The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-09-21
NOTES OF TIL WEEK.

Honolulu FREE ScHooL--A few mornings since
we paid an interesting visit to Mr.. Ingrahan's school
for the children of foreign parentage, in Honolulu !;
and were glad to learn that at the present time it is
hourisbing finely. The number of scholars keeps up
well, and their general progress along the weary paths
of learning Is very good. Mr.. I%ngraham has now
fifty pupils. of whom about ~forty-fve are present ev-
cry day. They are of all shades, and of many ma
tons comprising among them only thirteen children
of unmixed nationality = twelve whites, and one ma
tive, who is the adopted son of a foreigner. Among
the nations represented in the school, are the Eng
lish, German, WEIGH, Scotch, Irish, Portuguese,
American, Chinese, Peruvian, African, Hindu, and
Hawaiian but the Welsh is, excepting Hawaiian)
decidedly the predominant blood. Many of the
children are Orphans and very few of them have,
at first admission, any knowledge of the English Ian
guage. This, however. they rapidly acquire - the
native tongue being tabu about the premises. The
school is one of the best institutions of Honolulu
Its sphere lies among a class of children who possess,
as a general thing, more intelligence, and a greater
capacityfor learning than the genuine Hawaians,
and who, in many cases, without it, would be suffer-
Ell to grow up in idleness and ignorance. A large
number of children have been prepared here to be-
come useful members of society. The school is kept
six hours a day, for a term of ~forty-four weeks in
a year, which is a greater amount of schooling than
is either necessary or desirable in this warm climate.
Five hours a day for a term of forty weeks, like the
other schools, is long enough.
A SUSPECTED SLAvER.-The following paragraph,
copied from an eastern paper. will be interesting to
many of our readers. Captain Silva was an old
whaleman, well known in this part of the world
He left Honolulu last fall on a homeward cruise
The ship -4lantic which has been fitting at New
Bedford since her arrival on the 30th June, for a
pretended whaling voyage, but which has been sus-
pected of not being exactly in that line of business,
was on Thursday last taken in charge by United States
officers, upon information lodged in Boston, by par
ties residing in New York. The atlantic, which had
been in the stream for several days, finishing loading
and taking in water, cleared for the Indian Ocean,
was towed TO the lower harbor and was to proceed to
sea that morning. having waited, as it has been seen,
for some passengers who were bound to Fayal, where
the ship was to touch. Her officers and crew were all
on board. The atlantic is a snip of 500 tons, was
built in 1886, and is owned by her commander, Capt.
Francis j. Silva, a Portuguese, but a naturalized cit
izen of the United States, having purchased her of
Capt. j. S. C.Maciet, master and owner of the ship
Comoro, brought to this port from Boston, and now
hitting for a whaling voyage. The Atlantic was for
merly a whaler from New London, but has lately
been engaged in the merchant service out of New
York. Capt Silva was formerly master of ship Cor.
Iroup, of New Bedford. The matter remains in
allegiance.
From the N. B. Standard we learn that the 1T
~ v oCOu purCuhStu, tOSetner
with the ship Comoro, in behalf of a Havana firm.
for the slave trade. She was to be discharged imme-
diately, in order that she might be searched.
The FUNERAL OF Mr.. PooR.-The remains of orr
late fellow citizen. Mr. Henry F. Poor, were consign-
ed to the grave on Sunday afternoon last. The servi-
ces at the residence of the deceased were conducted
by the Rev. s. C. Damon. The body, attended by n
large concourse of mourning friends, was then con-
veyed by the brother Masons of the deceased, to Nuu-
anu Valley Cemetery. where it was inferred with
masonic honors in the lot belonging to the order
MIR. Poor was the master of Hawaiian Lodge, No. 81.
in this city. Among the kind testimonials of sympa-
thy offered on tho occasion, one was peculiarly appro-
pirate. A beautiful wreath Of flowers and evergreen.
symbolic of the never-ending summer, which follows
the life Of thegood Christian on earth, was placed
upon The coffin and deposited with it in the grave.
It vas prepared ~ Mis- Nancy sumner.
A souAze Knof-Hymen L making prosslvtes
among ee = ~ ns possible. Under his auspices. .
very intsfe1ting oefemony was performed On bos.d
The fenkee On Monday ahernooo. amer her arrival
r. The hssbcr. The parties have our most cordl,lz
wishe5 Jor their natute hsrpinerI