| Summary: | Published by the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon from 1845 to 1885, The Friend focused on temperance and Christian mission to seamen. It began as a monthly newspaper that included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. Note that there are some irregularities in the numbering of individual issues, so that two issues may have the same volume and number, but different dates will distinguish them. IN The )fou ,§crfos, lot 2-4, lfo. 12.} HONOLULU. DECJEMBER 2, 18H'>. CONTE1'TS For Decembu 2. 187 o. ~.A~; End of Volume XXXIIld . Two German Cmsoes ••••••• • •···. ••••·••••97 - 99 Royal Salute Extraordinary . 99 New Books !'elating to Polynesia . 100 society IRlands . . . . . 100 Marine .Journal . ·••·•••••••• . lOI Quarter Deck Manners •.••.•• .• .••.•••.•.•.•••••••••••• 102 Rev . T. D. Hunt . . . 102 104 Y. M. c. A.•. ·········· ,- . •···•······•·······••··· ·· REv. E.T. DoANE .•-We have received a TWO GERMAN CRUSOES letter from this gentleman announcing bis ln the Atlantic, about midway between return to Oakland from a tour through the' Eastern States, and his intended departure the coast of South America and the Cape of Good Hope, in 37 ° 6' south latitude, lies for Japan, where he will hereafter labor the island of Tristan da Cunha, with two among the American Missionaries, under the lesser islands in its neighborhood. T ~e auspices of the Hawaiian Bt1ard . As in Challenger, H. M. ship, commanded 6y former years, while he was in Micronesia, so Captain Nares, now on a scientific expedihereafter, we shall hope occasionally to re- tion, reached Tristan <la Cunha late at night, on the 14th October, 1873. Next morning, ceive communications for our columns. a landing was effected, and the island, which is nineteeiJ or twenty miles in circumference, a::? J. T. WATERHOUSE, Esq., since his re- was found to have a settlement of eighty turn to the Islands, has been exercising his souls in all. The history of this htt]e cologifts in lay-preaching. He addressed an au- ny is curious. Jn 1816, a company of British artillery was stationed on the isla.nd, with dience of foreigners at the Lyceum, Thursa view to keep watch on Napoleon Bonaday evening last, and on Sabbath evening ap parte, then in captivity in St. Helena. It audience of Hawaiians, at Kaumakapib seems almost ridiculous to have taken this Church, the Rev. Parker officiating as inter- precaution, for St. Helena is about thirteen hundred miles distant, and one would think preter. the guard could have been of no avail. PerTHE "TuscARORA."-We are glad again haps it was thought, that in the various mad to welcome this vessel on her scientific and schemes to rescue Napoleon, Tristan da Cunha might have been made a base of exploring expedition-that of taking sound- operations. When the illustrious captive ings. It was a matter of much regret when died in 1821, the British soldiers were withthis vessel and her consort were turned aside drawn, leaving only a corporal of the name from their most useful employment of look- of Glass, with one or two companions, to ing for sunken rocks, low islands, and other take charge of the small fort that had been. erected. obstructions to safe navigation in the Pacific. From his name, we should suppose that The U. S. Government is (}Ot doing its duty Glass was a Scotchman. At all events, he in this respect in the Pacific Ocean. A good cleverly adapted himself to his position. The work was commenced, but for some unac- land being fertile, ·he set to work, cultivating· countable reason it has been shamefully potatoes, cabbages, and other vegetables, bred goats and pigs, and made a business. of sellabandoned. Report says California politi-' ing these vegetable and animal products to c1ans are the cause of the failure. 1f so, the captains of ships who in passing stood in world should know it, and these gentlemen need of fresh provisions. Known as Goverbe summoned to give an account of their nor Glass, he became a man of note in the South Atlantic. The settlement over which conduct. he bore sway throve apace. In 1829, it a::? HoLlDAYS, so much called for among amounted to twenty-seven persons-seven men, six women, and fourteen children. the laboring c!asses of some lands, surely oc- They had three hundred acres of land m cur sufficiently often in this country to im- tillage, and extensive pastures, with seventy part relaxation to the toil-worn and weary head of cattle, a hundred sheep, and innurp-: laborer, as well as to the studious and over- erable goats, pigs, and poultry-altogeiher q. thriving concern, though a little solitary. lq. taxed pupiL due course, Governor Glass died, but the set'.' a::? SIT MooN is reported as still laboring tlement continued, and still continues; presenting one of the many examples of the among his countrymen in the district of success attending English col9ni7iation, ory Hilo. however small and una ssisted a scale. Since T H E F R l E ND • ! DECEMBER 2. J 875. END OF VOLUME 32d. With this number closes another year and volume of THE FRIEND. We have endeavored to fulfill our promise to the public and our eubscribers by furnishing a paper on the first of each month. As no bills have been presented during the past twelve months, we hope our subscribers will promptly pay the carrier when be presents the bill for the yetxr. On the first of January, 1875, our receipts for the year fell short of the year's expendi· tures by a small amount. Cost of FRIEND Receipts '-. •• Pacific for 1874 . $737 00 1874. •. • • . . 697 00 Debt January 1, 1875 .• . .•. $40 00 ·We hope our friends and patrons will bear in mind that we are not engaged in a money making affa · in the publicat10n of this paper, and if so inclined will aid forward the enterprise by donations as well as regular subscriptions. During the year we have not failed to scatter abroad among seamen and others about 500 copies of each number as issued. Vessels of war have been regularly supplied as well as all other vessels. We ·would acknowledge for this purpose .during the past month $5.00 from Dr. Hoffmann and $5.00 from Capt. McKenzie, and also $5.00 for the Bethel from the last mentioned. May we not expect similar donations from others who have been successful during their last Northern cruise? Volume 33d will be commenced on January 1st, 1876. 98 THJi~ li"'lllEND, DECEMBER, 187· 0. the decease of Glass, there has been no re- ing season had set in, the Tristan da Cunha for food but being unable to reach the top cognised chiej. The oldest man at present, men set out at once for Inaccessible Island of the island, the store of provisions ran short, Peter Green, is at th~ head of affairs. When they behaved with much kindness to the and towards the middle of August the two "' ships touch at the island, Peter acts as brothers, pointed out that thP. position they brothers were greatly reduced in strength. spokesman and salesman. There is now had chosen on the northwest side of the isl- Although fish could be caught in plenty a more stock in trade to work upon than early land exposed them to prevailing winds, and little distance from the shore, but few could times; for the cattle have increased to six advised them to shift their quarters to the be taken from the rocks, so that the loss of hundred, and there is an equal number of northeast side, which they at once agreed to their boat stopped that means of supply. sheep. As ships can generally exchange do, and the Tristan da Cunha men took all "In the middle of August, the male penquantities of teas, sugar, flour, and other ar- their stores round, and showed them how to guins landed to prepare their nests for the ticles for the produce of the island, a pretty build a hut, and soon after left tlrem, promis- season, and at the begin'ning of September brisk trade in the way of barter is carried on. ing to visit them at Christmas; and the were followed by the females, who began The islanders also have some commercial brothers at once set to work building their laying; the day before this happened, the negotiations with the Cape of Good Hope, house near a water-fall, clearing the ground, brothers had eaten their last potato, and, but where they find a market for their wool. and planting their seed, and otherwise mak- for the timely supply of eggs for food, they It was at this thriving settlement, as has ing preparations for a long stay. Firewood would have perished. been said, that the Cliallenger arrived in was plentiful, and by aid of the long grass "In September, a passing French vessel the course of its cruise. The account of they could reach the summit of the island, comri1unicated with them. and, in return for what was seen and learned on the occasion, where there were about four miles of broken, some penguins's eggs, they obtaim~d about has been given by Captain Davis in J'he uneven ground. The beach was about a half a hundredweight of biscuit, and were Geog'r aphical JJilctgctzine (August, 1874), mile long, with a strip of ground back to the disappointed of a further supply of stores by and is so interesting, as regards tbe rescue foot of the cliffs. the captain putting to sea. In October, ( 18of two Germans, named Stoltenhoff, from '' Using the boat, they captured nineteen 72) a sealing schooner, named the 1 1hemis, one of the islands of the group, that we feel deals. The first house they built failed to communicated, and landed six men from pleasure in condensing it, for the ben efit of keep out the rain, and they had to build Tristan da Cunha. The captain of tbe another; but while thus working hard at Th emis gave the brothers a small quantity our readers. In 1870, the young-er of the two Germans their house and plantation, they were quick- of salt pork, biscuit, and tobacco. On leava sailor, had been wrecked, and with some ly consuming their store <1f provisions with- ing, the captain promised to return in a few e,-dmpanions was treated hospitably at Tristan out replenis: ing it, and they soon became weeks' time, but did not do so. At the end da Cunha. Taken off by a ship, he was fully aware that the time would arrive when of October, the supply of penguins' eggs failbrought to Europe; but finding his family they must be entirely dependent on home ed, and on the 10th of November the biscuits ruined by the war, he determined to return, produce. They occasionally used their boat and pork were finished, and necessity obliged bringing his elder brother with him. The in sealing, but unfortunately she was to them to make preparation for swimming two brothers accordingly carried out their heavy for two men to handle, and got so round the bluff in search of food. Their resolution of trying to reach and settle in the damaged that they could only keep her powder, matches, and other things requiring afloat by constantly bailing. This was a to be kept dry. were secured in a cask, which small English colony. "At St. Helena,'' proceeds the narrative, momentous event to the poor fellows, as, in they towed round the bluff. The night was " they expended their little stock of money the beginning of April, 1872, the tussock- spent at the foot of the cliff, and the followon an outfit suited to their new life, and grass growing on the cliff at the back of their ing day, with great difficulty, they succeeded among other necessaries became the owners · hut, and by means of which they were ena- in reaching the ridge, and, crossing over to of an old whale boat, the best they could get b,ed to get to the summit of the island, ac- the west side, descended to their first landfor the money at their disposal, and in Nov- cidently ~aught fire as they were clearing the ing place. A pig was shot, and they enjoyember, 1871, embarked with all their treas- ground by burning, and the only way left ed a hearty meal of fresh meat, the first they ures for Tristan da Cunha, in the American them of ascending was by going round to the had partaken of for many months. In this whaler Java, Captain Mander. On the pas- northwest side in their boat; thus by the way they lived until the 10th of December, sage, from some unexplainable reason, work- accident to the boat their means of subsist- having shot six geats. A hut was built at ed so strongly on the minds of his passengers ence was cut off; however, nothing daunted, th-rS time on the plateau, to shelter themas to persuade them to land on Inaccessible they cut their whale boat in two, and built selves when hunting. " An American whaling schooner visited Island, instead of the one they were bound up a stern on the best half, and christened to. Captain Mander described the island as their extraordinary looking craft the Seacart, them, from which they obtained some small fertile, and having a valley that led from the and by mearn~ of the Seaca1·t they were ena- supplies, but they would not take that opporbeach to the summit, and that on all occa- bled to get round the point and to the sum- tunity of leaving the island, expecting the A party of Tristan sions when he had landed he had seen num- mit of the island, on which were pigs and return of the 11/iernis. goats they found the flesh of the latter ex- da Curiha men also landed on the west side, bers of wild pigs and goats. "The brothers were landed on the 27th tremely good, but. that of the pigs was un- and captured no fewer than forty seals. DurNovember, 1871; their stores consisted of palatable, owing to their feeding partially on ing the stay of the f)arty, they shot eight of the remaining twelve goats, and, on leaving, their whale boat, some rice, flour, biscuits, sea birds. sugar, tea and coffee, some salt, a little to"On the 14th of May, an English ship assured the brothers that the T./zemis would bacco and pepper, and a small supply of hove in sight, and a fire was lighted to at- most certainly call the next month. Although spirits and wine, some empty barrels for oil, tract attention, as their boat was not safe to anxious to leave the island, the brothers were lamp, matches, a rifle, fowling-piece, shot, go outside the kelp in. The captain after- unwilling lo go to Tristan da Cunha, feeling For ten powder, &c. They also had a few tools, a wards reported at Tristan da Cunha, that he that they would not be welcome. a wheel-barrow, cooking utensils, some seed- had seen two persons on the island, also a months they were without communication potatoes and garden seeds, a dog and pups, square-sterned boat, but that no one came with their fellow-men. "ln January. 1873, Frederic again swam &c. Their library consisted of eight or ten off, and that there appeared to be too much round the bluff, mounted the cliff, and sucvolumes of very miscellaneous reading, with surf for him to attempt a landing. which they got intimately acquainted before "The poor fellows' hearts sunk within ceeded in shooting four pigs; these were them as they saw the ship bear away from thrown over the cliff to the brother below; he they left the island. " 'J'hey were Janded on the shingle beach the island, as winter was setting in on them refrained from shooting the remaining foul' At the end of the month, :Frederic on the west side of the island, frnm which, with heavy gales and much rain; moreover, goats. by a ravine, there was very difficult access in one of the gales, their Seacart was wash- rejoined his brother, and the day after he diq to the summit of the cliffs. Four days after ed off the beach and wrecked, leaving them so a party from T:ristan c\a Cunl\a ~aqqeq uq they landed, a party of sixteen men, in two no means of getting to the accessible side the west side, ancl e~the\' SQOt Qr caught the boats, arrived from Tristan da Cunha. The except by swimming round a high bluff; remaining four gqats, which they took away .Iava had been becalmed off that island, and this great loss occurred in June. ln May with them , They did not comm1rnioate with the captain had given information of the they dug their potatoes, and in the following the Germans, and as this was intentional, landing of the two brothers, and as the seal- month some of the other vegetables were fit. the brothers considered that their object wai.- 1' ff Ji~ to drive them from the island. Probablv the Tristan da Cunha people considered • that their residing on the island interfered with their hunting ground; at all events, after their kindness to them on arrivrno- on the island, their conduct was at least inex~licable. "In ~ebru~ry, ~otatoes and othe; vegetables, mixed with pigs' fat, formed their daily feed but in march, that food being exhausted, another visit was paid to the plateau, and the goats were then missed, which they had abstained from shooting, but they shet several pigs. At this time, their one great comfort, tobacco, failed, and this to a German is more than we English should feel they tried to replace it by dried leaves, but without success. 1 • The dogs which they had brought on shore broke loose, and played sad havoc among the penguins, ki1ling great numbers, and as one was apparently mad, the three were shot. It was now decided that the brothers should separate for a time, the elder to remain on the plateau to provide food, whilst the younger remained below to melt down and store the fat, and attend to the clearing;· the want of salt prevented curinD" the flesh. Three young pigs had bee~ caught and got down the cliffs without injury, then secured to a cask and towed round the point, but were nearly drowned on their passage; they were placed in a sty, and fed with grass and what could be spared from the garden, and also with penguins' eggs, when procurable. "At the end of April, the elder rejoined the younger, and in the attempt to convey two more pigs round the bluff, was nearly drowne•d; ~e pigs were. In June, Frederic again went to the plateau, and remained there until the 18th of August; the brothers wera not altogether without communication during that time, for, excepting when the noise of the wind or surf .prevented, they could hold a kmd of conversation. In June, July, and August, they lived on pigs' flesh only; the penguins then began to lay, and in their eggs they had abund"lnce of food.' Evidently, this precarious mode of life could not last. The brothers had made a grievous mistake in not following out their original intention of setling in Tristan da Cunha, and subsequently they committed a serious blunder in not taking the earliest opportunity of leaving a spot where they endured a series of extraordinary hard ships. 11 At length they had the good fortune to be happilJ rescued. The captain of the Challenge1·, when at Tristan da Cunha, having heard that two Germans had landed on Inacces_ sible Island, twenty miles to the south-west, two years previously, feared they were in difficulties, and went to their succor. The ship arrived at the island on the 16th of October, found the two unfortunate exiles, took them on board, and carrying them off, terminated their wretched Robinson Crusoelike existence." ~, R I E N U , U E U E ~I B E R , U We clip the following from the April number of the V ictm·ian .Independent, published in Melbourne : " The Hon. Sam'l. Hastings, who has come to us from the United States on a temperance errand. merits a warm welcome from us. The words used by Dr. Stanley, father of the present Dean of \V estminster. respecting Father Mathew, when he visited Norwich, might, substituting Melbourne for Norwich, most appropriately be employed in receiving Mr. Hastings. "Men of Norwich," said the good Bishop, " I appeal to youand I trust that my appeal shall nut be in vain-receive this wanderer on a sacred mission from a distant country; receive him, and give him a Christian welcome. fol' he has come on a Christian mission." Our visitor is a deacon of a Congregational Church, aud has spent the best years of his life in the service of humanity, laboring for the emancipation of the slave, the salvation of the drunkard, and the reformation of the drinking customs of society." CAPT. CoTTER.-ln the Christian Illustrated Weekly of New York, Oct. 2d, there is a most interesting narration of Capt. Cotter, who formerly was a liquor der-1.er in Brooklyn, but was induced to give up .the business by the Christian lady-crusaders. He poured $3,000 worth of liquor into the gutters, and rented his shop for other purpose:s. Tha result has been, that the liquor dealers combined to destroy his prospects. They obtained control of a mortgage and sold his property worth $9,000 for $3,000. Captain Cotter was not to be put down, for he sought other employment, and was appointed on the police. He has commenced prosecuting the liquor dealers for violation of the laws of New York, and has succeeded in closing 1,000 liquor shops out of 3,100, which formerly existed in Brooklyn. He is about commencing a similar undertaking in New York City. EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT OF THE GAZETTE.-W e read with delight Miss Coan's (H. F. C.) letters, three of which have already appeared. Each one becom es more and more interesting. · We can appreciate the kindly attentions which she experienced from M. Hopkin1:', Esq., the Hawaiian Consul, residing in London. We shall not readily forget the excursion which it was our privilege to make to his pleasant English home in the suburbs of London; neither shall we forgP-t the November London fog on our return, so dense that the conductors on the railroads were notified of their approach to the stations by the wheels of the carriages U We would acknowledge the XVth exploding percussion caps. Annual Report of the San Francisco Port o::::? REV. JA1\1ES A. DALY, will be rememSociety. We are glad to learn that a large bered formerly as a resident of Honolulu, but debt on the Bethel has been paid off by the he is now Pastor of a large and flouri shing libe ral subscriptions of t)an Franci::ico merCougregational Church in P a inesville, Ohio. chants a nd othe r ·. 99 I 8 7 5. RoYAL SALUTE EXTRAORDINARY.- We do not wonder that ignorant minds are filled with superstitious ideas, and neither do we wonder that it is so difficult to eradicate superstition from the minds of ignorant Hawaiians and other people. There recently occurred a scene in Honolulu, eminently calculated to fo1:'ter superstition among the ignorant. Thunder storms are not frequent in thjs latitude, but still when they do occur the lightning and thunder are terrific. On the day appointed for the removal of the remains of His late Mnjesty;Lunalilo, from the Royal Mausoleum to the new Tomb erected in the yard of the Stone Church, there occurred a thunder storm of marked power. Volley after volley resounded through the heavens, and then there was a momentary' cessation. Just, however, as the long procPssion approached the church, and the plumed hearse, surrounded by the royal " kaheles," entered the gate in front of the tomb, there came a clap of thunder that startled all the population of Honolulu. One native was heard to remark that, as the r')V· ernment did not fire a salute from the fort on on Punch Bowl, there was a discharge from the artillery·of the clouds! 'f he co-incidence was marked and noteworthy. Since writing the above, a clerical friend' remarked to us that natives report that from the time the funeral procession started until it finally approached the tomb, there were counted just "21 peels "-the final peel occurring as described above. No one need controvert the point that, surely here is ma-terial for superstition on a large scale ! 0 WoE To JuGGERNATH !-An immense block of stone has fallen from the central dome of the pagoda of Juggernath at Pooree. The Indian .1.l ffrr m· says:-" There is a prophecy, which is much talked about in these days, that when the first stone is unfastened the temple shall not stand. The repairs, say the Ooriahs, will take at least fourteen years, and during all this tim e no public worship A susor fest ival in Pooree .is allowable. pension of fourteen years, if it can be enforced, will cause, we think, the utter extinction of the worship of J uggernath." - - - - - --- - London Missionary Society has added to its other organizations what the Americans would style a "\Voman's Board;" in English phraseology, a "Ladies' CommitteP,." If it prove as exe:: , utive and inffuentia f as some of the American "Women's Boards,'' the Society has seldom taken a wiser step. THE U REV. MR. SNOWDEN, who preached as a stated supply in the Seamen's Chapel, in Honolulu, in 1869- 70, is reported as abou t to take Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. 100 THE F,RIEND, THE FRIEND. DECEMBER 2, 1875. New Books Relating to Polynesia. Some persons are asking, " Why write so many books about Polynesia?" We answer, because it is a most fruitful theme upon which to exercise the. pen of the ethnologist, philologist, historian, m_issionary, and lover of general literature. e make no hesitation in hazrtrding the remark, that tlie books already published are only a tythe of what will be written. Judge Fornander, on Maui, has the manuscript of a new book, nearly ready for the press. Its tide, Origin ancl .1.liigratious of ,v the Polynesian Race, and the Ancient Histo1·y of the Hawaiian People to the Tirnes of Kamehameha L Here you see, reader,_that Judge Fornander has entered an entirely new field, and '"' boldly pushed his way into prehistoric ages. If we have a correct idea of this· book, it is based upon an examination and comparison of the "meles," or ancient songs of Polynesians living on various groups of islands in the N orta and South · Pacific. These meles have been ham.led down from ancient times -as were the IJiad and Odyssey of Homer -before these island:s were visited by mission:uies and the dialects of Polynesia reduced to written forms. If we understand the theory, these meles contain much in common. Similar words can be traced from one group to another, back to the Malay Islands, and from thence to languages spoken by the inhabitants living around the Persian Gulf. A work of this nature must prove intensely interesting to .M.ax Muller and other philologists. Dwight, in his " .Modern Philology," traces back the inflected languages of Europe to India, and now Mr. Fornander, from the scattered ·elements of Polynesian meles, fr(trn an opposite part of the world, runs past India and pErnetrates the Persian Gulf. We shall be surprised if he does not bring forth from those olden times some treasure5 of rare worth to the scholar and the historian. We hope he may find a pubfosher who will issue the volume in good style, and if a few hundred dollars are needed we think some of our merchant5 might render a little generous aid. We notice with pleasure the German House '0f J. C. Godeflroy & Son, tloing business at the Samoa Islands and in Micronesia, are publishing a series of illustrated works on natural history, relating to Polynesia. Mr. Gatrett, the American Naturalist, so well known throughout Polynesia, and who gathered all sorts of strange fish and sea " monsters '' for . Prof. Agassiz, has found liberal patrons in J. C. Godeffroy & DE()•~ilIBEU, 1875. Son. Why should not other German Houses, doing business at our group, assist Judge Fornander? Since writing the above paragrnphs, in which we venture to predict that other books on Polynesia will be written, the Advertiser has appeared with a notice of at least three forthcoming works on topics relating to Polynesia. These notices appear in a London correspondent's letter. We learn that F. Birgham is the writer, a German gentleman, who spent a few years in Honolulu. We copy as follows: At the meeting of the British Association, in the AnthropologiccJl section, the Rev. Wyatt Gill, who has lived upwards of twenty years in the Hervey Islands, combated Mr. Wallaces's theory of the origin of the Polynesians Mr. Gill holds, that the present race entered the Pacific from the southeast fork of New Guinea, but were driven eastward by the fierce Negrito race. 'l'he greateS t crtstance from land to land, which they would have to travel in their eastward passage, would be from Samoa to the Hervey group, a distance of only about 700 miles. Mr. Gil.I will also shortly publish a book on the " Songs and yths of the South Pacific,'' with a preface by Max Muller, the celebrated linguist. J. H. de Ricci, F. R. G. S., the British Attorney General for Fiji, has just published a book on Fiji, our new province in the South Seas. Another Polynesia novelty is "Old and New Zealand," by an old Pakeha Maori. Dana's" Corals and Coral Islands" already appears in the second edition. The missionaries of the South Pacific Islands under, I believe, the direction of Mr. Turner, the author of " Nineteen Years in Polyne• sia," arc about to compile a comparative grammar and dictionary of Polynesian dialects. Some of the languages spoken in the Polynesian group possess words of the greatest intere st to the comparative philologi st , and it 1s to be hoped that the linguistic labors of the missionaries of the Pacific will throw more light on the origin of the Polynesian races. Society Islands. PAPEETE, Tahiti, Sept. 29, 1875. 1 have my attention again diverted from my ordinary routine by the arrival of the Challen,c;er. 'I'he captain and officers have done kind services to our missionarie:s at some places where they have touched, especially in refitting our steamer at New Guinea after her stormy voyage from England to Cape York, and it is a pleasure to me to aid in promoting the object of their visit to Tahiti. The ship Challenger arrived here on the 18th inst., after a passage, I believe, of 30 days from your port. On arrival here the captain intended to remain only a week, but the whole party has met with a good reception, and all are agreed that an extension of time in port will be advantageous. The scientific corps have divided themselves out in companies, and have explored many parts of the island as well as taking daily sounding outside the reef. They found a depth of over 1000 fathoms of water about 500 yards distant from our reef yesterday, and to-day they expect to find some o~jects of interest in dredging. On approaching the islands 4S hours before their arrival they found a depth of 2300 fathoms, 24 hours afterward:.;:, at a distance of abo t 10 miles from land, they found a depth of only 1500 fathoms, which would seem to indicate that there is a gradual slope from the land, and that our mountains are the tops of submerged mountain ranges of immense height. Other items of news of the port are that the Galtissionm·e, the iron clad corvette, bearing the flag of the French Admiral .P erigot, left <>Ur station on a cruise on the 15th inst., after a stay of 71 days in pr.rt. We have also the English ship Eddystone here discharging cargo. She arrived here from Roza Island with guano on April 11th, and after discharging a portion of her cargo and undergoing considerable repairs, left again for QueenS town, Ireland, on July 28th, having left about 400 tons of her cargo behind, but in 1!8 hours after her departure she reappeared, having sprung a fresh leak, and that a much worse one than that by which she was compelled to take refuge in the first place in our harbor. She has ow• nearly discharged and will, I expect, be condemned. Another leaky ship came into port on the 16th of July, the American whaling bark Selah, she had a large quantity of sperm oil on board, which was forwarded to San Francisco by our mail vessel .Pe1·cy Edwcwd early in August. The Selah, was condemned, and . . . has subsequently been sold by auction a nd realized $510. It appears she experienced very heavy weather off Pitcairns Island. The captain had two whales alongside when he was overtaken by the gale, they managed however to save the whales, but the vessel was so much shaken that they could not keep at sea without great risk of losing the vessel and their own lives, so they bore down for Tahiti. On the evening of the 18th an amateur soiree and magic lantern exhibition was given in the enclosure of the French Protestant School here on behalf of the inundation fund, and the success was ve'ry encouraging. The band from the Challenge1· enlivened the_ scenes, and every one who attended was well pleased, and the proceeds amounted to about 1200 francs. The idea was conceived by the Rev. Ch. Virnot, the director of the school. Commandant and Queen with all the officials were present, as also Captain Thomson, Prof. Thomson, and many other gentlemen from the Challenger. JA11rns L. GREEN. '11 HE SHIP EMERALD which was burned partially some weeks ago, and ha::; been lying dismantled in our harbor, was sold on the first The purchasers of December for $7,500. were Messrs. Pope & Talbot, Portland, 0., H. Hackfeld & Co., agents. She will be temporarily repaired and taken to the coast to become a lumber vessel. JTRJEND, DECEMBER, MARJN~ PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. ARRIVALS. Nov Ir? We would acknowledge a file of Sp-qrgeon's Sword and Trowel from .Mrs. Taylor, of London. PHENOMENA OF THE ELEMENTs.-On Tuesday, while the remains of the late King were en route for the tomb at Kawaiahao, a heavy thunder storm passed over this city,-r;ome of the claps would have done honor to the locality of Cape Hatteras, famed for the superiority of its thunder and lightning. And on the same day, in the channel between Oahu and Kauai, several large and perfect water-spouts were seen. All of which, say the more superstitious of the natives, had some mysterious connection with Lunalilo. DEATH OF A SCIENTIST.-By the J,f'1n. H . .i.llen, from Tahiti, we learn of the arrival there of H. B. M. S. Challenger, reporting the death, on the passage from Honolulu, of Dr. von Willemors Suhm, the zoologist of the expedition. --- NAVAL.-H. B. M's. steamer Myrmidon -arrived he1·e on the 28th, 30 days from Equimault, V. I. She is a. vessel of 877 tons, 200 horse power, and carries 4 guns. The following is o. list of her officers : Commander-Hon. Richard Hare. Lieutenants-Yarborough, F. H. Parker, George Ixat. Nav Lieuttnant-John B Palmer. Stqff Surgeon-William Yarde, M. D. Paymaster-Henry P. Breman. Chief Engineer-John H. Brettell. Engineers-Samuel I. Bird, Thos. Barnei;. Gunner-Ed. T. Metters. -On Monday morning, the U.S. steamer Tuscarora arrived at this port, en route to the South Pacific. She left San Francisco on the 3d of November. and made the passage unde1· sail, excepting the la.st days before her arrival here. She will leave on Saturday or Monday next, on surveying service. Annexed is a. list of her officers: Cnmmandl'r-J. N. Miller, Comu'g. /,ieut Commandr-r-U. J. '.l'rain. 1!:xecufivc olficer. Lieutenants--.1. N. Hemphill, Navigating, E. H. C. Leutze, C. O. Allibone, C. W. Jarboe. JUasters-S. L. Gmha111, M. D. Hyde. Ensign-T. E. Muse. MidJiiipmen-W. G Cutler. F. F. Flitcher,lt. H. Townley. Surgenn-W. I. Simon. As&t Surgeon-W. A. l\lcClurir. Passed .Asst Paymaster-H. T. St<ff!r.lilf. Engimers-0. Andrade,.;_ M. Emanuel. Captain Clerk-J. de B. Higgins. Pa11masters' CLerk-W. R. Smith. Boatswain-,). U. Thompson. Carpenter-Richard Af'uew. A model will wa~ recently presPntE>n for probate to the ProbatP. Court at Plymouth . Mass . properly executed and witnessed. The followin,r is I'\ verbatim copy: •· July 12, 18i5. I give a.11 my property to my wifP." MAK.RIED. CASTLE-LOWREY-In Pittsfield, Mass., October 12th, at the residence of Mr. D. M. Collins, WILLIAM R. CASTLE, of New York Uity, formerly of llon•lulu, to IDA B., daughter of !tlr. F. C. Lowrey, of Oakland, Cal. l\lANCHESTER-KAI,HJA.-ln this cit,v, Nov.13th, by the Rev. H. H. Parker, Mr. THOMAS MANCHESTER to Mi11s LULU• HlPOLANI, adopted daughter of s. P. Kalama, Esq. DIED. STANLEY.-ln this city, Nov. 6th, RICHARD H. STANLEY, Attorney General of' the Kingdom, in the 61st yearof his age. HUGHES-In Honolulu, on Saturday, Novemher 13th. of pneumonia. 'W1LLJ ut Huom~s, aged ahout 40 years, a native Jor many years a resident of these islands. ~or Cork, 1relanrl, and I 8 7 5. 2-llaw wh hk Arctic, Whitney, fm Arctic, witl11100 hbls oil, 15,000 boue. 700 ivory. 3-Am wh bk .lames Alien, l{eenau, fm Arc1ic, with 1030 wh, 670 wal, lf>O spm, lf>,000 bone, 300 ivory 4-l:law wh brig Onwa.rd, Gilley, from Kodiack, with 700 wh, 7,000 bone. 6-Am wh bk Java 2d, Fisher, from Arelic, with 400 wh, 400 walrus, 7000 boue. 6-Am wh bk Cornelius Howland, Homan, from Arctic, with 650 wh, 410 walrus, 10,000 bone. 7-Am bk Camden, Rohinson, 31 days fm Port Gamble 7-Am bk Mattie .Macleay, Walter, 31 days from Portland. JO-Haw brig W H Allen, Chave, 25 days fm Borabora 10-H BM 8 Peterel, Cookson, from lfanai. 12-Brit stmr Mikatlo, Moore, 20½ days from Sydney. H-German bk Cedar, Rohlfs, 177 days from Bremen 18-Brit stmr Macgregor, H Grainger, 8½ days from r.lan Francisco. 18-P M Co's ss Colima, W G Shackford, 8 days from San Frn.ncisco. 23-'fahitian bk Ionia, Lovegrove, 20 days from Tahiti. :i-3-Am bk n W Almy, Freeman, 20 dys fm Humboldt. :!3-Am wh bk 'frilou, Heppingstone, from Arctic, with 800 bbls wh, 500 do wal, 14,0Q0 lbs bone, 2,600 do ivory. 25-Am schr Fanny, Worth, from Ochotsk, with 221 sea otter skins. 3 fur seal skins. 28-H B M's gun-vessel Myrmidom, R Rare, Commander, 3L days from Esquima.ult, VI. 29-U 8 s Tuscarora, Miller, Commander, 2-l days from San Francisco. DEP,\.RTURES. Nov 4-Am bk Garibaldi, Noyes, for Hongkong. 6-Am wh bk Napoleon, Turner, for cruise._ IO-French corvette Volta, l!'loucaud de F\,11rcroy, for MarqueKas. 17-Am bk Camden, Robinson, for Port Gamble. 18-Brit stmr Macgregor, Grainger, for Auckland and Sydney. 19-P M Co's ss Colima, Shackford, for Auckland and Sydney. Nov. 20-Am bk Mary Belle Roherts, Gray, for San Francisco :!2-Am wh_bk Europa, McKenzie, for cruise and home. 25-Brit wh bk Faraway, Spencer, for Sydney. 27-Haw bk RC \Vylie. Walters, for Bremen. 29-Am ship Gatherer, Thomson, for Portland, 0. 30-Am wh bk Atlantic, Brown, for cruise. MEMORANDA. =========================================== REPORT OJ,' WH BK ARCTIC, B WHITNEV,l\1AS• HAWAIIAN TER.-Left Honolulu Dec 19, 1874, on a cruise to the westward and Arctic Ocean. Cruised along the line through the groups; saw no sperm whales; carried away fore and fore-topsail yard. Arrived at Yokohama April 4. Left there April 11. Encountered heavy gales from N JtJ on the passage up to the Arctic; saw the ice Ma.y 14, off Cape Novarene; worked through the ice to the Arctic; passe1I East Cape June 12; got a few walrus; .July 8, stoou into the Eastward and found the shore clear of ice and saw whales; worked along the shore to Wainwright Inlet; July 21, blowing a heavy gale from SW on shore-the ice t":tting in crowded the ship in i;hore; 2:ld, laying in 9 feet of water, wind hlowing on shore; broke out everything from the ship a.ad landed it, a.nil hove the ship down on her side; .Inly :!9, succeeded in heaving the ship off into deep water; Aug 1, passed Point Barrow; left the fleet at Point Ba.rr01v, and istarted for McKenzie River in company with the Cornelius Howland and Rainbow; went as far as Camden Bay; found very little ice, hut thick bad weather; went back to Poic,t Barrow where we found the ice packed on to the land; Aug 14, srartt'd again for :McKenzie River with bark Rainbow; got as far as Smifh'K Bay and found whales; took first bowhead Aug lf>; Sept 6, lost port anchor and 60 fathoms chain; Sept 12, lost two anchors and 50 farhoms chain; up to ::-epl 20 ~aw plenty of whales; took ten whales to the eastward of Point Ba.rro1v and three at Herald Island; stowed down 1100 hbls oil, 16,000 lbs bone, and 700 ibs ivory; came through Bhering Straits Oct 11: Oct 20 carried away main-lop-gallant matit Hnd royalmast. 'Strong westerly winds to lat 38 ° N long 160 ° W. REPORT OF WH BRIG ONWAlm, GILLEY, MASTER,-From Kodiack and Bristol Bay. Ha11 casks all fulL Reports abundance of whales in the Bay from Aug 24: to Oct 9. when she sailed for Honolulu. Fine weather all the month of October. The .Java of New Bedford was getting as much oil as they could take care of. The Mount Wollaston had been unfortu' pale. had lost one boat by a whale and nearly all her lines;. could lower but two boats when last seen, Sept 15. Came through the 72u passage Oct 17, with floe weather. First of the season weather generally bad; a heavy gale 28th Auir in Bristol Bay, after that the weather was good and whales plenty. Arrived at Honoluln Nov 4th, 16 days from land to land. E.' WooD. REPORT OF" BARK MATTIE l\1ACLEAY, J H WALTER. MAS• TER.-Third part of passage experienced 1ight head winds; were 20 days to latitude of !:!an Francisco; thence strong NE trades latter end of passage. Arrived in Honolulu on Sunday, Nov 7, after a passage of 31 days from Portland. REPORT OF BRIG WM- II ALLEN, RB CHA VE, MASTER-Left Borabora at 2 p m Oct 16th. First part of passage had moderate E and NE winds. Crossed the equator ninth day out in long 161 °30' W, with strong E anil SE winds and cross sea. Struck the NE trade1:1 in lat 11 ° 20' N long 148 ° 30' W. Experiencecl light northei:Jy trades to the island of Hawaii, which was 1:1ighted at 6 am Nov 6th; from thence to port had light variable winus and calms. Rounded Diamond Head at 6 am Nov 10th, aud arrived in Honolulu at 9 am. REPORT OF ss l\ltJUDO, F Moonr; , Co~rnANDER.-{,cFt Sydney at 3 pm Oct 2l:ld 1 a.nd arrived at. Auckland at 10 am --- --- - 101 on the 28th; left 1here at 3 pm next day. Nov 3d a_t Ii pm, stopped off' the Island of Tutuila. for a short time to pick up a passenger for Sau Francisco. Arrivt!d in Honolulu at 11 a 111 Nov l\!th with her usual punctuality and considerably ahe~ of due tin;e. making the passage from Sydney (including detention of 29 tiours at Auckland) in 20 days and 16 hours, which is as nearly as poHsihle the same as last time, and this in the face of head winds and sea mostly the whole way from Auck and. RY GRAHAM, Purser. REPOR"r OF SS MACOREGOlt, H GRAINGER, COMMANDER.Left the Front Street wharf at 5 p m Nov 9, and anchored in the bay to awail the arrival of balance of the English mail At 8 p 111 steamer came alongside with the mails. At 8.30 got nuderway, and at 9.10 discharged pilot o!!' Fort Point. Passed the Farallones at midnight. On the 10th had moderate northwest wiHds and dense fog. Had light variable winds and fine weather throughout the remainder of passage. Arrived in Honolulu Thursday morning, Nov 18. R B PRINGLE, Purser. REPORT OF ss COLIMA, w G SuACKFORD, Co~lMANDER.Left San Francisco Nov 10th at 11.25 am. First five days experienced strong NW and SW winds with heavy NNW swell, thence to port light S and SW winds with heavy S'l_"ell from the northward. Arrived in Honolulu Thursday evemng, Nov 18th. REPORT OF THE HARK IONIA, LOVEGROVE, MASTER.-Left Tahiti on the 3rd of November, at noon, with winds to NJ!:; bad winds to NE and moderate breezes to the line, which was crossed November 11th, in long 154° :.!fl' W. Keeping moderate winds to lat 7 ° 00' N, when we had two days calm and bea.vy rains, catching lhe NE trades, light, on the 16th, and from thence to port had liirht winds, making a passage of 20 clays. Bril{ Pornare, of Honolulu, left Papeete the same day for Borabora, to load firewood for this port. REPORT OF THE BARK HELEN W. ALMY, FREE~lAN, l.\hs1'ER.-T:lad moderate S and SE winds the entire passage. Si5jted east end of Molokai on the morning of the 23d, and came into port next day. REPORT OF THE WH BARK TRITON, HEPPINGSTONE, MASTER.-Sailed from Honolulu December 161h. 1874, and cruised on the Line for sperm whales but without succes~. Touched at Yokohama for recruits. and sailed from thence for the Arctic Ocean direct. Sighted Cape Thaddeus on the 15th of May, 1876, found but a small quantity of ice, and saw very few whales; passed through Behring Strait .lune 13th, and commenced walrusing June 14th and left ofl' Joly 17th, taking iu all about 900 walrus. Took om· first whale otr Smith's llay August 23d; took 4 whales off Return Reef and 6 off Camden Bay; cut our last bowhead off Herald Ieland October 61h, making 12 whales all told. On the 7th of October took a gale from the NE, which lasteu ten days, beini:- the heaviest gale of wind I ever experienced in the Arctic Ocean. We came through the Strait October 17th, and had a long passage, having southerly winds from lat 42 ° unlil sighting the islands. Arrived at Honolulu November 23d, with 500 bbls walrus oil, 2,600 lbs ivory, 800 bbls whale oil, 14,000 lbs bone. REPORT 01•' THE Al\l SCH FANNY, A. J. WORTH, MA.STEil, -from a cruise in the North Pacific. Wrecked, Islaud of Itura, Dec 4th, 1874, Jap 11chr Snowurop, Taylor, master; July 12th, 1875, same island, Jap schr Kaisumaru, Goodspeed, master; in August last, near Cape Ricord, .lap stmr Corodatotal wreck, saving only some of the machinery. September 2d, spoke Am schr Bhering, Clark, master; had taken 3,200 fur seals; was bound for Bhering Island. The Jianny report11 221 sea otter skins and 3 fur seal skins. PASSENGERS. FROM SmA-(Picked up by ship Syren), Nov 1st-Captain Groves, wife and 2 children, 5 seamen, and Capt Howei from the British ship Albert Gallatin. l<'oa SAN FRANcrsco-Per D C Murray, Nov 2u-l\1ts Ceo B l\lerrill and sou, AC Weeks, Mrs J!' Hufling and child, U Gallafher. Geo F McLean. J Howard1 Geo Sn:ith, F M Weed, Mr Siever11, l\tiss McKell, Mr Seegler. Fon HONGKONG-Per Garibaldi, Nov 4th· -41 Chine11e. FROM PcHtTLAND-Per Maltie Macleay, Nov 7th-l\lrs M Downey. FnoM I!tlRAilORA-Per Wm H Allen, Nov 10th-H Schneider, Miss Finguerlet, 1 Chinaman, 1 Hawaiian woman. FROM AUCKLAND-Per Mikr,do, Nov 12th-Rev H Biogharn and wile, Mr Lasseller, Mrs Lasse1ier, Adelaide. Esther, Eli and Elizer Lasseller, and - in transitu for San Francisco. Fon SAN FRANctsco-Per Mikado, Ndv 12th-Hon E I-t Allen, J Coppersmith, W Laird MacGregor. J Jerneganl J C Pfluger, A I' Everett, Mr Leiho, Mr l{ikuzieo. FnoM SA!'f FRANC1sco-Per Macgregor. Nov 18th-Mr W!tmore, Mr King, 14 in the steerage, and 54 in transitu for Au11tr~ir SAN FRANc1sco-Per Colima, Nov 18th-J T \Vaterhouse, wife and grandson, Mrs l:I T :-itaaclitfand child. Ed Furstenau, C R ~mithers, D L 'Winchester and wife, fl F Lyman, Mrs SA Gillman and 2 cliildren, EH Williams. A Lyons, .J J Mack, H .Johnson. Dr.JS McGrew, wife and child, Miss Bennett, R Parmston, Miss Susan Oneil, Miss M B Jones, D Manson, Mrs J N Hemphill and infant, Mrs EE Smith, Ab Sing, D Wood, EC Wheeler, P J l\Joot, W J Bensch. Fon AUCKLAND & SYDNEv~Per Colima, Nov 19th-JR Mitchell, W Lomax and wife, Mr Richter and wife. FOR SAN FRANcJsco-Per Mary Belle Roherts, Nov. 20thBF Wickersham, Alex McLean, P Seale and wife, A Lyons. FROM TAHITI-Per lonia, Nov 24th-Mrs Sumner, 2 chil• dren and servant. Foa SYDNEY-Per Faraway, Nov 25th-Wm Shepherd, A P Skerritt. Information Wanted. Information wanted concerning FRANK RIEDEL, late of Sacramento, California. Enquire at the office of the FRIEND newspaper. Respecting Ma. DA VIO. AU,LSON, who visited Honolulu on boa.rd the whaling bark Ninus, in 1846, and was an inmate of the U. S. Marine Hospit.al. Any information will be gladly rer.eivccl by the Editor, or Mr. Samuel W. Dewey, No. 20S Broadway, N. Y. City . lOZ 'I' H •J 11' R I E N D , D E U E M B E R , 18 7 5• The Late E. F. Bishop of Amherst College. number of the Hawaiian Gazette, we clip The Congregational Church subsequently 1 In glancing over a botanical work, by Pro- fessor Tuckerman, we meet with the following touching allusion to the promising son of the Rev. S. E. Bishop, whose death is so much lamented: After acknowledging his indebtedness to those who have assi~ted him, Prof. Tuckerman remarks: "Nor can I forget the younger friend, not long since taken from us, the late E. F. Bishop, whose keen eye was as valuable in every botanical excursion, whether by land or water, as his willing arm; and who made our long neglected utricula1·iro entirely his own.I' It app~ars that Mr. Bishop had discovered certain (4) specie5 of this genus in Leverett and .Balcher town. Quarter-Deck Manners. the following paragraph, written by Mr. organized under his care, is pow presided Whitney the editor, relating the command- I over by the Rev. Dr. Stone. ers of two steamers running past our islands: I The mention of Mr. Hunt's name recalls " During a recent trip to San Francisco a little incident in our correspondence. . Duron the British steamer City of ]Jfelbou,rne, ing the rush for the gold diggings in 1848, a r~turning on the Vasco de Gama, we. no- young man discharged from a whaleship in tic~d that not an oath was ~eard ?n ei th er : Honolulu was exceedinrrlv anxious to go ship by any passenger, and so quietly was . . .0 the ship governed, that not an orc;ler from w_1th the crowd, but having no money to pay any officer could be heard, either fore or aft. his passage, he made to us so strong an apAnother noteworthy fact was the temperate peal that we advanced him the sum c,f $25, habits of. the cap~ains an_d_ offi~ers of both on the condition that he should pay over the these ships,-ne1ther spmts, cigars nor to- amount to Mr. Hunt on his arrival in Cali·· d S F D · 1849 bacco were indulged in by them, at least t • while on duty, which demonstrates that ~rrna. urmg we visite _an ranstimulants are not always necessary accom- cisco and became the guest of our fnend, Mr. panimeuts of a sea voyage. As a natural Hunt. 1n the course of our interview we inconsequence, the utmost order and clean_li- quired if a certain young man had paid to ness were observed _on both sh 1ps, while him a small amount! He replied, "No, every seaman knew his place and performed • I b t h b d f $25 · d t· 'th ,, certam y not, u e orrowe o me on . h IS U leS Wl a 1acnty. . the ground that he was acquainted with We recall with much pleasure the mem- you.1 ,, 'rh·1s 1s · no.• th e w ho1e of t he aft.air, · ory of one who commanded for so many h h ·1 d f H 1 1 h 1 f · . . w en e sa1 e rom ono u u e e t wit h years vessels runnrng between the islands us, as he represented, a chest containing valand San Francisco. We refer to the late uable property, much exceeding in worth the Captain John Paty, called in later years amount borrowed. As months or years Commodore Paty. He made nearly two rolled away, we concluded to break the hundred trips between Honolulu and the lock of the chest, when lo, we found it Coast of California. His career as a shipt ., . . emp y. master was most praiseworthy. His officers As we have the chest still in our pos~esand sailors remained with him for many . I . · s10n, a though twenty-seven years have smce years; officers educated under him have bepassed aw h ld th 1· ,. II . · ay, s ou ese mes ever 1a uncome most p~pular and successful i:hipmas- der the "young man's" notice, we are quite ters,-Captarns Bennett, Fuller and Shep- willing to restore the '' pledge,n on condition e never that he refund the money with sirnpl~ interherd are among the number. heard a sailor complain of the treatment on est, as we were f>O simple as to trust his any vesseJ commanded by these gentlemanly word! captains. Good captains 1-11ake good officers, and good officers make good sailors. OuR ExcHANGES, we should be glad to 'fhere are few places in the world requiring the manners and instincts of a true gentleman more than a ship's quarter-deck. A lady's parlor does not demand a more scrupulous attention to etiquette. There the shipmaster stands to give his orders, meet his officers and hold intercourse with his passengers. There are few positions where the true man-true gentle.man, true sailor, true commander-can appear to greater advantage, or unconsciously rtceive the respect nnd esteem of those by whom he is surrounded. Who does not admire the gentlemanly shipmaster, whether he pace the quarter-deck of a "three decker," the merchant clipper, the ocean steamer, or the whaler? There he walks supreme, and if he fills the sphere in a becoming manner, all honor to the man; but if he allows himself tyrannize over his officers and crew, and make his passengers feel unplea:mnt and uneasy, then we know of no more despicable .character. The quarter-deck is no place for profane and vulgar language. The shipmaster or his officers should no more allow themselves to use language unbecoming a true gentleman, than should the superintendent of any large manufacturing establishment. The use of profane and coarse Ian-. guage has a most demoralizing and debasing influence upon those indulging in the same, not to speak of its bad influence which it has upon those under command. No man ever worked better or did his duty more cheerfully by being called the coarse and vulgar names so often bandied about among seamen. We hope the influence of the examination of the crew and officers of the Gatherer before the United States Consul, will result in much good. We are glad to learn that there are many shipmasters whose gentlemanly conduct comes up to our beau-ideal. From a late r 1 I ,v REv. T. DwIGHT HuNT.-We learn fro .1 a late American paper that Mr. Hunt has been dismissed from the Presbyterian church in Nunda, N. Y., and invited to become pastor of the Presbyterian church in Sodus, N. Y. It will be recollected by some of our readers that Mr. Hunt came as a missionary _to the islac1d about the year 1844, and was stationed in Kau, Hawaii, where, in some three months, he acquired the langnage and commenced preaching. He was subsequently teacher at Lahainaluna, and in 1848 commenced preaching to a foreign congregation in Honolulu, which subsequently organized Fort street Church. In the autumn of 1848, so pressing was the demand for prostestant preaching in San Francisco that Mr. Hunt left Honolulu, and before landing in California was met by a committee on board the vessel carrying him to the coast to become chaplain, "at large," for one year on a salary of $2,l;)00. He \\ as the first protestant minister of the gospel who reached San Francisco after the country came under the the American flag and the T E L F!rJ1t.Class in Every Particular ! IOOlUS ()AN ~E B!D BY THE NIGHT OR WEEK? with or without board. BA.LL AND L,1,RGE ROOMij TO LET FOR J>UJJLIC MEETINGS, OB. SOCIETIES. ly Goods Suitable for Trade. tf " THE FRI-END," MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT SHIP during the last Six Years can testify from personal experience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of .t1 Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General lotelllgence. GOODS FOR TRAPH SAMUEL C. DAMON. And Sell Cheaper· than any other Rouse in t11;e Kingdom. DILLJNGHAJ\[ & CO. ,& MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY I TERMS: One Oopy per annum . $2.00 Two Coples per annum ••••••••.• • •.••••••••••••••••••• 3.00 Ji'oreign Subscribers, Including poatage .•.•• •••••• • ••• •• 2.60 • joung ittn's filbristian issoriation of jonohdu. Pw·e 'religion and undefiled befo1·e God, the Fathe1·, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in thefr ajfiiction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. Temperance Among the Soldiers in India. eighteen miles north. A young man, who was formerly connected with an American vessel ot war, touching at Honolulu, and now in the employ of "a railroad company in Northern India, thus wntes from Lahore, under date of August 14th, 1875 : "I have just returned from a prayer-meeting among the soldiers. Tne first question I found in agitation when I arrived, was of the Bible on the temperance question. One of the officers of the Native Infantry, who is a most earnest and serious Christian, having succeeded in prevailing upon the Colonel to make the Temperance Society a regimental affair, said: • Now boys, we must have the open Bible on the table. The Catholic Chap• lain has forbidden those of his Church--- to join us, it can give no offence now. All who ·come must be men to whom the Bible is the standard of their faith, so let us have it and have it open. We see how men fail in their '- own strength, but they will not, cannot slip, if our Great Commander leads the way.' "The men heartily concurred with him in this most desirable arrangement, and I am certain its being carried out will add to the discomfiture of the cursed liquor traffic. An officer gave us a very earnest and impressive lecture on St. Paul's conversion, after which a German lady, Miss Seeley, prayed fervently. We then sang several hymns, and parted with a cordial good night. Thus you we have not been left in this hard, cold a Mahommedan and Hindoo land without .light, and Christ has witnesses.'' The telegraph wires to that place had already been cut. But from the top of Kenesaw Sherman signaled over the heads of the enemy to the small garrison at Allatoona the fact of his approach. The message sent by signal flag read, as reported, 'Hold the fort-1 am coming'" What a history these words have! You know what blessings have attended the evangelistic labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Great Britain, and their work is still deepening and widening . First and chief of all the songs they sing is, " Hold tbe Fort." It is the most popular melody in the United Kingdom. ducing certain results; and in common parlance, venturing our money upon it is called gambling. Ralstou long had a great rnn of luck, but he lived to find the general ]aw assert itself in his case. FEsT1NA LENTE. HOLD THE FORT. Ho ! my comrades ! see the signal Waving m the sky ! Reinforcements now appearing, Victory is nigh ! See the mighty hosts advancing, Satan leading on : Mighty men around us falling, Courage almoMt gone ! '- See the glorious banner waving ! Hear the trumpet blow ! In our leader·s name we'll triumph Over every foe! Fierce and long the battle rages, But our help is near: Onward comes our Great Commander? . Cheer, my comrades, cheer! CHORUS. "Hold'the fort, for I am coming," Jesus signals still; Wa.ve the answer back to heaven, 1 ' By thy grace we will.'' Make Haste Slowly. '' Hold the Fort." MR, EDITOR :-Sine~ the death of Mr. In the Catskill Recorder of the 16th ult., Ralston, late of the Hank of California, there we find a report of an address made by the Rev. J. B. Thompson, D. D., at a Sunday school anniversary of the Reformed Church, held on the late national anniversary. ln this address is given the fullest and most interesting account we have seen of the origin and associations of one of the most remarkable hymqs used by Messrs. Moody and Sankey during their work in (treat Britain. We give some extra.cts from the aq.q.ress, and at the clqse appeqq the hymn: " Sherman and his army had becqme quite at home at Atlanta, and the General ·was planning for his historjc 'March to the Sea.' But the enemy gave him enough else to think about at that time. Small garrisons had been left at every exposed pqiqt on the line of railroad all the way from Chattangooga to Atlanta; and now the enemy, swinging round from the front, was marching to sever his connections in the rear. Sherman turned back! but was too late to intercept him. Quick to meet emergencies, he climbed with h"is signal corps to the top of Kenesaw mountain. 1n the valley below to the north were the heavy masses of hostile infantry, artillery and cavalry, marching northward. He at once inferred that they were moving on Ah latoona, an important post on the railroad, have appeared numerous biographies of himy all more or less flattering and describing his career as that of a very extraordinary manone worthy of imitation perhaps by the rising generation. ·His portrait also occupies a prominent position in public places, notably in the bank of this city. But it strikes me that the lesson to be learned from Ralston's career,-particularly by young men, who in the heat and bopefulness of youth are especially liable to be dazzled by the transient glare of temporary distinction,-is one of patience and prudence. it will be found that it is better to feel our way as we go and be sure of consequences, rathe.r than to leap in the dark with the e~pectation of alighting in a valley of gold, We need neither envy nor emulate the few who by the dashing and dare-devil style of actiqn win great fortunes rapidly; for, while we only hear of those who come out safely on the ~op of the tide, the shores of trade are strewn with the w'r ecks of their fellows who likewise ventured their all upon what they supposed the flood-tide of fortune and failed, not for want of . executive ability, but simply because ·the chances in their favor failed. There is a general law of certain factors, ptobably pro- Hymn: FOR WHICH A PRIZE OF $100 WAS AWARDED BY THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE EDI• TOR OF THE " ROCKY MOUNTAIN PRESBYTE· RIAN," • The story of this hymn is interesting. About seven hundred hymns and poems were submitted to the Committee, and they were to select the hymn best adopted to the Home Missionary work, and to give the writer of it $100. To the writer of the best poem for the same purpose, they were to give $50. They failed to select a poem, but unanimously agreed upon the hymn below as the best., on the whole, for the object proposed. But the writer of it required, as a condition of accepting the award, that her name should not. be given to the public, but that the hymn, if published, should be announced as by a "lady of Virginia." The hymn has been accepted, and we have great pleasure in givit to our readers : -1V. Y. Obse1·ver. HOME MISSIONARY HYMN. BY "A LADY OF VIRGINIA." Saints of God ! the dawn is brightening, Token of our coming Lord; O'ver the earth the field is whitening; Louder rmgs the Master's word," Pray for reapers In the harvest of the Lord." Feebly now they toil in sadness, Weeping o'er the waste around, Slowly gathering grains of gladness, While their echoing cries resound," Pray that rea. pers In God's harvest may abound." Now, 0 Lord! fulfill thy pleasure, Breathe upon thy chosen band, And, with pentecostal measure, Send forth reapers o'er our land,Faithful reapers, ., Gathering sheaves for thy right liandOcean calleth unto ocean, Spirits speed from shore to shore, Heralding the world's commotion; Hear the conflict at our door,Mighty conflict,Satan's death-cry on our shore! Broad the shadow of our nation, Eager millions hither roam; Lo ! they wait for thy salvation; Come, Lord Jesus ! quickly come ! By 'rhy Spirit, Bring thy ransomed people home. Soon shall end the time of weeriing, Soon the reaping time will come.Heaven and earth together keeping God's eternal Harvest Home: Saints ood angels ! Shout the world"s great Harvest Home. ''"~" . . . . a,~ lr ls- HONOLULU, DECEMBER 16, 1875~ declared to be truly noble, brave and Christian, and fully in accordance with the American theory of government. Like the ·exorIn response to an invitation by the Ameri- dium, the peroration of the discourse was r "bl e. Th e can .l\jinister. Resident, a pretty large assem- e1oquen t , we ll c hosen an d 1orc1 blage of ladies and gentlemen was gathered . l d d •h • • M t , · services cone u e wit smgmg " y conn ry at the Fort Street Church on Thursday morn't· f th ,, d b h R D . . . . . 1s o ee, an prayer y t e ev. r. Damon. D urmg • ti 1e day we no t"ice d th a t ·mg .last to participate m . the. thanksgmng . services of the day. His MaJesty the Kmg· t d l · of busmess · • . . . some s ores an paces were occupied a seat m the congregation, accom· d d ·1· f ff I c1ose , an among many 1am1 1es ·th e t ra d"1panied bf Col. W • F. All~n his sta · 1 tionary roast goose (or turkey} and apple {or The services commenced with a voluntary p1um ) pu dd'mg was enJoye • d. on the organ, followed by the reading by Rev. Mr. Frear of President Grant's thanksHONOLULU, November 26, 187~. giving proclamation singing-" Ye nations REV. S. C. DAMON-Dear sir: 'rhe underround the earth rejoice ;" reading the scrip- signed tender their warm thanks for the eloquent, ture; prayer by the Rev. Mr. Frear; sing- instructive and appropriate discourse delivered ing-hymn 1328. The sermon was by by _ you on Thanksgiving Day; and request a the Rev. Dr. Damon, from Job 8 :8-" For copy of the same for publication. inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and With great respect and kind regards, Henry A. Peirce, B. F. Dillingham, prepare thyself to the search of their fathers;" J. Scott, Alex. J. Cartwright, and Ecclesiastes 7: 10-" Say not then, S. N. Castle, Joseph B. Atherton, What is the cause that the former days were IL A. P. Carter, E. P. Adams, P. C. ,Tones, Jr. better than these ? for thou dost not inquire 'wisely concerning this." After briefly alludCENTENNIAL ing to some of the reasons why resident
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