Friend, 1876-12

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.

~~\\ OF TI:l}i] 01, . ,,, , .. , ...... ,., . ,.,·•.,• ~?> 1776 • :ttl' l 9 1pr.o. J'J...,. ts ~r;irro ~mes, 11,n • _}J, 8)}' {@lb £cries, fol. HONOLULU, DECEllBER 4, 1876. "ii¥ CONTE~TS Fo.1·· Decembea· 4, 1876. PAO!<: End of the Year, •••.•••.•••••• , •••.•••••••••••••••••••• 97 Visit of the '• Renard " to A paiang ••••..••••••••••••. 97, 98 D eath ofDr. Nisbet.·••••··••··•··········· .. ···•·•·•·• •98 Opium in China ••••.•• , .••..•••.•••.••..•.•.•••••••.••. 98 New Books on Polynesia ................................ 99 Evolution, and E<litorials .............................. ,99 Thanksgil'ing, & c ...................................... 100 101 Marine .Journal.· .. ··•••••·•••.. •••••• .. •••••••••••••• • Sailor Turned Auth or ••••.•••..•••.•••.••••••••••••.••• 102 J.etter from Phihulelphia .•••••••••••••.•.•••.•••.••.. • •• 102 104 Y. M . c. A ••• •••···•··..... •• •···.. • •· •··· •••••••••• • number have been gratuitously scattered among seamen and strangers visiting Hono- Visit lulu. New Vestry and Repairs on ii. (For the rriend .J ~f H. B. M. S. Renard at Apaiang. EDITOR OF THE FRIEND-In an editorial th,~ Bethel. of your issue of November 1, on "Prompt The Building and Finance Committee punishment in the South Seas" you ask, "Ought not the c()mmander of the R enard appreciate the generous contributions of merto have compelJep. the King of Ap~iang to chants and others for the new Vestry and execute the murderer, or order it done? for Bethel repairs. The need of a new Vestry it appe~rs from the narrative as published j has been seriously felt for years, and only that he was arrested and delivered over by . , the want of funds has preven~d its erection. the ~jng's order." The Bethel was built forty-three years ago, Mr. G. Hair.a, a Hawaiian Mi ssionary on DEC EM BER 4. s•ro. and requires necessary repairs to render it Apaiang, in a letter to myself June 15, suitable for the object for which it was origin which he descrjbes the e~e~mion writes, inally built. As the system of " free seats" END qF THE YEAR. "Te Kaiea [the King] said to Te 'I'ekea·, requires voluntary contributions to maintain Fire it, and it was fired, and his body was With this number we close another volthe efficiency of the chaplaincy, it is most ume of THE FRIEND. Reviewing our edito- gratifying that there is a willingness on the blown to atoms." This supplements what rial labor~ embracing more than one-third part of the community still to sustain the you publish of Rev. G. Leleo's letter o,f of a century, we are beginning to think, as Bethel, which was the first house of worship April 29. 'l'hus it would seem that the King of all things, we are told must have an end that built in 1833,forthe accommodation of the forApaiang did after all execut,e the murderer, even THE FRIEND must sometime come to eign and sea-faring, community.of Honolulu. and so in one sense, "the subject of one an end, certainly so far as its present editor A report of the committee will, at the proper nation did not become the e~ec~tioner of a is concerned, for we ~arqly thinl~ another time, be made of the manner in which the criminal in another." will be found willing to assume its risks and funds have been expended. pay the printer. This paper has for so long No doubt tl1e ~qmmq.nder of the R enard a period made its regular appearance on the o::? In another column we publish a letter recomnieqded tp oµr young king the rnode first of each month, that some of its readers, from the Rev. Mr. Bingham, who has for so pf p~nishrnent, and p~rl1aps he 111ay h~ve we must {hink, imagine it will continue many years labored for the people of Apai- ins isted upon it, but probaply a · simple hereafter to be published, although they make ang, where Uapt. Pugh, of H. B. J.\'l. S. rec;ommendation was sufficient in vie~v of no contribution for its support. Although Renard, was sent to secure the punishment the threat which had been made of bqrning like the moon, it shines monthly for all, yet of a nMive who haq murdered an English- his town in case h~ failed · tq arre~t the probably not one in ten of its readers contrib- man. lt appears that we argqed u:pon false murderer. In regard to the manµer in ute for its support. As our usual contribu- premises in OUl' last issue, and we now glad- which the punishment was executed, you t ion-s and subscriptions from our friends-the ]y correct our statement. From the pub- remark, "we shall be much surpri~ed if the \v halemen, are necessarily cut off by the loss 1ished accounts in the New Z~aland and commander of the .Renard receives the of the fie.et, we. hope others will be found to Honolulu papers, we certaiqly hijd the right approval of the people of Eng\::+n4 and of -come forward and render the necessary aid to say that the murderer w::,.s executed by the civilized world." I woulq. re~!lfk the to keep the paper alive. To our regular some one attached to the Ren~rq. From a same of his course in securing tqe ::+rrest of Honolulu and island subscribers we shall review c,f tpe "whole affair pnly wonder the murderer. If I am correctly informed the ktflg made send bills for the year now closing, and sub- that the nrnrderer was secured. He had . ·scribers will favor us with prompt payment, fled to anQther island under aµother king . every effort to arrest and pqnish, the man a~ we never pr.esent bii'ls until the year's The king qf Apaiang had no more•power to immediately afr~r the m~rder; bµ,t he esarrest the m~n on another independent island caped to · the island of Maralfej a~ded it is ,e nd. Any person! coming forward with 1 than President Grant wotlld . have to anest donations for the gratuitous distribution of and bring to jusrice the ·forgoer Winslow true by others, not accomplices qu~ friends t bis paper will ree-eive our sincere thanks. without a tr~aty between tl)e United States or relatives. It is doubtfµl wll~t~~r public sentiment thu s far not sqfflciep tl y elevated During t.he past p"nr seve ral hundreds of Pach and England , T H E· F R, [ E N D , of we 98 '11 II J,~ Fltlt~ND, l 8 7 6. would have enalJled the kjng unassisted by I for them, that they were in the way of greater respect may be entertained for the a vessel of war to punish these men as they , purchasing them with their scanty supply of efforts of the missionary societies of friendly ought to have been. Upon the arrival of cocoa.nut oil, that they are wont to contri• Christian nations for twenty years to estab• the Renard one was arrested; the other bute monthly more in proportion to their lish the kingdom of the Redeemer in those was on Tarawa. wealth for the spread of the Go8pcl than far off isles of tho sea. Now it should be remembered that the any city in Christendom? Is it nothing that j Very truly yours, H. B1NGHAi'II. Jd-ng of A paiaog rules over that island only, the ¼ing is himself the son of a king who I and if so, was it reasonable in Capt. Pugh died in the faith, having made in his old I o::7" We copy the following from the to demand, upon threat of bombardment, age. gireat etfort8 to learn to read and write, Ei,cmgelist, published in Dunedin, New that he should without fail secure the arrest to establish a Civil Code of laws, to intro- Zealand: DEATH OF DR. NISBET OF SAMOA.--This of the murderer at Marukei.. lt was right duce civilized customs, setting a good exno doubt for the captain ro insist upon his lilmple by abandoning idolatry and poly- renowned missionary has recently departed this life, arter a miss!onary career of nearly making a request to the authorities there for gamy, by forwarding in advance $500 in forty years. He sailed with his fellow stusuch arrest, 1mnd even to' have supported him gold to Honolulu for lumber of a house, and dent in the Glasg-ow University, the Rev. in a demand for the same by the presence of by paying another hundred for its erection? George Turner, now the well-known Dr. a vessel of war, though I am not aware of (this :hIDuse ·was destroyed in war). ls it Turner, for the South Sea in 1839, to labor in connection with the London Missionary the existence of any formal extradition nothing thnt the king is himself married in Society. Their first field of labor was the treaty. To me it is wonderful that the man a Christian way to the Christian daughter Island of Tanna, of the New Hebrides was taken alive, .tha,t he did not escape as .of the Christian high chief of-Tarawa, that group-but an insurrection among the nasecurely from pursuit, as has Sitting Bull. he is not a polygamist like his neighbors, tives compelled them to flee for their life. May we not see the good hand of an over- the present kings of Butaritari and Ape- After a perilous voyage of a month they landed at Samoa. Here they found a field ruling- ,Providence? marpa, that he numbers himself among the of labor, which has been very fruitful. From As I look ~t it, 5ucli a threat was un- so•called "Inquirers," that he can read and the Samoa Mission Seminary, which they reasonably humiliating to the king, unjust twrite, keep a book account in one way of establi5hed in 1844, more than 600 native agents have gone forth-and it has an anto the innocent inhabitants of a town miles school taxes, that he acts as commission nual average attendance of 80 students. away from ·fhe scene of the murder, unjust ,merchant for foreign traders, that he wears The institution is now self-supporting. On to ·the American and »~waiian Boards and much of the time European clothing, that 9th May, 1876, Dr. Nisbet breathed his their m.issionaries whose property was his house is ,erected in i.the ;moSlt beautiful last. His friend Dr. Turner, who was abat the time on a missionary cruise, is threatened, cruel to the defenseless native way his people are capable of doing, that left to carry op tl:ie great seminary which the interior is not wanting in signs of civilwomen and children, whom the captain was they established and conducted so successunwilling the missionaries should inform of ization, that fortifications have been erected, fully for thirty-two years. the sign'al for the beginning_of the bombard- and his town protected by a battery, that he ment, which had been communicated to fines all who drink the fermented "toddy" OPIU1\I.-The laws of the Hawaiian them for their own personal safety, cruel to great or small, that he is i·n treaty relations Kingdom now forbid the importation and the missionaries -~Qd their little ones to offer with the United States to protect ship- sale of opiu,m. China would do the same to• them no other te~pora~y shelter than the wrecked mariners, and all foreigners having day, if in her power. lt is a noteworthy fact his permission to dwell upon his soil? woods. that the Chinese Go,,ernment has never It may be claimed" that the captain was dealing with the veriest savages who had no claim to respect or mercy from a great and civilized nation, and who were not entitled to the treatment which the Hawaiian people would recE>ive in similar circumstances. We do not indeed claim for the inhabitants of Koinawa, the capital of Apaiang, the same degree of Christian civilizartion which belongs to the Hawaiians. But is it nothing that, in proportion to the population, more people regularly attend church, nay rather, are church members than in London, that probably more can read and write than in :Manchester, that a larger Sabbath Sr.hool is gathered in their midst, that they are called together by the sweet tones of a church bell, largely the gift of the late Lunalilo and others of your city, that a government school house had been built, and a government school taught by Gilbert Islanders, that a training school supported by funds from America and Hawaii was in operation in the town, where teachers were being prepared for tha·t group, that the New Testament and ~chool books had been published But enough-that · he failed to protect the life of Mr. Keyes, to whom he had given a writ.ten permission to reside · among his people, was not his fault. As we have seen, he sought earnestly to punish the offender. That he was ready to co-operate with Capt. Pugh in securing his arrest on another island I have not a doubt; and until I learn that it was otherwise, I cannot but look at the threat to bombard his capital as unworthy of a man entrusted with the command of one of Her B!itannic Majesty's vessels. sanctioned its importation, and now stoutly protests against its sale. We copy the following from a late letter of the Rev. Dr. Gulick written while on a visit to Shanghae, as agent of the American Bible Society: similar matters, will deal with him more as with a man willing and anxious to do his dutv toward foreign residents, and as with one· entitled to more respe~t, though he be the ruler of a small people just emerging from ba_rbarism, and not yet acknowledged by the great powers of earth. Let us hope that henceforth the more usual modes of capital punishment will be t·ecommended to him as the better way for dealing with criminals. LJe,t U $ hope t.hat hereafter somf\ that opium is forced on China by nominally Christian guns and bayonets! God speed the day when the truly Christian patriots of Old England, by continued appeals to its Bible-educated conscience, shall have raised such a sentiment as to sweep the deadly trade from both land and sea, as a contra~ band, not of war, but of peace and goodwill! This impediment to the Bible and to all Christian work is the first fact we face as a Bible agent, on landing in China, and it will for a long time yet be one of the greatest of our difficulties." " It is mortifying to find so conspicuous on the river,. among the clumsy_ junks, the gallant sail vessels, the ocean steamships, and the river steamers, also a number of unsightly, dismasted, and covered hulks, in which the opium of British India is stored, because the Chinese will not allow of its bein,q otherwise than sur'reptitfously kept on Chinese soil. How ajfectin,q to find the stolid Chinaman, in his goveru: Let us hope that the next vessel of war rnenta~ _1·elat~ons, steadily refitsing any which has occasion to deal with him in complicity witli this t1·ade j and how sad THE •• lf'ltlEND, DECtiIBEU, Three New Books on Polynesia. recently heard a physician of large experiSome months ago, we remarked that new ence, remark, that instances of typhoid books might be expected on Polynesia, and fever, might naturally be traced to the supnow from our exchanges, we learn, that ply of water from the cow pasture in upper Nuuanu valley. The time has come when three have recently appeared in London. l\foRESBY (CAPT. JOHN.) NEW GUINEA AND inaction is becoming verily culpable. "A PoLYNESIA.-Discovei-ies and Surveys in New masterly , inactivity " may cause the loss Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. A cruise in Polynesia, and visits to the Pearl- of valuable lives in 1876, as it did in 1853, Shelling Stations in Torres Straits. With maps when the small-pox was steathily lurking in and illustrations. 8vo, cloth extra. London, the vicinity. We understand that onl:, the 1876, $7 .50. paltry sum of three or $4,000, stands in GILL (REV. WILLIAM WYA'l'T.) MVTHS AND SoNos FROM THE Sou·ru PACIFic.-With a preface the way of securing . the purchase of the by Max. Muller, M. A., Professor of compara- famous ., cow pasture." ln an affair of this tive philology at Oxford. Post 8vo, cloth extra. nature where the com~rt health and welLondon, 1876, $4.50 CoNTENTs.--1. Myths of Creation. 2. Deified fare of the community is concerned, the' Men. 3. Astronomical Myths. 4. The Exploits "penny wise and pound foolish" system is of Maui. 5. 'l'ree Myths. 6. Ina, the Fairy Voyager. 7. Miscellaneom1 Myths. 8. Hades; not the right one. We wonder if a physior, the Doctrine of Spirit-World. 9. Veetini; cian of repute in Honolulu, should come or, the Immortality of the Soul. 10. Adventures in Spirit-World. 11. Fairy Men and out with the statement, that the Jiquor Women. 12. Deaths 'l'alks and Dirges. 13. dealers, where selling bad whiskey and poor Human Sacrifices. 14. 'l'he Seasons, Phases of brandy there would not instantly be a commisthe Moon, etc., etc. An American reprint of sion appointed to look into the matter. Now the London edition. as all the people do not drink whiskey, and Fo~TY ~EARS' ~hss10N WoRK IN PoLYNESIA those who do are supposed to mingle their AND NEw GUINEA, from 1835 to ~87_5. By ,R~v. spirits with water, we think the govern.A. W · MuRR:u, 0 ~ t?e L?ndon Misswnary S~c 1~: ment should instantly bestir itself in reaard ty, au tbor of '' M1ss10ns m Wes tern Polynesia. l • ·h • ·h ,. , 0 New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, No. 530 · to supp ymg t e cu.y wit pure watei · Broadway. "TIT FOR 'f AT."-Some Americans in EvoLUTION.-Remarks in our last issue California \Vould be glad to drive off the upon ~1.r. Huxley's Jectures in the United Chinese, and so some of the Chinese, would States have called forth the following be only too glad to banish Americans and eloquent and touching paragraphs from one other foreigners from China . . The following of our correspondents on Maui. paragraph is from a letter of Dr. Gulick: "I do believe, I must °believe in a Divine "Teintsin was the scene of the terrible Providence, that is personal, and cognizant massacre of 1870, when twenty-one of and controlling every particular of my eigners lost their lives, among whom were existence as He does also that of the spar- three priests and ten nuns, who were put to death wjth horrible cruelty. The Chin• rows. ese have paid dearly for their savage acts "With our heart's--so deep feelmg, so earnand will be cautions about repeating them. est, so loving,-how can we be consoled But there is still, on .the part of a hlfge with evolution? It would take away our number of the ruling classes, a desire, if not Father in Heaven, and Christ the Divine a resolve, to be rid of the '' foreign devils." Brother whose pitying love reaches down It is fear that restrains them from swP.eping us a way. They more than reciprocate the from the tearful Mary, throughout the cenantipathies they themselves or their fellowturies even unto me, and makes me feel His countrymen excite in America, and they presence and His mercy to be facts, that I would gladly prevent all emigration to the cannot get away from. They fill me, United States, if Americans could be pre• they possess me, they sweeten my life, and vented from coming to the flowery kingdom." for- 1~76. " The Best Ornaments of Our Home are the Friends Who Frequent It." . A gentleman recently returned frotn the Centennial and the United States, while passing through Hartford called upon Mr, Clements (Mark ·Twain). During the brief call he chanced to notice the above sentiment in the parlor over the mantle piece. The idea is so beautiful and welcoming to a visitot, that he copied it into his memorandum book. Having never met with it before, we take pleasure in presenting it to our readers as a fundamental principle of true hospitality. This incident reminds us of a pleasant interview we•had with the author of "Innocents Abroad," in his own charming home in Hartford, a beautiful engraving df \Vhich is to be found in the October number of Scribner, upon Hartford. While in the Uniterl States an anecdote was related in our hearing in which "Mark Twain'' and the author of "Oncle Tom's Cabin" are concerned, and which we have never seeu in print. The residences of these noted authors are situated in close proximity. Ou a certain occasion, Mr. Clements makeg a call upon Mrs. Stowe. On returning home , and relating to his wife where he had made a call, she exclaims, " Why, husband, ho,v could you cali upon Mrs. Stowe, without your cravat." "Have l, my dear, where is my cravat"? The cravat waa iustantly enclosed in an envelop and sent with an apology to Mrs. Stowe. She returns the same with her complimants · statit1g, that "she is most happy to see her friends although, by piece- 1neal." NEWSPAPERS CmcuLATlON.-Tlie following comparison of circulation of the leadinrr religious weeklies of New York city, j~ worthy of note: 1'/te Christian Advocate, 50,000; The Illustra.tecl Ckri,tstian Week, ly, 30.000; 1'/ie Obse?"oer, 24,500; The lioxMniner and Cln-onicle, 23,000; 1'/w Ckristian Union, ~3,300; 1'/ie Independent, 22,000; 1'/i,e Clwistian at llTor·k, 14,as my heart is lifted up and made to rejoice 'Ne are glad to learn that some 500; Tlte Ch1·istian Intelligencer, 6,500; with the conscious presence of the spirit The Jriethodist, 14,000. ·and love of Je~us Christ, how can I feel writer in the Gazette is calling the attention interested in a discussion that would try to of the "City Fathers" of Honolulu to the persuade me that my hope which soars condition of our city. It is quite time our beyond the worlds, originated in a p1·0• streets were better lighted, cleaned, swept and stmightened. It is important that toplasrn. som~ should be widened and obstructions "Knowledge I know is power among men, removed. We need a street supervisor who but faith is the greater power of God unto salvation. I am fond of the pursuit of will not allow private parties to build fences of knowledge, but 1 delight more to trust beyond the street-lines and Jrnsh out their where l have found mercy and consolation." corners beyond proper limits. Now is the time for action before substantial edifices are WATER SUPPLY FOR HoNoLULu.-We erected. Honolulu ought to be made the think the Government cannot move too handsomest city in the world, and it will .be speedily, to secure every posR1ble facility for if the people will s upplement what nature ~upplying the city with puw water. Wc has dune for .u:s. I We cannot surely boast of a circulation equal to the above leading religious papers of New York. We can however say truly that during a newspaperial career of thirty• four years, we have distributed gratuitously twice as many copies of the FRIEND as we have sold, or have been sent to subscribers. The government dock•yards of France arc unusually active. It is intended t(i build fifty new war-vessels of various kinds; of which twenty will be armor•plated, and some of them of a size and quality to compete with the terribl€ IJevastation and Iiwo1t ~ sta11t of the English. . T H E l•' It I 1: N 1' , 100 THE FRIEND DEUEM Bl:CR 4, J 876. Thanksgiving, 'l'be appointed day, Nov. 30th, by the President of the United States, was duly observed in Honolulu by the American portion of the community. Public services were held irt the 1'""'oit Street Church, ~here devotional and patriotic music Was discoursed by the choir, while the Hev. Walter Frear pfeached. a most timely and eloquent discourse. It was . highly appropriate to the dccasion. Refer~nce was made to the treaty and the Centennial, while the11e was a due mingling of facts, figures and s~ntiment. We hop1-; it will be published in the Gazette or .the Advertiser. Tbe following hymn, written for the occasion by Rev. D. Dole, was sung· by tbe choit·: lu lliN gnorln cP.s we rej oice . ·t1 tv •xpn11crl to nnx ious hlast , 111 a c lim e hy non1:: Hll'JlB 8~eu, Dw el lers in perennia l spring Who hav e better cau se to sini; ? .\tt1unm here with Eummcr lives , .And i ts rruit~ dcliciou:; i;i n s, \Vhil c nn 8ere leaf IIHIL'liH its s w:,y , · Nbtl.Jm g lll dicat es dcoay. Freed om's hlesisinJ,t s t.oo a re ours, U ic:h er far lh a u gold en sh ower,;, Ami . the Go~pel ' mi,t rnrlh'" str ife O penis up ete rnal li fe . F or these girts our lives to bks~, :lfarks of love all rmmherless, 1 '\\ c the glorious Giver praise In our most exalted Joys. AND N Ew Y EA R's HoLIDAYS Co.i\llNG.-lt is not necessary to look into our almanacs to learn this fact, for our Ilierchants, who cater for the youn g, are making preparations. Whitney has replenished his book store with beautiful holiday books and chromos ; Thrum & Oat are rebuilding and refurnishing; and Mclnerny advertises largely; and in coming up Fort street, A. L. Smith 's store has a fresh and splendid display of various sorts of holiday articles. Little folks and others · buying books at Whitney's an9 Thrum & Oat's, should go to Smith's and buy book cases and brackets, and other ornamental arrangements. Let the old folks buy spectacles, of which Smith has a large variety. Cmu s Tl\I AS AUE rt:7" We are glad to read letters from .M:iss Coan and Miss Chamberlain, as published in . the (]azette. If the income of the FRIEND would allow we would gladly encourage our islanders as correspondents traYeling in foreig-n countries, vVe can assure those ladies that their lette rs ,tre read ,vith inwn:st. D E C E ill B E U , I 8 7 6• U In late San Francisco papers we notice reports of tlie testimony before the U. S. Congressional Commission, sent out from Washington to investigate the Chinese Question. This is right. Let the question be examined and the matter looked into. Would it not be advisable for the Chinese Government to appoint a similar commission to sit in Hongkong to ascertain the character and •influence of foreigners-English and Americans-residing in China. Let facts be published as to the moral cha1;acter of foreigners living in China. Such as the following _question should 6e asked, .How many English and Americans residing in China expect to spend their days in the country and settle among the people of the Flowery Kingdom? How many, if they should die there, expect to allow their bodies to be buried in China? How many become rich and expect to devote their riches to building up the Kingdom of China'! How many have taken the oath of allegiance to the Emperor of China? Has the general character of foreigners in China conduced to honesty and morality ? Do foreigners in China ever gamble or cheat? Do foreigners in China live up to the principles of Christianity? Do fon~igners residing in Chrna for the most part bring with them their wives and families? Verily there is still occasion to repeat the old Jewish Proverb : " And why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" THE TREATY BENEFICIAL TO A111ERICA.- Whetber the Treaty benefits the islands or not it is surely -beneficial_ lO the United States, if our people are able to pay for all the lumber and goods now being landed on our wharves from Washington Territory, Columbia River, Humboldt Bay, San Francisc•o and Boston. It appears to us that we never saw so many lumber vessels discharging in our port. It is just what we should naturally expect as the effect of the Treaty, hence the idea that possibly the Treaty will be repealed is ridiculous. Americans are not so short-sighted. We fully believe as we have always advocated that both countries would be mutually benefitted-America folly as much as Hawaii. · EotTOR E NpouRAGED.-About one year ago a ship master visiting Honolulu subscribed for the FRIEND and purchased bound volumes, including years from 1852 to 1875, 24 years. On returning, he now desires all of th,e first series, prior to 1851, which WP. can famish, and assures us the FRIEND is read " fore and aft " on board his vessel. Such words ·or encouragement are better than gold. We commenced the publication of this paper January 18th, 1843, 34 years ago, and. with this number closes another volume. Our aim has always been to render our little sheet a weicoktie visitor on ship board, and hereafter it wiU be the ::;amc. We record with great regret a moc_;t melancholy incident which occurred at Waikiki on Monday last. On that day, the scholars of St. Alban 's College with their parents and friends were. entertained at a picnic by Mr. Atkinson, the principal of the College. During the forenoonJ some of the boys went to bathe on the beach, and after playing together, were about to leave the water, when one of the lads named Chenery, when barely breast high in the water, was seen to double up as though attacked by cramp or spasms. One of his companions instantly took hold of him, but he was nearly drawn under the \Hier, arid call for help. Two other lads, sons of Major Wodehouse, immediat8ly went to their assistance, and with great difficulty and bravery brought the lad Chenery to shore. · Although he had been taken out of the water almost instantly, the symptoms were sufficient to show that be mu st have been atta_cked by a fit of some kind, and though every possible effort wa s made to restore animation, the poor little fellow did not breathe again. A foreigner, w nose name wa s bot ascertained, rendered great assiistance, and for an hour and a half all that could be done to bring back respiration was done. Dr. McKibbin was quickly summoned from town, but declared life extinct, and further stated that "the death ha<l most probably proceeded lrom a sudden attack and not from drowning. This i-, rendered clear also from the fact that the whole of the lads were under the personal care of 'the two ushers who remained on the beach, and that the deceased boy was during the whole time in company with the other bathers, and the period of immersion was too short to account for death by ordinary drowning. Although no blame can possibly attach to the authorities of the school, verv great sympathy is felt for them, and wear~ glad to learn that many of the parents of the scholars have been thoughtful enough to personally express to Mr. Atkinson their sympathy and perfect confidence. The father of the deceased resides in San Francisco, and is a cousin of the Rev. S. C. Damon, and this sad event mu st call forth the deepest sympathy with both families. A funeral service was held over the remain s Tuesday morning, at the residence of the Rev. S. C. Damon, and the mail steamer will convey the sad intelligence and tbe remains of the poor child to his father's home.- Gazette, Nov. 8, 1876. UmvERSITY OF NF.w ZEALAND.-lt is gratifying to Jear'n that the Queen of England has ordered that the University of New . Zealand stands upon a par with Oxford and . Cambridge in giving de,qrees, "as fully a~ jf the said degrees had been granted by any University of the United Kingdom." Macauley's traveler from New Zealand, may yet "stand on a broken arch of London Bridge tu sketch th e ruin ::; of S t. Paul \; ." I' II t Week of Prayer. SUNDAY, January 7-Sermou: Cliriscian fellowship. 1 John, 1, 7. l\loNDAY, January 8-Thanksgiving and confession, in the rcviel'I" of the past year. TUESDAY, :January 0-Prayer: For the Holy !Spirit on the Universal l.!burch. .Joel ii, 28: ~'or its deliverance from error and corruption, and it~ increase of faith, activiLy, holiness, and Uhristian charity. WEDNESDAY, January 10-Prayer for families: For the unconverted, for sons and daughters at school and college, and for tbose abroad, for any in sickness, tronhle, or temptation; and for those who have heen•reccntly "added to the Church." THURSDAY, .January 11-Prayer for Nations: ~'or rulers, magistrates, and statesmen; for philanthropic and benevolent institutions; for a pure literature, the spread of sound education among the people, and maintenarlC'e of peace. FRIDAY, ,January 12-Prayer for Chn~tian Missions to the Jews and Gentiles, Luke 2-l, 47; for Sunday Schools, and for the conversation of the world to Christ. SATURDAY, .January 13-Prayer for the observance of the Chri~tian Sabbath; for the promotion of temperance, and for the safety ol those "who go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters..'' SUNDAY, January 14-Scrmon: One Lord, one faith, one baptis111, one God and Father of all. Ephei,, 4. NIARINE PORT OF HONOLULU I s. I. ARRIVALS. 1-P M ss City of San Franci~co, Waddell, ~0 days from Sydney. 1-Am bk Moonlight, Waterhouse, 52 dys fm Shanghai 3-Am bk H W Almy, l<'reernan, a~ dys fm Humboldt. 5-Am blane .lane A Jfalkinburg, Hubbard, 29 days frorn Astoria., O. ti-R l\l ss Australia, Vargill, 0 days from Kandavu. H-Am wh bk Eliza., Ui111011d, from cruise, with 150 · . bills sperm oil. 12-Am wh bk ll;iinbow, Cogan, from Arc.tic, with 500 bbls oil, 14,000 lbs bone and 800 do ivory. 13-Am bk Uaruden, Robinson, 35 days from Puget Sound. 13-Am wh bk Nerman, from Arctic, with 550 bbls walru~· 13-Am bktne Vi'ctor, Sievert. 42 days fm Port Gamble. H-French sh National lllazun, 60 days from llrishanc, NS W. 15-Am schr Ocean Pearl, Grinnell, 20 dayo,1 from San • Frar\'cisco. lti-P 111 i;s Oity of Syd'ney, Dearborn, 7 days and 18 hrs from San Francisco. 16-Haw hk l\lattie Macleay, Pope, 33 day,s from Astoria :...'0-Am bk Ceylon, Kelly, 144 days from Boston. :!0-A m ~chr Mary E RUss, Com,ms, 18 dye from Hurnholdt. 22-Am llknte Eureka. Wallace, 18 dys from Humboldt. 23-Am bk Powhattan, Swanton, :M days from Port Oamhlc. :!4-Am schr W 11 llleyer, ijrown, 13 dys fm San Fran. Dec. 1-Am hk Ed\vard Jatl1eis, O'Brien, 26 dys tin l'ortland Nov. DEP1\.RTURES. Nov. I-Arn schr Bonanza, Dexter, for San Francisco. :.l-l' 1\1 ss City of San Francisco, W adclell, fr Sau Fran :.l-Am hk Moonlight, Waterhou~c, f r .Jarvis Island. ~-Brit bk Colombo, Heuer, for Hongkong. 7-H. M ss Australia, Car:.till, for Sau Francisco. ll-A111 bk American Lloyds, l'ark, for :San Francisco. 17-1' 1\1 ss City ofSytlney, Dearborn, for Sydney. J 7-A III wh bk Eliza, Weeks. for Ran Franci~co. 18-Am bl, 11 W Almy, lireema.n, for San Francisco. i :3-Am bk (.;a111rlen, Rotlinson, for Puget Sound. :!7-Am bI,tne Victor, Sievert, for Port Gamble. 27-Am bk l\lary Belle Roljerts, Grey, for Sau Jfrancisco 30-Am bk Powhattan, 8\vanion, for Puget Sound. Dec. I-Am bktne Jane A Falkiuburg, for l'ortland, 0. MEMOR.A.NDA. R!>PORT OF p M ss Cl'rY 01•' SAN FnAnc1sco, J J WAnDl!:LL, CoMMANDEn.-Left IS~dney Oct 13th (Uct 12th, Honolulu time), at 3 pm; arrived at Honolulu l'lov 1st, at 10 am; tine weather -all tile way. REPORT OF BK HELEN w ALMY, FREEMAN, l\JASTER.Left Humboldt Oct 1st; had light baffling winds and cairns the entire passage\ sighted Maui on the 31st, and arrived at 110110lulu Nov 3d. REPORT OF R l\I SS AUSTRALIA, W~t C,HGll,L, COMMAN• Dlm -Cleared Sydney Heads at 4 p ril, :5ept 22rt, and on the following day experienced strong ivi1,ds from NE to E, which held for the ensuing a clays; a brisR gale was encountered on the 281h, accompanied hy a high head sea. and at 1 p III same day she dropped anchor in Kandavu harhor; at 1 p rn same d;1y the Company's steamer Uity of Sydney arrived from New Zealand, and ranged alongside the Al1i!tralia. for purpose of receiving Au~tralian passengers, mails and cargo, and left for l5an Frnncisco at 6.20 pm; Oct 4tli, Comp 111y'n steamer City of New York arrived inward Jrom San Francisco, and having transhipped mails, passengen1 and t:argo for New Zealand to the Auslralia, l'he procee!led en route for 81 dney at 2 pm; the AuRtralia left for Auckland at the ,same hour, arriving there al 3 am of the 8th, afler a fine pa~sHge of 3 days and 13 hours , l,cing the fa~re~t pa~~agc on record; left a;;ain at 6 :JO pm ~amc day for Napi er, W cllin:;ton, Lyttleton and L'urt ChalnH.:rs, a niving at !alter port al 4 pm of 1hc 12th. landing mail~ , 42 lJ C E ~I B t R , hours ahead of mail contract time; ld't Port Chalmers at 4 p m of the 18th, with mails and passeng-ers for San ~·rancisco, arriving al Auckland via Lyttleton, Wellington and .Napier at 8 p m of the 2211; after having received mailM, r,assengers and cargo, and left for Kandavu at 4 pm of the 23d; fresh head winds with sc1uallv weather an_~ead sea prevailed <luring the passage 10 Kaodavu, whi~as reached at 6 p m of the 27th, made fast alongside 11tea.mer City of New York and received Australian mails, pasi;t::ngers and cargo, and at a am of the following day left for 1-fonolull1 and Sai1 Francis~o; at 9 .30 a m of the 30th passed the R l\l ss Zea.landia, bound 8 in lat ll O 36s, long 175 ° W; crossed the E11uator iu loug 167 ° ,121 W, at 1 pm of Nov 1st; cxverienced light nnsteady wi1,ds and tine weather the whole pa11sage from Kanda vu to Honolulu, at which port she arrived at {.20 pm of the tith. REPORT OF AM BKTNE .IANE A FALKINUURO, IIUBBARD, llAsTER.-Left Astoria Oct 7th; for 10 days Jiad strong SE winds, and then light SE to SW to lat 32 c , long 135 ° ; from thence liad NE winds t'or 3 days, the remaining passage trnd light easterly to southerly winds and calms 10 port. REPORT OF A~t DK CAMDEN, ROBINSON, ~AS'l'ER.-Lcft Port Gamhle Oct 8th; came out of the. Strait!! on the 10th; have ha<l the winds lrom :SE to SW during the passage, except four days; in lat 28° 28', long 137° 23' W saw a large Eng• lish ship bound to northward; Nov 11th, at noon, siµhted the Island of .Maui; arrived off Dimond Head on the morning of the 13th. REPOR'l' OF' AM WH BK RAINBOW I COGAN, i\IAS'l'ER.-Left Honolulu April 15th for Kodiac cmising ground; first twelve days out moderate winds, varying from NE to E and :SE, with changeable· weather to the 27th; next 7 days variable winds from SW to Waud NW, with thick rainy weather. May 5th heavy gale from SE, ship hove.to, lat 54°10' N, long 133° 45' W. On the 6th sighted Queen Charlotte Island (north end): 6th to the 18th cruising between Queen Churlolte and Forrester li!lands; saw the first right whale on the 13th; 16th and 17th fresh gale from SE; from 18th to .June llJth cruising from Huiy h,land to lat 58 ° 59' to lat 58 ° 15' N, moderate weaLher most of the time. Sa.iv vay few whales; took our first aud only right whale ,lune 8th, off' Sitka llay. whern we saw most of the whales seen while cruising on this irround. On the 18th took our departure, lat 68 °, long 140 ° 30' W, for the Arctic. irst ttm days light easlcrly wind and tine weather . Passed Kodiac Island on the 26th, through Ouuamak Pas~ into Behring Sea on the :0:9th. and thrnugh Behring Straits into the Arctic ,July 8th. Had light variable winds and tine weather the passage up . On the 17th run agruund on l:!lossom ~hoHI; hauled the ship off alter heing aground 8 hourR without doing any serious damage. The 18th came up 10 the miLln pack of ice off Wainwright Inlet, JO to 20 miles otf shore; 19th, oft' Point Uelcher. fell in with the ships Cornelius Howland, Onward, Three Brothers of New Bedford, and Desmond ol Honolulu Here we heard of the loss of the whale bark A retie being crushed by the ice; 20th cairn and lhick log, at anchor off ::Sea. Horse Islands, the ice fouling the ship, weighed anchor and towed her in shore out of I he current antl clear of the ice; 21st clear weather; worked the ship between land and ice as far north as Refuge Inlet; ice makiug on the land at this point; 22d and 23d at anchor; 24th easterly wind, the ice moving off shore; working the ship north along the land, 3 miles north of Refuge Inlet, and ran on ti •hoal not laid down on the chart. ¾ of a mile from the land; 24th and 26th still hard aground; 26th got the ship off; 28th l mile NE of i'oint Barrol'I" at anchor. The night of the 28th we were obliged to run b.a ck south of the Point, the ice 11etting on the land north of the Pomt. From the 19th to the last of the month light variable winds from N to NE and E with tine weather. Tile main pack of ic~ south of the Point, 20 ro 30 miles off 11bore. Augu~t bt to the 10th variahle wi,,d'l, dark weather and much snow falling. From the 10th and remainder of the month we8terly wind prevailing, keeping the ice packed on Ii.le land south of Cape ::l111ith, and north of Vape Smith to Point Barrow the ice l!rounding on a ;, fathoms bank,¼ to 1 mile from the land, wilh 4 fathoms of water in11ide of it, leaving a strip of open water quite free of ice. Took our first whalP on the lbth and the la•l one Sept .5111. Saw a great many whales during the latter part of August, but wus unable to do much whaling by being blocked in hy tile ice and Vl·ry severe weather. J!'rom the 1st of Sept to the 10th moderate wind from the westward; cold frosty weather. much new ice making about the 11hip; l0tll, Uth anu 12th pt·t>paring to winter; 13th, 14th and 16th strong gait:: from ENE; 16th the main pack of ice began to move to the westwarrl, leaving a strip of ground ice outside of the ship, k to l mile wide; 171b still blowing a fre~ll gale. Made an attempt and succeeded in forcing the ship through the strip of ground ice into open water, the bark Three Brothers following us. Night of the 17t.h parted company with Three Brothers, she bound direct t,, t; onolulu and we for He·rnld lslan<l. Cruised about Herald Island from the 21st to the 4th of Oct. Continuation of gales frt,m the NE, and very cold. Saw very few whales 011 the we:-t i;hore. On the 7th took our deµarture from lat 69 ° 45', long 165° Hi', for Honolulu. Passed through Jlehring Straits on the 8th; 10th, 11th aud 12th strong gale from · NE; pa8sc<l throuµh Ounamak Pass on the 20th. Had light variable winds from N to NE and tine weather to lat 30. Lhence 10 23 light winds from SSE to Sand SSW. Nov 11 si,!?hted Mani; light easterly wind into port Season catch-500 bl>ls oil, 14.,000 lhs bone, 800 ivory, Spoke the following vesselM: Sept 30th, l\l t Wollaston, 1 whale; Oct 11, Northern Light, 2 whales and 1000 bbls walrus. REPORT OF AM WH 11" NORMAN, CHtPB•!LL, l\.lAS'fElt,::,ailed from Honolulu l\Iay [3th, and from Koloa on the 14th. Pasi;ed through Ounamak Pass ,June 2d; made the ice on the 6th, 20 miles NW Nonnivok Island; arrived tip to the ice and lleet in Arctic on the 22d, took our first walruti on the 23d, and the last one July 28tlt, making fl50 bbls oil. lJad a gale from N, from 28th to Ang 4th; passed by Icy Caire on thr.• 11th, ice 011 the outer edge of the shoal, and 20 miles south of Icy Cape; worked up between trte ice and land as far as Wainwri~ht nlet, could not g,it any ftlrther, ice made ob the land; remained in tlrnt vicinity till Sept 4th, during tlie ti111e was driven south of Icy Cape twice hy the ice. The natives reporled at Wainwright Inlet one ship lost, and the remainder of the 1leet fast in the ice, off Point Barrow; IJarks Northern Light and Mount Wullaston were in company with me. We ldt a letter with the native!! saying we were goinf.{ to Herald Island, a11ti 1f we did not 15ce any of the llceL by Oct 1s t we wvuld rcturn lo tbc ca~t ~h ure ,mu lake the crews ufl'. ~cpl I 7 6. l 101 23d spoke bark RainlJow, Capt Uogan, from Point narrow. Saw the first whale on the same day aml tile Ja~t one on the 28th; only lowered our boats three ti111es for whales the ~caoon, aml each time not the least ;;l\<lw fur a whale, all going quirk. Northern Light, Capt ~mith, up to the 5th of Oct had ll 50 bills walrus amt 140 do whale oil; Mount Wollnllton took 2:.io bhls whale oil on Kodiac, aod had l whale up to Sept 29th, iu the Arctic. Oct 10th kept oft' for Behring l5traiti;; pais•etl Vapc East on the 12th in a l1eavy gale with thick suow s1Juall, ; came through 7:.id passage on the 19th. Had favora!Jle wind!!. to lat 34, from that to 23 strong wmds from S to SSW, thence to p0rt light Si winds. Died on board, May 31st, of dy11thtria, :\1a.nucl L Sylva; July 20th, of connmmptiou, Joe Alemeda . PASSENGERS. ------ - ·- - - -- - -·- -- -FoR SAN FRANC1sco-Pcr D C Murray, Oct 30th-Mrs I r'I. ~-- - - - -- Richardoon, Vol Norris, Mr::s Haake and 2 cl1ildren, l\1ri. Gasland, J C Unlver, A .I Mclfay. Fon SAN FRANc1sco-Per Bona.11za, Oct 31st-Chas Hotchkiss, L Grieve, J H Bia.ck, A L :::-ylvia, .J J De Freto. FtlOM t5YDNEY-Per Ciry of::3a.u Jfrnncisco, Nov 1st-A llollier, J Inman. .1!'011 ::3AN .lf1tANt:1sco-l'cr City of ~a.n Franci~co, Nov 11,, -J II .l!'isher, F H Austin. G H Wi:lia.ms, ,lno Golielt ••lno ~·reeman, l\lrs A Herbert and cltilJ, .Mis,; Herhert, .E E Smith, M Mayo. ~'ROM l'OH'l 'LAND-Per Jauc A Falkinburg, Nov 6th-Mr Coolidge, Mrs l\lcKay. FlWM SYJJNBY-l'er Aus•.ralia, Nov 6th-Mr Sinclair and wile, l\ldlle Jenuy Claus, J Davies, R Uulden. l<'oR SAN FRANC1sco-Per Australia, Nov 7th-G N Uartlett, H Smith, CT Mills, J P Cooke and wife, Chas Diet11;, A. Rudofsky . . FnoM t5AN FnANc1sco-Per City of Sydney, Nov 16th-.! C Gia.de, B W Parker, 1:1 E McIntyre, G Routte, 'l' G Thru111 , Miss Parke. Mrs Chase, Miss I>icl,~011, Jno D Holt, His Ex E H Allen . 0 Wright, Miss MA Chamberlain, Mrs ,IS Walker, Mrs WW Atwater an<l son.WP Faher. DI' Hammond, Mr>1 Parke, ll I, c.;hase, ,I G Dickson and wife, Mis,i A E Deane , Miss HA Gonnan. J 8 Chri,lic,jr, G ::3 Wright amt wife, 'J.'hu~ ,Jolly, E 'l' Thurutou, 8 Myers aud wi!'c , A lex :Spijoo, I) Mau• son, (.;has (.;obh. Fon SvoNl!:Y-Per City or Sydney, Nov 17th-H L'Estran~e M> Pecciniui, N 1, rashlaner. F11o~t SAN F1tANt:1sco-l'er \V lJ Meyer, Nov :!~lh-A Peterson, lJ .lohuson, C Olsen, G Worrnk,U H Rockwell, CE Kerry, Mose8 Kerry. Fon SA~ VltANCISCo-Per Mary Belle Hoherts, NO\' 27thc I, Cordiner, .I L Reed, ,; Thompson, J Silva, M Lopez, J D Grace, J de Vine. CLARKE-HARPEn.-In this city Nov 25th, h.v Rev SC Damon, Capt THo~us K CLARKE to l\lrs ANNIE HARPER, both of Honolulu. Cono1s-DEAN.-ln this city Nov 28th, at the residence of Mr ,J G Dickson, hy Rev J\1r Frear. Mr THos FnEOElHCK CORDIS to Miss ADELAIDE ELIZABETH DEAN, both ol Boston. DIED. D1cKENSON.-At Lanaina, l\faui, October 20tli, l\lr IIENRV DICKENSON, Sr, a native of Birminµham. Enghi.nd, aged 'i4 yeari.. Ile had resided on these island,i for many year~. ConNEv .-In this city, N(lv 5th, Mr PETEii Joi-IN W1i\id1,i; CoRNt;y, a ualive of London, England, in the Mid S,,~ar of hi ~ age. Has been a resident of the8e islandli for thirty-five years. CHENERY,-Drowncd at Waikiki, near Honolulu, Nov 6tl., RICHARD J> CHENEIIY, son of Ricl1ara Chener,v, Esq, of Sa11 Francisco, and hrother of Lieut Leonanl Cltenery, U :,:; N, 11;,:cu 12 yeRrs. The deceased was a member of Mr. Atkin,wn's Boarding School. a.nd on the occasion wlien the sad ev~nt occurred. the pupilR of the school with their teacher,; and ~cvcral mothers of the pupils, were enjoyi11g a picriic excursion. The melancholy event was one of those u11for8eeti and unexpec1c1l occurrences, that calls for an humble ~uh111is$io11 on our pa.rt. MANUEJ...-lu this city Nov 23d, Mr AN'l'ONIO MA~UJsL, a native of ttie Western Islands, aged 47 years. DR• I, A '1' H R O P • Having rclurned to Ilonolulu to reside, h~s resumed th,; practice of his ,1,rofession. Any one dcsirini,r his ~ervice, cillll'r .Medical or Surgical, can find him at the Cavt. 8nuw c, ILH;:e, adjoining the H_awaiian Hole!. dc-1876 J• M. DAVIDSON. .<ltto1•11ey nt Lnw. Office over l\1r. WhitnPy's Book-store, formerly occupier! hy Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. I. de-1876 COSMOPOLITAN Photograph Gallery I 04. AND 66 FORT STREET, S REOPENED, '\VHERE THE UNDER- . signed will be most happy to wait upon those Willhing fur First Class Photographs ll unululu , Dre. hl , ! 8i6 . H . L. VHASf!! , ,1:.:1m 'I' H E F, It I E N D , D E C E JI B E R , 102 ~£amm's Jrimd. Atlantic and Pacific Canal. The following statement respecting this much talked-of enterprise, indicates that it is under serious discussion, and to be pushed Some years ago a seaman attached to a forward ': United States war ship lying in this port The Nicaraguan ship-canal to connect the was wont occasionally to make• us a call Atlantic with the Pacific is estimated to cost and speak of new aspirations which had been awakened in his mind. Years passed $65,722,137, and to require five yeai's of on, and we have received occasionally letters hard work. Its total length will be 61:l from him, in which his wanderings were miles, to which is to be added 63 miles of narrated in South America, among the slack-water navigation on the San Juan Andes, next in Europe, running an engine river, and ·56 miles across Lake Nicaragua on a railroad in Italy, through the Mt. Cenis -making a total distance from ocean to tunnel, after that in India, about Delhi aud ocean of about lSOf miles. It is to have among the Hjmalayas. The last European ten locks in the western division between mail has brought us a letter dated in Cum- .Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific, including berland Co., England, at his native place, a tide lock at Brito on the Pacific coast to and from . it we quote as follows : " I am admit ships at any stage of the tide. Each now writing a religious story of Highland lock is to have a lift of about ten feet. In life. I am at the 20th chapter. Professor the eastern division, between Greytown and - - - of - - - College, officers, and seve- the mouth of the San Carlos river, seven ral editors and others have take considera- locks will do. ble interest in my work.'' Sailor Turned Author. I 8 7 G. •1•1u: AMERICAN TRACT SOCIJtJ'fY, UlO Nassau Street, New York City, has estahlished DEPOSITORY AT 767 l'tlARKl<.l'f STREE'r, SAN l!'RANCISCO, with Rev Frederick E Shearer a~ District Secretary for the Pacific Coast. This Depository is the Head-quarters of the Coast for ALL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND RELIGIOUS LITERA'l'URE and has the special ai.:ency for the CALlJl'ORl'l IA BIBLE SOOIE1' \'.. THE Al\lElWJAN SUNDAY SUHOOL UNION, CONGREGA'l'IONAL PUBLISHil\G SOCIETY, PRESBYTERIAN BOA.llD 01!' PUBLlCATlON HJ<.:NRY HOYT ROB''f CAR'f.l•:R & BRO., RANDOLPH &' CO., and other '1eading publishers. SU.NDAY SCHOOL LIBRARU:l:! will be selected with great care, and sold at New York prices and discounts. BOOKS WILL JHJ SENT BY MAIL TO MINISTERS at the discou~t allowed by New York Houses, and postage added,the price aud postage payable m United Rtates Currency. Thus Sunday Schools and Ministers will he supplied at New York rates, and receive any book to be found in San Francisco in the shortest po,sible time. Special Notice. Information Wanted Respecting WILLIAM LL1·TLE1'·1ELD, who left England abo~t ~fty years a.l!:.o, on board the whaling ~hip Fame, for a crmse 10 the Pac11ic. and reported as wrecked al the Marquesas hlands. The ship iij reported to have been taken to Valparaiso, and there condemned. 'fhere was a, report that said William Littlefield lelt the Marquesas lsland,i and came to Honolulu with two of lus ~hip111ates. He had two brother11, James and Cornelius. The latter went to America and is now living with his son, William Littlefield. 168 1<'.ast 8~ street, New York City If any information can he furnisher! it will he most gratelitlly received, Letters mav be addresKed to William Littlefield 168 J<.:ast 82d street. New• York or to the Editor of Tui,; Jfnrnxn, or Pacific Commer.cial .&dvertiser, Honolulu. 'I'"~ TO THE PUBLIC! f,'JR~T PREMIUM GOl,D M~DAL was awarded at the lmlustria.l .1:!:xhibition, 18i5, to BRADLEY & RULOFSON ! Letter from Philadelphia. He sends us a copy of the " Heart ·aud For the best Photographs & t1·11yons in San Frantlsto Hand," an illustrated paper, which contains HAWAIIAN DEPARTMENT, l Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1876. 'l'HE NATIONAL GOLD lUEDAL t a likeness of his father, ·• The Cumberland REv. s. C. DAll'ION--.Dem· Sir-I was . For the Best Photographs in' tile United States! .A.rtist," who is a pamter of celeLrity, and if our limits would allow we should be pleased delightE>d to receive a note from a "brother. AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! to publish a notice of his career. commissi~ner," and shall be more delighted For the Best in the World! As our correspondent courts the Lyric still when I can shake a " brother commisOFFICE OF sioner's " hand on the shores of Hawaii. :Muse, he sends us the following lines: BRADLEY & RULOFSON'S ART GALLERY No. 420 Montgomery street, The great exposition has required of a Sa::n. F r a . n . o i s o o . resident commissioner a strong pair of lungs We long for thee, Jesus, our Saviour uiviue, and plenty of patience. The solicitude as IT You a1·e cordially invited to an inspection of our im9ur life is unt·eal aud lasts but a day, mense collection uf to the whereabouts of " Queen Emma's We long for those glorious blessings of thine, Photog1·aphs, Drawings, Celebrit.ies, Stereoscopic Those joys evelasting that fade not away. cloak " is undiminished. The names of our ~'icws, ard Landscape Views of the whole Pacific Coast. \Ve long for thee, Jesus, our Saviour of love, cabinet woods, koa and kou, are daily While the day is still bright and the skies are so clear, spelled out for the great multitude with unPACIFIC MAIL While the rude tempest gathers not darkly above, tiring patience. HYMN. Nor seasons of sonow and darkness dl'a.W near. The Hawaiian national dish, poi, is still perseveringly analyzed for the benefit of the curious, and will become an object of veneration to the commissioner upon his return to We long for thee, Jesus, while youthful and strong, the islands, because of the numberless quesWhile our hopes are so glo,ving, ou1· path is so light, tio~s it has given rise to. For days of repining way follow ere Jong, The average number of v1s1tors to the And sunset may usbe1· the gloomiest night. Hawaiian Exhibit, for six weeks past, has We would not Lnrd Jesus give thee the last years been twice as great as when you were here. Of lives vainly spent when their beauty is o'er, They have reached the average number of When the joys of the present are hidden, and tears 8000 daily. Penn5ylvania day saw not less When youth's buoyant spirits and step are no more. than 25,000 crowd through our exhibit. The Ah! no blessed Jesus, thy serva:its would come total number of visitors in the Hawaiian And labour with thee in the summ:er of life, register, up to the 14th inst. is 448; the last To feel in our hearts, when we're almost at home. That thou wast our coin fort through all the past strife. recorded name being that of F. W. Damon. Eleven prize medals have been awarded to Then send blessed Jesus, thy spirit of peace To cheer us aud hasten our footsteps along Hawaiian exhibitors by the judges. W~ long for thee, Jesus, in fa.ir sunny hour, 'Mid pleasures thou sendest without e'en a. prayer, Their brightness will surely be so much the more, If thou, the sweet giver of all, shall be there. Till life with it1 burdens and sorrows shall cease, And our souls shall unite with the angels in song. J. T. ':::? Ge0rge Martin will find a letter sent lo editor's care . A copy of the FRIEND containing the list of visitors to the department arrived very opportunely. Very respectfully yours, H. R. HncucocK. - STEAMSHIP COMPANY! 1 ,,H E JtOLLO'\VING MAGNH'ICENT SHIPS of the Uompa.ny will leave Honolulu as per 'time Table below:SS CITY OF SAN lt'RANOISCO ...... :J400 Tons SS Zl<.JALANDIA ..................... 3:W0 l'om; SS CITY Ol+' Nl<lW YORK .............~4.00Tons· l:!S A USTltALIA ..................... 3200 Tons SS cn•y Of SYDNEY ............... 3400 Tona For l!'iji, Ports in New Zea For San Francisco, land, and Sydney, NS W, I on on or about1 or aboulMarch .................... l :.March .................... 9 r;:~~::: ::: :: ::::::::: ::::~1:,i~l. ::::: ::: :::·. ::: :: ::: :1 May ..................... 2! 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Prayer meeting on Wtidoesday evenings at 7! o'clock. FoRT STREJ<.:T CHURCH--Rev. W. Frear, Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching on Snndays at 11 A. M. and 7½ 1>, M. Sabbath School at 10 A. 11c. KA.WAIAHAO CHURCII--RPv. H. H. Parke1·. Pastor, King street,, above the Palace. Services in Ha· waiian every Snnday at 9! A. 1\1. and 3 P. :it. Ro~u.:s CATHOLIC CaURCR--Undt!r the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. F'athn Hermann; Fort street. nt>a1· Beretania. Services every Sunday at 10 A. llI. and 2 P. M. KAUMAKAPILI CuuRCH--Rev. ~L Kuaea, Pastor, Beretania street. near Nnuanu. Se1·vices in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 A. l\l. and 2l P. JI£. 'l'm<J ANGLICAN CauacH--Bishop. the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, :M.A., Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral. Beretania street. ·oppmdte the Hotel. English services on Sundays at 6l and 11 A. M.. and 2& aud 7~ P. M. Sunday School at the Clergy Honse at 10 A.• M. THOS. G. TIIBUlll, MERCHANT STREET, HONOLULU, ON HAND THE• FOLLOWING Works pertaining to the Hawaiian Islands: K EEPS Jarvis' History of the Sandwich Islands .......... Price, $2 50 Bennett's Historical Sketch ot the Hawaiian Islands, " l 50 Hawaiian Club Papers, 1868 ...................... " 1 50 Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1S76 and 1876, 50 cts each Tbe Second Interregnum, with cabinet photograph of His Maj• esty Kalakaua, cmtaining an account of all the events in• cident to his election to the Throne .......... Price, $1 50 Hanlnger's Hawaiian Tariff anrl Digest of Laws and Regulations of the Customs, &c, in paper & bonrds, price $1 & 1.2& An11rews• Hawaiian Dictionary, sheep •••••••••••• Price $5 00 Hawaiian Phrase Book.......................... " 60 Synopsis of Hawaiian Grammar.................. '' JarYis' Kiana, A Komance of the Samlwich Islands, " 75 1 60 Charts of the Hawaiian Islands, $1.50 each, and Letter Sheet Maps of same, $1.00 per quire. Sets of Hawaiian Postage Stamps, with specimen Hawaiian Flag, price $1.00. Photograph View of Honolulu, 9x24 inches, mounted or unmounted, price $2.00 and $2.50. The.above will be mailed to any part of the world on receipt of price anrl po11tage. Any Books published pertaining to the Isla.nds will be procured to orrler. Phy1dcio.11 and Sur1reou, "'• • IRWIN&• G. co .. Oommi,.,;.<rion Merchant8, Plantation and lnsurn.nce Agents, Honolulu, JI. I. LEWERS DICKSON. & Dealer.~ in Lwmber an<l Building .1.ltaterials, ~- HOFFM_\.NN. C. BREWER Fort Street, Honolulu, fl. I. M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Corner Merchant and Kaahumanu Streets, near the Post Office & co .. Ho11olnh1o back numbers-put up to order at P Papers and Magazines, reduced rates parties going to sea. ly ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OF for THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! Officers; Table, with lodging, per week, Seamen's do. do. do. Commission and Shiwing..Mercltants, E. A D A M p • $6 5 Shower Batlis·on tile Premises. ED. DUN,SCOMBE 1 Manager. 1Ionl11l11, January l, l&i5. Honolulu, Oallu, H. I. s ,. Carriage Making anfl 'frimming ! I Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson's Buildiag, Queen ·Street, WOULD RESPEC'nFUIJLy;INEORMYOUTHA';f ti now employ the best Mechanics in the line ot Carriage Making, Carriage and General Blacksmithing, Painting. Repafring, &c., Having resumed practice, can be fou!ld at ·. Ms rooms ovier,·E On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established Strehz & Co.'s Drug Store; corner,of Fort ,and Hotel sts, fact that 011r (if arriage Ta-imming, by Mr. R. Whit~ JOHN S. McGR.E\V, M. D ,., man. is as well executed as any in New York City or elsewhere. l itherefore feel warranted in saying that Late Surgeon U. Sy Ar-my, we can manufacture as good a class of work in HoCan be consulted at his residence on Hotel street1 between noluJu,as, oo:q be found in any part of the world. 1 will also state here that we fully intend to work at Alakea and Fort streets. the-lowest possible rates. G. WEST. MOTT S M : I • 'I~ ff , , .Dentist, . G. ,v EST, M.. DICKSON, Photographer, Wagon and Ca1-ria9e Builde1~,. Gl Fort Street, Honolulu, 74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu. IJJ" Island orders p1omptly executed at lowest rate11, A • w. & co (Succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) . PIERCE .&- LW A YS ON HAND A CHOICE .. 4 Sldp Chandlers and General Commission 1Mtrr chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Agents Pnuloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lanees, , And Peri•y DaTilil' Pain Killer. STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, HOME! Office at Drug Store, corner of Fort and Merchant Streets ; _Residence, Nuuanu Aveuuc, near School Street. tel '7o Office Hours, 9 to 11 A. M. THvS. c.;. THRUM'S • SAILORS' DR· F. B. HU'l'CHINSON, .11.uction and Commission, Metrchant.;. ST!TIONER, NEWS AGEN1' AND BOOK BINDER, 103 7 6. I ADV:El\TIS:EM:EN'TS. Places of Worship. No. 19 Merchant Street,. • D I~ () •~ ~I B I~ R C D. N. FLITNER, ONTINUES HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THE l<'IRE-PltOOF Building, Kaahumann Street. . CHRONOMETERS rated by observations of the sun and stars with a tr-dnslt instrument accurately adjusted to the meridian of Honolulu. Pcirticular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing ~extant and quadrant glasses silvered and adjuste.d . Charts and nautical instruments constantly on hand a.nd for sale. fel A. .MENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC STOCK;, SSORT"! A Large Collection of Beautiful Views of' Hawaiian Scenery, &c., &c. CURIOSITY HUNTERS will find at ~his- establishment 2' SPLENDID COLLECTION· OF Volcanic Speoime1111. 6brnlSJ Sbells. \Vnr · Implement•• Fe1•n11. Mall!, K .apntt. And a Great Variety · of othe1· Hawai-ian and Jfic1·onesian Om·iosities. PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY? jal 1874 CASTLE & COOKE, llUPORTERS AND DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE I NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. ,HE REGULAR PORTLAND 'I DILLINGHAM & CO., - · AGENTS OF- Nos. !/5 and 97 King Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT PF . Goods Suitable for Trade. '1"1HE .PROPRIF.TOR HAVING tained a new lease of this ELEG-.A.N'T OB• ~C>TEL Will spare no pairui to make it Fir.t-Class in Every Particula1· ! CoUa&ee by rhe Sen. Sidi'! for• lbe Accommo• do.&iou oC G11eu111. Carr frt,ge 11nd Saddle H~1·se8 a.t Short Notice. • no3t~ LINE OF Packets, New England Mutual Lifo Insurance Company, The Union Marine Insurance Company, San Francisco, The Kohala. Sugar Company, The Haiku Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Mill, W. H. Bailey, The Ha.makua Suga.r Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machitie Company, Dr. Jayne & Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. tf " THE FRIEND," MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT MONTHLl~ JOURNAL DEVOTED TO during the last Six Years ca.n testify fro.m personal exS.HIP Temperance, Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence perience. •that the undersigned keep the best assortment of A GOODS FOR.TRADE And Seiz Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DTT..LlNGHAM & CO. PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL 0. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy per annum ................................. $2.00 Two Copies per annum. • • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • 3.00 Foreign Subscribers, including posta~e . . . .•••.••.•••. .. 2.6G jonng iJcnts atUristian ~ssotiation of Jonolulu. Pm·e 1·eligfon and itndefiled before Goel, the Fathe1·, 'is thi,c;: 1'o 'VlsU lhejatlw1·less and widows ·i n th~ir affi-ict·ion, and to_ ke~p one'~ seljunspoUedjroni _the world. . Edited by a Committee of the Y. M. C. A. apology addressed to the Emperor Antoni- j ment than is offered by other religious nus Pius about A. D. 139, says, " We, who I systems; others are convinced by its supeonce lived in debauchery, now study chas- rior credentials: and become believers 1 upon Lean Hard. tity; ,ve, who lohd money and possessions this ground° solely, and never get any farther Chilu of my love, lean bard, above all things else, now devote our pro- than a mental belief. Many authorized reAn,1 let Jne feel the pl'essure of thy care. pert.y freely to the general good, and give to ligious teachers rely, for the enforcement I know thy burden child-I shaped it, every needy one; we, who fought and killed of the claims of the Gospel, upon the sanePoised it in my own lrnnd,-made no proportion Tn its weight to ~hine unaided strength. each other, now pray for our enemies; those tion of regards and penalties in another Before ever I laid it on I saiJ, · who persecute us in hatred, we kindly try worlJ, if we may judge from 1heir utter"I shall be ever near, uud while she le/ins on me to appease, in the hope that they may share ances. The writer of the preceding article "This burden shall be mine, not ber's; apparently holds -this view, for after refer"So shall I keep my child within the circling arms the ~ame blessings which we enjoy.'' And this was in the Roman empire, and ring to the system of rewards and punishOf my own )ove." J-{ere lily it down, nor fear To i~pose it on a shoulder which upholds in an age no better than that of which ments as a feature pf ~ome of those religious 'rhe government- of worlds :-yet closer come,Seneca declares, "All is full of outrage and systems classed as failures, he say~ in 'l'hou art not near enough: I would embrace thy care. vice ; a monstrous prize contest of wicked- delineating the influence o·f the Gospel, "is So I might feel my child reposing on my hell.rt. ness is being enacted; the desire of sin there not a power in the offer of freedom to Thou lovest me? I doubt it not. increa~e:::, and shame decreases, every day. slaves, of rest to the weary, of hope to the Then loving me, lean httrd. Vice is no longer even practised secretly, despairing and of a blissful immortality to but in open vjew. Vilene~s gains on all the all who believe?" Now we want to know, The Power of Go~pel. streets and in every breast, so that innocence and the world wants to know \.vhat the ln order to eradicate selfishness from the has become not only rare, but altogether Gospel is. Does it differ from other relihuman heart and to implant in its stead extinct." gio ps only in offering rnore vq.lt1f!.qle rewards ~ympathy and kindness,-in order to reform And what ~bows most remarkably the and threatening greater punishments, or is the licentious, and inebriates, and cheats. transcendent power of the gospel was the it based on another and widely different and liars, there must be an adequate power. fact that 1t triumphed not only over vice and principle? Is the "adequate power" whicfi The wise men of every age . and of the false religion, but also over the efforts of is to "eradicate selfishness from the human most enlightened nations have promulgated emperors and kings and judges to put it hea:rt," the hope of reward and the fear of systems of morality; and to enforce their down, even when they persecuted to death. punishment, if not, what is it? We are of systems have represented in glowing colors As a specimen of this power I refer to the the opinion that no effort, however painful, the happiness resulting from a virtuous life. labors of Baxter at Kiddermenster. When or earnest, for rest or future happiness,,Some of these ::.ystems were enforced by the he went there towards the middle of the for their own sake, can be easily mistaken sanction of rewards ;rn4 penalties in another ·s eventeenth century, the place was overrun for unselfishness. We are accustomed to world. Other systems had no reference to with ignorance, profanity, and vice. Only look upon the self.seeking that invests in another life. Some refer to a higher Power one or two instances of daily family prayer the other \Vorld, as simply a shrewder and whose favor is to be sought, whose · will js could be found in a whole street, and the longer-headed selfishness than that ~~terprise \yhich is satisfied with earthly stocks to be done. Others, and especially is this Lord's Day was openly profaned. Through and securities. true of a modern sect of reformers, have his faithful preaching of the gospel, the The wickedness of heathendom cannot much to say in favor of morality, while they church members in,:m~iised to six hundred, be denied, but why should there be so much ignore God and immortality. Hut these of whom there were rwt twelve 1 concerning wickedness in Ch~istinn countries? For oursystems, or theories have made scarcely any whose sincere piety he hf!.d nqt reason to selves, we are sure tht1t it is not from any impression of the great mass of mankind. hope. When can infidel reformers show imperf~ction or \~ant of power jn ~he Gospel frmts like this? and so it was under the of Chnst, but this, whatever 1t 1s, must be The power to renew tbe heart and reform preaching of Whitefield af1d Wesley in the preached in its purity an~ not_pressed aside the life is wanting. !ai)t century. T_he mi~1ers, ignorant, spend- I or adulterated. with the inferior gospels of lf these systems enforced by the powerful mg m~ch of the1r earnings at the ale house, 11 prudence or pnde. ________ _ arguments of the wisest men that ever lived profane and quarrelsol'fle went, with their faces begr.imed with coal qust, to hear those have proved powerless to reform the world, INDEX FOR TwENTY-F1vE YEARS on Vor.preachers; an~ as they I isteneµ tp the glad what hope is then th?-t maokind will ever tidings of Jesus and his love, and his power UMEs.-With the close of this volume, we become moro.i and happy? and willingne~s to save, ~he teap~ ran down shall publish an Index for all the .volThere is a pp~ver that has proved succes~:- t4eir cheeks forming channels through the umes of the New Series. It marks an imgrime, and they found a lpnging springing ful in unnumbered instances in reforming up in their hearts for a higher life. And portant event in our editorial labors. We the vicious, and in givi11g p~ace and hp,pe to thus thousands commenced a life of virtue, <'an furnish complete sets for a quarter of ::i. the wretched · and desponrling. +his is the and peace, and joy,-a life which they felt century. Our supply of back volumes is gospel glad tidings, which is _the power qf a$sur~d would continue on forever and ever. not large, hence if persons are wishing to A. avail themselves of "THE FRIEND," from God unto · salvation to every . one ·that be::-. lieveth. Is there not a power in the offer of . 1852 to the present time; now is a good op·What is the Gospef1freedom to slav.es. of rest to the weary, of portunity. A more complete history of Poly• There are probaply few who have a clear nesia during this period cannot elsewhere be hope to the despairing, and of a blissful immortality to all who believe? Wherever or correct idea of the meaning of the word found. We will furnish the whole series at the go~pel has been proclaimPd its effects Go.c;pel. Many doubtless, reg:;ird it a~ ti- $1.00 a year, Mnding f'Xfra. Apply to the h:we been wonder[ ul. Justin :'.\fortyr in his ding$ of a hcttrr w:-iy of spiritnal advance- Editor :ind Publi she r. • . •