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FTHE RIEND.
HONOLULU, MAY 1, 1849.
Vol. 7.
CONTENTS.
P.IQR.
Poetry,—Foreign Intelligence,
Arrival Extraorduiary—Sea Serpent,
Temperance Frieml,
Editorial Article*.
Hawaiian Bible Society,
< abin Boy's Locker,
Original Hymn—Sabbath Friend,
Marine Intelligence, &c,
The Poet's Corner.
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THE FRIEND.
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.
Ukited States.—Thle New York Sun givei
:hc result of the Presideintml election as follows:
..
States for
Late and Important News.
Taylor and Fii.more.
Election of General Taylor, President of the
Electoral votes.
37
Massachusetts.
12
United
States
Louis
President
Napoleon
38
Rhode Island.
4
39
the
France
Death
the
Connecticut.
C
Republic
—
of
of
of
40
6
Pacha of Egypt Flight of the Pope from Vermont.
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New York.
Rome Gold— Steam, fyc, tyc, fyc.
7
New Jersey.
—
— —
No. 3
..
.. ..
. .
Pennsylvania . . 26
Delaware. ... 3
Maryland. ... 8
Kentucky. ... 12
North Carolitiu. . 11
.13
Tennessee.
Louisiana. . . 6
Georgia. . . .10
Florida. ... 3
States for
BuTLER.
Electoral votes.
9
Maine.
New Hampshire 6
Ohio
23
Indiana.
12
Illinois.
9
5
Michigan.
South Carolina.
9
Missouri.
7
Virginia.
17
4
Iowa
9
Alabama.
Wisconsin
'. 4
3
Arkansas.
Cass ADD
...
...
...
....
...
...
...
. .
...
Mississippi.
.
Texas
By late arrivals, we have received late
and important intelligence from diirerent
For the Frimid.
parts of the world. We would acknowledge
WELCOME
TO
POETESSES OF THE 'LELAND,
THE
A
files of the " Alta California" to March,
MISS M. AND Miss N.
Suggrsted by the perusal of a record of the proceeding!* on "New York Sun" to Dec. 2, and Valpa6
buard the LHaiul," at sea, on the 22il of February, as publish- raiso "Neighbor" to January 27. From
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ed in the Friend" for April.
these papers, and private sources, we glean
Welcome, thrice welcome, to our sea-girt isle,
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the following items
Ye minsirels fair, who wake the tuneful lyre;
146.
Necessary
290.
to
a
choice
Here let your sweetest strains the hours beguile,
Total vote,
California.—Arrival of the steamship CalTaylor's Majority, 34.
A ud o'er thesocial waste new life inspire.
ifornia, and her reception at this port. —The On the Popular vote, the total majority for
Fresh from proud Hudson's gorgeous scenes ye stray,
long expected and welcome pioneer of the
Taylor as far as heard from was 141,000.
Andbrs ye the dangers of the mighty deep
North Pacific Steamship Line arrived in our
To find congenial spirits far away
Emigration to California.—ln almost
harbor yesterday morning.
Where Pkle's fires in boding stillness sleep.
city down East, associations are formevery
of
Mazntlan
on
the
17th
February,
She left
to
ing
go to California, but the plan involves
Here, where the goddess once, with wild delight,
and Monterey on Tuesday last. Gen. Persifor
Reveled in dread Xi uuia'i surging Hume ;
F. Smith, new military commanderof the Ter- better prospects of success than it does in
Here, 'midstwild nature 1)* beauties may youwrite,
ritory, and his suite lire among the passengers. this city. A hundred persons of enterprise
On Fame's bright scroll, for each a deathless name.
The California is truly a magnificent vessel advance $300 each, which enables the party
and her fine appearance as she came in sight oft to purchase a substantial vessel, and fit her
A deathlessname? such names already shine
ihc town, called forth cheer upon cheer from our out with cargo and provisions, the ship being
In richest lustre on the world's broar*. page;
enraptured citizens, who were assembled in mas- used, when in
California, as aJiome for her
Land N
M
h! names indeed sublime,
ses upon the heights commanding a view of the
Alikeadored by poet, statesman, sage.
Buy, and in dense crowds at the principal whar- owners. This plan for a smalloutlay promves and landing places. She passed the vessels ises comfort and success. The great error
Already have we heard your touching lay.
of war in the harbor under a salute from each, of adventurers is the small sum which they
By ocean breezes, genily wafted on;
returned by hearty cheering from j|i crowded put into the general stock, which, when exThe theme was noble! 'twas the natal day
at the hausted, leaves them nothing for their supdecks, and at eleven was safely
Of proud Columbia's God-like Washington.
anchorage off the town.—[Alta CnnWnia.
port far from home. The sum of $300 is
Such ever be the themes on which you dwell,
The latest intelligence from California, scarcely sufficient for so long a voyage, but
Lofty, ennobling, eloquent, sublime;
shows that great and important changes are among 100 subscribers it ensures the purSisters! for such call up your sweetest spell,
chase of a ship and cargo, which belong, on
For such the Poet'srichest garlands twine.
there transpiring. The slow work of cenits arrival, to all the stockholders, and will
VaMIY."
" Hard of TUB
turies is compressed into months and weeks. enable them, if successful, to return home in
Nuuanu, May, 1849.
Thousands are arriving from east, west, her.
In the different ports of Boston, New York,
north and south. Vessels are deserted, parSelected for the Friend.
and Baltimore, at least fifty vessels
Philadelphia
LOOK ALOFT.
ties are returning from the mines, and other are up for freight or charter to the gold regions,
In the*ternpeat of life, when the wave and the gale
parties setting off". From a private source and to record all the expeditions would be imAre around and sbove, if thy footing should tail—
practicable. A New York letter of Wednesday
we learn that an Irishman recently arrived evening, the 13th, says:
Ii ilium eye should grow dim, and thy caution depart,
from the mines with 200 lbs. of the precious The jewelers had a mass meeting—yes, a mass
" Look aloft" and be firm, and be tearless of heart.
last evening, to form
ore.
Let our readers compute his fortune, meeting !—at Riley's Hotel,
prosperity's
glow.
the
who
embraced
friend,
If
in
a California association, and the names enrolled
With a smile for each joy,and tear for each woe,
at $16 per oz.
comprise many of our most respectable citizens
Should betray thee, when sorrows like clouds are arrayed,
engaged in that important branch of business.—
the
Several
have
arrived
from
clergymen
"LookAloft" to the friendship which never shall fade.
The shoemakers are to have a demonstration
States. It is reported that between 40 and to-night, and to-morrow the printers are to have
Should the visions whi< h hope spreads in light to thine eye,
about
it wouldn't be better for
50 vessels are at anchor in the bay, without a talkeven to whether
Like the tints of tne rainbow, brighteu to fly,
throw down the stick and take up
them
of
Then turn, and through tears repentant regret,
seamen. All kinds ofmerchandise are daily the quoin.
'-Look Aloft" to the sun that la never to act.
two hundred
arriving. There is the greatest demand for Besides all that, in to-day's Sun
young ladies are advertised for immediately, to
to
California
And oh, when death comes, In terrors to cast
tenements. Let those going
set out for the
placero." Tfcey must be reHisfears on the future, his pall on the past,
take with them a house, even if it be no spectable—so says the advertisement, and steady
In that moment ofdarkneas, with hopein thy heart,
employment will be guaranteed. Passages all to
larger than the tub of the philosopher Dio- be paid. Seamstresses
And a smile in thy eye, "LookAloft" and depart.
ami tradesmen preferred.
New York, August, 1643.
The N. Y. Sun, after specifying several astociagenes.
J. 11. c.
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tions of oapiulisu and others in that city, gives A Paris correspondent of the European steam vessel in working order that has ever
visited these Islands.
the following m* feature:
Times, under date ofDec. 15, writes.
We have been
furnished with the
action
Government
date
Important
tranquility continues. following list of thepolitely
m rtftr- "Up to this
ofthe
command :—
ence to the Gold Region. —According to the The latest election returns show a majorJ. S. Hathaway, Ist Art. commanding.
ity in favor of Prince Louis, similar in Major
Cant. B. H. Hill, Ist Art. coindg. Comp. M.
following from the Washington correspond- proportion to those already announced. Tbe L.
H. Holdeu, Surgeon.
ence of the N. Y. Sun, of the 14th inst., the proclamation of the President will probably be Ist Lt. J. B. Gibson, Comp. M.
made about the 40th.
Lt. T. Talbot,
government is taking steps to prevent the The present Ministers are preparing to evac- Ist
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2nd Lt. J. J. Wood, qr. master and com'sary.
export of gold ore, duty free", from the new uate their official residences. The sweep will 2nd Lt. J. B. Foy, Adjutant.
be nearly as general as it was in February last.
2nd Lt. J. Dement, Comp. L.
mines in California :
As usual, a succession of programmes has been
2nd Lt. G. Tallmadge, Comp. M.
It is rumored, and I have every reason to be- circulated. The cabinet, as now settled, is said [Polynesian.
lieve the rumor is true—that the Government in to lie as follows:—
Cabinet council on Saturday last, decided to send President of the Council, Minister of Justice
The Great Sea Serpent.—When the Daeimmediately a number of small vessels of war, and
Public Worship—Odillon Barrot.
dalus frigate, Captain M'Qulite, which arrived
brigs and schooners, to enforce the embargo Foreign
Affairs—Drouin dc l'Huys.
at Portsmouth on the 4th inst., v*is on her pasupon all merchant vessels going into the harbor Interior—Leon
dc
sage home from the East Indies, between the
of Monterey, San Francisco, and other ports on Finance—HyppoliteMalleville.
Passy.
Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, her Capt.
California,
to
come
coast
ot
them
requiring
the
Public Works—Leon Faucher.
and most of her officers and crew, at 4 o'clock
under bonds not to receive on board for transpor- War—General
Rulhieres.
tation any part or parcel of gold ore dug from Commerce and Agriculture—Achille Fould. one afternoon saw a sea serpent. The creature
was twenty minutes in sight of the frigate, und'
the public lands or mines on the Sacramento or
Instruction—DeFulloux.
passed under her quarter. The Duedalus left
Other parts of the gold region in Alta California. Public
Marine—De Tracy.
the Cape of Good Hope on the 30th of July, and
The Government is fully awake to the imporThe above form the Cabinet.
reached St. Helena on the lull of August. The
tance of the gold region, and the Cabinet undoubtedly regret that a mint at California was The latest returns of the Presidential elec- following interesting report respecting the apnot acted upon at the last session, before the tion now give about four millions for Prince pearance of this extraordinary'animal has been
forwarded to the Admiralty by Captain M'Close of which they had an inkling of the gold reLouis and nine hundred thousand for Gen. Quliii':
gions. A State Government will undoubtedly Cavignac.
be at once organized in California, and the mines
ship Dcednlus, >
" Her Majesty's
taken possession ofby the United States troops. Two negroes and two mulattoes have been
Homoaze, Oct. 11. \
Thefinal methodsfor securing the mining regions elected to the National Assembly from Gouda"Sir;—In reply to your letter of this day's
to the Government have not yet been decided
(late, requiring information as to the truth of a
loupc, of whom one has taken his seat.
on.
Italy.—The Pope has fled to Naples. statement published in the "Times" newspaper,
The California and the Panama steamers
of a sea serpent ofextraordinary dimensions havbeen seen from her Majesty's ship Daedalus,
of the sth January and 16th February, from The Pope," says the London Times, "left ing
the Quirinal on the evening of the 24th o. under my command, on her passage from the
Panama, are full of passengers, and a large
Indies, I have the honor to acquaint you,
as a servant of Count East
for the information of my Lords Commissioners
number of applications have been made for November, disguised
and wearing the livery of the Ba- •of the Admirably, that at 5 o'clock p. in. on the
passage in the Oregon, to sail on the first of Sophr,
varian Legation. Dressed in the character 6th of August last, in latitude 24 degrees 44 m's.
S., and longtitude 9 degrees 22 minutes E., the
March. All these boats are on their way
of a footman, he mounted the box of the weather dark and cloudy, wind fresh from the
round Cape Horn.
Ambassador's carriage, seated himself by N. W., with a long ocean swell from the S. W.,
The steamers Crescent City, Isthmus and the coachman, and thus absconded from the the ship on the port tack heading N. E. by N.,
something very unusual was seen by Mr. SarOrus are advertised for Chagres -and are
Quirinal Palace and was carried off to toris, midshipman, rapidly approaching the ship
is
full.
The
Orus
intended
to
navnearly
Grsta. No one in Rome recognized him, from before the beam. The circumstance was
igate the Chagres river. Beside, there are and the illustrious fugitive arrived in Geefa immediately reported by him to the officer of the
watch, Lieut. Edgar Drummond, wilh whom
some forty-five or fifty vessels of all sizes,
on the night of the-25th, without experiencing and Mr. William Barett, the master, I was at
the time walking the quarter-deck. The ship's
up for Chagres or San Francisco direct.—
the least danger."
company were at supper. On our attention beAt last accounts, about 6000 persons were at
The Pope of Rome, who had wished to ing called to the object,\it was discovered to be
Panama waiting conveyances to the El stand alagfLJ'rom the struggle between the an enormous serpent, with head and shoulders
Dorado. The number of course was con- Italians-nfll Austrians, was forced at the kept about four feet constantly above the surface
the sea, and as nearly as we could approxitinually increasing, and it requires some eleventh nour to despatch all the troops he of
mate by comparing it with the length of what our
of the maintopsail yard would show in the water,
stretch of imagination to conceive how all could assemble to the assistance who
there
hadlJwas nt the very least sixty feet of the animal
a
these people are to be transported to the former. A handfull of malcontents
exile,
returned
from
took
of!
advantage <Jleur d'eau, no portion of which was to our perlately
gold regions.
this circumstance to create a riot at Rome. ception, used in propelling it through the water,
No less than four vessels are being fitted The Coufit Rossi, President of the Council, either by vertical or horizontal undulation. It
passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarout at Sag Harbor, and it is calculated that was assassinated by a ruffian, at noonday, ml
that had it been a man of my acquaintance I
one of the public streets. The Pope with-jter,
more goods will arrive in California in the drew privately from Rome, and sought a!should have easily recognised bis features with
and itdid not, either in approachnext six months than will supply the inhab- refuge in the kingdom of Naples, where he!jthe nuked eye;
ling the ship or after it had passed our wak,e, deitants three times over.
was received with acclamations by King viate in the slightest degree from its course to
(the S. W., which it held on at the pace of from
The Park Theatre in New York was des- Ferdinand and bis subjects.—[Times.
twelve to fifteen miles per
apparently on
fire
on the evening of the 16th Arrival Extraordinary.—The U. S.I'some determined purpose. hour,
troyed by
The diameterof the
December. Loss $80,000, of which but a transport steam propeller " Massachusetts,"!jserpent was about fifteen or sixteen inches l»cCapt. Wood, arrived in our harbor on Monday! -liiml the head, which was, without any doubt,
small portion is covered by insurance.
from Boston, via Valparaiso, on her way to that of a snake, and it was never, during the
Austria.—The Emperor of Austria has last,
Oregon. She has on board 163 rank and file of twenty minutes that it continued in sight of our
abdicated in favor of his nephew, Francis the Ist regiment U. S. Artillery, (companies'glasses, once b»low the surface of the water: its
") Brevet Major Hathaway,jjcolor a dark brown, with yellowish-white about
Joseph.
'* M " and L,These
commanding.
troops are intended, wejthe throat. It had no fins, but something like
Egypt.—lbrahim Pacha is dead, and sue- lunderstand, to garrison the ports of Oregon. the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of sea
ichusetts' is a noble vessel, register- weed, washed about its back. It was seen liy
ceeded by Abbas Pacha in the viceroyalty The
' Mass
ed 750
tons, and coming in as she did in a calm,''the quartermaster, the boatswain's mate, and the
of Egypt.
moving without the help of sails, or other visi- man at the wheel, in addition to myself and ofFrance.—Prince Louis Napoleon Bona- ble means of locomotion, she perfectly aston- ficers above mentioned. lam having a drawing
the native population who assembled of the serpent made from a sketch taken immeparte has been elected President of the Re- [ ished
in crowds upon the beach. She is provided diately after it was seen, which I hope tn have
public of France, by an overwhelming ma- with Ericcson's propeller, (which, by the way, ready for transmission to my Lords Commissionjority.
| is well worth inspection) and is the second ers of the Admiralty by to-morrow's post.
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ceived that quite a demand was made for the fatal thrust could consign the soul of its vogenuine Eau dc Cologne, and that a penny tary to the second death ?
For MM Frl»nd. could be turned to advantage in the business.
And in the bare possibility of so dire an
POCKET VERSUS PRINCIPLE.
Now he of course would do nothing to en- event, how do you suppose it would stand, in
Mr. Editor—There resides near one ofH. courage intemperance! Not he! He was a the final reckoning, with the vender of this
H. M.'s ports, a gentleman that I wot of— fast friend of temperance; and then he would article for such uses?
Homo.
fair and honorable, as the world goes—" a do nothing to favor immorality! Oh, no! he
conserwithal
a
of
was
the
constituted
of
the
temperance"—and
public
guardian
friend
morals in that vicinity. But then he could
TEMPERANCE PLEDGE IN 1637.
vator of the public morals "by authority."
the
story
goes,
since,
as
Jack
not
lose
the
to
for
Editor—l have found the following
himMr.
opportunity
provide
Not long
ashore on liberty thereabouts, was observed self and his household, so providentially temperance pledge written on the blank leaf
to be right merry; and from his bad naviga- opened before him. He surely need not of an old English book, which has been hantion, and sundry oft-repeated lurches to lee- know that the Cologne was poisoning the ded down from parent to child for several
ward, it was more than suspected that the community, since it would not be drank on generations; but at the time when the pledge
stevedore had made bad stowage of the car- his premises, any more than the man who was dated, to have been the property ofgood
go on board, or else that contraband goods plunges the fatal steel into his neighbor's bo- old Robert Boltok, Bachelor in Divinity, and
were in the hold which were dangerous to som, in the dark, need knotc that he is a mur- preacher of God's word at Broughton, in
the ship's safety.
derer. He didn't see the death-throe of his Northamptonshire, England. It shows that
The latter soon came to be the settled victim! Suppose conscience does pretty temperance was properly appreciated, by
was a temperance clearly intimate at times the probabilities in some at least, in olden time.—[Ch. Adv.
opinion But Jhen
A. P.
port! The serpent of the still dared not the case! In either case, suppose it would
show his head there—save indeed on the hardly require Yankee shrewdness to guess Marietta, July 3d, 1834.
premises of "the Doctor," who, of course that the assassin's knife and murderous alco- Broughton, 1637.—Ffrome this daye forhad the right to distil "for medical purposes hol were hardly safe instruments to be scat- warde to
ih/e ende of my life, I will never
alone," if his "license" could be depended tered at random in the community! Why, pledge anye healthe nor drinke a whole carrowse in a glasse, cupp, bowle, or other
upon. How then could poor Jack have been what then?
drinking instrument whatsoever; whosoever
evil
slimy
spirit
Where
did
the
of
bitten?
But never mind that. Our hero did not it be, or ffrome whomsoever it come, except
lurk? were the inquiries oft and anxiously feci it to be his duty to refuse to line his the nscessitye of nature doe require it. Not
revolved by "the authorities;" for, be it re- pockets with the profits of Eau dc Cologne! my own most gracious kinge; nor anye the
membered, to the solution of this problem Why indeed should he? If he didn't sell it greatest monarch or tyrant on earth. Nor
my dearest ffriende, nor all the goolde in the
hung ,a toveted tail!
somebody else would. Besides, he was vio- worlde shall ever enforce me or allure me.
But, to make a long story short, it was at lating no temperance pledge. No temper- Not an Angell from Heaven (whoe I knowe
length discovered, though not till after a deal ance society was ever known to be so fanati- will not attempt it) should persuade me.—
of commendable anxiety and great pains-tak- cal as to include perfumery in its pledge! Of Not Satan witkjll his old subtilities, nor all
powers ofSell itself, shall ever betray
ing pro bono publico, with no small quantity course then, all was right. The natives, too, the
me. By this very sinne (for, a sinne it is and
bottles
of
of unjust suspicion against the beer
purchased meeting-house, water (as Cologne not a little one,) I doe plainly finde that I
sundry law and license abiding dwellers is expressively denominated by them,) and have more offended and dishonored my great
thereabouts, that the spirit which poor Cas- he might suppose, if he could, that all he and gloriouse Maker and most merciful Sasio rightly calls devil actually issued from sold was applied to no worse purposes than viour, than by all other sinnes that I am subject unto; and for this very sinne I know it
Cologne Bottles!
that purchased by natives. Why indeed'is that God hath often been strange unto me.
Jack had ascertained by actual experiment might not he supply the deraJßjlSjts well as And flbr that cause, and noe other respect,
have I thus vowed; and I heartily* begg my
that the veritable Eau dc Cologne possessed any one ?
V ) *
good Father in heaven of his greate goodvirtue,
fuddling no less than the perfuming
A large quantity of the article in question ness and infinite mercie, in Jesus Xt. to asfurnishing thereby a new exemplification of was soon said to be on board a vessel, mark- sist me in the same, and to be favourable unthe proverb, "Where there's a will there's a ed to his address.
to me flbr what is past. Amen.
rather
R. Bolton.
the
was
April 10, 1637.
To
be
sure
article
way."
or
rather
at
three
a
glass,
reals
expensive,
What say you, Mr. Editor—can there be
those who prefer it, Champagne.
bottle, but then considering that the agreea- any harm in selling perfumed alcohol? We Give
a
—In little work just published, 'entitled
ble perfume and the fuddle were both secur- all know that
the filthy stuff' called 'The Whole Art of Making British Wines,
selling
ed with that amount, perhaps the purchaser
Rum is a dirty and murderous business, Cordials, and Liquors,' by JamesRobinson,
arranged the matter thus with himself—
make the best you can of it. But then the the trade-secrets are fully divulged. See
three ftps,
Essential Oils,
aromatic
Cologne is quite another affair! It what 'sparkling champagne' L'OU dePerdix
three do.
Rum,
isn't
with " the drink that drunkards is made of! 'sliced rhubarb stalks, the tops
classed
Which would not be so very expensive after
know!
you
use,"
ofyoung spring nettles, sugar, and eggs!'—
all, you know, particularly as one bottle fulon
it—beastly
drunk
Taste, also, this 'Fine Old Port' compound
filled the consumer's noblest desire—throwing Suppose Jack gets
or
does
suicide,
drunk—and
mayhap
commits
of the juice of Hamburg grapes, sugar, a dehim into a state of brutal drunkenness —thus
this?
And
barm
of purple beet-root, sliced ginger,
in
worse;
can
there
be
coction
any
instruct
qualifying him by living example to
that
sage leaves—together with a huge
could
his
think
and
red
complain
captain,
you,
the
peculiar
these poor heathen Hawaiians in
of French brandy, isinglass, bitblessings of civilization and Christianity!— his man had poured the sweet odor into his proportion
almonds,
ter
sugar candy, and lerooa-peel!
Alack-a-day, that these poor heathen should stomach rather than upon his handkerchief? Roughness is given by alum, oak bark, some
Cothink
it
that
possible
other astringent; and the real port-flavor, by
prove so stupid and unworthy their privi- Do you really
water could be made "to bite like a adding the tincture of the seeds of raisins!—
logne
leges!
that its [Gateshead Obs.
But the story. Well, our hero soon per- serpent, or sting like an adder?" or
The Temperance Friend.
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Progress of Temperance.—Both Houses the line of their transgressions. We should
of the British Parliament, in answer to the as soon expect the sun not to rise, water to
numerous petitions of temperance societies, run
HONOLULU, MAY 1, 1849.
up hill, iron to float, or a man to fly, as
have passed a bill prohibiting all sale of innot
to
witness the awful curse of drunkentoxicating liquors on Sunday morning and
The publication of the Friend will be afternoon.
ness eventually being visited upon rumseldiscontinued after .the present number, until
ICT* We copy the above item of intelli- lers or their descendants, unless they exerthe editor returns from a voyage to the Wesgence from a late American paper, and most cised timely repentance. The laws of God
tern Coast of America. It is our intention
cannot be violated with impunity. Solomon
to embark to-day, April 16th, on board the sincerely do we hope it may be true. It is
an important step in the right direction.— asks, "Can a man take fire in his bosom
U. S. Propeller "Massachusetts," Captain
The Hawaiian Legislature we hope may be and his clothes not be burnt?" Of course
Wood having very kindly and generously
thereby encouraged to carry out, during not. Can a man acquire wealth by selling
proffered us a free passage to San Francistheir present session, a measure now but spirituous liquors and reasonably expect it
co, via Oregon. It is with no ordinary feelpartially executed. We refer to the entire will prove a blessing, either to himself or his
ings of pleasure that we anticipate visiting
of the sale of spirituous liquors children? The past answers. "No."
our native land. To be sure, we do not ex- prohibition
on the Holy Sabbath. At present houses lipect to visit those portions of the country censed to sell
by the glass, are alone closed, Volcano of Kilauea, Hawaii.— We
rendered sacred by the associations of home
learn from the Rev. Mr. Paris, recently from
while Hotels may continue open as on other
and kindred, yet it is to be our privilege to
days. We cannot see why this distinction Hawaii, that on passing from his station in
embark in a vessel bearing the name of our
should be made. If it is wrong for a grog- Kau, to Hilo, he observed the great crater
native state, and it will require no great
shop to be open for the sale of spirits, why of Kilauea undergoing some remarkable
stretch of the imagination to fancy ourselves not for a
Hotel? It needs not a very close changes. Although the lake is now compaonce more an inhabitant of the Old Bay
observation to see that the sale of spirits by ratively quiet, yet the internal pressure is
State! Under the protecting care of Divine
Hotels on the Sabbath is productive of much such as to have elevated the surface of the
Providence, we hope to resume our duties
evil, especially to the sea-faring community, lake from one to two hundred feet. In the
at the end of three or four months* During as well as the mechanics of
Honolulu, not to centre of the lake a huge cone has been
our absence, the recollection of the many
speak of any other class. Will not some thrown up, and from its summit there are
acts of kindness which we have received member of the
Hawaiian Legislature bring frequent eruptions. The frequent explosions
from residents in Honolulu, and the sea-farforward this subject, and endeavor to have a of the pent up gases may be heard at the dising community, during a sojourn of six years
of the License Law, so modifying tance often miles. These explosions resemat the islands, will serve to hasten ourretnrn revision
the statute that no person shall be licensed ble the sudden escape of the steam from the
to our home, and the sphere of our labors.
by the laws of this kingdom to sell spirituous boiler of a steam engine, although nip»n a
of
the
The
affairs
duChaplaincy,
N. B.
and intoxicating liquors upon God's holy scale immensely enlarged. Other parts of
the crater furnish abundant evidence that the
ring our absence, will be entrusted to the Day. This day was consecrated
for other
care of the Rev. T. E. Taylor, Chaplain at purposes, but the sale of liquors more than subterranean fires of Hawaii are far from beLahaina.
any other cause leads to a most gross dese- coming extinct.
Hawaiian Coffee.—The fair experiment cration of the sanctity of this Sacred Day.—
Depopulation by the Measles.—ln a
has been made that coffee of the first quality Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it hoformer number we noticed the fact -that the
can be raised upon the Sandwich Islands.— ly.—We are anxious to see the laws of this
Some recently from the island of Kauai, is kingdom just as strict upon the subject of the measles had been very destructive to the abof a superior excellence. We are able to license and sale of all kinds of intoxicating origines of these islands. The following
pronounce that from the plantation of Mr. liquors, asJg Btngltsli and French treaties statement will show that this epidemic was
Titcomb, of the very best quality. It is now will allow; 1 Ye hope to sec the day when not confined to the Sandwich Islands. Capt.
for sale in Honolulu, by Mr. Reynolds. It England and France will cooperate with the Klinkofstrom, connected with the Russian
is surely to be regretted that an inferior ar- rulers of this Kingdom to entirely prohibit Fur Company, thus writes us from San
ticle from a foreign country should be im- the importation of intoxicating liquors.— Francisco:—"During the last summer we
ported in such quantities as to overstock the What an inestimable blessing would thereby had, throughout all our colonies, the meaand great numbers of the inhabitants
market, and thus check the growth of coffee be conferred upon the seamen of England, sles, taken
were
off. Some of our Islands in the
France and the United States.
upon the islands.
Alsaitian chain lost most of their population.
Hawaiian Syrup.—We have recently had The effects of trafficing in Spiritu- In Sitka, among a population of 600 souls,
an opportunity to test the good quality of ous Liquors.—Those engaged in the sale we had in one month nearly 80 deaths, if not
some most excellent Syrup, made for family and manufacture of intoxicating liquors, and more. Nearly all, except Europeans, were
use, by Judge Parsons, at Lahaina. It is such as sympathize with them, are extreme- sick, so that all the town was in sorrow,
superior to anything of the kind that has ly sensitive when the point is urged that they fear and dread."
been in the market since the Chinamen ceas- are upholding an iniquitous and dishonest bued the manufacture of the clarified syrup.— siness. This is natural and what is to be
It is with great regret we are called upon
We hope the manufacture of good Syrup expected. Before their minds we would hold to announce the death ofCapt. Lindsay, late a
will find ample encouragement. Such syr- up the mirror of the past. What does that resident of these islands, who sailed from hence
up as that manufactured now at Lahaina, reflect? As we gaze upon that mirror, we in the British schooner Amelia.' His decease
would undoubtedly command a very high see reflected this truth, wealth acquired by took place at Whampoa on the 33d of June last,
und was caused by inflamation of the brain inprice on the coast.
traffic in spirituous liquors has proved a curse duced by exposure after bis undergoing an operA novel Novel.—There has been repub- to those who acquired it, or to their children ation for the removal of a tumor from his forelished in Germany, an exact copy of a Jap- and friend*. This result follows on the prin- head. Capt. Lindsey leaves a widow, a native
anese novel, by a Mr. Schwartz,
ciple that God ordinarily punishes men in of Hawaii.—[Polynesian,
THE FRIEND.
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THE FRIEND, MAY, 1849.
Hawaiian Bible Society.
Treasurer's
ofbarque " Hermes,"
from
Extract from the l»g-oook
Report.
HAWAIIAN BIBLE SOCIETY IN ACCOUNTWITH
Hong Kong toCapt. R. B. Corkhill,
Honolulu, April 26, 1840.
A. 8. COOKK, TREAS.
wards the Sandwich Islands.
i:
Dear Sir: A meeting of the Executive 1848.
i
Monday, 13th March, 1849.
Committee of the Hawaiian Bible Society Aug. 21. By Mr. W. Goodale, to constitute Mrs. L O.
Thurston a Life Member,
S10 00 Lat. 35, 56 N. long. 136, 49 E. moderate and
was held, on the 20th inst, at the house oi it u it 3i r tnKKlali-, to constituto Miss Mary
fine weather, E. N. E., Koomsang Island, Loo
Howe Thurston a Life Member, No 60,
10 00
the Treasurer, when the following vote was
Choo group N. 1-3 E., 11 or 13 miles distant,
Nov 80,
J
1'arls,
to constitute Miss Mary A
Itev D
passed : That the Secretary, pro tern, be a
I'arls a Life Member, No 66,
10 00 fresh, E. by S., stood to the N. N. E. intending
committee to prepare an account of what has i. i. ii iiev j rj i.arh t0 COI tltute Mi88 Anna M
to pass between the great Loo Choo and Koom10 00
already been collected for the Society, with 1849. I'arls a Life Member, No 67,
sang.
what may be collected at the Seamen's Cha- Feb 22. JoelTurrill, Esq, to constituteMast. FredAt fifteen minutes past 3 o'clock r. m., saw a
ship
the
and
that
the
erick
Life
on shore on the N. K. end of Koomisary
Member,
Tin
iill
Sabbath,
on
same
s
No
10
00
coming
68,
pel
A relative in U S, to constituteMiss Mary
island on low point of sand and reef, fully five
be published in the next number of the
H Turrill a Life Member, No 68,
10 00
miles to the N. E. from the island. The ship
Friend —also cause to be re-published, with
A Friend, to constitute Mrs llcbecou
24,
shore lying about halfway out on the point.
Johnstone
Life
00
ion
No70,
a
10
Member,
corrections, the list of the Life Members."
Apr. 16,
At
by Kev 8 C Damon, for BiMonies
ree'd
3.45 tacked to the southward. Ordered the
An excellent sermon in behalf of the II B.
bles In various languages,
01 62 quarter boat down and sent the 2nd officer with
S. was preached at the Seamen's Chapel, « n i' Monies ree'd by Rev 8 C Damon, as subfour hands te endeavour to see what ship it was
scriptions,
ID 00
Lord's day morning, 22d inst., by the Rev.
on shore. While the ship was hove to, the
21,
Friends, to conatitute Mrs Mary J ChamJ. S. Green, from Acts 17: 11, 12. "Noberlain a Life Member,No 71,
10 00 nearest part of the reef 3-4 of a mile distant, the
23,
I.nrrin Andrews, Jr, to constitute himself
ble Beresns." The preacher set forth the
ship on shore bore N. N. W. 1-2 W., a low rock
a Life Member, No 72.
10 00
off the S. E. point of Koomsang W. by S. 1-4 S.
value of the Scriptures in the formation of
MrsLaura Judd's children, to constitute
herself a Life Member, No 78,
10 00 the point of the low land and reef, E. N. E.—
character, and the evils of light, novel readMr Edwufd Bailey's family, to constitute
The S. W. of Amakirrima island of the Loo
ing, alias yellow covered literature," and
himself* Life Membor, No 74,
10 00 Choos S. E. by E. 1-4 E. Took a cast of the
Mr 8 N Castle, to constitute Mrs MA Casadmonished his hearers, especially the chilp. m., the boat
tle a Life Member, No 76,
10 00 lead in ML, hard sand. At 6.10
dren and youth, to study the Bible. After
Wm C Luualilo and others, to constitute
board and tho 2nd officer informed
Miss Victoria Kamamalu a Life Member,
the sermon a collection was taken up. This,
us the name on the ship's stern was Elizabeth
10 00
*ith the amount received from the new Life it ii u No 76g
and
Henry," of London, lying inside a small reef,
ncr Armstrong, to constitute Mrs C C
Members, and annual subscribers, and for
Armstrong a Lite Member, No 77,
10 Oo starboard side to the shore, about midway beRev. D T Condo, to constitute Mrs A L
tween the reef and sand, distant from either
Bibles sold, will amount to about $400.
Coude a Life Member, No 78,
10 00 about 3 cables lengths. The lower masts and
ore
The expenses
nearly $50, leaving $350 ii ii u nev E Whittlesey, to constitute Mrs E K
rigging,
Whittlesey a Lift Member, No 79,
10 00 bowsprit gone, also anchors, cables,
in the Treasurer's hands, ready to be for- ii
ii
it
[;,.,. j g Emerson's family, to constitute
sails, brass and iron work, glass of sky-light,
warded to tbe parent Society for a new suphimself a Life member, No 80,
10 00 deck-lights, and in fact every thing that could be
it n n
}{ev 8 C Damon, to constitute Mrs J M
ply ofBibles and Testaments.
removed had been taken away. No one on
Damon a Life Member, No 81,
10 00
By the Serampore, which arrived in Januboard or
from the ship on shore; supDr R W Wood, to constitute Mm C A
ary last, a large and beautiful assortment of >
Hooper a Life Member, No 82,
10 00 posed the
have been stranded about a
Rev D Baldwin, to constitute himself a
24,
Bibles and Testaments, in various languages,
month—part of the copper stripped off round the
Life Member, No 83,
10 00
was received in return for the $500 sent to
JoelTurrill, Esq, U 8 Consul, to constitute
ship. Rudder sawn in two below the rudder
10 00 trunk. A small pair of shears rigged as if to
Wm Turrill a Life Member, No 84,
the parent Society, about a year since.
Membersof Royal School, to constitute
unship the rudder.
This Society (H. B. S.) has been in oper10 00
J M Cooke a Lite Membor. No 86,
From a few receipts found on board in the
members of Royal School to constitute W
ation, now, eight years, and has collected,
cabin,
Goodale a Life Member, No 86,
dated "Auckland, New Zealand, Ist Dec.
10
00
from year to year, a sufficient sum to pur«1; J ll
Annual Subecri|.tions of
find the Captain's name was W. J. S."
1848,"
chase a full supply ofBibles and Testaments
I'arls 1; D B Lyman 1; I
It appeared that the natives or other
Clark.
1,60; J 8 (.rem 1; J F rogoWR: B Anin the English, French, Spanish, German,
people had been stripping the ship, as but little
drews 1; Mrs Dole 1; Dr ft Mrs Wetmorc
Portuguese, Welsh, Swedish, Danish and
was left on board except a few water butts tbnt
2; Mr & Mrs Rice2; A B Bates 2; Mr & Mrs
Johnson 2; Mrs Rowcll & Daughter 1,26;
Dutch languages, for seamen and landsmen.
were floating about in the hold. We supposed
1. 0 Hall 1; J Fuller 1; C R Bishop 2; J
the
crew would be all saved when the Ship went
The amount collected from year to year,
E Wilcox 1; J H I-aty 1; J G Lewis 2; 29 76
on shore. They might now be on the island, or
is as follows, viz:—
Collection at Seamen's Chapul, Lord's
37 26 more probably have gone away in the boats to
Day, 22d Inst.,
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From June, 1841, to June, 1842, $108 50
1843, 44 00
1844, 62 00
18t5, 292 BB
" 1846, 482 46
1848, 584 82
May, 1849, 407 93
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Hitchcock
6p. m., hoisted up
«407 82 Loo Choo, or elsewhere. At
boat and made sail to southward. Strong breeze
1849.
DR.
Apr. 16, For raouoy paid by Itev 8 C Damon, ts
ami cloudy, E. S. E.
follows:—postage »1.60; labels W;
The reef on which the "Elizabeth and Henry"
freight per Matilda «8; freight per
was
wrecked is not laid down on Laurie's chart,
Sera mpore 19,62; do to Oregon 4JJ0—39 62
1847, or on Nome's, 1836,
For printing 200 "Original Hymn," by
Miss F M Caulkin,
4 00-43 62
crsw of the "E. &.H."
Making from 1842 to 1849,
$1982 38
Mem.—Should the
Ten dollars, paid at any one time, constiBalance due tha Society,
»36 'M have proceeded to Loo Choo, they will most
E & O. K.
tutes a Life Member. Eighty-five individuprobably meet with kind and hospitable treat,
AMOS 8. COOKE, Tress.
als, by paying this sum, or by having it paid
metit. When the Royal Oak" was wrecked
April
.Honolulu,
26,1849.
for them, have been made Life Members.
there five or six years hack, the crew was proF.xatuined
and
found
to
be
correct
life
The first sixty-three were constituted
8.
CASTLE.
vided with lodging and provisions and every asN.
members previous to June, 1848. For the
Auditor of J/*w. Bib. Society.
sistance rendered them in saving what were poslast twenty-two, see the Treasurer's Report,
sible from the wreck. The authorities also built
which
is sent herefor the last eleven months,
"The U. S. S. Preble is about to proceed to them n junk in which the ultimately reached
with.
Japan to bring away the crew of the American Cbusan in safety. Altho' offered remuneration
Yours truly,
A. S. COOKE, Sec. protem. whaler Lagoda, recently wrecked on the coast." it was constantly and firmly refused.—[Polyne—[China Mail.
sian.
Rev. S. C Damon.
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38
Tale or a Tub.—The following droll stoA Duel Avoided.—A famous duellist
ry appears in the St. Joseph Times:
challenged an Irish barrister for some remark
On the passage of the ship Alexandria from made by the barrister while the duellist was
Anecdote of Swearing.—An anecdote of New Orleans to New York, a young lad, of
this description, which we read a few days about fourteen, from a naturally frolicksome giving his testimony on the stand in some imago, reminded us of one we have never seen disposition, became so troublesome that he portant case. The barrister knew precisely
in print, but which We have for a long time was threatened by the captain that he would as much about fighting as a fancy boxer
stored among our recollections of the late confine him in a water cask. Our youngster knows about Milton's "Paradise Lost." His
Rev. Joseph Grafton, of Newton. We know took no heed, and, at his next offence, was friends told him, however, that there was no
nothing of the truth of the story, and yet so put into the cask, which was headed up,
perfectly characteristic is it, that we have al- leaving a large bunghole for the admission of way to avoid the scrape, and it was certainways regarded it as the relation of a verita- air. The ship encountered a violent storm, ly expected of him either to light or apoloble incident. Father Grafton stood high in and, in a violent lurch, the cask containing gize. This settled the point; for the proud
the public estimation, and was often present the boy rolled into the sea. The circum- little Hibernian, though he would rather eat
with other clergymen on great occasions.— stance was not noticed by those on board.— than fight, still infinitely preferred being shot
At one time he was dining with the Governor Fortunately, the cask struck bung up, and to making an apology. So the two duellists,
and Council, the Mayor and Aldermen, or floated about thirty hours, when it was thrown with their seconds, etc., were soon upon the
some other body of magnates, in Boston, and upon the beach of Cape St. Bias Here the battle ground. The challenger was notoriwas excessively annoyed as well as shocked boy made efforts to extricate himselffrom his ous as a great pistol shot, and had fought
by the profanity of a young man who sat prison, without success, and, in despair gave some half dozen duels before, in one of which
nearly opposite to hitn at table. Having en- up to die. Some cows strolling on the beach he was so badly wounded as to be left a cripdures the odious vice as long as his patience were attracted to the cask, and one of the ple for life.
would allow, the old gentleman arose and number, it being fly-time, switched her tale When other preliminaries were arranged,
cxclaimnd,
Mr. President," in the sharp, into the bung-hole, which the boy grasped he requested, through his second, one favor
energetic tone, which all who knew him will with desperate resolution. The cow bellow- from his adversary, which was permission to
recollect. The President struck his knife ed, and set off for life; and, after running stand up against a mile stone, that was on
handle upon the table to command attention, some three hundred yards with the cask, the chosen ground. He sought no advanand replied, " The Rev. Mr. Grafton." Si- struck it against a log on the beach, and tage, but wished to lean upon the stone, belence prevailed, and the old gentleman very knocked it to.pieces. The boy, thus provi- ing too lame to stand without support. His
that dentially released, was discovered by some request was at once granted, and just as the
cooly proceeded—"l move
there be no swearing done at this table ex- fishermen on the Point, and taken into Api- word was about to be given, the lawyer issucepting by my friend the Rev. Dr. Homer." lachicola, where a small collection being ed his mandate to stay proceedings, as ho
The motion prevailed by acclamation, and made for him, he was enabled to proceed had also a request to make.
the remedy was as thoroughly effectual as north by the way of Columbus.
In the gravest manner in the world he sothe mortification of the young swearer was
licited permission to lean against the next mile
Nantucket Sheep.—Even in Nantucket stone, and the joke was so good thatthe chal
complete.—[N. Y. Rec.
people have their troubles. At present there lenger took his revenge out in a hearty roar
is a
and anti-sheep party; tho anti- of laughter, withdrawing his deadly defiance,
The Rich Man and the Day Laborer.— sheepsheep
party being much the largest. There and declaring that he could never shoot a
A merchant who is as avaricious as opulent, are
about
thousand sheep on the Isl- man of such excellent humor.
recently excited some public attention at and; someseven
flocks are owned by men
large
London. He had obtained at the cheapest
possible rate, a poor day-labonflkto do some who do not own a rod of land. The sheep
"Put your finger in de, vat you call
work in his house. This unfortunate man, run at large on the Island and eat up every him, dc blacksmith's vice," said the foreigngreen thing. The people of the Island are er,
"and turn him till you can bear him no
fatigued with work, represented to the mer- noted
for their love of blackberries; it is eschants wife, that with so low wages he could
Dat isde rheumatiz. Den give him
longer.
off
the
not purchase a glass of beer to quench his timated that ten thousand dollarsgoes
another
turn.
Dat is dc gout." But taxa.
thirst. The compassionate woman gave him Island every year to purchase this delicious tion in this country has long since passed the
fruit.
It
is
much
force
contended,
and
with
a tankard of ale, but the husband learned
gout point of intolerable, and verged upon
this circumstance on his return, and whenhe that if the sheep were away the people could the impossible. To pay taxes is the grand
raise
their
and
the
blackberries,
own
hence
settled with his laborer, retained the value
to be the only obis now before our feature, and would seem
of the drink. The poor man exclaimed difficulty.
of
life.
tax. tax.
Tax,
ject,
English
couruH pither people who keep sheep
against it, and raised so great an uproar that State
have
let
them
run
at
any
rigntto
large
upon
the police took him to prison. The next day
George III. was
when he was called before the Judge, he ex- the land which is the common property of School of Manners.-As
the
whole
that
the
of
one of his men
people.
walking
Hence,
see
we
quarter-deck
you
plained the affair, was discharged upon the have here a
real, bona-fide 'free soil" ques- of war with his hat on, a sailor asked his
paymenfof two shillings; but the merchant tion.
messmate who that fellow, was who didn't
had another account to render to justice.—
to the admiral?
He was condemned to pay fifty pounds ster. Doing the Barber.—An Eastern-shore dowse his peak
it's the King."
ling aa a fine for having sold beer without a man stepped into a barber's shop in our city, "Why,
license, and the poor laborer, as the inform- on Saturday, says the Baltimore Argus, and "Well, king or no king," retorts the other of the offence, received the third of the requested the barber to take off 12$ cents er, "he's an unmannerly dog."
"Where should he learn manners?" resum.
worth of his hair. The barber trimmed his plied Jack, "he ncvcr-was out of sight ofland
locks very neatly, and then combed and in his life."
Gen. Lafayette.—During the Revolu- brushed them in the most particular style.
tionary war, Gen. Lafayette being in Balti" Are you done?" asked the Eastern-shore
SYLLOGISM.
more, was invited to a ball. He went, as man, as the barber removed the napkin from
A sailor is not a sailor when he's aboard,
his
neck.
requested, but instead of joining in the amuseAnd a sailor is not sailor when he is ashore;
ment, as might be expected of a young " Yes sir," returned the man of the razor
I!nt lie must be either ashore oa aboard
Frenchman of twenty-two, he addressed the with a bow.
Therefore a sailor is not a sailor.—[Ex.
ladies thus: "Ladies, you are very handAre you certain that you took off eleven
Why is a sailor not a sailor when he Is orerboard.—[P.
some; you dance very prettily; your ball is pence worth?"
Journal.
very fine; but my soldiers have no shirts." " Yes t)ir," returned the barber, " there's
BECAUSE
The appeal was irresistable; the ball ceas- the glass—you can see for yourself."
the tarn-ail, he Is a-etern.
If he fell
ed; the sadies went home and went to work,
Well," said the Eastern-shore man, "if If from a from
Jib-boom,he isa-bead,
and the next day a large number of shirts you think that you have got eleven pence
If from the bulwarks, be is a-long-»ide,
were presented by the fairest hands of Balti worth off, I don't know as I have got any use
Therefore a sailor overboard k not sailor.
more, for the gallant defenders of their coun- for it, and I haven't got no change, so you When is a sailor a silLOa ? Do yon girt it op'
trymay just keep the hair for your trouble!"
When be is no so'eaa
Cabin Boy's Locker.
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THE FRIEND, MAY, 1849.
|C7»The following
Original Hymn, com-
Sabbath Friend.
enjoyment of "such a Sabbath, he feela how
blessed, above all other days, is the one
young lady, of New London, Ct.,
which the Lord hath made.—Bibliotheca SaA New England Sabbath.—A corres- cra.
was sung by the choir at the Seamen's Bethel, on Sunday, the 22d ult., on which oc- pondent of the Rochester Democrat, writing
Working on the Sabbath.—There are a
Mass., says :
casion the Rev. Mr. Green preached a ser-ifrom Springfield,
New England Sabbath is something great many people who profess to keep the
"A
mon for the benefit of the Hawaiian Bible! which can only be seen in New England. It Sabbath according to the fourth commandis not an article of exportation. There is a ment, but who, somehow or other, always
Society.
quiet, settled calm about it—a stillness which find a multitude of 'works of necessity' to be
AN ORIGINAL HYMN.
can almost be felt—unused to any other at- attended to. We have seen a capital anecmosphere. I arose yesterday morning op- dote, lately, about a family of such people,
BY MISS F. M. CAULKINS, NEW LONDON, CT.
pressed by the solemn serenity which seem- who were pretty severely rebuked by a coled to pervade every object around me. In ored man in their employ. Tha family were
tins busy town, at eight o'clock, not a sound farmers. One Sabbath morning the colored
could
be heard. Silence pervaded its streets man was not up, as usual, at breakfast.—
What sjght breaks on a darkened world,
and I could scarcely make myself believe The son was sent to call him, but Caesar said
From these resplendent leaves unfurl'd!
that I was in the midst of a population often they need not wait for him, as he did not
The opening eyelids of the morn,
or twelve thousand souls. The green fields wish for any breakfast.
Shed no such beams on hill or lawn.
—the mountains—the forests—stretching out Why, Caesar, said the young man, we
in every direction, far as the eye could reach shall want you as soon as the dew is off, to
—seemed praising God, in their calm beau- help about the hay.
An angel bending from the skies,
ty, and the huge elms of an hundred years, No, said he, I can't work any more on the
Heralds the volume as it flies;
lilted up their long arms towards heaven and Sabbath; it is not right.
Happy the nation that receives,
looked devout a9 the ancient patriarchs.— Not right! said the other. Is it not our
With outstretch'd hands.the dropping leaves. The very buildings—many of them associa- duty to take care of what Providence has gited with stirring events in the past—became ven us? And would you not pull your cow
Thrice happy each life-quickened heart,
sanctified monitors, as they said to the con- or sheep out of a pit, upon the Sabbath, CssThat trusts to this unerring chart
templative mind, 'This is the land of the Pil- sar?
if I had been trying all the week
grims—Remember the Sabbatn day to keep
'Tis hope to age, and strength to youth,
it holy.' Whoever remembers his first Sab- to shoWthem in. I would let them lie there.'
To darkness, light; to wanderers, truth.
bath in a New England town, will be able to
Day.—The
understand what I have written, for he must Remember the Sabbath
'Tis gentle rain, 'tis sparkling dew,
have felt what I have attempted to describe. Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, during
The mind to cleanse, refine, renew :
There is no ingress or egress here on the his tour around Scotland, visited the Islands
'Tis lightning fierce, and thunder deep,
Sabbath. All public conveyances lay by.— of Staffa lona, in the Hebrides. He arrived
Formerly a car passed over the road to Bos- at the latter on Sunday.
To startle conscience from its sleep.
ton and back with the mail. This has been The stern old keeper of the Cathedral
keys refused to unlock the gate and admit
discontinued.
A shaft from this full quiver sent,
Yankee
one
is
always the party to see the tombstones, for that
villages
In these
In twain hath many a bosom rent;
delighted with their magnificent shade trees. would in his opinion have been desecrating
A drop ofbalm from this rich store,
They constitute the principal beauty of al- the Sabbath. In vain did Captain Robinson
most every place you visit—of this place pre- ask imploringly, whether he was aware who
Hath healed the broken heart once more.
eminently. Nearly every street here is sha- the illustrious stranger was, whom he refusto
age,
and
zeal
from
ded by magnificent elm, sycamore or maple ed to gratify. Donald 'dinna exactly ken.'
age
Learning
He supposed 'from what folk said, it was onHave worshipped, loved, explored the page; trees."
ly the Emperor of Russia. But he wad nae
Martyrs in its defence have died,
England, Scotland and America en- gie up the key to his own Queen on the
Or torments worse than death defied.
joy a Christian Sabbath. To them it is Lord's day. There was a power aboon suwhat God originally designed it should be in perior to any earthly power, and he could
Like angels round a dying bed,
and of mer- nae gie up the key.' Chr. Watchman.
all the earth, —a day of
the reIts truths a heavenly radiance shed;
cy to man. But how
nations An Example.—A vessel containing upthat
the
they
only,
flection
celestial
wings,
And hovering on
of Christendom, enjoy a Christian Sabbath. wards of one hundred and fifty Hollanders,
Breathe music from unnumbered strings.
It is truly sad to witness the desecration of lay all of Sabbath day at one of our wharves'
the Sabbath even in Protestant Europe.— rather than violate, by travelling, that law
O now thou Word, divinely fair,
But a son of the Pilgrims, who loves this which secures its sanctity as well in the New
Take wings and wide thy message bear ;
day of the Lord, wearied with the perpetual as in the Old World. They held public serPeace to all climes, —heart-peace be given, hurrying to and fro of the multitude in that vice upon the deck of their vessel in the
strange land ; saddened at the sight of the morning, a sermon being delivered by a minAnd light to guide the soul to heaven !
gay throngs that crowd every place of amuse- ister of their own number. Their hymne,
ment, in pursuit of every conceivable form sung in their own tongue, seemed indeed to
We are assured that M. Pageot, the late of merriment and of
guilty pleasure ; sick- be hymns of praise, swelling forth from
French Minister Plenipotentiary to the United ened at the sound ofrevelry and noisy mirth hearts that rejoiced to breath this the land of
States, has left that country for England, to of- mingling with the notes of martial music, freedom and their adoption. They are desfer Louis Philippe a part of his princely for- the bustle of the military parade, and the tined to the colony m the Grand River Valto the attention of
tune, and induce him to establish himself and din of business ; to such an alien from the ley, which was brought
the
past winter. We
during
to
land
of
the
it
is
most
our
legislature
Pilgrims,
refreshing
his family in America. This is most admirable
and a speedy paswinds
favorable
more,
once
of
sacred
rest
wish
them
in
a day
in M. Pageot, and Ahe more so as it is most rare. enjoy,
or in that fair and happy sage to their new home in our Western Valhis
native
land,
Joural dv Havre.
island from which his fathers came. Even ley, and trust that thousands more will speein busy London, that vast metropolis of the dily follow them.—Del. Adv.
We cannot help remarking on the very world, the sacred suspension of secular
quiet and good natured way in which the crew of business, the deep repose of that tumultuous A Child with Twenty Names.—The Maoflicially announcerthe birth ofthe
the Russian Brig Baykull have behaved them- city, as the Sabbath returns, the stillness of drid Gazette
Montpensier's child, and that she
dc
Duchess
selves on every occasion when they have been the hallowed day, its sacred associations, its has been baptised Maria Isabel Francises dc Asis
on shore. If all sailors followed their example solemn rites and divine instructions enforced Antonia Luiza Fernanda Cristina Amelia Fehp*
the police fores might be reduced to one-half of by the solemnities of the sanctuary—these Adelaida Josefa Elena Enriquita Carolina Just*
*
are all a cordial to his thirsty spirit. In the Rutins Gsspara Melcbora Baltasar* Nates.
its present strength.—[Polynesian,
posed by
a
THE BIBLE.
:
—
—
•
THE FRIEND, MAY, 1849.
40
,
Hon on, IS mos. 700 sperm; reTo Seamen and Steikciii— The Seamen's Chapel
wotfurnished by the Contain ef Snip Rambler of Naaluckst.
ported a skip la slftil lo be the Wa. Wirt, of New Bedford, is open forPublic Worship every Sabbath, at 11 o'clock,
unknown.
the Hermes, to the editor of the Polynesian. Humility
a. m tod ?4, r. ■. Seath mi.
The Alexsndsr spoke ship Coral on the line, 28 mos. out,
The following
Religious services will be held at the Vestry Room
"March 29, 1840. 2700 sperm; hid taken 1000 obis in about 8 days.
Thursday evening. Usually, there will be a LecLat. 31, 58 N. long. 138, 28 E. Steered N. Flora spoken In Feb. oil"Chile, bound home from Cslifornls, every
ture delivered.
E. by E. 1-2 E. till 8 P. M., distance run since 800 wbsle. All well.
The Seamen's Concert for Prayer is held at the Vestry
noon, 66 miles. At that hour the centra of a
Room the third Monday evening each month.
PORT OF LAHAINA.
Seamen belonging to vessels (of all nations) visiting
smalUisland bore south five miles whirl) would
port are invited to call at the Chaplain's Study,
this
place it in latitude 32,24 N. longtitude 139,86 E.
where
supplied with copies of
Arrived.
they will be gratuitously
Not laid down in Laurie's or Nome's charts.—
reading matter. It will be most
14. Ship Majestic, Hall, New Bedford, 5 months out, the Friend and other
From 8 P. M., steered E. by N. 1-2 N., kept a 40April
Chaplain
the
to
receive
calls from Seamen
convenient for
sperm.
goed look out for South Island and must have 16. Orosimbo, Barium, New Bedford, 4 months out. Mean between 2 and 4 o'clock, J. m.
Public services at the Native Churches, on theSahbath,
Adams, New Bedford, 5 months out, 130 sperm.
passed close to the place assigned it on the chart —America, Cole.
New Bedford, 3 months out, 60 sperm.
commence at 9l, a. h., and 2j p. m.
but saw nothing of it, sod doubt very much if it —Towner,
—vy. U. Nye, Rose, New London, 9 months out, SIM sperm. The Seamen's Reading Room is open at all hours of
is in that position.
17. Massachusetts, Chase, New Bedford. 8 months out. 90 the day. Strangers arriving and having late foreign paFound the chronometers very correct by ob- sperm.
pers, are respectfully invited to aid in keeping said room
supplied with useful reading matter.
servations taken in Honolulu harbor, April 26th
Donations are respectfully solicited for tb> support
1849."
A Card.
the
of
Chaplaincy, and the publication of 'Trw Friend'.
An annual report ol all donaliona ia made to the AmeriTo the Editor of the Friend:
can
Friend Society, New York. Any person
Seamen's
Donations.
Dear Sib—It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge contributing the sum of t50 isinentitled to become a Life
through your paper, a donation of one hundred dollars, re- Director of the Society, and by 820 to become an Honotor Chaplaincy.
rary Life Member.
Man),
Adams,
B.
*5 00 ceived from foreign residents inLabaina,and fromofficeis
Mr.
SAMUEL C DAMON,
sum
has
apstopping
port
and
seamen
at
this
This
been
AFrlsnd,
S 90
Honolulu, April I.—if.
Seamen's Chaplain.
a
to
purchasing
Serapropriated, according
promise, in
For the FrUnd.
Information
for
Whalemen.
phina for the Chapel in this place.
JanesNichols
$ 1 00
The subscriber would respectfully give the following
T. E. TAYLOR,
6 00
notice for the information of whalethipa, cruising in the
Rev. Mr. Coan,
Seamen's
Lahaina.
Chaplain,
•»••_..-.
Pacific. Recruits can be obtained at Pitcairn's Island,
ii
6 00
for at least twenty-five ships, at about the following
Mr. Haloey, ....,M Extruct from the RecordM ofthe General Meeting of the prices:—
Capt. KHokofttrnm,
16 00
Santlvich Jtlnnds Motion:
Yams, per barrel,
»2,no
Sweet Potatoes
2,00
April 24, 1849.
3,00
Irish
DIED.
Voted, at the request of the Rev. Mr. Taylor, the Sea- Onions
3,00
Oa beard Am. wkaleshlo "Alesander," off Rio Jajsarlo, Nor. imen's Chaplain at Lahaina, we relinquish the room beLimes
2,00
93, 1848, Capt. Josßph Black, belou|la| lo MiddlohvssjfMsss. longing to the mission, under the Seamen's Chapel, toge- Lime Juice, per fal,
33
Aloe, onboard Ik*same vessel, Nov. 95, Wm.Maynehl, carCocoa
Nuts,
hundred,
per
2,00
penter, belonging to New Hampshire. They died of a tevsr ither with a strip of land around the Chapel, 14 feet wide,
Oranges,
1,00
caught at Cape rte Verde Islands, it being very sickly when the
for the use of the Chaplaincy, so long as that building Fowls, per doz.,
3,00
vessel touched there.
inhabitants
are
exchange,
ordinarily
ready
an
the
to
Evangelical Protestant plaee of worship. In
At vTaloli, Kauai, Feb 6, Frank, Infant and twin son of shall continue
take while and blue drilling, at from 20 10 25 c per yard;
Ssv E fc Mrs L S Johnson, aged 6 monthsand 1 day.
True Copy.
and calicoes from 15 to 20c per yard. They are usually
SAMUEL G. DWIGHT.
in want of soap, oil, check shirts, powder, percussion
Ass't Scribe. caps, old lead, carpenter's toola, (fee.
The best season for furnishing yams, is from August to
January; Sweet Potatoes, throughout the year; Irish PoTo Seamen.
tatoes, from December to February, and July to SeptemPORT OF HONOLULU.
The subscriber, a practical seamen and shipmaster,has ber, (two s.asons).
JOHN BUFFETT.
entered upon the duties of a Marine Missionary at large, Honolulu, Feb. 23, 1849.
if
in tbe port of Boston, under the patronage and support of
Arrived.
ithe benevolent, and offers his services to seamen, free of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation,
March Sl--Bhip Hellespont, Manwarlng, of Mysllc,s 7 mo icharge.
in 4 vols.
out, 96 brio. op.
The Office of the mission is at No. 8, Long Wharf,
—Ship Alexander, J. Byon, of New Bedford, 11 mos out, where the scriptures and religious trscts may be had in A few copies of this interesting work, elegantly bound
are
for
sale
at
cloth,
in
sp,
brls
oil.
Joa.
the Study of the Seamen's ChapBlack,
416
late master, died at ses all the languages of Europe, and where ship owners and
Capt.
lain.
on the 21st at Nov. lost.
on
ship
application,
may
obtain
miscellaneous
masters,
7—Ship
Hope,
Christian,
Bedford,
April
New
18 runs out,
This edition is prefaced with the following notice by
Looks, pamphlets, and files of papers for the use of their the author:—
300 sp.
10—Ship Luminary, Norton, Wsrren, 6 mos. out, 30 brls crews, free of expense, and also select Ships'Libraries,
"I have revised this.translation line by line,and word
sp oil.
by paying for them.
by word. It is the only one which I have corrected.
Bag Harbor, 6 mos out, 95 sp.
following are among the duties assumed by the
—Bark Columbia, Sweeny,
The
Signed,
J. H. Merle DAubione."
6 mos. 100.
missionary. He will hold religious or temperance meet—Bark Cavalier, Dexter, Rtonlngton,
March 84—Danish brlgantine Emmy, Oebhanl, from Honr ings on ship-board when invited, either on the Sabbath or
Koag.
of
History
the
Hawaiian
Islands:
at other timet; visit sick or disabled seamen on shore or
37—English brlgsntine Dispatch, Plant, from Sydney.
Embracing their Antiquities, Mythology, Legends,
**—Hamburg brtfantine Chorions. Decker, fin Valparaiso. on board their vcsaaMhod seek to promote their tempor- Discovery by
Eurnpeana in the sixteenth century, re-dis—Am. whale shlpTuscsrora, Leek, Coldsprlng.
ial and spiritual vafBj Book after the pecuniary interests
April 9—Haw octir Starling, Mensles, 28 days from Colum- iof seamen who digHPyMrom home, and correspond with covery by Cook, Willi their Civil, Religious and Political
from
History
River.
the
and
the earliest traditionory period to the presUndine,
bla
Reports In
river ship
bark Anita, itheir friends. To shipwrecked Mariners he will afford
for San Francisco
every assistance in his power, and also to auch seamen ent lime. By JAMES JACKSON JARVES. Third
ship
Splendid,
Cold
Spring, clean
3—Am whsle
Pearson,
to send money to distant friends, or to rie- edition. For sale at Chaplain'a Study. Price, »1,00.
April B—Russian Am, Co's hark Prince Meiiiikon", Rsuda- a* may deaire
posite it in the Seamen's Savings Bank fur salekeeping
cofT, 19 days from Baa Francisco.
Bible* t Bible* 11
9—Steam Propeller Massachusetts, Wood, from New York iagainst a rainy day.
Ia abort, he will aim to promote the great ends of movia Rio se Janeiroand Valparaiso.
the study of the seamen's Chaplain a supply of
At
—Eng. schr. Ellas, Chard. 78 days from Hobart Town.
irality, temperance, religion, and enlarged benevulence, Billies and Testaments ia constantly on hand and for
12—Russian man of war brig Baikal Nievlelskoy, 54 days among those who go dowu to the sea in ships, that da sale.
At present the assortment comprises thoae in th*
from Valparaiso.
English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese,
April 14—Chilean Brlgantlae Lois, Schroedor, from Valpar- business in great waters."
religious
temperSeamen
want
of
the
Bible,
books,
in
Dutch and Welsh languages.
aiso vlaTablts.
ance and other publications, counsel or advice, are invited
a late arrival, some elegantly bound Family
April 14— British schr. Louies, Milton, from Sydney.
April 18—Hawaiian brig Mocieiums, Pfannkuche, 78 days to call at the office of the mission, No. 8 Long Wharf, ops r...-e been, received from the depository of the
Haag
Kong.
Custom
|posite the
from
House.
merican Bible Society, New York. Prices from II to »7A
THOMAS V. SULLIVAN,
April 19—British sell. Osprey, Origgs, S6 days frsrn Port
WalHngtou, New Zelaod.
missy at large in the port of Boston.
Marine
April at. Fr. brig Anonyme, Rshballard, 35 days from Ta. September 1, 1848.
The Friend tent Abroad.
hit!
Any person, by paying the subscription price of the
—Br. bark Lindsays, McKeatie, 90 days from Sydney, N. &
Information
"Wanted.
Friend, (11,60) in advance, can have the paper forwarded
W. for Bas Francisco; put In to stop a leak.
Respecting a young man who shipped in 1845 on board to any part of England or the Uuited Slates, by the earM. Br. brig Velocity, Dixon, 46 days from Valparaiso, with the
Am whaleship Nile, Capt Case,New York, his name liest opportunity.
tf
British Naval Stores.
Theodore Belden, age from 16 to 16 years. By a letter
OUTSIDK—Br. bark Hermes, Corkhlll, 64 days from Hong received from Capt. Case by one of her owners at
Kong for Saa Fraadhoo.
Greenport, dated Sandwich Islands, March 16,1847. alaling that he had left Belden under the charge of the Am.
Sailed.
Monthly Journal devoted toTempera nee,
Any Con- A
April 10—Raw sear Plymouth. Church, for Saa Francisco. Consul, sick, when recovered to be sent home.
Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence.
sul
bad
the
or
having
boy
charge,
auy
nnder
his
other
11—Am schr John Dual**, Bocheliler, San Francisco.
PUBLISHED AMD EDITED BY
person having information respecting him, will confer s
—Chilean brlgaatlae Brls ds Junlo, Hob.on, do.
April 16—Hawaliaa schr. Joaephlne, Brlckwood, for Saa lasting favor upon an anxious mother by communicating SAMUEL C. DAMON, SEAMEN'S CHAPLAIN.
it to H B Haswell, Esq, 86. South Pearl Street, Albauy,
FIBBSISLU.
JTIINI.
April 17—V. 8. Transport Msssachusetu, Wood, for Colum. NY.
Ma river.
One copy per annum,
»l,60
Notice
Lahaina
Aaru 18-Brltlsh schr. Louisa, Miltoa, lor Baa Praaciseo.
to
Subscribers.
Two copies per annum,
2,60
The Rbv. Mb. Ta y lor will now act a* Agent for the Five copies per annum,
6,00
goo
Friend," at Lahaina, and the irregularity which ha* at- Tea copies per aaaum,
SPOKEN,
March 11, off Galllpagoa Islands, spoka ship Massachusetts. tended the forwarding of your papers, it i* hoped, will no CS* Single copies and bound volumes for 1,2,3,4
longer
be
a
a
ndl
he
7
experienced. Mr. T. will employ carrier,
year* may
obtained at the Study of the Chapwho will deliver the paper.
lain.
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HONOLULU, MAY 1, 1849.
Vol. 7.
CONTENTS.
P.IQR.
Poetry,—Foreign Intelligence,
Arrival Extraorduiary—Sea Serpent,
Temperance Frieml,
Editorial Article*.
Hawaiian Bible Society,
< abin Boy's Locker,
Original Hymn—Sabbath Friend,
Marine Intelligence, &c,
The Poet's Corner.
33
34
35
36
THE FRIEND.
33
.
Ukited States.—Thle New York Sun givei
:hc result of the Presideintml election as follows:
..
States for
Late and Important News.
Taylor and Fii.more.
Election of General Taylor, President of the
Electoral votes.
37
Massachusetts.
12
United
States
Louis
President
Napoleon
38
Rhode Island.
4
39
the
France
Death
the
Connecticut.
C
Republic
—
of
of
of
40
6
Pacha of Egypt Flight of the Pope from Vermont.
36
New York.
Rome Gold— Steam, fyc, tyc, fyc.
7
New Jersey.
—
— —
No. 3
..
.. ..
. .
Pennsylvania . . 26
Delaware. ... 3
Maryland. ... 8
Kentucky. ... 12
North Carolitiu. . 11
.13
Tennessee.
Louisiana. . . 6
Georgia. . . .10
Florida. ... 3
States for
BuTLER.
Electoral votes.
9
Maine.
New Hampshire 6
Ohio
23
Indiana.
12
Illinois.
9
5
Michigan.
South Carolina.
9
Missouri.
7
Virginia.
17
4
Iowa
9
Alabama.
Wisconsin
'. 4
3
Arkansas.
Cass ADD
...
...
...
....
...
...
...
. .
...
Mississippi.
.
Texas
By late arrivals, we have received late
and important intelligence from diirerent
For the Frimid.
parts of the world. We would acknowledge
WELCOME
TO
POETESSES OF THE 'LELAND,
THE
A
files of the " Alta California" to March,
MISS M. AND Miss N.
Suggrsted by the perusal of a record of the proceeding!* on "New York Sun" to Dec. 2, and Valpa6
buard the LHaiul," at sea, on the 22il of February, as publish- raiso "Neighbor" to January 27. From
4
ed in the Friend" for April.
these papers, and private sources, we glean
Welcome, thrice welcome, to our sea-girt isle,
1631
13
the following items
Ye minsirels fair, who wake the tuneful lyre;
146.
Necessary
290.
to
a
choice
Here let your sweetest strains the hours beguile,
Total vote,
California.—Arrival of the steamship CalTaylor's Majority, 34.
A ud o'er thesocial waste new life inspire.
ifornia, and her reception at this port. —The On the Popular vote, the total majority for
Fresh from proud Hudson's gorgeous scenes ye stray,
long expected and welcome pioneer of the
Taylor as far as heard from was 141,000.
Andbrs ye the dangers of the mighty deep
North Pacific Steamship Line arrived in our
To find congenial spirits far away
Emigration to California.—ln almost
harbor yesterday morning.
Where Pkle's fires in boding stillness sleep.
city down East, associations are formevery
of
Mazntlan
on
the
17th
February,
She left
to
ing
go to California, but the plan involves
Here, where the goddess once, with wild delight,
and Monterey on Tuesday last. Gen. Persifor
Reveled in dread Xi uuia'i surging Hume ;
F. Smith, new military commanderof the Ter- better prospects of success than it does in
Here, 'midstwild nature 1)* beauties may youwrite,
ritory, and his suite lire among the passengers. this city. A hundred persons of enterprise
On Fame's bright scroll, for each a deathless name.
The California is truly a magnificent vessel advance $300 each, which enables the party
and her fine appearance as she came in sight oft to purchase a substantial vessel, and fit her
A deathlessname? such names already shine
ihc town, called forth cheer upon cheer from our out with cargo and provisions, the ship being
In richest lustre on the world's broar*. page;
enraptured citizens, who were assembled in mas- used, when in
California, as aJiome for her
Land N
M
h! names indeed sublime,
ses upon the heights commanding a view of the
Alikeadored by poet, statesman, sage.
Buy, and in dense crowds at the principal whar- owners. This plan for a smalloutlay promves and landing places. She passed the vessels ises comfort and success. The great error
Already have we heard your touching lay.
of war in the harbor under a salute from each, of adventurers is the small sum which they
By ocean breezes, genily wafted on;
returned by hearty cheering from j|i crowded put into the general stock, which, when exThe theme was noble! 'twas the natal day
at the hausted, leaves them nothing for their supdecks, and at eleven was safely
Of proud Columbia's God-like Washington.
anchorage off the town.—[Alta CnnWnia.
port far from home. The sum of $300 is
Such ever be the themes on which you dwell,
The latest intelligence from California, scarcely sufficient for so long a voyage, but
Lofty, ennobling, eloquent, sublime;
shows that great and important changes are among 100 subscribers it ensures the purSisters! for such call up your sweetest spell,
chase of a ship and cargo, which belong, on
For such the Poet'srichest garlands twine.
there transpiring. The slow work of cenits arrival, to all the stockholders, and will
VaMIY."
" Hard of TUB
turies is compressed into months and weeks. enable them, if successful, to return home in
Nuuanu, May, 1849.
Thousands are arriving from east, west, her.
In the different ports of Boston, New York,
north and south. Vessels are deserted, parSelected for the Friend.
and Baltimore, at least fifty vessels
Philadelphia
LOOK ALOFT.
ties are returning from the mines, and other are up for freight or charter to the gold regions,
In the*ternpeat of life, when the wave and the gale
parties setting off". From a private source and to record all the expeditions would be imAre around and sbove, if thy footing should tail—
practicable. A New York letter of Wednesday
we learn that an Irishman recently arrived evening, the 13th, says:
Ii ilium eye should grow dim, and thy caution depart,
from the mines with 200 lbs. of the precious The jewelers had a mass meeting—yes, a mass
" Look aloft" and be firm, and be tearless of heart.
last evening, to form
ore.
Let our readers compute his fortune, meeting !—at Riley's Hotel,
prosperity's
glow.
the
who
embraced
friend,
If
in
a California association, and the names enrolled
With a smile for each joy,and tear for each woe,
at $16 per oz.
comprise many of our most respectable citizens
Should betray thee, when sorrows like clouds are arrayed,
engaged in that important branch of business.—
the
Several
have
arrived
from
clergymen
"LookAloft" to the friendship which never shall fade.
The shoemakers are to have a demonstration
States. It is reported that between 40 and to-night, and to-morrow the printers are to have
Should the visions whi< h hope spreads in light to thine eye,
about
it wouldn't be better for
50 vessels are at anchor in the bay, without a talkeven to whether
Like the tints of tne rainbow, brighteu to fly,
throw down the stick and take up
them
of
Then turn, and through tears repentant regret,
seamen. All kinds ofmerchandise are daily the quoin.
'-Look Aloft" to the sun that la never to act.
two hundred
arriving. There is the greatest demand for Besides all that, in to-day's Sun
young ladies are advertised for immediately, to
to
California
And oh, when death comes, In terrors to cast
tenements. Let those going
set out for the
placero." Tfcey must be reHisfears on the future, his pall on the past,
take with them a house, even if it be no spectable—so says the advertisement, and steady
In that moment ofdarkneas, with hopein thy heart,
employment will be guaranteed. Passages all to
larger than the tub of the philosopher Dio- be paid. Seamstresses
And a smile in thy eye, "LookAloft" and depart.
ami tradesmen preferred.
New York, August, 1643.
The N. Y. Sun, after specifying several astociagenes.
J. 11. c.
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34
tions of oapiulisu and others in that city, gives A Paris correspondent of the European steam vessel in working order that has ever
visited these Islands.
the following m* feature:
Times, under date ofDec. 15, writes.
We have been
furnished with the
action
Government
date
Important
tranquility continues. following list of thepolitely
m rtftr- "Up to this
ofthe
command :—
ence to the Gold Region. —According to the The latest election returns show a majorJ. S. Hathaway, Ist Art. commanding.
ity in favor of Prince Louis, similar in Major
Cant. B. H. Hill, Ist Art. coindg. Comp. M.
following from the Washington correspond- proportion to those already announced. Tbe L.
H. Holdeu, Surgeon.
ence of the N. Y. Sun, of the 14th inst., the proclamation of the President will probably be Ist Lt. J. B. Gibson, Comp. M.
made about the 40th.
Lt. T. Talbot,
government is taking steps to prevent the The present Ministers are preparing to evac- Ist
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2nd Lt. J. J. Wood, qr. master and com'sary.
export of gold ore, duty free", from the new uate their official residences. The sweep will 2nd Lt. J. B. Foy, Adjutant.
be nearly as general as it was in February last.
2nd Lt. J. Dement, Comp. L.
mines in California :
As usual, a succession of programmes has been
2nd Lt. G. Tallmadge, Comp. M.
It is rumored, and I have every reason to be- circulated. The cabinet, as now settled, is said [Polynesian.
lieve the rumor is true—that the Government in to lie as follows:—
Cabinet council on Saturday last, decided to send President of the Council, Minister of Justice
The Great Sea Serpent.—When the Daeimmediately a number of small vessels of war, and
Public Worship—Odillon Barrot.
dalus frigate, Captain M'Qulite, which arrived
brigs and schooners, to enforce the embargo Foreign
Affairs—Drouin dc l'Huys.
at Portsmouth on the 4th inst., v*is on her pasupon all merchant vessels going into the harbor Interior—Leon
dc
sage home from the East Indies, between the
of Monterey, San Francisco, and other ports on Finance—HyppoliteMalleville.
Passy.
Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, her Capt.
California,
to
come
coast
ot
them
requiring
the
Public Works—Leon Faucher.
and most of her officers and crew, at 4 o'clock
under bonds not to receive on board for transpor- War—General
Rulhieres.
tation any part or parcel of gold ore dug from Commerce and Agriculture—Achille Fould. one afternoon saw a sea serpent. The creature
was twenty minutes in sight of the frigate, und'
the public lands or mines on the Sacramento or
Instruction—DeFulloux.
passed under her quarter. The Duedalus left
Other parts of the gold region in Alta California. Public
Marine—De Tracy.
the Cape of Good Hope on the 30th of July, and
The Government is fully awake to the imporThe above form the Cabinet.
reached St. Helena on the lull of August. The
tance of the gold region, and the Cabinet undoubtedly regret that a mint at California was The latest returns of the Presidential elec- following interesting report respecting the apnot acted upon at the last session, before the tion now give about four millions for Prince pearance of this extraordinary'animal has been
forwarded to the Admiralty by Captain M'Close of which they had an inkling of the gold reLouis and nine hundred thousand for Gen. Quliii':
gions. A State Government will undoubtedly Cavignac.
be at once organized in California, and the mines
ship Dcednlus, >
" Her Majesty's
taken possession ofby the United States troops. Two negroes and two mulattoes have been
Homoaze, Oct. 11. \
Thefinal methodsfor securing the mining regions elected to the National Assembly from Gouda"Sir;—In reply to your letter of this day's
to the Government have not yet been decided
(late, requiring information as to the truth of a
loupc, of whom one has taken his seat.
on.
Italy.—The Pope has fled to Naples. statement published in the "Times" newspaper,
The California and the Panama steamers
of a sea serpent ofextraordinary dimensions havbeen seen from her Majesty's ship Daedalus,
of the sth January and 16th February, from The Pope," says the London Times, "left ing
the Quirinal on the evening of the 24th o. under my command, on her passage from the
Panama, are full of passengers, and a large
Indies, I have the honor to acquaint you,
as a servant of Count East
for the information of my Lords Commissioners
number of applications have been made for November, disguised
and wearing the livery of the Ba- •of the Admirably, that at 5 o'clock p. in. on the
passage in the Oregon, to sail on the first of Sophr,
varian Legation. Dressed in the character 6th of August last, in latitude 24 degrees 44 m's.
S., and longtitude 9 degrees 22 minutes E., the
March. All these boats are on their way
of a footman, he mounted the box of the weather dark and cloudy, wind fresh from the
round Cape Horn.
Ambassador's carriage, seated himself by N. W., with a long ocean swell from the S. W.,
The steamers Crescent City, Isthmus and the coachman, and thus absconded from the the ship on the port tack heading N. E. by N.,
something very unusual was seen by Mr. SarOrus are advertised for Chagres -and are
Quirinal Palace and was carried off to toris, midshipman, rapidly approaching the ship
is
full.
The
Orus
intended
to
navnearly
Grsta. No one in Rome recognized him, from before the beam. The circumstance was
igate the Chagres river. Beside, there are and the illustrious fugitive arrived in Geefa immediately reported by him to the officer of the
watch, Lieut. Edgar Drummond, wilh whom
some forty-five or fifty vessels of all sizes,
on the night of the-25th, without experiencing and Mr. William Barett, the master, I was at
the time walking the quarter-deck. The ship's
up for Chagres or San Francisco direct.—
the least danger."
company were at supper. On our attention beAt last accounts, about 6000 persons were at
The Pope of Rome, who had wished to ing called to the object,\it was discovered to be
Panama waiting conveyances to the El stand alagfLJ'rom the struggle between the an enormous serpent, with head and shoulders
Dorado. The number of course was con- Italians-nfll Austrians, was forced at the kept about four feet constantly above the surface
the sea, and as nearly as we could approxitinually increasing, and it requires some eleventh nour to despatch all the troops he of
mate by comparing it with the length of what our
of the maintopsail yard would show in the water,
stretch of imagination to conceive how all could assemble to the assistance who
there
hadlJwas nt the very least sixty feet of the animal
a
these people are to be transported to the former. A handfull of malcontents
exile,
returned
from
took
of!
advantage <Jleur d'eau, no portion of which was to our perlately
gold regions.
this circumstance to create a riot at Rome. ception, used in propelling it through the water,
No less than four vessels are being fitted The Coufit Rossi, President of the Council, either by vertical or horizontal undulation. It
passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarout at Sag Harbor, and it is calculated that was assassinated by a ruffian, at noonday, ml
that had it been a man of my acquaintance I
one of the public streets. The Pope with-jter,
more goods will arrive in California in the drew privately from Rome, and sought a!should have easily recognised bis features with
and itdid not, either in approachnext six months than will supply the inhab- refuge in the kingdom of Naples, where he!jthe nuked eye;
ling the ship or after it had passed our wak,e, deitants three times over.
was received with acclamations by King viate in the slightest degree from its course to
(the S. W., which it held on at the pace of from
The Park Theatre in New York was des- Ferdinand and bis subjects.—[Times.
twelve to fifteen miles per
apparently on
fire
on the evening of the 16th Arrival Extraordinary.—The U. S.I'some determined purpose. hour,
troyed by
The diameterof the
December. Loss $80,000, of which but a transport steam propeller " Massachusetts,"!jserpent was about fifteen or sixteen inches l»cCapt. Wood, arrived in our harbor on Monday! -liiml the head, which was, without any doubt,
small portion is covered by insurance.
from Boston, via Valparaiso, on her way to that of a snake, and it was never, during the
Austria.—The Emperor of Austria has last,
Oregon. She has on board 163 rank and file of twenty minutes that it continued in sight of our
abdicated in favor of his nephew, Francis the Ist regiment U. S. Artillery, (companies'glasses, once b»low the surface of the water: its
") Brevet Major Hathaway,jjcolor a dark brown, with yellowish-white about
Joseph.
'* M " and L,These
commanding.
troops are intended, wejthe throat. It had no fins, but something like
Egypt.—lbrahim Pacha is dead, and sue- lunderstand, to garrison the ports of Oregon. the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of sea
ichusetts' is a noble vessel, register- weed, washed about its back. It was seen liy
ceeded by Abbas Pacha in the viceroyalty The
' Mass
ed 750
tons, and coming in as she did in a calm,''the quartermaster, the boatswain's mate, and the
of Egypt.
moving without the help of sails, or other visi- man at the wheel, in addition to myself and ofFrance.—Prince Louis Napoleon Bona- ble means of locomotion, she perfectly aston- ficers above mentioned. lam having a drawing
the native population who assembled of the serpent made from a sketch taken immeparte has been elected President of the Re- [ ished
in crowds upon the beach. She is provided diately after it was seen, which I hope tn have
public of France, by an overwhelming ma- with Ericcson's propeller, (which, by the way, ready for transmission to my Lords Commissionjority.
| is well worth inspection) and is the second ers of the Admiralty by to-morrow's post.
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THE FRIEND, MAY, 1849.
ceived that quite a demand was made for the fatal thrust could consign the soul of its vogenuine Eau dc Cologne, and that a penny tary to the second death ?
For MM Frl»nd. could be turned to advantage in the business.
And in the bare possibility of so dire an
POCKET VERSUS PRINCIPLE.
Now he of course would do nothing to en- event, how do you suppose it would stand, in
Mr. Editor—There resides near one ofH. courage intemperance! Not he! He was a the final reckoning, with the vender of this
H. M.'s ports, a gentleman that I wot of— fast friend of temperance; and then he would article for such uses?
Homo.
fair and honorable, as the world goes—" a do nothing to favor immorality! Oh, no! he
conserwithal
a
of
was
the
constituted
of
the
temperance"—and
public
guardian
friend
morals in that vicinity. But then he could
TEMPERANCE PLEDGE IN 1637.
vator of the public morals "by authority."
the
story
goes,
since,
as
Jack
not
lose
the
to
for
Editor—l have found the following
himMr.
opportunity
provide
Not long
ashore on liberty thereabouts, was observed self and his household, so providentially temperance pledge written on the blank leaf
to be right merry; and from his bad naviga- opened before him. He surely need not of an old English book, which has been hantion, and sundry oft-repeated lurches to lee- know that the Cologne was poisoning the ded down from parent to child for several
ward, it was more than suspected that the community, since it would not be drank on generations; but at the time when the pledge
stevedore had made bad stowage of the car- his premises, any more than the man who was dated, to have been the property ofgood
go on board, or else that contraband goods plunges the fatal steel into his neighbor's bo- old Robert Boltok, Bachelor in Divinity, and
were in the hold which were dangerous to som, in the dark, need knotc that he is a mur- preacher of God's word at Broughton, in
the ship's safety.
derer. He didn't see the death-throe of his Northamptonshire, England. It shows that
The latter soon came to be the settled victim! Suppose conscience does pretty temperance was properly appreciated, by
was a temperance clearly intimate at times the probabilities in some at least, in olden time.—[Ch. Adv.
opinion But Jhen
A. P.
port! The serpent of the still dared not the case! In either case, suppose it would
show his head there—save indeed on the hardly require Yankee shrewdness to guess Marietta, July 3d, 1834.
premises of "the Doctor," who, of course that the assassin's knife and murderous alco- Broughton, 1637.—Ffrome this daye forhad the right to distil "for medical purposes hol were hardly safe instruments to be scat- warde to
ih/e ende of my life, I will never
alone," if his "license" could be depended tered at random in the community! Why, pledge anye healthe nor drinke a whole carrowse in a glasse, cupp, bowle, or other
upon. How then could poor Jack have been what then?
drinking instrument whatsoever; whosoever
evil
slimy
spirit
Where
did
the
of
bitten?
But never mind that. Our hero did not it be, or ffrome whomsoever it come, except
lurk? were the inquiries oft and anxiously feci it to be his duty to refuse to line his the nscessitye of nature doe require it. Not
revolved by "the authorities;" for, be it re- pockets with the profits of Eau dc Cologne! my own most gracious kinge; nor anye the
membered, to the solution of this problem Why indeed should he? If he didn't sell it greatest monarch or tyrant on earth. Nor
my dearest ffriende, nor all the goolde in the
hung ,a toveted tail!
somebody else would. Besides, he was vio- worlde shall ever enforce me or allure me.
But, to make a long story short, it was at lating no temperance pledge. No temper- Not an Angell from Heaven (whoe I knowe
length discovered, though not till after a deal ance society was ever known to be so fanati- will not attempt it) should persuade me.—
of commendable anxiety and great pains-tak- cal as to include perfumery in its pledge! Of Not Satan witkjll his old subtilities, nor all
powers ofSell itself, shall ever betray
ing pro bono publico, with no small quantity course then, all was right. The natives, too, the
me. By this very sinne (for, a sinne it is and
bottles
of
of unjust suspicion against the beer
purchased meeting-house, water (as Cologne not a little one,) I doe plainly finde that I
sundry law and license abiding dwellers is expressively denominated by them,) and have more offended and dishonored my great
thereabouts, that the spirit which poor Cas- he might suppose, if he could, that all he and gloriouse Maker and most merciful Sasio rightly calls devil actually issued from sold was applied to no worse purposes than viour, than by all other sinnes that I am subject unto; and for this very sinne I know it
Cologne Bottles!
that purchased by natives. Why indeed'is that God hath often been strange unto me.
Jack had ascertained by actual experiment might not he supply the deraJßjlSjts well as And flbr that cause, and noe other respect,
have I thus vowed; and I heartily* begg my
that the veritable Eau dc Cologne possessed any one ?
V ) *
good Father in heaven of his greate goodvirtue,
fuddling no less than the perfuming
A large quantity of the article in question ness and infinite mercie, in Jesus Xt. to asfurnishing thereby a new exemplification of was soon said to be on board a vessel, mark- sist me in the same, and to be favourable unthe proverb, "Where there's a will there's a ed to his address.
to me flbr what is past. Amen.
rather
R. Bolton.
the
was
April 10, 1637.
To
be
sure
article
way."
or
rather
at
three
a
glass,
reals
expensive,
What say you, Mr. Editor—can there be
those who prefer it, Champagne.
bottle, but then considering that the agreea- any harm in selling perfumed alcohol? We Give
a
—In little work just published, 'entitled
ble perfume and the fuddle were both secur- all know that
the filthy stuff' called 'The Whole Art of Making British Wines,
selling
ed with that amount, perhaps the purchaser
Rum is a dirty and murderous business, Cordials, and Liquors,' by JamesRobinson,
arranged the matter thus with himself—
make the best you can of it. But then the the trade-secrets are fully divulged. See
three ftps,
Essential Oils,
aromatic
Cologne is quite another affair! It what 'sparkling champagne' L'OU dePerdix
three do.
Rum,
isn't
with " the drink that drunkards is made of! 'sliced rhubarb stalks, the tops
classed
Which would not be so very expensive after
know!
you
use,"
ofyoung spring nettles, sugar, and eggs!'—
all, you know, particularly as one bottle fulon
it—beastly
drunk
Taste, also, this 'Fine Old Port' compound
filled the consumer's noblest desire—throwing Suppose Jack gets
or
does
suicide,
drunk—and
mayhap
commits
of the juice of Hamburg grapes, sugar, a dehim into a state of brutal drunkenness —thus
this?
And
barm
of purple beet-root, sliced ginger,
in
worse;
can
there
be
coction
any
instruct
qualifying him by living example to
that
sage leaves—together with a huge
could
his
think
and
red
complain
captain,
you,
the
peculiar
these poor heathen Hawaiians in
of French brandy, isinglass, bitblessings of civilization and Christianity!— his man had poured the sweet odor into his proportion
almonds,
ter
sugar candy, and lerooa-peel!
Alack-a-day, that these poor heathen should stomach rather than upon his handkerchief? Roughness is given by alum, oak bark, some
Cothink
it
that
possible
other astringent; and the real port-flavor, by
prove so stupid and unworthy their privi- Do you really
water could be made "to bite like a adding the tincture of the seeds of raisins!—
logne
leges!
that its [Gateshead Obs.
But the story. Well, our hero soon per- serpent, or sting like an adder?" or
The Temperance Friend.
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THE FRIEND, MAY, 1849.
Progress of Temperance.—Both Houses the line of their transgressions. We should
of the British Parliament, in answer to the as soon expect the sun not to rise, water to
numerous petitions of temperance societies, run
HONOLULU, MAY 1, 1849.
up hill, iron to float, or a man to fly, as
have passed a bill prohibiting all sale of innot
to
witness the awful curse of drunkentoxicating liquors on Sunday morning and
The publication of the Friend will be afternoon.
ness eventually being visited upon rumseldiscontinued after .the present number, until
ICT* We copy the above item of intelli- lers or their descendants, unless they exerthe editor returns from a voyage to the Wesgence from a late American paper, and most cised timely repentance. The laws of God
tern Coast of America. It is our intention
cannot be violated with impunity. Solomon
to embark to-day, April 16th, on board the sincerely do we hope it may be true. It is
an important step in the right direction.— asks, "Can a man take fire in his bosom
U. S. Propeller "Massachusetts," Captain
The Hawaiian Legislature we hope may be and his clothes not be burnt?" Of course
Wood having very kindly and generously
thereby encouraged to carry out, during not. Can a man acquire wealth by selling
proffered us a free passage to San Francistheir present session, a measure now but spirituous liquors and reasonably expect it
co, via Oregon. It is with no ordinary feelpartially executed. We refer to the entire will prove a blessing, either to himself or his
ings of pleasure that we anticipate visiting
of the sale of spirituous liquors children? The past answers. "No."
our native land. To be sure, we do not ex- prohibition
on the Holy Sabbath. At present houses lipect to visit those portions of the country censed to sell
by the glass, are alone closed, Volcano of Kilauea, Hawaii.— We
rendered sacred by the associations of home
learn from the Rev. Mr. Paris, recently from
while Hotels may continue open as on other
and kindred, yet it is to be our privilege to
days. We cannot see why this distinction Hawaii, that on passing from his station in
embark in a vessel bearing the name of our
should be made. If it is wrong for a grog- Kau, to Hilo, he observed the great crater
native state, and it will require no great
shop to be open for the sale of spirits, why of Kilauea undergoing some remarkable
stretch of the imagination to fancy ourselves not for a
Hotel? It needs not a very close changes. Although the lake is now compaonce more an inhabitant of the Old Bay
observation to see that the sale of spirits by ratively quiet, yet the internal pressure is
State! Under the protecting care of Divine
Hotels on the Sabbath is productive of much such as to have elevated the surface of the
Providence, we hope to resume our duties
evil, especially to the sea-faring community, lake from one to two hundred feet. In the
at the end of three or four months* During as well as the mechanics of
Honolulu, not to centre of the lake a huge cone has been
our absence, the recollection of the many
speak of any other class. Will not some thrown up, and from its summit there are
acts of kindness which we have received member of the
Hawaiian Legislature bring frequent eruptions. The frequent explosions
from residents in Honolulu, and the sea-farforward this subject, and endeavor to have a of the pent up gases may be heard at the dising community, during a sojourn of six years
of the License Law, so modifying tance often miles. These explosions resemat the islands, will serve to hasten ourretnrn revision
the statute that no person shall be licensed ble the sudden escape of the steam from the
to our home, and the sphere of our labors.
by the laws of this kingdom to sell spirituous boiler of a steam engine, although nip»n a
of
the
The
affairs
duChaplaincy,
N. B.
and intoxicating liquors upon God's holy scale immensely enlarged. Other parts of
the crater furnish abundant evidence that the
ring our absence, will be entrusted to the Day. This day was consecrated
for other
care of the Rev. T. E. Taylor, Chaplain at purposes, but the sale of liquors more than subterranean fires of Hawaii are far from beLahaina.
any other cause leads to a most gross dese- coming extinct.
Hawaiian Coffee.—The fair experiment cration of the sanctity of this Sacred Day.—
Depopulation by the Measles.—ln a
has been made that coffee of the first quality Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it hoformer number we noticed the fact -that the
can be raised upon the Sandwich Islands.— ly.—We are anxious to see the laws of this
Some recently from the island of Kauai, is kingdom just as strict upon the subject of the measles had been very destructive to the abof a superior excellence. We are able to license and sale of all kinds of intoxicating origines of these islands. The following
pronounce that from the plantation of Mr. liquors, asJg Btngltsli and French treaties statement will show that this epidemic was
Titcomb, of the very best quality. It is now will allow; 1 Ye hope to sec the day when not confined to the Sandwich Islands. Capt.
for sale in Honolulu, by Mr. Reynolds. It England and France will cooperate with the Klinkofstrom, connected with the Russian
is surely to be regretted that an inferior ar- rulers of this Kingdom to entirely prohibit Fur Company, thus writes us from San
ticle from a foreign country should be im- the importation of intoxicating liquors.— Francisco:—"During the last summer we
ported in such quantities as to overstock the What an inestimable blessing would thereby had, throughout all our colonies, the meaand great numbers of the inhabitants
market, and thus check the growth of coffee be conferred upon the seamen of England, sles, taken
were
off. Some of our Islands in the
France and the United States.
upon the islands.
Alsaitian chain lost most of their population.
Hawaiian Syrup.—We have recently had The effects of trafficing in Spiritu- In Sitka, among a population of 600 souls,
an opportunity to test the good quality of ous Liquors.—Those engaged in the sale we had in one month nearly 80 deaths, if not
some most excellent Syrup, made for family and manufacture of intoxicating liquors, and more. Nearly all, except Europeans, were
use, by Judge Parsons, at Lahaina. It is such as sympathize with them, are extreme- sick, so that all the town was in sorrow,
superior to anything of the kind that has ly sensitive when the point is urged that they fear and dread."
been in the market since the Chinamen ceas- are upholding an iniquitous and dishonest bued the manufacture of the clarified syrup.— siness. This is natural and what is to be
It is with great regret we are called upon
We hope the manufacture of good Syrup expected. Before their minds we would hold to announce the death ofCapt. Lindsay, late a
will find ample encouragement. Such syr- up the mirror of the past. What does that resident of these islands, who sailed from hence
up as that manufactured now at Lahaina, reflect? As we gaze upon that mirror, we in the British schooner Amelia.' His decease
would undoubtedly command a very high see reflected this truth, wealth acquired by took place at Whampoa on the 33d of June last,
und was caused by inflamation of the brain inprice on the coast.
traffic in spirituous liquors has proved a curse duced by exposure after bis undergoing an operA novel Novel.—There has been repub- to those who acquired it, or to their children ation for the removal of a tumor from his forelished in Germany, an exact copy of a Jap- and friend*. This result follows on the prin- head. Capt. Lindsey leaves a widow, a native
anese novel, by a Mr. Schwartz,
ciple that God ordinarily punishes men in of Hawaii.—[Polynesian,
THE FRIEND.
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THE FRIEND, MAY, 1849.
Hawaiian Bible Society.
Treasurer's
ofbarque " Hermes,"
from
Extract from the l»g-oook
Report.
HAWAIIAN BIBLE SOCIETY IN ACCOUNTWITH
Hong Kong toCapt. R. B. Corkhill,
Honolulu, April 26, 1840.
A. 8. COOKK, TREAS.
wards the Sandwich Islands.
i:
Dear Sir: A meeting of the Executive 1848.
i
Monday, 13th March, 1849.
Committee of the Hawaiian Bible Society Aug. 21. By Mr. W. Goodale, to constitute Mrs. L O.
Thurston a Life Member,
S10 00 Lat. 35, 56 N. long. 136, 49 E. moderate and
was held, on the 20th inst, at the house oi it u it 3i r tnKKlali-, to constituto Miss Mary
fine weather, E. N. E., Koomsang Island, Loo
Howe Thurston a Life Member, No 60,
10 00
the Treasurer, when the following vote was
Choo group N. 1-3 E., 11 or 13 miles distant,
Nov 80,
J
1'arls,
to constitute Miss Mary A
Itev D
passed : That the Secretary, pro tern, be a
I'arls a Life Member, No 66,
10 00 fresh, E. by S., stood to the N. N. E. intending
committee to prepare an account of what has i. i. ii iiev j rj i.arh t0 COI tltute Mi88 Anna M
to pass between the great Loo Choo and Koom10 00
already been collected for the Society, with 1849. I'arls a Life Member, No 67,
sang.
what may be collected at the Seamen's Cha- Feb 22. JoelTurrill, Esq, to constituteMast. FredAt fifteen minutes past 3 o'clock r. m., saw a
ship
the
and
that
the
erick
Life
on shore on the N. K. end of Koomisary
Member,
Tin
iill
Sabbath,
on
same
s
No
10
00
coming
68,
pel
A relative in U S, to constituteMiss Mary
island on low point of sand and reef, fully five
be published in the next number of the
H Turrill a Life Member, No 68,
10 00
miles to the N. E. from the island. The ship
Friend —also cause to be re-published, with
A Friend, to constitute Mrs llcbecou
24,
shore lying about halfway out on the point.
Johnstone
Life
00
ion
No70,
a
10
Member,
corrections, the list of the Life Members."
Apr. 16,
At
by Kev 8 C Damon, for BiMonies
ree'd
3.45 tacked to the southward. Ordered the
An excellent sermon in behalf of the II B.
bles In various languages,
01 62 quarter boat down and sent the 2nd officer with
S. was preached at the Seamen's Chapel, « n i' Monies ree'd by Rev 8 C Damon, as subfour hands te endeavour to see what ship it was
scriptions,
ID 00
Lord's day morning, 22d inst., by the Rev.
on shore. While the ship was hove to, the
21,
Friends, to conatitute Mrs Mary J ChamJ. S. Green, from Acts 17: 11, 12. "Noberlain a Life Member,No 71,
10 00 nearest part of the reef 3-4 of a mile distant, the
23,
I.nrrin Andrews, Jr, to constitute himself
ble Beresns." The preacher set forth the
ship on shore bore N. N. W. 1-2 W., a low rock
a Life Member, No 72.
10 00
off the S. E. point of Koomsang W. by S. 1-4 S.
value of the Scriptures in the formation of
MrsLaura Judd's children, to constitute
herself a Life Member, No 78,
10 00 the point of the low land and reef, E. N. E.—
character, and the evils of light, novel readMr Edwufd Bailey's family, to constitute
The S. W. of Amakirrima island of the Loo
ing, alias yellow covered literature," and
himself* Life Membor, No 74,
10 00 Choos S. E. by E. 1-4 E. Took a cast of the
Mr 8 N Castle, to constitute Mrs MA Casadmonished his hearers, especially the chilp. m., the boat
tle a Life Member, No 76,
10 00 lead in ML, hard sand. At 6.10
dren and youth, to study the Bible. After
Wm C Luualilo and others, to constitute
board and tho 2nd officer informed
Miss Victoria Kamamalu a Life Member,
the sermon a collection was taken up. This,
us the name on the ship's stern was Elizabeth
10 00
*ith the amount received from the new Life it ii u No 76g
and
Henry," of London, lying inside a small reef,
ncr Armstrong, to constitute Mrs C C
Members, and annual subscribers, and for
Armstrong a Lite Member, No 77,
10 Oo starboard side to the shore, about midway beRev. D T Condo, to constitute Mrs A L
tween the reef and sand, distant from either
Bibles sold, will amount to about $400.
Coude a Life Member, No 78,
10 00 about 3 cables lengths. The lower masts and
ore
The expenses
nearly $50, leaving $350 ii ii u nev E Whittlesey, to constitute Mrs E K
rigging,
Whittlesey a Lift Member, No 79,
10 00 bowsprit gone, also anchors, cables,
in the Treasurer's hands, ready to be for- ii
ii
it
[;,.,. j g Emerson's family, to constitute
sails, brass and iron work, glass of sky-light,
warded to tbe parent Society for a new suphimself a Life member, No 80,
10 00 deck-lights, and in fact every thing that could be
it n n
}{ev 8 C Damon, to constitute Mrs J M
ply ofBibles and Testaments.
removed had been taken away. No one on
Damon a Life Member, No 81,
10 00
By the Serampore, which arrived in Januboard or
from the ship on shore; supDr R W Wood, to constitute Mm C A
ary last, a large and beautiful assortment of >
Hooper a Life Member, No 82,
10 00 posed the
have been stranded about a
Rev D Baldwin, to constitute himself a
24,
Bibles and Testaments, in various languages,
month—part of the copper stripped off round the
Life Member, No 83,
10 00
was received in return for the $500 sent to
JoelTurrill, Esq, U 8 Consul, to constitute
ship. Rudder sawn in two below the rudder
10 00 trunk. A small pair of shears rigged as if to
Wm Turrill a Life Member, No 84,
the parent Society, about a year since.
Membersof Royal School, to constitute
unship the rudder.
This Society (H. B. S.) has been in oper10 00
J M Cooke a Lite Membor. No 86,
From a few receipts found on board in the
members of Royal School to constitute W
ation, now, eight years, and has collected,
cabin,
Goodale a Life Member, No 86,
dated "Auckland, New Zealand, Ist Dec.
10
00
from year to year, a sufficient sum to pur«1; J ll
Annual Subecri|.tions of
find the Captain's name was W. J. S."
1848,"
chase a full supply ofBibles and Testaments
I'arls 1; D B Lyman 1; I
It appeared that the natives or other
Clark.
1,60; J 8 (.rem 1; J F rogoWR: B Anin the English, French, Spanish, German,
people had been stripping the ship, as but little
drews 1; Mrs Dole 1; Dr ft Mrs Wetmorc
Portuguese, Welsh, Swedish, Danish and
was left on board except a few water butts tbnt
2; Mr & Mrs Rice2; A B Bates 2; Mr & Mrs
Johnson 2; Mrs Rowcll & Daughter 1,26;
Dutch languages, for seamen and landsmen.
were floating about in the hold. We supposed
1. 0 Hall 1; J Fuller 1; C R Bishop 2; J
the
crew would be all saved when the Ship went
The amount collected from year to year,
E Wilcox 1; J H I-aty 1; J G Lewis 2; 29 76
on shore. They might now be on the island, or
is as follows, viz:—
Collection at Seamen's Chapul, Lord's
37 26 more probably have gone away in the boats to
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From June, 1841, to June, 1842, $108 50
1843, 44 00
1844, 62 00
18t5, 292 BB
" 1846, 482 46
1848, 584 82
May, 1849, 407 93
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Hitchcock
6p. m., hoisted up
«407 82 Loo Choo, or elsewhere. At
boat and made sail to southward. Strong breeze
1849.
DR.
Apr. 16, For raouoy paid by Itev 8 C Damon, ts
ami cloudy, E. S. E.
follows:—postage »1.60; labels W;
The reef on which the "Elizabeth and Henry"
freight per Matilda «8; freight per
was
wrecked is not laid down on Laurie's chart,
Sera mpore 19,62; do to Oregon 4JJ0—39 62
1847, or on Nome's, 1836,
For printing 200 "Original Hymn," by
Miss F M Caulkin,
4 00-43 62
crsw of the "E. &.H."
Making from 1842 to 1849,
$1982 38
Mem.—Should the
Ten dollars, paid at any one time, constiBalance due tha Society,
»36 'M have proceeded to Loo Choo, they will most
E & O. K.
tutes a Life Member. Eighty-five individuprobably meet with kind and hospitable treat,
AMOS 8. COOKE, Tress.
als, by paying this sum, or by having it paid
metit. When the Royal Oak" was wrecked
April
.Honolulu,
26,1849.
for them, have been made Life Members.
there five or six years hack, the crew was proF.xatuined
and
found
to
be
correct
life
The first sixty-three were constituted
8.
CASTLE.
vided with lodging and provisions and every asN.
members previous to June, 1848. For the
Auditor of J/*w. Bib. Society.
sistance rendered them in saving what were poslast twenty-two, see the Treasurer's Report,
sible from the wreck. The authorities also built
which
is sent herefor the last eleven months,
"The U. S. S. Preble is about to proceed to them n junk in which the ultimately reached
with.
Japan to bring away the crew of the American Cbusan in safety. Altho' offered remuneration
Yours truly,
A. S. COOKE, Sec. protem. whaler Lagoda, recently wrecked on the coast." it was constantly and firmly refused.—[Polyne—[China Mail.
sian.
Rev. S. C Damon.
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38
Tale or a Tub.—The following droll stoA Duel Avoided.—A famous duellist
ry appears in the St. Joseph Times:
challenged an Irish barrister for some remark
On the passage of the ship Alexandria from made by the barrister while the duellist was
Anecdote of Swearing.—An anecdote of New Orleans to New York, a young lad, of
this description, which we read a few days about fourteen, from a naturally frolicksome giving his testimony on the stand in some imago, reminded us of one we have never seen disposition, became so troublesome that he portant case. The barrister knew precisely
in print, but which We have for a long time was threatened by the captain that he would as much about fighting as a fancy boxer
stored among our recollections of the late confine him in a water cask. Our youngster knows about Milton's "Paradise Lost." His
Rev. Joseph Grafton, of Newton. We know took no heed, and, at his next offence, was friends told him, however, that there was no
nothing of the truth of the story, and yet so put into the cask, which was headed up,
perfectly characteristic is it, that we have al- leaving a large bunghole for the admission of way to avoid the scrape, and it was certainways regarded it as the relation of a verita- air. The ship encountered a violent storm, ly expected of him either to light or apoloble incident. Father Grafton stood high in and, in a violent lurch, the cask containing gize. This settled the point; for the proud
the public estimation, and was often present the boy rolled into the sea. The circum- little Hibernian, though he would rather eat
with other clergymen on great occasions.— stance was not noticed by those on board.— than fight, still infinitely preferred being shot
At one time he was dining with the Governor Fortunately, the cask struck bung up, and to making an apology. So the two duellists,
and Council, the Mayor and Aldermen, or floated about thirty hours, when it was thrown with their seconds, etc., were soon upon the
some other body of magnates, in Boston, and upon the beach of Cape St. Bias Here the battle ground. The challenger was notoriwas excessively annoyed as well as shocked boy made efforts to extricate himselffrom his ous as a great pistol shot, and had fought
by the profanity of a young man who sat prison, without success, and, in despair gave some half dozen duels before, in one of which
nearly opposite to hitn at table. Having en- up to die. Some cows strolling on the beach he was so badly wounded as to be left a cripdures the odious vice as long as his patience were attracted to the cask, and one of the ple for life.
would allow, the old gentleman arose and number, it being fly-time, switched her tale When other preliminaries were arranged,
cxclaimnd,
Mr. President," in the sharp, into the bung-hole, which the boy grasped he requested, through his second, one favor
energetic tone, which all who knew him will with desperate resolution. The cow bellow- from his adversary, which was permission to
recollect. The President struck his knife ed, and set off for life; and, after running stand up against a mile stone, that was on
handle upon the table to command attention, some three hundred yards with the cask, the chosen ground. He sought no advanand replied, " The Rev. Mr. Grafton." Si- struck it against a log on the beach, and tage, but wished to lean upon the stone, belence prevailed, and the old gentleman very knocked it to.pieces. The boy, thus provi- ing too lame to stand without support. His
that dentially released, was discovered by some request was at once granted, and just as the
cooly proceeded—"l move
there be no swearing done at this table ex- fishermen on the Point, and taken into Api- word was about to be given, the lawyer issucepting by my friend the Rev. Dr. Homer." lachicola, where a small collection being ed his mandate to stay proceedings, as ho
The motion prevailed by acclamation, and made for him, he was enabled to proceed had also a request to make.
the remedy was as thoroughly effectual as north by the way of Columbus.
In the gravest manner in the world he sothe mortification of the young swearer was
licited permission to lean against the next mile
Nantucket Sheep.—Even in Nantucket stone, and the joke was so good thatthe chal
complete.—[N. Y. Rec.
people have their troubles. At present there lenger took his revenge out in a hearty roar
is a
and anti-sheep party; tho anti- of laughter, withdrawing his deadly defiance,
The Rich Man and the Day Laborer.— sheepsheep
party being much the largest. There and declaring that he could never shoot a
A merchant who is as avaricious as opulent, are
about
thousand sheep on the Isl- man of such excellent humor.
recently excited some public attention at and; someseven
flocks are owned by men
large
London. He had obtained at the cheapest
possible rate, a poor day-labonflkto do some who do not own a rod of land. The sheep
"Put your finger in de, vat you call
work in his house. This unfortunate man, run at large on the Island and eat up every him, dc blacksmith's vice," said the foreigngreen thing. The people of the Island are er,
"and turn him till you can bear him no
fatigued with work, represented to the mer- noted
for their love of blackberries; it is eschants wife, that with so low wages he could
Dat isde rheumatiz. Den give him
longer.
off
the
not purchase a glass of beer to quench his timated that ten thousand dollarsgoes
another
turn.
Dat is dc gout." But taxa.
thirst. The compassionate woman gave him Island every year to purchase this delicious tion in this country has long since passed the
fruit.
It
is
much
force
contended,
and
with
a tankard of ale, but the husband learned
gout point of intolerable, and verged upon
this circumstance on his return, and whenhe that if the sheep were away the people could the impossible. To pay taxes is the grand
raise
their
and
the
blackberries,
own
hence
settled with his laborer, retained the value
to be the only obis now before our feature, and would seem
of the drink. The poor man exclaimed difficulty.
of
life.
tax. tax.
Tax,
ject,
English
couruH pither people who keep sheep
against it, and raised so great an uproar that State
have
let
them
run
at
any
rigntto
large
upon
the police took him to prison. The next day
George III. was
when he was called before the Judge, he ex- the land which is the common property of School of Manners.-As
the
whole
that
the
of
one of his men
people.
walking
Hence,
see
we
quarter-deck
you
plained the affair, was discharged upon the have here a
real, bona-fide 'free soil" ques- of war with his hat on, a sailor asked his
paymenfof two shillings; but the merchant tion.
messmate who that fellow, was who didn't
had another account to render to justice.—
to the admiral?
He was condemned to pay fifty pounds ster. Doing the Barber.—An Eastern-shore dowse his peak
it's the King."
ling aa a fine for having sold beer without a man stepped into a barber's shop in our city, "Why,
license, and the poor laborer, as the inform- on Saturday, says the Baltimore Argus, and "Well, king or no king," retorts the other of the offence, received the third of the requested the barber to take off 12$ cents er, "he's an unmannerly dog."
"Where should he learn manners?" resum.
worth of his hair. The barber trimmed his plied Jack, "he ncvcr-was out of sight ofland
locks very neatly, and then combed and in his life."
Gen. Lafayette.—During the Revolu- brushed them in the most particular style.
tionary war, Gen. Lafayette being in Balti" Are you done?" asked the Eastern-shore
SYLLOGISM.
more, was invited to a ball. He went, as man, as the barber removed the napkin from
A sailor is not a sailor when he's aboard,
his
neck.
requested, but instead of joining in the amuseAnd a sailor is not sailor when he is ashore;
ment, as might be expected of a young " Yes sir," returned the man of the razor
I!nt lie must be either ashore oa aboard
Frenchman of twenty-two, he addressed the with a bow.
Therefore a sailor is not a sailor.—[Ex.
ladies thus: "Ladies, you are very handAre you certain that you took off eleven
Why is a sailor not a sailor when he Is orerboard.—[P.
some; you dance very prettily; your ball is pence worth?"
Journal.
very fine; but my soldiers have no shirts." " Yes t)ir," returned the barber, " there's
BECAUSE
The appeal was irresistable; the ball ceas- the glass—you can see for yourself."
the tarn-ail, he Is a-etern.
If he fell
ed; the sadies went home and went to work,
Well," said the Eastern-shore man, "if If from a from
Jib-boom,he isa-bead,
and the next day a large number of shirts you think that you have got eleven pence
If from the bulwarks, be is a-long-»ide,
were presented by the fairest hands of Balti worth off, I don't know as I have got any use
Therefore a sailor overboard k not sailor.
more, for the gallant defenders of their coun- for it, and I haven't got no change, so you When is a sailor a silLOa ? Do yon girt it op'
trymay just keep the hair for your trouble!"
When be is no so'eaa
Cabin Boy's Locker.
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THE FRIEND, MAY, 1849.
|C7»The following
Original Hymn, com-
Sabbath Friend.
enjoyment of "such a Sabbath, he feela how
blessed, above all other days, is the one
young lady, of New London, Ct.,
which the Lord hath made.—Bibliotheca SaA New England Sabbath.—A corres- cra.
was sung by the choir at the Seamen's Bethel, on Sunday, the 22d ult., on which oc- pondent of the Rochester Democrat, writing
Working on the Sabbath.—There are a
Mass., says :
casion the Rev. Mr. Green preached a ser-ifrom Springfield,
New England Sabbath is something great many people who profess to keep the
"A
mon for the benefit of the Hawaiian Bible! which can only be seen in New England. It Sabbath according to the fourth commandis not an article of exportation. There is a ment, but who, somehow or other, always
Society.
quiet, settled calm about it—a stillness which find a multitude of 'works of necessity' to be
AN ORIGINAL HYMN.
can almost be felt—unused to any other at- attended to. We have seen a capital anecmosphere. I arose yesterday morning op- dote, lately, about a family of such people,
BY MISS F. M. CAULKINS, NEW LONDON, CT.
pressed by the solemn serenity which seem- who were pretty severely rebuked by a coled to pervade every object around me. In ored man in their employ. Tha family were
tins busy town, at eight o'clock, not a sound farmers. One Sabbath morning the colored
could
be heard. Silence pervaded its streets man was not up, as usual, at breakfast.—
What sjght breaks on a darkened world,
and I could scarcely make myself believe The son was sent to call him, but Caesar said
From these resplendent leaves unfurl'd!
that I was in the midst of a population often they need not wait for him, as he did not
The opening eyelids of the morn,
or twelve thousand souls. The green fields wish for any breakfast.
Shed no such beams on hill or lawn.
—the mountains—the forests—stretching out Why, Caesar, said the young man, we
in every direction, far as the eye could reach shall want you as soon as the dew is off, to
—seemed praising God, in their calm beau- help about the hay.
An angel bending from the skies,
ty, and the huge elms of an hundred years, No, said he, I can't work any more on the
Heralds the volume as it flies;
lilted up their long arms towards heaven and Sabbath; it is not right.
Happy the nation that receives,
looked devout a9 the ancient patriarchs.— Not right! said the other. Is it not our
With outstretch'd hands.the dropping leaves. The very buildings—many of them associa- duty to take care of what Providence has gited with stirring events in the past—became ven us? And would you not pull your cow
Thrice happy each life-quickened heart,
sanctified monitors, as they said to the con- or sheep out of a pit, upon the Sabbath, CssThat trusts to this unerring chart
templative mind, 'This is the land of the Pil- sar?
if I had been trying all the week
grims—Remember the Sabbatn day to keep
'Tis hope to age, and strength to youth,
it holy.' Whoever remembers his first Sab- to shoWthem in. I would let them lie there.'
To darkness, light; to wanderers, truth.
bath in a New England town, will be able to
Day.—The
understand what I have written, for he must Remember the Sabbath
'Tis gentle rain, 'tis sparkling dew,
have felt what I have attempted to describe. Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, during
The mind to cleanse, refine, renew :
There is no ingress or egress here on the his tour around Scotland, visited the Islands
'Tis lightning fierce, and thunder deep,
Sabbath. All public conveyances lay by.— of Staffa lona, in the Hebrides. He arrived
Formerly a car passed over the road to Bos- at the latter on Sunday.
To startle conscience from its sleep.
ton and back with the mail. This has been The stern old keeper of the Cathedral
keys refused to unlock the gate and admit
discontinued.
A shaft from this full quiver sent,
Yankee
one
is
always the party to see the tombstones, for that
villages
In these
In twain hath many a bosom rent;
delighted with their magnificent shade trees. would in his opinion have been desecrating
A drop ofbalm from this rich store,
They constitute the principal beauty of al- the Sabbath. In vain did Captain Robinson
most every place you visit—of this place pre- ask imploringly, whether he was aware who
Hath healed the broken heart once more.
eminently. Nearly every street here is sha- the illustrious stranger was, whom he refusto
age,
and
zeal
from
ded by magnificent elm, sycamore or maple ed to gratify. Donald 'dinna exactly ken.'
age
Learning
He supposed 'from what folk said, it was onHave worshipped, loved, explored the page; trees."
ly the Emperor of Russia. But he wad nae
Martyrs in its defence have died,
England, Scotland and America en- gie up the key to his own Queen on the
Or torments worse than death defied.
joy a Christian Sabbath. To them it is Lord's day. There was a power aboon suwhat God originally designed it should be in perior to any earthly power, and he could
Like angels round a dying bed,
and of mer- nae gie up the key.' Chr. Watchman.
all the earth, —a day of
the reIts truths a heavenly radiance shed;
cy to man. But how
nations An Example.—A vessel containing upthat
the
they
only,
flection
celestial
wings,
And hovering on
of Christendom, enjoy a Christian Sabbath. wards of one hundred and fifty Hollanders,
Breathe music from unnumbered strings.
It is truly sad to witness the desecration of lay all of Sabbath day at one of our wharves'
the Sabbath even in Protestant Europe.— rather than violate, by travelling, that law
O now thou Word, divinely fair,
But a son of the Pilgrims, who loves this which secures its sanctity as well in the New
Take wings and wide thy message bear ;
day of the Lord, wearied with the perpetual as in the Old World. They held public serPeace to all climes, —heart-peace be given, hurrying to and fro of the multitude in that vice upon the deck of their vessel in the
strange land ; saddened at the sight of the morning, a sermon being delivered by a minAnd light to guide the soul to heaven !
gay throngs that crowd every place of amuse- ister of their own number. Their hymne,
ment, in pursuit of every conceivable form sung in their own tongue, seemed indeed to
We are assured that M. Pageot, the late of merriment and of
guilty pleasure ; sick- be hymns of praise, swelling forth from
French Minister Plenipotentiary to the United ened at the sound ofrevelry and noisy mirth hearts that rejoiced to breath this the land of
States, has left that country for England, to of- mingling with the notes of martial music, freedom and their adoption. They are desfer Louis Philippe a part of his princely for- the bustle of the military parade, and the tined to the colony m the Grand River Valto the attention of
tune, and induce him to establish himself and din of business ; to such an alien from the ley, which was brought
the
past winter. We
during
to
land
of
the
it
is
most
our
legislature
Pilgrims,
refreshing
his family in America. This is most admirable
and a speedy paswinds
favorable
more,
once
of
sacred
rest
wish
them
in
a day
in M. Pageot, and Ahe more so as it is most rare. enjoy,
or in that fair and happy sage to their new home in our Western Valhis
native
land,
Joural dv Havre.
island from which his fathers came. Even ley, and trust that thousands more will speein busy London, that vast metropolis of the dily follow them.—Del. Adv.
We cannot help remarking on the very world, the sacred suspension of secular
quiet and good natured way in which the crew of business, the deep repose of that tumultuous A Child with Twenty Names.—The Maoflicially announcerthe birth ofthe
the Russian Brig Baykull have behaved them- city, as the Sabbath returns, the stillness of drid Gazette
Montpensier's child, and that she
dc
Duchess
selves on every occasion when they have been the hallowed day, its sacred associations, its has been baptised Maria Isabel Francises dc Asis
on shore. If all sailors followed their example solemn rites and divine instructions enforced Antonia Luiza Fernanda Cristina Amelia Fehp*
the police fores might be reduced to one-half of by the solemnities of the sanctuary—these Adelaida Josefa Elena Enriquita Carolina Just*
*
are all a cordial to his thirsty spirit. In the Rutins Gsspara Melcbora Baltasar* Nates.
its present strength.—[Polynesian,
posed by
a
THE BIBLE.
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40
,
Hon on, IS mos. 700 sperm; reTo Seamen and Steikciii— The Seamen's Chapel
wotfurnished by the Contain ef Snip Rambler of Naaluckst.
ported a skip la slftil lo be the Wa. Wirt, of New Bedford, is open forPublic Worship every Sabbath, at 11 o'clock,
unknown.
the Hermes, to the editor of the Polynesian. Humility
a. m tod ?4, r. ■. Seath mi.
The Alexsndsr spoke ship Coral on the line, 28 mos. out,
The following
Religious services will be held at the Vestry Room
"March 29, 1840. 2700 sperm; hid taken 1000 obis in about 8 days.
Thursday evening. Usually, there will be a LecLat. 31, 58 N. long. 138, 28 E. Steered N. Flora spoken In Feb. oil"Chile, bound home from Cslifornls, every
ture delivered.
E. by E. 1-2 E. till 8 P. M., distance run since 800 wbsle. All well.
The Seamen's Concert for Prayer is held at the Vestry
noon, 66 miles. At that hour the centra of a
Room the third Monday evening each month.
PORT OF LAHAINA.
Seamen belonging to vessels (of all nations) visiting
smalUisland bore south five miles whirl) would
port are invited to call at the Chaplain's Study,
this
place it in latitude 32,24 N. longtitude 139,86 E.
where
supplied with copies of
Arrived.
they will be gratuitously
Not laid down in Laurie's or Nome's charts.—
reading matter. It will be most
14. Ship Majestic, Hall, New Bedford, 5 months out, the Friend and other
From 8 P. M., steered E. by N. 1-2 N., kept a 40April
Chaplain
the
to
receive
calls from Seamen
convenient for
sperm.
goed look out for South Island and must have 16. Orosimbo, Barium, New Bedford, 4 months out. Mean between 2 and 4 o'clock, J. m.
Public services at the Native Churches, on theSahbath,
Adams, New Bedford, 5 months out, 130 sperm.
passed close to the place assigned it on the chart —America, Cole.
New Bedford, 3 months out, 60 sperm.
commence at 9l, a. h., and 2j p. m.
but saw nothing of it, sod doubt very much if it —Towner,
—vy. U. Nye, Rose, New London, 9 months out, SIM sperm. The Seamen's Reading Room is open at all hours of
is in that position.
17. Massachusetts, Chase, New Bedford. 8 months out. 90 the day. Strangers arriving and having late foreign paFound the chronometers very correct by ob- sperm.
pers, are respectfully invited to aid in keeping said room
supplied with useful reading matter.
servations taken in Honolulu harbor, April 26th
Donations are respectfully solicited for tb> support
1849."
A Card.
the
of
Chaplaincy, and the publication of 'Trw Friend'.
An annual report ol all donaliona ia made to the AmeriTo the Editor of the Friend:
can
Friend Society, New York. Any person
Seamen's
Donations.
Dear Sib—It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge contributing the sum of t50 isinentitled to become a Life
through your paper, a donation of one hundred dollars, re- Director of the Society, and by 820 to become an Honotor Chaplaincy.
rary Life Member.
Man),
Adams,
B.
*5 00 ceived from foreign residents inLabaina,and fromofficeis
Mr.
SAMUEL C DAMON,
sum
has
apstopping
port
and
seamen
at
this
This
been
AFrlsnd,
S 90
Honolulu, April I.—if.
Seamen's Chaplain.
a
to
purchasing
Serapropriated, according
promise, in
For the FrUnd.
Information
for
Whalemen.
phina for the Chapel in this place.
JanesNichols
$ 1 00
The subscriber would respectfully give the following
T. E. TAYLOR,
6 00
notice for the information of whalethipa, cruising in the
Rev. Mr. Coan,
Seamen's
Lahaina.
Chaplain,
•»••_..-.
Pacific. Recruits can be obtained at Pitcairn's Island,
ii
6 00
for at least twenty-five ships, at about the following
Mr. Haloey, ....,M Extruct from the RecordM ofthe General Meeting of the prices:—
Capt. KHokofttrnm,
16 00
Santlvich Jtlnnds Motion:
Yams, per barrel,
»2,no
Sweet Potatoes
2,00
April 24, 1849.
3,00
Irish
DIED.
Voted, at the request of the Rev. Mr. Taylor, the Sea- Onions
3,00
Oa beard Am. wkaleshlo "Alesander," off Rio Jajsarlo, Nor. imen's Chaplain at Lahaina, we relinquish the room beLimes
2,00
93, 1848, Capt. Josßph Black, belou|la| lo MiddlohvssjfMsss. longing to the mission, under the Seamen's Chapel, toge- Lime Juice, per fal,
33
Aloe, onboard Ik*same vessel, Nov. 95, Wm.Maynehl, carCocoa
Nuts,
hundred,
per
2,00
penter, belonging to New Hampshire. They died of a tevsr ither with a strip of land around the Chapel, 14 feet wide,
Oranges,
1,00
caught at Cape rte Verde Islands, it being very sickly when the
for the use of the Chaplaincy, so long as that building Fowls, per doz.,
3,00
vessel touched there.
inhabitants
are
exchange,
ordinarily
ready
an
the
to
Evangelical Protestant plaee of worship. In
At vTaloli, Kauai, Feb 6, Frank, Infant and twin son of shall continue
take while and blue drilling, at from 20 10 25 c per yard;
Ssv E fc Mrs L S Johnson, aged 6 monthsand 1 day.
True Copy.
and calicoes from 15 to 20c per yard. They are usually
SAMUEL G. DWIGHT.
in want of soap, oil, check shirts, powder, percussion
Ass't Scribe. caps, old lead, carpenter's toola, (fee.
The best season for furnishing yams, is from August to
January; Sweet Potatoes, throughout the year; Irish PoTo Seamen.
tatoes, from December to February, and July to SeptemPORT OF HONOLULU.
The subscriber, a practical seamen and shipmaster,has ber, (two s.asons).
JOHN BUFFETT.
entered upon the duties of a Marine Missionary at large, Honolulu, Feb. 23, 1849.
if
in tbe port of Boston, under the patronage and support of
Arrived.
ithe benevolent, and offers his services to seamen, free of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation,
March Sl--Bhip Hellespont, Manwarlng, of Mysllc,s 7 mo icharge.
in 4 vols.
out, 96 brio. op.
The Office of the mission is at No. 8, Long Wharf,
—Ship Alexander, J. Byon, of New Bedford, 11 mos out, where the scriptures and religious trscts may be had in A few copies of this interesting work, elegantly bound
are
for
sale
at
cloth,
in
sp,
brls
oil.
Joa.
the Study of the Seamen's ChapBlack,
416
late master, died at ses all the languages of Europe, and where ship owners and
Capt.
lain.
on the 21st at Nov. lost.
on
ship
application,
may
obtain
miscellaneous
masters,
7—Ship
Hope,
Christian,
Bedford,
April
New
18 runs out,
This edition is prefaced with the following notice by
Looks, pamphlets, and files of papers for the use of their the author:—
300 sp.
10—Ship Luminary, Norton, Wsrren, 6 mos. out, 30 brls crews, free of expense, and also select Ships'Libraries,
"I have revised this.translation line by line,and word
sp oil.
by paying for them.
by word. It is the only one which I have corrected.
Bag Harbor, 6 mos out, 95 sp.
following are among the duties assumed by the
—Bark Columbia, Sweeny,
The
Signed,
J. H. Merle DAubione."
6 mos. 100.
missionary. He will hold religious or temperance meet—Bark Cavalier, Dexter, Rtonlngton,
March 84—Danish brlgantine Emmy, Oebhanl, from Honr ings on ship-board when invited, either on the Sabbath or
Koag.
of
History
the
Hawaiian
Islands:
at other timet; visit sick or disabled seamen on shore or
37—English brlgsntine Dispatch, Plant, from Sydney.
Embracing their Antiquities, Mythology, Legends,
**—Hamburg brtfantine Chorions. Decker, fin Valparaiso. on board their vcsaaMhod seek to promote their tempor- Discovery by
Eurnpeana in the sixteenth century, re-dis—Am. whale shlpTuscsrora, Leek, Coldsprlng.
ial and spiritual vafBj Book after the pecuniary interests
April 9—Haw octir Starling, Mensles, 28 days from Colum- iof seamen who digHPyMrom home, and correspond with covery by Cook, Willi their Civil, Religious and Political
from
History
River.
the
and
the earliest traditionory period to the presUndine,
bla
Reports In
river ship
bark Anita, itheir friends. To shipwrecked Mariners he will afford
for San Francisco
every assistance in his power, and also to auch seamen ent lime. By JAMES JACKSON JARVES. Third
ship
Splendid,
Cold
Spring, clean
3—Am whsle
Pearson,
to send money to distant friends, or to rie- edition. For sale at Chaplain'a Study. Price, »1,00.
April B—Russian Am, Co's hark Prince Meiiiikon", Rsuda- a* may deaire
posite it in the Seamen's Savings Bank fur salekeeping
cofT, 19 days from Baa Francisco.
Bible* t Bible* 11
9—Steam Propeller Massachusetts, Wood, from New York iagainst a rainy day.
Ia abort, he will aim to promote the great ends of movia Rio se Janeiroand Valparaiso.
the study of the seamen's Chaplain a supply of
At
—Eng. schr. Ellas, Chard. 78 days from Hobart Town.
irality, temperance, religion, and enlarged benevulence, Billies and Testaments ia constantly on hand and for
12—Russian man of war brig Baikal Nievlelskoy, 54 days among those who go dowu to the sea in ships, that da sale.
At present the assortment comprises thoae in th*
from Valparaiso.
English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese,
April 14—Chilean Brlgantlae Lois, Schroedor, from Valpar- business in great waters."
religious
temperSeamen
want
of
the
Bible,
books,
in
Dutch and Welsh languages.
aiso vlaTablts.
ance and other publications, counsel or advice, are invited
a late arrival, some elegantly bound Family
April 14— British schr. Louies, Milton, from Sydney.
April 18—Hawaiian brig Mocieiums, Pfannkuche, 78 days to call at the office of the mission, No. 8 Long Wharf, ops r...-e been, received from the depository of the
Haag
Kong.
Custom
|posite the
from
House.
merican Bible Society, New York. Prices from II to »7A
THOMAS V. SULLIVAN,
April 19—British sell. Osprey, Origgs, S6 days frsrn Port
WalHngtou, New Zelaod.
missy at large in the port of Boston.
Marine
April at. Fr. brig Anonyme, Rshballard, 35 days from Ta. September 1, 1848.
The Friend tent Abroad.
hit!
Any person, by paying the subscription price of the
—Br. bark Lindsays, McKeatie, 90 days from Sydney, N. &
Information
"Wanted.
Friend, (11,60) in advance, can have the paper forwarded
W. for Bas Francisco; put In to stop a leak.
Respecting a young man who shipped in 1845 on board to any part of England or the Uuited Slates, by the earM. Br. brig Velocity, Dixon, 46 days from Valparaiso, with the
Am whaleship Nile, Capt Case,New York, his name liest opportunity.
tf
British Naval Stores.
Theodore Belden, age from 16 to 16 years. By a letter
OUTSIDK—Br. bark Hermes, Corkhlll, 64 days from Hong received from Capt. Case by one of her owners at
Kong for Saa Fraadhoo.
Greenport, dated Sandwich Islands, March 16,1847. alaling that he had left Belden under the charge of the Am.
Sailed.
Monthly Journal devoted toTempera nee,
Any Con- A
April 10—Raw sear Plymouth. Church, for Saa Francisco. Consul, sick, when recovered to be sent home.
Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence.
sul
bad
the
or
having
boy
charge,
auy
nnder
his
other
11—Am schr John Dual**, Bocheliler, San Francisco.
PUBLISHED AMD EDITED BY
person having information respecting him, will confer s
—Chilean brlgaatlae Brls ds Junlo, Hob.on, do.
April 16—Hawaliaa schr. Joaephlne, Brlckwood, for Saa lasting favor upon an anxious mother by communicating SAMUEL C. DAMON, SEAMEN'S CHAPLAIN.
it to H B Haswell, Esq, 86. South Pearl Street, Albauy,
FIBBSISLU.
JTIINI.
April 17—V. 8. Transport Msssachusetu, Wood, for Colum. NY.
Ma river.
One copy per annum,
»l,60
Notice
Lahaina
Aaru 18-Brltlsh schr. Louisa, Miltoa, lor Baa Praaciseo.
to
Subscribers.
Two copies per annum,
2,60
The Rbv. Mb. Ta y lor will now act a* Agent for the Five copies per annum,
6,00
goo
Friend," at Lahaina, and the irregularity which ha* at- Tea copies per aaaum,
SPOKEN,
March 11, off Galllpagoa Islands, spoka ship Massachusetts. tended the forwarding of your papers, it i* hoped, will no CS* Single copies and bound volumes for 1,2,3,4
longer
be
a
a
ndl
he
7
experienced. Mr. T. will employ carrier,
year* may
obtained at the Study of the Chapwho will deliver the paper.
lain.
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