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FRIEND
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HONOLULU. APRIL If 1865.

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THE FRIEND,
APRIL I, 1805.
A Sailor's Yarn Poetized.

We publish in our columns the new and
popular Poem, ■' Enoch Arden," by the Poet
Laureate of England, who has recently
received a Baronetcy, and will hereafter
be known as
Sir Alfred." This poem
has met with a most remarkable sale
in England and the United States. It is
printed in every variety of form, both cheap
and expensive, and illustrated by artists in
the very highest style. It will, we think,
exceedingly interest the wide circle of our
sea-faring readers, and furnish a topic to beguile the long and wearisome evenings and
" watches below" of many a cruise in the
broad Pacific. In a few days it will be read
by the hardy whaleman pushing his way
" amid tumbling mountains of ice" in the
Arctic Ocean, and by those cruising more
leisurely among the Coral Isles of the "South
Seas." In the name nf all the sailors in the
Pacific Ocean, we thank the Poet for this
effort of genius, seeing that while this poem
delights the university student and devotee
of literature, it also will be equally appreciated by the most uneducated inmates of
the forecastle.

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John Brown and H. A. Wise.—A photograph
of Old John Brown, wreathed in laurels, is now hanging in the parlor of the mansion formerly belonging to H. A. Wiss, who
hung the original in another part of the
State. The estate, situated a few miles
north of Norfolk, has been confiscated by the
goveriimfnt.

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The Pacific Almanac—We would acknowledge,
from tic publishing house of
H. EL Bancroft & Co., of San Francisco, a
copy of the " Pacific Almannc" and also a
Memorandum Book for 1865. These will
be found for sale at H. M. Whitney's Book
Store. The Almanac is very full and complete upon all matters relating to the Pacific
coast, including a list of all newspapers and
periodicals published in the Pacific States.
There are 103 weeklies, (5 semi-weeklies, 3
tri-weeklics and 32 dailies, besides numerous
monthlies and other periodical publications.
This is surely a rapid growth of periodicals,
for twenty-three years ago, when the first
number of " The Friend" was issued, not
one newspaper was published in any part of
that vast region, where now the newspaper
sheets are almost as numerous as the leaves
of the forest.
Castor-Oil Manufactory.— We are glad
to observe indications that this enterprise is
not likely to prove a failure in Honolulu.
The Messrs. Cotton certainly manufacture
oil of an excellent quality, and while not occupied in pressing out oil, they turn their attention to the manufacture of water-wheels.
A large wheel has been manufactured for
the new plantation of Messrs. Green &
Montgomery, Koolau, which works to a
charm. The truth is, a little Yankee enterprise and skill will create a wonderful revolution on these islands. The Yankees are
coming!
Reading

Room at

the

Sailor's Home.

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It is exceedingly gratifying to witness the
new order of things at the Reading Room.
During the day, seamen are resorting thither
to read the news and write to the " old folks
at home," and during the evening many
find their way to the temperance meeting
and the place where " prayer is wont to be
made." Never among seamen in Honolulu
were the signs for good more encouraging.
We hope the good leaven will continue to
work among both seamen and landsmen.

{61*.taitf, V01.22.

Enoch Arden.
By

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ALFRED TENNYSON, D. 0.1.., Post Lic»«»T«

Long lines o( cliff breaking have left a chasm
And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands ;
Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf
In cluster i then a moulder'd church ; and higher
A long street climbs to one tall tower'd mill |
And high in heaven behind it a gray down
With Dani.libarrows i and a haslewood,
By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes
(Ircen in a cuplike hollow of thedown.
Here on this beach n hundred years ago,
Three children of three houses, Annie Lee,
The prettiest little dsmsel In theport,
And Philip Bay the miller's only son.
And Knoch Arden, a rough ssilor's lad
Made orphanby a winter shipwreck, playM
Among the waste, snd lumber of the shore.
Hardcolls ofcordage, swsrthy flshlng-nets,
Anchors ofrusty duke, and boats updrswn
And built their castles ofdissolving sand
To watch them overflow'd, or following ur
And flying the white breaker, daily left
The little foot print daily wash'd awsy.

A narrow cave ran in beneath the cliff
In this the children play'd st keeping house.
Enoch wss host one day, Philip the next.
While Annie still wss mistress •, but st times
Enoch would hold possession tor s week
This Is myhouse and this my little wife.'
Mine too,' ssld Philip, 'turn and turn about :•
When, if they quarrell'd,Knoch stronger-made
Wss msster i then would Philip, his blue eyes
All flooded with the helpless wrsth oftsars,
Shriek out' I hate you, Enoch,' and st this
The little wife would weep for compsny,
And pray them not to quarrel for ncr sske,
And say she would be little wife to both.

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But when thedawn ofrosy childhood past,
sun
And the new wsrmth of life's ascending
Was felt by either, either fl.tt his heart
his love.
On that one girl i and Knoch spoko
But Philip loved In ailence ; and the girt
tieem'd kinder unto Philip than to him
But she loved Enoch ; tho' sheknew It not.
And would If ask'd deny It. Eoocb. set
a purpose evermore before his syes,
To hoard all savings to the uttermost,
To purchase his own boat, and make a horn.
For Annie i and so proaper'd that st Isst
A lockler or a bolder flsberman.
A earefollet in peril, did not breathe
For leagues along thatbreaker-beaten coast
Than Bnoch. Likewise bad he served s year
On board a merchantman and made himself
Full sailor; and hs Ulricahad pluck'd a life
From the dread sweep ofthe down streaming seas
A nd all men look'd upon him favorably i
And ere he touch'd his one-and-twenUeth May
He purchased his own boat, and mad* a home
For Annie, nest and nestlike, halfway up
The narrow street that clamber'd toward the mil!

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Then, oo a colder, autumn eventide,
Tbe yoaager peoplemaking holiday,
With baf and sack and basket, great and imall,
Want nutting to the hazels. Philip stay'd
(fill father lying sick and needing blm)
Aa hour behind , but as he climh'd the hill,
.Tout where theprone edge of the wood began
To feather toward the hollow, saw the pair,
Enoch and Anni*, fitting band-in-hand,
Mia large gray ey«>s and weatber-heatfn (acr
All-kindlrd by a si HI and sacrM fire,
That buriiM an on an altar. Philip lonkM,
*fld in their eyes and faces read bin doom
Then, aa their fact, drew together, grt nnM,
And alipt aside, ami like a wounded life
Crept down into the hulluws of tin- wood
There, while tfct ml wrr loud iii tuerryunking
Had hii dark huur unseen, and rut** and past
Bearing a NMaasj hunger m Ul heart

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So these were wed, and merrily rang the bell*
And merrily ran the years, seven happy ytant,
Seren happy yearsof healthand competence,
And mutual love and honorable toll |
With children; first a daughter. In him woke,
With his first babe's first cry, thenoble wish
To save all earnings to tbe uttermost,
And give his child a better bringing-up
Than his hadbeen, or hers ; a wish renew.i,
When two years after came a boy to be
The rosy idol of her solitudes.
While Enoch was abroad oo wrathful seas,
Or often journeying landward ; for in truth
Enoch's whitehorse, and Enoch's ocean-spoil
In ocean-smelling oiser, and bis face,
Rough-redden'd .villi a thousand winter gales,
Not only to the market-cross were known,
hut In the leniy lanes"behind the down,
far as the portal-warding lion-whelp,
And peacock jewtree of the lonely Hall,
Whose Friday Cut was Enoch's ministering.
Then came a change, aa all things human change
Ten miles to northward of the narrow port
Open'd a larger haven i thither used
Knoch at times to go by land or sea ;
And once when there,and clambering on a mast
Id a harbor, by mischancebe allpt and fell;
A limb was broken when they lifted him
And while he lay recovering there, his wife
Bore him another sod, a sickly one i
Another band crept too across bis trade
Taking her bread and theirs i and on him fell.
Altbo' a grave and staid God-fearing man,
Yet lying thus inactive, doubtand gloom,
lie aecm'd, aa In a nightmare of the night,
To ace bis children leading evermore
Low miserable lives of hand-to-month.
And her, be loved, a beggar i then be pray'd
Save them from this, whatever comes to me.'
*And
whilebe pray'd, the master of that ship
Enoch had servedIn, hearing his mischance,
Came, forbe knew the man and valuedhim,
Reporting of his vessel China-bound,
And wanting yet a boatswain. Would he go f
There yet were many weeks before she sail'd,
Ball'd from this port. WouldEnoch have tbe place F
And Enochall at once assented to It,
Rejoicing at that answer to his prayer.

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So now that shadow of mischance appearM
No graver than aa when some little cloud
Cuts off tbe fiery highway of tbe sun,
And Islet a light In the offing i yet the wife—
Whan he was gone—the children—what to do
Then Enoch lay long-pondering on bis plans |
To tell tbe boat—and yet he loved her wellBow many a rough sea had he weather'd in ber !
Heknew ber, aa a horseman knowsbis horse—
And yet to tellher—then with what she brought
Buy goods and stores—set Annie forth In trade
With all that seamen needed or theirwivetSo might the keep the house white ha was gone
Should ha not trade himself out yonder 7 go
This voyage more than once 7 yea twice or thrice—
As oft as needed—last, returning rich,
Become the master of a larger craft,
With fullerprofits lead an easier life,
nave his pretty young ones educated.
And pass his days in peace among bis own.

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Thus Enoch in his iHeart determined all i
Then »o»uif homewar.H came on Annie ptaV

11' it 11.. 15 ti 5.

Nursing the sickly babe, bat latest-born.
Forward she started with a happy cry,
And laid the feebleInfant In hit arms ;
Whom Enoch took, and handled, all bis limbs,
Appraised his weight and fondled fathcrlike.
But had no heart to break his purposes
To Annie, till the morrow, when he »|>okc.

Tbcn first ifcaot Enoch\4 golden
had cirt
Her finger, Annie .mightagainst hi3will i
she,
Vet not with brawling opposition
Kut manifold entreaties, many a tear,
Many a sad kiss by day nnd night renewM
(Sure that all evil would come out of it)
Hepoughl bun, supplicating, if he cured
J'ur hr*r DC bin dear children, hot |o ffi.
He ml fur Uis uwn *Hf earing but bT.
Her and ber ebiklreu, l«t her plead vi fmlfl
S*j grieving held hm will, and bore it thru'

I"i Enoch parted with his old MB tn>i..i,
lu-ught Annie goods and stores, and set hia band
To fit their little streetward sitting-room
With shelf and*Jorner for the goods and stores.
So all day long till Enoch's last at home.
Shaking their pretty cabin, hammer and axe,
Auger and saw, while Anniescein'd to hear
Her own death-scaffold raising, shrlll'd and ran,*,

Till this was ended, and his careful hand,—
The space was narrow,—having ordered alt
Almost as neat and close as Nature packs
Her blossom or her seedling, paused ; and he
Whoneeds would work for Annie to the last,
Ascending tired, heavily slept till morn.

And Enoch faced this morning of farewell
All his Annie's fears,
Save, aa bis Annie's, were a laughter to him
Yet Enoch as a brave God-feuring man
Bow'd himself down, and in that mystery
Where God-in-mau is one with raan-iu-G<»l.
Pray'd for a blessing on his wife andbai*Whatever came to him i and then he said
' Annie, this voyage by the grace of God
Will bring fair weather yet to all of at.
Keep a clean hearthand a clear fire for me,
For I'll be back, my girl, before youkuow it
Then lightly rockingbaby's cradle 'and be.
This pretty, puny, weakly little one,—
Nay—for I love him all the better for itGod bless him, he shall ait upon my knees
And I will tell him tales of foreign parts,
And make him merry, when I come home apain
Come Annie, come, cheer up before I go.'
Brightly and boldly.

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Him running on thus hopefully shebeard,
And almost hoped herself; but when he turn'd
The current of his talk to graver things
In sailor fashion roughlysermonizing
On providence and trust in Heaven, she heard,
Heard and not heard him ; as the village girl,
Who acta her pitcher underneath the spring,
Musing on him that used to fill it forher,
Hears and not hears, and lets it overflow.
At length she spoke, '0 Enoch, you are wise ;
And yet forall your wisdom well know I
That I shalllook upon your face no more.'

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Well then,1 said Enoch, 'I shall look on yours.
Annie, the ship I sail in passes here
(He named the day) get you a seaman's glass,
Spy out my face,and laugh atall your fears.'
But when tbe last of those last moments cam*-.

1Annie, my girl, cheer up, be comforted,
Look to the babes, and till I come again,
Keep every thing shipshape, for I must go.

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And fear nomore for me; or if you fear

Cast all your cares on God that anchor bold*
Is He not yonder In those uttermost
Parti of the morning 7 if I flee to these
CanI go from Him 7 and tbe sea Is His,
The aea Is His i He made it'

Knoch rose,
Cast his strong arms about his drooping wife,
And kias'd his wonder-stricken little ones
But for the third, the sickly one, who slept
After a night of feverous wakefulness,
When Annie would have raised blm Enoch said
Wake him not \ let him sleep; how should the child
Remember this?'and kiss'd him in his cot
But Annie from her baby's forehead dipt
A tiny curl, and gay* it thishe kept

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Thro* all bis future i but now hastily caught
His bundle, waved bis hand, and went his way.
She when the day, that Enoch mention'd, came,
BorrowM a glass, but all in vain i perhaps
She could not fix the glass to suit her eye.
Perhaps her eye was dim,hand tremulous,
She saw him not: and while he stood on deck
Waving, the moment and the vessel past.
Ev'u to the last dip of the vanishing hail
She watch'd it, and departed weeping for him;
Then, though she mourned his absence as bis grave.
>'et her sad will no less to chime with his,
But throve not in her trade, not being bred
To barter, nor compensating Mm v,,i,ii
by shrewdness,neither capable of he
Nor Mskbag overmuch nnd taking Lata
And still foreboding 'what would Fuoctt Bar "
Vat more than once, In Aayfl af difficulty
Andpressure, had she sold her wares for less
Than what she gave in buying whit, she sold
She lail'd and sadden'd knowing it; and* thus.,
Expectant ofthat news which never came,
Gain'd for her own a scanty sustenance,
And lived a life of silent melancholy.

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Now the third child was sickly bom ami pa*.
Yet sicklier, tho' the mother cared fur i(
With all a mother's care: nevertheless,
Whether ber business often call'd tier from it,
Or thro' the want of whatit needed moot,
Or means to pay the voice who best could (ell
What most it needed—howsoe'erit was,
After a lingering,—ereshe was aware,—
Like the caged bird escaping suddenly,
The little innocent soul flitted away.

In that same week when Anniebarfed it,
Philip's true heart, which hungered tot her peace,
(Since Enoch left he bad not looked upon her. |
Smote him, as having kept aloof too lung.
* Surety, 1 said Philip,' I may see her now.
May be some little comfort;' therefore went,
Past thro' the solitary room in front,

Paused for a moment at an inner door,
Thenstruck it thrice,and, no one opening,
Kuter'd; but Annie, seated with tier grift,
Fresh from the burial of her Hull QtM,
Cared not tv look on any human Bwe,
But turn'd hi r own toward the wall and WtfJ
Then Philip standing up said faltenuyly
1 Annie, I came to ask a favor of twa

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He spoke; the passion in her moan'etl reply
Favor from one so sad and so forlorn
As I am !' half abashed him; yet uuasLM.
His bashfulucas and tendernessat war,
He set himself beside her, saying to her \

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I came to speak to you of what he wish'd,
Enoch, your husband: I have ever said
You chose the best among us—a strong man i
For where he fixt his heart he set his hand
To do the thing he will'd, and bore it thro.1
And whereforedid he go this weary way,
And leave you lonely 7 not to see the world—
For pleasure 7—nay, but for thewherewithal
To give bis babes a better bringiug up
Than hts had been, or yours: that was his wish.
And If he come again, rext will he be
To find the precious morning hours were lost.
And It would vex him even in his grave,
If he couldknow his babes were running wild
Like coltsabout the waste. So, Annie, now—
Have we not known each other all our lives 7
I do beseech you by the love youbear
Him and his children not to say me nay—
For, If you will, when Enoch comes again
Why then be shallrepay me—if you will,
Annie—for I am rich and well-to-do.
Now let me put the boy and girl to school i
This ia the favor that I came to ask.'
Then Anniewith her browa against the wall
Answer'd I cannot look you In the face;
I seem so foolishand so broken down.
When you came in my sorrow broke me down,
And now I think yourkindness breaks me down,
But Enoch Uvea; that is borne In oo me:
He will repay you: money can be repaid,
Not kindness such as yours.'

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And Philip ask'd
Then you will let me. Annie *

THE FRIEND, APRIL, 1865.
That I lore them as If they were mine own;
And I believe, if you were fast my wife.
Thatafter all thesesad uncertain years.
We might be still as happy as God grants
Toany of His creatures. Think upon it;
For lam well-to-do—nokin, no care,
No burthen, save my care for you and yours;
And we have known cacti other all our lives.
And I have loved you longer than you know.'

There she turu'd,
She rose, ami flxt her swimmingeyes upon him.
And dwelt a moment on his kindly face,
Then calling down a blessing on bis head
Caught at his hand, and wrung it passionately.
And past into the little garth beyond.
So lifted up in spirit he movedaway.
Then Philip put the hoy and girl to school,
And bought them needfulbooks, and every way.
Like one who does his dutyby his own,
Made hiraseir theirs; and tho' for Annie's sake,
Fearing the lar.y gossip of the jwrt,
He oft denied his tieart his dearest wish,
And seldom crost her threshold, yet he sent
Gifts by the children, garden-herbsand fruit.
The late and early roses from his wall,
Or conies from the down,and now and then.
With some pretext of flneess in the meal
To save the offence of charitable, flour
From his tall mill that whistled on the wsstc.

Then aoSwcr'd Annie; tenderly she spokei

You have been as Cod's good anget in our house
*God
bless
for it, God reward
for It,
you

It ehaaced one evening Annie's children long'd
To go with others, nutting to thewood,
And Annie would go with them; then they hegg'd
For Father Philip (as they call'd him) too;
Him, like the working bee in blossom-dust,
BlanchM with his mill, they found; and saying to him
Come with us, father Philip,' he denied,
Hut when the children pluck'd at him to go,
He laughed, ami yieldedreadily to their wish.
For was not Annie with them 7 and they went.

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But after scaling half the weary down,
the prone edge of the wood begnn
To feather towardthe hollow, all tier force
Failed her; and sighing,' let me rest' she said |
So Philip rested with her well content.
While all the younger ones with jubilant eric*
Broke from their ciders, and tumultuously
Pown, thro' the whitening hazels made a plunge
To the bottom, and iHspsrsed, and beat or broke
The lithe reluctant Nougat 10 tear away
Their tawny cluster?, crying to each other
And calling, here and there, about the wood.
.lust where

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But Philip sitting at ber side forgot
Her presence, and remember'd one dark hour
Here in this wood, whenlike a wounded Ufa
He crept into tho shadow. At last he said,
Lifting his honest forehead, 'Listen, Annie,
How merry they arc down yonder in thewood-*
Tired,Annie 7' for she did not speak a word.
Tired 7' but her face had fall'n ui>on her hands,
At which, as with a kind of anger in him,
The ship was lout,' he said, 'the ship was lost
No more of that! why should you kill yourself
Ami make them orphans quite?' And Annie said
1 I thought not ofit; but—l know not why—
Their voices make mo feel so solitary.'

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Then Philip coming somewhat closer spoke.
'Annie, there in a thing upon my mind,
And it has becu upon my mind so long,
That tho' I know not when it first came there,
I know that it will out at last. 0 Annie,
It is beyond all hope, against aU chance,
Thathe wholeft you ten long years ago
Should atill be living; well then—let mc apeak
I grieve to see you poor and wanting help;
I cannot help you as I wish U do
Unless—they say that women are so quick—
Perhaps youknow what I would have you know
I wish you for my wife. I fain would prove
A father to y*mr children, I do think
rh*y lovt m« as a fatlwr; I am sure

Can one love twice 7 can you be ever loved
As Enoch was 7 what is it that you ask 7'
11 am content' he answered 'to be loved
A little after Enoch.'
O' she cried
Scared as it were 'dear Philip, wait a while
If Enoch comes—but Enoch will not comeYet wait a year, a yearis not so long i
Surely I shall i>e wiser in a year:
0 wait a little !' Philip sadly said
Annie, as I have waited all my life
1 well may wait alittle.' ■ Nay' she cried
11 am bound; youhave my promise—in a year
Will you not bide your year as I bide mine 7'
And Philip answer'd I will bide my year.'

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But Thilip did not fathom Annie's mind:
Scarce could the wataaa when he came upon her.
Out of full heart and thtatafasaj gratitude
Light on a broken word to thank him with.
Put Philip was her children's all-in-all;
From distant corners of the street they ran
To greet tiis hearty welcome heartily;
fjords ofhis house and of tils milt were tbey,
WonW his passive ear with petty wrongs
or pleasures, hung Btats him, played with him
And call'd him Father Philip. Philip gain'd
As Enoch lost; for Enoch seemed to them
Uncertain as a vision or adream,
Faint as a figure seen in early dawn
I-nwn at the far end of an avenue,
Going we know not where; and so ten years,
Knoch left his hearth and native land,
Fled forward, and no news of Enoch came.

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Philip, with something happier than myself.

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Hereboth were mute, till Philip glancing up
Beheld thedead flame of the fallen day
Pats from the Banish barrow overhead;
Then fearing night and chill for Annie,rose
And sent his voicebeneath him through the wood.
Up came the children laden with their spoil;
Then all descended to the port, and there
At Annie's doorhe paused and gave his hand,
Saying gently, 'Annie, when I spoke toyou,
That was yourhour of weakness. I was wrong.
I am always bound to you,but you are free.'
Then Annie weeping answered I am bound.'

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She spoke; and in one moment as it were,
While yet she went about her household ways,
Ev'n as she dwelt upon his latest words,
That he had loved her longer thanshe knew,
That autumn into autumn flash'd again,
And there he stood once more before her face,
Is it a year 7 1 she asked.
Claiming ber promise.
4 Yea, if tbe nuts' he said ■ he ripe again;
Come out and see.' But she—she put him off—
So much to took to—such a change—a monthGive her a month—she knew thatshe wa« bound—
A month—no more. Then Philip with his eyes
Full of that lifelong hunger, and his voice
Shaking a little like a druukard'shand,
'Take your own time, Annie, take your own time.'
And Anniecould have wept for pity of him;
And yet she held him on dclayingly
With many a scarce believable excuse,
Trying his truthand his long-aufferane.
Till half another year had slipt away.

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By this the lazy gossips of tt:c port,
Abhorrentof a calculation satat,
Began to chafe us at a personal wrongSome thought that Philip didhut trifle with her.
Some that she but h* Id off to draw him on;
And others laugh'd at her and Philip too,
As simple folk that knew not their own minds;
And one, in whomall evil fanciesclung
Like serpent eggs together, laughingly
Would hint at worse in cither. Her own son
Was silent, tho' he often looked his wish;
But evermore the daughter prest npou her
To wed the man so dear to all of them
And lift the household out or poverty;
And Philip's rosy face contracting, grew
Carewornand wan; and all these things fell on her
Sharp as reproach.

At last one night it chanced
That Annie could not steep, but earnestly
Pray'd for a sign,' My Enoch Is he gone 7'
Then compass'd round by the blind wall ofnight,
Brook'd not theexpectant terror of her heart.
Started frombed, and struck herself a light,
Then desperately seised tbe holy Book,
Suddenly set It wide to find a sign,
Suddenly put her finger on the text,
Under a palmtree.' That was nothing to her,
No meaning there; she closed the book and slept,
When lo I ber Enoch sitting ova height,
Under a palmtrtc.ovcr him the sun

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'He is«ooe,' she thought,' be is happy, he Is singing

Ilosanna Id the highest) yomlcr shines

TheBud of Righteousness, and these be palms
people strowlog crlsd
Ilosanna In the highest!"' Here she woke,
Resolved, sent for him and said wildly to him
There It no reason why we should not wed.'
for God's sake,' be answer'd,' both our sake:.
*SoThen
you will wed me, let It be at ooce.'

Whereof the happy

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So these were wed and merrily rang the hell.,
Merrily rang the bellsand they were wed.
Hut never merrily beat Annie's hesrt.
A footstep iccidM to fsl) beside her path.
She knew not whence; a whisper on her ear.
She knew not what; nor loved she to be left
Alone at home, nor veutured out alone.
What ail'd her then, that ere she entered, often
Her handdwelt lingcringly as, the latch,
Fearing to enter; Philip thought he knew
Such doubts and fears were common to her state,
Being with child; but whenher child was born,
Then her new child was as herselfrcnen'd,
Then the new mother came about her heart,
Then her good Philip was ber all-in-all,
And that mysterious instinct wholly died.
And where was Knoch ? Prosperously sall'd
The ship Qood Fortune,' tho' at setting forth
The Biscay,roughly ridging eastward, shook
Andalmost overwhelm'dher, yet unvext
She slipt across the sunirnjar, of the world.
ThcDafter s long tumble about the Cape
And frequent interchange of foul and fair.
She passing thro' tbe summer world again
The breath ofheaven came continually
And sent her sweetly by the golden isles,
Till silent in her oriental haven.

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There Knoch traded for himself, and bought

Quaint monsters for the markets of those times,
A gilded dragon,also, for the babes.
Less lucky her home-voyage: at first, indeed
Thro' many a fair sea-circle, day by day,
Scarce rocking, her full-busted figure-head
Stared o'er tho ripple feathering fromher bows;
Then followed calms,and thenwinds variable,
Then baffling, a long course of them; and last
Storm, such ss drove her under moonless heaven-.
Till hard upon the cry of' breakers' came
The crash ofruin, and theloss ofsll
But Enoch and two others. Half the night,
Buoyed upon floating tackleand floating spars,
These drifted, stranding on an isle at morn
Rich, but the loneliest in a lonely seaNo want wss there of human sustenance,
Soft fruitage, mighty nuts, and nourishing roots;
Nor save for pity was it hard to take
The helpless life so wild that it was tame.
There In a seaward-gazing mountain-gorge
They built, and thatched with leaves orpalm, a hut,
Half hut, half native cavern. So the three,
Set in this Eden of plcnteousness.
Dwelt with eternal summer, ill content.
For one, the youugeat, hardly more than boy.
Hurt in that night of audden ruin and wreck,
Lay lingering out s three-years death-in-lile
They could not leave him. After he was gone,
The two remaining found a fallen stem;
And Enoch's comrade, careless ofhimself,
Fire-hollowing thisin Indian fashion, fell
Sun-stricken, and the other lived alone.
In those two deathshe read God's warning wait.'

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The mountain wooded to tbe peak, the lawns
And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven,
The slender coco's drooping crown ofplumes,
The lightning flash of insect and of bird,
Tbe lustre of the long convol valuses
That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran
Ev'n to thelimit of the land, the glows
And glories ofthe broad belt of the world,
All these he ssw, but what be fain had seen
He could not see, tbe kindly human face,
Nor ever heard a kindly voice,but beard
The myriad shriek of wbseling ocean-fowl,
The league-longroller thundering on the reef,
Tbe moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd
And blossomed in the sealth, or the sweep
Of sotns precipitous rivulet to tbe wave,
As down the shore be ranged, or all dsy long
Sat often In the ssawtrd-gszing gorge,

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Down to the poul and narrow wharf he went,
decking a tavern which ofold lie knew,
A frontof timber-croflt antiuuity,
Sopropt. worm-eaten,ruiuously old,
He thought it must hare gone; but he m |«M
Who kept it; and his widow, Mirimi Lauc.
With daily-dwindling profits held the house,
A haunt of brawling seamen once, but now
Stiller, with yet a bed for wandering men.
IVre Enoch rested siient many d.iys.
Hut Miriam Lane was good and garrulous
Nor let him be, but often breaking in,
Told him, with otherannals of the p.-rt.
Not knowing—Enocli was so brown, so bow'd,
So broken—all the story uf his house:
His baby's death, her growing poverty.
How Philip put her little ones to school.
And kept them in it, his long wooing her,
Her slow consent, and marriage, and Die birth
Oi Philip's child. And o'er bis countenance
No shadow past, nor motion; any one,
Regarding, well had deem'd he felt the talc
Less than the teller; only when she closed,
Enoch, poor man, was cast away and lost,'
He, shaking his gray head pathetically,
Repeated, muttering, "cast away and lost,'
Again in deeper Inward whispers,' lost

Once likewise, in theringing of hi* earn.
Tho' faintly, merrily—far and far away
Me heard the pealing ofhis parifch belli),
Then, tho' he knew not wherefore, started up
Shuddering, and when the beauteous hatcfnl i-*le
Keturu'd upon him, had not his poor heart
Spoken with That, which being everywhere
Lets none, who speaks with Him, seem all alone,
Surely the man had died of solitude.

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But Enoch yearned to see her face Again,
'If I might look on hersweet face again
And know that she is happy.1 So the thought
Haunted and harassM him, and drove him forth.
At evening, when the dull Noyembcr day
Wssgrowing duller twilight, to the hill.
There he sat down gazing on all below;
There did a thousand memoriesroll upw him.
Unspeakable for aadncss. By and by
The ruddy square of comfortable light,
Far-biasing from therear of Philip's house.
Allured him, as thebeacon-blase allures
Thebird of passage, till he madly strikes
Against it, and beats out his weary life.

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ThereKnoch spoke no word to anyone,
Bat homeward—home—what home * had he a borne I
His borne, he walk'd. Bright was that afternoon,
Sunny but chill; tilldrawn thro'cither chasm,
Where eitherhaven open'd on the deeps,
Roll'd a sea-haaeand whelm'd the world in grsy;
Cut off the length of highway on before,
And left but narrow breadth to left and right
Of wither'd holt or tilth or pasturage.
On the nigh-naked tree theRobin piped
Piscoosotate. and thro' the dripping base
Tbs dead weight of the dead leaf bora It down

Stagger'd and shook, holding the branch, and fear'd

Then down the atatj stn-H having slowly stolen,
Hisheart foreshadowing all calamity,
Hisryes upon the stones, be reached the home
Where Am ie livid and loved him, and his bahe*
In those far-off peveu happy years were born,
But rinding neither litfht nor murmur there,
(A bill of sale glenm'd thro' the drizzle.; rr< pt
Ml downward, thinking dead ordead to uh

There often as ticwatch'd or ncem'd to watch,
■o still, the golden lisard on him paused,
A phantom made of many phantoms moved
Before him haunting him. or lie himself
Moved haunting people, things and places, kuown
Far in a darker isle beyond the line ;
The babcH, theirbabble, Annie, the small hout.'The climbing tUreet, the mill, the leafy lanes,
The peacock-yewiree and the lonely Hail,
Tbehorse he drove, the boat he sold, the chill
November dawns and dewy-glooming downs,
The gentle uhower, the mmH of dying leaven,
And the tow moan of leadcn-colorM seas.

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Thicker the drizzle grew, deeper tbe gloom;
Last, aa It seemed, a great mist-blotted light
Flared on him,and became upon the place.

A shipwreck'd tailor, waiting tbr a sail;
No sail from day to day, but every day
The sunrise broken into nearlet shafts
Among the palms and f tub and precipices,
The blase upon the witters to the east;
The blase upon his island overhead;
The blase upon the waters ft the west;|
Then the great stars thai globed themselves in Heavea,
Tbe holluwer ludlowing ocean, and again
The scarlet shafts of suurim—but no sail

Thus over Enoch's early-silvering head
The Runny and rainy seasonscame and went
Yearafter year. Ilia hopes to see his own,
And pace the sacred old familiar field*.
Not yet had perlsh'd, when his lonely doom
Osme suddenly to an end. Another ship
(Bhe wanted water) blowu by baffling winds,
Like the Good Fortune, fromher destined course,
Stay'dby this isle, not knowing where she lay;
For since the mate had seen at early dawn
Across a break on the mist-wreathen isle
The silent water slipping from the hills.
They aent a crew.that landing burst away
In search of stream or fount, and filled the shores
clamor. Downward from bis mountaingorge
the long-hairM loog-bearded solitary,
a, lookinghardly human, strangely clad,
cring and mumbling, idiot-like it secmM,
inarticulate rage, and making signs
knew not what; and yet he led ttic way
here tlwrivulets of sweet water ran |
ever as he mingled with tha crew,
And beard them talking, his long-boundcn tongue
Was loosen'd, till he made them understand ;
Whom, when their casks were flll'.l they took at-oard
And there the tale he utter'il brokenly,
Scarce credited at first but more and more,
Amas'd and melted all wholUten'd to it.
And clothes they gave him and free passage home ;
But oft he workM among the rest and shook
His isolation from him. None of these
Came from bis county, or could answer him,
If quebtiou'd,aught of what he cared to know
And dull thevoyage was with long delays,
The vessel scarce sea-worthy; but evermore
ills fancy fledbefore the buy wind
Returning, till beneath a clouded moon
He like a lover dowa thro' all his blood
Drew in the dewy meadowymorning-breath
IK England, blown across her ghostly wall,
And that tame morning officers and men
Levied a kindly tax upon themselves,
Pitying the lonely man, and gave him it;
Than moving up tbe coast they landed him,
Ev'o In that harbor whencehe ssil'd before

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For Philip's dwelling fronted Oh the street,
The latest house to landward; hut behind,
With one small gate that open'd on the waste
Flourish'd a little garden squareand wallM;
And in it throve an ancient evergreen,
A yewtrce, and all round it ran a walk
Of shingle, and a walk dividedit.
But Enoch shunn'd themiddle w;ilkand stole
Up by the wall, behind the yew; and thence
Thatwhich he better might have shunned, if griefs
Like bis have worse or better, fcuoch saw.
For cups and silver on the hurnishMboard
Sparkled andabone, so genial was the hearth,
And on the right hand of thehearth he saw
Philip, the slighted suitor ofold times.
Stout,rosy, with his babe across his kneer-;
And o'er her second father stoopt a girl,
A Inter but a loftier Annie Lee,

Fiiir-hatr'd and tall, and from her lifted hand

Dangled a length or ribbon and a ring
To tempt the babe, whorear'd bis creasy arm",
('aught at and ever miss'd it, and they laughed,

And oo the left hand of the hearth he saw
The mother glancing often toward her babe,
But turning now and then to speak with him.
Her son, who stood besideher, tall and strong.
And saying that which pleased him, forhe smiled
Now when the dead man come to life beheld
Hit wifehit wife no more, and saw the babe
Hers, yet not bit, upon the lather's knee.
And all the warmth, tbe peace, the happiness.
And his own children tall and beautiful,
And him, that other, reigning in his place,
Lord of his rights and ofhis children'slove,
Thenhe, tho*Miriam Lane had told him all,
Because things teen are mightier than things heard,

To sendabroad a shrill and terrible cry,
Wtiicti In one moment, like the blast of doom,
Would shatterall the happiness of thehearth
He therefore, turning softly, like a thief,
Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot.
And feeling alt along the garden-wall,
LcSl he should swoon and tumble and l*e fouud,
Crept to the gate, and npen'd it. andvclosrd.
As lightly a* a sick man's chamber-door.
Behind him, and came out upon the waste

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And there he would have knelt, but that his kurci
Were feeble, so that falling pronehe dug
His fingers into the wet earth, aud prrtyed

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Toohard to bear why did they tiki mt tfatMl I
Almighty, blessed Saviour, Thou
That didst uphold me on my lonely We,
Uphold me, Father, in my loneliness
A little longer! aid me. give me strength
Not totell her, never to let her know.
Help me never to break in uponher psaot.
My children, too, must I not apeak to these f
They know me not. I should betray myaell
Never; no father's kiss forme—the girl
So like her mother, and the buy, my sou.'

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There speech and thought and nature laird a littl*-.
And tic lay tranced: but when he rose and paced
B.ick toward his solitary home again,
All down the long and narrow street he went
Beating it in upon hi* weary brain,
Aa tho' it were theburthen of a song,
Not to tell tier, never to let her know.'

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He was not all uuhnppy. HU resolve
Upbore him, and firm faith, and evermore
Prayer from a living source within the wilt.
And beating up thro' all the bitter world.
Like fountains of sweet water in the sea.
Kept him a living Soul. 'This miller'swire. 1
He said to Miriam,* that you told me of,
Han she no fear that her first husband lives V
'Ay, ay, poor soul,' said Miriam, * feur atwv '.
If you could tell her you had seen him dead,
Wtiy, that wouldbe her comfort;' and he though:
'After the Lord has cali'd me, she shall know;
1 wait Ids time.' And Enoch set himself.
Scorning an alms, to work whereby to live.
Almost to all things could he turn his band.
Cooper he was, and carpenter, and wrought
To make the boatmen fishing-net*, or help'd
At lading or unlading the tall barks
That brought the stinted commerce of those days;
Tims earn'd a scanty living for himself;
Vet since he did but tabor forhimself.
Work without hope, there was not life in it
Whereby the man could live; and as the year
RolPd itselfround again to meet the day
Wheal Enoch hadreturn'd, a latigu- r came
Cast] him, gentle sickness, gradually
Weakening the man, till he conld do no more.
But kept the house, his chair,and last his bed
And Enoch liorc his weakness cheerfully.
For sure no gladlier does the stranded wreck
Set thro' the gray skirts <fa lifting tx.uall
Tbe boat that bears the hope oflife approach
To save the life despaired of, thanlie saw
Death dawning on him, and the close of all.
For thro' that dawning gleam'd a kindlier boo,.
On Enoch, thinking after 1 am gone,
Then may she learn I loved her to the laid.'
He call'd aloud forMiriam Lane and mM,
Woman I haTe a secret—only swear.
Before I tell you—swear upon the ttook
Not to reveal it til) you see me dead
1Dead !' clamor'd the good woman.' heat bun lark
I warrant, man, that we shall bring you round
.''wear,' added Enoch sternly,' aa the book.'
Aud on ttw* book, half-frighted, Miriam Pwn r<Then Enoch rolling his gray eye* upon her.
Did you know Enoch Arden of this town V
Know him V she said,' I knew him faraway
Ay, ay, I mind him coming down the street;
Held his head high, and cared for no man, he."
Slowly and sadly Enoch answeredber
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His head is low, and no man cares for him.
I think I have not three days more to live;
lam the man.' At which the woman gave
A half-incredulous, half-hysterical cry.
' You Arien, you nay,—sure he was a foot
Higher than you be' Enoch said again

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My Uod lias bow'd ma down to wkat I am|
My grief and solitude have broken me;

Nevertheless, know you tbat I am be
Who married—but that name has twice bcea chauged—
I m.irrit'.i her who married Philip Kay.
Rit, lisUn ' Then he told her of Ills voyage,
His wreck, bis lonely life, his corning hack,
His Rising in on Annie,bis resolve,
And how he kept it. As the woman heard
Fast flow'd the current of hereasy tears,
While In her heart she yearn'd incesssntlj
Tn rush abroad all round the little haven,
Proclaiming Enoch Arden andhis woes;
Hut awed and promise-bounden she forbore.
Haying only,' See yourbairns before you go I
111. M me fetch 'em Ardcn,' and arose,
linger to bring them down, for Enoch buns
A moment on ber words,but then replied:

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Worn m, disturb me not now at the last,
Hut let me hold my purpose till I die.
Mt down again; mark me and understand.
While I have power to speak. I charge you now
When you shall see her, tell her that I died

Bsssassg her, praying for her, loviug her;

Save for the bar betwi-en us. loving her
As when she laid her headbeside my own.
Aad tell my daughter Annie, whom I saw
to like bar mother, that my latest breath
Was spent in blessing her and praying for her
And tellmy son that I died blessing him.
And say to Philip that I blest him too;
lie never meant us anything but good.
Hut if my children care to see me dead.
Who hardly knew mc living, let tliein come.
I am their father; but she must not come,
Kor my dead facewould vex her after-life.
And now there is but one ofall my blood.
Who will embrace me in the world-to-be:
This is his hair; she cutit offand gave it,
And I have borne it with me all these years,
And thought to bear it with mc to my grave;
itut now my wind is changed, for I shall see him.
My babe, in bliss; wherefore, when I am gone,
Take, give her this, forit may comfort her;
It will moreover be a token to her
That I am he.'
He ceased; and Miriam Lane
Made such a voluble answer, promising all.
That once agaiu be roll'd his eyes upon her,
Krpoating all he wish'd, and once agaiu
She promised.
Theu the third night after this.
While Knoch slumber'd motionlessand pale.
And Miriam watch'd and do*'J at intervals,
There came so loud a calling of the sea,
Thatall the houses in the haven rang.
Us woke, be rose, he spread his arms abroad
Crying with a loud voice a sail! a sail !
I am saved;' and so fell hack and spoke no more.

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Sopast the strong heroic soul away.
And when they buried him the little port
Had seldom seen a costlier funeral.

Newspaper readers may remember
few months since, the Russian Admiral Lisoffsky replied to a letter addressed to
him by a private soldier in the Union Army,
by the name of L. H. Vermilyea. The Admiral's reply we published in The Friend,
of 1861. Below will be found a letter from
the same soldier. We have a most distinct
recollection of this soldier, when a sailor, in
Honolulu several years ago. The young
man is well educated, as are tens of thousands in the Union Army ;
that,

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In From of Richmond, January, 1865.

Key. S. C. Damon—Dear Friend :—
After five years absence from your beautiful
Island—so beautiful to seamen and whalemen after their toilsome and arduous duties
North, and where mv thoughts often revert—

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I thought I would write to you once more, Dr. Hillebrand's Mission to India and

knowing the interest you take in letters
from seamen—old acquaintances—who have
probably left the sea and roving forever.
Hotv I sometimes long to visit your Island
again ; and, were it compatible with duty
and destiny, to live and die th re, in that
soft, lovely climate, amid kind friends, interesting natives and tropical productions.
I have been, since my return, to Cuba, Spain,
Madeira, and the islands of the Atlantic and
West Indies, but I have never come across
the soft, genial atmosphere of a sunset and
eve in the full at Honolulu. With all the
hardships of a whaleman's life, I cannot but
often think of the bright side—of the many
pleasant hours passed among the beautiful
islands of the Pacific. But duty and business calls me elsewhere. lam now in the
army some twelve months, changed from the
navy after twenty-five months service, at my
own request. I have been through a great
deal of hardship in the last nine months, and
my health has partially given way since my
last wound, under u severe and long-pro-

tracted cold.
I have been in every light and skirmish
our regiment bus passed through, had five
men wounded and one killed next to me,
and been twice slightly wounded, the last
time in my neck. Out of 1,140 men our
regiment came to Bermuda Hundred with,
last May, 150 remain 200 were discharged,
their three years being up, leaving about
800 killed, wounded, sick and prisoners.
I was home nine days at election time, on
a sick furlough, and voted for Old Abe."
"
We buried the Copperheads so deep with
ballots they will never be able to rise again.
I occasionally see your letters in the Seamen's Friend, for 1 have had that sent to my
friends since my return. You used to admire my drawings. I send a copied sketch
of Gen. Ord, from the District of Columbia.
The news I need not write ; the papers will
keep you better posted than 1 could. I do
not know how to make sure of your getting
this, but shall try to send it through the
hands of Mr. Seward, who used to send you
documents. I know the impropriety of my
communicating with him personally, but feel
assured that his kindness and interest towards and for the soldiers and cause will
prompt him to cheerfully forward this letter.
The warm interest you and the Hawaiian
Government have evinced for the success of
our cause, I have read in the papers.
Truly your friend,
L. H. Vermilyea.
P. S.—

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" For right is right, since Ood il Uod.
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin."

Letters.—The Chaplain has received Letters for John C.
Marshall (3), William Biggs, of "Minerva," Arthur Wright, of
"Fanny," Oscar W Case, of "fanny," and John J. Coksoan

China.

We regard the appointment of Dr. Hillebrand as fraught with consequences of vast
moment to the weal or woe of these Islands
throughout coming generations. From the
fcllowing official notice, copied from the
Hawaiian Gazette, of March 11th, it appears that the ostensible object of his agencyis to procure laborers for the planters upon
these Islands i
The Honorable William Hillebrand, M.
D., having been commissioned as Royal
Commissioner of Immigration, is intending
to proceed to China and the East Indies by
the first opportunity. Planters and others
desirous of procuring laborers, are requested
to send to the Commissioner a statement of
the number of laborers wanted, whether for
house-service or field-hands, and what proportion of women they are desirous of taking. Those who desire to secure a number
of laborers from the first immigration may
do so by depositing the sum of ten dollars
per head for the required number. Application should be made within a fortnight, as it
is not anticipated that the Commissioner will
be delayed beyond three weeks.
By order of the Bureau of Immigration.
D. Kilakaua, Secretary.
March 7, 1865.
The Hawaiian Government is wise in
thus " taking time by the forelock." Foreseeing that the future agricultural enterprises—sugar, rice, cotton—will require an
additional number of laborers, it is a matter
of considerable importance to ascetrain from
what quarter of the globe those laborers can
be the most readily obtained. Shall they
come from China, India, the South Seas,
Western Islands, Ireland, Germany or elsewhere? While this question is being solved,
it does not require the wisdom of a savant to
make known from whence will come the
capital and mind to employ those laborers
when they shall arrive on our shores. The
list of passengers reported as arriving by
every vessel from California tells the story.
These men land in Honolulu, ride around
this Island, visit the other Islands, and are
carefully " prospecting," as the miners say.
Some of these visitors return, and tell their
story in California and Oregon; others remain, and commence tilling the soil. A
change is coming over our Islands much
more rapidly than many imagine. Shakspeare says :
th<: affairs of men.
" There is a tide in the
Which, taken at
flood, leads on to fortune."

Hawaiian/

It is now flood tide with the
Islands, and the tide is rapidly rising. We
will only remark, in passing, that at such' a
critical period let those guiding the helm of
State see well to it that they keep the ship

pointed aright, or their experience will be
that of the unfortunate mariner described in

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the remaning lines nf Shakspearc, which
we omit to quote.
Hillebrand's mission we look upon as
c of great importance, not only as regards
laborers, but also as having an immense
bearing upon the future products of these
Islands. An eminent writer has remarked,
" We cannot say positively that any plant is
uncultivatible anywhere until it has been
tried."—(Cooper.) We copy this remark
from the Hon. G. P. Marsh's great work,
Man and Nature." In the same book we
find some most suggestive remarks upon
of foreign
" the modes of introductionwhich
is
we are
subject
a
plants." This
from
Hillcbntnd
Dr.
confident will receive
special attention. He will do all in his
power to procure seeds of trees, vegetables,
and plants of every description not already
growing upon thf.se Islands, but natives of
China and India. No person is better fitted
for this peculiar department of labor. His
botanical knowledge and general scientific
information most eminently qualify him for
the important mission which has been confided to him by the Hawaiian Government.
May all possible success attend his mission.
On the part of all American Missionaries residing in China and India, we would bespeak,
in behalf of Dr. Hillebrand, a favorable re-

KDr.

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We conclude our remarks with the following extract from the work of the Hon. Mr.
Marsh, to which we have already referred :
Besides the vegetables I have already
menitonetl, we know that many plants of
smaller economical value have been the subjects of international exchange in very recent
times. Husbequius, Austrian Ambassador
at Constantinople, about the middle of the
16th century, brought home from the Ottoman Capital the lilac and the tulip. The
Belgian, Clusius, about the same time introduced from the East the horse-chestnut,
which has since wandered to America. The
weeping willow of Europe and the United

States [and the Sandwich Islands] are said
to have sprung from a slip received from
Smyrna by Pope, the poet, and planted by
him in an English garden; and the Portuguese declare that the progenitor of all the
European and American oranges was an oriental tree transplanted to Lisbon, and still
living in the last generation. The present
favorite flowers of the parterres of Europe
have been imported from America, Japan
and other remote oriental countries, within a
century and a half; and, in fine, there are
few vegetables of any agricultural importance, few ornamental or decorative plants,
which are not now common to the three civilized continents."
We cannot refrain from recommending to
our thoughtful readers this work of the Hon.
Mr. Marsh, who now represents the United
States with so much honor at the Italian
Court. In a late paper we have seen it intimated that he might possibly be transferred

ml Oli, I NIL. IMS.

Paris to become Mr. Dayton'.s successor.
was. the American Minister at Constantinople. When such
men as Adams at London, Motley at Vienna,
and Marsh at Turin, represent the American
Government, there is no fear that American
statesmanship, diplomacy or scholarship will
be ranked below par.
to

Formany years Mi. Marsh

Legislation

on Intemperance in California.

Mr. Editor :—lt may be interesting to
you, as a friend of the temperance cause, to
know how similar the laws of California are,
respecting the sale of ardent spirits, to those
of the Hawaiian Islands. I am here in the
shire town of Alameda county, and am thus
in a way to notice the laws of this State. I
notice that this State has enacted a law forbidding the sale of intoxicating drinks to Indians, just us the Hawaiian Government
have forbidden the sale to native Hawaiians.
In 1850, the following Act was passer! by the
Assembly and Senate of this State: "If
any person in this State shall sell, give, or
furnish, or knowingly cause to be sold, given
or furnished to any Indian, male or female,
any intoxicating liquors, he, she, or tney so
offending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall
be fined not less than forty nor more than
five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not
less than ten days nor more than three
months, or fined and imprisoned, as the
Court shall determine." I remember there
was formerly much opposition to the Hawaiian laws against the sale of liquors to native
Hawaiians, on the ground that such legislation for one class was unequal. But here
we seem to have an instance of such unequal
legislation by as free, liberal and democratic
a Government as there is in the world. I
am not sure that tin' law is not open to complaint on the ground of not being equal, for
not also reaching the white class.
There has been a law passed in this State
which seems to look in the right direction,
though it is not quite what we need, nor in a
shape to be properly enforced. It is a law
that requires the rumseller to bear the costs
of Court for every man convicted of committing crime through the influence of liquor.
The penalties that most naturally follow a
crime seem to be the best: so perhaps the
best penalty for selling liquor would he this
natural one, to make the liqjor-dcalers support all the destitute families impoverished
by intemperance, and to pay all the costs of
Court and all the fines of those convicted of
crimes committed under the influence of
liquor. But, as it would, !>•• hard to induce
a society of thieves to enact prohibitions
against theft, so perhaps it would be hard to
induce a community that were almost uni-

versally intemperate to enact laws against
rumselling. If, in order to make the Hawaiian legislation more equal, the restrictions on the sale of liquor to Hawaiians arc
ever repealed, it may be well to allow their
repeal on the condition that the liquor-dealers be legally bound to bear all the pecuniary consequences of intemperence. It will
thus be determined whether the liquor business is really lucrative to the Islands.
.1. M. AI.EXA.NDtF.

Extractof

a

Letter from Col.

Armstrong.

Before Ricumo.nd, .Inn. V2, 18b6.
winter
and this cruel war, arc, I beBoth
lieve, coming to a close, though in the last
struggles of the Confederacy there may be
some desperate fighting; but we have throttled the rebellion, and it writhes in our
grasp. It must die. The land is cheered
by continual successes. Good men seem
cheered by the wonderful advance of society
in all humanitarian questions, and, in truth,
it seems as if " Our God is marchinrr on."
Yet Ido not exult. I endeavor to keep myself nerved for any issue or fat.- that may
come, feeling that I would not leave the army if I could, and that there is no grander
duty than the United States service.
I am this month commanding a brigade of
four regiments, in the absence of my superior, and find it pleasant though responsible.
Yesterday, as my orderly was holding my
horse, I asked him where he was from. He
said he was from Hawaii! He proved to be
a full-blood kanaka, by the name of Kealoha,
who came from the Islands last year. There
is also another, by the name of Kaiwi, who
lived near Judge Smith's, who left the
Islands last July. I enjoyed seeing them
very much, and we had a good jabber in
kanaka. Kealoha is a private in the 41st
Regiment U. S. colored troops, and Kaiwi
is a private in the 28th U. S. C. T., in the
Pioneer Corps, Both arc good men, and
seemed glad to have seen me.
We arc now drilling actively, particularly
at target, etc., for the next campaign, and in
good weather we are at work all the while.
There is no firing on our lines.
My little log house is still cheery and
warm. It is evening, and there is a bright
fire of chestnut wood. Holly and cedar
adorn my walls, besides various articles of
furniture, dress and equipments. The Old
Flag" droops by my side. My sword" glitters in the comer. Two chairs and a stool
set around. A bunk on one side and fire on
the other.
I am quite contented, though I am two
and a half years in the service without any
leave of absence. I soon shall seek one, and
visit friends North. lam writing at a table
covered with literature and military books,
by candle-light, and have enough tn read.
My men are having a prayer-meeting iv (he
great chapel-tent given us by the Christian
Commission, and often meetings i( re held by
our faithful chaplain, Kockwood. l The
darkey meetings are very loud, but really
full of feeling and religion. We have many
good men with us.
The other day I went to .Norfolk to hcc
Jennie. Sarah Coan and other ladies were
there. Jennie is in good spirits, good health,
and is engaged in a noble cause. I think
our family are fortunate in being represented
so well in this grand contest of light and

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darkness.
I often long to take a look at the old
"
house at home," and at the Kawaiahao
churchyard. The trees must have grown
tall and forest-like, and our yard a perpetual
fragrance.

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

ADVEUTISEMEWTS.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

DR. J. MOTT SMITH,

ii. w. severance,
auctionebu,

SAILOR'S HOME!

DENTIST.

468-ly

Offlce corner of Fort and Hotel Streets.

E. HOFFMANN, M. D.,

and commission merchant,

I'hyaiclan and Surgeon, Makcc's Mock, comer Queen and Kaa
slla-ly
humanu streets.

H. STAN'JKNWALD, M. V.,

j. ii. com:,
AUCTIOKTBER,

PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON,
member of the

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New York City Dispensary I'hysielan,
Medico-rhirnri'ii-al Oath i,'e, and of the l'lithologicalSociety
of New York.
Baaldnm in
•jfoc- at th,- earner of Fort and Merchant street*.
Nuuai.u Vail. > ~|.).osite that of X <». Hall, K*j. «o/_'f
Late

11. Hi:i)li)RE, M. D.

t\

STORK.
judd,

HILO DRUG

~aTf.
and Counsellor at

PHOTOGRAPHS.

"EEMOVALf

Tjtsw.

GEO. W. VOLLUM,

HONOLULU, OAHU
CORNER FORT and MERCHANT St.,
4;il-6ui

wTn. ladd,

and Dealer m IIARnwARK, Coti.krv, Mkchakics
Tooluand Aoßici-LTfßiir Irtlsiiiskts, For street llonn.

BOOK-BINDER,

Importer

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C. L. RICHARDS & CO.,

late.

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0: 1?!-

JOHN THOS. WATERHOUSE,
Honolulu,

11. I.

Importer aud Dealer in General Merchandise.

—REFERENCES—

Honolulu
Ills Ex. R. 0. Wyllie,..llou. R. F. Snow, Esq
Thos.Spencer,E5q...... ...Ililo
l>imomd & Son,
11. Dickinson, Esq...lJlhaiiia Mcßucr 4- Merrill, Sau Francisco
«'. w. Brooks*/ C0...85n F. 0. T. Lawton, Esq.,
Field Rice,
New York
Tobin, Bros, it Co.,
Wilcox, Richards it Co , Hon ilulu.

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SSI-ly

HAUL. H. CISTI.R.

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J. B. ATBBRTOS.

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AMOS. S. COOK!

CASTLE & COOKE,

vJeneral Merchants in the Firepraof Store, King Street, opposite tbe Seamen's Chapel.
ALSO A UK.NTS FOR
Dr. Jaynes Celebrated Family Medicines,
Wheeler 4- Wilson's Sewing Machines,
Tbe Kohala Sugar Company,
TheNew England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
The New York Phenix Marine Insurance Company,
The New York Security MarinoInsurance Company.
450- ly
SHERMAN PECK,

Honolulu.

UMOTIO BACK To tiikoi.h
Havixi;
Wasteo Bindery, la now urspanal la aMH all arden

for binding

Ship Chandlers and Commission Merchants, dealers in Bern rsj
Herebandlse. K.r» constantly oa hand a full assortment
of merchandise, for the supply of Whalers and >]«;cto"t

_vesaals._

42'Jly

1 taLe Ambroiypit and Ptwtuffaphi. Also Cartel dc
VUite In a st.. If MOOod to none in liouolutu.
Specimens cun he set-u at the tlaUerv, in'Xt door to thePost
Oiiiet.', over tht- L. 0. Advertiser Oi.ii->'.
11. 1.. CIIASK.
45&-.ln

.N U —Medicine Ch.ils carefully

Attorney

(BCOCFBSOR TO A. P. F.VERETT.)

At his lute ro.iini. tluccn Stn'.'l.

f|U!K I'XIIRRSIfiXfi.D IS PREPARED TO

SURGEON,

PHYSICIAN X
HILO, HAWAII. S. I.
replenished at Hie

8 ti

li^rnsßsssssssssssY

Fire-proof Store, Robinson's lluilding,
QITEEN RUB, HONOLULU.
424-ly
Will .-nntiiiue business at th new stand.

H. A. P. CARTER

Honolulu.

C. BREWER & CO.,

Commission & Shipping Merchants,
Honolulu. Onhu, H. I.
—REFER TO—
Joss. M. Hood, Esq.,
New York.
JABBS llpN SBWKLL, Esq., }
Esq.,>
Brkwrr,
Charlrh
Boston.
)
11. A. PSIRCB, Esi..
Messrs. Mcßoer k Merrill, I
B
'raoeisti.
Cuas. Woloott Brooks, Esq., J
Hongkong.
Mkrsrs. WB. Pustao ft Oo
Mkshrs. Fekle, Ht'BißLi. ft Co.
Maulla.

ROOKS
A T

Hooks, Fniuphlets,

Newspapers, Music,
Old Books, Ac, Ac.
All orders lift at 11 M. Whitney's Bookstore will receive
°-tf

prompt attention.

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CASTLE

Officers' tabic, with lodging, per week,.
$6
do.
6
Stamens' do. do.
do.
Shower ItalliK on tlic Premise*.
CAPTAIN AND MRS. OAT,
Honolulu, March 1, 1861.
Managers.

COOKE,

AGENTS FOR

Wheeler & Wilson's

SEWING MACHINES!

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INSTRUMESTfi FOR THE

MARINER.

N. FLITNEB'S Watoh and Jewelry

1).

Establishment, in Kaahitmanu street, will be
found the following works
Almanacks for 1862.
Merchant's, Shipmaster's and Mechanic's Assistant
Laws ofthe Sea.
Tho Art of Sailmaking.

:

—ALSO—

Ship's Compasses and Dividers.
—also—
Mast-head Glasses and Marina Telescopes.

—

ALSO—

Chronometers and Chronometer Watches.
—ALSO—

English Charts of North and South Pacific.
—ALSO—

A great variety of other articles useful to th«
—AND—
Mariner.
Many ornamental articles, including Breast Pins,
Sewing Machines at theWorld's Exhibition in PARIS In MM, Rings, Cups, &c, &c.
and at tbe Exhibition in London in 1862.
Particular attention given to repairing and rating
The evidence of the superiority of this Machine is found in the Chronometers.
MACHINE HAS ALLTHE LATEST
iiupiovements,and, inaddition to former premiums, was
THIS
awarded the highest prise above all European and American

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record of it. sales. In IHOI
The Grover k Raker Company, Boston,
The Florence Company, Massachusetts.
The Farker Company, Connecticut,
J. M. Singer 4; Co., New York,
Finkle k Lyon,
Chas- W. Howland, Delaware,
M. (Jrecnivood k Co., Cincinnati, 0..
N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0.,
Wilson H. Smith, Connecticut,
old 18,580, whilst the Wheeler ft Wilson Company, of Bridge
ort, madeand sold 19,725 during the same period.
11 tl
XT Plena* Call and Examine.

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OKAS. WOLOOTT IROOaS, W. FRANK LADD, KDWARD T.

HALL.JR.

CHAS. W. BROOKS & CO.,

>■ O. HKRRII.L

D. C M-RCSR.

McRUER & MERRILL,

Commission Merchants
AND

Auc tionce re,

3041 and 300 California Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.
ALSO, AGENTS OF

THE

Sail Francisco & Honolulu Packet*.

SHIPPING AND

_

Particular attention given to the sale snd purchase of mer
chaudlsc, ships' business, supplying whaleships, negotiation
exchange, ftc.
XT All freight arriving at 8a« Francisco, by or to tbe Bo
nolaluLino of Packets, will be forwarded rais or ooMHiastoa.
FOR
THE
AGENTS
44X-ly
XT Exchange on Honolulubought and sold. jCS
—R.mßßOas—
Honolulu
Messrs. Wilcox, Richards ft Co.,
&
HACXrSLD
ft Co.,
II
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KAWAIIIAE. HAWAII,
BETWEEN
C Brswis*;Oo.,
BisßorkCo
Will continue the Genera Merchandise and Shipping business
at theabove port, where they are prepared to furnish the
Dr. K. W. Wood,
justly celebrated Kawalhae Potatoes, and such other re
Hon. E. H. Allsb,
■
cruits as srerequired by whale ships at the shortestnotice OFFICE—Sit Baans>iaeSt.,ee>rae>r Merchaat, DO. Watbbhas, Jsq
425-ly
and on the most reasonable terms.
437-ly

Commission Merchants.
HAWAIIAN PACKET USE

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ALLEN

CONWAY,

SAN

FIRE WOOD ON HAND.

to

of Vessels;

AND OTHERS, WISHING
QEAMEN
to
books from the Sailors' Home Library,

the Supplying of WhalesWps; and the Negotiation

of Exchange.

Exchange on Honolulu in sum. to rait
ADVANCES
MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
will please apply to tbe Bethel Sexton, who will have
REFER TO
charge of the Depository and Reading Room uutil
Jas. Humswbll Esq., Boston.
Aldkich, Walibr 4> Co ,
further notice. Per order.
HRRBT A. P.IRCR,
IO

obtain

BOUND VOLUMES

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THE FRIEND,FROM IS4& I* 1182Or
Por sale the Publisher Price al per valuun
oound together
by

Honolulu.

F. Snow, Esq.,
C. BrrwrrACo.,
Bishop ft Co.,
Taos. Sfrrorr, Esq., Hllo.
Ali.uarp 4 On Kanarsws
Brkj.

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FRANCISCO.

ATTENTION GIVEN TO
PARTICULAR
the Purchase, Shipment and Sale of Merchandise ; For*
warding and Transhipment of Goods ; the Chartering snd sals

READING! ROOM, LIBRARY AND DEPOSITORY.

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Bctlsr, Sisr k Co., "
8otto» ft Co.. New York.
Finn ft Rior,
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H Food ft Co., Shanghae.

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THE FRIEND

J

A MONTHXT JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEM
PERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,

PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY

SAMUEL C. DAMON.
TERMS:

One copy, per annum,
Two copies,
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Five copies,

...

92.06
3.00

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APRIL, IS- 5
It appears from a circular issued under
the authority of the Commonwealth of

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A British

Field Officer Visiting the Union
Army.

In the Sun Francisco Bulletin, of March
11, there is a most interesting letter, copied
from the London Star, and written by a distinguished British field-officer, who has paid
a visit to the Union armies lying before
Richmond and Petersburg. The letter indicates that he witnessed" scenes which have
operated like an admirable salve to clear his
visual organf, and we hope the readers of
the Star experienced similar beneficial effects. He was most kindly entertained by
General Grant. The. following is suggestive.
fort
•' The Colonel commanding at this
of
three
Richmond
papers
me
kindly gave
that morning's, issue. I enclose two advcrtisments, announcing the sale of negroes by
auction, which I cut from Richmond Whig :
"Sale of Negroes, Crop, Stock and Plantation Utensils.—Will be sold Monday,
November 14, 1864, at Ward's Fork, two
miles from Charlotte Court House, 88 negroes, including some good mechanics, 70
sheep, 51 hogs, 25 head of cattle, 11 horses
and mules, 30 stacks of oats, 17 stacks of fodder, about 250 barrels corn, plantation utensils, kitchen furniture, one carriage and buggy.
"Terms—Credit of six months, except for
all sums of $100 or less, purchaser giving
bond with unproved security.
Richard Y. Games,
Robt. H. Games,
Executors of R. J. Games, deceased.
" Twenty Negroes at Auction.—1 will
sell at auction this morning 20 likely neS. N. Davis & Co.,
Odd Fellows' Hall."
came
Now, I think I
here a very good
neutral, though 1 confess 1 am more disposed
towards the north than before I visited it.
But the perusal of this public announcement
of), the sale of human beings by auction in
company with hogs, furniture and fodder, at
the present time, and in the actual State of
Virginia, too, makes neutrality impossible,
unless we steel our hearts against every feeling of justice, religion and humanity. Every
one must wish to see that foul blot washed
out by some means or other; and, as Gen.
Grant's army is battling for the destruction
of slavery, he has my hearty wishes for his
success."
groes.

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Massachusetts, that our old friend, J. F. B.

Marshall, Esq., has been appointed Paymaster-General of ihe Militia of that State,
with the rank of Colonel. Good appointment. We arc confident soldiers will receive
their proper dues. We grieve to learn that
Mrs. Marshall continues ill, in consequence
of her hardships and exposures while administering to the sick and wounded Union soldiers, on that terrible inarch through the wilderness, and from the Rapidan to the James
River, last May. Some of the stem and
grim features of war are rubbed off and softened down when ladies ol (he highest culture and refinement follow in the track of the

Union armies, and, like angels of mercy,
bind up the wounds of soldiers, and prepare
for, them a cup of good warm coffee when returning from picket-duty, or lying bleeding
and wounded on the bloody battle-field. Remember, reader, the rebels share in these
kind offices; hence the more shame to those
chivalric sons of the South, who are starving
and murdering Union prisoners in Southern
prisons. A day of reckoning is approaching.

Late News from the United States.
By every arrival from the coast we are receiving the most cheering news of the progress of the Union armies. The fall of
Fort Fisher, the taking of Wilmington and
Charleston, the triumphant march of Sherman, and the victories of Sheridan, foreshadow that the end of the great rebellion is approaching. Grant is slowly but surely drawing his lines around Richmond.

MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ArtRIVAIiS.

Feb. 28—Una; yscht Themis, Ilanham, trim H.uialei.
March I—Am bark N. S. Perkins, Robiosoii, 2S days from
Pugct Sound, withlumber to 11. Hackfeld k Co.
2—Eng ship Bacchante, Taylor, 29 days from Kanagawa, Japan, en route for San Francisco.
2—Am bark Comet, Chase, 19Jays from San Francisco,
with m Isc to 11. llackfelil k Co.
3—Bremen bark Libelle, Koepcr, 134 days from Bremen, with mdse to Hoffscldaeger ti Staponhnrst.
4—Fr wh sh Gen. Teste, Morel, from cruise, 60 bbls »p.
7—Am whale bark Florida, Fordhaio, 8 mouthsout from
home with 90 bbls sperm, and 30 whale.
10—Am wh bark Vineyard, Caswell, from Cal. Coast,
via Lahaina, clean.
13—HawbrU'antiue Nuuann, linger, 18 daya from S.F.
in ballast, en route for Hongkong.
14—Am bark Smyrnlote, Burditt, 16 days from San
Francisco, with mdse and passengers, to Aldrich,
Walker It 00.
14—Am wh ship Josephine, Chapman, from Coast CalNew Photographic Establishment. L.
ifornia, 400 bbls the season.
IS—Russian transport bark Gyliaek, 6 guns, Enguist,
Weed, from California, has recently
41 days from Valpar.iito
Francisco,
an
and opened
arrived from San
lA-Am wh bk Nile, Fish, from Turtle llay. with 320b15.
IB—Am wh ship Congress 2d. Strausburg, from (east
office in Fort street, above Savidge's grocery
California. 300 bbls oil
store. He has put up a building expressly
20—Am whshipJireb Perry, Halsey, from home, 200
bbls whale, 86 sperm.
for the purpose. Having brought with him
20—Am whshln Catharine, Phillips, from toast of
California, 100 bbls whale.
all the fixtures for such an establishment, he
bbls whale.
XI -Am wh ship Emily Morgan, from
Guano Islands.
is able, in an incredibly short time, to com23—SchrOdd Fellow, Cunningham,
10 mos. from
Oawtsswl,
Ist,
Congress
23—Am wh ship
mence work. His large photographic views
Home, with 360 bbls sperm.
days
16
from San
Imperial,
of the Yos&nite Valley, show what he has
28—Kng clipper ship
Francisco en route for Hongkong.
done elsewhere, and should he be equally
Williams,
days
13
from
F.ldrldge,
24-Am bark A. A.
passengersuccessful in Honolulu and other parts of the
Ssu Francisco, with mdse and
days
13
from
San
Blackburn,
Murphy,
26—Eng ship
islands, his establishment will be liberally
Francisco, en route for llougkong. daya
13
from
San
Murphy,
26—British shin Blackburn, 27th for Hongkong.
patronized by the public. He is about to
Francisco, sailed on the
take a large photographic view of Honolulu.
26—Am wh ship Onward, Allen, from Cal. Coast, with
bbls oil, via Kawsihae
460
His establishment is now open for visitors.
Howland, Human, from Cal
27—Am wh ship Cornelius
Coast, with 80 bbls oil, via Kawalhae.
Kohala,
Cogan,
from Cal. Coast, with
28—Haw wh brig
Information Wanted !
176bbls oil.
Respecting William F. Robbini, wholeft tbe Bark "Merlin,"
from Hawaii,with
2d,
Macomher,
2g—Am bsrk Martha
Capt. Browiison, He was a cabin boy and 14 yearsof age. Any
_.
60 bbls sperm.
Information will be thankfully received by the Editor, or Miss
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auxprea,
Gustave.
frtn Cal. coast.
2»—French wh ship
Ueorgianna Bobbins, rear of 36Smith street, New Bedb.nl.
30— Am wh bk Camilla. Thomas, from Labaiua, 20 bn.
ALSO,
I—Hsw bark Kaoieharaehs V.. long, from Cal Coast.
April
ItesMetlng William Wi/itr, .formerly of the "So Boston.
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MEMORANDA.

Shlpwrarrk at llHricr'i lilaud.
The American sbip Mary L. Sutton, of Mystic, wu lost m
Baker's Island, Nov. 2utb, 1804, after being at and around tIM
island 41 days, slipping Iter moorings larec timet, and being a*
ica 10 dajß out of the 41, for tbe safety of the ship.
While at her moorings, nn Sunday Nov, 20th, at 2 P. M., in
a sudden squall from the West, the ship dragged her moorings,
(the buoy being tacked alongside,) and went on the reef, stern
ftntt, and struck 6 times. The squallmoderating, ship sprung
ahead Into 20 fathoms, apparently not much damaged, as she.
was making no wuter. In about "0 minuUs took another
squall, stillharder than the flrot, from the same quarter, which
forced the ship's stern high up on the rt-ef, striking heavily,
unhanging the rudder, &c, causing the ship to leak, 'he water
running forward, mm ship settling by thehead. Wr found it
impossible to save the ship, let go the moorings, and swung
around broadside on to the reef, to prevent her going down

bead first.
On the first striking of the ship, Mr. Wm Kinney, Superin
tendeotof tbe island for the American flu-in >dmpuny, csma
alongside witb men and l>oats and freely offered al! the afslaUnc; in his power By this means, wp Hired mb« provisiona
and clothing.
At about 5 I*. M., we left the .-hip, ami in M minutes after
leaving the ship she was on her neam endb, j.cclod off shore,
with heavy surf breaking in on to her decks, and by 8 1\ M.,
the beach was strewn with portions of the wreck. At 6P. M.,
by the aid of Mr. Kinney and his men, we succeeded in landing.
M S'lith Beach, together with that portion of piovision* m
baggage saved from the wreck.
run! crew
I hereby tender the heart frit th.inl.nof the
of the ship Mary /,. Suttuji, togetlu r with pur own, h> Mr
American
for
Unano
Co., at
Wm. Kinney, Superintendent
Baker's Island, Geo. Kinney his a.-sistant, and the native
day
their
exertions
the
or
and
the
hosdisaster,
on
sailors, for
pitable treatment while on the bland i also to C. Carr. carp.-n
his
attentions
after
ter, for bis kindness i tc Capt. Bal>eock for
his arrival: also to Capt. Kldridge of the liawiiiJHii hark
Harvest, for kindly supplying us with bread, as we were very
short.
P. E. Rowland, Late muster sh.|Mary L. Sutton.
Murine Report of Kiikrr'N Imlhikl.
Sailed Nov. 18, 1804, ship Fieetwiug, Kelly, lor Falmouth
England, with a full cargo of guano.
Nov. 20, total loss on the reef of ship Mary 1.,button, Rowlaud, in a squall from the west.
Pec. 27, ship K. 11. Taylor, Ford, came on the reef while
taking the moorings, after laying at and about the island '2
month*, but after laying on the reef 1} boon backed off apparently not much damaged.
Dec. 30, arrived ship Seaman 1? Bride, Wyman, from Honolulu to take guano.
l'a>se<l Dec. 30 ship Chu* W. Morgan, Landers, cruife west
and north Nothing.
Jan 11, bark Harvest, Kldridge, for Honolulu,clean, nil wet!.
.lan. 14, hark Mercury, 1 sperm whole since leaving Honolulu.
Jan. 23, ship Hector, Chase, 40 bbls sperm, since leaving S. V
Feb. 11, arrived sh Daring, Henry, to loud guano. Bamo da>
schr Odd Fellow, Cunningham, from Jarvis Is., with supplies.
Feb. 4, whalehark Peru. Hull, from Honolulu, no report.
Feb8, sailed, schr Odd Fellow, Cunningham, for Booolufa,
with passenger,*: and wrecked stuff.
Since January 13, ship K. 11. Taylor, has not been seen. It
is supposed she has left for parts unknown, in disgust.
Since Nov. 8, 1804, to Feb. 8, 1866, the weather has been
very bad. Most of the time, it has heen unsafe for a ship to
lay at the moorings.
PASSENGERS.

For Pas Francisco—per Whistler, March I—Miss Fanny
I'aty, Mrs F Holies,Miss M B Gates, J 11 Cole, J Waterhouse,
Jr, R L Rocallnson, II F Lamliert, J Blunn, Afong, G II Butcher
C P Mnrman, H P Walker, Mr Marnett, W Harbaugli, J Turner, G W Cofer, J Collins, C C Bennett, J 11 Bradley, Jos Cotton, J Grifflu—2l.
From Bam Francisco—per Comet, March 2—Miss J M
Cooke, Drand Mrs R W Wood, Miss E II Brown, Miss Brash,
Mrs Watson, Mrs Harris, P N Makes, W F Brown, Mr Hunt,
F W Fisher, J A Raym, H Slark, C Campo, F 0 Cummings,
Mr Chatterton, Chung Hoon, S Bigelow. Steerage—Mr Franklin, R Simpson, II A Johnson, Ah Chung, Tun Turn, II Sluttey
—18 cabin and 6 steerage.
For San Francisco, from Hii.o—per Merchantmen, Feb. 28—
A P Willey and Lady, Capt L 11 Hamblin, Chas Comblonm,
Messrs Barnard and Rease.
For San Francisco— per Onward, March 9—Mrs Layton,
Mary Cooke, Miss Coit. L II Hedges. D 11 Wheeler, C U Fosgate, J Page, T Bowman, M Quighy, W Brcnton, F Harhough
From Sam Francisco—per Smyrniote, March 14—Mr and
Mrs X N Berry, Miss F Berry. Miss I, Irish, Miss T ».■.-.!, Mrs
Mctlongal. J A Weed, C L Wed, W W Hull, US Miller, Jaa
Baxter, Peter J Brown, Frederick Henry, J B Miller, Dan'l
Walters—l6cabinand 6 steerage.
From San Francisco—per W. D. Rice, [at Hilo, March I6
JasC King, E A Jameson.

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MARRIED.

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Tkktos-Smitii—Oh the 27th alt., at the Cathedra), bj the
RL Rev. the Lord Biahop of Honolulu, anittert hjr theRe». P.
Gallagher, H. Turton, Esq i>f Lahalna, to Mlaa Annie Mouth,
of thia city

DIED.
Utott— In San Franc.Hco, Keb. 34, of consumption, Ufa, 1)
H.Stott, wife of Captain Williambtott, formerly of Honolulu,
age.l 45 yean.
lUtks—In Honolulu. March 3d, Helen Louise, daughter ol
Dudley C. and M. Louise Bates, aged 6 months and 15 days.
Cittmsom—In Honolulu, March iiO, of consumption, Thoa, D
Catterton, aged about 37 years, of Lincoln, Placer County, Cal.
Heoame passenger iv the Comet, hoping to recti w benefit
from the change of climate.
WBKCLn—On the rooming of the Mm March, J. S. Wheeler,
first officer of steam schr. Annie Laurie IU fell overboard »m\
was drowned.