Friend, 1875-04

• Other Authors: Damon, Samuel Chenery, 1815-1885
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1875
• Subjects: Christians-Hawaii > Newspapers; Missions > Hawaii > Newspapers; Sailors-Hawaii > Newspapers; Temperance > Newspapers; Arctic; Sandwich Islands; Canada; Pacific; Webb; Blanchard; Hayes; Ida; Fuller; Venus; Forbes; Wilcox; Willis; Detroit; Duff; Bombay; Bedford; The Schooner; Finch; Wollaston; Raleigh; Hove; Stal’; Wilbur; Giles; Harwood; Morley; McArthur; Judd; Lombard; Rowland; Waterhouse; Douglass; Maguire; Golden Gate; New Bedford; Mackintosh; Matheson; Northampton; Sanda; Le Maire; East Point; Harkness; Pacha; Day Cape
• Online Access: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kw9srj

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. The Pacific Established "3• I --~ / ·¼ 18, ,_ <' IJeiu ~tries, fol. 2-4, Jo-. -4.} HONOLULU, APRIL I, 1875. CONTE1'1TS For April 1, 1875. PAGE •Oahu College Needs an Endowment . 25 Higher Education in America . _•••••••••• 26 Rev. Mr. Cameron . 26 • Religious Awakening in England . 27 A Noble Way to Use Money . 27 1ls the Newspaper a Correct Mirror of Social Life? ••••.••• 28 -·IIeteorological ~:f:::to~r!!e.~·:.·.·::. :·:::::.:::: :·. ·. :::: :::::: :: :::: :::~ Table . 30 ,City of Edinburgh ••••.•••.••••••.••••••••••••••.••••••• ~O Y. M. C. A . 32 THE FRIEND. APRIL J. 1875. -Oahu College Needs an Endowment. fo another column will be found a state- •ment relating to the generous and munifi-cent endowments bestowed upon schools and ,colleges in America-not endowments of thousands, but millions. James Lick, Isaac Ritch, and the Quaker Hopkins, deal in .millions! Now, in good earnest, we ask, Why will not some noble-hearted lover -of youth and knowledge donate a halfmillion for endowing Oahu College 7 For ·1;he present we would be content with .the tenth of a million; just a good round one hundred thousand is what the trustees of Oahu College now need, to place that institution on a good basis. We want an endowment of $30,000 each for three P!·ofessorships, viz. : one for the Ancient Languages one for Modern Languages (including Polynesian); and one for Natural Sciences. The Hawaiian Government, the American Board, and a few friends of the ·College have laid a good foundation. Now we want new buildings and new apparatus; only give us the money and, in the name of the trustees, we pledge our word and our sacred honor to dispose of the same ~n the manner that future generations will rise up and -bless the donors. "0, ye merchants in Boston, New Bedford, New London, Liverpool, Bremen, San Francisco and elsewhere, who have made money out of the trade of the Pacific and the Hawaiian Islands, do not forget Oahu College when writing out your wills ! You need not wait until you make your wills, but, following the example of James Lick of San Francisco, would do well to pass over a generous donation, and see that it is properly expended, before you pas8 'the bourn whence no t:rlveler returns.'" U The person who borrowed of the editor the London Geographical Magazine for December, 1874, will please return the same, as-its loss will break the regular file, which are preserved for binding. RESTFUL Mus1c.-The highest compliment which we have heard paid to the late musicDEATH oF CAPTAIN ABRAHAM RussELL.-Another al entertainment of Philip Phillips, was that. link between the past and the present of Hawaii nei of a German eminent in musical cincles, who, was severed on Tuesday last, by the death, at Iolani remarked that "Philip Phillipst singing wasP,.)lace, of" Admiral Russell," as he bas been famil- the most restful he ever heard." There is, iarly called for many years past. Capt. Russell was I a chord in the human soul that 1·estful mus-io born at Russell Mills, in the town of Dartmouth, touches. Under its influence the sollil feelsnear New Bedford, Mass., in the year 1807, accord- refreshed. Our church choirs should sing ing to bis own statement, although in the judgment more in this style. The Sabbath is a day of many he was older. He came of a well-known of sacred rest; now our music should be ia and respectably connected family. of the Society of harmony with the day, then will the Sabbath: Friends. Choosiug the whaling business ss a profes- become more and more a foretaste of thesion, be first visited .these islands in 182.7. Subse- " Saints' everlastino- rest." " Ther,e remainquently he was here m command successively of the h h -" _ tot th 1 f G d" barks Bremen and Bartholomew Gosnold of New et t ereiore a res o e peop e oo • 1 Bedford. While in the latter vessel, through some kind offices rendered to the chiefs of these islands, they became much attached to him, and Nabienaena, sister of Kamehameha III. adopted him, after the native fashion, as her child, and when dying she strictly charged her brother and the high chiefs to recognize the relationship thus created. This trust has been handed down and faithfully observed by succeeding kings, who have always been solicitous for the comfort and welfare of " Aberahama," and with them be always found a welcome and a home . Recently, by command of His present MaJesty, a neat cottage had been erected in the Palace enclosure as a residence for Capt. Russell, where doubtless he expected to spend bis declining days in quiet and comfort. His last active service at sea was some ten years ago, but be may be considered to have been a permanent resident here since the loss of the bark Drymo, of Sippican, at Labaina, of which he was 1st officer, in 1845. He had a son who was killed in battle on the Union side during the late war, and we believe be has a daughter living in New Bedford. His funeral took place from his late residence in the Palace grounds on Wednesday last, and was largely attended. Their Majesties the King and Queen and the members of the Royal Family and of the Court attended the services at the house, which were conducted by Rev. Dr. Damon, and the King's carriage led the procession to the grave in Nuuanu Cemetery, immediate after the hearse.-P. C. .9.dvertiser, March 27th. ro=- The.Band of the U.S. S. Pensacola plays every Tuesday evening on the grounds of the Hawaiian Hotel. U Semi-monthly entertainments are given to the foreign residents of Honoiulu by Admiral Almy, Captain Gherardi and officers, on board the Pensacola. A NEw ScIENTIFIC AssocIATION~-lust as our paper was going to press, we- learned with much delight that a microscopical association was about being organized. A subscription list, headed by His Majesty with. $50, and followed by others equally generous, is now circulating. It is proposed to procure a microscope of" high power." 'rhis is a movement in the right direction. Dr-. Harkness, now visiting the islands, is member of a similar association in San Francisco, where great attention is paid to experimenting with the microscope. 'fhe lectures of Dr. Wythe, on this subject, at the Lyceum about one year ago, will not soon be. forgotten. More hereafter. "THE lsLANDER."-We gladly welcome this little weekly, and are confident if well managed it will succeed. Among newspapers we recognize the same law as Darwin has enunciated in regard to animals, "Survival of the Fittest." Now to the Islandm·t we say most heartily, "Welcome stranger; try your fortunes; you have chosen a good field, but, like your neighbo1·s, you must work; you will not find journalism an easy task. Popular favor is a coy maiden-now smiling, now averting the glance of her eyes; she will need much courting to dis . pose her to pay out her gold, and perhaps you will find it necessary to 'advertise,' although at present you ignore such ui~all~ of support." 'I' 8 E FR IE N D,· 1 PR I L, l 8 7 5. Higher Education in America, worded names shine !-paid over in money been a total abstainer for 23 years, and in- to found the Boston University $2,000,000 tended to continue so for the remainder otw· There a,re thinking men in the United and that institution is now as prosperous as his life. (Applause.) In India, where he · States, who advocate the establishment of a its policy is broad and liberal. The Smith had labored, ihere were 200,000,000 ofYNational University. In the mean time, College for girls at Northampton, with a half human beings, of whom '10,000 wereannuall1 million of dollars behind it, donated by a destroyed by furious animals which inhab-- schools and colleges for the education of both woman, with structures and grounds of mar- ited the jungles. The Hindoos, averse te «• sexes are being endowed most µiunificently, velous perfection, will open its door for the shedding of blood of any kind, regarded the · while all the older colleges are receiving first time during the coming season. Then . sacrifice with indifference, but the British·, large additions to their funds. Recently a there is the Durant Female College at W el- Government interposed and offered a reward,:;~ Mr. Hopkins, a Quaker, died in .Baltimore, lesley, near Boston, having attached to it a of 300 rupees for every tiger killed. Now,~, magnificent domain of 300 acres in lake, notwithstanding all that Brahmins and Hm-- • who .founded a iarge hospital and also apwoods and park, with a building, finished doos might say to the contrary, he thought,,: . l)tQpriated by his last will the sum of tkree within a month, said to be the most elegant they would all agree that the destruction ot1;and a lia{f millions of dollars for ed uca- and perfect for its purpose on the continent. these animals was a humane and proper ob-Yet, here there were no wild beast&-1 .,. tional purposes. This fund has been entrusted Next September, 300 girls will be invited to ject. to a Board of Trustees, who are a1lowed a occupy it, and they will each pay a total ex- but an army of demons tolerated that an--·· pense for ·board and tuition of $250 per nually sacrificed not only thousands of live~-~· wide margin in the use of its income. It has annum. Ten years ago, Nathan Vassar but a!l that was noble, pure and worthy oft· been decided to devote the same to the founded the college, called after him, at being guarded by the community. Strong:·: higher purposes of an University Education. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where now 400 girls drink produced nine-tenths of the pauperism, .• President Gilman, of the University of Cali- are pursuing a curriculum of studies not three-fourths of the crime, one-half of the,•• fornia, has been invited to preside over this much inferior to that of the oldest and best disease, one-third of the suicides, three-colleges of the land. Within six years fourths of the juvenile depravity, and one--·• institution in its organization and advance.Ezra Cornell has given eight hundred thou- fifth of the shipwrecks by which the world!\ ment. · sand dollars to endow Cornell University, at was afflicted, and he thought it was therefore .· This subject of a higher grade of educa- lthica. To this bounty the State has added the duty of the Government to endeavor to.,,. tion, is now attracting ·much attention. At as much more. Ah•ady this University is curtail its ravages . The continuance of the among the foremost in the country; and its evil could not be defended on the score oft,'.· a meeting of College graduates, recently promise for the future, in my opinion, equals sound political economy, and he related the ··· held in St. Paul's, Minnesota, S. C. Gale, if it does not exceed them all. Four weeks anecdote of the Roman matron, who whem,,,, Esq., a graduate of Yale College,, delivered ago Ezra, Cornell died and was buried. I asked to exhibit her jewels, introduced hell' . an address, from which we quote as follows, hope they will inscribe on his tomb simpl visitor to her nursny, and pointing to her,;. it having been published in St. Paul's JJaily his own memorable words, "I would found children declared they were her treasures, a2--,: an institution where any person can find in- as an incident that speakingly proved that· Pt·ess of January 20th : struction in any study." The old colleges, there were other things besides money tha1lt: " Mr. President-I think all thE• schools of moreover, from .the same sources, have been constituted the wealth of nations. (Cheers.}• learning in this country are entering upon a enriched and widened more within fifteen The wealth of the colony was its boys ·and :., new and promising era. And I 'think I see years than in the fifty years preceding, and girls, and men and women, and whateveTu-· · the dawn of the day when the American chiefly in the direction of science and art. injured them physically or intellectually wa&"university will furnish an education so su- W ill this stream of munificence continue? an injury to the vital interests of the com--premely excellent, so valid, so necessary,, so I think it will widen and deepen as time monwealth. (Loud applause.)" ,cheap, that hardly one aspiring man or goes on. . woman will fail to make use of it. P. 0. STAl\IPs.-The son of a Congrega--" Here, at length, is the method by which "First of all, the university must have the broader common sense of the people will tionalist professor at Washington is an en- -abundance of money. It is likely to receive perpetually be felt m fixing the character of thusiastic collector of pos.tage stamps. Duiing : ··· it. The colossal private fortunes of this age the university. Nine-tenths of the men who the last vear he received from the Sandwich,,, and country are being appropriated as never make these gifts have not been trained in Islands gift of nine stamps, three sets of'. before. One wise rich man has at last dis- the old schools of learning, and I am glad three stamps each of the earliest emissions ot\ · covered that there is a more excellent way of it." that missionary isle. Improving his owm· of djs:posing of his . wealth than dissipating collection by the addition of one set, he •· it through his sons, spoiling them in the wrote to a dealer in such articles in New,. · Rev. Mr. Cameron. process. The great acts of private mumfiYork, offering a second set for sale, and the · cence within a few years are astoni::-hing; By the last Australian steamer came Mr. dealer sent him ten dollars for each stamp) ·•-·· and they are chiefly in aid of secular insti- Cameron, a missionary, wfio was sent to or thirty dollars for the set. Encouraged by.-· tutions oflearning for the people. Not many this success, he wrote to another dealer i~ ,.,. months ago James Lick, of California, 76 India, under the auspices of the missionary so- England, offering the third set for sale, and~ years old, a nomadic unlettered frontiersman, ciety of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. the English dealer wrote back offering:·· but a king, as his acts proved, lest his heits He had labor~d in the vicinity of Bombay .twenty-fl ve dollars for each st11 mp, or seven- ·and their lawyers might defeat his noble until by the sad effects of a sun-stroke, ty-five dollars for thP set. The otfer wa £F'· scheme if trusted to a will, brought out his 11 d accepted, and the bill of exchange then $O}~ ;c, strong box one day and poured into the lap he was compe e to relinquish his post, for ten per cent. premium. The six little .~ of the people of that State twenty hundred and for the benefit of his health, visited stamps therefore realized one hundred and't. thousand dollars, all he had, saying, " This the colony of Victoria. Partially restored, twelve dollars to the young collect1n. W ,e is my everlasting legacy to you, that you he is now going on a visit to Canada, the chronicle the experience with fear amn may be lifted up from the ground into light, early home of Mrs. Cameron. On their route trembling, lest it feed with new fuel a feveli,· c,omfort and culture." Does James Lick need thither will visit Detroit, Michigan, where which happily is just now running low. a monument? I tell you the gray, cloudNEw YEAR'S CusToMs AT WASHINGTON.--capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada will M_rs. C. has two si sters. Mr. C. furnished us sooner melt out of sight than this old man with files of Bombay papers. The following A correspondent in Washington thus writes:-.: with his benefactions be forgotten ! And so appeared in one of the colonial papers, pub- "On New Year's Day I noticed that in most ,~ a!l over the country, by the pri~cely gifts of lished at Geelong, Victoria, where the sub- of the houses, nothing stronger than Beef!;;" rich men, new colleges and special schools of • f h h'b" · f · · · 1· · · r de d . S ee Ject o t e pro. 1 1t1011 was served ' and that was, . an d . ar t are· berng 1oun . o mtox1catmg 1quors Tea,. or Bouillon, . science something of what has been done iri the was under discussion: furnished m tea cups. I made twenty-seveI1. ;.· single State Massachus~tts. Five years "The ~ev. C. I. Cameron in seco!lding calls, including all the Cabinet Officers, amU a.go Isaac Ritch-how these homely, two- l the resolut10n remark~d that he had himself only once was asked to take wine!'' of I THE · FRIEND, APRIL, Religious Awakening in England. . - ' A century has elapsed since the great ,,,awakening in England, under the preaching ~· of Wesley and Whitfil,ld. Thoughtful hisK:'rorians do not hesitate to attribute to that ,movement the salvation of England from the t olighting influence of deism and infidelity. ·::.:W.t is now an acknowledged fact . by sound •" churchmen of the church of England, that d t was a great mistake_ to turn away from "'W esley and to have driven him into the ,,;?i_elds and barns. Ineffectual efforts have ·.s ince been made to win back the millions of ·1.,vesleyan:s thus forever alienated from the ,.,, .established church, but not from the church ,.,··t>f Christ. Another wave of religious awakening· is -;.~ .now passing over the united kingdom of ;·:'Scotland, Ireland and England. The Amer:~.ican Evangelists have been cordially welw.comed to Scotland and Ireland by the united .:··sentiment of all evangelical communions. \}it is a source of much rejoicing that an ,;;equally cordial sentiment p~rvades the reli. :gious community of England, including ,<.many of the clergymen of the established "' church. Messrs. Moody and Sankey have ·wisited London, after laboring in the north••ern cities of Liverp()ol, Manchester, Leeds :.:-·-and Birmingham. A preliminary meeting, ,~ ~onsisting of nearly one hundred ministers •.,-of various religious communions, was held .,,,on Monday, January 25th, at the Beaumont ~nstitution, with a view to furthering the ob•.~ects contemplated by the intended visit of _ Messrs. Moody and Sankey to the city of }'.\London. CONFERENCE AT FREEMASONS' HALL.-At .,.-,noon on Friday, February 5th, Freemasons' Hall was crowded with ministers and other ·•~Christian workers from all parts of London .;-and suburbs, to meet Messrs. Moody and .:. .:Sankey in conference touching the forthcom,i;ing four months' services in the metropolis. ··-.T he gallery was filled to overflowing, and ,.,every inch of standing-room was occupied. ···The general tone and spirit of the meeting "~were most hopeful and encouraging. The following we copy from the London ,Cliristia.n of February 11th: MESSRS. MooDY AND SANKEY's VISIT TO ;i_'.LoNDON.-Reviewing the wonderful blessing ,,."which has attended special Evangelistic ~-::Services held during the past year in many r:;parts of this country, it has been arranged ,rto hold a series of such services in various ,,, districts of London during the months of March, April, May and June. While not a few of the Lord's servants lt have been used by Him in connection with ;,this work, it cannot be doubted that the ,. ehief instruments have been the two Ameri, .can Brethren-Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey. '~herever they have gone, large numbers !':'h ave been brought under the sound of the •t:Gospel the _Ministry has been greatly ·, 4uickened; there has ·been a marked increase .,-0[ Brotherly union and co-operation many 1870. Chnstians have been revived, refreshed, and stimulated to new consecration and service and very many, both old and young, who before were strangers to Saving Grace, have professed their acceptance of Christ as their Saviour and joinerl. themselves to His people. Messrs. Moody and Sankey have agreed to spend in London the four months above na·med, and it is hoped that they will be assisted in the work by men of known Evangelistic gifts, who have been invited, not pnly from other parts of our own land, but also from America. The Committee of the Central Noon Prayer Meeting, representing all denominations, has secured, with the approval of lVIr. Moody, the Agricultural Hall, Islington, for ten weeks, from 28th February to 9th May. Exeter Hall bas been taken for the Central Noon Prayer Meeting. Other large halls are being sought for; some have been already offered; and it may be needfuJ to erect temporary structures in one or two localities in which buildings of sufficient dimensions cannot be obtained. To provide for the large necessary expenditure, it is proposed to raise a fund, to be paid into the hands of Messrs. Fuller, Banbury & Co., Bankers, 77 Lombard street, to 'f Noon Day Prayer Meeting Account;" and we are sure that aJl Christians, who have the means, will value the privilege of contributing to carry on a work which, we cannot but hope, will prove one of unprecedented blessing. On behalf of the Committee, !'I Dalzell, a talented and enterprising missionary physician, was sent out to select a suitable place and commence operations. The missionaries of A. B. C. F . .M., among the Zulus, in Natal, gave him a most hearty welcome, and it is understood that he has chosen his field in the upper part of that colony. My heart swells with .grateful emotions when I contemplate this noble monument for perpetuating the virtues of one of God's children. How much better to spend money in this way, than on costly piles of marble or granite, which, after all, are perishable. What benevolent heart wiJl not commend that thoughtful Chri~tian lady, who thmr consecrates her son's inhe1·itance to the regeneration of benighted Africa? If lli. Dalzell succeeds in his plans, and the school he is now initiating, grows into a seminary like that of the Scotch mission at Lovedale-,. in Kaffraria, wh:it finite mind can calculate the good of which it may be instrumental.- Boston Oong'regationalist. U We would call the attention of our Island readers to the following letter received. by the last mail,-if any one desires garden and vegetable s~eds, they have only to send their address : WEST UNITY, Omo, Feb. 21, 1875. Rev. S. 0. JJarnon-JJear Sir:-I have about twenty choice varieties of vegetable seeds al~o many flower seeds, which f would like to send to the Sandwich. THos. STONE, Chairman. SAM'L MORLEY, M. P., Islands. Now if you will send me the name GEORGE MOORE, JORN SANDS, WM. McARTHUR, M. P., HuGH M. MATHESON. of some one who may wish my seeds, I will Moorgate Street Hall, E. C., Feb. 1875. gladly forward them. · If you have not time to answer this letter 1t has been arranged that the American Evangelists shall spend the , months of please give it to some young lady or gentleman who is a lover of fruit and flowers. March, April, May and June, in London. I also have a Jarge collection of dried plants illustrating a part of the flora of my A Noble Way to Use Money. country which I will send, if desired, to any student of botany . BY REV. JOSIAH TYLER, MISSIONARY IN SOUTH Yours, &c., GEo. W. FINCH, AFRICA. There died a few years ago in _Scotland a young man " in the budding and flower of what promised to be a brilliant career,'' " than whom,'? to quote the venerable J)r. Duff, " Cambridge never had a grander specimen of a Christian young man." His name was James Henry Hamilton Gordon, second son of the late Earl of Aberdeen, Premier during the Crimean War. A short time before his death, this young nobleman turned his attPntion to South Africa as a field for missionary labor, and, had he lived, would doubtless have devoted his wealth, if not his life, to evangelistic work in that part of the world. But with his death, thank God, there did not end the carrying out of a part, at least, of his noble purpose. His mother, after the sad bereavement, concluded that no monument could be so well fitted to perpetuate the memory of ·such a son as a mission station in South Africa. She therefore handed over to the Free Church Missionary Society a large sum of money·for an endowment, agreeing to bear in addition the expense of erecting necessary buildings. A committee composed .of the members of the Aberdeen family Was appuinted to conduct the affairs of the mission,· and Dr. SouTH SEA IsLA~Ds.-Captain King, ot the cutter Leslie, while recruiting labour at Aurora, one of the New Hebrides Group,. was mmdered by the natives. They also killed the other natives which composed the boat's crew. There was another boat on shore at the same time, in charge of the trading master. He shoved off, and tried to coverthe first boat with bis gun every time he fired the natives dodged behind the boat: artd then would run out and club the crew before the mate could load again. They stripped the body of the captain and dragged it into the bush, in sight of those in the boat. The natives seemed to b.e friendly a few minutes before, and exchanged trade, and no reason can be assigned for the outbreak. The trading master, being no navigator, did not know what to do with the vessel, but after some knocking about they managed to reach Havannah harbour, and the mate of the Hallie Jackson, the vessel that was wrecked there, brought th.i cutter on to Levuka. Captain Douglass, of the J.ll ary Eliza, bas just retumed from a labour cruise. He has brought. sixty-five labourers. He reports that while at Ambyrn Island, be saw in the possession of the natives a ship's boat, painted white, with mast, sails, and oars, which bad something like a name painted on the stern. The natives would not allow him to land, and bad fighting pits dug on the beach. He was there some six months before, and landed some labourers. Each of these had a gun, and on this. occasion made use ot them. • 'I' B E F R I E N D, 1 P R I L , THE FRIEND, APRIL 1, 1875. J,s the Newspaper a Correct Mirror of so·cial Life? . In rea.ding the seventh edition of a volume of sermons by Alexander Raleigh, D.D., published in Edinburgh, Scotland, we met with the following paragraph : '~The much-vaunted publicity which everything gets by the press, is in a large part the publicity of the ev.il and dark side of our social life. It is the publicity of amusements and follies, and immoralities and vices, and .crimes. Read the daily journals from the beginning of th~ year to the end of it, you w1ll find hut little of the nobleness of human nature and human life in the things recorded and c.ommented upon." Finding this remark in 1;1. sermon, it suggests the id:e a that, as our printer is calling for copy, we will moralize or sen11onize upon the shortcomings of newspapers, (not imagining for a moment that our little "7x9" monthly sheet will be reckoned among the journals aspiring to mirror forth the social life of the passing age, or daguerreotype the passing daily life of the world). · We think there is too much of truth in the paragraph we have quoted. We should be sorry to think society was as corrupt and vicious as represented in the daily press of the cities of San Francisco, New York, London, or Sydney. Papers from those cities are constantly passing under our inspection, and really they appear to be nearly filled up with reports of th~ police courts, criminal trials and scandal investigations. Reporters seem to vie with each other to publish some startling murder scene or detail with disgusting minuteness some miserable affair that ought never t? be heard of ~eyond the immediate '·neighborhood where it occurred. Although we may incur the censure of our editorial neighbors, we do think that our island papers are not altogether free from the same propensity, to report in detail incidents, scenes and crimes, which might as well be omitted and forgotten. If any possible good could be seen to follow from such minute details of crime and wickedness, meanness and vice, we would ·not utter our protest. A few weeks ago, for example, there occurred a stabbing affair by a sailor belonging to a ~hip of war in port. Now we could not see why the readers of our island weeklies at home, and more especially abroad, should be made acquainted with this shameful affair in the lowest grade of society. Who was benefited ? We merely instance this case for an illustration, but similar cases are frequently occurring. There is one rule of journalism, which we do stoutly maintain ought never to be violated b}: t;!ditors of weeklies or any other l 8 7 5. periodicals. "No editor should allow his pen to record language which he would not utter with his lips." An editor should remember that he is a gentleman, or ought to be. His paper ought n,ever to become the vehicle of ungentlemanly language, not even over the signature of an anonymous writer. We had proceeded thus far in our moralizing, when our eye glanced upon the following paragraph in the last number of the Islander: 11 A:s well might a clergyman prc>ach what he does not believe to please his audience and for the sake o( his salary as a journalist act in the same way to his readers from financial considerations. We further hold that while it may be unnecessary to the world's progress, that any particular journal should continue, it is necessary that whatever is spoken or published should be honest and manly." Now we do not think the conductors of our island weeklies are lacking honesty and manliness in giving expression to their ideas. Far from it. We think in some respects they are very high-toned and honorable, but this is wherein we complain of them, the:;:. find fault with each other in small mattersthe dotting of an " i " or the omission of an "o." Now while it is well for us to mind our "p's" and "q's "-yet we do not think it of sufficient importance to make a manifest error of proof-reading, the subject for an ·editorial. The editor or editors of the Islander appear to have entered upon their labors with a high ideal, hence we may all hope to be benefited by their example, although old veterans of the editorial quill naturally think of the saying of the King of Israel-" Let not him that girdeth on the harness boast himself, as he that putteth it off." numerous and more expensive buildings than the Shinto Shrines, and they are kept in. good order, I believe, entirely by free-will, offerings. Within two miles of us, there isa Budhist monastery, where some twenty orthirty young men are preparing for their ministry. I believe they are partly supported by thei1 own labor; partly by offering& of the people. Provision for the Bud hist min- . istry seems not to be very liberal, as I know of two, said to be priests, and are now domestics in private families. One of them attends family worship, in which the Scriptures are read and expounded. I have seen . men on' the streets who appeared to be praying as they walked. But the most touching · sight I sa\V was a poor woman in front of a temple, stooping over a small stone image with a child; probably two or three years old, very close to her, and whom ::.he seemed to , be teaching to worship it, as she appeared to be doing. Oh! thought I, if Christian ,, mothers were generally as zealous to teachtheir little ones to love and worship the · blessed Savior as this poor heathen seemed to be, teaching her child to worship an image-how soon the world would be converted! It is said, a triumphant Christian death at Yokohama recently, made a very deep im- . pression on some natives who witnessed it; and that one of 1\1.rs. Puryn's pupils had. been, through the Spirit, the happy agent of · converting several, including her parents I believe. At the various stations and out-·. stations of the Board, the work seems to be deepening and widening. Mr. Nisima is · said to have produced quite an awakening in . his native place. lmamura, who accompanied my son to , the Islands, seems to be a growmg Christian . . And it is said, gives very satisfactory addresses. My son, his wife and sister, went to Sanda, 18 miles distant. He preached on the Lord's day and left the ladies there throughout the week. They were busy from morning till night in teaching the females . who came in small numbers, or whom, by invitation, they visited at their own homes • . Letter from Japan. In the evening, both sexes assembled, and parts of the New Testament were read an y Gen. Fiske; also from Father (as he is termed) Wilbur, Methodist, who has been laboring among the Indians in Washington Territory and vicinity for the past eighteen years. He showed very clearly how those people can be governed by the Word of God, not by gun and sword. He is a boanerges; also from Mr. Boudinot, of the Cherokee tribe, he told us of the great importance of making citizens of this people together with Choctaws, Chickasaws, &c.; he said, why not as well as Irish, German and others? I fully endorse his ideas. May God bless all efforts to bring these red brethren to a knowledge of · the truth." l\!IAl{lNE .JOURNAL. ~ -O~T ~NOLULU. ~ ~:_ ARRIVALS. March 6-Haw bk Wm C Parke, Penhallow, 18 days fm Port Gamble. · 7-Am bk DC Murray, A Fuller, 11 days from San Francisco. 9-Am schr Good Templar, Kroger, 16 days from San Francisco. 9-Brit stmr Macgregor, II Grainger. 24 days from Sydney. · 11-Am bk Edward James, Forbes, 17 days from Portland, en route for Hongkong. 11-Brit stmr t:ity of Melbourne, J W Brown, 7 days and 22 hours from San Francisco. 11-Am bk Coloma, Howes, 13 days fm San Francisco. 15-Am schr Flying Mist, lleckwith, 14 days from San Francisco. 18-Am bktn Jaf!e A Falkinburg, J A Brown, 13½ days from Astoria. 18-Ilaw bk Ka Moi, Garrels, 136 days from Bremen. 19-Am schr Fanny, Worth, 11½ days fm S:i,n Francisco 19-Am schr Peerless, Hamilton, 11 days fm S Francisco 22-Am wh bk Mt Wollaston, i\litchell, fm cruise, with 100 sperm. 23-Am wh bk Onward, Hayei;i, fin cruise, with 140 spm 27-Am bk Agate, Brown, 60 days fm Newcastle.NS W 28-Am wh bk James Allen, Keenan, from cruise via Kawaihae, with 162 spt'rm. ' 30-Haw bk Mattie Macleay, Wa.lter, 22 days fm Astoria DEPARTURES. March 4-U S 8 Portsmouth, Skerrett, for coast of Mexico. 4-U S Tuscarora, H Erben, Jr, for the Navigator Is 10-Bnt stmr Macgregor, Grainger, for San Francisco 11-Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, for Auckland 11-Am bk Edward James, Forbes, for Hongkong. 12-Am bk Coloma, Howes, for Howland's Island. 12-Am sehr ·Ada May, Johnson, for Sau Francisco. 20-Am bk Qelaware, Hinds, for Victoria. 20-Haw b~ Wm~ Parke, Penhallow, for Port Gamble. 20-H BM s S Remdeer, Anson, for San Francisco, 23-Am schr Peerless, Hamilton, for Samoa. 23-.Am schr Flying Mist, BeekW'ith, to cruise. 2-l-Am schr I•'anny, Worth, to cruise. 25-Am .wh bk ~H Wollaston, Mitchell, for the Arctic. .27-Nor Ger bk Unkel Braesig, Cheibner. for S Francisco 29-Am bk DC Murray, A J!'uller, for San Francisco. 21.1-Am wh bk Onward, Hayes, for the Arctic. 31-Am wh bk James Allen, Keenan, for the Arctic. APR l L l 8 7 5. 29 MEMORANDA.• FROM ~YDNEY & AUCKLAND-Per Macgregor, March 9thT B Gramger, and 97 in transitu for San ~rancisco. REPORT OF BARK WM. (J. PARKE, PENHALLOW, MASTER. Fon SAN FnANCisco-Per Macgregor, March 10th-Joo T' -Left Port Townsend Sunday, Feb 14th, at 11 AM. At noon Waterhouse. wife and child, l\Irs HAP Carter. Mr Spittles,. F. next day Cape Flattery bore NE, distance 20 miles; I.ad fine H Delano, Ed Wright, Mrs Rowland, Miss Rowland, A Lewweather with light winds from the N. In the aflernoon the en~rg, F Ilirgham, Mr Lidgate and wife, .Jno A West, O Kinbreeze increased from the NW, continuing from that quarter co1d, Mrs Mariana and child, M Francis, C W Glenson, \V until the 21~t. then veering t.o NNE. On the r.fternoon same 3 Chinamen, and 97 in transitu lrorn Sydney & Auck-• day, in lat ,l6 ° N, long 132 ° 22' W, spoke the American bark Clara Bell, 74 days from Manila hound to San Francisco; was Fno~t SAN FRAsc1sco-Per City of Melbourne. March 11th leaking, bulwarks stove in, and bad lost two men overboard; -~rs .Maguire and d1ild, l\lrs Denham, H 1 · Nolte, A J requested to be reported. Ou Feb 27th had fresh breeze from Mamn, W Stephens. W Blanchard, A .J Prnrio, II H Webb C NE; March 2d strong trades and 8qually. Sighted Maui on Baker, 1 Chinaman, ar.d - in nansitu for Auckland & Syd~ey the 5th, and at 11 A M the day after took the pilot off the port. FOR AUCKLAND&, SYDNEY-Per City of l\lelbourne March REPORT OF BARK D. C. MURRAY, A. FULLER, .MASTER.- llth-Jos M<:Hugh, ~m. '£elfer, wife and 2 children, Jdhn GilLeft San Francisco Feb 23d at 3 p M 1 with fresh breezes from man, and - Ill trans1tu Jrom San Francisco. WNW, which continued the first two clays out; then the FOR SAN FRAWCtsco-Per Ada l\lay, March 12th-E Wiuwind moderated and hauled more to the N and NE, and re"' mained so eight days. Saturday, l\Jarch 6th, at 7 A M, the ger, T K McDonald, 2 Uhinamen. FROM ASTORIA-Per Jane A. Falkinburg, March 18th-H. east point of East Maui bore S, distance 25 miles, and a t 7 PM hove to off Coco Head. Anived in Honolulu Sunday after- Porter, wife and daughter, Alex McKinstry. noon, March 7th, after a passage of 11 days and 4 hours, acFon SAN FRANCisco-Per D. C. Murray, March 29th-Capcomplishing the round trip in 33 days. tain ~ampson and wife, Miss Simond~, ]frank Sylva, E l\l Powers, Robt K Halt, C Stevens, Jas N11gler, Miss Parker, James REPORT OF STEAMSHIP llIACGREGOR, II. GnAINGirn, COM• l\tANDER.--Cleared Sydney Heads at 5.:30 A 111 14th February; Egan, H F Garcelan, L O Tanner, W S Callahan, H Fifield, experienced easterly winds and sea. Arrived :l.t Auckland on Jas Wade; Mr Scanlan, AD Harwood. the 19th at 8 30 p Mi di~charged cargo and proceeded to sea next day at 6.50 A M. On the 2ith Mr N Young, a resident of MARRIED. New York, died of consumption; his body was committed to -_-_:-=---the deep the same day. Crossed the equator on 3d March in Wucox-RocKWELL-ln We&t Winsted, Conn., Decembe!II" long 161 ° 33' W. Have had no trade winds during the pas30th, 1874, by Rev. L. H. Hallock. assisted by Rev. Dr. ELsage, but strong head winds and sea from Auckland to arrival dridge, EDWARD P. WILCOX, of Hanalei, Kauai, to MARY)]. in Honolulu at 6 p M March 9th . R. B. PRINGLE, Purser. II., daughter of B. B. Rockwell, Esq. REPOU1' OF STEAMSHIP CITY OF MELBOURNE, J. W, BROWN-TERRY-In Portland, 0., February 14th, by Re~•. BROWN, COMMANDER.-Left Ran Francisco at 11.15 AM on March 3d, and cleared the heads at twenty minutes past 12. D. J. Pierce, Captain ,J. A. BROWN, of the barkentine "J. A. Falkinburg," to Miss FANNIE TERRY. Experienced S and SW winds with foggy weather for the first SHEPHERD-SCOTT-In San F,tancisco, Cal., February 15th, four days; from thence to Honolulu S and 8E winds with rain and thick weather. Arrived in Honolulu at 10 A 111 March 11th. by Rev. F. F . Jewell, Captain P. P. SHEPHERD to Mrs. MARY C. SCOTT. Ri<:PORT OF SCHOONER FLYING MIST, BECKWITH, MASTER. LEE Sot-l'OLOLU-In this city, March 11th, by Rev. s. c. -Left. San Francisco March 1st; experienced only moderate east wrnds throughout the passage. On the second day out Damon, PETER LEE SAIi! to MARY POLOLU, both of Honolulu. MORRIS-BOUTING-ln this city, l'tfarch 15th, by Rev. B. sighted what was supposed to be a wreck, and which proved to be one on ne,irer approach. The entire hulk was subroeru- W. Parker. Mr. HENRY Moan1s, of lleeia, Koolaupoko, t'I> ed with the only remaining mast broken otf, and projectii;'g Miss MARY BOUTING, of Honolulu. about fifteen feet above the water. It was impossible to make ou definitely what the vessel might have been, but the capDIED. tain tkinks it was probably a schooner; and says that, judging f~om . the &ppearance ~f parts seen, it must have been some BENFIELD-At Taylorsville, North Carolina, Novembe:r~1me m the same state 1t was then observed. The Flying Mist 1s bound on a fishing voyage to the North Pacific, although 22d, 1874, IDA, infant daughter of Marcus and Mary Benfield,. her exact destination is not known. Arrived •on the 15th in ·1ate of Honolulu. Deceased was 5 months old. MEYOR-ln London, England, of h eart disease, Mr. E. M. llonolulu, where she called for provisions and general recruits. MEYOR, formerly of this ciLy and Private Secretary to Bis REPORT OJ,' BAUKENTINE j. A. FALKINBURG, J, A. BROWN, Majesty the King. MAsTEn.-Sailed from Astoria l\larch 4th; first two days out JONES-At Newton, near Bobton, Mass., February 1st, Mrs~ hacl strong Sand SW winds with heavy swell from NNW. On JANE 1\1., wite of Mr. Peter<.:. Jones, and mother of Mr. P. C . t~e 6th wind shifted to the NW with strong breeze, and continued so up to lat 2S O N, long 142 ° W; from thence to lat Jones, Jr., of this city, aged 63 years. . PIERCE-In San Francisco, Cal., E'ebruary 18th, of conges27 ° 20', long 142 ° 50' had moderate N NE wind with NE tion of the lungs, Mrs. ETHALINDA PIERCE. aged 66 years. trades, strong breeze and squally weather. Made east end of She was a sister of Captain J. Wortll of Hilo, and of Mrs. Molokai on the 17th at 4 p lt, and arrived in Honolulu at 3 A Johnstone of this city . 111 on the 18th, making the passage in 13 days and 12 hours. HARRIS-At Hilo, Hawaii, February 26th, FRANK HERVEY, REPORT OF BARI{ KA Mo1, n. GAURELS, MASTEn.-Left only son of Justice C. C. Harris, aged 30 years. BnICKWOOD-ln this city, on Sunday, March 7th, MAKAK \1 Bremen on. the 2d Nov, 1874. On the 5th took hearing of the Gall?per (light-vessel) NW by W, wiml from the westward, H., wife of Mr. Chas. H. Brickwood, aged 18 years. MANUEL-In this city, March 9th, of consumption, ANTO beatmg towards the English Channel; on the 7th passed South For.eland, and Landsend on the 11th; on the 23d sighted St An- NIO W. l\1ANUEL, aged 2:.! years. He leaves a wile and one tomo (Cape de Verde Island). On the 30th exchanged signals child. SHARRATT-At Makawao, Maui, March 10th, FREDERIC .J., with Eng!ish bark Stewart Elphenston, from London, bound to Montevideo, 30 days out. Dec 8th exchan.,ecl signals with son of W. F. and E. Sharratt, aged 4 years, I month and 10 days. Norwegian bark Linle Nas, from New York, bound to Callao, Dow-In this city, at the residence of Mrs. Humphreys, 3,7 !lays out. On the 10th at 5 p M, took bearing of the Island I enedo de Pedero N W¼N, about 12 miles off. Crossed the Garden Lane, March 12th, of con$umption, Mr. ALEXANDER , m• . line in the Atlantic in long 29½ 0 W Dec 11th, 39 days out. On D. Dow, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland. aged 23 !he 29th, !n lat 34 ° 5' S and long 48 ° 48' W p:;tssed an Amer- [O" Grass Valley, Cal., papers please copy. ' DREWES-In this city, March 13th, .M'r. J. F. DREWES, . ican whahng bark, name unknown. Jan 1st, 1876, in lat 39° 1~' San~ long 53° 36' W had a very heavy storm from SSW. a native of Memel, Prussia, aged 52 years. WA.DWELL-On East Maui, March-, Mr. GEORGE WAD- with a.h1~h cross sea running, the vessel pitching very hard and sh1ppmg much water on deck. Passed lat 50 ° S Jon" WELL, aged about 45 years. Rt:SSELL-In this city, March 23d, Captain AnRAHA l\l 6~ 0 W J ~n 10th, 69 days out. J au 12th exchanged signal~ w1tl1 English ship Golden Gate, from Liverpool. bound to San RussELL, a native of Dartmouth, Mass., and a resident of Francisco, 60 days out. On the 13th ran throu,;h the Straits these islands for the JJast 30 years, aged 66 years. LuCKSING-ln this city, March 23d, of brain fever, GEORGE of Le Maire; 14th spoke English ship N K D from Liverp~ol, boun~ to Callao, 62 days out, and on the 24th signalled SEY~toUR KAMILIPUA, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Annie Luk- -wllh English shir, llelen Burns, of Glasgow, from Swansea sing, aged 9 months and U days. . ,JUDD-At Pawaa, near Honolulu, March 26th, of rheumabound to Valparaiso, 73 days out; her captain died on the voy: age. ,I n:n 29th passed lat 50 c S and long 80 o 32' W in the tism of the heart, ALLAN WILKES .TuDn, aged 33 years -Pacific; from lat 50 ° Sin the Atlantic to here took us 19 days. and 11 months, youngest son of the late Dr. G. P. Judd. CoAnY-On board the U. S. S. Pensacola, March 27tl1, l\lr. Throughout this whole month had very stormy weather and heavy gales from NW and WNW with much rain and hail JOHN CoARY, showers. Cro~sed the line in the Pacific in Ion" 125 ° W MJl:rch 5th. Arrived in Honolulu March 18th, afte~ a passa,.,e Information Wanted. oJ:9136 days from Bremen, or l:!7 days from l.andsend. "' The following letter has been received by the U. s·. Consul, REPORT OF SCHOONER (PILOT BOAT) FANNY, A. J. WORTH MAsTEn.-1.eft San Francisco March 7th at 1 P M. Experi: dated New York, February 20ih; hence any one beinu able to enced fine weather throughout the passage, and arrived in the furnish the desired information will please communi;ate with port of Honolulu March 19th at 8 AM. Captain Worth re- the Consul: DEAR srn-Having been informed by a sea captain that a ports the fullowiog: Capt C H A very of tl1e schooner Peerless killed himself on Thursday, March 4tll, and Capt Hamilto~ certain Michail Kehoe is residing somewhere on the Sandwich Islands, and having had a brother by that name who left this took charge of the schooner, sailing day after the Fanny. country some twenty-five years ago, I have taken the liberty REPORT OF ScHOONEn P~:EnLESS. HAMILTON, MASTER.- to address you and ask you if you can in any way assist me in , Left San ~'ranc!sco March 8th at 4 p M; first four days experi- finding him, and Jetting me know where and how a Jetter would • enced WNW wmd~, and thence to . Honolulu NE winds. On reach ttim. He was formerly from Rochester, N. Y. State. ' the night of March 18th hove to off Coco Head arrivino- in Respectfully, SIM. D. KEHOE,:, !Honolulu the next morning at IO½ o'clock. • " Respecting Herbert Franklin Sills, from Trenton Ontln'io · Canada. Should the yonng man visit Honolulu, and will cali PASSENGERS. upon the Seamen's Chaplain, he may hear somethin., to his advantage. '° FRO"!_ SAN F~ANC1sco-Per D. C. Murray, March 7th-Mrs ~especting George E. Whitton, aged about forty years, who. Capt Gherardi, son aod nurse. Mrs Ur Brown and i;ervant Capt Folyer, Mills Sharmon, J W Rutherford and wife l\lis~ shipped on board bark "Cicero," of New Bedford, in 1866 Carrie Simons, Mrs Alice Stuart and daughter Mrs Cla;k and and touched at Honolulu 1867. "There is a small sum oii dau~hter, E J Blake and wife, l\lr Rooertson,' L O Fanner, H money deposited in the bank, which would do his aged mother a vast deal of good," and which cannot be taken out unless it F Gandon, W S Callohan, E :\'I Powers. can be ascertained definitely, whether her son is living or has FRoM SAN FRANCisco-Per Good Templar, March 9th-J died. Information may he sent to the editor or M. E. WhitD Ackerman, A Vernet, Henry E Surray. ton, of Charlestown .Mass. ==== =====-=-=== ==--__ • W, =~=:~=================================== THE FRIEND, APRIL, 30 l 8 7 5. [From the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, March 27th, 1875.] Meteorolog•ical •.rable Ii:ept at Honolulu. for T-wo Years. ~IR. EDITOR :-As these isles are more and more resorted to, for purposes of health, recreation, sight seeing and scientific purposes, as well as for business objects, and as inquiries are frequently msde in regard to temperature, health, &c., I hll.ve thought that the publication of reliable data, bearing upon these points, might be of public service . I have therefore brought together, in one table, from the :first and second volumes of the Hawaiian Spectator, the meteorological observations of the late T. C. B. Rooke, M. D., covering a period of two years in succession, one of them unusually dry and the other unusually wet. But the two will doubtless give a fair sample of the average climatic condition of the locality where the observations were made. The islands have a great variety ·of climate depending upon the altitude and locality, but mild and salubrious in all habitable places. The windward sides of the islands being wet. and the leeward sides dry. These observations were made in Honolulu, in latitude 21 ° 18' north , and longitude 158° 1' west, lying on the leeward or southwest side ot' Oahu, and is one of the warmest and dryest localities in the group. I should add that the past winter has been colder than any one I hBve experienced in a reside.nee of thirty-eight years in Honolulu, the thermometer several times falling to 56° at 6 o'clock .A. M., and to 52° on the 5th of January. inn. northerly exposure; whilst at the transit of Venus station near the seaside the mercury marked 50° 5' at 6 o'clock A. 11r. • So far us I know, this is without precedent in Honolulu. Yours truly, S. N. CASTLE. Honolulu, March 26th, 1875. ]' ,\If. THEIIMOMKTER. : I > > :; t,~ oJ : > ::: :::i 5· ;. =• a~ ~aJ '."::,'~::,';;:::,'3 : 1837. January . ]'ebruary . . . March . April . . . May . June . July . . . August . September . October . November . December . Average of the year . . • ~- : (Jq • ~- : ~0~ , 00 • WINDS - '"3 m g < 5- ~- D WEATH.I ., :Z, 0. ·~ 1 '< 26 ;' ::!. :,- o ;!~ -:ic:; ro '" -. • "' '~ rn 24 19 22 25 29 21 21 22 29 28 18 27 285 IlAROl\I g 'l'ER, . -;;t~. ;,: rn 7 2 6 0 0 l 2 1 0 1 4 2 < ~·5.~.I ~ ~p.~ oo '< ::,- • ;?:' • ::,- • t;::l • 67.9 76.6 71.3 180 6171.9 1014 71.177.772.7 1816673.5 22 4 69.6 76.6 72.4 j79 65 7Z.0 10 6 72.178.473.7 807175.5 30 0 73.4 180.2 75.0 82 71 76.5 30 1 76.1181.9 77.5 184 75 79.5 29 0 76.4 81.5 77 .6 84 75 79.5 28 1 76.9 82.3 78.184 75 79.5 30 0 76.5 183.0 77.0 85 75 80.0 29 1 74.8 80.6 76.0 83 71 77.0 26 4 72.7 77.9 73.8 8169 75.0 19 7 69.9 76.5 71.179 66 72.5 23 6 73.1 79.5 74.8 82 70 77 .3 295 44 ::i:i 3 3 2 4 1 3 7 3 l 1 8 1 37 4 6 7 1 1 6 3 6 ;? ;::' 0 Q. i:: 2,0 1.7 2.5 1.Z 0.9 1.4 2.8 2.0 C 0.7 2 0.4 4 4.5 3 1.0 43 21.1 : : • > CJ; g aq· ::,- > .,._:., : ~ ·::,' • ., : ao· : aq· e;. 3• S . §: 3 3 ::,- 29.970 30.006 30.043 30.143 29.873 00.270 30.07630.03030.06030.16029.96000.200 30.098 30.057 30.087 30.180 29.850 00,330 30.12830.09230.11730.20029.98000.220 30.109 30,085 30.097 30.240 30.020 00.220 30.093 30.06130.085 30 . 200 29.960 00.240 30,115 30.095 30.107 30,185 30.0!5 00.140 R0.077 30.066 30.087 30.145 30.055 00.090 30.095 30.060 30.097 30.175 30.0(15 00.170 30.116 30.076 30.120130.205 30.025 100.180 30.070 30.029 30.07130.225 29.905 0(.320 30.124130.072 l30.115 30.235 '29.925 00.310 1 30.128 30.060 30.090 30.19129.95800.233 1838. January . February . March .•••••••••••••.•••.• April . May . June . . July . August . . September . October . . November . December . Average of the year . 69.3 75.6 71.5 78 68 73 21 5 5 25 71.2 75.3 72.1 78 68 73 20 3 5 18 72.075.172.5816975 22 3 6 21 71.5 76.7 72.8 80 68 74 29 1 0 27 73.2 80.3 75.5 83 7177 25 5 1 28 75.5 81.7 77 .1 84 73 78.6 20 7 3 17 76.482.577.9857580.0 26 3 2 24 77.2 83.2 78.4 86 75 80.5 30 1 0 28 76.7 82.6 78.4 85 73 79.0 27 2 1 25 75.0 80.l 76.9 82 7176.5 16 7 8 20 72.3 76.6 73.7 80 67 73.5 18 9 3 19 71.576.373.3796270.5 425 2 23 73.5 78.8 75.182 70 75.9 258 7136 275 . City of Edinburgh. A lady correspondent traveling in Scotland thus writes, under date of Jan. 25, 1875: We arrived in Europe July 16, 1874. We traveled till winter set in, and then settled down in this beautiful city set upon a hillside and fair to behold. It has many modern and ancient features of interest. Its immense " Castle," the city's fortress, set upon solid rock, 300 feet above city level,its history, so truly interesting, and in fact, its age is beyond the limit of all history gathered-is still kept in good preservation and occupied by 1000 of Her Majesty's officers and soldiers. 'l'hen the quaint old ·" Holy Rood Palace " and its ol.d Chapel and Abbev Ruins. Then there areCaiton Hill, with its several elegant national monuments; Arthur's Seat and ·Salsbury Crags; the Roaming and Resting Range of Sir Walter Scott the Lonely ·Ruins of St. Antony, the Hermit Monk. Among the things not to be forgotten, :is that queer old house where "Dr. Johnson" put up, on his first arrival in Edinburgh, 1773. Its present odd occupants, and its past history, formed a peculiar commingling in one's mind. Then the dear old " St. Giles Church," founded m 1401. I often visit its Belfrv Tower with the dear old lady who for 30 years has daily played its 3 3 0.8 30.060 :30.028 30.05'1 30.185 29.965 00.220 6 4 8.5 30.016 29.970 30.005 30.165 29.855 00.310 4 6 2.1 30.10530.06430.09530.19529.95000.245 1 2 1.0 30.127 30.095 30.140 30.215 30.016 00.200 1 2 0.5 30.149 30.139 30.162 30.245 30.005 00.240 3 10 2.5 30.085 30.140 30.C90 30.175 29.925 00.250 3 4 1.5 30.09130.06830,09230.15530.02500.130 1 2 1.2 30.078 30.052 30 .07S 30.145 30,015 00.130 3 2 2.5 30.073 30,035 30,068 30.125 29.985 00.140 5 6 12.0 30.040 30.02130.042 30.135 29.815 00.320 5 6 6.7 30.04130.008 30,044 30.185 29,705 00.480 6 2 7.5 29.97829.87629.99330.121'>29.77500.350 41 49 46.8 30.087 30.033 30.072 30.169 29.920 oo.249 " chimes," and whose father played them during his long life, so that for quite a hundred years past, no hand has struck the music of those chimes but theirs. Many is the wierd tale she has told me of the past as \.Ve sat among those old grey timbers, dust covered and thickly webbed with glistening fibres of long ago. It has a charm for me I canna tell ! The many modern points of interest are numerous : Museums of Science; Galleries of Art, and more than can be told. The streets and parks are greatly beautified with life-size statues of notables and elegant monuments--one to the memory of Sir Walter Scott is superbly magnificent. Well, I must not weary you with more of this lovely city, most of which, from history you already know. The Khedive's Present to Gen. Sherman's Daughter. When General Sherman was in Egypt, a year or two since, he paid a visit to the Khedive of Egypt, Ismael Pacha, and gave some valuable advice to that progressive ruler in relation to the re-organization of his army. In return for the favor done him the grateful Khedive has sent to General Sherman's daughter, who was recently married in Washington, a bridal present in the form of a diamond necklace and a pair of ear-rings of great magnificence. The bridal gifts, which were duly announced in the daily papers at the time of the celebration of the nuptials were very numerous and very valuable; but they all dwindle into insignificance hy the side of the Khedive's superb present. . These diamond ornaments, which co~ist. of a neckla~e and a pair of ear-drops, are the most valuable gifts which any Egyptian has made as a mark of personal regard since Cleopatra dissolved her pearl in vinegar and drank it as a "health" to Mark Antony. The present was received at the customhouse last week, where it had to be detained unt Congress could pass an act authorizing it to be delivered free of duty. The experts of the custom-house appraisers' department estimated its wholesale value in gold at $280,000, and at this valuation the duty upon it would be $70,000, or very nearly $80,000 in currency. But Mr. Tiffany, who is a better judge of jewelry than any cuS"tom-house expert, puts the value of thejewels at $300,000.-.Exchange. An Old Claim. 'rhe oltl claim against the Cbilian Government. for the ship Good R eturn bas been settled. The claim is of fort.y years' standing. The following telegram from the Secretary of State to Honorable· James Buffinton explains the details of the settlement: . The claim against Chili for the Good Return has been settled, and twenty thousand dollars been. paid. I have received a draft on London for the amouat, deducting exchange, and will communicate the facts to the owners of the claim. H.nnL·roN F1sH, (Signed) Secretary State.'1 'rhe following particulars we obtain from the- Standard: " 'fhe ship Goocl Retum. of New Bedford. Job . 'ferry. Master, arrived at Talcalrnano, May 23, 1832, in dist1·ess. having lost her rudder on the 18th. Shehad 13,285 gallons of sperm oil, 88,226 gallons of whale oil, and 22,000 pounds whalebone on board. The vessel was detained by the Chilian Government. as Captain Terry says, • on the miserable pretext of a few pounds of tobacco found in the chests of the sailors,' of the presence of which ther boarding master was informed. Captain Terry was told that if he would give the Customs officers 50 or 60 ounces of gold they would let the ship go, or else they would make all the trouble they could. The vessel was detained until October 27. An estimate of damages amounting to $36.041.65 was made by parties inte1·ested, and another estimate amounting to $37,165 was made by a committee of British naval officers appointed by Lord Towsbencl of the Bl'itish frigate Dublin. Captain 'rerry who was the largest owner. called on every President from Jackson to Lincoln, in relation to bis claim, and frequently stated that if the Government would grant him a letter of marque be would collect it without any further trouble to Uncle SaIIL The $:20,000 is probably all that will ever be recovered.--N. B. Shipping List. "KA LAHUI HAWAII."-This is the name of a new religious weekly published in the Hawaiian language. It is a spicy and live sheet, edited by the Rev. Henry Parker_ The editor is giving sketches of his visit to· California in successive numbers. From a. caricature posted about town, this little paper must have fired a "big gun" last week. and put to flight certain jurymen who declared in Court a certain native woman as innocent, when she had confessed her guilt! Hawaiians are a newspaper reading people., fond of a good joke. ,'l' H E F R I E N D, Places of Worship. i\PRIL, l 8 7 5. ADVERTISEMENTS. W'. SEAMEN 1S BETHEL--Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplain, G. IRWIN & CO •• King street, near the Sailors' Home. P1·eaching at 11 A. M. Seats free. Sabbath School befo1·e tbe Commission Merchants, morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I. evenings at 7½ o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting ,every day from 12 to half-past 12. LE"\-VERS &, DICKSON. Fon.T STREE'r CnuncH--Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, -corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching Dealers in Lumbe1· and BuUding Material<;, on Sundays at 11 A, M. and 7~ P. 111. Sabbath Fort Street, Honolulu, H. I. School at 10 A. M. KAWAIAHAO CHURCH- Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, HOFFM_t.NN, M. D., King street, above the Palace. Se1·vices in Hawaiian every Sunday at 9½ A. M. and 3 l'. M. Physician and Surgeon, RoMAN CATHOLIC CHuncrr--Under the charge of Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Hermann Fort stl'eet, near Beretania. Services BREWER & co . every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. lu.UMAKAPILI CHURCH-Rev. M. Kuaea. to1·, Commission and Shiwing Merchants, lJeretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in HaHonolulu, Oanu, H. I. waiian every Sunday at 10 A. M, and 2½ P. M. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH- -Bishop. the Rt. Rev. AlP. ADA.MS. fred Willis, D. D. Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M.A., Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary .11.uction and Commission Merchant, Cathedral, Beretania stt·eet. opposite the Hotel. Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. English services on Sundays at 6~ and 11 A. ll1 . and 2½ and 7! P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy .House at 10 A. M. SMITH, 31 SAILORS' HOME! E. C. E. D entist, D. N. FLITNER, CONTINUES HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THE lfIRE-PROOF lluilding, Kaahumanu Street. CHRONOMETERS rated by observations of the sun and stars -with a transit instrument accurately adjusted to the meridian ilf Honolulu. Particular attention given to F ine fVatch R epr.tiring ~extant and quadrant glasses silvered and adjusted. Charts ·and nautical instruments constantly on hantl and for sale. fel JOHN M7CRAK EN . .J. 0, M~lRRILL. J. C. MERRILL & Co., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 206 California Street, San. F r a n c i s c o . ALSO, AGENTS OF THE San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particulat attention given to the sale and purchase of mert:'handise, ships' buainess, supplying whaleships, negotiating exchange, &c. u All freight arriving at Saa Francisco, by or to the lJo. ,a0l11l11 Line of Packets. will be forwarJed FREE OF COM.MISSION. {I:? Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold,.£{) -REFERENCES- .Messrs. A. W. Peiree& Co •••••••••••••••••••••••• Honolnlu " H. Hackfeld & Co. . " C. Brewer & Co •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Bishop & Co .••• .••••••••••••••••••••••• • Dr. lt. W. Wood . . Ron . E. H. Allen ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 968 ly THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! Having resumetl practice, can be found at his rooms over E Strehz & Co.'s Drug Store, corner of Fort and Hotel sts. J s. O H N M c G R .E W § M . D., Late Surgeon U. S. A1·my, Officers' 'l'able, with lodging. per week, Seamen's do. do. do. $IS 5 Shower Baths on the Premises. ED. DUNSCOMBE • Ma.nager. Hon]ulu, January I, 1875. Carriage Maldng and Trimming! I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT I now employ the best Mechanics in the line of Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fo1·t streets. Carriage Malcing, · Carriage and General Blaclcsmithing, Paint-ing. R e-p airing, &c., On the Hawaiian Group and it is a well established fact that our Carriage Tl'imming, by Mr. R. Whitman. is as well executed as any in New York City or e1sewbere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that Wagon and Ca1·ria9e Builder, we can manufacture as good a class of work in Ho74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. nolulu as can be found in any part of the world. I 1J:r Island orders p1 omptly executed at lowest rates will also state here t_h at we fully intend to work at ALLEN & CHILLING"\,VORTH, _ the lowest possible rates. G. WEST. • ,vEsT, Kawaihae, Hawaii, Will continne the General Merchandise and Shipping business at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits as are required by wbaleships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. ID' Fire,voo<l on Hand . .£JJ A. w. & CO •• (Succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian I slands. Agents Pnnloa Salt Wo1·ks, Brand_'s Bomb Lances, A.1ul Pcr1•y DaYb' Poi11 Killer. TH.:>S. G. THRUM'S STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, • • 61 Fort Street, Honolnln, A\ LW A. YS ON HAND A CHOICE ASSORT• 1:1 l\1ENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK, A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c., &c. PIERCE No. 19 Me1•cha11t Su·eet. • M. DICKSON,_Photographer, CURIOSITY HUNTERS will find at this establishment SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcanic Specimeni;1, Coral~, Shells. \Var In1plcu1e11ts, Fel'lll!J• l\fnts, .Kapa!i!, And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and cr·onesian Curiosities. {1 i- PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY! jal 1874 ~onolnlu. ACKAGES oi~ READING MATTER-OF CASTLE & COOKE~ Papers and Magazines, back numbers-put up to order P educed rates for parties going to sea. Iy INIPORTERS A.ND DEALERS IN at NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENE~AL MERCHANDISE !. -A.GENTS OF'- DILLINGHAM & CO., Nos. 95 and 97 King Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Y'.a'l_iHE PROPRIF.TOR WILL SPA.RE NO _a E pains to make this Xa E G- .A. N' T :a: C> T E :C. First-Class in Every Particular ! &OOJIS ()!N BE BAD BY THE NIGHT OR WEEK! with or without board. HA.LL A.ND LA.RGE ROOMS TO LET FOR ju28 PUBLIC MEETINGS, OR SOCIETIES. ly Goods Suitable for Trade. MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the last Six Years can testify from personal exSHIP perience that the ,undersigned keep the best assortment of GOODS FOR.TRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other Bouse in the .Kingdom. DILLINGHAM & CO. T HE REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF Packets, New Eoglaud Mutual Lif3 losurance Company, The Union Marine Insurance Company, San Francisco, The Kohala Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Compa ny. The Hawaiian Sngar :Mill, W. H . Bailey, The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, tf Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. "THE FRIEND," .& MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO .t1 Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General L.telligence. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per annum ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• $2.00 Two Copies per annum. • . • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3.GO Fo