �1 II X FRIEND, IHAV, 1863. 34 Extract from BileR 'Sstn eport " On the Voyage of the Danish Corvette Galathea," Round the World, in the Years 1845-46-47. TRANSLATED KROM THE DANISH BY K. BANNINIi, KSQ. (Uoiilltnu'il limn mir Mmcli numlxr) tered children of Israel. The explanation, however, is much nearer, for tradition reports that strangers were wrecked at the Islands and settled there. In all probability the Spaniards discovered the Hawaiian Islands in the sixteenth century. Much may therefore be advanced in proof of the Catholics having been really the first on the islands, though they appeal, as proof of such an assertion and Ihe right of their mission as founded thereon, not to those fuels, but to one of much later date. Capt. Freycinet, in the French corvette VUranie, arrived at the islands in the year 1819. The almoner of the vessel, the Abbe tie Quelen, accomplished the solemn baptism of a chief, Kalaimoku, who, however, as Arago reports in his account of the voyage, " after having exchanged presents with Freycinet, returned to his seven wives, and sacrificed, as before, to his idols." The corvette sailed away, and the whole occurrence resulted in nothing of consequence, as it was of little importance. A foreign adventurer, Rives, who accompanied King Liholiho to England, went to Prance after the death of the King, and caused himself to li" noticed prominently, by accounts of his extensive plantations on the islahds, and his pretended influence over the King of Hawaii, lie stated publicly in the newspapers that lie wished for priests who might under his patronage extend tbe religion of Christ, In July, 1896, Pope Leo Xll. appointed B Jesuit, Buchelot, as apostolic prefect ol the Sandwich Islands, with whom a second Catholic priest, an Englishman by the name of Short, associated himself, and in the year following, the vessel having these two gentlemen, and several lay brothers from Bordeaux, on board, dropped anchor off Honolulu. The Captain brought the priests on shore, notwithstanding Kaahumaiiu's objection!, nnd they found shelter with n brother of Kalaimoku, the restless ami ainlniioiis Hoki, who, ns Governor of O.iliu, always contrived to oppose the orders of the Queeß-Beient. On the death of Boki, Kaabumana commenced her persecution of the Catholics. The priests, however, evaded in numerous ways the orders of the government, nnd even alter they bad been exported to California on :i Independent of the mission, but also in a strictly Protestant direction, works the " American Seamen's Friend Society." Again one of those beautiful as well as powerful products of American piety and philanthropy. It does not require many days'residence among the inhabitant! of the new world to notice the practical tendency of their untiring activity. They are strangely bare of any appreciation of art, poetry and of the beautiful generally. Religion is the only spiritual element in which they move. The peculiarity nf their character is also stamped on their roligious pursuits, and they evince in this, as in all other business, a restless spirit of speculation, urging them on to the farthest extreme. The " Seamen's Friend Society" was founded some 15 or SO government vessel, in December, IS3I, a few cateclusts remained beyears ago. A few pious Americans in the city of New York, hit com- hind tinder the protection of the English Consul, Charlton. In the year passion for the abnndoncd seamen roving about, nnd wished, at the same IKI6, n Catholic priest, Robert Walsh, arrived from Valparaiso, who, in spite of the prohibitory orders of the government, remained here, time, to save their souls and also their bard-earned shillings for them. Charlton claiming he was a British subject Deeds followed thoughts ; thousands gave their dollars. Total abstiThe Hawaiian government continued its persecutions against the nence became the watchword of the society. The Bethel flag announced Catholic inhabitants, till they perceived the* had got on a dangerous for on the Oth July, IH'IS), a degree of toleration was proclaimed, the dawning of a new time, when n temple should arise in the souls of road, which all punishment on account of religious belief was abolished. by seamen, and the deluge of liquor should no longer stain their bodies, It was, however, too late. Three weeks after, the frigate I'Artemise, New York, however, proved to be too limited a place for the work of Capt. Laplace, arrived and demanded satisfaction for the ill treatment of the philanthropic society. A Seamen's Chaplain was appointed at French colonists, and tbe free exercise of the Catholic religion, and Havre dc Grace, the same was done at Honolulu in 18IJ5. The Chap- equal rights with those of the Protestant, lain at Honolulu, the Key. Mr. Damon, receives $700 annually and free Persecution on account of religious belief, is never justifiable, and the lodging. He preaches, goes on board vessels, distributing religious Hawaiian government had no one to blame but itself for the consetracts and admonition, visits prisons, where seamen are detained, edits quences of us proceedings. The missionaries also were to blame for an abstinence paper, and receives at his house foreign shipmasters, ex- not exerting their whole influence to put n stop to such disorder and tending his hospitality to the seamen of every nation generally. His strife. But why did the Catholic I'ropoganda prefer to sow contention continuous and restless labors work an incalculable good among the sea- and disunion here, where there was a united Christian people, rather faring class. Every evening a circle of American captains were nccus- than go to countries where the religion of Christ Was unknown ? And tomed to assemble with their wives under the hospitable roof of Mr. Da- how discreditable to the representative of a civilized nation to force on mon, and while away their time agreeably, over n cup of tea. Brandy, the government hero a treaty which should only hnve been filled with even ale and beer, were not to be found in his house. The •• Seamen's the spirit of religion, demanding concessions which would precipitate Friend Society" has caused much good on the Sandwich Islands. The the very people, whose counsellor he took upon himself to be, into the sailor is generally religious : thnt every one must lie convinced of who most degraded and barbaric of conditions. has lived on board with him. How many, however, would not squanThe Catholic religion has spread remarkably fast over the islands. der, with the levity which accompanies their religiousness, in a few Bishop Abbe Maigret is n very pleasant and well educated man, who days on shore, the money earned under manifold hardships and dangers has kept himself aloof from the cunning intrigues which gained a footat sea, did not this society carefully and protcctingly watch over them. ing for the Catholic Church on the islands. He occupies a very unpreWhat change for the better it has caused may be seen in every port. tending cottage containing two small rooms, its furniture consisting of a The above mentioned abstinence paper is called the " Friend." It in- bed, a few chairs,'and a sofa. I could not help drawing a comparison cludes besides its editorials, important commercial and shipping news, between this very simple dwelling and the commodious and comfortable also, much interesting information in regard to the Pacific Islands gener- houses of the American missionaries, and the question involuntarily preally, and tbe Sandwich Islands in particular. It is, in these respects, sented itself to me, whether family life, with Us pleasantries, its duties, the most important of Australasian newspapers. cares and claims, did not to a certain extent prevent the last named After having spoken of the Protestant Church on the Sandwich from dedicating all their powers to their religious cause, while the Islands, we shall proceed to tbe younger, or, as claimed, the older Catholic priests sacrificed every comfort to their zeal, thus presenting to Catholic Church. I should notice, that the American missionaries their congregations a striking example of frugality and self-denial. found much, on their arrival at the islands, that reminded them of During my short visit at the Bishop's, the conversation turned upon the Christian doctrine, particularly that of the Old Testament. Such, for before-mentioned disturbances. He spoke very peacefully and reconcilinstance, as a holiday kept by the natives four times a month, corres- ingly on the subject, never expressing the least bitterness against the ponding with our Sabbath, circumcision was practised, the doctrine of Protestant missionaries, and when the persecution of the Catholics was pure and impure was known, the first fruits of the land were offered in referred to, remarked that it belonged to times past and gone. sacrifice, they had holy places of refuge, etc. Sheldon Dibble quotes Having made these statements in regard to religion, it is my duty to this and much more, as proof that the Hawaiians are a part of the scat- present briefly the result of its introduction on the islands, as I found it, �and in order to be correctly understood it will be necessary to go back over their history, giving a review of the material at that time. The founder of tbe Hawaiian Kingdom was Kamehameha 1., a son of Keona, King of West Maui, whose half brother, Kalaniopu, reigned on Hawaii at the time of Cook. Dying in 1780, he left one half of that island to his favorite, Kamehameha, while his own son had to be satisfied with the other hnlf. His son, dissatisfied with the arrangement, opened the war against Knmehaniehn, his cousin, in which the chiefs of the other islands took part, being jealous probably of Kainelmmehn's growing power. After a continuance of sixteen years, Kame.inmolm subjugated the entire group, and ended the war. Having become the Sovereign, he applied the whole of his time, during the remainder of bis reign, to the advancement of his people, and succeeded, by wise and well executed laws to preserve such order and security, that the old natives when speaking ol him, say, " Old men and women could rest in safety on the highways." He was a chief of an entirely snvnge race, nothing more nor less. When we judge him according lo the circumstances uuder which he lived, we must incontestsibly feel great respect for him. As a warrior, he succeeded in accomplishing what nobody had ever before him done, viz.. to subdue all the islnnds. He merits the highest praise, however, for his good judgnnmt and judicinusness in his intercourse with foreigners who, in men-of-war or in mercantile vessels, visited the islands, displaying sound sense in his intercourse with them, and listening willingly to their counsels und directions. By a linn and dignified demeanor, he inspired the loreigners with respect for him, abstaining from all acts of violence against them, however much his chiefs might incite linn to it, and punished severely, without regard to persona, any violation of the rights of hospitality. Thus he avoided an intervention of foreign arms. The islands, notorious for the murder of Cook, among seamen, were visited more frequently year after year, by ships, and foreigners, encouraged by Kamehameha, settled on the archipelago, so that before his death the Sandwich Islnnds had become an important point in the commerce of the world. The merits of Kamehameha were thankfully recognized by his people. His death spread a deep and general mourning over all the islands, for notwithstanding the amount of blood which had flowed inconsequence partly, of Ins thirst for conquest, he was still highly esteemed by all, on account of his valor, prudence, kindness and magnanimity. His son Liholiho wns the successor; while the second Queen-Dowager, the haughty and domineering Kaahumanu, wns appointed Co-Kegent, with neglect of the Queen-Dowager. The young king needed this guardian, as be was more inclined to revelling nnd rioting than to serious government affairs, and Knahumnnu retained the rule under him and his successor, until her death in 1532. During her administration was instituted the system of legislation now in force. The first step, after the preparation made during several previous years by the missionaries and foreigners, took place when Lord Byron arrived at the islands, June 8, 1825, at a large meeting of the Court, held in Honolulu. The hereditary fief system was acknowledged and the case of the common people was advocated with success by Lord Byron. Not long after this, through the influence of the missionaries, the ten commandments were published ns the foundation of nil future laws, but the constitution appeared on the Bth October, 1840, drawn up by the before-mentioned Minister Kichards. The constitution has been nltered by several amendments. Through the whole legislation and laws a marked difference is drawn between the chiefs and the common people. The government of this smnll kingdom, with a native population, and the American missionaries as its powerful leaders, is strongly opposed by, I might almost say in open war with, the whites residing here, who wish to live under the protection of their several Consuls, independent of this government. "The whole is absurdity," "All is humbug," is their constant byword,' as soon as the conversation turns upon the laws and forms of government. They have sworn eternnl hatred to the missionaries and try to injure and vex them whenever nnd wherever it is possible to do so. This state of affairs dates far back to the period when the missionaries oa the one hand and the white traders and seamen on the other, first visited the islands. The first were strict moralists, animated with zeal for the conversion of the heathen, although filled with narrow-minded puritanical principles, while the latter were mostly adventurers and men of loose morals. To sprend Christianity and its blessings among the people wns the object of the first, that of the savlatter was to take advantage of :he simplicity and vices of the poor with the own selfish The first came purposes. advance their to ages, of heathenism Bible in their hands, preaching the gospel, the destructionand morality in and extermination of vices, the introduction of frugality the strictest sense ; while the latter came loaded with brandy, arms, trinkets, very attractive to these savages, and requesting as compen- 35 THE FRIEND, MAY, 18 63. sationonly those good for nothing trees of the foresis(sanda!-wood.) The missionaries appealed to the spirit, the traders to the senses. We have already seen that the bettlo was hard and of long duration. After all, however, the missionaries came off victorious, the Court acknowledged their mental superiority and appointed them lenders of the government, so that the war which the white population hod not given up, was now directed against the government. It is not to be wondered at that the white population residing on the islands, looks down with contempt upon the almost black natives, who It may be said have changed under their eyes, from a barbaric condition to a nation, claiming a position nmong the civilized nntions of the earth, and who appear with a Koyal family, a Court, Ministers, Constitution, &c, &c. The government considered it necessary to adopt die most powerful means against this opposition, and passed laws curtailing to a considerable extent the privileges of emigrants. They could nH hold real estate, and \vero obliged to take an oath of alleginnce, in case they rented or leased a piece of land. The white population carries on a constant nnd vehement opposition in journnls, &c, tenzes the foreign ministers and satirizes them whenever they show a weak point. Occasions fur such proceedings nre never long wanting, nnd the good Lords have to suffer many vexatious chnrges, brought on themselves by a desire to gratify their own vanity. Remember for instance, the ribbon and stars before mentioned. Very droll indeed, nre the sober semi-official His accounts of the Court proceedings published in the Polynesian. Highness the Premier, called on the Queen ; account of a soiree at court, when Miss C. attracted ihe attention of nil by her splendid toilet &c. Not less insipid, but more rensonuble, wns the order of a regulation concerning rank and of court ceremonial, which wns published with ihe greatest solemnity in the Polynesian of June SO, 1844, by suggestion of the Attorney General, Kicortl, wherein it wns announced that after due consideration by the Council of Stnle.it was decided thnt the respective rank of the foreign Consuls, should be founded on the regulations established by the Congress of Vienna. As according to this the Commissioner of America wns ranked above the Consul General of England, the latter considered himself slighted and addressed a note to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, notifying him, that as there had been no necessity heretofore, to mention his rank, he had not troubled himself about it, but since the government had taken steps in the matter, ne demanded to have the rank due him, &c, &c. By such useless measures, the Hawaiian Government often caused itself unnecessary vexations, instend of keeping on good terms with tbe foreign Consuls rind securing their co-operation against the pretensions of the white population. On the other hnnd again, it must lie acknowledged that the foreign Consuls acted passionately on several occasions, more like an interested than a mediating pnrty. The execution of justice in this small state had been troubled from the beginning, by n number of most disagreeable and complicated cases—mostly, claims of the government on bankrupt merchants, or vica versa, or relating to landed property, which the chiefs had disposed of in former time.t for a mere song or for nothing— at dinner, over a glass of grog—which sale had been declared null and void by the government. Such was the cause of the dispute, so well known in Hawaiian history, between the government nnd the former English consul, Charlton. This man arrived at Oahu in 1825, nnd soon proved himself an enemy to the missionaries. The year following he cnused Kalaimoku, Governor of Oahu, to present him with a large tract of land, situated near the fort, a part of which he used as a wharf nnd house lot. He did not make his claim known for the .Inrger pnrt of it until 1840, which was not acknowledged by the government, ns the documents which he presented were declared to be counterfeited. In the mean time, the frigate Carysfort. Capt. Geo. Paulet, arrived at Honolulu, who supported the claims of Charlton, together with those of several other dissatisfied Englishmen, and demanded damages for the imaginary injustice done them. The weak Hawaiian government granted everything except the impossible payment of a large sum of money, which Lord George insisting upon, the king declared himself bankrupt, and transferrer! hit whole kingdom to the British crown, and the settlement of the dispute to the mercy of the Queen of England. Lord* George accepted his proposal, hoisted the English Hag, and appointed' a government commission, of which the king, represented by Judd, was a member. The English commander, as well as King Kamehameha, sent embassadors by the same vessel to the English Cabinet. In the meantime the first held the reins of the government. [to be cormwcED.] �THE FRIEND, MAY, 1863. 36 THE FRIEND. MAY 1, 1863. Masked Combatants. We hsve read of masked balls and tournamenst, where those participating in the fun and frolic concealed their persons by some fantastic dress or close-fitting armor. Our native newspapers, the Kuokoa and Pakipika, are favored with masked correspondents, who write over signatures intended to mislead. These writers assume the signatures of " Aeiou Y. ".," and " A. M. Kuhele." The former is a Roman Catholic, and the latter a Reformed Catholic. If they are natives, they must have gone abroad under a mask, and been educated at Rome and Oxford ! They quote the old Latin and Greek Fathers with great facility, and each proves, to his own satisfaction, that he is right and orthodox, beyond a doubt! How far the natives are interested in the discussion, we cannot say, but Hawaiians will have an opportunity of reading in their " own language wherein they were born," a specimen of the theological controversy which has been going forward for centuries among the Divines of Europe. The principal topic of discussion has been that of the Apostolic Succession. Both seem anxious to prove that an unbroken chain stretches across the chasm of 1800 years, one end being held by the hand of the last of the Apostles or of Peter, and the other end held by the Pope of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. To prove this point, " ah, there's the rub !" The onus pfobandi is upon those making the assertion, so at it they toil as hopelessly as did Sisyphus, who is represented in Grecian fable as rolling the stone up a hill, to the top of which he never could attain : " I tarn'd my eve, and as I turned, survcy'd A mournful vision ! tbe Sisyphian sbade ; With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he bears a huge round stone \ The huge round stone resulting with a bound. Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. Again the restless Orb his toil renews, Dust mounts the olouds, and sweat descends in Pope's Odyssey. dews" — More recently, masked combatants appear to have entered the arena of the Polynesian nnd Advertistr. Here, it is the Churchman and the Puritan. These writers do not discourse in dull prose, but in true Homeric and Miltonic style they invoke the " Sacred Nine," and gladden their readers by poetic flights. This is refreshing. Away with Latin terminations and Greek roots—with the musty tomes of the Old Fathers, who wrote learned treatises to beguile the weary hours «r monastic life. The Advertiser first published »' No sect in Heaven." There is jio mistake, it contains some admirable hits . cences of the numerous sects which abound in the Christian world. The piece is worth a second reading. Its author we know not. Well, soon after this appeared, some anonymous contributor furnishes for the Polynesian a few lines, which were written by some staunch Churchman, and no mistake. ArchBishop Laud never uttered language more positive and emphatic. It reminded us of the days of Charles the II.; it is in the style of Hudibras. Having heard so loud an ecclesiastical canon, we anxiously waited to see if there would beany reply, when lo! John Bunyan appears. The Old Dreamer is out of Bedford jail, and now dwells in Hawaii nei. Welcome, welcome, John Bunyan— glad to see you! «Where have you been these two centuries ? dwelling, we trust, in the Celestial City! So it appears that Churchman and Puritan are still alive. We must refer our readers to the original documents, which are richly worth rending. For keen satire and polished wit, John Bunyan of the 19th century shows that he is no unworthy descendant of a noble sire. If our limits would allow, we would gladly publish the three pieces. Ebon. This little coral island seems destined to become known as one of the most interesting spots in the vast Pacific. It has, in former years, been the scene of some of the most bloody and murderous scenes. It was there that many valuable lives have been cut on"". Only ten years ago, the chiefs and people pledged to each other that they would murder every white man who landed upon their shores. This was no idle boast. They did just what they threatened to do. It was there that the Glencoe was burnt. It was there that, we fully believe, U. S. Commissioner Brown and others were killed in 1846. (See Friend, Sept. 1861.) Look on this dark picture, but now take another view of the same island, as sketched by the Rev. E. T. Doane in his letter, found in another column of this sheet. In all our reading of missionary intelligence, we never met with a more striking contrast. It reads like the romance of missions, and yet we believe it is all true. It was our privilege to visit that very spot in the summer of 1861. There we saw Kaibuki, referred to by Mr. Doane. In view of changes arid results so striking and remarkable, shall we not prosecute the missionary work ? Leaving out of view the higher, the spiritual, the religions aspect of the missionary enterprise, it should be prosecuted upon the grounds of humanity, commerce and civilization. We can say, in the language of Sir Geo. Grey, Governor of New Zealand, " I feel confident that, regarded as a mere money investment, the very best investment this country (England) can make is, to send in advance of either colonists or merchants, missionaries, who may prepare the way for those who are to follow." "When Will the War End ?" • This is the oft-repeated exclamation: When will the war end !" Neither the " South nor the North fully understood what a terrible struggle they were entering upon two years ago. The course of events baffles the wisest minds. Sometimes the tide of battle sways in one direction, then in another. We have a neighbor who has always maintained, and from the very beginning, that the war would last at least four years! In looking over an old copy of the Independent, published in April, 1861, just after Fort Sumter was bombarded, and the North arose, Mrs. H. B. Stowe thus expresses her mind when the war commenced : "We are in for a long pull, and a strong pull, and need to take breath and begin with a will. No transient enthusiasm is going to settle this matter. We have before us a long, grave period of severe self-denial and enterprise which will task- the resources, physical, mental and moral, of our Northern States. We are married to this cause—we have taken it for better or worse, for richer or poorer, till death do us part. It is one part of the last struggle for liberty—the American share of the great overturning which shall precede the coming of Him whose right it is—who shall save the poor and needy, and precious shall their blood be in His sight. On the side of the South there has been long foresight of this event—long, careful and advised preparation. We are suddenly awakened, and must make up by efficiency and zeal for the lateness of the hour. We shall not by any means find certain and speedy victory. Let us not hope it. Let us make our calculation for rebuffs and hard work—but take it coolly, and blot out from our dictionaries the word fail." Surveying Vessels Needed in the Pacific. In our last issue, we made a few remarks upon the British surveying ship Hecate, and the usefulness of such vessels. Additional facts have since come to our knowledge showing the importance of this branch of naval service. We clip the following from a late paper : " The Journal dc Resife gives the following important intelligence : —Three new banks have been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. The first is situated at 22 c 52 15 lat. S., and 178° 48 long. W., Paris meridian. The lead sounds here six fathoms. The second lies at 21 ° 43 S., and 173 ° 12 10 E., Paris. They are situated in the Ponga or Friendship Archipelago, and were first noticed by H. B. M. sloop-of-war Polanus, Commodore Seymour. The third bank lies at 22° 44 5 S., and 179° 31 10 \V., Paris." We would refer our readers to the letter of Capt. Blodgett in our columns, showing the importance of the Marshall Islands being thoroughly surveyed. Several wrecks have already occurred at that group, manifestly the result of defective charts. During the late trip of the Morning Star, �1863. THE FRIEND, MAY, she searched for eight-and-forty hours for M'Kean's Island, at which she wished to touch and leave supplies. The charts were defective. By a late arrival from Farming's Island, we learn that a Danish vessel has recently been wrecked on Christmas Island, where the British whaleship Briton was wrecked in 1836 ; the German whaleship Mozart and Chilian merchant ship Maria Helena in 1847; the Am. bark J. C. Fremont in 1847. See Friend, May and June, 1848,and March. 1857. Doubtless some of the wrecks occurred in consequence of not giving sufficient allowance for currents. " Beware of the current setting one-and-a-half to two miles per hour to the westward." See Friend, December, 1857. Marshall Islands. WAR IN THE UNITED STATES—LOSS OF THE LIHOLIHO"—MISSIONAUT I'KOGRESS NEED " OF MOKE MISSIONARIES. Ebon, Jan. 30, 1863. Brother Damon: The Maria arrived here 27th inst., bringing our mail. How we thank you for your letters and papers Our hearts are pained at the sad war news, but we are hopeful victory may eventuate with the North, if she be true. That proclamation of the President must be a fearful blow to the South. God be praised that He has inspired the head of the nation to conceive that thought, and has enabled him to proclaim it. And now may the hour soon arrive when the long oppressed may go free. How sad the fate of the Lihdiho, as now we cannot but feel she is lost. And what a providence that I did not go with her from Ponape. And that man Newald, is he what the printed letter in the Friend makes him out to be ? I believe he is. I well remember the day or so previous to the sailing of the Liholiho, how he came to me and said, "Of course you wont go on this short trip; you will want to stop and keep Mr. Sturges company. How smooth-toncued —and how he deceived Capt. Bush ! The captain came to us a day or so before sailing, and asked Mr. Sturges what he thought of Capt. Newald. Brother S. told him of Capt. N.s residence in Ponape —how mysterious it looked. But he had not seen enough of Capt. N. to know his character. But we both aimed to leave the impression on his mina, that we had not much confidence in Capt. N. But he took him ; and now. no doubt, all is lost, und all my manuscript-translations of the three gospels, Matthew, Luke and John, and some other valuable papers. But while I *peak of all as being lost, I cannot but feel the little vessel will vet turn up. Our work is still progressing. The natives are as friendly as ever. Our schools are well attended—Sabbath congregations good, often 150 or so—Sabbath schoolorinteresting. We cannot have less than 175 200, who are either good readers, or are mastering our me thank you primer. And by the way, let sent. or the Hawaiian primers you The first Sabbath in January, we admitted ! seven to our church, and shall hope to admit more soon. They walk well. Our chiefs are friendly, but withhold their hearts from the Savior. Kaibuki, in many things, is becoming a changed man. For instance, he has taken much interest in learning to read, and has mastered quite a number of letters, and so have his wives ; and his children are much interested. This action of Kaibuki's has had a happy effect upon other chiefs, many of whom are learning to read, and are becoming warm friends. We have lengthened pur church some fifteen feet, and now on the Sabbaths have it well filled. We have too, and that at the urgent request of the natives on one of the islets, erected a small school-house, and to be used for a meeting-house. It will be done for little or nothing. And thus the Lord is with us in various ways. We bless Him for His favor. But oh that we had a dozen good Hawaiian missionaries—and I feel this the more just now, because these oil-makers are pushing out into all parts of our field. They are entering into islands we have long desired to occupy, and which must be occupied before we can do much. Fro" 1 ibis island we can do but little in affecting the rest of our lield. We do indeed every season see natives going off who know something of reading, and have attended our meetings, and who even say they are Christians. But their influence is limited. But we mean to lay hold of all native help possible—and we are now presenting this subject, the missionary work, to the young converts. We shall get them to work as soon as we can, but we must have Hawaiian help. We hear nothing now. of the Decker —she will be ol great help to us wrien she comes. Do then, dear brother, blow long and loud your trumpet for soldiers to the Lord's work in this field. You afk what I think of Ebonites going up to the islands, Ace. Let me be candid, dear friend—l don't like the plan. Ist, We have no natives here to spare. 2d, The Hawaiian climate and Ebonites' constitution don't agree. It would be a losing business to the employers. Hardly a native goes from here there but what returns consumptive, or has a tendency that way. And I speak from facts when I say this. But 3d, I cannot think it right to take these people and put them to such work as they will there have to do. and for the small pay they will get. As for the civilizing influence, ice., you know what that will be worth. So then, just now, I cannot feel much sympathy with the You will be pained to hear of the death of Martha. She died Nov. 28, 1862; she had been sick some time—indeed the cough she had at Honolulu was but the beginning of that insidious disease which took her nfi. We did all we could for her; she lived in Brother Snow's family until a few weeks before her death, when she desired to be taken to the house of her uncle ; she was there but two weeks or so, and passed away rapidly. But she was prepared, I feel, for death, and is now with that dear friend whom she loved to nurse. The separation was but short. And their union now is one and forever. O may I prepared to meet the dear ones that have gone. * * * * E. T. Doane. 37 Extract of a Letter of Rev. G. B. Snow, dated Ebon, January 31, 1863. We are happily surprised to learn the prosperous state of the treasury of the A. B. C. F. M. lam happy to see that movement of trying to interest the churches of California, Oregon, &c., in the islands of the Pacific. It is a thought which has been occupying my mind for some time past, viz., to let the States and Territories, west of the Rocky Mountains, in connection with the Hawaiian churches, assume the missionary care and missionary culture of these Pacific islands as their peculiar part of the missionary work. Both the geographical and the commercial relations would seem to intlicate the propriety and the desirableness of such an arrangement. The field may not look so inviting as it would to go over into China or to Japan. But by such a union, the Marquesas would not be abandoned, and we could at once prosecute our work more vigorously in all Eastern Micronesia, and. if necessary, in order to develope all the resources of the churches in the above-named fields, Western United States and the Sandwich Islands, we could push on explorations Westward and South-Westward, where we have no doubt, we might at once find large and inviting fields. Do not those churches on the Western coast as really need such a field to develope their missionary spirit and energies as do the Hawaiian churches 1* The machinery for such operations need be neither complicated aor expensive. I can but hope that your plans for operations with the churches on the Coast are shaping themselves into something like the above view. Such a course entered upon and prosecuted vigorously might at once relieve the A. B. C. F. M. of its pecuniary liabilities in the Pacific department of their labors, or at least open the way for it soon to be so, and thus leave them at liberty to work more efficiently in other parts of the great field. I can but think that if some few largehearted, clear-headed and efficient minds should take hold of this work, it would be found a most happy movement for advancing the great work of the Gospel in these islands of the sea. There may be difficulties at the outset in uniting and organizing the working power. But let prayer and faith and the love of Christ cement the foundation, and I have no doubt the superstructure would soon become "beatiful as Tirzah, und comely as Jerusalem." Rev. E. T. Doane.—We were exceedingly glad to welcome, by the late arrival of the Morning Star, this gentleman. He has been residing several years at the Marshall and Caroline Islands. He is now engaged in superintending the publication *>f works in the Ebon language. His visit is exceedingly opportune to meet tbe Rev. Dr. Anderson from Boston. British Congrhational.-The Year Book gives a summary of 1,840 churches in England, 719 in Wales, 101 in Scotland, and 27 in Ireland, with an estimated membership of H50.000, and a million and a quarter of adherent* in England and Wale*. �38 THE FRIEND, MAT, Cruise among the Marshall Islands— Wreck of the "Maria," at EbonMissionaries. Island Ebon, Feb. 2d, 1863. Dear Sir:—Knowing* the interest you take in all that relates to the islands of the Pacific, I take pleasure in communicating to you my observations in regard to those I have visited. As you are aware, I left Honolulu on the 31st Dec, 1862. 1 called at Kauai, where I spent the greater part of a day. From thence I made the best of my way to the Marshall Group, and had for the most part a pleasant run down. In Long. 170, W., Lyat. 19, 10, N., saw a topmast with of crosstrees attached to it, which might have belonged to a vessel of 500 or 600 tons. On the morning of Jan. 16th, sighted the island of Arno. The trades were blowing a gale, so that I had no communication with the natives. I ran off and sighted Mediouro at 11 P. M. At IP. M., hove to on the west side; several people came ofT, but did not seem to care about coming on board. lat last succeeded in getting a young chief on board ; and after getting the information I wished in regard to our business, 1 cruised along the feel, As I rounded the S. W. Point I found a large number of the natives collected, all armed with spears. Cominj along abreast of them, they commenced manning their canoes with from 19 to 15 men in each, whilst the crowd on the beach was rapidly increasing. Having a strong breeze and not feeling particularly belligerent, I kept on my way, and soon left them with their kind intentions far behind. From what I saw and afterwards learned from the natives of Milli, I would advise no communication with the shore until one or more of the high chiefs were in safe custody on board. I coasted along the Southern shore until dark, and kept off for Milli. I went through one of the weather passages, and sailed down the whole width of this beautiful lagoon, to the Island of Milli, near the S. W. part of the atoll. 1 came to anchor in 11 fathoms water, amid a fleet of canoes, with their wild crews in a perfect frenzy to get on board. When I gave them permission to come, the deck was immediately filled. On making known to them our business in their waters, they expressed their delight, and seemed anxious to be on the most friendly terms with us. They are a robust and manly-looking race; Ido not think they are inferior to any natives in the Pacific in natural intelligence. The females, as a class, are better-featured and more modest than any I have met. The high chief is a mild, pleasant-featured man, with an honest eye that speaks truth and good will. He is the some one who saved from destruction the Morning Star, when Capt. Brown visited the Group in her. The one who planned her capture, ia now lying at death's door, from wounds received at Mediouro. About five days before my arrival at Arno and Mediouro, 50 natives of Milli wentto Mediouro on a friendly visit* They were kindly received, and feasted for two days. On the second night they were suddenly attacked by the whole force of the island; the fighting lasted for two days and nights, resulting in the death of all but three of the Milli people—the chief above-mentioned, one female and one young native. They 18(3. made their escape in a small canoe, and got back to Milli. Another brother of the wounded chief was killed in the fight. From all I could learn these two chiefs we:e savages in every sense of the term, and the inveterate foes of the white man, and have been the instigators of all the attacks on vessels for a number of years. On the 25th January, having finished my business at this group, I went out the lee passage and shaped my course for Ebon. 1 will here remark, that of four charts of the Pacific, I do not find the islands I have, visited placed in the proper position. I have taken pains to get true positions—have had good weather for lunar observations and have improved every opportunity. My positions agree very nearly with Capt. Brown's. At 8 A.M. on the "27th sighted the Atoll of Ebon—had light winds all the time from Milli. I came to anchor outside, near the mission. At 2 P. M.Messrs. Doane and Snow came on board and received their letters and papers. On the following morning hove up anchor nnd worked through the passage into the lagoon, and anchored in 15 fathoms water, abreast of the Oil Station. On the 31st I dined at the residence of Messrs. Snow and Donne. My reception was all that kind hearts and pleasant conversation could make it. While I was on shore we had a heavy squall of windand rain, and as my vessel was anchored close in, I was afraid of her dragging; but after watching for awhile, I saw no change in her position. From this time we had strong winds and heavy squalls, with much rain. On Sunday, February Ist, Messrs Doane and Snow came on board. We had Divine Service in the cabin. 1 was much pleased with their manner of expressing their views —the kind, candid way they exhorted us to assist them in their good work. Their whole proceedings were very pleasant and their remarks free from all unkindness. I cannot help expressing the wish that there were more men like them engaged in the same cause—men who can take the erring ones by the hand, and without a wound to the most sensitive mind, try to lead them to the same happy port for which they themselves are steering. With Mrs. Snow I was equally well pleased. Banished from home and friends, and most of the comforts of life, the great heart toils cheerfully on, her whole soul devoted to the cause which herself and husband have chosen. Of her two bright and beautiful children, I can only say they show the teaching and realize the hopes of their kind parents. Tbe two native missionaries here are also entitled to great praise; they nre energetic, hard-working men, and seem to be well liked by the natives. I intend leaving here to-morrow for some of the more northern isles. I would express my thanks to the missionaries here for the unvaried kindness they have shown to me and all connected with the vessel. Feb. Bth.—Since writing the above, n sad tbe Maria, so long a favorite at Honolulu, is a wreck on the reef, so badly injured that it is impossible to repair her at this place. In attempting to get under weigh on the 4th, she dragged change has taken place : ' ashore, and in the heavy surf was broken on the reef before we could lighten her to get her off. iMost of the cargo and provisions were saved. The natives, with the exception of some of the younger ones, would do nothing but steal; and had it not been for the missionaries nnd the young natives that are under their influence, there is no knowing how disastrous the result might have been. To Messrs. Doane and Snow and Aaea, who promptly came to my assistance, I am under tenfold obligations. Without their assistance, much more property would have been lost. On the arrival of the Morning Star, I was kindly assured of n passage to Hawaii, for myself and crew, by Capt. Gelett, for whose kindness and sympathy 1 am grateful;—also to all on board. Our passage from Ebon to this port was in all respects a very pleasant one. J. T. Blodgett, Late Master "\Maria." Mews from Micronesia. By the arrival of the Morning Star, we received letters from all the American and some of the Hawaiian missionaries. From these communications we glean the following: Gilbert, or Kingsmill Islands.—The mission-families on Tarawa and Apaiang were in good health, and engaged in their ordinary labors, which are put forth under somewhat discouraging circumstances. War, among this poor, uncivilized people, has had the same disastrous influence upon social life and improvement, as it has in America. Some have been killed, some driven from their homes, and multitudes have been left in an unsettled and unfavorable state. Our missionaries are still resolutely prosecuting their work. The Rev. H. Bingham thus writes under date of February 18th, 1863: Would that I could cheer your heart with glad tidings respecting the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour in this dark island. We have no intention of abandoning our post, because we do not see immediate fruit. What I need is more faith—practical faith that such heathen as these will, to any great extent, become the humble, holy followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, leading lives of purity and godliness. The change seems so vast, but God's power is not limited. It is the Holy Spirit, and not man, that can work the great change. I think your letter to Joseph has done him good. He has labored on very patiently, on the whole, in oiding me through the translation of Paul's Epistle to the Romans. It is ready for the press, but probably many months, and perhaps years, may elapse before it will be thought best to put it into the hands of the people. Since completing it, I have, as it were, begun to see my way through the New Testament, as I regard this Epistle as a key to what remains. If God shall spare our life and health till tbe Biennial Meeting of our Mission in 1866, I trust the whole New Testament will then be ready for the press ; and if so, you may perhaps see my face, if the Lord will, on the return of the vessel that year. "There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the " ,. �39 THE FRIEND, MAT, 1863. t counsel of the Lord shall stand." " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way ?" 1 speak of 1866! But how little do any of us know what will be our circumstances then! I trust I desire to be faithful to the present day AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, J. B. ATHEBTOX. AMOS. S. COOKS CASTLE A- COOKE, Importers and Wholesaleand Retail dealers in Oeneral Merchandise, in the Fireproof Store in Kiug street, opposite the Seamen's Chapel. AGENTS FOR I>r. .laynes Medicines, Wheeler w Wilson's Sewing Machines, The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, cash assets li,illJO,ooo, ltaynolds, Devoe Ai Pratt—lmporters and Manufacturers of Paints. Oil and Varnish, and Crystal CoalOil, C. Van Home ft Co.'a Carriages and Carriage Materials. 834-1 y AT Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building, 318-ly J. 11. COLE, jsI.XJCTIOJXT'EJSK. p. SAILOR'S HOME. BOOKS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MARINER. D. N. FLITNER'S Wntch and Jewelry 11. W. SEVERANCE, ATJOTIONBBH., (hccckssor to a. At his late rooms. Queen Street. c. BRIiWER Sd, SAH'L. N. GAdTLC. ADVERTISEIYIENTS. Will continuebusiness at the new stand. APVERTISErtIBM-TS. Oeneral Merchantand Agent lor tin sale of the products of the Brewer Plantation. 824-1/ and the present hour, and leave the mysterious future to Him with whom all things future are as though this very moment present. We have enjoyed Mr. Cook's visit very much. He will doubtless report us fully." O.I'KEN STItEET, HONOLULU. .ADVERTISEMENTS. Establishment, in Kiiahuiiianu street, will lie found the following works Almanacks for 18G2. Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Assistant. Laws of the Sea. The Art of Sailmaking. : — —ALSO Ship's Compasses and Dividers. bvrrbtt.) 315-ly —ALSO— — Mast-head Glasses and Marine Telescopes. DR. J. MOTT SMITH, —also Chronometers and Chronometer Watohes. DENTIST. —AI.Bo— English Charts of North and South Pacific. 332-ly Office corner of Fort and Hotel Streets. —ALSO— E. lIOFFMANN, M. !>., Phyelclan and Surgeon, Mukee'sBlock, corner Queen and Kaa ."i-'O-ly liumanu Ittejßtß. 11. STANt. i:\WALI), M. I)., AND SURCEON, PHYSICIAN City Dispensary Physician, member of the Late New York Medico Chlrurglcal College and of ihe Pathological Society of New York. Offlcu at l»r. Jndd'sProp, Store, on Fort Street. Residence In Nuuanu Valley, opposite that of E. O. Hall, Esq. 330-ly C. 11. WETMOBE, M. D. PHYSICIAN Sl SURGEON, HILO, HAWAII, 8. I. N. B—Medicine Chests carefullyreplenished at the 6-tf HILO DRUG STORE. SBBBMAN FECK, GEORGE W. VOEEIJIfI, - Honolulu. Oahu. 11. I. —REFER TO— New York. Jobs. M. Hood, Esq., Jamesllobsewell,Ksq.,l Boston. Es<i., > Cbublbs Bbbwbb, > H. A. Pribcb, Es-)., Mebbill, „ »..„.■.„ I Ibsbsbs. Mcßuer ft franclsco. Chas. Wolcott Baooas, Esq., j Co., Hongkong. Messrs. Wm. Postac ft Manila. Mbksbs. Pbblb, Hubbbll ft Co Particular attention paid to rebinding old and choice Books. Mr. Y. having had many years experience In Book-binding, In all its branches, hopes to receive a share of the business re- quired In Honolulu. Orders from the other Islands should be accompanied with particular directlona aa to the atyle, and if the work is to match volumes previously bound, a sample volume should be sent * Wilson's COOKE, AGENTS FOR Wheeler & SEWING MACHINES! to George "W. Macy, KAWAIHAK. HAWAII, Will continue the Oeneral Merchandiseand Shipping busines at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other re cruita as are required by whale ships at the shortest notice, 320-ly and on the most reasonable terms. BIBLE, BOOK and TRACT DEPOSITORR SAILOR'S HOME, HONOLULU. T>IBLEB, BOOKS AND TRACTS, in the English, tj French, Portuguese, German, Welsh, Swedish and Spanish languages. These books are offered for sale, at cost prices, by the Hawaiian Bible and Tract Societies, but furnished GRATUITOUSLY TO SEAMEN. MACHINE HAS ILLTHK LATEST ImpiovemenU,and, in-additlon to former premiums, was awarded the highest prise above all European and American Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition la PARIS In IMI, and at the Exhibition in London in 18S2. The evidence ofthe superiorityof this Machinela found In the record or Its sales. In Idol The Orover Baker Company, Boston, The Florence Company, Massachusetts, Tbe ParkerCompany, Connecticut, J. M. Sinter t, Co., New York, " Flnkle A Lyon, Cnas. W. Howland, Delaware, 0., Co., Cincinnati, Greenwood at M. N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0., Wilson H. Smith, Connecticut, sold 18,660, whilst the Wheeler a Wilson Company, at Bridge port, madeand sold 19,726 during the same period. 11 if D* Please Call asd Exaaalae. — * " Also, Office of The Friend, bound volumes for sale. Subscriptions received. N. B.—Seamen belonging to vessels lying "off BOUND VOLUMES and on," will be supplied with books and papers, by A kl' THE FRIEND. PROM 184ft (• 1868from 8 12 o'olook.P.jM. at the to calling Depository, -\W for sale by tbe Publisher—Price %I star velaaae, 3. C. DAMON, Seamen's Chaplain. i bound together I CHASE'S Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY Next door to the Post Office—up stairs— over the " Commercial Advertiser" Printing Office. STYLE. Newspapers, Music, Old Books, alec.. Ac. CASTLE BERRILL, scocassoas to execute with the Job. 330-ly «fc ft Books, Pamphlets, Honolulu. > the store Bank, is liindiiig Commission & Shipping Merchants, " EEMOVAL. BOOK-BINDER! C. BREWER & CO., \ I. 1. i: Chronometers. TAKEN THEITANDON KAAof Bolles Co., opposite humanu street, over HAVING all orders for Co.'s now prepared Hawaii & R. A. P. CABTRR, Honolulu. A great variety of other articles useful to the —AND— Mariner. Many ornamental articles, including Breast Pins, Rings, Cups, &c, tie. Particular attention given to repairing and rating SAILORS' HOME, BUILT AND Honolulu Sailors' Home owned by the Society," has reoently been placed under the management of the undersigned. They hope, by strlot attention and fidelity, to merit the patronage of the seafaring community. The House has I een built And fitted up in s style to suit the wants of Officers and Seamen who are spending a few weeks on shore, or wish to remain for a single night, or a single meal. Shower Baths on the Premises. Ship Masters and Agents, while putting their vessels under repairs, are respeotfully invited to send their crews to the Home, where every attention will be paid to their comfort. *6 Officers' table, with lodging, pesßweek,. 6 Seamens'do. do. do. do CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT, Managers. Honolulu, March 1, 1861. THE TAKEN IN EVERY PICTURES esuch as Ambrotypea, Photographs, Melalneotypei for Landscapes, Views of Dwellings, Ac, at reasftc, Locals, ""aLSO ON HAND—A good assortment of FANCY CASES, H. L. UHAtI. IT-*] FRAMES, Ire. D. 0. J- 0. BBBBIIL B'BOBB. IVIcRUER & MERRILL, Commission Merchants AUD AUCTIONEERS, AGENTS OF TUB Regular Dispatch Line of Honolulu Packets. XT All freight arriving In transitu for the Sandwich Islands, will be received and forwarJed by the Regular Dispatch Line", fees or OOMMISSIOS. Particular attention paid toforwarding and transhipment ol merchandise, sale of whalemen's bills, and other exchaage, In, surance ofmerchandise and specie under open policies, suppy ng whaleshtps, chartering ships, etc. 117 and 119 California street, airaa to i Captain B F.Bsow, I __w_ ) Messrs. C Bbbwbb *> Co., " iBS THE FRIEND : A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND OENERAL INTELLIGENCE, PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: Ons oopy, per annum Two oopisa. 1 �40 : Book in the Hawaiian Language. {Kaao Ka Hiwabiwa o Paliuli. Laiiikawai Kawshiniokuliula. Kakauia msiloko ni.ii o na jMoolflo Kahiko o Hawaii nei. Kakauia e T. N. Halsolc Honolulu, Uahu. Paiia e Henry M. Whitney, Lunapal o ke Kuokoa. 1863. 'his is the title-page of the first work of fiction ever published in the Hawaiian language. It is the work of a native. The plot and execution will favornbly compare with many works of fiction published in other languages. We do not pretend to have carefully read the book, but those have, assure us that in it are described the usual array " I if brooks and crystal founts, and weeping dews. And myrtle bowers, and solitary vales," where an Hawaiian nympli is wooed and wed. We heard the author of the utipublished Hawaiian Dictionary remark, that the plot would favorably compare with some of the novels of Scott. We are glad to learn from the Rev. L. Andrews, that he has about completed his Hawaiian Dictionary. Not that he supposes no more words of the language can be found or gathered, but he has succeeded in collecting, arranging, and defining the principal part of them. We now hope some energetic measures may be taken to publish it. 'It is not for us to suggest even how it should be done, but yet we say, let it be done either by private parties or else the Government. The work cannot be undertaken too speedily. Our reasons for urging its publication are manifest to all. It is needed for foreigners wishing to learn the Hawaiian language, and for Hawaiians wishing to learn English. It is needed as a book of appeal and reference. It is needed in our Courts of Justice, counting rooms, schools, offices, homes, and everywhere, for the two languages meet everywhere, and need to be mutually explained. We cannot imagine bow a few hundred dollars could be expended and the results tell more widely and usefully upon the community at large. If thought proper, we almost think the work might be published by subscription. It surely might if the Board of Education would lend a helping hand. Come, speak out, Polynesian, Advertiser and people. Who will pay for one or five copies ? We want a copy lying on our table beside Webster, Worcester, Anthon and pur other books of constant reference. General Meeting of American Missionaries.—The Annual Gathering of the Missionaries will take place about the Ist of June. Arrangements have been made for a full representation of all the families. The sessions of tbe Evangelical Association will probably continue through the monity of June. THE FRIEND, NAY, 1863. Editorial Re-union. Just as our sheet was ready for the press, we were called upon, as an editor, to participate in a festive scene, quite out of tbe range of the usual routine nf editorial life, and we have space only partially to spread a description before our readers. May Day evening of the current year, will long be remembered by the editorial fraternity of Honolulu. In connection with the Children's Missionary Society, there is an editorial department, and for many months and years the Maile Wreuth has been conducted in manuscript-form. Mr. H. A. P. Carter was among tbe last corpsof editors. As he was about to retire from office, he Invited all the editors and exeditors of the Wreath, and also the editors of (he otber papers in Honolulu, to an evening's entertainment at the residence of his father in-law. Dr. Judd, in Nuuanu Valley. There was a general attendance, and twenty-eight ladies and gentlemen gathered around tables bountifully provided. The entertainment was admirably arranged. After the guests had partaken of a variety of good things, then commenced the feast of reason and the flow of speeches, with appropriate sentiments, including such as the following :—•' Their Majesties;"—" The Pulpit;"— "The Press, Foreign and Hawaiian," &c, kc. They were responded to by appropriate remarks from Rev. E. Corwin, E. O. Hill, Esq Prof. Alexander, Mr. Ingols, Editor of the Friend, and Dr. Judd. We regretted the absence of Mr. Fornander, Editor of the Polynesian, but n letter was rend from him by the Cbainnau, Mr. Carter. After the company retired from the tables, it was eutertaincd by some fine vocal and instrumental music. Our sheet was just ready for the press as this entertuinment came off, which will be our apology for not giving a more detailed report of the proceeding) but we doubt not our readers will be served with a most elaborate report in the forthcoming number of tbe Advertiser. , MARRIED. KRlfiER—Gbaskv—ln Honolulu, April Pin, by* llev. 8. 0. Damon, Mr. F. C. Kruger to Miss Margaret IS. Gruny Caxtebbdbt—Nasamalbi—ln Honolulu, April 4th, by Rev. S. C. Damon, Mr. B. K. Canterbury to Nanamalei. Coos—Hadlev—In Honolulu, April 1«, l)y Kcv. K. Corwin, at theresilience of A. I'. Brlckwood, Esq., .Mr. I'. K. Cook, of Makawao, to Mrs. Mary D. Iladley, of Honolulu. Kiso—Stott—ln Honolulu, April 17, by Key. K. Corwln, at the residence of Uie brlde'a father, Mr. James C. King to Anna 0., only daughter of Capt. William Stott, all of Honolulu. No cards. DIED. Smits—At sea. Lat. SI °, SO, N., Long. 175 X., on board brig Morning Star, of heart dlseaae, Sylvester B. Smith. Burns—At Kamaole, Kaat Maui, suddenly, of aneurism, Michael Burns, aged about 45 years. He was a native ofKent, England, and for many years a resident of Maul. Oaoa—Drowned at sea, February 18, Lat. 67 °, 31, S., Ixuig = , 71 40, W., from bark Vetiach, Autone Kdward Uroa. He tell rom the main topgallant" yard. Wolf—At Queen's Hospital, April 41, Peter Wolf, a native of Denmark. He came to the Islands a passenger on board bark " Comet,"anil died Boon after his arrival. Wiujoh—At U. S. Hospital, April fth. Kdward Wilson, so American seaman. He had long been sailing out of Honolulu. Glabcst—At I). 8. Hospital, April —, John Olancey. He was discharged from ship " Marengo." Among his papers was found a letter directad to Mr. David 11. Styles. This letter was postmarked Potteraville, N. Y. It la supposed that he might have gone under an assumed name on ship board. M 11.LKB—At U. 8. Hospital, April ID, John Miller. He was recently discharged from ship "Tamerlane." KvabS—ln this city, April 10, Thomas Evans, (colored,) a nativeof Alexandria, D. C, aged 86. Dbxtkb—At Tahiti. Society Islands, January 18th, Captain Henry D. Dexter, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, aged 37 years 0 months. " Information Wanted ! Ketnectlnj Henry Aytkford. Anj person having; knowledge or this Individual,(a native of London, England,) who arrived at New London July 80, 1846, in the ahlp CharlesCarroll," from Desolation Island, will be remunerated by communicating the information to Henry P. Haven, New London, Conn., or te " the Editor of the Friend. MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. March26—Am wh sh neindeer llaynor, from Coast, with 450 bbls oil. 28—Am wh sh Champion, Worth, from Hilo, with 150 sperm. Spoke no vessel*), and caught nothing between seasoni. 30— Am wh sh Adeline,Barber, from Coast via Lahalns, with 400 brls wh the season. Cruised in Magdalena liny. Reports brig Comet with 7 whales. April I—Am wh ship California, Cleaveland, frm River Plate via Lahaina, with 76 brls sp, 200 brls wh, 1200 buc the season. Off and on. 2--Miss brig Morning Star, Gelett, from Micronesia. 2—Scb Daniel Webster, Shelly, 23 days from Kan Francisco, en route for Shanghae. 3—Am wh ship George Howlaud, Jones, 10 months from New Bedford, via Talcahuuuo, with 385 brls sp, 635 wh, and &000 ft* bone. Oil and on. Sailed April 0, for Arctic. 3—Am wh ship Thos. IHckason, Stewart, fromCoast of California, with 400 brls wh. Off and on. Sailed April 6, for Arctic. 4—Am wh ship Jireh Swift, Williams, from New Bedford, via Hilo, with 120 brls sp. oil and on. Sailed April 7, for Arctic. 6—Am wh bark Tamerlane, Gray, 6i months from New Bedford, with 150 brls sp. Reports ship Euphrates, Uathaway, 600 wh, bound to Hilo. Off aud on. Sailed April 7, for Arctic. B—ll 11 M steamer Hecate, Richards, frm Kailua. Haw. B—Am bark Yankee, Taylor, 18 dys from San Francisco with mdse and pass to Wilcox, Kichards & Co. B—Haw wh brig Victoria,La#ton, fm Coast California with 900 brls wh. B—Am ship Wild Hunter, Baldrey, 24 days from San Francisco, en route for Fhoeuix Group. B—Haw sch Kitty Cartwrfght, English, 14 days from Farming's lilaud,with 1100 gals cocoanut oil. o—Am wh bark Martha 2d, Bailey, 7 mouths frm New Bedford, with no oil. Off and on. Sailed April 15, for Arctic. 10—Eng wh bark Robert Towns,Austin, of Sydney, N. B. W.j 135 days frm New Hertford, with no oil. till ami on. Sailed next day for Ochotsk. 13—Am wh ship Euphrates, Huthuway, 8 nios from New Bediord, via Talcahuano, 50 days, with 430 wh. 4300 l>ne. Off and on. 16—Old'g wh brig Comet, Wilhelm, from MargaritaBay, with 600 brls wh. 17—Hambark Fetisch, Ilartmann. 74 days fm Port Stanley. Anchd outside, entered port next morning. 19—Am wh ship Mount Wollaston, Willis, inn New Bedford, via Hilo. Off and on. Sailed same day for Ochotsk. 20—Am wh bark Gratitude. Herringdeen, 10 mos from New Bedford, vii Palta, with 400 brls sp. Off and on. Sailed next day for Ochotsk. 20—Am wh ship Corinthian, l>wis, 7} mos fm New Bedford, via Port Carlos, anil Palta, with 178 brls sp. Off and on. Sailed next day for Arctic. 23—Am ship Don Quixote, Johnson, 17 days from San Francisco, en route for Hongkong. Anchored outside. Sailed April 26. 24—Am wh ship Kuropa, Crosby, 6 mos from Kdgartown, with 60 brls sp. Off and on. Sailed same dsy fur Arctic. 24—Am wh nark Hercules, Dexter, 8 mo* from New Bedford, with 200 brls sp. Off and on. Sailed same day for Ochotsk. 28—Am wh ship Klcctra, Sisson, 9 mos frm New London, via MoDgaout. N. Z., 67 days, with 00 brls sp, 70 brls wh. Off and on. Sailed uext day for Kodiac and Arctic. 28—Am bark N S Perkins, Robinson, 23 days frni Teekalet, W. T with lumber to H. Hackfeld*fe Co. 29—Am wh ship flov. Troupe, Ashley, from New Bedford via Hilo. Off and on. Sailed same day for Ochotsk. , DEPARTURES. Mar. 28—Am wh sh Hfl.man, risk, for Ochotsk. 30—Am wh sh Kuropa, Milton, for Ochotsk. 28— Am bark Young Hector, Paty, for SanFrancisco. April 2—Am wh bark Florence, Spencer, for Ochotsk. 4—Am bark Arctic, Hammond, for Boston. 9—Am wh bark Pearl, Hull, for Arctic. 10—Am wh ship Champion, Worth, for Arctic. 11—Am wh bark Catherine, Phillips, for Arctic 11—Am wh ship Barnstable, Bruwnson, for Arctic. 11—Am wh ship Adeline, Barber, for Kawaihae; returned on the loth. Off and on. 14—Am wh bark Nile, Fish, forArctic. 16—Haw bark R. W. Wood, (Jeerken, for Bremen. 16—Am wh ship Euphrates, Hathaway, for Arctic. 16— Am wh ship Adeline, Barber, for Ochotsk. 16—Am bark Cambridge, Brooks, forVictoria «V Portland. 10—Missbrig Morning Star, Gelett, fov Micronesia. 18—Am bark Comet, Smith, for San Fsanelsco. 21—11 B M steamer Hecate, Kichards, for Sydney, via Fanning* Island. 21—Am wuship Reindeer, Ray nor, for Arctic. 28—Haw wh brig Victoria, Fish, for Arctic. The Brig Morning Star, reports—32 days from Nemerik Marshall Islands. Reports the following vessels i bark Cicero, Stivers, touched at McKean's Island, December 2». Had taken no oil since leaving Honolulu. Ship Fleetwing lett Howland'a Island February 4, for Cork, loaded with guano. February 6, ship Anglo-Saxon at Howland'a Island, nearly full, to aall for Cork in a few days. Also, ship Audubon waiting her turn to load. Bark Fanny, Bllven, touched at Apalang about the middle of January. No oil elnee leaving Honolulu. � 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 (1863) 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 - 1863.05.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863.05.01 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d0e46cd748c531af05ed055d7a0795be.pdf e6abba167dee3b503cd943c4561ecbf6 PDF Text Text THF E RIEND HONOLULU, Hetß Merits, D01.12, $s. 0.l CONTENTS Kor Jl.m*. I NliU. Bi.tio|» CotSMSO, New linok ixiticol better to Harry Steal (In- War, PtaUy.TBS ssaka in the 9rtSS Shakespeare1! oplulon vi* Wine,.. Letters Iron the i al "f War Colored Straw., \c, Civility Is a Fartsusa, &c, AdTertleeraeiiii I't.ttry, Marine News, kc — , Pair. O 41, 42 43 43 44 44.45 ** ** 47 48 T II E F X lEN D. .lIFNK 1. 1H63. The Friend a "Comfort" to the Sailor. Scott, Byron, or some other modern literary celebrity, once remarked that he would consider it a far higher compliment to find one of his volumes at a country inn, with leaves turned down, dog's ear fashion, and pages well thumbed, than to meet with it on a table in a lady's parlor, neatly bound and gilt-edged, but unread. .Editors, too, are gratified to learn that their scribblings are read. We have lately been pleased to receive applications from several old shipmasters to furnish as many back volumes as we had in our possession. The older the better! A shipmaster once gave us fifty dollars for a complete file of the Friend from the commencement of its publication. Such testimonials are encouragingamidst the numerous perplexities and vexations ot an Editor's life. But recently a sailor paid the Friend a compliment which we equally prize, and now mention it for the encouragement of those benevolent donors who contribute their freewill offerings for the gratuitous circulation of this paper. During a late visit to the American Hospital, we met a sailor somewhat advanced in years, limping along on his cane, who solicited the loan of a bound volume of the Friend. In the course of our interview, he said that sixteen years ago he visited Honolulu, and obtained a volume of the Friend, which had been his companion during all his subse- JUNE 1, 1863. 41 {©IflSttits, ©Hi. 20. Editor's Table. quent voyages, and it /tad been such a comfort to to him. It has always been our practice A Nkw Book.—Thk Nkar and the Heavenly supply gratuitously all seamen, reading the Horizons; by Madame dc Gasparin. Robert English language, with copies of the Friend, Carter & Brothers, New York. and we now feel encouraged to continue the practice. This is the title of a new religious work, by a niece of Count Gasparin, whose recent Bishop Colenso. • works upon America have attracted so much One thing is quite certain, this clerical attention in America and England. The gentleman is likely to make himself quite Gasparin family belongs to the Protestant notorious. From the London Atheneum, we community in France. They are decidedly learn that in one week twenty books and Evangelical and Calvinistic in their religious pamphlets were published, refuting his at- viiws. It is exceedingly interesting to see tacks upon the Bible. All the leading re- religious truth presented under different asviews and monthlies on both sides of the pects, and by writers of different temperaAtlantic, to say nothing of the weeklies and ments. A strict Presbyterian Scotchman, an dailies, have come out upon his book. In- Evangelical German, a Calvinistic Frenchstead of retracting any of his errors, he has man, and a practical go-ahead American published another book, in which he attacks may all agree upon the great and essential other parts of the Bible, besides the Penta- doctrines of the Bible, but when they come teuch. The result will probably be, that he to write out and spread out their views in will sink down among the Humes, the Tom books, there will appear marked differences, Paines, and that class of opposers who ruin- although real agreement. We think Bonar ed their own reputation and character for from Scotland, Krummacher from Germany, good sense, learning and piety, by dashing Madame dc Gasparin from France, and Mrs. themselves against the impregnable fortress Stowe or a score of other writers, would all of Divine Revelation. Such men are really agree in the essentials, although they might to be pitied. It has been often stated that differ in the style and phraseology of their Bishop Colenso allowed Polygamist Zulus to books. If a reader would entertain enlarged be admitted to the Communion of the and elevated views upon religious or other Christian Church. A writer in the New subjects, let him read authors who view York Independent, of March sth, states that truth from different points of observation. thepoor heathen would not avail themselves When a Churchman or a Puritan, a Cathoof the Bishop's kind offer! The Bishop lic or a Protestant, reads only such books as found among the Zulus a heathenish dance, are written by the members ot hi* peculiar something after the style of the Hawaiian faith or sect, then he becomes narrowhula. The simple Bishop thought it minded and bigoted. Sometimes such wriwould be best to Christianize this heathenish ters undertake to clip, trim, screw, twist and ceremony, thus following, he said, the advice turn the truths of the Bible, to suit some of Gregory the Great! sectarian whim or crotchet, and the result is, they so distort the face of truth that she canDonations.—Freewill offerings for gratuitous not be recognized even by her friends. distribution of the Friend, from A. S. C, $5 00 The book now under consideration is 5 00 , • IVom Capt. evan■•<■<• 3 00 strictly evangelical, and yet it is the could wish a We of French writer. 8 00 gelism Rev. £. Bond, Kohala, and America* English it be read might by $10 00 For support of Chapel, from .... - - -- �THE FRIEND, JUNE, I sti 42 this assertion, we present our readers with one chapter of the book, entitled, " Of whom I speak." In this chapter, Madame Gasparin presents her views of God's love, pardon, sin, prayer, the work of the Holy Spirit, etc. Some of the sketches in this book are drawn in masterly style. After reading this book we can say with some of the British critics, " this is a remarkable book." So says the Scotsman, while the British Quarterly Review asserts that it is "a book full of beauty and pathos." A writer in Macmillin's Magazine says, "This book speaks to the hearts of us all." Of Whom I Si-eak.—There arc two great truths under the sun,—God's pardon, and His justice. There are two peoples on the earth a people of men who speak different languages, and live in different climates, but who have all felt the horror of sin, and the need of a spiritual help, and have recognized, as accomplished in themselves, the work of the Holy Spirit; and another people very differ-. ent, scoffers, obdurate, who reject all the appeals, open or mysterious, of the Divine grace. The prayer for mercy has never fallen from their lips; they laugh at the idea of pardon, they cast it from their minds. With this last people I do not occupy myself. The future of rebellious spirits presents a prospect, the horror of which I would on no : account diminish. I was not made for such a subject. I attach myself to the glorious phalanx of the redeemed. I turn towards the celestial horizon ; I turn towards the light, to the infinite serenities, to the love without limit, to perfect joy. I would awaken joy. It is this we want. By a redeemed soul, 1 understand the man who has felt himself guilty, felt himself weak—who has, in utmost humility, thrown himself before the Eternal, murmuring, " Have mercy on me !" But you who mourn departed friends, from najiose mouth you have not received the full assurante of peace, do not you turn from me. If I cannot with firm hand, point them out to you in glory, I can show you something magnificent—a rainbow all radiant with nope—the love of our Savior, the power of prayer, the free and royal gift of an omnipotent grace. Love divine ! It has depths we cannot follow. Even here below, has not the mother's heart felt that there was an inexhaustible tenderness which surpassed her own 1 You who hang over trie little cradle, when anxiety for the future seiaes on you, and you grow pole before enemies who have not revealed themselves, is it not true that one single thought will at once calm you ? God cherishes my child, and this my tenderness is as nothing compared to the love of God ! This husband or this mother whom I moum, Jesus has loved them. Who shall unfold to me the mysteries of this love ? who ■hall limit its action? He knows all, I nothing. When lo»t in grief, I can neither see nor comprehend; He sees, He loves, and He is the Savior. Permit me a reminiscence from my travels in the East, which will never be effaced from my mind. We had passed Bethlehem, we had passed the Pool of Solomon ; we had been traversing for a long time solitary lulls, where some wild herb alone movea to the wind, when, on a sudden, a dark line cut the horizon. It enlarged, it upproached, it delined itself in battlements; they were the walls of Jerusalem. Behind those wulls I saw there,—with those eyes of the soul that look out beyond the present. —I saw the grand cross of Christ arise and dominate the city anil dominate the world. My heart swelled, tears flowed down my I'lieek. An immense love, an unmeasured pity and pardon descend from the cress upon the whole earth. Those who refuse it, destroy and limit it for themselves ; thoM who hunger Ukd thirst for it, find it always equal to their aspirations. Whosoever calls upon God will lie saved. Sublime words, which, descending from the throne of God, fall upon our lost world, ami, in falling on it, spread ■ universal light 1 recognise no formula which has power to convert men ; 1 adore a Holy Spirit which, under every sky, can tame the pride of man, and throw him repentant at the feet of his Creator. Jesus died for all. All do not know the only name that saves. Knowledge must come from without; the sentiment of our guilt and misery springs from the heart. There is no heart beyond the circle of Divine action. Every soul which in its famine cries to the Eternal,-finds the Eternal. This ineflie ble cry, uttered in whatsoever zone or epoch, traverses infinite space, and sinks in the heart of Jesus. Without doubt, where the atmosphere 1 is thick, the light is feeble ; without doubt, there are such clouds as can obscure the day—such ignorance and hardness of the conscience as reduce man to the condition ol the beasts; hut the power ol God, but the love of God,—here are my two hi nips for this labyrinth. 1 am ignorant of all, God knows all. 1 think I love, but I love nothing as He loves. My God, who has made the heart, can always touch the heart. Come, contemplate with me this Divine love in its plenitude, as it acts upon some poor creature in the hour of death. I would not encourage the idleness or the indecision of the soul. The man who has a long time refused to hear may lose the ! 3. dience and in courage. Leaving veteran Christians behind, it passes ail, it has achieved all; and, nevertheless, it is itself, with its own individuality, but ripened by a single glance from the Divine love. Jesus has done this. What He said to the soul at that last hour I know not. What I have seen I believe. It is the work of God. And what is ours ? • An immense power is given us—a direct influence on the Governor of worlds—prayer. Shall I recall the promises made to it ? We have our cars filled with them, but what they announce so surpasses our hope that we do not believe in them. Infinite goodness—poor fallen creatures that we are !—finds us more skeptical than infinite justice. It matters not; prayer is a power ; and it on earth it has a contested authority, it rules like a queen in heaven. God dwells far off from us, —lost, so to speak, in the height of the empyrean. Prayer brines Him down amongst us, brings Him to our hearts., and links His power with our efforts. The heart of this man repels me. hut all his resistance disappears before a Divine tenderness. My words irritated, this can move and assuage. I know not how to constrain another soul ; there is One who leads it by invisible cords. Events ricfy me ; there is One who can bend them to His purpose. He, God and Father, can unite in one focus so many scattered beams, that the darkest soul shall be suddenly inundated with light and the coldest heart kindled with love. I do not destroy the freedom of man. Man can say Yes ; man can say No. To say No, knowing that it is the Eternal and his pardon that is refused—to scorn our own salvation, with eyes open and n sane mind—is perhaps that frightful sin of which it is written. Pray not for it. But have I seen.or known such ctll prits, or do they exist for me ? God excepted, does any one know the hopeless? For me, I know my father, my mother, my friend, this or that man ; God puts into my heart the cry of intercession ; and if I hesitate, the same God says to me, Believe ; nil is possible to him who lias faith. In the time of Jesus there were paralytics and the dying. They could not of themselves go to Christ; their wasted limbs refused to carry them; they knew not that Jesus was near and wished to cure them. There weoe even the dead who could not stir. Who. then, interceded ? who besought the Master ? A father for his daughter, a centurion for his slave. And Jesus resuscitated the dead. What we want is faith. The holiness of God dismays us, but his charity still more. We stand bewildered, fearful, and mute. May I possess that sacred boldness which lies in true humility ! I will pray for you, dear friends, whom my own sins and omissions have kept separated from the Savior ; I will pray for you whom my cowardice often, and sometimes a natural sentiment of bashfulness, have prevented me from addressing with words of power of hearing. I know this well. But the nwment also may come when the lost sheep, called in vain through all the fertile valley of the earth, may answer nt length out of the sombre valley of death. It is thus God seeks his simple creatures engaged in the labors of life, weak, ill-instructed, but with a heart still loyal and just. In an instant the soul is transformed. It has comprehended, it has submitted, it has prostrated itself; God has raised it, it lives. A few days, a few hours suffice ; God, in an instant, at one bound, can enable it to pass through the intermediate degrees. Frozen, it burns; lame, it runs; rebellious and pu- serious import; I will pray for you whom sillanimous, it is now accomplished in obe- all admire perhaps, and for whom none �THE FRIEND, JUNE, Grand and lofty minds, who traverse our sky, leaving trains of light behind—for you I pray ! Ah, we know not what surprises may be in reserve for us in the future life j how lriuny we may meet there who knew us not, whose fuees we had never seen, but whom our modest, ardent supplications had drawn bends the knee. .softly towards Christ! Have I said what I wished ? Have I communicated hope ? Have 1 made you feel the inexpressible love of our Savior, the power of prayer, the sovereign, unlimited actions of God ?—I know not. Perhaps emotion with me is stronger than argument. Approach, then, the pages of Holy Writ. What figures, sublime in their simplicity, group themselves there! Contemplate them. Their aspect has more eloquence than these lips of mine. Is it love you would be convinced of? •See Jesus on the cross. Is it the power of prayer ? See women on their knees, and near them the dead who rise. Is it the free action of the Holy Spirit? See the dying thief, and hear the murmur on his lips—Kemember me. By a late arrival in New York from Newburn, N. C, the mail bags contained 66,000 letters from the soldiers, to their friends scattered over New England and the other Northern Stutes. This was only one mail. Similar mails are going South and returning North. One of these letters, written by a father to his little son, chanced to fall into our hands. Now, as there are a good many little Harrys on the Sandwich Islands, as well as elsewhere, we thought some of them would like to read about a soldier's life, when he was not fighting. Camp, Newport Barracks, March 13, 1803. ) \ My Dear Boy Hakry :—Since I last wrote home I have been on an expedition to The buildings on this plantation were constructed upon a most liberal plan; the mansion was a large octagon house of two stories, with a lookout on top; from this, one has a line] view of Bogue Sound, and across the sound the whole town of Swansboro, about one mile in the distance, is seen to good advantage ; it was the object of our expedition to cross the sound and destroy the salt-works at that place. I think, Harry, that you would have liked to have been with me on this trip, for at the plantation I have been writing about, there were in one building two hundred and fifty bushels of peanuts ; they had not been baked. Don't you think it would take all the little boys and girls in your school a long time to eat them all ? The Artillery men one night brought into camp five hives of good honey. Did we not have a good feast ? These fellows are very liberal, and many of the boys had their canteens filled with clear honey; this makes even hard bread go down easier. Stealing is not allowed now on our marches, so that all these things have to be done on the sly. It is no uncommon thing in the morning to see from six to a dozen men at the Colonel's quarters, looking for property lost the night before. I was somewbut pleased one morning, for a man came running to camp, inquiring for our general; he had the night before lost tliree hams and said they were taken by some Cavalry men; so the General goes to where the Cavalry men were encamped, and passing some soldiers who were frying ham and eggs, the General turned his back, and asked tbe officer in command if he allowed his men ham ? yes, we have of late carried more or " O,with less us." The General then says, '• If you can identify the men you shall be paid." This of course he was unable to do, and the poor man had to go home, although he saw the men cooking his own ham. I had almost forgotten to write about the splendid peach trees that I saw on this plantation, all in full bloom, and oh, how fragrant, the whole air filled with the sweet perfume, noticed also, near the mansion, a splendid spring of water, so plenty that the two hundred horses that drank from it were unable to lower it in the least; over and around this spring were standing six splendid magnolias, soon to be in blossom. When they are, I am informed that the scent of the peach blossom, ns compared to them, sinks into insignificance, that is to say, smells bad. To-morrow lam to head an expedition out beyond the pickets, about five miles. I shall have one four-horse team nnd one two-horse team. We are going for lumber. We shall have two Cavalry men and six other soldiers armed so as to be able to take care o*V>urselves. To get this lumber we have to tear down a house that has been abandoned. I have been out once, and had very good luck. At our camp we have two yokes of little oxen ; the driver here ulways put a rope on the near one's horns.for if that is not done he don't know where to go. place called Cedar Point. We staid there three nights ; it was a splendid place where we encamped, in an oak grove with no underbush, about one fourth of a mile from the salt water. Our camp joined right on to the finest plantation that I have ever seen in North Carolina. The first night we all slept in the open air, scraping together the oak leaves for a bed, and as I was somewhut weary I never slept better in all my life. The next day most of us went to the shore und gathered as many oysters as we chose, spending the remainder of the day resting, lying in the pleasant sun, telling stories, singing songs, etc. As night came on there were slight indications of rain, so we thought it best to prepare some shelter; we made us a shed by first putting up two crotched sticks in the ground, then putting a pole across the top, three poles running from the top pole down to the ground ; on the back or top of this structure, we put four india-rubNature forgives no sin, no error. ber blankets nicely lapped and tied together, at each end another blanket. The colored She lets off the offender for fifty years, boys brought cornstalks from the plantation sometimes; but she catches him at last, and for a bed. In front of this we had a good inflicts the punishment just when, just where fire, kept burning all night by the negroes. a 43 1863. The Snake in the Grass. Come, lUten awhile to me, my lad— Come, listen to me for a spell! Let that terrible drum For a moment be dumb, For your uncle ii going to tell What befell A youth wholoved liquor too well. . , clover yuuDg man wae be, my lad. Ami with beauty uncommonly blest Kre with brandy and wine Ik- began to decline* And behavelike a person possessed I protest, Tbe teiuiwrunce plan Is the best, due evening, he went to u tavern, my lad— He went to a uvern one night | And, drinking too much Rum, brandy and audi, 't'lte chap got exceedingly •* tight," And was quite What your uunt wouldeiititle a "fright" A . 'lb'* fellow fell Into a anouae, my lad— "Tit a horrible slumber lie taken! He trembles with fear, And acts very queer My ryes ! how be -Liver* and shakes Whenbe wakes, And raves about horrid great snakes! . 'lisa warning to you and me, my lad A particular caution to ailThough no one can sec The vipers but beTo bear the poor lunatic bawl, •« How they crawl All over the floor and the wall !" Next morning he took to bis bed, my lad-Next morning be took to his bed ; And he never got up, To dine or to sup, Though properly physicked and bled And 1 read, Next day the poor fellow was dead I my lad— You've heard of the -* aiiake in the Of tlie viper concealed in the grass j but now you must know, Man's deadliest foe Is a snake of a different classAlas!— Tin the viper that lurks (n tbe glaas ! "Tis a warning to you and me, mylad— A very imperative call I Of liquor keep clear Don't even drink beer, II youM shunall ocoaaton to fall. It at all, l'ray take It uncommonly small. : , If you ure partial to (makes, my lad— (A passion I think very low)— Don't enter to see 'em, The Devil's Museum !" Tis very much better to go " m (That's so!) And visit a regulur show.— John U. Saxe. The sale of Hugh Miller's workshas been much larger in America than in Great Britain. Messrs. Gould & Lincoln are the Boston publishers, and Messrs. Black, of Edinburgh, issue the works abroad. The " Testimony of the Rocks" has reached a sale of 26,000 copies in England and the same in America. Next comes the " Footprints of the Creator," in which the American sale has entirely outstripped the English, the former being upwards of 19,000, and the latter about 6.000. The " Old Red Sandstone" has sold 16.000 copies in the states, to 9,000 in England ; the " Schools and Schoolmasters," 16,000 to 10,000 of the English ; and the First Impressions of England," 9,00 " 6,000 in Black's edition. The sale against of the other volumes is about the same in both countries^ �44 TH THE FRIEND, JUNE 1, 18(13. of Wine. In the play of Othello, when the crafty, two-faced and ignoble lago would excite jealousy in the bosom of the Moor of Venice, one of the means which he adopted was to disgrace Othello's lieutenant, Cassio, by getting him drunk with wine. lago was but too successful. Cassio takes too much. He is found negligent when placed in command. Evil consequences follow, and Cassio is disShakspeare's Opinion graced, exclaiming, " Reputation, reputation, reputation ! O I ha»e lost my reputation !" Cassio, unfortunately, was not the first or last soldier who has lost his reputation Solomon declared three thrdugh wine. thousand years ago, "wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging ; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Solomon and Shakspeare were two wise men. They knew the effects of wine. Poor Cassio, just like ten thousand other drunkards, having lost his situation, and fallen under disgrace, was anxious to recover what he had lost, his reputation, his standing, his rank. "Ah ! thsre's the rub !" as Shakspeare says elseReputation may be easily lost, where. character easily tarnished, rank easily forfeited, but to restore reputation, character, rank, that is not so easy a matter. " Wine is a mocker." Men fancy they may have a jolly good time, get drunk, revel, carouse, and no injury will follow. There is just the dangerous point. " Wine is a mocker." When Cassio waked up from his debauch, and that " terrible next morning" dawned, then he became aware ol what injury he had His reputation was gone. Like done. many other drunkards, he felt mortified and ashamed. He was ready now to do anything, make promises, sign the pledge! Listen to his exclamation of self-reproach : " Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble ? swagger ? swear ? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow ? 0 thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no other name to be known by, let us call thee Devil." Many a sober word is said in jest, and so many a solemn truth is uttered by men who speak from the severe pangs of remorse and self-reproach. Drunkards, reformed and unreformed, utter the severest language in regard to wine and ardent spirits as a beverage. Temperance lecturers and editors never began to denounce the use of intoxicating liquors as we have heard them denounced by those who use them. Listen again to the self-condemning Cassio : "O that men should put an enemy in th«ir mouths to steal away their brains ! that we should with joy, revel, pleasure and applause, transform ourselves intb beasts." i; FRIEND, JUNE, 186 3. The poor drunkard becomes a beast. He sinks oftentimes lower than the brutes. How strange, passing strange, that men should even thus debase, disgrace, degrade and brutalize themselves—destroying both soul and body. lago, the time-serving fellow, reasons just as many lovers of wine have since done : (For the Friend.) "My Times are in Thy Hand." Pr. 1X11:31. When all above the skies is clear and light, When all around the fieldswith flow'rs is bright, When perfumed breezes ruund my forehead play, And cooling streams refresh me on my way, I say, while with hope's arch my path is spanned, Come, are too severe a monitor." you " " These are Thy gift; «My Times uro in Thy How often have we heard moderate drinkers hand.'" and wine-bibbers say, are too severe ; " Come, come, you and spirits are the good creatures of God—use them with moderation as we do, and all will be well." These men do not understand the subject as well as the crafty lago. He knew what the effects of wine were and would be. We refer the advocates of intoxicating drinks to the keensighted but diabolical lago—the very incarnation of evil ! Cassio would not listen to lago's coaxing plea. Cassio knew what he had done and said, " I have well approved it ! I drunk !" Others too, have proved what wine will do. But why argue the point longer ? Would that we could persuade men to pursue the safe pathway of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors ! wine The Evangelical Association will commence its sessions next Wednesday, the 3d inst. The number of missionaries already arrived, and others expected, indicate that the meetings will be fully attended. Subjects of the highest importance relating to this Mission and missions in general, will be discussed. The presence of the Rev. Dr. Anderson, Senior Secretary of the Board, will add greatly to the interest of the discussions. He has just returned to Honolulu, having completed the tour of nearly all the stations upon the Islands, the only exceptions being those at Hana, on Maui, and that on Molokai. When uight comes down in darkness o'er uiy soul, When storm clouds rise and Hoods upon me roll, When on before no open path I sec, I still can upward look, 0 God, to Thee, And say, though 'mid fast thickening gloom I stani], "All shallbe well; 'My Times are in Thy hand.' " So, in my every fate, 1 fain would bo Of quiet heart, my trust reputed in 'J'iico ; Feeling no undue joy when bliss attends, Nor undue grief when pain or woe impends ; For howe'er strangely my life may seem planned, This solves it all My Times arc in Thy hand." :" PIINAIIOU. Letters from the Seat of War. The following letter was addressed to some family friends residing in Honolulu. We publish it as a specimen of the patriotic spirit pervading the hearts of the young men of the North, who are engaged in this fearful struggle. They may be repulsed and defeated to-day, but to-morrow they are again tendy for action. There may be multitudes of similar young men in the South, hence the fierceness of the struggle, and for what? Shall or shall not negro chattel slavery outspread that broad continent? Much as we detest war, and mourn over its terrible effects to individuals, yet from our inmost soul we say, let that struggle go on. until it shall lie settled and settled forever that slavery shall be put down, down| We present our readers with letters DOWN, never, never to show its hydrafrom correspondents now engaged in carry- head. Let not the American people being forward the war in the United States. queath this curse to be endured and this war We shall hope to receive additional letters to be waged by the coming generation. from the Rev. W. F. Snow, who has not onCamp nkar Falmouth, ) ly kindly forwarded a letter, birt also a poetic Stafford County, Va., \ effusion, over the nam dc plume of Punahou. March 27, 1868. S We srre glad the pupils of our young Col* The last letter I wrote 1 think * lege can make so good a report of themselves, was just previous to the battle of Frederickswas fought on the 13th of Deand do not forget the institution where they burg—which cember, 1862. The enemy were well prereceived instruction in the earlier years of pared for us, and although we fought with their education, although they may have great valor we were badly repulsed, and in since carried off the blushing honors of Old the aggregate lost m killed and wounded about 15,000. The Fifth Army Corps, to Harvard. which we are attached, was held as reserve, We present our readers with a letter and did not enter into the engagement until written in London. The writer is the son about 3 P. M„ of that day, when overof our old friend J. Hunnewell, Esq., of whelming odds were pushed in on our front, for well the enemy knew that if the Fifth Boston, whose interest is so deep and abiding Corps ever gained one rod of ground, their in the welfare of the Sandwich Islands. position would have to be relinquished. But • �THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1863. all our efforts proved unavailing, and for three long hours we stood under one of the heaviest cannonading and musketry ever witnessed in this war; the ground in and around our lines was literally covered with dead and dying. Again I escaped injury, with the exception of a slight hit upon the left hip, just enough to keep up my spirits. Well, that great battle has passed, and some thousands, on that sad and fatal day, gave their lives to the cause of freedom and their country. This has been a short winter, but one of extraordinary bad weather—rain and snow have visited us almost daily ; and with such an army as we have here, constantly on the move, the roads have become almost impassable. Spring is now upon us ; the weather is clear, and the strong March winds are fast preparing the roads for a forward movement. Our army is in the l)est of discipline and efliciency, and although we have met with so many reverses, we are again ready and willling to do our duty. I have often had the blues, and feared we would have to succumb to the imbecility of our leaders; but a change has taken place. Tens of thousands of the deserters are daily returning, and our star of success, although partially obscured by sad mistakes and the traitors at our own Northern homes, is now beginning to shine forth, and I trust may grow brighter and brighter, till not one speck is left to darken our once happy land. Tears of wrath often fill my eyes as I read the doings of our Northern Doujh-heads." Politicians who should have been hung years ago, are now belching forth one continual string of disloyalty. One party is as bad as the other some want the negroes ; others want peace; while Party No. 3 (to which I belong) wants this war settled at the mouth of the cannon and point of the bayonet. We have the means, the men and the will—let our generals do their duty, the soldiers will do their part. Papers say we are becoming very much demoralized. This is a falsehood, and the traitor that publishes such lies should be hung up by the heels till the war closes. We are not, nor never were demoralized—and such accusations set against this army only tend to kindle anew our sincere devotion to the Country and the old Star Spangled Banner. 'Tis true we have had many deserters, but we have a tremendous army, made up of every class of people on this footstool, and those that desert have no character—some, I often think, have but little body, much less soul. They skulk away from every battle, tell all the big yarns about defeats, &c. This class, I am happy to say, are now scared ; many never stnelled powder on the field, but have tasted the sweets of musketry by the just retribution bestowed upon them by Court-Martial—a hard and disgraceful death to die. nevertheless just. Gen. Hooker is to lead v* this summer ; be is all we can ask for if the government will support h'tm. His army numbers nearly one hundred and fifty thousand, the greater part comprised of old troops. I was war all over when the rebellion first broke out. I am all war yet, and mean to be as long as rebeldom is in existence. I am not eager for a fight, but when called to hattle I shall never lie found wanting. The charm and excitement of the terrible uproar " : 45 In the business quarter, the stores and offices although still bearing the sign-bonrds of their former occupants, are used by quartermasters and commissaries connected with the army, or by regimental sutlers and civilians who come from the North to trade. ! Army chaplains preach in the Churches to audiences composed almost entirely of officers and soldiers. Instead of being governed by tbe systematic administration of civil authorities, the city is ruled by the stern and capricious hand of martial law. At every principal street corner, an armed sentry watches you narrowly as you go by, and, if it be at night, peremptorily demands evidence of your right to pass. The city is still not with the quiet of repose, but with the hush of fear. A conquered city is a strange, sad place. Newbern is very well adapted to the purposes of a military post. It can be easily defended. Occupying, as I said before, a triangular peninsula, approach to it on two sides must be made by water. As the rebels in this region have no gunboats that can cope with ours, we feel secure from attack from this direction. On the land side, the roads entering the city run through thick woods, in which trees havebeen so felled as to make it impossible for an enemy to move artillery through them in order to plant batteries and shell the city. Between these woods and Camp of the Fifth Reg., Mass. Vol. Militia, the city is a clearing of perhaps a mile in Near Newberu, North Carolina, > width. Upon this clearing the enemy must Filiruary 18,1863. J Deak " Friend :"—ln responding to your display himself before attacking, When he kind invitation to write to you, 1 will devote does this a fire from gunboats in both my first letter to telling you where and in rivers will fall upon each flank, while from a line of forts, earth-works and rifle-pits, exwhat sort of a place I am. The regiment wiih which 1 am connected tending across the whole base of the triangle, is the Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Vol- we can concentrate our fire upon any point unteer Militia, a reorganization—under the of his front. It would be positively impossiit would recall of the President for troops to serve nine ble for him to outflank us, and madness to months—of a regiment which shared in the quire (hiring bordering upon three months campaign at the opening of the attempt to storm such works as ours in front. war. Perhaps ten per cent, of the present Being thus strongly protected both by nature members were with the regiment at that and art, and also being easy of access, this time. Immediately upon our entering ser- place becomes a very convenient centre from vice in October last, we were ordered to this which to move in any direction. Requiring place, where we have remained ever since, but a comparatively small force to hold it. excepting when moving on expeditions into troops can be concentrated here, and moved the interior of the State for temporary pur- rapidly to any desired point, while their poses. Our camp is about hall a mile from supplies remain in safety, and in case of any Newbern, the scene of the second brilliant reverse, they have a secure place to fall back victory by Gen. Burnside and his "Coast upon. All important points on the coast of North Division,"' in the Spring of last year. This city is now the head-quarters of the 18th Carolina are now undei* control of the Union Army Corps, commanded by Maj.-Gen. J. forces, excepting Wilmington, which is ctill G. Foster, who, as Captain in the United held by the rebels, and offers an opening for States Regulars, was second in command any vessels that may succeed in running the under Major Anderson, at Fort Sumter, and blockade. From present appearances, howwho came here as brigadier-general in the ever, it will not be long before this also is in Burnside Expedition. It is a very pretty our possession. We have no foot-hold as city, occupying a triangular peninsula, yet away from the seaboard. On a recent formed by the confluence of the rivers Neuse expedition, we penetrated some sixty miles and Trent, whose united waters flow hence into the interior, as far as Goldsboro, in order into Pamlico Sound. In its general aspect to cut an important line of rail-road, but it reminds me more of Honolulu than does made no attempt to effect a permanent any place I have seen in this country. lodgment. What may be the plans for future operaDuring its days of peace and prosperity it must have been a very pleasant place of resi- tions in this state is, of course, known only dence, but now it has the forlorn and deso- to our commanding General, and his superilate appearance of a garrison town. Very ors at Washington. The duty of subordifew of its original inhabitants remain, their nates is to wait and to obey. In future letters I will endeavor to give places being filled by the troops. The finest dwellings are occupied as quarters for gener- you some glimpses of a soldier's life, and of als, staff and regimental offices, and the sol- Southern manners and institutions as seen W. F. S. diers of the provost guard, or as hospitals; by an army Chaplain. displaces what little fear I have and. makes the scene of our engagement one of interest intermingled with romance, such as always makes us think we are going to win victories, and then, hurrah boys ! to see the graybacks run The rebels dress in gray—we in blue—so we call them gray-backs." " I am now the Third Ranking Captain, and carry the flag. I have but forty-six men, and you may rest assured we will sacrifice life, our all, before one star shall be struck from our time-honored banner. I expect that long ere this letter reaches you, that our great army will be hotly engaging the enemy. Preparations are already being vigorously prosecuted for a forward movement; not over two weeks can pass before the tramp of hundreds of thousands will tell that the great army is in motion. I intended to visit home this past winter, but one day after another lias past and gone; others have had to go, and by not returning at the expiration of their passes, it has kept the balance tied up. I cannot dwell on thoughts of home ; my all is there—loving wife and darling boy, an affectionate mother and devoted brothers and sisters. Worlds could not induce me to be thus separated, did I not feel confident that I am only doing my duty, as an American should do. We are in the right, and right must prevail. *** �46 THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1863. Colored Straws, Showing which way the or $350, at the beginning Wind Blows. was feeble. As of this century, long as their value to $1,000 and 1,500 and remained Freedom the Fundamental Law of rose " there, the system might be reckoned safe. Houses of have Congress the Land. —Both that they are estimated at from nothing passed an act declaring freedom the funda- Now mental law of the land forever, in the follow- to $5, slavery is destroyed. ing words: Civility is a Fortune—Civility is a fortune To the end that Freedom may be and " in itself, for a courteous man always the the fundamental law of remain forever land in all places whatsoever, so far as it lies succeeds in life, and that, even, when persons within the power or depends upon the action of ability sometimes fail. The famous Duke of the Government of the United States to of Marlborough is a case in point. It was said of him by a contemporary, that his make it so, therefore, Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the agreeable manners often converted an enemy passage of this act there shall be neither into a friend; and, by another, that it was Slavery'nor involuntary servitude in any of more pleasing to be denied a favor by His the Territories of the United States now ex- Grace than to receive one from other men. isting, or which may at any time hereafter The gracious manners of Charles James be formed or acquired by the United States, Fox preserved him from personal dislike, otherwise than in punishment of crimes even when he was politically the most unwhereof the party shall have been duly con- popular man in tbe kingdom. The history of our own country is full of examples of victed." success obtained by civility. The experience Arrived in England.—Rev. J. Sella of every man furnishes, if he will but recall Martin, the celebrated young colored minis- the past, frequent instances where conciliater of Boston, United States, well known for tory manners have made the fortunes of his eloquent orations on the American crisis, physicians, lawyers, divines, politicians, delivered in England some eighteen months merchants, and, indeed, individuals of all ago, arrived at Liverpool by the Asia on the pursuits. On being introduced to a stranger, 29th. We understand he has been invited his affability, or the reverse, creates, instanto take the pastorate of a church in the taneously, a prepossession in his behalf, or suburbs of London.— Star. awakens, unconsciously, a prejudice against A Colored Volunteer Surgeon.—lt is him. To man, civility is, in fact, what stated that the medical examining board, of beauty is to woman—it is a general passport which Dr. Clymer is president, have reported to favor, a letter of recommendation, written favorably in the case of Dr. Auguste, a col- in a language that every stranger underored applicant for admission into the army stands. The best of men have often injured medical corps, and he will be assigned to themselves by irritability and consequent duty as surgeon in one of the negro regi- rudeness, as the greatest scoundrels have frements. quently succeeded by their plausible man(CT* John C. Fremont, in a letter to Gen. ners. Of two men, equal in all other reHalleck, suggests the occupation immediate- spects, the courteous one has twice the ly of the Pacific Railroad lands by large chance for fortune. bodies of colored men freed by the President's Emancipation Proclamation. He says, A Liberal Contribution from Abroad. R. H. Dana, Jr., of Cambridge, Mass., in urging consideration of the proposition, since there is so large a number of our able- announces that he has received $1000 from bodied citizens in the army, it would be a a Hindoo gentleman, Karsandas Madhavamatter of great economy; and the great das of Bombay, who requests that the monrapidity with which the road could be driven ey be appropriated to the relief of some forward by the employment of this class of family which has suffered in this war. The people, makes this subject worthy of the donor, Mr. D., says, " feeling that this contest is one of the climacteric struggles for most liberal discussion. Treaty with Liberia.—The ratification the preservation and dignity of free popular systems among the dynasties of the of the treaty of commerce and navigation be- social world, has desired to testify his feeling by tween the United States and Liberia was this contribution, which lie very modestly exchanged in London on the 16th February, rates, Mr. Dana has taken the responsibiliby Mr. Adams and the Consul-General for ty of dividing the sum equally between two Liberia. families. One is the family of a teacher, fly Col. Roumain, envoy from Hayti, has who sent his only two sons to the war, edureached Washington. He is a man of color, cated and promising youths, officers in Masthirty-three years old, and speaks the French sachusetts regiments, one of whom was killand English languages fluently. ed at Antietam and the other died of fever, QZ7" The colored citizens of Boston cele- leaving their father with a lamily of six brated the anniversary of the death of Cris- daughters. The other family is the widow pus Attucks, who was shot by the British and very young children of a Major of artilsoldiers in State street, March 5, 1770, at lery, a field and staff officer, who nave lost in Tremont Temple, Thursday evening. him their only means of support. One of Slaves Valued at Five Dollars Each. these families are American and Protestants, —The eighty slaves of a large estate inven- the other Irish and Roman Catholics. toried in Baltimore, were entered in the list Mr. Dana made the acquaintance of Karat five dollars each, the appraisers stating sandas Madhavadas at Bombay in 1860. that they had been very doubtful whether to He was a student of English and American affix any value at all. Financial signs like history and literature, and deeply interested this are the most unerring tests of the course in theadvancement of liberal institutions and of events. When slaves were worth $250 of freedom in the social systems of mankind. slavery —Mr. Noble Generosity.—Of course, some of the principal sufferers in the Lancashire District, England, on account of the lack in cotton supply, are members of Congregational churches. Samuel Morley, Esq., a noble Congregationalist of London, has offered to make himself personally responsible for the payment of all arrearages which may consequently arise in the salaries of Congregational pastors in that district. But to the still greater honor of those Congregational Churches, says the Editor of the Co?igregationalist, they demur to the acceptance of the proposition, at least till their own resources have been wholly drained. HarLd uck.—It is a curious dispensation, and one productive of mental comment, that some one either in property or person meets with a continued series of disaster or misfortune, while another, not a whit ioore deserving, and to all mortal ken not bo much so as his less fortunate brother, wins tbe strumpet Fortune at a single venture. The arrival of the Chilian ship Jtsui Ramos (pronounced, according to a newspaper authority, iah sons,) in our harbor, 108 days from Port Angetos, has caused this train of reflection, and having been permitted to look at her log, we have gathered from it and other Bources the following particulars : The Jeaua ilamot, Capt. Pedro Rossi, left Port Angelos, W. T., laden wiih lumber on owner*' account fur Valparaiso the 224 ol January. On the day of departure, had strong winds from the southward, which continual, with ruin and snow until the 2oth, when it increased to a Kale, causing them to lay-to for 14 h'luri. After moderating, the gale renewed its violence, and tliey were lorced to luy tv some days, ami obliged to work the pumps every hour. After this, they had moderate weather, without any extraordinary occurrence, until the 19ti> February, in lat. 10 » 49 N., long. HI ° 43 W., going free withallaall act, they discovered that the foremast was entirely gone, or broken twelve feetbelow the top. This they fishedund secured as well us they could, but soou found she would not sail as before, on account of the heavy apart ripped to the mast as supporters. Three days after filling away, they arrived at lat. 6= 33 N., lon*. 110° 17 \V\, where they met with calms and variable wind*. Here they lay fifty days, rolling backwards and forwards, constantly hoping for a change in the wind, hut the calms kept tluin nearly in the same spot. The sails and gear were all in pieces, owing to the rains, srmn.ll* and heavy rolling of tlie ship. On the Bth April, lat. 4° 62 N., long. 122° 82 W., the uiizenmast was found to he sprung, and it was decided to make the nearest port, which was judged to be the Sandwich Islands. They arrived here on Sunday. Misfortune seemed to attend them even to th- very threshold of their port. When off Kitilua, Hawaii, at a distance of 12 miles, being greatly fn want of provisions, in fact in almost a stoning condition, having on board but three barrels ofsalt provisions, \\ hags bread, 16 lbs. flour,and all else In like proportion, Capt. Boast sent the 2d mate and four men ashore for fresh provisions or anything else they could purchase in the way of recruits. Here they lay in light of the place for three days, near enough to see the houses on shore, and the boat not making her appearance, and not being able to get any nearer on account of the calm In shore, and so greatly reduce 1, the Captain made for this as the nearest port. We shall probably get some intelligence of the boftt'e crew on the arrival of the Kilauea on Saturday. The vessel advertises for $6,600, secured by bottomry. The owners arc Messrs. 8. S- Suhercaseaux Herniation, of Valparaiso, and arc a wealthy and highly respectable commercial house, and owners of ship and cargo. Mm i* consigned to D. C. Waterman, Ksq., the Acting Consul of Chili, to whose courtesy and also Captain Rossi we are indebted lor the foregoingparticulars.— Adv. Skillful Operations in Surgery—At the united Staies Seamen* Hospital, oo tbe 14tb ult,. io presence (if all tlie medical faculty, an operation for aneurism of the femoral artery, was skilfully tnd moft successfully performed by S. Porter Ford, 11, |i. The patient, a well known whaling officer, Mr. Frank Warren, ismpidly convalescing and io now entirely out of danger. —On Monday 18th, at the same place, another operation for the same disease was performed ou the person of a Portuguese inmate, lie was very ill and suffering intensely, and it was at his earnest mil repeated ie(|iies; that it was done. He wan fast under tin' disease, and it afford' .1 the only chance relief mid perhaps to save his lire. The umuri.ni was situupper portion 1,1 Iks lenmial after [lie »su extend the ated st J. log Into the cavity of theabdomen. L pon resetting the artery the aliore tumor. It was found in a degenerated condition. Upon the application of a ligature l. the external lilac artery. It ga" way, and > frightful hemorrhage set In | hut the emergency was promptly met by the self possession of the surg.nn, who coolly proceeded to tie the common Iliac, thus performing one of the most difficult and Important operations known to modern surgery. The patient rallied partly from the operation and was tree from pain on Sunday and Monday, hut owina to his previous debilitated condition, sank under physical prostration, sod died o i Tuesday morning. The skillful manner In which both these operations were performed are most highly spoken of by theresident surgeons and physicians, and also Dr. Morgan, late surgeon t*. S. A , who were prfbent At\ sinking or . �THE X 11. W. SEVERANCE, ATJOTIOIUBBR, AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, ADVERTISEMENTS. apvurtisbmbitts. CHASE'S SAILOR'S HOME. Ambrotype and Photographic GALLERY Fire-proof Store, Robinson's Building, nana rub, Honolulu. Will continue business at the new stand. 316-ly J. 11. COLE, AUOTIONBEn, (SCCCKBSOB TO A- P. KVKRBTT.) 115-ly At his late rooms. Queen Street. DR. J. MOTT SMITH, Next door to the' Post Office—up stairs— over the " Commercial Advertiser" Printing Office. 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TERMS: per annum, Two copies, " FW# ooptes, One copy, • •/'OO �48 THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1863. MARINE JOURNAL. of British Sympathy with Now that the North is evidently before the world fighting the battle of freedom against the North. the Slave Power, that has cursed it, and disgraced the Age, we shall gain friends. As I PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. Lunbos, Susdav, Jan. 18th, ISB3. observe affairs, I am more and more of the ARRIVALS. I haye justreturned home from Mr. Spur- opinion that America, true to her principles of geon's chapel, or hall, where we have attend- Human Rights, true to* the great initial April 30—Aid wh ship Brunswick, Potter, 6j mo* fm New Beded service this morning, and where we saw of her declaration of Nationality, true to her ford, via Hilo, with 46 brls sp. Off ami on. Sailed day for Arctic. one of the most remarkable of the London duty in treating the great Revolution Jbrced May 3—Amnext wh ship John CuKgeshall, Dean, 35 months from a hall as as Bosthe New Imagine large Bedford, via Talcahnano, with 30 brlt sp, Sights. upon her by guilty aggression, true to prin400 brlii wh. Received medical assistance for i!u ton Music Hall, with two tiers of galleries ciples of the best men who laid the foundasmallpox, and sailed same day for cruise. 10—Chilian ship Jesus Kauiof, Rossi, 108 days from l'uall around, more than twice as deep as those tion of her true greatness—true thus to herKet Sound, for Valparaiso, in distress. of our churches, and the whole place crowd- selfshe will not want friends. She, of course, 11—Am cl ship Kathay, Kennel), 13 days from Sun Francisco, fur Hongkong. Anchored outside. Bailed ad full—every seat and almost every stand- abroad can reasonably expect these only from .May 14. seven thousthus place occupied—by nearly ing I cannot 11—Am wh hark Camilla, Thomas, M mos fm New Bedamong the Liberal, and true ford via Lahaina, with 100 brls sp. Off and on. and well dressed, reverential people, mostly doubt she will gain them. Thank God, the Sailed May 13, for Arctic. 12—Haw wh sloop Laanui, Harris, frm cruise round windof the middle class, and then imagine the old flag is no longer the partisan instrument ward Islands, with 70 brls oil. power of the speaker who collects such an of the Slave Power, but again pledged before mos fnu New Bedford, 14—Am wh bark Pacific, Uose, via Tak-aliuaiio. with 80 brls sp. Off and on. audience, Sunday after Sunday, and the the World, as the standard of Human Rights, Sailed next day for Arctic. grand effect, when, at the opening of the and that all beneath it is declared upon the 19—At 11 A. M. the t*/*rk Helvetia, from Pujrct Sound, with lumber, pdltnil this port, Bfi route lor China service, all arose and sang in the congrega- side of Liberty ! One can look all people in 20—Am brpt W I> Kite, Buddingtoi., 10 dys fm HiuUdc, I, 1., en route for San Kranci*c<i, with cargo tif tional manner. I never witnessed such a the face now, and as 1 once before wrote, I orwMM. (Mr and on. Mini MM tlay. sight or heard such a hymn. Capt. G. and can but feel a deep and utter abhorrence for 21—Am bark Vonnir Hector, Paty, 17 day* frm San Francisco, with indae to \S ilcox, Kkhai-.is t*r Co. I had seats close beside the platform, so that those at home, who for political aggrandizeI was within twenty feet of Mr. Spurgeon. ment, are using their influence against their DEPARTIRES. He is a rather short, stout, fresh looking man, government, and, I feel the honor of their simply dressed in black. He speaks without country. I can but detest those, whose nets May s—Am bark S. PvrfclM. RoUowa. for Victoria, Y. I. N. notes, a little in the H. W. Beechcr style, and words of partisan opposition to lhu ad9—Uld'f wh brig Comet, Wilbelm.for Ochotuk. 10—Am iiark Yankee, Taylor, fur Ban Pranctaco. though less, yet very eloquently. His voice ministration in its time of severe trial, arc 29—Hani bark letiacli, Hartnunu, for Sydney. is deep, full and clear. He is thoroughly in used abroad by the enemies of my country, earnest and not the least vaunting or eccen- to work its injury so far as possible. After PASSENGERS. tric ; familiar and forcible, hut not common observing what I bnve, I cannot understand place or at all undignified. I was, indeed, how true Americans can knowingly act with From Windward Pokts—per Kiiauea. May 30—Key T very much pleased with him and with the such a partisan organization as that represent- Coanand wile. Key O 11 Oullek, wifeand child, Key D B Lyman and wife, Miss Lyinnn, Mrs Shipman anil 3 children, F S wonderful audience his power has assembled ed by the New York World, a paper, so far Lyman, Rev J l> Paris, wife ami 2 children, R Neville, wile ami children. atlst Barrett, II M Alexander, Key ■ Botid, S T Alabout him, in a unique hall that has cost bis as I can find, in the same interests as the 2exander, Mr.* X Hitchcock, Hit Mar* Ultcbcock, Cajit W Bercongregation $240,000 raised by a voluntary London Times. It is enough for me that the rill. Key w P Alexander ami rifle, J M Alexander, Miss Ruiily MISK X Ah.\;lti.lit, Mrs Y. Bailey, Thou HtWhet, Alexander, subscription. friends of the North here are with the Pro- L L TorU'ii, Key J F0 Pogwt, wiif and 8 children, Uwlßht Baldwin and wife, Chan. Haldwin, 8 Ayres. i' Osktb, W M Haven-., B The form of service was much like our clamation, emphatically. lam making it Orlekweddf, Baker—6o cabin, 140 deck Sch John Win .tor, music, but, own. There was no instrumental long story of this Sunday Service, but I San PbaKSvOO—par fnikee, May 10—O N Mnkee, wife as I before wrote, the most impressive con- think that prayer ought to be known at home. andFor 4 children, H II Kruirer, sister and 3 children, Mfsßau gregational singing. Thp sermon was res- It was a Godspeed from the largest audience ford, .1 Wilkerioa and vllb, Dr Morgan, N L Inguis, G G Howe, M I. 0 Tottflg, Capt P ttottt, J l'im, A .lohnstm, S pecting the Peace and security of the Church, I ever saw in the Protestant Church. Again (JhasOrinhaum, Jarves—2ii. and a very good sermon it was and listened I say, I can't yet feel the hearts of all in Old From San Francisco—per Young Hector, May 22- Mrs. Sell-' and :t thildren, Miss Jane Porter, H IVikins, U B Dental to with profound attention. But the most England are against us. J. F. H. at hahaina, W 11 Utmood, Mr Bray dc Buyser, 11 B Auchii'distinctive mention, was the principal prayer, Otoae, J A Garner, A Garrett, G W CoggtthaH, J Silas, AhL'k —14. one that ought to be known among us at fact records the melancholy History home, one that I believe shows the change For Sydsk.y—per Fetisch, May 29—Capt Milne, wife and 0 Afcx Bulster, ftifc and 0 children, Peter Keegan, Carl that is taking place here in the sentiments of that the great Lord Bacon suffered his repu- children, Wilhelm—lS. many people. After a cordial and sympa- tation to be tarnished by ;i bribe ! We have thetic prayer for Her Majesty and for his sometimes thought that some editors of DIED. country, and that the poor might again be able smaller calibre than the philosopher, great honestly to earn their bread by labor, he said, Stili:t—ln Honolulu, May 14, Ernest Henry, thira soa of aged 4 years .md 8 months. thoughts have suffered themselves to be influenced in the Bishop of Honolulu, " And now, 0 Lord, we turn ourthe lam In some little disorder by reason of the dread- their puffing of sugar and other commodities death of a little child of mine, a boy that lately made us very across the sea and pray Thee to stay hut now he rcjoii c*» in his little orbe, while we mink*, and ful conflict there. And we offer a prayer on produced at the Sandwich Islands. No glad; sigh, and long to be as safe as he is.''—J Lit km y Taylor to for ltfM. a subject to which we have not alluded such pressure from Princevillc has been KVKLVN, C*NDA.;fc.—At the Queen's Hospital, May 7, of consumption, some months. We had feared our Brethren Samuel Y. Candagt, ngtd 36 years. He was a native of blue were not in earnest and they would not have brought to bear upon our mind, to lead aa to Bill. Maine, U.S.A. For the last few years he has resided at that these inlands, and been engaged in the coasting trade. come to this, but now Wepray Thee give suc- speak well of the sugar produced upon XT WashingtonTerritory papers please copy. cess to the Proclamation of Liberty and to the Estate. From specimens which we have Davis—ln Lahaina, May 18, Thomas S. Davis, of Fhldby Arms of the North ! We cannot sympathize seen, it is of the very best quality, and we Island, Washington Territory. A native of Randolph County, with those who would lay the lash upon the are happy to learn that the new works are Missouri. He arrived at the Islands in October last, (on the Comtt,) In back of the Slave. Grant the North God- turning out between three and four tons per search of a better; climate for the pulmonary complaint with he bad long been afflicted. The personification of filial which speed." And there was an Amen through day. and fraternal devotion and faithfulness; of energy, good sense, self-denial and sympathy.—[Cok. that immense congregation that would have done your heart good, and, I think there Smith—On the 10th of January, at Penzance, Cornwall, En* Information Wanted ! Key. J. C. Smith, aged 81 years. He waa familiarly were eyes not dry there also. I have not K"specting Francis D. McEvena, who is supposed to be on land, known as '• Boatswain Smith" among all English seamen and was world-wide. He was among the earliestlaborers received his fame given you the exact words, but they are near- boanl ship " Navy." Any information will lie gladly States few in Development ly exact, 1 have given you the idea, expressed without the least ambiguity in the plain«st and sincerest language, and I believe cordially responded to. It was a prayer that ■would have been thoroughly loyal, true and fitting in a New England Church. I have aW thought there was yet a big heart in Old**? England that would be beating wjth ours. ' among seamen England. He visited the United a yearssince,and received much attention. His funeral was atPlace, Boston, Mass., care of Mr. JamesGroves. by a large concourse. tended Maine, who Respecting Alonxo John Appleton, ol Kittery, has been reported at Honolulu, on board whaleship " Phoenix." Any Information will gladly be received by the Editor, or Mr. Edwin 8. Appleton, Kittery, Navy Yard Village, Maine, U. 8. Respecting Weary Ayshford. Any peraon having knowledge In the street, by the undersigned, near the premises of the of this individual, (a native of London, England,) who arrived at New London July 30, 1846, In the ship Charles Carroll," Queen'sHospital, a purse containing from one to ten dollars. from Desolation Island, will be remunerated by communicating the information to Henry P. Hafen, New London, Conn., or to The owner can have it by calling spon them at the office of the Editor, sod proving property. ths Editor of the Friend. FRANKIE J. WILLIk by Uie Kditor, or his sister, Mrs. A. M. Groves, No. 11 Newton FOUND. " � 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 (1863) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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