The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-08-05
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

President LINCOLN on FREE AND EQUAL-"-
From Nj. Charles Summers eulogy on Abraham
Lincoln. delivered in Boston. we make the follow
ing extracts which, with the speech alluded to.
might be made use Of by the people in answer to
the authorities quoted by the antquated Minister
OF Foreign Affairs and his colleagues. should we
be so unfortunate as to be plunged into another
Constitutional Convention. The speech mentioned
was made during his great contest with the Hon.
:. \. Douglas:
Bot the topic to which the future President returned with the
most frequency, aud to which he chung with all the grasp Of his
dePeHdeace IN announcing the Laberty and EqudIfy or az
men. These were no idle words. but substantial truth binding
iinacty has been noticed before; hut 1 deem it my duty to say,
that to my mind il is by far the most important OF that coaiTo-
speaker, The words which he then uttered live after him, and
nobody can hear of that championship without feeling a new
motive to fidelity in the cause Of Liberty ai Equality.
He finished his speech on this occasion by saying:
II leave you, hoping that tte lamp of Liberty will burn in
your bosoms until there shall no longer be q doubt that all men
He has lei; Us now an! for the la: time, and I catch ,slt the
tie ages, like = choral harmony.
From the letter of the Honolulu correspon-
dent Of the San Francisco Bulletin. we clip the fol-
lowing item. 1t is news TO us and may be to others.
Wescott was well-known here:
"SroRY or Losr ADVENTURES IN HE Pacific OcsAS-
By the arrival Of the schooner Mary. from Fanningis Island, I
some two or three years ago one Wilkinson started from Homo
lulu IN q vessel OF his OVID, and with a party proceeded TO settle
on Palmyra Island, for the purpose Of manufacturing oil from
the cOcoanuts, which abound on that uninhliited spot in mid
ocean. La,ving Wilkinson and his party, the vessel was dis
patched u Sydney. y. :. W. with orders to the master to sell
her there and purchase a schooner, loading which with provi-
siyns he was 70 hurry back 10 the island. Having been gone,
however. much longer than was anticipated, and Wilkinson
being .! q peculiarly mean and parsimouiOus disposition, the
party on the island was put on very short commons, and in fact
reduced almost TO starvation. Among the rest a carpenter,
named Stephen WestcUtt-whose friends reside at Eaton, New
York State-being al energetic fellow, patched up a boat, aud
with two or three companions put 70 sea, in the direction OF the
Island Of Manihti. the nearest inhabited land. supposed TO be
about $50 miles distant. They were never heard from aga n,
aud pieces Of "A boat answering in description 20 the one in which
they embarked having been picked up on one OF the guano
islands, in the direction in which the current would naturally
set from Palmyra Island, leads to the conclusion that they have
perishel.r -
EXTRAORDINARY NEws-We clip the following
from IN English paper. and insert it, as it will no
doubt he interesting to most of our readers-news
always is. From whom was the information re-
ceived here:
a ROYAL VISITOR FROM THE SANDWICH ISLASDs-Advices
from Honolulu. Sandwich Islands, TO the 2t March have been
received. The chambers had terminated their session after
having adopted all The proposals Of the government and APP
proved % tie new Constitution 10 its last stage. The King had
resolved - travel in the approaching summer, and intended to
commence by a visit to Tahiti, il order 20 study personally the
French administrative organization which enjoys s. great a
reputation in Oceauia. Queen Emma, widow Of tie late King,
aud sisterin-aw Of his present majesty kamebameha V, was
to leave shortly for Europe. The commander Of the British
naval station had placed at her disposal the steam frigate Tri-
buHe TO convey her 20 Sydney, where sire would take the
steamer for Southampton. After a stay Cf three months in
England. she would take up her residence IN Paris 10 devote
herself to the education Of her children"