| Summary: | Published by the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon from 1845 to 1885, The Friend focused on temperance and Christian mission to seamen. It began as a monthly newspaper that included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. Note that there are some irregularities in the numbering of individual issues, so that two issues may have the same volume and number, but different dates will distinguish them. lteiu §cries, iol. 21. ~ll. 2. l CONTE1'1TS For Febrnnry. 1871. - PAG&. Portraits of Dethronetl Sovereigns, &c . .". 9 Visits to Places of .:,pecial Interest in the Old World, No. 2 •• 9 Ah Yiug and hi'3 Contemporaries . 10 Addison's ltetlections upou a Storm al Sea. . . 11 Ocean anc! Midway l8lands . 12 Marine Journal. . 13 Si,.bbath at.loppa .•••••.•••.•••.•••••••.•••••••••••.••••• 14 Extracts of a Letter from Rev. T. Coan . 14 Chaplain l:ltcwart . , . 14 Young Men's Chc-i11ti.au A'Ssoclati<Jn .••••.•••.•••••••••. 16 THE FRIEND. F~BRUARY 1. 1871. U- During the last month, many import" ant changes have taken place among busine::s firms in Honolulu. The old firm of C. L. Richards & Co. has ceased, and the new firm of A. W. Pierce & Co. been formed, as will appear from the advertising page. P. C. Jones, Jr., has been admitted into the old firm of C. Brewer & Co., while from this last firm, Mr. Peterson has been united with Capt. Pierce in the ship-chandlery business. A. W. Pierce & Uo. appear to have commenced their career under favorable auspices. Their store is filled with everything to ng a ship from keel to truck. Then too they are agents for the Pu11loa Salt Works, and besides, can furmsh their eustomers with Davis' Pain Killer, which is one of the best medieines in the world. It kills the pain, but eures the body ! Loss OF THE wHALESHIP p ARKER ON OcEAN IsLAND.-In the Itriend of June 27, 1843; '-'·ill be found a full report of the wreck of this vessel on the 23d of September, 1841. One man was clrowned. The crew remained on the island until the following spring. On the 16th of April a part of the crew were taken off by the whaleship James Stewart, and the remainder supplied with provisions; but on the 2d of May they were also taken -0ff by the whaleship Nassau. We have now in our possession the identical pieces of wood upon which the wrecked seamen kept their " log," or their reckoning, for all their writing materials were lost. HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 1, 1871. {®lh ~tries, iol. 2g [7' We would call the attention of our Visits to Places of Special Interest in the Old World.-No. 2. readers to the article copied froflil the " Old and New," by Julius A. Palmer, Esq., relat"I will away to Egypt."-Shakeipeare. LB.:r our" Compagnon de Voyage."] ing to the mercantile integrity of Chinese merchants in San Francisco and Honolulu. , EGYPT-THE SUEZ CANAL-PORT SAID-JAFFA. We very well remember Mr. Palmer's visit Egypt is waking up from the sleep of cento Honolulu some four or five years agq. H e turies. Steamboats ascend the Nile. The has been lecturing upon the Chinese, much electric telegraph stretches along its banks. to the enlightenment of those American The ~histle of the steam-engine is heard iq, Athenians living at the "hub of the uni- th~ midst of the deserts. The Suez C~na[ verse." We honestly believe the mercantile • umtes once more the waters of the Med1terranean with the Red Sea. We say once . . . mteg~1t~ of the Chmese merchants of Hon?- more, for three thousand years ago there was lulu 1s JUSt as sound as that of the "solid a canal through thatl silent waste of desert; men of Boston." Some months ago we and even as late as the battle of Actium, the heard one of our merchants extensively en- Egyptian galleys sailed on to the Red Sea, gag-ed in the "jobbino-" business, remark which h_ad recently ploughed the waves of 0 . • the Mediterranean. that he had never lost a dolla~ by a_ ChmaEarly in the morning of a beautiful Deman! We have no doubt the time will come cember day we bid farewell to Cairo with its when the names of some millionaire Chinese minarets shining in the sun, its sculptured merchants in New York and Boston, will be sarcophagi made by hands that three thouas noted as those of Astor, Stewart or Law- sand years ago crumbled to the dust, and are off for the railway station to take the train rence. for Ismailia, the midway port on the Suez PoRTRAITS oF DETHRONED SovEREIGNS.- Canal, between Port Said on the MediterraFrom a recent notice in the Gazette, we nean, and Suez on the Red Sea. After a ride of six hours through the desert, we arlearn that the portrait of the ex-Emperor rive at Lake Timseh. lsmalia has sprung Napoleon has just been received and pre- up like magic from the desert, and where a sented to His Majesty Kamehameha Y. In few years ago there was nothing but a sandy referring to a file of the Friend, we learn waste, now fine buildings and streets and from an item in the issue for July 1, 1848, fountains and flowers show what may be done even by the humble hand of man. that after the flight of Louis Philippe, King Through the energy of one man, Lesseps, of the French, his portrait was received in the Suez Canal has been made a success. Honolulu, and presented to Kamehameha HI. He thought of the ships from Europe creeping slowly along the coast of Africa, passing NAVAL.-The French aviso steam gun-boat Hame- the Cape of Good Hope, and sailing slowly lin, 14 days passage from Tahiti, arrived in this along the Indian Ocean to the East. He port on Thursday, Jan. 12. She .made the whole run thought of the glory that France would reunder sail, experiencing very fine weather. She ceive, should this great undertaking be comcarries two 60-pounders and two 45-pounder guns, .pleted under her auspices; and after years and carries a. complement of 150 men. Her engines of labor, when bold-hearted men would are 240 horse-power. The following is 11, list of her have given up the enterprise in despair, and officers: captain-M. Pouthier. when other nations looked coldly on and Lo~!i:::Jtants-Messrs. Duperre, Blarez, Richard and De prophesied failure, Lesseps has ttnited the Surgeoits-Messrs. Latiere and Roux. Mediterranean with the vast waters of the Indian Ocean. The canal is one hundred U All recent papers from the United miles long. The average width at the top States notice the sudden death of the Rev. is three hundred and twenty feet; at the Albert Barnes. Three hundred clergymen bottom two hundred and forty-six feet, and are reported as having bee"n present at his the depth twenty-six feet. It is doubtful funeral. whether this enterprise from a fi.nanciai {>O.iut 19 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1871. ===================================================~ =====-=================:===~==========-~== --- Ah Ying aud bis Contemporaries. merchant never go him more; he no pay for of view, will realize the · anticipation of its steal." projectors : for owing to the calms that preBY JULIUS A, PALUER, ,JR, Here was a valuable leaf from my predevail on the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, At the best, our idea of the Chinaman is cessor's book. The gentleman referred to few sailing vessels will attempt the passage; but to steamers, which formerlv made the about the same as it once was of the Irish- was, I believe, an honorable, upright man; long passage around the Cape o(Good Hope, man we, who believe in him at a11, see only but he did not see fit to at once assume the the time occupied in the passage from India a' new competitor for the spoils of the labor responsibility of a theft committed on his to England and France is lessened nearly market,-a new engine in the hands of cap- premises; consequently his character with italists in developing the resources of our his Mongolian customers was gone forever one-half. The town of Port Said is a triumph of country as such, our labor organizations de- and the stigma rested even upon the house science. Here an artificial harbor has been claim against his " importation; " as such, in which he once did business. I lost no excavated from the open sea. Huge blocks our national government is memorialized to time in giving out to my friends among the merchants, that, for any damage by rats, of stone, composed of lime and sand, and prepare laws for his exclusion. Did it ever occur to any of the readers who leakage or other loss, great or small, they weighing twenty tons, were made on the shore, and plttced in position, forming a break- glance at the title of this page to consider would be promptly reimbursed and the rewater for the harbor and when the sea is him in anott.er and a totally different light?- sult was soon evident. l mention this incident to illustrate the rough and breakers are rolling on the neigh- to look upon the Kwong Wings, Ah Youngs, and a host of others that might be named, as verv foundation stone of mercantile transacboring shores, here in this artificial harbor of Port Said there is quiet water. The area among the Astors, the Coopers and the Van- tio~s between the two races; he who thinks thus enclosed is about five hundred acres. derbilts of the land '? Yet such they will that, because of their nationality, he can The population of Port Said is about seven become,-nay, such they are to-day, in at evade responsibility in his dealings with them will only find distrust it is by meetthousand-a motley gathe ring from many least one city of our Republic. The object of the writer will be, to give in ing them on their own ground, dealing with nations-the Arab element predominating. The streets have French names, the princi- a brief compass a bird's-eye view of personal them on the highi=ist principles of honor, that experiences with these merchants, comprising their confidence is secured. pal avenue bearing the name of Eugenie. Many i.nteresting associations cluster incidents, illustrating the Chinese character, * * "" * * * When the nature of my business required around us as we pass through this canal of and forming, with him at least, some of the the desert. Here the children of Israel made most pleasing reminiscences of a San Fran- me to become a resident of the Sandwich Islands, I carried, for many of my Chinese their toilsome mareh from Egypt, and at cisco mercantile career. In the month of February, 1866! I leased friends, letters, documents and important length reached a fairer country. Over this waste the infant Saviour was brouo-ht from one of the oldest and best public warehouses despatche::; to Honolulu to their correspondPalestine to Egypt; and the deserr seemed in the city of San Francisco; it had a capac- ents n1sident there. These merchants have a fine American no longer a desert, but a beautiful garden, ity of ten thousand tons, and rented for $52-5 when we thought of His hallowed presence gold per month. At the time I took it, there built brig, which trades regularly between was but little Chinese merchandise stored the Islands and China, sometimes also makhere over eig?teen hundred years ago. The Russian steamer has arrived from therein but, by carefully watching the ship- ing a trip to San Fn1.111cisco. They are inAlexandria, and we leave for Jaffa-the an- ping, any observer could not help noticing telligent, public-spirited men and I recall that the great bulk of rice, oil and tea im- one who married a Hawaiian wife, and has cient J~ppa. Early the next morning we see the Plarns of Sharon, the Hills of Judea and portea into San Francisco came to the Chi- one of the finest residences about Honolulu. nese houses1 doing business there. He has brought over Chinese gardeners, and the eminence upon which the town of Jaffa Next my own premises was the Union means to have a place which will do honor is built. Jaffa has a fine appearance from warehouse, an establishment which had been to the Flowery Kingdom itself. t~e sea, ~ut upon entering the town, the illucarried on by Mr. C. Koopmanschap, who is * * * * * * s10n vamshes. There is no enterprise among now engaged almost exclusively in the busiAh Ying was a dear old follow it took a !he people, no industry, and the people are "!1ess of a_dvancing Chinese emigration. The great deal to ruffle him. ~gnorant ~nd deg~aded. But Jaffa, after all, 1mportat10ns from Hong Kong, which were One day he was shipping wheat by the 1s a very mterestmg place from its ancient not left in bond, were mostly stored with Mr. Chieftain for Hong Kong. When it came associat10ns. This was the ancient port of Jerusalem, ~nd in old times was doubtless a Koopmanscha-p's warehouses as long as he out of the warehouse, what was my dismay continued to receive them. At this time, to find the sacks rotten ! I had bought it l~rge and opulent city. Here the ancient however, he was not interested, and kindly lying there; and I feared that, when it should kings of Jerusalem embarked for the cities permitted me to refer to him in my efforts to arrive in China, it would be a serious loss to on the coast of Syria. Here occurred some secure the Chinese business. I soon found my friend. of the hallowed events mentioned in the out that I had, per contra, a certain some"Ah Ying," said I that evening, when I New Testament. Here the Crusaders on thing to contend against, in gaining the con- explained the circumstances, " you keep acmany of their expeditions disembarked with fidence of the Chinamen and it was a long count; pretty soon you hear from that; you brav~ resolves to capture the Holy City from time before I discovered tangible traces of tell me, make or lose." !he mfidels, and along this coast their sufferthe opposing element. Finally, a Chinese He shooK his head. mgs and defeats present one of the most friend gave me the following explanation. " No, no!" said he '· very sorry but no melancholy pictures in the annals of history. While making no attempt to write " pigeon more I never say; make or lose, all same. THE SAGINA w's G10.-This boa.t, which brought English," a dialect not at all current in San Do business to-day; to-day gone; no more Francisco, I shall, in narratinothe conversa- think. To-morrow do business; maybe bet0 the unfortunate party from Ocean Island, was sold tions that may follow, use the simple Saxon, ter, maybe no good. Think to-morrow; no at Auction this week. She brought $80, and was presented by the purchaser Mr. C. A. Williams to the often ungrammatical, which I have generally remember to-day any more: all gone." heard among the educated Chinese of CaliIf that is not practicing the injunction, officers of the Saginaw. She will be conveyed to fornia. " Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," San Francisco by the .11. P. Jordan which sails to. "You very good man,'' said my inform- I have yet to meet with an example. day, and will no doubt be an object of much interest ant, " I tell all merchants; but one time, 'f h1s was not the only precept of the Serthere. long ago, other man have your warehouse, mon on the Mount which was faithfully folA WHALE, of the humpback species, drifted on plenty China merchandise, one Chinaman lowed by Mr. Ah Ying. shore at Koolau last week. The ship Henry Taber have opium, plenty opium, I think ten thouOne evening, my wife and I sat with him is supposed to be cruising in the neighborhood of the sand dollars. One day, send order, all steal. in his private office until late at night. Alislands, and may have struck and lost this whale. Man keep warehouse, no pay for him. Make though very temperate, he always sent for law, plenty money lose; no pay, every China champagne when we reaJly sat down for a The natives got a good store of oil. merchant take out goods. One day full, rice, good talk. Extremelv reserved on short acSAILED TO CRUISE.-The French gunboat Hame- oil, tea, opium; other day, nothing. He quaintance, and veri reticent, when he felt lin sailed Wednesday, destination unknown. North come see me, see Tung Yu, see Angh Kee, inclined he was a ready talker. This evenGerman sbipe will have to be fleet sa.ilers to escape her. no good. Make one iron ~afe, no good. China ing, he told ns much of his past life,-how 'l' H E F R I E N D F E B R U A R Y, I 8 7 I . he came to California, in the early days, poor Addison's Reflections upon a ~torm at Sea. and friendless; how, in spite of abuse, oppressive laws, and local prejudice, ~e hired a lt adds much to the interest, we take, in little cellar, and established himself in busireading a hymn or poem, to learn the inciness; how he grew in prosperity, and his business increased, until that cellar has now dent or circumstance which ~ailed it forth. grown into four stories of a fine brick build- Macaulay, in his review of Addison's life ing, besides his establishment in China. and writings, furnishes some most interesting u y OU have any partners, Ah Ying? " I statements respecting the origin of the familasked. iar and oft-sung hymn printed in so many "Oh, yes ! I have partners. I got one English and American hymn-books, compartner dead my partner all same no different. I make all I can he have share. mencing, He have wife, children, home in China. " How are thy servants blest, 0 Lord ! " Every year I look over rice, tea, flour, see It ~ppears that about the year 1700, Adhow much make; then send China, pay him, dison visited Italy, and while making the his wife, all he make. Suppose live, my passage from Marseilles to Genoa, the maspartner; dead, my partner all same." And this is the race that is unworthy citi- ter of the ship gave up all for lost, and conzenship, unworthy the protection of our law:i; fessed to a priest on board. How deep an while Paddy from Cork flourishes his police- impression this perilous voyage made upon man's bludgeon over their heads, or legis- the mind of the great English essayist and lates against them in our halls of state. poet, we may learn from the perusal of this But to return to Ah Ying; he is the best judge of flour 1 ever met with; that partner beautiful hymn, which has been sadly muti:in China could not leave bis interests in lated and cut short, as published in all of our safer hands. I asked him, this very even- hymn-books. We think our readers will be ing, how he acquired such a knowledge of interested m seeing the ode or hymn in its that article. I give his explanation as he original form, as printed in the J:fpectator, repeated it to us: '' You know Mr. Davis, Golden Gate September 20th, 1712. Jn its original form, Mill ?-very good man. I go work for him it will be seen to contain an allusion to the work all same coolie. I see wheat come in; Alps, which he crossed at the l\it. Cenis Pass go in mill, come out flour, but very coarse. in December, and also to passing through I go home, think; every night I think, think. By and by, see coarse put down other place, "burning climes" and breathing "in tainted come out fine; by and by more fine. Go air," which refers to his residence at Room home night; more think. Speak Mr. Davis; during the hot an::!. sickly season. God was he show me: he tell me every thing. Every to Addison, as teautifully described by Manight, I think; every day, I look the flour. caulay, '' the all-wise and all-powerful friend Now you bring me flour, l tell you all about him one minute. I know how he made; ah, who hac! watched over his cradle with more than maternal tenderness :l!" * who had reyei. ! I know him : I work for it." Thus, study and work, \\ ith the assistance buked the waves of the Ligurian gulf, had of a teacher, who, standing at the highest purified the autumnal air of the Campagna, point in his calling, is proud to impart inand had restrained the avalanches of Mount forma~.ion, have made this man a competent judge of a staple in which he is now a large Cenis." 1. How are thy servants blest, 0 Lord ! dealer. How sure is their defence ! With Ah Ying, we close these reminisEternal wisdom is their guide, cences of the Chinese merchants of San 'rheir help Omnipotence. Francisco. Examples might be multiplied; 2. In foreign realms and lands remote, but it was only with a view of simply callSupported by thy care, ing public attention to the recognition of Through burning climes I pass'd unhurt, such a class that we have stated the facts And breathed in tainted air. that have been given. 8. Thy mercy sweeten 'd every soil, A noble body of men, cultivated in manMade ev'ry region please : 'fhe hoary Alpine hills it warm'd, ners, educated in mind, they have borne for And smooth 'd the Tyrrhene sells. many years the arrogance which power allied 4. Think, 0 my soul, devoutly think, with ignorance always produces. In a city How, with affrighted eyes, largely controlled by Irish influence, they Thou saw'st the wide extended deep have succeeded, by years of integrity, so In all its horrors rise ! marked as to win approval from eYen their 6. Confusion dwelt in ev'ry face, enemies, in making the cred1t of their nation And fear in ev'ry heart as merchants unimpeachable. To-day, they When waves on waves, and gulfs in gulfs are trusted with thousands on personal secuO'ercame the pilot's art. rity and it is a matter of pride with them 6. Yet then from all my griefs, 0 Lord, that the Chinese houses, as a whole, stand Thy mercy set me free, Whilst, in the confidence of prayer, higher in credit than the same number of My soul took hold on thee. mercantile firms selected at random from any 7. For though in dreadful whirls we hung other nationality.-Old ctnd New. High on the broken wave, c::7" Prussia has captured 3,653 French guns, but then she has 25,000 widows she has 200,000 chassepots, and has also 120,000 fatherless children. I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. 8. The storm was laid, the winds retir'd, Obedient to thy will The sea that roar'd at thy command, At thy eommaud was still. 9. In midst of dangers, fears, and death, Thy goodness I'll adore, And praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more. 10. My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be • And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee. 11 " Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea, or ocean. I cannot see the heaviogs of this prodigious bulk of waters, even in a calm, without a very pleasing astonishment; but when it is worked up in a tempest, so that the horizon on every side is nothing but foaming billows and floating mountains, it is impossible to describe the agreeable horror that rises from such a prospect. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness. I must confess it is impossible for me to survey this world of fluid matter without thinking on the hand that first poured it out, and made a proper channel for its reception. Such an object naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being, and convinces me of his existence as much as a metaphysical demonstration. The imagination prompts the understanding, and, by the greatness of the sensible object, produces in it the idea of a being who is neither circumscribed by time nor space'. "As I have made several voyages upon the sea, I have often been tossed in storms, and on that occasion have frequently reflected on the descriptions of them in ancient poets. I remember Longinus highly recommends one in Homer, because the poet has not amused himself with little fancies upon the occasion, as authors of an inferior genius, which he mentions, had done but because he has gathered those circumstances which ar.e the most apt to terrify the imagination, and which really happen in the raging of a tempest. It is for the same reason that l prefer the following description of a ship in a storm, which the psalmist has made, before any other I have ever met with : ' They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waters thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted' because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. 'f hen they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then they are glad, because they be quiet, so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.' "By the way, how much more comforta~ hie, as well as rational, is this system of the psalmist, than the pagan scheme in Virgil and other poets, where one deity is represented as raising a storm, and another as laying it! Were we only to consider the sublime in this piece of poetry, what can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being thus raising tumult among .the elements, and recovering them out of their confusion thus troubling and becalming nature t" 12 'I' ff E F R I E N D , F E B R U A R Y, I 8 7 I . THE FRIEND . ( north latitude 28 ° 13' and west longitude 177 ° 23', distant from Honolulu about 1,100 miles, and forty-eight miles from Ocean Island. This was to be the coaling station for the company's steamers on their voyages between San Francisco and China. As a cornmencement, Congress appropriated $50,000 for the work of blasting a ship channel through the reef. 'l'he Saginaw was detailed for the service, and on the 22d of February, 1870, left San Francisco for Midway Island via H011olulu, having on board a, party of experienced divers, and all the necei:;sary machinery, apparatus and stores for carrying on the work of blasting and excavating the proposed channel. 8he arrived at the island March 24th, and after putting up the necessary buildings, the business of blasting the bar waR commenced, and the first trial was considered satii:;factory, fifty pounds of powder having been used in two charges, each dislodging about five tons of rock. 'r his was to be hoisted into a scow and then dumped on the reef on either side of the proposed cut. The channel was to be over 600 feet in length, with a general average width of 200 feet and a depth of 24 feet. We append here a rough sketch of the reef and the islets which it encloses, from which a general idea of the positioa may be obtained. to back the engines, which was done, and continued f"r about ten minute~, when the wheels refused to move, the difficulty being evidently FEBRUARY 1, 1871. that some of the steam connections were broken. During this time the topsails were still set, and Ocean and Midway Islands. could not be got in before she struck. 'rhe water came in in torrents, and in a few moments was It was upon one of these islands known as up to the grate bars. Every wave that struck Ocean Island, situated in latitude 28 ° 23' north the ship threatened to break her to pieceB. 'fhe and longitude 178 ° 30' west, that the United smoke stack went over t_he aide, und tile ship States steamer Saginaw went ashore on the morngradually careened over to port, towards the reef. ing of the 29th of October last, while on her She was being lifted bodily upon the rocks, and way to San Francisco from Midway (formerly in a little time the after part of the vessel was Brooke's) Island. '.l'here her crew remained, above the water level, so that the men could climb having all fortunately reached the shore in safety, directly from the ship to the rocks wJthout danuntil the 3d of the pre8ent month, when they ger. At one time, the order was given to clear were rescued from their haU:-starved and perilous away the boats, and some one let go the after fall situation by the timely arrival of the steamer of the launch, hoisted on the starboard side of tl;ie Rilauea, which had been promptly dispatched to quarter deck. '.l'he order having been countertheir aid by the Hawaiian Government ,on the remanded, the launch remained with her stern ceipt of the news of tbe ditiaster at Honolulu. lowered some six feet and all the gripes cut. In ln the Hawaiian Spectator for July, 1838, we a short time she wat:i carried away, davits and all. find the following account of Ocean Island and Gan~s went to work at once to get provisions out the wreck of tbe Gledstanes, as furnished by the of the fore and urn.in holds. Not a great deal master: was obtained from the fore hold, ae the forward "The Isln.nd, in Lat. 28 ° 23' N. and Long. 178 ° part of the vessel was not on the rocks, as was the 30' W. which I suppose to be Ocean Island, is about after part, and the hold was full of water. This ~hree miles in circumference. It is composed of was before daylight. When day broke, an island broken coral and shells, and is covered, near the appeared, less than a mile from the ship, sur13hore, with low bushes. In the season, it abounds rounded by the reef. rrhi1 was Ocean Island, to with sea birds, and at times, there is a considerable which the Saginaw had come in search of shipnumber of hair-seals. There is always an abundance wrecked people,-and they were undoubtedly of fish, and in a great variety. The highest part of the island is not more than ten feet above the level of found, m the persons of her own crew. the sea. The only fresh water is what drains through At 5 o'clock P. M., word was passed to abandon the sand after the heavy rains. From the specimens the liihip. All hands accordingly went on shore. of dead shells ~ying about the beach, there appears to The damaged provisions were spread out on awnbe a great variety of shells.'' ings and such sails as could be got at. Much of The Spectator says: the bread had been placed in bag:!!, and the wash "The Gledstanes was wrecked on the 9th July, of the sea rushing through the holes in the ship's 1837, about midnight. Only one man was lost he sides had reduced it to a mere pulp, such as to be jumped overboard, intoxicated. Capt. Brown reabsolutely uneatable, except to people in danger mained on the island till the 15th Dec., when himself of starvation. 'rhe bread in boxes fared better, with his chief mate and eight seaman sailed for the since it was kept in shape, and was not so thorSandwich Islands, in a schooner they had, with great oughly saturated. Much of the beef and pork was toil, and perseverance and skill, constructed from fragments of the wreck. The other officers and men broken out of the barrels, and everything was who remained several months longer, and endured adrift. Some chickens, turkeys und sheep that were great sufferings, were subsequently brought off by a saved, were turned loose on the island. It was vessel despatched for that purpose, by H. B. JVI.'s necessary to put all hands-93 souls-at once on Consul at these Islands.'' On the 14th of May the Saginaw sailed for short allowance, for it was uncertain what supHerewith we give a sketch of the island. G ·Honolulu, and up to the date of her loss, plies the island might afford, and a long period marks the position where the Gledstanes was October 29th, had made four trips to and from might elapse before they were relieved. After wrecked, and S that of the Saginaw. The as- the island. On her last return from Honolulu, the frugai supper, those who were fortunate terisk shows the line of green water at the enCaptain Sicard brought orders to the working enough to have saved tobacco, divided, and after trance of the lagoon. party to discontinue operations, as the appro- a smoke, as cheerfully as the circumstances would priation ($50,000) bad been exhamited. After allow all settled their wearied bodies among the toiling ]aboriouslv and constantly, whenever the bushes, to sleep, or to ponder over the events of weather and health of the men permitted, under the day and to speculate on the prospects ahead, It was in truth, a remarkable shipwreck. The water and in boats and scows for six months, using large quantities of powder and fuse, they ni~ht bad been clear starlight, with a moderate had excavated a channel near the centre of the breeze. 'fhe ship was heading direct for an island cut about 15 foet wide and 450 foet in length, whose position and distance-and that a short and the $50,000 was expended, and the work one-were known, approximately if not precisely. brought to a stop. At this rate the work She was making not over two and a h!l.lf to three will cost, when completed, at least the sum of knots, yet she ran directly, without any particular $1,000,000 ! It is very much to be doubted lack of vigilance, on a reef which was above water, whether the United States Government will con- and on which the breakers were dashing furiously. On the 18th November, the Captain ·s gig, which Bent to the throwing away of any more money i.n the useless attempt to make an available harbor had been raised upon, decked, and thoroughly at Midway, after the experience of the past year. fitted for the purpose, 2'ailed from the island for Having taken on board the work.mg party and Honolulu for assistance, with a crew of four men their materials on Friday, ( traditionally unlucky under the command of the executive officer of the day for sailors) the Saginaw left Midway Island ship, the lamented Lieutenant 'ralbot. In our We propose giving; here a concise history of for San Francii:;co. It was determined, however, issue of January 4th, we printed in full the the ill-starred expedition, which has resulted so to visit Ocean Island, about 48 miles to the west, account of the voyage of 1,100 miles in that disastrously in the loss of four valuable lives and where it was possible that some vessel might have small boat, which ended so disastrously to four the squandering of a large amount of money. been wrecked. It was upon this island that the out of the five who left the island in her. After This account is mainly compiled from journals British ship Gledstanes was wrecked in 1837, and her departure, the work was vigorously carried the American ship Parkeri in September, 1842. on of building a boat in which to visit .Midway, kept on the islands. Through the misrepresentations of interested Tho crew of the latter ship were taken from the to be forty feet long. At length, on the afternoon of the 3d of parties, backed by the recommendations of a island in May, 1843. But the Saginaw, on her naval officer who waa either incompetent to judge humane mission, became herself a wreck. The January, the carpenter, at work on the large or who was influenced by unworthy feelings of wind was fair, and the engines were running boat (he was encouraged to work by double, prejudice and spite against the Government and slowly, and it was expected that they would be i. e., half rations) raised his bead to wipe the people of these islands, the North Pacific Mail near the island about four in the morning. At perspiration from bis face, when he saw a black Steamship Company was led to believe that by half-past two, the engines were stopped entirely. smoke in the offing ! Bardly daring to trust his the expenditure of a reasonable sum, a good har- At half-past three, the man on the lookout reported eyes, he stooped again to bis work, but with a bor could be made at Midway Island, a barren that he saw something; ahead which he thought beating heart. Soon looking again to sea.ward, !and-bank, enclosed in a coral reef, situated in to be breakera. The oi·der was given immediately he folt sure that \That he saw was the smoke of i'.I. THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1871. steamer, and then he shouted. In an instant, the camp was in commotion. Very soon, the vessel came in sight, the Kilauea, and the Hawaiian flag at her mast-head saemed to 1:hese half-famished, half-clothed marinertS, '' a rambow in the skies." How the stenmer took them all on board the next day, how they bade farewell to the barren spot where they had spent so many dreary waiting days, and sailed away for Honolulu, faring sumptuously on tbe generous supplies sent for their use,-all these circumstances have been mentioned before in these columune. And so ends the bit,tory of the attempt to make a ha.rbor and a coaling station at Midway Island. 'rhe result hus been, the loss of four lives and a fine vessel of war, the sinkin~ of $50,000, and months of hardship and privation -and nothing accomplished. And all this, primarily, to gratify private spite by giving Honolulu the go-by, and secondly, to put money into somcbody"s pocket.-Advertiser. II? The completion of the Mont Cenis Tunnel is a matter of general interest. It is the longest ever made. We feel a special interest in the enterprise, having so reeently crossed and recrossed the Alps by the Mont Cenis Pass. (~ee Friend, July, 1870.) We copy the following paragraphs from the New York Observer of January 3d, 1871: THE MoNT CENIS TuNNEL.-The complete perforation of the Alps, under Mont Cenis, by the tunnel, which is henceforth to be the great thoroughfare between the Western and the Eastern worlds, is an event of great interest and importance. The work was begun in 1857. The tunnel will now be speedily completed and opened to passage and traffic, we presume, by the 1st of July, 1871. The tunnel is a trifle more than 7 miles and a half in length, 25 feet 3½ inches wide at the base, 26 feet 2i inches in the widest part, and 24 feet 7 inches high, the ar ett, Mr J Waten, Mr @: L Dalrymple, Mr D Porter-20. FROM SA!i FaANCisco-Per Oracle, Jan. 18th-W L Wallace-I. Fon HONGKONG-Per Ora11Je, Jan. 18th-Kamu, Tchang Yan, Amun, A.kuna, Asu, Awai Aiona, Pa.kana, Mosea, Anoe, l'alana.-10. FROM NEw CASTLE, N. S. \V.-Per Henry Adderly, J~n. 23d-John Welsh, Miss Bailey, Miss Bramley-3. Fno~t SYDNEY AND AUCKLAND-Per City of Melbourne, .Tan 25th-F E Oswald, Mr Bandmann, Mrs Bandmann, Infant and servant, Mr llitchins and wife. -In transitu, for San Francisco-I-Ion J Vogel, wife, two children and servant, Chas Wehle, A 8aqui, Dr H J Jordan and wife, Mr 8 Jordan, Miss M Jordan, Mr C Milbard an/ii wife, CJ Hoyt, A Uaruet, A Burt, J Wilson, \V Grey, G Fox, Dr Tait, Mr and Mrs Hall, L Smiles, Mr Jatre, Mr RihHsch, Miss Roberts, W Rhetz, Thos Broad, Mr Rawson, Mr Fift, Mr Wilson, Jas Maloney, Mr Buljer, Mr Madigan, Mr R Barrett. W B Clark, wife and four children. Wm Henderson, C Rice, IS Maxwell, Miss Maxwell, C G Borau, Mrs Crossland, Mr Diva.nn, Jos Volkel-Total, 56. FROM SAN FRANc1sco-Per Moses Taylor, Jan. 25th-Mrs Spencer, Wm H Davis, T P Madden, H C Angel, Col Sa.m'l Norris, TN Noble, Thos Graham, A Block, Jas R Gould, Geo l'latt and servant, M S Grinbaum, Miss Spencer, J C Merri,JJ, Maurice Dore, Jr, Geo E Elliott, Adolph Kugelman, Charles Green, Thos Henderson, Jr, Robert Newcomb, J J Kane, i Magnin, J B M Stewart, and 5 others. -In transitufor Auckland and Sydney-Mrs B Bell, Wm James, CR Da.rton, wife and two children, Dr W E Strong, W W Allison, A SteYenson the mail agent, and 14 othu11Total, 51. FROM Gu ANO ISLAND-Per C. M. Ward, Jan. 26th :-Capt J,ohn Ross, Capt Wetherbee, A J Kinney, C Marston, J Gramn, A .J Ra.imans, A Robinson. Captuin, officers and lli se~men from wrecked ship Li/Jig and 20 native laboren. Fon AUCKLAND AND SYDNEY-Per City of Melboune, January 26th :-J W Atkinson, Ca.pt W Berrill, J W Glaring, and 24 in transitu from San Francitico. MARRIED. DEWING-HooMANA-At Kapalama, on the 8th inst., ~y Rev. B. W. Parker, Mr. A. W. DEWING, of Honolulu, to Mis11 HOOMANA, of Waimanalo, Koolaupoko. McCONNELL-BURNS-On the 11th inst., at St. Anclrew'11 Cathedral, by the ReY. C. G. Williamson, .l\Ir. GEO. 'H. McCONNELL to Miss DORA BURNS. KING-WuNnENBEno-In Vallejo, Cal., December 13th, at the residence eyf the bride's mother, by the Rev. Mr. Treadway, Mr. Tims . .TAMES KING, of Oakla.nd, to Miss JOSEP • lNJi: WUNDENBERG, of Vallejo. COOPER-O'NEILL-In this city. on Sunday evening, Jan. 22d, at the re11idence of tl1e 8ride's parents, by tile Revec1md FAther Herml\un, Mr. Hii:1111\Y COOPER to Milils KAT& W. O'NEI:tiL, 11:7 San Francisco papers please copy. DIED. WEEKs-On Monday, .January 9th, at Kainaliu, Kona, llawaii, HENRY WEEKS, a native of Portsmouth, England. COFFIN-In Honolulu, Hawaiiar, Islands, .January 14th, 1871, EDWARD R. COFFIN, a citizen of the United Stat1111 of Ameriea, aged 66 year11. RIL:li:Y-In this city, January 23d, nt the Queen's Ilospi'31, ALFR:li:D RILEY, aged 35 years, a native of London, England. Deceased was second mate of the British brig Robert Cowan, and died of injuries received in falling from aloft on board that vessel, December 31st. PROHL-At I{ealakekua, Hawaii, January 16th, of broachitis, HE!UlY PROHL, aged 23 yea.rs, a nlltive of Nur&rn•erg, Germany. fO' Stockton pa.pen please copy. HELLMANN-At Kona, Hawaii, December 25th, CoNsT.lNTINE HELLMANN, a native 9f Silesia, Prussia. Mr. II. waJ lately from S&n Francisco. BROWN-In Honolulu, January 28, Eow ARD BROWl'f, a1:ed T2 yi.ii,n, a native of Ireland leaving a wif@ and family t• mourn the Joa~ of a faithful husband and father. For 42 ysua he llad been a re&ident of tit.es, Island&, (15, Bo,ton an( L.den paper!i plea11e copy. I THE FRIEND. FEBRUARY, 1871. 14 Sabbath at Joppa. };xtracts of a Letter from Rev. •r. Coan. Our traveling companion has furnished an It is cold, and yet with warm hearers, interesting sketch of our departure from warm hearts, and cordial ,hospitalities, we Egypt and arrival at Joppa. We proceeded have had a good Christmas. We do long immediately to Jerusalem, and returning to for the dear friends of the Islands, and for Joppa, there spent the first Sabbath of 1870. the beauty and balm of the "Emerald We attended at the English-German mis- Bower." We hope to be with our tropical sion premises, divine service in the morning, friends in April. when the service was read by a German We baa a pleasant reception by the Haclergyman connected with the mis8ion of waiian Club at the United State~ Hotel in Bishop Gobat. The sermon was preached Boston. About sixty were presPnt,-a mo~t by the Rev. Mr. Frazer, a Scottish Presbyprecious re-union with friends. I cannot tell terian clergyman, who is a Professor in the you all the places we have visited, and all Syrian College at Beirut. In the evening a the dear friends we have seen. To-day I go social religious meeting was held at the resito Newark, to talk in the evening about voldence of the American Vice-Consul. The mother of the Consul, Mrs. Hay, and her si~- canoes and earthquakes; to-morrow evening ter, Miss M. B. Baldwin, we found excellent I speak at M - - - on the 29th back to Christian ladies, who were then forming Boston, to speak three times on the Sabbath. their plans for opening a school for Syrian On Monday to Newburyport, thence to Alboys and girls. A school for girls was in bany, and again to Philadelphia; then to existence with in the walls of the city, kept Delaware and Washington. From thence by a Miss Arnott, a Scottish lady. We are we hope to go to West Missouri, then across glad to learn from the following Appeal, pub- the Plains, "over the hills, and far away," lished in the New York Observer of Decem- to the fales, once afar off, but now brought ber 22d, that they have been successful in nigh by a thousan.d bands of grace and love Were I to express the master feeling of their plans of organization, and now only remy heart in regard to our country, 1 would quire the necessary funds to do much good. We can say, in the language of Paul in his say, IY.rpansfon-Expansion in territory, in epistle to the Philippians, " Help those population, in wealth, in institutions, in imwomen." They are worthy of aid. The provements, in luxuries, in intellectual pow Bethel Sabbath-school has sent its mite. ers, in business energies, in all the vital Miss Baldwin was formerly attached to the forces and activities of life. I speak with school of Mrs. Hill at Athe-ns, Greece. '' ORPHANAGE AT JoPPA.-Mr. John B. Hay, less assurance as to morals, and the growth United States Vice-Consul at Joppa, whom of spiritual life, though a vast amount of well travelers in Syria will remember with great directed thought and heart and toil flows in pleasure as the accomplished and attentive this direction. Acting Consul at Jerusalem during the last In all things, ours is a g1·eat nation-a year, is now in this country making preparations to occupy a new official position in nation of matchhiss growth and marvelous Syria, to which he has just been appointed. power. The great American heart beats During his stay, he is seeking to raise funds from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the for the better establishment of the school and St. Lawrence to the Southern gulf; or, in an orphanage in connection with the Protestant Mission at Joppa. The Mission com- Bible language, " From sea to sea, and from prises a school for boys, under the direction the river to the ends of the earth." In all of M.iss M. B. Baldwin, assisted by native things the nation is becoming gigantic in its teachers, with sixty-five schola,s; and a proportions. May it not be .left of the Lord school for girls, under the direction of Mis:s to commit national suicide. " Happy is that J. Arnott, assisted by native teachers, with seventy scholars. It is proposed to establish people whose God is the Lord." I have met numerous large bodies of clergyan orphanage for boys and girls, under the direction of Mrs. Hay, Miss Arnott, and Miss men. in our cities, and made the acquaintBaldwin. This is the only Protestant Mis- ance of many noble and excellent men. sion in a district numbering fifteen thousand DEATH OF ALBERT BARNES. inhabitants. We have no doubt that many News has just come to us of the sudden of the friends of missions will take great pleasure in contributing to the maintenance death of that dear venerable man, Albert of this Mission, and it will commend itself Harnes. Thousands on thousands will mourn with peculiar force to those who have tarried his departure but with him, " it is far betat Joppa and seen there the need of such labor for the education of its inhabitants. ter '' than all this life. He still lives, and Contributions may be sent . to Mr. John B. will speak to millions yet unborn. One week Hay, 19 Bible House, New York city. Mr. ago I met him with fifty clergymen in PhilaHay refers to the following among other gen- delphia, in good health, and we expected to tlemen who endorse the enterprise : Rev. see him again at his own house in the fraHoward Crosby, D. D., Rev. S. D. Denison, ternal city but he has gone before to the D. D., Rev. E. D. G. Prim, D. D., Rev. S. " city which hath foundations of precious H. Tyng, D. D., and Rev. Dr. J. Cotton stones, with streets of gold," and a "River of Life.'' Smith." Chaplain Stewart. Rev. C. S. Stewart, D. D., late Chaplain in the United States rn,t vy, and long known to the Christian public, and beloved by all who knew him, died at Cooperstown, New York, on the 14th inst., aged 75 years. His life has been eventful, useful, honored and extended, and would furnish material for a biography of great interest and v~lue. We might speak of his early life in this city, of his entrance into the navy, of his devoting some years to mi:a:sionary labor in the Sandwich Islands, of his subsequent wanderings over the world in Government vessels, of his correspondence with the New York Observer, of his devotion to his work as Chaplain at the Naval Hospital at Brooklyn, of his often attendance at the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting, of his deep spiritual piety, of his declining health, his sojourn at Clifton, and his final release at Cooperstown. He was a native of Flemington, New Jersey, and received his education at Princeton College. After his graduation, i'n 1815, he studied law and theology, and subsequently went to the Sandwich Islands as a missionary, returning in 1825. He published a journal of his residence there in 1828, which passed through six editions in America, and was re-published in England. He received the appointment of Chaplain in the navy in November, 1828, and made his first cruise to Bi:azil, Peru, and other South American countries, on board the Vhwennes, in 182930. He published an account of the cruise, which was received with great favor, and went through several editions both in this country and Great Britain. He also wrote a book on English and Irish society, which was published in 1834. He became editor of the Naval ]Jfa,qazi11e in 1836, and subsequently acted as Chaplain of several Navy Yards. His last cruise expired in 1862, after which he retired from the service. Connected by marriage with one of the oldest families in thi1s city, a gentleman of hjgh culture and of the most re.fined and delicate sensibilities, be maintained through life and in all associations the most complete consistency of Christian character, and to the roughest sons of the ocean he made himself accessible as a brother and friend.-N. Y. Obse-rve1·. BooKs.-God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of the past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, tba spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, or Shakespeare to open to me the worlds 'of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to emich me with hie practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship; and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.Cli.anning . --- 9"' The King of Greece received Gen. Sheridan with the exhilerating remark that he was glad to take b.v the hand a countryman of George Francia Train! Little Phil. propo!:ieB to travel in disguise hereatter. 'l'Hll; .llRIEND, FEBRUARY, 1871. ADV ER TISE1.VIENTS. ADVERTISEMEN'TS. CASTLE & COOKE., SAILOR'S HOME! Information lVanted. Information ,vante<l of James Lockwood, tinsmith, who le~ Honolulu, II. I., in th(' year 1861. When last heard from was in Victoria, V. I., and le!t there in or about the year 1863, bound tPr Carri boo or Alaska. Plea.se address William 0. Locherty, No. 8 Astor House., New York city, U.S. A. Of Henia1i Webster, formerly of Stephenson County, I11inois. Was last beard from in these Islands in 1853 or 1854. Ile will hear something to his advantage by calling on the editor of this paper, or to .I!;. A. Small Chica.go, Illinois. Information wanted concerning Jolin Weeks, who some time since was supposed to have been on the Sandwich Jslands. Any tidings of him will be thankfully received by the Editor, or by his mother, whose address is Mrs . Susan E. Towery, 366 South l!'ourth Street, J crs~y City, N. Y. llespectiog John .J.llen, who left the General Pike Rt Honolulu some years ago. lie originally shipped at New Bedford. Any information will be gladly received by 1'1. nunscombe, Sailor's Home, or by Fletcher Allen, Colorado '.L'erritory, Sydney Station, Union Pacific Railroad. Information wanting respecting Thomas S. Connor, or any of his famil,y. lli~ mother writes from Nt:!W York, feeling much anxiety about him. Any information will be received thankfully by the !!:di tor of this piipe1·. AGENTS FOR WHEELER & WILSON'S FAM ILY SEWING MACH INES, -WITH ALL- THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS! The HIGHEST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL Over all Othe1•s ! ADVERTISEWIENTS. C• S. AWARDED A.T THl~ GREAT WOULD'S EXPOSITION BARTOW, AT Auctioneer. H O F F M _\_ N N, M • HEALTH-PRESERVING INVENTION! D •, Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchant and Kaahum:inu Streets, near the Post Office. C. BREWER & RECOMMENDED BY THE L.4DIES On account of tbe perfect ease witJi which it operates, the very slight pressure of the foot that sets it in motion, its simplicity of construction and action, its practical durability. Honolulu, Oanu, II. I. ADAMS. P. Don't forget to Call and Examine for Yourselves l .11.uction and Commission Merchant, STE AM Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. JOHNS, Can be nttnched to all Sewinai Mnchine11 ! co . Conimission and Skipping Merchants, E. M. McGREW, D., To Australia and New Zealand, The CaliCoruia, New Zenland n11d Auittralin.u Mail Liue of Steam Packets. Late Surgeo'II, U. S. Army, Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort :;itreets. C• 6 tf H. M. "\-VETMORE, Physician and Surgeon, -AND- Sltip Chandlers and General Commission Mer-:chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Will run regularly between Honolulu and the above ports, connecting at Honolulu with the North Pacific Transportation Company's Steamers. -AGENTS AT- H0NOLULU . WILLIAM L. GREEN. Au0K.L.lND . ORUICKSHANK, SMART & CO. SYDNEY . , . H. 11. HALL, U. S. Consul, ol 3m J. O. A11d Perry Davi"'' Pain Killer. MERRILL. /OHN Ill ORAOitBM · J. V. MERRILL & Vo., McCRACKEN, MERRILL & Co., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers, 204 and 206 California Street, FORWARD ING AND ()OM.llIISSION ll.lERCHA.NTS, Portland, Oregon. H AVING BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PRE• sent business for upwards of seven years, and being tocated in a :fl.re proof brick building, we are prepared to receive an1l dispose of Island staples, such as Sugar, Rice, Syrups, Pulu, Coffee, &c., to advantage. Consignments especially solicited for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be pa.id, :and upon which cash advances will be made when required. SAN FitANOISOO RlilFEREMOES: 745 Jas. Patrick & Co., W. T. Coleman & Co., PORTLAND REFERENOES: Ladd & Tilton. Leonard & Green HONOLULU REll'ERENOE!: Walker & Allen. CEORCE WILLIAMS, LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. C ONTINl!ES THE BUSINESS ON HIS OLD Piao of settling with Officers and Seamen immediately on their Shipping at l:lis Office. Haviug no connection, either direct or indirect, with any outfitting establishment. and allow ing no debts to be collected at his office, he hopes to give ll8 ~ood satisfaction in the future as he has in the past. ID" Office on Jas. Robinson & Co.'s Wba1•f, near the U S Onosulate. 566 3m I Photography. MPROVEMENT IS THE ORDER OF the day. Having constructed a new Sky-light, and made various other improvements, I hope now to be able to 11uit the most fastidious with .A. Ph.o'to~raph.,, Of any Size.from a Crystal to a Mammoth, taken in the best /:Jtyle of the Art, And on most reasonable terms. ALSO, for sale Views or the Islands, Portraits of the Kingil, Queens. and other Notables, &c, 689 ly li. L. CHAS!!:, Fort Street. TH\lS. G. THRUM'S AND CIRCULATING LIBRARY, No. 19 Merchant s,reet, • • • Honolulu. 1,200 To . s . T. Graiuaer, Com'r, Agents Puuloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, Allen & Lewis, Mrs. CRABB. .lvlanager . (;fTY of JJIELBOlJRNE, P Papers and Magazines, back numbers-put up to order at reduced rates for parties going to sea. ly PIERCE &. CO•• (Succesors to C, L. Richards & Co.) Badger & Lindenberger, Fred. Iken, Stevens, Baker & Co. 6 ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-01i' I. B. PETERSON, w. 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Honolulu " H. Hackfeld & Co ••••••••.•• ., •• , • • • • • • • • " O. Brewer & Co . . Bishop & 00 . . Dr. R. W. Wood, . ••••. Hon.E. H. Allen . . D. 0. Waterman, Esq . . n27 ly ALLEN&. CHILLING_WORTH, Kawaihae, Hawaii, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping business at the above port, where they are prepared ,to furnish tbe justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits 11,11 are required by whaleships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. ID" Fh•e,yood on Hand . .a Bound Volumes at Reduced Price ! 1l'ITE WILL FURNISH BOUND VOLUMES TT of the Friend at one dollar per annum (subscription price $2), for any number of y.ears from 1852 to the present time. ID" Adding the cost or binding. THE FRIEND: PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL V. DAMON. A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEM., PERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TERMS: One copy, per annum, Two copies, '' Five copies; $2.00 ~.()() 6,00 16 'I' H E F R I E N I) , F E B R U ! R Y , 1 8 7 I • ioung l\m'z QI:Yrisfom ~ssotiation of lonolulu. It is needless to say a word about the business character of a speculation which no sane The s:ime old bafiling questions! 0, my friend, busines:;; man, as such, can favor. But many I cannot answer them. In vain I send My soul into the dark, where never burn doubtlessly indulge thoughtlessly, and more 'rhe lamps of Science, nor the natural light for amusement than profit. The dulness of Of Reason's sun and stars! I cannot learn 'l'heir great and solemn meanings. nor discern our situation and the want of variety in 'l'lae awful secrets of the 9yes that turn amusement would seem to excuse some inEvermore on us through the day and night With. silent challenge and a dumb demand, dulgence; yet the example of such is eduProffering the riddles of the dread unknown, cating others, who are perhaps less gifted Like the calm Sphinxes, with their eyes of stone, Questioning the centuries from their veils of sand! with brains, or have not yet reached years of I have no answer for myself or thee, discretion, to play for profit, and to acquire a Save that I learned beside my mother's knee passion which may lead to the worst results "All is of God that is, or is to be And God is good.'' Let this suffice us still, of a gambler's career. Trust. ·Resting in child-like trust upon his will. Who moves to his great ends unthwarted by the ill. - Wh.ittie1·. Rafflin;-. We notice with regret the incrnase of raffling enterprises in our community and the support which they receive from all classes. The miserable Mercantile lottery scheme s@ems to have sowed the seed for a host of ~imilar progeny, which spring up wherever iti influence extended. It cannot be denied that the element of what men call chance, and which means itncertainty, in various affairs of Jife, especially @ertain amusements, gives to them a peculiar fascination, with men. This feeling is natural to all, and we recognize it in the zest it gives to anticipations of every kind the eagerness for unknown news on the arrival of a mail; the unbounded enthusiasm of children in the uncertain possibilities of Ckristmas Eve, are among the many instances of the existence of this trait of the hllman character. But this element of unoortainty is not the objectionable feature of raffling and gambling, and games of chance do not seem to be wrong, simply as amusements. It is when the end is profit and not amusement, that they become immoral : and they become immoral then, from the fact that the element of uncertainty, innocent in itself, is prostituted to a system which takes from some, money for which they re~eive no equivalent, and gives to others, money or prizes for which they have paid no equivalent; the principle of which, experience ha~ shown to be without exception, utterly demorafo:ing in its effects on trade and morals. In principle there is no difference between gaming and taking chances in a lottery or raffle. Our laws· punish the former with aeavy penalties. But neither of these practices need laws in the Statute books to define their characters and tendencies. lt is surely tae part of consistent manliness to be guided Dy conscientious principles rather than by Police regulations, which exist for the ·un,. prililcipled and unruly. G:7' A special business meeting of the Association was called for the twentieth ult., which was attended by but a small number of members. A donation of twenty dollars to the Association, from a friend, name not given, was reported by the Secretary. The regular meeting of the month for Friday evening of the twenty-seventh, failed for want of a quorum. We regret exceedingly that any of these meetings should fail for want of a sufficient attendance, and to have this occur twice in succession is decidedly discouraging to those who have the enterprise at heart. The Association is somewhat in debt, mostly on account of the expenses of the Reading-room, which expenses would be a mere trifle if equally distributed among all the members, but make a heavy tax for onethird or one-quarter of the number to be responsible for. The Reading-room has now been open nearly a year and a half, and is a complete success, as is evidenced by the large number of persons who come in, through the year, for the purpose of reading and writing. The selection of reading matter on the tables includes a good variety of English and American periodicals and pictorials, both religious and secular. Writing materials are always at hand for any who wish to use them. If there are any who do not belong to the Association who would like to assist this enterprise, their help will be gladly reeeive<l. And we feel sure there are many such from the liberal assistance which was given to the first founding of the Reading-room. lt is to be hoped that the next regular meeting will be well attended, as there are matters of some importance to be discussed, and one or two changes proposed for the action of the members. JJower of the Bible. Father Hyacinthe, in a sermon preached and printed more than a year ago, expressed the following sentiments in regard to the value of the Bible to a nation giving it free circulation and adhering- to its principles : "Do you know why Prussia triumphed in the field of battle l with Austria?)? It was not because there was a lack of bravery on either side; it was not the effect of that wondrous weapon, for the acquisition of which men are now so eager but it was because the assailant was better educated than the assailed, and had a superior religious training; it was becaus~ every Prussian soldier had a Bible in his cap or helmet. In other places I have asserted, and I assert again here, that that which constitutes the strength of the Protestant nation is that when the people come home from their work they enter the family circle, and, sitting by their hearths, read the Bible and their national poetry. We [France] are behindhand with Protestant nations, and especially those who dwell beyond the Atlantic and the Straits of Dover. Twice have 1 trodden English soil; and I have come to the conviction that the strength of that country is from the Bibl~" BouND FOR THE NoRTH PoLE.-Capt. Hall, the Arctic explorer, in his lecture at Brooklyn last night, said he should start on his third trip about the first of May, and will never cease his labors until he has p11t his foot upon the 90th parallel of north latitude. He will go first to Newfoundland and stay · for about a week to obtain some sealers to make up his party; from thence he will proceed to the western coast of Greenland to procure some skins and a supply of stock fish. From Greenland he will cross Davis" 8traits and obtain dogs of the Esquimaux,. then cross Baffin's Bay to Smith's Island, thence westward through Jones' Sound and go to the north as far as possible be.Lore winter sets in. ~is sailing _mast~r has spent twenty years m the arctic reg10ns, and his first and second officers ten years. If he cannot reach the North Pole in 1872, he will stay another _year, or, if necessary, five years. U A foreign correspondent of the Times alluding to the age of the Prussian King' who is past seventy, gives the account of th; family complications of the Crown Prince-: " Frederick William is married to a sister of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who-in due course of time will occupy the throne of England. The Princess of Wales, future Queen of England, is a sister to the heir presumptive of the crown of DenmaJTk. A second sister wil! hereafter appear as .E·mpress of Russia, while a brother
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