The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-12-07


have dispensed with the after piece, which was
to be PLAYED by about 20 of us on board very
small Spanish brig, with few provisions and
less cooking utensils, sleeping on the deck, ex-
posed to the wet, lit raining every night I'LL we
reached Havana,) and few Of us who could
make ourselves understood by the Spaniarus-
This was our situation after the wreck nntli our
arrival at this place, on Tuesday, me Z"th INST
the 9TH day from the wreck, and l4th from
New York We lay at quarantine till the next
morning, when VIC got ashore. where we re-
ceivcd every attention from the peopla OF lla-
vana, who EXPRESSED the warmest feelings Tor
our misfortunes, and did themselves great cred
it by the prompt assistance rendered Ia the dcs-
titute, by subscriptions and otherwise, and
which, with the aid of our Consul and other
Americans in the place, who were very Kind,
enabled all to pay their passage IN the brig Ju
no, -, master, which will sail IN lew days
for New Orleans, and to live comfortably while
here.
ENBARXATpN OF MIssisNARIEs. Solemn re-
ligious services were held two weeks since,
at Boston AMI New Bedford, preparatory TO
the departure of reiniorcements Of Missona-
ries to foreign stations Eight Missionaries
with their wives, physician and his wife, and
aprnier, making nineteen persons in all, were
III ChhudIh al NEW DSOIoiu; VII uoSudJ nT
Wednesday of the last week. The follow
ing are thu names of the Missionaries: Rev
Messrs. William P Alexander, Richard Arm
strong, Cochran Forbes, Harvey r. Hitchcock,
Lorenzo Lyons John s. Emerson, Ephraim
Spaulding, and David b. Lyman, DR.. Aonzo
Chaplin and Mr.. Edmund Il. Rogers This is
the largest number that has ever sailed from
this country at one time; they ale all young
men.
They are 10 take passage in the y4rcrick, Capt.
Swain. Ii is II years since the first Missiona-
ries took their departure for the Sandwich ISL
ands. Reinforcements have been sent three
times, viz: in 1929, 1927, and 1880 What a
mighty moral revolution has been effected IN
that interesting group of Islands! When the
present company shall have arrived, there will
be % Missionaries and their wives two phy.
sicians; two printers, and other lay persons,
making in all So persons connected with the
Foreign Missionary Society. When Mr. Brig
ham, the FIRST Missionary, went forth, the ma
tives had no written language. Ofcourse there
was not a native who could read Now there
are 900 learners at the 900 schools which
have been established, and which are taught BY
900 native teachers. Probably 10000 or 80, 600
have at various times attended the schools Sew
cral thousand have learned 10 write, and some
have made considerable progress in the knowl-
edge Of arithmetic. Sabbath schools exist at
the several stations. A select school for fe-
males, for instruction in reading, writing, nee-
dlework, and Scripture lessons, has been sstab-
lished. Within the last ten years, twenty two
distinct books have been printed in the native
language,averaging 81 small pages, and amount
ing to 1857 900 copies and 0,257,000 pages
Besides this 3,3450e0 pages in the Hawaiian
language have been printed in the United
States, wiz. large edition of the Gospels of
Matthew, Mark and John) which swells the
amount of printing, within that period, for the
use of the islanders, to IS,G32, 500 pages.
The chiefs have erected many buildings to
serve the purposes of churches. The religious
assemblies in many places are very large. The
church al Lahaina is of stone. two stories high,
95 feet long and 62 broad, and having galleries
1t will seat 5000 people after the native manner,
and is the most substantial and noble structure
in Polynesia. The others are matched. That
at Honolulu is l9s feet long, 69 broad, and ad.
mts $500 people, Thus, by the sxsrtions, and
the donations Of the people ofthe United States.
has nation of Pagans become 4 nation OF
Christians. How much more true glory ha We
this little band If unpretending missionaries
acquired, than belongs to the yanquishers and
exterminators of nations, from the Alexander
of 5lacedon, 10 Napoleon!
N. 7. Commercial Adpcrtissr.