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FTHE RIEND.
HONOLULU, MARCH 1, 1850.

Vol. 8.

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No. S

deaux, and more especially Muscat wine, tory would be enriched through the assiduiseemed perfectly to their taste, notwithstand- ty of Messrs. Eydoux and Gaudichand, by a
ing the temperance laws established in the great number of interesting discoveries. As
Page 17, 13
Visll of French ship Bonite,
We also had a specimen of the in- the mows on the summit of MaunaLoa and
country.
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Dreadful auflVrinj at Sea,
fluence exerted over this people by the Mis- its famous crater, said to be twenty-five
1*
Plymouth in 1627,
sionaries. Dining with us one day, in com- miles in circumference, had been for a long
20
Proposed Museum,
pany with Mr. Forbes and Kapiolani, Kua- time the subject of our conversation and the
20 kini scarcely dared to pourthe least quantity object of our desires, we all lamented the
Grot Ration and Flogging In U. S. N.,
*1 ot wine into his water ; but when Mr. Forbes necessity of the sacrifice.
Prayers ai Sea.
was not present, he carefully avoided having Nothing can be more picturesque than
Chaplain's Report,
22,
23
any water put into his wine. Yet Kuakini, Hawaii, as it appears from the sea. Near
Sabbath Wrecka, a Scottish Legend,
broken and the soil
23 they say, is utterly opposed to the missiona- the shore it is very much
Temperance Men Overboard,
covered with richest
and
where
appears
every
He
reads
understands
English
ries.
24
Statistics reapecting 11. 8
and accuses them of not having vegetation ; but the eastern and northern
24 very wall,
Sir John Rosa'arrival, arc,
translated the Bible faithfully. As to poor part of the Island is much more pleasant and
Kapiolani, she never made the slightest ges- fertile than the part we visited, which is alVisit of the French sloop of war ture, without a glance at Mr. and Mrs. most entirely destitute of running water.*—
The inhabitants of Kealakeakua are under
Bonite, to the
Forbes.
Sandwich Islands, in 1836.
population of Hawaii scarcely amounts the necessity of going five or six miles for
90,- their water, or else of drinking that which is
Translated for the Friend, from the French oj to 29,000—when discovered it exceeded
-000. The causes of this fearful diminution brackish in no slight degree. Water might
Adolphe Barrot.
we will investigate before closing this article. easily be conducted from the mountain to the
NO. 111.
The weather at the shore is very warm, Fah- sea by means of pipes ; the rspid descent of
Kuakini visits the Bonite his appearance and renheit's thermometer ranging generally be- land being very favorable ; but a long time
character his appetite andfondnessfor wine tween 86Q and 89°, (about 25*of Reaumur's) will pass before the inhabitants of this Island
a specimen of Missionary influence pop- while at the upper village the air was fresh can be in a condition to perform such a work.
ulation
Hawaii—6urto/ places expedi- ', and pure, a sea breeze was felt, and the at- The eastern and northern parts of the Island
tion to Mauna Loa given up, and consequent mosphere seemed entirely different.
are well watered ; there are many streams
disappointment the Volcano and the God- On my first going ashore, I had observed and many ponds of sweet wster which serve
dess Pele located in the eastern part of the numerous holes in the precipice which over- ss reservoirs for the regular inundations of
Island the writer visits Kailua the church looks the bay. These holes seemed to me the taro patches. The inhabitants ofthis part
scene in the house of Kuakini the Fort to be the work of the natives, nor was I de- ofthe Island are much more numerous than
arrival at Honolulu the Government alarm- ceived. They are sepulchres for their dead. where we visited, and the climate is also beted—visit from the King's secretary.
The excavation is usually closed up with ter. It is in the eastern part that the famous
sublime head
During our stay at Kealakeakua we were wood worky There is at the present time in volcano, Mauna Kea, raises its
the inits
eruptions,
keeps
Forbes
a
and
frequent
resides,
of
Hawaii
and
the
where
by
Mr.
Kuakini,
Governor
village
visited by
of
alarm.
Here
state
who
die
a
constant
in
in
where
those
are
buried
habitants
one of the principal chiefs of the Sandwich cemetery
the Goddess Pele has her residence. The
Islands. He resides at Kailua, and is (veil t the Presbyterian religion.
the
known by the name of " John Adams." He The principal object of our coming to Ke- traditions concerning this divinity of
been
related
so
in
inwere
have
;
not
we
Sandwich
Islands
accomplished
came in his double canoe-, managed by a alakeakua was
Dumont d'Urville
M.
by
of
a
manner
teresting
He
is
of
six
to
our
design
exploring
stout
Indians.
a
man
obliged
relinquish
of
score
Lon. From all the in- in his Voyage around the World," that I
feet and three inches ; a blue vest, grey pan- the summit of Mannaobtain,
it was evident should only impair the poetic picture of this
taloons, shoes without stockings, and a straw formation we could
circumstances,
our
intended ex- navigator by undertaking to repeat them.
We
had
that
our
in
his
accoutrement.
hat, constituted
We
were assuWe sailed Oct. 6th, and at noon we were
fine
was
impracticable.
pedition
been previously informed concerning his
red that it would take eight days at least, to off Kailua, the residence of Governor Kuauniform and his large epaulettes.
who had come on before us. The corKuakini speaks very good English, and reach the summit of Mauna Loa, and nearly kini,
vette
lay
represented,
to, and we went on shore. As we
a
time
to
return.
They
has the reputation of being an intelligent, as long
three or four hours, we
but at the same time, an avaricious man.— with exaggeration I doubt not, the dangers could remain only
of our time. We
to
the
roost
meet
with
our
exmake
in
his
and
we
should
wished
i
however,
of
avarice
obstacles
There was no proof
church,
the
which was uncould
not
first
to
visit
last
went
consideration
in his sale of provisions to the Bonite. We cursion. This
of stone, and ia the work
were informed, it is true, that these provi- ■ have the least influence on the determination finished. It is built It is one hundred and
sions cost him nothing, except the trouble of'ofthe gentlemen who had planned the rara- of an Englishman.length, forty-eight feet in
sending his people for them among the poor ble ; but time was wanting. The days of twenty-five feet inare about twenty-four feet
islanders ; audi is the custom of the country our stay at Hawaii were numbered ; in two width, its walls
of the steeple is one hunthe chiefs may lay claim to every thing.—■ months we were under the necessity of being high and the height
the resi- dred and thirty feet. The interior ia finishKuakini received from the corvette a certainiat Manilla. We had to visit Oahu,chances
of ed with a good degree of elegance. It is furquantity of iron in bars and some tools. He dence of the King. The ordinary
with a broad gallery of carved wood,
our
much
lonnamed.
the
sea
render
might
voyage
was accompanied by another chief
1 than we anticipated, and we were com- nished
containing seats for a part of the congregaHekili, (thunder,) not surpassed by the Gov- ger
our
tion. The pulpit or desk of the missionary
came
to
abandon
Our
project.
young
every
stature.
pelled
ernor himself in
They
the
is
of koa, a wood slightly resembling maofficers,
Gaudichand,
especially
M.
and
day on board the Bonite, the table and thei
it
exhogany. In fine, a person here might imwine of which, having, no doubt, strong at- botanist of the expedition, regretted
was
that
tbe
I
Indeed,
certain
sgine himself in an European temple, and
was
ceedingly.
intractions for them. Their appetite
followed
the
most of our villages are fsr from having
ofMauna
Loa
would
be
satiable, and in perfect keeping with their exploration
tt» that of Kailua.—
immense corpulency. The wine of Bor-■ with beneficial results, and that natural his- churches comparable
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Kuakini went with us to show us the ohurch, [two ringers into the paste, they give the hand right and left of the harbor are coral reefs,
appearing very proud of what he called his a circular motion until a sufficient quantity over which the sea breaks with violence and
enjoying our is collected, when it is conveyed to the mouth. which are almost entirely covered at high
" raoeumeot,"Heaadthenevidently
admiration.
took us to his house, Daring the repast, their attendants observed water. Through these reefs is an opening
which appeared very much like that of Ka- them with respectful silence. When the seventy or eighty fathoms wide, and this is
piolani. Extended curtains of English cali- calabashes were emptied, a servant took the the entrance of the harbor. Natives were
co concealed the secret apartments of the one Which contained the poi—then collecting advancing on these reefs even to the breakwomen from vulgar eyea. Upon the estrade with his fingers the morsels that had been ers, where some were bathing, some fishing,
of honor, was lying at full length, a gigantic left adhering to the sides, he formed there- and others wen taking shell-fish.
Our arrival, as we were afterwards informwoman, clad in a gown of azure satin. I with a ball so attractive that Kuakini swaled, occasioned the Government some alarm.
never saw any thing more monstrous or more lowed it in a twinkling.
hideous than this woman. It was Mrs. KuaWe were so much the more surprised at It was supposed that we had come to demand
kini. Her height could not be less than five Mrs. Kuakini's appetite, as her husband had satisfaction for the arbitrary sending away
feet and ten inches, and she was completely just informed us that she was dangerously ofthe French Catholic Missionaries. Scarceround. All the chiefs that I have seen ap- sick, and had requested Dr. Eydoux to see ly had we cast anchor, when the King's Sepear to belong to a gigantic race. To be her. Her illness appearing to be simply the cretary, accompanied by the American Consmall and lank is, with them, a mark of low result of excessive corpulence and unbroken sul and the Editor of the Oahu Gazette, came
birth. M. Eydoux and myself passed among indolence, the Doctorrecommended exercise on board, in order, doubtless, to find out the
the islanders for great personages, and we and attention to diet ; two prescriptions real object of our arrival ; for, as soon as he
were much more respected by them than if which it would be difficult for her to put in was informed that our mission was of a
we had been destitute of such a degree of practice, as Kuakini informed us. That she peaceful character entirely, his countenance,
corpulence as never fails to incommode us in could not move without difficulty, was suffi- which betokened much solicitude when he
this hot latitude. To attain to this so much ciently evident, and from the manner in which came on board, assumed a joyous expression.
desired corpulence, nothing can be better a- she devoured her dinner, half an hour after Few canoes had put off from the shore to
dapted than the manner of living in vogue the Doctor's prescription, we could judge visit us, and it was easy to perceive that the
with the chiefs. They pass their lives, so to that she would not, voluntarily, impose any arrival of a large ship, and even of a ship of
, war, was no new thing at Honolulu. We
speak, reclining on their mats ; very seldom restraint upon her appetite.
do they take a walk, and they eat from mornAfter their Excellencies had finished their could already perceive a great difference in
dinner, we went to visit the Fort, in which the clothing and manners of the natives.
ing till night.
A numerous company surrounded the es- are about twenty pieces ofartillery of differ- The Secretary of the King wore a frock coat
trade of honor. The young daughter ofKu- ent calibres, mounted on wooden carriages. and a military cap ; his watch-guard was a
akini was squatting near her mother. A In the interior ofthe fort is the morai, or sa- black ribbon, and his shirt of figured camnumber of women were waving kahilis above cred house, where are deposited the remains brick was becoming.
the princesses, in order to keep away the of Kamehameha, the founder of the present Honolulu has become the seat of Governflies, which, in revenge, came to devour us. dynasty. Wooden gods, with unseemly fea- ment ; it is the entrepot of the commerce of
The principal inhabitants of Kailua were re- tures, are stationed as sentinels at the cor- the whole country. Of this we were conclining upon mats around the room. Kua- ners and seem to forbid approach. These vinced when, on our arrival, we saw at ankini seated himself upon a settee, and mo- are the last external vestiges of the old reli- chor many English and American ships distioned us to take some chairs placed near gion.
charging their cargoes, or taking on board
him. We were very thirsty, for the heat Tbe aspect of Kailua, although considered the products of the Islands. Yet it was the
was excessive, and we had been two hours at the capital of Hawaii, did not give us a very season when the smallest number of vessels
least, in the boat ; but Kuakini did not seem favorable idea of the civilization of the in- are found in port ; and we have since learnto think of our wants. He who had received habitants. A few huts, scattered here and ed that the whalers, who come here for rea thousand attentions every time he came on there, without order or symmetry ; a crowd freshments or repairs, generally arrive in
board, and who seemed to regard as excel- of ragged men and women following us every November and February, and that somelent the wines which were always offered where and watching even our slightest mo- times there are thirty or forty ships in the
him, thought not to provide the refreshments tions with fatiguing curiosity—this is what harbor. The American sloop of war Peawe so much needed. We were under the we found at Kailua, and what we w«re des- cock, bearing the broad pennant of Com.
necessity of asking him for water, and this tined to find sgain at Honolulu, the capital Kennedy, was in port ; as also many Hadecided him to order us some Madeira.
of the Sandwich Islands, for which place we waiian vessels, among which we noticed a
Before leaving we enjoyed the pleasure of were about lo sail.
brig of American construction. This was
seeing the Governor and his family take their At daybreak, Oct. Bth, we were in sight of the King's yacht, and was called Harrietdinner ; but he was v«rj careful not to give Oahu, and at six o'clock we cast anchor out- ts," after his sister—much belter'*known by
us an invitation. Ho perceived without side of the reef, which forms the harbor of her true name, Nahienaena.
doubt, that wo should find difficulty in adapt- Honolulu. The appearance of Oahu is more
ing ourselves to his manner of eating, and pleasant than that of Hawaii ; the land is
Dreadful Suffering at Sea.
truly, there is nothing more disgusting. A more broken, less striking perhaps, but more We have received a letter from Capt. Hosglance only at their food might suffice to varied, more verdant, and more picturesque. mer, late master of the whaling bark Janet,
drive appetite away. It consisted of baked The town of Honolulu is situated on the sea- of Westport, furnishing an account of the
pork, salted fish uncooked, and poi, which, shore, in the midst of a rich plain, five or six privations and sufferings of a boat's crew beamong the Islanders, is the staff of life miles long and two broad. We could per- longing to the Janet, comprising the captain
without poi, they do not make a single meal. ceive back of the town and upon Ihe slopesiand five others, which is almost without parEach sort of food was contained in an enor- of the hills, numerous taro patches. The allel in the annals of the whale fishery. It
mous calabash. Kuakini stretched himself town has a sort of European aspect. To theiis substantially as follows :
at full length near his agreeable wife, and right of the harbor is a white-washed fort, ** On the coast of Peru, June 28, 1849, in
then commenced a sort of contest to see who through the embrasures of which we saw latitude 3Q north, longitude 104° west, while
should eat the most ravenously and with the thirty cannons of all sizes, whose muzzles, cruising for whales, a shoal of sperm whales
furthest remove from neatness. Each, in painted red, seemed any thing but formida- appeared in sight from the Janet, and three
turn, thrust bis fingers into the calabashes ble. In the midst of the scattered houses boats lowered in pursuit. Capt. Hosmer's
for food. This surprised me, for at our ta- are seen a number of lookouts, steeples and i boat's crew consisted of himself, Francis
ble Kuakini bad shown that he was far from cocoa-nut trees. We perceived at a dis- Hawkins,, third mate ; Edward H. Charlez,
being unacquainted with the use of knives, tance, white fronts, green balconies androofs i Joseph Cortez, Daniel Thompson, and Jamea
forks and spoons. One cannot imagine the built in tbe European manner ; while the Fairman, seamen, It blowing fresh at tbe
of pork, of fish aad of poi, which green hills which overlooked tbe harbor, ex- time, the boats soon separated, each having
auantity
lis monstrous couple devoured. Were I to tended to the horizon. On ourright were two imade fast to a whale. After Capt. Hosmet
attempt to give an idea of it, I should be craters, one of which is called the "Punch had succeeded in " turning up" bis whale
afraid of being charged with exaggeration. Bowl ;" the summit of this is indented and and was towing him to the ship, from some
All the calabashes were emptied in a trice. forms embrasures, whess) cannon of a very inadvertence on the part of the third mate in
The manner of eating poi, is this—plunging large calibre have been stationed. On the putting about, the boat capsized with loss of

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boat keg, lantern keg, boat bucket, compass, south. On the eleventh day, another of the
PlyDAmeisocuroitnphnf 1827.
paddles, etc. The crew succeeded in right- number died from exhaustion. It was found
ing the boat, and lashed the oars to the necessary to pursue a more northerly course By Isaac dc
Rasieres, Dutch Ambassador
thwarts across the boat to prevent her from in the hope of rain, none having fallen duthe AW Netherlands to JVew Plyoverturning, she being filled with water, and ring the last four days. On they next day from
mouth. A lately discovered document.
they were favored with another shower, and
the sea continually breaking over her.
Plymouth lies on the slope of a hill
was
New
"Two waifs, or flags, were immediately this benefaction
followed by the remarkset as a signal of distress, the other two boats able circumstance of a dolphin leaping from stretching east towards the sea-coast, with a
being in sight at a distance of about one and among its finny companions directly into the broad street about a cannon shot or 800
a half miles.
Capt. Hosmer taw the other boat. Several birds also approached so near [yards] long, leading down the hill ; with a
two boats take their whales alongside of the to the boat ss to fall a prey to the necessities [street | crossing in the middle, northwards
bark, which was then kept off in the direc- of the crew, administering greatly to their to the rivulet, and southwards, to the land.
tion for his boat, but when within about one relief. On the 13th of July, land was dis- The houses are constructed of hewn planks,
mile of him, they kept off on another course covered in an easterly direction, which proved with gardens which are also enclosed beuntil sun-down. The crew of the captain's to be Cocus Island, (uninhabited,) lying in hind and at the sides with hewn planks, so
that their* houses and court-yards are arboat then got on to the whale alongside and 5° 27 north and 87a 15 west.
tried to bail the boat, but could not succeed. Capt. Hosmer and the other survivors suc- ranged in very good order, with a stockade
They then cut the line attached to the whale, ceeded in reaching it, but in an almost help- against a sudden attack ; and at the ends
and succeeded in setting some pieces of the less condition. They however, caught a pig of the slreets there arc three wooden gates.
boat sail and steered towards the bark, then and drank its blood, which revived their ex- In the centre, on the cross street, stands the
about three miles distant. During the night hausted strength, and also obtained a plenti- Governor's house, before which is a square
they saw a light at intervals, and in the morn- ful supplyof birds and fresh water. After re- inclosure, upon which four patereros [steening the bark was about the same distance off. maining two days upon the island, they were stucked) are mounted, so as to flank along
Every expedient was resorted to by making overjoyed by witnessing the approach of a the streets. Upon the hill they have a large
signals to attract the attention of those on boat, which belonged to the ship Leonidas, square house, with a flat roof made of thick
board the bark, but in vain. They saw them whaler, Capt. Swift, then lying at Chatham sawn plank, staged'with oak beams, upon
" cutting in" the whales, and apparently in- Bay, for the purpose of procuring wood and the top of which they have six cannons,
different to the fate of their comrades. In water, and were relieved from their dreadful which shoot iron balls offour or five pounds,
this perilous condition the unfortunate boat's sufferings by being taken on board the ship and command the surrounding country. The
crew made another attempt to bail the water and treated with every possible attention and lower part they use for their church, where
they preach on Sundays and the usual holifrom the boat, but owing to their consterna- kindness.
tion, they did not succeed. They then con"The names of those who perished on days. They assemble by beat of the drum,
tinued on their course as before, hoping to board the boat, are Francis Hawkins, third each with his musket or firelock, in front of
regain the bark, but soon found that she re- mate, of Augusta, Me ; James Fairman, of the Captain's door ; they had their cloaks
ceded from them, and it was then determin- Ohio, Daniel Thompson of Philadelphia, Ed- on, and place themselves in order three
ed to put about to the wind and remain, what- ward H. Charlez, place of residence un- abreast, and are led by a sergeant without
beat of drum.
ever the consequences might be. On the known, seamen.
second morning, the weather being more faCapt. Hosmer renders his grateful ac- Behind comes the Governor, in a long
vorable, all the whale craft was thrown over- knowledgments to Capt. Swift of the Leoni- robe ; beside him on the right hand, comes
board, and another attempt was made to bail das, and also to Capt. Cleavelandof the bark the preacher, with his cloak on ; and, on the
the boat, which resulted in Ihe loss of one Valparaiso, both of New Bedford, for their left hand, the Captain with bis side arms and
man, and without accomplishing the purpose. prompt and generous efforts in administering cloak on, and a small cane in his hand,—and
The effort was renewed again in the after- to the relief of himself and his companion. so they march in good order and each sets
noon, the weather being yet more favorable, Capt. Hosmer arrived at Payta, August 21st, his arms down near him. Thus they are
and they finally succeeded in freeing the boat from which place his letter to us is dated. constantly on their guard night and day.
Their government is after the English
from water, but with the loss of another of We have also been favored with an exher erew—all on board having been up to tract of a letter from James A. Crowell, late form. The Governor has his council, which
their arms in water during the last forty-eight first mate of the Janet, to Henry Wilcox, is chosen every year by the entire commnhours. Two of the survivors were seized owners' agent, in Westport, dated at Payta, nily, by election or prolongation of term.
with delerium ; all of them having been with- August Ist. Mr. Cowell, after mentioning In inheritance they place all the children in
out a morsel of food or drink, and suffering the fact of the three boats putting off for one degree, only the eldest son has an acknowledgment for his seniority of birth.—
painfully from thirst. Thus disabled, no one whales, as above stated, adds :
on board being able to ply at the oars, and "At 3 p. m. I had my whale alongside, They have made stringent laws and ordiwith only a small fragment of the boat's sail and soon the ship came to me, and when I nances upon the subject of fornication and
remaining, it was determined to make for got on board, there was but one boat in sight, adultery, which laws they maintain and enCocus Island, on the Peruvian coast, a dis- and that was five miles to leeward of the ship. force very strictly ; indeed, even among
tance of about one thousand miles, as the I went down to it with the ship, and found the tribes which live amongst them. They
nearest land. Accordingly, the piece ofthe that it was the second mate's boat. He had [tbe English] spesk very angrily when they
sail was used to the best advantage, and the seen Capt. Hosmer two hours previously fast bear from tbe savages that we should live so
these respects, and without
ceiling ofthe boat was torn up and also em- to a whale, and went to the leeward of him barbarously inTheir
farms are not so good
punishment.
steered
last
seen
his
they
as
a
wind
and
when
from
boat.
We
proceedpropeller,
ployed
ours,
ss
because
are more stony, and
they
direction.
ed
the
direction
Which
the
boat
in
in
captain's
Capt. Hosmer
in a north-easterly
writes nothing occurred worthy of remark had been seen, and lay to all night with all consequently not so suitable for the plough.
until the seventh day, the crew having in the sails set, and with all our lights fixed. In They apportion their land according aa each
meantime been without a particle offood and the morning we saw nothing ofthe boat. We has means to contribute to tbe Eighteen
drink, and not a drop of rain having fallen. cruised three days, but unfortunately without Thousand Guilders which they have proIn this dreadful state of suffering, it was mu- any trace of her. In the meantime, four of mised to those who have them out ; whereby
tually agreed to cast lots as to which of the our hands were sick from fatigue, and we they have their freedom without rendering
number should be sacrificed to proloag the were under the necessity of making the best an account te any one ; only if tbe King
lives of his companions, and the unfortunate of our way to this port, (Payta.) We had should choose to send a Governor General,
victim upon whom the lot fell met his fate taken one hundred barrels ofoil for tbe last they would be obliged to acknowledge him
with perfect resignation and willingness. At ten days previously, and lost two hundred as sovereign chief. The maize seed which
the close ofthe day, a shower ofrain proved barrels, during the same time by losing lines. they do not require for tbeir own use, is dea very great additional relief. Being with- I expect the captain's boat was taken down livered to the Governor at three guilders the
out compass or instruments of any kind, Capt. by a foul line, as he bad a new line in his bushel, who, in his turn, sends it in sloops
skins tynong
Hosmer was compelled to rely entirely upon boat coiled two days previous to the accident. to the North, for the trade inone
of
his judgment respecting the course, aided We saved one whale the day tbe accident the savages. They reckonbeaverbushel
only by an occasional glimpse of the North happened, and lost another that night."— maize against one pound of made skin : in
according
the first place, a division is
rolling swell of the sea from the Sailor's Magazine. -Dee. 1849.

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to what each has contributed, and they are prison, alms-house, and gallows? On the this description are calculated tosrouie pubcredited for the amount in the account of principle that the laborer should be proud of lic attention :—the frigate Independence duwhat each has to contribute yearly towards his work, Dr. Sewell's plates representing ring her late cruise in Ihe Pacific, was abthe reduotion of his obligation ; then, with
the remainder they purchase what next they the effects of alcohol upon the human stom- sent nine hundred and ninety-six days, and
require, and which the Governor takes care iach, should adorn the apartments of the ma- during that period forty-five thousand eight
hundred and thirty lashes were inflicted, or
to provide every year. They have better |ker and vender of ardent spirits.
means of living than ourselves, because they If all those engaged in the manufacture more than two dozen, per diem. In view of
have the fish so abundant before their doors. and sals of
intoxicating liquors throughout this statement, Com. Stewart wrote a letter
There are also many birds, such as geese,
herons, and cranes, and other small-legged ithe world, were to combine and establish a declaring that if " our naval service could
birds, which are in great abundance there splendid Museum for an exhibition of their not be maintained without such means, he
in the winter.
works and the fruit of their labors, what a thought the wisest course would be lo break
collection of "subjects" and variety of it up altogether " The advocates for flogFRIEND,
victims " might be easily gathered! Only ging and grog-rations assert that the former
"think
of it, reader; the British Museum is necessary to maintain good discipline, and
HONOLULU, MARCH 1, IQSO.
would no longer rank "No. I." Just im- the latter to keep sailors in the service! To
Proposed Museum.
agine all the drunkards, or rather their "em- this it is replied, if the present rate of wages
AH classes of laborers and artizans may balmed remains," (preserved in alcohol) will not induce seamen of " good" character
rightfully claim the reward and honor of the gathered in one spacious temple dedicated to to enlist, then raise the wages, and obtain
work of their hands. The farmer tilling the Alcohol ! Imagine, then, distillers, whole- men that will do their duty without being
soil and producing a fine crop of grain, is sale dealers,
retailers, and the whole frater- " drugged or flogged." If it is proper to
justly proud of his labor and industry. The nity of bottle-washers serving as door- flog a seaman for drunkenness, why not an
" the numerous officer ?—thus argue the opposers of flogmechanic skilfully making a watch, a car- keepers "and cicerones, upon
riage, an article of furniture, an house, or public invited to witness the exhibition of ging. We opine, if a law should be passed
any instrument demanding mechanical skill, rum's doings !"
by Congress that all commodores, post-cap"
may justly feel a conscious pride, in being a Report says, that rumsellers in California, tains, commanders, lieutenants and midshipgood workman, and the community will |have things very much after their own way, men, proved guilty of intoxication, should be
award him due praise. The man of science if so, then San Francisco
might be consid- punished by " a dozen," the flogging system
guards with a jealous eye any discoveries,ered the most advantageous spot for the pro- in the Navy would very soon go " by tbe
which he may make in the field of scientific posed Museum ; yes, let it face on Ports- board." It is perhaps worse for Jack to get
research. The author places his name, mouth Square ! The different halls or wings drunk titan for a captain to get " excited"
( with its titles ) upon the title-page of his of the establishment might be appropriately or for a marine to get intoxicated than for a
books. Tbe orator, the statesman and the named, "European," "Asiatic," "Ameri- lieutenant to get " a little tight."
philanthropist readily secure a tribute of,can," "Polynesian." The small apartments, The following is the letter of Com. Stewpraise from their fellow men. On the same or alcoves might be called after the great art referred to. It was addressed to Barnaprinciple, why should not the maker and |towns, or cities, for example, in European bas Bates, Esq. of Philadelphia.
"
vender of intoxicating liquors be equally Hall," and alcove "London"might be
Philadelphia, July 28, 1849.
found
proud of their achievements? Why should placed for exhibition specimens of inebriates My dear Sir—l am in receipt of your favor of the 22d inst, with the enclosed slip
not the miserable drunkard be paraded by forwarded
by Mr. Redface, keeper of Gin containing a statement of the flogging on
them, before the world, as an illustration of
Palace, in street so and so. In " American board the United States ship Independence,
their skill and labor in transforming the man Hall" and alcove
her last cruise. The number of lashes
"Boston," specimens on
stated to have been inflicted, appears to me
of intelligence, wealth and refinement, into forwarded by Mr.
Break-the-pledge, keeper
a companion for the inmates of the sty?—.of Brigham's Saloon. In "Asiatic Hall" to have been enormous—the amount (45--830,) certainly
with it an amount of
Why should not the rich distiller and the and alcove " Calcutta," specimens forward- depravity in the carries
crew, or one of oppression
wholesale dealer in London or Boston, when ed by several East India merchants. In and cruelty in the commander, wholly unhis drawing rooms and parlors are bril- Polynesian Hall " and alcove "Honolulu," warrantable. That there is tyranny and of"
ficers of cruelty in the service, there can be
liantly lighted, and the sideboards groan specimens
forwarded by
"
"
no doubt, and I think I have pointed out, in
beneath the beautiful array of decanters, in- The plan, you will perceive, reader, is my letters on naval
subjects, (to Secretary
troduce amidst the gayeties of the scene, a
very simple, and although involving consid- Upshur, some time since,) Ihe primary cause
victim that the policeman is conducting from erable
their existence in the Navy, and how they
expense, it might be defrayed by the of
have been fostered through the recruiting
the gutter to the watch-house? On such an
enormous profits of the traffic. Should it,
or the existing system. The experioccasion, how appropriately the distiller or however, fail, we would propose as a substi- service
ence of the naval service has demonstrated
wholesale dealer might remark, " Gentle- tute, an exhibition of San
Francisco Ceme- the necessity of some prompt and effective
men and Ladies, Look at my fellow citizen itery !
mode of restraining insubordination in the
men, and thereby
about to find lodging at the public expense,
the essential disLet "touch not, taste not, handle not," cipline ofthe
navalpreserve
service.
and enjoy the hospitality of the city authori- jbe
your motto, reader, for death is in the If this cannot be effected, the wisest policy
ties. I am extensively engaged in making |bottle !
would be to break up the Navy, and save the
such wrecks of humanity! I am this week
millions drained from the Treasury for its
shipping spirituous liquors to Africa, Asia, Abolition ofthe Grog-ration support, extinguish its cruelty and oppresand Flogging in the U. S. Navy. sion, and put an end to a service so wholly
and the Sandwich Islands."
and completely aristocratic, that it has not,
Why should not the retailer secure the In several late political and religious pa- even under monarchs,
its equal in existence.
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services of a skillful painter, and have por- pers from the United States, we have read Some portion of blame for this exhibit of setrayed upon his sign-board a drunkard dy- Ithe reports of public meetings upon this sub- verity may be attached to the law governing
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ing in all the horrors of "delirium tremens,";ject, which appears to be exciting more at- the naval service ; it leaves no discretion in
the mode of punishing ; many slight irreguand in the back ground, have sketched a itention than at any former period. Facts of larities
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'necessary to appropriate

out the lash, hut the law requires whipping'
to the extent of, or not to exceed, twelve

to

lashes. The officers, therefore, by law, are
confined to whipping, and cannot punish
otherwise, as it would be unlawful, and they
liable to prosecution.
I hope the Congress, before they act in
either the case of withholding the seamen's
allowance of grog, or the lash, will consult
with such of the officers on the subject in
whom they have confidence, or cause a more'
suitable code of rules and regulations for the
naval service aa will govern it more efficiently, and render it more appropriate to the national object for which it is established and

defray the incidental

a sufficient amount
expenies of the es-

tablishment, including sexton's salary, lighting the Chapel, he. At this date, ( Feb.
20, 1850,) there is a debt for painting and
incidental expenses, of $122 88.
The Chaplain would here insert the following note suggested, by the announcement
in the February No. of the Friend, that the
Chapel debt was paid:
Rosebank, 20th Feb., 1860.
Mr Dear and Reverend Fbiend:—l
have this moment read in the Friend of the
supported.
Ist inst., (hat the debt of $3,101 41, created
I hope Congress the next session, will
by the enlargement of the Bethel Chapel, is
advance towards your object of cheap postnow all paid. Having attended the meetings
age ; hitherto it lias been, fromits enormous
which the enlargement was discussed, I
at
expense, highly oppressive to the business
much admired the spirit with which several
community. It is time we should be releasCaptains ofAmerican whalers, insisted upon
ed from the whole support of the post estab-j
preserving the Chapel, as one belonging by
lishment ; they have already taken one good
to seamen, and only open through
right,
step towards it.
courtesy to Foreign Residents. Taking that
1 am very much pleased to hear from you,
ground, which was a very just one, they virmy good friend, and hope you will forward
tually pledged themselves to carry you
me the copy of the dialogue.
Acthrough with the enlargement, independent
cept the assurances of my high respect and
of the foreign community, and therefore I
esteem, from your obliged friend.
abstained from contributing any thing to the
Charles Stewart.
expenses of that enlargement, lest I should
be
understood as implying a doubt that the
Prayers at Sea.—Our own observation is
and respectable body of the Captpowerful
precisely similar to that of " Observer" in
ains of American whalers frequenting Honthe following communication. Having freolulu, would fully redeem their pledge.
Front view of the Seamen's Chapel, Honolulu.
quently passed from island to island of this
I understand they have redeemed it, and I
since they commenced the good work
believe
we
cannot
now
rein
vessels,
native
group
Chaplain's Report.
of so providing for the spiritual interests of
collect the instance where prayeTs were not Below will be found a summary statement their
crews, Providence has signally favored
offered, either morning or evening, and some- of the expenditures and receipts relating to the exertions of these crews, in the adventimes on both occasions. The practice has the late alterations and repairs upon the Sea- turous fishery which they pursue in this
ocean. If I remember right, some one, at
always deeply impressed our mind, and led men's Chapel.
us to regret that the practice was not more 'aid for altering and repairing Chapel, including erec- the meetings aforesaid, ventured to predict
that it would be so.
common among that portion of the sea-faring tion of Reading and Vestry Rooms,
2,944 41
But, as one of the Foreign Residents, who
100 00 through courtesy, have been permitted to sit
community professing a far higher degree of 'aid for eight pairs of blinds,
57 00 in the Seamen's Chapel, and who have parenlightenment and civilization than the na- 'aid interest on loan,
tives ofthe Sandwich Islands !
$3,101 41 ticipated in the religious instruction dispensEditor of the Friend.—l have on sev- teceived from Subscribers on board ninety one Amer- ed by you, as Chaplain, every Sunday, I beg
now to be allowed to aend you $20, to be aperal occasions, voyaged among the Islands ican whale ships,
1,518 63
plied, at your discretion, to the incidental
in native vessels, and have never been in one teceived from subscribers on board Amerexpenses of your very useful Chaplaincy.
where either the native captain or some pious ican merchant vessels,
113 50
•
Hoping that you may be spared many
sailor did not, morning and night, offer up a deceived from subscribers in the United
years, to labor in this community, preaching
prayer to God, and commend the crew and States Navy,
141 00 and distributing religious tracts and books,
passengers to His keeping, who holds the tccerved from subscribers in the United
to the seamen of all nations, conferring with
winds in His fists and the sea in the hollow Statas Revenue
30 00 and advising them and visiting them while
Service,
of His hand.
teceived from subscribers on board Britsick, as assiduously as it is your custom to
But how different the case on board the
ish merchant and whaleships,
75
142
do,
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schooner Sophia, an account of whose loss
from subscribers on board ships
I remain my dear and Rev. friend,
with the captain and several of her crew, teceived
the English Navy,
00
in
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Yours respectfully,
the
last
was published in
Polynesian. A teceived from subscribers on board GerR. C. WYLLIE.
clergyman being a passenger on board, man vessels,
57 50 Rev. Samuel C. Damon, Seamen's Chapprayers were offered by him, but they elicit- teceived from subscribers on board
lain, &c, &.c, etc.
Chilied the mockery ofthe captain and his foreign
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an vessels,
11 00
associates.
New Seamen's Chaplaincy.—Another
from subscriber* on board BusNow mark the result. No sooner were his teceived
has just been established by the
Chaplaincy
4 50 American Seamen's
passengers landed, than his vessel is driven sian vessels,
Friends' Society, in the
teceived
from
the
American Seamen's
from her anchors, and in a fierce tempest she!
port of South America—Rio
most
important
497 13 do Janeiro. The number of arrivals of vesgoes down, taking with her those who bud Friend Society,
impiously mocked the worshippers of Jeho- teceived from various sources, as acsels there from foreign countries in 1848,
567 41 was
vah, and they 'vere thus unprepared ushered knowledged in the Friend,
1147 ; coastwise arrivals, 2402—making
into His holy presence !
3549 in a year. The Rev. J. Morris Pease,
•3,101
13,101 41 Chaplain, is about sailing from this port to
How sad the thought! For He has said
I will laugh at your calamity, and mock In connection with the above statement, raise there the standard of the cross, and tell
" your fear cometh 1 When your fear
when
the Chaplain would remark that during the its story to the thousands of ocean wanderers.
cometh, and sudden destruction is upon period
the meantime, the Rev. T. H. Newton,
(of two years and three months ) In
ypu !" Truly "the ungodly shall not live
commissioned by the same Society, will ocout half their days !" Oh, that men were which he has been collecting funds for liqui- cupy the Chaplaincy at St. Thomas, in the
wise!
Observer. dating the debt upon the Chapel, it has been West Indieß.—JV. T. Observer.

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THE FRIEND, MARCH 1, 1850their power, and the conviction that they He rose to return thanks for their preservacarried with them; snd when ye think oftion, and he had given out the lines—

ThSeab thWrecks.

A LEGEND OF DUNBAR.

those convictions and contrast them with

When ia thy wrath rebuke me not,

" Nor in thy hot rag* chasten me,"
II was a beautiful Sabbath morning in the your conduct this day, does not the word
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of
a
burn
autumn
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few small clouds, tinged 1apostate
in your heart? John Crawford, when the screams and the howling of women
with red, sailed slowly through the blue some ofyour blood have embraced the stake and children, rushing wildly along the street,
heavens ; the sun shone brightly, ss if con- for tbe sake ofthe truth, and will ye profane rendered his voice inaudible. The eongrescious of the glory ana goodness of its Ma- the Sabbath which they sanctified? The gregation rose, and hurrying one upon anker, diffusing around a holy stillness and Scotsman who openly glories in such a sin, other they rushed from the church. The extranquillity, characteristic ofthe day ofrest; forfeits his claim to the name of one, andI hortations of the preacher to depart calmly
the majestic Frith flashed back the sun- publishes to the world that he has no part or were unheard and Unheeded. Every seat
beams, while on its bosom slowly glided the communion with the land that gave him birth. was deserted, all rushed to the shore, snd
winged graneries of commerce; there, too, John Crawford, hearken to my voice, to,the Agnes Crawford and her children ran, also,
lay its islands glorying in their strength voice of your wife, and that of your bairns, in terror, with the multitude.
the May, shrouded in light, appeared as a ( whose bringing up is a credit to their mothThe wrecks of nearly two hundred boats
leviathan sunning in its rays—and the giant er,) and be not guilty of this gross sin."— were drifting among the rocks. The dead
Bass, covered with sea-fowl, rose as a proud But the fisherman, while he regarded not were strewed along the beach, and among
mountain of alabaster in the midst ofthe wa- the supplications of his wife, became sullen them wailing widows sought their husbands,
ters. A thousand boats lay along the shores st the words of the preacher, and springing children their fathers, mothers their sons,
of Dunbar. It was the herring season, and into the boat, seized an oar, and with hisI and all their kindred, and ever and anon an
there were many boats from the south and comrades, began to pull from the shore.
additional scream of grief arose as the lifefrom the north, and also from the coast of The thousand boats put to sea, and Mr. less body of one or other such relations was
Holland.
Simpson returned sorrowful from the beach found. A few of the lifeless bodies of the
Now, tidings were brought to the fisher- to the kirk, while Agnes Crawford and her■ hardy crews were seen tossing to and fro,
men that an immense shoal was upon the children followed him. That day he took for but the cry for help was hushed, and the yell
coast; and, regardless of its being Sabbath his text, " Remember the Sabbath day to>of death was heard no more.
It was, in truth, a fearful day; a day oflammorning, they began to prepare their thou- keep it holy;" and as he fearlessly and fersand boats, and to go out to set their nets.— vidly denounced the crime of Sabbath-break- entation, of warning, and of judgment. In
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The Rev. Andrew Simpson, a man possessed ing, and alluded to the impious proceedings one hour, and within sight of the beach, an
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of the piety and boldness of an apostle, was iof the day, his hearers trembled, but poor hundred and ninety boats and their crews
the minister of Dunbar; and he went forth Agnes wept aloud, and her children clung; were whelmed in the mighty deep; and dwelto the kirk to preach to the people, he be- around her, and wept also, because she wept. ling on the shore between Spittal and North
held the unhallowed preparations of the fish- But ere the service had concluded, the heav- Berwick, two hundred and eighty widows
ermen on the beach, and he turned and went ens began to lower. Darkness fell over the wept their husbands lost.
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among them, and reproved them sternly for congregation, and first came the murmur of The spectators were busy carrying the
their great wickedness. But the men were the storm, which suddenly burst into the wild dead, as they were driven on shore, beyond
obdurate—the prospect of great gain was i howl of the tempest. They gazed upon each 1the reach
«*/]' tide-mark. They had continbefore'them, and they mocked the words of'other in silent terror, like guilty spiritsi ued their melancholy task for near an hour,
the preacher. Yea, some of them said unto stricken in their first rebellion by the search- i when a voice exclaimed—"See! see! one
him in the words of the children to the ing glance of the Omniscient. The loud still lives, and struggles to make the shore."
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prophet, " Goup, thou bald head."He went voice of Psalms was abruptly hushed, and! All rushed to the spot from whence the
boat
from to
to boat, counselling, entreating, its echo mingled with the dreadful music of'voice proceeded, and a young man was perexpostulating with them, and praying for the elements, like the ■bleating of a tender ceived, with more than mortal energy, yet
them
lamb, in the wind that sweepelh howling on labouring in the whirling waves. His counSurely," said he " the Lord of the Sab- ithe mountains. For a moment, their features, i tenance was black with despair. His henrt
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hath will not hold ye guiltless for this pro- ■ convulsed and immoveable, were still distend- panting with suffocating pangs. His
limbs
fanation of his holy day." But at that peri- ed with the song of praise; hut every tongue■ buffeted the billows in the
of
strong
agony
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od, vital religion was but little felt or under- ■ wss silent, every eye was fixed. There was death, and he strained, with desperate eai
stood upon the borders, and they regarded no voice, save heaven's. The church seem- gerness, towards the projecting point of a
not his word.
ed to rock to its foundations, but none fled— black rock. It was now within its grasp,
He went to one boat which was the prop- none moved. Pale, powerless as marblet but, in its stead, he clutched the deceitful
erty of members of his own congregation, statues, horror transfixed them in the housei wave that laughed at his deliverance. He
and there he found Agnes Crawford, the of prayer. The steeple rocked in the blast, was whirled around it, dashed upon it with
daughter of one of his elders, hanging upon iand as it bent, a knell, untolled by human violence, and again swept back by the rethe neck of her husband, and their three hands, pealed on the ears of the breathlessi lentless surge. He threw out
his arms at
children also clung around him, and they en- congregation. A crash followed. The spire irandom, and his deep groans and panting
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treated him not to be guilty of breaking theithat glittered in tbe morning sun, lay scat- breath were heard through the sea's hoarse
Sabbath for the sake of perishing gain. But tered in fragments, and tbe full voice of the■ voice. He again reached the rock—he
he regarded not their voice; and he kissed jwhirlwind roared through the aisles. Thet grasped, he clung to its
sides. A
his wife and his children, while he laughed trees crouched, and were stripped leafless;i murmur moaned through tangled
the multitude.—
at their idle fears. Mr. Simpson beheld the and the sturdy oak, whose roots had cm- They gazed one upon
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another. His glazed
scene with emotion, and approaching thei braced the earth for centuries, torn from the eyes frowned darkly upon
them. Supplicat
group, "John Crawford," he exclaimed, deep darkness of its foundations, was uplifl- tion and scorn mingled in his look. His lips
addressing the husband, you may profess ed on the wings of the tempest. Darkness t moved, but his tongue uttered no sound. He
" the words of ai was spread over the earth. Lightnings gath- only gasped to speak—to implore assistance,
to mock, to laugh to scorn
feeble woman, but see that tbey return not ered together their terrors, and clothed in His strength gave way—the waters rushed
like a consuming fire into your bosom when the fury of their fearful majesty, flashedi around the rock as a
whirlpool. He Was
hope has departed. Is not the Lord of tbe through the air. The fierce bail was poured I again uplifted upon tbewhite bosom of the
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Sabbath, the Creator ofthe sea aa well as of down as clouds of ice. At the awful voice loam, and tossed withina few yards of the
the dry land? Know ye not that ye are of the deep thunder, the whirlwind quailed,i wailing but
unavailing crowd.
braving the wrath of Him before whom theiiand the rage of the tempest seemed spent.
"It is John Crawford," exclaimed those
mighty ocean ia a drop, and all space but a Nothing was now heard save the rage of who were able to recognize his features.
A
span? Will ye then glory in insulting His i
the troubled sea, which, lasbed into fury by loud shriek followed the mention ef his name
ordinances, and delight in profaning the dayithe angry storm, still bellowed forth its white
—a female rushed through the crowd, and
of holiness ? Will ye draw down everlasting billows to the clouds, and shouted its defi- the next moment
the delicate form of Agnes
darkness on the Sabbath of your soul ? I ance loud as the war-cry of embattled Crawford was seen
floating on the wild sea.
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When ye were but a youth, ye listened to worlds. The congregation still sat mute, In an instant a hundred
plunged to her resI
the words of John Knox—tbe great apostle horrified, death-like, as if waiting for the cue; but
before the scream of horror and
of our country—ye have trembled beneath preacher to break the spell of the elements.i surprise, raised
by tho spectators, when they
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beheld her devoted but desperate purpose,leaved? was I cast upon Ihe beach? There she brought ye within a few yards of the
had subsided, she was beyond tbereach of all is a confused remembrance in my brain, as shore; a wave overwhelmed you both aad
who feared death. Although no feminine though an angel grasped me when I was cast you upon the beach, with her arm—tha
arm of your wife that saved yon—upon your
amusement, Agnes had delighted in buffeting sinking, and held me. But my head is
the waters from a child, and she felt at home fused, it is fearfully confused, and I remem- Ibosom!"
upon* their bosom, and now the strength of ber naething but as a dream; save tbe burst- " Gracious heaven!" exclaimed the fishinspiration seemed to thrill through her ing awa' o' the dreadful storm, withe per- erman, pressing his wife to his bosom—" my
frame. She was bidden from the gaze of the ishing o' bunders in an instant, and the aw- iam Agnes! was it yon? wash you? my wife
marvelling spectators, and a deep groan fu' cry that rang frae boat to boat, " a judg-- —my saviour!" And be Wept aloud and hit
crept along the shore. She again appeared, ment has come ower us!" And it was children wept also. " There is nae merit in
and her fair hand grasped the shoulder ofthe judgment indeed! O Agnes! had I listened iwhat I've done," replied aba, "for wha
drowning man. A shout of wild joy rang to your words, to the prayers o' my bits o' should have attempted to save ye, had I no!
back on the deserted town. Her father, bairns, or the advice o* the minister, I would ye were everything to me, John, aad to our
who was amongst the multitude, fell upon hae escaped the sin that I hae this day com- bairns."
his knees. He clasped his hands together, mitted, and the horrors wi' which it hasbeen But the feelings of tbe wife and mother
too strong for words. I will not dwell
" Merciful heaven!" he exclaimed, " Thou visited. But tell me now, or in what manner were
upon the joy and gratitude of tbe family to
who stillest the tempest, and holdest the wa- I was saved."
"John," said the aged elder, the father whom the husband and tha father had been
ters in the hollow of thy hand, protect —proof Agnes, "ye was saved by the merciful restored as from the dead. It found a sortect my child!"
The waters rioted with redoubled fury.— and sustaining power of that Providence rowful contrast in the voice of lamentation
Her strength seemed failing, but a smile of which ye this morning set at naught. But I and of mourning, which echoed along the
hope still lighted up her features, and her rejoice to find that your heart is not harden- coast like the peel of an alarm bell. The
hand yet grasped her apparently lifeless bur- ed, and that the awful visitation—the judg- dead were lain in heaps along the beach, and
den. Despair again brooded on the counte- ment as ye have well described it, which has on the following day, widows, orphans, panances of her friends. For a moment she this day filled our coast with widows and rents, and brothers, came from all the fishdisappeared amongst the waves, but the next, with orphans, has not fallen upon you in vain; ing towns along the coast, to seek their dead
Agnes Crawford lay senseless on the beach, for ye acknowledge your guilt, and are among the drowned that had been gathered
her arm resting on the bosom of him she grateful for your deliverance. Your being together; or, if they found them not, they
had snatched from a watery grave—on the saved ia nothing short o' a miracle. We a' wandered along the shore to seek for them
beheld how long and how desperately ye where the sea might have cast them forth.—
bosom of her husband.
They were borne to their own home, struggled withe raging waves when we Such is the tale of the Sabbath wrecks—of
where in a few minutes, she recovered, but knew not who ye were, and when it was pa the lost drave of Dunbar.
her husband manifested no sign of vitality.— in the power of any being on the shore to
All the means within their power, and that render ye the slightest assistance. We saw
FOR THE FRItND.
they knew, were resorted to, in order to ef- how ye struggled to reach the black rock,
feet his resuscitation. Long and# anxiously and how ye was swept round it; and when Temperance Men Overboard.
she wept over him, rubbing his temples and ye at last reached it, we observed how ye Lost overboard, in a recent voyage, behis bosom, and at length, beneath her hand clang to it withe grasp o' death, until your longing to the ship Washingtonia, a number
hia breagt first began to heave with the re- strength gave way, and the waves dashed of men. The facts in relation to this sad cayou from it. Then ye was driven towards tastrophe cannot be definitely gathered from
turning pulsation of his heart.
exclaimed,
she
the beach, and some o' the spectators recog- the conflicting reports. The Washingtonia
He
lives!
he
breathes!"
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and she sank back in a state of unconscious- nized your face, and then cried out your has been near tbe country of gold ; hut it
ness, and was carried from the room. The name. A scream burst upon my ear—a wo- does not appear that tbe miserable men, who
preacher attended by the bedside, where the man rushed through the crowd—and theni were lost, deserted her with the intention of
unconscious fisherman lay, directing and as- John—oh, then!"—but here the feelings of'swimming ashore that they might go to the
sisting in the operations necessary for re- the old man overpowered him. He sobbed gold mines. It would rather seem that some
aloud, and pausing for a few minutes, added fatal infatuation had seized them—some
storing animation.
Oh, tell me,"1charm, like that of the rattle-snake, which
As John Crawford begsn to recover, the—"tell him some o'ye."
film of death that had gathered over his eyes said the fisherman, "all that my father-in- ■ caused the billows to appear unto them aa a
began to melt away, and he gazed around law has said, I kenned before. But how was pleasant terra firms, where they might forget all their sorrows. And like the gold fein bewilderment, but unconscious of where I saved—or by whom?"
The preacher took up the tale. " Heark- ver, this strange infatuation seemed to be inhe was and he sank into a troubled sleep;
and as'he so slept, and his strength return- en vi to me, John Crawford," said he, "ye fectious ; for hardly, in the first instance,
ed be cast forth bis arms, in imagination have reason this day to sorrow, and to re- had the fearful cry, " A man overboard !"
yet grappling with death. He dreamed, and joice, and to be grateful beyond measure.—■ ceased to resound through the ship, before
in his dreamhe shouted for help. He prayed, In ihe morning ye mocked my counsel and another made the dreadful plunge ! And so
and in the same breath he blasphemed, snd set at naught my reproof. True, it was not far had this frenzy proceeded, that there
reviled the trembling spectators, that his the speaker, but the wordsof truth that were! were not men enough left to navigate tbe
troubled fancy still pictured on the beach. spoken, that ye ought to have regarded—for ship !
In a few hours the fisherman awoke from they were not my words, and I was but the But these wretched men have not all sunk
his troubled sleep, which many expected humble instrument to convey them to ye.— beneath the waves.
would have been the sleep of death. He But ye despised them, and as ye sowed so have
'■Apparent rati nantes in gurgiu vasto."
raised himself in the bed—he looked around ye reaped. But as your father-in-law has1
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wistfully. Agnes, who had recovered and told ye, when your face was recognized from Occasionally one is seen struggling in the
that
some
of
these
appear
mentioned,
a
waves.
It
is
said
his
bosom.—
the
and
name
woyour
shore,
returned to the room, fell upon
My Agnes! my poor Agnes!" he cried ga- man screamed—she rushed through the mul- well nigh exhausted, and it is thought that
zing wistfully in her face—"but where— titude—she plunged into the boiling sea, and they cannot hold out much longer.
where am I and my bairnies, where are in an instant she was beyond the reach of It is with much pleasure we hear that efforts are about to be make to ship a craw for
help!"
they?"
fisherman,
the
the good ship Washingtonia, and we sincerechildren,
cried
speak
Speak,
here,"
on,"
cried
the
Here, faither
"
stretching out their little arms to embrace eagerly, and he placed his hands on his heav- ly hope that volunteers may be found toman
ing bosom, and gazed anxiously, now toward the life-boats for the purpose of finding and
,
him
rethe preacher, and again toward Agnes, who saving the men overboard. And there is
A
around.
anxiously
Again he looked
need of energy and basts—for tha meat are
collection of the past, and a consciousness wept upon his shoulder,
"The Providence that had till then sus- gone beyond hope !
of tbe present, fell upon hia mind. "Thank
Ye Waabingtonians where are ye ?—
God!" he exclaimed, and burst into tears; tamed you, while your fellow creatures per?
and when his troubled soul and his agitated ished around you," added tbe clergyman, Who will volunteer to save the perishing
bosom had found in them relief, he inquired " supported her. She reached you—ahe Up ! to the rescue !_ Tbe causa of humaniL. E.
eagerly, "but, ob, tell me, how waa I grasped your arm. After long struggling, ty—tbe cause of God calls you !

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MARRIED.
ReUSsptacisng.cStates.
Arrival or Capt. Sib John C. Ros».—
In Honolulu, Feb 37th, by the Rev. S. C. Damon,
(»0M IllustratedChristian Almanac, for 1850.) Capt. J. C. Ross, and his vessels, the En- Mr. Rica'n Messbkgeb to Miss Mart Bkadfiki i.
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terprise and Investigator, have arrived in
68 91 83 85 79 80 78 68 54
England, from his search after Sir John
DIED.
Franklin. The gallant officer appeared ra- In this town on the 16th inst. Caboliwe Soj-his
ther the worse tor his perilous voyage, but infant dapgbter of Henry and Ann Maria
was animated with his characteristic energy. aged one year.
14, 28, 4, S3, 8, 4, 15,
It is his confident opinion, that neither Sir
John Fr.tnklin nor any of his brave companMARINE
are
eastward
of
in
any
point
ions,
navigable
k
PORT OF HONOLULU.
the Arctic regions, and if there be any chance
£Z 18 4 8 8 8 4 8 4 4 4
of their existence, it is in the supposition
Arrived.
57 62 58 68 68 58 62 55 68 51 49 65
14 ds fm San Fran
that he proceeded in a westerly direction— Feb. 6—Am. shin G. Washington Holdrige,
■?
Jo
6 Am. bk M«7.«'|ipa, tjirillir, 17 iN
and in such case we can only expect to hear
6 Alii, wh bk Monmouth, llalsey
briftan Anne, Loon d« Aguirre, 27 ds do
from the missing adventurers by the Maken- Feb. 79— Tahiiian
Brii ach Petri., Turnbull, 31 da fin Tahiti
zie detachment, or by Her Majesty's ship
13—Am wh ah Cherokee, Cleveland, fm N. Bedford.
M „,(. odd Fell aw. Chapman, 17 da Kan Francisco.
14—
Plover, Coin. Moore, by way of Russia.
15—Fr ah Albairoa, Luco, Valparaiso, 18 do
" N. Z
brig Kewl, J. McLean, 68 da fm Auckland,
Capt. Ross traversed at least two hundred for 15—Br.
Franclaco, wiiti 17 passenger-,
and thirty miles on the ice. They penetra- Feb.Sin
16—Perbk Rmpresa, While, 21 da fm San Franclaco.
91—Am ah Consiantine, YV.ni.nr, 14 dt
ted as far as the wreck of the Fury, where
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Sl—lUwbk Don Uuuote, Dudoit, 16ds
he found the old tent standing, and every
21—Hex br Dnn Carloa, Guerrero. !6 da ftn Mauitlan.
Br Royal Yacht Wanderer, llnj it, finjajhalna
thing about it in a state of the best preservaah St Michael,
fin San Francisco.
"" Fr
Span bg Cl-tvileno, 8t Juan, fin San Francisco.
tion. At this point Capt. Ross deposited a
M
Am ah Humboldt,
of
and
also
the
large quantity
provisions,
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screw launch of the Enterprise.
In the Feb. 2,—Am, ach S. Roberts, Falkenburger, for SanFranclaco
whole course of his researches, it is said that
2—Am wti ah Tuacarora, Leek, cru.*e.
2—Haw ach Wilhelmine, King, for San Francisco.
Capt. Ross never met with a single Esqui7—Fr wh »h Gen. Teste, Rowdier, to cruis«.

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PRESIDNT

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11

U Saury cut Ewtng, McArthur, coi-ml'g. sailed for 6 F
maux.
8—Ho)
Brothers. Swart, for Hong Kong.
The intelligence which reached New York Feb. 9—U S.bkN.Three
propeller H*taaHchusetlH. Knox, sailed flr Hilo
Bishop, for San Franclaco.
Friendship,
sch
11—Am
on the 20th Oct, by the bark M'Lellan from
I*2—Am bhip Mariposa, Martin, for SaaFrancisco.
(
Davis Straits, is confirmed by a communica12—Am schr Haieilecn, Cruchet,
*
13— *- sch Lola, Jenkins, for Lahaina.
tion from Kirkaldy, dated Nov. Ist.—JV. F.
13— u bk Drummoiut, Pierce,

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Tribune.

Expedition for the Relief of Sir John
GOVERNMENT OP THE UNITED STATES.
Salary $25,000 Franklin.—Lieut. Lynch, the commander
Zaoharr Taylor, Lonkrlana. l'reaident,
Millard Fillmore, N. York, Vice-President,
6,000 of the Dead Sea Expedition, has volunteered
John M. Clayton. Delaware, Sec. of State,
Penn., Sec of the Treaaury,
Wm. at. Meredith,
Geo. W. Crawford, Georgia, See. of War,
Wm. B. Fraaton, Vir»lnia, Seo of the Nary,
Thoa. Ewlng, Ohio Sec. of Home Department,
Jacob Collamer, Vermont. Postmaster-General,
Uarerdy Jotuuon, Maryland, Attorney-General,
REVENUE

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Total receipts,

$31,757,070

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$51,354,701

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Am bk Connecticut, Penballow. ,
Chilian sen Elltabeth, Aquetll.
Southward.
Br brig Mary Dure, Scarborough.
Haw M-hr Mary Ann, Barrill. for sale or charter.
Br loreha Sarah, Hardy.
Am ship Ctfrolua, Dunbar.
Haw schr Caroline, Fish.
Br schr Louisa, Howard.
Am. ah Gen Washington, Holdrlge.
Am. bk Maieppa, Cinder.
Am wh bk Monmouth, Halsey.
Tah br Anne, Aguirre.
Fr all Albatros, Luco.
Br. ach Petrel, Turnbull.
3r br Kewl. M'Lean.

the legality of paying the exper.ses of such

3,321,642 an expedition, he thinks he could raise suffi351,037 cient from private sources to charter,
21,256,700
1,701.251 strengthen and equip a steamer to carry out

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Am brig Cnptaao,

and men (all volunteers,) and provisions—
AND EXPENDITURES OF GOVERNMENT and in case
there should be a question as to

Prom Caatoma,
Public l.anda,
Mlaccllaneouaaourcea,
Treaaury Notes and Loan,
IaTraaauijr, July 1, 1847,

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Shipj>inp in Port, Feb. 15, 1850*

6.000
6,000 to head an expedition to start as early as
6,0 in
6,000 practicable next year, to relieve Sir John
6,000 Franklin.
He proposes for the government
6,0no
4,000 to sanction the attempt, and afford officers

FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1848.

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14 '• wh sh ('herokee. Cleveland, to cruise.
Feb.lB—Fr wh sh Ville dc Rennet., Billot, to cruise.
20 —Am ach Decatur, Morrill, for Lahaina.

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Illustrated Almanac for 1850.

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For Chapel. For Friend. Study
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The House of Representatives is comin the Chapel, Sabbath morn- According to the U. S. Po6t Office laws, newspapers
posed of representatives from each state, in,ing,Oy The Collection
behalf
of
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Rev.
Bond's
SoE.
January 27th, in
sent from the office of publication, the postage may
the ratio of one to every 70,680 of the popbe
by the person to whom the paper is addressed,
j paid
ulation. The present number ofmembers is ciety, Kohala, Hawaii, (together with a few dollars hut
otherwise the postage mast be pre-paid.
for
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Qy If we have been correctly informed, there is
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tf
hence.
Ere
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we
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anticipated.
than
for
miles'
travel
in going
every twenty
$8
and returning.
long we hope to hear that Mr. Bond's society have
succeeded in re-building theirbeautiful Meeting-house
Expenditures per Minute, of the U. S.
A Monthly Journal devoted to Temperwhich suffered so much by the gale in December.

ClTllLlat,
Forelfa Intercooraa,
allecellaneuua,
War Department,

EZPaTaBiTttaaa.

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