Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-12
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| VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
The San Francisco papers of March eth contain
intelligence from Honolulu the 10th of that month.
There had been another eruption of Mauna Loa, the
Hawaiian Volcano of which the following account is
published in an extra from the Poynesian Office. da-
I ted on the 9Th of March:
/ HlIo, February 81, 1852.
On the 18th instant, at 90 minutes past 3, A. M,
small beacon light aPpeard on the summit of Mauna
Loa. This light increased until it looked like rising
moon. In half an hour brilliant columns of lava shot
up against the heavens, and general burst of blood
red fusion poured out of the same orifce apparently
which disgorged such awful floods in lS43.
We were awakened at about O'Clock, and saw
glare OF light streaming through the windows. Our
first thought was that some building on
hre but on rising we soon perceived that the whole
| summit of the mou ntain irradated, and that
vast furnace was there glazing with vehement heat
The moulten flood rolled down the side OF the noun
tain so rapidly that in two hours judged its prog
ress TO have been fifteen miles, the whole lava gar
ing with great brIiancy. This flow continued through
| the day, but with decreasing energy. 1t became
sluggish at night, and the next day, after twenty
four hours no traces were visible from the station;
no smoke by day, and no fire by night.
| At O'Clock, A. M, on the Goth, yesterday,
perceived fire issuing from the side of the mountain
| toward Hilo, and about half way down the mount.
This lateral cratef soon became intensely active,
pouring out CORY flood. which reached the base of
the mount AT first the stream shot directly towards
Ho but, meeting some obstacle the foot of the
mount, it direction changed to the north, and it
is still flowing towards Mauna Kea.
vast between the mountains is already filled
with fire, and the by night is of terrible
sublimity. The red hot lava still rolls out of the
side of the mountain in awful floods. 1t if
the bowels of Pluto were being disgorged. While
write whole atmosphere is filled with lurd smoke
through which the looks down upon US with
yellow and baletul light.
The horizon is hung in murky drapery detona-
tions like distant thunder, heard from the noun
tain, and capilliform laccous vtrefactions filling
our streets.
MONDAY, %. The eruption is still internally ac
tive. The fiery flood is still in the upper region of
the woods and the smoke is great.
HILo, February &c, 1852.
add line to the above to inform you that up to
this date the action of the late eruption is undimn
ished. Truly our island is on fire. A line from Mr..
Coan informs me that he passed within five or six
miles of OF lava yesterday, which was burn
ing its path through the woods in the direction OF
Puma. This action the mountains more in
tense last than it has been since the morning of
the l7th need not add that are all deeply inter-
ested in knowing when, and where, and how, this
fiery flood is to reach the The locality of its
almost precludes the hope that its progress
be as harmless former occasion.
10 this account from its correspondent the Poly
nesan adds
By advices from Hilo 10 the Cd instant we further
learn that the OF lava had burnt through the
woods to within fifteen miles of Hlo and that it
still progressing. The current not rapid at
hrs but 1t is gradually filling up all the inequalities
of the ground, and it supposed at that date that
it would ultimately reach the and discharge itself
| into the bay of Hilo.
The light at night was very brilliant, and at Hilo
! it was almost as light as day.
DEMOCRACY OF THE NORTH.
1t gratifying, exceedingly gratifying, to US here
in the South to witness the truly national grounds
cupied by democratic brethren in the non-slave-
holding States. With here and there an individual
exception, the great mass of the democracy with
out suspicion reproach the great questions that
have lately agitated the republic.
Every candidate that we have named for the presi-
dency-Cass of Michigan, Douglas of Illinois. Buch-
and Dallas of Pennsy lvania, Wool of N. York,
! Pierce of New Hampshire, Stockton of New Jersey,
Allen of Ohio, Lane of Indiana-each and all of them,
occupy now, and always have occupied, unexcePtion-
able grounds in relation to the peculiar institutions
of the South, and the constitutional guarantees by
which those institutions protected. They do not,
like Fillmore and Webster, date heir orthodoxy on
this subject from the adoption of the Compromise,
when it became erpedient to make patriotic profess
sions. They have always been standing on the plat
form of the constitution, and it is proud triumph for
them and for that the non-saveholding democracy
of the States they represent stand by and sustain them
What whig statesman in those northern western
States where there is a constant struggle between
the friends of the constitution and the disciples of
fanaticsm, the same be said of? Look over the
list of all the great in that party from the Mis-
souri, 10 the Atlantic, and from Pennsylvania to the
Canada line, and not be found whose ante
cedents and present position the slavery question
are satisfactory to the South. We challenge COM
parison.
The wings in the saveholding States are beginning
to be of this. Only the other day, the Hon.
Mr.. Faulkner long leader of the whig party in Vir
gnia, refused accept in the whig convention
were not to be trusted the slavery question. We
have thousand things to confirm the trath Of this
statement. Louisiana Courier.