The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-14

u. 5. ssaiip 1tiaeeaneS.--Ti'lhis Snip commanded by Wm. E. Finch inch, Esq. Esq ar rived at this port yesterday. last from St. Helena, having been only thirty three days on her voyage from that is- land. She has been absent three years and nine months in which period she sailed nearly 70,009 miles. She visited the Marquesas, Social and Sandwich Is- lands, and spent five months among those interesting groups, anSl thence proceed ed to Canton and Manila, and touched at Macao and the Cape of Good Hope. She left Canton on the 22d January, and the Cape Oil the 18th April. Her offi- eers and crew are all in good health. the Rev. Mr. Stewart, Chaplain of the ship, has returned in excellent health. We had the pleasure of receiving a visit from this gentleman, last evening. He has favored us with flies of the South 4 f riean Commercial Advertiser, printed at the Cape of Good Hope, to the l7th April, and the De Zuid Afrikaan to the Both inclusive, ,anda file ofCantonpapers.
 We learn that at every place at which Capt. Finch touched, the officers and crew were received with the ut most kindness and hospitality.
 On the 3d of April the shark, (Amer- iean) Capt c. Allen, on a sealing voy- age, put into salanha Bay, for supplies. Pir-uey and M,au1er.-Ne are indebt- ed to Capt. Finch for the following par ticulars of an act ofpiFacy:
 On the I2th of May, lat. ' 8 lon. Is 50, the yincennes boarded the French brigantine Eliza, Capt. Pihon, AZ days from Bordeaux, bound to BoFnbon. The Eliza had fallenin with the brig St. IIeE ena, in the East India Company ern- Iploy, on the 2fth of April, Iat. 3 3 N. ion. 5 2f W. from St. Helena, bound to Sierra Leone, and learned that she had Ebeen oVertaken by 8 piratical vessel on the 9th of April, inS. lat. } w. lon. l 30. A desperate gang boarded the St. Hel lena, and after having bound the Capt. (HarrisoD and a passenger (Dr. Wad. deiD and thrown them into the sea murdered also the mate and eight sea. linen and rifled the vessel. The pirate was a three masted schooner, mounting 10 guns, and lon a pivot. He had { crew of fabout 70men principally blacks Captain Plhon rendered every assis tance in his power to enable the St Helena ln her destitute state to reacf Sierra Leone. He was requested bJ the survivors of the crew, to give publi. city to the misfortunes of the vessel.
 South Seq istaads.-By the arrival o the incomes we may expect in shorl time to be enabled to lay before ou, readers some accounts of the progress in civilization made in the polynesiar l group, in which so. much interest has lisattssi;;sllll y been taken, from the gentle character Of some of the inhabitants and the abuses they have received at the hands hands of white barbarilns. The la, tives of the Northern and Marauesa: l group, superior in mental and physical energy, are represented as adherine more pertinaciously to the licentiou: habits which the influences of the eli. mate lead them into. The milder na. tsre of the inhabitants Of tie tie Society and Sandwich islands has yielded to the genial power of the gospel; and the work of improvement is going on, un. der missionary auspices, in their moral and intellectual character, in the in. crease oi schools, and of commerce.
 Eatract ef leffer from an officer on 6oar1
 one 9f the Ps'arafe Discorery Ships. dated