Friend, 1875-11

• Other Authors: Damon, Samuel Chenery, 1815-1885
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• Language: English
• Published: 1875
• Subjects: Christians-Hawaii > Newspapers; Missions > Hawaii > Newspapers; Sailors-Hawaii > Newspapers; Temperance > Newspapers; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Patagonia; Sandwich Islands; Pacific; Indian; Sheffield; Guano; Hayes; Dent; Ner; Fuller; Flint; Tive; Hale; Rus’; Willis; Morse; Rata; Morrow; Williamson; Emerson; Barton; Brooklyn; The Schooner; Cape Bathurst; Rotten; Triton; Cape Horn; Baxter; Strauss; Olympus; Newell; Wollaston; Westminster; Minot; Hove; Nantucket; Morley; Medley; Montague; Tombstone; Helle; Tapa; Mackintosh; Wylie; Faraway; Judah; Garibaldi; Crowder; Tipperary; Lawrence Bay; Uka; Scott Point; Cartwright; Point Barrow; morse
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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 Jehl .§tries, fol. 2-4, ~lo'. 11.} CONTE1'1TS For Novcmbe1• 2. 1875. PAoEl Hindoo Poetry •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 89, 90, 91 Asia Peopled from America . . 91 HONOLULU~ NOVEMBER 2, 1875. rating and life-inspiring food for meditation and reflection · as in the parables and teachings of our Saviour; in " the story 0f the cross;" in the narrative of Jesus speaking or D1· Guthrie . 91 with the Samaritan woman at the well, ~nq. to th e Call of Humanity . " 92 that of Mary bathing the Savi_qr's feet with A Disciple Deiif New Whaling Ground •••••••.••••.•••••••••••••••••••••• 92 Marine News . •••. 93 Friendly Isla nd s .••• ·•••· . ••·•••• • •• •· ••••••••••••• . 94 Rev G B Bacon . 94 y Mc A ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 96 her tears; in the interview of Jesus and Nicodemus in the epistl~1;, of Paul an.cl , • Peter; and the penitential Psalms of .Pavid, l together 'Yith the ~ritiqgs of the Old Testa: ment Prophe~? We may go to Jndia, to Gree~e, arid the wide world'1;,. literature for NOVEMBER 2, 1875. inforrpatipq ijnd am~sement, instruction and knowleqge; but no human a»tJior can auU Some of our readers will peruse with thoritatively say to us," Come unto me, and I much interest the article in our columns on will give you 1·est." "Hindoo Poetry,'' by the author of the " Prison of Weltevreden." A glimpse is obD.7' Our attention was suddenly arrested tained through these notices, of the subject- a few days since by a merry jingling of the matter of Hindoo poetry, upon which 200- cliµrcµ bells Qf Honolulu, and we were at a 000,000 of the inhabitants of India, have loss to account for the reason, but the followfor ages feasted-morally and intellectually. ing annotincement in the "Court Journal" Is it any wonder the people of India• are m.ade all satisfactory : s unken in the depths o:C superstition and " AN INFANT PRINCES$. -- H~r Royal idolatry, when such poems are to them what Highness Princes~ Miri~m :µ. Cleghorn, wife the Old Testament is to the Jew, the ·New of the Hon. A. S. Cleghprn, gave birth to a daughter on Saturday last, the 16th inst. Testament to the Christian, and the Koran This is the first birth that has occurred in to the Mohammedan? Our Saviour said, the present royal family sinc~·the accession." quoting from Mose5, " Man shall not live by FERNS AND MossEs.-These i&lands are particubread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." _ The soul of larly rich in varieties of ferns -; b~t it was only recently that amateur collectors were aware of the man needs wholesome ~piritual food, that large variety ot beautiful native mosses that is to food is not in the " two great poems " of be found in our WQods and on our mountains. We India, in the Arabian Night~ Entertainment, had t.he pleasure lately of examining a collecHawaiian Meles, or any merely human pro- tion of some eighty 'distinct varieties of ferns, gathductions; but is to be found alone in the ered by a gentleman in his joumeyings about tbe gl'Oup, all handsomely mounted and an equal Bible. We think our correspondent has number of mosses, both-from the sea and tbe land. most admirably put the point in the closing These last were singularly, beautiful, retaining all paragraphs of his communication. Never do the brilliant colo1·s of nature. It occurred to ns that this colli:iction (and we do not think there is the " Oracles ;f God " and " the sweet story another like it on the islands) would look well in of old " appear tQ better advantage, and the Hawaiian Department at the Centennial next s'ummer.-P. C. A. more precious, inspiring, ennobling and saving, than when contrast~d with the legends FoR THE CENTENNIAL.-In the window of Thrum's of the H.indoo, Persian, Arabian, Grecian, or Stationery Store are three bound volumes of The Hawaiian mind. Where will the human Friend, "The oldest paper in the Pacific," from soul, in its state of unrest, sin and sorrow 1852 to 1875. They are quite handsomely bound and lettered, and are intended for the Centennial fi nd s uch wholesome and nourishing, invigo. Exposition at Philadelphia next year.- P. C . .fl. THE FRIEND, ., {@lb· £cries, fol. 32. HINDOO POETRY. • LANAI, October 21st, 1875. DEAR FRIEND :-1 have read with interest and some surprise in your October number, extracts from a notice of the two great poems of Hindoostan, the Mahaba rata and the Ramayana, by Prof. Arnold of Oxford University, which are represented by him as marvelous treasures of lit~rature, hitherto utterly unknown to the European mind, and "which may claim a grandn scheme and higher aims than either," (the Iliad or the Odyssey) and " which, in some portions, may be contrasted to the advantage of Hindoo teaching, with any Scriptural representation of Death and of Love." These prolix epics of the Sanscrit, or ancient Dewanag~ri tongue of Hindoostan, cannot be so much unknown to Western intelligence as the Professpr represents-. When I made an enforced stay on the island of Java, I had som13 leisure and opportunity for stu~y; and among other matters, l perused a voluminous story, named the Barataynda or Sacred war, both in the Javanese language, and in an English translation by Sir Stamford Raffles, of which extracts are to be found in his history of Java. This story is a Javanese epitomized version of the Sanscrit Mahabarata; and this Hindoo poem · is read by natives of Java, both in the original of the Asiatic continent, and in their own insular tongue-and consequently is well known to-and frequently mentioned by English and Dutch writers in India, such as Raffles, Orawfo11d, Van Carnbee, and many others. The sister poem of the Indian Peninsula, the Ramayana is better known than the Mahabarata, not only to the Ja.vanese, but to the Malay people of the Indian Archipelago and must be rather familiar to European scholars and readers. I read the Malay version of this poem, which consists mainly of an account of the rambles and adventures of the hero Sri Rama, or Illu striou s Rama THE F'RJl;ND~ NOVEMBE1l~ 1875. in senrch of his wife Sita; and in this respect ei'usions of the mind of man in past ages of this appear, apart from literary curiosity, as the Ramayana may be said to bear some re- credulity. an illustration of the teaching of love,~to semblance to the Odyssey which celebrates But what consolation for humanity, in a one who in earnestness and candor of soul the adventures of the Grecian hero Ulysses state of sin and sorrow, is there in any of has read the story of the compassionate these productions of human imagination? Jesus consoling and lifting up to a heaven in quest of his wife Penelope. But surely such a resemblance; and be- Those ancient systems of poetic or priestly of grace, the poor, despised, broken-hearted, . cause the Mahabarata celebrates a war, even invention, as well as modern ones, based on weeping, sinful woman at His feet. as the Iliad celebrates a war, are not suffi- the elevation of art and science, can only be And one " matchless instance of love," cient reasons for comparing the Indian interesting to the successful and strong, and which Arnold quotes fro the Hindoo epic, poems with the Grecian epics, and for nam- to those favored with pleasant opportunities " as one of the noblest religious apologues, ing the former compositions the "Iliad and in this world; but the Spirit of the Bible, not only of this great epic, but we venture Odyssey of India." What ground is there and its complete illustration in the Gospel of to think as an illustration of faithful love,, for the flaming ~u]ogy of the Hindoo va ti- Jesus, lifts up and ·consoles the poor, the of any creed. Let me repeat it in substance. cinations, to the disparag~ment of the_beau- mean, and those denied all advantage of Yudishthira, a King, weary of the vanities tiful and majestic genius of Greece? s it life; nay, it embraces the whole of the chil- of life, seeks Suarga, or the heaven of M.ount in consequence 'of quantity? And because dren of men. In tQe Mahabarata the Paria Meru, where the god Indra reigns forever250,000 Indian verses, so greatly overreach is cursed and cast out from all other human more, and where a union with the infinite " the 30,000. Grecian lines? Why, I know a companionship and sympathy; and in the may be found. As the King approaches the Hawaiian mele writer who could produce Bible, the leper is healec! arid blessed. Indian Olympus, the god appears before the And woman restored and exalted to an weary monarch, and invites him to enter the and print 250,000 lines about " Serpent K ingdom:s " containing "one hundred thou- equal participation with man in the scheme celestial gates. But this royal pilgrim who sand snakemen," and .other such rigmarole of Messianic Love; where is she, and what has ~ade his progress in company with a as 1s found in the Mahabarata and quoted by is she in many vaunted systems of human dog, doPs not wish to enter into the celestial Arnold in no very considerable length of imagination, _and especially in this much rest, unless his faithful companion can foltime. Is the Hindoo imagination about the lauded scripture of the H1ndoos, concerning low him, and when the animal is denied an "Aswamedha, or Hacrifice of the Sacred which the Oxford Professor says: "We entrance, the pilgrim turns away from Indra, Horse," an animal which had '' milk flowing have dipped but a cup or t\Vo from its musical saying: from its ears, and produced camphor in it~ wavelets of love?" Read of this love in the "This brute has faithfully followed me; I will to hell, if he goeth, Lord." flesh, and from whose intestines light beamed following words, quoted by him from a transand flashed," any less extravagant and ab- lated passage of the Mahabarata, offered for He had been assured that his beloved Dra11surd than the Hawaiian conception of a half our admiration, and which I copy from the padi and his brethren were already in sheep and half man adventuring through notice published in the London .Daily Tele• heaven, but because he could not have his dog with him too, this royal champion and kingdoms in the air? Then why this ex- graph: travagant laudation of certain Asiatic com" And Y yasa, the sage, said that the wid- saint of the Hindoo faith, turns his back on positions, said to be so long hidden from ows who wished to rejoin their dead hus- his hearer and his god. Yudishthira, the hero of the Mahilbarata, Western intelligence? And what can war- bands might do so; and all the widows went seems no more than a savage Indian of rant rnch language as Professor Arnold uses, and bathed ir. the Ganges and came out of and which I have already quoted-disparag- the water agarn, and kissed one by one the America, wfi.o finds his heaven in a favorite ing the masterpieces of the mind of Greece, feet of Dritarashtra, (the King,) and then hunting ground in company with his dog. and even the inspired Volume of God ? went and drowned themselves in the river, The rude associations of earth are sufficient Professor Arnold is evidently one of the and through the prayer~ of Vya~a ttiey all heaven for him. And what is here for our school of thinkers who mock at the " Biblical went to the loved ones they wished and ob- admiration or instruction? What is there to compare with David, the hero of the legend;" and who like Strauss in his "Old tained their sevP.rat desires." Faith and the New," would substitute Cos~ Ah ! here is a system :well suited to the Chronicles of Israel ? His God chastens mi::;m, a worship of scie1:1ce and art, and a corrupt and selfish heart of man, who having him, smites him in his flesh, and takes away scheme of life derived from the theory of gained a preeminence, would keep it by wives, children, and people, and yet he only evglution in the steaq of Divine Revelation making parias of his weaker brethren, and gives praise to Him who gave, and to Him and Redemption. Such thinkers elated with who would satisfy his jealous spirit by per- who taketh away. In the depth of his sorthe pride of intellectual cultqre, scorn the suading t~e women he ]eaves behind on rows and privations he exults in his love for "legend" that reduces all mankind to one earth to drown or burn themselves! And God- • common level through sin. They believe in aristocracies of soul, and disdaiµ the humiliation, contrition and tears of the sinner. Their prnphets and poets, like Strau~s and Goethe, teach that man can save himself, or lead humanity to a higher plane of existence through the perfection of knowledge. And hence they hate above all things the story of the Cross, and delight to attempt its disparagement by laudations-sometimes of Grecian genius, or as in this instance of Hindoo mythology and cosmogony, or of Confucian moralizings, or of Zoroastrian rhapsodies, or of Vedi c myths, Runic Sagas, or of other " I will love Thee, Oh Lord, my strength." yet this " Hindoo teaching," according to * * * * * the Professor, "may be contrasted with ad- "My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning.'' vantage to any Scriptural representation of Love!" How miserable must such language Here is the grand, exalted love of a great appear to one who, having read in the Ma- soul for a transcendent object. And David habarata, how poor women were sacrificed found his God and attained unto his exalted to the lust and caprice of a priestly oligar- consolation of Divine LQve, not through any chy, or who reads the sentiment of th.e pride or self sufficiency, but through humiliaheroine of the story, "Draupadi, the sweet tlon pf soql, sayi.Qg faced one," who unbinds her hair on a certain occasion, and says that her lover" shall tie my tresses up again when his fingers are dripping with Duhsusana's (an enemy) blood! " How miserable, I repeat , must all •~Sur~ly I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother; my soul is even as a weaned child." I There is no such sentiment as this, or the one that the Kingdom of God is like unto a little child , in the Mahabarata, or else. • .'J' H E F' R I E N D , N o v •~ ~1 where among the productions of men. And yet it is this child spirit, following a Lamb, which a Yudishthira needed to elevate his soul to a conception of Divine Love, which an Arnold needs, when he contrasts the rude passions of Hmdoo imagination with the love of Jesus who gave up His life on the cross for the sake of His persecuting fellow men; and which an evolutionist needs, when he would offer, through art and science, a consolation to poor, sinning and sorrowing fellow men, instead of the scheme of Divine Love, that gave an only Begotten Son for the redemption of the world. As works of an ancient literature, the great Hindoo poems are, of course, highly interesting; and when published in our tongue, as proposed by Trubner & Co., will be gratifying to a multitude of English readers. But they can only furnish the same entertainment, and to a less degree, as the Arabian Nights. There is tbe same extravagant mvention· of necrom1:1ntic transformations, of supernatural beings, of demigods, giants, giantesses, and genii, in the Hindoo compositions, as in the•Arabic; but there is far more of human interest in the latter than in the former. The Hindoo Legend deals only with a dazzling parade of an impossible wealth of precious gems, and with none but exalted personages,-with gods and goddesses, with rajahs and rishis and princesses; and nowhere in it, nor in any other scheme of faith of man, is a poor man made a hero and a leader, except in the scheme inspired by Divine Love which sent Jesus the carpenter, who chose Peter the fisherman. W.M.G. Asia Peopled from America. This is an iconoclastic age, and old historic . idols are being cast ·down. William Tell has become a myth and the apple taken from his boy's head; Pocahontas is not allowed to stand over Captain John Smith, except in an historic painting. It is even questioned whether George Washington's hatchet injured his father's pear tree? Now a San Francisco merchant author who has for many years officiated as Japanese Consul, undertakes to tell the world that Asia did not people America, but America Asia. What daring! Mr. Brooks, whose paper, read before the California Academy of, Science, has been mentioned in the Times, alleges that the probabilities are in favor of his view, for these reasons: 1st. That the Western Continent is geologically older than the Eastern, and, therefore, was ear!ier fitted for the development of the human species. 2d. That the ancien.t Chinese records say their ancestors came from across the sea. 3d. That the trade winds of the Pacific would carry a vessel from Peru to the coast of Southern China. Nlr. Brooks mentions some fi triking . nE u 18 75. I 91 circumstance which, if not a proof of his I 2875, A. n.-A writer rn the Chrristian theory, is a wonderful coincidence: t Union, with somewhat of an imaginative · Copan, in Central America, a two-horned d f · d c · h c d h' h. k I an specu1at1ve turn o mm , 1anc1es w at fi gure h as been 1oun w 1c 1s now un nown . . here, but which resembles closely the Chinese may be the topic of couversat10n one thousymbol of Fokee; and Chinese history records sand years .hence, or in 2875, A. D. The that Fokee wa s a great "stranger" king, Honorable Mr. Plimsoll will have, no doubt, who came from over the sea and introduced a place in the history of English shipping picture-writing among the Chinese. Mr. and commerce. After referring to the disBrooks' theory is certainly a plausible one. That portion of the human race which in- cussion in England and relating to unseahabits the so-called old World did certainly worthy ships, this writer continues thus: descend from the plateaus of Asia; but who The above suggests a possible scene, say knows but that the ultimate ancestors of the in 2875 A. D., between an ingenuous youth Asiatics came across the sea from the real and a teacher in history. :l'eacher: " So old world, America? And who knows but these rich men were in the habit of sending that, if we continue the investigation far their ships to se_a till they were worn out enough, we shall find that A<lam was a and rotten and if when the sailors found Digger Indian, and that the Garden of Eden they were unsafe they refused to go in them, was located somewhere- in the Salt Lake they were put in prison and punished and Valley. very many of these ships w~nt down, and thousands of sailors perished. And at last A Disciple of Dr. Guthrie. a man named Plimsoll found these things In the October number of the " Ha- out, and went into the Great Council of the Ingenito-us waiian Church Monthly Messenger," Miss People, and told of them." Bird, author of the new book, '' The Ha- Youtli: "And what did the Council do? " Teacher: "They said they had other things waiian' Archipelago," is spoken of as "a disto attend to, and that it was very wicked of ciple of Dr. Guthrie;" hence "it is not sur- Plimsoll to lose his temper and speak disreprising that she should find the ritual of the spectfully." Youth: "But wasn't Englancl prayer book above hlilr desires and compre- a Christian nation ? " 'I'eachm·: " Oh yes , hension.'' This is surely not very compli- a ve~y Christian nation, and spent Va!St sums to maintain Christianity. But at this tim e, mentary to a Christian lady, whose writings part of •the church we.re very busy in preevince a keenness of observation, percep- venting a Wesleyan minister from putting tion, discrimination and acumen quite re- 'Rev.' before his name on his daughter's markable. The reader is also left to infer tombstone; and part were contending abou t that she is a Presbyterian, instead of an which side of the table the priest ought to stand at the Lord's Supper; and so th e Episcopalian. She is the daughter of an church couldn't pay much attention to the English clergyman, educated in that com- sailors." Youth: "And what became of munion and now a member of the same 1 if Plimsoll and what became of the church?" we have been correctly informed. She is, it -What the teacher will have to answer, re• may be, "a disciple of Dr. Guthrie/' in the mains to be seen. I same sense, that Wilberforce was a disciple of Dr. Doddridge; the Rev. Dr. Tyng of New York, a disciple of the late Presbyterian pastor of New York (Dr. Spring); the late Bishop Mclllvaine of Ohio, a disciple of Dr. Alexander of Princeton Seminary; and so of many other ornaments of the Anglican and Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, they are disciples of Non-conformists . Perhaps this is the reason why Anglican Church dignitaries, while singing the hymns of Watts, with Dean Stanley as their leader, are now vieing and uniting with· N on•cQnformists, in erecting statues of Bunyan and Baxter, and protectmg the celebrated Bunhill cemetery in the midst of London, from desecration which, if unconse'tfated by an Episcopal .Bishop, is-yet more solemnly consecrated by the graves of 150,000 Puritans, although no " cross " surmounts a single grave, as w~ have reason to know from personal observation. Dean Stanley, by the way, ·has recently been moved to erect, at his own expense, a tablet in Westminster Abby to Charles and John Wesley. We have not yet noticed whether the authorities will allow •· Rev." to be attached _to their revered names. All these events indicate a better time coming. Let fraternization, not ex.communication , be the watchword of the various branches of the church-militant. HoME AGAIN.-We clip the following from the Greenvi'lle (Michigan) Independent of Sept 16th : "Prof. E. P. Church and f,u'nily are expected to arrive this evening to make our city a visit. Eighteen years ago Mr. Church, Miss Frances A. Lord (now Mrs. Church,) and the editor of the Jndepf'.n • dent, as classmates together recited Latia paradigms and dng out Greek roots in the classic shades of Obe1·1in. In 1861 one went into the army until the fall of 1865, soon after which he made Greenville his home. The other two, joined heart and baud, migrated to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, • a thousand miles west of sundown,' he to become President of Oahu College and she to beconle matron of the same institution. After ten years spent in the boso~ of the Pacific, they have returned·to spend 11, year in the .• States.' Sabbath morning in the Congregational church Prof. Church will give a talk about the Sandwich Islands, and on S11bbath evening give some account of the Marquesas and l\licronesian Islands."-P. C. Advertiser, Oct. 23. [Cr The work of creation not only proceeded gradually from one thing to another, but rose and advanced gradually, from tha t which was less excellent to that which was more so, teaching us to press toward perfection ,and e ndeavor that our last wo.rks may be our best works. T H I~ Ii' R I E N D , N O V E M B E It , J 8 7 5. THE FRIEND. ADVERTISEMENTS. as follows: '· ln Sir G. Richardson's Arctic Expedition down McKE>nzie's River and NOVEMBER 2. 1875. eastward along the coast of the Arctic Sea, THOS. TIIRIJJJI (page 162--4) 1 find mention of many black Will Issue in 'l'lme for the DECEJUBER sn::ADIERS, Deaf to the Call of Humanity. whales, seen as far east as Cape Bathurst, Ol~ POSSIBLY EARLIER, The unfortunate officers and seamen, be- long. west, which is nearly 30 o east of longing to the crew of the Jessie Scott, Point Barrow. The question is, whether it lately dismasted and foundered at sea off the · will answer for ships as ordinarily equipped -AND~oast of Patagonia, and brought hither by to venture far to the east and risk an Arctic winter of ten months in that frigid climate." the American ship Gatherer, report that G. THK HAWAIIAN ALMANAC their appeal to the mi:ister of the ship llrnpfre, of Boston, was utterly unheeded. We feel quite _inclined to suspend judgment until the Captain of the Empire can explain his apparently inhuman conduct; but if the case is as reported, then we feel assured he will be severely censured by the public, but by none more severely than his brother shipmasters. One shipmaster, Capt. Whitney, of the Mm·ictnne Nottebohm, has enjoined upon us in language which we will not repeat to denounce the master of the .Empir-e, in the strongest terms which the English language can furnish, for he added that he was once forsaken by a ship when he was flying a "signal of distress." The world will forgive some things, but not inhumanity at sea, when a shipmaster is deaf to an appeal for aid by those on board a sinking ship. We would merely add that a statement respecting the .B1npirre has been lodged with both British and United States Consuls. GRATITUDE OF THE WRECKED. ANNUAL for 1876 ! Ships have this year made the venture and For Home or Foreign Readers. escaped, but whether it will ever do to make PRICE. FIFTY CENTS PER COPY the trial again remains to be seen. CAPT. HAYES AGAIN.-When we last heard of this celebrated person, he was 11t Micronesia, claiming to have been converted from the error of his w1lys. Since then he went to Guam, on the whaleship .llrctic, Captain Whitney. There he repurchased a schooner that he formerly owned, and sailed away, having on board seven escaped convicts and a Spanish "commissary " absconding with government funds. On the side of the island opposite the capital, Hayes went on shore for water, and while taking a bath he was captured by soldiers looking for the runaways, and carried back to the city. Those on board the schooner, seeing this, made sail and escaped. Having got into the hands of the Spaniards, who are not given to be merciful, Hayes may be considered as near the end of his adventurous career. -P.C.JJ. 'l'"E VERY FAVORABLE RECEPTION which this lland-Book me~ with oo hs first appearance, and the completed arrangements for its general cil'culation throughout the Pacific and J<:astern Stales, through the Centennial Eichibition, Colonies, Australian Steamers and the Islands, makes it a desuable advertising medium, for which a 1imited space will be devoted . It will contain-with the Calendar-the Time of the Sun's Rising and Setting for each day, and the Moon's Phases, Table of Marine l:lij?nals, Register of the Court, Official and other Officers, Societies, ~e., Custom llouse 'fables, Meteorological Tables, List of Island Mosses, Hawaiian Chronological ]!;vents, .Miijsion Register, History of the Hawaiian Post Office, History of the Coffee Iudt•stry and Tables in Connection Therewith, Remmi•nces of Newspapers anu Offices of Honolulu, Postal Tables, together with Other Matters. of Interest. Early applications for space ancl orders fo1· copies solicited . A SOCIAL REUNION of the alumni of Oahu College Orders from abroad uiust include postage (10 els.) and can b~ Address and invited guests took place on Monday evening remitted in stamps. THOS. G. THRUM. last, at the session-rooms of the Fort street Church, Publisher, llonolulu, II. I. the occasion being a welcome reception to Mrs. Mills, wife of the Rev. C. T. Mills, of Mills Female SeminaTHE LONG LOOKED FOR BOOK HAS ry, Brooklyn, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Mills were in COME. charge of Oahu College in the years 1860-64:, during 1\Iiss Bird's some of its most prosperous days, and at the gathering of Monday evening a number of their former pupils revived pleasant memories of the past. Appropriate address were made by Rev. Dr. Damon, Rev. Mr. Frear, Prof. Alexander and others. We FEW COPIES JUST RECEl\7 ED I>ER learn that Mrs. Mills leaves for Hawaii on Monday CYPHRENES, PH.IOI~ FIVE DOLLARS. and will visit Maui during her v&cation.-P. C • .9. The wrecked belonging to the Jessie Scott and Albert Gallatin, both British vessels, are unbounded in their expressions of thankfrt lness to Captains, officers and seamen, of the Gatherer and Syren, both American ships, for the kindness which they experi~mced while on board those vessels, and in Aleo, Another Fine Large Collection landing them safely in Honolulu, where they U To humble ourselves is the only way BRADLEY & RULOFSON'S are provided for by the British Consul. to rise. Hawaiian Archipelago ! A NE w WHALING GROVND.-lt has been sup- The annual report of the Postmaster General of Japan. the Hon. H. Mayesirna, bas been sent us. It is hardly necessary to say that it is not in Japanese, being printed in English. It makes a pamphlet of ten pages. and shows the department to be in a healthy financial condition. Stamps on envelopes. newspaper wrappers and postal cards are in use, and lust year the postal revenues were 352,244 89 yen. This is an increase of 56 per cent, over the previous year, a fact which is attributable to increased mail falilitim1. There was some stealing, but to no great amount, and one man who bad stolen 27 yen actually made a voluntary confession a.pd Testored the money. The document is well written, :th0roughly business like, and a gratifying exhibition ef the rapid advancement in civilization which bas •taken place in the island empire w-ilbin a few years past. posed that American whale ships had completely explored all the oceans, seas and hays where whales resor.ted and could be taken. This year whale ships returning from the Arctic Ocean, have fi1led. up during the month of September, from four to six hundred miles east of Point Battow -~-nd off McKenzie river. There they fm.md. an o;pea sea and plenty of whales. Of course, the shortness .o f the season caused them to work night and day, and be ready to leave before the ice began to make. .But so far as is yet known, all ships fortunately escaped, hereafter they must keep a sharp l0oko11t, or we shall have another " Arctic disaster." More The Japanese are sbippbg bricks to California than twenty years ago whales were reported and seling !hem cb:aper tba~ those made in that State, notw1:th8ta-ndmg there 1s an ad valorem duty FRIEND of Decem- of twenty per cent. on them. The Japanese brick ber, 1854, will be found a_ letter from ?ur is 8~ incbe8 long, 4! inches wide, and 2~ inches townsman, Capt. A. W. Pierce, who writes thiek. . . . m this reg10n. In THE I o.f CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHS! in cabinet size, and a few copies of ELAINE and the LATE W. C. RALSTON • in imperial size, and Arcona and Officers, and B. &, R. ·s MEI> LEY m 8-4 size. Call early for Choice Selections, or send ordcrR which will have immediate attention. 'fhe following is a li~t of cabinet celebrities. Ilis Majesty Kalakaua, Ills Majesty and Suite, His Ex. J. O. Dominis, His Ex. J. M. Kapeoa. W. C. Ralston, Capt. Skerrett, Baron von Reibnitz, Arcona and Officers, B. & H.'s Medley, Palace Hotel, Elaine, Alice lJunning Lingard, Dickey Lingard. Alice and Dickey as ••The Orphans;" .l!'aouy lh\Venport, Miss Pateman, Jennie Lee, Ristori, Anna Bishop, De l\lurski, Maggie Moore, Williamson, Emerson, May Howud, Florence Colville, Neilson, Jas. Lick, llaos Christian Anderson, J. l!'. Morse, Joaquin Miller, 11. J. Montague, Mrs. Judah, The Girards, Pensacola, C. Massey, and others, many of them in several styles. Orders from the other islands for cabinets left to my selection will be filled at. $4.00 per half dozen, or $7.50 per dozen, ot single copies, 76 cts., and sent by mail, if desired. CHRISTMAS GOODS TO BE OPENED UP NOV. 16th, and BOOKS FOH. THE HOLIDAYS '>n the 20th, so that parties on the other islands can have ample time for their Christmas selections. Spccificalious of this a1,sortment will be given next month. se:.l5 THOS. C. THRUM, Mel·cbaut Street. TIit NIAltlNE .JOUl{NAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Sept. 30-Haiv wh schr Giovanni Apiani. Dority, 29 days frm l'lover Bay, with 5500 lbs wh bone, 13300 lbs walrus tusks, 364 fox skins, 130 galls wh oil, 6 bxs Japanese goods to Chas Long. Oct. 6-Am bk Clara Bell, P l' .:,hepherd, 20 days from San Francisco. 14-Haw bk W C Parke, Adams, 40 days from Puget Sound. 16-H ll l\1 S Peterel, Cookson, from cruise. 17-Brit stmr l\Iacgregor, Grainger, 21 days fm Sydney. 19-P l\1 S Vasco de Gama, Rice, 9 days and 16 hrs fm San Francisco. 19-Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Brown, 8 days and 4 hours from San Francisco. 20-Am bktne .I A Falkinburg, Hubbart, 27 days from Portland, 0. · 20-Am bk DU Murray, Fuller, 20 days from San Francisco. 22-Am bk · Mary Belle Roberts, Gray, 19! days from San Francisco 24-Haw bk R O Wylie, 1-1 Walters, 118 days fm London 26-Am wh bk Europa, McKenzie, Im Arctic, with 1600 bbls oil, 17,000 lbs bone, 3,000 lbs ivory. 28-Am ship Gatherer. Thompson, 122 days from Philadelphia. 31-Brit wh bk Faraway, Spencer, from Ochotsk, with 610 wh, 6000 bone. 31-Am ship Syren, Newell, 130 days from Boston. 31-Am bk Garibaldi, Noyes, 36 days from Portland. 31-French corvette Volta, Floucaud de Fourcroy, 18 days from San Francisco. DEPARTURES. Sept. 25-U S flag-ship Pensacola, Rear Admiral J J Almy, for Coast of Mexico. 26-Tahitian bk Ionia, Lovegrove, for Tahiti. Oct. 8-Brit ship Ravenstondale, Wm Jack, for S Francisco 13-Haw schr Giovanni Apiani, Dority, for Tahiti. 13-Arn schr C l\1 Ward, Lambert. for Guano Islands, 15-Am bk Ulara Bell, Shepherd, for San Francisco. 18-Brit stmr l\1a.cgregor, Grainger, for San Francisco. 19-P MS Vasco de Gama, Rice, for ~ydney. 19-Brit stmr City of Melbourne, JJrown, for Sydney 2:.!-H BM S Peterel, Commander Cooksoa, for Kauai. 0 :M-Haw bk W C Parke, T H Adams, for Puget Sound. 29-Am bktn Jane A I!'alkinburg, Hubba.rt, for Portland Nov i-Am bk 1) C Murray, Fuller, for San Francisco. MEMORANDA. FlllEND, NOVEMBER, I875. inspire. They were all safely landed in Honolulu, where they have been taken under the charge of the British Consul, and provided for at the Home. Respectmg the fate of their unfortunate companions, nineteen in all, no information can be obtained. The boats parted half an hour after the Gallatin was abandoned, and nothing has been heard of the missing boat. REPORT OF S S CITY OF MEI,BOUllNE, BROWN, COM~IA~DER.-Left San Francisco Oct 12th al 10.3(' a m, and cleared the heads at 11 am, with a light SW breeze and thick weal her, the wind continuing light and baffling until 4 am ,,n the lf>lh, thence a strong SW wind which lasted 20 hours, thence lig-ht airs and calms until noon on the 18th, thence light ::-E wimls until arrival at Uonolulu, which was entered at 3.30 pm on the 19th, making the pas,-age in 8 days and 4 hours. . REPORT OF BARK D C MURRAY, A FULl,ER, !llASTER.Left San Francisco Friday, Oct 1st at 3 p m iu tow of lug .loe Redmond; cast off at 6 pm and made sail with a light hreeze from Wand a dense fog, which continued till the following day. First 7 days out had light breezes, fine weather and smooth sea. Got the trades the 8th day out in lat 27 c- 64' N, long 138° W. Continued very light till 12 dayi, out in lat 23° N, long 146° W; from thence hauled to south and died out calm. The 17th day wind sprung up from east. The latter part of passage had very heavy NW swell. ::;aw Hawaii Oct 19th at 6 pm, and Oahu next day at 10 a m. REPORT OF llARK MARY BELLE ROBERTS, GRAY, 1'1ASTE1t. -Left :',an l!'rancisco Oct 2d; experienced light NW windH in lat 24°30'. long 146° W, and SW winds which lasted 5 days; from thence to port light NE. Sighted Maui Oct 21st at ti a m, arriving in Honolulu next forenoon. REPORT OF HARK RC WYLIE, WALTERS, MASTER.-Left the Downs on the 27th June with liµht westerly winlls; sloml oft· Scilly on the 1st of ,luly. from whence made a fine run tu the line in 22 days; had no SE trades at all, wind always from the southward. On the 61st day out stood 60° S 64° W; from there had calms and gales from the westward till the 80th day,inii0° Sand88° W. From thence had fine weather till arrival in Honolulu on Suet.lay, Oct 24th, after a passage of 118 days. · The Europa from the Arctic, brings a very good report from the ships cruising there, up to the middle of September. The following report made up by A .I Cartwright, Esq, includes the catch of the ships as spoken and heard from, and their destination: Honolulu Fleet. 1600 Europa.·-············· Triton .•••••••••••.••• , 1200 Arctic . . 860 Cor Howland . . 1100 Java, Fisher ••••.••••. 800 Jas Allen •• : •.•••••••. 800 ]faraway ••••.•••••••.• 190 Brig Onward ••••••••. • 40 Desmond .••••••••••••• 640 San Francisco Fleet. Onward • • • . • • • • • • • • • Illinois • • • . • • • • • • • . . • Uamilla . • • . • • • • • • • . • Rainbow • • • • • • • • • • • . Florence,. Northern Light. Helen Mar. • • • • . • • • Mt Wollaston .•••••••. St George .••.•.••.•. , Java, Colson. 1600 2000 2200 700 1200 660 1560 clean 1500 400 REPORT OF WH BARK EUROPA, J H McKENZIE, MASTER. -Sailed from Honolulu April 16th and Kauai April 17th. Arrived at Uape Thaddeus and the ice through the "72d passage" May 20th after a very rough passage, with strong winds from NW most of the time. Being too late for outside whaling, pushed through the ice; and passed throng':! Bhering Straits June 16th, in quest of walrus. On July 6th, having taken about one thousaud walrus, left the ice; and on the 26th of July passed Point Barrow. Found the ice closely packed, and but a narrow strip of clear water along the shore. No whales seen by the fleet till the 18th of August, when a strong NE wind broke up and scattered the ice, and whaling began. In September the ice had nearly all disappeared, and in a clear sea the ships could E>ail down the shore as far as they wished to. Some of the ships went nearly to McKenzie river, farther than ever whaleships ventured before. On the 18th of September having whales enough on board to fill our casks, we left the ground in company witb the Onward and Camilla, tbe wind blowing a gale from NE. 'l'he ships had all taken more walrus than on any previous year, and at the date of our departure were doing extremely well whaling. Have no doubt all the ships will fili their casks if the weather permits. REPORT OF SHIP SYREN, NEWELL, MASTER.-Left Boston ,June 22d, and crossed the hoe in the Atlantic July 22c.l in long 28 62'. Crossed the 50th parallel Aug 28th in W long 63 18'. Spoke ship Alice M Minot otr the Falkland Islands, bound to San Francisco. Offl!taten Island picked up a boat's crew belonging to the British ship Albert Gallatin and brought them to port. Crossed the equator in the Pacific Oct 16th in W long 121 ° 30'. Have had moderate weather throughout the passage. Arrived in Honolulu Sunday, Oct 31st, after a passage of 130 days. ° ° 93 PASSENGERS. Fnont SAN FRANc1sco-Per Clam Bell, Oct 5th-U J lJul. land. Fon Gu ANO Is-Per CM Ward, Oct 13th-Jas Green and 1 laborer. Fon TAHITI-Per Giovanni Apianl, Oct 13th-WT Bradley. FoR SAN FRANc1sco-Per Clara Hell, Oct lllth-E V Thwing, ,J Holland. JfROM AUCKLAND-Per Macgregor, Oct 17th-J 8 Webster. FOR WINDWARD l'onTs-l'er Kilauea, Oct 18th-J W Wid d1fleld, Mi:!S Lack, Theo Tool, E l'robart, Judge l{amaiopili, Kia Nahaolelua, R Hind, J Crowder, S Staines, E G llilch cock and wife, Jas Woods, ,Judge Fornander, J Tucker, Lieut Christopher, W H Uornwell, wife and child, G Armstrong , wife and 3 children, F Welsh, E Morris, W Meyersbiirg, F Wundenburg and about 46 deck. FOR SAN FRANCISCO-Per Macgregor. Oct 18th-Mrs Clapp and daughter, W H Van IJire, Miss Slocum, Miss Sarah K Peirce, Mr Grinbaum and wife, .James Barton, Mr l>awsoll, Mrs Dexter, TR Lucas, W I,aughland, J W Girwin, C Lopes, Lum E, AF Howe, Jas l\lartin. FROM SAN FRANCISCO-Per Vasco de Gama. Oct 19th-., C Pfluger, HM Witney, AP Everett, Mrs C T Mills, l\liss Hattie Raymond, W C Parke, E P Adams, wife and 2 children, T Hender,mn, Miss A .Johnson, W II Bailey and wife, Mrs .las M Alexant.ler and 2 children, Capt O Spencer, Capt Provost, wife and child, and 12 in steerage. FRon1 SAN FRANctsco-Per Uity of Melbourne, Oct 19th~ TA Dudoit, and 2 in steerage. Fon AUCKLAND & SYDNEY-Per Vacso de Gama, Oct 19th -F Henderson. Fon SYDNEY-Per City of Melbourne, Oct 19th-Max Arnstein. li'RoM PORTLAND-Per Jane A Falkinburg, Oct 20th-John Kearney, Micheal Lewi,1, J C McKay, Christian ll.euz. FRon1 SAN FRANOisco-Per D L: Murray, Oct 20th-Mrs Loui8son, 2 children and nurse, Mr and Mrs H .I Abhott, !llr" Parks, Col Sam'l Norris, Mr 1> Kelly, AC Skertilt, Wm Shepherd and 6 Hawaiian seamen of schooner Flyiog Mist. FROM SAN FRANCISCO-Per Mary Helle Roberts, Oct 22dHarry l,ewers, Mr Durrand, T Howard, J 11 O'Hrien, E ll. llendrey. FnoM LONDON-Per RC Wylie, Oct 2-lth-W N Gifford. A baudoued al Sea. John Dugan, second officer of the bark Jessie Scott, an English vessel, reports as follows: The Jessie Scott left Liverpool, REPORT OF HAWAIIAN TRADING SCHOONER GIOVANNI April 6th. bound to Central America, when off Patagonia, was APIANI. DORITY. MABTER.-Sailed from Honolulu, April lf>tb, dismasted September 6th, and lost main-mast and mizzen- for the Arctic Ocean. Had strong winds mostly to the Fox topmast. On September 7th, American ship Empire hove in Islands. May 12th, went through the Ounimak Pa!.'sage in sight, and a boat from the Jessie Scott, four hands and chief company with bark Florence. Made the ice May 19th, in latofficer, boarded her. She was 130 days out, bound from New itude 60°10' N.,longitude 174°26'. Arrived at Plover Hay, York to San J!'rancisco. The chief mate reported the condition June 8th. Experienced fine weather during June and the first of the Jessie Scott, an·d desired to be taken on board, but the part of July. Strong t!OUtherly winds during the middle and latter part of the season. July 19th, while in company with master refused, because he had already made a long passage the bark Arctic, lying at anchor in Wainwl"ight Inlet, a strong and was short of provisions. To this the mate said, there was south-west gale set I he ice in, which drove the Arctic ashore. plenty on board the JesRie Scott, but no water, except for about After losing both anchors I succeeded in working the schooner out. As soon as the ice broke up I went back, and found the ten days still the master of the American ship refused, end Arctic in 11 feet of water. Captain Whitney had discharged suggested they might pull tor a bark which had been seen to everything to get her off. July 29th, I sailed from Point Barleeward. They returned on h?ard the vessel, 11-nd after drifting row, and next day fell in with the Arctic, working northward, Whitney having succeeded in gettin~ her olf without to the southward for eight days, fell in with the Francisco Captain injury. Had southerly winds to !'lover Bay, and sailed thence Padra, an Italian hark, which took all c,tf, and on the following St'ptember 1st. arriving at Honolulu, September 30th, having day the American ship Gatherer hove in sight, and kindly had light variable winds the whole passage. Saw whaleships MARRIED. took five seamen and second mate, our informant, who were as reported below on July 20th, and none since: Illinois, 400 bbls whale and 140 bbls walrus; James Allen, brought to Honolulu. Passage was also offered to the re- 700 bbls walrus; Arctic, 140 bbls walrus; Java, 660 bhls wal{The visit of the Rev. C. Onions, at Honolulu, in 1872, as be mainder, if they wished to come, hut they declined. They re- rus; •rriton, 660 bbls walrus; Onward. 632 bbls walrus; Des- preached in the Fort Street Church and the Bethel, will be report most favorably, respecting the kind treatment received mond, 640 bbls walrus; Helen Mar, 860 bbls walrus; C Howland, membered by many of our readers. We clip the following 600 bbls walrus; A Barnes, 900 bbls walrus; St George. 110 on board the Gatherer from both officers and crew. Our in- bbls whale and 1,000 bbls walrus; Europa, 660 bbls walrms; notice of his marriage from a late English paper:] formant reports that the Jessie Scott must have sunk on the N Light, 230 bbls sperm and 210 bbls whale. The Indians reONlONS-GI'l'TENs-On Tuesday, Aug. 17th, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Wrexham, by the Rev. J. Rodwell, of Dunstable, day following. that on which she was abandoned, as she had port Camilla, in St Lawrence Bay, with 8 right whales . the Rev. CHAS. ONIONS, to ELIZA MORLEY, daughter of Mr. REPORT OF BARK CLARA BELL, PP SHEPHERD, MASTER. John Gittens, Egerton House, Wrexham. a.bout four feet ot water. The Jessie Scott was classed for a seven years' cruise to Central America. For a cargo, she bad -Lett San Francisco Sept 14th with light breeze from SW, and calms which lasted for two days. Then took light breeze among the articles a portion of a Catholic church, with altar from the Wand NW, which lasted six days; then wind hauled DIED. decorations and incense. to SW and SE, with frequent calms until arrival at port. Sighted Maui and Hawaii on Sunday, Oct 3d, arriving in HoLost Overboard and Drowned.-Gf,o . .JosEPH, a Greek, Wt·eel, oC the Albert Gallatin. nolulu at noon the following Tuesday. from the Gatherer, off Cape Horn, 17th of Sept~mber . This was a British ship, commanded by Captain W. Groves. Lost Overboard and Drowned.-W n1. SHOY, (colored) stew REPORT OF S 8 MACGREGOR. H GRAINGER, COMMANDER.She left Antwerp, 30th of April, in ballast, bound to Callao to Lett Sydney at 1.16 p m Sept 25th. and experienced moderate ard of the Jessie Scott, August 24th. He belonged to Anti11uo, " load with guano. When otr Cape Ilorn, she lost her rudder easterly winds and fine weather; 27th fresh easterly and West Indies. BENNETT-In this city, October 2d, JOHN BENNETT , a naand drifted about fourteen days when, as she was about to go squally; 28th strong breeze and heavy beam sea; 29th strong gale and heavy !lea; 30th passed Three Kings, and arrived at of Charlestown, Mass., and for some time a resident of upon the Islands of lll Defonzo, she was abandoned, and all Auckland at 8.60 am; sailed again same day at 2.10 pm, tive Nantucket, aged 69 years. hands took to the boats. In the Captain's boat were nine with light westerly winds to Oct 4th, and fresh SE winds to RICHARDSON-In this city, October 14th, JOSEPH Ru:n persons, viz.: Captain Groves, his wife and two children; lat 16° S, long 166°41' W. Crossed the equator in long ARDSON, aged 27 years and 7 months, a native of Conosloga 161 °47' W. Strong SE winds and fine cool weather the reCenter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. second mate, Mc Fay; George Hitc!:iins, carpenter; Timothy mair.der of passage. Oct 16th at 10.30 p m passed a fore and ADDERLEY-In this city, suddenly, October 26th, Mr. E.G . Flint, steward; John Gibson, seaman; and B. Kingswen, sea- aft schooner, painted black, standing to the southward, in lat ADDERLEY, a native of Sheffield, England, aged 71 years an d man. After touching at two islands, and drifting about for 18 16° 68' N, long 168 ° 14' W. Oct 17th at 3.23 pm received 6 months. Deceased arrived at these islands in 1868. previelis pilot on board. R B PRINGLE, Purser. days, fell in with American ship Syren, of Boston, Captain to which he had resided about 25 years in the UHited States, REPORT OF S S VAsco DE GAMA, ,J F R1cE, Co~mANDER. where he ha!'! a sou now living. He was much res1iec1ed by all Newell, off Staten Land on the 2d of September. From Capt. -Left San Francisco Oct 9th at 1.30 p m; experienced fine who knew him. Newell, officers and crew, the wrecked persons experienced weather throughout the passage, and arrived in Uooolulu Oct PRENDERGAST-In this city , October 29th, Uel. HENRY every kindness which humanity could dictat e or sym1'atb y 19th at 3.;;o am. PRENDERGA ST, a native of Tipperary , lrclalld, a:,;cu 60 years. I : . 94 THt ttltlEND, NOVEMBER, I87 a. per gallon on spirits, one dollar on wine and REV. GEORGE B. BACON, D. D.-The visit a shiiling on each bottle of beer. There are ot this gentleman will be remembered by DESCRIPTION OF ToNGATABU--KING GE0RGE·- consequently no public-houses; moreover many of our Island readers. We have reM1ss10NARY INFLUENCE-MAINE L1Q.uoa every sailor is required by the law to be on ceived a pamphlet, containing an address by board his ship by 8 o'clock in the evening. LAW, &c. No sooner had the Challenger anchored him at the opening exercises of" The Lowell We copy the following sketch of the than she was surrounded with canoes, con- Mason Library of Music,'' in the Yale DiFriendly Islands, from the narrative of the taining a great number of natives, who soon vinity School, May 11, 1875. The speaker found their way on board; and a fine race of cruise of the Challenger as published in the men they were-tall, robust, with intellect- discourses in most interesting and eloquent London Geo,qraphical Magazine, for Sep• ual features, and singularly good looking; manner, respecting church music, in Old and the women being decidedly handsome and New England. Respecting the universality tember 1st, 1875: On the morning of the 19th, they hove-to very fair, might easily be mistaken for half- of Lowell Mason's influence in shaping the off the Island of Eooa to await daylight, and castes; but notwithstanding their superiority church music of the passing age. Dr. Bacon at 7 o'clock Tongatabu was seen right ahead, in form and intellect to the races found on remarks as follows : Euaigie Island being on the starboard bow, other islands, they are equally indolent, for All the sects of Christendom almostand in the evening tbe Challen,qer anchored very little labor being required to produce nlmost any crop, they are too lazy to culti- high. low, broad, narrow, Calvinist, .Armin- · off the king's residence at Nukalofa. Tongatabu group is the principal and most vate as the islands abound with cocoanuts, ian, Socinian-sing praise to God in Lowell southern of the To.nga or Friendly Islands, bananas, oranges, yams, &c., which grow 1".1-ason's tunes. Even the Spiritualists, who srng the most deplorable rubbish, in what I and derives its name from the largest island. almost spontaneously. The usual dress of the natives is much suppose they call the_ir worship, and who The Island of Eooa lies to the south-east, 9 miles from Tongatabu, and alihough the the same for the males as for the females, perhaps, as Mr. Artemus Ward would say, smaller island rises to a height of 600 feet, viz., a roll of " ·tapa wrapped around the are "saddest when they sing," sing to some the larger, Tongatabu, is flat, the highest loins but the influence of the missionaries extent in Lowell Mason's tunes. The last point, on which the church now stands, has caused this revolution in dress, that they church tune-book that I have happened to being only 60 feet high; a few othrr hillocks must appear more decent m company, and a e_xamine, and, 1 believe, the last one pubfine of a dollar is imposed on a man that lished, borrows upwards of sixty of his of 30 or 40 feet may be seen. Tongatabu Island is 23 miles long east ventures to put his foot on board a ship tunes,-more than from any other composer; and west, and about 8 broad, and in the without having a regular shirt on. The and the same, and commonly a 0areater proform of a crescent, bearing its convex side to women are not permitted to visit ships at portion, is found in most of our church t.he south, while coral reefs extend 6 and 8 all. Some of the natives have adopted the hymn and tune-books. In the indexes of miles off the concave side, and form numer- European dress, and wear it with much tunes his name is like what Dr. Watts' is in ous channels leading towards the harbor. pride; the women, as is natural, are fond of the indexes of hymns. Ten years ago, on There are but two of these channels navig- gay-colored dresses, &c. The manufacture my first Sunday m London, I worshiped able for ships, one to the east, the other to of the tapa from the bark of a tree is dis- in Mr. Thomas Binney's "Weigh-house the north, through which vessels thread their couraged as much as possible in order to chapel;" the first hymn of the morning way by obsarving from the masthead, the induce the · natives to cultivate the cotton- service was sung to one of Lowell Mason's discoloration of the water aoused by the plant, which thrives wonderfully on the lux- tunes, One year ago, 1 was in the Sandwich Islands. Late one Saturday evening coral reefs. A lagoon about 3 miles deep, uriant soil of the island. About forty white people are resident at I had lost my way, and needed friendly help into which there is only a passage for a canoe, lies 4 miles east of the town of N uka- Nukalofa, and as is unfortunately the case and guidance . Presently I saw, through the lofa. It leads up to the town of Bea, which in too many places, the missionary labors dark, the outlme of the tower of a little may be termed the stronghold of heathenism are divided by two very different sects, the country church, and soon after the light of a lamp, which I conjectured must be in the on the island, the natives retaining much of Wesleyan and the Roman Catholic. The village or town of N ukalofa is prettily minister's study. So it was. 1 made my t heir original characteristics. The soil of the island is rich and very situated in a bread-fruit and cocoanut grove. way to the door of the neat grass house, fertile; the luxuriance of the foliage can The church is the most conspicuous building and foun~ i_t was the parsonage. The dusky scarcely be surpassed. In snme parts of the on the island, as it is situated upon its Y?ung mm1ster was at work preparing for island the soil consists of a blackish mould, highest hill. It is a neat-looking building, his duty on the morrow. On the table was which emits an agreeable odour of bergamot, divided into three aisles by two rows of his study-lamp, his books and papers; and b11t it quickly evaporates in the air.* The columns that support the frame-work of the among the bogks, conspicuous next to the population is estimated at 5000, of which roof, which is thatched with the leaves of Bible, a vtell-worn copy of the "Carmina about one-fifth are Christians; supplies of the sugar-cane. Near the church door is a Sacra," by Lowell Mason. I was made food may be obtained, but the great want is monument erected to the memeorv- of Com- more welcome than ever, when I presently, fresh water, there being no streams on the mander W. Broker, who was killed in an as best I could without a knqwledge of the island, water being only procurable by dig- unsuccessful attack on the village of Bea in Hawaiian tongue, explained to the young ging, and such as is obtained by that means 1840. The church is capable of holding man that I too was a minister, and that, in from 700 to 600, and on the Sunday was the church to which I ministered, the man 1s not good. The Friendly Islands form an independent well attended. A native preached, and the that made that book had been my "luna,' state, and now have a national flag. The singing, accompanied by a tolerably good or head man. Where could I go, 1 presently king (George) was residing at N ukalofa. organ, was sweet and in excellent time. 80 began to wonder, where I should not find He is a hale old man of about seventy-five, far back as 1797, the London Mis::;ionary that the work and influence of Lowell Mason with a pleasing expression of countenance, Society sent missionaries to this island, but had been before me. the face being fringed round with white the warlike nature of the inhabitants caused NAVAL.-The French steam corvette Volta left whiskers and beard. The queen was not so them to quit the field, and a quarter of a prepossessing; she 1s very stout, and seemed century later, the W esleyans commenced San Francisco on the 12th inst., en route for this conscious of her dignity in her European their labors, and their efforts have been emi- port. The Volta's tonnage is 1400; her engines are dress, her head being surrounded by gipsy nently successful; most of the natives having 250 horse-power; her armament consists of six heavy hat and feathe1·, after the most violent type embraced 'Christianity, and schools have guns, with a crew of 150 men. The following is a list of her officers: of servant-gal-ism. Young as the country been established. Captain-Floucaud de Fourcroy, Captain of Frigate. is, the people understand direct taxation, a 2d Captain-Due de Peothievre, Lieutenant of vessel. 07" The grand prize of Rome for sculp- Stajf'-M. M. Andreani, Le Breton, Faucon, Aubert, Fahra poll-tax of seven dollars being levied on each lllaurelle. adult, whilst a most effectual bar to drunk- ture has been awarded by the French Gov- la 1st Surgeon-Maurin. enness is eflected by the excise, in a license ernment to a young American student .tl.sst. Surgeon-Mcchain. .tl. sst. Paymaster- Mastioni. named Hughes, a pupil of the sculptors duty of lOOl. , levied on spirituous liquors of Nav. M itishipman-Buncl. a ny kind , and a customs duty of two dollars Dumont and Bonnassieux, of Paris. - P . C . .Jldvcrt mr, Oi:t . 23 . FRIENDLY ISLANDS. F It IE ND, NOVEMB~R Places of Worship. -w-. I875. ADVERTISEMENTS. SEAMEN'S BETHEL-Rev. ~- C. Damon, Chaplain, G. IRWIN & CO •• King f,.treet, near tho Sailors: Home. Preaching at 11 A. M. Seats free. Sabbath School before the Commission lflerchants, morning service. Prayer mP-et,ing on Wtidne~day Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, H. I. evemn~s at 7~ o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting every day from half-past 12 to 1. LE'\V ERS & DICKSON, FORT STREET CHURCH--Rev. Frear. Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, on Sundays at 11 A. M. and 7& P. ~1. Sabbath Fort Street, Honolulu, H. I. School at 10 A. M • . KAWATAH.-1.0 Cmmcrr--Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, H O F F M .t. N N • M • D • , King street, above the Palace. Services in Ha·Physician and Surgeon, waiian every Sunday at 9~ A• .M. and a P. M. ROMAN CATHOLTC CHURCH--Under the charge of Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office Rt. Rev. Bishop l\fo.i1,?ret. assistPd hy Rev. J.'ather Hermann; Fort street. near Beretania. Services BU.EWER & co . every Sunday at 10 A. M. and i P. M. KAUMAKAPILI CHUHCH--Rev. l\l. Kuaea, Pastor, Commission and Shiwing Merchants, Ileretania street. near Nuuanu. Services in HaHonolulu, Oanu, II. I. Wftiian every Sunday at 10 A. M. and 2½ P. M. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH--Bishop. the Rt. Rev. AlP. ADAMS. fred Willis. D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, 1\1. A., Rev. Alex. :Mackintosh, 'St. Andrew's Temporary .11.uction and Commission Merchant, Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. English sen·ici->s on Sundays at ti4 and 11 A. M •• and 2~ and 7~ P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy MOTT SMI'l'H, House at 10 A. M. · 95 SAILORS' HOME! w. C. E. .Dentist, D. N. Fi,l'1.,NER, Having resumed practice, can be found at his rooms over E Strehz & Co.'s Drug Store, corner of For.and Hotel sts. ONTINUES HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THE l<'IH.E-1:'lWOF lluilding, Kaahumanu Street. O H N . S. M c G R E W • M . D ., CHRONOMETERS rote,l by observations of the sun and stars with a transit instrument accurately adjustt!d tc, !he meridian Late Surgeo'/1, U.S. Army, of Honolulu. Oan be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing C J • li\extant a.ml quadrant glasses silvered and adjusted. Charts and nautical instruments constantly on hand and for sale. fel J. 0, MERRILL, JOHN M'ORAKKN. J. C. iUERRILL & Co.~ Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 206 California Street, San F r a n c i s c o . ALSO, AGENTS Oil' THl!J San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Particular attention given to the sale and purchase of mer1handise, ships' bu11iness, supplying whaleships, negotiating exchange, &c. !CT All freight arriving at Saa Francisco, by or to the Honolulu Line of Packets, will be forwarJed l'RBB OF OOlllllISSIOIJ. U Exchange on II onolulu bought and sold . .£ll -REFERKNCKSMessrs. A. W. Peiree & Co . Honolulu " H. Hackfeld lit Co. " C. ·Brewer & Co . . Bishop & Co ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••• Dr. lt. W. Wood . . Hon. E. H. Allen •••••• •••••• ••••••••••·••••••••• 96!i ly THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! Officers 1 'l'able, with lodging, per week, Seamen's do. do. do. $IS 5 Shower Baths on the Premises. ED • . DUNSCOlllBE. Manage,· . Honlulu, January 1, 18i5. Carriage Making ~nd '!'rimming ! I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT I now employ the best Mechanics in the line of Carriage Jl,Jalcing, Carriage and General Blacksmithing, Painting. Repafring, &c., On the Hawaiian Group and it is a well established fact that oar Carriage Trimming, hy Mr. R. Whitman, is as well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted m saying that Wagon and Carriage 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 ID" Island orders ptomptly executed at lowest rates will also state here that we fully intend to work at G. WEST. LLEN & CHILLING'\VORTH, the lowest possible rates. G• '\VEST, A M. DICKSON, Photographer, Kawaihae, Hawaii, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping busi- ness at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits as are required by whaleships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. tn'" Firewood on Hand.£]) _A, • W. PIERCE & CO •• (Succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Agents Puuloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, 61 Fort Street, Honolnln, ,6. L'\VAYS ON HAND A CHOICE ASSORT• 4 Ml!:NT OF PHO'rOGRAPHIC S'rOCI{, A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of Hawaiian Scenery, &c., &c. CURIOSITY HUNTI<mS will find at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcanic Speciu1enl!I, Coralf•, Sbelb, \.Var lmple1nent111, Fern8, Matl!I, Kapa,,. And Perry Da-vb' Pain Killer. And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and Micronesian Curiosities. THOS. G. THRUM'S PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY! STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. 19 Merchant Streel, • • • Honolulu. ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OF P Papers and Magazines, back numbers-put up to order at educed rates for parties going to sea. ly jal 1874 CASTLE & COOKE, J11JPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 11 • • NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. GENERAL MERCHANDISE ! -ii.GENTS OF- DILLINGHAM & CO., Nos. 95 and 97 King Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF .-.-.,JIE PROPRIF.TOR WILL SP ARE NO I. pains to make this E::UEG-.A.N'T Goods Suitable for Trade. SHIP MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the last Six Years can testify from personal ex:E3:C>TE::U perience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of First-Clan in Every Particular ! ROOMS t!N BE BID BY THE NIGHT OB WEEK.1 with or without board. HALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR ly PUBLIC MEETINGS, OR SOCIETIES. 9116 GOODS FOR.TRADE And Sell Oheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM & CO. REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF Packets, New England Mutual Lif3 Insurance Company, 'I,HE The Union Marine Insurance Company, San Francisco, The Koba.la Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Mill, W. B. Balley, The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, '.l.'he Wheeler & Wilson Sewing l\lachlne Company, Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. .A. tr " THE FRIEND," MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL 0. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per annum . $2.00 Two Copies per annum. • • . . • 2.60 Foreign Subscribers, including postage .•.••• ••••• •• ••. ~-0~ §oung IJm's ·Qtgristian ~ssoriation of jonolulu. Pur·e religion and undefiled befor·e God, the Father, is th'is: 'l'o visit the fatherless and widows in theiT: affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Edited by a CommittBB of thB Y, M, C, A.